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Here’s what’s in the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping health and climate bill passed Sunday
The Senate passed Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act on a party-line vote Sunday afternoon, delivering the long-awaited centerpiece to President Biden’s agenda.
Democrats rallied behind the $430 billion climate, health care and tax overhaul after Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) reached a last-minute deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who had held up previous proposals.
The House is expected to approve the legislation on Friday and send it to Biden’s desk.
Here’s a summary of what’s in the Inflation Reduction Act:
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND CLIMATE
Businesses would get incentives for deployment of lower-carbon and carbon-free energy sources.
■ Tax credits are extended for energy production and investment in technologies including wind, solar and geothermal energies. The investment tax credit also now applies to battery storage and biogas.
■ Tax credits would be created or extended for additional technologies and energy sources including nuclear energy, hydrogen energy coming from clean sources, biofuels and technology that captures carbon from fossil fuel power plants.
■ Many of the incentives also contain bonuses for companies based on how much they pay their workers and offer credits for manufacturing their steel, iron and other components in the U.S.
Consumers and businesses get incentives to make cleaner energy choices.
■ Tax credits are extended for residential clean energy expenses including rooftop solar, heat pumps and small wind energy systems. Consumers can get credits for 30 percent of expenditures through 2032, and the credit phases down after that.
■ Tax credits of up to $7,500 are offered to consumers who buy electric vehicles — but this credit comes with stipulations that may make it difficult for vehicles to actually qualify.
■ A tax credit would be expanded for energy efficiency in commercial buildings.
Some fossil fuel production on public lands would be bolstered.
■ The future of solar and wind on public lands and wind in public waters would be tied to requirements to hold lease sales that open up new oil and gas production.
■ The bill reinstates the results of a recent offshore oil and gas lease sale that was struck down on environmental grounds. The Interior Department would be required to hold at least three more offshore oil and gas lease sales by next October.
New programs boost investment in climate.
■ A new program aims to reduce emissions of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas by both providing grants and loans to help companies reign in their emissions and levying fees on producers with excess methane emissions.
■ $27 billion would go to a green bank that would provide more incentives for clean energy technology.
Costs increase for fossil fuel production on public lands.
■ Minimum royalties increase for companies to pay the government for oil and gas they extract on public lands and waters. A royalty is added to the extraction of gas that is later burned off or released as waste instead of sold as fuel.
Communities that face high pollution burdens get relief.
■ $3 billion would go to environmental justice block grants — community-led programs addressing harms from climate change and pollutants, including $20 million for technical assistance at the community level, through fiscal 2026.
■ More than $3 billion is allocated to funds for air pollution monitoring in low-income communities. Nearly half of the funds — $117 million — would specifically go to communities in close proximity to industrial pollutants.
■ An excise tax on imported petroleum and crude oil products to fund the cleanup of industrial disaster sites increases from 9.7 cents to 16.4 cents per barrel. The reinstatement of the tax is projected to raise $11 billion.
■ The bill permanently extends and increases the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, a tax on coal production to finance claims from workers with the condition. Black lung, caused by long-term exposure to and inhalation of coal dust, is believed to affect at least 10 percent of coal miners with at least 25 years’ experience, according to a 2018 study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
— Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk
HEALTH CARE
Medicare can negotiate lower prices.
The bill would allow Medicare to negotiate prices for some drugs for the first time, a policy Democrats have been trying to enact for years over the fierce objections of the pharmaceutical industry. The provisions save more than $200 billion over 10 years.
■ It would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for 10 high-cost drugs beginning in 2026, ramping up to 20 drugs by 2029. There is a steep penalty if a drug company doesn’t come to the table: a tax of up to 95 percent of the sales of the drug. There is also a ceiling that the negotiated price cannot rise above.
■ In a deal with moderates including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), only older drugs are subject to negotiation after a period of nine years for most drugs and 13 years for more complex “biologic” drugs. That means the negotiations are more limited than many Democrats wanted.
Drug costs can be capped but largely only for Medicare.
The bill includes other measures to cap drug costs. The provisions still largely apply only to seniors on Medicare, not the millions of people who get health insurance through their jobs, in part because complex Senate rules limited how expansive the provisions would be.
■ If drug companies raise prices in Medicare faster than the rate of inflation, they must pay rebates back to the government for the difference.
■ Democrats tried to apply this provision to the private market, but the parliamentarian ruled it violated the Senate rules used to bypass a GOP filibuster.
■ In one of the most tangible provisions for patients, the bill caps out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 a year for seniors on Medicare, starting in 2025.
■ The bill also caps patients’ insulin costs at $35 a month, but only for seniors on Medicare. Republicans voted against overruling the Senate parliamentarian to extend that protection to patients with private insurance.
People enrolled in ACA plans get an extension on premium assistance.
The measure also builds on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by extending enhanced financial assistance to help people enrolled in ACA plans afford premiums for three years. The extra help otherwise would have expired at the end of this year, setting up a cliff. The provision expands eligibility to allow more middle-class people to receive premium help and increases the amount of help overall.
— Peter Sullivan
TAXES
Large corporations will pay for climate and health measures within the bill.
The bill introduces new taxes on corporations to pay for its climate and health care measures.
The centerpiece of its tax plan is a 15 percent minimum tax on the income that big corporations report to their shareholders, a tax known as the minimum book tax. Initial proposals put the amount of revenue raised by the book tax at $313 billion — more than 40 percent of the $740 billion raised by the legislation as a whole.
The tax applies to companies reporting $1 billion in annual earnings. It would impact only around 150 large firms, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Sinema demanded some last-minute exclusions to the minimum tax that were favorable to the U.S. manufacturing sector and private equity firms.
■ The tax will exempt companies taking advantage of accelerated depreciation, a popular deduction that helps pay for capital investments such as new equipment.
■ Small businesses that are subsidiaries of highly profitable private equity firms will also be exempted from the minimum tax.
The IRS gets a funding boost.
Another key measure allocates $80 billion to boost enforcement at the IRS. Democrats hope that, with more employees and better technology, the IRS can more closely examine wealthy individuals and ensure they aren’t dodging taxes. That extra revenue is expected to lower the deficit by $203 billion over the next decade.
Stock buybacks will get an additional tax.
The bill enacts a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks to replace the revenues lost by appeasing Sinema. Democrats expect the provision to raise $74 million over a decade.
Share repurchases by S&P 500 companies have soared in recent years and are on track to surpass $1 trillion this year. Companies buy back their stock to reward shareholders and boost their stock price by artificially limiting supply.
■ The tax will impact the nation’s largest companies that rely on multibillion-dollar buybacks to raise their stock price, including Apple, Nike and Exxon Mobil.
■ Democrats have criticized the practice, arguing that companies should invest in workers and innovation instead of repurchasing stock.
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To further recoup revenue lost to the private equity sector, the bill also extends a set of limitations on losses that businesses can deduct from their taxes. The limits prevent wealthy individuals from significantly bringing down or even wiping out their income tax liability. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that extending the caps would raise $52 billion.
— Tobias Burns and Karl Evers-Hillstrom
BACK TO THE FACTORY: Revisiting Stories and Works From The Warhol Factory
CLOCKWORK REDUCTION LIVE
A Conceptual Project By Seattle School
Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM
FEATURING:
Virginia Bogert - "Tootie Pie"
Sue Corcoran - "She's a Dog"
Daniel Gildark - "Cthulhu"
Kris Kristensen - "Inheritance"
Christian Palmer - "Forcefields"
Lynn Shelton - "We Go Way Back"
WITH:
Rob Millis - Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - Fourthcity
AND:
Aaron Allshouse, JD Barton, Kyle Bliss, Danielle Gibeson, Dustin Kemp, Abby Klein, Caitlin Ngo, and more ...
Six years before Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Andy Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel for his classic, black and white Factory film, VINYL. In homage to Warhol, Seattle School will transform the entire Northwest Film Forum building for a unique Factory-style recreation of the film. This grand, live happening restages the film in parts, with simultaneous live performance, filming, and screening in our two cinemas and lobby. Northwest filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Daniel Gildark, Virginia Bogart, Sue Corcoran, Christian Palmer and Kris Kristensen will direct models cum actors in cinema 1. Their footage will be projected live in cinema 2, where the audience intervenes in the creative process and composers (including Rob Millis of Climax Golden Twins) perform an improvised score. In the lobby, VJs (including Jacob Stone of Opticlash and Kris Moon from the Decibel Festival) will merge and edit the video and audio feeds from both cinemas in real time, creating a live finished film projected onto a translucent screen. The audience can move around freely between rooms throughout the evening, witnessing the different stages of the event’s unique filmmaking process. The event ends when the final new interpretation of VINYL is complete.
DEC 16, Sunday at 8pm
SPECIAL SCREENING
Smithfield Child
AD 270-400
Found West Smithfield, City of London
This child was buried in a wooden coffin packed with chalk (perhaps used to help preserve her body). It is difficult to tell the sex of a person under the age of 18 from their skeleton but the jewellery in the grave suggests that the child was female. As the bracelets are so small, they probably belonged to the girl, rather than being special funeral offerings.
Like many skeletons from Roman London, this child has criba orbitalia (little holes inside the top of the eye sockets) suggesting that her health had suffered due to dirty living conditions, disease and/or poor diet. Lesions (signs of disease) on the surface of the bone inside her skull show she may have had an infection such as meningitis or tuberculosis. She has calculus (hardened plaque) on her teeth, a sign of poor dental health.
[Museum of London]
Part of Roman Dead (May – Oct 2018)
Spurred on by the discovery of an extremely rare sarcophagus in Harper Road, Southwark, last year, curators have assembled 250 fascinating objects to reveal the surprising similarities as well as striking differences between the original Londoner and the modern global city that 9 million people now live in today.
These items range from everyday objects, such as pots and vessels which may have held incense used in ceremonies to bury loved ones, to priceless artefacts, like a millefiori glass dish which would have cost the equivalent of a year’s salary for a Roman soldier. These precious items highlight that even from its earliest days, some of London’s population possessed immense wealth, and that the city had connections to the rest of the world.
[Museum of London]
Speakers: Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Lieutenant General Suharyanto
Head of the Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency – Photo: Antoine Tardy for UNDRR.
Amrita Cheema, Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle, Germany capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
3" x 9" linocut reduction print
oil paint on mulberry paper
15-ish impressions, edition of around 12
Reduction print #5, getting there. But what do you do with a bunch of prints that have stray little printing marks outside the edges, and some inside? Missed a bunch due to some vision problems for a couple of days. Lesson: Don't print when you can't see!
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The White House, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Members of Congress host a launch event for the USDA Rural Utilities Service’s Inflation Reduction Act programs. Celebrating a historic moment for clean energy and rural America-with approximately $11 billion in new funds- the single largest investment in rural electrification since the 1930s that will create new rural economic opportunities and help combat climate change. (USDA photos by Christophe Paul)
Here's how I reduced an SD wig to a MSD wig. I don't have pictures of the process, only the end product (and my pictures aren't so great - sorry, photography isn't my gift.).
I put the wig on inside out on the doll's head and pinned out the excess along the back/ side seams. Then I carefully cut up the back/side seams from the inside. I made sure to avoid cutting the hair except at the weft seam. I sewed up the seams with a short stitch length to keep the cut weft from unravelling. I tried the wig on again for fit, trimming down the excess wig cap/ wefting as I went. This helped remove the bulk so I could judge the fit more accurately. I did this several times, slowly making the wig smaller, as I didn't want to over-cut and make the wig too small.
A day trip on the river at Brooklyn with a sail boat and hazard reduction smoke on the Hawkesbury River, Central Coast, NSW, Australia
this is a 5 colour reduction linocut, you can see me make and print a lino reduction if you go to www.artcanbefun.com and click on printmaking movies, also, my profile to see where this print is available....
Amrita Cheema, Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle, Germany capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Muhamad Chatib Basri, Chairman, Mandiri Institute, Indonesia, Amrita Cheema, Senior Anchor, Deutsche Welle, Germany, Nadiem Makarim, Chief Executive Officer, GO-JEK, Indonesia and Stephen P. Groff, Vice-President, East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila capture during the session: Accelerating Inequality Reduction at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Detail of a high fired reduction glaze, of which Howson Taylor was the greatest exponent - this is from 1910.
If we are able to create an app that combines Suan Young's background error correction with software noise reduction, I'm sure we would be able to get some very impressive photos out of the Therm-App.
Right now, Therm-App images are noisier than even the lower end FLIR cameras (ie. E4/E8). I don't think the microbolometer inside the Therm-App (ULIS Pico384P) is inherently so much worse (if worse at all) than FLIR's. I think it's more a case of a combination of a lack of calibration shutter (hence no background error correction) and very little image processing implemented by Opgal.
If we look at the 2nd gen FLIR One, they recommend at least a Galaxy S5 / Nexus 6 (2.2Ghz+ Krait Quad Cores) or good video recording (source: www.flir.com.hk/flirone/content/?id=69420#compat), where even a Nexus 7 (1.7Ghz Krait Quad) supposedly produces slow video recording. I can only assume from those system requirements that the FLIR One does very intense image processing, which the Therm-App definitely lacks.
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BACK TO THE FACTORY: Revisiting Stories and Works From The Warhol Factory
CLOCKWORK REDUCTION LIVE
A Conceptual Project By Seattle School
Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM
FEATURING:
Virginia Bogert - "Tootie Pie"
Sue Corcoran - "She's a Dog"
Daniel Gildark - "Cthulhu"
Kris Kristensen - "Inheritance"
Christian Palmer - "Forcefields"
Lynn Shelton - "We Go Way Back"
WITH:
Rob Millis - Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - Fourthcity
AND:
Aaron Allshouse, JD Barton, Kyle Bliss, Danielle Gibeson, Dustin Kemp, Abby Klein, Caitlin Ngo, and more ...
Six years before Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Andy Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel for his classic, black and white Factory film, VINYL. In homage to Warhol, Seattle School will transform the entire Northwest Film Forum building for a unique Factory-style recreation of the film. This grand, live happening restages the film in parts, with simultaneous live performance, filming, and screening in our two cinemas and lobby. Northwest filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Daniel Gildark, Virginia Bogart, Sue Corcoran, Christian Palmer and Kris Kristensen will direct models cum actors in cinema 1. Their footage will be projected live in cinema 2, where the audience intervenes in the creative process and composers (including Rob Millis of Climax Golden Twins) perform an improvised score. In the lobby, VJs (including Jacob Stone of Opticlash and Kris Moon from the Decibel Festival) will merge and edit the video and audio feeds from both cinemas in real time, creating a live finished film projected onto a translucent screen. The audience can move around freely between rooms throughout the evening, witnessing the different stages of the event’s unique filmmaking process. The event ends when the final new interpretation of VINYL is complete.
DEC 16, Sunday at 8pm
SPECIAL SCREENING
CAMERA: Canon NEW F1
LENS: Canon fd lens 55mm f/1,2 S.S.C.
FILM: Kodak color ISO 400 36 exp.
[irradiated film + negative scanning]
FILM DEVELOPMENT: author's manual film development
Tetenal colortec c41 [8min 15sec 30 °C] poor agitation
FILM SCANNED: OpticFilm Plustek 7400 with SilverFast Software
SHOOTING DATE: 12/2015
DEVELOPER DATE: 01/2016
TECHNIQUE: Multiple Exposure unedited.
NUMBER OF EXPOSURES: 2
NO POST-PROCESSING
OBJECT: National Theatre
PLACE: Prague, Czech Republic 2015
BACK TO THE FACTORY: Revisiting Stories and Works From The Warhol Factory
CLOCKWORK REDUCTION LIVE
A Conceptual Project By Seattle School
Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM
FEATURING:
Virginia Bogert - "Tootie Pie"
Sue Corcoran - "She's a Dog"
Daniel Gildark - "Cthulhu"
Kris Kristensen - "Inheritance"
Christian Palmer - "Forcefields"
Lynn Shelton - "We Go Way Back"
WITH:
Rob Millis - Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - Fourthcity
AND:
Aaron Allshouse, JD Barton, Kyle Bliss, Danielle Gibeson, Dustin Kemp, Abby Klein, Caitlin Ngo, and more ...
Six years before Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Andy Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel for his classic, black and white Factory film, VINYL. In homage to Warhol, Seattle School will transform the entire Northwest Film Forum building for a unique Factory-style recreation of the film. This grand, live happening restages the film in parts, with simultaneous live performance, filming, and screening in our two cinemas and lobby. Northwest filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Daniel Gildark, Virginia Bogart, Sue Corcoran, Christian Palmer and Kris Kristensen will direct models cum actors in cinema 1. Their footage will be projected live in cinema 2, where the audience intervenes in the creative process and composers (including Rob Millis of Climax Golden Twins) perform an improvised score. In the lobby, VJs (including Jacob Stone of Opticlash and Kris Moon from the Decibel Festival) will merge and edit the video and audio feeds from both cinemas in real time, creating a live finished film projected onto a translucent screen. The audience can move around freely between rooms throughout the evening, witnessing the different stages of the event’s unique filmmaking process. The event ends when the final new interpretation of VINYL is complete.
DEC 16, Sunday at 8pm
SPECIAL SCREENING
Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference Disaster Risk Reduction 2022. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane on September 20, 2022. Picture-Patrick Hamilton
The Government of Palestine supported by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has taken steps to establish its first national disaster loss database. The initiative was launched in the presence of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, who began a visit to Palestine this week.
Read more: www.unisdr.org/archive/31397
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Representatives from Northrop Grumman Navigation Systems Division's Facilities and Environmental Health & Safety departments proudly display the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery Waste Reduction Awards Program certificate given to the company for a fourth consecutive year.
Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sites in El Segundo and Palmdale, and Northrop Grumman's Defense Systems Division in Carson also received WRAP awards.
Roma, 23 novembre 2018 – Mami Mizutori, Rappresentante Speciale del Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite per la Riduzione del Rischio da Disastri, ed Emanuela Claudia Del Re, Vice Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale.
Il Forum europeo sulla riduzione del rischio da disastri si è svolto a Roma, presso il Centro Congressi “Auditorium della Tecnica”, dal 21 al 23 novembre 2018. Tre giornate di eventi, dibattiti, tavole rotonde, sessioni plenarie e di lavoro dedicate ai rischi connessi ai cambiamenti climatici, all’analisi dei disastri causati da calamità naturali e provocati dall’attività umana e alle strategie per la riduzione dei disastri. Il Forum, organizzato dal Dipartimento della Protezione Civile e promosso dall’Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite per la riduzione dei rischi di catastrofi (UNISDR), ha visto la partecipazione di oltre 50 Paesi.
Almost 14 hours after her first meeting of the day UNISDR Head Margareta Wahlström is interviewed for a documentary by the Moroccan Ministry of Interior illuminated by the TV lights in the garden of Rabat’s Sofitel Hotel. Ms Wahlström explains that continual failures of imagination are one a key blockage to more enlightened and effective disaster management.
The United Cities and Local Governments Congress in Rabat this week is the world’s largest gathering of mayors and municipality leaders. More than 3,000 delegates converged on the Moroccan capital to discuss the increasing importance and influence of local leadership.
The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Margareta Wahlström was at the centre of things, sitting on the panel for one of the Congress’ main events: the 1st Thematic Roundtable on Fostering Wellbeing and holding a series of meetings with mayors, officials and the media.
UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign was a top theme of the day, which culminated in a meeting of 16 African women who are leaders at the local level in a variety of fields, including public office.
The women pledged to strengthen the already vibrant partnership of ‘practitioner mayors’ working to protect their citizens and towards building a safer urban tomorrow.