www.obamasucks.tv
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people
who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment
as a way to explain their frustrations."
-- Barack Obama, April 2, 2008
►
► StimUwaste
A
noun invented by me, John Brown. It means money BORROWED (from
China) and then spent on things that did nothing to CREATE jobs for
Americans, or spent on frivolous things and pork marks. Another
name for Democrats, how about Spend-O-Crats?
This list is
so you have many good reasons to fire everyone
from
both/all parties that voted for the StimUwaste pork
package. ================================================= #21-#30
- Total amount wasted =$260,154,759 Jobs
reported: 67.54 Cost
per job = $3,851,861 ================================================= Some
of the most massive amounts of waste are through what are called
TIGGER Grants aka Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy
Reduction.
Basically
they are using the funds to replace buses and using the money to
install solar power panels to cool bus stands, etc. Or just using
the funds to replace worn out buses with new diesel buses. The
amount of waste is staggering. The stimulus grants end with "
and can sell excess electricity back to the power company".
Yea, after spending $10 million dollars, what is the ROI on that?
http://www.itsmarta.com/solar-panels.aspx
(click here) "This
project estimates a net income of $159,280 per year, for a total of
$7,167,600 over its 45-year useful life, which will be used to
offset the cost of the electricity needed for the Laredo Bus
Maintenance Facility. " See,
they can justify it over a 45 year period!
In
that 45 year period, Atlanta is never going to have a hurricane or
hail storm that will destroy the installation. During that 45 year
period, this basically unproven technology is never going to fail or
need expensive repairs. The electric company is never going to raise
it's rates so they can make up for the loss of profit from accepting
electricity back from solar power installations it does not own. Cost
per job $500,000 We are
borrowing money from China and destroying the USA dollar for this
waste. Everyone needs a new bus or trolley. http://www.fta.dot.gov/news/news_events_7963.html We are just
peeing away our grand children's future. =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess NY-21 #21 Amount:
$252,659,616 Jobs
Created: 58.99 Cost per
job: $428,303 Translation:
You built cheap houses for poor people with your redistributed
wealth.
If
you read these news articles below, you will see the properties
themselves lost value (principal) and they basically poured more tax
money into them to inflate the price for loans. This has done
nothing to create real jobs, maybe short construction jobs, and
probably 1/2 those are probably not going to citizens. You
know, I had a Fannie loan as a poor person. It was not until I
listened to
Neil
Cavuto 's "Common Sense" and Bill O'Reilly that I learned
what these programs (Fannie and Freddie) really were about. I
basically signed the purchase contracts and did not think much of it
when buying my houses. I
won an award and plaque for the work I did with Habitat for
Humanity. Besides that I handled book keeping, begging suppliers,
vetting house owners, and such things. So, I do believe in
affordable housing, especially the all volunteer way HFH does it. I
think HFH is great. But, when
is enough enough?
When
do you cross the line between a hand up and a hand out? I started
work at 16 to support my family and bought a house with my mother at
21, so she would not have to live in an apartment ever again. I did
it by working 60-70 hours a week. We bought a cheap house that
needed work, in a bad part of a bad town and were thankful for it.
Even being a liberal agnostic democrat at the time I didn't expect
the government to build me a cheap house or fix it up for me. Knowing
what I know now and from what I have learned the last four months,
with our country 14 trillion dollars in debt, all I can do is lower
my head and shake it. Some
background info: catherine
gardens (click here) catherine
gardens (click here) Grants
- AWARD SUMMARY HOUSING
AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF Tax
Credit Assistance Program provides funding assistance for affordable
rental housing projects that have been allocated Low-Income Housing
Tax Credit and need additional equity. Award
Number M09-ES360100 Funding Agency Department of Housing and Urban
Development Total
Award Amount $252,659,616 Project Location - City Albany Award
Date 06/19/2009 Project Location - State NY Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 122480001 Jobs
Reported 58.99 Congressional District 21 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Name HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF Recipient
DUNS Number 124122123 Recipient
Address 38-40 STATE ST Recipient
City ALBANY Recipient
State New York Recipient
Zip 122072837 Congressional
District 21 Place
of Performance Country US Required
to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects
and Jobs Information Projects
and Jobs Information Project
Title Tax Credit Assistance Prorgam Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Housing Development, Construction &
Management Quarterly
Activities/Project Description The Tax Credit Assistance Program
(TCAP) will provide direct funding assistance to eligible Low-Income
Housing Tax Credit projects. The new program is intended primarily
to supplement affordable housing developments that have been uanble
to secure adequate equity commitments in the current market. As of
the quarter ending 12/31/2009, forty-seven projects have been
selected for TCAP funding in NY State. Upon completion, these
projects will provide approximately 4500 units of affordable housing
to families at or below 60% of AMI. =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess D.C. #22 Amount:
$2,522,937 Jobs
Created: 3
Translation: "COMPLETED MORE THAN 90% OF THE
WORK." means cost per job is $840,979 and with $1,881,516 paid
out this means you can't go back and fudge the numbers to make it
look good either. M
& M SALES INC RECOVERY-INSTALL
HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AWARD
OVERVIEW Award
Number F09CC00201 Funding Agency Smithsonian Institution Total
Award Amount $2,522,937 Project Location - City WASHINGTON DC Award
Date 04/10/2009 Project Location - State DC Project
Status More than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 200137012 Jobs
Reported 3.00 Congressional District 98 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Contracts) Recipient
Information (Contracts) Recipient
Name M & M SALES INC Recipient
DUNS Number 877033480 Recipient
Address 3336 GREENCASTLE RD Recipient
City BURTONSVILLE Recipient
State Maryland Recipient
Zip 208661714 Congressional
District 04 Place
of Performance Country US Required
to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials Yes Top
5 Officer Compensations 102908.00, 102908.00, , , Top
5 Officers DUANE HOUGHTALING, MILTON CASTELLON, , , Projects
and Jobs Information Projects
and Jobs Information Project
Title Federal Contract Project
Status More than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Commercial and Institutional Building
Construction Quarterly
Activities/Project Description COMPLETED MORE THAN 90% OF THE WORK. Jobs
Created 3.00 Description
of Jobs Created JOBS CREATED=1 PROJECT MANAGER
JOBS RETAINED=2 TECHNICIANS Purchaser
Information (Contracts) Purchaser
Information Contracting
Office ID 1000 Contracting
Office Name Not Available Contracting
Office Region Not Available TAS
Major Program 33-0101 Award
Date 04/10/2009 Award
Number F09CC00201 Order
Number 0000034090 Award
Type Contracts Funding
Agency ID 33 Funding
Agency Name Smithsonian Institution Funding
Office Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 33 Awarding
Agency Name Smithsonian Institution Amount
of Award $2,522,937 Funds
Invoiced/Received $1,881,516 =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess IL-07 #23 Amount: $139,560 Jobs
Created:0 Translation:
Students get paid to watch birds and to take a summer vacation,
while you dig ditches or try to survive IEDs in Iraq, and it is
called job creation.
"Students
will be hired for summer months when they are doing field research
in Kenya" BOARD
OF TRUSTEES OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT #508 (INC) IRES
US -Kenya: Effects of Habitat changes on distribution, abundance,
and resource exploitation by globally threatened and forest
specialist birds in Arabbuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya - Developing
Global Scientists and Engineers. AWARD
OVERVIEW Award
Number 0927254 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total
Award Amount $139,560 Project Location - City Chicago Award
Date 09/04/2009 Project Location - State IL Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 606066998 Jobs
Reported 0.00 Congressional District 07 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Name BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT #508 (INC) Recipient
DUNS Number 074436742 Recipient
Address 226 W JACKSON BLVD Recipient
City CHICAGO Recipient
State Illinois Recipient
Zip 606066959 Congressional
District 07 Place
of Performance Country US Required
to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects
and Jobs Information Projects
and Jobs Information Project
Title IRES US - Kenya: Effects of Habitat changes on distribution,
abundance, and resource exploitation by globally-threatened and
forest specialist birds in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Junior Colleges Quarterly
Activities/Project Description This project provides science
students opportunity to work with mentors on a science project in
another country. The goal is to give students a research experience
in an international location. In this program, students will
investigate “Effects of habitat changes on distribution,
abundance and resource exploitation by birds of conservation
interest in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya”. Arabuko Sokoke
National Park is the largest existing fragment of the tropical
forests that covered much of the East African coast and is an
important habitat for endemic/endangered birds, insects and mammal
species, and rank second as the most important forest for bird
conservation in mainland Africa. The objective is provide students
the opportunity for self discovery through “hands-on”
field research, sharpen their scientific skills, develop
collaborations with scientists abroad, experience the life and
culture of a foreign country, and publish and write acceptable
abracts for international conferences. The project was advertised
for the summer 2010 field session and four students selected from
the pool of applicants. These students are currently enrolled in a
Special Topic class (Biology 299) in which they are introduced to
the biology of birds, methods of modern field studies, ecology and
behavior of birds and conservation biology with emphasis on tropical
habitats. Students also learn scientific literature search and
scientific reading by leading discussions on selected research
paper. Students also work with Arabuko-Sokoke bird specimens at the
Zoology Department, Field Museum, Chicago by measuring their bird
biometrics. In addition, they are active members STEM ENGINES-
Undergraduate Research Collaborative. They attended the 20th Annual
Argonne Symposium for Undergraduatein Science, Engeneering and
Mathematics, participate in student collaborative meetings and
workshops and presented a poster at the City Colleges of Chicago
Chancellors Gala. Jobs
Created 0.00 Description
of Jobs Created Students will be hired for summer months when they
are doing field research in Kenya Purchaser
Information (Grants) Purchaser
Information Contracting
Office ID Not Reported Contracting
Office Name Not Available Contracting
Office Region Not Available TAS
Major Program 49-0101 Award
Information Award
Information Award
Date 09/04/2009 Award
Number 0927254 Order
Number
Award
Type Grants Funding
Agency ID 49 Funding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Funding
Office Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount
of Award $139,560 =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess NY-15 Why am I
not surprised? #24 Amount:$647,563 Jobs
Created: 3.08 Translation:
We need another study to confirm if you have sex outside of marriage
and do not use a condom you can get AIDs. Another paid for vacation
trip outside the USA for students. TRUSTEES
OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK For
the hundreds of thousands whose lives have been saved by
antiretroviral therapy (ART), scale-up has been a success. There is
an urgent need, however, to better understand how access to ART
shapes risk and protective behaviors. Moreover, growing concern with
the possibility of disinhibition, limited participation in voluntary
counseling and testing programs, gender and social class
differentials in access to ART, and continuing high transmission
rates among sero-discordant couples underline the urgency of
research on how access to ART affects communities in both the US and
abroad. In the proposed project, we will use comparative
ethnographic methods to analyze how people integrate ART into their
sexual and reproductive lives, using what we learn to improve
individual and population-level health. Drawing on our substantial
prior work in five field sites (Washington Heights (NYC), Nigeria,
Uganda, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea) representing a wide range of
levels of development and epidemiological profiles, as well as on
our successful collaborative research on married women's HIV risk
(R01HD041724), we will explore the tensions and complementarities
between people's overall life goals (their life projects), the ways
they care for their bodies, and their sexual, reproductive, and
disclosure practices. Research Design Parallel data collection in
each setting will include: 1) longitudinal in-depth interviews with
60 individuals (3 interviews/person, collected over three years; 300
individuals & 900 interviews across sites), with each site's
sample including 36 who are participating in ART, 12 who are HIV+
but not in care, and 12 who are seronegative or have not been
tested; 2) mapping of those 60 individuals' therapeutic itineraries;
3) intensive extended case studies with a subset of 20 selected
individuals in each site (15 visits/person; 20 individuals/site;
1500 visits total across 5 sites); participant observation in
clinic, support group and community settings; 5) key informant
interviews (20/site, 100 total); and 6) collection and analysis of
archival and popular cultural materials. The translation plan is
grounded in policy science 'best practices' about how research can
most effectively shape policy. Through a multi-step process which
begins in the first project year, we will work with in-country
collaborators to develop widely-applicable program strategies to
enable appropriate disclosure, more effectively promote
health-protective sexual behaviors, improve participation in testing
and counseling, realistically address the partnering and
reproductive intentions of people receiving ART, and improve
adherence to therapy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The United States
continues to confront an HIV epidemic that is increasingly
entrenched among urban minorities. The nation is also a leading
funder of programs to increase access to life- saving
anti-retroviral therapies (ART) for people around the world who have
AIDS. In both domestic and international settings, more information
is needed about how access to these powerful medications influences
risk and protective behaviors. In this project, anthropologists will
work in Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and New York City
to study the relationship between ART, people's overall goals for
their lives, and their sexual and reproductive behavior. This
information will be used to improve ART services both domestically
and internationally. Award
Number 1R01HD057792-01A2 Funding Agency Department of Health and
Human Services Total
Award Amount $647,563 Project Location - City New York Award
Date 09/22/2009 Project Location - State NY Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 100323702 Jobs
Reported 3.08 Congressional District 15 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Name TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Recipient
DUNS Number 621889815 Recipient
Address 630 W 168TH ST FL 4 Recipient
City NEW YORK Recipient
State New York Recipient
Zip 100323725 Congressional
District 15 Place
of Performance Country US Project
Title Life Projects and Antiretroviral Therapy: The Social Impacts
of Scale-up Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Medical Research, General/Other Quarterly
Activities/Project Description In the first quarter of our one year
planning grant we have made significant progress towards achieving
our specific aims. We gathered in New York for our first three-day
working meeting in October. At that meeting we discussed and
partially revised the project's conceptual framework, drafted
revised specific aims, reviewed and discussed sampling plans, shared
updates regarding the epidemiological and policy situation in each
fieldsite, and mapped out a draft research protocol as well as a
timeline for the next eight months of work. We are well on track to
develop a competitive application to submit to NIH for a May
deadline. We also reviewed changes to the R01 forms and scoring
systems. Since that meeting, we have made great progress with a
review of new literature published on our topic and begun a
literature review on gender and health that should result in a
publishable article to submit to a peer-reviewed journal. We have
also hired research assistants and initiated planning related to the
establishment of our community advisory boards. We have planned a
second meeting, for January in St. Louis, Washington Jobs
Created 3.08 Description
of Jobs Created Columbia University Created/Retained: Associate
Professor, Graduate Research Assistant, Short Term Temporary Worker.
Note: Tenured Faculty are excluded from the FTE estimates.
Subrecipient Brown University Created/Retained: Graduate Research
Assistant, Associate Professor. =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess MA-08 #25 Amount:
$2,520,000 Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be Translation:
We are spending our grand children's future with money borrowed from
China to see why people get sick in other countries. HARVARD
COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF Disease-causing
pathogens are among the most intriguing forces shaping human
evolution, as they have a tremendous impact on our genome and
themselves evolve over time. A genome-wide survey of human variation
indentified two genes biologically linked to Lassa fever as among
the strongest signals of natural selection in West Africans. Lassa
fever is a severe hemorrhagic disease endemic in West Africa, and
our findings suggest it is an ancient select force driving the
emergence of genetic resistance. While poorly understood, Lassa
fever has arguably the greatest potential impact of all infectious
diseases of humans, because of its unique status as both an
immediate public health crisis and a category A potential
bioterrorist agent. With the aim to pursue the intriguing signal of
natural selection linked to Lassa fever, we first set out to address
critical gaps in knowledge, capacity and diagnostics. We established
a basic diagnostic and research lab in Irrua, Nigeria, where yearly
outbreaks of Lassa fever occur with population exposure of ~30%. Our
initial measures have already reduced fatality from an estimated 65%
to 20% among Lassa fever cases. We now aim to design a robust,
field-deployable diagnostic, based on genome-sequencing of diverse
strains, to rapidly detect and distinguish Lassa virus strains. This
work addresses immediate public health needs and sets the
foundations for research into the genetic factors in both virus and
human that underlie resistance to Lassa fever found among many West
Africans. The ultimate goal of our work is to indentify natural
mechanisms of defense and illuminate the evolutionary adaptations
that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and
challenging selective agents. Moreover, these efforts will create
new opportunities in Lassa virus research, including investigation
of viral pathogenicity and evolution and development of novel
vaccines. Award
Number 1DP2OD006514-01 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total
Award Amount $2,520,000 Project Location - City Cambridge Award
Date 09/30/2009 Project Location - State MA Project
Status Not Started Project Location - Zip 021382582 Jobs
Reported 0.00 Congressional District 08 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Name HARVARD COLLEGE, PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF Recipient
DUNS Number 082359691 Recipient
Address 1350 MASS AVE STE 600 Recipient
City CAMBRIDGE Recipient
State Massachusetts Recipient
Zip 021383846 Congressional
District 08 Place
of Performance Country US Required
to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects
and Jobs Information Projects
and Jobs Information Project
Title Host and Pathogen Evolution in Lassa Fever Project
Status Not Started Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional
Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description See Award Description Jobs
Created 0.00 Description
of Jobs Created The Principal Investigator will be responsible for
the overall planning of the projects, defining experimental
directions, interpreting data, communication with collaborators, and
reporting project results to NIH. TAS
Major Program 75-0845 Award
Date 09/30/2009 Award
Number 1DP2OD006514-01 Order
Number
Award
Type Grants Funding
Agency ID 75 Funding
Agency Name Department of Health and Human Services Funding
Office Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 75 Awarding
Agency Name Department of Health and Human Services Amount
of Award $2,520,000 =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess NJ-12
(holt the dolt?) #26 Amount:$495,090 Jobs
Created: 0.76 (if you believe even that) Translation:
A paid vacation to Uganda to do absolutely nothing to create jobs
here while dithering away our grand children's future. TRUSTEES OF
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE Development
scholars and policy planners regard cooperative producer
organizations as a core component of poverty reduction strategies,
but little is known about the social dynamics that make some of
these organizations more successful than others. This research
focuses on the social factors that explain variation in economic
performance of such groups, and the consequences of economic
development on the quality of life of households and villages. The
research team will examine the roles of social and spatial networks,
associational capital, and leadership accountability in shaping
economic and social outcomes. The research will focus on Uganda's
largest rural development project -- the Agriculture Productivity
Enhancement Project (APEP) -- which involves over 60,000 farmers and
2,500 village-level organizations. APEP's stated goal is to increase
small farmers' productivity and marketing capabilities. Its rate of
success varies across villages. It is thought that the variations
are related to local leaders' capacities to spread information,
elicit trust relationships, and facilitate the emergence of
accountability practices. Following a multilevel and multimethod
research design, data will be collected at the farmer, village, and
parish levels and will include observational data, social networks,
and behavioral games, to capture the motivations behind actors'
strategic interactions and provide valuable insight on the effect of
interpersonal, associational, and spatial (inter-village) networks
on economic outcomes. The research contributes to the shift from a
suggestive to an empirically grounded understanding of social
capital. Also, the theory that underpins the study distinguishes
between social capital -- defined as the ability of persons and
groups to secure benefits through social networks -- and its source
mechanisms (i.e., social norms, trust, reciprocity) and consequences
(i.e., innovation adoption, organizational building, economic
performance). Award Number
0924778 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $495,090 Project Location - City Princeton Award Date
08/05/2009 Project Location - State NJ Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 085442001 Jobs Reported
0.76 Congressional District 12 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient Name
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 002484665 Recipient
Address 1 NASSAU HALL Recipient City
PRINCETON Recipient
State New Jersey Recipient Zip
085440001 Congressional
District 12 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects and
Jobs Information Projects and
Jobs Information Project Title
Social and Spatial Networks, Social Capital, and Leadership
Accountability in Rural Development: A Study of Uganda's Agriculture
Productivity Enhancement Project Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description The project is being carried out as
defined in the project abstract. My team, composed by a graduate
student, three undergraduate research assistants and approximately
60 interviewers hired from the local population, has gathered
extensive information on 300 producer organizations at the village
level via group interviews with local leaders, and has administered
approximately 3,500 individual interviews with farmers and
organization leaders. We have collected social network information
for each of our subjects, and complete social network data for a
subsample of 100 village-level producer organizations. In addition,
both farmers and leaders have played an extensive series of
behavioral games. Data collection took place in August and September
of 2009, and is now almost complete. After completion of the field
work in September 2009, we are now working on data entry and
cleaning. Jobs Created
0.76 Description of
Jobs Created Princeton University supports it's faculty during the
Academic Year. Sub-recipient created Research Fellow, Short Term
Temporary Worker, Short Term Temporary Worker. Contracting
Office ID Not Reported Contracting
Office Name Not Available Contracting
Office Region Not Available TAS Major
Program 49-0101 Award Date
08/05/2009 Award Number
0924778 Order Number
Award Type
Grants Funding Agency
ID 49 Funding Agency
Name National Science Foundation Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount of
Award $495,090 =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess NY-17 #27 Amount:
$489,335 Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be Translation:
People in Hank Johnson's district (GA-4) that
are seeing 10 out of 23 bus routes cut so you can't get to work,
rest easy!
You are
paying students to study and paying for their paid vacation to
Vietnam that you could never afford, to study Vietnam's water
system. While doing absolutely nothing to create jobs here while
dithering away our grand children's future. THE
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC Emphasis
on the elevated level of arsenic in groundwater tapped by millions
of shallow tubewells across southern Asia over the past two decades
has tended to obscure that anoxic aquifers that are low in As are
also widespread and often within reach of drilling in the affected
regions. This proposal addresses two key issues for assessing the
vulnerability of low-As aquifers: (1) whether dissolved or
particulate organic carbon (DOC or POC) drives aquifers towards
microbial dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxides and (2) to what extent
adsorption and precipitation of As attenuate the impact of high-As
groundwater drawn into low-As aquifers. The proposed field
investigation takes advantage of the previously documented (a)
juxt-apposition at the same depth of grey sands associated with
high-As groundwater and orange sands with low-As groundwater in a
village 15 km south of Hanoi and (b) large groundwater withdrawals
by the city of Hanoi resulting in water from the former being drawn
laterally through the latter. The configuration is particularly
well-suited to shed light on the key processes that determine the
sustainability of continued reliance on low-As aquifers for the
provision of drinking water throughout the affected region.
Scientific merit ��V An unprecedented combination of
state-of-the-art analytical methods will be applied to a previously
documented transition from orange to grey sands corresponding to
low- to high-As groundwater, respectively: 14C-analysis of
phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) constituting the membranes of
living cells, probing of the redox state and bonding environment of
As and Fe in aquifer sands by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, 3H-3He
dating of groundwater, and optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL)
dating of quartz grains. These measurements will provide the basis
for testing the following suite of working hypotheses pertaining to
the vulnerability of low-As aquifers in southern Asia. Whether the
associated predictions hold up to closer scrutiny or not, the
implications of the proposed research will extend beyond the As
problem as they address the more general question of redox control
in groundwater. H1 Reductive dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxides
associated with the release of As to groundwater is driven primarily
by the microbial degradation of POC deposited at the same time as
the aquifer sands. H2 DOC advected by groundwater flow does not
result in significant reductive dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxides and
therefore does not trigger conversion of orange sands to grey or the
release of As. H3 Mixing of high-sulfate (SO4) groundwater with
high-As groundwater results in precipitation of As-sulfides fueled
by the oxidation of POC in the aquifer deposit. H4 Breakthrough of
As through orange sands can be predicted by considering mainly As
removal by precipitation of As-sulfides and competitive adsorption
of As and phosphate (PO4). Broader Impact - Drinking water
distributed by several of Hanoi����s
municipal water supply plants contains >100 ?��g/L
As, i.e. over ten-fold the WHO guideline for As in drinking water of
10 ?��g/L. This is due to insufficient treatment of
groundwater drawn from orange aquifers but presumably originating in
part from adjacent grey aquifers. Expressed as the last of our
working hypotheses, the proposed research will help determine
whether the As content of groundwater tapped by the municipal water
supply of the city of Hanoi, and similarly situated groundwater
pumping stations throughout southern Asia, could be lowered at the
source by favoring entrainment of river water, herewith reducing the
need for treatment: H5 Municipal water supplies engineered to draw
river water through a reducing aquifer would benefit from a
reduction in As prior to abstraction due to the dual effect of
increasing SO4 and lowering PO4. The complete abstract for this
award is available in Research.gov at: www.research.gov Award
Number 0911557 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total
Award Amount $489,335 Project Location - City Palisades Award
Date 09/30/2009 Project Location - State NY Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 109641000 Jobs
Reported 0.00 Congressional District 17 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Name THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC Recipient
DUNS Number 049179401 Recipient
Address 2960 BROADWAY 211 LOW LIBRARY Recipient
City NEW YORK Recipient
State New York Recipient
Zip 100270000 Congressional
District 15 Project
Title Collaborative Research: Enhancing the sustainability of
groundwater pumping from low-arsenic aquifers in southern Asia - a
case-study in Vietnam south of Hanoi Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Science & Technology Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Emphasis on the elevated level of
arsenic in groundwater tapped by millions of shallow tubewells
across southern Asia over the past two decades has tended to obscure
that anoxic aquifers that are low in As are also widespread and
often within reach of drilling in the affected regions. This project
addresses two key issues for assessing the vulnerability of low-As
aquifers: (1) whether dissolved or particulate organic carbon (DOC
or POC) drives aquifers towards microbial dissolution of Fe
oxyhydroxides and (2) to what extent adsorption and precipitation of
As attenuate the impact of high-As groundwater drawn into low-As
aquifers. The proposed field investigation takes advantage of the
previously documented (a) juxt-apposition at the same depth of grey
sands associated with high-As groundwater and orange sands with
low-As groundwater in a village 15 km south of Hanoi and (b) large
groundwater withdrawals by the city of Hanoi resulting in water from
the former being drawn laterally through the latter. A first set of
sediment cores was collected across the redox boundary in Van Phuc
village in early December 2009. Jobs
Created 0.00 Description
of Jobs Created N/A TAS
Major Program 49-0101 Award
Date 09/30/2009 Award
Number 0911557 Order
Number
Award
Type Grants Funding
Agency ID 49 Funding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Funding
Office Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount
of Award $489,335 Funds
Invoiced/Received $15,605 Expenditure
Amount $5,587 =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess NJ-12
(holt the dolt?) - on the same list 2x -
good
thing I went back to update these old pages! #28 Amount:
$499,998 Jobs
Created: 1.71 Translation:
While you are out earning $10 an hour cleaning a hotel room, an
egghead will be playing around with germs in a dish, something which
no one else would pay them to do. TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY, THE This application addresses
broad Challenge Area (06) Enabling Technologies, 06-NS-106:
Validating new methods to study brain connectivity. We propose to
test a new method that provides substantial improvement over
previous Cre-conditional viral tracers. The technology combines the
Brainbow multicolor cell marking technology with the retrograde,
circuit tracing properties of pseudorabies virus (PRV), a
neuroinvasive alpha herpesvirus. We have constructed a prototype PRV
Brainbow virus called PRV263 that we propose will enable
simultaneous identification of distinct chains of neurons projecting
to a phenotypically defined population of neurons, and promises to
provide predictive data on the strength of different connections
among those neurons. Importantly, these PRV Brainbow tracers will
have distinct advantages over present tracers. Our concept takes
advantage of conditional, site-specific recombination of the genome
of a DNA virus to produce multiple reporters so that neurons
upstream (presynaptic) of a Cre recombinase (Cre) expressing neuron
will be a different color from the Cre-expressing neuron. This novel
concept will be expanded to produce second generation prototypes of
PRV Brainbow tracers that do not rely on Cre-transgenic mice and can
be used in the many mammalian species susceptible to PRV infection.
A third generation prototype will be constructed that not only marks
circuits, but also reports on neuronal activity. In this latter
concept, the PRV Brainbow virus also will include a genetically
encoded calcium indicator that fluoresces when calcium is bound. As
viral tracing of neural circuitry has become an essential tool in
the neuroscience community, our new tracers will be immediately
applicable for many ongoing fundamental research projects in
neuroscience in a variety of animals. These new tools have promise
to reveal detailed functional insights into neural circuit
organization that have not been possible to achieve in the past.
Viral tracing of neural circuitry has become an essential tool in
the neuroscience community. The new, robust viral tracers that will
result from our work have promise to reveal detailed functional
insights into trans-neuronal spread of herpesviruses, as well as
neural circuit organization that have not been possible to achieve
in the past. These neural tracers would be powerful tools to
elucidate brain micro-circuitry, providing a better understanding of
nervous system functions. Clarification of Codes Award Number
1RC1NS068414-01 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award Amount $499,998
Project Location - City Princeton Award Date 09/25/2009
Project Location - State NJ Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Project Location - Zip 085442001 Jobs Reported 1.71
Congressional District 12 Recipient Name TRUSTEES OF
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE Recipient DUNS Number
002484665 Recipient Address 1 NASSAU
HALL Recipient City PRINCETON Recipient State New Jersey Recipient Zip 085440001 Congressional District 12 Place of Performance
Country US Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title VIRAL
BRAINBOW: TRACING BRAIN CIRCUITS WITH CONNECTION ORDER SPECIFICITY Project Status Less Than
50% Completed Final Project Report
Submitted No Project Activities
Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description We compared the in vivo invasive
profile of two isolates of PRV-263 (PRV Brainbow virus) &
injection of the Cre-expressing lentivirus vector
(PRSX8:Cre;catecholamine specific) followed by injection of the
PRV-263 Brainbow virus into kidney. We initiated studies with the
lentivirus bector (ELFalpha:Cre) which expresses Cre in all neurons.
Both sponsor Cre-mediated recombination of the PRV-263 genome in a
colorful array. We are advanced in quantitative characterization of
the invasive profiles of virus in preautonomic circuits. We are
testing the first generation of PRV recombinants expressing Cre in
vivo in the rat kidney circuitry.We constructed a Cre expressing PRV
(PRV267) that can activate Cre dependent recombination from PRV 263
(the Brainbow virus) both in vitro and in vivo. We constructed &
tested a Cre expressing PRV recombinant (PRV268) that cannot spread
and can express Cre only in the initial infected cells. We have
designed and synthesized a new four colors ?brainbow? cassette
?BrainbowOK1?. We investigated active & passive devices to
control connectivity between groups of neurons. Laminin-coated
polydimethylsiloxane (PMDS) is an effective substrate for PC12
neurite growth.We developed a masking technique to deposit isolated
cell clusters in a pattern. We measured neural activity using PRV-
and AAV-driven expression of genetically encodable calcium
indicators. We are expressing G-CaMP3 & G-CaMP4, as well as
G-CaMP3/4 in cultured HEK cells, in 1:1 stoichiometry with mCherry
to allow the measurement of ?absolute relative? brightness to
determine which protein gives the best signal-to-noise ratio. We
have put G-CaMP3 and G-CaMP4 under a synapsin promoter & sent
these constructs to the U.Penn AAV facility. These viruses will be
used for cell type specific measurements in mice using in vivo
multiphoton microscopy. Nikon filter wheel assemblies &
fluorescence filter sets for TiE inverted microscope have been
purchased & installed & the personnel is in place Jobs Created 1.71 Description of Jobs Created
Princeton University supports it's faculty during the Academic Year.
Princeton University retained Associate Research Scholar.
Sub-recipient created Researcher II. =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess GA-05 Voted to
enslave people with Obama Care! #29 Amount:
$30,900 Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be. Translation:
While you are a Walmart greeter earning $9.50 an hour, you are
paying to have someone else take a Fiji vacation you never will.
Hope they get a nice tan at your grand children's expense. "This
project focuses on marine microbes and Fijian coral reef organisms
as producers of biologically active secondary metabolites that can
be developed as pharmaceuticals to address diseases of peoples of
both the U.S. and developing countries, especially in the South
Pacific." GEORGIA
TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION Our
overall goals are to: (1) coordinate investigations of South Pacific
organisms as pharmaceutical resources for treating diseases of
importance in the Pacific Islands and United States and for novel
bioenergy applications (2) support sustainable uses of the
biodiversity upon which such bioprospecting depends; and (3)
understand the processes degrading coral reef ecosystems and
initiate locally-appropriate conservation measures to enhance reef
resiliance to both local and global pressures, (4) leverage NIH,
University ofthe South Pacific (USP), and other resources to develop
the South Pacific Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Drug
Discovery (SPCBCDD) into a self-sustaining institution serving the
12 countries that operate USP (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati,
Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau,
Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu), and (5) develop "green"
culturing of coral reef live rock as an environmentally appropriate
and economically viable substiture for the present destructive
practices of live rock mining from Fijian reefs. Drug discovery will
focus on (1) phylogenetically distinct and chemically rich marine
actinomycetes making metabolites that are active in development, and
(2) on chemically-rich coral reef macroorganisms that commonly
upregulate defensive chemistry in response to attack from natural
enemies, simulated attack, or other stresses. Extracts from these
organisms will be bioassayed against relevent models including: drug
resistant bacteria, fungi, TB, Malaria, psychological disorders, and
cancer. Additionally, we will evaluate patterns in tropical reef
biodiversity and conduct field experiments to determine the relative
impacts of common stresses (e.g., overfishing, nutrification)
causing seaweed replacement of corals and precipitating the dramatic
loss of biodiversity that is occurring on coral reefs world-wide.
Toward this end we will identify the processes and mechanisms
involved, elucidate those critical herbivores that control the most
aggressive seaweeds, and work with village leaders to develop
effective resourse management strategies based on this scientific
input. We will also continue developing a web based foundation we
have created for funding conservation of Fijian coral reef and
mangrove systems. RELEVANCE (See instructions): This project focuses
on marine microbes and Fijian coral reef organisms as producers of
biologically active secondary metabolites that can be developed as
pharmaceuticals to address diseases of peoples of both the U.S. and
developing countries, especially in the South Pacific. Additional
goals are the conservation of biotic resources on coral reefs and
economic development of coastal Fijian villages based on sustainable
practices. Award
Number 3U01TW007401-05S1 Funding Agency Department of Health and
Human Services Total
Award Amount $30,900 Project Location - City Atlanta Award
Date 09/09/2009 Project Location - State GA Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 303320420 Jobs
Reported 0.00 Congressional District 05 Place
of Performance Country USA
Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Information (Grants) Recipient
Name GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION Recipient
DUNS Number 097394084 Recipient
Address 505 10TH ST NW Recipient
City ATLANTA Recipient
State Georgia Recipient
Zip 303320001 Congressional
District 05 Project
Title ARRA: EXPLORATION, CONSERVATION, & DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE
BIODIVERSITY IN FIJI Project
Status Less Than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research Institutes & Public Policy
Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description See award description Jobs
Created 0.00 Description
of Jobs Created None =================================================== Congressman
responsible for this mess ARK-03 #30 Amount:$149,760 Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be Translation:
a) While
you are changing oil for $11 an hour at JiffyLube or
b) are
unemployed if you worked at the Pepboys that closed on Memorial
Drive in Stone Mountain or c) are a
laid off Saturn mechanic in Decatur and are
wondering how you are going to keep your house and make the
payments, you can be at least be thankful and not bitter that
students will be studying mushrooms in a tropical paradise,
Thailand, soaking up the sun and eating food you can't pronounce.
Make
sure you vote your local representative and senator back into office
that voted for the StimUwaste, because they deserve a job while
people take vacations using your tax money, while you are losing
your house or local bus route. "The
immense importance of fungi in the functioning and maintenance of
ecological processes in nature is unquestioned, but our knowledge of
their biodiversity is far from being complete." UNIVERSITY OF
ARKANSAS SYSTEM The immense
importance of fungi in the functioning and maintenance of ecological
processes in nature is unquestioned, but our knowledge of their
biodiversity is far from being complete. Tropical forests are
thought to be the terrestrial ecosystems characterized by the
highest fungal biodiversity, but a major portion of this
biodiversity has yet to be documented. This project provides the
opportunity, during each of three summers, for at least four
undergraduate and/or graduate students to spend a month carrying out
biodiversity studies of fungi and fungus-like organisms associated
with tropical forests in northern Thailand as research projects. In
Thailand, the students will interact with scientists and graduate
students at Chiang Mai University, Mae Fah Luang University and the
Mushroom Research Centre. Student participants will be selected from
a pool of applicants that will come from universities throughout the
United States. The international aspects of the project are expected
to represent an extraordinary training/educational experience for
these students, since the interaction with their student
counterparts in Thailand will involve sharing the same
accommodations, joint field work at study sites in northern Thailand
and laboratory-based sessions during which they will work together
on processing and analyzing samples and data. AWARD OVERVIEW AWARD OVERVIEW Award Number
0934084 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $149,760 Project Location - City Fayetteville Award Date
08/22/2009 Project Location - State AR Project Status
Not Started Project Location - Zip 727011403 Jobs Reported
0.00 Congressional District 03 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM Recipient DUNS
Number 191429745 Recipient
Address 120 N OZARK AVE Recipient City
FAYETTEVILLE Recipient
State Arkansas Recipient Zip
727014036 Congressional
District 03 Project Title
International: Studies of Fungal Biodiversity in Northern Thailand Project Status
Not Started Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Colleges, Universities, and Professional
Schools Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Prliminarly activities only. No
expenditures this reporting period. Jobs Created
0.00 Description of
Jobs Created Not applicable to this reporting period. Purchaser
Information (Grants) Purchaser
Information Contracting
Office ID Not Reported Contracting
Office Name Not Available Contracting
Office Region Not Available TAS Major
Program 49-0101 Award Date
08/22/2009 Award Number
0934084 Order Number
Award Type
Grants Funding Agency
ID 49 Funding Agency
Name National Science Foundation Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount of
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