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Does that mean if I mention your wife I should refer to her as your spousal unit just because you do?
I have a question... why did you refer to the guy who lives with me as my husband instead of my spousal unit?
Hmmmmm????
Uh, um...er... wellll...
Dang, I'm speechless for a change.
Mark this post for it's a rare day when I don't have anything to say. LOL
How cool is that!
I've never seen a blue heron before...
Hiya Mickey... thank you for the compliment, my friend.
Anything exciting happening with you? I'm getting so bored with this market I'm about ready to cash out and start travelling again. Trouble is it's too much trouble to go anywhere except to Louisiana (to the casinos), of course.
Fixing to leave in a couple of days. Perhaps it will give me a new lease on life. LOL
OMG...and his nipples are pierced too.
First of all, just because I'm a tad older (oh, stop laughing)... doesn't mean I can't appreciate the attributes of a young hunk...er, I mean a young man.
You're so silly...like I'd allow my husband access to this 'puter! LOLOLOLOL
Yes, I can see it now.
Yummy! He's kinda cute.
Okay, he wins.
How can I judge if you messed up the picture of Jimmy Fallon...geez, all I see is a blue square with a question mark.
But Jimmy Russo - no way. His hair is a mess, Trumpster's is nice and neat!
IMO, they saw an opportunity to take advantage of an older woman and took it. At first, I intended to pursue the matter to expose and embarrass them so they couldn't do it to anyone else but then decided...what goes around comes around.
You got by a little cheaper than we did, Ron...re your well. Don't know if you read any of my posts this past summer about having to replace the motor, pump and tank on our well too. If I remember correctly, the price tag was around $2,400. However, they also drilled an additional 15 feet too...
Like you, we have an excellent well service company here...third generation with a stellar reputation.
Foreign energy firms getting windfall of U.S. stimulus funds
Money is used to buy turbines made abroad
By Brooke Williams Watchdog Institute
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 12:02 a.m.
China’s A-Power Energy Generation Systems lists a vacant office in downtown San Diego as its U.S. address. Brooke Williams Online: Local wind-energy leaders explain why U.S. firms are falling behind in getting stimulus dollars on 10News.com. And for the workshop’s full investigation into wind-power funding, go to investigativereportingworkshop.org.
Of the more than $2 billion the federal government has given out to boost the economy and create green-energy jobs, more than three-quarters has gone to foreign-owned companies that dominate the global wind-power industry. This latest finding by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit at American University in Washington, D.C., is illustrated clearly in San Diego County, where about a dozen commercial wind developers have offices.
La Jolla is the headquarters for Eurus Energy America, the subsidiary of a Japanese firm that received $91 million in federal stimulus money for a wind farm in western Texas. It plans to apply for more money to fund a wind project in Oregon.
EnXco, a French-owned firm with American headquarters in Escondido, has received $69.5 million in stimulus money for its wind farm in Indiana. It installed 53 German-made turbines at the site. EnXco also is operating the Texas wind farm for Eurus.
A-Power Energy Generation Systems, a Chinese-owned company that might get federal grants through a consortium building a wind farm in western Texas, lists a vacant office in downtown San Diego as its U.S. address on recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cannon Power Group of San Diego has received $19 million to expand a wind farm east of Portland in Washington. The company spent about half of that money overseas to pay for wind turbines it said it couldn’t get stateside.
The Reporting Workshop’s initial analysis of wind-energy grants was released in October and outraged some lawmakers. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., cited the group’s report — and news that $450 million in stimulus money might go to a group installing Chinese-made wind turbines in Texas — when he asked the secretary of energy to deny federal financing to firms that use foreign-made turbines. American wind companies are receiving stimulus grants, but some such as Cannon Power spend much of that money abroad because few U.S. companies manufacture turbines.
Mark Anderson, chief executive officer of Eurus Energy America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Eurus Energy Holdings Corp., said his company would not have been able to move forward with other projects without the guarantee of stimulus money. Eurus received $91 million in grants for the Bull Creek Wind Farm in Texas. It has the capacity to power about 48,000 homes a year. Eurus is building a wind farm in Oregon. The company plans to seek green grants for that project, Anderson said. “We plan to put more and more money into the United States,” he said.
Eurus employs 20 people in San Diego, Anderson said, and has assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Its Texas project created between 300 and 400 jobs for construction, including 10 for operation, and is benefiting the local economy through property taxes and land leases, Anderson said. For the project, Eurus bought Mitsubishi turbines, which are manufactured abroad.
EnXco, the French-owned firm based in Escondido, also went abroad to buy turbines, from German manufacturer REpower. A spokesman for enXco ?said the project created more than 200 construction jobs as well as a dozen permanent jobs. It has the capacity to power about 29,000 homes per year.
A-Power, based in northeast China, is part of a group building a wind farm in western Texas using turbines it is manufacturing in China. This is the project that affronted Schumer after the group announced plans to collect $450 million in stimulus grants.
In a letter, Schumer asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu to reject requests for stimulus grants from companies that buy key components abroad. “In all due respect, I remind the secretary there is a four-letter word associated with the stimulus — J-O-B-S,” Schumer told ABC News. “Very few jobs here, lots of jobs in China. That is not what I intended or any other legislator who voted for the stimulus intended.” Chu responded on Facebook: “But manufacturers will not build plants here and grow their production capacity here unless there is domestic demand; and, until recently, that was not the case.”
In SEC filings this year, A-Power Energy Generation Systems lists a suite in a high-rise in downtown San Diego as its business and mailing address. However, the suite door is locked, and a building manager said A-Power is not a tenant. When reached on his cell phone, Chief Operating Officer John Lin said he did not have time to answer questions.
Gary Hardke, president of Cannon Power Group, a renewable-energy company near Torrey Pines, said his company had no choice but to go abroad to buy parts for its wind farm in Klickitat, Wash. Two main U.S. manufacturers, GE Energy and Clipper Windpower, either did not make a turbine the size that Cannon wanted or were sold out.
Cannon bought the turbines — made up mostly of blades, towers and nacelles (the part in the middle that houses components such as the rotor and generator) — from Siemens, a German company that also was the main contractor.
In all, Hardke estimated, more than 50 percent of the stimulus grant went to Siemens. “I appreciate that cosmetically it doesn’t look good, but the reality is … the grants (must) go into the project costs,” he said. Cannon is expecting $151 million more in stimulus grants to expand the wind farm and hopes all the parts will come from the United States. Hardke pointed to ways the stimulus cash will do what lawmakers intended — boost the local economy. Cannon pays about $3 million a year to lease land from about 40 individual owners as well as $2 million in property taxes.
The project is in a county where nearly 20 percent of residents earn less than the poverty level, according to a 2009 U.S. Census release. It created more than 300 construction jobs, Hardke said, and 20 to 30 to operate the farm. “There isn’t a family in Klickitat that doesn’t know someone employed by the project,” he said. “The ongoing economic development benefit in rural America is really significant.
The icing on the cake, he said, is “clean energy — really significantly helping the environment.”
Aha... a local Garden Center carries them!
Okay Trumpster... LOL
Have a great trading day, my friend.
I'd have to drive to the next small town to find one of them, I'm afraid. May try Lowe's...
Haven't checked out your link though...
Awwwwwwwwwww...
*blush*
Ohhh, okay... for a minute there I thought you were talking about PB... she's the fattest nut that I know of here on iHub. LOL
(Yikes...that ol' devil really has a hold on me this morning! Make me behave...)
The sunshine is most welcome, believe me. Can't tell you how much rain we got 'cause our glass rain gauge cracked (from the heavy rainfall, I think).
Don't know where to go to get another... any ideas?
There used to be two old-timey feed stores here where I could get stuff like that but one went out of business and the other burned down about two weeks ago.
And who/what might that fattening nut be, pray tell?
I'm in love....
I must say when they passed out the good looks you got them all, sweet thang.
LOL The devil made me do it, Trumpster...
G'morning Sunshine...
Good Morning Everybody...
That's a sore subject for me, Ron... because of an incident that happened in N.D. a few years ago. My Mom (a widow) was incapable of keeping our long driveway and sidewalk clear of snow in accordance with a city ordinance (the sidewalk) so I hired it done. Saw a business ad for the service in our local newspaper and arranged it all by telephone.
I had to go up there unexpectedly in January after a heavy snowfall...and found they had not honoured their contract! Boy Howdy, I raised all kinds of hell. I can only hope it did some good and they wouldn't ever try to cheat anyone again.
Thanks for the info, Dew...
And, best of luck to you. ;)
Industrials rally as Morgan Stanley sees more upside
By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Caterpillar Inc. and other industrials got a lift Tuesday after Morgan Stanley offered a brighter view of the company and the sector.
Saying it now sees "substantially more upside" for industrial stocks than the overall Standard & Poor's 500 Index (INDEX:SPX) , Morgan Stanley pointed to sharply rising orders and structural cost improvements as among the sector's underlying bullish factors. "In short, fundamentals have caught up and now surpass multiples that have contracted recently to highly attractive levels," Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Davis wrote in a note to clients.
The analyst also upgraded Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) , a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX:INDU) , to overweight from underweight, hiking his price target on its shares to $70 from $51.
Leading gains on the Dow, shares of Caterpillar were up 4.8%.
Off the Dow, Caterpillar's rivals Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) and Navistar International Corp. (NYSE:NAV) gained as well, up 3.2% and 2.9%, respectively.
Davis also upgraded Rockwell Automation Inc. (NYSE:ROK) and Ingersoll-Rand Plc (NYSE:IR) to equal weight from underweight.
Rockwell shares were lately up 2%, and Ingersoll-Rand gained 2.6%.
The Industrial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLI) , which tracks companies in aerospace, defense, building products, engineering and construction, rose 1.3%.
Oh, quit complaining, Roachie...think of the muscles you'll develop shoveling all that snow. LOL
Did you take all the dogs with you?
Most stocks took a beating last week, including GE.. even the late rally Friday wasn't enough to recover, unfortunately.
The Dow has fallen 6.7% since its high set on January 19 and is down 4% for the year.
Where will we go next? Most economists predict subpar growth in 2010...but, consumers are dealing with too much debt, help from the Gov will prolly slow and businesses are leery thus aren't spending much. However, if recovery conforms to historic patterns, growth could be surprisingly strong. We shall see...
It has absolutely poured here today...the ground is completely saturated, water everywhere. Ain't complaing though! :)
Am hearing thunder again, will log off for now but I'll be back later.
Wonderful, BTP... I love it (those eyes).
Well, don't keep us in suspense, Advance. Tell already...
Don't give up, Name...
I would much rather be an average American who sleeps well at night knowing I've tried to do my best in an honest manner.
See PM...
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see. Hot dogs, eh?
LOL
Really? I'll bet my Idiotic Person's Wall has the same names on it as yours.
Yet, it seems to be quite the norm here at IHub.
Sad but apparently true, Namerehwon.
You're very welcome.
Enjoy every waking moment, Lotto - they grow up way too fast.
(I'm one of five girls, btw... my poor Daddy, eh?)
Have you been getting PMs too?
I still haven't finished reading all the links.
LOL Amazing! Why in the world would she go to such lengths? Have you seen the actual pictures of her? She's more attractive...in a way, IMO.
Of course, her boobs aren't as big...