text: | Seanad Éireann - Volume 107 - 06 February, 1985 Adjournment Matter. - Irish Shipping Employees' Pensions. Mr. Magner Mr. Magner Mr. Magner: I should like to thank the Minister for his presence here — I appreciate that he did not send a deputy — to hear the case on Irish Shipping pensions. As I address this House this evening I have only one fear, that is, that my contribution will be inadequate in demonstrating the injustices done to a body of people to whom this country owes a great deal. I should like to begin by reading into the record of the House a letter that appeared in The Irish Times in the last few days which was written by the master of the Irish Spruce which is at present tied up in Marseilles. It reads: 207 As you can imagine, life out here can become very boring and frustrating, just waiting for the boom to fall on our jobs and our future. I think the most depressing news so far has been that the pensions of our predecessors have been cut to a figure comparable to the pocket-money of many teenagers today. Memories in high places are very short-lived, but I guess some of out leaders weren't even born during the Emergency, so why should I worry? What hope then for us in our fight for an equitable settlement after giving most of our working lives in unstinting loyalty to a wholly-owned State company? I would call on all [207] politicians who are worth their salt to stand up and be counted. This is a moment, I hope, when those of us who care can be counted. I sincerely hope that the Government can be included. I want to declare a personal interest in this matter. Twenty years ago my own brother was lost at sea with Irish Shipping; lost at sea like so many more, he was one of the young men who died in the service of the company and through service with the company. This issue arises in the first place because a State company was put into liquidation. This has never happened before and all of us here pray that it will never happen again. The liquidation in itself was without precedent and I submit that the fear of the company's pensioners is also unprecedented. I should like to read into the record of the House some facts which may not be so well known in relation to Irish Shipping. First, the executive, clerical and seagoing staff of Irish Shipping had no part in the charter decisions which led to the eventual liquidation of that company. During the entire 40 years history of the company there was not a single strike. Irish Shipping Limited recorded 15 consecutive years of profit and therefore could not be titled in any shape or form a white elephant. There is also the case that executive staff worked long hours overtime over many years for which they received no payment. Salaries and conditions of employment were strictly controlled by the Department of the Public Service. Irish Shipping staff were State employees and were regarded as such until the provisional liquidator was appointed. 208 What all this means is that there are no easy examples to fall back on in deciding how to respond. It means also that we in the Labour Party were entitled to feel aggrieved on behalf of these workers and the way they have been treated. In all of the liquidations that have occurred in the private sector over the last number of years, there have been very few where the pension scheme collapsed with the [208] company. It happened in this case. I can assure the House and the Minister that if we in the Labour Party had known the tragedy that was going to happen to people who in many cases had given a life service there would have been no way in which we would have allowed this to happen while we stood by. I think I can speak for the entire Parliamentary party when I say we are not prepared to stand by now and see people who deserve far better treatment victimised in this way. When I use the word tragedy I am talking about human tragedy. It is not an issue that just involves money. If we allow the pensioners of this State company to be robbed, as they are being robbed, we are consenting to the loss of their dignity, the dignity of being able to provide even at the end of a working life. 209 I should like to give the House some examples of the treatment that is being meted out to those people. In individual cases pensions have been reduced from £270 a month to £40 a month, from £925 a month to £141 a month; in what looks like real meanness some very small pensions have been made even smaller, for instance from £13 a month to £9 a month. In a number of cases the pensions have been removed altogether. Some people with incomes of between £60 and £90 a week now have absolutely nothing. All of this might be understandable if the cost of protecting these pensions ran into millions. It would make some sense perhaps if someone could tell us that we were going to break the banks or upset the Government's economic strategy to right this gross injustice. But it is not. The total number of people involved is 48 and the cost of providing a small measure of dignity for them, or rather of restoring the dignity we have taken away, is less than £85,000 per year. What has happened here for the sake of a pittance is that we have taken away the rights of a small group of people who have served this country in a unique way. What possible objection can there be to remedy the damage the State has done? There will, no doubt, be some who would argue that to treat this case in a way which it deserves would create a precedent that [209] might work against the State in the future. That argument will not wash at all. Apart from other considerations, I have already pointed out that this situation in itself is without precedent. It happened only because a State company went to the wall, with a badly-managed under-funded non-contributory pension scheme going with it. If we have other such companies and other such pension schemes we should learn from Irish Shipping. I do not believe that any Deputy or Senator, whether in the Government parties or in Opposition, would be prepared to allow a situation like this one to arise again. For our part in the Labour Party we will simply not allow more State pensioners to be thrown on the scrap heap. This is a point I want to stress to the Minister, because an argument will undoubtedly be made in quarters where there is no knowledge of the unique contribution of that particular body of men and women that there is nothing special about these pensioners. That could not be more wrong. What we are talking about here is a unique group who have made a contribution to the country that is also unique. At the time when neutrality was most under threat during the last war it was the officers and crews of the Irish Merchant Navy and Irish Shipping in particular who preserved our neutrality. Without them we would not have survived what we sometimes call "The Emergency". In a very real sense they were the only Irishmen who went out to fight and to die for this country in that war. They went out to fight without guns and in leaky old ships that were unable to withstand the slightest assault. I have specialised knowledge on that in so far as I sailed on a number of leaky old ships. From some of the descriptions I have heard of the ships that Irish Shipping took to sea in the forties they were either extremely foolish or extremely brave, and I believe they were the latter. We are talking here about people who are real patriots in every sense of the word. 210 Lest there be any doubt that it was the men of Irish Shipping who protected our [210] neutrality, I should like to read into the record some of the research work done by Robert Fisk for his book In Time of War. First, I should like to read a memo from Winston Churchill, and I would ask the House to take note of the menace contained in the last phrase: I quote Churchill to his Minister: I agree with the general line of your talk. I could in no circumstances give the guarantee asked for and for the reasons you state. About arms. If we were assured that it was Southern Ireland's intention to enter the war, we would of course if possible beforehand share our anti-aircraft weapons with them and make secretly with them all possible necessary arrangements for their defence. Until we are so satisfied, we do not wish them to have further arms, and certainly will not give them ourselves. The concession about Lough Swilly is important and shows the way things are moving. No attempt should be made to conceal from Mr. de Valera the depth and intensity of feeling against the policy of Irish neutrality. We have tolerated and acquiesced in it, but juridically we have never recognised that Southern Ireland is an independent Sovereign State, and she herself has repudiated Dominion Status. Her international status is undefined and anomalous. Should the present situation last till the end of the war, which is unlikely, a gulf will have opened between Northern and Southern Ireland, which it will be impossible to bridge in this generation. Let me have a further report on the economic pressure. 211 The extent of the economic pressure that the British were prepared to use was enormous. For example, in 1940, 74,000 tons of fertiliser was imported from Britain. But in 1941 that had been reduced to a trickle of 7,000 tons. None at all was received in 1942. Similarly, well over five million tons of feedingstuff was imported in 1940 and it was down to one million tons in 1941 and none at all over the next [211] four years. By 1941, Eamon de Valera was asking Irish farmers to double their acreage of wheat in order to avoid starvation and threatening penalties for farmers who planted alternative crops. This was the background in which Irish Shipping was established. I quote again from Robert Fisk: Irish Shipping Limited was formed in March 1941 and bought its first vessel, the Irish Poplar within a few weeks. Built in 1912, she had already been attacked by a German bomber in the Bay of Biscay while sailing under a Greek flag, and her Irish crew had to travel to Spain to collect her from a salvage company. That is what they went to sea in, ships that were unseaworthy but were desperately necessary for the survival of the State. I quote again from the book: 212 Irish ownership, however, proved no firm defence against attack by either of the belligerents. In February 1940, the passenger ferry Munster, on charter to the Belfast Steamship Company but flying the Tricolour, was mined in Liverpool Bay. Then in August, the Kerry Head, a Limerick collier, was subjected to a more deliberate assault and attacked by an unidentified aircraft off the Old Head of Kinsale. Several bombs fell around her but the crew were unhurt. In the same month, another mine destroyed the Irish livestock carrier Meath. All Irish vessels sailed under their neutral flag. Up to four huge Tricolours were painted on the sides of each ship together with the word "Eire" in letters 20 feet high, but Allied and Axis aircraft and submarines sometimes mistook Irish ships for French, British or German vessels and the crews suffered accordingly. In September 1940, for example, the cement carrier Luimneach, which had already been damaged by bombs at Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, was stopped by a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay, while on her way [212] to Drogheda. Despite the name "Eire" on Luimneach's hull, the U-boat's captain ordered the crew into their boats and then sank the vessel by gunfire. For several months afterwards, the Irish Government believed that the submarine was Italian although it was in fact U 46, commanded by Oberleutnant Engelbert Endrass who recorded dismissively in his war diary, that the Luimneach had been flying a "British or Irish flag". A further extract points clearly to the damage to which Irish ships, although neutral, were subjected. I quote from Robert Fisk's book again because I believe it is extremely necessary that the Minister and his Cabinet colleagues are fully aware of the obligation and the debt which is due to the people on whose behalf I speak this evening: 213 In October, the Kerry Head was sunk after being attacked by an aircraft off Cape Clear, County Cork. Her destruction, with the loss of 12 crew, was watched by several people on Clear Island although to this day the nationality of the plane that attacked her is unknown. An eyewitness said long after the war that a German plane dropped a stick of bombs on the vessel at around two o'clock in the afternoon, that the Kerry Head exploded in a sheet of flame and that the blast from the explosion brought down the aircraft which crashed in the sea. A trawler was moored off Cape Clear but did not have sufficient fuel to reach the scene of the attack. An Irish launch was only taken from Berehaven at 8 o'clock in the evening because the authorities were not at first convinced that there had been a sinking. Some of those who watched the attack from Clear Island claimed later that they saw survivors clinging to wreckage after the explosion. Two months later, another unidentified aircraft bombed the Irish lightship tender Isolde, whose captain had been third officer on the Lusitania when she was torpedoed and sunk off Kinsale in 1915. The bombs that hit [213] the Isolde started a fire in which six of the crew were killed. My final extract from this book is one which I think has a particular appropriateness for the motion I put before this House this evening. Irish shipping companies did their best to protect their crews. Their vessels were degaussed to protect them from magnetic mines, and Hempel was given details of all Irish vessels for him to pass on to the German Admiralty and the Luftwaffe. German naval and air crews were instructed to check their targets but inside the blockade zone around Britain, they did not always have to do so. The Irish only learned of this in the last months of the war after an extraordinary incident in which a U-boat scuttled itself off Cork. The crew had put their ship's documents into two metal canisters and thrown them overboard before rowing ashore and being taken into custody at Collins Barracks in Cork. But the canisters later floated on to the beach and were retrieved.... The 20 crew members of the submarine were installed at the barracks, singing German songs as they made their way to and from their meals, unaware that Colonel Bryan of G2 had sent Douglas Gageby, one of his young intelligence officers, down to Cork to examine the canisters. Inside them, he found ship's papers, a series of photographs of an air attack on a small trawler and a copy of the submarine's Standing War Orders, signed by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the former Flag Officer U-boats and now Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. This is what they said: ... basically Irish ships also come under neutrality regulations.... In addition, for political reasons, Irish ships and also at times Irish convoys are not to be attacked within the blockade zone if they are seen to be such. However, there is no special obligation to determine neutrality in the blockade zone. 214 [214] The extracts I have read out demonstrate the case I have been pursuing here this evening. During the war 135 members of the Irish Merchant Navy died at sea and a large proportion of fatalities suffered domestically over that five year period were in fact members of Irish Shipping. These same sailors — we are talking about the sailors of Irish Shipping — also saved a total of 521 lives, sailors of all nationalities, British, American, German as well as Italian. The other point the extract makes is that there could hardly be any greater or more savage irony than the only tribute we are prepared to pay at the end of it all is to slash the pensions of the men who fought to protect us, to supply us with essentials and even to feed us. We can only be ashamed if we do not rectify this injustice. To sum up, there are no precedents for this situation and no reason to suppose it will create any. The number of people involved is small and the cost is miserly, no more than £85,000 a year. It is totally wrong that we should choose to ignore the contribution Irish Shipping made at a time when we really needed it. If we cannot resolve the injustice that has been done in this case it will be a long time before I — and I believe I speak for many of my colleagues in this House — will be persuaded to acquiesce in another decision like the one which led to the closure of Irish Shipping. I believe this cause has justice and I believe, because of the calibre of the Minister in charge and also because of the faith I have in this Government and in this Cabinet, that not alone will justice be done but it will be done swiftly. Minister for Communications (Mr. J. Mitchell) Jim Mitchell 215 Minister for Communications (Mr. J. Mitchell): I thank Senator Magner for raising this issue in the Seanad. He has recalled eloquently the service of Irish Shipping personnel, particularly during World War II. He has argued very cogently the case for the pensioners of Irish Shipping. I fully sympathise with the sentiments expressed by Senator [215] Magner. Indeed, in advance of liquidation this eventuality was anticipated; every angle was considered, and this is one of the sadder aspects of the whole liquidation, that people on pension could suffer in this way. Ever since liquidation I have been examining up-side-down and down-side-up ways and means of possibly helping a situation like this. One might ask why has this problem not been resolved. I want to assure the House that it has not been resolved not because of any lack of sympathy on the part of the Minister or on the part of the Government but because there are legal and financial sensitivities involved; there are implications involved which thus far it has not been possible to overcome. I am still examining the matter with all urgency. I have particular sympathy for all the pensioners but I think everyone would feel that those who did serve during those trying times in World War II deserve our special sympathy and they certainly have mine. 216 Sympathy in a situation like this is not much good. I am sorry that I am not in a position to announce to the House any firm proposals in this regard. I want to recall the background to the situation. Senator Magner mentioned that the pensions schemes had collapsed; that is not what happened. The three pension schemes operable in Irish Shipping are [216] intact. There was one for the senior executives, there was one for the seagoing staff and there was one for the shore staff. Irish Shipping decided to top up those pensions by ex gratia payments of various amounts. In some cases they also made ex gratia payments to people or dependants who had been in their care when no pension was payable. There are 48 people involved of whom I understand about ten had service during the World War. The pensions schemes have not collapsed although the position I gather is that the trustees of the pensions schemes are bound by the terms of them to wind up the pensions schemes and return the funds to the members of the schemes. I hope that, without raising too many hopes, I will be in a position to announce some alleviation at least for those who served during the World War before too long. There are legal and financial implications. Sometimes this can be infuriating for somebody who is not a legal expert and who wishes just to get things done. Everyone will share my view that the liquidation of Irish Shipping had nothing to do with the employees of Irish Shipping, much less the pensioners. They do deserve the sympathy of this House and the country. The Seanad adjourned at 8.25 p.m. until 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday 13 February 1985. Seanad Éireann 107 Adjournment Matter. 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Whether you are celebrating a strawberry picking festival, having a berry themed birthday bash or your little one simply can't get enough of this speckled red fruit, making strawberry decorations for kids is a snap. From banners to garlands, you (and your child) can handcraft imaginative strawberry themed decor that sparkles with a hint of glitter.
Items you will need
- A twin-sized bed sheet
- Non-toxic fabric paint
- Non-toxic fabric markers
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Ribbon
- Card stock paper
- A strawberry stencil or template
- Hole punch
- Markers
- Clear drying school glue
- Glitter
Strawberry Banner
Step 1Place a white twin-sized bed sheet on the floor (or other large work surface) horizontally. Fold the sheet in half from top to bottom.
Slide a large-sized piece of cardboard in between the two layers of the sheet to keep the fabric paint from seeping through. Cut the cardboard from an oversized box or pieces together a few pieces from smaller sources.
Draw a large strawberry in the center of the sheet with the fabric markers. Add smaller strawberries and words that fit the desired occasion, such as "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Strawberry Festival," around the large strawberry.
Paint in the strawberries with red and green fabric paints. Your child can help, or have him add small black paint spots as seeds.
Create a hanger for your banner. Cut a piece of red ribbon that is at least 12 -inches longer than the folded banner. Slide the ribbon through the sheet, just under the fold. Pull the ribbon so that six inches stick out on each side of the banner.
Show off your handiwork once the paint has dried. Remove the cardboard and hang your strawberry decor by the ends of the ribbon. If the banner will be hung in a windy area, tack down the ribbon with fabric glue so it will stay together.
Strawberry Garland
Step 1Use a marker to draw strawberry shapes onto red card stock paper. If you and your child aren't adept at drawing strawberries, use a stencil or template to help you along. Make sure that the strawberries are at least 6-inches tall by 6-inches wide in order to see them well. Older preschoolers can practice their scissor skills by cutting out the strawberries themselves.
Fill in the tip of the strawberry with glue lines. Have your child sprinkle green glitter over the glue. Shake off the excess.
Dot the rest of the strawberry with glue. Have your child pour dark glitter in blue or purple over the glue to create sparkling seeds. Shake off the extra glitter. Allow at least four hours for all of the glitter and glue to dry (unless you want to have sticky glitter all over your child and house).
Punch a hole on each side of each strawberry, making sure that the holes are all at the same points on the strawberries.
Tie the strawberries together to make a garland decoration. Cut 6-inch pieces of thin red or green ribbon. Line the strawberries up in a row. Thread the ribbon through the the first side hole and again through the one on the next strawberry. Tie the ribbon in a bow. Repeat this step, securing each strawberry to the one before it. Leave two ribbons free, one on each end, for hanging your crafty decor.
- Hang your strawberry decorations around your child's windows, decorate door frames, adorn a buffet table (filled with berry goodies) or simply add them to a blank wall.
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So let's say you want to make caffeinated muffins, caffeinated peanut butter, or even caffeinated Chap Stick. That means you're going to need some caffeine. Sadly, pure caffeine isn't something you can just buy at your corner store but you can, however, but caffeine pills. In this Instructable I'll be using Maximum Strength NoDoz. The bottle states that each pill contains 200 mg. of caffeine so it will be perfect for this process.
Some may ask "Why not just crush up the pills and use as is?ââ¬ÃÂ
If you have ever tasted a caffeine pill (or any solid pill for that matter), youâ≢d know why. The taste is unpleasant and it carries through to the flavor of the food.
With this process, it allows us to do away with the parts of the pill that we donâ≢t want to deal with.
Inactive Ingredients:
Benzoic Acid, Corn Starch,FD&C Blue 1,
Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Microcrystalline Cellulose,
Mineral Oil, Polysorbate 20, Povidone, Propylene Glycol,
Simethicone Emulsion, Sorbitan Monolaurate, Stearic Acid,
Sucrose, Titanium Dioxide.
Since we will be using denatured alcohol as our solvent, we have to analyze these substances to see what else will be dissolved. By searching through the MSDS records, I have that list here.
Soluble in Ethanol or Methanol:
Caffeine, Benzoic Acid, FD&C Blue 1, Povidone.
Some of these are soluble in Methanol but since the solvent is > 4% Methanol their concentrations in the solution will be low (their concentrations are already low and shouldnâ≢t be enough to effect taste). This is true except for caffeine which is soluble in alcohol and will be in high concentration (just like we want).
Having that been said, lets start with the parts list.
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But 1 problem, denatured alcohol is not really human safe to eat or drink, and i dont have any so um can i use anything els (like somthing around the house, vodka, tequilla, rubbing alcohol :-\?, or idk what lol. When ya msg me back ill go make some, cause i got so many caffine pills i got free (as generous sized samples) in the mail (...a LOT...)
So now, how is this a bad idea?
Also, would it be possibly to use ethyl alcohol as the solvent? If you can get it, 191 proof Everclear contains the maximum amount of ethyl alcohol available through the non-toxic distillation process. This might be safer than using potentially toxic denatured alcohol.
That said, I believe I'll now go brew up a cup of coffee. The natural way!
5 bucks for 2 ounces (about 60 grams)
id be nervous having that around though 2 grams is enough to make your caffeine high very unpleasant and around 20 grams is enough to kill a 100 kilogram guy like me.
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LOS ANGELES, September 10, 2013 — The showdown at the Colorado Corral is over, and Colorado State Senators John Morse and Angela Miron have been ousted from office.
Colorado became ground zero in the effort to replace legislators hostile toward gun owners and the Second Amendment. Tuesday, September 10, saw recall elections of Morse and Giron prove successful. Morse, who was also the Senate President, lost by a 52% to 48% margin. Giron lost by 56% to 44%. Both Morse and Giron conceded defeat Tuesday night.
The successful ouster of these two legislators is expected to have reverberations across the country as national Democrats struggle to determine whether to again try and limit the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
The recall election was also a successful triumph of local passions and a Constitutional message trumping big money outsider elitists. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is termed out in his own city, and his meddling in Colorado affairs helped remove people he supported. The anti-Bloomberg backlash was severe and decisive. Colorado is no longer the red state it once was, but it is certainly not as blue as Manhattan, especially on Second Amendment rights.
The gun issue is unique to American politics. Even many liberals support gun rights, either out of conviction or political expediency. In 1994, passage of anti-gun legislation cost President Bill Clinton dearly. Democrats lost control of Congress after 40 years, Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House, and Clinton abandoned liberal activism in favor of triangulation and third-way centrism. For much of the next two decades, Democrats avoided gun control fights.
Democratic presidential candidates talked about other issues. Even former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who ran a hard left anti-war campaign in 2004, supported gun rights. Current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets a "B" rating from the National Rifle Association.
SEE RELATED: Two for two: Morse and Giron both recalled in Colorado
President Obama is a doctrinaire leftist, but gun control has never been his passion. He would rather fight about education, healthcare and environmental issues. The Newtown tragedy led to liberals demanding action. They demanded a vote, and they lost. President Obama got the message and has since stayed quiet. While his Fast and Furious scandal was an end run around the Second Amendment, that is not a replacement for current speeches from a man who likes to speak.
Giron and Morse were part of a new group of emboldened liberals who attempted to turn Colorado into the next leftist experiment.
Removing these two anti-gun legislators could cause Democrats to avoid bringing up gun control at the national level until 2040.
Democrats were getting desperate heading into the final days of the recall. They initially wanted a fight about guns because they were convinced they were on the winning side. Yet over the years Americans have consistently supported basic fundamental gun rights. Colorado Democrats shifted strategy and tried to make the recall elections about anything other than gun rights. They played the "war on women" card and warned that removing Morse and Giron would affect everything from abortion to gay rights.
Typical attacks were made against the Tea Party. Colorado Tea Party leaders still have their jobs. Their fierce critics Morse and Giron do not.
Weapons of mass distraction were an indicator that Democrats were nervous. Republicans in Colorado pointed out that the way to stop being nervous is to stop infringing on the freedom of law abiding citizens by passing laws that criminals by definition disobey.
On Tuesday night, Democrats were reminded again that outside the coasts are not Middle America. In most of the country, there is still the ultimate political price to pay for targeting law abiding gun owners.
Brooklyn born, Long Island raised, and now living in Los Angeles, Eric Golub is a politically conservative columnist, author, public speaker, satirist and comedian. Eric is the author of the book trilogy "Ideological Bigotry, "Ideological Violence," and "Ideological Idiocy."
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008Channel24.co.za, Die Burger, Koos Kombuis and his fans shoot the first professional quality SA music video for the web, by the web.
Music videos are probably the most important way bands market their albums. They're giant, arty adverts. Which means they're also expensive, and that every second of the final video product takes hours of shooting, and weeks of planning.
So they're not traditionally made by websites, who're better known for short clips of cats going to the toilet, or wobbly live music videos shot by some drunk dude with a cellphone camera.
But Channel24.co.za's changed all that, with a professionally shot, hugely ambitious video for Koos Kombuis' politically charged new single, "Reconciliation Day", a song mourning the death of celebrated musician Talip Petersen, and the failure of the new South Africa to deliver a better life for all. The song is taken from Koos's controversial album, Bloedrivier, the original acoustic version of which was recorded by Channel24 in Koos' lounge, back in 2005.
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It's the beginning of a new college semester. Paid the tuition? Check. Paid dorm room and board or apartment rent? Check. Purchased textbooks? Check. Purchased mandatory health insurance? Huh?
A friend alerted us to the fact that California University of Pennsylvania, one of the universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), instituted a few years ago a mandate that requires students to have health insurance. According to the school's website, "All full-time main-campus undergraduate students, all international students, and all NCAA athletes attending California University of Pennsylvania must enroll in or waive out of the insurance coverage offered through the University. All students providing verifiable proof of comparable coverage may waive the purchase of the sponsored plan. If a student does not provide the necessary proof or enroll in one of two plans offered by the University, they [sic] will be automatically enrolled in the University plan. Their student account will be billed for the first installment amount and a hold will be placed on their opportunity to register for future classes. In order to release the hold, students will be required to submit payment for the first installment. The second installment amount will be automatically billed prior to the start of the spring semester. Waivers received after the first month of each semester will incur a financial penalty and may not be accepted." Highmark, Inc. is the University's insurer.
California University of Pennsylvania is the only PASSHE institution to have such a requirement. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a spokeswoman for the state system said mandatory coverage "is not a system issue." We discovered that some schools in the system may have limited requirements but not a blanket mandate.
Why, then, does Cal U have such a stringent requirement? The website explains, "The importance of health care for matriculated higher education students has become an integral part of a student's academic and extracurricular success. The 2002 Health of College Students Study funded by the Heinz Family Philanthropies and the Chickering Group shows that students without medical insurance have a lower graduation rate than students with medical insurance.
"At the same time, access to health care has become problematic. Students who do not have health insurance may not seek or could be denied proper medical care for their illnesses and injuries. Increasingly, students begin their University career with a chronic or maintenance diagnosis that needs continued care. Finally, students adjusting to the independence that comes from entering the University environment trends [sic] towards riskier behaviors that could increase their chance of an illness or injury."
It is possible, however, that students covered under the University plan may still refrain from seeking treatment because the deductible, though modest, may be too much for the student's pocketbook.
The Cal U website directed questions about the insurance mandate to Hulse QM, the plan administrator. We put some of our questions to Donna Norris, president of Hulse Quality Management Services, Inc. Hulse QM receives a fee from Cal U to administer the plan. The company administers health insurance plans for ten schools in three states. Some of what we discovered was not surprising, but there were some eye-openers.
Just as you'd expect, 85-90% of students are covered by their parents' health insurance and qualify for waivers. These are primarily the traditional 18-22 year-old students. Students in that age group whose parents are unemployed or do not have coverage will need the University plan. So, too, will non-traditional older students with no other coverage.
We were surprised to learn that mandated health insurance coverage for university students has been around for decades. About 60% of universities across the country have mandates in place, and PASSHE is one of the few state systems that does not, according to Ms. Norris.
As with any health care coverage, cost is a concern. The lower priced, fairly comprehensive Highmark plan is $1745 a year, with a modest deductible. There are no restrictions due to pre-existing conditions. It is pretty reasonable as health care coverage goes, but keep in mind that the population covered is generally young and less expensive to insure. And they often have little or no income, so even reasonable rates may be challenging for some students.
It is a good thing for college students to have health care coverage, and the Cal U plan sounds better than some plans out there. But it still may strain the finances of the often jobless college population.
So what options do Cal U students and other students with mandated coverage have? One is to check out other PASSHE universities that do not have mandates. It may be best for their wallets even if it is not in their health care interests.
In addition, it is important that students or anyone else who believes that health care is a right and not a privilege endorse single-payer (improved Medicare for all) legislation. In Pennsylvania, we encourage you to support the PA Family and Business Health Care Security Act (SB400/HB1660). The cost is affordable and the coverage is comprehensive. Please become part of this movement.
Remember, the effort to enact single-payer health care legislation is a marathon, not a sprint. Like all worthwhile movements, it requires commitment to see it through. Please join Health Care for All PA to become part of our team.
Covering college students may be a valid goal, but covering everyone is a better and more economical solution.


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Critters, concerts, and an anti-cancer campaign
By Debra Gibson Isaacs from April 2014 Issue
Credit: Alan Coffey
Cancer awareness
South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative employees recently "pinked out," all of them wearing pink shirts, to increase awareness of breast cancer and the importance of regular checkups.
"Cancer, in some way, touches the lives of nearly every member in our service territory," says Allen Anderson, president and CEO of South Kentucky RECC. "We wanted to draw attention not only to breast cancer but to all types of cancer. This was one way we could do that.
"South Kentucky RECC has supported the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life by raising funds for cancer research. I'm proud of the effort that our employees put forth to help this worthy cause."
Camp environment
About 175 fourth-grade students learned about the connections in the natural world when Clark Energy Co-op served as co-host of the second annual Environmental Day Camp provided by Powell County 4-H Youth Services. Chris Carpenter sponsored the amphibian exhibit, which included this salamander. With teachers Steve Colwell and Charanda Fugate, the Powell County High School Science and Ecology Team offered several programs, including "Oh Deer," "Turtle Hurtles," "Sum of the Parts," and "The Incredible Journey." A student created the "Recycle Race" activity.
The art of orchestra
Licking Valley Rural Electric Co-op brought music education to Morgan County students by co-sponsoring a visit from the Lexington Philharmonic. The Philharmonic musically narrated the book Jake the Philharmonic Dog.
"Programs such as these help give children exposure to music and the arts," says Kerry K. Howard, general manager and CEO of Licking Valley RECC. "Studies have repeatedly shown the importance of the arts in learning, so we are proud to be able to provide this program for our young people."
In coming years, the Lexington Philharmonic will visit other counties served by the cooperative.


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The perfect trip: Switzerland
At the region's heart is the boundlessly charming hilltop town of Gruyères and its 13th-century castle. At one end of a square that sags in the middle like an old mattress stands a chalet fronted with wooden shingles. Leave all reticence at the door, and sit down to a fondue made, fifty-fifty, with Gruyère and Vacherin, mixed with white wine and finished with a dash of Kirsch.
Aletsch Glacier: Best for ice
The biggest glacier in the Alps isn't visible from the road that follows the headwaters of the Rhône up through the canton of Valais. Nor can it be seen from the three nearest villages – Riederalp, Bettmeralp and Fiescheralp – whose dark wooden chalets bask on sunny slopes high above the valley, reached only by cable car. The payoff comes after one last lift ride up to the top of the mountain ridge. On the far side is a valley engulfed with ice, which disappears from view between the crags.
It's a sight that induces awe. Any walker who stands for a moment, silhouetted against the mountain skyline above the glacier, automatically looks heroic. Seen from the 2,333m heights of Moosfluh, over Bettmeralp, the ice snakes like the number 3. Darker lines of rocky debris – the medial moraines – track the length of the glacier, dividing the ice into lanes and giving the Aletsch the look of an unfinished motorway for ice giants.
Most visitors take in the giddy view and then turn back without ever setting foot on the glacier. For that you're strongly advised to team up with a local guide. Martin Nellen prefers to start the walk down to the ice edge in the early morning. The path leads past a dry-stone wall, marking the boundary of a nature reservation. Two chamois, startled at this quiet time of day, bound across the trail, over the wall and into their state-protected sanctuary.
Martin demonstrates how to tie crampons under our walking boots – the metal spikes will give purchase on the ice. And to prepare for any slips, the inexperienced are joined to him by a length of rope. The edge of the glacier slopes up to the height of a two-storey house. Anybody else would be lost on its surface, which is as disordered as a sea frozen mid-storm and slightly different with each new dawn. 'Ten days ago it was impossible to walk just here, but now it's a highway,' Martin points out.
Aside from the crunch of crampons on ice, the only sound is meltwater running over the glacier surface in a perfect zigzag stream. Crossing a medial moraine, we reach a pothole in the ice with a stream plunging into it. A stone thrown in gives a booming echo. At another stream, we stop to have 'glacier milk' – a cupful of meltwater clouded with a dash of absinthe.
'Remember that we are moving slowly even when we're standing still,' says Martin. 'The glacier travels about 30cm a day on average. Only in higher regions does snowfall turn to ice. Take a metre of powder snow, then melt and freeze, melt and freeze, and after eight to 10 years you have a centimetre of ice. When you see the ice at the end of the glacier, you are looking at snow that fell up to 800 years ago.'
Glaciers in most parts of the world are shrinking and the Aletsch is no exception. In our lifetimes, it is likely to shrink to the size it was in the Roman era. But even in its present majesty, it is only a fraction of the length it reached at the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago, when the whole of the Rhône Valley as far as Lake Geneva was one long glacier. In the early 21st century, it's a privilege to meet the greatest descendant of the icefields that made Switzerland what it is today.


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I know this is a topic of interest to many. This guy did a test for etching and staining leaving various foodstuffs on white marble unsealed and sealed with different sealers. http://www.granitegurus.com/2010/05/experiment-of-etching-marble-part-deux.html |
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- Posted by firsthouse_mp (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 0:20
That was an interesting experiment. Looks like the 5 coats of Bulletproof didn't do much. I like that he used both the honed and the polished samples. If I ever had a lemon overnight on my marble I would be pretty freaked to see that deep of etching. As he said, "It was gnarly". I had a friend who did have a whole bunch of etching on her counter and after about five years she had this marble guy come out and he wet buffed all her counters and they were back to "new". While not cheap, it is a possible solution for those that have a limit to what they can tolerate in terms of "patina". Thanks needinfo! |
I found this because I am going to have a few marble counters in a kitchen that is primarily soapstone and am looking for info on what I should do to seal the marble. |
Needinfo - I sealed my honed statuary marble island with 511 about 3 times when I first got it (almost a year). I have a lot of etching, scratches and wear (you can tell where I use it the most), but not a single stain. There has even been spaghetti on it. And last week I rolled out red fondant. The fondant left pink on the marble, but I sprayed one quick spray of Clorox Cleanup and wiped (I've never used Clorox on the marble before) it right up. Other than this one instance of Clorox, I use a dishrag with Dawn and water on the counter. I'm really happy with the protection the 511 has given me against stains. |
I love the granite gurus. Thanks for sharing! |
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BlizzCon 2010: WoW Insider interviews author Richard A. Knaak {WoW}
Oct 28th 2010 2:02AM Personally, I love Knaak's books and prefer them over Golden's. I loved Lord of the Clans, but Rise of the Horde and Arthas: Rise of the Lich King were severly lacking in substance when you set them apart from their respective games. Day of the Dragon and the War of the Ancients trilogy were set in a part of the lore that we DIDN'T experience in the games (though Cataclysm will probably change that), and I hated feeling like I was just reliving the game and not exploring something new. If I wanted to hear the Warcraft III redition of Artha's fall from grace I'd just play the flippin' game (true, it did cover some significant "plot points," though they were mostly just aberrational insertions). Personally, I enjoy Knaak's books because they don't make me feel like I'm playing any of the Warcraft games. They allow me to see the World of Warcraft as something beyond an just an RPG-MMO, they help me to see it as a Universe. And Universes are so infinite as to be ever-changing. "Grr. How dare you ruin the lore." In Knaak's defense, he WROTE some of the things that are now considered lore. Before Day of the Dragon, there were no definite Aspects. Blood elves (if they were included at all) would have an entirely different experience leveling in the Ghostlands, or raiding on the Isle of Quel'Danis. The Kirin Tor and the Silverwing Sentinels would be leaderless currently, and the characters of Malfurion, Illidan, and Tyrande would be entirely defined by their brief appearances in Warcraft III and then in The Frozen Throne. Knowing his contribution in the War of the Ancients (aside from what was written in the Warcraft III Manual), I find Illidan's fall much more powerful and moving than just what we saw in Reign of Chaos.
I'm not saying Golden's books suck (Lord of the Clans is right up there with The Last Guardian, which was my favorite of the Warcraft novels), or that they're absolutely no good. I just like Knaak's better.


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Do you know the commercial "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" Those two guys are uber polite, "But of course!" (It's hard not to sound polite with a British accent.) Well, from a personal safety perspective, this is a good example of what not to do.
We are raised to be polite. Please. Thank you. Excuse me. Consequently, bad guys have you right where they want you. They know that people inherently want to help others. So, they'll ask for the time or directions or where the closest coffee shop is. You pull out your phone (because who wears a watch or carries a map anymore) and while you're not looking…BAM! Crime!
It's called a distraction technique. Attackers aren't necessarily smarter than you, they just play dirty. It's lame and unfair. But life is un-frigginlutely-fair.
A more relevant example might be Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. If you haven't read the book or watched the movie…
<<<SPOILER ALERT àSkip down past END SPOILER >>>
The killer asks Mikael to join him inside. And even though Mikael knows he's the killer, he follows him in there because he doesn't want to appear rude. Then the killer makes a poignant remark about his incredulity toward how people would rather appear polite than look out for their own safety. So, true!
[For those of you who skipped over the spoiler alert, get with the program already. You're like the only one who hasn't read the book. At least watch the movie. I digress…]
Have you ever sat next to someone who smelled like a contestant on Survivor and tortured yourself because you didn't want the stinky cheese to think you were rude by moving seats? Or maybe let an unfamiliar someone into your dorm building, even though they gave you the heebee-jeebees, because your mom taught you that holding the door is the friendly thing to do? We, as humans, are concerned about what other people think of us. And that can get us into some sticky situations.
Be rude! It's your life, optimize your experience. So, the answer to "Do you have any grey poupon?" should be "I can't help you." And then keep trucking along in your Rolls.
Like the saying [sorta] goes, you won't make a criminal out of a stranger by being rude, but you could deter a bad guy…or at least enjoy the fresh air.


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Michael Emerson talked to Hollywood411 about the season finale, Ben Linus, the smoke monster, and tries to discreetly spoil, but if you watch the show at all, it is not discreet!
Some points he touches on include :
– being judged
– filming the 100th episode
– what his plans are post-Lost
– if we will see the monster again
– what he thought of Dead is dead
– and how fans react to him.
Source : sl-LOST
Tags: Add new tag, Benjamin Linus, lost season 5, Lost Spoilers, michael emerson
28 Responses to "Michael Emerson talks season finale"
He was talking about Jacob!
Definitely! The finale is going to revolve around Jacob. Maybe a Jacob flashback? Could we dream so big?
could they end season 5 by blowing up the Island?
thats what im thinking anyway
I bet they'll find a way to stop it with, for example, the massive amount of magnetic energy housed behind the cement in the hatch that can crash planes and turn the sky purple. 'Course, that doesn't explain why no one died of radiation poisoning after those events. Hm… perhaps I need to rehtink this theory.
That's the Season 6 finale!
Yeah, Michael Emerson tends to be literal with his hints if you've seen his interviews in the past. "Explosive" seems pretty obvious…
Emerson said the finale will end on an "explosive" note..He chose that word for a reeason. Bearing in mind that Team Darlton said to keep in mind Stephen King's "The Stand" in relation to Jughead, I think it will go off this season
I was actually really hoping for the DeGroots coming out of the sub at the end of the last episode. I'd also love to meet Alvar or even Magnus Hanso!
"I was actually really hoping for the DeGroots coming out of the sub at the end of the last episode. I'd also love to meet Alvar or even Magnus Hanso!"
I, too, would love to have them on the show…but I have a feeling we never will.
Jacob = statue, we've never seen either of their faces for a reason. I think I may have figured it out. man, I have got to quit smoking weed.
It's Jacob we finally see, but I demand a Richard backstory before the season ends. I think the two might be intertwined so to say.
I don't think he's talking about Jacob actually, I think he's talking about whoever has been dwelling in the temple all this time.
I think he was talking about Jacob. Or the DeGroots.
So many stories come to an explosive HEAD… hahaha. Well we still don't know whose stories and when. Daniel and Sayid, anyone?
The Variable will be a play on The Constant… Desmond is gonna change something in time…
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