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Long-Term Care Insurance—Is It Worth The Cost?
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The question of how to pay for medical expenses as we age isn't one many of us want to answer. It's hard enough to think about not being able to get dressed, take care of ourselves, or move around our homes without wondering how much it will cost to get help.
However, those planning for retirement must consider the cost of medical care and long-term care insurance or risk blowing all their hard-earned retirement savings.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that 70 percent of people who reach age 65 will need long-term care services at some point. With long-term care costs as high as $250 a day and rising, these medical expenses can leave many people penniless.
While Medicare covers medical problems like surgery or a hospital stay after a fall, it does not always cover the long-term maintenance care required as people age or develop chronic health problems such as Alzheimer's disease.
Enter long-term care insurance
Long-term care insurance can be expensive, and many people overlook the need for it—only 10 percent of people in the insurance market have it. But experts say that it may be the best way to plan for the needs of middle-class families as they retire.
Long-term care insurance covers medical expenses when a person can no longer perform basic daily activities and needs either in-home care or a longer stay in a skilled nursing facility. This means that those with the insurance don't have to spend down their savings or rely on family or friends to support them. Policies vary, but they generally cover participants for a set amount of time, which kicks in after a waiting period.
"You can really look at long-term care as a form of asset protection and not health care," said Sandy Praeger, Kansas insurance commissioner and chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee.
In particular, policies that are designed in partnership with state governments can protect your savings if your policy runs out. If you live out your benefit period, which is typically two years, and you need to start relying on your own resources, you can spend down those resources and become Medicaid-eligible, Praeger said.
It's important to note, though, that you can keep the same amount of money that was spent on your insured care. So if your long-term insurance company paid out $100,000 in care, you can keep $100,000 of your own money, spend the rest, and still be eligible for Medicaid.
"Long-term care insurance is really for people who have assets to protect," Praeger said. "If you have fewer than $100,000 or $50,000 in assets, you wouldn't want to be paying the premium."
How much will you pay for long-term care insurance?
The premiums for long-term care insurance can be costly, and some companies have been requesting that the federal government allow them to increase premiums by as much as 90 percent. The costs vary widely depending on your age when you take out the policy, your medical conditions, and the type of coverage offered, but Praeger said you can get a fairly good policy for around $200 a month.
Remember that Alzheimer's and memory issues are big red flags that may preclude some people from coverage. There's also a time limit for those shopping for long-term care insurance—turning 60 tends to trigger rate increases.
"The longer you wait, the more expensive it is," Praeger said. "The ideal time would be in your 40s and 50s, except that it's not ideal because that's when those 40- and 50-year-olds are putting kids through college, so most people look into it in their late 50s and mid-60s."
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There's a new type of long-term care policy that can protect your assets from Medicaid even after the policy runs out of benefits. These government-approved policies are like a traditional long-term care policy with additional consumer protection features.
The Long-Term Care Partnership programs provide dollar-for-dollar asset protection. Each dollar that your partnership policy pays out in benefits entitles you to keep a dollar of your assets if you ever need to apply for Medicaid services.
Here's an explanation of how these policies work:
I believe that long term care insurance is worth the cost than paying for long term care itself. Many people are just looking at the cost of the policy, without even considering the prices of long term care, which is more expensive than any policy.
I have Long Term Health insurance. I saw what custodial care could do a person's savings when my father developed Alzheimer's. I recently received a letter from the provider offering significantly lower rates for a three year or six year plan. As unpleasant a thought as an Assisted Living experience would be for an extended period of time, we must adjust our life expectations as we age. I just decided as I as am writing this to keep the open ended policy. When the insurer makes you an offer it is to the insurer's advantage.
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Graph Computing at Scale
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The 70-year-old UWS dive bar the Emerald Inn is almost certainly closing on May 1 and will likely become a Kate Spade retail store, West Side Rag reports. The tiny room almost closed in 2009 after its landlord threatened to double the rent, but the bar was granted a two-year reprieve at the last minute. While there has been no official announcement from the Emerald's current proprietors or Kate Spade's corporate office, three sources tell the blog the closure is indeed imminent, and that "guys in suits" had been seen recently showing the 800-square-foot retail space to prospective tenants. [West Side Rag]
Looks a Lot Like the Emerald Inn Is Closing on May 1
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THANKSGIVING EVE -- 7 p.m. Wednesday, Shelter Cove Community Church, 4242 Coffee Road, Modesto. Pastor David Seifert talks on "Will You Be One Out of Ten?" 567-3200.
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TURLOCK GOSPEL MISSION -- 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Harvest Christian Center, 130 Third St. Meal for homeless and other community members. Free. 634-3294.
MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION -- 4 p.m. Wednesday, 1400 Yosemite Blvd. The Great Thanksgiving Banquet & Bundle-Up. Thanksgiving meal with fixings plus distribution of coats. 529-8259.
UNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION -- Thanksgiving Day hot holiday meals in Ceres, Denair, Hughson, Keyes, Modesto and Turlock on Thursday. 668-4853.
SALVATION ARMY MEAL -- 1 p.m. Thursday, Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 K St. Annual Thanksgiving meal by Costa family and The Salvation Army for homeless, lonely, seniors, "anybody who wants to come." 522-3209.
HOLIDAY DINNER -- 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, First Baptist Church of Modesto, 1325 12th St. Holiday meal for homeless sponsored by Modesto Junior College Human Services Club. Blankets, clothing, toiletries items also given out. 735-9498.
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Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- | Kennesaw State University Archives
Thomas Allan Scott was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1943. When he was a year old, his family moved to west Tennessee. The family lived there for three years before moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Scott grew up. He attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he received a B.S. in History in 1964, an M.A. in History in 1966, and a Ph.D. in History in 1978. Scott taught at Western Piedmont College in Morganton, North Carolina, for the 1967-1968 term. In 1968 he joined the faculty at Kennesaw Junior College, just two years after the school opened. He has been on the faculty of Kennesaw State University until the present time.
Dr. Scott served as Professor of History in the Department of History and Philosophy from 1968 to his retirement in 2011. He is currently a Professor of History Emeritus and Campus Historian. Dr. Scott is the author of two books on the history of Georgia: Cobb County, Georgia, and the origins of the suburban south: A twentieth-century history (2003) and Cornerstones of Georgia history: Documents that formed the state (1995). He has also authored several entries for the Digital Library of Georgia's New Georgia Encyclopedia. He lives in Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, Kathy.
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The Kennesaw State University oral history project consists of nine series: the Cobb County Oral History Series (1973-2005), the Kennesaw College Oral History Series (1978-1985), the Kennesaw State University Oral History Series (1986-), the Cherokee County Oral History Series (1992), the Georgia Government Oral History Series (1998), the North Georgia Oral History Series (1998-2000), the Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series (2009-2010), the Marietta Housing Authority Series (2011), and the Southern Polytechnic State University Series (2014), as well as a sub-series, HIST 4425 50th Anniversary Series, which consists of a subset of interviews within the Kennesaw State University Oral History Series (2011). Interview transcripts are available in bound volumes, digital (PDF) formats, and microfilm. They are arranged by the volume numbers assigned during the transcription process. Interview recordings may be available in sound and video formats. Sound formats include audiocassettes, microcassettes, and born-digital and digitized formats. Video formats include VHS, U-matic, and digitized formats. Researchers should check individual interview titles to determine available formats. All interview materials are arranged by series, format, and then in numerical order by the assigned volume number. All bound volumes are located in the Archives Reading Room and are arranged alphabetically by Interviewee last name.
The Cobb County Oral History Series was conducted by Thomas Scott, Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, and others, of prominent citizens of Cobb County, Georgia. The series was started in 1978 and has now been completed. The interviewees were people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Fulton counties. Most of the interviews were relatively brief class projects by students taking Georgia or Social and Cultural History. All transcripts in the series have been bound and placed in the archives at KSU and in the Georgia Room of the main Cobb County Library. Unless otherwise indicated transcribed interviews are typed and single-spaced.
The Kennesaw College Oral History Series consists of interviews conducted with people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Fulton counties from 1978 to 1985. The majority of the interviews were relatively brief class projects by students taking Georgia History or Social and Cultural History classes. Interview transcripts short in length were bound together as eleven "Collected interviews" volumes. The series also includes an index of volumes 1-10 of the "Collected Interviews," which was created by Angela G. Reiss.
The Kennesaw State University oral history series is a project conducted in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), and the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences to collect oral histories from all past recipients of the KSU Distinguished Professor, Teaching, Scholarship and Service Awards. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Thomas Scott and Dr. Dede Yow, with transcript editing and indexing assistance by Susan Batungbacal, Josh Dix and Jan Heidrich-Rice. The sub-series, HIST 4425 50th Anniversary Series, was conducted by students in the HIST 4425 class to document people who have made significant contributions to the history of Kennesaw State University.
Interviews of other faculty and members of the KSU Foundation who have made significant contributions to Kennesaw State University are also included within this project.
The Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series consists of forty-one oral history interviews done with a variety of people across Cobb County. The purpose of the project is to collect personal experiences of people with the Cobb County Branch and its predecessor, the Marietta Branch, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the Civil Rights movement in Cobb County, Georgia. The series was conceived as part of the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 2009. It was a joint effort between Dr. Scott's HIST 4425 (Oral History) undergraduate class at Kennesaw State University and the Cobb County Branch of the NAACP. Students met with and interviewed subjects. Copies of the interview transcripts have been placed on deposit in the Kennesaw State University Dept. of Archives, Special Collections, and Records Management and the Georgia Room of the Central Library and the Hattie G. Wilson Library of the Cobb County Public Library System, in addition to other locations.
The Marietta Housing Authority series consists of an interview with the former executive director of the MHA, George H. Green, to document the history of the organization.
The Southern Polytechnic State University Series documents the insittution from the perspective of administration, faculty, staff, and students. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Thomas Scott and his colleagues at SPSU throughout 2014, following the announcement of the consolidation of Southern Polytechnic State University with Kennesaw State University.
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Interview with Reverend Walter Moon
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Interview with Wesley K. Wicker
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Interview with Winston Strickland
Interview with Yvonne B. Wichman
Interviews with Mary Ward Cater
Interviews with President Betty Lentz Siegel
Series 1: Cobb County Oral History Series, 1973-2005
Series 2: Kennesaw College Oral History Series, 1978-1985
Series 3: Kennesaw State University Oral History Series, 1986-
Series 4: Cherokee County Oral History Series, 1992-08-24
Series 5: Georgia Government Oral History Series, 1998
Series 6: North Georgia Oral History Series, 1998-2000
Series 7: Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series, 2009-2010
Series 8: Marietta Housing Authority Series, 2011
Series 9: Southern Polytechnic State University Series, 2014


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Check this Out! Watt next to Yao
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Y'all haven't seen when the Chinese had an 8'2 and 8'1 on their basketball team. They can't move a lick, but they never had to leave their feet off the ground to put the ball in the basket. (I don't think they were allowed to dunk back then, but even if it was allowed, I'm not sure they can have much success with it.)
I think it was the 1980 Olympics.
The problem was they were big and tall, but they played small and short.
They can't get close to the basket hardly.
But when they did, like I said, they didn't have to leave their feet to put the ball in the basket (and they didn't).
Nobody paid much attention because they never won anything, but those guys were way up there, they would have made Yao look like a midget. They weren't skinny like Ralph Sampson either, but they weren't big. They looked proportionate for their size, but they were just too too slow.
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Sleep your Way to Health
Dr Savita Date Menon
What's the last item on your agenda for the day? You have bustled around all day running to work or school, grabbing a quick meal, manoeuvring your way through the rush hour traffic, meeting important people, working to earn some good money for the family.
Having started the day on full throttle, the everyday soldier now returns home with the battery quite discharged. Home being haven, you are now looking for some well deserved rest and relaxation.While sleep is the last item on our agenda, it is perhaps one of our healthiest habits. Is sleep really so important? Or is it a habit that parents force their children into, to have some quiet time for themselves?
The Nuts and Bolts of Sleep
How many hours of sleep do you need?
Six to eight hours
How often must you have it?
Every day
What is the best time to sleep?
At night
If I can't sleep eight hours at a stretch, can I break it into two cycles?
You must get one cycle of six hours at least. If your second cycle is an afternoon nap, one hour is more than enough
Which part of the body does it benefit?
The body and mind
How long can one go without sleep?
Usually not more than 72 hours
Is sleep as necessary for survival as food?
Yes, as vital as breathing, eating and drinking etc Well, considering that we spend one third of our lives in sleep (that's right, one third!), it surely is important. Repair, healing and clearing of unconscious emotional conflicts all happen during sleep.
Sleep States
Sleep has two states alternating with each other through the night. Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep with high physiological activity and Non Rapid Eye Movement or NREM sleep which is a peaceful state with lowered physiological activity. REM sleep is when you dream and remember your dreams, which are usually symbolic in nature. NREM sleep is deep sleep where the body rests and heals.
Short sleepers require less than six hours of sleep and are considered to be energetic and efficient. Long sleepers need over nine hours of sleep and are said to be a little lethargic. Mahatma Gandhi and Napoleon were short sleepers while Einstein on the other hand was a long sleeper. In any case, it is not only important how long you sleep, but how well you sleep. More important though is, how refreshed you are when you wake up.
Sleeping at Night
Day time sleep is physiologically different from the night's undisturbed, rested sleep. Sleeping at night even seems like a luxury the global Indian can't seem to afford! Our biological clock is tuned to sleeping at night. Globalisation of business has resulted in 24 hour communication, making MNC professionals be accessible day and night on the email and mobile. International air travel is now almost as frequent as domestic. Also, India's becoming a major player in the IT, ITES sectors has shifted sleep from night to the day time. A 24x7 work culture has changed people's sleep–wake cycles. These factors may take longer to neutralise but can and must be managed. If not managed, the early changes could be irritability, lethargy and fatigue. And if sleep deprivation is prolonged, disorientation, delusions, hallucinations and ego disorganisation may be seen. There are other factors ranging from the easy-to-fix alcohol, tobacco or heavy dinner to change in routine and old age that cause people to sleep less. Physical ailments and mental illnesses are also known to interfere with sleep.
12 Rules of Sleep Hygiene
Is there any way out of this situation other than popping in sleeping pills? How can one continue to work and live as required and still get good sleep? It's not easy, but definitely not impossible. Follow these rules of sleep hygiene:
Keep your sleep–wake timing fixed and regular.
Those of you who work at night must sleep in the day at the same time and wake up at the same fixed time, daily. Irregular timing is known to confuse the circadian sleep cycle (also known as the body clock). Similarly, those of you who sleep at night must fix a particular time to finish your pre-sleep wash, change and other rituals, get to bed, fall off to sleep and a fixed time to wake up, with an alarm if required.
A siesta is not an absolute necessity.
A short afternoon nap may help you recover from a bad night. But if you have a problem going to sleep at night, avoid that afternoon nap.
Use your bedroom and bed only for relaxation.
Working, eating, talking, arguing, and fighting should all be kept outside. Excluding sex, of course! Good sex, in fact, functions like a sleeping pill.
Following a sleep ritual
of bath, brushing teeth, moisturising face, brushing hair, prayer etc, help you unwind before you drop into bed. Children sleep better with cuddly toys in bed, pet in the room, a night lamp, their door slightly open etc. They feel safe and secure making them sleep well.
A warm glass of milk
and a warm bath make you feel relaxed and aid in sleep. Coffee and cigarettes are stimulants, best avoided at bed time. Alcohol in large quantities is also a deterrent.
The decor and ambience of your room must be comforting. Take care with colour schemes, lights, sound, privacy, furniture and even your mattress and pillow.
The temperature must be right.
Too warm and you may wake up perspiring, thirsty and uncomfortable. Too cold and you will wake up shivering. Set a comfortable temperature once and for all. The room must also be airy, clean and well dusted.
Regular exercise improves sleep.
But vigorous exercise at bedtime acts like a stimulant and so is not a good idea. Exercise is best in the morning or evening.
A heavy stomach will only interfere with sleep.
So make sure your dinner is light and at least two hours before bedtime.
If trips to the toilet
break your sleep cycle, avoid drinking water a few hours before bedtime.
And finally, if you are not sleeping in spite of all your efforts, quit trying. Get up from your bed; try reading (not TV) and then attempt to sleep again. Tossing and turning (and not succeeding) creates conditions of panic, further affecting sleep.
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We are now watching a offensive driven league.. playing under a set of rules designed to help offenses. Defenses, even the good ones are going to give up points during periods of a ball game to competent offenses. When you only give up 16 points (which is more than good enough to win) and they give your offense good field position (with a crap load of 3 and outs) it's their job to pick up the slack and put points on the board, especially one that has many weapons as ours.
We're not "having our cake and eating it to"... we're just being realistic and can see which side of the ball is playing better during this short season.
it is trying to have your cake & eat it too...You guys are hyper-vigilant about the woes of the offense but are flat out ignoring this defenses issues Simply b/c they've played
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Nevermind about how the offense kept us within striking distance & eventually won us the game in WK 1 while it took the defense a whole 1/2 a game & quarter to get it's head out its ass...
nevermind how the offense came thru when we needed them most in the Tennessee game to pull out the victory.
Your post just illustrates it even more..."well, the rules are slanted towards the offense, so they should be putting up video game numbers..." Well, the other guys get paid too.
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and distribution of petechiae in well infants and to evaluate their relationship with age. DESIGN: 500 afebrile and well-appearing infants aged 1-12 months were examined for petechiae. The sites of the petechiae were noted on a skin map and the parent's explanation recorded. Data collection included the number of petechiae, age and birth rank. RESULTS: 10% of the infants had petechiae: 6.6% had one petechia and 3.4% more than one. Petechiae were on the trunk in 58% of infants, two of whom had them on more than one area. In 42% of the infants, the petechial spots were distributed on the head and neck as well as on the upper and lower extremities. Petechiae were significantly more common in infants over 6 months of age (68% vs 32%, p<0.05). During a 3-week follow-up period, all study infants remained well. CONCLUSION: 10% of infants less than 1 year of age were found to have petechiae. These data suggest that no further evaluation is necessary in cases where up to four isolated petechiae are observed, even if not confined to one body area, and the infant is well and afebrile. |
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Does depoliticisation work? Evidence from Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, 1990-92
Kettell, Steven, 1973-. (2008) Does depoliticisation work? Evidence from Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, 1990-92. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.10 (No.4). pp. 630-648. ISSN 1369-1481
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The concept of depoliticisation has become increasingly popular in recent years, but empirical studies into depoliticisation policies have been less prevalent. Absent from the literature, too, are any clearly delineated criteria by which the success or failure of such policies might be assessed. This article attempts to address these issues through an examination of Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990 to 1992. In contrast to the conventional view of this episode, in which it is seen as a policy disaster, it is argued that as a policy of depoliticisation ERM membership was a relative success.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- Economic policy, Great Britain -- Politics and government, Conservative Party (Great Britain), Foreign exchange -- Europe, Decentralization in government -- Great Britain |
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Politics and International Relations |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
Official Date: | November 2008 |
Volume: | Vol.10 |
Number: | No.4 |
Number of Pages: | 19 |
Page Range: | pp. 630-648 |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2008.00338.x |
Status: | Peer Reviewed |
Publication Status: | Published |
URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/29201 |
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Behind Florida's 30-17, 30-18, 30-19 victory over South Carolina at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, the Gators tied the 1987 team for the 2nd-best start in school history at 16-0, 9-0 SEC.
Senior Marcie Hampton (P.K. Yonge) put down 16 kills to pace UF and hit a career-best .716.
As a team, #5 Florida hit .384, marking the 3rd straight match where the Gators have hit better than .375.
Freshman Callie Rivers came up with 9 kills and hit .471 and senior Kisya Killingsworth added 6 kills.
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The only unfortunate work here is the acting debut of manic video and commercial director Spike Jonze (soon to release his first feature, Being John Malkovich). While Jonze is energetic and often very funny, the character he inhabits is a moronic cartoon, a stereotypical redneck who may as well be called "Skeeter." He provides ample comic relief, yes, but it's a bit like having Scooby Doo in the battalion.
Distracting us from this exaggeration are Russell's manic direction (an impressive evolution from Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster), Catherine Hardwicke's grungy production design (her practice on Tank Girl obviously sharpened her for this), Newton Thomas Sigel's feverish cinematography (Fallen and Apt Pupil), and Robert Lambert's bang-bang editing (Above the Law, Sorcerer). Combined, these elements produce a heady brew of bleached and oversaturated desertscapes, cavernous alien dungeons, and pulse-popping rhythm. (Those who were disappointed by the sweeter, sillier return to George Lucas' Tatooine in The Phantom Menace may find their funky, dangerous desert fix here.)
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The Office of Personnel Management released a memo Thursday underscoring the importance of mental health at agencies and how to identify those in distress.
The memo came just days before Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus honored those killed in the Navy Yard shooting at a ceremony in Luetze Park Monday morning. At the ceremony, he also recognized the heroic actions of those involved on September 16, 2013, when Aaron Alexis, a Defense Department contractor, killed 12 people and injured more.
In the memo, OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and Pamela Hyde, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at the Health and Human Services Department, outline the importance of identifying employees who show signs of mental illness and providing those employees with available support.
The memo details the unsettling statistics of mental illness in the U.S. Employers lose millions of dollars in lost productivity due to adults suffering from depression. Further, fewer than half of Americans needing mental health care receive it, according to the memo.
OPM is asking agency leaders to distribute fact sheets. The Supervisor Fact Sheet details warning signs of individuals contemplating suicide. Those signs include talking about feeling hopeless, displaying extreme mood swings and talking about feeling trapped or being a burden to others.
The Employee Fact Sheet provides mental health information showing the prevalence of the problem for many adults.
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On his third trip to that theater, Najera brought an almost polished, wildly entertaining production of Buford Gomez. For those who missed it, it can only be a described as a staged MAD TV version of This American Life. Not surprisingly, Najera, who was recently nominated for a Writers Guild of America award, is a writer for MAD TV. He's also a former writer for In Living Color.
When Buford Gomez hit the almost bare stage to give his seminar on the U.S. Border Patrol, two words came to mind: "Bubba Mexican." And when he opened his mouth, he proved to be more "Bubba" than "Mexican." Buford's claims of "bringin' the baton to Juan" and the "pepper spray to José" hit so close to home that most of the audience nodded and laughed.
The officer held no information back when it came to explaining his job. He started off by delineating the different types of Mexicans: Cubans are Mexicans with boats; Central Americans are leprechaun Mexicans. He also shared a little Mexican history, delving into the American invasion of Mexico. And he even told a joke. ("Knock-knock. Who's there? On. On who? On the floor, motherfucker! It's the U.S. Border Patrol.") The "lean, mean deporting machine" filled his audience in on all the details of border patrol life -- except for his own personal experience being "kidnapped" by the Tijuana drug cartel. That he left up to the other characters he plays: the drug lord, a Mexican cowboy, the "manic Hispanic" and his own mom.
For these characters' roles, Najera stepped into the past, portraying them during the period he was kidnapped. The drug lord revealed the truth about Buford's abduction: "He fell into my drug tunnel." He decided to forcibly keep Buford around because, after all, he was a border patrol officer. He also philosophized about a host of other subjects, wondering about everything from why another drug dealer, Juan Garza, would order a Diet Coke with his last meal, to how the Columbine kids knew how to build pipe bombs when even he doesn't know how.
The manic Hispanic, a movie producer, told how he was contemplating committing suicide from atop the Hollywood "H" until he decided to try to save Buford from the cartel, because he thought the story would make a good movie. And Buford's mom wept over her son's kidnapping -- that is, until she recalled conceiving him with Concepción, the Mexican cowboy, a typical tequila-drinking deadbeat dad who valiantly took on the Tijuana drug cartel himself in an effort to save his son and possibly write a corrido about his adventure.
Najera didn't just play Buford Gomez. He was Buford Gomez, and he masterfully displayed the irony of a Mexican-American protecting the U.S.-Mexican border with a heart-wrenching "just doin' my job" mentality. Najera also shined in the roles of Buford's mom and the manic Hispanic. The ease with which he morphed into one persona after another recalls the work of John Leguizamo and Anna Deavere Smith.
Buford Gomez was not just fierce and entertaining -- it was also a great example of "guerrilla theater." The set was minimal (chair, table, coat rack, slide projector). And Najera changed into each character by adding an article of clothing to his border patrol uniform. Theaters that spend too much of their already scarce dollars on ridiculously over-the-top productions could learn a thing or two from this show. Sometimes all you have to do is rely on the words and the actor. Everything else is just fluff.
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Dutch wild card Igor Sijsling delighted local support at the UNICEF Open on Sunday as he ousted sixth seed Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the ATP World Tour 250 grass-court tennis tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch.
The 24-year-old Sijsling, who is at a career-high World No. 112 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, recorded his first tour-level win of the season. The Amsterdam native lost just 10 points on serve and converted all three of his break point opportunities to defeat Nieminen in 54 minutes.
World No. 45 Nieminen dropped to a 16-14 match record on the season, highlighted by winning his second ATP World Tour title at the Apia International Sydney (d. Benneteau).
Fifth seed Santiago Giraldo was also beaten in the first round, falling to Luxembourg's Gilles Muller 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3 in two hours and 10 minutes. World No. 53 Muller fired 16 aces and did not face a break point in the pair's first meeting. It is the first time in five attempts that he has advanced past the first round in 's-Hertogenbosch.
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Green represents folks living in the area along the Houston Ship Channel and east toward Baytown, where hordes of chemical manufacturing plants call home. His district also reportedly has the
Green's office has not yet responded to Hair Balls' questions on where the Democrat stands on the new bill, which will be introduced by fellow Democrats Bobby Rush of Illinois and Henry Waxman of California. And so far, no one seems to know for what Green will say or do.
"I don't know where he'll come out on this," says Matthew Tejada, executive director of Air Alliance Houston, which led the Texas campaign to reform the toxic chemical law. "I was in D.C. less than six weeks ago and while I didn't meet with Representative Green, the Capitol was crawling with chemical industry folks, all in their hard hats with "Dow" and "Dupont" written on them."
The new bill, titled the "Toxic Chemicals Safety Act," would be the first update and upgrade to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
According to the national organization Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of parents and public health organizations, the EPA only requires testing of 200 of the 62,000 chemicals that were being used to make consumer products back in the 1970s, and has only regulated five. Tejada has said that the health effects of most of the chemicals currently used to make consumer products are unknown, and that companies are not required to even report which chemicals they are using to manufacture products.
Toxic chemicals in products have been associated with cancer, learning disabilities and reproductive problems, according to Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. The people who suffer the most usually live in low-income, minority communities located next to industrial plants, which pretty much sums up a good portion of Green's district.
Tejada says Green does deserve some kudos for supporting the Chemical Transportation Safety bill, but that this new one will be a better test of where Green stands.
"From a health standpoint," he says, "the Chemical Transportation Safety bill will help secure stuff from tragedies or severe accidents, and the kind of stuff that happens really rarely. The TSCA stuff will have an everyday beneficial impact for every single American. So it's going to be very interesting where the Congressman comes down on this, because it's not something that the industry in his district can't get over. At the end of the day, this is giving them the modern regulatory clarity which industry always says that it wants. This is not something that somebody should vote against, but we'll see which way he goes."
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Social interaction is very important for the dynamics of life. The limited communication skills as experienced by persons with hearing impaired adolescents can cause problems in social interaction. Persons with hearing impaired adolescents is also expected to receive themselves and develop social relationships, but a teenager is often excessive in assessing himself. Excessive negative thoughts about yourself which impact on the rejection of the state itself will add to the feeling less comfortable in social interaction. This study aims to determine whether there is any relationship between self-acceptance by the anxiety of social interaction in young deaf persons. This correlational study involving two variables, namely self-acceptance and social interaction anxiety. Self-acceptance is the attitude and outlook that basically satisfied with the situation themselves, good physical condition, intelligence, self limitations, feelings and personality self. While the social interaction anxiety is an anxiety reaction to physical, behavioral, and thoughts that occur in social interaction. The population of this research is deaf persons, who are in SMPLB and Education Foundation SMALB Tunas Bangsa School Extraordinary-part B with a total population of 31 subjects. The sampling technique used is the total sample techniques and instruments in this study using the scale for expressing self-acceptance and social interaction anxiety. Analysis of data used product moment analysis. From the data analysis found a highly significant relationship exists between self-acceptance by the anxiety of social interaction. It can be seen on the value (r) =- 0.715, effective contribution of research by 51.2% and (p) = 0,000. This means that the higher the self-acceptance in young persons with hearing disability, the lower the social interaction anxiety. Conversely, the lower the self-acceptance in young persons with hearing disability, the higher the social interaction anxiety.
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Divisions: | Faculty of Psychology > Department of Psychology |
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Born in Paris in 1932, de Gennes was home-schooled by his mother in Barcelonnette – a town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France – because of frail health. He went on to graduate from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1955. After obtaining his doctorate in 1957, he began work as an engineer at the atomic energy commission (CEA) before becoming a professor in 1961 at the newly opened faculty of sciences at Orsay, near Paris, where he worked on superconductors and then liquid crystals – materials that have intermediate phases of matter between the solid and liquid phases.
De Gennes made several fundamental discoveries concerning the electromagnetic properties of liquid crystals, including how the orientation of their molecules can change when an electric field is applied. This research directly led to the development of a whole new industry, in which liquid crystals are used in displays for calculators, watches and flat-screen monitors. De Gennes' book The Physics of Liquid Crystals, published in 1974, remains the definitive reference in the field.
In the 1980s, de Gennes turned his attention to long-chain polymer molecules, and in particular "superglues", which are highly efficient adhesives that allow a variety of materials to be held together. One day, he said, such glues could be used to assemble aeroplanes without rivets.
In 1991, de Gennes was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for having discovered that "methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers." He also worked hard in trying to interest young people in physics and visited over 200 schools after receiving the prize. In a tribute to de Gennes, France's minister for higher education and research Valérie Pécresse said that he was the "perfect example of the teacher-scientist."
De Gennes received many other awards during his lifetime, including the medaille d'Or from the national research council (CNRS) in 1980. He was a member of France's Academy of Science and an honorary professor at the College de France.
• A full obituary of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will appear in the July issue of Physics World.


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Very cute shoes and the color looks exactly like the picture. I would consider ordering a half size bigger due to the heel.


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To Work, or Not to Work? The Immortal Tax Disincentives for Married WomenMargaret RyznarIndiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law August 6, 2009 Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 921-947, 2009 Abstract: Among the most fundamental barriers to the aggressive participation of many married women in the work force are the disincentives for secondary income earners embedded in the federal tax code. Specifically, the current code contains a marriage penalty, which is aggravated by the progressive nature of taxation and any potential increases in income taxation. Meanwhile, child care expenses, a prerequisite for entry to the labor market, are treated inadequately. Although these immortal problems persist despite political pushes for relief, new attention to this topic is warranted given the Obama Administration's pledge for tax law reform. If the principle to be prioritized is that married women should not face tax disincentives to pursue paid work, then the tax code must finally deal with these issues effectively. Number of Pages in PDF File: 28 Keywords: federal income taxation, tax, marriage penalty, marriage bonus, family law Date posted: August 7, 2009 ; Last revised: July 27, 2013Suggested CitationContact Information
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