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Speaking earlier this spring at the Society for Human Resource Management's Employment Law and Legislative Conference, Bergner said maintaining health benefits is, for now, a business imperative for most employers. "The fact of the matter is, if you drop health insurance, you will probably have to pay your employees more. That could knock out any savings gained by discontinuing coverage."
Employers seem to agree. A survey of more than 1,000 companies conducted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans revealed that 87% of employers said they were planning to continue offering health benefits. Reason: They are a key recruitment tool.
Twenty percent of employers said they extended health benefits to employees' adult children before they were statutorily required to do so (i.e., for plan years beginning on or after Sept. 23, 2010), and 75% said that extending coverage impacted their costs.
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Forty-three percent of employers that participated in a MetLife survey responded that in the wake of the health care reform law, nonmedical benefits—disability insurance, life insurance and dental insurance—remain important elements in their overall corporate strategy.
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Note: Plans forfeit their grandfathered status if design changes impose or increase employees' co-insurance, decrease the employer's contribution by more than 5%, eliminate benefits, or make more than minor adjustments to employees' deductibles and co-pays. Plans may increase employees' premiums without jeopardizing their grandfathered status when insurers raise their rates.
Mercer health policy expert Amy Bergner doesn't believe recent calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act health care reform law will succeed—at least until the 2012 presidential election has been decided. In the meantime, she counsels HR professionals to take advantage of a relative lull this year in ACA implementation.
The goal: Assess your current health benefits and the current and future needs of both your business and your employees.
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Former Red Wing Domink Hasek is 'taking a break' from hockey—for this season
by George Malik on 05/24/11 at 07:18 AM ET
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This morning, former Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek told Dennik Sport's Miroslav Horak that he is going to take this year off from playing hockey after receiving no "interesting offers" as a 46-year-old coming off a disappointing season with Spartak Moscow of the KHL.
However, as Dominik Hasek remains Dominik Hasek, he plans on sticking with hockey, seeing where his connection with goaltending can lead him, and preparing for a comeback…during the 2012-2013 season.
The full interview's apparently only in the print edition of the magazine, but CTK reports that Hasek says that he feels just as good physically as he did during his last season (2007-2008) with the Red Wings.
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... to shame being in the big city and resorting to ready meals and take-outs when feeling a tad tired. It appers that of the three groups we had been ridiculously lucky with our sitings. Some others had fleeting glimpses, which of course made us feel even more appreciative of what we had experienced. I managed one glass of wine before sleep called me - here's hoping for something later than 5am……
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Washington: Drawing inspiration from a chemical that fungi secrete to defend their territory, MIT chemists have synthesized and tested several dozen compounds that may hold promise as potential cancer drugs.
A few years ago, MIT researchers led by associate professor of chemistry Mohammad Movassaghi became the first to chemically synthesize 11,11`-dideoxyverticillin, a highly complex fungal compound that has shown anti-cancer activity in previous studies.
This and related compounds naturally occur in such small amounts that it has been difficult to do a comprehensive study of the relationship between the compound`s structure and its activity - research that could aid drug development, Movassaghi siad.
"There`s a lot of data out there, very exciting data, but one thing we were interested in doing is taking a large panel of these compounds, and for the first time, evaluating them in a uniform manner," Movassaghi sttaed.
In the new study, Movassaghi and colleagues at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) designed and tested 60 compounds for their ability to kill human cancer cells.
"What was particularly exciting to us was to see, across various cancer cell lines, that some of them are quite potent," Movassaghi noted.
Many of the compounds tested in this study, known as epipolythiodiketopiperazine (ETP) alkaloids, are naturally produced by fungi. Scientists believe these compounds help fungi prevent other organisms from encroaching on their territory.
In the process of synthesizing ETP natural products in their lab, the MIT researchers produced many similar compounds that they suspected might also have anti-cancer activity. For the new study, they created even more compounds by systematically varying the natural structures - adding or removing certain chemical groups from different locations.
The researchers tested 60 compounds against two different human cancer cell lines - cervical cancer and lymphoma. Then they chose the best 25 to test against three additional lines, from lung, kidney and breast tumors. Overall, dimeric compounds - those with two ETP molecules joined together - appeared to be more effective at killing cancer cells than single molecules (known as monomers).
The structure of an ETP natural product typically has at least one set of fused rings containing one or more sulfur atoms that link to a six-member ring known as a cyclo-dipeptide. The researchers found that another key to tumor-killing ability is the arrangement and number of these sulfur atoms: Compounds with at least two sulfur atoms were the most effective, those with only one sulfur atom were less effective, and those without sulfur did not kill tumor cells efficiently.
Other rings typically have chemical groups of varying sizes attached in certain positions; a key position is that next to the ETP ring. The researchers found that the larger this group, the more powerful the compound was against cancer.
The compounds that kill cancer cells appear to be very selective, destroying them 1,000 times more effectively than they kill healthy blood cells.
The researchers also identified sections of the compounds that can be altered without discernably changing their activity. This is useful because it could allow chemists to use those points to attach the compounds to a delivery agent such as an antibody that would target them to cancer cells, without impairing their cancer-killing ability.
Now that they have some initial data, the researchers can use their findings to design additional compounds that might be even more effective.
"We can go in with far greater precision and test the hypotheses we`re developing in terms of what portions of the molecules are most significant at retaining or enhancing biological activity," Movassaghi said.
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ST. PAUL MINN—The Maple Leafs got a point they probably didn't deserve thanks to a 2-1 shootout loss to the Minnesota Wild.
They probably should have gotten two points they didn't deserve.
Certainly goalie Jonathan Bernier — today's main resident in the penthouse — deserved the win.
And he might have gotten it too if not for shoddy five-on-five play where the Leafs shoot blanks and get outplayed. Too many of them are in scoring slumps. They're in the doghouse.
The reviews are mixed on Nazem Kadri. He played a great game — he was the best Leafs forward — and was this close to being in the penthouse. But he might find himself in Brendan Shanahan's doghouse following two incidents in Wednesday's game. He hit two Minnesota players in the head: goalie Niklas Backstrom and forward Mikail Granlund.
PENTHOUSE: Bernier was less than five minutes away from his fourth career shutout against the Wild when Phil Kessel coughed up the puck. Moments later it was behind Bernier.
Bernier stymied Minnesota shooters repeatedly — a glove save and shoulder save on Dany Heatley; a frustrated Zach Parise and some young guys like Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund stopped on the doorstep.
Then a lazy pass by Kessel and a lucky bounce off a skate for Parise.
"We turned the puck over and they made a nice play" said Bernier. "At least we got point out of it."
DOGHOUSE: Mason Raymond scored for the Leafs, a power play goal. But it's five-on-five where the Leafs are struggling. Eighteen of their 50 goals have come on special teams.
They have one even-strength goal in their last four games. The blame is to be shared.
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Nov. 16, 2012 5:43 P.M. (Updated: Nov. 18, 2012 1:52 A.M.)
By: Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said on Friday it was calling up 16,000 reservists, signs of a possible imminent invasion of the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes.
Israel's warplanes, drones and helicopters appeared to shift focus from suspected Palestinian rocket sites to the northern Gaza frontier, where their bombs created incursion corridors by clearing landmines or guerrilla gun nests.
The mobilization was anything but secret and details put on social media by the Israeli military appeared to be a clear warning to the Hamas Islamists that govern Gaza to push for a truce.
"It is not our intention to go to war, and we are hopeful that this operation will not take a minute more than required," Israeli President Shimon Peres said.
Since being fought to a standstill in its 2006 war against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel has been honing the training of its regular troops and could mount a land invasion of Gaza at short notice.
Public statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest such an escalation has preliminary cabinet approval.
Among units already garrisoned outside Gaza is Israel's paratrooper brigade whose commander, Colonel Amir Baram, said last month that in planning tactics he had studied World War One skirmishes in Gaza between British forces and the Ottoman Turks.
Should his troops be ordered in, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Channel 2 television, "they will need to go house-to-house, and then we will need the lessons of the past".
Relief creates risk
Among those lessons learnt has been that Gaza's impoverished population of 1.7 million is vulnerable to humanitarian crises, which could spell international controversy for Israel.
Since the last Gaza war, of 2008-2009, the army says it has assigned some of its regiments with Arabic-fluent "relief officers" to direct Palestinian civilians away from danger.
To judge from the pace of the previous offensives in Lebanon and Gaza, it could take several more days for Israel to train and equip reservists for action.
The military declined to give details on where the reservists would serve, but Israeli media said they included personnel from homefront units that sound sirens during rocket attacks from Gaza and advise the public on where to shelter.
The reservists being called up on Friday were among a total of 30,000 whose draft was authorized by the Defense Ministry.
The scale of the potential mobilization prompted one commentator on Israel's Army Radio, who half-joked on air that so many troops would risk "falling over each other" in Gaza.
Interviewed by the station, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom was asked if Israel was preparing the military for possible flare-ups on other fronts, such as Lebanon, which Israel has watched with concern given conflict in neighboring Syria and furor over the nuclear ambitions of Hezbollah's patron Iran.
"We are taking everything into consideration," Shalom said, without elaborating.
Veteran commanders say around 30,000 troops altogether took part in the 2006 Lebanon war and 20,000 in the 2009 Gaza invasion. The number of garrisoned troops always stationed outside Gaza is a state secret.
'Quiet for the south'
Yossi Peled, a recently retired cabinet minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and a former army general, said Israel did not seek to topple Hamas or even to crush its outgunned guerrillas in "victory" battles.
"Quiet for the south (of Israel), that is the objective of the operation, writ big," Peled told public television, referring to years of sporadic rocket and mortar salvoes by Hamas and other Gaza factions that surged in the last two weeks.
Though at least 340 of the missiles have been fired since Wednesday's flare-up, the Israelis say they have made strategic gains by destroying, on the ground, around 20 Fajr rockets with 75 km ranges - capable of hitting deep inside Israel.
"They (Palestinians) may have a few left, but it is no longer the menace that it was," said one security official, even as Hamas and its allies managed to fire rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Friday, causing no damage or casualties.
Both cities had previously been beyond the reach of Palestinian rocketry.
Israel's saturation air strikes - which peaked on Thursday, with a rate of one every five minutes, according to the chief military spokesman - have also razed a large number of suspected munitions factories and caches, the official said.
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USPS Unveils NYC's Biggest Green Roof
Aimed at saving energy and reducing pollution runoff, the U.S. Postal Service has unveiled its first and New York City's largest green roof on top of the Morgan mail processing facility. USPS said the green roof will help the agency meet its goal to reduce energy use by 30 percent by 2015 and expects to reduce polluted runoff by as much as 75 percent in the summer, and up to 35 percent during the winter months.
Another benefit includes a lifetime of 50 years, twice as long as the roof it replaced. The roof of the 2.2-million square foot facility, built in 1933, was originally constructed to serve as an additional mail processing location, supporting 200 pounds per square foot, making it suitable to support the weight of the soil, vegetation and other requirements of a green roof, said USPS.
At nearly 2.5 acres, the Morgan green roof is now home to native plants and trees that include Calamagrostis, a lush, maintenance-free grass, and 14 orange-hued Ipe Brazilian wood benches made from lumber certified sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council.
The Morgan green roof is part of the Postal Service's greener facilities strategy, which includes the use of environmentally conscious building components, renewable materials, energy-efficient lighting and HVAC, low volatile organic compound parts, low-water use fixtures, solar photovoltaic systems, green computing, recycling, and a LEED-certified facility opening soon in Long Island.
The Postal Service is also expanding its hybrid electric vehicle fleet, and using other alternative fuel technologies, along with reducing the size of its fleet, to help meet its goal of reducing fuel usage by 20 percent over the next five years.
Green roofs are starting to make inroads city by city. As an example, Green Roofs of Colorado told the Rocky Mountain Independent that they are busy installing green roofs for private homes in Denver, Boulder, Vail, Steamboat Springs and Aspen, plus buildings at Colorado State University and Fort Lewis College.
Andy Creath, owner of Green Roofs of Colorado, said green roofs cost about twice as much as a regular blacktop roof, but they can be cheap as $10 a square foot or as much as $40 a foot for deep soil with a variety of plant types but they will pay for themselves in lower energy bills and also last almost three times longer than regular roofs.
The only publicly accessible green roof in Denver is above the café at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Mark Fusco of the Denver Botanic Gardens said in the article that the Botanic Gardens' roof consists of drought-tolerant native plants such as succulents and cactuses , and the roof has rocks instead of turf between the plants.
Fusco is working with the Mayor's office on policies to encourage green roofs in Denver, reports the newspaper. Fusco said in the article that other cities have started programs with pilot projects, followed with incentives, for example, New York, which offers tax breaks based on the square footage of green roofs.
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Land acquisition is in the news again, and again for the wrong reasons. The agitation by Greater Noida farmers against forceful land acquisition without adequate compensation, and conferring huge benefits to corporates, has raised familiar issues. Optimising allocations of finite resources like land, mines, water and spectrum will remain challenging. Transparency on valuation and allocation need to reconcile conflicting objectives. A sensitive balance between maximising revenue, catalysing development, attracting private investment and so on, is needed.
So what should be the key features of an efficient land policy for India? International examples are not replicable. For one, the land-man ratio (between habitable area and the total population) is very adverse. India has 18 per cent of world population, but only 2 per cent of the geographic area. Forest area is also a mere 0.08 hectare per capita against a global average of 0.8. The increased pressure of population on land will lead to a decline in land availability from 0.9 hectare per capita in 1901 to under 0.2 not in the too distant future. Of the 20 largest countries in the world, India has the most unfavourable land-man ratio. Compound this with the other demographic challenge that population is young and will look to livelihood patterns outside agriculture reducing the 60 per cent population which currently live on farm-related activities. The fact that we need to create large manufacturing hubs for generating new employment opportunity compounds the problem. And we have a long way to go to improve the cost and quality of infrastructure power, road density, rural road connectivity and airports. Any land policy must be shaped under these compulsions, challenges and limitations. To be credible, they must be based on the following five considerations.
First, land must be priced more fairly whether acquired by the state or private players. Unfortunately the economics of the land market suffers from many deficiencies. High stamp duty, coupled with the practice of receiving substantial payments outside the banking system suppresses the official cost of land. The huge difference between the time when the intention of land acquisition is announced to its formal acquisition leads to huge cost differences. Besides the future value of land hardly gets reflected. Furthermore, population density, probabilities of economic growth and differences in governance patterns create wide variations in land price between states and regions. Not to mention serious delays in actual project implementation, given time and cost overruns. We therefore need to develop normative benchmarks for pricing land better given serious market imperfections and information asymmetry. While estimating the value of land, international practices like the "special value principle" adopted in Australia and the "highest and best use" method used in UK are worth considering.
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Male: Tensions gripped the Maldivian streets
on Sunday after supporters of the ousted President Mohamed Nasheed
gathered outside the Majlis raising slogans against the
current regime of Mohammed Waheed Hassan.
The protesters numbering around 400 along with some of
Nasheed`s Maldivian Democratic Party MPs gathered outside the
Majlis (parliament) where as per the Maldivian`s law no
protest march is allowed.
The demonstrators hit the street after a lull of over two
days since the protests that began after Nasheed`s resignation
on Tuesday.
Over 150 anti-riot police personnel armed with batons and
pepper spray pushed the protesters back after over an hour of
standoff with them.
Shouting slogans against the current president, the
protesters threw money at the police. A few water bottles were
also thrown at the police who set up barricades on the street
leading to Majlis to stop protesters.
About half a dozen protesters were detained.
"We have been keeping much restrain. We just want this
area to be cleared as protests are not allowed on the street,"
a senior police official said.
The protests comes on the day when new President Hassan
inducted seven members into his expanded cabinet, including
the country`s first woman Attorney General and an aide of
former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
An European Union team from Colombo is expected to land
here tonight to take stock of the situation.
Maldives` first democratically-elected president had said
that he was forced to resign as gun-wielding military men
threatened that they would resort to using arms if he did not.
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THE GROUP FD of supply chain company Wincanton is leaving to pursue other opportunities, the company said.
Jon Kempster, group finance director, will step down from the board with immediate effect but will remain with Wincanton until a successor is in place or until 31 January 2013.
His departure, after two years with the company, follows a period of structural change in which Wincanton disposed of its mainland European operations and renewed its bank facilities.
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