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Matt Cunningham, Discredited Blogger/Pedo-Priest Protector Apologist, Now "Blogging" About Anaheim Politics
Well isn't this nice: after spending a couple of years in his Orange lair refraining from day-to-day blogging so he can suck from the government teat he so loves to bash, the reprehensible Matt "Jerbal" Cunningham has decided to reenter the Orange County political blogosphere to blog about my beloved hometown of Anaheim, a city in which he doesn't live in nor he gives a shit about other than whether he can make some money off of us one way or another.
And you know the GOP is desperate to win in this city when they dust off this discredited pendejo.
Cunningham, for those of you not familiar with OC politics, is a longtime GOP hack who started OC Blog, the county's first truly popular political blog, in 2004. He wrote under the pseudonym "Jubal," which allowed him to congratulate himself by Jubal saying Cunningham wrote a good piece on another blog, a pathetic circle jerk we exposed and that he's been whining about ever since (shortly after that piece came out, Jubal asked me via email why were were picking on him--this was back in the days when we got along. He once also called Moxley in a panic after I left a cryptic comment referring to the days when he went to our former editor, Will Swaim, to get Mox fired--good times!).
People tolerated Cunningham for his hackery because it was so entertaining to watch, but he lost all credibility for anything in 2007, when he decided to stick up for John Urell, the priest who protected numerous pedophile priests in his leadership capacities for the Catholic Diocese of Orange. Cunningham's excuse for turning his political blog over to church matters was that Urell--his then-priest at St. Norbert in Orange--was a good man who was being demonized by the press, but his love for the pedophile protector was such that he outed sex-abuse victims of the priests Urell protected, a move so stupid that Cunningham himself eventually apologized (in fact, one of those victims was a man Cunningham personally knew. Um, AWKWARD...)
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"Those"? It's only him that's blogging. "Efforts"? He can't stand Save Anaheim blogger (and our paper's Best Blogger for this year) Jason Young. "Support"? It's hacks like councilwoman Kris Murray and council candidate/dirty cop Steve Lodge, to whom Cunningham donated $150 back in January. Now the only question remains what Cunningham is gaining from blogging about Anaheim, because this pendejo doesn't do anything for free.
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The world's top beef exporter, Brazil, will give countries that curbed imports of its beef after a case of mad cow disease until March to drop the measures or it will file a complaint at the World Trade Organisation, farm ministry officials have said.
Five countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have implemented full or partial bans on Brazilian beef imports since confirmation this month of a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in a cow that died in 2010.
Atypical BSE cases can occur spontaneously in elderly cattle and the 13-year-old animal in the Brazilian case never developed full-blown BSE, testing instead positive for a protein that is the causal agent of mad cow disease.
Brazil had previously launched a diplomatic offensive to fend off restrictions over the death of the cow in the southern state of Parana which was confirmed only this month by Brazilian authorities.
But now Brazil has promised to take retaliatory action against countries rejecting its beef, saying there are no grounds for such action.
"March is the deadline," said Enio Marques Pereira, Secretary for Animal and Plant Health at Brazil's farm ministry, after a meeting at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) headquarters on Friday.
Officials stressed Brazil has kept its status as a country presenting negligible BSE risk under an OIE classification, and that OIE norms consider safe for consumption products like red meat and gelatine, even when BSE has been declared in a country.
The Brazilian cow in question never entered the food chain.
Countries restricting Brazilian beef include Egypt and Saudi Arabia which rank among Brazil's top 10 beef buyers, but Marques said the economic impact so far was "very low", noting that Egypt was only banning meat from the region where the BSE case occurred. Saudi Arabia has suspended Brazilian beef outright.
The other countries which have imposed temporary bans are South Africa, Japan and China.
The OIE welcomed the fact that Brazil had managed to detect the atypical case in a national herd of more than 200 million, though logistical problems at a laboratory delayed the analysis of the animal's tissue since its death in 2010.
"We're rather reassured by the fact that Brazil reported this case," Bernard Vallat, director general of the OIE, said.
He stressed that an end to the use of cattle feed containing matter from ruminant animals had succeeded in nearly eradicating BSE after tens of thousands of cases in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly in Britain.
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The 27 Coolest Cars At The Geneva Motor Show
The press days are over at the Geneva Motor Show and the executives have gone home, so now it's time for the public to take a look.
For those who can make it through the mountains to get to the show, here are 27 cars you can't miss.
They include the outrageously powerful Koenigsegg One:1, the new Lamborghini Huracán, BMW's first front-wheel drive car, and the hybrid beast Porsche built to earn some glory at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The show is open to the public until March 16.
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Custom Products of Litchfield achieves accreditation
LITCHFIELD -- Custom Products of Litchfield, a designer, tester and manufacturer of operator protection structures, has achieved ISO/IEC international accreditation.
The laboratory accreditation uses criteria and procedures specially developed to determine technical competence and will provide customers assurance that the destructive tests and measured data recorded at the Litchfield testing facility are accurate, reliable and will meet domestic as well as international industry and governmental consensus standards.
"Our testing services are a crucial part of our commitment to safety and standards," said Randy Reinke, president and CEO of Custom Products. "This accreditation provides us with a validation that we perform our testing to the appropriate standards plus serve as a benchmark for maintaining that competence."
The accreditation process was conducted by technical assessors from Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, Inc., using criteria and procedures specifically developed to determine technical competence. This process began on Oct. 1, 2009, and was completed on Feb. 11, 2011.
The assessors completed a thorough evaluation of Custom Products' management and quality control systems testing laboratory and will also conduct an annual regular assessment. These criteria, based on the international standards ISO/IEC 17025, are used for evaluating laboratories throughout the world.
An independent laboratory accreditation testing body, PJLA, is a signatory for the International Laboratory of Accreditation Cooperation. This international recognition allows testing data from accredited labs to be more readily accepted in overseas markets, reducing or eliminating the need for retesting in countries other than the United States and reducing costs for manufacturers and exporters.
More than 738 tests have been performed in the Custom Products 1,500-square-foot testing facility with forces up to 1 million pounds applied at zero degrees Fahrenheit to safety structures designed by the company or in conjunction with its original equipment manufacturer customers.
Custom Products specializes in designing, manufacturing and testing customized cabs, rollover protection structures, falling object protection structures and operator protection structures to government and industry consensus standards.


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The Adequan American Quarter Horse Association Select World Championship show is underway at the Amarillo National Center.
More than 600 exhibitors older than 50 are competing for world championships.
The competition begins at 8 a.m. each day and lasts until at least 9 p.m.
"All of the events here are top-tier because they qualified to compete for one of 44 world championships," said AQHA spokesman Sarah Davisson.
"We have 73 (out of 605) exhibitors over the age of 70. Fans are coming to see the top horses in the world compete. Exhibitors are ages 50 and over. It's a free event with a free trade show. It's a great event for the whole family, and it's free."
More than $500,000 in payouts and prizes will be awarded, including a grand prize for the Farnam Select All-Around Amateur Title.
"You have to nationally qualify in three different events, in three different divisions and show," Davisson said. "There are 61 competitors competing for that top honor. The winner of the all-around amateur gets a $10,000 cash prize."
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The hamsters go in this end and the cans of stew come out the other
What is this machine appearing in a 1950 space exploration movie? [more inside]
Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle?
If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements and new broadcasts would they pick up from Earth? Would a mass-market radio, similar to our Earthly equivalents, pick up anything? Over time, as the number of Earth transmissions increases exponentially, would the alien pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? [more inside]
Hidden Rooms and 'Dead' Spaces: help me find more pictures of this sort of thing!
I've recently become fascinated by (a) long-forgotten "hidden" rooms in houses and other buildings and (b) "dead space" in houses, e.g., large unfinished areas behind walls that are only perhaps discovered years later. Help me find more examples of this sort of thing -- preferably examples with pictures! [more inside]
Where can I move a nerdy afternoon party at short notice?
Emergency alternate boardgame location in Brooklyn (Park Slope area)? [more inside]
What to do with a hallway out of House of Leaves?
What are some interesting things to do with a very long hallway in an otherwise not-too-large space? [more inside]
First-person accounts of the space programme
I'm looking for first-person accounts of the US space programme from the start to the moon shot. [more inside]
Pack the zombies onto a spaceship and headout
When I was younger I spent A LOT of time with face planted in science books with a focus on theoretical physics, space exploration and the structure of the universe. Now I am older, what books or films should I throw myself back into? [more inside]
I need space. Perhaps a continent.
How can I want to be my old married self again? [more inside]
Is an 8GB iPhone enough?
I am upgrading to an iPhone. Wondering if the 8gb would be sufficient, or do I need a larger capacity? [more inside]
With whom are we sharing the rest of eternity?
If I've gotten the right impression, much of our currently visible universe will eventually be expanded away from us, never to be seen again. Do we already know how much and what parts of our present neighborhood we'll be left huddling with?
Does a space capsule need to be heated, or cooled?
In a 'typical' space capsule - Apollo, etc. - how do they maintain a constant temperature for the astronauts? Do they have to heat the capsule, to replace heat radiated out to space, or do they have to refrigerate it, against the incoming solar radiation? [more inside]
Can I smoke on the stairs across from my apartment?
There are some nice stairs with some sculptures on them across from my apartment (leading up to a parking garage), open to the public. People and security guards sit there and lounge and smoke cigarettes frequently (I can see from my apartment) However when I sit there or smoke cigarettes there, a security guard always tells me it is closed (no matter what time, most recently 4:30PM on a Saturday, sometimes after work like 6:30 on a Tuesday) and I cannot sit there. But isn't it public space? [more inside]
Office Space
Best practices for moving computer and printer into living area without it looking terrible? [more inside]
"A genteel black hole that knows how to read"
Question for the bookworms of AskMeFi: I have waaay too many books, but don't know how to decide which to get rid of, and which to hang onto. How do you rationalise your library? [more inside]
Why did the lawyer cross the road?
My boyfriend is in his articling year at a criminal defense firm. All of a sudden, he's so rarely around! Have you been in this situation? What strategies can make this sudden shift in our lives easier on us both? [more inside]
Not Your Average Android Low Space Story?
My Nexus One keeps hitting a low space wall lately and doing everything the Internet suggests isn't helping :\ [more inside]
...but you're so tough to shop for!
Help me find a good, cheap, interesting birthday/housewarming gift for a great person! [more inside]
Low odds of winning, but a bigger payout
Does Saturn have a solid core? [more inside]
Eyepiece for DSO viewing?
Best eyepiece for viewing deep space objects with a Zhumell Z12 dobsonian reflector telescope? [more inside]
I'm free to do what I want.
Unemployed, enough money, three months to kill. What should I do? [more inside]
DriveSpacio:Windows :: [ ]:Mac?
Is there a utility for the Mac that is similar to DriveSpacio for Windows? [more inside]
I want to conquer the universe (in a game), what is out there?
I want to play a (quasi-realistic) large-scale space combat strategy game. Gratuitous Space Battles isn't cutting it. Any suggestions? [more inside]
Help with Microsoft Word 2007 Space Formatting
Help with default space formatting on Microsoft Office 2007. [more inside]
Help me make my garden tastier
I've never had a garden before. I recently bought a house in Canberra with a small established garden, mainly native Australian plants. It has a drip watering system. There isn't a lot of room, but there are a few things I have always wanted to grow, and I've got no idea whether it is possible to fit them in somehow, or where I should put them. I know I can't do anything until just before spring, but I want to start planning now. [more inside]
Robert Irwin installation locations
I'm traveling to southern California soon and am wondering where I can see some work of artist Robert Irwin. [more inside]
Is prolonged micro-gravity really a problem for inter-planetary spaceflight?
Why are the lack-of-long-term-gravity health problems still an issue for space travel? Isn't it easily dealt with by designing craft that generate gravity by spinning? [more inside]
Earth gravity in space? How hard could it be...
It's the future and humans live in space stations. What are some ways (real or fictional) that artificial gravity can be created so there will be no weightlessness? [more inside]
Where can I see the space shuttle launch?
Where is the best place to see the space shuttle launch in person this Friday? [more inside]
SF Filter: Where can I find more SF in the vein of Peter Watt's "The Island"?
SF Filter: Where can I find more science fiction in the vein of Peter Watt's "The Island"? [more inside]
Hunting for office space
How would one go about finding unserviced office space to rent in major uk cities?
The planet in the sky
Looking for a picture of Jupiter or Saturn as seen from their moons. [more inside]
From Mars to Earth??
I was listening to this Fresh Air interview today and wondered how they know a meteorite is from Mars. [more inside]
What the Hell, is that a UFO?
I am interested in reading books on UFOs both pro and con. Not really much else to the question. Not so much on individual abduction bios but more on theories on why (or why not), conspiracies, debunkings, and so forth.
Beyond Helium 3
Hypothetically speaking, are there any known elements found only in outer space that might one day economically justify a renewed commitment to space exploration? (Helium 3 not included.) [more inside]
Space Saving Nursery Ideas!
Blogs featuring tiny baby nursery spaces for design inspiration as well as space saving baby stuff ideas? [more inside]
I need the bizarro Martian version of Galileo.
Martian Astronomer Filter--when Mars moves like this in the sky from our point of view on Earth, how does the Earth appear to move from Mars' perspective? [more inside]
Am I overreacting?
Am I overreacting to my boyfriend's behaviour? Very confused about recent events and trying to work out what to do. Details and back story under the cut. Anonymous due to private details. [more inside]
Horror set in space
Looking for recommendations of horror stories set in space - movies, TV shows/episodes, books, comics, games etc. Bonus points for 'ghost ship'/'haunted house' story constructions. [more inside]
Can you identify a long-forgotten book from my childhood?
[childhood book filter] Can you identify this science-fiction book I read as a child? [more inside]
Damnit, I have to be social.
How do I keep my offline life private AFTER I sign up for Facebook? [more inside]
Woodworking without a personal shop?
What options exist in the Chantilly VA area if I want to continue my woodworking hobby but don't want to rent a place with a garage / shop space? [more inside]
Help me understand colliding galaxies!
Expanding Universe Filter: Why will our galaxy collide with Andromeda in +/- 4 billion years? [more inside]
Digitalizing space in art
Is digital technology changing the way we perceive space? [more inside]
Ladies and Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space.
I want to travel in space, but I'm stuck on my couch.. [more inside]
Art in the 4th dimension?
Do any visual artists work in 4 or more dimensions? Who are they, and what does their work look like? [more inside]
It's lonely out in space, on such a timeless (simulated) flight.
With inspiration from this answer to this this question; I am giving my husband a week at Space Camp this holiday! Yay! Since this isn't exactly the most wrappable gift, and we are doing the gift-exchange thing in front of his entire family, please help me find the most awesome way to present this gift to him! I'm totally cool with suggestions that necessitate other purchases as long as the cost is fairly minimal (say, <$100). (Anon as he is an avid reader of ask.me)
Should I wait for him to breakup with me?
I am in limbo because all signs point toward a breakup. Though I love him and want to be with him, I can't stand being the only one committed to this relationship. Is there a way to make him realize that he has already made up his mind? [more inside]
Help me reign this talker in so I can get to know him better.
We all hear about too little communication during dating and a relationship. How about the reverse? Help me assert my need for less communication in a new friendship/potential relationship. [more inside]
I've become afraid to park in my parking space.
I need help parking in my apartment garage parking space. [more inside]
How do launch windows work?
How do launch windows work? [more inside]


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Benfits of putting this set-up on my new engine???
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What should also be running with these twin 45's???
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RUBIN: How intelligence agencies spy out our data
17.06.2016 - Dominik Baumgarten
Prof. Christof Paar from the Chair for Embedded Security has received an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016. This research aim is designed to develop mechanisms to provide better security measures for the Internet of Things. Special emphasis is put on the manipulation of computer chips, small hardware devices. The recent article in RUBIN explains their importance for networks of connected digital devices.Complete article
RUBIN: Tough nut for quantum computers
17.06.2016 - Dominik Baumgarten
The team around Prof. Alexander May interprets IT Security as investigation in future times. The chair for Cryptology and IT Security investigates into mathematical problems in order to provide better encryption of data. This improved security will be neccessary once the first quantum computer will be developped, which might easily break the current methods of encryption. RUBIN features an article of the chair's research.Complete article
ITS.Connect gathers 350 scholars
17.06.2016 - Dominik Baumgarten
On June 10, 2016 more than 350 students, company representatives and alumni of the Horst Görtz Institute met at the ITS.Connect in Bochum. The annual company contact fair aims to provide a broad platform for young graduates of all fields of IT Security to get in contact with possible future employers. The accompanying meeting for HGI alumni and a series of lectures built the framework for this very successful event.Complete article
RUBIN: Technology for the Internet of Things
17.06.2016 - Dominik Baumgarten
The series in RUB's science magazine RUBIN on the scholars of our institute is back with a new feature: Prof. Thorsten Holz investigates into the network of digitally connected everyday items, e.g. the components of a smart household. These connectes systems provide room for attacks. In the featured article, Holz explains the scientific problems of dealing with the variety of codes and processors which are combined within connected systems.Complete article
Self-learning Programmes for secure patient data
09.05.2016 - Dominik Baumgarten
Not only humans are able to absorb experiences - self-learning software can possibly collect further knowledge, too. An article in RUBIN focusses on the research work of Prof. Hans Simon's group, which investigates in such intelligent software to process medical data. Self-learning software (including appropriate IT security) are planned to help creating valuable statistics and prognosis without harming the patients' privacy.Complete article


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Euro Paratriathletes break records
02/07/09 - 25 athletes from eight European countries will be at the start line for the paratriathlon competition at Holten 2009 ETU Triathlon European Championships. This will be the biggest European paratriathlon... |Full Story
Kitzbühel Ready for Round Four
17/06/09 - Kitzbühel is one of the world's most famous and most beautiful destinations and recreational centres. Summer in Kitzbühel and its environs has a charm all of its own. Whatever your choice – long runs... |Full Story
Paratriathlon in Great Britain
11/06/09 - On 6 June the top paratriathletes in the country took part in the 2009 Corus British Triathlon Disabled Championships. The event took place amongst tough conditions at the Rother Valley Triathlon... |Full Story
In Profile: Stefan Hüppe (GER)
04/06/09 - Stefan Hüppe is an athlete with heart and soul – he was dedicated to sport before his accident nearly 20 years ago and still is now. His accident caused him to lose much of the functionality of his... |Full Story
Brownlee Destroys Field in Spain
31/05/09 - Although the mens race lacked the excitement of a sprint finish it too provided some exceptionally compelling competition as talented young Brit, Alistair Brownlee, put himself on the map with a dominant... |Full Story
Quick Fire With Nordén and Don
29/05/09 - Two of the biggest names to grace the Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series startlists are Sweden's Lisa Nordén and Great Britain's Tim Don. Nordén didn't turn pro until 2005 but... |Full Story
Kitzbühel Ready To Welcome The World
25/05/09 - Kitzbühel, the town of sports offers an unparalleled combination of sports activities and alpine beauty. The wide variety of outdoor sports facilities and numerous major international events make the... |Full Story
Athletes Warm Up Across Europe
25/05/09 - At the opening Fédération Française de Triathlon Grand Prix (French Triathlon Federation Grand Prix) race in Dunkerque, Laurent Vidal from France and Will Clarke from Britain, crossed the line together... |Full Story
Looking Forward to London
25/05/09 - Helen Jenkins, the reigning women's world champion from Britain, will be amongst the starters for the sixth stop-over of the Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championships Series on 15 August at... |Full Story
Madrid World Champs - Men
25/05/09 - The 2009 Dextro Energy Triathlon – ITU World Championship Series got underway with an electric men's race in Tongyeong, Korea. Following breakaways on the bike, first by France's Frederic Belaubre... |Full Story
In Profile: Jan Frodeno, GER
20/05/09 - When Jan Frodeno out kicked Simon Whitfield, Bevan Docherty and Javier Gomez to win the gold medal at last year's Olympic Games in Beijing a new triathlon star was born. Frodeno made his international... |Full Story
Commonwealth Games Venue Tested
19/05/09 - Strathclyde Park near Glasgow hosted its first Olympic distance elite race last weekend as the British Triathlon National Championships tested out the proposed venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games... |Full Story
Live on Triatlon.org
13/05/09 - The Pontevedra ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup, which will be held next Sunday 17 May, is going to be broadcasted live on the Spanish Triathlon Federation website (www.triatlon.org) with live... |Full Story
London Launches World Champs
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Two alleged Bloods gang members made their first court appearance today in connection with a spree of violence last Friday that left two people dead and set back Newark's effort to promote its falling homicide rate.
Scott Banks and Nashon Brown, both 20-year-old Newark residents, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges as they were arraigned before Superior Court Judge Peter Vazquez. He continued their bail at $1 million each.
The pair are accused of three separate shootings Friday afternoon that Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said were linked to gangs and narcotics and were not random acts of violence.
Quadir Burroughs, 22, was shot and killed at 20 Ridgewood Ave. at 2:36 p.m. Five minutes later, a 27-year-old man was shot and wounded at Chadwick and Clinton avenues, and Angelina Evans, 24, was found shot to death at 174 Boyd St. at 2:45 p.m.
Brown was also arraigned today on a separate murder charge in the Oct. 18 shooting death of an East Orange man, Richard Kelly, 29, at the Zoo Crew Authentic Wear clothing store on Chadwick Avenue.
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Hidden Cyclone remains in contention for two races at the Cheltenham Festival in March following his second-placed finish at Ascot on Saturday.
Trainer Shark Hanlon is considering either the Queen Mother Champion Chase or the Ryanair Chase for the nine-year-old, who got to within 11 lengths of Sire De Grugy in the Sodexo Clarence House Chase.
The County Carlow handler said: "He's home and travelled back well. The winner could be exceptional, but I didn't think our horse jumped as well as he could've done.
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This show by the Theater Arts for Children takes a fun look at an adaptation of the play by Washington Irving. With a goofy schoolmaster and the Headless Horseman, this is a spooky tale not to miss. Through Oct. 30 • Thu-Sat at 7 pm; Sat at 3 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $10/adults; $8/student, military, senior • Theater Arts for Children • 2114 N. Pines Rd.
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A lifelong Naperville resident known for her volunteer efforts, devotion to family and uncanny memory has died just before the opening of the Last Fling festival she often helped plan with the Naperville Jaycees.
Lynette Klingbeil, a longtime Jaycees member who was executive director of the Last Fling in 2001, died unexpectedly Tuesday in her home. She was 50.
"She was always willing to volunteer and give whatever she could to causes she felt were important and to be a very devoted daughter, sister, aunt and cousin," said her brother, Jesse Klingbeil of Chicago.
His sister's interest in volunteering began at Naperville Central High School, when she also was a baton twirler for the Stepperettes in the Marching Redskins. Klingbeil, the oldest sibling to two younger brothers -- Jesse and Michael, who goes by "Casey" -- attended Ellsworth Elementary and Washington Junior High schools before heading to Naperville Central and graduating in 1981.
Her volunteer efforts ramped up a few years after she graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where she studied marketing and communications.
"We joined the Jaycees together after a number of years out of college," said Jane Abe, who grew up across an alley from Klingbeil's Naperville home. "We had a lot of fun during our years with the Jaycees."
Klingbeil's desire to give back led her to plan the Last Fling, the annual Labor Day weekend festival and the Jaycees' largest fundraiser, which helps the group make donations to dozens of area social service and nonprofit agencies. This year's festival begins at 5 p.m. Friday.
Abe said Klingbeil also enjoyed going to concerts and spending time with friends at downtown Naperville establishments like the Lantern Tavern or Potter's Place Mexican Kitchen and Cantina.
"She maintained a large number of friends she's had since she was a very small child," her brother said, calling Klingbeil a "giving, happy and loving person" who was always full of kind words.
As girls, Klingbeil, Abe and others in their neighborhood would play hide-and-seek or kick-the-can down alleys until their mothers called them in for the evening. As teens, they enjoyed sunbathing on the roof outside Abe's window. And Klingbeil's sharp memory collected and recalled nearly every moment, her friend said.
"She had such a memory like a vault," Abe said. "She could pull out every memory and half of us wouldn't even remember that but we would trust her."
Longtime friends also include Darrick Zderad, whom Klingbeil knew since high school and recently had become even closer with, her brother said. And her family also has stayed close, with her father, Richard, her mother, Darlene Ebel, brother Michael, two nieces, an aunt and an uncle all living in Naperville and another aunt and uncle in Lisle.
Klingbeil most recently worked as a freelance graphic designer for Positively Naperville and the Naperville Development Partnership, satisfying "an artistic talent she possessed," her brother said.
Visitation is scheduled for 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, and 3 to 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, at Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 44 S. Mill St., Naperville. Funeral services will follow the second visitation session at 4 p.m. Monday in the funeral home.
Klingbeil's family asks donations instead of flowers be made to Naperville READS at napervillereads.org or Loaves & Fishes Community Pantry, 1871 High Grove Lane, Naperville.


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Worker's Choice: A Solution That Benefits Everyone
Posted by Rayanne Matlock on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016, 4:48 PM PERMALINK
Seventy percent of union members in Michigan agree that employees who choose to opt-out of union membership should represent themselves in negotiations with their employer. As it stands, current policy does not allow that to happen.
Michigan is seeking to change the norm with Worker's Choice, introduced to the state legislature this year by State Rep. Gary Glenn, R-Midland. First championed by Mackinac Center for Public Policy's Vincent Vernuccio, Worker's Choice provides a simple solution that works for employees, unions and even employers in the public sector. The policy allows for employees to represent themselves in negotiations with their employer if they choose to opt out of union membership.
Unions present in a public sector workplace are required to represent all employees, whether they are dues-paying members or not. Unions claim that these employees who have opted out are "free-riding", or receiving their services without membership.
On the flipside, employees aren't free from union grasp either. Each employee is unique, and they all have different needs. These employees may be subject to working conditions not suitable for their lifestyle, and they can't do anything about it.
Worker's Choice solves both of these concerns by severing the relationship between nonmembers and unions, so that nonmembers can represent themselves should they desire different working conditions.
But the benefits don't stop there.
As recently explained in an ATR op-ed on Worker's Choice, employers have something to gain from the policy as well:
"Employers would benefit from Worker's Choice because, by increasing the odds of employees appreciating their hours, salaries and other terms of employment, workplace morale and loyalty would likely increase."
Lastly, even union members can benefit from Worker's Choice. The policy would provide competition in the workplace between individuals representing themselves for better working conditions, and union members. This will incentivize unions to better represent their workers so as to retain union membership.
Worker's Choice is a fair policy that works for everyone. It would end unions' concern that they are being taken advantage of, grant workers the freedom to negotiate on behalf of themselves and potentially make things better for union members and employers.
Read ATR's full op-ed on Worker's Choice here.
Congress Must Stop Obamacare Bailouts
Posted by Toni-Anne Barry, Alexander Hendrie on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016, 10:00 AM PERMALINK
Six years after it was signed into law, Obamacare is failing. Insurers are hiking premiums or leaving Obamacare marketplaces because they cannot make any money. Taxpayer financed co-ops are collapsing despite generous loan terms. Individuals on the exchanges are losing their plans and find their already limited healthcare choices narrowing.
The President should acknowledge that the law is broken and work to reform the system to lower costs, improve quality, and ensure all Americans have access to healthcare that best suits their individual needs. Instead, the Obama administration is pushing several taxpayer funded bailouts of the law through the risk corridor and transitional reinsurance programs.
In the past few years, the government has stolen a total of $8.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to illegally fund Obamacare through programs like reinsurance. If Congress fails to act, the law could provide more than $170 billion in corporate welfare payments to special interests.
Over 50 conservative groups have signed a coalition letter urging congress to stop the Obamacare bailouts. Congress must reassert their authority and stop the Obama administration from using taxpayer dollars to bail out the failed programs.
Reinsurance Bailout Costing Taxpayers $3.5 Billion: In order to disguise the costs to American families, the law has relied on a web of confusing spending programs, subsidies, and taxes. One program, known as transitional reinsurance imposed a fee on each individual with private health insurance to raise $25 billion, including $5 billion that would go back to taxpayers via the Treasury general fund.
In both 2015 and 2014, the program failed to take in the expected sums, so the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decided to illegally funnel funds to Obamacare insurers. As announced earlier this year, Obamacare insurance companies would receive $7.7 billion through the reinsurance program – $6 billion obtained from a fee on private health insurance and $1.7 billion taken from the Treasury general fund.
Because HHS did the same last year, a total of $3.5 billion has been stolen from taxpayers using the reinsurance program.
Section 1341 of Obamacare, which establishes reinsurance, explicitly allocates that taxpayer dollars "shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States and may not be used for the [reinsurance] program established under this section."
Multiple legal opinions have concurred that the reinsurance bailout is illegal:
- A opinion released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that HHS was ignoring federal law by diverting funds from Treasury to Obamacare insurers.
- Similarly, a memo released by analysts at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found that federal law "unambiguously" states funds must be deposited into the Treasury general fund.
- Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray also called the diverting of funds "unlawful" and questioned how it could possibly withstand legal scrutiny.
Congress a duty to step in and block this illegal action. They can do so by passing the Taxpayers Before Insurers Act, legislation introduced by Congressman Mark Walker (R-N.C.) and Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) that forces HHS to return the stolen $3.5 billion to taxpayers. This pro-taxpayer legislation forces the Obama Department of Health and Human Services to obey the law and return billions in funds to their rightful owner – the American people. If they fail to do so, the legislation strips HHS of billions in taxpayer funds.
Risk Corridors Settlements Will Cost Taxpayers Billions More: Like the reinsurance program, the risk corridor program was created as a "stabilization" program when Obamacare was passed into law. The program was designed to encourage insurers to take on higher risk individuals by transferring funds from insurers who made financial gains to those that posted losses. Because insurers were unable to make any money from operating on exchanges the program failed to work as expected.
For the 2014 season, insurance providers requested $2.87 billion in payments but the program took in $362 million, just 12.6 percent. Federal law requires the program to be budget neutral, so the federal government was unable to pay out the remaining $2.5 billion to insurers off the backs of taxpayers, as they attempted at the end of last year.
Despite this restriction, the Obama administration is now looking to pay out this money in their final days of office. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) blatantly announced in a memo that it intends to circumvent federal law and the will of Congress by offering settling with insurance companies that have sued over the Risk Corridor program. The federal government will do this by offering them settlements from the Judgment Fund, which is outside the scope of Congressional appropriations.
Like the reinsurance bailout, there is no question this action is illegal. The Government Accountability Office has again said there is no legal justification. Their analysis shows that when a government agency cannot pay its dues, it must get funding through Congress. Even the Obama Department of Justice has said that insurers aren't entitled to the billions that CMS wants to pay them.
The law is clearly imploding. Rather than push bailouts to Obamacare at the expense of taxpayers, the administration should work with Congress to find fixes to the law.
Hillary Can't Stop Stealing Furniture From the American People
Posted by Laurens ten Cate on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016, 9:40 AM PERMALINK
Furniture owned by the American taxpayer keeps disappearing when Hillary is in charge
The FBI on Monday released a new batch of interview summaries related to the investigation into Clinton's private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. These so-called 302s were released under the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) and include some interesting new facts about Hillary Clinton's scandal marred Secretary of State term.
As shown on page 44 of this FBI document, Hillary and her staff walked out with taxpayer-funded furniture and lamps and took them to her Georgetown home:
"Early in CLINTON's tenure as Secretary of State, she and her staff were observed removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, D.C."
This observation comes from an interview held on the September 2, 2015 with a Special Agent of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The agent also mentions that he does not know whether the items were ever returned after Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State ended.
Helping herself to the public's furniture seems to be a recurring theme in Hillary's political career. When the Clintons transitioned out of the White House the Washington Post reported that the Clintons took with them nearly $200,000 worth of furniture, artwork, china and rugs.
They received these items initially as gifts to the White House and the donors obviously expected that they remain there. Like Joy Ficks, widower of the manufacturer of a table given during the 1993 White House redecoration project, told the Washington post that "it was meant for the White House, not the Clintons, and she thought it would stay there."
Then White House chief usher Gary J. Walters told the Washington Post: "As far as we were concerned, they were government property," he said of all the gifts obtained for the $396,000 redecoration project.
The Post also notes:
This week, they [Clinton] agreed to return another set of gifts that had been donated to the White House in earlier years, including six items they had not previously disclosed as having been taken. These included the coffee table, the armoire, the gaming table and the wicker table that Walters has asked about a year ago.
Not long after the Washington Post broke this story the Clintons had to return over $114,000 worth of these gifts. That wasn't enough for Congress though, they requested an official investigation in this matter and a report was made in 2002 by the Committee on Government Reform.
The Committee found:
"The committee also finds that the subcommittee's investigation revealed startling information about retained gifts, valuation of gifts, missing gifts, legal rulings about gifts, and other findings"
"The fact that so many gifts were undervalued raises many questions. The fact that gifts were misplaced or lost shows sloppy management and maybe more. The fact that U.S. Government property was improperly taken is troubling."
And lastly, most concerning:
"And, the fact that, after the former First Lady's election to the U.S. Senate and before she was subject to the Congress' very strict gift acceptance rules, the former First Family accepted nearly $40,000 in furniture gifts and the First Lady solicited nearly $40,000 in fine china and silver is at the very least disturbing."
The fact that the Clintons steal everything they can is a recurring issue and lays bare deeper character flaws that show up in their tendency to promote extreme tax policies. As they don't have a moral issue with taking what's not theirs, opposition to their proposed tax hikes must seem absurd to them.
School Choice 2.0: Why You Should Support Education Savings Accounts
Posted by Rayanne Matlock on Monday, October 17th, 2016, 9:20 AM PERMALINK
On September 29th, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that upheld its Education Savings Account (ESA) program as constitutional. Passed by the Nevada legislature in 2015, these savings accounts are revolutionizing K-12 education by providing a marketplace for parents to choose where to send their children to school.
Americans nationwide are familiar with more than 15 tax-advantaged savings accounts that exist in healthcare, retirement and higher education. Relatively new are savings accounts for K-12 education, formally called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs).
This movement started with Arizona, the pioneer state of implementing Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) in 2011. This year, Arizona expects 2900 students to enroll in its Education Savings Account (ESA) program, up from 302 participants in 2013. In 2013, 71% of parents who had children enrolled in the program were satisfied with their ESA.
ESAs give parents the flexibility to tailor their child's education to meet their needs. The program places the money that would normally be spent on a child in public school into an account that is given to the parents. Parents can then use that money to pay for school tuition at charter, private, and online schools.
Now, approximately 22 states have implemented or considered adopting their own version of ESAs. Five states currently have ESA programs in place.
Arizona, Tennessee, Florida, and Mississippi limit the program to students with special needs or military connections. While this is a great start, ultimately all students should have access to schools that best suit their needs. This is why Nevada has perhaps the most robust ESA program: all 450,000+ K-12 students in the state are eligible to register, no matter their circumstance.
While voucher programs, tax credit scholarships, charter schools and the like have done wonders in improving education, states with such programs in place should not stop there. Though ESAs and vouchers have some similarities, ESAs take school choice a step further:
1. ESAs do not operate as a use-it-or-lose-it concept
Like most state voucher programs, the allotted money for a child to attend public school is instead used towards tuition to attend a different school. In a voucher program, any extra money after paying tuition is given back to the state. But with an ESA program, parents get to keep the money left over.
2. ESAs put parents in control
In most voucher programs, parents choose the school they want their child to go to and the state then transfers the money to the school of choice. But in most ESA programs, parents are given a special debit card or account and can pay school tuition directly. Not only that, but some schools decline to accept vouchers, limiting the school choices for parents.
3. ESAs have flexible spending
Since any extra money in the voucher program goes back to the general education fund, it can only be spent on tuition. With ESAs, any money left over after paying tuition can be used for other school expenses. That includes textbooks, school supplies, some therapies, and even college savings accounts.
Parents know what's best for their children, and education is no exception. While voucher programs are a great function of school choice, states with vouchers shouldn't stop there. ESAs put parents in charge, can provide children from all economic backgrounds a quality primary education, and a chance at saving for college. An ESA program is a logical policy that expands school choice.
For these reasons, Americans for Tax Reform urges all states in their 2017 legislative sessions to look at implementing an ESA program.
Tax-Hungry California Cities Threaten to Impose Netflix Tax
Posted by Margaret Mire on Friday, October 14th, 2016, 2:18 PM PERMALINK
Local governments in CA should avoid the "Netflix tax"
Californians' monthly Netflix bill may soon go up thanks to money-hungry government officials.
Nearly 50 cities in The Golden State are interested in targeting online movie and TV streamers as a source of revenue through what is commonly known as the "Netflix tax."
The "Netflix tax," levied on online streaming subscriptions, is currently in place in just Chicago and Pennsylvania. Chicago's 9% "amusement tax" was extended to include "cloud services" in July 2015, and Pennsylvania extended its 6 percent sales tax to digital downloads in August 2016.
Nationwide, lawmakers should take note: following the "Netflix tax" trend would be a horrible mistake. "Netflix taxes" are wrong on many levels, including in that they raise constitutional questions.
Indeed, in July of this year, Cook County Circuit Court judge, Anthony Walker, allowed a lawsuit against Chicago's "cloud tax" to move forward. The lawsuit – filed by the Liberty Justice Center – asserts taxing Internet streaming services violates the commerce clause of the US Constitution, and the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
Unfortunately, concerns with the Netflix tax do not end there. "Netflix taxes" set a dangerous precedent for government to further intrude into our lives.
These days, books, music, and other forms of entertainment can be accessed more conveniently via the Internet. It will not be long before government starts targeting those services as well. This is already the case in Pennsylvania, as it extends its sales tax to downloadable books and music, online games, apps and e-greeting cards.
All of these items have made the lives of Americans more convenient. So, lawmakers should consider the repercussions of implementing such burdensome taxes on innovative businesses.
"Netflix taxes" and the like require businesses to stay on top of numerous taxing jurisdiction across the country. In California alone, for example, the cities considering taxing Netflix, Hulu, and other services would require businesses to collect and remit tax rates ranging from 1-11 percent.
By imposing such complexities on business operations, "Netflix taxes" make it more difficult for companies to succeed. With fewer creative businesses, Americans could have less access to technology that makes life easier.
And more immediately, hardworking Americans have already been dealt Obamacare's 20 new or higher taxes over the last seven years. Many of them would like to come home from a hard day's work and catch up on their favorite shows online without lawmakers are shaking money out of almost every activity of their lives.
IRS Wastes $12 Million on Unusable Email System
Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Friday, October 14th, 2016, 12:46 PM PERMALINK
The IRS spent $12 million on an unusable email system, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The agency purchased two years' worth of email software subscriptions before finding out the system was not unusable.
The IRS was required to procure new software because of a 2014 Office of Management and Budget directive that required federal agencies to manage permanent and temporary email records starting December 2016.
As the report notes, the IRS failed to perform the required and necessary cost analysis, security assessments, and requirements analysis prior to purchasing the software. As the report notes:
"The purchase was made without first determining project infrastructure needs, integration requirements, business requirements, security and portal bandwidth, and whether the subscriptions were technologically feasible on the IRS enterprise."
As a result, the software was never used despite $12 million in taxpayer funds being spent acquiring two years' worth of licenses. In addition, the IRS failed to ensure the contract was awarded with full and open competition as required by federal law. As the report notes:
"The IRS violated the Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements by not using full and open competition in its acquisition of Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus and Exchange Online monthly subscriptions."
This is not the only time the IRS has struggled with technology. A TIGTA report released last year found that the IRS failed to upgrade Windows software on its computers and servers by end of life deadlines, despite being expected to spend almost $140 million in taxpayer funds. At the time of the report, the agency had spent nearly four years upgrading this technology, but had only upgraded half of its servers.
Community Banks Under Siege By Dodd-Frank
Posted by Johnathan Sargent on Friday, October 14th, 2016, 12:39 PM PERMALINK
Regulations imposed by Dodd-Frank have crippled America's community banks. In the years following its passage, the financial services industry has witnessed a steady decline in the number of community banks operating in America. As these banks disappear, so does the valuable services that they provide communities and small businesses every day.
The Dodd-Frank Act was an attempt by Washington to impose a new regulatory regime upon the financial services industry. With the goal of promoting financial stability and protecting consumers, Dodd-Frank brought about some of the most significant changes to financial regulation since the Great Depression. The result has been over 22,000 pages of large and complex regulations affecting the entire industry.
These regulations have not only made American banks less competitive, but also led to the decline in community banks. While larger banks can afford to hire compliance personnel, smaller banks simply do not have the same capacity to read and understand, let alone comply, with these complex, burdensome regulations.
According to a study by the Mercatus Center, 90 percent of banks stated that compliance costs have increased since the passage. These higher compliance costs have forced community banks to discontinue certain products and services. This trends has only continued as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has begun to actively regulate mortgage lending, which has further led to increased costs faced by community banks. According to the report a majority of banks are considering changing or even eliminating certain services such as residential mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and overdraft protection.
These added costs have led to smaller banks being sold to larger banks, leading to an unprecedented trend of consolidation in the financial services industry. According to one article, since the passage of Dodd-Frank one in five American banks have disappeared and virtually no new banks have been formed within the same time period. Community banks find themselves competing with larger banks that have vastly more resources.
In most cases, as we have seen over the past 6 years since Dodd-Frank has been enacted, has been to close completely. Leading communities across the country to lose the kind of detailed and personally tailored services that only community banks can provide.
Fortunately, the House Financial Services Committee approved H.R. 5983, the Financial CHOICE Act, to ensure the survival of American community banks. This piece of legislation, introduced by Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), undoes the regulations imposed by Dodd-Frank and helps create a fairer environment for community banks to compete in.
The efforts made by Representative Hensarling and other lawmakers are greatly needed in order to ensure that communities across the country continue to receive the crucial services that community banks provide.
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It's Time to Modernize Beer Laws
Posted by Quinn Gasaway on Thursday, October 13th, 2016, 4:52 PM PERMALINK
Current regulations, highlighted in a recent study by the Mercatus Center, make it difficult for brewers to enter and operate within the market, which in turn limits consumer choice.
Entering the craft brewing scene is costly and time-consuming. Before opening the doors for business, brewers must go through both federal and state hurdles.
At the state level, an aspiring brewer must acquire a license from the state's alcoholic beverage regulator. The next step requires the approval of the brewer's beer labels and, in some cases, formulas.
Now enter the high fees associated with entering the marketplace. For example, Virginia has strict fees based on the amount of barrels a brewer produces. According to Mercatus:
"The [Virginia] brewery license will cost $350 if she brews fewer than 500 barrels of beer in one year, $2,150 if she brews between 501 and 10,000 barrels in one year, or $4,300 if she brews more than 10,001 barrels."
This structure deters growth, which in turn limits job creation and consumer choice. A better policy would repeal the licensing fees. The combination of nearly a dozen federal and state regulation hurdles, the roughly three-month waiting period required to complete these stages, and the dollars invested in licensing costs before a bottle of beer is sold all make for formidable barriers to entering the market.
If a brewer is fortunate enough to leap these hurdles, they find more waiting on the other side. At the state level, two of the most restrictive laws concern self-distribution laws and beer franchise laws.
Self-distribution laws require brewers to sell their product to wholesalers rather than selling directly to retailers. Once the product is sold to the wholesaler, the brewer loses influence as to how its beer is handled.
Adding to this load are beer franchise laws. These regulations strictly govern contracts between brewers and wholesalers, such as when and how a brewer can cancel or renew a contract with its wholesaler.
These laws make it very difficult for a brewer to switch to another wholesaler if they feel their current one is not meeting standards. Jacob Burgdorf further explains how these laws harm brewers:
"Even if a brewer can demonstrate good cause, many laws provide another level of protection for wholesalers by requiring advanced notice and a period, often 60 or 90 days, in which the wholesaler is allowed to address the grievance before termination or nonrenewal is allowed."
This harsh regulatory climate limits the expansion and freedom craft brewers are entitled to as operators in a free market.
Both of these regulations restrict the freedom of choice for fans of craft beer. Data shows that states with tough self-distribution and franchise laws "averaged only 9.30 breweries per million people." On the other hand, states with flexible regulations "had an average of 20.34 breweries per million people."
Clearly, less regulation allows for craft brewers to expand not only their business, but also their product, which in turn benefits consumers. For example, look at California. The Golden State allows self-distribution and has no beer franchise laws. Because of this, it has 518 breweries as of 2015, the most in the United States.
It's obvious: neither craft breweries nor consumers benefit from the harsh regulations. Businesses and consumers would be best served by free market principles.
Photo Credit: Tama Leaver
Medicare Price Negotiation is a Destructive and Unnecessary Proposal
Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Thursday, October 13th, 2016, 3:30 PM PERMALINK
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough yesterday called for the government to "negotiate" prices for Medicare Part D prescription drug spending.
This is bad policy and would not fix the problems that Scarborough claims it would. Medicare Part D is a success because it empowers free market competition to ensure access to medicines at low prices.
The government shouldn't mess with a program that isn't broken, and doing so would do almost nothing to address runaway federal spending. Instead this proposal would decrease access to life-saving medicines and increase costs to the healthcare system over the long term.
Supporters of giving the government power to negotiate over Part D make it sound like a simple solution. But in practice the government would be a terrible negotiator.
Medicare Part D is a Success
Medicare Part D has been successful—for both beneficiaries and taxpayers—due to "rigorous competition in the program." As noted by Grace-Marie Turner in Forbes, prices are already negotiated down because of "private sector competition through consumer choice and price negotiations by PBMs (Pharmacy benefit managers) and insurers."
There is a 90% satisfaction rate among Part D beneficiaries because the program provides a great number of choices for beneficiaries at affordable prices, without putting a price control on drug manufacturers. Part D spending is also 45 percent lower than initial projections and monthly premiums are just half the projected amount.
The program is effective because of "the competition among purchasers who also operate within the commercial market." The clause that prohibits government interference in private negotiations has been crucial in the program's success.
Part D works much better than government programs that have price controls, like the Veterans Affairs Agency. Part D is able to provide far more innovative, life-saving drugs, than the VA does. The VA currently negotiates prices, but has to be selective about which drugs it covers. As a result, veterans are frequently locked out of accessing life-saving medicines, resulting in worse health outcomes, and higher costs to the system.
Part D Protects Medical Innovation
Costs associated with medical development are already significant. On average it costs $2.6 billion and more than a decade of research time for each new medicine that hits the market.
While forcefully reducing the costs of medicine may succeed in reducing the upfront costs of drugs, over the long term it is an incredibly destructive policy. By forcing lower prices, the government creates a disincentive to innovate because there are less profits available to finance the next generation of life-saving and life-improving prescription medicines. In turn, this results in higher long term healthcare costs due to a lack of cures for a variety of illnesses.
As noted by Joseph Gulfo in the Hill, Part D ensures that medical innovation is encouraged:
The 2003 Medicare law exempts Part D drugs from "best price" rebates that drugmakers have been required to give to the state Medicaid programs since 1991. Medicare is prohibited from receiving "best price" to provide incentives to drugmakers to develop drugs for conditions that affect patients over 65 years of age. And this incentive is working — in the first few years after Medicare D was enacted, there was an estimated 40 percent increase in all clinical trials versus expected trends and a 59 percent increase in the number of drugs entering the final phase before FDA approval.
Part D Spending is a Small Percentage of Overall Medicare Spending
Scarborough is correct that spending on federal entitlements are unsustainable. By 2046, the Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security spending will account for half of all non-interest spending.
While there is a need to restrain these costs, Part D Medicare prescription drug spending accounts for a small percentage of overall Medicare spending (and an even smaller percentage of mandatory spending). As shown below, prescription drug spending accounts for just 12 percent of all Medicare spending -- roughly $76 billion.
This is a small fraction of mandatory spending. In 2015, federal spending on Medicare totaled $634 billion, and all mandatory spending totaled $2.29 trillion according to CBO. Prescription drug spending equals roughly $76 billion.
Scarborough makes it sound as if this is the solution to runaway federal spending. However, reducing Part D prescription drug outlays would hardly dent federal mandatory spending.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation http://kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing/ (Note: Total Medicare spending differs because of updated CBO baseline)
Leaked Emails Show Team Hillary Worried About Her 25% Gun Tax Endorsement
Posted by John Kartch on Thursday, October 13th, 2016, 2:08 PM PERMALINK
On Sept. 8, 2015, Americans for Tax Reform published documentation of Hillary Clinton's 1993 endorsement of a new national 25% retail sales tax on guns. "I am all for that," said Clinton of the tax as she testified before the Senate Finance Committee.
As the story picked up steam in conservative media outlets, the Clinton campaign team began to worry.
On Oct. 4, 2015, Clinton advisor Mandy Grunwald emailed the team saying, "I also saw something about her supporting a 25% tax on gun sales back in 1993. I didn't see q and a on either of these in the briefing."
Later that day, campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri replied: "Being added today."
It is unclear if the campaign team ever came up with talking points in an attempt to justify Clinton's gun tax endorsement. The email thread either ended at that point, or any response has yet to be released by Wikileaks.
In the primary election, Clinton aggressively positioned herself to the left of Bernie Sanders on guns, and attacked Sanders relentlessly for his 1990s gun votes.
Hillary's endorsement of the gun tax was reported at the time by the Associated Press, the Washington Post, NBC Nightly News and several other outlets.
As reported by the AP on Oct. 1, 1993:
Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., picked up Mrs. Clinton's support for his idea of slapping stiff taxes on ''purveyors of violence:'' a 25 percent sales tax on guns and $2,500 license fees for gun dealers.
''Speaking personally ... I'm all for that,'' said the first lady. But she stressed she was just speaking for herself.
''Well, let me say that there is no more important personal endorsement in the country today, and I thank you very much,'' said a pleased-as-punch Bradley.
And the Washington Post on Oct. 1, 1993:
"I'm all for it," she declared in a response to a suggestion by Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) that the Congress should impose a 25 percent sales tax on handguns to "tax directly the purveyors of violence."
The Sept. 30, 1993, NBC Nightly News reported the incident as follows:
"Others urge a hefty sales tax on guns, and much higher fees for gun dealers. Today, they got a powerful ally.
Ms. HILLARY CLINTON: I'm all for that. I just don't know what else we're going to do to try to figure out how to get some handle on this violence."
The Bill Clinton White House made it clear that Hillary's 25 percent gun tax endorsement was hers and hers alone, as shown by the Oct. 1, 1993 White House press briefing transcript:
Q: "Do you know if the President supports the First Lady's endorsement of an idea yesterday by Senator Bradley that there be a 25 percent tax on the sale of guns in America?"
WH Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers: "Well, as you know, she was expressing her opinion."
On April 14, 2016, ATR released previously unseen video footage from a non-C-SPAN camera showing Hillary's visceral facial expression during the moments she endorsed the gun tax and as gun owners and dealers were described as "purveyors of violence."
On June 5, 2016, during an interview on ABC's This Week hosted by George Stephanopoulos, Clinton had the video footage played to her and was given the opportunity to renounce her gun tax endorsement. She refused to do so. In fact, Clinton has never renounced the tax, and her aggressive anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment statements do nothing to indicate she's changed her mind.
On Sept. 20, 2016, ATR noted yet another Clinton gun tax endorsement from 1993: a doubling of the existing federal excise tax on guns. In a closed-door meeting, she told the anti-gun Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) that his bill to double the tax was a "great idea."
Clinton's deeply held belief in higher taxes on the American people is documented at ATR's dedicated website, www.HighTaxHillary.com
Those that buy guns to protect themselves are "purveyors of evil," and that tax would not affect the illegal guns purchased in Chicago by gangs that actually use them for evil.
Such a tax would not make a single American safer!
About 243 years ago a tax on tea paved the way to #2A. #NeverHillary


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Grand Palladium Imbassai Resort and Spa - All Inclusive - Mata de Sao Joao
Your all-inclusive resort has 6 restaurants serving breakfast and lunch where you'll find good menu choices and service with a smile. Highlights include a health club and a nightclub. You can also enjoy surfing/boogie boarding and kayaking. The on-site spa is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering facials, body treatments, a Turkish bath/hammam and massage/treatment rooms. Relax in the 5 outdoor pools and enjoy the free water park. Choose from 3 poolside bars and 13 bars/lounges so you can enjoy a drink to suit all tastes.
Along with facilities in the on-site spa, the all-inclusive resort also has 4 spa tubs, a sauna and an outdoor tennis court. Family-friendly amenities at this all-inclusive resort include a children's pool, a free children's club and free supervised childcare/activities. Free WiFi is available.
Grand Palladium Imbassai Resort and Spa - All Inclusive - Mata de Sao Joao
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 654 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Parents must have child's birth certificate and photo ID *
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
- Area shuttle *
Other information
- All-inclusive
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (free)
- Free buffet breakfast
- 6 restaurants
- 13 bars/lounges
- 3 poolside bars
- Coffee shop/café
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Water park
- Number of outdoor pools - 5
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis court
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Kayaking on site
- Playground on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Snorkeling nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Nightclub
- Free water park access
- Children's pool
- Number of spa tubs - 4
- Waterslide
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 2239
- Conference space size (meters) - 208
- One meeting room
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 11
- Year Built 2010
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Sofa bed
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Jetted bathtub
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Satellite TV channels
- IPod docking station
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Free bottled water
- In-room safe
Special features
All inclusive
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
DiningAgda - This restaurant specializes in Indian cuisine and serves breakfast and lunch.
Sumptuori - This restaurant specializes in Japanese cuisine and serves dinner only.
Oxum - This restaurant serves breakfast and lunch.
Brasa - This steakhouse specializes in barbecue and serves dinner only.
Entre Aguas - Onsite buffet restaurant. Open daily.
On Site
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis court
- Sauna
- Steam room
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Kayaking on site
- Playground on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Free water park access
- Snorkeling nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
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- Grand Palladium Imbassai Resort All Inclusive
Parents or a legal guardian traveling with children under 18 years must present the child's birth certificate and an identity card with photo (passport, for example) at the check-in. For international travels from Brazil, if just one of the parents is traveling with the child, she/he must present – in addition to the child's certificate of birth and identity card with photo – a letter authorizing the trip signed by the other parent with a notarial certification of signature. In case the parents or the legal guardian, as applicable, cannot or are unwilling to give this authorization, a judicial authorization is required. People who intend to travel to Brazil with children must consult with the Brazilian consulate before traveling for more information.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Facility access costs USD 10 per person, per day. Facilities include a sauna, a spa tub, and a swimming pool.
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
Area shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.