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Caring for Children
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ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And for more now we turn to Julie Rovner, who covers health policy for Congress Daily and The Lancet, a British medical journal, and Sara Shuptrine, president of the Southern Institute on Children and Families, which conducts research on health and welfare issues for southern states. Thank you both for being with us. Julie Rovner, how big a deal is this?
JULIE ROVNER, Congress Daily: Well, it's a very big deal. This is the first single piece of legislation we've seen to expand access to health insurance really since 1965 when Medicare and Medicaid were first created.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Who will be covered by this program? Give us a picture of the children who will be covered.
JULIE ROVNER: Basically, these are the children who live in families that are too wealthy to qualify them right now for Medicaid but who still have incomes under around 200 percent of poverty, which is about $32,000 for a family of four. These are almost exclusively children in working families and families with parents who work, which is one of the reasons you're not eligible for Medicaid. And yet, parents don't quite make enough money to be able to buy health insurance, or they work in jobs where health insurance isn't offered, at least for the children.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And who remains uncovered?
JULIE ROVNER: Well, basically everybody else. There are about 10 million children without insurance. The majority of them have lower incomes, but there are certainly a large number of uninsured children in families with 250/300/400 percent of poverty. Again, if these families live in high-expense areas or if they don't have any access to health insurance, parents have nothing that they could buy. So there will still be a substantial number of children left uninsured even after the program is fully implemented.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Sarah Shuptrine, the states have the–the southern states have a large percentage of the children that will be covered under this plan, is that right?
SARAH SHUPTRINE, Southern Institute on Children & Families: We have a disproportionate number of children that are uninsured in the southern region, yes.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And explain how there are children who would be covered by Medicaid but don't know about it or their parents haven't enrolled in it and how this program helps them to–let's start with the Medicaid aspect a bit.
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Well, up until about the mid 1980's Medicaid was connected mostly to the welfare program. So in order to have Medicaid coverage your children and you had to be on the welfare system. And that changed in 1986 and states began to expand coverage to children that were not on welfare by giving them simply the Medicaid coverage and not a cash check.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, but now the kids that could be eligible for Medicaid but haven't known about it, their parents haven't known, there will be an outreach program under this new bill, right?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Yes, there is a certain amount of the money that states receive that they can devote to the outreach program, and it is greatly needed.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Explain that.
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Well, we hope they're going to be very aggressive about outreach because since that change was made in Congress in the mid 1980's we've done a very poor job of getting word to families that their children don't have to be on welfare in order to get Medicaid coverage. In fact, we don't say Medicaid is welfare at all. It is assistance to families that are working, which is going to be a very important service particularly for families that are leaving welfare for work.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So how do states reach out? What are they doing and what should they do more?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Well, states can adopt a number of outreach strategies. There's not a lot going on right now. So I think that they're going to be a lot of experimenting and development on the outreach side of this. And it's something that is not going to be a terrifically expensive activity on the part of the state, but it's going to require commitment, and it's going to require an attitude on their part that they really do want children insured in order to do active outreach because it will help to enroll many more children as they get out into the community if they do 1-800 lines, if they do some very user-friendly materials and other kinds of public awareness activities, they will begin to get the word out to working families that their children can be eligible for Medicaid.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Julie Rovner.
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Or a state-only program.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Okay. We should get one thing clear. The states don't have to do any of this, do they?
JULIE ROVNER: That's absolutely correct. It's a purely voluntary program on the part of the states. There is money out there. Each state will have a set allotment, which is based essentially on the number of low-income children and the number of low-income uninsured children in the state. But the states could theoretically do nothing. Now, that being said, most states are doing something. The federal government was a latecomer to this effort. More than half of the states have already started programs. They've either expanded their own Medicaid program–sometimes they've had to come to Washington to get permission to go above some of the threshold–or they've started some "children only" health insurance programs. And they've been putting their own money into it. So now they'll be able to access some federal money to augment state money.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Explain what happens. Now, the money becomes available in October from the federal government, right?
JULIE ROVNER: The money–
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: What happens then?
JULIE ROVNER: The money becomes available on October 1st. Each state will have a set allotment that it can draw down by putting up some of its own money. Now, most people don't expect states to start drawing that money really until next year. There are a lot of decisions that they have to make. First, they have to decide if they want to expand Medicaid, or if they want to set up a new program. That's a big decision, a big political decision, a big substantive decision. Even if they decide which way they're going to go, they're going to have to allot new money. States cannot access this money for their existing programs, except by expanding them. Most state legislatures aren't in session right now, and they won't be in session until next year. So, in all likelihood, it's going to be next year before the states can actually get around to allocating the money that will allow them to set up these programs and thereby draw some of their federal allotment.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Ms. Shuptrine, are the states really scurrying? Are you hearing from a lot of state governments that are trying to figure out how to meet the requirements of this?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Well, first of all, states have already begun to go beyond the federal mandated levels, and many states have taken actions to provide insurance coverage that does not require a waiver from the federal government.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Why was this necessary then? Why was it necessary to have federal action?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: What this provides is additional enhanced match for states to pull down some additional funding to assist and maintain for health coverage for children.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So go ahead. But the states do now have to decide how best to use this, right?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: That's the first decision. They're going to have to determine at what level they want to cover children in their state. And I would hope that they will look to some uniformity on that level so that it's not confusing to the families that are trying to access the program and to the agencies that are trying to administer it, because we could add further complications inadvertently.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Speaking of those complications, Julie Rovner, what about the question–the criticism that was raised during the discussion, the debates over this that some of these kids are covered because their parents work, but it's fairly insecure because they don't always work and so they would go on the federally funded plan in order to have a more secure coverage dropping out of the private pool, which is not necessarily good for private insurance companies, what about that criticism?
JULIE ROVNER: Well, that's a legitimate criticism. There's also an even broader criticism that employers will see that the government–the state governments with the federal government's financial aid is now offering children health insurance they will feel free to drop health insurance for dependents. Now, that I think was more of a concern when this program was in a larger form and went further up the income scale. At this point it really only goes to 200 percent of poverty; I think an employer would be unlikely, they would have to drop coverage for all dependents at all income levels for all of their employees and yet, only some of them would be eligible for this type of insurance. So I think the problem that we call substitution or crowding out, or the idea that now public insurance would replace private insurance will be not so great with this program than with some of the other ones that are under discussion.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Ms. Shuptrine, explain what will be covered. Will kids be able to go to eye doctors? Will this be very basic, or will there be extras?
SARAH SHUPTRINE: Well, if the states decide to go with the Medicaid program, they will provide a very comprehensive set of services, including preventive services and treatment services that will correct whatever the screening determines the child needs, such as sight and hearing and speech. If a state decides to go with a state insurance program, they have some leeway on there, but there are a number of protections that are in the law to make sure that to the extent possible there is a good scope of coverage, particularly with preventive services.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: What other kinds of questions are states having to answer now?
JULIE ROVNER: Well, I think one of the key questions and one of the reasons this legislation is shaped it's like giving so much flexibility to the states is that there were some governors who came and were worried, for instance, with Medicaid's very rich benefit package, that this public insurance would have better benefits than was available to most people with private insurance, and they didn't want to then be a magnet. So states will have to decide what fits into their package. I think there is certainly an encouragement for states to offer as comprehensive a set of benefits as possible but with a sight towards what is the individual needs of individual states. States may also choose to offer different types of packages in different areas of the state. That's anticipated as one possibility. The idea is that there is some money here; that we ought to expand the coverage of children who currently don't have insurance, and that they're going to let states decide the best way to do that.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: When you call around to the states, when you're doing your reporting, what are they telling you about what stage they're in in planning this? This is an enormous undertaking for them.
JULIE ROVNER: It is an enormous undertaking. Right now, they're having meetings. A lot of this bill was written very late at night, particularly the children's health package was finished at 2 or 3:30 in the morning, and there are still a lot of unanswered questions. The Department of Health & Human Services still has a lot of its own unanswered questions. States will basically have to file a plan with the federal government to say what they're going to do. So everybody's scrambling around, trying to understand exactly what kind of hoops they have to jump through to get this money. And I think there's going to be a lot of talking before there's going to be a lot of action.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, thank you both very much for being with us.


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Linda Bilmes writes op-ed in The Boston Globe on the costs of Post 9/11 wars and absence of the topic from the election campaign
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The $5 Trillion Wars
Boston Globe October 18, 2016
This October marks 15 years since American troops entered Afghanistan. It was a precursor to the occupation of Iraq and is the longest military conflict in US history. Yet the trillions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in these wars have rated barely a mention in the presidential campaign.
The most recent estimates suggest that war costs will run to nearly $5 trillion — a staggering sum that exceeds even the $3 trillion that Joseph Stiglitz and I predicted back in 2008.
Yet the cost seems invisible to politicians and the public alike. The reason is that almost all of the spending has been financed through borrowing — selling US Treasury Bonds around the world — leaving our children to pick up the tab. Consequently, the wars have had little impact on our pocketbooks.
In earlier wars, the government routinely raised taxes, slashed nonmilitary spending, and sold war bonds. Taxes were raised to pay for the Spanish-American War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War I and World War II. Top rates of federal income taxes climbed to 70 percent during Vietnam and to over 90 percent during the Korean War. These policies were all part of an explicit strategy of engaging the American public in the war efforts. In sharp contrast, the George W. Bush administration cut taxes after the invasion of Afghanistan, in 2001 and again, in 2003, when we invaded Iraq. Most Americans pay lower taxes now than they did 15 years ago.
Congress has also managed to avoid painful budgetary choices. Since 2001, Congress has employed a series of so-called "temporary special appropriations" to authorize hundreds of billions of dollars for war spending, bypassing the regular spending process. Despite President Obama's pledge to end such "gimmicks," they have continued throughout his presidency. Thus the money appropriated for the post-9/11 wars did not have to be traded off against other spending priorities. The war appropriation also gets far less scrutiny than the regular defense budget. Consequently, the war budget has become a magnet for pet nonwar spending projects that senators and congressmen want to slip in under the radar. As a consequence, the reported war cost per troop deployed has ballooned from $1 million per year at the peak of the fighting in 2008 to $4.9 million today.
Besides ducking the immediate financial burden, most of us are also shielded from the risks and hardships of military service. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were the first major US conflicts fought entirely by an "all-volunteer" military force. Less than 1 percent of the adult US population was deployed to the combat zones — the smallest percentage at any time since the short peacetime period between the two World Wars. Instead, our small volunteer army is supplemented by a large shadow force of private contractors. In Afghanistan, contractors outnumber US troops by 3 to 1, performing critical roles in virtually every area of military activity. More than two-thirds of them are recruited from other countries, including the Philippines and Nepal.
As a result, the post-9/11 conflicts have become a "spectator war," as Andrew Bacevich of Boston University put it, in which most Americans are neither engaged nor involved.
All of this accounts for the absence of any real political discussion about how we will fund huge costs of the war that are still to be paid — for example, the $1 trillion in lifetime disability compensation that we have awarded to 960,000 recent veterans. Worse, no one is asking whether the current approach in Afghanistan is working. Last month the US special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, reported that corruption in Afghanistan is far more widespread than before the 2001 US invasion, due to US policies that "unintentionally aided and abetted corruption." But his investigations get barely a mention in the media.
As long as the cost of the war remains hidden from public view, there is no pressure to reexamine our military strategy. Donald Drumpf says his secret plan is to "ask the generals." But the Pentagon should be focused on tactics, not on deciding our national purpose. Assuming Hillary Clinton wins, she cannot lead a national conversation unless the public is paying attention.
This will change only if we are obliged to pay for war operations as we go, and to set aside money now to support and care for our veterans in the future. This is not simply about sound fiscal budgetary policy. Rather, it is about shouldering the burden of our wars and, in doing so, being open to learn from our mistakes. We all want to continue to "support our troops." Sweeping the costs under the carpet is not the right way to do it.
© 2016 The Boston Globe
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Linda Bilmes discusses Chilcot Inquiry and war costs
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Chilcot Inquiry shows that invasion of Iraq based on flawed intelligence, false narratives
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The long awaited report of the Chilcot Commission was made public on July 6th, after six years of investigation and testimony. The Commission had been strongly criticized for the lengthy delay. (Linda Bilmes spoke to the Chilcot Commission in 2012). However, the findings could not have been more devastating. The main finding of the report is that the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was NOT NECESSARY .
Key conclusions | The Iraq Inquiry
- There was "no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein" in March 2003 and military action was "not a last resort"
- The UK "chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted"
- Tony Blair's note to George Bush on July 28, 2002, saying UK would be with the US "whatever", was the moment Britain was set on a path to war
- Judgements about the threat posed by Iraq's WMD "were presented with a certainty that was not justified"
- Tony Blair told attorney general Lord Goldsmith Iraq had committed breaches of UN Security Council resolution 1441 without giving evidence to back up his claim
- Ministry of Defence was "slow" to react to clear need for better equipment and it was not clear whose job it was to do so
- Planning for post-war Iraq was "wholly inadequate"
- Blair government "failed to achieve its stated objectives"
- The legality of the war can only be decided by an international court
Source: iraqinquiry.org.uk
Read the executive summary here along with the statement of Sir John Chilcot:
Linda Bilmes and Steve Clemons (Editor-at-large of the Atlantic) discuss military spending
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Bill Maher asks Joe Stiglitz about the $3 Trillion Dollar War (May 1, 2015)
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Joe Stiglitz being interviewed by Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher. Bill asks Joe about the $3 Trillion Dollar War and the opportunity cost of that money.

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Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL.
The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows you to set up a short domain and then point that domain to the Bit.ly servers. From there Bit.ly Pro works just like the existing Bit.ly service — it simply generates URLs using your custom domain.
There is also a paid "enterprise" option available which adds additional analytics for your links, custom short URLs (i.e. me.com/mypost rather than me.com/28dkad) and other pro-level features.
One very nice touch is that any existing URLs (and accompanying statistics) that you have associated with your Bit.ly account will be automatically migrated to the new domain.
Bit.ly has also made sure that any third party tools (such as Twitter clients) using the Bit.ly API can use your new short URL — just login with your Bit.ly username and API key and everything will work as usual.
Unfortunately, while Bit.ly Pro makes it dead simple to set up your own custom short URL, it does not, as Dave Winer points out, do anything to address the problem of URL portability. As we've written in the past, URL shortening services are very dangerous for the web — if Bit.ly goes out of business all those Bit.ly links become useless.
The way that Bit.ly Pro is currently set up, having your own domain does not mitigate the broken link problem. It may be branded with your domain name, but the data is no more portable than before. As Winer says, Bit.ly could, for example, "echo all your shortened URLs to an Amazon S3 bucket that you control," but so far at least, Bit.ly Pro does not offer a way to export your shortened data.
Still, if you've been looking for a simple way to create custom short URLs, Bit.ly Pro is about easiest method we've seen. Better hurry though — short, clever domain names are going to start disappearing fast. You may want to consider registering something in Yiddish.
See Also:
- Why URL Shortening is a Threat to the Web
- WordPress.com Rolls its Own URL Shortening Service
- Google Jumps on the URL-Shortening Bandwagon With Goo.gl
- Twitter API Is Becoming Far More than Just an API for Twitter


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Support our schools this year
The day has finally arrived. Though our tiny pre-k and kindergarten students remain home today, our first through twelfth graders have headed back to the campus for another year of academics, sports, club activities and more.
Over the past two years, we have seen a lot of changes in our classrooms. Sweeping educational reforms across the nation and state might have been meant for everyone's benefit but it has taken a toll on our educators, administrators and students.
That's something we need to remember as a community, whether we have any ties to local schools or not. Our students and teachers put a lot of sweat (and many tears) into their work. The proof of that hard work is evident in this district's standing in the state; the high letter grades our schools receive from the state; as well as the numerous scholarships, awards and college acceptance letters that are handed out to local graduates each year.
It takes more than the people in schools and desks to make a campus successful, though. As the 2013-2014 academic season begins, let's remember to stand behind our schools as they work to not only ensure, but create a better future for Jeff Davis Parish, Louisiana, America and, hey, even the world.
There are so many ways to be supportive. Sure, you can donate money to schools, clubs, and athletics, and even buy a few items when students are conducting fundraisers. But you can also volunteer to join committees or assist at school functions; surprise teachers with baked goods or cards filled with kind words and well wishes; or contact school board members to share what you see is right within a school or administration instead of what's wrong.
The school year might be underway for students and teachers, but it's underway for the rest of us, too. If we want to see our schools and students continue to excel, let's do our part to make this year successful.
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- "In my library: Hunt Slonem" New York Post
"You don't have to be Hugh Hefner to get excited about Hunt Slonem's bunnies. Each day, the artist warms up by painting rabbits even Beatrix Potter would envy. Now, just in time for Easter, there's a whole coffee-table book of them: Glitterati's "Bunnies," with a foreword by John Berendt."
- "An artist's sumptuous book of bunnies, just in time for Easter" The New Orleans Advocate
"New York artist Hunt Slonem seems as mesmerized by rabbit as the boys and girls of New Orleans back in the '50s and '60s. Slonem, a Tulane University graduate who visits the city monthly and had restored two Louisiana plantations, wakes every morning and warms up by painting rabbits. Now, Glitterati Incorporated has collected dozens of Slonem's rabbit images in "Bunnies," a sumptuous, large-scale book alive with gold pages and vivid color."
- "Bird's-eye View: Talking Art with Hunt Slonem" Women's Wear Daily
"Amidst Hunt Slonem's murals, hundreds of paintings and sculptures in his cavernous 30,000-square-foot space, one thing is clear – the artist likes to go big."
- "SB Finds Nashville: 2014" Style Blueprint
"Exciting, unexpected, realistic, impressionistic, abstract—the bunny paintings of celebrated artist Hunt Slonem have something for everyone. Slonem's paintings as a collection appear here in this beautiful book for the first time in Bunnies, a treasury of enchanting works that are at once pop culture and fine art."
- "The Hunt for Bunnies" PMc Magazine
"Though he's not hunting for rabbits (or wabbits) like Elmer Fudd, painter Hunt Slonem does a better job at capturing them. While Elmer Fudd constantly messes up in his attempt to turn Bugs into bunny stew, Hunt Slonem wakes up every morning and captures bunnies on canvas. These warm-ups are, as John Berendt calls them, "the artistic equivalent of calisthenics in which he flexes his painting apparatus to establish control over the colors, shapes, and textures that flow from his mind's eye through his arm, hand, and brush on the painted surface.""
- "The Exotic World of Hunt Slonem" Cincinnati Refined
"If I had to sum artist Hunt Slonem into one word, it'd be "Exotic." Because that's what he said. We spoke on the phone last week in preparation for his show opening at the Millery Gallery on Friday, May 30 (another coup in a long list for gallery owners Laura Miller & Gary Gleason). Slonem's art has been shown in well over 200 museums around the world, including the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and his work is privately held by some pretty well known celebrities."
"Maine-born artist Hunt Slonem's whimsical rabbit paintings – on display at Boston's DTR Modern Galleries through mid-June – fill the pages of Bunnies, which features contributions from writers John Berendt and Bruce Helander."
- "Hunt Slonem's Iconic Rabbit Paintings and More Intriguing Art Openings" 7x7 San Francisco
"With a lifestyle as colorful as his oil paintings, the New York-based Hunt Slonem has generated much ballyhoo. Collectors, museums, and gallerists can't get enough of his vivid portraits and playful depictions."
- "Hunt Slonem Bunnies" Harriet Alexander
"The bunnies are coming! The bunnies are coming! I am absolutely beside myself with excitement. I find the bright, elegant bunny paintings by the talented artist Hunt Slonem to be some of the art I most consistently enjoy. I never tire of them. Hunt's newest collection of bunnies is being shown at Gremillion Fine Art. They are each beauty and joy personified."
"New York City artist Hunt Slonem whose works are collected by celebrities including Cameron Diaz and is known for his paintings of plants and landscapes, architecture and saints, birds and butterflies, drew art aficionados and lapin lovers to a signing of his new art book and exhibition at the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco on Thursday."
- "Alec and Hilaria Baldwin make appearance at book launch" NY Post: Page Six
"Hunt Slonem's Bunnies book signing at Paul Smith has some Baldwins (Alec, Hilaria, and baby Carmen) show up to enjoy the artist's new book."


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And with energy prices rising, Money Box examined the various ways we can all be more energy efficient, and other ways to keep our bills down.
Money Box spoke to Adam Scorer from Energywatch and Tim Curtis from the Energy Saving Trust about energy prices and what help is available.
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Energy Efficiency Advice Centres: 0800 512 012
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Giveaway by 20th Century Fox and Paper Shouts!
Great movies influence great style! And every bride–past, present and future–cares about style. Brides, moms, birthday girls—every women has a style and likes to show off that style in the way they dress, the cars they drive and the stationery they use to share life's big moments with family and friends. With that in mind, Paper Shouts has partnered with 20th Century Fox to give you a taste of some great style and great fun. One Lucky reader will win a copy of the brand new dvd BRIDE WARS by 20th Century Fox as well as a $25 Paper Shouts Gift Certificate!
Many sites around the blogosphere are taking part in this FAB contest, and the winner from this site will be entered into a pool of the winners from all the other participating sites for a Grand Prize drawing on the Paper Shouts website. Prizes include movie memorabilia such as the sunglasses worn in the movie by Kate Hudson and a movie one-sheet signed by Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and the Grand Prize is a great Mexican vacation—6 nights at the CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort and airfare for 2 on AirTran airlines!!!
In case you haven't heard about the movie- the premise is TOO funny!
"Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway), best friends since childhood, are always there for each other, through good times and bad."


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Welcome to Mrs. Warren's All Day Kindergarten Class Webpage.
Please check in often to see updates. Thanks for visiting!
Teacher Biography
Hi! My name is Mrs. Donna Warren. I have been teaching in Cassopolis for 32 years. I graduated from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan and did my graduate work at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. I majored in Early Childhood Education and have taught within these parameters for my entire school career. I am currently also the grade level chairperson for kindergarten. I hope you will take the opportunity to check in on our classroom web page as often as possible. I will do my best to make it a useful tool for you. Thanks!


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Genesis float comes with 1-for-15 share bonus sweetener
By Pattrick Smellie
March 13 (BusinessDesk) – The government's unpopular asset sales programme will all be over in just over a month, with a quick-fire bookbuild and public offering scheduled between now and listing of the electricity generator-retailer Genesis Energy's shares on the NZX on April 17.
The shares will be offered to the public at a price somewhere between $1.35 and $1.65, according to the indicative range announced today, although if uptake is low, Ministers may choose to restrict the amount of the company for sale to as little as 30 percent.
In its two previous electricity company partial privatisations, MightyRiverPower last May and Meridian Energy in October, the offer was for 49 percent of the shares.
Like the MRP float, the Genesis offer will include one bonus share for every 15 shares owned, capped at 2,000 bonus shares, as long as investors hold the shares they get in the upcoming float for a full 12 months. In MRP's case, there was a two year wait for bonus shares, issued at a ratio of one-for-25.
The Meridian offer involved instalment receipts, allowing investors to partly pay for their shares up-front, with a second payment later, but this is not being repeated in the Genesis offer.
As with Meridian, however, the government diluted Genesis's issued capital by roughly doubling the number of shares on issue, a move that makes no difference to the total value of the company but makes the price per share more attractive to small-time investors.
The Genesis offer adds one new factor - a fixed price when the offer opens so that investors know exactly how much they're committing when they subscribe for shares.
In both previous floats, uncertainty over the strike price is believed to have discouraged some investors.
This time, there will be a price-setting and bookbuild exercise between March 26 and 28, allowing the offer to be opened to investors on March 29 with a known issue price. The smallest allowable investment will be $1,000.
"Based on the indicative share offer price range, the prospective 2015 financial year implied gross dividend yield is forecast to range from 13.5 per cent to 16.5 per cent," said State-Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall in a statement.
Depending on how much of Genesis is sold and at what price, the sale stands to raise between $405 million and $808.5 million, which would be added to the almost $4 billion already raised in the MRP and Meridian floats, and the selldown of 20 percent of the government's shareholding in Air New Zealand.
The government had originally hoped to raise between $5 billion and $7 billion from the sale process, but the commercial failure of its coal mining SOE Solid Energy took that asset off the books, while a combination of factors have reduced the immediate value of the electricity companies.
Labour SOE spokesman Clayton Cosgrove said the Genesis float was a "last, desperate fire sale", and predicted the falling number of individual investors seen in the MRP and Meridian floats would continue.
"MightyRiverPower got 112,000 investors, Meridian got 63,000," he said. "Given the Government's track record, it will be paying investors to take the shares off their hands."
Genesis is the smallest electricity SOE by asset value but by far the country's largest electricity and gas retailer with more than 650,000 customer connections. It owns a mixture of gas and coal-fired, wind and hydro plant.
In all three floats, the taxpayer remains the controlling shareholder, with at least 51 percent of the shares, and the government is committed to 85 percent New Zealand ownership at the time of the float, albeit foreign investors could then buy shares issued to New Zealanders.
Clouding the outlook for electricity companies are three major factors: the potential closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter as early as 2017, the lack of electricity demand growth in the last five years, and the Labour and Green parties' policy to dismantle the wholesale electricity market and replace it with a central buyer.
While an unlikely outcome, the smelter uses around one-seventh of all electricity generated in New Zealand, so its departure would prompt major industry changes to cope.
With power demand stalled since 2008, there are too many power stations available at present to meet demand, so wholesale power prices are lower on average than they have been in the previous decade, and the Labour-Greens policy would force price cuts of an unknown size, affecting current power company profitability.


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Fisher's View- America's Cup World Series Day 3 – Nursing the wounds
by Bob Fisher on 15 Sep 2011
Artemis Racing and Energy Team - AC45 World Series Plymouth 2011 Sander van der Borch / Artemis Racing
Bob Fisher, one of the worlds top international yachting journalists, and certainly the top writer on the America's Cup, is in Plymouth for the second round of the America's Cup World Series.
Bob is a multihuller from way back, having competed for Britain in the Little America's Cup and has been covering the America's Cup since 1967.
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Dear Diary – Day 3 - America's Cup World Series - Plymouth, England
There is no doubt that all the crews at the AC World Series are in need of practice, but this can prove counter-productive.
Last night some of the teams were working round the clock to have their boats ready for today. China Team, after a spectacular series of cartwheels on what was a day off, needed to replace its wing. The shore crew, which also had other repairs to make, was fully stretched and acknowledged the assistance they had received from Artemis Racing, their next door neighbours. 'We couldn't have completed the work without their help,' said Will Howden.
Chris Brittle is described as the 'floater' aboard Team Korea and he explained its meaning: 'I'm the strongest on the boat and when that strength is needed, I'm there to deal with the problem.' With his weight he is also useful right aft as the boat goes down wind in order to keep the bows out.
Sunday's double capsize kept the shore crew of Green Comm busy, mostly working on the repairs to the wind, a large area of which needed re-skinning before today's race. Luca Devoti, the team's manager, said: 'We had been working flat out in order to repair the wing and be ready to race on Wednesday and we also re-cut our jibs and thought we were 100% ready. When we double-checked the hull we found there were some structural problems.'
Helmsman Vasilij Zbogar, who was washing off the hulls and carrying out a final damage check, discovered the de-lamination in the port hull. Happily, ACRM was prepared for this eventuality and provided a spare, but it needed round the clock working to have it ready for today's race. Devoti commented: 'We will have the first AC45 with two differently-colored hulls. This is a minor hiccup in the very long journey.' It was a pity therefore that the crew failed to take the penalties during the first race and was disqualified;
Many locals are bewailing the absence of a British team for the America's Cup, but the truth is that when the move was made from monohulls to catamarans, Team Origin's advisors in formed Sir Keith Mills that there would be little chance of success. Yet there are ten British sailors in other teams competing here, including four of the five sailors in Team Korea. And it should be noted that the two principal sailors of Team Origin, Ben Ainslie (with the Oman Extreme 40 team) and Iain Percy (here with Artemis) have made the change to catamarans.
The first of the three 'seeding' races saw considerable activity despite the light breeze (never more than 10 knots). The lead changed frequently during the 40-minute race due to the big variations in wind pressure. Loick Peyron and the Energy Team battled at the front with Jimmy Spithill in Oracle 4 and by the fourth mark was ahead after splitting sides of the course. Then Terry Hutchinson and Artemis Racing came into the mix and a battle royal emerged at the front of the fleet. Finally it was Artemis from Energy Team and Oracle 4 third ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand.
The next two races were shorter and in slightly stronger breeze – just 20 minutes each, which put considerable importance on the start. The Kiwis nailed it and led Energy Team at the first mark with Chris Draper and Team Korea fighting for third place with ETNZ. On the beat Team Korea went offshore and gained considerably to lead around the next mark and finish the race ahead of ETNZ with Russell Coutts in Oracle 5 third ahead of Artemis.
The final race was a tough one for Dean Barker and ETNZ. They were inches early at the start, along with Bertrand Pace and Aleph, and returned to the back of the pack. Loick Peyron led the charge with the China Team and Team Korea in hot pursuit downwind as Artemis also came into the reckoning. Artemis rounded the leeward gate a length ahead of Energy Team, but on the beat ETNZ made huge gains to round the top mark second behind Artemis.
Terry Hutchinson took Artemis to her second win of the day while the second place of ETNZ gave her second overall in the seeding. Team Korea's third also placed her in the same overall position as did Energy Team's fourth. The two Oracle boats had their worst day since racing in AC-45s began with Coutts and Spithill finishing fifth and sixth.
Today's racing was somewhat tempered by the announcement that there will be two more rounds of the World Series in Italy. They will be in April next year and May 2013 in Naples.
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Nokia Lumia 1520 camera can capture raw DNG images
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The newly announced Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a very ambitious 20-megapixel PureView camera with optical image stabilization…
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4. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Wow this is great news...
6. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Certainly is (great news). If the camera function (software + hardware) steps up to its promise, Nokia could have a niche with shutterbugs. Now, they just have to lose the stupid carrier exclusive distribution model in the U.S.
7. GeekMovement (unregistered)
that's amazing, but the file sizes of those raw images looks to be huge for the phone's storage capacity.
12. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
and that's why you have an sd card slot of up to 64gb.
14. kabhijeet.16 (Posts: 813; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
This time NOkia has learnt a lesson.. A 20MP cameraphone (with microSD) is more appealing than a 41MP (without microSD).+ it has better screen & DNG format which can take advantage of extra storage option. The design is awesome. Everything about Nokia's new line is aewsome. Nokia is a winner here.
But.. Theres a big "But".. Now since MS has taken over Nokia, how long can Nokia keep producing these devices which are a direct competition to MS's tablets & (soon to arrive) phones with same OS.
--An Android user (for those who think we Troll against others)
17. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
microsoft will be taking 30,000 of nokia's employee's to continue the lumia line. honestly, i dont see it changing. i think it will continue to evolve with microsoft having alot more money for R&D.
8. mottykels (Posts: 387; Member since: 15 May 2013)
thats nokia :)
9. mottykels (Posts: 387; Member since: 15 May 2013)
thats nokia :)
10. irfanil (Posts: 32; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
Wow... I've been waiting for this since N900.
11. sergiobr (Posts: 713; Member since: 25 Feb 2013)
Waiting for something like this in Android phones :-( ,but expecting 60fps video on Nokia phones, the final step.
13. chandancherry (Posts: 32; Member since: 25 Jun 2013)
Another new Exclusive Nokia and WP feature.
Gonna make the photogarphy section even more rich.
15. Miracles (Posts: 560; Member since: 31 Aug 2013)
Phonearena deleted my first comment? I'm sure I commented here, but I guess they took it personally. It wasn't even using vulgar language. Wateves.
16. luigi0824 (Posts: 49; Member since: 06 Aug 2013)
Samsung will copy this for sure
18. Neutral (Posts: 30; Member since: 19 Oct 2013)
I don't see copying as a sin or something, plus samsung improve it, I think its good for the consumers too


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