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My sister Jeanette makes a great chicken taco recipe that her brood of hoodlums can down in a minute. (just joking- she has all boys B'H' and when they come over all h— breaks loose!-Jeanette- I really do love your kids with all my heart!).
When I invited her to my Purim party I silently panicked. You know that inner fear you get when you are not sure if you are cooking enough food? So, when she offered to bring a dish, I felt relief. I just told her to bring something that all of her kids will love. And she did!
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- Ok: heat an 8inch skillet wth a teaspoon of oil.
- Add 1 pound of organic chicken chop meat continuously breaking with a fork, until no longer pink.
- add 1/2 cup water and the seasoning packet that comes in the Ortega box.
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Our District Governor, Jim Squire, is a person of action guided by our motto of Service Above Self, as evidenced by his many years of service to his community, his profession and Rotary.
His Rotary service includes the 2017 International Convention Executive Committee, District Youth Services Chair and Assistant Governor, where he won the District AG of the Year Follow Me award. He has served on the Rotary Laws of Life Board, volunteered at several District Conferences and graduated from the Rotary Leadership Institute.
When Jim was President of the Sandy Springs Club they won the Category II Best Club award and he earned the Sheffield Leadership Award, our District's highest leadership award. He has been club Rotarian of the Year, earned two Service Above Self Awards, and proudly sponsored twelve new Rotary Club members.
Jim also contributes generously: he is a Major Donor, Paul Harris Society member and Bequest Society member with the Rotary Foundation and a Will Watt Fellow with the Georgia Rotary Student Program.
Professionally, Jim owns Franchise Marketing Advisors, a franchise consulting practice. A Certified Franchise Executive, Jim has enjoyed a long career in franchising with many notable brands. Believing that franchising can open the door for anyone to the great American dream, Jim promotes franchising through his service with the International Franchise Association's (IFA), the Southeast Franchise Forum, and the Georgia State Franchise Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Georgia Restaurant Association and a member of Georgia State University's School of Hospitality Industry Advisory Board. He is past chairman of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food, and an award-winning past president of the restaurant division of the Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association.
A native of Savannah, Jim is also active in the community. He is past chairman of the Housing Authority of Fulton County and the Private Industry Council of Atlanta. In Sandy Springs, he has served on several boards and commissions, including the Sandy Springs Charter Commission. He is a graduate of the Citizen's Police Academy, a member of American Legion Post 201 and served as an officer in the Georgia National Guard.
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One potential outlet for the fast-reacting Vitrox polyurethane resins is cure-in-place pipe (CIPP) repair, where the material offers a longer handling window, faster curing, as well as superior resistance to high temperatures, compared to existing technologies.
Other nominees for the 2012 CPI Innovation Award were Boral Composites for a new exterior building material with a high recycled content, and Reverdia for its bio-succinic acid made by a yeast fermentation process.
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I'm always on the lookout for grilled salmon recipes, and when I came across this sauteed salmon recipe idea from my friends over at kosher.com and Joy of Kosher, I was inspired to put in on my before- the-fast menu .
Health benefits of wild salmon:
- speeds up your metabolism. This facilitates your sugar absorption rate and can lower your blood sugar level. Which in turn lowers your risk of developing diabetes.
- For shiny hair, bright eyes and healthy skin, salmon consumption can do provide that as well.
- Four ounces of wild salmon gives you a full day's required amount of Vitamin D. That same amount of salmon also gives you more than half of the B12, niacin and selenium that you need daily. That four ounce serving of salmon gives you almost thirty grams of protein. That's more than half of the Food and Drug Administration's recommended daily amount.
- salmon is a natural anti-depressant
- Warning: FDA and EPA have issued a recommendation that pregnant women and young children eat no more than two servings, or 12 ounces, of salmon and other low-mercury fish each week.
- Read about mercury in farm raised salmon as opposed to wild salmon HERE
Health benefits of baby spinach:
- A cup of spinach contains a little under 7 calories, almost a gram of fiber, and high levels of vitamins A and C.
- Spinach has tons of anti-cancer benefits. It has four times the beta carotene of broccoli. Spinach is also an excellent source of folate – an ounce contains nearly 25% of our daily requirement.
- Spinach protects against age-related macular degeneration, a serious eye disease affecting older people.
- Spinach contains folate which has cardiovascular benefits and promotes a healthy pregnancy.
- Note: Spinach is among the 12 foods on which high levels of pesticide residues have been highly detected. Please consider buying and eating only organically grown spinach.
Wild Salmon Chunks Served on a Bed of Baby Spinach:
- 2 tablespoons: olive oil
- 1 1/2 pounds:salmon fillet, skinned and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded, veins removed, diced
- 1/2 green, yellow or orange bell pepper, seeded, veins removed, diced
- 1/2 cup:golden raisins
- 1/4 cup:pine nuts
- 1/2 teaspoon:salt
- 1 (10-ounce) package:baby spinach
- 1/2 cup of your favorite homemade vinaigrette.
- In a 12-inch skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add salmon, peppers, raisins, pine nuts and salt.
- Sauté for 7-8 minutes, until salmon is opaque and peppers are tender.
- Place baby spinach in a salad bowl and spoon warm salmon mixture over spinach.
- Drizzle balsamic dressing over the salad and serve warm or at room temperature.
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Mahmoud Talebi said, "In a number of operations a monafegh group that carried out activities against the government was arrested in Qom"."These people were carrying out activities against the Islamic Revolution and government and intended to subvert the revolution and velayate faqih (leadership)".


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IMF Survey Vol.34, No.21 November 2005
- What's on
- At a glance: IMF financial data
- In the news: Interview with Stefan Ingves IMF needs to give financial sector work a higher priority
- In the news: Syrian economy needs faster, deeper reforms to offset oil depletion
- In the news: Bold policy change needed to brighten Zimbabwe's economic prospects
- In the news: To sustain growth, Mongolia needs to improve environment for private sector
- In the news: Russia's robust growth presents opportunity to propel reforms
- Policy: Revisiting the standards and codes initiative
- Research: Corporate bond markets: Growing pains and knowledge gains
- Country focus: Interview with Daniel Citrin With deflation being defeated, Japan turns to longer-term challenges
- IMF lending: HIPC debt relief
- Outreach Debt and trade dominate legislators' conference
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Here's an odd video from NYPost.com of Giants' linebacker Antonio Pierce getting handsy with a woman at a strip joint. Does this grainy surveillance video reveal anything groundbreaking about the Plaxico story? Not at all. But it does reveal that Antonio's a fan of the ol' public motorboat.


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The Don Dunstan Foundation has a proud history of engaging with homelessness issues. We think that, in 2019, Adelaide shouldn't be seeking just to respond to street homelessness but to end it, as other cities across the globe are doing through the Functional Zero approach.
The latest data on the Adelaide Zero Project Dashboard estimates there are over one-hundred people sleeping rough in the city on any given night, which is something the Don Dunstan Foundation is keen to address.
There are now over 40 partners in the Adelaide Zero Project, whose goal it is to end street homelessness in the inner city and ultimately end homelessness in South Australia.


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It's not every day that middle school students grow radishes from seeds that have flown in space.
And it's an especially rare opportunity for the students who have been doing it through the USU STARS! GEAR UP program, housed in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education at Utah State University. The program aims to inspire teens to prepare themselves for higher education.
All of the partnering schools involved in the USU STARS! GEAR UP program have at least 50 percent of their students enrolled in free and reduced lunch.
"This project has opened up opportunities that have not really been there before," said Mike Barlow, an eighth grade science teacher at Gunnison Valley Middle School. "We're a small rural school."
His students were involved in the Bion M-1 Seed Germination and Plant Growth Program's pilot phase in the fall of 2013. He was interviewed in October. His students are involved in the February 2014 planting as well.
The partnership between USU STARS! GEAR UP, the Space Dynamics Laboratory at USU and schools from three countries makes it possible for middle school students to plant seeds, chart growth under very controlled conditions, collect data and share it with other student researchers from faraway places.
Their mission: discover if there is a difference in how radish seeds grow after they have been exposed to space radiation. They are comparing the growth of seeds that were flown on the Russian BION M1 mission to seeds that never left Earth's atmosphere.
The radishes are grown in a special chamber designed for the student experiments, complete with the same artificial light and soil profile. Students build their own chamber (in the shape of a rocket).
These experiments continue a tradition that began in 1992, when USU researchers worked with partners in Russia to experiment with growing crops in microgravity aboard the MIR space station. The research has evolved (it now happens aboard the International Space Station), but the goal to better understand how to successfully grow plants in space has continued.
Now, students from seven schools in the USU STARS! GEAR UP program will continue performing their own research, collecting data and collaborating with other student researchers.
In future years they can change variables in the experiment, like the light spectrum used to grow the plants. The day may come that their work on the ground may influence ongoing experiments in space, said Eric Packenham, who leads the USU STARS! GEAR UP project.
Along with the hard science experience, the students will also practice the soft skills of working with fellow researchers from other cultures through Skype.
"We're bringing in Hawaii, Japan and Russia," said Gayle Bowen, education outreach administrator from the USU Space Dynamics Lab. "The GEAR UP students will have the opportunity to gain an appreciation of other cultures and communication styles. It will help them understand what it takes to be part of a global workforce."
The project is also designed to give the students a chance to apply math and art skills as they build their own growth chamber.
Most of the students at Gunnison Middle School don't have the chance to go to science camps and conferences that would expose them to this level of research, Barlow said.
So how do space radishes taste?
"Taste was not one of the parameters we were asked to look at," Barlow said.
The radishes were discarded at the end of the pilot experiment.
The Bion project will continue through the end of March.
Partners include the USU Space Dynamics Lab, the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, USU STARS! GEAR UP, the USU Center for Civic Engagement and Service Learning and the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium.
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Recently, Mark Bittman featured a great article featuring 101 Fast Grilling Recipes.
We've edited out the un-kosher ingredients and pared it down to the top 22 summer grilling ideas for all of our kosher cooks!
Which ones are your favorites? Comment below and let us all know!
1. A winter dish, summer style: Brush thick slices of fennel bulbs with olive oil and grill over not-too-high heat. Cut oranges in half and grill, cut-side down. Put fennel on a bed of arugula or watercress, squeeze grilled oranges over top. Garnish with fennel fronds.
2. Best grilled artichokes: Cut artichokes in half, scoop out the choke, parboil until tender. Grill, cut-side down, until lightly browned; grill a couple of halved lemons, too. Combine the juice from the grilled lemons with melted butter, or margarine, or Earth Balance, and spoon over the artichokes. Finish with parsley.
3. Tahini tofu steaks. Thin tahini with lots of lemon juice and some minced garlic. Cut a brick of firm tofu into four slabs and brush with sesame oil. Grill over a moderate fire, turning a few times, until marked and crisp outside and custardy inside. On the last turn, baste with the tahini sauce. Serve on thick tomato slices with a drizzle of soy sauce and chopped basil, Thai if possible.
4. Spice-rubbed carrots: Roll peeled carrots in cumin, salt, pepper and brown sugar. Char, then move them away from direct heat and cover the grill until carrots are tender.
5. Grill bread; grind in a food processor to make coarse bread crumbs. (You can add garlic and/or parsley and/or Parmesan, or not.) Grill asparagus until tender. Top with bread crumbs and olive oil.
6. Brush slices of beet with olive oil and grill slowly until tender and lightly browned. Top each slice with a little goatcheese and some salad greens.
7. For perfectly ripe tomatoes only: Grill tomatoes, any size, until hot and lightly charred but not bursting. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and serve with fresh mozzarella (or, even better, burrata) and grilled bread.
8. Halve and grill radicchio (or Belgian endives); drizzle cut sides with honey or plain vinaigrette, pesto or parsley pesto. Or just brush with oil .
9. Grilled guacamole: Halve and pit avocados; lightly char them, then scoop out the flesh. Grill halved red onion, too. Chop, combine, add tomatoes, lime, garlic and spices if you like
10. Root vegetable of your choice: Slice celeriac — or jicama, big potatoes, daikon or yams — and grill slowly, until very tender and browned. Drizzle with olive oil or melted butter and sprinkle with chopped rosemary or sage and olive oil.
11. Choose another root. Slice it, but this time char lightly and leave it crunchy. Chop and toss with chopped cilantro, a pinch of cayenne and juice of grilled lime.
12. Rub thick zucchini slices with a mixture of fresh or dried dill, yogurt, olive oil and lemon. (Or use pesto or parsley pesto.) Grill slowly.
13. More shopping than cooking: Grill an array of radishes on little skewers, four to six each. Serve with butter, salt and bread.
14. Halve Belgian endives. Brush with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and grill over moderate-to-low heat, turning once or twice, until soft and browned. Finish cut-side up and sprinkle with grated Parmesan; close the grill to melt cheese.
15. Lightly char whole or halved heads of baby bok choy; drizzle with soy sauce and top with chopped scallions.
16. Peel and thickly slice a not overly ripe mango. Brush very lightly with neutral oil and grill just until softened; sprinkle with cilantro and/or mint and lime juice (you might as well grill the lime first, too).
17. Grill pineapple (or anything, really, from tofu to eggplant). Make a sauce of half-cup peanut butter, a tablespoon (or more) soy sauce, a dash (or more) sriracha chili sauce, a handful of basil or mint and enough warm water to thin. (I'm tempted to say, "Throw away the pineapple and eat the sauce," but the combination is sensational.)
18. An idea whose time has come: Halve and grill peaches, nectarines or apricots. Brush with barbecue sauce or, if you want to be sophisticated, a mixture of bourbon, sugar and mint, or simple syrup laced with basil.
19. An idea whose time will come in September: Halve and grill pears or apples. When they're done, drizzle with yogurt, honey and a pinch of cardamom.
20. Grilled fruit salad, and why not? Toss grilled watermelon (really good), peaches, plums, pineapple and kiwi with honey, a little salt, lemon juice and tarragon (not much), chervil, basil or mint (or a combo).
21. Cut grapefruit in half. Sprinkle with brown sugar; grill, cut-side down. You might top this with chopped pistachios or a little honey.
22. Grilled poundcake (store-bought is totally fine) topped with grilled fruit sauce, strawberries in sugar, yogurt, ice cream, whatever.
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May has been very helpful in explaining the psychology, physiology, and spiritual nature of our addictions. It's a compassionate, thoughtful, and hope-filled treatment of an issue we all battle.
Here is a beginning list (and it is only a beginning!) of books we have found inspiring or helpful—or both, which is even better! We're currently putting together a more complete list, organized (can you believe it?) by topic. This really isn't fair—there are so many great authors and so many great books. By listing these we run the risk of offending others or implying these are, somehow, better. Nope. We just took a quick look across our shelves and thought, "What would I want my friends to read?" That's all.
May has been very helpful in explaining the psychology, physiology, and spiritual nature of our addictions. It's a compassionate, thoughtful, and hope-filled treatment of an issue we all battle.
The ultimate expression of our maturity is in how we relate to others, particularly those we find difficult to love. This book is pretty disruptive in challenging how we relate to the wide assortment of characters that fill our lives.
Buechner is a novelist who's written some gems on the spiritual life. This little book explores our lives and the story of God in a beautiful, compassionate way, using everything from King Lear to The Wizard of Oz. One of our favorites! (So—is it tragedy, comedy, or fairy tale? If we told you ahead of time it would ruin the story.)
Lewis was perhaps one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This is his famous classic on the basic ideas of Christianity without all that goofy church stuff (thus the "mere" Christianity). A brilliant book.
Another brilliant writer and profound thinker, Chesterton understands the Story quite well. Clever, witty, deeply moving. One of our favorite lines of his is, "Poets do not go mad, but chess players do." In other words, a purely analytical approach to life will leave you desperate, while a poetic or heart-filled approach can bring you the answers you seek.
Lewis' fairy tale series has become a classic allegory for the Christian life. It is both charming and insightful, rich and profound. Somehow, the truths of the Bible seem more accessible through these stories. A must-read, sometime in your life.
Written while in prison for taking a stand for religious liberty, Bunyan's story of one man's mythic journey to find immortal life has become a classic. There's a reason this little allegory has remained a favorite since its publication in 1678. Despite the hundreds of years between us, it speaks deeply to our own journeys with many needed warnings and encouragements.
This book is for the much more philosophically-oriented reader who is wrestling with questions about God's existence and how he communicates to man.
Speaking of unconventional, Lamott is a brutally honest and compassionate writer who describes her "reluctant" journey to faith in Jesus Christ. No religion here, just a true account of a soul being found by God. Sometimes very edgy, but that's why we like it.
Remember, there is a great difference between knowing about God and truly knowing God. A lot of books and speakers out there talk about God. Tozer knew him well, and this is our favorite book by him. A short but penetrating read. Okay, it's life changing.
A Scottish poet and pastor from the 19th century, MacDonald was a man who knew God more intimately than just about anybody we've ever read. This is a beautiful and deeply inspiring book. We read it every year.
Dan is a very wise and insightful counselor who has spent his life helping people understand their story and find one worth living in. We think this is his best book yet.
A delightful fable of one boy's journey to find his "personal legend." Part Christian, part Muslim, the story shimmers with truths about what it's like to take this journey in search of your role in the Story.
This little classic from the 1400s is a timeless look at the inner life of the friend of God. Maybe a bit severe at times; still, A' Kempis understands the life of the heart given over to God. A great book.
A simple book on the power of solitude and silence and prayer—the gifts of "the desert fathers" to us—and how they help heal our hearts.
An amazing collection of thoughts (notes for a book he did not finish before he died) on the spiritual life and the heart of mankind. Really profound, it shaped The Journey of Desire. Try and find the edition by Fount Classics.
One of the best books we've read on, well, just what it says: learning to hear God. He's still speaking to his people, by the way. And it's so good to hear from him.
The best book we've found on the grieving process. Raw and honest, but without the anger of A Grief Observed.
Okay—we had to mention it. We use the films in nearly every conference, but the books are way better. A mythic look into your life, why it is the way it is, and how you must live.
A book that shook our world when it first came out—a fabulous look into your own inner world and the inner world of others.
Not only because it's a fascinating moment in Christian history (and the history of the world) but because we think it's a remarkable parallel to our own times: a collapsing culture, a dead church, and suddenly, the resurgence of the Gospel of the heart through a passionate and warrior-like people.


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Don Henley - The Heart of the Matter:
Joe Stiglitz certainly gets it, he's now getting to the heart of the matter:
Stiglitz Says White House Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue
By Michael McKee and Matthew Benjamin [Nate's comments]
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration's bank- rescue efforts will probably fail because the programs have been designed to help Wall Street rather than create a viable financial system, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.
"All the ingredients they have so far are weak, and there are several missing ingredients," Stiglitz said in an interview yesterday. The people who designed the plans are "either in the pocket of the banks or they're incompetent." [BRAVO!!]
The Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, isn't large enough to recapitalize the banking system, and the administration hasn't been direct in addressing that shortfall, he said. Stiglitz said there are conflicts of interest at the White House because some of Obama's advisers have close ties to Wall Street.
"We don't have enough money, they don't want to go back to Congress, and they don't want to do it in an open way and they don't want to get control" of the banks, a set of constraints that will guarantee failure, Stiglitz said.
The return to taxpayers from the TARP is as low as 25 cents on the dollar, he said. "The bank restructuring has been an absolute mess."
Rather than continually buying small stakes in banks, weaker banks should be put through a receivership where the shareholders of the banks are wiped out and the bondholders become the shareholders, using taxpayer money to keep the institutions functioning, he said. [That process is called BANKRUPTCY, HELLO?]
Nobel Prize
Stiglitz, 66, won the Nobel in 2001 for showing that markets are inefficient when all parties in a transaction don't have equal access to critical information, which is most of the time. His work is cited in more economic papers than that of any of his peers, according to a February ranking by Research Papers in Economics, an international database.
The Public-Private Investment Program, PPIP, designed to buy bad assets from banks, "is a really bad program," Stiglitz said. It won't accomplish the administration's goal of establishing a price for illiquid assets clogging banks' balance sheets, and instead will enrich investors while sticking taxpayers with huge losses.
"You're really bailing out the shareholders and the bondholders," he said. "Some of the people likely to be involved in this, like Pimco, are big bondholders," he said, [Uh, Huh!] referring to Pacific Investment Management Co., a bond investment firm in Newport Beach, California.
Bigger Losses
Stiglitz said taxpayer losses are likely to be much larger than bank profits from the PPIP program even though Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair has said the agency expects no losses.
"The statement from Sheila Bair that there's no risk is absurd," he said, because losses from the PPIP will be borne by the FDIC, which is funded by member banks. [Exactly, except there's no money, it's already been spent!]
"We're going to be asking all the banks, including presumably some healthy banks, to pay for the losses of the bad banks," Stiglitz said. "It's a real redistribution and a tax on all American savers."
Stiglitz was also concerned about the links between White House advisers and Wall Street. Hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. paid National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, a managing director of the firm, more than $5 million in salary and other compensation in the 16 months before he joined the administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
'Revolving Door'
"America has had a revolving door. People go from Wall Street to Treasury and back to Wall Street," he said. "Even if there is no quid pro quo, that is not the issue. The issue is the mindset."
Stiglitz was head of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton before serving from 1997 to 2000 as chief economist at the World Bank. He resigned from that post in 2000 after repeatedly clashing with the White House over economic policies it supported at the International Monetary Fund. He is now a professor at Columbia University.
Stiglitz was also critical of Obama's other economic rescue programs.
He called the $787 billion stimulus program necessary but "flawed" because too much spending comes after 2009, and because it devotes too much of the money to tax cuts "which aren't likely to work very effectively."
"It's really a peculiar policy, I think," he said.
Plan Deficient
The $75 billion mortgage relief program, meanwhile, doesn't do enough to help Americans who can't afford to make their monthly payments, he said. It doesn't reduce principal, doesn't make changes in bankruptcy law that would help people work out debts, and doesn't change the incentive to simply stop making payments once a mortgage is greater than the value of a house.
Stiglitz said the Fed, while it's done almost all it can to bring the country back from the worst recession since 1982, can't revive the economy on its own.
Relying on low interest rates to help put a floor under housing prices is a variation on the policies that created the housing bubble in the first place, Stiglitz said.
"This is a strategy trying to recreate that bubble," he said. "That's not likely to provide a long run solution. It's a solution that says let's kick the can down the road a little bit."
While the strategy might put a floor under housing prices, it won't do anything to speed the recovery, he said. "It's a recipe for Japanese-style malaise."
This entire article is good, one of the few where someone is hitting the nail on the head. My personal belief is that "Japanese-style malaise" is the very best case outcome.
The media and a few economists are FINALLY beginning to get to the heart of the matter. The roots. If I could boil my position on the economic mess into two themes, or meme's, they would be that THE MATH DOES NOT WORK (Death by Numbers; When the Math No Longer Works...), and that CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY NEED TO BE SEPARATED FROM THE STATE (especially central bankers; Huh? Interest Bearing Fractional Reserve Money by Fiat… Doh!; The Dawn's Early Light… Calling all PEOPLE to get us through the night!).
Another person who really gets it and is in a position to know is William Black. Man, does he tell it EXACTLY LIKE IT IS! BRAVO, Mr. Black, you are one of the people who need to be running the show to restore REAL AND LASTING confidence in our financial system. Listen to his interview yesterday on Bloomberg by clicking on this link - William Black on Bloomberg.
And Mr. Black's been busy, creating his own meme which I think is important enough to show you a couple of different ways:
Geithner's Stress Test "A Complete Sham," Former Federal Bank Regulator Says:
"Stress tests Total Sham" William K. Black on Fox Business:
And if that isn't enough, here's the interview he did with Bill Moyer - William Black on Bill Moyer's Journal.
So, while we're listening to truth tellers and people who get it, here's what Martin Weiss just sent out via email regarding the "Stress Test" and health of our banks (Weiss's firm monitors and reports on the health of the individual banks):
What Washington DOES NOT want you to know
about the true condition of America's banks
Dear NATHAN,
At this very moment, more than 200 federal regulators are examining our 19 largest banks — supposedly, if you believe Washington, to determine which are strong and which are at risk for failure.
They're reportedly asking, "Will this bank survive if the U.S. economy shrinks 2% in 2009?"
But in the first quarter, the U.S. economy contracted two and one-half times more than that — at an annual rate of 5%!
They're asking "Will this bank fail if unemployment rises to 8.4% in 2009?"
But unemployment is already higher than that — at 8.5% and more than 600,000 more jobs are being lost each and every week!
Even the regulators' "worst case scenario" of a 3.3% economic contraction and 8.9% unemployment is a joke:
Not only is the economy already shrinking much faster than 3.3% ... the Obama administration itself has warned that unemployment will be much higher than 8.9% this year!
Nevertheless, on May 4, our leaders will — with great fanfare, I am sure — release the results of this jury-rigged stress test. And you can be assured that it will likely say that, given these mindlessly optimistic criteria, many of our 19 largest banks are "safe."
These phony stress tests might be laughable if only the truth behind them wasn't so terrifying:Our own government is clearly cooking the books— using these false criteria to deceive you; hoping you'll trust banks that are clearly hanging by a thread.
Worse — they're so busy concocting this smoke-and-mirrors stress test that nobody's asking what will happen... how will we cope... how will families survive when...>> The still-accelerating surge in home mortgage defaults hammers banks in the weeks ahead...
>> The new explosion in the number of defaults on jumbo loans made to prime borrowers hits the headlines as lay-offs continue to intensify, and when...
>> Large chunks of the entire commercial real estate sector go the way of GGP — the nation's second largest shopping mall operator that declared bankruptcy yesterday.
Nobody in Washington seems to have the time to ask what will happen if and when...
Our cities are unable to provide police, fire and other essential emergency services when the credit markets shut down...
Our hospitals are forced to close their doors due to disruptions in insurance payments...
Our supermarket shelves are emptied because trucking companies can't get short-term loans to stay in business...
Our utilities — the companies that deliver crucial electricity, gas and water to our homes — are crippled as the crisis kills the revenues they count on from corporations, and when ...
Our soaring deficits drive interest rates sky-high and gut the dollar, driving our cost of living through the roof.
QUESTION:WHY isn't Washington asking
these all-important stress-test questions?
ANSWER:Because they already know what will happen
- and it has them TERRIFIED!
This is why I've warned you that, in the next phase of this crisis, literally hundreds of banks and other lenders will be pushed to the brink — and OVER the brink — demanding hundreds of billions of dollars; perhaps even trillions in new bailouts.
This is why I've repeatedly warned you that the recent stock market rally was nothing more than a dead cat bounce — a bear market trap — and urged you to use it to dump stocks before it's too late.
These three gentlemen know what they are talking about and are truth tellers. Who else has been telling you the truth only earlier? Yours truly! Here's a link to my first article on the "Stress Test." Note the date (February 25th – nearly two months ago) and please read the content, here are the first two paragraphs:
Sorry to pop everyone's HOPE bubble, but a stress test designed by the bankers for the bankers is nothing more than a continuation of keeping hopes high while playing hide the sausage. Who sets the parameters of the "stress test?" Who determines pass or fail? Will they use it to say everything's okay, or will they use it to ask for more money claiming that the system can't allow failure?Truth tellers…
You want a stress test? How's this… force the banks to mark all their assets to market and completely open their books to ME, the taxpayer who is giving them money! That way I can determine if they are simply covering up more debt and derivatives that they do not have the real capital to cover. I, however, don't really need to see their books, and neither do you… we KNOW they stink to high heaven or the books would have been opened a long time ago.
Want to get to the heart of the matter? There it is. The math does not work and we must separate corporations and their money from our political system!
It's Just Time...
This is the end of pretending to be innocent:
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence:


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Equity futures are higher this morning, below is a snapshot of the DOW futures on the left and S&P futures on the right showing the overnight action. There is a potential rising wedge outlined, but being that it developed in after hours, it may not be a valid formation:
There was a small change in the McClellan Oscillator yesterday so I do expect a large move to be likely today.
Yesterday's action produced what appeared to be a topping candle in the U.S. Dollar and a potential bottom candle in the euro, and indeed, you can see that the dollar is lower, euro higher this morning:
Note that neither are back inside of their channel. If the Euro reenters, I would be more short term bullish on the Euro and therefore more short term bullish on equities. I think the negative sentiment on the Euro got pretty high and I think it may need a period of consolidation before the decline resumes. Don't forget that the move yesterday pierced overhead resistance and triggered a huge 112 bullish target for the dollar.
It could be a short period of consolodation, however, as it is possible to count the prior down move in equities as wave 1 of 3 down, this would be potentially a wave 2 bounce with 3 of 3 to follow. If that's occurring then the bounce should not go too much higher and we should get a very large decline in the next few days. There are alternative counts, so it will be important to track over the next couple of days.
Bonds are higher this morning, that's not the direction you would expect for a significant bounce in equities. Oil is higher this morning, if you're looking at the /QM futures, the front month contract rolled over, so the bounce is not nearly as high as depicted on that chart. Gold is continuing its correction this morning but is still above the $1,200 mark.
The headline on the mainstream media says, "New Home Sales Spike 41%!" LOL, yes, year over year from last year's disaster. Month over month new home sales rose 5.8%, up to 672,000, with 650k expected, 626k the prior. It is near peak season, and not in the headlines is the fact that permits plunged from 685k to 606k, a drop of 11.5% in the month, double the increase in sales over the same month!
And the bottom line is that inventory is NOT what the housing market needs. Here's Econoday's spin:
The recent spike in home sales has boosted new construction, but according to permits, homebuilders are still cautious about a likely dip in sales now that special tax credits for homebuyers expired in April. Housing starts in April advanced 5.8 percent, following a 5.0 percent gain in March. The April annualized pace of 0.672 million units topped analysts' forecast for 0.650 million units and was up 40.9 percent on a year-ago basis. April's gain was led by a 10.2 percent increase in single-family starts, following a 2.1 percent rise in March. The multifamily component fell 18.6 percent after a 24.4 percent surge the month before.
By region, the April gain in starts was led by a 23.9 percent boost in the Northeast with increases also seen in the Midwest, up 16.7, and the South, up 7.0 percent. The West declined 13.3 percent.
Given the expiration of special tax credits in April, homebuilders are not rushing to the courthouse to pay for new building permits and are actually dialing back a bit. Housing permits declined 11.5 percent, following a 5.4 percent boost in March. The April pace of 0.606 million units annualized was up 15.9 percent on a year-ago basis.
Overall, the April starts report shows homebuilders benefitting from recently robust home sales but being rationally cautious about future strength. Nonetheless, housing appears to be slightly better than believed ahead of the report. Markets were little changed on the news but futures were up on mostly favorable company news.
The PPI fell .1% in April. Year over year it is up 5.4%, but that is down from March's 6.1% increase.
Headline inflation came in better than expected but higher auto prices boosted the core rate. Overall PPI inflation eased to down 0.1 percent in April from a 0.7 percent spike in March. The April number came in below the consensus forecast for a 0.1 percent rise. Declines in both food and energy helped pull the headline figure down. At the core level, the PPI came in with a 0.2 percent increase, following a 0.1 percent uptick in March. Analysts had expected a 0.1 percent bump in core prices. The key factor behind the boost in the core was cuts in discounts by auto dealers.
The dip in the headline PPI was led by a 0.8 percent decline in energy costs, following a 0.7 percent increase in March. Gasoline dropped 2.7 percent in the latest period after gaining 2.1 percent the month before. As expected, food prices slipped 0.2 percent on lower prices for fruits and vegetables as the impact of severe winter weather fades. Egg prices also fell significantly.
At the core level, the boost was led by a 0.6 percent jump in passenger car prices after declining 1.1 percent in March.
For the overall PPI, the year-on-year rate decreased to 5.4 percent from 6.1 percent in March (seasonally adjusted). The core rate firmed to 1.0 percent from 0.8 percent the month before. On a not seasonally adjusted basis for April, the year-ago increase for the headline PPI was up 5.5 percent while the core was up 1.0 percent.
Markets had little reaction to the PPI report. Generally, the core topping expectations would get market attention but worries over sovereign debt in certain European countries, related austerity measures, and declines in commodity prices has markets more worried about potential deflation than blips in the core from off and on discounts on autos. However, equity futures are up largely on mostly favorable company news.
With oil down sharply in the past month, look for the May report to be substantially lower.
In what I would normally consider to be a contrary indicator, I was shocked to read a Fortune article on CNN news this morning that went like this:
2010's coming stock market crash: 1987 all over again
(Fortune) -- In two tumultuous weeks in October 1987, the stock market shed nearly one-third of its value in perhaps the second most notorious crash in U.S. history. It could happen again. Don't be deceived by the rebounding economy, any more than the bulls should have been misled by the balmy climate during the late Reagan years. Right now, stocks are extremely vulnerable to the same scenario. The reason: The market is even more overpriced than when thunder struck on that distant Black Monday.
That doesn't mean that a giant correction is inevitable; far from it. But the quasi-bubble that followed the big selloff in late 2008 and early 2009 makes the probability of sudden downward swing far more likely. And today's high prices make it practically certain that investors can, at best, expect extremely low returns in the years ahead.
Let's gauge where the market stood just before the shock of October '87. For this analysis, we'll use the price-to-earnings multiples developed by Yale economist Robert Shiller, who smoothes the erratic swings in profits by calculating PEs based on a 10-year average S&P earnings, adjusted for inflation.
In the fall of 1987, stocks were on a tear. The Shiller PE had doubled to 18.3 in just four-and-a-half years. That's far above the historical average of less than 14 (though pales in comparison to recent giant PE numbers). The dividend yield was also an extremely narrow 2.6%, well below the norm of around 4.5%. That's important to remember, because over long periods, dividends are by far the biggest source of investor returns from equities. Then the bottom fell out of the stock market.
When the carnage ended, the PE had dropped to 13.3, around its 60-year average, and the dividend yield was approaching 4%. In other words, the fall hardly made stocks a bargain. But with brutal speed and efficiency, it chopped valuations to levels that made sense.
The slow crash of 2008-2009: a temporary return to sanity
From early 2008 until March of 2009, stocks suffered a steep decline that echoed the 1987 correction, though over many months versus a few days. During that period, PEs fell from the low 20s to 13.3, precisely their level following the '87 crash. Once again, dividend yields approached 4%. For a few brief weeks, it appeared that sanity had returned to the capital markets. Suddenly, equities--overpriced for 20 years-- looked like a good buy, just as they had in at the close of 1987.
But the rational interlude didn't last. By early May of this year, the PE had soared back to almost 22, shrinking the dividend yield to 1.8%. In recent days, stocks have dropped over 7% amid giant gyrations. That decline isn't nearly enough to restore equities to anything like their fair value. So what do the current, extremely price PEs tell us about the future of stock prices?
The best bet is always that equity values, like most investments, "revert to the mean." So following a bubble or bubblette, PEs and dividend yield will inevitably fall back to their historic averages. The big question is how long it will take. In 1987, it took a few days. In the 1990s and early 2000s, stocks remained overpriced for years.
The problem is that the returns investors can garner at today's lofty valuations are just too low. They're also too low to last. If PEs stay constant, the total return to investors is the dividend yield plus the growth in earnings per share, with an added bump for inflation.
Today, the yield is 1.8%. Earnings per share typically grow at a "real" rate of around 1.5%, way below the pace that Wall Street advertises. So the total gain from investing at today's prices is 3.3% or so, plus around 2.5% for inflation, for a total of between 5.5% and 6%.
That's not enough. Stocks are far too risky for investors to accept those puny rewards, as the wild swings of the last two years, and last two weeks, make abundantly obvious. The only way for future returns to rise is for PEs to fall.
How far must prices fall to get back to basics? For the S&P to return to a PE of around 14, the index would need to drop by around 33% to less than 800, its range in early 2009. That would substantially raise dividend yields, and raise future real returns into the high single digits, where they belong.
The drop is going to happen. Here's how:
Here's how I see the odds. The chances are about one in three that we suffer a huge, wrenching correction in the next year or two similar to the one in 1987. That possibility is so high because stocks are so startlingly expensive. Another high probability event is that markets go on a long sideways grind, with smaller drops along the way. What's extremely unlikely is that the market rises substantially from current levels and stays there for any extended period.
Whatever happens in the next couple of years, the odds are overwhelming that investors who buy stocks today will reap puny returns for 10 years. For example, if you'd purchased shares at today's PE of 22 in early 2003, you would have gotten a return of around 3% a year, barely enough to compensate for inflation, let alone buy the blood pressure medication you'd need to survive the scary ride of stock ownership.
Now let's look out a decade or two. The evidence is extremely strong that price matters, and matters a lot: except in rare cases, buying stocks when they are pricey -- when the Shiller PE exceeds 20 -- leads to puny returns ten years later.
Not that you'd ever know that from the happy talk from Wall Street. So screen the noise out, and follow the numbers. They'll eventually get better for investors. But to get back there, we may revisit October of 1987.
Wow, I'm very surprised they put that into print. Making crash calls is almost never a smart call, nor is betting on one, at least with money you cannot afford to lose. The valuation point of the article, however, is correct and the markets are certainly overvalued, not that I am a fan of Schiller's smoothing technique. And reading mainstream articles about crashes tells me that there may be too much fear for a crash to occur now – although with a potential wave 3 of 3 looming (one count possibility), it's not out of the question either.
Here's an interesting update and photo of the oil spill. This photo comes from Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog, an interesting article discussing this satellite photo showing the subsurface movement of the oil spill:
The oil beneath the surface is being pulled southeast and is being picked up by the "loop current." A good thing or a bad thing? I guess we'll find out over time, it's certainly a crying shame no matter where that oil eventually lands.
That's not the only crying shame as this morning we needlessly lost another 5 of our troops to a suicide bomber in Afghanistan...
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears:


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No Backpacks, Bags Allowed at NYC Bike Tour
4.27.13 1:49pm
Confiscated Items Will Not Be Returned
An annual bike tour across New York City's five boroughs that draws tens of thousands of riders is beefing up security after this month's Boston Marathon bombings.
TD Five Boro Bike Tour officials said Friday backpacks, saddlebags, panniers and hydration packs will not be permitted at this year's tour on May 5.
Organizers said checkpoints along the route will be set up to ensure compliance with the new rules. Confiscated items won't be returned.
Organizers say water bottles, fanny packs and small bike frame bags will be permitted.
About 32,000 riders participate in the annual bike tour across the city. A gathering on Staten Island at the end of the tour will only be open to registered riders.


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Sad news for Michigan's "cranking" enthusiasts: A man running for the state legislature has dropped out after reports of his felonious masturbating escapades surfaced.
24-year-old Jordan Haskins of Saginaw was running as a Republican to fill a seat in the state House in November. It wasn't long before his rap sheet came into play, which included several charges of breaking into gated lots and masturbating while cranking the engine after ripping out the spark plugs.
Haskins announced he was bowing out on his Facebook page this morning:
Recently some events about my past have been revealed. In my interviews with the media on those events, I was open, honest and transparent. Apparently, there are some who are using my past to attack solid candidates who I consider my friends. To them I apologize. Effective immediately, I am no longer seeking the 95th District House seat. I do this, not because I no linger think Saginaw needs a constitutional conservative candidate, but out of deference to those candidates I would consider my friends. To those who have supported my campaign, I say thank you and God bless you.
MLive reports that despite Haskins' past, he had received support from area Republicans. "I've know Jordan for several months," another GOP candidate told the news site. "The stories regarding his past are sensational, but he's readily admitted that he's made mistakes in his life, has been tried, convicted, and incarcerated by society, and has paid his debt.
Still, when polled by MLive about having Haskins in the House, a majority of readers voted no.


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Game 66: Toronto at Philadelphia pregame
Us Blue Jays scribes took a few minutes this afternoon to sit down with Matt Stairs here at Citizens Banks Park. This after the first swing I saw him take in the cage resulted in a deep, towering home run to right field.
Stairs, 41, is in the last year of the two year contract he originally signed with the Blue Jays and was asked what the future holds. It's no secret he wants to try his hand at managing, but he isn't ruling out continuing on as a pinch hitter, or maybe as a designated hitter somewhere.
"I still want to play. I still feel healthy," said Stairs, who was traded to Philadelphia last August. "Am I going to play? Hard to say. It really depends on how the year goes. Everybody knows I want to get into managing, so we'll see what happens."
Asked about that little home run he hit in the playoffs with the Phillies last season, a small smile crept across Stairs' face. You remember the one?
October 13. Dodger Stadium. Game tied, 5-5 in the eighth inning with L.A. closer Jonathan Broxton on the hill. Stairs crushed a pitch, sending it deep into the right-field stands to send the Phils to an NLCS win and one step closer to the World Series.
Where does that moment rank for Stairs?
"That was No. 1," Stairs said. "I've hit a lot of home runs, but that was way up there. It was funny. I was talking to young [John] Mayberry Jr. — he came up and hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium. I asked him 'Could you feel your legs?' and he said no and I said, 'Me neither.'
"I remember giving a high-five at first and a high-five at third and all I was thinking about was 'Don't trip,'" he said with a laugh. "It was one swing of the bat that changes your life and puts you on the map for a long, long time to come."
Literally. Stairs' name will be on a street sign in his hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick when he does decide to hang up the spikes.
"They're naming a street after me," he said. "But we'll put that on hold a little while. They already have a sign in the ballpark there, talking about the home run. When I retire, I'll do it in Fredericton and we can do the street thing at the same time."
DOC WATCH: Roy Halladay (right groin) played catch again this afternoon and is scheduled to throw in a bullpen session on Wednesday. Manager Cito Gaston said the club still isn't ruling him out as a possibility for Saturday's start in Washington D.C. If you ask me, I think that's doubtful.
INTERESTING: In the middle of our pregame sit-down with Gaston, he was pulled into the clubhouse by head trainer George Poulis. Gaston didn't say what the meeting was for after he returned to the dugout. If I hear anything, I'll let you know.
COMING SOON: I chatted with Blue Jays hitting coach Gene Tenace for a while today about the ongoing struggles of Vernon Wells. Check bluejays.com later for what Geno had to say about the topic.
Today's lineups:
tie-Third place AL East, 5.0 GB
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Vernon Wells, CF
4. Scott Rolen, 3B
5. Adam Lind, LF
6. Alex Rios, RF
7. Kevin Millar, 1B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. Ricky Romero, P
Starter: LHP Romero (3-3, 3.71)
First place NL East, 0.0 GB
1. Jimmy Rollins, SS
2. Chase Utley, 2B
3. Jayson Werth, RF
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
5. Raul Ibanez, LF
6. Shane Victorino, CF
7. Pedro Feliz, 3B
8. Carlos Ruiz, C
9. Cole Hamels, P
Starter: LHP Hamels (4-2, 4.62)
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With the way Overbay has been hitting as of late and the struggles Millar has been having I'm surprised Millar is getting the start tonight even if a tough lefty in Hamels is starting. It does leave a LH bat for a pinch hitter later in the game but we all know Cito doesn't like his guys to lose confidence by being replaced. BaH!
Oh and Rolen should be hitting third and Wells in 5th behind Lind.
Enigma ,
If it makes you feel better , I don't do twitter either . I haven't had time to even consider it . Here's hoping the Jays can get their bats going . Romero has been pitching very well
With the bases loaded and less than two outs, how can Alex Rios take a called third strike? I am dumbfounded by the performance of him and Wells this year. I can't even watch when they are up with runners on base. Not a very good return on investment, heh?
What a terrible baserunning mistake last night by Rios. He's lucky they won. That said really entertaining game.
Jordan, thanks for bringing the other side of the story to the table about the whole Alex Rios youtube situation. Usu
I'm predicting a rough night tonight for Richmond. Philly has some power hitting lefties in the lineup and Scott doesn't generally do well against lefthanded bats.
Finally, I hope that last night is the night that gets Wells going. I know he's usually a slow starter but it's getting ridiculous.
George must've been telling Gaston about Janssen's shoulder inflammation.
so now that Halladay and Downs are on the D.L. i'd like to see Cecil and Accardo come up. Tough news for the Jays though. Over the last few seasons this team has had more than its fair share of injury problems and it's been a real shame.
Maybe Fabio Castro gets a shot ?


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Grandfathered Regulations
Summary of Grandfathered Regulations for Group Plans
This summary of the grandfathering regulations is provided to help you better understand factors that affect grandfathered status.
For plan years beginning on or after October 1, 2010, group health plans must comply with certain healthcare reform provisions. If your plan is not a grandfathered group health plan, your plan must comply with all the healthcare reform provisions. If your plan is a grandfathered plan, your plan must comply with only some of these provisions.
What is a grandfathered plan?
Grandfathered plans do not have to comply with some of the healthcare reform requirements. According to healthcare reform regulations, a group health plan that existed on March 23, 2010, is a grandfathered plan. New employees (whether newly hired or newly enrolled) and new family members may be added to that plan without the loss of grandfathered status. However, changes to the health plan may result in the loss of grandfathered status for the plan. The grandfathering regulations define changes that will result in the loss of grandfathered status.
What plan changes will result in the loss of grandfathered status?
The following changes to plan coverage that existed on March 23, 2010, will cause a group health plan to lose its grandfathered status:
- Excluding benefits to diagnose or treat a particular condition
- Increasing the percentage of coinsurance
- Increasing deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums by more than medical inflation (the medical portion of the Consumer Price Index) plus 15 percent
- Increasing copayments by more than the greater of (a) medical inflation plus 15 percent or (b) $5 increased by medical inflation
- Decreasing employer contribution percentage by more than five percent
- Adding an overall annual dollar limit on plan benefits (even if permissible under the healthcare reform rules) if the plan did not have an overall (comprehensive) annual or lifetime limit on March 23, 2010
- Adding a lower annual dollar limit on plan benefits than the overall (comprehensive) lifetime dollar limit or, if lower, the overall (comprehensive) annual dollar limit, that the plan had on March 23, 2010
- Entering into a new group health insurance contract (with the same or a new insurer) with an effective coverage date before November 15, 2010
Please note that grandfathered status applies to each benefit option independently. So, for example, if a group had three benefit options as of March 23, 2010, each option is subject to grandfathered regulations separately from the other options. If changes are made to one benefit option that results in the loss of grandfathered status, it does not affect the other options.
What plan changes will NOT result in the loss of grandfathered status?
The following changes to the plan coverage that existed on March 23, 2010, will NOT cause a group health plan to lose its grandfathered status for purposes of healthcare reform:
- Changes to premiums
- Changes required by law
- Changes to voluntarily comply (or voluntarily comply early) with healthcare reform provisions
- Changes to add benefits or increase benefits in favor of the plan member
- Entering into to a new group health insurance contract (with the same or a new insurer) with an effective coverage date on and after November 15, 2010
- For self-funded groups, changing claims administrators
What is considered "plan coverage" on March 23, 2010?
The potential loss of grandfathered status is based on changes made to the plan's coverage as it existed on March 23, 2010. Grandfathering regulations allow any plan changes that were adopted in a written plan amendment before March 23, 2010, even if the adopted plan amendment was not effective until after March 23, 2010.
Transition Rules
Changes that would result in the loss of grandfathered status made to a plan after March 23, 2010, but before the issuance of the grandfathering regulations, may be modified to qualify for grandfathered status. However, this modification must be made no later than the first day of the plan year beginning on and after October 1, 2010.
Important Grandfathering Documentation Requirements
Grandfathered Status Model Notice: A plan will lose grandfathered status if it does not include in its plan materials a disclaimer informing plan members that the plan is grandfathered for purposes of healthcare reform. Health and Human Services/Department of Labor/Treasury prepared a model disclaimer notice that plans can use for this purpose.
- This model notice may be found at www.dol.gov/ebsa/grandfatherregmodelnotice.doc
Keep Grandfathered Documentation: You must retain documentation proving the plan is a grandfathered health plan for as long as grandfathered status is claimed and afterwards for the time period required by other applicable laws, such as ERISA.
Special Health Plans
Grandfathering regulations provide that retiree-only plans and HIPAA-excepted benefit plans (dental, vision, flexible spending plans) are exempt from healthcare reform provisions. These plans do not have to comply with the provisions - regardless of whether these plans would be considered grandfathered or non-grandfathered.
Rules for Collectively Bargained Plans
Collectively bargained plans with collective bargaining agreements ratified on or before March 23, 2010, are considered a grandfathered plan and must comply with healthcare reform's grandfathering provisions until the time the agreements are terminated or expire. After the expiration or termination of the agreements, these plans must look back to plan coverage on March 23, 2010, and determine whether it must then comply with grandfathering or non-grandfathering provisions. These plans make this determination based on the changes made since March 23, 2010. However, the fact that an underwritten or self-funded plan entered into a new underwritten health insurance contract (with the same or a new insurer) with an effective coverage date prior to November 15, 2010, is disregarded. If the plan is now non-grandfathered, the plan must comply with non-grandfathered provisions no later than the date the collective bargaining agreements terminate.
For collectively bargained plans with agreements ratified after March 23, 2010, the determination of whether that plan is grandfathered or non-grandfathered is made the exact same way that any other group health plan determines its grandfathered status. These plans will be either grandfathered or non-grandfathered based on the changes made to benefits and/or employer contributions. If an underwritten or self-funded plan entered into a new underwritten health insurance contract between March 23, 2010, and November 15, 2010, that fact alone will cause the plan to lose grandfathered status. If an underwritten or self-funded plan enters into a new underwritten health insurance contract on or after November 15, 2010, then that fact alone will not cause it to lose grandfathered status. If the plan made any changes between March 23, 2010, and June 17, 2010, that would cause it to lose grandfathered status, the plan can take advantage of the transition rules to amend their plan to remove those changes effective no later than the first day of the plan year beginning on and after October 1, 2010.
Next Steps
During your group's renewal process with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, it's important for you to let your Blue Cross Representative know if you intend to keep grandfathered status. For example, we will not know if you intend to decrease your employer contribution rate by greater than five percent. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact your Blue Cross Representative.
More Information About Grandfathering
- Complete Grandfathered Regulations
- Non-Grandfathered vs Grandfathered Group Plan Comparison
- Model Notice


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Journalist and author Donald Kirk draws eye-opening comparisons between militarism and protest on the southern island prefecture of Japan, that is, Okinawa, and Korea's southern island province, Jeju. Don draws upon reporting and research for his latest book "Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent," showing parallels between Okinawa and Jeju in terms of the protest movements against bases on both of them. He sees the controversies from all sides, on the basis of interviews with officials, analysts, protest leaders and ordinary citizens.
The topic is especially timely in view of mounting tensions in the region as seen in China's increasingly strong claims to the islands that Japan calls the Senkakus and the Chinese know as Diaoyu. Adding to regional tensions are China's claims to the Ieodo rocks southwest of Jeju on which Korea has built a heliport complete with navigational and weather facilities.
Don brings to this study a number of years as a journalist and author, reporting and writing from Korea as well as Japan. Previous books include "Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine," "Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung," and "Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era." He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines ranging from the Chicago Tribune to the Christian Science Monitor to the International Herald Tribune to Forbes Asia and forbes.com and also reports for CBS Radio. He gravitates between homes in Seoul and Washington but spent most of last year in India.
The library committee is offering a cocktail party - "Meet the Author" - starting at 6:15 pm. Followed by dinner at 6:45pm (Menu : to be decided). Drinks can be ordered on a cash basis from the bar in the room. Book Break charges 2,100 yen (including tax) for the event. Non-members eligible to attend may pay in cash.
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Greetings from London, I guess i'm A kindred spirit for as well as finding Simon Marsdens work inspiring, I too take photos of cemeteries, castles, ruins etc. If you're on Instagram then you'll find me under the name of dark_britannia. Kindest Regards CS
She used to have a website where you could order her books. For a little extra she would do a personal autograph. For my anniversary my husband bought me one as a gift. It was written out to him and has greasy cookie crumbs in it. Signed by Ingrid Pitt and one the best gifts ever. She passed away not long after.


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Mr. Obama was officially sworn-in to begin his second term on Sunday, in keeping with the Constitution's mandate that presidents begin their new term on Jan. 20. But because inaugural ceremonies are historically not held on Sundays, the public celebration was pushed to Monday, coinciding with the birthday of late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Vice President Joe Biden was also sworn in for the second term a second time Monday. Biden took the oath of office Sunday at the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appointed by Mr. Obama as the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court, administered the oath to Biden
The mood surrounding the president's second inaugural was more subdued than four years ago, when the swearing in of the nation's first black president drew 1.8 million people to the Mall. Still, an estimated 800,000 people filled the National Mall to witness Mr. Obama's swearing-in and inaugural address. If the estimates are correct, that would make it the largest second-term inaugural in history.
See Inauguration Day schedule of events
The centerpiece of the day's activities was the president's inaugural address, in which Mr. Obama asserted "America's possibilities are limitless." He declared that a decade of war is ending and the nation's economy is recovering.
"My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it, so long as we seize it together," Mr. Obama said moments after taking the oath of office with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha at his side on a crisp day in the nation's capital.
The president didn't dwell on any first-term accomplishments but looked to hard work ahead in a country still grappling with a sluggish economy.
"We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit," he said. "But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future."
Read full transcript of President Obama's inaugural address
He did not expound on any specific policy proposals, saving them instead for his Feb. 12 State of the Union address.
Security was tight across Washington, with several streets near the White House and Capitol Hill closed off. Humvees and city buses were being used to block intersections. About 13,000 law enforcement officials worked to keep the president and the crowd safe. More than 2,000 police officers from around the country were sworn in Sunday as deputy U.S. marshals.
Even in the frigid East Coast conditions, crowds of people from all over the country streamed into the Mall even before sunrise.
The inauguration of an Africa-American president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a significant convergence of two days in American history. As a minority who defied the odds, President Obama has made an immeasurable impact. He embodies the dream Dr. King talked about as he stood in front of the very same National Mall in 1963.
"This reminds us as that as a country, we've come a long way," said Dr. Frank Gilliam, dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs. "There are hundreds of thousands of school-aged children for whom Obama is their first president and the only president they've known...I think [it] will have a profound effect on these people as they grow older and I think that's where we may witness the change, ultimately.
Washington largely shelved its partisan fighting for the three days of inaugural celebrations. But pressing matters await the president as he starts his second term, including three looming fiscal deadlines. He'll also need help from a reluctant Congress if he hopes to fulfill his promise to sign comprehensive immigration reform and tighten gun laws in the wake of last month's school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
After his swearing-in, Mr. Obama attended the traditional luncheon with lawmakers before joining marching bands and floats in the inaugural parade, which made its way from Capitol Hill to the White House.
The president and first lady then slipped into formalwear for two glitzy inaugural balls. That's far fewer than the 10 they attended after the 2009 inauguration, though this year's events still expected to draw up to about 40,000 people.
There was still plenty of star power in the entertainment lineup. Jennifer Hudson sang as the Obamas danced to "Let's Stay Together." Stevie Wonder ran through crowd pleasers such as "My Cherie Amour" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." Alicia Keys, in a flowing red gown, planted herself before a piano and dished up reworked lyrics to "Girl on Fire," declaring, "Obama's on fire." Brad Paisley, too, revised his lyrics to fit the occasion, and began by thanking the troops "for keeping us safe."
The Obamas and Bidens took a spin on the floor with selected members of the military. Mr. Obama danced with Air Force Staff Sgt. Bria D. Nelson, and the first lady with Gunnery Sgt. Timothy D. Easterling of the Marines. Biden danced with Army Staff Sgt. Keesha Nicole Dentino, while Jill Biden's dance partner was Navy Petty Officer Patrick Figueroa.
The first lady's custom ruby-colored gown as well as her Kimberly McDonald diamond-embellished ring and Jimmy Choo shoes will be here and gone - donated to the National Archives after the balls.
Stay with ABC7 for special coverage of the inauguration. Eyewitness news anchor David Ono is in Washington. Look for his reports on Eyewitness News or get the latest by following him on Twitter and Facebook.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Threepenny Opera chronology
|Premiere in London of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and J.C. Pepusch–the work on which Threepenny is based.
|Revival of adapted version of Beggar's Opera in London runs 1,463 performances.
March 1927
|Bertolt Brecht writes the lyrics to "Pirate Jenny" and "Barbara-Song."
July 1927
|Premiere of the first collaboration of Kurt Weill and Brecht, the Mahagonny Songspiel
Fall 1927
|Brecht's assistant Elisabeth Hauptmann translates the libretto of Beggar's Opera into German.
Spring 1928
|Berlin producer Ernst Josef Aufricht asks Brecht for a play to open his new theater in the fall, and they agree that it will be Des Bettlers Oper (Beggar's Opera). Brecht asks Weill to compose a new score.
April 26, 1928
|Weill and Brecht sign a contract with Felix Bloch Erben in Berlin to represent the stage rights.
May-June 1928
|Weill and Brecht travel to the French Riviera with Elisabeth Hauptmann, Lotte Lenya, and Helene Weigel in order to work on the new show without distractions.
August 10, 1928
|Rehearsals begin at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
August 23, 1928
|Weill completes his orchestral score. It does not include "Mack the Knife," which has not been written yet. (It is created only a day or two before the premiere.)
August 30, 1928
|After a rehearsal period filled with conflict, defections of cast members, and endless cuts and changes, the dress rehearsal ends at 5:00 a.m. Most members of the cast and creative team believe the show will be a colossal failure.
August 31, 1928
|World premiere at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. After a slow start, the audience catches fire. Despite somewhat mixed reviews, the show takes off and several new productions in Germany are arranged within days.
October 1928
|Published copies of the libretto and vocal score, as well as several songs issued as sheet music, begin to be sold.
|Threepenny sees over forty new productions in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Finland, and the Soviet Union.
July-November 1930
|Filming of G.W. Pabst's German and French versions takes place; Threepenny becomes one of the first musical films. Weill and Brecht file lawsuits against the production company over its handling of the script and music; both collect damages. The film is screened for the first time in February 1931.
|Brecht publishes revised version of Threepenny script.
|Weill and Brecht both flee Germany; the Nazi government bans further performances of Threepenny. By this time, Threepenny has been performed in well over 100 cities on three continents.
April 1933
|Threepenny opens on Broadway for the first time in a translation by Jerrold Krimsky and Gifford Cochran. The run lasts only twelve performances and draws fire from nearly all the critics.
February 1935
|The BBC broadcasts a complete performance of Threepenny; the performance is unanimously panned and Weill criticizes the performance strongly in a letter to the publisher of the music, Universal Edition.
1936 or 1937
|First performance in Africa, in Johannesburg.
|Threepenny produced in Paris starring Raymond Rouleau, Yvette Guilbert, Suzy Solidor, and Renée St. Cyr.
|Choreographer Antony Tudor creates his ballet, Judgment of Paris, with music from Threepenny.
Spring 1938
|The Nazis stop playing songs from Threepenny at their exhibition of "Degenerate Art" in Düsseldorf, because too many people are enjoying listening to them.
Spring 1942
|Brecht asks Weill to cooperate in a new adaptation of Threepenny to be performed by an all-black cast in California. The parties are unable to agree to terms, and no performances take place.
August 1945
|Threepenny performed for the first time in Germany since 1933.
January 1949
|Brecht informs Weill that the script must be adapted because of post-war conditions in Germany. A production in Munich reflects Brecht's changes, to which Weill never consented.
April 3, 1950
|Weill dies in New York, shortly after Marc Blitzstein begins writing his English version of Threepenny.
June 14, 1952
|Tryout of Blitzstein's version of Threepenny at Brandeis University, Boston. Lotte Lenya and Jo Sullivan appear in the cast.
March 10, 1954
|Premiere of Blitzstein's version at the Theater de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel Theatre) in Greenwich Village, New York City. Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur, Charlotte Rae, John Astin, Scott Merrill, and Jo Sullivan appear in the cast. After 96 performances, the show closes due to a scheduling conflict, but the original cast album has already been recorded and released, with remarkable sales. Brooks Atkinson inaugurates the custom of ending his New York Times theater reviews with "Bring back the Threepenny Opera!"
September 20, 1955
|Threepenny reopens at the Theater de Lys and runs until December 1961, a total of 2,611 consecutive performances. This production firmly establishes Threepenny as a regular on American stages, as it is already in Germany, and serves as a springboard for innumerable pop recordings of "Mack the Knife."
Spring 1956
|Influential productions of Threepenny in London (directed by Sam Wanamaker) and Milan (directed by Giorgio Strehler).
August 14, 1956
|Brecht dies in Buckow, Germany.
|First performance in South America, in Buenos Aires.
January 1958
|Lenya supervises and performs in a complete recording of Threepenny in German, released on Philips and Columbia. Wolfgang Neuss, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, and Trude Hesterberg also appear in the cast.
April 12, 1960
|The first production by Brecht's acting company, the Berliner Ensemble, is directed by Erich Engel, who also directed the world premiere.
|Following performances in Sydney and Melbourne, Threepenny has been performed on every continent except Antarctica.
|Film directed by Wolfgang Staudte is released in German and English versions. Curt Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, Gert Fröbe, Sammy Davis, Jr., and June Ritchie appear in the cast.
June 1976
|A new English version by Ralph Manheim and John Willett debuts at the New York Shakespeare Festival, directed by Richard Foreman. After a run at the Festival, the production moves to the Beaumont Theater until January 1977. Raul Julia stars as Macheath.
March 1986
|Tim Curry stars as Macheath at the National Theatre in London, with a new English translation by Robert David MacDonald.
October 1986
|Giorgio Strehler directs another important production, this one in Paris.
|Release of a film version of Threepenny called Mack the Knife, starring Raul Julia, Richard Harris, and Julia Migenes.
November 1989
|Opening of a Broadway production directed by John Dexter and conducted by Julius Rudel, with a new translation by Michael Feingold. Despite the star power of Sting, Maureen McGovern, Alvin Epstein, and Kim Criswell, the problem-plagued production closes in less than two months.
|Donmar Warehouse, London, hosts a production of Threepenny with new English lyrics by Jeremy Sams. JAY Records issues a cast recording.
|RCA/BMG issues complete recording of Threepenny (in German) with Max Raabe, Nina Hagen, Sona MacDonald, and the Ensemble Modern conducted by HK Gruber. The recording adheres closely to the new critical edition of Threepenny (see below).
|Publication of critical edition of the score and libretto of Threepenny as part of the Kurt Weill Edition, restoring the original 1928 version. Edited by Stephen Hinton and Edward Harsh.
March 2006
|The latest Broadway revival of Threepenny opens at Studio 54, produced by the Roundabout Theatre. The star-studded cast includes Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Jim Dale, Nellie McKay, and Ana Gasteyer. A new English translation by Wallace Shawn; directed by Scott Elliott.
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