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If a company is invested in those securities it isn't going to allow attrition to bring their investment down. The properties are assets and can be sold when they deem opportunistic. Basically, the institutions own their own investment portfolio. It is sort of like insider trading. If the properties are failing simply buy them rather than allow the market to fall. They'll get their money back while they support their investment.
It is a fine balance between stability and massacre. Right now those with guns feel confident in their strength and if that changes they could seek to institute attacks. They weren't even willing to accept UN observers into the Crimea to insure their safety.
It is like walking on eggshells. At this point, the armed militias may still be taking orders from a higher authority. People can criticize Russia for their troop movements, but, those troops are a show of force so the militias don't have to.
The Ukraine is unstable. That is completely obvious. Once the arms are in the country there is no guarantee to the outcome. I will say this, the national military needs to be stronger than any militia. However, the USA and Europe aren't going anywhere, so they are a counter balance to the Russian presence as well. The militias won't get far if they decide to act on their own. Russia will move into the Ukraine to regain stability if that begins. BUT, the militias could seek to act to insight Russia's movement as well. In other words, Russia will take over the Ukraine. No one involved in this, be it nations within the treaty, the Ukraine government or the militias should desire any deaths. The global community won't put up with it. Promise! Russia is not necessarily interested in being the global rebel either. The Crimea militia invited this, no other country asked for the invite to engage the treaty.
And a national Ukraine military could never defeat a Russia military advance either. This is a really difficult situation. No one wants a bad outcome and now this morning there is another death. I do not like the brinkmanship of the feeding frenzy by the militias.
The best outcome is peace within this nation. Peace is actually more important than any election or ballot or referendum. The country's people need to make their own decisions about their safety and go about their lives.
Phil StewartReuters
7:44 p.m. CDT, March 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States (click here) is weighing requests for
military assistance from Ukraine, including both lethal and non-lethal
support, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, as a prominent U.S.
senator urged approval of any arms sought by Kiev.
The U.S. officials, who asked to speak on condition of anonymity because
of the sensitivity of the diplomatic discussions, said the United
States had already decided to move ahead with some aid, including
military food rations....
I hope this isn't insulting, but, I'll tell you a true story. The time was WWII and Egypt was being invaded by Hilter forces. The Suez and the fact Egypt was considered a British colony.
There was a biologist working in the natural areas of Egypt. Egypt has a very rich biotic content. He was keeping records about his investigation to the growth of a biotic area. The soldiers invaded and he got really angry because he didn't want his work interrupted. You have to know a conservation biologist and the long timeline they work with to do their work to appreciate his anger.
So, he told his wife he would not be deterred from his mission. He took his usual equipment and continued his work in the face of the invasion and occupation by Axis forces. When he was confronted by soldiers he was unarmed and he told them it was to their benefit to leave him alone if they wanted to understand their land. He made it clear the work he was doing was vital to their meals in the future and he needed to complete his work.
The bottom line is he continued his work and completed it. He was never a threat to any soldier and was an important person. He made them understand he was important and he needed to continue his work. He didn't protest, didn't take his case to authorities, he put it plainly to the very men with guns.
True story and one many of my friends hold dear to the truth of their work. We don't recognize borders and boundaries. We know life and how precious it is.
Think about it.
Military radar-tracking evidence suggests a
Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately
flown across the Malay peninsula towards the Andaman Islands, sources
familiar with the investigation told Reuters on Friday.
Two sources (click here) said an
unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following
a route between navigational waypoints - indicating it was being flown by
someone with aviation training - when it was last plotted on military radar off
the country's northwest coast.
The last plot on the military radar's
tracking suggested the plane was flying toward India's Andaman Islands, a chain
of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, they
said.
Waypoints are geographic locations, worked out by calculating
longitude and latitude, that help pilots navigate along established air
corridors....
Yep. Pilots don't need radar to fly planes or jets for that matter. The higher the altitude the slower the land below moves, so it is easy to find island chains as landmarks to a destination.
In the USA, small planes use highways and natural boundaries as landmarks. It is very possible the flight was continued without the passengers awareness to an alternate destination. Once at the destination, who knows? The passengers were told they had to relinquish their cell phones for security checks into China. At some point the jet could have been boarded. India would take this possibility more seriously due to Mumbai.
No one wants to state same, but, Yanukovych couped the Ukraine government when he dissolved the national military and instilled oligarch militias throughout the country.
POSTED: 14 Mar 2014 07:39 UPDATED: 14 Mar 2014 16:53
...At least one pro-Kiev protester was stabbed and killed (click here) in the eastern
city of Donetsk when a demonstration in favor of Ukrainian unity was
attacked by a Russian separatist crowd. News of the death broke as
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk addressed an emergency session of the
UN Security Council on the crisis opposing his interim government and
the Kremlin. Yatsenyuk said a negotiated solution was still
possible, if Russia agrees to withdraw its forces from the Ukrainian
peninsula of Crimea and begin a serious diplomatic dialogue. "We
want to have talks. We don't want to have any kind of military
aggression," he insisted, turning to directly address Russia's UN
ambassador Vitaly Churkin. Churkin ridiculed the idea that there
had been an "idyllic situation" before the crisis, but said: "Russia
does not want war and nor do the Russians, and I'm convinced that
Ukrainians don't want this either." Ukraine and Russia have been
locked in an escalating stand-off since February 22, when a street
revolt overthrew Ukraine's former pro-Kremlin president Viktor
Yanukovych....
KIEV — Ukrainian prosecutors have opened more criminal cases against
fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, including on charges
of unconstitutional seizure of power, extremism and money laundering. Acting prosecutor general and member of the nationalist Svoboda
party, Oleh Makhnitsky, told reporters on Thursday that Yanukovych was
wanted on power abuse and murder charges. Last month, Ukraine requested Interpol to issue Red Notice, or
an international wanted persons alert, for Yanukovych as part of that
criminal case....
...In a defiant statement delivered in the southern city of
Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Yanukovych attacked what he called the "band of
ultranationalists and neo-fascists" that have replaced his government,
and criticized their Western backers. "I want to ask the patrons of these dark forces in the West: Have you
gone blind? Have you forgotten what fascism is?" Yanukovych told
reporters in his second such appearance since his overthrow on Feb. 22....
Fascism. Let's see, what exactly is fascism. Fascism is a
political philosophy, movement, or regime that
exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a
centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Who exactly is the fascist?
By Adam Taylor
On Feb. 22, (click here) as word spread that Viktor Yanukovych had fled Kiev, a
large crowd began to descend on his residence in Mezhyhirya, some 12 miles outside the capital. They were shocked by what they found.
The Ukrainian president's mansion had long been rumored to be exceptionally luxurious (some said it cost around $100 million to build),
but what was inside was outside many people's wildest imaginations:
Yanukovych had a huge collection of luxury cars, his own private zoo, a
golf course, and, for some reason, a galleon....
...In a series of videos uploaded to YouTube under the name Виктор Хонка, security footage captures a large number of people removing goods from the home from Feb. 19 to the early hours of Feb. 22....
...So what is Yanukovych removing from the home? For one thing, it appears he is taking a lot of paintings, plus lots of guns and a small dog.
Ahhhhhh, fluffy.
I'll be darn the Mr. and Mrs. didn't trust the same limo to travel to the Crimean airport.
Right now Russia is allowing the idea that the Crimea can choose to be annexed. Where does that come from? The Crimea is breaking the law. It is not an autonomous territory and has never been in conflict with the Ukraine before. Their constitution clearly has stated they are a part of a sovereign nation called The Ukraine.
The tensions that exist in the Ukraine are attributable to the former President and the current Russian ambivalence about annexing the Crimea. Russia has to stop calling the Crimea home.
Published time: March 13, 2014 22:58 Edited time: March 13, 2014 23:45
“Russia does not want war and neither do the Russians, and
I'm convinced the Ukrainians don't want that either,”
ambassador Vitaly Churkin told an emergency meeting of the
Security Council on Thursday. “We don’t see any basis to
consider the issue in such terms.”
“Some dispute the legality of such a referendum, but it is
unacceptable to manipulate individual principles and norms of
international law, randomly pulling them out of context not only
of the international law, but the specific political
circumstances and historical aspects,” Churkin said.
In each case, the envoy believes, one should “balance between
the principles of territorial integrity and the right for
self-determination.”
“It is clear that the implementation of the right of
self-determination in the form of separation from the existing
state is an extraordinary measure. In Crimea such a case
apparently arose as a result of a legal vacuum, which emerged as
a result of unconstitutional, violent coup d'état carried out in
Kiev by radical nationalists, as well as direct threats by the
latter to impose their order on the whole territory of
Ukraine.”
There was no coup. Where did that happen? The then constitutional government called for early elections, the president ran away out of fear of being arrested for deaths of Ukrainians and then the Crimea began to scream about being part of the Ukraine. This is a sudden change of direction by the Crimea, there were no plans before a few weeks ago for this to happen. It doesn't happen that way. South Sudan took four years before there was a referendum vote.
The Crimea is not South Sudan. No one in the Crimea has been killed or even victimized by the Ukraine government. Where is the case for them to seek annexation and protection by Russia?
“In the conduct of the referendum, organized by the Crimeans,
the Russian Black Sea Fleet does not interfere,” he said.
I know the Russian military is at the border east of the Ukraine to instill the satiating idea that Russia is ready to rescue the entire of the Crimea to stem any violence their militia can commit, but, that is part of the problem. Russia is not helping, they are empowering the discontents which is not the entire of the Crimea. There are many in Crimea that want nothing to do with Russia.
“Acts of violence perpetrated in Kiev need a careful
international investigation,” he said, warning that the
“image presented by Kiev and western propaganda is completely
reversed by the information the same provocateurs were firing at
both the representatives of the security forces and
protesters.” “And, according to the latest publishedinformation, shooting came from the
headquarters of the so-called ‘Maidan Commandant’, who now heads
by the Security Council of Ukraine,” Russia's envoy said.
If Russia recognizes the need for an investigation into the deaths of the Ukraine then why does it continue to advocate extremists in the Crimea to carry out their own militia's interests? Does Russia know for a fact the murderers are not in the Crimea? Or is Russia consenting to covering up the murderers with the agitation of the civil society of the Crimea. This level of show of power of independent militias in the Crimea and in the Ukraine has never been witnessed before with this country. Why would Russia believe it can dismiss this as nothing in order to carry out a division of the country? The so called annexation of the Crimea is not going to stop the militias in the Ukraine, why encourage it?
Ukraine's coup-appointed prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was
also given the floor at the council meeting and used that chance
to once again accuse Russia of “military aggression” in
Crimea.
“This aggression has no reasons and no grounds,”
Yatsenyuk said. “This is absolutely and entirely unacceptable
in the 21st century, to resolve any kind of conflict with tanks,
artillery and boots on the ground.”
Russia is splitting hairs. Russia cannot back an annexation of a state of the Ukraine while stating it is not aggressive. There are other forms of aggression than war.
The aggressive stance and new policy of Russia to back annexation of the Crimea is scaring people in the Ukraine and Europe. It is amazing to watch Russia rejoice in the idea of splitting up a sovereign nation. What is that? The Russians involved in zealotry are embarrassing both the Crimea and the Ukraine, but, it is allowed to go on.
Russia can't possibly expect any nation involved to believe Yanukovych is not involved in this discontent in the Crimea. Not only is he involved in this uprising he also encouraged the militias in the Ukraine to be known. Russia consents to this?
"If there is no sign of any capacity to be able to move
forward and resolve this issue there will be a very serious
series of steps in Europe and here with respect to the options
that are available to us," Kerry said.
So, let me get this right. The USA and Europe is suppose to stand by and let Russia carry on with Yanukovych and the Crimea to carry out an outrageous and aggressive stance against the people of the Ukraine, because, Europe has to kiss Russia's ass for it's natural gas. Excuse the imagery. It happens to be true.
Well, that is not going to happen here. Why? Because Yanukovych has proven to be a very dangerous man capable of plotting with his oligarchs against the citizenry of the Ukraine. The Ukraine as the right to exist with a constitution they elect to theirs along with a new president in May.
MAY!
Does Russia respect the statement by Yanukovych to allow early elections? It sure doesn't look like it.
To put it in plain language, "Stop stirring the pot, Vladimir !"
Pro-Russian activists (click here) follow special U.N.
envoy Robert Serry in front of the airport in Simferopol, Ukraine,
Wednesday, March 5, 2014. The special U.N. envoy visiting Crimea was
threatened by 10 to 15 armed men on Wednesday and ordered to leave the
region, where Ukraine and Russia are locked in a tense standoff. (AP
Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
That was a direct threat to that diplomat's life. You've got to be joking to believe Russia is a responsible partner in any treaty. Elections can't be held with guns to their heads either.
OPELIKA, AL – Police have shot Air Force Airman 1st Class Michael Davidson after a minor traffic accident. Airman Davidson was driving along Interstate 85 in Alabama when he accidentally hit a semi-truck’s mirror. As he was on his way to exchange insurance information with the driver, Opelicka police officer Philip Hancock told the Davidson to put his hands in the air. Davidson turned around holding a wallet raised above his head. The
officer then shot Davidson in the stomach, causing serious injuries that
will affect him for the rest of his life. The police did not notify the victim’s family to until the next day. “They didn’t even have the decency to call and let me know one of their people had shot my son,” said Billy Davidson, Michael’s father. “An investigator calls telling me he was investigating the shooting… and that’s how I was told.” Officer Philip Hancock has been suspended with pay.
I don't believe this. Now Americans have to be briefed on proper behavior so cops won't shoot them.
This happened in South Carolina not far from the North Carolina border. The police are so scared of being shot by people with guns they shoot and ask questions later. That a state without gun control. Oh, but, no one wants to do the right thing and begin to roll back the number of guns in the state, no, no, no. The media makes example of the out of control police and how they have to arm themselves against them. Sure.
What do we know? The more guns there are, the more people are shot and the more murders caused. Case in point.
...York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant (click here) said neither Knox nor Canipe did
anything intentionally wrong in what was an “unfortunate” incident. But
Bryant emphasized at Wednesday’s press conference that drivers stopped
by police shouldn’t exit their vehicle... Bryant added that he will ask lawmakers to create a manual for drivers regarding what they should do when pulled over by police.
One of the two buildings (click here) destroyed in an apparent natural gas
explosion in New York City's East Harlem had installed new gas pipes
last year, records show, as the utility serving the area continued to
search for where gas had leaked. The utility, Con Edison, said
that it remained to be seen whether there had been a leak in a company
gas main or in a customer-installed line. It said it was conducting a
thorough review of records of gas pipes in the area of the blast on Park
Avenue, reports CBS New York. New
York City building records do not show any work underway at either
address, but one, owned by the Spanish Christian Church, had obtained
permits and installed 120 feet of gas pipe last June....
The utilities companies are running like mad all over the country where the polar air mass travels. This has nothing to do with new pipes. If the pipes and fittings don't contract and expand in the same way there will be leaks.
The thickness of the pipes compared to the joints in the line are different thicknesses. It's bad. This infrastructure in the USA was never built for this.
All these pipes and fittings are different. They serve different purposes. They are made of different material. Leaks happen.
No one wants to admit the denial of this climate crisis is actually dangerous because the problem is so huge. People are used to having control. There is no controlling a planet. Everyone tried and no one listened because the profits of oil men came first. The wealthy had to have control. Well, welcome to the outcome of their control.
Installing a gas line is probably not a task to take on as your first
do-it-yourself project. The risks of making a mistake outweigh the
costs of a professional. However, experienced do-it-yourselfers can
install a gas line as safely as a professional. Despite the narrow
margin for error, the individual steps are no more demanding than
plumbing or electrical work....
Best advice right now; if a gas leak is detected, leave the building or area, call the police, notify the gas company and find a warming shelter or family or some place safe recommended by the police. DO NOT STAY IN THE BUILDING OR AREA.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. —A section of Route 1 in Portsmouth was shut down and homes and businesses were evacuated Thursday because of a gas leak. Officials said an employee of Allen Wayside Furniture opened
the store at about 8 a.m. and noticed a strong odor of gas. That
employee called 911, and fire crews found what they called extremely
high gas readings. Power was cut to the building, a section of Route 1 was shut down and the area was evacuated....
Less than two weeks before two East Harlem buildings exploded, leaving
at least seven dead, Consolidated Edison workers checked the
127-year-old gas main in front of the site and found no apparent leaks,
according to a ConEd spokesman....
Hunter,
a 3-month-old Husky mix, woke up his owner Jill McLarty in the middle
of the night and ran into the kitchen of their Michigan home to let her
know that the gas burner was still on. 'We loved him from the get-go,’
McLarty's husband said. ‘But the bond between us and him is stronger
than ever.'
By Michael Walsh NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, March 13, 2014, 4:39 PM
Nothing could throw this dog off the scent.
A pint-sized pup with a hero-sized heart sniffed out a gas leak in the middle of the night — saving his human family.
"You try not to think of the bad things, the 'what ifs,'" owner Tim
McLarty told the Daily News. "I'm just thankful each and every day that
we got him."
It appears Hunter, a 3-month-old Husky mix, was just returning the
favor. The family had just rescued him from the Michigan Humane Society
two weeks earlier.
Tim and Jill McLarty, of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., were fast asleep
the night of March 5 with Hunter on their bed when the dog suddenly
awoke and started to whine.
At first, Jill McLarty thought Hunter needed to go outside — even
though he typically hits them with his paw when he wants to do so — so
she opened the door....
He wasn't about to lose his home.
Article by:
MARY LYNN SMITH
, Star Tribune Updated: March 12, 2014 - 11:21 PM
CenterPoint Energy crews were expected to work through the night to repair the leak, utility spokeswoman Becca Virden said.
Hiawatha
Avenue between 31st and 38th Streets was shut down at 4:30 p.m., at the
start of rush hour, while crews searched for the source of the leak. It
reopened about 7 p.m. But a two-block section of 35th Street between
Hiawatha and Snelling Avenues remained closed Wednesday night while
crews excavated the street to repair the leak, Virden said.
ADM Milling
employees reported smelling gas in a grain elevator and immediately
evacuated the building, she said. Crews aired out the building and the
workers went back to their jobs, she said. Residents evacuated from
three houses also were able to return by early evening, Virden said.
The Blue Line light-rail trains along Hiawatha kept running when the road was closed....
I think that is enough evidence to prove my words.
...Bob McGee, a spokesperson for Con Ed...said that anyone who smells gas should call Con Ed immediately, but not before getting a safe distance away. Placing a cell phone call—or flipping a light switch, or turning on a television—could all trigger an explosion.
Anything that involves an ignition is a potential hazard—which is why
Con Ed crews bang on the door instead of ringing the bell when
responding to a call.
It is really a stretch to find validity in the Crimean extremists' position. There is nothing in any international law that justifies secession. There are treaties that govern the path of the Ukraine. That is a reality and just because the Crimeans are drumming up a faux government to coup their own government doesn't mean it is legitimate.
I don't want to hear how Viktor Yanukovich didn't abandon his country. He absolutely did. One might recall not very long ago Yulia Tymoshenko was imprisoned. She didn't run to Europe to prevent her capture and imprisonment. She stayed and allowed the Yanukovich government make fools of themselves. So, if Yanukovich thinks he can simply stir up chaos in the Crimea to serve his own purpose he could not be more wrong. THERE ARE TREATIES, VIKTOR!!!!!!
Russia is welcome to run their military games wherever and whenever they want so long as it is made clear they are exercises. What really pisses me off is that these shenanigans are happening while the Paralympics are going on.
Russia needs to detangle this web of power with the Crimea it has supported over the decades. There is a reason why Russia is a signator of the treaties and it is to bring all issues of all the people to bear when problems need to be solved, however, those resolutions do not include separating the people into tiny regions of land based in ethnicity. That strategy only leads to greater instability and economic deterioration.
This is some of the most hideous stuff I have ever witnessed within the First World. There needs to be an understanding the signators work together as civilized nations do. The treaties are suppose to end any anarchy, not enhance it.
Viktor Yanukovich has set up very dangerous outcomes for the Ukraine. He allowed and encouraged the rise of Oligarch power structures that include armed camps. That is outrageous. He fully engaged in setting up the Ukraine for violence that would kill people in order to enforce him as supreme leader. I don't think so. Yanukovich was counting on The West simply looking the other way so he could carry on as he wants to including jailing and killing those that didn't please him. Where did he ever get the permission to build militias to intimidate and control the citizenry with the threat of death? And this man should be allowed to have influence now? I think not!
And for Russia's ranting about The West interfering, the answer is, "You are damn right they are!"
Reuters in Berlin theguardian.com
Angela Merkel (click here) has warned Moscow it risks "massive" political and economic damage if it refuses to change course on Ukraine, saying western leaders are united in their readiness to impose sanctions on Russia if necessary.
The German chancellor, using her strongest language since the start of the crisis and removing any suspicion that Germany
might seek to avoid a confrontation with the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, said his actions would lead to catastrophe for Ukraine
and much more.
"We would not only see it, also as neighbours of
Russia, as a threat. And it would not only change the European Union's
relationship with Russia," she said in a speech in parliament. "No, this
would also cause massive damage to Russia, economically and
politically."
Merkel has acknowledged that her efforts to persuade
Putin to negotiate via a "contact group" with the transition government
in Kiev – which he accuses of ousting the Russian-backed president
Viktor Yanukovych unlawfully – have failed and time is running out....
On one hand the families need to go home and attend to their lives, but, it would be completely wrong to simply put this type of disaster on the shelf for anyone. Commercial airline flight is important and it's accountability just as important. It is obvious something happened, so , until that something is realized the mystery goes on.
Calum MacLeod and Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY
11:55 a.m. EDT March 13, 2014
The
last data transmitted from the engines was received at 1:07 a.m.
Saturday on the day the plane with 239 people on board vanished, and
indicated that "everything is operating normally," said Malaysia
Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.
Rolls-Royce, the engine maker,
and Boeing, the plane manufacturer, also confirmed that no further data
were received from the engines, he said. The last civilian radar signal
came at 1.30 a.m. Saturday.
In another dramatic twist in the
search-and-rescue efforts now into their sixth day, Hishammuddin said
that satellite images released Wednesday by China are not debris from
the plane....
...That’s where the new Intrawest Passport comes in. (click here) And if it fits your needs, it’s a very good deal. Aimed squarely at “families,” using a very broad definition that also
caters to groups of friends, this is the latest twist on the new generation of flexible multi-mountain ski passes, a trend I have reported on extensively in this column, especially the industry leading EpicPass from Vail Resorts ,
and its chief competitor, the Mountain Collective, a partnership of top
independent ski resorts like Jackson, Alta and Snowbird....
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush (click here) signed into law the Child Care and
Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to assist working families with the cost
of providing child care. CCDBG is the primary source of federal funding
for child care assistance. States use the resources provided by the
CCDBG to help low-income families gain access to quality, affordable
child care and after-school programs. CCDBG provides funding to help
parents pay for the care of their choice, whether in a family child care
home, with a relative or a friend, or in a child care center.
Child care is an integral part of everyday life for America’s
families, as parents rely on child care to ensure the safety and
well-being of their children while they work and to help their children
succeed in school. The Children’s Defense Fund supports programs like
the Child Care and Development Block Grant which help to ensure that all
families have access to affordable, quality child care....
Child Care and Development Block
Grant Act of 2013 - Reauthorizes the Child Care and Development Block
Grant Act of 1990 through FY2019.
Revises the Act to allow a
joint interagency office, designated by the governor, to serve as the
lead agency for a state desiring to receive a community services
programs child care and development block grant. Increases from two to three years the period that must be covered by a state child care and development plan.
Revises
and expands plan requirements to include, among others, compliance with
state and local health and safety requirements, compliance with child
abuse reporting requirements, protection for working parents, and
coordination with other programs. Prescribes early learning and
developmental guidelines. Authorizes a state to use funds to
establish or support a system of local or regional child care resource
and referral organizations.
Requires a state receiving funds
under such Act to carry out at least two of specified activities
affecting the quality of child care.
Requires states receiving
grant funds under such Act to carry out criminal background checks for
child care staff members of child care providers. Makes
ineligible for employment by a licensed, regulated, or registered child
care provider any individual who: (1) refuses to consent to a criminal
background check, (2) knowingly makes a materially false statement in
connection with such a background check, (3) is registered or is
required to be registered on a state sex offender registry or the
National Sex Offender Registry, or (4) has been convicted of one or more
specified felonies. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to operate a national toll-free hotline and website.
Defines
"child with a disability" as one under age 13 who is eligible for early
intervention services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act.
In
1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Child Care and
Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to assist working families with the cost
of providing child care. CCDBG is the primary source of federal funding
for child care assistance. States use the resources provided by the
CCDBG to help low-income families gain access to quality, affordable
child care and after-school programs. CCDBG provides funding to help
parents pay for the care of their choice, whether in a family child care
home, with a relative or a friend, or in a child care center.
Child care is an integral part of everyday life for America’s
families, as parents rely on child care to ensure the safety and
well-being of their children while they work and to help their children
succeed in school. The Children’s Defense Fund supports programs like
the Child Care and Development Block Grant which help to ensure that all
families have access to affordable, quality child care.
- See more
at:
http://www.childrensdefense.org/policy-priorities/early-childhood-education-care/child-care-development-block-grant.html#sthash.uwiQszJA.dpuf
These policies are actually very expensive. The consumer can't make good decisions, have medical bills they can't afford, become dependent on assistance, will most likely lose their homes and ultimately file bankruptcy. What is so difficult to understand as to why the USA passed health care law?
What do you tell these people, too bad? Seriously. If this is your neighbor just pull the shades and be happy it isn't you, right?
That type of avoidance of the real problem is immoral. Is there something no one understands about that?
Judith Goss, 48, of Macomb, Mich., believed that the
Cigna plan she obtained through her job at the Talbots retail chain was
“some type of insurance that would cover something.” When the store she
worked at closed in January 2011, she even paid $65 a month to keep the
coverage through COBRA.
“I was aware that it wasn’t a great plan, but I wasn’t concerned because
I wasn’t sick,” she says. But in July 2011 she was diagnosed with
breast cancer, at which point the policy’s annual limits of $1,000 a
year for outpatient treatment and $2,000 for hospitalization became a
huge problem. Facing a $30,000 hospital bill, she delayed treatment.
“Finally my surgeon said, ‘Judy, you can’t wait anymore.’ While I was
waiting my tumor became larger. It was 3 centimeters when they found it
and 9 centimeters when they took it out.” After a double mastectomy,
radiation treatments, and reconstructive surgery, Goss is taking the
drug tamoxifen to prevent recurrence....
CHICAGO, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The demand (click here) for total joint replacement is expected to increase so dramatically in the next 25 years that there may not be enough orthopaedic surgeons to perform the surgeries, as indicated by results from recent research on the topic. As presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the study projects the number of hip and knee replacement procedures that will be performed in the United States through the year 2030....
It is called quality of life and insurance will get you there. Recent history in the USA in Medicaid expansion in children prove there is higher demand in health care and fends off death. This is called good economics and good policy. No one understands this expansion and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is improving the quality of life of Americans? See, the reality is far different than the rhetoric. Why would that be?
Janet Currie, University of California at Los Angeles and National Bureau of Economic Research
and Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National Bureau of Economic Research
We study the effect of public insurance for children (click here) on their utilization of medical care and health outcomes by exploiting recent expansions of the Medicaid program to low-income children. These expansions doubled the fraction of children eligible for Medicaid between 1984 and 1992. Take-up of
these expansions was much less than full, however, even among otherwise
uninsured children. Despite this take-up problem, eligibility for Medicaid significantly increased the utilization of medical care, particularly care delivered in physicians' offices. Increased eligibility was also associated with a sizableand significant reduction in child mortality.
