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When Donald Trump won the electoral vote 1 1/2 years ago, the American people knew change was coming. Topping President Trump's list of things to do once in office was to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is more commonly known as Obamacare. Of course, things didn't go according to plan.
With Republicans in control of the legislative branch of the government, it was widely expected that they would have no trouble repealing and replacing Obamacare. However, working with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, Republican lawmakers and the president were unable to come to an agreement on healthcare reform after countless tries in 2017. Instead, Trump and the GOP-led Congress slowly have been dismantling some of the health law's core components, leaving only a shell of former President Barack Obama's hallmark healthcare legislation.
Who's ready for another double-digit premium increase?
Slowly picking apart Obamacare does have a purpose for President Trump: It likely will send the program into a "death spiral," whereby premiums rise at a rapid pace and healthy individuals drop out of the program altogether. Such a move would prompt lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to come together and create a new health plan. But in the interim, it means painfully high increases for those folks signed up with Obamacare who aren't privy to its remaining subsidies.
According to a newly released report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), premiums for benchmark plans -- i.e., the second-lowest-cost silver plan listed on ACA exchanges -- are expected to rise by 15% in 2019 and then average a 7% increase per year thereafter, through 2028. Mind you, this 15% increase comes after the Department of Health and Human Services announced in late October 2017 that benchmark plan premiums would be rising by an average of 37% in 2018.
Then again, the CBO's estimate could prove conservative for next year. Back in late January, insurer Covered California in the nation's most populous state released a report entitled, "The Roller Coaster Continues" that described what it believes will be bottom-line premium hikes of between 16% and 30% in 2019. Though these are estimates, and rate hikes often aren't finalized until September or October, when a large insurer in the fifth-largest economy in the world speaks, you listen.
Ultimately, the CBO estimates that the total number of uninsured will rise by 3 million next year, to 32 million, and the non-elderly uninsured rate will hit 13%. By 2028, some 35 million people are forecast to be without insurance if the remnants of Obamacare are kept in place.
Three reasons Obamacare premiums keep soaring
If we had to point a finger at the factors behind this rapid rise in healthcare premiums, three would stand out.
1. The elimination of the individual mandate in 2019
The first, which will take shape in 2019, is the elimination of the individual mandate. The individual mandate is the actionable component of Obamacare that requires individuals to purchase health insurance or pay a financial penalty, known as the Shared Responsibility Payment (SRP). If you choose to go uninsured and don't qualify for an exemption, your SRP would be the greater of 2.5% of modified adjusted gross income or $695 per adult.
However, when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in December, it, among other things, outlined the elimination of the individual mandate beginning in 2019. The mandate is a crucial cog of Obamacare that encouraged the enrollment of healthier individuals who would otherwise tempt fate and remain uninsured. The premiums of these healthy individuals are sorely needed by insurance companies to offset the higher costs associated with sicker individuals allowed to enroll under Obamacare.
Without this mandate, it's widely believed that some healthier individuals will remain on the sidelines since there's no longer the fear of financial penalty. Meanwhile, the patient population for remaining ACA insurers will include a higher number of sicker members relative to healthy members.
2. President Trump doing away with cost-sharing reductions
Last year, Donald Trump also announced the end of cost-sharing reductions, or CSRs, which are one of the two key subsidies given to lower-income individuals and families. Cost-sharing reductions were given to people earning between 100% and 250% of the federal poverty level, and they helped considerably lower the cost of doctor visits by offsetting some of the patient's responsibility for copays, coinsurance, and deductibles.
How was Trump able to axe such a critical subsidy, you ask? The answer lies with a long-standing legal case initiated by House Republicans all the way back in 2014. The House GOP, which filed suit again Sylvia Burwell, who was then the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, alleged that all funds apportioned to the ACA should be approved by Congress, but they weren't going through these traditional channels. As a result, the House GOP intimated that CSRs were illegal.
In May 2016, District of Columbia Judge Rosemary Collyer agreed with House Republicans, albeit she stayed her judgment with the expectation that the Obama administration would file an appeal, which came in shortly thereafter. This appeal had been continued on numerous occasions, even into the Trump presidency.
Trump had been using the idea of dropping the appeal as a dangling carrot to incite cooperation between Democrats and Republicans on healthcare reform, but, as noted, that didn't work. Ultimately, Trump simply dropped the appeal, which put Collyer's judgment into effect and ended cost-sharing reductions.
Though the Advanced Premium Tax Credit remains in place and continues to lower premiums for individuals and families earning under 400% of the federal poverty level, the lack of CSRs makes affording medical care a challenge for low-income individuals. At the closing of ACA enrollment for 2017, 7.05 million of the 12.2 million enrollees qualified for cost-sharing reductions.
3. An insurer exodus
The third reason healthcare premiums are soaring is the lack of plan options for consumers to choose from.
Long before President Trump took office, large-scale health insurers were expressing their displeasure with Obamacare. Many had been losing money on the ACA's exchanges, despite the belief when Obamacare was initially rolled out that they'd be overwhelmingly profitable. These losses were the result of healthy individuals not being coerced by initially low Shared Responsibility Payments to enroll, which led to sicker enrollees flooding into the system and significantly pushing up expenditures for health insurers. Despite numerous efforts to improve young adult enrollment, it wasn't enough to counteract the higher costs associated with treating sicker people who, under Obamacare, couldn't be turned away by insurers.
Heading into 2018, Avalere estimated that 41% of all U.S. counties were expected to have just one insurer offering a health plan. This comes after UnitedHealth Group (UNH 1.21%), the nation's largest insurer, pulled out of 31 of 34 states in 2017. After UnitedHealth Group lost $475 million from Obamacare in 2015 and predicted $650 million in ACA losses in 2016, it was no surprise to see the nation's largest health insurer critical of the ACA.
Last year, insurers Aetna and Humana, which were denied the right to merge by federal regulators, also announced their intended departure from the ACA exchanges in 2018. Without these larger players, those few insurers that do remain gain significant pricing power and have little incentive to lower their premiums to attract new members. In other words, the bargaining power is entirely with the insurer.
If there's a bright side here, it's that most Americans receive health insurance through their employers or still qualify for the Advanced Premium Tax Credit. But for those folks who are uninsured and wanting health insurance or earn too much to qualify for subsidies, things are only expected to get worse.


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On-demand services are one of the biggest trends in the startup space at the moment. Silicon Valley, it would seem, is not content to rest until every bit of “friction” is removed from the lives of consumers. The trend has grown to the point that we would seem to be fast approaching the day that it becomes unnecessary for people to leave the house, should they choose not to. While the shift towards an on-demand world provides ease and convenience for customers, startups are still feeling their way into some of the newer areas being explored in this growing trend.
Shyp was one such company looking to bring on-demand service to another pain point in people’s lives — in this case, shipping. Shyp sought to remove the hassle of shipping items; their app allowed users to take a photo of the item they wanted to be shipped, and for a $5 fee, Shyp would pick that item up to package and deliver to a shipping company. Users wouldn’t have to worry about finding a box and packing material, or driving to a shipping store or post office to send their package.
The concept was strong enough for the San Francisco-based startup to eventually raise $62 million in funding to continue its expansion. The company expanded its services into New York, Los Angeles and Chicago (with an eye towards Miami), and introduced new initiatives like its partnership with eBay and a new feature, address-less shipping. And unlike other startups that failed to fully deliver the promised services, Shyp did what they said they would, collecting and shipping material to the required destination.
For all that was going right, there were underlying problems with Shyp’s operating model. A flat fee for pickup and packaging proved a challenge given the wide variance in size of packages that people were sending. In response, the company introduced fees for packaging and shipping that could vary based upon the size of the item being packaged. And while probably prudent for the company, it likely diminished the value of the service in the eyes of customers. Shyp also initially targeted individuals as the user base for its services, most of whom only ship packages occasionally, and therefore are not the repeat, sustaining business that companies look for.
In response to those mistakes, Shyp sought to reorganize and refocus in an effort to stay afloat and prove its viability. The company laid off employees and cut their operations back to its original home base of San Francisco. They also began to focus more on acquiring small business customers rather than individuals. These moves proved to be enough to stem the tides temporarily, as the new model eventually had the company operating at a profit. But Shyp’s early mistakes proved too costly to overcome, and with too little runway to allow the new model to play out. The company shut down operations in early 2018.
In a LinkedIn post, Shyp CEO Kevin Gibbon admitted that his determination for “growth at all costs” and his unwillingness to listen to advisors were mistakes that his company was unable to recover from. And while those were undoubtedly the misjudgments that did the greatest damage to Shyp’s fortunes, it and other companies of its ilk, face a particular set of challenges that make their long-term survival difficult. In the case of Shyp, the costs associated with packaging materials, physical warehouses, and drivers paired with the need to keep prices low to attract customers make for finer margins and demand more of the startup capital than other ventures. And the documented struggles of other on-demand services to establish viability can out investors off of putting more money into what might be a losing bet.
Ultimately, Shyp’s fortunes illustrate the difficulty of establishing a business with a solid foundation and the need for proper and prudent planning, even when entering a space that can delude ambitious entrepreneurs into thinking success is assured. Trying too much too fast, without thought as to sustainability or cost, is a high-risk proposition that few can afford to make. And getting too wrapped up in an idea and the technological solutions that can be brought to bear can prevent a clear view of what the market is, and what can be reasonably expected and achieved. Finally, ignoring advisors can often come back to bite a founder. #onwards.


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After the release of their blockbuster movie, A Very Special Love, fans of John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo have been eagerly waiting for the continuation of their love story. See Miggy Montenegro and Laida Magtalas once again in their post-Valentine movie titled You Changed My Life.
In this sequel, Rayver Cruz will play the role of Raymond "Mackoy" Montenegro, who happens to be the half-brother of Miggy (John Lloyd). The relationship of Miggy (John Lloyd) and Laida (Sarah) will be tested by the arrival of Mackoy (Rayver) in their lives.
You Changed My Life is the sequel to the first John Lloyd-Sarah movie AVSL. Both films are directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina. You Changed My Life is also a co-production of Star Cinema and Viva Films in time for the month of love.
Sarah hopes to equal the success of her first movie if not surpass it. "Wish ko lang po na hindi man nito ma-surpass ang A Very Special Love, mapantayan man lang nito ang kinita ng una naming movie ni John Lloyd," said Sarah.
In the The Buzz Tough Ten segment last February 8, Sarah was asked by host Kris Aquino to enumerate three gentlemen who have changed her life at this point in time. Sarah revealed thah they are: her manager Kirby Del Rosario who has made her dreams came true because of his continuous trust in her talents; second is her father Delfin Geronimo, who always supports and trusts her in everything that she does; and third, of course, her handsome leading man, John Lloyd Cruz who has given her great memories.
"Siyempre, simula nung naging successful yung A Very Special Love, ang daming magandang nangyari sa buhay ko and, of course, yung friendship na nabuo sa amin," she explained.
Sarah was also asked if she really had a crush on John Lloyd since they became very close while filming A Very Special Love and You Changed My Life. Sarah answered yes without any hesitations. "Kasi kung ganun naman kagwapo, ka-professional at kabait ang leading man mo, siyempre hahangaan mo naman."
"I think wala namang masama dun. Sa paghanga na yun, may magandang naidulot na makikita niyo naman dun sa pelikula."
Many people from showbiz noticed the big change in Sarah. "Wala lang, nakikita ko kasing nagb-bloom at nagb-blossom ka. Dati cute lang siya [Sarah] ngayon maganda ka na talaga in fairness," said Kris.
However, Sarah opted to keep her feet on the ground even if she hears so much praises from her fans and from the people who always support her.
After series of questions regarding her post-Valentine movie with John Lloyd, Kris asked Sarah to pick her next leading man after her successful team-up with John Lloyd. "Si Piolo [Pascual]. Ang taas ng pangarap di ba?" Sarah confessed. The popstar princess is, in fact, slated to do a movie with the matinee idol before the end of 2009.
You Changed My Life will open in theaters nationwide starting February 25, 2009.
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Located within the Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve & Garden, Onomea Falls is a three-tiered waterfall and one of the highlights of the park. After strolling through the nature reserve (which contains over 2,000 different types of plants and flowers), you’ll encounter the falls. The waterfall is located within Akaka State Falls Park, and the trek itself is only 0.4 miles. Along the way, you’ll also get to see another waterfall (the 100-foot Kahuna Falls) as well as other native foliage, like colorful orchids, bamboo groves, and a wide variety of ferns. Uber Eats users can schedule orders for delivery from certain restaurants and shops in Hilo.
Tickets are required if you’re attending the hula competition, although the rest of the events during the festival are free and open to the public. With over 200 vendors from around the island, it’s one of the best places to get fruit, vegetables, herbs, jellies, macadamia nuts, and baked goods. You’ll also find coffee, flowers, jewelry, clothing, and more. The Lavaloha Farm is one of the sweetest activities you can do in Hawaii – literally! Located just 10 minutes from downtown Hilo, this 1,000-acre haven specializes in all things chocolate. Their cacao groves are planted in the rich volcanic soils of Mauna Kea’s slopes, which is the optimal growing condition for cacao beans.
Hike your way through the lush rainforest of Hilo to see the mighty plummet of Akaka Falls. This 442-foot waterfall is one of the island’s most stunning, as it cascades down the side of a verdant green gorge. The entrance of the cave is a steep and slippery stairway down, framed with ferns, vines, and tropical plants. But once you enter into the lava tube, you’ll find a dark cavern of boulders and craggy rock formations. Make sure you bring a flashlight (it’s dark and uneven floor in there!) as well as sturdy shoes. The Kaumana Caves (click for directions) were formed nearly 150 years ago by lava flows from Mauna Loa.
It’s now the largest town on the Big Island, with over 44,000 residents. Some restaurants and stores in Hilo allow users to pick up their takeout order. Be sure to toggle to ‘Pickup’ to browse any of those options that exist near you in Hilo.
- Along the 45-mile journey, you’ll get to see a mix of charming plantation towns and breathtaking natural landscapes (you can also make a quick detour to do the scenic 4 Mile Drive here).
- The honey is produced in their very own apiary (they also operate the Kilohana Honey Company).
- The main difference here is that HiLo and other arcade games at Stake are all multi-player games, and the jackpot is split between all players who played on that round.
- Well-known Hawaii Island artist Henry Bianchini’s donated sculpture “Involuntary Journey” is located in the library’s atrium.
- In addition to the iconic Honokaʻa People’s Theatre, there are also quite a few boutique shops, cafes, and restaurants to visit.
But as we mentioned, the most appealing thing about Hilo is its unparalleled natural beauty. Once you leave the streets of home and shops, you’ll be surrounded by waterfalls, volcanoes, caves, rainforests, and more. While many visitors prefer to stick to the sunny leeward side of the Big Island (near Kona and the Kohala Coast), Hilo is absolutely worth visiting. With biodiverse rainforests, rugged coastal cliffs, https://slot-online.com/play-hi-lo-casino-games-for-thai-people/ and charming plantation towns, it’s a great option for nature lovers looking to see a more untouched side of the island. To help you plan your perfect trip, we’ve put together a list of some of the best sights, attractions, and activities Hilo has to offer. Many of these things are located right in town, although we’ve also included a few things in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and along the Hamakua Coast.
With a rugged landscape of lava fields, geothermal steam vents, and even rainforests, it’s the perfect place for a day of hiking and exploring. In addition to the iconic Honokaʻa People’s Theatre, there are also quite a few boutique shops, cafes, and restaurants to visit. If you’re here on Sunday, you can also stop by the weekly Hamakua Harvest Farmer’s Market for local produce and delicious foods. With sweeping views of Onomea Bay, 4 Mile Drive is an easy road trip just a few minutes outside of Hilo. The narrow, curvy road snakes along the coast, taking you through the rainforest, past streams and waterfalls, and across one-lane bridges. Hog Heaven just might have the best cup of joe on the entire island!
If you want to pick up some local produce, sweet treats, or souvenirs, then make sure you stop by the Hilo Farmer’s Market. It takes place every single day of the week (Wednesday and Saturday being big market days) from 7 AM to 3 PM, right in the heart of downtown. The honey is produced in their very own apiary (they also operate the Kilohana Honey Company). For flavored meads, they also use locally sourced ingredients from farmers and producers around the island. During your visit, make sure you have enough time to do a mead flight or honey tasting in their tasting room.
Once you’re in the air, you’ll whizz past waterfalls and suspension bridges while enjoying panoramic views of the sparkling Pacific Ocean. When you’re in downtown Hilo and looking for a place to stroll, look no further than Lili’ukolani Gardens and Coconut Island (click for directions). The gardens are a well-kept Japanese garden spread over 30 acres with koi ponds and a tea house. After that, you can head out to Coconut Island to take in the view, explore tide pools, and watch the kids jump off the stone landing. This is located on the eastern end of Hilo Bay, just a few minutes from the Hilo airport. Tickets are required to enter the garden ($30 for adults and $22 for kids).
Yes, around 80 restaurants and shops in Hilo offer delivery on Uber Eats, including Safeway (381 E Maka’Ala St) and Target (Hilo). Celebrate 2024 with a diamond sticker craft celebrating the wood dragon. Participants place little diamonds on an easy to follow template to create their finished artwork. Our library is the largest library on Hawaii Island and opened on Jan. 20, 1951. The Naha, one of two historic stones located in front of the library, is believed to be what King Kamehameha lifted to affirm the prophecy that he would unite the Hawaiian Islands. Well-known Hawaii Island artist Henry Bianchini’s donated sculpture “Involuntary Journey” is located in the library’s atrium.
Many activities happen during the week, including a royal parade, an art fair, and lots of live entertainment. While you’re here, you can go swimming, kayaking, or paddleboarding underneath the falls. There are also bamboo gardens and miles of nature trails around the property that you can explore.

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Among other things, Ferguson shows us that systemic racial injustice persists, often with “states’ rights” or “local rights” as justification.
Starting on Friday, August 22, a broad coalition of faith, labor, and social justice organizations will hold events in 12 mostly Southern states with a different social justice theme every day.
State officials in Oregon voted to ensure access to a full range of transition-related care for the state’s poorest transgender residents.
The stories of women who participated in focus groups led by SisterSong, included in a new report, convey the gross under-education and discriminatory treatment of Black women living in the South, in particular, where sexual and reproductive health education is nonexistent and stigma is rampant.
As the race for governor heats up ahead of the November election, incumbent Gov. Scott Walker has consistently aligned himself with the Republican Party and against the clear front-runner among Democratic primary candidates, Mary Burke, on issues like Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and the economy.
Minority caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday, the 49th anniversary of the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, aiming to improve health outcomes for communities of color.
In South Carolina, tens of thousands of Medicaid applications are stuck in processing backlog, leaving residents wondering whether they qualify for the government health insurance.
The Alaska legislature recently approved a project that will place free pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about fetal alcohol syndrome. But what is fetal alcohol syndrome, and could this effort possibly help address it?
The longitudinal study found that of the California residents who were uninsured prior to open enrollment, 58 percent signed up for insurance.
Danne Howard of the Alabama Hospital Association said the state’s unwillingness to expand Medicaid is adding to the economic distress of its rural communities and encumbering economic development efforts.

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In 2013, New York passed the SAFE Act in response to the horrific school shooting in Sand Hook, Connecticut. One provision of the law instituted a new reporting requirement for “heath providers” regarding those with mental issues.
Hall’s case was one of mistaken identity. Deputies called on the wrong “Don Hall” in confiscating his firearms. But the burden of proof fell on Hall to prove he was not the subject of the confiscation order.
The Vietnam vet had to go to the expense of hiring a lawyer to help him prove his innocence in the matter. In the interim, he was denied the peace of mind knowing he had the means of self-defense to protect himself and his property.
I was guilty until I could prove myself innocent. They don’t tell you why or what you supposedly did. It was just a bad screw-up”
Hall’s attorney advised him he would have to prove he wasn’t the Don Hall with mental issues.
Hall “secured affidavits from local hospitals to prove he hadn’t been recently treated,” and, over a period of time, “his lawyer convinced a judge that authorities had him confused with someone else who had sought care and that his weapons should never have been seized.”
In today’s America, it’s no longer true that you’re innocent until proven guilty. Liberal courts lean toward siding with the government over citizens and upholding laws that abuse people’s civil rights.
Fortunately for Hall, a county judge saw the light and agreed Hall’s firearms had been mistakenly seized. He ordered them returned.
Apparently, the sheriff’s office got information that confused them into thinking the Vietnam vet was the Don Hall they needed to visit to confiscate firearms. This incident raises the issue of what protections are in place to ensure the proper people are the subject of such confiscations.
What’s particularly puzzling about this incident is that in such a small town deputies didn’t seem to know Don Hall, or that he is a respectable, law-abiding citizen. Was it really necessary they show up at night to take the firearms instead of during the day?
Like many other Vietnam veterans, he’s simply a forgotten man who was severely mistreated by enforcement of gun control measures that don’t get to the heart of the gun control issue – getting guns out of the hands of criminals, not good citizens.


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Pope Francis will bring together some of the world’s leading fossil fuel executives next week in an effort to further conversations about climate change. The meeting will come mere days after the one year anniversary of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
A Vatican source confirmed to Reuters on Friday that the leader of the Catholic Church will convene a number of prominent oil executives in Rome next week. According to Axios, the list of oil investors and producers includes BP CEO Bob Dudley and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock (the world’s largest asset manager). Sources have indicated that representatives from ExxonMobil will be present as well, along with Royal Dutch Shell, Pemex, Eni, and others. Former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is also reported to be joining.
Many of the companies named are currently facing or have faced court cases regarding their role in climate change, including ExxonMobil. At least two states, New York and Massachusetts, are investigating the company for fraud relating to climate change. (Exxon has countered that such suits violate the company’s First Amendment rights.) Exxon and other companies involved in the meeting in Rome have also been linked to efforts funding climate denial and misinformation.
The University of Notre Dame is reportedly assisting in the endeavor but Leo Burke, who heads the climate investing initiative run by the institution’s business school, declined to comment to Axios.
“All along the way, we have said that any energy-related meeting involving the Vatican and Notre Dame would be a private dialogue among the attendees,” Burke wrote via email.
The Vatican similarly failed to confirm or deny the meeting as of Friday, but Reuters reported that the event will be titled “Energy Transition and Care for Our Common Home” and will take place at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Cardinal Peter Turkson, a leading Vatican figure on climate issues, will also reportedly address attendees.
An Argentinian and the first pope from a nation outside of the so-called developed world, Francis has made climate issues a central theme of his tenure in Rome. In 2015, the Catholic leader released “Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home”, an encyclical lambasting capitalism and consumer culture. The six-chapter document centers heavily on climate change while calling for all people to “combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it”.
Francis devoted his first public address while visiting the United States later that year to climate change, encouraging then-President Obama to continue efforts to limit warming. At least one Catholic Republican — Arizona’s Rep. Paul Gosar — boycotted Francis’ speech to Congress at the time over the pope’s stance on climate change.
Under President Trump, the United States has moved away from Obama-era climate initiatives. Trump has targeted the Clean Power Plan, the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, and national parks and monuments, in addition to pushing fossil fuels over renewable energy alternatives.
In June 2017, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement, which enjoyed near-unanimous global support at the time of its signing in 2016. That move sparked a head-on collision with the pope, who issued veiled criticisms of Trump and called for other world leaders to stand by the agreement.
“The ‘distraction’ or delay in implementing global agreements on the environment shows that politics has become submissive to a technology and economy which seek profit above all else,” Francis told a group of scientists at the time, including the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
In a later visit to the United States in May 2017, Francis left Trump copies of works on climate change and progressive economics, among other documents published by the pontiff, including “Laudato Si”.
Next week’s meeting indicates that the pope is likely to continue pushing for sustainable climate action with or without the support of the White House. It is unclear what impact the meeting might have given that big oil companies have shown deep-seated resistance to greener energy alternatives, in addition to moves countering climate change more broadly. Nonetheless, BP’s Dudley is reportedly “looking forward to the Vatican dialogue”, according to spokesman Geoff Morrell.
“He believes gatherings of this kind help develop a better understanding of the energy transition and the best ways for corporations, countries and wider society to participate in it,” said Morrell.


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The size of the box was a … Plus I didn't come up with a good way to mount them to those jacks before we were traveling in places that wouldn't allow me to do any metal working due to the noise. This is where the lock nuts come in handy. on Introduction. You mount this stabilizer to the bottom of your entrance step. You can get more or less conduit depending how long you want the rods to be. By having multiple and back to back triangles you have made a stable foundation for the camper to rest upon. It swings up and stores securely under the RV step. on Introduction. I have a question regarding your bathroom cubicle that I couldn’t find in any of your videos. Place these the same distance apart as the width measurement from step … Cutting metal pipes will cause shards of metal to fly into your face. Attaches easily with screws to your RV step Prevents wear and … Screwdriver - head required depends on hardware acquired It’s just the nature of fold out hinged RV steps. I sprayed this area with lithium grease and haven't heard a squeak from it since. The fold out RV entrance stairs on our Cougar fifth wheel have never been the most rock solid things. They’ve always had a little bit of give and spring to them. There are a lot of RV accessories and cool RV gadgets to consider when getting yourself set up and ready to hit the road. Mar 28, 2016 - Explore Sheryl Shade's board "portable RV steps DIY" on Pinterest. I used RV Goop to glue each of the pieces together. 1. My wife and I have been living in our camper for 2.5 years now while we travel for work, and these rods are still working great. So this is what I came up with. It stays there and never moves and gives the steps a lot of support. 6 x Small "L" Brackets - See Step 4 The posts rested on large flat rocks. 4-5/8" - 8" adjustment range. Apr 7, 2013 - RV NOW: Stop the RV rockin’ with this homemade stabilizer system. I'd love an instructable on the different challenges you've overcome to stay on the road that long, lol, Reply To loosen the rods, just loosen the gripper piece as raise the jacks like normal. To secure the rods, first raise the power jacks just slightly and tighten the third piece of the rod gripper section created in Step 3 onto the smaller diameter rod. Manufactured from aircraft grade aluminum, Unparalleled stability eliminating the unsafe diving board effect, Earth to RV: Brings step to ground level (No more unsafe booster step), Made from lightweight aircraft grade aluminum (rust free), Works on side entry truck campers and towables, Bushing bearing bolted for maximum stability and longevity, Glows in the dark for up to ten hours with only five minutes of light exposure. Your Wish Is Our Command! It’s especially pronounced in one side or the steps. 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Quick set up Wood RV steps [asa]B002PWJRWS[/asa] As you can see it is a very interesting design and one that will break down for easy storage inside your RV. Taking accurate measurements will help to create a safe set of stairs. It also stabilizes steps and helps keep the coach from rocking. I think you could also attach to Stab jacks and scissor jacks the same way you did to the landing gear. 2021 Most RV sinks have covers that slide over top while you’re driving down the road. Various Bolts, and Washers - Size depends on your RV power jacks The amount of lumber you will need will depend on the size of the portable staircase. Made of sturdy steel, this stabilizer will help prevent the wear and tear your step will encounter over the years. Great Idea! Then wrap the tape around the rods like a hot dog. It may be beneficial to not attach the gripper to the larger diameter rod until after you complete Step 4 - Attaching the Top 4 L-Brackets. Realistically, this step could be done sooner, but I added the tape as an after thought so the pictures wouldn't have made sense. I was originally planning to do it for the back scissor jacks as well, but that part of the camper didn't rock near as bad as the front did. The third piece has one threaded end while the other can be tightened down around the smaller diameter rod. If you are looking for a way to stop the bounce when using your RV’s entrance steps the Camco Self-Stor Step is the perfect solution. About: Jack of All Trades, Master of One: Being Me! Item 44-1629 | MFR# 43681. SUPER HITCH® Pintle / Ballmount Accessories, North Hitch - Front Mounted Receiver Hitches, GLOWSTEP REVOLUTION® Uprising (Doorway Mounted), GLOWSTEP REVOLUTION® (Mounted Beneath Doorway). If you didn't listen to me, the screws to tighten the the larger rod onto the smaller diameter rod may be in a very awkward position to use... Finally, the larger diameter rods can be placed over the the smaller diameter rods and then connected to the top L-brackets. You can order high-quality and reliable slide-out supports for your RV … Long enough bolt so it sticks out from the bottom approx. 1 per box. Attaches easily with screws to your RV step; Prevents wear and … 8 years ago The bolts connecting to the rods to the camper should be checked every once in a while, but should need to be adjusted for operation. The 4 smaller diameter rods will be attached to the front power jacks. In this case I had 2x8" fir as the base. Made of sturdy steel, this stabilizer will help prevent the wear and tear your step will encounter over the years. Many RV owners look for a more permanent feeling solution as a replacement. Slide-out supports are used to prevent potential damage, which can happen if slide-outs are kept extended for a long time. After a while, they started squeaking when the camper wanted to sway, but was stopped by the rods. With a thorough test, he concluded that the GlowStep Revolution RV step was a clear improvement in comparison to weaker factory steps. BuzzFeed Staff. That should give you 4 larger diameter pieces 2.5' in length and 4 smaller diameter pieces 2.5' in length. Reply This can be accomplished by a series of conduit pipe fittings. This grabs onto the smaller rod which is attached to the base of the jack legs. After the power jacks are lowered, the clamp on the end of the larger rod is tightened. So I decided to build my own for under $25. Homeon Wheels Safety RV Steps 16.5" x 12.2" RV Step Stool Folding Platform Step with Non-Slip Durable Feet, Reflective Stripe, Grip Handle, RV T Level More Stable Supports Up to 1000 lbs This additional support greatly reduces the amount of sway produced when someone moves inside of the camper. GlowStep Revolution RV Step System with DirtDestroyer, GlowGuide Handrail and SafeStep. Rv/Camper Stabilizers : We have a 26 foot “couples camper” it is our first RV. RV Trash Can 10,000 lb. How to Make Charcuterie Boards Using Clear Acrylic Templates. Especially with the newly released GlowStep Revolution RV step system. Ours have manually lowering feet so the jacks don't have to be lowered so far, and the holes are there for the catch pin. I just didn't want to spend 10x as much for something I could easily make myself! Overall, the goal was to develop steps that provided something that no other RV steps could provide. Keep up the good work. If you want to have a trouble free, relaxing RV season this summer, grab a notepad and keep reading. Helps prevent sag and wear. 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Stylish Star Allu Arjun and director Trivikram Srinivas will be working together for a new romantic comedy entertainer. As per the latest news being heard, Allu Arjun will be romancing three heroines in this movie!
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Salhouse Bell becomes ‘community asset’ in bid to save it from closure
PUBLISHED: 07:30 15 January 2014 | UPDATED: 07:54 15 January 2014
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A closed-down pub has been designated as a community asset in an attempt to ensure pints are pulled there in the future.
The Bell in Salhouse shut in October when Steve and Trudi Hardiman brought their four-and-a-half years behind the bar to an end.
Enterprise Inns is advertising for new tenants, but Salhouse Parish Council is keen to ensure its future is as a pub.
It made a request to Broadland District Council to add the pub to the authority’s register of land and buildings of community value.
In their submission to the council, the parish council said: “This ancient inn is at the heart of the village and has a restaurant, beer garden and bowling green, as well as two bars.
“It serves not only as the focal point for many local people and a meeting place for village clubs and activities, but also serves visitors to the area, particularly from Salhouse Broad.
“The parish councillors believe that this public house is of importance because a village pub is a vital social gathering place for many residents.”
The council’s Conservative-controlled cabinet agreed this week to put the pub on the community asset register – a move which was welcomed by parish council chairman Chris Dady.
Being on the list does not restrict who the owner of a property can sell to or at what price and nor does it give a right of first refusal to a community interest group.
What it does mean is that, if a property is put up for sale, community interest groups get extra leeway to raise money to bid for them.
Mr Dady said: “This is the parish council trying to create a safety net. It is being advertised for let as a pub, but if the worst comes to the worst and it looks like it is not going to carry on as a pub, then it would give the parish council an option to bid on the property.
“There might be a community group in the village interested in taking it on and this would give them that option.”
Are you fighting to save a local pub? Call reporter David Bale on 01603 772427 or email email@example.com


Bibb County's Graduation Rate: 51 Percent | Education
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Nearly one out of every two Bibb County ninth graders eventually drops out.
The district's 51.34 percent graduation rate is part of a new calculation by the state Department of Education. They say their new rates are lower, and more accurate, than past graduation rates.
Last year, the state estimated Bibb's graduation rate at 63.4 percent.
The state says Georgia's high school graduation rate has fallen to 67 percent based a new federally mandated calculation.
The state Department of Education released the figure Tuesday morning after months of preparing state lawmakers and other officials for the drop. Under the old calculation, the rate of students receiving diplomas had topped 80 percent, but officials say that number wasn't an accurate picture of Georgia's high school graduates.
Officials say the new formula better accounts for dropouts. The formula divides the number of graduates in a given year by the number of students who enrolled four years earlier.
Bibb County school Supt. Romain Dallemand could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But the new numbers support his previous comments that Bibb County's actual graduation rate is much lower than the state-reported rate.
He said the district is running "dropout factories."
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Every year, maybe once, maybe twice, Rick and Janet go some place far away. They venture away from the comfort and sameness of home to seek out something different. Because they want to. Because ironically, it feels good. I think Janet would feel less comfortable, in fact, if they didn't do it. Because she knows, we all know, that despite what we think and tend to feel: it is different out there. Really different. And if you take any one of us and plop us down — voilà! — in a different cultural and geopolitical context, it is we who are different. In the bat of an eye, the crossing of a border, the uncomfortable minute stationed in front of the airport immigration officer, we become that frightening thing—the other.
I've lived in Italy for 11 years now (a number I can hardly believe, and which is certain to grow), and even as I become more integrated into the life here, I feel increasingly "other." I'm not sure why this is. I think it has to do with the surprising and undeniable depth of our cultural roots and also with the fact that human "time" is different than we think it is. We tend to talk about time flying, and yet in human, psychological terms, time can move quite slowly indeed. My eleven years in a foreign country are nothing. They're just the beginning of going deeper into this particular experiment. And, as time passes, I have that much more time to realize how different I really am.
The result is that I feel "at home" often with other people who are "different" too. I have something very important in common with our part-time Philippine house-keeper/nanny that I do not have in common with my own Italian husband. In this context, we are both foreigners. Her name is Pamela, and we love her, and she has most definitely lived through hardships that have never brushed up against my comparatively serene existence. But we both know what it's like to be the other in this intensely Milanese context. She knows distance. She knows separation. She knows having difficulty being understood. She knows bureaucratic battle. She knows being outside instead of inside.
But you don't have to be on a trip or living in a foreign country to feel or be other.
I was born in the American South to parents who, because of a specific mixture of education, nature and nurture, were disdainful of it. We lived there, but there was always a feeling that there was something not quite right about it. The result? I felt "other" in my hometown, my high school, most everywhere. But it wasn't a bad feeling. It was a feeling of strength and security. I liked it.
And the truth is this. Even if you never go anywhere, there are times in your life when you are outside the inner circle. You are the "other." In relationships, the other person is, by definition, the other. A man is other to a woman. A lesbian lover is other to the woman she calls partner. An employee is other than his boss. Sometimes just acknowledging this otherness helps ease tension. You can't change it, maybe you shouldn't, so what you can do is observe it and reflect on it, and understand that you are just as "other" as anyone else. Always fitting in, always being like everyone else—well, that would be downright debilitating, I would think. The fear of crossing a line, not being accepted, not seeing yourself reflected everywhere would be stifling. Stepping outside the accepted definition of yourself is a bracing experience, and in our lives, despite our geographical locations, we have to do it to survive and thrive.
I'm not always perfectly comfortable, and my life is by no means free of frustration. But I feel comfortable being the different one. And to tell you the truth, I feel lucky to wear this mantle.
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The James Hutton Institute has just launched Buntata, a free Android app to help potato growers identify plant pests and diseases in the field.
Produced by the Institute with support from the University of St Andrews Impact Accelerator Award and named after the Scottish Gaelic word for potato, Buntata is flexible enough to be used even without mobile coverage.
Through downloadable datasets, the app helps identify potato pests and diseases easily and suggests further resources for growers to consult if they want to confirm the diagnosis, according to the James Hutton Institute.
Professor Lesley Torrance, director of science at the institute and member of the Buntata development team, said: “The motivation for creating Buntata is to address the specific needs of smallholder potato farmers in Africa who have limited resources.
“There is no need to have prior knowledge of the pest, disease or other disorder as the app is designed to allow the farmer to match the symptoms of their potato plant or pest to symptoms in the database and it is mobile enough to be deployed in the field.
“Buntata is a collaborative effort between the University of St Andrews and the James Hutton Institute to enable open access to our information resources and put them at the fingertips of potato growers. Although developed for potato, the Buntata format can be applied to other crops.”
Buntata can be downloaded from Google Play at play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.hutton.ics.buntata.
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A fix for L.A.’s homeless crisis isn’t cheap. Will voters go for $1.2 billion in borrowing?
For years, many Los Angeles residents have watched with alarm as homeless encampments spread across the city, from the sidewalks of skid row to alleys in South Los Angeles, behind shopping centers in the Valley and even on the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean.
Next month, voters will have to decide whether these concerns are strong enough to approve a new tax to fight homelessness.
The ballot measure culminated more than a year of discussion and debate at City Hall and beyond aimed at getting past the rhetoric and putting significant money behind solutions to the homeless crisis.
It marks a major concession from city leaders that they cannot deal with the problem with existing city resources and need property owners to help foot the bill to move people out of homelessness.
Proposition HHH on the November ballot asks voters to authorize $1.2 billion in borrowing over 10 years to jump-start the construction of 10,000 apartment units with on-site social and clinical services for thousands of chronically homeless people.
Dozens of homeless services agencies, for-profit and nonprofit developers, city and county officials, labor unions, clerics and business leaders are backing the measure as the prime feature of plans to end the homelessness crisis.
Buoyed by several polls this year showing that homelessness has moved to the top of residents’ concerns, the “Yes on HHH End Homelessness in L.A.” committee plans a million-dollar campaign to secure the two-thirds majority needed for passage. The campaign is co-chaired by United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
Opponents, who call the proposal “a giveaway to the politically connected developers,” have appeared at political forums but have not formed a campaign committee or raised funds.
Advocates for the homeless and providers of homeless housing see Proposition HHH as the means to finally do right by thousands of people who live on the streets because of mental illness, disability or addiction, and at the same time to remove the blight of homeless camps.
“Prop. HHH is the most significant effort ever undertaken to end chronic homelessness in Los Angeles,” campaign literature states. “It builds the safe housing with on-site supportive services — like mental health and substance abuse counseling — that we need to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty in our city.”
That enthusiasm reflects more than a decade of frustration over unfulfilled plans to build thousands of supportive housing units. A mounting body of research has shown that such housing reduces the drain on public services by getting people permanently off the streets.
But Proposition HHH is no quick or easy fix.
The bond funds may be spent only on housing construction, not on homeless services, and targets only the most challenged of the city’s estimated 28,000 homeless people. Because permanent supportive projects usually take three or more years to build, the earliest that the new housing would become available in significant numbers is likely to be 2020.
Calling homelessness “the greatest moral crisis that we face,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said the bond is a critical piece of the city’s homelessness plan, and “makes up for the cuts the federal government and state have made in affordable housing.”
The construction funds will free other dollars for services, he said.
To address other segments of the homeless population, the city has budgeted about $18 million this year for short-term housing for about 2,500 people, and hopes to create about 500 housing units for veterans in refurbished hotels by the end of 2017. Those funds would not come from the bond.
Rather than a solution in itself, HHH is seen as a key element in a long-range countywide housing program outlined in January by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — one also involving aggressive new spending by the county.
For short-term solutions, the city is pursuing a number of programs that essentially support street dwellers in place — building lockers for their possessions, contracting for mobile showers and toilets and providing designated parking spaces for people living in vehicles.
The county housing plan, projected to cost $1.4 billion, is designed to dovetail with the city’s. Along with health and social services, it includes growing expenditures each year for “rapid re-housing” to put those who are homeless immediately into housing.
Those measures would be partly funded by existing county revenues, but the Board of Supervisors is expected to seek a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the March 2017 ballot to complete the funding.
Phil Ansell, head of Los Angeles County’s homelessness initiative, said the county is also requesting commitments from local housing authorities of about 1,000 federal housing vouchers each year for the chronically homeless.
Combined, these efforts should begin to reduce street camps during 2017, Ansell said.
For its part, Proposition HHH has one main aim: to dramatically increase the rate at which about two dozen mostly nonprofit developers are able to build subsidized housing for people whose history of homelessness and other impairments precludes their living independently. The city is negotiating an agreement under which Los Angeles County would fund the services.
The housing includes space for on-site case managers and clinical services. Because of the added square footage as well as regulations associated with public financing, such housing generally takes longer to build, and costs more, than market-rate construction.
The homeless authority’s analysis concluded that L.A. County needs 25,000 units of permanent supportive housing, about 9,000 of which already exist.
Proposition HHH is designed to complete the city’s portion of the remaining gap, estimated at nearly 10,000.
Developers currently build about 300 units of supportive housing a year. The city hopes to triple that rate by contributing about $150,000 per unit — about a third of the cost — to supplement other local, state and federal grants, and federal tax credits purchased by investors.
Up to 20% of HHH funds could be spent on conventional affordable housing, without services. The measure also allows spending to build or buy shelters, but does not specify a limit. That would be among the questions to be considered by a citizen advisory committee to be appointed by Garcetti and the City Council.
In addition to priming the financing pump, Los Angeles officials are working on procedural changes to remove obstacles that can hold up projects for years. These include streamlining the planning and approval process, increasing the number of units that can be built without City Council review and providing excess city properties for development.
Proposition HHH opponents, representing anti-tax and neighborhood groups, assail the measure for creating a long-term obligation with little immediate impact on the presence of homeless people on the streets.
Bonds from the measure would add an average $9.64 for every $100,000 of a property’s assessed valuation annually for 29 years, the City Administrative Office estimated.
“Proposition HHH will not provide funds for operating homeless shelters, mental health or substance abuse treatment, or extra policing to protect residents from the ill effects of homeless encampments,” opponents argue in a ballot statement.
Jack Humphreville, budget analyst for the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, contends the city should budget funds from existing revenues rather than seek a new tax.
“All the guys downtown are saying this is a priority; they get out the violins, and yet they’re not making a priority in the budget,” Humphreville said.
The homelessness plan proposed by Los Angeles City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana originally included leased housing for about 5,000 chronically homeless people at a cost of $800 million over 10 years.
The City Council effectively abandoned that idea when it voted to raise money through a bond, which limits its use to capital projects.
Ultimately, proponents of Proposition HHH acknowledge, permanently ending homelessness will depend on two factors that are largely beyond city or county control: the economy and the housing supply.
A new recession could negate all the projections, said Santana. And even in an improving economy, the shortage of affordable housing in Los Angeles means there will always be homeless people.
Based on the annual survey of homeless people, the homeless authority estimates that about 156,000 people are homeless at some point every year.
In a tight rental market, three months is the average time required to relocate the newly homeless, meaning, the agency concluded, that nearly 14,000 people will always be homeless.
“Heavy investment in additional affordable and homeless housing development is needed in order for even this less than perfect equilibrium to be achieved,” the agency concluded.
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Los Angeles, CA – Award-winning French composer BRUNO COULAIS’ imaginative score to director Henry Selick’s CORALINE continues to garner critical acclaim. On Saturday he won for best score, beating Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning score Up. Coulais’ score takes the audience on a whimsical, beautiful yet eerie journey through CORALINE, a bizarre and darkly fantastic stop-motion film. For CORALINE, Coulais combines unusual rhythmic patterns, elegant string arrangements, piano, a children’s choir singing random French words and eclectic sounds. The composer has the disctinction of scoring two Oscar nominated Animated films this year, “Coraline” and “The Secret of Kells.” The mostly hand-drawn Irish indie, “The Secret of Kells” is a fable about a boy’s search for rare berries needed to make the ink to complete the legendary Book of Kells.
European maestro Bruno Coulais has received three César Awards (France’s equivalent of the Oscar®), including for LES CHORISTES, which earned Coulais an Academy Award® nomination. Coulais has scored many television series and received an Emmy® nomination for his work on the mini-series SOMETIMES IN APRIL.
Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music; eventually Coulais gravitated towards film music. The largest turning point in Coulais career came when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou on the documentary MICROCOSMOS; this film was very successful and made Coulais one of the most sought after composers in French film music.
Coulais’ musical style varies between different projects but there are some constant visible factors, including his taste for opera and for human voice (in particular that of children). Bruno Coulais’ recent projects include the French comedy LUCKY LUKE, Disney Nature’s OCEANS and the French drama VILLA AMALIA.


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CW-FIT: Implementing a Positive Behavior Support Group Contingency in Preschools
Agenda Number: Poster 109
CW-FIT, a group contingency involving PBS principles, was implemented in four preschool classrooms. CW-FIT was implemented with fidelity and was found to improve student on-task behavior and teacher praise rates and to be socially valid.
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Jury selection delayed in abortion doctor slaying
Prosecutors asked a judge Monday to prohibit the man accused of killing abortion doctor George Tiller from using voluntary manslaughter in his defense.
Judge Warren Wilbert set a hearing for this afternoon, postponing jury selection in the first-degree murder trial for two days. Jury selection was to have begun Monday.
On Friday, Wilbert said he could see a situation where testimony would require him to give the jury an option of less severe charges than premeditated murder, including involuntary manslaughter.
Scott Roeder, 51, is charged in the May 31 shooting death of Tiller, one of four doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions. Roeder said he killed Tiller to protect the unborn.
Kansas law defines voluntary manslaughter as the “unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force” during an intentional killing.
Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Kim Parker contended in her motion that case law indicated “the attacker must have an actual fear of an imminent attack, regardless of whether the belief is reasonable.”
Parker argued there was no immediate threat to the unborn because Tiller wasn’t shot at his clinic but in the foyer of his church.


Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ban On Sanctuary CitiesA federal appeals court has upheld the bulk of a Texas law targeting "sanctuary cities" that is backed by the Trump administration as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
San Francisco Mayor: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Is 'A Moron'Acting San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell didn't mince words when asked about U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speech that ripped state and local officials.
Supreme Court Won't Hear Trump Bid To End DACA ProgramThe Supreme Court said on Monday that it will stay out of the dispute concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for now, meaning the Trump administration may not be able to end the program March 5 as planned.
Historic Immigration Debate To Grip SenateThe Senate is set to begin debating immigration Monday evening, and in a rare occurrence for the upper chamber of Congress, no one is quite sure how that will go.
Pelosi Calls Spending Bill 'Good' -- But Still Isn't Voting For ItHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spent more than eight hours on the House floor Wednesday protesting the spending bill for not including an immigration package -- but then called the bill "good" during a news conference Thursday.
Shutdown Less Likely As Senate Closes In On Budget AgreementBuoyed by the sudden likelihood of a budget pact, lawmakers are on track avoid a repeat of last month's government shutdown — though President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the possibility of closing things down again if he can't have his way on immigration.
White House Rejects Bipartisan Immigration PlanThe White House is dismissing an immigration deal brokered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers as a non-starter just hours before it is expected to be formally introduced in the Senate.
New Justice Department Letter Threatens Fremont Over Sanctuary City StatusOfficials with the city of Fremont on Friday said they have received a second letter from the U.S. Justice Department threatening a possible subpoena for being a sanctuary city.
ICE To Target Undocumented Immigrants At California CourthousesThe feds laid out new guidelines for arresting undocumented immigrants and KPIX 5 has obtained the new directive from ICE.
Bay Area Sanctuary Communities Respond To New Pressure From Feds“San Francisco is proud to be a sanctuary city. We’re also in full compliance with federal immigration law,” San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
San Jose Officials Offer Resources With Looming Threat Of ICE RaidsSan Jose city officials and community leaders came together Wednesday at City Hall to emphasize their support for the immigrant community in Santa Clara County in response to recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid threats.
Harris, Progressives Fume After Vote To End Government ShutdownProgressive groups were incensed by the Senate's 81-18 vote Monday to reopen the government at the urging of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.


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Background: The life expectancy is an important measure for describing health status among population. Several studies from the United States and Europe showed the harm of smoking by describing the life expectancies with different smoking status. No such study is examined in Japan, the country with the world's highest life expectancy irrespective of high smoking rate among men. Methods: The abridged life table method was applied to calculate the life expectancies of men and women among different smoking status from age 40 until age 85. Age-specific mortality rates stratified by different smoking status were obtained from follow-up data from random sample in Japanese population (NIPPON DATA80). Results: Proportion of current smokers was 62.9% in men and 8.8% in women at the baseline survey in 1980. The life expectancies of 40-year-old never smokers, ex-smokers and current smokers were 42.1, 40.4, and 38.6 years in men and 45.6, 45.9, and 43.4 years in women. The life expectancy of 40-year-old men who smoked less than one pack per day was 39.0 and was longer than that of those who smoked one or two packs (38.8) and more than two packs (38.1). Conclusion: Life expectancy decreased gradually as the grade of smoking increased in the Japanese population.
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Response by Gil Silbermanv, Lawyer, technologist, social computer look here computer software business owner, on Quora,
He is dealing with loans, and a class that is relatively little of tiny companies that are attempting to attain one thing brand new and get big along with it. For all organizations, that loan financial obligation is just a money drain that means it is harder for business to achieve success and it is typically guaranteed by your own guarantee and security in the area of the business owner whom takes the mortgage, which significantly escalates the danger. Small company management loans, as an example, have become conservative, they do need individual guarantees, in addition they often like to cross-collateralize the loan against any other company and real-estate the debtor owns, which means that these are generally risking individual monetary collapse it will hurt their ability to obtain cash from any other source for themselves and their family, and.
Various other contexts, financial obligation may be the cheapest funding you may get. In case a concern that is going get that loan predicated on inventory or receivables, that is cash at 6-8 % yearly interest that stands apart for four weeks or two when required, rather than an equity investor that is dreaming about 100% return every year.
If you should be doing a far more old-fashioned company such as for instance property development, or building away a supermarket, you might be a lot better with financial obligation funding than equity funding. As opposed to giving out 50% of this continuing business for fifty per cent of a million bucks, you’ll borrow a million bucks and repay $1.1 million in a few years. In the event that business fails, you will be similar in either case, $0. In the event that ongoing company succeeds, at this point you have actually 100% of a $3.9 million business, state ($5M without the $1.1m to pay for right right back) in place of 50% of the $5 million company.
One of the primary factors that cause company failure will be undercapitalized, it really is difficult to discover how he is able to state otherwise. Whenever you go out of money you come to an end of money, no matter what lucrative your organization, just how well you may be operating it, or simply how much prospective it offers.
Cuban is right that folks significantly underestimate the dedication, time and effort, time, and value to getting into business. If that loan is simple cash it may facilitate bad choices, along with to pay for straight right back in the course of time. That is true with equity financing or bootstrapping too, however in those situations you do not have a bank once you.
Response by Leonid S. Knyshov, CEO of consumer acquisition, sales engagement, and catastrophe readiness startups, assisted a great many other startups, Worked at NASDAQ-listed startup, on Quora,
Getting that loan to begin an unverified company is certainly a bad concept. Acquiring that loan to start out a franchise location frequently is just an idea that is good.
Nonetheless. Addititionally there is an advertising issue banking institutions have actually. I’m able to get company credit without any documents. A company loan will frequently have even worse terms and need a lot of paperwork.
Functionally, a continuing company charge card is a type of a loan. Business loan origination procedure is with in dire need of an overhaul.
We accept Mark. For computer pc software company, the thing you need is just a clickable prototype that is compelling adequate to produce product sales before application is prepared.
For brick and mortar small enterprises, well, you want startup money. The potential business owner could start thinking about starting numerous organizations.
For instance, let me reveal my plan, that will be susceptible to change.
- Publish Sendlinks at starting cost of $0.25/transaction–pure SaaS, near zero cost
- Publish Vostimonial at beginning cost of $10/transaction–requires humans, can not manage them at first. This limitation forced me to find out just exactly what else I am able to build to get that capital.
- Establish my Flatrate Helpdesk business–requires high priced staff to succeed, can not actually do just about anything in the scale I envision with lower than $500,000 in money.
- Release my ebikes business–requires a lot of money since you need certainly to purchase containers saturated in bikes, have mechanic shop staff, spend money on engineering, build facilities, an such like.
- Get my personal school system operational–and by this time our company is dealing with severe cash.
Like many business owners, i wish to replace the world. Ergo the thing is my final 3 initiatives which are a lot more of a general public service (eliminate the worries associated with making use of computers, reduce automobile traffic, lead by instance just just how training can be carried out (too radical for the time being become implementable in public places schools)). Nonetheless, dealing with that time will demand plenty of cash plus they are not at all something that the VC would ordinarily get worked up about.
Numerous business owners take to start at step two and extremely a lot more like step three, which calls for significant money, but just what they want is always to find out the original company they could begin that doesn’t need money investment.
Why don’t we simply take the example that is typical of restaurant. It takes staff, property, and location. The greater location, the greater amount of lease you will spend. In the event that you made $0 today, you will definitely nevertheless need to spend your fixed costs in salaries and lease.
Having said that, we now have catering organizations. A catering business might be based anywhere within the driving distance, will pay for the employment of a provided commercial home by the hour, and does not have fixed expenses aside from workers who are able to be part-time or contractors.
In the event that business owner is skilled at marketing, she can create a extremely effective catering business from scratch with zero investment and a much greater margin of profit when compared to a restaurant. They can pay their staff and the commercial kitchen from that deposit and enjoy significant profits if they require a deposit for a catered wedding.
Numerous prospective restaurateurs don’t recognize that there are some other methods to be into the meals company and in addition they have stuck in the « we require that loan » component.
Just exactly exactly What do people consider Mark Cuban’s remark, « just morons begin a company on financing? « : initially showed up on Quora: The best solution to virtually any concern. Ask a question, get yourself a great response. Study on experts and get insider knowledge. You are able to follow Quora on Twitter, Twitter, and Google+. More questions:

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CITY GUIDE: MICHIGAN AVENUE | The historic Chicago Athletic Association hotel, set in the heart of Chicago’s Loop, has the fortune of being located on one of the greatest urban thoroughfares in the world: Michigan Avenue. Our downtown hotel, which has a fantastic collection of restaurants and an intimate speakeasy bar with the Milk Room, actually first opened in 1893 as an exclusive men’s social and sport club. That same year, the Art Institute of Chicago, also on Michigan Avenue, welcomed its first visitors. Since then, it has curated one of the world’s best collections of art with pieces from masters and modernists alike.
Stroll north from our downtown hotel and find countless restaurants, bars and museums. In addition to the Art Institute and its Modern Wing, the Museum of Contemporary Art sits just off Michigan Avenue near Water Tower Place, which also houses the Chicago Sports Museum. Michigan Avenue has world-class shopping with upscale shops including Gucci, Chanel and Burberry alongside everyday contemporary stores like H&M, Gap and Uniqlo. When hunger hits, your dining options abound from the always-hopping Purple Pig with its Mediterranean-inspired menu; sweeping views at the upscale Signature Room at the 95th; the elegant art-filled Marisol at the MCA; quick-service Asian buns at Wow Bao; Michelin-starred Italian restaurant Spiaggia, where the Obamas have dined; and countless more upscale and casual eateries and taverns on and just off the avenue.
And, as you should always do in Chicago, check out the iconic architecture along Michigan Avenue including the John Hancock Center, Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building. You can even take a walking tour through the Chicago Architecture Foundation to get deeper information.

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Facts of Kim Wayans
|Full Name||Kim Wayans|
|Birth Name||Kim N. Wayans|
|Profession||Actress, Producer, Writer|
|Birth City||New York City, New York|
|Birth Country||United States of America|
|Father Name||Howell Wayans|
|Mother Name||Elvira Wayans|
|Filmography||In Living Color,Dance Flick,The Wayans Bros.,Reckless|
|Date of Birth||October 16,1961|
How Much Is The Net Worth Of An American Actress Kim Wayans?
American actress Kim Wayans is best known for playing the various roles in the sketch comedy show In Living Color. Similarly, she is also recognized for the portrayal of Tonia Harris in an American sitcom In the House and the family matriarch of The Wayans Family.
Besides that, Kim is also a professional comedian, producer, writer, and director. As of March 2020, she has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Kim Wayans began his acting career playing a minor role in the film Hollywood Shuffle. After that, the same year, she made a debut playing Allison on the television series A Different World. Also, she featured in films and TV series, Cathy, Cathy’s Last Resort, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, and Dream On.
Then, from 1990 to 1993, Wayans portrayed various roles on the television series In Living Color and came to the limelight. Again, the actress worked in Floundering and A Low Down Dirty Shame. Likewise, from 1995 to 1998, she played Tonia Riley Harris on the TV series In the House and Cousin Shelia on the show The Wayans Bros.
Additionally, Kim also gives her voice on the television series Waynehead. Also, her voice is used in Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness and Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-Roc’s Street. Furthermore, she is also a part of the films and series such as Dance Flick, Pariah, Criminal Minds, Reckless, New Girl, The Breaks, and Boomerang.
Besides an actress, Kim is also a writer and producer. As a writer, she has worked in TV series My Wife and Kids, Soul Train Comedy Awards, and In Living Color. Likewise, she also wrote the kids' book series Amy Hodgepodge. Also, the producer TV film Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness and My Wife and Kids.
In Living Color star, Kim lives a luxurious life without any doubt. As per the reports, she owns a house in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom. The average price of a home in London is $361.44 or £290.2.
The Wayans Family
Kim Wayans was born Kim N. Wayans on October 16, 1961, in New York City, New York, the United States to parents, Howell Wayans and Elvira Wayans.
Kim spent her childhood with her 9 siblings, and they are Dwayne Wayans, Elvira Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Nadia Wayans, Diedre Wayans, and Vonnie Wayans. All of her siblings are in the entertainment industry.
Talking about Wayan’s education, she attended Wesleyan University.
A Different World star Kim Wayans is married to Kevin Knotts. As per the reports, the couple worked as authors of the children's book Amy Hodgepodge.

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Generally, I think that this is dirty tricks in order to discredit their political opponents, – said Lyashko.
Specialized anti-corruption Prosecutor’s office acts on the instructions of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and trying to make the Radical party to join a parliamentary coalition or vote for the sale of agricultural land. This position was expressed by the head of the Radical party, Oleg Lyashko in the air “Evening Prime” on the TV channel “112 Ukraine”.
“What makes Holodnitsky, he does it on command Poroshenko, which he owes, which is headed by President Poroshenko, and he does it with one purpose – to discredit me as a political leader, and our team. Because, obviously, they want to drive us into a coalition, or perhaps they want us to vote for the law on the sale of land, for raising the retirement age. Generally, I think that this is dirty tricks in order to discredit their political opponents,” – said Lyashko.
We will remind, on April 24, Director of the NABU Sytnyk said about opening of criminal proceedings against Lyashko. Earlier media reported that the leader of the Radical party in the last year acquired real estate for approximately 20 million UAH.
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The preschool coloring pages are a very important source of learning before children go to school, the main advantage of it being the fact that is given at home and parents and grandparents play a very important role in it.The funny way of learning helps children memorize better the useful information and to apply what he learns in an easy way.They help children improving the motor skills,eye-hand coordination.Your preschooler will have fun while coloring the pages and will gain the love of learning by using crayons or coloured watercolors. If you want to have some good fun with your kids you should download some Coloring Pages from a good website. As he colors I tell him the names of the colors and he is already picking them up easily, especially his favourites Green and Brown. Every time he begins to use a word I have taught him I really get a unique buzz that you have to be a dad to understand. I really appreciate all the little contributions I can make. I also tell him the names of whatever he is currently coloring, like an arm, a leg, a tree, a bus and so on. All learning really comes from repetition so by saying these names over and over he will pick them up fast. In fact when the internet came initially people were less aware about its utility but now parents can get their kids wonderful growing opportunities. It can either be downloaded or can be used over monitor itself. And like all uncles, I am pretty much happy to do whatever makes her happy. So we surf the web and print out whichever Princess Coloring Pages she wants to work on that day.
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