Monday, November 25, 2013

Canceled policies could be a plus for new markets

aWASHINGTON (AP) — cancelaciones de seguro están alimentando una reacción política violenta contra el Presidente Barack Obama y los demócratas apoyan su salud overhaul.El Presidente se disculpó el jueves por algunos consumidores están pasando por la crisis, pero todavía puede haber una luz de esperanza en cuanto a la propia ley.Es economía 101, consecuencia de una decisión polémica política poco notado. Y hay ganadores y perdedores.Millones de personas que actualmente compran su propia cobertura de seguro médico están perdiendo el año que viene porque sus planes no cumplen los requisitos de la ley de cuidado de la salud. Pero los expertos dicen que el consiguiente desplazamiento de las personas en los nuevos mercados de seguros de salud bajo la ley de Obama podría atraer clientes ya conocidos por los aseguradores, reducir los riesgos financieros global para piscina seguros de cada estado.Es doloroso para quienes terminan pagando primas más altas por políticas mejoradas. Pero lo que podría ahorrar dinero de los contribuyentes que están subsidiando la nueva cobertura."Ya asegurados quienes rodar voluntad mejorar la piscina de riesgo, no daño," dijo David Axene, Consultor actuarial en California para planes de salud, hospitales, programas de gobierno y los empresarios.En comparación con los no asegurados, personas con cobertura son menos propensos a tener una necesidad contenida de servicios médicos, explicó. Puede haber ya tenían ese reemplazo de rodilla en lugar de cojeando alrededor de un bastón. También son más propensos a haber visto a un médico regularmente."Los actuales afiliados individual del mercado son definitivamente una buena adición a la piscina de riesgo," coincidió Larry Levitt, un experto seguro con la Kaiser Family Foundation no partidista.En algún momento, todos estos clientes tuvieron que pasar extensos exámenes médicos que las aseguradoras usan tradicionalmente para detectar a personas con problemas de salud. Dicha filtración ya no se permitirá a partir del próximo año, y una parte considerable de las personas sin seguro médico espera obtener cobertura bajo la ley de Obama tiene problemas de salud que les ha impedido conseguir cobertura. Van a estar los casos costosos.Obama había vendido su reacondicionamiento sanitario como una victoria de todo alrededor. Los estadounidenses sin seguro iba a coger cobertura y personas con seguro podrían mantener sus planes si les gustaron, dijo. En retrospectiva, el Presidente querría decir que podría mantener su plan mientras su compañía de seguros o su empleador no cambiar más allá de ciertos límites establecidos por el gobierno.La prueba resultó demasiado difícil para muchos planes comprados directamente por particulares, llevando a una ola de cancelaciones que afecta a por lo menos 3,5 millones de personas, basados en una encuesta de AP en la que aproximadamente la mitad de los Estados informaron datos."Siento que se encuentran en esta situación, basada en las garantías que tienen de mí," Obama dijo en una entrevista en NBC, añadiendo que el gobierno hará "todo lo posible" para ayudar.Los nuevos planes bajo la ley de Obama generalmente garantizan un conjunto más amplio de las prestaciones básicas y proporcionan una mayor protección financiera en caso de enfermedad catastrófica."Hay cambio en el mercado individual con las protecciones del consumidor que muchas personas nunca han disfrutado o experimentado", dijo la secretaria de salud y servicios humanos Kathleen Sebelius senadores esta semana.Pero mejor cobertura también cuesta más."El perdedor es el consumidor quién va a pagar primas más altas para subsidiar Obamacare, y que estaba pagando primas más bajas porque estaban en otro plan de antes," dijo Bob Laszewski, un consultor de la industria del cuidado médico crítico de la ley.Ian Hodge de temores de Lancaster, Pensilvania, que perderá clientes financieramente. Él y su esposa están en la década de los 60s, Hodge dijo que "realmente no nos preocupamos por la atención materna," uno de los beneficios garantizados en los nuevos planes. El Hodges hace poco recibí una notificación de cancelación y les preocupa que un nuevo plan puede cuesta los cientos de dólares más de lo que están pagando ahora."Nosotros somos las personas que el Presidente Obama quiere pagar más en salud y nosotros podemos subvencionar algunas de las personas que pagarán menos," dijo Hodge.Un nuevo análisis respalda su instinto. El estudio realizado por la Fundación familia Kaiser encontró que personas que ya tienen cobertura individual, como los Hodges, tienen menos probabilidades de calificar para los créditos fiscales que harán la cobertura más asequibles a través de los mercados de seguros de la ley de salud.Según los resultados, 73 por ciento de clientes potenciales que están asegurados serán elegibles para créditos fiscales que limitan sus primas a un porcentaje fijo de sus ingresos. Sin embargo, menos del 40 por ciento de aquellos que actualmente tienen seguro de salud individual calificará.En el Congreso, se espera la casa controlado por republicanos a votar la semana próxima sobre la legislación que permita las compañías de seguros a seguir vendiendo políticas individuales ya en existencia, incluso si caen debajo de la ley. La votación podría constituir una decisión difícil para los demócratas, que favorecen la ley pero también han sido críticos que no vive para arriba a la promesa de Obama.Por separado, la legislación del Senado prevé un retraso de un año en el requisito de la ley para las personas a adquirir un seguro o pagar una multa. Bajo la medida, respaldada por los senadores Mark Kirk, R -Illinois y Joe Manchin, D-W. Virginia, ese requisito entraría en vigor el 01 de enero de 2015.___Escritores de prensa asociados David Espo en Washington y Michael Rubinkam en Allentown, Pensilvania, contribuyeron con este reporte.Cuidado de la salud PolicyHealthBarack Obamahealth médicaCalidad seguro coverageSource: http://news.yahoo.com/canceled-policies-could-plus-markets-202405999--politics.htmlCategoría: chris brown Pretty Little Liars columbus día liberace dave chappelle

Google Voice numbers can now receive MMS from T-Mobile numbers

aGoogle announced that full MMS support will hit Google Voice in early 2014, but it has made at least one small step towards that goal today by adding T-Mobile MMS receive support. Just as has (theoretically) been the case with Sprint for some time now, Google Voice users receiving an MMS from a T-Mobile customer will have that picture emailed to them. You'll get a simple "MMS received" email to your Gmail account, along with the picture as an attachment, and you'll also get an SMS indicating that the picture was received.There doesn't seem to be any noticeable delay, and we've just tested it ourselves and it seems to work just fine. Now this certainly isn't the most elegant solution ever, and it doesn't help us with outgoing MMS from Google Voice numbers, but it at least means that now when your friends and family send you pictures you'll get them if they're on Sprint or T-Mobile.And now we play the waiting game until full-on MMS support comes to the service.Source: +Alex WiesenSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/2NVhCTXxLDA/story01.htmCategory: Pretty Little Liars   chicago bears   Cleveland Indians   Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball   USA vs Costa Rica  

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Tom Cruise talks relationship with Suri in lawsuit deposition

Outraged at claims by In Touch magazine that "abandoned" Suri after his divorce, Tom Cruise opened on their relationship in a statement submitted as part of their demand for $50 million against the Publisher.During the interrogation, the star of "Mission impossible" was asked by lawyers Publisher Bauer to admit that it did not see her daughter for more than 100 days of August 04, 2012 until Thanksgiving.Citing his schedule of filming "all you need is kill" in London, said the 50-year-old actor, "Unfortunately in this situation was impossible."However, he said that he called the girl almost every day, explaining, "you have to work on it. I have received very good in that. I tell wonderful stories. I also think that, you know, Suri is a child very happy and confident, and has a good sense of itself. "Questions about other situations where he was invited to visit, shared Tom, "things change and there are various agreements, as in any divorce, where you work schedules." It is only a set of different circumstances. That certainly doesn't mean that I have left my daughter." As an interesting note, the high-profile Scientology admitted that Suri not already practicing the controversial religion.Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/tom-cruise/tom-cruise-talks-relationship-suri-lawsuit-deposition-957521Tags: would New York Marathon when he was the first parachute jump?   Allison Micheletti miley cyrus Dick Van Dyke

Saturday, November 23, 2013

The Dinner Party

 Illustration bt Greg RuthWhen I make my grandmother’s breakfast casserole, I’m instantly transported to her bright, warm kitchen on Christmas morning, where it is her annual custom to make the sausage and egg dish along with cool ambrosia salad for breakfast. But at the same time, I’m also back in my little college kitchenette, mixing up the casserole as a birthday surprise for a boy who, as it would soon become apparent, did not like me as much as I liked him. Years later, a bittersweet note discernible only to me is unavoidably melted in with the Cheddar cheese and Worcestershire sauce.J. Bryan Lowder is the assistant editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section, and the editorial assistant for culture.The past’s tendency to seep into the meals of our present is a phenomenon well known to Luke Barr, an editor at Travel + Leisure and author of the gorgeous new book, Provence, 1970. Barr’s work is a novelistic account of the real winter of 1970-1971 that found American food luminaries Julia and Paul Child, influential cookbook authors Richard Olney and James Beard, Knopf editor Judith Jones, and beloved food writer M.F.K. Fisher—Barr’s great-aunt—gathered together, somewhat by serendipity, in the fragrant hills of Provence. There, over a series of dinner parties (Barr naturally includes the menus), side trips, and sightseeing, the group discussed recipes, wine, their careers, and the state of food culture in France and the United States.Barr is an excellent writer about the pleasures of cooking and food; there’s enough sizzle in his accounts of these dinners to allow an appreciation of Provence purely on the level of sensuality. It is not easy for me to admit Barr’s descriptions of cooking and eating have in some cases supplanted Julia Child’s own My Life in France in my fantasy repertoire. Late in the book, Simone Beck (Child’s cookbook partner and landlord) offers a New Year’s preparation of potée normande, a rich, multihour stew, which I will inevitably attempt over the holiday season:When the potée normande was done, Beck made a sauce with some of the cooking broth and heavy cream. This was then served over the thick slices of beef, pork, sausage, and chicken, along with the carrots and leeks. Large bowls were passed around, steam rising from the fragrant meat and soup.If that sounds good, know that Barr is even better with the pleasures present beyond the plate. His subtle appreciation for the many intrigues of a dinner party—how, for example, a host’s menu can serve as a shady philosophical argument as much as a tasty suite of courses—is delicious in a way that has nothing to do with the mousseline of sea urchins in aspic. Barr’s access to his great-aunt’s  detailed diaries and correspondence (in addition to the memoirs and papers of other characters and interviews with Judith Jones, the local driver, and Barr’s grandmother Norah) infuses Provence with a wonderful gossipy quality that’s as entertaining as it is humanizing, especially to mythic figures like Child. These people were clearly—and necessarily, given their taste-making professions—arrogant, judgmental, and snobbish (often, funnily, about “simplicity” in cooking), and yet none of them quite appreciated just how deeply their work would shake and shape American eating habits in the decades to come.For looming around these meals, in the shadows just beyond the candlelit table, was the open question of “what next?” By 1970, the innate glamour and long-unassailable preeminence of French cuisine was fading due to a variety of societal factors, and each member of the crew—who had all made their names “mastering” it in one way or another—was hungry for something new. Barr’s book, then, is a portrait of a pivot, a sumptuous record of an encounter not unlike those particle interactions depicted in a Feynman diagram in which the participants approach each other, glow furiously for an instant, and then depart the scene utterly changed. Photo by Benoit Peverelli courtesy Random HouseBarr’s careful presentation of his characters’ trajectories reveal Provence as an important work of cultural history in the guise of a foodie treat. He asks in his prologue: “Who can know where history actually happens, where or when exactly an idea takes root, or blossoms, or wilts away?” This book is an argument that it is as likely to happen in kitchens and wine cellars as in more traditional halls of power. And why not? As Barr points out, 1970 was a “combustible moment.” “So much was shifting in the larger culture—the politics of identity and style, the parameters of taste, of what it meant to be a sophisticated person,” he writes. Tradition and regimented learning were being replaced with experimentation and improvisation, the backlash against mass-production was strengthening, and the growing influence of multiculturalism suggested that the French way might be just one worthy approach among many. With all that flotsam floating in the air, some of it is bound to drift into the food and change it, and thus, us.Indeed, if Provence has one flaw, it’s Barr’s overzealous insistence on repetitive and unnecessary This moment would change American culture! signposts. In a story so carefully researched and lovingly controlled, we don’t need any extra directions to find our way from Child’s famous kitchen at La Pitchoune or Olney’s hideaway above Solliès-Toucas to the organic farmer’s markets, locavore-friendly CSAs, and light, modern “new American”(yet French-rooted) cooking that we enjoy today. A brief cameo by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in the final pages is more than enough to demonstrate the connection.But then again, I’m someone who already believes that food amounts to more than what fits on a fork. Barr is likely more interested in convincing less-sympathetic readers that good, thoughtful cooking—its reputation marred today by the more obnoxious strains of foodieism—is more than fussiness or extravagance; as the legacy of the tasty days chronicled in Provence, 1970 proves, small bites can have big consequences.Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/11/the_dinner_parties_in_provence_where_julia_child_james_beard_and_m_f_k_fisher.htmlRelated Topics: emmys   NFL Network   Liam Payne   ariana grande   Anna Kendrick  

FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats

aFILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.The FDA announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually phase out artificial trans fats, saying they are a threat to people's health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.Hamburg said that while the amount of trans fats in the country's diet has declined dramatically in the last decade, they "remain an area of significant public health concern." The trans fats have long been criticized by nutritionists, and New York City and other local governments have banned them.The agency isn't yet setting a timeline for the phase-out, but it will collect comments for two months before officials determine how long it will take. Different foods may have different timelines, depending how easy it is to find a substitute."We want to do it in a way that doesn't unduly disrupt markets," said Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for foods. Still, he says, the food "industry has demonstrated that it is, by and large, feasible to do."Though they have been removed from many items, the fats are still found in processed foods, including in some microwave popcorns and frozen pizzas, refrigerated doughs, cookies, biscuits and ready-to-use frostings. They are also sometimes used by restaurants that use the fats for frying. Many larger chains have phased them out, but smaller restaurants may still get food containing trans fats from suppliers.Trans fats are widely considered the worst kind for your heart, even worse than saturated fats, which also can contribute to heart disease. Trans fats are used both in processed food and in restaurants, often to improve the texture, shelf life or flavor of foods. Diners shouldn't be able to detect a taste difference if trans fats are replaced by other fats.To phase them out, the FDA said it had made a preliminary determination that trans fats no longer fall in the agency's "generally recognized as safe" category, which is reserved for thousands of additives that manufacturers can add to foods without FDA review. Once trans fats are off the list, anyone who wants to use them would have to petition the agency for a regulation allowing it, and that would likely not be approved.The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it more solid, which is why they are often called partially hydrogenated oils. The FDA is not targeting small amounts of trans fats that occur naturally in some meat and dairy products, because they would be too difficult to remove and aren't considered a major public health threat on their own.Scientists say there are no health benefits to trans fats and say they can raise levels of so-called "bad" cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease — the leading cause of death in the United States.Many companies have already phased out trans fats, prompted by new nutrition labels introduced by FDA in 2006 that list trans fats and an by an increasing number of local laws that have banned them. In 2011, Wal Mart pledged to remove all artificial trans fats from the foods the company sells by 2016.As a result of the local and federal efforts and many companies' willingness to remove them, consumers have slowly eaten fewer of the fats. According to the FDA, trans fat intake among American consumers declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to around one gram per day in 2012.Dr. Leon Bruner, chief scientist at the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said in a statement his group estimates that food manufacturers have voluntarily lowered the amount of trans fats in food products by 73 percent.The group, which represents the country's largest food companies, did not speculate on a reasonable timeline or speak to how difficult the move may be for some manufacturers. Bruner said in a statement that "consumers can be confident that their food is safe, and we look forward to working with the FDA to better understand their concerns and how our industry can better serve consumers."FDA officials say they have been working on trans fat issues for around 15 years — the first goal was to label them — and have been collecting data to justify a possible phase-out since just after President Barack Obama came into office in 2009.The advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest first petitioned FDA to ban trans fats nine years ago. The group's director, Michael Jacobson, says the move is "one of the most important lifesaving actions the FDA could take."He says the agency should try to move quickly as it determines a timeline."Six months or a year should be more than enough time, especially considering that companies have had a decade to figure out what to do," Jacobson said.___Follow Mary Clare Jalonick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mcjalonickAssociated PressSource: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2013-11-07-FDA-Trans%20Fats/id-26773dba998a47c388bc1d3b1148ceadTags: brett favre   Dancing With the Stars 2013   GTA 5 Cheats   Wrecking Ball   Ncaa Football Scores  

Friday, November 22, 2013

Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters

aabseil thessaly: Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand lettersabseil thessalyThursday, November 7, 2013 Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand lettersThe U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate committee.During the past 18 months, patent-assertion entities (PAEs), those firms with patent licensing as their primary business model, have been flooding U.S. businesses with letters alleging patent infringement, threatening lawsuits and demanding settlements in the tens of thousands of dollars, witnesses told the consumer protection subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Thursday.In many cases, the patent-demand letters have accused recipients of infringing “every-day technology” such as online shopping carts and Wi-Fi routers, said Julie Samuels, a senior staff attorney at the Electric Frontier Foundation. “These letters really had nothing to do with patent law,” she said. “They merely used the guise of patent law to conduct, frankly, run-of-the-mill extortion.”The PAE demand letters often don’t identity the owner of the patent or the patent the letter recipient is alleged to have infringed, said Mark Chandler, general counsel at Cisco Systems. Some PAEs are “charlatans, dressed up as innovators,” he said.“This is all about fraud,” said Jon Bruning, attorney general in Nebraska. “This is about extortion. This is about fear. For little companies ... it’s their life or death. For some guy who invested his last $100,000, this letter will take him down.”Call for actionChandler called on Congress to take action to rein in PAEs, often called patent trolls. Congress should require PAEs that send more than 10 demand letters to submit those letters to a proposed online registry run by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and lawmakers should require PAEs to identity the alleged infringing technology in the letters, he said.PAEs should also be required to disclose the names of the patent owners and to disclose all previous licensing agreements covering the patents, including any commitments to license the patents on fair and reasonable terms, he said.No PAEs appeared at the hearing, but some committee Republicans and witness Adam Mossoff, an intellectual property professor at the George Mason University School of Law, questioned the need for changes in patent law. Complaints about PAE demand letters are “anecdotal,” Mossoff said, and there’s little evidence of major harms to innovation or to consumers.Not so fastPatent licensing is a legitimate business that’s been around for over a century in a U.S. patent system that has helped create a huge innovation-based economy, Mossoff added. “Systemic changes to the patent system should not be based on rhetoric, anecdotes, invalid studies and incorrect claims about the historical and economic significance of patent licensing,” he said. “If there ever was a case where caution was called for, this is it.”Senators aren’t looking to write a major overhaul of patent law, but instead, to find remedies targeting PAE demand letters, said subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. Without some ways to identify PAE practices, it will be difficult to measure the problem, she said.Without new requirements to publish demand letters and identify patent holders, “how do we get beyond anecdotal?” she said. “How do we get at the problem?”If Congress addresses the issue, it needs to protect small inventors who may have patent licensing as their primary business option, said Senator Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican. “How do we make sure we aren’t harming, by trying to address the patent trolls, or decreasing the value of legitimate small innovators,” she said. “These people that start out of a garage and have such great ideas, that’s what America is all about.”Grant Gross, IDG News Service Reporter, IDG News Service Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service.More by Grant Gross, IDG News ServiceSubscribe to the Best of PCWorld NewsletterThank you for sharing this page.Sorry! There was an error emailing this pageSource: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062000/cisco-eff-call-on-congress-to-target-patenttroll-demand-letters.html#tk.rss_allTags: Giraffe   pirate bay   bob newhart   Madden 25   Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 11  Posted byruachoeli05at

Thursday, November 21, 2013

The UMMS researchers Centennial asks about the 3D structure of mitotic chromosomes







received very good in that. I tell wonderful stories. I also think that, you know, Suri is a child very happy and confident, and has a good sense of itself. "Questions about other situations where he was invited to visit, shared Tom, "things change and there are various agreements, as in any divorce, where you work schedules." It is only a set of different circumstances. That certainly doesn't mean that I have left my daughter." As an interesting note, the high-profile Scientology admitted that Suri not already practicing the controversial religion.Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/tom-cruise/tom-cruise-talks-relationship-suri-lawsuit-deposition-957521Tags: would New York Marathon when he was the first parachute jump?   Allison Micheletti miley cyrus Dick Van Dyke