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What's New - May 2011
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What's new at EBRI this month:
EBRI 2011 Spring Policy Forum: "Is There a Future for Retirement?" ["gavel to gavel" webcast - Prerecorded broadcast available through the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans]
"EBRI Now on Twitter" [EBRI Press Release, 2/6/09]
401(k) Balances and Changes Due to Market Volatility
May 2011 EBRI Issue Brief - "Retirement Income Adequacy With Immediate and Longevity Annuities"
May 2011 EBRI Notes - "IRA Asset Allocation" and "Characteristics of the CDHP Population, 2005-2010"
Sixth Edition of EBRI's Fundamentals of Employee Benefit Programs Is Now Available
New Survey Released March 19, 2008: Preparing for Their Future: A Look at the Financial State of Gen X and Gen Y - Press Release
What's new in employee benefits:
- Late-breaking news items from Business Insurance posted every business day
- Washington Report from the legislative research staff of Aon Hewitt Associates
- HR News Online -- a daily update from the Society for Human Resource Management
- Employee Plans News (IRS) [on retirement plans / current issue only]
- Tax Information for Retirement Plans Community (IRS)
- Topics for Retirement Plans (IRS)
Towers Watson U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts - Health and Welfare
- Towers Watson U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts - Retirement and Executive Compensation
The following items have been added to the Government Accountability Office's Web site in Portable Document (PDF) format:
Private Pensions: Some Key Features Lead to an Uneven Distribution of Benefits. GAO-11-333, March 30. Highlights.
The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2011 Update. GAO-11-451SP, March 18.
Private Health Insurance: Data on Application and Coverage Denials. GAO-11-268, March 16. Highlights.
401(k) Plans: Certain Investment Options and Practices That May Restrict Withdrawals Not Widely Understood. GAO-11-291, March 10. Highlights.
Financial Literacy: The Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make Sound Financial Choices, by Gene L. Dodaro, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-11-504T, April 12. Highlights.
401(k) Plans: Issues Involving Securities Lending in Plan Investments, by Charles A. Jeszeck, acting director, education, workforce, and income security, before the Senate Special Committee on Aging. GAO-11-359T, March 16. Highlights.
If a title link above no longer works, click here for the GAO home page and search for the report by keyword or report number. Click here to browse by date, topic, or agency. Searches for reports can also be conducted in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports Online via GPO Access database.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has established a National Call Center to serve its customers. By calling 1-866-4-USA-DOL, America's employees and employers can find answers to questions on a range of employment issues. This toll-free service offers live operator assistance and is a central access point for all DOL services and programs. It serves both English and Spanish speaking callers. The Call Center can assist workers and employers with questions about job loss, business closures, pay and leave, workplace injuries, safety and health, pension and health benefits, and reemployment rights for reservists.
Additional Department of Labor toll-free numbers to call for questions regarding specific issues are listed below:
1-877-US-2JOBS Job Loss, Layoffs, Business Closures, Unemployment Benefits and Job Training
1-866-4-US-WAGE Pay, Overtime, Leave and Child Labor
1-800-321-OSHA Workplace Safety and Health
1-877-889-5627 TTY number for all Department of Labor Questions
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that technical or procedural questions relating to retirement plans are answered at the EP Customer Account Services site. Answers to many questions may already be available under Retirement Plans Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). If not:
Call: TE/GE Customer Account Services at (877) 829-5500 (toll-free number).
The call center is open 8:00am to 6:30pm Eastern Time.
Write: Internal Revenue Service
TE/GE Division, Customer Service
P.O. Box 2508
Cincinnati, OH 45201
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Note: All questions submitted via e-mail must be responded to via telephone,
so please remember to include your phone number in your message.
[5/31/11] Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation:
- "From the PBGC Board of Directors: PBGC Board of Directors Approves New Investment Policy" [News Release]
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Investment Policy Statement -- May 2011
[5/31/11] PIMCO DC Dialogue™: "Washington at Work" ["In this PIMCO DC Dialogue, we talk with Ed Ferrigno, at The Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PSCA) in Washington D.C. about the legislative and regulatory issues which may impact defined contribution plans."]
[5/31/11] The Washington Post: "Study: Closing Tax Breaks for Retirement Would Do Little to Help Budget"
[5/31/11] BLS' Compensation and Working Conditions: "Health, Wellness, and Employee Assistance: A Holistic Approach to Employee Benefits"
[5/27/11] T. Rowe Price: 2011 Outlook: Retirement Plan Legislation and Regulations [Updated March 31, 2011]
[5/27/11] U.S. News & World Report [Blog]: "A Look at How IRA Owners Invest"
[5/27/11] Plan Sponsor:
[5/27/11] Pew Internet & American Life Project and California HealthCare Foundation: The Social Life of Health Information, 2011
[5/26/11] Prudential's Pension Analyst:
- "Compliance Checklist 2011 for Defined Benefit Plans, Defined Contribution Plans and 403(b) Plans That Are Subject to ERISA"
- "Compliance Checklist 2011 for Qualified Governmental and Nonelecting Church Plans, Non-ERISA 403(b) Plans, 457 Plans and Nonqualified Executive Benefit Plans That Are Not Subject to ERISA"
[5/26/11] Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: The Potential Impact of the Great Recession on Future Retirement Incomes [Working Paper]
[5/26/11] AARP Public Policy Institute: Recovering from the Great Recession: Long Struggle Ahead for Older Americans
[5/26/11] Business Insurance: "Half of Early Retiree Health Reimbursement Fund Paid Out: CMS"
[5/26/11] U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Health: Hearing titled "Expanding Health Care Options: Allowing Americans to Purchase Affordable Coverage Across State Lines" [Hearing held May 25, 2011, includes links to statements and testimonies]
[5/26/11] Kaiser Family Foundation: "Pulling It Together…Predictions" from Drew Altman
[5/25/11] Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: CCIIO Technical Guidance (CCIIO 2011--002): Questions and Answers Regarding the Medical Loss Ratio Interim Final Rule
[5/25/11] The Commonwealth Fund: Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform and the Role of States
[5/25/11] Health Affairs Health Policy Brief: "The CLASS Act. The long-term care insurance program created by the Affordable Care Act will be reshaped to address concerns about solvency."
[5/25/11] Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: The Funding of State and Local Pensions in 2010
[5/25/11] The Vanguard Group: Generations: Key Drivers of Investor Behavior
[5/25/11] USA Today:
- "Worried about Retirement? Online Calculators Can Help"
- "Baby Boomers Fear Outliving Retirement Savings"
[5/24/11] Milliman Inc.: 2011 Milliman Medical Index
[5/24/11] Plan Sponsor:
- "What's the Latest on the PPACA's Waiting Period Limitation?"
- "403(b) Plans Increase Use of Advisers and Online Communications"
[5/24/11] U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration: Proposed Extension of Information Collection Request Submitted for Public Comment; Consent to Receive Employee Benefit Plan Disclosure Electronically; Prohibited Transaction Exemption 86-128; Furnishing Documents to the Secretary of Labor on Request under ERISA Section 104(a)(6); Notice [as published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2011]
[5/24/11] Financial Engines: Understanding the Accidental Investor: Baby Boomers on Retirement
[5/24/11] Institutional Retirement Income Council: Evaluation Scorecard for Retirement Income Products
[5/24/11] Congressional Research Service: The Federal Budget: Issues for FY2011, FY2012, and Beyond
[5/23/11] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Rate Increase Disclosure and Review; Final rule with comment period [as published in the Federal Register on May 23, 2011]
[5/23/11] Kaiser Health News: "Health Insurance Rate Hikes Face Tougher Scrutiny"
[5/23/11] Principal Financial Group®: "New Data from The Principal Shows Impact of Automatic Enrollment in 401(k) Plans"
[5/23/11] The Segal Company: Survey of Calendar-Year [Multiemployer] Plans' 2011 Zone Status
[5/23/11] The Washington Post: "Federal Workers Late to Feel Pension Pinch"
[5/23/11] Kravitz: National Cash Balance Research Report 2011
[5/19/11] U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging:
- "Kohl, Enzi Offer Legislation to Protect 401(k) Retirement Savings" [News Release]
- Full text of "SEAL 401(k) Savings Act" [short title]
[5/19/11] Internal Revenue Service: Retirement News for Employers [Spring 2011]
[5/19/11] MarketWatch: "Get Ready for Social Security, Medicare Meltdowns -- Plan and prepare early to maximize benefits"
[5/19/11] Center for State & Local Government Excellence: Survey Findings: The Great Recession and the State and Local Government Workforce
[5/19/11] SEI: "SEI's Pension Lifecycle Meter Shows 60 Percent of US Corporate Pension Plans Are Closed to New Entrants"
[5/19/11] Pension Rights Center: Companies That Have Changed Their Defined Benefit Pension Plans [since December 2005]
[5/18/11] Internal Revenue Service: Rev. Proc. 2011-32 [2012 inflation adjusted amounts for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)]
[5/18/11] Kushner & Company: "2012 IRS HSA Limits Announced"
[5/18/11] Business Insurance: "Court Can't Alter CIGNA Cash Balance Plan: Supreme Court"
[5/18/11] Bloomberg: "Senate Bill Would Limit Using 401(k)s as Rainy-Day Funds"
[5/18/11] Aon Hewitt: Leakage of Participants' DC Assets: How Loans, Withdrawals, and Cashouts Are Eroding Retirement Income
[5/18/11] Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies: The New Retirement: Working -- 12th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey
[5/18/11] The Vanguard Group: "Vanguard DB Survey: Minimizing Risk Is the Sought-After Reward"
[5/18/11] Financial Finesse Reports: 2011 Research Financial Stress
[5/17/11] Towers Watson: Multinational Workforce Health: Building a Sustainable Global Strategy
[5/17/11] The Washington Post:
- "States Grapple with Health Insurance Exchanges"
- "Federal Pension Proposal May Make Public Sector Work Less Attractive, Observers Say"
[5/17/11] Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for a Secure Retirement: Middle-Income Boomers, Financial Security and the New Retirement
[5/17/11] National Academy of Social Insurance:
- Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2011 Trustees Report
- Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2011 Trustees Report
[5/16/11] The Washington Post: "Medicare Funds Will Be Depleted in 13 Years, Report Says"
[5/16/11] CQ Roll Call Group: "Means Testing for Medicare, Once Shunned, Is Now Being Embraced"
[5/16/11] GuideStone® Financial Resources: "Retirement in Today's Economy" [EBRI President & CEO Dallas Salisbury participated in this panel discussion in March 2011, now available via webcast.]
[5/16/11] OECD: Pensions at a Glance 2011: Retirement-Income Systems in OECD and G20 Countries
[5/13/11] Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees:
- Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs: A Summary of the 2011 Annual Reports
- 2011 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds
- 2011 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
[5/13/11] Milliman Inc.: 2011 Key Administrative Dates and Deadlines for Calendar-Year Multiemployer Defined-Benefit Plans
[5/13/11] Healthcare Town Hall [Milliman Blog]: "Healthcare Costs for Typical Family of Four Double"
[5/13/11] National Center for Policy Analysis: How Health Reform Affects Current and Future Retirees
[5/13/11] Alliance for Health Reform: Covering Health Issues: A Sourcebook for Journalists, 6 th Ed. (2011 Update)
[5/13/11] Aon Hewitt: Global Pension Risk Survey 2011: US Survey Findings
[5/13/11] Prudential Financial: New Research & Perspectives Website ["The new site showcases Prudential's thought leadership publications related to retirement, institutional investments, employee benefits, and selected financial products. This site provides a wide range of publications, including white papers, research reports, articles, op-eds, and reference materials."]
[5/12/11] Investment Company Institute: Defined Contribution Plan Participants' Activities, 2010
[5/12/11] MarketWatch: "401(k)s Grow, but Savers Are Still Worried -- Average account balance hits new high in Fidelity survey"
[5/12/11] Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index: Milliman Analysis: Corporate Pension Funded Status Falls as Interest Rates Drop in April
[5/12/11] Milken Institute and Financial Innovations Lab™ Report: Protecting Private Pensions and the Public Interest: Solutions for the Shortfalls in Employer-Sponsored Defined-Benefit Plans
[5/12/11] CQ Roll Call Group: "Health Law's Day in Court"
[5/12/11] U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Hearing titled "Perspectives on Deficit Reduction: Social Security" [Hearing held May 10, 2011, includes links to statements and testimonies]
[5/10/11] Milliman Inc.: Monthly Benefit News and Developments [May 2011]
[5/10/11] Buck Consultants' FYI: "IRS Releases Interim Guidance on W-2 Health Cost Reporting"
[5/10/11] CQ Roll Call Group: "Health Care Hearing Awaited"
[5/10/11] The Wall Street Journal:
- "When Benefits Bite Back" [re employers' promises of benefits such as pension payments and health care insurance]
- "Nest Egg: Break Here -- New services can help convert your retirement savings into a steady paycheck"
[5/9/11] Bureau of Labor Statistics Program Perspectives: High Deductible Health Plans: "A Growing Option in Private Industry"
[5/9/11] Urban Institute: Multi-state Health Insurance Exchanges
[5/9/11] The Segal Company's Compliance Alert: "IRS Guidance on Public Sector Defined Contribution Plans"
[5/9/11] Social Security Bulletin: "Defined Contribution Pension Participation and Contributions by Earnings Levels Using Administrative Data"
[5/9/11] 401khelpcenter [Guest Article]: "Five Things You Must Be Aware of as a Plan Fiduciary"
[5/9/11] Monterey County Herald: "Kenneth Petersen: Asset Classes in 401(k) Plans"
[5/6/11] Congressional Budget Office: The Underfunding of State and Local Pension Plans
[5/6/11] House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight: Hearing on "Transparency and Funding of State and Local Pension Plans" [Hearing held May 5, 2011, includes links to testimonies]
[5/6/11] Social Security Bulletin: "Assessment of Retirement Plan Coverage by Firm Size, Using W-2 Tax Records"
[5/6/11] Investment Company Institute: 2011 Investment Company Fact Book: A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry
[5/5/11] Sun Life Financial: Flying Blind: How Working Americans View Healthcare Costs in Retirement -- A Sun Life Financial Unretirement Survey
[5/5/11] Kaiser Family Foundation: Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [last modified April 14, 2011]
[5/5/11] The Commonwealth Fund: Realizing Health Reform's Potential: Will the Affordable Care Act Make Health Insurance Affordable?
[5/5/11] The Los Angeles Times: "Proposals Would Cut Benefits for California Employees 25% to 40%"
[5/5/11] Smart Money: "What's Gen X So Scared Of? Stocks"
[5/4/11] Internal Revenue Service: Request for Comments on Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage (Section 4980H) [Notice 2011-36] – [Deadline for comments is June 17, 2011]
[5/4/11] Business Insurance: "Treasury Plan Would Help Determine Full-Time Workers for Health Coverage"
[5/4/11] Kaiser Health News: "At Least 600,000 Young Adults Join Parents' Health Plans Under New Law"
[5/4/11] Vanguard Research & Commentary: "Autopilot Helps Participation, But Saving Rates May Still Be Running Low"
[5/4/11] Plan Sponsor: "Research Shows Women Getting a Jump on Retirement Readiness"
[5/3/11] National Center for Employee Ownership: "The Employee Ownership 100: America's Largest Majority Employee-Owned Companies"
[5/3/11] Plan Sponsor: "Wealth Change during Recession Led to Changes in Plans for Retirement"
[5/3/11] Employee Benefit Adviser: "Uncomfort Level -- Numerous factors are hampering widespread acceptance of annuities within 401(k) plans"
[5/3/11] Morningstar®: Target-Date Series Research Paper: 2011 Industry Survey
[5/3/11] AdvisorOne: "Rule 408(b)(2) Amendments 'Fully Drafted' at DOL"
[5/3/11] Retirement Town Hall [Milliman Blog]: "Basic Questions and Answers about Lump Sum Distributions"
[5/2/11] National Business Group on Health: Consumer-Directed Health Care: The Employer Perspective
[5/2/11] Kaiser Family Foundation:
- Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- April 2011
- "Health Care Spending in the United States and Selected OECD Countries"
[5/2/11] Towers Watson Insider:
- "State and Federal Income Tax Treatment of Adult Child Coverage May Differ"
- "TW Pension 100: 2010 Disclosures of Funding, Discount Rates, Asset Allocations and Contributions"
[5/2/11] Financial Finesse Reports: Q1 2011 Research -- Research on Financial Trends
Updated 5/31/11


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A large non-profit professional association for massage therapists, massage students and massage schools, the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) takes a three-pronged approach to advancing the profession.
This approach focuses on ethics and standards, the promotion of fair and consistent licensing of massage therapists in all states, and public education on the benefits of massage.
The American Massage Therapy Association works to improve each of these three areas under the direction of volunteer leadership, along with the direct involvement of members from each chapter of the association.
According to a demographic study of AMTA members, the association is predominantly female—around 85 percent of the members are women and around 15 percent are men. As for the age of AMTA members, 50 percent of them are between ages 35 and 54, with a median age of 49 years. One percent of the association's members are ages 18 to 24, and 36 percent are ages 55 and older.
The demographic study of AMTA members also revealed that 74 percent are sole practitioners with their own businesses. Another 22 percent of American Massage Therapy Association members are self-employed contractors, and 25 percent of them work as employees.
The place of practice for AMTA members varies, with about 38 percent going to the client's location and another 38 percent practicing in their own homes. Around 36 percent of American Massage Therapy Association members have a private practice solo office, and 25 percent work in a health-care facility.
Other practice locales include spas and salons, where 23 percent of AMTA members work. Nine percent of the association's massage therapists work in health clubs, and the remaining four percent work in massage-therapy franchises or chains.
Besides serving as one of the main professional organizations for the massage therapy industry and working to advance the field, AMTA also offers a number of member services, one of which is the sale of professional liability insurance coverage.
AMTA insurance is available to the members of this professional organization, and the policy covers professional liability, general liability, products coverage and personal injury. Their insurance policy also covers massage therapists who work as estheticians or yoga instructors as well.
Student members of the American Massage Therapy Association can receive AMTA insurance with professional and general liability coverage for school-sponsored or sanctioned activities. Upon graduation, these members may then upgrade to graduate membership for extended AMTA liability insurance coverage.
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Movie makers defy 'Don't touch this story' warnings
'October Baby' reaching screens with stunning surviving abortion message
When Jon and Andrew Erwin worked as cameramen for ESPN, made TV commercials, music videos and then a TV pilot, these brothers from Birmingham, Ala., had no designs for making a feature film about an abortion survivor.
But tomorrow, their first feature film, "October Baby," opens in cities and towns in 40 states across America.
Director Andrew Erwin and actors John Schneider, Rachel Hendrix and Jason Burkey spoke to WND about the film, the surprising audience reactions and their hopes for "October Baby."
"As a filmmaker you have to find your story, but most of the time it finds you," Andrew Erwin told WND. "Jon and I are both pro-life and very passionate about the issue, but never really thought that would be our first feature film because it's a risky topic.
"Jon heard Gianna Jessen share her story as an abortion survivor. He first heard her online, then at a banquet – and he was so captivated because he didn't really understand those two words, 'abortion' and 'survivor,' could go together."
As Andrew tells it, the more Jon researched abortion survivors, the more he wanted to write and co-direct "October Baby," a fictional coming-of-age love story inspired by Jessen's survival, abortion injuries, adoption and zeal for life.
"Jon co-wrote 'October Baby' with Theresa Preston and put the first draft on my desk," explained Andrew. "I read it, couldn't put it down and said 'I have to direct this movie!'"
Rachel Hendrix stars as Hannah, a 19-year-old college freshman who steps onstage for her theatrical debut. Before she can utter her first lines, Hannah collapses and goes into convulsions – stunning the audience, including her parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price).
After medical tests, all signs point to one underlying factor: Hannah's difficult birth. To Hannah's shock, her parents reveal she was actually adopted after a failed abortion attempt.
Instead of being grateful, Hannah feels somewhat betrayed by her parents and turns to her lifelong friend Jason (Jason Burkey), who takes her on a spring break road trip with some quirky characters (including Chris Sligh as Bmac). On the road, Jason helps Hannah to find her birth mother (Shari Rigby). And along the way, Hannah meets Mary (Jasmine Guy), a nurse who essentially tells Hannah her life is more significant than she could have imagined.
"Now that the film has been made, it's not what people expect," Andrew Erwin explained. "But in the initial development stages, people told us 'Don't touch this story. This is too risky. Move on to something safe for your first film.' We thought about it, but this one just so grabbed our hearts, we had to tell this story whether it was risky or not.
"When it was finished, we showed 'October Baby' to the studios. One of the executives at a studio where we thought it was gonna end up said, 'Jon, I love your story. I love the way it was told. I love the acting. You've proven that you can make a feature film. But we won't touch this subject because it's hard to pitch around at the cocktail parties.'"
The "October Baby" trailer:
When the Erwins asked what they should do, the Hollywood exec answered: "Sell this one off cheap, get whatever you can, let's move on to the next one and then we'll talk."
Instead, the Erwins went around the studio system and independently released their film with financial help from the American Family Association.
"Because of it," said Andrew, "we've maintained the integrity of the story we wanted to tell."
John Schneider admires the Erwins' independence.
He said, "Gutsy films can only be produced independently because they're not committee films."
In addition to "October Baby," Schneider stars in the mystical thriller "Doonby" and plays characters in other recent indie films, including "I Am Gabriel," a family film with "Doonby" co-star Jenn Gotzon and Dean Cain; "Hardflip" a skateboarding drama with Rosanna Arquette; and "Not Today," the story of a self-centered American party boy who goes to India and decides to rescue a little girl from slavery.
He explained, "I never heard about failed abortions or 'abortion survivors' before 'October Baby.' I want people to consider their choices – consider their actions – and be educated about the long-term effects of choices, both good and bad.
"'October Baby' is gorgeous," Schneider added. "I think it'll work well mainstream because it's a good story.
"The really amazing thing about the movie is that the Erwin brothers did not point any fingers at anybody. In fact, they said you are a person in need of and worthy of forgiveness regardless of what you may have done."
Rachel Hendrix agrees. She's known the Erwin brothers since she went to art school with Andrew's wife. After they featured her in a music video, then a TV pilot with Jason Burkey, she considers the Erwins family.
Thus, she said, "I agreed to take the part in the film before I knew what it was about. With the story being so great, I would have been crazy not to take it.
"Now, after the encounters I've been having with people, I'm blown away because I didn't know 'October Baby' would have such power. It's immediate after the film. Usually two or three women come to me, and a man goes to Jon the director or Jason the actor. And they say, 'Let me tell you what this film did for me,'" said Hendrix.
"My biggest hope is that the concept of the film will not be about abortion, but about forgiveness – and not be about whether you're pro-life or pro-choice or a politician who's conservative or who wants change. My biggest hope is that whoever you are, whatever you think, whatever you believe, you can wrap your head around the power of forgiveness and how that's the center of the film."
Burkey said the Erwins sent him the script for "October Baby," and "they had written these parts for Rachel and I, and a lot of other characters in the film."
"So I said, 'Yeah. Where do I sign? I would love to work with you guys again.' And then, as I was reading the script, I was kind of floored because, probably like a lot of people, I hadn't heard of an abortion survivor.
"What I liked about the script is that it wasn't preachy. It wasn't throwing anything in your face – I think there are some faith-based films that are a little more preachy, they are telling you what to think or what believe. But this is just a good story of hope, of forgiveness, of love – and that's what attracted me to it," said Burkey.
"As we've been doing screenings and more and more people are seeing the film, we're hearing stories of people who are really actually being healed by watching this film because it relates to their life in some way, to abortion in some way, because it's kind of forcing them to face these secrets they've held all their lives.
"So I just hope that the film will continue to bring healing, that it will entertain people, and that people will truly enjoy it. I hope it sparks discussion and makes people more aware of abortion survivors – of the whole topic of abortion – like it did for me."
The Erwins have many hopes for "October Baby," especially that people will realize every human life is beautiful. The film opens tomorrow and tickets are available online.


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Published on January 22nd, 2009 | by Tom0
Next Up for the Internet: The Attention Rights Movement
In shorter supply than either fossil fuel or ozone, attention — our cognitive ability to focus on information — is being squandered, even stolen, everyday by desperate marketers, their bad advertising, unrelenting spam, and old imposition models.
The most recent report by leading IT media, research, and exposition company IDG shows that the Internet has now passed TV and print media in hours of attention consumed. Users polled exceeded 32 hours online per week compared to 16 for television and 4 for print. This is good news for the world of online media, but we are approaching a critical "jump point" in the power balance between producer and consumer.
As marketers and advertisers hungrily explore ways to monetize online attention, they face mounting challenges. Consumers have migrated online precisely because they want more control over the media they consume. The old bargain — content for attention — is broken. Empowered viewers now reject TV's standard promise of 22 minutes of content in exchange for eight minutes of brain-dead ads. With place- and time-shifting technology at their disposal, viewers, listeners, and readers do not want, nor need they endure, advertisements. As a result, online ads, be they behavioral, contextual, or declarative data-based, are all falling short. Give consumers the choice, and they would rather get information from a trusted friend or expert. This is giving the old Hollywood/Madison Avenue nexus fits. The ROI on a dollar of integrated advertising today, even when measurable, is dismal.
Worse yet, the information-overwhelmed prey are getting restless, even hostile. And for good reason. In many ways, unwanted interruption-based advertising is nothing short of a misdemeanor. Run an absurdly out-of-place banner ad over my page views, or punctuate my ballgame with, say, a feminine hygiene product spot, and I feel violated. You have wasted my attention, pilfering precious time and focus I could have reserved for dearer claims on my bandwidth, such as my family and friends. Simply put: Attention theft is a crime.
People like Michael Goldhaber have been writing about the Attention Economy for ten years. The very idea of an economy implies an exchange of value for value. It is not clear at this point what advertisers need to do to sweeten the attention bargain, but the current jig is up.
The global resistance movement is gaining steam, and, since the publication last week of my new book, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business, I have become an inconvenient truth-teller shedding light on the mounting consumer backlash. There are many efforts feeding the energy.
Over at my alma mater, Boston University, Professor Marshall Van Alstyne has advocated "attention bonds," whereby emailers would post bonds on the promise not to waste a recipient's time and attention with unwanted spam. At AttentionTrust.org, they are proposing an attention management utility that gives the user control over the deluge. Globally, we should pay heed to efforts in São Paolo, where all outdoor advertising has been banned as a blight on the landscape; or in Germany, where the "Informationelle Selbstbestimmung" (literally, Information Self-Determination) campaign has already resulted in national consumer-rights legislation. And, I suspect that SEO (search engine optimization) is next up in the cross-hairs, with practices like link farms, keyword stuffing, cloaking, and automated content generators and duplicators getting more consumer fraud scrutiny.
I am sure you'll want to debate me on this: Get in line. But first consider the following manifesto I am offering for the movement. Hard to disagree with these simple dignities:
- I am the sole owner of my attention.
- I have a right to compensation for my attention, value for value.
- Demands on my attention shall be transparent.
- I have a right to decide what information I want. And don't want.
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Tracing the development of progressive Catholic approaches to political and economic modernization, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy disputes standard interpretations of the Catholic response to democracy and modernity in the English-speaking world—particularly the conventional view that the Church was the servant of right-wing reactionaries and authoritarian, patriarchal structures.
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John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group of Valley Forge, Pa., recently warned the mutual fund industry that it will lose its cherished spot in the hearts of long-term investors if it doesn't become more accountable to shareholders.
Bogle was speaking at a recent forum in New York of the Financial Planning Association of Atlanta. Bogle told a ballroom of financial advisers that investors have more to blame than themselves. Bogle said fund managers played a role in the stock market's unrealistic buildup and subsequent implosion because they "uncritically accepted the hyped-up growth projections for technology, medical and telecommunication stocks, and piled them into the funds they manage[d]."
Moreover, Bogle said the industry fanned the fervor in the final years of the mania, creating 116 new technology funds - including 40 Internet funds and 12 Nasdaq QQQ funds - and 378 growth and aggressive growth funds.
If the fund industry is going to be successful in holding off competition from separately managed accounts and other threats to mutual funds, Bogle said the industry must get back to basics and strike a proper balance between stewardship and salesmanship.
First of all, he said, fund fees must come down. Although there has been no wave of reductions, Bogle said it must be obvious that investors are sending the majority of their cash to funds that have the highest "stewardship quotient."
He defines fund stewardship quotient as the following:
* The lowest fees on equity funds
* The greatest index fund orientation
* The strongest bond and money market line up
* The greatest reluctance to pander to public taste in new fund offerings
* The lowest portfolio turnover
* The greatest tax efficiency
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Bogle said even fund families that already have high stewardship quotients have room for improvement. "That improvement will come, day by day, week by week, year by year, as investors turn to firms" that indicate they care about them.
He warned the industry that fund fees would probably continue to suffer in poorly performing markets for the foreseeable future. Bogle said he anticipates equity returns to range from 4% to 8%, bond returns to yield 5% to 7% and money markets to return 3% to 4%.
Bogle titled his speech, "The End of Mutual Fund Dominance," based on a report that Forrester Research of Boston released last fall. The study projected that mutual fund assets will grow by 26% and separate account assets will grow by 400% by 2004, a year that could signal the fund industry's demise.
Quoting Mark Twain, Bogle said thoughts of such a death have been greatly exaggerated. "If it merely chooses to do so, the mutual fund industry can continue its dominance on the balance sheets of individual investors for as far ahead as the mind can imagine," he said.


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Prosecution unraveling in Zimmerman case
Exclusive: Jack Cashill covers latest facts media are having trouble ignoring
The headline of the Orlando Sentinel on March 5 introduced a harsh note of reality into the darkly comic opera the major media have been spinning around the death of Trayvon Martin, "Lawyer: State's main witness in George Zimmerman murder case lied."
That witness, Witness No. 8, Trayvon's alleged 16-year-old sweetheart "Dee Dee," captivated the media when the story surfaced on March 20, 2012.
CNN covered it live. Anchor Kyra Phillips enthused about the "chilling new perspective" added to the case by the testimony of this heartsick girl who was on the phone with Trayvon when he was shot by George Zimmerman.
Phillips then introduced CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin. Hostin had spoken with a Martin family attorney and shared with the CNN audience what he had learned.
"Trayvon Martin told his friend that someone was following him," said Hostin. "He was nervous. He was concerned. She explained to him that he should run. He told her he was not going to run, but he was going to walk quickly in an effort to get away from the person that he thought was pursuing him."
According to Hostin, Dee Dee heard Trayvon say to Zimmerman, "Why are you following me?" Right after this exchange, "She felt that someone had pushed or tackled Trayvon and, at that point, the phone call dropped."
Hostin summarized that this "was the last conversation that Trayvon Martin had with anyone, and it also, in my view, dispels the notion of self-defense."
A few minutes later, Phillips cut to a live press conference staged by Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Martin family. "She couldn't even go to his wake she was so sick," Crump said of Dee Dee. "Her mother had to take her to the hospital. She spent the night in the hospital. She is traumatized beyond anything you could imagine."
"She connects the dots," Crump continued. "She completely blows Zimmerman's absurd defense claim out of the water. She says that Trayvon says he's going to try to lose him. He's running trying to lose him. He tells her, I think I lost him. So, he's walking and then she says that he says very simply, oh, he's right behind me. He's right behind me again."
Not only was Dee Dee traumatized, but according to Crump, she was also a "minor." Given that combination, Crump asked the media to respect her privacy.
In fact, the media did not need to be asked. Dee Dee, as filtered through Crump, provided the confirmation they needed to establish the narrative they wanted: racist thug – not quite white, but close enough – kills innocent Skittles-bearing black boy.
This was Emmett Till all over again, proof for the black grievance industry and the reporters who enabled it that nothing indeed had changed since Till's brutal murder in Mississippi nearly 60 years prior. Why question Dee Dee?
Of course, the blogosphere busted the "Dee Dee" concoction months ago – kudos especially to the blogging collective at theconservativetreehouse.com – but the major media, as is their custom with inconvenient facts, chose not to know any more than they had to.
Unlike, say, Benghazi or Fast and Furious, however, the Zimmerman case is playing out in the court of law, and not just in the court of public opinion. Given this reality, the media cannot control the narrative as they might otherwise do.
On Tuesday, Zimmerman's attorneys had been expected to ask Dee Dee to produce her medical records proving that she was in the hospital right after the shooting. Before the hearing, however, the state conceded there are no medical records.
As the Sentinel reported, prosecutors "had to publicly acknowledge that their star witness had lied under oath and had to answer questions about what they intend to do about it."
One reporter had the temerity to ask the state's lead prosecutor, Bernie de la Rionda, "Will you charge the 19-year-old Miami woman with perjury?" He answered evasively, "You can all read the law and make your own decision."
The sharp-eyed reader will notice that Dee Dee was casually referred to as a "19-year-old Miami woman." As the Sentinel also acknowledged, Crump had told reporters last March, "that she was 16 years old. In fact, she was 18 at the time."
According to the Sentinel, "Crump has said he did not knowingly misrepresent her age," but recall that in his initial press conference, Crump had asked the media to respect Dee Dee's privacy because she was a minor. He had a vested interest in presenting her as a 16-year-old.
Had Dee Dee told the truth about her age and her relationship with Trayvon Martin last March, we might never have heard the name "Trayvon Martin," but this is an evil genie that cannot be put back in a bottle.
Fasten your seat belts. There is more to come.
Note: Jack Cashill is currently working on a new book for WND Books, "If I Had A Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman."


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TRENTON – The Division on Civil Rights will host a public forum at Essex County College on Saturday to promote awareness among veterans and active military personnel of their rights under the state's Law Against Discrimination (LAD), as well as their recourse if they believe those rights have been violated, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced today.
The forum, a collaborative effort with American Legion Guyton Callahan Post 152, will take place Saturday from 9:30 a.m. through 1 p.m. The event is part of a continuing Division on Civil Rights initiative designed to help those who have served in the military and — upon returning to civilian life – encountered discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere.
"This is one way of giving back to those who have served their country," said Chiesa. "Many people recognize that certain kinds of discrimination – discrimination based on gender, race or religion, for example, is against the law. Through forums like this one, we intend to spread the word that discrimination against someone because he or she has answered the call to military duty can also be a violation."
Working in conjunction with the American Legion of New Jersey, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and other stakeholders, the Division on Civil Rights held an earlier public forum for military veterans at the American Legion Post in Lawrenceville, Mercer County. Additional public forums at other locations, as well as other events and activities focused on veterans' rights, will be held throughout 2012.
Chiesa explained that one concern underlying the outreach effort is that discrimination against military personnel may go unreported due to a lack of awareness of the protections afforded by the law. For example, he noted, some military members may not realize that an employee cannot be fired, demoted or removed from promotional consideration simply because he or she is absent from work fulfilling a service obligation.
In developing the veterans' outreach program, the Division on Civil Rights worked closely with Bob Looby, American Legion Past State Commander, and Corrado Gigante, Director of EEOC's Newark Regional Office, as well as representatives from the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Essex County College is located at 303 University Avenue in Newark. Saturday's seminar will be held in the college's main building, in the multi-purpose room located on the 4th floor.
Chiesa thanked Division on Civil Rights Director Craig Sashihara and Assistant Director Phillip Freeman, who heads the Division's Bureau of Prevention, Outreach and Public Education, for their work on the veterans' initiative.
Anyone seeking to file a formal discrimination complaint can do so by visiting one of the Division's four regional offices located in Atlantic City, Camden, Trenton and Newark. For additional information, visit the Division's Web site at: www.NJCivilRights.org .
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LONDON — With Dwight Howard out West and Andrew Bynum never guaranteed to be healthy, Knicks starting center Tyson Chandler may get a chance to be voted in as an All-Star by fans.
Chandler never has appeared in an All-Star Game, let alone started one. But his NBA championship two seasons ago with Dallas, his Defensive-Player-of-the-Year season with the Knicks and his role as starting center for the Olympic Team has boosted his profile.
Asked if he's now the best center in the East, Chandler said, "That's a good question. We'll see. Time will tell. I'll have an opportunity to prove myself this year and I'm looking forward to it.''
Chandler and new Sixers center Bynum will lock horns four times now.
"I've always looked forward to playing against Bynum —one of the better post players in our league,'' Chandler said. "I'm going to enjoy the matchup.''
During these Olympic Games, Chandler ripped NBA coaches in an interview with The Post for voting him second-team All Defense after winning the Defensive Player of the Year award, saying it was "ridiculous.'' The latter is voted on by the media.
Even in the Olympics, Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski has not extended Chandler, using him to start the game and the third quarter. Chandler doesn't expect extra time today vs. supersized Spain.
"We make adjustments but we don't change our game plan,'' Chandler said. "We don't match up against them. We make them match up against us.''
Though Chandler believes the defending-champion Heat still are "the favorite'' because they got better, Carmelo Anthony said the Lakers should be the favorite now.
"I think everybody's going to be saying that,'' Anthony said. "Anytime Dwight unites with Kobe [Bryant], [Steve] Nash, along with Pau [Gasol], anyone's going to say they're the team to beat.''


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Mexican authorities fired seven regional directors of the country's immigration agency Thursday after allegations that its officers in northern Mexico had delivered Central American migrants to kidnapping gangs.
Commissioner Salvador Beltran del Rio described the firings as part of a wider effort to weed out corruption at the National Institute of Migration, or INM, the agency that enforces Mexico's immigration laws. Mexican officials have pledged to fight armed groups that kidnap migrants to extort money or recruit them for drug trafficking.
A group of Central Americans rescued in Tamaulipas last month identified INM agents as those who had seized the migrants from a northbound bus and handed them to kidnappers. The migrants were among 120 people, mostly from Mexico, freed by Mexican soldiers in operations in Tamaulipas.


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Tim Hovde is a prolific fine artist and is currently painting several main styles of artwork which are best viewed by clicking on the Collections Button. Hovde is also releasing his thirty-five year career as a professional landscape and architecture photographer. About the Artist Experiencing Tim Hovde's paintings is like diving into into a pool of pure color. Monumental in size, the viewers are enveloped by the thick textures and strong hues of his extraordinary pieces finding themselves immersed in a garden like no other. Tim uniquely translates his reality into paintings that are visually appealing as abstractions, yet remain true to the essence of his subject. Hovde was influenced by his father who was a professional photographer. He grew up immersed in the world of art, music and photography. Hovde picked up a paint brush at fourteen years of age and never looked back. Tim believes the "art" of painting is a talent you are born with. For the last thirty years,Tim's paintings come from the places to which he has traveled. The images that end up on his canvases are often from the places that inspire him. An afternoon spent walking through the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris inspired the Dans le jardin series. The highly textured Pooling series comes from sunrises and sunsets. The style of Hovde's artwork reflects abstract expressionism. Tim's artwork takes a view of the natural world that surrounds us. He deconstructs landscapes, gardens, oceans, and waterfalls with bold strokes or quick energetic picks and pokes of a brush or palette knife, over and over again. Listening to the beat of music helps him make the thousands of quick movements, strokes and scrapes that create a painting from start to finish. The major abstract expressionist artists from the American post - World War II movement continue to influence his work. The power that Kandinsky, Pollack, Ernst, and de Kooning's paintings hold are an inspiration to Hovde. "At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event." Harold Rosenberg www.timhovde.com, http://timhovdefineart.blogspot.com/, http://www.facebook.com/timhovdefineart, http://@TimHovdeFineArt, http://www.artreview.com/profile/,
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Currently photographing and painting in Virginia and other parts of the east coast.
Hovde's fine art and photography is currently on exhibit at the following in perpetuity:
Muir Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Gallery 360 Designs, Virginia
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
The Art Department, Scottsdale, Arizona
SaatchiArt, Online Gallery
Canon USA's Annual Canon For Kids Fundraiser, "Dans le jardin #9",
Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Canon USA's Annual Canon For Kids Fundraiser, "Dans le jardin #5",
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GAVA AWARDS, "Pooling - Oceans 1-4 - selected for silent donation",
Crystals, CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada, UNLV Scholarship Program
Anthology of Friends Volume 12, "Pooling & Virgin Color Series"
Abstract Art Blog, Lynne Taetzsch, "Featured Artist: Pooling, Dans le Jardin Series"
Anthology of Friends Volume 10, "Dans le jardin #4", : Volume 10, 60-61
Faber-Castle Online Gallery, July 2010, Cleveland, OH
Casino Night, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX
Solo Show, Muir Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Artist of the Month, Muir Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX
100 Paintings in 100 Days, Ongoing, Scottsdale, AZ
NeoCon World's Trade Fair,, Chicago, IL
ArtExpo New York, Solo Pavilion, New York, NY
Desert Mountain "Got Art" Sale & Charity Event, Mayo Hospital Research Center, Scottsdale, AZ
ArtExpo Las Vegas, Solo Pavillion - Booth S252. Mandalay Bay, LV "Tim Hovde's Impressive Abstract Art", Artist Interviews, - Ongoing. www.ArtistInterviews.com - Arts, Tim Hovde.
"Eat Your Heart Out NY", Solo Show
Gallery 360, Scottsdale, AZ
101 North Magazine, "Tuneful Art", Artist Tim Hovde Profiled, Issue. Scottsdale Tribune Newspaper, Artist Tim Hovde & Gallery Profiled, 2007: A3
The Arizona Republic Newspaper, Home Section, Cover and Feature Story,
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85255 Magazine, "Artists in Residence", Feature Story,
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"The Cliche is Broken" Solo Show,
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Santa Monica Art Show, Santa Monica, CA
The Pat McMahon Show, KAZ-TV. "Collecting Affordable Artwork", Taped Segment. Phoenix, AZ
Sonoran Living, ABC 15, "Affordable Art" Live Segment, Phoenix, AZ
Longview Museum of Fine Arts - 44th Invitational Exhibit, Longview, TX
ArtRocks-WSRadio, San Diego, CA. Live Discussion.
"Textures" - Solo Show, Gallery 360, Scottsdale, AZ
Sonoran Living, ABC Channel 15, Art 101 Segment, Live appearance. ABC 15, Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Magazine, "Artist of the Month"
"Summer Delights" - Group Show, Gallery 360, Scottsdale, AZ
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NBC's "Crusoe" has been stranded on Saturday nights.
The Peacock has moved the show to make way for "Lipstick Jungle," which will shift to Fridays at 9 p.m. starting Dec. 5.
Net had earlier opted to pull the Brooke Shields starrer, which had most recently been airing Fridays at 10. But the show is still exhibiting some signs of life, leading NBC to go ahead and schedule its remaining four episodes.
"Lipstick Jungle" will now air in its new Friday slot — the one being vacated by "Crusoe" — on Dec. 5 and 12 and again on Jan. 2 and 9.
"Dateline NBC" airs on the night at 10, while "Deal or No Deal" continues at 8.
As for "Crusoe," the international co-production hasn't made much of a splash on NBC. Net still has six episodes (out of 13) left to air. "Crusoe" moves to Saturdays on Dec. 6.


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It`s their world they made it but they can`t force you to live in it, just stop buying their junk, stop playing in their sandbox.
I don`t own a cell phone i`ve never owned one, it`s not a necessity it just feeds the beast
I haven`t bought a new car in over 20 years, it`s not a necessity it just feeds the beast
I don`t miss not playing in their sandbox and not living in their world
I collect documentarys from the web too, but I watch on my pc. Got a big monitor and wireless mouse and keyboard so I can sit back on the sofa and watch them
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I enjoy the telly way too much for the sole purpose of watching my unbiased documentary collection that I have been thoroughly sourcing from close friend and folk from this website.
Same reason I'm here
One tends to fall into this sense of isolation when your awareness alienates people around you. I find allot of refuge on this website
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Damn that video gets me everytime I watch it, tears of joy. The irony of it though is Charlie Chaplin was known for his silent movies but when that man spoke in 'The great Dictator' ,he spoke truth on a whole new level. I wonder who wrote that speech, that person deserves some credit, but then again I think it was ment to be heard and praised for its meaning and not its creator, For the people !
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This is so moving. Does anyone know the piece of music playing behind it? It's beautiful.


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After five weeks of operation in mostly wet, cold weather, Thurston County's collection site for household hazardous waste is popular with customers and employees alike.
That's because the new HazoHouse at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center includes a sheltered drop-off area, unlike the old one that had served the county for 20 years.
The $1.2 million HazoHouse is the centerpiece of relocated recycling services on the southeast side of the old landfill, which is now an off-leash dog park off Hogum Bay Road. The complex also includes recycling stations for electronic waste, clothing and traditional recyclables such as glass bottles and jars, paper, cardboard, certain plastic containers and bags, and milk and juice cartons.
The waste and recovery center is a far cry from the old Hawks Prairie dump where garbage was burned and buried decades ago.
"We used to just dig a big hole and fill it up," recalled former Thurston County Commissioner George Barner, who represents the Port of Olympia on the county's solid waste advisory committee. "Now we have an amazing facility where residents can recycle just about everything."
County solid waste officials and other guests gathered Thursday at HazoHouse for a grand opening and tour. The new HazoHouse, financed with garbage-disposal fees charged at the waste and recovery center, features an improved ventilation system, more storage space and easy drive-in access.
"The old one just kind of outlived its usefulness," county environmental health director Art Starry said.
"We're getting nothing but compliments," said waste and recovery center manager Jim Zygar. "Our customers and the employees like the covered area." The former HazoHouse receiving area was outdoors.
Thurston County Commissioner Sandra Romero shared some statistics that show the rapid growth in hazardous waste collection from residents and small businesses.
In 2002, the county facility collected 117 tons of waste from 7,152 residents and 212 businesses. In 2009, HazoHouse collected 397 tons of hazardous waste from 16,029 residents and 367 businesses.
This includes antifreeze, used oil, oil-based paints, pesticides, household cleaning supplies and other chemicals that otherwise languish in garages, or, worse, are improperly dumped down the drain or in the garbage.
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I am wondering if I should ask my doctor to check my 14-month-old son for diabetes. He had a yeast diaper rash that took over a month to clear up with one course of Nystatin cream and two courses of oral Fluconazale. When this happened, I became concerned and started researching diaper rash on the Internet. I discovered the possible connection to diabetes. The other things I've noticed is that since the rash began, his diapers have been leaking out at night which is not something that has ever happened before. My son does seem crankier than usual, but he doesn't really have increased thirst, hunger, and weight loss. He is still nursing and wants to nurse about six times a day, not more than before but maybe more than usual for his age? We have no type 1 diabetes in our family so that is why I really didn't think of it as a possibility. Is it premature to ask the doctor to check?
The typical symptoms for diabetes are increased thirst, urination and hunger as well as weight loss. Rashes are not a typical symptom of diabetes. I would encourage you to continue to follow-up with your pediatrician until the rash has resolved. There are occasional other causes of prolonged rashes and your pediatrician should be able to help you.
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