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State Of New Mexico Hosting Free Water Testing
SOCORRO, N.M. July 17, 2013 – The State of New Mexico is providing free water testing for local residents who have private wells. Bring a water sample to the FidelCenter atrium from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25.
This free water quality testing program is sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Health and the New Mexico Environment Department
SocorroCounty residents who have private wells serving homes not connected to a public water utility are welcome to participate.
How to Collect the Water Sample:
• Use a clean glass or plastic container (at least a liter).
• Do not use containers that have a strong odor, such as citrus or pickle jars.
• Collect the sample before any water treatment systems such as reverse osmosis, water softener, or carbon filter.
• Let the water run for a couple of minutes before collecting the sample.
• Collect the sample as close to the time of testing as possible.
• Cover the container with a clean lid.
If available, please provide well depth, depth to water, well casing material (i.e., steel, PVC) and distance from well to the nearest septic tank-leach field system.
Limited analysis will be performed the same day, and you can either pick up results or have them mailed to you.
Drinking water will be field tested for the following parameters:
∆ Electrical conductivity
∆ Nitrate
∆ Arsenic
∆ Iron
∆ pH
∆ Fluoride
∆ Sulfate
For more information, call the NMED Ground Water Quality Bureau at (505) 222-9574.


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Author Notes: You can customize your peanut butter cups in a number of ways. Use dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Sprinkle the tops with a little sea salt or cayenne. Make them vegan by choosing dairy free chocolate and vegan sugar, and swapping out the butter for coconut oil. There are lots of possibilities. I opted for a combination of dark and milk chocolate here, and chose an unsalted peanut butter so I could flavor them with Sichuan sea salt. The result: one heck of a peanut butter cup. The dark chocolate and the floral spice of the Sichuan give them a hint of sophistication, and make for an all-around delicious treat. —Carey Nershi
Makes: around 4 dozen
cup creamy unsalted peanut butter
tablespoons unsalted butter
cup light brown sugar
cup powdered sugar
teaspoon coarse sea salt (or more, to taste; I used Sichuan salt)
ounces high-quality chocolate (use milk chocolate if you'd like to truly mimic the classic flavor)
- Mix together peanut butter, butter, sugars, and salt in a bowl. Taste, then add more salt if needed.
- Roughly chop chocolate, then melt it in a heavy bottomed saucepan over low heat on the stove top (or in 30-second increments in the microwave, stirring in between) until smooth. Transfer half to a heatproof measuring cup.
- Arrange mini cupcake wrappers on a baking sheet. Pour just enough chocolate in to fill the bottom of the wrapper about 1/8 of an inch. Gently lift and drop the tray once or twice to flatten out the chocolate, then place in the fridge for 10 minutes.
- While the chocolate is chilling, begin shaping heaping teaspoons of peanut butter filling into discs about the diameter of a quarter and setting them aside on parchment paper. Remove the chilled chocolate from the fridge, then place each peanut butter disc into a cupcake wrapper.
- Transfer the remaining chocolate to your heatproof measuring cup. (If it isn't as warm/pourable as you'd like, reheat it for a moment or two on the stove top, or for 10–15 seconds in the microwave.) Pour into cupcake wrappers until peanut butter discs are just covered. Once you've covered all of them, gently lift and drop the tray again to even out the chocolate, then add more to the wrappers as needed.
- Sprinkle the tops with a little extra coarse sea salt if you like, then place the tray in the fridge for 30 minutes. Eat them straight from the fridge (if you're a chilled chocolate gal/guy, like me), or let them soften up for about 5 minutes at room temperature.
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A payday loan (also called a payday advance, salary loan, payroll loan, small dollar loan, short term, or cash advance loan) is a small, short-term unsecured debt, "regardless of whether repayment of loans is linked to a borrower's payday." The loans are also sometimes referred to as "cash advances," though that term can also refer to cash provided against a prearranged line of credit such as a credit card. Payday advance loans rely on the consumer having previous payroll and employment records. Legislation regarding payday loans varies widely between different countries, and in federal systems, between different states or provinces.
To prevent usury (unreasonable and excessive rates of interest), some jurisdictions limit the annual percentage rate (APR) that any lender, including payday lenders, can charge. Some jurisdictions outlaw payday lending entirely, and some have very few restrictions on payday lenders. In the United States, the rates of these loans used to be restricted in most states by the Uniform Small Loan Laws (USLL), with 36–40% APR generally the norm.
The annual percentage rate of such a loan is likely to be high, and can vary dramatically depending on the precise conditions of the loan. For example, for a $15 charge on a $100 14-day payday loan, it could be anywhere from 391% to 3,733% or beyond.$15 on $100 over 14 days is ratio of 15/100 = 0.15, so this is a ''14-day rate''. Over a year (365.25 days) this ''14-day rate'' can aggregate to either 391% (assuming you carry the $100 loan for a year, and pay $15 every 14 days: 0.15 x (365.25/14) = 3.91, which converts to a percentage increase (interest rate) of: 3.91 x 100 = 391%) or 3733% (assuming you take out a new loan every 14 days that will cover your principal and "charge", and every new loan is taken at same 15% "charge" of the amount borrowed: (1 + 0.15)365.25/14 − 1 = 37.33, which converts to a percentage increase (interest rate) of: 37.33 x 100 = 3733%).
However the lenders may reasonably claim that such extremely high figures, while arithmetically correct, are misleading because much of the charge is to recoup administration costs rather than for usurious interest, and most loans are repaid after a period much shorter than a year.
Although some have noted that these loans appear to carry substantial risk to the lender,Megan McArdle,''The Atlantic'', 18 November 2009, [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/on-poverty-interest-rates-and-payday-loans/30431/ On Poverty, Interest Rates, and Payday Loans]Paige Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman, 10 December 2007, [http://www.cpla-acps.ca/english/reports/Vanderbilt%20Oxford%20profitability%20study%2012%2010%202007.pdf]: The Profitability of Payday Loans. it has been shown that these loans carry no more long term risk for the lender than other forms of credit.
In the traditional retail model, borrowers visit a payday lending store and secure a small cash loan, with payment due in full at the borrower's next paycheck. The borrower writes a postdated check to the lender in the full amount of the loan plus fees. On the maturity date, the borrower is expected to return to the store to repay the loan in person. If the borrower does not repay the loan in person, the lender may redeem the check. If the account is short on funds to cover the check, the borrower may now face a bounced check fee from their bank in addition to the costs of the loan, and the loan may incur additional fees or an increased interest rate (or both) as a result of the failure to pay.
In the more recent innovation of online payday loans, consumers complete the loan application online (or in some instances via fax, especially where documentation is required). The funds are then transferred by wiktionary:direct deposit to the borrower's account, and the loan repayment and/or the finance charge is electronically withdrawn on the borrower's next payday.
This reinforces the findings of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) study from 2011 which found black and Hispanic families, recent immigrants, and single parents were more likely to use payday loans. In addition, their reasons for using these products were not as suggested by the payday industry for one time expenses, but to meet normal recurring obligations. Pew's reports have focused on how payday lending can be improved, but have not assessed whether consumers fare better with or without access to high-interest loans. Pew's demographic analysis was based on a random-digit-dialing (RDD) survey of 33,576 people, including 1,855 payday loan borrowers..
In another study, by Gregory Elliehausen, Division of Research of the Federal Reserve System and Financial Services Research Program at the George Washington University School of Business, 41% earn between $25,000 and $50,000, and 39% report incomes of $40,000 or more. 18% have an income below $25,000.Elliehausen, Gregory. (2009) "[http://www.cfsaa.com/portals/0/RelatedContent/Attachments/GWUAnalysis_01-2009.pdf An Analysis of Consumers' Use of Payday Loans]" Financial Services Research Program. p27.
In 2016, Google announced that it would ban all ads for payday loans from its systems, defined as loans requiring repayment within 60 days or (in the US) having an APR of 36% or more.
In many cases, borrowers write a post-dated check (check with a future date) to the lender; if the borrowers don't have enough money in their account by the check's date, their check will bounce. In Texas, payday lenders are prohibited from suing a borrower for theft if the check is post-dated. One payday lender in the state instead gets their customers to write checks dated for the day the loan is given. Customers borrow money because they don't have any, so the lender accepts the check knowing that it would bounce on the check's date. If the borrower fails to pay on the due date, the lender sues the borrower for writing a hot check. This practice is illegal in many jurisdictions and has been denounced by the Community Financial Services Association of America, the industry's trade association.
Consumer advocates and other experts argue, however, that payday loans appear to exist in a classic market failure. In a perfect market of competing sellers and buyers seeking to trade in a rational manner, pricing fluctuates based on the capacity of the market. Payday lenders have no incentive to price their loans competitively since loans are not capable of being patented. Thus, if a lender chooses to innovate and reduce cost to borrowers in order to secure a larger share of the market the competing lenders will instantly do the same, negating the effect. For this reason, among others, all lenders in the payday marketplace charge at or very near the maximum fees and rates allowed by local law.
Comparatively the profit margin of Starbucks for the measured time period was just over 9%, and comparison lenders had an average profit margin of 13.04%. These comparison lenders were mainstream
companies: Capital One, GE Capital, HSBC, Money Tree, and American Express Credit.http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=jcfl
Proponents of minimal regulations for payday loan businesses argue that some individuals that require the use of payday loans have already exhausted other alternatives. Such consumers could potentially be forced to illegal sources if not for payday loans. Tom Lehman, an advocate of payday lending, said:
:"... payday lending services extend small amounts of uncollateralized credit to high-risk borrowers, and provide loans to poor households when other financial institutions will not. Throughout the past decade, this "democratization of credit" has made small loans available to mass sectors of the population, and particularly the poor, that would not have had access to credit of any kind in the past."
These arguments are countered in two ways. First, the history of borrowers turning to illegal or dangerous sources of credit seems to have little basis in fact according to Robert Mayer's 2012 "Loan Sharks, Interest-Rate Caps, and Deregulation". The report's author, Victor Stango, was on the board of the Consumer Credit Research Foundation (CCRF) until 2015, an organization funded by payday lenders, and received $18,000 in payments from CCRF in 2013.
The report was reinforced by a Federal Reserve Board (FRB) 2014 study which found that while bankruptcies did double among users of payday loans, the increase was too small to be considered significant. In 2008 the Australian states and territories referred powers of consumer credit to the Commonwealth. In 2009 the ''National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009'' (Cth) was introduced, which initially treated payday lenders no differently from all other lenders. In 2013 Parliament tightened regulation on the payday lending further introducing the ''Consumer Credit and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Act 2012'' (Cth) which imposed an effective annual percentage rate cap of 48% for all consumer credit contracts (inclusive of all fees and charges). Payday lenders who provided a loan falling within the definition of a small amount credit contract (SACC), defined as a contract provided by a non authorised-deposit taking institution for less than $2,000 for a term between 16 days and 1 year, Payday lenders who provide a loan falling within the definition of a medium amount credit contract (MACC), defined as a credit contract provided by a non-deposit taking institution for between $2,000–$5,000 may charge a $400 establishment fee in addition to the statutory interest rate cap of 48%. Payday lenders are still required to comply with Responsible lending obligations applying to all creditors. Unlike other jurisdictions Australian payday lenders providing SACC or MACC products are not required to display their fees as an effective annual interest rate percentage.
Bill C28 supersedes the Criminal Code of Canada for the purpose of exempting Payday loan companies from the law, if the provinces passed legislation to govern payday loans.http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-166.html Payday loans in Canada are governed by the individual provinces. All provinces, except Newfoundland and Labrador, have passed legislation. For example, in Ontario loans have a maximum rate of 14,299% Effective Annual Rate ("EAR")($21 per $100, over 2 weeks). As of 2017, major payday lenders have reduced the rate to $18 per $100, over 2 weeks.
In 2014 several firms were reprimanded and required to pay compensation for illegal practices; Wonga.com for using letters untruthfully purporting to be from solicitors to demand payment—a formal police investigation for fraud was being considered in 2014
Payday loans are legal in 27 states, and 9 others allows some form of short term storefront lending with restrictions. The remaining 14 and the District of Columbia forbid the practice. The annual percentage rate (Annual percentage rate) is also limited in some jurisdictions to prevent usury. And in some states, there are laws limiting the number of loans a borrower can take at a single time.
As for federal regulation, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act gave the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) specific authority to regulate all payday lenders, regardless of size. Also, the Military Lending Act imposes a 36% rate cap on tax refund loans and certain payday and auto title loans made to active duty armed forces members and their covered dependents, and prohibits certain terms in such loans.
If the consumer owns their own vehicle, an auto title loan would be an alternative for a payday loan, as auto title loans use the equity of the vehicle as the credit instead of payment history and employment history.
Other alternatives include the Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation (PenFed Foundation) Asset Recovery Kit (ARK) program.
Basic banking services are also often provided through their postal systems.
The lenders may list a different set of alternatives (with costs expressed as APRs for two-week terms, even though these alternatives do not compound their interest or have longer terms):
Income tax refund anticipation loans are not technically payday loans (because they are repayable upon receipt of the borrower's income tax refund, not at his next payday), but they have similar credit and cost characteristics. A car title loan is secured by the borrower's car, but are available only to borrowers who hold clear title (i.e., no other loans) to a vehicle. The maximum amount of the loan is some fraction of the resale value of the car. A similar credit facility seen in the UK is a ''logbook loan'' secured against a car's V5C, which the lender retains.{{cite web
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Field of Dreams Indoor Hitting Facility helps athletes keep up their game
CANASTOTA >> Just because there's snow on the ground doesn't mean training stops for baseball players, said David Muraco, director of operations at the new Field of Dreams indoor hitting facility in the Canastota Business Park.
"We had so many requests to try to find something out this way and we have been searching for something we can have back in the Madison County area," he said.
The business started in Utica at the Field of Dreams Sport Complex on 2413 State Route 5. The indoor training facility is used for baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer, football, volleyball and field hockey. Athletes can also go the complex to train for speed and agility.
But Muraco said he wanted to provide athletes with a more convenient location for private or group lessons.
"We want to get more kids exposed to quality instruction," he said. "Our goal is to give proper education and to help that player become better."
The facility will be open based on need. Muraco said the primary season runs from November to April. Each session needs to be booked in advance for individuals and groups.
The facility currently has one cage available. All four instructors will work with softball and baseball players on hitting, catching, fielding and pitching.
Muraco added that the instructors have a combined total of 100 years of experience in coaching or teaching the sport.
Field of Dreams is located at 3 Technology Blvd. in Canastota .
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What Kind of Cereal Do You Have in Your Pantry?
Right this minute, tell all of us what cereals you have in your pantry. Feel free to share cereals you eat that aren't in a box, too. The rule is it has to be in your house right now.
I posed this question to my Facebook Navelgazing Midwife friends and these are the answers I got. (This is one of the best questions I've ever posed!)
JF: Kashi Granola, Flaxseed/Omega-3 Flakes, and Trader Joe's Organic High-Fiber O's.
HR: Only oats. I haven't purchased cereal in over a year!
NM: Grape Nuts and plain oatmeal
SSM: Whatever WIC allows us to buy. Right now, Krispy Rice, Life, Multigrain Cheerios and Shredded heat. (she adds) – (My husband) just alerted me to the fact that we do currently have a box of Coco Puffs courtesy of the food bank. I'm sacrificing myself and eating it so the children don't have to. A thankless job I tell ya.
KG: Fruity Pebbles
RNK: We get WIC so only 'healthy' stuff. Oatmeal, Multi Grain Cheerios, Special K, Shredded Wheat and non-WIC-approved that we have had for a couple months, Apple Looks or something. Oh and Kix.
CR: Cookie Crisps and oatmeal
EO: Corn Chex, Crispix, Strawberry Mini Wheats, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Special K (and adds) Now that's HONESTY, baby!
DBH: Multigrain or regular Cheerios (can't remember), Corn Flakes and Grape Nuts
CG: Life, Honey Nut Cheerios, Crunchy Corn Bran
KM: Honey Bunches of Oats – vanilla something
MBM: Banana and Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, regular Captain Crunch, Raisin Bran and regular oatmeal
SP: Special K, Protein Plus, Wheatabix, Muesli; hot cereals – oatmeal and Wheatena. (she adds) Most of the time my kids were growing up we had only oatmeal and Wheatena. No boxed cold cereal at all. I couldn't afford it.
JM: Oatmeal. If you had asked this two weeks ago, I would have added Count Chocula - I buy one box a year, and we eat it for snack at night.
MCR: Gluten-free ones and Irish oatmeal
NS: oatmeal
AK: Corn Pops, Raisin Bran Crunch, Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Mini Wheats, some gluten free stuff for hubby (crohn's disease), Special K Redberries and lots of oatmeal! We have lots of people to feed and everyone likes something different.
ALDK: Fiber One, Corn Flakes, and some generic sweetened puffed rice cereal.
LM: Trader Joe's High Fiber O's mixed with Honey Nut O's, Kashi Nuggets, homemade granola, oatmeal, whole wheat farina.
LR: Regular Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Kix, Wheaties, Puffins and oatmeal.
MN: My kitchen looks like Seinfeld's: Corn Pops, Corn Chex, Apple Jacks, Cheerios, Puffins, Shredded Spoonfuls, Malt-o-Meal (hot), whole oats, Rice Krispies, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Raisin Bran, Frosted Flakes, Cocoa Builders (she adds) I think we like cereal!
AF: Cascadian Farms Multi Grain Squares and Cascadian Farms Cinnamon Squares or something like that... and some oatmeal, but not the good kind.
KH: Oatmeal, Trader Joe's Rice Krispies, granola, gluten free stuff. Nothing HFCS or vivid colours. Ergh.
LMS: We very rarely have boxed cereal... it is a special treat here. At the moment there isn't any. Although we have several pounds of oats.
SE: Oatmeal (instant, regular, steel-cut, and Irish - I think we like oats), grits, Cheerios, Some kinda fruity-bunny stuff from Annie's that (my daughter) won't eat, and a rare box of Fruity Pebbles that I bought during PMS week.
KP: If by "cereal" you mean "all grains": I have some spelt berries, popcorn (makes great cornmeal), quick-cooking oatmeal, and the longer-cooking oatmeal (that I mostly use in recipes, frequently ground). (she adds) But you were talking breakfast cereal in boxes. My whole family loves cereal, but I don't think it particularly healthy (even the non-sugary and/or "healthy" kind), so I try not to get it on a regular basis, and don't have any in my house right now.
JG: Fruity pebbles, and 4 different types of Kashi. Of which, I eat none of the cereals. Honest. (I get sick when I eat cereal as a post op gastric bypass chicky.) She adds: I didn't count the oatmeal as a cereal - I thought you were referring to boxed cereals! Of course, we have rolled oats (make our own oatmeal with it), and instant packs of cream of wheat. C of W is the BOMB!!!
In my pantry: Oatmeal (hands down, the winner in all categories mentioned above)... steel cut always... love the Irish ones and think we might have one can of them.
- Grits, NOT instant... I'm a good Southern gal.
- All-Bran (for me... pretty gross and has HFCS, looking for an alternative)
- Some other icky bran cereal with HFCS (also for me)
- Crunchy Corn Bran - Sarah's gross cereal. She loves corn cereals.
- Frosted Flakes - a rare treat for my niece (if I got a hold of them they'd be gone in 2 hours)
- Corn Flakes (when I thought I had to do the Kidney Disease diet, I had to eat the white crap... now I'm back to eating Diabetic High Fiber. Oh, oh so yummy.) (I add) I feel naked without Cheerios! Next to oatmeal, Cheerios and their "natural" counterparts are in most pantries already reporting. Cheerios were a total staple during the kids growing up years. And Life... they loved Life.
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Neelie Kroes
Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda
Hungary's new media law
Open Hearing on Freedom of the Press in Hungary
European Parliament, Brussels 11 January 2011
As I wrote to the Hungarian authorities in my letter of 23 December, the recently adopted Hungarian Media Act raises specific concerns regarding its compliance with the EU Audiovisual and Media Services (AVMS) Directive and, more generally, regarding the respect for the fundamental media freedoms such as freedom of expression and media pluralism.
Since then, the Commission has been active. I went to Budapest already last Thursday to discuss with the competent minister. The Commission President raised the Media law with Prime Minister Orban the following day.
A large number of commentators have alleged that the Hungarian Media Law risks jeopardizing fundamental rights in a number of ways:
The Media Law seems to raise a problem under the AVMS Directive because its provisions appear to apply also to media firms established in other Member States, which would be contrary to the "country of origin" principle. The Audiovisual Media Services Directive establishes a single market for broadcasters based on the country of origin principle. According to this principle media service providers are in principle subject to the regulations in their country of origin only. The Directive sets very precise conditions for derogations from this principle.
Moreover, the provision of the law on the need to ensure balanced information would at first sight appear to be quite wide as it extends from the area of broadcasting, where such rules are quite common, to on-demand audiovisual media services, such as even a simple video blogger.
More generally, the proportionality of a requirement that all on-line audiovisual media need to be registered needs to be examined.
We are also looking at the difficult issue of criteria for media authority independence.
But you are well aware that, beside these specific questions concerning the AVMS Directive, the new Media Law raises broader political questions concerning freedom of expression.
Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of our democratic societies, recognised in the European Treaties and in the EU Charter of fundamental rights.
I am fully confident that Hungary, being a democratic country, will take all the necessary steps to ensure that the new Media Law is implemented in full respect of the European values on media freedom and relevant EU legislation.
The Hungarian Prime Minister equally made clear that adjustments would be made, should the Commission, after a legal assessment, find that this is not the case for all aspects of the law.
We are looking now very carefully at the provisions of the Hungarian Media Law on the basis of the text that has been published by the Hungarian government.
As soon as we receive the official notification of the law, which should happen this week, we are going to make our legal assessment of the Law, in full objectivity.
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Statement by Marilyn O'Connell,
Associate Commissioner for Program Benefits,
Social Security Administration
before the Senate Committee on Government Affairs,
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and District of Columbia
October 6, 1998
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
I am pleased to be here today to discuss the role of the Social Security Administrati on (SSA) under the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (Coal Act). Let me begin by briefly reviewing the requirements of the law and the responsibilities which were assigned to SSA. Then, I will discuss SSA's progress in carrying out these responsibilities.
Requirements of the Law
The Coal Act merged the 1950 and 1974 benefit plans of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) into a new "Combined Fund," administered by a board of trustees as a private tax-exempt employee benefit plan. This new Fund is designed to provide lifetime health benefits (and death benefits) for beneficiaries of the old plans--retired miners (a ll of whom retired before 1976) and their dependents or survivors. Benefits are financed from funds transferred from UMWA pension plans, premiums paid by coal operators, and transfers from the Department of Interior's "Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Fund."
Under the law, coal operators pay premiums for all beneficiaries who are determined to be their responsibility. The premiums arc established by formulas in the law. The law provides for them to pay a pro rata share of the premium cost for beneficiaries for whom no assignment of responsibility can be made (unassigned beneficiaries). However, the assigned operators have not had to pay premiums for the unassigned miners as the Coal Act provides that the assigned operators are only assessed premium costs for the unassigned miners if the funds transferred from the Department of Interior's "Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Fund" are insufficient. Thus far, these funds have been sufficient.
SSA Responsibilities
SSA was assigned three responsibilities under the Coal Act:
- To calculate the amount of the health benefit premium for each
- To assign each miner to a coal operator who will be responsible for the
health (and death ) benefit premiums for that miner and any beneficiaries
eligible because of their relationship to the miner, and notify the operator
of that assignment; and
- To decide requests by the coal operators for review of assignments .
Let me now briefly discuss each of these responsibilities.
Calculating the Premium
The law states that the health benefit premium amount is to be based on the average dollar amount of health benefits paid per person under the old plans for the plan year beginning July 1, 1991, updated to take account of the increase in the medical component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The law requires us to calculate the premium for each plan year beginning on or after February I, 1993. The first plan year began on February I, 1993, because that is the date the old plans were merged to create the Combined Fund. By law, subsequent plan years began on October I, 1993, and each succeeding... October 1.
The Coal Act requires that the premium calculation be based on the following information: (1) the aggregate amount of payments from both the 1950 UMWA Benefit Plan and the 1974 UMWA Benefit Plan for health benefits (less reimbursements but including administrative costs) for the plan year beginning July 1, 1991, for all individua ls covered under the plans for that plan year, and (2) the number of such individuals covered under the plans for that plan year. The aggregate cost divided by the number of individuals, increased by the approximate percentage increase in the medical component of the CPI from 1992 to the year in which the plan year begins, produces the premium per individual.
SSA has calculated the premiums and timely notified the Trustees of the Combined Fund of the premiums for each year since the law was enacted. The premium amount beginning October 1, 1998 is $2,420.19.
Assignment Procedures
Our second task involved assigning responsibility for each miner to the appropriate coal operators. We were given this respons ibility because SSA has the miner's wage records. These wage records are a key component in determining which coal operator is liable for the miner assignment.
This process began with the Combined Fund identifying approximately 80,000 miners--both living and deceased--who were covered by the Act. The Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA) provided us a list of approximately 15,000 of these miners for whom certain large coal operators voluntarily acknowledged premium responsibility.
The remaining 65,000 miners had to be assigned to a coal operator following the criteria set forth in the law. In general, the re are three factors that are considered in determining to which coal operator a miner is assigncd--length of a miner's employment with a coal operator who was a signatory to a UMVA wage agreement (also called a signatory operator), recency of that employment, and the date the wage agreement was signed by the operator and the UMWA.
More specifically, the law states that a miner must be assigned to a coal operator according to the following order of priority:
- First, to the last active signatory operator (as defined previously) for whom the miner worked at least 2 years under a UMVA agreement (or if an inactive signatory, to its related company, if any) provided that the operator is also a 1978 UMWA wage agreement signatory.
- If none, then to the last active signatory opera tor for whom the miner worked under a UMVA agreement (or if an inactive signatory, to an active related company, if any) provided the operator is also a 1978 signatory.
- If none, then to the active signatory operator of any agreement for whom the miner worked the longest under a UMWA agreement (or if an inactive signatory, to an active related company) in the period prior to 1978.
- If no assignment can be made under the above criteria, the miner is treated as "unassigned." This means that, because responsibility for the premium cannot be assigned to a particular signatory operator, the miner is placed in an unassigned pool.
Before we could even begin the assignment process, we had to develop lists of assignable coal operators. These lists were developed by SSA using information which was provided to us by the BCOA and the UMWA, as well as SSA's own records. This list was modified as we began the assignment process due to information provided by operators appealing their assignments, and other available sources of information, such as the Keystone Coal Industry Manual and State agencies. We continue to update the list of assigned operators as new information is obtained.
In order to make an assignment using the criteria I described above, we must perform two separate operations: reviewing Social Security earnings records which contain each miner's individual employment history; and matching that history against the lists of signatory coal operators and related companies. We then use the assignment criteria in the Coal Act to assign miners to the responsible signatory company. As an aside, I might mention that retrieving these records was a labor-intensive operation, as earnings in formation is only electronically available beginning with wages reported for 1978; earlier earnings information is maintained on microfilm and requires a manual search for earnings information dating as far back as 1946.
If a signatory operator is no longer in business. we must determine whether there is a company which, as of July 20, 1992, or, if earlier, as of the time immediately before the operator ceased to be in business, was "related" to the signatory operator. If so, and if the related company is still in business, it becomes responsible for the beneficiary's premiums.
There are now 57,861 coal miners assigned to 399 coal companies. The 57,861 figure includes miners assigned to companies that voluntarily accepted assignments. An additional 20,720 miners are in the unassigned category. The 20,720 figure includes those miners from companies that have been identified as meeting the criteria established by the Supreme Court's decision in Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel (Eastern). I will discuss the Eastern decision shortly.
Review of the Assignment Decisions
SSA's third responsibility under the Coal Act, which turned out to be very complex and time consuming, was to review each of the individual assignments, if requested by a coal operator. The law provides that an assigned operator may, within 30 days of receipt of the ass ignment notice, request detailed information from us as to the work history of the miner and the basis for the assignment. The assigned operator then has 30 days from receipt of that additional information to request review of the assignment. The statute requires the operator to provide evidence constituting a prima facie case of error in order to have the assignment reviewed, SSA promulgated regulations governing reviews in 20 C.F.R. 422.601-607.
After the initial assignment notices were sent to the assigned operators, operators requested over 54,625 earnings records (due to reassignments to another company, a miner may have more than one earnings record request), as well as the basis on which the assignments were made.
To date, SSA has reviewed assignments for approximately 665 coal operators concerning assignments for 36,256 miners. (The miner count includes some miners who are counted more than once, as these miners had more than one review request filed on them, and the coal opera tor count includes companies relieved of assignment responsibilities.) The review requests were based on a wide range of allegations. For example, some companies claimed they were: never in the coal industry; never a signatory to a coal wage agreement; never a related company; or no longer in business.
As mentioned. the review process can be very complex and time consuming , and because of the difficulty some operators were having in securing evidence, they requested , and were granted, up to an additional 240 days to submit evidence to support their protests, In many situations the evidence submitted is difficult to interpret. Many of the documents were court orders. legal bus iness tran saction papers, busine ss permits. contracts, and pages from old business publications. In addition, it was necessary to contact various organizations and agencies to determine the status and relationships of numerous companies. These contacts included State agencies, business bureaus, and public libraries. We also contact the UMWA Funds to verify signatory agreements, dates of the agreements, and coverage status of employees.
Those companies which were found not to be eligible for assignment were relieved of responsibility for all miners. These miners, as well as miners who were assigned to companies incorrectly , were reassigned to another company, or placed in the unassigned pool.
SSA has reached a sixth round of assignments. These 440 assignments, along with any reassigned miners resulting from the recent Supreme Court decision that I will discuss shortly. will no doubt generate additional reviews. Additional assignment rounds will result from the Supreme Court decision as well as from any miner assignments SSA reverses because of a review. Another factor that must be considered are cases currently in litigation. Twenty-one of the 40 cases that have been filed with the Federal courts are still pending. Since a number of companies involved in these court cases have recently had their miner assignments voided because of the Eastern decision, there is an expectation that the current pending court case workload will decrease. However, there is the unknown factor of additional court cases that may result from the Eastern decision.
Cost of SSA Workloads
The Coal Act did not provide funding for SSA to perform the work required. By law, SSA cannot use trust fund monies for work which is unrelated to Social Security programs. For this reason, SSA requested, and Congress provided, a supplemental appropriation of $10 million for Fiscal Year (FY) 1993 to give SSA the necessary initial funding for this work. The funds were adequate to complete the assignments and begin the reviews. Congress also approved a change to SSA's 1994 administrative funds to carry out the requirements of the Coal Act and provided for reimbursement to the Social Security trust funds on funds expended on this process, with interest, not later than September 30. 1996.
SSA spent $3.7 million in FY 1993, and carried over $6.4 million into FY 1994. SSA spent another $5.4 million in FY 1994, and carried over $0.9 million into FY 1995. Congress provided $10 million to fund coal mine health care activities in both FYs 1996 and 1997. SSA spent $2.4 million in FY 1996 and $0.8 million in FY 1997. Additional funds were not requested for FY 1998 and FY 1999 because the funding appropriated in FY 1996 and FY 1997 will remain available until expended.
Supreme Court Decision
On June 25 of this year, the Supreme Court, in Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, held the Coal Act unconstitutional as applied to Eastern Enterprises. SSA had assigned miners to Eastern based on the Coal Act's third assignment priority; that of assignment "to the signatory operator which employed the coal industry retiree in the coal industry for a longer period of time than any other signatory operator prior to the effective date of the 1978 coal wage agreement." The Supreme Court found that the application of this third assignment priority to Eastern was unconstitutional and remanded the case to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Needless to say this has generated much work for SSA, Of immediate concern was the effect of the dec ision on current court cases, The Department of Justice and SSA's Office of General Counsel have provided advice to SSA on the legal interpretation of the Eastern decision. As a result we found that six of the pending court cases protesting their assignments under the Coal Act were similar enough to Eastern to warrant the voiding of their miner assignments.
As you can imagine, a number of assigned companies have written SSA to request that we void their miner assignments on the basis of the Eastern decision.
SSA, working with the Department of Justice and the UMWA Funds, has identified 124 companies that were in a situation similar to Eastern's as described in the Supreme Court decision. These companies will not be billed in the UMWA Funds' October 1998 billing. The 6,167 miners formerly assigned to these companies currently have been placed in the unassigned pool. This will enable the Department of Interior to transfer funds from its Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Fund to the UMWA Funds for these miners and dependents, the same as they do for the other miners and dependents in the unassigned pool. SSA will re-evaluate these newly unassigned miners to determine if they can be assigned to another eligible coal company under the remaining va id assignment rules of the Coal Act.
We will continue our efforts to identify companies which were assigned miners under th at portion of the assignment scheme of the Coal Act that the Supreme Court has decided is unconstitutional and to take the appropriate actions.
In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, you can see that we have accomplished much but still have more to do. While we are taking actions in light of the Eastern decision, there is more work to be done. Additionally, there are other court cases that need to be resolved and miner appeals to be reviewed. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.


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Its the end of the September, and that means two things:
1.) Time to start breaking out super-star winter breakfasts, like the banana pancakes above, bedecked with toasted walnuts, raspberries and maple syrup. Packing on the pounds this time of year isn't a no-no, its practically a an obligation. Especially if you have a cruel husband who refuses to turn on the heating until November.
2.) Its almost Vegan Mo-Fo!
And what IS Vegan Mo-Fo, asks no one? Well, in case you missed out the last 3 years, it is a month long blogging event wherein food bloggers all over the world write a blog post every day of the month about, you guessed it, vegan food! Sometimes people have themes and only blog about e.g., orange food, or sauces, or ice cream recipes, but it is not necessary to have a theme to participate. It is really fun because vegan bloggers are in hyper-blogging mode for a whole month so there is tons more food porn, recipes, and cool ideas that you never thought of before from blogs that you may never have heard of before. On top of all that, the Vegan Mofo Headquarters webpage has a list of all participating blogs for your perusal, and will highlight cool posts, as well as run some competitions and giveaways.
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SO of course I will do it again this year, although I usually run out of stamina at one point. And I have a theme, kind of! I will be blogging about recipes from my cookbooks, but focusing on what I consider Soul Food- vibrant, creative comfort food. I especially dig stuff from Latin American, Caribbean, and Southern traditions. Most of my cookbooks are vegan but for those that aren't I may also veganize a few recipes. In sum, you can look forward to some highlights and experiments in my version of Soul Food.
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So, I am super excited for another successful Mo-Fo! The deadline for sign-up is tomorrow, so if you are interested head on over to Vegan Mofo HQ to read more and sign up if you like! If not, you can still follow along at home, because I'm willing to guess that many of your favorite bloggers will be participating. See you next week!
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One thing I did a lot of in the UK was watch movies. Lots and lots of movies. 80 exactly, in fact. The majority are quite new, but there are some slightly older ones in there.
Here's the full list, roughly in reverse order from most recently watched (from Flixter, don't think I missed any):
Terminator Salvation, The Echelon Conspiracy, Tyson, Spring Breakdown, Drag Me to Hell, Coraline, Role Models, Angels and Demons, Star Trek, Fast and Furious, The Covenant, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Marley & Me, Australia, Dragonball: Evolution, Seven Pounds, Friday the 13th, The Haunting in Connecticut, Knowing, Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa, An Inconvenient Truth, The Uninvited, Watchmen, Valkyrie, The Unborn, Push, RocknRolla, Let the Right One In, City of Ember, Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans, Rachel Getting Married, Doubt, Milk, Three Kings, W, Revolutionary Road, Leatherheads, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Bangkok Dangerous, Body of Lies, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, My Best Friend's Girl, Gran Torino, The Break-Up, Saw V, WALL-E, Ghost Town, Starship Troopers: Maruader, Slumdog Millionaire, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, The Wrestler, In Bruges, Twilight, Babylon AD, Death Race, Pineapple Express, Be Kind Rewind, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Transporter 3, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Changeling, Lakeview Terrace, Resident Evil: Degeneration, Max Payne, Burn After Reading, Hoop Dreams, Meet Dave, Eden Lake, Quantum of Solace, Step Brothers, The Nanny Diaries, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, There Will Be Blood, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Lost In Translation, The Dark, Mirrors.
Man, I saw a lot of crap movies!
Favourite dozen from this list (not necessarily the 'best' from a strict objective viewpoint, just what I liked the most):
(1) The Wrestler; (2) Let the Right One In; (3) Gran Torino; (4) There Will Be Blood; (5) Star Trek; (6) Changeling; (7) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; (8) Revolutionary Road; (9) Pineapple Express; (10) Burn After Reading; (11) Hoop Dreams; (12) Slumdog Millionaire.
Bottom half-dozen (crappiest first):
(1) Resident Evil: Degeneration; (2) Starship Troopers: Marauder; (3) Transporter 3; (4) The Covenant; (5) Dragonball: Evolution; (6) Meet Dave.
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Miso Marinated Sea Bass Recipe
We hosted a 5-course formal dinner last night, and for the main entree, I served a duo of filet mignon and pan-seared seabass. I previously marinated the sea bass in a combination of miso paste, lime juice, cumin, cayenne pepper and turmeric.
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Spicy Udon Noodle Soup Recipe
The spicy paste in this coconut udon soup provides not only the kick, but also most of the flavor. It's made of miso paste, a lot of red Thai chiles, Thai basil, sesame and garlic. The rest of the preparation is very basic. A mix of Asian vegetables such as straw mushrooms, sweet baby corn and bok choy are boiled in vegetable broth. At the last minute, fried tofu, pre-cooked fresh udon noodles and coconut milk are added to complete the tasty soup.
The temperature is finally dropping in the Bay Area, which makes hot soup so soothing!
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Asian-Style Cioppino Recipe (Seafood Stew)
The weather is getting cold and damp, so I thought a cioppino-style soup was a good solution to fight the low temperatures we've been having. I didn't really make the authentic San Franciscan fish stew, nor the traditional Provençal version of bouillabaisse, but a more Asian adaptation of the seafood soup using ingredients I recently received from our friends at AsianFoodGrocer.com. The major change is that I made the broth using bonito flakes, Asian mushrooms and miso paste. Otherwise, the seafood soup is cooked with the more common ingredients such as fresh tomatoes, corn, fish and shellfish and flavored with fennel, mushrooms, garlic, lime peel, dill and saffron.
I also cracked one separately cooked Dungeness crab and gathered the meat at the last minute to add to the bass fillets, mussels, clams and small shrimp already cooking in the soup. I served it just the way I would bouillabaisse (the Southern-French stew originated in Marseille) with garlic bread and rouille sauce, which is a saffron-flavored mayonnaise. To bouillabaisse purists, the addition of bonito flakes and miso paste may seem sacrilegious, but I think it was a refreshing twist with an Asian flair.
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This dish took me down memory lane, back to when Lulu and I were preparing for our wedding reception. I remember this particular hoisin glaze was one of the options we selected.
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We finally made it to Ashland, Oregon. The place we're staying at is fantastic and has a large barbecue grill. I decided to take advantage of it and grill fresh corn while the family was having fun in the swimming pool.
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[Manga] Kishimoto's interview at Jump Festa 2010
It's time once again, time for Kishimoto to regale us with his many promises for future excitement that never seem to come to pass. That's right; it's time for another Jump Festa interview.
Just to be clear, this is a manga thread, so spoiler tags are not required (as so long as you are talking about Naruto). Otherwise, standard rules of conduct and etiquette apply (be courteous, etc).
|2010-12-21, 13:46
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I hope "The Year of Kakashi - The Second Chance" is more than just him beating Zabuza. Could a Kabuto or a real Sasuke fight be on his plate this year? The problem with those fights is that he will have to lose so Naruto can show up and win.
I do hope there is a lot of the Fourth Division. Shikamaru was a given to be important. Forget Asuma, I wonder if he could have a mental battle with Kabuto? That's why fans should never call the secondary characters fodder. Even though sometimes they are treated as such. Clearly people like Shikamaru and Gaara are not. I just hope Temari gets to be heroic with them too. Choji is surprising though. He doesn't have a large fanbase, so there will be negative reaction at first. But if Kishi can elevate him, then fans will likely change their opinions of Choji. Then he will be popular. Plus who doesn't want to see Butterfly Choji again? Choji being a big hero would be very cool.
The interview had a few more things, but they were about Kishimoto personally. He has worked through holidays, but soon he will be taking a vacation to Hawaii. He also likes sweets now. Particularly some green tea sweets. But he is too shy to go into places that sell sweets by himself and always takes his wife and kids.
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I mean, there was the aftermath of the Pain fight where he thought that becoming a punching bag would bring world peace, then there was when he groveled at the Raikage's feet, then there was the ''confession'', then there was his fainting when he realised that everyone was going to war against Sasuke, then there was him saying that he'd rather die than allow Sasuke to die, then there was him beating his dark side by hugging him, then he went to train again. Oh and he started acting stupider than usual near the end of the year.
Other than that, he didn't really do anything for a good chunk of the year. I guess Kushina telling him about the night the sealing happened sort of counts, but that was more of a flashback than him doing something. The year was defined by Sasuke trying to kill Danzo, The Kage meeting, the setup for the war, Guy beating Kisame, and Madara.
So I'm not surprised no one is really intrested in what's in store for him, since it's pretty obvious what we'll happen (the rematch against Sasuke) and everything else will be a rehash of things we'd already seen.
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Naruto was the focus for most of 2010. Sasuke ended his fight with Danzou in January 2010. Then we had the brief Team 7 reunion in Feb. After it was all Naruto. More prophecy stuff, heading to Gilligan's Island, island nonsense, Killer Bee interaction, Dark Naruto training, Kyuubi training, powerup, his origins, backstory on his parents, more training, being treated like a child by his babysitters, more training, powerup.
The only real break was Kisame vs Gai and Madara vs. Konan. So what should scare Kishimoto is that he has been focusing on Naruto for the past couple of years, but fans over there don't care. Either they find it boring like Arabesque said or they lost interest in what the main character is doing. You can argue that Naruto has really fallen since after the Pain fight, where once again, Kishi made Naruto lust over focus on Sasuke.
If Naruto were on the front-lines of the war, fans would probably be more into what he is doing.
I also wonder if Kishimoto is building Shikamaru up to be Hokage? Either Naruto dies at the end or declines becoming Hokage to travel the world like Jiraiya. Or takes up another position more in line with his growing Church. Pope of the Naruto World!
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Naw, Kakashi is the assassin of the group. I think Kabuto will be done in either by Sasuke or Shikamaru, first because he's Orochimaru-related, second because he's into mind games like Kabuto.
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From all the Latin American countries, Mexico and Chile have been able to withstand the global economic downturn and have continued to carry strong momentum throughout the years. Ernst & Young believe that increased manufacturing trade in the countries will open up new growth opportunities, and may help hedge the region from commodity price fluctuations. In 2014, the company expects Chile and Mexico to grow 5.0% and 4.8%, respectively:
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Red Rock Canyon School has adopted a non-punitive parenting style called Positive Peer Culture. This treatment facilitates an atmosphere of kindness, firmness, dignity and respect in which struggling boys can best learn responsibility. It also encourages students to be creative in solving their own problems. By teaching them the power of choices, they learn about positive and negative consequences and become accountable for their future.
Positive Peer Culture is solution-oriented. Looking for blame creates defensiveness. Looking for solutions invites cooperation. When students are involved in negotiation and decision making, they have ownership and motivation to follow their own decisions. We see mistakes as stepping stones, not stumbling blocks. This approach corrects the situation and enhances their relationships with others.
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Although it varies with each person, at some point students begin to realize that they are happier when they are making positive changes in their own thoughts and actions. External reinforcers that are effective in the beginning stages of treatment are replaced by less tangible rewards. The students will have internal rewards such as improved feelings about themselves, opportunities to help others, making others happy, leadership opportunities, and seeing themselves achieve meaningful goals: all cornerstones of morality, ethics and true accomplishment.
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Positive Peer Culture uses encouragement rather than praise. Encouragement teaches self evaluation and speaks to the deed and not so much the doer. Praise, however, teaches dependencies on the evaluation of others, resulting in adults who are approval seekers and pleasers. Substantial self-esteem is derived from a real achievement.
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Bestselling Hitler book promoted in Pravda
Evangelist's new project hits Portuguese-language version of Russian publication
A New Zealand-born evangelist now based in America has written a book about a German dictator and God, so where is it most likely to be promoted?
Russia's Pravda, the Portuguese version, of course.
That's what has happened with the new bestseller "Hitler, God & the Bible," by evangelist and author Ray Comfort.
The article – "Como Hitler torceu a Biblia para matar judeus!" – appeared today in the online version of the Russian paper. It's a translation of an earlier WND column by Jim Fletcher, the director of the evangelical group Prophecy Matters.
Fletcher's review, which explains how the "monster" came to be, said the book already is on pace to become his "Book of the Year."
He recounted how the unknown Hitler burst on the scene in Germany in the wake of World War I, when Germans "pushed carts of paper money … in hopes of finding a stale loaf of bread."
Hitler promised change and hope, and Fletcher described how, "raised by a domineering and prideful father, Alois (until the old man's fatal heart attack when Adolf was 13), and by a doting mother, Hitler developed large doses of sense of self and ego."
In his book, Comfort writes: "When he didn't get his way – or if others proposed that they had better solutions – Adolf would immaturely shout over his own ignorance and feel a great deal of self-pity."
Fletcher noted that in the "run-up to World War II, Germany was infested by the so-called German Christian movement, which tried to 'Nazify' Christianity by, among other things, suppressing the teaching of the Old Testament. Interestingly, Hitler and his top deputies, along with the majority of the officers and troops themselves, were life-long Catholics or Lutherans."
He said Comfort "uncovers some super-weird evidence that the stage was set for Hitler to pervert Christianity in Germany, and his own origins in this endeavor came from being influenced by the American automaker, Henry Ford, and the composer, Richard Wagner, among others. Wagner in particular was infected with the virus of anti-Semitism, actually going so far as to claim that Jesus was born a German! (No wonder Yasser Arab claimed Jesus was a Palestinian.)
Fletcher also pointed out that the book explains that Hitler was a disciple of Charles Darwin, fully embracing his principle of "survival of the fittest."
The article was translated by the multilingual Julio Severo, a Christian activist known for his defense of biblical standards in Brazil.
Source: WND, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com


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Shawabty of Padibastet born of Taires
Late Period, Dynasty 26–30
Findspot: Egypt, Giza, Debris in pit G 7450 X II
Overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)
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This shawabty is inscribed for Padibastet born of Taires. It is characterized by tripartite wig, long beard, back pillar and base. The figure holds the pick on the right shoulder and hoe and cord to a small seed bag on the left. The arms are crossed opposite right over left. There are nine horizontal lines of incised text encircling the body, ending at the back pillar. The tripartite wig has incised lines denoting tresses and the beard is plaited. The piece is broken in pieces and mended. The first name(?), Kenwmuty is inscribed on the shawabty followed by Dd.tw.n.f meaning "called", Padibastet, born of Taires.
An ancient Egyptian shawabty is a funerary figurine that was intended to magically animate in the Afterlife in order to act as a proxy for the deceased when called upon to tend to field labor or other tasks. This expressed purpose was sometimes written on the shawabty itself in the form of a "Shawabty Spell," of which versions of various lengths are known. Shorter shawabty inscriptions could also just identify the deceased by name and, when applicable, title(s). However, many shawabtys carry no text at all. The ideal number of such figurines to include in a tomb or burial seems to have varied during different time periods.
This shawabti is inscribed with the shabti spell (chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead) in horizontal lines. The full text of the shabti spell reads: "O shabti(s), if N is called to do any work that is done there in the necropolis, then an obstacle will be struck there as a man at his duties. 'Here he is,' you will say. You will be counted at any time it may be done there to cultivate a field, to irrigate the shoreland, to ferry sand of the west to the east and vice versa. 'Here I am (/we are),' you will say."
From Giza, debris in pit G 7450 X II. 1927: Excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Egypt.
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19. Annicut. Centre sluices, cut-stone floor in progress.
Photographer: Unknown
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1873
Photograph from the Crofton Collection: 'Public works including the Manora Breakwater and the River Son canal system' taken in 1873. The Son, a tributary of the river Ganga, passed through Bihar and was liable to flooding in the monsoon. An annicut, or weir was built on the Son between 1869 and 1875 by constructing a mass of rubble stone masonry founded on shallow wells. It is 12,469 feet long and consists of scouring sluices positioned at each flank which are fitted with gates which can be opened or closed at any state of the river other than high flood. Through these the gates the level of water in the pool above the weir can be kept at the height required to supply the canals that branch off from the dam and traverse the plains. The Son canal system became one of the most important irrigation systems and provided water for a large tract and increased cultivation.