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The bills were introduced in the Legislature in early December and approved unanimously this week. |
A legislative analysis says the legislation will appropriate $50 million for a statewide emergency preparedness campaign and local grants. Another $31.3 million will backfill property tax losses from wildfire damage in Butte, Lake, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Shasta and Siskiyou counties. |
Approximately $20 million will go toward emergency drinking-water projects and to increase compliance with water quality standards. The bills give the state $15 million for legal services and audits and $10 million to begin upgrading the 911 system. |
The laws amend the 2018-19 state budget to offer more disaster and emergency aid following the state’s deadliest wildfire season on record and as thousands of Californians continue to lack access to safe drinking water. |
The proposals are the first signed into law by Newsom since he was sworn in to office in January. Newsom, who has repeatedly pledged to improve access to drinking water in the Central Valley and other communities, traveled to an elementary school in the Fresno County town of Parlier to sign the bills in a ceremony Wedn... |
With Newsom’s signature on the bills, he and the Legislature are also freeing up $5 million for nonprofits providing shelter to asylum-seeking migrant families at the California border with Mexico. At the urging of San Diego lawmakers, Newsom visited the region in November and again last month. |
The largest impediment to the widespread adoption of Web appliances in the home is consumers' lack of awareness of them as a class of products. |
The PC has been the primary means by which consumers access Internet resources, but a class of Internet appliances is emerging that promises to simplify access to applications such as e-mail, instant messaging and Web browsing. |
However, consumers are generally unaware of the benefits, and in some cases the very existence, of those devices, whether they are e-mail stations or Web tablets. |
It is unfortunate, moreover, that PC manufacturers see Web tablets as competing rather than complementing their traditional product lines. The main selling point of tablet PCs is their mobility. Using them, a consumer can access the Web anywhere in the house, rather than having to sit at a particular desk in a particul... |
In addition, wireless network connections that Web tablets support can be used not only to access residential broadband connections but also to connect with other PCs within the home. That capability will make Web tablets a valuable part of the overall home network. |
Tablet PCs have been around for years and are used primarily in vertical industries such as healthcare and insurance. Among other things, however, the high cost of flat-screen monitors has priced those devices outside the reach of the consumer market. |
The largest impediment to the widespread adoption of Web appliances in the home is consumers' lack of awareness of them as a class of products. The public has closely associated Internet access with the PC since commercial Internet service providers first started up. |
The onus falls on big manufacturers, such as Gateway, to educate consumers on this new type of product--as well as to explain how consumers can use it in conjunction with PCs in the home. If the leading PC manufacturers fail to do this, the responsibility will fall on Qubit and other companies whose business models res... |
While seniors currently in the program won’t see any changes in benefits, the new law takes out a few strategies used by retirees to maximize future benefits. |
At issue are strategies that financial planners said could add thousands to total lifetime benefits. |
One is called “File and Suspend.” Under this strategy, one member of a married couple could file for Social Security, enabling their spouse to file for a spousal benefit. The spouse could then suspend his or her own retirement benefit and let it grow during this time. |
“The benefit could grow a total of 25 percent between the ages of 62 and 66 and then an additional 32 percent between the ages of 66-70,” said Burk Rosenthal, a certified financial planner and president of Rosenthal Retirement Planning in Fort Worth. That generally translates into ten of thousands of dollars in additio... |
Because of the change in law that ends this technique, Rosenthal said he had one recent client who may lose close to $30,000, or 30 percent in total lifetime benefits. |
He said middle and lower-income people will be more harmed by this change than wealthier ones. |
Strittmatter said he also has clients who will have to re-evaluate their overall retirement plans because of the changes. |
“We’ll have to make them aware of it and start planning to make it up in supplemental income or something else,” he said. |
Strittmatter said that current retirees already using the File and Suspend strategy will be grandfathered in. |
Also, retirees who qualify by being at least 66 years old have until April 29 to implement the strategy. After that date, any request to suspend benefits will stop all payments on a workers’ record, including spousal or other family benefits. |
The other strategy going away is called “File and Restrict.” The change will end the ability of anyone born in 1954 or later to file a restricted application and collect only a spousal benefit while letting their own retirement increase. |
Instead, filing for spousal benefits will now trigger a person’s own retirement benefit, and the agency will pay only the greater of the two benefits. |
Those who want to use File and Restrict also have a window. If you were 62 by the end of 2015, you can still use File and Restrict to claim spousal benefits off of a spouse’s record. Those turning 62 this year and beyond will not be able to use this strategy. |
File and Suspend for retroactive benefits are also going away, Strittmatter said. This allowed for a lump sum payment to the retiree for benefits not received while suspended from age 66 to 70. |
Strittmatter said the same new rules apply to divorcees trying to use the strategies. |
It’s important to remember that despite the changes, you can still voluntarily suspend your benefits after you turn full retirement age (generally age 66) and put off receiving the increased benefits until age 70, Strittmater said. |
“It you don’t need the income, suspending is still an effective strategy,” he said. |
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Even among the best of musicals from the Golden Age, “The Music Man” stands out for its exhilarating score, classic storytelling and memorable characters. The production by Palos Verdes Performing Arts at Norris Theatre through May 7 lives up to the musical’s name. |
The book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey, tell of an Iowa town, usually beset by gossip and indolence, during the month when traveling salesman Harold Hill upends that world. |
But face its basic fact: It glorifies a con man, ultimately promising his redemption and his faithfulness to the lovely woman who rescues him. |
Still, doesn’t Harold’s con improve their lives? He puts music in the souls of these folk. The school board members who have loathed one another suddenly form a barbershop quartet and can’t bear to be apart. Tommy, the town hoodlum whose father is a (gasp) day laborer, finds in Harold an adult who trusts him with respo... |
And, as any music teacher will agree, giving children the opportunity to play music together builds a group ethic and a sense of belonging. |
There’s only one problem: Hill doesn’t know one note from another, and the one woman he doesn’t spellbind is the town’s librarian and piano teacher, Marian Paroo. |
At the Norris, Brent Schindele makes Harold a bounding, charismatic figure, performing with ease but always hinting at Harold’s underlying compulsion to scam and scram. |
Katharine McDonough plays Marian, the character from literature through the ages whose pure love redeems a miscreant. McDonough makes Marian savvy yet caring, her defiant chin at the show’s end worth a thousand words. Above this, her voice is glorious: silvery and clear, yet expressive. |
Cathy Newman plays Marian’s mother with warm charm, adorably desperate for Marian to marry. Travis Burnett-Doering plays Marian’s tiny brother, Winthrop, whose transformation from morose to joyous is not only believable but also inspiring here. Olivia Park plays Marian’s piano student Amaryllis, impressively singing an... |
Greg Nicholas is Mayor Shinn, a big blustery politician who can’t get his facts and the city’s laws straight and who can’t seem to speak a complete thought but always manages to squeeze in a malapropism. Mary Murphy-Nelson plays the mayor’s wife, not as outrageously over the top as Hermione Gingold’s 1962 film portraya... |
Thanks to director Todd Nielsen, as much fun as the production provides, it seems infused with old-fashioned charm and dignity. His sets and staging are simple when they can be, elaborate when they need to be. Sets, provided by The Music and Theatre Company, slip in and out unobtrusively and are wielded by a well-rehea... |
The chorus sounds superb under music director Sean Alexander Bart, and choreographer Daniel Smith pays lovely homage to the show’s original choreographer, Onna White. |
The ending feels a little abrupt. Perhaps the film version, in which the handful of ragtag, out-of-tune kids morphs into the marching band of our imaginations, has spoiled us. At least a singalong chorus of “Seventy-Six Trombones” for the bows here might have soothed our savage breasts. |
Editor’s note: Steven Kull is director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, affiliated with the University of Maryland, and director of the international research project WorldPublicOpinion.org. The views expressed are his own. |
President Barack Obama must pull off a difficult balancing act if he wishes to bring the American public around to supporting – or at least not opposing – military action against Syrian targets. But contrary to some reporting, public opinion is not overwhelmingly opposed and is not even fully yet crystallized. Indeed, ... |
While the Obama administration has tried to frame the action as limited and narrowly targeted at degrading Syrian capacity to deliver chemical weapons and deterring their use, much analysis and commentary portrays the United States as potentially entering into military conflict with the Syrian government with an implie... |
However, when the action is framed as a narrowly targeted strike against chemical weapons capabilities, there is plurality support. Asked by NBC News, “if US military action were limited to air strikes…that were meant to destroy military units and infrastructure that have been used to carry out chemical attacks,” half ... |
A May 2013 CNN poll asked: “If the United States were able to present evidence that convinced you that the Syrian government has chemical weapons and used them to kill civilians in that country, do you think the United States would or would not be justified in using military action against the Syrian government?” Even ... |
This points to one of Obama’s biggest challenges. Many Americans are not entirely convinced that Syria has used chemical weapons. In the Pew poll, only just over half said they thought “there is clear evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians.” Twenty-percent said there is not clear ev... |
Another factor suppressing public consent is the lack of multilateral support. In the Pew poll, 59 percent said that the United States should “first get a United Nations resolution to use force before taking military action against Syria,” while only 28 percent said it is unnecessary. |
Historically, Americans have been quite resistant to using military force without U.N. approval. However, in some cases, such as in Kosovo, support from allies is enough to bring Americans around to supporting action, even without U.N. approval. Support from more European allies than France, and from more Muslim countr... |
The biggest challenge that Obama faces will be the pressures to define the conflict in broader war-fighting terms. In his speech to the public he put the emphasis almost entirely on the need to uphold the international norm against the use of chemical weapons through a limited and targeted action. However, much of the ... |
Clearly there are, and will continue to be, pressures to up the ante and to define success as more than deterring the future use of chemical weapons. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has already introduced language to the effect of influencing the outcome of the civil war. Governments with an interest in bringing... |
Ultimately, Obama will need to find his way between the Scylla and Charybdis of the competing forces for non-engagement and large-scale intervention if he is to sustain even a moderate degree of public consent. |
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Steven you forgot to mention that US has been supporting Al Qaeda in Syria for the last 2 years if not longer, and that the chemical weapons attack was a false flag organised by bandar bush. That's why there's still no evidence that Assad did it. You are willfully ignorant and you deliberately misinform the public. |
Through such ommisions you have the blood of innocents in your hands. |
The bottom line is Syria's Civil War is not America's Civil War,therefore, other than Syria, no other player (nation) should tamper with the outcome of Syria's Civil War. How would Americans like it, if the British or French intervened in America's Second Civl War (19th Century)? I'm sure Linclon and America told the Q... |
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This two bit President will stop at nothing to garner up support for his upcoming dastardly attack on Syria! These alleged "chemical attacks" on civilians probably never took place and now Obama wants to use these for an excuse to get us into this obscene war of his. He wants to do a repeat of Bush's all too successful... |
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Sidney Gottlieb, who has died aged 80, was everything you have dreamed of in the mad scientist in a pulp novel about the CIA. Except that he was real. He was even, by common account, a rather nice man. |
Gottlieb's most notable feat was to introduce the world to lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD. What started as a deeply secret programme for Cold War mind control became the sacrament of the 1960s. He did not discover the drug. That honour belonged to Dr Albert Hoffman, who in April 1953 accidentally stumb... |
Sidney Gottlieb , quien murió 80 años de edad, era todo lo que ha soñado en el científico loco en una novela de la pulpa de la CIA. Sólo que él era real. Incluso fue , por cuenta común, un hombre bastante agradable. |
Más notable hazaña de Gottlieb era introducir el mundo de la dietilamida del ácido lisérgico , más conocido como LSD. Lo que comenzó como un programa profundamente secreto para el control mental Guerra Fría se convirtió en el sacramento de la década de 1960 . No descubrió la droga. Ese honor le pertenecía al Dr. Albert... |
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America need also think business, not only military. While protecting innocent Syrian civilians is utmost moral and wise, military airstrikes against Syria target for the benefit of other countries is not what America needs. USA also needs to go in with American business, and not let Asian corporations rule. |
If a strike could destroy Assad's chemical weapons, it would also degrade its military capabilities. Then the UN should opt for a ceasefire; topple the Assad regime and have key members extradited to the Hague for war crimes; hold a referendum for the Syrians to decide whether they want to stay together or break up. |
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The world is going crazy over Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and its box office numbers, hidden secrets, credits scene meaning, and more. There are reviews praising it, while others are not so happy with the views brought forth by director Joss Whedon. Well, a 9-year-old child was sent out to review the movie, and ad... |
A 9-year-old boy was chosen by Esquire to go out and review the newest and hottest comic book movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). |
The review is extremely truthful and details the opinion of the child in a way that only a 9-year-old could possibly explain. Esquire says the kid is someone who just loves movies and he gave his opinions on Avengers: Age of Ultron. |
The kid’s right. There was a lot more cursing and swearing in Avengers: Age of Ultron, even though nothing was over the top. At least, not over the top for adults. The “swearing” bit though, was a running joke. |
He liked the scene where Hulk and Iron Man in Hulkbuster armor fought one another. The other scene that was his favorite is where all the Avengers try to pick up Thor’s hammer, but he has issues with Thor overall. |
Luckily, Esquire didn’t reveal the name of the boy or his picture or any personal info about him. That’s a good thing because commenters on the article decided to rip into his opinion and speak to him as if he is an understanding adult. |
Another commenter simply believed that the kid was merely a fanboy for DC. |
Not every comment made by the grown-ups (?) was negative toward the 9-year-old boy reviewing Avengers: Age of Ultron, but some people were going a little far with things. So, the kid didn’t care much for it and children are usually brutally honest…there’s no need to condemn him for it. |
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largest and most exciting event for the commercial aviation industry will take place in Berlin. |
World Routes, now in its 17th year, is where decision makers from the world’s airlines, airports, and tourist boards gather annually to plan air services and discuss strategies for the global aviation industry. |
More than 2,500 delegates from all over the world will gather in Berlin from October 2-4, representing 300 airlines and 750 airports, as well as numerous destinations and tour operators. In total, around 15,000 meetings will take place at the event. Among this year’s participants are all leading airlines including Luft... |
World Routes 2011 is hosted by Berlin Airports, which will allow delegates to experience the future Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The German capital’s new gateway will open in June 2012 and is to become Europe’s most modern airport. |
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 (MySinchew) -- Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was released this morning. |
PKR has earlier called on Malaysians to gather at Padang Timur opposite Amcorp Mall in Petaling Jaya from 6.00p.m. this evening to celebrate Anwar's release. |
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