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Economists and business leaders have expressed concern over the job-killing aspects of the law since it was enacted in March, 2010, particularly the individual mandate that requires people to have healthcare coverage beginning in 2014.
Paul Howard, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, told Congress last year that there is a critical need for healthcare reform.
?Unfortunately, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not the solution to our healthcare woes,? he said in an appearance before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. ?If anything, the Affordable Care Act ?doubles down? on many of the worst aspects of our current system, while adding new cost pressures and problems that will serve as a drag on economic growth and job creation for years to come.?
Howard told Newsmax that overturning the law will be a move in the right direction. ?If the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare it won?t end the uncertainty hanging over the economy ? too many deficit and tax questions still have to be resolved by Congress. But it will help,? he said.
?Taxes on employers who don?t offer creditable coverage, taxes on medical device companies, drug companies, and insurance companies will all go away. Young and healthy Americans won?t face large price increases from Obamacare?s heavy handed insurance regulations. Smaller businesses, and businesses that employ low-wage employees, won?t have to worry about cutting staff to avoid penalties for not carrying coverage.
?Congress will have to go back to the drawing board on health care reform, and should focus on incremental and less expensive options for expanding coverage and improving health care delivery through consumer choice and competition.?
The court is expected to make its decision on the Affordable Care Act ? probably the most hig-profile cases it has dealt with since Bush vs. Gore in 2000 ? within the next two weeks.
Andrew Puzder is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, a company that employs about 21,000 people in Carl?s Jr. and Hardee?s restaurants. In an Op-Ed for Bloomberg he noted his company?s healthcare consultant estimated that when the law is fully implemented it will cost his company an additional $18 million a year and that could translate into job losses.
?A Supreme Court decision declaring Obamacare unconstitutional would unquestionably be a positive for job creation and economic growth,? he told Newsmax. ?Declaring the mandate unconstitutional would render most of the law unworkable and also be a positive. However while either decision would meaningfully reduce the uncertainty currently facing American businesses, it would not eliminate such uncertainty.
?Among other things, uncertainty would remain with respect to whether taxes will materially increase this January, whether the EPA?s war on carbon fuel will continue to drive energy prices up and whether the NLRB will continue to be an advocate for unions threatening to increase labor costs and decrease productivity.
"Job creation will not meaningfully increase until the government gets out of the way of American businesses," Puzder said. ?However, a Supreme Court decision voiding Obamacare would be a big step in the right direction.?
The middle ground for the court, striking down the controversial individual mandate but leaving intact the rest, will likely result in a scramble involving Congress, insurers and businesses to fix what?s left.
?If the mandate is struck down, but the rest of the law is upheld, expect insurers and providers to go back to Congress and ask for additional reforms to try and prevent young and healthy people fleeing from the insurance market (thanks to other Obamacare regulations,? Howard said. ?That may force additional reforms to the overall package.?
Gail Johnson, the founder and CEO of Rainbow Station, a nationally accredited preschool and school-age recreation franchise, said that ?anything short of full repeal of the law ? will continue to create uncertainty and higher costs for employers such as myself in a still recovering economy.?
Johnson, who has 225 employees at three corporately-owned Rainbow Station campuses in Richmond, Va., agreed that a decision to strike down the individual mandate would be a step in the right direction, but she said it would not go far enough. She noted such a move would leave in place other aspects of the law that place a significant cost burden on small business owners.
Striking down the entire law, she said, would get the country ?back to square one; which would be an improvement over the current law given the costs and mandates it places on employers like me.?
?However, we need to implement intelligent health care legislation that the country can afford and that gives employers flexibility they need,? Johnson added. ?We need Congress to pass legislation that balances the need to improve access to coverage together with controlling the rising costs of care.
?We must enact new legislation that incentivizes consumer-oriented solutions to health insurance and finally enable my franchise system to band together across state lines to purchase affordable coverage for our employees.
?This combined with tort reform should really make a difference in the escalating cost of health care. Controlling rising costs will provide certainty in this area ? certainty that will go a long way to restarting the economic engine of small and midsized businesses like mine.?
Should the court uphold the law, businesses will be exposed to increased uncertainty as new regulations come on line and they may be forced to choose between profits and people.
?Companies will have to make plans to implement it, the costs require them to either lose profit or find other ways, that includes not hiring or losing employees they have,? said Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at George Mason University?s Mercatus Center.
?Anything that is mandatory has an impact on the bottom line; companies either suck it up or reduce costs.?
And Howard said if the law is upheld continued uncertainty should be expected as ?thousands of regulations continue to be written, and companies wonder what their exposure will be to future health care costs."
?Also expect Obamacare to be revisited by the next administration,? he added.
Puzder, co-author with David Newton of the book, ?Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why the Government Doesn?t Understand It,? said should the court uphold the law it will have a ?dramatic negative impact on economic growth."
?Clearly, the last three and a half years have demonstrated that economic uncertainty is a negative with respect to job creation,? he said. ?The only thing worse than economic uncertainty is a certainty that things will get worse.
Upholding Obamacare would create a certainty that health care expenses for American businesses will go up, job creation will decline and the current economic malaise will continue or, more likely, accelerate."
At the end of the day, Howard said that ?getting health care reform right would be a boon to the overall economy, and for job creation.
?That?s not what we have today ? but the Supreme Court might help us get there a little faster.?
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I have been doing a great deal of research.? This posting will discuss what I have found about Cooking Oils.? I have used several sources for this information some from the net other from books.? My strongest support comes from :
Dr. Bruce Fife, N.D., M.D. http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/
Dr. Joseph Mercola? http://www.mercola.com/
Health Ranger www.NaturalNews.com
and many others.
Joan
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Is Your Cooking Oil Healthy?
A Guide to Choosing Cooking Oils
Fat - A food-energy source. Fat has received a bad reputation in the public's eyes for many years. There are good fats and there are bad fats. Oxidized or artificially produced fat such as; polyunsaturated vegetable oils margarine, and shortening(Crisco)? are bad and any amount and all natural fats are good.? Fat slows down the movement of food in the digestive system allowing food more time to be digested and more nutrients especially minerals are absorbed.? Low-fat diets prevent the complete digestion of food promoting mineral deficiencies, such as absorption of Calcium to prevent osteoporosis.?
Fat as an energy food, gives twice as much energy as an equal weight of the other energy foods - protein and carbohydrates. There are three kinds of fat:? saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated. They are differentiated by their molecular structure.
Three types of Fat:
Saturate fat ? Is a vital nutrient. It is not a poison. It is an important source of energy, it aids in the digestion process, helps the heart and other vital organs, it helps the body maintain its health.? In fact, if the body does not get saturated fat and monounsaturated fat it will make it on its own but not enough for optimal health.
This fat?s bad reputation started in the 1960s, when Dr. Ancel Keys, PhD (1904-2004) using what he called the Mediterranean diet suggested eating too much fat was unhealthy (1953).? He is known as the father of the low-fat diet.? He was with the university of Minnesota physiologist and nutritionist.?? During WWII he came up with ready-to-eat provisions called Field Rations, Type K which eventually came to be known as K Rations. ?
Eisenhower eating Field Rations 
Dr. Keys later work on eating fat and Heart disease made a great impact on the American diet. He concluded that fat elevated cholesterol causing for no known reason a buildup of plague in the arteries walls.? Known as the Cholesterol hypothesis (Diet-Health Hypothesis, and Lipid Hypothesis).
What Dr. Keys failed to study and ignore, is our previous history, our ancestors eating fat, and their? miracle survival of thousands of years before that date.? Animal fats (Lard), beef tallow,? butter, cheese, chicken fat, coconut and palm oil, eggs, ghee (clarified butter), milk, mutton tallow, Nutmeg oil, Peanut Oil, Sour cream, and Vinegar were the common crucial fats used throughout the history of mankind and maintaining healthy cells, healthy organs, and a healthy body.
Note the Low-Fat diet is not the Atikins Low Carbohydrate Diet.? Dr. Atkins was the first Dr. that stood up against the low-fat diet and established the low-carb Atkins Diet and used the? Glycemic index. That diet and other things will be in another post right now let?s continue with a look at fats.
Polyunsaturated fat - is a fatty acid mostly found in plants, it is four or more hydrogen atoms short of saturation. Polyunsaturated fats are the absolute WORST oils to use when cooking because these omega-6 rich oils are highly susceptible to heat damage . When these fats are exposed to heat, light or oxygen they readily oxidize (to your car that means rust) and form free radicals. Our diet needs polyunsaturated fat, our bodies cannot produce this fat so they are essential that we eat them daily.? We must have some in our diet but too much can be detrimental.? Consumption exceeding 10% Omega-6 oils of total calories can lead to blood disorders, cancer, liver damage, and vitamin deficiencies.
When polyunsaturated fats or oils are heated they become known as 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nominal (4-HNE).
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Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids - This category includes common vegetable oils (polyunsaturated oils) such as: Canola, Chia Seed, Cod Liver, Corn, Cottenseed, Fish Oils, Flaxseed, Hemp Seed, Herring, Lecithin,? Linseed, Menhaden (Fish Oil), Safflower, Salmon Oil, Sardine Oil, Sesame seed, Soybean, Sunflower, Vegetable Oil, and Wheat germ. Polyunsaturated fat consists of both Omega-3 and Omega-6.?
Monounsaturated fat - is two hydrogen atoms short of being a saturated fat. Olive oil is mostly Monounsaturated then ? saturated and polyunsaturated.
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Monounsaturated Fatty Acids - Almond, Avocados, Butterfat, Grape Seed, Olive, Peanut, Pumpkin, Rapseed (canola) and, Sesame. Good source for fat but become toxic if heated.? Heating causes the oil to become oxidized
If you look at the chart below you will find the best oil to cook with is----
High in Saturated fat, low in the others so the winner is ________________
Type of Fat and Percent Composition
http://foodreference.about.com/od/food_reference_charts/a/Compositi...
Dietary Fat | Fat Composition | |||
% | % | % | ||
Olive Oil | 77 | 9 | 14 | |
Canola Oil | 58 | 36 | 6 | |
Peanut Oil | 49 | 38 | 13 | |
Lard | 47 | 12 | 41 | |
Palm Oil | 39 | 10 | 51 | |
Butter | 30 | 4 | 66 | |
Margarine | 48 | 34 | 18 | |
Vegetable Shortening | 43 | 31 | 26 | |
Corn Oil | 25 | 62 | 13 | |
Soybean Oil | 24 | 61 | 15 | |
Sunflower Oil | 20 | 69 | 11 | |
Cottonseed Oil | 19 | 54 | 27 | |
Safflower Oil | 12 | 79 | 9 | |
Coconut Oil | 6 | 2 | 92 | |
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/09/27/olive-oil-health.aspx
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 27,? 2003
Olive Oil Good for Health but Not fo
r Cooking
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?Researchers concluded that olive oil is a major contributing factor to the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. While olive oil can and should be a healthy part of your diet, what most people do not appreciate is that olive oil should not be used to cook with. It should be used cold or applied to a dish after it has been cooked.? Olive oil is primarily a monounsaturated fat which when heated can easily break-down and become perishable with oxidative (when your car oxidates it rusts) damage and then forms free-radicals (which cause disease). As it turns out, extra-virgin olive oil contains chlorophyll that accelerated decomposition and makes the oil go rancid rather quickly. So if you plan on using a fat to cook with, your clear choice is coconut oil or butter. Coconut oil is rich in lauric acid which is a proven antiviral and immune system builder.
So in evaluating plant oils for cooking, it should be clear that oils that contain a high percentage of saturated fatty acids are more stable than those that contain a high percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids. When exposed to heat and light during processing, storage, and use, oils that contain a high percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids tend to contain more free radicals than oils that contain mainly saturated and/or monounsaturated fatty acids.
I have found that I can add olive oil after I have cooked the food.? I also found that if I mix olive oil with coconut oil, coconut oil stays liquid.? As long as you don?t heat the olive oil it is very good for you.
Until my next post.
Joan
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Soldiers stand guard outside the Presidential Palace, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach President Fernando Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's impeachment trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Soldiers stand guard outside the Presidential Palace, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach President Fernando Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's impeachment trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A supporter of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, whose face is painted with the colors of Paraguay's national flag, stands outside Parliament, in Plaza de Armas, where a large group gathered to protest against Lugo's impeachment trial, Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Supporters of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo protest against Lugo's impeachment trial, outside Parliament, in Plaza de Armas, Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach Lugo for his role in for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A supporter of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, whose face is painted with the colors of Paraguay's national flag, protests against Lugo's impeachment trial, outside Parliament, in Plaza de Armas, Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach Lugo for his role in for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Supporters of Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo stand outside Parliament, in Plaza de Armas, where a large group gathered to protest against Lugo's impeachment trial, Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Paraguayan lawmakers voted Thursday to impeach Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and police. Lugo's trial was to begin Friday in Paraguay's Senate. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) ? Paraguay's Senate convened to try President Fernando Lugo on Friday after he was impeached in a high-stakes confrontation between the leftist ex-priest and his former moderate allies.
Adolfo Ferreiro, one of the president's lawyers, said that Lugo wouldn't appear at the trial in the Senate and would be defended by his lawyers. The Senate is trying Lugo for allegedly having a role in a deadly confrontation involving landless farmers that left 17 dead.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered at Asuncion's main square in front of Congress to show their support for Lugo and condemn the trial that could lead to his ouster. They waved flags and chanted slogans including: "The people, united, will never be defeated!"
Police separated groups of pro- and anti-Lugo protesters.
Paraguay's lower house of Congress voted to impeach Lugo on Thursday, and the president said he would face the trial. In an interview with the Venezuela-based television channel Telesur, Lugo called it an attempt to carry out an "express coup d'etat."
A delegation of foreign ministers from the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, arrived in Paraguay ahead of the trial to discuss the crisis.
Lugo's allies including the leaders of Bolivia and Ecuador have expressed concern and support for the president. Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, said on Thursday night that Unasur could not "recognize the new government" if Lugo were to be ousted.
Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua also backed Lugo at rally in Venezuela, calling it a struggle for "democracy to be respected."
The growing crisis has put Paraguay's fragile democracy to a test, and prompted frightened residents to close shops and pull children out of schools fearing potential violence.
The impoverished, landlocked nation has a long history of political instability. Lugo was elected four years ago on promises of helping the South American country's poor, but his more moderate government allies have increasingly turned against him in recent years.
If ousted, Lugo would be replaced by Vice President Federico Franco. Franco, of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, "is ready to assume command and pacify the country," said Liberal lawmaker Enrique Sallim Buzarquis.
Lugo's election in 2008 ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party, and he has constantly clashed with Congress, where he has few firm allies.
Roberto Bacman, an Argentine political analyst, said he thinks all signs point to a political "conspiracy."
"This shows Lugo's political weakness. He couldn't build an alternative to the Colorado Party, which stayed under the shadows building power and winning more support," Bacman said.
The trigger for the current impeachment was an attempt by police to evict about 150 farmers from a remote, 4,900-acre (2,000-hectare) reserve, which is part of a huge estate owned by a Colorado Party politician. Advocates for the farmers say the landowner used political influence to get the land from the state decades ago, and say it should have been put to use for land reform.
Seventeen people died in the clash and many people blamed Lugo.
Lugo, 61, has expressed sorrow at the confrontation and accepted the resignations of his interior minister and his chief of police.
Fernando Estenssoro, a political analyst at University of Santiago in Chile, said the political conflict seemed capable of triggering violence, even though technically Lugo's opponents appeared to be operating within the constitution.
"Nothing's illegal up to now. But the constitution needs to be reformed. An impeachment trial where a president has only two hours to defend himself? It's absurd. Where else have you heard of something like that?," Estenssoro said. "His supporters are not going stand by with their arms crossed while he's removed from power."
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Associated Press writers Luis Andres Henao in Santiago, Chile, Ian James in Caracas, Venezuela, and Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, contributed to this report.
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?Our board members will learn generous amounts of information from our guest speakers which they can utilize to better maintain and improve their associations.?
| WHAT/WHO: | ? | Principal Management Group of North Texas (PMG), an Associa company, hosts a complimentary board member appreciation and educational event honoring its loyal and dedicated board members. |
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| The forum will be at The Grapevine Concourse Meeting and Banquet Facility on Saturday, June 23. Guest speakers will present on a variety of industry-related topics, including: | ||
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| ? Expedited foreclosures ? Jeanne Caruselle, Winstead Law Office | ||
| ? Irrigation systems ? David Hadden, Hadden Landscape | ||
| ? Reserve studies ? David Dotson, Criterium-Dotson Engineers | ||
| ? Property maintenance ? Robert Cano, PMG Field Services | ||
| ? Value-added programs ? Associa Services Department | ||
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| ?We are excited to hold an event that shows our appreciation for our board members, while also adding an educational component into the mix,? said PMG President and CEO Mark Southall. ?Our board members will learn generous amounts of information from our guest speakers which they can utilize to better maintain and improve their associations.? | ||
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| Numerous prizes will be given away, including gift cards, services from vendors, an iPad and a two-night stay at the Red Agave Adventure Resort in Sedona, Arizona. Scout, the Associa Supports Kids mascot, and Daisy, the Associa Green mascot, will also be in attendance. | ||
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| Breakfast will be provided. | ||
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| WHERE/WHEN: | The Grapevine Concourse Meeting and Banquet Facility | |
| 3800 Fairway Drive | ||
| Grapevine, TX 76051 | ||
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| Date: June 23, 2012 | ||
| Time: Registration ? 7:30 a.m. | ||
| Presentations ? 8:30 ? 11:30 a.m. | ||
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