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Edward Albee, Playwright of a Desperate Generation, Dies at 88
By BRUCE WEBERSEPT. 16, 2016
Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between self-delusion and truth and the roiling desperation beneath the facade of contemporary life, died Friday at his home in Montauk, N.Y. He was 88.
His personal assistant, Jakob Holder, confirmed the death. Mr. Holder said he had died after a short illness.
Mr. Albee’s career began after the death of Eugene O’Neill and after Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams had produced most of their best-known plays.From them he inherited the torch of American drama, carrying it through the era of Tony Kushner and “Angels in America” and into the 21st century.
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Mr. Albee in his New York City loft in 1991. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
He introduced himself suddenly and with a bang, in 1959, when his first produced play, “The Zoo Story,”opened in Berlin on a double bill with Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” A two-handed one-act that unfolds in real time, “The Zoo Story” zeroed in on the existential terror at the heart of Eisenhower-era complacency, presenting the increasingly menacing intrusion of a probing, querying stranger on a man reading on a Central Park bench.
When the play came to the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village the next year, it helped propel the burgeoning theater movement that became known as Off Broadway.
In 1962, Mr. Albee’s Broadway debut, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, the famously scabrous portrait of a withered marriage, won a Tony Award for best play, ran for more than a year and half and enthralled and shocked theatergoers with its depiction of stifling academia and of a couple whose relationship has been corroded by dashed hopes, wounding recriminations and drink.
The 1966 film adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, turned the play into Mr. Albee’s most famous work; it had, he wrote three decades later, “hung about my neck like a shining medal of some sort — really nice but a trifle onerous.”
A full obituary will be published soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/edward-albee-playwright-of-a-desperate-generation-dies-at-88.html?
Mother Teresa Is Made a Saint by Pope Francis
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO 6:38 AM ET
The canonization on Sunday morning honors a lifetime working with “the poorest of the poor,” first in the slums of Kolkata, India, and then in other parts of the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/world/europe/mother-teresa-named-saint-by-pope-francis.html
15 Ways to Be a Better Person
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/style/ways-to-be-a-better-person.html?
Amherst Police pull prank with “Narcotics Detection Rabbit”
By Evan Anstey, News 4 Digital Producer
Published: April 1, 2016, 11:07 am
AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Amherst Police Department decided to pull a prank of their own on April Fools Day this year.
The police posted a picture on their Facebook page this morning, saying they had added a new “Narcotics Detection Rabbit” to their department. The obvious prank featured a photo of an officer kneeling down with a rabbit on a leash.
As part of the joke, the post said the pictured rabbit, “Dusty,” was brought in for use against “criminals discovering ever new and smaller areas to conceal drugs.”
http://wivb.com/2016/04/01/amherst-police-pull-prank-with-narcotics-detection-rabbit/
Why 80% of Obamacare plans are ineligible for this tax break
MARKETWATCH 11:05 AM ET 3/29/2016
Only 19% of marketplace high-deductible plans are HSA-eligible
The high-deductible health plan and the health-savings account: we tend to think of them as the peanut butter and jelly of consumer-driven health care. Yet the two aren't in fact inseparable, causing many consumers in high-deductible plans to miss out on possible tax savings, according to a recent study.
A study early this year (http://www.valuepenguin.com/2016/01/get-health-savings-account-hsa-if-you-can) from ValuePenguin, a financial education website, found that only 19% of health plans on the federal Obamacare marketplace were eligible for health savings accounts (HSAs), even though the vast majority of them had high deductibles. HSAs help ease the financial burden of high-deductible plans by allowing workers to sock away pretax money to pay for qualifying medical expenses before their deductible is reached and the health plan's coverage kicks in. When a marketplace health plan is eligible for an HSA, the consumer in that plan would have to go to a nearby bank or other financial institution to open his own account -- an extra step, for sure, but one that can reap rewards down the line.
Since HSAs are portable and never expire, tax-free funds can be withdrawn for eligible medical expenses now or in retirement. "They are really advantageous," said Jay Savan, a partner at Mercer, a consulting firm in Atlanta.
Savan said he was surprised at the study's findings, that so few high-deductible plans qualified for an HSA on the federal marketplace. Deductibles have risen steadily in recent years, pushing up consumers' out-of-pocket expenses along with them. Those without access to an HSA won't reap any tax savings when they pay for these expenses.
For those with individual coverage through the federal Obamacare marketplace, the average combined medical and drug deductible for 2016 bronze plans is $5,719 and for silver, $3,075, according to Avalere Health. Among those with group coverage through their job and a general annual deductible, the average deductible for single coverage was $1,318 in 2015, versus $917 in 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
As the ValuePenguin study illustrates, simply having a high deductible doesn't qualify a health plan for an HSA. The plan also has to meet Internal Revenue Service criteria that stipulate plans cover only certain preventive services, such as immunizations and cancer screenings, before the deductible is met. Under these guidelines, consumers would have to pay the full, negotiated amount for all other services, like a sick visit to the doctor, until they hit their deductible.
Paradoxically, the roughly four in five federal marketplace plans that don't qualify for an HSA are ineligible because they are a bit more generous than the regulations stipulate. They cover additional benefits before the deductible, which could include specialist visits or prescription drugs, beyond those that the regulations allow.
As currently structured, the government requirements for HSA-eligible plans require an unfortunate trade-off, said Len Nichols, a health economist and director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Consumers can either reap the immediate benefits of additional coverage before the deductible, or they can benefit from longer-term tax savings if they put pretax money into their HSA and then withdraw it tax-free to pay for qualifying expenses (earnings on the account also grow tax-free).
In crafting their plans as HSA-ineligible, the insurance carriers have made a calculated judgment call, experts say: they have decided that the additional, pre-deductible health benefits will appeal more to consumers than the potential tax savings that come from an HSA. "Generally, carriers don't create plans that people don't want to buy," Savan said.
This might hold true for lower-income Obamacare enrollees. More than 80% of enrollees are eligible for government subsidies that help offset their premium costs, and for them the more generous coverage before the deductible might indeed outweigh potential tax savings, Nichols said. While these consumers could benefit from an HSA if offered one, the more immediate wallet impact for them comes from having more services covered before the deductible, Nichols said.
A recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that, for a majority of consumers, the price of the monthly premium was the driving factor when selecting a health plan on the Obamacare marketplaces. High-deductible plans tend to have lower premiums than plans with lower deductibles and more comprehensive coverage before the deductible.
However, the pendulum could swing in the other direction for other Obamacare enrollees, especially those who make too much to qualify for premium subsidies. A successful, self-employed entrepreneur might prefer the ability to sock away tax-advantaged funds over the ability to fill another prescription before the deductible. In that case, her options on the federal marketplace are relatively limited.
For those who have an HSA and take a strategic approach to their account, the savings can be "fairly substantial," said Mike Thrasher, research analyst at ValuePenguin, who worked on the study. The maximum contribution allowed into an HSA for 2016 is $3,350 for individuals and $6,750 for families. One effective way for people to use health-savings accounts is to sock away money for a planned procedure, such as Lasik eye surgery or a root canal, Thrasher said.
The savings could look something like this: On $3,000 in medical bills, a Florida resident with a total tax rate of 32.7% who makes $50,000 in adjusted gross income will save $1,206 in taxes with an HSA, according to the ValuePenguin analysis. A New York resident with the same salary and medical bills and a total tax burden of 41.6% would save $1,885.
While relatively few Obamacare enrollees with high-deductible plans are eligible for such savings, many more of those with group insurance benefits have access to an HSA. Some 87% of large employers who offered high-deductible health plans offered them paired with an HSA, according to the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit organization that represents large employers on health policy issues.
Employers see HSAs as an attractive benefit for their employees, so they offer plans that meet the Internal Revenue Service specifications, said Brian Marcotte, president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health. To ease the sting of the high deductible, large employers contribute a median $750 annually to employees' accounts, he said.
Those who are unsure whether their high-deductible health plan is eligible for an HSA can call their insurer to ask.
-Elizabeth O'Brien; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com
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The EU was a noble experiment. Too bad they couldn't get their collective crap together.
The thought process was they would ban together like our 50 states and form a more perfect union to beat us at our own game economically.
Guess it didn't work out.
Oops! ~~~~~
Full Story
http://www.wsj.com/articles/terror-networks-web-sprawls-beyond-brussels-and-paris-1459124085
Thank you ---- don't you just hate those who
cannot find a few minutes for civil discourse!
Kudos!!
Please read the link in the Ibox. They are pretty much the same rules that Ihub enforces in their TOU.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/terms.aspx
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Are you still yammering on about nothing?
The funny thing is that you believe COWI is a real company that is going to be bought out by Microsoft - did Sierra pass that information to investors.
You posted:
Yup, DUMBO (lame duck) is on his way out ~~~ great point !!
Now that Ringling Brothers has retired the elephants they can replace them with the GOP when the circus comes to town.
Speaking at a journalism prize ceremony in honor of Robin Toner, a longtime political reporter for The New York Times who died in 2008, Mr. Obama said the 2016 campaign had become “entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis,” a coarse spectacle that he said was tarnishing the “American brand” around the world.
“I was going to call it a carnival atmosphere,” the president said, “but that implies fun.”
“The No. 1 question I’m getting as I travel around the world or talk to world leaders right now is, ‘What is happening in America about our politics?’ ” Mr. Obama continued. “They care about America, the most powerful nation on earth, functioning effectively and its government being able to make sound decisions.”
Mr. Obama’s references to Donald J. Trump, the New York real estate developer turned Republican front-runner, were unmistakable in his criticism of “divisive and often vulgar rhetoric,” frequently aimed at women and at ethnic and racial minorities. But he also turned his fire on the news media, saying it had given an uncritical platform to those pronouncements, in part because of relentless economic pressures that have changed the way news organizations operate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/us/obama-urges-journalists-to-cover-the-substance-of-the-campaign.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Fidel Castro was not impressed with Obama
By Kate Sheehy
March 28, 2016 | 1:35pm
Fidel Castro, speaking out for the first time since President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba last week, blasted the US leader on Monday for trying to meddle in the communist nation’s affairs.
In a letter titled “My Brother Obama’’ and published in Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, Castro scoffed, “We don’t need the empire to give us any presents.”
Castro, 89, ripped Obama for assuming Cubans can trust him when he says the US government is done trying to overthrow their country’s communist regime and that America will help move the island toward economic reform.
“My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn’t try to develop theories about Cuban politics” with his “honey-coated words,’’ Castro wrote.
“No one should pretend that the people of this noble and selfless country will renounce its glory and its rights,” he added. “We are capable of producing the food and material wealth that we need with the work and intelligence of our people.”
He even took a swipe at Obama’s relative youth.
“Native populations do not exist at all in the minds of Obama. Nor does he say that racial discrimination was swept away by the Revolution; that retirement and salary of all Cubans were enacted by this before Mr. Barack Obama was 10 years old,” Castro said.
Obama had said in a speech that “it is time, now, for us to leave the past behind,” but the diehard Commie retorted, “I imagine that any one of us ran the risk of having a heart attack on hearing these words from the President of the United States.”
Castro brought up the United States’ infamous 1961 failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs, writing, “Nothing can justify this premeditated attack that cost our country hundreds of killed and wounded.’’
White House spokesman Josh Earnest responded by saying, “The fact that the former president felt compelled to respond so forcefully to the president’s visit, I think, is an indication of the significant impact of President Obama’s visit to Cuba.”\
Castro ceded power to his brother Raul in 2008. Obama met with Raul last week, the first time a US president had been to Cuba since 1928.
The newspaper that published Fidel’s letter takes its name from the yacht that Fidel and dozens of other rebels used to travel from Mexico to Cuba to launch their revolution in 1956
http://nypost.com/2016/03/28/fidel-castro-was-not-impressed-with-obama/
Your assuming that I give a shit -----
I don't !
I'd agree with you: much better to live in town and pay more taxes.
I had a conversation a while back with an employee living on the upper east side who was bitching about his taxes. I told him to move to NJ or Nassau County and enjoy the commute.
His tax plans are a big fail. Read it and get back to me.
This paper analyzes presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tax proposal. His plan would significantly reduce marginal tax rates on individuals and businesses, increase standard deduction amounts to nearly four times current levels, and curtail many tax expenditures. His proposal would cut taxes at all income levels, although the largest benefits, in dollar and percentage terms, would go to the highest-income households. The plan would reduce federal revenues by $9.5 trillion over its first decade before accounting for added interest costs or considering macroeconomic feedback effects. The plan would improve incentives to work, save, and invest. However, unless it is accompanied by very large spending cuts, it could increase the national debt by nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product by 2036, offsetting some or all of the incentive effects of the tax cuts.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/2000560-an-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan.pdf
Please note this article did not come from the NY Slimes or Fox Noise.
No I don't. And I don't know how you would even know that.
It certainly does. A husband and wife can work for different companies. As soon as either ones wages pass $200K the extra WH on Medicare kicks in regardless if they will not exceed the $250K limit combined. They'll get a refund when they file a joint return.
A similar thing happens if you change jobs during the year and you already passed the SS limit at your first job. The new employer is required to start anew the WH for SS. The taxpayer will get the refund when they file their individual tax return for the multiple W2s issued with excess SS paid. The employer for his part loses.
Also FICA taxes sometimes called payroll taxes do not factor into an individuals federal effective tax rate. That is based on income taxes paid after determining your adjusted gross income.
FICA taxes go into a trust fund on behalf of the employee. They have nothing to do with your effective tax rate since everyone has to pay them and the rate would still be the same since they are flat tax rates. And before you come back with your usual horseshit response the excess .009 is a variable; but has nothing to do with the effective tax rate since it is not an income tax.
And to further enlighten you when Congress reduced the WH on SS by 2% Treasury had to kick in the extra 2% since by statute the contribution is 6.2%. So even though that tax was reduced it increased the deficit.
Now regarding the AMT,
I've had that conversation multiple times over the years with people who have exercised and sold ISOs same day. They simply screwed themselves.
Now please spare me the horseshit, BS etc when it comes to an effective tax rate. You simply don't know what you are talking about.
All other taxes are variables. You live in the tristate area you're screwed ditto CA and HI.
You pay use or consumption taxes they don't count either because they again are a variable.
The guideline always has been the federal effective income tax rate.
Ask the candidates who are running for president. None of them simply meet your numbers.
Now if you are paying 40% or more to the feds you really need a tax advisor.
Supreme Court refuses Blago’s appeal
http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/blago-3-28-16.aspx
You are out of your league and need to stop before you embarrass yourself even more.
Janice is never malicious.
She has been helpful to so many, including myself.
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" - it seems you aren't ready so I suspect you will keep investing in OTCM scams.
I know i'll be sorry I asked, but what on earth are "dungeon wannabe walkstreeters"?
You might need to learn how spell DAWG Wallstreet wannabe
SOOOO sophomoric..please don't post to me again..thanks..
What's funny is yall are dungeon wannabe walkstreeters..yall don't have a clue...lol..move on sonny..
I actually thought that's what I'd done. But I checked; apparently I sent him no PMs at all. Never fails to amaze me how many people on IHub apparently don't realize PMs stay in one's inbox/outbox forever.
It's not that difficult to identify those
who are SHITTING in our POT !
Ally Hackbarth
Maybe she sent you a private message in order save you the embarrassment of being corrected in public. Especially if it had to do with how grey tickers trade (don't trade is more apropos).
Janice seems to be like that, she tries to be respectful when possible. But when someone tracks her down to prove just how stubborn they are, in asserting their lack of knowledge. Well let's just say game on.
I believe most colleges--and elementary and secondary schools--use TIAA-CREF. I think it's the second largest pension fund in the country, and it seems to be pretty good.
As you say, teaching won't make you millions, but in many parts of the country, it pays well enough to be a reasonable tradeoff for doing what you enjoy
In countries like Germany and Japan, though, secondary educators are paid very well indeed. That seems to pay off in better-educated students.
Damn Dawg, you have invested in many scam tickers - you might want to read the real DD instead of donating money to the company insiders.
IG
I know. One of the things that makes New York an expensive place to live.
if she hadn't sent a private message like a coward I wouldn't have to do this. .
Pants on fire. I've never sent you a PM. Just checked. At least, I've never sent you a PM unless you're a multiple alias.
Please tell me you didn't think that stocks on the greys are quoted. That is too funny!
IG
Wow. A "cauldron of tyrannical decadence"?? Who knew?
How about some perspective?
You - in a bunch of obvious turds/scams and totally clueless about the market.
Me - In none and have not been wrong about calling a scam a scam in ~10 years.
Tell me about it. I was a in academia for seven years, mostly part time. I was a "Road Scholar", paid per course, no benefits. I did it to get a foothold, which never came. Eventually, I gave up and became a public school teacher. Taught for two years in NJ, which has a lousy pension system, then moved back to NY. NY's is pretty good, if you can accumulate enough years, as in 20 or more, but preferably 30 or more. If you and your significant other both have pensions, you can live well. Not in NYC, but in rural counties. When you retire, your friends in business will be jealous. You will be enjoying life at age 55, and they won't have enough in their 401K's. Teaching in NY State Colleges, public schools, or woking in government, local or otherwise, also provides pension benefits. Even work as a custodian or on the roads. Something young people should keep in mind. Slow and steady wins. Yes, you may make big bucks in business, but they you may have years without work. Averaged together, you may make less than a teacher and have to work 50 weeks. Any prior government work applied to my NYS pension, even my work as a student employee in the State college. Private colleges have poor retirement benefits. We live near Vassar College. I believe they just have a 403B plan where the college matches their contributions. You will need to save a couple million to retire. That is nearly impossible. Do what you have to do to get a pension.
And the point? Also, that does not factor in multiple W2s.
Both Yonkers and NYC have a residence income tax. Both are collected by the state.
Employers are required to WH starting at $200K regardless of marital status on the W-4.
I responded to the last board she posted to..if she hadn't sent a private message like a coward I wouldn't have to do this. .
Chill little girl..grown man here..
Just stick to your scam stocks buddy..everything in otc land is a lottery pick...duh..
Yep and u trade them also..dude I trade big boards also whereI have a nice sized diversified portfolio. Do you ??
Whatever.. dude if yall leave your opinions to yourselves you wouldn't get called out.. she expressed hers first then I expressed mines..this must be something goddess to you all.lmao..
Trump vs. the New World Order
Nelson Hultberg
March 26, 2016
The enemies of freedom today saturate our culture like lunacy pervades an asylum. We as Americans suffer inexcusable tax tyranny and relentless Federal Reserve inflation of our currency. Our schools disguise socialism as Americanism to our children. Our pundits succumb to the evil of moral relativism in effusive editorials. Our spineless politicians capitulate at every opportunity to Washington’s march toward World Government instead of doing their honorable duty, which is to defend the Constitution, defend the Founders, defend American sovereignty.
It is into this cauldron of tyrannical decadence that Donald Trump has leaped. Why? Because he is possessed of that defining element so desperately needed in our leftist dominated world collapsing all around us – genuine patriotism. And he is distraught with the collapse that is taking place.
the link....
http://afr.org/trump-vs-new-world-order/
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