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- If you have ideas of what plugins you'd like to have installed here at TWikiDotOrg please list them here. TOC Main.MartinCleaver 29 Jun 2003 Plugins.CommentPlugin ... |
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- Les autorités auraient également "gonflé" certains faits qui lui sont reprochés |
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- Une riposte bien orchestrée pour dénoncer la poursuite des adeptes du P2P par la RIAA |
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- I've never found Ann Coulter attractive (I prefer my right-wing apologist femmes with a bit more meat on the bones) but she looks quite fetching here.... |
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- [Fixed post due to delay in blogging pilot] Star Trek: Enterprise officially started broadcasting in HDTV earlier this week in most major UPN markets, as well as Jake 2.0 and possibly some others. The episode was stellar despite missing the 2nd half taking care of screaming baby. THAT is what PVR's are for. |
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- That's it. If you ever get arrested for any type of crime that involves a computer, your defense is clear: "it wasn't me, it was a secret trojan horse that got installed on my computer." It's worked for someone accused of child porn and for someone accused of tax fraud. And, now, it's worked for the kid accused of the kid accused of doing a denial of service attack on the Port of Houston. |
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- Busy Busy Busy BeeI'm about to get very busy and not be blogging too often. |
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- Excerpt: "Under a century-old law, pension payments to retired disabled veterans are reduced to offset the disability payments they receive from the government. As a result, a disabled combat veteran might be drawing no more pension than a clerk-typist who never saw a lick of combat." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) |
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- 10/16/2003. Excerpt: "Congressional Republicans agree Thursday to spend $22 billion over the next decade to allow more veterans to receive both disability benefits and full military retirement. The dispensation is currently available only to combat veterans. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook. |
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- Excerpt: "Under pressure from veterans groups, the GOP leadership announced yesterday that it will allow more veterans to collect both full retirement and disability benefits, something they have been blocked from doing in the past." (Washington Post) |
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- Excerpt: "Some analysts raise the specter that rising health-care costs could spell doom for U.S. manufacturing, just as it contributed to the gutting of the nation's steel, railroad and textile industries." (IndustryWeek. |
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- Excerpt: "All you've got to do is look at the two Southern California strikes now underway -- by supermarket employees and MTA mechanics -- to see what we're in for.... Employers get hit with rising health-care costs, which cuts into profits. So they pass some of the damage on to employees, which is the equivalent of docking their pay." (Los Angeles Times; |
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- Excerpt: " In theory, by allowing small outfits to buy insurance together, the pools bestow some of the negotiating power that large companies enjoy.... In reality, the pools often fail, usually thanks to a combination of factors." (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) |
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- Excerpt: "Three former major league baseball players filed a class-action lawsuit against the league, it's 30 teams and commissioner Bud Selig on Thursday, claiming they were wrongfully denied pension and medical benefits and discriminated against because they were white." (AP via New York Times; one-time registration required) |
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- Excerpt: "In a move designed to pressure national leaders to tackle high prescription drug prices, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Thursday announced a landmark plan to help Minnesotans import U.S.-manufactured drugs from Canadian pharmacies. |
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- 39 pages. Excerpt: "DOD eliminated preauthorization requirements for certain procedures and gave the [Managed Care Support, or 'MCS'] contractors more latitude for determining when preauthorizations are appropriate.... MCS contractors have worked with their claims processors to implement new technologies for data input, claims routing, customer service, and claims submission." (U. |
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- Excerpt: "A holistic approach to health and productivity management examines paid and unpaid leave, presenteeism, health care, pharmacy, wellness, disease management, occupational and environmental health, workers compensation, and employee assistance programs. It looks at the effect these programs have on employee health and the net effect on productivity. In this article, we briefly describe these programs and present return-on-investment (ROI) statistics." (Aon Consulting) |
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- Excerpt: "Lessons learned from the last recession and the rash of corporate accounting abuses that began to surface in 2001 are still evolving. However, in addition to developments that primarily affect the compensation of executives and boards of directors, the slowly recovering economy has caused noticeable changes in general compensation trends. This article examines these trends as well as changes in corporate governance processes." (Aon Consulting) |
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- Excerpt: "QUESTION: We have a long-time employee who is completely disabled but we are keeping her on full-time pay. Since the pay will be reported on IRS Form W-2, can she continue to make elective deferrals and receive matching contributions under our 401(k) plan? ANSWER: |
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- Excerpt: "Amy Moore of Covington and Burling and ERIC has produced for ERIC members a chart summarizing the significant issues addressed in a recent court decision to allow employees of Enron to sue the officers, directors and plan administrators for breach of fiduciary liability regarding the administration of the company's 401(k) retirement plans." (Covington & Burling for the ERISA Industry Committee) |
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- Excerpt: "Employers that have not done so may have to amend the retirement plans to implement the limits available under EGTRRA.... Communications materials that specify the various plan limits should be reviewed for accuracy and revised, if necessary, before they are distributed to plan participants." (Milliman USA) |
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- Excerpt: "Bill Carey won't be retiring anytime soon. The president and owner of a small business in Wichita, Kan., got the first clue his retirement would be postponed when his trusted bookkeeper stepped out for the weekend in January 1999." (HR magazine) |
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- Excerpt: "The opinion [in in DiFelice v. Aetna] is artfully written and a must-read for anyone interested in ERISA preemption. Continue reading for the facts of the case as well as key portions from the opinion, including the answer to this question: 'What is a Serbonian blog? |
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- 2 pages. (HR Policy Association) |
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- 2 pages. Excerpt: "Employers that sponsor benefit plans coordinated with Social Security or Medicare benefits should review their plans in light of the adjustments that have been announced for 2004. Information given to employees and plan participants should be reviewed and revised as necessary. Payroll systems also may have to be adjusted accordingly. |
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- Excerpt: "The Feb. 27 letter also questioned the company's assumption its pension plan would earn more than 10% a year, which is higher than the 9% figure the SEC has generally used as a threshold ..." (USA Today) |
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- Excerpt: "While many people wrote its obituary over the past few years, long-term investing never died. It is putting on a show of great vitality right now, enjoying some hard-won vindication as stocks recover from the bear market of 2000-02." (Chet Currier on Bloomberg.com) |
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- Excerpt: "The data show that UC investments in venture capital funds have performed like those of other large pension funds. While they made more money over the long term than UC investments in public companies, venture funds performed much worse during the recent bear market." (SFGate.com) |
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- Excerpt: "New York's pension costs will total $481.5 million for fiscal year 2003 to 2004, and will more than double next year, New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi announced Oct. 16. Hevesi anticipates that the 2004 to 2005 pension costs will be $1. |
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- Modification de SuggestionsFonctionnalites --- par BenoitAudouard le 2003 10 17 - 18:01 |
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- Modification de BacASable --- par ALagny-108-1-2-223. w80-15. abo. wanadoo. fr le 2003 10 17 - 17: |
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