More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau

May 19, 2012 abanes funny stuff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born in the United States than white babies, according to government data released on Thursday that confirm a long-growing trend.

U.S. Census Bureau data show the United States is on its way to becoming “majority minority,” with almost half of all young children currently from minority groups, including Hispanic, black and Asian.

As of July 1, 2011, 50.4 percent of babies younger than age 1 were minorities or of more than one race, up from 49.5 percent in 2010, the data showed.

Among children younger than age 5, 49.7 percent were a minority or mixed race last year, up from 49.0 percent in 2010, according to the agency, which tracks the U.S. population.

While the country has long been on course to see whites lose their majority, the latest figures make it clear that the next generations of Americans will look far different than today.

The figures are also likely to reignite debate over what it means to be an American in an election year where race, poverty and immigration are emotional campaign issues.

The 197.5 million whites of all ages in the United States still make up nearly two-thirds of the nation, the Census Bureau said. Its data show 36.6 percent of the U.S. population were minorities in 2011 compared to 36.1 percent in 2010.

Some experts on race and ethnicity say current immigrants are far less likely to “melt” into U.S. culture, while others say today’s minorities may soon see their heritage blend as whites did. Generations ago there were not “whites” but European groups that were identified as Irish, German, Italian and Greek, among others.

PARTISAN DIVIDE

The growing Hispanic population and related immigration concerns, particularly in southern states that border Mexico, are major issues in November’s presidential and congressional elections.

Republicans have taken a tough stance against illegal immigration and vowed to cut spending for social programs that largely impact minority groups.

Democrats have said they back broad immigration reform that could, for example, allow children who are illegal immigrants but have grown up in the United States to have a pathway to citizenship.

Vanessa Cardenas director of a diversity project at the nonprofit think tank Center for American Progress, said despite some conservatives’ resistance to the nation’s changing racial make-up, the numbers make clear that the United States is increasingly diverse.

That means that citizens and policy makers will need to rethink spending priorities and other issues, said Cardenas, who was born in Brooklyn to parents from Bolivia.

“The communities that are growing the most are facing the biggest challenges in terms of education and the wealth gap. If we don’t do what we can to make sure these kids succeed … if we as a country want to be better, we have to invest in these kids,” she said.

Her project, called Progress 2050, is aimed at policies amid growing racial and ethnic diversity.

Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt, an American Enterprise Institute scholar, said that the findings did not foreshadow anything in a “fluid society” with a historic pattern of assimilation that has worked well.

“I don’t think this notional milestone is portentous for the future,” Eberstadt said.

The Census Bureau findings also show:

* The largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States last year remained Hispanics at 52 million, or nearly 17 percent of the nation’s population. The black population was 43.9 million.

* Asians were the second-fastest growing population, rising 3 percent to 18 million.

* There were 6.3 million American Indian and Alaska Native residents and 1.4 million Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

* More than half of all residents in Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas and Washington, D.C., were minorities as of last year.

(Reporting By Susan Heavey; Editing by Xavier Briand)

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Facebook set to begin trading after $16B offering

May 19, 2012 abanes funny stuff

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of “likes” are worth on Wall Street, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell Friday morning from company headquarters a continent away.

Trading of Facebook’s shares has been delayed, but the company’s stock was set to begin moving on the Nasdaq a day after the world’s definitive online social network raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that valued the company at $104 billion.

The company’s valuation is more than Amazon.com’s and that of other well-known companies such as Kraft, Walt Disney and McDonald’s. It’s a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way to make money.

Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share on Thursday, at the top of expectations. Now, regular investors will have a chance to buy stock in Facebook for the first time. The stock will trade under ticker symbol will be FB.

Facebook has come to define social networking by getting 900 million people around the world to share everything from photos of their pets to their deepest thoughts.

It has done so while managing to become one of the few profitable Internet companies to go public recently. It had net income of $205 million in the first three months of 2012, on revenue of $1.06 billion. In all of 2011, it earned $1 billion, up from $606 million a year earlier. That’s a far cry from 2007, when it posted a net loss of $138 million and revenue of $153 million.

“They could have gone public in 2009 at a much lower price,” said Nick Einhorn, research analyst at IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital. “They waited as long as they could to go public, so it makes sense that it’s a very large offering.”

Facebook Inc.’s valuation is the third-highest in an IPO, according to Dealogic, a provider of financial data. Only two Chinese banks, Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006, have been worth more. They were worth $133 billion and $132 billion, respectively. By another measure ?the amount raised? Facebook ranks third among U.S. IPOs. The largest was Visa, which raised $17.9 billion in 2008. No. 2 was Enel, a power company, and No. 4 was General Motors, according to Renaissance Capital.

The $38 share price is the price at which the investment banks arranging the offering will sell the stock to their clients. In an IPO, the banks buy the stock first from the company and the early investors and then sell to the public. If extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold as part of the transaction, Facebook and its early investors stand to reap as much as $18.4 billion.

For a company that was born in a Harvard dormitory and went on to reimagine online communication, the stock sale means more money to build on the features and services it offers users. It means an infusion of money to hire the best engineers to work at its sprawling California headquarters, or in New York City, where it opened an engineering office last year.

And it means early investors, who took a chance seeding the young social network with start-up funds six, seven and eight years ago, can reap big rewards. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, invested $500,000 in the company in 2004. He’s selling nearly 17 million of his shares in the IPO, which means he’ll get some $640 million. He will hold on to about 28 million shares, worth $1.06 billion.

The offering values Facebook, whose 2011 revenue was $3.7 billion, at as much as $104 billion. The sky-high valuation has its skeptics, who worry about signs of a slowdown and Facebook’s ability to grow in the mobile space when it was created with desktop computers in mind. Rival Google Inc., whose revenue stood at $38 billion last year, has a market capitalization of $207 billion.

“There seems to be somewhat of a hype around the stock offering,” says Gartner analyst Brian Blau.

That may be an understatement.

Facebook’s IPO dominated media coverage in the weeks and days leading up to the event. Zuckerberg’s hoodie made headlines when he wore it to a meeting with investors as did General Motors’ decision this week to stop advertising on the site ?and rival Ford’s affirmation that its Facebook ads have been effective.

There are more than a few reasons for the exuberance. First, there’s Facebook’s sheer size and high profile. The company grew from a college-only social network to an Internet phenomenon embraced by legions of people, from teenagers to grandmothers to pro-democracy activists in the Middle East.

Secondly, it’s personal.

“It’s probably one of the first times there has been an IPO where everyone sort of has a stake in the outcome,” Blau says. While most Facebook users won’t see a penny from the offering, they are all intimately familiar with the company.

And then there’s Zuckerberg, who turned 28 on Monday. He has emerged as the latest in a lineage of Silicon Valley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world in new directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. He counted the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs among his mentors, and he became one of the world’s youngest billionaires ? at least on paper ? well before Facebook went public. A dramatized and less-than-flattering version of Facebook’s founding was the subject of a Hollywood movie that won three Academy Awards last year, propelling Zuckerberg even further into the public spotlight.

Though Zuckerberg is selling about 30 million shares, he will remain Facebook’s largest shareholder. Even after the IPO, he will own 503.6 million shares, or 32 percent of Facebook’s total shares. At the $38 share price, his stake in the company is worth $19.1 billion. Zuckerberg will control the company with 56 percent of its voting stock as a result of agreements he has with other shareholders who promise to vote his way.

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Best Ways of Reducing Property Tax in Suffolk

May 19, 2012 abanes funny stuff

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Today in America TV and Video Marketing Online

May 18, 2012 abanes funny stuff

Today in America TV and Video Marketing Online

Today in America specializes in helping its clients market themselves online and reach consumers across the internet.

As people across America and around the world spend more and more of their free time on the internet, exploring the wonders of the World Wide Web, the potential and importance of video marketing online have expanded. Online video content is one of the most popular forms of internet content, as evidenced by the popularity of YouTube and other video sharing websites, like Vimeo, Viddler and Dailymotion. Internet users increasingly seek out interesting, entertaining and informative videos. Interesting and well-produced videos can go viral, getting millions of views in a short time period. For evidence, look no further than ?Kony 2012,? a video that was seen by tens of millions of viewers within a week of its release.

Companies of all sizes use online video marketing for search engine optimization, product placement and to tout their products, services and themselves. Companies from small family-owned operations to large multinational corporations can post web videos to market themselves to potential clients and customers. The ease and relatively low-cost of producing and distributing web videos have made video marketing online a popular and effective marketing method for businesses of all sizes and in all industries.

The cable TV program Today in America with Terry Bradshaw produces sharp, appealing, high-quality web videos for a wide range of clients, and also distributes video content to TV audiences on cable channels and cable networks. Its promotional videos showcase innovative and successful cities, municipalities, entrepreneurs and companies throughout the United States and abroad. To view a Today in America sample of the show?s content, readers can visit one of the television program?s network of blogs and websites, or visit its YouTube channel.

The Today in America TV program, hosted by veteran TV figure Terry Bradshaw, features fascinating programming about trends across American society, and interesting stories from many different segments of U.S. culture.

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‘The Dictator’: The Reviews Are In!

May 18, 2012 abanes funny stuff

‘If Groucho Marx were alive today, he would probably make movies like ‘The Dictator,’ ‘ writes IndieWire’s Eric Kohn.
By Terri Schwartz


Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Dictator”
Photo: Paramount Pictures

Considering all of the appearances Sacha Baron Cohen has made recently as Wadiyan dictator Admiral General Aladeen, it’s hard to believe anyone could have not heard of “The Dictator” yet. From to spilling at the Oscars, it doesn’t seem like there’s a line the “Brüno” star hasn’t crossed yet. And to think, the movie has just come out today.

Though “The Dictator” ditches the tried-and-true formula of Baron Cohen’s previous works (“Da Ali G Show,” “Borat” and “Brüno”), reviewers don’t think the shift to a scripted comedy detracts from its overall hilarity. Admiral General Aladeen is a crass, outrageous and hysterical satire, just like the other Baron Cohen characters that came before him. Besides, the film is still , according to leading lady Anna Faris, so it still feels a bit off the cuff.

So is the buzz surrounding “The Dictator” worth it? Keep reading to see what the critics had to say.

The Story
“Baron Cohen employs a comic range that ricochets between wicked political barbs and the lowest anatomical farce, to often funny and occasionally hilarious effect. This is his most conventionally formatted narrative film, without the pretense to catching people off-guard in real situations, and while it will prove too extreme for a portion of the mainstream public, Baron Cohen’s fans should generally welcome it to good box-office returns.” — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

The Laughs
“Even when sticking to a script, Sacha Baron Cohen leaves no target untouched: His new movie opens with a dedication to the memory of Kim Jong Il and closes with an anti-Semitic gag. If Groucho Marx were alive today, he would probably make movies like ‘The Dictator,’ British comedian Baron Cohen’s latest subversive romp and searing showcase of crass global stereotypes. Transitioning back into a scripted dynamic after his quasi-documentary performance excursions with ‘Brüno’ and ‘Borat,’ Baron Cohen loses none of his edge, combining slapstick inspiration and social commentary into a hilariously provocative blend.” — Eric Kohn, IndieWire

The Stars
“Cohen and his co-star Jason Mantzoukas have a very strong and funny chemistry, and they play a lot of the film’s best scenes together. Anna Faris brings that same level of commitment that she always brings, and she earns some big laughs in the film. As with any rapid-fire comedy, supporting players get a chance to show up, score a few laughs, and then they’re gone, and there’s one sequence involving Kathryn Hahn that is so deranged both in conception and execution that I’m frankly amazed the film got its R rating without more edits.” — Drew McWeeney, HitFix

The Chaplin Connection
“Comparisons to Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ are inevitable, perhaps, but Baron Cohen doesn’t really seem to have any kind of political agenda in mind. Aladeen is just another larger-than-life idiot in the comedian’s repertoire, but there are plenty of laughs to be had at his expense.” — Alonso Duralde, TheWrap

The Final Word
“As a comic stunt and a political statement, the film seems to exist to support its climax, in which the ‘real’ Aladeen tries to sell America on the perks of a dictatorship but ends up illuminating America itself. (‘Your media would appear free but be secretly controlled by one person and his family!’ ‘You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group!’) As a punchline hammering home the film’s core polemic — basically, that ‘freedom’ and ‘tyranny’ aren’t black and white or mutually exclusive — it’s pretty great. But it doesn’t justify the film-long setup that precedes it. It suggests what could have been had Baron Cohen and [director Larry] Charles played the material a little straight and given the movie’s world stronger ties to our real world. Great satire, after all, is funny because it’s true.” — Karina Longworth, The Village Voice

Check out everything we’ve got on “The Dictator.”

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Marc Ozburn: Real Life Lessons From Real Life DoGooders …

May 18, 2012 abanes funny stuff

I remember vividly my fifth grade book report. The assignment: read a novel and create a replica of the scene that was integral to shaping the narrative. My scene depiction, in an old shoe box, was not only pitiful compared to the others’ artistic clay creations and paper mache structures, but also highly inappropriate. My mom was not the kind of mother who helped me brainstorm concepts, gather supplies and labor for hours on a project to create a masterpiece. In fact, there were times she didn’t even review my work. She had an unspoken theory that I alone, and not her, was accountable for my work.

To some, this might have been a mistake, since my selected book was the John Grisham novel, The Client. I secretly watched the R-rated film adaptation without my mom’s knowledge and claimed I had read the 600-page adult novel as a ten-year-old. I glued my toy car to the center of a shoe box with red string coming from the exhaust pipe of the driver’s window to recreate a scene in which the protagonist, Mark Sway, witnesses a mob lawyer attempting to commit suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning. You will have to read the book (or watch the movie as I did) to see what happens, but this class project is one that my mom and I laugh about today. No telling what my teacher thought as I presented a suicide depiction to my fifth grade class while other depicted scenes from Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.

This continued “do-it-yourself” mentality continued into my high school years. While in boarding school, I would beg my mom to allow me to travel home to South Carolina from Virginia for a weekend escape. “Sure, you can come home, if you find a way to get there.” Virtually penniless, I would take midnight greyhounds, suspect trains and even happily hitched a ride from a classmate’s paraplegic aunt (a resourceful individual who drove with hand-controlled system).

Looking back, I wouldn’t want it any other way because the “like it or not” independence that my mother gave me created a resourcefulness that has helped me immeasurably in adulthood. I didn’t grow up depending on my mom to swoop in and fix things like so many of my friends did. After graduating, I watched friends struggle because they hadn’t developed the work ethic to seize opportunities that allowed them to support themselves. Surprisingly, I still have friends pushing 30-years-old who still depend on their parents for supplemental income. My mother knew and showed me the real life lesson: independence breeds empowerment.

A former DoGooder Spotlight, Micaela Connery, shares this same value and incorporates it daily in her nonprofit, Unified Theater. Twenty-five year-old Connery developed Unified Theater as a freshman at her Connecticut high school. The program celebrates all students, especially those with physical and developmental disabilities, and brings them together as a community. Growing up, Connery played with her disabled cousin, Kelsey, and never liked it when outsiders treated her differently. Spurred from her personal love for drama and Kelsey’s love for music, she founded Unified Theater as a club in her school cafeteria.

Connery saw theater production as an activity everyone could participate in to gain independence, no matter a person’s circumstances. A Unified Theater production is completely student-run. The nonprofit offers training, curriculum and support to the group, but leaves the entire production up to the students. Students are responsible for everything from script, set design, costumes, casting, lighting to choreography.

Unified Theater’s motto is that a disability isn’t something that defines an individual — it’s something that is apart of who you are as much as any other characteristic. The nonprofit doesn’t focus on the disability, but rather focuses on working hard as a team. The personal impacts are clear: 98 percent of participants agreed/strongly agreed that Uni?ed Theater improved their self-confidence and 67 percent of student leaders said Uni?ed Theater is their most significant leadership experience to date.

Unified Theater’s methods prove that independence helps spark empowerment and confidence amongst its participants. Like my mother, Connery understood that when you foster independence in demonstrative acts, with real tangible rewards, it gives students the confidence to see what else they can achieve. While the groups involved with Unified Theater are centered on inclusion, every participant in the program is responsible for being a part of the creative process. This kind of free-form structure fosters collaboration and offers an equalizing effect no matter what each individual’s circumstances might be.

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Baby galaxies grew up quickly

May 17, 2012 abanes funny stuff

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) ? Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early history of the Universe, there was potential for planet formation and life.

The research results have been published in the scientific journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

For several thousand years after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe consisted of a hot, dense primordial soup of gases and particles. But the Universe was expanding rapidly and the primordial soup became less dense and cooled. However, the primordial soup was not evenly distributed, but was denser in some areas than others. The density in some of the densest areas increased due to gravity and began to contract, forming the first stars and galaxies. This took place approximately 500 million years after the Big Bang.

The earliest galaxies were probably composed of primitive, giant stars that consisted of only hydrogen and helium. There were no heavier elements. They first appeared later in the evolution of the Universe, created by nuclear processes in the stars.

Cosmic cycle

A star is a giant ball of glowing gas that produces energy by fusing hydrogen and helium into heavier and heavier elements. When no more energy can be extracted the star dies and massive clouds of dust and gas are flung out into space. These large clouds are condensed and recycled into new stars in a gigantic cosmic cycle. The new stars that are formed will have a higher content of heavier elements than the previous and for each generation of star formation there are more and more of the heavy elements and metals. And heavy elements (especially carbon and oxygen) are necessary for the formation of planets and life, as we know it.

Up until now, researchers thought that it had taken billions of years for stars to form and with that, galaxies with a high content of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. But new research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that this process went surprisingly quickly in some galaxies.

“We have studied 10 galaxies in the early Universe and analysed their light spectra. We are observing light from the galaxies that has been on a 10-12 billion year journey to Earth, so we see the galaxies as they were then. Our expectation was that they would be relatively primitive and poor in heavier elements, but we discovered somewhat to our surprise that the gas in some of the galaxies and thus the stars in them had a very high content of heavier elements. The gas was just as enriched as our own Sun,” explains Professor Johan Fynbo from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Lighthouses of the Universe

The galaxies are so far away that you normally do not have the opportunity to observe them directly, but the researchers have used a special method.

“There are some extreme objects in the Universe called quasars. Quasars are gigantic black holes that are active and when matter falls into them, they emit light that is as strong as thousands of galaxies. They are like a kind of lighthouse that lights up in the Universe and can be seen very far away,” explains Jens-Kristian Krogager, PhD student at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University Copenhagen. He explains that in order to use quasars as light sources the quasar must lie behind the galaxy you want to observe.

“We then look at the light from the quasar and can see that some light is missing. The missing quasar light in the image has been absorbed by the chemical elements in the galaxy in front of it. By analysing the spectral lines we can see which elements there are and by measuring the strength of each line we can see the amount of the elements,” explains Jens-Kristian Krogager.

Life in the early Universe

They discovered not only that the galaxies from the very early Universe had a surprisingly large quantity of heavier elements, but also that one of the galaxies in particular was especially interesting.

“For one of the galaxies, we observed the outer regions and here there was also a high element content. This suggests that large parts of the galaxy are enriched with a high content of heavier elements and that means that already in the early history of the Universe there was potential for planet formation and life,” says Johan Fynbo.

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  1. J.-K. Krogager, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. M?ller, C. Ledoux, P. Noterdaeme, L. Christensen, B. Milvang-Jensen, M. Sparre. On the sizes of z?2 damped Ly absorbing galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2012.01272.x

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Health Insurance: Sun Life Health Insurance Canada

May 17, 2012 abanes funny stuff

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Get On The Lead With Your Options Through Living Wills And Trusts …

May 17, 2012 abanes funny stuff

A lot of questions air on our mind once legal matter is concerned. Such matters like distributing your assets to your loved ones or any health related decisions. You better get living wills and trusts which will take good care of your plans in all aspects of your assets while you?re still alive. Just a thing though, like any other matter, it has its advantages and disadvantages.

To differentiate a trust from a will, it?s simply the meticulous events and the cost that would truly matter in any trust. But depending on your need, you can choose from both. Living trusts enable you to distribute your property to your heirs or beneficiaries without going through a probate which is a long and tedious procedure that can cost you millions of dollars.

A will on the other hand is less complicated and may cost less. Good news is estate planning lawyers will be more than glad to assist you on which among the two should you take advantage. They provide legal advices on matters that are legal. Generally, if you have children who are still minors, the use of both is necessary since the will may answer to guardianship and a trust specifies someone to manage your property and later on manages to divide who will get the assets.

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Blue Lake Rancheria Business Entity Sued by Washington Insurance

May 16, 2012 abanes funny stuff

Here is the complaint in Kriedler v. Mainstay Business Solutions (W.D. Wash.):

Kriedler Complaint

An excerpt:

7. Cascade National at all relevant times was a domestic stock insurance company holding a Certificate of Authority to operate in the State of Washington as a property and casualty insurer pursuant to Chapter 48.05 RCW. Cascade National also held a license issued by the State of California Department of Insurance to write workers? compensation insurance policies for coverage in California, subject to the insurance laws and regulations of California.

8. Mainstay was at all relevant times engaged in business as a professional employer organization (?PEO?) in the State of California. A PEO, also referred to as a labor contractor, provides human resources/personnel services to its clients who are typically small to medium-sized businesses. The PEO technically ?employs? its clients? workforces who continue to work at the clients? businesses. The PEO provides various human resources and personnel services on behalf of its clients, including payroll and benefits administration, health and workers? compensation insurance programs, and other similar services. Providing workers? compensation insurance coverage for the clients? workforce is a major component and marketing factor for a PEO to obtain clients because the PEO can often obtain more favorable rates because it is able to pool many clients? workforces into a substantially larger pool of employees.

9. On July 1, 2004, Cascade National and Mainstay entered into a written letter agreement (the ?Agreement?) by which Cascade National would provide statutory workers? compensation insurance coverage to Mainstay in the State of California for the clients and workplace employees of Mainstay?s PEO operations.

10. The workers? compensation insurance provided to Mainstay by Cascade National is a high-deductible policy. The deductible was $1 million per claim. Under the Agreement, Cascade National is required to initially pay all claims to injured workers from the first date of injury and the first dollar of coverage, and Mainstay is required to repay or reimburse Cascade National for all those claims payments within the deductible amount. To secure performance by Mainstay, a $500,000 deposit and a Letter of Credit in the amount of $1,500,000 were provided by Mainstay, among other requirements.

11. The Agreement also requires Mainstay to remit to Cascade National on a weekly basis various sums for the ?deductible premium,? taxes and assessments, and for incurred claims, including paid loss and loss adjustment expenses and estimated ultimate unpaid loss and loss adjustment expenses.

12. The Agreement further provides that Cascade National, in its sole and complete discretion, is to determine the amount of the reserves to be paid over to Cascade National by Mainstay for losses and loss adjustment expenses. The required reserves are expressly defined in the Agreement as the greater of the estimated ultimate unpaid loss and loss adjustment expenses as calculated by Cascade National?s appointed actuary, and any applicable loss and loss adjustment expense reserves required by a regulator. Under the Agreement, Mainstay is required to pay to Cascade the full amount of these calculated, required reserves.

13. The workers? compensation insurance policy coverage provided by Cascade National became effective on July 1, 2004. On March 28, 2005, Mainstay gave a ?notice of cancellation? of the policy retroactively effective on March 1, 2005. The policy covers all workers? compensation injuries which occurred during that policy period, including all on-{1479039.DOCX;} going expenses, claims and costs arising from those covered injuries which are incurred after March 1, 2005 and for as long as the claim remains open. Cascade National is continually obligated to pay all ongoing expenses and losses for every worker injury which occurred during the policy period; and Mainstay is continually obligated to pay and reimburse Cascade National for all such claims. The obligation of Mainstay to pay Cascade National under the Agreement continues as long as Cascade National is required to pay out on workers? compensation claims for injuries which occurred during the policy period.

14. Cascade National has provided all the insurance coverage as agreed and required under the Agreement. Cascade National has paid, and during receivership has continued to pay and be obligated to the California Insurance Guaranty Association for all claims payments for the Mainstay coverage. Over the course of the coverage, the amount charged and payable by Mainstay to Cascade National totals $18,887,657, including the calculated premium plus paid losses (i.e. paid losses and loss adjustment expense), and reserves (i.e. unpaid losses and loss adjustment expense) as of the last actuarial analysis as of December 31, 2011. Mainstay has paid or been credited with $14,204,128, leaving a balance due from Mainstay to Cascade National of $4,683,529 as of the last actuarial analysis as of December 31, 2011.

15. Receiver has made numerous written demands to Mainstay for payment pursuant to the Agreement and has provided detailed itemized support and actuarial analysis supporting the amounts due and owing beginning in mid-2009 through 2011. The amount due as of the actuarial study as of December 31, 2011, is now $4,683,529, which amount consists of (a) $155,981 in Stipulated Deductible Premium; (b) $6,333,131 in Paid Losses and Allocated Loss Adjustment Expense (?ALAE?); (c) $703,613 in Case Reserves Losses and ALAE; (d) $720,264 in Unallocated Loss Adjustment Expense (?ULAE?) Reserves; and (e) a credit or surplus of $3,229,460 for Incurred But Not Reported (?IBNR?) Losses and ALAE. 16. Demand has been made to Mainstay and it has failed to pay over to Cascade National the on-going and continuing amounts due as required under the Agreement.

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