Invitation and Details: Sept. 21st Call with President Obama

Dear Friends,

Here is the invitation with web and call-in details for the September 21^st Health Care Call with President Obama. We hope that many in your networks are able to join the call. Please feel free to forward this widely to your members, allies and partners. There will be no limit on callers via internet and phone combined. We want to encourage those with internet access to listen online.

You are Invited to a

HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE CALL WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA

Linking Community and Faith Leaders to Information about New Benefits

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Time: 4 PM Eastern, 3 PM Central, 2 PM Mountain, 1 PM Pacific

Dial in information:

For those with internet access, please join the call online at: http://hhs.granicus.com/live

For those without internet access, please dial: 1-888-455-6860 or 1-866-844-9416

A Conference Call for Faith and Community Leaders with the President of the United States

You are invited to join President Obama for a conference call to discuss key new benefits under the Affordable Care Act. We want to ensure that community leaders like you have the most up-to-date information and resources about these new benefits to share with your communities and congregations.

On September 23^rd, the six month anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, several new health care benefits begin to apply: eligible young people up to age 26 can stay on their parents’ health plan, key prevention benefits are covered without co-pays or deductibles in new plans, and insurance companies may no longer deny coverage to kids because of pre-existing conditions or drop someone from coverage because of a paperwork mistake.

President Obama will speak about how consumers and communities are already benefiting from the new law. HHS officials will provide an update on how the Affordable Care Act is being implemented, highlight new outreach resources, and answer questions from community and faith leaders. Community and faith leaders will also share their efforts to bring the benefits of health care reform home to communities.

Please forward this invitation to your members and partners.

You do not need to RSVP for this call. If you have questions, email partnerships@hhs.gov

Hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE CALL WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA

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HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE CALL WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA

Linking Community and Faith Leaders to New Benefits and Information

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Time: 4 PM Eastern, 3pm Central, 2pm Mountain, 1pm Pacific

A Conference call for Faith and Community Leaders with the President of the United States

You are invited to join President Obama for a conference call to discuss key new benefits of the Affordable Care Act. As community leaders, we want to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information and resources about these new benefits to share with your communities and congregations.

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Time: 4 pm EDT/3 pm Central/2 pm Mountain/1 pm Pacific

On September 23rd, the six month anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, several new health care benefits begin to apply: young people up to age 26 can stay on their parents plan, key prevention benefits are covered without co-pays or deductibles, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against kids with pre-existing conditions or drop people from coverage when they become sick and need it most. HHS and the White House want to make sure that you have information at your fingertips to help your community members access the benefits of health care reform.

HHS officials will provide an update on the Affordable Care Act, highlight new outreach resources, and answer questions from community and faith leaders. Leaders will also share their efforts to bring the benefits of health care reform home to communities. President Obama will speak to key issues related to health reform implementation.

Please forward this invitation to your members and partners. We will provide dial-in information next week. For more information, write partnerships@hhs.gov

Hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Alexia Kelley, Director

Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (The Partnership Center)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Office of the Secretary

Alexia.Kelley@hhs.gov

202-205-5597

the cove

you really must see this movie! then after you watch it, go to takepart.com/thecove and do something to make this end!

The Cove Trailer from TakePart on Vimeo.

Winner of the Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary of 2009 and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.

The Cove exposes not only the tragedy of dolphin slaughtering in Japan, but also the dangerously high levels of mercury in dolphin meat and seafood, the cruelty in capturing dolphins for entertainment, and the depletion of our ocean’s fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption. We also see how the mandate of the International Whaling Commission has been manipulated by the Japanese Fisheries Agency for its benefit and its subsequent effect on the rest of the world.

this may go without saying

but i always have to learn things by experience/experiment. so i had a control study to identify the best fat to use when making chocolate cookies. well, i only used two different kinds of fats: butter (obvio) & bacon grease.

now, one could wonder how this experiment was conceived, so i will share just a bit of background. i've recently re-discovered that bacon is really the mystery ingredient to many delicious dishes: pizza, pasta, deviled eggs, salad . . . i could go on.

i mean its bacon. which was so powerful, it weakened my friends kath's full vegetarianism. she would say, "i'm a vegetarian, but i eat bacon". i'm not too sure how that really worked out for her but in the end, i realized she was right. because BACON!

i digress, so while i was making deviled eggs with bacon, i thought, maybe this would go well with chocolate chip cookies. part of the magic of the chocolate chip cookie is the salty/sweet combo and since bacon is salty . . . this could be really good.

the problem was i didn't have enough bacon for that. but i did have a bunch of bacon grease. so . . . an idea was born. i was pretty excited. like i might be unlocking the secret to even better chocolate chip cookies, which is the holy grail to at least a few people out there.

well, its not that good. butter is a MUCH better fat for cookies than bacon.

though i can tell that the addition of actual bacon pieces might be good (and there are quite a few recipes and even websites dedicated to this idea . . . google it)

so there you have it. stick with butter (get it?) for chocolate chip cookies . . .