Most employers know that rewarding their best workers is good business. However, the returnA" on such investment is difficult to measure, and wise employers think long and hard about two of their largest expense items - employee benefits and executive compensation. Today in the United States, under the glare of issues raised by the current financial crisis, company-sponsored benefits programs have become mere shadows of what they once were, and executive compensation has come under intense scrutiny to the point where the Treasury Department monitors it at companies receiving federal assistance. In recognition of the growing importance of employee benefits and executive compensation issues, the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law dedicated New York University's 59th Annual Conference on Labor to an in-depth examination of these topics. This volume of the proceedings of the 2006 conference contains papers presented at that meeting, all here updated to reflect recent developments. It also includes contributions from other practitioners and academics with extensive knowledge and experience in this specialized field of labor and employment law. Among the topics presented and discussed are the following: - the structure and adequacy of the U.S. system of providing for retirement income; - alternative models of providing retirement benefits, including a government-provided livable pension; - accounting standards as a silent regulatorA" of defined benefit pension plans; - impact and implications of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA); - benefits issues for foreign workers in the United States, both documented and undocumented; - issues for companies that adopt stock acquisition programs as an employee compensation vehicle; - recent healthcare reform proposals at the state level as pilot projects for a national system; - the ERISA preemption scheme and denial of coverage under an ERISA-governed health care plan; and - attorney conflict of interest situations under ERISA. As always, this annual conference captures valuable insights and syntheses of central labor and employment law issues in the United States and will be of great value to practitioners and academics in the field.

Born in 1927, Phil grew up in the Inwood Section of Manhattan and subsequently lived in Blauvelt NY, Tulsa OK, and Clearwater Fl. He was educated at Princeton, Fordham and NYU. At midlife he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard. He holds an MBA degree in Corporate Finance and was a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the States of New York and Oklahoma. He served with military and was commissioned at the Armored School at Fort Knox in 1945.Phil is the father of five children, has ten grandchildren and five grand dogs. The mother of his children, Eleanor Johnsen is deceased. He married a second time to Lynn Smith, a Louisvillian businesswoman.Early in his career he was employed by the FBI and Arthur Andersen & Company. He retired in 1983 from Cities Service Company, a large oil company, where he served as an Executive Officer and Corporate Controller. He taught at three colleges, served on the Board's of Directors of a number of non-profit companies, and did consulting work with Tescot, an organization of retired executives that serviced non-profit and government entities.

This book offers a revealing look at how newspapers covered the key events of the Plains Indian Wars between 1862-1891-reporting that offers some surprising viewpoints as well as biases and misrepresentations. The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars takes readers back to the late 19th century to show how newspaper reporting impacted attitudes toward the conflict between the United States and Native Americans. Emphasizing primary sources and eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on eight watershed events between 1862 and 1891-the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Flight of the Nez Perce, the Cheyenne Outbreak, the Trial of Standing Bear, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and its aftermath. Each chapter examines an individual event, analyzing the balance and accuracy of the newspaper coverage and how the reporting of the time reinforced stereotypes about Native Americans. Includes historical photos of prominent Native Americans and a scene of the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre Presents an extensive bibliography of books, articles, and a list of frontier newspapers that served as primary source material

There is widespread concern amongst consumers about the safety and acceptability of food, and there are clearly communication gaps between consumers, many food professionals and food industry. This book offers accounts of the two-way nature of this difficult communication process and steps that can be made to bridge these communication gaps in a variety of social and cultural environments. Individual chapters of the book analyze the roles of science, culture, and risk perception, and of mass media and attitudes towards eating. An additional section describes the interface between scientists and lay people with regard to policy-making and agricultural practice.

Considering the epidemiology of COPD, this title collects all available knowledge on the subject, featuring data on the national emphysema treatment trial. It explores the epidemiology of emphysema, the management of complications and surgical controversies in lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema (LVRS).

Dr. Reilly, a practitioner with 45 years' experience in the Edgar Cayce therapies, combined the renowned psychic's wisdom with his own experience in this home health manual. Filled with basic, common-sense health hints which work, it is thoroughly indexed to help you find at your fingertips such topics as: Losing weight Treating allergies A treatment for psoriasis Massage Preventing arthritis An anti-aging program A practical handbook of natural healing for every home.

The attack on the Capitol building following the 2020 election was an extraordinarily large and brazen crime. Conspiracies were formed on social media in full public view, the law-breakers paraded on national television with undisguised faces, and with outgoing President Donald Trump openly cheering them on. The basic concept of law enforcement--investigators find criminals and serve justice--quickly breaks down in the face of such an event. The system has been strained by the sheer volume of criminals and the widespread perception that what they did wasn't wrong. A mass of online tipsters--"sedition hunters"--have mobilized, simultaneously providing the FBI with valuable intelligence and creating an ethical dilemma. Who gets to serve justice? How can law enforcement still function as a pillar of civil society? As the foundations of our government are questioned, the FBI and Department of Justice are the first responders to a crisis of democracy and law that threatens to spread, and fast. In this work of extraordinary reportage, Ryan Reilly gets to know would-be revolutionaries, obsessive online sleuths, and FBI agents, and shines a light on a justice system that's straining to maintain order in our polarized country. From the moment the police barriers were breached on January 6th, 2021, Americans knew something had profoundly changed. Sedition Hunters is the fascinating, high-stakes story of what happens next.

Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary study of medieval color. By integrating scientific and literary approaches, it revises our current understanding of how people in medieval Europe experienced color and what it meant to them. This book insists that the past perception of the world can be recovered by joining timeless universal constraints on human experience (discovered by science) to the unique cultural expressions of that experience (revealed by literature). The Middle Ages may evoke images of the multicolored stained glass of gothic cathedrals, the motley garb of minstrels, or the brilliant illuminations of manuscripts, yet such color often goes unnoticed in scholarly accounts of medieval literature. Getting the Blues restores some of the most important literary works of the Middle Ages to their full living color. Particular consideration is given to the twelfth-century Arthurian romances by Chretien de Troyes and the thirteenth-century Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Getting the Blues engages debates within the humanities and the sciences over universalist and relativist approaches to how humans see and name color. Scholars in the humanities often insist that color is a strictly cultural phenomenon, eschewing as irrelevant to the Middle Ages recent developments in cognitive science that show universal constraints on how people in all cultures see and name color. This book contributes to the recent cognitive turn in the humanities and sheds new light on some of the most frequent and meaningful cultural experiences in the Middle Ages: the perception, use, and naming of color.

Born in 1927, Phil grew up in the Inwood Section of Manhattan and subsequently lived in Blauvelt NY, Tulsa OK, and Clearwater Fl. He was educated at Princeton, Fordham and NYU. At midlife he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard. He holds an MBA degree in Corporate Finance and was a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the States of New York and Oklahoma. He served with military and was commissioned at the Armored School at Fort Knox in 1945.Phil is the father of five children, has ten grandchildren and five grand dogs. The mother of his children, Eleanor Johnsen is deceased. He married a second time to Lynn Smith, a Louisvillian businesswoman.Early in his career he was employed by the FBI and Arthur Andersen & Company. He retired in 1983 from Cities Service Company, a large oil company, where he served as an Executive Officer and Corporate Controller. He taught at three colleges, served on the Board's of Directors of a number of non-profit companies, and did consulting work with Tescot, an organization of retired executives that serviced non-profit and government entities.

Joey McNeal is a Philly kid through and through. With a wild mop of curly hair and an uncommon thirst for competition, Mac is known to keep his car trunk full of sports equipment, ready for any pickup game. But McNeal's true passion is running. Joey Mac is the fastest guy in town, but a slate of injuries stopped him short of greatness at what would have been the peak of his career. Now, about to turn thirty, McNeal starts to wonder What if? What if he put everything he had into training? What if he had a great coach? What if he could run faster than he ever had before? What if he could silence a lingering unfulfilled dream? But McNeal has two jobs, little time or money, and only the support of his closest friends. Even they don't know that Mac secretly dreams of competing on the highest athletic stage: the Olympics. Phil Reilly's debut faithfully depicts a runner's life in Philadelphia--from Kelly Drive to Pennypack Park to the icy winter streets of the Northeast--as McNeal gives his running career one more shot. This searing pursuit reveals the sacrifices that passions require and the limits that are made to be broken.

There is widespread concern amongst consumers about the safety and acceptability of food, and there are clearly communication gaps between consumers, many food professionals and food industry. This book offers accounts of the two-way nature of this difficult communication process and steps that can be made to bridge these communication gaps in a variety of social and cultural environments. Individual chapters of the book analyze the roles of science, culture, and risk perception, and of mass media and attitudes towards eating. An additional section describes the interface between scientists and lay people with regard to policy-making and agricultural practice.