Ex-CTLawyer

MW13

Remembered by whom?

For the CTL family Obamacare (actually Romneycare) has been a lifesaver.

Our silver level policy underwritten by Connecticare (our insurance carrier prior to the ACA)costs us $600 less per month than we paid 4 years ago. Our 20 year old is still covered on our policy. The annual 1 million dollar cap no longer exists. Mrs. CTL spent a month on life support in ICU and has had 10 surgeries this year…amount billed approaching $3 million. Our out of pocket: $980

We did not have to give up a single medical provider and gained several previously not covered by our plan.

ACA is different in every state. The Health Exchange here in CT works well….BTW my premium for 2017 actually decreased $5 per month. The only change in our coverage is an increase to $700 deductible per person in 2017 from $500 and the family maximum deductible rises to $1400 from $1000.

Joseph…………..

You are missing the modifier: certain

and certainly, none of them are here in CT

Sharpton is a washed up has been with no power

I see you accepted my corrections regarding the non-Democrats Ellison and McKinney

I’m proud to live in a blue state

Joseph………..

Jesse Jerkson and Al Towanna Banana Sharpton were not recent candidates and have no following of consequence in the national Dem party. Even Jerkson Jr is gone from the scene.

BTW>>>Keith Ellison is NOT a Democrat. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party…the Minnesota affiliate of the Democrat Party.

There is a difference.

Cynthia McKinney is a FORMER Democrat. She was defeated in the 2006 Democratic Primary in her Congressional District. In 2008 she unenrolled from the party and ran as the Green Party candidate for President (losing to Barack Obama).

Flatbusher…………….

confusing comment you make….

I’m not repeating what Dems are telling me. I am a lifelong Dem, registered as such since 1972 when I voted in my first presidential election for McGovern, not Nixon.

I have seen many changes over the decades, platforms and leaders come and go. I am an elected official, I am a delegate to state and national conventions.

That doesn’t mean I agree with every statement and action by every member of the party.

The big difference is that I am in agreement with most of this year’s platform and opposed to much that was in the R’s platform.

Joseph…and Tricky Dick Nixon, the Republican POTUS hated Jews.

What’s your point???

Parties can’t stop individuals from registering as members

Meno……………….

I never mentioned fines.

The garbagemen simply tag the can as a violation:

Overweight

Mixed with recyclables

Forbidden items and leave the full can on the curb.

The homeowner then has to either correct the situation or transport the can to the transfer station and separate the items for disposal, recycling, etc. and buy disposal tickets for construction debris.

I’m currently taking down a sheet rock wall in my home to move a staircase entry. All the sheet rock is getting bagged and on Tuesday, I’ll take it to the transfer station, buy a $10 construction debris disposal ticket and unload the bags.

mw13……………

Most Clinton supporters are NOT dwelling on dreams of removing Trump from office.

They are forming plans of action to deal with changes in the laws and programs of the Federal Government and to elect a different President in 2020.

I am an elected Democrat and a member of my Town and State Democrat Committees. We are busy working to achieve our goals in 2020. BTW>>>my state went blue and EVERY single member of Congress and the Senate from CT is Democrat. For many years we had a Democrat majority state legislature and Republican Governor…we know how to work across the aisle to achieve results. Republicans are not our enemies, many of them just have views we don’t support.

Geordie613

In 1973 My paternal grandmother (who lived in an apartment building on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn), complained to my maternal grandmother (who live in an apartment building on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx) that her building was going Schvartz.

My Maternal grandmother commiserated and said 3 black families had moved into her building as well.

NO, my paternal grandmother explained: Not black people, Jews in Black Hats!

Lightbrite……………

A municipality has no direct relationship with the renters of real estate. The lease establishes privity of contract between landlord and tenant.

As such, the municipality can only fine the owner of the property for snow removal that was not performed in accordance with the local statute.

The landlord could have language in his/her lease that obligates the tenant to remove the snow and specify that should there be fines issued by the municipality for non-compliance with the statute, the landlord , having provided proof he/she paid those fines, shall be promptly reimbursed by the tenant.

From a practical experience, if the tenant does not reimburse the landlord and the landlord brings action in court (small claims for the money, or housing for eviction<violating terms of the lease>). The landlord will lose.

Why? A good defense attorney will simply show that the landlord paid the fine without affording the tenant who was accused of noncompliance with the statute a chance to defend action/nonaction in court. A landlord recieving a $100 fine wouldn’t go to court to defend, too expensive, thus tenant loses chance to dispute fine. The tenant, not in privity of contract with the municipality acn’t protest fine…no standing.

Lightbrite…………….

RebYidd23’s comment might be read as if it is acceptable to restrain a child who is about to hurt someone. It is not acceptable to restrain a child who is about to kill someone. Since the final pronoun follows someone, it should refer to someone, not the child.

lightbrite

And I don’t care

Joseph,

Society sets standards and government in the US is made up of society.

In this area children are permitted to walk to and from public schools alone as of grade 4. Prior to that they must be released by the teacher at dismissal to a parent, guardian or designated older child who is in at least 6th grade (approx age 11-12).

Again, in CT these are standards, not laws. DCF or a judge can be convinced that you have made a responsible decision eaving a 10 year old with a 5 year old for 2 hours in the afternoon or early evening, not that a 10 year old should be putting 4 younger siblings to bed for the night and parents not return until after 9PM

20 minutes after writing my response, I rec’d an email from our town’s Recreation dept. That an American Red Cross Certified Baby Sitter course was beginning January 3rd. It is open to 11-15 year old adolescents, BUT the certification of completion can not be issued until participants reach their 12th birthday

Lilmod…….

You are correct that if you are dead, you personally do not pay for the plot. However, the cost will most likely come from your estate (if you have any worth) or your relatives.

Standard language in American wills is that first the decedent directs that all his/her burial expenses be paid before any other disbursements are made. So, even though you may be dead, you still pay from your funds.

Rebyidd23………..

If my garbage was collected by government employees, my tip could be considered a bribe and its acceptance could be an illegal act by the recipients.

However, here in small town CT we have no municipal garbage pickup. One either takes the family garbage to the transfer station each week or pays for private companies to pick up at the house.

I am very appreciative of the work these men do, lifting the heavy barrels, never spilling any on the lawn or driveway, replacing the the barrels neatly in their place with the covers on.

When I lived in a city with municipal garbage pickup, the employees would throw the can lids like frisbees, spill trash all over the place and toss and dent the empty cans with no respect for private property,

mommamia22…………….

Better for whom? The deceased or the survivors left behind chutz l’aretz?

Visiting and davening at the kever can bring comfort and closure to the surviving family members.

Each person should make his/her desires known to the family, as well as make financial preparations to carry out those wishes.

DO NOT rely on funeral/burial instructions in a will. Jews bury too quickly for a will to be probated and an executor appointed to carry out the instructions in the will.

My family does not send bodies for burial in EY. I can say that it is very comforting to visit 5 generations of our family in the family cemetery in Queens. When my children were pre-adolescents a visit to the family plots help to explain who we are and who we came from. It brought the family tree to life. Seeing the kever and praying at the kever of one for which you are named is a powerful and empowering thing.

You attempted to hijack the thread for a related question, the answer is that it is all about the relatives and their desires….

There is no one answer: better or worse.

I love a really good cup of coffee. I’ve been drinking it for more than 55 years.

That said, I have paid for and pushed away or thrown out hundreds of cups of coffee, which were served to me or sold to me, that were not really good.

Sugar (real or artificial) and cream may cover up the shortcomings of an inferior cup, but I drink my coffee black. If it’s not really good, I can’t be bothered.

BTW>>>I don’t drink it for the caffeine rush or pick me up. In fact, it relaxes me. I often have a large mug just before I go to sleep for the night.

I don’t drink decaf or instant…I consider them a joke. If you enjoy them fine, I won’t belittle you.

Yichusdik……………

NO!!!!!!!!!! It is NOT assault. Please see this attorney’s post>>>it is BATTERY. You post the common misconception of assault. Assault is putting someone into the fear of imminent bodily harm. Assault requires no contact. The victim must feel threatened by the words and actions of the assailant.

Battery is the unwanted and/or harmful touching of another without permission.

Often the charge is assault AND battery. The assailant threatens to punch the victim in the nose and follows through immediately with his fist. But if an assailant walks behind you, you don’t see him, and he smacks you on the head with a brick it is merely battery. You can’t be afraid of what you don’t know is coming in the immediate future.

Git Meshuge…………

Cholent was NEVER ‘universally’ made the same way. The contents varies according to means and availability of ingredients, as well as the tastes of a particular community.

It gets its name from the French word Chaud….hot as corrupted by travel into the Jewish enclaves of Ashkenaz (Germany) them east to the Pale and Yiddish speaking communities.

It essence, it is a derivative of a French ‘pot au feu’ a pot on fire that contained beef broth as well as meat and vegetables, The pot stayed on a hook over the fire’s coals at all times in a home or inn and ingredients were added at will, leftover cuts of meat, vegetables and scrapings, some bits of starch such as potatoes (after 1500), barley, beans.

The way I cook in a kettle on a tripod by our cooking hearth is in this style. I often add what is left in a bottle of wine or beer or ale and leftover bits of meat and vegetables from the fridge, just as a French innkeeper or housewife might have done.

Everyone’s cholent is made to the cook’s whims or taste. My cholent made in the kettle has far more broth than the glop I have been served in many Litvish or Galitzianer homes. The cholent I make in a covered casserole in the brick wall oven by my fireplace is served on dinner plates as sliced pickled rolled beef roast with root vegetables and gravy on the side. This looks like a fine meal that might be served in a German Inn with vinegar based potato salad with onions and pickled red cabbage as the starch and veg sides.

I dare say that when my Great-great Grandmother was making cholent in Bavaria in the 1850s it was not of the same ingredients as that served in eastern Europe. My Grandmother, born in NYC in 1890 told me that she never encountered barley or beans in a cholent until invited for a Shabbos to my father’s grandmother’s home after my parents were engaged. Their lineage was Litvish and although arriving in the USA in 1868 they still made a starch dominated cholent that was thick and heavy.

Abba/S………..

The original post suggests that the Principal put hands on the child and tossed him out the door. Why then talk to the principal?

As for other yeshivos not accepting a student who had been manhandled at yeshiva #1 and filed an abuse complaint, shame on them…they should be exposed and baal baatim should cut off funding. We must protect our children, not the abusers who work in chinuch

No, Lightbrite………..

911 is for emergencies as they are occurring and authorities are needed for immediate action. In this case the child is out of the building and the offender is not an immediate threat. One should call the regular phone number for the police.

Calling 911 for this type of incident could delay a call for a firetruck or ambulance needed to save a life

#1 have a doctor check the child out…he is a mandated reporter in most states and will contact police and Child Protective services if he find merit in the child’s version of the events

#2 Find a new school

#3 Contact the Board of Directors of the current school, tell what occurred, that you are immediately demanding withdrawal of all your children from the school and full and immediate refund of all tuition monies paid for the current term. Let them know that it they do not immediately comply you will institute legal action, which may lead to police and government involvement and adverse publicity.

#4 Find out if this adult has a teaching/administrator’s license (unusual in most yeshivos) and contact the licensing body for an investigation.

Monsters like this do not belong in contact with children.

The above all assumes the action is true and that the child did not strike the adult first and he was forcibly removed in an act of self-defense.

Disclaimer: CTLawyer has brought pro bono actions in the past on behalf of indigent children who have been manhandled or hit by teachers or administrators. Three years ago a principal in one of CT’s largest cities took two children and dragged them down the corridor by theirs ears because the kids were noisy in the lunchroom. She was suspended for 6 months no pay, while a criminal investigation took place. Found to be chargeable under the law, she was convicted of battery, lost her professional licenses, was fired and is facing civil suits by the parents.

Note to all adults: If it is not your child KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF!!!!!!!!!!! If it is your child, be very careful how and when you physically discipline them, a potch on tuchas in public could lead to a social sevrices agency investigation.

T613T if you are in the USA, you are being cheated. You should report this to your state Department of consumer protection.

The USDA allows a variance of 3.3% into the next lower weight class, but that requires a weight of 1.92 ounces.

(a) The weight classes for U.S. Consumer Grades for Shell Eggs shall be as indicated

in Table I of this section and shall apply to all consumer grades.

Table I — U.S. Weight Classes for Consumer Grades for Shell Eggs

Size or weight class Minimum net weight per

dozen (ounces)

Minimum net weight 30

per dozen (pounds)

Minimum net weight for

individual eggs at rate

per dozen (ounces)

Jumbo ………………………..30

Extra large ………………….27

Large …………………………24

Medium ……………………..21

Small …………………………18

Peewee ………………………15

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(b) A lot average tolerance of 3.3 percent for individual eggs in the next lower weight

class is permitted as long as no individual case within the lot exceeds 5 percent.

Lightbrite

Once refrigerated eggs have to be kept refrigerated. Here in small town Connecticut locals sell eggs from stands by their small farms. They are not refrigerated and will keep about a week stored in the pantry. In fact our vet sells local eggs from a neighbor’s flock and they are just stacked on a counter in her reception area.

meno………

Back in the late 1970s I owned a kosher bakery. When baking you use eggs that are at room temperature for best results. Also when following baking recipes in the US, they are calibrated for Large size eggs, not Extra Large or Jumbo