Send it over to you. Thanks, becky. Weve got Corporate News for you this morning. It is a very big day for apple fans. New orders to the iphones are officially on today and they are under way. The devices wont ship, of course, until september 19th. But Analysts Expect the phones to sell out during the preorder period. Apple shares in the last week, take a look and see whats going on with that stock. Right now were at 101. 11. And im wondering, joe, whether i should be preordering. Because if theyre going to sell out, i actually one one. I think wipt the 5. 5 one because it has the longer battery. I was just thinking, theres a lot of people that are going to want these. Is it going to be, like, a full on product cycle . Yeah, i think. It is . Yeah. Because i think the new size will you have that iphone or youll get rid of your iphone and just have that . Just that. I want kind of want both. Then if you want a little one, you could take it would go with your blackberry . No. I have a reg
The Ranking Member schakowsky and members of the subcommittee. Im honored to be here today. My focus is going to be on the radiological evidence of both concussions and sub concussions. And if i could add the next slide. What is known as my older traffic brain injury is common in the sports injury and when we are talking about a single my old tv ey i got 80 get better between 15 to 30 go on to have Persistent Systems as they have been described today. What is most concerning is what has been called chronic narrow degenerative disorders. And that is the second one where it is repetitive by a traumatic brain injury that we are concerned with and the evidence comes from postmortem studies if i could have the next slide. Here is a slide that shows protein in the brain and those are the areas that show up and this is in the case of a retired professional Football Player that had symptoms and was presumed to have chronic chromatic at the next. Here are four individuals. What is interesting h
That we are developing a fly to medicare only, medicaid and private insurers are free to develop their own policies on these kinds of issues. Medicare advantage is a little different, and i dont want to get into Medicare Advantage responsibilities are. But they are medicare plans. So, policies that apply to medicare a apply to them. I dont know the specific context. I do know we have had a number of what we call opendoor calls to and from the Hospital Community and others about the application of the rule as a part of trying to educate all of the people that are affected and we have brought Medicare Advantage expert into those to help answer those questions. Just to follow up on that, medpac looked at as a couple years ago about an observation, and because of the increase in observation, which they had Found Committee also looked at whether the recovery audit contractors, medicare recovery audit contractors scrutiny seemed to be driving this allowed. And they looked at a broader segmen
They have an overcapacity of electricity this europe, and as a result, they have a very low wholesale prices, which is good. But their residential rates and their manufacturing rates are the highest in the world because of renewable surcharges. And so whats happening over there is theyre trying to make this transition too quickly, in my view, and thats what people are trying to do in america as well. But whats happening over there is that the utilities, the base load utilities have lost like 800 million in market valuation over the last 15 months or so. And so as you go to renewables and you try to, you have to place more emphasis on distribution at the local levels, theres not enough capital this in the Utility Industry in the Utility Industry there to meet those needs. And so they have a real conflict in europe right now. And interestingly enough, theyve mothballed 30 gigawatts of plants producing electricity from natural gas in europe because of the high cost of natural gas with com
They made an effort to make sure we had a 30 day turnaround to make sure it would be effective before we go into the really tight season this year. They deserve some things for that. On electric reliability we have an independent issue on the effectiveness of the antiwar the committee to be aware of the fact that we are looking at some potentially pretty tight situations. At the midcontinent independent system operator perhaps as early as the summer of 2015 but certainly as soon as the summer of 2016. Its something i think really deserves your attention. I know they are working heavily with the states to come up with solutions. We are happy to let them solve it a but the time is tight. They can tell you the numbers but we are looking at small reserve margins for the footprint and we recall that under the agreement they all share the surplus but they also share the deficits so if there is a regional deficit, the pain will be shared in terms of frankly rolling blackouts if it comes to th