Okay, this is significance of what employees can do, not what theyre considering doing in 2016. One of the reasons we do the survey in time frame that we do it. Karen and i will be tagteaming this presentation this morning. I will walk you through major findings in the survey an observations about those. Karen will come up to talk about key tactics employers will introduce in 2016 to manage Health Care Costs. I will talk about implications for employees during annual enrollment. Then well go to q a. First brief about a National Business group on health. Only nations Nonprofit Organizations that works with employers and devoted to working with employers on National Health care policy issues. Working with them to optimize Business Employment through Health Care Improvement and health Care Management. We have roughly 425 members. These are primarily Large Companies. They, 71 of the fortune 100 and they provide Health Coverage for over 50 million employees, dependents and retirees. So a bi
Domestic co2 Emission Standards. Third, potential domestic reporting requirements for aviation manufacturers under the Clean Air Act. Epa has proposed endangerment findings focus on six key Greenhouse Gases but we concur with this approach with caveats. We agree with epa the assessment scientific uncertainties on the Climate Impact of nitrogen oxides or nox and water vapor emitted at altitude remain high enough so as not to address them in this initial endangerment finding. Science with black carbon to Climate Change on the other hand, is clear. Black carbon was identified as the second most important contributor to anthropogenic emissions in 2013 to. To reflect the latest icp should consider incorporating black carbon in its final aviation endangerment finding. Also while we do not support integrating crude nox under the endangerment finding, epa should consider expanding its existing nox reporting requirement for aircraft, Engine Manufacturers, landing and takeoff emissions to includ
Message wouldve been a different one to the business community. Would have been yes we are negotiating ploy might have the dl, yes there will be a deal, but dont cross these lines because this is whats going to happen. Instead, the examples given in the precedents that were in the opposite direction. The message was sanctions or is till in the law books but we are not going to implement them which is why Companies Feel comfortable even though they are so five, six months into implementation they go through the breach. The Swiss Parliament by the way feels the same way. Switzerland maybe not the biggest Global Player but it had a fruitful trade relations and a lot of the phone companies they were running to circumvent oil sanctions, procurement sanctions, to lg sanctions lifted all of its sanctions. They abolished it. They are not waiting for congress. They are not waiting for implementation. Even if you can treat sanctions as a yellow light, not a red light anymore, it is not the yello
Will not solve the problem. The challenges dealing with hostage taking in the middle east is the challenges us dealing with the middle east. How to sort out our enemies from our friends. Thank you very much. [applause]. But also the lone wolfs, meaning that particularly now as we are seeming to take over the people who came to watch a movie, opened fire and all that, and obviously we have to think about also the future in terms of the environment of the socalled lone wolf now to weaponize, lets say, ebola and take over, you know, entire communities hostage. Let me move on to our friend and colleague, dr. Wayne zaideman, as i mentioned, with his experience for decades at the fbi but also academically. He has a doctorate from nyu on iran, and i asked him to share with us his experiences in the middle east and elsewhere. Thank you, professor yonah. When i took a crisis hostage negotiations course in the fbi in the early 90s, it was focused basically on criminal hostages. And when i asked