Money Crashers

If, for example, you’re using a copyrighted work as part of a presentation you’re giving to an elementary school about local history, your use probably falls under fair use. For those who are thinking about claiming fair use, the moral of the case is this: Even if you think what you are doing is fair use, you may only ever find out if you’re right after a lengthy and expensive legal battle. Like fair use, public domain is a legal doctrine that allows people to use copyrightable material they did not produce. For example, original collections of public domain works can be copyrighted, as can derivative works based on public domain properties.

Without significant structural change soon, Medicare will do one of two things: Medicare is a health insurance program for people aged 65 and older, people who have received disability payment for two years, people with ALS Simply stated, Republicans would gradually replace the existing public-defined benefit program with a defined contribution program where seniors would be provided a fixed amount of money to purchase private health insurance on their own. Conservative critics, on the other hand, argue that excluding existing 55-year-old and older people from the program and continuing to offer the government-administered Medicare Parts A and B option in the future dilutes the projected cost savings of vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s original voucher program. ” Liberal opponents of the Democratic approach see the ACA as a “dangerous step in the privatization of healthcare in the U. S.” by putting more people into private insurance through insurance exchanges starting in 2014 and the subsidy of public dollars to purchase private insurance.

But it’s possible to develop effective communication skills by learning how to speak and write simply and clearly, using plain language that’s easily understood by most people. For example, when asking his son to mow the lawn, the father from the previous scenario would have been more successful if he had taken the time to make sure his son was listening, and had chosen his words more carefully: “Mike,” said the father addressing his son as he walked out the door to work. ” Poorly written government documents ultimately led to the passage of the Plain Writing Act of 2010, and the establishment of a public plain language website, PlainLanguage.gov, to “promote the use of plain language for all government communications. There are organizations around the world that are dedicated to improving government document understanding through the use of plain language: Plain Language Association International in Canada, COSLA in France, and CHIARO! in Italy.

We use any size cardboard, from big packing boxes to the insides of cereal boxes, and the sturdier cardboard makes a great blank canvas for painting. And a paper towel tube can be turned into a wand by decorating the tube with crayons, markers, and glitter-glue, and gluing colorful yarn at one end. I have found great deals on craft supplies such as glue, markers, card stock, glitter, stickers, and pipe cleaners in the clearance section of stores like Target, K-Mart, and even my local grocery store. Coffee cans, 32-ounce yogurt containers, and baby wipe tubs provide great storage for pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, glue sticks, markers, crayons, and many other craft supplies.