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Every time you shop at Ralphs, be sure to swipe your participating Rewards card, or enter the phone number associated with your card and you will be helping Kids Are 1st.

Every September you will need to re-register with Ralphs.com to reconfirm Kids Are 1st, or your donations won't find their way to us.

Ask family and friends - you don't have to be a volunteer of Kids Are 1st to participate.  Won't you sign up now?

 

 

THE BUSINESS OF GIVING - MODERN PHILANTHROPY IN THE ENTERPRISE

As the economy struggles to rebound and households continue to scale back on spending, there is an increasing trend in the business world toward investing in corporate social responsibility. Even in these tough economic times, companies realize the importance of supporting local communities and philanthropic causes. Supporting a cause that positively reflects on a brand and its core values demonstrates a commitment to making a difference. Today’s #E2sday looks at “The Business of Giving” and how companies are making an impact on philanthropies.

 

THE BUSINESS OF GIVING - MODERN PHILANTHROPY IN THE ENTERPRISE

 

 

Traffic Deaths Hit Record Low, But It’s Not a Time to Become Complacent

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

 

  http://www.nsc.org/Pages/TrafficFatalityReport.aspx

You can click on “Research Detail” for more information about the states.

Some observations even though this data is “preliminary” at this point.

-          Nationally, fatalities dropped by 3% from 2009 to 2010.  CA dropped 12%!

-          CA is under 2,800 fatalities.  That is a drop of 1,500 lives saved from the year 2005 to 2010!

-          CA is not the state with the most fatalities.  We have passed Texas and close on the heels of Florida!

 

Visit the Kids Are 1st Website.. WWW.KIDSARE1ST.ORG

 

BANNED IN VATICAN CITY and EGYPT

I find it kind of strange that while our not for profit organization saves countless lives each year with our safety events, child passenger safety, and teen impairment/distractions demonstrations, some of our videos are BANNED in the following countries. Do you think that if the huge and rich Record Companies knew what we do they would allow our Videos to be seen.

 

Maybe they would contribute to our efforts to save lives if they only knew!

 

Copyright Info: Baby Loves Disco in Hollywood CA on Oct 24, 2010 w. Kids Are 1st

You have disputed a copyright claim on your video, Baby Loves Disco in Hollywood CA on Oct 24, 2010 w. Kids Are 1st .

All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:

• Entity: Sony Music Entertainment Content Type: Sound Recording

As a result, your video is blocked in these locations:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo - Democratic Republic of, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia - Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, West Bank, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

It is not right that our videos are banned as a non profit is allowed by US law to use copyrighted material for its not for profit work.

Our videos use copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law.

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. NON-PROFIT, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

So how about some donations so we can continue our mission to save lives.

Downtown on Ice - Pershing Square Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES COUNCILWOMAN JAN PERRY who is the President Pro Tempore makes opening comments and welcomes the crowd to this years Winter Festival.

 

California State Senator Curren Price Holiday Party 2010

 

WINTER HOLIDAY FESTIVAL IN LOS ANGELES

DOWNTOWN ON ICE at Pershing Square

KIDS ARE 1ST OFFERS FREE CHILD ID

INCLUDING FINGERPRINTS & PHOTOGRAPH

SPONSORED BY UNITED INDEPENDENT TAXI

http://www.unitedtaxi.com/

December 11 & 12, 2010

Saturday & Sunday

12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM

The second weekend in December Downtown On Ice present the Winter Holiday Festival a free fun weekend including a Snow Fun Zone, Make & Take Holiday Crafts, a Holiday Ornament Grove, and Free Entertainment. A special weekend for kids, their parents, schools or child care programs. The program is free and open to the public. There is a fee for ice skating. Food is available for purchase on site. Secured validated parking with skate receipt is available in the Pershing Square underground garage or take the Metro Red Line to the 5th Street Pershing Square stop for quick no traffic travel. No alcohol or smoking of any kind is permitted at Pershing Square. We look forward to seeing you at the Downtown on Ice Winter Holiday Festival.

 

Enjoy FREE Winter Holiday Festival Activities:

Free "Green" tote bags, pens, & coin purses thanks to United Independent Taxi.

• Make & Take Arts & Crafts Stocking Stuffers
• Winter Holiday Ornament Grove
• Snow Zone
• Edible Seasonal Treats
• Ice Skating Rink (Fee Applies)

 

 

MY RUN at the Newport Beach Film Festival

Marilyn & Arnie Weinger of Kids Are 1st with Terry Hitchcock at MY RUN west coast premiere screening at Newport Beach, CA film festival 4-26-10 - MY RUN the award winning and inspiring Terry Hitchcock story narrated by Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton was an official selection at Newport Beach film festival. Terry's message is about empowering single parent families and children to keep them safe and Kids are 1st carries the same message.

MY RUN MOVIE

MY RUN ON FACEBOOK

MY RUN ON TWITTER

MY RUN ON YOUTUBE

 

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Under pressure from the White House Insurers to Comply With Rules on Children

WASHINGTON — Under pressure from the White House, health insurance companies said Tuesday that they would comply with rules to be issued soon by the Obama administration requiring them to cover children with pre-existing medical problems.

A blog from The New York Times that tracks the health care debate as it unfolds.

“Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for a child with a pre-existing condition,” said Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. Accordingly, she said, “we await and will fully comply with” the rules.

Ms. Ignagni made the commitment in a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, who had said she feared that some insurers might exploit a possible ambiguity in the new health care law to deny coverage to some sick children.

The White House immediately claimed victory.

In a Twitter message, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, scored the tug of war as “Kids 1, insurance 0.”

Major provisions of the law take effect in 2014. Some, including a ban on “pre-existing condition exclusions” for children under 19, take effect in September. The law does not explicitly say that insurers must sell insurance to families with such children this year, but Democratic Congressional leaders and White House officials said that was their intent.

To eliminate any ambiguity, Ms. Sebelius said, she will issue rules defining the scope of the new law.

Under these rules, Ms. Sebelius said, “children with pre-existing conditions may not be denied access to their parents’ health insurance plan,” and “insurance companies will no longer be allowed to insure a child but exclude treatments for that child’s pre-existing condition.”

In response to a question, Nick Papas, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the rules would require insurers to offer coverage to children with pre-existing conditions, including those who have never had health insurance.

Ms. Sebelius said she was pleased that “insurance companies plan to do the right thing.”

It was not immediately clear whether the rules would allow insurers to charge higher premiums to families with children with pre-existing conditions. Administration officials said they would be monitoring any rate increases.

Some Democrats in Congress want Mr. Obama to take a tough line. If insurers could raise premiums without limits, they would, in effect, be denying coverage, Democrats say.

Some insurers said they were unclear about the language of the law, based on differing accounts, and looked forward to detailed guidance from the government.

“There has been some confusion regarding the elimination of pre-existing condition evaluation for children in the health care bill,” said Kristin E. Binns, a spokeswoman for WellPoint, one of the largest insurers. She said the company would “follow the law on this and all matters.”

Insurers said they would accept the administration’s reading of the law, even if they did not fully agree with it, because they wanted to avoid a showdown over the politically explosive issue of health insurance for sick children.

Several lawyers said Congress could easily clear up any confusion by revising the law. “The real solution here is a legislative fix so all players in the industry can act according to a clear set of rules,” said William G. Schiffbauer, a Washington lawyer whose clients include employers and insurance companies.

Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who helped write a similar provision in an earlier version of the legislation, said the new law “requires that all insurers issue insurance to children regardless of health status, and cover all of their ailments,” starting in September.

Jeff Smokler, a spokesman for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, said its member companies were “fully committed to complying with the new law” and accepted the principles set forth by Ms. Sebelius.

Gail K. Boudreaux, executive vice president of the UnitedHealth Group, said she supported the administration’s effort to clarify the law “to ensure that no child will be denied access to health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.”

“We expect that the new regulations will eliminate any uncertainty about the law’s intent,” Ms. Boudreaux said.

By ROBERT PEAR

NY Times

Published: March 30, 2010

What is a SHero?

Marilyn Weinger is honored with a SHero's award.

In the words of State Senator Curren D. Price of the 26th Senate District in California,

"A "SHero" is an EXTRAordinary woman, who has demonstrated leadership, pride, volunteerism and commitment to her community in a manner that provides a model for success. Your strength further speaks to your distinction by proving that it is not the quantity of the service, but the quality and character of deeds that matters most."

 

MARILYN WEINGER was honored to receive a SHeroes award from Senator Curren Price on Sunday, 8 23 09. A wonderful event and it was so inspiring to be in the presence of all the other remarkable women.