Nearly 300 people were injured or lost their lives a few weeks ago. Even though Massachusetts residents are required to have health insurance, not all do (some choose to pay the tax penalty instead) and not all the victims were MA residents. Experts are saying that medical costs could be over $9m.  I'm unclear if that includes things like retrofitting homes for those who are disabled. Even if you have insurance, it may only cover a basic model artificial limb, which might not be sophisticated enough for your activities. One of the funds I gave to wrote up a list of the costs that they're faced with. "Secondly, we have received many requests about where this money is going and if $100,000 is really necessary for a family with health insurance. Please be assured that 100% of the money raised is going directly to the Whalley family (note their son, Rich Whalley, is the beneficiary). Regarding the amount, the reality is that there are a huge number of financial burdens that come from a situation like this, beyond immediate expenses.

Both Eric and Ann have already received and still need a number of highly specialized surgeries and treatments which may not be covered by insurance or have very high deductibles. The physical therapy, home care, extended hospital stays, post-trauma psychiatric counseling, and medical device assistance that they will need as a result of this incident will likely last for several years to come. From the people we've spoken with in the medical community and others who have been subjected to similar tragedies, $100K is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to long term medical expenses. sushi grade fish scottsdaleSo the short answer is that while insurance might cover some of it, the family is absolutely going to need long term financial support."sushi grade fish at safeway

- Ann + Eric Whalley Recovery Fund, April 18 Update II Many funds have popped up to raise money. Sadly, tragedies also bring out scammers. If you don't have a direct connection to a fund, try to research where your money is going and when in doubt, only give to funds that are clearly official or that are associated with an established non-profit. The One Fund - Boston's official fund for marathon bombing victims. Help Marc Fucarile - Fund for someone I know. sushi grade fish aberdeen If you prefer to make donations by cash or check, please make checks payable to: The Marc Fucarile Fund and mail to or drop off at:ichiban sushi menu caldwell nj The Marc Fucarile Fundsushi grade fish san mateo

Read about Marc and his friends: . The Globe headline doesn't mention that there were 7 of them - they didn't include Paul's girlfriend, Jacqui, in the count and didn't mention at all. Ann + Eric Whalley Recovery Fund - Fund for injured parents of an MIT alum.  Mikey's Run - High school students who are future MIT students (Class of 2017) raising money to "help provide assistance and prosthesis to those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. tupperware sushi maker pdfFunds will go into the The Scott Rigsby Foundation, set aside specifically for this purpose." I just found their story really touching. MIT Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund - Tax deductible. "Gifts to this fund will be used to establish a Collier Medal—to be awarded to individuals who demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier—as well as other causes." Per this page, if you prefer to donate by check, they can be mailed MIT at:

Bonny Kellermann ‘72, Director of Memorial Gifts 600 Memorial Drive, W98-500 Please include a note stating that your gift is in memory of Sean Collier. Watch Sean's moving memorial service at MIT. Thousands of law enforcement officers from around the U.S. and Canada attended along with the MIT community. Dana-Farber and Jimmy Fund Sean Collier Memorial Fund - Tax deductible "The Dana-Farber and Jimmy Fund community is deeply saddened by the tragic events in Boston, and the loss of MIT Patrol Officer, Sean Collier. Sean displayed immense courage and a commitment to helping others, and we thank you for honoring his memory. Inspired by the lifesaving work of Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund, Sean was a dedicated supporter of the Jimmy Fund since high school, setting up recurring gifts from his bank account." BU Lu Lingzi Scholarship Fund - Tax deductible. "Lingzi was a beloved member of the BU community. An optimist with a powerful work ethic, she had just passed the first part of the master's comprehensive exam in statistics—an accomplishment that gave her great satisfaction.

Along with her friends and family, we grieve at her passing. Boston University is determined to keep Lingzi's memory and example alive. Toward that end, and in conformance with the wishes of her family, the Trustees of the University have voted to establish the LU Lingzi Scholarship Fund." Read more about the fund. Read about and watch Lingzi's memorial service.How exhausted must the list of biopic subjects be if producers are now spearheading movies about the employees of famous people? Like Lee Daniels’ The Butler, another recent Weinstein acquisition, Haute Cuisine dramatizes the experiences of a presidential servant. In this case, the leader is French head-of-state François Mitterrand, and his loyal subordinate is Danièle Delpeuch, plucked out of relative obscurity in the late ’80s to serve as the president’s private chef. To be fair, Delpeuch wasn’t known exclusively for her two years at the Élysée Palace; before earning that honor, she enjoyed a reputation among globetrotting food fanatics as “the queen of foie gras,” dedicated to spreading the fundamentals of French cooking across the globe.

Haute Cuisine, however, is interested primarily in her most famous assignment (fictionalized only slightly, though apparently enough so that the filmmakers felt the need to assign her an alias). Such narrowness of focus keeps the movie from becoming bloated with self-importance, but it also leaves it feeling a little inconsequential—more of a pleasing snack than a satisfying meal. The best correlative here actually isn’t The Butler, but Pixar’s effervescent Ratatouille, with which the film shares a belief that cooking is a pastime for artists of all walks and that simplicity and fine dining are not mutually exclusive. As played by Catherine Frot, Delpeuch comes across as a figure of no-nonsense integrity, devoted to the craft above all else. Hired to fulfill the president’s desire for meals like those his grandmother used to make—he expresses dissatisfaction with sugar roses on the desserts, among other superfluous adornments—Frot soon finds herself sparring with the chefs of the main kitchen, whose snobbery and sexism turns the workplace into a culinary battleground.

The jealous rivals whisper of indiscretions, but Haute Cuisine never presents the relationship between Frot and her hungry, mild-mannered employer (novelist Jean d’Ormesson) as anything more than platonic, mutual admiration. Nor does the film entertain reports that the real Delpeuch shared an apartment space with the president’s mistress. The conflicts here are almost exclusively professional: Frot spars not just with green-eyed co-workers, but also chain-of-command bureaucrats, relentless penny-pinchers, and those true enemies of French cooking, nutritionists. Only in a film about Gallic gourmet artistry could the folks calling for just a little less butter and cream be derided as pure villains. Periodically, director/co-writer Christian Vincent cuts away from his heroine’s days in the palace to a later, less glamorous gig: her 2000 tenure as the house chef for a group of grateful French researchers in Antarctica. With these passages, the film seems to be saying that it’s not prestige that matters, but the satisfaction of the served—a slightly ironic point, given that Delpeuch probably never would have gotten the biopic treatment were it not for her two years cooking for the president.