Jul 25 2011
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Jul 25 2011
This past Saturday people a community of people gathered because one of their own had been taken from them too soon.
Lashai Mclean, 23, was shot and killed in Northeast DC during the early morning of July 20. It was in the same neighborhood as the Wanda Alston House and Transgender Health Empowerment. Lashai was a client at THE but not a resident of the Wanda Alston House.
Deputy D.C. Police Chief Diane Groomes, who spoke at the vigil, said later that homicide detectives are pursuing information provided by a witness that the fatal shooting took place shortly after two unidentified males “had some words” with Mclean in an alley shortly before she was shot.
“The motive is still not clear to us,” Groomes told the Blade after the vigil. Groomes said police haven’t found evidence of either a robbery or a hate crime in the early stages of the investigation.
Jul 25 2011
Crossposted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
Why Medicare Is the Solution – Not the Problem
Robert Reich
Friday, July 22, 2011
Americans spend more on health care per person than any other advanced nation and get less for our money. Yearly public and private healthcare spending is $7,538 per person. That’s almost two and a half times the average of other advanced nations.
Yet the typical American lives 77.9 years – less than the average 79.4 years in other advanced nations. And we have the highest rate of infant mortality of all advanced nations.
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(A)dministrative costs eat up 15 to 30 percent of all healthcare spending in the United States. That’s twice the rate of most other advanced nations. Where does this money go? Mainly into collecting money: Doctors collect from hospitals and insurers, hospitals collect from insurers, insurers collect from companies or from policy holders.
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Medicare’s administrative costs are in the range of 3 percent. That’s well below the 5 to 10 percent costs borne by large companies that self-insure. It’s even further below the administrative costs of companies in the small-group market (amounting to 25 to 27 percent of premiums). And it’s way, way lower than the administrative costs of individual insurance (40 percent). It’s even far below the 11 percent costs of private plans under Medicare Advantage, the current private-insurance option under Medicare.
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Estimates of how much would be saved by extending Medicare to cover the entire population range from $58 billion to $400 billion a year. More Americans would get quality health care, and the long-term budget crisis would be sharply reduced.
Jul 25 2011
Veterans and the Veterans Administration have been short changed for decades now, costing much more in fighting to catch up then if funded properly at the beginning and into, and throughout, our wars of choice, instead it’s easier for the people, their reps and some veterans to lay blame on the agency. Magnetic ribbons, wordy patriotic meme’s, flag waving and historic costumes, lapel flag pins and purple heart bandages is Not Sacrificing after Demanding the Soldiers and their Families do!!
Jul 25 2011
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
–Red Haircrow |
 Art Glass 11 |
Jul 25 2011
Jul 25 2011
This user is awesome:
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Over 5K in non-fiction books.
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Jul 25 2011
I was running out of time last week as the publication hour was neigh, so I was not able too include everything that I wanted to include. In the meantime, I have gained some additional information that refutes one of the points that I made. Remember, The Geek likes to be corrected when he is wrong. We shall get to that after the fold.
This installment has to do with some experimental or otherwise not widely used loudspeaker designs, but also something much more personal to me. It has to do with a good friend from almost 40 years, and his interaction with Paul Klipsch and others involved in the company.
First we shall make the correction, then talk about other loudspeaker designs, and then the more personal stuff. Ready to go?
