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The soft cell: Michael Paglia, as people who frequently read and very much enjoy your columns (although we may not always agree with you), there was something almost vitriolic about your March 3 "Blind Justice" piece concerning the proposed jail/Justice Center. You sounded unreasonably angry.
As boardmembers of the Golden Triangle Association and members of the Justice Center Task Force, we were intensely involved in the mayor's decision-making process. We respectfully disagree with your analysis of the process. We live in the neighborhood and walk the streets every day. The reason so many people and groups came out in support of the process was because it was ably conducted by James Mejia and the mayor's staff in an open, transparent fashion, with everyone's ideas given careful consideration. Nobody wants a jail in their neighborhood, but a jail and new courtrooms are desperately needed. One logical place is the Civic Center -- in keeping with an old American tradition of courthouses, and even jails, downtown.
I don't know if you're aware that the Golden Triangle Association: 1) submitted 22 design guidelines for the facility to assure that it would be a quality addition to the Civic Center, and all were accepted; 2) requested that a Civic Center master plan be prepared in advance of any decisions, and it was, with major input from our neighborhood; and 3) worked out an agreement that no new criminal-justice facilities be constructed south of 14th Avenue and no additions be made to the prisoner beds in the future (this will be assured through Planned Unit Development zoning).
Can you be serious about "new/old urbanism"? We don't think that's the issue here. The city needs the facility, and it can be built at this location, creating a better situation for the Golden Triangle than present conditions; each morning as we walk to work or to activities downtown, sheriff's officers with guns poised stand by while shackled prisoners shuffle across our sidewalks. Not good -- for us or the sheriffs or the prisoners!
We believe the proposed Justice Center can be a facility the city can be proud of; it can offer a safer environment for the prisoners, the sheriffs, the attorneys, the witnesses, the judges and the neighbors. Thank you to the mayor's staff for a thoughtful, inclusive process to arrive at this solution.
Billie Bramhall, Eric Boyd and Dennis Humphries
Michael Paglia responds: Guidelines can be dispensed with at will, because they're only suggestions. I do not believe that an enormous jail should be built at the Civic Center, even if the people who thought it up -- including the authors of the letter above -- do.


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Exactly. Who paid for this study? It wouldn't surprise me if the U.S. Government wanted to know the stats and gave the contract to Accenture. 20 million dollars over budget and 2 years after the deadline this is what they produced


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Every year, nearly 800,000 people die from cardiovascular disease. That's 30% of all deaths under the age of 75, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And nearly a quarter of those deaths could be prevented, the study authors found.
That's 200,000 lives that could be saved every year, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC. Particularly striking is the fact that 56% of those deaths occurred among people under the age of 65.
"We're talking about hundreds of thousands of deaths that happen when they don't have to happen," said Frieden.
"The numbers themselves don't surprise me," said Dr. David May, "but the numbers embarrass me." May is chair of the board of governors for the American College of Cardiology and a practicing cardiologist.
African-Americans were twice as likely as any other group to die from preventable heart disease, according to the study. Men were two times more likely than women to die from heart disease and stroke.
But, Friedan noted, "your longevity may be more likely to be influenced by your zip code, than your genetic code." According to the research, the District of Columbia had the highest rates of avoidable deaths - 99 deaths for every 100,000 people. That's more than double the rate in Minnesota, the state with the lowest number of preventable deaths.
Researchers say the highest rates of death from hypertension and cardiovascular disease were found in the South. And those differences were even more pronounced when looking at the county level; some counties had rates 10 times higher than their neighbors'.
But there was a silver lining in the CDC's review of mortality data. Between 2001 and 2010, the avoidable death rate from heart disease, stroke and hypertension decreased by 29% overall, with the greatest improvements found in the 65 to 74 age group.
According to the CDC, the discrepancies between age groups may be attributed to the fact that older people have more access to health care because of Medicare.
As the Affordable Care Act comes into effect, Frieden anticipates that more people will be able to access preventative care. "We do expect if people get insured, get care, we will see significant reductions in the numbers."
Prevention can be as simple as following the "ABCS," says Frieden: Aspirin, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking cessation.
"It sounds so simple," says Dr. Ralph Sacco, former president of the American Heart Association. But, he adds, "getting people to get their blood pressure under better control, cholesterol managed and (to) stop smoking" isn't easy.
Which is why Frieden also pointed to the need of community based initiatives, like the Sodium Reduction in Communities Program, a county level effort to reduce sodium in schools and restaurants. In addition, he believes the use of electronic health records can contribute to better identifying and supporting patients who need help in quitting smoking and blood pressure management.
It's never too early to start, Sacco said. "Focusing earlier and younger on the right thing," he said. " Getting kids to focus on healthier diets and exercising."
"Bottom line," says Frieden, "this is the No. 1 cause of death, the No. 1 preventable death, and the No. 1 cause of inequalities. And we can make rapid changes to improve."
Does that mean everyone else who died needed to die?
well ... ask God ... just don'y expect an anwer
Apparently, the other deaths were unavoidable – things like car accidents, murder, food poisoning, alcohol abuse... all the things beyond human control.
Except there's no god to ask.
Statistics show that more people die in hospitals than anywhere else!!
Just avoid hospitals, like the plague, and you should be OK!
Something has to kill you.
No, it just means prevention wouldn't have made a difference. Many people get cardiovascular disease because of factors that can't be controlled for: age, gender, family history. You can't change those.
You can change your diet, exercise, not smoke, not drink, control your stress.
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Does this 200,000 number include the thousands of preventable deaths of veterans by the sneaky slobs who are bungling the VA Hospitals?
It isn't the single biggest cause of preventable death. Smoking is. Smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans each year. That's equivalent to more deaths than if we had a 9/11 attack every three days.
iconoclast1, that is incorrect. The first sentence of the article reads, "Every year, nearly 800,000 people die from cardiovascular disease." 800,000 is larger than 400,000. Don't you hate it when the pesky first sentence of an article undermines your post?
Although a portion of heart attacks can be avoided the rest of them, however, cannot.
And if you read the third sentence, you would see that only 1/4 of those are preventable deaths... 400,00 is greater than 200,000, right?
@Iconnot Read: Good to see you're living up to your screen name there, chief. I'll type slowly so you can follow along. The article says one quarter of 800,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease ARE PREVENTABLE. Not 800,000 but one quarter of that. That is 200,000. However, 400,000 people die from smoking and that is preventable because people can quit smoking, So to recap, 400,000 is greater than 200,000. You can read, but your new screen name should be Iconnot Comprehend.
The article goes on to say, however, that one quarter of those 800 thousand are 'preventable' deaths, making ico's statement correct.
There's such aversion to your correct comment...makes me think these people smoke.
There is also overlap between those categorized as from cardiovascular disease and those that are smoking related.
According to the CDC data estimating the impact of tobacco on mortality rates, about a third of the tobacco related deaths are cardiovascular disease deaths. Approximately 130,000 of the roughly 800,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease would therefore also be preventable smoking related deaths.... which would make the majority of those 200,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease being labeled as preventable in this article being the smoking related cardiovascular disease deaths.
What about the 100k that die from hospital acquired infections each year plus the 100k from medication errors? even more preventable, and by those "trained"
I know this sounds confusing, but the vast vast majority of those people were already very old and immunocompromised. So they were likely to die soon anyway.
The people who die from preventable heart failure are otherwise, relatively young and healthy.
I lost both my parents when I was in my early twenties, both within a year of each other. Mom died from a staph infection when recovering in the hospital from surgery. Dad died from a side effect from medication he was put on. Now ten years later I have a panic attack every time I have to go to a doctor for anything.
Just to clarify...100,000 medical errors, not medication errors. Medical errors include medication errors but also include other errors (i.e. wrong diagnosis, failure to monitor or treat appropriately). Still bad news though.
Magpie, I am sorry for your losses.
Just as there are good Doctors . . There are the ones that arent good ! The ones that string u along without giving u the meds u need ! So do ur homework about YOUR HEALTH ! !
You want to prevent cardiovascular disease as well as many others? It's called diet and exercise. Those two things play a major role in our health yet they are underplayed here. We medicate everyone in America like there is some miracle pill for what ails you. Pain pills to mask the underlying pain, acid reflux pills, so you can continue to eat what causes it to begin with, etc....The stats don't surprise me when over 50% of our population is considered overweight. And people wonder why our health care costs so much...
I've been an avid exerciser for 25 years (currently a 56 year old male), not overweight, never smoked, never had a high blood pressure reading – not one! Blood work looks great – everything within normal range. Resting pulse is 60 bpm. (The ambulance gentleman asked me if I was a runner – yes, I was, until I got plantar fasciitis 4 years ago, now I swim) I had a heart attack 4 months ago. So, now I'm in a medically necessary (ie, reimbursed by Blue Cross) "Cardiac Rehab" program to get me to change my lifestyle to include exercise. How ridiculous! I enjoy it, so I'm not putting up a fight. But it is changing nothing. And if exercise didn't work for me in the past, why would anyone expect it to work in the future. It's not about my care, it's all about what's billable. (My Dad died of a heart attack at age 66. I'm 56, so I guess I have 10 more years, although my Dad never got a stent. I don't think they had stents.)
I recently visited the Minnesota State Fair. Minnesota is supposedly one of the healthier states. The amount of blubber waddling around the fairgrounds was simply incredible. It is truly a national embarrassment and disgrace. Now that the AMA has declared obesity a "disease" [funny how this disease principally visits Kuwaitis, Mexicans and Americans] the lard buckets stuffing themselves with fried cheese curds and fried snicker bars are absolved of responsibility, since they are hapless victims of butterballitis. This is no longer the country that stormed Normandy beach. We couldn't do it; there is a notable incline. Perhaps we can arrange to sit on our next enemy, or fight them going downhill.
I was also at the Minnesota state fair. While I did see a lot of overweight people, I also saw a lot of healthier looking people. Also one of the main events of the MN State Fair is the deep fried and pure unhealthy food so it does attract a lot of the people that are overweight and also because of the fair's size, it attracts people from outside of MN.
I agree. Diet and exercise would go a LONG WAY in preventing A LOT of heart disease. It's a shame that the article promotes the Affordable Care Act as the solution, when common sense diet and exercise is what's needed. If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it is "free"... just like Social Security and Medicare, the Affordable Care Act will eventually become a Federal program that costs WAY more than what tax revenues can support.
So, Paul, what preacher of gloom & doom is writing your script? Clearly one of those whose conclusion selectively seeks "facts" for support.
OMG, that's funny writing! Sad stats, but funny writing!
PaulMN (above) no doubt the affordable care act will include lots of incentive for healthier living and preventive medicine, something sorely lacking in today's medicine where doctors get paid more if they do more surgery and keep you sick. When the system rewards good outcomes, there will be better outcomes.
Ever since Michele Obama dared suggest people stop eating terrible foods, the right has painted obesity reduction as another left wing nanny-state agenda. So people in red states now have another rationalization to not lose weight, and its a powerful one: Obama wants them to. it has become a point of pride among conservatives that hate Obama. i saw it with my own eyes on a trip to Miss.
I wouldn't say needless. The population is out of control.
When it is people you care about, I doubt you will be so blasé... but if it makes you feel better, let's use the term 'preventable'.
Outlaw alcohol and save even more.
Ah, but think of all the rich people that would lose their incomes that they don't need since they're already filthy rich...
Uh...we tried that...you know...that Prohibition thing? Didn't work so well. They've also found that moderate alcohol use is beneficial to health. Guess you don't read much.
But at least Prohibition established a healthy mafia in the USA...it had that.
Prohibition did accomplish one of the intent of the temperance unions: of cutting way back on the ranks of the permanently drunk. But yeah, we do have to balance misuse against the benefit-for this very topic (heart disease).
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but, how many die from lack of access to medical care?
Last estimate I saw put it at appx 40 thousand per year.
I don't think that the type of people who don't go to the doctor because of lack of insurance are going to be the type of people to follow a doctor's advice. Meaning, I don't think Obamacare is going to do much with this "preventable deaths" number.
Lots of people want insurance but cannot afford it. They would be fairly likely to follow a doctor's advice. The big category that don't want insurance are the twenty/thirty-something single males. They certainly can benefit from insurance, but they are not at risk for this sort of problem... yet. At least most are not.
What's all the fuss? No one is getting out of here alive. People die early because they eat greasy, fatty foods, don't exercise and smoke like an old steam engine. We can't have them cleaning up and living longer, social security is in a bind now. If too many of them live to be 70 my share of the money might run out before I kick the bucket.
And besides, the reason men die first is because they want to.
The government needs to get out of the business of protecting people from themselves. If someone chooses to go on a cheeseburger diet and they die of coronary artery disease, that is none of the business of the government.
500,000 world wide die from flu every year, why don't you do something about that CDC huh?
Yeah, if only the CDC and associated insti.tutions would work/fund work on improved flu vaccines, revised recommendations for who should get those vaccines, and education campaigns to dispel unfounded fears about vaccines, right?
Oh wait, they do that.
and there I thought they were going with abortion!
300,000 died just last year because of a woman's right to chose to murder her unborn baby.
If your mother knew you would eventually speak up without being able to spell choose, I am sure she would have opted to end your cell formation before in was a human. The prison system is full of murderers, so why aren't those 300,000 women? Oh, I guess your non- democratic democracy voted that way. Stick to the story you moron, and quit showing your stupidity to the world.
Wrong forum for this post. You need the religious nut forum.
Well Ed, I guess everyone is entiled to their view as long as it agrees with yours! Typical liberal.
Let's see. Guns cause only 38,000 deaths per year, medical malpractice causes 98,000 deaths per year, but eating wrong, and living in the wrong place causes 800,000 deaths per year all according to the CDC. I think instead of taking away my 2nd Amendment rights, that we should let Mayor Bloomberg pass a soda tax and use the money to move everybody to NYC so that he can protect the people from themselves.
"According to the CDC, the discrepancies between age groups may be attributed to the fact that older people have more access to health care because of Medicare."
All you people who think Obama's akin to Karl Marx, and that the fact that we pay TWICE as much as they do in Europe, for lower quality health care, is just fine, and who don't know that people without medical insurance are THREE times as likely to die from an issue as someone who does have it: THIS is why medical care should be nationalized, the same way the military, public works, and education are. MOST people used to think that, back in Roosevelt's and Truman's administrations, before business interests did their best to propagandize us and make it sound like the communists were taking over any day. And, that worked. Too much money was being made, so it's necessary to let people die before they need to, so that those people can continue to make that money.
Well over 3000 babies needlessly die every DAY here in the USA. More babies in a single day than the death rate of the 9/11 attack. More in a single YEAR than all of the wars America has ever been in since it was founded. And 99.9% of it is all for selfish convenience. What does God think of that one? Sick animals. The rich rarely have it done because they can afford not to. They can afford a baby. Isn't that convenient?
seriously, rich have abortions more since they can afford it. remember? poor can't get abortions. they collect welfare. remember?
Go get a life and quite heaping guilt on women stuck with a pregnancy they can't cope with.
The fact is that we are all going to die of something, some time. There is no such thing as avoidable or preventable death. Delayed, maybe, but not prevented. The planet is too crowded anyway, so if people want to kill themselves with McDonalds, let 'em do it.
How else are we going to cull this bloated human population?
No deaths are needless it is natures way.
Well, I guess all that talk about how unhealthy people are pushing the limits of healthcare are unfounded after all.
It's the lifestyle. I could care less about the numbers, as far as I am concerned, nature is just weeding out the lazy.
'The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful.'-Ron Swanson
Would someone please make up their mind??? A huge meta-analysis several months ago said there is NO correlation between reduced sodium diets and mitigation of heart disease. How about just LOSE WEIGHT and solve the problem? Huh?
Although these statistics are shocking, most americans have no idea that there is a radiology imaging study that has been availalbe for over 10 years, that can idenitfy cardiac/coronary artery disease in its earliest stages. Cardiac CT angiography or CCTA, uses the newest CT scanners to image the coronary artery anatomy and has the capability of viewing inside the artery and evaluate atherosclerotic plaue as it is developing; long before a stress test would be positive or when the disease iis causing a narrowing ( stenosis) that causes chest pain. This is also at most venerable time when a plaque can rupture and cause a terminal heart attack!!! Some insurance companies cover this study but for the vast majority of americans, this is an out of pocket expence that can save your life or at least identify disease when it is most treatable. Like mammography, CCTA should be a standard screening study that in the end, would save this country 100's of millions of dollars in cardiac care costs once a patient has iirreversable disease. We should demand from our insurance/health coverage companies that this test be a part of our routine physicals and possibly save so many of those who would otherwise die.
You are right on the money DrSteve. My husband, 57 had a major heart attack over the weekend. He has never smoked, rarely drinks, eats a healthy diet, exercises, has normal blood pressure, normal cholesterol, and has never had any known heart issues. He was in the hospital for a few days for diverticulitis last month, and no one noticed the heart attack freight train headed our way. I am very thankful we live about a mile from the hospital and he was in the ER within 10 minutes of the onset of pain and that I gave him an aspirin before walking out of our door . Had this test been done as part of a regular testing schedule, we possibly could have found out the extensive damage lurking in his arteries. He is doing much better, but will have to go back in a few weeks once his heart is stronger and fix another artery which is 85% blocked. We were very lucky. I wish this test was offered to everyone to possibly avoid what we just went through.
I understand your rationale for suggesting increased screening using CCTA to determine a patient's degree and extent of cardiovascular disease present and how this can lead to early detection and treatment. However, I don't concur with your statement that cardiovascular disease can become an irreversible disease in most patients. Read Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's book called "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure first and then you may think twice before posting this statement. As someone who has beaten his cardiovascular disease by following a plant-based diet and walking 10,000 plus steps per day, I tend to believe our conventional way of currently treating this disease may be flawed. This is not to say that early detection testing doesn't have its place – just the way we treat heart patients with stents, bypass surgeries and pills doesn't lead to an effective cure. A more simple solution is found in what we eat on a daily basis. Just give up the meat and dairy products and learn to thrive on plants and fruit. It's just so simple!
Onemoreblond, I am so hopeful that your husband does well and fully recovers. I am not sure CCTA would have been the answer but it certainly would have given you both a "heads up" that there was some potential for a cardiac event. I have been providing this imaging technique for over 10 yrs and have been told numerous times how the info, provided by these studies, has changes peoples lives and for that, I am happy and I feel privaleged to have the knowledge and expertise to educate patients withthis increadible technique.
Jeff, I get your point! But, there is something called genetics that one can't run from! Believe it of not, sometimes it doesn't matter what you eat. I have seen people with cholesterol levels below 100, are vegitatians, don't drink or smoke and have advanced coronary artery disease and dangerous stenoses. And, other patients with cholesterol levels over 250 and no disease what so ever!! Its genetics...if you have a first degree relative with a stong history of heart disease, unfortunately, there may not be much you can do to avoid it. Agreed, avoiding meat, fats and all those yummy things that unfortunately, are not good for you is probably the best advise.....but do you think the American public has the determination that you have??? I don't thing so. One thing I can tell you is that when I show someone his/her heart in 3D and run them through their own coronary arteries where there may be early disease, this has an increadible impact! I never said coronary artery disease was reverslable but with knowledge, comes better decisions!!! Education was the whole point of my post.
Hi Dr. Steve, I think you would be surprised how willing most patients would be to accept the terms of going on a plant-based diet versus undergoing cardiac bypass surgery. Just look at Bill Clinton's case as an example. He survived bypass surgery, then had a stent put in and that clogged with plaque with a couple of years. After doing his research and studying the work of Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, he went on a plant-based diet and hasn't had another cardiac event while living a full and productive retirement. When you eliminate fatty foods that are high in cholesterol from your diet and eat whole grains and beans/legumes with lots of garden vegetables & fruit, the fiber content in your diet climbs and your veins and arteries will be repaired over time. Eliminate the need for oil in your diet and get it from natural sources full in fiber – like walnuts, pistachio nuts, flax seed, etc.. Please read Dr. Esselstyn's book and see how effective his results were on the patients in his study at the Cleveland Clinic. Look at the work of Dr. Colin Campbell and then try and explain to me why Asian women who move to the USA have a higher level of breast cancer and heart disease than their counterparts back home. American fast food and lack of exercise is what's killing us and doctors need to put this option on the table for their patients. By not doing so, it creates an environment where the sick just get sicker and no amount of pills or surgeries will really solve their chronic illnesses. I'm living proof that it works and my father died of a heart attack when he was 60, my grandfather at 44, my first wife at 43 and many other relatives. That's why I chose to go down this path and it really is life changing. My metabolism changed and my stamina level has returned. Aren't doctors supposed to give nutritional advice to their patients which will help them overcome their "genetic" background? I most certainly hope so!
It's all so simple. Stop smoking (or never start) and you will LIVE FOREVER. Before there were cigarettes, people didn't die. Did you know that? There are non-smokers walking around now who were born 1000 years ago. Just kidding (or maybe it's true.) But how about this: The longer more people live, say into their 90s, the LESS medical care all but the wealthy will get because we as a country will not be able to provide it for more and more long-lived people. Medicare will be postponed to age 70 very soon as it is. So you'll either have to work until 70 or be rich to retire sooner. Who will want to live long just to work another 5 years at a job they hate? Most workers can't wait to get out of their work prisons. So, yeah. Make all those "healthy lifestyle" changes, outlive your savings, then end up in a one-room senior highrise with a microwave meal and a TV. Wow! That's the good life, allright.
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A war on cardiovascular disease I would support. A war on Syria I would not.
A misleading and political article. In fact, all of those people would have died at some point. Prolongation of life is a matter of public conscience, not economics. People who perish of CV disease at a relatively early age will in fact cost less to the system, as they never will develop Altzheimer's or other chronic diseases requiring decades of care. It is time that we looked at such issues realistically. We want people to have healthy long lives of good quality. That is the bottom lineand what the medical profession should strive for.
Of course that can't be discussed though, else someone will say "death panels" and all useful discussion will stop.
There needs be a process whereby the population is kept in check. Disease is but one part of the overall picture. We have war, acts of the sky fairy, famines, stupid behavior, murder, accident and self-extinction. Why worry, you can not live forever.
I concur with Dr. Hubbard – it's a misleading article that points out a lot of statistics on heart attack and stoke incidents in different parts of the country and how smoking can negatively affect one's chances of dying from cardiovascular disease at a young age. It does not address the root cause of what is causing cardiovascular disease in this country, nor most of our other chronic diseases. Dr. Sanjay Gupta did a much better job of addressing this subject in his special report "Heart Attack Proof", which identified the real root cause of what causes most heart attacks and stokes over time – the "Standard American Diet" and lack of exercise on a daily basis. He interviewed Bill Clinton and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn during this special and the touted the benefits of going on a plant-based diet as the best way of reducing one's risk of developing cardiovascular disease. I've been living this lifestyle for two full years now and it absolutely stops most chronic disease in their tracks! I've lost almost 30 pounds and my BMI is down to 21.2 now. I use to have trouble walking a mile without stopping to catch my breath. Now I can walk 15 miles a day with my wife in NYC without stopping on a Sunday – even after eating a three course Italian lunch (all plant based with NO OIL). At 56 years old, I now am the same size I was back as a Junior in high school and can do all the things I did back then. Anyone can make this change in their lives and know they can reverse their cardiovascular disease and get their stamina back in the process. It doesn't take a pill to control your high cholesterol, high triglycerides or high blood pressure. It's all about the food choices that one makes – stop eating processed food, give up white sugar and bleached flour, learn to thrive on plants and fruit instead every day. It only took me about 6 months to lose 25 pounds and I was never hungry along the way. Living without meat, dairy products and processed foods is really a whole lot easier than most folks think and you won't be depriving yourself of anything. If you take this path forward, then you'll truly have a healthy long life of good quality and the time to travel well – even in to your 80's and beyond.
200,000? Don't believe it. But if so how does this compare to Syria?
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I kissed my way up to VP at a health insurance company. Now I take over $600,000 of your health care dollars for NO VALUE ADDED to your health care. And that's just me. Now think about how many other VPs, Directors, Managers, etc. are at my company alone. Now multiply that by thousands of others at hundreds of other health insurance companies. From 10 to 25% of your health care dollars go towards administration that adds NO VALUE to your health care. But my company's PAC dollars will continue to fool you little people into thinking that a single payer system will be bad. Little people like you are so easy to fool. Little people also don't realize that a single payer system is the ONLY system that would allow little people (as an entire country) to negotiate better health care prices. Little people don't realize that the Medical Cartels already know that. And that is the reason why the Medical Cartels spend so much PAC money from the hospitals and doctors lobbying against a single payer system. Some little people say that a single payer system would cost you little people more. But if that were true, then wouldn't the hospitals and doctors WANT that extra money? Yes they would. So why do the Medical Cartels lobby against a single payer system? It's because the Medical Cartels know it would allow little people to negotiate better health care prices. And that's what the Medical Cartels are afraid of. Period. But us big wigs at insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacy companies don't ever need to worry about health care no matter what it costs. We get our health care paid for one way or another by you little people. And we get the little people that work at our companies to contribute to our PACs. And us big wigs say it's to protect the little peoples' jobs. But in reality it would be in the little peoples' best interest to NOT contribute to the PAC. Again, little people are so easily fooled. I won't ever have to worry about losing my job with so many little people being brain washed by the Medical Cartels' PAC money. Not only that, the Medical Cartels' PAC money is used to elect so many republicans that will never allow a single payer system. Republicans have always fought against any meaningful health care reform. But that's what our Medical Cartels' PACs pay them for. Politicians can be bought so easily. Pretty soon the only people that will be able to afford health care is us big wigs. And that's the way it should be. We don't want you little people using up the resources when we need them. And once again, I thank you little people for capping my SS tax at the $113,700 level. Now I only pay 1.2% SS tax and you little people pay 6.2%. Also, thank you for extending my tax breaks. I'm using the extra money on my vacation houses.
Don't care if you are overweight, eat all the fatty fried foods and have clogged arteries. What I do care about is not breathing cigarette smoke. Smoke all you want, not around me though.
How about placing some responsibility on the disgusting food industry supported by our government leaders. Using chemicals in the food which goes into the air and reeks havoc on the willpower of the poor.
"Men were two times more likely than women to die from heart disease and stroke." Yet all we hear about lately is RED for women's heart health. Nothing new here since all I hear about during prostate cancer awarness week is fund raising for breast cancer. Then we have to do something about suicidal women although 4 men die from suicide for every woman who does. Oh yea, althouygh men are HALF the victims of domestic violence, we have a Violence Against WOMEN Act while abused men are arressted for being abused. Oh...but men have all the power and all the privilege. Yea Right!
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Just avoiding hospitals all together will keep you "from" the number three "cause of preventable death" and number one cause of "bankruptcy" in America. It is not all that hard to figure out, there is so much money in the medical industry, they totally waste more every year than the Pentagon budget, and 200,000 to 400,000 die from errors, and likely just as many are permanently crippled from errors, all very profitable..
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1 And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you [as] a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. | 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. |
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Once heavily dependent on the oil industry, economic downturn and subsequent diversification efforts created an economic base in the energy, finance, aviation, telecommunications and technology sectors. The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, at the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is the most inland river port in the U.S. with access to international waterways. Two institutions of higher education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level, Oral Roberts University and the University of Tulsa.


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THE ULTIMATE BATTLE: Ribbon Speakers VS. Cone SpeakersApr 6, 2002
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Acoustics is a very scientific field. Different speakers all perform differently. Today, a majority of all speakers are cone speakers. That means that they use woofers and tweeters to drive the different sound frequencies. These speakers can cost as little as $10, or as much as $100,000. There are different aspects of quality. However, there is another type of technology used in acoustics, it is called magneplanar technology. Anyway, here is are the differences between the technologies. -Cones- *How They Work -- Cone woofers move at very high rates of speed and release air this way. This is how the actual sound is produced. The fastest moving driver in a traditional speaker is the tweeter, then the midrange, and the midbass woofers and subwoofers move much slower because they push out dramatically more air which produces the bass response. *Sound Positioning -- The sound will be shot directly forward out of the woofer. Then when the sound is in the environment, it will reflect off objects which will actually fill them room. However, to get the best response from woofer-driven speakers, it's usually best to sit directly in front. Regarding imaging, some sound very transparent, but those do come at higher prices usually because the speakers with the best imaging usually come from upper-end brands. Some speakers offer drivers that fire off into different directions. This is used by brands like Bose and Cambridge Soundworks. To some listeners, the sound may be more unrealistic, but the sound stage is made larger and more emotional by using multi-directional firing speakers. *Overall Sound -- The sound can be extremely terrible if these speakers cost like $10 a piece or cheaper. The cheapest speakers built are cone speakers, but then again, if you're a true die-hard audiophile, you can buy cone driven speakers for $100,000 a pair. Different materials and other components are sued in these speakers, so they all sound different. However, a majority of speakers used are cone speakers... So you'll find a different sound to each type of speaker. -Ribbons- *How They Work -- Ribbon speakers are usually tall, and have numerous ribbons that create the sound. The construction of these speakers follows a certain pattern. There is a ribbon strip, then a magnet, then another ribbon, and so on... These ribbons are very thin sheets, but the theeory is that if the sound frequency is produced from the top of the ribbon to the bottom, then the sound that comes out should be pretty good. *Sound Positioning -- I have actually found Magneplanar speakers to have some of the greatest possible imaging. This means that they sounded very transparent. The most popular magneplanar speakers are made by Magnepan, and the ribbons also fire directly backwards causing a very wide range of sound dispersal. *Overall Sound -- I have found some magneplanar speakers to have some of the most unique and crispest sound on the market. I have heard a lot of music in only stereo mode using Magnepan speakers, and the instrumentals and vocals were by far the most realistic that I've ever heard. However, because the ribbons don't push air like many large woofer cones do, the bass response is much lower. Some large floor standing cone speakers use 10" or 12" woofers and they create ample bass. If you use magneplanar speakers, you should accompany them with a subwoofer. The best magneplanar speakers in the world are Magnepan. They can cost as little as a few hundred dollars, and the high-end Magnepan MG20.1 speakers cost $10,000 a pair. Other great brands include Monsoon, but int heir home theater speakers, Monsoon does add woofers which add to the bass response. The highest end Monsoons cost $1,899 a pair, and they are great... But I do prefer Magnepan overall. Magneplanar speakers offer some of the most unique and clear sounding vocals and instrumentals offered by any kind of speaker, so if you have a high appreciation for music, then you should buy magneplanar ribbon-driven speakers. *--The Verdict--* *So Which One Should You Buy? -- It's really up to you as to which kind of speaker you might want to buy. For example, if you're looking at a pair of speakers at $10,000 a pair, you should try out cone-driven B&W Nautilus 801 speakers and then try them out against something like the Magnepan MG20.1 ribbon-driven speakers. Then YOU must decide which speakers you like better. They all have different sounds to them. But just one thing for people who have never heard the true beauty of magneplanar speakers... Don't be fooled by the ribbons, the sound that is created is phenominal, and the build quality is pretty good. So remember, it's only up to yourself to decide which kind of speaker you like better? So who is better, cones or ribbons? Only your ear can tell! |


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always a good choice for lunch. Quesadillas and Tacos are very good and always fresh. Value is very good!
Kind of a wasted lunch. We were hoping for something similar to Chipotle...but the similarity extended only to the build-your-own idea. The "steak" ($1 extra) was really gray shredded beef, the habanero sauce wasn't hot, and sour cream is another add-on. Really? Sour cream? But whatever, I wouldn't have bother to write a review about it until I went to... More
NEVER ever never will I go here again after seeing the filth and what the "cooks" were doing......ugh! I'll never forget how nasty dirty the kitchen was. I threw the food away, since I felt I should pay for what I'd ordered---but---if I'd seen IN the drive-up window...I never would've ordered.
The best non mexican mexican food out there...Great big burritos...Great big taste..They get it you want a meal not a snack go to Taco Del Mar ...
TDM in Hood River is small, quaint, and tasty. Great for the family. Best prices in Hood River and the kids always want to come back.
Cute though weathered shop in a great location among lots of shops to browse. This is an assembly line type food service where you pick what to put in your taco, burrito, etc. I got two fish tacos for $4.19 (not terribly inexpensive) and my husband ordered their Mondo Burrito for $5.99. The presentation was good, but the flavor was... More
This restaurant is on my 'rotation'. I eat there at least once a week. They have a reasonable amount of gluten free stuff on the menu. Drive through is slow enough that I never use it. Dining room and bathrooms are always clean, people behind the counter are always friendly. Overall a good value and good meal.
Great little downtown restaurant that focuses on quantity not quality. You get alot of food for the money, but the food is not very good.. I've been there twice, I had the fish tacos and and a plate of nachos. Both were mediocre at best. Won't be back.
Probably our favorite lunch spot in Hood River. The place is relaxed, comfortable, and the food terrific and fairly inexpensive. For a quick bite between outdoor adventures you would be hard pressed to find a better place in the Hood.
Some days you get lucky and get great service and other days you get... average food and service. Overall, pretty good - kind of spendy for some of the menu items. Wish they'd hire more personable staff.
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3 In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are brought; its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, | 3 In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feet high and ninety feet wide, |
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Congress is considering legislation to authorize IRS to contract with private collection agencies (PCA) and to pay them out of the tax revenue that they collect. Some have expressed concerns that this proposal might be unsuccessful, inefficient, or result in taxpayers being mistreated or having their private tax information compromised. This report discusses (1) the critical success factors for contracting with PCAs for tax debt collection; (2) IRS's actions to address these factors in developing the PCA program and actions left to be done; and (3) whether IRS, if it receives the authority to use PCAs, plans to do a study that will help policy makers judge whether PCAs are the best use of funds to meet IRS's collection objectives.
Based on our analysis of information from various parties, including officials from selected state revenue departments and federal agencies that use PCAs, five factors are critical to the success of a PCA collection program. Together, these factors increase the chances for success and help the program achieve desired results. Although incomplete, IRS has taken actions to address these factors. For example, IRS has been developing (1) program performance measures and goals, (2) plans for a computer system to transmit data to PCAs, (3) a method to select cases for PCAs, and (4) contract provisions to govern data security and PCAs' interactions with taxpayers. IRS officials recognize that major development work remains and have plans to finish it. Officials said they would suspend work if PCA authorizing legislation is not passed during 2004. If legislation passes, officials estimated that it would take 18 to 24 months to send the first cases to PCAs. Aware of concerns about the efficiency of using PCAs, IRS intends to study the relative performance of PCAs and IRS employees in collecting tax debts after gaining some experience with them. However, the initial idea for a study would provide limited information to judge whether or when the PCA approach is the best use of resources. The tentative idea--comparing PCA and IRS performance for the same type of simpler cases to be sent to PCAs--does not recognize that IRS officials believe that using IRS employees on such cases would not be the best use of staff. Federal guidance emphasizes efficiently and effectively using resources to achieve results and identifying the most realistic and cost-effective program option. Experience gained in using PCAs and a new IRS case selection process would help officials design such a study.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: IRS has hired a contractor (Booz Allen Hamilton) to help design this study as the IRS finishes developing the private collection agencies (PCAs) program. The PCA program is scheduled to start on a limited basis by June 2006, with full implementation by the end of 2007. As of September 2006, our new report (GAO-06-1065) disclosed that IRS was still working on designing the study after we shared a number of comments on the direction it was taking (i.e., it was not fully meeting the intent of our recommendation). Our comments dealt with designing the study to account for all costs and to focus on the best use of federal funds to meet IRS's tax collection goals. IRS hopes to finish the design and testing of the study by fall 2006 to fully start the study during March 2007. IRS plans to have preliminary results by December 2007 after a full year of data is collected (September 2006 to September 2007), and to have the study report issued on August 1, 2008. Based on a meeting in June 2008 and subsequent discussions since then, IRS has finished the study but kept pushing back the report's issuance date to allow for independent quality reviews and IRS management reviews. Given all of the things going on, IRS decided to push back the report's release to mid November 2008, as of late September 2008.
Recommendation: If Congress authorizes the use of PCAs, as soon as practical after experience is gained using PCAs, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue should ensure that a study is completed that compares the use of PCAs to a collection strategy that officials determine to be the most effective and efficient overall way of achieving collection goals.
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- A pragmatic explanation of the stage level/individual level contrast in combination with locatives (2004)
- One important difference between stage level predicates (SLPs) and individual level predicates (ILPs) is their behavior with respect to locative modifiers. It is commonly assumed that SLPs but not ILPs combine with locatives. The present study argues against a semantic account for this behavior (as advanced by e.g. Kratzer 1995, Chierchia 1995) and proposes a genuinely pragmatic explanation of the observed stage level/individual level contrast instead. The proposal is spelled out using Blutners (1998, 2000) optimality theoretic version of the Gricean maxims. Building on the observation that the respective locatives are not event-related but frame-setting modifiers, the preference for main predicates that express temporary properties is explained as a side-effect of "synchronizing" the main predicate with the locative frame in the course of finding an optimal interpretation. By emphasizing the division of labor between grammar and pragmatics, the proposed solution takes a considerable load off of semantics.
- On Davidsonian and kimian states (2004)
- Davidsonian event semantics has an impressive track record as a framework for natural language analysis. In recent years it has become popular to assume that not only action verbs but predicates of all sorts have an additional event argument. Yet, this hypothesis is not without controversy in particular wrt the particularly challenging case of statives. Maienborn (2003a, 2004) argues that there is a need for distinguishing two kinds of states. While verbs such as sit, stand, sleep refer to eventualities in the sense of Davidson (= Davidsonian states), the states denoted by such stative verbs like know, weigh,and own, as well as any combination of copula plus predicate are of a different ontological type (= Kimian states). Against this background, the present study assesses the two main arguments that have been raised in favour of a Davidsonian approach for statives. These are the combination with certain manner adverbials and Parsons (2000) so-called time travel argument. It will be argued that the manner data which, at first sight, seem to provide evidence for a Davidsonian approach to statives are better analysed as non-compositional reinterpretations triggered by the lack of a regular Davidsonian event argument. As for Parsons´s time travel argument, it turns out that the original version does not supply the kind of support for the Davidsonian approach that Parsons supposed. However, properly adapted, the time travel argument may provide additional evidence for the need of reifying the denotatum of statives, as suggested by the assumption of Kimian states.
- Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives (2004)
- Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show that it has semantic effects. We propose a new analysis as reverse partitives. Following Jackendoff (MIT-Press, 1977), we assume that partitives always contain two NPs one of which is phonologically deleted. We claim that, while in normal partitives the higher noun is deleted, in reverse partitives the lower noun is deleted.
- Adjectives in Qiang (2004)
- Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by 70,000-80,000 people in Northern Sichuan Province, China, classified as being in the Qiang or Tibetan nationality by the Chinese government. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent-marking morphology.
- Comparative constructions in Rawang (2004)
- Dulong and Rawang are closely related Tibeto-Burman languages spoken just south and east of Tibet.
- Antipassive and Specificity in Tagalog (2004)
- It is common knowledge in the field of Philippine linguistics that an ang-marked direct object in a non-actor focus clause must be definite or generic, while a ng-marked object in an actor focus clause typically receives a nonspecific interpretation. However, in contexts like wh-questions, the oblique object in an antipassive may be interpreted as specific, as noted by Schachter & Otanes (1972), Maclachlan & Nakamura (1997), Rackowski (2002), and others. […] In this paper, I propose to account for the specificity effects […] within the analysis of Tagalog syntax put forth by Aldridge (2004). I analyze Tagalog as an ergative language […]. Cross linguistically, antipassive oblique objects receive a nonspecific interpretation, while absolutives are definite or generic. I show in this paper how the Tagalog facts can be subsumed under a general account of ergativity.
- Towards a Typology of Austronesian Pronominal Clisis (2004)
- This paper reports ongoing work on the following aspects of Austronesian clisis: the relative ordering of multiple clitics, the position of the clitic cluster.
- Prosodic Realization of Negation in Saisiyat and English (2004)
- The current study focuses on the prosodic realization of negators in Saisiyat, an endangered aboriginal language of Taiwan, and compares its prosodic realization of negation with that of English. The results of this study indicate that sentential subjects are the most acoustically prominent items in the Saisiyat negative sentences measured. This contrasts sharply with the English experimental sentences, in which the negator itself was the most acoustically prominent item. These findings suggest that Saisiyat is a pitch-accent language; thus, the presence of negators does not significantly change the prosodic parameters of surrounding words. English, in contrast, is an intonation language, so the presence of negation results in substantial prosodic modification. This suggests that the phenomenon of negation is universally prominent; however, languages with different prosodic systems will adopt different strategies for realizing prominence.
- A Voice Opposition without Voice Morphology (2004)
- The bulk of this paper deals with an analysis of the voice system of Tukang Besi, which, has both a complex verbal agreement system as well as the last fully developed (and obligatory) case marking system among Austronesian languages with an increasingly head-marking trend to the east (case marking of core constituents only becomes functional again in Vanuatu and the Solomons, and is well-developed in Polynesia). For that reason, as well as personal acquaintance with the language, it is a sensible starting point.
- Infix Allomorphy in Ida'an-Begak (2004)
- Ida'an-Begak is a Western Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by approximately 6,000 people on the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo and belongs to the Sabahan subgroup of the North Borneo subgroup (Blust 1998). Ida'an-Begak has three dialects, Ida'an, spoken in the villages of Segama to the west of Lahad Datu, Ida'an Sungai spoken in the Kinabatangan and Sandakan districts, and Begak spoken in Ulu Tungku, to the east of Lahad Datu (Banker 1984).1 Moody (1993) deals with Ida'an; this paper concentrates on the Begak dialect. In this paper I will present new data gathered in the field and provide an analysis of the allomorphy. The study is based on spontaneous data as well as examples elicited from my language informants.


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I'm wondering if you could just find some clear plastic or frosted plastic placemats from the 99 cent store? You could encase the fabric in two placemats with spray adhesive on the back of the fabric. Then clear glue to glue the edge all the way around the placemat. Or you could just spray adhesive on a cheap plastic mat and lay material down and fold the edges underneath and glue. Then spray fabric with waterproofing spray. |
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- The stock market's eerie calm despite crisis after crisis. Are world events more constrained than they appear, or are we just ignoring everything except stock performance? The S&P 500 hasn't been this steady since 1995
- Hedge fund redemption requests have reached the highest level since December. Investors could be making quarter-end portfolio adjustments, or they could be positioning for liquidity. Redemption indicator hits 4.8%, up from 4.3% in May
- When it comes to inflation, consumers part ways with the Fed. Consumer prices in May saw the biggest increase in more than a year
- Activist investor Carl Icahn vs. Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO). The stock price has gained 22% since May 20. A proxy war threat if the company is not put up for sale
The stock market stays eerily calm despite a world of chaos
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