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Coffee History / 1700-1750
1700 - Samuel Carpenter builds Ye Coffee House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the eastern side of Front Street. This is Pennsylvania's coffee house.
1710 – An infusion coffee brewing process is developed in France and uses a linen bag to submerse the coffee grounds in the hot water where it is allowed to infuse (steep) until the beverage reaches the desired strength.
1711 - Jonathan Swift, in The Conduct of Allies, states that, "It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse for the voice of the kingdom."
1712 – Stuttgart, Germany's first coffee house opens.
1713 – King Louis XIV of France is unwittingly provided with a Java coffee plant by the Dutch. The plant was originally from Yemen, and was given to the king by the Amsterdam mayor.
The king enjoys the flavor of the coffee very much and instructs is royal court botanist to nurture the plant which would eventually serve as the progeny for virtually of of the West's coffee plantations. (See 1723.) King Louis XIV's court was said to have been the first regularly add sugar to their coffee.
1715 - The cultivation of coffee plants in Haiti is begun by Jesuits.
1718 – The Dutch bring coffee to their colony of Surinam and then start plantations in French Guyana, then Brazil. This begins the spread of coffee growing throughout South America and Central America where it continues to be the major economic crop of the continent.
1719 - Coffee cultivation in the Dutch East Indies is so successful that the Dutch East India Company is able to provide enough Java coffee to supply all of Europe's coffee needs.
1720 – Venice's renowned Caffe Florian coffee house opens in Piazza San Marco. By this time there are several hundred coffee houses in Paris.
1721 – Berlin, Germany's first coffee house opens.
1722 – Jonathan Swift writes that, "Coffee makes us sever, and grave, and philosophical."
1723 - The young French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu [Captain Gabriel des Clieux], who was on leave in Paris, surreptitiously brought a coffee seedling back to Martinique in the Caribbean where he was stationed.
The coffee seedling was acquired from the Royal Jardin de Plantes (Royal Hothouse). De Clieu was able to secure the cutting from the botanist Antoine de Jussieu, who was said to have been "loath to disfigure the king's coffee tree."
On the ship returning to Martinique De Clieu endured stormy weather and water rationing as well as a close encounter with pirates, but he managed to keep the seedling alive for the voyage. De Clieu's journal records the ordeal including be threatened by Tunisian pirates.
During the eventful voyage the coffee plant was kept protected in a class case on the ship's deck in order to keep it warm and prevent any saltwater damage.
During a tumultuous storm they had to tie the plant down, and there was also an incident involving a fellow officer who was jealous of De Clieu and damaged the plant by tearing off a branch. When the ship's water was rationed after the pirate ordeal De Clieu used much of his water for the precious coffee plant.
After finally completing the voyage, De Clieu planted the coffee in the fertile Martinique soil at Preebear – this began the American cultivation of coffee plants. The coffee plant thrived and soon multiplied. Three years after the replanting the first coffee harvest was realized.
The coffee plants of Martinique continue to flourish and by 1777, about five decades after De Clieu's adventurous voyage, nearly nineteen million of the coffee plants were being grown on the island.
This allowed the coffee cultivation to spread rapidly including crops throughout the Caribbean as well in Haiti and Mexico.
The original plants of Martinique are the progeny of all of the coffee in the French Colonies, and about 90% of all of the world's coffee plants today came from this original stock.
1727 - Using seeds smuggled from Paris by Brazilian Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta, Brazil starts a coffee plantation and the country's coffee industry begins.
Palheta, who a National Geographic article would later call the "James Bond" of coffee beans, was on a mission for his government, and the Emperor of Brazil, to arbitrate a border dispute between the Dutch colonies in French Guiana.
While he did manage to resolve the border problem, he also engaged in a liaison with the French Guiana governor's wife.
At the time the French had guards to ensure their coffee crop was not used to cultivate the plant elsewhere, the governor's wife presented Palheta with a parting bouquet in which she had hidden some of the precious cuttings along with fertile seeds.
Coffee cultivation in Brazil would not flourish until after independence in 1822. (See 1822.)
1730 – The British introduce coffee production to Jamaica which will eventually become a major coffee growing region in the country's Blue Mountains. The coffee plants are first brought by Sir Nicolas Lawes, the former English Governor of Jamaica who was known for prosecuting pirates.
The first plantings took place at the foothills of St. Andrew, and soon moved up into the Blue Mountains where the fertile soils and ideal climate began to produce the Jamaica Blue Mountain coffees that today remain as some of the world's most respected gourmet coffees.
1732 – The one-act operetta Kaffee-Kantate (Coffee Cantata) is composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. At the time there was somewhat of a movement to forbid women from drinking coffee as some thought it would make them sterile.
The humorous work was composed for a performance by Bach's Collegium in Germany at Zimmerman's Coffee House where Bach often performed and practiced. Some say the composition was inspired by Bach's conversation with one of his daughters.
The tale begin when the father Schlendrian says, "You wicked child, you disobedient girl, oh! when will I get my way; give up coffee!"
Lieschen responds, "Father, don't be so severe! If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat."
Then in the Aria, Lieschen says, "Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine. Coffee, coffee I must have, and if someone wishes to give me a treat, ah, then pour me out some coffee!"
Schlendrian replies, "If you don't give up drinking coffee then you shan't go to any wedding feast, nor go out walking. oh! when will I get my way; give up coffee!"
Lieschen says, "Oh well! Just leave me my coffee!"
Schlendrian says, "Now I've got the little minx! I won't get you a whalebones skirt in the latest fashion."
Lieschen says, "I can easily live with that."
Schlendrian says, "You're not to stand at the window and watch people pass by!"
Lieschen says, "That as well, only I beg of you, leave me my coffee!," and Schlendrian replies, "Furthermore, you shan't be getting any silver or gold ribbon for your bonnet from me!"
Lieschen says, "Yes, yes! only leave me to my pleasure!"
To which Schlendrian replies, "You disobedient Lieschen you, so you go along with it all!"
In the Aria, Schlendrian opines, "Hard-hearted girls are not so easily one over. Yet if one finds their weak spot ah! then one comes away successful."
In the Recitative, Schlendrian states, "Now take heed what your father says!" Lieschen replies, "In everything but the coffee."
Schlendrian says, "Well then, you'll have to resign yourself to never taking a husband." Lieschen says, "Oh yes! Father a husband!"
Schlendrian says, "I swear it won't happen." Lieschen replies, "Until I can forgo coffee? From now on, coffee, remain forever untouched! Father, listen, I won't drink any." To which Schlendrian says, "Then you shall have a husband at last!"
In the Aria, Lieschen says, "Today even dear father, see to it! Oh, a husband! Really, that suits me splendidly! If it could only happen soon that at last, before I go to bed, instead of coffee I were to get a proper lover!"
Then in the Recitative, the Narrator states, "Old Schlendrian goes off to see if he can find a husband forthwith for his daughter Lieschen: but Lieschen secretly lets it be known: no suitor is to come to my house unless he promises me, and it is also written into the marriage contract, that I will be permitted to make myself coffee whenever I want."
Then the trio goes as follows, "A can't won't stop from catching mice, and maidens remain faithful to their coffee. The mother holds her coffee dear, the grandmother drank it also, who can thus rebuke the daughters!"
Bach's Kaffee-Kantate was written partly to protest that movement and criticize the royals and upper-class for trying to discourage coffee drinking among commoners, and in part just as an ode to the revered beverage.
1734 - Coffee cultivation begins in the territory of San Domingo (now called Haiti). Fifty years later these plantations are responsible for half of the global coffee supply.
The horrible conditions endured by African slave labor used by France's colonial coffee plantations led to major unrest, however, including the Haiti Revolution that resulted in a long term setback to the country's coffee industry.
1737 – The Exchange Coffee House opens at the foot of Broad Street in New York and eventually becomes the main auction location for many different commodities both inside and on the sidewalk.
In 1750 the coffee house's name was changed to the Gentlemen's Exchange Coffee House and Tavern. Later it was moved to Broadway and called Gentlemen's Coffee House and Tavern. Then in 1753 it was moved to Hunter's Quay on Front Street near Wall Street.
1737 - Merchants Coffee House is opened by mariner Daniel Bloom at the northwest corner of Wall Street and Water Street (formerly called Queen Street). The Merchants Coffee House eventually became a more popular meeting place than the Exchange Coffee House which was farther down the waterfront.
Bloom died around 1750 and the coffee house was taken over by Captain James Ackland who sold it to Luke Roome who sold it to Dr. Charles Arding in 1758. Arding leased it to Mrs. Mary Ferrari who was the proprietor, moving the Merchants Coffee House in 1772 to a newer structure across the street diagonally (at the southeast corner of Water and Wall Streets).
Later the Merchants Coffee House would be a center of activity during the British occupation, remaining as a place of trading and also a place where prize ships were put up for sale. Chamber of Commerce meetings were held upstairs.
This was said to be the meeting place of the men who formed the Bank of New York in 1784. In 1765 this was wear the order was read telling citizens to stop rioting against the Stamp Act. In 1790 the site of the first public sale of stocks by sworn brokers.
In 1774 the Merchants Coffee House was the site of a citizens meeting to discuss how to communicate with the Massachusetts colony and coordinate to resist English oppression. The meeting produced a letter that suggested a congress of deputies from the colonies, and sought a "virtuous and spirited Union."
Other important meetings to do with these issues, as well as meetings of lodges and societies, made the Merchants Coffee House a virtual seat of government for the area.
On April 23, 1789 at the Merchants Coffee House in New York City, the newly elected President George Washington is greeted by the governor of the state as well as the city's mayor. Fire destroyed the Merchants Coffee House in 1804.
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I'm sure some people know of fenders that mount to beam racks, but I don't have a beam rack. I have a Topeak Explorer rack (http://www.topeak.com/2007/products/racks/explorer.php) and really want to put a fender on my bike. The back of the rack has a couple of eyelets for a tail light, but I am hopting to find a fender (or half fender) that could attach there. I only have one set of dropouts (I think that is what the eyelets are called) back on the chain stays and would rather not mount both the the rack and the fender there.
I have recently become a much more serious commuter and the rides in the rain get rather dirty. I appreciate any input.
Edit: I spoke with Topeak and they won't admit to knowing of anything. A search at some of the more well known online bike stores has had no success either.

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Six convicted in TPP scam
ISLAMABAD, June 30: An accountability court of Rawalpindi on Saturday convicted six in Rs3, 600 million Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) scam case and awarded them 36-year of rigorous imprisonment with a cumulative fine of Rs45 million.
Accountability Judge Altaf Mahar sentenced Ashiq Hussain Sangi, the project director of the TPP and his accomplices M Ashraf and Zahoor for 5-year imprisonment with Rs5 million as fine each.
Other three convicts Fida Hussain Awan, M Azeem and Tanveer were sentenced 7-year imprisonment with Rs10 million as fine each.
Tawana Pakistan Project of the devolved Social Welfare Ministry was aimed at overcoming nutrition deficiencies of female students in remote areas by supplying them with food supplement.
The project worth of Rs3, 600 million was approved by Ecnec in September 2002 for a period of 54 months. According to the challan submitted in the NAB court by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) the convicts had embezzled Rs400 million in the same project.
The challan further said the convicts during 2006 and 2007, in connivance with some other accomplices had also embezzled another Rs110 million in fake purchases of different items and execution of the work in the TPP.
It further said the accused had confessed to making bogus supply of different items and had recommended payment to the fake firms. — A Reporter
Sunday won't be off for doctors
RAWALPINDI, June 30: The Punjab Health Department has cancelled the weekly off of doctors at government-run hospitals and asked them to ensure their presence on Sunday at the out-patient departments (OPDs).
"We have made all the arrangements to run the OPDs in the allied hospitals on Sunday," Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) Principal Dr Musaddiq Khan told Dawn.
He said he had received directives from the provincial government to run the hospitals and open OPDs despite the weekly off.
He added that allied hospitals' medical superintendents had also been conveyed the same.
"At present, we are running the OPDs despite the strike of young doctors and providing treatment to the patients at emergency departments. The YDA's Rawalpindi chapter is cooperating and has not created any problem for the management," said Dr Khan.
He added that provincial government had asked the administration of the hospitals to maintain the attendance register of doctors as it would take strict action against those found absent from duty.
When contacted, YDA Rawalpindi president Dr Junaid Abbasi said, "We won't comply the orders till the acceptance of our demands." — A Reporter


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Suicides, attempts spiking this year in Edmond
EDMOND — An alarming statistic was front and center at a suicide prevention summit held earlier in the week at the University of Central Oklahoma.
There have been 13 suicides reported to police in the city so far this year, compared to only four in all of last year.
A 14th suicide involving an Edmond Memorial High School freshman took place at his home in far northeast Oklahoma City, just south of the Edmond city limit.
Another 49 residents have attempted suicide this year in Edmond, police records show.
Jennifer, who did not want to give her full name to protect her son's identity, attended the summit and said she is afraid her teenager could be the next suicide in Edmond.
She said her teenage son has become severely depressed in recent months after she and her husband divorced and the boy's father moved out of state. She was one of scores of people who attended the summit Monday night at UCO's Center for Transformative Learning building.
"As a parent, you will try and do anything to save your child," Jennifer said. "My son is on the brink … I really believe that and that's why I'm here."
Jennifer said her son attempted suicide earlier in the year but she did not report the incident at her son's insistence. She would not say how he attempted suicide, but called the experience "the worst 12 hours of my life."
"He told me he didn't mean it, that he didn't really want to die," Jennifer said. "But you lose some trust after finding your child like that. You lose trust that they won't harm themselves."
Suicide data compiled by the Edmond Police Department shows that 11 of the 13 reported suicides this year have been males, but many of the other factors are varied.
Only two females have committed suicide this year, records show, but 33 of the 49 attempts were described as "women."
Records also show that people who have committed suicide in Edmond this year are from all age groups — not just young people or teenagers.
In fact, the age group with the largest number of attempts and confirmed suicides is the 41 to 62 age group. Fourteen people in this age range have attempted suicide this year, while another four carried out the act, records show.
Three people under the age of 18 have committed suicide this year, not including the Edmond Memorial student, who was 14.
People between the ages of 18 and 25 have accounted for three suicides this year, as well.
People 63 and older and those between the ages of 26 and 40 have fewer reported suicides among them, with only three falling in those age ranges in 2012.
'A real problem'
Organizers of Monday night's summit, which is the second one held in Edmond this year, say that nobody is sure why there has been a spike in suicides this year.
Jenny Monroe, an Edmond police spokeswoman, said the department has no answer, either.
"They've all just been completely different circumstances, honestly," Monroe said.
Kathy Matthews, who works for Edmond Family Counseling, said there may not be a ready-made explanation for the suicides this year, but the rise in self-inflicted deaths is "a real problem."
"All of our tragic circumstances … have cut across age, cut across gender, across socio-economic … there's hasn't been a uniting characteristic," Matthews said. "Nobody is immune. Anybody can find themselves in that situation."
Matthews said the apparent randomness of the suicides has the Edmond community anxious to do something about the problem.
"Because of that, I think the community is concerned as to how to recognize someone who's in crisis and the appropriate way to reach out," she said.
The summit focused on a method of suicide prevention and intervention, which was developed in the 1990s to teach people how to recognize the warning signs associated with suicide and then do something about it.
Those in attendance Monday night were broken up into smaller groups and were to question whether a person is contemplating suicide, persuade the person to seek help and referring them to a trained person who can provide that help.
Jennifer, whose son attempted suicide while she was out of town for the day back in July, said she was familiar with many of things the instructors were talking about, but said everything helps.
"I've looked into this a lot since my son's suicide attempt and since he became as depressed as he has been," she said. "But you've got to learn all you can … if your loved one is truly suicidal."
Warning signs
Several behavior changes may serve as suicide warning signs:
SOURCE: HeartLine and the National Suicide Prevention Hotline


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Skip to comments.The Whole Foods approach to health care reform (a rational, workable alternative to Obamacare)
Posted on 08/16/2009 6:11:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, has an excellent op-ed in todays Wall Street Journal outlining his vision for a plan to reform American health care.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite directiontoward less government control and more individual empowerment.
Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.
Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time. Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully. Our plans costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.
Equalize the tax laws so that that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.
Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.
Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.
Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctors visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?
Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.
Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and arent covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Childrens Health Insurance Program.
Mackeys reform proposals are of the type we should like to see from our legislators. They do not fall into the category of reforms that look good while doing nothing, or reforms that are tailored to special interest groups at the expense of patients.
These reforms are real, cost-lowering and patient-protecting ones that would put America on track for expanding coverage, improving care and lowering health care expenditures. Legislators should take notice.
John Mackey also talked about Whole Foods high deductible health insurance plan and its advantages with John Stossel in the 2007 20/20 special, Sick in America:
You cannot fight something we nothing. You cannot just criticize without proposing something concrete.
The proposals given by the CEO of Whole Foods is a good start. If you disagree with some of his proposals, I'd like to hear your alternatives.
Ideally, we should keep this proposal within 100 pages so that people can read and understand it ( instead of the thousand page monstrosity being rammed down our throats by Congress ).
Some of what he says is smart but Whole Foods is liberal, over-priced and marginally good so, I'll take what he says with a grain of salt.
This is, by far, the best laid out plan I have yet seen.
Any chance of this going through? Only in my dreams. OK, now back to the real world. Sigh....
Ideally, we'll shop at Whole Foods, eat a veggie-based diet, cut down on animal fats, take healthy supplements, exercise daily and NOT NEED much health insurance. Absolutely works for me. And I'm well over 65. Pun intended.
My brother and I were talking about this kind of a plan tonight. I have heard of similar plans.
Not much of what he has proposed is new. Every item from high deductible policies to interstate insurance competition to tort reform has been proposed in the past.
And it has gone nowhere.
I don't propose to have an answer why, but it might be that it is asking politicians on all levels to give up some control and power.
But, I should add that I like most of what he is saying.
Close the border, keep it closed, deport illegals and pass tort reform legislation.
Not a cure for spiraling costs but it's a start.
Most of the '47 million uninsured' seem to show up at Grady, either at the ER or one of their free clinics. His suggestion was to fully fund the clinics and just let them provide health care to the indigent and working poor. They're doing it already anyway, but the cost is being passed on to paying customers, insurance companies, and the local taxpayers.
Anybody see a problem with this? Portable policies and HSAs for most folks, and public clinics for the people who can't afford that.
These are the types of measures that make sense and one would expect the Republicrats in Congress would be focusing on implementing instead of the Marxist nationalization of the medical industry being perpetrated by the red sons of bitches in power.
You may be interested in the point number one of the article.
In my area, Whole Foods is called "Whole Paycheck".
I didn't see where he said anything about whole foods in the article. They sounded like good ideas to me.
Bring back the pre-1986 medical deductions where we were allowed to deduct ALL medical expenses, not just the ones over a certain percentage of a persons/family's gross (or net). As it stands, unless there has been a serious medical condition that year, no one can take advantage of that deduction.
If the deduction were reinstated, people would be more likely to pay for medical services, knowing at least that it would be deductible.
Yes: he's MARKETING to stuck-up libs, giving them what they expect/want, AND making money off of it. Sounds like a capitalist to ME. . .
He may very well be a Leftist, but each of his points are valid, with the possible exception of Medicare reform, as that one is vague.
If each of the others were inacted, our health care 'problem' would vanish.
Besides FDA and possibly the VA - get the Feds out of health-care completely, including Medicaid/Medicare and removing any tax benefits or penalties for corporate programs, self-insurance, etc..
In a transition period, turn over Fed Money for medicaid/medicare to the States on gradually declining basis over 5 years. Then let individual States decide if they want to raise taxes to maintain similar programs, and have more activist or less activist health-care programs. It would remove the most massive layer of bureaucracy (the Feds), reduce costs, and most important - provide a laboratory of best practices in 50 different states. Speed, adaptability and flexibility to change would also increase.
A good idea can come from someone running a liberal company. For example Apple is a liberal company but they make excellent products which many Freepers use so why should the CEO's politics matter here. We must not discredit an idea completely just based on who it comes from. These 8 points I think are all free market common sense approaches which no conservative can disagree with on their merit. This is a superb article and anyone who espouses these beliefs deserves our support.
If Medicare and Medicaid aren't addressed, then it'll be very difficult to enact other forms of healthcare reform.
Mr. Mackey's proposals are excellent for those who are uninsured and/or young adults, and I have no disagreement with it.
Here's my proposals:
Medicare and Medicaid, along with Social Security and the Department of Veteran Affairs, should be consolidated into a single federal administration. We owe it to our military veterans, seniors, and those with real disabilities or rare illnesses (such as ESRD) to provide them access to quality healthcare.
With the federal government taking away the half that states are responsible for on Medicaid, the federal government can return education, housing, road funding, law enforcement, labor laws, etc back to the states where it belongs.
This new administration, its customer service functions should be completely privatized, just like call centers and insurance companies do the processing for the Medicare Part D plan now. The federal gov't should only be responsible for verification and for disbursement of funds - that's it.
Those on the new administration would receive a healthcare debit card with a yearly preset allotment on it. That means physicians would get paid on the spot, vastly reducing bureaucracy and paperwork costs.
I've given thought to this concept as well. The problem, IMO, is that this could be a "foot in the door" and would later lead to a more expanded system. I'd rather see charitable hospitals be more like St. Jude's, where they are funded strictly by charitable dollars. The people of this country are very generous. It's possible to do it.
I also think a major point that's been largely lost, comes up in this article - tort reform. I would like to see some law go into effect that one MUST file a lawsuit in the county in which the actual offense took place. In these parts, class action lawsuits are filed mostly in a specific county in order to draw a favorable jury. The same thing happens in lawsuits against physicians. This shouldn't be allowed. Just one of many things that need "reform" in the tort system.
States don't pay anything for Medicare. Only Medicaid is a joint federal and state cooperative.
I would rather have the feds take over Medicaid completely and combine it SS, Medicare, and Veterans Affairs, consolidate it, privatize it (except for the verification and funds procurement of it), and give those who are on it some type of healthcare debit card.
In exchange for the feds doing this, states can take care of education, housing, highway funding, labor laws so the feds can get rid of these departments.
This new administration would strictly be for:
- Seniors 65 and older (in which they can join voluntary or they can use it as any type of plan that fits their needs)
- Those who are disabled (I'm talking real disabilites here, not paraplegic gang-bangers or "low-income" folks who scam Medicaid)
- Retired military veterans
I prefer Whole Foods' free market approach to Walmart's "take what the government will give us" plan.
A few days ago Obama told a town hall meeting that Doctors don't give adequate preventive care because while they make a "mere pittance" by providing preventive care, neglect a diabetic until she needs her foot amputated and the Doctor makes $30,000 or $50,000! Actually, Medicare reimburses about $750 to the Doctor for a foot amputation.
Not only does this prove he's ignorant about the cost structure of the industry he's set on meddling with, But it shows a general contempt for the back bone of the health care profession — Doctors. The way he talks about them you would think he thought that they were Lawyers... (and as slimy as he is (being a Lawyer himself)).
I had this kind of plan for awhile at a former employer, it was absolutely fabulous. I'm not sure how much the company was paying but it was an excellent plan, excellent coverage, with your HSA dollars you can even buy ASPIRIN (or Tylenol or whatever, as long as it has a medical purpose).
My understanding of page 167 of HB 3200 is that HSA/HDHP's will no longer be allowed, the 76% minimum coverage in some cases would not be met when there is a coverage "donut hole" between approximately $1,000 and $3,000 or whatever the deductible is.
Several Republicans tell me I'm correct. All the Democrats I've contacted including my Senator Bennet (D-CO) seem ignorant and clueless and incapable of understanding the problem with the 3200 formulation.
Dick Armey was basically calling for the same stuff on NBC this morning.
John Mackey needs to be on any committee looking into health care reform...
Would this include the chronically and catastrophically ill such as those with neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis and those with ALS? There are other diseases that cause disability, but I'm talking about the NASTY ones that make working impossible.
Seems to me I remember as a child that most cities had a "charity" hospital. I don't think it was entirely free, but cost was sliding scale. One of the problems I think now days is abuse of the system (since there is no longer any shame attached to being on welfare).
Nursing homes and hospitals are given a full check by the State about once a year. Since the State doesn't have money to be truly random about the check, most facilities know inspection teams will arrive about a year after the last check.
During that inspection "wait time" everything will be up to snuff. Nothings left in hallways, staff is up to where it's suppose to be, meals offered are the ones listed on the menus etc. Then the inspectors come - and when they leave everything goes back to how it was...
Here's a better cheaper way. Nursing home studies have shown that abuse is more liking when short staffing is going on. In most facilities there's an incentive to short staff: an employee calls in sick and it's cheaper to double up than to hire a pool nurse and pay two to three times as much. ( The incentive is the administrator's bonus is based on keeping cost down). The solution is to stop annual inspections of Hospitals and Nursing homes and have random spot checks done instead. Then tie medicare and Medicaid reimbursement to the "score" of the random check.
In the nursing home case above - the employee calls in sick - the director of nursing knows if the spot check happens when there's short staffing going on, that she'll lose her bonus because the facility will be paid less for all their patients. So she hires the pool nurse, which lowers the chance of abuse, which lowers the chance of being sued, which lowers the cost of care - WHILE making care better. And lowers the cost to the State because rather than coming in with big inspection teams, they come in with 2 people and check 8 random things on a list ( the facility never knows which 8 out of 150 checked items they'll be graded on...
My insurance man tells me that there are many millions of people who work for companies too small to provide health insurance at jobs that don't pay them enough to purchase their own health coverage. These people are NOT illegals.
I'd like to see health insurance cover prevention. This would include vitamins, gym membership, certain types of acupuncture. Humana in South Florida covers everything for senior citizens including their gym membership and $25 per month for certain supplements (from their online pharmacy). Humana can do that in SoFL because they have so millions of members. I think it's a terrific plan. Sadly, it's not portable, and in other areas where Humana is available, it does not cover very much at all.
Great proposals. Because they are coming from a liberal, these ideas are even better.
I would change the one proposal on the donation on the tax form. The organization dispensing the medical treatment for those without coverage should be done by the Immigration people.
Why can't the Democrats nominate someone rational like this guy.
You are correct, sir, it is a good start and we all should look at ti and support the CEO and whole foods since the Ci-cago mob has targeted them.
The amusing result of this is that some lefties are trying to organize a boycott of Whole Foods, because the CEO proposed an alternative to Obamacare. So we righties need to patronize these stores, just don't buy the organic veggies.
This is excellent! It's exactly what I've been looking for.
This gentleman makes more sense than anyone else I have heard on the topic.
and we could all live to be 120 years old -- or at lest it would seem like it. ;~))
Re: "Yes: hes MARKETING to stuck-up libs, giving them what they expect/want, AND making money off of it. Sounds like a capitalist to ME"
Agree — I mentioned the Mackey/Whole Foods 'fix' to some Obama-fan lib acquaintances and they looked like they were going to faint. They LOVE Whole Foods and shop there often. Wonder if they will continue to do so now that Mackey has voiced displeasure with the Zero 'plans.'
Speaking disparagingly about the aged should be a hate crime.
Great ideas. I thank Mr. Mackey.
If I liked Whole Foods, I'd go there to support him.
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Pinata Tips and Tricks
Need a smashing hit for your next party? A piñata is the perfect activity! They are made in hundreds of shapes and sizes. Or you can make your own if you've got the gift of craftiness.
And in case you didn't know, piñatas can be filled with anything small and unbreakable, so they aren't just for kids! If you have safety concerns about swinging a stick, we'll show you how to convert any traditional type into a pull-string version.
Animals and popular characters are the common choices. But you can also "think outside the box" and choose generic shapes to match your theme. Or use a customizable piñata and add a printed image of your choice.
The Traditional Piñata
Grab a bat or a broomstick. Blindfold the kids. Spin them around a few times. And then let them swing, one at a time, until the piñata busts open and empties all the candy. Tip: a sheet or drop cloth below the piñata will help with cleanup.
The Pull String Piñata
A pull string piñata is great for the little ones. Each child gets to pull one string, but only one string will release the filler. Pull all the strings at once for very small children. Bonus: pull string piñatas remain mostly intact and can still be part of the decorations.
Piñata Fillers
When it comes to fillings, candy is certainly not your only option. Steer clear of anything breakable or sharp. Otherwise, if it's small enough to fit inside, it's fair game for a prize. Be sure there are enough prizes inside, so everyone gets a fair share. Consider choosing prizes to match your theme.
- Money
- Spa supplies
- Toy favors
- Dollar store finds
- Craft supplies
- Play jewelry
- Glow sticks
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Girls Piñata Ideas
Enhance her piñata with a ribbon wrapped broomstick that looks like a fairy wand. Or create a pull-string style with a rainbow of ribbons.
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Boys Piñata Ideas
Rough and tumble boys will love the chance to hit a piñata. Let them step up and take their best swing!
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Adult Piñata Ideas
Relive the childhood fun with a grown up twist. Instead of handing out favors for your party, fill a piñata with prizes that adults can appreciate. You can spend a little more per prize but fill it with fewer items. A quick Google search of adult piñatas will prove that they are definitely not all made for kids! Here are a few filler ideas for adults.
- Plastic mini-bar bottles
- Bottle openers
- Personalized key chains
- Gift cards
- Thumb drives
- Cologne & Perfume samples
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DIY Piñata
Animals and popular characters are the common choices. But you can also "think outside the box" and choose generic shapes to match your theme. Or use a customizable piñata and add a printed image of your choice.
How-To Make Your Own Piñatas
Here are some helpful tutorials on how to make your own piñata. Just remember, the work of art you produce will be smashed to pieces by the end of the party. So don't get too attached!
Safety Tips
When it comes to fillings, candy is certainly not your only option. Steer clear of anything breakable or sharp. Otherwise, if it's small enough to fit inside, it's fair game for a prize. Be sure there are enough prizes inside, so everyone gets a fair share. Consider choosing prizes to match your theme.
- Before the kids step up to bat, be sure to hang the piñata securely with a sturdy rope.
- Only one person goes at a time.
- Allow a safe distance from the piñata batting area.
- If the children are very young, choose a pull string piñata.
- A plastic wiffle ball bat might be the safest tool to smack a traditional piñata.
- Turn the blindfolded hitter around 2 or 3 times. Then point them in the right direction, within hitting distance.
- When the piñata opens, don't let the kids rush for the spoils. Hand out favor bags and allow the children to slowly gather their prizes.
- Limit the amount of prizes each child may choose (based on how many items are inside) so no feelings get hurt.
Here are some answers to common piñata questions or concerns.
How much piñata filler do I need?
Refer to the size of the piñata before you purchase it to make sure it will hold enough candy for all of your guests. If you're having a big party, you may need more than one.
- A 16-28 inch piñata can hold up to 2 LBS of prizes or 100 pieces of candy filler, enough for 8-10 children.
- A piñata larger than 34 inches can hold about 3 LBS of filler or 150 pieces of candy, enough for 12-15 children.
When should I use a pull-string piñata?
There are several situations where a pull-string piñata is more appropriate for your party.
- To make it easier for children between ages 3 and 7 to open
- If your party is indoors
- For a larger crowd, a typical pull string has about 20 strings and would give everyone a chance to participate.
- A shy group of children may prefer a pull-string.
- For ease and the safety of any children attending the party with disabilities
What if my piñata won't break?
There are a few easy tricks for this! In some cases, you may need to hit the piñata in just the right spot with just the right amount of force to break it open. This will normally be towards the bottom center of the piñata. If you try to hit it in the bottom center and prizes still won't fall out, cut a small slot in the bottom center and then continue playing the game. A few small strategic cuts beforehand with an exacto blade will add extra break points.
Converting to a Pull String Piñata
For convenience try our Pull Ribbon Piñata Conversion Kit, which includes 20 cut ribbons, tissue paper, and instructions. Otherwise, most piñatas can be converted to a pull-string style using the following instructions:
- Set the piñata down with the bottom facing up. Some oddly-shaped piñatas may require creativity in deciding where the pull flap should be placed.
- On the bottom, use an Exacto or utility knife to make a 3-sided trap door with approximately 3- to 4-inch sides.
- Use the point of the blade to make small slits through the cardboard on the flap, making enough slits for each ribbon that you plan to use (at least one for each guest).
- Cut the appropriate number of ribbons. Ribbon length should correspond to the height at which you plan to hang the piñata.
- Thread a ribbon through each slit and attach them in one of two ways:- Knot all of the ribbons together inside the flap. This allows all the children to pull the strings at the same time to open the piñata as a group.- Knot just one or two ribbons and leave the rest loose. This will allow each guest to select a ribbon to pull until someone finds the one that opens the flap.
- Fill the piñata with candy and/or small prizes.
- Close the flap and lightly seal it with a small piece of Scotch tape, using enough to hold the flap shut but not so much that you prevent the door from opening when someone pulls the knotted ribbon.