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Members of the Red Cross 'Noles take a picture break from a car wash to raise funds for the Capitol City Chapter if the American Red Cross / Photo courtesy of Stephanie Hagans
Thanks to the campus organization Red Cross Noles, FSU can sleep soundly when disaster strikes.
When Tropical Storm Debby drenched Floridas Gulf Coast just weeks ago, prompting Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency in the flooding region, the Red Cross Noles were on the ground giving relief to areas in need.
Three membersMichael Harding, Jake Lodge and Gabriel DeCarvalhohelped unload pallets of water, comfort kits and bulk distribution items, while President Stephanie Hagans and Mike Resto worked everyday the first week of the activation delivering kits.
We coordinated with local Emergency Management in our eight counties to make sure all needs were being met, Hagans said. We took meals to shelters, took down on-site Damage Assessments and Client Casework for survivors in need of food, shelter and clothing [
] and referred survivors to other voluntary agencies able to provide clothing.
Dedicated to assisting the Capital Area Chapter of the Red Cross, the Red Cross Noles is a student-led campus organization supporting the local chapters mission to prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. They say they are advocates and a resource for disaster preparedness education, information and training on the FSU campus.
Our goal at Red Cross Noles is to educate the faculty and student body at FSU about various disaster preparedness techniques along with various humanitarian issues in which the American Red Cross has been involved with and to assist the Capital Area Chapter with various volunteering opportunities, said public relations chair, Sarah Tokumaru.
The Red Cross Noles started about eight years ago, but following a couple years of inactivity, a group of dedicated students have decided to re-activate the organization.
Those who volunteered at the Capital Area Chapter decided they wanted to help expand the mission of the Red Cross to the FSU community.
The club is to assist the Capital Area Chapter and will support the mission to prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies, and we are also helping to make the FSU campus aware of the Red Cross and all that it does to help the community, Tokumaru said.
With their first meeting of summer on July 9 and another coming up on Aug. 2, the club is gearing up for a new year of community service, gaining both membership and support from the local Red Cross chapter.
Our first meeting went well, generating some interest in the club, Hagans said of her club, which is working hard to spread news of the club through social networking and flyers. The club is progressing nicely, and were gaining membership with every event weve had so far, and our local chapter is so enthusiastic and willing to help us.
Not only does this group help others, but through doing so they say they are also helping themselves by gaining the fulfilled feeling of aiding those in need.
My favorite thing about the club is all the amazing opportunities there are to volunteer and give back to the community, and everyone in the club is working very hard to make all of the events the best they can be, Tokumaru said. I look forward to working with them for the rest of the year.
Hagans said the Red Cross Noles have the potential to make a difference while doing what they love.
If you want to help they can find a program or outreach project that can fit exactly with what you want to do, she said.
In the past, the group has done everything from teaching kids proper hand washing techniques in their Scrubby Bear program to preventing the spread of disease, to getting involved in a Disaster Action Team (DAT), and directly helping those affected by disaster, Hagans said.
She added that while most of the executive board is on a medical career track, there are many other opportunities for students of all majors to help.
There are ample opportunities for students planning on a career in pre-med or nursing, and there is an awesome Emergency Management academic program here at Florida State and the Red Cross can provide amazing opportunities to experience what goes into the planning for and the relief efforts for disasters, Hagans said, There are also many opportunities for those interested in working with kids.


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UNCP's Digital Academy hosts a 'Digital Jam Session' in March A convergence of wide ranging digital technology users will meet here on March 26 – 27 for the second annual Digital Content Consortium (DCC) "Brick and Mortar" Conference 2004. Whether they are educators, artists, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, web designers, disabled persons, Apple or PC users, the attendees of the second annual Digital Content Consortium "Brick and Mortar" Conference all have one thing in common – they all use digital tools and content in their work and lives. What can the 2004 attendees expect? "A wide variety of seminars and workshops are planned to attract digital users of all types," said Dr. John Labadie (Art), director and co-founder of the Digital Academy (DA, formerly the Media Integration Project). "Now, under the banner of the newly evolved Digital Academy, the DA team is pleased to offer this valuable opportunity for education, information exchange and networking," Dr. Labadie said. "We encourage the public to register and to join us in this digitally-focused activity featuring professionals from many fields of digital practice." The 2004 conference kicks off Friday with a concert and presentation by Mike Hamer, a wheelchair bound musician and digital artist. Hamer, a quadriplegic who plays the hammer dulcimer, describes his work in music, storytelling, songwriting, dance and film as "a paradigm for dealing with disability." He lives in Greenville, N.C., and teaches at East Carolina University. Mike will be an inspiration to all attendees. The cost of admission to the concert is included in the registration fee. Tickets for non-conference attendees are $5. The concert will be held in the Sampson-Livermore Library Reading Room at 8 p.m. At the 2004 DCC conference on Saturday, March 27, many interesting and informative sessions on a variety of topics will be offered, including:
The 2004 DCC conference is free for students (with IDs) and $14.99 for non-students. For printable registration forms go to www.uncp.edu/digital_academy/. For conference information, email Margie Labadie at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (910) 522-5781. This event is sponsored by the Digital Academy. The Digital Academy is a coalition of digital technology users and proponents on campus. The Digital Academy was the first UNC member of the prestigious New Media Consortium, an international collaboration of universities and technology companies. The Digital Academy describes, elaborates, models, promotes, establishes, activates and focuses on digital technologies. The Digital Academy supports those persons and organizations using digital technologies focused upon valuable causes and agendas related to university education, research and service. The Brick and Mortar Conference is made possible by the generous support of Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Roger Brown, in collaboration with Dr. Maurice Mitchell, Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Research, Dr. Thomas Leach, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Warren Baker, Dean of the School of Education, Dr. Elinor Foster, University Librarian, and Lynda Parlett, Interim Director of the Center for Sponsored Research & Planning. Grant upgrades technology for disabled students Support for disabled students at UNCP just took a leap into the future. The Office of Disability Support Services (DSS) received a grant to enhance accessibility to computer software that supports disabled students. Accommodations Coordinator Misty Sykes (pictured here) applied for the grant. The grant is valued at $19,200 and allows for a package of software to be installed on any computer on campus. The grant from Premier Assistive Technology Company is called "Breaking Down Barriers to Assistive Technology." The software performs functions such as enlarging computer text, reading textbooks and reformatting text documents into audio files. Provost Roger Brown hailed the grant as a major step for the University's support for disabled students. "Disability Support Services under Mary Helen Walker's leadership are serving our students extremely well," Dr. Brown said. "We are proud of our proactive and positive approach to making higher education accessible to every qualified student who desires it. The grant will help ensure that we employ the latest technology on their behalf." DSS serves approximately 500 UNCP students, including more than 40 visually impaired students. "This is a significant upgrade of our resources for students with disabilities," Sykes said. "I am very impressed with this software." Besides upgrading current software, students with disabilities may perform tasks that were previously unavailable to them, Sykes said. "For the first time, we have a talking calculator and a talking dictionary," she said. "And for the first time, audio files can be converted to popular formats that do not require the use of a computer to hear." "Also for the first time, we have a program that can read PDF files," Sykes said. "There were so many documents on the Internet that were not accessible to the disabled." Premier Assistive Technology's online tutorial program will save DSS time and money. "The free online tutorial is fast and easy. I did it in one night," Sykes said. "Before we received this software, students made appointments to get help, and it took many hours of tutorials." DSS Director Mary Helen Walker said the new software would increase the productivity of her staff. Disabled students will be the primary beneficiaries. "Accessibility of services and helping the disabled to become more independent is the bottom line in our office," Walker said. "This grant is a breakthrough for us." The grant allows the University to run assistive technology programs on as many personal computers as needed. Currently, assistive technology software is on four computers in DSS's office, five in the 24-hour computer lab and 20 computers scattered across campus. The grant also allows for full technical support and free upgrades for one year. For more information, contact the Office of Disability Support Services at (910) 521-6695. Jennifer Smith joins new program in Counseling In her eight years working in substance abuse counseling, Jennifer Smith has seen the negative outcomes of alcohol abuse. As the University's new alcohol awareness program coordinator, Smith will have the opportunity to jump in on the side of early prevention. "What excites me about this program is that it is a proactive strategy targeting prevention at a critical stage in the lives of young people," Smith said. Smith comes from Southeastern Regional Mental Health Center. At UNCP, she will launch a new program aimed at high-risk drinking among students. The program, entitled SPARC (Study to Prevent Alcohol Related Consequences), is funded at five universities in North Carolina by a grant from the Wake Forest University's Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The universities – Duke, Western Carolina, UNC Greensboro, Appalachian State and UNCP – are a testing ground for the prevention program, which seeks to change the culture surrounding high-risk alcohol use by college students. "Our wellness surveys show that UNC Pembroke is about the same as the national standard as far as alcohol use is concerned," Smith said. "What is unique about the program is that few campuses have one staff member whose only mission is to combat alcohol abuse." Smith will form a broad coalition of "stakeholders" at the University and in the surrounding community. The coalition may include fraternities, sororities, student government, faculty, staff, merchants, churches, local government and law enforcement. "These are the people and groups who deal with high-risk behaviors," Smith said. "Our first objective is to promote positive social norms, and our second goal is to reduce the availability of alcohol." High-risk behavior is defined as binge drinking and drinking and driving or engaging in other dangerous activities. Smith said that changing culture is "a lofty goal" but a worthy one. "We would work to be a change agent for a culture," she said. "This is a vulnerable age, especially for freshmen who may be away from home for the first time and have a lot of freedom." "It's a freedom to make bad decisions, but it's also freedom to make good decisions," she said. "I am very optimistic that we can make changes." Smith has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Master of Science and an Education Specialist degree in counselor education, all from UNC Greensboro. She is an Asheboro native. For more information about the SPARC program, call (910) 521- 6202, Ext. 6580. Service-learning mission gets a boost at UNCP As part of the "Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve" initiative, funded by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, more than 60 faculty and staff members from 21 higher education institutions met in Charlotte in February for an in-depth faculty development institute on service-learning. The University sent three members to the institute, including Melanie Clark, Director of Leadership and Community Service in the Office of Student Activities, Anita Guynn, Assistant Professor of English, and John Bowman, Professor of sociology. Service-learning integrates community service into course content for enhanced student learning. The North Carolina Campus Compact (NCCC) is a national organization of university presidents who support service-learning and civic engagement. Chancellor Meadors is a member of the Campus Compact. The NCCC provides financial support, professional development and resources on service-learning to its member institutions. The Institute on Service-Learning conference was paid for through a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. A $500 grant from the project will allow UNCP to conduct faculty development workshops on service-learning. "The overarching goal is to have a minimum of five faculty members who will agree to teach service-learning courses in the fall," Clark said. UNCP faculty members have an opportunity to attend a conference on service-learning at Elon University on March 3. The Office of Academic Affairs has agreed to pay fees and travel expenses. Topics include the core concepts of service-learning, building campus-community partnerships, using reflection in teaching, assessing student learning, engaging diverse disciplines and accessing resources. Faculty and staff teams that participated in the institute returned to their campuses to implement faculty development workshops on service-learning. NCCC member campuses seek to involve students, faculty, and the entire campus in community service to fulfill higher education's most noble goals of educating citizens, preparing tomorrow's leaders, and contributing to the life of America's communities. Melanie Clark is the contact person for UNCP. She may be contacted at (910) 521-6207 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more go to: www.compact.org or www.elon.edu/nccc/. At left,Chef John Campbell cooks tortellini as Sodexho Catering Manager Janet Williams (right) discusses menus with David Thaggard (GPAC). SODEXHO NEWS Sodexho Catering Services, a division of campus Food Services, put on a cooking exhibition for the University on February 24. The Catering Showcase featured cut flowers, two ice sculptures and a cooking demonstration by Executive Chef John Campbell. The purpose of the event was to demonstrate the catering possibilities for University event planners, said Janet Williams, Catering Manager. "It was very successful," Williams said. "A new catering menu is in the works, so it was good to touch base with our customers." On the menu was stuffed flounder, chicken Charleston, a tortellini cooking station, garlic mashed potatoes, broccoli with lemon zest, chocolate fondue, tiramisu, bite-sized dessert bars, a pastry table and cold shrimp served in a boat carved out of ice. Nice. CHEF CAMPBELL PROMOTED Sodexho Executive Chef John Campbell has taken the new title of Director of Operations of UNCP Food Services in 2004. Campbell has been with Sodexho's UNCP operation for two years. 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With the debate over Obama Care going at a furious pace, let's examine some key facts comparing current American healthcare with that of our nations. Based on this study, we have a superior healthcare system to that of Canada and Europe. Do we really want to go the way of inferior medical care?
Read from National Center for Policy Analysis:
10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care
"Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Much of the public assumes their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. However, before turning to government as the solution, some unheralded facts about America's health care system should be considered.
Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.
Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.[2] Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.
Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.[3] Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.
Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.[4] Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:
*Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
*Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.
*More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
*Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).
Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report 'excellent' health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent). Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as 'fair or poor.'[5]
Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long - sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.[6] All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada.[7] In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.[8]
Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either 'fundamental change' or 'complete rebuilding.'[9]
Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the 'health care system,' more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).[10]
Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade.[11] [See the table.] The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.[12]
Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.[13] The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other single developed country.[14] Since the mid-1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined.[15] In only five of the past 34 years did a scientist living in America not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.[16] [Click on the link above to see the table.]
Conclusion. Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries."
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- Diogenes said...
OK, let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the healthcare reform currently proposed by various Democrats is inappropriate.
Where's your proposals? Where are the Republican proposals? Where are the Religious Rightwingnut proposals?
You criticize and criticize and criticize.... but you never once offer a concrete proposal to make the reform that you admit America needs. You have at least twice mentioned the absence of "tort reform" but you have never once outlined what tort reform should look like.
C'mon, Ms.Moore. You have this fabulous open forum here. EDUCATE US. Tell us what we need to do. Tell us how to make the healthcare system better for America.
Or could it be that you're far better bitching about socialism than you are at fixing anything?
Or could it be that you're not particularly adept at criticizing OR improving this country, but you know how to cut and paste -- and the websites you cut and past from only bitch, not fix?
A patient nation awaits your wisdom, Ms. Moore. Offer a fix for our healthcare system, please! - July 26, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- Debra Moore said...
Somewhere between one fifth to one fourth of the uninsured are illegal immigrants, and
another one third are eligible for Medicaid, but never applied for it. I don't know about you, but I don't want my tax money to go to insure illegals who have broken the law when they entered this country. That's just plain unfair to hard-working Americans who play by the rules.
Mandated health care requirements take freedom away from individuals. Many of the uninsured are young, healthy people in their 20s and 30s, who can afford health insurance, but choose not to invest their income in health care that they believe they will, in all probability, not need. These individuals should have the right to reject costly health insurance, if they wish to do so.
The high cost of health care is a major problem. But, Democrats are using the wrong tactics to solve this predicament. When the government gets involved, the result is expensive, poor-quality medical care. The govt. cannot run anything efficiently or at a low cost. Do we really want the federal govt in charge of something as important as our health care?
A preferable approach would be to use the free enterprise principle, reduce regulation, and add tax incentives. Being able to purchase health care plans that go across state lines would result in more competition, which would force prices to drop. Most Americans are poorly informed about their health care choices because there just is not enough information available to us, as consumers; this should change so we can make better choices. We should be able to find the best quality healthcare at the most affordable rate.
Then, there is the need for tort reform, which is costing doctors a fortune, and those costs are being passed down to their patients. The frivolous law suits need to stop, and the trial lawyers are out of control with their offers to sue without any charge to their client if they lose. Of course, the Democrats will never stand up to the trial lawyers because they are highly financed by all the John Edwards of this country.
BTW, I do support offering healthcare for those with pre-existing conditions. - July 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- Diogenes said...
OK, let's take this a step at a time.
Step One: Kill all the illegals. Check.
Step Two: Eliminate mandates for young healthy people. Oh, but wait. There ARE no mandates now. So, in other words, you want to do nothing on that point. And, since insurers won't be collecting premiums from those young heslthy people who don't require massive outlays of benefits, that means there will be even fewer premium dollars to cover benefit expenses. That's a novel approach.
Step Three: No public option, because the government can't do anything right. Got it. But... uhhh..... we don't HAVE a public option now. So, again, you want to do... nothing.
Step Four: Let free enterprise fix the problem that the free enterprise system has created. Hmmmmm. What sort of tax incentives would help? Giving tax breaks to high income individuals and insurance companies? Who's going to PAY for those "tax incentives"? Allowing insurers to cross state lines. Hey, that's a good one! But isn't that expanding federalism? Insurance regulation has historically been primarily a state function, but you want to federalize it? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh kaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy.
And we need to get more information into the hands of consumers. OK, nice idea.... but who exactly is going to do that? The government, which you already said can't do anything right? Oh, I know, I know! The free enterprise system!! But... uhhh.... there's nothing to restrict insurers from putting more information into the hands of consumers RIGHT NOW. The fact that they haven't done so kind of indicates that they don't WANT "educated consumers." So... do you want the federal government to force insurers to do this? With the "less regulation" you advocate?
Step Five: Tort reform. Yes, that is, as I said, a good idea. Let's stop frivolous lawsuits! Great. But, how do you determine what's frivolous and what's not, without a trial? Or do we just have a government bureaucrat sit up there in an ivory tower, playing eeney meeney miney moe when lawsuits are filed? America is way too litigious, I'll readily agree, but it's not easy to ratchet us down. Maybe we can just eliminate lawsuits filed by blacks (because their lives aren't worth that much, anyway) and Hispanics (because they might be illegals, anyway)??
What you could do is encourage judges to award lawyer fees for claims found to be frivolous; the laws are on the books now, but judges are very reluctant to do it. But the next step would be to institute a "loser pays" system like Britain. It SOUNDS good, but it's pretty dangerous, legally. A lot of injured people with potentially valid claims won't sue, because they can't afford to lose and pay Giant Insurance Comapny's legal bills in the process. "Loser pays" actually stacks the deck for the insurance companies... which, come to think of it, may be exactly what the fat cat GOP wants, anyway. - July 27, 2009 at 9:48 PM
if someone rejects health care, because they need the money for something else, you cant just decide to tax them and say "fine we'll take your money anyway then".
and no one is paying for any tax incentives. you give the company's employees a tax break. its an incentive to just pay less at the end of the year. and who knows, maybe give a part time benefits package to some 20 hour a week employees with the saved money.
frivolous cases... who cares, people are idiots and as long as there's a way to snake money, they'll always be there. what are ya gonna do, hire a committee to sift through all the cases before they reach a trial? - July 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Diogenes said...
1. The government sure as heck CAN do something to mandate coverage. Think about auto insurance. How many states have mandatory auto insurance requirements? If it wasn't required, many would choose to go without coverage, to save the bucks.
2. Somebody DOES "pay" for tax incentives. Anytime you give somebody a "break
from taxes, that means less tax revenue for the government from THAT source, so another source has to be found. (Either that, or you can try to continue deficit financing, something rightwingnuts are loathe to do.) Keep that in mind the next time your town trumpets the new employer they're bringing in, with just a few "meaningless" tax incentives. Corporations love doing that: get a 10 or 20 yr tax break, and then pull the same move with another city in another state (or country) after the 10 or 20 yrs are up. - July 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Toronto real estate agent said...
How about starting with imperative insurance for all the children? Maybe covering everyone is a bit too much for a start, but the children - they shouldn't really pay the price for their parents sin...
Julie - July 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Diogenes said...
Julie, Julie, Julie.... you will NEVER understand the American rightwing if you insist on being compassionate to the WEAK!
Let kids grow up and get a job! Childhood is overrated. - July 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM
but what i'm saying is... giving a company a break does not mean, we have to catch up with it somewhere else, im sure that happens, but that doesnt mean it has to. it
just means, something else will take a hit, and believe me, there's plenty of useless government expenses going around, i think we can do without. so maybe my argument is more with the method, but, still... giving a company a break does not NEED to mean "compensate from somewhere else" no, how about dropping useless crap we spend money on.
and i dont agree with the auto insurance thing. i see the argument because its a form of insurance and the state regulates it, but if you dont want insurance, you dont have to have it. if you sign that paperwork at the DMV when you get your liscence, you are agreeing that you will have a coverage on your vehicle in the event of an accident. and are punishable by law if you don't. and thats so when mr. smith drives home from work and joey the alcoholic hits him doing 90 mph, mr. smith can get money for his damages to the car, and himself, because joey can't afford a 250,000 dollar lawsuit, but his insurance company can. if i get the flu, it doesnt impact anyone but me, but i pay for insurance, so im entitled to treatment. if joey didnt have insurance, he'd be declaring bankruptcy. and mr. smith probably wouldnt get much from joey's own pockets. we can go without insurance, there'd just be a lot more lawsuits, and probably people taking the law into their own hands. so i wouldnt compare personal health to protection on the highway.
oh, and what about if someone crashed into like, a building, and ruins the lobby, or the front of it. should that business go under because they have to remodel their entire store because some jackass rammed his car through the front wall? not in the least, hence insurance for cars is a must. you can always just decline to have a liscence and drive by your own rules.
and to boot, state mandated insurance... is just that, state mandated. not federally regulated. there's a reason we have 50 states, and its so each one can independently govern itself. and for that matter, there's a reason we dont have state mandated health insurance, because its not a good idea.
ps. enjoy hearing the left side of the argument, always good to get a new perspective. - July 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- Diogenes said...
"giving a company a break does not NEED to mean "compensate from somewhere else" no, how about dropping useless crap we spend money on."
Nick, I see where you're coming from, but you have to look at it from the other perspective (wheter they're right or wrong). Congress NEVER feels like they are "funding useless crap". Sure, some grandtanding congressmen love to poke fun at what THEY think is "useless crap" but there is a reason why that stuff gets passed: everybody thinks that the stuff THEY promote is "useful" and the stuff the other guy promotes is "useless". So, politivs being politics, in order to get my useful stuff passed, I have to vote for your useless crap, and he'll vote for mine.
Which leads to one of two outcomes: either somebody's "useful" stuff gets dropped (and we hope like hell it actually IS "useless crap") OR Congress figures out a way to increase revenue to keep funding everybody's useless crap, in the hope that it's all useful stuff! And they raise revenues by either borrowing, or raising taxes. So, ultimately, giving somebody a tax break HAS to mean it comes out of somebody else's hide. The odds that useless crap gets cut are slim to none.
As for the auto insurance vs. medical insurance requirements,you're absolutely right, the rationales WHY they'd be required are very different. I just used the auto comparison to show you that, yes indeed, the government can require insurance, as they already do. And there's plenty more examples, like malpractice insurance for lawyers and doctors. In order to keep you law or medical license (and lots of other licenses) the government requires you to buy insurance.
Now, why would the government make healthy young people buy insurance when they don't need it?
First, because they're young and healthy and don't think they need it. Odds are, they'll stay healthy (at least for awhile) BUT there's always a chance of a medical calamity. If a young guy falls while rock-climbing, he could be disabled for the rest of his life. Without insurance, he'd be financially bankrupted AND we (the public) would wind up paying his medical expenses.
Ok, but what are the odds, you say? Slim to none? Yep. But there's more reasons to require that healthy guy to buy insurance.
Every insurance fund ever can only succeed if it takes in more money than it pays out. Sick people cost money, usually more than the premiums they pay in. That means that healthy people -- people who won't cost more than they put in -- HAVE to be included, to make the whole group stay afloat. If you let the young healthy ones get away without getting coverage, then all you'll have is the sickies (or at least a much higher percentage of sickies) and the premiums for insurance policies will skyrocket. So it's a social contract trade-off: you pay more than your share now, but in the future (when you get old and decrepit like me) you'll get the break and some other healthy young guy will be holding you up. - July 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM
i get what you're saying about congress and their perspective and i'm glad we atleast have a chance to vote in people with a positive one to represent us as a whole... go america!
but the government shouldn't make you pay for it. because any other form of insurance is a company. when you see commercials for 35 different insurance companies, thats capitalism at its finest! a lot of people, a lot of options, a lot of money being exchanged, its a beautiful thing. im sure they want the people that are never sick to get their insurance because to them its damn near free money. thats why we see all those commericlas.
those people that don't think they need health insurance, the young ones, aren't putting into the pot, but at the same time, they're not taking out of the pot either. so when they get sick or something happens, our hospital bills/ER taxes and whatever have you cover them. like when you get a driving ticket, and at the bottom it says "EMS Cost" and you go "wait i never needed to go to the hospital", that's covering the young ones and they're infrequent issues that don't have coverage. of those in the 20 - 40 age bracket that DO have coverage and are probably as infrequently ill as those that don't have coverage, they're paying for the 40+ crowd's issues and the issues of the insured that are frequently ill or physically handicapped... along with medicaid and retired military perks. so i do believe there's already a lot in place. and i think i said in another page that some +80% of americans currently insure themselves, and i think thats absolutely amazing. so im not so sure we are in need of a GIGANTIC super duper make-over.
and people are not getting sicker and sicker and sicker by the year. the same percentage of people have the same percentage of problems. polio went away, more people get the different animal flu's... the mumps vaccine, people get disease X, so my question is... why are insurance premiums going up so high that we even need this debate at all? is it prescription drug prices? is new treatment just more expensive now? someone enlighten me on why premiums are where they are, and why it brings people to their most basic qualities of "go for self"? - July 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- Diogenes said...
What's causing medical costs to soar? Technology. We're living longer. And more of us are uninsured.
Technological advances have made medical care incredibly better, but incredibly more expensive. My wife just had a pulmonary embolism. She's been monitored for a month now. It used to be they'd run a chest x-ray every week or so, but now, she's getting weekly CT scans. They are a helluva lot more accurate and more valuable to her physician, but they are probably 10 times the cost of a routine chest x-ray. Doctors want the best info they can get, so a CT scan it is.
And this also gets back to the malpractice issue: if a doctor ordered only a chest x-ray instead of a CT scan and he missed something, he's screwed. He'll be sued for malpractice. So a CT scan it is.
And we're living longer. Good news! But living longer doesn't mean we still don't get sick... in fact, it makes it more likely that we'll experience chronic medical problems as we get older.
More uninsured Americans receiving medical care means higher costs for the rest of us. Doctors and, especially, hospitals have to build it into their costs structures, that more people aren't going to be able to pay their freight. So they add a "fudge factor" onto everybody else's bill. You won't usually see it spelled out on a bill, like you say you see the "EMS cost" on tickets, but it's there.
You also professed faith in the free enterprise system. I agree. Nothing in the current reform will eliminate private insurance companies, though. All the reform is proposing is setting up some sort of publicly-funded alternative option, for those who can't get coverage through a private insurer. Most of the free-market types love to ridicule the government, that the government can't run a business, etc etc etc Well, fine: if the government is so damned inefficient and incompetent, the private insurers have nothing to fear from "competition" from the government option, would they? - July 31, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Victor said...
I don't have time to fact-check all your so-called facts, but Fact #7 is definitely bogus. I notice that you don't mention how many Americans think their health care system needs to be completely rebuilt. Well, according to this recent article (OECD 2007 Poll), between 10 - 15% of Canadians think their system needs to be completely rebuilt, with 15% for the U.K., 25 - 30% for Germany and 30 - 35% of the U.S: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/americans_fear_canadas_health-.html
- August 7, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Diogenes is full of crap. The government cannot bring the cost of technology down. Did you ever hear of the six million dollar toilet. NASA taught them how to make technogy and every single government technology costs multiple times more than what the private sector can develop. The fact is American's develop the technology here. That explains why other countries have lower cost structures. They haven't been able to develop cutting edge medical technologies that are deployable. So those costs don't show up in those contries healthcare structures.
Too many other errors with the know it all, Diogenes's so-called "facts". Score one for slick talking politicians who carry a half-assed plan. Don't get me started.
Don't bankrupt the country, when we don't have the money. I hope people wake up and realize that this Democrat's ancient art of bloodletting is bad for America.
Put a cap on Tort reform, right after someone sues the hell outta Congressional Democrats for this mistake.
Good luck America! - August 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM
- EEtimes2 said...
Well, the biggest cost for any health care system is age related diseases, in fact 72% of the costs are due to this. If we start tackling age related disease, as has been started in the US, the costs should decline, but only from free enterprise can this be done. I know from personal experience, a person in Canada who is over 80 will not get the same care as let say a 45 year old would, "because they are to old and they wouldn't have to many more years in front of them anyway" as one doctor put it.
No public options for the US isn't the way to go. - March 3, 2010 at 6:03 PM


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Ian Cook, painting with cars
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Interview with Ian Cook, aka Popbang Colour.
When did your passion for cars begin?
I've always had a passion and interest in cars.
I'm from Solihull (West Midlands, UK), the town where the Land Rover factory is. My uncle worked in the car industry all his life and I wanted to be a car designer like he was. When I did a week's 'work experience' with him I realized that I wasn't an engineer – but an artist.
I've always loved the aesthetics of vehicles, and that's where my interest and passion really lies.
Then again I've always used cars, toys and color in my artwork, but another reason why the whole thing might have started is when I got given a radio control car for Christmas a few years ago and someone said "Don't take it down your studio, and don't get paint on it!"…. Oooops!
Why do you use car parts and model cars to paint cars?
For me it makes sense to create cars using radio control cars at car related events. Is that a crime?
Anyway, it's mainly because of the way I apply paint. The style of my artwork is very much about how the paint is moved around the canvas or paper I create on.
These days my creative process is very different to how it started out. At first my artworks were color wheel abstracts, then moved on to logos, then portraits and then cars.
Now I concentrate mainly on cars or other vehicles.
Have you ever dreamt of being a driver?
I've done go-karting before and I really enjoyed the competition and experience.
Through my work I've also been to lot of different kinds of motorsport events (F1, BTCC, WTCC, WRC, Endurance Racing) and I'd love to get the chance to take a car around a track. I'm an extremely competitive person.
Have you got a car? What car is it?
Yes, I've got a Chevrolet Spark, one of my associate sponsors is Chevrolet UK and last year when the car was released in the UK, I painted at its launch.
Anyway, it's called the 'SpART' like in art Spark. It's covered with my artwork and has Popbang Colour vinyls that made it look like a race car.
I've also got a van that takes all my equipment to events….
What's the most beautiful car you've ever painted?
I've been really lucky to be able to paint Aston Martins, Classic Porsches and lots of other awesome road and race cars. Though it's hard to pick one particular favorite I could call the most 'beautiful', I'd probably say the Ferrari 458 Italia is my personal favorite.
Second favorite is the Aston Martin Vantage GT2 and third the Audi R8.
What would you paint the Sparco logo with?
I've got a fleet of radio control cars I can create the Sparco logo with. It includes an awesome Nissan GT-R, a rally ready Subaru WRX, a fully American Shelby Mustang, a bumblebee liveried Chevrolet Camaro and a 4×4 Range Rover, to name but a few …there's a fleet of 20 that I'll be using on the Sparco logo!
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Coming off a pair of statement wins on Saturday, CBU kept the offense rolling, winning 8-0 and 19-2 in two five-inning games. CBU's 19 runs in the second game were the most runs the Lancers have scored in a game this season.
The two wins keep the Lancers atop the PacWest standings, sitting at 36-6 overall, 19-4 PacWest, while the Seasiders drop to 11-18, 6-17.
In one of the more unusual cycles typically seen, Rodriguez got the four hits necessary for the feat in just two innings.
The junior third baseman opened the scoring in the nightcap with a two-run homer and as the Lancers batted around, Rodriguez hit a two-run triple off the right field wall later in the inning. CBU would jump on top 8-0 in the first inning.
Still needing a single and double heading into the fifth, the Lancers once again batted around in the frame, scoring nine runs and giving Rodriguez a chance to get two at-bats. She led off the inning with a single and later came up and hit a ball off the left field wall to plate her fifth run of the day on a double.
Rodriguez was one of four Lancers with multiple RBI in the game, with Andie Banuelos and Kendall Gorham each driving in three on bases clearing doubles.
Gorham kept her offensive hot streak going after hitting three homers against Grand Canyon last time out, blasting a three-run shot to centerfield in the opener. Banuelos also struck in the early game, driving in two runs and scoring another.
April Vasquez got CBU on the board first with a solo-shot in the second inning.
Holden gave the Seasiders no chance in game one, striking out a total of 13 batters in five innings of no-hit work. She also did not allow a single walk in the game, sitting just a single hit batter away from a perfect outing.
Holden moves to 17-4 with the victory and has now struck out 28 batters in 11 innings of work over the course of her last two starts.
Tory Ferreira threw the second game, upping her conference best record to 19-2 with the complete game win. Ferreira threw five innings, giving up two runs on three hits. She struck out six.
The Lancers and Seasiders will be back in action tomorrow at 5 p.m. for CBU's final regular season home games of the season.


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PSF: Peterborough 0 West Ham Utd 2 (29/07/08)Moderator: Gnome Re: Peterborough awayhurrah
Re: Peterborough awayGoal on 42 by Bellamy.....whoo hoo hes looking good!!!!...in a manly I Love West Ham way mind!!!!
Re: Peterborough awaysounds like behrami is running the show( apart from bellamy!)
Re: Peterborough awayGoals? Goals? Did someone say West Ham are scoring goals?
Nah. Must be a mistake. Now if only Bellamy can be this good every week. Or if only we can play Peterborough every game.
Re: Peterborough awayOff I Love Bellamy topic, anybody fancy (as a player) Aaron McClean? Did really well last season for Peterborough and according to the OS commentary, he's posing our defence a few problems. Can't imagine him costing more than a couple of million either.
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He did put in a transfer request i believe, but then U-turned and signed a new deal. Cracking player by all accounts tho
Re: Peterborough awayNo changes at half time....would like to see Cole off and Hines or Sears on...but then I havnt looked at subs yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Peterborough awayInterested in centre midfield selection today.Mullins on bench, noble allowing Parker a more advanced role maybe ?
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We were linked with him a few months. I can't remember who was in for him recently but Peterborough were asking for £5m and wouldn't budge for anything. Ridiculous price for a player who's never been higher than league two. Huge step up to the premier league, so unless we can get him for under £1m, wouldn't be interested. Billy Sharp comes to mind. Along with countless others.
Re: Peterborough awaySod a corgi! Their away kit makes them look like Panathinaikos!
Re: Peterborough awayahem.....
'Sod a corgi'? Surely that should be bugger a corgi?
Re: Peterborough awayThe way the OS talks up players, I never trust their minute-by-minute. Behrami's probably flopping all over the field as we speak.
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I prefer the strong-armed approach.
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His hair certainly is...
Re: Peterborough awayGreen makes a good save 4 minutes after being subbed.......he walks on water.
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Good, thought I was seeing things.
Re: Peterborough awayWiddowson came on for Behrami, Stech for Green and Sears for Bellamy
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Anyone else loving our new away kit?
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i'm loving my skin tight away top, couldn't be arsed to fork out £40 for an adult one that gave me any room to grow.
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Would you be TOTALLY excited to see water-guzzling, pollution-producing, "seen-and-not-touched" lawns, replaced by edible gardens and drought-tolerant native plant landscaping? Do you believe, like I do, that if one or two of those GIANT homes in upscale neighborhoods (or tiny homes in the flats) were to replace most of their front and back lawns with gorgeously eco-scaped edible gardens, other neighbors would follow suit...? Especially if there was a massive PR campaign highlighting the transfo …
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This group is for people growing vegetables in the Oakland area (all locals welcome!) to get together and share techniques, experiences, seeds, methods, material, etc. so that we can all grow more vegetables! By vegetables, I mean all sorts of edible plants: Fruits, Tubers, Nuts, Seeds, Greens, Mushrooms, Herbs, Spices, etc. I hope to attract people with at least some experience so that we can all learn from one another. Meetups will mostly include meeting in a garden and discussing all sorts of …
Tech Garden SF is a meetup group focused on catalyzing discussion and spreading knowledge about a wide range of disruptive technologies. We are interested in the new frontier of decentralization and distribution through peer-to-peer technology, mesh networking infrastructure and crowdsourcing services but welcome all kinds of ideas. Through the insights of various perspectives we can enable dynamic conversation and better understanding of today's ever-expanding technological toolkit. Join us at …
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For seed bombs, moss paste/paint and sidewalk-crack fillers.
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Are you as interested in herbs as I am? I am fairly new to gardening with herbs and have found that I really enjoy it. I would greatly enjoy getting together with others who are interested in sharing recipes, gardening tips, historical aspects of herbs, ways of harvesting and preserving herbs, etc. Let's get together and figure out how to create an enjoyable and informative herbal society.
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Let's use technology to live 'bright green' lives! This group is for sharing tools to live more sustainably, including but not limited to: -growing more food on less land through permaculture design -using low-cost electronics to automate your garden -building 'shared ownership' systems to pool resources All skill levels are welcome; just be ready to learn and share!
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This group is for survival and sustainability enthusiasts. We are urban and suburban dwellers excited about learning the benefits of most efficient food and energy production. Eventually, we want to collaborate on meaningful community projects and share enough knowledge to start businesses. Here are some possibilities for those who seek to survive, sustain, and prosper: -Permaculture -Biointensive -Landscaping -Horticulture/Gardening -Aquaculture -Hydroponics and Aeroponics -Vertical Farming -Or …
Urban homesteading can be a fun and fulfilling way to decrease your carbon footprint while learning useful methods for producing your own wholesome home staples. We will be exploring canning & preserving, animal husbandry and beekeeping, gardening and mycology, foraging and gleaning, home crafting and sewing, permaculture practices, and the use of native plants for both culinary and medicinal uses.
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My name is Sundown Hazen. I am passionate about growing food and contributing to health and sustainability of his local community. I am using my backyard to grow fruits and vegatables traditionally, raise chickens, and raise fish and produce in an aquaponics system. I am also in the process of starting Pirate Produce, a business providing consulting services to home owners and small community groups and schools in sustainable food production. This group is a way for me to share my experiences an …
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Collective Roots is an amazing nonprofit based in East Palo Alto. Our mission is to promote food justice by engaging youth and communities in garden-based learning and nutrition education to positively impact health. We want to meet folks with a strong interest in growing their own food, learning skills our grandparents knew and making sure that everyone has access to good, healthy food.
We are a Makerspace located at iGate Innovation Hub in Livermore, CA. Members of our space use our equipment to work on personal or professional projects, take and teach classes about building and programing, and gather together to work on individual and group projects. We focus on robotics and our space includes metal and wood working, electronics, sewing machines and sergers, a 3-D printer, and a laser cutter. Planned future equipment includes CNC mills, vacuum forms, a robot pond, a model gar …
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Wild Child Freeschool is an affordable nature-awareness program that seeks to build community through nature immersion, fun and learning. We started out in Silicon Valley offering weekday programs for homeschool families. We are now expanding our program to Santa Cruz families, and will be offering WEEKEND exploration days, and Permaculture learning days that are open to homeschoolers and schoolers alike! Founded on a cooperative model, the program is currently being built around input from pare …
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The intention of this group is to come back to an ancient paradigm, a time where we were more connected as a community, more in touch with ourselves, our spirituality & with nature. Topics of this group might include themes similar to the following: natural living, sustainability, green living, empowered plant based medicine & nutrition practices, permaculture, emergency survival planning, indigenous spirituality, yoga, raw food, nature hikes, etc.
The Urban Farmers Coop is a gathering of people who share the common vision of utilizing their available urban spaces to farm and grow food sustainably with the goals of building a community and sharing knowledge. We live in or near Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties CA. Most importantly, we are a group of like-minded people who are forming a new community and discovering how we can create a better world by developing a more sustainable food system. We are an open group and all are …
Nature in the City is a diverse community of enthusiasts and naturalists of all backgrounds. We gather to connect to nature in the neighborhoods and urban areas of San Francisco through organized habitat restoration projects, hands-on workshops, community and educational events, and field trips. Our passionate volunteers and members are welcome to attend any and all of our events! We welcome all ages and backgrounds to our programs, and are family friendly. We are a not-for-profit organizati …
We protect and enjoy California native plants together -- go on field trips, enjoy lectures and local hikes. Learn about native plants of the East Bay and beyond with us !
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We hope to fill Oakland's need to improve the city's many hidden pathways/stairways. At first we will remove the plant growth that is harming the pathways. Later we can do other things to improve them by such things as planting flowering plants. It is time to get local people together to improve Oakland. We have already done 10 group weed cleanups which greatly improved 3 pathway/stairways in Oakland's Lakeshore Neighborhood plus one in the Rockridge Neighborhood. We did our first improvement to …
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Our events are for all us singles who want to GET OUT and have some FUN! Not that we don't love our couple friends too, but they always have to leave early (or can't come at all) because of the kids, the house, etc. This group is for those of us who have more free time and want to make some new friends while having some FUN! There are more of us single people in the bay area than you think, so leave all your friends who are couples at home and come out to have some FUN with us! We're your peop …
Heart of Avalon A Growing Community of Support for Health and Wellness If you seek (or want to help others find) a way of living that is healthy, less stressful, more balanced, sustainable, beautiful, more connected to the Earth, more immersed in community support, full of gratitude and celebration, more joyous, and more abundant...then Heart of Avalon is a place for you to find and create all that and more. Heart of Avalon focuses on the local community of Health and Wellness practitioners (in …
We are a gathering of wellness-focused women and men who enjoy socializing with other light-hearted folks, cooking and eating healthy, and creating a nurturing community who values feeling naturally uplifted. Dance, yoga, writing, photography, surfing, meditation, art-making, energy work, gardening, and/or drumming may be a part of how you focus on your wellness. Let's gather together in joyful company to meet like-minded friends, share good food, and share and learn about beneficial wellness pr …
Take your yoga practice to a whole different level by stepping off of your mat and into a nurturing pool environment. This class is suited for every body: beginners, those with physical limitations, and experienced yogi(ni)s. We will meet in the beautiful garden setting pool of a private residence off of Quito Rd,in Saratoga, CA
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eHarmony, Match.com get JaJah VoIP calling
Online dating services eHarmony and Match.com on Thursday plan to begin using a special version of JaJah that lets users make anonymized voice calls to people they're interested in.
Unlike streaming video, which is a hot trend in online dating sites, users are limited to standard telephone communication like voice calls, SMS, and voice mail. Both sites are using a version of JaJah that's focused specifically on privacy permissions. Users can't just call someone without the person on the other authorizing it first. The same goes for both voice and text messages. Also, neither party gets … Read more


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New Brunswick residents enjoy a variety of dining, nightlife and entertainment options, thanks largely in part to the college students living near Rutgers University. Those searching for New Brunswick apartments for rent should seek apartments ahead of time, because large portions of rental housing tend to be inhabited by college students. Only 40 miles from Manhattan, New Brunswick is both a freestanding urban center and part of a larger metropolis. Known as "Healthcare City," New Brunswick is host to numerous medical organizations, and many healthcare professionals call the city, and New Brunswick apartments, their home. New Brunswick has a population of about 55,500.
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Favorite Albums of 2011
2011 was a very good year for new music. It was difficult for me to narrow it down so I didn't narrow it down. This list is the new stuff I listened to the most this year which excludes reissues and anything not released in 2011. The list is alphabetical but there are a few that stood out which I listened to substantially more often (most likely because they came out earlier in the year) and those albums have asterisks beside them. There was a handful of things I never got around to listening to that I had heard were great but alas, only so many hours in the year. As well, like most years, this list is Texas-heavy, psychedelic-heavy and garage-heavy. A few electronic and a couple experimental and one "classical" (TW Bond's- compositions). Thanks to all the rock blogs that allowed us to sample so much good stuff. Most of these albums were released on vinyl and I recommend purchasing any and/or all of them.
1. Acid Baby Jesus- LP
2. Allah La's- Demo
3. Apache Dropout- S/T LP + Radiation 7"+ Shot Down 7"*
4. Bad Indians- Sounds From The Big Room
5. Bad Sports- Kings Of The Weekend
6. Bass Drum Of Death- GB City
7. Blasted Canyons- S/T
8. Christian Bland and The Revelators- The Lost Album
9. Cowabunga Babes- Going Nowhere
10. Crystal Stilts- In Love With Oblivion LP + Radiant Door EP*
11. Crystal Swells- Goethe Head Soup
12. the dictaphone- past.future.void
13. Dirty Beaches- Badlands
14. Ducktails- III: Arcade Dynamics
15. The Feeling Of Love- Dissolve Me
16. Fishboy- Classic Creeps
17. High Wolf- A Guide To Healing
18. Jacuzzi Boys- Glazin'
19. John Maus- We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves*
20. Ketamines- Line By Line EP
21. Liquid Skulls- Dead In Your Eyes
22. Mountain Cult- first demo 3/12 + EP
23. Natural Child- 1971
24. Night Beats- S/T
25. OBN III's- S/T 7" + S/T EP
26. Peaking Lights- 936
27. The People's Temple- Sons Of Stone*
28. Pure X- Pleasure*
29. Purling Hiss- Lounge Lizards
30. Real Estate- Days
31. Shapes Have Fangs- Dinner In The Dark (vinyl)*
32. Sic Alps- Napa Asylum *
33. Sleep oo Over- Forever
34. The Strange Boys- Live Music*
35. Thee Cormans- Halloween Record W/Sound Effects
36. The UFO Club/Night Beats- Split 10"*
37. TW Bond- Compositions
38. White Denim- D