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POPSMedicare and Gag Orders "Meanwhile, we have the case of the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP), and its fanciful Medicare claims. The self-styled seniors lobby is using all its money and influence to cheer on ObamaCare, even though polls show that most retired persons oppose it. AARP has spent millions of dollars on its TV ad campaign and bulletins and newsletters to its members, including eight million direct-mail letters over Labor Day. The AARP Web site claims that it is a "myth" that "health care reform will hurt Medicare," while it is a "fact" that "none of the health care reform proposals being considered by Congress will cut Medicare benefits or increase your out-of-pocket costs."
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POPSGOP Lawmakers Protest Gag Orders on Cuts To Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage plans, the private insurance plans offered under Medicare, the government program for the elderly and disabled, are targets for cuts in heath care overhaul legislation because they cost more, per beneficiary, than traditional Medicare. On Friday, CMS said it was examining whether Humana violated Medicare marketing rules or other federal laws, and asked the company to shut down a Web site that helped beneficiaries generate letters to lawmakers opposing the cuts, and to stop sending letters to beneficiaries enlisting their support in the fight. The agency sent a letter on Monday to all plans, warning them not to send letters about the proposed cuts and called the effort misleading to beneficiaries. The action came at the urging of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee , who has proposed Medicare Advantage cuts that are estimated at $123 billion over 10 years as part of his health overhaul legislation.
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POPSThe inspiring heartwarming film ' Radio ' just saw this last night on tv was better than I first expected another good article here http://hanna.anderson5.net/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=960c991b71ee1533acc3fc18d7912dff&pageid=426&sessionid=5626b3e7799f20c8f8a55fb645085a6b
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POPScanvas prints - impressive medium I have started to print my images on canvas and they are coming out very nicely, at 40 x 30 cms. If you try this, make sure you leave an extra few cms at the edge of your image, to allow for the 'gallery wrap' feature (the photo continues round the side of the 'frame'. check out prices and service from different companies doing photo canvas
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POPSthe A4, A3, A", A! cms / inches minefield! Good old WIKI, they have explained it all with helpful images. This chart will help you if you (like me, budding photographer and framer / canvas printer) are needing to know different sizes of paper
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POPSWhat happens when people catch fire? Meet a team who have made it their macabre mission to find out. "A human limb burns a little like a tree branch," says John DeHaan, a fire investigator at Fire-Ex Forensics in Vallejo, California, who works with Pope. First, he says, the thin outer layers of skin fry and begin to peel off as the flames dance across their surface. Then, after around 5 minutes, the thicker dermal layer of skin shrinks and begins to split, allowing the underlying yellow fat to leak out. "That's when the fire gets most interesting," says DeHaan. Body fat can make a good fuel source, but it needs material such as clothing or charred wood to act as a wick. Like that in a wax candle, a wick absorbs the fat and pulls it into the flame, where it is vaporized, so enabling it to burn.
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POPSDrupal Training for Newbies What a great way to introduce community members to the power of content management systems like drupal. I think it would be great to bring a bunch of people together to sponsor one or two of these training sessions. Maybe I'll get around to creating an eCampaign to gather together the interested parties, lord knows that the nonprofits around here really need to get on the web2.0 bandwagon and interact and learn from their client-constituents! I'm sick of knowing more than the people in charge, but not having any way to communicate what I know, and be heard. That is all about to end- the real benefits of the internet are upon us.
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POPSHave we become too dependent on Google? Read the complete article at the link... Personally, I think this holds very true. As someone who runs a website which relies heavily on Google AdSense / AdWords and their other services, if one of their Google were to malfunction, it could cause a snowball effect which would be disastrous to my website... Something to think about.
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POPSMoodle Web Hosting Moodle is a free software e-learning platform also termed as a Course Management System (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
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POPSThe way it’s going to be on clipmarks - from God! To be more precise, CMs is your place, you decide who stays, who goes. Only it's very apparent your views are slanted. One only has to read the clippings of the left vs. the right to see you side with the far left. Without having any objectivity, you are not able to judge fairly, but who cares, it's your place right. Clipmarks is great in concept, however with you not being able to remain neutral, it really screws up your judgement there fellow. until my IP is banned.......dl211
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POPSJust Beyond Just the sort of thing that appeals to me. It's certainly worth your while to click over to see the whole site.
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POPSMoodle Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
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POPSEduTools Course Management System Comparisons The EduTools site has been re-launched as a community-driven site, beginning with the Course Management System (CMS) site. Just like the original EduTools site, we continue to offer feature-by-feature product comparisons and decision-making supports. In addition, the site now includes the ability for any user to submit reviews for new products that haven't already been reviewed or to add their own feedback as to how well specific products have implemented various features.
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POPSThe Hill: Soros Floats Bailout Plan with Dems Story, by The Hill's Alexander Bolton, picks up on George Soros' opinion piece in the Financial Times today http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d68e10cc-8f45-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1 The Hill story speculates that Soros "could jumpstart congressional negotiations in a new direction, especially now that some strategists believe the Paulson-based plan that failed Monday will be difficult to revive." Here's more on George Soros: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_George-Soros_L9II.html
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POPSTo look up, or not to look up, that's the question He Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guiness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guiness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132 cms (4 feet 4 inches) in length. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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POPSRussia Halts Trading After 17% Share Price Fall The liquidity crisis is being caused by a crisis of confidence in which people are frightened to borrow and frightened to lend.” Shares in Russia’s biggest state-controlled banks led the slide with Sberbank, the state-controlled savings bank, closing 21.72 per cent down and VTB losing 29.26 per cent. The bank was suffered on investor fears about its securities portfolio, which makes up about 10 per cent of its assets. Crude sinks as traders await Opec decision September 10 2008 Ahead of yesterday's meeting in Vienna, Opec members remained divided over whether to reduce production, with Iran supporting a cut while Kuwait expressed opposition to any move. Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, said the oil market was "fairly well balanced", which some traders interpreted as a signal that a formal production cut was unlikely. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12983a2e-7ed0-11dd-b1af-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
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POPS US Court of Appeals Awards Oil Companies $1 Billion From page 17 of today's Financial Times, "US drillers to get $1bn court award" comes news of how federal government red tape often holds up oil companies for drilling on leases they've already sunk billions of dollars into (emphasis mine): http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/368005c4-7305-11dd-983b-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
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POPSOnline Information Exhibition (DEc 4-6 '07) London This event is happening next week Dec 4-6 in London and is well worth attending if you're in town and are in the business of information management (and let's face it who isn't these days.) This is a list of the seminars that are happening. The floor plan and exhibitor list are available on the left.
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POPSWhitespark Edmonton e-Commerce Whitespark is an Edmonton web site design company specializing in e-commerce, content management systems (CMS), and search engine optimization (SEO).
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