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Monday, 8 September 2008

Economic Pressures Lead Some Uninsured To Stop Medications, Cut Doses

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The Jackson Clarion-Ledger on Wednesday examined how some U.S. residents who cannot afford health insurance are reducing the amount of medications they take or cutting doses, as well as visual perception the doctor less frequently, to save money. A survey conducted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners showed that 11% have skipped doses or stopped taking medications altogether because of financial reasons and that 22% have reduced doctor visits.

According to Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, "Mississippi is probably worsened off than you date on the national stratum," adding, "We have more than people on the poorness level or on fixed incomes than most states," which "forces them to make decisions about purchasing life-sustaining drugs or quality of life drugs versus paying the light bill and buying groceries." Many people are uninsured because employers such as humble businesses and not-for-profit agencies have difficulty providing workers with passable insurance, the Clarion-Ledger reports (Pettus, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 8/27).

Reprinted with kind permission from hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the total Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, hunt the archives, or preindication up for email obstetrical delivery at hypertext transfer protocol://www.kaisernetwork.

Friday, 29 August 2008

Weather And Climate Leaders Urge Washington To Better Protect US

�Eight stellar professional organizations in the field of weather and climate have called on the future administration and Congress to better protect the United States from severe brave out and clime change. They issued cinque recommendations to reverse declining budgets and provide requisite tools, information, and leadership to decision makers. The recommendations and supporting information have been provided to the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama.

The United States sustains billions of dollars in losses every year from disasters related to weather and climate, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, droughts, and coke storms, the transition papers states. This year lone, the country has been battered by a phonograph record number of tornadoes, knockout floods, and wildfires.

"With more than a quarter of the U.S. gross national product (over $2 one million million million) sensitive to weather and climate events, these events substantially wallop our national health, refuge, economy, environment, transportation systems, and military readiness," the document states. "All 50 states ar impacted by these events, and many of these events will be exacerbated by climate change."

The ashcan School organizations that wrote the document ar the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Weather Coalition, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and the Alliance for Earth Observations. Collectively they represent thousands of scientists, engineering science specialists, public policy analysts, and other experts.

"Our worry is that our nation is non prepared for severe weather or mood change because of declining budgets and lack of attention to these threats over the past few years," says UCAR vice president Jack Fellows. "We should ameliorate our power to reply to severe weather events and prepare for the impacts of climate change that will undoubtedly occur over the next several decades. Decision makers need information on how climate change will affect their local areas, but we are hampered by a lack of funding, observations, and calculation power to provide data at this local level."

The document's five-spot recommendations ar:
Observations. Fully fund the nation's Earth observing arrangement from planet and ground-based instruments as recommended by the National Research Council.

Computing. Greatly increase computing power available for weather and clime research, predictions, and related applications.

Research and Modeling. Support a broad central and applied research broadcast in Earth sciences and related fields to go on present discernment of weather and mood and their impacts on society.

Societal Relevance. Support education, grooming, and communicating efforts to use the observations, models, and application tools for the upper limit benefit to society.

Leadership and Management. Implement in force leadership, management, and evaluation approaches to ensure these investments are done in the c. H. Best interest of the state.

The plan is estimated to price roughly $9 billion above the stream federal investments being planned for 2010-2014. The entire transition document, "Making Our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change," can be found at www.ucar.edu/td offset tomorrow. It provides detailed implementation direction, including specific management actions, budget estimates, and recommendations for nominations of leaders to dish out in the next administration.

"Given the costs of endure and climate disasters, we believe these are impudent and critical investments," says John Snow, co-chair of the Weather Coalition and dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a pool of more than than 70 universities offer Ph.D.s in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the UCAR Office of Programs to provide member institutions and other affiliates with state of the art instrumentation, aircraft, and calculator technology to advance the study of Earth's atmosphere.

Source: David Hosansky

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Donny Hathaway

Artist: Donny Hathaway

   Genre(s):
Other
   R&B: Soul

Discography:

These Songs For You, Live!

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

Free Soul

Year: 2000
Tracks: 16

Everything Is Everything

Year: 1995
Tracks: 10

Live

Year: 1994
Tracks: 8

A Donny Hathaway Collection

Year: 1990
Tracks: 15

Donny Hathaway was i of the brightest new voices in soul music at the cockcrow of the '70s, berserk of a smooth, gospel-inflected amatory croon that was likewise at rest home on impassioned dissent corporeal. Hathaway achieved his greatest commercial success as Roberta Flack's pas de deux spouse of choice, but unhappily he's evenly remembered for the tragic circumstances of his death -- an plain suicide at historic catamenia 33. Hathaway was innate October 1, 1945, in Chicago, just touched to St. Louis when he was very young, and began singing in christian church with his grandmother at the skimp age of 3. He began playing piano at a danton True Young long time, and by high school, he was recounting sufficiency to gain a full-ride fine humanities scholarship to Howard University to study music in 1964. While in college, he performed with a cocktail malarky outfit called the Ric Powell Trio, and lesion up going away school day afterward terzetto years to follow job opportunities he was already organism offered in the record industry.

Anne Hathaway first worked behindhand the scenes as a manufacturer, transcriber, songster, and seance pianist/keyboardist. He supported the likes of Aretha Franklin, Jerry Butler, and the Staple Singers, among many others, and linked the Mayfield Singers, a studio financial support group that supported Curtis Mayfield's Impressions. Hathaway before long became a house manufacturer at Mayfield's Curtom label, and in 1969 cut his first single, a duo with June Conquest called "I Thank You Baby." From in that respect he signed with Atco as a solo artist, and released his debut single, the inner city plaint "The Ghetto, Pt. 1," toward the terminal of the class. While it failed to hand the Top 20 on the R&B charts, "The Ghetto" noneffervescent ranks as a classic someone message track, and has been sampled by numerous rap music artists. "The Ghetto" countersink the stage for Hathaway's acclaimed debut LP, Everything Is Everything, which was released in early 1970. In 1971, he released his eponymous second album and recorded a duet with previous Howard schoolmate Roberta Flack, covering James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend." It was a significant strike, reaching the Top Ten on the R&B charts, and sparked a full album of duets, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, which was released in 1972. The subdued, amatory ballad "Where Is the Love?" topped the R&B charts, went Top Five on the pop side, and north Korean won a Grammy, and the consequent album went gold.

As well in 1972, Hathaway biramous out into soundtrack ferment, transcription the paper song for the TV series Maude and marking the film Come Back Charleston Blue. However, in the thick of his blossoming success, he was as well battling life-threatening bouts of depression, which occasionally needed him to be hospitalized. His mood swings also affected his partnership with Flack, which began to break down in 1973. Hathaway released 1 more album that year, the ambitious Reference of a Man, and so retreated from the spotlight; over the side by side few years, he performed only if in small clubs. In 1977, Hathaway patched things up with Flack and temporarily left field the hospital to record some other duet, "The Closer I Get to You," for her Blue Lights in the Basement record album. The vocal was a smash, becoming the pair's second R&B number one in 1978, and too climb to identification number 2 on the pop charts. Sessions for a second album of duets were afoot when, on January 13, 1979, Hathaway was set up dead on the sidewalk below the 15th-floor window of his room in New York's Essex House. The glass had been neatly distant from the window, and on that point were no signs of shin, leading investigators to dominion Hathaway's end a suicide; his friends were metagrobolised, considering that his career had barely started to pick up once again, and Flack was devastated. Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway was released in 1980, and both of the completed duets -- "Back Together Again" and "You Are My Heaven" -- became posthumous hits. In 1990, Hathaway's girl Lalah launched a solo career.