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Egypt invites Elon Musk to visit pyramids, after "aliens" tweet
Posted: Aug 10, 2020 / 05:24 AM PDT / Updated: Aug 10, 2020 / 05:24 AM PDT
MYSTERY WIRE (AP) — Egyptian officials have invited Elon Musk to visit Giza's Great Pyramids, after the Tesla CEO tweeted they were built by "aliens."
Egypt's former antiquities minister says the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for the country's ancient sites, lack of funds from international tourism may delay vital restoration and excavation work.
The Great Pyramids of Egypt, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 1979.
The ancient site hit the headlines recently for an unexpected reason – after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the pyramids were built by "aliens".
Aliens built the pyramids obv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 31, 2020
The tweet prompted fury in Egypt. Archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass described the claim as "completely hallucination."
Egypt's Minister of International Co-operation Rania Al-Mashat tweeted an invite for Musk to "check out the tombs of the pyramid builders".
"Mr. Musk, we are waiting for you," she tweeted.
I follow your work with a lot of admiration. I invite you & Space X to explore the writings about how the pyramids were built and also to check out the tombs of the pyramid builders. Mr. Musk, we are waiting for you 🚀. @elonmusk https://t.co/Xlr7EoPXX4
— Rania A. Al Mashat (@RaniaAlMashat) August 1, 2020
Later Musk tweeted a link to an article on a history site which he said gave a "sensible summary of how it was done".
Egypt, last month, reopened the famed Giza Pyramids in Cairo for the first time in more than three months, since closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Egyptian government wants to revive its tourism sector, which had showed signs of recovery before the pandemic after years of instability.
But Hawass warns some damage may have already been done – lack of funds from international tourism may delay vital restoration and excavation work.
"Coronavirus was not only bad for the people all over the world, but was bad for antiquities," he says.
"To restore these monuments the only fund come from the tourists who visit the sites. UNESCO do not give any fund to any archaeological site at all, but all the fund, for excavation and restoration, came only from the visit of the tourists to the sites."
Egypt is home to seven sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, including historic Cairo, with its mosques and fountains.
The country's economy depends heavily on tourism, which accounts for some 12 percent of gross domestic product.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also delayed the opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum, located near the pyramids of Giza.
The museum has been under construction for well over a decade and is intended to showcase Egypt's ancient treasures, while drawing in tourists to help fund its future development.
But the project has been subject to repeated delays, with several plans for openings scrapped. The opening has now been delayed to 2021.
But there may be one silver lining – Hawass says the pandemic has allowed Egypt's historic sites to "take a rest from tourism and from people."
"Corona(virus) didn't do anything good, but the only good thing I always say that tourism (is) the enemy of antiquities, because tourism damage antiquities," he says.
"The breathing inside the pyramid or the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Can you believe ten-thousand tourists enter a day inside the Tomb of Tutankhamun and this is why within 100 years all these monuments will be gone."
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India vs Sri Lanka (IND vs SL) 2nd T20I Live Cricket Score Streaming Online: India expects to draw the first blood in the T20I series from three games in Indore on Tuesday against Sri Lanka after the first match in Guwahati was washed out.All eyes will be on Jasprit Bumrah when he returns to international cricket. The 26-year-old, who is perhaps the best bowler in India, has been off the field for four months due to a back strain. On the other hand, Shikhar Dhawan faces the challenge of keeping his place in the team for the upcoming T20 World Cup.Meanwhile, the unit led by Virat Kohli will also seek to test how the likes of Navdeep Saini and Shardul Thakur interact with pressure situations in death overs alongside Bumrah in the absence of frontline runners Muhammed Shami (rest) and Deepak Chahar (stress fracture) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Sports hernia).On the other hand, Sanju Samson is yet to play a game since he got selected in the T20I squad.When is India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I?India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I will be played on Tuesday, January 7, 2020.Where is India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I?India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I will be played at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore.What time is India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I?India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I will start at 7 PM IST. The toss will take place at 6:30 PM IST.Which TV channels will broadcast India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I?India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I will broadcast on Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 HD.Read: Australia tour of India, 2020 schedule, team player, live scoresWhere can I live stream India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I?The live streaming of India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I will be available on Hotstar. You can also follow live scores and updates of the match right here.Squads:India: Virat Kohli (C), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini and Washington Sundar.Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (C), Danushka Gunathilaka, Avishka Fernando, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Kusal Perera, Niroshan Dickwella, Dhananjaya de Silva, Isuru Udana, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lahiru Kumara, Kusal Mendis, Lakshan Sandakan and Kasun Rajitha.Read More: Australia tour of India, 2020 schedule, team player, live scores
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The two cryptocurrencies have recently switched places, with Bitcoin SV overtaking ADA to "steal" the number 10 spot by market capitalization according to data from CoinMarketCap. At the time of writing, Bitcoin SV stands at $1.3 billion, while Cardano (ADA) has a market cap of just over $1.1 billion.
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Q: Outlook 2016 Way to set rules to run on a subfolder I have a rules set up that move emails with a certain criteria from the inbox into a sud-folder called "Evening"  is it then possible to set a rule that moves email from the folder "Evening" folder into other sub-folders for specific people i.e "person A" folder or "person b" folder.
I cannot do it from the main inbox as doing so would require over 160 different rules.  doing it this way would only require 45 rules in total

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A: To set up a rule on a subfolder,
Open an email that exists in that subfolder and then select Create Rule. At the end you will see the option: "Run rule on folder 'xxx'"
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Fuel Cell Research and Development
Fuel Cell Power Systems
As a world leader in the design and manufacture of power generation equipment and technology, Cummins Power Generation (CPG) is working today to develop fuel cell technology for tomorrow. CPG's history with fuel cells began in the 1960s, but was renewed through our association with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) program in 2001.
The SECA program work was performed under a cooperative development contract with the DOE National Energy Technology Lab (NETL). In addition, the DOE's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) supports an ongoing cooperative development of a diesel fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) based truck APU at CPG's R & D facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Interest in fuel cells has been growing steadily with the realization that new answers are needed to questions of how to provide the electrical energy needed to support a growing global economy, with less environmental impact and more efficient use of vital energy resources. Fuel cells will be part of the answer to those questions.
Fuel cell power systems can provide virtually silent power with lower fuel consumption and exhaust emissions than other technologies. The challenges facing us today are the fuel cell system's higher initial cost and evolving durability and reliability. Cost, durability, and reliability are the primary focus of CPG's R & D activities.
At a high level, many fuel cells share common system architecture (below). At the core of the system there is a fuel cell stack. Streams of fuel and air are supplied to the stack. The fuel stream may be pure or dilute hydrogen gas or a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide created by a fuel reformer from a primary fuel stream. In the stack, oxygen from the air reacts with the fuel to produce DC voltage and current. The fuel constituents are oxidized and exhausted from the stack as water (H2 + O = H2O) and carbon dioxide ( CO + O = CO2). Heat rejected from the stack can be a useable source of energy in combined heat and power (CHP) applications. The DC power produced by the stack is conditioned in a power output stage to either a regulated DC voltage or inverted to AC power, as desired. In many cases, fuel cells will be paralleled with batteries on the DC bus to enhance transient power response and system efficiency. Additional information on fuel cell technology and operation can be found here.
Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which require virtually pure hydrogen as their fuel input, will provide power solutions where hydrogen infrastructure is developed and where uses are intermittent and mobile, for example passenger cars in major urban areas. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), which can operate on a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide (often referred to as "syngas"), are more compatible with existing fuel infrastructures, including natural gas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG or propane), gasoline, and diesel, as well as newly emerging renewably based biofuels such as E85, biodiesel, and hydrogen.
Since the evolution of fuel cell technology is dynamic, CPG maintains linkages to fuel cell stack developers working in both PEM and SOFC technology. Our current R & D focus is on SOFC technology because of its potential to be cost effective and operate cleanly and efficiently on existing hydrocarbon fuels – as well as hydrogen as it becomes more widely available. Potential applications where available hydrocarbon fuels are preferred include stationary commercial power, mobile electrical power for utility work trucks, over the road trucks, and larger boats.
Ongoing design and development efforts at CPG are concentrated on the goal of commercializing SOFC technology and the vision of a new family of power generation products demonstrating superior value for our customers. CPG works closely with leading stack development companies who can potentially supply fuel cell stacks as a component for fuel cell systems. CPG is focused on the development of fuel and air delivery systems, control electronics, power conditioning electronics, and thermal and mechanical systems integration.
The result is a packaged SOFC power system configured to directly replace its Diesel powered predecessor. In fact, recent developments in advanced RV power systems resulting in the new Onan Hybrid Quiet Diesel™ have paved the way for a seamless transition to fuel cell generation.
Cost reduction is major emphasis
A key objective of CPG's fuel cell development is reducing the manufacturing costs of SOFC power systems to levels required to make inroads in potential markets. Developments in fuel cell stack technology are producing impressive reductions in estimated stack costs in production volumes, but effort remains in identifying cost effective complete system solutions and in solving the cost-volume paradox: if fuel cells can be produced in volume, current projections indicate favorable costs, but until production volumes ramp up, higher costs will limit acceptance to early adopter or subsidized markets and result in a slow market penetration.
Key to the SOFC power system will be Versa Power System's high performance planar SOFC stacks. This technology combines state–of–the–art SOFC materials with cost effective ceramic fabrication techniques used in the microelectronics industry. The cells are produced using traditional tape casting, sizing, screen printing, and co–firing operations. Interconnects are low–cost metallic components. The cell and stack design includes advanced proprietary VPS technology which has demonstrated excellent stability and resistance to degradation. The benefit of this approach will be the development of high–volume, low–cost manufacturing of standardized high–performance SOFC stacks.
SOFC technology is environmentally friendly and highly social
A major advantage of SOFC technology is that it facilitates the clean and environmentally friendly use of commonly available fossil fuels such as natural gas, LP, gasoline, and diesel fuel to develop electrical power efficiently and with extremely low emissions. Fuel cells produce electrical power by oxidizing reformed fuel within a special ceramic substrate to produce direct-current electricity. The only by-products are water vapor and a small amount of carbon dioxide.
As a hydrogen infrastructure develops, SOFCs will become even more efficient, cost effective, and environmentally friendly. Operation on hydrogen eliminates the need for fuel reforming, improves the system efficiency, and means the only exhaust product resulting from operation will be water vapor.
Even the best engine driven generator sets produce a characteristic sound that's unwelcome in many noise sensitive areas, such as campgrounds and residential neighborhoods. SOFC power systems demonstrate the potential for generating highly sociable power that's clean, and not heard.
Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Program
Testing of the Phase I prototype is nearing completion in Cummins' Fridley, Minnesota Technical Center. The unit has completed over 1500 hours of testing, producing 3 kilowatts of electrical power while operating on commercial pipeline natural gas. Performance has met expectations and the system reliability has been exceptional. Upon completion of the Phase I test, marked by the peak power test in early January 2007, Cummins and Versa Power expect to transition into Phase II.
From early 2002 until its culmination in 2007, Cummins participated in the DOE's SECA program for development of cost effective SOFC power systems. In 2007, Cummins, in cooperation with Versa Power Systems, successfully demonstrated a 6 kW SOFC power system that met all the goals of the SECA Phase 1 program. These goals included durability, reliability, efficiency, and meeting targeted manufacturing cost estimates. The prototype unit ran flawlessly for over 2000 hours in CPG's test facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The SECA program was cost shared under a Cooperative Development Agreement with the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (www.seca.doe.gov).
SOFC APU Program
In addition to our SECA program, CPG was awarded a contract under the DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) office to develop and demonstrate a prototype SOFC auxiliary power unit for heavy-duty trucks. This new application of fuel cell technology could sharply reduce engine idling time for America's 458,000 long-haul trucks, shrinking the trucking industry's fuel consumption while creating virtually no pollutants.
Trucking industry sources estimate that heavy trucks (Class 7 and Class 8) spend an average of six hours per day idling, primarily to keep engines warm and truck cabs warm or cool for driver comfort. These idling engines consume 840 million gallons of diesel fuel annually, creating an enormous opportunity for fuel savings. The SOFC-based auxiliary power units developed by CPG will operate on ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel (ULSD), which became nationally available in 2006.
Ongoing Cooperation with DOE
Cummins maintains an active dialog and collaboration with the Department of Energy focused on opportunities for the cooperative development of new power generation technology that will benefit the United States through lower emissions and reduced reliance on imported fuel, and for our customers through power generation solutions that are cleaner, lower cost, and higher reliability.


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Medicare Has Already Been Privatized. And That's Not Good News.
As Drew Altman of Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in the Wall Street Journal (4/15/2016):
"To some degree many changes long sought by conservatives are already happening incrementally: More than half of Medicaid beneficiaries are in private managed-care plans. Almost one-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in private Medicare Advantage Plans this year, rather than the traditional program, and the share is projected to grow to more than 40% by 2026. The same is true of private health insurance. Conservatives complain about the ACA, but their preferred vision of health insurance–with high deductibles and lots of "skin in the game" plans–is dominating in the marketplace. The trend is reinforced by many of the policies being sold in the ACA's insurance marketplaces."
April 18, 2016 at 1:40 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
50 Years Ago Pres. Johnson Proposed the Medicare Program
2015 is a year of anniversaries important for all families: 50 years of Medicare. 50 years of Medicaid. 80 years of Social Security.
To honor the Medicare and Medicaid anniversaries, Senator Wyden introduced a Sense of the Senate Resolution today that should pass unanimously. It celebrates Medicare (and Medicaid) by resolving to protect a real Medicare program for future generations. Importantly, the Resolution states:
"… Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that—
(1) all efforts to improve Medicare and Medicaid must support and build upon President Johnson's vision ''to assure the availability of and accessibility to the best healthcare to all Americans, regardless of age or geography or economic status'';
(2) Medicare's guaranteed benefit is a lifeline to millions of Americans and must remain intact for this and future generations;
(3) Medicare should not be transformed into a voucher program, leaving seniors and people with disabilities vulnerable to higher out-of-pocket costs;"
Sen. Wyden's three Medicare commitments deserve support from every lawmaker who really cares about Medicare and fair access to health coverage for all older and disabled people. That was Medicare's promise in 1965. It's up to us, and today's lawmakers, to ensure it remains Medicare's promise in 2015. We hope all members of Congress will start by committing to Sen. Wyden's Medicare resolutions.
January 7, 2015 at 8:32 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
2015 Marks the 50th Anniversary of Medicare – Help Ensure its Future
Since 1965, Medicare has opened doors to health care and increased economic security for hundreds of millions of older people, people with disabilities, and their families.
2015 will also usher in a new Congress. Many of its leaders and members will likely champion plans to further privatize Medicare. These proposals will likely surface despite increasing reports that Medicare costs and the federal deficit are declining, and that traditional Medicare costs less than private Medicare. Once again we will likely hear about plans to transform Medicare to "Premium Support" (a voucher towards the purchase of private insurance). We will probably read about proposals to increase the age of Medicare eligibility, decrease the value of Supplemental Medicare Insurance (Medigap), redesign Medicare to make it "simpler" (but less useful for most beneficiaries). We urge you to listen carefully for these and other such plans. And respond!
Since 1986, the Center for Medicare Advocacy has been on the front lines, advocating for people who depend on Medicare and for a comprehensive Medicare program for future generations. As we mark Medicare's 50th anniversary, help us ensure its promise to advance access to healthcare. Help us explain what's true and what's not, where real savings exist, and when the true interests of beneficiaries are at stake. Help us ensure a real Medicare program lasts for another 50 years.
Be part of our Medicare Truth Squad. Ask us if you have questions. Spread the word – on Twitter, Facebook – in conversations! The future of a comprehensive Medicare program may depend on it.
Trustees Report: Medicare IS Solvent
The Medicare trustees reported good news for Medicare today. The Trustees' annual report finds the life of the Medicare Trust Fund has been extended another four years since their 2013 report, and an additional 13 years from their last projection before the Affordable Care Act passed. The annual report[1] confirms that Medicare continues to provide cost-effective health insurance for more than 50 million older and disabled beneficiaries – and that the Affordable Care Act strengthened Medicare.
Medicare provides health insurance and access to needed care for most Americans age 65 or older and those with significant disabilities. The 2014 Trustees Report confirms that Medicare is working well and will be in fine shape for the foreseeable future. The Trustees conclude benefits are expected to be payable in full until 2030, four more years than they projected in May 2013.
"The Medicare Trustees' favorable forecast is attributable to slowing health care costs, the recovering economy and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Trustees Report answers skeptics and demonstrates that Medicare is healthy. It continues to be an efficient, cost-effective program that Americans can count on for future generations. It should be protected as one of our great success stories." said Judith Stein, executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy.
The positive outlook for the Medicare Trust Fund is certainly good news. There are opportunities to further improve Medicare's well-being without reducing benefits or cutting services. Congress could secure the program's future even more by reducing wasteful overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans, and by obtaining the best rates possible for prescription drugs.
[1] Read the full report at http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/index.html.
July 28, 2014 at 10:55 pm centeruser Leave a comment
Ryan Retread: Ideology Trumps Medicare Protection and Deficit Reduction
The Ryan plan for 2013 is the same as the Ryan plan for 2012 and 2011: Privatize Medicare and repeal the Affordable Care Act. Once again the Ryan budget proposes to preserve Medicare in name only. It would change Medicare into a defined voucher system, sending beneficiaries into the marketplace to purchase indiivual insurance plans. These ideas were at the heart of the 2012 election. They are about changing the way government and Medicare work, not about saving Medicare or money. The proposals were rejected at the polls.
If Medicare and the deficit are really our concern, there are real savings possible that would not harm older and disabled people: Bring down the prices Medicare pays for drugs. Stop all overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans. Add a prescription drug benefit to traditional Medicare. Lower the age of eligibility for Medicare. Let the Affordable Care Act work.
Mr. Ryan, move on! Join us in focusing on real solutions.
March 13, 2013 at 2:02 pm Judith Stein 1 comment
The Medicare Debate
Medicare was in the spotlight in the Vice Presidential debate as the candidates outlined their respective plans for the program millions of American families rely on. Unfortunately, some pervasive myths were also highlighted regarding the impact of health care reform and the Ryan plan on Medicare and the 49 million Americans who count on it. [Check out the Center for Medicare Advocacy's Facebook and Twitter pages (Follow @CMAorg) for a full list of Medicare Myths and Facts from the debate.]
One of the myths that was repeated during the debate is the familiar claim that the Affordable Care Act cuts Medicare by $700 billion – the same claim that has been debunked time and again. In fact the $700 billion in savings are largely a result of rolling back unnecessary, wasteful overpayments to private Medicare insurance plans. Congressman Ryan's budget plans have included these same $700 billion reductions; however, instead of ending overpayments to private insurance companies with the savings, Ryan's plans would give private insurance companies an even larger share of Medicare expenditures.
The Ryan Plan to end Medicare would provide each individual with an annual allowance with which to purchase a health plan in the private market, would raise costs for current and future beneficiaries, and would repeal important Medicare benefit improvements, added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA Medicare improvements include extending the solvency of the Medicare Trust fund, lowering prescription drug costs, adding new coverage for preventive services, and eliminating cost-sharing for most such services, such as mammograms and prostate screenings.
Mr. Ryan and other policy-makers often talk about waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare. Yet too often these same policy-makers plan to extend private Medicare to restructure the entire Medicare program. They claim this will save money for Medicare, taxpayers, and beneficiaries. But a new study, once again, confirms just the opposite.
In a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Health Services, researchers report that "Medicare has overpaid private insurers by $282.6 billion, or 24.4 percent of all MA payments, since 1985. In 2012 alone…MA plans are being overpaid by $34.1 billion, or 6.2 per¬cent of total Medicare spending". This means nearly a quarter of all payments to private insurance companies in Medicare, subsidized with taxpayer dollars, have been unnecessary overpayments that have gone to profit margins and administrative costs, not health care services. Talk about waste!
The authors of the International Journal study conclude that the decades-long experiment with privatizing Medicare should end. Instead, policies should be developed to focus on the real issues of overall health costs and access to coverage. However, if the Ryan plan takes effect, the wastefully expensive private Medicare program will be expanded. Meanwhile, the cost-effective traditional Medicare program will be allowed to wither, and beneficiaries will become responsible for dramatic increases in out-of-pocket costs.
Mr. Ryan's plan continues wasteful overpayments to private insurance companies at the expense of beneficiaries and taxpayers. It is not a plan to preserve Medicare, protect older and disabled people, or reduce health care costs.
October 12, 2012 at 8:35 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
CMA in Action: Judith Stein Testifies in Congress on the Ryan Plan to End Medicare
This week, the Center for Medicare Advocacy's founder and executive director, Judith Stein, was invited to speak before a House Policy and Steering Committee at a forum on Medicare to voice the concerns of beneficiaries and their families about the Ryan Medicare plan. Speaking alongside a health economist, a veteran medical provider, and a teacher whose family relies on Medicare and Medicaid for critical care, Ms. Stein spoke and answered questions from the Committee about the loss of coverage, higher costs, and limitations on choice that current and future beneficiaries would face under the Ryan plan. This Alert features excerpts from the testimony, as well as highlights from the subsequent Question and Answer portion of the forum.
Leader Pelosi and members of the Committee, thank you for holding this important Forum and for honoring me with the opportunity to appear before you.
I am Judith Stein, founder and executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. Founded in 1986, the Center is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Connecticut and Washington, DC, with offices around the country. I have been representing Medicare beneficiaries since 1976. My organization has represented tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries − more, I believe, than any other organization in the country. I know the value of Medicare, and its challenges as well as anyone.
Medicare was enacted in 1965 because private insurance failed older people. For over 47 years, Medicare has provided guaranteed benefits that have enhanced health security and financial stability when people need it most – when they are older or disabled and also sick or injured. It has been so successful that this population is now almost uniformly insured − although only 50% of people 65 or older were insured when Medicare began.
I've seen Medicare coverage save lives and bring peace of mind to families. I also know how Medicare has changed since I began my work representing Medicare beneficiaries. While coverage has been enhanced over the years, Medicare has also become ever more complex and difficult to navigate as private plan options have been introduced, swarmed in and out, and premiums have been income-based. While we are regularly told that "one-size fits all" does not serve people well, this was simply not the case for the traditional Medicare program. In fact, for decades the guaranteed, universal Medicare program fit most very well.
Today, the myriad Medicare choices, complex decision-making, and plan variations baffle many, often leading to inertia, and poor planning. Many people simply do not choose at all, and those who do, often stick with their initial choice, even as their plan offerings and their health needs change.[1] Further, most people want choice of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, not insurance plans. Ironically, private Medicare plans reduce physician and health care provider choices far more than the traditional program.
Unfortunately, Congressman Paul Ryan proposes, and the House has twice passed, yet another effort to privatize and fragment Medicare – this time on a grand scale. The Ryan Plan would provide each beneficiary with a set annual allowance, or voucher, with which to purchase an insurance plan in the private market. While we have not seen details about the Ryan voucher system, the outlines we have seen would increase costs to beneficiaries. Regardless, of its details, the Ryan Plan would not impact the current deficit, since we are told it would not begin until 2022 at the earliest. (The 2011 Ryan Plan called for the change to Medicare to commence in 2023.)
The certitude that competition in the private market will reduce Medicare costs is belied by past experience and numerous studies. As former Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Bruce Vladeck has said, "private plans have not saved Medicare a nickel." When the private Medicare+Choice program was tried under Mr. Vladeck's leadership, Medicare paid private plans 95% of what it cost to cover a similar beneficiary in traditional Medicare. The idea was to test the truth of the belief that private plans could provide health insurance more cost-effectively than traditional Medicare. While dozens of private plans entered the Medicare market, they left in droves when it became clear they could not, in fact, compete with traditional Medicare.
In 2003, Congress authorized the Medicare Advantage program, which paid private plans approximately 14% more than the traditional Medicare per beneficiary cost.[2] Not surprisingly, private plans reentered the market, but at a terrible cost to the Medicare program, all beneficiaries, and taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that these payments would amount to $150 billion over a ten-year period.
Further, if traditional Medicare is forced to compete with private insurance, private plans will work to minimize their spending and woo the healthier, least costly beneficiaries. If older, more vulnerable, more expensive beneficiaries remain disproportionately in traditional Medicare it will not be sustainable and will wither on the vine. This increased fragmentation of Medicare and Medicare's 49 million customers will also reduce its bargaining power, thereby limiting its ability to help drive down health care costs. Yet reducing health care costs is a key to reducing the federal deficit.
Certainly Medicare could be made more financially viable. Reducing payments to private Medicare plans is one sure way to start this important effort. However, the Ryan Plan does not propose this path. Instead, its "Path to Prosperity" would increase the age of Medicare eligibility and provide individual, defined contribution vouchers to older people − gutting the community Medicare program that has ensured access to health coverage for generations. This approach would increase costs and reduce coverage for people with Medicare and their families. Yet, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, about half of people with Medicare live on incomes of $22,000 or less – just under 200% of the federal poverty level. They simply can not afford the additional costs projected under the Ryan Plan, costs which are tantamount to imposing a health insurance tax on older and disabled Americans.
The Ryan Plan is based on the belief that private is better. But Medicare controls health spending better than private insurance. Competition among private health insurance companies has not driven costs down either in the private Medicare Advantage program or for individual and employer-based policies for those under 65. As discussed above, Medicare has included private plans for decades, but they cost Medicare more than the same coverage under the traditional Medicare program. Medicare administrative costs are a fraction of those for private insurance.[3] And, over the next ten years, Medicare spending is expected to grow at rates of 3.1% compared to 5% for private insurance plans.[4] Thus, the traditional Medicare program, which the Ryan Plan would dismantle, shows greater promise for controlling costs than turning the program over to private insurance companies.
One last reality check: Mr. Ryan's plan would affect current and near-term retirees, despite promises to the contrary. The Ryan Plan would immediately repeal health care reform, which greatly improves Medicare coverage for prescriptions and preventive care, saving people with Medicare a total of about $4 billion on drugs and increasing their access to preventive care. Repealing health care reform would retract these benefits. It would also reinstate the wasteful overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans that were rolled back by the Affordable Care Act. Since all beneficiary premiums are set as a percentage of the costs of the entire Medicare program, these overpayments would translate into higher out-of-pocket costs for everyone with Medicare.
We recognize our responsibility to add constructively to the conversation. It's fair enough for those who favor the Ryan Plan to ask, "Well what would you do?" Thus, the Center for Medicare Advocacy offers six key recommendations to keep Medicare solvent while it continues to provide fair, defined health coverage. These recommendations, unlike the Ryan Plan, do not shift costs to beneficiaries, and do not unnecessarily restructure the Medicare program. They promote choice and competition while shoring up the solvency of the Medicare Program.
"Protecting" Medicare by shifting costs from the federal government to beneficiaries and their families through the creation of a private Medicare voucher system is a perversion of Medicare's purpose. Medicare was enacted to protect older, disabled people and their families from illness and financial ruin due to health care costs. The Center for Medicare Advocacy's recommendations promote financial solvency without doing it at the expense of beneficiaries.
The Ryan Plan would enrich insurance companies while leaving beneficiaries with inadequate purchasing power in an increasingly expensive health care market. It would end Medicare and begin a new private system that would be more expensive and more costly for older and disabled people. It would limit people's choice of physicians and health care providers. We welcome the opportunity to examine Medicare's challenges and successes. But for the 49 million American families who rely on Medicare now, and for all those who will someday, we look for a debate based in fact not preferences. Simply stated, you can't save Medicare by ending it. The Ryan Plan will end Medicare.
For a full transcript of the testimony, see: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/2012/10/04/cma-in-action-judith-stein-testifies-in-congress-on-the-ryan-plan-to-end-medicare/.
For more information, contact executive director Judith Stein (jstein@medicareadvocacy.org) at (860) 456-7790.
To stay up to date on all the Medicare myths this election season, see our "Medicare Myths and Truths" chart at: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-facts-fiction-quick-lessons-to-combat-medicare-spin/.
Highlights from the Question & Answer Session
Members of the Committee asked panelists to respond to questions and comments including:
Q: I see a train wreck, a continuing train wreck of seniors, on the highway of despair. (Panelists were then asked to comment)
Ms. Stein: "The Kaiser Family Foundation tells us that about half of Medicare beneficiaries have an annual income of $22,000 a year or less. I really do think it's no wonder the country thinks Congress is out of touch with what's really happening in this country… . Medicare is in jeopardy and it's for philosophical reasons, I believe. [The Ryan Plan is] simply not the most cost-effective way to do what is being proposed and it will absolutely put us back to where we were in 1965.
It is a train wreck waiting to happen and we have to get people to hear that. And, yes [Congressman Larson, in answer to your earlier question,] it is personal. I'm a breast cancer survivor. I know what it's like to be perfectly healthy one day, and the next day to be maybe, maybe dying. How can you plan for this? And how can I plan to know that I can take care of my mother and maybe my children and grandchildren. This is a personal matter. [The Ryan Plan] is a train wreck. It is not best for the people or the fiscal solvency of this country. So why is it being proposed? Because there's a preference for privatization and fragmenting Medicare. But privatizing this system will not help older people, their families, disabled people, or the deficit. So on all points, I'm very worried about it.
Q: How does the Romney/Ryan plan limit people's choices?
Ms. Stein: We need to look at what we actually know, because this is not something new. Current private plans (Medicare Advantage) and private plans in the past have all had the impact of fragmenting the risk pool. The widest network (and most effective risk pool) is traditional Medicare. As soon as you enter into a private plan you will have a limited network with a limited choice of doctors and health care options.
Traditional Medicare, which, if we encouraged it for most of those with Medicare, has the best bargaining power of any health system in the country, and so it can bring down costs if we allow it (such as requiring negotiations on prescription drugs under Part D). When you fragment Medicare as we have been doing since the 1990s, you reduce the risk pool and the buying power of Medicare and thereby reduce its impact on reducing health care costs – for everyone throughout the country, not just for Medicare beneficiaries.
One of the things we can do is look at this plan from past history. We already know what happens. We know that only 10% of beneficiaries in private plans make a change in their plans after they make their initial choice … it's a mind-boggling set of options – it's not just one or two choices. Ideally, an individual should review their plan and potentially change it every year, but only 10% do this.
So what happens is that – even if you could predict what health choices you will need – and you don't really know – most people don't make a choice so we find that people call the Center because the choice they made is no longer effective … many people choose private plans when they are healthier and then when they are diagnosed with a disease or condition and want to see the best doctor or specialist for that disease, they find that they can not do so under their plan. If they were in traditional Medicare they could still get the care they want and need.
We know from experience that private plan options in Medicare are not the best for any number of reasons, including costs and services for people. They simply do not provide as many health care options or providers as traditional Medicare does.
[1] For example, a recent study finds that less than 10% of people with Medicare Part D enroll in what would be the most cost-effective plan for them. (National Bureau of Economic Research, "Plan Selection in Medicare Part D," (June 2012).
[2] Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in 2012 Medicare Advantage plans are paid on average 7% more than similar beneficiary services would cost in traditional Medicare.
[3] Congressional Budget Office; Health Care Affairs, (9/20/2011).
[4] Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of Medicare Trustees Report 2012.
October 5, 2012 at 3:22 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
We Don't Need the Ryan Plan − Medicare Is NOT Going Broke
According to researchers from the Urban Institute, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Medicare's purported dire financial condition isn't actually all that dire. Given the aging of our population, increases in enrollment have obviously contributed to spending growth. But, according to the Urban Institute, "in recent years "spending growth per enrollee slowed in Medicare and Medicaid, and per-enrollee growth rates in the next decade are projected to be very close to the expected growth in [Gross Domestic Product] per capita. These data do not support the need for major restructuring of either program." (emphases added)[1]
In short, contrary to repeated assertions, Medicare is not broke, going "bankrupt" or running out of funds,[2]. Further, Medicare provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have improved Medicare's economic outlook − extending the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund by 8 years.[3]
The real problem that needs to be addressed is rising overall health care costs. Overall healthcare expenditures per capita in the United States are higher than in any other country, and show no signs of slowing.[4] Addressing US health system costs in general is the only real solution to the fiscal issues ahead. The Affordable Care Act addresses many of these pressing concerns. Let it work.
[1] Holahan, J., McMorrow, S. Medicare, Medicaid and the Deficit Debate. Washington DC: Urban Institute, April 2012. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, August 2012.
[2] See, e.g., "Medicare is Not Bankrupt" by Paul N. Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (April 24, 2012), available at:http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index
[3] See, e.g., CMS Press Release: "Medicare Stable, But Requires Strengthening" (April 23, 2012), available at:http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/release.asp
[4] See, e.g. Kaiser family Foundation at http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot
August 30, 2012 at 6:48 pm Judith Stein Leave a comment
Fight for Medicare
The so-called Medicare wars are really a unilateral assault to the community Medicare program by those who favor privatization. Private plans are well known to cost more within and outside of Medicare. For decades, various experiments with private Medicare plans have proved more expensive than traditional Medicare. Nothing in Mr. Ryan's plan is new or any more likely to save Medicare money. In fact, his plan would reintroduce vast overpayments to private Medicare plans that were rolled back by the Affordable Care Act. If the goal is to save Medicare, provide fair access to health care for its beneficiaries, and reduce spending – defeat efforts to turn Medicare into a private voucher system.
Ryan Plan is Not About Helping Medicare or the Deficit
Here's the truth follks: Rep. Ryan's plan is about a governing philosophy, not about saving money, Medicare or reducing the deficit. If his plan was really about saving money, it would encourage movement back to traditional Medicare – which is less expensive than private plans. At the very least, his plan would equalize payments between traditional Medicare and private plans. But Mr. Ryan wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act's payment reductions to private Medicare plans. Further, if Ryan's private voucher system was really about deficit reduction, it would begin ASAP, not in 2022, as he proposes.
The Medicare "cuts" Mr. Ryan purports to be concerned about are almost entirely savings to Medicare's expenses, which taxpayers and beneficiaries should welcome. They are largely from reducing wasteful overpayments to private plans and slowing increases for some providers, including hospitals, NOT from cuts in benefits. Neither taxpayers nor beneficiaries can afford to pay any more than is necessary to provide the same coverage available through traditional Medicare. Everyone should appreciate ACA's efforts to hold down overall health care costs by looking to providers to create efficiencies in providing care.
The Affordable Care Act did not cut Medicare for beneficiaries; it added benefits (including an annual wellness visit, "Donut Hole" coverage for medicines, and no-cost preventive services). Thus, ACA represents a thoughtful approach to controlling health care costs, and reducing payments to private plans, while increasing Medicare coverage for valuable, cost-effective services. If his intent really was to save Medicare and money, Mr. Ryan would agree.


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Eurovision First Listen: Vilija Matačiūnaitė and Lithuania Want Your "Attention"
March 3, 2014 Mike McComb Eurovision 2014, Features, Online 0
Vilija Matačiūnaitė (Photo: Eurovision / LRT)
Lithuania's choice of "Attention" by Vilija Matačiūnaitė is another example of the skill the country has at modernizing non-contemporary tracks for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Lithuania has a knack for selecting songs for the Eurovision Song Contest that are not at all current and transforming them into something contemporary and quite palatable. That trend continues this year with the song "Attention" as performed by Vilija Matačiūnaitė. She has turned what could be describe as a mid-to-late 1990's R&B track into an almost-but-not-quite dubstep dancehall song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSq6j_SLwz0
What immediately impresses me about this entry is how challenging the vocal/lyric combination is. Trying to sing along with the track, it proves to be quite difficult not getting your tongue tied at the "I'm gonna make you make you fall / down d-d-down down on your knees" run. Vilija's ability to deliver this while bouncing around the stage is a feat of endurance. I think she still needs to work on her endurance and breathing to help give the song a richer tone, which can be accomplished in the next two months.
Although I tend to err toward less complicated staging in Eurovision performances, I think this song might benefit from having a couple more people on stage. Although Vilija has a dance partner in the performance, the story of the song lends itself to having some backup dancers. I am not suggesting that the team turns the song into a dramatic reenactment, but having some distractions present would add some pop to the call for "Attention."
This song is definitely an earworm and could be another sleeper success for Lithuania. Keep an eye on this one.
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É agora um filme perdido.

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Valeska Suratt - Zena
Harry Hilliard - Billy Martin
Eric Mayne - Sr. Martin
Alice Gale
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W.W. - Graham
John Mackin - Miller
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Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1917
Filmes policiais dos Estados Unidos
Filmes de drama dos Estados Unidos
Filmes da 20th Century Studios
Filmes mudos dos Estados Unidos
Filmes em preto e branco
Filmes dirigidos por Kenean Buel
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Life from Non-life. Is it Possible?
by John Tarr | Oct 20, 2020 | Apologetics, Atheism, Evolution, John Tarr
Many scientists say evolution is a done deal. Is it really? To this day, scientists have not been able to produce life coming from non-life, even in the most perfect conditions in laboratories the world over.
It's not for lack of trying.
Many scientists are obsessed with proving evolution actually happened, and have worked on making life come from non-life in their own laboratories.
If they have not been able to reproduce the catalyst or mechanism for life springing from a non-living entity, how can they say that evolution is even remotely possible?
After decades of trying to reproduce life in these perfect conditions, many of these scientists have come to believe life is very complex to the extreme.
Darwin believed life sprang from the primordial soup in a basic non complex form. He had no idea how that would happen because it was way beyond his pay grade of understanding in 1840.
He just believed scientists would figure it out in future generations.
After 150 years they have not.
Not Even Close
There is absolutely no living organism on this planet today that is not complex even right down to living cells.
From the very smallest forms of life to the largest, the complexities are amazing.
Every year biological scientists gather in a central location in Europe, and review the new discoveries in the field.
Evolution is always on top of the list, and the big question that is asked every year, "has anyone of their colleagues" come up with the solution to reproducing life coming from non-life in their labs.
It would be a real feather in the cap of any scientists who would discover how this happened. They would be revered among all their colleagues for years to come.
Evolution, is many scientist's Holy Grail or even their god.
Evolutionary biologists believe that evolution is a done deal, and have fooled the general public that it is, but truth be told, there is nothing done about it.
It's actually quite undone.
Many average people put these great researchers and so-called great thinkers on such a high pedestal and believe everything they say because they do not have even have the basic understanding of the problems these scientists are facing.
Those who believe that natural selection explains the development of new totally different species speak in generalities about evolution and claim that any changes developed over millions of years.
Do the fossils speak to this?
That's where much disagreement has sprung. How to interpret fossils is far from conclusive. There is something called the Cambrian explosion, an event that happened 541 million years ago, when practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record.
In other words, animal groups and their great diversity showed up out of nowhere in the fossil record. There were no transitional fossils going from basic life forms, to more advanced ones. Thousands of animal groups just appeared in the fossils.
A broken record to be sure!
Astronomers and Evolutionary Biologists talk about the conditions in the universe to produce life. With the billions and billions of galaxies in our visible universe surely life must be on some of those.
You constantly hear in the news how it is possible that we have life on other planets in our own solar system like Mars, Venus and some of the moons of the gas giant planets.
All of it is just conjecture and unproven.
In a field that prides itself on reproducible experiments, they have none!
If you are a fellow scientist and bring up the problems with the evolutionary paradigm, you will be attacked by other scientists.
If you are a teacher in high school or college and bring up the problems, they will seek to have you fired.
What is amazing to me, is that many Christians believe in evolution.
Why? Do they not understand or believe what the bible says about who created all life, especially humans? Why do they allow the secular world to dictate what they should believe in, even if it is wrong and unscientific.
I wrote a blog that you should read "Evolution and an Age of Confused Children"
There are many objections by scientists who work in the fields of Microbiology, Biophysics, Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Quantum Chemistry and the study of DNA. They are ringing the alarm that evolution has many problems and they are voicing their concerns.
I found a website called "Dissent from Darwinism" that lists over 1,000 scientists worldwide who have come together to voice their objections. I was shocked at how many there were and the diverse scientific fields they came from.
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, has written a book that has taken the science world by storm called "Darwin's Doubt". A scientist himself, he points out from a scientific standpoint why there are many problems with this theory. It is a hard book to understand, in that he goes into detail on many aspects of how life works and functions. You can find Dr. Meyer's on his Website.
My advice to you, as a Christian, is do some research of your own on where man came from for the sake of yourself, your family, and friends and try to think deeply on the question of all questions, that has haunted mankind since the beginning.
"Where did we come from?"
Can you answer that with confidence as if your life depended on it?


This wonderful Hufflepuff wool scarf is based on the one in the Harry Potter movies. This yellow and black 100% wool yarn scarf measures 68.9 inches by 10.2 inches. In addition, the scarf has a beautiful Hufflepuff house patch on one end. For children ages 5 and up as well as adults.


Two weeks ago, I received a mystery package in the mail: a copy of the October 2015 issue of CQ Ham Radio magazine, sent directly from the publisher in Tokyo, Japan.
Supplement magazine shipped with the October issue.
Since I can't speak or read Japanese, I was very confused why I would receive a copy.
Out of curiosity, last week, I opened the magazine to see what sort of articles it contained.
In short: I was very impressed. While I couldn't read the content, of course, I was able to get an idea of the scope of this magazine–it contained numerous articles, news items, reviews and photos.
I was pleased to note a section that focused on good etiquette for amateur radio exchanges in English. After all, if you are a Japanese DXer, you will need to know enough English to log DX stations around the world as English is the staple DX language. Japanese hams are well known for their excellent on-air etiquette–ask anyone who has been on a DXpedition.
The magazine is thick, too; most of the pages are black and white news print, but there are several color/glossy sections as well. This particular issue was even mailed with a separate supplement magazine containing a history of ham radio ads throughout the years. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
Once I landed on the page above, I quickly realized why I had been sent a courtesy copy of the magazine: my SDRplay RSP review had been translated and published. It was then I remembered granting permission to have the article translated into Japanese for a ham radio magazine. I had completely forgotten!
I'm honored my review was printed in CQ ham radio, but most of all, it has been fascinating to browse through what appears to be an excellent radio publication. I offer my gratitude to the translator who took the time to edit my article.
This entry was posted in Articles, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged CQ Ham Radio, CQ Japan, Japan, SDRplay RSP on October 15, 2015 by Thomas.
text so foreign. You do want to know what the text is saying.
Sounds like a real honor to be recognized by having your article translated in CQ Ham Radio, they must have been impressed with it. Congratulations to you Thomas.
Congrats! Very cool! How exciting to think something you have written is being read literally around the world!! Well done!


In Phantom of Brevard v. Brevard County, the Fla. Supreme Court put home rule over legislative authority by upholding a line of cases requiring the Legislature to use ridiculously specific magic words in order to preempt local authority.
charged with the enforcement of the laws of the state.
is creating any variance between counties.
In other words, the statutory requirement for uniform application is totally superfluous and ineffectual. It is a matter of fundamental " law that a local government could not modify the statute itself. The idea that a statute providing for uniform laws, or uniform application, does not evidence legislative intent to preempt the subject matter from local standards is a slap in the face to the legislature and makes a fetish out of home rule. While local government have home rule under the constitution, the constitution also clearly provides for the supremacy of the state legislature and the courts seem to have forgotten it - or at least have developed an unreasoning hostility to it.
LESSON: Legislative draftspeople simply need to start adding the phrase: "all regulation or setting of regulatory standards is hereby preempted and local government shall have no authority to adopt different standards" to pretty much every piece of environmental, land use, and business regulation that goes through their doors.


Unnecessary traffic signs are to be removed, while helpful ones are to be made more visible.
It is part of government plans to keep motorists safe and restore "common sense" to Britain's roads.
Ministers say "useless" signs are a waste of taxpayers' money and can be a dangerous distraction to drivers.
Research carried out by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2013 revealed the number of traffic signs has doubled in the past two decades.
Traffic light warning signs placed next to the lights themselves are an example of the signs deemed to be unnecessary.
The DfT proposes some temporary signs are given a remove-by date, while helpful signs are made clearly visible on unlit roads.
A new taskforce, led by senior Tory MP Sir Alan Duncan, will suggest more ways of reducing roadside clutter. It will also consider whether some signs, such as traffic light warning signs, can be removed altogether.
Sir Alan claims thousands of unnecessary roads signs have been erected across the UK.
His taskforce will present its recommendations in December.
The DfT has already relaxed the requirements for the design and location of some signs, plus published advice to help local authorities across the country remove signs displaying unnecessary warnings or instructions.