It’s no secret that the Democrats benefit by having an ignorant electorate. People who don’t know history or understand economics will more easily fall for their lies. Especially when they victimize their base and demonize the opposition. Republicans. It’s a winning formula. And it has won President Obama reelection. Despite all the warnings from those who know history and understand economics. Who warned us about what Obamacare was going to do to us. And the urgency of repealing it before it became too entrenched. But the naysayers said nay. Uh-uh. And your mother is a whore. Demonizing the opposition with abandon. And laughing at the snarky little jabs on late-night television. Of course it’s different now. As the young and healthy have learned that the Affordable Care Act was predicated on their paying the health care tab for the old and sick.
So Obamacare care went from the fair and just Affordable Care Act to the unfair and unaffordable care act. Stunned by push back from their normally useful exploitable base the Obama administration pushed back against the pushback. Warning the Millenials that they risked not being cool if they didn’t buy health insurance (see Obama’s pathetic pitch to millennials by David Pasch posted 2/14/2014 on the New York Post).
How do you market the Affordable Care Act to Millennials? If you’ve got a good answer, tell the White House right away. It’s tried everything to get us to sign up for health insurance on the federal exchanges — and most of its attempts have been off-tune, off-putting, or just downright dumb.
The latest effort involves former NBA star Magic Johnson. Sorry: While Johnson commands respect for his athletic and personal achievements, he’s the not the best candidate to market anything to Millennials. He retired in 1991. Anyone under 23 never even saw him pick up a basketball.
There’s also the “Brosurance” debacle…
The ads depict Millennials as idiots and floozies. One ad shows college kids doing keg stands; another shows a couple about to hook up, with the tag: “Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this birth control…”
Other campaigns have been weird, sad or both. One print ad urged us to go to healthcare.gov by telling us that “Mom loves her comfy jeans.” So did that kid in college who played World of Warcraft, but he never made me want to buy health insurance. Then there’s the “pajama boy” campaign, which convinced anyone over 30 that Millennials are insufferable. And another ad targets women with a not-so-catchy tune sung by cats and dogs…
To be fair, Millennials aren’t always laughing at the administration’s ads. Sometimes we’re laughing with them — when they feature celebrities and comedians who we’ve actually heard of, like Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman or Will Ferrell.
But the real joke is on us. ObamaCare just isn’t a good deal for my generation.
The problems start with how much plans cost. Insurance rates have skyrocketed for Millennials since the exchanges opened in October. According to the Manhattan Institute, the average 27-year-old man is facing a 97 percent premium hike and the average 27-year old woman a 55 percent increase.
It is hard to believe that these are the same people who put a campaign together that defeated Mitt Romney during the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression. And the incompetence and cover-up of Benghazi (it was a spontaneous uprising by people angered over a YouTube video who pulled pre-sighted mortars from their back pockets). One wonders how you go from the 2012 campaign to “Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this birth control” and “Mom loves her comfy jeans.” I just don’t see these influencing the electorate to vote Democrat.
Why is the premium hike for men almost twice what it is for women? Because the Affordable Care Act now forces men to buy insurance to cover a reproductive system they don’t have. For in the name of fairness women can no longer be charged more than men for health insurance. So they charge men more. It doesn’t lower the cost of women’s health insurance though. For it is still rising 55%. So where is all that money going? To pay for the old and sick.
The Democrats believe Millenials are idiots and floozies. For they have worked tirelessly to dumb down our public schools and higher education. So they can more easily lie to those they think of as idiots and floozies. It’s as if you can hear them say, “Look, we gave you free birth control. Isn’t that worth an extra car payment a month?” Based on the enrollment numbers of the Millenials, apparently not.
The roll out of the Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) has given us a plethora of unintended consequences. From freezing new hiring. To pushing full-time workers into part-time. To people losing the health insurance and doctor they liked and wanted to keep. To higher insurance premiums. To higher deductibles. To higher co-pays. Taking a health care system that the vast majority of people were satisfied with and making it worse. To accommodate a small percentage of the population who were uninsured. If that wasn’t bad enough it doesn’t even look like some of the people who signed up for Obamacare are paying their insurance premiums (see Next problem for Obamacare: deadbeat enrollees by Rick Newman posted 2/14/2014 on Yahoo! Finance).
The New York Times has discovered that only about 80% of people purchasing health insurance through the federal online marketplace or a similar state-run exchange paid their first month’s premium. There’s no single source of such data, but the Times canvassed insurers participating in the program, such as Aetna (AET), Wellpoint (WLP), Humana (HUM) and Blue Shield of California. All said that the first-month payment rate ranged from 75% to 80% or so, far lower than for typical plans. If enrollees don’t pay the first month’s premium, their insurance never goes into effect.
That doesn’t mean, however, that one-fifth of the people signing up for Obamacare are blatantly refusing to pay. Technical problems with some of the exchange websites may have left people enrolled in an insurance plan without knowing it. Some may never have received a bill or confirmation of their enrollment. Others may have unwittingly signed up for two different policies, while paying for only one.
To make the Affordable Care Act work required a huge health care cost transfer from the old and sick to the young and healthy. The young and healthy, incidentally, made up a sizeable portion of the uninsured. Because they were young and healthy and felt invincible. And invincible people don’t need to buy insurance. So Obamacare needed the individual mandate to force these people to buy insurance against their will so they could pay for the old and sick.
Of course when they raised the price of health insurance to cover pre-existing conditions it wasn’t the young and healthy that ran to the Obamacare exchanges. It was the old and sick. Adding too many old and sick to the insurance pool. And not enough of the young and healthy. Those who would pay without consuming any benefits. Because they are young and healthy. Causing the insurers to pay more out in benefits than they receive in premiums. Forcing them to raise their premiums. Which will, of course, kick off the death spiral as people drop out because they can’t afford those higher rates. Which will, in turn, force the insurers to raise their rates again. Hence the death spiral. And as bad as all of that was now it looks like about 20-25% of those who ‘signed up’ either didn’t or are simply choosing not to pay. Making the financial predicament of the insurers far worse.
Of course if your plan was to force single-payer (i.e., national health care) onto the people against their will then everything is going according to plan to destroy the private insurance market. Leaving only the government to step in and provide single-payer (i.e., national health care). Which should fill everyone with confidence after seeing how well they rolled out the Affordable Care Act. And no doubt will impress us even more with the rollout of single-payer (i.e., national health care).
Target Corp. says it will no longer be offering health care coverage for its part-time workers.
The discounter is citing new options now available through health care exchanges under the U.S. Affordable Care Act.
Target, based in Minneapolis, said the majority of its part-time workers who have been eligible for its health care insurance coverage don’t enrol[l]. In fact, less than 10 per cent of its total employees of 361,000 take advantage of the part-time plan. It said it will stop covering the part-time workers beginning April 1…
Target said that employees who average between 20 and 31 hours per week will continue to be eligible for other benefits, including vacation, dental, disability and life insurance. Its part-time employees also will still qualify for store discounts and its 401(k) plan.
First of all it should be noted that Target offers a lot of benefits to part-time workers. Something you wouldn’t believe the way all corporations are excoriated in the mainstream media. They are evil incarnated. They hate their employees. Forcing them to work for pauper wages with no benefits. Well, here’s one that is offering some pretty nice benefits to part-time workers. Not too shabby.
We needed to pass Obamacare into law because there were some 50 million people who did not have health insurance. Well, as it turns out some people were choosing not to have health insurance. Such as the young and healthy. And about 90% of Target’s part-time labor force. If that held true throughout all part-time workers who are part-time for non-economic reasons (i.e., they choose to be part-time) that’s about 16.9 million people who choose NOT to have health insurance. If you add in the 16-19 year-olds (i.e., the young and healthy) in the labor force that total comes to about 22.5 million who probably choose NOT to have health insurance. Or about 45% of the total who don’t have health insurance. And there are probably more who choose NOT to have health care. (See tables A-1 and A-8 of the December Employment Situation Summary posted on the Bureau of Labor Statistics for employment numbers). Which means the left is overstating the number of people who don’t have health insurance but want it by about 182%. Or more.
We may have problems that drive up the cost of health insurance but most people who want it have it. Or had it. Until Obamacare took the policies they liked and wanted to keep away. Other people who don’t have any insurance may be between jobs. And health insurance plans. As the Obama administration said the 6 million or so cancellations were just likely people between health insurance policies. As people are always cancelling one policy and buying a new one. So it would appear that we have completely remade the American health care system to fix a problem that wasn’t really there. For there would have been far cheaper ways to provide health insurance to the relative few who didn’t have it but wanted it.
An online petition urging Canada Post to reconsider its decision to end door-to-door delivery in urban centres has garnered more than 120,000 signatures…
Canada Post announced some dramatic changes to its operations last month, including plans to phase out the age-old tradition of home delivery in urban areas. The company said that without postal carriers travelling by foot, it would save a significant amount of money…
The petition — posted on the website change.org — draws attention to anyone in Canada who has limited mobility, such as the elderly or disabled, and the possibly dangerous effects this change could have on their lives…
Hamilton said that Canada Post is trying to maintain service to all Canadians but that they need to find innovative ways to do it in order to remain self-sufficient.
Canada Post had projected an annual loss of $1 billion dollars a year by 2020 if they were to continue with the door-to-door delivery.
Part of the reason why Canada can’t afford to keep urban delivery is because they have single-payer health care. Which is pretty costly. Especially with Canada having what all advanced economies have. An aging population. Which means more people are leaving the workforce and consuming taxpayer benefits than there are people entering the workforce paying taxes. And with better health care people are living longer into retirement. Which forces tax rates higher on the working (i.e., the young and healthy) to pay for those not working.
It is interesting that the same people, the young and healthy, are the ones destroying Canadian Post. For they’re the ones emailing, texting and paying bills online. Which means they will have to raise taxes further on the young and healthy to support the older generation. Transferring more and more costs from the old to the young. Which is what happens in a socialist country. Generational theft. Costs keep rising so people have smaller families. Causing the population to age. And requiring ever higher tax rates on those in the workforce to pay for the growing numbers who have left the workforce.
The Scam of the Ponzi Scheme is that there is no Investment
A Ponzi scheme is a pyramid scheme. An investment scam. Here’s how it works. Say three scammers build an investment fund that they promise will return an 18% return on investment. A pretty good return these days. If they have 100 investors who invest $25,000 each that brings in $2.5 million into the investment fund. Now here’s where the scam comes in.
They pay each investor an 18% return each year. So their $25,000 returns $4,500. A return they can’t get anywhere else. An investment just too good to be true. Some take that $4,500 check and spend it on something special for themselves. Others leave it in the fund. While others beg to get into the fund. Of course they wouldn’t do these things if they understood what happened to the $2.125 million that the fund didn’t pay out to investors. That went into the pockets of the three scammers.
That’s the scam of the Ponzi scheme. There is no investment. The scammers collect the money people invest. Put aside some money to pay out as a generous return on investment. While keeping the rest. These scammers sit on top of the pyramid. And the more people that join the investment fund the wider the base of the pyramid gets. Pouring more money into the scam. Providing more money to pay out even higher returns on investments. Getter ever more people begging to get into the fund. While burying the scammers under an avalanche of cash.
Our Aging Population is sending the Health Insurance Industry into a Death Spiral
All Ponzi schemes share these characteristics. And one other one. They all fail. And the scammers go to jail. Why? Simple. The scam works as long as the base of the pyramid continues to grow greater than the top of the pyramid. As the base grows larger the scammers spend more money, though. Because there is more money to spend. And spend they do. Putting down deposits and paying on large mortgages and loans. Buying very costly things that have a voracious appetite for cash. So over time more money flows out at the top of the pyramid. Which isn’t a problem until money stops flowing into the bottom of the pyramid. Or begins to flow out. Because people want to use their money for something else. Like for a down payment on a house. And once the money flowing out of the bottom of the pyramid exceeds the ‘return’ on investment the fund pays those high returns on investments shrink and disappear. Exposing the scam.
This is what has happened to Social Security and Medicare. Thanks to an aging population. Women are having fewer babies than they did during the baby boom generation. So today we have fewer taxpayers entering the workforce who pay the taxes that pay for Social Security and Medicare. While the baby boomers are retiring and leaving the workforce. And living longer into retirement. Consuming far more money than they ever paid into these entitlement programs. So there is far more money flowing out of the top of the pyramid than is flowing into the bottom. Inverting the pyramid. And putting these programs onto the path to bankruptcy.
Health insurance is little different. It just covers so much these days that insurance premiums have soared to pay for this ever expanding coverage. And the aging population just makes a horrible situation worse. The elderly are living longer and consuming the lion’s share of health care services. Further raising the cost of health insurance. Making it unaffordable to many. So people simply choose not to buy it in their youth when they are young and healthy. And wait to buy it later in life when they need it. Such as when they start raising a family. At which time they’ll try to find employment somewhere that has good health insurance. When they start consuming health care services. Creating adverse selection. Where only those who consume health care services buy health insurance. While those who don’t consume health care services (i.e., the young and healthy) don’t. Creating a death spiral. As there are no non-consumers of health care services subsidizing the high cost of the large consumers of health care services. So premiums rise. To allow fewer people pay for more. More people drop their insurance because they can no longer afford it. Shrinking the insurance pool. So premiums rise. To allow fewer people pay for more. More people drop their insurance because they can no longer afford it. And so on until the cost of health insurance equals the cost of the health care services. And the insurance market goes the way of every Ponzi scheme before it.
When Reality hits People in the Pocketbook they tend to Lose their Idealism
Enter the Affordable Care Act and the mandates. Forcing the young and healthy to buy insurance they won’t use. So they can use their premiums to pay for the old and sick. The greatest generational theft in history. Something the young and healthy see. And don’t like. For they are not running out and buying health insurance on the health exchanges. In fact the majority of the people to enroll thus far are the high consumers of health care services. Which is basically the opposite of the goal of Obamacare. The young and healthy may have supported President Obama and the Affordable Care Act but that was only in generalities. Yes, we should help those who don’t have insurance. And, yes, we should do something to save the environment. We should stop discriminating against the LGBT community and let them get married. In the abstract these are all noble goals. But when the reality hits their pocketbook then it’s no longer an abstract thing to feel good about. Especially when they can’t get a job with their college education because they had the misfortune to enter the workforce during the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression. The Obama recovery.
This is when youthful idealism turns into skepticism. As reality settles in hard. This isn’t raising taxes on the rich. Something they won’t have to deal with until much later in their career. This is in the here and now. When they stop hearing inspiring words from the president about what we can do if only we implement his policies. But only hear B.S. and lies. For if they had that youthful idealism they would be rushing to the health exchanges to buy health insurance to make the world a better place. But they’re not. And this has the left worried. Not just about trying to fix the broken Obamacare website. But will this skepticism spread to other items on their liberal agenda? Such as the fight against manmade global warming? They still want their carbon tax. And they’ve worked hard to get kids graduating from high school convinced that we’re destroying the planet and need to make polluters pay. If the young lose their faith on Obamacare they may just stop fearing global warming to the point that they may start driving big SUVs again.
In the abstract the youth will support many things. Until it starts hitting them in the pocketbook. And if we make the fight against global warming hit them in the pocketbook they would quickly become indifferent about manmade global warming. Even becoming manmade global warming skeptics. Perhaps even noting that the glaciers once stretched down from the poles to near the equator. And moved back towards the poles. Before there was any manmade global warming. Something that probably bothers them today but they’re not yet ready to question the left about manmade global warming. But if we made them buy insurance to protect themselves from the ravishes of global warming they probably would. The prognosticators can run off a list of calamities that will befall us from unchecked global warming. So actuaries should be able to put a cost on that. And set insurance premiums to cover the cost when the calamities of manmade global warming hit us. Putting these premiums into a Save the Planet from Manmade Global Warming Trust Fund. Just like the Social Security Trust Fund that has nothing in it but government IOUs. Let the youth start paying a monthly premium to save us from manmade global warming and see how soon they become global warming deniers. If we did this global warming insurance would probably sell as well as Obamacare. Because when reality hits people in the pocketbook they tend to lose their idealism. And this is the biggest fear the left has. Because they count on that youthful idealism to win elections. For once people lose their idealism they tend to vote Republican.
Health Insurance provides Financial Protection from Risk unlike Obamacare
A lot of people are talking about Obamacare. The poor website launch. People losing the insurance policies and doctors they liked and wanted to keep. Higher insurance premiums. And higher deductibles. All of which conflicts with what President Obama had promised.
So there are problems. And people are becoming less enamored with Obamacare now that it is personally touching their lives. But there is a bigger problem. Obamacare isn’t insurance. And that’s what a lot of people don’t even understand. Even some insurance agents. Who may only see those higher premium prices and think Obamacare is a one-way ticket to easy street. But if you understand insurance, economics and history you’ll see it’s not. So what is insurance? Here’s a definition from Investopedia:
A contract (policy) in which an individual or entity receives financial protection or reimbursement against losses from an insurance company. The company pools clients’ risks to make payments more affordable for the insured.
The key word in this definition is ‘risk’. Insurance provides financial protection from risk. Obamacare doesn’t do that. It forces people to pay for things they have no risk exposure to. For example, an older couple with adult children still needs pediatric coverage on their policy. Which just increases the cost of their insurance. While providing no financial protection from this particular risk. Sick children.
Premiums and Deductibles are Soaring to herd the Young and Healthy into the Government Exchanges
So why is Obamacare raising health insurance premiums? To pay for people who don’t pay into the insurance pool. The poor. And the very sick who can’t afford health care let alone health insurance. The higher premiums people are paying go to them. This is a cost transfer. From a higher income group to a lower income group. Or in other words, a redistribution of wealth. From those according to ability to those according to need.
So the president wasn’t exactly telling the truth about keeping your insurance and doctor if you wanted to. This can’t happen under Obamacare. Because to redistribute wealth you need to take it away from someone. And guess who that someone must be to make Obamacare work? The young and healthy who are buying health insurance. Those people who pay into the insurance pool for financial protection from risk. But who are generally healthy and receive no benefits from the insurance pool. Who President Obama and the Democrats look at as cash piñatas. Which they can’t whack open if they have private insurance policies.
This is why these people must lose the policies and doctors they like. And why premiums and deductibles are soaring. To herd these cash piñatas into the government exchanges. Where the government can collect their insurance premiums. And redistribute it. While those high deductibles keep those premiums going out as benefits to the cash piñatas to a minimum.
The Young and Healthy choosing Medicaid over Obamacare
Of course, there is a flaw in this grand strategy. Arrogance. The government believing that young and healthy people will just stand there while the government whacks them open to get their cash. Which they aren’t. And it’s just not because the Obamacare website is a disaster. It’s because a lot of these people are choosing Medicaid. The health care program for the poor.
Medicaid enrollments are far outpacing Obamacare enrollments. By a huge number. Which is a big problem. Because Medicaid enrollees don’t pay insurance premiums. And they are not subject to deductibles. Because they are poor and can’t afford to pay anything out of pocket. So instead of adding to the insurance pool these cash piñatas will take from the pool. And that won’t change when they fix the broken website. Which is why it is a fatal flaw.
Compounding this problem is the President’s economic policies that have given us the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression. Since President Obama assumed office his policies have forced approximately 10 million people from the labor force. Unemployed, it is unlikely that they will be able to afford health insurance. And probably will enroll in Medicaid, too. If they haven’t already. So Obamacare isn’t going to work as-is. The question is, what will they do next? Other than blame the greedy insurance companies? Whose cooperation in this redistribution of wealth scheme will lead to their own demise. For as more and more people can’t afford those expensive insurance policies they’ll either turn to Medicaid. Or demand national health care. Which people don’t need insurance companies to have.
President Obama Habitually breaks Every Promise he makes and Suffers no Consequences
President Obama made a promise to Americans as he stumped for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). He said if you like your insurance plan you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. And even those people who did like and want to keep their insurance and doctor would benefit under Obamacare. Because they would get more for less. If you do a search on YouTube you can see all sorts of videos where you can hear President Obama make these very promises. Like this one.
The president was adamant. He made these promises over and over. Nothing in his plan would change anything for those happy with what they had. Period. He said that a lot. Period. These weren’t mere political promises that we expect to be broken as usual. This was a solemn oath from President Obama. And we could take that to the bank. Well, it turns out the American people couldn’t take that to the bank. For he broke every promise he made.
George Herbert Walker Bush became a one-term president because he said, “Read my lips. No new taxes.” And then he made a deal with devious Democrats to raise taxes in exchange for spending cuts. Spending cuts that never came. Bush broke one promise and it ended his political career. While President Obama habitually breaks every promise he makes and suffers no consequences. At least not yet. But that may change.
Hackers will call the Obamacare Database the Mother Lode when it comes to Hacking
This week the reality of the ObamaCare roll-out appeared in a set of news stories that serve as an ironic juxtaposition. Over 500,000 individuals have seen their insurance policies cancelled in just 3 states. In all 50 states, only 476,000 applications have been “filed” in an exchange. (Even though we are still learning the true definition of “filed.”)…
As I have tracked enrollment by states, many are reporting out both Medicaid and exchange enrollment at the same time.
Therefore the 476,000 number is misleading. My best guess is that for the 17 states that have reported out some data, the number is closer to 193,818 applications (once you pull out the Medicaid applications that have been reported on). Of course, this number is also still too high as it is compromised by the jointly reported data.
People are losing the insurance they like because to keep it requires more than they can afford. For Obamacare has made the insurance they liked and wanted to keep much more expensive (see Obamacare deductibles a dose of sticker shock by Peter Frost posted 10/13/2013 on the Chicago Tribune).
Many Illinoisans buying health coverage on their own next year will face a similar dilemma spurred by the health care overhaul: pay higher monthly insurance premiums or run the risk of having to shell out thousands more in deductibles for health care if they get sick.
To promote the Oct. 1 debut of the exchanges, the online marketplaces where consumers can shop and buy insurance, Obama administration and Illinois officials touted the lower-than-expected monthly premiums that would make insurance more affordable for millions of Americans. But a Tribune analysis shows that 21 of the 22 lowest-priced plans offered on the Illinois health insurance exchange for Cook County have annual deductibles of more than $4,000 for an individual and $8,000 for family coverage…
Plans with the least expensive monthly premiums — highlighted by state and federal officials as proof the new law will keep costs low for consumers — have deductibles as high as $6,350 for individuals and $12,700 for families, the highest levels allowed under the law.
And then there’s the website. In an era where identity theft is running rampant where hackers can steal everything in your smartphone while sipping a coffee at Starbucks we are asked to enter all our personal and identifying information into this website. And after they collect it they will store it in one massive database. Or as that hacker in Starbucks would call it, the mother lode. A hacker’s paradise. So is our personal and identifying information safe? It doesn’t matter. For the government has written in the code that by entering our data we acknowledge that we have no expectation of privacy (see Obamacare Website Source Code: ‘No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy’ by JERYL BIER posted 10/14/2013 on The Weekly Standard).
The launch of federal government’s Obamacare insurance exchange, Healthcare.gov, has been plagued with delays, errors, and poor website design, even prompting USA Today to call it an “inexcusable mess” and a “nightmare”. Now comes another example of why the website’s reputation is in tatters. Buried in the source code of Healthcare.gov is this sentence that could prove embarrassing: “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system.” Though not visible to users and obviously not intended as part of the terms and conditions, the language is nevertheless a part of the underlying code for the “Terms & Conditions” page on the site…
The full portion of the code which does not appear on the visible page displayed for users reads as follows:
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system. At any time, and for any lawful Government purpose, the government may monitor, intercept, and search and seize any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system. Any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system may be disclosed or used for any lawful Government purpose. [The sentence beginning “To continue” also appears again, but is only visible once on the page as displayed for users.]
Talk about your Big Brother. Once upon a time the Constitution required a warrant for the government to collect this information. Now it’s the price of health care. You want to live? Then you must sign away your Fourth Amendment Right.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Apparently the Obama administration has little regard for the U.S. Constitution. Funny how these same people railed against George W. Bush and the Patriot Act. And he was only wire-tapping international telephone calls to suspected terrorists. Not throwing a dragnet to see what useful information the government could collect on potential political enemies of the state. Which could be useful in the next election. Or to silence a critic.
The Taxpayer Bill for the Obamacare Website is $1 Billion and Counting
Proponents of national health care like to say the United States is the only advanced economy without national health care. But what they don’t say is that those countries they so admire have a mix of public and private. And those who can choose the private over the public whenever they can. Australia. The United Kingdom. Even Canada. And the name of the Canadian private network? The United States. Well, before Obamacare, at least. In fact, not only do patients travel across the border for the private American health care system. So do doctors and nurses. In search of a decent wage. For in Canada they have little choice but to accept what the Canadian government pays them. However little that is.
The lynchpin of Obamacare is getting young, healthy people to buy health insurance policies. Who will only pay into the system. For being young and healthy they won’t consume any health care resources. So the young and healthy can pay for the old and sick. And with an aging population, the old and sick outnumber the young and healthy. So the young and healthy will be paying high premiums and high deductibles. Just as is happening. While families will pay even more. And just as they are paying more for their now mandatory health insurance their household incomes are falling. Employers are pushing full-time workers to part-time. Laying off workers to have less than 30 on the payroll. And they’re not hiring anyone to keep from having 30 workers on the payroll. All because of Obamacare. So the 10 million or so workers who left the labor force since President Obama assumed office won’t be going back to work any time soon.
Although the Affordable Care Act has been law for three and a half years, one third of the funds going to the top contractors working on the federal exchanges were awarded in the six months before the new insurance marketplaces opened Oct. 1, a Bloomberg Government Analysis has found. The torrent of late spending — almost $352 million of $1 billion in awards to the top 10 contractors — indicates the magnitude of the work still to be done as opening day approached, and helps explain the information technology problems that have dogged the exchange system since its launch.
$1 billion for a website. And one that doesn’t work. Imagine that. But in the grand scheme of things this will still be the least costly part of the Affordable Care Act. And we’ll look back to these days as the good old days of Obamacare. Because it is horrible now. And it will only get worse. The Republicans knew this which is why none of them voted for it. The Democrats knew it, too, but they didn’t care. Because for them Obamacare is not about health care. It’s about acquiring power. Sadly, they were able to win this political contest. Because they are better at lying than the Republicans are at telling the truth.
For Health Insurance to work More People need to Pay Into the Pool than Collect from the Pool
It’s here. Obamacare. Which promises to give more people health insurance. With health insurance policies paying for more than policies do now. More tests. More procedures. Even birth control. Obamacare will also provide coverage for people with preexisting conditions. Remove caps on benefits and forbid insurance companies from cancelling insurance coverage. Forcing insurance companies to give policy holders a lot more benefits. All while reducing insurance premiums. Which seems to defy common sense. Getting more while paying less. To better understand this let’s look at a sample insurance pool.
Insurance pools are larger than 10 policy holders but this will suffice for this example. In this example there are 5 individual policy holders with a monthly insurance premium averaging $118. There are 4 family policies with a monthly insurance premium averaging $400. And one policy holder with a chronic health condition who pays a premium that people with preexisting conditions pay. In this example paying $1,200 a month. It’s that high because this person requires medical care in excess of $30,000 each year. The average of all premiums is $339.
Now, this is how insurance works. There is a pool. People in the pool each pay a small premium compared to the medical costs they MIGHT incur. The word ‘MIGHT’ is key here. For insurance to work more people need to pay into the pool than collect from the pool. This allows the pool to pay the few who have a large unexpected medical expense. If the insurance company’s actuaries get their premiums right the total of premiums paid into the pool approximately equals the total of expenses paid by the pool. So premiums in basically equal payments out. Premiums in can exceed payments out. But payments out cannot exceed premiums in or else the insurance company will go bankrupt.
Obamacare will Increase the Price of Health Insurance for Men because Insurers can’t Charge more for Women
Obamacare’s individual mandate is an attempt to make sure premiums in exceed payments out. By forcing more young and healthy people who will not use health insurance pay into the pool. Young and healthy, see, is the key. Because that’s money they can spend on other people. So the young and healthy are the answer to the high cost of the old and sick. So Obamacare, then, is basically a cost transfer from the old and sick to the young and healthy. And it will work to lower the cost of health insurance. If the young and healthy buy health insurance and never use it.
If we add 12 young and healthy people to the pool who will not use the insurance the premiums become more affordable. When there were only 10 people in the pool the total premiums added up to $3,390. By adding these 12 young and healthy to the pool the total premiums paid in increases to $4,000. An increase of 26.3%. So if we discount all premiums by 26.9% we still get a total of $3,390 paid in. Which is how Obamacare is supposed to lower the cost of health insurance. By forcing people who won’t use it to buy it. So they can pay for the people who do use it. Thus lowering the average premium to $154.09. And bringing down the premiums for single, family and preexisting conditions to $78.03, $294.78 and $884.35, respectively. Lowering price across the board. Making everyone happy. Except, of course, those forced to buy something they won’t use. So this part can lower insurance costs. But it won’t. Because Obamacare complicates things.
Obamacare will raise premiums because it requires insurers to cover more. In addition to the things already noted there are some other costly requirements. Such as the ban on price discrimination based on sex. Meaning insurers can no longer charge women more for health insurance. Even though women are more costly to insure. Primarily due to their reproductive systems. And other biological differences. If they can’t charge more for women then they must charge women what they charge men. And to cover the higher costs of insuring women they must charge men a higher premium. So when they charge women that premium it will cover birth control, breast exams, pap smears, etc. In our example we assume singles and families will pay twice as much. While those paying preexisting conditions premiums will pay 50% more. Bringing the average premium to $288.08. While bringing the premiums for single, family and preexisting conditions to $156.06, $589.57 and $1,326.52, respectively.
The Key to Obamacare is to get more Young and Healthy People to buy Insurance that they will Not Use
But premiums will cost even more. Because insurers cannot deny coverage for people with preexisting conditions. And they can’t cancel coverage for people if they come down with a very costly chronic health problem. Basically meaning there is no cap to what an insurer may pay on an individual. Which makes the insurance equation more difficult to balance. Making sure that payments out do not exceed premiums in. Which is more difficult to do when there is no limit to what those payments out can be. So insurers will have little choice but to charge people for the worst case scenario. That a large percentage in the pool will have long-term chronic illnesses. And that some people will be buying insurance for the first time after being diagnosed with a long-term chronic illness.
Insurers will have to make assumptions. With no limit to their high-end exposure they will have to charge everyone more across the board. So they will have to take their greatest risk—the exposure to preexisting conditions and long-term chronic illnesses—and factor that into all premiums. In our example we charged singles 25% of the greatest risk. And we charged families 50% of the greatest risk (the more people on the policy the greater the risk of long-term chronic illnesses on that policy). Raising the average premium to $437. And raising the premiums for single, family and preexisting conditions to $331.63, $663.26 and $1,326.52, respectively. Or an increase of 181%, 66% and 11%, respectively from before the implementation of Obamacare.
Obamacare seems like a windfall to the insurance companies. Which is why some of them supported Obamacare. But the key to Obamacare was to get more young and healthy people to pay into the insurance pool while not using that insurance. The young and the healthy. Individuals. Who don’t have families. Those who will see a substantial rise in their insurance premiums. As much as 181%? Perhaps. But if the increase is too great for these young and healthy individuals to afford they will not buy health insurance. And they can’t get a subsidy. Because it’s the young and healthy—those who are supposed to pay into the insurance pool without using their insurance—who are to provide the money for the subsidies. So they won’t increase the amount of premiums going into the pool. While the additional requirements of Obamacare will increase the payments going out of the pool. Causing the insurance equation to go out of balance. Putting the private health insurance business out of business. The ultimate goal of Obamacare. So the left can get what they wanted all along. National health care.
Although it doesn’t Cost Others when Someone Drives it’s Still not a Right because Driving Recklessly can Cost Others
Freedom of religion is a right. It doesn’t cost me anything (money, time, inconvenience, etc.) for my neighbor to go to church or to practice their religion. Freedom of speech is a right because it doesn’t cost me anything when someone writes a letter to a newspaper editor. The right to bear arms is a right because it doesn’t cost me anything when a neighbor owns a gun. Rights are free in the sense that others don’t have to incur any costs whenever someone exercises a right. And because they are free no one can grant them. Or take them away. Hence they are God-given. And only God can take them away. Even an atheist will favor this definition. For these God-given rights prevent any man from taking away his or her right to publically protest the existence of God.
Housing, food, education, etc., are not rights. Because these things are expensive. Someone has to pay for them. And if you don’t pay for them they will take them away from you. Or you can lose them if you don’t follow the rules. A principal can expel a student for causing trouble in high school. A landlord can evict an unruly tenant in an apartment building. And if you don’t pay your mortgage the bank can foreclose on your house and take it back. So these aren’t rights because someone has to pay for them. You. Or other people. And there is a process to go through where someone grants us access to these. Typically paying for these things. And following certain rules.
Interestingly, when someone drives a car it doesn’t cost me anything. Yet driving a car is not a right. It’s a privilege. And the thing that makes it a privilege and not a right is similar to housing, food and education. There are certain rules to follow. And if a driver doesn’t follow these rules it can then cost others when they drive. Such as if a driver ignores traffic signals, drives under the influence of alcohol, ignores the posted speed limits, drives recklessly, etc. Such a person can involve other people who follow the rules into accidents. Costing them dearly. It’s because of this that driving is a privilege and not a right.
Unlike Obamacare you can Choose not to Buy Car Insurance by Choosing not to Drive
A car or truck is very heavy. And as it moves it creates a lot of kinetic energy. The faster it goes the greater the kinetic energy. And the greater amount of damage it can cause in an accident. Causing great damage to other cars. And their occupants. Those who were not at fault will incur great costs from these accidents. The at-fault person, though, may not be wealthy enough to pay these costs. That’s why we make ALL drivers buy insurance. So the few that have accidents can have their insurance pay these great costs. This is a classic example of the use of insurance to spread risk. Everyone pays a small fee to create a large pool of money to pay for the few who incur these great costs. By making drivers buy insurance we make them responsible for the consequences of their driving.
Health care is very similar to driving a car. Only many say health care is a right. Unlike driving a car. But health care isn’t a right. Far from it. For health care is very expensive. And someone has to pay for it. The patient. Or others. Just like housing, food and education. Also, much of our health problems are self-inflicted. Health problems plague obese people as they age. Smokers tend to suffer from cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. Heavy drinkers and drug users suffer a variety of ailments. People get hurt doing risky things (take dangerous risks while drunk, extreme sports, etc.) and incur great medical costs. But unlike the driver of a car we don’t make these people responsible for the consequences of their actions. Instead, we treat them and have other people pay for the consequences of their actions.
Some like to point to the individual mandate in Obamacare as addressing this very problem. By forcing people to buy health insurance. So they are responsible for the consequences of their actions. They say making people buy health insurance is no different from making people buy car insurance. But it’s not. Because buying car insurance is not mandatory. You can choose not to buy it simply by choosing not to drive. Obamacare offers no such choice. Unless you call choosing not to live an option.
Health Care is Expensive because Unlike a Driver those who don’t follow the Rules of a Healthy Lifestyle never lose their Living Privilege
Health insurance is nothing like car insurance. Car insurance protects a person from losing all their savings from an unexpected and unfortunate accident. By spreading the risk over a great number of people who pay a small premium. Whereas health care has become welfare. It has nothing to do with spreading risk. For people today expect a complete free ride. For everything. Whatever the cost. They don’t want to pay a dime. Not even for their prescriptions. They want someone else to pay all of their costs.
And what really makes this welfare is that it will become a pure transfer cost under Obamacare. The vast majority of people consuming health care are senior citizens. While the young and healthy consume the least amount of health care. Obamacare will transfer the costs of those who consume health care to those who don’t. By forcing the young and healthy to buy health insurance. That they currently do not buy because they rarely see their doctors. Instead they use the savings from not buying health insurance to afford something they do use. Like to pay for a house to live in to start their families. But once Obamacare forces them to buy health insurance they’ll have to find another cost to cut. Perhaps selling their car and using public transportation. Saving on both a car payment. And the car insurance payment. Because they have that choice. Unlike under Obamacare.
Driving a car is more like a right than health care. It doesn’t cost anyone else as long as they follow the rules of the road. But we still make them buy car insurance in case they have an accident. Whereas health care is unlike a right in every way. There is always a cost whether you follow the rules or not. And unlike a driver those who don’t follow the ‘rules of a healthy lifestyle’ never lose their ‘living privilege’. (At least, not yet. And let’s hope it remains that way.) They just pass their higher health care costs to others. Especially the young and healthy who consume very little, if any, health care. Making it a pure welfare transfer cost. Of course, in this case, unlike other forms of welfare, this cost will be transferred to those least able to afford it. The young. Most of who are not rich.
More than 40 percent of patients were age 65 or older, while those age 18 to 29 made up just 3 percent.
Health insurance is different than, say, car insurance. Car insurance is expensive. But it has remained a whole lot more affordable than health care insurance. Why? What’s the difference between the two? Anyone can have their car stolen. Or have an accident. But when it comes to patients in our health care system more than 40% are age 65 and older. While those healthy and young (ages 18-29) are patients only 3% of the time. Big problem. Because a lot of people age 18-29 think rationally and say that’s a lot of money for what? I never go to the doctor.
And herein lies the fatal flaw of health care insurance. Insurance operates by having everyone contribute a little to pay large claims to those few who suffer an unfortunate event. That’s how insurance works. Not everyone suffers an unfortunate event. So if everyone pays a little the few who do suffer an unfortunate event get help when they need it. That’s risk management. Spreading the risk over numerous policy holders for a small fee. But that’s not happening in health care. Because it’s not insurance. It’s a cost transfer. The industry is set up to transfer the cost of the health care consumers to those not consuming health care services. And when those who are not consuming health care services opt out of the system that creates a serious funding problem.
This is the problem whenever you have other people pay for you. And why Obamacare has a mandate for the young and healthy to buy insurance. So Obamacare can transfer the cost of the health care consumers to those not consuming health care services. The young and healthy.
This is a broken model. It won’t work. And it will only lead to higher costs and rationing. Because the population is aging. Which means those consuming health care services are growing at a rate greater than those paying for them.
You can thank FDR for this mess. And his maximum wage limit during the Great Depression. His attempt to stimulate the economy by keeping wages low so businesses would hire more people. Businesses couldn’t attract better workers by offering them more wages. So they offered them benefits instead. And the health care crisis was born.


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Amarcord is a German male classical a cappella vocal group based in Leipzig, founded in 1992 by five former members of the Thomanerchor. The ensemble performs a vast range of music, from medieval plainsong to madrigals and Renaissance masses, to compositions and cycles of works of the European Romantic period and the 20th century, to jazz and New Music. Amarcord has won prizes at many international competitions and its diverse repertoire is available on numerous CDs.
Wolfram Lattke Tenor
Robert Pohlers Tenor
Frank Ozimek Baritone
Daniel Knauft Bass
Holger Krause Bass
International Classical Music Award
Early Music Category
ECHO Klassick Award
Ensemble of the Year – Vocal Music
Choral Recording of the Year
Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards
Best Folk/World Album
Best Classical Album
Benedicamus Domino: Let us praise the Lord.
For centuries, composers have sought to set to music their hopes and doubts about the Christian promise of salvation. Amarcord presents a string of impressive examples from the 19th and 20th centuries, as much disturbing as comforting. Composers include Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Carl Orff, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Krysztof Penderecki.

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Some new screenshots of NieR: Automata surfaced this month but today Square Enix released them in a proper resolution. They show the recently revealed andoid A2 and android 9S, both part of the YoRHa automated infantry squad. The title is expected ot launch this year on PS4.
pretty excited for this batman: tas blu-ray set: [url] (0 minute ago)
@docLEXfisti: Apparenlty, they are all still shit only for being DC movies... Both trailers looked fantastic. Haters gonna hate. (6 Hours ago)
Fantastic Beasts 2 trailer I also enjoyed, that JK Rowling and her incredible ideas... impressive stuph (7 Hours ago)
on the rest: Godzilla trailer is also totally awesome. Chills it gave me... Disenchanted also looks promising (Bender voice: check!) (7 Hours ago)
just watched all the SDCC trailers and wow, DC seems to turn the tide, Auqaman trailer was absolutely amazing. Shazam looks really good too, quite funny. Titans also looks interesting... (7 Hours ago)

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me and my life
Still lot to say
I wanted to say a lot to monku. I wanted to tell him how much I struggled with mom's illness, how I dealt with dad and his death days, I want to tell him every detail about Naisha, I wanted to tell him that I have put on, my new obsession is kdrama. I wanted to give him gossips. But he shooed me away like a street dog. I wanted to know how is he. How and what he has been doing? Abt his work, his heart, mind his stay at Bhopal. What's wrong in that. I wanted him to tell abt my new favorite songs. How am dealing with our breakup, how am not doing well, how am not ok without him. How difficult it is to even think abt someone else. How annoying it is to even picture him with some one else.
Why he said ab koi faida nai, matlab nai?? He is probably dating. He owned my body ones and now he has disowned me completely he heartless can he be.
I wrote such a big para on my emotions and he still has nothing to say??
He hasn't even blocked me. His heart won't melt. Its not even a yr we got seperate. How sad bad. I should be over him. But I'll write him in my diary. And one day I'll send him credentials to know how I felt. Will that melt his heart what if by then it will be too late even by now. It's ok only a one life and in this life be with someone ull be happy with. Am not sure I'll be happy or not. But I surely want his love. I realised how how crazy love can make you. I still love him. Sometimes I get a feeling that he needs me he is having a bad time. I remember how I use to sit on his lap and hug him, how he would borrow his head in my chest and how heaven that feeling use to be. We laughter and cried like that. No one will wake me up as he did, no one will make food like he did I want that all again. I promise to not complain in my life. I'll never forgive God for doing this to us.
A small piece of my heart will always remain with you, tc of it. It has all our beautiful memories locked up, first time we touched each other affectionately, the butterflies we felt, our own moments. My love my monku am sorry to bother you like this, but I was helpless na. I am sorry. I will try to cope up with it by my self, you may not talk to me, but I'll read our chats and see our pics, listen to your voice notes like I was doing so far. When I am sad I pretend in my mind that you are by my side and I feel good, when am in trouble I think what you would have done and I tackle. When I am happy I think of you. And I have been living all these months like this. You are on my mind when I wake up and you are on my mind before I sleep I swear. Also sorry for all the hurts I gave you. I have no regret of spending time with you, fighting with you or anything which was with you. That everything was wonderful. I may not be able to love and get loved the way it was between us. I guess this was destined. But we both dint deserved this yaar. Be mine in next life plsss.
Ab block kar de warna me aisehi pakati jaungi. I'll never call you sorry.
Today I'll remembered
1. He peck me on lips and say meri chotu chotu bacche ki chotu chotu lips and wake me up. He would sit patiently beside me and wait me to wake up. Omg so much love it had.
2. How he would extend his left arm and protect me from sudden break jerks while driving.
3. How you would rub your toe om my feet and say pyaar tho bohot karta hu me tuzse yaar..
4. How you would rub my hand while watching movie in movie Hall. And me feeding you popcorn was my job lolzzz you dog
5. How you would shout me while driving. You know that still hover in my head. Left le, clutch bada, indicator de, lane mat badal pagal hai kya ? Slow slow break break ufff Tu utar me chalaunga hahaha baby I miss and I can still hear it.
6. How for you only punch lines of song where only important but never listen to whole song.
7. How you would shout me If I sway and swing while eating food. Baccho jaise mat kar karuna.
8. Once you even called me mera ghuu omg. Gobar was fine.
9. You remember tune mera pic delete kiya tha tab mene kitna tantrum throw kiya and then u got that pic back hahaha sry for that
10. And ande ka story banate ki jarurat bhi nai na 🤣😂😅
11. I still remember how you took care of me when I had bad tooth and swollen face.
I want that all back baby plssssss


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For the birthday fun over at Bugaboo Digi Stamps today they wanted to see this sketch used. Since I made a birthday card yesterday for a boy I decided to make one for a girl today. This is Little Winter Penguin. She doesn't come with the balloons those are from Doodle Pantry along with the sentiment. They are part of a set called Birthday Accessories. The balloons are a super fun addition to this darling penguin.
I would like to submit this card into these challenges:
Pile It On - Fantasy
Catch the Bug - Sketch
Brown Sugar - Birthday for a girl
The Stamping Boutique - Winter Birthday
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Penguin
Clear It Out - Pinks
Crafty Sentiments - Girly
Ahwww - adorable! Thanks for joining us for day 2 of our Birthday celebration at Bugaboo Stamps! Remember - if you participate EVERY DAY you are in line for a fabulous prize package!
Cute card. Love those colors:) Thanks for helping Bugaboo celebrate its 5th birthday!
Oh this is an adorable winter birthday card and love those girly colours with the ribbon. Thanks for playing at Crafty Sentiments and good luck. Hope to see you back tuesday for another challenge. Bettina GD Member at Crafty Sentiments xx
Such a lovely card and image thanks for sharing with us at Crafty sentiments hope to see you again next time
lovely cute card thanks for sharing with brown sugar this week Rachel dt
So adorable...I love the depth seen in his body and the hat. You did a wonderful job with the Bugaboo image...I think I have that one. I collected quite a few during my time as a DT for them which I miss but time time time...never have enough time....haha
Just so adorable - such fun colors too! Thanks so much for joining us this time at the Pile it On Challenge, Elizabeth (DT)
Such a fun card and I love the bold colors. I am very glad you joined us this week at TSB. I hope you had fun!!! See you back very soon to play in another fun challenge. :)
The Stamping Boutique Design Team Member
what a cute project...CIO challenge blog is glad you came to play <((><
Such a cute card!
Oh how adorable!!!!! Thanks so much for participating in our IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE... challenge!! Hope to see you again for our next challenge!!
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Love the color choices and all the details on your card. Thank you for joining us in our IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE... challenge.
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Ryan Ballard, co-founder and "High Priest" of the Krewe of Chewbacchus science fiction-oriented Mardi Gras parading organization issued an interstellar communication Wednesday (April 8) that clarified plans for the first "Shoeboxus" shoe box float parade.
The mini parade is not scheduled for next year's Mardi Gras season; it will roll on May 4, honoring the tongue-in-cheek Star Wars holiday. You know, "May the Fourth Be with You."
The king of the inaugural parade will be actor and sci-fi fan Drew Varick, who has appeared on popular television shows such as "Cirque du Freak," "American Horror Story" and "Conan." Varick, who, according to the Chewbacchus announcement, stands 42 inches tall, will costume as "King Yoda."
Marchers in the 2015 Chewbacchus parade recognized the actor in the crowd along the route and invited him to join in and attend the party that followed, Ballard said. Later Ballard invited him to reign over the first "Shoeboxus" parade and, as Ballard put it, "he was real into it."
"He does a phenomenal Yoda imitation," Ballard said.
The theme of the parade will be "Lighten Up," which will be printed on Star Wars light sabers for the event. To best understand the theme requires a bit of backstory about an unlikely Carnival rivalry.
The 'tit Rex parade is a bitingly satiric miniature parade presented annually in the Marigny neighborhood. Though 'tit Rex is an all-adult organization, it is meant to recall the tiny shoebox float parades traditionally created by Crescent City school kids to celebrate Carnival.
The Chewbacchus parade rolls on the same evening and the same general neighborhood as 'tit Rex. 'Tit Rex is tiny and compact. Chewbacchus is long and leggy. 'Tit Rex began parading in 2009. Chewbacchus came to the neighborhood in 2013. The two krewes have been locked in a real or imagined conflict -- depending on who you ask -- ever since.
That war of words reached a Facebook flashpoint when someone posted a spurious suggestion that Star Wars light sabers (a Chewbacchus staple) were unwelcome along the 'tit Rex route. Since then it's been a social media Hatfields and McCoys situation.
Last month, Ballard announced that Chewbacchus would stage its own off-season shoebox parade for kids. He said he offered the parade as a symbolic "olive branch" to 'tit Rex and even invited 'tit Rex officials to participate in the float judging. But for every onlooker who saw Ballard's gesture as conciliatory, there was another who saw it as provocation.
Read the March 15 story: "Chewbacchus schedules Mardi Gras shoebox float parade for May 4" and don't miss the sizzling comment stream.
'Tit Rex swiftly declined Ballard's offer to play along, wishing to keep their shoebox parade concept undiluted. And so it stood, until Wednesday, when Ballard announced "The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus will present the BIGGEST little Sci-Fi themed shoebox parade in the Universe."
According to Ballard, upping the ante is just part of the Chewbacchus modus operandi.
"Chewbacchus is a big joke. It both worships and mocks pop culture," Ballard said. "We worship a space Bigfoot, dog-man in a movie from the 1970s mixed with the Roman god of wine. Taking self-deprecating jokes and pushing them to the conceptual limit is what we do. We don't take ourselves seriously much less anyone else."
"And," he said, "if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it all the way."
According to Ballard's announcement, "the parade will include floats by students from the Talented Visual Arts program at Martin Behrman Elementary, students and artists in the KID smART program, students at several other schools and arts outreach programs throughout the city, as well as the children of Krewe of Chewbacchus members."
Plus, he wrote: Any "adults who never grew up are welcome to build their own mini-floats too, of course."
Proceeds from donations to "Shoeboxus" will benefit KID smART.
The parade rolls May 4 at 6, starting at the corner of Royal and Frenchmen streets in Faubourg Marigny. It will follow a nine-block rectangular route back to the starting point. A post-parade party takes place from 8 p.m. to midnight at Handsome Willy's, 218 S. Robertson St.
For full details and a map visit the Chewbacchus site.

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At an early age, Bill's parents moved to Utah and took him along. He grew up in Utah. He graduated from high school in Ogden, Utah, on June 1, 1943. On June 3 he was sworn into the U.S. Navy. He served on submarines in the Pacific during WWII,
Following the war; he used the GI Bill to go to The University of Utah.
Upon graduation he became a course pro. He was a club professional for 42 years at a number of courses "out west."
During this period, he also found time to compete in 335 PGA Tour-sanctioned events, including 196 on what is now called PGA Tour Champions. He won two PGA Tour titles, the 1958 Texas Open, and 1960 Utah Open. He also won 11 state championships.
As if that wasn't enough, Johnston also was a golf course architect. He designed eight golf courses.

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Star's father reveals she could visit a clinic soon
Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, has revealed that the star is currently considering entering drug rehab to tackle her drug problems.
As previously-reported on NME.COM, Winehouse has cancelled all touring commitments for the rest of 2007, citing that she can’t perform without support from her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently on remand in prison waiting to enter a plea after being charged with perverting the course of justice.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Mitch Winehouse said that “all options” were being considered, referring to the possibility of his daughter entering rehab.
He added that his daughter was “sorry for her fans” for the cancellations, and that a rest period is in her “best interests”.
Winehouse briefly entered a rehab centre in Essex after suffering from a drug overdose in August.


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LOCATED in the heart of 'Mt Airy' -- the 'Philadelphia's best neighborhood' according to Money magazine. That says a lot, as there are about 110 neighborhoods in Philadelphia! This leafy, vibrant, engaged community includes the city's first bird sanctuary, popular cafe that was featured in Oprah's magazine, independent bookstore, architectural salvage emporium, dance and yoga studios,pioneering food co-operative, old trees, young energy and beautiful stone architecture. (Wikipedia says it's a PhD ghetto) We are a few minutes from the interstate freeway, and 15-18 minutes from downtown ('Center City') by car, or 20 min. by train. (We use trains here the way other cities use subways. You can take the train directly to the historic district, the convention center, Chinatown, Old City...
LOCATED in the heart of 'Mt Airy' -- the 'Philadelphia's best neighborhood' according to Money magazine. That says a lot, as there are about 110 neighborhoods in Philadelphia! This leafy, vibrant, engaged community includes the city's first bird sanctuary, popular cafe that was featured in Oprah's magazine, independent bookstore, architectural salvage emporium, dance and yoga studios,pioneering food co-operative, old trees, young energy and beautiful stone architecture. (Wikipedia says it's a PhD ghetto) We are a few minutes from the interstate freeway, and 15-18 minutes from downtown ('Center City') by car, or 20 min. by train. (We use trains here the way other cities use subways. You can take the train directly to the historic district, the convention center, Chinatown, Old City with its art galleries... and more
THIS HOME is spacious -- 2,000 sq ft (!) + a large, furnished 2nd floor terrace. The home is the full 2nd floor of a two-story bldg. ) Downstairs are two studios.) It has two bedrooms + a den. One bdrm has a queen bed and windows on three sides. A second bdrm has twin trundle bed(s) and a private bathrm with a skylight. The den has a full bed and windows on two sides... it hasn't a conventional door but the bed is tucked around to the side and not visible from the adjacent room.
A MAGAZINE called this home 'funky charming' -- it is relaxed and appealing, not Hilton-spiffy by any means. The floors are several hundred years old, from virgin forest, so no hard-soled shoes or pointy heels, please. Piano, drums, access to downstairs studios. A few times a week, sounds from downstairs can be heard upstairs, notably the samba drum class on Sunday (12:30-2 pm) and Thursday (6:30-8 pm). You can take the class too.
FULL KITCHEN includes dish and servingware. Terrace has a BBQ. Fireplace works. In winter, we will provide a modest supply of wood.
FAMILIES welcome -- we have cradle, Pac n Play, stroller, high chair, booster chair and lots of well selected toys. Children's music class downstairs weekly. A small public playground is across the street.
FREE AMPLE street parking.
CLOSE to the woods (three blocks away!), chef-owned restaurants, the walkable neighborhoods of Manayunk and Chestnut Hill, ice skating rink, golf course, fishing -- even though we are truly Philadelphia proper.
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About the neighbourhood
Philly has about 110 neighborhoods -- Money Magazine deemed Mt Airy the 'best neighborhood' in Philadelphia. Harvard has studied its success, Oprah's magazine did a feature on why this is such an exceptional neighborhood too. It is leafy, with beautiful architecture and an engaged community. 15-18 minutes to downtown. We're three blocks to Carpenter Woods, a fingerling of the Wissahickon Valley and Fairmount Park, and home of the city's first bird sanctuary. Wikipedia calls Mt Airy a 'PhD ghetto'. Walkable too.
Ample free parking here. We're close to downtown Philly by car or train (which we use like a subway). My building is in the epicenter of 'Mt Airy Village', -- a heart of this neighborhood ... directly across the street from the brilliantly stocked food co-op, the Nesting House (for young families), High Point Cafe and Big Blue Marble bookstore -- plus the WPM (words per minute) Typewriter Shop is right downstairs. We're within two or three miles of many local-chef restaurants, cobblestoned Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill, a golf course, collectible kitchenware shop, playground, woods and more.
Car not needed
How to get there
Airport: PHL: 25.0 km
Car is not needed but can be enjoyable. Free and ample street parking. Also accessible by local train (like a subway), from the 30th Street train station -- the main station. By train, we are about 20 minutes from Center City (30th Street station, the main station). By car, we are usually 15-18 minutes to center city.
There Is A Golf Course Within 30 Mins Drive, There Are Tennis Courts Nearby.

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Product description: Infrared transmitter/receiver - Unit extension module for M5Stack development modules
The module is equipped with an infraredtransmitter and receiver. The module can be used in many everyday equipment projects. It is ideal for use as part of aremote controlsystem. The range is up to5 m. The module comes with aGrovecable used to connect theIRmodule to one of theM5Stack main modules.
- Connectors: Grove
- Range: up to 5 m
- Dimensions: 32 x 24 x 8 mm
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The Kodiak City Council will meet for a regular meeting tonight, but not at the regular time. The meeting, which is normally held at 7:30 p.m., will be held at 6 p.m. so council members can make it to the Borough Assembly’s work session at 7:30 p.m.
The city will make a case to the borough assembly for a land transfer out by the landfill, where the city hopes to start making the better quality Class A compost. A lesser quality Class B compost is currently being made at the landfill. The city manager, some staff members and two council members recently returned from a trip to Washington and Idaho where they toured a handful of composting facilities similar to what Kodiak hopes to build. The site the city wants to build a composting facility on, however, is owned by the borough.
This will be the city’s second attempt at a land transfer with the borough for composting purposes. A few months ago the borough assembly voted against a similar land transfer because neighbors to the property weren’t given the same information that was included in the ordinance and the city didn’t have the necessary permits for the area.
Once again tonight’s city council meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the borough assembly chambers. Following that the borough assembly will hold a work session in the borough conference room at 7:30 p.m.
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Tuesday October 10th, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
BLACKTOCATS LAUNCH: UNIVERSE MIXER
We're excited to announce the launch of the company's first employee resource group (ERG) —Blacktocats! We’re inviting members of the community to join us for a special mixer to celebrate. Please note spaces are limited.
Location: GitHub HQLearn More
The San Francisco MTA T-Line runs directly through the Dogpatch neighborhood. Take the T-Line towards Sunnydale + Bayshore to the 3rd St. & 20th St. stop. Pier 70 is a 10 minute walk with plenty of signs to show the way. If you’re taking BART, you can switch to the T-Line at Embarcadero Station.
If you plan to travel by car, we recommend using ride-sharing services like Lyft and Uber. The address for Pier 70 is 420 22nd Street and you should tell your driver to approach via 22nd St (and not 20th St). There will be plenty of signs along the way too.
Free valet bike parking is available at Pier 70.
Where to stay
The majority of San Francisco’s hotels are in the Union Square and SoMa neighborhoods. These areas have easy access to public transportation and plenty of activities while you aren’t at Universe. Unfortunately prices at San Francisco hotels can be notoriously high, and we recommend Airbnb as an alternative. If you plan to stay at a hotel, we request that you stay at a socially responsible hotel endorsed by fairhotel.org such as:
Where to eat and drink
San Francisco has been named one of the best food cities in the world with some of the most exciting trends in eating and drinking starting here. No visit to the city would be complete without visiting some of our favorites.
- Zuni Cafe, 1658 Market St
- Liholiho Yacht Club, 871 Sutter St
- Cala, 149 Fell St
- AL’s Place, 1499 Valencia St
- Nopa, 560 Divisadero St
- Akiko’s Restaurant & Sushi Bar, 431 Bush St
- Trou Normand, 140 New Montgomery St
- Leo’s Oyster Bar, 568 Sacramento St
- Blue Bottle Coffee, 1 Ferry Building & 5 other locations
- Sightglass Coffee, 270 7th St & 1 other location
- Réveille Coffee Co., 610 Long Bridge St & 3 other locations
- Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia St
- Rye, 688 Geary St
- Whitechapel, 600 Polk St
- Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus Ave
- The Treasury, 115 Sansome St
Where to meet and work
With so many amazing people from the GitHub community in town for Universe, it would be a shame to miss an opportunity to get together and connect. You also might need some dedicated space to work before or after Universe, so you might try these cafes and coworking spaces.
- STEM Kitchen & Garden, 499 Illinois St
- Workshop Cafe, 180 Montgomery St
- Stable Cafe, 2128 Folsom St
- WeWork Transbay, 535 Mission St
- Galvanize, 44 Tehama St
- Bespoke, 845 Market St
- Alloy Collective - 431 Tehama St


When you wake up in the morning first thing you search is an alarm clock to shut that thing down so that you can procrastinate another 5 to 10 min or wake up and get ready if you follow time strictly. The typical day starts with all the daily tasks such as having coffee, having bath, breakfast etc. Have you noticed or counted a number of things you use after getting up from the bed? It's a lot. All these things or gadgets aren't homemade. These are made in a factory or in a mass manufacturing facility nearby or maybe outside country. ( Or even outside our planet i.e if we start living in Mars, Haha Jk.) Think about these machines working tirelessly just to produce enough products to meet weekly deadlines to enjoy weekends or just Sundays or not even that in some factories working 24x7x365. These machines need services on regular basis otherwise they might start to annoy the owner with noises, squeaks etc. Or might even stop working someday. To maintain the health of our tireless machines we should monitor their health regularly. This will even help in predictive maintenance of machines through which we can schedule regular services and we can even tell when the machine will break down beforehand. This can save a lot to a factory producing millions of units of products such as enclosures, wires or injection moulding units etc. Imagine a situation where in which a company having 100 machines manufacturing some plastic enclosures faces a sudden breakdown of 10 machines. The number might be less but will cause damage to 10% of the overall production of that day. If an IoT device on these can tell you about the health of machine and can warn you about the breakdown date and suggest service day for machines? It would be awesome right. Yes, In this project we'll make use of NXP's Rapid IoT device to this predictive maintenance only with the help of some basic sensor parameters. We will use the following sensors from the device: 1. Motion sensor to detect vibration patterns 2. Temperature sensor 3. Light sensor 4. Gas sensor to detect safe levels.We'll set the interval to 0.5sOK, how is vibration data important?
Vibration data is very important because through vibration data we can get following information,
1. Machine status i.e ON or OFF
2. Machine process status i.e which process is going on
3. Production rate i.e just by analysing the data production rate
4. Predictive maintenance through the variation in vibration patterns due to loose or worn out parts.
From first 3 we can derive power consumption, number of products produced etc. which will help in converting old machine to digital machine without really investing on machine.
Predictive maintenance will help in scheduling the service days of machine for smooth industrial operation
Mounting screws provided on the Rapid IoT device is helpful in mounting machines.
Note: Please Don't use double sided tape or foam tape as it suppresses vibrations.STEP 1: Load the required things to the NXP Rapid IoT device
Here we will use
vibration i.e Z axis data of accelerometer sensor,
Light sensor to detect light levels and
Gas level for detecting leakage in an industrial environments.
The project looks like this
To upload this firmware on the rapid IoT device you need to connect the device to your PC, press button 3 and then press the reset button behind the device. After this the device will be detected in your PC. Now you can download the firmware directly to Rapid IoT device. It will reboot and now you can see the values on the device. Values displayed on the device will be just for reference as it will be fixed mounted on the machine after which data may or may not be visible. That's why we will connect Raspberry Pi to send this data to cloud.STEP 2: Connecting Rapid IoT device to Raspberry Pi
Since Raspberry Pi 3 comes with bluetooth we can easily pair our device with it and start receiving data on Pi. After turning on the bluetooth from GUI or command line you can start scanning by the following commands.
$ sudo bluetoothctl [bluetooth]# scan on
This will enable bluetooth search and will list the number of devices
Discovery started [CHG] Controller B8:27:MA:78:1D:EC Discovering: yes [NEW] Device 00:60:37:0A:AF:3F PAF3F [CHG] Device 00:60:37:0A:AF:3F RSSI: -65
After the it has found your device you can pair with the device through following command
[bluetooth]# pair 00:60:37:0A:AF:3F
After it gets paired it starts sending the data of all the parameters we have enabled through our firmware in Rapid IoT Device along with thier UUIDs. We will have to note down this UUIDs of each data like temperature data etc. for further processing.
Now we have set up a connection form the Raspberry Pi to the Rapid IoT device via bluetooth. Now using a Python script we will store the values on a data base. If you just want to test you can even use the values from the Rapid IoT Dashboard. There also you have an option to store the values through.csv file.
First we need to install docker to install r studio on Raspberry Pi.
$ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh $ sudo service docker start
After the successful installation of docker we will have to install R studio image on docker. This image is called rocker.
Why R language?
Because its powerful and easy to operate and gives wonderful data visualizations
and most important is it is opensource.
Install rocker using following command
$ docker pull rocker/rstudio
Otherwise you can even install R studio on your PC where the data analytics and further processing is done. Because R running on Raspberry Pi might be slow due to computation limitations of pi.STEP 4: Plotting the data
You can directly send the data to a.csv file or you can install influx DB and visualize the data in tools like grafana. Former method will be directly opening a.csv file and start writing the 4 values with respect to timestamp and latter will store the same in data base for realtime visualization. I would suggest Influx DB method for remote operations.
There's a nice interface to Python and BLE by IanHarvey called bluepy
Commands for Influx DB:
$ sudo pip3 install bluepy influxdb
You can install grafana from gonzalo123's iotgrafana by executing following commands.
$ sudo pip3 install docker-compose $ git clone https://github.com/gonzalo123/iot.grafana.git && cd iot.grafana $ docker-compose up
After the installation Influx DB and Grafana will be available at following links on browser:
http://raspi ip address:8086 - Influx DB
http://raspi ip address:3000 - Grafana
Raspberry Pi script to save data to.csvSTEP 5: Visualizing on R
Here I will show how we can use tidyverse, datasauRus and lubridate libraries to visualise the data collected by our rapid Iot Device. Please find the attached.csv file which is data generated by the device. Here we have data of cable length manufactured by the 2 machines of different locations. The cable length is being calculated by the ON OFF time of machine using vibration data analysis. It contains 24 hours of data.
Following code will generate the graphs shown below.
# "cable_vendor_data_with_timestamp.csv" %>% read_csv() %>% View() "cable_vendor_data_with_timestamp.csv" %>% read_csv() %>% pull(vendor) %>% unique() # Plot a histogram "cable_vendor_data_with_timestamp.csv" %>% read_csv() %>% ggplot(aes(x = cable_length_in_cms, fill = vendor)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1) + geom_vline(xintercept = 10, color = "red", linetype = 2) "cable_vendor_data_with_timestamp.csv" %>% read_csv() %>% mutate(year = ts %>% year()) %>% mutate(month = ts %>% month()) %>% mutate(day = ts %>% day()) %>% mutate(hour = ts %>% hour()) %>% mutate(minute = ts %>% minute()) %>% mutate(second = ts %>% second()) %>% mutate(day_of_week_num = ts %>% wday()) %>% mutate(day_of_week = ts %>% wday(label = TRUE)) %>% # filter(hour != 3) %>% ggplot(aes(x = cable_length_in_cms, fill = vendor)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1) + geom_vline(xintercept = 10, color = "red", linetype = 2) + facet_wrap( ~ hour, nrow = 6, ncol = 4)
Here I have written a Pyhton code to send an alert when machine experiences weird vibrations due to damage or wear and tear. A threshold value is set so that once the threshold crosses email will be sent to the concerned engineer or owner.
Which makes the project ICense complete industrial IoT system.


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- 1. About Video Of Place Sales Machine Kored Farm
- 2. Machines For Kored Farm Are Widely Used in Indonesia
- 3. Kored Farm Potential in Indonesia
Place Sales Machine Kored Farm – Agriculture in Indonesia is very diverse ranging from palm farming rice farming, corn farming and several types of agriculture. Agriculture has been made by the development of times in Indonesia also experienced rapid progress marked by the use of machines that’s increasingly currently becoming renewal. Rice farmers don’t need to bother to mature crops just employing suitable planting machines is much more efficient and faster. In this guide, we would love to share info about Place Sales Machine Kored Farm in Indonesian with you. Please see the information below.
About Video Of Place Sales Machine Kored Farm
Machines For Kored Farm Are Widely Used in Indonesia
Machines For Kored Farm Which Are popular By The Indonesian Community
#Rotavator Engine – Handling Land For Kored Farm
it’s a machine that has a function in preparing agricultural soil which is much quicker and more effective than preparation by manual way of using human labor. This machine is useful for preparing property that will be used in farming for example await heads, planting corn, planting rice along with others. Motorized engine electricity that employs a blade to convert the soil into the form is used by this equipment. There are a number of models with this particular Rotavator system, so it could be adapted to the demands of agriculture in your farm. Some have the role of forming the dirt earning holes in the ground, softening the soil and tidying the planting area.
This system comes with teeth in the base which functions to arrange the soil according to demands. The usage of the engine by pulling it in the drive source, more like a tractor engine. This cultivator has many types that can be adapted to the requirements of farmers, as an example, one of the other forms is (Rotary Tiller) that may be driven by rotating discs and machine equipment. Crush and then the machine’s purpose would be to stir the hard lumps of dirt to become softer and ready for planting. The distinction with soil stirrers is it may stir the soil carefully so that it doesn’t damage the planting area.
#Singkal Plow Machine – Tractor For Kored Farm
Singkal Twist machines at some regions are known as Tractors, this machine is usually used to plow the rice areas by simply turning the ground surface to the bottom. The function would be to close the bits of rice in order that they can be planted aside from the remaining portion can develop into a fertilizer for crops later. This tractor has two right and left side wheels that have the form of a blade that is about to stir the ground. Farmers utilize this machine to make rice fields prepared and more tidy for replanting.
#Rake Comb Machine For Kored Farm
In contrast to the Singkal plow engine, even if the motor is another rake but it may be installed on a tractor. Rakes have a function to generate the dirt surface more tidy and there are not any holes or cracks in the soil surface, so it’s prepared for rice planting regions. Rakes will be used after the procedure for plowing the fields is completed. Additionally, this rake machine’s function is more effective for tidying areas. So it isn’t surprising, that lots of farmers now are in looking after their subjects, somewhat lighter.
#Sprinkler Machine For Kored Farm
If this machine is, of course, you already know it, a machine used to spray water on plants around. This machine’s role is to irrigate plants equally from over. One of the best ways to save farmers time inside their aquatic plant procedures. This system is usually employed by tea farmers, tobacco farmers or vegetable growers.
Kored Farm Potential in Indonesia
As black people, clearly, we are aware that the agricultural sector is the backbone of the domestic economy and growth. This is based on several advantages generated in the agricultural industry which range from the formation of GDP, foreign exchange profits, labour absorption, and a source of raw materials and abundant food source. Also, Indonesia’s agricultural sector can equalize development from poverty and enhance overall income. Indonesia has a huge land area which permits each and every neighborhood to open. Listed here are a few of the abilities that you want to learn about.
Indonesia is famous for an agrarian country which has a great deal of potential and natural sources which can be utilized for its people’s welfare. There are many types of plants which could be cultivated in Indonesia, particularly food crops such as vegetables, legumes, cassava, rice, and other kinds of food plants. This shows that Indonesia is a nation with abundant organic resources. You will need to know that agriculture from Indonesia can improve the community’s market and consume around 3.5% of the workforce in Indonesia and donate 14.7percent to the Indonesian GNP (Source: BPS, 2012).
#Farmers For Kored Farm
Agricultural potential in Indonesia is still quite promising, of the total people in Indonesia, not all are interested in becoming a farmer. Therefore, if you can state, your chance is still very wide for a farmer by your own field. To this very day, the amount of farmers in Indonesia dominates industries of food agriculture, followed closely by plantation agriculture.
#Agroecosystem For Kored Farm
as well as this huge agricultural land that is still available in large quantities, Indonesia also has the possibility of natural sources such as the abundant Germplasm. The second-largest for its Biodiversity class after the State of Brazil. This capacity can be understood in the wide range of products such as plantations food, horticulture and animal husbandry which have long been used as a supply of food for the people of Indonesia. The abundance of sun to the intensity of rainfall throughout the year which is so stable affirms Indonesia’s property and agroecosystem’s fertility.
#Agricultural Land For Kored Farm
Talking of agricultural property, Indonesia gets the access to land which is arguably quite sufficient. From several studies which have been carried out by the Directorate General of Land and Water Management, states that in 2006 the land region in Indonesia attained 192 million ha, which means that it had been divided into 123 ha for cultivation areas and the rest have been protected forest areas. Of the entire cultivation area which has the potential to be used as agricultural land around 101 million ha and arid soil for plants around 25.5 million ha. Until today there’s still about 50.9 million ha available as property for agriculture. Coupled with climate factors that obviously support land fertility and earn property in Indonesia appropriate for abundant soil.
So much information from us concerning the Place Sales Machine Kored Farm from Indonesia which has promising potential going forward. The information that we can convey to you, until first all about the Place Sales Machine Kored Farm that is still so promising at the future. Thank you.

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The graph below shows the number of books read by men and women at Burnaby Public Library from 2011 to 2014.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph illustrates books read in Burnaby Public Library over 4-years period based on gender. Overall, it can be seen that although both men and women reading books showed an upward trend, an increasing rate was witnessed by them is different.
In 2011, there was a close gap between man and women readers with books read by men at 3000 and 5000 for female. However, three years later, the Burnaby Public Library books read by men rose significantly to 14000 books whereas a less marked increase was shown by the other figure. This leads to a widened gap between them.
In 2012, there were 4000 and 9000 books read by men and women respectively. Between 2012 and 2013, a slight increase was seen the female readers, while man reading book rose significantly to 10,000, making their rate level at the year 2013. In reverse, a sharp slum by 7,000 showed in female rate, whereas a significant growth of 4,000 was seen in males. This leads the male figure to surpass the women readers and reached its peak at the end of the period.

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