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Re: Support ban on prison-based gerrymandering in NJ

Peter Wagner — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:32:10 -0000

S1055 would create a new dataset that counts incarcerated people at home to be used for political redistricting purposes. It won't affect funding, because no funding formula is based on redistricting data.As a side matter, our research at the Prison Policy Initiative has found that counting incarcerated people in the wrong spot has very little impact on funding. The real impact is on the political process and the legitimacy of legislative decision making.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Ruyzho — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:26:42 -0000

HIPAA does NOT require that a patient give consent to bill an insurance policy. In fact, HIPAA specifically allows disclosures of information related to receiving payment for services.

There are actually four primary instances where your healthcare provider can share your information without getting consent from you.

Treatment - such as discussing your care with other members of the staff providing care, consulting with other providers about the kind of care you need, or giving information to a provider whom to whom they are referring you for more specialized care.

Payment - Such as sending bills to your established address, billing insurance companies, providing information to collections agencies when necessary, and the like.

Operations - Handling internal issues, performing quality enhancement activities, engaging in financial audits, etc.

Legal Requirements - Responding to subpoenas and/or search warrants, assisting in active criminal investigations, public health reporting, abuse and neglect prevention reporting, vital statistics (births and deaths) reporting, etc.

You would probably be surprised just how much of your "private" information is openly shared. Signing the acknowledgement only allows the provider to stop asking you to sign the document each time you come in. It doesn't limit your rights in any way.

Re: Early Lessons In Justice and Economics – at Foodtown

Christine — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:59:18 -0000

The franhill plaza area is mostly minority too, african americans particularly elderly, and west indian and south asian immigrants and hispanics, its a prime example, only what amazes is that they are plenty of supermarket options in the neighboorhood with a mile or two but mobility and access.

Re: Early Lessons In Justice and Economics – at Foodtown

Christine — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:55:33 -0000

In the Foodtown in Hollis, we have the same situation, only there are grocery stores in the same neighborhood, problem is they are atleast 20 blocks apart, a korean green giant being an exception which is a good 10 blocks but not easy to carry groceries across intersections, save for limited parking and transit options.

Here is the problem, many elderly and older folks live in the coop and apartments above, and often
shop there, you can't expect folks on public transportation to stop 20 blocks and then take the bus again and again since the markets are not necessarily near the transit hub,

It's true the sometimes they have things on sale, and you may find interesting stock, but many items for "sale, require that you purchase items already, in fact the weekly circulars will show the exact same item for 20-30% less at a supermarket 10-20 blocks on sale.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Donna — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:32:33 -0000

without consent that is

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Donna — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:31:52 -0000

You don't have to sign. Doctor can still see a patient and document patient refused to sign. You will have to pay for your services in full since insurance can't be billed with consent.

Re: Early Lessons In Justice and Economics – at Foodtown

NewAlhambranite — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:06:18 -0000

Thank You! Your story makes me think of growing up as an Africanamerican kid in Harlem when I would sometimes walk from Our Apartment @ 2049 Fifth Avenue [near 126th Street], to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [One of my faves], and I noticed how this residential neighborhood dramatically changed at Central Park North [then called simply 110th Street]. Though I was raised all over the City, for example my private school was in The Village, and my [Unitarian] Church was in Murry Hill, this was still the deepest lesson on economic inequality I would ever learn!

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Bsine313 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:30:10 -0000

Thank you...I plan on sharing your hard work with fellow classmates as I'm researching this law as well!

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Bwfreedman — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:53:26 -0000

Thanks for your help in analyzing this issue.
Bernard Freedman
clinicalbioethics.com

Re: Christie Claims Budget Cuts Backpedalling As Increases

Ivan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:30:13 -0000

Christie seems to be undermining everyone.

Re: Investigative Journalism Suppressed During Bush Era

Sally G — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:24:48 -0000

Oops, how embarrassing. I meant to look up the title, but then I hit the send button before I remembered to do so! AAARRGH, that is really short-term-memory loss.
WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception is the title; published May 2008 by PublicAffairs.

Re: Investigative Journalism Suppressed During Bush Era

Sally G — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:06:56 -0000

It was interesting to read Scott McClellan’s book, , which lamented the constant-campaign atmosphere of the Bush administration in Washington, D.C. He believed that it was a product of that city, that Bush had been different as governor of Texas. I don’t know anything near enough to analyze the validity of that, but the constant focus on “spinning” issues to benefit the perpetual campaign certainly works against both true journalism as it has long been understood and an informed citizenry.
Something to consider when doing Internet searches is that certain search engines track your history and feed you those items that the algorithm “thinks” would interest you. This is in NO WAY to call into question the validity of what is written here, it is instead to point out yet another way that corporate entities shape what we see/hear/read.

Re: 1 million dollars for a junk car!

Junk Car Blog — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:32:25 -0000

check out www.junkcarblog.com to see reviews on junk car companies

Re: Businesses Now Immigration Police?

@KimiWei — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:17:25 -0000

This isn't going to turn into a friendly harbor for a bunch of trolls looking for places to spew out their hate diatribes against undocumented aliens - or me. You guys keeping searching for posts with certain keywords - I can hit the delete key just as fast. I welcome comments from people who have something to do with their lives besides look for places to post racist spam.

Re: Jorge and Chris get scholarships!

Cmccourt19 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:38:38 -0000

as always, great photo's Kimi !

Chris.

Re: Roza Jaffe: Forced Journeys, a holocaust survivor remembers

J-d-dalton — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:02:39 -0000

Roza, I really need to get ahold of you because seeing your video became very personal. I have been searching for my mother in laws family for many years and found nothing until I heard you talk about the Sibushnicks and how you were named after Reisel who may have died in America. My mother-in-laws mother was Reisel Sibushnick who come to america when she was only 16 to her uncle Leab Press. She died giving birth to my mother-in-law who was named after her, as you say is also your namesake. Please tell me anything you can about her and her family. Pictures for our family history would be great as well. Thanks. Respond to this and I will find a way to get in touch.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Gord — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:10:22 -0000

Thanks so much for this info. I was looking for the exact references you've given in the law. I wish I had found your post yesterday, before I was lied to by the doctor's office staff: "HIPPA says either you sign your name or you don't see the doctor - it's your choice." Well, they got the choice part right, at least. I did get away with filling out the form with nothing but my name, phone number and birthdate.

Re: No user privacy on iPhones & iPads

Lie @ Kismet World Wide Consul — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:21:54 -0000

Thanks for spreading the word! One thing I missed in the email you linked:
"Once a network has linked a UDID to personally identifiable information (PII), they can then link that UDID to all of the apps that use that network. Once a customer uses the same app on two devices, the network can link all information between all apps across both devices. For example, say two apps both use the same advertising network. If app_A asks for an email address on a device (e.g. iPhone), and then provides that to the ad network along with the UDID, the ad network now has a link between the UDID and the email address and can use or sell that information to all the other apps in their network. If app_B collects geo-location data, and delivers that to the ad network along with the UDID, now the ad network can link the email address (from app_A) with the geo-location data (from app_B) and build out their database of PII for each UDID. Once a customer uses app_A on a different device (e.g. their iPad), the ad network can immediately link the two UDIDs together and now knows the geo-location data and email address for the user on the iPad, even if they never open app_B."

Here's everything I wrote as a single blog post:
http://kismetworldwide.com/blo...

Peace,
+Lie

Re: Live fusion of music, dance and painting all performed at once

Tali Farchi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:08:13 -0000

Thanks a lot for those warm and kind words..
we loved to play/paint/create with Steve and all the other great musicians.
Since then we had a tour in the US with steve, and just recently we came back from a Canadian tour that we played with great musicians as well.(a documentary film was made about all those tours this summer)
Live painting with live music become my "THING" and i'm truly in love with my work. every show again make me feel alive!!
Thanks again.
Regards,

Tali Farchi (and Royce Deans)

http://bno-productions.nl/move...
www.movementeffect.com
http://anipo.deviantart.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ta...

Re: Hunger & Charity Now Crimes in the US?

arnie draiman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:37:40 -0000

nice comments, well done, well written. hope people listen.

arnie draiman
www.draimanconsulting.com
www.mitzvahheroesfund.org
www.dannysiegel.com

Re: Montel: “I want to talk about” Iraqi troops

matthewmilam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:00:24 -0000

I didn't realize they shut down production of his show over these comments.

What the hell?

Re: Nashville citizen’s data stolen. Too close to elections?

Douglas — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:24:38 -0000

I heard SC didn't observe MLK day.
lots of people are still fighting the american civil war.

GO Yankees!

Re: Making it isn't all about hard work.

Dossy Shiobara — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:14:53 -0000

First, not just blacks were slaves, white folks too--but you don't hear much about that.

Preferential governmental policies alone does not create wealth or affect its distribution. Education--knowing what to do with such an advantage--does. Or, knowing how to create wealth even in the absence of such an advantage.

Otherwise, how do you explain the many first-generation Asian people in America who came here with very little money, but after 40 years, are millionaires? They started out working in restaurants, dry cleaners, as cleaning people and other menial tasks--just like the Mexicans--except they worked their way up and out of that. Because, they were originally educated in their home country. They were taught _how_ to create wealth.

I suspect the Mexicans' problem is that they send their money back to Mexico to support their families, instead of using it to create wealth in America. They come here without an education in the first place, so they don't even know how to create wealth when the opportunity IS presented to them, anyway. They don't bother to learn English unlike other immigrants, so they never get ahead in this predominantly English-speaking country.

In essence, they self-sabotage. No amount of preferential government policy or affirmative action is going to compensate for that kind of foolishness. They're going to stay poor as long as they maintain that strategy.

Re: Conservatism has been killing Americans

mmilam — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:01:59 -0000

Just as a note and figuring you'll get this faster, the new URL for my blog (the new host is two dollars cheaper) is http://thechiwriter.typepad.co....

Matthew

Re: Nation-state Walmart store “police” use harsh interrogation tactics

mmilam — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:14:10 -0000

Unforunately my people can be hardheaded on certain issues.