DJP Update 4-29-2010 Some tweets covering size of new healthcare law & a tip on how to transfer data BlackBerry to Mac; & Jazz Fest! And vote Saturday! Met a Pulitzer winner!
If you take the Senate bill, amendments, reconciliation etc and put it all together you end up with 2,828 pages and 396,848 words for Public Laws 111-148 & 111-152. Of course, there will be regulations written for much of the bill and this will be gigantic! I predict it will be greater in length than tax code and subject to more litigation. Meanwhile, millions remain uninsured even if this bill is enacted as written. Costs will not go down and payments for doctors will be mandated lower as time goes on. Gravity exists.
Finally found a program that allowed me to get my notes from my Palm that were now in my old BlackBerry transferred to my Mac! I had two programs that promised to do that but they never worked for Memos and notes in the Palm and BlackBerry. Some but NOT ALL would be transferred and those that got transferred would be DUPLICATED! So frustrating. Finally, the new PocketMac 5.0 works to transfer all of the memos and notes. It even allows the transfer for the memos to go to Entourage and than is what I did so as not to mess up my “NOTES” in Mac MAIL program in event a glitch. Transferred them all! I had over a 1000 notes that ended up being doubled by old program. I wanted those notes because all of my notes that I wrote over the years for my book, “On Leadership…” were in those notes. Some were not used and are available for next book as long as I didn’t lose them in old PDAs.
Now notes safe and backed up on external drives. Progress!
Info on PocketMac is at: http://www.pocketmac.net/
Plea: If you live in Jefferson Parish, be sure to vote Saturday. See below. The coroner, Dr. Bob Treuting, is a med school classmate of mine from Tulane and he is doing a great job as coroner. But no money, no mission. This is not a new tax, just a continuation of the special 1-mill property tax that supplies over half of the coroner’s office budget. Read the article linked in the tweet.
Finally, I did an interview with Dr. Sheri Fink following Hurricane Katrina regarding disaster preparation and the importance of communication via gadgets, texting, etc. It turns out she read my book, “On Leadership…” and gave it a 5 star review at Amazon. Now the Pulitzer Prizes for 2010 have been announced and she won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism! My interview did not deal with the story that lead to her Pulitzer. She had the highest high-tech mini-recorders with her. More than one!
See details of her Katrina chronicle about doctors and a hospital http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2010-Investigative-Reporting
And now the tweets! I hope you find them interesting. Never to old to learn from the young about poetry as you will note in one tweet. And watch out what you underline on KINDLE!
Tweets at: www.Twitter.com/DJPNEWS
• Wonder how large new #hcr laws P.L.111-148&111-152 with the amends? I took new law PDF>text>WORD=2828pg &396,848wd Wait for regs!12 minutes ago via web
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Good news! PocketMac 5.0 for BlackBerry allowed me to transfer all memos (over 1000) from BB to Mac Leopard. Prev ver failed.about 3 hours ago via Echofon
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A new NOLA mayor is proof that Hope Springs Eternal: May 3, 2010 Inauguration of New Orleans’ Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieuabout 6 hours ago via Echofon
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Outstanding poem! RT @BillGates Possibly the most interesting GatesNotes post yet, but I may be slightly biased… http://bit.ly/bk69fXabout 7 hours ago via Echofon
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@GalleyCat Invasion of privacy by Kindle with publishing of highlighting! Sent by @DJPNEWSabout 7 hours ago via Echofon in reply to GalleyCat
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Actor #SteveMartin plays banjo today with “SteveMartin&TheSteepCanyonRangers” today at#NewOrleansJazzFest 3:55pm GentillyStageabout 7 hours ago via Echofon
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More info about importance voting Sat to renew 1-mill property tax for Coroner’s Office Jefferson Parishhttp://tinyurl.com/26s8d3410:58 AM Apr 28th via web
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Vote Sat, May 1 renew 1-mill prop tax, ½ coroner’s budget, so excellent JeffersonParish DrTreuting can investigate suspicious deaths etc10:53 AM Apr 28th via web
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Stay well.
Donald
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