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An  Investor's Business Daily article provided some interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization (see citation at bottom): Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: U.S.      65% England 46% Canada 42% Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months: U.S.       93% England 15% Canada 43% Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months: U.S.      90% England 15% Canada 43% Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month: U.S.       77% England  40% Canada  43% Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people: U.S.      71 England 14 Canada 18 Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are...

"Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason." — Eça de Queirós (Portuguese writer) For a couple of months now I’ve tried to install Server 2008 R2 (which only comes in the 64-bit flavor) and Sharepoint2010 on a virtual machine so that I could conveniently study SharePoint without all the extra resources hogging my regular development box. The first thing you learn is that Windows 7 Virtual PC will not handle a 64-bit guest operating system, not even if It’s the x64 version installed on an x64 box. Drats, Microsoft! Then you learn that VMware is somewhat bloated in that it  installs a lot of extra driver-type baggage, so I gave up on that.  And, I still had issues installing Server 2008 R2 on that. Plus it’s not free, although I do know that they do have a “free” Player version, to their credit. And then you learn that “supposedly” you can trick Windows 7 x64 into accepting an installation of SharePoint 2010 – but the fixes a...

Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and known Liberal, writes on his blog, “The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing”. Looks like at least some Liberals are starting to “get it”. Home sales are down. (New home sales, the lowest in recorded history!) Retail sales are down, and factory orders suffered their biggest decline since March of last year. So what are we doing about it? "Less than nothing," says Reich on his blog. For the second time in two years, Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered most state workers' pay cut to the federal minimum wage because lawmakers missed their deadline to fix the state's $19 billion budget deficit. The Legislature's failure to act has left the state without a spending plan as the new fiscal year begins. Other states are approaching this Greek-style debacle. Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June....