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  • 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D Star Ratings | CMS

    Report here from CMS.

    “Ensuring that Medicare works for seniors and people with disabilities, and that people with Medicare have access to robust, stable, high-quality, and affordable options for the coverage they need, are top priorities for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).”

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  • Brookings Institute: Watch Advancing inclusive development in rural towns

    “Brookings Metro and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) will bring together national, state, and local leaders from rural America to discuss community-centered and bottom-up approaches to inclusive economic development. The event will spotlight the experiences and lessons learned from an in-depth Brookings and LISC-led “Learning Lab” deployed in three rural Indiana towns, which was devoted to advancing economic inclusion by linking disinvested rural districts to broader regional growth strategies. It will also offer concrete policy recommendations for how state,local, and federal governments can better advance inclusive access to opportunity, quality of place, and quality of life in rural America.”

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  • Charter for Compassion

    The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
    What have you done for compassion today? Compassion for yourself, compassion for others ~ peope, animals, plants, rocks, water …… click  http://charterforcompassion.org for more info.
    “We promote empathy, peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, and intercultural understanding in a world riddled in turmoil. By encouraging compassionate action the Charter for Compassion aims to create compassionate communities where individuals can connect, collaborate, and support each other in their efforts to create a more compassionate world. These communities foster a sense of belonging and provide platforms for sharing ideas, resources, and initiatives related to compassion.”
     

  • watch music from: Ÿuma – Bin Thara | بين الثرى

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  • Watch: Mud flat mailman | DW Documentary

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  • Seeing Time

    Imagine if you could see time laid out in front of you, or surrounding your body. And you could physically point to specific dates in space.

    Important dates might stand out – birthdays, anniversaries. And you could scan a visible timeline – to check if you were available – whenever you made plans. No actual diary necessary.

    According to Julia Simner, a psychologist from the University of Edinburgh, there is a reasonable chance you can. And that you may use the experience, unconsciously, every day. MORE FROM THE BBC

  • Top Songs I Listened to in 2023: The Molokans – “The Lord Almighty says”

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  • CityNerd: Detroit

    “If the only things you know about Detroit are what you’ve seen in the national news in the last few decades…you’re in for a shock.” CityNerd

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  • Watch: Why you need to STOP microwaving plastic

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  • Shockingly, Hedgehog joke wins comedy prize

    Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. For more click the LINK.
    The Top 10 jokes were judged to be: (Warning: UK humor below)

    • 1) Dan Antopolski – “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”

    • 2) Paddy Lennox – “I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting’.”

    • 3) Sarah Millican – “I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they’re up where they belong.”

    • 4) Zoe Lyons – “I went on a girls’ night out recently. The invitation said ‘dress to kill’. I went as Rose West.”

    • 5) Jack Whitehall – “I’m sure wherever my dad is; he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.”

    • 6) Adam Hills – “Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough.”

    • 7) Marcus Brigstocke – “To the people who’ve got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn’t invent it!”

    • 8) Rhod Gilbert – “A spa hotel? It’s like a normal hotel, only in reception there’s a picture of a pebble.”

    • 9) Dan Antopolski – “I’ve been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I’ve seen it six times and there isn’t.”

    • 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) – “I started so many fights at my school – I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn’t finish a lot of them.”

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