Lefrak City a large housing development in the Corona neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.
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Lefrak City (The Spirit of The City)
Tap That 001: The Diamond Bar, Brooklyn, NY
On this episode of Tap That we visit The Diamond in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This bright and cheery neighborhood bar offers a carefully-selected variety of great beer. We meet with Dave, the Diamond’s owner, who lets us in on the inspiration behind the bar (hint, Dave’s in a Van Halen tribute band), and guides us through some of the unique beer his bar offers. Along the way, we learn about Session Beers, why good Kölsch always comes in 11s, and the finer points of fitting vintage ski gondolas into small spaces.
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Universal Health Care Insurance & Neighborhood Healthcare Centers / Video
Universal Health Care Centers — Are Physicians Doing Their Part? / Video. Film on why health care workers and health care centers are needed to care for the uninsured, homeless and poor. From the public domain film, “A Right to Health”. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Universal health care is health care coverage that is extended to all eligible residents of a governmental region and often covers medical, dental, and mental health care. These programs vary in their structure and funding mechanisms. Typically, most costs are met via a single-payer health care system or national health insurance. Universal health care is provided in all wealthy, industrialized countries, except for the United States. It is also provided in many developing countries and is the trend worldwide. Universal health care is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways. The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at extending access to health care as widely as possible. Most countries implement universal health care through legislation, regulation and taxation. Legislation and regulation direct what care must be provided, to whom, and on what basis. Usually some costs are borne by the patient at the time of consumption but the bulk of costs come from a combination of compulsory insurance and tax revenues. Some programs are paid for entirely out of tax revenues. In some cases, government involvement also includes directly managing the health care system, but many countries use mixed public-private systems to deliver universal health care. The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system. The government directly covers 27.8% of the population through health care programs for the elderly, disabled, military service families and veterans, children, and some of the poor, through Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and TRICARE. Indirectly, various governmental entities in the United States also contribute towards the healthcare coverage of many millions of federal, state, and local government employees and their families who are covered by traditional employer-based group insurance coverage with insurance premiums often substantially subsidized by the government employer using public tax revenues. Federal law ensures public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. However, this unfunded mandate has contributed to a health care safety net that some analyses say is increasingly strained. Certain types of medical spending and particularly health insurance benefit from significant tax subsidies; in particular, employer-sponsored health insurance is a non-taxable benefit. In all, government spending accounted for 45.1% of total health spending in the U.S. in 2005. Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 15% of GDP, the highest in the world. A study of international health care spending levels in the year 2000, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, found that while the U.S. spends more on health care than other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the use of health care services in the U.S. is below the OECD median by most measures. The authors of the study concluded that the prices paid for health care services are much higher in the U.S.. An estimated 84.7% of citizens have some form of health insurance coverage, either through their employer, purchased individually, or through government sources. The number of uninsured, at 45.7 million in 2007, decreased slightly from 2006, because government programs covered nearly 3 million more people. It is projected that the current economic downturn and rising unemployment rate likely will cause the number of uninsured to grow by at least 2 million in 2008. One study estimates that about 25% of the country’s uninsured, or roughly another 11 million people, are eligible for government health care programs, but they are not enrolled. However, assuring adequate financing to cover those who are eligible remains a challenge.
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Body Count “There Goes The Neighborhood”
Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1990. The group was founded by Ice-T, best known for his contributions to the hip hop genre. Ice-T founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal, and took on the role of vocalist for the group, writing the lyrics for most of the group’s songs, while the music was written by lead guitarist Ernie C.The group’s self-titled debut album was released on Sire Records in 1992.
The song “Cop Killer” was the subject of much controversy. Although Sire Records’ parent company, Warner Bros. Records, defended the single, Ice-T chose to remove the track from the album because he felt that the controversy had eclipsed the music itself.The group left Sire the following year. Since then, they have released three further albums on different labels, none of which have been received as commercially or critically well as their debut album.
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How many kids in the world suffer with violence in there school’s, neighborhood & at home?
I need know the different types of violence that are in the world wide schools, neighborhoods & at homes. Also I’ll need to know how many kids are suffering with the different types of violence in there schools, neighborhoods & at homes.
(My production team & I is looking for a good answer cuz, this is going to be part of are program on Maui. The program will be aired on Maui’s education channel & maybe on myspace. But if we can’t get a good answer then that’s ok at least you tried your best. Thank you for your time & good luck trying to answer the question.)
God, check a domestic abuse center. Most child violence is unreported because it’s ‘just kids.’ Verbal and physical are the two main categories. Sanctioned, unsanctioned, institutionalized, etc. I think you need to narrow this down. There’s violence like wars and genocides that include children,. there’s slavery and exploitation and child workers, there’s ‘at risk’ abusers, children of unfit parents, neighborhood thugs racism cruelty. etc. Ask something specific.
I live in a neighborhood where no one seems to cook for their family…?
I live on a cul-de-sac and all thru the week there are pizza deliveries, chinese deliveries, and other dinner deliveries. Most of the people on my block have elementary age children and it seems no one really cooks dinner anymore. On trash day there are discarded pizza boxes piled up on top of peoples trash. Are we cooking less for our children? Do you order take out a lot or do you buy already prepared frozen foods for your family like Stouffers or Marie Calendars? I’m not insulting anyone so please don’t get angry. I only have my husband to cook for and I don’t know what it’s like to have to cook for a large family after having worked all day long. It just seems that back in the day, moms actually cooked dinner. My mom worked and went to school full time, had six children, and we never ate "already prepared" food as a child.Tell me your opinion? Do you cook, order out, or buy per cooked frozen food at the supermarket? Are kids more overweight now than when you were a child?
Damn right! i think it is rather disgusting that these days we find ourselves very busy in the world we have created and try to please bosses at work and work for bonuses but do not actually think about one thing we work so hard for – healthy, happy living! i see ready cooked meals, crisps, takeaways,chocolates, pop,sweets in shopping trolleys that it just reminds me how much of additives, colours, e-numbers and preservatives go down our gullets rather than wholesome, healthy, freshly cooked, nutritious food. yes i think that obesity can be blamed to eating lifestlye.while I admit to keeping frozen vegetable in the freezer for those just-in-case situations, we buy fresh vegetables & fruits all the time. Start to cook just 20 minutes b4 we sit to eat. we might eat out perhaps once in 2-3 months. no takeaways or frozen foods. They taste of cardboard anyway and don’t’ give any satisfaction whatsoever.A happy, healthy home is where the kitchen is lively and well used on a daily basis where there fresh vegetables and fruits stocked up and family have quality time together.hope that helps 
need form requesting permission to plant trees on private property from neighborhood association?
I can’t imagine having to request permission to plant trees on private property from a group of people who don’t pay the mortgage or property taxes!
Good luck!!
I’m trying to find out about crime in a specific neighborhood for free. What site can I visit?
I’ve seen state statistics and city statistics. I’m looking for itemized (rape, burgler, robbery) for a more specific area.
If it’s available on the Internet, it’s on the website of the local police or sheriff’s dept website. If not there, contact that department and ask them if they have a system for acquiring hard copies of the crime statistics mapping.
I want to complain about the topless bar opening in my neighborhood. ?
who do i complain?
You have to act quick, before the city gives zoning approval. Go to city hall. Talk to the Zoning Officer and Mayor. As who your councilperson is. Write a letter to your council person. Find out when the public hearing is. Go to the hearing. Register to voice your opinion.
How do you deal with drug dealing in your neighborhood when the systems in place have failed?
There are systems that are supposed to help communities deal with these issues (safety/protection, education, health). Some communities have less of these services available or pieces of services that are broken (police/justice, schools, city services). How are communities with limited resources successfully dealing with issues of drug dealing in the middle of their blocks when they don’t have the same options as other communities?
get the media involved. One thing a police chief doesn’t like is bad press. If you can get undercover video footage of the dealing taking place, and recorded phone conversations with the police dept begging for help with the situation, you can bring this evidence to the local media outlet (news) and if you have some good stuff they will do a story on it. The news LOVES "stir up the pot" type stories like this especially when they "uncover" deficits in local government.