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One the many weird things about the 2016 election was that the working class voter embraced a guy whose brand was wealth, who announced his presidency with a trip down a gold plated escalator in a New York City building with his name on the top, who got out of serving the country with a bogus doctor’s note about bone spurs.
But it happened. In part, these voters turned to him, because Hillary was a terrible politician, who offended them with talk of being deplorable. But they also just liked the guy.
Around the time when Trump first announced his candidacy in June 2015, I took Jonah to the dentist. When Trump came on the TV in the waiting room, a college kid who was setting up his next appointment with the secretary said, “that guy is going to get it.” He explained that he had a summer job working in the garage in Trump Tower and that random people, desperate to express their support for him, would end up on the garage phone line, after taking a wrong turn on the phone tree. Scores of fans were telling the garage workers how much they loved their boss.
Guys working in factories and fields supported this strange dude, and we didn’t pay attention. Do we discount those folks as deplorables, racists, stupid? That’s a bad move politically and morally. I just can’t write off 60 million people.
But then Trump got sick. He got sick, because he didn’t follow the same rules as they rest of us. Everybody – PhDs, immigrants, religious communities, those Pennsylvania miners — are suffering on some level from COVID. Our kids are uneducated, our old folks are isolated, businesses are shut. Everybody is suffering, except our president, who laughed at the rules saying that they didn’t pertain to him. The guy, who claimed to speak for the common guy, didn’t walk the populist walk, because he NEVER did.
Trump not only got sick, but he infected everyone around him. Now, he has lost his ability to talk to supporters on TV shots and rallies. The polls are not in his favor, though Biden has not yet locked down the Electoral College. Old people, in particular, who have been faithfully following the rules are walking away from him.
Biden will be our next president, barring some unforeseen event. I do hope that we will be able to find some commonalities between the guy in the plastics factory and the guy on the BLM march in Oakland. I think Obama could have done that, but can Biden?
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Laura wrote, “Guys working in factories and fields supported this strange dude, and we didn’t pay attention.”
Trump starred on The Apprentice for something like 14 seasons, starting in 2004. You can’t buy that kind of publicity.
Also, in the run-up to the 2016 election, Trump got literally billions of dollars in free media–and we’re not just talking about FOX.
The Wikipedia article on “Media coverage of the 2016 election” says this:
“Studies have shown that all 2016 candidates received vastly less media coverage than Donald Trump. Trump received more extensive media coverage than Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders combined during a time when those were the only primary candidates left in the race.”
“From the beginning of his campaign through February 2016, Trump received almost $2 billion in free media attention, twice the amount that Clinton received. According to data from the Tyndall Report, which tracks nightly news content, through February 2016, Trump alone accounted for more than a quarter of all 2016 election coverage on the evening newscasts of NBC, CBS and ABC, more than all the Democratic campaigns combined.”
I think that the covid diagonisis, the infectiousness, the unwillingness to see rules as applying to him have no affect on the cult of trump (i.e. the people who would support him if he shot someone on fifth avenue). As you say, it can’t be that there are 60 million Americans in the cult of rump. So, it’s always been about people who are adjacent and what they are willing to do (well, those who are adjacent and live in the states where small margins can tip the scales).
I still don’t know what those people will do and I don’t know how any of the various cycles of news about Trump affect them. ILiberals in my neck of the woods think Democrats should just say they hate fracking. Friend thinks it makes a difference in Pennsylvania, where individual voters are getting checks from fracking companies. But will those people prioritize fracking over the xenophobia, racism, right-wing violence supporting, anti-science, voter-suppression, anti-democracy president (and the party that supports him)? Will white catholics support the trump (to abolish the protections for abortion, or whatever other priorities drive them)? Will they do it when trump doesn’t appear to care about whether they get COVID and falsely promises monoclonal antibody cocktails for them?
bj said, “But will those people prioritize fracking over the xenophobia, racism, right-wing violence supporting, anti-science, voter-suppression, anti-democracy president (and the party that supports him)? Will white catholics support the trump (to abolish the protections for abortion, or whatever other priorities drive them)?”
I think that the recent White House COVID episode has been very bad for Trump. But, going through your list:
–Is it such a bad time for xenophobia? One of the US’s COVID mistakes was not having stronger, broader travel restrictions earlier.
–Regarding racism, at least up until the White House COVID outbreak, Trump was doing really well with Hispanics in Florida.
“Yet recent polls show Biden has lost ground among Florida’s Latino voters compared to his predecessors Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom outperformed their Republican rivals among this key voting bloc in the last three presidential elections. Trump and Biden are virtually tied in Florida…”
–Regarding “right-wing violence,” people have a lot of recent examples of left-wing violence to at least balance it out.
–Regarding “anti-science,” a lot of COVID measures don’t make much sense. See, for example, DC’s requirement that everybody 3 and over wear a mask outside under almost all circumstances–even when more than 6 feet from others.
DC has also blocked masked, outdoor church services…while allowing mass outdoor masked protests. The question of who is and isn’t “anti-science” is pretty debatable. (It looks like the DC church has prevailed in court.)
–The mailbox voter-suppression thing was a conspiracy theory. “Voter suppression” is for Democrats what “voter fraud” is to Republicans–an excuse for losing.
–Regarding “anti-democracy”–there has been an effort to run the states by fiat. At some point, this has to stop, and normal democratic processes have to take over again. As David French wrote in an article, “It’s Time for ‘Pandemic Law’ to End.”
–Red areas of the US largely have their schools open. This is a big deal for poor and middle income families with children.
–Trump has (as we all know) made a lot of unfortunate decisions regarding COVID. However, Biden has really nothing substantive to offer, and by the time he’s inaugurated in Jan. (if that happens), the COVID cake will already be baked. There’s nothing that Biden can do on January 20 that is going to substantially affect the course of the pandemic–although the anti-vaccine talk that he and Harris have been guilty of may well cost tens of thousands of lives. Say what you will about Trump, he hasn’t been scaring people about the vaccine.
–I’ve been a bit on the fence about voting. My choices have been “vote for nobody/third party” or “vote for Trump.” I had initially planned to not vote for Trump, as my presidential vote normally doesn’t matter in my state. However, the months of uncontrolled chaos and violence of BLM/antifa/anarchists and the ACB nomination have pushed me toward being reasonably happy about voting for Trump. But then the White House thing (a completely unforced error) happened…On the other hand, if my vote actually mattered in TX, Trump would be losing massively across the country, so again, my vote wouldn’t really matter. So, probably third party?
–Yay, Amy Coney Barrett!
“Is it such a bad time for xenophobia? One of the US’s COVID mistakes was not having stronger, broader travel restrictions earlier.”
Restricting travel is not xenophobia. I live in a state that banned people traveling here from Rhode Island. While I often find RIers strange and off-putting with their “Drive more than 15 minutes somewhere? I’ll have to pack a suitcase for that” and the fact that you can put any 2 RIers together and they will find at least one person in common that they know, and their habit of giving directions like “Make a left where the Outlet used to be, then drive 3 blocks and turn left where that shoe store used to be,” that’s not xenophobia.
Abbott voter suppression: 1 drop off ballot box for Harris county, population 4,713,325 and for Loving county, population 169.
Democrats still more likely to take a vaccine, though their trust is declining (not more than Republicans).
–Biden is refusing to say if he will pack the court and Harris is also dodging the question, which is very bad, and it’s even worse of the press to . Hopefully, Biden wouldn’t do it, but if he does, we’re going to get to experience a series of tit-for-tat Supreme Court appointments, until SCOTUS is the size of the US Senate. It’s going to be farcical. The only way court-packing makes sense as a move is if the Democratic party control the presidency and Senate indefinitely–which is very unlikely to happen.
bj said, “Democrats still more likely to take a vaccine, though their trust is declining (not more than Republicans).”
To be fair to everybody, people who have already had COVID may not feel that they need the vaccine, so the more time goes by and the more people get COVID, the fewer people are going to be left who are in a rush to be vaccinated.
Of course, the COVID vaccine may wind up being a routine, repeated thing like the flu shot.
bj wrote, “Abbott voter suppression: 1 drop off ballot box for Harris county, population 4,713,325 and for Loving county, population 169.”
It wasn’t great to start restricting drop-off locations so close to the election, but your description ignores the fact that Texas has extended early general election voting by nearly an extra week.
“Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday extended the early voting period for the November election by six days, citing continued challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Early voting for the Nov. 3 election will now begin Oct. 13 instead of Oct. 19. The end date remains Oct. 30.”
“For the runoffs, Abbott doubled the early voting period, shifting the start date from July 6 to June 29. The end date was July 10.”
The “anti-vaccine talk” by Biden/Harris is focused on the wacky ideas Trump had put forward that a vaccine would miraculously be ready before the election – something that no reputable epidemiologist believed (and yes, I know both an infectious disease specialist and someone who heads up a public health organization, plus several other doctors who have been tracking this). The manipulation of the CDC by this administration has been horrifying. I absolutely believe that he would push a vaccine through without adequate testing to win the election. If the doctors including Fauci lined up in support, I’d take it without hesitation, which is exactly what Harris said in the debate. But if it’s his own doctor and no one else, no.
Suddenly, the right wing cares about the lives of ordinary Black people in urban areas, which I guess is nice except that it’s now somehow the fault of peaceful protestors if someone loots a building on a street where they protested four hours before – even if that person is a white supremacist in blackface. (Yes, I know that only happened once. But given the amount of energy the right put into infiltrating antiwar and civil rights groups in the 1960s and 1970s, I would not be at all surprised if some of the violence came from that quarter.)
bj wrote, “Abbott voter suppression: 1 drop off ballot box for Harris county, population 4,713,325 and for Loving county, population 169.”
and AmyP responded: “It wasn’t great to start restricting drop-off locations so close to the election, but your description ignores the fact that Texas has extended early general election voting by nearly an extra week.”
Yeah, that is not an answer to the drop-off location problem. I suspect if a Democratic governor said 1 ballot box was enough for 4.7 million Republicans – looks like that is about twice the population of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana combined – you might be complaining. If there’s an explanation of why only one box is appropriate, I’d like to hear it.
I hope that the president will be unpleasantly surprised by the fact the ACB will be ethical and try to follow the law if there are disputes over voting. I won’t agree with her on many things but I think he is mistaken that she will “pay him back” however he wants.
There’s no question who is more anti-science. Trump and his administration has undermined practically every government science agency: the CDC, with back-pedaling statements, unclear advice, lack of mask wearing; the FDA with a political operative pulling/editing/limiting scientists statements, politically motivated opposition to vaccine safety measures; he National Weather Service, with the head of the organization disavowing his own scientists because of Trump vanity; his personal doctors, with refusals to state the time course of his infectiousness, and his own personal belief that he understands immunology better than everyone else.
Xenophobia is always bad and it is particularly bad in the way that Trump implements it, when brown congresspeople are told to “go back” because they disagree with him, that judges are deemed biased because they are brown and their grandparents were not born in this country, that immigrants from countries where the people’s skin is brown are undesirable. Shutting one’s borders does not have to be xenophobic (I’m not calling Canada’s closing its southern border xenophobic), but it is when it is done based on race or skin color (the emphasis on China in our management of the early pandemic was one of our failures).
And then there’s the support of the Proud Boys and the militias. Voting for Trump is sitting alongside racists, misogynists, voter suppression and the goal of minority rule, rampant hypocrisy and incompetence, including Trump.
White supremacist, Alt-right terrorist have killed more than 300 people since 1994. How many on the left?
Trump’s undermining of the scientific integrity of the CDC and FDA will have profound consequences for the acceptance of a vaccine (on which there is plenty of distrust across the political spectrum, with Republicans being less likely to take a vaccine (36% v 58%). A biggest effect of a non-Trump presidency will be the science of the vaccine roll out and whether people will believe it).
I am honestly shocked at the trade off you describe which I fundamentally see as a rejection of my right to the American experiment as a full and equal citizen with the same right to participate in government as any other American.
bj said, “White supremacist, Alt-right terrorist have killed more than 300 people since 1994. How many on the left?”
Where do you get your list?
Assuming you’re right, that’s 300 people over 26 years. Which means that it’s 4X more likely to be killed by lightning.
Or, alternately, over the same period of time, it’s been easily over 10X more likely to be killed on US soil by Islamic extremists (9/11, Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood, the Boston bombers, the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando,the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, the 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting, etc.).
If Islamic terror is not a big deal in the US, then far right violence is even less of a big deal.
“I am honestly shocked at the trade off you describe which I fundamentally see as a rejection of my right to the American experiment as a full and equal citizen with the same right to participate in government as any other American.”
There are always going to be trade-offs. There are no perfect politicians and no perfect policies, and different people are always going to weight the trade-offs differently.
I personally have been horrified by the months of public lawbreaking that we’ve seen in our major cities, by the inequitable enforcement of COVID regulations, and by the decision to sacrifice millions of children’s education and well-being on increasingly flimsy grounds.
There is a very good article at the link. Money quote: “[T]he white working class resents professionals but admires the rich.” Of course, Biden was a very mediocre professional (bad grades at a third tier law school), if that helps. You should read the whole article. https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
y81, that is a spectacular article. ” Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the email server. The smugness: the basket of deplorables. Worse, her mere presence rubs it in that even women from her class can treat working-class men with disrespect. ”
There is some of Clinton in Harris, she is being – so far – a lot smarter about not letting it slip out. I think Biden-Harris will win. I also think a Trump who had done a better and more thoughtful job would be absolutely unassailable and cruising for a second term. It will be interesting to see if the Dems manage to consolidate the support with which they have been gifted more through good luck than competence. If they do, the Reeps may well go the way of the Whigs.
a Trump who had done a better and more thoughtful job would be absolutely unassailable and cruising for a second term
But then he wouldn’t be Trump and he would never have made it out of the Republican primary. December 2015 or February 2016 would have been a really good time for the Rs to have stopped the Trump shitshow.
You know, my plan is that the white working class *will* become a minority in this country and that Democrats will at least somewhat be successful in preventing the effectiveness of voter suppression efforts of the Republicans. Then hopefully the Republicans will double down on the 2012 “election autopsy” (which was rejected in the age of Trump) and appeal to all Americans on the basis of issues rather than rejecting large swathes of the society as not being real Americans.
(but, I appreciate Joan Williams and have bookmarked the article).
Interesting piece by Williams, which mostly ignored gender, in the context of her book on Work/Family balance: “Unbending Gender”. The ideas on changes in divorce law seem particularly designed to inflame men’s rights activist style resentment. But, maybe those ideas are targeted more at the professional class than the working class.
There is a portion of the professional/ upper middle class necessary for the operation of the Trump’s political movement and the mobilization of mass support. We can, and should for both moral and political reasons, count them as deplorable racists and do everything in our power to keep them from positions of public responsibility.
After we get Trump out of office, I think we have to make it a mission to get every single one of his enablers in Congress tossed out on the street. McConnell and crew are the true deplorables.
I’m still working for Biden this weekend. If it works, I’m planning on keeping up at least the donations (not to the same amount) but shifting to PA legislative races.
Assuming that Biden wins the presidency, the Democrats will thereafter lose offices at every level of government throughout his presidency. That is Current Politics 101, which applies to every single president since 1980. Maybe things were different in Roosevelt’s day, but we don’t live in that world.
“Assuming that Biden wins the presidency, the Democrats will thereafter lose offices at every level of government throughout his presidency. That is Current Politics 101, which applies to every single president since 1980. Maybe things were different in Roosevelt’s day, but we don’t live in that world.”
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Insights+ -- finds savings opportunities; PreserveRx – provides protection from financial risksMarch 5, 2021
This three-part series looks at drug super spenders: Part 1 looks at who these members are. And why integrated data is so crucial to understanding their health care needs and health care costs. Part 2 examines why this group of members is growing so fast. It looks at Prime’s effective use of pipeline management and value-based contracting. Part 3 looks at solutions that can support health outcomes and save millions of dollars on high-cost drugs.
Prime’s research gets put to work at the member level, at the plan level, and across our book of business. It’s designed that way. We call that actionable analytics. And it starts with the member. Because what’s good for the member is good for all of us. Health care solutions need to work for all of us.
Insights+ can give a health plan the big picture of one patient’s total drug therapy
Changing from tablets to capsules saved $90,000 for one patient. A patient was prescribed Imbruvica® (ibrutinib) tablets. This is a targeted therapy for treating cancer. As a result of the manufacturer’s pricing strategy, ibrutinib tablets cost more than the same dosage of ibrutinib capsules.
Insights+ is Prime’s web-based platform with artificial intelligence and access to our integrated medical and pharmacy claims data. It helped identify that the patient taking the higher priced tablet form could be taking a formulation of the drug in a lower-priced capsule.
The $12,000 monthly charge for the tablet form of Imbruvica was in sharp contrast to the $4,000 monthly charge for the capsules for the same dosage (140mg). That added up to $90,000 for one year for one patient.
The plan had around 100 patients on Imbruvica. There might only be a few patients of them on tablets instead of capsules. But Insights+ can easily find those needles in the haystack. Then we could figure out how they got through current utilization management (UM) strategies and provide feedback upstream to make the safety net stronger.
This discovery led to the creation of an upstream UM strategy that could save Blue Plan clients millions of dollars a year. The Blue Plan also reached out to ask providers to switch any current patients taking tablets to the capsule form.
Applying Insights+ at a plan level grows its impact significantly
Our goal is to help members improve their health while also saving money. We’ve shown our Blue Plan clients how to use a specially trained managed care pharmacist to review the claims of high drug-cost member files. Several of our health plan clients have reported significant results in this way.
This program demonstrates the importance of providing managed care pharmacists with appropriate access to data. That way they can help make sure that high-cost specialty therapies are used safely and cost-effectively, regardless of benefit.
One plan, with 1.5 million members, assigned one managed care pharmacist to review high-drug cost members’ drug therapies.
Over the course of one year, the pharmacist focused on comparing prior authorization approvals to claims dispensing patterns. With Insights+, medical and pharmacy claims were available for examination.
The pharmacist identified a range of high impact opportunities that ultimately saved the plan $2.7 million. The pharmacist, in collaboration with the BCBS plan pharmacy department, executed on the following savings opportunities:
- The hepatitis C PA detailing process was improved so that only 56 days of therapy was dispensed. This resulted in more than $1 million in savings.
- A fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) investigation of a pharmacy found suspicious dispensing patterns of high-cost claims. This resulted in nearly $700,000 of savings.
- One patient was over-using acute drugs for hereditary angioedema, using two acute drugs where one is recommended. A consultation with the patient’s doctor resulted in selecting one acute drug (ending the other prescription). Focusing efforts on dosing modifications with one prescription was more successful. This saved the plan more than $462,000.
- Dosing can be a challenge for some of these high-cost drugs. With dosing review and optimization, savings quickly added up. This affected:
- Nine members on secukinumab for a savings of more than $327,000
- One member on selexipag for a savings of $71,000
- One member on adalimumab for a savings of $56,000
- One member on ibrutinib for a savings of $31,000
- Seven members on a range of other drugs for a savings of $29,000
The grand total came to $2.7 million in savings.¹ The personnel investment for one pharmacist balanced against the direct savings gave a return on investment of 9:1 for one year’s effort.
Applying Prime’s significant clinical knowledge to predictive modeling
Prime’s use of predictive modeling has been honed by years of use in ³ for the traditional drug categories (adherence, controlled substance use and abuse and others). Based on our groundbreaking research, predictive modeling is now also built into the products that target the narrow band of drug super spenders.² ³
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Insights+ can provide a High Cost Predictive Model report that will show plans how to target interventions on members that are likely to become drug super spenders within 12 months. These members are not super spenders yet — but based on known patterns, we think they probably will be.
For example, we’ve found that members are likely to become a super spender if they are, for example, on a targeted drug list, or have total drug costs on the pharmacy benefit and medical drug costs on the medical benefit in the previous 12 months above a certain level.
Our report provides:
- Prediction of whether the member will spend greater than $250,000 in medical and pharmacy drug claim expenditures during the next 12 months
- Probability that the member will have over $250,000 in medical and pharmacy drug claim expenditures in the next 12 months
The report also predicts the total drug spend the member will have in the next 12 months and if they are expected to have an increase or decrease in their drug expenditures.
The report lists and prioritizes possible interventions. It also provides direction for those interventions, such as duplicate therapy, site of care, and more.
Predictive modeling shows us where there are significant savings opportunities, if we act now.
Protecting access to life-changing gene therapy — PreserveRx
We all want access to potentially life-changing or curative gene therapies. But the costs for these ultra-expensive therapies can be prohibitive.
We’ve been complaining about rising costs of brand drugs for several years. Well, the costs for orphan drugs and gene therapy go far beyond the pricing of brand and generics. Where a generic might cost $420 a year, an orphan drug might cost $200,000 or $400,000. And gene therapy costs can be in the millions.
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PreserveRx is a clinical and financial solution designed to reinsure high-cost gene therapies, specifically for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. It protects payers from sudden, one-time costs due to covering ultra-expensive gene therapies. It’s offered by Prime, together with BCS Insurance Company, and is designed to help payers cover these gene therapies and therefore help preserve member access and coverage.
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PreserveRx reduces the financial risk to high-cost gene therapies for therapies currently available and select new products as approved.
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Prime’s research to identify the number of drug super spenders provided the foundational insights to inform the development of PreserveRx.
Don’t wait to get ahead of the growth of drug super spenders
This series of articles has shown the growing impact of drug super spenders on drug spend. It’s provided context for that growth and presented some of Prime’s strategies for managing this spend. With programs informed by data analytics, Prime can work with its Blue Plan clients to help optimize health outcomes and control costs for drug super spenders.
- Hintze P, Dauer S, Eckwright D, Gleason P. Specialty Drug Managed Care Pharmacist Clinical Review Program Savings Among 1.5 Million Commercially Insured Lives. Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy: Virtual meeting April 2020. J Manag Care Spec Pharm 2020;26(4-a):S72. https://plan.core-apps.com/amcp2020/abstract/a952fc2ad5de2fbd1164d14c6bd30739
- Bowen K, Gleason P. Drug Super Spenders:2016-2018 Growth in Number of Members and Total Pharmacy Plus Medical Benefit Drug Cost for Members with Extremely High Annual Drug Cost in a 17 Million Member Commercially Insured Population. Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy national meeting Baltimore, MD. October 2019. J Manag Care Spec Pharm 2019:25(10-a):S90. https://www.jmcp.org/doi/pdf/10.18553/jmcp.2019.25.10-a.s1
- Bowen K, Starner C, Gleason P. 2016 to 2019 Trend in Integrated Total Pharmacy Plus Medical Benefit Drug Spend—Doubling of Members with Extremely High Annual Drug Cost within a 17 Million Commercially Insured Population. Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy virtual national conference. October 2020. Accessed at: https://www.primetherapeutics.com/content/dam/corporate/Documents/Newsroom/Pressreleases/2019/document-amcpposter-superspenders.pdf
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We live in an era of modern technology where everything appears possible. From intricate gadgets to artificial knowledge, the developments we have produced in technologies are impressive. Medical care is not left behind in technical developments. The usage of remote patient monitoring in healthcare has revolutionized the industry, making it simpler for medical doctors to monitor their patients’ well being in actual-time. These days, we’re moving to discuss revolutionizing healthcare: the potency of remote patient monitoring. Let’s get a closer inspection around this technology.
Remote patient monitoring can be a technological innovation that enables medical care suppliers to monitor their individuals from the distance utilizing smart phones or another systems. With remote patient monitoring, physicians can monitor important signs, blood pressure, heartrate, and also other medical information in real-time. The technological innovation will allow for doctors to find any modifications in their patients’ health and get appropriate activity before it reaches a severe level.
A single considerable good thing about remote patient monitoring is that it enables individuals to receive medical treatment through the comfort of their homes. This technologies is especially a good choice for people who are bedridden or live far from health-related establishments. Remote patient monitoring will allow for these patients to receive higher-good quality medical care without the stress of touring very long distance to see your doctor.
Yet another significant good thing about remote patient monitoring is that it allows medical professionals to detect health conditions before they become significant. As an illustration, your doctor can find changes in a patient’s blood sugar levels, and this can be an indicator the patient’s diabetes is not really manageable. A doctor may then do something to avoid the sufferer from creating severe complications.
Remote patient monitoring also saves time and expense for patients and medical care suppliers. For patients, remote patient monitoring gets rid of the need for multiple doctor trips and minimizes the need for hospitalization. For medical doctors, remote patient monitoring lessens the time necessary for schedule check-ups, allowing them to concentrate on a lot more crucial cases.
In a nutshell
Using remote patient monitoring in healthcare is a wonderful demonstration of how technological innovation is revolutionizing medical care. The power of health-related service providers to keep track of people from another location has transformed the marketplace in several ways and has enriched the life of people throughout the world. It is actually no wonder that remote patient monitoring modern technology is starting to become increasingly popular. Together with the benefits that include it, it can be no real surprise that this modern technology will continue to create important strides later on. As technology continues to develop, the long run keeps limitless alternatives. We must, as a result, embrace these modifications in health-related and look ahead to a healthier future for all.


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Two advantages of condominium ownership are separate mortgages and property taxes for each apartment owner.
Note that creating a CPR does not increase the number of apartments permitted on the property. Neither does the CPR determine or change the zoning.
What Property can be “CPR’ed”?
Submission of real property in the State of Hawaii to CPR must be by the owners, including lessees. The project must contain two or more apartments as defined by statute. The number and type of apartments must meet zoning requirements. Therefore, if the project will contain dwelling units, the number of dwelling units allowable is determined by the zoning district. Neither the Real Estate Commission (“Commission”) nor the Counties approve or disapprove what property can be CPR’ed.

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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
FORMER National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Mohammed Dasuki yesterday dared Federal Government as he failed to attend his trial in court. His absence forced the court to adjourn to April 7, 2016.
Prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) informed the court that the former NSA had said he would only appear in court unless he was bundled or abducted.
However, Wale Balogun, who stood in for the lead counsel to Dasuki told the court that he was not aware of the allegations made against the former NSA. He dismissed it a mere allegation.
Dasuki, alongside Shuaibu Salisu, a former Director of Finance and Administration, Office of the National Security Adviser; Aminu Babakusa, a former General Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a 19-count charge bordering on money laundering and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N13.5 million
The prosecution counsel who disclosed Dasuki’s decision to shun court at the resumed hearing of the matter before Justice Baba You of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) insisted that the trial should go on in the absence of the accused as Section 257(2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act allows the continuation of trial, even when an accused person is in detention.
Jacobs told the court that Dasuki refused to appear in court on the grounds that his counsels, J.B. Dawodu, SAN, and Ahmed Raji, SAN, would not be in court.
Jacobs further stated that all efforts to persuade Dasuki to appear before the court were unsuccessful.
‘‘I persuaded him to come to court, but he refused. He said he can’t be abducted and nobody can abduct him,’’ Jacobs added.
He also told the court that Dawodu, who is the lead counsel to the first defendant, had filed an application before the Court of Appeal last Monday, a move which made him come to the conclusion that the absence of both the first defendant and his counsels was planned.
Jacobs, who supported his argument with Section 267 Sub-section 2 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, said: ‘‘I knew immediately I became aware of the application that it was filed to stop today’s proceedings. However, it is not in the law that if a defendant is not in court, his trial can’t go on.
But Wale Balogun (SAN), in his submission said he was not aware if Dasuki made this statement, noting that it was a mere allegation.
While insisting that the trial cannot go on in the absence of Dasuki, Balogun said, “We are not in custody of the defendant. He has not been produced in court. It is the requirement that he should be here and the prosecution did not apply for him (Dasuki) to be produced in court. DSS should have deposed to an affidavit that Dasuki made that statement,” he said.
Balogun, who urged the court to stand down the case, said: ‘‘I know that it is an elementary requirement of the law that the defendant has to be here in court all through his trial. But My Lord, the first defendant has not been produced by the prosecution this morning. If the defendants were here, it would have been a different case entirely.
‘‘These are very serious allegations against the first defendant and his counsel. My Lord, I think the officers of the DSS should have deposed to an affidavit before your Lordship that the defendant said he won’t come to court, so it could be in your record.’’
In his submission, counsel to both the third and fifth defendants, said: ‘‘I am ready, but I won’t close my eyes to the fact that I have a duty to point out some things when they occur in the course of this trial. The absence of the first defendant is clearly fatal to today’s proceedings. My Lord, we may not be able to proceed today.’’
In response, Jacobs, who urged the court to allow him present his witnesses, described as absurd the argument by the counsel to the first defendant that the DSS should have deposed to an affidavit before the court.
According to him: ‘‘The requirement for affidavit evidence is absurd to me and has no legal basis. May the day never come when the court will not be able to take information provided by counsel in court.’’
Having listened to submissions by all the counsel, Justice Baba-Yusuf said: ‘‘once you are in court, you are not free to do things in your own way. If a defendant elects not to be in court and there is a facility for him to be in court, then, we will make him realise that we are not here in court to joke. But I am not so clear about the reason for the absence of the first defendant.’’


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Indian basil or tulsi is one of the most beneficial medical and culinary herbs which is used for several benefits. It can make a great pesto sauce as well as help you fight cold too. Here are 6 benefits you should look out for about tulsi backed up by science.
Tulsi, also known as holy basil, is a medicinal herb that is native to India and has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for over 3,000 years. It is a member of the mint family and is found in 150 different varieties worldwide.
Tulsi has a sweet, warm, and fresh aroma that is used in aromatherapy. It has an intensive fragrance that is between cinnamon and mint. When applied to a wound, it emits a spicy scent.
Tulsi is used in both culinary and medicinal applications. It adds flavour to pasta dishes and sandwiches, but you should not chew tulsi leaves because they contain mercury, which can stain teeth.
Tulsi tea can be very beneficial as well as very strong as it causes nausea or diarrhoea. It is advised to start with small quantities, and increasing consumption over time is best.
Tulsi may also lower blood sugar and should be used with caution in people who have diabetes and are on blood-sugar-lowering medication.
5 Benefits Of Indian Basil (Tulsi)
1. Combats Acne And Skin Infections
Tulsi, another name for holy basil, has analgesic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory qualities. Holy basil helps skin both internally and externally. Studies indicate that herbal treatments containing holy basil may be more effective in treating acne when they are mixed with coconut oil as a carrier to enhance skin absorption.
2. Defence Against Radioactive Poisoning
Holy basil provides a defence against radiation sickness and may lessen side effects from radiation therapy. According to a paper that was published in the Journal Nutrition and Cancer, tulsi protects normal tissues from radiation damage in a specific way. Remarkably, the review also emphasises how tulsi's typically non-toxic nature may mean fewer adverse effects when compared to other cancer treatments.
3. Helps With High-temperature
Holy basil is well known for boosting the immune system and is frequently suggested as an all-natural way to reduce fever, especially in Ayurvedic treatment. The antimicrobial and viral pathogen-preventing properties of holy basil leaves are thought to stem from their antibiotic, germicidal, and disinfecting properties. Fevers are a sign of an infection-fighting system in the body. For this reason, tulsi may help reduce fever symptoms due to its ability to fight infections.
4. Enhances Respiratory Conditions
Beneficial substances found in holy basil, such as cineole, eugenol, and camphene, are known to relieve congestion and lessen the symptoms of respiratory illnesses. Its exceptional anti-asthmatic qualities have been confirmed by scientific research, which is why Ayurvedic medicine frequently recommends it for respiratory problems. Holy basil is a useful natural treatment for respiratory disorders because of its capacity to relieve breathing problems.
5. Excellent Source Of Vitamin K
One cup of tulsi leaves has more vitamin K than the daily necessary amount, making it a great way to avoid vitamin K insufficiency. For the health of the heart and bones, vitamin K is essential. In addition to aiding in blood coagulation and bone mineralization, it supports cellular health, metabolic balance, and cognitive performance. According to research published in the Alternative Medicine Review, Ocimum tenuiflorum/Ocimum sanctum may also have cardio-protective qualities, meaning it might help the heart, keep arteries healthy, and encourage good circulation.
6. Enhances Immunity
Tulsi and its extracts have long been used as an active ingredient in healing and immune-boosting treatments, but you might be surprised to learn that there are various forms of Tulsi that not only promote immunity but also aid in natural weight loss. Including Tulsi in your daily diet can boost your metabolic rate, allowing for better nutritional absorption. Furthermore, holy basil is minimal in calories and provides a much-needed boost to your immune system.
Now that you know the various benefits of tulsi wait no more and include this medicinal gem in the diet. Try out different recipes around this herb.

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Skip to comments.The Left's Phantom Wars
Posted on 05/07/2014 10:07:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, as Vladimir Putin waged an actual war in Ukraine, Bashar Assad waged an actual war in Syria, and a Nigerian terror group waged an actual war on underage girls, President Barack Obama announced his own war on "climate disruption." White House adviser John Podesta explained on Monday afternoon that Obama would be acting alone to push new regulations under the Clean Air Act to combat climate change. That announcement came in the wake of an 840-page report from the federal government suggesting that the globe is on the verge of a meltdown: "Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present."
That's hardly the only war in which the left is currently engaged. The left is fighting a war on racism -- a war in which the declared enemy is America, given that America is apparently plagued by "hidden bias." That's the newest term trotted out by MTV, which has launched its "look different" initiative, in coordination with shakedown groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The goal: to convince young people that while they aren't overtly racist, they hold secret racist beliefs that can only be cleansed by embracing the leftist agenda. The war must go on, after all, even if the enemy has been largely vanquished.
There's the left's phantom war on sexism, too, in which Democrats claim women are victimized by a male patriarchy. Women, leftists say, earn significantly less than men, despite studies showing that in most major cities, young women without children and with the same jobs as men earn significantly more. Women, leftists say, are victimized by a conservative religious minority that doesn't want to pay for their birth control. Again, the enemies of women remain faceless -- but we are told they lurk behind every corner. The winning strategy, once again: embrace leftism.
The war on poverty continues apace, as well. The latest incarnation: the war on income inequality -- a war specifically geared toward endlessness. After all, sans Communist revolution, income inequality will always exist. And according to the left, it will always require rectification.
Today's leftism tilts at windmills rather than fighting real opponents. It ignores actual conflict in favor of broader, amorphous battles with shapeless opponents and no clear measures of victory. After all, how will we know if we defeat climate change? There is no way to tell whether we did it, or whether the global temperature was set to drop anyway. How will we know if we defeat sexism? Clearly, the left believes that women in the workplace in record numbers and achievement of equal pay for equal work doesn't do the trick. How will we know if we defeat racism? The left has already moved the goalposts from equal opportunity to equal result, an unachievable pipe dream in the absence of totalitarian control.
And so the wars go on -- endless, expensive, draining. They sap America of our vitality, our strength and most importantly, our core values. But at least, the left tells us, we have gained heaven: an everlasting unearned moral superiority over our fellow nonracist, nonsexist, non-poverty-hating Americans.
Right outta the movies...................
True to his muslim roots, obama finds it easier to wage war on the people in his own backyard, than wage war abroad. That’s how muslims operate; kill and enslave their neighbors first, and hide behind women and children when confronted by a real threat.
Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with Poseidon, God of Sea he ordered his soldiers to randomly throw spears in the water.
The precursor to Obama’s War on Warm.
Not to worry, we have John Bohener on our side!
[. . .sans Communist revolution, income inequality will always exist.]
Communist revolution never fixes income inequality. One group of thugs are simply displaced by another group of thugs. Their boss renames the presidential palace before moving in.
Bammy has plenty of battles but just one War; His War on America.
Global temperature is set to drop, both near-term and longer-term.
The nearer-term drop is forecast by Danish and Russian solar astronomers, astrophysicists, and climatologists, who say that a decline in solar output is in progress and will result in substantially lower global temperature averages over the next 40 years or so.
This cooling period could be comparable to the Dalton Minimum of 250 years ago, which killed crops and sailors with abandon, and once drove Queen Anne from her apartments in the Palace of St. James into the basement during the Great Storm of 1703, which also killed thousands of Royal Navy sailors and marines in the English Channel and as many as 15,000 persons of all stations in England.
Longer-term, we have about 600-1800 years left (my guesstimation, based on temp-curve correlation with previous interglacial intervals) before our current interglacial ends and full-glacial, "pleniglacial" conditions return to educate us that the Pleistocene, the great Ice Age, is nowhere near over. We're 1.8 - 2.5 MM years into the Pleistocene (d/o whose faunal picks you like), and no telling how far from the end.
He had the excuse of mental defect; our leaders have none.
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I can't feel shame, I've dissolved
13 June 2014
On 8th June 2014 BIS named and shamed another 25 employers for failing to pay their employees the National Minimum Wage.
I idly wondered how effective this might be in publicising the identity of employers. So I started googling the names.
It turns out that they’re rather well publicised. Even on a quick search I turned up articles from the Independent; Sky News; the Telegraph and the BBC. And a number of local papers followed up the offenders in their area.
Then I wondered about the companies being shamed and started looking them up on Companies House.
Of the 11 companies named, three have been dissolved. Which rather undermines the point of naming them in the first place.
I wonder if, at least in relation to dissolved companies, directors should be named and shamed as well. After all, they’re legally responsible for running the company.
The dates of dissolution are also interesting:
- Sun Shack Ltd: dissolved 12th May 2009
- Zoom Ltd: dissolved 20th April 2010
- Master Distribution Ltd: dissolved 23rd November 2010
Assuming that these companies weren’t employing people after they were dissolved, it means they’re being named many years later. And it’s hard to know just how many years. It seems unlikely that HMRC pounced, in all three cases, only moments before they dissolved.
We can’t tell if the rest of the list is similarly aged. I hope it isn’t. Part of the point of naming and shaming must be to put pressure on the employer to change and to warn potential employees there might be a problem. The process is much less effective if it takes many years for the information to come out.
And, if an employer has made a mistake and cleaned up its act, it seems unfair to rake up the past many years later.
For more on the naming and shames scheme, see Richard Dunstan’s post on Hard Labour.blog comments powered by Disqus


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London’s Best Tapas
Just Opened London’s ‘Best of’ series covers a combination of recently opened venues and established London favourites, to make sure you get the full lowdown on where to spend your time and hard-earned cash.
The quality of tapas depends heavily on the sourcing of ingredients; it’s essential to find the ripest, sun-soaked Spanish tomatoes, the plumpest Padron peppers and Iberico ham made from happy pigs that have snuffled acorns in the Iberian forest.
Combine careful sourcing with a skilled kitchen (and buzzing location) and you’ve got a hit on your hands. These are the best tapas restaurants in London.
Best for… the hottest tapas in town
OK so Sabor isn’t strictly a tapas bar (you’ll find many regional Spanish dishes on the menu) but then few London locations are. We love the small bar area here, which is where you’ll inevitably find yourself waiting for a table at the long, kitchen-side countertop. Do not miss the tapas while you’re there.
Our knees went weak for their fluffy fresh curd-topped toast, crowned with a mop of shaved black truffle, and we made some frankly inappropriate noises eating the lardo with anchovies. Croquetas, Jamon and other classics are available among a selection of regularly changing snacks which will get you revved up for the main event or stop you falling over thanks to all that sherry. This is one of the year’s hottest openings and there’s a reason for that… the food is stunning. Read our full review of Sabor.
Sabor, 35 Heddon Street, W1B 4BR
Best for… a Catalonian twist
Tapas is not a tradition in Catalonia (the inspiration behind this Soho spot) but c’mon, there are enough tapas-style dishes on the menu to grant it a place on this list. Some snacks, such as croquetas and pan con tomate will be familiar to the seasoned tapas fan while other dishes are larger and more freestyle.
We adore the calamari stuffed with inky black rice and nuggets of fatty chorizo. Then there’s the octopus, of course, kissed by the heat of the grill, served with aioli and shards of crispy garlic; it’s the little details like those shards that make us love Rambla so much. Mussels and clams are served with spider crab butter, for example, while the bread is sourced from Hedone Bakery, one of London’s very best.
Rambla, 64 Dean Street, W1D 4QQ
Best for… a glass of wine and a nibble
Sibarita is like the little sister of Rambla despite being slightly older; it’s a little more casual and a haven away from the manic throngs of Covent Garden. Both venues are owned by chef Victor Garvey and both have the same power to draw you in for a few wonderful hours until you forget about the outside world entirely.
Here it’s all about the Spanish cheeses and charcuterie, plus plates of blistered Padron peppers scattered with salt crystals; tender lamb chops; regularly changing croquetas and lighter dishes such as cured fish and crunchy veg – the radishes and mini vegetables come perched on spikes, which is kind of ridiculous yet charming.
Sibarita, 7 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA
Best for… a quirky location
The Tapas Room
The Tapas Room is less a room, more a buzzing corner in Tooting’s Broadway market. Counter seats line the perimeter (great for people watching) while there are a few more at the bar (best if you like to watch the team at work). Soon, they’ll open a second location in Deptford Market Yard.
The menu is small, in keeping with the size of the restaurant but everything they do is excellent, particularly their fried eggs served on top of the richest, crumbliest morcilla we’ve ever tasted. This is the perfect place to meet friends of an evening to sip a few sherries, nibble on small plates and put the world to rights. Read our full review of The Tapas Room.
The Tapas Room, Unit 3, Broadway Market, 29 Tooting High Street, SW17 0RJ
Best for… life-changing deep-fried courgette flowers
That’s right, life-changing. Many a London restaurant has stuffed a perfectly furled courgette flower with cheese and plonked it into hot oil but not all do so with the delicacy of Salt Yard. Their version is unbeatable: crisp, greaseless, pregnant with salty cheese and crisscrossed with fragrant honey… we advise doubling up on the portion to save table-side scuffles.
Their extensive tapas menu goes beyond the usual snacks, meat and cheese with creative small plates including the likes of oxtail arancini with horseradish aioli, and slow cooked octopus with chilli, capers and saffron.
The room, located near Goodge Street station is always buzzing, even if it can be a bit of a squeeze thanks to the hordes of courgette guzzling punters.
Salt Yard, 54 Goodge Street, W1T 4NA
Best for… hiding away from the crowds
Lobos now has two branches, one at London Bridge and one in Soho but we love the Borough site best. It’s a gorgeous, low-lit cave underneath the railway bridge outside Borough Market and is perfect for disappearing into for a couple of hours, either for a cheeky romantic nibble or a rowdy evening with mates.
Their croquetas come in generous portions, which makes us forgive the fact that they’re piled up in a miniature frying basket, and we’ve had great steak here too, seared on the plancha.
The service is particularly noteworthy; always cheery, efficient and effortless, it’s a lesson in proper hospitality.
Lobos, 14 Borough High Street, SE1 9QG
Best for… a must-try London experience
Brindisa restaurants are such an important part of the London dining scene that it’s essential you visit at least one. They’re all slightly different, and we have a serious soft spot for the original Borough Market site, opened in 2004. It’s always busy, rammed with Londoners and tourists hoovering up waves of immaculate tapas. One of the best restaurants near London Bridge.
Brindisa import all their own ingredients, and you’ll also find their excellent shop and deli just around the corner flogging ham, beautiful jars of chickpeas and pulses, rusty red dried chillies, chorizo sausages, and much more.
About that chorizo – don’t forget you can buy it spitting hot from the grill and sandwiched into a roll with rocket and Piquillo peppers from their Borough Market stall, just outside the shop. Another essential London foodie experience.
Best for… a Spanish bar experience
This was Jose Pizarro’s first restaurant on Bermondsey Street and it’s pretty much the place to head if you want to pretend you’re sipping sherry in Spain. The corner room is small, and the only tables are large barrels, suitable for holding your glass and nibbles.
There’s a small menu of cheeses and ham but the real treats are to be found on the specials board, brimming with whatever looked good at the market that morning. You might find some plump prawns given the heavy garlic-treatment, for example, or a bronze-skinned baby chicken served with Romesco sauce, rich and thick with almonds.
It gets rammed in the summer with people spilling out into the street and that’s exactly what we love about it. To be honest, it’s best as a pit stop before heading somewhere else, like the best pre-dinner drinks spot ever.
Jose, 104 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UB
Best for… croquetas
The astute among you will have noticed that this is Jose Pizarro’s surname and this is his second restaurant, just moments away from the first but much larger and with lots of seating (it’s actually named after his grandfather).
Everything is good here, from the snacks to more substantial plates and we love the window-counter seating which is perfect for watching locals and workers go about their business. Top tip: don’t miss the baked crab if it’s on the menu – a dressed crab stuffed with its own meat, laced with garlic and chilli and topped with crunchy breadcrumbs.
We also think Jose makes some of the best croquetas in London – inside the delicate golden shell is a trembling bechamel, nuggets of naughty-pink Jamon wobbling within. They truly are a lesson in the art of deep frying balls of sauce and calling it a snack.
Pizarro, 194 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ
Best for… everything
This has to be the best overall tapas experience in town. There are now three branches of Barrafina and although they’re all exceptional we prefer the original, now inside the Quo Vadis building. The Hart Brothers (Quo Vadis, El Pastor) are sticklers for detail and you’ll find not a prawn antennule out of place at this shiny, polished restaurant with all-counter dining.
You’re gonna have to queue because it’s no-reservations and incredibly popular, for good reason. The pan con tomate is unrivalled in London; full of sun-ripened flavour, sparkling with sea salt crystals and grassy olive oil. The crab croquetas at the Adelaide Street branch are the only variation on the originals we’ve ever been head over heels for and the tortilla, well, it’s a shining beacon of tortilla execution – layers of potatoes are golden on the outside but cut into it and warm egg pools onto the plate. It feels faintly naughty, which is always a good thing in our book.
Perch on a stool and work your way through the menu, watching the chefs flip, sizzle and season before you. Then brace yourself for the bill because food of this quality does not come cheap. It’s worth every penny.
Barrafina, see website for locations


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Trendy Music Report: Time Magazine Declares Mariah Carey “Queen of Pop”
The staffers at Time Magazine must have had a lot of fun formulating their Answers Issue. One of the slices of this layered pie pays homage to the artists who have made history through their billboard rankings.
The results are in! No doubt Mariah Carey hasn’t been having the best of times lately, but that might change once she discovers that compared to her counterparts she is ahead of the pack, thanks to the number of hits she has accumulated over the years. Time picked apart all the songs that dominated the charts since 1960 and compiled the Billboard Top 10 list. Based on their findings. Mariah came out on top, making her officially the “Queen of Pop”.
Other notables include Usher who had the best single in 2004; Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” was quite impactful during its reign, plus the “King of Pop” was singled out as the only artist to enjoy a consistently successful career.
The takeaway seems to be that the likes of Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, who have helped mold the landscape substantially, are in no way stealing the sunshine from those who came before them. But there is still time!
For more on how Time coordinated efforts to achieve their points system, click here.

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Title: Earth: The Climate Wars – BBC
Type: Science, Social Science and Politics
Country: UK (Britain)
The documentary covers a wide range of aspects related to climate studies. I think this is a well balanced documentary even though I must admit it is bias in favor of science of climate change. It is a three part documentary by BBC. The first part talk about the history of climate change science in 1970s. The early experiments behind the climate studies were also discussed in depth. Second part primarily focused on counter arguments against climate change. In the final part, they addressed concerns and issues raised by the anti-climate change activists during the second part of the documentary.


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CBD is quickly developing well in popularity for health advantages that include respite from anxiety, discomfort, sleep and inflammation dilemmas. You know there are two distinct types of CBD products on the market while you may be familiar with these uses, did? Discover all you need to find out about CBD isolate vs. full spectrum CBD oil, such as the strength of each, suggested uses and exactly how to determine amongst the two.
What Exactly Is Complete Spectrum CBD?
The cannabis plant houses a huge selection of phytochemicals, such as cannabinoids, terpenes as well as other substances. Full range CBD describes products which contain sigbificantly more than CBD, such as for example other plant particles like THC and fatty that is healthy. This type of CBD oil is minimally refined, to make certain that the majority of the cannabinoids and terpenes stay intact. Complete range CBD oil is normally called plant that is“whole oil since the complete plant extract is roofed.
What Exactly Is CBD Isolate?
CBD isolate can be defined as “pure CBD” or 99 to 100 % CBD. These products have been refined to isolate only the CBD compound with no extra cannabinoids or terpenes as you may have guessed from the name. Its CBD effectiveness is normally more than complete range, meaning a dose that is small suggested.
How exactly to Make Use Of CBD Isolate vs. Full Spectrum CBD
Full spectrum CBD is usually better than CBD isolate because studies have shown that cannabinoids and terpenes occur in nature together and interact in of good use means. This synergy is known as the entourage impact and it is considered to provide CBD a wider reach so far as healthy benefits.
One research by Ethan Russo, M.D., illustrated some great benefits of terpenes in full spectrum CBD, showing results that are promising a number of conditions. As an example, the blend of terpenes pinene, myrcene and caryophyllene make it possible to unravel anxiety, while combining terpenes linalool and limonene with cannabigerol (a cannabinoid that is lesser-known shows vow in treating MRSA.

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GUIZHOU, China, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A report from Huanqiu.com:
The rolling hills are reflected by the sunlight and the green waves are rolling. The river flows through the city and over the grass. The birds are singing in the bamboo forest, and the shopping malls in the town are bustling with people. The breath of life is rushing to the distance.
Information from Guizhou Province shows that at present, the forest coverage rate in Guizhou has reached 61.51%, the air quality rate in cities above the county level has reached 99.4%, in addition, the water quality rate of outbound sections of major rivers is 100%.
As the first batch of national ecological civilization experimental areas in China, Guizhou’s green economic development model proves that economic development and ecological sustainable development can be a win-win situation. As a “Guizhou mode” of China’s green development, Guizhou has implemented the construction of a “Beautiful China” with practical actions, and at the same time sent a green “visit card” to the world to convey Guizhou’s ecological civilization construction and economic development experience.
To further unravel the mystery of the development of ecology and economic in Guizhou, a journalist from Huanqiu.com went to Guizhou to have an interview.
During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, Guizhou take the overall situation with high-quality development, vigorously promote the “four wheels” of new industrialization, new urbanization, agricultural modernization, and tourism industrialization. A good ecology has become a green driving force for sustainable development.
Poverty and backwardness once plagued the people of Guizhou deeply. “Poor mountain nest” used to be the label of Guizhou. However, in 2020, the GDP of Guizhou reached 1.78 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate is 2.2 percentage points higher than that of the country. It has been in the forefront of the country for 10 consecutive years, achieving synchronous promotion of economic, social, and ecological benefits.
In 2019, Guizhou proposed to develop 12 advantageous agricultural industries in accordance with local conditions. According to statistics, the agricultural industrial revolution in 2019 drove the 1.118 million poor people in Guizhou to increase their income.
Guizhou, located in the subtropical zone, has a warm and humid climate and a high altitude, making it the best place to grow square bamboo.
Square bamboo industry is a characteristic industry for the development of green economy in Guizhou Province, and it is also a characteristic forest product. In 2021, Guizhou build a new square bamboo base of 169,100 mu (1 mu = 666.67 square meters), with a total area of 4.919 million mu, making it the largest square bamboo area in China. There are four bamboo industry counties with more than 500,000 mu in the province, and Chishui has become one of the three counties (cities) in China with a bamboo forest area of more than 1 million mu. Successfully created the square bamboo industrial belt of Dalou Mountain, Wuling Mountain, Chishui River and Qingshui River.
The conversion of farmland to forests in Tongzi County has become a typical case in the ecological economy of Guizhou Province. With the development of the Internet and transportation, the square bamboo of Tongzi County is sold all over China, and the brand of “Hometown of square bamboo Shoots in China” is deeply rooted in the hearts of the consumers.
Feng Li, a villager in Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, told to the journalist of Huanqiu.com:”Our family has achieved poverty alleviation by planting square bamboo. Now that the square bamboo has entered the harvest period, the annual income per mu is more than 2,800 yuan. In addition to the living expenses of the family, we can also have savings.” He said.
According to villagers, Guizhou Province is still promoting the development model of the square bamboo industry of “company + cooperative + farmer”. “My family’s more than 10 mu of land has been used to develop the square bamboo industry this year. The government has led us to grow it. We are assured and confident to do a good job. Not only can we work in the seedling, planting, and management stages to increase our income, but we can also share dividends after generating benefits.” Villager Hongli Wang said.
Keshu Cheng, the branch secretary of Santai Village, Chumi Town, Tongzi County, said: “In the past, our bamboo shoots were relatively poor in yield and quality, but now they are very different. After low-efficiency forest improvement, our village’s square bamboo production has been improved year by year, and people’s income is increasing.”
Tongzi County has outstanding performance in bamboo base construction, processing technology, and market sales. From 2018 to 2020, 570,000 mu of square bamboo be newly built, and the annual output will increase from 16,000 tons in 2016 to 50,000 tons now. High-end production lines such as sulfur-free drying, instant bamboo shoots, boiled bamboo shoots, quick-frozen fresh bamboo shoots, and others have created the square bamboo brand. In 2020, the county will sell 18,000 tons of square bamboo shoots with sales of 190 million yuan.
In addition to square bamboo, Camellia oleifera, Chinese prickly ash and saponins are also characteristic forestry industries in Guizhou Province. Through the development of characteristic forestry, Guizhou Province has not only achieved economic benefits, but also built a good ecological environment.
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Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast an undisclosed sum of money to ensure its streaming video runs smoothly on the company's network. Many are looking at the deal as a precedent to future deals with other broadband providers. While many investors feared that this might be on the way and that it would have a negative impact on the stock, shares were actually up on the news.
In the lead segment from Monday's edition of Investor Beat, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Taylor Muckerman discuss the deal, how it ultimately benefits consumers, and what it reveals about the consumer-focused management philosophy at Netflix.
Then, the guys take a look at four stocks moving on the market today. Shares of Lifelock are falling today after the company disclosed that whistle-blowers have talked to the Federal Trade Commission regarding the company's marketing practices. The Container Store also dropped today, on news of a downgrade to underperform by Merrill Lynch. Humana has hit an all-time high after proposed Medicare cuts were lower than originally expected. And shares of 3D Systems fell today, after they, too, were downgraded by Merrill Lynch. The accompanying report posited that the company's organic growth rate would peak in 2014.
And finally, the third quarter of 2013 was huge for the solar industry, the second strongest ever in the U.S. for solar installations, and the first strongest in terms of residential installations. This has Taylor keeping a close eye on how the fourth quarter looks for SolarCity when it announces earnings this afternoon. Meanwhile, Jason will be watching the Chinese web portal Sina, which owns the popular Chinese microblogging site Weibo, a site many have called the Chinese version of Twitter. Jason discusses rumors that Sina may spin off the Weibo business, which would then have its own IPO. He says he'll be watching when the company reports earnings after market close today to see if the company gives any further news on that front.


CHICAGO -- Global worries about the bird flu haven't scared Americans away from turkey, which health officials say is safe to eat.
The sale of Thanksgiving birds, in fact, continued a yearlong rally for turkey, according to industry organizations and grocery stores.
Turkey sales are up more than 20 percent from a year ago as Americans have worked the high-protein, low-fat meat into their everyday diets in its latest incarnations: turkey burgers, turkey sausage and turkey bacon, among others.
"We're seeing fewer opportunities for the whole bird except for the family feast, but everyday eating of turkey is what is driving sales," said Sherrie Rosenblatt, a spokeswoman for the National Turkey Federation. "People are just eating turkey a lot more often."
While growing sales of lean and easy foodstuffs makes sense, industry observers say turkey and other poultry sales could plummet quickly if avian bird flu hit the United States.
Public health experts are increasingly concerned that the avian flu virus found in China and other Southeast Asia countries, known as H5N1, is quickly mutating into a potentially virulent form that could sicken millions of people worldwide.
Worries about the growing health risk from the H5N1 prompted U.S. officials on Monday to bar the import of poultry from British Columbia after a duck on a farm outside Vancouver tested positive for the H5 virus, a different form of the avian flu virus. But, so far, no domestically raised chickens or turkeys have shown signs of the disease, according to the government.
Poultry products are safe to eat, according to the World Health Organization. Cooks should follow the usual safe-handling practices for raw meat.
It "is a good sign that to date people have understood and distinguished between somebody becoming infected in Asia (and what is happening in the United States)," said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota's school of public health.
Osterholm says consumers are grasping the government warnings and are not unnecessarily worried.
Few consumers even raised the issue on the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, according to the company.
More than 100,000 consumers from the United States and Canada are expected to call the 50 nutritionists on the Talk-Line, which was established in 1981, seeking answers to their questions about the gobbler.
The Talk-Line, which began taking calls on Oct. 1, will continue operations through Dec. 31.
Those consumers that do ask about avian flu "are mostly interested in finding out where our poultry is raised," said Regina DeMars, a spokeswoman for ConAgra Inc. Butterball is marketed by ConAgra's temperature controlled division, which is headquartered in Naperville, Ill.
Butterball is the second-largest producer in the $150 million turkey-products industry in the United States, with sales of $27 million last year, according to Information Resources Inc. The biggest, Minnesota-based Jennie O, had sales of $49 million.
"Consumers are not concerned because they realize this avian flu being seen in Asia has never been in the U.S.," said Rosenblatt. "We don't import products from there. Every turkey is raised here in a modern facility."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the H5N1 virus has not been found in any poultry flocks being raised domestically in the United States. And, it says, proper cooking will kill the virus.


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Municipal flags in Ulster County:
At www.shawangunk.org are photos of an orange/white/blue tricolor with a large gold seal. The photos were taken in the town of Shawangunk in Ulster County NY. The seal seems to be that of the county- see www.co.ulster.ny.us/graphics/seal.gif - but details are not clear enough to be definite. This will need confirmation. Whether it is the county flag, the town flag or some local organization, the orange/white/blue arrangement is doubtless a reflection of the New Netherland heritage of the area.
Ned Smith, 24 July 2005
Like its eastern neighbor, Dutchess County, Ulster also adopted the Dutch colors on its flag. The seal was created in 1976 for the nation's 200-year anniversary and shows a prerevolutionary farmer standing before a Dutch stone house with the year of the county's establishment - 1683 - below him.
Jens Pattke, 31 July 2013
image by Paul Bassinson, 14 July 2014
On July 1st, I visited the Ulster County Clerk's Office and the county archives in order to obtain information about the Ulster County flag. The transcript of the documents I obtained on the flag (and the county seal) are as follows:
"March 14, 1974 - Proceedings of the Ulster County Legislature - New Ulster County Flag & Seal Adopted - Resolution No. 66In that same resolution, the County Clerk was authorized to have the center theme of the flag reproduced as the official seal of the County of Ulster. Both the flag and the official seal were adopted in preparation for the 1976 bicentennial celebration.
The County Clerk's Committee presented their proposal to the Legislature March 14, 1974 and by Resolution No. 66, their flag design was adopted. The flag design is credited to John Pike, internationally known Woodstock artist, and consisted of "three bars of equal size, the top bar of Ulster Orange, the middle bar of White, and the bottom bar of Delft Blue with the seal of the county representing the mountains, a sheaf of grain, a pre-revolutionary farmer and a Dutch stone house".
"RESOLUTION NO. 66-MARCH 14, 1974The picture I took in front of the county archives confirms the accuracy of Jens Pattke's July 24th, 2005 image.
ADOPTING DESIGN FOR OFFICIAL SEAL AND THE OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE COUNTY OF ULSTER.
The County Clerk's Committee (Chairman Elmendorf and Legislators Kuhlmann, Lasher, Kirk, Roach, Carroll, Dwyer, and Resnick offers the following:
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 62 of March 13, 1969, the County Clerk's Committee of this body was designated to study a County flag design for presentation to this body for approval, and
WHEREAS, the County Clerk's Committee has researched the history of the old County seal of Ulster County and the colors of Ulster County, and
WHEREAS, John Pike, internationally known artist of the Town of Woodstock, one of the towns of Ulster County has, in conjunction with the County Clerk's Committee of this body and the County Historian, designed a flag representative of the history of Ulster County consisting of three bars of equal size, the top bar of Ulster Orange, the middle bar of White, and the bottom bar of Delft Blue with the seal of the County representing the mountains, a sheaf of grain, a pre-revolutionary farmer and a dutch stone house with the date 1683 imposed thereon denoting the year of the establishment of Ulster County as one of the original twelve counties of the State of New York, the seal being the central theme of the flag, and
WHEREAS, the County Clerk's Committee of this body is desirous of adopting the above described design as the official seal and the official flag of Ulster County in preparation for the 1976 bicentennial celebration.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT HEREBY IS RESOLVED, that the above described design as presented herewith by the County Clerk's Committee of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby adopted and designated as the official seal and the official flag of Ulster County, New York, and be it further,
RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the County of Ulster is hereby authorized to have said design reproduced as a flag and to have the center theme of said flag reproduced as the official seal of the County of Ulster, and moves its adoption.
Adopted by the following vote:
Ayes: 33; Noes: 0."
located by Paul Bassinson, 10 December 2016
Image obtained from ulstercountyny.gov.

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Saturday 301 Real Madrid VS Burgos
Competition Time: 2020-06-20 21:30
Real Madrid dynamic: Real Madrid defeated Gran Canaria 91-73 in the first match of the group stage. Juul scored 19 points and averaged 13.3 points and 2.9 assists this season. Substitute Jesse Carroll also scored 19 points, 3 of 4 three-pointers. Anthony Randolph had 11 points and 2 rebounds, and LaProvitola contributed 11 points in 10 minutes. Real Madrid are neat and tidy, and the main players are healthy.
Burgos dynamic: Burgos defeated Zaragoza 92 to 86 in the first game of the group stage, and the team scored in double figures with 6 people. Ted McFadden scored a team-high 14 points. He averaged 12.3 points and 2.3 assists this season. Augusto Lima had 13 points and 4 rebounds, averaging 8.0 points and 5.8 rebounds this season. Dragan Abic scored 12 points and averaged 5.7 points and 2.4 rebounds this season. Burgos ranked 10th with a record of 12 wins and 11 losses during the regular season, but defeated Zaragoza, who was third in the regular season (16 wins and 7 losses) in the first game.
Highlights of the game: Real Madrid are strong and strong, and the top scorer of the season, Yul, is in hot form. Can he break out again in this battle? Burgos was upset in the first game. Can the favorites cause trouble this time?
Confrontation record: The two sides have played against each other in the last 5 times, and Real Madrid has a record of 5 wins and 0 losses. The two teams have already met once this season. On December 9, 2019, Real Madrid beat Burgos 104 to 93 at home.
Saturday 302 Gran Canaria VS Andorra BC
Game time: 2020-06-21 00:30
Gran Canaria dynamics: Gran Canaria lost to Real Madrid in the first game 73-91. Veteran Omar Cook only scored 3 points and 4 assists in poor form. He averaged 7.2 points and 7.1 assists per game this season, ranking second in the assists list. Demont Harper, the team's top scorer, is also in poor condition, only scoring 5 points and 1 rebound. He averaged 12.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per game this season. The team's second scorer Matt Costello scored 26 points and 8 rebounds. This season he averaged 11.5 points and 7.6 rebounds. All members of Gran Canaria are healthy and there are no wounded soldiers.
Andorra BC dynamic: Andorra lost to Valencia 74 to 90 in the first game of the group stage. David Jelinek had 11 points and 2 assists. He averaged 8.9 points and 1.7 rebounds per game this season. The top scorer Craven Haner had 7 points and 6 assists. He averaged 11.9 points and 3.7 assists per game this season. Dejan Todolovic had 10 points and 7 rebounds, averaging 8.7 points and 3.3 rebounds per game this season. Alex Bartolomé did not play because of a foot injury, and he was suspicious of the next game.
Highlights of the game: Both teams lost in the first game. Who can win the first group stage in this game? Can Gran Canaria's leading scorer Demont Harper recover?
Confrontation record: The two sides have played against each other in the last 5 times, and Gran Canaria has a record of 4 wins and 1 loss. The two teams have met twice this season. On October 13, 2019, Gran Canaria beat Andorra BC 80 to 67 at home. On March 1, 2020, Gran Canaria defeated Andorra BC 70-60.
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Saturday 303 Zaragoza VS Valencia
Game time: 2020-06-21 03:30
Zaragoza dynamic: Zaragoza group match opening match 86 to 92 lost to Burgos. The core of the team Dylan Ennis contributed 15 points and 4 assists. He averaged 11.4 points and 3.6 rebounds this season..1 assists. Robin Bensing scored 15 points and averaged 10.7 points and 2.0 rebounds per game this season. Radovic had 12 points and 6 rebounds. The number two scorer D.J. Sely left the team during the lockout period, which made Zaragoza's combat effectiveness somewhat compromised.
Valencia dynamic: Valencia defeated Andorra BC 90-74 in the first game of the group stage. Abidal had a game-high 17 points and 4 assists. He averaged 8.4 points and 3.6 rebounds per game this season. Center Mike Toby had 15 points and 13 rebounds, averaging 6.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game this season. Dubrevich, who was suspended and the team renewed his contract for three years, scored 7 points and 5 rebounds, averaging 10.8 points and 6.2 rebounds this season. The team's heads and generals remained healthy without injuries.
Highlights of the game: Host Valencia ranked seventh in the regular season with only 12 wins and 11 losses, but the team won in the first game. This battle faced Zarago, who ranked third in the regular season. Sa, can you get a winning streak?
Confrontation record: The two sides have played against each other in the last 5 times, and Valencia has a record of 5 wins and 0 losses. The two teams have already met once this season. On November 17, 2019, Valencia defeated Zaragoza 92 to 74 at home.

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The definition of G5 is connected to the fifth generation of devices regarding technology. These kinds of devices are usually wireless and advanced in transporting data from one device to another. The importance of these generations is linked to the high efficiency in performance.
At the beginning of April, some europian groups who believe in conspiracy started to burn the cell-twoers of G5. They claim that these devices are the reason for the coronavirus existence. They claim that Wuhan, where the virus was found, is full of G5 twoers.
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