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The answer lies in the government’s creation of the NZD (read: a phony dollar). It has four major components: physical U.S. dollars, bond notes, electronic real time gross settlements (RTGS), and Treasury bills (T-bills). Apart from physical USD, the additional three components have acted to massively increase the money supply in Zimbabwe, broadly measured.
T-bills are issued by the government to finance government deficits. These T-bills are unloaded onto local commercial banks that are “coerced” to buy them. It’s no surprise that bankers are anxious about the convertibility of these bonds into real USD at par. Indeed, the bonds maturing from 2019-2020 are already being traded at huge discounts of around 40%. And bankers are not the only ones who are concerned. In April 2017, economist and Zimbabwe Parliamentarian Eddie Cross stated, “This situation is of great concern, the market is discounting TBs by 30 to 40%...There is simply no way the Ministry of Finance or the RBZ [Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe] can redeem this paper or meet interest bills.” In fact, T-bills are currently being redeemed using the RTGS system; however, this policy appears unsustainable.
With commercial banks becoming increasingly fearful, and rightfully so, about the potential for T-bill default, banks have smartly preferred to hold onto physical USD, limiting weekly individual withdraws to only $100. Indeed, cash needed for daily transactions is as scarce as hens’ teeth. Also, with new accounting procedures under the IFRS 9 rules that will take effect on January 1, 2018, T-bills face further potential mark downs. These mark downs just might throw the entire banking system into insolvency (at least in terms of real USD). This would lead to further liquidity shortages and monetary contraction, resulting in a severe economic slump. In an effort to increase liquidity (read: increase money supply) the government has turned to the next two components of the NZD: bond notes and RTGS.
Electronic real time gross settlement transfers (RTGS) are the most common unit used in day-to-day transactions for individuals, accounting for approximately 78% of the total value of electronic and plastic transfers in 2016. Like the treasury bills, the RTGS “dollars” trade at a discount of 15-20% to real USD. The RBZ manages the balances in the RTGS system, but offshore RBZ accounts are seemingly no longer backing RTGS with real USD. The RTGS system has become overburdened, with incredibly long transfer times. Indeed, some transfers have even been reported to take up to two weeks. Not surprisingly, RTGS has not solved Zimbabwe’s liquidity problems. If anything, they have aggravated it.
The most recent attempt by the government to increase liquidity (the money supply, measured broadly) was the introduction of bond notes in November 2016 (see accompanying chart). Incidentally, in conversations I had with Dr. Kupukile Mlambo, Deputy Governor of the RBZ, in May of 2016, I strongly opposed the introduction of bond notes, indicating that they were inconsistent with orthodox dollarization and would result in a complete disaster.
Although bond coins existed on a small scale since December 2014, the introduction of bond notes was significant. These notes were “backed” by a $200m facility from the African Import Export Bank (Afreximbank) — a bank that some allege is unusually close to the Zimbabwean government. Among other things, it has still failed to publish official documents regarding the bond note facility. The uncertainty surrounding these bond notes has resulted in a black market for dollars, where the bond notes normally trade at discounts ranging from 5-15%. Not surprisingly, banks have attempted to remove these notes from their books, with bank officials reportedly engaging in black market deals for large cash sums at over 20% discounts!
As for what the bonds might eventually be worth, it is prudent to assume that they will be defaulted on. In that case, and taking other African sovereign defaults as a guide, one is left to conclude that the bonds in default would fetch 5-18¢ on the dollar. So, bond notes, which are products of Zimbabwe's monetary mischief, are in a death spiral that will witness further significant declines in value. In that event, discounts on other elements of the NZD would also realize massive discounts. The NZD would become worthless, and with that, inflation would raise its ugly head.
Zimbabwe has once again engaged in a fraud on the public, creating a monetary mess and hardship.

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What are omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids?
These are types of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Linolenic acid, the shortest chain omega-3 fatty acid, and linoleic acid, the shortest chain omega-6 fatty acid, are essential fatty acids. This means they cannot be synthesized by the body from other fatty acids and must be obtained from food. The most common fatty acids of each class are linolenic (18:3), EPA (20:5), DHA (22:6) for omega-3 and linoleic (18:2) and arachidonic (20:4) for omega-6. Some of the food sources of omega-3 fatty acids are fish and shellfish, flaxseed, walnuts, and canola oil. A computer software package, KIM (Keep it Managed) can be downloaded from http://ods.od.nih.gov/eicosanoids. This software evaluates the balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet. A scientific discussion of physiological effects of omega-3 fatty acids can be found on the American Heart Association Web site.
A9: Fatty acids are long carbon chain molecules and are part of the larger category called fats/lipids. Scientists differentiate fatty acids by the characteristics within the long chain of carbon molecules. The two principle forms of essential and conditionally essential fatty acids for humans are the omega-6 (n6) and omega-3 (n3) series. The number indicates the position of the first double carbon bond on the long chain. The omega-6 Series includes: Linoleic Acid (LA), Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA), Dihomogamma Linolenic Acid (DLA), Arachidonic Acid (AA). GLA is found primarily in mother’s milk and in borage, black currant and evening primrose seeds. DGLA is also found in mother’s milk and some organ meats. AA is found in meats, dairy products, and some seafood. GLA is a prostaglandin precursor. Prostaglandins play a major role in regulating functions of every single organ in the body including maintaining the salt/water balance, insulin secretion, nerve conduction, gastrointestinal func

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China is on a mission to re-make the world. CBC News examines the stakes for Canada
The crisis in Hong Kong is once again focusing attention on China's leadership. How far will Beijing go to stop the continuing protests? Many residents worry about losing freedom under the weight of a dominating, repressive power as Beijing seeks to assert its authority over the region.
Those fears are felt well beyond Hong Kong. China has arrived as a truly commanding presence on the global stage that few nations can ignore. How do Canada and other countries contend with it?
In our CBC News series China's Power, we examine Beijing's expanding circles of influence.
China has the mindset and the muscle to play by its own rules. Should Canada resist or engage? There are risks and rewards to both approaches.
Economic success story
China's economic development over the past 40 years counts as the fastest sustained expansion by any state in history. With GDP increases averaging nearly 10 per cent per year, more than 800 million Chinese have been pulled out of poverty. It is an astonishing story of economic success.
Now, no longer content being the world's workshop, China is exporting homegrown technology, engineering expertise, financial capital and visionary development ideas around the world.
A Pakistani motorcyclist drives on a newly built road in Haripur, Pakistan, that is part of the Belt and Road Initiative, a modern-day version of the Silk Road trade route linking East to West. (Aqeel Ahmed/The Associated Press)
This projection of Chinese economic might owes much to President Xi Jinping. Under his leadership, China launched the wildly ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, a plan to circle the globe with Chinese-built and financed infrastructure. Highways, deep-sea ports, tunnels, railways, business zones and much more all tied to Chinese banking, data centres, currency exchange and trade rules.
It's a whole new organizing principle for global development — with Beijing at the centre — and a clear challenge to U.S. leadership.
Workers inspect railway tracks at Dazhou railway station in Sichuan province, China, that are part of the Belt and Road freight rail route linking Chongqing, China, to Duisburg, Germany. (Reuters)
But there's a price to pay. Some nations have found themselves mired in debt. Some regret handing economic levers over to Chinese interests beholden to Beijing. All are binding themselves tighter to a state that expects their political support and is notorious for crushing internal dissent.
In this country, Canadians are eyeing Chinese investment warily — and perhaps for good reason.
One year ago, relations between Canada and China deteriorated swiftly and dramatically. It started with the Dec. 1, 2018, arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. warrant. Just nine days later, Beijing jailed two Canadians —businessman Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Korvig — in China, accusing them of spying.
warning Ottawa of "grave consequences."
The Huawei logo is pictured outside the company's research facility in Ottawa. Huawei technology and investment are prevalent throughout Canada. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
The whole affair has complicated Ottawa's decision on whether to block Huawei's participation in building Canada's next-generation 5G mobile networks, largely over security concerns.
Beyond that, we'll see in our series how Huawei is making investments in Canada's intellectual capacity by funding research centres at universities across the country.
Finally, we'll examine the promotion of China's cultural interests in Canada. One way of doing that is through the state-funded Confucious Institute centres in Canadian schools. Some school boards have embraced them as valuable learning tools for students despite concerns about the active promotion of a Beijing-friendly worldview.
- THE CHINA CABLES
Secret documents reveal systematic plan to detain and indoctrinate Muslim minority in western China
- THE CHINA CABLES
'They can find out anything': Leaked documents show China's surveillance of Uighurs worldwide
Individual Canadians are also invested in this story. We know it resonates. There are strong cultural connections. Canadians of Chinese origin are among the largest minority groups in the country. Jobs in agriculture, business, tourism and many other sectors are tied to this important relationship. All reasons why we want to help our audiences better understand the nature and impact of China's Power - around the world and here at home.

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High performance indium oxide nanoribbon FETs: mitigating devices signal variation from batch fabrication†
Nanostructured field effect transistor (FET) based sensors have emerged as a powerful bioanalytical technology. However, performance variations across multiple devices and between fabrication batches inevitably exist and present a significant challenge holding back the translation of this cutting-edge technology. We report an optimized and cost-effective fabrication process for high-performance indium oxide nanoribbon FET with a steep subthreshold swing of 80 mV per decade. Through systematic electrical characterizations of 57 indium oxide nanoribbon FETs from different batches, we demonstrate an optimal operation point within the subthreshold regime that mitigates the issue of device-to-device performance variation. A non-linear pH sensing of the fabricated indium oxide nanoribbon FETs is also presented.


Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Oakland police are often too quick to draw their guns, especially when confronting African American suspects, according to a report by a federal court monitor.
As part of the fallout from the “Riders” scandal, the monitor looked at a random sampling of police reports from the first three months of this year and found 80 incidents in which officers drew their weapons, two of which resulted in fatal shootings.
Although the analysis found that officers had acted appropriately in a majority of the cases, court monitor Robert Warshaw and his team said they were “troubled by the high number of instances” – 28 percent – in which police didn’t have to draw their guns.
“Officers frequently presumed – often, with no basis – that whomever they were contacting was armed,” their report said.
The report also found that in more than three-fourths of the cases in which officers didn’t have to pull their guns, the suspects were African American. Latino suspects were involved in 17 percent of those cases and white suspects in just 3 percent.
The report also cited several instances of “apparent over-response,” when far more cops pulled their weapons than necessary.
In one case, for example, six officers drew their weapons on a suspect’s car in a McDonald’s drive-through line, the report said.
“This poses a safety risk to both police personnel and citizens, particularly if ‘contagious gunfire’ occurs because of an intentional or accidental discharge by one of the officers on the scene,” the report said.
Troubling as the findings are, the monitor said, even more disturbing is the apparent lack of questioning of the officers’ actions by their supervisors and department commanders.
The report does not go into the two fatal police shootings in Oakland during the study period. In one, an officer shot and killed a 19-year-old suspect after he pointed two guns at police at the end of a chase in East Oakland, the department said.
In the other, officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man dressed in camouflage gear who allegedly pointed a replica assault rifle at them from the porch of a Rockridge area home.
As for the department’s reaction to the monitor’s report?
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Holly Joshi said that the brass would largely reserve comment on the report until they’ve spoken to the judge who ordered it up, but that “generally, the Oakland Police Department remains committed to the reforms” that arose out of the Riders case.
“We are going to be addressing any concerns or criticism through training or other appropriate means,” Joshi said.
In an e-mail to the rank and file, the Oakland Police Officers Association’s president, Dom Arotzarena, said the problem was not so much cops pulling their guns as it was their failure to explain clearly why they had done so.
“By all accounts, the level of violence in Oakland is such that our members must always expect the unexpected, and that means officers may frequently have to unholster their firearm at a moment’s notice,” Arotzarena said.
The report grew out of the Riders case of a few years back, in which several cops were accused of framing innocent people.
John Burris, one of the lawyers who sued the Police Department in the case, said Tuesday that “we know police officers are often in dangerous situations. But not every situation is dangerous, and not every situation justifies pulling out a gun.”
The report is expected to be at the center of a sit-down Thursday between city officials and U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who ordered up the study at the urging of plaintiffs in the Riders case……………..


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Who Dozen Dress
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The only thing more irresistible than a freshly-baked batch of cookies is a sample of your sweet sense of style! Delight your friends by delivering a treat, after whipping up an ensemble that includes this darling dress, cherry peep-toe flats, and ‘whisks’ of gold on each ear, ring finger, and wrist. While its sleeveless top is prepared with a pair of pockets, pearly buttons, and a classic collar, the lined skirt below its elasticized waist is swirling with dreamy pleats. Made from silky oatmeal-brown fabric that’s sprinkled with black dots, then finished with a slim vegan faux leather belt, this frock will be a favorite among those with discerning taste!
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- 100% Polyester.
- Loose fit through bodice. Shell fabric does not provide stretch. Lining fabric provides stretch. Removable belt is adjustable and ranges from 30 to 35 inches in length for size Small; 32 to 37 for Medium; 33 to 38 for Large.
- Hand wash cold. Do not bleach. Hang to dry recommended. Low iron.
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Before commencing employment at a business, organisation or under an individual, an employment contract must be agreed to by both employer and employee. This employment contract may have had additional revisions, agreements or negotiated terms set out in full at signing. Still, after the past year, there may be specific issues or conditions that you’d like to amend before continuing with your employment.
One such condition that you can negotiate with your employer is working remotely.
Under the Fair Work Act, if you have been in your current position for longer than 12 months (and it is feasible for you to carry out your work responsibilities), you can seek to negotiate flexible working conditions. The National Employment Standards set out additional conditions for employers and employees to negotiate contract conditions and agreement.
You can make this request if you:
Other flexible working conditions that can be negotiated include:
Employers are not obligated to agree to these requests if there is reasonable grounds to do so. An employer may refuse these requests for more flexible working arrangements if:
Employers and employees should always discuss working arrangements and reach an agreement that balances both needs if possible. Always ensure that any agreements to conditions are noted in the amended contract and put in writing. Similarly, any refusals from employers must also be done in writing within 21 days of the proposed request.
The Fair Work Commission is able to deal with disputes about reasonable grounds for denial but always discuss with your employer first whether there could be an alternative solution.

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Sponsored by Tennis (men)
The Luther College men’s tennis team, ranked No. 11 in the Central Region, opened its spring schedule with a pair of victories today at the Winona Tennis Center in Winona, Minnesota. The Norse kicked-off the season with a 9-0 sweep over Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Tyler Zinnecker and Aaron Gendron tallied the first point of the day for Luther with an (8-0) win at No. 2 doubles over Jeff Scarpelli and Eric Klamrowski. Scott Sundstrom and Quinn Foley followed quickly with a decisive (8-1) decision at No. 1, defeating Juan Montenegro and Nick Matsura. Joe LaFountaine and James Ayer pulled away in the second half of the match to earn an (8-4) win against Matt Slaughter and Zach Dam at No. 3 doubles, giving the Norse a commanding 3-0 lead heading into singles play.
Luther controlled the action in all six matches, winning in straight sets at each spot while only dropping a total of 11 games. Sundstrom, ranked No. 18 in the Central Region, took care of business at No. 1 with a (6-0, 6-0) win against Montenegro. Tyler Van Heest also won 12 straight games, notching a (6-0, 6-0) win at No. 6 over Slaughter. Nick Mozena finished out a tight first set and won the final eight games of the match on his way to a (6-3, 6-0) win at No. 2 against Klamrowski. Torstein Jystad made his Norse debut in dual competition and was impressive with a (6-1, 6-2) victory over Scarpelli at No. 3 singles. LaFountaine won his second match of the day with a (6-0, 6-1) decision against Matsura. Bellio completed the sweep by defeating Dam (6-1, 6-3) at No. 5 singles.
Questions? Contact David Blanchard, post_to_results, 563-387-1586


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OLGA ȘTEFAN THE PAINTBRUSH FACTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS, INTERVIEW WITH CORINA BUCEA
The Paintbrush Factory was launched in 2009 and closed down ten years later. Curator and researcher Olga Ștefan seeks to provide a deeper understanding of what The Paintbrush Factory entailed: its horizontality and organisational structure, its importance to the local community, and its existence as a model for similarly minded arts organisations. The first interview is with Corina Bucea, cultural manager living and working in Cluj, Romania and co-founder of The Paintbrush Factory.
“The project started at the beginning of 2009, as an independent initiative to bring together ideas, events and projects of cultural organizations, galleries, producers, and independent artists in Cluj and as a reaction to the local lack of production and exhibition spaces in the city. Fabrica de Pensule (The Paintbrush Factory) is the first collective project of such dimensions on the Romanian cultural scene and also one of the most relevant examples of converting an industrial building into a cultural space. The artists, galleries, and organizations—active in the fields of theater, contemporary dance, visual arts, arts in public space, music—are jointly engaged into delivering relevant cultural content, both for the artistic community and the wide audience. Besides artist studios and production spaces, Fabrica de Pensule (The Paintbrush Factory) also hosts events of local and international partners. It acts as a major player in cultural and urban policies in the Romanian context.”
In 2016, a rupture between two factions of the Paintbrush Factory tenants tore the collective apart, with one group leaving. The Paintbrush Factory as an art center closed in December 2019 after the real estate management decided to rent to the IT industry.
This series of interviews was conducted with some of the co-founders of the Paintbrush Factory—the manager, the association president, a gallery owner, and an artist—to delve deeper into the mechanics of such a collective undertaking, and offer reflections and analysis for any future endeavour that might wish to create a similar community. The first interview is with Corina Bucea, cultural manager living and working in Cluj, Romania. She is a co-founder of The Paintbrush Factory.
How did you become involved, and in what role, in the Paintbrush Factory? What was the situation in the Factory at that time? How was it structured and funded then? What were some of the challenges that you were walking into? What did you understand the Factory to be when you joined?
I joined the Paintbrush Factory when it was a mere informal gathering of people working in the arts and culture in Cluj. I was among the many organisations, artists, galleries, and artist-run spaces looking for a space to work in, at the beginning of 2009, when we were meeting mostly at events, rarely to collaborate. The first materialization of this gathering was to rent a space—soon it became an ambition to have a joint position in opening a multidisciplinary art venue, and eventually our project transformed into a community of organizations and individuals willing to share not only a space, but a programme and a common identity. One of the biggest challenges in this incipient phase was to find the proper structure, without having clear recipes in mind, that would reflect our aspirations of horizontality, but that would nevertheless function efficiently.
Shortly before the official opening of the venue, I was appointed the manager of the Factory by the board of directors, a role that for several years was the only full-time position but which was not formalized under a work contract until many years later.
The organizational structure started from an informal group, migrating towards a more formal entity similar to an NGO, with voting for a board of directors and a president, and appointing members of the managerial team. I have to say, the structure—and its paradoxical oscillation between discourse and reality—was the constant challenge in the Paintbrush Factory. How to find the right one in the within the limitations of Romanian law? How to make sure it reflects our ideal forms of organization? How to make it functional? How to make it flexible and allow for negotiation within the borders of otherwise strict forms? These and many others were questions that those of us with a bit of managerial know-how were preoccupied by. For many others, they were translated into much simpler questions—such as how can I influence the general decisions?
The Paintbrush Factory started with personal pocket money—everyone in the collective was responsible for bringing in their own money for the initial investments, and for most it meant relying on our savings. After the opening of the Factory, AltArt Foundation (one of the co-founders) managed to raise the first public funding for the project, which allowed for many activities to take place and cover the first months’ costs for part of the rent for events spaces, communication, and fees for artists and collaborators.
What I did understand of the Factory when it all started was this blind enthusiasm that only seemed to make space for some kind of trust that we are doing something great, together, and that this greatness comes from the diversity of people brought together under the same roof, somehow randomly. I honestly felt humbled to be in such a good company and was ready to make whatever personal sacrifice to make this project work.
What was the dynamic among the group’s stakeholders and who were the stakeholders? How were decisions made? How were different interests (and what were they) navigated and balanced?
The Factory was a space of negotiation and discussion. My strongest memories when thinking of the first years at the Factory are the often 3- or 4-hour long meetings, sometimes more, with over 20 people at the table, trying to each make themselves heard and sometimes struggling to come to a consensus. That was our ambition, to take all decisions based on consensus, and when that wasn’t possible, to clearly come up with a majority.
As in any small community (and here I mean both the city and the Factory) the dynamics between people are sometimes visible, but they are mostly invisible. It is only retroactively that I can identify some hidden power structures that were invisible to the eye at the time, but which surely made a great impact on the whole community. Also, there are always vulnerabilities and precarious positions that at the time were only visible and relevant for some of the people in the community. What I had to deal with mostly was the vulnerability of the people who were perceived to work for, not within the community, since this is something I felt on my own skin. Working not under a leader, but under the complex dynamics of a community which was always experimenting with its own structures, decision-making and common activities, has never been an easy job. Negotiating beyond individual interests and trying to keep up the flag of common interest and a space of meeting between individuality and community has also been a constant struggle on my part.
What changed as time went on? What new challenges were you faced with as conditions on the ground changed? How did you deal with them?
What mainly changed in time was a tendency to formalize. This came as a result of both internal and external pressures—some of the members in the community urged to find more stable structures to work in, while expectations from the outside also grew and people started seeing the Paintbrush Factory as an institution, a necessary voice, a model. I think this put a lot of pressure on us, and some of us ended up, more often than others, taking on the responsibility of trying to meet these expectations. I believe those who were the most protected in this process were the ones who stubbornly kept to their own interests.
For example, I remember some of the galleries insisted on communicating their programme only in English, although most of their direct audience were of course local, Romanian visitors. These were the type of situations we had to negotiate constantly, and these were the kind of situations where individual choice eventually won over our common ideals (such as making sure our communication is inclusive and accessible to everyone, in this specific example).
What also changed is that the initial community grew bigger, new members joined in, and initial members withdrew from the project, which shifted the dynamics between people constantly. Those who joined on the way landed in a structure which already had its rituals and common understanding, not always visible and easy to comprehend. Some came with expectations which had to be negotiated, and in time our understanding of our common project became very disjunctive, to the point where for some it seemed irreconcilable. Maybe it’s actually always been like that, but it definitely became more visible as new positions and expectations had to be accommodated in the community.
Please tell us what led to the disintegration of the collective and the factory (the background, maybe even situation of the city), what took place exactly, and how were things handled.
The narratives explaining the disintegration of the collective may be just as various as the ones explaining the birth of the community. Depending on one’s position and understanding of the big story of the Factory, one can come up with just as many explanations. Do they need to make sense? I believe this is actually the answer—every element in a system is developing, in time, a different and very individual narrative even of the collective story we are experiencing and writing. This eventually leads to disintegration—when these stories do not match anymore, when people lose trust and start putting their individual interest first, when differences (of opinion, of your work medium, of ideologies) become conflicts, things fall apart. You can blame it on many visible details, but the invisible ones draw the lines. The background of all this was in fact the imagined and real power relations, a narrative which has always been the background noise in the community and which we ignored under the illusion of a utopian horizontal organization.
Lessons learned: What do you feel you could have done differently, what should have been done and wasn’t, what was done well and left as a lesson to others wanting to build these types of collectives, what should never have happened?
Lessons learned can be assimilated only having in mind a clear end. My question has been, in the last years, to what end do we need to learn certain lessons? To our own role in the arts and cultural sector, to our collective work, to the protection and emancipation of our position in the world, to the changes in the arts sector, to a stronger position of such initiatives in the greater system they function in? To each end, you can come up with a different conclusion. For me personally, I believe such initiatives cannot leave a legacy behind independently of the system they function in. Such initiatives prove to be illusory and magical appearances, surprisingly resistant against the rather hostile context of political and economic conditions. We tend to take this responsibility of learning from our failures and successes and integrating this mode of learning independently of the power structures we are obliged to function in, when this is an unreasonable pressure that we need to take some distance from. For me, this is the most important lesson learned—that by yourself, even as a community, without the support coming from policies, authorities, funding, the community at large, singular utopian projects have a limited life span—and the life of the Factory was, if you come to think of it in context, a surprisingly long one, compared to others’.
What is your current vision or understanding of the Factory experiment, of what it was, should have been, achieved or never managed? Does it have a life after death? And if so, how?
The Paintbrush Factory was, beyond its visible experimental character in terms of organizational structure, programme, interdisciplinarity, a social experiment.
Maybe reviving a lost innocence, where physical results would not be the objective, but creating a community of meaning, experimenting with forms of organizations, testing our trust, and the limits of our individuality, would be the thing which I would work on indefinitely. I believe the essence of the factory, beyond its physical iterations of space, time, and events, is the community of people and the dynamics between them—this is something which assures its life in the long run and which I hope will be kept alive in the future. I think professionalization, adaptation, and negotiation are aspects that ensure the background of its existence, while the collective work of people who commit to the ideals that we first started this journey with is the most important thing.
Corina Bucea is a cultural manager, living and working in Cluj, Romania. She is a co-founder of The Paintbrush Factory, a space for contemporary arts where she worked in the executive team between 2009 and 2015. Corina collaborated with several projects representing Romania at the Venice Biennale, the art and architecture editions in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Corina Bucea currently works as a project manager at the Cluj Cultural Centre.
Olga Stefan is a curator, arts writer, documentary filmmaker and independent researcher, born in Bucharest, raised in Chicago, and currently residing in Zurich. Her exhibitions and writing can be found at http://www.olgaistefan.wordpress.com and The Future of Memory, the transnational platform for Holocaust remembrance in Romania and Moldova through art and media that she founded in 2016, is online here: The future of memory.

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People are buying private health cover to fill in the gaps of the Medicare system. But can you still use Medicare if you have private health coverage?
And when do people end up using private health insurance in addition to Medicare?
When the Health Coverage Is Only for Extras
If your health insurance only covers extras like glasses, hearing aids and travel medicine, then there’s no issue with using Medicare on top of this. However, the Australian government’s intention is to get people to buy health coverage to reduce demand on the overloaded public hospitals.
Health coverage that covers services like dental work and physical therapy, won’t necessarily cover hospital care, which will mean you have to rely on Medicare.
This type of coverage doesn’t get you tax benefits, but it’s a common way for people to fill in the gaps in Medicare. It reduces the cost of medical expenses the socialised healthcare system doesn’t pay for, and it can give you access to services and health management programs you otherwise couldn’t use.
When You’re a Visitor to Australia
Foreigners in the country have to have private health insurance coverage to pay for their medical bills, because they aren’t allowed to use Medicare. The socialised healthcare system is paid for by Australian taxpayers, and it isn’t intended for those who haven’t paid into it. However, permanent residents have Medicare.
If you’re coming to Australia as a tourist, and international student or on a short-term work visa, arrange your own private health coverage in case of an emergency.
When You Have Good Health Coverage
Hospital cover gives you significant freedom. You can choose treatment in a private hospital or you can also visit a public hospital as a private patient. But this may increase the cost of your healthcare. For example, the average cost for a doctor’s visit or Emergency Room visit through Medicare is free. However, if you want to have a private room after having a baby at a public hospital, you’d have to pay for that privilege.
Furthermore, those who use private health coverage to pay for planned procedures at private hospitals, may still end up in a public hospital due to an accident. You’ll still be covered by Medicare in these cases. After all, you don’t have time to shop around for healthcare after a car accident.
You may have to go through a billing process to sort things out between Medicare and the private insurer, but that’s often handled behind the scenes until you receive the bill. Or you may need to pay for some of the services and then file a claim with the insurer. This is common, since half of the population is covered by private insurance. Just check with the insurance policy about what’s covered and what isn’t.
If you’re concerned about your coverage level, shop for a better one on iSelect. And check out what each policy offers in terms of its services. For example, emergency vehicles aren’t covered by Medicare, and the cost of that ambulance ride may not be subsidised by the state. In fact, there are individuals who take out private health coverage specifically to cover ambulance rides if the need arises.

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The EU is required by its founding treaty to ensure that human health is protected as a part of all its policies, and to work with the EU countries to enhance public health, prevent human illness and eradicate sources of danger to physical and mental health. Psychological health parity eliminates restrictions on psychological health and substance use coverage – like annual go to limits, larger copayments, or totally different rules on how care is managed resembling extra frequent pre-authorization requirements or medical necessity evaluations – if comparable restrictions should not positioned on medical and surgical advantages.
Do not embrace personal or financial info like your National Insurance coverage number or credit card particulars. We’ll outline some general ideas to determine the extent of such rights; we’ll emphasize the importance of approaching kids’s health from the perspective of children’s rights; and will specify the scope of the obligations of States to implement that right. Go to the Tasmania Council of Social Service web site to obtain 10 action sheets on the social determinants of health in Tasmania. The Consultation Draft makes minimal reference to social and environmental elements corresponding to education, income, housing, meals security, fairness, local weather change and social connections, and the influence these have on health outcomes.
We consider these accomplishments chart the path toward a better health care system, a powerful and united entrance to support prevention, promote public health and fight public health threats, and a society that invests within the kids and families that represent its hope for the future. Inactivity may also contribute to health issues and also a lack of sleep, extreme alcohol consumption, and neglect of oral hygiene (2013). Consuming extra greens and fruits is usually a nutritious, healthy means to drop weight.
And those perceiving appropriately that they are left behind by distinguished areas reminiscent of health care and have had little attention in different areas would possibly just vote differently within the subsequent election as they did previously – aside from the venom being released by social media and other media outlets and fueled by numerous journal articles that are as much about stereotyping as the fabric discovered within the media.
While some criticize Dr. Worth for a few of his leanings, it’s reassuring that a certified physician/surgeon has been appointed as a cupboard member, one who really understands what sufferers and suppliers need from organizations that regulate health care. Mind and physique all work collectively so that investing in your own health pays dividends for a lifetime. Bodily activity improves your health including controlling physique weight and reducing the chance of heart problems and a few cancers. To get the most effective health advantages of apricot seed, remember to buy only RAW apricot seed as others could have the helpful enzyme destroyed in the preparation course of. Many health apps including ‘Technogym’ and ‘Coach by Cigna’ may be linked with S Health. The elements of a full English breakfast in fact vary somewhat depending upon individual interpretation but the …
Constituted of the juice of the blue agave plant, tequila has been around for the reason that sixteenth century but was first mass-produced in the early 1800s, in Guadalajara, Mexico. I’ve wrestle with Candida a lot of my life however have had success with getting rid of it by following the consuming plan from a ebook called Trim Healthy Mama. After offering glorious data for two years, S Health on my Samsung S5 SM-G900F (Android 6.zero.1), will not make a community connection to seek for meals gadgets. We’ve now reached the best stage of all in the way to make a healthier English breakfast – the part where we plate it up and eat it! Public health (the ‘new’ definition) and population health are about more than prevention.
German health care is distributed by a variety of ‘sickness funds’, that are non profit organizations run by boards of employers and staff”, regulated intently by the German federal government, and paid for by general taxation (Orvis and Drogus 2015, 603). This stress ranges proceed to build up and sooner or later aimmense collapse make us awake that in all this frantic activity, now we have neglected to deal with one important factor – our health. Amongst realities being confronted by immigrant youngsters, excessive poverty might be the one that most strongly impacts upon their wellbeing and psychological health. It directs the creation of a national prevention and health promotion strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable methods to enhance the health status of People and cut back the incidence of preventable sickness and incapacity within the United States.
U.S. management ought to embody working with partners to follow by way of on their commitments, emphasizing the importance of country preparedness as a nationwide priority, and highlighting the need for sectors beyond health, together with the animal health, growth, safety, know-how, and overseas affairs sectors, to assist this work. South Asian Neighborhood Health Providers (SACHS) is a not for revenue charity organisation.
The passage of MACRA was a monumental step forward within the effort to reward quality and worth in doctor payments; however, extra federal laws should be thought of that might use fee incentives to drive the supply of worth-primarily based health care all through the whole health care system, improve the interoperability of knowledge, and combine care.
How they acquired away with it I don’t know but they did and proceed to do so. The actual fact is that I am poor and may’t afford insurance coverage and the truth that a non-citizen can get it without cost infuriates me. But it is allowed and there is nothing I can do about it however try to stay healthy and by no means have an accident or I will die attempting to pay exorbanant medical bills.…
Dates are harvested from the date palm tree, and has been an vital source of nourishment to all the Middle East and Northern Africa for over a thousand years. There are numerous individuals that do not eat a healthy eating regimen and there are a lot of outside elements that deplete us of nutritional vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements. Shortly thereafter, Staffan organized the Kitava Study- an investigation into the weight loss program and health of one of many few remaining cultures scarcely touched by industrialization. The research methods discussed on this Symposium are discovering growing use amongst health researchers.
Studying by Doing is a structured six-day coaching program run by the Centre for Health Equity Coaching, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE) , where I work. The new Hollywood blockbuster, Cut up, by M Night time Shyamalan has been condemned by the mental health community for its depiction of mental sickness. You may get their health advantages just by sprinkling them on your breakfast cereal.
As we age, blood stress often increases, even in people who are healthy and haven’t had high blood pressure before. All the data can, at occasions, immobilize relatively than energize us to make smart decisions for our health. The ACA made psychological health and substance use disorder providers a necessary health profit that plans in the individual and small group markets should cowl. The bottom doctor concentration counties with concentrations of lowest paying insurance plans still stay behind.
People who qualify for Medicaid are prohibited from purchasing” on the Obamacare market, until they are prepared to forgo handouts and pay full worth, because a Market insurance plan would price greater than Medicaid and usually would not offer more protection or benefits”, and a government web site proudly declares that Medicaid usually gives a extra complete benefit package deal than private insurance coverage”.
Nurses have some defense as they have less time on the assist designing health policy, but they’ve additionally been compelled away from their precedence areas. Greatest Dog Treat Recipes lists an power bar recipe made by mixing 3/four cup shortening, 3/four cup brown sugar or uncooked sugar with two eggs. Nearly half of expansion enrollees reported that their health had improved; solely three.5 p.c that mentioned their health had worsened. The compulsory nationwide health insurance program formally consists of two separate programs, and the first one is social health insurance for the formally employed staff.…
Use this record of psychological health group matters that can assist you plan groups or create a whole program. Health Level Seven International’s Quick Healthcare Interoperability Sources (FHIR) application programming interface is shifting nearer to turning into a mature standard, with the normative” version slated for release sometime in 2017. Tasmania continues to have among the lowest health status in Australia but is spending as a lot if not more on health providers than are different states and territories.
Digital health technologies have grown dramatically at CES as wearables and sensible health technologies have taken centre stage within the consumer market. I’m conscious that the healthier full English breakfast is just not everybody’s idea of the right way to finest begin their day. Thus, there are few methodologies and instruments developed to establish and hint the context specific pathways between a policy, human rights and health outcomes; explain why relationships between these exist or what ‘mechanisms’ would possibly account for them. The Act reauthorizes the Indian Health Care Enchancment Act (ICHIA) which gives health care companies to Native Individuals and Alaskan Natives.
Hepatitis C has grow to be the number one killer within the state,” Public Health Director Martha Steele informed White. SOPHIA’s HIA Practitioner Workshop (previously HIA of the Americas) will take place March 7-eight, 2016 at The California Endowment in Oakland, CA. The Workshop is meant for current practitioners of Health Influence Evaluation involved in strategic subject constructing. Clinton’s proposal to mandate that everybody buys health insurance, as a result of it could be like making an attempt to unravel homelessness by mandating that all homeless people buy a home. Is a free on-line reference database of phytonutrients (pure medicines present in meals) and their health benefits. To not disparage your policy” speech at Valley Forge, however maybe you should consider that the health care Inferno is 9 circles deep, and what you see at first blush is only a hint of the horrors that lay beneath. It could be a brand new era in health care, with transformations in step with the proof.
The Inexpensive Care Act helps to reform the healthcare system by giving extra Individuals entry to high quality, inexpensive health insurance coverage, and helps to curb the growth of healthcare spending within the U.S. Improved selection increases particular person influence on health care utilization, whereas additionally making certain that citizens obtain the perfect care doable for the money they contribute. John Kasich’s 2014 determination under federal health reform to cowl those that earn as much as 138 percent of the federal poverty degree.
Stopping foodborne diseases by way of FSMA implementation will enhance public health, cut back medical prices, and keep away from the costly disruptions of the meals system attributable to sickness outbreaks and enormous-scale remembers. In the absence of such explanations it’s troublesome to resolve ‘what to do’ to enhance human rights and health outcomes. Another pitbull health subject which is primarily genetic in origin, hereditary cataracts can affect many canine breeds. …
Is a free video website featuring 1000’s of movies on holistic health, nutrition, fitness, recipes, natural treatments and rather more. However it can take self-discipline to keep taking the steps to take care of your mental health even when you don’t feel like doing so. However as you set life like targets and obtain them, you’ll expertise a way of accomplishment and your mental well-being will improve. Are people in developed states chargeable for providing water and food to the ravenous individuals around the globe?, and so forth. Bummer – I hoped that your hub was going to say tequila was a health food!
In 2012, the FDA launched the Kidney Health Initiative with the American Society of Nephrology to combat the unmet scientific want in kidney illness, a illness which affects more than 20 million Americans at an enormous cost to the American taxpayer. From the perspective of consumers (businesses and people who purchase/pay taxes for industrial or authorities insurance) it’s extra easy: providers flex as much as meet beneficiant payment schedules and flex down when fee shrinks. Which means, in 2014, choices regarded the allocation of approximately $151.5 billion of health care spending were successfully beyond the management of people (Canadian Institute for Health Information 2014, 30-31). That is probably probably the most valid critique of high quality research using regressions – the ones that have resulted in lots of of billions spent on medical error, insurance expansions, and no matter variables are loaded by the researchers for little actual achieve in health care.
Our Team invite the health sector and broader public group to interact with our occasions, which commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C, which is February 6th each year. The Act additionally provides more Americans entry to health insurance coverage vastly rising the variety of People who’ve health care. Spend time with your pals and loved ones, for instance, rekindle the romance in your marriage Build healthy relationship with individuals who might help you resolve problems in practical ways. It is open Thursdays from noon to four p.m. on the Barren River District Health Division.
He taught his followers that the brand new” meals from artificial fertilizers was spiritually and physically deficient and resulted in poor health. This build up of glucose, if left unchecked, can lead to very critical health problems. Medicare/medicaid necessities made a citizen wait…one with severe health points. While a reserve fund may not absolutely eliminate the necessity for extra funding in response to a big outbreak or for sudden threats, a ready supply of financial assets is necessary for speedy response to emerging public health threats and would save lives, save money, and protect America’s health security. This is the half that tells you what the doctor charged, what the insurance paid, and what you owe. The government additionally encourages individuals becoming a member of the voluntary health insurance program, making insurance necessary to certain sector of employment, and open up the insurance market for some personal …


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Famed fantasy and sci-fi actor Mark Hamill paid tribute to his former Star Wars co-star Paul Grant, who died on Monday (March 20) at age 56.
Hamill and Grant both starred in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in 1983, in which Hamill famously portrayed Luke Skywalker and Grant played an Ewok.
“My heartfelt condolences to Paul’s loved ones & fans. He had a long & varied career, but it’s always hard to say goodbye to a member of the #StarWars family,” Hamill wrote in a tweet.
He added, “He will be deeply missed.”
The 56-year-old actor was taken to the hospital after he was found collapsed outside King’s Cross Station in London last Thursday (March 16). He was pronounced dead on Monday, though the official cause of death has not yet been disclosed, The Guardian reports.
Grant built a career as a character actor and stunt performer. After starring in Return of the Jedi, he also played a goblin in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001. He was also credited as a stunt performer in Legend (1985), Labyrinth (1986) and Willow (1988).
Actor Carl Weathers, who currently plays Greef Karga in The Mandalorian, also honored the Star Wars actor in the news of his passing.
“RIP Paul Grant. You’ll live in that ‘galaxy far, far away,'” he tweeted in response to Hamill’s post.
Grant is survived by his girlfriend Maria Dwyer, as well as his children and grandchildren.

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Premium rice brand, Amira, which launched in the UK in 2012, is continuing its push into the UK’s dry rice sector with a new, through the line, integrated marketing campaign and three new quality rice listings in Morrisons.
The Amira rice campaign will feature targeted consumer advertising and a major consumer educational drive around National Curry Week in October and Diwali in November, to inspire UK shoppers to discover, create and enjoy Amira’s range of speciality rice products.
Amira, which already holds the number one position in the dry rice brand category in Morrisons, will also introduce three new product lines into selected Morrisons supermarkets nationwide to drive further growth. 2kg packs of Amira Easy Cook Long Grain Rice, Amira Pudding Rice and Amira Brown Basmati Rice will be introduced into the World Food aisles of Morrisons stores across the UK this week.
Amira’s major push follows new research commissioned on behalf of the premium rice brand, which shows that over 80% of consumers cook rice at least once a week and, in nearly nine out of ten cases, rice is considered a meal for the whole family.
“Speciality rice has been undersold globally and so we are delighted to launch our integrated marketing campaign and introduce three new quality rice listings in Morrisons,” said Amira chairman, Karan A. Chanana.
“Since the UK launch of the Amira rice brand in 2012, our aim has been to lead the speciality rice category in the UK by offering superior products and by investing in educating and promoting the benefits of quality to the UK market.
“Our aspiration for UK consumers is to discover, create and enjoy our new Amira rice products and treat speciality rice as a premium staple product.”
Amira sources its Basmati rice from the foothills of the Himalayas, an area dedicated to the cultivation and production of basmati rice. The rice is aged for a minimum of 12 months before being processed, then prepared at its state-of-the-art rice-mill and packing plant.
Having built up a significant presence in the UK market over the past two years, Amira products are now brand market leaders in the dry rice category for Morrisons, and are available in other leading UK retailers including Tesco, Asda and Waitrose.
Pricing of the three new Amira lines into Morrisons will be at the discretion of the retailer.

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Death frequently occurs with a 70-80% mortality during a fulminant malignant hyperthermia (MH) episode if the syndrome is not treated rapidly. Environmental, exertional, and health stressors (ie. a cold, the flu, etc.) have been documented to correlate with the hypermetabolic symptoms associated with MH. Detecting the MH-susceptible (MHS) trait is important to the military, since a significant population of the military are exposed to environmentally and physically stressful conditions. MHS can be a medically disqualifying condition, but enlistees may not know they are MHS prior to an initiating event.
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is an uncommon, autosomal dominantly inherited disorder of calcium handling in skeletal muscle mainly caused by mutations in a gene coding for the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1). RYR1 functions as a calcium ion channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membrane regulating the release of calcium from the SR. Until challenged by “triggering” inhalational anesthetics and/or succinylcholine, patients with MH, many of whom are physically fit, are asymptomatic. Triggering anesthetics can cause a life-threatening, fulminant episode of MH. Such episodes are characterized by hypermetabolism, with variable signs and symptoms including tachycardia, hypercarbia rhabdomyolysis, hyperthermia and, if untreated, death. Dantrolene, a compound that blocks the release of calcium from the SR via the RYR1, can provide effective treatment of such episodes. Without treatment, mortality from acute MH episodes exceeds 70% but with modern intraoperative monitoring and the administration of dantrolene, the death rate had decreased to less than 7%.
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For more than 20 years we have we have provided MH related consultations, diagnostic services, and research advances.
Our research was instrumental in developing the caffeine halothane contracture test (CHCT) which remains the only validated diagnostic for MH in North America.
The long term goal of our research is to develop a non-invasive bioassay to detect MH susceptibility. MH is primarily unmasked using inhalational anesthetics (halothane, sevoflurane, isoflurane) and/or the neuromuscular blocking agent succinylcholine. Currently, no non-invasive assay is available to validly detect the MHS trait, whose prevalence is estimated to be 1 in 2,000 – 1 in 10,000 within the general population.
We are currently collaborating with researchers from University of Southern Florida and University of New Mexico to evaluate how sympathomimetic stressors affect the intracellular Ca2+ dynamics differently within MHS human b-lymphocytes compared to MH non-susceptible (MHN) b-lymphocytes. Recently, our findings suggest norepinephrine sensitizes the MHS b-lymphocytes to altered intracellular Ca2+ flux. These findings support case reports documenting non-anesthetic induced MH events. This research will advance the research into how the environment and stress may induce MH symptoms.


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Live It Up, the official song of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, has landed.
The Diplo-produced tune is a collaboration between American singer-songwriter Nicky Jam, Hollywood star Will Smith and singer Era Istrefi.
The official music video is due to be released on June 7.
For now, you can give it a listen via the video below.
Milicic ‘extremely proud’ of Young Socceroos comeback
Young Socceroos boss Ante Milicic praised his side’s “strong Australian mentality” after they battled back to salvage a 1-1 draw in their AFC U-19 Championship opener against Korea Republic. Melbourne City’s Ramy Najjarine came off the bench to score a stunning 89th-minute equ
Update to Young Socceroos squad for AFC U19 Championship
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has confirmed on Friday a change to the Young Socceroos squad that is competing at the 2018 AFC U19 Championship in Indonesia. Young Socceroos coach Ante Milicic has brought in Melbourne City FC’s Connor Metcalfe to replace Western Sydney Wa
When are your Caltex Socceroos in action this weekend?
Awer Mabil will be among the Aussies taking Caltex Socceroos form back to the club grind as Aaron Mooy braces for a huge Premier League test this weekend. Meanwhile, there's a match not to be missed in Scotland that's set to showcase several of our overseas stars. Read on t

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The government continues to face a backlash from doctors, unions and even coalition MPs over its pro-market reforms of the health service which the Lancet described as meaning "the end of the NHS".
More than half of GPs in a survey by the Royal College of General Practitioners said they were concerned the reforms would not improve care for patients.
The findings, published today, from an online poll of 1,800 respondents, are a blow to the government, as family doctors are central to its plan, with £80bn of NHS spending handed over to them to purchase care for patients.
The college's chair, Clare Gerada, said: "Our members are telling us that they are worried about the pace at which these reforms are being implemented, the danger of fragmentation of services, and the emphasis on competition.
"And they are not sure whether the proposals really will have the positive impact on patient care that is intended ... They fear that these reforms could cause irreparable and irreversible damage to the NHS."
Over the weekend the respected Lancet journal ran an editorial entitled "The end of our National Health Service", saying that for the Tories to call themselves the "party of the NHS" was "a commitment that seems particularly hollow now".
Yesterday, as parliament began debating the health and social care bill, unions also attacked the reforms, especially plans to force hospitals to compete with healthcare companies and charities to provide treatment in the NHS.
Unite said it was "appalled" by the suggestion contained in the bill that the NHS would be forced to subsidise companies to provide treatment, because state hospitals are unfairly advantaged in providing care.
An analysis by Unite of the bill shows, it says, that there is a 14% market distortion working against healthcare firms, who cannot match generous NHS pensions and pay corporation tax, and therefore the bill proposes that the price paid for treatment "could be developed in such a way as to move towards a fairer playing field by setting different prices for different providers".
This would mean for every £1bn contracted out to private firms, £140m would come from the NHS, the union says.
Unite's assistant general secretary, Gail Cartmail, told a press briefing in Westminster as MPs started the bill's second reading, that it meant patients would end up becoming "consumers", hospital estates would be privatised, and, overall, the changes "shove NHS patients to the back of the queue, as private greed will leapfrog health need every time".
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George, on the health select committee, told the BBC: "Most of the informed and authoritative commentators on this all agree this might result in a race to the bottom, and it certainly will. And I think there is a big risk it could compromise quality as well."
Critics query the government's rationale for such large-scale reforms at the same time as it is attempting to make, in the words of the select committee, "unprecedented" savings of £20bn in NHS England's budget.
The British Medical Journal said that "to pull off either of these challenges would therefore be breathtaking; to believe that you could manage both of them at once is deluded".
The deluge of criticism even forced the prime minister to admit that his brother-in-law, Carl Brookes, a cardiologist at Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS trust, had told him hospitals would lose under the shake-up.
Discussing the reforms with a doctor and patient in a consultation at a health centre, Cameron told them: "My brother-in-law is a hospital doctor, and he says 'You're giving too much power to the GPs, and hospitals will be disadvantaged'."
Earlier Cameron had said that rising demand meant there was no alternative to reforming the NHS.


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Nestled on the shores of the eponymous southern Florida lake, Lake Okeechobee Resort is an ideal base camp for outdoor recreation. Popular pursuits here include bass fishing, boating, and hiking or bicycling along a segment of the 1,400-mile Florida Trail that wends around the lake’s perimeter. You can set off into the lake from the resort’s 100-slip marina. From its location on the southeastern side of the lake, the resort has a spot to watch sunsets over the water.
For those camping, Lake Okeechobee Resort has especially long lots for oversized RVs or sleeping bags designed for giraffes. An onsite restaurant, public bathrooms, and pool take the edge off of roughing it while staying at the campground or in the cabins.
In more than 100 locations around the country, ThrillZown's staff facilitates adrenaline-filled excursions full of extreme water, air, and land adventures. Under the supervision of experts, brave souls defy gravity as they skydive, hang-glide, bungee jump, or play films of apples falling off trees in reverse. On land, crews harness the power of horses, stock cars, and snowmobiles; in the water, groups navigate whitewater rapids or explore aquatic depths as they scuba dive or surf.
Starting from humble roots in his farmhouse kitchen, Keel and Curley’s founder, Joe Keel, started his winery in 2003 with just 10 gallons of homemade blueberry wine, made from the leftover crop of that year’s berries. Today, the company has grown to produce more than 20,000 cases of fruit-based ambrosias, including blueberry, blackberry, and seven fusion wines forged from a blend of fresh fruit and classic grape-based red and white varietals. After touring the winery's facilities to learn about the winemaking process, guests may sample vintages crafted from strawberries, key lime, and peaches while perched on tall wooden stools behind the bar area of the tasting room. They may also steal away to the outdoor wooden deck, which offers panoramic views of the green vineyards, tree-lined pond, and white gazebo, which plays host to wedding ceremonies and re-enactments of wedding ceremonies. The after-hours wine bar keeps guests entertained throughout the night with UnCorked events featuring live music, appetizers, and happy hour specials.
During 29 years of drifting through the Florida skies, Orlando Balloon Rides had already amassed an impressive fleet of gargantuan flying inflatables when a new balloon arrived. The product of an ambitious factory in Spain, the newcomer holds more than 400,000 cubic feet of hot air and stands as tall as an 11-story building. Four times the size of the average hot air inflatable, it's among the most massive hot air balloons currently flown in the United States.
Now reigning as a popular vessel for the company's sunrise tours, the mammoth balloon can fly away with a basket of 24 passengers as it commands the skies, dwarfing most clouds and giving the Goodyear Blimp an identity crisis. From any of Orlando Balloon Rides' baskets, passengers take in high-altitude views of Walt Disney World and the city's skyline, sights visitors rarely get to see from above. Each of the company's hot air balloons is piloted by an FAA-certified pilot who also serves as a knowledgeable narrator of the scenery below.
Constructed in 1886, the residence now known as Haunted Grimm House sheltered the Grimm family funeral business until a triad of unfortunate events—the stock-market crash, a Grimm son's gradual descent into insanity, and a murderous butler—brought the clan to a macabre end. Nearly 100 years after the house's construction, the Old Town council⎯afraid to tear the building down lest they rouse wrathful spirits⎯decided to open the two-story home for tours.
…Or so visitors to Haunted Grimm House are told before embarking on 10- to 15-minute treks through the spooky structure's more than 4,000 square feet. Via winding corridors, patrons peek into the Victorian-style dwelling's 20 rooms, which claim to teem with ghouls, monsters, and chiropractors extracting the chills from spines.

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- For other uses, see bow.
"Bow skill covers both bow and crossbow usage. Expert archers gain a speed increase with their weapon, while master archers can fire two arrows with every attack."
- Normal: +1 Attack Bonus per skill point.
- Expert: Reduced recovery time per skill point.
- Master: Fire two arrows on every attack.
To learn master bow, characters need eight ranks in the skill, and must become honorary Battle Mages by completing the Retrieve the key to the Dragon Towers quest.


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Favorable News Coverage Somewhat Unlikely to Affect Costco Wholesale (COST) Stock Price
Press coverage about Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) has been trending positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Costco Wholesale earned a daily sentiment score of 0.38 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave press coverage about the retailer an impact score of 44.9811685278586 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near future.
Here are some of the news stories that may have effected Accern Sentiment Analysis’s rankings:
- Costco Wholesale (COST) Given Buy Rating at JP Morgan Chase & Co (nismagazine.com)
- Retail's Tale of the Tape So Far: Happy Holidays (finance.yahoo.com)
- Amazon/Whole Foods Vs. Costco: Costco Has Cheaper Prices, But Amazon Still Wins (finance.yahoo.com)
- Costco’s stock hits record high after Raymond James boosts price target (finance.yahoo.com)
- Costco Makes a New High and Golden Cross, so What’s the Problem? (finance.yahoo.com)
Shares of Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ COST) traded down $1.74 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $187.82. 3,182,800 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,106,348. The company has a current ratio of 0.99, a quick ratio of 0.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59. Costco Wholesale has a twelve month low of $150.00 and a twelve month high of $191.22. The company has a market cap of $82,835.75, a P/E ratio of 32.57, a PEG ratio of 3.02 and a beta of 0.98.
Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 5th. The retailer reported $2.08 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.02 by $0.06. Costco Wholesale had a net margin of 2.08% and a return on equity of 22.21%. The business had revenue of $42.30 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $41.55 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 15.7% compared to the same quarter last year. analysts expect that Costco Wholesale will post 6.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 1st. Investors of record on Friday, November 17th were given a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.06%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, November 16th. Costco Wholesale’s dividend payout ratio is presently 32.89%.
Several research firms have recently weighed in on COST. Moffett Nathanson began coverage on shares of Costco Wholesale in a research report on Monday. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. < Vetr raised shares of Costco Wholesale from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $182.22 target price for the company in a research report on Monday, August 21st. Oppenheimer reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Costco Wholesale in a research report on Thursday, August 24th. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Costco Wholesale from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $190.00 to $165.00 in a research report on Friday, October 6th. Finally, Robert W. Baird reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $200.00 target price on shares of Costco Wholesale in a research report on Monday, September 25th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and seventeen have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Costco Wholesale has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $179.50.
In other Costco Wholesale news, Director John W. Meisenbach sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, October 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $164.92, for a total transaction of $164,920.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 6,974 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,150,152.08. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, insider John D. Mckay sold 8,111 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $172.78, for a total transaction of $1,401,418.58. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 66,751 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $11,533,237.78. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 32,842 shares of company stock valued at $5,520,848. Insiders own 0.74% of the company’s stock.
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About Costco Wholesale
Costco Wholesale Corporation is engaged in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Spain, and through its subsidiaries in Taiwan and Korea. As of August 28, 2016, the Company operated 715 warehouses across the world.
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絆 Kizuna 8 Artisans of Tohoku: Commemoration Ceremony
Commemoration of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
In commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011, the 絆 Kizuna 8 Committee presents 絆Kizuna 8: Artisans of Tohoku, a series of events to remember the victims of the earthquake and tsunami and to show continued support from the people of Chicago to those affected by the disaster. The word kizuna means “bond of friendship” in Japanese.
On Sunday March 10, the Kizuna 8 Committee will host a commemoration ceremony. We welcome community members to come together in a moment of quiet and remembrance. Laura Washington, the Chicago Sun-Times’ columnist and ABC7 Chicago’s political analyst, will be the master of ceremonies.
*Note: There will be a Tsukasa Taiko/Asian Improv aRts Midwest representative performing shinobue, the traditional bamboo flute at the ceremony.


Text messaging has become one of the fastest growing marketing channels, but many companies still rely on email marketing as a way to communicate with customers. Although mass texting works well as a standalone marketing tool, it can also complement your email marketing efforts. With the right plan in place, it is simple to leverage your texting program to capture email address and grow your subscriber list.
A Texting Call to Action
Get creative with your CTA to increase engagement.
Asking potential customers to sign up for a email list or send an email message does not necessarily make the best call to action. People may not be in front of a computer or have their email handy when they walk by a poster or billboard, see a TV ad, or read a print ad in a magazine or newspaper. However, they will have their cell phone on them and can instantly text to join your mass texting program. You will capture many more subscribers using an SMS-based call to action as opposed to an email CTA, helping you to grow your list of potential customers with whom to communicate.
Ask Your Subscribers to Text Their Email
Once you have your mass texting program underway, it is time to send a text that asks subscribers to opt-in to your email marketing campaign. You can create an auto-response as part of the initial sign up that also asks for their email address, or you can send out a text at a later time. Your subscribers can text in their emails, which are then automatically included in your customer data so that they receive your marketing emails too. Many text message platforms integrate with the popular email marketing platforms, making it even easier to integrate the two.
Promote Your Email Campaign to Your Mass Texting List
Instead of asking your mobile subscribers to text in their email address, it is possible to simply promote your email campaign via mass texting. Although you do not want to overwhelm your followers with cross-promotional texts, it is beneficial to occasionally let them know of other ways to stay in touch with your company and receive discounts. In a text, you can provide information on how to sign up for your email campaign, as well as why it is beneficial to do so.
In order to get people to sign up for not one but two different campaigns, it is important that you illustrate their value for potential subscribers. Even if you only use your mass texting as a way to capture email, you need to first offer some type of value. The most common way to do this is to simply provide an exclusive offer or discount for joining.
Offer your customers something for opting in.
If you do plan to run two campaigns, it is even more important that you offer deals exclusive to each medium. You do not want your text message subscribers to opt out because they feel they receive the same exact information from your emails, and vice versa. Instead, they should want to be part of both lists because they receive valuable information and offers from both platforms.
The customers who have signed up for your mass texting campaign are already engaged with your company and want to receive communication from you. This makes it more likely they will want to sign up to engage with your business via email as well. By smartly integrating the two, you can use your texting program to capture emails to have another way to communicate with your customers. Contact us to get started with a mass texting campaign.


My Battery Runs Out Quickly
- Disable all data connections over mobile networks to save power when you're not using the internet. Doing so does not prevent your device from transmitting data over other wireless networks.
To turn data traffic on or off
- Find and tap Settings > Network & Internet > Data usage .
- Tap the Mobile data slider to turn data traffic on or off.
When data traffic is turned off, your device can still establish Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections.
- Turn off GPS, Bluetooth®, and Wi-Fi connections when you don't need these features.
- Increase the synchronization interval for your email, calendar, and contacts.
To change the inbox check frequency
- Find and tap Email .
- Tap , then tap Settings .
- Select an account.
- Tap Check frequency > Check frequency and select an option.
- Keep track of your battery consumption and see which applications are using the most power.
To review and reduce your battery consumption
- Find and tap Settings > Battery to view the estimated remaining battery percentage and battery time.
- Tap Advanced to view a list of applications and features that have consumed battery power since the last charging cycle.
- Tap an item to get information on how to reduce its battery consumption.
To view battery consumption for applications
- Find and tap Settings > Apps & notifications > App info .
- Select an application and review its battery consumption under Battery .
- Close and exit applications that you are not using.
- Lower the screen brightness level.
To adjust the screen brightness manually regardless of lighting condition
- Find and tap Settings > Display and tap the Adaptive brightness slider to disable this function, if it is not already disabled.
- Tap Brightness level .
- Drag the slider to adjust the brightness.
- If your device is connected to an external screen, turn off the screen on your device.
To turn off your device's screen when an external screen is connected
- Find and tap Settings > Device connection .
- Drag the slider beside Keep your device's screen on to the left.
- Turn off your device or activate Airplane mode if you are in an area with no network coverage. Otherwise, your device repeatedly scans for available networks, and this consumes power.
To turn on Airplane mode
- Find and tap Settings > Network & Internet .
- Drag the slider beside Airplane mode to the right.
- Use an original headset from Sony to listen to music. A headset consumes less battery power than the device’s loudspeakers.
- Disable any live wallpaper.
- Update your device to ensure that you have optimal performance and the latest enhancements. Read more about how to update and find the latest software version.
- Perform a factory data reset. This is sometimes the best solution if your device stops functioning properly, but note that it will delete all personal content saved on the internal memory of your device. Be sure to back up data you want to keep.
To back up your data using a computer
- Make sure Xperia™ Companion is installed on your PC or Mac®.
- Connect your device to the computer using a USB Type-C™ cable.
- Computer: Open the Xperia™ Companion software if it is not automatically launched. After a few moments, the computer detects your device.
- Make sure that the USB connection mode on your Xperia™ device is set to Transfer files .
- Select Backup on the Xperia™ Companion main screen and follow the on-screen instructions.
To perform a factory data reset
To avoid permanent damage to your device, do not interrupt a factory data reset procedure.
- Back up any important data that is saved on the internal memory of your device to a memory card or other non-internal memory. If you have any encrypted files stored on an SD card, you should also remove the encryption to ensure you can still access them after the reset.
- Find and tap Settings > System > Reset .
- Tap Factory data reset > Reset phone .
- If required, draw your screen unlock pattern or enter your screen unlock password or PIN to continue.
- To confirm, tap Erase everything .
Your device does not revert to an earlier software version of Android when you perform a factory data reset.


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Introduction: The Society for Fetal Urology panel section at the 2016 Fall Congress featured a multidisciplinary discussion on appropriate patient selection, the conservative versus surgical management, and postnatal renal outcome of fetuses with lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO).
Selection criteria for intervention: Rodrigo Ruano shared his experience of prenatal intervention, presenting the outcome of 111 fetuses with severe LUTO treated with vesicoamniotic shunting (VAS) (n = 16), cystoscopy (n = 34) or no intervention (n = 61) in a non-randomized series. Multivariate analysis at the 6-month follow-up suggested a significantly higher probability of survival with fetal intervention versus no intervention. A clear trend for normal renal function was present in the fetal cystoscopy group, but not in the VAS group. In cases in which there was a postnatal diagnosis of posterior urethral valves (n = 57), fetal cystoscopy was effective in improving both the 6-month survival rate and renal function, while VAS was associated with an improvement in the 6-month survival rate. In an attempt to better define which fetuses would benefit from intervention, Michael Braun explained the proposed LUTO classification system that incorporates: (1) fetal urinary biomarkers of renal injury; (2) amniotic fluid levels as a surrogate for the severity of obstruction; and (3) imaging studies to identify signs of renal dysplastic or cystic changes. Intervention was not recommended in patients at low risk of either renal disease or pulmonary hypoplasia (Stage 1). Vesicoamniotic shunting was performed in patients at high risk of either progressive renal injury or pulmonary hypoplasia without evidence of severe pre-existing renal damage (Stage 2). For those patients, who at the time of evaluation had evidence of severe renal disease (Stage 3), fetal intervention was individualized and often based on bladder capacity and bladder refilling after vesicocentesis. He went on to present the nephrologic outcome of fetuses managed over the last 3 years utilizing the selection criteria. Craig Peters supported the concept of selective criteria and discussed the cautious viewpoint, namely: (1) the procedure may be unnecessary, as it is possible for patients to do well, in spite of severe prenatal obstruction; and (2) the risk of giving partial treatment by allowing the baby to survive to delivery with the daunting postnatal journey of renal and pulmonary insufficiency.
Conclusion: Standardized patient selection utilizing a staging system is undoubtedly the way forward and will enable comparable long-term renal and bladder functional outcome studies.
Keywords: Congenital bladder outlet obstruction; Fetal cystoscopy; Fetal intervention; Lower urinary tract obstruction; Posterior urethral valves; Vesicoamniotic shunting.
Copyright © 2017 Journal of Pediatric Urology Company. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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前所未有的多功能性。 这两个词确切地概括了 AERZEN 螺杆压缩机如此与众不同的原因： 机型最多，提供最大程度的改装和范围最广的附件。 而这些机头和整机系列的背后还有很多有利条件，尤其是 AERZEN 作为全球市场领导者的研发能力。AERZEN 自 1943 年起便一直致力于创新、优化和完善其硕果累累的压缩机产品。
数十年来，领先的包装公司和工业用户一直坚持选用 AERZEN 压缩机头和整机。 原因何在？ 此款产品拥有非凡的多功能性，是各种应用的理想解决方案。 这些全能型天才产品最初专用于压缩空气、氮气和中性气体，现在还发掘出了自己在特殊气体、真空操作和进气压力应用等领域的长处。 可选直接驱动和皮带驱动，干式运行和 0 级无油类别，或喷油，以及带有或不带有预进气装置。 可以这么说： AERZEN 拥有适用于所有应用领域的专用压缩机。
Screw compressors from AERZEN are designed to provide optimal air flow and pressurization at all times. Continuous air flow eliminates the need to stop operations in order to fill or change out air receiver tanks. Through deliberate design and engineering, intake and outlet openings in our screw compressors have been improved and pressure losses reduced, resulting in reliable achievement of the desired discharge pressure.
The versatility of screw compressors makes them suitable for use in many applications that need reliably compressed air, nitrogen, and other neutral and special gases.
Oil-free screw compressors are especially suitable for applications where hygiene is vital such as medical and lab processes, food technology, transporting powder pneumatically, or bulk goods transportation in which the presence of oil or moisture could cause contamination. Power plants and the chemical industry also rely on oil-free screw compressors for the supply of pure air.
Generally, screw compressors provide a significant increase in performance and energy efficiency due to the reduced contact of moving parts, despite the better heat dissipation and sealing.For almost any process that demands high efficiency and durability, screw compressors perform well.
A twin-screw compressor is a rotary compressor that compresses gas through the rotation of the twin-screw meshing rotors. The compression space gradually reduces, compressing the volume of gas.
This results in the production of reliable compressed air necessary for many industrial and other technological applications. In addition, with a twin-screw compressor, you experience:
Twin-screw compressors are incredibly quiet when in use. They operate with reduced vibrations because they are enclosed in sound-inhibiting systems and have less contact between their moving parts. This creates fewer pulsations, which means less contact, less friction, and, hence, less noise.
In fact, in AERZEN’s dry-running screw compressors, the rotors never touch. Although some units produce approximately 60,000 pulsations per minute, our screw compressors are engineered to be as quiet as possible.
Unlike reciprocating compressors, some twin-screw compressor systems use a constant speed frequency-controlled motor that reduces contact between moving parts. This system creates pressure pulsations that cause compressor vibration at the pulsating frequency but not as high as with reciprocating compressors. The reduced vibration results in quieter operation while a well-insulated sound hood helps to further reduce noise and vibrations.
However, the trend is towards frequency-controlled motors. Today we see about 60% of the compressors with a fixed speed and 40% with a frequency converter (= variable speed). Screw compressors can also have machine noises of >80 db(A) - here it is important to have good insulation in the form of a well-insulated sound hood.
Screw compressors are low-maintenance and energy-efficient because they have 70% fewer moving parts, which means less contact between parts, fewer oscillating forces, and less wear and tear. Screw compressors also have higher compression efficiencies because they don’t lose as much suctioned air.
A twin-screw compressor also enables a significant reduction in CO2 emissions and energy consumption due to the highly efficient screw compression process.
Twin-rotor rotary screw compressors have lower noise levels than reciprocating compressors due to their unique mechanics. These machines draw in a continuous flow of air, eliminating excessive pulsation. Twin-screw compressor technology is so quiet it can generate only 69 dB when in use, which is equivalent to the sound of an operating dishwasher.
Rotary screw compressors are designed to achieve higher airflow rates. This means they can run heavy-duty equipment or tools with high power at maximum efficiency while ensuring energy savings. They can do this because they compress air continuously with reduced pulsation, resulting in high efficiency at 80% load and low efficiency when partly loaded.
Most rotary screw air and oil-lubricated compressors can pressurize air in both low and high temperatures. This means they can run to 100 - 110 degrees Fahrenheit above room temperature without affecting performance.
In other circumstances, if a compressor room surpasses 100 degrees Fahrenheit, there are inherent dangers associated with the process. Namely overheating can lead to equipment damage that requires operational downtime to perform maintenance. However, these dangers are non-existent with a rotary screw compressor due to the built-in heat recovery mechanisms. Delta Screw Compressors from AERZEN, for example, can safely work at a room temperature in excess of 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rotary screw compressors also have smooth belt drives in the 5+ generation, making it possible to install various belt pulleys that achieve a perfect operating ratio. This makes the screw compressor flexible should you need to make any changes in the future, eliminating the need to replace your compressor with a different model or a different gear box / transmission.
Belt drive maintenance is also low because the weight of the motor guarantees the correct tension every time. Due to the weight of the motor we have a self-tensioning system. Many of these machines also utilize electronic controls for higher precision and exact adherence to desired pressure ranges.
Furthermore, the housing on a rotary screw compressor has an integrated control panel, which allows you to arrange the units in space-saving configurations and perform regular maintenance for optimal operation.
At AERZEN, we pride ourselves in being suppliers of rotary screw air compressor units that have demonstrated exceptional versatility suitable for every application since 1943.
Our rotary screw air compressors include options that are:
When you choose AERZEN, you are choosing a top global manufacturer with the right compressor for every application. Our screw compressors guarantee the highest level of quality, reliability, ease of maintenance, energy efficiency, user-friendliness, and flexibility.
The result is a wide range of unique design features that, when compared to those of standard compressors, save a significant amount of energy and provide increased efficiency.
Ask the world's leading compressed air experts about the following compressed air systems to include rotary screws and other compressors:
At AERZEN, we provide high-quality premium rotary oil-injected and rotary air compressors internationally acclaimed for their durability, reliability, and energy efficiency. When you contact us for a screw oil-injected or air compressor, you can expect high-value retention and low operating costs with units in different configurations, ensuring that you meet and exceed your highest operating criteria, environmental needs, and economic goals.
We provide varying configurations to suit your unique needs and ensure unparalleled customer support and industry warranties for your ease of operation and peace of mind. Contact us today to learn more about screw air and oil compressors, as well as other air compression technology. We are more than happy to answer your questions to enable you to make the right purchase.
Speak to our specialists today to learn how an AERZEN rotary screw compressor can enable seamless industrial and technological processes powered by a continuous pressurized air supply. In terms of quality, durability, ease of maintenance, safety, flexibility, and energy efficiency, AERZEN’s screw compressor, like all of our products, is undoubtedly in a class of its own.


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Tom Meisenhelder, Whatever Became of State Monopoly
Leola Johnson, Journalistic Representations of Anita Hill: Some
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Racism/Nationalism in the United States.
On Hans Heinz Holz’s Downfall and Future of Socialism.
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Not the Old Model of a Communist Party.
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