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EPA Opens Environmental Crimes Office in North Dakota
▪ Written by Elise Paeffgen
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) office in North Dakota at the end of July. North Dakota has seen its oil production increase to over 1 million barrels a day over the last decade. The Bakken shale, located in the western part of the state, holds almost 11 billion barrels of oil, and production is increasing. EPA's office is staffed by four agents who plan to investigate operations in the state's western oil patch, ranging from drilling rigs to disposal sites and everything in between. EPA's closest offices have been in Montana and Colorado [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Energy, Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Land Use, Litigation and tagged EPA, North Dakota on September 5, 2014 by Elise Paeffgen.
California Supreme Court: Granting License to Ignore CEQA?
The California Supreme Court recently issued a ruling in the case of Tuolumne Jobs & Small Business Alliance v. Superior Court (Wal-Mart), which raised the question does the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) apply to local voter initiatives if the government adopts the initiative without placing it on the ballot for a special election. Tuolumne Jobs & Small Business Alliance (TJSBA) filed the suit arguing that the City of Sonora, California violated CEQA went it came to approval of a Wal-Mart expansion project without conducting a CEQA review. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Land Use, Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l) and tagged California on August 14, 2014 by Maureen Gorsen.
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This entry was posted in Energy, Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), GHG/Climate Change, Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l) on July 11, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.
Senators Ask EPA to End Hydraulic Fracturing Investigation
U.S. Republican Senators David Vitter (R-LA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Tom Coburn (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), sent a letter to EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr. informing him that they view the Office of Inspector General's (OIG's) recent announcement of plans to conduct research into states' ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing and its potential threat on water sources as "wholly inappropriate," and request that the investigation end immediately. The senators believe the planned research is outside of the scope of the EPA OIG's core mission, [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), GHG/Climate Change, Hydraulic Fracturing and tagged hydraulic fracturing on May 27, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.
EPA to Conduct Reviews at Superfund Sites Across Mid-Atlantic Region
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that they will be reviewing Superfund sites across the Mid-Atlantic region this year, specifically mentioning sites in Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The reviews are conducted every five years to determine if the actions being taken are still protecting human health and the environment. The scope of the reviews includes inspecting cleanup technologies; examining monitoring and operating data; reviewing maintenance records; and determining if new regulatory requirements have been put in place since EPA's original cleanup decision. [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Land Use, Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l), Litigation and tagged Delaware, Pennsylvania, Superfund, Virginia on May 7, 2014 by Bruce Pasfield.
EPA to Review Consent Decrees To Ensure Compliance
EPA is increasing oversight of its open consent decrees. First as part of EPA's FY 2014-2018 Strategic Plan, the agency has set the goal of maintaining reviews of the overall compliance status of 100 percent of open consent decrees by 2018. EPA claims that it reviewed 91 percent in FY 2013, a drop from 100 percent in 2009. While EPA may have reviewed most consent decrees, it did not address not all instances of noncompliance, and likely does not have the means to do so. While some may hope that lax enforcement continues, the petroleum refining sector (at minimum), should take action now to [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l), Litigation and tagged Clean Air Act on April 29, 2014 by Elise Paeffgen.
Landowners Sue Governor Cuomo to Move On Hydraulic Fracturing
The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York filed a suit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in an effort to force the state to issue an environmental impact statement (EIS) on hydraulic fracturing. The EIS is required under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). The plaintiffs request that the court compel the state DEC to complete the EIS, as it will determine whether New York will allow hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. The suit was filed in the state Supreme Court. [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Hydraulic Fracturing, Litigation and tagged New York on February 27, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.
Congressman Dingell Retiring
Former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) has announced that he will not seek re-election later this year. Dingell's retirement, at the age of 87, will end a nearly 60 year career on Capitol Hill, which makes him the longest serving member of Congress in United States history. Dingell began his career in 1955, as he succeeded his father. His legacy will include his work on the Endangered Species Act, amending the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and many other environmental laws. Another legacy Dingell will leave is [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Energy, Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l) on February 24, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.
Longtime Congressman Henry Waxman to Retire
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) will retire after four decades of serving the country as a member of Congress. Waxman served as a leader for the Democratic party on many health and environmental issues over the four decades, including: universal health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid coverage, cost of generic drugs, tobacco regulation, air and water quality standards, pesticide regulation, and climate change efforts. His leadership efforts earned him the spot of Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee from January 2009 – January 2011. If you asked Republicans, they would say Rep. Waxman [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Air Quality, Clean Water Act, Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Federal Policy/Programs, GHG/Climate Change, Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l), State Policy/Programs on February 10, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.
Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse Releases Alternative Assessment Guide
The Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2), an association of state, local, and tribal governments, has released the IC2 Alternatives Assessment Guide in an effort to help businesses, governments and any other interested parties in evaluating alternatives to products containing toxic chemicals. The goal of the Guide is to help make safer products and reduce the role toxic chemicals play on human health and the environment. IC2 worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), companies and others in preparing the Guide. Washington State Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon said the [...]Read more
This entry was posted in Environmental Review (CEQA/NEPA), Legislative & Public Policy (State, Local, Federal, Int'l) and tagged Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) on January 8, 2014 by Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Team.


In this episode, Rich and Bijan mercifully finish their coverage of the preliminary heats of Ninja Warrior (UK) and hope for a better semi-finals. They then spend far more time covering Celebrity Apprentice than they should and wrap it all up with a review of National Ninja League in Apex Movement NorCal.
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Uphill struggle for the EU-US Privacy Shield
The transfer of data "across the pond" is an issue which has been subject to much comment and interest in recent months. Until October last year, organisations could transfer personal data to the US under the EU-US Safe Harbor scheme which allowed for self-certification as a proof of compliance with European data protection standards.
However, in October 2015 the CJEU found the scheme invalid as it failed to protect EU citizens' data from mass surveillance by the US government and therefore violated the right to privacy (C- 362/14 Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner).
The ruling that Safe Harbour was invalid presented a host of issues for organisations that rely on data transfers for their business. The Commission has therefore been working on and negotiating with the US on a new framework for data transfers to the US known as the Privacy Shield. This should not be confused with the EU-US Umbrella Agreement which governs data transfers concerning law enforcement.
The negotiation process has not been smooth and the constant moving deadline for an agreement, is leaving companies in limbo and unsure on what they need to do to comply with data transfer rules. Unfortunately for them, it is apparent that uncertainty over the conditions in which it is lawful to transfer personal data from the EU to the US will continue for some time into the summer months. It is hoped that the Commission together with the case law will provide the clarity that is needed.
The Schrems judgment came at the time when the Commission had already been involved in renegotiating the Safe Harbor scheme with its US counterparts, following its recommendations from 2013. In its opinion following the judgment, Article 29 Working Party stated that if by the end of January 2016 no new solution is found, the national data protection authorities would consider taking appropriate and coordinated enforcement action.
In February 2016, the Commission and the US reached a political agreement on the Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield places US companies under stronger obligations to protect personal data of Europeans and provides that the US government operates more transparently and puts in place clear safeguards and limitations on the access of personal data by public authorities. The key changes here are that it will give EU citizens tiered rights of redress which include the right to make a direct complaint to the company processing the data, the facility to make a complaint to the individual national data protection authority and a final right of redress to a Privacy Shield Panel which will have the capacity to issue a binding decision.
On 29 February 2016, the Commission published its draft adequacy decision on the Privacy Shield which concluded that the safeguards in the agreement reflect the requirements of EU data protection standards. On 13 April 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), consisting of heads of data protection authorities in the twenty-eight Member States, issued its opinion on the Commission's draft adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy Shield. Whilst the WP29 acknowledged the substantial progress made, especially with regard to more precise definitions, its opinion was mostly negative.
The main concerns and reservations of the WP29 are:
the provisions are set out in several documents, which makes the relevant information difficult to find;
there is insufficient reflection of the 'purpose limitation principle' and data retention is not expressly mentioned in any of the documents;
the redress mechanism for EU citizens may be too complicated in practice to be effective;
the US authorities have not provided adequate details to exclude mass and indiscriminate surveillance.
The European Parliament added to the uncertainty on 26 May when it passed a resolution demanding that the draft framework agreement be renegotiated. Further the European Data Protection Supervisor recently echoed the concerns of the WP29 and claimed that significant improvements needed to be made as the Privacy Shield would not be strong enough to withstand legal scrutiny. Whilst the Commission is not bound by these opinions, it is likely to take the concerns into account as to overlook the opinion could give rise to grounds for a challenge of the new framework.
Of these concerns the most prevalent is the right of access to data by US public authorities. In line with current case law and a democratic society, mass surveillance cannot be considered as proportionate and strictly necessary. It therefore remains to be seen which further criteria on mass collection and retention of data will be set out by the Court, following its forthcoming judgment in Tele2 and Davis-Watson.
While the Commission is not bound by the opinion of WP29, it will need the approval of the Article 31 Committee to adopt an adequacy decision on the Privacy Shield. Currently it is expected that the Article 31 committee will hold at least 2 further meetings before it takes a vote on the Privacy Shield and the work on the revised agreement is underway, as reported extensively by Ars Technica UK.
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Women spend over $300 on skincare a month, or $3,756 a year. Over the course of their lifetime, those numbers equal out to about $225,000!
Finding the right skincare products can be a bit of a tedious task, especially when it comes to finding one with high-quality ingredients.
But what ingredients are good for the skin, and which ones can you do without?
Collagen is one of those ingredients that are vital to skin health. If collagen is new to you, read on to find out why collagen is essential to having healthy, glowing skin.
Collagen is a protein made by your body and is extremely abundant. It stems from the Greek word "kólla" meaning glue.
It's fundamental to the tissues that hold together your ligaments, tendons, muscles, and of course, your skin. Collagen is also present in your bones (up to 95%) and other organs.
The production of collagen begins with procollagen, which is formed before collagen. Using a combination of four other elements, glycine, proline (amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein!), copper, and vitamin C, collagen is made.
How Does Collagen Help the Skin?
Collagen is important to the skin in that it helps it maintain its youthful and glowing appearance. It's the foundations of the skin's elasticity and strength. An impressive 80% of your skin is built of collagen and is found in the skin's middle layer.
Collagen is the main part of keeping the flexibility in your skin. Another protein called elastin works with collagen to promote the skin stretching and bouncing back.
When your a child and into your teens and twenties, your skin is healthy and firm. As you age, your skin will thin considerably as the production of collagen decreases. For each year in your mid-twenties, you lose about 1% of collagen.
This decrease in collagen can cause the skin to lose its elasticity and strength and develop fine lines, wrinkles, and dry skin.
Using a skin product that contains collagen or eating foods that have high amounts of collagen can reverse the signs of aging and give the skin a more supple look.
How Can I Get More Collagen?
Skin care products like creams or lotions that contain elements that increase collagen can be applied directly to the skin.
Taking collagen internally can benefit other parts of your body, too, such as your heart, brain, joints, hair and nails, and muscles.
Contrastly, eating foods that are high in sugar or processed damage collagen. Even getting too much ultraviolet light from the sun can decrease collagen, so wear your sunscreen every day!
Smoking is another habit to break if you want to keep collagen production healthy and skin young-looking. It contributes greatly to fine lines, wrinkles, and other skin woes.
In the past few years, collagen has become trendy in the world of health and wellness. Collagen powders and supplements are now available at most health food stores or online.
Collagen powders are convenient and make it incredibly easy to get collagen in your diet when you're unable to eat well. Sprinkle powder in your daily smoothie, over oatmeal or yogurt or any other foods you may like. Collagen powder is hydrolyzed meaning the body can absorb it easily.
One of the best ways to increase collagen production on the skin is to use vitamin C. Vitamin C is one of the four components necessary for procollagen to be made into collagen.
Light therapy is also an option. LED and lasers inject lights of different colors into the skin to help promote new collagen in the skin as well as elastin.
Continuing to give your body collagen throughout the years as you age is important, not just for the look of your skin, but for its health as well. Decide how you want to add collagen into your lifestyle and start seeing results!
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A Brief History of Why the Republicans Have No Replacement For Obamacare
Jan 8, 2017 • 10
By JD KLEINKE
There is no conservative replacement health reform plan for Obamacare — because Obamacare is a conservative health reform plan.
After six years of promising to repeal 'n' replace the President's signature domestic achievement, Republican lawmakers have no coherent alternative to the Affordable Care Act for one good reason: because the Affordable Care Act was once the market-based alternative to a real, not imagined, "government takeover" of health care.
What has always made the ACA a political pariah to Republicans, typified by the bizarre claim by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday that "Obamacare" has "ruined" and "dismantled" our health care system, is the plan's namesake — far more than its necessarily complex architecture or any of its actual details, unless you count the details they made up.
And so, if only for kicks, how about some actual historic facts and context about a health reform plan that was actually decades in the making, only three years into full implementation, and on the eve of blind destruction by demagogues who have no idea what they're taking about.
The chart below illustrates where the ACA sits, ideologically, relative to all other health reform plan models.
This chart places the ACA along a continuum of all serious reform options developed, debated, and discarded or ignored since the 1980s. They are all here: from the single-payer, centrally controlled models popular with those who detest corporations and the corrupting influence of money in medicine — two actual, not imagined "government takeovers of health care" — to a fully free-market, laissez faire model favored by those who detest regulation and the heavy hand of government in medicine.
On the far left, the federal (or provincial) government is the main insurer, owns most hospitals, and employs most doctors. This pure form of single-payer seems to be supported or reviled in equal measure, especially by the nation's physicians. As a model for nationwide reform, it is as much a religion as a public policy framework — people believe it will be either health care's Messiah or its anti-Christ — and no one will convince them otherwise. This model is the foundation for many of the systems in Europe, and the systems in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Unbeknownst to many under their actual care today, there are two working systems based on this model in the US today: Kaiser, and the Veterans Health Administration.
The second model, Medicare-for-All, differs from the pure form of single-payer by retaining the current independence of most hospitals and doctors. This model jettisons private insurance companies and covers all Americans directly, while an all-encompassing Medicare program pays for covered care delivered by today's crazy quilt of providers: large and small physician groups, for-profit, religious-affiliated, independent and academic hospitals, the works. This is what Medicare beneficiaries have today — except for the 31 percent who opt for privatized "Medicare Advantage" plans offered by commercial insurers. Medicare-for-all is supported by those who believe it would bring the relative efficiencies, fairness, and low administrative costs of Medicare to all of us — and reviled by those who think Medicare works like hell. Because there are oceans of data to support both views, this too is ultimately a matter of secular faith: government, good; government, evil.
To the right of Medicare-for-all is "managed competition," the basis for the reform plan proposed in 1993 by President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton and derided as "Hillarycare." This model is built on the traditional system of multiple private insurers and providers, but highly organizes and regulates both. It achieves universal access by mandating employers and individuals to participate and by requiring everyone — with or without current coverage — to give up what they have and commit to one of several competing vertical insurer/provider entities. The managed competition model is based on managed care theories developed in the 1970s; when proposed by the Clintons in 1990s, it was popular with much of the Washington technocracy — and vilified by conservatives. Modified versions of this model exist in Germany and Israel, and in a handful of US markets (e.g., Hawaii, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, sort of) with vertically integrated providers that compete with Kaiser.
Back in the mid-1990s, most Republicans and many health industry experts attacked "HillaryCare" as cumbersome, over-engineered, and hyper-bureaucratic; it was destroyed in the court of public opinion by an insurer-funded TV ad campaign that people remember better than any details of the plan itself. Conservatives hated the plan so much, in fact, that the folks over at the Heritage Foundation came up with their own market-based alternative. The plan achieved universal access by requiring people to purchase their own insurance, but enabled them to do so through a competitive marketplace, with subsidies for the poor. Hmm. Sounds familiar, no?
The Heritage plan sounds familiar because it was the conservative alternative to government-driven plans like single-payer and Hillarycare, and because it became the basis for Mitt Romney's health reform plan implemented in Massachusetts — which is turn was the basis for – for what? It was the basis for the plan one click from the far right of our spectrum of health reform models: President Obama's plan, known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," or the ACA, until it was branded — derisively by Republicans — as "Obamacare." (I tried to point all this out in the New York Times in 2012, while working at a conservative think tank, for which I was ridiculed by my own colleagues, excoriated on Capitol Hill, and received death threats, a few years before getting death threats for publishing actual facts was in vogue.)
Notwithstanding all the political noise that long ago drowned out all discussion of actual facts about the actual law: Obamacare is a radical endorsement and extension of the status quo. This is why everything that was ever wrong with the health insurance system — ever increasing premiums, deductibles, and co-payments, the perennial narrowing networks of providers, and all of its byzantine administrative processes — has now been laid at the feet of the plan. This is why the House Speaker has no qualms about uttering utter nonsense about Obamacare "ruining" and "dismantling" the health care system.
To minimize actual (not perceived or politicized) disruption to most people's coverage – a major and valid criticism of the Clinton plan — the architects of the ACA retained most of the features of the traditional employer, insurance and provider systems. The ACA merely expanded the system toward universal access by mandating that most of the uninsured participate in it, unless their incomes were low enough to qualify them for an expanded version of Medicaid.
Because Obamacare requires insurers to cover all comers — and does away with caps on those with catastrophically expensive medical situations — it is funded by mandated participation by all of us too young for Medicare and too well off for traditional Medicaid, either directly or through employers. Expanding the exact same plan to include Health Savings Accounts and allowing consumers to buy coverage across the stateliness — two line-item policy ideas Republicans tout as the major levers in their magical mystery replacement plan — could be appended onto the ACA with a dozen pages of legislation.
By contrast, the only "replacement" model of any substance that breaks to the right of Obamacare – the one free market economists have been championing for decades — would be truly disruptive and a complete political non-starter.
This model, on the far right of the chart above, would be a truly free market health care system. It would allow people with commercial insurance or no insurance to purchase their own coverage in an open market; and it would not require anyone to purchase insurance, nor any insurer to cover anyone they did not want to. Under this model, kicked around in the back pages of the health policy literature since the 1990s, all purchasing decisions about coverage and plan design are left to individuals and insurers.
Economists believe this Lord of the Flies model would radically reshape health insurance and downstream medical markets, by driving efficiency in pricing and reducing excess medical resource spending. They believe that market distortions created by the tax deductibility of health insurance purchasing are enormous — and that the extra political mile it would take to eliminate this tax deduction would be well worth the effort in terms of health care marketplace correction and system self-reform.
As a corollary to this belief, this "direct retail" model extracts employers from the system altogether, converting the health insurance market into something more akin to auto and homeowners insurance markets and maximizing the power of consumer market forces to control health care spending in general. Under this model, everyone is free to purchase whatever mix of insurance and services they want and can find, from whatever organization will sell to them, at whatever price the market yields. Modified versions of this model exist in China and India on top of threadbare single-payer systems incapable of serving the needs of their large and growing populations and emerging middle classes.
Proponents of the only model to the right of Obamacare believe that its inherent pricing efficiency would drive the marketplace to very high-deductible insurance plans, while converting a great deal of medical care to a cash-and-carry system. They believe this model would drive healthy Americans toward Health Savings Accounts and greatly benefit from consumers purchasing whatever plan they wanted across state lines.
In terms of moving us toward universal access, they would augment this model by allowing lower-income people, the uninsured and others priced out of these liberated insurance markets with either a "premium support" or "voucher" program — two ideas that sound similar but play out differently as health care costs increase. The subsidy mechanism — and its associated semantic and political branding wars over "premium support" vs. "voucher" — is also the economic fulcrum in Congressman Paul Ryan's proposal in 2013 for reforming Medicare.
That Obamacare is a right-of-center plan, especially when viewed relative to all viable alternatives, explains why it has always had so little political support from anyone. Liberals hate Obamacare because it is not single-payer, and feeds tens of millions of newly insured people to what they revile as a money-gobbling, profit-obsessed health insurance dragon. Conservatives hate Obamacare because it is the heavy hand of government choking whatever air is left out of the current, dysfunctional health insurance market — and because they cannot see beyond their political rage at President Obama to recognize their own ideas at the core of his health reform plan. Obamacare has always been a shabby political step-child.
So where is that Republican replacement plan? Don't hold your breath. Health Savings Accounts and buying insurance across state lines may sound nifty to people who have no idea what that means or might look like, but they are at best minor endorsements and extensions of the status quo, chocolate and rainbow sprinkles on the same old sour ice cream.
The only meaningful right-wing replacement plan is the only one to the right of Obamacare in our chart: a health insurance market free-for-all. No tax deductibility, no employer involvement, no fuss, no muss. And what would be the actual effect of implementing that? Everyone who has insurance through their employer today – which is to say almost everybody not in Medicare or Medicaid — suddenly pays a whole lot more in taxes. Not exactly what any of the Republicans clamoring to repeal 'n' replace want to sell back home.
This is the real reason why, when asked for the details for their replacement plan, the Republicans in Congress have always had, and still have, exactly and only one real answer: "Our replacement plan is Obamacare sucks."
Stay tuned for more of nothing.
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Millenson says:
Exactly.Right!
"Amazing how silent the anti-ACA crowd is on this."
While the glorious or inglorious regime of Obama reaches its end and decomposes in the bile of the left, new plans will emerge, but has Peter forgotten that the present President still reigns?
It is my guess that the new President will mostly prevail in whatever is eventually passed. I don't know if I will like it or not for the ACA was so complex ensnaring so much of government that its dissolution is extremely difficult. The ACA will act like a superbug where no one antibiotic can suffice, so the cutting (necessitated by the ACA) might provide significant pain. To do nothing is the equivalent of death so something has to be done even if the left goes kicking and screaming.
I figured you'd chime in with pure nonsense.
You were remarking about how the anti-ACA crowd was silent. While you guys are still contesting the election one stupid move after another us anti-ACA crowd figured why respond to rubbish? Why not wait until after Obama leaves and Trump is in the Oval office. You guys are like children on a road trip, "are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Grow up.
I don't contest the election even though Hillary won the popular vote by almost 3 million – Trump and Repugs should take note of that – elections come back around again. And this article is not about who won just how the Repugs and Trump will replace the ACA – if they're really interested in doing so as they've said.
I doubt you'd like to see some 15+ million ACA sign ups get any system to help them afford health care.
This piece and Jeff's piece on how sick Trump supporters are may not work for Trump if he ignores these facts – if he ever gets around to paying any attention to the facts.
Take note of your words "I don't contest… even though" You contest the election almost every time you speak. Not only that but, despite the fact that the incoming President announced the ACA would be dealt with almost immediately upon taking office you are already complaining and crying that the anti-ACA crowd is quiet because one generally is polite enough to wait for a new President to take office.
I understand your grief. Your leadership had a liar as a candidate who pushed out her own Democratic opposition (Bernie Sanders) in a very undemocratic and disgusting fashion leaving party members astounded at the audacity of the Democratic party leaders. We read about this in their own words from their own emails.
You are going to have to wait for four more years (hopefully eight) and live under Trump while he attempts to contain your type of socialism mixed with power from a pen rather than from a legislative body that follows the Constitution.
pjnelson says:
Truly.
jklei01 says:
The replacement of ACA 2010 should begin with a recognition that the reimbursement process should be tied to a healthcare reform strategy that promotes a renewal of the Primary Healthcare that is available to and accessible by each citizen, community by community. The renewal strategy for Basic Healthcare Needs should be promoted locally in order to be more responsive to the causes of poor health uniquely present for the citizens in each community. This disseminated strategy would have the opportunity to mobilize a community's resources including its level of 'social capital' for the 'common good' existing in their own community.
Eventually, Primary Healthcare should be considered a prepaid expense within HEALTH INSURANCE and reimbursed through co-payments tiered based on the degree of its restrictions. Probably, only 20-30% of the population can efficiently use a high deductible plan with an HSA to modulate their healthcare participation. The remainder of the population should receive increasingly structured healthcare coverage through purchase order style referral processes monitored by Risk-Pools. So, for Medicaid, this would also involve an automatic lock-in to a specific pharmacy, referral group and hospital. As the citizen becomes more financially independent, the structured financing would become less obtrusive.
One could say that this is just a move back to the HMO days. Well, just look at the growth in health care costs from 1990-95…growth that was less than the economic growth rate and then rebounding after 1995 when the capitated risk-sharing plans eventually disappeared. Why did they disappear? Well, that's another discussion also.
Fundamental to this scenario, Primary Healthcare is really not insurable. It is really a pre-paid expense. It is currently undermined by the many specialists who periodically do a bit of primary healthcare, as a 'courtesy' to their patients AND also from a lack of confidence in the local Primary Healthcare that is available. That goes away in a well managed and transparent insurance plan. Why? The Primary Physicians know who their colleagues are that are more likely to disrupt the Primary Healthcare relationship. Yep, no further referrals. So, how would we do this?
Remember, our nation's agriculture industry is the most efficient and effective for producing nutritious food among the developed nation's of the world, by a wide margin. Our nation's healthcare is just the opposite, also by a very wide margin. Congress passed the Smith Lever Act in 1914 to establish the Cooperative Extension Service, county by county nationally. It provided a direct connection between the rural as well as the urban farmer with the regional University based College of Agriculture funded by the Morrill Act initially in 1862 and revised periodically since then. So, the front line farmer has had responsive access to new information, but more importantly the educational centers have had a direct continuing access to the problem solving issues at the 'front lines' of agriculture. With a similar process for healthcare, medical students would be connected more precisely to the level and basis of uncertainty that underlies all of Healthcare, but especially Primary Healthcare. They don't receive this now. Another discussion deferred.
So, we need a national plan to support each State's responsibility to run an insurance exchange with, guaranteed, federal government financial support for "re-insurance" (catastrophic care) along with support for expanded Medicaid. The states that do not participate diligently would eventually see many employers leave the State for another State with a more efficient use of resources by the State and their own indigenous health systems.
Just so everyone is on the same page… as compared to all the other Developed nation's of the world, the excess cost of healthcare per citizen is $2,700. Of the nearly, $830 Billion annual excess cost of heathcare, the Federal government paid cash for 40% of it: @$300 Billion. The Federal deficit in 2015 was $500 Billion SOOOOOOOOOO, the inefficiency of our nation's healthcare industry represents 60% of our nation's annual deficit. Bluntly, our nation is headed to bankruptcy on the back of our nation's healthcare. We can not continue to DITHER.
See https://nationalhealthusa.net/initiative/
for one way to consider a semi-autonomous institution Chartered by Congress to promote a community by community, healthcare reform strategy. Congress should itself manage the relationships with the States for universal health insurance without a national exchange. This would get rid of the IRS connection, not a sensible idea….ever. With this arrangement, the States could be given technical support through regional groupings of states, e.g., Northeast, southeast and Western, each with about 110 million citizens. They would be more responsive with a location outside of Washington, D.C.
IDEA: I. Set up NATIONAL HEALTH now (as above)NOTE: could be ready in 6 months.
II. Help States with active exchanges to be reformed by this fall
III. Provide assistance for States without exchanges to run there own beginning a year from this fall OR these States may contract with another state's exchange for up to 3 years AND begin a plan to privatize the Primary Healthcare for all Veterans.
IV. The National exchange provides back-up until SUNSET 12-31-2019 (???except for Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplemental and Medicare Rail Road Plans)


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Learning gets more diverse and tougher as we get older, as subjects get more in depth and challenging. Lessons are no longer simply preached by a lecturer at the front of the class. They are interactive, dynamic and multi format; with children more engaged than ever before.
Subjects such as biology, chemistry, physics and geometry take on a whole new dimension as the class are able to truly interact with the resources. Geography lessons can literally travel the world with the use of Google Earth, Weather sites, and mapping software.
High school projects in Design and Technology, Marketing, and the arts become interactive with the entire class able to get involved; sharing ideas views and suggestions.


A new drug "cuts heart attack and stroke risk without side effects", according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper says that the eprotirome tablets could rapidly lower cholesterol in people that do not respond to conventional statin drugs.
This is an important and well-conducted trial that gave participants either eprotirome or a placebo alongside their prescribed statin drugs. After 12 weeks of treatment with eprotirome, which is designed to mimic a thyroid hormone, there was a significant reduction in LDL cholesterol. Greater reductions were seen with increasing doses of eprotirome.
While the trial produced good results, newspapers have been premature in predicting the action of the eprotirome - all people in the study still took their prescribed statins so it is unclear how the drug works in isolation. The trial was also limited by size and duration, with only 189 participants and just 12 weeks of treatment.
Overall, the findings of this early trial are promising, but further testing will be needed to establish the drug's actions in isolation, long-term safety and to see whether it actually cuts heart attack and stroke risk, as newspapers have claimed.
This research was conducted by Dr Paul Ladenson and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and other institutions in the US and Sweden. The study was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm City Council. The study was published in the peer-reviewed The New England Journal of Medicine.
The news reports in the Daily Mail and Daily Express are premature in hailing a 'new statin' that cuts cholesterol and disease risk without side effects. All study participants were also taking prescribed courses of statins, but the newspapers have not considered the key fact that this trial has only looked at this drug as an addition to conventional statin treatment, and not as a replacement for it.
There is also a need for longer-term follow-up trials in much larger numbers of people before any firm conclusions can be made on the drug's safety and efficacy. In particular, no conclusions can be made from this trial about the effect eprotirome has on cardiovascular health or disease risk, as the trial only looked at immediate changes in cholesterol levels.
This was a double-blind randomised controlled trial investigating the cholesterol-lowering effects of a new compound called eprotirome. The drug acts in a similar way to a thyroid hormone, which has been demonstrated to lower levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL), often referred to as 'bad' cholesterol. In this trial, people who were already taking a statin were randomised to take either eprotirome or a placebo alongside their existing statin treatment.
Randomised controlled trials are the best way of investigating the safety and efficacy of a new treatment. With this particular 'thyroid-mimicking' drug, there is a particular need to ensure that the treatment does not cause adverse effects similar to what would be seen in a person with thyroid disease (either underactive or overactive). Given this potential risk, the safety findings of this small trial would need to be replicated in larger numbers of people using the treatment for a longer duration than 12 weeks.
Importantly, all the people in the trial were already receiving statins and the eprotirome or placebo was added to see whether there was any incremental effect of the new drug. The fact that nobody used eprotirome alone means that at this stage no comparison can be made between eprotirome alone and existing statins with regard to cholesterol-lowering effects, adverse effects, or effects upon risk of cardiovascular disease.
People were enrolled in this trial between November 2007 and January 2008. All subjects had to have been stable on statin treatment (atorvastatin or simvastatin) for at least three months, but still have elevated cholesterol (≥116mg per decilitre, equivalent to ≥3.0mmol per litre). The researchers excluded those who had a history of thyroid disease, heart failure, recent heart attack or cardiac surgery, stroke, liver disease, uncontrolled diabetes, severe high blood pressure or drug or alcohol misuse problems.
Those that were eligible and agreed to participate (189 people) then received a four-week dietary education programme before being randomised to receive either eprotirome or placebo for 12 weeks in addition to their prescribed statin. Three different doses of eprotirome were used: 25, 50 or 100 micrograms.
After the 12 weeks the participants discontinued the trial drugs but continued their statin use. They were then reassessed four weeks later, with the main outcome being change in LDL cholesterol from the start of the trial to week 12. Safety assessments documented details of heart rate, blood pressure, body weight, electrocardiogram readings, blood tests (specifically effects on thyroid function) and any adverse effects.
Of the 189 participants randomised into the study, 168 (89%) completed the trial, 184 (97.4%) were included in the efficacy analyses and all 189 were included in the safety analysis.
The improvement in LDL cholesterol levels was significantly greater in the eprotirome groups than in the placebo group. Other blood cholesterol and fat levels were also reduced with eprotirome compared with placebo. The four groups showed similar rates of adverse effects, with most effects being of mild or moderate severity.
While eprotirome had no effect upon one of the thyroid hormones measured (triiodothyronine), levels of the other (thyroxine) decreased. However, levels of both hormones remained within the normal range and there were no symptoms of thyroid disease. These effects were reversed on discontinuation of the drug.
The researchers concluded that 12 weeks of treatment with the thyroid hormone eprotirome, in addition to continued statin treatment, decreased blood cholesterol levels.
So far, use of the drug alone has not been compared to statin treatment. In this trial eprotirome or inactive placebo was only ever given in addition to people's long-term statins. Therefore no comparison of cholesterol-lowering effect of each of the treatments alone can be made.
Only a small number of people were included in the trial: 47 on the 25microgram dose, 46 on 50micrograms, and 44 on the 100microgram dose of eprotirome. These groups of participants are too small to draw any conclusions on the safety or efficacy of eprotirome. The trial will need replication in much larger groups of participants, particularly when trying to determine the dose of eprotirome that provides the optimal balance between benefits and risks.
With both the short, 12-week duration of this trial and the small number of participants, it is not possible to draw firm conclusions about the safety of eprotirome and it is too early to say that this drug is 'without side effects' as headlined by the Daily Mail. In particular, the longer-term effects of this drug upon the body's thyroid function and liver enzymes need to be assessed.
As this was only a 12-week trial, it is not possible to tell the longer-term effects that eprotirome could have upon cardiovascular health and mortality risk. Therefore, newspaper claims that eprotirome 'cuts heart attack and stroke risk' are currently unfounded.
The findings of this early trial into the use of eprotirome to lower cholesterol in addition to statins are promising, and further research is awaited.


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APHA members joined global community at the World Health Assembly in Geneva
by David Fouse on Jun 18, 2019 • 10:37 am
World health leaders convened in Geneva for the World Health Assembly in May to tackle leading challenges and discuss priorities. APHA member Hoai-An Truong, PharmD, MPH, professor and director of public health at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, was among APHA members attending the meetings. He shared the following report.
Hoai-An Truong, PharmD, MPH
American Public Health Association members recently joined the Global Health Council as part of its delegation to the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to advocate for global health issues. Delegates and representatives actively engaged in the general session and side event discussions on goals, priorities and strategies to improve global health.
Universal health coverage was the theme of this year's assembly, which is a part of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 adopted at the 2016 World Health Assembly. Nothing is more precious than health, and championing for universal health coverage means investing in health and building systems for the future. By putting policies into practice that are evidence-based, delegates said, we can reach that goal and provide health coverage for 1 billion more people. This topic provides timely perspectives and lessons as we continue discussing universal health care in the United States, as supported by APHA.
Global health leader Richard Charles Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, presented a keynote address. He was recognized for his tireless, wide-ranging and innovative contributions to global health. Horton reminded attendees that it is important to embrace universal health coverage as it's about delivering quality health services to address the determinants of health, especially given risk factors such as obesity, pollution and more.
With regard to health goals, he said, "No country represented here [at the World Health Assembly] is on track to meet its health target." He reminded delegates that the strength of the health system is the strength of society. Of note, Horton is a patient himself and a courageous fighter of cancer. Thus, he shared his firsthand experiences with advancing the health system. We cannot be in the status quo, he said. Business as usual is not an option to improve health.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered the Health Leaders and Celebration Moment talk and recognized the world coming together for 71 years for a common purpose. He reminded delegates are here to "talk [solutions] but must also listen to the voices of those who are not here or have no voice. It is [for] them we are here to serve." He also acknowledged several health initiatives, including efforts to improve public health in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region. Ghebreyesus reiterated the importance of investing in prevention instead of public health emergencies, and more specifically on spreading vaccination and controlling outbreak risks. At the Assembly, four new goodwill ambassadors were announced for health promotion, mental health and health workforce.
In addition to the keynote and celebration moment sessions, many concurrent and side events focused on the approaches and strategies for achieving universal health coverage. These included enhancing community health workers' support to improve primary health care, public health emergency preparedness and response, and polio eradication. Achieving universal health coverage within nations is a target under Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Reflecting on the World Health Assembly priorities — which included a new strategy, new operating model, new processes, new culture and new approach to partnerships — I came away with one message: How can I, as a public health advocate, and we, as a nation and collective voice, embrace all or at least some of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 to improve health care? Health is about people and partnerships, and health care should not be done in a silo.
I was particularly inspired by Natasha Mwansa, who is a youth advocate and a first year communications and political science student at the University of Zambia. She delivered an impassioned speech to the assembly on "pushing boundaries to change the status of adolescent health." Mwansa declared "ignorance is the deadliest disease that we can ever fight" and poverty as a major obstacle to achieving universal health coverage. For example, the economies within sub-Saharan Africa lose approximately $30 billion every year due to the lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Poverty is more costly than we realize. We spend more resources tackling the issues resulting from poverty rather than addressing its root causes.
As leaders, we need to work more collaboratively toward solutions. Let's empower our colleagues and communities, invest in health and, as advocated by Mwansa, "raise our flags in unity" with the global community. Together, we can work to provide health care for all.
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Begin your paper with a discussion of Community or Progressive Organizing, as you understand it at this point in the course. Review your areas of strength as an organizer.
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Treatment of oppressed groups
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Disabled and access to services
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A12 gas pipeline plans threatens rare species habitat for road widening
A last minute consultation has been announced proposing a number of routes for the gas pipeline
The A12 is set for a major upgrade
Habitats of important and rare species of birds and aquatic mammals are being threatened by plans to reroute a high pressure gas pipe to allow A12 widening, residents have been told.
Wickham Bishops Parish Council say that three options under the A12 Witham bypass widening scheme would cause the permanent loss of mature trees and hedgerows and destroy habitats of red kites, otters and many other species of wildlife.
The parish council added it would also have a detrimental effect on the setting of listed buildings and a historic lane.
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It added its support to National Highways own preferred, albeit more expensive option, to route the pipe alongside the widened A12, staying on the north side of the Blackwater, rather than diverting through Blue Mills and Ishams Chase which will require a 25 metre-wide strip of land to be cleared, and left cleared, where the pipeline runs.
However the final decision will be made by Cadent Gas Limited.
In a statement the council said: "As part of the A12 Witham Bypass widening work, a gas pipeline needs to be rerouted.
"A last minute consultation has been announced proposing a number of routes for the gas pipeline.
"Proposed routes 2, 4 and 5 will see the pipeline diverted through Blue Mills and Ishams Chase which will require a 25 metre-wide strip of land to be cleared, and left cleared, above where the pipeline runs.
"These routes will cross the Blackwater twice, cause the permanent loss of mature trees and hedgerows and destroy habitat of red kites, otters and many other species of wildlife, and have a detrimental effect on the setting of listed buildings and a historic lane.
"There is a much better route which will simply go alongside the widened A12, staying on the north side of the Blackwater, but it is understood this is the more expensive option as it goes through former landfill site. But we can't let cost simply override the ecological damage that the cheaper routes will cause.
"The parish council yesterday (December 8) resolved to object to these plans. But the nature of this consultation means that weight will be given to the quantity of objections."
Five options are being proposed for rerouting the gas main
National Highways admit diversion corridors 2, 4 and 5 have the potential for significant effects on additional archaeological remains south of Little Braxted while corridors 2 and 5 also have the potential for significant effects on the site of Machin's Mill or Blue Mills.
They add all diversion options have the potential for significant effects on local landscape character and properties due to vegetation loss and all diversion options have the potential for significant effects from the loss of mature woodland.
Diversion corridors 1 and 3 would involve excavations adjacent to Whetmead Local Nature Reserve.
The parish council's objections come as National Highways holds a supplementary consultation on the A12 Chelmsford to A120 widening scheme on changes made since the statutory consultation in the summer.
The preferred route involves widening the existing A12 between junctions 19 and 25 to three lanes in each direction (where it is not already) and create a three-lane bypass in each direction at Rivenhall End.
Updated proposals include removal of junction 21 Southern link road, so the traffic will use a new and enhanced northern link road via Wellington Bridge to access the proposed junction 21 alongside walkers, cyclist and horse riders, removal of proposed noise barriers through Hatfield Peverel to be replaced with improved road surfacing with better noise performance and options for Gas Main Diversion corridors near Witham.
A statement as part of the supplementary National Highways consultation document said: "We have carried out further work on possible corridors which could accommodate this pipeline.
"This work has identified five corridor options where the gas main could be diverted. As part of the proposed scheme, we will need to reroute part of the high pressure gas pipeline. We are therefore asking for your opinions on each of the possible diversion corridors. It is important to note that the decision on which route which will be taken forward will be a decision for Cadent Gas Limited who operate and maintain the gas distribution network, but your comments could influence the decision that they make.
"Corridors 1 and 3 would be our preferred routes as they broadly run alongside the proposed scheme, and therefore have less impacts on the surrounding area.
"Corridors 2, 4 and 5 were designed to provide alternative options whilst providing sufficient width to reduce impacts on properties, businesses and ecologically sensitive areas (including a nature reserve) where possible.
"As we stated, the final decision will be made by Cadent Gas Limited who will consider many other factors such as operational safety."
Cadent has been asked to comment.
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40 mile diversion through Gloucestershire and Herefordshire due to work on 1.3 mile stretch of road
By James Young | 13th January 2020
A mile-long section of the A417 in Gloucestershire will be closed overnight for four nights later this month - with the official diversion route coming in at a whopping 40 miles.
The road between Maisemore and Hartpury College will be subject to closures from 7pm to 7am from Thursday, January 23 through to Tuesday, January 28.
So, any Hartpury students who are going into Gloucester for a post-study pint had better beware that their taxi home could cost a little bit extra, especially if it follows the diversion route.
The work is part of Gloucestershire County Council's resurfacing programme and is scheduled to take four days, so long as the weather behaves.
A letter sent to local residents by the Council's structural maintenance team manager David Hicks explained that while the project is expected to take four days, it could be longer.
"Our resurfacing programme is dependent on several factors," Mr Hicks said.
"It can be affected by things like; heavy rain, changes in temperatures and other weather events as well as plant breakdown and unforeseen technical issues that arise once work has begun.
"All this means scheme dates and details can change at short notice.
"We appreciate road closures are inconvenient, but in order to keep you and the team working on the road safe it is necessary.
"We have planned the work so we can be in and out as quickly as possible and have tried to do it at a time that will minimise any inconvenience."
Only pedestrian access will be allowed along the route of the 1.3 mile closure, with the letter saying that drivers who use the route will need to make "alternate arrangements."
That could involve taking the pre-set "all vehicles" diversion that will act as a late-night guided tour of parts of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire - missing a trip to Worcestershire, but only just.
The letter adds: "We have created an official diversion route which will be signposted and is suitable for all vehicles that would normally use the closed road.
"We appreciate you may know an alternative route, however please be aware alternative routes which are outside of the road closure area are used at driver's discretion."
The Council say the closure will be in place from 7pm to 7am from Thursday, January 23 to Tuesday, January 28, excluding weekends.
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The Mike Burton Group, one of the world's leading commercial sports ticketing businesses, has announced the appointment of a new chief commercial officer.
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Q: apostrophe text comparison in xsl I have a problem with text with apostrophe symbol
example i try to test this xml having the symbol is then how can i compare ?
<xsl:for each select="country[nation='India's]">

this is statement showing error
Regards
Nanda.A

A: One way to do it would be:
<xsl:variable name="apos" select='"'"'/>

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<xsl:for-each select="country[nation=concat('India', $apos, 's')]">

The problem here is twofold:

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*XSLT defines no way of character escaping in strings. So 'India\'s' is not an option.

*You must get through two distinct layers of evaluation.

These are:

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*XML well-formedness: The XML document your XSLT program consists of must be well-formed. You cannot violate XML rules.

*XSLT expression parsing: The resulting attribute value string (after XML DOM parsing is done) must be make sense to the XSLT engine.

Constructs like:
<xsl:for-each select="country[nation='India's']">
<xsl:for-each select="country[nation='India's']">

pass the XML layer but violate the XSLT layer, because in both cases the effective attribute value (as stored in the DOM) is country[nation='India's'], which clearly is an XPath syntax error.
Constructs like:
<xsl:for-each select="country[nation=concat('India', "'", 's')]">
<xsl:for-each select="country[nation=concat("India", "'", "s")]">

clearly violate the XML layer. But they would not violate the XSLT layer (!), since their actual value (if the XSLT document could be parsed in the first place) would come out as country[nation=concat('India', "'", 's')], which is perfectly legal as an XPath expression.
So you must find a way to pass through both layer 1 and layer 2. One way is the variable way as shown above. Another way is:
<xsl:for-each select="country[nation=concat('India', "'", 's')]">

which would appear to XSLT as country[nation=concat('India', "'", 's')].
Personally, I find the "variable way" easier to work with.

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Q: How to bring span & the icon in ::before inline I have a span element like so (I am modules.css hence the classnames look a bit strange) in a React component
<div className={`${styles["login-container"]}`}>
        <span className={`${styles["a-icon"]}`}>Login

Then in CSS the following
.login-container {
  height: auto;
display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 5px;
}

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  font-family: xyzFontLight;
  height: 30px;
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The login Icon is created using a special customized font(these are custom fonts that I cannot share). The issue I am facing is that the icon & text don't line up.
How to get both of these inline?


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Understanding First Hawaiian's Ex-Dividend Date
August 19, 2021 11:13 AM | 1 min read
First Hawaiian FHB declared a dividend payable on September 3, 2021 to its shareholders as of July 23, 2021. It was also announced that shareholders of First Hawaiian's stock as of August 23, 2021 are entitled to the dividend. The stock is expected to become ex-dividend 1 business day(s) before the record date. The ex-dividend date for First Hawaiian will be on August 20, 2021. The company's current dividend payout is at $0.26. That equates to a dividend yield of 3.83% at current price levels.
The Significance Of An Ex-Dividend Date
An ex-dividend date is when a company's shares stop trading with its current dividend payout in preparation for the company to announce a new one. Usually, a company's ex-dividend date falls one business day before its record date. Investors should keep this in mind when purchasing stocks because buying them on or after ex-dividend dates does not qualify them to receive the declared payment. Newly declared dividends go to shareholders who have owned that stock before the ex-dividend date. Most ex-dividend dates operate on a quarterly basis.
Understanding First Hawaiian's Dividend Performance
Over the past year, First Hawaiian has experienced no change regarding its dividend payouts and a downward trend regarding its yields. Last year on August 21, 2020 the company's payout was $0.26, which has returned to its value today. First Hawaiian's dividend yield last year was 5.85%, which has since decreased by 2.02%.
Companies use dividend yields in different strategic ways. Some companies may opt to not give yields altogether to reinvest in themselves. Other companies may opt to increase or decrease their yield amounts to control how their shares circulate throughout the stock market.
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Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the current era. Current guidelines base their recommendations for diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases on several important parameters such as left ventricular (LV) dimension and function, presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and valve function. Accurate assessment of these parameters is therefore essential for patients with or at risk of cardiovascular diseases and requires the use of invasive and non-invasive testing. Non-invasive testings are in principle preferable, especially for a first-line approach, being safer and generally widely available and easy to perform. The present thesis highlights the use of non-invasive imaging modalities, namely cardiac computed tomography and advanced echocardiography analysis (speckle tracking and calibrated integrated backscatter) to diagnosis and guide the treatment of various cardiovascular diseases.


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Changsha (Chinese: 长沙) is a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1925. It is considered by many Chinese to be of high literary quality and one of the best of Mao's poems.
Poem translated into English and German at Infopartisan.net.


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Chennai: In order to improve its service quality and taking into account the future needs, Hutchinson Essar South, the cellular telephony service provider in Chennai, has invested Rs 200 crore in expanding its infrastructure.
The company increased the number of cell sites to 208 in the city. "We deployed 73 cell sites in 45 days," says Sandip Das, CEO. "We invested around Rs 400 crore in our Chennai operations, if one includes the licence fee too. In the last one year our total investment in Chennai, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh was around Rs 1,500 crore."
Didn't the company explore the possibility of sharing the infrastructure of other service providers in Chennai? "We did speak. But such sharing would place us at par with the existing players from day one, which we didn't want," says Das. "The Chennai operations will break even next year provided the current market trends prevail."
Launching its services in Chennai last year, Hutch has a subscriber base of 56,000 with post-paid accounting for 25 per cent and the balance being prepaid customers. For the service providers, post-paid is more favourable. "But the cost of supporting that is also high. It is the pre-paid that brings in more subscribers," he says.
Nation-wide the average revenue per post-paid user is around Rs 800 per month whereas it is Rs 250 in the case of pre-paid schemes. "Across the circles Hutch has the highest post-paid subscriber base," Das adds. Apart from the four metros the Hutch group is present in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.
Agreeing that Hutch in Chennai witnessed lots of subscriber churn, Das says: "We took a hard look at our subscriber base and cleansed it. Now our subscriber base consists of serious and quality users."
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Stumbling Through The March For Our Lives With Little Kids
As a primary care physician with strong public health and clinical research roots, and as a politically engaged mom with serious concerns about our kids' futures, it made perfect sense to take our kids to the March 24th March for Our Lives Boston.
One complication: Hubby and I have been shielding them from the news, especially school shootings news. Babyboy is extremely sensitive to the topic of death, dying, and violence. He'll have "bad memories" for weeks after hearing or witnessing something along gun violence lines. This may be a normal little kid thing rather than an autism thing; they're only seven and six years old, after all.
Given all of this, it was actually very difficult to explain why were marching.
The Women's March and the March for Science were so, so much easier! Yesterday, Hubby and I found ourselves searching for explanatory phrases that didn't include references to school shooting deaths or the words "being shot" or "being killed". We ended up stammering, stumbling, and not successfully conveying the point.
Many organizations have offered guidance on how to talk to little kids about tragic events and disasters, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Institution. Major news outlets regularly publish advice about talking to children specifically about school shootings (which is definitely a statement about the states of affairs in this country). Two recent articles on TODAY.com and Cnn.com are actually pretty helpful.
So, this is something we clearly need to work on, as the kids' school runs lockdown drills and the #GunControlNow, #Enough, #Gunsense, and #MomsDemandAction movements spur debate and action.
Regardless, their taking part in a massive live social change movement is a powerful lesson. We emphasized that in many other countries, citizens aren't allowed to gather and protest, that we are very lucky to have this privilege, and we have to use it.
Overall, I'm glad that we took them and that they got to see freedom of speech, political activism, public health awareness, and social altruism, all at once and in person.
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Talking Politics and Public Health With Patients- Is It OK?
My Friday morning clinic was slow. There were two last-minute cancellations and a no-show. So when Mrs. Smith* came in for her physical, I wasn't in a rush, and we had some time to chat.
We talked about her recent hip replacement, and how thrilled she was to be finally pain-free and physically mobile, so that she could help care for her grandchildren again. Her face was bright with joy as she spoke of the beach and playground and the zoo and how much she loved experiencing the world with her two young grandchildren.
But she hesitated and frowned as she remarked: "I watch the news, and with everything going on today, I worry about them. We're moving in the wrong direction as a society. I mean, look at this presidential election, isn't it ridiculous, to think that a person so flawed could end up as a candidate? I'm frightened for their future."
Then she asked, "Your children are little, what do you think about all this craziness, do you lose sleep over it too? How can we protect them from it all?"
Up to that point, we had been slowly moving through the physical exam, and I had been wordlessly responding to her lighthearted description of her days as Nana the nanny with laughter, positive nods and smiles… When she admitted her fears, I reflected back grim countenance and shook my head, as if to mime What a shame, what a shame, but I didn't say anything.
I had no idea at this point what her specific views were. Her comments could reflect the opinions of anyone anywhere on the political spectrum. The flawed candidate she was referring to could be either Democrat or Republican. I didn't want to say anything potentially inflammatory, or even mildly awkward.
But she sat there awaiting my opinion.
Her questions hung there, between us, as I shook my head and tried to think of something to say.
Is her idea of crazy the same as my idea of crazy?
Does she want to protect her grandkids from the same things that I want to protect my kids from?
Do I really want to talk about this? And, is it appropriate?
I thought about my morning commute. There's an app on my phone that pulls articles from all the news sources I choose, and I have chosen just about every possible news source, even those representing the far other side of my political leanings. I like to know what's going on, through all the looking glasses. I read it all on the train on the way to work.
For months now, the news has been increasingly disturbing. Mass shootings, terror attacks, senseless violence against minorities and law enforcement alike, war abroad, mass displacement… it's all horrible.
But what's worse in my eyes is that here in the land of equality, in a country founded on sound principles and thoughtful discourse, we are witnessing the ugly rise of a potential dictator. Here is a divisive fascist whose behavior already mirrors that of the worst dictators in history. Historians and scholars continue to make observations and deliver warnings. This kind of a man, this kind of rhetoric, these lies and sick ideas, are what have led to genocide and war in the past. And if that isn't a public health issue, I don't know what is.
So, what do I think about all this craziness? I think about it all the time. It makes me sick to my stomach. But specifically WHAT I think about it may not be appropriate to discuss with patients. I believe that the candidate on the right is a bona fide public health issue, on many levels. But so is gun control, and beyond asking patients if they have a gun in the house and how it is stored as a basic home safety screening question, I don't get into the issue with anyone.
Perhaps we should. Perhaps we, as educated professionals with a sworn oath to promote the health and well-being of our patients- ALL of our patients- should be open about our views on matters that effect patient safety. Maybe that could be a means of educating the public on important issues, like gun control.... and rhetoric that promotes violence.
This all went through my mind...
So, what did I say?
I murmured "I know, it's really scary…", paused and smiled and declared, cheerfully: "Your grandkids are so lucky that they have you. I'm so happy for you that the hip surgery had such a good outcome."
She smiled back, and we went on as if nothing at all was wrong with the world.
*Patient identifiers such as social history and medical issues altered.
Labels: doctor patient relationship, Donald Trump, Genmedmom, politics, public health


Alex Cooper is pleased to offer a selection of work from acclaimed Baltimore artist, Les Harris. Never before available for at auction, Alex Cooper brings you, "The Seven Verities of God," a seven piece collection deaccessioned from The Amaranthine Museum. Over 100,000 visitors to the Museum have joined his journey from the chaos of modern art of the 1990's, back through the decades, centuries, styles, sciences, ologies, ages, back to the "beginning" and the Word. Now we are bringing them to you. The auction is live now online at bid.alexcooper.com and takes place live in our Gallery Auction Saturday, October 6th.


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OpenTrainTimes presents information on rail services in the UK using Open Data.
This is the official blog.
Ed Ainscow on November 18, 2015 at 9:05 am said:
Just a message to say how impressed with the site I am.
I have been looking for a site like this for a while and cannot get over how fantastic it is.
Please, Please, Please keep up the fantastic work.
I was wandering if there are any plane for a Liverpool Lime St – Man Vic map?
As you already have MerseyRail covered it would be great to cover my whole daily journey to work 🙂
Thanks for the site.
admin on January 11, 2016 at 5:50 pm said:
That's a distinct possibility, and not a route that anyone else has requested before. I've made a note of it
Richard on November 19, 2015 at 5:38 pm said:
Hi, firstly thanks very much for a fantastic site. It's fascinating and I really appreciate the time and effort you put into providing it for us.
Could you please tell me if there is any particular reason on the St Pancras Intl (Eurostar) map it doesn't show TRTS activation or signal aspect colours? Also what are the yellow and blue indicators located in the London tunnel.
Thanks for your feedback – always appreciated. The train describer for the High Speed 1 route doesn't publish any signal or route indications, which is a shame as it'd make the map look really good! The yellow and blue markers are TVM 430 block markers – have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Voie-Machine for a better explanation. They're like ETCS marker boards on the Cambrian lines, but for a different in-cab signalling system
Luke B on December 21, 2015 at 3:27 pm said:
Hi im new to the website and im just wondering how it works and what all the symbols and letters mean on the maps!
BillP on January 25, 2016 at 2:55 pm said:
Excellent site. Enjoying watching the real-time changes around Swindon as the signalling system is upgraded there and moved to TVSC. Any chance you will do the whole Golden Valley line (Swindon to Cheltenham) sometime?
admin on February 21, 2016 at 6:40 pm said:
Hi Bill – yes, I'm hoping to do the Swindon to Cheltenham map soon! There are so many requests for maps but so little time, so it may be a few weeks before I can get it done though
Neil Selkirk on May 5, 2016 at 9:03 am said:
I have just stumbled over your site and as I'm into all things transit, found it fascinating. Just thought I'd give you a heads-up that we mentioned your site on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AddTransit/
Michael Reed on January 3, 2017 at 2:46 pm said:
I love this site it is totally awesome.I am so glad I stumbled across it just recently.I would appreciate it if you could put on a key for all the abbreviations on the site. Is there any chance of adding Skipton station to the website as my father in law follows trains being a ex fireman on steam trains in that area.
Dave Liesse on January 23, 2017 at 5:25 am said:
I just ran across this website last night (my time) and want to thank you for what obviously is a labor of love! I'm a Yank from the Seattle area who happens to be very much intrigued by the British rail network — in fact, one of my goals is to be able at some point to say that I've ridden every active passenger segment on the network (since some routes come and go, it will have to be at a specific point in time). I'm a little over 50% done, but due to physical limitations my travel has been curtailed temporarily.
At any rate, you can consider this an unofficial request for coverage of any route that's not yet covered — I'm not choosy!
David Grimm on February 13, 2017 at 4:00 am said:
Could you explain to this guy from Massachusetts what the green highlight on some paths through junctions represents. As a retired US engineer, I'm familiar with our style of dispatcher panel displays and I'm surious how yours correlates.
Keith Gomm on March 2, 2017 at 3:41 pm said:
Hi I am new to your wonderful site but can you tell me how I stop the Trains tab opening to the advance search. I do not want 25 pages of 492946 entries.
Is it possible to put the place that you want to search on, say Didcot, tomorrow and only get this information. I am using this on my laptop using the browser Edge.
Thanking you in anticipation
Robertmyhill on April 22, 2017 at 12:30 pm said:
Hi this is rob . Just want to say what great site this is and will look forward to visiting this site for years to come . Are there any plans to cover the Ely area which is close to where I live thanks for help.
Ray on July 20, 2017 at 1:33 pm said:
Gloucester Map:
Heading west out of Gloucester, have a look at signals 1421 and 1039.
It looks like the signals are correctly numbered, but the data field on each need to be swapped.
Tony O'Brien on August 4, 2017 at 10:23 am said:
I have just one question – there appears to be no map for the Bristol area. Any reason why?
Graham on August 17, 2017 at 10:58 am said:
Excellent site, I realise a lot of hard work goes into it!!
Are there any plans to include Liskeard to Penzance?
@GordonDudman on August 18, 2017 at 1:10 pm said:
When you get a moment, can you move Tonbridge (excl) to Hastings (excl) from the Sussex menu to the Kent menu?
Although the route lies mostly in East Sussex, its managed by NR as part of the Kent route. It just seems a more logical place for it.
Sorry about the OCD in me!
J M Gold on August 19, 2017 at 4:19 am said:
Brilliant site – thanks for all your hard work.
Is it possible for signal aspects, trts and route selections to be shown for the Euston – Harlesden section of the Euston – Wembley map please?
Paul Reeve on September 21, 2017 at 4:50 pm said:
A long time ago, mention was made of the "Chatham" side of the Kent route being added, but nothing has appeared so far. I do realise that everything you do to the site takes time, but is this still on the horizon?
David Selley on October 31, 2017 at 3:07 pm said:
Great site , I work for NR as a signal technician and find it very useful. Just one point , what's happened to Selmeston AHB's between Glynde and Berwick on the Brighton-Eastbourne line ?
Jan Kozminski on October 31, 2017 at 6:14 pm said:
Peter – greetings – two things about SCU1 – have you discovered the number of the shunt signal at Sanderstead that allows movements from the down line thru the crossover and into Plat 1 (ie a reversing move). Secondly I believe that the first down berth in the Ashurst loop should actually be in the Cowden single line (as is the case in the Eridge single line where two are shown.
Regards – Jan
Bob on November 30, 2017 at 12:38 pm said:
Superb website will there ever be a android or iOS app
Richard Chapman on March 15, 2018 at 3:02 pm said:
Hi. I often use the site and find it usefull. I'd love to see maps from Doncaster to Hull via Selby (Hull Trains Route) if at all possible.
I'm sure you get many of these requests. I don't know if you need help for track diagram research or not – if you do let me know.
Jean on August 24, 2018 at 10:09 pm said:
Thanks for producing this excellent site, it's fascinating to watch, especially Charing Cross at rush hour! Appreciate the recent extension to the WCML.
On the maps for Charing X, Cannon Street and St. Pancras Intl (platforms 1-4), what is the significance of the dotted lines, as opposed to solid black lines, before the starting signal is cleared? Some extend over one berth, some across two berths.
Simon Bartlett on October 8, 2018 at 8:23 pm said:
Many thanks for investing your time and expertise on this site. For an old railway buff like me who is fascinated by the signalling and routing of services it is the go-to site.
As a west country duffer, any additions to the west of Liskeard would get my vote, but I feel certain you have great plans going forward.
Is there any way that we the users can support you in this excellent initiative?


Is It a Lyme Disease Herx Reaction?
Is it a Lyme Herx or Something Else?
In this video recording from Conversations with Marty Ross MD on 7/25/18, I describe how to figure out if a decline in health is due to a Lyme disease Herxheimer (Herx) reaction.
In a Lyme disease Herx, the immune system sees toxins and proteins from dead Lyme germs and responds by making more inflammation chemicals called cytokines. These cytokines are what cause most Lyme symptoms. So in a Lyme disease Herxheimer reaction, most Lyme symptoms will get worse. See Herxheimer Die-Off Reaction: Inflammation Run Amok for more information about cytokines and treatments for Herx reactions.
So to have a Herxheimer in a Lyme disease treatment, there has to be increased germ killing. This only occurs when new herbal or prescription antibiotics are added or increased. It can also sometimes happen when the antibiotics get deeper into the tissues. Heating in far infrared saunas or hyperthermic baths can lead to greater killing, and thus a Herx. For more information see Far Infrared Sauna Detox: More Than Sweat.
This video was recorded during Conversations with Marty Ross MD in July, 2018 when Dr. Ross practiced in Seattle, Washington.
What Else Increases Cytokines in Lyme Disease?
So, if it is not a Herx causing increased cytokines and worsening, then look for other possible cytokine increase triggers. These can include yeast, acute virus infections, bartonella relapse, babesia relapse, or even recent mold exposures. And there is also the possiblity, that your herbal or prescription antibiotics are no longer working. This can increase cytokines as the immune system works to combat the increased number of germs. For more information see Steps to Fix a Lyme Treatment Crash.


A lot of hatred is spread around in concern of Benafsha Soonawalla and her tactic inside the house. However the lady is out from the house as she got evicted beside Sapna and Hina.
In an Instagram post, Benafsha Soonawalla has made her point of view and justified her friendship with Priyank Sharma which was judged by many people.
EVERY CONVERSATION WITH PRIYANK WAS IN GOOD FUN AND HUMOUR. I WOULD CATCH HOLD OF HIM LATER AND WE WOULD LAUGH ABOUT IT. I DID IT TO TEASE HIM AND MAKE HIM AWKWARD AND THEN I WOULD LAUGH ABOUT IT AND MAKE FUN IF HIM! THE LAUGHING PART WAS NOT SHOWN.
Yes I genuinely went on his bed one night to say sorry, cried and hugged him slept next to him for a few minutes and as soon as I woke up I went in my own. I am from a little Parsi family and I lead a simple, fun, ambitious and chilled life. Talking about V everything was just to scandalise pri and then laugh about it. Yes my sense of humour is weird. For all the people saying I did it for footage and camera? My relationship with the camera was intact even before bigg boss and will be even now. I don't see a camera and go crazy, it's my job. I'm used to it. If I had to "fake" a relationship, I'm not a fool to keep mentioning V A LOT of times all through bigg boss and put a VS batch in my bed. All those Comparisons I did later, was AGAIN, to tease him and scare him and then laugh about it. I'm sorry it looked wrong. But it wasn't. This is a message for the haters. Say what you want to me. I understand it wasn't shown as a joke to y'all. But ONE word to anybody that I love and I swear lI'll catch hold of you wherever you are.


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MainAll NewsInside IsraelThe Great Cottage Cheese Protest
The Great Cottage Cheese Protest
A Knesset committee will vote today on a request to ask the State Comptroller to investigate Israel's cottage cheese prices, amidst a boycott call.
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Hillel Fendel , Jun 20 , 2011 1:09 PM | updated: 1:22 PM
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A Knesset committee will vote today on a request to ask the State Comptroller to investigate Israel's cottage cheese prices.
The Knesset Control Committee will debate today a proposal to ask State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss to look into the behavior of the price supervisory council, in light of the steep increase in the price of dairy products, and especially that of cottage cheese.
The rise in cottage cheese prices have been in the forefront of the news of late, especially the Globes business newsmagazine, which first brought the issue to the fore. Globes has been strongly pushing a grassroots effort to call a nationwide boycott of cottage cheese, beginning July 1. The Globes website in Hebrew for today, for instance, has five front-page articles on the topic and related issues.
Another Knesset committee, the Economy Committee, called yesterday for an immediate return of cottage cheese prices to government control.
"We want the dairy companies, and others, to make their profits in the merit of growth engines such as initiatives and new ideas," said Committee Chairman MK Carmel Shama (Likud), and not via price coordination of various types and centralization. This current expensive cost-of-living social crisis demands a long-range solution - but also an immediate one."
Shama also said that the low official inflation rate is misleading, in that basic staples such as housing, water, gas, and basic foodstuffs have in fact risen by "tens of percentage points."
A spokesman for Tnuva Dairy Company said that the price of cottage cheese has not risen in six months. So what is all the brouhaha now? That's precisely what MK Ze'ev Elkin of Likud asked in the Knesset last week, when he noted that the Kadima government removed the price controls from cottage cheese no fewer than three years ago, leading to an immediate jump from 4.82 shekels per 250-gram container to 7.15. It was being sold a month ago at around 6.50-7.50 shekels, but several supermarket chains have lowered the price in recent days because of the boycott call.
The boycott leaders explain that their crusade is not only over cottage cheese, but about food prices in general. "How can it be that in Great Britain, soup nuts made by [Israeli food giant] Osem sell for the equivalent of 9 shekels, while here they cost 16? Why does Osem's Bamba peanut snack costs half as much there as here?"
A spokesman for the Tara Dairy Company blamed the supermarket chains: "We sell them cottage cheese for 5.52 including VAT; why do they sell it for close to 8 shekels?"
MK Shelly Yechimovitch, who is vying for the leadership of the dwindling Labor Party, said that the cottage cheese boycott is a "cute effort, and the dairy companies should be put in their place. But I have high standards for myself, and I have high standards for the public: Why is that all the grassroots efforts are only for the sake of our own pockets? Why is there no concern about the sale of Machteshim Agan [for instance] to a Chinese company, which will lead to the unemployment of many hundreds of middle class workers?"
Yechimovitch left unclear her reference to "all the grassroots efforts" being for selfish ends. In religious nationalist circles, for example, "all the grassroots efforts" are in fact geared towards national ends, such as not giving up Jerusalem, releasing Jonathan Pollard, against destroying Jewish communities, and the like.