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Refill Center Strengthens Continuum of Care at Children's Mercy
This is part of ScriptPro's In the Field series, which highlights ScriptPro customers engaging in unique pharmacy programs that positively impact their local communities.
Children's Mercy Riverside stores and ships home care supplies, and is now home to the new Refill Center. CMH expects to increase its refill rate by 50-70% over the next two years.
"The continuum of care is one of the most important things we have here at the hospital," says Chip Bruce, R.Ph., assistant director of pharmacy at Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics (CMH), Kansas City.
CMH operates a main campus in downtown Kansas City, MO, and another in Overland Park, KS, as well as multiple clinics farther afield to meet the needs of families throughout the two states.
Supporting families whose children require specialized care is a complex dance between inpatient and outpatient processes – requiring integrated systems, transparency across the healthcare setting's network, and streamlined outpatient services.
Transitional care starts with Meds to Beds
For CMH, the transition of care from inpatient to outpatient starts with its Meds to Beds program, which focuses on medication counseling for patients just before hospital check-out. "Our Meds to Beds program has made a huge impact since we launched it a few years ago," notes Bruce. "We can make sure all of a patient's medications are correctly filled, that the potency is accurate. We're talking about children, so total accuracy is vital."
"We have some really complicated pediatric patients – a couple who are the only one or two in the world with their condition. We don't want a family to worry about how they're going to get all of their prescriptions pulled together or if dosing has been prepared correctly."
Improving Rx accessibility, reducing readmittance through mail order
CMH's Refill Center, which went live in July 2018, is tasked with taking on all refills from the individual clinics and sending prescriptions directly to families.
Sarah Ashby, PharmD, verifies prescriptions on ScriptPro's SP Datapoint.
Currently, CMH captures only about 25% of patient refills. Over the next two years, the Refill Center is aiming for a 50-70% increase, meaning an additional 3,000-4,000 prescriptions a month. "This will be a significant volume increase as well as whole new avenue to provide care for our pediatric patients," says Bruce. "We have families with special needs and/or non-mobile children, who have to come to a campus to pick up refills every month. Part of this effort will be easing that burden and gaining the trust of our families – that they can simply call in a refill 3-4 days in advance and it will show up at their door."
CMH performs a lot of specialized compounding for pediatrics, taking tablets and capsules and turning them into liquids that children can take. One of these regularly compounded medications is for immunosuppression in children who have had a transplant. According to Bruce, it's not a hard compound to prepare, but outside pharmacies struggle with it. "Kids come back with their blood levels all over the place. For years, our pharmacy specialists and doctors have been asking for the ability to mail these prescriptions to families, and now we can."
The value of EHR integration
CMH Staffer Micala Edmonds packages prescriptions for mailing to patients.
The Refill Center has the huge advantage of their SP Central Pharmacy Management System integrating with the healthcare setting's EHR. Staff have all the outpatient pharmacy records and access to the inpatient medical records. When questions arise, they can go directly to the source to clarify. Equally important, staff can also reach out to the providers and come up with solutions or alternatives that might better meet a particular patient's needs. "Because we have this integrated system, we believe we're the safest pharmacy in the area for children."
Everything from traditional medications to compounds, specialty, and sterile room med prep can be handled by the Refill Center. By identifying patient needs and then tapping into technology that provides an end-to-end solution, CMH is a powerful model for other healthcare organizations.
Making an impact, one family at a time
Bruce reflects on the tangible value the Refill Center is already bringing to families. "Recently, a mother called the main campus pharmacy just before we opened, and I happened to pick up the phone. She was making arrangements for her children and about to hop in the car for the five-hour roundtrip from Joplin, MO, to pick up a refill. I explained to her that our new refill facility could quickly and easily fill and ship the prescriptions to her and would she like us to do that. There was complete silence on the line, and then I heard her crying. She asked if I was kidding, and I said, 'No, ma'am, I am not. We developed this service for you and every family who relies on CMH.'"
A key mission of CMH is to offer all the services families need in one spot – from inpatient to outpatient. And, the Refill Center is a valuable component to making that a reality.


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Great Interviews re: Energy Independence and the war on terror
On May 4, 2008 · In Islam, Islamic Economics, OPEC, Sharia Compliant, Sharia Products, Terror, USA
Symposium: Energy Independence and the Terror War
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, May 02, 2008
www.frontpagemagazine.com
What is the best way for us to achieve energy independence? What is the urgency for us to do so in terms of our conflict with Islamo-Fascism? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests are:
Robert "Bud" McFarlane, Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor. Currently, he serves as Chairman and CEO of McFarlane Associates Inc., developing energy projects in third world countries and working to develop alternative fuels so as to reduce US reliance on foreign oil.
Robert Zubrin, the president of Pioneer Astronautics and also president of the Mars Society. For many years he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. In addition, he is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mechanical Engineering, and The American Enterprise. He has appeared on major media including CNN, CSPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR. He is the author of the new book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.
Gal Luft, one of America 's most influential energy independence advocates. He is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based energy policy think tank and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, an alliance of national security, environmental, labor and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. He specializes in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, energy security and economic warfare.
Anne Korin, Chair of Set America Free Coalition.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of My Year Inside Radical Islam, which documents his time working for the extremist Al Haramain Islamic Foundation.
FP: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Robert Zubrin, Gal Luft, Anne Korin and Bud McFarlane, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.
Robert Zubrin, let's begin with you.
What kind of policy do you favor to create energy security?
Zubrin: I'm glad you used the words "energy security," not "energy independence." While admittedly, being energy independent would be an improvement on our current position, it is not good enough, because if the oil cartel still controlled the world market, they could still collapse our economy by collapsing that of our allies and trading partners like Japan and Europe, and they would still be harvesting trillions that they could use to finance jihad and the takeover of our corporations and media organizations.
So even if it were possible, walling ourselves in a defensive "energy independent" position would not suffice. Rather, we have to take the offensive and destroy the power of the oil cartel internationally. The key to doing that is to destroy the vertical monopoly that they have on the world's vehicle fuel supplies. The US Congress could strike a devastating blow in this direction simply by passing a law requiring that all new cars sold in the United States be flex fueled — that is able to run on any combination of gasoline, methanol, or ethanol. Such cars are existing technology and only cost about $100 more than the same vehicle in non-flex fuel form.
If such a law were passed, it would make flex fuel the international standard for cars, as not only the Detroit Big 3, but all the foreign manufacturers would shift their lines over immediately in response. This would put 50 million cars on the road in the USA within 3 years capable of running on alcohol fuels, and hundreds of millions more worldwide. With such a market available, alcohol production and distribution facilities would multiply rapidly, and gasoline would be forced to compete at the pump against alcohol fuels produced in any number of ways from any number of sources everywhere in the world. (Methanol, for example, can be produced from any kind of biomass, without exception, as well as from coal, natural gas, and recycled urban trash. There are many starchy or sweet crops that can be used to make ethanol, with cellulosic options increasingly viable as well.)
This opening of the fuel market would put a permanent constraint on OPEC's ability to raise fuel prices. Instead of being able to raise oil prices to $200/barrel, which they are already discussing, prices would be forced back down to $50/barrel, because that is where alcohol fuels become competitive. Then, once such an alcohol fuel infrastructure is well in place, we can proceed to roll the oil cartel right off the map by instituting tax and tariff policies that favor alcohols over petroleum. That's how we beat the Islamists.
If we don't do that, with our current imports of 5 billion barrels per year, they will use a $100/barrel price to tax us $500 billion per year (and rob the world at a rate of $1.2 trillion/year). The NY Times today had a front page article quoting leading economists as saying that this huge tax (more than triple the size of the current economic stimulus treasury give-back) is grinding our economy into recession. So it is, but it is worse than that. If they are allowed to keep taxing us in this way, they will use that enormous monetary power to not only massively grow their jihadi movement, but to take over most of the major corporations and media organizations in the US, Europe, and Japan within a decade.
So not only our economy, but our independence is at stake. We need to break the oil cartel, and forceful action to create fuel choice internationally is the way to do it.
Luft: I share Robert's sense of urgency about reducing the strategic value of oil by opening the transportation sector to healthy competition, and fuel flexibility should indeed be the first item on our agenda. There is no reason why the $100 addition which allows cars to burn alcohol should not be – just like seat belts, air bags or rear view mirrors – a standard feature in every car sold worldwide. This would be a low premium insurance policy against future supply disruptions and a Band-Aid to stop the bleeding of our economy. But flex fuel alone would not be sufficient to solve our energy problem. In the U.S. today we use annually roughly 140 billion gallons of gasoline and additional 60 billion gallons of petroleum diesel. We simply don't have the resource base to replace all of this with alcohol and bio-diesel, even if we tapped into our vast coal reserves and diverted all of our food crops into fuel production. So we need solutions beyond liquid
fuels.
In order to achieve significant petroleum displacement we must begin to electrify the transportation sector by speeding the commercialization of plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars. Unlike in the 1970s, today only 2 percent of our electricity is made from oil. Almost all of our electricity is made from domestic energy resources like coal, nuclear power, natural gas and hydro. In other words, on the electricity front, unlike the Europeans who rely on imported natural gas for their light and heating, Americans are already energy independent. Using electrons for transportation, instead of gasoline, essentially means shifting from an imported resource which poses a national security threat to an array of abundant domestic energy sources. In addition, electricity is cheaper and cleaner than gasoline. It costs about 3 cents per mile to run a car on electricity–roughly one fifth of the cost of driving the same mile on gasoline. This cost differential protects us from a counterattack by OPEC.
The oil cartel will surely respond to the emerging alcohol economy by dropping crude prices to a level that would make ethanol and methanol economically unatractive. This is exactly what they did in the 1980s in response to a massive effort by Western countries to wean themselves from oil. Oil dropped to $8 a barrel and alternative fuels producers lost their shirts. If cars had full fuel flexibility, allowing them, in addition to burning alcohols, to also tap into the grid, OPEC would have to drop prices to $5 a barrel to compete with 3 cents per mile of electric drive. This is way below where they can afford to go considering their youth bulges and domestic economic conditions. This is why the commercialization of plug in hybrid electric vehicles, which allow us to drive the first chunk of our daily driving on electricity after which the car begins to burn liquid fuel, is so critical. Congress should therefore provide tax incentives to early adopters of plug in hubrids–just as it did in the case of regular hybrids–while facilitating the emergence of a viable battery industry in the U.S. A flex fuel plug-in hybrid will run approximately 500 miles on a gallon of gasoline. This could really pull the plug on OPEC.
Korin: The goal is indeed independence, not in the sense of autarky (not importing any oil) but in the sense of regaining ability to act independently, without need to kowtow or defer to petrodictators chief among them the Saudi royal family, a family which controls a quarter of the world's oil reserves and essentially all swing capacity on the global oil market (the mafia never had it so good.) To regain our independence we must strip oil of its strategic value. Salt presents a compelling historical parallel. Salt was once a strategic commodity, control of which determined geopolitical power and ability to sway world affairs. With the advent of electricity and refrigeration salt lost its strategic status as it was no longer the only option for preserving meat. Oil's strategic value derives from its domination of the transportation sector, which in turn accounts for two thirds of oil consumption – as Gal noted, we essentially no longer use oil to generate electricity (an inconvenient fact that renders bizarre the protestations of many politicians that solar, wind, or nuclear can reduce oil demand.)
Stripping oil of its strategic value will require fuel competition in the transportation sector. Flexible fuel vehicles, as Robert noted, provide a platform on which fuels can compete. For a very modest premium, they enable a driver to choose amongst a variety of liquid fuels, made from a variety of feedstocks, from coal to agricultural material. It costs 50 cents a gallon to make methanol from coal. Methanol has about half the energy of gasoline, so that's one dollar per gasoline equivalent gallon. The US is the Saudi Arabia of coal. China and India also have a lot of coal, and indeed China is rapidly expanding its coal to methanol capacity.
We need to remove the ridiculous 54 cent a gallon import tariff on sugarcane ethanol – we don't tax oil imports, so why are we taxing imports of an alternative fuel? It's not because of the oil industry, it's because of corn ethanol protectionists who'd rather be big fish in a small pond than open the dam and turn the pond into a sea. As Gal notes, it is also critical to get electricity into the transportation fuel market. Flex fuel plug in hybrids will mean the Saudis will need to figure out how to monetize sand. Perhaps they can learn to blow glass.
Gartenstein-Ross: I am of the opinion that energy security is the most pressing challenge we face. It should be the top issue in the current presidential campaigns because our oil dependence is without a doubt our Achilles' heel, yet no candidate has been seriously pushing the issue. This comes on top of the systemic failure of our political leaders, including the Bush administration and the presidential administrations that preceded it, to curtail our dangerous dependence on oil. (Interestingly, the one real exception was the Carter administration's Fuel Use Act, which is a major reason that, as Luft and Korin note, only 2 percent of our electricity comes from oil today.) Energy security has a cognizable impact on virtually all the other major issues that our country now faces.
There is the economy. Today, more than three out of four Americans believe that the country is in recession—and it is not difficult to recognize that high energy prices are a primary driver. Oil prices have more than doubled in the past fifteen months, rising from around $50 a barrel in early 2007 to about $110 a barrel today. Such a dramatic rise in energy prices will of course harm the U.S. economy. As Zubrin stated, this equates to a $500 billion per year tax on the U.S. economy, affecting all sectors. We depend on long supply lines to transport agriculture to consumers, as well as the vast majority of products that you can buy off store shelves. All prices—the price of food, the price of consumer goods—are pushed upward by the rising price of oil.
There is terrorism and our international political adversaries. One distinctive characteristic of Islamic terror movements is that they explicitly find religious sanction for their actions. Their interpretation obviously is not shared by all Muslims, as the world would look much different if we were at war with over a billion people. What helps extremist interpretations of Islam gain a foothold? One clear answer is petrodollars. Numerous analysts have connected radicalization in various regions to extremist charities, mosques, and madrasas funded by oil money. Some of the charities funded by petro-dollars are "dual-use," not only propagating an extreme interpretation of Islam but also directly funding terrorist groups. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez famously declared in his opening address to an OPEC conference in 2006 that "the American empire will be destroyed." Do we want to be dependent on political leaders like that because of their oil resources?
The Bush administration has had more than seven years to steer the country's energy policy, yet its combined policies amount to slapping a few Band-Aids on a hemorrhaging wound. (This is of course not just the Bush administration's fault: as a country, we have had more than forty years to address this issue since the dangers of our oil dependence became crystal clear.) For example, the primary strategy of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is a new national mandatory fuel economy standard that, in President Bush's words, "will save billions of gallons of gasoline." But as Zubrin shows in his commendable book Energy Victory, conservation-based strategies are not, and will not be, sufficient. If we could duplicate the technical success that Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards achieved from 1975 through 1990, Zubrin writes, we would not cut our oil consumption at all. Instead, it would reduce our expected rate of increase of oil usage by only 2.2 million barrels a day, during a period when the world as a whole is likely to raise its consumption another 30 million barrels per day. Whatever demand we eliminate would be replaced fifteen times over.
President Bush has also congratulated himself on the ethanol policies that his administration has undertaken, but they are a far cry from the large market for ethanol that Zubrin's policy recommendations would spur. (By Bush's account, we produced 6.4 billion gallons of ethanol in 2007 versus the approximately 200 billion gallons of gasoline and petroleum diesel that we use annually.)
But fortunately, while our oil dependence is currently causing great harm, I don't think the immediate solutions are mysterious. I agree strongly with the recommendations put forward by Zubrin and Luft in this symposium. Fuel flexibility should be the first major policy we push for because it provides immediate relief from this grave problem, but we should also move toward electrification of the transportation sector. The bottom line is that we are worse off, and our enemies in a better position, for each day that action is delayed.
McFarlane: As the panel has made clear, we have the means at hand to overcome the vulnerability of our economy and the challenge to our very way of life that is posed by our reliance on foreign oil. It starts with mandating that all cars and trucks sold in the US be flex-fuel, and then that we accelerate the production of plug-in hybrid-electric and all-electric cars and trucks, and that we build them out of carbon composite materials as Boeing is doing today in its new 787 Dreamliner.
We cannot consider this as nice-to-have, P-C, green "someday" matter. This is a matter of grave urgency. Today if an attack on any of a dozen very vulnerable Saudi oil processing facilities were successful, we would be facing oil at $200/barrel overnight. That would lead within weeks (not months) to the collapse of the Japanese economy, and before long to those of our European allies and ultimately of our own.
And even if such an attack does not occur, consider the price we are paying for our reliance on foreign oil. Last year we spent over $300 billion on foreign oil. Think for a moment of what $300 billion could buy in terms of better schools, health care, highways and bridges, law enforcement, a partial solution to our sub-prime mortgage problems, and a dozen other domestic priorities. But that's just the beginning.
Think about the half trillion dollars we spend every year — yes, 'trillion' every year — on the defense budget, and that doesn't count the supplemental appropriations for the war in Iraq. At least $200 of that $500 billion pays for forces that are deployed in the Middle East or to protect lines of communication between here and there and to our allies in Europe and Japan. Add it up — $500 billion for defense, another $300 billion to pay for foreign oil, and with the price now above $100/bbl, the total from now on will be at least 1 trillion every year — yes every year — until we start changing our ways.
Of course the foregoing costs are just the financial dimension. Far more important are the costs in human lives, families shattered by separation, and the loss of loved ones. This is truly an intolerable condition — one that is all the more unconscionable considering that we have the means at hand to overcome it.
Zubrin: I would like to make an additional point. As bad as $100 per barrel oil is for us, it is much worse for the poorer nations of the world. It is one thing to pay $100 per barrel for oil when you live in a country where the average person makes $40,000 per year. It is quite another if you live in a country where the average person makes $1,000 per year. To many third world countries, particularly in Africa, the effects of OPEC looting are not merely recessionary, but genocidal. Indeed, the jacked up oil price is nothing else than a huge regressive tax levied by the world's richest people on the world's poorest people.
Consider this: This year, Saudi Arabia's high-priced oil business will reap that nation's rulers over $300 billion. Much of this bounty will be wasted on a wild assortment of narcissistic luxuries. The rest go towards funding of network of over twenty thousand Wahhabi madrassas worldwide. There, millions of young boys will be instructed that the way to salvation is to kill Christians, Jews, Buddhists, animists, and Hindus, all as part of a global campaign to create reactionary theocratic states that totally degrade women and deny all political, religious, intellectual, scientific, artistic, or personal freedom to everyone.
Simultaneously, Kenya, a nation whose population of 36 million is half again as great as that of Saudi Arabia, will scrape up around $3 billion in export earnings, and use these funds to buy badly needed fuel, farm machinery, and replacement parts for equipment. (Kenya, incidentally, is not one of the world's fifty poorest nations. There are many others much worse off.)
Distributed elsewhere, the loot garnered by the Saudi terror bankers could triple the foreign exchange of 50 counties comparable to Kenya. Distributed elsewhere, the $1.3 trillion per year taxed out of the world economy by the all the OPEC tyrannies could lift the entire third world out of poverty.
By shifting to alcohol fuels, we can shift a very substantial amount of capital flows in precisely such a direction. Many third world countries are tropical nations with very high agricultural potential. Within a few years of the establishment of a flex fuel mandate, we will have a much larger domestic market for agricultural produce to make ethanol than American farmers can deliver to. That is a very GOOD thing. It means that we will be able to give them all the business they can handle, and still have market share left over, which we could open to Latin American and Caribbean ethanol, but dropping the current tariff. So countries like Haiti, which desperately needs an export income source, will be able to get it by growing sugar ethanol for export to the USA. In the same way, Europe would be able to drop its agricultural trade barriers, and open itself up to ethanol exported from Africa, and Japan likewise from south Asia. Effectively, we would be able to redirect about a trillion dollars a year that is now going to OPEC and send it to the global agricultural sector instead, with about half going to advanced sector farmers and half going to the third world. This would create an enormous engine for world development.
Ethanol has been criticized by certain opponents who have alleged that its production from corn takes away from the food supply, and that large irrigation requirements draw power that exceeds that provided by the ethanol. Such analyses, however, are false. When ethanol is made from corn, all of the protein in the corn is preserved for use as animal feeds, and virtually no ethanol corn grown in the USA is irrigated. In fact, for the expenditure of a given amount of petroleum, nearly ten times as much ethanol can be produced as gasoline.
World food prices have been rising recently, at a rate of 4 percent a year, and oil cartel propaganda organs have been quick to place the blame on bio-fuel programs. But these are false accusations. Despite the corn ethanol program, US corn exports have not declined at all in recent years, and our overall agricultural exports this year are up over 23 percent. So its not corn ethanol that is driving up global food prices, including those for fish, fruit, and every kind of crop. Rather it is high fuel costs, which have risen 40 percent over the past year due to vicious OPEC price rigging. Not only that, these high fuel costs are driving up the cost of not just food, but nearly every product that needs to be transported anywhere in the world. And again, the hardest hit victims are the world's poor.
For the sake of social justice, OPEC must be destroyed.
Luft: Since we all seem to agree that fuel flexibility in our cars is the lowest hanging fruit, let's talk about how to make this happen. In the past two sessions of Congress there was strong bipartisan support in both the Senate and the House for flex fuel legislation. More than 30 senators from Sam Brownback on the right to Ted Kennedy on the left co-sponsored a bill including a requirement that at least 50 percent of new cars be flex fuel.
Presidential candidates are also in agreement. Both Barack Obama's and John McCain's energy platform include strong flex fuel provisions. Obama campaign pledged that an Obama Administration would ensure that all new vehicles have FFV capability by the end of his first term in office.
Less clear is how the automakers would respond. While it is true that the Big Three previously pledged to make 50 percent of their cars flex fuel by 2012, no industry likes to be told what to do and we should not expect the automakers, to embrace a full mandate without a fight, particularly after their recent defeat in the battle over mandatory fuel efficiency standards. (The Big Three also resisted other mandated low cost features like seat belts and airbags.) The Japanese automakers who don't have experience with this technology are likely to be even less enthusiastic.
But considering the low cost of fuel flexibility and the simplicity of retooling the production lines, this is certainly something they can live with.
So it's basically in the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to make this vision of fuel choice come true. Instead of complaining about the "insane" profits of oil companies the Democratic leadership in Congress could serve America best by pushing a flex fuel legislation and bringing it to a vote before the elections.
It is important to ensure that the legislation doesn't enable automakers to get away with making E-85 cars that can only accommodate ethanol. True fuel flexibility is one that enables all alcohols to compete. The cars should therefore be warranted to run on both ethanol and methanol. With such legislation presented before the Senate all three senators who are running for president would be forced to endorse it, which means that the next president would be on board.
Extra $100 per car is less than the price of one barrel of oil, and equipping every car in the US with the feature would cost roughly $20 billion over the next two decades, much less than what the Fed forked over one weekend to save Bear Sterns. The same Congress that spent billions on regulating an open standard for high definition TV should be able to give us an open fuel standard for our cars.
Korin: The Arab oil embargo in the Seventies led to massive Japanese automaker entry into the US market. While US automakers were building huge cars, the Japanese had the more efficient vehicles that appealed to consumers at a time of high gas prices. Today, other competitors waits in the wings should US autos stall on the road to fuel choice. Not so long ago a Chinese automaker showed an under $10,000 family sedan at the Detroit auto show. Take that car, make it a flex fuel plug in hybrid, and you have an under $20,000 fuel choice enabling family sedan. Coming soon to a Walmart near you.
The Chinese are not waiting for us to move toward alcohol fuels or electrification of transportation. We can lead the train or we can run after it, and absent the policies discussed above and summarized below, the latter is more likely every day.
To summarize, the three key policies for breaking oil's monopoly in the transportation sector, the sector from which oil's strategic value is derived, are: an Open Fuel Standard so most new cars sold in the US will be gasoline-ethanol-methanol FFVs; repeal of the 54 cent a gallon tariff on ethanol imports; consumer tax credits for plug in hybrids (this is the policy that helped hybrids move past the early adopter hump.)
Gartenstein-Ross: There is broad agreement on this panel about the significance of the energy security problem that we face, as well as the steps that the government needs to take to address this critical issue; thus, I will keep my remarks atypically short. I offer an apology to Jamie if he's disappointed that this symposium lacks the fireworks of some of the previous symposia in which I have participated—but I don't think that's a terribly bad thing in this case, since energy security is an issue where acting in the near-term is more important than lengthy debate.
I will follow Luft's suggestion that we discuss how to make the fuel flexibility mandate happen. I agree with him that automakers are likely to fight against a full mandate, and also think it likely that iterations of this legislation will be offered that involve E-85 cars rather than true fuel flexibility. So it is critical to ensure that any legislation on fuel flexibility that is signed into law not be watered down through the legislative process or subjected to the kind of bureaucratic capture that too frequently occurs in this country. I know that a large number of conservative activists read FPM (although I do not see energy security as an issue that should break along partisan lines). Informed members of the public should serve as energy security watchdogs, demanding of our politicians the full implementation of policies necessary to counter our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.
McFarlane: Gal and Anne often make the point that we ought to be realistic politically in structuring our approach to new legislation — as is required to mandate Flex-Fuel vehicles. It does not good to be doctrinaire — and lose. Or as President Reagan once told me, "Bud, if you go over the cliff, flags flying, you still go over the cliff." Specifically it does no good to take on the major oil companies. Indeed our point is not anti-oil, we will need oil for a long time and it is in all our interests for American oil companies to produce as much oil as they can for as long as they can.
Rather, our approach to the public and to members of both parties ought to be cast in terms of the political, economic and security costs of doing nothing — losses which are measured in trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, and the gradual control of American industries by foreign sovereigns.
We must also stress that the global war against Islamism — especially as its financial support grows in proportion to oil revenues flowing to the Persian Gulf — will someday go nuclear. Unless we get serious toward moving our four-part agenda, we may run out of time.
FP: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Robert Zubrin, Gal Luft, Anne Korin and Bud McFarlane, thank you for joining Frontpage Symposium.
Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz's Left Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist. To see his previous symposiums, interviews and articles Click Here. Email him at [email protected].

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American gamers are spending lots of money on mobile games
Authored by: Juliette Bassine 8 months ago
The figures are in: the average American video game consumer is 33 years old, plays on smartphones and spends significantly more money (20% more) than last year.
The Entertainment Software Association, dedicated to the needs and communication of video game companies, released the figures of its annual research on video game consumption in the country. At a time when households are trying to reduce the number of gamblers, the result is surprising: the average consumer is 33 years old.
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American gamers are mostly mobile gamers
No less than 65% of American adults play video games, 164 million people, and they spent no less than $43.4 billion in 2018, a largely on content, rather than equipment and accessories.
The American gamer prefers to play on a smartphone. / AndroidPIT
The largest number of players are on smartphones (60%), with so-called "casual" games, and half of these same players also play on their computers and specialized consoles.
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There is a strong balance of gender, with 46% of gamers being female.
Different consumption according to age
If a female player aged 18 to 34 will prefer games such as Candy Crush or Tomb Raider, the man of the same age will turn to Fortnite or God of War. The senior (55-64 years old), on the other hand, will turn to Solitaire or Scrabble. While the individual in between seems to be nostalgic and prefers in games such as Tetris, Pac Man or Call of Duty.
The choice of video game is different depending on the age and sex of the player. / AndroidPIT
Parents keep control
American parents try to have a look at the time of use, which they limit as much as possible, but also at the type of games on which their children develop. 87% of them need parental permission to buy a new game.
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How does it look in Europe?
According to the figures in the latest report from ISFE, the trend is the same in Europe.The federation announced at the time that 54% of the European population played video games, of which 48% were female and 52% male.In the same report, the category with the highest growth in video game consumption was 45-64 years old.
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Via: Reuters Source: ISFE
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In this article I'm sharing all about how Abhyanga can support not only your practice, but your health and how to do it.
You may not know this, but the Primary series of Ashtanga Yoga is called "Yoga Chikitsa" in Sanskrit which means, "Yoga Therapy." In this post we're going to discuss why it's so important to practice primary series correctly, under the guidance of a qualified teacher.
As a new(ish) mom to a very active, (albeit adorable) little girl, finding 90 or so minutes to do my entire practice 6 days a week is tough.
Oftentimes, rather than simply showing up, and doing my best in the time that I have, I am filled with guilt, anxiety and the feeling that I am a "bad Ashtangi" because I can't do it all, all of the time.
In this post I share my story about overcoming Ashtangi guilt when you don't have enough time, and how you can too!
T'is the season for Holiday get-togethers, tons of delicious food, and possibly staying at your in-laws for an extended period of time.
The holidays can be challenging for us Ashtangis. Our daily practice routine may be altered. We might find ourselves indulging in more treats than usual and feeling heavy and bloated. And staying with your family for a week may at times feel more challenging than kapotasana!
But fear not, this week we're going to give you some simple tips to keep you feeling great this Holiday season!
By now you've probably heard of Intermittent Fasting. It's become a quite popular nutrition protocol in the fitness world these days, and it isn't without warrant.
So you might be wondering, is this something I should be doing as an Ashtangi?
This week we're taking a look at IF and how it can be beneficial for Ashtangis!
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Q&A: Forde Believes She'll Win Register of Deeds Election on Second Try
By David Ertischek | August 20, 2018
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Katie Forde came in a close second in the Democratic Party primary to current Suffolk County Register of Deeds Stephen Murphy in 2016, and this year she believes she'll win. Forde answered questions from Jamaica Plain News about why this time is different, what she would do if elected and how she can help Suffolk County.
Katie Forde, candidate for Suffolk County Register of Deeds.
Q: You ran for Suffolk County Register of Deeds in 2016 and lost to the incumbent. Why are you running again and why do you think you'll win this time?
Forde: I am running to make a difference as an advocate for the homeowners and aspiring homeowners in Boston, Chelsea, Winthrop and Revere. Home ownership has long been an entry for many into the middle class, but it remains fraught with risk. The Register of Deeds can and should have an important impact on the lives of all Suffolk County residents who own or might seek to own a home by educating residents on the process of home-buying, how to avoid predatory loans, and advocating for policy solutions to the enormous racial inequity in wealth and homeownership.
For too long, the registry has been a landing pad for politicians who have been de-elected from City Council. I believe that the Register of Deeds has a responsibility not only to record deeds, but to serve as a consumer protection agency for those who own or may seek to own a home.
The current Register of Deeds is a career politician who has not used his platform to increase education opportunities for prospective homeowners or provide consumer protection of any kind to residents of Suffolk County. I believe it is time for new leadership focused on expanding opportunities to every resident who wishes to own a home, and to protect those who already own their home. If elected, I will be the first female Register in Suffolk County history.
Boston, Winthrop, Revere and Chelsea are cities in a constant state of development, and residents face numerous challenges in purchasing and staying in their home. I have worked in the legal field for over a decade, and am proposing a practical agenda for the office that reflects many of the lessons I've learned through working on property-related matters over the years. I believe the Register of Deeds can make a real difference through consumer protection and education, and I will lead an office focused on serving our communities.
In 2016, I was a first-time candidate in a crowded field. The incumbent had city-wide name recognition, but despite that, I came within 5% of winning. This year, we are running a more robust campaign focused on knocking on doors and having conversations with voters about why they deserve more from this office, and the message is resonating. The register is paid $142,000 a year and has a $2 million budget, and people want and deserve more from that investment.
Q: What did you learn from the previous election that is helping you in this current campaign?
Forde: I first ran for Register of Deeds in 2016 as a first-time candidate with zero name recognition. I was endorsed by both the Boston Globe (the first time it had ever endorsed in a Register of Deeds race) and the Boston Herald. I fell short by less than 5% in a 7-way competition.
This year, I started my campaign outreach and fundraising earlier in the process. That has allowed us to hire staff, better coordinate volunteers and outreach to community groups, and to buy the supplies we need to be successful, like palm cards and mail pieces.
I learned in 2016 that not a lot of folks know what the registry does, or can do, to help consumers, protect their homes, and advocate for increased access to homeownership. The register is an elected official with a bully pulpit, and that should be used to strengthen every neighborhood in Suffolk County. This year, I am attending community meetings every week to hear from folks about the challenges they're facing and talk with them about how the registry can help.
Q: What have you been doing since the previous election?
Forde: When I ran in 2016, I was pregnant with twins. Abigail and Cecile joined our family in February of 2017, and we've been a new kind of busy since then. In addition to moving to West Roxbury, having the girls, and continuing in my role as a senior paralegal at Todd & Weld, LLP, we recently adopted a new dog.
In 2016, I shifted my focus to campaigning for Hillary Clinton, and in 2017, I volunteered for campaigns for city council including Annissa Essaibi George, Ayanna Pressley and Lydia Edwards.
Q: What qualifies you to be the Suffolk County Register of Deeds?
Forde: Since I moved to Massachusetts in 2005 to work for MassEquality, I have been organizing my community to further our shared progressive values. As a paralegal at a bankruptcy practice, I managed teams and drafted and filed deeds. Today, as a senior paralegal at Todd & Weld, LLP, I manage paralegals, staff, and clients throughout the legal process.
The Register of Deeds has a responsibility not only to record deeds, but to serve as a consumer protection agency for those who own or may seek to own a home. Boston is a city in a constant state of development, and residents face numerous challenges in purchasing and staying in their home. I have worked in the legal field for over a decade, and am proposing a practical agenda for the office that reflects many of the lessons I've learned through working on property-related matters over the years. I believe the Register of Deeds can make a real difference through consumer protection and education, and will lead an office focused on serving our communities.
Q: If elected, you say you would increase homeownership education and protections. How would you accomplish those goals? You mention partnering with nonprofits to help, which nonprofits interest you?
Forde: I'm proud to have the support of Attorney General Maura Healey, and I look forward to partnering with her office to better protect consumers, seniors, and veterans. Predatory lending is a critical issue, and it is important that as folks buy homes, they know what to look out for from their mortgage company.
The registry is a hub of information, and can be a source to identify trends in predatory lending or mortgage-selling, which can be an early warning sign of a financial crisis. As register, I will work with the AG and other partners in city and state government to make sure consumers know where to turn for help.
A critical part of protecting a person's home is education. People can't protect their apartment or the home they own without understanding the risks of predatory lending, the programs that exist to assist them, and how to navigate that. I will work with organizations like Metro Housing Boston and Urban Edge to amplify and advocate for increased resources for their work.
Q: You have stated you want to close the racial wealth gap, pointing to statistics that 80% of white families own a home in Boston while just 1/3 of black families do. You'd like to promote existing state and city funded programs that help with down payments and home loans. What programs and how would you let people know about the programs?
Forde: The average black family in Massachusetts has an $8 net worth, and the average white family has a $250,000 net worth. A huge contributor to this continued inequality is the gap in homeownership. This is why it's so critical to have good government at every level and elected leaders who share our progressive values. We need to work together -- from city council to state rep to Register of Deeds to Attorney General -- to coordinate and collaborate to reduce inequality.
From the city's Department of Neighborhood Development to Metro Housing Boston (MHB), there are existing programs and non-profits that are doing incredible work, and all of our communities would benefit from amplifying that work. MHB in particular provides a continuum of services to help people access affordable, stable housing, and their Family Economic Stability program provides specialized support to those with children who need assistance.
As register, in addition to advocating for increased funding for programs like MHB's, doing outreach, and amplifying on social media, I'll lead community canvasses to make sure that people in every neighborhood are being included and given the opportunity to participate in programs that can assist them with staying in their home.
Q: What other initiatives would you implement if elected and why?
Forde: If elected, I will be a register that works with both community groups and homeowners to improve access and services. My top priorities are: (1) Instituting a Lawyer-of-the-Day program to give homeowners and prospective homeowners access to lawyers who volunteer their time to help with questions about titles or other issues that might be on residents minds relating to their home, (2) creating an opt-in Consumer Notification Service to let people know about predatory lending practices and scams that increase the risk of foreclosure -- a simple and essential step to help residents protect their home and financial investments, just like monitoring their credit, and (3) providing educational programs and resources to homeowners and prospective homeowners to empower and keep folks in their homes.
Q: On your website you write "you are entitled to a full-time register, who is committed to showing up for work every day." Does the current Suffolk County Register of Deeds not work full-time or show up to work on a regular basis? If so, what is your proof of these beliefs?
Forde: In 2015, the incumbent was de-elected from the Boston City Council after a thorough Boston Globe analysis about his absence from City Hall. Andrew Ryan wrote, "The Boston city councilors pushing hardest for significant raises, arguing that their service has been 'undervalued'," have had the poorest attendance at City Council hearings since January 2014, a Globe analysis shows." My opponent had attended fewer than 25% of the hearings on pay increases, which he lobbied hard for.
I am not in this race for the paycheck or the pension. I moved to Massachusetts in 2005 to work for MassEquality in the fight for marriage equality, and have worked on countless races to advance our shared progressive values since then, including state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, City Councilor Matt O'Malley, and Attorney General Maura Healey, all of whom I am proud to have supporting my candidacy.
Q: What else should people know about yourself, your campaign and the Suffolk County Register of Deeds?
Forde: As the wife of a veteran, the mother of twins, and a new homeowner, I know what it's like to have to cut through red tape to access the services you need. But I know that we can do better, and I am running to be the next register to work with every community. One component of this work is the Community Preservation Act (CPA), which is a critical part of the effort to involve community members in the future of their neighborhood and to support affordable housing and green space. Since 2002, the CPA has allowed for surcharges on real estate transactions to be collected to support historical preservation, community housing, and green space.
I support increasing state funding for the CPA. The CPA offers a unique opportunity for community members to have a voice in the conversation about how our neighborhoods grow. I will work with the Legislature and advocate for increased investment in these programs.
The registry plays a critical role in collecting fees to support the CPA, and should be engaging residents and organizations dedicated to keeping our cities accessible, affordable, and green. As register, I will lead an office committed to expanding the CPA, assisting homeowners and those who wish to own a home have a seat at the table, and ensuring that we are getting the word out about these opportunities for funding in every neighborhood.
Katie Forde
Suffolk County Register of Deeds
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TMZ obtained these photos and video from the crash scene in Glamis, CA ... where Vicki had to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment. Witnesses on scene tell us she was puking after the accident, and couldn't feel her fingers. Both women complained of neck and back pain, and you can tell from these images ... everyone on scene was concerned about the severity of the injuries.
We're also told Tamra, who was driving the Polaris RZR, had been warned several times by the people training her to slow down.
TMZ broke the story ... both women had to be hospitalized after the accident, which happened while they were shooting for the show.
Both have been released, and we're told they're recovering well.


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Devils Line | Worth Watching? HMMM.
ByOOCentral September 12, 2020 September 8, 2020
Is it worth? Who knows! I'll let you decide, but first, you'll need to give it a watch 🙂
Now the show itself does take itself quite seriously. I say this because there's hardly any jokes and most of that similar content relies on dark humor even when there's room to throw in those moments. In essence, you should expect a mature anime that deals with interspecies romance. The main characters, Anzai and Tsukasa are not much alike beyond just their origins. From the start, I can say easily that Anzai is a brooding man without much words. On the other hand, Tsukasa is a type of girl who is very open to others and isn't afraid to speak her mind. However, she is still very shy and not capable of dealing with dangers on her own most of the time. Anzai has to play the role of a protector in the series. It also puts Tsukasa in danger whenever the two are together because of his own bloodlust.
The series adds tension and psychology nearly every episode as we see how he struggles to control his urges. I think on most part, it's a repetitive gimmick that most vampire series relies on these days. Series such as Vampire Knight and Tokyo Ghoul has done that before. Even real life popular drama TV has done so in the past such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Vampire Diaries. They all carry the burden of a character having to deal with their inhuman nature. Devil's Line isn't too different as the show tests the water between Anzai and Tsukasa's relationship. Unfortunately, it fell flat because of how dry and empty it is. There's no doubt they have chemistry but their relationship feels unreal and I find it hard to root for them as a couple. The two are hardly compatible either because of their circumstances. It's a forbidden romance not meant to be.
As a story about two different races, you can definitely expect conflicts to erupt in their society. There are several episodes that involves Anzai being targeted in assassination-style operations. It seems members of the CCC aren't afraid to take any risks to kill vampires such as the case of sniper Zero Seven (Nanako Tenjo). As a main protagonist, you can definitely expect Anzai to be protected by plot armor. He's not going to drop like a fly even despite fighting against the odds. Anzai is definitely not "OP" though as he struggles to survive but to me, the show doesn't make his survivalist role any unique. The plot is stale as we don't learn too much about his character.
There's definitely some background storytelling in the series for the main characters but none of them felt compelling. Tsukasa is also too human for a character that goes under little changes throughout the series. The only other character that may arouse curiosity would be Kohannes Kleeman, a mysterious white hair man. He appears in the show in later episodes and makes the audience wonder what his real intentions are. Unlike Anzai, he is quite blunt and behaves carefree around others. I'd say that he is perhaps too honest to point where it's hard to tell whether he is telling the truth or lying. To me, Kleeman is an antithesis of Anzai. He is difficult to manipulate and always seems to be in control of himself. His behavior brings in a lighter side of the show although I really can't find that appealing. The show is still very moody and pushes the idea of a dark modern fantasy at every chance it gets.
Platinum Vision is a rather obscure studio that I don't think many fans are familiar with. Their previous work actually includes another vampire series called Servamp although that is far more lighthearted than this anime. Unfortunately, the overall animation quality is mediocre at best. This is my honest impression as the character designs looks generic to the core without any special features about them. The setting takes place in a modern city that you can find in just about any similar shows. Oh but you're wondering, what about the vampires? Do they look convincing? On the surface, the answer is yes but that doesn't make them stand out much. The characteristics of these vampires includes fangs and their bloodlust nature that feels like if you've seen it once, you've seen it all. There's also a lot of fan service that teases the relationship between Anzai and Tsukasa. Some episodes really flirts with the idea of whether they will or will not have sex. Thus, expect a lot of kissing and it leaves some to the imagination. There's not much censoring in terms of the graphic violence although isn't never really ventures into the gore territory.
The OST is mostly eerie with a melancholic quiet tune during some of the more emotional scenes. The theme songs are what people would easily designate as edgy. I don't like using that word around much but it is what it is.
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After a few false starts, Argonath, a deeply cabled woolen wrap to keep you warm when those winter winds start howling (and you know they will!) is headed into test knit next week. I am really enjoying knitting this one - so much that I didn;t mind pulling her back when the idea came to me for the yummy cabled & fringed end piece.
I mistakenly identified the yarn as String Theory Caper Dk - in fact it is their merino dk. Oops!
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And Galadriel's Mirror is nearing completion of its test knit. This pattern will include directions for doubling the pattern for a beautiful tablecloth or square shawl. I used String Theory's Bluestocking in Alexandrite for this design. It takes 3 skeins for the triangular, 6 for the square. They are dyeing their little hearts out, in preparation for her release.
Look for both of these patterns at the end of the month. Galadriel's Mirror is a separate purchase, but I will give a $2 discount to subscribers, as I did with Goldberry & Rivindell.
Argonath tops out at a generous 22 inches wide, so it's plenty snuggly. Look for an October release date: following Bag End & Galadriel's Mirror. Argonath & Bag End are included in the $45 subscription, which many of you have already purchased.
Speaking of which, now that we are halfway through the series, I am closing subscription sign ups at the end of this week.
Soooo... if you want to take advantage of the discounted prices, do it soon. Subscribers get the additional pattern for Legolas kerchief and a $2 discount on other FotR patterns, such as Galadriel's Mirror, which were added to the series at a later time.
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