I was recently asked to give evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union – EU Internal Market Sub-Committee enquiry into UK-EU trade in a post-Brexit world. I was joined by Anthony Walker from TechUK, and Russ Shaw from Tech London Advocates.
For a dry topic, the questions asked by the Committee were wide ranging and comprehensive: the need to solve the digital skills crisis if UK business is to compete on a level playing field with its European and global counterparts; the critical need for clarity on what the Brexit deal, and the consequent transition period will look like; the impact of a no deal scenario on the industry; future data flows between the UK and the EU and, above all, the potential impact that all of this could have on investment decisions and UK businesses ability to scale and grow.
This is a huge, multi-faceted question: individual privacy rights; national security; state aid and state promotion, aggressive tax avoidance and competition all come into play. These companies also have complex allegiances that span many borders (Apple's market value was recently estimated to exceed the GDP of 183 out of the 199 countries for which the World Bank has GDP data).
In response Anthony Walker pointed out that "competition is fundamental to the sector. It is vital that competition authorities pay close attention to what is happening across the sector and understand the way it works. If they are identifying problems, it is absolutely right that they should address them".
Anything that reduces competitiveness is, by its nature, anti-competitive. The internet giants have huge resources and they "walk the floor" of Westminster in a way that most other companies cannot. Politicians and civil servants alike are in thrall to their Silicon Valley allure. There is a very real risk that the playing field will skew, if it hasn't already.
The US federal government has a long-standing preference for awarding contracts to US companies, and our own Government's recent Industrial Strategy White Paper is very clear on the power of procurement: "Our investments in infrastructure, and our decisions on procurement, are among the government's most significant interventions in the economy".
Russ Shaw couldn't have put it better when he said "the tech sector is united behind maintaining London's and the UK's position as a globally significant tech hub and tech nation. We have a critical mass of entrepreneurs, investors and leaders at the ready to get behind negotiations that support this vital industry. It is the fastest-growing industry in the economy and we want to ensure its future success".
I completely agree with Anthony and Russ. We need clarity, competition and growth. The UK needs its digital industry to flourish and be a global leader. We now need Government to end its love affair with the US giants, get behind its digital industry, and use its purchasing power to support and nurture UK digital businesses.
This means following the US's lead, and for Government to put the UK first: investing in UK businesses; in turn developing the deep digital skills that the nation needs (rather than "digital skills" based training that is solely focussed on proprietary technology); creating jobs and wealth, and generating revenue for the exchequer.
It's time for change, and for Government to make its technology procurement a force for economic good, if we want a strong technology Industry after Brexit.


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iTunes Movies to be sold for $9.99?
Tuesday March 14, 2006 6:44 pm PST by Arnold Kim
Early this morning the first full length movie of was spotted on Apple's iTunes Music Store.
The iTunes link to High School Musical was accessible and offered a 1 hour 39 minute Disney Channel original TV movie. This 487MB file represents the first full length movie content that has appeared on iTunes. The movie was originally available for only $1.99 which was the same price as most iTunes Video content.
This content may have been posted prematurely, as the movie became inaccessible shortly after the original news item was posted. It has reappeared, but is now priced at $9.99.
Apple is widely expected to offer a iTunes Movie service in the coming weeks, but reports indicate that licensing negotiations are holding up the release. Reportedly Jobs wanted to keep a pay-to-own download model rather than a monthly subscription based model. The High School Musical movie is being sold with the traditional iTunes pay-to-own model at $9.99.
More evidence that this represents a conscious shift for Apple into movies comes from the url:
The url to the movie is:
http://phobos.apple.com/..../viewMovie?id=129860770
Older links are as follows:
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Images of Unreleased iPhone 5s in Black and Slate Shared Online
Sunday January 17, 2021 9:47 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Twitter user @DongleBookPro has today shared images of a prototype iPhone 5s in an unreleased Black and Slate color. The iPhone 5s was launched in September 2013. The device featured Touch ID, a 64-bit processor, and a True Tone LED flash for the first time. Other new features included a five-element lens with an f/2.2 aperture, a 15 percent larger camera sensor, Burst Mode, and Slo-Mo...
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All iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro models purportedly have a hidden reverse wireless charging feature, according to an FCC filing. The feature has not yet been activated, but could yet be unlocked for an upcoming Apple accessory. The FCC filing suggests that iPhone 12 models contain the hardware for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to accessories: In addition to being able to be charged by a...
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This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week. The new rumors this week included details on updated MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro models, as well as a few other tidbits, so make sure to read on below to get caught up! Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models to...
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Apple this week extended its worldwide 13-inch MacBook Pro Display Backlight Service Program, authorizing coverage for eligible notebooks for up to five years after the original purchase date or up to three years after the start date of the program, whichever is longer. The previous cutoff was four years after the original purchase date. Apple launched the program on May 21, 2019 after...
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Apple has started "early work" on an iPhone that has a foldable display, according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Though testing of a foldable iPhone has begun, Apple has not committed to releasing a device that has a foldable display. Development has not yet expanded beyond a display and Apple does not have full foldable iPhone prototypes in its labs. Like foldable...
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Google Maps Gains Enhanced Street-Level Detail in Four Major Cities
Tuesday January 19, 2021 2:34 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Google Maps has quietly been updated to include significantly more detailed street-level information in a handful of key cities around the world. Upon zooming in, Google's maps for Central London, Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York now benefit from shapes and widths that match the scale of roads more accurately. Meanwhile, enhanced graphical representations of sidewalks, crosswalks,...
Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models to Feature Flat-Edged Design, MagSafe, No Touch Bar and More Ports
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Apple is working on two new MacBook Pro models that will feature significant design changes, well-respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in a note to investors that was obtained by MacRumors. According to Kuo, Apple is developing two models in 14 and 16-inch size options. The new MacBook Pro machines will feature a flat-edged design, which Kuo describes as "similar to the iPhone 12" ...
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The future of oVirt, from a February 2022 point of view
by Sandro Bonazzola – Tuesday 8 February
The history of oVirt is an interesting story. In the beginning, the oVirt project was created by Red Hat, which open-sourced a product that was obtained through the Qumranet acquisition. From this open-source project, Red Hat built a product and made it available to customers as Red Hat Virtualization (RHV).
The oVirt project is governed by a board that initially included all the members of the Open Virtualization Alliance, including Red Hat, Cisco, Suse, IBM, Canonical, Intel, and NetApp. Over the years, the original members of the board have resigned, leaving only Red Hat as the main contributor to the project and one other original board member, who moved to Caltech.
Last year, Red Hat published an update to the RHV product life cycle, announcing its end of life in August 2026, with OpenShift Virtualization as its successor. But as a commercial software product, RHV has a different prioritization from oVirt, which is and will always be a community project. To be clear, while there will be an End of Life for RHV, there is no planned End of Life for oVirt.
The Red Hat team working in oVirt has started to open up the oVirt project to be more accessible to other contributors:
oVirt project development has moved to a more widely accepted platform: GitHub
The release process for shipping oVirt builds is being adjusted to ship new releases using widely supported community systems such as Fedora COPR and CentOS CBS.
The development team has started a peering program for anyone interested in playing an active role in oVirt community, to make onboarding as easy as possible
The development team has actively reached out to Linux distributions derived from the CentOS stream to start engaging them (CentOS provides the Community Build System for Virtualization SIG).
So, what is the future of the oVirt project? This depends on how you, the community, shape it! Come help contribute to this new future!
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Oprah's Guarded Hope for the New President Triggers the Left
Patrice L. Onwuka
Oprah won't be top of the invite lists for celebrity holiday parties and fundraising events this year because she's done the unthinkable. She expressed "hope" that the election of President-Elect Donald Trump might not be so bad.
In a tweet, Winfrey captioned a picture of President Barack Obama and President-Elect Donald Trump at their first post-election meeting with the tweet "Everybody, take a deep breath! Hope Lives!"
Winfrey is marginally optimistic as she explained further:
"I could sense, maybe I'm wrong, but I could sense from Donald Trump's body language even when he came out for the acceptance speech, that brotha has been humbled by this whole thing."
She's not laying down the palms for his welcome to Washington, but she seems to see something different in him from what she saw before.
Nonetheless, the backlash has been swift and sharp:
Actor Patton Oswalt, an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter and Trump opponent, tweeted: 'Oprah what the f***? This is not one of my favorite things.'
Heather Matarazzo wrote: 'Oprah, you can take a deep breath and hold it while the rest of us literally fight for our lives right now. #smh.'
Grace & Frankie's June Diane Raphael also urged Oprah not to 'normalize this man'.
'Minority children are already being targeted,' she tweeted.
Scott Weinberg added: 'I used to have great respect for Oprah. (past tense)' While comedian John Early added: 'DON'T YOU DARE OPRAH.'
If we remember, Oprah was an effective surrogate and supporter for candidate Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her support for Hillary Clinton was almost dismissive this cycle though. She barely lifted a finger except in interview on the TV show of respected pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes in the final days of the campaign where she gave Clinton a slight endorsement:
"But there really is no choice, people. All the people sitting around talking about they can't decide, this is what I want to say. All the people … say, 'I just don't know if I like her.'
"She's not coming to your house!
"You don't have to like her. You don't have to like her. Do you like this country? Do you like this country?"
Not the glowing recommendation or anything compared to her endorsement back in 2008.
However, eight years later perhaps her perspective has evolved. She was by no means a supporter of Trump, but at least she's willing to push forward and take others along with her in moving forward together as a nation.
Sadly, it's this kind of unifying, hopeful, and mature attitude that is not appreciated in today's climate by those who share her politics.
Our country remains polarized following this election and, despite the pleas for us to come together, there are those who remain unwilling to do anything but denigrate progress. And by progress, I don't mean a philosophical agenda, but the willingness to make lives better for all.
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When can a Will be challenged?
Home / Practice Areas / For Personal / Power of Attorney, Wills, Trusts & Estate Administration / When can a Will be challenged?
If asked, most people would say that, once they had made a Will, they would expect that their wishes would be strictly followed after they died. However, the terms of a Will are not always set in stone and there are various ways in which the terms of a Will or even the Will itself can be challenged.
First, a Will must be valid. Hopefully, anyone making a Will is either aware of the correct procedures to be followed when executing it or has instructed a lawyer to ensure that this is the case. Importantly, this must include the Testator signing the Will whilst watched by two independent witnesses who then both sign the Will whilst watched by both the Testator and the other witness. Otherwise, it will quite literally not be worth the paper it is written on. However, there are other ways in which the validity of a Will can be challenged.
These include questions as to whether or not the Testator had sufficient mental capacity (known as "testamentary capacity") to make the Will and whether he or she was free from any undue influence. These can be nuanced situations particularly where the Testator later did lose capacity such that it may be necessary to establish whether they had capacity on any particular day.
They may alternatively have been suffering from delusions which can be difficult (although not impossible) to prove but devastating for someone excluded from a Will inappropriately.
However, a Will can also come under attack after the Testator has died from parties who are not in the Will or from disgruntled beneficiaries who believe that they are entitled to a greater share of the estate. In particular, the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 provides that the Courts (in England and Wales) can determine whether or not sufficient provision was made in a Will for a claimant who falls within the provisions of that Act. This includes not only spouses, civil partners and children but also others who allege that they were dependent on the Testator. The Court has wide powers under this Act essentially to change the terms of the Will to include provision (or greater provision) for such claimants if they can persuade the Court of their need for reasonable financial provision. The Act also applies where there was no Will at all and the rules of intestacy apply. Such cases need careful handling on both sides since, not only will a successful claim reduce all the other beneficiaries' shares of the estate, but the costs involved will further reduce the estate and/or their shares. Nonetheless, where someone should have been provided for, then this can remedy the situation.
There are also occasionally instances where a Will might be challenged on the basis that the Testator had made a binding assurance to leave certain property to someone who relied upon that promise but the Testator then changed their mind. Such claims are known as "proprietary estoppel claims" and require specialist advice.
Here at Wellers Law Group LLP, our lawyers are best able to protect your Will against future attack and our Dispute Resolution team regularly advise clients how to challenge Wills which also makes them well-placed to advise on defending all such challenges too. Please contact Rosalind Webster in our Bromley office on 020 8464 4242, who is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists ("ACTAPS") for further information. We also have experts in this field in our London team on 020 7481 2422 and in our Surrey team on 01483 284567.
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Q: Call React component's function before its render I need to load article from DB and set it like a component's state. Then this article should be shown on the page. But when I try to do this, there is an error that the value of loaded article's state is undefined. So, I think that the problem occures because the loading data function is called after the component's render. How can I call this function before rendering and properly show state's value?
import React from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { withRouter } from "react-router";

class ArticlePage extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      article: null,
    }
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    const { onLoad } = this.props;

    // gets full list of articles
    axios('http://localhost:8080/api/articles')
      .then((res) => onLoad(res.data))
  }

  getArticle() {
    // gets current article
    // ...
  }

  render() {

    this.getArticle();
    const { article } = this.state;

    return (

        {article.title}

    );
  }
}

const mapStateToProps = state => ({
  articles: state.home.articles,
});

const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
  onLoad: data => dispatch({ type: 'HOME_PAGE_LOADED', data }),
  onDelete: id => dispatch({ type: 'DELETE_ARTICLE', id }),
  setEdit: article => dispatch({ type: 'SET_EDIT', article }),
});

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(withRouter(ArticlePage));

A: You Should use componentWillMount
async componentWillMount() {
    const {onLoad} = this.props;

    // gets full list of articles
    try {
        const res = await axios('http://localhost:8080/api/articles');
        onLoad(res.data);
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e, "error");
    }

}

A: You're doing nothing wrong. You just need to perform a check before you render the component so that you can avoid initial null value:
{ article && article.title }

Alternatively, you can also define empty value:
this.state = {
  article: {
    title: ''
  }
}

Ah, also pointed out by @gdh, you're making function call inside the render hook. Instead you should call that function inside the componentDidMount hook.

A: You are not setting state for article so it seems that you are obtaining the value of article in getArticles. You are also calling getArticles in render which will cause the re-render which will lead you to infinite loop.
In addition to making checks such as { article && article.title },
So, in componentDidMount, call the getArticles function after you do the fetch.
componentDidMount() {
    const { onLoad } = this.props;

    // gets full list of articles
    axios('http://localhost:8080/api/articles')
      .then((res) => {
       onLoad(res.data);
       // call getArticles here.
       getArticles() {
        // code ...
       }
      })
  }

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Microsoft expands cloud service in push for $10 billion Pentagon contract
Oct. 9, 2018, 9:09 AM
A Microsoft logo is seen in Los Angeles
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday its expanded Azure cloud service to help government clients save data on their own servers would be available by the end of the first quarter of 2019, as it battles with Amazon.com for a $10 billion Pentagon contract.
The two companies are left in the fray for the lucrative contract after Alphabet Inc's Google dropped out on Monday, saying the company's new ethical guidelines do not align with the project.
Pentagon's JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, cloud computing solution contract is part of the Department of Defense's efforts to modernize its IT infrastructure.
The expanded Azure Government Secret cloud service will make Microsoft "a strong option for the JEDI contract," said Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, adding that the company is capable of meeting the highest classification requirement for handling "top secret U.S. classified data".
(Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru and Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco)
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State Trends in Employer Premiums and Deductibles, 2010–2019
Sara R. Collins,
David C. Radley,
and Jesse C. Baumgartner
Middle-income workers spent an average 6.8 percent of their incomes on employer premium contributions in 2019, up from 5.8 percent in 2010; deductibles rose as well
If premiums and deductibles for employer health coverage don't fall this year, household income lost during the current economic crisis will increase cost burdens for middle-income families
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Roughly half the population of the United States — about 160 million people — had insurance through employers just prior to the start of the coronavirus pandemic.1 The pandemic's massive disruption to the economy resulted in a loss of coverage for an estimated 14.6 million workers and their dependents by June of this year.2 The crisis will likely lead to additional losses well into 2021. Millions who still have employer benefits have lost wages and income, making their insurance costs an increased burden on household budgets.
The Affordable Care Act provides a safety net for people who lose employer coverage by offering coverage through the individual market and the marketplaces or Medicaid. However, while people with unaffordable employer plans have some options through Medicaid and the marketplaces, these options are limited and eligibility rules are complex.
In this brief we focus on the extent to which people with moderate incomes in employer plans face high premium and deductible costs relative to their income. We examine trends in each state over 2010–2019, just before the pandemic hit, using the most recent data from the federal Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Insurance Component, to inquire: How much were workers spending on premiums and deductibles? How do those costs compare to median income in each state? 3
Premium contributions and deductibles in employer plans accounted for 11.5 percent of median household income in 2019, up from 9.1 percent a decade earlier.
Premium contributions and deductibles were 10 percent or more of median income in 37 states in 2019, up from 10 states in 2010. Nine states have combined costs of 14 percent or more of median income.
The total cost of premiums and potential spending on deductibles across single and family policies ranged from a low of $5,535 in Hawaii to a high of more than $8,500 in nine states.
If premiums and deductibles do not fall this year, household income lost during the current economic crisis will increase cost burdens for middle-income families.
Premium contributions and deductibles in employer plans took up a growing share of worker's incomes over the past decade. Those costs together accounted for 11.5 percent of median household income in 2019, up from 9.1 percent a decade earlier (Table 6).
On average, the employee share of premium amounted to 6.8 percent of median income in 2019. This was up from 5.8 percent in 2010 but has remained largely constant since 2015 (Table 6).
The average deductible for a middle-income household amounted to 4.7 percent of income in 2019 (Table 6). This was up from 3.3 percent in 2010.
Premium contributions and deductibles were 10 percent or more of median income in 37 states in 2019, up from 10 states in 2010. Nine states (Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas) have combined costs of 14 percent or more of median income (Table 6). Middle-income workers in New Mexico and Louisiana faced the highest potential costs relative to their income (17.4% and 17.2%, respectively).
Added together, the total cost of premiums and potential spending on deductibles across single and family policies climbed to $7,806 in 2019 (Table 5). This ranged from a low of $5,535 in Hawaii to a high of more than $8,500 in nine states (Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas).
Workers across the income spectrum have experienced steady growth in the combined cost of premiums and deductibles. But people living in states with lower median incomes are doubly burdened. On average, workers in states where the median income is lower than national median income face higher absolute costs compared to people in states with higher median incomes.
Looking at voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election, on average workers in states that President Trump won have higher premium and deductible burdens relative to median income than those who voted for President-elect Joe Biden.
U.S. workers in employer plans contributed about 21 percent of their overall premium for single plans and 28 percent for family plans in 2019. This has not changed over the decade (Table 2). In some states the share is much higher; workers were responsible for a third or more of their family-plan premium in 10 states (Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, South Carolina, and South Dakota).
Worker contributions to single-plan premiums averaged $1,489 in 2019. They ranged from a low of $718 in Hawaii to a high of $1,793 in Massachusetts (Table 3a). Contributions to family plans averaged $5,726 in 2019 and ranged from a low of $3,685 in Michigan to a high of $8,202 in South Carolina (Table 3b).
In nine states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas), premium contributions were 8 percent or more of median income, with a high of 10.7 percent in South Carolina (Table 6).
In most states, even though people are paying high premiums relative to their income, they are potentially exposed to high out-of-pocket costs because of large deductibles. Research has indicated that high deductibles can act as a financial barrier to care, discouraging people with modest incomes from getting needed services. This a particular problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people with symptoms may delay care because of cost concerns.
In 2019, the average deductible for single-person policies was $1,931 (Table 4), with average deductibles ranging from $1,264 in Hawaii to $2,521 in Montana.
The Commonwealth Fund has found that insured people who have high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles relative to their income are more likely to face problems accessing care and paying medical bills than those who do not. We have defined someone with insurance as "underinsured" if their plan's deductible equals 5 percent or more of income or if their out-of-pocket costs reach similar thresholds.4
Across the country, many people in employer plans are underinsured by this measure. Average deductibles relative to median income were 5 percent or more in 20 states and ranged as high as 7 percent in New Mexico (Table 6).
In this analysis, the burden of health care costs for U.S. workers with job-based health insurance is determined by three factors: median income, premium contributions, and deductibles. This cost burden has increased over the past decade because cumulative income growth over this period has lagged growth in premium contributions and deductibles. While our research indicates that the burden has not worsened significantly over the past couple years, it has not improved, either. A recent survey of employer benefits in the first half of 2020 reached a similar conclusion.5
But what impact will the coronavirus pandemic and the associated recession have on these variables? First, it is likely that the deep and prolonged recession will lower U.S. median income growth. While the recession initially had the greatest impact on industries most affected by the pandemic, those effects are now spilling over into other sectors.6 This means that even if premium contributions and deductibles do not change, they could take up a larger share of workers' incomes in 2020 and 2021.
The pandemic's effects on premium contributions and deductibles is uncertain. Both variables are driven by trends in health care costs. The past year has seen both spikes in health care spending from COVID-19 hospitalizations and deep declines in spending from drops in elective surgery and other nonurgent care. The net effect appears to be overall lower spending and higher profits for insurance companies. Because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to return excess profits to employers and their workers, this could mean lower premiums in 2021 if insurers anticipate these trends will continue. An analysis of rate filings in the ACA marketplaces for the 2021 plan year found that some insurers increased premiums in anticipation of higher COVID-19-related costs while others decreased premiums because they anticipate ongoing lower health care use.7 Just under half of plans that cited COVID-19 in their rate filings either viewed the countervailing effects on spending as a wash or noted the effects were too uncertain to have an impact on premiums.
In the employer market, even if premium contributions and deductibles fall, remain unchanged, or grow more slowly, incomes could fall or grow more slowly, leaving household cost burdens unchanged or higher.
Higher health insurance cost burdens will place people in a precarious spot. People with low and moderate incomes may decide to go without insurance if it competes with other expenses — for example, housing and food, which consumed 35 percent of average family income in 2019.8 People who are uninsured or underinsured may forgo getting tested for COVID-19, delay getting care if they fall ill, or delay getting vaccinated when that becomes possible.9
The ACA provides some cost protection to people with employer coverage in high-cost plans. First, people with low incomes — less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level (or $17,609 for an individual) — are eligible for Medicaid in the 38 states, as well as D.C., that have expanded eligibility under the ACA. This is true regardless of whether they are offered a plan through their job. People enrolled in Medicaid pay no premiums or cost-sharing or very limited costs. Second, people with employer premium expenses that exceed 9.83 percent of income are eligible for marketplace subsidies, which trigger a federal tax penalty for their employers. This penalty is also triggered if the actuarial value of their plan is less than 60 percent (i.e., covers less than 60% of their costs, on average). But there's a catch: these provisions only apply to single-person policies, leaving many middle-income families caught in the so-called family coverage glitch if they have an expensive family plan but do not qualify for marketplace subsidies. The data in this report show that the average employee contribution to a family plan was 10 percent or more of median income in eight states in 2019 (Tables 3b and 7).
President-elect Biden and members of Congress have proposed fixing the family coverage glitch or further easing ACA restrictions to give more people in employer plans a choice of enrolling in a plan offered through the marketplaces. They also would enhance marketplace premium and cost-sharing subsidies and extend them further up the income scale.10 The 12 states that have not yet expanded Medicaid are among those where workers are experiencing the highest cost burdens. Expanding Medicaid would provide relief. These changes have the potential to help millions of people struggling to afford their health care.
This data brief analyzes state-by-state trends in private sector employer health insurance premiums and deductibles for the under-65 population from 2010 to 2019.
The data on total insurance costs, employee premium contributions, and deductibles come from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's annual survey of employers, conducted for the insurance component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS–IC). The MEPS–IC is administered to workplace establishments. Establishments represent a work location, not necessarily a firm, which can employ people in many locations. Workplace establishments are selected each year from the Census Bureau's Business Register — a confidential list of such establishments in the United States. Once selected, establishments are contacted via mail and phone to establish a contact person who is knowledgeable about the health insurance benefits offered to employees. This contact (generally a workplace administrator) is asked about each of the health plans offered to employees that work at the establishment location. If the establishment offers more than four plans, details are collected about the four plans with the largest enrollment. In 2019, MEPS–IC surveyed 40,451 establishments and had a response rate of 59.2 percent. The total number of surveys sent in 2019 was similar to prior years, but there was a lower response rate.
Total premium and other insurances costs are compared with median household incomes for the under-65 population in each state. Income data come from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) of households. In the CPS, a "household" includes all persons residing at a single address, regardless of their relationship; a "family" includes all related members of a household. Neither of these definitions reflect a "family unit" for purposes of determining health insurance eligibility. The measure of household income reported here is adjusted to account for the likelihood that individuals residing in the same household are likely to purchase health insurance together — referred to as a health insurance unit (HIU). HIUs are defined based on household and family members' relationships with the intention of grouping health insurance subscribers and their dependents. For example, a HIU would include the head of household insurance subscriber, spouse, dependent children residing in the same address, and dependent children who are full-time students but not residing at the same address. It would exclude nondependent family members (e.g., an elderly grandparent) who reside at the same address, but who would be included in the Census Bureau's family or household definition.
Note that the CPS revised its income questions in 2013, affecting the denominator in our ratio estimates. Prior to 2014, this is derived from the traditional CPS income questions, while ratio estimates from 2014 and later are derived from the revised income questions. In 2019, the Census Bureau also updated the way it processes CPS response data; the biggest changes are in the ways missing response data are imputed.11 The Census Bureau's new imputation strategies resulted in a less than 1 percent change in the median income estimates. Two years of CPS data are combined to generate reliable state-level income estimates. For example, the 2019 income estimates reported here (Table 7) reflect incomes in 2018 and 2019, as reported in the 2019 and 2020 CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) data files. The Census Bureau found that income data for 2019, collected in March 2020, potentially overestimates household income as the result of a nonresponse bias, introduced by data collection issues as travel and social distancing restrictions were beginning to be implemented. We have adjusted 2019 incomes downward to account for this bias.12
The premiums in this brief represent the average total annual cost of private group health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, including both the employer and employee shares. We also examine trends in the share of premiums that employees pay and average deductibles. We compared average out-of-pocket costs for premiums and average deductibles to median income in states to illustrate the potential cost burden of each and the total if the worker/family incurred these average costs. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports MEPS–IC premium, employee contribution, and deductible data separately for single (i.e., employee only) and family plans — we include these data in Tables 1 through 4. However, average employee out-of-pocket costs (Tables 5 and 6) are combined estimates, weighted for the distribution of single-person and family households in the state. For example, the average total employee premium contribution reported in Table 5 is equal to (MEPS–IC single plan contribution for state i * share of single-person households in state i) + (MEPS–IC family plan contribution for state i * share of multiple-person households in state i). The same approach is used to calculate average total deductibles. Average combined employee premium contribution and deductible — also referred to as total potential out-of-pocket spending — is the sum of the household distribution weighted premium contribution and deductible estimates.
The tables provide state-specific data. This analysis updates previous Commonwealth Fund analyses of state health insurance premium and deductible trends.
The authors thank Sherry Glied and Benjamin Zhu of New York University; and David Blumenthal, Barry Scholl, Chris Hollander, Deborah Lorber, Paul Frame, Jen Wilson, Munira Gunja, and Gabriella Aboulafia, all of the Commonwealth Fund.
1. Congressional Budget Office, Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2019 to 2029 (CBO, May 2019).
2. Paul Fronstin and Stephen A. Woodbury, How Many Americans Have Lost Jobs with Employer Health Coverage During the Pandemic? (Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 2020).
3. The MEPS–IC is the most comprehensive national survey of U.S. businesses on their health insurance plans. It surveyed more than 40,000 private-sector employers in 2019. The sampling unit used in the MEPS-IC is the "business establishment." The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality identifies an "establishment" as "a particular workplace or location" and a firm as "a business entity consisting of one or more business establishments under common ownership or control." This means that multiple establishments owned by the same firm, but that operate in different locations, would be treated as independent respondents in this survey.
4. In addition to having a high deductible relative to income, people who are insured all year are considered underinsured if their out-of-pocket costs are high relative to income. See Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, and Gabriella N. Aboulafia, U.S. Health Insurance Coverage in 2020: A Looming Crisis in Affordability — Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2020 (Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 2020).
5. Gary Claxton et al., "Health Benefits in 2020: Premiums in Employer-Sponsored Plans Grow 4 Percent; Employers Consider Responses to Pandemic," Health Affairs 39, no. 11 (Nov. 2020): 2018–28.
6. Neil Irwin, "The Pandemic Depression Is Over. The Pandemic Recession Has Just Begun.," New York Times, Oct. 3, 2020.
7. Daniel McDermott et al., 2021 Premium Changes on ACA Exchanges and the Impact of COVID-19 on Rates (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Oct. 2020).
8. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Consumer Expenditures — 2019," news release, Sept. 9, 2020.
9. Sara R. Collins et al., What Are Americans' Views on the Coronavirus Pandemic? (NBC News/Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll, Mar. 2020).
10. Sara R. Collins and Gabriella N. Aboulafia, "Health Care in the 2020 Presidential Election: Health Insurance Coverage and Affordability," To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 8, 2020; Sara R. Collins and Roosa Tikkanen, "The Many Varieties of Universal Coverage," Commonwealth Fund, last updated Apr. 24, 2019; Sherry A. Glied and Jeanne M. Lambrew, "How Democratic Candidates for the Presidency in 2020 Could Choose Among Public Health Insurance Plans," Health Affairs 37, no. 12 (Dec. 2018): 2084–91; and Vice President Joe Biden, "The Biden Plan to Protect and Build on the Affordable Care Act," n.d.
11. Trudi Renwick, "CPS ASEC Redesign and Processing Changes," Census Blogs, U.S. Census, Sept. 4, 2019.
12. Jonathan Rothbaum and Adam Bee, Coronavirus Infects Surveys, Too: Nonresponse Bias During the Pandemic in the CPS ASEC, SEHSD Working Paper No. 2020-10 (U.S. Census Bureau, Sept. 15, 2020).
A Health Care Regulatory Agenda for the Biden Administration
January 13, 2021 | Blog
Update: How Many Americans Have Lost Jobs with Employer Health Coverage During the Pandemic?
Removing the Firewall Between Employer Insurance and the ACA Marketplaces: Who Could Benefit?
December 15, 2020 | Issue Briefs
The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Coming, but Will It Be Paid For? Federal and State Policies to Fill Gaps in Insurance Coverage
Contact: Sara R. Collins, Vice President, Health Care Coverage and Access, The Commonwealth Fund
Editor: Deborah Lorber
Sara R. Collins, David C. Radley, and Jesse C. Baumgartner, State Trends in Employer Premiums and Deductibles, 2010–2019 (Commonwealth Fund, Nov. 2020). https://doi.org/10.26099/7n7x-sj69
Employer-Based Health Insurance, Health Insurance Premiums, Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs, State Health Policy
Jesse C. Baumgartner
Research Associate, Health Care Coverage and Access & Tracking Health System Performance, The Commonwealth Fund


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By Scott Carney|2021-03-11T12:01:40+00:00March 11th, 2021|Obituaries|
Mr. Steven "Steve" Troy Spear, 48, of Thorntown, Indiana, passed away Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at home with family by his side. He was born on January 13, 1973 in Lebanon, Indiana; a son of Michael and Carol (Lollar) Spear.
Steve was a 1991 graduate of Western Boone Jr. Senior High School. Following high school he proudly served in the U.S. Air Force.
He was a heavy equipment operator over 23 years with Local Union 841 out of Terre Haute, Indiana. He was an avid outdoors man who loved hunting and fishing and was a member of the County Line Fishing Club for a few years. Steve was fun-loving with a kind heart who adored his family.
Survivors include his parents: Mike and Carol Spear of Thorntown; son, Troy Spear of Thorntown; Troy's mother and Steve's companion, Barbara Osborne of Thorntown; bonus daughter, Kristen Leffler of Muncie; brother, David Leon (Ursula) Spear of Kentucky; grandmother, Ruth Spear of Lebanon;
niece, Lisa Spear of Kentucky; nephew, Chris (Chelsey) Spear of Florida;
great nephew, Oliver Spear of Florida; many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Steve was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Max Spear and maternal grandparents, Clyde and Stella Lollar.
Funeral Services are planned for 2:00 p.m. on Monday, March 15, 2021 with Chaplain Ken Rushing officiating at Myers Mortuary, 1502 North Lebanon Street, in Lebanon. Visitation will be held from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home in Lebanon. Interment will follow services at Dover Cemetery in Dover.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Boone County Cancer Society, 117 West Elm Street, Lebanon, Indiana 46052.


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Editor's Note: This is our first piece from the Earth First! Journal Newswire—a news service providing news and information about direct action in defense of living systems around the world. This is Part 1 of a two-part series that will examine the political and social ramifications of the chemical spill in West Virginia and the history of Appalachian struggle against human and ecological destruction. Part 1 will focus on the spill and its aftermath. Part 2 will put this disaster in historical context and discuss what the legacy of ecological and class warfare in central Appalachia can teach ecosocialists today.
A Freedom Industries worker places boom in the Elk River at the site of the chemical spill
Imagine living in the rugged countryside of the Appalachian mountains. You have no source of income or means of transportation, and you find your water has been poisoned and cannot be used—even after being boiled—until further notice. Imagine trying to run a hospital when none of the city's water can be used, even for hand-washing. Imagine having to ration drinking water to school-age children in the fourth most water-rich country on earth.
All of these stories and more came true in West Virginia on Jan. 9, after residents reported water that tasted like licorice. The contamination turned out to be 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a chemical used to produce the misleadingly named "clean coal" through the froth flotation process which "scrubs" the coal prior to burning in power plants.
As of this writing, an unknown amount of the substance had spilled from a 48,000 gallon container located along the Elk River, owned by Freedom Industries (FI). Despite being located only one mile upstream from the water treatment plant where drinking water was contaminated, Tom Aluise of the West Virginia Environmental Protection Association noted that the chemical cannot actually be removed from the water—and residents will simply have to wait for more than 60 miles of pipelines to be completely flushed before water safety can be reassessed.
"This material pretty much floats on the water, and it's floating downstream, and eventually it will dissipate, but you can't actually get in there and remove it," Aluise said. FI claims they don't know how the hole which caused the toxic substance to leak into the containment area and then into the river got there, but then, according to its own website, FI keeps maintains bulk quantities of not only 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, but 5 other flotation reagents–not to mention the other products stored on site, which include other specialty chemicals including freeze conditioning agents (used in deicing), dust control palliatives, water treatment polymers, and other mining chemicals. "With 4,000,000 gallons of storage capacity," boasts the Freedom Industries website, the Elk River terminal "can process large volumes of chemical rapidly, and cost effectively." Processing them safely, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be a primary concern.
Although air-quality officials began receiving odor reports about the facility as early as 7:30 a.m., the emergency response chief of the Department of Environmental Protection didn't receive word of the spill until noon. The Charleston Gazette reported that the company had failed to report the spill to the self-regulation agencies, which raises the question why a chemical corporation more interested in efficiency than the safety of hundreds of thousands of people is allowed to regulate itself anyway. A search of the Environmental Protection Agency's facility compliance reports found no record of inspections at the facility for available years, presenting a striking parallel with low OSHA inspection rates that resulted in a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant last year.
And, of course, with no way for the chemical to be removed from the water through a clean-up operation, it remains unclear what the short and long term effects will be beyond contaminating the water supply of the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia's most populated region. The materials safety data sheets, compiled by OSHA, lists little information about the effects of the chemical, and many emergency officials say they know little about the potential effects of the chemical. West Virginia American Water President Jeff McIntyre did little to reassure residents when he refused to get specific about possible effects, only saying that "it's not particularly lethal in its usage form." And while not completely sure how the contamination will affect residents, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said that possible effects of ingestion or inhalation could include "severe burning in throat, severe eye irritation, non-stop vomiting, trouble breathing or severe skin irritation such as skin blistering."
Empty shelves at a Charleston area store.
In addition to the human effects, it's not clear what the ecological consequences of the spill will be. The Elk River is a major tributary of the Ohio River, and the Appalachian mountains—as well as the valleys downstream—are home to ecosystems already under threat from more than a century of burning coal, mountain-top removal, strip mining, deforestation, and more. Many people rely on these rivers for water supplies, irrigation and leisure.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are without water in one of the poorest rural areas of the country, and the government has no idea when the water will be safe to drink again. The emergency response has been entirely inadequate, leaving those who could afford it—and who had transportation to get to a store—scrambling to buy rapidly disappearing supplies of bottled water. The Health Department closed all restaurants, tattoo parlors, and schools, and many businesses will remain closed.
Nursing homes and hospitals, while also under the advisory, must still struggle to provide basic services. According to the Charleston Gazette, however, some nursing homes will shut down, leaving elderly and disabled people without vital access to care at a critical time. The Charleston Area Medical Center has canceled all procedures until the water use ban is lifted.
West Virginians were quick to point out on social media the failure of the government and the water company in warning people about the danger. As Teresa Boggs Meadow noted, "already cooked, ran the dishwasher, done laundry and drank it. If it happened so early why did you put the warning out so late? It happened at 10:30 AM!"
Soon after the announcement, stores began to run out of water supplies. Residents tweeted out that stores were gouging prices, trying to make some extra money from people's fear. As of Thursday evening, the state had asked for help in acquiring and distributing more bottled water from FEMA.
Yet no amount of feigned concern from state and national officials can cover how badly the situation has been handled. Once again, the companies have engaged in ecological warfare against the people of the Appalachian mountains. Once again, the state was negligent in the enforcement of regulations and colluded with company officials to assert control over the situation and avoid the companies being held meaningfully accountable for their actions. Once again, the lives of working people and the health of the land and resources they rely on have come second to the demands of capitalism. The latest spill in the Elk River is the latest chapter in a long story of ecological and class warfare, where the coal companies have attempted to crush the working people, rob them of their land, and devastate the ecosystems they rely on for survival. It's a story that is far too familiar to the people of West Virginia. As Marilyn Mullens of Cool Ridge W.Va. noted:
"Just for the world to know. This is the same chemical they use to clean the coal.' The same chemical that is pumped into billion gallon earthen dams that litter the Appalachian mountains. The chemicals have been seeping into the streams and groundwater of coal field residents for years. Some of us have been pleading with our elected officials to stop this but they are paid off by the coal companies. The same coal companies that are on record as saying my people are 'collateral damage' and 'expendable.' Now this chemical spills into their drinking water and they tuck tail and run. Go figure."
So-called "Clean Coal" is a dangerous myth. It can be easy, sometimes, for those of us who don't live in coal producing areas of the country, to forget the social and ecological toll coal burning and production takes on land and people. For the most part, away from smokestacks and slurry dams, we can forget that at the other end of the energy production chain, all the ugliness is still there. People often claim sustainable energy alternatives—solar panels and wind turbines, for example—are a blight on the landscape. Not only is this untrue, but it ignores the real blight—the one we have outsourced (or perhaps, insourced) to the Appalachian coalfields and imposed on the people who live there, impoverished and murdered by the same energy companies who are destroying the entire planet.
It's no coincidence that this happened in one of the poorest areas of the country. In fact, the same companies that poison the water, decimate the mountaintops, and erect dams to hold back unfathomable amounts of "mountain slurry" are also responsible for the high levels of poverty that exist throughout the region. For more than a century, minimizing access to health care, education, and other social services has helped employers extract as much profit as possible from the region by keeping corporate tax rates low and by not requiring corporations who own operations in the state to even pay taxes there in the first place. It is in this context we must comprehend the utter failures of state departments to respond to the chemical spill crisis.
What should have been the alternative to leaving those who were able scrambling to find water supplies? How could hospitals and other medical facilities been prioritized to receive water so the most vulnerable among us would be in less danger?
Instead of closing the schools and other public buildings, these facilities should have been opened to the public as emergency relief centers. Available water supplies should have been centralized, assessed, and distributed according to need, with special attention to vulnerable populations. Communication check-ins should have been established to make sure people in more remote areas got the message to discontinue use of the water, and to make sure those people had adequate supplies on hand.
Instead, the people of West Virginia have been left, for the most part, to fend for themselves. Even as we organize to send them what aid we can to get them through the crisis, the need for a systemic change has never been more urgent. Capitalism is killing us, and our planet. In the grand ways–the super storms, extended fire seasons, rising ocean temperatures, and skyrocketing extinction rates—yes. But also in small ways, a river here, a person there. A person who could have been part of helping build a solution.


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Whenever I do online shopping, I usually read reviews about the online shop first. When the reviews are too bad, it just follows that I should stay away from that shop, right? However, there are times when I'm too excited to place an order that I unconsciously forget to even bother searching for reviews. With that said, I admit that when I decided to buy a cellphone from Lazada Philippines last month, it didn't even occur to me to read reviews about them first. One factor perhaps was they looked so established and trustworthy. (and the "free shipping" thing is so tempting. lols) It's only until few minutes ago did I know that there are bad reviews about them. If I had read them before, I might have not bought from them.
In order to shed some light to others who are still confused whether they could trust Lazada or not, let me share my experience with them.
It was December 6 of last year when I placed my order on their website. I ordered a Cherry Mobile Flare 2.0 for my father. Before that, I already looked at other sellers' sites to see if they did offer the said item at a lower price. Unfortunately, they didn't; mall's price for it was around 4,500php, at Kimstore it was 3,999php exclusive of shipping and I didn't know any other place where I could order it. lols. :p Lazada's price for it was 3,999php too and they ship for free. Plus, they gave me a 200php voucher for signing up on their site. In short, I saved a little when I chose to transact with them.
I don't have a credit card, my Paypal has no money and it is a hassle to go to the bank to deposit payment so I just chose Cash On Delivery. As per their instruction, I left an authorization letter and a valid ID to my representative who would transact with them in case I wasn't home when they deliver the item. They sent me updates thru email about my order, which is good.
They also sent me another 300php voucher as a token for buying on their site. I have yet to use it as I am still undecided what to purchase next.
Overall, I had a positive Lazada Online Shopping experience and I might transact with them again one day.
Have you bought something from them too? How was your experience? Share them in the comment box below!
I have tried buying from Lazada as well and found it very convenient. My first order came the day after. How quick is that?
I think it's safer to have the cash on delivery too as you only pay when you get the item.
Lazada online shopping has its own push towards the modern shopping methods. It has subsidized other shopping sites to augment with the influx of modern way of shopping.
I have been searching for gadgets in Lazada and until now I haven't made up my mind on what to buy next yet. I'm waiting for the Xiaomi4 to be released! Hopefully I can get one unit from this site.
I've been shopping from Lazada the past few months. I had COD or PayPal transactions and everything went well.
I have yet to try Lazada or any online purchase stores but I agree with your thoughts of using COD rather than credit card.
My wife just made a purchased at Lazada. Oks naman daw.
I also have a positive experience with Lazada. For me, I have to avoid buying gadgets online.
My friend bought a phone from Lazada yesterday. It went out of stock an hour later. Lazada is a booming online store, I guess.
I still haven't received my order. 2 days has passed na and sabi sa tracking nila 1-2 working days lang :-? i paid via credit card because of additional 12%. sana via COD nalang. wala rin kwento customer service nila. i thought mabilis shipping hindi naman pala.
Do not trust or use Lazada! I ordered a camera because of its super low price. My credit card authorized the amount and a day after it was reflected it in my outstanding balance. Four days after, at around 1:00 pm I received received a call from Lazada inquiring about my purchase and was told to expect delivery within 5 to 6 days. At around 5:38 pm of the same day, I received an email from Lazada telling me that my order has been cancelled because I did not verify my order, or something to that effect. Honestly, I think they made a mistake as to the price of the product, but could not admit it and have to make excuses. I guess they don't know what they are selling.
I have ordered many things from Lazada. I am a US citizen living in Thailand and, for the most part, merchandise has been okay. I even stopped doing COD and now just pay for my order via my Thai bank at the time I place the order. But...you cannot trust Lazada when it says, for example, "100% cotton". None of the shirts I have ordered have been all cotton. They are partly polyester (plastic) and therefore hot and sticky in humid Thailand. Moreover, when you try and place a review on Lazada that tells the truth, Lazada immediately takes your review down. In other words, the exact opposite of Amazon, where you can read the bad reviews along with the good ones.
This is how Asians often deal with problems: pretend they don't exist. But the problem is, Lazada will lose customers this way. Amazon has faithful customers because the customers can see for themselves what other customers say. Lazada thinks censoring their customers is the way to go. Is that smart? By doing this Lazada will sell a few dozen more 'bath brush with long handle' and fake "100% cotton" shirts but they will lose customers for life.
Also, I advise you if buying from Lazada to consider at least hesitating when it says "product shipped from abroad", which usually means China. You cannot do COD on those orders so it is not practical to open the box in front of the delivery person, then refuse the item (because you've already paid for it). One 'bath brush with long handle" I ordered arrived in a tiny package from China--it was the brush part only, minus the long handle. Ridiculous.
I started ordering from Lazada April of this year. All my transactions are COD. For the most part my orders were correct, and in good condition.. My orders are mainly body lotion, body mists. However lately my orders were incorrect/incomplete. I have had no problem with regard to delivery. I still am tempted at times to order because the item is cheaper than buying in the malls. However because of their failure to deliver the right items I ordered I already have my doubts. I hate receiving the wrong item and after reading all negative reviews on customer service, I don't want to bother returning the wrong item.
goods review. lazada is one of the most popular website in the country but theres a new player in the game www.good.ph comes with almost the same price and better deals.


XINING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Qinghai Province on Wednesday initiated a nine-day clean energy power supply project following a successful seven-day trial last year.
The province plans to only use green energy sources to generate electricity from June 20 to 28 to promote the use of clean energy.
Last year, from June 17 to 23, the province ran entirely on wind, solar, and hydro power.
During that period, hydro power plants supplied 72.3 percent of the electricity, with new energy sources such as wind and solar supplying the remainder.
"This year, Qinghai's electric grid will be expanded, with an installed capacity of 26.4 million kilowatts, up 13 percent from last year," said Qi Taiyuan, general manager of the State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company.
The daily electricity generated by new energy sources during the nine-day period is expected to reach 53 million kilowatt hours, up 40 percent from last year, said Qi.
According to the provincial 13th five-year plan, Qinghai will expand its solar and wind capacity to 35 million kilowatts by 2020 and supply 110 billion kilowatt hours of clean electricity every year to central and eastern parts of China, preventing the burning of 50 million tonnes of coal.
China's enthusiasm for clean energy is pushing the world to transition toward a low-carbon future, with plans to invest 2.5 trillion yuan (370 billion U.S. dollars) in renewable energy by 2020, creating more than 13 million jobs, according to the National Energy Administration.
The country's total installed renewable energy capacity reached 650 million kilowatts in 2017, up 14 percent from 2016. Clean energy generated 1.7 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity last year, accounting for 26.4 percent of the country's total.


Global engineering company, Renishaw, is exhibiting at the 52nd international Paris Air Show from June 19th-25th, held at Le Bourget Parc des Expositions, Paris. This marks the first time that Renishaw has exhibited its additive manufacturing (AM) technology at the show. The company is showcasing its flagship RenAM 500M metal additive manufacturing system and providing demonstrations of its build preparation software, QuantAM. Renishaw can be found in the UK Pavilion, in Hall B, on stand G188.
Visitors to the stand will be introduced to the technology Renishaw is contributing to Land Rover BAR, the British Challenger for the 35th America's Cup. Renishaw is an official supplier to Land Rover BAR and member of the Technical Innovation Group whose goal is to find advanced technologies and develop them to provide the team with a competitive edge, by creating a cup winning race boat. Renishaw has provided its expertise in metal additive manufacturing and encoder technology and produced parts for the Land Rover BAR racing catamaran. Renishaw will feature the bespoke parts in a dedicated display area.
Renishaw will highlight its latest metal additive manufacturing system which utilises laser powder bed fusion technology, the RenAM 500M. This system is fully designed and engineered by Renishaw to be used for serialised production of complex metal components, and offers increased automation and reduced operator touch time.
During the show, Renishaw will demonstrate QuantAM 2017, the latest version of its build file preparation software for Renishaw AM systems. The software allows the user to edit the build file so that the designer can optimise the machine settings and process parameters to suit the material and geometry of the part being processed.
The Paris Air Show is the world's largest aerospace event, having grown every year since its launch in 1909 and Renishaw is proud, as the only UK manufacturer of metal additive manufacturing systems, to present its additive manufacturing expertise within the UK Pavilion.
News release to highlight Renishaw is exhibiting at the 52nd international Paris Air Show from June 19th-25th, held at Le Bourget Parc des Expositions, Paris.


Best described as 'French Vanilla Cream' in colour, this delightful vegan nail varnish provides full, opaque coverage and has a subtly chic look.
Zoya Chantal Nail Polish is free-from potentially harmful toxins that can be found in many nail varnishes including toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin and dibutyl phthalate. It's ideal if you're looking for a dark and rich polish that's saturated with colour.


Hot Flashes are the most common and disturbing symptoms of menopause. A sudden, severe episode of hot flashes can be frightening if you have not been informed about hot flashes, so please take your time to read this special information so you can get all the facts about hot flashes.
A hot flash can be described as a sensation of intense heat mainly in the upper body, accompanied by sudden rapid heartbeat. Usually you feel a rising flush on the chest, neck and face, which is often followed by heavy sweating. Frequency and intensity of hot flashes vary greatly from woman to woman.
The exact cause of hot flashes during menopause is not yet known, but it is generally accepted that the main reason for these troublesome symptoms is a malfunction of the hypothalamus (which is the heat regulatory area of the brain). A hormonal imbalance can trigger the Hypothalamus to start overproducing heat.
Hot flashes are one of the most common and most troublesome symptoms of menopause, but a new study suggests that the addition of flaxseed to the daily diet may help to reduce the number and intensity of menopausal hot flashes.
Keep reading in the section below to learn about the most effective treatments for hot flashes during menopause.
As you have already read, hot flashes are mainly brought on by falling estrogen hormone levels, which is a natural part of aging. If you want to get rid of this undesirable symptom, you must restore estrogen hormones to normal levels.
Lifestyle Changes: This first level of treatment involves no risk, but may be the hardest way to go because you'll have to restrict yourself from many things. That's why most people consider the next level of treatment, alternative medicine, which has proven to be excellent for treating hot flashes in a safe and natural way.
Alternative medicine: There are two types of herbal supplements for treating hot flashes: those containing phytoestrogenic herbs, and those containing non-estrogenic herbs. Phytoestrogenic herbs (like Black Cohosh) are filled with phytoestrogens, which are similar to estrogens. They can increase low estrogen levels by replacing some of the missing estrogen hormones. This isn't the best solution, however, because your body will become less responsive to producing estrogen on its own, causing a further decrease in body-own hormone levels. Unlike phytoestrogenic herbs, non-estrogenic herbs don't contain estrogen, but they nourish the hormonal glands to work more efficiently. This ultimately results in balancing not only estrogen, but other necessary hormones, as well. Using non-estrogenic herbs is one of the safest and best ways to treat hot flashes naturally.
An excellent example of a safe and effective non-estrogenic herb for hormonal imbalance is herbal MacaActive. What makes MacaActive so special is its ability to balance hormonal levels in women by nourishing the hormonal glands. In this way, it alleviates most disorders related to hormonal imbalance, including hot flashes. to read more about MacaActive.
Drugs and Surgery: This level of treatment has the highest risk and often the highest cost. The most common drug therapy for treating hot flashes in the US is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). There's no doubt that this is the quickest and strongest way to combat hormonal imbalance. Unfortunately, it entails serious side effects and increases the risk of different types of cancer in women. If you still want to consider this approach, see your doctor to become better informed about what this treatment option involves.
Non-estrogenic herbs are the most effective solution for treating hormonal imbalance and the associated symptom of hot flashes.
MacaActive is an excellent non-estrogenic herb. It's simple: rather than putting hormones from the outside into your body artificially, MacaActive stimulates your hormone glands into producing the hormones it needs naturally. This is what makes MacaActive supplements so unique. to read all about MacaActive.
Clark Gillespie. "Hormones, Hot Flashes and Mood Swings"
Pam Brodowsky & Evelyn Fazio. "Staying Sane Going through Menopause"
John R. Lee & Virginia Hopkins. "Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple: The Essential How-To Guide to Symptoms, Dosage"
Carolyn Chambers Clark. "Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know"


A threaded resource is a "quick and dirty" wrapper around the concept of wiring up synchronous code into a standard EM::Pool. This is useful to keep interfaces coherent and provide a simple approach at "making an interface async-ish".
General usage is to wrap libraries that do not support EventMachine, or to have a specific number of dedicated high-cpu worker resources.
This example requires the cassandra gem. The cassandra gem contains an EventMachine interface, but it's sadly Fiber based and thus only works on 1.9. It also requires (potentially) complex stack switching logic to reach completion of nested operations. By contrast this approach provides a block in which normal synchronous code can occur, but makes no attempt to wire the IO into EventMachines C++ IO implementations, instead relying on the reactor pattern in rb_thread_select.
# The dispatch block is executed in the resources thread.
Called on the EM thread, generally in a perform block to return a completion for the work.
The block should return the resource that will be yielded in a dispatch.
Kill the internal thread. should only be used to cleanup - generally only required for tests.
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This is a list of properties and historic districts in West Virginia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which only modify the area covered by an existing property or district, although carrying a separate National Register reference number.
National Register of Historic Places listings in West Virginia Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.