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E-mails, letters and two phone calls led to some enlightening conversations about �shine. I admitted I know little about moonshining; today, I�m ready to sprout some barley, grind some corn, lay in a stock of sugar, order my Turbo yeast and buy a few cases of Mason jars. They should teach this stuff on the Food Network, TLC or The History Channel. It�s science in a still, fermentation in a forest, history in a hollow.
Forgive me for mentioning things you already may know, but I learned how to tell good moonshine from bad. Light it and white lightnin� burns blue. Yellow signals impurities. And �red and you�re dead,� because the liquor contains lead.
I have heard the relative merits of filtering distillate through crushed coal; oak, hickory and cornstalk charcoal; and Brita water filters. We use Brita-filtered water at home for making sun tea. Nack says I can recharge one after 10 uses by running boiling water through it. Handy to know, considering how much the things cost.
Speaking of cost, no one of the above gentlemen believes many people will make moonshine for auto fuel unless the price of gas goes sky high, though a couple admitted �the old boys� sometimes poured stuff too foul to drink into their gas tanks, rather than waste it.
Several people mentioned seeing an article about Dogwood Energy and one sent a copy of the story by Bill Poovey of The Associated Press in Tennessee.
Dogwood Energy in Tullahoma, Tenn., makes stills that produce 190 proof grain alcohol (ethanol) out of fermented starches from corn, rye or barley or sugars from apples, other fruits and sugar cane. Buyers need a federal permit and must denature the alcohol so no one can drink it.
The company started out pelletizing fuel for wood stoves, but its resident inventor and mechanic, Bill Sasher, designed a still that caught people�s attention because it cooks the mash at precisely the right temperature � something my local sources said is crucial in making good corn liqour. Dogwood Energy has added 10 employees to make the devices and can�t keep up with demand that�s grown rapidly since September. Small businesses and thrifty individuals currently have 45 on back-order.
According to Poovey, �A bushel of the fermented starch crop, mixed with yeast, water and sugar, and allowed to sit for about 2.5 days, then strained and heated to boiling, makes about 2.6 gallons of ethanol, which is then added to gasoline to produce a blended fuel.
Sasher told Poovey that any modern-day car can run on a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline and claims most vehicle engines can use blends of up to 25 percent ethanol without modification.
Poovey asked the American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil industry, about mixing ethanol with gasoline. A spokesman said API favors use of ethanol to reduce dependence on oil, but questions the wisdom of mixing it yourself.
Poovey�s sources, like mine, don�t expect many people to make alcohol for personal use in their vehicles.
�The only ethanol I know being made at home is still the beverage,� a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association told Poovey.
But then again, no one who contacted me admitted making any moonshine, despite their ever-clear descriptions of how it�s done. Perhaps they don�t; perhaps they did; possibly they do.
At least they�re preserving knowledge someone may tap to fuel my Ford ... in the future.


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which keys are not supported? Do you have a photo of your remote?
> I have a pinnacle PCTV usb stick, it just works.
> can change the conversion between IR Code and Key code.

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PCB chief Ehsan Mani has given Inzamam-ul-Haq his full support and confidence after the current chief selector was accused of nepotism by former leg-spinner Abdul Qadir.Inzamam was caught in a controversy after Qadir had claimed that Inzamam called Basit Ali, the chief selector of the Pakistan Under-19 side, for his son’s inclusion in the junior team.
Inzamam took to Twitter to dispel such suggestions and categorically denied the allegations, saying he would quit his position if he was found guilty.
“I strongly refute this unfounded and malicious claim. For the record, no one from junior selection committee was approached and there is no truth in this. I am taking this matter quite seriously and will be meeting PCB chair for an open enquiry on this matter tomorrow,” he had tweeted on Tuesday.
Basit too denied getting any call from Inzamam regarding his son’s selection and called for an investigation. “I would like to request the PCB to take legal action against those who are spreading such rumors,” Basit had said.
In the wake of the drama, Mani met Inzamam, on the latter’s request, on Thursday. The PCB chief expressed his disappointment over the speculation about the integrity of two former Test cricketers, and expressed full trust in both of them.

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text: Mark F. Kruse, a Partner with the law firm Weston Hurd LLP has been selected as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America. An experienced attorney and litigator, Mark represents clients in both state and federal courts throughout the United States. His clients are engaged in a variety of industries and principally include construction companies (general contractors, subcontractors, materialmen), manufacturers, distributors and commercial property owners. Mark handles a wide range of construction, business and commercial disputes, with areas of concentration including litigation, complex contract disputes, business torts and commercial real estate issues. Mark received his B.S. from Bowling Green State University and his J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Mark has been recognized as one of the “Top Lawyers in Ohio” by American Lawyer Media, and has earned an AV-Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

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Chicago’s Grant Park will be filled with food, music, and fun for yet another year this August 2-5. Headlined by Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, and Jack White, the four day festival is packed with some of the biggest names in music.
Beyond each day’s headliner, Lollapalooza brings plenty of other stars, from Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, and Khalid, to Camilla Cabello, Dua Lipa, and Billie Eilish. Fans of rock, pop, and hip-hop alike can find a wealth of great artists to watch while enjoying some of Chicago’s finest food and drink.
Single day tickets are available now, and while four day general admission tickets are sold out, VIP and Platinum passes are still up for grabs. Get your tickets now and check out the full lineup here!

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Powered workshop and generous garden shed and rainwater tank.
Large open plan kitchen, separate lounge and visual entertainment areas.
All bedrooms have walk in or built in robes and are either suitable for king or queen beds.
Bathroom, ensuite and laundry are all spacious.
Solar panels and ducted reverse cycle airconditioning throughout.
All of the things that make a comfortable yet family or retirement friendly home.
The kitchen is serviced by an Emilia free standing range and rangehood, dishwasher, generous sized island bench and breakfast bar.
Only minutes to a paddle in the Three Waters, golfing at the Sanctuary, fresh food at the Farmers Market and Bunbury Forum and a skip to Grace Christian School.
Don’t just dream about it, give Peter a call. This can’t last long at this most reasonable price.

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Event hosting and management can be a marketing and logistics nightmare. It’s not unheard for branding events to go totally wrong, ending up as PR disasters more than anything else. Then, there are severe budgetary concerns withholding brands from conducting real events too often. No wonders, everyone wants to know more about the art of virtual events.
Webinar technology, VoIP telephony, virtual reality, collaborative screen sharing, automated emails, augmented reality – all these technologies have made virtual events a very ‘real’ idea for brands to connect with audiences in an affordable, scalable, and repeatable manner. Let’s tell you more about the advancements and future of virtual events.
A bit of a no brainer really; webinar technology has made such rapid advances that scheduling, organizing, and then repurposing webinars is super affordable, super convenient, and super scalable for brands. Once you have the content, an Internet connection, and a microphone ready, all you need is a live webinar tool to organize a value adding webinar. The tool lets you schedule, promote, conduct, and analyze webinars, apart from helping you market the event, enhance participation, and automate reminders and feedback, and a lot more.
No wonders, brands across the globe use webinars for product demonstrations, selling knowledge content, engaging with customers, delivering after sales information service, conducting focus group interviews, and what not. SAP, for instance, leverages webinars to showcase its software capabilities in helping organizations do business better.
3D printers have bridged the gap between concept and concrete product almost magically. As a result, remote interactions across teams become tremendously real, particularly when they need to collaborate on product design, prototyping, demonstrations, DIYs, etc. With 3D printers installed at remote locations, the event manager can share CAD prototype files with the participants, and let them create the necessary part, component, or product. This eliminates a major challenge in event management for campaigns that require collaboration on physical materials.
Almost every major social media platform is investing heavily in enabling value added live video streaming. This is opening up massive opportunities for individuals and brands, allowing them to organize and manage virtual events at a fraction of what it would otherwise cost them! It’s as simple as scheduling a ‘live’ event, preparing the content and video production equipment (HD video recording camera enabled smartphone), and inviting social media followers to join and witness the event.
Italian women’s magazine Grazia UK did a roundtable conference on Brexit issues where Facebook users were able to connect with the experts ‘live’. It doesn’t have to be this serious though; Dunkin Donut did a holiday season themed Facebook Live video showcasing the making of a massive donut based wedding cake in a test kitchen.
A great aspect of virtual events is how traditional event formats can be made all the more enriching and enjoyable for attendees. Add in wearable technology and augmented reality, and you’ve got a miracle in the making. Take, for instance, Coca Cola did a very successful event called Santa Clause’s Sleigh Ride in VR, where participants experienced ‘being Santa’ on a rollercoaster and flying into different towns and cities. Add technology like Double Robotics’ remote controlled iPad mounted robots and it even offers participants in the VR powered event to interact with other participants experiencing the same event from another remote location.
The lines between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ are becoming increasingly blurry. For brands across industries and geographies, this presents sensational opportunities for beating the competition and embracing the change, and organizing virtual events to reach out to millions across the globe.


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Economic and beauty Rooms or Apartaments. with excellent respect atmosphere ideal for parents that search for an special place. Teachers or young Employees, Master Students o DT in weeckend.
Services included: Light, gas, water, internet, parking.
We find near several Universities: UDLAP -UVM, UMAD, UTEC. 5 minutes from Periferico. Behind Camino Real street.
Enjoy it and visit us.

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This unexpected turn in the numbers points to something significant. But first, the numbers.
Definitions changed. Previously, the official record-keepers only included languages where no translation work had ever been done. Now, they are wisely including languages where work began but was left uncompleted—with no Scripture published and in the hands of the people.
What is significant about the unexpected increase? Follow me along these signposts, and I think you’ll see the conclusion coming before we get to it.
Not all increase in the number of languages is due to changes in record-keeping and definitions. I won’t pretend to know all the factors that led to increasing the total number of languages from nearly 7,100 to over 7,300. But it’s not impossible for new languages to develop, even though in our day it’s much more likely to go the other way.
The numbers can can also increase as new languages are discovered. Again, this is not something we tend to expect today. But did you know that there are pockets of South American jungle where only God knows for sure how many tribes and languages exist?
I’m glad English Bible translation didn’t stop with John Wycliffe’s 1384 Bible, aren’t you? Even the 1611 KJV would likely not be in popular use today if updated editions had not been published over the next 150 years to adapt to the changing English language.
Many languages, smaller and less widely used than English, change much faster.
The Old Testament is part of the Bible!
According to one source, only one in five Bible translation projects includes the Old Testament. Is the final 26% of God’s written Word adequate without the first 74% that lays the foundation for it?
When the numbers say over 1500 languages have the New Testament, should we breathe a sigh of relief or pray and get to work?
Some translations are poorly done!
Not every method is a good method. Finding the fastest way possible to accomplish a thing doesn’t always mean it will be well done. This is proving true in Bible translation today.
Not every translator or team cares about the right things. Less than honorable motives sometimes enter into Bible translation. Money, prestige, control, political connections, and the good will of big organizations or majority religions are all corrupting factors.
And if a translation is poorly done, then what?
Not every way of expressing the meaning of a Scripture text is equally impartial. The trend in recent decades in Bible translation has been toward including more of the translators’ interpretation in the wording. The idea is to make it simple and easy to read for people unfamiliar with the Bible. This is often referred to as dynamic translation.
Believers and churches in many communities are asking what can be done to provide them more literal, less interpretive translations.
Will Bible translation be finished before Jesus returns to gather His own from every nation? Peter Brassington, who participates in Wycliffe Global Alliance’s effort to gather and publish reliable statistics about languages and Bible translation, has the answer.
*248 sign languages are said to need Bible translation. If you’re struggling to understand how there can be so many sign languages and why the Deaf need their own Scripture translations, you’re not alone. Perhaps we can write about that on this blog sometime.

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Do you have what it takes to compete in the kitchen, Master Chef style? Build a world class restaurant, develop your signature dish, advertise to draw a crowd, and critique your competition. This fast paced course will put your culinary skills and creative writing to the test!
Do you have what it takes to compete on the stage of the Sydney Opera House? Can you craft a piece of writing more valuable than diamond? This exciting course will put your building skills and wordcrafting to the test!
Join us on an adventure through the literary genres of fable, play, and mystery! Taking our inspiration from some of the best writers history has to offer, we will fine tune our own writing skills as we create dramatic and fanciful worlds for our readers to explore. What better way to illustrate our creations than to build them out in Minecraft! If you are ready, we will film your play and share it with all of our friends on social media! Your first step towards becoming a star is right here with a World of Imagination.
Have you ever wanted to create your own Minecraft Adventure Map and see if your friends could solve it? Here is your chance! We will create an exciting plot, setting, and mystery, both on paper and in game. Test out your concept on fellow students and get their reactions to fine tune your work!


text: In 1943 Marcella Le Beau had just finished her nurse’s training in her native South Dakota and was working at a hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, when she heard about the Army’s need for nurses. A year later, she was camped out in a cow pasture in Normandy, in the wake of the D-Day invasion, on her way to Paris. That December she was in Liege, Belgium, where she and her comrades were told to open their Christmas presents ten days early, as the Battle of the Bulge had just begun and they might have to evacuate. She never encountered discrimination because of her background; in fact, when colleagues learned that her great-grandfather was a chief, they assumed she must be an Indian princess.

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Color in Victorian Fashion | STEAMED!
When I volunteered to blog here, I had a look around the internet for information on Steampunk fashion, since that is a subject that fascinates me. In several places, I came across a notion about Victorian fashion that I knew was wrong, and I thought it would be fun to blog about it. Somehow, the idea has gotten fixed in some people’s minds that Victorian fashion was dark and rather gloomy, with an emphasis on black and dark brown. This is simply untrue.
First, I’d like to point out that the Victorian era was a long one, with significant shifts in fashion. I’ve noticed that many Americans think of Victorian times as being limited to the end of the nineteenth century. Actually, the era began in 1837, when Victoria ascended to the throne, and ended in 1901 with her death. Women’s fashion, especially, underwent major changes during those years.
In the beginning of the era, women’s style emphasized sloping shoulders, tiny waist and full, bell-shaped skirts. Women wore enormous bonnets that partially obscured their faces, and their movements were hampered by the many layers of petticoats they used to create the full skirt effect. In the 1850’s, the crinoline was invented, freeing women from the weight of all those skirts, and by the end of the century women’s clothes had taken on aspects of men’s style, such as shirtwaists and tailored suits with exaggerated broad shoulders (although retaining the artificially tiny waist). Color was used generously throughout the era.
A Victorian lady wearing all-black would generally be assumed to be in mourning. Victorian women loved color in their clothing. Aniline dyes were invented in mid-century, making it possible to create brighter colors than had been available previously, and women took full advantage of this. Even gentlemen wore colorful garments, although their choices were much more subdued generally than the women’s.
I Googled Victorian men’s fashion and found a site called Victoriana, which had some men’s fashion plates for viewing. For the year 1868, from Harper’s Bazaar, I found these colors described: brown, dark claret, blue, drab (beige or light taupe), and gloves of golden brown or maroon. For lounge jackets, the fashion was to make them of gray cloth lined with purple, crimson or green flannel, trimmed with soutache (a kind of braid) in the color of the lining. The magazine also referred to an English style of “full dress”, for evening entertainments, consisting of blue coat, white vest and lavender pantaloons and gloves. In the 1840’s plates, I noticed these colors: black, dark brown, medium brown or tan, navy blue, burgundy, dove grey, a very colorful red spotted or checked fabric on a waistcoat, and several pairs of pantaloons with either striped or checked fabric.
My copy of Mr. Godey’s Ladies (a compendium of the popular magazine) shows much color variation over the decades from the 1830’s to the 1860’s. From the fashion plates, I find rose, blonde (cream or ecru), blush, pale lavender, maize, blue, purple, maroon, black, gray, pearl, plum, and “tan d’or” (a golden tan, judging by the plate). This list comes from just two fashion plates from the years 1858 and 1860.
I also have a copy of La Mode Illustre, a French fashion magazine, for the years 1860 – 1914. Technically not Victorian, in my opinion, since it’s French and we all know the French and English don’t appreciate being confused with one another, but a beautiful book for anyone interested in the bustle years. Unfortunately, the pictures are all in black and white, but they do give color descriptions.
And speaking of color, I found this amusing tidbit in a book titled Victorian and Edwardian Fashions for Women 1840-1919, by Kristina Harris. She’s referring to the 1850’s here: “For some time having being (sic) virginally white, petticoats suddently became popular in scarlet red when Queen Victoria was reported to have switched to the color ‘to reawaken the dormant conjugal susceptibility of Prince Albert.’ ” I had to laugh at that. I wonder if a red skirt would awaken my husband’s “conjugal susceptibility?” Not that his is dormant, of course.
Naturally, people working in laboratories and workshops would have worn more practical, and probably dull-colored, garments. So, if you have a mad scientist, he might not want to be dressed in lavender pantaloons . . . unless he’s attending a party or ball. Your girl genius might have a work apron over her dress, but if she’s going out in the evening, I say let her go in full color! It’s perfectly period.
What a great post! conjugal susceptibility? LOL. Thanks for the teriffic information.
I think people get the wrong idea about the victorian fashion from sepia photographs and because a lot of the dresses that survive are dark coloured but thats because they would be the easiest to keep looking smart .They also always think all women were tiny waisted I am always telling people lots of surving gowns are decent sized waists, 28, 30in or so.

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The Latin American Student Organization sold handmade jewelry from Guatemala, Mexican sweet bread and tamales April 21 with all proceeds going to the Nino’s School in Guatemala.
The money raised went to buying textbooks, backpacks, clothing, school lunches and other school supplies for the students of the school as well as to help fund teacher salaries.
Students said they enjoyed visiting the fundraiser, which was held on the quad.
The fundraiser was visited throughout the day by many members of the community wishing to either try native Mexican food or purchase the handmade bracelets, necklaces and keychains.


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I sometimes think you have an army of gnome slaves that help you with the codeshenanithings. That's the only explanation I can find for your ability to do so much so well and in so little time.
The RP repository is the most beloved of my personal projects. On the surface, it is a social network written from scratch, intended for RP gamers and their characters. In less than two years, the user base has grown to be many thousands strong based on pure word of mouth.
Some of its features include a powerful drag-n-drop profile page builder with many dozens of looks to choose from; a forum, again written entirely from scratch, complete with special tools for moderators and a system of rolling dice for RP gaming right on the forums; An innovative chat-design that takes any forum topic and turns it into a real-time chat, combining the record-keeping benefits of forums with the social excitement of communicating in real time; The ability for users to create groups for their friends to join, with its own customizable pages for world-building information and private forums for their personal game; and a notifications feed that lets you keep tabs on what your friends and their characters are doing.
One of the real strengths of the RP repository – a strength that radiates out into all of my other work – is that it is the ideal testing ground for new technologies, new ideas, and new interfaces. By giving incentives and public recognition to those who give bug reports, I can often know within minutes how a new piece of code or a new layout works on multiple browsers and platforms. I can even study in minute detail the sometimes surprising effects changes to the interface have on people’s abilities to complete desired tasks, even to the point of knowing cultural assumptions about interfaces in different parts of the world. Through constant experimenting, testing, and gathering of feedback, the site is the perfect platform to hone my skills.
But when you look close enough, it’s apparent that the crowning jewel of the site is its community. Even at its size and the large number of active, participating users every day – even with people from literally all over the world, operating with different cultural assumptions – flame wars are unheard of, differences are often talked out and resolved without the intervention of the moderators, new members are welcomed with enthusiasm, and the core user base is fanatically loyal and supportive. Through the Repository, I have learned an enormous amount about promoting and maintaining positive cultures online. It is striking how every last detail of a site and how it is run, right down to the text of the error messages, can have a measurable effect on the way people behave as they use it.
The RP repository is a living site, constantly changing, growing and improving.

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For Installation of Twist II Clean to Copper, PEX or CPVC Plumbing. Will not work with PVC (Twist II Clean filter comes with adapters for PVC).
These connectors also function as a union and are removable. Simply depress the orange ring with a crescent wrench and fitting can be removed from the pipe.
Filter Is NOT Included. Picture is used for Example only.
If you buy with a Twist II Clean Filter we will ship in the box with the filter.

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Hi, I’m Rachael and I’ve finally came up with a New Year resolution I think I should be able to stick to. Forget giving up cheese and booze, this year I aim to write a blog about my life as the owner of The Yesterday Society Vintage Boutique in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The best starting point is probably a bit of background about me and The Yesterday Society. I am a Newcastle lass through and through and was raised in Walker. I believe my love of vintage and flamboyant clothes can be attributed to my mam who took me on shopping trips to treasure troves like Attica as a kid and was known to overdress for any occasion. I have always loved looking different and standing out from the crowd, this has taken many guises from goth on “Hippy Green” to super girly all pink outfits.
It was at Northumbria Uni while studying for a degree in Human Geography that I found my true style wearing vintage and mixing a variety of decades in one outfit. I’m not going to lie there was a couple of questionable outfits. Once walking into a lecture with a mate Jess and over hearing someone comment “what the hell are they wearing now”! But hey everyone makes mistakes.
To complete my degree, I managed to write my Human Geography dissertation on identity creation through vintage clothes, this fuelled my love of vintage and allowed me to go shopping while doing my research.
After graduation and becoming disenchanted with working at the Job Centre, I took myself off backpacking around South East Asia with my mate Kirsty. Returning jobless I managed to get a successful interview at the Tyneside Cinema working FOH. It was at my induction session that I met future friend and business partner Rosie Skett. Rosie was a fine art student at Newcastle Uni and we hit it off straight away. We worked at the Tyneside happily, but on one particularly boring bar shift we got to talking about our dream jobs, both agreeing that owning a vintage shop would be up there.
As anyone who knows me will admit I’m pretty laid back and would never have got around to doing it, but luckily Rosie was on the ball and went on her dinner break to look at the vacant units in the Grainger Market. One being Unit 9, the now home of the Yesterday Society. From that point, everything seemingly fell into place we created a business plan, came up with a name after numerous suggestions (cat’s pyjamas anyone?), applied for finance, secured the unit, found suppliers and two months after that initial conversation in the Tyneside Bar we opened the doors to The Yesterday Society on 31st August 2013.
After settling into shop life, we became confident on what to buy, styled several catwalk collections and held events. During this time, we both worked at the shop part time while keeping up part time roles at the Tyneside until April 2015 when Rosie moved down to London to work with the buyers for TK Maxx. At this point I decided to take the plunge and become the sole owner of The Yesterday Society. While thinking, I may go a little stir crazy and panicking at my lack of decision making ability, the pull of leaving the events world behind to listen to vinyl, drink tea and chat to folk about clothes all day was just too strong.
In short, my advice to anyone thinking about starting their own business is give it a try, there is nothing better than working for yourself and doing something that you love. So, onto what to expect from this blog, I honesty I don’t know … but if you have any interest in The Yesterday Society and a Geordie lass who loves vintage, festivals, traveling, dogs and her fair share of mothers ruin it may be of interest.
All the best and have a great 2017.
Rachael on What is vintage?
Steph McDonald on What is vintage?
What is vintage? - The Yesterday Society on New Year New Me!


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When you look for a quad with a crossbow for your hunting, you will get plenty of options in these days market. But, if you want to buy the crossbow that offers an excellent speed and accuracy, then exactly this is the right place for you.
In this review part, we are going to see about Barnett BCX Buck Commander Extreme CRT Crossbow Package, because this is one of the best products in the market.
We have looked a lot of products in crossbow package and vote for Barnett BCX Buck Commander Extreme CRT Crossbow Package because of its best quality and advanced features. Below are some of the features of this crossbow package.
The Barnett BCX Buck Commander Extreme CRT Crossbow Package come to your hand with 3 arrows.
In order to use this crossbow, you only need to assemble the parts in crossbow package.
It is very easy to use this crossbow with a quad in your hunting and you can use this at any climate too.
Actually, this crossbow package with the quad is made with climate controlled storage. However, you need to wax the string for every 10 shots.
If this is the first time for you to use a crossbow, then it is better to refer manual to avoid improper handling.
If you really want to buy high-quality crossbow with a quad, then I recommend you to buy Barnett BCX Buck Commander Extreme CRT Crossbow Package.


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“Black Sea” is an underwater heist film with an allegiance to blue-collar values that cruises along like a submarine unable, or unwilling, to rise to the surface or dive deeper into the depths of cinematic inspiration. For every clever plot twist or genuinely strong performance in “Black Sea,” there is a strong helping of predictability which counteracts the surprise and at times leaves the film feeling reluctantly inert.
In the opening scene, we meet commercial submariner Captain Robinson (Jude Law) as he is getting a slap-in-the-face severance check from his job of 30 years. After licking his wounds with some old drinking buddies, he is tipped off to a potential deep sea fortune worth millions of dollars in lost Nazi gold hidden at the bottom of the Black Sea in an old U-boat.
Driven by his hatred for the upper class elite and a longing for his son and ex-wife, Captain Robinson assembles a charismatic crew of Russians and Englishmen (all promised an equal share of the gold) to help him on the voyage to uncover the lost treasure. Director Kevin MacDonald does a fine job allowing the actors to search for depth in what are essentially formulaic supporting roles.
As Captain Robinson, Law (doing his best with an Aberdeen accent) once again proves himself worthy of the character roles he is pursuing now that his pretty-boy face is no longer winning the battle against his receding hairline. Many other strong performances emerge throughout “Black Sea.” The role of the initially quiet Morozov is compellingly played by Grigoriy Dobrygin. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough of him in the movie.
“Black Sea” is a solid choice for submarine sub-genre fans looking to get their underwater fix or the casual movie-goer hoping to see deep sea claustrophobia splashed across the silver screen, but for those hoping for the next “The Hunt for Red October” or “Das Boot,” well, don’t hold your breath.


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Snappy was founded in 2003, located in the famous coastal city, Ningbo. At the beginning, Snappy focused on manufacturing high frequency transformers and transferred its main business to LED power supplies 6 years ago. Snappy earns a good reputation in Europe and now it is a brand name.
Snappy offers a broad range of innovative and reliable indoor and outdoor LED power supplies that up to 600W with TUV,UL,SAA,C-tick, KC,CB,PSE approval. It is a team fields with experted and professional engineers. DC-AC inverters is our next field to explore.
Snappy is proud of bringing solutions to energize tomorrows world. Service, quality and innovation rank among our strengths!
We have passed ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality and environmental managment system certification.

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XForms 1.1 is Turing complete.
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Martin Fayulu, an opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared himself as the only legitimate president of the country on Sunday.
‘‘I now consider myself the only legitimate president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,’‘ Fayulu said following a ruling by the Constitutional Court confirming Felix Tshisekedi as winner of the December 30 polls.
“ The Constitutional Court has once again confirmed that, like the CENI, it is at the service of a dictatorial individual. It is neither more nor less a constitutional coup d’etat, because it brings to the supreme magistracy a non-elected “, Fayulu said.
I ask, moreover, to the whole of the international community not to recognize a power which has not neither legitimacy nor legal standing to represent the Congolese people.
Fayulu asked the International community not to accept the verdict by the country’s Constitutional Court.
“I ask, moreover, to the whole of the international community not to recognize a power which has not neither legitimacy nor legal standing to represent the Congolese people “, he said.
Martin Fayulu also called on the Congolese people to organize peaceful protest across the country to protest against the ruling by the Constitutional Court.
Fayulu petitioned DRC’s Constitutional Court on Saturday January 12 to challenge results that declared another opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi as winner of a delayed presidential election.

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Tuesday 13th November 2012: 5.19pm. Just picked up the android 4.2 update. Somehow it's even smoother than 4.1. They've also turned up the contrast for text. Many new changes to the camera. And of course the biggest new feature for everyone is that the default android keyboard now does swype and moreover does it very well indeed. Bye bye slide it!


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Caring nurses are on staff to help you, a dentist visits this community regularly, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this property, an occupational therapist visits and helps residents, and complimentary transportation is handy for residents.
Delicious and healthy meals are provided to all residents even those with dietary restrictions, a dentist visits this location regularly, physical therapy is handled by the physical therapist that makes regular visits to this property, the facility has staff that can help you with your insulin to manage diabetic needs, and Morning Pointe of Franklin has the skill to resolve any aggressive behavior that residents may have.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, Elmcroft of Florence is skilled in behavioral issues that some residents may have, hospice is an option available at this location, and the community is licensed for 100 residents.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, residents who need help with medication management can be given reminders and be monitored to make sure they are taking their medications, this property administers patient medications, and complimentary transportation is on hand for residents.
This community can provide pet care, full-service medication administration is available, hospice is an option available at this location, residents can arrange for a room at this community that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become, and this community was built in 2013.
Emeritus at Edgewood can handle behavioral issues that residents might have, this community has been built specifically to support memory and dementia care, caregivers at Emeritus at Edgewood can address potential disorientation presented by residents, residents who drive will find parking available to them, and respite care is offered.
a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, Magnolia Springs Southpointe is skilled in behavioral issues that residents may have, staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be dealt with, respite care is offered, and this community was built in 2015.


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Virgin Holidays has once more revolutionised its retail experience by opening the first-ever travel agent to feature an operational spa.
The brand-new store in Milton Keynes centre:mk employs ten staff and offers customers a totally immersive holiday booking experience.
Spas are already a staple in many Virgin Atlantic Clubhouses around the world, but this is the first time the concept has been available in a v-room store.
Now, customers will be able to enjoy a relaxing manicure or hand massage, as they peruse an extensive collection of holiday options – courtesy of experts trained by the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse.
Virgin Holidays’ award-winning v-rooms have been shaking up the holiday booking experience for almost five years, offering customers the chance to sample the sights, sounds and tastes of their dream holiday in a truly immersive environment before they book.
The Milton Keynes v-room is designed in the style of a luxurious airport lounge to provide a relaxing environment for customers.
Lee Haslett, vice president of sales and product at Virgin Holidays, commented: “We’ve been revolutionising the way our customers book their holidays for several years and our latest v-room in Milton Keynes is the next step on that journey.
“We know that our customers are looking for something extra than just a standard holiday and our v-rooms are the first step on that journey - whether that’s the instore bar, children’s play area or rollercoaster simulation.
In total Virgin Holidays now have thirteen v-room high street stores across the UK, as well as a number of recently opened concession stores in retail giant Next.

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This fascinating sequence of stories from the Grauniad suggests a bleak future for the Labour Party, the party as understood for a century and more. That is, the 1900's socialist working-man's party which became House-trained in the 1920's, and politico-intellectual home to an awful lot of well-intentioned, thoughtful people whose main fault is an idealistic blindness to the Actual Ways of the World, human and financial.
How long are the decent people who are legitimate heirs to that honourable tradition, going to put up with this?
More than 130 new members of the Halifax Labour party have been disqualified from voting for the party’s general election candidate after suspicions were raised about their recruitment. All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage ... Earlier this week, it emerged outgoing MP Linda Riordan had complained to Labour HQ, alleging Keith Vaz was trying to interfere with the selection.
Amina Ali stepped back after realising she had been used as a pawn by local Kashmiri clan elders in their attempt to control Bradford. Since Ali’s surprise departure, things are getting increasingly nasty in the constituency. Naveeda Ikram says she called West Yorkshire police on Wednesday after after being made aware of “fake” racist messages circulating on social media purporting to be from her ... the user labelled as Naveeda Ikram makes disparaging remarks about Ali’s Somali background and the fact Labour’s last MP for Bradford West, Marsha Singh, was a Sikh.
I don't think all the Guardian readers will all naturally migrate to UKIP. Or LibDem. So maybe Green? The Greens are in fact the whitest party of all !
This is not just happening in the Labour party.
Agree BE, but I think culturally it is the most open to it. it's total embrace of multiculturalism blinds it to the dark side for fear of being wascist.
Not sure abt this. Look at Labour in Scotland, they have cheerfully harboured the vilest sectarian 'stuff' since forever.
Think you're right about the "white flight" to Green. But only because of the "wall of propaganda" by all major parties against UKIP, and the complicity of the news media.
Seen John Major's letter in the Spectator about Jimmy Goldsmith? Blames him for Lisbon, the Plague etc. Totally ignores JG's entirely correct analysis at the time of GATT, about the shift in power between capital and labour.
The Labour Party is dead simply because it stopped representing workers. The incumbents in Y2000 rejected Alchemy's realistic plan on lying grounds ("polluted soil not suitable for housing, retail" - which it's now full of, plus a college) and allowed the Longbridge plant and workforce to go to its ruin under the wild dreams of the Gang of Four, just to add another fraction of a percentage likelihood of getting through the General Election. Blair's general approach, "making assurance doubly sure." In Birmingham, we're still dealing with the consequences - everything from drugs'n'alcohol to child abuse.
On the other side, Tory triumphalism and loyal fanfares in the Daily Mail, all based on never-ending(until it suddenly does) QE, that Sorcerer's-Apprentice approach to economy. Grabbing the chance to stuff the proletariat back into its box before the police arrive.
And in the middle, that strange weasel Clegg, who's never really been grilled in the MSM about the blood-promises he may have made in dark corners of the College of Europe.
As Cleese says in "Clockwise": it's not the despair that drives one crazy, it's the hope that you might get a solution against all the odds.
There has been the odd similar minor occasion in the Tory party. Once upon a time they held an open primary in Bedford for the Mayoral candidate; if the local newspaper was to be believed, the Asian candidate bussed in dozens of elderly gentlemen of sub-continental origin, many of whom couldn't speak English, to vote for him. He narrowly failed.
I fear we can expect exponential increases of third-world style corrupt behaviour like this in future. Our wonderful 'thought leaders' haven't made the effort to inform immigrants that if they come here they should damn well leave the corrupt practices of the sub-continent back where they come from.
Bringing a little bit of the third world to a town near you.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind - at our general expense.
I remember reading in the Times/Telegraph, some 20 years ago how Liebour had been liaising with the US Democrats over their polices on 'minorities.'They had realised that the white working class were heading elsewhere thank you very much and needed a new constituency which they had to import.
Isn't the underlying problem that membership of our political parties is too low, so it becomes practical for a relatively small number of new members (entrants) to substantially affect a constituency internal election?
Labour has about 190k members, which is an average of 292 per constituency, and the Tories less at 150k members or 230 per constituency. You'd hope the two major parties could rustle up 500 members per constituency (325k nationally), which would be difficult to infiltrate. But I guess parties would have to be less PPE/SPAD and London-centric for that to happen.
No surprises there then, Nick, nor that the Greens are the Whitest party of all. I'm thinking that despite all the hoo-hah, the Greens will get the grand total of zero seats in May.
AFter Ms. Bennett's hilarious interview, I again contacted them to ask the same question I did after an interview with her the day sew was appointed leader. In the interview she claimed that the "green economy" now comprised 11% of GDP. I mailed, asking for citations for this assertion.
"The Labour Party is dead simply because it stopped representing workers."
It's taken its time. I can remember reading a newspaper article in the late fifties or early sixties about an interesting piece of opinion-polling. (For the '59 or '63 election, perhaps.) People were asked to approve or disapprove of the policies on a list presented to them. They were then asked how they intended to vote. Most who intended to vote Labour had predominantly preferred the Conservative policies on the list.
The tories might have less vote riggers, but they have more boiler room fraudsters, pensions liberation scammers etc.
@Dearieme: wasn't it round about then that the politicians thought joining Europe would be a good idea because it would help tame the unions? Yet by the 70s the LP was threatening to take us out.
BTW why should we pay any attention to manifesto policy commitments (e.g. "watch my lips - no student fees"), until such time as they are legally binding or ratified by a referendum? "Events, dear boy."
"@Dearieme: wasn't it round about then that the politicians thought joining Europe would be a good idea": search me - I wasn't long out of short trousers. I just absorbed the opinion poll result because I enjoyed the paradox.


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text: A constitutional amendment limiting the amount of time Congress members can hold office has been introduced by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida, both Republicans. But they'd be off limits, as would all others currently in federal legislative elected office. The amendment seeks to limit senators to two six-year terms and House of Representatives members to three two-year terms. “D.C. is broken, the American people resoundingly agreed on Election Day, and President-elect Donald Trump has committed to putting government back to work for the American people. It is well past time to put an end to the cronyism and deceit that has transformed Washington into a graveyard of good intentions.” Cruz said in a statement. However, Cruz’s plan to fix DC only applies to everyone whose term begins before the amendment is ratified, according to the text that reads, “SECTION 3. No term beginning before the date of the ratification of this article shall be taken into account in determining eligibility for election or appointment under this article.” So what Lying Ted Cruz's Constitutional amendment basically means, is that anyone currently serving in the capital building will not be affected by this measure...People like the man who put this Constitutional admendment forward like Ted Cruz for term limits. Now term limits are a good idea, but this admendment proposal by Ted Cruz is nowhere near a true term limit resolution, as people currently working in the capital building will not be affected. If this Constitutional amendment passes hopefully President Trump will veto this resolution, until a true term limit proposal is brought forward. One where establishment puppets like Ted Cruz can't protect themselves from term limits.


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With pets considered by most owners to be indispensable members of the family, it’s counterintuitive that most pet insurance is structured and priced like property. Seattle-based Trupanion launched in 1999 to change that, relying on massive amounts of data and proprietary business intelligence technology to better assess the risk related to each individual pet and thereby price its insurance more like (human) health insurance.
It’s a big day for Trupanion as the company IPO’d on the NYSE (TRUP) this morning raising $ 71 million through the sale of 7.1 million shares at $ 10 per share (below its projected $ 13 to $ 15 initial range). Underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional million shares. The company’s stock is trading up at $ 11.34 as of this writing for a market cap of more than $ 301 million. Major pre-IPO venture shareholders include Maveron (33.7%), Highland Consumer Fund (15.8%), and RenaissanceRe Ventures (12.7%).
Trupanion is the second largest US pet insurer on a revenue basis and the fastest growing. Data and personalized coverage, it would seem, is paying off. I caught up with CTO Craig Susen and Director of Business Intelligence TJ Houk this morning to discuss the ways that data sets the company apart.
Trupanion offers every pet the same level of coverage and pays out 90 percent against covered incidents – surgeries, diagnostic tests, medications, treatments and hospital stays. But to do so, it needs to price each policy uniquely and precisely based on the breed, age, and medical history of the individual pet. It’s no surprise that this sounds more like the health insurance you and I buy. The company’s average monthly premium for insuring a dog is $ 40 and while cats clock in at $ 26 on average.
“We will never raise your rates simply because your pet has a birthday,” the company’s website reads. Trupanion only adjusts rates based on changes in the cost of the average veterinary visit per breed in a given region.
The company analyzes as many as 1.2 million data points in issuing each policy, including details like the typical claims for each particular breed according to age and geographic location. This data is crunched by a dozen-person data team and fed into all departments across the company ranging from actuary to finance to marketing. And unlike most pet insurers, the company has built an internal underwriting capability, rather than relying on a third-party.
Another consequence of Trupanion’s data driven approach is that it’s able to integrate with veterinary hospital records and billing systems to collect patient data in real-time and thereby reduce claim reimbursement times from weeks to minutes. That not only helps vets get paid faster, but also reduces the up-front, out-of-pocket cost faced by pet owners.
Trupanion covered 169,570 pets across US, Canada and Puerto Rico as of the close of 2013 (a number that’s grown to more than 181,000 through March), resulting in $ 84 million in 2013 revenue, 90 percent of which came in the form of recurring monthly subscriptions. The company grew its revenue by 51 percent in 2013 and an additional 44 percent in Q1 of this year. That growth didn’t quite translate to the company’s bottom line, however, with Trupanion posting a $ 8.1 million net loss in 2013 (9.7%) and a $ 4.9 million loss Q1 2014 (19.6%).
With pet insurance penetration at a paltry 1 percent in the US – as compared to 20 and 40 percent in the UK and Sweden, respectively – there is plenty of greenfield opportunity ahead for Trupanion. US pet spending will increase to an estimated $ 58.5 billion according to the American Pet Products Association, $ 15.3 billion of which will go toward veterinary care — a 66 percent increase since 2006.
Speaking from experience, I can attest that one of the major reasons that more Americans don’t insure their pets is because coverage is both expensive and often ineffective at deferring the cost of veterinary care. Trupanion is using data science and a more human approach to change this narrative.
With its IPO behind it, a pile of fresh cash, and the legitimacy that comes with public company status, expect the company to double down on this data-driven approach.
Michael Carney is a West Coast Editor at PandoDaily, covering venture capital, financial technologies, ecommerce, the future of television, and a variety of other subjects. He has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur, working in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. He is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired by those who build businesses and regularly tackle difficult problems. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mcarney.

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It's that time of year again. Despite being sleep-deprived from punching out the last 10,000 words of your NaNo novel, you need to stop. look around, and thank everyone and everything for this past year's bounty. Sorry, but this is mandatory, like paying federal taxes and laughing every time Toronto mayor Rob Ford appears on television. Being my column appears three days before Thanksgiving, now known as The Big Meal Before Christmas Shopping, it's my sworn duty to relay my thanks to all of you. And by 'sworn duty' I mean I swore a lot before I started writing this column.
Actually, I have a good deal to be thankful about this year, seeing as it was one of my most successful ones to date as an author. Sometime after the start of 2013 I began the transition away from mild-mannered IT jockey into a full-time writer, and it hasn't slowed down. The way it's going, 2014 may turn out to be an even bigger year in writing than this one. Of course, I'll save that column for the end of the year. For now, here are some of the people and places I want to thank this holiday week.
The biggest thanks is to Ballot Press for publishing my first novel, Paradise Not Quite Lost, which should appear on the virtual and real bookstore shelves in a few weeks. I'd be making copies of my book at Office Depot and dropping them off in people's mailboxes if they didn't take a risk on me.
In related news, thanks to Nan Reed and Susan Tuttle for taking time to edit my manuscript. Nan's sage advice helped me produce a clean copy of PNQL for Susan to review for Ballot Press. I also need to thank Susan for crawling into the crutch word jungle to help me remove some of most wasteful of words. My writing career would not be the same without these two ladies.
In related, related news, thanks to my critique group, name change pending, for putting up with everything I've sent to them over the last year. They've seen hundreds of pages from me over the last months, and I have taken all of their suggestions seriously. I wouldn't have become the professional writer person I am today without their gentle but firm guidance.
No list of thanks would be complete without a virtual hug, kiss, and diamond ring to my wife. The biggest cheerleader I have, she has stayed with me during the bad times, celebrated during the good times, and rooted me on to become the person I always dreamed of. There aren't enough thanks you cards to send out for all that she has done for me this year.
Kerrie Flanagan and Northern Colorado Writers, you're next on the thank you list. I've become a more integral member of NCW this year, teaching a workshop at the annual conference, attending the annual writers retreat, updating the Facebook page, and helping get us some new members. I am utterly grateful to Kerrie and her organization for giving me a place to commune with other crazy folks who love to put words down on paper.
Saving the best for last, I want to thank all of you who stop by The Writing Bug every week to see what I and the other talented columnists have to say about our craft, even when we delve into some heavier topics like death, depression, and game show announcers. I hope you all have a Thanksgiving full of joy, good food, and some new words on paper.
This is a wonderful post, Rich. I also thank Kerrie and NCW for keeping me inspired and motivated. What a wonderful bunch of writers I've met through this organization. Kerrie brought us together, and I'm so grateful for her commitment.
Jenny, now you've gone and made my head bigger than it already is.
Well said, Rich. Congratulations on your successes this year!
Didn't feel obligatory. Sounded pretty genuine. Thanks for your humor and Facebook quotes.
Rich, I am thankful for all the support you provide NCW and me. You are awesome!
It sounds like you have a lot for which to be thankful. Congratulations on your nanowrimo novel.
Thank you all for the wonderful comments. I feel truly blessed this year concerning my writing and the fact I feel mentally better.


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In her paintings, Sarah Faux merges the seemingly disparate strands of figurative representation and gestural abstraction to construct sensual situations where raw female bodies drift in a state of liminality. Faux crops her subjects to focus on specific body parts, a compositional strategy that pulls the audience into an intimate, first-person perspective. Unable to identify a pronounced figure, we find ourselves gazing into flattened fields of color, parsing the faintly discernible scenes with a curious grin.
Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux received her MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art in 2015. She received a joint BA/BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Faux has had solo exhibitions at Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, China), Cuevas Tilleard (New York, USA), Thierry Goldberg Gallery (New York, USA) and at Stems Gallery (Brussels, Belgium). Faux's work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally, including at Fredericks & Freiser (New York, USA), ltd los angeles (Los Angeles, USA), and Shoot the Lobster (New York, USA). Faux has participated in several residencies including Yaddo (New York, USA), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (Lamu, Kenya) and a fellowship at the Ox-bow School of Art (USA). In 2020 she will be artist in residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China).
Her paintings have been written about in Cultured Magazine, artcritical, Surface Magazine, Modern Painters, The Wall Street Journal, Interview Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artsy and Artsy Asia, among others. Her solo project is presented at Frieze New York 2019 in Frame section by Capsule Shanghai.


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During a webinar, hosted by Becker's Hospital Review and Vocera Communications, David Pryor, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at St. Louis-based Ascension and Bridget Duffy, MD, CMO at Vocera, agreed one cannot enhance the patient experience without also improving provider and caregiver experience.
"We need to focus on how our people come to work everyday. Caregiver experience is linked to clinical quality and performance," said Dr. Duffy.
This conversation is particularly relevant at the moment, as caregiver stress and burnout are reaching unprecedented levels. Seventy-three percent of physicians would not recommend the medical profession to their children and physicians are more likely to commit suicide than the general population, according to a report on physician burnout co-authored by Dr. Duffy; Tom Cosgrove, founder of QPatient Insight; and William J. Maples, MD, executive director of the Institute for Healthcare Excellence, based in Omaha, Neb.
Historically, patient or staff experience were considered softer issues as compared to quality or financial issues, but burnout has "reached a point of crisis," said Dr. Duffy. The problem for many caregivers is the overwhelming pressure of competing priorities.
"We have wounded warriors in the trenches of our hospitals and clinics," added Dr. Pryor. "We have to fix the broken processes and system, and take some things off their plates so they don't have competing priorities."
Hospitals often implement technology without examining how it will affect clinician workflow.
"We implement technology and then ask the caregivers to change the way they work rather than first looking at how the technology will add to their existing workflow," said Dr. Pryor. "Many physicians find themselves staying late into the night to enter notes into an EMR because they can't manage doing that during the day on busy days."
Essentially, organizations are asking clinicians to work harder and faster with less money and "then asking them to look and smile at the patient," said Dr. Duffy.
Patients instantly feel the impact of having to interact with a burned-out caregiver. When patients arrive at the hospital, they are met by an employee who immediately asks them for their insurance information and whether they have a living will before even looking the patient in the eye.
"We need to re-humanize operational efficiency," Dr. Duffy said. "Most organizations aren't mapping the gaps in the human experience. Also, the words we use matters. Physicians aren't mechanics and patients aren't widgets. Allow physicians to come up with innovations to restore humanity in the patient encounter."
Here are five strategies to promote the patient-caregiver relationship and lower clinician burnout.
1. Focus on the quadruple aim. The oft-quoted triple aim of healthcare — enhancing patient experience, improving population health and reducing costs — is believed to form the basis of success for any organization. However, this equation misses one key element: a dedicated, resilient and satisfied workforce.
"When [clinicians] can interact with patients positively, it connects them back to why they entered the medical profession to begin with," Dr. Pryor said. "Implement programs to enhance that connection so the caregiver's work is elevated to more than a profession. Instead, it becomes a vocation."
2. Strengthen the bond between caregivers and patients. For medical professionals, true joy comes from forming a sacred relationship with patients. There are a number of opportunities to enhance this relationship and technology can help. For example, technology can extend the provider-patient relationship beyond the hospital when providers record discharge notes instead of written instructions.
"The human connection with the patient is healing for the caregiver as well as the patient and we need to create the opportunity for this," said Dr. Pryor.
3. Design an optimal healing environment to change the way patients engage. "We need to flip the hierarchy we have traditionally had to engage all stakeholders in a different way," Dr. Duffy said.
4. Eliminate the silos in healthcare facilities. The silos dominating healthcare facilities are one reason for the pervasiveness of caregiver burnout. The human experience in healthcare will be transformed when those silos are broken down and an individual owns that transformation, such as a chief experience officer.
5. Collect and respond to caregiver experience data multiple times per year. Organizations most successful in tacking caregiver burnout will also look at data points beyond an annual employee satisfaction survey. Dr. Duffy suggested conducting validated surveys to identify exhaustion and burnout more often, such as in pre-and post-deployment when implementing an organizational change or new technology.
"Healthcare leaders need to examine the health of their organization," she said. "We need to restore humanity in the patient encounter."


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I realize this term may seem somewhat like an oxymoron, but for those slightly cooler & cloudy days, there is nothing better than a lightweight airy knit. This one has just the right amount of stretch, slouch & sheerness to it, plus the color is so versatile. Tuck it into a pencil skirt, layer over your swimsuit & cutoffs, or dress up with bright trousers as I did here…the possibilities are endless!
we are lucky here in ca that light sweaters pretty much work year round although i think we are having the most humid summer ever!!! i love those trousers every time i see them. and the clutch…adorable! hope you are having fun in CA!!!
Those trousers are fabulous!! I love the tab/button detail.
I absolutely love the red pants on you! I've been waffling on grabbing an orangey-red pair (the only red pants I have are in rusty henna, from J Crew) but every time I see that bolder color paired with cream, my lusting starts all over again. Love this outfit, Kim!
LOVE the pants and how they are super long- it makes your legs go on for days/months/years! Also, love your nail color. Do you happen to remember what color it is??? I'm always looking for the perfect mango-y-coraly-peachy bright. That's not too much to ask, right???
I absolutely LOVE the color of those pants and how long they are. They make your legs go on for days/weeks/years. Also, totally in love with the nail color. Do you remember what it is? I'm always on the hunt for the perfect coral-y/peachy/mango-y bright.
So cute! I have these pants. I bought them (like an idiot) not long after my baby was born. I thought I was back in my regular size but I was wrong. Now I am swimming in them. My mom and I were looking at them last week to see how to fix them but since the zipper is on the side I can't fix it. Check out my post tomorrow because I am doing one on sweaters very similar to yours!
I wish it was cool enough to wear a sweater! Even at midnight it is still in the 80's!
Adore this… never really wore any summer sweaters this season but I should have! Actually, maybe today will be the day. 🙂 Adore you in our LOFT twinsies pants.
LOVE this look Kimberly! the sweater looks gorgeous with those red pants 🙂 adorable clutch too!
Love this look! Summer sweaters are a difficult balance, but this one is great with those bright pants!
I totally wear sweaters year-round. I mean, maybe not when it's above 85 degrees or so, but as long as it's breathable and 3/4 or less sleeve, I say go for it. This one looks especially summery!
The sweater looks to be the perfect weight for summer…great look pairing it with the red!
WOW, great pants! Love the colour, it looks great on you! xoxo J.
What a great look! Those pants are gorgeous!
So very classy! I love your style!
I love that clutch! and your outfit, stunning as always Kimberly!
Is there anything better than red pants?!?! And those are so flattering on you!!
Love this look. That clutch is so pretty!
What don't I love about this outfit? Everything looks amazing. I wish I had those pants, they are the perfect silhouette and color!
Love this outfit!! Looks so sharp and feminine. Beautiful.
Beautiful outfit! I love summer sweaters for those chilly nights. I have post a couple of weeks ago about wearing my open stitch summer sweater.
Great minds think alike – working on my post for tomorrow and I am wearing the same pants!
Great minds think alike. I am working on my post tomorrow which features the same pants.
You look so glamorous! Love the light weight sweater with those fabulous red pants.
Love how you put all the chic pieces together….I'm falling in love with that colorful pair of trousers, it can really go a long way!!!
What a great outfit on you!! I love a lightweight, slouchy sweater!
I LOVE these red pants. They are gorgeous and they look awesome on you!
i can't get over how gorgeous these pants are! love the clutch as well.
Summer sweaters make me think of my gma (in a good way). I bought one this summer too!
I love the last pic of you. You look like a model!
The sweater looks like it's not too heavy for warm days – and perfect for the office. I'm constantly cold so I would love a sweater like yours. Chic as always, Kim!
Love this outfit. Sadly for me it's way too hot & humid to wear sweaters in the summer. That clutch is so perfect. Love the colors and shape.
Fabulous look, I am in love with those pants!


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Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by SIMONP1965, Jan 15, 2012.
I was wondering if anyone knows enough about trust certificates to tell me if they could be used as a gateway to remotely accessing a mac as my Macbook Pro was compromised, and am trying to figure out how they got in, I've run across a few Trust Certificates the look a little fishie on my machine, they were spelled like this " A-Trust-Qual-01, A-Trust-Qual-02, A-Trust-nQual-01 and A-Trust-nQual-03".
My question is who or what company are these for? there was files i saw from Qualcomm corp, witch was a system i used as a 48 state truck driver to communicate with my dispatch center, are those Qualcomm certificates? also theres a from " COMODO Certificate Authortiy", i had thought i read somewhere that "COMODO" was a hacker who stole trust certificates, is that right? and i have certificates from DigCert, root certs, i thought DigCert was bad news now and can't run on HTTPS servers, id love to here from people in the know about Trust Certificates cause when it comes to code... I'm lost.. Thoes Qual certs are important if there from Qualcomm, thanks for all you guys help.
Depending on how you remotely access your computer, a stolen certificate could be used to get in unauthorized. To do so, somebody would most likely have to steal your private key.
As far as I know, Qualcomm is a wireless chip manufacturer, so it's normal to find their certificates on your computer. Oh, and Apple revoked the stolen DigiCert certificates in a software update from a while ago, so if you keep your computer up to date, you should be safe.
Qualcomm is a chip maker but your not going to have trust certificates running a chip, those certificates are for browser permissions and am trying to verify if those are Qualcomm certs or not. When i first discovered someone remotely accessing me Mac i found files from Qualcomm on this very Mac and was wondering if those certs are how they got those Qualcomm files to download onto this mac.

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As we all get more and more devices charging them becomes a problem of where do we put another wall plug, to answer this there are multi-port USB chargers, but just a normal charger wasn’t enough when I went looking. That’s when I found this new smart charger from Anker that has up to 40W of power to push your gadget. The good thing though is that it has a chip on each port that detects the proper amount of wattage to send and not to send so that your devices charges at the maximum speed but won’t burn it out.
After unboxing this little guy, with the smooth rubber to keep it from sliding off the table and minimal packaging I gave it a test. With my Samsung Galaxy Nexus I was able to charge 20% of my battery in about 20 minutes, which sounds about right for it to send it the proper amount of wattage to charge correctly. Later I plugged in my phone, a Nexus 7, and a pair of Bluetooth headphones and all charged just fine. With the 5 ports it should give you the flexibility to keep everything charged in one place and as fast as it was intended.
Check out the unboxing video and photos. You can get this charger on Amazon for around $26 as I did; Anker seems to sell primarily on though Amazon.
Posted on January 13, 2014, in Amazon.com, Archive, Charger, Unboxing, Videos and tagged Amazon, Android devices, Anker, Battery charger, Galaxy Nexus, IPad, Mobile phone, Nexus 7, Phone, Smartphones, Universal Serial Bus, USB, Video. Bookmark the permalink.	Leave a Comment.


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At St George's we like to make sure the meals for everyone are healthy, tasty, social and fun.
Children in reception, year one and year two are entitled to free school lunches.
Healthy, nutritious school meals are also available every day for children in KS2 who require them. We need one week notice for a child to start recieving school meals and one weeks notice to stop having them. The daily charge of £2.55 is payable at least weekly and in advance using Parentpay. See the Parentpay section of this website.
If your child has any specific dietry requirements or allergies, please pick up a form from Mrs Allen in the Medical Room. A menu will be designed specifically for your child, e.g. gluten free, dairy free.
Our menus operate on a three week cycle. Please note: after a school holiday, the menu will always begin again at week 1.
Please see the Enfield website for parents, pupils and teachers all about primary school meals.


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Agra is a popular tourist destination that is known for its archaeological heritage & its monumental glory which is why at Sanskriti we ensure the best experiences through our travel management services for tourists. The tour guides in our team deliver its travellers an experience to cherish. Our services are delivered using chosen travel experts ensuring personalized assistance on arrival and departure.
Our service would include booking hotels, guest house and home stays with visit to nature walks, nature parks and gardens. If the visitor needs other special arrangements, then we provide complete kaleidoscope of management services for incentive tours and conferences. We enhance the experiences by involving personal interface with the artists, visits to art studios, workshops even to the agricultural farm including interactions with expert agronomists.
Sanskriti vacations offers customised heritage walks, Food Walks & Colonial Walks while exploring the old town and walking tours to monuments, heritage sites and cultural sites. Our Guests are very well looked after & taken off while on walking tours ensuring their safety & security which makes us the leading destination management service provider in Agra.
You would stay mesmerized during your journey with our Agra travel service provider as they guide you on every step you take. Our multilingual guides provide excellent narratives to the tourist in their own language so that the sites come alive during their visits.
We at Sanskriti take utmost care and provide our visitors with private tour guides in Agra as per their convenience and comforts. Our guides are skilled, well trained, well-groomed experts who will make your experience worth value for the money. Our team also manages the Taj travel services by helping the visitor undertake their personalized tour of the ageless beauty which is one of seven wonder of the world. Our team of service providers ensures to deliver a timeless experience to its visitors and contributes in making them feel home away from their home.
We take pride in organizing handcrafted Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Events, branding, promotional events, corporate family meets for our customers being affordable.
Conferences provide a perfect opportunity to connect with affiliated businesses within your targeted market. We offer superior management of conference logistics in Agra, India.


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"A Christmas Persons Dream Street...."
Although for most of the year Farnum St. is just an ordinary st. just like any other it changes during the holdiday season and has the Holiday Lights Festival which features some of the most beautiful and breathtaking light displays you could imagine.
If you are a resident of Omaha or luckily visiting during the holiday season as I often do, I highly recommend viewing the Holiday Lights Festival. With lights spanning almost 40 blocks, it is actually quite hard to miss. The lights are placed between 10th and 14th street and between Farnam and Douglas. The holidays lights strung throughout the trees, live music, ice skating and festivals truly bring the spirit of Christmas to Omaha.


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This category for Legitimate Survey Apps is brand new to the forum.
To get things rolling, we moved some of the previous discussions on the forum pertaining to this topic, into this new category.
As well, we recently posted an article on the blog about making Passive Income from Survey Apps.
For those unfamiliar with how some types of survey apps work, we discuss the differences in the article above. What's not discussed are regular mobile apps. We've written about this topic in the past under, Using Survey Mobile Apps to Make Money Online.
If you have something to say about survey apps, this new forum category is the place to do it!


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My favorite Dr. Seuss book is The Lorax. The eponymous main character looks something like an angry groundhog with a walrus mustache. Claiming to speak for the mute trees, he stands in the gap when the story’s narrator, The Once-ler, rides into the pristine forest with profit on his mind. As the Once-ler has his way with the world, despoiling every last square inch of land, chopping down every tree, forcing the forest creatures out, only the Lorax remains to stand up to him.
Now that you’re here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
The lesson of The Lorax goes far beyond a simple environmental message. It reinforces a Biblical truth that today’s Church in America best heed—the reality of UNLESS.
UNLESS we Christians share the message of Christ with the lost, they’ll endure eternal punishment for all eternity.
UNLESS we feed the hungry, they’ll succumb to malnutrition.
UNLESS we fight for justice for the disenfranchised, they’ll continue to be exploited.
UNLESS we visit the prisoner, they’ll die in a prison of their own loneliness.
UNLESS we minister to the sick, they’ll get sicker and perish, forgotten.
UNLESS we show the world love, it’ll never know what true love is.
We can fill in a thousand statements behind that UNLESS, can’t we? The job Christ left us to do is vast and not getting any less so. We are the Body of Christ—His hands, His feet. And UNLESS we do the work He’s called us to, it simply won’t get done.
My, your mood has been all over the map this week! I’ll leave here part of what I left at the Conservative Brunette when she asked about the leading causes of poverty in the US: Jesus Christ is the only catalyst for positive change in this (or any) country, and He is being withheld by a self-centered, pleasure-seeking Christian community. If the church would get off their collective pew-warmers, stop getting high at praise fests, and actually go out into the world, making disciples and baptizing in the name of God, Christ, and the Spirit, imagine the change that would be wrought in this country! What need would there be for nursing homes and hospices? What need would there be for prisons? Why would people watch TV or buy video games? Why would abortion or welfare be a political issue? What need for giant SUVs for one person, or 5000 square foot homes for three people? We would be the body of Christ; feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, defending the defenseless, nursing the sick. Read Isaiah 58, and see if this does not apply to your question.
Isa 58:1 “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
Isa 58:2 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Isa 58:3 ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
Isa 58:4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
Isa 58:5 Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?
Isa 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isa 58:8 Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Isa 58:10 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Isa 58:11 And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isa 58:12 And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
This is the very passage that took our family from that 5,000 SF home in the suburbs down to live among the poor in the city. It pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
I admire your dedication to the Gospel. When I look at my own life, it bothers me that I’m not as dedicated as I should be. Too much of my existence is concerned with making a living and not enough with being alive in Christ. Sadly, I think that’s true of 99% of American Christians, especially if they’re married and have children still at home.
I’ll be blogging about this in the near future. This Unless post is just a drop in that bucket.
Oh, don’t admire us. We mess up all the time. I always think our story is proof that God can work with pretty sad materials to fashion His plan!
I have to tell you, that the biggest driver in my life that was keeping me from serving God in a more radical fashion . . . was fear. God had to work on me for several years about that before we could have begun to have made such a move.
It was a long journey for us and so, I guess it stands to reason, it isn’t an overnight decision for most other people either. The first start of the journey is the realization, then comes the information gathering (and that’s so filled with heartache when we realize all the pain and suffering in the world), then comes the indignation at the church even though we’re not really doing anything ourselves (that’s okay too. I’m realizing that’s part of the process for everybody.) Then suddenly . . . God moves! And boom, there you go.
Gathering that suffering into yourself is so important because we start to get a glimpse of God’s heart. And of course, the mass inaction makes us angry, and then we realize we must either act or shut up.
This process can take years and usually does. But God’s building up a remnant of believers who care about these Micah 6:8, Matthew 25, Is. 58 issues and it’s really exciting for those of us a little further on in the journey (not that we’re experts believe me!) to see our brothers and sisters starting on the path. It’s a very difficult path to walk, you’ll lose the intimacy of friends and family who don’t get you. You’ll walk a very lonely path until God brings in new people who are following Him in the same way you are. Still, it’s painful. Why am I telling you this? Hardly a compelling sell for justice! Sheesh.
Preach it David! I got goosebumps!
Had no idea that Dr. Seuss had such a serious side.
For real! That was brilliant. Thanks for that post!


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The Africa Energy Indaba takes place from 21st to 22nd February 2017 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Africa Energy Indaba receives global recognition as the foremost event for energy professionals from across the globe and is rapidly gaining momentum as the energy business forum in Africa.
Presented by the South African National Energy Association (SANEA) in association with the World Energy Council, and presented by the NEPAD Agency, the forum has achieved the highest level of endorsement and support and as such is without doubt the leading energy event in Africa.
The 8th annual African Energy Indaba will be the forum and business networking opportunity for decision-makers and leading role-players planning and developing Africa’s energy future.
The 2016 Africa Energy Indaba will be held from the 15th – 19th February 2016, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The conference continues to grow and has become the foremost forum for debating and exchanging solutions to Africa’s energy challenges and focuses on: African power suppliers; alternative and renewable energies; oil and gas; the legal and regulatory framework, and investment opportunities in African energy projects, to name a few. The exhibition has become a significant market-place for African and international stakeholders doing business in Africa’s energy sector.


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The choice is between big documents or big bureaucracies.
Free trade is, in 2016, a cause without a champion. The two great populist currents of the moment — really a single current with two faces, Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’s — are resolutely opposed to free trade. Mrs. Clinton, a sometime supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration during her service as secretary of state, is walking sideways away from it.
But there is a problem with the Goldberg Treaty, which is that most of the relevant barriers to trade are not, contra Trump et al., tariffs. Nor are they quotas or other explicitly trade-inhibiting policies, though these do exist and so require liberalization. In truth, countries such as China do not for the most part apply extraordinary tariffs to U.S. goods, and such tariffs as they do apply have been reduced in recent years, not as the result of any get-tough trade policy pursued by the United States but because of the complaints of Chinese consumers, who may spend their lives immersed in nationalist propaganda but who still do not enjoy paying artificially high prices for household goods. Beijing recently cut the tariff on imported cosmetics, proof again that the two most dangerous places to stand are between a politician and a microphone or between a woman and her favorite lipstick.
More typical are the difficulties that U.S. automakers have had in cracking the Japanese market. Japan has no import duties on automobiles, but U.S. makers complain of other problems, particularly the difficulty of establishing dealer networks to help them connect with potential Japanese buyers. The relevant laws are complex, they are in Japanese, some aspects of them (such as commercial zoning rules) vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, etc. Dealing with that is a great deal of work, and it is very expensive, though the Japanese domestic auto lobby does point out that while the number of dealers selling U.S.-made cars has declined by 74 percent in the past couple of decades, the number of dealerships selling European-made cars has increased by almost the same proportion. European marques make cars that are more like domestic Japanese cars (the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association reports that 93 percent of Japanese passenger cars have engines smaller than two liters, while U.S.-made cars are mostly larger than that), and European manufacturers have found it easier to comply with Japan’s safety and emissions rules.
These are not issues that can be resolved by a one-sentence free-trade pact.
Consider the question of military procurement: The United States, like many other countries, prefers to buy its military hardware from domestic sources when possible. There are some defensible and obvious reasons for this, though they sometimes are overstated. That disadvantages European armament-makers and aerospace firms. Many countries do not have those kinds of rules, not because they have a stronger commitment to free trade but because they do not have domestic industries capable of supplying their demands. (The uniforms of the mighty Kuwaiti air force were made, for a time, by Georgio Armani.) Other countries maintain preferential procurement policies to benefit domestic farmers, who in many parts of the world, such as India, are desperately poor. Some countries subsidize pharmaceuticals or put controls on their prices, others have unusually stringent environmental or safety standards.
There are exactly two ways to sort out these issues, and neither of them is a simple, one-page trade treaty, as attractive as that might be in principle. The first option is that these differences, and the processes for resolving them, are codified in big, complex trade accords such as NAFTA and the TPP, which produces those 1,000-page documents that we all have come to abhor and distrust.
It is better to limit the politicians’ role to yes-or-no votes and to exercising effective veto power via the right of exit and leave the rest to arbitration and quasi-judicial processes.
The second possibility, the alternative to the 1,000-page treaty, is the delegation of power to international trade arbitrators such as the WTO. This has some appeal, inasmuch as the reality of fast-moving markets and technological innovation means that many policy factors that might inhibit trade are not foreseeable and cannot be effectively incorporated into treaties. The tradeoff is that such delegation takes power out of the hands of national authorities and puts it into the hands of international authorities, generally transferring decision-making from the elected and the accountable to the unelected and the unaccountable. This is often understood as a loss of sovereignty, though that isn’t exactly right, since we have the power to withdraw from such associations. But it is something like a ceding of sovereignty.
That’s our choice: big documents or big arbitrators.
The reality of the WTO regime and the like is that we generally get a bit of both, and that it works reasonably well. My own feeling on the matter is that it is better to limit the politicians’ role to yes-or-no votes and to exercising effective veto power via the right of exit and leave the rest to arbitration and quasi-judicial processes. In the case of trade relations between large economies with high volumes of trade (such as our own), those processes have the virtue of requiring lots of steady, iterative, repeat interaction over long periods of time, when generally encourages cooperative behavior.
Brad DeLong of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth estimates that even with very conservative assumptions, TPP would add something like $3 trillion to the stock of world wealth. Peter Petri and Michael Plummer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimate that TPP would raise the real incomes of the participating nations (which mainly are rich nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan) by about 0.5 percent, which may sound trivial but is in fact significant when you consider the size of the economic bloc in question and the effect of such additional income over time.
Those are gains worth realizing. But the means of realizing them will never be politically popular.

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text: As stresses on water infrastructure mount, reuse of wastewater for non-potable applications becomes increasingly important. One strategy for providing water to areas geographically distant from existing centralized wastewater treatment plants is distributed water reclamation plants (WRPs)—small WRPs located close to customers produce water that meets specific requirements of the end-users. Economic benefits include minimizing infrastructure for delivery and avoiding over-treatment of the water. However, small WRPs require more energy and staff time per volume of water reclaimed, thus energy use needs to be reduced within existing, proven, robust WRP technologies. To date, energy reduction has focused on mechanical optimization at large plants, reporting 10–38% savings, but treatment strategies for small WRPs are needed to promote distributed water reclamation. In this research, hypoaeration (biological treatment under 0.5–0.8 mg L−1 dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration) was investigated to reduce aeration requirements of treatment in sequencing batch reactors at bench (54 L d−1) and demonstration (29 500 L d−1) scales. Domestic wastewater was successfully treated for 43 and 93 days (respectively), and at both scales the hypoaerobic conditions provided treatment equal to standard treatment conditions (DO = 2.0 mg L−1). At the demonstration-scale, the hypoaerobic treatment reduced blower energy requirements by 27% and solids production by 10–12%, which reflects a potential energy saving of 21% in a small WRP.

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One-piece quilted baby bib vest in soft jersey fabric made from organic cotton with buttons at the shoulders. Small pocket on the right back.
The lovely structured fabric and the sophisticated cut make this bib a wonderful addition to your darlings wardrobe.