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I got asked a q re my thoughts on greening health care
I think the asker was expecting me to mutter something about light bulbs
They were surprised to see I had no real interest in light bulbs
We've all said warm words (pun not intended) on carbon and stuff.
Climate change is perhaps the key deal breaker for all of us. But perhaps the most invisible and intangible…..
Maybe the courgette crisis is as good indicator we can actually touch, rather than polar bears and melting ice caps.
Maybe the courgette crisis is a good indicator we can actually touch, rather than polar bears and melting ice caps. BUT terminology "climate change" not used so people may think flooding in England and snow in Spain is freak weather rather than incremental global climate change
Any cities ecosystem is the answer, not the individual actions of one all seeing controlling mind or large powerful organisation. i.e. ALL our individual behaviours matter, and matter a lot. Prevention paradox maybe? The notion that if we all make moderate changes to our behaviour that this may collectively have greater impact than big change in a few areas?
You'll all have clocked the requirement on NHS organisations to have a Board approved sustainable development management plan. Yes, I thought not.
Mention the word green to most NHS organisations and they will likely yawn and say "yea we changed the light bulbs last year".
Most NHS sustainability leads are in facilities management and are focussing on the cashable benefits of being operationally leaner and greener (carbon effective + cost effective) but where action is carbon effective but cost neutral then this economic driver isn't enough. This is where leadership is required…
But overall, there is some, but not much, progress. Mostly it's a case of "see me after class". We aren't on track, carbon wise.
Overdiagnosis, green and carbon.
Here's an idea…..lots of people are sweating, a lot, about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Diagnosis (and thus subsequent treatment – 'we must do something') is often low value, can do harm and wastes resources. It also uses carbon needlessly.
This is NOT about "what happens in the boardroom", it is about what happens in day to day clinical practice.
I accept that it's challenging to many. I gave a room full of 150 GPs a lot of grief on this ealier in the week and lots of eyebrows were raised ("oh but this isn't something to do with me is it")….. but that's not a reason to do nothing…..
There are some notable exceptions, most visible renal medicine whom are mostly busy ripping up the rule book and resetting the mould in a lower carbon alternative. There's cold hard cash here. Estimates vary widely. Far more important is the notion of doing the right thing.
Some factoids
- 61% of NHS' carbon footprint with pharmaceuticals and medical instruments as the largest component
- 80% of pharma footprint relates to primary care and community services
- Never mind the carbon….prescription medicine waste in the community is high and costing £300m per year
- Notes food waste in hospitals, particularly unserved or untouched meals. 6% meals unserved cost £28m in 2013-14
- there are no targets on water consumption reduction and water demand is increasing by more than 10% in 2 NHS regions
So……..green is not just about the lightbulbs!
Health care is a big carbon generator. Does the diagnostic label, then the (hopefully) benefits from the downstream treatment justify the expanse, carbon, potential clinical harm that will be done.
We will definitely prescribe drugs. These are big part of the carbon chain.
The carbon footprint is in general practice
Where to look
Maybe it doesn't matter that much. Start somewhere and keep going……
We all have our favourite targets for "overdiagnosis and over treatment"
Mine are-:
- Poly pharmacy, esp in the elderly. No brainier.
- Over-treatment of diabetes. Don't get me started.
More complex and nuanced:
- Over medication of low level mental health problems (anti depressant prescribing growing by 10% a year, need is not). lots of studies comparing efficacy of exercise on depressive symptoms to SSRIs (Oxford Study which I can't track down looked at exercise in green space and near water) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/ What Social Prescribing was a first line treatment for early mild-moderate depressive symptoms
- Choice in maternity care? C section and technology assisted births becoming the norm in some areas because there isn't choice of GP or midwife led assisted delivery units or home birth. How much of this is because this level of intervention (& carbon) is the right approach and how much is it because we haven't commissioned the models of care that allow for alternatives. Is this level of intervention in routine presentation clinically, carbon and cost effective? Is it too hard to change because we have become too risk averse/litigious?
All of the above things are doubtless good examples of over diagnosis and over treatment where we may do more harm than good, and certainly use a lot of carbon. You'll doubtless have many more. The Sustainability triple bottom line here is that the intervention is good for us/good for the economy/ good for the planet.
Here's just one unpacked and simple example that isn't necessarily over diagnosis related, but IS in the realm of day to day clinical practice. – respiratory inhalers….the fastest growing class of medicine in the NHS
MDI inhalers contribute a huge chunk of GHG emissions from the NHS
This isn't widely available but GSK have given it to me so I'm sharing it. It shows the carbon-trust-certified carbon footprint of their inhalers.
Headline figures are:
30 days of seretide 250 evohaler (pMDI) = 20kgCO2e
30 days of relvar ellipta 92/22 = 750gCO2e
So there are a bunch of places to look….. but looking carefully at overdiagnosis and carbon should be a new front
What if
I might (probably should) develop a chapter on Sustainability in HWB strategy and JSNA- watch this space.
Here are some other egs and links:
- http://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/what-we-do/green-ward-competition – a simple engagement competition
- http://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/ – a list of all relevant clinical networks for specific groups
- http://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/resources/publications – for a list of guides and articles related to practice
- http://www.carbonaddict.org/ – you might like this!
- the NHS Forest if you can http://www.nhsforest.org – which any NHS organisation can (should!) sign up to – plant the same number of trees as your staff numbers
- Sustainable Development Management Plan (SDMP) Guidance for Health and Social Care Organisations http://www.sduhealth.org.uk/documents/SDMP/SDMP_Guidance_Jan_2017.pdf
- Sustainable Development In The Health And Care System: Health Check 201 – http://www.sduhealth.org.uk/documents/publications/2017/SDU_health_check_2017_WEB.pdf
- The RCGP have produced a GPs toolkit, please visit http://www.greenimpact.org.uk/giforhealth. You can log in using the email "email@example.com" and the password "testtoolkit".
So…….Green and sustainable health care. Yea yea yea…. it's more than about changing the light bulbs. Yet many stop there. Don't. Go further. Much further
It's a challenging one, but more interesting and novel than the normal "change lightbulb" line….
With thanks to Rachel Stancliffe from Centre for Sustainable Healthcare who let me borrow some SDU slides.
thanks to Rachel and Magda Boo for comment on the draft


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Blim Holiday Market
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
2321 Main Street
Vancouver, BC
Ho Ho Ho, Santa Garf is coming to town! Blim, Vancouver's favourite arts and craft studio is hosting its indie holiday market on Saturday, December 20 from 12pm to 5pm at the Fox Cabaret.he Blim Holiday Market will feature:
– Photo booth with Santa Garfield
– Handmade accessories, jewellery, vintage, pottery, cards, gifts, sweets and more from 48 local vendors
– Hot food by in-house Japanese cook Open Sesame.
– Two free raffle draws for $25 Blim Gift Certificates at 2pm & 4pm
To find out more about the event, follow @blimblimblim and hashtag #blimmarket on Twitter. Admission is by donation.

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I have represented creditors for many years in both commercial and consumer cases. Prior to becoming an attorney I served as a credit manager for a major oilfield service company (during the "boom" and the "bust" of the 1980's) and also served on many formal (bankruptcy) and informal (non-bankruptcy) workout arrangements and creditor's committee's. While in law school I was employed to liquidate a large portfolio of banking loans.
Presently, I represent creditors in the collection of unpaid receivables (pre-judgment up to and including judgment/post-judgment). I also assist creditors and attorneys in the collection of unpaid money judgments in all areas of law including the following:
Inevitably some debtors will file bankruptcy. Consequently, I have extensive experience in representing creditors in bankruptcy cases, including:
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Millersville Lodge #126 is a "Blue Lodge." That means that we confer the first three masonic degrees: entered apprentice, fellow craft and master Mason. After a brother receives his master Mason degree, he is as much a Mason as he will ever be. However, the journey does not have to stop there. Many Masons choose to increase their involvement at their Lodge or join other organizations that are part of the Masonic family, called appended bodies.
Organizations Meeting at Millersville Lodge
Millersville York Rite
The York Rite is a body of Freemasonry that evolved from England. The brothers who founded this organization base their lessons on Hebrew scripture and serve to answer questions posed by the master Mason Degree. This organization culminates in the order of the temple, or knights templar. Thus, this is one of two Christian-specific branches of Masonry.
Find out more about Millersville York Rite.
Millersville Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter #300
The Order of the Eastern Star (OES) is a part of the Masonic institution for Mason's and their wives and adult daughters. The OES officers take their station names from the old testament women prophets, thus, this is the other Christian-based Masonic organization.
Find out more about the Millersville Order of the Eastern Star.
Gordian Knot
Originally founded in Europe on many army bases, the gordian knot is a fun ceremony. The overall governing body calls Millersville home and confers this ceremony once or twice a year.
Learn more about the Gordian Knot.
Other Appended Bodies in Indianapolis
The Scottish Rite
One well-known appended body is the Indianapolis Valley of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, or just Scottish Rite for short. The Scottish Rites meet in "valleys" and there are several across the state. In Indianapolis, we are fortunate to have the Scottish Rite Cathedral, one of the most spectacular Masonic buildings in the world.
If you hear someone say they are a 33rd degree mason, that means they are a member of the Scottish Rite.
Learn more about the Scottish Rite.
The Shrine
The Murat Shrine is the local Shrine club. While not officially a Masonic institution, you must be a Mason to join the Shrine. The Shriners are a fun group of Masons who do a lot of good in the world. Their philanthropy funds the Shrine Children's Hospitals, which provides services to children in need, totally free of charge. On a lighter note, these are the guys you see in parades driving small cars and wearing fez hats.
Masonic Governing Bodies
The Grand Lodge of Indiana
The Grand Lodge is the governing body of Free & Accepted Mason Lodges in Indiana.
Learn more about the Grand Lodge of Indiana.
The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana
The Prince Hall Lodges are well-recognized Masonic Lodges that were formed in early American History by Prince Hall to bring the fraternity to black men before the traditional grand Lodges realized equality.


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Okay just so you know, i usually write at daytime.
Anyway, it's 4th of January and we had an awkward conversation last night, AGAIN. Kinda frustrating that when I ask if there's something wrong or if there's something we should talk about, she responds with "we don't need to talk" but those words only makes me believe that there should be. How can I ask that again today? I don't wanna bother her. She has class and stressing her out about our "current relationship" would just be stupid and inconsiderate. So.. I decided to just shrug it off. We are currently exchanging fb messages but it sounds different. Idk what to do. Is this the sign of the times?


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Green Lums are a type of Lums that originally appeared in Rayman 2: The Great Escape. Their role is being the checkpoints that Rayman can encounter throughout his quest.
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Their function is being checkpoints found through the levels. Whenever Rayman touches one, it will sparkle around him. If Rayman dies, he will return to the last Green Lum that he has grabbed.
Rayman 3 (GBA)
In Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance), their role is still the same as it was in Rayman 2. Their appearence is different, however. This time lacking wings and resembling small orbs
Rayman Raving Rabbids (GBA)
In Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance), once again they serve as checkpoints as in previous games. Their appearance is the same as in Rayman 3 (GBA).
- Green Lums are the only Lums that do not have any important roles in the Glade of Dreams.
- More importantly, they are also not involved with creating Polokus.


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Conor McGregor vs Khabib announced on Friday? UFC drop huge hint
CONOR MCGREGOR's grudge match with Khabib Nurmagomedov could be announced by the end of the week, it has been suggested.
Conor McGregor's next fight is expected to be against Khabib Nurmagomedov
The UFC's poster boy is set to be welcomed back to the Octagon by his successor at the summit of the lightweight division.
It's understood that negotiations for Nurmagomedov vs McGregor have been ongoing, but a date for the contest has not yet been agreed.
That being said, Express Sport understands the promotion have earmarked UFC 229 - which takes place in Las Vegas on October 6 - as the card they want the bout to headline.
It's been known for several months that McGregor's eagerly-anticipated comeback fight will be against Nurmagomedov, leading many to wonder when the contest will be announced.
The announcement of the biggest fight in UFC history has undoubtedly been delayed by McGregor's ongoing court case, the result of his rampage at the UFC 223 media day in Brooklyn.
Many expect the bout to be announced shortly after McGregor learns his fate for his latest misdemeanour, which he's set to discover on Thursday.
And the UFC have seemingly hinted that could be the case by scheduling a Q&A with Nurmagomedov in Calgary for the day after the culmination of McGregor's legal proceedings.
The timing of Nurmagomedov's second UFC Q&A hardly seems like a coincidence, and many in the mixed martial arts world are bracing themselves for the Dagestan native's first title defence to be announced.
I do not fight in November because McGregor was denied a license and he will not be able to fight at the November tournament in New York
Nurmagomedov is hoping to face McGregor in October, telling Tass this past weekend: "There are two dates on October 6 or December 29.
"I do not fight in November because McGregor was denied a license and he will not be able to fight at the November tournament in New York.
"I hope that the fight will be in October, because I do not want to delay the defence of the belt.
"I told the UFC that I was given any opponent, although if they give another fighter, not Conor, then I'm ready to fight in November."
Conor McGregor: Khabib Nurmagomedov will take part in a Q&A in Calgary on Friday night
Conor McGregor hasn't set foot inside the Octagon in over 20 months
McGregor, 30, hasn't set foot inside the Octagon since claiming the lightweight title 20 months ago in the main event of UFC 205, a card where he became the promotion's first simultaneous two-weight world champion.
He was relieved of the 155lbs belt in April due to inactivity, which paved the way for Nurmagomedov to claim it in the main event of UFC 223.
Although a date for his first title defence hasn't been set, Nurmagomedov has begun training camp, recently telling Tass: "Yes, I've started training.
"I feel very good, thank God there are no injuries.
"I train hard, in the morning and in the evening, except on Sunday, I gave myself a rest to watch the World Cup."


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New Zealand playwright Rochelle Bright uses her own parents' story to examine the eternal themes of love and loss in a new work at the Traverse.
Because her father died when she was young, Rochelle Bright says, she always wanted to hear stories about him. Now, though, it's she who is sharing the stories with us. Her new play, Daffodils, which is making its Fringe debut after hugely successful tours of New Zealand and Australia, recounts the story of her father and mother, and how they met – as her paternal grandparents had done – on the same patch of daffodils.
"My dad died 22 years ago, when I was 14," says Bright. "I was pretty close to him. But there's something about losing a parent before you really know them as a human being; and, as I got older, I wanted to find out who he was. I always knew I'd tell that story one day."
Daffodils, which is described as a 'play with songs', tells the story of Eric and Rose from the moment they met on the daffodil patch. The two characters see events from their own, rather different, points of view, with the emotion of the piece carried by popular songs of the era – "New Zealand's greatest hits," says Bright.
The set is illustrated with family photographs and the script includes a section taken from Bright's father's diary when he left Rose to take his big trip to Europe – a rite of passage known by New Zealanders as the OE – the Overseas Experience.
"There is something amazing about the photos from that time," she says. "My dad was quite a good-looking guy. Mum gave me all the letters he wrote to her. That was special, reading them and finding out what interested him."
The early sections of the story have a dream-like quality, wrapped up in the '60s iconography of teenage romance, but as the story progresses it integrates incidents that Bright remembers from her childhood.
The double-sided narrative builds dramatic tension; small miscommunications become earth-shattering events, while the song cycle evokes the unexpressed feelings running below the surface.
"I have a lot of love for both of them, but they're human – they're not perfect," reflects Bright. "They were very ordinary. But I see what happened to them as quite extraordinary. It affected my life a lot."
When Bullet Heart Club, the theatre company she founded with Kitan Petkovski, were performing their pre-Edinburgh fundraising shows in New Zealand, they attracted huge crowds. And in a preview performance in England, Bright spotted a couple of Kiwis in the audience "singing along to all the words".
Bullet Heart Club have the full blessing of the songwriters, who include Neil Finn of Crowded House. Don McGlashan, whose song 'Anchor Me' comes at a pivotal point in the play, was blown away by their version. "He says that song is much deeper than he thought."
Bright's family, too, have been supportive of her wish to turn their family story into theatre. Her mum and sister will come to Edinburgh to see it. "I came to the Fringe in 2010 and saw a show at the Traverse and I can't believe that six years later my mum will be here to see a show about her life. It's such a dream."
Words: Claire Smith
Picture: Garth Badger
Daffodils (A Play With Songs) Traverse Theatre, 4–28 August (not 5, 8, 15, 22), times vary


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I went undercover at a job fair to figure out what you should know before signing up for one.
1. Go to the job fair early. Job fairs get busier around lunch time because many people have to work.
2. Have a 2-minute overview ready. When you go to a job fair, recruiters will ask you to give a 2-minute overview of yourself after you sit down.
3. Smile. Recruiters are looking for people that smile and are friendly.
4. Recruiters don't care about your schooling. They're looking for people who are dressed professionally, have good communication skills and give out a positive vibe.
5. Use professional resume paper. It will make you stand out because 99.9% of people use cheap copy paper.
6. Your resume is only a point of reference. You need to bring copies of your resume. However, recruiters are judging you on how you present the information on your resume in person.
7. The biggest mistake you can make is not being knowledgeable about the company you're interviewing with. Research the companies represented at the job fair in advance.
8. Be open-minded. Some recruiters may be leaving their companies soon and will be recruiting for other positions. Even if you're not interested in a position or company, don't be afraid to reach out and make a connection with each recruiter.
9. Don't be nervous. Recruiters at job fairs are some of the nicest people you will ever meet and have great people skills. Their job is to make a great impression on you!
10. Be prepared for these questions: What brings you out? Where do you work now? What are you looking for?
During the interview, the recruiter will take notes on your resume like "nervous" or "great vibe." After the interview, the recruiter will send your resume to someone else in their company to judge it without actually meeting you. If the company wants to move forward, expect to continue the interview process soon after the job fair.
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Every business owner hopes to earn more money, in turn, creating a higher profit. I've outlined several small changes you can make to increase your bottom line. Read the suggestions below and leave a comment if you have additional ideas, too!
Increase Monthly Dues
Some gyms increase monthly dues on an annual basis, while others let years go by without making a change. If you haven't increased dues in quite sometime or if you've added new equipment that justifies a higher fee, your members will certainly understand the need for extra cashflow. Keep in mind that a $25 increase per month, per member results in:
- $15,000 more annually for a gym with 50 members.
- $22,500 more annually for a gym with 75 members.
- $30,000 more annually for a gym with 100 members.
If you have a staff member certified in something special, give them the opportunity to talk about it to your clients. On the other hand, you could put together an introductory session about a special topic and advertise it to those who are not (yet) members. Charging $10 for admission is a small fee compared to what those in attendance will learn.
Assessments & Nutrition Plans
Have gym members who have strong workout routines but can't seem to move the numbers on the scale? Offering body composition assessments and personalized nutrition plans (don't forget about the benefits of retailing Vitamix blenders!) are always a smart idea — and something members would be willing to pay extra for. After all, you're an expert so asking for payment for additional services you paid to acquire is justified.
Recovery Zones
Creating recovery zones featuring Rapid Reboot compression therapy can set your facility apart from others in your community. You might even see members coming in after competitive races, completing strenuous yard work or a long day at the office solely to utilize the space. This is an opportunity to welcome new clientele, too.


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The hackers can unencrypted (non-HTTPS) traffic or compromise your computer by slipping malware into legitimate websites. Researchers have discovered and published a flaw in WPA2 that allows anyone to break this security model and steal data flowing between your wireless device and the targeted Wi-Fi network, such as passwords, chat messages and photos.
Vulnerabilities in WPA2, a protocol used by almost all modern Wi-Fi devices, leaves all Wi-Fi devices at risk of being snooped upon, a security researcher revealed on Monday.
Most modern Wi-Fi networks have their traffic encrypted by a protocol known as WPA or WPA-2, which has existed since 2003 and until now has never been broken.
However, it is not all bad news.
KRACK requires the hacker to be in range of a target's Wi-Fi, so it can't be done remotely. The WPA2 system is a system which secures the Wi-Fi connection between a router and a computer.
"This issue can be resolved through straightforward software updates, and the Wi-Fi industry, including major platform providers, has already started deploying patches to Wi-Fi users", the Wi-Fi Alliance wrote in a statement about KRACK. Microsoft has said that it has already patched the vulnerability on October 10 to protect the Windows devices from the security flaw. There is still no specific information on Android phones, considering the fragmentation in that space and a lot will depend on how quickly phone makers want to roll out the updates. In the meantime, treat every Wi-Fi connection like it's the public network at Starbucks. They have advised Wi-Fi users to contact their vendors for updates.
Even if you were bored enough to actually click on the More info button, you would have had to be REALLY bored to even spot a reference to a vague mention of a wireless security update in the last bullet item of the knowledge base article. You also don't need to change your Wi-Fi passwords, since this security flaw doesn't allow hackers to access that information.
While the KRACK Wi-Fi exploit exposure has made billions of devices vulnerable, Windows users with enabled automatic updates can stay at ease. For instance, if your home security camera is sending unencrypted data on the Wi-Fi network to your phone or tablet, hackers too can get access to that unedited footage.


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THE question that Shane Warne has raised after England's impressive success in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 in Barbados focuses on The Ashes next winter. The Australians might have to play very well to win that Test series, and one might add 'especially while Andy Flower is in charge'.
The problem for England is that perhaps only four of Paul Collingwood's 20-over side are certainties for the Test team -- Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad. As Australia could only count on a couple more than that for the longer format, predicting the fate of The Ashes is difficult.
Warne, writing in the Daily Telegraph
, noted that the England mindset had changed from 'hoping' to win if they played their best. "Now they think 'we can beat this lot'. That feeling of being scared of playing Australia has disappeared," he said.
There is no guarantee that the winning psychology can transfer to Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook and company when they resume their stations in Test cricket, with Strauss as captain again. England's record in Australia for more than 20 years has been lamentable.
However, the look of fear and desperation on the Australian faces as England's batsmen faced them down in the Twenty20 final was intriguing. Craig Kieswetter and Kevin Pietersen were absolutely superb as they 'grafted' the hard yards to set up a comfortable finish. The Australian fast-bowling strategy, led by Shaun Tait, required intense concentration to combat.
Kieswetter and Pietersen picked them off with twos and singles and occasional boundaries until they felt comfortable enough to move through the gears towards a seven-wicket win with three overs to spare. It was a thrashing that exposed Australia's one-dimensional approach. They had no plan B.
Graeme Swann, praised by Warne as the world's No 1 spinner -- an accolade bestowed long ago by these pages -- gave England a distinct edge as Australia struggled with the bat. There is every reason for England to expect to win the World Cup on the subcontinent next year.
England's management has been guilty of not quashing the Pietersen stardom syndrome that the media like to feed on. In the past there has been too much 'serious blow to our hopes' talk when the South African has been unavailable. That would be my only mild criticism of Flower, the national coach, who is a refreshing influence in so many ways.
Flower's years of playing for Zimbabwe, where international players mingle with supporters in bars as a matter of course like normal cricketers, has equipped this articulate son of a schoolteacher with patience, honesty and an endearing humility. I noticed this when chatting to him in Harare Sports Club long before he became the world No 1 batsman. These qualities will almost certainly have rubbed off on to his England charges, even KP.
Though a top-notch batsman, Pietersen was barely missed during the 2009 Ashes victory in England. He was man of the series in the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, but this format allows no individual to carry a team, because bowling is too important. England could cope without Pietersen if they had to, with Ravi Bopara waiting in the wings. And was Andrew Flintoff missed? Not at all, though he is a great bloke.
Michael Lumb, Craig Kieswetter, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Tim Bresnan, Michael Yardy, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom.
ICC World Twenty20 final
Australia 147-9 (20 overs; David Hussey 59, Graeme Swann 4-0-17-1)
England 148-3 (17 overs; Craig Kieswetter 63, Kevin Pietersen 47 off 31 balls).
England won by 7 wickets
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Today DuckDuck GO launches fully privacy focused Browser Extension and mobile app for Android and iOS. DuckDuck Go Promises the people that it will not track any of your personal data and apply smarter encryption.
All the major companies like Google, Facebook and twitter tracks everything what you do online. Today almost every browser has a incognito mode, but if it is not showing history that doesn't mean it is never recorded by the browser. Incognito Mode is just a marketing tool by Browsers out there.
Now DuckDuckGO comes up to protect your personal data while you are online with simply a browser extension and mobile app. The updated app and extension is available on all platforms like Chrome, Android, iOS, Safari and Firefox.
DuckDuckGo Extension and app will show you the Privacy Grade Rating when you visit a website. It will give you a rating between (A-F). This rating grades will tells you how protected you are on a particular website. The Privacy Grade is scored automatically based on the prevalence of hidden tracker networks, encryption availability, and website privacy practices.
According to DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg,
This shows the appetite for privacy online is only getting stronger. And, says Weinberg, the more people that use tools like DuckDuckGo's, the more tech companies will be forced to reconsider their business model. "We'll collectively raise the Internet's privacy grade, ending the widespread use of invasive tracking," writes Weinberg. It's ambitious to say the least.


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Do you have a need to extend Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online by writing and integrating custom code? Whether you're writing a plug-in or a custom workflow activity, you'll use the Plug-in Registration tool, provided in the CRM SDK, to register your custom code with the Dynamics CRM system.
Peter Hecke, has written an article on Using the Plug-in Registration Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
This article complements the documentation, and the walkthrough in the SDK by providing detailed information on how to use the Plug-in Registration tool to register custom code with CRM 2011 and CRM Online. However, registering custom workflow activities with CRM Online is not supported using the registration tool or any other means.
"A plug-in is custom business logic that you can integrate with CRM 2011 and CRM Online to modify or augment the standard behavior of the system. Plug-ins are event handlers. They execute in response to a particular event being fired by the platform. You can also write custom workflow activities to add new functionality to processes (formerly known as workflows) that you create," Hecke state.
The Plug-in Registration tool is provided as a source code sample in the Tools folder of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK download. Review the instructions provided in the Tools/PluginRegistration/Readme.docx file for more information about the tool and instructions on how to build the tool.
For additional information, read the Hecke's article here.


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Tuvalu students perform a traditional dance during the International Mother Language Day celebrations at USP's Tuvalu Campus.
Staff and students of The University of the South Pacific's (USP) Tuvalu Campus celebrated International Mother Language Day on 24 February 2017 in Tuvalu.
UNESCO celebrated the International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on February 21, 2017 under the theme "Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education". To foster sustainable development, learners must have access to education in their mother tongue and in other languages. It is through the mastery of the first language or mother tongue that the basic skills of reading, writing and numeracy are acquired. Local languages, especially minority and indigenous, transmit cultures, values and traditional knowledge, thus playing an important role in promoting sustainable futures.
The celebration, which was organised by USP Student Association at Tuvalu Campus, included cultural dance performances, poster displays on the theme and poetry recitations.
Acting Campus Director and Chief Guest of the occasion, Dr Rosiana Lagi spoke about the importance of observing the day, and said that the day is celebrated to ensure that our mother tongue, Tuvalu language or the Vosa Vakaviti does not become extinct.
Such observance days are vital in reminding people of the significance of their mother language.
This year's theme for the International Mother Language Day was 'Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education.'
Dr Lagi said that Multilingual Education will assist in the maintenance of our language, culture, knowledge and skills in the future so that future generations can know and enjoy it too.
While talking about Multilingual Education, Dr Lagi said that it promotes awareness in Linguistic, Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism.
She highlighted that, "our mother language or mother tongue is an important tool for our survival."
According to Dr Lagi, it is through mother tongue that people learn:
She also stressed the importance of learning other languages and added that this will help people understand other cultures and traditions and learn to respect others and live peacefully with them.
Around a hundred (100) students, parents and staff of the Tuvalu Campus took part in the celebration.
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Self has decided that her reading list is too bloated.
From now on, or just for the next year anyway, she will read only books by LIVING writers.
Well, that helped. Self got rid of perhaps 1/3 of the books on her list.
She's still reading Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture.
She decides to look up interviews he's given, and comes up with a gem on a site called "Words With Writers."
Who do you picture as the ideal reader of your work?
All of us inevitably become experienced in the world, by the mere process of living in it; but my ideal reader perhaps can put aside the cargo of experience somewhat, and access also their original innocence, so that sense is also brought to the book in their lap.
Is there a quote about writing that inspires you?
I very much like the anonymous but astute definition that "a novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."
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Huiwang Zhang is a dancer, choreographer, and screendance artist originally from 九江 (Jiujiang), China, received his early dance training from Beijing Dance Academy and later earned his MFA in dance from the University of Utah. As a performer, he has had the honor of working with choreographers like Stephen Koester, Eric Handman, Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig, and toured nationally and internationally as a member of the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater in Beijing. He attended Palucca Hochshule für Tanz Dresden in Germany to study choreography under the direction of Prof. Katharina Christl. Currently, his own artistic practice discloses the relationship between linguistic expression and body perception in different sociocultural contexts. His work has been presented in the Beijing Dance Festival 2016 and 12 Minutes Max Salt Lake City 2017. He is very grateful to join the Bill T. Jones/ Annie Zane company and feels honored to work with a company that fervently devotes its strength to this body-based art form.


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This premier show and sale of contemporary craft includes 195 of the finest and most dynamic craft artists in the United States, selected from more than 1,000 applicants. All work is for sale. The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show is presented annually by the Women's Committee and Craft Show Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the benefit of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Funds raised are used to purchase works of art and craft for the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to fund conservation and publication projects and to support exhibitions and education programs.
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Pain Research and Management
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 85-92
Use of Gabapentin for Perioperative Pain Control – a Meta-Analysis
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2Toronto Western and General Division, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copyright © 2007 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
BACKGROUND: Gabapentin, an anticonvulsant, has recently been suggested as an effective postoperative 'analgesic' agent. The objective of the present study was to examine the analgesic effectiveness, opioid-sparing effects and side effects associated with the use of gabapentin in a perioperative setting.
METHODS: Following the Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses recommendations, nine electronic databases until February 2006 were searched, without language restriction, for randomized controlled trials comparing gabapentin with control for postoperative pain control. Outcome measures, namely, 24 h cumulative opioid consumption, visual analogue scale pain scores and adverse effects, were expressed as odds ratios, ratio of means or weighted mean differences (as appropriate), which were aggregated under the fixed or random effects models.
RESULTS: Gabapentin caused a 35% reduction in total opioid consumption over the first 24 h following surgery (ratio of means 0.65, 95% CI 0.59 to 0.72), a significant reduction in postoperative pain at rest (in the first 24 h) and with movement (at 2 h, 4 h and 12 h), regardless of whether treatment effects were expressed as ratios of means or weighted mean differences, and a reduction of vomiting (relative risk [RR] 0.73, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.95) and pruritus (RR 0.30, 95% CI 0.13 to 0.70). It was associated with a significant increase in dizziness (RR 1.40, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.84) and an increase in sedation of borderline significance (RR 1.65, 95% CI 1.00 to 2.74).
CONCLUSION: Gabapentin improves the analgesic efficacy of opioids both at rest and with movement, reduces analgesic consumption and opioid-related adverse effects, but is associated with an increased incidence of sedation and dizziness.


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Screen one in the Filmhouse is, under normal circumstances, home to the most celebrated mainstream and art house films, quiet, sedate and possessed of a near reverential appreciation for the joy of cinema as a means of mirroring our lives or presenting us with a window into the lives of others.
Today though it is home to a different kind of film fan.
Lots of died black hair, tattoos, rawk/metal band t-shirts and gnarled faces.
It's "Dead By Dawn" the, almost, annual horror film festival run by Adele Hartley.
Normally running over a weekend and so deserving of it's title this year it is taking place over a single day and is made up, in large part, of shorts...either the horror genre has given up in the face of the, seemingly, never-ending onslaught of "torture porn" or Adele has gone for quality over quantity.
Earlier in the year FAB Press hosted their own cult/horror festival over three days (FAB Fest) and with a plethora of guest directors and stars DBD will have to go some to match it. I've decided to see just the one feature, "Cropsey", and then hope that I'll receive feedback from others who attended the whole event.
Lots of small towns have their own bogey man legend...the sort of tale that created Freddy Kruegger in the "Elm Street" franchise and that has kept naughty children tucked up in bed too terrified to invoke a grizzly end should they leave the safety of the duvet. "Crospey" takes one such urban legend and decides to investigate it's origins. The resut is a sort of "Capturing the Friedmans" meets "The Blair Witch Project". It's a fascinating story and a well put together documentary but it wouldn't look out of place on a true crime channel in the middle of the day. Sitting in the middle of a horror film festival it seems a bit, well, wrong.
The story is a, sadly, all too familiar one as a "creepy" loner is convicted of kidnapping and murdering a local child. What follows is the unravelling of a story of psychosis, community activism, guilt, myth and shame as the perpetrator of the crime, Andre Rand is convicted and then brought back to trial for the murder of another child. Directors Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman tackle the story with sensitivity and manage to avoid going for hysteria and headlines by sticking to their original brief of investigating their own suburban legend.
"Cropsey" doesn't offer anything new and it's difficult to see quite how it earned a place on a horror festival line-up but it does have an interesting story...which is more than can be said for many of the films that normally parade under the horror banner.


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Crazy amazing races in Dubai
The temperature in Dubai is getting less and less scorching by the day. We can now all leave the confines of our air-conditioned rooms and get active outdoors. There is so much to see and do in Dubai, and this is exactly the perfect time of the year to do it.
If you are the sporty and active kind, check out these unique racing events all lined up for you to have an extraordinary time while running that track.
Desert Warrior Challenge (October 17)
Tauted as an extreme military-style endurance obstacle course, the Desert Warrior Challenge is a true test of the willpower and determination of its participants. It involves a 10-kilometer track of up to 24 different obstacle courses that warriors go through individually or in a team. It's the first extreme obstacle course race in Dubai, and it happens on October 17 at the Jebel Ali Golf Resort and Spa. Website: desertwarriorchallenge.com.
This Halloween, run from zombies or be a zombie yourself in the city's first zombie-themed 5-km obstacle course. A popular race in the world, it's now Dubai's turn to be infected. The race will be held at the Nad Al Sheba cycling track on October 31. Registration for zombies is Dhs50 and Dhs250 for survivors. Website: contagionrun.com
Ice Warrior Challenge (November 1)
If the desert is not your thing, then check the other end of the spectrum with the Ice Warrior Challenge happening in Ski Dubai at the Mall of the Emirates. The toughest commando assault course on snow is now on its third year, and features a cargo net crawl, the zorb ball maze, and a black run climb. Registration fee is Dhs200. Website: skidxb.com.
Colour Run (November 29)
The "Happiest 5K on the Planet" returns on November 29 at the Dubai Autodrome. Bringing forth a message of happiness, the event is open to kids and adults of all ages and backgrounds. Runners wearing white shirts are sprayed with neon colors as they go around the course as well as at the end of the race where DJs blast music for everyone to groove to. Registration opened 0n August 28 and costs Dhs140. Website: thecolorrun.ae.


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Schlafly: Limit immigration or watch conservative efforts become irrelevant...
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National Review
February 3, 2014 4:00 AM
By Phyllis Schlafly
It is also the case that the Republican party's continued support of mass immigration, let alone the increases in the Gang of Eight bill, is contributing to alienating the Republican base, at least 4 million of whom stayed home in 2012.
If the Republican party is to remain a party that is conservative and nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty and any proposed increases in legal immigration. Further, we must work to significantly reduce the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country from the current level of 1.1 million a year. There is nothing inevitable about immigration. The level and selection criteria can be changed by Congress.
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Limit immigration or watch conservative efforts become irrelevant.
People come to America because it is a remarkable oasis of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Conservatives recognize that the principal reason for our unique abundance is our constitutional restraint on the power of government. As Thomas Jefferson said, "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
Maintaining this system requires the public to support limited government. In a new report, Eagle Forum details how immigration is fundamentally changing the electorate to one that is much more supportive of big government.
By itself, the annual flow of 1.1 million legal immigrants under the current system will create more than 5 million new potential voters by 2024 and more than 8 million by 2028. Congressional Budget Office projections indicate that under the Senate Gang of Eight's S.744 bill, the total additional potential voters would rise to nearly 10 million by 2024 and 18 million by 2028. The influx of these new voters would reduce or eliminate Republicans' ability to offer an alternative to big government, to increased government spending, to higher taxes, and to favorite liberal policies such as Obamacare and gun control.
There is nothing controversial about the report's conclusion that both Hispanics and Asians, who account for about three-fourth of today's immigrants, generally agree with the Democrats' big-government agenda. It is for this reason that they vote two-to-one for Democrats.
The 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey found that 62 percent of immigrants prefer a single, government-run health-care system. The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study found that 69 percent of immigrants support Obamacare. Pew also found that 53 percent of Hispanics have a negative view of capitalism, the highest of any group surveyed. This is even higher than the 47 percent among self-identified supporters of Occupy Wall Street.
The Pew Research Center has also found that 75 percent of Hispanics prefer a "bigger government providing more services," and only 19 percent prefer a smaller government. Pew also reported that 55 percent of Asians prefer "bigger government providing more services," and only 36 percent prefer a smaller government. So it's no surprise that in 2012, 71 percent of Hispanics and 73 percent of Asians voted for Obama.
Even Republican emphasis on patriotism and national sovereignty is likely to alienate many immigrants. A Harris poll found that 81 percent of native-born Americans believe our schools should teach students to be proud of being American, compared with only 50 percent of immigrants who had become naturalized U.S. citizens. Only 37 percent of naturalized citizens (compared with 67 percent of native-born citizens) think our Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law.
While it seems that much of the Republican-party leadership has not actually looked at the policy preferences of immigrants, everyone else who has looked at the polls comes to the conclusion that significant majorities of immigrants and their children are big-government liberals. The New York Times' Washington bureau chief admitted last year that "the two fastest-growing ethnic groups — Latinos and Asian-Americans — are decidedly liberal." As University of Alabama political scientist George Hawley observes, "Immigrants are well to the left of the American public on a number of key issues." He also makes clear that "liberalizing immigration will liberalize the U.S." Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute points out that it "is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation."
Immigration in general — not race — is the issue. The limited data for other immigrants — including Europeans and Muslims — indicate that they, too, generally hold views well to the left of the average American voter. In fact, as discussed in our new report, for reasons largely outside the control of conservatives, immigrants and their children gravitate to left-wing parties in almost all Western countries. The problem for conservatives is not race or ethnicity but immigration as such.
Another important conclusion of our report is that there is no evidence that amnesty or inviting more immigration will produce Republican votes and abundant evidence that it will produce more Democratic votes. After Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 amnesty, George H. W. Bush received only 30 percent of the Latino vote in 1988, seven percentage points less than Reagan in 1984.
Those supporting a big increase in legal immigration point to the successful assimilation of Great Wave immigrants (roughly 1880 to 1920). But that wave was followed by a slowdown of immigration from the 1920s to the 1960s, which allowed newcomers to assimilate, learn our language, and adapt to our unique system of government. Also, Great Wave immigrants arrived before the rise of the grievance industry and identity politics. Moreover, it still took decades before a significant share of these immigrants moved into the Republican column. In the meantime, Great Wave immigrants and their children provided much of the political support necessary to pass and sustain both the New Deal and the Great Society.
It is also the case that the Republican party's continued support of mass immigration, let alone the increases in the Gang of Eight bill, is contributing to alienating the Republican base, at least 4 million of whom stayed home in 2012.
The generally liberal views of today's immigrants do not mean they are bad people. Most immigrants are hard working and love their families, and many are religious. Many hard-working Americans not of recent-immigrant origin who are devoted to their families also want to expand government. Nevertheless, platitudes about immigrants' being hard working does not make them conservatives when it comes to the size and scope of government.
While Republicans should do a better job of outreach, immigrants' generally liberal views should not be trivialized as something that can be overcome by the right 30-second TV or radio ad or by running candidates with Asian or Hispanic backgrounds. These may help, but the political values and preferences of the immigrant community are sincerely felt and not easily changed.
Conservatives should appeal to immigrants without sacrificing our principles. One way to do this is to argue that defeating the Gang of Eight bill, with its amnesty and doubling of legal immigration, would benefit the nearly 60 million American citizens (many of them immigrants) who are not working. If employers really are having trouble finding workers, the private-enterprise solution should be to raise the pay! A tight labor market is the best anti-poverty program. A reduction in immigration would also take pressure off our already overloaded health-care system and schools, and it would facilitate the assimilation of immigrants already here.
Our new report makes clear that for conservatives, there is no issue more important than reducing the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year. If legal immigration is not reduced, it will be nearly impossible for conservatives to be successful on the issues we care about.
If the Republican party is to remain a party that is conservative and nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty and any proposed increases in legal immigration. Further, we must work to significantly reduce the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country from the current level of 1.1 million a year. There is nothing inevitable about immigration. The level and selection criteria can be changed by Congress.
Looking at the political motivation of the groups pushing higher immigration and amnesty, it's obvious that the Democrats promote large-scale immigration because it produces more Democratic votes. If the Republican party is to remain conservative and nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty and proposed increases in legal immigration.
— Phyllis Schlafly is the president of Eagle Forum.
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The Republican Party is already in enough trouble due to the birthrates of the illegals already here. Add in amnesty and refusal to secure the border and it is likely all but finished.
REPUBLICANS TO ELECT HILLARY CLINTON PRESIDENT IN 2016 (My title)
The REP is about to completely annihilate the Conservative movement in the (former) Republican Party (e.g., KILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) by passing AMNESTY for tens of millions of illegal aliens on the HOPES THEY WILL SOMEHOW VOTE REPUBLICAN. WHO do they think is going to buy ANOTHER LINE OF CRAP like this and then expect to swallow it whole, be happy, and then just go off in a corner somewhere and just die? They (the REP) are doing this under overwhelming disapproval of the vast majority of the very people who put them in power.
Their actions of betrayal of Conservatives will lead to an end of the REP and the birth of another major Party that is truly Conservative and refuses to be bought and sold like a cheap whore on Wall Street. The great unknown is whether there will still be a democratic political system that is enough intact to allow a democratic political process to occur after 2016.
The REP's abandonment of Conservatives who demand that their borders be secured and illegal aliens NOT BE REWARDED with citizenship are going to give you this in 2016: Communist/Socialist Hillary Clinton.Join our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & to secure US borders by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn


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George H. Mifflin sent a copy of Rogers' The Song of Roland to President Theodore Roosevelt. The president commented upon it, saying, "I am proud as an American that such a bit of work should be done in America" (Quoted in Blumenthal, 1989, 17) Roosevelt later requested to visit the publisher, where he met Rogers and viewed Houghton, Mifflin and Company's special editions. Rogers also included this book in his list of personal favorites.
With its double columns on folio-sized pages, ornate initials, and hand-colored illustrations, the book's design is an allusion to the manuscript tradition. The illustrations are from drawings done by Rogers of the stained glass windows of the cathedral of Chartres.
Type: French Gothic and Civilité
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"Song of Roland" (1906). Riverside Press Editions Designed by Bruce Rogers. 7.


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The small state neighboring Maryland on its easternmost border is Delaware. Even though it is small, much of this state borders the eponymous bay and river. In fact, most of Delaware is about 50 miles away from the closest beach. With this kind of access, there bound to be fun waiting on sunny days.
There are a few nature reserves located in Delaware, such as the Bombay Hook National Refuge and the Prime Hook Wildlife National Refuge. Bombay Hook National Refuge is one of many reserves that protect the salt marshes that provide homes for migratory birds while the Prime Hook Wildlife National Refuge has the same purpose for more coastal regions. This is perfect for any wildlife enthusiast as many visitors flock to these destinations each year.
There are a ton of water sports to be enjoyed in the bay like sports fishing, as visitors can book charters to take them out to try their luck. Some popular beaches on the coast of Delaware include Rehoboth Beach, Cape Henlopen Beach and Bethany Beach.
Despite its size, Delaware has many wonderful beaches for visitors to enjoy the natural wonders present in the state.


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If you crave thrilling off-piste and backcountry skiing experiences in untamed surroundings, look no further than Norway.
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From glaciated peaks rising directly from the Arctic seas to breathtaking fjordscapes and remote alpine summits, there are off-piste areas to accommodate every taste. And with local experts on hand to guide you to the best places, unforgettable expeditions await skiers irrespective of skill and experience. It is strongly recommended to use a local ski touring guide in order to minimize risk.
Stay safe and find out about the avalanche risk before you set out. You can check the avalanche forecasts at varsom.no.
Take your skiing passion further on a sail to ski adventure where a boat will be both your accommodation and your means of transport. Head to the Sunnmøre Alps or the Hjørundfjord for crowd-free runs with fresh powder snow, or venture inland to areas like Jotunheimen to put your skills to the test in classic Norwegian mountain terrain with the deepest snow.
For an exotic Norwegian ski touring trip, choose a destination up north, where the skiing action is likely to be amplified by a sighting of the northern lights. A few destinations to check out in Northern Norway are the Lofoten islands, the Lyngen alps and the island of Senja.
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Now blooming!
Climbing rose in the corner:
Goddamn lily beetles - these would have been so gorgeous. And this having gone through $20 worth of neem oil trying to beat them back. I should ask the nursery I was at what their secret is, their lilies are pristine.
Evening primroses:
Digitalis, which will hopefully multiply for next year:
Not actually blooming yet, but check out the buds on this sucker - David Austin roses FTW! I was thinking of moving it in front of the spirea in the fall, but it's obviously not suffering here, so maybe I'll just get another one.
Lavender (and geranium):
Daylilies and some other lilies that for some reason the beetles don't seem to like as much, thank god. Too bad I can't actually claim any responsibility for this display, this was all here when we moved in.
I have decided: tomorrow I am going to go get an itsy bitsy japanese maple, and then I will dig out a space for it among the daylilies in the corner and cross my fingers. I haven't killed any splurge plants so far this year, so we'll see what happens.
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AIMN Interview: Bill Mitchell – an unreasonable man
George Bernard Shaw observed that; "A reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, Shaw argued; all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Within Shaw's definition, Bill Mitchell is an unreasonable man.
As an economist, Mitchell has persistently argued against the Chicago School theory of 'trickle down' since the mid 1980s and continues to do so today. He remains in his own words; "One of a few trying to pull together post-Keynesian theories with other insights to create what we now call Modern Monetary Theory."
"However," he adds "there's now a lot more than five people talking about it and reading about it, following our work, and I get a lot more invitations to speak overseas. There's now a second generation of MMTer's who are our young Ph.D. graduates going out and spreading these ideas."
"A lot of what I tell them often goes over their heads" says Mitchell referring to the MSM. "They rarely if ever mention my name, and then they go to my blog site, paraphrase what's there and write it up as their own work."
The plan was to ask Mitchell a range of general questions across a broad spectrum of MMT, rather than a detailed explanation of two or three of the finer points of a controversial discipline that is rapidly gaining popularity as an extremely powerful counter argument to neo-liberalism, especially among the unemployed.
Economics tragics may visit Mitchell's blog site http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/ should they wish to examine Modern Monetary theory in greater depth.
I found the softly spoken Mitchell not only generous but also patient, for which I offer my sincere thanks.
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I began by asking Mitchell: "What are the most common misconceptions about MMT?"
Mitchell: It's not so much misconceptions about MMT but rather peoples misconceptions of the capacities of governments.
The classic analogy that people have whether they articulate it or not, is that the government is like a super sized household, and I'm talking about currency issuing governments here, not Eurozone governments," he emphasised. "And are subject to the same constraints that a household is.
We all know about budgets. They're things we have to continually manage on a weekly basis in our households. We give our kids a 'budget' to teach them the value of money.
So it's natural that we personalise our integral understanding of how the government approaches things, and the first thing that we presume is that the government can run out of money. After all, we can run out of money, and we know that if we want to spend that we've got to earn income and we relate that at government level as raising taxes or that we have to sell assets.
If we want to raise money we have to sell some stuff on e-Bay, and so we interpret that in the government sense as privatisation. The third option is that we have to go to the bank and borrow or use our credit card and we interpret that as government borrowing.
So from this, we build a picture of government being like us. We see it as bigger than us but we see it financially constrained in the same manner that we are, and just like us it can't 'max our credit card out' or 'spend like a drunken sailor' and that ultimately we've got to pay the piper, and all these morality tales that we build into frame the narrative.
That's the biggest misconception. We don't appreciate that the Government has no financial constraints."
AIMN: MMT always draws fire from its critics through its insistence that governments can simply print more money to cover debt.
Mitchell: This is the second misconception. The average person has a total misconception of a 'cost'. So, when MMT says that the government has no financial constraints, that's not the same thing as no constraints. For example, you and I can't buy anything and everything that we want in Australian dollars because we can only buy what our spending resources allow us to.
As a currency issuing government though, we can buy whatever we want. Whatever is for sale in the currency of issue – we can buy, and… that's all it can buy! This means that it is not constrained by how much money it can spend but what is available for sale.
In other words, we've converted the concept from a financial constraint to a real constraint. Material things, goods and services.
For the individual, cost is calibrated in monetary terms, how much did it cost for this phone? What is the cost of a holiday?
These are real costs for us because if we spend the money on them we don't have the money to spend on other things because we're financially constrained, whereas for a currency issuing government, the numbers that go on the financial statements they punch into the "Budget papers" are not costs at all.
AIMN: How is money creation accounted for?
Mitchell: Someone in an office types it into a spread-sheet. They (Reserve Bank and Treasury), have double accounting ledgers for seignorage and notes.
The accounting's important, because it has to equal the accounting that shows dollar for dollar the government deficit equals the non-government surplus. It's very important that people understand this.
If you want the non-government sector to run down debt, then the government sector has to run-up debt. It's wrong to say that the accounting is irrelevant, but it's trivial in the extreme.
When the crisis hit the US, the Federal Reserve immediately transferred 80 billion dollars with one key stroke into the American private banking system – boom! – just like that.
When Ben Bernanke appeared before Congress to explain where the money had come from, he was asked; had it come from taxes? No, said Bernanke. Then where did it come? Bernanke replied that; 'you're best to understand that it came out of thin air.'"
Notes and coins are trivial. They're just a small part of it.
The other really important issue is what the concept of a "cost" is because we always talk about what the cost to government is. The cost isn't something that appears on numbers statements or balance sheets. The cost is the real resources that are being deployed by that spending.
The "cost" is a real resources concept, not a financial concept.
So when we say 'what does it cost for the Government to run a program?' It's not the dollar outlay that appears in the papers. The cost is the actual real resources that are diverted or used in that program."
AIMN: Define real resources.
Mitchell: Well, I would argue that the federal government of Australia and all currency issuing governments should make an unconditional offer of employment at a fixed wage to anyone who can't get a job.
Then the question becomes 'well, how can the government afford it?'
My argument is that while the typical narrative will assess the cost in the terms of the wages paid, the overhead costs and the supervisory costs and say the cost of the program is 20 billion but this is not the cost at all.
The cost is what extra food are the workers who are converted from unemployed to employed going to consume? What extra clothing are they going to require? How much extra transport are they going to use? What materials and equipment are those workers going to use, and working capital to convert into productive output?
That's the real cost.
The real resources of a Job Guarantee program would be the extra tools the worker's using or the materials needed.
So when people say 'How can they afford it?' Of course they can afford it as long as those real resources are available and one of the clearest indications that there is a massive amount of real resources available, is unemployment."
AIMN: You've been highly critical of the Job Network System/Jobs Services Australia in the past, do you think that the new model, Jobactive will fare any better than its predecessors?
Mitchell: When governments at different periods over the last decades abandoned the post WWII commitment to full employment, they created a head ache for themselves because even though they were intent on reducing public outlays, short of leaving people to starve or shooting them, they had a huge pool of unemployed that they had to manage in some way.
And consistent with all of the ideology of outsourcing and privatisation etc… they created this nightmarish system of managing the unemployed, which I call an industry. The Job Network system, Job Services Australia and the latest incarnation which has just started to unfold. It's a new industry and it's one that has zero productive output.
Its sole role is to manage the unemployed, rather than get them work which was the stated aim since it began in 1998.
The vast array of empirical evidence reveals that it has failed dramatically. Before the GFC, the headlines in the MSM continually featured statements from industry stating that we had massive skill shortages in Australia.
How do you get skill shortages when you've been spending billions of dollars allegedly re-training people, and preparing the unemployed with new skill sets? All of the evaluation, one way or the other, indicate that it's a parasitic, failing industry.
It's creating a profit seeking behaviour or if it's a not for profit organisation, some sort of rent seeking behaviour which is somewhat different but always manifests in high executive salaries and high management fees and captures public funding. We also know of the massive fraud in the scheme.
It was meant to be a private market for job services, and it was using all the ideological took kit from the mainstream economics textbooks about the benefit of free markets.
Yet, it wasn't a market at all.
The government set the price because it set the contracts, the firms weren't allowed to compete in a market, there were no competing job services. It was all stage-managed. The consumer set the prices and fixed them, there was no competition. It was just a nasty little way of deflecting public responsibility into the private providers who will have a socio-pathological bias in the way they treat the unemployed.
The whole concept of being unemployed was re-framed and suddenly the unemployed became clients or customers.
They're not customers! They're unemployed – they haven't got a job!
Yet, now they're clients, as if they're consumers, as if they've got choices. In the first model of the JNS, they didn't have any choices about placements, which is also seems to be the set up with the latest model.
The unemployed are not are a market, they're not a product!"
AIMN: How does MMT circumvent further unemployment and create jobs?
Mitchell: First you have to understand why unemployment arises. The Neo-liberal ideology that supports this harassment of the unemployed through this unemployment 'industry' has created the narrative and the construction that the cause of unemployment is the individual cause. If the person hasn't invested in skills earlier in life, has a lackadaisical attitude to life, doesn't want to work, prefers to live on the dole even though its well below the poverty line, that somehow this is created as some sort of Shangri-la that people aspire to as a life style choice.
The unemployed, who are the victims of systemic failure, are suddenly in the media and therefore in the public eye, as the cause of the problem.
You can't search for jobs that aren't there. You can push and shove and harass people to search harder but if there's only 100 jobs and there's 120 people chasing them, bad luck! You can rev up people through fear and income support loss but if there's a shortage of jobs – there's a shortage of jobs!
If you understand the systemic failure – and when there's systemic constraints individuals have very little power – one person against the system. Why does the system fail to produce enough jobs? Marx knew the answer, and later in a more acceptable form in the West, so did Keynes.
An economy is an input generating, output generating, spending machine.
If the income that's generated in some period isn't re-spent the next period, then the production plans of the firms that were based upon that expected spending will fail. They'll overproduce. When they have unsold inventory, they lay off workers.
It's so basic. Spending equals income and that equals output It's the most basic rule of macro – economics that's been lost in all of this."
AIMN: Critics of Keynesian economics are quick to point out that Keynes theories eventually led to stagflation. Why would MMT be any different?
Mitchell: Keynesian economics were developed during the fixed exchange rate period, when governments did have financial constraints because of convertibility issues, the tying of currency stocks to gold stocks. Nixon ended Bretton-Woods in 1971 even though it continued to live on for another few years in various forms.
That meant that the central bank was no longer required to maintain the exchange rate, and that monetary policy was no longer tied to the need to attract capital inflow and to suppress imports to maintain the currency position. The Keynesian economics of the '50s and '60s was within a fixed exchange rate system, whereas Modern Monetary Theory understands that, but talks about the implications of the break down of Bretton – Woods. The world changed dramatically in 1971 but economic thinking didn't change with it.
Keynesian economics didn't create stagflation. The commitment to full employment didn't create stagflation. Most people have this idea that if the government 'spends too much' it creates inflation.
The only way you can attach meaning to that is if you think of inflation as a certain amount of goods being available for sale and too many people wanting to buy them. In economics this is called 'demand-pull' inflation. Too much demand for the supply.
Inflation makes sense in that context and therefore you understand that if any of the components of total expenditure like the consumption, investment, or government spending or export spending are in sum greater than what's available for sale, then there's got to be some rationing device because we know that the production process responds by increasing output when there's more spending but if it can no longer increase output it has to ration that demand somehow and that's by price rises.
That's a sensible thing and therefore we understand that all expenditure components generate inflationary forces if they outstrip supply. The stagflation of the '70s, stagflation being inflation and unemployment, the inflation component had nothing to do with the demand being too strong, it was the oil price rise. and so we had up until then the relatively rarer concept of 'cost pushed' inflation where oil prices rose, raw material costs rose, the costs of production rose, that pushed up prices and then the government responded to that with contractions to fiscal and monetary policy which caused the unemployment.
As long as you don't have raw material shocks, and spending is keeping pace with productive activity then there wont be inflation."
AIMN: Does MMT think it's worthwhile chasing the very wealthy for their taxes providing they aren't spending their gains, rather, why not run an increased deficit over a over a short term. What about the rest of us? Why can't we have the option of saving rather than paying taxes?
Mitchell: The fundamental principle is that if the non government sector which is made up of the external sector and the firms and households all together and all of their spendings and savings plans, don't spend as much as they earn each period, then there'll be a spending gap.
If that gap's not filled then there'll be unsold goods produced from last season, leading to worker lay-offs. So the fundamental idea relates back to the causes of unemployment. If the non-government sector isn't intent on spending all their income each period, then the government sector has to fill the gap. Typically, it has to run a deficit.
Then you say; what about all those rich people who have got lot's of savings? Why don't you tax them more and run a smaller deficit. But if the government reduced its deficit to tax individuals who aren't spending, then you're going to get another spending gap and then the level of spending will fall below what's required to maintain full employment.
Progressives love the idea of taxing the rich but MMT's builds on the work of Abba Lerner's 1940s work, Functional Finance and what Functional Finance tells you is governments never tax to raise funds.
The function of tax is to reduce the spending power of the non-government sector. Why do we want to reduce to spending power of the non-government sector? So that you can create more space, real resource space for the government sector to spend, so you keep the economy below the inflation constraints.
The level of taxes that you'd want to raise in total are calibrated by the amount of spending space that you want the government to have to maintain full employment. So taxes aren't to raise revenue. That argument implicitly assumes that you could reduce your deficit because you'd have more money."
AIMN: So you're not in favour of the 'Buffet Solution' to tax the the rich?
Mitchell: It completely misunderstands the role of taxation and that's an understanding that MMT completely re-orientates your thinking about. It's to reduce spending power to create more real resource space. Given that there's got to be an overall tax take to make real resource space available for the governments program, it's not to fund the government's program, it's to make the real resources idle that the private sector may have been using, labour and other resources. Because if you don't make those idle then the government will just create inflation.
Given that there's got to be some level of taxes commensurate with your aspirations for a public sector program then the question is valid; how do you raise the revenue? What principles might be bought to bear? One of them is fairness and equity. Do you want low income earners having less purchasing power and the higher income earners paying tax disproportionate to their income?
Is it better to deprive the high income earner the third BMW in the garage or the yacht? Or the latest holiday to Aspen, relative to taking the food off the table of a low income earner? These are equity issues and MMT can't guide on equity issues. They're moral philosophies that you have to bring to bear on public policies and society has to develop its own set of norms for that.
I believe that I have a progressive leaning and I think that fairness tells me that I would much rather a low income earner having more food on the table or going to a cafe once a week or attending a sporting event or the cinema than a high earner going to the best restaurants in Aspen every a year."
AIMN: Finally, any thoughts on the style of economics currently being taught in high school?
Mitchell: It's consistent with the problems in the undergraduate programs in universities in that it's essentially teaching a wrong paradigm, it's ingraining students with invalid constructions about the way the monetary system operates. It uses metaphor and terminology that are plain wrong and it reinforces the inapplicability of the paradigm being taught. My view is that students would be better off not studying it at high school.


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