They are also brand new. For the drug as well the company is actual very helpful and realistically after insurance and the companies assistance I have paid 2, $15 co-pays the last 2 years.
I have dropped all medical treatments except for pancreatic enzymes due to these. My pulmonary function tests came back as 104 after over a year of dropping the primary treatments for this being albuteral, "vest", and sinus surgeries. If you qualify for this medication it's life changing.
This route is the same I took. The automatic machine pays off on your time for sure and just by having whole beans ground you will see an enormous flavor improvement.
Is there a good list of resources for media literacy you could recommend? I had been thinking of tackling this problem and am curious on journalist's take.
I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with non profit trade groups, as they're generally full of people with very tight butts about journalistic integrity and fewer advertisers/grant committees to please.
Honestly though the goal is to get a good lay of the land for both how a story goes from whiteboard/notebook brainstorm to print, and the general shape of the industry.
Small but impactful example: headlines are often written by a different person than the article. This leads to a lot of conflict, which is healthy in terms of producing quality journalism, but potentially confusing for the consumer who may not understand why.
The main goals would be
- Understand the roles of reporters (gathering), editors (verification), managing editors (suits), publishers (sugar daddies) and their roles for a single given piece, and within the org at large
- Media conglomerates disproportionately dominate local news. It's not just Fox and CNN or the NYT/WaPo, and the impact is far more damaging than the more obvious corporate influence).
These days I tend to stay away from the news for the most part, in an attempt to retain sanity. You don't need 24 hours of news. I read up for about 2-3 hours a week and feel more informed than ever.
Here are a few resources who probably can get you set in a better direction than I would:
Columbia journalism review
Nieman lab
Poytner institute
I don't know. It seems to me that it is a question of the purpose of the courts. Is the court there to provide a fair verdict and fair punishment or to dissuade behaviors? If it is the former why should the persons assets be considered as all. If the later why are traffic violations also not levied as apart of your net worth?
Fair punishment when it comes to fines should depend on the income. And maybe net wealth too excluding primary housing to certain median level of community.
Does a same fine have same deterrent level for both sub-minimum wage worker and billionaire? As that is clearly the goal of the fines. I think they should. And likely the billionaire should pay much higher relative proportion than someone at minimum wage as they have so much more disposable income.
Mostly, though it could be used to dissuade that person from repeat offense, AND/OR to dissuade others from committing that offense, AND/OR as a retribution for the act.
An example of the 2nd one would be the death penalty, there is no 'corrective' behavior option for the person, cause they be dead. This is usually marketed as a deterrent for others, however studies have shown this rarely works. Most often severe punishments like death more appropriately fall under the 3rd case above.
> If the later why are traffic violations also not levied as apart of your net worth?
You did not read the link at all, correct?
It clearly states that in places like Finland traffic violations are where you see "day fines".
> It seems to me that it is a question of the purpose of the courts.
The purpose of the courts is to interpret/enforce laws. Government creates these laws based on the will of the people.
If the purpose of the laws is not to "dissuade behaviours" why do we put people in jail? Isn't the whole purpose of the jail system to remove freedoms so they can think about their actions and not do that again?
Taking peoples money via "fines" is also intended to "dissuade behaviours" so your point is unclear?
The problem is the system has become somewhat of a joke.
Large bank creates thousands of fake accounts and earns millions in fees. Large bank is fined an amount below their "ill gotten gains" so the fine is nothing but a "cost of doing business". They are still ahead of the game at the end of the day.
> This is not offered to "poor" people, so we have a clear two-tier justice system.
This is absolutely not true in the US. Poor people are very much encouraged to settle without going to trial. In fact, the vast majority of all cases are resolved that way. Poor people relying on public defenders tend to get pushed into settling more easily than wealthy folks, even.
Indeed, it is the lack of public defenders that create a two-tier justice system more than anything in the US.
I belive in my lifetime from central ND there has not been that consistent cold of that for ~10 years but, a few weeks in a row of -10 were much more common. Although Grand Forks may be an exception as they are usually 5-10F cooler than central ND.
My curiosity in using things like heat pumps is that what happens when you move too much of that heat energy away. The heat might be doing nothing but, it has been there for a long time. At what point is too much heat displaced to the surface and what is the outcome of that?
For them to actually work the energy needs to be replaced, flowing from the hot areas to the (relatively) cold areas, mostly coming from the sun.
If you have a small area and continually pump the heat out then you end up with the inside of a freezer, which uses the same tech for exactly that purpose, but also intentionally insulates to prevent the heat getting back in.
This exception wise might be the case but, the cost to performance is probably just less for some senior folks compared to up and coming new people. For instance if i have 10+ year employee who has received 3% cost of living raises + additional performance raises they likely have a cost/performance ratio worse than the A player with 5 years experience who wants to move up. I can promote them for a bump in salary and have someone who hasn't accumulated as much cost overtime with a similar performance. I reduced capacity, improved moral for an A player and cut cost in one decision. There would also be minimal impact moral wise to the remaining organization by hiring within. That's just my take though and I am no authority in the topic.
Funnily enough, I think this may be accidently done by parents for their kids learning improvement. When they get home at a young age parents, or atleast mine, would ask what I learned in school. My memory from times I answered faithfully vs started answering "nothing" seems to be rooted deeper. Could simply be due to age though.
