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warc | 202143 | There are several reasons people could want to start their own businesses. For instance, some may want to build their investments, while others just want to earn a living after losing their formal employment. Whichever the case, starting your own business can give you the freedom to become your own boss and control your destiny. However, while starting and running your own business can be an exciting venture, several challenges can hinder you from succeeding. Some of these barriers are legal issues. So, if you want to get your enterprise off the ground, and stay ahead of the competition, here are some legal problems you must avoid: 1. Incorrect Business Structure One of the major legal challenges facing most new business owners is what form or structure of a company to launch. There are different types of startup business structures, and each has its implications in terms of tax liabilities, funding opportunities, personal liabilities, and much more. Some of the major business structures you can launch include a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability companies and corporations. Though you can change your business structure as your startup grows, you can avoid many future legal issues by choosing the right business structure at the beginning. For more information about business structures and their legal implications, you can consult an experienced and reputable Miami business lawyer if your business is in the area. 2. Lack Of Certifications and Operating Licenses Before any business opens its doors, the Companies Act requires it to have the right operational licenses and permits. So, before you launch your startup business, ensure you’ve got all the certifications and licenses needed by the law. Operating a business without the required licenses can have very serious legal implications for your firm in the future. For instance, it can attract huge fines and penalties and can affect your future profitability. So, it’d be a good idea to consult experts to advise you about all the legal requirements you need to meet before launching your business. 3. Absence Of Founder’s Agreement Conflicts are one of the major issues that can affect the growth of your startup business. For that reason, you need to have a binding agreement among business founders and other shareholders. So, before you launch your startup, it’s a good idea to draft a founders agreement explaining the roles and responsibilities of each founder member and other stakeholders. Other information to be included in this agreement include each founder’s equity contribution and company dividend policy. A founder’s agreement can act as a reference in case of a dispute. 4. Ignorance Of Applicable Taxation Laws Compliance with taxation laws is a must for any business, and startups aren’t exempted. Failure to submit and file the relevant tax information can attract hefty penalties. So, when starting your business, you must first understand your tax liabilities towards the local and the central government. Also, you must be aware of the documentation you must maintain after submitting and filing for your taxes. Note that different tax rates apply to different business structures. Therefore, you must choose your startup structure wisely to avoid paying high taxes to the government. 5. Improper Employee Contracts Lack of proper employee agreements is another major challenge facing startups in the modern business world. So, whether you employ your workers on a permanent or casual basis, you must put it in writing. In addition, allow employees to read and understand all the employment terms and conditions, compensations, and other employment information before they can sign the agreement. Failure to maintain a formal employment agreement can cause many troubles for your startups. For that reason, you can work with an expert to help draft employment contracts and formally legalize them. When doing this, you need to be guided by labor laws. 6. Failure To Protect Intellectual Property Assets Another legal challenge facing startups is improper protection of intellectual property assets. During the initial stages of startups, they might not have intellectual asset properties. However, they can create such assets as they grow and expand. That’s is why any startup should think about protecting their intellectual assets from the beginning. Some common intellectual properties include algorithms, website codes, logos, research findings, product designs, and much more. Protecting your intellectual property assets helps shield their ownerships from your competitors. In other words, it ensures you legally own them, and no one else could claim their ownership. 7. Non-Compliance With Security Laws Non-compliance with security laws is another big legal issue that can harm your startup business in the future. Complying with security rules and regulations is a legal requirement for any business. When operating your business, you’ll come into contact with customers’ vital information. Security laws require you not to disclose such information to third parties. For that reason, you need to follow all the rules regarding customers’ and other stakeholders’ data security. 8. Improper Documentation When Selling Shares Some startups owners may decide to sell part of their ownership in order to raise funds. When they sell shares, they’re required to document these transactions to help formalize the agreement fully. However, most startups fail to adhere to this regulation. They, therefore, end up finding themselves on the wrong side of the law. You can avoid this by properly documenting your transitions when selling some shares of your firm. For that reason, you need to read and understand all rules governing the sale of shares in your country or consult an expert to guide you. Takeaway When starting a business, most people focus on growing the number of customers and fail to comply with the legal rules governing their business operations. For that reason, they end up spending a lot of money after facing legal lawsuits. That’s why every startup needs to understand all the potential legal challenges and avoid them. In summary, some of the legal issues that startup businesses can face include failure to launch the correct business structure, operating without proper licenses, absentees of founders and employees’ agreements, and much more. Avoiding these legal issues can help to improve your business efficiency, enhance public relations, promote workers engagement and retention, and more importantly, allow you to maximize your profits. | 6,665 | 2,735 | 16,054.486289 |
warc | 202143 | One of PEWS's continuing activities is an interdisciplinary 'R&D' (research and discussion) group. We're proud to announce that some of the members of that group have coauthored an article in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science that's now available online. The article, "Divergence of values and goals in participatory research," suggests that existing schemes for categorizing types of participatory research should be updated to reflect the relationship participants' goals bear to those of the researchers, a relationship that is significant for the value of the public participation in the research and of the research itself. The paper's authors are Lucas Dunlap, Amanda Corris, Melissa Jacquart, Zvi Biener, and Angela Potochnik. You can access the article at this link (freely available until September 2!) | 826 | 483 | 1,405.73913 |
warc | 202143 | As of end of October 2020, Uganda hosted some 1,434,708 million refugees and other persons of concern in the country, including those originating from South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda and others. 94 percent of the population of concern live in the settlements, while 6 percent reside in urban areas in Kampala. 82 percent of the population comprise women and children, while 3 percent are elderly persons and 22 percent are youth. Uganda's progressive refugee policy grants refugee’s freedom of movement, the right to seek employment and establish businesses, and to access public services such as education, health care and justice.
Despite a favorable protection environment, the number and vulnerability of refugee’s, scarcity of resources and stress on social-economic amenities continue to hamper the quality of protection. Social Service delivery in the hosting Districts is overstretched requiring support for enhancement to meet the needs of all, both the refugees and their hosts. In order to protect and enhance the asylum space and promote peaceful co-existence, the refugee response must address the perspectives and expectations of the communities hosting refugees.
The SGBV Unit in Kampala provides coordination, technical guidance and field support on including on prevention, response and mitigation and engages refugees in community mobilization and empowerment, ensuring an age gender and diversity (AGD) approach, protection and empowerment of persons with specific needs (PSN), accountability to affected people (AAP) and psychosocial support.
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Violence against Children continue to be major protection concerns in the refugee program, coming against a backdrop of the Uganda refugee population being made up of over 85% women and children. For the last three years, an average of over 5,000 new SGBV incidents have been identified, managed and documented in the refugee settings. While these numbers are concerningly high, they are not fully representative of the extent of the situation as under-reporting or delayed reporting of SGBV incidents remain a major concern, the ongoing engagement with refugees aimed at attitude/social norm change and general awareness has borne significant dividends over time and needs to be sustained. Timely response to the reported incidents continues to inspire confidence for more refugees to report cases, with the assurance that they will get support, and this similarly needs to be a sustained effort. This situation is at present being exacerbated by the significant increase in SGBV cases attributed to the COVID 19 containment measures and restrictions which led to the UNHCR Uganda Operation successfully joining in the appeal for Central Emergency Response Fund -Underfunded Emergencies (CERF-UFE) funding under the project titled "Urgent Response to the Impact of COVID-19 on the protection of refugees, particularly women and children in Uganda Emergencies (UFE)". This project will be implemented in five refugee settlements in West Nile region of Uganda and Kyangwali Refugee settlement. | 3,152 | 1,568 | 6,301.989796 |
warc | 202143 | When getting a new boiler installed or having your current boiler serviced, it's always a good idea to employ a Gas Safe certified engineer. United Heating has developed a list of reasons why you should hire a gas safe engineer! What does the Gas Safe Register consist of, and what does it signify?
The Gas Safe registration is a list of engineers who have invested their time, are qualified, and adhere to all applicable laws and regulations. United Heating is Gas Safe registered, so you can rest easy knowing you're in excellent hands! Remember that all gas engineers must be on the Gas Safe Register by law.
Safety
Gas Safe qualified specialists are trained to perform safe gas work and identify any problems while installing, repairing, or maintaining gas equipment, assuring your and your family's safety.
Because carbon monoxide (the gas inside your equipment) is extremely flammable and dangerous if inhaled, the person you employ to install your boiler needs to know what they're doing and be Gas Safe certified. Instead of cutting corners, trust the Triangle.
Unauthorised fitters who aren't fully qualified do nearly 1.1 million gas jobs each year, according to Gas Safe Register. As a result, households are at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, gas leaks, fires, and explosions.
Many of these unlicensed installers were hired simply on the basis of word-of-mouth recommendations. In none of the circumstances had the fitter's credentials been checked. In the last three years, 22 people have died and almost 1,000 have been injured as a result of gas incidents, according to the Health and Safety Executive. So always. make sure to check your engineer's credentials to keep yourself safe.
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It is vital to possess a healthy relationship to survive the loneliness of living apart from your partner. A great way to maintain a healthy relationship with your spouse while you’re living together should be to have regular sex. This will help to keep you actually and emotionally connected. This will also construct a strong foundation for a near future relationship, since you’ll be living together you will most likely generate decisions jointly on a regular basis. Intimacy is a very important factor we can’t avoid, and so the least we can perform is make an effort to make it work.
Connection is a vital part of any long length relationship. To experience a healthy, lasting relationship is actually essential that your companion is prepared of every stage of your relationship with her or him, especially each day. To keep the partnership alive and thriving, you will need to communicate frequently and effectively. It is recommended that couples have turns reading their partner’s emails, text messaging, or cellular phone messages during every stage of the relationship, so that you will find consistent conversation and no uncertainty.
Communication takes on a key position in developing healthy relationships and it is essential that both lovers involved participate in this activity. In fact , the moment engaged in a conversation, you partner should lead, with the additional being able to stick to. When done effectively, this could increase closeness, open up lines of connection, and help associates feel more connected.
A great way to ensure a good distance romantic relationship thrives is by avoiding suffering all of those strategies mentioned previous. If you plus your partner can not face each other in person because of work or school responsibilities, it’s still possible to stay connected through text message and video chat. Texts can be used to confirm identities and discuss significant problems like current events. Video chat is fantastic to stay in touch if someone you don’t understand online suddenly sends you some text, since it enables you to see the person’s face.
Toxins can also impact your long-time relationship. In a recent examine, it was found out that the accumulation of toxins, such as cigarette smoke and alcohol, can actually reduce the amount of period you spend together with your significant other. This really is particularly significant if the few spends a lot of their early evenings in front of the tv. It is possible to be able to the pattern of dangerous relationship simply by breaking these kinds of rituals, which can make both of you feel even more emotionally connected to one another.
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It takes do the job to make virtually any relationship operate. Most couples are not walking down the avenue today. There are plenty of factors that happen to be outside of the control of possibly the associates. But , if the two partners include realistic prospects of the other, the relationship can become more than the sum of its parts. So , how can you know if your relationship is healthy?
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Another good signal that a couple is proceeding down the correct path is communication. Many couples don’t communicate their needs to each other which leads to fights. If both partners will be clear of the needs and wants and so are communicating them at all times, then a good relationship is being shaped.
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warc | 202143 | While you cannot combine your student loans with your spouse’s, you can potentially refinance your loans and add your spouse as a co-signer. While you cannot combine your student loans with your spouse’s, you can potentially refinance your loans and add your spouse as a co-signer.
Can you refinance someone else’s student loan?
Whatever the reason, you might be wondering, “Can I transfer student loans to another person?” Yes, you can — just not via the Department of Education. To transfer student loans, you’ll need to find someone willing to refinance with a private lender under their own name.
Should married couples consolidate student loans?
Consolidating student loans with your spouse can save you money if you get a lower interest rate. Multiple studies have shown that student debt can cause borrowers to delay getting married. … You combine your student loans with your partner’s into one spousal loan with a lower interest rate.
Can a spouse be held responsible for student loan debt?
If you cosigned on your spouse’s student loans at any time, whether they’re federal loans, private loans, or refinanced loans, that means you are legally liable for those student loans. … If your spouse dies or is otherwise unable to pay back their loans, the lender will look to you to pay them back.
What happens when you marry someone with student loan debt?
When you get married, if either one of you takes on any new student debt or refinance your existing loans, it legally becomes both partners’ responsibilities if you live in a community property state — Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington or Wisconsin. California is also a community property …
Can I take over my wife’s student loans?
“Student loans cannot be put in someone else’s name other than by refinancing them into a new loan,” student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz explained over email. Previously, married borrowers could consolidate federal loans, but Congress repealed this ability in 2006 due to issues that arose when couples divorced.
Can I transfer my Sallie Mae loans to another lender?
Sallie Mae consolidation is no longer offered for their private loans. However, students can refinance their Sallie Mae and other private student loans through another private lender or bank, which would then switch over the management of the new refinanced loan to that lender.
Can married couples consolidate debt?
The rules about debt and marriage are fairly straightforward: If you and your partner take out debt together, either before or after you’re married, you’ll both be equally responsible for repaying it. This includes lines of credit, credit cards, or other accounts that are jointly owned or cosigned.
How do you combine your student loans?
You can consolidate federal student loans for free with the Department of Education at studentaid.gov. If you want to consolidate — or refinance — your loans with a private lender, apply directly on the lender’s website.
Can the IRS take my husband’s tax refund for my student loans?
If you’re married and you file taxes jointly, the IRS may take your entire tax refund regardless of whether your spouse has any student loan debt of their own. … The IRS is legally required to notify you by mail if they plan to confiscate your tax refund, and you have some time to respond.
What does married but Cannot reasonably access?
Generally, if you say you’re married but cannot reasonably access my spouse’s income information, you’re committing fraud.
Do student loans go away when you die?
If you have federal student loans and pass away, your family can apply for loan discharge due to death and have the remaining balance forgiven.
Do student loans disappear after 7 years?
Student loans don’t go away after 7 years. There is no program for loan forgiveness or loan cancellation after 7 years. However, if it’s been more than 7.5 years since you made a payment on your student loan debt and you default, the debt and the missed payments can be removed from your credit report.
Can a spouse’s wages be garnished for student loans?
The answer is yes. Your student loan creditors can garnish your spouse’s wages to recover the amount of your defaulted student loan.
How does student loan debt affect relationships?
Dealing with student loan debt can cause anxiety and stress, and relationships are certainly not immune. In fact, student loan debt is to blame in one in eight divorces, according to a study by SunTrust Bank. Fighting about money is the second leading cause of divorce, according to survey by Ramsey Solutions. | 4,768 | 1,999 | 10,895.55978 |
warc | 202143 | What are critical success factors in business and how to identify them?
They are the few key areas where things must go right for the business to flourish.
There are four main types of CSFs. Each of the CSFs that you establish in your organization will likely fall into, and have been defined by, one of these groups.
Industry factors
Result from the specific characteristics of your industry. These are the things that you must do to remain competitive within your sector. For example, a tech start-up might identify innovation as a CSF.
Environmental factors
Result from macro-environmental influences on your organization: the business climate, the economy, your competitors, and technological advancements, for example. A PEST Analysis can help you to understand environmental factors better.
Strategic factors
Result from the specific competitive strategy that your organization follows. This could include the way your organization chooses to position and market itself, and whether it's a high-volume, low-cost producer, or a low-volume, high-cost one.
Temporal factors
Result from the organization's internal changes and growth and are usually short-lived. Specific barriers, challenges, directions, and influences will determine these CSFs. For example, a rapidly expanding business might have a CSF of increasing its international sales.
Six Steps to Identify and Develop Your CSFs
To identify and develop CSFs for your organization, follow these six steps
i. Establish your organization's mission and strategic goals
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ii. For each strategic goal, ask yourself, "Success in what area of business or project activity is essential to achieve this goal?" The answers to the question are your potential (or "candidate") CSFs.
iii. Evaluate your list of candidate CSFs to identify the ones that are truly essential for achieving your goals – these are your Critical Success Factors. As you identify and evaluate candidate CSFs, you may uncover some new strategic objectives, or refine existing ones. So, you may need to redefine your goals and CSFs as you go along.
iv. Work out how you will monitor and measure each of your CSFs.
v. Clearly communicate your CSFs to those responsible for delivering them and to rest of the business.
vi. Continually monitor and reassess your CSFs to make sure that you stay on track toward your goals. Although CSFs can be less tangible than measurable targets or KPIs, monitor each one as specifically as possible.
Although there's no absolute rule, it's a good idea to limit the number of CSFs to five or fewer. This helps to ensure that each CSF has maximum impact and gives clear direction on priorities to other elements of your business. | 2,714 | 1,305 | 5,579.817625 |
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In general, Francis turbines are known to last for 40 to 50 years of use. However, exchanging an old turbine for a new is expensive because of modernization costs. Therefore, many modernization projects will take place through new runner changes. The Francis turbine in this paper has a high specific speed of about 330m-kW and a runner diameter of about 4.3m. The new runner can be expected to have a more stable flow and improved performance by flow analysis. In this paper, the performance analysis of the runner was performed using the CFD by Design Of Experiments (DOE). The sensitivity of variables was examined using L18 method. Numerical analysis was performed via BladeGen, Turbogrid, ICEM CFD, and CFX, which are commercial CFD codes. The design goal is to enable not only the best efficiency point but also a more stable operation than before even at partial load conditions. Find out how to find the shape of a runner blade by searching for design points that maximize annual power generation according to newly selected operating conditions.
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warc | 202143 | OFFSET MORTGAGES
An offset mortgage can allow you to make use of your savings to offset the interest on your mortgage repayments. It can seem confusing at first, as not many people are aware that offset mortgages exist. Before making any sort of financial decision such as the type of mortgage you need, it’s important to understand your options with independent advice.
At Watts Mortgage & Wealth Management, our team of highly qualified advisers can help you find the right type of mortgage to suit your individual circumstances. An offset mortgage could be a good option if you have a variable wage or if you earn an annual bonus.
How does an offset mortgage work?
Offset mortgages can help you save on the interest of your mortgage. It works by having your savings account and mortgage combined into the same account, so that your savings count as temporary overpayments. The benefit here is that you still have access to your savings and can spend them if you need to.
This differs to making overpayments on a traditional mortgage, whereby the money would go straight to the lender. What’s more, you could also protect your savings from tax. The important thing to remember is that offset mortgages are likely to have higher interest rates.
Should you get an offset mortgage?
At Watts, our team of advisers can help you to make an informed decision on your mortgage product. We have years of experience in wider financial planning to ensure you make the right choice, and you’ll get access to a dedicated adviser who you can speak to directly. It’s our job to alleviate any financial stress, whether it’s through independent advice or searching the whole of market to find the right product for you.
Taking time to understand your circumstances, we can help you decide whether an offset mortgage is right for you and your family. We are not tied to one provider or a panel of providers; instead we use every provider out there to find a mortgage deal that suits your financial situation.
Find out more about the right mortgage for you by getting in touch on 01270620555 or email us at advice@watts-ifa.com.
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Act as a fire protection device by removing the grease Remove fume and heat from cooking area below The kitchen exhaust system is designed to pull grease laden fume up into the hood and to the purities where it’s filtered, turned back into grease either vacated into a catch salver. The three fundamental hood designs are the cover, the galley and the recession. The nigher the hood is to the cuisine shell, the more fruitful it is. The hood is where the first filtration of the fog takes place. The size of the hood depends upon the type of cooking paraphernalia and genuine size of the paraphernalia being exploited. There are two types of mass-market hoods in diners. First is the Type 1 which is used over grease producing paraphernalia. By law, these hoods must be continuously welded and must be suspended bynon-combustible hangers. Type 2 hoods may be used over appliances that only produce fog, fogs and odors only! They also don’t necessitate spots. It’s a diner hood eviscerating company’s responsibility to inform the possessor in writing that a Type 2 system over grease producing paraphernalia isn’t fire safe because of its construction. Notwithstanding, there must be access for proper cleaning, If mutes are installed in the throat of the hood. The access is suppose to be as close as possible to the hood but shouldn’t exceed 18 height according to NFPA# 96. Down- draft hoods are rare presently, but there are still a numerous of them out there. A hood detergent must be really careful with these systems because they collect a heavy quantum of grease because of seriousness. The air current takes the steam down under the caff before exiting the edifice. The most common type of hoods seen in caffs moment are ceiling style. They’re a simple design, do a good job and are easy to maintain. restaurant hood cleaning is ordinarily a simple task with these hoods. Just make sure that your hood drawing company is drawing the entire exhaust system and not the hood only. | 2,220 | 1,109 | 4,367.935077 |
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SALT deductibility does create serious issues, however. SALT was the largest itemized deduction, allowing itemizers to export a substantial portion of their burdens onto other Americans through the federal tax code. If I faced a 30percent federal marginal tax rate, paying $100 more in SALT lowers my federal tax bill by $30. It only costs me $70. Because that subsidy rises the more property is owned and the higher the income of the owner, the distortion overwhelmingly favors the richest, with the middle-class (who own less property, earn less, and face lower marginal tax rates) getting far smaller benefits, and non-itemizers getting no subsidy at all. In the process, it also subsidizes high state and local tax states at others’ expense.
Even when citizens do not feel they get their money’s worth from SALT-financed services, federal deductibility still subsidizes those governments, increasing their incentives to act in ways contrary to citizens’ interests. No wonder Democrats in high budget/high tax states are so strident in supporting deductibility. In the example above, federal income tax deductibility means that as long as a local citizen believes such spending provides more than 70 cents of value per dollar of spending, and they don’t take into account the added federal burdens they must bear from those similarly subsidized elsewhere, they think they gain. That encourages those governments to do more of what they should not do and more of what they do badly, not more of what their citizens find worth doing.
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Publication Date: 6 October 2021
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warc | 202143 | I sat down with my male colleagues (yes, again, all men) to negotiate our communication obstacles and discuss the situation of uterus prolapse in Nepal. Binot-ji, began by handing me flip charts and posters that explained the problem. Though I couldn’t understand the writing on them, they were accompanied by extensive cartoon drawings that illustrated many of the causes I learned about from the medical students. As only 35% of Nepali women can read (compared with 85% of men) all informational materials targeted at women have to include such illustrations to communicate their message.
The first phase of our discussion involved the men trying to help me understand how uterus prolapse was caused; aided by the visuals and my prior knowledge this task was fairly successful. We then moved on to they “why it is such a big problem” phase. They communicated it is a very pervasive problem affecting incredibly high proportions of women in Nepal. Subsequent internet research I did revealed several articles discussing the problem and conservatively placing the incidence at 10% of Nepali women.
They also expressed concern and explained that uterus prolapse is causing a lot of social problems including something along the lines of divorce. The significant social ramifications of a medical problem surprised me and the simple response to my query about how this could lead to divorce came after a few minutes of discussion among themselves. One man turned to me and said “sexual satisfaction.” When I looked confused he continued sadly, “women much pain, men not satisfied take new wife.”
He further explained that this is a very bad situation for the women because if they are cast out by their husbands and their parents often won’t take them back due to economic hardship. This leaves such destitute women no other choice than to work as a servant in a home that will provide them food and shelter in exchange for their work – often becoming a servant to their husband and his new wife.
Just then Binot-ji who had been rustling around in his desk passed me a stack of pictures. I almost fell out of my chair. It was a stack of pictures of women their on backs (many on hardwood floors), with stick think legs and heels flexibly tucked into fleshless buttocks in a manner a yogi would envy. Yet they held a tension that belied their discomfort while they revealed their most intimate selves. In a shocked daze I flipped through several pictures of women in the early stages of prolapse with their parts looking essentially normal except for narrow slits of white at the center. As I continued through the stack my heart sank into my stomach.
Picture after picture showed protrusions of increasing size. The prolapses grew from the size of a lemon to an orange, to a grapefruit, and ultimately to a small cantelope. The larger ones had sores on the sides where the delicate tissue of the hanging uterus had become chaffed by walking thighs that rubbed against it. Many of the women pictured were clearly elderly, identifiable by wrinkled and leathery skin covering stringy muscles that hung off spindly legs and lacked any tone of youth.
Images flashed to mind of women I’ve been seeing throughout Nepal staggering under the weight of heavy loads balanced on the crown of their heads or wrapping from their foreheads down into woven baskets leaning against their backs.
I have been consistently amazed by the older subset of these women who appear so fragile yet are so strong and saddened by the need that makes them so. Realizing that many of them maintain despite intense pain and social disgrace was overwhelming.
Then I came across a set of pictures that was stapled together – first another uterus prolapse and then a picture of the woman it belonged to staring straight into the camera with a hollow expression and her saree draped over her head. It just was. Her lack of anonymity and courage truly stunned me.
By the end of the stack the tears had welled up and the damn was breaking. I put the pictures down, stepped outside, sank down in the shade on the concrete porch and sobbed. I was grieving for the shame and isolation these women feel, for the pain they endure, the stigma and trauma that can result from a preventable medical condition, that their ultimate worth is their means of sexual satisfaction for their husbands, and to top it all off, the fact that their most private and delicate parts were being casually passed around in full color for a roomful of strange men to inspect.
The wave passed and as I was sitting trying to collect myself and generate some dignity to rejoin the meeting Prakash gingerly walked up (for the second time) to see if was alright. Looking at my sadly he indicated that he had also looked at the pictures as well while I was outside and felt, “very sensitive.” He pumped some water for me to wash my face, I took a deep breath, and we went back inside. Thankfully, everyone was engaged in quiet side conversation and kindly didn’t stop when I walked in. After a few minutes we picked up right where we had left off. As I now had quite a grasp of the problem we moved on to the final phase of our conversation and discussed solutions.
They explained that different treatments are available for each of the phase – though the latter stages can only be addressed through surgery the earlier stages can be corrected through a combination of exercise, lifestyle modifications, and the insertion of an uncomfortable platex ring that is changed every 3 months and holds the uterus in place while the ligaments heal.
We then discussed the program CDF implemented in their district, their desire to make the program national, and the general lack of interest in addressing the problem.
With the help of an INGO “Safe Motherhood” CDF has made treatment and surgery available to all women living in the district, paying the costs for those who cannot afford it themselves. When I asked them why there was so little attention to the problem they sadly remarked “it is an issue that only concerns women,” and continued to give evidence about the lack of concern for women’s issues by explaining that the national head of the government’s Women’s Affairs is a man.
Finally, Binot-ji explained that CDF desperately want to make this issue one of the main focuses of their work and asked if I had any ideas about how to make the international community interested in helping with the problem. Simultaneously I felt completely overwhelmed and completely moved. I gave them my word that would give the situation serious though and would do whatever little bit I could to help raise awareness of the issue. Writing this blog has been the first step.
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warc | 202143 | Upcoming
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warc | 202143 | Abstract
A highly aggressive subset of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas undergo trans-differentiation into the squamous lineage during disease progression. While the tumorigenic consequences of this aberrant cell fate transition are poorly understood, recent studies have identified a role for the master regulator TP63 in this process. Here, we investigated whether squamous trans-differentiation of pancreatic cancer cells can influence the phenotype of non-neoplastic cells in the tumor microenvironment. Conditioned media experiments revealed that squamous-subtype pancreatic cancer cells secrete factors that convert quiescent pancreatic stellate cells into a specialized subtype of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) that express inflammatory genes at high levels. We use gain- and loss-of-function approaches
in vivo to show that squamous-subtype pancreatic tumor models become enriched with inflammatory CAFs and neutrophils in a TP63-dependent manner. These non cell-autonomous effects occur, at least in part, through TP63-mediated activation of enhancers at pro-inflammatory cytokine loci, which includes IL1A as a key target. Taken together, our findings reveal enhanced tissue inflammation as a consequence of squamous trans-differentiation in pancreatic cancer, thus highlighting an instructive role of tumor cell lineage in reprogramming the stromal microenvironment. INTRODUCTION
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the most lethal human tumors, with a five year survival rate below 10% (Siegel et al., 2019). Despite the overall association with poor clinical outcomes, a striking heterogeneity in the presentation and progression of this disease exists between individuals, including differing rates of metastatic spread and responses to cytotoxic chemotherapy (Collisson et al., 2019). Owing to this issue, a major objective in PDA research is to uncover molecular mechanisms that underpin this clinical heterogeneity. Such efforts may yield much-needed biomarkers capable of predicting disease progression, as well as personalized therapeutic strategies that target critical disease drivers in each patient’s tumor.
It has long been recognized that a subset of pancreatic tumors exhibit an ‘adenosquamous’ histology, which is characterized by the presence of both glandular and squamous neoplastic cells within the same tumor (Ishikawa et al., 1980; Morohoshi et al., 1983; Motojima et al., 1992). The designation of adenosquamous pancreatic cancer as a disease entity has been reinforced by several recent transcriptome profiling studies of human pancreatic tumors, which identified aberrant expression of squamous (also known as basal) lineage markers in ∼15% of samples, in association with exceptionally poor clinical outcomes (Bailey et al., 2016; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2017; Moffitt et al., 2015). While squamous cells are a normal cell type in several stratified epithelial tissues (e.g. skin, esophagus), they are not known to be present in the normal human pancreas (Basturk et al., 2005). This suggests an aberrant ductal-to-squamous epithelial cell fate transition induced during pancreatic tumorigenesis.
The functional relevance of squamous trans-differentiation in pancreatic cancer was unclear until recently, when studies from several laboratories, including our own, demonstrated that the transcription factor TP63 (delta N isoform, hereafter referred to as TP63 for simplicity) is the master regulator of the adenosquamous phenotype in PDA (Andricovich et al., 2018; Hamdan and Johnsen, 2018; Somerville et al., 2018). Once expressed, TP63 binds to thousands of genomic sites to nucleate the formation of active enhancers to drive expression of squamous lineage genes (e.g.
KRT5/6 and S100A2) in PDA cells (Hamdan and Johnsen, 2018; Somerville et al., 2018). Importantly, TP63 is both necessary and sufficient to endow PDA cells with the same squamous lineage transcriptional program that is observed in pancreatic tumors with adenosquamous histology (Bailey et al., 2016; Hamdan and Johnsen, 2018; Somerville et al., 2018). While the mechanisms that induce TP63 expression in PDA remain unclear, it has been shown in mice that inactivation of the tumor suppressor Kdm6a or over-expression of Myc can predispose pancreatic tumors to express squamous markers, albeit with partial penetrance (Andricovich et al., 2018; Witkiewicz et al., 2015). In support of the functional impact of squamous trans-differentiation in PDA, induction of TP63 leads to a collection of phenotypic alterations, including enhanced motility, invasion, and resistance to cytotoxic chemotherapy (Danilov et al., 2011; Somerville et al., 2018).
Evidence from human patients and mouse models supports a powerful effect of inflammation in driving PDA progression (Guerra et al., 2011; Guerra et al., 2007; Yadav and Lowenfels, 2013). A key step in this process is an elaboration of pro-inflammatory cytokines by tumor cells and non-neoplastic cells in the stromal compartment (Mantovani et al., 2008). For example, many pancreatic tumors are infiltrated with neutrophils, which suppress anti-tumor T-cell immunity in PDA mouse models and correlate with aggressive disease in humans (Bayne et al., 2012; Chao et al., 2016; Inoue et al., 2014; Shen et al., 2014; Steele et al., 2016). A major cell type in the stroma of PDA tumors are CAFs, which have historically been considered tumor-promoting, however recent studies suggest they may also have tumor restraining functions (Öhlund et al., 2014; Özdemir et al., 2014; Rhim et al., 2014). A subset of CAFs with myofibroblastic properties, termed myCAFs, appear to be involved in the production of extracellular matrix which limits drug delivery to the tumor (Olive et al., 2009; Provenzano et al., 2012; Sherman et al., 2014). Another subset of CAFs, termed iCAFs, have low expression of myCAF markers and instead produce high levels of inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-6, CXCL1, and LIF (Öhlund et al., 2017). Although the iCAF/myCAF ratio, the extent of neutrophil infiltration, and the overall level of stromal inflammation can vary significantly between PDA patients, the underlying features of cancer cells that drive these differences are only beginning to be understood (Vennin et al., 2019).
Here we provide evidence that TP63-expressing squamous PDA cells have an enhanced capability to promote inflammatory changes within the tumor microenvironment when compared to TP63-negative PDA cells. These findings are supported by
in vitro and in vivo experiments, and include activation of an inflammatory transcriptional program in CAFs of the tumor stroma. These effects are mediated via a specific cytokine secretion phenotype of PDA cells downstream of TP63-mediated enhancer reprogramming. Taken together, these findings highlight how lineage alterations within cancer cells orchestrate non cell-autonomous changes in the tumor microenvironment. RESULTS A secretory phenotype of TP63-positive PDA cells that promotes inflammatory gene expression changes in CAFs in vitro
In a prior study, we found that ectopic expression of TP63 in the human PDA cell line SUIT2 (which lacks endogenous TP63 expression) enhanced cell growth when implanted into the mouse pancreas
in vivo, yet this phenotype was absent under tissue culture conditions (Somerville et al., 2018). These findings led us to hypothesize that TP63 expression alters how PDA cells communicate with non-neoplastic cells in the tumor stroma. Here, we focused our studies on CAFs, given their established roles in PDA pathogenesis (Kalluri, 2016). To this end, we collected conditioned media from 12 human PDA cell lines exhibiting different expression levels of squamous markers (e.g. TP63 and KRT5) (Fig. 1A-C and S1A). Of note, MIAPaca2 cells only express the TA isoform of TP63 (Fig. S1A) and lack expression of squamous lineage markers (Somerville et al., 2018) and in fact are more representative of a cell type of neuroendocrine origin (Yu et al., 2019). The collected media was then applied to quiescent murine pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs), which are a precursor of CAFs in PDA, and RNA-sequencing analysis was performed on the PSC cultures following 96 hours to evaluate the cellular response (Fig. 1D). An unsupervised clustering of the global transcriptional profile of the PSCs revealed three distinct groups (Fig. 1E). Two of the treated PSC cultures clustered closely with the untreated controls, suggesting they remained in a quiescent transcriptional state (Fig. 1E). However, two major groups were found to cluster away from the control PSC cultures and were termed Group 1 and Group 2 (Fig. 1E). Remarkably, the PSCs within the Group 2 cluster were all treated with conditioned media derived from the three PDA cell lines expressing TP63 (BxPC3, T3M4, and KLM1; Fig. 1A-B and S1A). In addition to this transcriptional phenotype, the conditioned media from TP63-expressing lines also led to a stronger induction of PSC proliferation than conditioned media collected from TP63-negative lines (Fig. S1B-C). We next extracted the subset of genes that discriminate the Group 1 and Group 2 clusters of PSC transcriptional responses, identifying 144 and 259 differentially expressed genes, respectively (Fig. 1F and Table S1). A Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) of the Group 2 cluster revealed several top-ranking gene signatures associated with inflammation (Fig. 1G and S1D). Using transcriptome data from our prior study in which we identified iCAFs and myCAFs (Öhlund et al., 2017), we defined gene signatures associated with these two cell fates (Table S2) and observed a significant enrichment of the iCAF signature within the Group 2 set of PSCs (Fig. 1H). In contrast, the myCAF signature was significantly enriched within Group 1 PSCs (Fig. 1I). RT-qPCR analysis of human PSCs treated with conditioned media from human PDA cell lines further validated the correlation between TP63 expression in the cancer cells with iCAF induction (Fig. S1E). These data suggest that PDA cells harboring the squamous transcriptional profile secrete factors that convert PSCs into iCAFs in vitro. TP63 expression in PDA cells drives a secretory phenotype that induces iCAF formation in vitro
Based on the correlations described above, we next set out to determine the causality between TP63 and the iCAF-inducing secretory phenotype. To this end, we cultured two independent mouse PSC lines with conditioned media harvested from SUIT2-empty and SUIT2-TP63 cells and performed RT-qPCR analysis of iCAF marker genes in the PSC cultures (Fig. 2A). We observed a marked increase in iCAF markers (
Il6, Cxcl1, and Lif) and a concomitant reduction of myCAF markers ( Acta2 and Ctgf) when the PSCs were cultured in the SUIT2-TP63 media compared to those cultured in SUIT2-empty media (Fig. 2B-C, S2A-B). In accord with the findings described above, mouse PSCs cultured in the SUIT2-TP63 conditioned media were more proliferative when compared to their counterparts cultured in SUIT2-empty conditioned media (Fig. S2C-D). Similar RT-qPCR experiments using human PSC cultures or using a metastatic mM1 organoid line, which was isolated from the KPC ( Kras +/LSL-G12D; Trp53+/LSL-R172H; Pdx1-Cre) mouse model (Boj et al., 2015), ectopically expressing TP63 support the generality of these findings (Fig. 2D-E, S2E-F).
We next performed loss-of-function studies using conditioned media from KLM1-Cas9 cells infected with two independent sgRNAs targeting TP63 or a control sgRNA (Fig. 2F). Notably, KLM1 is the only TP63-postive PDA cell line we have identified which does not exhibit a growth arrest phenotype
in vitro following TP63 inactivation (Fig. S2G-H) (Somerville et al., 2018). Importantly, KLM1 cells harbor a similar transcriptional and epigenomic profile as observed in other TP63-expressing PDA cell lines (Fig. S2I-K). In addition, KLM1 cells also induce a similar iCAF phenotype as seen with other TP63-expressing lines (Fig. 1E-F). Hence, this cell line is useful for performing TP63 loss-of-function experiments evaluating for secretory phenotypes without the confounding effect of impairing cancer cell fitness.
While conditioned media from KLM1 cells led to a significant induction of iCAF markers and repression of myCAF markers in mouse and human PSCs, this effect was significantly attenuated using TP63-knockout KLM1 cells (Fig. 2G-I and S2L-N). In addition, the proliferation phenotype of the conditioned media-treated PSCs was also attenuated following TP63 inactivation (Fig. S2O-P). Taken together, these experiments demonstrate the critical role of TP63 in regulating the secretory phenotype in squamous-like models of PDA, which leads to the induction of inflammation-associated transcriptional changes in CAFs.
Ectopic expression of TP63 in PDA cells promotes inflammation-associated transcriptional changes in the tumor microenvironment
We next evaluated the relevance of the TP63-induced secretory phenotype in an
in vivo model of PDA. For this purpose, we first infected SUIT2-luciferase cells (Somerville et al., 2018) with a TP63 cDNA or empty vector prior to orthotopic transplantation into the pancreas of NOD-scid gamma (NSG) mice. In accordance with our previous findings (Somerville et al., 2018), TP63 expression enhanced the growth of SUIT2 cells in vivo, but not in vitro (Fig. 3A-B, S3A-D). Importantly, we validated the in vivo-specific growth advantage caused by ectopic TP63 expression in the mM1 organoids following transplantation into the pancreas of C57BL/6 mice (Fig. S3E-K). Tumors from the SUIT2 xenograft model were harvested and subjected to bulk RNA-seq analysis. Mapping of human and mouse transcripts to their respective genomes allowed us to discriminate the transcriptional changes happening in the human cancer cells from those of non-neoplastic mouse cells comprising the tumor stroma (Fig. 3C).
In the human cancer cell compartment, we identified 633 genes that were significantly upregulated in SUIT2-TP63 tumors compared to controls, which largely corresponded to squamous lineage TP63 target genes (e.g.
S100A2, KRT5) (Fig. 3D, S3L and Table S3) (Bailey et al., 2016; Somerville et al., 2018). Within the mouse stromal compartment, we identified 500 genes that were significantly upregulated in SUIT2-TP63 tumors compared to controls (Fig. 3E and Table S3). An ontology analysis of this set of genes revealed enrichment for inflammatory responses, neutrophil degranulation, and cytokine production as top-ranking gene sets (Fig. 3F). Importantly, the transcriptional signature of iCAFs was significantly more enriched in the mouse stromal compartment of SUIT2-TP63 relative to SUIT2-empty tumors, which is consistent with our conditioned media experiments (Fig. 3G). Fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) of fibroblasts from these two groups of tumors confirmed an increase in iCAF markers and a decrease in myCAF markers in the SUIT2-TP63 tumors (Fig. S3M-O). Flow cytometry analysis confirmed that SUIT2-TP63 tumors were more infiltrated with neutrophils when compared to control tumors, which is a marker of enhanced tissue inflammation (Fig. 3H-I). A similar neutrophil infiltration phenotype was observed in the orthotopic mM1-TP63 tumors, which also correlated with a decrease in infiltrating CD4 and CD8 T cells (Fig. 3J-K). This finding is consistent with prior evidence that tumor-associated neutrophils have an immunosuppressive effect in PDA (Bayne et al., 2012; Chao et al., 2016). Finally, plasma concentrations of the cytokine IL-6, a marker of systemic inflammation (Nishimoto and Kishimoto, 2006), were ∼10-fold higher in the mice bearing SUIT2-TP63 versus SUIT2-empty tumors (Fig. S3P). Collectively, these experiments suggest that TP63-positive PDA cells can induce inflammatory changes in the tumor microenvironment in vivo. Knockout of TP63 in an orthotopic PDA tumor model attenuates the inflammatory signature of fibroblasts and immune cells
We next addressed the impact of TP63 inactivation on the tumor microenvironment
in vivo. To this end, KLM1-Cas9-luciferase cells were transduced with TP63 sgRNAs before transplantation into the pancreas of NSG mice. By monitoring tumor progression using bioluminescent imaging, we found that TP63 inactivation resulted in a significant reduction in tumor growth when compared to control cells (Fig. 4A-B), which is consistent with in vivo-specific growth enhancement caused by acute TP63 expression in SUIT2 and mM1 orthotopic models. In order to study the impact of TP63 inactivation on the tumor microenvironment while controlling for overall tumor burden, we allowed sufficient time for tumors to form in each group before harvesting for analysis when a critical bioluminescent signal was reached. By this endpoint metric, cells transduced with the two independent TP63 sgRNAs formed tumors with a significantly longer latency versus controls (Fig. 4C). Immunohistochemical analysis for TP63 revealed an ‘escaper’ group (sgTP63#2) that gave rise to TP63-positive tumors, suggesting the emergence of TP63-positive clones within the pooled population of transplanted cells (Fig. 4D and S4A). However, in the second cohort where TP63 was inactivated (sgTP63#4), we identified largely TP63-negative tumors at endpoint, allowing us to interrogate the tumor microenvironment in a loss of function context (Fig. 4D-E and S4B).
To achieve this, we FACS-purified human cancer cells, immune cells and fibroblasts and performed RNA-seq analysis (Fig. 4F). Within the cancer cell compartment, we identified 459 genes that were significantly downregulated in the TP63-knockout tumors (Table S4). As expected, this included
TP63 as well as its downstream target genes, KRT5, KRT6A and S100A2 (Fig. S4C-D). Within the sorted fibroblast compartment, we identified 396 genes that were significantly downregulated in the TP63-knockout tumors, which included a significant suppression of the iCAF gene signature (Fig. 4G-H and Table S4). Finally, within the sorted immune cell fraction we identified 463 genes that were significantly down-regulated in the TP63-knockout tumors, which was enriched for markers of neutrophils, such as Mpo, S100a8, S100a9 and Cxcr2 (Fig. 4I-J and Table S4). Taken together, these findings demonstrate that inactivation of TP63 dampens the inflammation-associated transcriptional response present in the CAF and immune compartments of the stroma.
The findings above led us to investigate whether TP63-expressing PDA cells can collaborate with CAFs to increase neutrophil infiltration. In order to model this
in vitro, we established a co-culture system in which human SUIT2-empty or SUIT2-TP63 cells were cultured in Matrigel either alone or in combination with mouse PSCs (Fig. 4K). RT-qPCR analysis for murine-specific transcripts confirmed that SUIT2-TP63 cells augmented the iCAF phenotype versus controls in this co-culture system (Fig. S4E). Of note, this included a marked upregulation of the iCAF gene Cxcl1, which encodes a powerful neutrophil chemoattractant (Moser et al., 1990). We found that the SUIT2-TP63/PSC co-cultures released soluble factors that increased the chemotaxis of primary mouse neutrophils and, importantly, this phenotype was enhanced in the SUIT2-TP63/PSC co-culture as compared to each cell type individually (Fig. 4L-M). Taken together, these experiments suggest that TP63-positive PDA cells can collaborate with CAFs to promote neutrophil migration. TP63 activates enhancer elements and transcription of genes encoding pro-inflammatory cytokines in PDA cells
We next sought to define a molecular mechanism by which TP63 drives a pro-inflammatory secretory phenotype by interrogating the transcriptional changes that occur following ectopic TP63 expression in SUIT2 cells (Somerville et al., 2018). GSEA comparing SUIT2-TP63 to SUIT2-empty cells revealed the activation of a number of inflammation-related pathways as top-ranking gene sets following TP63 expression (Fig. 5A-C and Fig. S5A). Of note, a number of these pathways overlap with those activated in iCAFs (Biffi et al., 2019). Next, we interrogated the transcriptional changes of inflammatory genes that occur following acute TP63 inactivation in BxPC3 cells, a human PDA cell line that expresses TP63 at high levels (Somerville et al., 2018). These combined analyses identified
IL1A, IL1B, CXCL1, CXCL8, CSF2 ( GM-CSF), CCL20, AREG, FJX1, and ADORA2B as the top inflammation-related genes regulated by TP63 (Fig. 5C and Fig. S5B). Importantly, an analysis of TP63 over-expression and knockout/knockdown RNA-seq datasets performed in nine different human PDA lines or organoids (Somerville et al., 2018) revealed that this group of inflammatory genes is regulated by TP63 in these different contexts, albeit with a degree of heterogeneity (Fig. 5D and Fig. S5C). ChIP-seq analysis performed in BxPC3 cells revealed that each of these genes is located near a TP63-bound enhancer element, suggesting direct transcriptional regulation (Fig. S5D). Among these TP63 targets, IL1A and IL1B were outliers, as their expression was the most affected by TP63 perturbation (Fig. 5D). ChIP-seq analysis revealed a TP63-induced super-enhancer located at an intergenic region between the IL1A and IL1B genes (Fig. 5E and Fig. S5E-H). Using CRISPR-interference to target this region for inactivation (Qi et al., 2013), we verified that this group of TP63-bound enhancers was responsible for activating IL1A and IL1B expression (Fig. 5E, 5F and Fig. S5I). Taken together, these findings suggest that TP63 promotes enhancer-mediated transcriptional activation of genes encoding secreted factors with established roles in promoting inflammation. IL-1 α is the key secreted molecule induced by TP63 in PDA cells that promotes iCAF induction
We focused our subsequent functional experiments on
IL1A and IL1B, which respectively encode interleukin 1 alpha (IL-1α) and beta (IL-1β) and are important mediators of inflammatory responses (Di Paolo and Shayakhmetov, 2016; Dinarello and Wolff, 1993). We recently demonstrated a critical role for IL-1 αin promoting the conversion of PSCs to iCAFs through the induction of JAK/STAT signaling (Biffi et al., 2019). In order to assess whether IL-1α and IL-1β are secreted by TP63-expressing PDA cells, we performed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) experiments for these two proteins on conditioned media following TP63 knockout in KLM1 cells. This assay efficiently detected IL-1α, but not IL-1β, in the control setting and the levels of secreted IL-1α were significantly reduced by the two independent TP63 sgRNAs (Fig. 5G). An absence of IL-1β secretion in this context might be due to a lack of inflammasome activation, which is a known requirement for IL-β, but not IL- α secretion (Di Paolo and Shayakhmetov, 2016). Consistent with this observation, ectopic expression of TP63 in SUIT2 cells led to robust secretion of IL-1α but not IL-1β and this effect could be ablated by CRISPR-interference-mediated targeting of the IL1 super-enhancer (Fig. 5H-I). Taken together, these results indicate that both IL1A and IL1B are regulated by TP63 at the transcriptional level, but only IL-1α is secreted at detectable levels by TP63-expressing PDA cells in vitro.
In order to investigate whether TP63 driven iCAF induction is conferred via an IL-1-mediated signaling mechanism, we used mouse PSC lines in which the IL1 receptor (Il1r1) was knocked out using CRISPR (Biffi et al., 2019) and performed experiments with conditioned media harvested from SUIT2-TP63 or SUIT2-empty cells. Consistent with the results above, PSCs infected with the control sgRNA displayed a marked increase in iCAF gene expression following culture in SUIT2-TP63 conditioned media. However, this induction was absent in the IL1 receptor knock out lines (Fig. 5J-K, S5J-K). We confirmed the dependency on IL1 signaling for TP63 driven iCAF induction by performing conditioned media experiments using SUIT2-TP63 cells following inactivation of the IL1 super-enhancer via CRISPR interference (Fig. 5L and Fig. S5L). These data demonstrate that TP63 expressing PDA cells induce an iCAF phenotype via paracrine IL-1α signaling.
Finally, in order to ascertain whether TP63 expression is associated with increased
IL1A expression in human pancreatic cancer patients, we interrogated three independent datasets that have profiled the transcriptome of bulk tumor tissue (Bailey et al., 2016; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2017; Moffitt et al., 2015). In all three datasets, the expression of IL1A was found to be significantly elevated in TP63 high versus TP63 low patient samples (Fig. 5M). Discussion
Prior studies have revealed PDA to be a heterogeneous disease at the molecular level with respect to both the tumor and stromal compartments (Bailey et al., 2016; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2017; Collisson et al., 2011; Moffitt et al., 2015). As both compartments are comprised of cell types that display phenotypic plasticity (Öhlund et al., 2017; Yuan et al., 2019), dissecting the molecular cross-talk between cells that define each patient’s tumor remains a formidable challenge. Although prior studies have made correlations between epithelial and stromal transcriptomes in PDA (Maurer et al., 2019; Moffitt et al., 2015; Puleo et al., 2018), it remains unclear whether the evolution of these two compartments is dependent on one another.
Here, we have defined a mechanism by which tumor cells gain an ability to reprogram their local microenvironment through the acquisition of TP63 expression, which is a master regulator of the squamous subtype of PDA (Hamdan and Johnsen, 2018; Somerville et al., 2018). Mechanistically, we have shown that TP63 activates a pro-inflammatory secretory phenotype that triggers iCAF induction through an IL-1α-dependent signaling mechanism. Importantly, we have verified the correlation between
TP63 and IL1A expression in three independent transcriptome studies of human PDA tumors. In addition, a recent transcriptome study of human tissue samples revealed a correlation between squamous subtype PDA tumors and inflammation-associated changes in the stroma, which validates that our observations in experimental models are in accord with clinical observations (de Santiago et al., 2019). While the aberrant expression of TP63 confers a myriad of tumor cell-intrinsic phenotypes in PDA, such as enhanced motility, invasion, and resistance to cytotoxic chemotherapy (Danilov et al., 2011; Somerville et al., 2018), our work points to a powerful non cell-autonomous effect of TP63 in PDA in promoting inflammation.
We previously demonstrated that IL1/JAK/STAT signaling is the key pathway responsible for iCAF formation in PDA (Biffi et al., 2019). While a basal level of IL1 is expressed in PDA tumor cells that lack TP63 expression (Tjomsland et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2018), a key finding in our current study is in demonstrating that a remarkable heterogeneity exists in IL1 expression in the human disease, with the highest levels being found in TP63-expressing squamous subtype tumors. We account for this observation by demonstrating that a super-enhancer is installed by TP63 at the
IL1 locus, which enables a >30-fold increase in IL-1α secretion to enhance iCAF formation. One expected outcome of TP63-mediated IL1A hyperactivation would be a strengthened concentration gradient of IL-1α emanating from tumor cells to promote iCAF formation at distal locations within the stroma. While the abundance and spatial localization of iCAFs and myCAFs are likely regulated by several signaling pathways (e.g. TGFβ), our in vivo findings suggest that the acquisition of TP63 expression in the tumor leads to a potent increase in IL-1α secretion to drive iCAF enrichment.
Many of the genes regulated by TP63 in PDA cells correspond to those activated by the pro-inflammatory transcription factor NFκB. Indeed, it has been previously shown that TP63 and NFκB co-occupy a common set of target genes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and this is associated with enhanced inflammation
in vivo (Yang et al., 2011). In addition, NFκB is often constitutively active in most pancreatic cancer tissues and confers resistance to apoptosis (Dong et al., 2002; Wang et al., 1999). In this context, constitutive activation of NFκB requires an IL-1α-driven feed-forward amplification loop to promote PDA development (Ling et al., 2012; Niu et al., 2004). Maintenance of an inflamed CAF state has also been shown to be dependent on the NFκB signaling pathway (Biffi et al., 2019; Erez et al., 2010). Taken together, these studies raise the possibility that TP63 functions as an amplifier of NFkB transcriptional output to drive enhanced secretion of inflammatory mediators in squamous subtype PDA tumors. In addition to IL-1α, TP63 promotes expression of other pro-inflammatory cytokines that have been implicated in the development and progression of PDA, such as CXCL1 and GM-CSF (Bayne et al., 2012; Li et al., 2018; Pylayeva-Gupta et al., 2012). Notably, both of these cytokines are also produced by iCAFs, suggesting that the pro-tumorigenic effects of these factors would be amplified by IL-1α-mediated crosstalk between TP63-expressing tumor cells and iCAFs.
An association between squamous cell carcinomas and infiltrating inflammatory cells has been observed previously in other tumor contexts (Andreu et al., 2010; Coussens et al., 1999; Erez et al., 2010; Eruslanov et al., 2014; Ferone et al., 2016; Kargl et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2011). In one study, squamous trans-differentiation in a lung adenocarcinoma mouse model was associated with neutrophil infiltration and other markers of inflammation (Mollaoglu et al., 2018). In this context, inflammatory changes were promoted by the squamous lineage transcription factor SOX2 through activation of CXCL5 expression (Mollaoglu et al., 2018). Taken together with our findings, these results suggest that inflammation is more generally associated with squamous lineage tumors through multiple distinct mechanisms. Interestingly, a major function of the normal squamous epithelium is to serve as a protective barrier to exogenous insults. As such, inflammatory pathways must be tightly regulated and poised for a rapid response in these tissues. Notably, squamous cells of the epidermis are known to express large amounts of IL-1α at steady state (Hauser et al., 1986) and
IL1A is know to be a key TP63 target in normal human keratinocytes (Barton et al., 2010). For this reason, amplified inflammation may be an inevitable consequence of tumor trans-differentiation into the squamous lineage irrespective of tissue context.
Histopathological definitions of PDA are often arbitrary and imprecise, and offer limited clinical utility with respect to patient management and treatment selection (Klöppel and Luettges, 2001). Adenosquamous carcinoma, for example, is defined by those tumors exhibiting >15% squamous differentiation and is considered an uncommon variant of PDA. Studies that have identified molecular subtypes of PDA using transcriptomic analyses provide the opportunity to define a new molecular taxonomy for pancreatic cancer that is more clinically applicable (Collisson et al., 2019). The challenge now is to understand the underlying biology that renders these molecular subtypes phenotypically and functionally distinct and to identify robust markers for prospective patient stratification. The findings presented in our study point to TP63 as a functional biomarker that identifies a poor prognostic subgroup of PDA patients in which inflammatory pathways are amplified. As such, these patients may benefit from targeted therapies that aim to dampen the inflammatory response. For example, monoclonal antibodies targeting IL-1α or IL-β have shown promise as potential cancer therapies (Hickish et al., 2017; Hong et al., 2014; Ridker et al., 2017). The findings presented in this study would suggest that such agents may show efficacy in appropriately stratified PDA patients.
MATERIALS AND METHODS Cell Lines and Cell Culture
Mouse PSCs and pancreatic organoid lines were previously described (Boj et al., 2015; Öhlund et al., 2017). Human PSCs were purchased from ScienCell (3830). Mouse PSCs in which the Il1r1 was knocked out using CRISPR were previously described (Biffi et al., 2019). Mouse and human PSCs were cultured in DMEM (10-013-CV; Fisher Scientific) containing 5% FBS. HEK 293T cells were cultured in DMEM containing 10% FBS. Human PDA cell lines were cultured in RPMI 1640 (Gibco) containing 10% FBS. All cells were cultured with 1% L-glutamine and 1% Penicillin/Streptomycin at 37°C with 5% CO
2. All cell lines were routinely tested for mycoplasma. For conditioned media experiments, human PDA cell lines or mouse organoids were cultured for 3-4 days in DMEM containing 5% FBS before media was collected and filtered through a 0.45µm syringe filter to remove debris. Conditioned media was stored at 4°C for no more than 3-4 days or snap frozen and stored at −80°C prior to use. Lentiviral Production and Infection
Lentivirus was produced in HEK 293T cells by transfecting plasmid DNA and packaging plasmids (VSVG and psPAX2) using Polyethylenimine (PEI 25000; Polysciences; Cat# 23966-1). Media was replaced with target media 6-8 hours following transfection and lentivirus-containing supernatant was subsequently collected every 12 hours for 48 hours prior to filtration through a 0.45µm filter. For infection of human PDA cells, cell suspensions were mixed with lentiviral-containing supernatant supplemented with polybreane to a final concentration of 4µg/ml. Cells were plated in tissue culture plates of the appropriate size and lentiviral-containing supernatant was replaced with fresh media after an incubation period of 24 hours. For infection of pancreatic organoids, lentivirus was first concentrated 10x in mouse organoid media (Boj et al., 2015) using Lenti-X
TM concentrator according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Organoid cultures were then dissociated into single cells, and spinoculated by centrifugation as described previously (Roe et al., 2017). CRISPR-based Targeting
To generate cell lines in which TP63 had been stably knocked out, KLM1 cells expressing Cas9 in the LentiV-Cas9-puro vector (addgene # 108100) were infected in a pooled fashion with control or TP63 sgRNAs in the LRNG vector (Roe et al., 2017). Two days post infection with sgRNAs, transduced cells were selected with 1mg/ml of G418 for five days before they were used for conditioned media experiments or orthotopic transplantations. For GFP-depletion assays, KLM1 and T3M4 cells were infected with sgRNAs as described above but without selection and GFP% was measured on day three (P0) and then every three days post-viral transduction until day 18 (P5). For CRISPR interference at the IL1 enhancer, SUIT2-empty or SUIT2-TP63 cells stably expressing catalytically-dead Cas9 fused with a KRAB repression domain in the Lenti-dCas9-KRAB-blast vector (addgene #89567) were infected in a pooled fashion with sgRNAs targeting IL1 enhancer regions (identified from TP63 and H3K27ac ChIP-seq in these lines) in the LRNG vector. Stable cell lines were selected by G418 selection for seven days prior to their use in conditioned media experiments. For doxycycline-inducible CRISPR based targeting of TP63 in T3M4 and KLM1 cells, Cas9 from the LentiV-Cas9-puro vector was cloned into the doxycycline-regulated TREtight-cDNA-EFS-rtTA-P2A-Puro vector (Somerville et al., 2018) to generate the YXP-Cas9-puro vector. T3M4 and KLM1 cells were infected with the YXP-Cas9-puro vector, selected with 3µg/ml puromycin to generate stable cell line before infection with sgRNAs targeting TP63 (sgTP63#4) or a control sgRNA (sgNEG) in LRNG vector. Two days post infection with sgRNAs, transduced cells were selected with 1mg/ml of G418 for three days and were subsequently treated with doxycycline (1µg/ml) for 48 hours prior to harvesting RNA and lysate for RNA-seq and western blot analysis, respectively. sgRNA sequences can be found in Table S5.
RNA extraction and RT-qPCR analysis
Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent following the manufacturer’s instructions. For RNA extraction from cells cultured in Matrigel, cells were lysed by adding TRIzol reagent directly to the Matrigel dome. 200ng-1µg of total RNA was reverse transcribed using qScript cDNA SuperMix (Quanta bio; 95048-500), followed by RT-qPCR analysis with Power SYBR Green Master Mix (Thermo Fisher Scientific; 4368577) on an ABI 7900HT fast real-time PCR system. Gene expression was normalized to
GAPDH or Gapdh for human and murine gene expression analysis, respectively. RT-qPCR primers used can be found in Table S5. Cell Lysate Preparation and Western Blot Analysis
Cell cultures were collected and 1 million cells were counted by trypan blue exclusion and washed with ice cold PBS. Cells were then resuspended in 100µl PBS and lysed with 100µl of 2x Laemmli Sample Buffer supplemented with β-mercaptoethanol by boiling for 30 minutes. Samples were centrifuged at 4°C for 15 minutes at 10,000xg and the supernatant was used for western blot analysis with standard SDS-PAGE-based procedures. Primary antibodies used were TP63 (Cell Signaling; 39692), HSC70 (Santa Cruz; sc-7298), ACTB (Sigma-Aldrich; A3854) and Cas9 (Epigentek; A-9000-050) and proteins were detected using HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies.
ELISA
For ELISA of plasma, blood was harvested via cardiac puncture from anaesthetized mice at end point and plasma separated by centrifugation. For ELISA of media, conditioned media was harvested as described above. ELISA assays used were IL-1α (DLA50; R&D Systems), IL-1β (DLB50; R&D Systems) and IL-6 (M6000B; R&D Systems).
In Vitro Luciferase Imaging
To generate luciferase expressing mouse PSC cultures, cells were infected with a luciferase transgene in a Lenti-luciferase-blast vector (Somerville et al., 2018) and stable cell lines were generated by selection with 10µg/ml blasticidin. Cells were plated at a density of 10,000 cells per 20µl of Matrigel in each well of a black, clear-bottom, ultra-low attachment 96-well plate (10014-318; CELLSTAR) and 200µl of conditioned media was added. Cells were imaged following four days of culture using an IVIS Spectrum system (Caliper Life Sciences) six minutes post addition of D-Luciferin (150µg/ml) to each well. For luciferase-based proliferation assays of SUIT2-TP63 cells in
vitro, parental SUIT2 cells were first infected with Lenti-luciferase-blast vector and stable SUIT2-luciferase cell lines were generated by selection with 10µg/ml blasticidin. SUIT2-luciferase cells were then infected with TP63 cDNA in LentiV-ΔNp63-neo vector (Somerville et al., 2018) or the empty vector as a control. Two days post infection, transduced cells were selected with 1mg/ml of G418 and on day seven post infection, cells were counted by trypan blue exclusion and seeded at a density of 500 cells per well in 200µl of media in black 96-well plates (137101; Thermo). Cells were imaged daily as described above. In Vivo Orthotopic Transplantations and Bioluminescence Imaging
All animal procedures and studies were approved by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee in accordance to IACUC. Transplantation of human PDA cells and mouse pancreatic organoid cultures have been described previously (Boj et al., 2015; Somerville et al., 2018). For mM1 organoid transplantations, 1×10
5 cells were prepared from organoid cultures as a 45µL suspension of 50% Matrigel in PBS and injected into the pancreas. For TP63 knockout experiments in vivo, KLM1-Cas9 cells were first infected with Lenti-luciferase-blast vector and a stable KLM1-Cas9-luciferase cell line was generated by selection with 10µg/ml blasticidin. These cells were subsequently infected with control or TP63 sgRNAs in LRNG vectors as described above. G418-selected cells were counted by trypan blue exclusion and 5×10 4 viable cells were prepared as a 50µL suspension of 50% Matrigel in PBS and injected into the pancreas. For in vivo experiments using SUIT2-luciferase cells, these cells were infected with LentiV-ΔNp63-neo vector or the empty vector as a control and two days post infection, transduced cells were selected 1mg/ml of G418 for five days and on day seven post infection, G418-selected cells were counted by trypan blue exclusion and 2×10 4 viable cells were prepared as a 50µL suspension of 50% Matrigel in PBS and injected into the pancreas. For bioluminescence imaging, mice were intraperitoneally (IP) injected with D-Luciferin (50mg/kg) and analyzed using an IVIS Spectrum system (Caliper Life Sciences) ten minutes post IP injection. Histology and Immunohistochemistry
Histological analysis and TP63 immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed as previously described (Somerville et al., 2018). Primary antibodies used were TP63 (Cell Signaling; 39692). Hematoxylin and eosin and Masson’s trichrome staining were performed according to standard protocols. Stained sections were scanned with Aperio ScanScope CS and to quantify TP63, the percentage of strong positive nuclei was calculated relative to the total number of nuclei with the ImageScope nuclear v9 algorithm.
Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
Tumors were processed as previously described (Öhlund et al., 2017). For sorting of cancer cells, fibroblasts and immune cells from xenografted tumors, cells were stained for 30 minutes with anti-mouse CD45-PerCP-Cy5-5 (103132; BioLegend), PDPN-APC/Cy7 (127418; BioLegend) and anti-human CD326 (EPCAM)-AlexaFluor 647 (324212; BioLegend), anti-human/mouse E-Cadherin-AlexaFluor 647 (147304; BioLegend) and DAPI for 15 minutes. Cells were sorted on the FACSAria cell sorter (BD) for DAPI/CD45
−EPCAM/E-Cadherin + (cancer cells), DAPI/CD45/EPCAM/E-Cadherin −PDPN + (fibroblasts) and DAPI -CD45 + (immune cells) cell populations. Sorted cells were pelleted and resuspended in TRIzol for RNA extraction. For flow cytometric analysis of processed mM1 tumors, antibodies used for analysis of myeloid cells were: anti-mouse CD45-BV510 (103138; BioLegend), F4/80-BV785 (107645; BioLegend), Ly6G/Ly6C (Gr-1)-PE (108408; BioLegend) and CD11b-PE-Cy7 (101216; BioLegend); antibodies used for analysis of T-cells cells were: anti-mouse CD45-BV510 (103138; BioLegend), CD8a-APC-Cy7 (100714; BioLegend), CD4-APC (100516; BioLegend) and TCRβ-PE-Cy7 (109222; BioLegend). For flow cytometric analysis of processed xenografted tumors, antibodies used were anti-mouse CD45-PerCP-Cy5.5 (103132; BioLegend), F4/80-BV785 (107645; BioLegend), Ly6G-Ly6C (Gr-1)-PE (108408; BioLegend) and CD11b-AlexaFluor 488 (101217; BioLegend). Fixable viability dye eFluor450 (eBioscience) was used to differentiate between live and dead cells. Neutrophil Isolation and Transwell Migration Assays
Neutrophil isolation was performed as previously described (Albrengues et al., 2018). Transwell migration assays were performed with conditioned media derived from SUIT2-empty or SUIT2-TP63 cells cultured alone or in combination with mouse PSCs for five days in Matrigel. 5×10
3 SUIT2 cells and 4×10 4 PSCs were used for the co-cultures. The conditioned media was added to the lower chamber, and primary mouse neutrophils (2.5×10 5) were seeded in 0.5% FBS containing DMEM in the upper chamber of a 3µm FluoroBlok cell culture insert (08-772-141; Corning) in a 24 well plate. 500ng of recombinant mouse (250-11; Peprotech) or human (300-11; Peprotech) CXCL1 was added to DMEM with 5% FBS on the day of seeding neutrophils as controls. After 24 hours, the FluoroBlok membrane was stained with DAPI (0.05mg/ml; D1306; Thermo Fisher Scientific) for 5 minutes, rinsed in water and mounted onto glass slides using mounting media (17985-16; Electron Microscopy Sciences). The number of invading neutrophils was counted in 10 random fields of view using a fluorescence microscope (Leica SP8 Confocal microscope). RNA-seq Library Construction
RNA-seq libraries were constructed using the TruSeq sample Prep Kit V2 (Illumina) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Briefly, 0.5-2µg of purified RNA was poly-A selected and fragmented with fragmentation enzyme. cDNA was synthesized with Super Script II Reverse Transcriptase (Thermo Fisher; 18064014), followed by end repair, A-tailing and PCR amplification. RNA-seq libraries were single-end sequenced for 50bp, or for xenograft RNA-seq analysis paired-end sequenced for 150bp, using an Illumina NextSeq platform (Cold Spring Harbor Genome Center, Woodbury).
RNA-Seq Data Analysis
Single end 50bp sequencing reads were mapped to the mm10 or hg38 genomes using HISAT2 with standard parameters (Kim et al., 2015). Structural RNA was masked and, unless stated otherwise, differentially expressed genes were identified using Cuffdiff (Trapnell et al., 2010). All the following analysis was performed on genes with an RPKM value no less than 2 in either control or experimental samples. Heat maps of standardized expression values for differentially expressed genes were generated using Morpheus from the Broad Institute (https://software.broadinstitute.org/morpheus). To generate ranked gene lists for Pre-ranked GSEA, genes were ranked by their mean log
2 fold change between the two experimental groups of interest. Gene ontology analysis was performed using Metascape (Zhou et al., 2019). For clustering of mouse PSC cultures, the log 2(RPKM+1) values for each cell line was used to generate a heat map of similarity matrix by Pearson correlation, which was subsequently clustered by Euclidean distance with average linkage using Morpheus. Group 1 and Group 2 cultures were then analysed using Cuffdiff and those genes with log 2 fold change >1 and a FDR value <0.05 were considered and differentially expressed. For GSEA using the Broad Institutes Hallmark gene sets, mouse gene symbols were converted to their orthologous human symbols and ranked by their average log 2 fold change in the respective cultures. For RNA-seq analysis of flow sorted cancer cells, fibroblasts and immune cells, those genes with a FDR value <0.05 when comparing sgTP63#4 versus sgNEG tumors were considered and differentially expressed. For xenograft RNA-seq analysis, paired end 150bp sequencing reads were mapped to the mm10 or hg38 genomes using HISAT2 with standard parameters. The alignment sam files were converted to bam format using the samtools view command. To disambiguate between the human and mouse reads, Disambiguate (Ahdesmäki et al., 2016) was run on the bam files, and the unambiguous reads were used for RNA quantification and differential expression analysis using DESeq2 (Love et al., 2014). For human transcripts, those genes with log 2 fold change >1 and a FDR value <0.1 were considered as differentially expressed. For mouse transcripts, those genes with a FDR value <0.1 were considered as differentially expressed. To generate a ranked list of mouse genes for GSEA analysis genes the bottom 30% of expressed genes across all groups were removed. The iCAF and myCAF gene signatures were defined as the top 200 up- and down-regulated genes in iCAFs versus myCAFs respectively from the study by Öhlund et al (2017). The Squamous-PDA Identity signature has been previously described (Somerville et al., 2018). RNA-seq datasets following TP63 expression in SUIT2, PATU8988S, HPAFII, AsPC1 and CFPAC1 cells as well as TP63 knockout or knockdown in BxPC3 and hF3 cells were from a previous study (Somerville et al., 2018). ChIP-Seq Library Construction and Analysis
ChIP procedures were performed as previously described (Somerville et al., 2018). The antibody used for ChIP-seq in this study was H3K27ac (ab4729; abcam). ChIP-seq libraries were constructed using Illumina TruSeq ChIP Sample Prep kit following manufacture’s protocol. Briefly, ChIP DNA was end repaired, followed by A-tailing and size selection (300-500bp) by gel electrophoresis using a 2% gel. 15 PCR cycles were used for final library amplification which was analyzed on a Bioanalyzer using a high sensitivity DNA chip (Agilent). ChIP-seq libraries were single-end sequenced for 50bp using an Illumina NextSeq platform (Cold Spring Harbor Genome Center, Woodbury). Single end 50bp sequencing reads were mapped to the hg19 genome using Bowtie2 with default settings (Langmead and Salzberg, 2012). After removing duplicated mapped reads using SAM tools (Li et al., 2009), MACS 1.4.2 was used to call peaks using input genomic DNA as control (Feng et al., 2012). Only peaks enriched greater than or equal to 10-fold over input samples were used for subsequent analyses. Metagene plots were made by centering H3K27ac ChIP-seq regions on previously defined Squamous Elements (Somerville et al., 2018) extended to ±10,000bp with 100bp bins. Super enhancer analysis was performed using Rank Ordering of Super-Enhancers (ROSE) as described (Lovén et al., 2013; Whyte et al., 2013). TP63 ChIP-seq in BxPC3 cells and H3K27ac ChIP-seq in hN34, hN35, hT85, PATU8988S, AsPC1, HPAFII, SUIT2, hF3 and BxPC3, as well as H3K27ac in SUIT2 or BxPC3 cells following TP63 expression or knockout were from a previous study (Somerville et al., 2018).
Statistics
For graphical representation of data and statistical analysis, GraphPad Prism was used. Statistical analysis was performed as described in the figure legends.
Supplemental material
Table S1 contains the genes corresponding to the Group 1 and Group 2 PSC clusters and the ranked gene list used for GSEA. Tables S2 contains the iCAF and myCAF gene signatures. Table S3 contains genes significantly upregulated in the human and mouse compartments of SUIT2-TP63 versus SUIT2-empty tumors and ranked gene lists used for GSEA. Table S4 contains genes significantly downregulated in each sorted fraction of TP63-negative versus TP63-positive KLM1 tumors and gene lists used for GSEA. Table S5 contains RT-qPCR primer sequences and sgRNA sequences used in this study.
Disclosures
C.R.V. has received funding from Boehringer-Ingelheim and is an advisor to KSQ Therapeutics. D.A.T. an advisor to Surface, Leap, and Cygnal and has stock ownership in Surface and Leap.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Cold Spring Harbor Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) shared resources: Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Next Generation Sequencing Core Facility, R. Rubino and J. Habel Animal Resources for technical assistance with the mouse transplantation assays, P. Moody and C. Viola in the Flow Cytometry Facility, Animal and Tissue Imaging, and the Animal Facility. T.D.D.S. was supported by a grant from the State of New York, contract no. C150158. C.R.V. was supported by Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Northwell Health Affiliation, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) 5P01CA013106-Project 4 and 1RO1CA229699, and a Career Development Award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 16-20-25-VAKO. This work was supported by the Lustgarten Foundation, where D.A.T is a distinguished scholar and Director of the Lustgarten Foundation–designated Laboratory of Pancreatic Cancer Research. D.A.T is also supported by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association and the National Institutes of Health (NIH 5P30CA45508, 5P50CA101955, P20CA192996, U10CA180944, U01CA210240, U01CA224013, 1R01CA188134, and 1R01CA190092). C.R.V., D.A.T., and M.E. were supported by the Thompson Family Foundation and Simons Foundation. In addition, we are grateful for support from the following: the Human Frontiers Science Program (LT000195/2015-L for G.B.), EMBO (ALTF 1203-2014 for G.B.), A Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Fellowship (DA 2249/1-1 for J.D.P).
Footnotes
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warc | 202143 | Developments in marketing have been influenced this year by fundamental changes to audience behavior following the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a lasting impact on people’s lifestyles and consumer habits. Not only is there more widespread engagement with user-generated content and short-form video, but we are also experiencing the dawn of social commerce and the rise of the “creators”. This article will help executives navigate these changes and integrate any learnings into their marketing and communications strategy for 2022.
The Year of Video
Billions of videos are now being watched daily on TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook (FB). There has been a significant shift in online consumer habits, which has even led Instagram (IG) CEO, Adam Mosseri, to announce: “We are no longer just a photo sharing App… We are seeing that video is driving more and more of the growth… people are continuing to tell us that they’re interested in particularly short form…”. This might make you question: Does my brand effectively utilize strong and entertaining short-form videos? Are we investing enough in this type of content?
Short-form video, which has fueled TikTok’s success, is here to stay. Some of the world’s leading social platforms, such as YouTube, FB, and IG, have now begun to encourage the creation of this type of content by giving brands and creators greater exposure. Users, in particular, have given a “thumbs up” to short-form video, and they continue to interact with this type of content on a global scale. According to an ANIMOTO survey,
93% of consumerssaid that video is helpful when purchasing a product, and that it’s their favorite type of content on social media.
This is not an isolated phenomenon. Marketers agree that video is the way forward. According to a survey by MotionCue, 70% of marketers said that videos show a positive ROI; and 93% of marketers said that it has become an important part of their marketing strategy, according to Wyzowl.
In sum, brands must start funneling more resources into the creation of short-form video content. But where do you start?
UGC Is the New Norm
While most of us would have relied upon our travel agent for tips and advice before booking a vacation, the modern consumer is now more likely to review hotels and destinations online. This preference for online information and services has heightened during the COVID-19 across most verticals, from FMCG to Fin-Tech. It seems marketers have finally learned to utilize various forms of user-generated content (UGC) in their marketing strategies (e.g., reviews, hauling, recommendations, unboxing, demonstrations). “Creators” are now making ads that look better than what some studios might produce.
No wonder marketers have embraced it with open arms; not only does it reduce production costs, according to TINT’s ‘State of User-Generated Content 2021, but 93% of marketers also agree that consumers trust content created by real people rather than content created by brands. Econsultancy goes further by saying that site visitors who are lured by UGC tend to double their dwell time. It is also more likely to generate a sale, with those making a subsequential purchase increasing by 184%, and spending 45% more on average.
That is why more and more brands rely on UGC throughout their consumer journey. For example, you could easily find rave reviews for digital bank, Monzo, via its IG and Twitter accounts
Aldi UK offer a weekly review of new in-store products on their TikTok channel. Target does the same but goes further by including home styling tips for once you’ve brought those products home.
@target
boho? say less🤚 @classycasita ##bohoaesthetic♬ original sound – target
It’s no wonder they choose UGC when creators have been able to create breathtaking ads from the comfort of their homes.
So, instead of organizing another costly and expansive shooting day, you should ask yourself: how can I better utilize UGC for marketing purposes? Even if it requires you to relinquish control of the creative process and entrust a creator, it is worth your investment.
Content Partnerships
We quickly grow familiar with the actors, models and presenters who front our beloved brands, irrespective of the celebrity’s affection or alignment with that brand. Nowadays, a more coherent relationship is being created between companies and their ambassadors based on shared values. We might “blame” it on Gen-Z, but using Influencers who successfully manage to accumulate a large following by just creating content in their day-to-day lives make more sense.
Content partnerships have gained traction in 2021 and this will continue strong into 2022. Content collaboration with “Brands” that share similar values and create a more holistic solution for their audience is becoming more important. Think, for example, about e.l.f. cosmetics creating a line with Mexican franchise, Chipotle, both of which are doing amazing work on social media (and especially on TikTok).
Burrito lovers 🤝 beauty lovers pic.twitter.com/VW89poLNUU— Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) March 4, 2021
Another example is the collaboration of Dunkin’ with the American social media personality, Charli D’Amelio. They created a collection together as part of a rebranding of “Dunkin’ Donuts”, which has significant appeal in the eyes of today’s generation.
A third (but certainly not final) example is that of the love affair between fast-food franchise, Wendy’s, and the animation show, Rick and Morty. Not only do you enjoy a drive-thru experience (and you can sign us up for a Pickle Rick), but their Ads also manage to capture the essence of both franchises.
These collaborations have greater Value-Add for these brands, echoing a shared tone of voice and appealing to new audiences. With people now spending upwards of two and a half hours per day on social media, and even longer among younger audience, it’s no wonder that more and more franchises are looking to form these bonds.
Always-On Social Marketing
When we consider how many hours are spent on social media and recall the panic in which FB’s server outage left us, it makes strategic sense that brands wish to extend their “Always On” presence.
Whether you refer to it as “organic”, “recency” or “Always On”, brands understand that they should continuously engage with their audience via two-way, real-time interactions, and not resort to stand-alone campaigns for the launch of a new product. According to Salesforce’s State of Marketing report, 78% of marketers say that they engage customers in real time across one or more marketing channels.
COVID-19 has accelerated this trend, with more and more consumers relying on digital channels to communicate with companies. Social Media Examiner states that 84% of marketers plan to either keep or increase organic marketing efforts on FB (47% plan to increase); 87% on IG (64% plan to increase); and 83% on YouTube (62% plan to increase).
Because the organic reach of brands is decreasing on most social platforms, companies should invest in the promotion of their Always-On content. This should be included in a brand’s social marketing budget as part of the efforts to relay its messaging.
The Death of the Cookie and the Rise of Zero-Party
According to a survey by Saleforce, 78% of marketers say that customer engagement is data-driven, yet we are now seeing the death of third-party cookies alongside ever greater privacy regulation. It should be no surprise that some companies are, therefore, turning to zero-party data.
Zero-Party data, a term coined by Forrester, is data that a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a brand. This might include preference center data, purchase intentions, personal context and/or how the user wants to be recognized.
Social Media marketing has an impact on this. Not only are brands creating lead ads for customers to share their preferences, but they are also initiating campaigns and loyalty programs specifically for those purposes. Whether it calls on potential leads to subscribe to a newsletter, obtain a promo code, or win a present for “man’s best friend” (i.e., provided that the lead supply the name, breed and size of the dog), zero party efforts offer the brand notable opportunities on social media.
Social Commerce
Facebook Marketplace has more than one billion monthly visitors while IG Shops has over 250 million, claimed CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in the Group’s Q1 2021 earnings call with FB investors. But FB is not alone. In August 2021, TikTok announced a partnership with Shopify that will allow users to make in-app purchases. This is being promoted in collaboration with Kylie Jenner’s brand, Kylie Cosmetics.
We do not yet know which brands/sectors will prevail, but there is no doubt that this has redefined the social marketing landscape. It could now house the start and end of the consumer journey.
The Dissolution of the Hegemony
While Facebook remains the #1 social media platform with around 2.9 billion monthly active users globally, we have no doubt that short-form video is here to stay. TikTok is fast becoming a mainstream platform with a billion monthly active users; it is also reaching an ever broader age demographic. For other platforms, such as Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and even the new star Discord (the instant messaging App for gamers), it seems that their supremacy is hanging in the balance.
Remember: your brand may have unreached audiences on any one of these social platforms, and they are changing the way that content is made and consumed. So, maybe it’s time to update that famous acronym (KISS) to Keep It Short Silly.
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warc | 202143 | U.K.’s Green Bond Debut Is Too Costly for Largest Corporate Pension Fund
(Bloomberg) --
The U.K.’s largest company pension fund didn’t buy into the nation’s debut green bond as it balked at the expensive price relative to normal debt.
BT Pension Scheme, which manages about 58 billion pounds ($80 billion), was not comfortable with the pricing on Tuesday’s sale, which bookrunner HSBC Holdings Plc said had the largest “greenium” of any high-grade sovereign issue. The deal still broke demand records for both gilts and the global green bond market.
“Our finger was hovering over the mouse and we were looking at it with a lot of interest, but it just didn’t happen,” said Victoria Barron, BTPS’s head of sustainable investment, in an interview. “It’s really important for everyone to think very carefully about going into some really expensive bonds at the risk of not getting the fair value that you should be.”
The comments speak to an inherent tension between investors and issuers as most green bonds continue to get sold with lower yields than conventional debt, despite a boom in supply this year. With 25% of Europe’s debt sales now with an ethical label, analysts are watching if this greenium starts to fade as investors become more choosy.
So far the new green gilt is outperforming conventional debt. RBC Europe’s Gordon Aitken said demand should be buoyed by new regulations coming into force next month that will require large U.K. pension funds to consider sustainability and climate change. For BTPS, though, buying green can’t come at any cost.
It hasn’t ruled itself out of future green gilt sales -- with the U.K. planning a second next month that its debt chief hopes will appeal to pension funds -- depending on pricing.
“We really would have liked to have bought them,” Barron said. “The government has a really big pool of capital that can be unlocked with institutional investors. Any more dialogue that can happen would be excellent and very much encouraged.”
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warc | 202143 | A takeover described as “hostile” by the subject, has failed after Stroud based renewable energy company Ecotricity failed to secure enough backing to take over Chippenham-based renewable energy supplier Good Energy Group PLC.
In July, Ecotricity – which already held around a quarter of Good Energy’s shares, began making a play to the Chippenham company’s shareholders.
According to Ecotricity’s rationale for its offer: “The proposed combination would create a green energy supply entity of more significant scale with more rounded capabilities, better able to compete with the Big Six and the raft of newer entrants – many of whom make green energy and (environmental related) claims in their marketing. It would be a consolidation of the two oldest green energy suppliers in Britain, enabling both companies to better compete in today’s crowded and highly competitive market.”
Ecotricity has a development function for new green energy generation, something it said Good Energy lacks.
Ecotricity also operates a ‘bills into mills’ concept which links a customer’s energy bills to the building of new green energy sources. Adding Good Energy to this could boost the combined company’s development pipeline of new green energy sources, said Ecotricity.
But in August, Will Whitehorn, Chair of Good Energy, said:“The Board firmly rejects this highly opportunistic and hostile offer and does not agree that the takeover of Good Energy by a loss-making competitor would help the Company compete more effectively in the energy market.
“Such a takeover would deprive investors of the opportunity to support, and benefit from, Good Energy’s future growth. It would place the collective interests of our investors and customers in combatting the climate crisis into the hands of one individual.
“As a standalone business, Good Energy has developed momentum in building the next phase of people-powered climate action in the UK. Together with Zap-Map, the UK’s leading EV charging mapping service, we give our investors a rare opportunity to take part in the fast-growing clean energy and transport market.”
In September Ecotricity again increased its offer to Good Energy shareholders of 400p per share, up from the offer of 340p per share made in June, which itself followed offers of 310p and 330p.
The latest offer valued Good Energy at £53.3 million.
By Friday, Ecotricity announced that it had secured the promise of a further five per cent of shares from Good Energy shareholders. It wasn’t enough. Ecotricity’s offer has now lapsed, and while the Stroud energy supplier’s CEO, Dale Vince, may be licking his wounds, Will Whitehorn, Chair of Good Energy, said: “In the current turbulence of the wider energy market caused largely by fossil fuel prices and scarcity, the company’s strategy for digitised, localised clean energy and electric vehicle services is more relevant and more urgently needed than ever.
“We consider the rejection of the hostile offer a resounding endorsement of that from shareholders and are now fully focussed on delivering our vision with their backing.”
As it announces its latest trading update today, and with the UK’s energy markets in a state of huge volatility, in a statement released this morning, Good Energy said: “The company is taking a very cautious stance in the current environment and implementing a prudent approach to risk management. In line with prior years, the company follows a clear hedging strategy and has also continued to meet all recent regulatory obligations and payments.
“The company is over 90 per cent hedged for the next 12 months, weighted to this coming winter, which limits exposure to the current price volatility in the UK domestic energy market. However, the business, like the sector at large given recent supplier exits, remains subject to a higher level of market risk.”
The business has recently implemented material price increases in both domestic and business supply segments reflecting the rapidly changing current market conditions.
The company’s statement added: “We have a vertically integrated business model with a strong and competitive core business; a mature wind and solar generation portfolio; and an increasing focus on small businesses and electric mobility which helps us stand out in a crowded marketplace. Our 47.5MW generation portfolio powers approximately 15 per cent of our customer base and we continue to steer clear of the price war in the domestic supply market, with limited reliance on price comparison sites.
Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy, said:
“Despite the recent volatility in wholesale energy prices, we remain positive on the long-term opportunity in our chosen markets. Recent electric vehicle sales data proves the acceleration of adoption and reinforces the scale of opportunity for Good Energy in this market.
“Zap-Map continues to have an exciting future as the leading EV mapping platform. We look forward to continuing to invest in the EV market and supporting Zap on the next stage of its journey.
“The challenges within the UK energy sector have been well documented, but – with 20 years’ experience – we remain differentiated through strong governance, a prudent approach to risk management and a genuinely differentiated green product.
“Now that Ecotricity’s cash offer has lapsed, I am pleased to be re-starting the dividend for our loyal shareholders. We reiterated our intention to resume the dividend this year and intend to maintain a progressive dividend policy. This evidences our continued commitment to all our stakeholders and progress in delivering Good Energy’s strategy.” | 5,874 | 2,631 | 12,574.066135 |
warc | 202143 | Are the owners of the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre finding out something they should have known from the start? That running such a business is little tougher than most other infrastructure markets?
Are the owners of the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre finding out something they should have known from the start? That running such a business is little tougher than most other infrastructure markets?
Convention centres are subject to the vagaries of competition unlike almost any other infrastructure asset.
That’s because that market is fickle, mobile and knows its value. Big conventions have been around for a very long time and organisers generally know how to extract their pound of flesh. They honed their skills, packaged them up in a manual and handed them on to their successors long before our convention centre ever served a hot dinner.
Smaller conventions, con-ferences or events don’t need a dedicated centre, often a lifeless barn, to satisfy their needs.
Convention centres are in a highly competitive sector though there are mitigating factors for the host city such as population, its geographic positioning and other attractions.
Perth has none of this in any large, and therefore profitable, doses. Our population is small, we sit isolated from everything and the attractions we have are the gems to be discovered by the adventurous traveller, rather than iconic drawcards.
I am sure other tourism operators understand this, so why did we think a convention centre was going to change anything.
For business travellers, and that is what most conventioneers are, Western Australia is simply too far to travel if you don’t need to – no matter how much we hoped the centre would change things or how much the hype of pre-bookings convinced us that demand really was there.
And you don’t. Realistically, Perth is home to only a few industries that will ever hold a meaningfully big convention and value turning up here regularly. I can only think of oil and gas, mining and, perhaps, the odd branch of medical technology if we are lucky.
Throughout the region, convention centres have been popping up for years before we started ours. They are often in central locations, surrounded by big population and offer easy to reach tourist breaks we find hard to match.
Our isolation is our point of difference and we should celebrate it.
Instead, we built a convention centre and tried to compete with one hand behind our backs.
It would be silly enough if the government had done it. I could sympathise that it was done in the name of the public good to attract the tourist dollar.
But for private operators to start putting the cap out little more than two years after the convention centre was opened with $120 million or so of public assistance is somewhat surprising.
These are all pretty smart business people who must have done their sums before they got involved?
The convention centre was on the right track late last year pitching for the government to invest in tourism/hospitality infrastructure along the city’s Swan River foreshore as well as trying to get liquor licensing relaxed.
From what I recall, the government has pitched a new tourism advertising campaign, aimed at all tourists, not just conventioneers. Spending more in this regard won’t make Perth a convention capital.
And why should taxpayers, especially the rest of the business community, be asked to assist the convention centre if its business model isn’t working – especially in a resources boom when all the hotels are full already.
Press releasing their plight through selective leaks to The West Australian – at least that’s what it looks like – is a heavy handed way of asking to be rescued.
I’ll bet lots of people in business would like to be able to do that when their investment doesn’t pay off.
Let’s wait on taxes
Throwing in the abolition of stamp duty from mortgages is a great PR morsel – until the public realises that it’s only a tiny part of the usual taxes that often go with buying and selling a home.
As for business, well they won’t be thrown for a minute.
The tax cuts announced this week are not entirely trivial and the state government should be congratulated for continuing to attempt to address this area, the abolition of some stamp duties don’t go very far in addressing the biggest tax problem we have, the one that taxes businesses for employing people called payroll tax.
Two of the taxes cut – stamp duties on mortgages and non-real business property – are transactional taxes which only impact the decision to buy or sell. In a boom they are higher because more business and property change hands but when things cool down so do they.
So we are seeing the government cut a windfall tax at or after its peak.
Payroll tax is much more important because it is an ongoing cost every year and it is a barrier to employing people – which hurts all the time, not just in a boom.
I can only hope there’s a little more in store for us in the budget. | 5,120 | 2,314 | 11,007.778738 |
warc | 202143 | DESCRIPTION: CEMIX CONCRETE RESURFACER is a high performance concrete resurfacing mortar, designed to refresh and repair aged concrete. TYPICAL USES: CEMIX CONCRETE RESURFACER can be used over the surface of existing concrete to produce a new wear layer as well as to fill in small defects, such as spalls and gouges. Suitable for use in interior and exterior applications in a domestic and commercial environment, including driveways, paths, patios, courtyards, garages and most vertical concrete surfaces. ADVANTAGES – High bond – Flexible – Durable PREPARATION: The substrate should be free of dust, grease, wax, oil, dirt, loose plaster, laitance, curing compounds, paint and all other friable materials and contaminants likely to prevent the adhesive bonding.
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Note: Honour any expansion or control joints. DRYING & CURING TIME: Drying and curing time depends on the substrate, substrate condition, climate, the type of application and the materials being applied. Allow 2 to 4 hours before foot trafficking and 16 to 24 hours before driving over. CLEANING: Clean tools with water immediately after use. If material becomes set on tools, remove using CEMIX CONCRETE DISSOLVER. STORAGE & SHELF LIFE: Up to 6 months when stored in the original, unopened packaging, in a dry place at 23°C and 50% relative humidity. LIMITATIONS: Avoid resurfacing your concrete when air or surface temperature is below or likely to go below or above 35°C. Avoid resurfacing driveways and paths during the heat of the day. Do not resurface when dew or rain is likely within 6 to 8 hours, or when humidity is very high.
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warc | 202143 | Soil is the earth's fragile skin that anchors all life. We depend on soil to build our homes and cities, to grow crops for food and raise livestock, to support transportation and enable recreation. Yet we disregard this crucial and precious resource that lies right under our feet.
This introductory environmental studies course will explore the importance of soil to life on earth, the issues, processes and societal challenges underlying soil degradation - and what can be done to ensure sustainable soil management for the future. The threats to our soil span deforestation, erosion, overgrazing, use of agrochemicals, pollution and climate change. Learn what you can do to make a difference in protecting this vital natural resource.
Syllabus
The MOOC Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for life consists of 10 modules with a study load of about 8 hours per module. Modules 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 10 are obligatory for the Verified Certificate. You must also complete two of the _ elective modules _ 5 to 8.
1 Soil formation, functions and threatsLearn about soil functions, soil formation processes and the main soil threats worldwide. You will also learn and practice some soil classification skills.
2 Soil water processesDiscover the importance of soil-water interactions and causes and consequences of reduced soil wettability, compaction and soil sealing. Do at home projects to see these soil threats in your own surroundings.
3 Dynamics of soil fertilityLearn what determines soil fertility, the importance of soil organic matter, and the causes and effects of soil fertility loss and nutrient surpluses and deficits. Start your own experiment and observe the effects of soil nutrients on plant growth.
4 Loss of soil biodiversityDiscover how important soil biodiversity is for soil functions, and learn how to prevent and resolve its loss. Get outside and discover the rich life under your feet using some simple tests!
5 Water erosionLearn about water erosion, its effects on soil functions, and explore ways to prevent and resolve this threat. You also get to investigate water erosion characteristics in your own environment.
6 Wind erosionLearn about wind erosion, its effects on soil functions, and ways to prevent and resolve it. Build your own mini wind tunnel to test theerodibilityof some soils and explore the effectiveness of some counter measures.
7 Soil pollutionDiscover the major sources and concerns about soil pollution, how pollutants behave in soil and some soil remediation techniques. Visit a farm/garden store to discover what chemicals are used in your environment.
8 Soil salinizationLearn about the process of salinization, its effects, and how to manage it. Engage in Dr. Ritzema's experiment to discover the impacts of salt on soils and plants.
9 Achieving sustainable soil managementSee how human factors and analysis techniques affect soil management decisions. Play the African Highland Farmer Game to experience the challenges in sustainably managing your own plot of land. Share sustainable land management approaches in your country.
10 Final examWith all you have learned about soil, soil degradation and sustainable soil management, it's time to synthesize the information into your own case study!
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warc | 202143 | A Review of "Professor Fisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming"javascript, books ·
After years of mostly working with object-oriented languages such as Ruby and Python and, as a result, focusing on learning the best practices of object-oriented code design, I’ve recently changed jobs to a company whose applications are mostly written in TypeScript. What’s more, their in-house style avoids classes entirely, preferring a more functional approach to organising the codebase. Although, the principals of good code design are applicable across languages, I felt a little unsure of myself trying to write code in this unfamiliar environment. Therefore, I decided to read up a bit on Functional Programming to learn the specific techniques and patterns of FP that I could use to achieve the nebulous goal of “clean code”. Unfortunately, just as many of the popular OOP books use languages that I can’t be bothered to learn, like Java and C++, many of the top FP books use functional languages, like Haskell and Scala, that I don’t anticipate working with anytime soon. In both of these cases, I have nothing against these languages; it’s just that I’m a practical guy, and if I’m going to put the time and effort into learning programming concepts or techniques, I want to be able to use them. Otherwise, I’ll just forget them, and if I’m going to read something for personal enrichment, I’d rather read a good novel than pour over pages upon pages of code in a language I can only half-understand. Thankfully, there are FP books whose authors have chosen to meet the majority of programmers where they’re at and use JavaScript for their code examples.
Professor Fisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming by Brian Lonsdorf is one such book. Given that it was one of the top results in my searches, and the comments and reviews that I found were generally positive, I decided to read it in the hopes of getting a better handle on how to write good functional code, so that I might contribute to my new job’s functional TypeScript codebase with more confidence.
At 146 pages (according to GoodReads),
Professor Fisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming ( MAG from now one for brevity’s sake) is a fair bit shorter than a lot of programming books that I have read. I see this as a strength, because I often find such books to be a bit bloated with extended code examples and in-depth explanations of said code. Sometimes it’s necessary, but often it drags on way too long and probably could have used a hard-headed editor forcing the author(s) to get to the point already. For people looking for a deeper exploration of FP, with more examples to really clarify some of the more-complex mathematical concepts, I can see how this might be viewed as a weakness. I, however, was looking for a quick introduction that would get me writing better functional TS code in short order, so erring on the side of brevity, both in the examples and the explanations of underlying theory, worked well for me. Another overall strength of the book is Lonsdorf’s jokey writing style. Admittedly, the jokes are as likely to elicit a roll of the eyes as a chuckle, but I respect him for trying to keep what can be a very dry topic light and amusing. Yet another reason that programming books often drag at some point (at least for me) is the authors are so concerned with conveying information that they neglect to make their writing engaging, perhaps believing that the content is engaging enough on its own. Now, I’m not expecting Lord of the Rings when learning about how to refactor for-loops, but having a writer with a sense of their own voice, as opposed to an aggressively-neutral presentation of information, makes a big difference in how likely I am to stick with a technical book till the end. One last thing to have in mind about MAG is that, per its own “plans for the future”, it is unfinished. The book is broken into three sections, with the first being a practical introduction to FP syntax and basic concepts, the second going deeper into the theory and using more-abstract structures in the code, and a planned third section that will “dance the fine line between practical programming and academic absurdity”, but which was never added. Given my practical goals for learning from this book, and my reaction to the moderately theoretical second section (more on that below), I don’t view this as a serious omission. MAG does a good job of introducing the techniques and theory of FP, and I imagine if someone wants to really get into the weeds, they’d probably be better off picking up a book that uses one of the pure FP languages anyway.
The first section of
MAG, covering seven chapters, serves as an introduction to why FP is useful in codebases and the sort of low-level syntax and structures required to make it possible. Though I was familiar with the concept of pure functions, Lonsdorf’s statement that “The philosophy of functional programming postulates that side effects are a primary cause of incorrect behaviour” struck me as an excellent distillation of the benefits of pursuing FP as the organising paradigm of a codebase. Flaky tests, conflicting component states in React, old invalid records just sitting in the database, all of these are common examples of problems caused by statefulness in software, which we manage via side effects. As I’m sure many of you know, a bug that you can’t reproduce consistently is one of the most difficult to fix, and it’s usually a specific and highly unlikely combination of states that make it so difficult to reproduce. For example, I remember trying to figure out a bug while working at an ecommerce company, where all the products in a user’s cart were available and ready to be purchased when they began the checkout process, but when they tried to pay, the products were no longer available, and we raised an error. After days of pouring over logs looking for clues and trying to recreate the bug anyway I could think of, I finally figured out that the user had opened a second browser tab during checkout and made some changes to their cart before proceeding with payment in the original tab. The cart’s state had changed in one part of our system, but that change hadn’t been propogated to all parts of the system. Now, some statefulness in an application is probably unavoidable, or at least avoiding it would be horribly impractical, but minimisation of dependence on that statefulness greatly simplifies code, because it reduces how much you have to keep track of when writing it. This limits your attention to two things: input and output. Side effects, on the other hand, are theoretically infinite, there’s no limit to the number of database, API, or logging calls you can make in a given function. Therefore, regardless of what language I’m working in, something that I like to keep in mind is that you can use pure functions or methods anywhere, even in largely-OOP codebases. Python and Ruby (and JavaScript for that matter) often offer two variations of a function or method: one that takes an object and changes it, and another that returns a new object (
list.sort() vs
sorted(list) in Python for example). I think that this is one of the most useful lessons from learning about different programming languages or paradigms: you can take the useful pieces from each, mixing and matching them in the code that you write in order to derive some of the benefits of each while mitigating some of the costs.
Now, if one of the great costs of OOP is the pervasiveness of state, what then is the cost of applying FP, which largely avoids state? In my opinion, that would be how abstract and mathematical FP gets once you start wandering down the rabbit hole. I found Lonsdorf’s introductions to currying, function composition, and pointfree style to be useful. These are techniques and syntatical styles that I can use in my own code, I thought. Starting around chapter 7, however, Lonsdorf begins to focus a bit more on some of the theoretical underpinnings of FP in order to introduce higher-level structures that enable the kind of mathematical correctness that adherents of FP promise. At this point, I found myself doing a lot more skimming than I had previously, nodding at the explanations for how functors work and why they are useful, content in getting the gist of it, and not even bothering with the exercises at the ends of the later chapters. The reason for my disengagement is that I didn’t really see myself ever applying these more-advanced techniques or using these more-complex structures in my code. Writing pure functions and composing them with maps, filters, or pipe operators is something you can do in almost any codebase, and the code will likely be easier to read, understand, and change because of it. But functors, applicative or otherwise, well, that’s pretty much an all-or-nothing proposition. Maybe I suffer from a limited imagination, but I don’t see how one could write code in that style in a piecemeal fashion. So, for me, the second half of
MAG was pure theory, even when it was explaining the practical application of concepts from set theory. When it comes to code, I’m not particularly interested in theory. I can understand, however, why some coders get inspired by FP and can get so adamant about its benefits. Codebases are messy affairs, containing a few languages, each written in at least a half dozen styles, all based on the momentary preferences of dozens (hundreds? thousands?), of coders that have contributed over the years, and around every corner is a bug, just lying in wait for the right combination of parameters to raise that unanticipated error. So, the idea that your code could have the elegance and provability of a mathematical theorem is a powerful one. It just seems too impractical to me, as we can’t very well expect each new developer who joins our team to spend their first few months reading textbooks on set theory and Functional Programming before they can make their first commit.
One thing that sometimes bothers me about proponents of Agile, OOP, TDD, etc. is that their rhetoric can wander into No True Scotsman territory: it’s not that these techniques or processes or principles are flawed or fail to deliver their promised benefits; people are just doing them wrong. I believe that OOP, done exceptionally well, can provide the kind of readability and maintainability promised by its experts, but it’s really hard to write OOP code at that level. How many coders can claim to be masters with a straight face (or with those around them maintaining a similarly-straight face)? On the other hand, even poorly-written OOP code has some basic organising principles that aids future devs in trying to understand and modify it. You have classes that represent business concepts (sometimes more abstract or technical concepts), and those objects have behaviours represented by their methods. This makes the learning curve much more manageable, because early practitioners have some basic, concrete ideas and techniques that they can apply while they’re still learning the methods for writing truly clean code. My impression of FP is that it’s like the classic bit about learning to draw an owl: make your functions pure, compose them, and now here’s a bunch of set theory to explain why implementing an entire system of functor containers for any data that might pass through your system is totally worth it. The leap from a few basic design principles to abstract structures, without any real-world analog, is large, and I imagine that I’m not the only one who finds that juice to not be worth the squeeze. It feels like it would be easier to write bug-free (or at least lightly-bugged) code if one followed FP to the letter, but sometimes mediocre code is enough to get the job done and move on with your life, and it seems quite difficult to just write mediocre FP code.
I’ve already begun using pointfree style and some light function composition in my code, and being introduced to the JS package
ramda really went a long way toward easing me into a more functional style of coding. I also found that the explanations of functors gave me a better appreciation for what languages like Rust do to avoid unhandled errors and nulls. However, at least for now, I think that’s the extent of the impact of
Professor Fisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming on how I read and write code. Even though I remain unconverted to the full FP path, I feel like I learned some useful concepts and techniques and would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is FP-curious but unwilling to commit to a 400-page tome with code examples written in Haskell. | 13,021 | 5,744 | 28,875.608983 |
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warc | 202143 | The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of attempts made by European law enforcement to encourage young cybercriminals to channel their skills in more ethical ways. Also featured: Fraud detection and response; inspiring behavioral change.
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off this week, U.S. President Joe Biden has weighed in on his administration's efforts to curb cyberattacks and bolster the federal government's security posture.
Of all the areas under his direction - business continuity, GRC, data governance - third-party risk is the most challenging, says Peter Gregory, senior director of cyber GRC at GCI General Communications Inc. "Their breach is my breach," he says, offering mitigation advice.
The Identity Theft Resource Center, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, has published new research that shows nearly 30% of people who contact the ITRC are victims of more than one identity crime.
The U.K. Cyber Security Council is a new self-regulatory body for the profession. It is tasked by the U.K. government to execute its vision for the U.K. to be one of the safest places to work and do business online, says the chair of the council’s board of trustees, Dr. Claudia Natanson.
The day-to-day pressures of being a CISO are enormous and extend to matters far beyond those of incident response time. Meanwhile, traditional approaches to training cybersecurity team members have either been limited by scalability, lack of hands-on learning, or cost.So, how much can Simulation-based Cybersecurity...
In theory, organizations are best protected by a layered security approach to cybersecurity based on best-in-class security tools.In reality, the desired outcome is rarely achieved.Why? Because most teams are not fully trained to use the technology on which their security program is built.Download this...
How can the security and HR organizations partner to foster a better, enterprisewide culture of security? This is what Steve Luczynski and Valerie Utsey did in previous roles, and they share insights from their presentation on the topic at RSA Conference 2021.
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) can be a highly effective way to safeguard your organization’s data, but that doesn’t mean it’s unhackable. And nobody knows that better than award-winning author and Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4, Roger Grimes. While researching his most recent book Hacking...
Small businesses have been disproportionately affected by hackers in recent months. To aid in countering the threat, Mastercard has launched a cybersecurity education effort targeting this market segment. Paul Trueman, a senior vice president Mastercard, explains the “Trust Center” initiative.
What really makes a "strong" password? And why are your end-users tortured with them in the first place? How do hackers crack your passwords with ease? And what can/should you do about your authentication methods?For decades, end-users have borne the brunt of the password tyranny, a result of the IT industries'...
Dave Snyder of Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia has been in security leadership long enough to know: It's not about whether you have a technology foundation or lean more toward leadership. It's about having both, and about being a security evangelist, too.
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warc | 202143 | The 16-slice CT scanner and its peripherals have all been produced at the production facilities of Electron in St. Petersburg. Its hardware and software for medical data storage and processing are tailored to the specific demands of Russian hospitals. For example, it is the first scanner with a Russian-language interface, which is key to increasing the efficiency of diagnostic procedures and efficient training of medical personnel.
In line with global trends, cardiovascular disease and cancer are now the biggest contributors to Russia's mortality rate. Medical imaging systems, such as CT scanners, have become powerful tools used by doctors to diagnose and treat these diseases.
"We are very pleased that our hospital has been the first to use this advanced Russian-made CT scanner and we are fully satisfied with the results of the clinical studies," says Evgeny Ageenko, Head of the Hospital of War Veterans, St. Petersburg and Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation. "Until recently, we only had access to a 2-slice imported scanner, but now we have the opportunity to increase the capacity of our diagnostic CT procedures and significantly improve the quality of our clinical studies."
"In developing our first joint product we were aiming to respond to the unique requirements of the Russian healthcare system and offer a solution made specifically for Russian healthcare professionals," says Ronald de Jong, General Manager for Philips Healthcare in Emerging Markets. "Today we have proven that we have accomplished that task, and I hope that clinics across Russia will follow the example of Saint-Petersburg hospital so that they can address the urgent need for Russian doctors and patients to have better access to the latest diagnostic equipment."
"Philips and Electron worked together at all levels of the development, production and commercialization process, making our partnership unique in the Russian market," comments Alexander Elinson, CEO of Electron. "I am convinced that our domestic production of advanced medical equipment will catalyze growth in the local medical components industry and contribute to further innovation in the Russian healthcare industry. It will also help to reduce Russia's dependence on the import of healthcare equipment."
Today, 15% of the high-tech components used in the CT scanner manufactured by Philips-Electron have been developed and produced locally in Russia. It is the aim of the partners to increase this proportion to 51% within the next three years. In the future, Philips and Electron intend to extend their product portfolio to include a 64-slice CT-scanner, high-end ultrasound systems and a domestically assembled MRI scanner.
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warc | 202143 | The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced that the 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV earned the highest-possible rating—Top Safety Pick+—for its performance in the organization's battery of crash tests.
The vehicle's performance means that all trim levels of the small ID.4 SUV scored highly in all six of the Institute's crash-test criteria: driver and passenger small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, head restraint, and roof strength. Further, its vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian crash-prevention systems scored Superior (best) or Advanced (second-best) ratings, and it received Good (best) or Acceptable (second-best) results on its headlight performance.
Volkswagen's MEB architecture, which underpins the VW ID.4, will also serve as the basis for their upcoming electric vehicles (EVs), meaning that its frontal crash structures, floor structures, and motor mountings will be similar. It bodes well for crash safety performance for future electric vehicles from VW and Audi.
Earlier this year, the IIHS started testing some of the more popular EV models on the market. The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E received a Top Safety Pick rating, while the Audi E-tron, Tesla Model 3, and Volvo XC40 Recharge all earned Top Safety Pick+ designations.
In April, the IIHS stated that the EVs they tested were proving to be as safe as gas-powered cars. It cited a Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) report that found crashes involving EVs have 40 percent lower injury claims than identical versions powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE).
Electric vehicles, with their large batteries, tend to be heavier than ICE vehicles. The statement cites the example of the 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge, which weighs 4,787 pounds, compared to the non-electric XC40 that weighs 3,811 pounds. The IIHS has found that bigger, heavier vehicles provide superior safety for their passengers than smaller, lighter cars. The greater weight will push a more lightweight car back, resulting in less force transferred to passengers of the heavier car.
Previous concerns about gas-guzzling heavy vehicles become obsolete with EVs, which produce zero tailpipe emissions. "We can now say with confidence that making the U.S. fleet more environmentally friendly doesn't require any compromises in terms of safety," said IIHS President David Harkey.
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warc | 202143 | Characterization of the basic charge variants of a human IgG1: effect of copper concentration in cell culture media. We report a case study of an IgG1 with a unique basic charge variant profile caused by C-terminal proline amidation on either one or two heavy chains. The proline amidation was sensitive to copper ion concentration in the production media during cell culture: the higher the Cu ( 2+) ion …
The copper concentration in red blood cells is about the same as in plasma. In erythrocytes, about 60% of the copper is bound to SOD1 (Vitoux et al., 1999). A mean copper concentration of 10.9 pmol/10 6 cells (standard deviation 3.7) was measured in human leukocytes (Hinks et al., 1983).Online Chat
The concentration cell of copper consists of two electrodes of copper. One copper electrode is put in a dilute solution of copper ion and the other...Online Chat
Oxygen-type concentration-cell corrosion is often the explanation for the preferential underside corrosion of a copper water tube. The underside of the tube is often in contact with reduced oxygen-content, undisturbed soil, whereas the upper portion of the tube is exposed to aerated backfill.Online Chat
V. Concentration Cell. Copper - Copper. Cy (s), CuCl2 (0.01) || Cu(s), CuCl2 (1.0 M) 1. Draw the schematic of the electrochemical cell that includes all the components (metals, solutions, salt bridges, voltmeters, etc.). Annotate on the schematic which side is the anode, which side is the cathode, the sign of each half cell, the composition of ...Online Chat
Copper was added along with an equivalent concentration of EDTA so that its addition at high concentrations would not alter the free EDTA concentration and thereby alter free ion concentrations of other metals. After preparation, the media were equilibrated for 24 h before inoculation of cells.Online Chat
This purge or ‘bleed’ of impurities takes place in what is known as a ‘liberator’ cell. These liberator cells are simply copper electrowinning cells that are optimized in stages to control copper concentration and bleed impurities from the refinery electrolyte to ensure production of LME Grade A copper cathode.Online Chat
Nov 13, 2015 A Cu/Cu2+ concentration cell has a voltage of 0.22 V at 298K. The concentration of Cu2+ in one of the half-cells is 1.6E−3 M. What is the concentration of Cu2+ in the other half-cell?Online Chat
May 19, 2020 The concentration of copper(II) ions in the half-cell solution decreases. The cathode is the positive electrode. One may also ask, what happens to the mass of each electrode during electrolysis? During electrolysis, the anode loses mass as copper dissolves, and the cathode gains mass as copper is deposited.Online Chat
May 16, 2016 The flotation of native copper ores is nearly always preceded by gravity concentration in jigs and tables not only because the combined process is more economical as regards costs, but also because the copper often occurs as large grains which flatten out during grinding and cannot be broken to a size small enough for flotation.Online Chat
Copper is an essential trace element that is vital to the health of all living things (humans, plants, animals, and microorganisms).In humans, copper is essential to the proper functioning of organs and metabolic processes. The human body has complex homeostatic mechanisms which attempt to ensure a constant supply of available copper, while eliminating excess copper whenever this occurs.Online Chat
Electrochemical Cells and the Nernst Equation. Objective: To observe the effect of concentration on electrochemical potential; to use these results to verify the Nernst equation . Materials: 1.0 M copper(II) nitration solution, Cu(NO. 3) 2; 1.0 M zinc nitrate solution, Zn(NO. 3) 2; saturated solution of potassium nitrate, KNO. 3 (for salt ...Online Chat
At the suggested concentrations, the copper(II) sulfate solution is LOW HAZARD. If the concentrations are increased, the solutions must be labelled with the correct hazard warnings. Copper(II) sulfate solution is HARMFUL if concentration is equal to or greater than 1 M. Procedure. Ask the students to set up the cell …Online Chat
Example: A circular copper coupon is rotated in seawater. A gradient in the metal ion concentration is set up on the disk surface. On periphery of the disk copper ion concentration is 0.001 M. Near the center of the disk the copper ion concentration is 10 M. What are the potentials of anodic and cathodic sites on copper?Online Chat
Jun 01, 2013 Conversely, clonogenic cell kill by disulfiram at 0.34 μM, a concentration previously shown to inhibit proteasome activity in cell-based assays , was prevented by removal of serum or addition of BCPD and enhanced by copper supplementation. Moreover, the enhanced clonogenic cell kill resulting from combined disulfiram and γ-radiation treatment ...Online Chat
A variety of indicators were used to establish the RDA for copper, including plasma copper concentration, serum ceruloplasmin activity, superoxide dismutase activity in red blood cells, and platelet copper concentration . The RDA for copper reflects the results of depletion-repletion studies and is based on the prevention of deficiency (Table 1).Online Chat
In accordance with the above, Cu-GHK, a peptide found in human serum and cerebrospinal fluid that strongly binds copper, increases protein synthesis of collagen and elastin [].Cu-GHK also promotes proliferation and survival of epidermal basal stem cells, which are associated with increased expression of integrin [].Accordingly, this peptide has been found to improve wound healing.Online Chat
The E cell increases with increase in molar concentration of [Cu 2+]. (Copper sulfate solution) Precautions: Immediately after use, place the salt bridge in distilled water. Very carefully dilute the solution to another concentration. Always clean strips of copper and zinc with sandpaper and connect the wires before use.Online Chat
Solutions: Cadmium Nitrate Copper (II) Nitrate Iron (II) Nitrate Lead (II) Nitrate Magnesium Nitrate Nickel (II) Nitrate Silver Nitrate Zinc Nitrate Whodatium (II) Nitrate Nitric Acid. Concentration (moles/liter): 0.0001 to 2.00. Measure Cell Voltage. Electrochemistry. ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS…Online Chat
In part 2, you will read about how E depends on concentration of ions in a concentration cell. In a concentration cell, both electrodes are made of the same metal and the solutions in the cells are of the same ion as the electrodes. The difference between the cells lies in the metal ion concentration. In this case, the chemical reaction is ...Online Chat
Prepare a Cu-Pb voltaic cell and measure its potential. • Test two voltaic cells that use unknown metal electrodes and identify the metals. • Prepare a copper concentration cell and measure its potential. • Prepare a lead concentration cell and measure its potential. • …Online Chat
Cellular copper homeostasis was recently studied in vitro in hepatic cell lines from the liver of LEC rats (Nakamura et al. 1995). Cells from the LEC rats accumulated larger amounts of copper than did control cells when the concentrations of copper in the culture medium exceeded 5 M.Online Chat
Biol Res 44: 7-15, 2011 ARTICLES . Sublethal concentrations of waterborne copper induce cellular stress and cell death in zebrafish embryos and larvae . Pedro P Hernandez 1 #, Cristian Undurraga 1 #, Viviana E. Gallardo 1, Natalia Mackenzie 1, Miguel L Allende 1 * and Ariel E Reyes 2,3,4. 1 FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653 Santiago ...Online Chat
Copper is an essential element in cell culture. However, classical media do not typically contain it in their basal formulations. This is likely because sera used at 5 to 10% provides sufficient copper for cell growth and survival, approx. 50 to 100 ng/mL. Efforts to develop serum-free media necessitate the addition of copper to the cell ...Online Chat
Oct 22, 2018 At high intracellular copper concentration, the carriers are translocated reversibly to the plasma membrane (ATP7A typically to the basolateral, ATP7B to the apical surface) where they efflux excess copper from the cell . In food and water, the average daily intake of copper in the US is about 1 mg , which is relatively low. Most humans and ...Online Chat
This Spectroquant Copper Cell Test allows the accurate quantification of the copper content in aqueous samples. Method applied: In ammoniacal medium copper (II) ions react with cuprizone to form a blue complex that is determined photometrically. The SpectroquantCell Tests come with prefilled 16 mm round cells and all the required reagents to ...Online Chat
We have a concentration cell with hydrogen electrodes. It's made up of two half-cells. One half cell contains [BaCl(aq)]=0.5 M, the other one has [BeOH(aq)]=0.5 M. Draw the cell diagram and calculate e.m.f at 25 C. So I tried this:Online Chat
A concentration cell similar to the one described in Example \(\PageIndex{3}\) contains a 1.0 M solution of lanthanum nitrate [La(NO 3) 3] in one compartment and a 1.0 M solution of sodium fluoride saturated with LaF 3 in the other. A metallic La strip is inserted into each compartment, and the circuit is closed.Online Chat
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C u X ( s) C u X 2 X + X ( a q) + 2 e X −. and the 1 M compartment is the cathode. C u X 2 X + X ( a q) + 2 e X − C u X ( s) For a concentration cell Eo is zero because both compartments are identical. For the copper concentration cell, the number of electrons transferred per copper atom is 2, so n=2. Share.Online Chat
The cell voltage at 25C will be given by the Nernst equation E Cu|Cu 2+ ||Cu 2+ |Cu = E o Cu|Cu 2+ ||Cu 2+ |Cu - (0.0592V/n) log 10 Q which becomes E Cu|Cu 2+ ||Cu 2+ |Cu = - 0.0296V log 10 [Cu 2+] L /[Cu 2+] R. When the concentration of copper ion in the right half-cell exceeds that in the left half-cell, Q 1, the cell voltage E 0, and ΔG 0.Online Chat
Copper concentration can impact lactate metabolism in Chinese Hamster ovary (CHO) cells. In our previous study, a 20-fold increase in initial copper concentration enabled CHO cultures to shift from net lactate production to net lactate consumption, and achieve higher cell growth and productivity. In this follow-up study, we used transcriptomics to investigate the mechanism of action (MOA) of copper that …Online Chat
Concentration Cell: Certain cells use the same electrode in the solution containing same ions at different concentrations. Such cells will have {eq}E^0 = 0 {/eq} and the potential difference will ...Online Chat
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warc | 202143 | No, there’s not a bacon shortage. But pork prices are
soaring and here’s why
By Tanasia Kenney, The Charlotte Observer (NC)
October 07, 2021
Bringing home the bacon is no easy feat these days as pork prices reach record levels, spiking nearly 30% compared to this time last year, according to recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The breakfast staple is selling for $7 a pound for the first time in a decade, Consumer Price Index data show, and industry experts say more “moderate” pricing isn’t likely until well into 2022.
Supply chain snarls, shortages and other problems driven by the COVID-19 pandemic have touched every industry from lumber and gas, to food service and adult entertainment. Now, it’s meat.
So what’s driving the latest hike in pork prices?
“Consumer demand is number one,” Steve Meyer, an economist with Partners For Production Agriculture, told McClatchy News, noting that demand for pork has been strong since coronavirus restrictions began to loosen over the summer.
“People, I think, through the COVID shut down discovered that pork is a great value because when they had to go to a grocery store and buy product, they could actually compare pork to beef and chicken, which you don’t get to do much (when dining) at restaurants,” Meyer said.
A decrease in hogs has also “tightened” the pork supply, he said, citing the ongoing impacts of the pandemic and another viral disease known as PRRS (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome) that affects swine breeding and production.
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warc | 202143 | 5 Amazing Tips for How to Clean a Mirror
We’ve all cleaned a mirror at some point in our lives. And we all know just how difficult it can be to get rid of the streaks:
In fact, streaky mirrors are a common problem. No matter how carefully you clean the mirror, you will still be left with some impressions of where you last wiped.
So, how do you get a streak-free, sparkling clean mirror? Here are five amazing tips on how to clean a mirror:
Use rubbing alcohol
Mirrors often attract blobs of toothpaste, smeared-on fingerprints, and coats of hairspray. Many other toiletries also find their way onto our mirrors:
Many people think that using a simple spray will remove all these spots, but not paying proper attention to these spots are the number one reason for streaks. This happens when you start wiping down the mirror with a solution-sprayed cloth, but the oily or greasy residues spread across the surface of the mirror every time you sweep the cloth across.
An easy solution to this is to use rubbing alcohol. This is something that is found in everyone’s home. Simply wet a cotton pad with a little bit of rubbing alcohol and dab away at these problems spots before you start cleaning the entire mirror.
Pre-treating these problem spots beforehand prevents the appearance of stubborn streaks, giving you a sparkling clean mirror. If you want to go the extra mile and deep clean your mirror, use a toothbrush. Dip the toothbrush in some rubbing alcohol and scrub the dusty corners of the mirror.
Use vinegar to clean the mirror
One of the best ways to get rid of stubborn mirror streaks is to use a solution of vinegar and water. While store-bought cleaners are also effective, the cleaning power, and of course, the cost-efficiency of this simple homemade mixture is unbeatable.
Furthermore, store-bought cleaners often tend to include more soap than what is required. More soap is also one of the leading reasons why the streaks keep reappearing on the mirror despite cleaning and wiping.
Mix one cup of vinegar with one cup of distilled water in a spray bottle. Give it a shake to mix it up, and you have the perfect solution for tacking any smudges, streaks, and smears on your mirror.
You can now apply this mirror cleaning solution directly to the cleaning cloth instead of the surface of the mirror to prevent the liquid from accumulating in the corners. Simply wipe down the surface of the mirror.
Use a microfiber cloth
There is a popular belief amongst people, that using newspapers and paper towels is the most effective way of cleaning glass. However, using these materials can actually make your cleaning more difficult by leaving behind dust, lint, or newsprint residue.
It is best to keep a couple of high-quality microfiber cloths to get rid of the stubborn streaks on the mirror. However, it is better to purchase a thin microfiber cloth. Having a flat weave microfiber cloth will clean the mirror more efficiently than the thicker terrycloth. This is because the thin microfiber cloth won’t hold onto any particles, like lint, which could get transferred to the mirror, causing streaks.
Use warm water
If you find that your mirror is too dirty, then warm water can come to your rescue. However, this doesn’t mean that you won’t need a cleaning solution. Apart from the warm water, keep your cleaning solution and microfiber cloth handy. Now dip the microfiber in the warm water and rub your mirror with the cloth. Use circular motions while cleaning the mirror.
Afterward, you can use a dry microfiber cloth to give it one final wipe down to remove any excess water and streaks.
Warm water is perfect for mixing with any commercial glass cleaner to clean a heavily stained mirror. Mix some warm water with any glass cleaning solution. Now spray this mixture on the entire mirror using a spray bottle and wipe it down using a microfiber cloth.
Use lemon juice to clean your mirror
Another helpful combination of natural products to clean your mirror and keep it free from streaks is lemon. Take some warm water, add a teaspoon of detergent, four tablespoons of lemon juice, and half a cup of vinegar. Mix this solution well and put it in a spray bottle.
You can spray this solution directly onto the mirror or into your microfiber cloth to clean the mirror.
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warc | 202143 | Leighton G. Luke Manager Indian Ocean Research Programme
Key Points The pace of land redistribution under the principle of “Willing Buyer, Willing Seller” has been so slow and so heavily criticised that the ruling ANC has signalled its intention to abandon the policy. The failings of “Willing Buyer, Willing Seller” have provided fertile ground for populist politicians, who have called for the expropriation of land without compensation. The experiences of Zimbabwe and Namibia provide examples that the South African authorities can draw upon as they formulate their new land reform policies. A “50-50” framework that shares out land while also ending the ability to make historical claims on particular properties, may offer South Africa a way forward that, while still imperfect, avoids extreme measures.
Summary
More than a century after the passage of the Natives Land Act and 21 years after the end of the apartheid regime, land ownership continues to be a vexed question in South Africa. Less than ten per cent of the target set in 1994 of returning 30 per cent of the land taken under colonialism and apartheid has been transferred to its previous owners. The original target date of 1999 has subsequently been pushed back several times and there is widespread dissatisfaction with the essentially free-market principle of “Willing Buyer, Willing Seller” that has underpinned the land redistribution efforts.
What, then, has gone wrong with a programme that, on the surface at least, would seem to have been a very reasonable approach to rectifying the injustices of the past? What is the government proposing in its place and are there any experiences from its neighbours that South Africa may be able to draw upon?
Analysis Willing Buyer, Willing Seller
The Natives Land Act of 1913 formalised the dispossession of black South Africans from their lands that had begun in earlier decades. Under the Act, almost 70 per cent of the population were effectively prevented from owning or leasing agricultural land, barring some seven per cent (increased to 13.5% in the 1930s) that would come to form the so-called “homelands” or “Bantustans” of the later apartheid era. Black tenant farmers and sharecroppers became little more than serfs. While the Act enforced the end of black ownership of the most fertile lands, it also had as a primary goal the removal of the competition faced by poor and unskilled white workers from their black counterparts. The Act was singularly successful in achieving those aims, so much so that, even two decades after the end of apartheid, its effects continue to be felt.
Since 1994, the principle of “Willing Buyer, Willing Seller” has been the bedrock of the approach to land ownership and redistribution taken by post-apartheid South African governments seeking to address poverty and rectify the injustices of the past. In so doing, it conforms to the requirements of Section 25 of the 1996 Constitution, carefully negotiated by the African National Congress (ANC) so as not to scare off investors and cause a mass exodus of skilled agricultural practitioners, with an accompanying fall in domestic food security and export earnings. Under Section 25, property rights are explicitly upheld – regardless of how that property may have been acquired. It also specifies the limited circumstances in which expropriation may be applicable and specifies that a just and equitable compensation must be paid for any such property.
As its name implies, willing buyer, willing seller relies on both the vendor and the government – acting as purchaser, although that was not originally the case – coming to an agreement for the sale of a parcel of urban or rural land, or even a portion of a farm, that is acceptable to both parties. After playing the role of buyer, the State may then act as financier to aspiring black farmers and allocate them land from the purchase. It was envisaged that, in as many cases as possible, the white farmer goes on to become a mentor to his/her new neighbours, passing on skills and expertise.
Failings of the Current System
After winning the country’s first all-race election in 1994, the ANC set a target of returning 30 per cent of the land taken under colonialism and apartheid to its previous owners by 1999, with 1998 as the original cut-off date for the lodgement of land claims. The 1999 target has since been extended, most recently – and without success – to 2014. To date, only 7.5% of the land has been returned and, in 2014, the government amended the legislation to give those who missed the 1998 cut-off date another five years to lodge their claims.
Current estimates indicate that around 80 per cent of South African agricultural land remains in the hands of approximately 35,000 white farmers and large agribusinesses. According to Statistics South Africa, in 2014 whites made up 8.4% of the total population of 54 million. While often perceived, and portrayed, as being opposed to land reform, many white farmers are not, and are willing to act as mentors, generally favouring a model under which a stake in the equity of a farm is transferred to farm workers, rather than expropriated. Such a model, they argue, would maintain farm profitability, increase worker incomes and not affect food production. A primary concern for many white famers is the sense of uncertainty that the slow pace of land redistribution has engendered and the possibility that it may lead to the adoption of more radical measures.
Willing buyer, willing seller has attracted criticism for a number of other failings, too. A major problem is that it relies on the willingness of white farmers to sell their land, or at least a portion of it. The number of farmers willing to do that has obviously been low and the purchase prices demanded of the government have sometimes been inflated. Negotiations for the sale of properties can thus be very lengthy.
A related problem is the small size of the farms, which are usually parcels of the larger farm that was purchased and then broken up into smaller sized units. The intention is to facilitate the redistribution of land to as many black farmers as possible, but it also means that the new farms are frequently too small to be economically viable, especially when located in more climatically-challenging regions. The lack of post-acquisition support for new landholders, who frequently have little or no farming experience, is another factor that contributes to the failure of farms allocated under the existing arrangements. Such farmers require financial assistance, technical expertise, machinery and irrigation equipment if they are to make their new farms profitable, but rarely receive any of those inputs. They are often reduced to little more than subsistence farming and, in many cases, formerly productive farms simply lie fallow. One estimate – from the government itself – according to
The Economist, suggests that as much as 90 per cent of the farms that have been redistributed are unproductive. Such problems are not helped by the underfunding, lack of training provided to and short-staffing of the main agency overseeing land reform, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, and the lack of funds allocated to land reform by the government, usually only around one per cent of the budget. [1]
Selecting the most appropriate claimant(s) to a farm once it has been acquired by the government is frequently a difficult and complicated process, adding considerably to the length of time taken in redistribution cases. The allocation of land based on historical claims has been a key tenet of the ANC’s land reform efforts. Although it acts as a complicating factor, having been a cornerstone of government policy for so long, together with the way that it taps into the sense among many South Africans of facilitating the return of land taken “by them, from us”, it will be very difficult for the government to walk away from. That is even more the case after the ANC re-opened the process from 1 July 2014 and extended it to those who were evicted from their lands before 1913.
Another failing is that more people have chosen to receive restitution in the form of cash payments, rather than land. This has been particularly the case in urban areas, where the majority of the claims that have been settled thus far have been located. The claims process within urban areas is generally less complicated and the recipients, perhaps not surprisingly, have favoured monetary compensation over physical land. When paid to those living in rural areas, the comparatively small sums involved have contributed to the continuation of rural poverty and have not facilitated the movement of black farm workers onto properties of their own.
Other Possibilities?
As a consequence of the above factors, there is a growing sense of impatience among the large numbers of landless South Africans at the slow pace of land reform to date and the ruling party is becoming concerned by the fertile ground that the emotive issue provides for the populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. Led by the firebrand former leader of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, the EFF has called for the expropriation without compensation of land owned by white farmers. A politically popular move, the expropriation call resonates with many voters at a time of high unemployment, service delivery failures, ongoing widespread power cuts and the continuing scandal over the taxpayer-funded multi-million rand upgrade to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, all while living conditions for large numbers of black South Africans have improved little since the end of apartheid.
A shrewd politician himself, President Zuma stated as early as 2013 that the government would abandon the willing buyer, willing seller principle. Since the rise of the EFF, to continue with the policy would only hurt the ANC and the party presumably feels that any electoral backlash from its abandonment would be far outweighed by the perception that it is tackling land reform with renewed vigour.
In 2014, the ANC outlined a so-called “50-50” policy that it was considering introducing. Although little more has been said on this proposal, it is shaping up as a likely option. While still flawed, it may nonetheless offer something of a middle way.
Under this proposal, the government would buy half of some farms (without giving any indication of which farms) and then divide up the land among the various farm workers on the property. The formula to be used would see people who have worked on the farm for ten years receive ten per cent of the land purchased by the government, those who had worked there for 25 years a 25 per cent allocation and those who had worked there for 50 years 50 per cent share. On the face of it, and putting aside the uncertainties surrounding the acquisition of the farms in question, the issue of the productivity of such small-scale farms returns, as does the subsequent effect on food security.
President Zuma used his 2015 State of the Nation Address to announce a number of measures intended to expedite the transfer of land to black South Africans. Under the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill, foreigners will no longer be able to purchase new land in South Africa, although long-term leases of at least 30 years will be available. Between five and seven per cent of South African land is estimated to be foreign-owned, suggesting that, as in many other countries, the public perception of the amount of land owned by foreigners is often greater than the reality.
In a move perhaps intended force the break-up of large properties, South African citizens themselves will not be permitted to own more than 12,000 hectares. That figure is a largely unqualified amount that the government has said that it considers to constitute two average-sized farms.
The Regulation of Land Holdings Bill is apparently not to be retrospective, a decision that will help to avert damage to the economy and adversely affecting the rural poor. The Bill is intended to be a key land reform mechanism under which the government will be able to settle all outstanding claims by 2019 and transfer more than 90,000 hectares of land to smallholder farmers and people who are currently farm labourers, possibly using the “50-50” framework that the government ‘is exploring’.
According to the president, an Office of the Valuer-General is being established to facilitate the (presumably “fair”) nationwide valuation of property under the Property Valuation Act that, ‘… once implemented will stop the reliance on the Willing Buyer-Willing Seller method in respect of land acquisition by the State.’ [2] [3]
While the ANC will find it increasingly difficult to defend the status quo, it also clearly needs to speed up the process of change – and in such a way as to safeguard the economy that its budgets depend upon. It will thus seek to avoid extreme measures such as expropriation, and “50-50” does appear to be a favoured option at this point.
At this point, it is worth examining the experiences of two of South Africa’s neighbours that have also been confronted with the need to address similar highly inequitable systems of land ownership: Zimbabwe and Namibia.
The Zimbabwe Experience
Upon achieving independence in 1980, Zimbabwe, like its neighbour to the south, had a situation in which the vast majority of land was owned by the country’s white minority. That land was highly productive and both pre-independence Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe were frequently described as “the breadbasket of Africa” and a rare sub-Saharan African success story. The imbalance in land ownership was recognised by both the Mugabe Government and the then recently-installed Thatcher Government in London. Between 1980 and 1999, the willing buyer, willing seller principle – financed by Whitehall to the tune of £44 million – was employed to address the issue. Slow progress, coupled with the end of British funding, led to increasing frustration that eventually culminated in the invasion of white-owned farms and the expulsion of the owners and their workers by so-called “veterans” of the Bush War against the Ian Smith regime. These war veterans frequently had close links to President Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF party and, almost invariably, no farming knowledge. Agriculture accounted for 20 per cent of gross domestic product and, consequently, the effect on the economy was profound. Zimbabwe went from being one of the continent’s wealthiest countries to a food importer ravaged by hyperinflation.
The experience of Zimbabwe provides a salutary lesson in the pitfalls of land expropriation. Although the farm expropriations were but the largest component of a wider economic catastrophe, the wholesale removal of skilled farmers and their replacement by those with little or no agricultural background – regardless of the validity or otherwise of any historical claims on the land in question – offers the virtual certainty of greatly reduced food security and a correspondingly adverse effect on the broader economy.
While it is tempting to worry that the South African future may offer a repeat of the Zimbabwean past, two important points are worth noting. First, a key difference between the two countries is that, unlike in Zimbabwe, liberation in South Africa was accomplished, not after a lengthy and brutal war, but ultimately by a process of negotiation and democracy. Although there are many who experienced firsthand the violence meted out during the apartheid era, there are none of the “war veterans” who are present in Zimbabwe. Second, agriculture in South Africa constitutes less than three per cent of GDP (although rural South Africa is home to a disproportionately large landless, unemployed and impoverished population).
Land Reform in Namibia
Namibia, on the other hand, offers a more promising contrast. Like South Africa and Zimbabwe, Namibia experienced a similar history of land confiscation (although not all of the country’s ethnic groups were targeted), racial discrimination and white-minority rule and land ownership.
Like its neighbours, upon independence in 1990, Namibia, too, sought to rectify the severe imbalance in land ownership. The willing buyer, willing seller method was formally adopted in 1995. A key difference, however, has been that, even while the government attempted briefly – and unsuccessfully – to introduce expropriation, the principle of no ancestral claims has always remained in place. In short, Namibian land claimants cannot claim specific parcels of land. The process is thus not bogged down in a lengthy process of identifying and verifying the historical rights of a claimant or claimants.
According to the Namibian Agricultural Union, approximately 9.4 million hectares, or over 60 per cent of the 15 million hectare target, have already been acquired by the authorities in Windhoek and returned to black Namibians. Across the border, as noted previously, only 7.5% of the 30 per cent target (representing 24.5 million hectares of the 82 million hectares of agricultural land in South Africa) has been redistributed by Pretoria.
Even so, land reform remains an issue in Namibia and the process does experience problems: the slow speed of the process (willing buyer, willing seller is often blamed); a shortage of land for the government to purchase; and, as in South Africa, a lack of overall funding and support services and training for new farmers. During the November 2014 election campaign, the ruling SWAPO party reiterated its commitment to willing buyer, willing seller so that, even as it announced that it would continue with its goal of purchasing 15 million hectares of the country’s total 35 million hectares of arable land by 2020, a sense of stability and certainty prevailed.
While problems certainly exist and, as in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the pace of reform and the rate of poverty alleviation disappoint many, the Namibian Government can nonetheless claim a very real degree of success.
It may, therefore, be time for South Africa to incorporate the Namibian approach to historical claims over specific tracts of land into its future policies. Admittedly, that might be easier to achieve in a country that is as vast and sparsely populated as Namibia. It is, however, also considerably more arid than South Africa, yet Namibian agriculture would not appear to have been adversely affected by the land redistributions carried out to date. Also, despite a similar growing dissatisfaction with the speed of change, the Namibian programme with its commitment to willing buyer, willing seller has unquestionably been more successful than that taken in South Africa.
Looking Ahead
Land ownership may not necessarily have the high visibility of the controversies surrounding the removal of lingering symbols of colonialism and apartheid, such as statues of Cecil Rhodes and Louis Botha, for instance, and it may be more distant for many urban South Africans, but it nonetheless has an innate resonance for all who suffered under the yoke of apartheid. If, however, pressure on the ANC continues to grow – particularly from the likes of the charismatic and populist Julius Malema – the likelihood of calls for more extreme methods of land redistribution, including expropriation, should not be ruled out. At that point, neither should the prospect of the ANC embracing such measures, no matter how reluctantly.
Whatever option it eventually chooses, the ANC will attempt to pursue a middle path between the status quo – which, arguably, has been considerably less successful than envisaged – and simplistic, populist measures such as expropriation. It will seek to do that while following the Constitution and without disrupting food production. It appears at this stage that the “50-50” approach may be the preferred policy in the future. Although not without controversy, which could well be exploited by opponents such as the EFF, a “50-50” framework that, as in Namibia, also ends the ability to make historical claims on particular properties, may offer South Africa a way forward that, while still imperfect, avoids the extremes of slowness and wholesale expropriation.
In addition, it is extremely important that any future land reform programme be adequately resourced, not only in terms of paying a fair market price for the land acquired, but also in terms of the funding necessary to ensure that new farmers are able to receive the training and financial support that they need to help make their farms viable businesses.
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warc | 202143 | Clustering is an automated and powerful technique for data analysis. It aims to divide a given set of data points into clusters which are homogeneous and/or well separated. The biggest challenge of data clustering is indeed to find a clustering criterion to express good separation of data into homogeneous groups so that they bring useful information to the user. To overcome this issue, it is suggested that the user provides a priori information about the data set. Clustering under this assumption is often called semi-supervised clustering. This work explores semi-supervised clustering through the
\(k\)-medoids model. Results obtained by a Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) heuristic show that the
\(k\)-medoids model presents classification accuracy compared to that of the typical
\(k\)-means approach. Furthermore, the model demonstrates high flexibility and performance by combining kernel projections with clustering constraints.
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warc | 202143 | – How AFTCA and a pandemic world pose new opportunities for hospitality and tourism on the continent.– Dupe Olusola, MD/CEO, Transcorp Hotels Plc
For the past decade, the African continent has shown a remarkable commitment to building a repository of investment opportunities across business sectors.
Tourism, for instance, has witnessed a spike in Cape Verde, sustaining its economy on hospitality efforts. Tourism contributes to 24% of GDP in Mauritius. In 2019, Ghana launched a viral campaign, The Year of Return, attracting globetrotters and foreigners seeking to reconnect with their roots. The Year of Return popularised Ghana as a tourist destination with Trans-Atlantic trade appeal, following a 5.5% contribution from the tourism industry to the nation’s GDP in 2018.
Before the pandemic, a hospitality report showed that Africa was the second-fastest growing tourism region globally, with a growth rate of 5.6% after the Asia Pacific, against a 3.9% global average growth rate. Now, with the number of travels per year on a decline as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, conversations abound on whether domestic tourism numbers will begin to look up and how the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AFTCA) will accelerate progress for regional tourism.
The AFTCA and Integrating local value chains
With a potential market size of over 1.2 billion people and a gross domestic product (GDP) of $2.5 trillion across all 55 member states of the African Union, much is to be expected from AFTCA, particularly in integrating African countries to drive up demand and supply for goods and services, as well as facilitate intra-continent migration.
The movement of people and goods will enable trade and create more valuable local opportunities. In Nigeria, family-owned investment company Heirs Holdings is further integrating its state of play to leverage these unfolding opportunities across Africa. An example of such is its strategic investment in the hospitality landscape – a sector dominated by hotels but is witnessing the emergence of new players and product offerings set to diversify and expand the sector. Digitally savvy consumers have fuelled the culture of lifestyle and hospitality, driving the adoption of experiential packages in the hospitality industry. This cultural shift enhances competition and opens opportunities for new entrants into the hospitality market. One such example is Aura, a new digital platform redefining hospitality in Nigeria, enabling people to book accommodation, restaurants, and experiences from their mobile devices. Launched by the hospitality investment arm of Heirs Holdings and one of Africa’s leading hospitality brands, Transcorp Hotels Plc –, it is the company’s pathway to boosting inter-regional participation in the tourism and hospitality sector.
The reduced dependency on international tourism is an opportunity to explore grassroots recreational outlets. Aura’s bold and targeted approach is to leverage the existence of homes, create traction for underrepresented small businesses, and showcase national heritage, through curated lifestyle and tourist experiences. Its ambition is to engage thousands of partners – from homeowners, hoteliers, restaurateurs, and experience providers to earn income by listing their properties or services on the platform, increasing economic growth and development while improving lives. With Aura, more local businesses will be better positioned to insert themselves in value chains, leading to increased income sustainability.
Addressing access in Regional Tourism
According to the World Tourism Rankings of 2019, there were 69.9 million international tourist arrivals to Africa. This statistic, according to the World Tourism Rankings of 2019, positions Africa as a much-desired destination for non-African travels. However, much is still unsaid about access to tourist destinations in Africa for Africans.
Inter-regional connectivity in Africa remains a challenge. A significant number of the African population still find it difficult to acquire visas. Enthusiastic tourists in Africa are exempted from the diverse experiences in neighbouring countries. Countries are unable to promote their local travel destinations and tourist offerings to attract more regional travellers.
One solution for this predicament will depend on policy adjustments within which Africans can begin to move toward regional integration. Africa is long overdue a flight hub in West Africa – particularly to address the challenge of ease and accessibility while travelling regionally. At present, TAP Air Portugal connects African travellers to Lisbon, São Tomé and Príncipe and Cape Verde, making the case for why more airlines need to expand their global route network operations in Africa. Alternatively, travellers sometimes must fly to Europe to connect to another country in Africa, with the same fate applicable to regional logistics, all of which have implications on trade activities.
Policy adjustments can also happen at the national level, the case of such being in Ghana, when, for the Year of Return campaign, it waived some visa requirements and passed amendments to a 2002 law that permits people of African origin to apply for a right to stay indefinitely in Ghana.
Another solution to boosting regional tourism is Intra-African trade: whereby regional organisations can facilitate cross-country tourist exhibitions and engage Africans on a regional level on what their neighbouring states have to offer. Such a move would weave a brighter future for a region that has repeatedly noted the urgent need to address its continent-wide connectivity gap.
Industry diversification: A new reality for hospitality players
Having suffered a loss of over $50bn in revenue in the wake of a changing society affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism industry players face a new reality: how to recoup from these unprecedented losses, create more employment opportunities, and celebrate the dynamism on the continent.
Addressing the deficit in international travel demand in the wake of COVID-19, Transcorp Hotels was able to identify and enable new products that meet local hospitality needs. Recently, it launched several initiatives: a drive-through cinema, laundry delivery service and food delivery all with the aim of driving long-term returns and delivering premium consumer experiences. In addition, it launched Workspace by Transcorp Hotels – a business hub for corporates designed to boost business activities in a hospitable environment.
Pathway to recovery for Africa’s tourism & hospitality play
As African economies recover, new interventions in the tourism and hospitality sector will emerge to help address the impact of the pandemic and slow-down of growth. Digital products like Aura by Transcorp will augment efforts to move Africa toward an integrated market, as the continent has one of the fastest-growing mobile phone penetration rates. Similarly, it will provide a young African population and a growing middle class with leisure opportunities.
The AFCTA agreement is expected to boost about 50% intra-African trade between now and by 2030 – less than a decade. Achieving this will require a viewpoint that embraces local small and medium-sized enterprises. Indeed, the strongest outcome for the tourism industries in Africa will occur when key players diversify supply chains, establish regional value chains, and boost the growth of home-grown value-adding products. The hope is that with an enabling environment like the AFCTA, Africans can begin to embrace solutions developed to empower them socially and economically, just as regional economies spur growth and expand in capacity.
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warc | 202143 | Today, there is a great debate regarding whether shoe weight affects performance. In this article, we will show you how many shoes weigh.
For the most popular shoes and boots:
Tall boots: from 4 to 6 pounds Running Shoes: from 2 to 2.5 pounds Sandals: from 1.5 to 2 pounds
Shoes Types Weight (lbs) Weight (Kg) Walking Shoes 0.5 0.23 Running Shoes 0.59 0.27 Steel Toe Work Boots 1.4 0.64 Hiking Boots 1.4 0.64 Tactical boots 1.4 0.64 Pull On boots 5.1 2.31 Loafers 0.7 0.32 Sneaker 0.5 0.23 Snow Boots 1.2 0.54 Logger Work Boots 2.8 1.27 Water Shoes 0.4 0.18 Soccer Cleats 2.2 1.00 Cross Training Shoes 0.6 0.27
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Shoe’s Weight Knowledge How much Does a Box of Shoes Weigh? How much do shoes weigh for shipping? How Many Does It Matter? Choose the Perfect-Weight Shoe Shoe Weight Affects Performance Lightest Shoes In The World FAQs Shoe’s Weight Knowledge
Running is one of the best activities and sports activities of the Olympics. They have taught us to run and face each other since our school days.
Many people run past in the morning to stay fit and healthy. Many people run regularly and take part in local marathons held in their locality. They are avid runners and love to wear running shoes. There are a variety of running shoes available for women in online stores and the market. However, many people think about the weight of running shoes.
European Shoe Size Conversion
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Running Shoe Weight
Shoe Weight Type Weight Range Best for: Lightweight Shoes for Men: 9 oz, for Women: 7.5 oz - Racing - 40k running - 20k and 5k run Average Weight for Men: 9-10 oz, for Women: 7.5 - 9 oz - versatility - Balance walking and travel - One for all Shoes Heavy Shoes for Men: Above 10 oz, for Women: Above 9 oz - for Overweight people - for Health conditions - for Working conditions
Running shoes for men and women have different weights. Women’s running shoes are relatively lighter than men’s shoes. The average weight of the men’s running shoes is 270 grams.
However, some shoes weigh 190 grams or over 300 grams. There is a shoe that weighs only 140 grams, and there are famous runners who have records to wear. Therefore, the concept that light shoes are the best and sturdy shoes are the worst is a myth. The different weights are usually because of the original designs and features incorporated into the shoe.
If you are planning to buy a shoe for outdoor activities, these running shoes are perfect. Many women run every day to stay fit and healthy. Women are sensitive to their bodies. Therefore, if anyone notices fat in their body, they panic. Women are aware of their figure and start running if they ever feel they are gaining weight. The best way to lose fat from your body is to run and build up a sweat. There are different running shoes available for women.
If you are looking for comfortable shoes for women, it is the one. These shoes are light and comfortable. These are available for jogging and regular running and various other sports activities. If you are a daily runner, you will understand the difference in the shoe. Many women take running seriously and take it as a sport. For them, this shoe is perfect.
Many women go out for an early jog. These shoes are perfect for starting your day and getting a sweat on. It is a great way to bask in vitamins and help keep the body in shape.
Weight Relation
The weight of our running shoes speaks volumes. Heavy shoes may show that it makes them of a cushioned sole. However, lightweight shoes will be better for competition or fast training. According to my specifications, how much should THE running shoes weigh?
Although this is not a ranking, we will differentiate between three types of shoes based on weight. With a few grams, we can know what shoes that we have based on the weight. Keep in mind that a heavier shoe means more soles and more cushioning:
Slippers less than 220 grams:These shoes can be lightweight. They will be for special occasions, like the races where we want to give the maximum. They can also serve us for punctual training where we do series higher than the race. Barefoot shoes weigh less than 200 grams. Its lifespan will also be shorter. Slippers from 220 to 300 grams:When we take one of these shoes, we notice they are also light. These are training shoes for people who are not heavyweight (less than 70 kilos). Or if we want to have more lightness in our feet when training because even if it does not appear, 100 grams less on the feet are noticed. Shoes over 300 grams:These are heavier shoes with considerable cushioning. It is more recommended for heavy runners or for more kilometer training where we do not want to punish the joints too much.
Change a lot of filming 10-14 kilometers with heavy or light shoes. With the shoes, we can go faster, but we will end up feeling sore and crushed. With heavier shoes, the tread is more comfortable. But having more weight weighs mile by mile at the pace.
How much Does a Box of Shoes Weigh?
If you’re like us, then you know that the only thing worse than buying new shoes is actually carrying them home! You might be surprised to learn that not all shipments are created equal; in fact, most shoeboxes (on average) contain six pairs of shoes. That might make for 18 pounds per box if your footwear choices were evenly distributed, but most people will still spend more time carrying the heavier boxes.
the formula for estimating
the weight of a shoebox:
The Shoe Box Weight = Number of Shoes x Shoes Weight
So if you have a box with 10 pairs of shoes, the Shoe Box Weight = 10 x 2.00 = 20.00 pounds or 20 boxes of shoes.
A shoebox that contains only one very heavy pair of shoes can easily weigh ten times as much as a box with six pairs of lightweight shoes. That’s why it’s so important to pack your heaviest pairs together and at the bottom of the box. The top should be relatively empty so the other pairs don’t rub against each other, which will cause premature wear or even breakage.
How much does a packaging box weigh?
Packaging boxes contain a lot of weight. Here’s the formula for how much a standard, standardized shipping box that is 10″x10″x8″ weighs:
Standard Box Weight = Length x Width x Height
The cardboard box weighs 1/100th of a kilogram
If you’re looking for a generic box to ship something, then you can figure out how many of these boxes you will need to buy by using your item’s volume and multiplying it by the previously mentioned formula. But what if your item is too small or too big for a standard box? You can always ask for an online packing and shipping calculator to show you how much each option will cost. Or, if you’re totally computer illiterate, just ask your sales representative to look up the math for you.
How much do shoes weigh for shipping?
Shipping weight in the United States is a calculated average in pounds, based on a standard 5-pound package. A package can be heavier or lighter than that, but this weight is taken into account to ensure packages are delivered efficiently and securely. Shipping weights have been growing over time to accommodate increasing parcel sizes and increasing demands from retailers.”
You will need to know the weight of your shoes along with your country’s shipping charge for that type of shoes.
Weights are based on packages shipped by UPS. The average is around 5 pounds on shoe boxes, 4 pounds on flats, 3 pounds on high heels. For most countries, your main carrier will be UPS (United States) or DHL (Europe/Asia/Africa). If you are shipping outside the United States, the carriers will vary depending on your country. The easiest way to find out how much do shoes weigh for shipping is to use our shipping cost calculator.
The average weight for a pair of men’s dress shoes is around 2 pounds. The average weight for women’s flats is around 1 pound. High heels can range from 1 pound to over 3 pounds, depending on the style and material. The standard box shoe can weigh between 1.5 pounds to 2 pounds.
The minimum weight for women’s shoes is 0.5 lbs and 1 lb for men’s shoes. If you are shipping with UPS or FedEx, the maximum weight you can ship is 70 pounds. However, if it takes more than two boxes to ship your large order, you will need to pay shipping costs for each box (which can get expensive quickly).
How Many Does It Matter?
The concept of light or heavy must refer to one’s body weight. A good index is obtained by dividing the weight of the shoe by gram by its weight. For example, a 325g shoe for a 65kg athlete gives a weighted index of five. The weighted index allows you to refer precisely to the individual case. Since it is private data, it is necessary to consider your number and not a generic reference.
Now we want to see how the weight of the shoe can affect performance. For this purpose, we will have to consider three factors: the weight of the athlete, elasticity, and speed.
Athlete’s Weight
The weight of the shoe matters less the heavier the athlete is. The lighter women and men should pay maximum attention to the weight of the shoe.
Elasticity
The weight of the shoe matters as much as the athlete is not elastic. An elastic athlete will have fewer problems managing heavier weight because its elasticity naturally brings it high, which is not always positive for endurance running. It can limit performance and be spent to support the greater weight of the shoe without penalization.
The observation of elasticity is important for elderly amateurs. For many reasons, they are often used to competing with super protective and heavy shoes. But, being not very elastic, performance suffers a lot.
Speed
The erroneous concept of tying a shoe at a certain speed has spread. The mistake does not consist in the sentence that is usually based on solid direct experience.
Many shopkeepers also use this concept of speed, forgetting that the 4 mins 15 seconds /km of a top runner is different mechanically from the 4 mins 15 seconds of an amateur that goes at this speed at the maximum of 6-7 km. The running mechanics and the stance phase change.
In the first case, the support times of a top runner are long as he goes slowly concerning his possibilities. In the second case, they are much shorter because the amateur is practically doing a race to the best of his athletic characteristics.
So, it is not the absolute speed that counts, but the one relative to one’s potential. The weight of the shoe counts the closer you get to your maximum speed, not in the distance considered. So, the weight of the shoe matters as much as the distance is short because the athlete uses a greater percentage of his potential and therefore of his maximum speed.
Overall Calculation
It is not possible to give formulas that are valid for everyone because the parameters involved are many. The following data comes from the experience of hundreds of runners who have tried shoe optimization. How intervals and maximum values can be indicated? These data are only the limits of the runner sample analyzed.
We suggest that 100g of shoe for a 50kg athlete at 3000m can weigh for 5 min/km. It does not mean that it is the case for all. But for those who are more sensitive to the weight of the shoe, this data is valid.
We can group useful information according to four distance classes.
Up to 3000 m:There are no compromises here, race with the lightest shoes possibly compatible with your running mechanics. The difference between 200g shoes and 300g shoes in a 50 kg athlete can be as high as 5 min/km. From 3 km to 8 km:Weight is always fundamental. But you can lose something in favor of the cushioning power, especially those who have small chronic pains. It is advisable not to choose the lightest shoe. But deliberate the fact that during the run, feel nothing. Slight discomfort in the heel or knee certainly causes you to lose more than 50g of the shoe. It also makes no sense to compete with ultralight shoes on terrains, whose roughness is not absorbed by the shoe. For a 65 kg athlete, 100g of the shoe can affect a maximum of 3 min/km. From 8 km to 21 km: Here, the super-light bikes should be the prerogative of the champions only and of all the fast amateurs who have no problems. In fact, for a 65 kg athlete, 100g of the shoe can affect a maximum of 2 min/km. Marathon:The gap is further reduced and never exceeds the second per kilometer for athletes weighing from 65 kg to 70 kg, but it can also be negative. Super-light shoes often cause excessive micro-traumas. They are in the last part of the race. It results in an inability of the muscles to react correctly to nerve stimuli. The effect of trauma is over-straining the lower leg muscles with the effect. The tired muscles make less impact on light shoes than slightly fresher muscles with heavier shoes.
The psychological impact counts. If we convince an athlete that he has boulders at the foot, he will be so conditioned that we can weigh his performance down even by 10 min/km. The aim data that we have reported can correct one’s psychology, bringing it closer to reality.
Choose the Perfect-Weight Shoe
How to choose the running shoes that is right for us? Let’s assume that there is no absolute best brand precisely because the choice passes through various parameters. We cannot apply to a specific ideal model because they are often highly subjective. They are parameters that in the population of runners take on infinite values.
Given a subject, the best approach to choosing is to set these parameters and then go to the market to see which models might meet the requirements.
The protection systems of running shoes are many. It is useless to compare them without going into details that often escape even many insiders. Each system has its efficiency curve, not known to the public. For example, system A can be better than B in the first 100 km of the shoe’s life, only to degrade much more quickly.
Currently, the subdivision into four dominant classes is conventionally used:
Superlight (A1):They are only racing shoes. The weight is always less than 200 g. Intermediate (A2):As the name implies, they are halfway between those with maximum cushioning and the super light ones. We can use them for both competition and training. The weight is between 200 and 300 g. Maximum cushioning (A3):Should offer the best absorption of effects with the ground. The weight is around or above 300g. Stable (A4):they offer maximum stability by correcting excess probation. So, they are shoes for pronounced pronators. The weight is on average slightly higher than that of the A3.
The weight of the shoe is important up to a certain point. In the last 10 years, the gap between heavier and lighter models in a certain category (for example, A3) has narrowed a lot. Today, a slightly heavier shoe (for example, 20-30 g) can be synonymous with quality shoes. The protection technologies take full advantage of those few extra grams to offer more protection. The duration does not mean the mechanical wear of the sole or the upper.
Shoe Weight Affects Performance Shoe weight, oxygen consumption, and running economy
Even though we cannot believe it, we can continue training the same number of hours without the need to increase the days of the series. We can keep everything the same and see how we improve our operating economy. Our oxygen consumption will decrease, thus achieving an improvement in our performance.
Science is unanimous in this sense. For every 100 grams we put on our feet, oxygen consumption increases from 0.7% to 1%. It is a lot! Experienced riders already know that for them, it is something perceptive that however reaffirms what we see in the studies. It is why if we look at the races; we see that the higher the level, the more runners with competitive shoes we will find. It happens in all competitions and races, and you just observe to notice.
If we analyze a little more in these studies, we see that this effect, the reduction of oxygen consumption, is not produced by our own body mass index, but by the mass effect that footwear causes on our feet. It is the weight we add to our feet that will cause us to lose performance and be slower.
Also, to make the language more understandable, this 0.7% – 1% increase in oxygen consumption means for every additional 100 grams in footwear. He explains that this translates into a 2.94m/ft reduction in speed. Keep in mind that you wear two shoes, one per foot. So, if the weight difference between one shoe and the other is 100 grams, you need to multiply it by two.
While many other factors come into play when running a marathon and that extrapolating these long-distance studies is bold and risky, these are the results.
Protection
Keep in mind that if you are used to running in a traditional shoe and start running in a minimalist shoe without making a safe transition, instead of improving your marathon time, you risk not even finishing workouts. Knee strain causes injury or muscle damage. Prudence and progressive adaptation to new shoes is key if this article touches your curiosity and encourages you to try a more minimalist shoe.
Looking at these results, why not run barefoot if the weight of your shoes is so influential on your performance? The answer is quick and obvious, we cannot run on a surface that we do not adapt to as quickly without a little protection.
We are accustomed to running shoes. The solution is not to take off our shoes. At least from the start, the solution is to find those shoes with which we feel at ease. It protects us in the least to help us do better. We know that the shoes with the best performance are the lightest and offer a minimum of protection against surfaces and have a minimum of rigidity.
Rigidity
Here, we find an additional feature, the stiffness of the footwear. It will deprive us of too much cushioning. An excessively soft shoe can make us lose reactivity when running and therefore efficiency. In 2009, Adidas Adistar compared different stiffnesses in the shoe’s midsole to see if they were cheaper to handle in terms of oxygen consumption, noting that some stiffness also has provided this 1% drop in oxygen consumption.
Cushioning
If you are used to running shoes, a minimum of cushioning can be useful for better performance, and when we say that the minimum is minimum. This study compared zero cushioning, 1cm and 2cm, and found that 1cm was the option that offered the best results.
Minimalist shoe
Returning to the question we asked ourselves, it would not be correct not to specify information regarding the weight of the shoes compared to performance. Before we asked ourselves why not run barefoot? We are told that running in a minimalist shoe is less expensive in oxygen than running in traditional shoes, but more expensive than running barefoot. But if we train our body to run in a minimalist shoe, it ends up being as cheap as running on foot naked.
So, we forced ourselves to continue investigating the problem and ended up seeing that this economy exists when we compare the weight in shoes of over 220 grams versus the 220 grams mentioned above. If we compare two shoes of less than 220 grams, we see that there are no significant differences in terms of oxygen consumption. So, the closer you can get to these 220 grams of shoe weight, the less it will interfere with your goals. The systematic review by Fuller et al. in 2015 is the one that places particular emphasis on the latter.
While years ago, we had to look at minimalist shoes to find lightweight shoes. The breakthrough of these on the market meant that running shoe brands lightened the weight of tech shoes. Specifically, it is 2013 when there is a before and after in technological footwear in terms of weight. Shoe stores are using scales to tell their customers how much each shoe weighs. That way, they can outshine minimalism’s best performance advantage.
Lightest Shoes In The World
One of the hardest parts about providing for your family in the new age is finding lightweight, durable, and fashionable shoes. The fact that many of these shoes have functional benefits makes it more difficult to find a pair under your budget. But we have compiled a list of the most lightweight shoes out there. These are the smallest, most functional shoes that are also available for budget-conscious families.
VIVOBAREFOOT Gel Infused Insole Shoe
The VIVOBAREFOOT Co-Founder Jack Wills’ shoe has hit the market with a vengeance. A high-tech, the gel-infused insole is all it takes to make this shoe one of the lightest shoes on the market today. With a 0.5mm outsole, it is a leader in the barefoot shoe market.
See also: Best Barefoot Shoes for Women.
Merrell Bare Access 4 Trail Running Shoes
These Merrell light shoes have everything you need for an all-day hike without weighing your feet down. The sole of the shoe provides ample protection to your feet from sticks and rocks. The breathable mesh allows air to flow through the shoes throughout the day.
New Balance Minimus Road-X Training Shoe
These New Balance shoes are so lightweight that you forget you have them on. The minimalist design keeps your foot close to the ground for maximum traction and comfort. These shoes allow a combination of support and flexibility that cannot be beaten by any other shoe on the market today.
Product Link: https://www.newbalance.com/minimus/
Salomon Speedcross 4 Trail Running Shoes
These Salomon shoes provide a barefoot feel while biking or running. The flexible construction will keep your feet cool during the day with breathable mesh lining. These shoes will adapt to any type of terrain you can throw at them.
Saucony Cortana
These Saucony shoes are lightweight but still provide the benefits of a traditional running shoe. The flex-foam sole is designed to cushion the impact from shoes while providing all the support your feet will ever need. The mesh upper allows air to flow through the shoe to keep your feet cool during heavy exertion.
Product Link: https://www.saucony.com/en/cortana-4/13616M.html
Merrell Barefoot
The Merrell Barefoot shoes provide the benefits of barefoot shoes at an affordable price. The flexible sole allows your foot to feel every ground feature as you walk, so your feet will never get tired with these shoes on. The breathable mesh lining and lightweight construction keep your feet cool and ready for a long day of work or play.
Product Link: https://www.merrell.com/US/en/barefoot-1/
FAQs How many kilos do you take off for your clothes and shoes?
The authors concluded women subtract 1.75 pounds and men can subtract 2.5 pounds for their clothes (without shoes). So, the next time weighing you in a clinical setting, be sure to tell the person who weighed you to subtract 1.75 pounds for your clothing.
How to choose your perfect running shoes?
If you are planning to buy a running shoe, there are several factors you need to consider.
When buying a running shoe, make sure that there is enough space between the wall of the shoe and your thumb. This way you can move your thumb while wearing the shoe. Make sure you wear your shoes and try to walk before you bring them home. The shoe should hold your shoe and keep it secure. You should not slip at the heel. Finally, it should be comfortable on your toes. How much does the average pair of steel-toed boots weigh?
The weight of a boot depends on the brand, size, model, and style. Many people find the leather midsole, fur-lined steel boots to weigh just over two kilograms (almost 4.5 pounds). And most six-inch steel toe work boots with good protective materials are around five pounds.
How important is the weight of the shoe?
This is a question that many runners ask themselves, but the topic should only interest two types of runners:
Those who always and only choose ultralight shoes. Those who always choose shoes with maximum cushioning. | 24,201 | 9,882 | 58,587.383424 |
warc | 202143 | I needed to retrain my mind and the ideas I personally had concerning love so that I could understand suffering for Christ as a benefit and not a loss. When I was growing up, I was completely drawn to the idea of love. I had a bent in my heart towards being kind, patient, and forgiving towards others.
With that said, I didn’t yet understand the true meaning of charity. And because of my lack of understanding, when it came to suffering, I very often mistook my difficult circumstances as wrong or damaging. In actuality, because I served God who is complete and total love, I was actually being transformed into the image of Christ!
Scripture tells us that God is love (1 John 4). Because the very nature of God is love, we can know that as His children, we are fully loved by Him. He loves us, He gave His son, Jesus, to die for us so that we would be reconciled back to Him. & then He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit on this earth!
Part of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is the sanctification of the saints. It is by the power of the Holy Spirit that our redemption, through Christ from cavalry, is able to be worked into our lives in a way that makes us completely new, inside and out.
As we endure suffering, the Holy Spirit works the character of Christ into our very being! This is what makes long-suffering worth it—when we surrender our situations and circumstances to the Lord, He then draws out of us what needs to be drawn out.
My friend, I want you to take a moment and consider the last time you endured suffering. What was the posture of your heart? How did you respond to the people and things in your circumstances?
Did you respond by faith instead of sight?
Was the fruit of the Holy Spirit prevalent in how you navigated the season?
Suffering is so important because when we’re going through trials and tribulations of different kinds, we are really able to see how Christ-like we actually are vs. how we claim to be.
Suffering to become transformed more into the image of Christ is something we can truly rejoice in. It is a gift because we have the hope that what the Lord is doing in our hearts is making us like Him.
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warc | 202143 | Remittances from labor migrants have become the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for developing countries. Although such remittances exert positive effects on migrant-sending countries, such as reduced unemployment, studies that investigate their negative effects remain scarce.
To bridge the research gap, the study examines the effects of migration and remittance on the domestic labor market of Tajikistan—a labor migrant contributor and remittance-dependent country, whose labor migrants are largely employed in Russia. Specifically, the study estimates the impact of international migration and receipt of remittances on labor supply decisions and employment of family members left behind. The authors employed the control function approach using unique high-frequency household panel data from the World Bank’s Listening to Tajikistan survey for an accurate examination of the simultaneity of migration/remittance and labor supply decisions of left-behind members. The results demonstrate that sending a household member as a labor migrant reduces the employment rate of non-migrant household members in Tajikistan by 5.4 percentage points. Moreover, receiving remittances reduces the employment rate of non-migrant household members by 10.2 percentage points. The findings suggest that the discouraging effect or reservation wage effect of having a migrant member and receiving remittances is significant and exceeds other potential positive effects on Tajikistan. The paper was prepared as a part of a project entitled “Study on Remittances and Household Finances in the Philippines and Tajikistan” by the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. This paper was published in the Journal of Asian Economics and can be read from the link below. | 1,807 | 863 | 3,735.443801 |
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warc | 202143 | Halitosis is a medical term for bad breath. Normally, it is not that alarming to have bad breath. All you may need is a small upgrade in your oral care or hygiene. However, there are some cases when it can be serious and develops tooth decay and gingivitis. As early as possible, it is important to prevent halitosis from causing you serious oral problems. Reach out to Lovett Dental in Pasadena to learn about how we can help.
Common Causes of Halitosis
The first step to avoid halitosis is by knowing its root causes. It’s best to familiarize yourself with the common causes of halitosis so you can apply necessary changes to your oral healthcare routine. Common causes include:
Infections after teeth extraction or oral surgery Eating garlic and spicy foods Drinking coffee and soft drinks Dry mouth and lack of water Morning breath Smoking or tobacco use Bad oral hygiene practices
Halitosis is a common health problem that affects about 1 in 5 individuals. However, halitosis isn’t always a big health concern. It can still affect a person’s self-esteem. If this is bothering you, there are easy ways to make your breath smell fresh and cool.
Tips to Prevent Halitosis Brush and Floss
Brushing your teeth helps remove food excess and prevents plaque buildup. Do this twice every day for at least 2 minutes. Avoid brushing too long for 30 minutes or aggressively as it can cause dental wounds and infections.
Pair this with dental flossing to remove germs lurking between the small gaps of your teeth. Do this at least once every day to eliminate germs your toothbrush can’t reach.
Use Mouthwash
Mouthwash can eliminate the underlying bacteria in your mouth. Remember not to overuse it and only use it at least once a day. Determining which mouthwash to use may vary according to your oral needs. Ask your dentist for a mouthwash that will best suit your oral health needs.
Practice a Healthy Diet
Food is an important factor to consider in preventing halitosis. It may only stay in your stomach, but the smell can linger in your body. Avoid spicy and foods that contain a lot of garlic. Limit your sugar and alcohol intake as they can cause decay and bad breath in the long run.
Instead, eat healthy foods such as those that encourage chewing. Food such as carrots and apples help improve saliva production. Saliva helps clean dirty particles in your mouth that cause halitosis.
Stay Hydrated
It may seem like old advice to regularly drink your water, but it can help keep your mouth moist and hydrated. A dry mouth might limit saliva production and cause bad odors due to lack of water. Follow the normal guide of 4-6 or more glasses a day to prevent dehydration.
Keep Dentures Clean
Dental dentures may be teeth replacements, but they can still cause halitosis if cleanliness is not maintained. Food excess and plaque buildup will still lurk on the inner corners of your teeth. So brush and floss your dentures the usual way you did in the past. You may take it out at night and thoroughly clean its corners for the next morning.
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It is important to get a professional teeth cleaning and examination. Halitosis can mean many possible problems for your health, so a regular trip to the dentist every 6 months is important. If you feel like you already have halitosis, it’s best to let a dentist identify your oral problem.
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warc | 202143 | MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, October 6, 2021 (AFP) – “High wages, high skills, high productivity” was the promise made on Wednesday (6) by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to his Conservative party, in defense of a major reform, after Brexit Britain from the European Union, frees the British economy from its dependence on cheap foreign labor.
Faced with long queues at gas stations, empty supermarket shelves, and merchants’ warnings of a bleak end of the year due to severe labor shortages, Johnson argued that all this pain was short-lived, fleeting, and well worth it. .
Boris, in his closing address at his party conference in Manchester, in the non-industrial north-east of England, said, “The answer to the current tensions, which are essentially the result of economic revitalization, is not to use the same old lever of unbridled immigration.” , who traditionally vote for the left.
He insisted that the UK should abandon an “old broken system” based on “low wages, low growth, low skills, low productivity, all made possible and facilitated by unbridled immigration”.
Instead, he called for investment to bridge the huge disparities between the wealthy city of London and the rest of the country, prioritizing infrastructure, housing, education and business development that would make it possible to pay better wages to well-trained British workers across the country. .
“Our job as governors is to advance opportunity,” he said, calling for a reform that “no government has had the courage to tackle” so far.
“Yes, it will take time and sometimes it will be difficult, but that was the change that people voted for in 2016,” he insisted.
The date refers to the referendum that chose Brexit, with 52% of the vote, which, after years of political chaos, resulted in the United Kingdom leaving the European Union permanently, on 1 January this year.
– Lots of humor, little action – Filled with traditional sarcastic humor, the Prime Minister’s speech offered more charisma than concrete measures, amounting to bonuses of up to £3,000 (US$4,000) for recruiting teachers and promising inaccurate results for massive public investments.
“It was a fun speech,” 50-year-old marketing expert Jacqueline Hampson, who attended her first conference after joining the party last year, told AFP, “and we need an injection of that energy.”
“Without a doubt, we have to keep our finances in check and maintain the confidence of the financial markets,” Charles Pott, 82, said of possible tax increases.
As for labor representatives close to the opposition Labor Party, whom Johnson attacked and ridiculed in his speech, his message represented nothing but the “words of a political clown”.
It launched “slogans about the difficult details, at a time when costs are soaring, inflation is a real concern, subsidies have been reduced for millions of people, there is massive food and fuel shortages and a very real climate crisis,” according to the Secretary-General’s analysis. From the powerful transport union TSSA, Manuel Cortes.
– What about climate change? Within weeks of hosting the COP26 climate summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow, Johnson tackled climate change as a spinoff.
“The design of the world will be put to the test. Can we keep Paris’ ambition to stop global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius alive? Government cannot act alone, and taxpayers cannot do it alone,” he said.
He called for private sector involvement, citing, for example, the offshore wind turbine fields off the British coast.
With the usual self-confidence, the day before the Prime Minister pedaled an electric bike, climbed on an electric tractor and played with a jigsaw puzzle to assemble a carbon-neutral home at the exhibitor booths at the conference.
On the whole, however, in Congress, unlike Brexit, climate change has been pushed to the background – a “bad sign”, in the opinion of Rebecca Newsom, policy officer at Greenpeace UK.
On Wednesday, Johnson even attacked those who have been protesting across London for weeks against the government’s inaction on climate, and who are turning to civil disobedience.
He criticized that “those people who cling to the roads I do not call legitimate protesters, but rather a nuisance that obstructs ambulances and prevents people from living their daily lives,” praising that his Minister of Interior is promoting “new powers to put them in.” Prison is where they should be.”
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warc | 202143 | Dr . Maggie Paul of Inner Bonding® Inspires Clients to Restore & Increase by Following Their Spirits
A Scoop: With 1985, Doctor Margaret Paul and Dr . Erika Chopich co-created your Inner Bonding® spiritual restorative healing philosophy that will help people know their self-worth and forge enduring, wholesome relationships. Internal Bonding’ s six-step approach emphasizes the importance of self-care and boosts people to enjoy their minds, bodies, together with spirits to discover a renewed motive and satisfaction.
Sometimes people fall into unhealthy dating designs without being familiar with why. People just find out they’ re also unhappy. Certain daters may well struggle to find meaningful connections in an extremely fast-paced dating scene, so they move from one dissatisfying bond to another free of knowing how to break this chain. That’ s generally when they try to get help from a trained professional.
“ Seems like to me that will more citizens are aware of becoming emotionally inaccessible and plan to heal some of those underlying issues, ” claimed Dr . Margaret Paul, a Co-Founder of the Inner Bonding® healing method. “ Even more people wish to learn to really enjoy themselves and not just continue to forego themselves, that leads them to Inside Bonding. ”
Dr . Margaret Paul along with Dr . Erika Chopich created Inner Bonding in 1985.
Dr . Margaret believes of the fact that power to relieve lies after only ourselves, and additionally she goes over people to unlock that strength through aware, daily endeavor.
Inner Relationship gives persons a trusting philosophy that will guide them through life’ s challenges. Dr . Margaret’ s job goes past simple online dating advice together with gets to the root of psychological and mental blockages together with pain.
That six-step Inside Bonding strategy prompts individuals to take share of where they’ lso are at along with create a plan for where they wish to go. Dr . Margaret helps people come in contact with their divine wisdom to discover the truth of their relationships.
When daters get responsibility for their emotions in addition to learn how to absolutely adore themselves, they’re able to give adore to others in addition to attract level of quality partners whom share similarly positive mindsets.
“ Most people attract partners at much of our common a higher standard woundedness or even our well-known level of well being. As people learn in addition to practice Internal Bonding, they will become a lot more emotionally healthy, ” Dr . Margaret claimed. “ We’d like this process being available for any person who wants to alleviate their soreness and discover learn how to bring enjoy and joy into their existence. ”
SelfQuest: Self-Directed Coursework Full of Information
SelfQuest can be described as patented routine that instructs personal obligation and Internal Bonding. It includes a personal tool kit and self-directed exercises to help people be mindful about their relationships with them selves, others, plus the world. Dr . Margaret unveiled a non-profit called SelfQuest® Educational Base, Inc. which raises money to provide its online software programs to huge schools along with correctional establishments.
Teachers a fair distance have incorporated Inner Bonding’ s coaching into health classes along with seen scholars grow far more compassionate, self-aware, and mentally balanced.
The penitentiary inmates also benefit from those lessons. Various have penned letters saying that Internal Bonding’ vertisements resources get helped these identify your negative signs and take positivity.
“ It helps families connect their own feelings using their thoughts, thinking, and measures, ” Dr . Margaret stated. “ A inspiration had been to bring a transformative six-step process of Internal Bonding to help anyone who would like to learn to enjoy themselves and additionally take responsibility for their internal peace together with joy. ”
SelfQuest is a comprehensive self-help program for people on a healing journey.
Your SelfQuest routine includes questionnaires, visualization exercises, dream work, instructive videos, and a wide glossary of terms. People assess their particular emotional benefits and weak spot and apply those insights to their romantic relationships. Dr . Maggie also goes over the Over emotional Freedom Tactic in this program to help most people manage their particular overwhelming thoughts.
As families go through this approach dynamic in addition to transformative system, they learn to really reduce worry, depression, and various negative inner thoughts.
“ SelfQuest is amazing, ” proclaimed Levette Brown in a testimonial. “ I’ m calling it my own therapist. It’s so useful and creates an awareness with the depths that you can get within myself. ”
Wanting to the future, Doctor Margaret expectation to reach a diverse crowd by converting SelfQuest inside Spanish, This particular language, German, and other languages. Her insights usually are universal.
“ We train people learn how to access ones own inner or maybe more source of perception, love, and comfort, ” she discussed. “ This a belarus bride review is a psychological in addition to spiritual application, but not a religious method. It is applicable to any faith. It entails mind, physical structure and heart. ”
Raising Her Effect on the Modern Dating Scene
With 2018, Dr . Margaret made substantial growth in raising the Internal Bonding brand. She concluded a web conferencing and written a workbook to make the woman’s methods far more accessible to help everyone. Your Inner Bonding Workbook provides sage information for moving past embarrassed, anxiety, along with guilt along with tapping into a greater source of love and actuality.
Dr . Margaret also combined with mental wellness organisations Amare Global/Flourish to offer some 30-day relationships course identified as Wildly, Severely, Joyously Within Love. At one time she completed that undertaking, she done anything about an report called Thriving At Last to further inform along with inspire Flourish’ s audience.
“ More or less everything will be a big bonus in terms of getting Inner Connection to the environment, ” Dr . Margaret talked about.
“ A Inner Connection work has completely modified my life and my romance for the far better. ” — Danielle Koprowski
For a holistic direct and food psychologist, Doctor Margaret is usually invested in restorative healing the body and the spirit, and additionally she has a short while ago written about the connection between weak diet and additionally poor subconscious health. The girl covers the following important matter in “ Diet Designed for Divine Service: Beyond Junk food and Worthless junk Thoughts to help you At-Will Divine Connection. ”
Inner Creating clearly lies out the web link between precisely how one feels and the simplest way one acts, and its theories challenge all those to become even more conscious on the day-to-day judgements to also love and abandon their selves.
Since she began in psychotherapy, Doctor Margaret has got endeavored to create wisdom, level of comfort, and therapeutic to persons struggling to manage negative thoughts and additionally feelings. Her succeed has damaged many lifestyles by enhancing the way singles and people express and allow love to one another.
“ I would like to see relationship and family relationships focused on understanding how to give and share love rather than planning to get love, ” she stated. “ Your focus is on providing and sharing love for a long time, and I am always figuring out and innovating in this area. ”
Inner Relationship Promotes Kindness & Adore
It can be complicated to be in a good loving relationship whereas carrying suitcases from past pains, nonetheless a few uncomplicated therapeutic techniques can help persons learn how to let them go and improve.
Dr . Margaret Paul tone the intrinsic spirit by way of developing a person’ s natural capacity for really enjoy. Her sessions programs consentrate on growing that enduring attributes — kindness, integrity, credibility, and faithfulness — which might make romantic relationships last.
Internal Bonding shows you people to love themselves and confront your false certain principles in a deep, meaningful process. Dr . Maggie has published books in addition to developed coursework to distribute this loving message and heal people’ s minds, minds, together with bodies. Her guidance prepares singles to help you attract your loving significant other and build a long-lasting connection.
“ Our planet needs individuals to move out to be governed as a result of their self confidence and into being dictated by adore, ” she said. “ When people know whom they are and deeply enjoy and benefits who they’ve been, then they can see and benefits others with regard to intrinsic qualities, and that’ s any time our world might heal. ” | 9,228 | 4,141 | 19,826.49505 |
warc | 202143 | Boron nitride is a double compound composed of the same number of nitrogen atoms and boron atoms, so its experimental formula is BN. Boron nitride and carbon are isoelectronic, and like carbon, boron nitride has a variety of isomorphs. The cubic boron nitride structure is similar to diamond, and its hardness is only lower than that of diamond, but the high temperature resistance is better than diamond. The hexagonal boron nitride structure is similar to graphite and is a very practical lubricant.
Characteristic
Boron nitride is a crystal composed of a nitrogen atom and a boron atom, and the crystal structure is divided into: hexagonal boron nitride (HBN), close packed hexagonal boron nitride (WBN), and cubic boron nitride, wherein hexagonal boron nitride crystals The structure has a similar graphite layer structure, and presents a white powder which is loose, lubricated, easy to absorb moisture, and light in weight, so it is also called "white graphite".
Boron nitride is made up of nitrogen and boron atoms in the crystal, the crystal structure can be divided into: hexagonal boron nitride (HBN), dense rows of hexagonal boron nitride (WBN) and cubic boron nitride, the crystal structure of hexagonal boron nitride have similar graphite layer structure, loose, lubrication, easy absorption of moisture, light and other traits of white powder, so it is also called “white graphite”.
1. The hexagonal boron nitride structure is similar to graphite, also known as h-BN, α-BN or g-BN (graphitic BN), sometimes referred to as "white graphite", which is the most commonly used form of boron nitride. Similar to graphite, the hexagonal form is composed of many hexagons. These sheets have different registrations from the layers, but as seen from the arrangement pattern of graphite, this is because the boron atoms make the boron nitride atoms elliptical above the nitrogen atoms. Such a structure reflects the polarity of the boron-nitrogen chain. The lower covalent nature of boron nitride makes it a lower semi-metal with respect to graphite, which circulates in the network of pi-chains in its hexagonal flakes. The lack of color of hexagonal boron nitride shows a lower electron delocalization, indicating a larger energy gap.
Hexagonal boron nitride is a very good lubricant at very low and very high (900 °C) temperatures and even oxygen, and is particularly useful when graphite conductivity and chemical reactions with other materials cause difficulties. Since its lubrication mechanism does not involve water molecules between the layers, boron nitride lubricants can also be used under vacuum, such as when working in space.
Hexagonal boron nitride is still stable in air up to 1000 ° C, 1400 ° C in vacuum and 2800 ° C in inert gas, and is one of the best thermal conductivity insulators. It does not chemically react to most substances and is not wetted by many molten substances (eg aluminum, copper, zinc, iron and steel, chromium, silicon, boron, cryolite, glass and halogenated salts.)
2. The cubic boron nitride structure is similar to diamonds and is extremely hard. The microhardness is HV72000～98000Mpa, and the hardness is only lower than that of diamond. Similar to diamonds, cubic boron nitride is an insulator but an excellent thermal conductor. Also known as c-BN, β-BN, or z-BN (named after the crystal structure of Zinc Blende), it is a widely used industrial drilling tool.
Because it is insoluble in iron, nickel and other superalloys, CBN is suitable for processing ferrous metals such as iron and nickel, and diamonds chemically react with these materials to cause rapid wear of the cutting tools. Polycrystalline c-BN drilling tools are mostly used in mechanical steel, while diamond drilling tools are mostly used in aluminum alloys, pottery and glass. Like diamonds, cubic boron nitride has high heat transfer due to phonons. In contact with oxygen at high temperatures, boron nitride forms a passivation layer of boron oxide. Boron nitride can be well bonded to metals because of the formation of alternating layers of boron or nitrogen alloys.
Cubic boron nitride crystal materials are often used in the cutting head of cutting tools. When used for abrasives, synthetic resins, porous ceramics, and the like are generally used as the binder. Sintered cubic boron nitride is a non-conductive heat sink material, so it has potential application value in the field of microelectronics.
3. Boronite in the form of wurtzite (w-BN; point group = C 6v; space group = P 6 3 mc) has the same structure as ite, a rare hexagonal carbon polymorph. As in the cubic form, boron and nitrogen atoms are grouped into tetrahedrons. As in the cube form, boron and nitrogen atoms are divided into 6-membered rings; in the cube form, all rings are in a chair configuration, and in w-BN, the rings between "layers" are in a boat configuration. Earlier optimistic reports predicted that the water-like zinc-stone is very strong and can be estimated to be 18% stronger than diamonds by simulation, but it has not been experimentally verified due to the small amount of minerals in nature. Recent studies have measured w-BN hardness at 46 GPa that is slightly harder than commercial borides, but softer than cubic forms of borohydride. TRUNNANO (Luoyang Trunnano Tech Co., Ltd ) is a professional Boron nitride manufacturer with over 12 years experience in chemical products research and development. If you are looking for high quality Boron nitride, please feel free to contact us and send an inquiry. | 5,587 | 2,371 | 13,016.696752 |
warc | 202143 | The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out years of growth in New York City’s office sector, erasing nearly $28.6 billion in market value and more than $850 million in property taxes in City Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. Timing its recovery is an open question, however, as employers continue to offer work-from-home options, according to a report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
“Midtown and the Financial District are two of the largest business districts in the world. Demand for space led citywide office sector property values to more than double in the decade before the pandemic,” DiNapoli said. “When the pandemic hit, companies shifted office workers to remote work, rents fell, and vacancies rose. I am optimistic for the sector’s recovery but it’s short-term future remains uncertain as employers assess future use of the space. The city should closely monitor trends in the sector and consider the future impact on tax revenues.”
Questions over the configuration of space and a potential uptick in per-worker square footage may take years to settle. The continuation of the pandemic, firmer changes to commuting patterns, increasing subleases and vacancies, and the return of demand for residential space are likely to influence conversations over the best use of physical space in the coming months and years.
The full market value of New York City office buildings, estimated at $172 billion in FY 2021, fell 16.6% in the FY 2022 final assessment roll, the first decline in total office property market values since at least FY 2000, reflecting decreased demand brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The city had 463 million square feet of inventory as of the second quarter of 2021, accounting for 11% of all office space in the nation.
Pre-Pandemic Job Growth Drove Demand for Space
New York City’s office sector reached a total of 1.6 million jobs in 2019, the highest level on record. Office sector employment makes up about a third of all jobs in the city, compared to a quarter in the rest of the state and the nation. In 2019, the sector contributed $705 billion to the city’s gross product, accounting for 66% of the city’s output.
Most office sector workers in the city were well paid, with an average annual salary of $183,900 in 2020. Even when excluding high earners in the financial securities sector, the average salary was $145,290. This is higher than the citywide average ($110,190) and much higher than the average for non-office jobs ($62,730).
In FY 2021 (assessed before the pandemic began), office property values reached $172 billion and billable values (the market value on which property tax is levied) reached $71 billion. Both had more than doubled over the prior 10 years. Office market values made up about 13% of total market values.
Office Space After the Pandemic
In 2020, office employment fell 5.7% while total employment dropped 11.1%. Many office workers shifted to remote work, with just 5% on-site in April 2020.
DiNapoli’s report found that average asking rents showed little change in the early stages of the pandemic, but began to fall significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020. By the second quarter of 2021, asking rents were down 4.2% from the prior year and vacancy rates were at 18.3%, a level not seen in over 30 years. The large volume of vacant office space has revived conversation about the conversion of some of that space into residential housing.
The office sector began experiencing measurable changes in demand in the second quarter of 2020 when Manhattan new leasing fell to 2.5 million square feet, 75% below the level one year earlier. Renewal activity fared better at 7.2 million square feet, a decrease of 15% from 2019.
Reduced demand for office space contributed to a 5.2% decline in overall billable values in FY 2022, the first decline in more than 20 years. Some of the city's most expensive office properties dropped significantly. For example, the market price of the World Trade Center complex dropped by 23.1%.
Tax Revenues
In FY 2021, the office sector provided an estimated $6.9 billion in direct revenue in property taxes, real estate transaction taxes, mortgage taxes and commercial rent taxes. Property taxes from the office sector raise more than any other property type subcomponent (e.g., single-family homes or multifamily rental buildings). Office sector property tax collections alone surpassed the entire budgets of the city’s Sanitation, Fire, Transportation, and Parks and Recreation departments, combined.
Commercial real estate such as office and retail buildings account for an outsized share of tax collections because they are assessed at a much higher rate than residential properties. In FY 2021, office buildings accounted for 12.6% of the market value of properties on the assessment roll, but more than a fourth (26.2%) of the billable taxable values at $71 billion.
The city collected $1 billion in transfer taxes and $816 million in mortgage taxes in FY 2021, the second year of declines as a result of pandemic impacts. DiNapoli estimates that $216 million of these taxes were generated by office properties, less than half of the $461 million generated in FY 2020.
Looking Ahead
Office employment has remained steadier than overall employment and is expected to continue to grow, which is likely to support future demand for space. Multiyear leases extending into 2023 and healthier balance sheets of property owners have also provided some short-term stability in the office real estate market.
The city’s tentative assessment roll for FY 2023, to be released in January 2022, will provide further insight on the potential duration and magnitude of the impact on city finances.
DiNapoli urged the city to monitor the overall employment and real estate markets, including differences in submarkets, to deliberate carefully over its choices to influence office employment and space, and to ensure that policy decisions will mitigate negative impacts on tax revenue and the economy.
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warc | 202143 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR AMBIENT TEMPERATURE CHANGES
A colder ambient local temperature will reduce pressure within the tire. An effect is to decrease sidewall height and to increase tire shoulder wear with the potential for tire failure. Vehicle dynamics could also be adversely affected.
Tire pressures can be adjusted to compensate before the start of the trip. Alternatively, tire pressures can be adjusted when the area of lower ambient temperature is reached.
In this situation, the vehicle must be left in the ambient local temperature for a least one hour before the tire pressure is adjusted.
To compensate for colder ambient temperatures, tire pressures should be increased by 2 psi (0.14 bar, 14 kPa) for each 20°F (10°C) decrease.
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warc | 202143 | shoulder stiff and sore? You might have had a traumatic injury, but it also might have just crept up on you?
Adhesive capsulitis, or “frozen shoulder” is a less common condition, effecting up to 5% of the population but it can be quite a debilitating condition. Pain and stiffness of the shoulder can have a huge effect on activities of daily living and impair quality of life(1). The good news is that adhesive capsulitis often involves the nondominant arm, although both arm involvement has been reported in up to 40% to 50% of cases(2).
Adhesive capsulitis is an umbrella term for different kinds of issues that result in a stiff or painful shoulder joint.One issue is of long-term low level inflammation, related to your metabolism, or body chemistry. This is linked to age, cardiovascular health and diabetes mellitus(3). This process creates excess fibrous tissue around the shoulder joint which leads to stiffness, pain and dysfunction. Adhesive capsulitis can be divided into two categories, primary or secondary. Primary adhesive capsulitis can occur spontaneously without any specific event and is usually described as something that has crept up on a patient. Secondary adhesive capsulitis often occurs following a traumatic incident, this could include a fall, shoulder dislocation, shoulder fracture or even as a complication to shoulder surgery. While the scientific community agrees that the risk factors of adhesive capsulitis are difficult to confirm, a consistently reported finding in research is that adhesive capsulitis is age related. It is rarely seen before age 40, and in some countries, it is referred to as “fifty year old shoulder”(3). Based on this information, making a diagnosis of adhesive capsulitis often involves a more broad investigation rather than looking at just the shoulder. If left untreated, adhesive capsulitis is a condition that can easily spiral out of control, and before you know it, arm movement can be severely restricted. On top of this, without a treatment plan it can be difficult to measure and track progress as well as know when to progress exercises.
A structured treatment plan and program can do wonders for a stiff sore shoulder. Research emphasises that physiotherapy is the first line of treatment for adhesive capsulitis. During the early stages while pain is dominant, physiotherapy will focus on mobilising the shoulder and maintaining/improving the range(4). Once pain has settled, studies have found that a tailored exercise and stretching program leads to satisfaction in 90% of patients(5).
So if you’re sick of sick of not being able to reach into the top shelf, or washing your hair has become a nightmare then
now is the time to kick your shoulder into gear! References: Hard Tissue (2013), 2(5), 75-84 Curr. Rev. Musculoskelet. Med. (2008), 1(3-4), 180-189 Med. Hypotheses (2016), 88, 12-17 JSES (2004), 13(5), 499-502 J. Bone Jt. Surg. (2000), 82(10), 1398-1407 | 2,969 | 1,492 | 5,844.47252 |
warc | 202143 | Are you interested in correcting your vision with laser eye surgery? Concerned about metal instruments coming close to your eyes? Blade-free LASIK may be a suitable treatment for you.
LASIK surgery corrects nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. At Dr. Raul A. Peña’s practice In
Harlingen, TX, and McAllen, TX, he creates the incision in the cornea using a femtosecond-assisted laser instead of a metal blade. This typically results in a reduced risk of complications. Here’s what typical recovery is like for blade-free LASIK patients. When Will My Vision Improve?
If you are considering this refractive surgery, you may wonder when your vision will improve. Most patients can see vision improvements as early as the day after blade-free LASIK, but it can take up to six months to realize the full effects.
First Three Days
After Intralase LASIK, patients may experience discomfort, irritation, and sensitivity to light for the first few days. They may experience mild pain, burning, and itching. Additionally, the eyes may appear red or watery. When looking at light, patients may experience sensitivity, halos, or glares. Also, patients may have blurred or hazy vision. However, these side effects typically subside significantly with each day that passes.
Even though patients may feel tempted to rub irritated or itchy eyes, it’s essential to avoid touching the eyes during recovery. Minimal contact with the eyes helps the corneal flap stay secure. Patients are encouraged to wear an eye shield to protect against scratching and rubbing the eye during the first 48 hours.
After the first day or two, our doctor will remove the eye shield and check your vision. Many patients show significant improvement by this time.
During the first three days, we may instruct patients to take extra precautions, such as:
Apply prescription eye drops to reduce the risk of infection or inflammation Do not wear contact lenses Avoid sports, intense workouts, and other strenuous activities Wear an eye patch First Two Weeks
During the first two weeks following blade-free LASIK, avoid products and activities that may pollute and irritate the eye. Patients are encouraged to:
Avoid lotions, creams, and cosmetics on the face. Avoid swimming in contaminated water (such as lakes, pools, or hot tubs). Showers are fine. First Few Months
As the eyes adjust, vision may fluctuate. It can take three to six months to see the full effect of blade-free LASIK. Patients are strongly encouraged to attend follow-up visits at our Harlingen or McAllen offices so we can monitor your healing process and track your results.
Risks
Like all surgeries, blade-free LASIK eye surgery comes with risks. However, only a minority of patients experience complications. In a comparative study published by the Journal of Refractive Surgery, “less than 1% of eyes had direct or indirect complications due to femtosecond laser flap creation.”
All LASIK procedures come with the risks of minimal effectiveness, reduced effectiveness over time, and other ongoing vision symptoms.
Here are some risks associated with blade-free LASIK specifically:
Opaque bubble layer (OBL) Transient light sensitivity syndrome (TLSS) Rainbow glare Learn More About Blade-Free LASIK
Blade-free LASIK can correct refractive errors using powerful lasers. If you would like to know more about blade-free LASIK and other procedures that can perfect your vision, contact Peña Eye Institute. Call (956) 264-1200 or message us online today. | 3,547 | 1,717 | 7,213.817123 |
warc | 202143 | As a scruffy little youngster, I always looked forward to spring because I could put on my over-sized rubber boots and sneak down to the lazy old Battle River with my buddies to try our luck at fishing. Not too many of us could afford a real fishing rod, so we cut a strong willow branch with our jack-knifes, tied some tough Co-op store string on the end, then jabbed a fresh wiggling worm on a hook made out of safety pin. It actually worked a few times, but on most hot afternoons we got bored and went wandering in search of new adventures, maybe even a few girls, but hopefully not too much trouble.
The old Canadian Pacific Railway dam just over the hill across the road from the Royal Hotel was a great place to fish and even go for a swim. At this time of the year, the jackfish were always real hungry, but hard to snare, but among the rocks on the spillway of the dam, there were hundreds of slippery old suckers, which were easy to catch by hand if you were fast enough. If we took any fish home to our mothers, they would likely throw a hissy-fit, so we took our prize catch up to the local Chinese restaurants, who usually hollered at us a little, but paid us 50 cents for the whole works, then put them on the sizzling F/C supper special. My biggest thrill came one day when I got to borrow my dad’s fishing rod and tackle box, and just under the south bridge, I actually caught and hauled in a nice 10 pound jackfish. It was awful heavy but I managed to haul it all the way home cross-country to Riverside, Mike Sr. showed us his expertise as a surgeon’s assistant in the army, and we enjoyed several great meals from what was left of that big clunker. I heard on the radio the other day that there wasn’t that many fish left in the Battle because most of them had been fished out or had been polluted by all of the junk that is now going into what once used to be real clean and fresh water.
Along the way, our family did some camping so we went fishing quite a bit at the lakes, and one of our friends had a real nice boat, and always liked to cruise around in search of the ‘big ones.’ It was there that I learned how to ‘troll’ from the slow-moving boat, and while I got excited lots of times when I felt a tug, it was usually only a bunch of seaweeds or a log. As I got older, I think that the most fun I had fishing was with one of my favourite workmates at the old Ponoka Herald, Gordy Galbraith, who has a beautiful cabin on the Bentley side of Gull Lake, and took us out many times in his nifty pontoon boat in search of some really big jackfish, and a few nice pickerel. He always loved to clean them on the fish rack beside his cabin, so the rest of us sat back and watched until they were ready for the BBQ, then broke open the beer and enjoyed a meal fit for a king until long after the sun went down. My wife’s father was also an avid fisherman and we also enjoyed many weekend sessions at Medicine Lake, Buck Lake, Buffalo Lake and all the rest, but by that time we had to take along the kids, and they would usually manage to get the lines tangled up, got snagged with a hook, or made so much noise that it scared all the fish away.
So why, you ask, is fishing so good for the mind? It is the perfect opportunity to sit back, relax and go stressless, to visit with friends, and to silently contemplate about your future plans as you dangle your bobber in the water and wait for something to happen. Do you remember when good old Huckleberry Finn used to tie the line to his toe, and then had a snooze until he felt a big tug? I love to go for a stroll and watch the seniors and youngsters fish for those lively little trout that will soon be stocked at Centennial Pond in the Lion’s Park, while a real challenge now for the wiliest of fisher folk is using barbless hooks, which makes it a real skill and thrill to land the fish on the line, but a whole lot easier to toss it back after you have taken a picture. One old timer told me that you should only take home what you can eat or give away to the neighbours, and the laws and restrictions are pretty strict now because the fish population has dropped drastically. Boating rules and courtesy are also very important, and include not overloading the boat, not standing up and rocking the boat, always wear a lifejacket, reel in your lines if some-one else yells ‘I got one’, and remember that patrols are out on the water watching for liquor or other violations.
Whatever the case, many of us will always be ‘fish and chip’ fanatics, while others claim that all ‘finned creatures’ contain lots of Omega 3 fatty acids, which are good for heart health and many other things that might ail us. Have a safe and great fishing season, try to help a youngster get the really big thrill of catching his or her first fish, and have a great week, all of you. | 4,913 | 2,431 | 9,765.370629 |
warc | 202143 | Lots of talk about bubbles these days. In this edition of three things I’ll touch on some of this bubble fever.
Before we begin I always think it’s helpful to understand what a bubble is. A bubble is an environment in which the market price of an asset has deviated from the underlying asset’s fundamentals to an extent that renders the current market price unstable relative to the underlying asset’s ability to deliver the expected result. This results in a “price compression” where market participants price in many years worth of future performance into the current price. They are, in effect, buying today with the expectation that future earnings will justify current prices. This can result in a near-term disequilibrium because you have inherently short-term investors bidding up the price based on long-term expectations. You get what is essentially a time mismatch. And if the market doesn’t satisfy current price expectations then investors forget about long-term fundamentals and sell in the near-term which results in a price decompression and a bursting of the bubble.
1) Revisiting the Bond Bubble. The very awesome Mark Dow posted this chart on Twitter last night showing the dramatic shift in inflation expectations in the last few months:
This is something I was talking about in January when this chart was troughing. In essence, the bond market was pricing in a very low rate of future expected inflation. But there were signs that this might not be a totally rational view. I said bonds looked “frothy”. And just a few weeks later we saw the type of negative volatility in the long bond that is very unusual. That is, short-term bonds outperformed long-term bonds by a wide margin as the 10 year yield surged from 1.65% to 2.1%.
The question is – is the bond bubble bursting as many have claimed? I don’t think so. I’ve long held the view that bonds aren’t in a bubble because I didn’t think high inflation was in the pipeline. And I basically continue to think that. I think we’re just normalizing a bit here from unreasonably low expectations. I don’t think there’s a high risk of high inflation in the near-term, however, I wouldn’t be shocked if we continue to see the air come out of the deflation trade in the coming 12 months….
2) Is there a bubble in household net worth? Here’s a chart that should scare any rational person:
This chart is showing the ratio of household net worth to GDP. In essence, it is the market value of what we produce relative to what we actually produce. William Dunkelberg posted a story about this on Bloomberg Briefs citing the existence of a “bubble” in household net worth. Let’s think about this though.
Basically, what’s happened is we’ve had a surge in stock prices as well as a solid rebound in real estate prices. The implication that there is a “bubble” implies that there is a risk of a substantial price decompression. That could certainly be true, however, the stock market is the primary driver of this chart and it is not valued based solely on what we produce. It is based on what the market
believes the underlying shares are worth. And one of the primary reasons that there appears to be a permanent high plateau in valuations in the last 20 years is due to the fact that public equity has become increasingly scarce. Total share count and issuance has been on a steady decline. So, you have increasing demand for fewer outstanding shares. Do the math. Valuations must rise.
Now, this doesn’t mean there isn’t a bubble. I’d be a fool to look at the above chart and declare that there is no chance of a bubble here. But I think there’s a good chance that this chart means one of two things: 1) We are in a stock bubble and prices could come crashing down; 2) we are in a permanently high valuation plateau where stock prices might not crash, but will simply underperform relative to underlying growth. The difference between these two scenarios is that stock prices need not “crash” in scenario two. They just won’t continue to surge at the blockbuster pace we’ve seen in the last 5 years. Either way, I’ve argued that future stock market returns are likely to be lower in the future so this story doesn’t have a very happy ending no matter which conclusion you come to.
3) Mark Cuban says there’s a bubble in private markets and that it’s “worse” than the tech bubble of 1999:
The bubble today comes from private investors who are investing in apps and small tech companies.
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I have absolutely not doubt in my mind that most of these individual Angels and crowd funders are currently under water in their investments. Absolutely none. I say most. The percentage could be higher
Why ?
Because there is ZERO liquidity for any of those investments. None. Zero. Zip.
The only thing worse than a market with collapsing valuations is a market with no valuations and no liquidity. If stock in a company is worth what somebody will pay for it, what is the stock of a company worth when there is no place to sell it ?”
I don’t doubt that Mark is right. I talk to a good number of private market investors and dabble in these markets a decent amount. Things look a bit more than frothy to me. For instance, there was a hilarious article in Investment News talking about a “bubble” in traditional RIA valuations at 4X when many of the Robo Advisors (who are also RIAs) sell at 150X. Half of those firms will never make a profit, but they are raising cash like it’s growing on trees. So yes, there’s more than frothiness out there.
But this is not “worse” than the tech bubble. The primary difference is that this bubble is comprised of wealthy people living mostly in San Francisco and New York. The tech bubble was a mom and pop bubble. It impacted the whole country. This bubble is much more consolidated. So no, there’s simply no way that this bubble is worse than the tech bubble because its scope is nowhere near as close. That doesn’t mean it’s not a big risk to the economy. Particularly the tech dependent portions of the economy. But it’s not worse than the tech bubble. Not even close.
NB 1 – Steve Brotman of Alpha Ventures was on CNBC today making the same point I made above. He cites that there is about $20-$30B in new private market investment every year. More importantly, the scope of ownership if much narrower. This means that the general public has far less exposure to this bubble. So yes, this might be a micro bubble contained in the private markets, but this is nowhere near the magnitude and scope of the tech bubble because it will not have the same widespread impact since the scope of investors is so much smaller. NB 2 – Some people have noted that my second point is a bit loose in language since the value of the market shouldn’t rise solely because of fewer shares. My point was that the reduced issuance of new public companies and increasing privatization means that the availability of public companies has been reduced. This means that public companies as a percentage of net worth has been reduced which means that the available public companies are seeing higher demand from investors which could be contributing to higher valuations. | 7,444 | 3,248 | 16,359.381773 |
warc | 202143 | Fashioning a climate resilient cotton sector By Charlene Collison and Ulrike Stein
Why understanding the climate threat to cotton is essential for preparing a cross-sector response.
As the Cotton 2040 initiative publishes two new studies highlighting the potentially drastic impacts the climate crisis could have on cotton production in India and globally, Forum for the Future’s Charlene Collison and Ulrike Stein explore the urgent need for businesses to move beyond mitigation efforts and firmly shift their focus on adaptation measures in order to create a climate-resilient cotton sector.
The climate crisis will impact every detail of our lives, right down to the clothes we wear, the towels we use and the sheets we sleep on. The future of cotton, the world’s most widely produced natural fibre, will be affected, often dramatically, by changes in the climate.
Indeed, climate breakdown is arguably the biggest and most complex of the many pressing social and environmental challenges threatening the cotton sector’s future resilience. Rising temperatures, changes to water availability and extreme weather events are already affecting crop production around the world, while the sector itself of course also contributes to climate change.
However, most industry-wide conversations and plans don’t address the scale of change that the climate crisis will force upon the industry, and the world. Importantly, a key barrier has been the lack of information on the potential climate impacts on the cotton sector. The Cotton 2040 initiative aims to change this.
Tackling the information gap: two new studies
Cotton 2040 is a multi-stakeholder initiative facilitating the shift to a sustainable global cotton industry which:
is resilient in a changing climate; uses business models that support sustainable production and livelihoods; and where sustainably produced cotton is the norm.
As part of its Planning for Climate Adaptation workstream, climate-risk specialists Acclimatise (part of Willis Tower Watson’s Climate and Resilience Hub) have conducted two unique new studies, using a worst-case climate scenario.
The reports have today been published alongside an interactive Climate Risk Explorer Tool. Armed with information, the industry is better placed to agree on priority areas for joined-up, informed and responsible action.
The world’s first Global Analysis of Climate Risks to cotton growing regions provides a high-level analysis of physical climate risks across all major global cotton-growing regions for the 2040s.
Key findings include that, by the 2040s, all global cotton-growing regions will be exposed to increased risk from at least one climate hazard, with half of all cotton-growing regions facing high or very high climate risk exposure to at least one climate hazard. All six highest cotton-producing countries – India, USA, China, Brazil, Pakistan and Turkey – are exposed to increased climate risk, particularly from wildfire, drought and extreme rainfall.
A Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of cotton growing regions in India considered a total of 41 climate hazard, and socio-economic indicators to assess the risk to cotton cultivation as well as cotton processing in 13 districts across three of India’s major cotton-growing states: Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana.
Key findings include that, by 2040, all cotton-growing regions across India will be subject to greater heat stress than under present-day conditions. The study also highlighted that common areas of vulnerability across all districts include multidimensional poverty, low female work participation rates, low male and female literacy rates, and limited access to banking services, technology and information.
The 12 climate indicators covered are: growing season length, heat stress, total rainfall during the growing season, extreme rainfall events, long-term drought, short-term drought, fluvial flooding, coastal flooding, strong winds, storms, wildfire and landslides.
What do these findings mean for the cotton sector?
Firstly, mitigation efforts alone just won’t be enough. The Net Zero commitments made by countries and some companies don’t stack up to what’s needed to keep global heating within 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. A certain level of chronic and acute climate hazards is now baked in, and we must look beyond mitigation to adaptation.
Secondly, the environmental and social impacts of climate change are going to impact every single link in the cotton and wider textile value chain. And those who are already the most vulnerable, will be affected the most. Therefore, these impacts cannot be tackled in isolation.
Thirdly, resource scarcity or unequal distribution could potentially trigger societal disruption, possibly leading to conflict or even war. This will not only impact production, but also the transportation and distribution of goods. We cannot presume that current supply chains will continue as a viable or predictable part of the future.
How should the sector respond?
Preparing for the changes ahead requires a response that goes beyond incremental solutions to fundamental changes. The findings call for nothing less than a collective re-imagination of where, how and why cotton is produced, and transformation of the cotton value chain to be sustainable, resilient and just. This will require three key things:
1. Resetting ambition: looking beyond mitigation to also focus on adaptation
Organisations across the cotton value chain need to make bold commitments and take urgent action to decarbonise their organisations and supply chains through their mitigation plans, in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C. And at the same time, the focus needs to shift to also developing robust adaptation plans to be prepared for the effects of the climate crisis.
2. Ensuring just transitions: climate justice must be at the heart of the sector’s response
Investing in climate justice and socio-economic resilience is investing in climate resilience. Already vulnerable members and parts of the cotton value chain will come under even greater pressure and stress. The climate crisis will only add to the sector’s deeply entrenched environmental, social and economic challenges. For the around 350 million people whose livelihoods are linked to cotton growing and processing, and especially for the millions of smallholder farmers and their communities, the potential implications are tragic.
3. Building capacity for more systemic mindsets and joined-up thinking
A systemic threat requires systemic solutions. If we are to respond proportionately to the impacts of climate change, we must focus on more than changes in the weather. We need to find ways to build environmental and social resilience into supply chains, and also halt the downward spiral of the most vulnerable.
Building sector wide conversations on climate change adaptation and resilience
Navigating planning for these multiple potential futures – the one we must aim for through mitigation efforts, and the ones we must nonetheless be prepared for through adaptation planning – is the critical challenge that the cotton sector is facing.
The Cotton 2040 initiative urges people and organisations from across the cotton industry to use this data and analysis to think radically about the future of cotton. But we particularly call for the findings to be used as a resource to make decisions together about how the industry needs to work, from how cotton is produced, transported, and used; to strategies, business models, financing and more.
We invite you to join us on this mission. | 7,719 | 3,314 | 17,692.674713 |
warc | 202143 | Euler Hermes estimates that approximate 17 per-cent of small – medium sized companies are at risk of insolvency in the next four years when the Covid support schemes wind down. This compares to 7 per-cent of businesses in Germany and 13 per-cent in France.
Euler Hermes looked at profitability, capitalisation and interest coverages as indicators as to how well businesses can pay interest on debts. It stated it could predict corporate distress 4 years prior to the banking crisis.
The sectors most at risk of insolvency were; Automotive – 33%Energy – 25%Construction – 20% Insolvency numbers during the Covid pandemic were relatively low as the government underwrote £75bn of emergency loans to small companies.
For more information on bankruptcy, liquidation, administration and all the other insolvency procedures, or should you or your company be facing financial difficulties and you need to chat, please telephone Charlotte Hutchinson on 01377 257788 and she will make you an appointment with one of our insolvency professionals at our Driffield, Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe or York offices. Our initial meetings are free and without obligation. Meetings can be held virtually or in any of our offices whilst observing the socially distancing guidelines.
Because we are an independent insolvency practice, we keep our overheads low and have put systems in place to deal with simple liquidations at an affordable price of from £1,995 + VAT + Disbursements. Our MVLs are from £995 + VAT + Disbursements. | 1,547 | 865 | 2,693.389595 |
warc | 202143 | The death of open tracking? The biggest change in email marketing for 20 years
The Apple announcement that they will from iOS 15 onwards prevent open tracking in Apple Mail has caused a stir in the email marketing industry. Not only will open rates be impacted but there are a whole host of knock-on effects.
What is happening?
Apple Mail, probably around 40% of all opens is going to start downloading all remote content in the email at the point of delivery.
This includes all images including the little 1×1 pixel you use for tracking if someone has opened the email. It also includes any CSS and fonts.
The impact goes way beyond the issue of open tracking and is possibly the biggest transformational issue to hit email marketing. Whole companies entire platforms designed to optimise your email marketing could be rendered useless by this change.
What will be the impact? Open Rates
All emails delivered to Apple Mail will now appear to have been opened as the open tracking image will be downloaded at receipt. In effect this makes open rate 100% inaccurate. If your ESP doesn’t add a workaround in, then this will make it impossible to judge open rate on those email clients not affected.
Time based content
All images will be cached at the point of receipt rather than fetched at the moment of open. Any content designed to refresh based upon the latest time such as countdown timers will not function as intended in Apple Mail as the targeting time will be very close to the point of send, not open. However, let’s also remember that typically over 50% of opens are in the first hour of delivery, and this change is only impacting Apple Mail. It will be possible to swap content for Apple Mail still and the rest of your list continue to get the time based content.
IP based targeting
Using the IP address of where the recipient has opened the email to serve location or weather targeted content has been a no go for years in Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail but the change will also prevent it working in Apple Mail. Personally, we are surprised so many real-time email vendors don’t allow a more accurate way of targeting than this anyway. Frankly, if they have been claiming IP is a reliable location targeting method they have been mis-leading at best.
Custom Fonts & CSS
It is expected custom fonts will no longer work thanks to external content being fetched. We don’t know for certain as our own tests on the iOS 15 beta we haven’t been able to see this pre-loading behaviour just yet on any of our test devices. We think it’s because we are based in the UK and only a few international markets are enabled for pre-loading right now.
Deliverability testing
Open rate by domain has always been a useful signal to determine if you have any potential deliverability issues with campaigns junking. If you can’t determine accurate open rates by domain it will make it harder to quickly see if you have challenges in this area.
Additionally, we all know that suppressing those that don’t open emails in the last year can help solve any deliverability issues. Removing that ability will make it harder still to resolve deliverability problems. Resend to non-openers
An old tactic in the email world was to re-send the campaign to those that didn’t open. I’ve never been a huge fan, not because of re-sends but by excluding those who opened or even clicked and didn’t buy suggests a lack of interest. In fact if you were to resend to all, and look at where response comes from by their interaction with the first email you’ll see the highest conversion rates for past clickers, followed by openers and then the non-openers.
If you are going to do re-sends this is how I’ve always advocated it, and now email marketers won’t have a choice anyway! A/B Testing & Send Time Optimisation
Both of these tactics usually require opens data so are under threat. Aren’t clicks superior anyway to make these decisions?
A click is more valuable than an open, and shows greater intent. The problem with clicks is there are far fewer of them. Therefore, if you are running A/B testing, or trying to predict the best time to send an email you’ll have far fewer events to pick from, and therefore it will be difficult to achieve reliable results with statistically significant results.
Let’s do some simple maths. A campaign to 100,000 people might currently get 18% open rate, so 18,000 unique opens. But perhaps it will only achieve 2% clicks (2,000). Trying to get statistical significance of testing or predictions from a tiny fraction of the original data.
Based upon the above numbers to get statistical significance you’ll need to achieve close to a 10% increase in click-thru rate to be sure your test has worked, but from opens just 3%. A/B testing and a lot of the predictive tools will only be in the reach of those with very large volumes of click data.
Yet lets not also forget that this will only impact around 40% of current opens. The other 60% will be OK if you can isolate the data effectively in your ESP or reporting tool so all is not lost, but it does mean a far bit of hassle.
Opens are also a more stable measure as they don’t tend to move by much from send to send, but click-rates can vary enormously based upon the content of the email. Simply getting a heads up of are we trending in the right direction will become more challenging.
What impact will this have on Reignite?
At Reignite we sometimes badge ourselves as a real-time email content platform. We do this because people want a label to understand who we are similar to. And indeed some of the functionality we offer benefits from the current ability to update content at the moment of open.
Yet we really consider ourselves an email personalisation company first and foremost. The main value we offer is around the ease of implementing 1-2-1 content in any email sending platform, the ability to automate content production, and the ability to create visually compelling personalised experiences.
The real-time element is always an added bonus for what we do.
Yet I keep saying this is only going to impact 40% of emails sent, the remaining 60% will function as before. To support that we are lucky we already have the tools and functionality to ensure content is delivered differently based upon the device opened – its how we have built workarounds for Gmail cache and others, and also simply a core part of our targeting suite.
Where real-time is still possible, it will be possible in Reignite.
A secondary element to the Apple announcement is the inability to reference IP address of the recipient opening the email, and infer the location of the user and their weather. As previously stated this is not new news and has been a poor strategy for some time anyway as more than 50% of email clients don’t support it. With Reignite we have always recommended you use first party location data and allow you to specify this in any number of ways from post code all the way through to longitude & latitude or even airport code or their favourite retail store.
What are the falsehoods I should be careful about listening to?
Oh blimey some of the nonsense we have read over the last few weeks on this is toe curling. The same people who were recommending strategies based upon resend to non-openers or subject line testing to improve opens the week before are now claiming you shouldn’t have been using opens to measure anyway!
There seems to be a bit of false bravado going on with so called experts trying to prove they won’t be negatively impacted. News flash – they will.
A lot of the tools that enable optimisation, problem solving and analysis have been taken away or reduced in effectiveness. Email marketing will become a lot harder, require more effort and hands-on skills in data and analysis will be required.
A little less bravado and a bit more creative thinking around how the email marketing industry can adapt to support brands is what is needed. I’d personally love ESPs to spend time coming up with a new standard open metric that takes out any iOS pre-loads from the calculations.
Will other email providers follow the Apple lead?
A rumour has started that Gmail will follow suit. But I’m going to put my neck on the line and predict they won’t. The reason for this is they already do most of what Apple do, except at the point of open and they respect caching (If you tell them not to cache an image they won’t).
There isn’t a huge consumer demand for the Apple change. The real reasons for the change are probably around ensuring emails load quickly in Apple Mail, and as a business which doesn’t have any reliance on media a way of sticking 2 fingers up at the likes of Google just like their change to 3
rd party tracking in apps.
The ability to see if someone has opened an email is fairly low down on the privacy stakes compared to the old world where this could be used for cross-device identification of people by 3
rd parties – and Gmail have that covered, as they also do on speed of email open with their current cache.
The cost to pre-fetch all content before it is delivered to the users inbox is huge. Even taking into account the fact that they’ll only cache the same image once for all users is it a technical challenge Google can be bothered with? What do they have to gain when consumers aren’t actively bothered by pixel tracking and Google is a business that relies on such tracking methods across the internet?
Assuming Gmail and others don’t follow Apple then the whole argument that open tracking is dead doesn’t hold true – it’s just severely hampered.
As stated before the key will be how the email marketing industry reacts, especially the ESPs who send and track your email campaigns. If they put some effort into changing their reporting by arriving at a new open rate calculation, you’ll not be able to do open targeting at individual level, but trend reporting, A/B testing, deliverability testing and predictions such as send time optimisation will all still be possible.
The fear is though that a trend I’ve observed for a while of ESPs ignoring this and making it the customers problem will continue. See some of the nonsense around deliverability where they blame the customers emails and data collection when in reality it is their crummy IP reputation thanks to selling their services to dodgy senders.
As a result, I believe a new wave of 3
rd party reporting tools will become available to the market where they’ll address the laziness of ESPs and support brands by providing the reporting that they need going forward. The overall view and your next steps
This is the biggest change to email marketing I can think of and I’ve been in this world since the start of the millennium.
By no means is email marketing dead – in fact for once the annual ‘Email is dead’ crowd have yet to surface. But it certainly is a game changer where email marketing has taken a knock.
Lobby your ESP: What are their plans for ensuring your open reporting isn’t polluted? Internal reporting: Do you have an internal data team that power dashboards of email performance? Now is the time to start thinking about how different data might need to be pulled so you can still see open rates. If you can pull the raw data from your ESPs API on delivered and opens, complete with any user agent data for the open (which tells you if it was iOS 15) you’ll be able to arrive at something to still show open rate trends on non Apple data Tactics: Where do you use opens in your tactics? Is it maybe in segmentation of inactive users? Is it used in split testing decisions? Some of these are so fundamental to your day-to-day thinking that you do them on auto pilot. We recommend auditing where you use open data in your decisions so you can start to think about alternatives while you have time. This won’t simply be as simple as switching to clicks and conversions as you probably won’t have the volume of these. What is the current state of play? A strongly recommended test is to run a hold out cell from a typical email campaign. Then measure of those who didn’t get the email, how many visited the website or purchased in the next few days, comparing to those that did receive the email. The difference between the 2 groups is how much incremental uplift the email generated, and if you can also see how many that didn’t open, opened or clicked purchased you’ll get an idea of how important the open is. What I’m sure you’ll find is you’ll still see a lot of those that receive but don’t open the email as converting, and therefore help you understand the importance of simply having your brand in the inbox anyway. Take a leaf out of direct mail: Postal marketers have never had the luxury of open rates so how have they coped over the years? Firstly, they are able to predict response by analysing past mailings using Recency, Frequency and Monetary metrics (RFM) to see response rate per segment. This usually leads them to cut old data that hasn’t purchased in some time to keep mailing costs down as these are least likely to respond. Email marketers have never really had to worry about cost, and opens is really used to aid deliverability rates. However, deploying the same techniques around RFM and similar segmentation models allows you understand in advance what percentage of possible conversions you can achieve by including or excluding various RFM segments. This is likely to be a close proxy to open rates to achieve the same goals Go further with personalisation A step on from RFM is thinking about a single generic RFM set of segmentation, but altering that on a campaign by campaign basis based upon the content. Just because someone hasn’t bought in a year doesn’t mean they’ll have the same expected response to a promotion on shoes as they would beauty products. Overlaying predictive interest data makes this more complex, but ensures you’ll reach the optimum audience, and allows greater volume of emails to be sent without the same list fatigue issues. The final word – for now
The iOS 15 release is still in beta and not due for rollout until September 2021. At this moment of time there are still inconsistencies with how this is being seen by people across the world. As we get closer to September we expect some changes and the functionality to be enabled everywhere.
We will aim to update this article as we get conclusive answers on certain areas, but the announcement from Apple is unlikely to be reversed – open tracking here and the associated consequences aren’t likely to be reversed or workarounds found. | 14,919 | 6,419 | 33,803.074622 |
warc | 202143 | A simple mass balance of the heavy metals in the soil can be expressed as follows [15, 16]: 𝑀 t o t a l = 𝑀 𝑝 + 𝑀 𝑎 + 𝑀 𝑓 + 𝑀 a g + 𝑀 o w + 𝑀 i p − 𝑀 c r + 𝑀 𝑙 , (1) where “ 𝑀 ” is the heavy metal, “ 𝑝 ” is the parent material, “ 𝑎 ” is the atmospheric deposition, “ 𝑓 ” is the fertilizer sources, “ a g ” are the agrochemical sources, “ o w ” are the organic waste sources, “ i p ” are other inorganic pollutants
Rohm and Haas Ion Exchange Ion exchange introduction 1 FD Sep 2008 ION EXCHANGE FOR DUMMIES An introduction Water Water is a liquid. Water is made of water molecules (formula H2O). All natural waters contain some foreign substances, usually in small amounts.
Fundamental study and industrial appliion of ion exchange meranes started over half a century ago. Through the ongoing research and development, the ion exchange merane technology is now applied to many fields and contributes to the improvement of our standard of living.
In water processing, ion exchange typically removes hardness in softening appliions and all dissolved ions in demineralization. Ion exchange is also used to remove nitrate, chromate, arsenic, and other specific contaminants from drinking water.
Aug 06, 2018· ion exchange between metal ions and modifiion and appliion for biosorption of heavy. metals and radionuclides. Bioresource Technology, 160: 129. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.12.110
Exposure of heavy metal ions such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), uranium (U), cadmium (Cd), etc., even at low concentration and some essential nutrient metal ions such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), cobalt (Co), etc., at high concentration are toxic for the human health as it causes cardiovascular diseases, cancer mortality, neurological disorders [9,10], and are toxic to the environment as well. Therefore, detection of these metal …
Feb 08, 2018· The transport rates between the first two groups differ by about 1–2 orders of magnitude, whereas the difference is up to 3 orders of magnitude between …
Wastech commercial ion exchange system for heavy metal removal from wastewater. Ion exchange is a reversible chemical reaction wherein an ion (an atom or molecule that has lost or gained an electron and thus acquired an electrical charge) from a wastewater solution is exchanged for a similarly charged ion attached to an immobile solid particle.
Ion-exchange materials and meranes are now an established and integral part of separation processes, playing a crucial role in a variety of appliions such as desalination, wastewater treatment, food processing, and fuel cells.31 The continued enhancement and engineering of ion-exchange materials are equally important to developments in system
from industrial wastewater, ion-exchange resin can facilitate heavy metal extraction from sludge by shifting the thermo-dynamic equilibrium of M(OH) 2(s) ↔ M2+ + 2OH-. Ion exchange using polymeric resins has been used successfully to recover heavy metals from wastewaters and process streams33-37. Many studies on the removal of metal ions by ion exchange resins have been conducted38-49. It has
Appliion of some clay minerals to eliminate the hazards of heavy metals in contaminated soils for heavy metals based on the ionic radius and dissociation constant was as in the Co2+ (Choi et al. 2001; Ok et al. 2007). Ion exchange of a specific ion was strongly influenced by the presence of competitive ions and complexion
Dec 04, 2017· Ion exchange is an important concept in biosorption which involves the exchange of binary metal ions during biosorption with the counter-ions present on the surface of the biosorbent. Most of the purifiion process works on the mechanism of ion exchange. Ion exchange can take place either by ion or anion exchange.
Ion exchange technology is currently the best way to remove heavy metals from water and wastewater. In this study, we investigated heavy metal ions as cadmium (Cd2+), nickel (Ni2+) and zinc (Zn2+) removal from aqueous solutions using synthetic resin. Batch experiments on the removal efficiency of heavy metal ions at under different conditions
Ion exchange is a method widely used in (laundry detergents and water filters) to produce soft water. This is accomplished by exchanging calcium Ca 2+ and magnesium Mg 2+ ions against Na + or H + ions (see water softening). Another …
Nov 28, 2013· The reversion to heavy metal biocide use has been suggested as a possible solution to antibiotic resistance. On the other hand, bacteria that are resistant to certain heavy metals have been proposed to be economically useful in biomining and bioremediation. The constant race between heavy metal toxicity and bacterial resistance will likely give rise to many ingenious appliions in the future, …
The present paper on the supported liquid merane (SLM) deals with the general principles and appliions, followed by the uphill transportation characteristic of SLM. The liquid-liquid extraction with supported liquid merane is one of the best alternate and promising technologies for the extraction of metal ions from solutions over other hydrometallurgical separation processes.
Sep 06, 2017· Ion exchange resin is another filter media that can be used to target heavy metal contaminants in tap water. This filter media usually appears as small microbeads of white or yellowish colour made of organic polymer substrate. In water purifiion, ion exchange resins replace poisonous heavy metal ions with harmless potassium or sodium ions.
Sep 29, 2018· Most heavy metals have a high atomic nuer, atomic weight and a specific gravity greater than 5.0 Heavy metals include some metalloids, transition metals, basic metals, lanthanides, and actinides. Although some metals meet certain criteria and not others, most would agree the elements mercury, bismuth, and lead are toxic metals with
Heavy metals are among the most important sorts of contaminant in the environment. Several methods already used to clean up the environment from these kinds of contaminants, but most of them are costly and difficult to get optimum results. Currently, phytoremediation is an effective and affordable technological solution used to extract or remove inactive metals and metal pollutants from
in unexpected shapes. Hence, ion-exchange method was preferred to synthesize the metal ion doped HAp even though the added metals ions were more concentrated on the surface. Appliions of ion exchange reaction of HAp HAp has been used for the removal of heavy metal ions such as Pb2+ or Cd in waste water or soils [29,30], and
Keywords: Heavy metal, toxicity, effect on plants, heavy metal pollution and Soil pollution 1. INTRODUCTION A heavy metal is toxic when relatively it is dense metal or metalloid that is noted for its potential toxicity, especially in environmental contexts. Heavy metal toxicity means excess of required concentration or it is unwanted which were
Dec 04, 2017· Ion exchange is an important concept in biosorption which involves the exchange of binary metal ions during biosorption with the counter-ions present on the surface of the biosorbent. Most of the purifiion process works on the mechanism of ion exchange. Ion exchange can take place either by ion or anion exchange.
Ion-exchange reaction, any of a class of chemical reactions between two substances (each consisting of positively and negatively charged species called ions) that involves an exchange of one or more ionic components. Ions are atoms, or groups of atoms, that bear a positive or negative electric
Ion exchange (IX) is the reversible interchange of ions between a solid and a liquid such as water. Ion exchange resins remove harmful contaminants from liquids, replacing them with beneficial, desired ions. Ion exchange is used in water treatment, including water softening, industrial demineralization, condensate polishing, ultrapure water
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warc | 202143 | If you decide to cover your pool off for the winter, there are some steps that you will need to take before you can do it. Processes that you carry out will depend on the type of Swimming Pool Covers you have. If you want to buy the best retractable pool cover, visit https://www.poolenclosures-poolcovers.co.uk/automatic-pool-covers
When it comes to the winter swimming pool covers, mesh and solid are the two most common types.
Mesh Swimming Pool Covers
As the mesh blankets allow sunlight and rain to come into contact with the pool during the winter months, it is recommended that you chemically treat the pool at least once a month to stop the buildup of algae.
Solid Pool Covers
This includes the normally opaque, which means that they do not let through light. The lack of light prevents the build-up of algae, so keep your swimming pools will be easier and less time-consuming.
Winter weather is unpredictable at the best of times. It could be snowing and raining one day and then the glorious sunshine the next. However, this condition can wreak havoc with your pool if you are not prepared, especially if you have a pool cover nets.
It’s important that you monitor the weather so that you can balance the chemicals in the water when needed. This process saves a lot of hassle when it’s time to open the pool again.
Pool blankets are best used during the winter months when the pool is not in use and the temperature is too low to create an environment that is sufficiently moist.
Use the correct chemicals
There are some chemicals that are essential for the effective maintenance of swimming pools. The first and most important is chlorine. Chlorine to kill any algae and bacteria that may be on the tile, or indeed in the water itself.
Check your pH regularly
The pH of your water is not only important for you as a swimmer, but it is also important to the efficiency of chlorine and any mechanical part of the pool, such as filters.
Ideally, you should have a slightly alkaline pH because it is an environment in which chlorine is best. It also maintains your body’s pH. An alkaline environment also will extend the life of your pool filter, in turn, save you money in the long run. | 2,224 | 1,086 | 4,493.053407 |
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The results of the present studies demonstrate that intramuscular injections of polyestradiol phosphate (PEP) produce not only considerably increased estrogen concentration in plasma but also maintain the same estrone/estradiol ratio as in normal men.
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warc | 202143 | Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Review Beautyrest Hybrid
Combining positive aspects of both innerspring and memory foam mattresses, the Beautyrest Hybrid mattress offers a balanced sleep surface at a reasonable price point.
Beautyrest currently produces three other models: the Beautyrest Black, the Harmony Lux Carbon, and the Harmony Lux Diamond. However, the Hybrid is the company’s only model to include Beautyrest’s proprietary ContourFit Design. This feature allows the mattress to stretch and conform to the sleeper’s body type and movements.
The Hybrid consists of a support core made from pocketed coils, a 4-inch comfort system consisting of gel-infused memory foam and polyfoam, and a quilted stretch fabric cover. Each layer is designed to promote a cool, breathable sleep surface. Both the cover and comfort layers feature the company’s InfiniCool Plus temperature regulation system, while the support core encourages airflow throughout the mattress.
Beautyrest Mattresses At-A-Glance
Beautyrest Hybrid Beautyrest Black Firmness Medium (5) Medium Soft (4), Medium Firm (6) Material Type Hybrid Hybrid Height 13.5" 13", 15" Price (queen) $1,299 $2,699 Scroll L - R for more details Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Review: Our Verdict Choose The Beautyrest Hybrid if… You share your bed with a partner You sleep on your side most or some of the time You weigh less than 130 pounds You’re seeking a trusted brand with a history of producing quality products Keep Shopping if… You weigh more than 230 pounds You tend to sleep hot You prefer a firmer mattress How Much Is the Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress?
The Beautyrest Hybrid is a mid-priced luxury mattress that boasts a 100-night sleep trial and a reputation for quality dating back decades. Beautyrest has long been a trusted name on the market and their beds are seen in hotels worldwide.
Sizes Dimensions Weight Price Twin 40" x 76" 56 lbs. $1199 Twin XL 40"x 81" 59 lbs. $1229 Full 55" x 76" 80 lbs. $1279 Queen 61" x 81" 99 lbs. $1299 King 78" x 81" 130 lbs. $1699 California King 73" x 85" 127 lbs. $1699 Scroll L - R for more details How Does the Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Feel?
The Hybrid falls squarely in the middle of the firmness scale, offering a balanced sleep surface that is neither overly firm nor soft enough for most individuals to sink too far into. Most customer reviews of the Beautyrest Hybrid praised the mattress for being supportive without approaching an uncomfortable level of firmness.
While its pocketed coil support core targets key areas like the spine and lower back, the Beautyrest Hybrid’s foam comfort layers offer enough contouring to reduce pain and pressure where many individuals feel it most. Three inches of cooling, gel-infused memory foam cradle pressure points, while another inch of polyfoam prevents sleepers from sinking into the support core. Side sleepers and those under 130 pounds often find the mattress particularly comfortable, while the memory foam layers may offer too much sink and contouring for some other sleepers.
What Is the Beautyrest Hybrid Made Of?
Like other hybrids, the Beautyrest Hybrid combines a coil-based support core with memory foam comfort layers to deliver the best of both all-foam and innerspring mattresses with fewer of the drawbacks. At 13.5 inches tall, the mattress has a relatively high profile and features three layers, which we’ll explore in depth below.
Cover Material
Designed to draw away body heat, the Beautyrest Hybrid’s cover is made from cooling fabric that features the company’s proprietary InfiniCool Plus technology. The cover stretches over time, conforming to the sleeper’s individual movement patterns and body shape.
Comfort Layers
The Beautyrest also uses InfiniCool Plus technology in all three of its comfort layers for better temperature regulation. In total, the comfort layer consists of three inches of cooling, gel-infused memory foam to provide body-conforming contouring with minimal sagging. The gel infusion helps to draw excess heat away from the sleeper’s body so it can dissipate through the mattress.
Another 1-inch layer of polyfoam acts as a buffer to help keep the sleeper from sinking into the support core. The mattress’s perimeter is reinforced with Beautyrest’s BeautyEdge material and construction.
Support Core
The model’s support core consists of a strong base of pocketed coils, which isolate motion and offer targeted support at the hips and shoulders. The coils also encourage airflow throughout the mattress, leading to a cooler sleep surface.
What Type of Sleeper Is the Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Best for?
Sleeping position and body weight both affect mattress performance. The Simmons Beautyrest Hybrid offers a combination of pressure relief and contouring that appeals to side and combination sleepers. Let’s see how the Beautyrest Hybrid mattress affects each type of sleeper.
Side Sleepers
Side sleepers often suffer from pressure buildup at the shoulders and hips, which may ultimately lead to back pain. The Beautyrest Hybrid’s comfort layer seeks to relieve pain and pressure with three inches of gel-infused memory foam, while the support core targets key problem areas. Side sleepers will also appreciate the mattress’s medium firmness level.
Combination Sleepers
The Hybrid stands out from other Beautyrest models for its proprietary ContourFit Design. The mattress stretches and conforms to the sleeper’s movements over time, creating a customized sleep surface that aligns with each individual’s unique nighttime patterns.
Back Sleepers
Back sleepers tend to require firmer mattresses with more lumbar support and a medium amount of contouring. Overly soft sleep surfaces may cause back sleepers, especially heavier individuals, to sink into the mattress. Despite the Beautyrest Hybrid’s balanced surface, back sleepers who weigh more than 230 pounds will likely sink in too far to feel comfortable.
Stomach Sleepers
Generally, stomach sleepers need more firmness and support from their mattress than back or side sleepers. Stomach sleepers who weigh less than 130 pounds report an excellent balance of body-contouring and support from the Beautyrest Hybrid, resulting in good pressure relief and minimal sagging. Those who weigh 130 pounds or more sank somewhat deeply into the mattress and did not feel as comfortable as lighter stomach sleepers did.
How Does Body Weight Impact the Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress's Performance?
Like sleeping position, body weight affects mattress performance, and some models are better suited to certain body types than others. While most Beautyrest Hybrid mattress reviews were positive, weight played a strong role in customers’ experiences.
As a whole, individuals under 130 pounds were satisfied with the Beautyrest Hybrid, regardless of their preferred sleeping position. Customers in this weight range often benefit from softer sleep surfaces, which cushion pressure points and provide gentle support. With a medium firmness level of 5, the model offers more contouring than many other hybrids on the market, thanks to its 3 inches of gel memory foam.
Sleepers over 130 pounds were generally less pleased with the Beautyrest Hybrid mattress. Back and side sleepers weighing 130-230 pounds appreciated the model’s firmness level. However, heavier stomach sleepers tend to benefit from firmer mattresses, which prevent them from sinking too far into the surface and causing pressure to build. Stomach and back sleepers over 230 pounds generally found the Beautyrest Hybrid’s gel comfort layers to be too soft and contouring for their needs.
Is the Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Good for Couples?
Hybrids enjoy a positive reputation among couples for providing ease of movement and strong edge support, and the Beautyrest Hybrid is no exception. The pocketed coil support core offers the right amount of bounce with less noise, while the BeautyEdge reinforcement system expands the total sleep surface area and prevents sleepers from rolling off the bed’s edge.
The model stands out among its fellow hybrids for providing above-average motion isolation, making it ideal for light sleepers and couples with different sleep habits. While coil-based support and motion isolation are often somewhat mutually exclusive, numerous customers remarked on the Beautyrest Hybrid’s ability to dampen their partner’s movements.
Beautyrest's Trial, Warranty, and Shipping Policies Availability
The Beautyrest Hybrid mattress is available online at the brand’s website and on Amazon. Beautyrest products are also available at the brand’s brick-and-mortar locations around the country and at a variety of mattress retailers nationwide.
Shipping
Beautyrest ships to any state in the contiguous U.S. through XPO Logistics. All customers who purchase a mattress through the Beautyrest website receive complimentary White Glove delivery and setup. XPO Logistics contacts customers to schedule a delivery date and time. Most orders arrive within 7-15 business days of purchase.
Customers who purchase a mattress from another retailer should contact their closest Beautyrest dealer to confirm their order and arrange a delivery time. Shipping and delivery conditions vary by retailer.
Additional Services
Individuals who purchase a mattress through the Beautyrest website qualify for free White Glove delivery. After scheduling a delivery date and time, an XPO Logistics representative will arrive at the customer’s house to set up their new mattress and remove the old one.
Sleep Trial
Beautyrest offers a 100-night sleep trial for mattresses bought directly from their website. Customers who are dissatisfied with their purchase may return their mattress and receive a full refund if they do so within those 100 days. Those who wish to initiate a return or exchange after the sleep trial is over should contact Beautyrest customer service.
Warranty
Beautyrest’s 10-year limited warranty pertains to manufacturing defects only. To qualify for coverage, mattresses must be used with a suitable foundation as defined on the manufacturer’s website, as well as a protector pad. Pairing the mattress with an inadequate foundation will void the warranty.
Purchasers should hold on to their original bill of sale and keep the mattress tag intact in case they wish to file a claim. | 10,517 | 4,182 | 25,872.524151 |
warc | 202143 | Creating the Perfect Sleep Environment for Your Child
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If it feels like your child is on a daily mission to worm their way out of bedtime, you're not alone. Studies suggest that between 15% and 25% (1) of children have trouble sleeping, and many parents are at their wit's end to know why their tot won't stay in bed.
There are many factors that could be affecting your child's sleep, but one of the easiest ones to address is their bedroom environment. Just like adults, children sleep best when their bedroom is cool, dark, and quiet (2). If you're struggling with how to get the kids to sleep, consider these options for creating the perfect child sleep environment.
A Tidy Bedroom
Teaching your child to associate bed with relaxation at an early age helps pave the way for them to be a good sleeper. As part of the bedtime routine, encourage them to tidy up their room and clear away objects that take the focus away from sleeping, such as toys or homework. If you can, try keeping screens and playtime out of the bedroom altogether, to reinforce the idea that bed is for sleeping (3).
If you're wondering how to get your toddler to sleep in their own bed, it's all right to leave them a comfort object such as a teddy bear or security blanket. This can reduce your child's separation anxiety (4) and help them learn to fall asleep without your help. Avoid leaving a bottle with your baby overnight, as this can lead to tooth decay.
Blackout Curtains
Bright lights from electronic screens (5) and even household lighting (6) can delay the onset of the sleep hormone, melatonin, making it harder to fall asleep. Blackout curtains in the baby or toddler room are an affordable and easy option for keeping out external light. They may be especially convenient for daytime naps, early bedtimes, or bedrooms that let in excessive street light.
Nightlight
The darker the sleep environment, the better. However, a nightlight in your toddler's bedroom might give a much-needed sense of security to kids who are scared of the dark. Plus, children who keep a nightlight on won't have to turn on the overhead lights during those nighttime bathroom breaks.
Using a nightlight instead of a lamp or overhead light keeps light levels low, reducing stimulation and helping them get back to sleep faster. For best results, keep nightlights on the dimmest setting.
Lowering the Thermostat for Sleep
Keeping the bedroom temperature on the cooler side helps naturally prepare the body for sleep. The optimal bedroom temperature for sleeping is between 66 and 70 degrees (7), beyond which your child can regulate their own temperature by kicking the blankets on or off.
For babies who are too young to control the blankets, it's even more important to keep the room temperature within a comfortable range and dress them in a onesie or sleep sack as appropriate. Avoid over-bundling them, as this can also increase the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (8).
White Noise
Ambient noise from outside (9) or inside the house (10) is a common disruptor of sleep quality. Unfortunately, for many children, it's difficult to achieve a totally silent bedroom at night, especially if other family members are still awake. In these cases, a white noise machine can help mask outside sounds. When choosing white noise for toddlers, opt for a steady, low-key sound such as waves lapping or a steady heartbeat, and keep the volume at a level that's safe for your child's hearing.
Soothing Scents
For stubborn sleepers, try harnessing the power of aromatherapy with calming scents such as lavender (11), which is said to help promote relaxation. Keep them away from secondhand smoke (12), which has been known to cause sleep problems in children. If you smoke, try to limit your children's exposure and keep their bedrooms a tobacco-free zone.
Comfortable Mattress, Pillows, and Bedding
Children generally sleep better when they have their own bed (13), as opposed to sharing with a parent or sibling. Investing in a child-friendly (14) mattress, pillows, and bedding can help send your tot off to dreamland and wake up the next morning feeling refreshed and ready to go.
Bed-sharing, letting your baby sleep on the couch or car seat, and leaving soft items in the crib can put your baby at risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (15). Always follow age-appropriate guidelines when choosing a mattress and bedding for your child.
With just a few tweaks to your child's bedroom, you can vastly improve their sleep setup and set them up for better slumber at home and at daycare. Healthy sleep in children has been linked to better academic performance and a reduced likelihood of developing mood or health problems. Establish good sleep habits (16) and a consistent bedtime routine now, and your child will thank you for it in the future.
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warc | 202143 | Are you looking for a weight reduction solution that can help you lose total body weight without eliminating your favorite foods from your diet? GoBioFit
The BioFit may be the missing secret to your weight loss if yes.
This advanced probiotic can assist individuals attain weight-loss around the waist without Ab crunches, counting calories, or gastric bypass surgery.
In addition, BioFit probiotic supplements can help you lose total body weight without severe cardio regimens like Insanity, P90X, or CrossFit.
Remarkably, the BioFit brand name claim that you do not need to quit your naughty however preferred foods, consisting of brownies, chocolate, pizza, cheesecake, ice cream, and milkshakes.
The founders of BioFit say that this is enabled by the seven probiotic ingredients, which help to improve your intestinal environment and boost digestion.
It is very important to know that BioFit is not planned to treat, cure, diagnose, or prevent any medical condition or disease.
This article will provide you a thorough look at BioFit based upon our own research study of this item.
What Is BioFit? GoBioFit
BioFit is a natural weight reduction probiotic supplement from Nature’s formula.
BioFit consists of seven medically shown gut-healing and fat-burning probiotic strains.
The probiotic strains intend to help you acquire your preferred weight by addressing your gastrointestinal problems, increasinmicrobg your immunity, and balancing your hormones.
According to Chrissie Miller’s video on GoBioFit.com, BioFit weight reduction probiotic helps you slim down naturally without removing your favorite foods.
How Do Probiotics Work?
You have thousands of bacteria in your body, especially in your gut, and large intestinal tracts.
This bacteria, which is also known as gut microbiota has numerous functions in your body.
It promotes your immunity, digestion, and other bodily functions.
Some of these micro-organisms or bacteria can lead to disease, but others really help prevent disease.
That said, your body requires a good balance of bad and good bacteria to stay healthy.
Without this balance, you’re most likely to experience many health concerns. Probiotics help to bring the body back into balance by replenishing and reinforcing your gut microbiome.
Probiotics can be found naturally in supplements and fermented foods. They include good bacteria that live within your body, including in your gut, primarily in the big intestinal tracts.
The good bacteria in probiotics help your body work efficiently and stay healthy. In addition, good bacteria assists to get rid of bad bacteria, and remove the nasties in the body that could cause disease.
With that in mind, probiotics can improve your immune function, brain health, along with your total digestion system.
Probiotics can also help you lose general body weight, in addition to stubborn belly fat.
How Probiotics Assist You Slim Down Probiotics can help you reduce weight
Why?
This is due to the fact that they affect your cravings and energy use by producing propionate, acetate, and butyrate, which are fatty acids.
In addition, probiotics contain the genus Lactobacillus, which prevents your body from soaking up dietary fats.
As an outcome, good quality probiotics help to balance your system making it more efficient. As the digestion system begins to work more effectively it can, in turn, cause burning excess fat in the body.
Probiotics, simply put, assistance to prevent your body from keeping excess fat from the food you take in. That is how specific bacteria from the Lactobacillus household function.
Probiotics battle obesity by:
Launching appetite suppression hormones Increasing fat regulating proteins Improving gut health Are Probiotics Helpful For Your Gut?
Your gut microbiome can end up being imbalanced due to bad bacterial overgrowth, and a lack of good bacteria. This ‘good’ bacteria (and the proper balance of it) is crucial to living a healthy life.
When bad bacteria accumulate in your gut, you’re likely to suffer from digestive concerns and inflammation due to the excess toxins that are developing within.
This can lead to undesirable weight gain, bloating, diarrhea, to name a few health issue.
With that in mind, probiotics work by avoiding bad bacteria from outnumbering and overrunning your good bacteria.
They stabilize the bad and good bacteria in your gut.
Subsequently, probiotics are useful to your gut because they protect you from various gut diseases, consisting of irritable bowel syndrome, chronic bouts of diarrhea, and ulcerative colitis.
Who Created BioFit?
BioFit weight loss probiotic supplement is an item by Nature’s Formulas. The Nature’s Formulas brand has actually been dealing with natural supplements for over 25 years.
The pioneers of BioFit supplements are Chrissie Miller and her team of professionals. They have actually been studying body health and healthy nutrition supplementation for years.
Nevertheless, Chrissie is the creation behind BioFit.
She’s the spokesperson for this product that guarantees to help you lose weight without working out, dieting, or even having gastric coronary bypass.
Before discovering BioFit, Chrissie Miller had attempted 19 different weight reduction supplements, which never helped her lose weight.
She later came across some research study on probiotics supplements.
The research highlighted advantages such as enhanced gut health, weight-loss, and optimal body health and wellness.
And, that’s how she has actually handled to stay appropriate in the weight loss market after revealing BioFit weight reduction probiotic supplements.
BioFit probiotic is readily available solely on the GoBioFit.com site.
BioFit Ingredients – What’s Inside?
Biofit includes 7 probiotic strains that work naturally to improve your total body health, and accelerate your weight reduction.
The intended benefits of the seven BioFit ingredients consist of:.
Improved gut health Increased metabolism Fat loss
Let’s dive a little much deeper into these ingredients and find how they work.
They consist of: Bacillus Subtilis: Assists to decrease your metabolism. In addition, it promotes gut health by increasing lactic acid. Bacillus Subtilis likewise reduces bad bacteria develop and avoids symptoms like diarrhea, constipation, and irritable bowel syndrome. Lactobacillus Casei: BioFit likewise contains Lactobacillus Casei, which promotes digestion. Lactobacillus Casei helps to prevent weight gain, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, lactose intolerance, colic, as well as ulcerative colitis. Lactobacillus Rhamnosus: This good bacteria promotes weight loss in obese individuals. Lactobacillus Plantarum: Promotes weight loss by preventing the accumulation of toxins, which are typically connected with weight gain. Increased toxins in the gut can result in microbiota imbalance. Bifidobacterium Longum: Promotes weight-loss by decreasing oxidative stress. As a result, it manages gut microbiota, which in turn, increases fat metabolism and weight-loss. Lactobacillus Acidophilus: Contains lactase enzyme, which breaks down lactose into lactic acid. In addition, Lactobacillus Acidophilus assists to lower cholesterol levels. It promotes gut health, therefore preventing diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome. Bifidobacterium Breve: Helps to promote the immune health. Other advantages include promoting healthy skin, respiratory health, and the avoidance of yeast infections.
It deserves keeping in mind that BioFit also contains triglycerides, maltodextrin, in addition to vegetable cellulose.
Is BioFit Probiotic Formula Safe?
Since it does not contain synthetic chemicals or stimulants, BioFit probiotic formula is safe. It does not include Genetically Modified Organisms, implying it’s also safe for vegans and vegetarians.
BioFit has actually been produced using natural ingredients, which are suitabled for human usage. In addition, BioFit undergoes extensive screening, which helps to make sure that pure and only top quality ingredients are utilized.
Including BioFit if you have a medical condition then you ought to always seek your doctor’s advice prior to taking any new supplement.
In addition, if you’re on another weight reduction plan or supplement, it’s important to seek the guidance of an expert healthcare provider before including BioFit into your regimen.
Ensure you purchase BioFit probiotics from the official site to avoid fakes, which may be damaging to your health.
BioFit Side Effects
According to the business’s FAQ area, nobody has reported any adverse effects after taking the BioFit weight loss probiotic supplements.
This is because BioFit has actually been used simply natural ingredients, more specifically, probiotic strains, which occur naturally in the gut of healthy individuals.
Possible side effects of probiotics can consist of:.
Stomach bloating and gas Allergic reactions, although uncommon – it is important to look for medical advice straight away if you identify a rash or experience itching on your face, tongue, or throat Dizziness Problem breathing
Consult your doctor directly away if you experience any of the above symptoms.
In addition, probiotics are not recommended for:
Lactating mothers Pregnant ladies Individuals listed below the age of 18 years Anybody with a pre-existing medical condition Individuals going through immunotherapy and hormonal therapy Anybody that is on medication Anyone that is using supplements to treat a medical condition For How Long Does BioFit Require To Work?
The results may vary from a single person to another. Why? Due to the fact that our bodies are various.
In addition, it depends upon how consistently you take BioFit when you incorporate it into your weight-loss plan.
Nevertheless, in her video, Chrissie Miller states that you may be able to lose as much as 3 pounds in a week. Chrissie also mentions that you can lose about 2 inches around your waistline in just 7 days, and 6 inches in simply two weeks.
Furthermore, BioFit has a 180-day money-back warranty, which is an assurance that you need to be able to see considerable results within 6 months.
If BioFit does not work for you within 6 months, you will get back your cash.
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warc | 202143 | Undoubtedly, working in the office is challenging, but there are more challenges when it comes to working from home. Although you are away from the soul-crushing commute, annoying co-workers, the problems that come with work from home are more frustrating than these.
Asks anyone who is presently working remotely, and he will tell you if it feels like rainbows and unicorns or not—as per the study, working from home makes one more productive as they are working in a comfortable zone. But the interference and disturbance that comes with remote work cause more stress than working in the office.
Dozen of remote workers are sharing how it feels like working from home during the lockdown. Everyone is listing their challenges and how they overcome those to ensure productivity. So, here are the common challenges that you can relate to now.
Challenges Of Working From Home That Everyone Can Relate
Many of the employers do not allow
remote work. They think that their employees will escape the job, and the company will suffer a significant loss. But the opposite is the harsh reality as the employees tend to overwork.
Moreover, for them switching their roles between personal and professional life is harder when working from home. There is no starting time for the work. They have no idea when to end and when to start. It seems like a never-ending cycle of work that can make one exhaust even more than when they work at the office. If you feel the same as you are working 24×7 round the clock, then here are some tips.
Set a calendar for necessary appointments and meeting at the end of each day Also, set a reminder for breaks even the smaller ones like a tea break Maintain a physical boundary even at home to separate the workplace and home Turn off all the unnecessary notifications They Prioritize Work
Working from home means you have to be
self-motivated as nobody is watching you. However, not everyone can stay self-motivated and stick to a schedule.
Management of work is essential, but the constant urge and temptation to sleep or do your favorite things makes you less productive. Moreover, procrastination is one of the issues which can stretch the working hours at home.
So, prioritizing your work can help you better but how to do it. Here’s the help:
Do the most critical task first in the morning Divide the tasks into smaller goals for the day Instead of managing your time, manage your energy Biggest Challenge- Interruptions
Luckily, office disruptions due to colleagues, or any other events are no more an issue. But the bad news is there are different kinds of distractions. Suddenly, a delivery man brings the parcel you have waited for, or your friends or relatives surprise you. And then there are little monsters at home that are hard to tackle.
All these can make your task more challenging. You cannot peacefully take a conference call or report to your boss. So, how to deal with these interruptions.
A signal might work, set a message to let others know that you are working Explain your kids and others that do not disturb during the set hours or what their interruptions can do Escape from the common areas of breaks and sit somewhere else that is quiet and peaceful Lack Of Social Interactions
Working on your own without any colleague’s help or interaction is also a challenge for remote workers. Most of the employees have a habit of talking or gossiping that works as a fuel for them. No social interactions can drain their energy and make them feel lonely, even if the family is there.
To deal with such challenges, you can take a break to interact with co-workers. Ask everyone to communicate at the set time.
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warc | 202143 | How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes in Your Yard
The hot summer weather is perfect for spending time outside. Unfortunately, it also provides the perfect climate for mosquitoes to breed in swarms after a long winter of dormancy.
If you’re sick of that familiar buzzing in your ear and tired of dealing with itchy bites every time you step outside, learn more about why mosquitoes are so dangerous and find out how to get rid of mosquitoes in your yard with these awesome tips from our pest control professionals. Why Mosquito Bites Are Dangerous? Mosquitoes have always been known to carry diseases that can be dangerous to humans--it’s no wonder that mosquitoes are considered to be the most dangerous animal on the planet! All around the world, millions of people die from mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria. There are many other diseases that mosquitoes can carry right here at home. Just a few of these mosquito-borne illnesses include: Yellow Fever West Nile Virus Dengue Fever Zika Virus And many more What is the Zika Virus?
Although not a newly discovered virus (it was discovered in 1947), the Zika virus is new to North America.
In February of 2016, the Zika virus popped up in a large outbreak in Brazil and has spread quickly throughout South and Central America, being quickly transmitted to humans through mosquito bites.
Although most people who are infected with Zika are only met with mild symptoms (fever, red eyes, joint pain, rash, etc.), the virus poses a significant threat to pregnant women and their unborn children.
According to the CDC, “Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause a serious birth defect called microcephaly, as well as other severe fetal brain defects.” It’s also important to note that aside from mosquito transmission, Zika can also be transmitted from person-to-person through: Sexual intercourse Blood transfusions Pregnant mother to child DIY Mosquito Prevention Methods
Unfortunately, when the days start getting warmer, the mosquitoes show up to ruin all the fun. Even with professional mosquito treatment, it can be hard to guarantee zero mosquitoes.
But with these natural herbs, combined with professional treatment, you should be able to reduce the number of mosquitoes drastically. Plant Mosquito-Repellent Plants Citronella isn’t the only plant that repels mosquitoes, even though it is one of the most popular. There are actually many inexpensive and easy to care for plants out there that can repel mosquitoes naturally. Some great options include: Horsemint Marigolds Catnip Basil Clover Citrosa Chamomile Corriander Lemon balm Lavender Simply plant these in your yard and they can help naturally ward off these frustrating pests. To choose which ones to grow in your own herb garden, consider which plants will do best in your yard conditions (sunlight, moisture, soil content). Choose plants that you will enjoy using for other purposes, too -- like cooking and eating. Good choices for tea lovers are lavender, chamomile, and basil as they can make delicious tea additives. In addition, if you like fragrant flowers, citronella, lavender, and lemon balm are wonderful additions to any flower garden. Use Herbal Oils If you just don’t have the time, space, or patience to grow herbs in your garden to repel mosquitoes, try using the essential oils from the herbs in other ways. A great choice for this method is citronella, as the oils in the plants do well when made into mosquito-repelling candles. You can also use lavender essential oils around your windowsills and doorways to keep mosquitoes outside where they belong during hot summer nights when you want to leave windows open. You can also try using the essential herbal oils on your body to repel mosquitoes while you are out and about. For this method, try using fragrant oils like lavender or lemon balm and dab them on your skin in small amounts. It is advisable to try this on a small patch of skin first to ensure you are not allergic to the herbs or the oils. Also, be sure to always supervise children when using herbal oils. Use Fans or Air Conditioning
Although this one is decidedly simple, you can’t beat its effectiveness. Consider adding a fan or air conditioning unit to your outdoor spaces.
The movement of the air will disrupt the insects’ flight paths and will make it difficult for them to stick around. While a few might get through your defenses, adding a fan to your yard - especially in areas where you tend to congregate - can make a huge difference in the number of mosquitoes that hang around. Use Coffee Grounds
When you make your next cup of joe, make your coffee do double duty by repurposing your coffee grounds as a mosquito control technique.
All you have to do is sprinkle the coffee grounds in standing water around your home where mosquitoes might breed. This environmentally-friendly option suffocates the mosquito eggs and kills them before they even hatch! Provide Proper Yard Drainage
One of the best ways to get rid of mosquitoes in your yard is to make sure that they can’t breed around your home. To do this, you have to get rid of potential breeding sites for these pesky invaders.
Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water, so do your best to make sure there is none of that around for the mosquitoes to find. Look for areas in your yard that seem excessively wet, and improve drainage in those areas. In addition, adjust your yard watering cycle to make sure that there are no puddles. Drain birdbaths regularly, and make sure your hose isn’t leaking. Clean Up Your Yard
It is advisable to give your yard a thorough cleaning in the summertime if you notice a lot of mosquitoes around.
Get rid of any excess yard debris, lawn clippings, leaves, and other things that might create suitable homes and breeding areas for mosquitoes. You don’t want them moving in, so don’t make it easy for them to make themselves at home. Using Mosquito Lights Outdoors Mosquitoes are attracted to lights, so to decrease the amount that you attract to your outdoor get-togethers, purchase insect lights which are a different color. You can find these lights at your local hardware store. Call in the Professional Mosquito Exterminators
All of these techniques can help you with your mosquito problem, but there is truly no solution like a professional mosquito treatment.
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warc | 202143 | Nothing is more pathetic than working hard on your book and publishing it only to find out that no one is interested in it.
In this article, we will see 7 important mindset shifts to help you sell more books and earn better from your writing. Although these are best principles for Authors who write their own books, some concepts can also help if you are re-publishing a public domain book.
Research Before You Write
If you want to sell books, then we need to understand from the very beginning that sales is directly proportional to the number of people who will be interested in whatever you want to write.
Studying the market even before you write, and doing some research on keywords, surveying what people in your field really want – will all go a long way when you finish writing and start selling. In fact, these could pave the way to sell your books even before you start writing. KDP also has ‘pre-order’ sales options available to its authors.
This way, we can distinctly divide the entire process into three parts:
Research Write Promote
All these three steps are important and go hand-in-hand to ensure you sell more books.
Tools such as Publisher Rocket help in finding approximately how many people have bought similar titles in your genre, what is the typical download count per a period, and more such useful metrics for you to decide.
Another treasure trove is the book reviews, ratings, and comments section for similar titles that others have written. – You can easily find what your potential audience have loved and hated from their comments and then use that intel to enhance your writing exponentially.
If you are interested in learning more tactics, I highly recommend reading Pat Flynn’s ‘Will it fly‘ book – I will provide the link below so you can give it a shot.
Download a mind map version of this article.
Importance of platform awareness
Having different versions of the books you’ve written is great, but if you are just starting out, focus only on your Kindle version.
More books are sold on Kindle than in print!
This way you can first focus on establishing a place for yourself in the world of writing. After you see some traction in your ebook sales, you can move on to publishing them in print editions.
Not just that, there are more avenues in the eBook world and Kindle is not the end – we have leanpub, Kobo, Google Play Books, Smashwords, iBooks and so on so you can cater to different types of people.
They are all people reading ebooks but the devices they carry in their hands are different and you are losing out on lot of money if you don’t tap into that diversity.
That’s why it’s all the more important to be platform aware and start focusing on the eBook market in your first month of selling eBooks before you exhaust all the options and then step into the print versions.
Understanding the technical side of ebooks
A simple shift in the mindset regarding the technologies we use to self-publish takes you really far in making the work you do to stand out from your competition.
An eBook is really just a web page, written in HTML. Learning some basics of HTML and CSS can really help in formatting the ebooks the way you want. If not nothing, consider using the services offered by professionals who charge very less in platforms like upwork or fiverr. They are experts in using HTML, CSS who can format your ebook the way you want with all the designs and formatting specifics.
Expect Less
Your first published book is no-doubt a bestseller in your family circles, but it will not be a super-hit out in the world from day one onward.
There are exceptions and I will consider myself lucky if it happens to me. If you are just beginning to write and sell books as an author, then try writing something short but valuable for your target audience and learn all the technicalities involved in self-publishing your first book.
Publish more often applying the knowledge you’ve gained from the first book. Unlike olden days where people used typewriters to type their manuscript, and publishers who used big printing press machines, writing books need not take years with hand-held gadgets, cloud based apps, and self-publishing resources available for free these days.
Learn this business, forget the expectations, gain the experience and eventually you will ride on easily with increased revenue because this is all just science and the process works the same way for everyone.
Connecting with readers
Some authors just share their ideas in their books and leave it at that. The book stands in isolation without any action items for the readers, so they just move on after reading and you have lost a potential fan because there is no way to connect with you for them.
As an author, connecting to your readers is an important opportunity to ensure they also read your next book. CTAs or Call to action inside your books are vital to building a following for your works.
Turning that into a loyal following group depends on your consistency in engaging the audience with what they ask for. Here are some ideas that could bring your readers to know you better and get closer to you.
Introduction page – where you can tell more about yourself, Contact page – Creating and linking to your website and other social media channels. Offering a supplement to your current book and letting them sign up for your Newsletters or other free accompanying downloads called as Lead Magnets. Creating a Facebook community and making it exclusive access to your followers. Doing an AMA or “Ask Me Anything” chat sessions on Twitter, Reddit, or Gitter (https://gitter.im) Delivery Costs
Size of the eBook increases delivery costs from Amazon, thus leading to lesser royalties.
This is something that all the authors who are self-publishing using Amazon to be aware of.
I created a dedicated video to address this issue and how you can resolve it. The primary culprit is the images you use in the eBook and in this other video, you’ll learn how to compress them effectively without losing the quality. Links are provided in the description below.
Content Seeding
The core principle here is repurposing the content you’ve already written. Almost every book you write can take another birth of its own as a podcast, blog article, video, a slideshow, a course, a checklist (for non-fiction works), an infographic, or any other mini PDF that can be created out of the original work you wrote first.
No book should be left in isolation and must be reborn in one or many of these forms.
Bonus Tip to Sell More Books:
For all those of you who are still reading, I have a bonus tip. Well, it’s actually a no-brainer but not EVERYONE realizes it. So, I thought I will share it, anyway.
Hyperlinked Table of contents:
In case your books don’t have this, it’s time you edit and re upload your eBooks after creating a table of contents – and if you already have the TOC on your eBooks, then pat yourself on your back. This is because TOC section provides a great reader’s experience on eBooks. Some don’t use it and some misuse it by placing it at the end of their eBooks – this not only is a poor reading experience but also makes Amazon think that you are cheating its algorithm by letting the system think that the reader has fully read your book by reaching the end of the eBook. This is usually manipulated to tap into the KENP page read count related royalties. So, use the TOC within the starting sections only and use it to link to your main chapter and sub-chapter headings. Again, I have another video which talks about creating Table of Contents.
So, those were some pointers to keep in mind on your writing journey. I hope this was useful and let me know if you have any problems or questions on Amazon KDP below.
Cheers and good luck!
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warc | 202143 | As a pet sitter, you can’t be available 24/7.
You deserve time off. You deserve to say no.
For some reason, though, pet sitters have a hard time saying no. I think it’s because we’re very nice people! We don’t want to let anyone down, especially our customers.
But if you can learn the skill of saying no, your business will be stronger.
I’ve been a professional pet sitter for almost five years, and I’ve learned to say no. Last week, I shared some advice on how to get more pet sitting customers. Today, I’m sharing advice on how to say no when you have more business than you need.
For more information, see my ebook on how do I start my dog sitting business?
Why you should say no to some pet sitting customers.
If you’ve blocked off a weekend or a week for yourself, you need to stick to it. Everyone deserves a vacation, even if it’s just one full day off.
Every time you try to take time off, you will probably receive pet sitting requests. This is a nice problem to have, but you need to politely turn down business in order to give yourself an occasional break. Then return to work refreshed!
Saying no allows you to offer a better service.
Fewer customers means more attention for each pet. You’ll build stronger relationships with the pets and the owners.
If you are rushing from one appointment to the next, you will be under constant stress. You might not notice a cut on a dog’s paw. Or you might not notice a cat threw up on the couch. You might even forget to lock a door.
However, if you take a smaller number of clients, you will have the time to give each pet the care she deserves. You’ll be relaxed, and you’ll have time to text photos or leave handwritten notes. Your dog walks will be relaxed and enjoyable. You’ll have time to clean muddy paws or cuddle up with a cat on the couch.
I can’t tell you how many pets you should visit per day. The ideal number will be different for everyone. I only recommend you take fewer rather than more.
You want to be loyal to existing customers.
By saying no to new customers, you have the ability to say yes to existing customers. It’s better to turn away the people you’ve never met.
Some customers will have unfair expectations.
Emergencies come up, and you should do your best to accommodate within reason. For example, an existing client might have to go to the hospital on short notice, so she asks you to check on her dogs.
But there are emergencies and there are “emergencies.” With some people, everything is “urgent” and everything is about them.
Some clients never plan ahead. They’ll call on Thursday evening and expect you to check on their dogs all weekend. Even if you have some openings, you may want to say no.
Sometimes you’ll even get last-minute calls from potential customers you’ve never met. They’ll ask, could you check on our dogs tomorrow morning? I recommend saying no. Tell them you’d be happy to help them out in the future, but you will need more notice.
Safety.
Sometimes you have to turn potential customers away for safety reasons. Maybe their dog is aggressive. Maybe the person lives too far out of town and it’s blizzard season. Maybe the person lives in an apartment building where break-ins are common. Maybe you don’t feel safe walking dogs in certain neighborhoods. Whatever the reason, keep your own safety in mind and say no accordingly.
Some customers are not worth the time.
Sooner or later you will come across a customer who is not worth your time. Taking care of her pets is more trouble than it’s worth. Sometimes this is because the customer is flat out rude, and sometimes it’s out of her control.
For example, maybe she lives just a little too far from you. Or maybe it always takes an hour to clean up after her messy dog. Maybe her cat needs medication but won’t come near you.
She could be one of those people who always finds a reason to complain. Maybe she doesn’t pay on time. Or maybe she treats her dogs poorly and you worry about liability.
Whatever the reason, if it’s not worth your time, just say no.
How to say no to pet sitting customers Remain polite.
Thank the person for her interest in your business. You don’t owe her an apology, but you owe her a thank you. Tell her you hope to care for her pets in the future, and recommend another pet sitter for the meantime.
Think about what you’ll say ahead of time.
Plan ahead of time what you might say, and practice saying it. You don’t need an excuse to say no. All you need to say is “No, I am not available at that time. Thank you for contacting me, and I hope to help you out next time.”
Create a waiting list.
Sometimes it’s easier to say no if you can put the person on a waiting list for the future.
Increase your rates.
You are in demand, so there is no reason not to increase your rates. If you charge more, a few clients will naturally drop off. With fewer people inquiring about your services, you won’t need to say no as often.
For more information on rates, see my ebook on how to start a pet sitting business.
Remember your priorities.
You set high standards because you offer the best service. You are the best pet sitter in your area. People seek you out among the competition for a reason. This allows you, in turn, to select the best customers. That means something different for each pet sitter because we all have our own strengths and specialties.
I focus on dog running, so my clients tend to be mostly medium to large, higher-energy dogs. Your business might be different. Maybe you focus on smaller dogs or cats.
Choosing your customers wisely gives you the opportunity to be happier with your business and to have happier customers.
Isn’t that why you started your business in the first place?
For more information on pet sitting, see my post on creating a basic business plan for a dog sitting/walking company.
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warc | 202143 | Since 1968 when I first spent time in Mexico, I have always thought that our two countries’ futures were inevitably linked.
After a recent visit, I believe this is even truer today. The global economic forces have generated similar experiences. As a result, both countries face issues that are much the same. We are more alike than different.
The case of a shuttered weaving mill in San Miguel de Allende illustrates this. San Miguel is a beautiful precolonial city of about 60,000 people in central Mexico. It’s now a magnet for U.S. and Canadian retirees who want to enjoy a cosmopolitan, affordable retirement.
But this idyllic city has had problems. In 1992, the city’s largest employer, Negociacion Fabril de la Aurora, closed its doors. At the time, Aurora, which first opened in 1902, had employed some 300 people working three shifts. Throughout much of its history, several generations of the Garay family, who purchased Aurora in 1932 during the depths of the worldwide depression, worked diligently to make the throwing mill a financial success.
This unionized factory became more than a place of work. Aurora sponsored sports teams, held musical concerts and participated actively in a variety of holidays and celebrations of which San Miguel has many. The annual “Alborada” holiday, which celebrates the patron Saint San Miguel, was instituted by Aurora’s employees.
The production of Aurora’s exquisite linen cloth was the result of its skilled workers and the entrepreneurial Garay family. But the cycle of business growth and decline, created by globalization, with which the U.S. is all too familiar, caught up with Aurora. With uncertainty surrounding the pending approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the inability to compete with much less expensive labor costs in Southeast Asia, Aurora closed in 1992.
But this story which mirrors so vividly hundreds of similar plant closures in the U.S. doesn’t end there. The Garay family teamed with local artisans and transformed the 90-year-old factory into a successful art and design center that opened in 2001. With its façade of 12 stone carved arches and impressive wrought iron work, Aurora now houses 72 stores, studios, galleries and design establishments. There is a waiting list of new businesses wishing to move into Aurora.
Collectively, the various firms and shops that now occupy Aurora employ almost as many as who worked there when it was a throwing mill. There were other economic gains. Former mill employees gained mechanical, carpentry and other trade skills that allowed them to quickly obtain jobs in tourism and construction industries of San Miguel.
It would have been easy to give up, blame cheap labor in other countries and walk away from Aurora. But the fortitude of the Garay family, buttressed by a few entrepreneurial artisans, turned what could have been another shuttered factory story into an aesthetic and economic success.
Yes, Mexico and the U.S. share more than a border. In many respects, we share similar histories of business successes and failures. Fortunately, we also share an entrepreneurial spirit that pervades our respective populations. Simply look at the complex supply systems of parts, labor, design and management that creates today’s automobiles and other sophisticated products. They are jointly manufactured in Mexico and the U.S. with parts from throughout the world. People on both sides of the border win.
Mexico and the U.S. have more in common than we often realize. It isn’t popular now to suggest that countries with similar histories should work more closely together to solve issues that are larger than any of them. However, it’s these commonalities of economic experiences, both good and bad, that provide the basis for collective problem-solving. This can lead to better quality of life in our respective countries.
MacDowell, of Estero, is president emeritus of Misericordia University and managing director of the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation.
Source: https://www.naplesnews.com/
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warc | 202143 | BUDGET 2012: 'Chicken tax' - VAT to be added to hot supermarket takeaway food
An expansion of the items subject to VAT announced in the Budget means the price of hot food from supermarkets, including rotisserie chicken and sausage rolls, will rise.
The move is part of a crackdown on 'loopholes and anomalies in VAT on food and drink', which would come in to affect from October this year.
The crackdown will mean that VAT will also applied be sport drinks, holiday caravans and the rental of hairdressers’ chairs.
Chicken tax: The price of hot rotisserie chicken in supermarkets could rise part of the crackdown on loopholes in the VAT tax system
The change means that any supermarket food which is hot when it is sold will be subject to the standard rate of VAT, which is 20 per cent.
At present VAT is only applied to hot food which is eaten on the premises, this means that supermarkets do not charge VAT on items such as rotisserie chickens.
While Greggs does not charge VAT on the sale of items such as sausage rolls.
However, the High Street bakery chain resisted the change. A spokesman from Greggs said: 'We do not believe that our freshly baked savoury products should be subject to VAT and we will be making strong representation to the Government regarding the proposed changes.'
It would see the price of half a rotisserie chicken from M&S, currently £2.49, rise by nearly 50p. While 87p would be added to the cost of a whole bird from Sainsburys - from £4.39 to £5.16.
Adrian Houstoun, a partner at accountancy firm, Kingston Smith LLP said: 'The consultation proposes that all food which, at the time that it is sold, is above the ambient air temperature, should be standard rated, other than freshly baked bread.
'This would mean that a warm chicken bought from a supermarket would be subject to VAT.'
The government is due to close a consultation on the subject in early May this year.
The issue has arisen because of a case in Germany. A burger van owner complained to the European Court of Justice after he was forced to charge extra for food that customers ate while sitting on chairs by his van while those who ate standing up were charged less.
The European Court ruled that where the level of service is minimal, it should be considered as a simple food sale not subject to the extra tax.
It meant that hot food sold from a kiosk was not catering and that it could be applied to the UK.
Following the German case, a number of fast food operators have considered whether the sale of such items as hot pies and soups should be exempt from VAT and a number have tried to claim back VAT from HMRC.
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warc | 202143 | For those living in retirement villages, amendments to the retirement villages legislation and regulations have resulted in several changes, some of which include:
Changes to the timing of exit entitlement payments;
Payments to aged care facilities when moving from a retirement village to an aged care facility;
A cap on recurrent charges;
Changes to the disclosure requirements; and
Asset Management Plans by operators of retirement villages.
Payment of exit entitlements
This change only applies to those who are registered interest holders in a retirement village i.e. those who have a registered long term lease (at least 50 years) which entitles the resident to at least 50% of any capital gain.
The timing of the payment of exit entitlements is now more certain. Previously, the retirement village operator could specify in their agreements when a resident would receive their exit entitlement. Some agreements stating the date being 5 years from the date the resident vacates the premises, unless their premises are re-leased before this time, then 14 days after the new resident pays the operator or moves into the premises, whichever is the first to occur. Therefore, potentially payment of the exit entitlement may not occur for a period of 5 years from the date the premises is vacated, making it very difficult for the resident moving forward.
There is now the ability for a resident to apply to the operator for payment of their exit entitlement, the value of which can be determine by agreement between the resident and the operator or, if agreement cannot be reached, then by an independent valuer (agreed to by both parties or if no agreement, appointed by the President of the New South Wales Division of the Australian Property Institute). The value will then determine the exit entitlement, regardless of what the premises is eventually sold for.
If the operator then unreasonably delays the payment of the exit entitlement and a prescribed period has lapsed, an application to the Secretary of the Department of Customer Service can be made by the resident to order the operator to pay the exit entitlement. The prescribed period is 6 months for villages located in Sydney metropolitan areas, the cities of The Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Newcastle and 12 months for all other areas in New South Wales.
The commencement of the prescribed period occurs 40 days after the premises is listed for sale, the resident vacates the property or written notice is given to the operator that the resident will remain in occupation during the sale period, whichever occurs first.
If an exit entitlement order is made, the operator has 30 days to pay the exit entitlement to the resident.
Payments to aged care facilities
From 1 January 2021, when moving from a retirement village to an approved aged care facility, it is now possible for the resident to request the retirement village pay the daily accommodation payment for the aged care facility, while the resident is waiting for payment of their exit entitlement. This again, is only possible for registered interest holders as referred to above.
The operator must pay the daily accommodation payment to the aged care facility at least 28 days before the resident proposes to enter the aged care facility or 28 days after the resident requests they attend to this payment, if they are already in the aged care facility.
The payment to the aged care facility continues until either the premises within the retirement village is sold, the resident dies or moves out of the aged care facility or 85% of the exit entitlement is reached (this does not include any capital gains or losses).
This does not apply where the premises in the retirement village is a unit in a strata title or community title scheme.
Changes to Recurrent charges
When vacating premises in a retirement village, previously the recurrent charges (these are for general services) were payable by the resident for 42 days after vacating the premises and thereafter payable by the resident and the operator in proportion to their capital gains entitlements, until the premises is re-leased.
Now, if you are a registered interest holder, you only pay the recurrent charges for a maximum period of 42 days after permanently vacating the premises.
Disclosure requirements
The General inquiry document and disclosure statement, which must be provided by a retirement village operator to a prospective resident within a prescribed period, must now include a copy of the village rules and the “Moving into a retirement village?” publication of NSW Fair Trading.
Asset Management Plans
Operators of retirement villages are now required to prepare an assets management plan every 10 years, the first of which must be prepared by the commencement of the next financial year of the retirement village.
This plan must be available to all residents in the retirement village and must contain a maintenance schedule which refers to capital maintenance and capital replacement of each item of capital (both major items and shared major items) and an asset register. The maintenance schedule must contain the proposed dates for capital replacement and an estimate of the costs involved.
The retirement village has an obligation to keep this plan up to date.
When moving into a retirement village or an aged care facility it is important you obtain both legal and financial advice to ensure the move is right for you and you understand all your rights and obligations.
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warc | 202143 | The inventory management system streamlines and manages the inventory management processes. Educational institutes possess assets like lab equipment, computers, laptops, projectors, library assets. These assets are different from industrial assets. Also, the handling of assets is different. These assets are valuable and need to be properly managed. Normally, the manual method of handling assets has several flaws. So, there is a need for a dedicated
school inventory management system that will take care of the special needs of an educational institute. Vidyalaya fills up this space and comes with a dedicated system that is intended for educational institutes only. What is school inventory management?
The school inventory management is responsible for taking care of resources to the fullest. Utilizing the resources to their efficient use is possible only because of the inventory management system. For unfunded or underfunded educational institutes, it is important to utilize the available resources without wasting them. A thoughtfully and coherent strategy that will make a plan for efficient use of funds will ensure that resources are used to their maximum and maintaining their longevity also.
Vidyalaya understands this principle and designs suitable software for any type of educational institute that will prove the inventory management software will give the greatest returns spend on infrastructure, tools, resources, assets, and others.
How can school management software contribute to inventory management?
School management software is a complete package that will streamline the school operations with its features. Inventory management will form its wheelhouse as it is a process-driven feature. Vidyalaya understands the integration and releases a united software for both school management and inventory management as its one of the core modules.
Striking benefits of school inventory management modules
The features of Vidyalaya as a
school inventory management software are inviting. One can definitely see the impact before and after Vidyalaya’s implementation on the campus. Let’s have a glance at other features so that your decision of implementing a dedicated inventory management system can be supported: Better organization of school resources
The instantly noticeable change before and after implementation is the organization of resources. Inventory staff will have excellent control over all the assets of the educational institute. Vidyalaya achieves this by registering all assets and resources within the inventory management software. This can give the updated information about an asset’s whereabouts. The detailed report of the asset’s location will help to determine how many assets are moved from the location or shared among the departments.
Excellent tracking of assets
Many of the school assets are shared among the departments. It becomes a tedious task to track these shareable assets. Vidyalaya identifies the complexity and strengthens its system with an asset tracking feature. This will eliminate the scenarios of one-time borrowing, an informal exchange that is prone to loss of assets. Also, the
school inventory management software bounds the user to have authorized access to use the assets as the system is operated only with authorized permissions. No boundaries of location and time
Imagine the scenario of stock personnel is waiting for a long time to take the approval from the stock manager to procure new items or to sanction permission of access for some highly-rated assets. If the stock manager is absent, the process will get delayed up to the manager’s returning back to work. The annoying situation can be converted to pleasant by installing Vidyalaya’s
inventory management system. With this installation, you can operate the system from any location, any time. Even if the stock manager is on leave, he/she can sanction or deny the procure request without going to the school at present. Stakeholders can access the system by sitting in their comfort zone or on a prior basis, provided that they are authorized to do so. This can eliminate the risk of unauthorized access. Improved process flow
The manual process flow of inventory management is, students or teachers need to fill a request form which needs to submit to the relevant personnel. When the approval is received, the teacher/student needs to make an entry in the register for login and asset possession timing. When an inventory management system is installed, the workflow is streamlined and staff can also experience reduced workload. No physical presence is required to submit the form, taking approvals. Also, the human intervention errors can be removed from the process making the process more reliable and efficient.
Improved security to data and application
We hear many cases of fire or theft in educational institutes that may cause loss of data. Also, human errors can make alterations to the data when it is stored in manual form in the registers without requiring authorized access. But, Vidyalaya will eliminate this possibility as the entire school management system along with the school inventory management module stores data on the cloud and is retrieved only if the user has authorized access. The users are provided role-based access to maintain higher security. The cloud-based system will give you advanced security features along with data disaster management and recovery options.
Improve your funding compliance
Many under-aided or no-aided schools run their expenses by gathering funds from the outside for many assets procurement. But this procedure requires proper record-keeping of documents to continue the funding. Vidyalaya can help you out in keeping the transparent record-keeping for all assets with its inventory management software. Also, records of any particular asset are required that will show its performance, it is possible to accomplish with this software. This will help the auditor to follow the routine with ease.
If you are looking for a tailor-made
school inventory management system, then Vidyalaya is the right choice for you. The feature-filled system will fulfill your requirements about inventory management and will bring efficiency to the process of stock handling. Forget the delays or long-stranded queues for a stock manager with three-fold forms for getting the access permissions. With Vidyalaya, it’s a task of few clicks. And all this by sitting in the comfort zone. So, with Vidyalaya’s school inventory management software, the school inventory will serve the purpose of helping the school stakeholders. | 6,673 | 2,701 | 16,330.44428 |
warc | 202143 | On Thursday, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC or Commission) met to discuss the eligibility, overall priorities, and the timeliness of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Broadband Access Grant applications. In July, the PSC received 240 applications requesting more than $420 million for projects that will expand high-speed broadband internet to unserved and underserved locations in the state. The Commission is expected to make award decisions for the $100 million by the end of October 2021.
“We know all too well that the lack of broadband in parts of our state is leaving many people behind,” said PSC Chairperson Rebecca Cameron Valcq. “This funding will get people connected and help Wisconsin bounce back stronger. I want to thank Governor Evers for making these ARPA dollars available to get Wisconsinites access to broadband.”
Internet service providers, telecommunications utilities, cooperatives, local governments, and for-profit and non-profit organizations were eligible to apply for grants from June 1, 2021, to July 27, 2021. The Commission will approve projects that will be completed by December 31, 2024.
In addition to the $100 million in ARPA funding, the 2021-2023 Biennial State Budget, approved by Governor Evers in July, provides $129 million in state grant funding over the next two years for the Broadband Expansion Grant Program. Details about that funding will be announced in the near future. | 1,465 | 800 | 2,637 |
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warc | 202143 | Ala. cuts a third of its food, hotel workers in 2 weeks
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Tourism in Alabama is usually booming during this time of year as spring break wraps up and summer plans begin to sizzle.
Tourism is fun, but it’s also a big business. In 2019, the industry pulled in 29 million visitors and $18 billion. It was on pace to top those numbers in 2020. Then COVID-19 happened.
It’s usually a time for the Alabama Department of Tourism to tout white, sandy beaches and watch as crowds pile up. But the only thing the department is watching pile up at this point is an astounding number of jobless claims.
The pandemic has rapidly decimated the state’s tourism work force as people have been ordered to stay home and social distance. That means no visitors, no trips, no spending, and for thousands of workers, no jobs.
How bad is it? Alabama Tourism Director Lee Sentell says a third of the state’s food and hotel employees have seen their jobs vanish in the last two weeks. That’s more than 30,000 workers.
Last year 75,000 people worked in the food service industry and another 30,000 were employed in operating the state’s 75,000 hotel rooms, the tourism department said. They earned $2 billion in wages.
Now, they’re being
thrown onto the state’s unemployment rolls in record time. And it could get worse.
The
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association recently estimated a quarter of a million of the state’s hotel and restaurant workers could be laid off.
And it’s not just those empty white, sandy beaches causing tourism dollars to dry up. Museums and other attractions that draw crowds and help create indirect jobs for the industry are also being impacted. Nearly 210,000 jobs depended on the hospitality industry last year, generating nearly $6 billion in wages.
Some restaurants have tried to adjust to the pandemic, switching to take-out orders to keep their doors open. But Sentell says the income is “only a fraction of what is normal.”
Still, the tourism head agrees with Gov. Kay Ivey’s recent state-at-home order that’s aimed at limited the illness’s spread, telling people to "stay home and not congregate at restaurants or any place else.”
Sentell sees relief on the horizon, though, predicting Americans will quickly get back to traveling when the pandemic is brought under control.
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warc | 202143 | Despite municipal restrictions, many homeowners will not seek one, but drafting services Mississauga offer three significant reasons you need a construction permit for your basement.
There are various advantages to finishing your basement. If you're planning to spend your basement anytime soon, you need to get a building permit beforehand. It's critical that you obtain all of the necessary permits for your basement development in Calgary as a homeowner. Despite municipal restrictions, many homeowners will not seek one, but
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The permission application procedure isn't as complicated as you may expect, and it usually only takes a few weeks. You must submit a rough design of your basement and pay a fee to apply. These costs vary depending on the scope of the job and where you reside, but they aren't nearly as expensive as the upgrades themselves. All you have to do to find out more about costs is contact your local government department. You can pick up your permit once the agency has notified you that your application has been approved.
It ensures that you construct correctly and safely.
If your city requires a permit, you'll need to seek one to expand your place. You won't have to bother about obtaining a permit if it doesn't. Keep in mind, however, that a permit serves as a formal announcement. Your permit says that you will be working on your home if you finish your basement on your own. It means that if there are any construction concerns, you are responsible for your project. If you employ contractors to do the job, they are accountable for any problems that arise.
You'll also be subjected to inspections during the duration of the project if you obtain a permit. Professional building inspectors provide quality by ensuring that the work was executed correctly. If any issues develop during the inspection, they will be able to direct you to the best available remedies.
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You may believe that refinishing your basement yourself will save you money, but if you skip the permission process, you could end up owing thousands of dollars. You might even have to start over because you didn't get a permit in the first place. Furthermore, finishing your basement without permission may make it more challenging to sell your property in the future. Your unpermitted work, which is essentially baggage that prospective purchasers find unpleasant, will be noted by an assessor.
Having the work examined ensures that the task is completed correctly and following the law. The inspector's job is to ensure that the result satisfies the minimal standards for various safety codes, not to rate the quality of the work. There are several small details that a contractor without basement experience may overlook, significantly impacting your job.
Basement permits Toronto aren't prohibitively expensive or difficult to obtain. So, whether you're completing the project yourself or hiring someone else to do it, be sure you get the permits. Attempting to receive them after the work has been completed is costly and complicated since the inspector may demand you remove drywall. Conclusion:
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warc | 202143 | Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) work closely with people of all ages who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). DSPs help people with I/DD achieve the fullest lives possible by empowering them to overcome challenges in areas and activities that would otherwise prevent them from being self-sufficient.
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warc | 202143 | Social investment markets are growing around the globe and - as efforts like the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce indicate - they are increasingly receiving high-level support. Many believe that social enterprises - recipients of social investments - are important contributors in the fight against poverty, but unlike with NGOs and other types of organizations, evidence backing this assumption has been scarce and largely anecdotal.
We recently completed a large-scale study of investment in social enterprises, based on a survey of 36 social investors and 286 social enterprises from Colombia, Mexico, Kenya, and South Africa. Our findings generally support the idea that social enterprises can have a positive impact on poverty reduction. But they also reveal some caveats, which have led us to derive concrete recommendations for action. | 850 | 495 | 1,454.444444 |
warc | 202143 | Are you a homeowner? Have you secured adequate insurance for your home building and properties? Home insurance is a necessity, which explains why financial lenders require borrowers to have the coverage to access mortgages. Here are the different types of home insurance policies that every homeowner ought to have.
Buildings Insurance
The buildings insurance cover is the foremost homeowner's insurance policy. Essentially, the policy provides coverage for the structure of your house. In this case, the policy covers any permanent fixture on your home, including the roof, walls, and built-in appliances. In addition, building insurance extends to other structures within your residences, such as the garage, sheds, perimeter wall, and gate. Typically, this form of insurance covers incidences and accidents such as fire and vandalism. In the event of such perils, the insurer meets the cost of repairing and rebuilding the dwelling.
Content Insurance
A content insurance cover is a type of home insurance policy that protects the items in your home. Such contents include furniture, electronics, home appliances, carpets, and clothing. In most cases, such belongings are expensive, leading to a significant financial setback in the event of a loss. Broadly, one may lose valuable items through perils like flooding, fire, and theft. In such an incident, the insurance company would pay the value of contents based on your policy. In addition, a policyholder may add accidental damage to the contents insurance policy. Notably, this additional policy covers any unintentional damages to your property, such as a broken TV or stained carpet.
Personal Liability Insurance
The personal liability policy protects from lawsuits resulting from injuries and damages by third parties within your home premises. For instance, a visitor may have a fall accident on your stairs, or your child may damage a neighbor's property. In such situations, you may assume legal responsibility for the injuries and damages. The insurance company would meet the medical bills, liability damages, and legal expenses with a personal liability insurance cover. Thus, personal liability insurance offers financial protection to you and your family. However, the policy excludes any intentional injuries and property damages.
Optional Home Insurance Coverage
Homeowners have the option of including separate policies to the home insurance coverage for adequate protection. For instance, homeowners can protect their homes and belongings from flood-related damages through a flood insurance policy. Likewise, they can get earthquake insurance cover if they live in an area prone to earthquakes. In both cases, the policies have their deductibles. Other home insurance policies include high-net-worth home insurance for high-value buildings and items like jewelry and fine art.
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warc | 202143 | Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about trees or formalise their existing tree knowledge.
The Certificate in Arboriculture is designed for anyone working in arboriculture, in both the public and private sectors, whether as paid staff, or voluntary support staff, ie, Tree Wardens. The course aims to complement their training and experience, and to provide evidence of their knowledge of arboriculture.
If you don’t work in arboriculture but you are interested in trees, you will learn more about trees, including: their biology, how to care for them and what to do if they are diseased or dying. This will help if you are planning to grow trees in your garden or in an area of woodland.
You don’t need any prior knowledge before you do the course or to have done any other qualifications.
If you are over 18 years old and live in the UK you can apply for a place on the course starting in April 2021. You don’t need to live in Birmingham or the West Midlands to do the course as it will be taught online.
We welcome adults from all backgrounds and ages onto the course.
Meet our tutor
Ian McDermott is well qualified and experienced in all aspects of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry.
He is a Freelance Lantra Instructor, a Training Instructor for the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), an Adjunct Lecturer in Arboriculture at various colleges and institutes throughout the UK and is currently Arboriculture Course Manager at Pershore College.
Ian has also served as Principal Arboriculturalist for Walsall Council for the past 10 years, leading the strategic management of the authority’s tree stock.
What does the course cover?
The course is made up of six modules:
Basic principles of woodlands, forestry and ecology The interaction of soil environments and woody plants Woody plant physiology The supply, planting and aftercare of woody plants Principles of tree surgery operations Tree inspections and statute and common law applied to trees
The training is accredited by SEG and lasts for 30 months. The taught element is mostly online and covers these six modules with approximately 70 sessions. Students are expected to complete four hours a session of self-study in addition to the taught hours (usually two per learning session) but individual students may choose to do more if they feel it is required.
What do I need to do the course?
The course is online so you will need access to the internet, an email address and be able to type up assignments and email them to the tutors. It is helpful to have a computer camera and microphone so that you can take part in discussions.
How will it be assessed?
There will be written assignments for each module which will be marked by the tutors.
When does training start?
The first course starts in April 2021 and the deadline for applications is 28th February 2021.
We’ll run the next course in 2022 on a rolling programme, so if this year isn’t right for you there will be other opportunities to do the course in the future. Please express your interest via the application form below.
How much does it cost?
The different pricing options are below. We also have some annual bursaries and payment options available so please don’t let the cost of course stop you from applying.
The course costs:
£650 for existing tree wardens in the West Midlands (or a reduced rate of £600 for tree wardens in Birmingham) £800 for people with an interest in trees £1,000 for existing workers in the tree industry Registration with SEG costs £65 and this fee is applicable to all students regardless of the above noted fee structure. How do I apply?
Complete the application form below and email it to birminghamtreepeople@gmail.com
There are 10 places on the course and if we are oversubscribed we’ll start another course later on in the year. We are particularly keen on applications from people who want to become tree wardens or who are already, although it’s not essential.
If you want to do the course next year, still put in your application form but write on it 2022.
How do I pay?
When you’re accepted onto the course we’ll send you our bank details or the address for a cheque. We can accept payments in stages over the length of the course. We’ll talk you through this option when we confirm your place.
Any questions?
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2014/03/17/rules-buying-condo/ Condominiums make an affordable alternative to purchasing a single-family home. As prices continue to rise in many markets, purchasing a lower-priced condo makes for an attractive choice in pursuing home ownership.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-17/obamacares-mixed-success-making-insurance-markets-more-competitive#r=hp-ls One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to create more competitive markets for individual health policies. The number of people who bought private health plans on their own was relatively small before Obamacare, and in many … Continue reading
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/02/24/how-to-get-subsidy-pay-health-insurance/ By Lisa Greene-Lewis The clock is ticking toward the March 31 deadline when most uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/23215 On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that has brought to light the potentially high costs of not complying with the Affordablle Act.
http://www.mainstreet.com/node/29492 Coming soon from a mortgage lender near you: subprime loans. Really? Weren’t they banished to the dustbin of history? Well, some types, such as the “liar loans” that required no proof of income, may be gone forever. But the … Continue reading
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/real-estate/why-american-myth-great-lie-ever-sold In 2011, Elias Whitmore signed a 24 month lease while earning a fixed income as a flight mechanic at the Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta. After the initial lease expired, he attempted to extend it, but Whitmore’s landlord had … Continue reading
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http://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/reimbursementseries/healthreformlaw.aspx?id=1 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 makes it easier for many Americans to get health insurance. It also expands the services and procedures that health plans need to cover. For many people, the ACA means that your health … Continue reading | 3,495 | 1,707 | 6,977.71529 |
warc | 202143 | Be cautious before you stop re re payment on a quick payday loan check. It may incur fees that are expensive. In the event that loan provider delivers your bank account to collections, it will damage your credit score.
Borrowers that do maybe perhaps maybe not compare lenders or don’t work with a state certified lender may come across unlicensed payday lenders who you will need to:
cash the check before payday once you understand full well that there may never be sufficient funds in the account to pay for it cash the check many times so that they can incur more fees that are NSF gather the loan utilizing threatening, coercive and methods that are illegal
Some borrowers may prefer to issue an end re re re payment purchase in the check or close their bank checking account. Make sure to consult well a law firm before considering this type of move.
Before you stop payment on a check, look at the cost and date that is expiry.
Stop re payment requests are costly.
Stop re re payment charges may cover anything from $18 to $32 or higher according to your bank therefore the state by which you reside. Most of the time, stop payment charges surpass NSF charges.
Spoken end payment purchases expire quickly.
A stop that is verbal purchase will usually expire in week or two in case it is perhaps not copied by having a written end re re payment purchase.
Written stop re payment sales have actually a date that is expiry.
Under federal banking rules, written end re payment purchases will expire in six months. Banking institutions will purge an end re re re payment purchase from their system following the date that is expiry. At these times, it will be feasible to cash the check.
In the event that you issue an end re re payment order, payday loan providers who comprehend the bank operating system will perhaps not put away your check. They will hang on to it and make an effort to cash it after six months.
In the event that you issue an end payment purchase as well as the check will not generate, restore your order prior to the expiry date.
In cases where a debtor closes their bank checking account, unlawful loan providers often threaten criminal prices for check fraudulence. This will be a threat that is empty many situations however you must always consult with your attorney. Broadly speaking:
Section 3-104(2)(b) associated with the UCC describes a check as “a draft drawn on a bank and payable on demand.” A postdated check is not payable on need therefore it’s generally speaking held by many states that the providing of a post-dated check will not represent something special fraudulence neither is it inside the range associated with the bad check guidelines. See Bad Check Always Laws by State. Additionally, threatening delinquent cash advance borrowers with unlawful prosecution for check fraudulence is unlawful in lots of jurisdictions.
Always remember that the payday lender may turn you up to an assortment agency. In such a circumstance, it will harm your credit score.
If you’re dealing with an authorized lender, contact them and work down a repayment plan. Some states have re payment plan instructions easy online installment loans in Virginia and restrictions on simply how much you can be charged by the lender to “roll over” or extend the mortgage. See State-licensed Payday Lenders by State to get a payday loan company that is legal.
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Proposed CFPB guidelines will protect customers from financial obligation trap pay day loans Compiled By Elese Chen, NCL Intern
The buyer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is using action against payday advances through a number of new laws which will restrict particular financing and cost techniques. The proposition aims to guard borrowers from dropping into endless rounds of financial obligation by making predatory loan providers responsible for their extremely interest that is high.
Pay day loans are short term installment loans which can be frequently paid down on one’s next payday. Such loans are targeted towards borrowers with low credit ratings and incomes that are unreliable may live from paycheck to paycheck.
In line with the CFPB, the typical yearly price for a cash advance is about 390 %. In comparison, credit cards that are most have actually APRs between 12 and 30 %. Pay day loans with APRs into the triple digits is crippling for borrowers that are with them to pay for fundamental living expenses such as for example lease or resources. NCL supports CFPB’s proposition for lots more stringent legislation when you look at the loan market that is payday.
CFPB’s proposition includes the regulations that are following
1. a payment that is“full” would need loan providers, before providing financing, to ascertain if the borrower are able to pay for the mortgage right back while still having the ability to protect fundamental cost of living.
2. The amount of times a debtor can move over a loan is limited by two. In accordance with the CFPB, a lot more than 80 per cent of pay day loans are rolled over within fourteen days and much more than 50 per cent are rolled over as much as 10 times. The limit on roll over loans is an endeavor to get rid of exactly what CFPB calls “debt traps.” In addition, loan providers will have to stick to a 60-day delay duration to refinance that loan.
3. Penalty charges will be managed to reduce overdraft fees which come from unsuccessful withdrawals from a free account. Borrowers often offer loan providers along with their bank account information to ensure that payment are immediately gathered within a fortnight. Nevertheless, inadequate funds in a merchant account can result in hefty charges from both the borrower’s bank as well as the loan provider. Underneath the proposal that is new lenders must definitely provide written notice 3 days prior to withdrawing from an account.
Relating to CFPB Director Richard Cordray, “Too many short-term and longer-term loans are available predicated on a lender’s ability to collect rather than on a borrower’s capacity to repay. The proposals our company is considering would need loan providers to do something to ensure customers can pay back once again their loans.”
The proposed regulations could save yourself consumers from accepting burdensome financial obligation. Some argue, but, that they’re perhaps maybe perhaps not strict sufficient. Nick Bourke, director of tiny buck loans during the Pew Charitable Trusts, implies that the total amount that may be lent must certanly be restricted. The proposition established by CFPB is available to comment that is public. | 6,944 | 3,033 | 15,133.478404 |
warc | 202143 | You don't want to be dealing with intricate garage door problems if you can help it. They can be aggravating to deal with and are the reason why a lot of homeowners are starting to become more focused on garage door maintenance. If you want to be too, then don't hesitate to do these things.
Clean The Surface Consistently
Cleaning the garage door isn't something a lot of homeowners think about. When this dirt has the chance to collect over the years, wear and tear on surrounding structures is pretty common.
You want to keep the surface as clean as you can, which won't require a lot of special products. A good shop towel, water, and perhaps some liquid cleaning solution are all that you need to keep the garage door's surface clean and visually appealing.
Replace The Opener's Battery When The Current One Dies
The battery is a high-priority part of your garage door that powers the opener. Like other batteries, this special one will not work forever. It has a life expectancy that it will reach, and knowing what the life expectancy is can help you change out a dead battery at the right time.
You don't have to be a garage door expert to swap out an old battery for a new one. Just get a ladder and access the garage door opener's cover. Then you can take the old battery out and set up the replacement. In minutes, this step will be done.
Glance Over The Hardware
Your garage door has a lot of hardware that is integral to the performance and safety of this home structure. You may not know a lot about each part, but that's okay. You just want to glance over the hardware when you get the chance to get an idea of different parts' conditions.
For instance, looking over the springs and the track up above is important for addressing structural problems when they present themselves. If you're active about looking over garage door hardware, you can replace and repair components before you face a major setback. You could even cut garage door repair costs because of your consistency with simple inspections.
You'll find it much easier dealing with garage door repairs as a homeowner when you keep up with garage door maintenance. Focusing on the most important maintenance tasks and sticking with them will be key to keeping your garage doors in great shape.
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warc | 202143 | Regardless of whether you own a little or enormous organization, it is consistently critical to have business tips. This will offer you the chance to deal with specific circumstances that would not typically be covered without it. No one can really tell when a circumstance will emerge so we energetically suggest taking a gander at all the fundamentals expected to make this an extraordinary piece of your business.
Building a Reputation:
Each organization needs to assemble a standing and with the correct tips plan it can have a gigantic effect. All things considered, customers need to realize they are ensured if there is ever a difficult that surface. Organizations that have this sort of cover can show it to expected clients to comfort their psyche. While there are a few unique parts to a business strategy, simply realizing you have one will enable the organization to acquire new business.
Keeping Third Parties Protected:
Any individual who possesses a business comprehends the significance of protecting their customers and clients. So as to do this present it is critical to ensure that the basics encompassing this region can keep them secured. This is significant so ensure this region is shrouded in the strategy.
Keeping the Managerial Staff Protected:
Contingent upon what sort of business setting you have; claims as a rule include more than the proprietor of the organization. Actually, there are typically a few claims that happen. The second rotates around the person that is either beneath the proprietor or the director working. Whatever the case might be it is a smart thought to have this remembered for the tips plan. Along these lines on the off chance that something like this happens, at that point everybody will be ensured.
Where to get it:
On the off chance that you do not have business tips, at that point it is an ideal opportunity to locate an incredible arrangement with a far and away superior cost. Calling up the nearby organizations is one approach to do it, yet using on the web examination locales is the better course to take and view here
https://www.focusmanifesto.com/business/3-things-you-need-before-starting-your-own-small-business/. This permits you to let them know precisely what is required and afterward they will discover all the least expensive rates dependent on your rules. The reserve funds can be large to such an extent that paying the measure of the premium can be very astonishing. This is accessible in light of the fact that correlation locales are outfitted to assist you with finding the most ideal cost. Besides in the event that you need greater investment funds, at that point you can raise deductibles, do a little research for coupon or limited time codes or simply ask them whether they offer extra limits. | 2,793 | 1,375 | 5,651.000727 |
warc | 202143 | With the sports car study Vision FK, Hyundai wants to underline the important role of hydrogen for future mobility. The coupé now presented as part of the “Hydrogen Vision 2040” combines a fuel cell with an externally chargeable battery, which should enable a range of 600 kilometers. The Koreans name 500 kW / 670 PS as drive power (vehicle is not for sale, homologation pending²).
The locally emission-free bolide is a symbol of Hyundai’s ambitious hydrogen plans. The car manufacturer expects the breakthrough of the energy carrier in transport and other sectors by 2040 and wants to support this development with its own products and technologies.
The cost of fuel cells is expected to drop significantly by 2030
Among other things, all of the Group’s commercial vehicles are to be equipped with fuel cell systems by 2028. Series production of an improved version of the current Xcient Fuel Cell hydrogen heavy-duty vehicle has also started. A tractor based on the same technology is expected to come onto the market in 2024. A light commercial vehicle with hydrogen technology has also been announced. By 2030, the cost of fuel cell vehicles should be at the level of conventional models.
Hydrogen in all areas of the energy sector
As part of the online presentation of the hydrogen strategy, the Koreans showed other applications in addition to the fuel cell sports car. Including a “Trailer Drone” for container transport, a rescue drone and a mobile hydrogen filling station based on a truck. Hyundai also wants to get involved in expanding the application area of fuel cell systems and technologies to all areas of the energy sector. This also includes the electricity and heat supply of buildings, urban energy sources and power plants. (Text: tv, hh / sp-x | Images: manufacturer) | 1,838 | 956 | 3,443.366109 |
warc | 202143 | Commodities: Is Dr Copper telling us everything is going to be alright? According to Dr Copper, a global recession does not seem to be around the corner
Copper has acquired the nicknames “Dr Copper” and “the metal with a PhD in economics” due to its uncanny ability to diagnose the health of the broader economy. This is largely because copper has a host of industrial uses—including for electrical wiring, roofing, plumbing and industrial machinery—and because its supply is relatively stable, which means that prices are closely correlated with demand.
Economists and investors alike thus closely track the price of the commodity to infer how the economy is doing and will have been on edge when copper prices sunk to over two-year lows in late September amid heightened concerns about the Chinese economy, which consumes around one-half of the world’s copper, amid ongoing trade tensions with the United States. Despite bouncing back somewhat following disruptions to supply in Chile and optimism related to the “phase one” trade deal, copper prices traded at USD 5,827 per metric ton on 1 November, which was still down 2.1% on a year-to-date basis and 4.5% from the same day in 2018.
Looking at our projections for next year, Dr Copper indicates that a global recession does not seem to be around the corner. Our Consensus Forecast projects that copper will average USD 6,288 per metric ton in Q4 2020, comfortably above the symbolic USD 6,000 per metric ton mark. At the same time, trading patterns in the Chicago Metal Exchange and London Metal Exchange seem to suggest funds are starting to turn more bullish on copper.
Nevertheless, as highlighted by the chart above, the spread between our panelists’ projections is significant: The minimum forecast for Q4 2020 is USD 5,182 per metric ton, while the maximum forecast is USD 7,000 per metric ton. Furthermore, many analysts argue that copper prices should be trading much higher given the supply and demand outlook.
With regards to supply, uncertainty has spiked due to the tense political situation across much of Latin America, where approximately one-third of output is located. Of particular relevance are the protests which have recently engulfed Chile, the world’s largest copper producer; BHP, for example, announced on 29 October that its Escondida mine, the world’s largest, was operating at a “reduced rate” after its employees joined the anti-government protests. On top of this, supply is below capacity due to long-term under-investment.
Meanwhile, the long-term demand outlook should be bright given we will need a lot of copper if we are to succeed in decarbonizing and transitioning towards a more sustainable world: Electric cars require about three times more copper than traditional cars and the metal is also currently instrumental in producing wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources. Given the above and fears of a global recession swirling, economists and investors will continue to keep a close eye on Dr Copper’s diagnosis of the health of the global economy.
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warc | 202143 | The European Central Bank (ECB) is reviewing a new bond -buying program to prevent any market turmoil when emergency buying is halted next year, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg reports the plan will replace existing stimulus tools and complement an existing open quantitative easing scheme that currently earns $ 23.1 billion in bonds per month.
However, so far no decision has been made, the source said.
An ECB spokesman declined to comment on the report, saying that staff discussed a range of ideas that were not necessarily communicated to the Governing Council or the Executive Board.
The initiative will act as a safeguard measure should the € 1.85 trillion Pandemic Emergency Purchasing Program (PEPP) end in March.
Under the plan, purchases will be made selectively, which is seen as contrary to two existing programs that require central banks to buy bonds in line with each country’s economic measurements.
The regulation has been in place since large-scale asset purchases began in 2015. This is intended to allay concerns that the ECB is funding the government, which is something that is prohibited by law. | 1,163 | 677 | 1,966.964549 |
warc | 202143 | E cigarette stocks are gaining in value, with the e-cigarette industry’s value surpassing $20 billion for the first time.
E-cigarette companies have seen huge value rises, particularly in Asia and the United States, and have also been buoyed by consumer confidence in e-cigarettes and the promise of a healthier future.
However, as the industry matures, the price of e-cigs is expected to continue to climb, raising questions about whether investors are prepared to make an investment in the industry.
This article looks at the most common e-cig stocks, the most recent price movements and the industry’s prospects.
The e-liquid e cigarette has been around for about two years, with companies like Vaporsmith and Cigalight emerging as major players.
While the ecigarette market is still in its early days, there is already evidence of growth and it’s likely that it will continue to grow.
Some e-juice companies have been more successful than others, with e-liquids from Vapoursmith, Vapores, and Vapormix having been around longer.
Ejuice stocks are likely to grow in value as more consumers switch to vaping and as they are used by younger consumers, according to the eLiquid Investor.
This means that e-dollars are expected to rise in value.
E Cigarette Stock Market Analysis: eLiquidEcig stocks are the most commonly traded e-smoke stocks, accounting for about three-quarters of the market.
There are about 200 e-ejuice brands listed on the ASX, including popular brands such as Cigalights, Ejuicesmith and Vape Wild.
These companies are widely used in Australia, particularly by young people and families.
However in Australia and overseas, e-Liquid is the most traded market for the ejuice market.
The largest e-marketplaces in Australia are listed on Nasdaq, and the eLiquidsense.com site also lists e-picks and stocks.
Australia’s e-favourite e-colas, VapeWild, has been a key driver of the industry over the last two years.
As e-smoking is increasingly popular in Australia as well as overseas, Vapes has been able to expand its business to include vaping, as well.
However there are some e-buyers that are looking to diversify their portfolios.
The first e-drinkers to be approved by the FDA were Vape-O-Rama and VAPECO.
In 2016, the Australian e-sport retailer Supermarket Group (SGM) launched its own e-tobacco products, VAPERS, and in 2017, it partnered with the popular e-Juice Company of Australia (JACA) to expand their portfolio.
There has also been a lot of speculation about the fate of eJuice, as some of its biggest names, including eJuicesmith, have been acquired by smaller companies.
There is a lot at stake for both companies, as they may not see a return on their investments.
A recent report from ASX data firm eJuicy indicated that eJuicing sales were expected to grow by 7.9% in the fourth quarter of this year.
VAPER sales have also continued to grow at a healthy rate, with a 6.3% increase in the second quarter of 2017.
There may be some positive signs for e-drives as well, as research from market research firm Euromonitor showed that ejuices sales in the first quarter of 2018 are expected for a 4.1% increase, while e-Cigarettes sales are expected at 6.4% growth.
eJuiches e-Liquor sales are also increasing, with demand expected to increase by 9.2% in 2018.
The most popular ejuiches brands are Vaporks and Cigarettesmith.
Both of these companies are now considered to be among the top e-leisure brands, and e-sports and sports drinks have been growing in popularity.
E Juice Market Analysis The most prominent e-honey products are Vapehoney and Cigarhoney.
Both companies have enjoyed tremendous growth in the last few years, and now account for more than half of e juice sales.
Vapork and Cigaretteholist are two e-bargains, as both are currently trading at about $3.00 per litre.
This is good for a high margin and the companies are also seeing strong demand for ejuicing products.
There’s also a huge demand for premium e-flavoured e-gels, which have seen a surge in popularity recently.
EJuice and Ejuicers are the two biggest e-nicotine brands in Australia.
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warc | 202143 | 279620 Cellulose Thin Film Hydrolysis by Cellulase Enzymes in the Presence of Inhibitors – a QCM Study
Utshab Chakravorty, Barbara Knutson, Stephen E. Rankin, Sue Nokes
Abstract
Conversion of biomass to chemicalsand biofuels using the products of cellulose hydrolysis is an important area ofresearch for the production of the next generation of biofuels. However, the saccharificationand biochemical conversion of cellulose from lignocellulosic biomass ispotentially limited by the release of inhibitors during the processing stepswhich are used to make the cellulose accessible. Understanding the role andsensitivity of these inhibitors in altering the activity of cellulase enzymesis necessary to the design of pretreatment and separation approaches thatmaximize cellulose conversion. Bulk studies of cellulose degradation do notprovide sufficiently detailed time-dependent and concentration-dependentinformation to delineate the effect of inhibitors on the adsorption of cellulasesto cellulose surface and the subsequent hydrolytic activity of the cellulases. This study uses the frequency response of model cellulose thin films cast ontoQuartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) sensors to model the binding and hydrolysisof cellulose by cellulases (from
Trichoderma reesei) in the presence offurfural and acetic acid. The sensitivity of the frequency response duringcellulose hydrolysis to the specific inhibitor and inhibitor concentration isdemonstrated. The concentration-dependent inhibition frequency response data aremodeled using a reaction network that accounts for enzyme adsorption,hydrolysis, and several modes of enzyme inhibition and deactivation. The modelresults can be used to interpret the mode of inhibition. The rate constants ofthe binding and hydrolysis reactions determined by regression to sets of QCMdata with varying inhibitor concentration indicate a strong binding affinity ofthe enzyme to the substrate and consistent rate coefficient for hydrolysis. TheQCM data are used to understand the possible roles of various modes of activesite inhibition and inhibition of binding to cellulose on changes in overallconversion in the presence of the inhibitors.
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warc | 202143 | Statigic planning Operations would be the self-control of logically handling the purchase, hard drive and movement of pieces, accomplished and options inventory (in addition to their connected info generally flows) inside an corporation in a way as to optimize future and present income. It relates to the evaluation, detection and organizing of costs, financial constraints and schedules the exchange and portion of sources and also the communicating of particulars to any or all components mixed up in offer, generation, safe-keeping and mobility processes. It is employed in order that the various periods of creation, from coal to finished merchandise is maintained in the most beneficial way you can. Scheduling details is usually named the scientific research of supply. Nowadays in this financial state, Strategies is a crucial component business activities.
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Logistics, is combining several particular things supplier, store and rep. The core factors of Scheduling details Supervision are distribution, info and catalog programs. In this article, we discuss the connection between these three key things, with special reference to the position they participate in in shipping charges solutions and providing goods to buyers.
Circulation – The supply of rock to their quintessential spot could be the center from a complicated operation. Products currently being moved must be taken care of within the efficient, prepared and harmless approach to avoid damage and incidents. Numerous approaches are used for this objective which includes truck, train locomotives, cars and trucks and in some cases cycles. An incredibly innovative network system controls an entire system of submitting.
Products on hand – The chance to correctly ascertain the quantities of just about every strategy is essential to the success of any firm. Proper selections aid lower costs, when offering shoppers using the items that they desire at the right time. The full field of Logistics Managing includes load up, development, decide on and warehousingbunch, circulation and travelling. While the total purpose would be to lessen stock-keeping fees and boost output, this may not be a location that may be ignored.
Product or service Loss – Any interruption while in the typical steps involved in output is straight away apparent to consumers. Product injuries come about every single almost everywhere, to and day anyone. Or weak preservation occurs, then the potential for product or service injuries is tremendously greater, if your manufacturing facility facilities isn’t fashioned correctly. While there are a few conditions, like broken or ended merchandise securities, most Scheduling details Control concentrates on protecting against solution injuries. For instance making certain acceptable levels of water and much needed oxygen within the storage place, and also blocking contamination from drinking water or other bodily fluids.
Supply Chain Management – A lot like Strategies Managing is Supply Chain Operations. The intention of this portion of Scheduling details is to ensure all aspects of the unbooked time string will work without problems. All providers, production and transfer are performed within a efficient and reasonable way to optimize revenue and reduced damage. Many businesses use a combination of equally internal and external strategies industry experts when it comes to attaining highest possible proficiency.
Aided by the time period logistics supervision, it generally describes a couple of relevant info functions that assist to view how you can optimize the functionality of your company. For instance , this sort of aspects asmanufacturing and transport, gathering of products and creating a delivery schedule. When considering which of the routines desires the very best quantity of interest, the main concentration ought to be on reducing delivery time and cost. Improved upon setting up, superior organization, better information and lowered human being mistake results in the best merchandise plus the ideal total satisfaction of customers.
To be able to properly put into action many of the Logistics Management features, it is important to fully grasp and get pleasure from the above things. As soon as you know these, your company have a far more deeply familiarity with what is required as a profitable organization. Because you carry out every single Strategies Administration key points, you will learn an overall optimistic impact on your output scheduling details administration. With much better stock control, more accurate facts and enterprise spend, your organization will probably be arriving to expanding more quickly and generating greater gains.
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warc | 202143 | An ongoing healthy consuming regime is a fundamental part of a healthy way of living. This diet plan includes making sensible food choices as well as including sufficient physical activity to acquire optimal health and fitness. Consuming a healthy and balanced diet can not only aid maintain us healthy, but it likewise makes us feel better and also prevent disease also.
Researches show that obese and also obese individuals frequently deal with a lot more serious health issue, such as diabetes mellitus and also heart problem. In order to avoid these conditions, lots of people start a healthy eating program that includes family meals. Among the advantages of household meals is that kids enjoy them and are much more most likely to consume healthy foods in groups than they would certainly by themselves. If you have actually ever had a plate of healthy foods, then you recognize that it tastes good! However did you recognize that healthy consuming can make you look better as well?
Entire Grains as well as Beans are a terrific source of fiber, potassium, magnesium, as well as nutritional fiber. With each other, these nutrients are necessary to maintaining your body healthy and balanced. They additionally offer a variety of nutrients that make up for what we could lack from eating “white” or refined grains and also beans. Consisting of a range of entire grains as well as beans in your family members meals can produce a well-balanced meal as well as give your kids with an assisting hand in obtaining more nutrients.
Vegetables and also Fruits Every child requires to begin consuming fruits and vegetables at a really early age. Youngsters need to be encouraged to find out to like and value veggies as well as fruits. This can increase their intake of nutrients and also lower the threat of childhood years weight problems. Studies have actually confirmed that youngsters that begin consuming vegetables and fruits at a very young age are healthier as well as most likely to establish healthy and balanced eating habits as they age.
A Healthy Diet integrates a balanced combination of whole food and also healthful treats. Snacks can aid your children stick to your healthy fat burning plan, yet they can’t replace it for a healthy diet regimen. In fact, snacks can actually be disadvantageous. If you want to teach your youngsters the value of healthy fat burning, you’ll need to include them in the process.
Consume Healthy And Balanced, Not Fat Children does not care about food labels. They comprehend the nutritional value in what they take into their mouths. They are drawn in to tasty looking food due to its possible health and wellness advantages. If they see you selecting healthy and balanced alternatives, they are a lot more most likely to select them themselves.
Limit Your Salt as well as Sugar intake Lower the amount of salt and sugar you use in your cooking. Sodium is usually found in junk foods, such as junk foods, cookies, as well as snacks. The amount of salt as well as sugar in these foods might seem excessive, but the body does require some salt in its liquid. Make sure to talk with your children regarding this since it’s a message they will certainly lug with them for the remainder of their lives. This is an excellent way to get in touch with your youngsters as well as start them on a course in the direction of healthy consuming as soon as possible.
Serve Children Well balanced meals Parents often make the error of serving their kids ‘healthier’ dishes than they would typically. This is not always the very best strategy. Children will still yearn for convenience food if they feel like they are being robbed. Introduce them to healthy meals early to make sure that they turn into youngsters who delight in wholesome foods. When you do present unhealthy food into the diet regimen, mix it up consistently so that your youngsters aren’t getting made use of to any kind of one sort of food.
Eat Grains and also Vegetables When you’re out shopping, try to find foods that have high amounts of entire grains. These include brown rice, entire wheat pasta, oats, and entire wheat berries. Many individuals also appreciate fresh vegetables and fruits so attempt to make use of create that varieties from orange to lemon.
Cut Down on Sugary Foods Parents frequently believe that providing their children sugar or sugary foods in the form of sweet is the healthy and balanced method to go. Nevertheless, this is most definitely not real. The key to cutting down on sugary beverages is to balance the amount of sweet calories and also fats in your diet plan.
Know Your Limits Among the most important points you can do to lose weight is to know what your specific calorie requirements are. This will certainly help you locate means to keep your dishes reduced and stay clear of over-eating generally. Take a look at your day-to-day calorie intake and afterwards establish the number of calories you assume you might be eating that are unneeded. You must focus on decreasing those calories whenever feasible. You can also seek advice from a diet professional who can aid you create an individualized nutritional standards to fit your specific demands.
The next action in producing a healthy and balanced food eating strategy is to discover which vitamins and minerals you require. Vitamins and minerals are located in many foods and on the labels of items that you acquire. In order to pick healthy and balanced foods that offer vitamins and minerals you require to discover what foods are high in these compounds and also which ones are reduced in these substances. Understanding this details can aid you choose foods that you take pleasure in and also supply your body with the vitamins and minerals that it requires.
Something that is very important to keep in mind is that fruits and vegetables are a great source of a wide variety of minerals and vitamins. While some fruits are greater in some vitamins than others, all fruits are a good resource of a majority of vitamin D, folic acid, calcium, iron, potassium, as well as magnesium. On the other hand, while veggies are a great source of fiber. Veggies are a great resource of potassium and healthy protein, both of which are likewise crucial to our overall wellness and also are both connected with solid bones and teeth. Due to this, consisting of foods in your diet such as entire grains, beans, rice, fresh veggies, fruits, as well as nuts is essential to a healthy way of life.
While it is very important to eat veggies, there is a crucial time to eat them as well. While fresh veggies can be scrumptious and also full of nutrients, steamed or broiled vegetables can in some cases consist of more nutrients than if you merely consumed the veggie raw. Broiled vegetables can keep more nutrients, such as Vitamin D, beta carotene, Vitamin A, and also Vitamin C. When steamed or broiled, however, these minerals and vitamins preserve much less of their preliminary value, often shedding some of their nutrients when heated up. здоровое питания для похудения
The next suggestion is to maintain salt consumption low. Researches have shown that reduced degrees of salt may help avoid particular kinds of heart problem. It may assist avoid heart disease in ladies after they bring to life children. Salt intake is especially important for individuals with hypertension, as hypertension is usually indicative of a requirement for low sodium diet regimens. The next idea might help you stick to your healthy and balanced weight reduction objectives and may aid avoid various other health problems, too. Attempt adding flavors to your food rather than salt, such as herbs as well as flavors. | 7,881 | 3,397 | 17,829.109508 |
warc | 202143 | Latest updates: New Zealand joins Norway, South Korea in raising rates
Fraudulent claims detected by UK insurers fell by a tenth last year, a drop attributed by the industry to the ripple effects of business closures and driver lockdowns during pandemic restrictions.
General insurers identified 96,000 fraudulent claims in 2020, the lowest number since 2007, according to the latest data from the Association of British Insurers. Government schemes have also helped bring the numbers under control by easing financial hardship, which contributes to such attempts, said Mark Allen, head of fraud and financial crime at ABI.
The automobile, the largest segment, saw a 6% drop in fraudulent claims, which the trade body blamed on the reduced number of vehicles on the roads. The drop followed an overall drop in claims during the pandemic that boosted profits for auto insurers.
Fraudulent travel claims have also declined in the wake of the pandemic, although the ABI has reported a few colorful attempts, including one claimant who, when challenged, “tried to eat [the] falsified documents ”. False liability claims have also declined, as businesses have been forced to close their doors during shutdowns.
Ben Fletcher, director of the Insurance Fraud Bureau, a credited nonprofit collaboration within the industry to prevent insurance fraud “from increasing as much as expected” during the pandemic.
The level of detected complaints as a proportion of overall complaints increased slightly, the ABI added, while average fraud increased in value by 6% to £ 12,000. | 1,597 | 847 | 2,948.887839 |
warc | 202143 | In my brief years of employment and organized sports I have learned a thing or two about working with difficult people. In fact, some of my best experiences were with employers, employees, and coaches who ‘Stirred the Pot’.
In recent months a friend has come to me with concerns about a boss who not only doubts and insults her, but has proven to belittle other staff as well. As we all know, talking about others behind their backs is a common trend, but in a professional space – this begs the question – when can an employee tell the employer that they have crossed a line?
Communicating with Difficult People 101
– a self help guide on how to better your communication skills –
Step 1: Embody Switzerland
a couple years back I saw some team to coach conflicts. In the situation – there was a lack of real communication and respect on both sides. [most people don’t like to be in the middle of the conflict – I on the other hand think that putting yourself in the line of fire is the only way to understand the perspectives of both parties]
By being as unbiased as possible one can:
hear both sides of the argument digest the material and present it (to both parties) in a way that they will listen
for example : say your boss is having a bad day – they take it out on you in a way that is not entirely characteristic of themselves. Despite being hurt by what they said, you take a step back – hear what they are saying and defuse the situation. Like so:
boss – “we were talking about accountability in a meeting today, my best example was when you forgot to do x last week and how you still didn’t own up to it.
employee (clearly hurt but choses to take high road) – you know I was thinking about this morning, and you had a good point, I could have handled that better – I am going to go make sure x is in order now so that doesn’t happen again.
Now why is this a good method? The employee clearly lost in the situation, right? Wrong. By listening to the feedback of their employer, taking a step back and telling that employer what they did not expect to hear – you have now taken away their ammunition, by proving that you have grown and disproven their example. Similarly, as an added bonus, you have given yourself a relevant excuse to walk away – and by walking away, any residual anonymity can be reduced so you may go back to work and be productive.
Step 2: Take it To the Source
I cannot tell you how many times I have told one friend that I am mad at another friend, when the whole issue could have been solved in five minutes if I just cut the bull shit and had a conversation.
So as a rule of thumb – if the conversation you are having behind someone’s back could solve a problem by telling them to their face – grow up and communicate. In a recent article titled “An Open Letter To the First Person To Fire Me” I talked about the lessons I learned from losing a job I loved. What I left out previously was that I also had a conflict I had with a co-leader who I believed was not pulling their weight.
I am ashamed to say that – in this situation – instead of talking to the person I had issue with, I confided in someone I worked with – and this later became an issue that came up in the very meeting where I was asked to step down.
but what the person who commented on my conflict didn’t know at this meeting, was that shortly after discussing my concerns – I felt guilty about not telling the person I was in conflict with – that guilt then lead to me communicating with the person, creating a better bond with that person, and making plans to make the organization itself better.
In this case – I could have avoided a lot of conflict by communicating my concerns face to face with the person I was angry with. And it was from that moment on that I decided that anything I would have the power to say behind someone’s back would be shared face to face with them.
Step 3: It is not About Winning or Being ‘Right’
In work, life, sports, relationships and especially in conflict resolution – it is never about defeating your opponent. It is about coming to a point in your life where winning and being right is not the goal – but getting the job done is.
Ego is a big part of the human condition. To this end, the people we work with every day – learn so much about us that they (in moments of insecurity) often use it against us. So in the example of language – it is never about the intension of our words, but how they are received.
For example, a teammate might say – “hey hurry it up – you’re late again” and my response [in my hurry] might be influenced on how I took that comment. On an average day I might take it and brush it off – but after a long day of work, I may take it as an insult and return a similar jarring response.
But when I answer without thinking – and when I make excuses for my actions – I am not trying to work productively, but rather to be right. and in doing this I break a very important rule of communication and a rule of life which is –
no one is entitled to know where I am or receive an excuse on what I was doing. I do not have to explain my actions by law. but often do so to validate my insecurities on being late or being lesser than expected by some measure. Step 4: Your Actions Speak Louder than Words
On multiple occasions we have opportunities to talk back, to argue our opinion, to fail or succeed at something – but time thinking about what could be said to be ‘right’ is often better used by proving who we are and working toward our goals.
Like remaining neutral, acting instead of speaking, allows you to center yourself on your goals and get jobs done. This does not mean that mistakes wont happen, it doesn’t mean you wont still get judged or harassed by bosses, coaches or teammates who doubt you – but it does prove that you have worked toward the positive goals and done everything you could to accomplish what your goal, or task has asked of you.
Often it is easy to get distracted, to let your ego guide you, but instead of making excuses, try actively fixing the problem. [And for stubborn individuals like myself – working toward those goals or completing those tasks – could also be stated as PROVING PEOPLE WRONG]
Step 5: You are Allowed to Mess Up
Mistakes are Lessons. Some questions are stupid no matter how often your teacher tells you there aren’t stupid questions. Money isn’t everything. Communication is key. These philosophies are what people are able to live their lives on.
But.
What we often neglect to encourage people to do, is mess up. See you can’t communicate well without experiencing conflict. You can’t learn to put ego aside if you don’t know what triggers it. You cannot learn how to admit defeat without losing and similarly you won’t learn that you are right until you are wrong.
At the end of the day Communication is a practice, a skill, a job, a sport. It is something we practice and something we fumble from time to time. See what I have learned, by working with some highly difficult people, is that the easy relationships in my life are a gift and the hard relationships are lessons. By working with difficult people I now understand what people want to hear, what they need to hear, and what they should hear in different situations, but by communicating beyond the work – I have learned how people hear things.
Truth is – it is no fun to work with people that seem to be out to get you and who make your life hell. But by working with them and not against them, you will not only prove your worth as an individual and an employee, but you will know what you are worth and how you deserve to be treated in any and all situations.
Hey Guys this is Rachel – I hope this 5 step guide on how to communicate with difficult people has helped give you some perspective as well as let you know you are not alone. As always if you have your own tips – comments – or questions – toss them in the section below . And in General I just want to thank you for reading.
So have an awesome week y ‘all
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warc | 202143 | Studying international development during the Covid–19 pandemic Written by: Dana Unzicker and Fabian Tigges
Term One: International Development Group Photo (Source: authors)
The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 radically changed the setting and conditions in which we study and think about international development. In this article, we want to reflect on how these extraordinary circumstances impacted our postgraduate studies in international development that took place at the University of Warwick. Despite the limitations on teaching that came with government guidance and national lockdowns, we made incredible progress as students of international development in an ambivalent study setting, where, on the one hand, we were virtually connected to students and scholars across the globe, but, on the other, were physically bound to our desks at home.
It is evident that the research object of development studies has been deeply impacted by the effects of the pandemic. Besides the obvious and disastrous impact on global health, the pandemic pushed more people into poverty, increased the global shortfall of employment, and reinforced and exacerbated existing inequalities. Furthermore, the interruption of global value chains challenged processes of ever-increasing global economic integration.
It was in this setting that we studied and discussed current issues and actors in international development, covering topics like globalisation, gender, poverty, inequality, trade, structural adjustment policies, food security, the everyday political economy of microfinance, and many more. All these issues were affected in one way or another by the pandemic. Some have experienced the acceleration of existing trends such as a shift in power relations in the globalisation debate, in others, the pandemicincreased awareness of already existing human crises as in the case of food security. Yet, the study of international development post-2020 goes far beyond the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, despite its unprecedented nature and omnipresence in public and academic debates. A key lesson learned from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been its effect of drawing our attention to the invisible. For instance, the pandemic has shed light on critical issues along the lines of race and gender inequality as well as economic inequality and (inter-)dependence in the construction of global value chains. Our wonderful professor taught us the importance of visibility in the study of international development; how paying attention to the numerous invisible actors and their relations to a visible decision-making elite is essential when reflecting upon power relations in the global political economy. Beyond that, in impacting the ways in which we study and research, the pandemic not only drew attention to visibility but also, and crucially, to who is heard in the discourse of international development.
While visibility of issues and actors in international development was the key take-away from this year of study during the pandemic, it also closely relates to the overarching concept of space that accompanied us throughout the year. While we started our programme in international development in face-to-face classes on campus in Coventry, the winter lockdown sent us back to online teaching for the whole of spring term, where different living rooms became visible – or not, when cameras remained switched off. Many student homes became a place of both rest and study, as our classroom transformed into a virtual space.
International Development Symposium (Source: authors)
Throughout the year, we engaged with scholars from across the globe, making our classroom virtual and also global. The year culminated in the Warwick Symposium for International Development in the last week of spring term at the University of Warwick, where we discussed the study of international development in times of Covid-19, listening to inspiring presentations and talks by students and scholars, and findings from the WICID everyday in lockdown project. The pandemic thus created a somewhat ambivalent offsetting for our seminars. On one hand, we remained connected to our coursemates (some in the UK, some overseas) as well as with scholars from different parts of Europe, Hawaii, Canada, and India. On the other hand, the national lockdown bound us to our desks at home, making it our place of study and living. Hence, we were in a position, in which we communicated with the world, discussing international development and the global economy, while we were unable to freely leave the house and explore our local cities.
This was and is, of course, a challenging situation. However, it also serves to emphasise that our perspectives are limited in certain ways, framed through agenda-setting of powerful actors, and focused on particular regions and actors in the world. It highlights that we tend to view the world through particular lenses and angles that facilitate and allow us to see and hear certain actors and challenges, while at the same time preventing us from seeing and hearing other voices that are marginalised by different means. In a sense, this draws attention to the importance of space: To reflect on where we stand in different spaces but also to re-think space in order to render visible or hide challenges and connections between them, and to amplify or exclude different voices.
From scholars in the field, we learnt that the pandemic required a reconsideration of the role of the researcher and different research methods. This allowed us as students and our teachers to reconsider how we study development. Shifting the classroom to the virtual space made it possible to connect with scholars across the world to exchange ideas and research findings. This experience gave us new ideas for how to overcome some barriers to the global conversation on development, connecting people from different cultural and geographical backgrounds, but also, and crucially, made us aware of the barriers that remain. For instance, we speak different languages, live in varying time zones, and not all of us are privileged enough to have access to the technology required to connect to the world or to the funds necessary to pay university tuition fees.Thus, some barriers – shaped by (postcolonial and gendered) power relations – remain, and we need to be aware ofthem, when studying and thinking about development.
In a nutshell, the past year of studying international development during a pandemic has stressed the importance of reflecting on our own positionality as well as on what is visible and whose voice is heard when thinking about and doing research in the field of development studies. It is a challenging time to study international development as the pandemic put numerous constraints on research and exacerbated pre-pandemic problematics. Nevertheless, the pandemic also opened spaces to render visible the invisible, to challenge power relations, and to provide a momentum for change. Finally, we are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to learn from our classmates, scholars from around the world and the opportunity to make the best out of a tough year!
Authors’ Bios:
Dana Unzicker is a Postgraduate student of International Political Economy at Warwick. Her research interests are centred around globalisation and inequality. She studied “Theories and Issues in International Development” as an optional module and is a member of the Warwick Global Development Society exec board. In October, she will continue her studies at the University of Konstanz to obtain a Double Degree in Politics and Public Administration from Konstanz and Warwick.
Fabian Tigges is a Postgraduate student of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick and of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He is currently working on his MA dissertation with the title “From Austerity to Recovery Spending: Contemporary Economic Thought in Times of Crisis”. Since October 2020, he is an executive board member of the Warwick Global Development Society. He is also a student research assistant at the chair of political science and international politics of the University of Konstanz. | 8,313 | 3,491 | 19,652.589229 |
warc | 202143 | Getting into franchising is one of the easiest and fastest ways entrepreneurs can earn a profit. But why are large businesses open to franchising, and why do entrepreneurs, especially those who are starting out go this route as they start their entrepreneurial journey?
Why choose a franchise?
Entrepreneur cites three reasons why companies choose to do franchising and these include lack of money, people or time. One of the barriers that entrepreneurs currently face is a lack of capital, and because of this, franchising is a great opportunity for companies to expand without risking debt or cost of equity. Franchisees provide the initial investment at the unit level, while franchising allows for expansion with minimal capital investment. Moreover, companies will not have to worry about lease and commitments to various contracts.
Moreover, companies who have little time or staff will find that franchising is the fastest option to quickly expand. This is because the franchisee will perform most of the growth tasks while the franchisor will give guidance and course, allowing them to leverage on resources.
Top franchised business: could yours be one of them?
In 2015, Entrepreneur compiled a list of the top global franchises in the world. Among these are Anytime Fitness, 7-Eleven, Subway, Pizza Hut, Auntie Anne’s Hand-Rolled Soft Pretzels, KFC, McDonald’s, GNC Franchising, Circle K, and Papa John’s International Pizza.
While all of the brands mentioned above are considered to be global household names, not all businesses can become successful in franchising. There are five factors why these businesses have made the difference.
First, having the right business model will help immensely. For instance, McDonald’s enhances customer value by delivering a quick, convenient, and inexpensive meal compared to traditional restaurants. They also make it a point to broaden their product line by adjusting their menu to local tastes.
Second, the scale should be put in the equation, such as cost savings in relation to a larger production scale. Third, consider the scope of the business in cost savings associated with the offering for sale for different products.
Fourth, location is taken into consideration as there are benefits that come with occupying a primary location site for franchise stores. Fifth is to consider market saturation. The lower the degree of penetration, the higher the room a company has to grow by opening new stores.
Criteria for franchising
If you’re a business owner looking to franchise your unique business and generate profit from it, the iFranchise Group lists several criteria that will help assess a company’s readiness in terms of franchising. Among these are:
• Credibility in terms of organization size, number of units, years in operation, and consumer awareness
• Differentiation from competitors
• Adaptability to other markets
• Refined and successful prototype operations
• A well-documented system that has policies, procedures, systems and the like outlined
• Return on investment
• Market trends and conditions
• Capital
• Commitment to relationships with other franchisees
• Strength of management
Things to consider when considering to franchise your business
Just like any other investment, diving into a franchise will take some time, money, and effort on the end of the franchisee. Before companies should consider franchising a business, it’s imperative to consider these factors which include:
• A sound team that can adapt to succession plans and shifts in responsibility
• Setting standards when it comes to skills and experiences needed to run the business
• Documenting processes at a high level
• Testing the market
• Offering a unique hook
• Quality management to ensure that what you are giving is a quality product
• Developing an operations manual to give franchisees a quick reference guide on policies and best practices
• Getting expert advice by hiring an attorney to help you iron out crucial details during the franchising process
• Be selective when choosing franchisees such as considering their background by setting up an interview process
• Know how you want to grow your business in terms of global growth or state-wide growth
• Supporting your franchisees
• Finding a mentor or two who can give you advice
• Building and protecting your brand as it represents your company culture, beliefs, and attitudes towards customers
Whether you are a large enterprise or a small and established business looking for growth and profit, franchising may be the best option for you. In this way, franchising your business could quickly help you to get the word out on what you do, your product and the quality of life you can give to potential customers.
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warc | 202143 | Gone are the days of filling up feedback forms and then waiting for companies to respond in their traditional ways. The demand for instant communication is part of the personal experience that customers expect. Finally, a new strategy that saves companies time and money was the implementation of
conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing?
This type of communication is found when a business uses chatbots, live chats, and social monitoring and engagement with the audience on social media platforms.
The impact of conversational marketing fosters better customer relationships and more personalized interaction.
What is the need for Conversational Marketing?
Today with so much information available to the customers, customers know what exactly they want in the product or service. This means brands now are focusing on the customer’s needs, listening to them, taking corrective action on their feedback, and offering convenience to them. With competition hotting up, personalized marketing is a must.
Before we look at some of the successful
conversational marketing examples, let us see some key benefits Enables business to collect valuable information about customers Builds long term relationships through personalized service Automation leading to 24/7 engagement Improves customer experience and satisfaction conversational marketingcan help improve lead generation, sales and enhance business growth. Examples of Conversational Marketing: Domino’s Pizza
Dominos started the tweet to order system that allowed customers to order Pizza by tweeting. This innovative marketing trick back in 2015 created interest among the young customers. Later it expanded to various channels such as Google Home, Slack, Alexa, and Facebook messenger. One could place an order using voice to text command. This open channel communication made online purchasing quick and simple.
eBay
This eCommerce giant platform used advanced chatbots to engage with customers. The chatbots worked with voice commands—a customer to browse through the products catalog by speaking to Google Home device. The eBay bot then finds the best deals and then sends them to customers on their phones directly. This was the most efficient form of conversational marketing.
HelloFresh
Leading suppliers of meal kits and recipes launched a bot where customers could interact with them through Facebook messenger. This bot, known as Freddy Fresh, took orders and supplied fresh products and shared recipes.
Health Tap
A healthcare company that used chatbots to answer queries on Facebook messenger. Any health-related question is analyzed by the bot and popular answers to similar questions are extracted and replied to the customer.
Enroll and get a drift Conversational Marketing certification
Leading conversational marketing platforms like DRIFT are empowering marketers to develop conversational marketing and sales skill.
Conclusion
Tools like HubSpot conversations and Drift have enabled the business to have hundreds of conversations that were impossible earlier. They have made market marketing automation and human contact comes together for business.
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warc | 202143 | The Dangers of E-Cigarettes
A recently available study has shown that electric cigarettes do not contain the same amount of harmful ingredients as traditional cigarettes, but vapers can breathe easy knowing that they are getting each of the benefits of traditional cigarettes without any of the toxins. Why is this important? Well, there have been numerous tests done that show the effects of long-term smoking on someone’s health, and do not require showed any substantial benefits with regard to lowering a person’s threat of getting cancer. Also, more people are becoming aware of the truth that cigarettes contain over 2 hundred different chemicals which are deemed harmful to your wellbeing. By avoiding these chemicals, you are making yourself and your family members healthier.
Having less chemicals in cigarettes is a well known benefit which has led to the rise in popularity of vaporizing devices. There are numerous benefits to using these devices. When you vaporize your nicotine, you eliminate a lot of the chemicals and tar from your body. By doing so, you are reducing the risks associated with health issues that come with prolonged smoking. It is also believed that these liquids can help people who suffer from diabetes or chronic conditions. Since the levels of sugar and calories in traditional cigarettes are really high, it is easier to consume too many cigarettes and gain weight and become at risk for gaining diabetes or chronic conditions.
Vaping enables you to maintain a steady degree of nicotine in your system so you do not reach for a cigarette. You can you need to a couple of drags if you want popular of nicotine. Many vapers also think that this product helps them eliminate cravings for cigarettes. Since you are Element Vape always smoking weed or some other herbal remedy, there are no craving and you usually do not feel like you are passing up on anything. For these reasons and more, many people are switching to this kind of smoking alternative.
You should note that vaporizing will not reduce the quantity of nicotine in your body. You’ll still get the same level of nicotine that you would get from the cigarette, just within an alternative form. Therefore, the concern over e-cigs containing little or no nicotine is unfounded. However, it really is safe to state that e-cigs may be used to help reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease and cancer. As a side note, vaporizing has been proven to lower blood circulation pressure and heart rate aswell. Therefore, while there are lots of debates about the dangers of vaping health risks, there are very real benefits.
Another argument against vaporizing is that we now have more toxins found in traditional cigarettes than in e-cigarette vapors. Proponents of E-Cigs declare that there is absolutely no evidence that the compounds within traditional tobacco cigarettes are carcinogenic. While there may not be any hard facts offered by this time, chances are that the long term aftereffect of E-Cigarette use on our body will be less damaging than that of smoking on a cigarette. If you feel that the possible harm of E-Cigarettes warrant their removal from the shelves of most stores, then you are absolve to have that belief.
Lots of the dangers of smoking were cited by the American Heart Association in a written report released in May of 2021. For example, the AHA said that secondhand cigarette smoke may cause serious problems such as for example asthma, depression, and also dementia. It really is widely believed that smoking used e-cigs will reverse the damage caused to your lungs by second hand cigarette smoke. Many celebrities have gotten into the hype surrounding E-Cigarettes and the danger that they may be used to steal the youth of our society away from the addictive habit of smoking. In fact, many high school students declare that they would prefer to use an electronic cigarette over a standard cigarette if given the decision between the two.
Many anti-smoking groups may also be concerned about medical risks of E-Cigarettes. They will have called for the Federal Drug Administration to ban the sale of E-Cigarettes to people under the age of 18. THE REASON WHY Magazine ran an article in August of 2021 titled “E-Cigarettes: Dangerous Nicotine Medications”, which included information on the many health threats associated with E-Cigarette use. This article also included information on how the FDA, the meals and Drug Administration, and major tobacco companies like Lorillard, Nicorette, and Altria have not taken strong measures to regulate the use of these devices.
In conclusion, it ought to be noted that E-Cigarettes contain just a small amount of nicotine, compared to the amount of nicotine within regular cigarettes. Furthermore, there is absolutely no conclusive evidence that E-Cigarettes can replace regular cigarettes. You can find, however, many health benefits which might be obtained by using E-Cigarettes. In summary, E-Cigarettes ought to be treated as a viable alternative to regular cigarettes, but like any other product, it should be treated with caution and avoided if possible. | 5,158 | 2,309 | 11,444.103075 |
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Interior mold episodes can set off wall, furnishings, carpet, drape, publication, and necessary paper record damage. Mold and mildews can additionally set off allergic reactions such as bronchial irritation and also bronchial asthma strikes. The typical molds seen in the majority of house as well as workplace can actually come to be a significant issue otherwise attended to swiftly.
There are a couple of activities you can call for to help in minimizing the possibilities of a mold and mildew break out taking place in your house or company. Nonetheless, if you have really discovered significant development currently, contact a specialist mold and mildew elimination firm quickly to get going on clean-up. One of the most vital tool you can have in your collection versus mold and mildew growth is knowledge. What is mold and mildew? In what kinds of environments does mold and mildew thrive? How can mold nests be securely eliminated? Recognizing what you're up versus will make it that a lot easier to avoid and also deal with mold swarms. mold inspection cost apartment mold inspection process mold inspection need mold inspection inspection mold mold inspection prepare mold inspection home mold inspection company mold inspection testing mold inspection pays mold inspection mold testing mold inspection remediation mold inspection free mold inspection call mold inspection costs What is Mold? - Remediation Lufkin Texas
Molds are little fungi that expand in moist settings. Unlike plants that need photosynthesis to grow, survive by producing enzymes onto the raw product they are inhabiting and then soaking up the weakened remains of that issue. From foods to paper products since mold and mildews don't need a high degree of nutrients to endure they can grow on virtually any organic issue.
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Great deals of people will certainly develop hatred the spores postponed by large mold and mildew nests. If a private touches a mold nest in anyhow, there is the opportunity they may establish a sort of dermatophytes, like professional athlete's foot or jock itch. Mycotoxins are aeriform or liquid compounds created by numerous mold and mildew nests and are taken into consideration a few of the most poisonous chemicals on earth. If this is ingested, both individuals in addition to pets can get seriously ill.
Mold
Mold or mould, also sometimes referred to as mildew, is a fungal growth that develops on wet materials. Mold is a natural part of the environment and plays an important part in nature by breaking down dead organic matter such as fallen leaves and dead trees; indoors, mold growth should be avoided.
Mold inspection is, for the most part, a visual inspection of a house. ... A typical mold inspection involves the inspector talking to the property owner about any areas where they have seen mold, or where there have been moisture problems or water damage in the past. How Can I Prevent Mold?
To reduce the risk of developing a mold problem, reduced the humidity levels in your home or workplace. Mold and mildew spores can survive on a great deal of any basic material nevertheless they will deficient via in completely dry climates. Get it repaired right currently if you locate a water leakage. Completely dry the affected area as quickly as feasible if floods have in fact damaged your workplace or residence. Daily that goes by in which a mold and mildew episode is not treated is property or industrial property shed.
How Can I Tell If I Have a Mold Outbreak?
If mold and mildew has actually resided in your residence or office, an expert mold detection service can aid you figure out. However, professional help is not always needed. Mold and mildew spores are swiftly discovered, also in smaller sized nests, as well as occasionally put off a musky, earthy smell. If parts of your structure are trendy, dark, and also damp, you can be rather sure you have mold growing there.
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Attorneys at Goede, Adamczyk, DeBoest & Cross respond to questions about Florida community association law. With offices in Naples, Fort Myers, Coral Gables and Boca Raton, the firm represents community associations throughout Florida and focuses on condominium and homeowner association law, real estate law, litigation, estate planning and business law.
Q: The unit owner above me recently replaced his water heater. The water heater leaked and flooded his unit while he was out of town and the water flowed down into my unit. I understand that my insurance covers my personal property, but the association is refusing to fix the interior drywall and my insurance company is also refusing. Who is responsible? H.H., Marco Island
A: The likely answer is the condominium association, but that answer is only half complete depending on some other factors.
The very general rule under the Florida Condominium Act is that the condominium association repairs and replaces property insured by the association when the property is damaged by an insurable event. For purposes of this answer, we will assume the hot water heater leak was a sudden and insurable event. The association insures all drywall as originally constructed by the developer and like kind replacements. If the analysis stopped here, the condominium association would be responsible to repair the drywall and you would be responsible for the paint or wall coverings and the parties often reach an agreement on how to share in any remediation services which benefit both the drywall and the interior of the unit.
There are a few exceptions to this rule. First, the association only insures drywall as originally installed or like kind replacement. If you moved walls or performed interior alterations to the unit’s configuration, it is possible the association is not required to insure the drywall.
Second, the statute does authorize the condominium association to opt out of the above general rule. If the association did opt out of the statutory requirements, then liability for interior drywall is controlled by the express language of your Declaration of Condominium. Many declarations specifically provide that the condominium association replaces boundary drywall, but the owner replaces interior drywall and sometimes the obligation further depends on whether the drywall is part of a load bearing wall.
Finally, it is possible the above owner was negligent. If your condominium requires owners to shut the water off during an extended leave from the unit, it is possible the owner broke that rule by leaving town without shutting off the water and this breach may have augmented your damages.
Many owners and board members assume that the responsibility to repair the condominium property following water damage is straightforward, but there are many factors contributing to the analysis. For example, if the water leak is caused by a non-insurable event, the analysis follows the opt-out analysis above, but it can be very cumbersome to determine whether an event is actually an insurable event. Because of this, the recommendation is to consult with your attorney to determine the extent of liability, if any.
Q: I live in a condominium association and our community website is terrible. There are no minutes, contracts or financial records to view and the board doesn’t email any updates to the community. During the summer months, I have no way of knowing what is going on and was told the board must have a website. Is the board violating Florida law? T.R., Naples
A: Possibly, but I would need more information to answer the question. Florida law now requires condominiums with 150 or more units to maintain a website. Thus, condominiums with fewer than 150 units are not required under today’s law to maintain a website at all let alone a website with updated information. So, if your condominium includes less than 150 units, the board is not violating the statute.
If the condominium has 150 or more units, the statute then prescribes a number of requirements. First, the website must be independent and wholly owned and operated by the board or a website operated by a third party but in the association’s control. Second, the website must include an owner’s only section that is protected and inaccessible by the general public. The association must also post current copies of various documents in digital format on the website and protected in the owners only section of the website. Some of these documents include the condominium documents, a list of contracts and summary of recent bids, the annual budget, notices, financial reports, and contracts involving a director who is financially interested in the contract.
Q: Our homeowners association (HOA) includes a beautiful clubhouse with a great recreation room and fitness center. I work until 8:00 and used to work out in the fitness center after work. I went to the fitness center yesterday and it was closed citing a new rule adopted by the board. I had no idea this was happening, and the board is refusing to reinstate the old hours. What can be done? J.G., Bonita Springs
A: Probably not much. Florida law concerning rules in HOAs are generally broken down into two categories: 1) rules concerning what can be done on the owners’ lots; and 2) everything else authorized by the governing documents. If the board was considering a rule concerning what you can do on your lot such as rules concerning paint colors or fence heights, then the board must provide at least 14 days’ mailed and posted notice of the board meeting where that rule would be considered. In this situation, you would have known the board was considering such a rule.
That being said, rules governing the common areas such as clubhouse hours, are only required to be adopted by the board after 48 hours’ posted notice. Thus, unless you checked the bulletin board or unless the board emailed you a notice of the meeting, you may not have known this rule was being considered. Clubhouse hours generally fall within the board’s discretionary authority, so to change the hours you are going to need to convince the board to change the hours.
There are other factors that are relevant to the above analysis, so I would recommend you consult a licensed Florida attorney to review the governing documents to determine the extent of the board’s rule-making authority and whether your community covenants require notice and due process above and beyond the statutory requirements.
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warc | 202143 | Even as early as ten years ago supermarket variety was not as big as it is today. Cooking has been made so much more easier because products which were difficult to source are now plentiful.
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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News
Vaccinations are up, and new cases and hospitalizations are down, but Kentucky hospitals remain stressed by the pandemic — and the state’s new-case rate remains seventh in the nation, mainly due to several hot spots.
In the last seven days, coronavirus vaccinations in Kentucky have averaged more than 15,000 a day, a 19 percent increase from the previous seven-day period, according to
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data analyzed by The Washington Post.
The Post says 53.2% of Kentuckians are fully vaccinated, which ranks 25th among the states, just behind Illinois at 54.1%. The only other adjoining state with a better rate is Virginia, at 61.3.%.
The
University of Kentucky, which is requiring students to get tested weekly if they are not vaccinated, reported that 85% of students are fully or partially vaccinated. Counting UK employees, the campus-wide rate is 87%.
The state reported 2,145 new cases of the virus Friday, lowering the seven-day rolling average by 282, to 2,143 per day. That’s the lowest in two months. The vaccination rate is now more than seven times the new-case rate.
The state’s daily report said its seven-day rate of daily new cases fell to 40.71 per 100,000 residents, the lowest in two months and two days. Of the 120 counties, 104 remain in red on the state map, with rates above 25.
County rates above the state rate are: Perry, 94.8; Harlan, 94.5; Pendleton, 93; Whitley, 89.4; Rockcastle, 86.4; Owsley, 84.1; Robertson, 81.3; Mercer, 78.2; Green, 77; Taylor, 74.8; Wolfe, 73.9; Muhlenberg, 73.2; Lawrence, 70.9; Adair 67; Bell, 65.3; Grayson, 64.9; Knox, 62.8; Estill, 61.8; Pike, 61.5; Garrard, 61.5; Powell, 61.3; Floyd, 60.2; Leslie, 59.3; Meade, 59; Monroe, 57.7; Allen, 57.6; Madison, 57.5; Russell, 56.6; Jackson, 55.7; Metcalfe, 55.3; Henry, 54.9; Rowan, 53.1; Greenup, 52.9; Boyd, 51.1; Trimble, 50.6; Nelson, 50.1; Harrison, 49.9; Breathitt, 49.8; Hart, 49.5; Ohio, 48.8; Simpson, 48.5; Carroll, 48.4; Lincoln, 47.7; Carter, 47.4; Logan, 46.9; Grant, 46.2; Marion, 46; Gallatin, 45.1; Bracken, 44.7; Henderson, 44.2; Nicholas, 43.2; McCreary, 43.1; Martin, 42.1; and Bourbon, 41.9.
Despite McCreary County’s nearly average rating on the state report, its new-case rate still ranks first in the nation on
The New York Times‘ list of hot-spot counties, and stands out on a National Geographic map, both of which are based on CDC data. The state has attributed the disparities to differences in methodology, including removal of duplicate test results, but has not fulfilled a request for further clarification. McCreary County, on the Tennessee border south of Somerset, is the site of a large federal prison, which could account for some of the difference.
National Geographic map, adapted by Kentucky Health News, shows McCreary and Green counties among those with high rates of new virus cases, more than 1 per 50 residents; to enlarge, click on it.
The Times’ hot-spot list incudes several other Kentucky counties, topped by Green, which ranks fourth; Whitley, sixth; Perry, 13th; Harlan, 22nd; Casey, 28th; Pendleton, 33rd; and Grayson, 34th.
Kentucky hospitals reported 1,514 Covid-19 patients, 64 fewer than Thursday, with 466 in intensive care and 310 on mechanical ventilation, down six and three, respectively.
The Northern Kentucky hospital region continues to report its intensive-care units fully occupied. Four other regions reported using more than 90% of their ICU capacity, and four others were above 80%.
The state reported 31 more Covid-19 deaths, raising Kentucky’s pandemic toll to 9,053. Deaths are the lagging indicator of the pandemic; the leading indicator, the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the virus in the last seven days, fell again, to 8.5%, the lowest since July 28. | 3,935 | 1,969 | 7,724.111224 |
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