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warc | 202143 | July 6, 2021
While you are out enjoying the sunshine this summer, don’t forget to drink plenty of fluids. Dehydration is no joke! Lack of water can negatively impact your body and can lead to oral health trouble as well. The warning signals of dehydration are often subtle, especially if you don’t know what they are. Here are some sneaky signs of dehydration to watch out for and well as some tips to avoid fluid loss this summer.(more…)
June 24, 2021
If you’re like many Americans, your summer vacation plans were postponed indefinitely last year as the novel COVID-19 virus spread into a global pandemic. Fortunately, restrictions have been lifted, allowing you to use your time off for some much-needed R&R! Whether you are staying local or traveling abroad, the last thing you want is for a dental injury to put off your trip yet again. With this in mind, here are some tips for preventing dental emergencies this summer.(more…)
May 2, 2021
Summertime is nearly here! That means no school, longer days, warmer weather, and all sorts of fun activities for your entire family. However, this isn’t the best time of year for your smile. There are all sorts of things that we partake in during these hotter months that could lead to dental emergencies. Protecting your smile is important now more than ever. Read on to learn about some of the risky activities that you should be wary of this summer.(more…)
April 19, 2021
Are you feeling inspired to help protect the planet? If so, now is the perfect time – April 22
nd is Earth Day, after all! Every little bit helps, and doing your part could be as simple as changing up your dental hygiene routine. For instance, you could save about 200 gallons of water each month just by turning off the water while you brush your teeth! One definite way to make a positive impact, though, is to switch up the cleaning products you use every day. These four eco-friendly oral hygiene products can keep your smile healthy and save the environment at the same time. March 7, 2021
Tooth pain can vary in intensity, with some situations being so acute that patients have no choice but to seek immediate dental treatment. Does this mean that mild tooth discomfort is okay to ignore? Continue reading to find out whether you should seek emergency dental care for all forms of tooth pain.(more…) | 2,383 | 1,245 | 4,454.008835 |
warc | 202143 | The scope of digital marketing is increasing by leaps and bounds, and new businesses today are focusing more on digital marketing to expand their overall productivity. The previous years have witnessed incredible growth in this sphere due to the benefits that come with it, including secured job opportunities, higher salaries, broad career goals, and more.
Why You Should Digital MarketingTraining?
Interestingly, fresh job opportunities and ubiquitous career in digital marketing are one of the exceptional opportunities for any professional life. The ever-evolving technologies are creating an enormous demand for digital marketers. To combat this demand and decrease the job opportunity gap, corporate, and organizations are supporting their teams to
become a certified digital marketing specialist. What Are the Advantages of DigitalMarketing Certification?
With a digital marketing specialist certification, you can establish your competence and skills in a particular domain, but apart from this, there are several more advantages that you can attain.
With the increased use of the internet, the significance of digital marketing is increasing, leading to a greater demand for experts and specialists. If you are a beginner, a certification course in digital marketing can help you start your successful career. The certification help you showcase your expertise and knowledge in different techniques, thereby helping you get good visibility that also lead to a promotion or salary hike. Better digital marketing skills will likely bring in better job profiles which means a positive career growth Wondering If You Are Eligible for ADigital Marketing Specialist Certification?
One of the best things about the certification is that there is no particular eligibility criteria for getting one. Any graduate interested in digital marketing can enroll for a course and get the required skills and knowledge to start a career.
Why delay? Enroll now and become a globally-recognized digital marketing professional.
Corporate and organizations today can’t ignore the need for a digital marketing strategy. And given the significance of a digital marketing course, they are hiring skilled and expert professionals who can help them compete productively in the digital world. Now is the time for you to become one of those expert professionals and kick start your career. Enroll for a digital marketing specialist certification and get certified now! | 2,464 | 1,112 | 5,426.561151 |
warc | 202143 | Products found to contain undeclared medicines
Australia: Safety advisory: Biolo World Slimming capsules were found to contain undeclared sibutramine and phenolphthalein
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has tested a product labelled Biolo World Slimming capsules and found that the capsules contain the undeclared substances sibutramine and phenolphthalein. Biolo World Slimming capsules pose a serious risk to health and should not be taken. Consumers are advised that sibutramine and phenolphthalein are both prescription-only substances in Australia. Sibutramine was withdrawn from world markets in 2010 due to increased risk of cardiac events and stroke, and phenolphthalein was withdrawn from sale on many markets in the late 1990's due to concerns over its carcinogenicity with long term use. TGA investigations have shown that a number of people in Australia may have bought the product online.
Consumers are advised to stop taking the product and consult their health care practitioner if they have any concerns arising from the use of the product.
Please refer to the following website in TGA for details:
http://www.tga.gov.au/alert/biolo-world-slimming-capsules
In Hong Kong, the above product is not a registered pharmaceutical product.
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warc | 202143 | Updated: Sep 22
The government's furlough scheme is now drawing to a close - in line with the lifting of lockdown restrictions and will end completely at the end of September.
It was introduced by Rishi Sunak in March 2020 to protect jobs during the coronavirus restrictions and has lasted longer than at first expected.
For September, the Government will pay up to 60% of wages, and as before employers must top up their employees wages. Employers have until 14th October to make a claim for the furlough they have paid in this month.
What will happed then? At the end of July Government data showed 1.6 million workers were still furloughed, suggesting many still face an uncertain future at this time. Employers will have to decide whether to take back their furloughed employees or make them redundant. In most cases, we would have expected any redundancy processes already to be in place by now, but we do expect a small uplift in unemployment.
If you have any questions in regard to the furlough scheme ending and how it will affect you or your business please contact us
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warc | 202143 | High earners can feel hemmed in by continued tax raids pension savings, but by thinking outside the box they can find ample tax-efficient routes maximise their retirement savings.
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warc | 202143 | Rising bond yields have been pushing
TSX income stocks down over the past few weeks. While this may be unnerving, it could also be a great opportunity for long-thinking, passive-income investors.
Government bonds, GICs, and high-interest savings accounts are earning investors a negative yield after inflation. In contrast, income stocks are both a good hedge against inflation and a great way to earn stable monthly dividend income. Here are three Canadian income stocks that look like good value buys right now.
A leading real estate income stock
Real estate often works well in an inflationary environment. The economy heats up, but so do rental rates and property valuations. That is why
Dream Industrial REIT (TSX:DIR.UN) looks particularly interesting here. It owns and operates high-quality industrial real estate across North America and Europe. Rising e-commerce and on-shoring manufacturing trends are supporting very fast rental rate growth for its properties.
Dream is taking advantage of historically low interest rates to expand its portfolio. Today, its average interest rate is 1%! It just announced five million square feet of new acquisitions. This is on top of an already large acquisition in Europe earlier this year. This should support strong cash flow per share growth over the next few years.
Today, this income stock pays a monthly distribution of $0.0583 every month. That equals to a distribution yield of 4.2%. The REIT announced a $250 million equity offering to fund it growth, so that might be an ideal moment to pick up this top real estate stock.
A top energy income stock
Speaking about supply chain, rising energy prices have become a major issue, especially for people in Asia and Europe. One company very well positioned to benefit from this energy supply crunch is
AltaGas (TSX:ALA).
It operates a very predictable regulated gas utility in the eastern United States. This is complemented by an integrated midstream and export business in Canada. Strong LNG demand in Asia has propelled solid growth and demand in the midstream business. In the last quarter alone, adjusted EBITDA grew 12% over last year.
This income stock has a fairly high amount of debt. However, management has been doing all the right things to improve its balance sheet and streamline/simplify its operations. It pays a monthly dividend of $0.0833 per share. That equals a 3.95% annual dividend yield. This income stock just raised its dividend last year. Given the strong global energy outlook, investors can likely expect another dividend hike again this year.
A serial acquirer
Another great monthly income stock to buy at a bargain right now is
Superior Plus (TSX:SPB). Propane distribution is perhaps not the most exciting business. However, for people that rely on propane to heat their homes and businesses, it is about as essential as it gets. Plus, there is an interesting take on this business.
For years, propane distribution has largely been dominated by regional mom-and-pop operators. However, Superior Plus has been working hard to consolidate the sector across North America. It has acquired 26 businesses across Canada and the United States since 2017. Superior is very good at integration. It can quickly deliver strong free cash flow returns after synergies are unlocked.
Since the summer, this income stock has pulled back by 12%. With a price-to-earnings ratio of 10, it looks like a bargain. Today, it yields 5.3%, which Superior pays out as a monthly $0.06 per share dividend. For income and value, this is a pretty attractive TSX stock today. | 3,595 | 1,766 | 7,279.569649 |
warc | 202143 | Improve profits with your IT partner’s Proactive Problem Prevention Just fixing technology when it breaks is so 2010. These days most businesses prefer an IT partner who proactively prevents problems from happening. If you don’t have this, you really need to read our brand new guide. You’ll see the countless benefits for your business of a […]
Boost productivity, save time, and improve customer experience Most people see Microsoft 365 as the place to access Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. But there’s so much more to it than that. There are so many apps bundled in, that whatever productivity problem you have in your business right now, the answer could be within […]
Cloud computing enables the remote work we relied on in 2020 and so much more. No wonder a majority of businesses have at least some data in the cloud. But you don’t also want to be among the bulk of businesses that are overpaying for their cloud services. Gartner analysts estimate as much as 70% of cloud […]
Revealed: The real cost of insider attacks – and your strategy to prevent them The chance of your business’s data being breached by an inside attack is high. Most inside attacks are accidental. A well-meaning employee clicks on a bad link by mistake. But there are some attacks caused by malicious attackers, deliberately looking to […]
All businesses are being targeted by malware, all the time. And it’s estimated there are now one billion pieces of it out there. These are the threats to worry about What is malware? It’s malicious software that’s been designed to do damage to your IT systems, or steal your data. Malware terrifies most IT professionals. […]
This is something none of us wants to experience. But it does happen. There’s a small fire in your office. No-one is hurt and everyone is safe. But the damage to your workplace is unbelievable. The flames. The heat. The smoke. And of course, the huge amounts of water used to put out the fire. […]
Repair or replace? 7 signs that you need a new computer It’s always tempting to hold back on purchasing new IT equipment. Yet it can sometimes cost you more if you hang onto equipment for too long. Did you know that if a device is more than 3 years old it’s actually cheaper to buy […]
https://player.vimeo.com/video/504233179 Accountants: Address Your Biggest Technology Issues Evolving accounting technology offers tremendous growth potential for the future. But this digital transformation leaves accounting firms with more technology to monitor and maintain. The ebook Addressing the Biggest Technology Issues for Accountants examines: What digital transformation looks like for accountantsChallenges addressed by incorporating IT into accounting processesCybersecurity risks Best […]
Ready to make this a wildly successful year for your business? To shake off the memories of 2020, and focus on increasing sales and profitability? Excellent. A great place to start is helping you and your team to get more done in less time. We’ve pulled together a productivity super guide, looking at setting goals, […]
The pandemic made hundreds of businesses round here question the quality of the IT support they were receiving. We’ve been very busy recently talking to businesses, and onboarding new clients as their IT partner. There are five questions in particular that you could ask us, and we’d be delighted to answer with a very positive […] | 3,531 | 1,767 | 6,774.244482 |
warc | 202143 | Your visitor management system plays a major role in your organization's productivity. Here are the types of key features.
Benefits of Visitor Management System for Staffing Agencies
The many benefits of using a visitor management system to automate the reception function for your staffing agency.
Managing a staffing or recruiting agency’s reception area can be a hectic operation. Staffing agencies deal with a lot of visitors daily. In fact, keeping track of everyone on the premises at any given time is a well-known challenge for staffing agency managers and staff.
While you are busy winning clients and connecting them with amazing candidates, you cannot overlook reception. This function plays a major role in conveying that your firm is the one to trust with hiring and major career decisions. Your visitor management function also works to build your database while simultaneously maintaining the privacy of the personally identifiable information of all parties.
This post will detail how visitor management software can assist your company and discuss some potential pitfalls that may arise without it.
What Is a Visitor Management System?
A visitor management system is your agency's process for greeting and handling visitors. Whether you have thought about it or not, your agency has a method for:
Greeting and welcome guests Notifying their host (the recruiter or other employee they are meeting with) Handling food and package deliveries Logging all of the data for record-keeping and compliance purposes Keeping your people, your visitors, and your data safe
The traditional approach to staffing office visitor management is one or more receptionists. In many cases, there is also a paper logbook.
Leading staffing agencies like Randstad have modernized their visitor management by using cloud-based visitor sign-in apps. Here is why your staffing agency should supplement your existing team and process with cloud-based digital receptionist software.
Why Your Staffing Agency Should Use a Visitor Management System
Some of the benefits of using a visitor management system for your recruiting firm can include:
Impressing clients and candidates Integrating visitor information with your Application Tracking System (ATS) Maximizing your recruiters' time
Everyone knows there is no second chance to make a great first impression. A digital registration app visitor management system is that they can help improve the overall impression of your clients—the hiring managers—and candidates towards your office. Here are some of the top reasons:
Visitor management systems are tech-forward ‘Touchless’ visitor check in Shorter wait times Makes the wait more productive Tech-Forward
A tech-forward company quickly adopts the latest technology that will benefit its operations. Companies that use visitor management software will often impress the individuals visiting their offices, ultimately translating to more clients and candidates.
The best visitor management systems can be branded to reflect your staffing agency. You can also customize workflows based on your specific reception needs. You can even modify your visitor check in app to welcome VIP clients.
Touchless
In an era where some people might wish to avoid a conversation with your receptionist, they also might not want to interact with a kiosk used by others. This scenario is solved with touchless visitor management. Everything you can do to sign in visitors via kiosk can be achieved directly from their smartphone.
Additionally, it is critical to have a visitor management system during health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only does it help with contact tracing, but it also lessens congestion in the lobby. Hence, the visitors and other individuals become safer.
In a nutshell, the importance of the touchless feature of the visitor management system is as follows:
Visitors do not need to directly interact with staff members to sign-in An individual’s identity can be verified by simply pressing a button on their devices Improved efficiency for staff members Limits congestion Shorter Wait Times
With a robust visitor management system in place, visitors no longer need to wait around for a representative to sign them in. A visitor management system speeds up the entire registration process by eliminating queues, saving time for all parties involved, and ensuring future visits go smoothly. With this, your guests can visit your office at their convenience and be on their way quickly.
Using this system also reduces your staff’s time on sign-in sheets, allowing them to focus on other tasks.
Makes the (Shorter) Wait More Productive
Once an applicant has signed in, and the right recruiter is notified, you can make candidates' wait productive. Some recruiting firms connect visitor management software to their Applicant Tracking System (ATS). After a candidate checks in to see a consultant, the visitor management system can send information and links to the candidate. This allows interviews to review open job positions and complete their applications on their own mobile phones while they wait.
Not only does this save time, but it boosts productivity too. Instead of having recruiters try to decipher paper forms hiring team to have full access to applications submitted by candidates. Further, it eliminates paper resumes and other documents, and the need to upload or manually enter them into your ATS.
Can Be Integrated With Your Applicant Tracking System
YourApplicant Tracking System, or ATS, is a crucial tool for your recruitment firm. It helps you track and store all useful information about candidates and their applications. It also allows recruiters to quickly scan and filter out the most compatible candidates for particular jobs.
So it's important to get as much data into your ATS as possible, like which candidates came into your office, when, and who they met with. With pen-and-paper visitor management, you lose the ability to track data into your ATS. Or, it becomes a manual and error-prone process. By digitizing visitor sign-in, the enter process of feeding your ATS can be automated and instant.
Maximize the Use of Your Recruiters’ Most Valuable Asset - Their Time
For recruiters, time is money. To be successful they should spend as much time as possible speaking with hiring teams and interviewees to fill positions.
With visitor management software, instant reception notifications, and automated data logging, staff can focus on conversations and not administrative activities. They never need to backup the receptionist. They can walk into the lobby and confidently know their candidate is waiting, what they look like, and that their data profile is complete.
What if You Don’t Use a Visitor Management System?
The lack of visitor management in your firm may result in several drawbacks, including:
Unwanted visitors can enter the building The privacy of the company is at risk Unwanted Visitors Can Enter the Premises
A visitor management system starts at quickly connecting hosts and their guests. They are just as good at identifying people who should not be allowed to enter your office. This might be because they are on the firm's watchlist, they fail a COVID questionnaire or temperature screening, or they refuse to eSign an NDA.
Were the wrong people allowed to enter, it could be dangerous for your team, other visitors, and your intellectual property.
Tracking and creating a visitor logbook of clients’ arrival times using the software shows that you took due diligence in ensuring no overstay or security breach occurs. The logbook will include the time of arrival and departure to determine how long they were in the building.
Your Clients’ Privacy Is at Risk
Your paper logbook exposes your client and candidate list. So does a visible roster of consultants. It could be even worse if an unwanted visitor accessed a company computer or physical files.
And if you do not know who entered your office, when they came, when they left, who they saw, and their reason for visiting, you have no way to mitigate any security risks.
Conclusion — Visitor Management Helps Staffing Agencies
Adopting visitor management reception software for your staffing agency will quickly propel your firm to the next level. First, by using a tech-forward approach to gust sign-in that will impress your clients and potential job candidates.
It will be valuable to your recruiters as well. Visitor management software is effective at collecting data, applications, eSignatures, photos, and more. Ultimately, with an efficient system in place, your employees can spend more time and resources finding the best talent instead of the technical record-keeping tasks. | 8,804 | 3,760 | 20,363.932979 |
warc | 202143 | Fall parent/teacher conferences offer an opportunity to establish a collaborative relationship between you and your child’s teachers. Now that teachers have had a chance to learn more about your child’s academic strengths, challenges, and disposition, this is an ideal opportunity to create a joint vision for the school year. Pre- Conference Preparation Prepare for conferences by reading and viewing materials sent home from your child’s teachers about their class. You will then go into conferences to clearly understand the goals/ objectives and the instructional approach. Be sure to have daily conversations with your child about what’s happening in their classes. Don’t just ask, “How was your day?” Ask why a specific class experience was successful, challenging, interesting, complicated, etc., and keep probing deeper into why. Initially, you may be met with resistance; however, persistence will pay off. Ask your child what they would like you to discuss with their teachers; discuss with your spouse/partner what you’d like to talk about during conferences. Creating a few questions or talking points in advance helps to focus the conversation. During Parent/Teacher Conferences Listening to Understand | Sharing Your Important Insights | Asking Clarifying Questions Both teachers and parents/guardians should come into conferences with mutual respect for each other’s roles in the conversation and assume positive intent. During conferences, listen for information about your child’s academic experiences, progress, and challenges. Listen for teachers’ observations about your child’s social and emotional wellbeing in the context of their classroom. Ask clarifying questions to deepen your understanding of the information/insights shared by teachers. Bring teachers up to speed by sharing your insights into what your child is sharing with you about what’s happening in the classroom and its impact on your child at home. Post-Conferences Question for Reflection:
Given you’ve heard and the responses to the questions to the questions asked, ask yourself,
What is my following up at home as the parent/guardian? What additional support may your child’s teachers and the school provide? Affirming Our Partnership
Teachers expect you to be the advocate and champion for your child. In fact, teachers consider themselves your partners in this. View parent/teacher conferences as a way to solidify this partnership to create transformative learning experiences that help your child to make academic progress, thrive socially and emotionally, advocate for themselves, and gain agency.
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When it comes to commercial and industrial buildings, having an understanding of the building’s exterior health can sometimes pose a challenge. Getting a full or close-up view of the entire building envelope typically requires scaffolding to be erected for the walls, and many exhausting man hours of walking the roof deck to complete the roof inspection. Roof inspections are often done by simply walking the structure, and looking for visible concerns that may stand out. Unfortunately, there is no way to know if there is moisture or condensation trapped underneath the membrane with a visible inspection, so often times a core sample must be performed on the roof system to get a look underneath.
As with any type of building, there inevitably must be some type of maintenance performed to maintain its integrity and longevity. Sometimes that maintenance comes in the form of asset management and a preventative maintenance program. Other times maintenance or repair is an immediate necessity due to a leak, structural failure or accident. In these circumstances, there comes a need for an investigation. That is where an aerial inspection by drone can be applied. | 1,214 | 652 | 2,243.665644 |
warc | 202143 | April 16, 2021
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) celebrates 25 years of friendship and cooperation with the people of Saint Lucia through the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) program. The JOCV program is a system of dispatching Japanese volunteers overseas. This program was introduced to Saint Lucia in the year 1995, where 5 volunteers were assigned to the Ministry of Education. Since then, over 250 volunteers have been dispatched to Saint Lucia, serving in various capacities in communities across the island.
The JOCV work first hand with persons in the local community in homes, schools, community centers, government and non-governmental organizations. Volunteers contribute in a wide range of areas including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, education, health, and several other technical fields. Together with counterparts in the local organization in which they are dispatched, volunteers help build the capacity of the host organization and support projects and programs. They plan, collaborate and evaluate with their host organization and local staff.
One noteworthy volunteer initiative of this program was the partnership forged in 2015 with the Department of Fisheries and the Saint Lucia National Trust. The partnership with three Japanese Universities, namely the Hokkaido University, the Kagoshima University and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, engaged student volunteers in a yearly ongoing project, building on the works of their predecessors. Their project focused on Fisheries Management and Environmental Education. The research and activities of these students have contributed significantly to Saint Lucia's understanding of the invasive Sargassum Seaweed and sustainable environmental practices at the Makote Mangrove.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the program and physical anniversary celebrations to a standstill, JICA looks forward to welcoming back Japanese volunteers to the island with renewed vigor. JICA takes this time to thank the Government and the people of Saint Lucia for their continued support for the volunteer program and looks forward to a continued friendly relationship for many years to come.
ABOUT JICA
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is the primary Japanese governmental agency responsible for Japan's bilateral ODA (Official Development Assistance). It is chartered with assisting economic and social growth in developing countries, and the promotion of international cooperation. JICA Saint Lucia supplies technical expertise, training courses, (ODA loans), grants aid and a volunteer scheme (JOCV) to the people of Saint Lucia. The core areas for cooperation in Saint Lucia are Fisheries; Environment; and Disaster Risk Reduction. The JICA Saint Lucia Office also covers Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Commonwealth of Dominca, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Saint Kitts Nevis, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.
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warc | 202143 | Part 2 of a 6-part series Women in Agriculture is a special 6-part series exploring the many ways women are part of the farming and ranching industry. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the 2012 Census of Agriculture notes that nearly 1 million women are working directly as ag producers. That is nearly one-third of the nation’s farmers, and they generate $12.9 billion in annual agricultural sales. Countless more work in support roles, both on-farm and otherwise. In recognition of that, the Journal-Advocate interviewed nearly a dozen local women about their roles in agricultural production in northeast Colorado. These are their stories.
At first glance one wouldn’t think Donelle Harms and Peggy Brown have much in common. Harms wears worn blue jeans, a tank top and sneakers; she is full of nervous energy, her slender frame and sun-bronzed skin testament to the hard hours she spends laboring in the field alongside her husband Chris. Her words come sometimes in a rush as if she can’t speak fast enough to express all of the ideas she has.
Brown is dressed in office casual, a study in quiet professionalism, her speech confident and well-modulated, her presence that of a woman who is used to being in charge.
What they have in common is more important than their differences, however. Both are part of a new generation of farm wives, women who are equal partners in their family operations.
“I’m an owner. I just do whatever needs to be done,” Brown said. “I do the same things as Don.”
Don is her husband Don Brown, and if that name sounds familiar, it should. Brown is Colorado’s Commissioner of Agriculture, and it’s a job that keeps him away from the family’s Yuma County farm much of the time. In fact, the commissioner has joked that, when he becomes frustrated with his job in state government, “Peggy reminds me that the farm runs so much smoother when I’m in Denver.”
Harms, too, is on equal footing with her husband in the family’s agricultural enterprise.
“I guess you could call it a partnership,” she said. “We really don’t have titles or anything, we just farm together.”
The Harmses farm about 1,800 acres of sugar beets, corn, hay, and wheat, and run about 125 cows on their scattered holdings and rentals near Crook. They help Donelle’s father with his place, which they hope eventually to own, and then lease land for their own operation.
The Browns farm considerably more acreage; Peggy Brown declined to give a number, thinking it untoward in light of her husband’s position, but independent sources put the operation in the same league as other mega-farm operations in Yuma County. Corn, wheat, and cattle are the mainstays of the Brown enterprise.
Being a partner in a farming operation is never easy, but being the distaff partner in a farming operation is particularly hard. There are still some prejudices among agricultural types about women being in charge of things, and Peggy Brown has lived with those prejudices for more than 40 years.
“At first when I got here I thought, ‘Well, you’re just wanting too much,’ but then I realized, no, this is happening.”
Don Brown and Peggy Leckler met at Northeastern Junior College and, according to Peggy, they were a team from the beginning. It was how she was raised, she said, watching her parents work as a team in the family’s Sterling upholstery business. When she met the farm boy from Yuma — the former state FFA president and president of the NJC student body — the partnership was a natural fit.
“In college it was no problem, whatever we did, we did it together, it didn’t matter, but once we were married, only one of us was ever invited (to meetings) and that’s really hard on the confidence,” she said. “No one has ever been outright rude to me, but you feel funny about going (to an important meeting) if they want Don to go. But then I decided no, if this is a meeting about water or about land or about government programs, I need to go.”
She said not much has changed, and people in business who don’t know the Browns still want to talk to her husband about farm decisions. But when the Commissioner is in Denver, which is most of the time, it’s his wife who fights the root worm, checks the books, tracks the repair of irrigation wells, and climbs into a pickup to go see why a center pivot has called her cell phone.
She also oversees as many as five employees, including an office manager, a government programs specialist — daughter Sabrina handles that chore — and the hired hands. Their son Tyson is a partner with his parents and has his own farming and cattle operation.
“I can’t stress enough that this is a family farm,” Peggy said.
North of Crook, Donelle Harms is where Peggy Brown was 39 years ago. The Harmses, who have been together for 18 years and married for 12, are just establishing themselves and, like the Browns, they know they’ll have to grow their farm if they want to make a go of it. But where Peggy Brown had to learn farming, literally, from the ground up, Donelle Harms has availed herself of some tools that weren’t available back in the 1970s.
In February, Donelle completed the eight-week Annie’s Project provided by Colorado State University Extension Services and Northeastern Junior College. It is a program out of Illinois that takes lessons learned by Annie Fleck in a lifetime of being married to a farmer and teaches them to farm women. The treasure in the program, Harms said, was learning about commodity marketing.
“The basics (of agriculture) are the same, but I learned a lot about marketing,” she said. “We get so involved in farming that we don’t think about getting the most for our crops.”
This winter, when the crops are in, Harms intends to sit down and put some of those lessons to use, finding new markets for the corn, hay, and wheat she and her husband grow. She’ll also be studying up on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency programs to more accurately insure the family’s crops.
“I’ve learned a lot (about FSA) but I’d like to learn even more,” she said. “It’s more complicated than you realize at first. And there are new ways to calculate profit and loss, so I want to get into that next year.”
Even at that, Harms says, she and Chris are just getting started. Farming in the future will get more complex, not less, and it will take both of them to keep their operation going and growing.
“Chris has started to get into GPS, he’s talking about precision ag, and we want to convert to no-till,” she said. “But our big thing now is to get more ground. If you don’t get bigger, you won’t make it. Right now you need at least 500 acres to start, and that’s growing every year. What we farm isn’t enough, and we’re looking at taking over two more leased farms. We’re looking at a three- to four-year transition.”
Farm management isn’t just about planting more acres, however, and Harms said the BNN water lease deal with the North Sterling Irrigation Company will be a boon for their cattle operation. The deal means outside income as they lease a portion of their water to BNN for oil and gas fracking in Weld County, and converting cropland to grass for grazing.
“I’m a firm believer that if you farm you need cows,” she said.
For all of the Harmses’ optimism, there is still the reality that farming is a hard way to make a living. Donelle and Chris both have off-farm jobs to supplement the family’s income, and they’ve been fortunate to have their families’ help to start “slow and small.” Farming is cyclical, too, and commodities seem to be climbing back out of the disastrous trifecta of low prices in corn, wheat and cattle of a year ago. If markets continue to improve — and that’s a very big if — there’s a good chance the Harms operation will survive and even thrive.
Meanwhile, Peggy Brown has some advice for young farmers: “You need to remember that sometimes you just have to hunker down and do what you do best,” she said. “Pay attention to the fundamentals.”
Tomorrow: Advocates and activists; when policies and perceptions need to change, women get it done Jeff Rice: 970-526-9283, ricej@journal-advocate.com | 8,594 | 3,902 | 17,870.762686 |
warc | 202143 | After Placement of Dental Implants Home Instructions After Dental Implant Surgery
After dental implant surgery, do not disturb the wound. Avoid rinsing, spitting, or touching the wound on the day of surgery.
Bleeding
Some bleeding or redness in the saliva is normal for 24 hours. Excessive bleeding (your mouth fills rapidly with blood) can be controlled by biting on a gauze pad placed directly on the bleeding wound for 30 minutes. If bleeding continues profusely, please call the office further instructions. An emergency number is available should you call after hours.
Swelling
Swelling is a normal occurrence after surgery. To minimize swelling apply an ice bag, or a plastic bag or towel filled with ice, on the cheek in the area of surgery.The ice packs should be left on for 10 minutes continuously, with 20 minutes of removal to let your skin recover before using again. After 36 hours, ice has no beneficial effect.
Diet
Drink plenty of fluids. Avoid hot liquids or food. You will be given further instructions on the day of surgery depending on the type of implant(s) you have placed.
Pain
You should begin taking pain medication as soon as you feel the local anesthetic wearing off. For moderate pain, one or two tablets of Tylenol may be taken every 3-4 hours, not to exceed 3000mg daily for an adult. Ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) may be taken in addition to Tylenol if you do not take blood thinners or have kidney problems. Ibuprofen bought over the counter comes in 200 mg tablets: 3 tablets or 600 mg may be taken every 6 hours, not to exceed 3200mg daily for an adult. Consult our practice for individuals under 18.
For severe pain, the prescribed medication should be taken as directed. Do not take any of the above medication if you are allergic to them, or have been instructed by your doctor not to take it. Do not drive an automobile or work around machinery if taking narcotics. Avoid alcoholic beverages. Pain or discomfort following surgery should subside more and more every day. If pain persists, it may require attention and you should call the office.
Antibiotics
Be sure to take the prescribed antibiotics as directed to help prevent infection.
Oral Hygiene
Good oral hygiene is essential to good healing. The night of surgery, use the prescribed Peridex Oral Rinse before bed. The day after surgery, the Peridex should be used three times daily; after breakfast, lunch and before bed. Be sure to rinse for at least 30 seconds then spit it out. Warm salt water rinses (one teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water) should be used at least 4-5 times a day as well, especially after meals. Brushing instructions will be reviewed at the time of surgery.
Activity
Keep physical activities to a minimum immediately following surgery. If you exercise, throbbing or bleeding may occur. If this occurs, you should discontinue exercising. Keep in mind that you are probably not taking in normal nourishment. This may weaken you and further limit your ability to exercise.
Wearing your Prosthesis
Partial dentures, flippers, or full dentures should be used as discussed in the pre-operative consultation. | 3,144 | 1,544 | 6,361.305699 |
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local New Hampshire pest control companies devoted to assisting Center Barnstead homeowners as well as business owners safeguard their home from pests such as bed bugs, cockroaches, ants, rodents, termites, spiders as well as any other nuisances that can be painful to your family or your home. Whether you are looking for pest control, an exterminator, or pest management, Absolute 24H Pest Exterminators is the most effective choice!
When you call
24H Pest Exterminators, you are not only hiring Center Barnstead pest service company to help with your existing problems. You would be hiring an entire team of professional pest exterminators that will help manage any type of pest problems that you or your household may run into in or around your home. As a skilled professional, we take satisfaction in ensuring that we make use of the most effective products and also the most up to date treatment techniques to help deliver fantastic outcomes. Proudly offering homeowners and commercial lots of any type of size. Give us a try to see our pest control Center Barnstead services at work. New Hampshire Local Exterminators in my Area – Find a Pest Control Company
Finding rodents, reptiles or insects in your house can cause distress, however eliminating them does not need to be demanding. If you try to deal with pest infestations alone, you could not wind up with results that deserve it. If you get a huge infestation, it’s even more important you do it, so the issue is contained and can be taken care of. The best way to cope with a bed bug infestation is to employ a pest management professional in Center Barnstead. Considering that pests can transfer diseases as well as cause unclean environments, generally speaking, you need to avoid exacerbating matters. When you locate all types of pests in your house, it is crucial that you get in touch with the finest local exterminators near you as quickly as you can.
Fortunately, local exterminators will certainly comprehend just how to repair the circumstance. Selecting a skilled as well as respectable community exterminator might be the ideal solution to your house infestation problems. When
identifying if a professional exterminator should certainly be hired or if one more technique could be much more practical, there are particular points to consider along with the seriousness of the infestation. Some Center Barnstead NH expert bed bug exterminators utilize pets to find infestations. Ants
Do It Yourself treatments for ants are mostly inefficient as well as can be unsafe if used improperly. Our skilled New Hampshire ant exterminators will identify whether you are handling pantry-invading odorous house ants or wood-eating carpenter ants.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are more than just problems. They can bring harmful diseases like Lyme Illness, West Nile Virus, and Zika Virus. We will certainly get rid of insect mosquito sites on your home and also provide treatments to reduce adult populations.
Cockroaches
Just one female German cockroach can reproduce one million more cockroaches, so do not wait to call our cockroach exterminators in Center Barnstead New Hampshire. Our pest control services consist of bait management, crevice spraying or or cleaning, and also pesticides to control your roach population. Our monthly program will keep your cockroach problem from returning.
Mice & Rats
Mice can put your family’s health at risk in several ways:
Mice can put your family members’s health in jeopardy in several methods: Contaminate your food with urine and feces Introduce diseases into your home Bring in other parasites like fleas and mites
Our New Hampshire professionals will certainly assist you with mice removal and also protect against a re-infestation. We can also get rid of disease-carrying rats.
Termites
Termites prey on decaying or water-damaged wood, and if they discover their means right into your home, they will begin snacking on the architectural wood of your residential property. An infestation can cause $8,000 in damage to your home, so if you suspect that you might have a termite problem, you need to not be reluctant to bring in our Center Barnstead professionals to carry out termite extermination.
Spiders
Our experienced Center Barnstead pest professionals can identify which kind of spider is infesting your home: venomous Brown Recluse Spiders or nuisance House Spiders. We will after that offer the spider extermination that you require.
Find Local Pest Control Exterminators in Center Barnstead IMMEDIATELY.
IMMEDIATELY.
Fleas
Fleas feed on the blood of warm-bodied animals like pet cats, dogs, as well as– yes– human beings. You don’t need to own pets to have a flea issue in your house. If you are experiencing a large flea infestation, then our professional pest control experts in Center Barnstead NH can aid.
How much does Pest Control cost?
In a lot of cases, a mousetrap or a canister of insect repellent will not suffice when you intend to do away with pests in your house. That’s when it’s time to call in the pros.
Certainly, professional pest control isn’t complimentary. You can conveniently invest numerous bucks to employ a pest control service for a single check out to toss out the termites. Yet by reading this overview, you can ensure you’re not overpaying (or even underpaying) for pest control.
The nationwide typical cost for pest control was
$170 since January 2018, with a general variety of $100 to $270. But what you’ll wind up paying for pest control might be lower or greater, relying on what type of pests you’re trying to evict and exactly how often you’re getting the service. Our Pest Control Services
Have Pest Troubles? We Have the Solution!
Our
Pest Control experts can solve the adhering to problems: Full-Service Pest Control All Types Of Insects & Rodents Termite Control Emergency Service Bed Bugs Fleas Wild Life Removal Residential & Commercial Ants Roaches Spiders Wasps Mosquitoes Flies And More… Are pest control chemicals harmful?
Some pesticides are rather unsafe, as they can be hazardous to human beings as well as other living things. They can pollute land, the air, food crops, waterways as well as seriously harm or kill native animals, family pets and residential animals. fluids, which appear like milky water. aerosols, which are sprayed out in a fine haze.
How effective is pest control?
A professional pest control company in Center Barnstead can give quicker and also more reliable results than if you attempted to repair the infestation yourself. Many companies can finish pest control treatment services within one to 6 hours, while larger troubles that call for airing out can use up to a week.
How much is residential pest control?
General pest control: $95 for 45 minutes. Bee extermination cost: $95 for 45 mins. Ant extermination cost: $125-$200. Rats or mice extermination cost: $150-$200. Termite evaluation: $150-$300. Termite treatment (chemical or fumigation): $1000-$2500. Insect extermination cost: $75.
How do you rid of cockroaches?
Clean to eliminate roaches’ hiding places as well as eliminate food and also water resources. Use baits to draw out an infestation, insecticide to kill active cockroaches, as well as an IGR to stop them from duplicating. Display cockroaches with glue boards.
Clean to get rid of roaches’ hiding places and remove food and water sources. Use baits to draw out an infestation, insecticide to kill active cockroaches, and an IGR to prevent them from reproducing. Monitor cockroaches with glue boards. How do you stop a kitchen pest infestation?
Area all dishes in the dishwashing machine (or hand wash), clean down tables or counters, and also store leftovers in impermeable containers. Cleaning up swiftly avoids pests from making their means onto unclean meals or uncovered foods. When possible, acquire food that comes in cans or jars.
Call us Now at 888-408-2399
Call us today and supply your house address so that we can send out a team of pest control service technicians as well as have them check your home entirely for the existence of rodents, rats and also various other home parasites and also provide you with the ideal possible option to get your house entirely WITHOUT these aggravating pests. Our complete activity plan will completely block all sort of entry factors and also prevent the pests from entering your residence.
We have numerous happy and also pleased consumers in the community who trust us with their pest control needs.
Please call our 24 Hour Pest Control center at (888) 408-2399 to learn more regarding our Pest Control services and also rates and additionally get your Residence Inspection Report – Pests, Rodents & Termites. | 8,813 | 3,831 | 19,960.950405 |
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local New Jersey pest control companies devoted to helping Mantua homeowners and company owner safeguard their residential or commercial property from pests such as bed bugs, roaches, ants, rodents, termites, spiders and any other nuisances that can be upsetting to your household or your residential or commercial property. Whether you are seeking pest control, an exterminator, or pest management, Absolute 24H Pest Exterminators is the best choice!
When you call
24H Pest Exterminators, you are not just hiring Mantua pest service company to assist with your present issues. You would be hiring a whole group of professional pest exterminators that will certainly help take care of any type of pest problems that you or your family might experience in or around your home. As an experienced professional, we take pride in assuring that we make use of the best products and the latest treatment methods to help provide fantastic outcomes. Happily serving residents as well as commercial great deals of any size. Give us a try to see our pest control Mantua services at work. New Jersey Local Exterminators in my Area – Find a Pest Control Company
Discovering rodents, reptiles or insects in your house can induce distress, but eliminating them does not need to be demanding. If you try to deal with pest infestations alone, you could not end up with results that deserve it. If you get a large infestation, it’s a lot more vital you do it, so the issue is contained as well as can be taken care of. The best way to cope with a bed bug infestation is to employ a pest management professional in Mantua. Considering that pests can transmit diseases and also cause unclean environments, usually speaking, you require to stay away from intensifying matters. When you find all types of pests in your house, it is necessary that you contact the finest local exterminators near you as promptly as you can.
Thankfully, local exterminators will certainly understand how to repair the scenario. Picking a skilled and respectable community exterminator may be the suitable solution to your house infestation issues. When
determining if a professional exterminator should be hired or if another method could be much more practical, there are particular points to think about along with the severity of the infestation. Some Mantua NJ expert bed bug exterminators make use of pet dogs to find infestations. Ants
DIY treatments for ants are mainly ineffective and can be hazardous if made use of improperly. Our experienced New Jersey ant exterminators will certainly determine whether you are dealing with pantry-invading odorous house ants or wood-eating carpenter ants.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are more than simply problems. They can carry dangerous diseases like Lyme Disease, West Nile Virus, and also Zika Virus. We will do away with mosquito sites on your building and give treatments to reduce adult populations.
Roaches
Just one female German roach can breed one million even more cockroaches, so don’t wait to call our cockroach exterminators in Mantua New Jersey. Our pest control services consist of lure management, crevice spraying or or cleaning, as well as pesticides to control your roach population. Our regular monthly program will keep your cockroach issue from coming back.
Mice & Rats
Mice can put your family’s health at risk in several ways:
Mice can put your family members’s health in jeopardy in a number of ways: Contaminate your food with urine and feces Introduce diseases into your home Bring in other parasites like fleas and mites
Our New Jersey professionals will certainly help you with mice removal and also avoid a re-infestation. We can likewise remove disease-carrying rats.
Termites
Termites feed upon decomposing or water-damaged timber, and also if they find their way into your home, they will certainly begin snacking on the architectural wood of your property. An infestation can cause $8,000 in damage to your home, so if you believe that you might have a termite issue, you ought to not hesitate to bring in our Mantua professionals to perform termite extermination.
Spiders
Our experienced Mantua pest professionals can determine which type of spider is infesting your home: venomous Brown Recluse Spiders or nuisance House Spiders. We will then provide the spider extermination that you need.
Find Local Pest Control Exterminators in Mantua IMMEDIATELY.
IMMEDIATELY.
Fleas
Fleas feed upon the blood of warm-bodied animals like pet cats, canines, as well as– of course– human beings. You don’t require to possess family pets to have a flea issue in your house. If you are experiencing a huge flea infestation, after that our professional pest control experts in Mantua NJ can assist.
How much does Pest Control cost?
In a lot of cases, a mousetrap or a container of bug spray will not suffice when you want to eliminate pests in your house. That’s when it’s time to call in the pros.
Obviously, professional pest control isn’t free. You can quickly spend hundreds of dollars to employ a pest control service for a single see to toss out the termites. However by reading this guide, you can ensure you’re not overpaying (or even underpaying) for pest control.
The nationwide average cost for pest control was
$170 since January 2018, with a basic range of $100 to $270. However what you’ll end up paying for pest control could be lower or greater, depending upon what type of pests you’re attempting to kick out and also just how usually you’re obtaining the service. Our Pest Control Services
Have Pest Troubles? We Have the Solution!
Our
Pest Control experts can fix the complying with problems: Full-Service Pest Control All Types Of Insects & Rodents Termite Control Emergency Service Bed Bugs Fleas Wild Life Removal Residential & Commercial Ants Roaches Spiders Wasps Mosquitoes Flies And More… What are the 3 methods of pest control?
As discussed above, there are lots of pest control methods available to pick from, yet they can be loosely organized right into 6 classifications: Hygienic, Biological, Chemical, Physical, Fumigation, and Heat treatment.
What is the difference between pest control and exterminator?
The largest distinction is that pest management professionals try to find long-term remedies, rather than just splashing chemicals to kill the pests you see. Although completion objective of exterminators as well as pest control professionals is to do away with the pest, that’s where the resemblances end
What chemicals do they use for pest control?
Abamectin. Cyfluthrin. Fipronil. Permethrin. Bifenthrin. Hydramethylnon. Pyrethrum. Boric Acid.
How much does pest control cost monthly?
Pest control plan costs He claims regular monthly treatment in an average-sized home would certainly cost $40 to $45. Semi-monthly treatments cost concerning $50 to $60, depending upon the size of your house.
How do you control pest control?
Recognize the pest. Remove standing water. Keep your kitchen clean and all food in containers. Keep your house tidy and clutter-free. Reject access to your home. Try the less hazardous pesticides initially if other preventative steps fail. Utilize a lot more volatile pesticides if essential.
Call us Now at 888-408-2399
Call us today and also supply your residence address to ensure that we can send a group of pest control technicians as well as have them examine your residence entirely for the visibility of rodents, rats and also various other family bugs and also offer you with the very best possible remedy to obtain your home totally FREE from these frustrating parasites. Our complete activity strategy will entirely obstruct all kinds of entrance points and avoid the pests from entering your residence.
We have many delighted and also pleased consumers in the neighborhood that trust us with their pest control needs.
Please call our 24 Hour Pest Control center at (888) 408-2399 for more details about our Pest Control services and costs as well as additionally obtain your House Inspection Report – Pests, Rodents & Termites. | 8,164 | 3,668 | 17,868.209378 |
warc | 202143 | Bugs can be a big problem for homeowners. They are gross, they make noise, and they can spread disease. Some bugs have also been known to cause structural damage to houses in time.
A Hammonton pest control professional is the very best solution for eliminating these pests quickly and successfully.
We’re the most effective
exterminator in Hammonton, NJ, due to the fact that we make use of state-of-the-art tools that enables us to enter into hard-to-reach areas like attics or crawl spaces where bugs have a tendency to hide out during daylight hours when other exterminators are working.
No more losing time researching online or calling around town trying to find what works best for you – let our professionals manage it rather!
Common Pests
Lots of people don’t understand that pet dogs can be rather harmful to Hammonton businesses. They have the prospective to destroy important property and also make your clients ill.
Pests will certainly additionally consume time, money, and also resources better spent somewhere else in your company. Some common pests we can help you eradicate includes:
Pest Control Companies in Hammonton
Employing a pest control service provider will do simply the method if you discover it difficult to get rid of pests around the workplace.
A reliable Hammonton pest control company may have the ability to stop or protect against an infestation from getting out of hand.
The majority of businesses take into consideration insect troubles as an annoyance only until it ends up being unmanageable. Then, some businesses will require professional help in Hammonton, NJ.
Do you need an exterminator in Hammonton? Call Us Today Friendly Pest Control Services
We understand how annoying it can be to deal with pests in your home. That’s why we offer friendly, professional pest control services in Hammonton, NJ, that will certainly save you time and frustration. Our services include:
Emergency Pest Control Bed Bug Treatment Cockroach Removal Ant Control Rodent control Termite Inspection & Control Residential and Commercial Spider Control Mosquito control Wildlife Control Tick and Flea Control And Much More! Hammonton Residential Pest Control Services
A pest infestation can be a major problem for homeowners. You could observe them in your attic, crawlspace, and even on the ground outside of your home. These pests are drawn in to houses with food and sanctuary.
When you have an infestation, it’s important to deal with it asap before coming to be harder to get rid of.
At Hammonton pest control, we provide residential pest control services to deal with any problem you may have!
We use environmentally friendly products that won’t harm family pets or children, and also our professionals are experienced at removing undesirable guests from inside and also outdoors your home!
Termite Treatment Hammonton, New Jersey
Termites are a significant issue for homeowners. They can cause costly damage to your home’s foundation and structure, in addition to ruin furniture, clothes, and even food items.
The good news is some treatments can keep termites from invading your home.
There are two major means to control termites. You can utilize liquid termite insecticides (termiticides) for obstacle and soil treatment or make use of termite baits. Some individuals choose both options.
Commercial Pest Control for Businesses in Hammonton
If you are a company owner, after that pest control is something to be taken seriously. Pests can cause severe damage as well as contamination in your building that might adversely affect your company’s bottom line.
To guarantee the safety of your staff members and clients, it is necessary to deal with a commercial pest control expert in Hammonton, NJ who will certainly utilize their proficiency to properly identify the pests on-site and also create an effective plan for eradicating them.
Our Hammonton technicians have actually advanced knowledge of taking care of all infestations, including rodents like rats or mice; insects like ants or termites; arachnids such as spiders; birds like pigeons or seagulls; little animals such as raccoons or squirrels; and various other wildlife like armadillos.
Since we are experts in commercial pest control in Hammonton, New Jersey, you can rely on that your building will stay secure and safe and secure from additional infestation.
We will remove pests from the inside out, protecting your building long-term.
Exactly How Can Our Hammonton Friendly Pest Control Solutions Help?
With the help of the Hammonton pest service, you can relax simple recognizing that your home is well-protected.
We offer a wide range of services to meet all your requirements, and also we are readily available for service 24 hr a day, 7 days a week! | 4,821 | 2,192 | 10,442.567518 |
warc | 202143 | Pests are a common issue in Swainsboro houses. The key is to watch on all areas of your home for signs of pest activity and also get in touch with a professional as quickly as you find any insect or rodent.
Our
exterminator in Swainsboro, GA, can deal with also those pesky rodents and get rid of them, so you don’t need to handle the problem on your own!
Our professional will certainly inspect your property for signs of pest activity before developing a plan of attack customized particularly for you.
Common Pests
Many individuals do not know that animals can be rather damaging to Swainsboro businesses. They have the prospective to ruin useful property and also make your customers ill.
Pests will also consume time, money, and resources better spent elsewhere in your company. Some common pests we can help you eradicate includes:
Pest Control Companies in Swainsboro
Working with a pest control company will certainly do simply the method if you locate it difficult to get rid of pests around the office.
A reputable Swainsboro pest control company might be able to stop or avoid an infestation from leaving hand.
The majority of businesses take into consideration insect problems as an annoyance just until it becomes out of hand. Then, some businesses will require professional help in Swainsboro, GA.
Do you need an exterminator in Swainsboro? Call Us Today Friendly Pest Control Services
We know how annoying it can be to deal with pests in your house. That’s why we provide friendly, professional pest control services in Swainsboro, GA, that will certainly conserve you time and also frustration. Our services consist of:
Emergency Pest Control Bed Bug Treatment Cockroach Removal Ant Control Rodent control Termite Inspection & Control Residential and Commercial Spider Control Mosquito control Wildlife Control Tick and Flea Control And Much More! Swainsboro Residential Pest Control Services
A pest infestation can be a significant problem for homeowners. You may discover them in your attic, crawlspace, or perhaps on the ground beyond your home. These pests are drawn in to houses with food and also shelter.
When you have an infestation, it is very important to look after it asap before becoming harder to remove.
At Swainsboro pest control, we offer residential pest control services to take care of any issue you may have!
We make use of eco-friendly products that will not damage pet dogs or children, and also our professionals are experienced at doing away with unwanted guests from within and outside your home!
Termite Treatment Swainsboro, Georgia
Termites are a significant issue for homeowners. They can cause expensive damage to your home’s foundation and also structure, as well as damage furniture, clothes, and also even food items.
The bright side is some treatments can maintain termites from attacking your home.
There are two significant ways to control termites. You can make use of liquid termite insecticides (termiticides) for obstacle and soil treatment or use termite baits. Some people choose both choices.
Commercial Pest Control for Businesses in Swainsboro
If you are a local business owner, after that pest control is something to be taken seriously. Pests can cause severe damage and contamination in your property that could negatively affect your company’s bottom line.
To make certain the safety of your employees and clients, it’s important to deal with a commercial pest control expert in Swainsboro, GA who will utilize their experience to properly identify the pests on-site and create an effective prepare for eradicating them.
Our Swainsboro technicians have actually progressed expertise of managing all infestations, consisting of rodents like rats or mice; insects like ants or termites; arachnids such as spiders; birds like pigeons or seagulls; small animals such as raccoons or squirrels; and other wildlife like armadillos.
Due to the fact that we are experts in commercial pest control in Swainsboro, Georgia, you can rely on that your building will stay safe and also safe and secure from further infestation.
We will certainly remove pests from the inside out, protecting your property lasting.
Just How Can Our Swainsboro Friendly Pest Control Solutions Help?
With the help of the Swainsboro pest service, you can relax simple understanding that your home is well-protected.
We offer a wide range of services to fulfill all your requirements, and we are offered for service 24 hr a day, 7 days a week! | 4,529 | 2,066 | 9,803.333979 |
warc | 202143 | The spare room subsidy, or "bedoom tax", imposed by the Department of Work & Pensions has been declared discriminatory by the Court of Appeal in London.
Three judges today allowed an appeal by a domestic violence victim placed in a local authority "safe house", and the family of a disabled teenager who needed overnight care, who argued that the reduction in housing benefit for social housing tenants with a "spare" bedroom did not take account of their respective situations. Lord Thomas, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Justice Tomlinson and Lord Justice Vos, agreed that the admitted discriminatory effects of the policy in the cases before them had not been justified by the UK Government.
The abused woman, known as "A", had been given a home equipped with a panic room under a "sanctuary scheme" for women whose lives were judged to be at risk. Her case was supported by the Equality & Human Rights Commission, whose chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath commented:
“Sanctuary schemes provide an important service in placing victims of domestic violence in local authority safe houses. We are pleased that the court has found that the impact of the spare room subsidy on those housed under sanctuary schemes had not been properly considered, is discriminatory and is unjustified.
“Victims of serious domestic violence who are reliant on full housing benefit are in an extremely vulnerable situation and their life can be under threat. Their protection is paramount.
“The new regulations reduced housing benefits for those within the sanctuary scheme because their accommodation was a safe house and therefore larger than usual. This could result in an inability to pay the rent and therefore eviction. The effect for a victim of domestic violence of losing a secure home is profound and could be extremely dangerous.”
Paul and Susan Rutherford and their 15-year-old grandson Warren brought the second case, over the impact of the policy on disabled children. The room deemed to be affected by the subsidy rule was used for overnight carers and for storing special equipment. The regulations allow for an additional bedroom if the claimant or their partner requires overnight care, but make no provision for children.
The Government was given permission to appeal and has said it will challenge the decision. | 2,344 | 1,149 | 4,702.280244 |
warc | 202143 | Freiburg, September 2021 | LITEF will be presenting navigation and stabilisation solutions for the army, air force and navy under the slogan “Safe in extreme situations” at the DSEI in London from 14 to 17 September 2021. The product presentation focuses on platform stabilisation and inertial navigation units for land navigation. LITEF will also show products for military aviation. Platform stabilisation
LITEF has been developing and manufacturing high-precision sensors and inertial measurement units that are used in a wide variety of applications for decades. The unparalleled focus on reliability and robustness is the backbone of all current and future developments to ensure accurate data in any situation.
LITEF’s fibre optic sensors and inertial measurement units (IMUs) do not have any moving parts and are therefore insensitive to shock and high vibration loads. Military weapon stations use these advantages as well as missiles and guided missiles for the most diverse mission requirements; but the special properties of the sensors and IMUs from LITEF are also appreciated in the stabilisation of optics, antennas and radar systems. High reliability and no maintenance also guarantee low life cycle costs for the user. Future products will be complemented by MEMS-based sensors and IMU in variable accuracies.
Land navigation
LITEF systems prove their precision and reliability in the field in wheeled vehicles for infantry as well as in heavy battle tanks.
In standard mode, LITEF land navigators provide a hybrid navigation solution, i.e. optimal position and location information calculated from the sum of sensor data. They support both NATO GPS receivers and multiple commercial GPS receivers. Combining the inertial sensors with an external GPS receiver provides a cost-effective solution for the life cycle of a vehicle navigation system in military use.
LITEF land navigators (LLN) provide unmatched system integrity that can be relied upon by the operator, the commander and the higher-level command system. | 2,055 | 1,006 | 4,150.854871 |
warc | 202143 | Operational reporting is critical to modern day business decision-making. However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution that meets every reporting need. To empower every employee to make data-driven decisions, you’ll need an embedded reporting solution that prioritizes flexibility.
Flexibility in designing reports is important because the layout is critical to a user’s understanding of the data. Operational reporting is able to collect and arrange massive amounts of data to be distributed to large numbers of users. The precise layout and structure of this data streamlines the ability of end users to digest and absorb the presented information. To be easy to navigate, different types of data need to be presented in different formats. A report that’s difficult to read or lacking helpful visualizations that offer perspective won’t help users make important business decisions.
Instead, you’ll want to look for a reporting solution with the below capabilities that allow for operational reports to be customized to fit every end user’s specific needs:
1.
Interactive Elements
The amount of data being collected and analyzed can be overwhelming, but a modern reporting solution provides users with new interactivity controls and customized data visualizations. These different interactivity controls grant end users with the ability to interact with data in an enhanced way to yield deeper data insights, and keeps users engaged.
Be careful not to overwhelm users with dozens of options, there are a few selection controls available to ensure the right option is chosen for each report:
Drill down: Users are moved from a general view of data into a more specific view with a single click of the mouse. Data granularity changes, but the look and feel of all levels of the dashboard remain the same. Slice and dice: A systematic ability to split data sets into smaller segments, presenting even more data in whatever manner the user wants. Pivot: A pivot table provides users with tables of summarized data, and are best suited when a user attempts to find unique values of a specific field. Filter & sort: The capability of applying and synchronizing filters, sorts and parameters across multiple visualizations. Data Visualizations
Finding effective strategies for end users to make the most out of the data is important. Selecting appropriate data visualization formats is critical, with different visualization types best suited for unique data types.
Customized visualizations offer a stylistic look and consistent feel across an organization’s branding. The performance metrics provide a full story in either a static or animated form, depending on the scope of data that is being presented.
Paging elements can be further customized based on an end user’s needs, and include the following:
Tabular formats: Collected data is displayed in a format featuring tables comprised of rows and columns, with each column providing values in its own row. Line charts: Typically used to display information as a series, with changes tracked over short or long time durations. Bar charts: Sets of total data observations compared with data plotted in columns. Pie charts: Data visualization comparison between one-to-many data sets, able to illustrate data frequencies, percentages, or magnitudes.
Keep in mind that it’s possible to combine visualizations with interactive elements, so plan accordingly to see if the pair is best to offer users the most informative view of data.
Pagination
Working in a browser-based environment and trying to interact with large data tables tends to be troublesome for users. Large volumes of data, with hundreds or more rows of data, likely require created tables to be presented as pages.
Each page has a small number of rows, and should be easy to navigate, as it’s displayed in a similar manner as browsing search results provided by a Web search engine. Flexible pagination makes it easier to understand data, regardless if it’s a PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or printed copies.
4.
Banded Layouts
Banded reports allow for precise duplicate forms that can be isolated, grouped, or hidden throughout the report – and can use graphics to help visualize the data. The layouts easily scale with the size of the data set while still using duplicate form fields that align well with the information that must be shared.
Banded reports are able to provide a generalized report layout in a fully formatted visualization, with individual bands capable of displaying aggregated data.
To further customize data, report developers can arrange objects with exact positioning of headers, footers, charts, tables, images, and sub-reports in any report layout imaginable by using banded capabilities.
Final Thoughts
From custom visualizations to flexibility in layout formatting, a modern reporting solution should give users the ability to fully customize their reports to present their data in the way that most makes sense. These features ensure users of your application are able to make the most out of their data. A reporting solution like Logi Report offers each of these modern capabilities that allow users to be creative and build nearly any type of report imaginable. Schedule time with one of our experts to see how you can drive fact-based decision-making within your application with Logi. | 5,408 | 2,410 | 11,946.967635 |
warc | 202143 | Encephalitozoon cuniculi causes a wide range of diseases in rabbits. The most common include- head tilt, seizures, hindlimb paralysis, kidney disease and cataracts. However, a fair number of rabbits also appear to survive the infection without showing any of signs. These latter rabbits are subclinical carriers and a primary source of disease exposure in multiple rabbit households, breeding establishments and pet shops. A rabbit can become infected by ingesting food contaminated with urine with E. Cuniculi spores, or inhaling the E. Cuniculi spores. E. cuniculi can also be transmitted in utero.
Many studies have been performed to investigate this parasite, but much is still not well understood. Studies have been undertaken in many countries in Europe and Asia and E. Cuniculi is reported in 7.5% – 70% in different pet rabbit populations. The Melbourne Rabbit Clinic is planning to conduct a study for the prevalence of exposure to E. cuniculi in pet rabbits in Melbourne. Watch this space! | 1,007 | 573 | 1,755.659686 |
warc | 202143 | Why it is time to invest for the future of our planet
It is unlikely that 2020 will be remembered by any of us fondly. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the world. Global economies have been hit and many people have been struggling, whether that is health, job losses, mental wellbeing.
However, one of the very few ‘up-sides’ has been that the standstill of air travel, reduced traffic, generally less human activity caused a fall in CO2 emissions which is a step in the right direction for our planet.
Climate change poses a real and present danger to the well-being of people and the planet. The next decade presents a critical window in which we can still shape the future.
Let’s not just ‘get back to normal’
We have all craved a return to normality after months and months of lockdowns; being separated from family and unable to go anywhere. Thankfully after amazing breakthroughs in vaccines, we are increasingly seeing increasing freedoms and a path back to some sort of normality.
But instead of just going back to how things were in every aspect of our lives, now is the time to try and change things for the better and the future. Despite the slight fall in CO2 emissions, it is still not enough to prevent potentially irreversible damage a rise above 1.5 degrees would create, as stated in the Paris Agreement. With the pressing need for action to combat climate change, we cannot afford the environment to pay the price for increased human activity.
Making a difference
Many people are now looking to invest their money not only for potential returns but also to create positive outcomes for people and the planet. And help tackle some of the biggest challenges facing this world, of which climate change is one. And because there is a growing demand to invest in this way, it drives more and more companies to help find solutions to some of these issues.
From pioneering healthcare solutions to enabling others to reduce their carbon emissions, companies are looking to create a better future.
By investing in these companies, you can not only play a part in re-building a post pandemic economy but also help make a difference for the future.
For more information, contact Andrew Smith on 01908 504083. | 2,256 | 1,158 | 4,321.07772 |
warc | 202143 | The just-released Omnibus Appropriations bill includes a controversial provision that declares burning of biomass for electricity carbon neutral – counting it as an equivalent to truly clean energy sources like solar and wind power, even though biomass greenhouse gas emissions generate approximately 150% the emissions of coal and 300-400% those of natural gas per unit of energy produced. The provision is expected to inhibit the development of the solar and wind industries, and also contribute to increased levels of conventional air pollutions. Ramping up electricity production from forest biomass would take vast amounts of tree and woody material. The proposed conversion of the Boardman plant in Oregon from coal to biomass would require 3.8 million tons of biomass a year, which would be sourced from national forests.
In response, Henry Waxman, Chairman of Mighty Earth, said:
“Just because Congress says burning trees for electricity is carbon neutral doesn’t mean that it is. This provision repeats some of the same mistakes in the Renewable Fuel Standard that has had massive unintended negative consequences for forests, the climate, and consumers. By incentivizing dirty energy, this policy will disadvantage truly clean renewables like wind and solar.
“This provision is a blatant attack on science. Science clearly shows that burning of trees for electricity produces far more pollution than even coal. Congress should leave climate science to the scientists.
“The policy also sets an example for rainforest nations, suggesting that somehow burning forests is a solution to climate change. As such, this policy plays into the hands of some of the world’s worst forest destroyers.”
For additional background, see Chairman Waxman’s op-ed on this topic in The Hill.
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warc | 202143 | This post was sponsored by Happify as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.
I think I’ve talked a couple of times about my psoriasis issues on Instagram, but it’s not something I really dive deep into here on my blog. I only have a mild case, but it’s enough of an issue to drive me crazy at times, which leaves me feeling helpless because I have no idea how to manage it. Mild, to me, is the occasional flare-ups in a few different areas on the body that are small in size. I get psoriasis patches on my elbows, knees, left ring finger, and the back of my head, which itched so bad one time that it caused me to lose hair in that spot.
I can’t remember when it started or what has caused it since I have had itchy skin issues for as long as I can remember. I felt like I needed to find answers and in my search, I discovered a cool app called Kopa for Psoriasis which is a platform targeted towards people with psoriasis.
What is Psoriasis? How has Kopa for Psoriasis helped me so far?
The app has shown me insightful tips like what foods could be triggering my flare-ups, how to take care of myself even as a busy parent with psoriasis, as well as stress-relieving strategies that really work.
It’s also comforting to know that other people are out there experiencing the same problems you are. I can relate to so many people on the forum and it’s nice to build connections and learn new things from others.
I have also noticed that when I eat certain foods with processed sugar, it seems to make my condition worse. Stress is another big one since I am constantly stressed with everyday worries outside and inside of the home. Thankfully, I can put their tips to good use and hopefully lessen my symptoms every day.
How do you deal with your psoriasis? | 1,861 | 987 | 3,435.402229 |
warc | 202143 | There are many reasons why some individuals turn to natural weight loss products. It may be because they’ve tried and failed with commercial weight loss products. It can also be because the person is simply bored with dieting and exercising. But even if the individual could be tired of their diet plan or exercise regimen, they need to still consider natural weight loss products prior to making drastic lifestyle changes.
Weight loss may be surprising, but it may also be a sign of an underlying medical condition. It is natural to shed a little bit of weight right after the stress of a shifting job, separation, redundancy, or bereavement, but abrupt, unhealthy weight loss should be considered more closely. If the abrupt, unhealthy weight loss lasts for longer than is normal, this may be an indicator that there is an underlying medical problem.
There are many popular low-carb diets, such as Atkins, South Beach, and The Paleolithic diet. Among the biggest questions is whether or not these low carb diets work. There’s growing evidence that they may help people lose weight. However, there is growing evidence that they may be detrimental.
As the research on low-carb diets proceeds, there is mounting evidence that these diets may not be effective for long-term weight loss. These diets may help you lose some weight fast, but as soon as you stop eating, you might gain the weight back again. In recent decades, there has been growing evidence that low-carb diets might not be healthy weight loss plans.
One of the biggest problems with diets is that people quickly interest. After a brief time period, when you’re eating healthy foods, your interest in them is no longer present. Moreover, you may experience unpleasant side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and constipation. You could also experience a change in your appetite, which can lead to bingeing and even yo-yo dieting.
Diets do not offer long-term weight loss. Studies show that most people who go on diets to lose about 5 pounds within the first week of dieting. But after this point, nearly all dieters gain back most, if not all of the weight they lost. Studies also indicate that after about three months of dieting, most dieters regain the amount of weight they initially lost.
Diets also don’t improve long-term weight control. The main reason behind this is that most diet plans require you to eat more food than you typically do, as a way to loss weight. This causes people to eat even more calories than they normally do, which often contributes to excess weight gain. Even though the weight gain is usually temporary, long-term weight problems can result.
Most diet plans are not effective for long-term weight reduction. If you want to lose weight and keep it off for good, there are many other solutions that you ought to consider. The best solution is to adopt a healthy lifestyle by eating healthy foods and exercising regularly. You will also have to make some lifestyle changes like setting reasonable goals for yourself, setting specific time frames to achieve your objectives, maintaining good nutrition, and having realistic expectations concerning your weight loss and results. These are the only effective ways to lose weight permanently. By following a healthy lifestyle, you will notice long-term weight reduction.
Many diet programs aren’t effective due to the limited effectiveness of their weight-loss claims. Most of them only address a couple of aspects of weight control. They may claim you will burn off fat with their diet program, but they do not mention the important role that healthy food plays in your weight loss. By addressing all three aspects of weight management, you can achieve permanent weight loss.
Additionally, there are popular diets that fail to address one of the most significant facets of permanent weight loss: the quality of the food that we eat. By depriving our bodies of healthy, nutritional food, we deprive ourselves of nourishment and possible energy. This is particularly true once the food we eat is processed, packaged, or fast food. Processed foods, packaged foods, and fast food contain additives and compounds that are unhealthy and can lead to a huge variety of health problems. When our bodies do not get the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that our body needs, we become weak, brittle, and ill.
When choosing which weight loss plan to follow, try to find one that addresses all three aspects of weight management. If you choose to lose weight through a diet program, be sure the diet is a long-term dedication to eating healthy food. If you choose to try some kind of weight loss pill, then be certain that the pills you take are organic (without dangerous chemicals). If you choose to work out frequently, make sure the exercises you use are safe and gentle, and do not require the use of dangerous weight loss equipment. | 4,907 | 2,116 | 11,293.520794 |
warc | 202143 | Abstract
Naïve individuals of some bird species can rapidly solve vertical string-pulling tasks with virtually no errors. This has led to various hypotheses being proposed which suggest that birds mentally simulate the effects of their actions on strings. A competing embodied cognition hypothesis proposes that this behaviour is instead modulated by perceptual-motor feedback loops, where feedback of the reward moving closer acts as an internal motivator for functional behaviours, such as pull-stepping. To date, the kea parrot has produced some of the best performances of any bird species at string-pulling tasks. Here, we tested the predictions of the four leading hypotheses for the cognition underpinning bird string-pulling by presenting kea with a horizontal connectivity task where only one of two loose strings was connected to the reward, both before and after receiving perceptual-motor feedback experience. We find that kea fail the connectivity task both before and after perceptual-motor feedback experience, suggesting not only that kea do not mentally simulate their string-pulling actions, but also that perceptual-motor feedback alone is insufficient in eliciting successful performance in the horizontal connectivity task. This suggests a more complex interplay of cognitive factors underlies this iconic example of animal problem-solving.
Introduction
String-pulling behaviour occurs naturally in birds and has been reported in a range of species, being especially prevalent across passerines, particularly corvids, and parrots
1. This behaviour describes subjects pulling on a baited string to bring a reward closer, and holding it down with their foot, preventing the reward from falling back down. The swiftness and efficiency of this behaviour in naïve individuals has been attributed by different researchers as evidence for various cognitive mechanisms including planning, means-end understanding, and insight (an immediate understanding of the problem without prior experience) 1,2,3. All three of these hypotheses would predict that, upon seeing a string with a reward at one end, subjects can mentally simulate the effects of their pulling actions on the string, imagining how they might move the reward closer to themselves. Therefore, upon seeing two strings, only one of which is baited, the same hypotheses predict that animals can mentally simulate their pulling actions on both options, and therefore select the correct string above chance, without trial-and-error.
Contrary to these hypotheses, the perceptual-motor feedback loop hypothesis suggests that, upon encountering a baited string for the first time, subjects will perform exploratory behaviours, and when a set of behaviours—such as pull-stepping—brings the reward on the end of the string closer, or keep it in place, they continue to perform these behaviours, such that they become self-reinforcing and increase in both frequency and efficiency over time
4,5,6. Therefore, unlike several other cognitive mechanisms suggested for string-pulling, this embodied cognition hypothesis does not require mental modelling or simulating the effects of subjects’ actions on a string 4. Rather, it relies upon subjects having sufficiently large associative brain areas or more connected perceptual and motor pathways to detect and link the effects of their actions while coordinating pull-step actions, or both 4.
The perceptual-motor feedback loop account therefore predicts that subjects without string-pulling experience should fail at tasks where pulling on the string provides no feedback, that is, does not cause the food reward to move closer to the subject
4,5. To date, only naïve New Caledonian crows ( Corvus moneduloides) have been presented with tasks that directly test this claim, as studies with other species have given subjects experience of this feedback loop before test 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18. In one study, naïve New Caledonian crows struggled to pull up a string when the end of the string was visually restricted, which prevented them from perceiving the distance between themselves and the reward 4. In contrast, crows that had previously experienced the feedback loop in a typical string-pulling task learned to solve this problem.
Two studies that have challenged the perceptual-motor feedback hypothesis used the pull-down test with ravens
3 and green-winged macaws 19. In both cases, groups of individuals that were either naïve to or experienced with vertical string-pulling were presented with a string-pulling task that required a counter-intuitive motor action: subjects had to pull down on a string looping over a higher perch before coming back down. Inexperienced ravens and both groups of macaws failed at this task, despite the food at the end of the string moving up when they performed a downward pull. Although both studies interpret this as evidence that a perceptual-motor feedback loop is not sufficient for acquiring string-pulling behaviour 3,19, it is unclear if subjects experienced it as such: when reaching up with their bills to pull down on the string, their eyes would have been directed upwards, and so it is possible that subjects never observed the reward moving closer. Therefore, these studies could also be interpreted as providing evidence for the perceptual-motor feedback hypothesis.
Finally, support for the feedback loop hypothesis has also emerged from a connectivity task with naïve New Caledonian crows. When crows with no experience of vertical string-pulling chose between a meandering horizontal continuous string and a similarly-positioned broken string, both of which contained food at their ends, they showed no preference for either string
5. This horizontal loose-string connectivity task, or broken-string task, is particularly interesting because in all cases where avian subjects have succeeded at this task, they previously experienced a perceptual-motor feedback loop with vertical strings 8,9,10,11,12,13,14. This pattern also appears to extend beyond birds to other string-pulling tasks devoid of feedback: for example, bumblebees with feedback-loop experience successfully pull on coiled strings, but naïve bees and bees that have only observed string-pulling by others (and therefore did not experience feedback themselves), do not 20.
A key question that remains unanswered is whether naïve New Caledonian crows’ failure at the loose-string connectivity task is directly attributable to their lack of perceptual-motor feedback loop experience. Given the pattern of results present in the literature, we raise a feedback experience hypothesis: that birds must first experience perceptual-motor feedback with strings to learn to attend to the ends of the strings, which in turn could allow them to succeed at two-string discrimination tasks such as those testing connectivity, contact, and continuity.
Kea (
Nestor notabilis) are an ideal model species for testing this feedback experience hypothesis. Kea spontaneously solve the single vertical string task on their first trial and succeed in the crossed-strings task, where the end of the baited string is located under the starting point of the unbaited one 7,21. In contrast, experienced New Caledonian crows perform at chance at this test of causal understanding 4, suggesting kea might outperform them at string-pulling tasks generally. Furthermore, a previous study showed that two of five kea selected a connected over an unconnected board within their first trial, and one of them selected the correct option in all of their first 10 trials 22. Although the other subjects took longer to understand the nature of this task, this result suggests that kea are capable of understanding connectivity without extensive training, at least in contexts unrelated to string-pulling.
We therefore tested naïve kea (
Nestor notabilis) on three experiments to test both the predictions of the three mental simulation hypotheses, and the feedback experience hypothesis we propose. In Experiment 1, kea were presented with the horizontal connectivity discrimination task previously presented to New Caledonian crows, to establish whether kea without any perceptual-motor feedback loop experience in string-pulling contexts were capable of understanding the nature of this task. In Experiment 2, kea experienced 10 vertical string-pulling trials, replicating a previous study with another captive kea population. Then, following an additional 10 trials of vertical string-pulling experience, in Experiment 3 kea were presented with a repeat of the first experiment. If experience of perceptual-motor feedback explains the pattern of results in the literature up to this point, enabling birds to attend to the ends of strings, then kea should fail at Experiment 1 but succeed at Experiment 3, following experience of vertical string-pulling. Results
None of our subjects performed above chance across the 20 trials of Experiment 1 (Table 1). Overall, kea attempted to change their original choice in 41 of 140 trials (29.3% of the time), and of these switches, only 9 were attempted in the wrong direction (attempting to switch to the incorrect choice after selecting the correct choice; 22.0%). Unlike New Caledonian crows
5, kea persisted in their interactions with the apparatus and strings, even when they did not completely retrieve them from the apparatus. Strings were fully retrieved by subjects in 112 of 140 trials (80.0%) and across all trials subjects spent an average of 18.54 ± 19.70 s interacting with the strings. When strings were not fully retrieved, there was no consistent pattern across individuals as to whether this was the correct or incorrect string (Table 1). Unlike New Caledonian crows, all subjects continued to interact with strings even in failed trials (averaging 22.36 ± 21.35 s in incorrect trials) and completed the experiment with no refusals.
In Experiment 2, our subjects performed similarly to the kea population used in a previous study
7. All subjects succeeded in retrieving the rewarding token hanging on the end of the vertical string, with the exception of Bruce, whose missing upper bill made manipulating the vertical string too challenging (Table 2). As in previous research 7, most kea rapidly solved the task from their first or second trial, with the average (mean) duration of individuals’ first successful trial being higher than that for subsequent successful trials (Table 3). Solution times were similar to those in the previous study (83.10 ± 128.39 s in previous study; 71.36 ± 42.88 s in present study; Bayesian two-tailed independent samples t-test, BF 10 = 0.705).
On average across all trials, subjects performed 3.35 ± 0.93 correct pull-steps, and only 0.49 ± 0.59 errors per trial. Kea therefore exhibited high pull-step ratios in their successful trials (mean across all subjects in all successful trials: 89.47 ± 12.44%), which was similar to the equivalent measure in New Caledonian crows (90.2 ± 2.42%)
4. Pull-step ratios were high from the first successful trial (mean across all subjects’ first trials: 83.10 ± 12.49%). The number of pull-steps performed in their first successful trial did not differ significantly from the number of pull-steps in their last successful trial (mean for first trial across all subjects: 3.57 ± 0.98 pull-steps; mean for final trial: 2.80 ± 0.45 pull-steps; Bayesian two-tailed paired samples t-test, BF 10 = 0.522). We found no evidence to suggest that the group’s performance improved with experience across all test trials (Bayesian correlation, n = 7, Pearson’s r = − 0.553, BF 10 = 1.308), despite the reduced solution time between the first two successful trials, mirroring the results from previous work on another kea population 7. Therefore, trial duration averages indicate that kea rapidly achieved ceiling performance from their second vertical string-pulling trial onwards, rather than making gradual improvements to their performance over several trials.
Experiment 3 was a direct replication of Experiment 1 with the five individuals that experienced both the loose-string connectivity task of Experiment 1 and successfully retrieved the vertical string in at least one trial of Experiment 2. This did not include one subject, Bruce, that was unable to pull up the string due to his missing upper bill. None of the five subjects in this study performed above chance following experience of the perceptual-motor feedback loop (Table 4). Subjects attempted to switch their choices in 28 out of 120 trials (23.3%), with only one of these switches being from a correct to an incorrect choice (3.57% of switches, compared to 21.95% in Experiment 1). As in Experiment 1, subjects continued to interact with the strings even when they made incorrect choices, averaging 20.20 ± 12.91 s across all trials.
Discussion
Our study tested whether experience of a perceptual-motor feedback loop during string-pulling might explain the pattern of results observable in the bird literature: naïve subjects fail at loose-string connectivity tasks
5, and experienced birds sometimes succeed at it 8,9,10,11,12,13,14. Kea failed this task both before and after receiving experience of vertical string-pulling, that is, regardless of their experience with perceptual-motor feedback loops. This result both opposes the predictions of the insight, planning, and means-end understanding hypotheses which predict an immediate understanding of string-pulling problems without perceptual-motor feedback experience, but also shows that feedback experience alone cannot elicit success at the horizontal loose-string connectivity task.
It is unlikely that the failure of kea at both connectivity experiments reflects a general discrepancy in cognitive or motor abilities in our population of kea. In fact, the results of Experiment 2 reveal that our population of kea behaved very similarly to conspecifics in another captive population
7,21 and wild New Caledonian crows 4,5. As in the original kea study 7, our subjects quickly learned to pull up vertical strings, showing few errors and ceiling performances after their first successful trial.
Our results also demonstrate that kea’s failure was not a result of hesitancy to interact with the strings. Unlike crows
5, kea persisted in their interactions with the strings throughout Experiments 1 and 3, and we never observed choice refusals in any trials. As a highly neophilic species 23, it is possible that, even after having failed to obtain the reward at the end of the string, kea were still interested in the properties of this novel material and therefore continued to interact with it. This is consistent with our observation that subjects often chewed on the ends of the strings even following incorrect choices, suggesting not all their interactions with the strings were made with the intent to retrieve the out-of-reach black token. This issue was not observed in Experiment 2 presumably because either goal (obtaining the black token or playing with the string) could have equally resulted in accurate and efficient step-pulling behaviour by the subjects. Kea became more persistent in Experiment 3 than they were in Experiment 1, leaving fewer strings unretrieved in the final experiment. This may have been a consequence of their increased experience performing multiple pulling actions on the vertical string presented in Experiment 2. However, their vertical string experience did not improve their ability to discriminate between the connected and unconnected strings in their second attempt at the horizontal connectivity task. Their inability to make this discrimination is unlikely to be a consequence of kea finding it difficult to make choices between the two options presented. This same population of kea have previously demonstrated an ability to make binary choices between highly similar stimuli 24,25,26, and subjects were specifically trained to make choices using the apparatus of these experiments prior to test.
Our results demonstrate that although kea made fewer switches from correct to incorrect choices in their second attempt at the loose-string connectivity task, they still initially selected the correct string at chance. This would suggest that although kea realised that they made an incorrect choice after attempting to pull on the unconnected string, they did not simulate their actions on horizontal strings prior to their first touch, even after ample experience with the setup. Therefore, kea’s persistent failure at the connectivity task provides evidence against the insight, planning, and means-understanding hypotheses for string-pulling behaviour, all of which would predict an ability to mentally simulate the consequences of their actions on strings both with and without experience of perceptual-motor feedback loops. This finding is notable in light of research suggesting that kea are capable of mentally representing objects in other contexts
25,26.
Despite the pattern of results in the literature showing that individuals of several bird species succeed at string connectivity tasks following perceptual-motor feedback with vertical strings
8,9,10,11,12,13,14, while naïve individuals fail 5, we did not find evidence that experience of feedback improves performance on a string connectivity task in kea. This is particularly puzzling given that previous studies have shown that kea can successfully distinguish connected from unconnected wooden boards 22. As such, further work is required to establish whether birds’ understanding of connectivity is context-dependent, by comparing performance before and after feedback experience both during string-pulling and in tasks using materials other than string. This could shed light on the interplay of contextual variables and cognitive mechanisms that underpin performance on this iconic problem-solving task. Methods Subjects
Our subjects were eight captive kea housed at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve (Table 5). In both experiments, strings were attached to black tokens, which kea had been previously trained to exchange for a food reward
25,26. None of the subjects had any prior experience with strings. Research was carried out with approval from the University of Auckland ethics committee (reference number 001816) and all methods were carried out in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. The study was also carried out in compliance with ARRIVE guidelines. Experiment 1
Trials were conducted on a rectangular platform measuring 65 cm × 130 cm, with a centrally protruding 30 cm × 30 cm shelf where subjects could stand behind an acrylic sheet between trials, serving as subjects’ starting position in all trials (Fig. 1). Two 20 cm × 30 cm curved acrylic shields were placed diagonally on the platform, equidistant to the starting position. Kea were first habituated to the apparatus and trained to make choices between options presented under the two shields, neither of which contained strings or required pulling. At test, two horizontal string-pulling options were presented under the two shields, with only their tips accessible at the front. As in the study with New Caledonian crows
5, kea had to choose between a continuous piece of string attached to a rewarding black token at the far end, or a broken string missing a 10 cm section which was otherwise identically arranged (Fig. 1). The side on which the continuous (correct) option was presented was pseudorandomised and counterbalanced, with no more than two trials in a row where the continuous string was placed on the same side, for a total of 20 trials, presented in blocks of 10 trials. The experimenter wore mirrored sunglasses and was kept blind to experimental hypotheses across all trials, so as to not unintentionally cue subjects at test.
Each trial began with the subject standing at the starting position, behind the closed plexiglass barrier, for an observation period of 20 s, during which subjects could see but not approach the two options. After 20 s, the experimenter opened the plexiglass barrier and stepped back, allowing subjects to step towards either plexiglass shield. Subjects were allowed to make only one choice, and the trial ended when the kea either: (a) obtained the black token from the continuous string, which they were then allowed to exchange for a food reward, (b) interacted with one string and then attempted to interact with another without obtaining either token, (c) interacted with either string without obtaining the continuous string’s token for 1 min, or (d) refused to touch or interact with either choice for 3 min.
Experiment 2
To ensure that our population of kea performed typically in a vertical string-pulling task, subjects experienced ten trials of a single continuous vertical cotton string. The platform for this experiment consisted of a 30 cm × 30 cm base with a ⌀40 mm perch which overhung from one side by 41 cm. A 70 cm long piece of string (the same length as used in a previous study
7) with a black token attached at one end hung 20 cm from the edge. Each trial was 3 min long, during which time the subject was allowed to interact with the perch and the string. Failure to pull the token up within the duration of a trial was counted as a failure and leaving the platform mid-trial was counted as a refusal. If subjects failed or refused a trial, that block was interrupted and resumed at a later time. Where subjects succeeded at a trial, they were given the next trial immediately, for a total of up to ten trials. Experiment 3
Experiment 3 was an exact replication of Experiment 1, excluding the only individual (Bruce) that did not experience the perceptual-motor feedback loop in Experiment 2 due to being physically unable to pull up the string.
Video coding and analyses
Trials were filmed and coded in terms of subjects’ binary choices (Experiments 1 and 3) or the duration of successful trials (Experiment 2). Successful trials in Experiment 2 (where the subject retrieved the black token from the vertical string) were also coded for number of pulls, steps, and errors. Errors occurred when subjects: (a) failed to step on the string following a pull, (b) failed to otherwise secure the string following a pull, (c) mis-coordinated a step after a pull, which failed to secure the string, and (d) stopped pull-step actions and released the string before the token was successfully retrieved. Their behaviours were used to calculate a pull-step ratio
4, which consisted of the number of correct pull-steps over the total number of pulls attempted by the subject. Any manipulation of the string prior to the first pull were ignored 4, as these usually consisted of exploratory behaviours such as touching or biting the string where it was attached to the perch. Unlike New Caledonian crows, kea used other forms of string attachment as an alternative to stepping (such as swinging the string over the side of the perch, which also held it in place). These were counted as steps for the purposes of the pull-step ratio.
Success in Experiment 1 was analysed at the individual level, with Bayesian two-tailed binomial tests with default beta priors set at 0.5. We also correlated successful trial number (counting from the first successful trial onwards) and trial duration for Experiment 2 at the group level, using a Bayesian correlation with default stretched beta prior width of 1. We used two-tailed Bayesian t-tests to compare performances both within Experiment 2 and between our results and those of a previous study
7. Bayes factors below 0.33 and above 3 were taken as substantial evidence for the null hypothesis or alternative hypothesis, respectively 27. All analyses were carried out in JASP v.0.13.1.0 28. Ethics statement
This research was conducted under ethics approval from The University of Auckland Ethics Committee (reference number 001816).
Data availability
All supporting data is available as an electronic supplementary material.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve staff, particularly Nick Ackroyd and Kirsty Willis, for their continued support of our research and allowing our use of the park’s captive kea population. We also thank our two anonymous reviewers for their excellent comments on this manuscript.
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This project was made possible through the support of a grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation (AHT), a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (AHT), and a Prime Minister’s McDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize (AHT).
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warc | 202143 | It’s not uncommon to struggle to feel happy from time to time, with the various challenges that life throws at us weighing us down, but there are many ways that we can boost our happiness. These range from getting more sleep, to spending more time outdoors or consuming a healthier, more balanced diet.
Yet, many of us might feel that we’d be happier if we were in a different situation, living in a different place, where happiness was that much easier to achieve. Well, we wanted to put this idea to the test.
That’s why NiceRx has analyzed 50 countries from around the world, measuring them against a range of happiness factors, to create a guide to the happiest nations on the planet. We’ve also compared happiness levels in all 50 states for those of us who prefer the home comforts of familiar soil.
So, is there a distant land where happiness is taken as a given? Or is this just a case of the grass being greener on the other side?
Here we take a look at the ten countries with the highest overall happiness score. Are they what you were expecting? And could you see yourself living in any of these happy places?
Having looked at the top performers, we now turn our attention to those countries that didn’t rank so highly. Despite the low ratings, would you still consider a new life in these countries?
So, are you dreaming of a happier life abroad? Or are you perfectly happy with life in your country? Check out our full rankings to see how your home country stacks up on the global stage.
Having looked at the happiness levels in some of the major countries from across the world, we now turn our attention to domestic happiness. Here, we’ve looked at how each of the 50 states compare across a range of happiness-related factors and have ranked them according to an overall Happiness Score.
At the other end of the scale are the least happy states in the country. These parts of the USA perform much more poorly across our range of happiness factors, making them more difficult places to live a happy life.
Didn’t see your state in our top and bottom tables? Find it in our full ranking table below to see how it compares, and consider whether a move might be a good thing for your own personal happiness.
We wanted to find the happiest places in the world, both in the USA and globally. To do this, we divided our study into two sections, one looking at happiness levels in all 50 states, with the other comparing happiness across 50 countries from around the world.
For our state-level analysis, we used CDC data to find out the life expectancy and homicide rate in each state. We then used data from World Population Review to record the mean household income and safety rating for each state and used Data USA to find each state’s rates of mental illness and poverty.
These factors cover a range of different topics, from health and social affairs to economic matters. This provided us with a good overview of the different stresses and strains that people living in these states might experience.
Once we had collected the data, we then combined it into a single “Happiness Score” that gave equal weighting to each factor and produced an overall score out of ten. This allowed us to rank the states by their happiness levels and reveal the happiest and most unhappy parts of the country.
For our national-level study, we created a list of 50 countries to investigate. These included members of the EU and EEA, the G20, and OECD countries, along with several other major economies.
We used data from Numbeo to find the safety scores for each country, as well as each nation’s scores on the Affordability Index and Quality of Life Index. Next, we used World Bank data to find the life expectancy in each country and used Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index to record levels of perceived corruption in public life. We also took each country’s score from the 2021 World Happiness Report, which looked at a range of additional indicators.
As with the state-level portion of our study, we combined the scores for each country into a single, equally-weighted Happiness Score which allowed us to directly compare the countries, rank them according to happiness, and reveal the happiest places in the world. | 4,321 | 1,937 | 9,454 |
warc | 202143 | The opening of the village of Slatersville was the beginning of the mill village system in the United States. In this model, known as the Rhode Island System of Manufacture, the company built everything that their workers needed to survive. A company constructed or paid in part for worker housing, stores, farms, churches, schools, and community halls. These structures provided all the necessities of life to the mill’s workers while also maintaining a system of control and manipulation.
An entire family unit was the basis of labor system. Mill owners built multiple family homes. The parents and children lived and worked together. Often the fathers found work on the company owned farm or as mechanics fixing machinery while mothers and children worked in the mills. They all lived with a strict routine run by a factory bell. The average workday was ten to fourteen hours depending on the season. Families worked in poorly insulated mills which were too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. This work was not always hard on their bodies, but it could be repetitive, with people doing the same things over and over. The repetitive nature of the work often ended in injury. These poor working conditions made for a difficult life for these mill families.
Many also found it nearly impossible to get ahead, or to even get out of debt. For their labors, mill workers were often paid in company money, a practice that is no longer legal today. This money, which could only be used in a company-owned store, ensured that workers had to buy products from the company which they worked for. Credit was also available, and as expenses added up at the company store, money was deducted from the worker’s paycheck. Rent for living in mill housing was also often deducted from a worker’s paycheck. Most mill families worked long hours and were still often in a constant state of debt to the company.
Churches in these mill communities were often subsidized or directly funded by mill owners. These institutions served a dual purpose. Mill owners used religion to encourage what they thought were good behaviors. Ministers preached sermons on obedience, diligence, and timeliness. All behaviors mill owners wanted from their employees. But churches also served as a community center. They might be the one place, besides the mill, where workers could gather and socialize. Churches also put on community events like concerts, lecture series, and field days to bring people together.
Another source of community came from sports. Baseball was a major part of mill life. Most mill villages had their own baseball teams and played other mill villages. Eventually, the Blackstone Valley League was a semi-pro circuit which produced some Major League Baseball players. Most in the community turned out for these games which served as a social outlet and community builder for these mill villages.
The mill village system gave companies a steady stream of workers and income. Mill workers who came to these villages gave up much of their own freedom to live a more stable life. They were guaranteed a steady home and work, and they were not responsible for their housing or producing their own food or other products. On the other hand, they lost almost all their autonomy and freedom of movement. Often, these workers were in debt to the mill company, and they were manipulated to serve the economic ends of their employers. This way of life still effects the economics of the United States today.
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warc | 202143 | Housebuilder of the Year and 5 Star Home Builder, Hill Group nominated Nuspan to deliver their floors for 322 houses in an 18 month program at Tidworth for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
Hill, who receive many house awards for their design and quality, designed each of the 3 and 4 bed homes with the Ministry of Defence’s requirements in mind, Nuspan simultaneously modified the precast insulated floors with flush sides to the perimeter of the homes to allow for the timber frame to be fixed securely. Further manufacturing adjustments included service lines within the slabs to allow for the provision of only a levelling compound rather than a screed which helped keep to the tight schedule.The Nuspan installation achieved an average of 8 plots per visit, giving immediate safe access to follow on trades.
‘Programming and the rate of build was our biggest challenge. We had 18 months to deliver 322 units on behalf of our mutual client and in order to help secure success, we understood the importance of offsite fabrication and streamlined site installation processes such as Nuspan flooring solutions.
The daily installation rate far exceeded outputs associated with both traditional block and beam and raft construction methods. With Nuspan being a ‘pre-insulated’ product, we were also able to remove the screeding operation and drying times allowing internal trades to progress immediately once weather tight.
In addition to accelerated installation rates, Nuspan offered a space saving alternative. Block and beam is often procured in full artic loads meaning space on site is allocated for storage when being installed by the groundworks contractor.
There are cost savings to be factored in and internal values transferred from insulation and screeding budgets. The true saving to the job was on guaranteed delivery and installation processes allowing an accelerated build programme.
Nuspan have ‘Good quality product delivered with an excellent services. The installation crews were professional and competent.’ ‘Based on installation of 300m2 per day, we believe by installing the Nuspan product we have saved circa 15-20 working days verses block and beam.
With housing demand continuing to outstrip supply and the government’s desire to push house building outputs over the next parliamentary period, we understand the need to invest in MMC. The industry wide shortage of apprenticeships and access to a skilled workforce also factors heavily on the businesses decisions to proceed with factory assembled components.
We believe that strong relationships have been forged during the Tidworth project and we would happily consider Nuspan as a standout performer and a valued member of our supplychain. We hope that this relationship can continue to grow for the benefit of both companies.'
- Project Director, Ryan Harris comments why he chooses Nuspan floors. | 2,936 | 1,476 | 5,738.726287 |
warc | 202143 | PROJECTS
For a specified test set, we develop a highly efficient algorithm to determine an optimal subset from a large candidate set in which the individuals have been genotyped but not phenotyped yet. The chosen subset serves as a training set to be phenotyped, and then a genomic selection (GS) model is built based on its phenotype and genotype data. In this study, we consider the additive effects whole-genome regression model and adopt ridge regression estimation for marker effects in the GS model. The resulting GS model is then employed to predict genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) for the individuals of the test set, which have been genotyped only. We propose a new optimality criterion to determine the required training set, which is derived directly from Pearson’s correlation between GEBVs and phenotypic values of the test set. Pearson’s correlation is the standard measure for prediction accuracy of a GS model. Our proposed methods can be applied to data with the varying degree of population structure. All the R functions for implementing our training set determination algorithms are available from the R package TSDFGS. The algorithms are illustrated with two datasets which have strong (rice genome dataset) and mild (wheat genome dataset) population structures. Our methods are shown to be advantageous over existing ones, mainly because they fully use the genomic relationship between the test set and the training set by taking into account both the variance and bias for predicting GEBVs. | 1,536 | 761 | 3,074.018397 |
warc | 202143 | Lawyers for Dr. Yorai ‘Benny’ Benzeevi appeared in court Wednesday, asking Judge Michael B. Sheltzer to lift a temporary restraining order freezing the former Tulare hospital CEO’s money, bank accounts, and future earnings.
The judge declined to make an immediate decision, stating that he would deliberate on the arguments and filings from each side and issue a written ruling in the days to come.
Sheltzer heard arguments from Benzeevi’s defense team — Oliver Wanger, Peter Jones, and Christopher Lisieski of the Wanger Jones Helsley firm — and Trevor Holly with the Tulare County District Attorney’s office. Benzeevi appeared remotely in the courtroom via Zoom.
Benzeevi, as CEO of Healthcare Conglomerate Associates (HCCA), oversaw management of hospitals owned by the Southern Inyo and Tulare Local Healthcare Districts until 2017, when both districts cut ties with the company and later filed suit against HCCA, leading to an extended period of legal acrimony before HCCA and each district signed settlements.
The district attorney’s office later charged Benzeevi, former HCCA CFO Alan Germany, and Baker Hostetler attorney Bruce Greene with a laundry list of alleged crimes related to the management of the two hospitals in August 2020, leading to Benzeevi’s arrest in December 2020.
All three have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
“We anxiously await our opportunity to present our client’s side of the story, based on the actual facts of what happened in this extraordinarily complex case,” Jones told the
Valley Voice.
Wednesday’s effort is separate from a 2019 case in which Benzeevi’s attorneys attempted to take back $937,000 seized by the district attorney’s office. His legal team appealed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno; records show the appeal was “denied as moot” by the court.
Funds frozen in 2020
On August 12, 2020, one day after charges were filed against the three, the district attorney’s office was able to obtain an “ex parte” — without prior knowledge or involvement of the trio’s attorneys — temporary restraining order that prevented them from accessing multiple bank accounts.
The restraining order also prevented them from “withdrawing, transferring, disbursing, encumbering, granting a security interest in, squandering, hiding, secreting, granting a preference to, or fraudulently conveying, or otherwise dissipating or disposing” of “any other thing of value,” including any bank accounts, retirement accounts, or valuables not specifically listed, effectively freezing any future bank accounts.
Germany later came to an agreement with the district attorney’s office allowing him to access income from his employment, wholly unfreeze multiple accounts, draw funds from two accounts exclusively for legal fees, only keeping a 401K and IRA under a partial freeze.
Freezing more accounts
On September 2, 2021, Sheltzer signed off on another ex parte order, this time freezing an Israeli bank account belonging to Benzeevi, an Israeli citizen.
According to a Statement of Probable Cause filed with the court, after the initial temporary restraining order was granted, investigators with the district attorney’s office discovered a series of wire transfers from a US bank account into the account with Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In the statement, Rodney Klassen, an investigator with the Tulare County District Attorney’s office, wrote that he “believes [the transfers were] in an effort to prevent these funds from being seized as restitution.”
“I am of the opinion and do believe that Dr. Benzeevi is holding currency assets in the Stale of Israel and that these funds are lawfully siezable [sic],” Klassen’s statement read.
Fighting the freeze
No agreement to access funds exists for Benzeevi, who is instead fighting to have the restraining order lifted in its entirety.
Lisieski said that the restraining order should be lifted because it was sought in a “procedurally improper” manner, because the basis for the restraining order — to ensure restitution — does not apply in this case, and because the order violates Benzeevi’s Sixth Amendment right to an attorney by denying him funds to pay for counsel.
Though Germany was able to seek a stipulation allowing him to access funds for both defense counsel and for day-to-day life, Lisieski told the court that having Benzeevi apply to the court for limited access to his funds would effectively “flip the burden” from the district attorney’s office to Benzeevi.
He also told the court that the broad grip on Benzeevi’s funds — past, present and future — was unconstitutional: the office made no effort to differentiate between “tainted” funds linked to any alleged crimes and “untainted” funds that existed outside of the sphere of the HCCA case, Lisieski said.
Holly argued that Benzeevi’s legal team misinterpreted the law: the district attorney’s office could constitutionally freeze his assets whether they were tainted or not, as long as a process existed to allow him access to untainted, unrelated funds for his criminal defense.
“The defense’s contentions at this point are purely hypothetical, as they have never requested
attorney’s fees,” Holly stated in a court filing.
Benzeevi’s attorneys wrote that he has “struggled to make ends meet and mount a defense to the District Attorney’s exhaustive complaint,” noting that District Attorney Tim Ward said in 2018 that the HCCA case was the “largest investigation ever undertaken” by his office: Benzeevi would undoubtedly need to be able to pay “substantial attorneys’ fees” in order to defend himself.
“Dr. Benzeevi needs money to pay his lawyers,” Lisieski told the court. “[The restraining order] includes assets that haven’t even been earned yet.”
Additionally, though the district attorney’s office indicated in a filing that the court “has jurisdiction to preserve as much as twenty-million four-hundred thousand dollars ($20,400,000),” the office’s anticipated amount of restitution and fines, Lisieski told the court that restitution to the two healthcare districts didn’t apply in this case.
It didn’t apply, he said, because HCCA had settled with both of them: the company never owed them money — each district owed HCCA, he stated — and through the settlements, HCCA agreed to effectively take a haircut and settle.
Holly argued that the districts settled out of desperation. Benzeevi’s finance company, Vi Healthcare Finance, had entered into a 2017 agreement with Southern Inyo to extend a loan secured by the district’s future tax revenues.
Separately, HCCA placed a lien on Evolutions one day before the Tulare Local Healthcare District filed bankruptcy. The property was one of the district’s few pieces of otherwise-unencumbered property, and with HCCA’s lien, it could not be used to secure financing to reopen Tulare Regional Medical Center.
“The districts were desperate — they couldn’t afford to go to court,” Holly told the court. “So they settled.”
He characterized the settlements as HCCA having each district “by the throat.”
Lisieski challenged that characterization multiple times.
“The settlements that were enacted were a fraction of what the districts owed to HCCA,” he told the court.
All sides met, set aside their differences, and agreed that HCCA was owed money, he said.
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warc | 202143 | TLMI Leadership Execution
The Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) held its 2012 Converter Meeting in Phoenix, with the theme: “Executing Leadership: Know the Way, Show the Way.” Art Yerecic, chairman of TLMI and president of Yerecic Label, set a positive tone early by welcoming several new converter members, which included Allen-Bailey Tag & Label, one of the original founding members of TLMI. He also reported that 102 converter members had participated in the annual Ratio Study, the most ever, and that a total of 30 TLMI member facilities have obtained L.I.F.E. (environmental) certification, with 10 more currently working through the process. In a recent survey of the companies that have received L.I.F.E. certification, one of the greatest benefits stemming from the certification was “reduced operating costs.”
Greg Jackson, meeting chair and president of Columbine Label Company, brought in an impressive lineup of speakers. The four presentations touched on some common themes, while providing attendees any number of tangible, practical ideas to take back to their businesses.
Alan Beaulieu, senior analyst, economist, and principal with the Institute for Trend Research (ITR), started off the program by providing some economic forecasts for the coming years. He believes 2012 will be better than 2011 and that the general economic conditions will be pretty favorable through 2018, with a mild recession in late 2013 through 2014. The reasons for the optimism in the shorter term come from many of the current trends: liquidity is up; leading indicators are up; exports are up; employment is rising (at a normal pace); banks are lending; and there’s a stimulative monetary policy. In this environment, Beaulieu recommended that companies may want to invest in customer market research (know what your customers value); expand credit; and improve efficiency with investment in technology and software.
Out in time, Beaulieu says the U.S. debt burden will start to accelerate in 2015 stemming from entitlement programs and the increasing number of baby boomers entering the pension years. In the face of this, taxes will have to be raised, and he predicts a “nasty” recession in the 2018/2019 time frame. If that’s not bad enough, he says we’re on a track for a depression around 2030.
Howard Putman, former CEO of Southwest Airlines, followed with a session titled, “Leadership: Successful Strategies through Turbulence.” He stressed the value of a “super-ordinate” goal, one that drives significant change and improvement. For Southwest, it was to turn planes around at the gates in 10 minutes. He also pointed out that the very successful companies sell a vision or an experience, not simply a product or service.
Bob Prosen, president and CEO of the Prosen Center for Business Advancement, spoke on the topic, “How to Execute with Certainty.” He pointed out three common roadblocks to watch out for: planning in lieu of action; lack of accountability; and rationalizing inferior performance (focus on results, not activities).
Kraig Kramers, president and CEO of Corporate Partners, provided “CEO Tools for Every Manager.” He highlighted the value of listening to employees (W4C, walk the four corners), along with the use of trailing 12-month charts (T12M), which, he says, “always tell the truth.” Kramers emphasized that of eight things people need in their jobs, the most important are communication and recognition.
These points from the presentations represent the tip of the iceberg. TLMI members who attended these presentations were rewarded with a long list of items they could implement to improve their businesses. | 3,758 | 1,911 | 7,183.659864 |
warc | 202143 | COVID-19 Offers a Chance to Course Correct the Health Care Industry
Author: Michael Thompson, president and CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
The COVID-19 global pandemic and resulting economic slowdown had profound impacts on many sectors, including tourism, aviation, oil, finance and health care.
In the U.S., the virus continues to take its toll; people are once again urged to get vaccinated, wear masks and take other precautions. Some companies are further delaying plans to return to the office – threatening the recovery of these markets.
In the 40 years prior to the pandemic, all these industries have experienced previous economic corrections or crises – except for health care. The word
crisis originates from a Greek word meaning a point at which change must come. In that vein, recovering from the COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to reset and change our baseline for health care. Health Care Has Become Unsustainable
The U.S. health care system has become unaffordable and unsustainable for the average American and the employers who provide health benefits to 60% of Americans. As we work to recover from the massive toll the pandemic has taken on our physical and financial health, we must take this opportunity to develop a more adaptable, streamlined and efficient system.
Because our health care industry has previously been insolated from economic hardship, its infrastructure has grown exponentially with little focus on productivity or quality improvements. Overhead has ballooned, and minimal constraints have been placed on pricing.
Industry consolidation has only made matters worse resulting in a concentration of economic power with no counterbalancing oversight or control. Lack of transparency and accountability, incentive misalignment and price gouging have become all too commonplace. This would be unacceptable in any other industry with functional market forces.
The Sutter Health decision offers a case study of a health system using its market power to extract favorable and indefensible contract terms from employers, employees and their families. The RAND hospital transparency study demonstrates that these pricing inequities are common place.
COVID-19 Shines a Spotlight on the Need for Change
COVID-19 has turned the health care system on its head. Capacity of the system has been strained like never before, while at the same time preventive care and screenings have decreased and virtual care has increased exponentially. The pandemic has laid bare the challenges of our health care system, while presenting opportunities to accelerate long overdue economic corrections and quality improvements.
Sustaining these critical services is essential, but we must invest more in primary care to meet the diverse needs of all Americans. We must require transparency, accountability and oversight to curb future growth in hospital spending. And we must remove barriers to sustaining the growth in virtual care options while capturing the efficiencies and standardized performance improvement opportunities virtual care offers.
At the same time, we must also invest more in the quality and capacity of mental health and addiction services and demand accountability for reducing inequities when it comes to access and care.
We have an opportunity to build back a better system together. This requires industry stakeholders, including health system administrators, policy makers and employers, to work together to build an affordable, accessible and quality health care system. Our country, our communities and our people deserve nothing less.
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warc | 202143 | The US Department of Justice is investigating whether financial technology companies including Atlanta-based Kabbage Inc may have erred while distributing billions of dollars in pandemic aid to struggling small businesses.
The investigation, led by the Justice Department’s civil division, is examining whether Kabbage and other FinTech businesses miscalculated how much aid borrowers were entitled to from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) due to confusion over how to account for payroll taxes, the three people said.
A fourth person with direct knowledge of the matter said a number of FinTech’s were being probed over the PPP tax issues but declined to provide names.
A probe does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing and it was unclear if the investigation will result in penalties against the companies, two of the three sources said.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment.
Kabbage Inc, which manages Kabbage’s PPP loans and also goes by the brand K Servicing, did not respond to multiple calls and emails seeking comment. Spokespeople for American Express, which in August bought most of Kabbage’s assets other than its loan portfolio, declined to comment.
The previously unreported probe underscores how the unprecedented $780 billion program, which was launched by the Small Business Administration (SBA) on April 3, 2020, to mitigate the fallout from COVID-19 shutdowns, has created legal and reputational risks for some lenders.
We reported back in November that a handful of federal agencies were scrutinizing lenders over a range of PPP issues, including failing to properly vet borrowers’ payroll expense calculations and potentially discriminatory lending policies.
Under the PPP, big banks, community lenders and FinTech’s have dispensed millions of government-backed loans to small businesses hurt by the pandemic lockdowns. If borrowers spend the money on payroll and other business expenses, the government repays the lender on behalf of the borrower.
While the program has been hailed as a lifeline for small businesses, its launch was rushed and many of its rules were initially unclear. One challenge lenders faced in April 2020 was how to account for federal, state and local taxes when calculating a company’s overall payroll costs, which determined their maximum allowable loan.
Some lenders over-accounted for taxes, potentially inflating loans, while others under-accounted for taxes, potentially denying borrowers aid they were entitled to, the two sources said.
FinTech’s have attracted government scrutiny because they processed loans at high speed using software that in some cases had glitches, causing errors in applications, one of the sources said. Other industry sources also said that FinTechs’ use of automated lending platforms with few manual checks caused errors to be replicated across thousands of loans.
SBA data showed FinTech’s have issued around $26.5 billion worth of PPP loans. Kabbage made nearly 300,000 PPP loans worth $7 billion between the 3rd of April 3, 2020, and the 8th of August, 2020, according to its website.
Lenders have said they were under enormous pressure to lend vast sums of money to millions of businesses quickly, while having to keep up with ever-changing PPP rules.
A spokeswoman for the SBA declined to comment.
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warc | 202143 | Yahoo! News had this headline at the top on Thursday morning.
When you click the article, you get this different headline:
The actual appropriate headline for this article would be "A Baby's First Guide to Why the US Must Initiate a World War in Order to Prevent Chinese Reunification."
The article gives a quick, slanted and false outline of the situation which does not attempt to either:
It then gives a series of quotes from supposed experts on what Joe Biden should do.
A firm commitment to defend Taiwan is the best way to prevent an invasion
"The United States needs to remove the ambiguity about whether it would come to Taiwan's defense. Uncertainty about U.S. intentions raises the risk of war. … President Biden should declare that, though we will not support a Taiwanese declaration of independence from China, we will defend the island if it is attacked." — Max Boot,
Washington Post
The U.S. must accept it has nothing to gain from defending Taiwan
"Bluntly put, America should refuse to be drawn into a no-win war with Beijing. It needs to be said up front: there would be no palatable choice for Washington if China finally makes good on its decades-long threat to take Taiwan by force." — Daniel L. Davis, defense priorities senior fellow,
Guardian
The U.S. should maintain its noncommittal position as long as it can
"As a superpower, the United States should preserve flexibility in its global security relationships. It also is not even obvious that Taiwan's body politic would welcome an explicit security guarantee from the United States." — Therese Shaheen,
National Review
Taiwan is too important to U.S. interests to let it be taken by the Chinese
"Abandoning Taiwan in the face of a Chinese military assault would be a monumental disaster. … The U.S. cannot afford to see a country that occupies vital strategic space in the Western Pacific subdued by Beijing." — Hal Brands,
Bloomberg
War with China would pose an existential threat to the U.S.
"Stumbling into a shooting war over Taiwan is akin to opening a Pandora's box, and it would make the last 20 years of conflict in the Middle East look like an uneventful peacekeeping mission. A fight between Washington and Beijing could also escalate to the nuclear level, particularly if the Chinese Communist Party determines that the use of such weapons is the only thing standing in the way of a humiliating defeat." — Daniel R. DePetris,
NBC News
America has a duty to protect the free world from authoritarianism
"The United States and its allies have built and defended a rules-based system over the past 75 years that has produced unprecedented peace, prosperity, and freedom globally. I don't want to trade that in for a world in which Americans stand by as revisionist autocracies like China gobble up neighbors by military force." — Matthew Kroenig,
Foreign Policy
The U.S. also has diplomatic tools to deter China from invading
"To further demonstrate U.S. resolve, Biden should tell Beijing that any more threats of force against Taiwan's participation in the democracy summit will trigger immediate diplomatic recognition of Taiwan and an official statement of Washington's new 'One China, One Taiwan' policy. Beijing must understand that war would mean instant Taiwan independence." — Joseph Bosco,
The Hill
The best way to defend Taiwan is through investment, not military threats
"Hyping the threat that China poses to Taiwan does Beijing's work for it. Taiwan's people need reasons for confidence in their own future, not just reminders of their vulnerabilities. If American policy makers want to help Taiwan, they will need to go beyond focusing on the military threat. They need to modernize the U.S.-Taiwan economic relationship, help Taiwan diversify its trade ties and provide platforms for Taiwan to earn dignity and respect on the world stage." — Richard Bush, Bonnie Glaser and Ryan Hass,
NPR
Some of those are funnier than others. The idea that a country that is force-vaccinating its population is less authoritarian than a country that is not doing that is actually so ridiculous that it borders on the deranged or outright insane.
But this is actually more anti-war material than you usually see anywhere on a mainstream website, so I guess good job with that, Yahoo!
But while they do include people saying "we really should probably think about whether or not we want to start a nuclear war," what is lacking is a sober perspective.
Why is Taiwan even an issue?
Why are we even talking about this at all?
Not one single person in this entire media landscape will either:
You end up in a situation where no one even has any idea what we're actually talking about.
How is it possible that we've reached the point where we're considering a nuclear war over vague "strategic interests" that no one is able to explain in concrete terms?
Furthermore – and I hate to be the one to have to point this out – but things are tough all over.
America and the rest of the West have a lot, lot, lot of problems. We have very real economic, political and social problems that no one is offering any solutions to. So the idea that we're talking about going to war to protect some fake country on the other side of the globe is simply inexplicable.
If I was allowed to offer a 200-word sound bite for that Yahoo! News article, it would be this:
Taiwan is a part of China, and the reasons the US occupied it originally are no longer relevant. Instead of continuing to support the fantasy of a democratic China under the guise of the myth of Taiwanese nationhood, the United States should open talks about reunification. China will be open to giving wide-ranging concessions in exchange for the opportunity at peaceful reunification, and this will allow the West to clear up various unrelated conflicts with China, including on matters of international trade. — Andrew Anglin, Hoax Watch
I am happy that some in the media are finally saying that what we are talking about here is a nuclear war. That's a long way from where we were a couple years ago, when the State Department first started its saber-rattling under Donald Trump. The humiliation in Afghanistan seems to have sobered a few people up.
But the fact that this discussion still remains so very far outside of the real, in the realm of the viciously and confusingly abstract, speaks to the moronic nature of the American mind. These people are literally asking you to believe that every single person in the entire Western world supports the idea of an "independent and democratic Taiwan" being "strategically important to the United States and its allies" even while not one person among this unified chorus is capable of explaining what either of those concepts means.
The basic fact, which anyone who knows the history knows but which no one in the American media is willing to say (and it wouldn't be printed if they were willing), is that Taiwan was set up as an alternative government to the CCP government of China. The American goal was to foster a "democracy" government in Taiwan, which would eventually rule all of China. To this day, the government of Taiwan officially claims that it is the legitimate government of the entirety of China. This is not a secret, and yet somehow, it remains totally unsaid, and instead we are told that "Taiwan" is some kind of independent country that "China" is trying to invade and conquer.
The fact that Taiwan is not a country, but a piece of China occupied by the United States, does not necessarily mean that we should just give it back to China. But any serious discussion about whether we should or should not give it back to China should start from the point of accurately defining what Taiwan is. Obviously, if it is accurately defined, that would lead a lot of people to grasp the Chinese perspective on the issue, and make China look much less villainous, which is why there is some kind of soft ban on properly defining Taiwan in the media.
I think it would be morally good to simply give Taiwan back to China. But geopolitics are not based around moral goodness, so it makes sense that because America currently maintains control of Taiwan, America would instead negotiate concessions from China as part of the reunification process. But because we live in this fantasy world, we can't have that discussion, and instead it's simply "should we go to war to protect Taiwanese independence?" – a stupid and nonsensical question.
America is not a serious country, and its fixation with censorship has ensured that there can never be any form of seriousness injected into any discussion. Instead of talking about actual reality, the media and the political class argue about fantasies with only abstract connection to physical realities.
This is what a "dying empire" looks like.translate | 16 Oct 2021 | 10:10 am
July 12, 2018, the FDA convened a public meeting to talk about what to call lab-grown meat. As reported in The Atlantic,
1 at the end of the meeting there was no consensus. The war of words was aimed at choosing an association that would evoke a specific emotional response in the consumer.
Various speakers got up and called the lab growth "clean meat," "artificial meat," "in vitro meat," "cell culture products," "cultured meat" or "culture tissue." Each term had its advocates and critics.
For example, the beef producers didn't like the term "clean meat." Danielle Beck, a lobbyist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) told the reporter from The Atlantic the term is "inherently offensive to traditional meat producers, as if real meat is somehow dirty."
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However, that's exactly what the fake meat industry would like you to believe. In fact, the lab-grown meat market rests on the shoulders of the claim that eating real meat is destroying our planet. Singapore
3 was the first country to give regulatory approval for products that look like meat and did not come from real animals.
The decision paved the way for the rest of the world, and today fake meat is becoming so popular that you'll find it in most Walmarts, Targets, other grocery stores and some popular chain restaurants.
4 The fake meat industry offered their product as a light in a dark world, as many were laboring under the excessive news reports of COVID-19 cases.
It may have seemed that the big tech giants were looking out for the food supply at an unprecedented time in history. But you don't have to look too deeply into what's happening to discover that patented fake meat is not about "saving the planet" or "sustainability" but, instead, is just another foray into controlling populations and amassing great wealth.
Lab-Grown Meat Is About Big Business
The food critic for the
Financial Times 5 wrote a piece in early September 2021, in which he made a strong case for how lab-grown meat is not about sustainability or making "green" decisions but, rather about intellectual property (IP) and creating a financial windfall.
He took a historical perspective on IP, listing the patents that have been filed protecting breakfast cereals, carbonated beverages, drugs, vaccines, genetically modified plants and pesticides. In each case the IP owned by Kellogg, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Big Pharma and agrichemical businesses was the lifeblood of their financial success. He writes:
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"Currently, there's not a lot of IP in the meat industry … Saving animal lives, preventing the clear-cutting of rainforest, even the reduction of methane farts don't excite investors — those changes can't translate to profit.
The holy grail is replacing the meat we consume with a proprietary product, owning the IP on meat. Coca-Cola and McDonald's managed to grow patented food products into two of the top food companies on the globe by market cap, but a patent on animal-free 'meat' could entirely dwarf their achievements."
Bill Gates promotes the idea of eating 100% synthetic beef to fight climate change.
7 The idea is one of his core tenets in his new book in which he lays out how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Mind you, this book was written by a man 8 who built a 65,993 square-foot (6,131 square-meter) home with a 23-car garage, 20-person cinema and 24 bathrooms. He owns five other homes, a horse farm, four private jets and a "collection" of helicopters.
According to one study reported in
Business Today, his annual carbon footprint is 7,493 metric tons of carbon, much of which is produced by his aircraft. In an article published in Forbes, March 22, 2021, one reporter writes: 9
"Now, I don't necessarily agree with Gates. And I hate the idea of governments deciding what their citizens should eat (which seems to be what Gates is suggesting). But my job is to help you make money. And there's no question that there's billions to be made in the technology behind plant-based meat."
Unfortunately, that may be the path that many will take to acquire wealth over health. Beyond Meat is already worth $12 billion
10 and it's projected to double by 2025. And yet, as the Forbes reporter points out, the meat industry is the tip of the iceberg. Synthetic biology uses technology to allow scientists to program life. It reconfigures DNA so that it produces something entirely new.
This is the technology that Beyond Meat uses to create more "realistic" burgers using soybeans. He also points out that Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines are made of a synthetic strand of genetic code and goes on to write, "I believe, with the possible exception of artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology has the biggest potential of any disruptive technology to radically reshape our world."
Control Food Supply = Control Populations and Countries
In January 2021, an analysis by
The Land Report 11 found that Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland in the U.S. This has made him the largest private farmland owner. 12 During Gates' interview with MIT Technology Review, Gates said: 13
"So no, I don't think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat. I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand."
It is the last sentence in that paragraph that makes the most sense as you consider how Gates and other technocrats are aiming at controlling populations through central production and distribution of food. He says, "change the behavior of people or use regulation to totally shift the demand." Promoting lab-grown protein is not about sustainability but, rather, about wealth and power.
Using intellectual property, tech giants hope to replace living animals with patented plant- and animal-derived alternatives, which will effectively control food supply. And Gates' 242,000 acres of farmland spread across Illinois, Louisiana, California, Iowa and nearly one dozen other states
14 appear to be earmarked for genetically engineered corn and soy crops. 15 In other words, he's farming the basic crops needed for (plant-based) fake meat and processed foods. 16
Lab-grown meat alternatives differ from their vegetarian counterparts by virtue of initially starting with cell cultures from living animals. Mosa Meat grows their meat after harvesting a small number of cells from livestock "who are then returned, almost unscathed, to their fields."
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As described in
Popular Mechanics, Memphis Meats, in which Gates is a serious investor, 18 tries to avoid animals whenever possible. Instead, they use cells that have been procured from animal biopsies. 19
In other words, when a veterinarian has decided to biopsy an area of an animal to make a medical determination about an abnormal growth, Memphis Meats harvests cells that would have otherwise been discarded and grows those into lab grown meat. Swapping traditional, whole food grown by small farmers for mass-produced fake foods is part of the plan for The Great Reset.
The objective is to control the entire food supply. To that end, researchers and manufacturers are also looking at milk proteins made from genetically engineered Trichoderma reesei fungus to produce a dairy-like protein casein and whey. Popular Science named Perfect Day's animal-free whey protein as the Grand Award winner in the engineering category of the 100 greatest innovations of 2020.
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The EAT Forum, co-founded by the Wellcome Trust, developed a Planetary Health Diet
21 designed to be applied to the global population. It entails cutting meat and dairy intake by up to 90%, and replacing it largely with foods made in laboratories, along with cereals and oil.
Their largest initiative is called FReSH, which aims to transform the food system by working with biotech and fake meat companies to replace whole foods with lab-created alternatives. In other words, once tech giants have control of meat, dairy, cereals and oils, they will be the ones profiting from and controlling the food supply.
Private companies that control the food supply will ultimately control countries and entire populations. Biotech will eventually push farmers and ranchers out of the equation and will threaten food security. In other words, the work being done in the name of sustainability and saving the planet will give greater control to private corporations.
Health Dangers Associated With Linoleic Acid
It's important to realize that whether it is plant-based or lab-grown, fake meat is a processed food. Imitation meat is not better, or even equal, to real meat. Foods that are not directly from the ground, vines, bushes, trees, bodies of water or animals is considered processed.
Lab-grown meat starts with a muscle sample from a cow. Once in the lab, technicians separate stem cells from the sample and then multiply those dramatically. The cells differentiate into fibers that form muscle tissue. Mosa Meat believes that one tissue sample can yield 80,000 quarter-pounders.
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Tissue growth inside an animal occurs when the blood supply delivers appropriate nutrients to produce healthy muscle growth. This requires that the animal is fed a whole and balanced diet, from which the body extracts the necessary nutrients in an appropriate amount to feed the cells.
The human body then extracts the nutrients found in regeneratively and biodynamically pastured meat. However, as science has demonstrated in the last two decades, growing cells on sugar causes growth, but will not yield health. The sheer ability to grow lab-cultured meat does not indicate that the end product will have any health benefit to the end user.
Plant-based fake meat contains excess amounts of omega-6 fat in the form of linoleic acid (LA). This is one of the most significant contributors to metabolic dysfunction. In my opinion, this metabolic poison is the primary contributor to the rising rates of chronic disease. LA leads to severe mitochondrial dysfunction, decreased NAD+ levels, obesity, insulin resistance and a radical decrease in the ability to generate energy.
The genetic engineering used to produce the flavor and texture of real meat does not reproduce healthy fatty acid composition because the substrate is canola and sunflower oils as the primary sources of fat.
23, 24 The sunflower oil used in both Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meats is 68% LA, 25 which is an extraordinarily high amount.
It is dangerous because LA is susceptible to oxidation and causes oxidation byproducts called OXLAMs (oxidative linoleic acid metabolites). These byproducts devastate your DNA, protein, mitochondria and cellular membranes. This means that fake meat is failing all measures of sustainability and health.
Have You Considered Cultured Meat From Human Cells?
While lab-grown meat and dairy products may sound like science fiction, the next step for food manufacturers comes directly out of the 1973 dystopian film "Soylent Green."
26 The science fiction movie takes place in New York in 2022. In the story, the Earth is severely overpopulated, and people are living in the streets.
For sustenance, people are given rations of water and Soylent Green, which supposedly is a high-protein food made from plankton. In the end, you discover in this futuristic nightmare fantasy of controlling big corporations, that the high-protein drink is actually made from people.
Now, just months away from 2022, scientists are working on lab-grown "meat" made from human cells that are harvested from the inside of human cheeks.
27, 28 This grisly product was first presented as 'art' by a scientist and founder of the biotech firm Spiderwort. Tech Times reported November 22, 2020, that: 29
"A new 'DIY meal kit' that can be used to grow steaks that are made mostly from human cells was just recently nominated by the London-based Design Museum as the 'design of the year.'
Called 'Ouroboros Steak,' this is named right after the circular symbol of a snake known for eating itself tail-first. This hypothetical kit would later on come with everything that one person would need in order to use their own cells to grow miniature human meat steaks …"
These kits are not commercially available — yet. But it begs the question of what possesses someone to think that eating a lump of meat made from your own body could be a viable idea? The question must also be raised about whether this is cannibalism.
Those defending the concept claim that since you're eating your own body, it's not cannibalism. However, if it ever becomes commercially available, what's to prevent someone from growing meat from other people's cells — and selling it? And the ick factor aside, how could this impact the spread of disease? For example, tribal cannibalism in Papua, New Guinea,
30 led to a prion disease, which nearly wiped out a tribe of people.
In many villages, after an individual died, the villagers would cook and consume the body in an act of grief. Scientists who studied the tribe believe that one person developed a sporadic incident of Crutchfield-Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. Eating the neurological tissue then spread the disease throughout the tribe.
It doesn't take much to imagine that the strange and unusual side effects being reported by people after receiving a COVID-19 injection may have long-term effects on body tissue. What happens when you culture and eat that body tissue, from yourself or someone else?translate | 16 Oct 2021 | 9:19 am
The first cross-party report says we didn't lockdown early enough. The truth is, lockdowns don't work.
We now move, work, socialise, worship and meet around the UK with relative freedom.* Sadly, truth remains in strict lockdown.
Information is infectious and its transmissibility must be suppressed if it is deemed inconvenient, even if truthful. If it escapes, it can travel faster on social media than an airborne virus and must be captured, quarantined and sanitised to prevent onward infection. Most recently, in a long list of examples, a speech made by MP David Davis about vaccine passports was temporarily suspended from Youtube. Many videos and articles from reputable sources have been labelled misinformation if they run counter to WHO or governmental policy. Social media giants, governments and public health authorities are petrified of outbreaks of misinformation and even, sometimes, the truth.
So it was no surprise that the first cross-party report into the management of the epidemic in the UK, Coronavirus: lessons learned to date was unwilling to tackle certain truths.
One of the main inferences is that lockdown should have been implemented earlier. The truth is that lockdowns don't work and cause great harm.
The report's conclusions are assumptions. Opinions are not backed up with evidence. There is an unwillingness to interrogate the modelling that provides the foundations for the conclusions. The only thing that matters in this report is Covid and deaths by Covid. It is almost as if there are no other societal losses to put in the balance. There is no quantifiable cost benefit analysis of lockdown.
I spoke to Professor Simon Wood, Chair of Computational Studies at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh about the report. Wood authored a peer-reviewed paper published in
Biometrics, which found that Covid-19 levels were probably falling before each of the three lockdowns. A separate paper, with colleague Ernst Wit, came to the same conclusion for the first two lockdowns, by the alternative approach of re-doing Imperial College's major modelling study of the epidemic.
In summary he told me,
"The whole report is written within the framework that the only thing that counts is avoiding deaths from Covid, and that full lockdowns were essential. Evidence for the latter seems to be entirely absent. The closest we seem to get to actual evidence on lockdown efficacy is Neil Ferguson's opinion in paragraph 77. The extent to which the committee is really able to weigh scientific evidence, as opposed to opinion, is questionable if paragraph 94 is any guide. This is such a gross misrepresentation of what the cited paper said, that it could have appeared on Twitter, rather than a parliamentary report."
I asked him what he thought about the reliance on modelling throughout the epidemic. There are multiple flaws (expanded on in more detail in my book
A State of Fear, and it's appendix, "Lockdowns Don't Work" and in many articles and papers online, some listed here) but one key flaw is that the Infection Fatality Rate in the initial modelling was 0.9%. By autumn 2020, a peer-reviewed paper by the WHO had put the IFR at 0.23%, and in the UK it is currently (albeit post-vaccination) at 0.096%. Wood generously told me it was,
"difficult to get the IFR right at the outset. We did the analysis thinking Imperial were very on the high side, but it in fact it wouldn't have been assessed as less than 0.6% at the outset." He went on: "The main error is to put too much emphasis on modelling not on measuring. Often models are being used for prediction purposes they were not designed or validated for."
I put it to Wood that, in circular and fallacious reasoning, the modelling is being used to measure the success of lockdown by deaths 'saved' against those predicted by the unsubstantiated and flawed simulated forecasts of the modelling. He agreed: "the post hoc justification for the measures using modelling often looks like bending the model to the conclusion you want to achieve."
There is a growing body of evidence that light interventions and voluntary behaviour changes – ie
not lockdowns – are sufficient to reduce the R. Real world examples support this, namely Sweden, South Dakota and Florida. Conversely, as economist Professor David Paton reported, early and strict lockdowns did not always work. Czechia's did not stop subsequent surges of the virus and further lockdowns. Czechia currently has the sixth highest death rate per million in the world. Peru, another country which enforced very strict and early lockdown, has the worst death rate in the world.
The report's authors state we should learn lessons internationally, but fail to explain what they think happened in Sweden, for instance. In science it's generally a good idea to have a control treatment and, to a limited extent, Sweden provided that. Surely it deserves some discussion if weighing up the evidence on what should have happened. It seems the report's accusation of "British exceptionalism" only travels in one direction.
When data proves that lockdowns cannot be credited with controlling the virus, why does the argument persist? Why is truth still locked down?
Ironically, the authors accuse the government of groupthink, but they might still be under its sway themselves. It will be hard for the enactors and supporters of the lockdown to admit it was a brutal, ineffective and harmful policy. Far easier to assert the main problem is that it wasn't imposed early and hard enough.
The harms of lockdown only get passing mentions. I can't weight this article with the full burden of harms, but in brief: In the first year of lockdown the government borrowed £229 billion, the highest figure since records began in 1946. The pain of broken tax pledges, fiscal drag, inflation, and unemployment won't be felt in full for months and years to come. The NHS waiting list is now 5.74 million and 7.5 million fewer people were referred for routine hospital care between January 2020 and July 2021.
These problems should not appear unexpected – they were foretold by the UK's most eminent disaster and recovery planners.
In this 145 page report, the world "children" is mentioned a mere three times, but the impact of the lockdown on them is not mentioned at all. On World Mental Health Day, the ONS released data on children's mental health and the impact of restrictions. A quarter of 11 to 16 year olds with a probable mental disorder in 2021 said Covid restrictions had made their lives much worse. And the number of young people aged 0 to 18 years old referred to mental health services between April and June 2021 increased by 93% from the same period in 2020, and 41% on 2019 in England.
Another word that is only mentioned three times is "obesity" alongside the other pre-existing health conditions which are known to be associated with poor outcomes for Covid-19. This really is the elephant in the room. The truth is, Covid-19 death rates are ten times higher in countries where more than half the adult population is overweight. In that sense, perhaps our pandemic preparedness should have started many years earlier with better health and dietary advice. Not only does lockdown not tackle the underlying chronic co-morbidities which lead to severe Covid-19 illness and deaths, but lockdown caused British people to gain weight, cease normal exercise and drink more alcohol.
The UK had multiple pandemic plans, including for SARS/MERS outbreaks. The authors of this report claim that we didn't abandon the plans earlier in the crisis because of "groupthink". This is a bizarre subversion – crisis management plans are not supposed to be abandoned during a crisis. If the government were guilty of groupthink, it was in following other countries in implementing an experimental policy. As Professor Ferguson put it,
"It's a communist one party state, we said. We couldn't get away with it in Europe, we thought. And then Italy did it. And we realised we could."
The report does not mention Exercise Alice, a pandemic simulation exercise for MERS that has only been released after persistent Freedom of Information requests. It's not clear that the authors are aware of it.
We will need a more wide-ranging inquiry that establishes whether lockdowns work, if they are sensible, proportionate and moral. Essentially, we must be truthful about what the costs are. We need to balance the losses.
Truth is infectious. Eventually it will peek around the doorframe, dare to stroll outside, evade quarantine and someone will catch a glimpse. Then another. Soon, everyone will be queueing up to greet our old friend Truth with hail-fellow-well-met and a hearty slap on the back. Then we must clutch Truth to us and never again lock it down.
* Although mandatory vaccine passports are a concerning development in Scotland and Wales.translate | 16 Oct 2021 | 3:16 am
The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 27,247 fatalities, and 2,563,768 injuries, following COVID-19 injections.
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Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries.
The total number of countries in Europe is much higher, almost twice as many, numbering around 50. (There are some differences of opinion as to which countries are technically part of Europe.)
So as high as these numbers are, they do NOT reflect all of Europe. The actual number in Europe who are reported dead or injured following COVID-19 shots would be much higher than what we are reporting here.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through September 25, 2021 there are
27,247 deaths and 2,563,768 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:
From the total of injuries recorded, almost half of them (1,222,818) are
serious injuries.
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Seriousnessprovides information on the suspected undesirable effect; it can be classified as 'serious' if it corresponds to a medical occurrence that results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalisation, results in another medically important condition, or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or is a congenital anomaly/birth defect."
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Health Impact News subscriber in Europe ran the reports for each of the four COVID-19 shots we are including here. It is a lot of work to tabulate each reaction with injuries and fatalities, since there is no place on the EudraVigilance system we have found that tabulates all the results.
Since we have started publishing this, others from Europe have also calculated the numbers and confirmed the totals.*
Here is the summary data through October 9, 2021.
Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2, Comirnaty) from BioNTech / Pfizer: 12,835 death s and 1,124,072 injuries to 09/10/2021 Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273 ( CX-024414) from Moderna: 7,322 death s and 328,594 injuries to 09/10/2021 Total reactions for the vaccine AZD1222 /VAXZEVRIA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) from Oxford / AstraZeneca: 5,633 death s and 1,027,132 injuries to 09/10/2021 Total reactions for the COVID-19 vaccine JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) from : Johnson & Johnson
*These totals are estimates based on reports submitted to EudraVigilance. Totals may be much higher based on percentage of adverse reactions that are reported. Some of these reports may also be reported to the individual country's adverse reaction databases, such as the U.S. VAERS database and the UK Yellow Card system. The fatalities are grouped by symptoms, and some fatalities may have resulted from multiple symptoms.COVID-19 Shots Continue to Kill and Injure People Worldwide
The true number of people dying and becoming crippled worldwide following the COVID-19 shots is unknown, since the adverse reaction systems used in most countries are passive systems, and there is tremendous pressure to NOT relate a disability or death to the COVID shots.translate | 16 Oct 2021 | 1:07 am
In an August 21, 2021, newsletter,
1 Dr. Michael Murray discussed the use of quercetin for respiratory infection symptoms. In November 2020, he'd suffered a "very mild and brief bout of COVID-19."
He also recounts an anecdotal story of a friend who developed suspicious respiratory symptoms. His friend had been taking a number of supplements said to offer protection, but was still feeling awful.
As it turns out, the one thing he'd not taken was quercetin, and as soon as he did, that same day, his symptoms started to dissipate. This experience, Murray says, "is consistent with the results from two clinical trials" that were recently published.
Quercetin seems to be a safe, far less expensive, and easier-to-obtain and it works by a similar mechanism, driving zinc into the cells to stop viral replication.
Statistical Improvement in Clinical Outcomes
In the first study,
2 42 COVID-19 outpatients were divided into two groups. One group of 21 patients received standard medical therapy consisting of analgesics and an antibiotic (acetaminophen 500-milligram (mg) to 1,000-mg dose if body temperature was higher than 37.5 degrees C — 99.5 F — with a maximum daily dosage of 3 grams, and 500 mg azithromycin for three consecutive days).
The other group of 21 patients received standard therapy plus the equivalent of 600 mg of quercetin per day (divided into three doses) for seven days, followed by another seven-day course of 400 mg of quercetin per day (divided into two doses).
The quercetin was used with sunflower lecithin, which has been demonstrated to increase absorption in the gut by as much as 20 times, compared to pure quercetin formulations.
The main outcomes being evaluated were virus clearance and symptoms. After one week of treatment, 16 of the 21 patients in the quercetin group tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 and 12 reported that all symptoms had diminished.
In the standard care group, only two tested negative and four had partially improved symptoms. By the end of Week 2, the five remaining patients in the quercetin group tested negative. In the standard care group, 17 of the 19 remaining patients tested negative and one had died.
"These results are impressive and hopefully additional studies will be conducted on hospitalized patients to see how quercetin might be helpful in more severe cases," Murray wrote in his newsletter.
Can Quercetin Reduce Hospitalizations and Deaths?
The second study
3 — a prospective, randomized, controlled and open-label trial — gave 152 COVID-19 outpatients a daily dose of 1,000 mg of quercetin for 30 days to evaluate its adjuvant effects in the treatment of early symptoms and the prevention of severe infection. According to the authors:
"The results revealed a reduction in frequency and length of hospitalization, in need of non-invasive oxygen therapy, in progression to intensive care units and in number of deaths. The results also confirmed the very high safety profile of quercetin and suggested possible anti-fatigue and pro-appetite properties.
QP (Quercetin Phytosome®) is a safe agent and in combination with standard care, when used in early stage of viral infection, could aid in improving the early symptoms and help in preventing the severity of COVID-19 disease. It is suggested that a double-blind, placebo-controlled study should be urgently carried out to confirm the results of our study."
Mechanisms of Action
As noted in the first study
4 above, quercetin was chosen based on the fact that it has antiviral, anti-blood clotting, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, all of which are important in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the second study, more detailed mechanisms of action are reviewed. According to the authors: 5
"SARS-CoV-2 proteases, like 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), papain-like pro-tease (PLpro), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, spike (S)protein and human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) are considered possible targets for developing effective anti-COVID-19 drugs.
Recently, molecular docking studies have suggested the possible binding interaction of quercetin with the 3CLpro, PLpro, and S-hACE2 complex. Some recent results, obtained by biophysical techniques, appear to support the results of the molecular docking studies.
Quercetin, a flavonol not naturally present in the human body, is the most abundant polyphenol in fruits and vegetable and is widely used as a dietary supplement to boost the immune system and promote a healthy lifestyle.
Quercetin is characterized by three crucial properties: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory. The combination of these actions allows quercetin to be a potential candidate to support all unhealthy conditions where oxidative stress, inflammation and immunity are involved."
Initially, quercetin gained attention because it's a zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc — which has well-known antiviral effects — into your cells just like the drug hydroxychloroquine.
Some proposed the primary reason hydroxychloroquine and quercetin worked was because of this feature. Of course, you also had to take zinc along with either of them. To effectively act as a zinc ionophore, the quercetin also needs vitamin C.
Since then, other studies, including the two reviewed here, have shown quercetin has other actions that make it useful against SARS-CoV-2 as well. As reported by Murray in his newsletter:
"In particular, quercetin exerts significant inhibition on the binding of specific spike proteins to ACE-2 receptors, thereby blocking the ability of the virus to infect human cells. Quercetin has also been shown to directly neutralize viral proteins the are critical in the replication of SARS-CoV-2."
In some studies, quercetin has also been shown to inhibit the release of inflammatory cytokines, which could help alleviate infection-related symptoms and suppress excessive inflammatory responses from occurring. Its antioxidant effects may also help prevent tissue damage caused by scavenging free radicals, thereby aiding in the recovery process of viral infections.
6 Quercetin's Antiviral Properties
Quercetin's antiviral properties have been attributed to three main mechanisms of action:
For example, research
7 funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), published in 2008, found it lowers your risk of viral illness such as influenza and boosts mental performance following extreme physical stress, which might otherwise undermine your immune function and render you more susceptible to infections.
Here, cyclists who received a daily dose of 1,000 mg of quercetin in combination with vitamin C (which enhances plasma quercetin levels
8, 9) and niacin (to improve absorption) for five weeks were significantly less likely to contract a viral illness after bicycling three hours a day for three consecutive days, compared to untreated controls. While 45% of the placebo group got sick, only 5% of the treatment group did. Quercetin Works Against Many Common Viruses
Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, several studies had highlighted quercetin's ability to prevent and treat the common cold and seasonal influenza.
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 By attenuating oxidative damage, it also lowers your risk of secondary bacterial infections, 19 which is actually the primary cause of influenza-related deaths.
Importantly, quercetin increases mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle, which suggests part of its antiviral effects are due to enhanced mitochondrial antiviral signaling.
20 Quercetin also works against other viruses, as demonstrated in the following studies:
•A 1985 study found quercetin inhibits infectivity and replication of herpes simplex virus type 1, polio-virus type 1, parainfluenza virus type 3 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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•A 2016 animal study
22 found quercetin inhibited mouse dengue virus and hepatitis virus.
•Other studies have confirmed quercetin's power to inhibit both hepatitis B
23 and C 24 infection.
•A March 2020 study
25 found quercetin provides "comprehensive protection" against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, both in vitro and in vivo, primarily by neutralizing pneumolysin (PLY), 26 one of the toxins released from pneumococci that encourages S. pneumoniae infection to blossom in the first place.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible not only for pneumonia, but can also be involved in some ear and sinus infections, meningitis and certain blood infections.
27 As reported by the authors of this study: 28
"The results indicated that quercetin significantly reduced PLY-induced hemolytic activity and cytotoxicity via repressing the formation of oligomers.
In addition, treatment with quercetin can reduce PLY-mediated cell injury, improve the survival rate of mice infected with a lethal dose of S. pneumoniae, alleviate the pathological damage of lung tissue and inhibit the release of cytokines (IL-1β and TNF-α) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.
Considering the importance of these events in antimicrobial resistant S. pneumoniae pathogenesis, our results indicated that quercetin may be a novel potential drug candidate for the treatment of clinical pneumococcal infections."
How Quercetin Combats Inflammation and Boosts Immunity
Aside from its antiviral activity, quercetin is also known for boosting immunity and combating inflammation. As noted in a 2016 study
29 in the journal Nutrients, mechanisms of action include (but is not limited to) the inhibition of: 30
According to this paper, quercetin also stabilizes mast cells, has cytoprotective activity in the gastrointestinal tract, and "a direct regulatory effect on basic functional properties of immune cells," which allows it to inhibit "a huge panoply of molecular targets in the micromolar concentration range, either by down-regulating or suppressing many inflammatory pathways and functions."
32 Bioavailability
While quercetin does have potent antiviral effects, in order for it to work effectively you need sufficiently high dosages to raise the level of quercetin in your body's tissues. The relatively low absorption rate of quercetin is why a sunflower lecithin formulation was used.
Research
33 published in the July-December 2021 issue of the Journal of Natural Health Products Research, found a quercertin matrix has the same total absorption rate as quercetin phytosome — and higher peak blood levels.
"Since both of these forms of quercetin produce similar blood levels, they should produce the same effects at equal dosages based upon quercetin content," Murray wrote in his newsletter, adding:
"My dosage recommendation as part of a nutritional supplement program to support immune function is 250 mg twice daily.
And in patients with active Infection, my recommendation is … six capsules twice a day providing a total of 3,000 mg of quercetin. This high dosage should be taken for at least 10 days and then reduced to a maintenance dosage of 250 mg twice daily …
[This] high dosage may not be necessary. But my dosage calculations are based upon likely tissue concentrations needed to exert the strongest antiviral effects. And given the safety of quercetin, there is no harm at this level."
Protocol Using Quercetin
One doctor who early brought quercetin into the limelight was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. As hydroxychloroquine became difficult to obtain, Zelenko switched to recommending quercetin instead, as it's readily available as an over-the-counter supplement. For a downloadable "cheat sheet" of Zelenko's protocol for COVID-19, visit VladimirZelenkoMD.com.
Other Health Benefits of Quercetin
There are also other lesser known benefits and uses for quercetin, including the prevention and/or treatment of:
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High blood pressure35,36
Cardiovascular disease37 Obesity38 and metabolic syndrome39 (a cluster of conditions including high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglyceride levels and fat accumulation around the waist that raise your risk for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke) Certain kinds of cancer, in particular leukemia, and to a lesser degree breast cancer40 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)41 Gout42 Arthritis43 Mood disorders44 Aluminum-induced neurodegenerative changes, such as those seen in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).45 Longevity, thanks to its senolytic benefits (clearing out damaged and worn-out cells)46,47
Research has also highlighted quercetin's epigenetic influence and ability to:
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MicroRNAs used to be considered "junk" DNA. But far from being useless, research has revealed so-called "junk" DNA is actually microRNA and plays a crucial role in regulating genes that make the proteins that build your body.
The microRNA function as "on/off" switches for the genes. Depending on the microRNA input, a single gene can code for any of more than 200 protein products. Quercetin's ability to module microRNA may also help explain its cytotoxic effects, and why it appears to improve cancer survival (at least in mice).
Sources and References
The deputy secretary at the US Treasury has put Americans on notice that the only way to end the plague of empty shelves around the country is for every resident to be vaccinated. The frank warning came off as a threat to many.
Wally Adeyemo, the Biden administration's second-highest official in the Treasury Department, appeared to publicly blackmail the still-sizable portion of Americans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 during a Thursday ABC interview, seemingly blaming them for the ongoing shortages of consumer goods that have led many to mock the president as 'Empty Shelves Joe'.
Despite viral photos depicting thousands of cargo ships lined up at the Port of Los Angeles ready to unload their goods, Adeyemo claimed that the supply chain issues plaguing so many US retailers are an international issue and will only let up when a sufficient percentage of the country has been vaccinated.
Describing the disastrous economic conditions as "an economy that's in transition," Adeyemo acknowledged that "we are seeing high prices for some of the things that people have to buy." While he praised the administration's stimulus payments, he also pinned the blame squarely on the unvaccinated.
"The reality is that the only way we're going to get to a place where we work through this transition is if everyone in America and everyone around the world gets vaccinated."
While the ABC reporter repeatedly suggested that the country's shortages of toilet paper and other panic-buy items could be traced to international supply chain disruptions, a growing number of Americans are demanding answers regarding the weirdly specific nature of certain products missing from store shelves. Some have even voiced doubt concerning whether the shortages are being introduced deliberately, either to gin up hatred against the unvaccinated or keep Americans economically off-balance as they grow accustomed to the wild disruptions of the pandemic.
Adeyemo did the Biden cabinet no favors by adding fuel to the conspiratorial fire, explaining the primary reason Biden continued to push for everyone to be vaccinated was that only then could the White House "provide the resources the American people need to make it to the other side" of the supply chain problem.
Despite blaming the international shipping industry for empty shelves in the US, the media establishment has acknowledged that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – which together process 40% of the nation's imports – had their busiest years on record last year, giving the lie to the notion that the products missing from American shelves simply don't exist. However, many truckers working for shipping companies have balked at the idea of mandatory vaccination, leaving their firms' fleets woefully understaffed, and others have gone on strike to demand better working conditions.
The Biden administration has attempted to address the supply chain problem by calling for the Port of Los Angeles to run 24 hours, but while he praised his own promised move as a "game changer," the executive director of the port has made it clear that there is no timetable in place for the promised schedule shift. Meanwhile, Biden's cabinet has come across as woefully out of touch – White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, for example, pooh-poohed the issue of empty shelves as a "high class" problem earlier this week, eliciting criticism from both Left and Right. And Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been quietly vacationing on paternity leave since mid-August, leaving the country without even a semblance of logistical oversight as the cargo clog shows no signs of dissipating.
Labor shortages are being felt far beyond the US, though often for similar reasons. In Italy, thousands of protesters turned out to block cargo ships from unloading their bounty earlier this week. The demonstrators were outraged over the country's adoption of a mandatory vax-to-work policy similar to that threatened by the Biden administration. And the UK government has begged lorry drivers to return to work, even luring foreign drivers in with temporary visas as the country frets over its own empty shelves issues.
Australian 'truckies' have united with other unions to exert pressure on the government, which has kept cities like Melbourne under lockdown for months despite vanishingly few reported cases of Covid-19. The government was already floating policies like 'no jab, no job' over a year ago and has led the way in leveraging the pandemic to turn Five Eyes 'democracies' into police states.translate | 15 Oct 2021 | 11:58 pm
Israel has once again used civilian aircraft as a shield against Syrian air defense systems during its attacks on the Arab country, says a Russian general.
"On October 13, from 23:35 to 23:39, four F-16 tactical fighters of the Israeli Air Force entered Syrian airspace in the US-occupied al-Tanf zone in Homs Province and struck a phosphate ore processing plant in the Palmyra region," Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said at a briefing.
Kulit said the Syrian military, however, decided not to target the Israeli jets that carried out the strike in central Syria because there were two civilian airliners in the sky at the time.
"The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems, since at the time of the Israeli aviation attack, two civilian passenger aircraft were in the zone of destruction of the anti-aircraft systems," Kulit said, Sputnik news reported.
The Syrian Defense Ministry announced earlier that the Wednesday attack killed one soldier and injured three others.
Israel has repeatedly used civilian aircraft as a shield against Syrian air defense systems in its aggression against the Arab country.
In February, an Airbus A320 with 172 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at the Russian-operated Hmeimim Air Base during an Israeli attack.
Back in 2018, Israel had to apologize for using a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft as a shield during an attack, causing a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile to shoot down the Russian aircraft instead and kill 15 Russian and two Syrian service members.
Israel's Wednesday attack came just days after Syria's air defenses thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a military air base, known as T-4, in Homs, shooting down most of the incoming projectiles.
That aerial assault had been initiated from the direction of the al-Tanf area as well, with Syrian official news agency
SANA reporting that it wounded six soldiers and resulted in some material losses.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups.
Israel frequently targets the positions of the Syrian military and its allies, who are fighting against the foreign-backed terrorists wreaking havoc in the Arab country.translate | 15 Oct 2021 | 9:08 pm
For a country that practices apartheid, defies international law, and engages in ethnic cleansing, Israel is popular in the US Congress. During just about 125 days in session, the houses of Congress managed to entertain more than 70 new pieces of legislation pandering to Israel.
It is no coincidence that the pro-Israel lobby is arguably the most pervasive and influential lobby in the U.S. – and that Israel partisans, many of them billionaires, make massive campaign donations to both parties.
This year's legislative items include plenty of military aid and non-financial perks for Israel, and scoldings for those who speak ill (if truthfully) of the Jewish state.
Americans need to know how generous our legislators are with our tax dollars – toward a country that is universally known to be a human rights abuser. Below is a list of legislation currently under consideration in Congress (and there will be more in the coming days). Also find links to plenty of facts about Israel – illustrating that Israel may not be the sort of state that Americans should bankroll.
(Note that the three bills in support of Palestinian rights – one quite robust, and two marginally beneficial – at the bottom of the article.)
A fire rages at sunrise in Khan Yunis following an Israeli airstrike on targets in the southern Gaza strip, May 12, 2021. During the recent violence, Israeli military forces killed 260 Gazans, while Palestinian resistance forces killed 13 Israelis – sources & more information here. (YOUSSEF MASSOUD | Credit: AFP via Getty Images) LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE MONEY FOR ISRAEL
This first batch of legislation seeks to provide the standard annual $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel ($10.8 million
a day), and then some.
Since 1946, two years before Israel's founding on 78% of mandatory Palestine, the US has given Israel $154.7 billion in total military aid (adjusted for inflation: $243.9 billion) – more US assistance than any other country since World War II – this in spite of US laws that forbid military aid to countries committing gross human rights violations (like Israel).
Some of the legislation listed here ensures the flow of the usual sum of $3.8 billion a year; others seek to fund Israel through less direct ways. If these pass, taken together they may bring our
daily contribution on behalf of Israel closer to $20 million.
A supply of new legislation in 2021, as always, takes the form of threats and punishment of Israel's adversaries.
A number of bills and resolutions were introduced during and after Israel's attack on Gaza in May – some were related to alleged and actual antisemitic incidents triggered by the attack; others targeted Congress members who criticized Israel's actions.
This session of Congress has seen a slew of bills that, rather than giving Israel "special" treatment, seek to position Israel as just another state like all the rest. This tacit acceptance of Israel as a "normal" state ignores the fact that it was established in 1948 by a war of ethnic cleansing, has been violating international laws for decades, has been censured by the United Nations hundreds of times, and is therefore considered a rogue state by much of the world.
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Kathryn Shihadah is an editor and staff writer for If Americans Knew.
"Come on H this is linked to Celtic's account." Those nine words from a retired Secret Service agent to Hunter Biden in recently released emails may prove a nasty complication for some in Washington who have struggled to contain the blowback from the still-unfolding scandal linked to Hunter Biden's infamous laptop.
"Celtic" was the Secret Service code name for Joe Biden, and recent disclosures may puncture the media's cone-of-silence around the scandal. The emails link President Biden to his son's accounts and indicate a commingling of funds with money coming from controversial foreign sources. Even more embarrassing, the shared account may have been used to pay a Russian prostitute named "Yanna."
The commingling of funds is the latest contraction of President Biden's repeated claims that he was unaware and uninvolved in past dealings by his son. Given these links, there are legitimate questions of why the Justice Department has not sought a special counsel in the ongoing investigation of alleged money-laundering and tax violations linked to the president's son. More importantly, even if there are no criminal charges, there is now a compelling need for an independent report on the alleged influence peddling operation by Hunter, his uncle James Biden, and potentially his father, President Biden.
In the latest disclosures from the laptop, a former secret service agent reportedly texted Hunter on May 24, 2018, when he was holed up with a Russian prostitute in an expensive room at The Jeremy Hotel in Los Angeles. Hunter wired the woman $25,000. That alone was nothing out of the ordinary for Hunter who, while his father served as vice president, seemed to divide his time equally between influence-peddling and personal debaucheries.
Hunter clearly only had influence and access to sell. We know now that foreign interests gave Hunter millions at a time that he admits that he was a crack addict and alcoholic — in his words, "Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating," as well as "smoking crack around the clock."
However, the tranche of emails raises a new and disturbing element: the possible mixing of accounts and funds between Hunter and his father. If true, President Biden could be directly implicated in ongoing investigations into his son's money transfers and dealings.
Most notable are the new emails from Eric Schwerin, his business partner at the Rosemont Seneca consultancy, referencing the payment of household bills for both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. He also notes that he was transferring money from Joe Biden. If true, the communications indicate that some of President Biden's personal expenses were paid out of shared accounts with Hunter, including accounts that may have been used to pay for prostitutes. Rosemont Seneca is directly involved in the alleged influence peddling schemes and questionable money transfers from Chinese and Russian sources.
Schwerin also was involved in President Biden's taxes and discussions of a book deal for the then-vice president; he popped up in the donation of Biden's official papers to the University of Delaware, with restrictions on access.
President Biden has long insisted that that his son did "nothing wrong." That is obviously untrue. One can argue over whether Hunter committed any crime, but few would say that there is nothing wrong with raw influence peddling worth millions with foreign entities. The public has a legitimate reason to know whether the President or his family ran an influence peddling operation worth millions.
Given this record, there is little reason for the public to trust what it is reading about the scandal. The media has long refused to investigate the allegations or even report on emails contradicting the President. This was most evident when social media like Twitter actually blocked postings on the laptop or its content before the election. Powerful figures then issued false statements about the scandal to the public. Committee Chairman Adam Schiff who assured "this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin." Some 50 former intelligence officials, including Obama's CIA directors John Brennan and Leon Panetta, also insisted the laptop story was likely the work of Russian intelligence. The laptop is now recognized as genuine.
This is not the first contradiction for President Biden in his repeated denials of knowing anything about his son's business dealings. Hunter himself contradicted his father's repeated denial. Likewise, a key business associate of Hunter Biden, Anthony Bobulinski, confirmed the authenticity of the emails and accused Joe Biden of lying about his involvement. Bobulinski has detailed a meeting with Joe Biden in a hotel to go over the dealings.
Past emails included discussions of offering access to then-Vice President Biden. They also include alleged payments to Joe Biden. In one email, there is a discussion of a proposed equity split of "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?" Bobulinski confirmed that "H" was used for Hunter Biden and that his father was routinely called "the big guy" in these discussions.
Just to make things more concerning is Hunter Biden's recent acknowledgement that one of his laptops may have been stolen by Russian agents and was likely being used for blackmail purposes. The fact that the president's son admitted that Russians may have intentionally seized one of his laptops during a drug binge, in order to blackmail him, raises serious potential national security concerns — especially if any of the emails include compromising information about the president directly benefiting from the very same accounts used by his son.
That creates a rather nasty problem at the Justice Department. Federal regulations allow the appointment of a special counsel when it is in the public interest and an "investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances."
I do not see direct evidence of criminal conduct by President Biden even if he lied about his past knowledge of his son's conduct. Indeed, influence peddling is not a per se crime even for Hunter. However, one value of a special counsel is the expectation of a report that can address whether the family engaged in influence peddling with foreign powers and whether foreign powers may have acquired compromising material from these laptop files.
In 2017, Democratic members and activists were adamant that the Justice Department should carry out an investigation involving President Trump and his family. Then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insisted that, without a special counsel, "every American will rightfully suspect … a coverup."
There is already a federal criminal investigation into these matters involving Hunter Biden, and the latest emails now link President Biden receiving money and benefits from related accounts as well as key players. Even if one questions a direct conflict of interest, it is hard to deny the towering appearance of a conflict in the ongoing investigation.
"The Big Guy" is now president and his administration is handling an investigation that could have political as well as legal implications for him and his family. It may be time for a special counsel.translate | 15 Oct 2021 | 7:00 pm
A group of Republicans who hate all things Trump are set to endorse a slate of Democratic lawmakers throughout next year's midterm election season in a bid to stop the Republican party from regaining control of Congress.
Led in part by former CIA counterintelligence officer and failed 2016 Reoublican presidential candidate
Evan McMullin (now an independent), the "Renew America Movement" (RAM) claims to support "principled Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who have the courage to stand up to political extremists in races across the country."
'Founding signatories' include notable neocons and anti-Trumpers McMullin,
Anthony Scaramucci, George Conway, Max Boot, Michael Hayden, Michael Chertoff, Tom Ridge and dozens of others.
Trump, meanwhile, has endorsed several candidates who are mounting primary challenges against GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach him over the Jan. 6 Capitol riots – such as Alaska's
Lisa Murkowski, according to Reuters :
RAM, whose leadership includes former Republican Governors
Christine Todd Whitmanof New Jersey and Bill Weldof Massachusetts, said supporting moderate candidates is vital to safeguarding American democracy.
"With the mounting threats to our democracy and Constitution, we need people who work proactively to lead their party and the country away from the political extremes," the group's national political director, Joel Searby, told
So far, RAM will endorse and/or campaign for 11 moderate Democrats, 9 moderate Republians and one independent running in next year's midterm elections. Those backed include Rep.
Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Sen. Mark Kelley (D-AZ).
Unsurprisingly, they're also supporting
Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).
While claiming to 'lead the country away from the political extremes,' we note that the group doesn't seem to be opposing any far-left Democratic socialists – arguably the most 'politically extreme' faction in DC.translate | 15 Oct 2021 | 6:46 pm | 68,177 | 28,859 | 159,203.299837 |
warc | 202143 | Here this…> Here!
I-95 Rhode Island Southbound Exit 9 To: RI 4 S, E Greenwich No Services at Apponaug, RI near East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Ok now, Road Team, take a quick glance out over the water on your left. You will see a line of yellow buoys and four large red mooring balls. Underneath them is a shellfish farm. It is growing oysters.
Back in 1973, concerned about the impact of growing demand for seafood on the world's oceans, French Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau wrote: "With earth’s burgeoning human populations to feed, we must turn to the sea with new understanding and new technology.”
Growing seafood, or aquaculture, is booming business in New England. Aqua-cultured shellfish in Rhode Island include various oyster, mussel, and clam species. These bivalves are filter feeders. This means they rely on what’s called “ambient primary production” rather than feeding on inputs of fish, or meal, or other feed. In other words, they filter water for tiny food like plankton and organic material. As such, shellfish aquaculture is generally perceived as benign or even beneficial. On top of creating great seafood, this type of Aquaculture actually cleans the water. Pretty cool huh?
Depending on the species and local conditions, bivalve molluscs are either grown on the beach, on longlines, or suspended from rafts and harvested by hand. Here in Rhode Island most are grown in salt ponds where tides flush the estuaries twice a day.
If you have a time for a meal, why not get off I-95 at the next exit and drop by some of the local clam shacks on Route 4 and Scenic Route 1. You will not find fresher or more delicious seafood anywhere in the world!
#aquaculture #RhodeIslandAquaculture #oysters #Oysterfarms #Oysterfarming #Greenwich #EastGreenwichRhodeIsland #Bivalves #Seafood #JacquesCousteau | 1,850 | 1,023 | 3,273.216031 |
warc | 202143 | If you are facing drug charges stemming from allegations of possessing, selling or manufacturing unlawful substances, you could face harsh consequences. In addition to the possibility of spending time behind bars, stiff financial penalties, career problems and a shattered reputation could make life incredibly difficult and jeopardize your future.
Moreover, if you face drug charges related to an offense that took place on a college campus, you could face even harsher penalties.
The penalties for drug offenses on college campuses
According to the Florida Legislature, it is against the law to sell, deliver and manufacture illegal drugs on college campuses. It is also illegal to possess controlled substances with the intent to manufacture, deliver or sell them on a college campus. Those found in violation of this law in less than 1,000 feet of a university, private college, public college or postsecondary institution could face first-degree or second-degree felony charges, depending on the drug.
For other controlled substances, violators have to serve 100 hours of community service and pay $500 in fines, with the possibility of other penalties.
Handling drug charges that arise on a college campus
Whether you are a college student or are facing these charges because you were near a college, you need to take steps to protect your future. Some people are falsely accused of drug-related offenses, whether someone plants drugs or the allegations are completely baseless. Make sure you go over all of the details surrounding the case and carefully prepare for court. The outcome of a drug case could impact your life for years to come. | 1,656 | 829 | 3,292.024125 |
warc | 202143 | A common choice for industrial gaskets is neoprene foam. Neoprene foam, which has the chemical name polychloroprene, offers many advantages when used in foam gasket applications.
What is Neoprene Foam?
Neoprene is commonly used in foam gaskets and mechanical seals that fill the space between two or more surfaces and prevent leaks in gas or many types of liquids.
Neoprene foam is a material that is similar to rubber in that it is considered to be an elastomer (a natural or synthetic polymer that has elastic properties). It is a flexible, durable, and soft sponge rubber that is commonly used in many products across the medical, aerospace, and industrial industries. The material is available in both closed-cell and open-cell variants with each having its strengths. Closed-cell neoprene foam is waterproof, which makes it ideal for gaskets, while open-cell neoprene foam allows some air and liquids to passwhen it is not fully compressed. This can makes the material ideal for industrial filtration foam.
Why is Neoprene Foam a Good Material for Gaskets?
Neoprene foam is an ideal choice for industrial gaskets. It’s properties include:
Is lightweight Will not degrade due to exposure to sunlight, ozone, and other weather conditions Has vibration dampening capabilities Has a high chemical resistance Will not break down when it comes in contact with water or oils Is a good insulator Is naturally form–fitting, increasing its ability to properly form an airtight seal Is physically tough, durable, and tear–resistant Is resistant to heat and flames Has good compression set resistance, stress relaxation, and compression recovery Can be used with a variety of adhesives Meets many industrial quality and safety standards Easy Fabrication
Neoprene is also very easy to fabricate, allowing it to be custom cut and shaped based on the needs of the application. Depending on the size of the application, it can also be made into a variety of thicknesses. The material generally comes in a roll or a sheet but can be fabricated with die and kiss-cutting machines. | 2,091 | 1,010 | 4,279.30396 |
warc | 202143 | There's a two-way fight for one DairyNZ board seat as incumbent Jacqueline Rowarth takes on Waiuku farmer Stu Muir.
French philosopher and poet Paul Valery wrote those sentences in 1942. We should remember the words in our struggles to find a way forward for agriculture.
Around New Zealand the regional and local authorities are dealing with the National Policy Statements, particularly those for freshwater. The goal is to find an indicator of water quality and apply a regulation.
It is not an easy task.
Soil scientist Emeritus Professor Ian Cornforth, Lincoln University, worked on indicators in the 1990s. He concluded that they need to be sensitive, respond predictably to a change in management and influence the area of concern in a predictable way (either through a functional relationship or through threshold values).
Indicators also need to correlate well with ecosystem processes and be scientifically valid.
Correlations are great. The relationship indicates that as one factor changes, so does another. Statistics helps establish validity. The nearer the correlation to 1, the better the cause and effect and predictability. Below 1 the predictability decreases. At 0.5 only 50% of the variability is being accounted for by the factor being examined.
Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) has been trying to explain these difficulties. In 'Initial Economic Advisory Report on the Essential Freshwater Package', released in July 2019, its authors stated: "Not only is there little evidence of a casual link, there's little evidence of a strong correlation between nutrients and the Macroinvertebrate Community Index (MCI). Other factors may be more important in determinants of environmental quality."
Australian and New Zealand researchers quantified the problem this year. Their paper 'Nutrient criteria to achieve New Zealand's riverine macroinvertebrate targets' derives criteria "to support national aspiration in improving water quality". However, the relationships explain very little (0.11 for Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen (DIN) and 0.10 for Dissolved Reactive Phosphate (DRP)) of the change in MCI.
Periphyton (algae) mass is another example. Various reports have failed to produce a convincing relationship between DIN and algal growth. Some have shown that the nature of the river bottom (stony or soft) and magnitude of flow (fast or slow) have greater effect than nutrient concentration.
The problem with sorting out cause and effect is that many of these factors are intertwined - rivers near the source tend to be fast, have stony bottoms and low nutrient concentration. They pick up sediment and nutrients as they flow. Nearer the sea on flatter land, they slow down, and sediment drops, clothing the bottom. In between, different forms of life are supported and the MCI has been modelled as excellent or good for 78% of New Zealand's total river length (https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/river-water-quality-macroinvertebrate-community-index).
Less than 1% of total river length had a poor MCI score in the 2020 report. Around 70% of the river length flowing through the native land cover class had an excellent MCI score. Less than 1% flowing through the urban land cover class (land with urban cover exceeding 15% ofthe catchment) scored 'excellent'.
Human activities including urban development and agriculture have affected water quality globally. Trying to find a simple solution will not achieve what is necessary and a complex solution will be unusable. Worse, the implications of implementation will be a negative effect on the economy with no guarantees in improvements in water quality.
LGNZ has said this: "Since cost-effectiveness is a necessary condition for efficiency, the choice of DIN and Dissolved Reactive Phosphate as policy targets would be expected to fail the efficiency test for policy if nutrient reducing actions are not cost effective."
Treasury has estimated that achieving nitrogen load reductions driven by the lake nitrogen and periphyton attributes in the existing national policy statement for freshwater management would cost $394 million per annum by 2050.
That is a lot of money to forgo with no certainty that doing what is suggested will have any effect at all on water quality.
Clearly, more research is necessary.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Adjunct Professor Lincoln University, is a farmer-elected director of DairyNZ and Ravensdown. The analysis and conclusions above are her own. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 4,569 | 2,253 | 9,215.062583 |
warc | 202143 | A carcinogen is a substance or mixture that causes cancer.
Classification is the systematic identification of a chemical’s hazards.
Crystalline silica is found in sand, stone, concrete and mortar. When workers cut, crush, drill, polish, saw or grind products containing silica, dust particles are generated that are small enough to lodge deep in the lungs and cause illness or disease including silicosis.
Hazardous chemicals are substances, mixtures and articles that can pose a significant risk to health and safety if not managed correctly. Hazardous chemicals may have health hazards, physical hazards or both.
Lead is a heavy metal that can be found in workplaces that manufacture and dismantle batteries and use ammunition, and those that weld, solder and remove old paint. Workers in mining and foundries may also encounter lead. Exposure to lead can cause serious health effects including cancer, cardiovascular disease and damage to worker’s reproductive and nervous systems.
In Australia, the law says that your employer (your boss) must do all they can to make sure your job does not hurt you or make you sick. This law is called work health and safety (WHS) or occupational health and safety (OHS).
A hazardous chemicals register is a list of hazardous chemicals at a workplace. A manifest is a written summary of hazardous chemicals with physical and acute toxicity hazards that are used, handled or stored at a workplace. Placards provide warnings about the stored hazardous chemicals and contain specific information for emergency service personnel.
Everyone has a right to be safe at work, including volunteers. Volunteers play a vital role in communities across Australia and make significant contributions by carrying out unpaid work for a variety of organisations every day.
Exposure to substances or mixtures in the workplace can pose significant health risks to workers. | 1,911 | 958 | 3,772.13048 |
warc | 202143 | Budget 2021
UK public spending is at its highest for decades as a result of measures to support the country during the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. With the economy in a fragile state, the Spring Budget in March sought to strike a balance between stimulating economic activity, investing in protective measures and keeping a tight rein on tax rises.
As restrictions are lifted and business returns to a level of normality, this Autumn’s Budget statement is likely to take bolder steps to strengthen the UK’s finances as we plot the road to recovery. Read on to find out more.
When is the Budget in 2021?
The Spring Budget in 2021 took place on Wednesday 3 March. This statement had been deferred from November 2020 due to disruptions to the economy and unpredictability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The next UK Budget announcement will be on
Wednesday 27 October 2021, when the Chancellor will deliver his Autumn Statement. This followed much speculation that announcements would be deferred to the Spring Budget in March 2022. Spring UK Budget 2021 highlights
The UK Spring Budget in March 2021 came at a crucial time for the country. After a year of lockdowns, the nation was keen to see a route out of the COVID-19 pandemic that could both keep businesses alive and people healthy.
With the fragility of the economy somewhat restricting the Chancellor’s options, he took cautious steps to stimulate activity while investing in protective measures and maintaining a balanced approach to tax rises and reliefs.
“Coronavirus has caused one of the largest, most comprehensive and sustained economic shocks this country has ever seen.” – Chancellor Rishi Sunak Personal tax and support Income Tax rates remain unchanged Slight increases to Personal Allowance, Marriage Allowance, Married Couple’s Allowance and Blind Person’s allowance Extension of £20 increase in Universal Credit until 6 Oct 2021 One-off payment of £500 to eligible Working Tax Credit claimants for extra support until Oct 2021 Pensions & Savings Taxes on personal savings and dividend income remain unchanged Pensions Lifetime Allowance to be frozen for the next five years Introduction of a new Mortgage Guarantee Scheme on homes valued up to £600,000 Extension of Social Investment Tax Relief for Venture Capital Schemes Launch of a Green National Savings & Investment product, closely linked to efforts to tackle climate change. Business The Recovery Loan Scheme replaces previous Coronavirus Loan schemes, guaranteeing eligible loans between £25,000 and £10 million Provision of Restart Grants of up to £6,000 per premises for non-essential retail businesses and up to £18,000 for various hospitality and personal care firms Extension of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to September 2021, with provision for a fifth and final grant Extension of 100% business rates relief for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure premises until 30 June 2021, followed by a 66% relief from 1 July 2021 to 31 March 2022 Extension of reduced rate of VAT (5%) for certain hospitality, hotel and holiday businesses to 30 September 2021, with a 12.5% rate for the following six months to 31 March 2022 Corporation Tax frozen until 1 April 2023, when it will rise to 25% for companies with profits over £250,000 Trade loss carry back extended to a period of three years, capped at £2 million A new ‘super-deduction’ scheme for incorporated companies buying new plant and machinery between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023 Reduction in thresholds for first-year allowances for low-emission business cars Freeport regulations relating to duty deferral, duty on processed goods and simplified import procedures A tranche of tax allowances and reliefs for land purchases and developments within Freeport tax sites until 30 September 2026 Tax credits under the R&D Tax Relief scheme capped at £20,000 plus three times the company’s relevant expenditure on workers, with certain companies exempt Employment Extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS) to September 2021 Level of grant under the JRS to be reduced to 70% of wages from 1 July 2021, and further to 60% in August and September Budget to fund work placements and training for people aged 16-24 increased by £126 million Increase in payments to employers who hire new apprentices to £3,000 Creation of a £7 million fund to support portable apprenticeships Clarification and minor technical changes to the off-payroll IR35 rules Zero-emission vans within the van benefit charge will have tax nil-rated Easement for employer-provided cycles exemption Exemption of income tax on payments made to employees to reimburse costs of Coronavirus antigen tests Extension of income tax exemption for home office expenses incurred due to COVID-19 restrictions National Insurance Contributions rates remain unchanged Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates increased by around 1.5-2.0% Capital taxes Capital Gains Tax (CGT) annual exemption level remains unchanged for the next five years Current rates of CGT remain unchanged Inheritance Tax nil rate band and Residence nil rate band both frozen until 5 April 2026 Gift Hold-Over Relief amended to be unavailable where both parties are foreign-controlled or non-UK resident Other matters Duty rates on fuel, alcohol and tobacco remain frozen Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) nil rate band extended until 30 June 2021, after which time the nil rate band will be £250,000, until 1 October 2021, when it will return to £125,000 Changes to equivalent land transaction taxes in Wales SDLT increased by 2% for purchases of property in England and N.I. by non-UK residents Increase to contactless card payment limits
Chris George, Tax Advisory Manager at Scrutton Bland, gives his verdict on the key announcements from the March Budget and what they mean to you.
2021 Autumn Budget predictions
What is likely to be announced in the October Budget? While we typically don’t advise making decisions based on speculation, there are a few possible measures the Chancellor could take in the effort to get the UK’s public finances back on an even keel.
Removing the triple lock on state pensions
Average wage levels have seen an unusual increase in the last year, and increasing pension payments by the same amount could put a heavy strain on already stretched finances. The Work and Pensions Secretary announced in September that the triple lock on state pensions would be suspended for one year, but this may be extended or removed altogether.
Bringing Capital Gains Tax rates in line with Income Tax
Much touted ahead of the last Budget, but not actually enacted, the Chancellor (backed up by a report from the Office for Tax Simplification) is likely to create greater parity between the levels of taxes on income from employment and those on gains made from sale of assets and retained profits. Whether the rates will be exactly the same, though, remains open to debate.
Changes to the ‘basis period’ of tax reporting
With the upcoming introduction of Making Tax Digital for individuals, which will require the reporting of profits on a quarterly basis, the government are looking to ‘simplify’ matters by moving all self employment and partnership businesses onto a ‘tax year basis’. This means that profits will being taxed in the tax year that they arise, rather than the current time lag between profits arising and needing to be paid.
Join us at the next Budget event
Grab your chance to see live reactions from our team of experts to all the Chancellor’s announcements, gain vital insights and share in the discussions at our next Budget Breakfast.
The well-established event takes place online from 8am – 10am on 28 October (the morning after the Budget), and is easy to book onto. We’ll also ask you for the address that you’re currently working from, so we can send you a small gift by post before the event.
After the event there will be a Q&A sessions with the presenters, so you can chat to them about any of the points raised in the Budget which may affect you and your business. All the presentations will all be available to view on our website shortly afterwards. | 8,349 | 3,811 | 17,821.861716 |
warc | 202143 | Atypical antipsychotics and effects of adrenergic and serotonergic receptor binding on insulin secretion in-vivo: An animal model @article{Guenette2013AtypicalAA, title={Atypical antipsychotics and effects of adrenergic and serotonergic receptor binding on insulin secretion in-vivo: An animal model}, author={M Guenette and Adria Giacca and Margaret K. Hahn and Celine Teo and Loretta Lam and Araba F. Chintoh and Tamara Arenovich and Gary Remington}, journal={Schizophrenia Research}, year={2013}, volume={146}, pages={162-169} }
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warc | 202143 | Celebrating women is a way of expressing our heartfelt gratitude towards each and every woman who plays a major role in our professional as well as personal life. International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th of March every year to celebrate the valor of women. In most countries, this day is observed as a national holiday owing to the pivotal role of women in our lives.
Women from various cultures and ethnic groups come together on this day to commemorate their struggle for peace, justice, equality, and development. Women empowerment is the need of the hour and fortunately, women are raising voice for an equal opportunity in whatever fields they want. They are coming to the forefront and posing questions on sensitive issues like equal wages in the workplace, educational rights and holding some of the major positions in the work sector.
Today, Women’s Day speeches are delivered on various national and international platforms and address various setbacks that still befall women who are working. Some of the issues have been discussed below:
Sorich Organics is a firm believer in the power of women. We strive for feminine equality and offer continued equal opportunities to our male as well as female employees. We strive to make women financially independent by introducing various training programs and provide them with healthy and safe working conditions. Not only have we successfully destroyed the gender gap in our workforce but also render women with equal economic opportunities. So, what you’ll be doing this women’s day? Let us know in the comments below :)
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Chia seeds, originated in Mexico, are tiny, black seeds that come from a plant in a mint family. It is observed as an energy booster and righteous for the overall digestive and metabolic health.
Nowadays, Chia seeds have become popular and can be used in everything from oatmeal, smoothies to energy drinks and tea.
For people who follow a vegan diet, chia seeds are a great alternative to dairy products as they are rich in calcium and are naturally gluten-free.
As a good source of omega 3, loaded with antioxidants, high in protein, rich in fibre, and a variety of minerals these seeds have become a well-known ingredient for nutrition enthusiast people. While having an earthy flavour, the seeds can be included in your daily diet and can also be served in any dish. | 2,432 | 1,251 | 4,669.595524 |
warc | 202143 | René Carayol
René is one of the world’s leading business gurus specialising in leadership, culture and transformation. He shows precisely how contemporary leaders can inspire their people through a powerful and authentic emotional connection, to do the things that others said could not be done.
René is quite simply one of the world’s leading executive coaches, working with some of the Fortune 500’s and FTSE 100’s top Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) and their executive teams.
He speaks with the authority and confidence of the expert practitioner who has seen and experienced it all before. René draws much from his own unique experiences as managing director at IPC Magazines and serving on a variety of boards including Pepsi, IPC Media and the Inland Revenue.
The only position in the business that has no preparatory training or development whatsoever is the CEO. The most important and probably the most challenging job in the business, and on Day One, it is all brand new to the new incumbent, and there is no one around to show them what needs to be done.
It is the role that rarely has an appropriate job description and even rarer is there any form of handover. Far too often the opportunity presents itself rather suddenly and for whoever is approached, it is very hard to turn down.
René has acquired a reputation for providing first hand advice and support for a series of successful CEOs in the Fortune 500, FTSE 100 and all around the world. Many may claim to have worked at the ‘sharp end’ with many CEOs, but in actual fact very few have. He has worked closely with Jim Yong Kim – President of The World Bank, Antony Jenkins – CEO Barclays Bank, Mario Greco – CEO Generali and Maria Ramos – CEO Absa Bank, and hardly any can match his sustained track record of success.
There is no universal solution or approach for supporting a CEO, as each one is as individual as their fingerprints. It is without a doubt, the toughest job in the world, but it is also the best job in the world.
René acquires case studies and stories from the frontline and first hand. There are exciting adventures, emotional anecdotes and enough drama to excite any audience. René delivers learning wrapped up as never to be forgotten stories told by a master storyteller. You will want to hear them again and again.
René specialises in delivering performances that show precisely how contemporary leaders can electrify an audience through a powerful and authentic emotional connection. He demonstrates just how compelling an emotionally intelligent approach can be. He is never about theory - it is all practical and pragmatic leadership insights and tips. No one ever forgets being at one of his sessions.
René is an accomplished visiting professor at Cass Business School. His critically acclaimed latest book, Spike – What are you great at? enables all of us to unleash our inherent strengths and realise our true potential. As René says, “If you accept your limitations you go beyond them”.
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warc | 202143 | I highly recommend her blog to anyone moving to Sydney from the US, especially if you are moving with young children. Cristin has a lot of advice for newly arriving expat parents.
Meeting Other Expat Parents and Children Through Playgroups in Sydney
Living abroad with young children can sometimes feel isolating, especially when one parent is a stay-at-home carer. Before children are old enough to start school, establishing friendship networks can be challenging for both expat parents and children. Plus, it’s no secret that toddlers and preschoolers can be exhausting, so outlets for their boundless energy are necessary!
When I became a mother in Sydney in 2013, I was eager to find activities for my young daughter. I also wanted to meet other parents, as we were the first in my expat circle of friends to have children. One of my favorite resources has been our local Playgroups.
As an American, the concept of Playgroups was entirely new to me. Today, I recommend them to anyone with a young child.
What Are Playgroups?
Playgroups are gatherings of children, usually age 5 and under, and their carers in a community space where there are toys, interactive play, crafts, and activities, and fellowship (and sometimes even coffee) for the adults. The activities tend to be suitable for children in the entire age range. For instance, a one-year-old, three-year-old, and five years old, will all enjoy playing dress-up, just in their own age-appropriate way.
Playgroups are typically staffed with volunteers or staff who manage the space and supplies. But carers are expected to supervise their children.
Playgroups typically meet at an established time each week, and most go on break during the school holidays. They range in size and can be anything from an intimate group in a small church hall to a large gathering in a community center.
The cost maybe a couple of dollars and a piece of fruit for morning tea to around $10 per session. Some Playgroups will ask you to take up an annual membership if you plan to be a regular attendee. These playgroups are usually happy for new visitors to try the group a few times before committing.
Finding a Playgroup in Sydney Playgroups NSW is the best place to begin your search for a Playgroup in your area that meets your needs.
You can search the directory by postcode or narrow your search to find one with a specific focus such as language, religion, or demographic. This will provide you a list of possible Playgroups, along with location, times, and contact information for the organizer.
Not all Playgroups are associated with Playgroups NSW, however.
For instance, the North Sydney Community Centre hosts a large playgroup four days a week, but you will not find that in the directory.
One of the best ways to find out about other playgroups is to join parenting Facebook groups for your area, such as North Shore Mums, Inner West Mums, Northern Beaches Mums, Hills District Mums, and so forth. Searching the archives or asking in the forum is certain to turn up a number of personal recommendations for the most popular Playgroups in the area.
One unusual and fun Playgroup in the city is the Museum of Contemporary Art’s ArtPlay on Wednesdays, which is most suitable for ages 3 and under. The focus of this Playgroup is art. It is a lively, colorful morning with welcoming staff.
Attending a Playgroup in Sydney
Once you’ve found the Playgroups in your area, you may want to consider trying two or three to find one (or more than one) that best fits you and your child.
The smaller Playgroups may have fewer toys but be an easier environment to make friends. The larger ones offer a lot of activities but might feel overwhelming. Each Playgroup will have a different vibe.
You want to dress your child in clothes they can get dirty. Also, bring a change of clothes and some wet wipes, as messy play and craft is a staple in many Playgroups.
Sunscreen and a hat are a must. You will soon find packing these is second nature for parents in Australia – Slip, Slap, Slop!
Also, bring a snack for your child and, perhaps, a bit of money if you want coffee. Not all Playgroups offer it, but some will ask for a gold coin donation or order from a nearby cafe.
Finally, enjoy the fun.
Most children will find plenty of things to pique their interest and curiosity, meeting new friends, taking turns, and sharing.
For the adults, strike up conversations with the other parents. Many of them are also there looking to meet new people and will be more than welcoming.
Playgroups can be an excellent place for socializing and the perfect place for expat parents to meet other parents and make new friends.
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warc | 202143 | Materials are very important part of the organization. Effective materials are important for the successful running of the organization. Every sector and organizations have materials that they need, be it the corporates or the educational institution. Nevertheless, it is very important to know proper use of the materials.
Some organization gives training to the employees to have good use of the materials. Employee awareness about the use of material is very important. Safe material handling, material management and material checking will not only help to make proper use of the materials but also will help to increase the productivity, helps to maintain safety at the workplace and ultimately leads to customer safety.
Following are some of the steps that can help you to have for the effective material handling in your organization – Abide with the established routine/rules
There must be certain rules that need to be established within the organization for the effective material handling. When rules and routine is maintained, people and employees try and take care of the materials with responsibility.
Have proper planning
There needs to be proper planning related to material handling and management within the organization. Monthly planning and meet can be done so that the planning and execution can be done.
Label the material
Material and packages can be labelled neatly so that there is no chaos and material is kept properly.
Proper storage of materials
Materials should be stored in proper place. It should be kept in a clean, dry area. Also, the materials can be handled in proper manner keeping in mind the precautionary measures.
Have proper maintenance of the materials
Have proper maintenance and handling of materials. It is very important to have the safe material handling of the materials.
There should be material handling checklist made for the effective material planning. Checklist helps to keep the track of number of materials used and materials unused and its flow within the organization. So, timely checklist should be done.
There should be proper training session done within the institution to have effective materials handling and storage. Many institutions have material planning, handling and maintenance programs and trainings to keep the employees aware about the appropriate usage of the needed materials. If the materials are not used properly it has a lot of effect on the organization working and environment.
The management needs to understand the need of such training within the organization so that the company practices safe material handling. Such a training to carry out needs proper knowledge of the resources and its safety. There are many courses that help to effectively manage and provide knowledge about the material management and safety.
Conclusion
Thus, the management can keep on constantly upgrading them with the latest methods and safety measures to have good resource and material management in the organization. There are many programs like professional diploma in train the trainer and other training programs that helps you know more about the material management and help you update yourself with the skills thereby, leading to the organization’s success.
Thus to conclude, there is a quote that says –
Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine – time, of all which raise the manufacturer’s cost and price that the purchaser must pay! Written By :Soma | 3,565 | 1,410 | 8,899.858156 |
warc | 202143 | Hershey’s chocolate is the world’s best-selling candy bar. People love this chocolate for its delicious taste and consistency. When you see the iconic wrapper, you know it’s about to be a good day.
If you ended on this page, you probably want to know how many squares are in a Hershey’s Chocolate Bar?
We are going to answer that for you, keep on reading to find out.
Click to jump straight to each topic How Many Pieces are in a Hershey Bar?
The segments in a Hershey bar are all the same, regardless of size of the chocolate bar (except the miniature).
One bar can be broken into 12 pieces.
Chocolate Bar Size Number of Segments Hershey’s Standard Bar (1.55 oz) 12 Hershey’s XL Bar (7oz) 12 Hershey’s Miniatures 1
This segments of the Hershey candy bars serves a useful function, as it allows the the consumer to break the candy bar into smaller pieces for consumption.
What Are the Hershey Bar Squares Called?
For those of you who are curious, the Hershey chocolate bar segments have a name. On the official Hershey’s Facebook page, they explained that one segment is called a “pip”.
How Many Calories are in a Square of Hershey’s Chocolate?
For the Hershey’s standard milk chocolate, there are 18 calories in each segment.
If you want a visual as to how many segments are in a Hershey’s chocolate bar, check out the video below. | 1,411 | 702 | 2,677.282051 |
warc | 202143 | Ford is working with neuroscientists to develop a system that accurately detects when a driver is tired, distracted or not concentrating.
According to ROSPA, driver fatigue may be a contributory factor in up to a fifth of road accidents, and up to one quarter of fatal and serious accidents. Research has found that in Europe, 40 per cent of drivers do not follow the recommended practice of taking a break every two hours on long journeys.
“The brain processes huge amounts of information when we are driving, but that may change as driver assistance technologies do some of the driving for us. Drivers also get tired, and their minds can wander. Identifying more quickly when this happens could be of critical importance,” said Stefan Wolter, research engineer, Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford of Europe.
Ford is hoping that by identifying the brain responses that reveal lapses in concentration, it may then be possible to match the scans to their physical signs, which can include changes in heart rate or breathing. If a loss in concentration became apparent – such as if a change in heartbeat variability was detected via wearable technology – the vehicle could alert the driver.
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen in Germany is working with Ford on mapping brain patterns to driver’s reactions. The testing involves participants completing a driving simulation while their brain activity is scanned by an MRI machine. A specially positioned mirror enables the participants to see the simulation on the screen.
According to Ford, the scenario involves a three-lane motorway at night where a vehicle in the middle lane brakes suddenly and the participant has to take over and move the car to the left or right using a handheld device. The participants are also prompted by engine sounds to indicate which lane it is safe to move to.
The MRI machine scans the brain before and during these actions, while the researchers measure how quickly the participant reacts and if they make the right decision, and monitor changes to heart rate, breathing rate and other physiological measures.
“We believe that by capturing this data we could one day be able to generate unique physiological driver fingerprints so that drivers of the vehicles of the future can be prepared to react and to intervene immediately in case it is required,” said Professor Klaus Mathiak M.D. Ph.D., head of Psychoneurobiology and lead consultant for Psychosomatic Medicine, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen. | 2,509 | 1,273 | 4,858.354281 |
warc | 202143 | Nick Gandy
8/2/2013
Cuts to Sport Funding
Last week Sport England released their newest figures detailing the changes in funding for sport in the post-London 2012 world. The figures suggest and overall increase in sport investment of almost £100 million but the story is not all good.
Sports that did not meet their expected medal haul in the Olympics will find their wallets significantly lighter this year than before. The most notable of these sports is swimming. Before 2012 local pools across the country were introducing government sponsored free swim programs for people under the age of 16. This is a great example of a grass roots investment designed to get people interested in the sport making it far more likely that the talented people will soon be found. However in the wake of 2012, which saw a disappointing week in the pool from the now retired Rebecca Adlington among others, swimming has now had its budget cut from £20.9 million to just £9.5 million. There is an additional £10 million allocated towards swimming that could be given if the sport meets certain very strict conditions.
The same is true for table tennis, a sport with low Olympic expectations and even lower results which has had its budget slashed to a measly £2.5 million. However even the Olympic wonder stories are not the safe from the cut of the Sport England accountants.
Last year Team GB rowing received the best rowing medal haul in history, one that Sir Steve Redgrave believes will be unbeatable. With this incredible fact in mind we now learn that rowing has been allocated £400,000 less than it has in recent years. Given that rowing is one of the more expensive sports and one of Britain’s best one must wonder what they have done to deserve this.
On the other side of the coin is the similarly incredible story of cycling. Their story last year was not just about the Olympics as Bradley Wiggins became the first Brit to ever win the Tour de France. As a reflection of this success cycling’s budget is now the highest of all sports at £32 million, a rise of 33 per cent since last year. Investment is an integral part of sport; money needs to be spent on coaches and equipment and slashing the budgets of less successful sports like Table Tennis or swimming denies them the training opportunities they need to become successful. A single person with talent enough to win a gold medal can be easily forgotten or left behind without proper support that can only come with proper funding. It would be appropriate to view these figures not as a drop in funding but as a drop in opportunity for talented individuals. | 2,665 | 1,343 | 5,181.172748 |
warc | 202143 | Zee’s founding family plots a twist in the tale and stays in control
Companies Bill contains numerous provisions aligned to International Financial Reporting Standards. Under the Bill, utilisation of securities premium will be restricted to a prescribed class of companies whose financial statement complies with specified accounting standards. In meeting IFRS requirements, such companies cannot utilise the securities premium to write off preliminary expenses of the company, write off preference share or debenture issue expenses, and provide for premium payable on redemption of preference shares/ debentures. However, if the prescribed class of companies is notified immediately, the impact will be felt straightaway in Indian GAAP financial statements. As this is not the intention, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs should notify the prescribed class at a date aligned to IFRS implementation; otherwise there may be unintended consequences.
For changes in accounting policies and correction of past errors, IFRS requires restatement of comparative numbers. Currently, according to the Ministry’s circular, a company can reopen and revise its accounts after they have been adopted during the annual general meeting and filed with the registrar to comply with any other law for a true and fair view. Thus, the current Companies Act is not suitable for IFRS implementation. Under the Bill, voluntary revision of financial statements is permitted and, hence, aligned to IFRS implementation. However, the revision process is cumbersome, including prior approval from the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. In other words, under IFRS, every company should take adequate precaution in the selection of accounting policies and ensuring that errors are rare occurrences.
Currently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India requires all listed companies seeking approval for a draft merger, amalgamation or restructuring scheme to file an auditors’ certificate to show that the accounting complies with standards. There is no such requirement for unlisted companies, including their subsidiaries. Under Companies Bill, the Tribunal will not sanction capital reduction, merger, acquisition or other arrangements unless the accounting treatment complies with standards and an auditor’s certificate is filed. This is aligned with IFRS.
Schedule II of the Companies Bill sets out the useful lives of assets. Companies other than the prescribed class (essentially IFRS companies) should mandatorily adhere to these useful lives as minimum rates. The prescribed class of companies are allowed to depart from Schedule II useful lives to comply with IFRS. It is not clear whether these companies will be notified immediately or after IFRS is in force. If notified later, then all companies have to comply with Schedule II useful lives as minimum rates as soon as the bill becomes law. As the useful lives in many cases have been drastically reduced, the overall impact of depreciation on the profit-and-loss account can be negative.
Companies Bill requires component accounting, where components are depreciated based on their useful lives rather than the life of the principal asset. This is aligned to IFRS. However, until Indian GAAP applies (and the prescribed companies are not notified), companies should mandatorily follow useful lives under Schedule II. It is unclear how component accounting can be applied here, as that inherently involves departure from useful lives prescribed for the principal asset.
Under the Bill, for revaluation, depreciation will be based on the re-valued amount rather than historical cost. This is aligned to IFRS and will have a negative impact due to higher depreciation in the profit-and-loss account.
The Companies Act does not prohibit companies from creating treasury shares under a High Court scheme. The Companies Bill prohibits this, and a transferee company cannot hold any shares in its name or in the name of a trust either on its behalf or that of its subsidiary/ associate companies. Such shares should be cancelled or extinguished. The accounting of treasury shares is often misused. Currently, companies recognise dividend income on treasury shares and gain/ loss arising on sale of treasury shares in the profit-and-loss statement. This is inappropriate because any income cannot be derived by transacting with oneself. Such practices will not be possible if the Bill becomes an Act and is also aligned to IFRS.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India recently proposed a revised IFRS roadmap, which is also endorsed by the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards. According to this roadmap, IFRS implementation will be staggered, beginning from April 1, 2015. Of the two main hurdles to smooth implementation of IFRS, the one with respect to Companies Bill has been removed, while the other related to tax accounting standards needs to be resolved in the coming months.
Dolphy D’Souza is Partner and National Leader – IFRS Services in a member firm of Ernst & Young Global | 5,075 | 2,171 | 11,767.64164 |
warc | 202143 | The Amerex High-Performance Compliance Flow Purple K Dry Chemical Fire Extinguishers (Class B:C) are long-range, extra-rugged extinguishers that use a potassium bicarbonate agent (called Purple K) to stop Class B (flammable fuel/gas) and Class C (electrical equipment) fires. Purple K stops Class B fire by breaking the chain reaction and is also electrically non-conductive. Compared with standard-performance Purple K extinguishers, High Performance Compliance Flow Purple K extinguishers have a longer discharge range and more durable materials while complying with code requirements. The High Performance Compliance Flow Purple K Extinguisher is available in capacities of 13.2 lbs, 20 lbs, and 30 lbs. Highly effective Purple K agent. The Purple K agent is a specially fluidized and siliconized potassium bicarbonate dry chemical that is non-abrasive, is water-repellent, and does not produce toxic effects when used to extinguish fires. It’s also shown to be at least 4 to 5 times as effective in extinguishing fires as carbon dioxide and more than twice as effective as sodium bicarbonate. High performance for greater range. High Performance Amerex extinguishers have a greater horizontal and vertical range than standard-performance extinguishers thanks to the 240 PSI operating pressure. This allows a professionally trained industrial firefighter to put out more fire faster than same-size standard performance types. High Performance Purple K extinguishers have a discharge range of 40-50 feet, considerably longer than the 15-21 feet range of standard same-size Amerex Purple K extinguishers. This allows operators to stand farther from the fire, keeping them better protected from hazards. High Performance Amerex extinguishers are safe to use from -65 °F to 120 °F. Compliance Flow for code compliance. High Performance Amerex extinguishers are available in Fast Flow and Compliance Flow models. While Fast Flow models have higher flow rates, which means they deliver more pounds of chemical per second and knock down fires faster, Compliance Flow models have a higher UL rating, lower flow rate, and extended discharge times which meet or exceed several code requirements. These models have 40-50% slower discharge rate than Fast Flow models. Compliance Flow extinguishers are ideal if complying with code requirements is a priority. User-friendly design. High-Performance extinguishers feature extra-large stainless steel handles and ring pins with extra clearance for firefighters’ gloved hands. The pull pin has a large loop for easy pulling, and all units are bar-coded and printed with bi-lingual labels. Because these extinguishers have fewer parts, they require lower maintenance and repair costs over the entire life of a unit. Recharging a unit is inexpensive without cartridges to replace. High-quality, all-weather construction. Amerex High Performance extinguishers feature an Amerex-exclusive, shot-blasted, galvanized steel cylinder that offers better corrosion resistance than paint finishes which tend to corrode when scratched or chipped. The cylinder is further protected by high-gloss polyester powder paint. They also have a chrome-plated brass valve which is heavier-duty than aluminum valves. The simple stored pressure design minimizes moving parts, which then minimizes chances of unnoticed tampering, clogged elbows or hoses, and other malfunctions that commonly occur with cartridge-operated extinguishers. All units have a molded vinyl ring at the bottom to add extra protection for the paint.
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warc | 202143 | Here we discuss about Best vaccine for covid 19- Covaxin or Covishield or Sputnik V vaccine?
BEST VACCINE FOR CORONA VIRUS: The vaccine is the shield that protects us in the fight against corona. It is believe that the vaccine will completely protect us from the third wave of corona virus. The third vaccines for COVID-19 are approve for use of Sputnik V vaccine. They are approve the three vaccine against the deadly corona virus. The three best vaccines are Covaxin, Covishield, and sputnik V vaccines. These approve vaccines are very safety standards. They are also equally more effective in prevent the corona virus infections. COVID 19 VACCINES: COVAXIN, COVISHIELD AND SPUTNIK V VACCINES: Sputnik V is an adenovirus-based vaccine. That may used by Russia for vaccination. And it is approve by more than 59 countries. The three vaccines are approve for use, it has good benefits in mitigating the risks of the harmful COVID-19 virus. But there are some significant differences between them. This Russian vaccine is a combination of two different adenoviruses that also cause the common cold. These adenoviruses combine with SARS-CoV-2 for treatment, which may also stimulates the body to provide immunity. All three vaccines used in India have excellent efficacy but also significant side effects. PERFORMANCE OF COVISHIELD, COVAXIN AND SPUTNIK V VACCINE: Interim results are found that Sputnik V vaccine had an efficacy rate of 91%. It is also highly effective the severity of the disease. In comparison, it has recently been found that India’s Covaxin is 81% effective against the UK variant virus. The two does of the vaccine are given apart 28 days. The Covishield has an efficiency of more than 70%, which can also increase up to 90% when given more time for a second dose. It also administered 12 weeks after the first one. HOW DOES SPUTNIK V VACCINE WORKS? Sputnik V vaccine is a two-dose vaccine which the second dose is administer after a gap of 21 days. Both the gaps are two different vectors are use. It also uses the disarmed strain of the adenovirus that also causes the common cold. Injection two has a different it also can be minimize the risk of immune system. It has safe to exposes the body to part of the genetic code of virus. It also recognized the threat and it fight off, without causing any illness. SIDE EFFECTS OF SPUTNIK V VACCINE: The side effects that can be cure in a few days can vary from person to person. Sputnik V is one of the first register corona virus vaccines to be use worldwide. This vaccine works by stimulating antibody production that causes the usual inflammatory reactions.
The common side effects of the vaccine include
headaches fatigue injection site pain fever. HOW DOES COVAXIN WORKS? Covaxin is an inactivated vaccine that may also contains the dead virus. It also triggers the immune response and it does not make personal sick. After the vaccination it may also help to improve the immune system that also starts to produce the antibodies against the covid-19 virus. Covaxin are also promotes the immune response. SIDE EFFECTS OF COVAXIN: Covaxin is made in traditional way. It also consider safe to use, and it also has fewer side effects compare to MRNA vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer Shots. Covaxin vaccine that can also cause side effects such as redness, swelling, injection spot pain, fever, sweating and cold, body aches, nausea, vomiting, itching, weakness in the arm and headache. HOW DOES COVISHIELD WORK? Covishield is more similar to sputnik V vaccine, and it is also based on viral vector platform, which is weaken version of adenovirus. It also cannot be causes any illness. After getting inject the vaccine that may also promotes the human immune system to produce antibodies against the live virus. It was seen that people were given the first dose and then those get the second dose, the efficacy reach up to 90%. SIDE EFFECTS FOR COVISHIELD: Covishield vaccine is safe to use and adverse reactions are ‘rare’.
The side effects are common such as
Injection site pain, Redness, Moderate or high fever, Body aches, Warmth, Itching, and Swelling. It can be some general feeling is unwell, chills, feeling feverish, nausea, headache, joint pain or muscle ache. And it has some uncommon side effects are 100 people out of one are feeling abdominal pain, rash, excessive sweating and decrease appetite.
WHO SHOULD NOT TAKE? People are also suffer from bleeding disorders Immune deficiency Pregnant women Breastfeeding women History of allergic reactions to any vaccine are advise not to take the vaccine for now. Person below the 18 age should not take the vaccine. Inform the vaccinator if you also have any severe allergic reaction after consume any food, drug, any vaccine of Covishield vaccine before. People who have immune compromise are medicines that may also affect the immune system are advise not to take Covaxin. Sign of severe allergic reactions are also include difficulty in breathing, swelling on face and throat, Fast heartbeat, rashes all over the body. | 5,073 | 2,219 | 11,545.132943 |
warc | 202143 | Letting Agents Liverpool - Market Testing Rents Wednesday 21st July 2021 Letting Agents Liverpool - Market Testing Rents As the property market in Liverpool and Wirral springs back to life, it's worth focussing on what attracts tenants to a property at market leading rents. Location Undoubtedly, as ever location is important, but in my experience not critical. As a buy to let investors, you should firstly focus on where demand from tenants is the highest, not necessarily demand from buyers. They are distinctly two separate markets. The fact that you may not wish to live in a particular area, does not mean that many people do not want to rent there. As an investment property company in Liverpool we have specific postcodes and even roads which we target as we know properties rent well and for the long-term at market leading rents. We also own properties and blocks in the same areas. Investment Property Liverpool The days of 'Generation Rent' accepting any property, regardless of condition, are thankfully long gone. The buy to let property does not need to be state-of-the-art, but well decorated, clean and safe. Not a lot to ask. Clearly, the statutory certificates are also required, notably gas and electrical. Market Testing Rent At Tuna Fish we advise our buy to let landlords to be patient and not to 'rush' to tenant without first market testing a rent. A property may have rented for some years at say £550 per calendar month (pcm). OK, that's fine. But has anyone tested interest at £600 pcm or even £625 pcm? At £625, the additional gross income in a year is £900, nothing to be scoffed at. We are doing this as routine now with properties which we believe can achieve a higher rent as the market recovers and moves on. As we go to press, we have just market tested a rent in L19 Liverpool and had an offer via our lettings board within 2 days at the higher rent. The increase is 11%. The board has attracted 14 enquiries and there is no need to advertise on a portal, such is the demand in this area for quality family homes. At Tuna Fish we believe in moving with the market and not being left behind. | 2,154 | 1,090 | 4,203.26422 |
warc | 202143 | Racing surfaces
Tom Law 01:49 Jul 18th, 2018 101 Horse Racing
Thoroughbred racing around the world is conducted primarily on three types of surfaces – traditional dirt, turf and synthetic (all-weather).
The majority of top-tier races in North America are run on traditional dirt, whereas most of the premier races throughout the rest of the world are contested on the grass. Synthetics such as Polytrack or Tapeta Footings are primarily used for racing in winter, cold or rainy months, although some North American tracks such as Woodbine in Toronto, Presque Isle Downs in Western Pennsylvania and Golden Gate Fields near San Francisco race on an all-weather surface regardless of the season.
Dirt surfaces would seemingly be fairly uniform but they are far from it.
The main track at Belmont Park, home of the Belmont Stakes and many other prominent races, is very sandy in nature and therefore prone to drying out quickly and becoming deep and tiring.
By comparison the main track at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, is different than just about any other surface in racing. Many North American racetracks feature a hard base, typically limestone, with layers of packed and loose dirt on top. Churchill’s track is said to not have that base but rather a deep layer of soil, clay and organic materials several feet under the surface. Horseplayers frequently note that Churchill’s main track plays favorably to horses that favor or have enjoyed success racing on grass because of its consistency.
Understanding the conditions of a dirt racetrack is an important element to handicapping a race. Dirt surfaces receive a rating by track officials depending on the condition of the course caused by the amount of water it receives.
Tracks rated “fast” are typically those with an ideal amount of moister, whether they’ve dried out from rain the previous day or taken in enough from the racetrack’s maintenance department. The next ratings, based on the amount of moisture, are tracks listed “good” and “muddy.” Another common rating is “sloppy,” where water pools on the top of the surface and horses splash their way around the track. Occasionally tracks are rated “frozen” or “hard” but not often since racing or training won’t be conducted on those surfaces.
Racing on grass, or turf, is more common outside North America primarily because of the manner racing is conducted.
In North America, the majority of racetracks are open for long periods of time so grass courses can’t handle the beating of hundreds of races being contested on them in a variety of weather conditions that range from the drought of the summer to the rainy, wet periods of spring and fall. Racetracks in Europe run shorter seasons, or meetings, sometimes only a day or a few days a year, so the courses can handle the pounding.
Just like dirt tracks, turf courses vary greatly and often because of their location and type of grass. Turf courses also receive a rating and the four most common are firm, good, yielding and soft.
A firm turf course is considered ideal, without much moisture and close to hard. A good or yielding course is saturated enough to give under the horse’s feet. Soft turf is seen more frequently outside North America and is saturated to the point of being boggy.
Synthetic surfaces have been used throughout the world for many years, primarily during the winter or rainy months when most of the top horses are recovering from the premier races of the spring, summer and fall. They became much more common in the early part of the 21st century in North America, starting in 2005 with the debut of the Polytrack surface at Turfway Park in Northern Kentucky.
Polytrack is a mixture of polypropylene, polyester, Lycra, silica sand and rubber, all covered by a wax coating. Other synthetic tracks are similar in makeup and feature a vertical drainage system to eliminate sloppy surfaces when maintained properly.
In addition to being implemented as a way to conduct racing in rainy or cold conditions, synthetic tracks were installed for safety measures at tracks across North America in the 2000s. Such major racetracks as Keeneland, Santa Anita, Golden Gate, Arlington Park and Woodbine all featured synthetic tracks for a few years until track management reverted most of them back to traditional dirt surfaces.
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Now, what exactly is a fatty liver? A fatty liver is the build-up of too much fat in the liver cells. Though it is normal to have some fat in these liver cells, if the amount of fat in these cells is over five percent, it is to be considered fatty liver disease.
Due to the standard American diet, we have seen a rise in fatty liver disease. The standard American diet is high in carbs and high in sugar. This will give you a fatty liver over time.
You may not show any signs or symptoms originally from fatty liver disease. Unfortunately, there also is no standard screening for a fatty liver. A lot of the time a fatty liver is discovered if the person is having an ultrasound (to check kidneys, gallbladder), an MRI, or a cat scan done.
Currently, there is no known medical treatment. But, luckily, there is a lot that we can do here in our office to take care of a fatty liver.
What are some possible signs of a fatty liver? Central obesity (aka a “potbelly” or “beer belly”), overall body weakness, tiredness, and fluid retention all are possible indicators of fatty liver disease. When the liver can no longer handle the fluid it is retaining it goes out behind the glands and organs and a “potbelly” begins to develop.
You must improve your diet in order to regain control over fatty liver disease. There is no way to handle a fatty liver without improving your diet. This means cutting down the carbs and cutting out the sugar. It is recommended to keep your carbs around 75g of net carbs a day. (Net carbs are carbs minus fiber) It is possible that to reduce your fatty liver that you may need to detoxify. Here in our office, we offer a full-body detox. This detox we offer is one of the steps we would want to take in order to help you get rid of the fatty liver. One of the fastest ways however to take control over fatty liver disease is to fast. Fasting does not give overnight results.
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warc | 202143 | Dear Yogis, SCHEDULE: ZOOM: Friday 6.45 Learn the tarot/FREE CLASS. Sunday 10am CCP. Monday 6.30 Teacher Training. Tuesday 7.30 CCP STUDIO: Friday yoga 5.30. Monday 1pm (full), Wednesday – one vacancy, Friday 5.30 one vacancy SATURDAY ART CLASS: Now that lockdown is coming to an end (earlier than anticipated – NEXT WEEK), I think it will be better to wait until we can set up a date to actually come to the studio for a class. Everyone is hanging out for that. TENTATIVE STUDIO DATE 2pm SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER? Let me know what you think about that. Wild and wonderful weather is now a fact of life… it is here to stay. Alongside that we have fabulous spring sunshine. I went out walking yesterday and along the Five Mile Creek (now a river) everything was lush and green – as I said to the a walker who asked what I was doing, “this is my green grocer”. I picked dandelions, miner’s lettuce, plantago, but there was lots more – especially salsify (oyster plant). Raspberry pants, Blackberry plants, eucalyptus… all with new shoots. I am going back today.
I actually went to get pine needles to make pine needle tea, a mainstay of the American Indian medicinals. My mum used to pick it as it is a great diuretic, plus it clears the chest and boosts the immune system as it has more vitamin C than lemons, plus antioxidants. You would think it would have a strong taste, but no, it is quite mild. I add my hawthorn tea leaves, lemon and honey for a refreshing tea hot, or cold.
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I know from the photograph you will think she is with a tame bird, but this is not the case. It was a bird that was battered in a storm, but suffered no visible damage but was not able to fly. The bird was able to recover and go back to the wild in a number of hours because it was treated properly, in a way that assisted healing the way birds (and most animals) respond to, not how we think they should heal.
I got an email from a potential student asking about the course who said she wasn’t interested in animals, or this or that,
and only wanted to learn specifically about the “Death Doula” part. If you feel like that, this is not the course for you. We deal with death and dying (and living) every which way. We learn about animals, about the the Egyptian way, about American Indians… anything that will help us understand the “passages” of our lives. That is why it is such an important course for everyone to do.
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warc | 202143 | Having unresolved issues with the person who died will cause you to be stuck in grief. These issues may be petty disagreements over work or family life, or they could be deep-rooted conflicts that were never settled. You can still settle those issues in your own heart.
“You can’t get unstuck from grief until you deal with the issues that stuck and gummed things up in the first place,” says Dr. Ray Pritchard.
To complete the grieving process, you must go back and deal with unresolved issues. These matters can be resolved. A pastor, counselor, or support group may help you with this.
You could also write a letter to the loved one with whom you had the disagreement or misunderstanding. Give details and ask for forgiveness. Because the person you lost cannot read the letter or respond to you, this exercise is totally for your benefit. Finally, tear up the letter. The matter is settled and finished. You can do no more.
Tell God about these conflicts. Tell Him what the disagreement was, how you felt then, and how you feel now.
“Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together” (Isaiah 43:26).
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warc | 202143 | It’s clear now that not every issue can be traced back to one’s mother.
After all, there is another person involved in the raising (or at least the creation) of a child.
In the 1950s, Harry Harlow was conducting experiments on love and relationships between parents and children, specifically monkey parents and children.
His work showed that motherly love was emotional rather than physiological, that the capacity for attachment is heavily dependent upon experiences in early childhood, and that this capacity was unlikely to change much after it was “set” (Herman, 2012).
Harlow discovered these interesting findings by conducting two groundbreaking experiments.
In the first experiment, Harlow separated infant monkeys from their mothers a few hours after birth.Through his work with children, Bowlby developed a strong belief in the impact of family experiences on children’s emotional and behavioral well-being.Early on in his career, Bowlby proposed that psychoanalysts working with children should take a holistic perspective, considering children’s living environments, families, and other experiences in addition to any behaviors exhibited by the children themselves.Bowlby hypothesized that the extreme behaviors infants engage in to avoid separation from a parent or when reconnecting with a physically separated parent—like crying, screaming, and clinging—were evolutionary mechanisms.Bowlby thought these behaviors had possibly been reinforced through natural selection and enhanced the child’s chances of survival.According to Bowlby, two children sparked his curiosity and drive that laid the foundations of attachment theory.There was an isolated and distant teenager who had no stable mother figure in his life and had recently been expelled from his school for stealing, and an anxious 7- or 8-year-old boy who followed Bowlby wherever he went, earning himself a reputation as Bowlby’s “shadow” (Bretherton, 1992).The question posed above is tongue-in-cheek, but it touches upon an important discussion in psychology—what influences children to turn out the way they do?What affects their ability to form meaningful, satisfying relationships with those around them?The development of this theory gives us an interesting look into the study of child development.Bowlby’s interest in child development traces back to his first experiences out of college, in which he volunteered at a school for maladjusted children. | 2,510 | 1,262 | 4,839.009509 |
warc | 202143 | Mammography
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Breast Tomosynthesis
Breast tomosynthesis, also called three-dimensional (3-D) mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), is an advanced form of breast imaging, or mammography, that uses a low-dose x-ray system and computer reconstructions to create three-dimensional images of the breasts. It reduces the rate of false positive readings (a reading that identifies normal tissue as an abnormality) and ensures that fewer women need to come back for another mammogram. It reduces the need for a biopsy and enables the healthcare provider to more accurately locate where the abnormality is in the breast.
Breast MRI
Breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) uses radio waves and strong magnets to make detailed pictures of the inside of the breast, and primarily used as a supplemental tool to breast screening with mammography or ultrasound. It may be used to screen women at high risk for breast cancer, evaluate the extent of cancer following diagnosis, or further evaluate abnormalities seen on mammography. Breast MRI does not use ionizing radiation, and it is the best method for determining whether silicone breast implants have ruptured.Download Document - Breast magnetic resonance imaging
Stereotactic and Vacuum Biopsy
Accurate computer imagaing guidance allows precise localization of breast lesions which can be sampled by biopsy or removed with vacuum assisted biopsy. Vacuum assisted biopsy is an alternative to surgical biopsy and is performed under local anaesthetic.
Bone Densitometry
Bone densitometry, also called dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, DEXA or DXA, uses a very small dose of ionizing radiation to produce pictures of the inside of the body (usually the lower (or lumbar) spine and hips) to measure bone loss. A bone density test is mainly done to look for osteoporosis (thin, weak bones) and osteopenia (decreased bone mass) so that these problems can be treated as soon as possible. Early treatment helps to prevent bone fractures. The complications of broken bones related to osteoporosis are often severe, particularly in the elderly. The earlier osteoporosis can be diagnosed, the sooner treatment can be started to improve the condition and/or keep it from getting worse.
Pelvic MRI
A pelvic MRI scan specifically helps your doctor to see the bones, organs, blood vessels, and other tissues in your pelvic region—the area between your hips that holds your reproductive organs and numerous critical muscles. It can help find problems such as tumours in the ovaries, uterus, prostate, rectum, and anus. If you are pregnant, MRI may be used to safely monitor you or your baby. Excellent modality to diagnose endometriosis as MRI is sensitive to blood products.
Fibroid Embolization
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a procedure to treat fibroids without surgery. Instead, the doctor (a radiologist) uses special imaging methods to treat your uterine fibroids. During the procedure, the blood supply of the fibroids is cut off, causing the fibroids to shrink. Fibroids are non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the womb (uterus). The growths are made up of muscle and fibrous tissue, and vary in size. They're sometimes known as uterine myomas or leiomyomas. Many women are unaware they have fibroids because they don't have any symptoms.
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warc | 202143 | The lack of statistical correlation between inflation and crypto prices has not deterred many investors from viewing the asset in this way, however.
“Right now, we can’t show a statistically significant correlation between inflation in the US and Bitcoin prices, but we know anecdotally that many people invest in Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation,” Chainalysis’ head of research, Kim Grauer, told Cointelegraph on Aug. 31 when asked about her thoughts on current inflation in the U.S. and its impact on Bitcoin.
U.S. inflation has been a hot topic over the past year or two. Back in June, reporting showed inflation in the U.S. reaching levels unseen in over a decade.
Other countries have experienced much worse inflation than numbers seen in the United States. Venezuela, for example, saw 10,000,000% inflation in 2019. Interest in digital assets grew in tandem.
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From the Financial Times of Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:30:08 GMT
Babies think in logs. In logarithmic scales, that is. This means that newborns are able to notice when an image of eight ducks on a screen switches to an image of 16 ducks. We notice they notice because when the switch happens to the larger flock, there’s an observable spike in activity in the parietal lobe of a baby’s brain.
This isn’t just about babies noticing that
something has changed — a switch on the screen between eight ducks and eight trucks lights up a different region of the brain. That babies can clock a large percentage increase in quantity, such as 100 per cent in the case of the ducks, but not a small one (say, between eight and nine ducks) is what defines their innate sense of numbers as logarithmic rather than linear. In contrast, integers, and the linear scale we place them on, is something that we have to learn by rote when our parents teach us how to count. It’s a cultural construct.
All of which makes me wonder, how would babies use a laptop? I recently bought a MacBook for the first time and trying to work with its default settings makes me feel positively infantile. There is a genuine possibility that a three-month-old would be better at handling its trackpad, with its “natural scrolling”, than I am.
Unlike the operation of a track wheel on a mouse, reading an article from top to bottom on the Mactraption requires an upwards movement on the trackpad instead of a downwards one. Is Apple right when it says that this method, which mimics how navigation works on touchscreen devices, is “natural”? And if so, does that mean that at some point on the path to adulthood I lost my innate understanding of how to scroll?
When natural scroll was introduced to Mac computers in 2011 some people were happy, others were a bit “meh” and some were properly cross. If I had a Mac at the time I probably would have been in that last group but it couldn’t have been as bad as when Microsoft removed the start menu in its Windows 8 operating system in 2012. That blunder deserves a spot next to “New Coke”.
As it turns out, a paper published in 2013 by Jing Chen and Robert W Proctor lends support to Apple’s choice. The researchers’ experiments measured the performance of test subjects when they used natural scrolling and also when they used the more traditional computer scrolling method. In almost all cases, subjects performed set tasks faster with natural scrolling. Matching one’s finger movement with the direction the content travels on the screen does appear to be better.
So that’s the science I ignored by switching off natural scrolling on my MacBook. As was the case with Windows 8, I needed some apps to correct the situation. It’s a testament to the modern world that whenever a big software company makes user experience decisions that some cabal of people (hello!) don’t like, there is an app developer standing by to make it all better. All hail app developers! (In case you are wondering: an app called Start8 adds back the Windows start menu and ModernMix forces Windows 8 apps to run in windows with a close button and stuff.)
Funnily enough, the app that rode to the rescue in the Mac situation was created by the developer Nick Moore, who wanted to be able to use natural scrolling in older operating systems. Bless him, he also made it possible to use natural scrolling on the trackpad while simultaneously allowing an old fogey to scroll on a mouse. Just what I needed!
Scrolling isn’t the only thing where our preferences for visual frames of reference differ. In first-person computer games, one moves the mouse to the right to look right and left to look left but what to do with the mouse if you need to look up? Moving it away from you is the norm, but some prefer to “invert the Y-axis” — pulling the mouse towards them to look up. Where a game doesn’t allow inversion, there is typically, of course, an app to fix that.
Concerning our preference for numbers, a more recent study seems to show that even as adults, we may retain some instinct for the logarithmic number sense we had as babies. Even if that’s true, there is no escaping the linear world once you inhabit it. For once, there is no app for that. But thank goodness for the apps that fix everything else, whether our preferences are natural or not.
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Some medical conditions such as DVT (deep vein thrombosis) as well as edema may need greater compression strengths and also your medical professional will let you know what level is recommended for your condition. Reduced strengths are normally used by individuals who stand all day for extra leg assistance and also circulation. Professional athletes such as runners utilize compression stockings to enhance blood circulation to muscles for boosted performance.
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Individuals with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes (triggered by maternity) and also that experience swelling in their feet ought to talk to their doctor to see if compression stockings may help boost their circulation. There is a distinction between compression socks and diabetes socks. The last has two bands while compression socks have continual bands that begin at the ankle joint and continue right up to the top of the stocking. Diabetic socks generally have much less compression and are non-binding. | 3,795 | 1,713 | 8,294.500876 |
warc | 202143 | NuvaRing caused my daughter’s death. Like so many women, she had no idea of the risks This article is more than 4 years old. Karen Langhart.
NuvaRing is not for women with a history of these conditions or any condition that makes your blood more likely to clot. The risk of getting blood clots may be greater with the type of progestin in NuvaRing than with some other progestins in certain low-dose birth control pills.
With major suits against NuvaRing’s manufacturer, Merck, headed for trial, Marie Brenner asks why a potentially lethal contraceptive remains on the market.NuvaRing requires no daily dosing so you can get effective monthly protection from pregnancy. In a given 4-week cycle, NuvaRing must be inserted into your vagina, removed after 3 weeks (21 days), and a new ring inserted 1 week (7 days) later. Regularly check that NuvaRing is in your vagina (for example, before and after intercourse) to ensure that you are protected from pregnancy.The NuvaRing is a small plastic ring, smaller than a tampon or menstrual cup, that you stick in your vagina. It secretes hormones that keep you from getting preggers for three weeks, and then you can take it out for a week while you have your period, or you can leave it in for that week too.
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warc | 202143 | Many of us suffer from bad breath, cracked lips and agonising headaches. But they could all be a sign of something much more sinister.
These are just three of the common signs of vitamin or mineral deficiencies, experts have warned on the back of a new poll of 2,000 adults.
Other issues which could point to an insufficient diet include thinning hair, a lower libido, white spots on your nails, dandruff, stress and even dry skin.
The findings, commissioned by Healthspan, showed six in ten adults are clueless about signs that could show they are suffering from a deficiency.
But according to Rob Hobson, a London-based nutritionist, adding more spring greens, red meat, and nuts to your diet could help combat any distressing symptoms.
Here, MailOnline Health reveals the common signs of any potential deficiencies, and the foods you could eat to help you overcome them.
A range of common symptoms many adults suffer from could be explained by poor diets and a lack of minerals and vitamins. Here, MailOnline Health reveals how to combat bad breath, headaches and even stress
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Foods that may help overcome it: Red meat, red peppers, kale and tofu
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Foods that may help overcome it: Fresh salmon, almonds, peanut butter and sunflower seeds
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What it could be a sign of: Iron and vitamin C deficiency
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warc | 202143 | Click ‘Next’ to start the quiz.
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#1 Which of the following characteristics describe a sheep?
Sheep can be described by all of the above. They are foolish, weak, vulnerable and clumsy/silly creatures.
#2 Sheep need to be looked after by a shepherd. How does a shepherd look after his sheep?
A shepherd leads his sheep to lush pastures where they can feed. He also keeps them together safely in a flock with other sheep so that they do not wander off on their own where dangerous animals could kill and eat them. The shepherd loves his sheep and works very hard to make sure they are kept safe and well.
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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night”
Luke Ch.2 V.8
#3 We learnt in today’s lesson of a sheep that wandered off away from the flock and got lost. What did the shepherd do when he realised that a sheep had gone missing from his flock?
The shepherd immediately went off to look for his lost sheep. It was a dangerous time for the shepherd as he would probably have had to travel a long way over rough ground and mountains looking for the animal. Wild animals such as lions and bears may have put his life in danger too. This shows how much the shepherd loved his sheep.
#4 What happened after the shepherd went looking for the lost sheep?
The shepherd searched very hard for the lost sheep and eventually found it stuck in a pit where it had fallen. He carefully picked up the sheep and carried the scared and hungry animal back home to the flock and to safety.
#5 How did the shepherd react when he found the lost sheep?
He was so happy he told all his friends and neighbours about the joyful news that he had found the sheep which was lost, and they all rejoiced with him.
#6 The Bible describes us as being like lost sheep. Is it a good thing to feel weak, foolish and vulnerable like a lost sheep?
It is good to feel like a lost sheep. It is true that we can often feel strong and able to cope with the trials of life. We can also distract ourselves watching TV or by playing games on our tablets to try and forget life’s problems. It is however a good thing to feel like a lost sheep as this makes us realise that we DO need help in our lives. Unhappiness, sickness, losing a loved one, falling out with friends and family soon make us realise that we are not in control of our lives and that we are weak, foolish and vulnerable. All these distresses are a result of sin entering this world. Sin is the most important thing that we need rescuing from.
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;”
Isaiah Ch.53 V.6
#7 Sin is a terrible thing. It offends Almighty God, it causes us all misery and it results in death. We are all without exception guilty sinners. Sin must also be punished by a just and righteous God who will condemn us to hell if we die with our sins unforgiven. There is hope though as our sins can be forgiven. Who can forgive us our sins?
The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can forgive our sins. We must realise that we are like the lost sheep – weak, foolish, vulnerable and helplessly lost in sin and cry out to Him for mercy and to save us.
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep…. and I lay down my life for the sheep ”
John Ch.10 vs.14,15
#8 Why is the Lord Jesus Christ like the shepherd who rescued (saved) his lost sheep?
The Lord Jesus Christ is presented in the bible as being like a shepherd. He seeks out His lost sheep (Christians) to save and rescue them from their life of sin. He did this by willingly taking the punishment for their sins on the cross and all that believe on Him and repent of their sinful lives are His sheep.
“For the Son of man ( Jesus Christ ) is come to seek and save that which was lost”
Luke Ch.19 V.10
#9 Could the lost sheep have saved itself?
No. The sheep was helplessly stuck in a pit and could not get out on its own. Even if it had got out, it would never have found its way home. Wild animals would soon have killed the poor sheep. This is just like us – we cannot save ourselves. We carelessly wander off in our lives and will soon find ourselves lost and stuck in a pit of sin, in danger of eternal death, unless we cry out for the Lord Jesus Christ to come and rescue (save) us.
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warc | 202143 | 11-08-2018Elena DeJesus worked as a teller at Florida Central Credit Union. Right after beginning her employment, she learned that she was pregnant. Ms. DeJesus scheduled an abortion and cleared the absence with her supervisor. Her supervisor knew the reason for her absence and approved the time off.
At her two-week performance review, everything was positive and went well. Yet, right after the review, the branch manager told her that she was being fired for missing work. She was allegedly told that the abortion was not an acceptable reason for missing work, notwithstanding that it had been approved by her supervisor. Ms. DeJesus filed a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and then filed suit.
The credit union attempted to have her case dismissed, claiming that she had not made out a case for pregnancy discrimination. While it conceded that Title VII’s protections include the choice to have an abortion, Florida Central argued that it was not required to give her preferential treatment because she was pregnant. The federal district court noted that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act “prohibits an employer from discriminating against a female employee because she has had an abortion.” Because Ms. DeJesus has alleged she was a member of a protected class based on her sex and pregnancy, that she was qualified for her position (as demonstrated by her performance evaluation) and that she was fired for taking pre-approved time off for an abortion, she had provided enough to proceed with her case. | 1,614 | 808 | 3,186.05198 |
warc | 202143 | Effects of the salinity and temperature on the mortality of
Crassostrea gigas
Jin-Young Seo, Jihun Kim, Do Hyun Jeong, Minji Lee, Kyoungsoon Shin and Seung Ho Baek
Risk Assessment Research Center, KIOST, Geoje 53201, Republic of Korea
Library of Marine Samples, KIOST, Geoje 53201, Korea
Ballast Water Research Center, KIOST, Geoje 53201, Republic of Korea
This study was conducted to measured the survival rate of
Crassostrea gigas according to the salinity when the water temperature is high. In laboratory, the mortality test was performed on the C. gigas, we conducted experiments at water temperature 20, 25, and 30℃, salinity was tested at intervals 5 psu from 0 to 35 psu. At 20℃, mortality was only seen at low salinity below 5 psu, on the other hand, above 25℃, the mortality was 100% at 5 psu, and it was all survived at the above 30 psu. However, at a water temperature of 30℃ or higher, all individuals died regardless of the concentrations of salinity. However, as a result of measuring the clearance rate, it was found that the feeding activity was performed only at 30 psu and 35 psu at 20℃ and 25℃, respectively. And at 30℃, it was found that feeding activity was not performed at all concentrations of salinity. It was confirmed that exposure to low-salt water during high water temperature affects the feeding and survival of C. gigas.
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warc | 202143 | The United Steelworkers (USW), is calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop multinational resource firm Rio Tinto as an official supplier of the 2012 London Games, because the company’s treatment of its own workers does not live up to the Olympic spirit.
The UK-based Rio Tinto is providing 99 per cent of the gold and other metals that are being cast into medals for victorious Olympic athletes.
The USW says the deal allows Rio Tinto to promote its association with the most prestigious athletic event in the world and implicitly endorses the company’s commitment to the Olympic values of ‘friendship, solidarity and fair play’.
The mining and metals giant is under scrutiny for a range of alleged environmental, human rights and labour violations at its operations around the world.
Most recently, the company announced plans at a profitable smelter in Quebec, Canada to replace retiring employees with contract workers at half the wages and no benefits at all. When employees refused to accept, Rio Tinto locked them out. The dispute has now gone on for over 3 months.
“At those low wage levels, a worker in Quebec cannot support a family,” said Steelworkers Quebec spokesperson Daniel Roy. He said that the union is launching a global campaign to pressure the IOC to drop Rio Tinto as an Olympic supplier. “Locking out its workers in Quebec is a violation of Rio Tinto’s obligations to fair play under the Olympic Charter,” Roy said. He also said that the effort by Rio Tinto to drive down living wages at one of the most profitable aluminum smelters in the world “is a dangerous precedent for industrial workers and local families everywhere.” “Rio Tinto is not Olympic calibre in its behaviour toward its own workers and their families,” says Ken Neumann, USW Canada’s National Director. “The company demands unrealistic concessions from employees, and locks them out when they don’t concede. It pollutes the air and water in communities around the world. It has no place alongside the world’s greatest athletes – it’s time to get Rio Tinto off the Olympic podium.”
The global campaign to remove Rio Tinto as an Olympic supplier will be launched at a public event, jointly between the Steelworkers and a Workers Uniting, the global union formed by Unite in the UK and Ireland and the United Steelworkers in the USA and Canada.
The Campaign was launched on Monday, April 16th at Amnesty International UK’s Human Rights Action Centre, in London.
The campaign includes the creation of the Off The Podium web-site and email campaign demanding that Rio Tinto be rejected by the IOC as a supplier and that the medals for the London Games be recast; attendance at an IOC meeting in Quebec City on May 23th-25th to ensure that each member of the IOC attending the meeting is made aware of the campaign, and the current labour dispute in Alma, while in Quebec City.
There will be a series of press conferences and rallies with Steelworker members and affiliate members of the International Metal Workers Federation (IMF) International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) in cities around the world.
Partnering with organizations such as the London Mining Network to oppose Rio Tinto’s sponsorship and highlight the company’s hypocrisy.
Despite record earnings and year over year profits, Rio Tinto is relentlessly pursuing higher profits at the expense of local workers, families and communities. The lockout in Quebec (at a smelter in a town called Alma) is just the latest example of Rio Tinto trying to boost profits by slashing wages for its own employees, with little regard for the impact in the community.
The company tried the same approach at its Boron mine in California in 2010, locking out workers for 107 days. In that case the workers held firm in their opposition to the dramatic wage cuts demanded by Rio Tinto.
Rio Tinto has also been the subject of legal action related to environmental spills, human rights abuses, and criminal wrongdoing in countries like Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and China. | 4,203 | 1,991 | 8,587.545957 |
warc | 202143 | 2 forum responses 1 question International relations theory 300 words each with works cited. Post 1International relations, as well as much of politics and history has primarily been a male-dominated environment until fairly recently, when more and more women have been involved in international relations, as well as researchers delving into the accounts of women and their roles in the past. It is also general knowledge that much of our formal history is told not only by men, but white men. Essentially, up until recent times, the vast majority of the rhetoric and perspectives of international relations and political science have been one-sided.The effects of the study of international relations encompasses everybody; not just the men. When women are included in the dialogue and discussion, and (perhaps most importantly) are taken seriously, everyone benefits. In a hypothetical situation that could be applied to almost any area of conflict, nation leaders and organizations will think about the potential for armed violence, what sorts of militias are forces will be required to defeat the opposition, etc. In many of these situations, the combatants are men. However, while men are fighting, it is the women who are often at home, maintaining the home and society and community while also dealing with the effects of conflict, and may also be facing non-combatant violence, such as sexual assault and rape. The implications of a feminist approach are simple. By recognizing the abuse and violence that happen outside of combat zones and the amount and types of unpaid labor that women do every day (child-rearing, home upkeep), governments and leaders will have a more in-depth understanding of what their countries are capable of, what resources are needed, and what the concerns of all of their citizens are. By not implicating feminism, men suffer as well. By placing such a high value on hypermasculine actions, men have heightened and intensified expectations of what it is to be a man, and thus powerful (Evans 2016, 555). However, as Rebecca Susan Evans writes, referencing J. Ann Tickner, “…contemporary economic, environmental, and terrorism-related security issues cannot be addressed with military power alone (2016, 555).” By allowing the power of men to exist outside of brute or military force and combining it with the strengths and capabilities of women, only then can a nation use the fullest extent of its resources. Post 2The scientific method is made in order to formulate, hypothesize, collect data and analyze it, and finally conclude the results of subject the person is exploring. So when a group of theorists try to argue and disregard the scientific method in the field of international relations simply does not compute for me at least. So no I do not agree with the critical theorist statements. Humans are what created everything we have today except for the earth and all the inhabitants in it, and humans are no perfect beings that are simple to describe and explore. So when pertaining to international relations, of course there are ways of using the scientific method along with the social sciences to determine the cause and affects of what occurs in the world. It is simply due to the reason because we people are at the helm and make the decisions in which affect the world around us. These can be used to conclude results to answer the questions we want to know the answers to. So a scientific method does have the ability to be a useful tool in the study of international relations. Two advantages that the critical theory has use for in international relations are that it offers many schools of thought and philosophy in which it can be used for multiple purposes that people are looking for to be used in the international relations field. Another advantage of the critical theory is that it improves the understanding of society due to the multiple integrations of many social sciences that are used in comprehending society.Answer this question Critical theorists argue that the scientific method/positivism is an inappropriate tool for the study of international relations. Do you agree? Why? Regardless of your answer, offer at least two advantages of the use of Critical Theory in the study of International Relations.
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warc | 202143 | Radar | Sep 21,2019
As I was contemplating about making a New Year’s resolution, the word “new” brought some déjà vu from the past, my college days. Back then, suggested readings for the courses we took was rare. There was no shortage of readers for what, in most cases, were older editions, no matter how poor our reading culture. The problem was that there were way too few books and too many graduates, as few as we were at the time.
Then a fresh idea came up to prepare and distribute handouts from some of the academic staff. Just the argument on the necessity of this was enough to divide the staff. For us, this definitely helped, as we could take time grasping the subject matters we were studying, going through them over and over again.
Still, there was always the kerfuffle to take the front seat, to be as close to the instructor as possible in the big halls where the lectures took place. A non-interactive session starts and finishes in lightning speed as we struggle to jot down everything, never a word to drip out from what the instructor says.
Next, I thought about an item that decades ago was an exciting new addition to the preparation and delivery of presentations – the PowerPoint. It partly did away with the chalkboard but was not as easy as we would like to imagine it now. This was because there were no drives for storing the smallest kilobyte of data. They had to be loaded onto floppy disks, a process that itself took no small amount of time.
Once in those days, a higher-level strategic management training was staged at a government agency. During the presentation, the participants continuously moved along with each slide with great enthusiasm. Then the participants, drawn from the strategic apexes of several public enterprises, lost pace all of a sudden. The presenter was completely absorbed by his slides; he did not notice what went on among them.
The participants of the room had been too absorbed with the red laser pointer hovering on the screen, wondering why it was anywhere the facilitator wished to point within a fraction of a second. The trainees were fumbling their way along this clueless labyrinth of suppositions about what it may be, its source and what swung the laser to point. That continued until the clock struck for a break.
One can assume that today being in school and in the classroom, mainly in the higher academic institutions, is completely different from our days. If they struggle with books, students will probably be getting papers and handouts in addition to digital copies of books and other resources. They can even go to YouTube for a lecture on the course with far greater depth.
Surprisingly, this phenomenon is not appreciated. Recently, I asked a young man who graduated a decade ago as an IT professional. He told me about his stay in college. He said it all went well, yet it was not until he and his friends were only left with two semesters they learned its importance. This was when a young lecturer joined their college.
Apparently, he had mastered the art of presentations and lectures, grabbing his students’ ever-shrinking attention span. His lectures were not overbearing but clear and concise with the speed and impact of the laser pointer. He also had a laser pointer, as does the IT professional who uses one for his presentations. He had passed it to me, and my New Year’s resolution is to pass it to others and for a Happy New Year.
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warc | 202143 | A Business’ Guide to Video Conferencing
A Business’ Guide to Video Conferencing. Did you know that experts are predicting that video calls will become an integral part of the new normal for work culture?
Small and large businesses alike are beginning to transition their team into a more virtual method of communication. Is your business prepared?
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Setting up video conferencing for your business does not have to be a stressful or chaotic sequence of events.
The key is to have the hardware and settings necessary to enjoy a smooth conferencing experience.
Preparing these elements early can mitigate problems associated with the initial transition into this space. It has become the new normal when it comes to business communication. This is because video conferencing can be held in a quiet and socially distant space.
As video calls become more normal, it is important to have a dedicated space to have them in. A quiet space with a professional background is the perfect area to enjoy a video conference.
Audiovisual Technology for Video Conferencing
Does your business need to utilize video conferencing technology? It would not be surprising. In fact, possessing good audiovisual tech is the next step to mastery.
Small and large businesses alike found themselves investing in audiovisual technology to help keep their business running.
Video conferencing applications can be installed on any personal computer and mobile device for free.
However, large-scale conferencing may want to utilize professional applications that can handle larger audiences.
To allow all of your conference participants to observe the other call, multiple screens can be installed in your video conferencing space.
Multiple cameras and digital tablets can also come in handy as your video conferences expand to include more people.
Business Video Call Etiquette 101
Being outfitted with the latest in audiovisual technology is only part of the procedure.
Understanding how to conduct proper business video call etiquette will also prove to be extremely useful.
Video call etiquette refers to the way you and your team enter, enjoy, and exit a video conference.
Understanding the dos and don’ts of video conferencing does not have to be a stressful or complicated process. In fact, it is carried out similarly to physical conferences.
Basic business video call etiquette demands that you and your team are prepared to meet online at the designated time.
In order to meet this deadline, ensure that you are connected to the internet and that all of your technology functions properly before it is time for a video conference to begin.
This refers to your webcams, microphones, headphones, computers, and tablets. Testing these beforehand will ensure a smooth video conference call.
It is always a good idea to check your lighting set up as well. Lighting is an important factor for a video conference to be held successfully
When to Use an App
How often a business utilizes video conferencing is personal to every team. During times of social distancing and quarantine, however, video conferencing is a daily reality for many businesses.
It is a good idea to start by replacing your normal in-person meeting times with a virtual video call. Starting the transition here can help your entire team stay on the same page.
Begin the process by sending out a message to your team informing them of which video conferencing app you would like to use to meet.
Many organizations utilize video conferencing platforms like Zoom. Every team member can make their own account or simply dial in through their mobile device.
Since dynamics are changing, it may be necessary to hold more meetings than usual. Do our best to facilitate consistent communication to your team as you all shift to a virtual way of communication.
Do You Need Software?
It is not required to purchase or download additional video conferencing software to host a video call.
For example, if your team and clients have access to Apple products then you can all utilize the FaceTime application to host video conferences.
This application is free and only requires a wireless internet connection. Many mobile devices have access to free applications to enjoy video conferencing.
If you prefer to access video calls through a personal computer then applications are also available to download through the respective app stores.
Professional video conferencing software can, however, add depth to your video call. Consider investing in some after your initial transition into it and if it feels right for your team.
The Benefits for the Business
The initial transition can seem daunting, however, video conferencing has many benefits for your business.
For example, everyone can be on the same page regardless of their location or physical condition. It can also help ease any supply chain blockages.
Keep in mind that it is not just for your business and team. It is also for the accessibility of your clients, investors, and audience.
Video conferencing can help your business continue forwards during turbulent times. We can help you connect to your team in a professional and effective manner.
Is Your Business Ready to Begin Video Conferencing?
Now you know how to successfully begin business video conferencing. Is your business prepared to handle its next video conference?
If you are in the Indiana area and are hoping to install the latest audiovisual technology that can facilitate smooth conferences then contact our office.
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warc | 202143 | Bandenia Global Capital Group hereinafter referred to as Bandenia is a leading capital solutions and investment house, established in 2003. Today our group is a mature and an innovative capital solutions group that help consumers and businesses to grow and prosper.
Bandenia is part of a modern capital corporation, solid, strong and constantly growing.
Here at Bandenia, we understand your time is important. As an independent global capital group, we are able to make decisions quickly. Bandenia was formed to meet the needs of those who demand a better service. Our objective is to help people realize the financial goals of their business.
Bandenia is contributing to building a better society through the cultivation of capitall services that meet the needs of customers and society. Based on this philosophy, Bandenia provides trade instruments, insurance, and other capital solutions with high added value that combine a variety of functions.
Bandenia forms part of a global capital group that maintains highest prudential ratios globally.
The Bandenia international network spans the globe, including Europe, Africa, The Russian Federation and the Asia-Pacific region.
Our network of businesses covers the world’s largest and fastest growing trade corridors and economic zones. More than 62 per cent of our client revenue derives from businesses and individuals with an international presence.
The value of our international network comes from our connections to the people who drive economic activity. We provide a conduit to products and services enabling our customers to meet their diverse capital needs. Our relationships reflect the geographic reach of our network and the range of customers we support.
We develop our products and services to be globally consistent and to represent the highest standards across all our markets. This allows us to serve our clients efficiently and in a consistent way in every country where we operate.
We share knowledge and expertise across our global businesses to serve our customers more effectively. Developing long-term relationships with clients is key to delivering our strategy and growing our business. We are members and shareholders of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication) which allows us to transmit safe and secure messaging throughout the World.
Our board of directors, management, have witnessed in recent years an unprecedented transformation, particularly in the economic sector, paired with the globalization phenomenon and an extended dissemination process of information technologies that applies to all productive activities. Therefore, it is important to bear in mind that financial institutions cannot ignore this transformation and Bandenia recognises the necessity to provide the broadest possible service to our clients in the most efficient way.
As a result, Bandenia has developed a financial model that is the cornerstone of our business. Our strategic decision is based on holding fast to this model and is one of the most remarkable characteristics of our Group. Our growth and our turnover figures are demonstrated year after year.
Bandenia global capital group is committed to fulfill all of our shareholders’ expectations as would be expected from a financial institution with an extensive capital base, a sound balance sheet and a regular income, and also by trusting our expert team of professionals, our directors establish the policies and set the strategies that have made us one of the world’s largest providers of capital solutions to businesses and consumers in our sector. | 3,615 | 1,687 | 7,684.285714 |
warc | 202143 | History showed the French, on more than one occasion, that they needed to better provide for their own security.
Geopolitical crises tend to come on gradually — until they come on suddenly.
The EU drags its feet on military defense because European citizens are complacent and have not awakened fully to their new geopolitical reality: They cannot rely on American military largesse.
It was white bread, greasy soup, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 that finally won France over to the value of military conscription, which had been instituted for the first time by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. Napoleon had seen a set of needs: not only a need to modernize the nation’s armed forces but also to turn the peasants of France’s far-flung regions into Frenchmen. This just happens to be the title of Eugen Weber’s thoroughgoing book,
Peasants into Frenchmen, which describes the tortuous journey from stationed military conscripts being perceived as a quasi-foreign imposition to being celebrated as defenders of the nation.
Weber describes the travails met along the way. Farmers whose sons were called up to the armed forces lost so much economic value that an entire cottage industry of hiring substitute recruits sprang up. Napoleon hoped that conscripts would learn some French and perhaps pick up some cosmopolitan attitudes, but they promptly forgot them if they returned home. Superstitious rituals were still the norm. And wealthier French citizens recoiled at the idea of their sons mingling with the lower classes in the barracks.
But there were upsides: life in the army was also softer and easier than life on the farm, the food was better, and a series of reforms across the years gradually raised the appeal of conscription. What started off as an elite project finally gained full acceptance when the French were decisively defeated in war by the Germans, whose military organization was more modern, its staff more professional, and its infrastructure more rationalized. The need for a competent and modern security apparatus, including a better system of universal conscription, was clear — and the French adopted it, but with a shorter period of service.
The moral is that geopolitics had done its work: The generations-long effort to build an institution and shape a society had met the sudden impetus of regional events.
Europe’s lackluster military defense
Fast forward to the present day. We are living in another era when Europe needs a new security idea. It is a realization that has come on gradually, as consecutive U.S. administrations have consistently pressured their NATO allies to take up more responsibility for their own defense. And now it has come on suddenly, as the chaotic U.S. withdrawal of its remaining forces from Afghanistan exposed the relative helplessness of America’s allied forces to manage the situation and protect their own interests in that country. German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer described the problem in blunt terms in a short opinion piece for the Atlantic Council.
“We were unable to resist the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country because we did not have the military capabilities that would have enabled us to stay on there without the American military presence,” wrote Kramp-Karrenbauer, formerly and briefly the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union. She later put the onus squarely on EU member states to rectify the situation.
“Real strength in EU security and defense can only come from the member states and their capitals. That’s where the resources are, and that’s where decisions about the use of force can be made. The institutions in Brussels can certainly help, but it is the member states’ responsibility to come together and end Europe’s lackluster performance on defense.”
The minister’s framing has a reason: Upgrading the continent’s defenses has been a slow-burning topic over the last decade, especially since NATO members agreed in a 2014 summit to boost military spending in their countries to a threshold of at least two percent of GDP. (By comparison, U.S. military spending amounts to between three and four percent of GDP.) Plans by EU institutions, like PESCO, aim to upgrade and integrate EU militaries.
But, as we learned from French history, this cannot remain simply an elite project. Ultimately, it must come from the voting public because nothing sits closer to the core of what it means to be a nation than military capabilities. To be French means to have a French military; to be European means to have a European military. Yet, few parties across Western Europe’s political landscape make it their top priority to press the case for better defense capabilities. Europe’s politicians need to craft and share with their voters a clear vision for what it means to act seriously about defense once more.
Like turning a battleship
It is not easy to steer a course change at the popular level. The generation that is in its middle adulthood in core EU countries like France, Germany, and Italy is the same generation that saw conscription end in their countries. The youngest generations have no experience of it at all. Meanwhile, Germany’s military spending dropped from 2.6 percent of GDP in 1988 (in West Germany) to as low as 1.1 percent in 2015, according to SIPRI. (It sat at 1.4 percent in 2020.) France’s military spending is on an upward trend and did cross the 2 percent threshold in 2020 — but it was twice that in the late 1980s. Of course, rising budgets overall mean that real spending might have increased, but the rate of those increases falls well short when compared to potential adversaries such as Russia, China, and an increasingly raucous Turkey.
What these changes all add up to is a generation of Europeans that did not come of age having thought much about military defense, barring specific individual interests. Foreign policy analysts speak of an “end-of-history” delusion that led a generation of policymakers astray, and this fading of military thought is a popular version of that phenomenon. It seemed appropriate at the time: Conscription was indeed an expensive relic, the Soviets were gone, and Europe had staked its role in the world on its moral qualities, leaving the military spending to America.
That is why major parties do not stress military matters as a primary organizing principle for their platforms. On the other hand, there
are plenty of platforms calling to leave NATO or for nuclear disarmament. Although they usually sit on the fringes, Jeremy Corbyn did stand for years at the head of the British opposition; Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise made a stronger than expected run in the last major French election; and at the time of this writing, it is at least possible that Die Linke could be part of Germany’s next ruling coalition. European military: a new hope?
Despite this, there are plenty of signs that Europeans are ready to respond to the new reality they live in, one where their continent wears a girdle of threats. This is especially true at the edges of the continent: Countries such as Sweden have reinstituted conscription. (Others never actually ended it.) Countries such as Poland are demonstrably eager to ward off the Russian menace at their borders. But it is the core of Western Europe, from the EU’s Franco-German engine to the original members of the EU and NATO, that determine the movement of the greater whole. In that EU core, one of the main hang-ups in prescribing a coherent vision for defense is the question of whether to emphasize NATO or EU mechanisms as the framework within which to move forward. A strictly national emphasis has generally been the province of far-right parties, which generates caution among the wider electorate.
Western Europe’s politicians have an important job to take up, one that has hit with the shock of Afghanistan and should be especially clear given the political destabilization of their military patron saint across the pond. As Kramp-Karrenbauer points out, change rests in the realm of national politics, so it is up to national political leaders to take their discussions outside the forums of EU institutions and present them to their own voters in a way that stirs some motivation.
It should not take generations to get Europeans focused, as in the case of the beginning of conscription — the world simply moves too fast for that in the 21st century. But hopefully the needed changes will occur before events compel them. | 8,656 | 4,005 | 18,323.48764 |
warc | 202143 | At one time and for many years before reality TV game show host Donald Trump was inexplicably elected to the presidency, immigration enforcement officers were given some leeway in determining whether or not an arrest should be made when encountering a suspected undocumented immigrant. Trump, of course, made changes to that policy that pleased his racist fanbase, overfilled detention centers to the point of cruelty, and left families shattered over a misdemeanor offense by otherwise law-abiding people.
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday largely halted a judge's order that would have upended ICE's enforcement priorities, marking a judicial win for the Biden admin after a handful of setbacks. https://t.co/W5nPI2qVNb
— Priscilla Alvarez (@priscialva) September 15, 2021
President Joe Biden issued an order to end that policy and revert back to a time when only undocumented immigrants who pose a threat to public safety were arrested and detained, an order that Judge Drew Tipton of the Southern District of Texas blocked, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.” The 5th Circuit Federal Appeals case removed that block while the case makes it way through the court process.
According to CNN:
‘The case, brought by Texas and Louisiana, challenged a memo issued in the beginning of President Joe Biden‘s term that instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus its arrests on certain undocumented immigrants, particularly those who posed national security risks or had serious criminal histories.
‘The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals found that the provisions do not eliminate immigration officials’ “broad discretion” to decide who should face enforcement action, according to the ruling. The part of the injunction that was not put on hold is already in line with general enforcement protocol.’
Racists lose again. https://t.co/yEeHNbeSkP
— Russ Fraley (@PappyParki) September 15, 2021
It’s a difficult argument to make that a policy that was in use in the United States for years would suddenly cause undue harm to immigrants due to its arbitrariness when, without it, mass arrests, detentions, and family separations occurred. 5th Circuit Judge Gregg Costa wrote in the court’s ruling that:
‘We do not see a strong justification for concluding that the (Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) detention statutes override the deep-rooted tradition of enforcement discretion when it comes to decisions that occur before detention, such as who should be subject to arrest, detainers, and removal proceedings…That means the United States has shown a likelihood of prevailing on appeal.’
— 710 KURV (@710KURV) September 15, 2021
Although the GOP will certainly continue to argue that Biden’s policies are all about “open borders,” the continued enforcement of the blanket arrest policy actually makes policing the border more difficult, taking resources away from immigration enforcement at the border.
‘The Justice Department argued that there aren’t sufficient resources to detain the millions of undocumented immigrants in the US, in building the case for a priority system, and that deviating from that would require pulling ICE agents from the US southern border, where they’re assisting authorities.’
A #US appeals court says the #Biden administration can continue to limit who can be arrested by US immigration agents pending the outcome of its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that blocked a memo on new enforcement priorities. https://t.co/Jln0DRr4DJ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) September 15, 2021 | 3,720 | 1,824 | 7,287.039474 |
warc | 202143 | Now is the ideal time for employers to consider acting in their workplaces to include age in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies.
We applaud the House of Representatives for passing the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act — a bill that would restore some protections wiped out by a 2009 Supreme Court decision. The AARP-backed bill scraps a requirement that older workers prove their age was a “decisive factor”…
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warc | 202143 | Payroll processing can be a headache for a small business owner, especially if you manage the entire process yourself. You may be considering increasing efficiency by outsourcing to a payroll service. Before you make the leap, you’re probably wondering –
how much does a payroll service cost?
The short answer: it depends. But these
5 factors can help you estimate a ballpark figure based on your needs.
5 Factors That Determine How Much Payroll Services Cost 1. Are you looking to work with a national or a local firm?
You may know of (or have been contacted by) several large or national firms that work with clients regardless of location. But it’s worth shopping around, as local firms often provide similar value at a fraction of the cost. Plus, local firms often provide more personalized customer service and local expertise that national firms can lack. Pricing between national and local firms does vary, but a local firm may provide a more specialized quote depending on your business.
2. How many people are on your payroll?
Pricing for payroll services will differ depending on the number of people you employ.
More employees means more processing time. However, there can be price breaks based on volume. For the small business owner, having a payroll process in place - even for a handful of employees - is reassuring. It can set you up for a smooth transition as you scale and add new talent. 3. How often are your employees paid?
Every employer needs to
decide on a pay period for their employees, whether its weekly, bi-weekly, or semi-monthly. This will keep you organized and help you run payroll more effectively. The more times payroll is processed during the year, the more you can expect to pay for the service.
If you are looking to increase efficiency, payroll providers usually include payroll management, compliance, accessible reports, and other resources for a fixed, low monthly fee.
4. Do any employees have garnishments or pay tax to other states?
If you employ people who
work in other states, there may be extra tax implications. This can affect the price of payroll services.
You should also consider garnishments that may be deducted from your employees’ paychecks, including
child support, tax obligations, or other debts. 5. Are you thinking about direct deposit? About half of small business owners elect to use direct deposit. Payroll services can automate direct deposit, automatically calculate and schedule payroll taxes electronically from your business account, and submit quarterly tax reports and annual returns, including W-2s.
Are you considering offering direct deposit to some or all of your employees? In addition to streamlining payroll services,
direct deposit also potentially yields cost savings and increased employee satisfaction. So, is it worth it?
You probably didn’t start your small business because you love processing payroll. It may be time to consider the ways payroll services can help you save time and money.
To increase efficiency, you may also wish to consider bundling services.
Firms like CSI Accounting & Payroll can accommodate tax planning and preparation, bookkeeping, accounting, payroll management, all of the above, or a specific combination of services for your small business.
Bundling services can also relieve the burden of dealing with multiple vendors to address all of your accounting needs. You’ll have more time and resources to focus on what you do best: running your business. We also offer an option for HR support if you don't have a dedicated human resources team, as well as timekeeping and scheduling solutions through our partner, SwipeClock.
Are you ready to start saving time and money? Contact us today to discuss pricing options for your small business. | 3,810 | 1,755 | 8,151.880342 |
warc | 202143 | Science can be one of the toughest subjects to learn if concepts are not clear. As a student goes into high school, they have to study three different segregations of science – chemistry, physics and biology. Their education at a school level determines their credibility to take up a specific stream in college. So, all students must master science subjects to fulfil their future aspirations.
Why Your Child Needs Online Science Tuition?
An online tutor for science can make the process of learning and understanding clearer for the student. Let us find out why you should enrol your child for online science tuition:
1. Personalized Attention
Once you find a science tutor
, you will help your child get personalized attention during the learning sessions. Individual attention helps a child concentrate better as the teacher only focuses on one student and enhances their understanding. One-to-one communication makes it easier for the student to grasp what they learn and also quickly resolve queries. 2. Visual Representation
Since we have upgraded from blackboard classes, it allows tutors to use internet technology at its best. Tutors can use demonstrations taking data from the internet to explain concepts better. These do not limit to textbooks and help tutors provide graphical representation for better understanding. Such data help students understand scientific theories easily and quickly.
3. Using Online Tools to Teach Better
Some virtual tools to use during online classes include:
Whiteboards Text editors Virtual games Pointers Drawing tools Screen-sharing tools Breakout rooms File editors
Such tools aid the learning process to make subjects easier to understand for every student. Initially, the tutor needs to explain the purpose of using such tools. Slowly, as the student learns to utilize them, it will help the coaching process.
4. Helps Tutors Understand Strengths
A face-to-face classroom creates an intimate space between the tutor and student. It helps the tutor understand the strengths and weaknesses of the student. Online education helps a tutor to easily engage and understand the aspects that the child finds difficulty in. They can assertively take measures to resolve the weaknesses and encourage the strengths.
A science student likely prefers one science subject over another. An online tutor can understand this during the process of teaching. For example, if a student prefers physics over chemistry, he/she probably needs more time learning chemistry. Such preference helps the tutor understand their strengths and find ways to make the other subjects interesting.
5. Tracking Progress
To understand how well a student is learning the subject, tutors can take frequent mock tests. These tests will reveal how well students have prepared and keep them ready for their main examinations.
Students need to understand different diagrams, formulas, and theories to understand science subjects. Tutors that encourage frequent mock tests will help the students constantly check their understanding level. Once tutors understand where students are going wrong, they will take the right measures to clarify those concepts better.
Final Thoughts
A science tutor can change the way your child takes an interest in science subjects. To make science easy to understand and fun to learn, appoint an online science tutor today. To find a qualified tutor for your child, check out MyFavTutor. It is a one-stop destination for students to find qualified tutors across multiple subjects and learn from home. | 3,561 | 1,622 | 7,763.067818 |
warc | 202143 | Start watching with your public library card or university login Building Confidence in Motivational Interviewing With Cathy Cole Episode 4 of Motivational Interviewing Step by Step Series
A key component of successfully making a change is having the confidence to put a change plan into action. In this fourth and final video in the series Motivational Interviewing Step by Step, expert MI practitioner and trainer Cathy Cole demonstrates various strategies to address clients' lack of confidence. In three full-length sessions, Cole provides viewers a unique opportunity to see MI in action in diverse settings with clients who lack confidence in their ability to achieve their goals.
Janet believes it is important to get more exercise but, as a single mother, doesn't know how to fit this into her busy life. Cole helps her develop a personalized and specific plan of action that increases the likelihood that Janet will be successful at attaining her objective.
Julie is a vivacious teenager torn between her love of good food and her desire to lose weight. Cole walks her through a series of manageable dietary changes, then elicits past successes and personal strengths as a way of increasing Julie's confidence.
Vance is concerned that he is not making as much progress as he would like toward financial security. Cole uncovers his core life values in the course of an explorative conversation and, by tying these values to his goals, helps Vance increase his commitment to make tough choices and come up with a plan of action.
By watching this video, you will be able to:Identify in sessions various roadblocks to confidence in effecting change. Learn to utilize personal strengths, values, and past successes. Use MI techniques best suited for clients who want to change but are low in confidence.Save on the complete 4-video series! | 1,850 | 939 | 3,631.043663 |
warc | 202143 | The project aims to evaluate the potential of the cellulose-lignin mixture of sugarcane bagasse as an adsorbent material for the extraction of gold ions and gold-thiosulfate and gold-thiourea complexes, with ICP OES determinations, to be applied in gold recovery. The sugar cane bagasse will be ground in a knife mill and electronic mortar and pistil, sieved, washed with water, with HCl and dried in an oven. Considering that one of the procedures for gold leaching from printed circuit boards occurs by the formation of gold-thiosulfate or gold-thiourea complexes, studies for the extraction of these complexes will be investigated. Therefore, the conditions for the formation of gold-thiosulfate and gold-thiourea complexes will be evaluated, such as pH and binder concentrations. The adsorption will be done in batch or in columns filled with cellulose-lignin. Adsorption isotherms will be obtained under equilibrium conditions and adjusted to classic adsorption models (Langmuir, Frumkin, Freundlich) to obtain the maximum amount of adsorbed and constant affinity between free gold and cellulose-lignin complexes. The concentrations of free gold and the complexes, in solution before and after adsorption on the cellulose-lignin substrate, will be determined by ICP OES. As a preliminary study, it is intended to perform the gold leaching from material crushed from PCIs and into the resulting solution and apply the conditions of separation and concentration of gold from solution derived from leaching of PCIs. (AU)
News published in Agência FAPESP Newsletter about the scholarship: | 1,597 | 770 | 3,295.627273 |
warc | 202143 | Trinity College Dublin is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative researcher, with expertise in Natural Capital Accounting, to join the interdisciplinary Farm Zero C project.
Farm Zero C is an SFI-funded collaboration between industry and academia, which aims to deliver a range of strategies to help to create a more sustainable and resilient dairy sector. The ultimate aim of the project is to develop a replicable net zero emissions model for dairy farmers. The Farm Zero C team is led by SFI BiObic Centre and Carbery Group, with partners including University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Munster Technological University Kerry, Teagasc and GRASSA B.V. The project builds on previous work at Shinagh Dairy Farm (in West Cork), as a ‘demonstrator’, and will develop tools to be deployed through a technological platform (Climate Neutral App) that will allow farmers to design climate and biodiversity strategies that best suits their needs.
Trinity College Dublin is leading work on habitat mapping and natural capital accounting, and is seeking a researcher to:
Build natural capital accounts (extent, condition and services) at farm level using the UN System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) approach. Accounts will focus on extent, condition, and services (carbon sequestration and storage, runoff pollution remediation and aesthetic services), and will be built for Shinagh and 10 farms in the Greener Dairy Programme. Develop and test indicators for farmland habitat condition and assess the link farmland between habitat condition and service provision for integration into natural capital accounts. Work with other members of the Farm Zero C team to integrate accounting into an interactive app-based interface (Climate Neutral App), so that accounts are informative, useful and intuitive to use by farmers. Write and publish peer reviewed scientific papers and present results at national and international conferences.
The researcher will join the group of Professor Jane Stout in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, who leads the INCASE project developing Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) approaches for Ireland, and who is a lead PI on the Nature+Energy project, developing NCA for the wind-energy industry. As part of the Farm Zero C project, the researcher will also benefit from collaboration with Professor Lars Hein at Wageningen University who was one of the main authors of the UN SEEA-EA framework.
Qualifications and experience required Candidates must demonstrate the following Minimum 3 years experience (which may include experience gained during a PhD) in a relevant field, such as natural capital accounting, agricultural ecology, ecological economics, environmental resource economics, or related discipline, with a good understanding of Natural Capital Accounting, SEAA-EA, and ecosystem condition assessment. Research expertise and excellent written communication skills as evidenced by, for example, publications in international peer-reviewed journals Excellent oral communication and team work skills for transdisciplinary collaboration with other researchers and partners in industry Strong organisation skills and self-motivation Driving licence The following is desirable Understanding of Irish dairy or related agricultural systems Direct project or work experience developing tools for habitat assessment and/or using SEEA-EA approach Understanding of habitat assessment and related policy within the agricultural sector Experience participating in collaborative research projects Details of the position Salary
This post is full time 18-24 months’ duration, with an annual salary of €38,632 (gross).
Start date
It is anticipated that the successful applicant will be in place during November 2021.
Application procedure
Please submit a cover letter outlining suitability for the post and a CV (including details of experience and publications, and the names of two referees) via email to stoutj@tcd.ie.
Applications accepted until the position is filled. | 4,104 | 1,894 | 8,810.38226 |
warc | 202143 | Hip-hop superstar GZA (Gary Grice), founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan (no relation to GZA Geoenvironmental, Inc., founded by Donald Goldberg ’54, SM ‘55 and Bill Zoino ’54, SM ’55), recently visited MIT and Harvard labs […]
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On Sept. 6, doctoral candidate Sergio Herrero was awarded the 2011 Dr. Mikio Shoji Award for Innovation in Information Technology. The award is named for Mikio Shoji, a longtime corporate supporter of CEE research who flew […]
When President Sebastián Piñera of Chile visited campus Friday, Sept. 23 to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield, tour the Media Lab and address Chilean students in the Boston area, it was CEE Professor Eduardo Kausel […]
MIT and the East Japan Railway Company celebrated the 20th anniversary of the East Japan Railway Company Professorship Oct. 13 with a reception at the MIT Faculty Club. Joseph M. Sussman, the JR East Professor in […]
Samar Malek presented her research on the mechanics of grid shells at the 20th IABSE-IASS (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering – International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures) Symposium held in London Sept. 20-23. […]
The work of Professor Jerry Connor and recent graduate Simon Laflamme (who is now on the faculty at Iowa State University) is the topic of a story in the October issue of Scientific American. The story, […] | 3,697 | 1,864 | 6,973.525751 |
warc | 202143 | July 26, 2021
Australia has locked 900,000 people into their homes, with rules and restrictions, which are in some way more tyrannical than those faced in prison – in order to stop the spread of COVID. Ironically enough, when someone in prison is infected with COVID, our governments release prisoners from prison, and set them free – again, to stop the spread of COVID.
https://ch1.ca/andrew-101/
July 16, 2021
“The political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy” – Thomas Sowell
A couple generations of university graduates have entered society donning Che Guevara T-shirts, idolizing his ideologies and exploits. Today I tell the Che Guevara story and reveal the truth behind the monsters legend.
Brea Jones, from factcheck.org writes a hilarious Fact Check for Facebook regarding world leaders who have died in the last 6 months, the majority of which openly opposed public health measures, and to various degrees, for their citizens. Brea hilarious adds fuel to the conspiracy fires, while attempting, like the authoritarian fascist she is, to squash the discussion and debate.
The Canadian state funded media suddenly do an about face regarding the pandemic and inoculations.
https://ch1.ca/che-guevara-and-facebook-fact-checkers/
July 13, 2021
I cannot take a vaccine, as such I will not demand others take one to “protect me”. The shear notion of forcing a vaccine into people to protect others is absurd. We are quite literally demanding people vaccinate in order to protect the vaccinated. Abject madness.
https://ch1.ca/i-will-not-comply/
July 8, 2021
Our most senior Public Health officials, our most senior politicians, supported by our tax funded propagandist media, are all forcing and/or coercing anti-scientific, nonsensical policies upon your children, which will directly harm them. They are aware of the harm they are causing, yet, they are still proceeding.
Ladies and gentlemen, they are trying to hurt your children. You must stand in their way.
https://ch1.ca/they-are-trying-to-hurt-your-children/
July 3, 2021
JAMA Network (Journal of American Medical Association) publishes hard evidence and peer reviewed conclusions that masking, specifically, but not excluded to children, causes clinical and pathological hypercapnia (CO2 poisoning). They have demonstrated that CO2 levels in children wearing masks can reach levels which shockingly, dangerously and massively exceed those permitted in industrial environments before they are considered to be unsafe and life threatening. Prolonged hypercapnia, as would be experienced by children forced into mandatory masking for prolonged periods of time, day after day, leads to respiratory acidosis, respiratory failure and even death.
https://ch1.ca/this-is-how-we-fight/
June 30, 2021
As our country suffers through flagrant medical tyranny
As our business owners and churches face persecution
As our statues are being torn down and our history is being re-written
As they divide us into more and more groups and create more and more conflict via flagrant lies and propaganda
As they cancel our country and demand you feel shame
I urge all Canadians to celebrate Canada Day to its fullest. To send a very loud and clear message. We will not be de-moralized. We will not go quietly into the night. We are Canadian, we are proud to be Canadian, let the fight begin
https://ch1.ca/happy-canada-day/
June 24, 2021
Masking, asymptomatic spread, PCR tests, Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), Outdoor transmission, surface transmission, efficacy and effectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions, relative risk amongst various age demographics, efficacy of natural immunity and immunological response, vaccine efficacy amongst the young and healthy demographics, specifically children.
https://ch1.ca/they-lied-and-people-die/
June 23, 2021
As rumours swirl around the defection of the leader of the CCP spy organization to the US, it is becoming apparently obvious just how corrupt and infiltrated our media and political class truly have become.
Today I discuss the slow and steady infiltration of communist ideologies in our society. From identity politics, right through to “equity” and “diversity and inclusion”.
Canada’s leading immunologist, virologist and vaccine scientist, who is explicitly funded by our own government to produce and assess vaccines, appears on a CPAC national broadcast. With total audience (between CPAC and social media) reaching millions of people, our politicians and our media are deafening with their silence.
https://ch1.ca/slow-trickle-infiltration/
June 16, 2021
The Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland is petitioning to pass a new budget bill which will prolong wage/rent subsidies and various other benefits associated with the COVID lockdowns and public health measures. Chrystia Freeland seems to lack the fundamental understanding of supply & demand economic realities. Her policies are extending lockdowns and soaring our national debt. This is directly resulting in the printing of enormous amounts of cash, and ultimately is destroying the value of labour for the average Canadian. It is quite literally as if every Canadian has received a 30% or higher decrease in their paycheque each month via unabated inflation.
https://ch1.ca/what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/
June 15, 2021
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities” – Voltaire
People have often asked me why I am willing to fight mandatory masking so aggressively. The answer is once we accepted such scientific absurdity, once we accepted the suspension of disbelief, in order to “keep us safe”, we permitted ourselves to believe other absurdities. Outdoor transmission of a respiratory virus, “asymptomatic spread”, surface transmission of a respiratory viron and now, natural immunity being completely discarded as a dangerous conspiracy theory. The end result has been the destruction of our civil liberties, direct and indirect harm to our children and the devastation of our free market society and economy. As we clearly and flagrantly drift dangerously into socialism and authoritarianism.
https://ch1.ca/double-ccg-sequencing/ | 6,389 | 3,044 | 13,109.623522 |
warc | 202143 | April 9, 2021 | Betty A. Proctor | Internal Press Release
When Nokian Tyres announced plans for their new $360M manufacturing facility in Rhea County, Chattanooga State Community College leadership met with area leaders to develop plans for the expansion of two Chattanooga State Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) programs into Rhea County: Industrial Maintenance Mechatronics (IMM) and Industrial Electricity (IE).
“Chattanooga State’s growing presence in Rhea County will be an avenue for us to continue to develop our current workforce and also develop a pipeline of future talent,” said Nokian Tyres Dayton Factory Human Resources Manager Blake Markham. “We are excited about the possibility of working with Chattanooga State.”
An Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) grant awarded to Chattanooga State in July last year along with a grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) provided the necessary funding to purchase the training equipment in support of these programs. Following the installation of equipment in the fall, both programs premiered in January for the spring 2021 semester. “Everyone is excited about the new programs,” stated Melvin Rhodes, IMM associate instructor. “Students are looking forward to the opportunities they will have for their future career advancement.”
The Industrial Maintenance Mechatronics program enters the Rhea County area with a solid 100% job placement rate established through the main campus program. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the expected growth rate of 13% with approximately 70,000 more positions available through 2029 means good news for area residents interested in this growing career. “I like the electrical part the most, but Melvin (Mr. Rhodes) is the best part of this course,” said Jonah Gardenhire, IMM student. “I enjoy the way our instructor explains the labs,” added fellow classmate, Ryan Whymer.
Nokian’s Dayton facility employs approximately 240 workers and is currently engaged in a hiring campaign to add nearly 150 members to its team.
David Burgess, IMM department head, said that employers should expect our Industrial maintenance mechatronics graduates to be entry-level employees with a solid foundation of electrical and mechanical fundamentals, which include mechanical systems, electrical systems, hydraulics pneumatics, motor controls, basic PLC, and basics of automation, robotics, and welding. “Students are expected to show commitment and a willingness to learn their industry with a stronger work ethic than those without training,” he stated.
By establishing this career pipeline to support local manufacturing industries, it will increase post-secondary students’ access to advanced training and completion of industry-recognized certifications, while creating a pipeline of highly trained workers to meet current and future workforce demands.
Mr. Rhodes also teaches Chattanooga State’s Industrial Electricity (IE) program in Dayton. With a 96% job placement rate, a career in Industrial Electricity has an expected growth rate of 8% with approximately 62,000 more positions available through 2029, according to BLS. He feels strongly that both programs will outgrow the current facility in the future. “With the growth of this community and the new industry expansion, these programs will be high demand,” stated Rhodes.
Graduates of the IE program will be prepared for entry-level positions having obtained a solid foundation in electrical fundamentals with skills that include AC/DC electrical systems, residential wiring and construction wiring practice, and simple motor control circuits with proficiency in electrical codes.
More than 90 graduates have completed Chattanooga State’s Welding program in Dayton since its opening in 2011. Graduates are able to perform basic welding techniques and execute other aspects of welding such as basic oxyacetylene cutting, shielded metal arc (SMAW), gas metal arc (GMAW), fluxcore arc (FCAW), and gas tungsten arc (GTAW), while displaying proficiency with hand tools used in the welding process. Talion Johnson, associate instructor, explains that students attend classes totaling 1290 clock hours over three semesters. “The program is fun and interesting, and faculty make the class easy to get the hang of and learn,” commented Austin Bradley, welding student.
Chattanooga State’s Industrial Maintenance Mechatronics and Industrial Electricity programs are both held at the Rhea Modular Labs located 0.5 miles from the entrance to the North American Factory at Nokian Tyres, at 320 Greenway Blvd, while the College welding program is located at 504 Broadway. Both facilities are in Dayton, Tennessee.
For more information about these programs, visit chattanoogastate.edu/tcat, stop by the Dayton Site at 200 4th Avenue or call (423) 365-5010. | 4,956 | 2,280 | 10,481.505263 |
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warc | 202143 | How much does your business spend annually on data storage and data warehousing? Considering the fact that we live in a society where immense amounts of data are stored and housed online, you might be surprised by how much you actually spend on this incredibly important aspect of running a business. In fact, we’re willing to bet that you’re spending... Read More
Published: 08 Sep 2021
Email is a crucial part of any modern business, but it’s not always the most fun topic to cover. It’s more of a necessity than something super exciting, like machine learning or automation. Still, this does not make it any less important, so why don’t we discuss some of the ways you can make sure
Published: 30 Jun 2021
Spam filtering is great for keeping dangerous or wasteful messages from clogging up your inbox, but at the same time, there can be times when legitimate emails get flagged and sectioned off by accident. This is especially pertinent to business owners who do frequent outreach to vendors and valued customers. Here are some reasons your
Published: 26 Apr 2021
When so many shifted over to remote operations during the pandemic, it threw a sizable number of them for a loop. It has taken about a year for the shift to settle in, in fact, and so people everywhere are finally starting to feel the impacts of prolonged remote work. One considerable impact: the fatigue
Published: 21 Apr 2021
Email is a hugely useful business tool, which is what makes solutions like Microsoft Outlook so popular in today’s organizations. Having said that, it can become far too simple for the inbox to be overstuffed with outdated and unnecessary messages that ultimately serve little more than to hide the ones you need to review. Did
Published: 14 Apr 2021
We’ve all received those emails that have some level of sensitive data in them, and we’ve all sent our fair share of them as well. However, one almost has to wonder—how secure is this data as it sits around in someone’s inbox?
Published: 17 Feb 2021
Regardless of how well you try to maintain your email inbox, there will most likely be some messages floating around after some amount of time—especially when you have a lot of emails coming in at once. When there’s one or two that you really need to keep track of, one of Gmail’s features provides a
Published: 28 Oct 2020
In June 2020, Microsoft updated their popular Outlook email platform in Microsoft 365, adding (among other things) an integrated polling feature. Let’s take a few moments and go over how to use it so you are better able to take advantage of the opportunities this tool can provide.
Published: 09 Sep 2020
Over the last few months, many businesses have had to hurriedly adopt remote work as an alternative to in-house operations. While many have done so successfully, it isn’t uncommon for certain elements to trip them up, including remote meetings. As these meetings are likely to continue for the foreseeable future, we wanted to share a
Published: 04 Sep 2020
With COVID-19 creating the challenges that it has for so many, there is little wonder that creating a vaccine is such a major focus. Unfortunately, hackers are aware of this focus, and how it makes the organizations conducting vaccine trials particularly vulnerable. Let’s examine this situation, and the lessons that all businesses can take away
Published: 17 Aug 2020
The more businesses have become capable of, the more important their communications and the tools that enable them have become. Given the current global situation and the challenges that arise because of it, these communication technologies can now be considered indispensable to businesses. Let’s discuss why so many businesses have elected to adopt unified communications | 3,835 | 1,862 | 7,678.238453 |
warc | 202143 | October 11, 2021Via: Construction Dive
Despite unprecedented labor and construction materials shortages, business is booming for home builders across the country. Over the past 2 years, residential construction permits increased 36% nationally and the average value of a newly constructed single-family home increased by 7%, […]
September 3, 2021Via: Building Design + Construction
Low- and no-cost measures can significantly reduce embodied carbon in mid-rise commercial office, multifamily, and tilt-up-style buildings, according to Rocky Mountain Institute. Whole-building design, material substitution, and specification strategies can chop embodied carbon by 24% to 46% in those building […]
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The Biden Administration recently announced new federal investments in building energy efficiency and electrification, as well as new opportunities to modernize homes and businesses. Among the initiatives is an interagency federal sustainability effort to develop the first-ever building performance standards […]
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Continuing our quest to redefine how architecture is perceived nowadays and exposing the different notions out there, ArchDaily gave space for its users to answer four fundamental questions: “What is architecture? What can architecture do? What is your architectural position? […]
April 9, 2021Via: Building Design + Construction
The Blue Book Network Velocity Index ticked up 0.5% to 100.9 in February from a revised 100.5 in January (December 2018 = 100). This the most stable the Index has been since before the pandemic began. The Blue Book Network […]
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In the not-too-distant past, it was common to view materials through a “cradle to grave” lens. Raw materials would be harvested and turned into products, which would then serve a purpose. These products would eventually break, wear out, or go […]
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Keeping your roof in good shape is one of the most important responsibilities you’ll have as a homeowner. With a good roof, you and your family will be protected from different weather conditions and remain comfortable indoors. A good roof […]
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Plaza Construction, a New York City-based construction management firm that has mostly focused on commercial construction in recent years, has re-launched its luxury Plaza Homes division to meet surging demand in the sector as other nonresidential contractors pile into the […]
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Union leaders lauded the news, saying it is well timed to provide good construction jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic and related unemployment. “Thousands of our friends and neighbors across Minnesota look forward to using their construction skills to protect our […]
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The Port Authority oversees aviation, rail, surface transportation and seaport facilities in the New York City area. Although it’s not clear which projects would be impacted by the cuts, executive director Rick Cotton indicated that those under construction now — […] | 3,273 | 1,605 | 6,458.31215 |
warc | 202143 | Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SPELITEC (Sequence sPecific ELImination of shiga-Toxin E. Coli)
Reporting period: 2019-04-01 to 2020-03-31
STEC primarily infect young children and are responsible for severe bloody diarrhea with serious complications (kidney failure, death). STEC outbreaks can have devastating consequences as seen with the German outbreak of 2011 that killed more than 50 people. Despite the severity of the disease, STEC infections remain an unmet medical need: antibiotics are contraindicated as they may favor the production of toxin by STEC bacteria and worsen the situation, and no other treatment strategy has been approved to treat this condition so far.
In this context the SPELITEC project aims at developing EB003, a new class of highly specific antimicrobial able to target and eliminate STEC bacteria while preventing the production of shiga toxins. Such product will bring the following advantages to patients and society:
- It will eliminate STEC pathogens from the intestines of infected patients early in the course of the disease.
- It will display an excellent safety profile and its unparalleled specificity will leave all non STEC bacteria (including beneficial microbes from the microbiota) unharmed
- It will cure patients' bloody diarrhea and prevent the serious complications of the disease (kidney failure and death).
- It will reduce the risk of STEC outbreaks as the efficient elimination of the STEC pathogen in patients’ intestines will prevent its spread to the community.
To achieve this goal, the main objectives of the SPELITEC project are:
- To transition from a laboratory-scale to an industrial-scale production of the EB003 compound to meet clinical needs
- To confirm the efficacy of EB003 in various preclinical models in vitro and in vivo.
- To confirm the safety of EB003 in regulatory toxicology models
- To obtain validation from regulatory agencies to perform first clinical trials in humans.
The manufacturing process of EB003 active substance was entirely transferred from a laboratory scale to an industrial scale compatible with clinical requirements (GMP).
→ It is the first time such a manufacturing process is put in place for that type of product. This is a great milestone for the project and significantly increases EB003’s chances of success in the clinic.
EB003 active substance was tested on a large collection of >100 STEC bacteria recently isolated from infected patients.
→ Eligo could demonstrate that the active substance of EB003 was active on >95% of the collection and could confirm its ability to eliminate STEC bacteria very efficiently (more than 99,99% of the STEC bacteria are eliminated upon treatment). These critical results suggest that EB003 will be active on the vast majority of STEC bacteria infecting patients.
EB003 active substance was tested on animal models of STEC infections.
→ Eligo could demonstrate the ability of the EB003 active substance to eliminate >99,9% of STEC bacteria from the intestine of mice only 6h after oral administration of the treatment. This is a great milestone showing that EB003 has the best chances to target and eliminate STEC in the intestines of patients.
Overall, we during this first reporting period, we demonstrated that EB003 efficiently eliminates recent STEC strains in vitro and in vivo and we secured our ability to produce EB003 at an industrial scale to meet clinical needs.
- Further demonstrating the efficacy of EB003 in other preclinical models that recapitulate more faithfully the situation of STEC infected patients
- Confirming the expected excellent safety profile of EB003 on human cells in vitro and in in vivo regulatory toxicological models.
- Obtaining the authorization from regulatory agencies to perform clinical studies in humans. | 3,843 | 1,643 | 8,874.219111 |
warc | 202143 | Connected has ratings and reviews. by. Nicholas A. Christakis, one another are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have . Connected The surprising power of networks and how they shape our lives – How your friends’ friends’ friends affect everything you think, feel. “Connected,” by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, is full of this kind of research. “What a colossal waste of money it is for social.
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Social pledging — a successful way of increasing compliance to the stated behaviour. Furthermore, it remains unclear where long established sociological concepts like group and organisation sit within the network approach argued for in this book.
Consequently, the people one spends the most time with heavily influence ones mood. Germs are not the only things that can spread — behaviours christzkis as well.
They do a good job cconnected proving and showing how a person’s location within a given network of people has an impact on their behavior, health, and other life dimensions.
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Also the closeness of happy people affects us.
So, in a sense I should have found this much more interesting than I did. Most of what they said felt irrelevant to everyday life. Furthermore its useful to have connections with people who themselves are well connected — thus one person may only be connected with say 10 people, but if those 10 people have contacts each and each of those have contacts each then that creates a potential network of 10, people. Maybe their explanations were too dense, but somehow I didn’t get a great sense of how the impacts happen.
And people at the centre of a network have more influence than those on the periphery. So why did I give it only a 3 star rating?
Likewise what connedted do echoes out through three levels of friends before it loses its energy and impact. You can always make out a case either way. We have also come to think of the world as hierarchical.
connecter This is a book by those researchers who demonstrated that if your friends get fat, you are more likely to get fat, and if you ditch your fat friends for skinny ones, you will be more likely to get skinny.
They seem to rely on having interesting anecdotes and studies to report, rather than having a clearly articulated plan for conveying the information. If all of your friends know each other, your behavior has an influence mostly only within that circle, and if all of your friends don’t know each other, they don’t reinforce the impact on each other.
Vhristakis Harvard profs doubtless want to strut their academic stuff but I would have liked at least more in the way of summary and signpost, For all that, fascinating, thought-provoking and one of those books that makes you think differently for ever after. This could be a good book, were it not for the constant repetitions the authors sure imagine their readers to be simpletonsthe superfluous anecdotes and the overall disjointed writing.
For example, if you hang out with the sort of people who got especially depressed upon hearing chtistakis Steve Jobs had died, then it is not unlikely that your friends’ friends are also at least somewhat impacted, nichopas it’s no great finding that you all got depressed at the same time. The book explores the power of connections through a number of different donnected such as relationships, emotions, politics, economy, health, evolution, the digital world and systems.
See 2 questions about Connected…. It also seemed to me that all the effort that went into tracing the networks between people was just an enormous amount of complicated work to prove that, well, people influence other people. May 17, Connecyed rated it really liked it Shelves: All of us instinctively seem to know or pick up our place in a given network, eg workplace, new church etc.
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
I’ve read a couple of reviews by professionals, and have been really surprised that everyone focuses on the content, and no one mentions how poorly organized the book is. The research suggests that younger people are more susceptible to influence the rates drops away by age Even some illnesses can be influenced by networks. When nicholzs are sticking to cristakis results of well-designed experiments, Christakis and Fowler have lots which is interesting to say. The point being, again, that we value relationships with others beyond what is economically in our interests.
How would you react to the challenge of The Third Man? Also, if your friends get divorced, it makes your marriage more likely to end in divorce, and if most of curistakis friends are not divorced the odds of your marriage staying together are better.
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Thanks for telling us about the problem. The information learned, I’ve recounted numerous times yet i would not read again.
What a terrible thing to do to such a great subject. Un libro molto interessante per la sua concretezza e la sua possibile applicazione in ogni campo.
Also challenged is the traditional economist view of self-interest as opposed to altruism. I shit you not. Bert on Summary of Crucial conversatio…. Interesting, but ironically, not easy to connect with.
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | TED Talk
Mar cbristakis, Glenn Myers rated it liked it. Eventually they had to switch the game off, clean out the infection and then reboot the system. In academics, a book that is written 10 years ago christkais considered a weak source considering how fast technology has evolved to expand our hum I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
However, I do feel that the authors could have just referred to their initial assumptions instead of reiterating them. | 6,245 | 3,052 | 12,530.923984 |
warc | 202143 | A story is told of a lady and a faithful dog. Whenever she went out, she would leave the dog to watch her baby . Every time she returned, the baby was safe and the dog was always keeping guard. One day, everything changed. She returned to a bloody house. The walls were filled with blood, the sheet was tattered and the stench of death permeated the atmosphere. When she looked, she saw the dog coming from under the bed licking blood from his lips. Without hesitation, she presumed what was wrong and concluded that the dog killed her baby. She immediately grabbed a weapon and bludgeoned the dog to death.But, as she stood over the body of the dead dog, it dawned on her that she did not see any item for the baby amidst the rubble. She glanced to her left and there was the baby safely asleep. When she lifted the sheet and looked under the bed, she saw a dead, wild animal and in that moment she realized the gravity of her action. It was obvious that it was a bloody fight and the dog fought to protect the baby from the wild animal.
This act by the woman is similar to the sin of presumption. What stands out about this incident?
1. The lady did not even remember in that moment the many times her dog was faithful.
2. She didn’t investigate before drawing the wrong conclusion.
3. She killed the dog and there is absolutely no way to reverse her actions.
How many times have we made presumptions about others? How often have we misjudged people and torn them to shreds with harsh words and even with physical assault before we have had time to evaluate the situation? It is called the sin of presumption. Presuming things is when one forms a conclusion without taking the trouble to find out exactly what the situation really is. A little patience can drastically reduce major lifelong errors. Had she tried to ascertain what happened or even glanced around the room, she would not have made that grave error.
Psa 19:13 KJV – 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. | 2,119 | 1,076 | 4,137.564126 |
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What is the easiest way to grab eyeballs ? A guy dressed up as a girl. Such videos goes viral immediately.
Youtuber Carryminati made millions of subscribers out of casual Homophobia and his video was later deleted by Youtube. The video was one of the most liked video on Youtube before it was deleted.
The video was reported by several users because it was aimed to attack other content creators using homophobic slurs such as Meetha (meaning ‘sweet’ but used as an insult, citing lack of ‘masculinity’) and Pari (meaning ‘Fairy’, used to misgender). Further, Ajey says that TikTok creators can be sold at a Meethai ki Dukaan (sweet shop) for ₹200, referring to the homophobic slur Meetha. Throughout the video, he resorts to the common homophobic practice of misgendering by addressing the creator as Beti (daughter). At one point, Ajey threatens him with a sexual crime saying, andar se khol ke bajaa denge (I will rip you open and f*ck you).
Well, this story is not just about the ‘adult’ Indians. It is something very prevelant in schools. Here are some of the observations from a study conducted in
schools of Tamil Nadu regarding Bullying & Gender fluidity:
Reference/Source: Be a buddy, not a bully, UNESDOC Digital Library
As the world celebrates ‘Pride Week’ & many Indian corporates changes their logos on social media to rainbow colors, the reality for LGBTQ is far from rosy. The picture is extremely bleak.
Many students face harassment and bullying, and to avoid humiliation and violence they often skip classes or drop out of school altogether. Most teachers are not trained or empowered to respond to anti-LGBT bullying, so in many cases, they don’t. In some cases, they even participate in the harassment.
There is an urgent need to bring structural changes to the educational curriculum by lawmakers & inculcate the importance of gender fluidity.
There is some movement in the positive direction. Films like ‘Geeli Puchi’, ‘Ek Ladki ko dekha to aisa laga’, ‘Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhaan’ are far from how Indian cinema has generally tackled gender fluidity. The courts in India have been giving some very positive verdicts in various cases. Still, its a long way to go. Its a long way before we grow into a much more tolerant & inclusive society. | 4,157 | 2,122 | 7,845.798775 |
warc | 202143 | The start of a new era for workplace laws
When Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride broke down in 2016, one of two south pump drives failed, causing water levels to drop. An empty raft got stuck and a raft carrying four adults and two children collided with it. Tragically, the four adults were killed.
The coroner found Dreamworld management’s ignorance of proper safety standards reflected a ‘systemic failure to ensure the safety of patrons and staff’. He said, ‘there is no evidence Dreamworld ever conducted a proper risk assessment in the 30 years of operation of the ride’ and the safety systems in place were ‘frighteningly unsophisticated’.
Dreamworld owners Ardent Leisure were prosecuted under Queensland Workplace laws.
This case demonstrates how important it is to stay up to date on workplace safety—and to put that knowledge into action. With recent changes to the legislation, and heavy penalties, the consequences could not be more serious.
As a director, understanding and meeting your workplace safety responsibilities could save lives. And save you up to $16.5 million in fines and 25 years in gaol time.
Penalties for failing to look ahead
Dreamworld’s owners had failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable:
the provision and maintenance of safe plant and structures the provision and maintenance of safe systems of work the provision of information, training, instruction or supervision that was necessary to protect all persons from risks to their health and safety arising from work carried out as part of the conduct of the business or undertaking.
They were charged with three Category 2 breaches against ‘other persons’ and fined $3.6 million.
Although proper record keeping, inspections and maintenance don’t have immediate effects on public lives, providing these things saves lives.
The incident sparked an overhaul to workplace laws to allow for industrial manslaughter.
Under the new industrial manslaughter laws, employers are liable for fines up to $16.5 million and directors can receive 25 years gaol time when their negligence causes the death of a member of the public.
These laws now recognise ‘so far as reasonably practicable’; the critical importance of safety due diligence, not just compliance, to avoid criminal negligence.
Taking the precautionary approach
Richard Robinson is the author of Engineering Due Diligence (a text used by Australian Universities). He says this shift is ‘common law becoming statute law reflecting moral philosophy. Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
‘It goes beyond recklessness—that you knew or made or let it happen. Industrial manslaughter includes negligence—what ought to be known.
‘We have to look at all the precautions and put effort into the critical issues—identify and eliminate or reduce those things that can kill and maim, so far as is reasonably practicable.’
As weather events become more dramatic and the risk of floods higher, it’s this forward thinking on the dams of today that engineers must display to ensure their safety well into the future—and avoid possible conviction.
‘If people living downstream die as a result of a big dam breaking upstream, the dam operator might have said it was designed and operated to recognised standards,’ says Robinson.
‘But if more could reasonably have been done, it ought to have been done. Reliance on standards does not relieve an engineer from a duty to exercise his or her skill and expertise.’
They’re not only then dealing with possible industrial manslaughter, but environmental laws as well, which have also taken the so far as reasonably practicable approach.’
Moving beyond compliance
Gaye Francis, experienced risk and due diligence engineer says compliance is not a defence anymore.
‘We have to look forward. We can’t keep saying “this is what we’ve always done” and get away with it,’ she says.
‘Technology is changing and goalposts change, and we must aspire for best practice. In the example of dam failure, could they have used a radar on the dam wall to find small cracks before they became problematic?
‘And if the dam was there first, there’s an onus on the decision-makers who build the community downstream too.’
Regulatory compliance no longer equals due diligence with safety. If a person is in a position to make decisions, they must learn how to manage their liability.
As Francis says, ‘Keep looking forwards and not backwards for better safety outcomes.’
Join the course
Robinson and Francis are helping engineers understand the new requirements and shift to a precautionary approach to safety in their online course
Criminal Manslaughter – How Not To Do It.
Board members, senior decision-makers and technical advisers are particularly encouraged to join. It’s a chance to get to know the changes to the legislation and know your legal duties. Find out more. | 5,100 | 2,374 | 10,410.53075 |
warc | 202143 | “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour.” ~ Habakkuk 3: 17-18
“Habakkuk teaches us that joy is not dependent on circumstances but can be embraced at the worst of times,” writes Mike Mason in “
Champagne for the Soul” (Waterbrook 2003). Mason says that happiness does not just happen, it is an act of the will. As I read Mason’s 90-day experiment in joy, I was deeply encouraged by the changes in his life as he chose joy. Mike Mason married a college friend of mine, and it was great to see how he felt his melancholy character was deeply changed by joy.
Can we as farmers also choose to be thankful in a year when there might be too many cattle in the stalls, there are grain piles in your neighbor’s fields but in yours, and the hailstorms have left nothing? To say the year has been tough is an understatement for many.
Farm families look for stability, security, and control of their affairs. With the blow of too much rain, how can one choose to be thankful?
Being Thankful This Holiday Season
Thankfulness is a choice. In a year like this, it may require several steps taken in the same direction to count our blessings.
At our Foodgrains Bank harvest one year my friend relayed her feelings about listening to a B.C. rancher describe how her husband herded the cows out just in time, and as they turned back to look, they silently watched the ranch go up in flames. I had heard the same broadcast with the identical reaction as my friend. We both cried.
Tears of pain flow with empathy for families who are suffering great loss and pain this fall. We also listen to reports of bombings and war-ravaged regions that seem far away.
Are we thankful to live in a country of peace?
Be thankful that we have made a connection of goodwill with some folk.
The financial squeeze really has no easy answers. The bottom line is summed up by a comment from Dr. Nikki Gerrard who spent 12 years helping Saskatchewan communities be pro-active in dealing with farm stress. Gerrard’s response to a financially-strained farmer was “I can’t save your farm, but I can help you save your family.”
Have you told your family that you love and appreciate them?
A radio reports that tears flow from a 60-year-old cattleman under financial duress. I am glad to hear that some cowboys know the healing power of tears. Vulnerability is not a trait farm men like to openly show, as they usually are a proud, independent, self-sufficient bunch. Now is not the time to hold back from your family. Your spouse needs to feel and know the security and commitment of the relationship, no matter how tough things are.
Farm families need to know is it okay to ask for help from outside resources and talk, listen, and talk some more. People feel isolated when the stress is high. Invite your neighbor over for pumpkin pie and coffee. Be courageous enough to make the invitation and walk alongside.
I heard a story of an oil-rigger sending money home to the farm to help the cash flow. Non-farm family members have a great role to play in supporting the family back on the ranch. Be thankful for the roots and wings your farm family gave you. Bless your family with your prayers, calls, and cash.
I once kept a gratitude journal for a whole year, each night noting the five things I was thankful for. This was a soothing activity for me when my mother was dying, when I could consciously look for things to be grateful for, even when grieving a loss. God’s word, the Bible, is a huge love letter to us of His faithfulness. We are secure knowing that God deeply loves us and He cares for us all the time. It is my prayer that you will encounter believers to encourage you, pray with you, and be a practical help to you this Thanksgiving. We have a great opportunity to be “Jesus with skin on” as we show the love of God, and give thanks with a grateful heart around the turkey or beef this year. | 4,182 | 2,098 | 8,150.714013 |
warc | 202143 | Fitness competition can be fun, but when it comes to winning, your runner may be missing out on some big opportunities, say fitness experts.
A study by Australian Fitness Magazine found that fitness competitions often reward the most fit, most athletic runners with the most money, the biggest prizes and the biggest prize money.
But the study also found that runner’s who compete on the same day tend to be less successful than those who compete multiple days in a row.
A fitness competitor in Melbourne, Australia, in June, 2018.
(Photo: AP)The researchers analysed data from 2,000 runners who entered Australia’s three biggest fitness competitions in 2018.
They found that those who competed in a day on, day off and one off competition were found to be significantly more likely to be in the top 10% of runners and less likely to have won the prize money ($4,000 and $3,000 respectively).
The runner in the second position was also found to have a better chance of winning than the runner in third place.
“It’s really important that people look at competitions for what they’re trying to achieve,” Dr Michael Gove, chief executive officer of Australian Fitness, told The Hindu.
“If you’re not working on that, and you’re working on winning that contest, you’re doing it wrong.”
The researchers also found runners in the third position were more likely than the runners in fourth place to have failed to win a prize money prize of $50,000 ($28,000) but less likely than runners in fifth position to have been in the bottom 10%.
“The best runner is the one who’s winning all the competitions,” Dr Gove said.
“But if you’re a runner that’s not winning, you need to change what you’re trying for.”
The research was based on data from the 2018 Melbourne Marathon.
The marathon was hosted by the Melbourne University Health and Wellbeing Study.
The runners completed three short workouts in the mornings, then a longer workout in the afternoon, and a short run in the evening.
The study is published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
The researchers compared the number of times a participant completed each workout, the number that they completed at the finish line, and the number they completed in the final round.
They also looked at how long each runner spent running, the time they spent in the pool, and their overall performance.
The study found that runners in Melbourne did well overall, with the runner who completed the most time in the pools finishing in the middle of the pack.
However, the runner that spent the least time in a pool finished the lowest, with a total time of 17 minutes and 46 seconds.
The researchers found that the runners who spent the most in a running pool were the ones who finished in the last 10% (the middle of a pack), while those who spent less time in pools finished in third.
This pattern holds true in the finals, too, where the runner with the fewest time in an event is the runner the most likely to win.
“There’s a certain amount of pressure for the runners that are in the upper half of the top ten, but it’s hard to predict that a runner’s finishing in that bottom five percent,” Dr Fergus told The Australian.
“They’ll have a good night’s sleep, they’ll have some time off, they can rest and they’ll be happy with their performance.
But it’s not necessarily the case.”
A similar pattern was seen for the runner on the run, with runners in third or lower finishing in lower half of a group, while runners in higher half finishing in top ten. | 3,681 | 1,576 | 8,172.473985 |
warc | 202143 | John Ransom is a political and financial writer and editor whose work has appeared at Townhall.com, Newsmax, the Daily Caller and IBT. He splits his time between the US and Asia.
In case you missed it, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is being panned by the Twitterverse, if not by regulators and ethicists, for a series of stock transactions conducted by her husband Paul.
“The week before the House Judiciary Committee voted on reigning in big tech,” reported Fortune in July, “Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband exercised a bullish bet on Google-parent Alphabet, in a timely transaction that netted him $5.3 million.”
See? It’s really easy.
All you have to do is become a party leader in Congress with access to information that no one else has, and bingo, you too can become a dot-com, or Big Tech, or biotech millionaire, by trading on that insider information.
Of course, that’s not really how it happened in this case. According to a spokesperson for Pelosi:
“The speaker has no involvement or prior knowledge of these transactions.” That hasn’t stopped some voters expressing, well, some skepticism.
@SpeakerPelosi just made 7-figures exercising options in tech companies she regulates 🧐 Please show me more blatant insider trading. pic.twitter.com/XgR389Ktmi
While technically the practice of insider trading is illegal, if you are a member of Congress, it seems you don’t really have to follow the laws they make for the rest of us.
Insider trading has a long and hallowed history amongst ambitious, yet hungry politicos, who find the six-figure salary that comes with public power inadequate to their national position.
Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) made money off of Obamacare and oil stocks back in 2008. He sold oil stocks in the summer of 2008, right before the historic energy market crash that precipitated the real estate meltdown and nearly a trillion dollars in federal bailouts – and invested the proceeds in healthcare stocks that he later regulated while punishing the oil companies that he also regulated.
That might be how he accumulated a fortune of $10 million while in public office.
That’s small beer for Pelosi, 81, who’s represented California since 1987 and whose husband owns a venture capital, financial consulting and real estate firm. She has an estimated net fortune of $120 million, while her congressional salary is $223,500 a year.
A study done in 2011 tracked investment returns of members of Congress between 1985 to 2001 and found. Brinkwire Summary News. For more information, search on the internet. | 2,661 | 1,422 | 4,799.905063 |
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