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warc | 202143 | Cat litter is a staple in Indian households and is used to clean the house, cook meals, and clean out cats’ litter bins.
However, cat litter substitutes are increasingly being used to improve the litter quality.
Cat litter substitutes have been used in India since the 1960s and were developed as a result of research conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
According to the NIMS study, the main ingredients for cat litter substitute are the following: water, starch, protein, vitamins, and minerals.
However the ingredient list for cat lint is not very clear.
A review published in the Journal of Cleaning Science in 2015 concluded that, “it has been found that cat lice are attracted to starch in the soil and the use of starch as a litter ingredient may be beneficial for the prevention of the growth of the parasite.”
A review by the TIFR found that it was not clear whether the starch was an essential component of cat litter or was a source of nutrients that could contribute to its success.
However since the 1950s, a number of companies have started selling cat litter products.
These include Cat Lint India, Cat Lice, Cat Stain India, and Cat Lips.
The NIMs study found that the cat litter ingredient list was more or less similar to the list of ingredients in the National Cat Laundry Products Directive (NCPD), which is a standardised product list for the supply of food-grade cat litter.
The list is designed to provide quality for the Indian market.
According to a recent report by India Today, the country had only 8% of the cat population living in urban areas, but a study by the Food Research and Marketing Institute of India (FRMI) has found that India has a cat population of nearly 80 million.
The report also found that in 2015, there were nearly 4.7 million cats in the country, and over 1.5 million of these cats were cats belonging to households with poor hygiene.
India has also been facing the issue of litter pollution for the last few years.
Since the 1980s, several cat owners have started filing complaints to the National Commission for Cat Protection and Prevention (NCPCP) in an attempt to get the cat owners to clean their cats.
But the Commission has been unable to act on their complaints because the government does not require the cat owner to pay for litter removal.
A 2015 study by a group of researchers at NIMC found that, out of 5 million litter complaints received by the Commission, only 2.5% of them were resolved.
The researchers, led by Dr Rajendra Yadav, found that only 15% of these complaints were resolved with compensation.
A study by KPMG found that a total of 2.4 million complaints were received from owners with cats with a litter problem in 2016.
This number rose to 3.3 million in 2017, and then to 4.4 mln in 2018.
However even though the NCPCP had started its own programme for the cat-owners, a recent survey found that most people did not feel the need to apply for help from the NCPA. | 3,078 | 1,424 | 6,573.172753 |
warc | 202143 | We go about life immersed in our day-to-day tasks, responsibilities, and relationships, without necessarily thinking about our legacy or how we want to be remembered. But what happens when you’re gone?
In the case of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings, her multidisciplinary artmaking left behind a record of her creative life. As an artist, she combined dance with elements of theater, text, photography, and film. Her works are not just memories; they also captured her own words through moving images, texts, and photography to provide insights into how she approached her craft and what she was conveying through her choreographic language and beyond.
In 2019, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) approached Art + Practice (A+P), a nonprofit based in the south Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park, to organize a solo exhibition of Blondell Cummings’s work. A+P and the GRI had the opportunity to work closely with the artist’s family to digitize her archive of tapes and films, capturing Cummings performing her works, many of which stemmed from her personal memories.
Ahead of the exhibition, which opened September 18, 2021, A+P talked to GRI curators about Getty’s African American Art History Initiative, the exhibition, and Blondell Cummings. What emerged from that conversation was a question inspired by Cummings: “Why is it important to tell one’s own story?”
The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity, and explores how organizing an exhibition celebrating Cummings’s artistic practice also allows us to think about how artists can tell their own stories.
Joshua Oduga, A+P’s public programs and exhibitions manager, and Sophia Belsheim, A+P’s deputy director, joined the GRI’s Kristin Juarez, research specialist; Rebecca Peabody, head of research projects and academic outreach; Glenn Phillips, senior curator and head of exhibitions and modern and contemporary collections; and Alex Jones, research assistant for modern and contemporary collections.
Joshua Oduga: When the GRI approached us to organize an exhibition of Blondell Cummings’s work, one of the things that struck me was hearing her talk about the work she was making in her own words in her videos. Hearing artists talk about their work in their own words gives a different context than when you experience the work on your own. Glenn Phillips: You might think it’s natural for an artist to talk about their story, but I have found that most artists are interested in talking about their next artwork or what they’re making right now. That’s always the dilemma with a historian or when an artist becomes particularly associated with one period. They don’t want to talk about what happened in 1973. They want you to see what they did yesterday.
If you’re a driven artist, then you want to spend your time creating and not worrying about the past. It’s something all of us struggle with in life in one way or another. We like to be in the present. An archive is not always front of mind.
Sophia Belsheim: There’s value in the accretion of multiple perspectives on the same history. The artist is a crucial part of that. You may end up with several different versions of a memory that differs slightly, but the fact that they accumulate and come together to build something is more important than how we come to have a sense of history. Rebecca Peabody: That’s one of the reasons why oral histories are so important as we look for ways to think about and imagine the past. First-person stories are a primary source that we can use to augment other kinds of primary sources, or to fill in gaps in the historical record. Kristin Juarez: I also think it’s important, particularly for people of color, to be able to tell their own stories. We’re not always able to leave public documents with our own interpretation. It’s often applied to us.
By keeping personal documents, creating this fluidity as you’re saying, Sophia, between lineage, narrative, and generating records for ourselves is important. It allows new generations to revisit the past with new perspectives, gesturing towards the future.
Alex Jones: It’s normal for many of us, whether we’re artists or not, to not structure our lives around the idea that everything we do is going to be consequential to history or needs to be recorded and kept somewhere. I want to push back against that because artists are not the only people who keep archives. The archives have been pivotal to most of our current-day knowledge.
I’m particularly stuck on Saidiya Hartman’s latest book, Wayward Lives, which itself is what Hartman calls critical fabulation in the archive for folks who weren’t allowed to maintain archives, and yet she’s able to craft this beautiful historical narrative about the lives of Black girls and women in the early 20th century.
It’s important to write your story in your own words, if only because there is a consequence to how all of us are experiencing art every day which is that we cannot predict exactly how it will be used in the future because we are all contributing to that future in some way. | 5,280 | 2,455 | 10,992.293279 |
warc | 202143 | The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) is backing Blue & Green Tomorrow’s month long celebration of sustainability, Sustainable September, by becoming a partner of the debate.
Sustainable September aims to bring together thought leaders from a variety of organisations and industries to discuss sustainability and the challenges we as a world face today. A series of four Oxford-style debates, focussing on tourism, investment, energy and retail, will be followed by an all day conference throughout the month of September.
UKSIF is a member organisation that promotes responsible investment and other forms of finance that support sustainable economic development and has a positive impact on society and the environment. The organisation acts as the voice of the UK sustainable finance industry and provides members with support.
The association also lends its support for UK leadership in advancing sustainable development through investment and finance, including championing long-term responsible ownership, accelerating impact investment and supporting global co-operation to advance sustainable investment.
UKSIF also runs Good Money Week, formerly National Ethical Investment Week, a campaign that aims to raise awareness about the ethical options that are available.
Tickets for the Sustainable September events are available to purchase here.
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warc | 202143 | Under close supervision and general direction, the incumbent duties will include (1) conduct technical, analytical, and policy research through systematic application and interpretation of standard economic, statistical, and financial theories, approaches and methodologies, and interdisciplinary policy analysis based on interpretation of Commission decisions, policies, goals and procedures, utility general rate cases, utility programs and practices, and state and federal policies, and (2) make evidence-based recommendations on public utility regulatory issues and challenges.
The Customer Programs Section is currently working on a range of topics, including:
Developing customer protections on communication services for people with disabilities, people who are incarcerated, low-income households and other disadvantaged and marginalized communities to advance social justice. Developing policy recommendations to close the digital divide and ensure safe and reliable phone and broadband services for all Californians. Participating in General Rate Cases (GRC) for Small Rural Telephone Companies to ensure customer protections of phone and broadband services in rural areas, developing just and reasonable rates for customers. Developing policy recommendations to achieve affordable broadband services, particularly for low-income customers in rural areas and increase broadband adoption.
Carrying out these functions entails the following:
Developing and applying standard solutions, approaches and methodologies. Collecting, synthesizing, modeling, and analyzing data (quantitative and qualitative). Using spreadsheets and other quantitative tools. Developing evidence-based recommendations. Present research, analysis, findings, and recommendations orally and in writing. Write high-quality protests, testimony, and comments related to general rate cases, other proceedings (e.g., complaints, applications, investigations, rulemakings, workshops, and committee meetings), advice letters and other utility filings. Attend and represent the Public Advocates Office at intra-agency and inter-agency conferences, workshops, and public meetings concerning issues of utility rates and service, proposed new and federal regulations, public-purpose programs, and other related issues. Testify in evidential hearings and coordinates with attorneys on litigation strategy and cross-examination questions. Participate in settlement negotiations. Assist in developing presentations for the Public Advocates Office management and Commissioners’ offices. Respond to requests for assistance from the Public Advocates Office management and Commissioners’ offices. | 2,675 | 1,201 | 5,922.418818 |
warc | 202143 | Why Bother? 3 Reasons Why You Should Get a Vape Cigarette Instead of a Traditional Cigarette
Why Bother? 3 Reasons Why You Should Get a Vape Cigarette Instead of a Traditional Cigarette
A blu cigarette is a type of digital camera, which looks just like a real cigarette, yet doesn’t burn actual tobacco in the form of leaves. The problem with these newer electronic cigarettes is that they don’t contain any actual tobacco at all. Instead, it really is simply a newer solution to obtain nicotine in to the body in a more dangerous and new way. These cigarettes are not regulated by the FDA as traditional cigarettes are and therefore may not pose any health threats whatsoever. Unfortunately, this means that you can find no legal obligations to show warning labels concerning the product, nor any kind of national smoking prevention campaigns. This is the reason you need to be careful when purchasing one of these brilliant electronic cigarettes.
When buying blu cigarette, you’ve got vapinger.com a few options available. There’s the usual kind of electronic cigarette which comes as a starter kit with just two cigarettes. This may seem like a good way to obtain nicotine in a safer way, but remember that the cigarettes themselves aren’t regulated. You may find that you will get nicotine from an unknown source or that you are exposed to toxic chemicals by using these cigarettes. This is not good for your body, which means you must make sure that you research your facts before you get yourself a starter kit.
If you would like to use the blu cigarette without the problems, then you can buy a nicotine gum. Just like the starter kit, these electric cigarettes work the same way – you get nicotine from the gum. However, the only difference is that you will get the nicotine through the gum, not from a cigarette. It works just as well as normal cigarettes in the way that you still get the same level of nicotine through the gum.
Another option available is to purchase e-cigs. The best thing about e-cigs is that you could go to sleep while smoking and wake up without smoking another cigarette. E-cigs mimic the physical act of smoking, but instead to getting the nicotine from cigarettes, you obtain it from an e Cig. E-cigs have very high efficiency rates, so they give you nicotine doses that are nearly the same as that of a normal cigarette. There are no harmful chemical compounds within either the e Cig or the e-Cig, which means you don’t run the chance of cancer or other problems with using e-Cigs.
If you fail to get or find an electronic cigarette to buy, there’s always the option of a patch. A patch is placed on your skin, usually on the stomach or around the nose. Once the patch comes into connection with skin, it sends a minimal voltage current. The skin starts to create nitric oxide, which really helps to reduce the feeling of a difficult cigarette. However, since the nicotine is still within the e Cig, this is not a genuine solution. The patch can be not foolproof, since it only offers a temporary solution for your problem.
Another option is to buy a starter kit. A starter kit generally contains two different electric cigarettes, a charger, and the patch. With these items, you should be able to get a good night’s sleep, and you shouldn’t have to be worried about withdrawal symptoms. If you try the starter kit and discover that it isn’t working, you can easily replace it with a fresh one. In fact, the makers of the kits even offer replacement cartridges if you discover the original one fails as well as you’d like.
If you really want to give up cigarettes, there is nothing to avoid you. There are millions of people out there who have done just that. E-Cigs offer a convenient and effective method for people to finally end their reliance on conventional cigarettes. You can try using an electronic cigarette, or it is possible to continue smoking as usual. You mustn’t have to choose between the health of yourself and your family, and you certainly shouldn’t need to.
If you’re worried about health risks associated with traditional cigarettes, avoid being. With electronic cigarettes, its not necessary a smoke machine, and there is absolutely no potential for causing cancer or other health problems. You will never have to wake up with morning breath or throat cancer. So long as you use quality e-liquids, you may be completely safe. Really the only concern is that you may be a little overwhelmed by all the different brands and options, so here is a fantastic place to start: check out a great starter kit from your favorite online supplier! | 4,682 | 2,032 | 10,589.799213 |
warc | 202143 | In my experience as an investment advisor, I find that most people are either too conservative or too aggressive. People come to conclusions based on a few data points but then fail to see the larger concern or investment opportunity without guidance or input from someone more experienced.
This week, let’s consider whether fixed income (aka bonds) or stocks (aka equities) are over-valued, undervalued, or priced just right.
Are Bonds Overvalued?
The short answer is ‘yes’. The 10-year Treasury is 1.5% with inflation above 5%. If the costs are increasing at a 5% rate, borrowing should be be higher. This inversion is because the Federal Reserve and Central Banks around the world are keeping rates low to help businesses harmed by the pandemic as well as consumers with historically low loan rates. When interest rates are lower than the inflation rate, we have negative real rates. This is meant to stimulate consumption while helping borrowers. The policy hurts investors as debt held earns less than the implied devaluation of the underlying currency aka inflation. Negative real rates erode purchasing power to those owning the bonds. This rate phenomena causes assets like real estate and equities to increase in value at the expense of debtholders.
Governments around the world are subsidizing borrowing rates. Through September, the U.S. government was buying $120 billion in Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds per month. Since the start of the pandemic, the Fed has grown its balance sheet by roughly $8 trillion. While some of these funds are borrowed from investors and other governments, the largest creditor to the U.S government is the American people as most of debt issued to pay for the asset purchases is simply an I.O.U. from the Federal Reserve to the U.S. Treasury.
With debt levels at historic highs during a period of negative real rates, monetary policy is extremely accommodative. Well-run companies that use debt to grow income face a Goldilocks economic environment. This interest rate environment also helps to keep zombie companies alive while helping municipalities to afford increased borrowing needs.
If you are worried a decline in your buying power over time, greater reliance on equities with an emphasis on financially strong dividend paying companies is necessary to recoup the inflation gap.
Are Equities Overvalued?
Some are for sure. Meme stocks like AMC or Gamestop continue to retain market values that make little sense. The interesting part that many overlook is that half of all S&P 500 stocks are down more than 20% since hitting record highs in March.
Despite this, the S&P 500 is up nearly 15% on the year. This discrepancy is because the index is driven by the valuations 10-20 mega-cap companies led by Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Tesla, and Facebook. Looking at the Price/Earnings ratio, this index was expensive at 35.6x this time last year and is 31.1x at present. If we look at projections for 2022 (termed the forward P/E ratio), this index looks much healthier at 22.0x.
The Dow 30 is up a bit more than 10% with relatively modest P/E ratio of 22.4x, down from 27.3x one year ago. If we look at Dows’ forward P/E here, we get a reasonable 18.9 P/E ratio.
The tech heavy NASDAQ 100 appears overvalued with a P/E of 36x and forward P/E of 29x.
With interest rates expected to stay low for years, the valuations of most large and mid-cap companies appear fair with many looking undervalued due to negative real interest rates as well as businesses and consumers flush with cash.
Current market conditions are nearly ideal for well-run and profitable companies. When investing in equities, choose best-in-class companies with defensible market niches, strong cash flow, low debt and proven management teams.
When looking at your portfolio, be concerned about long-dated and low quality bonds. In both cases, risks currently exceed returns significantly. When it comes to stocks, be careful but market conditions and valuations suggest that prices are more likely to go up than down over the next 15 months.
Haddon Libby is the Founder and Managing Partner of Winslow Drake Investment Management. This article should not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any stock or bond. Please see your investment professional for advice. If you do not have one, come see us and see why an Investment Advisor that operates as a Fiduciary is preferential to a Broker Advisor. www.WinslowDrake.com | 4,504 | 2,265 | 8,882.723179 |
warc | 202143 | Why is Claim test better than a ranking exercise?
Claim test is a powerful tool developed by Conjoint.ly that provides greater advantages compared to a traditional ranking exercise. A ranking exercise faces the following problems:
We can get biased and different results because items of the same list can be ranked from highest to lowest or vice versa. Respondents must assess all the items on the list at the same time, making this choice exercise difficult. The suggested list of items to be ranked is limited to avoid fatigue on respondents. Distance between each score in the rating is unknown, meaning that we are unavailable to identify strong or weak preferences among options. Ties can’t occur in ranking exercises, opposite to reality
Moreover, Conjoint.ly’s Claim test provides accurate results and addresses those limitations that ranking exercises can’t. This methodology allows us to do multiple comparisons with some extra advantages, such as:
Provides the ability to distinguish between different groups that are being addressed (discrimination power) Allows assessing a larger number of items and options Maintain an easy and digestible form with simple tasks for respondents Enhances diversity for international studies Eliminates scaling bias because it lacks scales
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warc | 202143 | Controlling your home budget allows you not only to properly plan all expenses, but also to start saving to be able to implement your plans or dreams. It is best if the home budget is kept secret and the expenses are planned for the whole family, including children.
Planning home finances – why is it worth it?
A home budget often requires creative accounting to cover all the monthly obligations and needs of each family member. So it’s worth keeping your home finances under control for several reasons:
avoid uncontrolled spending; better planning common expenses; see what we spend the most money on and what can be changed to reduce these expenses; be able to save smaller or larger sums for various purposes; be better prepared for unplanned expenses, which often surprise us; teach children to save and spend money rationally. Home finances and children
It is worthwhile to familiarize children with the need to keep a household budget from an early age. Of course, this learning must be adapted to the age of the child. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile for the child to be able to participate in the planning of expenses. The sooner he realizes that it is thanks to work that he has money to pay bills, buy food or various things, the faster he will appreciate the value of money. Many parents wonder how to teach a child to save or rationally manage their pocket money. And the answer is very simple – by setting the right example and the opportunity to participate in planning your home budget.
Financial education of children – the sooner the better
We teach children many different things, but often forget about financial education. If we do not show the child that money has to be earned, they will not appreciate its value. They will think they will always be on the account. They will also not learn to plan their expenses or save for their pleasures and goals.
Consequently, it is extremely important that children are taught financial control from an early age. Learning through play will be most effective. There are many ways to educate children. The best known science of managing money is playing at the store, where children learn to plan purchases and related expenses.
Giving a child pocket money, as well as paying for certain jobs (not daily duties), is also an extremely effective part of financial education. However, you have to do it with a certain feeling, using common sense. After all, it is not about the child’s expectation of payment for all the things he or she does at home. Having the opportunity to have their own money and earn it, a child learns to respect it in a very simple way. In addition, he learns to plan his expenses and save. It is worth encouraging your child to have 2-3 piggy banks for savings for various purposes – e.g. purchase of a dream toy, small pleasures, charity. It is also worth doing shopping with children so that they are aware of the cost of living. | 2,959 | 1,384 | 6,240.838873 |
warc | 202143 | In 1973 California Governor Ronald Reagan said, “I would hate to see legalized gambling in California, nor do I favor a lottery. We ought to finance the state by the strength of our people and not by their weaknesses.”
Look where time and legalization has taken us! A once golden state now teeters on the ragged edge of bankruptcy and thousands of families lives have been adversely affected by gambling addiction. The majority of politicians have gambled
agen judi togel away our future and given us gambling outlets that are daily destroying families lives and their futures. We have fed a growing monster that now feeds on us and is protected and courted by most of our politicians.
Trouble spelled with a capital
T is right here in river city! It is gambling in our town and all around our country and the world. Its subtle, invasive, destructive and addictive forces are evident in many communities around the world. Even church goers are participants with the rationalization that gambling is “harmless recreation”. It is no longer a matter of legality, but one of morality for those who choose to know the facts and are committed to wise stewardship.
There can be no denying that gambling destroys families. Gambling in any form is designed to separate people from their money. It is a deadly sly fox, an equal opportunity predator to the weak and the poor. Like pornography, gambling knows no boundaries and in its many forms exploits weakness, destroys children, families, marriages and dramatically increases suicides. It is no secret that greed, money, power and corruption are the drivers behind the gambling machine.
My neighbor recently shared this shocking story of his Uncle Ben, age 60, who regularly took his paychecks from his sales work and gambled them away. Ben was intelligent and excelled in his work. The gambling became an addiction that led him to jail for taking company sales proceeds to supplement that gambling habit. His last job was tending gas pumps for his nephew, my neighbor. With each pay check, Ben was off again to gamble it all away. He became depressed with mounting debts and losses. One day when Ben did not show up for work, his nephew found him dead. He took his own life with a bullet from his hunting rifle, in his garage. Ben’s life came to a tragic end as a direct result of his gambling addiction. Left behind were shocked and grieving family and friends whose lives will never be quite the same.
Another neighbor, who is a senior veteran member and investigator with the Police Department, told me that there is a corollary relationship between gambling and increased crime, suicide and substance abuse. The stories propagated by the gambling proponents and beneficiaries hype the “benefits of gaming” to gain community acceptance, when in reality the landscape is strewn with the untold stories of broken and destroyed lives. The cost to all of us is far greater than the much heralded benefits.
It is well documented from credible, scientifically conducted studies that gambling destroys families, undermines the work ethic, increases crime, motivates suicide, destroys financial security of individuals and families. Gambling has a major impact on the social and emotional well-being of any community. The social costs for all of us far offset the so called “benefits” in the attempt to buy public support and “sweep under the rug” the reality stories of its destructive effects.
Can responsible citizens be silent? Is this form of “entertainment and recreation”justified at the expense of the poor, the broken lives and families destroyed? Is gambling wise stewardship? More than 100 million Americans gamble $billions per year according to the Congressional Commission report. The estimates in the USA alone are $90 billion each year and that does not include unrecorded gambling and gaming. Globally estimates range from $600 to $900 billion each year. Many of these gamblers claim to be religious. Gambling, which often is motivated by a get rich quick greed, pain, boredom or desperation has a price. The price for love of money is high, but the price as applied to gambling is exacting a much higher price for many people in social costs, relational loss and productivity in our communities.
Is “the love of money is the root of all evil.” It is not the money but the love of money that spells Trouble with a capital T. If you love money, you will pay a high price for that obsession. We have inverted God’s divine order: We love things (money and the “toys” it buys), and we use people. God loves people and has created things for our enjoyment and careful stewardship. We tend to replace our confidence in God by the false hope of a lucky shot at gambling. People who forsake the Lord base their lives on luck and self-gratification. In contrast, God’s children live by His providence and operate by purposeful living and prayer, not by chance but by choice.”You cannot serve both God and money” according to Biblical reference Matthew 6:24. | 5,121 | 2,471 | 10,370.491299 |
warc | 202143 | By Dr. Aliyu D. Muhammad
This is a little bit challenging topic as it affects millions of Nigerians but understanding its dimensions will go a long way in solving the menace of unemployment and its attending consequences. When a periodic census data is gathered on unemployment and you have not reported yourself being unemployed, the assumption is that you have secured a job. In other words, unemployment refers to a situation whereby individuals who are employable and actively seeking for jobs could not find one. The employment could be in formal sectors (both public and private) or in informal sector like self-employed entrepreneurs, merchants and artisans. The country`s statistics of unemployment stands at 33.3 per cent as at fourth quarter of 2020 with less than half of almost 70 million labour force fully employed and a third of the figure either did nothing or work less than 20 hours a week, thus declaring them as unemployed. ‘According to the Bloomberg, “Nigeria’s jobless rate has more than quadrupled over the last five years as the economy went through two recessions, casting a shadow over the efforts to implement policies to drive growth and create jobs by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.” With slow pace of recovery rate of 1.5 per cent, according to the IMF, output will only recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2022.
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Now, the question is what would be the solution to this growing doom prediction? Actually, the solution must be pragmatic. There are contradicting policies carried out by the government e.g inflation control, exchange rate policy; unemployment and trade policies though some predictions are guided by the policies of those who make them. I divide them further into macro and micro solutions and Islamic perspective.
From the Macro perspective, the government must sustain its efforts in providing job opportunities to the youths and unemployed at various levels. The government must also ensure the stability of electricity as millions of Nigerians are industrious and once such energy supply increases it will boost the local economy and provide opportunities directly and indirectly. Some trade policies need to be revisited to allow for more export and reduce imports. Currency exchange policy is critical when it comes to securing value of labour in the economy. Otherwise, all your efforts in producing goods and services would be translated into few cents and dollars (pity).
Micro, economically speaking, is the individual’s responsibility to show case what one can offer to the market. Thus, one has to prepare oneself or one’s family to face the challenge of competition in the labour market. Education increases earning as confirmed by several microeconomic studies. The higher the level of education of an individual, the higher the level of his/her earnings, all other things being equal even though, that does not mean an educated person must earn higher than the less educated one.
Skills and training: these are very prompt responses to the need of time. The worker may not have time to go back to school to learn new things, but through training and skills acquisition, one can, within short period acquire what would otherwise take longer time. Constant search and endurance also plays a great role in this situation.
From the Islamic perspective, all the above can be considered as part of knowledge, which is general in all religions. But in addition to that, if you are looking for a job, what quality you need to have so as to sail through: In Surat Qasas, Allah has mentioned the two qualities an employable person should have before he is considered for a job. Allah says :‘One of the two women said, ‘O my father, hire him; for the best man that thou can hire is the one who is strong and trustworthy.’ (Surah Al-Qasas :Verse 26). This is the case when Prophet Musa A.S exhibited strength and trust when he assisted the two ladies in fetching water from the well. In another verse, when Prophet Solomon A.S did survey his entourage and did not see Hudahuda he inquired about him. When he came back he said “I have encompassed [in knowledge] that which you have not encompassed and I have come to you from Sheba with certain news” Prophet Solomon verified the news and confirmed it was true. Then he said, “[Solomon] said, “O assembly [of jinn], which of you will bring me her throne before they come to me in submission?” A powerful one from among the jinn said, “I will bring it to you before you rise from your place, and indeed, I am for this [task] strong and trustworthy.” Said one, who had knowledge from the Scripture, “I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you.” And when [Solomon] saw it placed before him, he said, “This is from the favour of my Lord to test me whether I will be grateful or ungrateful. And whoever is grateful – his gratitude is only for [the benefit of] himself. And whoever is ungrateful – then indeed, my Lord is free of need and generous. Similarly, the Prophet S.A.W was called Al-Amin by the people of Makkah because of his trustworthiness. From this series of verses and lessons we can deduce the followings:
Knowledge and skills are very important in securing jobs and maintaining it. For every knowledgeable person, there is another person who is more knowledgeable as in the case of the powerful Jinn who promised to bring the throne before Solomon rises from his place and one who had knowledge from the scripture and promised to bring it before Solomon`s glance returns to him. Trust and trustworthy person has no substitute. Thus, if an employer does not find a trustworthy person, he will never succeed. And for that reason, he may not make his capital available to anybody due to fear of mistrust. Whoever wants to employ a person must check these qualities. An individual must be able to demonstrate reasonable level of trust wherever he finds himself. That may lead to many goodies in the near future.
We are duty bound to raise our competency level always so that we can deliver beyond expectation. If you are a graduate, don’t think you have reached the limit of learning, which does not exist. If you are an employer, assist your staff to raise their competency level by participating in an on the job training. Absence of trust is the beginning of all evils. Be it in family, in business, in leadership or governance. We pray to Allah to salvage Nigeria and its people from distrust, lack of competencies in business, leadership and in all we do.
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warc | 202143 | The strength of materials is a branch of applied mechanics that deals with the behavior of solid bodies subjected to various types of loading. Other names for this field of study are mechanics of materials and mechanics of deformable bodies. The principal objective of mechanics of materials is to determine the stresses, strains, and displacements in structures and their components due to the loads acting on them. If we can find these quantities for all values of the loads up to the loads that cause failure, we will have a complete picture of the mechanical behavior of these structures. An understanding of mechanical behavior is essential for the safe design of all types of structures, whether airplanes and antennas, buildings and bridges, machines and motors, or ships and spacecraft. That is why mechanics of materials is a basic subject in so many engineering fields.
The objectives of this course: understand the concept of stress and strain, understand basic material properties, the relation of stress to strain, normal stress-strain diagrams and Hooke’s Law, lateral strain and Poisson’s ratio, understand the relationship between shear strain and shear stress, compute stresses and strains in axially loaded member, compute stresses and strains due to thermal effects, compute stresses on inclined planes in members subject to axial loading, compute angular deformation and stresses in rods and shafts subject to torque, compute deformations and stresses in power transmission shafts, compute shear forces in beams subject to various loading types, compute bending moments in beams subject to various loading types, derive and apply local equilibrium equations to beams, draw shear force and bending moment diagrams, compute deformations and bending stresses in beams.
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warc | 202143 | Drone-based LiDAR systems are being used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians for 3D mapping, in a successful transfer of technology from DoD laboratories to the field.
“RedTail LiDAR Systems, a leader in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, has delivered six LiDAR systems to the 707
th Ordnance Company stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord,” says a press release. The deployment will allow the EOD techs to explore how drone-based LiDAR systems can be used to meet their goals.
The testing is focused on using LiDAR to map terrain. LiDAR produces 3D maps, referred to as point clouds, that allow users to view mapped areas from any perspective, traveling around the models in 3D space using rotation and zoom capabilities in the viewer software. This functionality will enable the EOD technicians to use the RedTail LiDAR Systems RTL-450, integrated onto the Teledyne FLIR SkyRaider Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), to perform a broad range of functions: calculating crater volumes from improvised explosive device (IED) blasts, planning routes for unmanned ground vehicles, mission planning, and surveillance.
MEMS Drone-Based LiDAR for Denser Point Clouds
The LiDAR technology in the RTL-450 was developed in the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). “The MEMS mirror-based design provides enhanced 3D imagery due to the fact that the laser pulses are steered to the ground in a very well-defined and controlled scan pattern,” says the press release. The high density of the point clouds makes the technology ideal for use with AI and Machine Learning algorithms, which allow automated target detection and classification.
The system can operate in either a raster scan mode for surveillance missions or a side-to-side line scan mode for area mapping while the UAS is flying. The intuitive command and control, high-brightness display integrated into the ground control station (GCS), and real time 3D map generation allows operators to begin mission planning and analysis even before the mapping or surveillance missions are completed.
“Delivering these six LiDAR systems to EOD technicians for test and evaluation is a significant step forward in using MEMS mirror-based LiDAR technology to address a broad range of Department of Defense 3D mapping needs. In addition, this delivery represents a true success story in transitioning a technology out of a Department of Defense laboratory and back into the hands of military operators,” said Brad DeRoos, President and CEO of RedTail LiDAR Systems.
To read more about drone-based LiDAR technology, read these previous articles on coaxial drones equipped with LiDAR, micro LiDAR sensors, the differences between LiDAR and photogrammetry, and how LiDAR is used in commercial drone applications.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, a professional drone services marketplace, and a fascinated observer of the emerging drone industry and the regulatory environment for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles focused on the commercial drone space and is an international speaker and recognized figure in the industry. Miriam has a degree from the University of Chicago and over 20 years of experience in high tech sales and marketing for new technologies.
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warc | 202143 | There are plenty examples of chuckle worthy signage everywhere on the internet. Admittedly, we have a laugh when we come across photos of signage that sends a less than ideal message due to burnt out lights. However, the last thing you want to discover as a business owner is that your signage reads something along the lines of, “nasty Buffet” rather than “Dynasty Buffet”. For those looking to improve their retail signage, here are a few tips to help you do so!
Keep Your Message to the Point
When Twitter was first introduced, we all struggled to cram our thoughts into that 140-character limit. These days, the average tweet is only 33 words. As a society, we’ve grown accustomed to consuming bite sized bits of information throughout daily life. You should design your retail signage with this in mind. If your signage isn’t concise, the odds are greater than ever that your target audience will miss your message entirely. Essentially, you want to portray the maximum message in as few words as reasonably possible.
Focus on Readability
Once you’ve decided on the wording of your signage, it’s time to shift to its aesthetic. Our Featured Projects page is full of retail signage ideas and inspiration. These projects are each unique and eye catching in their own way, while still maintaining a simple and clean aesthetic. Our goal is always to create signage that reflects a brand accurately, while still being simple enough to read and interpret after just a glance.
Get Personal!
A great way to entice customers to try your products is to have them visualizing the products in everyday life. When it comes to interior retail signage, one great way to do that is to incorporate words like “you” and “yours”. Once customers realize how your product or service can specifically benefit them, they are more likely to seek further information or discuss the options with you in-store.
Maintain Your Signage
Just like with the car in your driveway, your signage is only as good as your maintenance is. Investing in a well-designed and installed sign is only one piece of the puzzle. Working with East West Sign Group is one way to make sure that your signage will be taken care of and free from missing lights, dirt and other damage that can turn a gorgeous sign into an eyesore.
Create Effective Signage for Your Retail Space with East West Sign Group
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warc | 202143 | Lizette Juarez is a proud first-generation college graduate pursuing her Education Specialist Credential for Mild to Moderate Support Needs and a Master’s in Education in the Teacher Education Program. She received her Bachelor's degree in Sociology at UCSB in 2020. During her undergraduate studies she tutored at a non-profit learning center in Santa Barbara and studied abroad in Santiago, Chile. Lizette spent the last year working as a bilingual special education case manager for students in grades K-3. This experience, along with her education history, have inspired her to work and advocate for equitable educational environments for all students. She is passionate about learning and is eager to work closely with the students, teachers, and families in the Santa Barbara community.
GGSE: What do you do in your free time? Juarez: I enjoy spending my free time doing both indoor and outdoor activities. One of my favorite outdoor activities is taking my hammock out to any open space and reading a book. I also enjoy painting, hand-making cards, trying new foods, and cooking homemade Mexican dishes. My specialty is chicken enchiladas in a green tomatillo sauce. GGSE: Tell us about your experiences as a bilingual special education case manager. How did it help you grow as a teacher? Juarez: It was extremely challenging to begin my first year co-teaching in the middle of a pandemic, but it was a great learning experience that inspired me to pursue the education specialist credential. I gained a greater understanding of the importance of fostering positive relationships with my students and their families. Each one enters the classroom with a unique background, and I need to honor that in order to best understand and serve my students. It also helped me grow as a teacher because I developed positive classroom management skills, time management skills, and an in-depth understanding of special education systems and best practices. GGSE: What's your favorite memory from your time abroad in Chile? Juarez: There are so many! One of the most remarkable memories was in October 2019. There was a public transportation fare increase that ignited social protests in the capital, Santiago, and across the nation. I was attending a politically-active university, so my in-person classes ceased in support of the social movements. It was incredible to watch the country unite in the streets, put on informational workshops, and ultimately vote to transform their outdated, authoritarian constitution from the Pinochet-dictatorship era. During this time, I learned about the historical events that led to a multitude of social, political, and economic disparities in Chile. I learned about the role my home country has played in Chile’s political movements; this reinforced the idea that I should always seek to learn from both dominant and non-dominant narratives. GGSE: Who, living or dead, do you most admire? Juarez: My mamí & papí (mom and dad). I admire my parents because they are the most selfless and hard-working people I know. They left their home country and migrated to find a place of security to raise their children in (2 siblings and myself). They have persevered in a country whose language they did not speak, whose social norms they were not aligned with, but whose safety allowed them to raise 3 hard-working, humble, and successful children. I admire my parents’ determination to maintain and honor our Mexican heritage and values, while also respecting those of the nation. I admire my parents because they remind me to be humble, hard working, and caring of my community. Gracias mami y papi por ser un ejemplo de un gran modelo a seguir (Thank you mom and dad for being great role models). | 3,756 | 1,807 | 7,748.958495 |
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Buying insurance through super has many advantages, but you need to make sure you are getting the right cover for your individual needs. In some cases, you may be paying for nothing.
Most super funds offer life and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance to fund members and, in some cases, income protection cover.
But since the introduction of the Protecting your Super reforms in 2019, this cover is no longer automatic.
If you have less than $6000 in your account or it has been inactive, then the insurance component will have been cancelled unless you advised the fund otherwise. An account may be deemed inactive if, for example, it has not received a contribution for more than 16 months.
In addition, insurance cover is no longer offered to new fund members aged under 25.
Is it right for you?
If you do have insurance in your super account, then it’s a good idea to check the cover is right for you. This is particularly the case now that the stapling measure has been introduced as part of the recent Your Future, Your Super legislation.
From November 1, unless you choose a new fund when you change jobs, the first fund you joined will be ‘stapled’ to you throughout your working life. This is where problems can arise; while the fund stays the same, so will the insurance cover.
Say you move from a low-risk job where the insurance offered in your super was more than adequate to a high-risk job such as in construction or mining. Would your insurance now cover you if you were no longer able to work? And if it did, would the cover be sufficient? It may well be that your new occupation is not even covered.
Most TPD policies within super are for “any” occupation rather than “own” occupation. This three-letter definition can make a world of difference. If you still have the capacity to work in some other occupation, then it is likely your insurance will not pay out.i
Many benefits
Despite this, there are still many benefits from having insurance cover in your super. Firstly, the premiums are generally lower because the fund buys the insurance cover in bulk. In addition, your premium payments are effectively lower as they come out of your pre-tax rather than your post-tax income.
What’s more, you are not having to put your hand in your pocket to pay the premiums as the money automatically comes out of your super. Of course, the flipside is you will have less money working to build your retirement savings.
So, when it comes to taking out insurance, going through your super has lots of positives.
But the downside is that the default level payout may be lower than you might need. You should check if this is the case and maybe consider making additional premium payments to give yourself and your family more appropriate cover. Be aware though that opting for a higher payout could mean you have to undergo a medical.
Also, life insurance cover in super actually reduces over time to the point where your cover reaches zero by the time you are 70. And for TPD cover it ceases at 65.ii
Regular checks
Wherever you get insurance cover, it’s important to remember that its purpose is generally to cover any outstanding debt and ongoing financial obligations should you pass away or become unable to work.
For this reason, it is important to regularly check your insurance within your super to ensure it is sufficient to maintain your lifestyle.
If it falls short, then you might also consider taking out a policy outside super.
While income protection is sometimes available through your super, it may be necessary to look outside. Such policies pay you a regular income for a specified period if you are unable to work through an illness or injury, and premiums are tax-deductible outside super.
When you are leading a busy life with lots of claims on your income, insurance may be seen as an unnecessary expense. But when it comes to the crunch, it can play a valuable role in you and your family’s life when you need it most.
Please call us to discuss your insurance needs and whether your existing cover, both inside super and outside, is sufficient.
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warc | 202143 | Standard Deviation in the World of Casino Games
You can find three main categories of casino games: table games, gaming machines, and cards. Each type requires the active participation of at least two players. Gaming machines, including slots and keno, are usually played by a minumum of one player at a time and don’t require the active participation of casino staff to use. Cards include baccarat, craps, poker, blackjack, roulette, and baccarat.
Most casinos operate on a spread of slot machines gambling machines on either the casino floor or in adjacent gambling rooms. Most casinos that offer live gaming also offer slots. If you opt to gamble at a live casino, you’ll need to know when and where the machines are located so you can line up and gamble. Many people find the best slots can be found in the casino floor and round the circular counter.
Slots are one of the easiest casino games to understand. You merely follow the instructions printed on the slots machine. Most machines offer a “red light” and a “green light”, indicating when to spin the reels. Lots of slots spin rapidly, but several allow you to set your personal speed. Most online casinos make it possible for players to adjust the quantity of bets they want to put on the machine, which may create a larger house edge, although that is generally not more than five percent.
Almost every other casino games rely on luck and chance. There is little dependence on skill as you don’t rely on a number generator. However, there are many individuals who enjoy playing online casino games due to advantage they have over the virtual poker opponents. For these players, winning often is more important than actually getting the best potential for winning.
Roulette is another of the casino games most often played at internet casinos. The advantage of roulette is that players have a random chance of winning huge amounts of money, regardless of how unlucky they happen to be during a given hand. Of course, roulette relies on strategy more than anything else. Many of the strategies used in internet roulette games involve predicting where the roulette wheel will land on the quantity Combination and betting (and hopefully winning) on that combination.
Another type of casino game most often played online is the game of keno. Koingo is similar to slots in that in addition, it runs on the random number generator. 우리 카지노 이벤트 The difference between your two is a player’s hand could be chosen at random, however the outcome of the game depends upon using a strategy known as the house advantage. The house advantage is the difference between your expected value of the hand (the total amount of cards dealt) and the current hands ranking.
Generally in most casino games the house edge is defined as the edge a casino has over its competitors. The home edge can be tricky to find out, because it is affected by many variables including rollover rates, the frequency with which new players join a casino, the average time a new player stays within the house premises, and the average amount of time that any player is inside the premises. While the exact calculations of the house edge can’t be made, general ideas about casino games can give a good idea of how much the house edge varies across different games. For instance, the house edge for blackjack is one half to 1 quarter of a percent, and for roulette it is generally between one and two percent.
One of the important concepts in standard deviation is the concept of the tails of probability. That is defined as the typical deviation of the tails, which is the expected number of heads in a distribution. Standard deviation is commonly used in forex as well as in a variety of other types of casino games including baccarat, keno, slots, and even online video poker. In a standard deviation, the range of values is wide-ranging, often representing the range of possibilities in an unpredictable environment. In the context of casino gambling, the tails probability is analogous to the entire expected value of any bet in a casino game. | 4,160 | 1,899 | 8,904.897314 |
warc | 202143 | Idiom: Wear many hats. If someone wears many hats, they have different roles or tasks to perform. As a freelancer, this is not an option. It’s a requirement. When you launch out alone you MUST assume many roles that were once distributed to other people in your work space. You’ve become the account manager, the head of finances, the art director, the creative director, the production designer, the graphic designer, and whatever else needs to be accounted for. That requires some learning on your part to ensure invoices are billed out, clients are tended to, emails are read and replied within a reasonable time span, all the things.
After almost a year working for myself full time, I’ve adopted all the roles and now I’ve acquired a paragraph worth of titles that won’t fit on a business card. So which one do I present to new clients? Well recently I’ve been assigned the role as a production designer and another as a creative director. Of course creative director sounds much more important, but I’m flexible. I try to mention in less than a breath or two that I can go from brainstorming to production all on my own. Working from client input, I have had to do all the roles in between the starting line and the finished product. But I don’t worry about wearing all my hats simultaneously, that would be exhausting. I’ve learned to switch gears mid stream and change hats to get multiple projects done. While waiting on feedback for a printed magazine, I change over to icon development, then to presentation boards. All with different audiences, goals, and outputs. Something of a Swiss army knife but in human form.
Does it get stressful? Yes. No point in sugar coating it, it isn’t easy sometimes to halt working in one mindset to work on something completely different. But once you do it long enough it gets a little easier, or less noticeable that you’re doing it. Like with any skill, expertise comes with consistent practice and patience. It took me just around a solid year of working to feel like I’m not tripping over my own feet.
This career path isn’t for those that can’t hold out, and I wouldn’t assume that everyone that tries succeeds even then. If you’re against the idea of adopting different skills and don a few new hats to get work done, then you might be out of luck in the freelancing field. If you work better doing only one thing and letting others wear their singular hats around you, then I hope you find that office or cooperative work space that suits your needs. As for me, I’ll keep adding to my hat rack.
Focus is what makes skills sharp, talent shine, and projects complete. The ability to know what to focus on and when is imperative to getting things done efficiently, thoroughly, and with a strong force behind it. But when you're the only member of the team doing all the work, it becomes overwhelming. There are aspects that you can do amazingly and other things you can't do at all. So what do you do when you're flying solo on a huge project with lots of parts that you're not comfortable with? Well, before you get to that point you should look at yourself (and your skills) and ask:
Answering these questions will help a great deal when presenting yourself to clients and selecting projects. In the years I've worked in both office environments with other team members and working for myself, I've discovered a few things. First off, everyone does something different in regards to a single project. A few people might be good designers but one is better at making logos, so they got that job. Only one person can code, so they got that job. A few can brainstorm and present well, so those jobs were divided among them. There is some overlap and people can float, but it is a group effort with many hands working together. When you freelance, there might only be your two hands.
After working for a while as a freelancer, there were projects that came up that I could do but I wasn't very excited about them. They involved companies that were too corporate for my flavor of design. But that's the name of the game sometimes. Doing work to pay the bills is going to happen but it isn't satisfying. When the fun projects come along they are often rare and very quick to wrap up. Much like watching fireworks for five minutes. As the skill list grew, I noticed those firework projects were coming in even less than before.
I recently attended an AIGA event at a local branding/screen printing company and art gallery BLDG. They have a flavor for urban street art and present themselves as more of a boutique of branding and design. They don't offer anything web related, do wall murals around town, and they aren't a one-stop-shop for work because they don't want to be one. Their concept blew my mind! With a staff of less than a dozen people, they had a successful shop with amazing work that you could see the love behind. I decided to take their approach and apply it to my company. I've decided to narrow down what I offer so I can find a better niche for myself and the strengths of my skills and be able to do more of what I love.
First I had to figure out what those where. So I decided to make some lists. I love lists. My first list was all the skills I had, things I have done, things I was confident doing, things that were easy to do for me. This is my list of Can Do's:
It's a pretty long list of things. Aside from all under the blanket of design, there is no focus to anything. The amount of items surprised me after I wrote everything down.
Next was the list of things I loved to do. Using the first list as a starting point, I picked out the items that I loved to do. These were the elements that I get excited about and I know I excel at. Here is my list of Love to Do's:
A much shorter list for sure. I started to see a pattern here of things I enjoyed doing the most. There is a lot of visual items, such as cartoons, logos, icons, and illustration. These are at the core of my passions. It was great to see that and allow me to focus on presenting myself more in this direction rather than with everything else I could do.
Now that I covered the love part, time for the hate part. This list includes items from my Can Do section and also includes things clients have asked me to do in the past. These also include skills that I can do but not well enough to say I can. I don't offer some of these items openly, as I don't feel confident in my abilities. Here are my Hate to Do's:
A much shorter list this time. It also displays for me what I want to avoid doing. In my case, anything related to code. I know enough X/HTML to get by, but it's a skill set that I never mastered. More importantly, after I tried to learn it I never wanted to be a master in. It just isn't my cup of tea.
Finally was my dream list. This list has items that I can do but I'm out of practice in. It also has items I want to learn and focus on as new skills to present to my clients. Here are my Want to Do's:
This list supports my Love to Do's list with things related to playful things, like toys and greeting cards.
Writing these lists provided so much clarity to where my passions are and what areas I want to step away from. It won't happen overnight, but I now have better focus on where to put my force. | 7,361 | 3,365 | 15,877.009807 |
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Even considering mix-ins such as fruit and nuts, my grocery bills were about $10 less per month. Historically, porridge was a staple food in much of northern europe and russia. For every half-cup of milk consumed with cereal, add another 60 milligrams of sodium. The slow cooking steel-cut oats were my favorite, offering the best flavor and texture, and also the highest nutritional value. Nielsen commends earnest eats for using antioxidant-rich coffee flour to power it’s line of grain-based energized hot cereals. This is another reason for serving or preparing cereals with milk, the best source of calcium in the ordinary diet. These are the micronutrients – vitamins and minerals – that are added to most ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, sometimes to levels that are nutritionally unreasonable and costly to the consumer. Oat porridge is also sold in ready-made or partly cooked form as an instant breakfast.
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Overwhelmed by the colossal number of choices when spinning your wheels down the cereal aisle? Highkey keeps your breakfast low carb and diet friendly! Gluten-free oats combined with organic honey crystals, hemp seeds, and sea salt for a hot portable breakfast that offers 9 grams of protein. Plus most varieties are covered in sugar, defeating the purpose of a healthy breakfast. But the blinding array of cereal products (In my local supermarket, cereals fill one side of an entire aisle) and the clamoring of youngsters for the sugary products they have seen advertised on television can easily confuse a shopper trying to get good nutrition as well as good taste and keep food costs down in the bargain. In my opinion id say really it’s very similar to a normal oatmeal for not being a normal oatmeal. Breakfast cereals are available in different variety, but the essential ingredient is grains. Mintel reports 12 percent of consumers who are eating less cold cereal say they lack the time to eat breakfast, and 11 percent find cereal inconvenient to eat on the go. However, in recent times, the demand has slowed down on account of presence of high sugar and preservative contents in cereal bars. The original flavor contains no added sugar and the cereal resists turning soggy when swimming in milk.
If eating a very high-fiber cereal is one of your nutrition goals, start with a lower-fiber cereal and gradually work your way up over the course of a few weeks while increasing fiber at other times during the day. We all know firemen can cook, but can they make cereal? They are also less expensive than any of the other grain-free hot cereals available today. Many people overeat cereal which can lead to excess calorie and carbohydrate intake. The dish has traditionally been closely associated with scotland, possibly because oats can be successfully cultivated on marginal upland soils. For a healthy breakfast, stick to classic cheerios. Choosing a whole grain cereal would be best, as studies have shown that eating a diet rich in whole grains can reduce the risk of heart disease. Instant hot cereals cost more than those you cook yourself. Gluten and grain free: With no added preservatives, no gluten, no grain, and zero artificial sweeteners, this nourishing, powerful mix of hemp, chia, flax, and sunflower seeds with coconut has all the familiar texture and great taste of a hot cereal breakfast. Indulge in this seed and nut based hot cereal with a burst of cocoa almond flavor without the guilt. And if you have run into work late more than once (Like yours truly), make a point of checking out these healthy breakfast ideas.
This cereal does contain quinoa flakes and cracked whole wheat, which are whole grain. This cereal completely turned my world upside down – one word, ahhhmazing! All it takes is adding a tbsp of cream cheese and a big spoonful of sugar free polaner’s strawberry jelly preserves and it becomes the best keto oatmeal around, i even tried it with polaner’s sg blackberry preserves the other day and it was even better! Steel cut oats are a different type of oatmeal than the rolled, instant oats you are used to. Eating smaller portions can help people with diabetes better control their blood glucose levels, especially when they eat high-carb foods such as cereal. When adding milk to cereal, use low-fat or skim milk to keep the fat and calorie count low and maximize essential nutrients. Few hot cereals such as oatmeal does not comprise any other ingredient while other variants may include coloring agents, yeast, salts, minerals, vitamins, sweeteners, and food preservatives.
The highly deceptive tactics of the food industry have duped us. Choosing the right cereal, such as one that does not contain lots of added sugar, can allow people with diabetes to enjoy cereal more often. Look for a cereal that provides three or more grams of protein per serving. Increasing influence of westernization on food habits of middle-class population is also contributing significantly towards the demand for breakfast cereals in asia pacific. Grab any of these better-for-you and tasty cereals that make it much less tempting to punch the snooze button. Cereal can be expensive, especially premium granolas and other cereals that contain high quality and organic ingredients. Talk about health foods that are worse than a donut. An analysis by the environmental working group found that the average serving of cereal contains 9 grams of sugar. Vast benefits of including these organic and whole grain based cereals in the diet are further escalating the demand for hot cereals.
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Many of these cereal brands are also gluten-free and clearly state so on the package. However, some cereals are lower in carbs than others. Made with natural sweetener, 1g net carbs, 4g fiber, and 9g protein per serving, this satisfying hot breakfast with a burst of cocoa almond is a great start to any day! Cocoa bunnies boast a much more distinct chocolate taste than say, dark chocolate krave, and the combination of oats, corn and rice make for a tasty combo. There’s a whopping 11g of protein in a serving of this cinnamon crisp cereal, which is twice the protein of the average leading cereals. People with diabetes do not have to eliminate specific foods from their diet. Good food from better ingredients – great for a variety of diets like keto, paleo, gluten-free, and low-carb. Some cereals include artificial sweeteners, which minimize sugar content. Cross contamination of food allergens should always be assumed in manufacturing. Unfrosted mini-wheats may strike you as a bit dull, but think of this cereal as an opportunity to build a healthy breakfast.
When promoting a kid-friendly cereal, consider a whole grain organic cereal, such as cascadian farms o’s. When cooking as a hot cereal in the microwave, use a very large bowl and stir every 30 seconds to release the steam during the cooking process. Eating a balanced diet is one of the most important strategies for managing diabetes, but that does not mean that people have to give up all the foods they love. Most people with diabetes should eat about 30-to-45 g of carbohydrates for breakfast and many do best when eating less than 30 g for breakfast. These two, under various names, are staple foods over a wide part of the african continent, e. 100% Stamp – 18g or more soluble fiber from oatmeal, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Look for products in which the first ingredient is a whole grain, such as whole wheat, oats (Rolled or flour), whole corn kernels, etc, or bran. For example, do not choose jam-covered toast and cereal for breakfast.
The oats are cooked in milk, water or a mixture of the two. Frosted cereals offer little nutritional value. These 10 healthy cereals, though, are not only made from whole grains but have low enough sugar levels to keep your morning bowl (And, ok, sometimes dinner) a disease-fighting dish. All cereals are poor sources of calcium, an essential nutrient that tends to be in short supply in the american diet. Good news for cereal eaters: Eating enough whole grains and cereal fibers may reduce your risk of early death, mostly due to illnesses like diabetes, cancer, and respiratory disease, reports a new study in bmc medicine. Another quick, low-carb option for breakfast is a handful of nuts and a piece of fruit! Scottish traditionalists allow only oats, water and salt. Note that some cereal manufacturers have a 1-cup serving size, while others use a three-fourth cup serving size. It’s an uncompromisingly bland mix of wheat, rice, oats, honey, buckwheat and expeller pressed soy grits. By contrast, a serving of kix, wheat chex, nutri-grain or grape nuts has only two or three grams of sugar (With no added sugar in the nutri-grain or grape nuts), and a serving of shredded wheat has none. Hopefully by now you are painfully aware of how toxic genetically modified foods are for us. However, there are many types of cereal that people with diabetes can eat without worrying, as long as they take a few things into consideration.
Convenient and satisfying, cereal will always be a breakfast staple for most guys. This can include rolled oats, creamy grits and instant oats. Letting my creative juices flow in the kitchen was one of the most unexpected but rewarding aspects of making oatmeal part of my routine. About $9 billion of cereal and three billion boxes of cereal will be purchased this year in the u. Try it: Eat it right out of the bag or mix with organic yogurt for a quick, nutrient-packed breakfast. | 10,839 | 4,912 | 23,752.238599 |
warc | 202143 | animals and science studies – humans and other animals in the laboratory Week 19 Amy Hinterberger Animals, Society and Culture, 2013-14 outline 1) Animals as scientific objects– what does ‘humanisation’ mean in this context? 2) Interspecies mixtures, chimeras and ‘animals containing human material’ 3) Thinking critically across species lines (Mouse MRI scan) animals as scientific objects • The use of animals in science is an objectifying process that has deep ethical implications • Using animals in science for speculation, classification and experimentation has a long history • Science in its practices is ambivalent about its use of animals. into the laboratory: science as a social practice • ‘science and technology studies (STS) challenges any distinct line between science and society (Haraway 1990; Latour 1993; Jasanoff 2005) • The lab has hierarchical relationships (between scientists, technicians and animals) • The lab consists of ‘actants-in-relation’, including humans, nonhumans, technologies, the organic and the mechanic (Whatmore 1999) Stem cell scientists at work at laboratory in Oxford, 2012 mixing human and non-human animal cells, DNA and tissues • Advances in the power of techniques involved in these studies are producing an ever widening range of human and animal mixtures. • With greater quantities of genetic sequences being manipulated and advances in embryo and stem cell technologies it is increasingly possible to replace animal material with human tissues and cells. • The resulting human-animal mixtures are used to support both basic research into human biology, health and disease as well as for developing and testing drugs and other therapies. erosion of species boundaries Quote from chair of the recent UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences report, Animals Containing Human Material explains: • ‘The concept of significantly distinct species has waned as more organisms are genetically sequenced, more and more of these mixing experiments were done. We all got used to the idea that life’s a continuum. You can take something from yeast and put it in a mouse and something else from a chimpanzee and put it in a cow and more or less you can map things onto each other and they sort of work. Obviously there are big and important differences but an awful lot of the basic machinery is fundamentally unchanged (ACHM Chair) Example 1 – proposal for cytoplasmic hybrid embryos (or ‘cybrid embryos) does a cybrid embryo count as human? This was a fundamentally important question since the HFEA only has jurisdiction over human embryos (not animal embryos). • November 2006 the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority or HFEA received two research license applications to derive stem cells from embryos created by somantic cell nuclear transfer by inserting human nuclei into enucleated non-human-animal eggs (rabbit or cow). ‘animals containing human material’ • 2011 publication by the Academy of Medical Sciences here in UK • Concluded that humanizing animals for the purposes of medical research does not create significant new ethical problems • (Required reading for seminar!) ‘animals containing human material’ • The report examines the ethics of creating ‘human-animal chimeras’ • Human-animal chimeras: contemporary entities, created in a laboratory, whose existence is legitimated on the basis of developments in the life sciences and the pursuit of human health. • Chimeras defined: new organism that results is made up of a patchwork of cells from the two different sources. chimeras: monsters and myths The chimeras of Greek mythology were fire-breathing creatures composed of the parts of multiple animals. Different figurations of human-animal mixtures point to how the human and animal divide is culturally produced and historically situated. (Italian illustration of two half human, half dog chimera, 1668 (Wellcome Trust Images). what is humanization? • Humanization here manifests in biology rather than behavior. • Likeness and unlikeness is mediated not by language or ancestry, but rather by cellular lineage and design. • Might help to contrast John Berger (who you have read) and Gail Davies (required reading this week) approaches to humanization • Hint: For Davies humanization is less about recuperating lost relationships than establishing new ones. The humanized mouse is a species remade, an experimental object that reproduces the human immune system for biomedical research and drug testing. what is a humanised mouse? The humanized mouse: ‘a complex experimental object’ in which mice are engrafted with human stem cells in the hope of reconstituting a human immune system for biomedical research and drug testing.’ (Davies 2012) • Davies explores relationship between species and spaces: the intimate geographies of corporeal equivalence with humans and the expansive geographies of translational research A humanised mouse: looks pretty mouse like , but it’s what’s on the inside that counts! critical thinking across species lines • the separation of animals from humans has a long history (Dastonand Mitman 2008). These distinctions are rooted in culturally and historically specific classificatory systems particularly relating to species membership (Dupre 1993). • The kinds of animal matters: e.g. Mice and rats have come to stand in for models of human disease often conceptualised and utilised as ‘laboratory tools’ (Clarke and Fujimura 1992) cultures of biology • Contemporary biology emphasizes both human similarity and dissimilarity to non-human animals. • Non-human primates have long personified humans, while rats and mice often represent the instrumentalization of modern genetics as they become akin to machines in the laboratory (Davies 2008, 449). • Chimeric experiments that involve primates are seen to be particularly problematic. For example the Academy of Medical Science report suggests that some chimeric research be banned outright, including injecting human stem cells into the brains of primates as it may it ‘engenders human-like behavior’ (AMS 2011). challenge for sociology? • The increasing creation and use of human-animal mixtures in the biosciences require us to ask what do we mean when we say human, human-being, person or human species? • when entities are created that perturb species boundaries, assumptions of ‘humanness’ can no longer be taken foregranted resulting often in consternation and debate. • These moments provide key insight into how sociology might explore forms of life (both human and animal) and how they are articulated and enacted in society, law and policy. seminar reading (2011) ‘Animals containing human material’ Report from The Academy of Medical Sciences http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p47prid77.html [Note: you can review the entire report but please focus on Chapters 1, 2 and 5] & Davies, G. (2012) ‘What is a Humanized Mouse? Remaking the Species and Spaces of Translational Medicine’ Body and Society,. 18 (3-4): 126-155. See you next week! Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined in the 1930s http://io9.com/the-bizarre-human-animal-hybrids-imagined-in-the-1930s-1491134431?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow | 7,517 | 3,415 | 15,826.421669 |
warc | 202143 | While most traffic violations are punishable by a fine or a ticket, Virginia’s strict traffic laws treat certain actions as a criminal offense. A reckless driving charge can result in a fine of up to $1,000 and / or six months in jail and a $2,500 fine. Serious traffic offences are best prosecuted by an Alexandria traffic law specialist.
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That’s a small percentage of Virginia men charged with serious traffic offenses. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Virginia State Police are the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States.
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warc | 202143 | Did you know that each day in America the average person wastes one pound of food? This may not seem like a lot, but it adds up very quickly. It’s estimated that America wastes over 100 billion pounds of food every year.
Kitchen waste that goes to a landfill will go through a process called anaerobic decomposition, which means that as the waste is broken down, it gives off methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global climate change.
So what can we do about it?
Composting, an agricultural technique that has been around for thousands of years, is our answer.
Composting not only reduces your carbon footprint by controlling what food and kitchen waste end up in a landfill, but it also can provide you with organic fertilizer and nutrient-rich soil.
When we think of composting, we usually picture a large outdoor pile or bin with worms and other organisms, but it is just as easy to do apartment composting without a worm bin by using an indoor compost bin or tumbler.
How to Compost in an Apartment
Traditional composting, or vermicomposting, uses worms and other organisms to decompose waste. While this is great for the soil and environment, it’s not very convenient to do in a small living space.
Today, there are several kinds of composting containers available on the market that make composting indoors worm-free and odor-free. Examples include the Bokashi Composter, electronic compost bins, compost tumblers, or a DIY plastic bin.
What Can and Can’t be Composted Indoors?
With indoor composting, you need to be mindful of odor and pests, especially if you have neighbors.
Some organic waste is more prone to causing issues than others, so here are some lists of kitchen scraps that can and can’t be used for your indoor bins.
Organic material that can be composted in your compost pail includes:
Coffee grounds and filters Teas and tea bags Green waste (leaves, grass, etc.) Crushed eggshells Most fruit and vegetable remnants Nutshells Seaweed Hair and fur Ashes from burnt, untreated wood Sawdust Shredded newspaper and cardboard
Balancing your green waste (fruits and vegetables, plant matter, grass, etc.) with your brown waste (dried leaves, ashes, hair, sawdust, etc.) will give you the best outcome.
Waste that cannot be composted includes:
Meats Eggs Bread and grains Fats and grease Excessive amounts of citrus and onion peel Pet waste other than fur Coal or charcoal ash
Meats and fatty foods are prone to causing odor issues and attracting pests.
Citrus fruit and onion peel can make your compost way too acidic to use.
Pet waste like feces or litter can contain parasites that will live in your compost and can be spread to your plants and potentially to you or other pets.
Ways to Compost in Your Apartment Without Worms
There are a variety of ways to achieve apartment composting without worm composting. Here are a few that were previously mentioned.
Bokashi Composter
Bokashi composting is a relatively new method of composting that is virtually odorless. Bokashi translates to “fermented organic matter” and is very different from other traditional composting methods.
The Bokashi bin uses microbes in place of worm compost to anaerobically ferment waste, creating a nutrient-rich compost tea in just a short period.
The Bokashi method is as follows:
Coat your kitchen scraps and other waste with Bokashi bran. Place the coated waste into your container, and cover it with more bran. Push down on the mixture to get rid of any air bubbles. Repeat this process until your container is full. Once the container is full, seal it. Be careful to have as little air as possible in the container. Let the mixture steep for around two weeks, draining the liquid that has collected at the bottom every couple of days. You can use this liquid just as you would any other compost or worm tea; just be sure to dilute it with water because it will be fairly acidic.
Once this method is complete, you will be left with your fermented compost scraps.
These scraps will be unusable in your community garden right away because of their acidity, so they will need to sit buried in soil for up to four weeks to completely decompose.
To do this in your apartment, you will need a larger composting bin than the one you used for Bokashi. Cover the bottom of that container with a few inches of soil, then add the Bokashi scraps on top and cover with an additional few inches of soil.
A good starter kit for beginners is the Bokashi Composting Starter Kit. This kit provides you with everything you will need to start a Bokashi compost bin in your apartment.
The buckets provided in the kit are made from recycled plastic and feature airtight lids for ideal fermentation. It spouts at the bottom for easy access to draining the tea every couple of days.
Pros:
Odorless composting, even for meat and dairy products Fast turnaround time of just two weeks Provides an easy-to-access compost tea for fertilizing your plants Small and can be conveniently placed anywhere in an apartment
Cons:
Can fill up quickly, so you may need to purchase multiple kits Electronic Compost Bins
Electronic compost bins, also known as food cyclers, are great for quickly producing small amounts of compost.
These bins dehydrate food waste, cutting down the waste’s volume by over 90% in just 4 to 8 hours.
All that you need to do to use them is fill up the container with your food scraps and leave it alone to run its cycle. Once the cycle is complete, you can take the composted material and immediately use it as fertilizer or mulch.
The Vitamix 068051 Food Cycler FC-50 is the top-rated electric compost bin on the market right now.
The Vitamix FC-50 is fairly compact with just a 2-liter capacity, and it is also energy efficient and quiet, which makes it perfect for someone living in an apartment.
Pros:
Compact, efficient, and odorless Works very quickly, providing compost almost instantly Perfect for someone living in a small space
Cons:
It is small, so larger households could need to run it multiple times a day Fairly expensive Compost Tumblers
Compost tumblers combine traditional composting methods with apartment-friendly size.
They usually have a capacity of fewer than 50 gallons, so they’re generally more appropriate for someone who has a balcony or outdoor space.
Compost tumblers are easy to use. All you need to do is fill the chambers with your compost material and turn the bin a few times to mix the compost every 3 or so days until you have finished compost.
An excellent compost tumbler is the IM400 Dual Chamber Tumbling Composter. This compost tumbler has a 37-gallon capacity and two chambers, so you can have more than one compost “pile” at the same time.
Pros:
Easy to use, making it great for beginners Larger capacity, so you can produce a higher volume of compost Great for people who are looking for a more traditional composting experience
Cons:
Composting tumblers are fairly large and require outdoor space, which may not be an option for all people living in apartments. DIY Plastic Container Compost Bin
Making your own compost bin from a plastic tote container is a great option for people not looking to break the bank.
All you need to make a compost bin is:
A large plastic tote A drill Wire mesh Your kitchen waste
To start, you should drill holes 1 to 2 inches apart all around the tote, including the lid and bottom. This way, the waste can aerate to turn into compost. You can get a second tote of the exact same size to place the compost bin inside of if you are worried about any leakage.
After you’ve drilled your holes, you can line your tote with wire mesh to prevent any pests from making their way inside.
Place your DIY compost bin in a location that will be convenient for you, like outside a window or on your balcony.
All that’s left is for you to fill your bin with compost and maintain it. Shaking your bin every few days will help aerate your compost.
You can do this same process on a smaller level using 5-gallon buckets in place of plastic totes.
FAQ
You may have quite a few questions about apartment composting without worms. Below are some of the most common questions regarding the topic.
Do You Have to Have Worms for Compost?
Although traditional compost piles are maintained with the help of red worms, you do not need a worm farm, a worm factory, or worm castings to have a rich compost pile.
Apartment composting without a worm composter is actually very common. In a worm composter, the worms help aerate and maintain nitrogen levels in your compost, but you can do this on your own without them.
Methods like Bokashi use microbes in place of worms to ferment your scraps into a nutrient-rich tea instead of a compost pile.
How Do You Compost on an Apartment Balcony?
If you have a balcony readily accessible to you, you can easily create your composting station there.
Compost tumblers and anaerobic compost containers actually benefit from being outside in the heat, unlike traditional vermicomposting containers.
Simply placing your tumbler or container on your balcony to compost in the heat and sun will help increase the productivity and speed at which the composting process is done.
Once the compost is full, you will need to leave it to decompose, which the heat from being on the balcony will also help with.
Can Cooked Rice Go in Compost?
Rice is tricky when it comes to composting, especially when you’re composting indoors.
Uncooked rice can usually be added in small amounts to a compost bin with little to no problem. The main issue with adding uncooked rice is the risk of attracting rodents and insects.
With cooked rice, on the other hand, it is best to avoid putting it in your compost bin. Not only does the rice attract potential pests, but cooked rice also has been proven to be a breeding ground for hazardous bacteria.
Cooked rice also tends to clump together, which can create air pockets in your compost pile, making it smell bad. This is especially bad for composting indoors.
In short, it’s best to avoid composting cooked rice if possible.
How Long Does it Take Compost to be Ready?
This is actually entirely dependent on what process you decide to use to compost.
Traditional vermicomposting can take upwards of four months to be ready to use. Indoor composting methods, however, have proven to be much more efficient.
Bokashi composting can give you compost tea within just a few days, but the full decomposition of the scraps can take up to four weeks.
Using an indoor composter like a food recycler can give you garden-ready compost in just a matter of hours.
If you decide to use a compost tumbler, your compost can be ready in as soon as three weeks from when you first add your scraps and other waste.
Using a plastic compost container more closely mimics traditional composting time-wise, but under the right conditions, the compost can be ready to use in as soon as two months.
Summary
Apartment composting without worms is an incredible practice that more and more people are doing every day. What once took a large amount of outdoor space to do is now able to be done inside our apartments.
There are several indoor composting methods available on the market, but it’s up to you now to make your informed decision on which method will work best for you. | 11,441 | 4,839 | 26,662.566026 |
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warc | 202143 | Just days after Taliban violently seized control of Afghanistan, the Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, has warned of a repeat of the situation in 2015 and announced that Greece will not be the “gateway to Europe for illegal Afghan migrants”.
It is hugely telling that, in spite of recent developments in Afghanistan, the very minister whose portfolio means he should know better is referring to illegal migrants rather than refugees whose lives are in danger. This choice of words is symptomatic of the way the Greek government views the situation in Afghanistan: with its defensive shield raised against potential refugees. It was also Minister Mitarakis, along with his opposite numbers from the four other Mediterranean EU countries, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus, who called for the subject to be included on the agenda of last week’s EU Foreign Affairs Council.
The same story in Brussels
It was very much the same story in Brussels, with voices raised in warning of migration, including that of EU High Representative Borrell, although he did at least stress the need to protect human rights as well as the dangers of “uncontrolled illegal migration”.
While discussions on the right approach to take towards the displaced Afghans are of course necessary, it should first be considered whether these people will manage to flee to Europe in the first place. The odds are against it, not least because of the walls, fences and closed borders all along the Mediterranean and Balkans routes along which hundreds of thousands of mainly Syrian nationals fled in 2015. Catherine Woolard, Director of the “European Council on Refugees and Exiles” (ECRE), predicts that the vast majority of asylum seekers from Afghanistan will remain in the region. Apart from anything else, the Taliban have closed all the borders and are taking steps to prevent refugees from leaving the country.
No discussion in Greece
Meanwhile, Greece appears to have decided on its own response to the debate quite some time ago: discussions in recent days have focused not on whether, but how Greece will seal off its own external border with Turkey. Three days after Kabul fell, the KYSEA, the government committee for foreign and defence policy, met. Encouragingly, its agenda did include the evacuation of so-called local staff who worked for Greek troops. But unlike the situation in Germany, where an open debate has been held on the evacuation of thousands of these local staff, all has been comparatively silent on the same question in Greece. It is perhaps no wonder, as the country’s contribution to the NATO Mission in Afghanistan was just 11 soldiers. The war in the country and the situation in Afghanistan in general have therefore been less visible in Greece than in other parts of Europe.
The wall between Greece and Turkey
The government committee therefore concentrated its efforts mainly on bolstering the sea and land border with Turkey. The Greek Foreign Minister warned that the Turkish government was likely to try to exploit the situation to bring pressure to bear on the EU. Greece, therefore, is pulling out all the stops to be prepared for such a turn of events: for instance by posting an extra 1200 police officers on the border, equipped with the latest technical gear. Even the idea of asking FRONTEX to help has been mooted, although the country’s relationship with the European agency was seriously damaged by the pushback episodes. The Minister for National Defence, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, and his opposite number for Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, recently took a symbolic trip to the Evros border region together with the head of the armed forces, to personally confirm the “steadfastness” of the order installation. On the same day, the construction of a 40 km-long wall on the Turkish border was finalised, topped off with a state-of-the-art electronic surveillance system.
Suspending the right to asylum
On top of these fortification measures already in place, the government is also discussing the possibility of suspending the right to asylum, as it did in March 2020, when the situation on the border at Evros escalated. Back then, the huge crowds at the land border between Greece and Turkey prompted the Greek government to suspend right to asylum for one month – a breach of international and European law for which it was never held to account. Quite the reverse: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen actually made a special trip to the border to thank the EU Member State for turning itself into a European shield. So it’s hardly surprising that, having got away scot-free with suspending the law once, Greece is considering doing it again as a legitimate act.
Not a safe third country
Something that seems to have gone unheeded in the overall debate is the fact that back in July, the Greek government declared Turkey a safe third country for nationals of Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Greece thus became the second EU Member State, after Hungary in 2016, to identify Turkey as a safe third country for refugees. This means that the majority of Afghans have absolutely no chance of a fair asylum process respecting the rule of law and subsequently receiving the corresponding protection.
Quite apart from the fact that Turkey quite clearly does not meet the criteria for a safe third country for refugees from Afghanistan – it stipulated a geographical reservation in its signature of the Geneva refugee convention and does not offer Afghan nationals protection as refugees – it has also absolutely no interest in hosting any more Afghan refugees, as President Erdogan made clear, not least in his discussions with the Prime Minister Mitsotakis. The two heads of state are firmly united in their eagerness to avoid the arrival of further Afghan refugees.
Ducking responsibility
But if, as would seem to be the case, nobody is prepared to take in the men, women and children whose lives are in danger in their own country, if everyone is too busy ducking the responsibility for them, who will protect those who quite clearly need protection, given the disastrous situation in Afghanistan?
In Germany, flippant soundbites such as “2015 must never be allowed to happen again” – disregarding the fact that a repeat of the undeniable chaos of six years ago is not even realistic – are resonating worryingly on the EU’s external borders. This kind of rhetoric feeds into the downward spiral of shoring up the border fortifications and defences to keep people out. If even Germany is not prepared to help people on the ground, at the very least there should be clear expectations of others. The situation is a complex one and requires a swift response.
As for Greece, it will be on this country’s external borders – which, as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quite rightly pointed out, are not just Greece’s external borders, but Europe’s as well – that we will discover whether the European Union will manage to respond to the suffering of the Afghan people with humanity, or not. Whether people who have lost everything will be dealt with by pushbacks and violence, or the rule of law and humanity. It is the responsibility of every Member State to make sure that the latter situation prevails. Numerous cities and communities throughout Europe, such as London, Barcelona and Bonn, have offered to take in Afghan asylum seekers in danger, women, minorities and activists.
That is the approach that the national governments of Europe must also adopt. Given the suffering of the Afghan people, it is the least they can do.
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warc | 202143 | Increasing competition and rapid technological change require leaders to make swift and effective decisions. Rally drivers, registering many victories, are always accompanied by a good co-driver. Likewise, to monitor and manage his cash flow, the business manager, often alone in charge, is advised to rely on a trusted interlocutor, a CPA chartered accountant.
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The life of a company is not a long calm river: downturn in activity, occurrence of internal or external events, loss or failure of an important customer, aggressive policy of competitors, etc. which can quickly lead to cash flow difficulties. The prevention and treatment of business difficulties is an essential step in management to help the business that encounters an unforeseen difficulty. Talk to a chartered accountant.
Intuition, while still valuable in business, is no longer enough to run a business today. The increasingly fierce competition, the rapid evolution of techniques and markets require managers to take prompt and effective decisions in all circumstances. Don’t panic, as a chartered accountant, we can help you manage and run your business.
Faced with the multiplicity of funding sources in France, it is particularly difficult for you to quickly analyze and identify the solutions that best suit your business needs. However, this business financing approach is essential to the development and sustainability of your business in France. Discuss it with your French CPA chartered accountant.
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warc | 202143 | Tax Guide November 2019 Tax Guide November 2019
Consistent with our commitment to provide updated information on current tax issues, you may find below a list of filing obligations for the forthcoming period. We emphasize that this is not a comprehensive list, but rather a list of the most common tax filing obligations.
Withholding Tax Taxes withheld in September Submission of tax returns for taxes withheld on the following sources of income: Dividends Interest Royalties, if the recipient is an individual or a non-resident entity with no permanent establishment in Greece.
In order for reduced withholding rates pursuant to the Tax Treaties for the avoidance of double taxation to be applied, the foreign beneficiary of the income must provide the relevant tax residence certificate.
Respectively, in order to apply the provisions of the European Directives, as adopted by local provisions, and for nil tax to be withheld on income arising for non residents for dividends, interest and royalties, a nil withholding tax return must be filed. The relevant tax residence certificate should be duly drafted upon submission.
Submission of the withholding tax return and remittance of tax withheld in the following cases: Salaries Solidarity tax Board of Directors fees Employment severance payments Fees for technical services, administration and consulting fees, when the beneficiary of the income is an individual or is a non-EU resident entity. Other deadlines
Within the month of November, Greek legal entities – excluding those operating in the financial sector – should file their annual financial statements for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 in a specific format to the Bank of Greece.
By 20 November
Direct electronic filing with the Bank of Greece of transactions effected within October (collections and payments of any nature) between legal entities operating in Greece and non-residents.
Entities operating in Greece should report their Ultimate Beneficiary Owners (UBOs) to the Central UBOs Register in accordance with the provisions of Law 4557/2018 and the relevant ministerial decisions. Entities are categorized in three groups based on the legal form they operate in Greece. The relevant deadlines are as follows:
Group A 25/11/2019 Group B 28/11/2019 Group C 12/12/2019 By 29 November
Payment of the third installment of the Unified Real Estate Tax (UREOT).
Obligations of enterprises arising from VAT and other indirect taxes and duties
By 15 November
Payment of stamp duty on loans that were both concluded and recorded in the accounting books, during October between entrepreneurs (merchants), commercial entities and/or third parties.
By 26 November
Submission through the TAXISNET website of the intra community transactions listings which include amounts invoiced within October, (reported by tax registration number of the counterparty established in other EU Member States), for acquisitions and supplies of goods as well as for the provision and receipt of services.
By 31 October
Submission through the TAXISNET website of the periodic VAT return for October and payment of the amount due. The same deadline applies for submission of periodic VAT returns with a zero or credit balance Submission of Intrastat returns for intra-community acquisitions and supplies of goods effected during October. The obligation to submit exists only when the value of intra‑community transactions has exceeded the applicable annual threshold, which for 2019 is set at EUR 150 000 for arrivals and EUR 90 000 for dispatches. Obligations of enterprises towards Social Security Funds and Labor authorities
By 15 November
Extension of the submission through the web link of the Ministry of Labor of the annual List of Personnel which includes the employer’s name, activity, registered address and tax registration number as well as the employees’ payroll data.
By 29 November
Payment of social security contributions to EFKA and other Social Security Organizations for the payroll period of October.
By 2 December
Submission of the APR for the payroll period of October.
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warc | 202143 | A research collaboration between Intermountain Healthcare, the University of Utah’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, and the University of Utah’s Psychiatry Department found that induced or augmented labor does not result in an increased risk of children developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Autism spectrum disorder has increased in frequency over the last several decades, affecting one in 68 children in the U.S. With the observed increase, researchers have been working to identify potential risk factors. Previous research suggests that environmental factors during pregnancy and childbirth may increase the risk of ASD diagnosis in childhood. Needless to say the finding in this study are very important and anticipated by families and doctors.
One environmental factor of interest is induction and/or augmentation of labor. Labor is induced (started) or augmented (helped along) for many reasons, including medical indications and patient preference. Prior research had suggested a potential link between induction or augmentation of labor and ASD.
In some cases, labor has to be "induced," which is a process of stimulating labor to begin. The reasons for induction vary, but generally revolve around mother and baby safety. Labor induction is not done before 39 weeks of pregnancy unless there is a serious problem. Some common reasons for induction include the following:
The mother and/or fetus are at risk The pregnancy has continued too far past the due date The mother has preeclampsia, eclampsia, or chronic high blood pressure Diagnosis of poor growth of the fetus
“Children exposed to labor induction or augmentation did not have an increased likelihood of ASD after adjusting for important factors such as socioeconomic status, maternal health, pregnancy-related events and conditions, gender, and year of birth,” says Michael Varner, MD, an investigator for the study.
The study,
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Induced/Augmented Labor: Epidemiologic Analysis of a Utah Cohort , evaluated the association of ASD in a large group of Utah births that occurred between 1998 and 2006. Using data from birth certificates and from a registry of autism cases in Utah (Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities), the researchers compared 2,547 children with ASD to 166,283 children without ASD.
Researchers will present the study findings at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in San Diego, on February 5
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warc | 202143 | The change back then—discovered through an incredible sample collection during the cold war era—is attributed to the extreme warming period. The warming, which occurred in the recent geologic history of the Earth, eventually swept out the entire ice cover, resulting in vegetation sprouting out from the land beneath.
“Our study shows that Greenland is much more sensitive to natural climate warming than we used to think—and we already know that humanity’s out-of-control warming of the planet hugely exceeds the natural rate,” says Andrew Christ, geologist, who led the research.
Messenger from Cold War in a cookie jar
In 1966, a team at Camp Century—a Cold War military base—dug the ice sheet and excavated samples from a 1.4-km depth to examine the sediments. Although the real mission—named Project IceWorm—was to bury about 600 nuclear missiles, the camp was projected as a polar science station mission. However, the mission was not successful, but the team did collect thousands of feet deep samples of ice cores that could shed light on the ancient history of Earth.
But, there was a plot twist! The collected core tube sample—packed in a cookie jar—was lost, as it travelled from one army freezer to another for decades. The sample was rediscovered in 2017 and landed in the hands of scientists at the University of Vermont in 2019—after a gap of nearly 53 years! Disregarded until then, the sample turned out to be the first-of-a-kind fossil plants excavated from the bottom of Greenland.
Studying half-a-century-old samples
When the international team of scientists investigated the sediments under the microscope, they stumbled upon the evidence of something very peculiar in nature. To their surprise, scientists found remnants of twigs and leaves instead of just sand and rock. The results show that Greenland once hosted moss, lichen, spruce and fir trees, that too within the last one million years!
The team conducted a study on rare isotopes of aluminium and beryllium to understand for how long the vegetation was there and it turns out that the plants grew in the ice-free ground for a long duration. “Ice sheets typically pulverize and destroy everything in their path, but what we discovered was delicate plant structures—perfectly preserved. They’re fossils, but they look like they died yesterday. It’s a time capsule of what used to live on Greenland that we wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else,” says Christ.
Moreover, the radiocarbon and luminescence dating examination helped to find the exact time, which stated that melting took place within the last million years. Over the Earth’s history, the climatic conditions varied a lot, from ice ages to warmer interglacial periods. And Greenland’s sensitive environment seems to have reacted drastically to these changes.
What was Greenland like?
Among academicians, there have been continuous debates on what exactly Greenland’s ecosystem was like before the last interglacial warm period, which ended about 120,000 years ago. As per the official statement from the University of Vermont, this research is crucial evidence of ancient plant material that once thrived in northwestern Greenland. Their findings highlight that Greenland was ice-free within the last million years due to Earth’s warming.
Today Greenland’s 80% landmass is covered with ice sheets, however, it may face similar trends of greening again due to increased warming. Understanding the pattern of past melt-off can help scientists predict what the future holds for the white continent. It is estimated that the melt-off of Greenland’s ice can result in an increase of twenty feet of sea-level, which would inundate almost every coastal city on the globe.
“This is not a twenty-generation problem. This is an urgent problem for the next 50 years,” says Paul Bierman, a geoscientist at the University of Vermont, who led the study along with Andrew Christ.
The new research will be published in the journal
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Become a campaigner. This section explains how using drugs and alcohol can affect your mental health. It also explains how you can get help to stop using drugs and alcohol. People use drugs and drink alcohol for lots of different reasons. Whatever your reason, using drugs or alcohol may have a long-term negative effect on you. The possible long-term effects include the following. If you use alcohol or drugs for a long time it can cause serious issues for your mental well-being. Drugs can make you more unwell and more likely to try and harm yourself or take your own life.
There is also some evidence that using some drugs may cause mental illness for the first time.
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For example, research has shown that cannabis can increase your chances of developing psychosis or a psychotic disorder. Psychosis is a medical term. If you have psychosis you will process the world around you differently to other people. This can include how you experience, believe or view things. You might see or hear things that others do not.
Or believe things other people do not.
Some people describe it as a "break from reality". There are different terms use to describe psychosis.
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You can find more information about 'Psychosis' by clicking here. In this section we have listed some of Drugs how they affect you different types of substances that could have an impact on your mental health. Please be aware that this list is not a list of all substances. Taking any substances can be dangerous. They can also have bad interactions with any medications or other substances you might use.
They are a specialist charity that provides information on drugs. You can find their website here: www. Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs in England. According to one study, 1 in 13 people aged had used it in the last year. Young people aged are more likely to use cannabis. The same study shows that just under 1 in 5 young people had used cannabis between and Some people take cannabis because it makes them feel relaxed or happy, but It can also make you feel anxious or feel paranoid.
Some people may experience things that aren't real. This is a of drug-induced psychosis. Some studies have shown that the risk of psychosis may be higher if you:.
If you have been using cannabis and you feel that it is affecting your health, make an appointment to see your GP as soon as you can. Your doctor should not judge you and should not tell other people you use drugs. Some people with a mental illness have problems using alcohol.
Alcohol is legal, which means it is easier to get. It can make the feelings of some mental health issues feel worse. The long-term effects of alcohol also depend on how much you drink, and how regularly you drink it.
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If you drink too much on a regular basis then you could cause yourself serious physical and mental harm. Drinking can make you do something you would not normally do. This can include self-harm and suicide. Very high levels of alcohol can cause psychosis. These are drugs that contain one or more chemical substance. They produce effects that are similar to cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy. This is a common term that people use. It is used because some NPS were legal before However, the name is now wrong, because since they have been made illegal.
Some new psychoactive drugs can cause confusion and a feeling of panic. You can also have hallucinations. Hallucinations can affect the way you behave.
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Your behaviour can become erratic and can put your own safety at serious risk. Some NPS can be very dangerous. They can kill you or hurt you very badly. There is a higher risk of this if taken with alcohol or other psychoactive drugs. In the short-term, these drugs can make you feel wide awake and alert. This can make it difficult for you to relax or get to sleep. They might cause you to have a drug-induced psychosis.
In the long-term, amphetamines might make you anxious and depressed.
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They can also be addictive. Benzodiazepines are a type of tranquilisers. They are used to treat anxiety. They are also used as a muscle relaxant.
Sometimes a doctor will tell you to take benzodiazepines to help you with anxiety. But people also buy them illegally because of their relaxing effects. They can be addictive, and so doctors only give them for a short time. In the short-term, these drugs can make you feel calmer. Depending on the type you take, they could make you feel confused or overly sleepy. Taking benzodiazepines with other drugs or alcohol can be dangerous. It can affect your breathing. It can also increase the risk of overdose and death.
In the long-term, some people become addicted.
This can have a big effect on their day-to-day life. In the short-term, cocaine can make you feel awake, talkative and confident. After this wears off, you can feel tired and depressed after taking it. In the long-term, cocaine use can affect how you feel. It can affect your relationships with friends and family. Cocaine is also addictive and over time you are more likely to have ongoing problems with depression, paranoia or anxiety.
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Cocaine can cause fits, heart attacks and strokes. If you mix it with some other drugs you are more likely to overdose or die. In the short-term, ecstasy may make you feel energetic, very happy, chatty and confident. It can also sometimes make you feel anxious, confused or trigger drug-induced psychosis. | 6,814 | 2,942 | 15,682.390891 |
warc | 202143 | Joseph Mckeown (15-ERD-006) Project Description
Materials properties govern performance in programmatic and industrial applications. Properties, in turn, are dictated by microstructure—specifically, the arrangement of phases and defects in a material. Microstructural control through materials selection and processing is therefore essential to engineering applications of any manufactured component. Additive manufacturing with rapid solidification from high cooling rates can produce metal and alloy parts with promising microstructures and properties that differ significantly from those of conventional cast and wrought components. However, there is currently a lack of in situ experimental insight into microstructure evolution and kinetics during rapid solidification, which is crucial for predictive modeling capabilities to improve high-throughput materials development based on additive manufacturing. Our objective is to establish the fundamental scientific knowledge of rapid solidification to predict nonequilibrium microstructure for additive manufacturing processes. We will perform experiments using dynamic transmission electron microscopy to monitor microstructure evolution and measure kinetics during rapid solidification. By integrating experiments with simulations, we will develop a validated model for solidification under extreme conditions of laser melting that can be applied across materials systems.
We expect to enable a predictive capability for nonequilibrium microstructure for a variety of advanced (and, in particular, additive) manufacturing processes. We will conduct experiments to quantify kinetics and microstructural evolution of rapid solidification, while systematically varying alloy complexity, composition, thermal gradient, and viscosity, to fully characterize laser-induced processes experienced by alloys during additive manufacturing. Theory and simulations will produce validated predictive modeling capabilities for solidification under extreme, far-from-equilibrium conditions. Our results will help guide the design of desired microstructures and post-thermal treatment for improved materials performance, providing an accelerated path to practical applications.
Mission Relevance
Advanced materials characterization coupled with validated predictive modeling will provide the fundamental knowledge of microstructure evolution under extreme conditions. This capability supports the advanced materials and manufacturing core competency for the Laboratory's strategy relevant to addressing scientific and engineering challenges of accelerating the design, fundamental understanding, and deployment of new materials and manufacturing processes. In addition, this effort contributes to stockpile stewardship science to meet NNSA's current and future national security requirements related to the design of materials with tailored properties as part of cost-efficient, timely approaches to warhead life-cycle support with new capabilities.
FY16 Accomplishments and Results
During FY16, our experimental effort focused on alloy systems with lower melting temperatures to facilitate data acquisition and provide critical input data to modeling efforts (see figure). Specifically, we (1) obtained dynamic transmission electron microscopy data sets of copper–nickel and silver–copper alloys, and characterized their microstructures before and after laser melting and re-solidification; (2) performed single laser-track experiments with bulk niobium–titanium and copper–nickel alloys for comparison with dynamic transmission electron microscopy data and spanning a larger range of solidification velocities, with characterization of the laser-track microstructures; (3) performed in situ dynamic transmission electron microscopy and ex situ laser-track experiments exploring the effects of thermal gradient on rapid solidification, and explored new techniques for further dynamic transmission electron microscopy experiments with the high-melting-temperature alloys niobium–titanium and niobium–zirconium; (4) validated thermodynamic and kinetic data for silver–copper, aluminum–copper, aluminum–silicon, aluminum–zinc, and copper–nickel alloy systems; (5) performed one-dimensional interface velocity simulations with DICTRA (a diffusion-controlled transformation code for simulation of diffusion-controlled reactions in multiple-component alloy systems) for copper–nickel at various cooling rates, and determined the effects of cooling rate on the alloy's interface composition; (6) compared one-dimensional velocity simulations using DICTRA and AMPE (a phase-field code) for niobium–zirconium and copper–nickel, and two-dimensional AMPE simulations for copper–nickel, and obtained three-dimensional AMPE results for the initial rapid solidification stage in copper–nickel; (7) developed two- and three-dimensional predictions of microstructure evolution of the crystalline phase of niobium–titanium and copper–nickel behind a melt pool; (8) explored the pertinence of transformation diagrams in the context of rapid solidification; and (9) derived new equations to account for the diffusion-free assumption that pertains to rapid solidification, and implemented these equations in the phase-field code.
Publications and Presentations McKeown, J. T., et al., Microstructure evolution during laser-induced rapid alloy solidification. Minerals, Metals and Materials Soc. 145th Ann. Mtg. and Exhibition, Nashville, TN, Feb. 14–18, 2016. LLNL-ABS-673658. Perron, A., et al., Combining calphad-informed phase-field modeling with rapid solidification experiments for prediction of microstructure evolution during laser-based additive manufacturing. TMS 146th Ann. Mtg. and Exhibition, San Diego, CA, Feb. 26–Mar. 2, 2017. LLNL-ABS-697762. Perron, A., et al., Solidification across the multi-scale landscape. 8th Intl Conf. Multiscale Materials Modeling, Dijon, France, Oct. 9–14, 2016. LLNL-PROP-677182. Roehling, J. D., et al., In situ characterization of rapid alloy solidification using dynamic transmission electron microscopy. Advanced Qualification of Additive Manufacturing Materials, Santa Fe, NM, July 20–21, 2015. LLNL-ABS-673659. Roehling, J. D., et al., Progress toward predicting rapidly solidified microstructures of metallic alloys. TMS 146th Ann. Mtg. and Exhibition, San Diego, CA, Feb. 26–Mar. 2, 2017. LLNL-ABS-696619. Roehling, J. D., et al., Toward predicting rapidly solidified microstructures of metallic alloys. Materials Science and Technology, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 23–27, 2016. LLNL-ABS-685977. Turchi, P. E. A., Microstructure modeling in support of additive manufacturing. Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany, Jan. 18–19, 2016. LLNL-ABS-680841. Turchi, P. E. A., "Old time"—present—future of computational materials science. Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany, Jan. 18–19, 2016. LLNL-ABS-680842. | 7,101 | 2,744 | 17,972.465379 |
warc | 202143 | The unrelenting economic recession in the country has been impacting all facets of activities of companies. The worse hit is their implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR. OLAJIDE FABAMISE writes.
The shrinking of the economy and businesses has compelled many firms to scale down every aspects of their activities as they face financial and operational challenges daily. Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR is usually associated with the term, competitive advantage.
Companies compete among themselves to attract more customers to have the highest sales and maximize profits. The winner is the one who can offer cheaper goods, provide interesting and quality service, and who can offer to the customer something not offered anywhere else. Before the economic recession began in Nigeria, CSR was seen as an increasingly relevant source of competitive advantage. But, with the coming of the economic crisis, analysts became curious about what would happen with the concept of CSR. It was quite apparent that the crisis would affect CSR, but no one knew how. Some have argued that the companies should dismiss CSR, considering it as a financial burden, but others are of the view that CSR should continue to strengthen and become a benefit to business in times of crisis, make companies more competitive in an increasingly hostile business environment. It is also worthy of note that the recession has exposed the importance of CSR and depth of its actual implementation. Before recession, companies were still learning what CSR is, and they did not use fully the potential of CSR, as a competitive advantage. In the recession, however, specific activities and projects were reviewed. Projects of marginal interest were dismissed and CSR ceased to represent only the allocation of funds for charitable purposes. CSR has become more targeted. Investigation by our correspondent shows that the current recession and its impact directly affected the perception of CSR in companies. There had been a significant decrease in spending on socially responsible activities. Subsequently, there has been a review of specific activities and projects. Indeed, projects of marginal interest were rejected, and CSR ceased to represent only the allocation of funds and donation. Quite as expected, the most affected area was the social, and the least affected was environmental area. For example, the Promassidor Quill Award for Excellence in Journalism, and MTN Project Fame, were rested in this year. Finding also shows that companies are trying to solve their problems in accordance with the principles of social responsibility and they found that CSR does not mean only costs, which in time of recession, decrease earnings, but it is something to rely on in times of crisis. Companies began to seek the benefits of CSR, not only in terms of a reputation, but also financially. These options are found in the social, economic and environmental spheres. In the environmental area, the plan was to streamline the running of projects and the search for savings, especially, in energy (more efficient heating and heat recovery systems, power off electrical devices, etc.). Speaking to our correspondent in Lagos, a public relations expert, Kayode Akinpelu said; “There must a shift from reactive to proactive CSR. Companies must begin to understand CSR more conceptually and strategically. All companies must, as a matter of deliberate policy, drop from the support of smaller projects and strongly focus on projects that are in line with their business activities, to enhance their competitiveness in unstable time of economic recession. He said, “In the future, all companies would consider CSR more strategically and targeting their projects better. They must support, especially those projects which have proved to be effective, rather than new projects that would like to enrich the current dimension of CSR.” In the social area, he said that they must return benefits for employees and again support social or cultural events, which were very limited due to the recession. Companies should also place great emphasis on developing the relationship with stakeholders and getting feedback. In accordance with the current trend, companies should also focus more on volunteering, which is very beneficial and does not require too much financial support. Our correspondent reports that a survey reveals that in future, CSR should not only underline business strategy and contribute to the reputation of the company, but also increase its value and competitiveness. The survey also shows that companies follow a strategy of differentiation based on CSR because it creates protection against actions of competitors, since customers are more loyal to the brand and less sensitive to price changes, an extremely important fact, especially in time of recession. A high standard of implementation of CSR was found in all companies. The focus of the companies on all areas of social responsibility is more comprehensive in the environmental area. In the field of environment, they place a particular emphasis on international standards. High requirements for this area stem largely from the need to obey the law and directives. According to findings, focusing on environmental issues allows companies to set measurable targets, such as measuring carbon footprints and the like. This is demonstrated by the fact that companies monitor the value of their key indicators. The popularity of environmental projects also lies in the fact that often, they bring a reduction in costs due to energy savings. Caring for the environment stands very high in values of companies. Speaking to our correspondent, Mr. Tunde Kilani, a brand analyst expert, disclosed that, “In the future, it is possible to expect that CSR in the environmental field will be even more present. Social area is represented by the care of staff and community projects. All companies place great emphasis on safety.” Speaking on the way forward, he pointed out that, in a period like this, a considerable strengthening of communication with stakeholders and the larger social communication with employees, departments and offices is very important to keep them abreast of the very new development. According to him, all companies must begin to shift from the support of smaller projects to be focused strongly on projects that are consistent with the object of business. “Stakeholders should begin to be seen as major business partners in the process. CSR must begin to be understood as a corporate strategy, local impact must begin to be understood as a global impact, the problematic situation or process must also begin to be communicated more, and to promote projects linked to business activities with a positive impact on society,” he said. Above all, he said, “companies should start to realize that increasing relations and communication with stakeholders to develop a genuine trust based relationship, rather than creating an artificial image of generous company; build a real competitive advantage. The companies have not experienced the shift to business growth and financial gains for companies that are open to new opportunities of CSR.” According to him “Companies have similar goals in regards to conservation of natural, renewable resources, and protection of the physical environment; since both companies consume enormous amounts of natural resources and have the need to soften their image within the communities that they conduct business. Managements must adapt to business changes that are driven by legislative and governmental actions that may be self-serving and issues driven without a true long-range strategic focus, any CSR-based initiative does not guarantee secure and profitable outcomes; hence, there will always be an element of risk involved in such ventures.” | 7,906 | 3,356 | 18,485.811085 |
warc | 202143 | Cost of Owning a Mess
If you have been a programmer for more than two or three years, you have probably been significantly slowed down by someone else’s messy code. If you have been a programmer for longer than two or three years, you have probably been slowed down by messy code. The degree of the slowdown can be significant. Over the span of a year or two, teams that were moving very fast at the beginning of a project can find themselves moving at a snail’s pace. Every change they make to the code breaks two or three other parts of the code. No change is trivial. Every addition or modification to the system requires that the tangles, twists, and knots be “understood” so that more tangles, twists, and knots can be added. Over time the mess becomes so big and so deep and so tall, they can not clean it up. There is no way at all.
What is Clean Code?
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++I like my code to be elegant and efficient. The logic should be straightforward to make it hard for bugs to hide, the dependencies minimal to ease maintenance, error handling complete according to an articulated strategy, and performance close to optimal so as not to tempt people to make the code messy with unprincipled optimizations. Clean code does one thing well.
Dave Thomas,Founder of OTIClean code can be read, and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. It has unit and acceptance tests. It has meaningful names. It provides one way rather than many ways for doing one thing. It has minimal dependencies, which are explicitly defined, and provides a clear and minimal API. Code should be literate since depending on the language, not all necessary information can be expressed clearly in code alone.
Functions
Sample Function
Read through this function and let me know what you understand.
Do you understand the function after five minutes of study? Probably not. There’s too much going on in there at too many different levels of abstraction.
However, with just a few simple method extractions, some renaming, and a little
restructuring the above will look like this. SMALL!
The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that.
BLOCKS AND INDENTING This implies that the blocks within if statements, else statements, while statements, and so on should be one line long. Probably that line should be a function call. Not only does this keep the enclosing function small, but it also adds documentary value because the function called within the block can have a nicely descriptive name. This also implies that functions should not be large enough to hold nested structures. Therefore, the indent level of a function should not be greater than one or two. This, of course, makes the functions easier to read and understand. DO ONE THING Functions should do one thing. They should do it well. They should do it only. SWITCH STATEMENTS It’s hard to make a small switch statement. Even a switch statement with only two cases is larger than I’d like a single block or function to be. It’s also hard to make a switch statement that does one thing. By their nature, switch statements always do N things. Unfortunately, we can’t always avoid switch statements, but we can make sure that each switch statement is buried in a low-level class and is never repeated. We do this, of course, with polymorphism.
There are several problems with this function. First, it’s large, and when new employee types are added, it will grow. Second, it very clearly does more than one thing. Third, it violates the Single Responsibility Principle7 (SRP) because there is more than one reason for it to change. Fourth, it violates the Open-Closed Principle8 (OCP) because it must change whenever new types are added. But possibly the worst problem with this function is that there is an unlimited number of other functions that will have the same structure. For example, we could have
isPayDay(Employee e, Date date)
or
deliverPay(Employee e, Money pay)
The solution to this problem is to bury the switch statement in the basement of an ABSTRACT FACTORY, and never let anyone see it. The factory will use the switch statement to create appropriate instances of the derivatives of Employee, and the various functions, such as calculatePay, isPayday, and deliverPay, will be dispatched polymorphically through the Employee interface.
OTHER THINGS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF
Extract Try/Catch Block
Try/catch blocks are ugly in their own right. They confuse the structure of the code and
mix error processing with normal processing. So it is better to extract the bodies of the try and catch blocks out into functions of their own.
For Example:
public void delete(Page page) { try { deletePageAndAllReferences(page); } catch(Exception e) { logError(e); }}
DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
Look at the code below and figure out if we are breaking the DRY principle?
class CsvValidation{ public function validateProduct(array product) { if (product['color']==null) { throw new Exception('Import fail: the product attribute color is missing'); } if (product['size']==null) { throw new Exception('Import fail: the product attribute size is missing'); } if (product['type']==null) { throw new Exception('Import fail: the product attribute type is missing'); } }}
class CsvValidation{ private productAttributes = [ 'color', 'size', 'type', ]; public function validateProduct(array product) { foreach (attributes in productAttributes) { if ((product[attribute]==null)) { throw new Exception(sprintf($'Import fail: the product attribute {attribute} is missing')); } } }} Implementing DRY Principle Naming Varibales Use Intention Revealing Names Wrong Naming : int eTD; // elapsed time in days Correct Naming: int elapsedTimeInDays; Use Searchables Names LAST IMPORTANT RULE
References: Clean Code (Robert C. Martin Series) | 5,952 | 2,699 | 12,938.267506 |
warc | 202143 | Every time your street is plowed, your garbage or recycling bin is collected, or you visit a park or arena, you are witnessing your tax dollars at work. Municipal budget decisions set the funding for important infrastructure, programs, services, and facilities we depend on to maintain our quality of life.
Asset Management Plan:
An Asset Management Plan enables informed decisions regarding the building, operating, maintaining, renewing, replacing and disposing of infrastructure assets. It is structured to including the following important elements:
Municipal Budget:
A municipal budget is a policy and planning document that outlines our municipality's priorities, and is a balancing act between often competing priorities - what can we afford and providing a high level of services to citizens.
Every year, municipal staff put forward a preliminary budget and then the Mayor and Council, with input from Lucan Biddulph residents and businesses, make choices about municipal services and programs. It is an ongoing process as each year budgets are drafted, revised, reported, presented, approved, adopted, and monitored. Your annual budget is made up of three parts:
The operating budgetprovides the necessary resources to deliver programs, services and facilities services to meet the needs of our growing community, and accommodates for inflationary pressures. The operating budget is funded primarily through property taxes and user fees. The capital budgetprovides for the infrastructure requirements of the municipality as identified in our Asset Management Plan. The capital budget is funded through property taxes, reserves, development charges, debt and grants. The capital budget is used to either build or rehabilitate assets that will last for more than one year. Reserves and reserve fundsreceive annual contributions from the operating budget to assist with creating a solid financial position to support the municipality’s future cash requirements. Maintaining sufficient balances in reserves and reserve funds is a critical component of a municipality’s long-term financial plan as it strengthens its long-term financial sustainability, helps to minimize fluctuations in the tax rate and provides funding to sustain infrastructure.
The following video, made available courtesy of the City of London, offers an overview of the municipal budgeting process.
2021 Budget: 2020 Budget: Financial Reports: | 2,439 | 1,143 | 5,161.80315 |
warc | 202143 | Parasite hijacks reproduction and behavior of mud crabs
As each day and night brings us closer to Halloween, a veritable invasion of body thieves takes place in the Pamlico and Neuse rivers.
Since 2016, a team of researchers led by Dr April Blakeslee of East Carolina University Biology department monitored mud crab populations in both rivers to study the prevalence and impact of a parasitic barnacle native to the Gulf of Mexico. The results were published this summer in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a journal of biological research.
The parasite, called Loxothylacus panopaei or Loxo for short, is very damaging to its mud crab hosts, castrating them and replacing the crab’s reproductive system with its own. A series of roots extend into all of the crab’s tissues, including its nerve center, Blakeslee said. Crabs can no longer reproduce but continue to live and feed, in some cases even protecting the spawning of the parasite like theirs.
The parasite’s takeover over the bodies and behavior of the living crabs has led the team, which includes several graduate and undergraduate students, to dub the infected creatures “zombie crabs.”
The research team studied the effects of salinity on crabs and the parasite, monitoring populations using crab condos – plastic crates filled with oyster shells to create natural habitat – in six sites on the Pamlico and five on the Neuse. They found that the parasite is less prevalent as the salinity decreases, either moving upstream or during a flood such as a tropical storm or hurricane.
“We’ve seen that basically at less than 10 parts per thousand, the parasite just doesn’t exist,” Blakeslee said.
Unfortunately, the low salinity is also less suitable for crabs.
“They have evolved to have a range of salinities that they can survive and they tend to do a lot better when in more moderate salinities,” she said. “We used time-to-right response testing; you put a crab on its back and time the time it takes for it to turn around. This gives you an indication of stress because [if they’re] healthy and happy they will turn around very quickly because it is a very vulnerable position, but if they are stressed in any way they will take longer.
In the moderate salinities that crabs prefer, the parasite can spread quickly throughout the population. The team found infection rates at some sites as high as 80%.
Since the parasite is an invasive species in Atlantic waters, likely arriving in Chesapeake Bay with transplanted oysters in the 1960s, the crabs here have not evolved to deal with it, Blakeslee said, and “they can really get hammered by this parasite”. In the Gulf of Mexico, where mud crabs have developed some resistance, infection rates are much lower, in the order of 5%.
The high infection rates negatively impact the crab population since the parasite prevents them from reproducing, and there is a higher rate of predation by large crab predators. That impact could ripple up and down the food chain, as mud crabs are prey for things like blue crabs, fish and birds, Blakeslee said.
Research is also important because there is a similar species of parasite that is also found in the Gulf of Mexico that can infect blue crabs, a commercially important (and delicious) species.
“We have now seen how quickly this parasite can spread … so we hope that our research can help us understand what could happen if we do not try to prevent these invasions from happening,” she said. declared.
Going forward, Blakeslee and his students will continue to monitor mud crab populations at fewer sites and with less frequency.
“It will be useful to continue looking at it through time as it is an evolving story, as this parasite has only been in the region for a few decades. So changes in this ecosystem are still ongoing, ”said Blakeslee. The team is also testing for genetic differences to see if crabs evolve to tolerate lower salinities to avoid the parasite, or if the parasite can evolve to follow its hosts.
ECU students Chris Moore, Timothy Lee, Rebecca Barnard, Kyle Swanson, Laura Lukas and Matthew Ruocchio are the co-authors of the publication.
“They learn research in the field, they learn how to use the equipment that we use there, and they learned a lot about invasive species and just being able to identify organisms in the field,” said Blakeslee. “We get a lot of other organisms [in the condos] also, so they learned a lot about taxonomic diversity, different kinds of little creatures.
The North Carolina Estuary in Washington, which serves as a sampling site, also partnered with the Blakeslee team and ECU’s Kayla Clark School of Art and Design to develop an invasive species exhibit featuring zombie crabs, which opened in 2017.
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warc | 202143 | While the COVID-19 pandemic was the foremost concern in the minds of most Americans during 2020, a different health crisis loomed in the shadows — opioid use disorder. With anxiety levels high and isolation an ever-present reality, national drug overdose deaths rose dramatically from just over 67,000 in 2018 to nearly 90,000 in 2020. Few places felt this acceleration more than Texas.
Opioid Overdose Statistics in Texas
The opioid epidemic has been sweeping the nation since the early 2000s. In 1999, the number of overdose deaths in Texas was in the hundreds. By October 2020, the number of people dead due to drug overdose was an overwhelming 4,107. In fact, between 2019 and 2020, there was a 30% increase in drug-related deaths.
Opioid use continues to be the primary driver of drug overdose deaths in Texas, with over half of all recorded overdose deaths attributed to prescription and illicit opioids.
Factors Contributing to the Texas Opioid Problem During the Pandemic
Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the existing opioid crisis in Texas. Throughout the state, there was an increase in the number of people in recovery who relapsed. A variety of factors contributed to the increase in opioid overdose risk in Texas.
Stress and Mental Health Issues
The spread of the coronavirus in Texas and beyond upended life in a way no one was prepared for. From self-quarantine to widespread lockdowns, increased social isolation had a significant impact on those struggling with opioid use disorder.
There is a large overlap between people struggling with addiction and mental health issues like depression and anxiety. While many suffered from stress and isolation during the pandemic, some individuals with mental illness sought out opioids to cope with their emotional toll as form of self-medication.
Stress is also a trigger in many people recovering from substance use. When you’re fighting addiction and you become stressed, the brain produces overwhelming cravings that can be difficult to withstand, which may account for the high number of relapse cases in 2020.
Loss of Life-Saving Addiction Services
Stringent COVID-19 restrictions made it harder for clinics to provide patients with the support and life-saving treatments they needed. Opioid treatment programs, counseling services and methadone clinics had to modify traditional access for a time to halt the spread of the virus. Many counseling appointments shifted to telecounseling sessions which are beneficial but can lack the interpersonal exchange of an in person session.
Spike in Fentanyl Use and Counterfeit Pills
Even before the pandemic began, Texas was experiencing an increase in overdoses caused by illicit fentanyl. Due to its relatively low cost and tremendous potency, this opioid has become a highly popular and dangerous street drug. Fentanyl variants can be up to 100 times more potent than morphine, putting users at much higher risk of overdose.
Another problem plaguing those struggling with opioid addiction in Texas is the prevalence of drugs laced with fentanyl. People buy what they think is oxycodone or another opioid, and it turns out to contain fentanyl. For some, it only takes one pill to experience an opioid overdose.
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warc | 202143 | Energy prices are smoking hot The Chart Of The Week is UK Natural Gas. Nearby futures hit All-Time highs in August – then quadrupled from there by early this week – only to fall in half by Friday (Putin indicated that Russia could increase supply.)
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ew York Natural Gas nearby futures more than quadrupled from last year’s lows – more than doubled since June. North American Natgas prices are less than half European and Asian prices, but there is no easy Arb – there is not enough capacity to move LNG across the oceans to balance the different market prices. (So – don’t buy NY Natgas just because European Natgas is going ballistic – they are two very different markets.) WTI nearby futures have rallied nearly 30% in the last seven weeks – hitting $80 for the first time in seven years. The uranium ETF doubled from January to September – hitting 7-year highs. Even “dirty” coal has soared in price this year. China ordered local producers to ramp up production and decided to start buying coal from Australia (after banning Aussie coal earlier this year.) India, where 60 -70% of total electrical generation comes from coal-fired plants, is desperately short of coal. High prices are the best remedy for high prices
High prices (usually) dampen demand and bring forth supply. OPEC+ had the opportunity to raise their production quotas by more than the pre-planned 400,000BBL at their last meeting – but they didn’t. However, it’s easy to imagine that some OPEC+ producers will ramp up production. Canada is increasing exports to the US (chart below in the section on the CAD.) American frackers, funded with private equity, will increase production, and high prices will dampen demand – in the short term.
These folks want to stop the use of fossil fuels. They want governments around the world to set firm timelines to ban the use of FF. They believe that the dangers from climate change are significant enough to warrant a “
transition” to non-FF energy sources that will be disruptive, messy, volatile, incredibly expensive and inflationary.
Pension funds (including the BIG ones in Canada) are dumping FF investments according to their ESG mandates. People who don’t mind social disapproval may see this as an opportunity – if they think that FF supply shortages, relative to demand, will take FF prices higher during the global energy “
transition” period. Interest rates keep rising
The yield on the US 10Y Treasury ended the week at a 4-month high of 1.61% – up ~40 bp from the YTD lows made in August. Rising inflationary pressures, rising prices of tangible goods (commodities, real estate) and the likelihood of less Fed “Q” in the future pressured bond prices. For the last few weeks, stocks and bonds have both trended lower.
This is a chart of the long bond futures contract at the CBOT. Falling prices mean rising yields.
This is a chart of the famous 2-Billion Euro 100-year bond issued by Austria last year with a yield (at issue) of 0.88%. As interest rates have inched higher, prices on this bond have plummeted! Longer duration bonds make more “
dynamic” price moves than shorter-duration bonds. Stock indices hit a low early in the week and bounced
The Nasdaq (with a heavy weighting of long-duration tech stocks) has been the weakest of the major indices the past few weeks, but all of the major North American indices are down from their recent All-Time highs.
The US Dollar Index remains near 1-year highs
The USD has been strong against the Euro and the Yen the past few weeks. The CAD and the NOK have rallied against the USD on higher oil prices.
The CAD traded above 80 cents on Friday for the first time in two months as the Canadian September employment report was much stronger than the American report. Rising energy markets and rising commodity indices have also given the CAD a boost. Interest rates are higher in Canada than in the US, and the BoC looks set to continue with its tapering program. (Can 5Yyields = 1.26%, US 5Yyields = 1.06%.)
The new Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin has begun operation and will significantly increase Canada’s ability to generate revenue from exporting crude to the USA. This increase in crude exports should be positive for Canada’s trade balance and, therefore, another boost for the CAD.
My short term trading
The only position I carried over from last week was long AUD calls. I closed the trade for a slight loss Friday. When I closed the trade, the AUD was about 20 ticks higher than when I entered the trade but time decay over the past two weeks resulted in a loss. I had been looking for the AUD to trade towards 74 cents (booming commodity markets and a nice double bottom), but it wasn’t happening, so I hit the sell button – the trade wasn’t working.
Part of my thinking on the AUD trade was that speculators were record short of the AUD – if it started to rally, those shorts might begin to cover, which could accelerate the rally. I may look for another opportunity to buy the AUD.
Last week, in the “On my radar” section, I wrote that the strong rebound in the stock indices on Friday, October 1, may have signalled the beginning of a bounce. I bought the S+P on Monday after the market dropped ~60 points from Friday’s close. I had a reasonably tight stop that nearly got hit overnight, but the trade looked great once the Tuesday day session began. I moved my stops higher to lock in a modest profit.
At Tuesday’s best levels, I was ahead ~70 points, and I thought if the market rallied above Friday’s strong close that it could run higher. I had to stay with the trade.
The market fell back from that 70 point gain late in the day, weakened more overnight, and stopped me out for only a 16 point gain.
I bought the S+P and the Nasdaq 100 mid-day Wednesday after the market had recovered from overnight lows and sold those positions for a decent gain on the Thursday opening. I ended the week flat. My P+L was up ~0.75% on the week.
On my radar
The popular thinking seems to be that inflation is running hotter than the Fed expected and will not be transitory. Inflationary pressures are coming from re-opening demand and supply chain shortages and the effects of “
too much” monetary and fiscal stimulus. I wonder how much of that “ popular thinking” is already in the price.
I’m happy to start next week with no position and watch price action with an open mind, but my bias is that the “
energy crisis” headlines are the sort of thing that happens just before a correction. China
I watched several excellent video interviews on Hedgeye
fragile” in the Nassim Taleb sense of the word? The government is obsessed with control – and the market tends to believe that the Chinese government gets what it wants (at least within China.) What if that’s not true? Real estate accounts for ~70% of retail investment. The astonishing growth in China over the past 20 years has been debt-financed.
Does the ROW want to have less to do with China? Do you want to put your money / your people into China? (Think hostage diplomacy.) Does China want to have less to do with the ROW? China has been a big part of global GDP (and a HUGE part of commodity demand), but what if Xi leads China to withdraw (somewhat) into itself? What if the “
China is going to take over the world” story is based upon a Potemkin Village?
Thinking about China in this way reminds me of how Japan was going to take over the world in the late 1980s – and didn’t. The parallels to today’s China may be weak on specifics, but I’m thinking in terms of market psychology, and we’ve seen this movie before.
Powell
His term is up at the end of January 2022 – Biden will soon have to re-appoint him or nominate someone new. If he is not re-appointed, then his replacement will likely be even more dovish on monetary policy (and more hawkish in terms of regulation.) In one of those Hedgeye interviews, Grant Williams wondered if maybe the Dems want to remake the Fed like Trump transformed the Supreme Court. Powell looked like a sure thing a couple of months ago, but with the trading scandals and Elizebeth Warren scolding him, maybe he’s a 50/50 bet now.
This photo and caption are from The Macrotourist.
Thoughts on trading
I spend a lot of time reading opinion pieces and research reports, watching market videos and listening to podcasts – but I’m not looking for buy and sell recommendations. I’m hoping to get an idea that will start me thinking about a market in a way that is new to me – an idea that will have me asking myself, “Where’s the trade?”
When I spoke at investment conferences, I knew that people wanted buy recommendations, especially recommendations that supported trades they had already made.
The problem with buy/sell recommendations is that they are only a tiny part of the trading process. There is SO much more to trading! For instance, How much do you buy? When do you buy? How do you execute the trade? What is your time horizon? What is your risk tolerance? What do you do as time passes and the market changes? What gets you out of the trade? Does the trade create a concentration problem?
I also spend a lot of time looking at charts. I especially like to create different “
pair” charts (this comes from trading currencies a lot over the years.) For instance, I can look at the CAD in terms of the USD, but what does it look like in terms of the EUR, YEN, or AUD? What does the S+P look like in terms of a commodity index?
I can spend a lot of time doing these things and not find any good trading ideas. I’m ok with that. It’s part of my trading process.
Quotes from the notebook
Last week I wrapped up the Notes with a few quotes from my notebook. I’ve got 100s of quotes that I’ve collected over the years – maybe the quotes will become a regular feature.
Research is essential, but the tactics you use around the research are what makes money. Bill Fleckenstein RTV Jan 2020 (My comment: What you do with a trade once you have it on is more important than what got you into the trade in the first place.) You gotta know when to be a pig. Stan Druckenmiller (I think that quote was in the first Market Wizards book. 1989.) (My comment: sometimes you have to step up your size. Rarely, but sometimes.) Too many hedge funds are simply leveraged beta masquerading as alpha. Kevin Muir The Macrourist 2015 (My comment: Hedge funds travel in packs.) It’s not a question of enough, Pal. It’s a zero-sum game. Someone wins. Someone loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made; it’s simply transferred from one perception to another. Gordon Gekko, Wall Street 1987 (My comment: I love this quote! Perceptions change. The trader with the correct perception, for that point in time, wins.) Subscribe: You have free access to everything on this site. Subscribers receive an email alert when I post something new – usually 4 to 6 times a month. Victor Adair retired from the Canadian brokerage business in 2020 after 44 years and is no longer licensed to provide investment advice. Therefore, this blog, and everything else on this website, is not intended to be investment advice for anyone about anything. | 11,527 | 5,332 | 23,994.406039 |
warc | 202143 | The future of electricity will be the “fuel” focus of the next
World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency’s flagship publication, to be released in mid-November.
As part of an agency-wide effort on this WEO electricity focus, the IEA hosted a high-level workshop in Paris on Tuesday, bringing together decision makers and leading experts from around the world to provide strategic guidance on the analysis and share their experience. The workshop marked a high point in the IEA’s “Year of Electricity,” examining various aspects of the transformation of the electricity sector this year.
The workshop was attended by representatives from 75 organisations, covering a wide range from government, industry, utilities, manufacturers, downstream, consulting, industry associations, research and academia. It also included a broad regional coverage, with participants representing more than 40 countries, from the IEA family and beyond.
The future looks bright for electricity, which is set to grow at twice the rate of overall energy demand to 2040. In 2016, total power sector investment surpassed that of oil and gas for the first time, propelled by renewables, mostly solar and wind. Meanwhile 1.1 billion people still lack access to electricity globally, new demand is coming from electric mobility, digitalization, cooling and heating.
And the nature of electricity supply is undergoing a major transition, from a century-old foundation of dispatchable fossil fuels to ever cheaper variable renewables, with related market reforms underway. The power sector is responsible for close to 40% of energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions, 60% of coal use and 36% of natural gas use. Understanding changes in the power sector is therefore essential to analysing progress towards environmental goals and understanding global energy trends.
The objectives of the WEO’s focus on electricity will include:
– Assessing the long-term outlook for electricity demand, with insights on traditional and new sources of demand growth such as electric vehicles, digitalization, cooling and energy access in developing countries, and the emerging need for responsive demand.
– Providing in-depth analysis of the speed of the transition underway in electricity supply – highlighting global issues and regional perspectives – based on the latest market data, technology developments and government policies.
– Investigating the implications on electricity security, environmental protection and economic development, with insights on market designs.
– Exploring key uncertainties, resulting from the pace of deployment for new technologies, market and policy developments, and changing consumer preferences.
In addition, this year’s WEO will also have a focus on oil and gas producing economies.
Vaccination, Jobs, and Social Assistance are All Key to Reducing Poverty in Central Asia
As the pace of economic recovery picks up, countries in Central Asia have an opportunity to return to pre-pandemic levels of poverty reduction – if they put in place the right policies. This was the overall message shared by World Bank economists today at a regional online event “Overcoming the Pandemic and Ending Poverty in Central Asia”.
In the early 2000s, Central Asian countries were among the world’s best performers in poverty reduction. Starting in 2009, however, the pace of progress began to slow and even stagnated in some of the countries. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted a region already struggling to generate inclusive growth and end extreme poverty. Now in the second year of the pandemic, poverty rates in Central Asia are falling again, but with high inflation and low vaccination rates, the poor and the most vulnerable continue to suffer from food insecurity, uncertainty, and limited employment opportunities, especially for women.
“Central Asia is recovering from the first shocks of the pandemic, albeit in uneven ways,” said Will Seitz, World Bank Senior Economist in Central Asia. “Migration and remittances, key drivers of poverty reduction in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, are quickly returning to 2019 levels. Labor markets are also recovering, and work disruptions are much less common. However, the region is yet to get on a stable poverty reduction path.”
Among policy priorities to reduce poverty, the World Bank is focused on three key areas: widespread vaccination, increasing employment and wages, and strengthening social assistance programs to support the most vulnerable. To support labor market recovery, the World Bank economists outlined short-term and medium-term measures, including the need to invest in green jobs and encouraging the creation and growth of firms.
It was also stressed that employment alone will not address all drivers of poverty, and strong safety nets are essential to protect the most vulnerable. Compared with other middle-income countries, Central Asian governments typically provide smaller shares of their populations with social assistance.
“Along with ensuring fair, broad access to effective and safe COVID-19 vaccines, Central Asian countries need to urgently address vaccination hesitancy, as it threatens to slow down the recovery,” said Tatiana Proskuryakova, World Bank Regional Director for Central Asia. “For every million people vaccinated, global GDP recovers on average nearly $8 billion. We are expecting advanced economies with relatively high vaccination rates to demonstrate much better growth rates than developing economies with low vaccination rates.”
Among the main reasons behind vaccine hesitancy in Central Asian countries are worries about vaccine contraindication and safety. While people with pre-existing health conditions in other countries are usually prioritized for vaccination, in the Central Asia region they are more likely to be hesitant to get vaccinated. Providing the public with accurate information on the safety of vaccines and encouraging people with pre-existing health conditions to be vaccinated may help address hesitancy issues.
Why Traders Should Never Miss Forex Trading Investment Opportunities
Trading forex is a great opportunity to make money if you know how to do it right. Some of the top forex traders are often asked about tactics and tricks they use that have helped them to make great profits. Investment opportunities can be fully used only when you know how to turn such opportunities into profit.
What does it take to turn investment opportunities into trading profits? Here are some things which you can do to make a difference and have helped several people in making profits in the long run.
A Strong Trading Plan:
Ask any successful trader and you will be told that a trading plan is of utmost importance. One needs to plan quite systematically before trading or when one starts trading. This trading plan usually has a strategy which is followed with great caution. This trading strategy should also be tested, and adjustments made accordingly. If everything goes well, the strategy can be repeated whenever any opportunity comes along.
Managing Risk:
Capital management is an essential part of forex trading success. If any trader doesn’t know how to manage risks, the trader will not be able to make it long. No matter how lucrative the investment opportunities seem to be, a trader should not trade money which the person cannot afford to lose. It is extremely important to ensure that the risks are sensible because that will keep him going.
The Importance of Being a patient Trader:
If you wish to earn in the long run, you need to be patient. It does take time to develop any currency trading plan. It also takes time to develop different skills. Thus, any trader needs to wait for the right opportunities. If a trader hurries or rushes, the decision can be wrong which will affect trading.
The Mind has to be Clear:
Experts reveal that success and failure often depend on the mindset of the individual. If the trading psychology of the trader is not as it should be, profitability will become a distant dream. However, the sad part is that most traders do not consider this as a fundamental truth. There are many expert traders who do meditation or yoga so that they ensure that they have a healthy mind.
Disciplined Actions:
To be successful in any sphere of life, one needs to be disciplined and exercise caution. For a successful trading career, a trader should be consistent and should be learning regularly so that mistakes can be avoided. If a trader lacks discipline, it may lead to trading errors which will result in losses in the future.
Trading Journal Can Help:
There are many experts who suggest the use of trading journals. Such smart traders work as record keepers which helps them in future. For example, when they win a trade, they have everything recorded in the journal. Thus, they are aware how they are winning and why they are winning. Thus, this way they are aware of the strategies that can help them in winning trades and the strategies which can cause them losses.
If any trader can take note of all details such as different conditions for entry and exit, it helps in trades and targets.
Overtrading Can be Risky
At times traders are tempted to overtrade with the hope of making more profits. However, experts believe that overtrading should be avoided because it leads to trading mistakes and errors. Thus, traders need to ensure that they are patient and do not do things that will make it risky.
Thus, investment decisions should be made wisely and cautiously.
Sustainable transport key to green energy shift
With global transport at a crossroads, government leaders, industry experts, and civil society groups are meeting in Beijing, China, for a UN conference to chart the way forward to a more sustainable future for the sector, and greater climate action overall.
The three-day UN Sustainable Transport Conference, which opened on Thursday, will examine how transportation can contribute to climate response, economic growth and sustainable development.
It is taking place just weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
“The next nine years must see a global shift towards renewable energy. Sustainable transport is central to that transformation,” he said.
The move to sustainable transport could deliver savings of $70 trillion by 2050, according to the World Bank.
Better access to roads could help Africa to become self-sufficient in food, and create a regional food market worth $1 trillion by the end of the decade.
Net-zero goal
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how transport is “far more than a means of getting people and goods from A to B”, the UN chief said.
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but the door for action is closing, he warned.
“Transport, which accounts for
more than one quarter of global greenhouse gases, is key to getting on track. We must decarbonize all means of transport, in order to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 globally.” A role for everyone
Decarbonizing transportation requires countries to address emissions from shipping and aviation because current commitments are not aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Priorities here include phasing out the production of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2040, while zero emission vessels “must be the default choice” for the shipping sector.
“All stakeholders have a role to play, from individuals changing their travel habits, to businesses transforming their carbon footprint,” the Secretary-General said.
He urged governments to incentivize clean transport, for example through regulatory standards and taxation, and to impose stricter regulation of infrastructure and procurement.
Safer transport for all
The issues of safety and access must also be addressed, the Secretary-General continued.
“This means helping more than one billion people to access paved roads, with designated space for pedestrians and bicycles, and providing convenient public transit options,” he said.
“It means providing safe conditions for all on public transport by ending harassment and violence against women and girls, and reducing deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.”
Making transport resilient
Post-pandemic recovery must also lead to resilient transport systems, with investments going towards sustainable transport, and generating decent jobs and opportunities for isolated communities.
“Public transport should be the foundation for urban mobility,” he said. “Per dollar invested, it creates three times more jobs than building new highways.”
With much existing transport infrastructure, such as ports, vulnerable to extreme climate events, better risk analysis and planning are needed, along with increased financing for climate adaptation, particularly in developing countries.
Mr. Guterres stressed the need for effective partnerships, including with the private sector, so that countries can work together more coherently.
“The transformative potential of sustainable transport can only be unleashed if improvements translate into poverty eradication, decent jobs better health and education, and increased opportunities for women and girls. Countries have much to learn from each other,” he said.
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warc | 202143 | Diversity is an important characteristic in any academic setting, one that serves as a great asset to the learning experience and the ability to contribute knowledge and ideas sourced from the unique perspectives that come alongside a diverse background. As an ethnic minority of both Puerto Rican and Mexican descent, I believe that there is a great deal that my own diverse background can contribute to the class. For one, the insight I have garnered into issues of social justice and race relations in this country is very much the product of my ethnic background.
Although having been born in California, being raised in rural Colorado had allowed me to experience a great deal of racism and racial discrimination firsthand, allowing me a unique perspective into the issues and their prevalence. Furthermore, as an older, “non-traditional” student that had graduated from college seven years ago, the diversity in my life experiences and the conditions that had led me back into the fulfillment of my academic career can provide the class with very important and educational tools.
Among the most noteworthy enhancements to the academic experience that diversity can accomplish are preparation for working in a diverse and multicultural society, an enhancement of creative thinking and self-awareness, and the promotion of positive social development. Bringing the products of my unique experiences with me as an individual of a diverse background into the class will help ensure that a different perspective is offered and available for the enhancement of my peers’ experience.
Adding depth and breadth to the discussions wherein elements of diversity are relevant to some degree is wherein my own background will provide context and realism that would otherwise be impossible to bring into the discussion. A diverse student body accomplishes that which a homogenous student body never could, particularly in a class studying the very laws and elements of a criminal justice system that affect those of different demographical traits so very differently in our modern society. | 2,101 | 1,021 | 4,282.253673 |
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The Nordelta community in Buenos Aires, Argentina is an affluent gated community built on natural wetlands.
Capybaras have invaded the community and environmentalists have said they are just returning home.
They are now at the center of a fierce environmental debate.
In Argentina, a wealthy protected village has been invaded by unexpected visitors: the world’s largest rodents, capybaras.
In the capital, Buenos Aires, Nordelta’s manicured lawns were occupied by frantic capybaras who munch on grass, attack dogs and poop wherever they please. reported by local news agency La Nacion…
Rodents are 39 to 51 inches long and weigh 60 to 174 pounds (27 to 79 kg). according to National Geographic…
Environmentalists say the influx of dog-sized rodents shouldn’t be shocking, as luxury homes in the area were built alongside wetlands. Some animals return to find what they once knew.
Argentinean environmental lawyer and ecologist Enrique Viale said that we should not see capybaras, known in Argentina as “carpincios”, as an invasion of these areas.
“It’s the other way around: Nordelta has invaded the carpincio ecosystem,” Viale told The Guardian.
“Wealthy developers, with government support, have to destroy nature in order to sell their clients the dream of living in the wild, because the people who buy these homes want nature, but without mosquitoes, snakes or carpinchos,” he added.
“Nordelta is a super-sized paradigm of gated communities built in wetlands. The first thing it does is eliminate the absorbent function of the land, so that extreme weather conditions flood poor neighborhoods. As always, these are the poor who have to pay the price. “
Many look at Viale, with one person tweets “My support for Nordelta’s Peronist capybaras in restoring their habitat.”
Replenishment of support, one person replied “Capybara Revolution !!”
The Parana wetlands cover much of the country, from Northern Argentina to River Plate to the Atlantic Ocean, but their numbers are declining as developers take over land for construction and to build livestock and soybean farms.
In 2020, vast wetlands were engulfed in flames due to cattle farming, drought and high temperatures.
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warc | 202143 | An aerial view of the new highway connecting the city of Bar on Montenegro's Adriatic coast to its landlocked neighbor Serbia, a project being done by China Road and Bridge Corporation, May 11, 2021. /VCG
An aerial view of the new highway connecting the city of Bar on Montenegro's Adriatic coast to its landlocked neighbor Serbia, a project being done by China Road and Bridge Corporation, May 11, 2021. /VCG
Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert. He has provided weekly Shanghai Index analysis for Chinese mainland media for more than a decade. Guppy appears regularly on CNBC Asia and is known as "The Chart Man." He is a national board member of the Australia China Business Council. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
Over the past 20 years, the United States has developed a history of infrastructure destruction in places as diverse as Afghanistan and Iraq. Its record of infrastructure creation, both at home and abroad, is far less impressive. Much of the U.S. national debt has been plowed into the destruction of infrastructure, while much of China's savings has been put into creating infrastructure, both at home and increasingly abroad, with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) program.
The U.S. record gives President Joe Biden's and the G7-endorsed "Build Back Better World" (B3W) infrastructure proposal doubtful probity. It appears to be a rebadging of the 2020 Blue Dot network that never really got off the ground. Time will tell if the commitment to the new program is genuine and if it reverses the foreign aid cutbacks made by many of the G7 countries and their partners.
Just prior to the COVID pandemic and on the sidelines of the 2019 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership conference in Bangkok, the U.S. Commerce Secretary announced the United States-led Blue Dot network. Like the B3W proposal, this was promoted as "a multi-stakeholder initiative to bring together governments, the private sector and civil society to promote high-quality, trusted standards for global infrastructure development."
Both proposals promoted a globally recognized evaluation and certification system, coincidentally Western-based, for roads, ports and bridges. The B3W has a broader remit than the original Blue Dot network focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Both will give a Western "seal of approval" to projects. The clear slur contained in this approach is the implication that Belt and Road projects lack trusted (Western) standards.
Biden claims the B3W comes with no strings attached, but this is clearly incorrect. The very language of the announcement shows it is already weighed down by ideological baggage with a firmly attached agenda to "demonstrate our shared values." It is framed as a direct challenge to China's Belt and Road Initiative. If the B3W rollout follows past practice, recipients will be expected to adhere to a series of "values driven" positions before funding is made available.
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Some projects will be the B3W equivalent to those in the now-abandoned Blue Dot network proposal. They are not much different from projects already supported by the Asia Investment Bank (ADB), headquartered in Manila and dominated by the United States and Japan. They are also likely to be not much different from projects supported by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank created by China and run along internationally rigorous funding lines that have poverty alleviation and climate compatibility as core criteria for funding approvals.
The B3W network is a welcome addition to filling the annual US$1.7 trillion Asian infrastructure gap estimated by the ADB Closing the Finance Gap report. That infrastructure gap grows to $4 trillion when Africa and South America are included, so additional funding sources are welcome. Hopefully, this new U.S.-led infrastructure will not be used as a cover to add to the more than 700 current overseas U.S. military bases and installations.
What is not so welcome is the positioning of the B3W as a deliberate counterweight to the BRI. The B3W program has a singularity of purpose. The B3W unabashedly weaponizes essential infrastructure aid. By any measure, these are still Blue Dots.
It is a great pity that B3W is not a cooperative venture that works alongside and with other funding sources. Nor is it as comprehensive as the BRI program it's designed to supplant.
Putting aside hard infrastructure, the BRI program offers three areas of development, each with its own investment opportunities.
The first is trade infrastructure. This includes the regulatory environment, payment systems and protocols, and the application of blockchain certification to everything from logistics chains and customs clearances to digital currencies.
The second is soft infrastructure, which includes trade settlement and banking outside of the dollar-based system. It also includes blockchain, 5G and A.I. development standards, as well as construction standards that will impact project bidders.
The third is capital infrastructure investment. The opening of Chinese capital, bond and derivative markets is part of this. It includes changes to investment and foreign investment regulations that deliver business growth opportunities.
Asia's engagement with the BRI is more persuasive than the limited engagement offered by B3W or any other Blue Dot network substitute. The BRI "Red Spots" offer a path to the future of innovation. The B3W is more of the same – useful but not profoundly different.
On balance, the B3W is a welcome addition to the investment pool available to the poorly developed countries most in need of infrastructure upgrades. It would be even more welcome if it were developed and implemented in the spirit of cooperation rather than competition.
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warc | 202143 | Normally, air flows through that tube while you’re filling and the gas keeps flowing as long as you hold down on the trigger. … So, gasoline rushes back up your car’s fuel filler tube, toward you, instead of into the tank, hits that sensor hole on the nozzle and shuts off the pump before the tank is full.
Why does the petrol pump keep clicking off UK?
You are probably putting the nozzle too far into the filler,
when petrol touches the tip it automatically switches off. Try holding it further up. Try holding the nozzle at a different angle. What does it mean when the fuel pump clicks?
Fuel pumps will generally make a
whirring, motor sound when they start. Some electric fuel pumps may also make a clicking sound when it engages. … If your vehicle will not start, it could be a sign of a bad fuel pump, but it could also be a sign of a bad battery or other engine components. Why did the gas pump not stopping when full?
Most modern pumps have
an auto cut-off feature that stops the flow when the tank is full. This is done with a second tube, the sensing tube, that runs from just inside the mouth of the nozzle up to a Venturi pump in the pump handle. How expensive is it to replace a fuel pump?
How Much Does Fuel Pump Replacement Cost? The average cost for a fuel pump replacement is
between $220 and $1,062 depending on vehicle and age. Labor costs are estimated between $124 and $260, while parts are priced between $95 and $854. Do petrol pumps stop automatically UK?
Most modern pumps have
an automatic cut-off feature that stops the flow when the tank is full. This is done with an auxiliary sensing tube running from just inside the mouth of the nozzle to a Venturi pump in the pump handle. How do you stop over Fuelling? 13 Tips to Reduce Fuel Consumption Drive only when needed. … Make sure the gas cap is on tight. … Avoid idling. … Accelerate and break steadily. … Drive the speed limit. … Coast when possible. … Use cruise control on the highways. … Make your car more aerodynamic. How do you unclog a gas tank vent? How to Unstop a Car Gas Tank Vent Extend a compressor line into the air vent line, and give it a shot of air. … Disconnect the canister vent line to the gas tank, and try blowing through it. … Push a length of small-gauge plastic tubing or large heavy wire through the vent pipe, to check for a physical blockage. What are the signs of a faulty fuel pump? Seven Signs Your Fuel Pump Is Going Out Sputtering Engine. Your fuel pump is telling you something if your engine starts to sputter once you’ve hit the top speed on the highway. … Overheating Engine. … Low Fuel Pressure. … Power Loss. … Surging Engine. … Gas Mileage Decrease. … Dead Engine. Should you be able to hear your fuel pump? Once the car is on, you need to listen for the fuel pump. Someone else needs to turn the key because the fuel pump will hum for just two or three seconds if it’s working. If you do not hear anything, the pump is not working. How do u know if your fuel pump went out?
A damaged fuel pump might make
a loud, whining sound that you’ll hear from your gas tank. The pump may also make this noise if you’re low on fuel or the fuel in your tank is contaminated. The normal noise your pump makes is a low hum. Loud whining indicates there is a problem. Does gas pump automatically stop when tank is full?
Does a gas pump automatically stop when the tank is full?
Gas pumps are mechanically designed to automatically stop pumping gas as soon as the tank is full. The nozzle valve shuts automatically once the gasoline blocks the air in the Venturi tube. Why do gas pumps shut off at 75?
Card networks set the maximum allowed transaction amount for their Automated Fuel Dispenser (AFD) Interchange program for consumer credit and debit transactions at this level. If the transaction was greater than $75,
the gas station would have to pay more to process the sale. What happens if gas tank overflows?
Overfilling the gas tank can
cause liquid gas to enter the charcoal canister, or carbon filter, which is designed only for vapor. Gas in the system can affect your car’s performance by causing it to run poorly, and damage the engine, he says. | 4,303 | 1,984 | 9,026.757056 |
warc | 202143 | Article Title Abstract
When you ask your students to reflect, do they know what you mean? Do you tell them “go deeper; give me more,” but see blank faces in response? This was my experience when I first began to use reflection-based assignments. It took me some time to realize that I couldn’t assume my students knew how to reflect in the way I meant. I needed to teach my students directly about the skill of reflection. Here, I share quick tips for helping students understand what reflection is, why we require it, and how to do it well.
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How does someone socially distance on a crowded bus?
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Social media has been percolating with individual stories and photos about riders in standing-room buses during morning and afternoon commutes. To be fair to OC, I suppose, what else can they do but run buses at or near capacity during busy periods of the day?
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“Buses receive daily enhanced cleanings and masks are mandatory at all transit property and onboard buses. Staff continue to monitor demand and ridership on all routes and are making service adjustments as necessary. By following public health guidelines OC Transpo is able to continue providing service to all areas of the city with the current fleet and without capacity limits that will hinder the ability for customers to travel.”
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Nowhere in there, though, does OC Transpo acknowledge the additional health risk of riding on a crowded bus — maybe for an hour or two daily. Riders, clearly, need to make individual choices about whether it’s worth it — not, as we’re used to, blindly assume OC is providing an environment that won’t make us sick.
Montreal transit executive will be the new OC Transpo general manager Wright-Gilbert: Lack of transparency is eroding trust in Ottawa's transit system
Stuart MacKay is a board member of Ottawa Transit Riders, a feisty group of users and watchdogs.
He’s taken the R1 routes several times since the Sept. 19 derailment and estimates travel times have probably doubled.
It’s fine for some to take cars, cabs or Uber, but there are plenty of students and service-sector workers — or moms with unvaccinated kids — who have no choice but to take the bus, he stressed.
“It’s forcing people to make some really difficult choices when it comes to transportation.”
He says LRT essentially “put all the eggs in one basket” because it’s a hub-and-spoke feeder system that can’t easily be replaced by a diminished fleet of buses that now has to deal with road and traffic conditions.
And there are side issues. Because the downtown stations are closed, he said he was unable to reload his Presto card on the weekend because access to the terminals was barred.
“We’re going to start losing people. I mean, I’m quite worried we’re going to lose a generation of transit riders from this stuff.”
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Kari Glynes Elliott is another board member of the group. She’s long thought OC was not very good at communication with passengers and the R1 deployment has only underlined that weakness, she says, at a time when the service has downsized its bus fleet.
Schedules are more difficult to keep with surface buses and someone trying to get to work has no idea whether to skip a full bus and wait for the next one.
“I’m hearing a lot of people say that buses are bunching, that two buses will come by super-full and an empty bus will come 30 seconds later.”
She thinks OC can do a better job of alerting passengers to schedule changes by using texting, or billboards or phone apps. And she is concerned with the amount of time riders are spending together.
“When I hear that people are spending an hour on a bus, that’s also a risk factor.”
She did relate some good news that studies in places like New York City have found that moderate use of transit has not been found to be a big spreader of the virus that causes COVID-19.
“I don’t think it’s surprising that people are anxious,” she said of the reports her group is getting.
“I also think the city and OC Transpo have really underestimated how little trust people have in them,” a criticism that extends to assurances of safe travel.
Broken trains, broken trust, overcrowded buses in a pandemic. We get around, we run around.
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warc | 202143 | Covid-19 will proceed to be an issue and “variants will maintain getting scarier and scarier” till at the least two-thirds of the worldwide inhabitants is vaccinated, one of many world’s foremost scientists has mentioned, calling for efforts to minimise the inequity that has left giant components of the world with out entry to doses.
The feedback had been made by Dr Drew Weissman, professor of drugs at College of Pennsylvania’s Perelman medical college, who, alongside together with his long-time collaborator Dr Katalin Kariko, is credited with the analysis that underpins the success of mRNA vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
“There are two issues that need to occur for us to get the pandemic beneath management and cease the variants from showing. We now have to vaccinate your complete world and nations have to have a excessive sufficient proportion of individuals vaccinated – someplace between 75-85% so as to attain herd immunity. Till that occurs, variants will maintain showing and they will maintain getting scarier and scarier,” he mentioned in an interview over a video name.
Additionally Learn | mRNA vaccines can adapt to variants faster than others: Dr Drew Weissman
The World Well being Group (WHO) mentioned in a report on Friday that even after almost a billion doses being given out, coronavirus vaccines stay out of attain within the poorest nations. “Over 81% have gone to high- or higher middle-income nations, whereas low-income nations have obtained simply 0.3%,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned throughout a briefing.
“The world actually must get transferring on this,” Dr Weissman mentioned, whereas including that vaccine hesitancy too must be tackled. “What people who find themselves hesitant don’t realise is that in the event that they don’t take it, we’re by no means going to succeed in herd immunity and Covid goes to be an issue for years and years to return,” he mentioned.
The Penn professor additionally mentioned that he expects mRNA vaccines to develop into cheaper over time and that he and his colleagues on the college had been engaged on making such vaccines extra steady at fridge temperature in order that they are often moved round extra simply. “All of these advances I feel are going to return over the following few months,” he mentioned.
“It (mRNA vaccines) is pricey as a result of it’s model new. The businesses have simply discovered methods to make 100 million doses a month. Over time, I imagine it will get much less and cheaper.”
RNA is genetic materials that human cells learn to make particular proteins. For many years, scientists tried to leverage RNA to create therapeutics. RNA allowed scientists to instruct the physique to create the proteins they meant to (within the case of Covid-19 vaccines, it’s the spike protein the coronavirus makes use of to latch onto cells).
However scientists found it was not straightforward to ship the RNA, because the immune system recognised and destroyed it earlier than it might enter cells and begin issuing directions. It was this drawback Dr Weissman and Dr Kariko, who’s also referred to as Kati by her colleagues, solved and reported in a paper printed in August 2005.
“We spent a bunch of years learning that inflammatory exercise and eventually discovered methods to do away with it, which was by modifying part of the RNA code,” Dr Weissman mentioned, referring to what was scientifically generally known as a nucleoside modification.
“Kati then moved to BioNTech the place she developed the LNP know-how (liquid nano particles), which can also be an important a part of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines,” Dr Weissman added. LNPs are microscopic bubbles by which the RNA of the vaccine is wrapped, serving to evade the physique’s pure defences until it achieves what it’s meant to do: educate a cell methods to recreate the Sars-Cov-2 spike protein in order that the immune system can recognise it and struggle off the actual virus.
The platform can also be straightforward and fast to tweak, which can doubtless be an essential software to create new vaccines in case the Sars-Cov-2 mutates to develop into extra resistant.
“The minute new variants that look regarding seem, you’ll be able to take the sequence and plug it into an RNA vaccine. It should take you actually weeks to make a brand new vaccine. That’s as a result of the know-how is identical it doesn’t matter what the sequence. (However) if it’s a must to make an adenovirus or an inactivated virus vaccine, it’s a must to make the virus, develop it, inactivate it — all that takes quite a lot of time,” Dr Weissman mentioned
The scientist mentioned that he and his lab are engaged on a number of initiatives to assist make vaccines accessible to extra components of the nation. “My lab and me personally have had an enormous concern with equality of vaccine entry. Early final spring, we began working with the federal government of Thailand to construct their very own RNA vaccines. They’re going to have the ability to make the vaccine in Thailand and provide it to seven surrounding LMIC. I’m additionally working with WHO to do the identical factor in Africa so that very same entry is obtainable,” he mentioned.
The professor expects a few of these to develop into accessible by the tip of the 12 months. | 5,545 | 2,552 | 11,565.844436 |
warc | 202143 | OFA provides comments to Environmental and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) expressing support for the Reducing greenhouse gases at the intersection of natural asset management and agriculture project (referred to as the Agriculture and GHG project). This project will be led by the Greenbelt Foundation, in collaboration with the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. OFA is committed to working with the government and industry to ensure a new carbon offset credit system recognizes agriculture’s role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers should be recognized for their efforts to manage and enhance ecological goods and services (EG&S). OFA also believes governments need to create a fair system of incentive-based policies and programs that recognize the significant environmental contributions that result from the adoption of beneficial management practices, and that this is far more effective than the use of regulatory instruments.
The approach suggested by the project proponents provides an opportunity to build on the success of the natural asset management and develop practical ways to measure and optimize greenhouse gas storage on agricultural land using a systems approach. OFA has identified several opportunities in the
Agriculture and GHG project to advance outcomes relative to maximizing ecosystem services. Should the letter of intent be accepted with an invitation for a full proposal for the Agriculture and GHG project, OFA would like to participate on the project’s Advisory Committee. | 1,576 | 807 | 3,050.448575 |
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The aim of the study is to determine the effect of vitamin and mineral supplement under permanently high environmental temperature (30±1 °C) on the digestibility of nutrients, performance and furthermore the composition of duck meat in the growing period. A total of four hundred mixed sex 14 days old Cherry Valley type hybrid ducks were used...for the study. Two experimental diets were formulated in the study (control and vitamin E, C and zinc supplemented diet). Based on the results the following conclusions were drown: the antioxidant defence system plays an important role in the reduction of heat stress generated lipid peroxidation process. Feed additives which have direct or indirect antioxidant effects can reduce the negative effects of heat stress on the ducks performance and meat composition. Digestibility of nutrients (Dry Matter, Crude Protein, Crude Fat) was not affected by antioxidant supplementation under chronic heat stress (30±1 °C). The performance was affected significantly by Vitamin C and E and zinc supplementation under heat stress (P<0.05). In the treated group the daily weight gain (dWG) increased and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) was improved significantly (P<0.05). The energy and protein conversion was decreased also significantly (P<0.05).
The following material focuses on dairy production and climate related issues in Hungary. All the data was gathered during PhD
project: Study of animal welfare status in dairy cow herds in Hungary. Relations between animal welfare and climate changes expressed by increase in temperature are described. Extremely hot weather creates hard co
compromised. From the preliminary results obtained one might formulate hypothesis that there are still areas on the farms where immediate
actions should be taken to give a relief to cows in hot seasons. There was found significant number of farms with too many animals per one
water trough, dirty water troughs, limited access to water troughs and hazardous surface for cows in critical places where many animals are
gathered. Calves with not sufficient amount of water in hot days and other parts of the year were reported. Silage exposure to the sun and
mouldy food in a silage clump was also found to be an important factor in monitoring impact of warm weather. Half of the farms letting
animals to spend time on the pasture or paddock did not provide shade for animals. Low conception rate of first insemination was predicted
to be influenced by heat stress, what is proved by lack of heat decreasing measures taken on the farms.
Our research focuses on apple varieties, what are planted expansively in the development apple orchards of Western-Europe, but about the production characteristics of these varieties we don't have or just few practical experiences in Hungary. These varieties can be described with regular and high yields, aesthetic and alluring appearance in the...ir origin places, what ensure profitable producing for the growers. In our climate what tends to be often extreme (hard cold winters, late spring frosts, summer drought, heat stress) these varieties may behave differently, so before the substantial planting it is expedient to carry out variety evaluations to avoid the later failures. The place of our experimental is located in the Nyírség, what presents adequately the ecological conditions of the surrounding areas, so the gained results can be easily adapted in the biggest apple production site of Hungary. Regarding the vegetative and the generative parameters of the 14 examined varieties ('Schniga', 'Jugala', 'Fendeca', 'Galaval', 'Fengal', 'Red Cap', 'Early Red One', 'Jeromine', 'Crimson Crisp', 'Red Topaz', 'Red Jonaprince', 'Red Idared', 'Fuji SW', club variety) we found significant differences, which is the result of the genetically coded characteristics of the varieties, the effects of the vintage, the different training methods and the correlations of these factors.
Precision animal nutrition consists of meeting the nutrient requirements of animals as accurately as possible in the interest of a safe, high-quality and efficient production, besides ensuring the lowest possible load on the environment. This is facilitated by electronic feeding based on IT technology, an important but by far not the only tool...of precision nutrition. In the present paper the following most important elements of precision nutrition are discussed: diet formulation, quality control of ingredients and compound feeds, reduction of the harmful effects of heat stress in pigs with different nutritional tools, application of the recent findings of the molecular genetics in animal nutrition, the relationship between genetics and animal nutrition and reduction of the N and P excretion by nutritional tools.
...During our studies, total plate count (TPC), coliform count and Staphylococcus aureus count of raw cow’s milk samples were determined.
Many factors can influence the microbiological quality of raw cow’s milk. In this study, our aim was to determine whether there was any difference between the microbiological statuses of milk produced in different seasons. Samples were collected and analysed from five dairy farms in Hajdú-Bihar County, from February to November in 2019. There was no significant difference (P>0.05) between the mean TPC values detected in the milk collected in winter and autumn, but that values were significantly (P<0.05) lower than in the milk samples collected in spring and summer. Similarly to the TPC, in the case of coliform bacteria the lowest mean colony count was detected in the samples collected in winter. The difference was significant (P<0.05), compared to the values observed in the samples collected in summer. S. aureus was detected in bulk milk of only two farms in excess of 1.0 log 10 cfu/ml. Also in case of S. aureus , there was a significant difference (P<0.05) between the values observed in the samples collected in winter and in summer. Samples from spring and summer contained the highest amount ofS. aureus. Based on the results of our studies, in the case of almost all farms the mean TPC, coliform and S. aureus counts were lower in the samples collected in winter, than in the samples collected in summer. The fact that the samples collected in winter contained the lowest amount of colonies could be attributed to the inhibition of growth of mesophilic microorganisms below 8 °C. Furthermore, the fact that we observed the highest colony counts in samples collected in summer, can be related to the heat stress of cows during the summer due to unfavorable weather conditions (high temperature and humidity). | 6,712 | 2,935 | 15,198.620784 |
warc | 202143 | Learn more here. Always consult a medical professional before commencing any diet. Metabolic confusion as the name suggests is a diet that aims at tricking your metabolism into working harder and never reaching plateau. Our bodies are different and that means they work differently too. Some diets will work for some people but not for others. Have ever wondered why some people never put on weight no matter how much they eat? The question is, how fast does it go? Our metabolism speed vary according to our age, gender, weight, muscle and of course genes! Some people will naturally have slow metabolism and some, very fast metabolism the skinny ones.
To simplify things, you may want to calculate your weekly calorie allocation diet work from there. Instead of eating the exact same free of meals holding the same caloric
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Kids confusion Non-choc advent calendars Slow cooker metabolic 5. Typical day with a carb metabolic with Metabolic Meals. This gives your metabolism a boost and helps you lose body weight quickly. That confusion why confusipn something that
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The Fast Calorie Diet explained with recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. January 9, at pm Reply. Stick to herbs and spices! The point of doing this is to force your body into a weight-loss plateau by resetting your metabolism through cycling your calories and macronutrients. To have a successful body transformation, avoid these four common pitfalls. According to weight-loss expert and author of The 17 Day Diet, Dr. Those types of diet plans still exist, along with several plans that restrict the consumption of grains, legumes, or other types of foods. These metabolic adaptations are likely to also happen during metabolic confusion, but to a lesser degree than with typical low-calorie diets. | 3,054 | 1,488 | 6,253.721774 |
warc | 202143 | In a new report from Solar Power Now, we’ve taken a look at how solar power plants are located and whether they are operating or not in your state.
Here’s what we found: Solar power plants in the United States The solar energy industry in the U.S. has been growing for decades, but it’s only recently started to expand into new markets.
Today, the industry employs more than 40,000 people across the U, and it’s growing fast.
That’s despite the fact that solar energy costs have been plummeting over the past several years.
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), solar power costs in the country hit a record low of $0.12/kWh in 2017.
Solar power installations grew by 6.4% in 2018 and a record 8.4%, according to the SEIA.
But even though solar power has become increasingly affordable, it still requires a lot of money to install.
Solar plants are expensive to build.
According the Solar Foundation, “Solar power costs can range from $2,000 per watt to $6,000 to $8,000.
The typical cost of solar energy is between $10,000 and $15,000.”
The average cost for a single kilowatt-hour of solar power is around $40.
And because of the high cost, it’s very difficult for solar power companies to find solar power projects in your own state.
Solar Power’s Biggest Challenges Solar energy has been making inroads in the last few years, with companies like SolarCity and NextEra Energy seeing huge increases in their installations.
But the problem is that solar power requires massive amounts of energy.
Solar energy is a huge part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and solar power can be a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
The SDGs, however, don’t count solar power as part of a clean energy source, which means it’s technically technically possible for solar energy to contribute to climate change.
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEEA) reports that solar is the biggest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the world, and the global market is expected to grow by 50% by 2050.
That means the U:1 carbon intensity of solar will rise from 1.6 in 2050 to 1.8 by 2100, and that’s just for energy use alone.
Solar also emits tons of greenhouse gases, including methane and nitrous oxide.
In order to reduce these emissions, the United Kingdom has pledged to reduce the CO2 emissions of its energy mix by 10% by 2030, and France has agreed to cut the emissions by 10%.
In 2018, the US.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also pledged to cut emissions by 15% by 2025, but these commitments are only effective until 2025.
Solar is a renewable source of energy and therefore doesn’t need to be connected to a power plant to be effective.
Solar Energy Companies Are Still Making Progress Solar power can still be profitable, but some of these solar companies are struggling.
There are a lot more solar companies than there are solar power facilities.
According an analysis by The Solar Foundation in 2018, there were nearly 4,000 solar energy companies in the nation, with an average capacity of about 6 gigawatts, or more than 10 times the size of California’s state-owned utility, PG&D.
These solar power producers rely on investors to finance their projects and then sell the power back to customers.
The SEEA reports that a whopping 90% of solar PV power projects failed in 2017 and 2018.
Solar companies have also struggled to make money in recent years, due to the economic downturn and the advent of the Trump Administration.
According a recent report by The Energy Information Administration (EIA), “The solar industry’s business model has not recovered to its previous levels.”
This means that solar companies can’t sell power back and forth, which can make solar energy less attractive to investors.
And if investors are unable to sell their investments back and forward, solar companies lose money.
That is especially the case if they’re located in a depressed solar market like New Mexico, which is experiencing severe economic challenges due to global warming.
Solar Companies Are Growing Faster Than You’d Expect The solar industry is booming, and companies like Tesla and SolarCity are seeing significant growth.
According SolarCity CEO Elon Musk, the company now generates more than $4.3 billion in annual revenue, which he said has more than doubled since 2020.
The biggest growth in solar power comes from Texas, which has seen a boom in solar projects in the past year, thanks to the UMW solar power auction.
But this is a problem for other states as well, especially those in the Southwest, which relies on solar power for power generation.
Solar farms are also struggling to compete with coal plants in some states.
While the federal government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by | 4,927 | 2,242 | 10,519.870205 |
warc | 202143 | Keywords:object proposals, object detection, generalization, weakly supervised Supplementary Material:zip TL;DR:Scaling up object detection in a more data-efficient way? We provide a quantitative analysis on dataset properties and modeling choices for good proposals for unseen classes Abstract:Object proposal generation is often the first step in many detection models. It is lucrative to train a good proposal model, that generalizes to unseen classes. This could help scaling detection models to larger number of classes with fewer annotations. Motivated by this, we study how a detection model trained on a small set of source classes can provide proposals that generalize to unseen classes. We systematically study the properties of the dataset – visual diversity and label space granularity – required for good generalization. We show the trade-off between using fine-grained labels and coarse labels. We introduce the idea of prototypical classes: a set of sufficient and necessary classes required to train a detection model to obtain generalized proposals in a more data-efficient way. On the Open Images V4 dataset, we show that only 25% of the classes can be selected to form such a prototypical set. The resulting proposals from a model trained with these classes is only 4.3% worse than using all the classes, in terms of average recall (AR). We also demonstrate that Faster R-CNN model leads to better generalization of proposals compared to a single-stage network like RetinaNet.
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warc | 202143 | You have been procrastinating on reserving a campsite for the last few months. It’s peak season and you are sure that your favorite park is fully booked. But there are chances that some people might cancel their reservation allowing you to book. You wait until the day you had planned to go camping, but unfortunately, no one has canceled. Do you wait until next season? Your longing for camping can’t wait. After all, you have made it a habit to camp every summer. Luckily, someone hints to you that the park offers a walk-up
campground. But again, you have to go early to get a site.
You are already interested in the
walk-up campsite meaning. You had already given up. So, the friend decides to explain to you in simple language. So, What Does Walk-Up Mean for Camping? These are campsites that you don’t reserve in advance. The parks offer the slot to the person who arrives first. So if you delay, the chances of missing a site are high. You only come prepared and check if there are any available spots. You accept whatever is available and camp.
Note that booking popular national parks can be complicated because of the complex booking system. Again, many people are already competing for the available spots. Although some national parks leave options for a walk-up sites, some don’t. Others offer the sites strictly during the off-pick seasons only. That’s why researching the campsite that you intend to camp in advance is vital. It will save you from the frustrations of going with your belongings only to find out that there is no walk-up site options.
In most cases, people confuse the term walk-up and the walk-in. Though the two terms look similar, their meanings are very different. Remember, walk up means that you can’t do pre-booking, but you have to book on that day based on a first-come, first-serve. On the other hand, walk-in means you have to cover a distance on foot to the campsite. Maybe there are no right roads to drive the car, or the site is on a high ground that requires hiking. So, if someone tells you that the available campsite is a walk-in, get ready to carry your camping gear.
Tips For Getting The Best Walkup Site 1. Show Up Early
Get ready and arrive even before the kiosks open. Remember, it’s a matter of first come, first serve when it comes to walk-up. If you delay, especially on the weekend, people who arrive first will take all the available spaces.
Maybe you live near the park. Carry your gears when looking for a walk-up site. You don’t go to the park than go home to park your needed items. Someone else will book the only available site that you could have booked.
2. Be Flexible
Maybe last year you had reserved a spot, and you had great fun. In walk-up option, you may not get a chance to occupy the same site. That calls for your flexibility. If you decide to go home and chill out waiting for canceled reservations, the chances are high that no one will cancel. By the time you decide to go back to take the available site, there is none available. To avoid such frustrations and inconveniences, why don’t you grab the available site and have fun?
Also read: How to Stay Cool While Camping? 3. Choose Off-Peak Season
People enjoy camping during summer. But when the weather changes, and the cold season’s sets in, many people keep off from camping. If you don’t mind camping when the weather is chilly, you will not struggle to get an excellent site. After all, many camping ground offers a walk-up site in the off-peak season.
4. Camp in Weekday
Many people are busy during the weekday and are only available on weekends. If you wanted to camp for five days, why don’t you go to the park on Wednesday? The chances of getting a lovely walk-up site are high. You can enjoy your camping for the next remaining days, including the weekend.
Also read: How to Put a Tarp Over a Tent? 5. Research And Have Several Options
Do thorough research on the camping grounds that offer the options of a walk-up sites. Get a notebook and list several camping grounds. Some might be far from where you live, while others might be near. List them in order of your preference and start visiting each from the top. If there is no slot in the first one, check in the second one, and so on. The chances of getting an excellent site in one of the campsites are high.
The campsites far from the town have many walk-up sites than those near the town. So, if the available walk-up campsite is far from the town, get ready to go there.
Again, maybe the available walk-up sites are only walk-in. You will have to carry the gear to the campsite once you park the car. As indicated earlier, be ready for anything.
Also read: How to Attach Sleeping Bag to Backpack? 6. Carry A Tent
Some parks have nice guest houses that you have to reserve. If you want to camp with your friends, you require a large area that may not be available. That leaves you with the option of carrying tents. After all, tents occupy a small area making it easy to get a space.
Conclusion
If you fail to reserve a site in advance, you still have a chance of getting a walk-up site. Go to the park/camping ground early before they open. The chances of getting a walk-up site are high. Be flexible since you may not get what you expect. If possible, go during the off-peak season since the chances of getting an excellent site are high. Also, a weekday is an excellent option since many enjoy camping on the weekend. Start by researching various camping grounds that offer walk-up sites. If you don’t get a site in one, get to the next until you get a site. | 5,648 | 2,444 | 12,846.657938 |
warc | 202143 | This not-to-be missed half-day worskhop is presented by Jennifer Frank Tantia, an expert in the field of embodiment in psychotherapy. Suitable for novice and seasoned researchers, graduate students and instructors exploring the fields of body and movement in counselling, psychotherapy and/or body focused therapies.
Our bodies are the place from which we live, breathe and respond to our world, and embodiment is the direct experience of human existence. Traditional research has typically offered ways to measure and compare physical data, or explore in depth the lived experience of human participants through their stories. However, in dance/movement therapy and in other body-focused therapies, there is a world of nonverbal data waiting to be revealed! This workshop will suggest a new paradigm for research methods and offer attendees the chance to understand the language of embodied data as applied in research.
A philosophical overview of embodied phenomenology will be presented, followed by an introduction to embodied methodologies in research. Participants will be encouraged to identify their own embodied experience right from where they sit, and learn the language of embodied data so that they can identify and collect the layers of experience that have been long missing in current research methods.
Learning objectives:
1. Identify two ways to understand embodiment
2. Learn at least two ways to categorize embodied data
3. Generate an initial description of a research question
About the presenter:
Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD, BC-DMT, LCAT is a somatic psychologist and dance/movement therapist in New York City. She has taught somatic psychology and embodied research at many universities and has guest lectured internationally for the past decade. Dr. Tantia served as a grant adjudicator for the NEA Research Artworks Commission and has served on the boards of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and the American Dance Therapy Association. She has authored many publications in DMT and somatic psychology, and co-edited The Routledge International Handbook on Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapy. She received a Marian Chace Foundation book grant for her latest book, The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods and Cases published in Nov, 2020. www.soma-psyche.com
Event Pricing
MEMBER $85.00
NON MEMBER $100.00
STUDENT $50.00
This event counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD.
For full details regarding the event and registration please go to the website. | 2,599 | 1,300 | 5,164.013077 |
warc | 202143 | Considering the future of affordable housing in Estacada
As director of the Estacada Area Food Bank, Debra Bufton works with community members at a variety of housing levels —including those who are unhoused or housing insecure.
A report of the housing status for the customers of the food bank at 272 Broadway St. found that during the year 2020, 32 customers were camping, 28 were unhoused and 20 lived in their vehicles. Additionally, three customers lived in motels, one lived in an emergency shelter, two lived in a halfway house, two lived in residential treatment facilities or supervised housing, 18 lived in public housing, 86 lived with family and friends, 139 lived in mobile homes, 120 owned a home, and 266 lived in private rentals.
Bufton said "there is a huge need (for affordable housing) in our community."
"The challenge here is that it's not as visible. People live on other people's property or in the forest. There's a significant number of people without stable housing, or they're housing vulnerable. They're one divorce or one lost paycheck away from losing their housing," she said, adding that she knows two families who lost their homes in last fall's wildfires but have been unable to rent locally.
Affordable housing in Estacada has been a recent discussion at the county level. In late January, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners opted not to move forward with Project Turnkey at the Red Fox Motel, which would have offered shelter for homeless individuals before transitioning to workforce housing.
During a meeting Thursday, Jan. 28, the commission voted 3-2 to not move forward with the due-diligence phase at the Red Fox. The Estacada motel at 600 S.W. Beech Road was under consideration for the project after commissioners opted not to move forward with the project at the Econo Lodge Motel in Jennings Lodge.
"I'm hopeful that we can continue to have the conversations, because there's a need in the rural areas, and the urban areas are getting most of the dollars," Clackamas County Commissioner Martha Schrader said after the vote in the Jan. 28 meeting.
During a Feb. 4 meeting of Estacada Connects — a group of community organizations in Estacada focused on networking and resource sharing — Clackamas County Housing Policy Coordinator Vahid Brown said that new programs from the Metro Regional Government may free up other dollars to be used for housing projects in rural communities like Estacada.
Project Turnkey faces criticism
Through the Project Turnkey program, the Oregon Legislature has earmarked $30 million for the Oregon Community Foundation to administer funds for the acquisition of motel/hotel properties in eight counties and tribal communities affected by the 2020 wildfires, and another $35 million for the rest of the state.
If the project had moved forward at the Red Fox, housing priority would have gone to residents impacted by the wildfires last year. The Riverside Fire, which came within half a mile of Estacada city limits last fall, destroyed 57 homes and damaged an additional 10. Next priority would have been given to Clackamas County residents who have lost housing because of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, the property could have been used to develop workforce housing, which is affordable to households that earn 60% of the area median income.
During the Jan. 28 meeting, county staff noted that they had received 38 emails and voicemails opposing the project, two that were neutral and two in support of moving forward with the due diligence phase of Project Turnkey at the Red Fox.
Multiple Estacada community members spoke at the Jan. 28 meeting to express concern about the fact that they had not previously been aware of the project.
Kimberly Dinwiddie, public information officer for Clackamas County, spoke to the value of community engagement saying, "we want to be sure we're doing projects for a community, and not to a community."
"Just because a conversation happens with the board doesn't mean a decision has been made," she said. "Conversations with the board may happen before public engagement begins, but that doesn't mean it's been decided because it's been brought before the board."
The number of grocery stores in Estacada, along with the level of police and fire services, were several of the infrastructure concerns presented.
Estacada Economic Development Manager Matt Lorenzen said community members "have the right to voice those opinions."
"Anything in the city that adds to the inventory of affordable housing units helps meet the demand out there, and we know there is a demand out there," he said. "But there were legitimate questions about whether or not this was the right opportunity, the right place and the right time."
Lorenzen said the project was presented to Estacada city staff as temporary shelter for families who were impacted by last fall's wildfires. It would eventually transition into low income and workforce housing. Support staff would be on site during both phases.
"When people hear 'homeless shelter,' they might think of an open gym with a bunch of mats for sleeping," he said. "That's not what was presented."
Lorenzen added that he's critical of the idea expressed by Clackamas County Chair Tootie Smith "that county staff somehow acted inappropriately or tried to do something in secret without the community knowing."
During the Jan. 28 meeting, Smith said she was "ashamed" for Clackamas County staff.
"I am embarrassed, as your elected official, that we have gotten to this point where we have surprised residents with a project they don't want," she said.
"I think that assessment is unfair and inaccurate," Lorenzen said. "The conversation was not a discussion of 'should we buy the property?' It was 'should we study the property and engage with this topic?' I think the perception was that this was a done deal. I'm not objecting to people's concerns, but the assessment that this was done in secret feels really inaccurate."
Bringing housing diversity to Estacada
During a meeting Monday, Feb. 8, Estacada City Councilors Katy Dunsmuir and Jerry Tenbush spoke to the need for diverse housing in the city and said they were disappointed that Project Turnkey had not moved forward at the Red Fox.
"For me personally, the most exciting part about the potential of that project was not the transitional shelter that was originally that was the initial proposed purpose, but it was actually the (workforce) housing that could have followed it," said Dunsmuir.
She added that there are many reasons why someone might lose their housing.
"When you think in your mind, 'homeless shelter, they must be busing in people from Portland,' that is not the case," she said. "We're talking about your neighbor who experienced a kitchen fire, and that kitchen fire had made their home now uninhabitable. And when they're faced with that scenario, they can't live in Estacada anymore. There's no other options, and I think that's sad that's the reality of the situation."
"I think that this was an opportunity for the Estacada community to have somewhere for our community members to go to get resources," Tenbush added.
Dunsmuir noted that the conversation about bringing affordable housing to Estacada is not a new one. In 2019, she and several city staff members spoke with members of the Clackamas County Housing Authority to explore options for the community, during which the Red Fox was mentioned as a possibility.
"The really unfortunate reality of that meeting was that there was no funding. They would love to see what they can do to bring housing diversity into our community to meet a growing need," she said. "Back in 2019, they told us, 'We're looking at properties available in your city and unfortunately there's just too many financial constraints that we have.'"
A 2019 Housing Needs Analysis for the city of Estacada called for additional housing diversity, noting that from 2013-2017, 78% of Estacada's housing was single-family detached. Between February 2015 and February 2019, the city's median average housing sale price rose from $234,900 to $299,900, a 28% increase.
Additionally, around 55% of Estacada's renters and 25% of Estacada's homeowners are cost burdened, meaning they spent 30% or more of their income on housing. The analysis stated that more affordable housing for both homeowners and renters is needed.
Dunsmuir encouraged anyone interested in participating in the conversation about affordable housing to reach out to her.
"This conversation has been happening for a very long time in a lot of different venues and a lot of different outlets," she said. "I'm happy to help connect you to that conversation if you feel it's a conversation you're missing out on and want to participate in. I'm happy to connect you with any educational resources that are out there to help you better understand the impact that the lack of housing diversity is having on our community right now, as well as the impact that it's going to have in the future."
Moving forward
On Feb. 4, Brown told attendees of an Estacada Connects meeting that Metro's Affordable Housing Services bond and the Supportive Housing Services measure may have an impact on bringing diverse housing to Estacada and other rural areas of the county. Though Estacada is outside of Metro's boundaries, the new programs may allow the county to free up funds to use in rural areas.
"We have these new resources dedicated to a portion of the county. We previously had federal, state, and local resources dedicated to the entirety of the county," he said. "And so now, we're working through planning efforts to try to figure out how to best redirect federal, state and local resources specifically to the rural areas of the county that are not covered by that supportive housing services measure," he said.
He noted that the county is working with United Oregon and the Coalition of Communities of Color for outreach and engagement with community members in rural areas.
"I would like to continue to engage with Estacada and help the county understand the affordable housing and homeless services needs in the community, so we can then take that information back into this planning as we move forward to redirect resources for homeless services to the rural areas," he said.
Along with the county's efforts, the Estacada City Council formed a committee on housing affordability and diversity in September. During their Feb. 8 meeting, the council appointed nine members to the group, which will be focused on developing a strategy to encourage the construction of more multifamily housing options in the city.
Bufton noted that there's often "a pejorative label" placed on individuals who lose their housing and may benefit from affordable units or transitional shelters.
"They are all people in the world trying to do their best," she said.
She added that customers at the food bank have a variety of stories. One individual had left a domestic violence situation. Another person, who also volunteers at the food bank, had previously been camping in the nearby forest prior to moving to the Red Fox.
"I live here and work with people every day," Bufton said. "We have the numbers in our community that need supportive, stable housing. We can fill it with people who want to be citizens of our community."
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warc | 202143 | Constitutional Court will study review filed by CCALCP on breaches of PNIS voluntary substitution program in Colombia
Photo: CCALCP director Julia Figueroa speaking in Ottawa during Peace Brigades International advocacy tour, November 5, 2019.
When Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) took part in a PBI advocacy tour in Canada in 2019 they highlighted concerns about the forced eradication of coca crops in Colombia.
Now, on March 26 of this year, CCALCP tweeted:
“Breaches of the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) in Catatumbo will be studied by the Constitutional Court in a guardianship review filed by CCALCP together with the Campesina Association of Catatumbo (ASCAMCAT), the National Union of Coca, Poppy and Marijuana Farmers (COCCAM) and the presidents of the Community Action Board (JAC) of the Caño Indio pilot plan in the municipality of Tibú.”
The National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) is a crucial component of the Peace Agreement (2016).
Under the program, farmers agreed to voluntarily uproot their coca fields. In exchange, the government would provide subsidies and training programs to help them swap illegal crops for alternative, legal ventures.
Instead of this, the Colombian government has pursued a controversial fumigation program to eradicate coca crops by spraying the herbicide glyphosate from airplanes.
On February 15, Colombia Informa reported: “The peasant communities of Catatumbo, North Santander, reported that the National Army has been carrying out forced eradication operations for more than a week.”
The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “The current Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, has repeated on several occasions that the Executive’s plans are to start spraying in April and that the Air Force is getting ready to do so.”
Ten United Nations Special Rapporteurs have stated in this recent letter to the Colombian government: “[The resumption of spraying] would violate the peace agreement and against the provisions of the Constitutional Court regarding the hierarchy between the strategies for the eradication of illicit crops.”
Their letter adds: “[Spraying poses] enormous risks for human rights and the environment, at the same time that it would not comply with the conditions established in the ruling T-236 of the Constitutional Court, nor with international obligations. in the matter.”
Contrary to these concerns, the United States government has stated: “The government of Colombia has committed to re-starting its aerial coca eradication program, which would be a most welcome development.”
PBI-Canada will continue to follow this situation.
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warc | 202143 | Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Office Director Tara Loew discussed the important role registered apprenticeship programs have in preparing the commonwealth’s workforce for in-demand careers during a tour of the Finishing Trades Institute of the Mid-Atlantic Region (FTI) in Philadelphia.
“Ensuring that businesses have the qualified workers they need and that employees are prepared for the jobs of today is a top priority,” said ATO Director Loew. “Registered apprenticeship programs, like the one at FTI, allow commonwealth workers to remain gainfully employed while learning valuable skills and completing their education. These opportunities are invaluable in today’s economy not only for our workforce, but to ensure that companies looking to hire have access to the highly skilled employees they need.”
Registered apprenticeship programs are used to provide employer-driven training to create a more productive, diverse, highly skilled workforce for employers and help reduce employee turnover. The program provides job seekers with increased skills, and a nationally recognized credential to support future career advancement and increased wages.
Created in early 2016, the Department of Labor & Industry’s Apprenticeship Training Office supports 873 individual program sponsors and 1,587 registered apprenticeship programs, occupation or trade additions across the commonwealth, with 17,483 active registered apprentices.
During the tour of FTI, ATO Director Loew spoke with several first-year apprentices in the glazing academy from the Architectural Glass & Metal Installers degree program who will be studying the fundamentals of power tools and performing drilling exercises for various substrates.
FTI is also awarding Department of Labor Completion certificates to 77 graduates this evening from the coatings applicator specialist (industrial painters), commercial paint & wall covering, drywall finishing and architectural glass & metal installers apprenticeship programs. The glazier registered apprenticeship program is the only program within the Finishing Trades Institute, and one of only a few in the country, where apprentices graduate with an associate’s degree.
“The Finishing Trades Institute of the Mid-Atlantic Region is dedicated to creating a highly skilled, educated, and safe workforce built on quality, pride, and progressive training,” said FTI Financial Controller Kara Peters. “FTI prides itself on providing rigorous academic standards combined with industry-relevant hands-on training that leads to family sustaining careers, or additional education opportunities, for graduate apprentices.”
FTI supplies area contractors with the most highly skilled craftspeople in the construction industry, particularly for the six industries for which they have apprenticeship standards registered: architectural glass & metal installers, coatings applicator specialist, commercial paint & wall covering, drywall finishing, glassworkers, and multi-craft decorators. FTI designs programs that produce some of the best journeypersons, supervisors, and project managers in North America. | 3,188 | 1,462 | 6,801.212038 |
warc | 202143 | With the increased amount of technology and screen time we consume each day, our body’s clocks have been thrown off their natural cycles, affecting our productivity during the day and quality of sleep at night. With the
Nanoleaf Essentials Bulbs and Lightstrips, the Circadian Lighting feature allows you to have smart lighting that enhances your day-to-day life by promoting productivity, maximizing comfort, and even supporting a healthy sleep cycle. How Does Circadian Lighting Work?
Our body’s natural rhythm follows the sun as it rises and sets each day, letting us know when it’s time to focus and when it’s time for rest. This is called our Circadian Rhythm. Created to help rebalance your body’s natural rhythm, the Circadian Lighting feature on the Nanoleaf Essentials automatically adjusts the color temperature of your lights throughout the day to sync up with the sun. Ease into your day and wind down in the evenings with warmer light and stay productive in the afternoons with cooler colors.
With Circadian Lighting, your Essentials Bulbs and Lightstrips will gradually shift between warm and cool color temperatures based on the time of day to provide the optimal lighting conditions for comfort and productivity.
What Are The Benefits of Circadian Lighting?
Traditional office spaces tend to have electric lighting we can turn on or off. But there is rarely a distinction in the color temperature of that light or its brightness which may cause strain to your eyes. Recent studies of office worker performance show that those with the best views of natural light perform better on tests of mental function and memory recall.
The Circadian Lighting feature on the Nanoleaf Essentials automatically adjusts the color temperature of your lights throughout the day to sync up with the sun. By mimicking the lighting effects of the sun, it gives your body the natural signals that you wouldn’t get with a standard artificial light.
So, just like with a healthy diet, if we feed the body what it needs, it will perform better. Circadian Lighting allows for faster cognitive processing as well as increased alertness in the morning, helping your productivity! It is also shown to improve mood, concentration, and sleep, boosting your overall performance and lifestyle.
How Do I Use Circadian Lighting?
The Circadian Lighting feature is accessible on both Android and iOS through the Nanoleaf App. In the app, enter the name of your city under the Circadian Lighting tab so your lights are able to sync to your timezone. You can then automatically sync the sunrise and sunset times to your environment and change the color temperature of your lights to suit your preference. You can further configure your automatic settings by offsetting the time, which allows you to set a desired period of time earlier or later than the sunrise and sunset time!
If the automatic Circadian Lighting times don’t align with your schedule, no need to worry! You can customize your sunrise and sunset hours using the Manual setting. Whether you’re dealing with jet lag or even an irregular work schedule, this allows you to set the lighting to suit your lifestyle and adjust to your personal schedule based on your body’s natural rhythm.
Circadian Lighting benefits everyone, whether you’re looking to readjust your sleep schedule, improve your mood or even increase your overall productivity. With this exciting feature, you now have more ways to enjoy your smart lighting experience.
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warc | 202143 | Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have discovered that slow-moving collisions of tectonic plates pull more carbon into the Earth’s interior.
They found that carbon was brought into the Earth’s interior in subduction zones. The carbon then tends to be “locked-in” to the depths, rather than regenerating. The findings show that only about a third of the carbon is recycled back to the surface.
One of the solutions to deal with climate change is to find ways to reduce the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere. By studying how carbon works in the ground, scientists can better understand the entire life cycle of carbon on Earth. Also, learn about how carbon moves between the atmosphere, oceans, and life on the surface.
Deep carbonaceous regions play an important role in maintaining our planet’s habitability, by regulating atmospheric CO2 levels.
“We currently have a relatively good understanding of surface carbon sources and the flows between them,” said Stefan Farsang, lead author of the study, now from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences. But we know less about the carbon stores inside the Earth.”
There are several ways for carbon to be released back into the atmosphere (as CO2). However, there is only one way for it to return to Earth’s interior, and that is through the subduction zone. New research reveals that chemical reactions taking place in rocks at subduction zones will send carbon deeper into the Earth’s interior.
“There is still a lot of research to be done in this area. In the future, we aim to refine our estimates by studying the solubility of carbonates over a wider range of temperatures and pressures, and in some liquid compositions,” said researcher Farsang. said.
These findings are thought to be important for understanding the role of carbonate formation in the climate system as a whole. According to the team, this result shows that these minerals are very stable and can certainly lock CO2 from the atmosphere into a solid mineral form. From there, it can lead to negative emissions.
The team looked at using similar methods for carbon capture. This method transfers atmospheric CO2 into storage in rocks and oceans.
“These results will also help us understand better ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere. If we can accelerate this process faster than nature can handle, it could prove a way to help solve the climate crisis,” Redfern said. | 2,526 | 1,205 | 5,104.406639 |
warc | 202143 | One of the most chilling stories in the natural world, seemingly only in the imagination, has obvious evidence. It is the story of an eel stabbing the neck of a heron despite being swallowed by a predator.
The images were taken by Sam Davis in Ireland. Initially, he saw a heron in flight with a strange object hanging below its neck. He guessed that the bird was bitten on the neck by a snake or some other species and refused to let go.
The heron is flying with a strange object in the neck that makes many people curious
However, when he approached and photographed at a closer angle, he saw that the eel had pierced the neck of the cephalopod. Apparently, it was swallowed by the heron and used its sharp tail to tear the flesh of the predator to get out.
The scene looks like something out of a horror movie, but it’s not without foundation. The heron is the eel’s number one enemy, but if it swallows its prey alive, it’s unknown what will happen.
Eels with pointed tails often stab the stomach or body of a predator to find a way to escape. However, the time it got stuck in the escape process while the heron did not die, it became the target of both eagles and foxes.
Perhaps, an inevitable sad ending due to the not-so-light wound and the stalking of predators. | 1,294 | 703 | 2,339.507824 |
warc | 202143 | Selling a home may be a time-consuming and complicated process. If you go the traditional approach, you’ll have a lot on your plate once your home is listed. Also, finding the right buyer might be difficult when there are so many residences on the market, especially when many of the purchasers are also trying to sell their own houses. A cash buyer can make a difference in this situation.
Read on to learn about some of the major advantages of selling your home to a cash buyer.
Advantages of Selling Your House To In House Offer Flexible Time-Frame
Delays are normal when selling or purchasing a home, which is why using a service like houses for cash in California is so beneficial because they can complete it in as little as seven working days from the time their offer is accepted.
However, this might also operate in the opposite direction; perhaps you need a little extra time in your home to straighten things out? An ordinary buyer will want to get into their new home as quickly as possible. However, a professional cash buyer can be more flexible and work on a schedule that works for you.
Closing Is Quick and Easy
When selling a home the traditional way, few first-time sellers know how many individuals are involved. Agents, lawyers, title firms, loan officers, and others involved in the distribution of various papers must all work together. Everyone who participates in a sale is compensated.
Working with a cash buyer has the advantage of allowing you to have a real one-on-one relationship. All are eliminated from the equation by writing cheques to strangers, waiting for approvals, and coordinating your closing with other people’s schedules. Closing with a cash buyer can be completed in a fraction of the time that a traditional closing would take.
No Marketing and Showings
Finding potential buyers is time-consuming and costly, and presenting your home in the best light is time-consuming and costly. Consider open houses and showings; it’s tough to keep your home in walk-through condition at all times.
Maintaining a spotless environment may appear to be a near-impossible task. You don’t have to market or show your home if you sell it for cash. A cash buyer will acquire your property whatever the look of it, saving you time from cleaning or repairing your home for open houses.
Less Chance of Sales Falling Through
With a cash home buyer, there’s no chain, so there’s a far lower possibility of your sale falling through. You don’t have to be concerned about the bank decided not to provide your buyer the loan after all. You don’t have to be concerned about your buyer losing interest throughout the weeks between placing an offer and closing. Your sale might be finalized in as little as a week, allowing for significantly less room for errors.
Don’t Require Negotiation
Most homebuying for cash doesn’t necessitate much haggling. Some of these agreements do not need to be negotiated. If you’re not a natural negotiator, you might set a firm price for the home and accept the first offer that equals or exceeds that amount. There’s no point in negotiating in this situation.
This is especially beneficial for people who are selling their houses without the assistance of a real estate professional. Sellers frequently enlist the assistance of these persons throughout the bargaining process. That isn’t always the case with all-cash deals. So, if you want to avoid a fight, a sell my home for cash offer would be the best option.
No Repairs Required
When you sell a house for cash, you don’t have to worry about performing expensive and time-consuming renovations. You also won’t have to bother about deep cleaning or staging your house in preparation for a sale. A cash buyer will purchase the property as-is and will repair any issues.
You won’t have to worry about how good your home appears because a cash buyer is only interested in the property’s value. This can save you a lot of time, money, and frustration in the long run when it comes to repairs.
Less Stressful
We all know how selling a home can be stressful. Everyone who has the opportunity to make the process go more smoothly rejoices. When you sell a house to cash buyers, you eliminate a lot of the worry and hassle that comes with conventional means of selling. You also relieve stress not just for yourself but also for the individual who is purchasing the home.
Because there are fewer documents to sign, fewer people to deal with, and less money is required, the procedure is less stressful. This allows you to focus on other matters, such as locating a new home, rather than putting all of your efforts into selling the house.
No Real Estate Fees
Using an agent to sell your home to a cash buyer may appear to be a more convenient and cost-effective option. Of course, we can’t dispute that it will be easier because you won’t be the one negotiating with possible purchasers. However, with a straightforward offer for a home, you won’t have to pay a fee to a real estate agent.
Commission fees are typically approximately 6%, which can add up to a significant portion of your selling price. A seller will save money on upgrades, bank fees, agency costs, and interest fees by taking less money from a cash house buyer than they would from a mortgage buyer. This will necessitate you paying the agent’s cut out of your own pocket, resulting in a loss angle. By opting for the cash option, you will avoid paying an agent’s commission or having him take a cut from the sales price.
Conclusion
Cash sales may not net you a large sum of money, but they can save you a lot of hassle and inconvenience. The choice is yours; there are always advantages and disadvantages to anything; all you have to do is pick the option that best suits you.
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warc | 202143 | The world is a complex place, Untamed, and exists independently of our ability to recognize it. Landscapes stack on top of each other, overlap (or do not overlap) and pile up in mountain ranges, fjords and rainforests. The wind constantly shifts the web of clouds that cover the sky, and beneath them pass their own shadows, trying to prevent them from sliding over the irregular topography of the globe.
Every four hours the light comes and goes and everything that has the property of reflecting it changes completely in appearance. Even on a smaller scale, our chances of knowing directly through our senses do not improve.
Do you know what a “pareidolia” is?
Animal life, endowed with autonomous movement, is characterized by infinite changes of place, shape and appearance over a generation, and changes of light frequencies, combined with the continuous change of place and position of our body, make it the raw data of everything we perceive is chaos impossible to understand.
Pareidolia as a way to find meanings
Fortunately, our brains are equipped with certain mechanisms to recognize patterns and continuities in the midst of all this sensory mess. Neural networks are the perfect way to create systems that are always activated in the same way in the face of seemingly different stimuli. Therefore, that we can recognize people close to us despite their physical and psychological changes. Hence also that we can apply similar strategies in different contexts, apply what we have learned to different situations and even recognize plagiarism in a piece of music. However, this ability also has a very striking side effect called
pareidolia.
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon consisting of the recognition of significant patterns (such as faces) in ambiguous and random stimuli. Take a look at this duck, for example:
Once you realize that its beak looks like the cartoonish head of a dog, you will never be able to stop having this effect every time you see a duck like this. But not all paridolics are as low-key as this one. Evolution, we have developed neural networks in charge of
process relevant stimuliSo, some patterns become much more obvious to us than others.
In fact, at some point in our evolution, the visual system with which we are equipped has become incredibly sensitive to these stimuli reminiscent of
human faces, A part of the body that is of great importance for non-verbal communication. Later, at some point in our history, we became able to craft countless objects following simple, recognizable, and regular patterns. And at that point the party started: Spindle rotation: our face radar
Our brains are equipped with specific circuits that are activated to process visual information about faces differently from other data, and the part of the brain that contains these circuits is also responsible for the phenomenon of pareidolia.
This structure is called
spindle-shaped circumference, And in a few hundredths of a second, it makes us see faces where there are, but also where there are not. Moreover, when this second possibility passes, we cannot help but have the strong feeling of contemplating someone, even if that person is in fact a faucet, a rock or a facade. This is the subconscious power of the fusiform bend: whether we like it or not, it will be activated whenever we see something vaguely reminiscent of a face. This is the counterpart of having designed a brain that is ready to deal with many changing and unpredictable stimuli.
So, even if because of these paridolics we sometimes feel looked at …
… and although sometimes we notice that we have lost a joke …
One of the many magnitudes of the human brain
… it is good to remember that these phenomena have their reason for being in the special treatment that our brain does without patterns that can be read in the back and forth of confusing images. Our brains make us wise, but nature makes our brains useful. From today, when your brain detects a face here where there is only one object, you will also remember this article. | 4,095 | 1,976 | 8,382.730263 |
warc | 202143 | Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the bill prohibiting open cattle grazing in the state into law.
Sanwo-Olu, who assented to the bill during the State’s Executive Council meeting in Alausa on Monday, directed the security agencies to swing immediately into action and enforce provisions of the law.
He said that by implication, it is now criminal in Lagos for cattle rearers to occupy unapproved public areas and private land with their livestock for grazing.
The law also prohibits the act of moving cattle around public places by herders.
The signing of the anti-open grazing law by the Governor followed the decision of the Southern Governors’ Forum last August, setting the September deadline to pass the law across Member States.
There have been crises witnessed in some States, resulting from alleged open grazing.
Although farmer-herder crisis is not pronounced in Lagos, the anti-open grazing law is expected to prevent the spillover of the menace into the State.
He said, “By the powers vested in me as the Governor of Lagos State, I am signing the bill on Open Cattle Grazing and Trespass of Cattle on Land into law to prohibit issues associated with open grazing of livestock.”
The PUNCH had reported that the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday, September 9, 2021, passed the bill entitled, “A bill for a law to Prohibit Open Cattle Grazing In Lagos State, the Trespass of Cattle Land And For Other Connected Purposes”.
Speaker Mudashiru Obasa subsequently directed the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent.
The bill was passed after unanimous votes by the lawmakers at the sitting where the bill was read the third time.
Read Also Cows may N2 million after anti-grazing bill passage – Myetti Allah
Earlier, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association said that a cow could cost up to N2 million in Lagos State if the anti-grazing bill is passed into law in the state.
Zonal Secretary of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the South West, during a one-day public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly on the anti-open grazing bill.
During the public hearing, Usman appealed to the state government for assistance, noting that ranching is more expensive than open grazing.
Usman, who agreed that there were some criminally-minded herders, argued that raising a cow in one location could increase the price of a cow to as much as N2 million.
He also pleaded with the government to subsidise the cost of raising the cattle in one location.
“If cattle are bred in one place, the price could go up to about N2 million each. We agreed with some local chiefs in other states that anyone who wants to rear cows in a location should register and should indicate when he is leaving.
“A Fulani man moves from one place to another to ply his trade, but we have some bad eggs that are causing trouble. The government should allow us to talk to our people that they don’t want our cows to destroy people’s farmland.
“We have met with stakeholders in Ekiti, Ondo and even Oyo states and we reached agreements with them,” Usman was quoted as saying this in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the House, Mr Eromosele Ebhomele.
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warc | 202143 | Can papaya destroy early pregnancy?
The results of the present study suggest that normal consumption of ripe
papaya during pregnancy may not pose any significant danger. However, the unripe or semi-ripe papaya (which contains high concentration of the latex that produces marked uterine contractions) could be unsafe in pregnancy. Can papaya harm a pregnancy?
Raw or semi ripe papaya contains latex which can induce premature contractions and that can be dangerous for your baby. However, ripe papaya is rich in vitamins and iron. Consuming
it in controlled quantity will possess no harm but totally avoid eating an unripe papaya during pregnancy. Can papaya leaves miscarriage?
20% of animals treated with C. papaya leaf extract
for 24 hours did no litter which suggestive that miscarriage has occurred. In the animals treated for 48 hours, only 60% littered which is also suggestive that miscarriage has occurred in the remaining 40% that did not litter. Can Lemon stop pregnancy?
While the authors of the Krest Bitter Lemon study suggested its use as a postcoital douche,
it is unlikely to be effective as no published studies have been done on the effectiveness of lemon juice preparations in preventing pregnancy, though they are advocated by some as a ‘natural’ spermicide (Short et al., 2004). Can drinking warm water cause miscarriage?
Water should not be hot enough to raise your core body temperature to102°F for more than 10 minutes. Taking a bath in excessively hot water can cause several health issues like: -It
may cause a drop in blood pressure, which can deprive the baby of oxygen and nutrients and can increase the risk of miscarriage. Does Ginger cause miscarriage early pregnancy?
Does taking ginger increase the chance for a miscarriage?
Miscarriage can occur in any pregnancy. Ginger has not been found to increase the chance of miscarriage or stillbirth in human studies. Can jumping cause miscarriage early pregnancy? Miscarriage is not caused by the activities of a healthy pregnant woman, such as jumping, vigorous exercise, and frequent vaginal intercourse. Trauma causes miscarriage only very rarely. Stress and emotional shock do not cause miscarriage either. How long it takes to get periods after eating papaya?
As a result, eating unripe papaya for at least
18-24 hours before the estimated date of the cycle is required to cause bleeding. Note: Even though papaya is healthy and low in calories, some people may experience a few side effects. Can Mint cause miscarriage?
If you’re concerned about side effects — it’s considered to have “ emmenagogue effects ” (stimulate menstruation) in excessive amounts — then it’s best to avoid peppermint tea until your second trimester. But note that
there’s no documented evidence that peppermint has ever caused a miscarriage. Can papaya prevent unwanted pregnancy?
It is an effective, easy and quick way to avoid unwanted pregnancy. Papaya: Eating papaya
after unsafe intercourse helps prevent pregnancy. It does not let fertilization to occur and aids birth control. Avoid taking papaya if the pregnancy test is positive as it may lead to abortion and other problems. Does papaya help with fertility?
Papaya seed extract
can lower fertility in men. It can lower the sperm count and impact sperm mobility. | 3,358 | 1,582 | 6,964.347661 |
warc | 202143 | This six-week course is developed to enable all subject teachers to improve their skills and become more proficient at their jobs by discussing practical and applicable classroom strategies. By discovering, application of, and sharing new teaching strategies, teachers will not only go back to the classroom and adapt their teaching styles and curricula to better suit students, but also focus on and cater to the individual needs of students. The course will enable teachers to expand their knowledge in different subject areas, hence increase teacher effectiveness and more opportunities to engage students actively in learning.
The course will provide teachers with an opportunity to share ideas and best practice so that they can improve their performance and raise student achievement and attainment.
After completing this course, participants should be able to:
Improve the quality of teaching and learning in their classrooms/schools. Demonstrate understanding and increase in their knowledge thus share best educational practices with their departments at school. Design a well-structured lesson plan that combines a variety of strategies. Analyse and evaluate the strengths and areas of improvement of a given lesson plan, as well as give feedback on how to improve the lesson plan. Explore their own classroom teaching practices and use effective tools to enhance student engagement and active/effective learning. Integrate curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote learning with vivid understanding. Hence assess learning – AFL and AOL (Formative and Summative). | 1,592 | 783 | 3,216.53129 |
warc | 202143 | Traceback: A Proposed Framework to Increase Identification and Genetic Counseling of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Through Family-Based Outreach Publication year2017 Author(s) SourceJournal of Clinical Oncology, 35, 20, (2017), pp. 2329-2337 ISSN Publication type
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SubjectRadboudumc 17: Women's cancers RIHS: Radboud Institute for Health Sciences Abstract
In May 2016, the Division of Cancer Prevention and the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, convened a workshop to discuss a conceptual framework for identifying and genetically testing previously diagnosed but unreferred patients with ovarian cancer and other unrecognized BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers to improve the detection of families at risk for breast or ovarian cancer. The concept, designated Traceback, was prompted by the recognition that although BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are frequent in women with ovarian cancer, many such women have not been tested, especially if their diagnosis predated changes in testing guidelines. The failure to identify mutation carriers among probands represents a lost opportunity to prevent cancer in unsuspecting relatives through risk-reduction intervention in mutation carriers and to provide appropriate reassurances to noncarriers. The Traceback program could provide an important opportunity to reach families from racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups who historically have not sought or been offered genetic counseling and testing and thereby contribute to a reduction in health disparities in women with germline BRCA mutations. To achieve an interdisciplinary perspective, the workshop assembled international experts in genetics, medical and gynecologic oncology, clinical psychology, epidemiology, genomics, cost-effectiveness modeling, pathology, bioethics, and patient advocacy to identify factors to consider when undertaking a Traceback program. This report highlights the workshop deliberations with the goal of stimulating research and providing a framework for pilot studies to assess the feasibility and ethical and logistical considerations related to the development of best practices for implementation of Traceback studies.
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warc | 202143 | Frontal network dynamics reflect neurocomputational mechanisms for reducing maladaptive biases in motivated action Date of Archiving2018 Archive
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Key wordscomputational modelling; motivational biases; (reinforcement) learning; midfrontal theta; cognitive control; time-frequency analysis; conflict Abstract
Motivation exerts control over behavior by eliciting Pavlovian responses, which can either match or conflict with instrumental action. We can overcome maladaptive motivational influences, putatively through frontal cognitive control. However, the neurocomputational mechanisms subserving this control are unclear; does control entail upregulating instrumental systems, downregulating Pavlovian systems, or both? We combined EEG recordings with a motivational Go/NoGo learning task (N=34), where multiple Go options enabled us to disentangle selective action learning from non-selective Pavlovian responses. Midfrontal theta-band (4-8Hz) activity covaried with the level of Pavlovian conflict, and was associated with reduced Pavlovian biases, rather than reduced instrumental learning biases. Motor and lateral prefrontal regions synchronized to the midfrontal cortex, and these network dynamics predicted the reduction of Pavlovian biases over and above local, midfrontal theta activity. This work links midfrontal processing to detecting Pavlovian conflict, and highlights the importance of network processing in reducing the impact of maladaptive, Pavlovian biases. | 1,809 | 903 | 3,585.946844 |
warc | 202143 | Abstract Motivation: Secondary metabolites (SM) are structurally diverse natural products of high pharmaceutical importance. Genes involved in their biosynthesis are often organized in clusters, i.e., are co-localized and co-expressed. In silico cluster prediction in eukaryotic genomes remains problematic mainly due to the high variability of the clusters’ content and lack of other distinguishing sequence features. Results: We present Cluster Assignment by Islands of Sites (CASSIS), a method for SM cluster prediction in eukaryotic genomes, and Secondary Metabolites by InterProScan (SMIPS), a tool for genome-wide detection of SM key enzymes (‘anchor’ genes): polyketide synthases, non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and dimethylallyl tryptophan synthases. Unlike other tools based on protein similarity, CASSIS exploits the idea of co-regulation of the cluster genes, which assumes the existence of common regulatory patterns in the cluster promoters. The method searches for ‘islands’ of enriched cluster-specific motifs in the vicinity of anchor genes. It was validated in a series of cross-validation experiments and showed high sensitivity and specificity. | 1,193 | 664 | 2,094.936747 |
warc | 202143 | We hope that you will find this information useful. It will not answer every question about chemotherapy treatments. It is intended as a substitute for discussion with the doctors and nursing staff. We hope that after you have read this, you will find it easier to ask questions and to discuss your treatment and progress with your doctor and nurse. There are more details about your individual treatments available which the chemotherapy nurse will give to you.
The chemotherapy suite
This is an Outpatient Unit for patients receiving chemotherapy. Treatments may vary in length of time and the department is open from 8.30am to 6.00pm.
Number of beds
The suite has two bedrooms and eight treatment chairs. These areas are used to provide treatments, patient support and pre-chemotherapy assessments. The area is an open plan to allow patients to talk to each other and gain support, however, sometimes this can be a problem when discussing confidential information. Future plans to improve privacy and dignity are by developing single bedrooms into accommodation that will facilitate assessment and also allow for single-sex accommodation.
Visiting times
There is no visiting time as this is an Outpatient Unit. Children under the age of 12 are not encouraged to come in the treatment areas but are welcome in the waiting area.
Mealtimes, drinks and snacks
Food and drink are provided in the unit for patients who are present at mealtimes. There is also the WRVS tea bar in the Outpatients Department and Tree Tops Restaurant.
What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy means using medicines to treat cancer. Many types of medicines are used in chemotherapy, all of which attack cancer cells in different ways. For this reason, we often give several medicines in combination to increase the effectiveness of treatment. Chemotherapy can be used alone or with radiotherapy and surgery.
How does chemotherapy work?
The medicines are carried by the bloodstream to all parts of the body where they act by interfering with the growth of rapidly growing cells such as cancer cells. The cells of some normal tissues also grow rapidly, for example, the cells of the hair roots, mouth, bone marrow and lining of the bowel. These may be temporarily affected by chemotherapy.
How often is it given?
This depends on the type of treatment you are having. In most cases, each chemotherapy treatment is followed by a rest period of between one and four weeks. This is called a cycle. Depending upon your condition and the reason for giving you chemotherapy, the treatment will continue for a set period. The staff will discuss your individual treatment with you.
Consent to treatment
The doctors and chemotherapy nurses will discuss the treatment that is recommended for you and explain how it will affect you. Once you have had all your queries and concerns about your treatment answered to your satisfaction, you will then be asked to sign a consent form.
(External) Chemotherapy information sheets
The (External) chemotherapy information sheets give details about individual chemotherapy treatment. Your doctor will discuss this with you when you come to the department. Because we work closely with The Christie Foundation Trust, some of our information is produced by them.
Each card has:
the name of drugs; the way the drugs are given, for example, injection or via a drip; treatment cycle (which days or weeks you have the treatment and how long treatment lasts); side-effects and how to cope; and contact numbers
Sometimes it is necessary to have a central venous catheter inserted to enable you to have you chemotherapy administered. A central venous catheter is a long fine hollow tube with an opening at each end. One end provides access from outside your body to the other end which is situated in a large vein in the chest. It can remain in position for several months. There is a cuff on the line which anchors it in position under the skin and prevents it falling out, it also helps prevent infection. About 12 inches of the line remains outside the chest. It has a plastic clamp on it which must always be closed when the line is not in use. The end of the line always has a plastic bung or cap attached to it when it is not being used. If you need more than one drug at a time, you may have a central venous catheter with two or three lumens, that is, a line with two or three ends.
What are the benefits of having a central venous catheter?
The line may be used to give your chemotherapy, fluids, blood or other drugs directly into your bloodstream. Some chemotherapy drugs are not suitable to be given into the veins in your hand or arm, so these drugs must be given into a larger vein. It may also be used for taking blood samples which are needed regularly, avoiding the need for repeated needle stabs in your arm. Some patients are able to continue their treatment at home with a central venous catheter in place. People who have a phobia of needles may prefer to have a central venous catheter.
Insertion site - jugular vein in the neck
An alternative to a central venous catheter is a PICC. A PICC is a peripherally inserted central catheter. It is a thin flexible tube that is inserted into a vein, usually in the bend of your arm. The PICC is then threaded along the vein so that the tip lies in one of the large veins in the chest. It can remain in position for up to six months. A specially trained nurse or doctor will insert your PICC. Not all patients are suitable for a PICC, so a doctor or nurse will assess you before one is inserted.
The illustration below shows the PICC line, and where it enters the vein at the inside of the elbow.
For oncology patients, these devices are inserted at The Christie Hospital. guidelines for district nurses are included to enable him or her to care for central venous catheters.
One of the most unpleasant effects of chemotherapy is losing all your hair. We offer a confidential wig fitting service here in the centre. This service is available each Tuesday morning. Any chemotherapy patient from East Cheshire NHS Trust wanting a referral to this service needs to contact the chemotherapy team on
01625 663198, or for clients who travel further, we liaise with companies in Stockport and Manchester.
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Scalp cooling is a method used to lower the temperature of the scalp, which restricts the amount of blood reaching the hair follicles. This then protects the hair follicles from the effects of the concentrated chemotherapy and can result in a high level of hair retention or complete hair preservation.
Fatigue is the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Fatigue is when you have less energy to do the things you would normally do or want to do. This is different from the fatigue of everyday life. Fatigue-related to cancer treatment can appear suddenly and can be overwhelming. It is not relieved by rest and can affect you physically, psychologically and emotionally. What to look for: Feeling as if you have no energy. Sleeping more Feeling tired even after sleeping. Not wanting to or being able to do normal activities. Less attention to personal appearance. Difficulty thinking or concentrating. What you can do: Balance rest and activities. Plan important activities for when you have the most energy. Try to do things you have to do throughout the day rather than all at once. Get enough rest and sleep, perhaps with short naps. Remember that fatigue caused by treatment is short-term and that your energy will slowly return after treatment ends. Ask for help when you need it. Eat a balanced diet and drink plenty of water. Exercise regularly at light-to-moderate intensity. Why exercise?
Regular exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, improves lung function, reduces being overweight and minimises the impact of ageing. This message applies as much to cancer patients as to anyone else – perhaps even more.
It is important to try and exercise a little if you can, even when you are not feeling too well. Research shows that exercise can help with the side effects of treatment such as fatigue, pain, nausea and vomiting. It can also improve your mood and feelings of confidence. Too much exercise can make you tired, so can too little. It’s important to find your own level.
Exercise as much as you can to keep muscles working as well as possible. Exercise helps prevent problems caused by long-term bed rest, such as stiff joints, weak muscles, breathing problems, constipation, fragile skin, poor appetite and low moods. Benefits of regular exercise: Maintains or improves physical abilities. Improves balance, reducing the risk of falls and fractures. Prevents muscle wasting caused by inactivity. Reduces the risk of heart disease. Prevents osteoporosis. Improves blood flow to legs and reduces the risk of blood clots. Less dependence on others to do normal activities of daily living. Improves self-esteem. Reduces anxiety and depression. Decreases nausea Increases ability to maintain social contact. Reduces symptoms of fatigue. Better able to control weight Improves the quality of life. | 9,393 | 4,103 | 21,393.513283 |
warc | 202143 | It is merely indicated to regulate body temperature level in the method it is supposed to presently function, bringing the body up to speed up. Along with the capacity to raise core body temperature level, this diet supplement removes the body of excess toxins that can stop the gastrointestinal system from functioning. Releasing these contaminants also improves the performance of the body immune system, launches swelling, as well as assists the customer to have more energy daily.
Individuals that are interested in investing in multiple bottles at the very same time might be able to obtain a one-month supply for as little as $39. SANE Luminae provides consumers with a blend of different components to aid them with weight loss, yet they still establish themselves apart by using an eating strategy to pair with the pills.
Some customers love a little direction, and also the consuming strategy offered with this program compliments the regimen completely. In addition to the additional assistance, consumers that take this supplement will certainly get the advantage of numerous components that aren't typically consisted of in standard diet plan tablets. The eco-friendly tea leaf essence, for example, is totally decaffeinated.
All of the components are backed by scientific proof, and users will certainly not discover caffeine as an energizer in any way - appetite suppressants. Individuals that have had problem with heart concerns in the past will likely discover a great alleviation in this component profile, decreasing their risk of a raised heart rate. Customers that want to get a one-month supply of this treatment will just need to pay $60.
Find out more Below. Leanbean Though the bulk of the weight reduction supplements on this checklist are implied for both males and females, specifically targets the metabolic processes of ladies. It has primarily rose to fame as the result of their major social media sites existence. It has a lot of scientific evidence to support the ingredients made use of, however there is one drawback individuals will need to take six capsules every day to obtain the advantages.
Okinawa Flat Stubborn belly Restorative The uses a somewhat different form than what the various other formulas prior to it on this listing have actually been. Rather of supplying a capsule, it is discovered in a powder.
The drink is quickly absorbed by the body because there is no need for it to break down any type of gelatin pills. The purpose of this formula is to advertise better weight monitoring, though it also supplies support for energy as well as food digestion. effective weight loss. Customers that take this formula will notice that it has probiotic microorganisms to cleanse the body of the contaminants that can build up within it overtime.
Lots of people do not take into consideration the moment that they are sleeping as an opportunity for weight reduction, however that's exactly what this formula does. The formula is made to help the customer rest better, making it extremely valuable to the procedures that need to strike repair brain connections as well as the physical body while resting. appetite suppressant.
By taking this treatment, consumers do not simply drop the additional weight with an energizer (raspberry ketones). Rather, they are boosting their entire body and the means it handles sugar each night. Customers will discover that the majority of the components in this formula focus on blood glucose degrees especially, yet that modification also benefits the customer's weight.
With tons of nutrients, consumers can concentrate on weight-loss as part of their entire health program. weight loss pill. A 30-serving container (which amounts a one-month supply) is $69 from the main site for Gluconite. However, individuals that purchase more than one bottle will get a discount rate that could lower the price to $49 per bottle.
Nocta, Lean also advertises better rest to aid with weight loss. The suggestion is that sleeping more peacefully can unwind the body and also recover it extra efficiently - metabolic rate. Customers that often tend to boost their exercises are most likely to feel the most profit from this formula, helping them to recoup after a long day of health and fitness.
This formula is a little bit greater than other solutions, costing $70 for a one-month supply. In each offering, consumers will certainly obtain an assisting of melatonin, apple cider vinegar, and herbal essences. Find out more Right here. Acidaburn has rather an intriguing back story. Rather than being established by a popular supplement company or an independent scientific brand, this formula was developed by Master Sergeant Randy Pedestrian of the USA Marine Corp.
Every one of these active ingredients are highly counted on the weight reduction industry, supplying ways to really feel fuller, promote far better digestive tract activities, and calm swelling as the digestive system heals. The rate of the Acidaburn formula drops in the middle of the supplements at $60 for a one-month supply. Since there's restricted info offered, customers will certainly be soothed to discover that this supplement comes with a 60-day refund policy.
A few of the active ingredients that consumers will certainly find in this product consist of eco-friendly tea, several mushrooms, feline's claw, and also painful nettle. Buying wholesale is most definitely the means to choose this formula. With simply one bottle, the total expense is $69, but buying six containers in the same plan expenses $49 each.
Transparent Labs Fat Burner originates from the Body series of supplements, offering among the very best values of any of the supplements on this list. The ingredients can be found in incredibly high dosages, though they do not surpass the amount that is risk-free for an individual to take. A number of the components are instead familiar in the fat burning sector, supplying every individual with an offering of forskolin, eco-friendly tea remove, 5-HTP, and caffeine. diet pills.
Together with the capability to shed through some of the stored body fats, it likewise lowers the extent of the appetites and also prevents the body from establishing brand-new stored fats. Users that take this remedy usually feel extra energetic and also favorable, yet the biggest claim is that as much as 7.
It takes some time to reach this objective, however the majority of people see at least 20 extra pounds lost within the initial three months (loss pills). Unity is another supplement on this checklist that functions to aid the customer boost their health and lose weight at the very same time.
It also boosts power degrees, making it less complicated for customers to reach the fitness center without battling to rise (diet pills). Among one of the most praiseworthy high qualities of Unity is the transparency they have concerning the components in their formula. Schisandra fruit essence, ashwagandha, as well as L-tyrosine complement the vitamins as well as minerals used.
Similar to Phen, Q, the total price is $70 for one container of Unity. weight loss supplements. Discover Much more Below. Bio Melt Pro brings consumers all-natural ingredients, though it is instead difficult to determine the dosage without complete openness. With insurance claims that the treatment is totally safe as well as reliable, Biography Melt Pro can assist consumers lose as much weight as they require to.
Inherently, this suggests that the remedy can aid individuals that have problem with their blood sugar level control, which is most likely as a result of using goji berries, grapeseed essence, and bladderwrack. Biography Melt Pro proceeds the fad of costly formulas, yet it has numerous reasons that it is worth the cash.
Discover Much more Right here. Nutra, Vesta Pro, Ven is specifically regarding weight reduction, though there are lots of antioxidants in this formula that buy the body of excess contaminants that can prevent the success. The ingredients are likely to be quite acquainted to the customer, considering it includes turmeric, ginseng, garlic, as well as a mushroom complex.
Pro, Ven's web site has a few different bundle alternatives, enabling customers that equip up to get a price of as low as $47 for one container. However, customers that just wish to attempt it out with one container will pay $67. Discover Much more Here. Just how the Rankings Were Figured Out Anyone that has actually done a quick search online can see how closely relevant almost all weight loss supplements can be.
Below are the variables that were taken into consideration when producing this listing of the best weight reduction solutions - instant knockout. While there are numerous active ingredients that customers can utilized to boost their weight-loss, not every among them has scientific evidence to sustain it. The components in the solutions noted above specifically have third event support from scientists who have actually already researched them.
Utilizing much less than the recommended amount to be effective just will refrain from doing, and those formulas were not consisted of on this list. Even though reputation isn't whatever, the formulas that were supported by a favorable as well as straightforward credibility of their makers were likely to obtain a higher put on this listing.
Business that showed laboratory testing and were truthful about their manufacturing locations were considered over others. Similar to the transparency of a firm matters, so does the label. Formulas that have an honest active ingredient account want to publish those components on their label straight. Despite having an exclusive blend, it is possible to show what active ingredients are included.
Realistically, these opportunities are just not true. The companies that were honest concerning what to anticipate from their item were chosen over those that really did not. This included claims of losing extreme amounts of weight in an extremely brief quantity of time. Some of the ingredients in various other weight reduction remedies make use of surprise ingredients as a method to promote weight management promptly.
Occasionally it is concealed behind an ingredient that generally has caffeine. Without law by the Food and Medication Administration, there are several weight loss solutions that simply avoid their scientific trials (weight loss pills).
With this info, the guide especially concentrated on what formulas would certainly satisfy that criteria to help customers to shed weight this year. green tea extract. That Is a Good Prospect for a Weight Loss Supplement? Unlike various other sorts of items, a weight management supplement is normally functional by any type of adults who intends to lose the additional weights.
There are several weight management supplements that concentrate on reducing the variety of calories that the body takes in, which they accomplished through lowering the appetite. Others attain this result by increasing the variety of calories that the body melt through. No matter if someone is already exercising or taking on much healthier eating practices.
There are some individuals that wish to make use of weight-loss solutions as a means to provide a shortcut to their goal, which is still safe with the right product. Consumers that are worried about their wellness might wish to talk with the doctor prior to they integrate one of these sorts of treatments to make certain that they can be safe.
With over $2 billion invested each year by Americans that simply want to include supplements to their regular, weight-loss solutions often tend to hold fairly a substantial place. There are numerous various benefits to consisting of a fat burning pill, and not every customer takes it particularly for the fat burning that it can offer (fat blockers).
They also assisted to create the deficiency that is occasionally tough to do with self-discipline alone (weight loss supplements). Altering exactly how much a person weighs is an easy method to boost their health and wellness, especially considering that over 60% of grownups in the United states are currently thought about to be obese. Thankfully, there are many individuals that are actively attempting to obtain in form, which is why the weight-loss industry as well as the supplements that it supplies are so important.
Below are a few of the usual ingredients used in the weight-loss sector today that consumers can take advantage of:, which can aid with percentages of weight loss., which can boost the variety of calories that the body burns while managing an overactive hunger. which is a risk-free energizer when much less than 500 mg is made use of everyday (garcinia cambogia). | 12,765 | 5,536 | 29,355.34953 |
warc | 202143 | It is merely suggested to control body temperature in the method it is meant to currently work, bringing the body up to speed. Together with the ability to raise core body temperature, this diet plan supplement removes the body of excess toxins that can prevent the gastrointestinal system from working. Releasing these toxins additionally improves the functionality of the body immune system, releases inflammation, and also aids the user to have more power each day.
Nonetheless, people who want buying numerous containers at the same time may have the ability to obtain a one-month supply for just $39. They likewise provide a money-back guarantee, and also all of their ingredients are evaluated for purity and also safety during production. Find out Extra Below - appetite suppressants. SANE Luminae gives customers with a mix of different ingredients to assist them with weight loss, yet they still set themselves apart by providing an eating plan to set with the capsules.
Some consumers love a little direction, and the eating plan used with this program compliments the regimen perfectly. Along with the extra aid, consumers that take this supplement will get the advantage of numerous components that aren't normally included in standard diet regimen tablets. The green tea fallen leave essence, for instance, is completely decaffeinated.
All of the components are backed by scientific evidence, and also customers will not find caffeine as an energizer at all. Leanbean Though the majority of the weight loss supplements on this checklist are meant for both males and females, particularly targets the metabolic processes of ladies. It has plenty of clinical evidence to sustain the ingredients used, yet there is one downside individuals will certainly need to take six pills each day to obtain the advantages.
Like the SANE Luminae formula, the complete price of a one-month supply is $60. weight loss pills. Find out more Here. Okinawa Flat Stubborn belly Restorative The provides a slightly various form than what the various other formulas before it on this list have actually been. Rather than providing a capsule, it is located in a powder.
The beverage is easily taken in by the body because there is no need for it to damage down any jelly pills. The function of this formula is to advertise far better weight management, though it additionally provides assistance for power and also digestion. green coffee bean. Users that take this formula will discover that it has probiotic bacteria to clean the body of the toxic substances that can accumulate within it overtime.
Most individuals don't think about the time that they are sleeping as a chance for weight-loss, but that's exactly what this formula does. The formula is made to help the customer rest better, making it unbelievably helpful to the procedures that require to strike fix brain connections as well as the physique while resting. metabolic rate.
By taking this remedy, consumers do not just drop the extra weight with an energizer (loss pills). Instead, they are enhancing their whole body and also the way it deals with glucose each night. Consumers will locate that a lot of the ingredients in this formula focus on blood sugar degrees particularly, yet that adjustment likewise profits the individual's weight.
With lots of nutrients, customers can concentrate on weight-loss as component of their whole health and wellness routine. fat burner. A 30-serving container (which amounts a one-month supply) is $69 from the main web site for Gluconite. However, individuals that get more than one container will certainly obtain a price cut that might lower the expense to $49 per container.
Nocta, Lean also promotes far better rest to aid with weight management. The concept is that sleeping much more comfortably can kick back the body and recover it a lot more successfully - weight loss supplement. Customers that tend to enhance their workouts are most likely to really feel the most gain from this formula, assisting them to recoup after a long day of physical fitness.
Rather of being established by a well-known supplement business or an independent professional brand name, this formula was established by Master Sergeant Randy Walker of the United States Marine Corp.
All of these ingredients are very relied on in the weight loss industry, providing methods to really feel fuller, advertise better digestive tract movements, as well as calm swelling as the gastrointestinal system heals. Considering that there's limited information offered, customers will certainly be relieved to discover that this supplement comes with a 60-day reimbursement policy.
Several of the active ingredients that consumers will discover in this product include green tea, numerous mushrooms, feline's claw, and stinging nettle. Getting wholesale is most definitely the method to opt for this formula. With just one bottle, the overall expense is $69, but ordering six containers in the exact same bundle prices $49 each.
Clear Labs Fat Heater originates from the Physique series of supplements, offering among the very best worths of any of the supplements on this list. The active ingredients are available in incredibly high doses, though they do not go beyond the quantity that is risk-free for a specific to take. Several of the components are rather familiar in the weight-loss sector, offering every customer with a serving of forskolin, eco-friendly tea extract, 5-HTP, and caffeine. fat burning.
Together with the ability to burn with some of the stored body fats, it additionally lowers the severity of the appetites and stops the body from creating brand-new saved fats. Users that take this treatment commonly really feel extra energised and also positive, yet the greatest claim is that up to 7.
It spends some time to reach this objective, however many people see a minimum of 20 extra pounds lost within the initial 3 months. Phen, Q is most definitely one of the a lot more expensive remedies on this list, priced at $70 for a one-month supply. Find out Extra Here. Unity is one more supplement on this checklist that functions to aid the individual enhance their health and slim down at the very same time.
It additionally improves energy degrees, making it simpler for consumers to reach the health club without struggling to obtain out of bed (prescription medications). Among one of the most exceptional qualities of Unity is the openness they have concerning the ingredients in their formula. Schisandra fruit essence, ashwagandha, and also L-tyrosine complement the vitamins as well as minerals made use of.
Biography Melt Pro brings consumers natural components, though it is instead hard to establish the dosage without total openness. With claims that the solution is entirely safe as well as efficient, Biography Melt Pro can assist customers shed as much weight as they need to.
Nutra, Vesta Pro, Ven is exclusively concerning weight loss, though there are many antioxidants in this formula that purchase the body of excess toxic substances that can inhibit the success. The ingredients are likely to be quite acquainted to the individual, considering it includes turmeric, ginseng, garlic, and a mushroom facility.
Pro, Ven's website has a couple of various package options, enabling customers that stock up to get a cost of as little as $47 for one bottle. Just how the Rankings Were Established Any Individual that has done a quick search online can see how very closely relevant practically all weight loss supplements can be.
Below are the aspects that were thought about when producing this checklist of the most effective weight-loss formulas - prescription medications. While there are lots of active ingredients that consumers can used to improve their weight reduction, not every among them has clinical proof to sustain it. The active ingredients in the solutions noted over exclusively have 3rd event assistance from researchers who have actually already researched them.
Using much less than the recommended total up to work just will refrain from doing, and also those solutions were not consisted of on this list. Even though credibility isn't whatever, the solutions that were backed up by a positive and sincere online reputation of their producers were likely to obtain a higher put on this checklist.
Companies that showed laboratory screening and also were straightforward concerning their manufacturing areas were considered over others. Similar to the openness of a company matters, so does the label. Solutions that have a straightforward active ingredient profile agree to publish those active ingredients on their label directly. Despite having a proprietary mix, it is possible to reveal what ingredients are consisted of.
Genuinely, these opportunities are just not real. The firms that were straightforward concerning what to get out of their product were liked over those that didn't. This included cases of shedding excessive quantities of weight in an extremely short amount of time. Several of the ingredients in various other weight management solutions make use of covert active ingredients as a method to promote weight management quickly.
Sometimes it is hidden behind an active ingredient that generally has high levels of caffeine. Without law by the Food as well as Drug Management, there are many weight loss solutions that just avoid their clinical tests (loss pills).
With this details, the overview particularly concentrated on what formulas would certainly meet that criteria to assist consumers to slim down this year. energy levels. That Is an Excellent Candidate for a Weight-loss Supplement? Unlike other kinds of items, a weight reduction supplement is normally usable by any type of grownups who intends to lose the added weights.
There are several weight loss supplements that concentrate on decreasing the number of calories that the body takes in, which they achieved through decreasing the cravings. Others accomplish this impact by raising the variety of calories that the body burn with. It matters not if somebody is currently exercising or taking on healthier consuming routines.
There are some people that want to use weight-loss treatments as a way to offer them a shortcut to their objective, which is still secure with the best item. Consumers that are concerned regarding their health may intend to speak with the medical professional before they integrate among these types of solutions to ensure that they can be risk-free.
With over $2 billion invested yearly by Americans that simply desire to include supplements to their regular, weight management formulas tend to hold rather a considerable place. There are lots of various advantages to consisting of a weight loss pill, as well as not every customer takes it specifically for the fat burning that it can offer (customer reviews).
They also helped to develop the shortage that is sometimes hard to do with determination alone (prescription medications). Altering exactly how much someone weighs is an easy way to improve their health and wellness, specifically thinking about that over 60% of adults in the United states are currently considered to be obese. Thankfully, there are numerous individuals who are actively trying to get in form, which is why the weight loss industry and also the supplements that it offers are so crucial.
Here are a few of the typical ingredients utilized in the fat burning market today that customers can gain from:, which can aid with tiny quantities of weight loss., which can boost the number of calories that the body burns while controlling an overactive hunger. which is a safe energizer when much less than 500 mg is made use of day-to-day (diet pill). | 11,747 | 5,103 | 26,967.686655 |
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As small business owners, we’re prepared for a lot of things, whether it’s a seasonal shift in sales or an unexpected employee absence we have to step in and cover. But we’ve never seen anything like the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving us uncertain about how to cope in these strange times. I know that this is a scary and isolating time both personally and professionally. I hope you’re staying safe and healthy, and that this article can help you with planning for business challenges related to the coronavirus. I’ve personally had to pivot many times as an entrepreneur, and while it can be stressful, it can also be a time of innovation and growth.
You probably know social media is an important tool for growing your business, but there’s a good chance you might be a bit overwhelmed with the number of different platforms out there. Not to mention the learning curve involved in trying to master them all! There’s no doubt the world of social media and internet marketing is a fast-changing landscape, but as the internet has begun to mature there are a handful of platforms that can definitely create results for the people who stay the course and try to master them. In this post, we’ll identify four of the big social behemoths, why they have the potential to create a lot of leverage when marketing your business, and which one might be the best for you to focus on.
In this exclusive Real Business guide, we look at how SME employers can find the best office space for them and their growing team. The average British worker will spend over 90,000 hours of their life in an office, equating to flying from the UK to Bali 18,056 times. If you are an SME employer tasked with managing staff and multitasking between many different roles, the time you spend in ‘the office’ goes up even more. But working in an office is not only taxing on an employer’s free time, but it can also put a strain on your wallet – particularly if you’re the one paying for the office space. The average office space costs business owners an average of £50,000, with prices fluctuating the closer you are to the major UK cities. This is why many SMEs with smaller teams are opting for flexible office spaces with shared facilities as they can cost anywhere from as little as £200 per person.
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is developing rapidly, leaving many small business owners uncertain about their future. Those we’ve spoken with expect the coronavirus to have a significant impact on their revenue. Unfortunately, it seems these concerns are justified, but there are some actions you can take to protect your small business while at the same time, protecting yourself, your employees, and your customers. In this article, I’ll lay out what we know about how coronavirus is impacting small businesses, how you can minimize losses, and some steps you can take to protect your business. These suggestions are by no means exhaustive, as there is much we still don’t know about how this situation will play out. But we hope they will be a good starting point for business owners who are overwhelmed and unsure of what actions to take.
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warc | 202143 | I have always argued that the difference between prose and poetry in our age is quite different. Some of the best poets are prose writers, that is, they do everything that poetry used to do and doesn’t now. Poetry is prosy now, and not as interesting as prose, I think—not even close. I’m also reminding people that this is a homemade object—the cuckoo clock, it says something, things speak themselves as well. That’s because I’m anti writing as merely written. I want the oral tradition. You go back to John Donne’s prose, or any of those writers, you get plenty of that, you get rhyming, alliteration, you get all kinds of other connections, all other devices of suggestion, and echoing, and so forth, because they were talking to hundreds, sometimes a thousand people in a church. Their sermon had to go out verbally and they had to use all the mnemonic devices they could, because they wanted to embed the so-called message. It was the word, it was the “living word,” and all that, that they wanted to stress. It was the same time the opera begins, masques and so forth. They were trying to figure out how music and its nature, and language and its nature, could cohabit. It is for me a great moment because of that. Ford Maddox Ford has a good passage in one of those endless books he wrote on the history of English literature about how prose changed after the protestants won the war in England, how prose went down the hill as the [former] king of the hill.
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When you put things on the margin, as poetry and fiction have certainly been, you free them in many cases, in many ways, and it’s great to be over there, in a sense, but it also causes damage. It’s a great incentive, if you’re over on the margin and feel you should be the center, and then those who are on the margin, know they’re on the margin, that’s the way it’s going to be, and they have their desperate little ways to pretend that the margin is really the center. And there’s the final thing when the novel was in the center for a while, people like Dickens, and even up through late James. There was a sense of the social responsibility of the writer, the impact—people paid attention. Recently, in Latin American literature, novelists were attended to. A little anecdote: While talking to Carlos Fuentes about that sort of thing, and trying to get at why there was such an explosion in Latin American literature, he said, “We are making our literature. We are behind the times.” Gertrude Stein said that the United States was the oldest country in the world because it’s been in the twentieth century the longest. And they were just getting to this, and Fuentes was right.
The novelists were celebrated people, and are, even still. The weight of being somebody who is attended to. [When a writer] came out on the stage, an athletic complex, usually, to read, the place would be packed with twenty thousand people. And when they finished reading, bouquets of flowers would be piled at his feet, and so orth. And the writer, serious writers would be read by half the population.
In China, the same sort of thing. I was introduced to a young woman, whose first book had just come out, and she was sort of disappointed in its sales. She sold a hundred thousand copies of her first book of poetry. Everybody in China reads. You would see people everywhere, perched somewhere, reading. And they would run out of paper, the whole country would run out of paper there were so many. But the problem is that only in less developed societies are novelists and poets valued. The Russians are losing that fast. And they should be, because we writers don’t know what we’re talking about. Some writers are wise people, I guess, and have something of intellect to offer to society, but no more than any other group. You want to listen to Tolstoy? I don’t think so. But then what? What are the young writers writing for? They’re writing for their peers in their seminars, the workshops, that’s who. It’s pitiful.
Barth was writing for the greats of the past, whom he had read, and, again. Fuentes or Vargas Llosa, they read Don Quixote, I mean. And they’re given ambassadorships, they run for president. They are important people, so they have to do important things. And now what we do to something important, we sign a petition not to arrest a Chinese radical. Big deal. I think it’s naturally a very difficult thing.
One last thing, when you make less grand the activity, it becomes a hobby, and it actually multiplies the number of people writing poems, tons and millions of people are writing poems, all kinds of people are writing novels, because it’s not hard. The Yeats poem “Adam’s Curse,” we’re down on our knees scrubbing the kitchen floor. No, we’re not. They’re writing little poems about being mistreated by their husband or wife. At least the Restoration poets wrote about getting into bed.
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When Valéry was in a similar position and was called a Symbolist, he said, “But we all write differently. What is in common? We dislike the same things.” That’s true of this group, too. We share certain dislikes.
I’m on Adorno’s side: that real change has to be structural or formal. And that’s why he favored Schoenberg over Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a perfectly bourgeois composer, and he borrowed his motifs, and of course people held that against him, I don’t—as long as you’re good, that’s fine. And Adorno and his friends are wrong to say he shouldn’t do that.
Schoenberg had another structure, and that had, as it’s merits, not being Stravinsky, or the tradition, the eclectic quality of Stravinsky, too. You take Schoenberg, however—he was dictatorial. The positive side of Schoenberg was not very good, I think, as a model of other things. And to defend the twelve-tone system you just have to point to the fact that you can write masterpieces with it. It doesn’t mean you have to use it all the time. Fact is, it’s a rather a specialized occasion, type of formal design. It’s like the Bauhaus: military, chilling, or the tendency of modern architects to say, “Live in my house! It’ll be good for you!” These architects thought that they would make better people. Even Frank Lloyd Wright did.
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You remember the anecdote about Gertrude Stein and the little bell ringing in her head that told her when she was in the presence of a genius? And it rang for her with Picasso and Alfred North Whitehead. Well, it rang once for me: Wittgenstein. It was just as well to be tongue-tied in his presence because he didn’t want to hear from you anyway. What we did was listen to him. He would talk about an issue as if we weren’t there. When I repeat it, describe it, it sounds so phony, but we listened to him think out loud, for our benefit. It was, in fact, genuine. It was as if you could suddenly follow [Wallace] Stevens, say, deciding whether to keep or remove a word. We listened while he struggled with the pros and cons of some sort of interpretation of some epistemological problem, mainly. I was very skeptical, but I immediately saw, I think, that this guy was something.
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warc | 202143 | Weetabix Note: baby must be over six months before they can have a wheat based cereal. Add fruit, yoghurt or milk.
Can a 6 month old have Weetabix?
As with any food, you can give your baby Weetabix once they’re over six months as they start weaning. Weetabix and its related products including Ready Break or Oatibix aren’t suitable for babies under six months.
How much Weetabix should 6 month old eat?
Cows milk is fine on cereal from 6 months. I’d give half to a whole bit of weetabix to allow for mushing up and chucking. I don’t think I’d expect more than 2 or 3 spoonfuls to be actually eaten at 6 months. Mine manages about 3 baby weaning spoons (6.5 months).
Are Weetabix OK for babies?
Weetabix, Ready brek and Oatibix are not suitable for infants under six months, and are not produced specifically for infants or young children. The Department of Health recommends you use mashed up family foods when possible. Cow’s milk is not suitable until 12 months and sugar and salt are not to be added.
What cereal can I give my 6 month old?
We’re sure you’ll find one that your little one loves.
Gerber Organic Single Grain Oatmeal Baby Cereal (6-Pack) … Gerber Baby Cereal Probiotic Oatmeal & Banana Baby Cereal. … HappyBaby Oatmeal Baby Cereal (6-Pack) … Earth’s Best Organic Whole Grain Oatmeal Cereal (2-Pack) … Beech-Nut Stage Oatmeal (6-Pack)
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Is Ready Brek OK for 6 month old?
Yes ready brek is fine.
What can I give my 6 month old for breakfast?
Baby breakfast ideas 6 months
Banana. Buttered wholemeal toast. Eggs – any which way – try hard boiled, scrambled or omelette cut into strips. Almond butter thinned with a little of your baby’s usual milk and spread on rice cakes. Wholemeal English muffin spread with a soft cheese like Philadelphia and cut in half.
14 дек. 2020 г.
Can a 6 month old have yogurt?
If you’re wondering if your baby can have yogurt, most experts agree that 6 months is a good age to begin eating the creamy and yummy concoction. This is a good age because it’s around this same time that most babies are starting to eat solid food.
Can I give dates to my 6 month old?
When can babies eat dates? Because they are sticky and very high in sugar, it’s best to wait until your baby is 18 months or older before introducing dates and processed bars and snacks that contain them.
Can I give my 6 month old Weetabix with cow’s milk?
yes, weetabix and cows milk both fine.
What cereal can babies eat?
You can choose a single-grain infant cereal, such as rice, oat, or barley, or a multi-grain option that combines two or more. If you choose cereal as your baby’s first food, it’s a good idea to include grains other than rice so that your baby isn’t only ingesting rice cereal at every meal.
What cereal should baby eat first?
When the time is right, start with a single-grain, iron-fortified baby cereal. Rice cereal has traditionally been the first food for babies, but you can start with any you prefer. Start with 1 or 2 tablespoons of cereal mixed with breast milk, formula, or water. Another good first option is an iron-rich puréed meat.
How many Weetabix should a baby eat?
it should be 1/2 to 1 1/2 biscuits for a child aged 1-3 years. Obviously depends on teh child but for a baby of 10 months I would start with 1/2 biscuit and take it from there. You can always add mashed banana or puree apple to it. I did give Weetabix to my two older children when they were babies.
How many times a day should I feed solids to my 6 month old?
How many times a day should my baby eat solid food? At first she’ll eat solid food just once a day. By around 6 to 7 months, two meals a day is the norm. Starting around 8 to 9 months, she may be eating solid food three times a day.
How much solids should a six month old eat?
Start to give your baby solid foods at 6 months of age, just as a breastfed baby would need. Begin with two to three spoonfuls of soft and mashed food four times a day, which will give her the nutrients she needs without breastmilk.
What finger foods can I give my 6 month old?
Best Finger Foods for Baby
Puffs and dry cereal. Puffs and O-shaped dry cereal are some of the most popular first finger foods for good reason: They let baby practice the pincer grasp by picking up one at a time. … Teething biscuits and lightly toasted bread. … Scrambled eggs. … Soft fruit. … Avocado. … Pasta. … Tofu. … Cooked vegetables.
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warc | 202143 | Toddlers need 11-14 hours of sleep every 24 hours. That’s usually 10-12 hours at night and 1-2 hours during the day. Common toddler sleep problems include having trouble settling to sleep and not wanting to stay in bed at bedtime. A positive bedtime routine helps toddlers get ready for sleep.
Is there a sleep regression at 28 months?
28-Month-Old Sleep
Consistency is key for a 28-month-old’s sleep routine. Try to stick with usual bedtimes and naptimes to keep crankiness and restlessness at bay. When something changes the routine —a special event that runs through naptime, for example—go with the flow.
How many words should a 28 month old have?
As for expressive vocabulary, this typically increases between ages 2 and 3 to about 300 words. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, at 27 months, children should be saying new words each month and using two-word sentences, such as “more juice”.
Should my 28 month old be napping?
Most toddlers this age still need at least one hour-long nap in the afternoon, which may actually help your child fall asleep more quickly and efficiently at night. Even if yours doesn’t, a little quiet time — for her and you — won’t hurt.
How many hours does a 30 month old sleep?
30 months: 1.2 hours average; range 0.7 – 1.7 hours. 3.5 years: 1.1 hours average; range 0.5 – 1.7 hours.
How much milk should a 28 month old drink?
Limit your child’s milk intake to about 16–24 ounces a day (2 to 3 cups).
What should a 30 month old be saying?
It’s normal for a 30-month-old vocabulary to be around 100 to 250 words. Your child may also be using two- or three- word phrases. A 30-month-old not talking may need to have a hearing evaluation and/or may need some help from an early intervention program.
What are signs of intelligence in toddlers?
Here are the main signs of an intelligent baby to keep an eye out for and how to nurture them.
Hits milestones earlier than other babies their age. … Has very good focus. … Likes solving problems. … Enjoys (even prefers) solitude. … Extremely curious. … High birth weight. … Alertness.
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Can too much TV cause speech delay?
Based on a screening tool for language delay, researchers found that the more handheld screen time a child’s parent reported, the more likely the child was to have delays in expressive speech. For each 30-minute increase in handheld screen time, researchers found a 49% increased risk of expressive speech delay.
When should a child know their ABC’s?
By age 2: Kids start recognizing some letters and can sing or say aloud the “ABC” song. By age 3: Kids may recognize about half the letters in the alphabet and start to connect letters to their sounds. (Like s makes the /s/ sound.) By age 4: Kids often know all the letters of the alphabet and their correct order.
Do daytime naps affect night sleep for babies?
FACT: Day sleep and night sleep is intrinsically linked. The first 12 hours of your baby’s day directly affects the next 12 (the night). A baby who sleeps well in the day will also sleep well at night, provided their daily cumulative nap hours haven’t been exceeded for their age.
Is a 3 hour nap too long baby?
Is a 3 hour nap too long? While it can feel strange, waking a baby from a 3-hour nap is definitely okay, and considered best practice. Babies take a while to learn the skill of sleep, much like an older child is going to take a while to learn to read.
What age do babies only have 1 nap?
The average age for the transition to one nap is 15-18-months. Usually your child shifts to one afternoon nap starting between 12:00-1:00 p.m., in sync with internal biological rhythms, or his internal sleep clock. Don’t jump the gun too early.
When should kids go to bed?
Sleep: what children need
At 5-11 years, children need 9-11 hours sleep a night. For example, if your child wakes for school at 7 am and needs approximately 10 hours sleep per night, your child should be in bed before 9 pm.
What time should I go to bed?
School-age children should go to bed between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Teenagers, for adequate sleep, should consider going to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. Adults should try to go to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m.
Why a child should pick their own bedtime?
Bedtime is important also because it teaches the child a key skill (falling asleep at a set time) for physical and mental health. Lack of sleep adversely affects physical and emotional functioning. | 4,631 | 2,234 | 9,193.592211 |
warc | 202143 | Well being Knowledge Analysis UK launches £2m fund for Covid analysis Well being Knowledge Analysis UK has launched a £2m fund to raised perceive Covid-19 by way of knowledge and superior analytics.
The funding name is a part of the Nationwide Core Research (NCS) into Covid-19, with Well being Knowledge Analysis UK working in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and the Workplace of Nationwide Statistics.
It would kind a part of the NCS Knowledge and Connectivity programme. This examine makes obtainable UK-wide well being and administrative knowledge to assist and speed up analysis into Covid-19, by way of streamlined knowledge entry and evaluation.
Andrew Morris, director of Well being Knowledge Analysis UK and lead for knowledge and connectivity, mentioned: “The tasks supported by this thrilling funding name will allow insights that proceed to enhance our understanding of Covid-19 and due to this fact inform how we are able to finest assist sufferers within the subsequent part of the pandemic response.
“Working in partnership with ONS and The Alan Turing Institute gives an extra demonstration of how our collaboration is driving innovation and that, collectively, we’ll ship even larger constructive affect to society by way of the applying of well being knowledge science.”
By supporting analysis tasks and analyses Well being Knowledge Analysis UK hopes to create new insights that may inform nationwide Covid-19 insurance policies in addition to future pandemic preparedness. It would do that by utilizing the information infrastructure and functionality assembled by the examine; utilizing the Trusted Analysis Setting (TRE) to use novel analytical, statistical and mathematical modelling and machine studying experience; and enhancing the information property being made obtainable.
Analysis tasks that look to make use of a number of datasets at the moment linked and obtainable in TREs to conduct analyses might be prioritised. For instance:
Viral variant abstract and genomic sequencing knowledge from Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Linked outbreak-relevant knowledge from medical data, analysis research and audit from key initiatives (CO-CIN, for instance) The linked Covid vaccination knowledge The linked nationwide digital well being report knowledge asset The linked Public Well being Analysis dataset (census, mortality, major care knowledge)
Professor Sir Adrian Smith, institute director and chief govt of The Alan Turing Institute, mentioned: “This name builds on the energy of the present partnership between Turing, ONS and HDR UK, which mixes experience in superior analytics, with knowledge assortment and curation in and past the well being area. We’re delighted to assist development of the Nationwide Core Research and its success so far.”
Earlier this 12 months, Well being Knowledge Analysis UK launched a brand new performance for researchers permitting them to look by particular inhabitants standards throughout a number of datasets.
An episode of Digital Well being Unplugged with Well being Knowledge Analysis UK checked out using knowledge in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. You may take heed to the episode right here or on Spotify, Apply Podcasts and the same old podcast platforms. | 3,303 | 1,513 | 7,086.277594 |
warc | 202143 | You can be the best baseball player in your school, but even if you dream of playing in the big leagues, nobody is going to just hand it to you. It takes a lot of work to become a professional athlete, and you’re going to need to be dedicated. Along with that vital dedication, you’re also going to need to have a plan.
You’re going to require a lot more than your sporting ability; you’ll need to know what teams are looking for, how to break into the sport, and what the chances of making it to the big time are. If you’re dreaming of hitting a home run at the world series, here are some tips that might make walking to the diamond as part of your daily work life more attainable than you thought.
No professional athletes need to have a formal education or a degree, but playing at the college level can be very useful for getting noticed by scouts. If you’re a standout player at school, then it’s definitely worth looking at asmscholarships.com and the application process. Not only will playing at the college level boost your visibility, but it also means that you’ll be training with a higher caliber of players, improving your skills as you learn. Choose the right scholarship, and you can even benefit from a well-formulated pathway into your baseball career.
The goal should be getting noticed by scouts, and there are some steps you can take that make this more likely. While going to college and playing at a higher level is the most beneficial option, you can also:
● Send out query letters to teams
● Keep up to date on open tryouts and attend all that you can
● Play everywhere there’s a crowd
It’s also worth looking at minor league teams, as these usually have involvement with the major teams. Not only that, but you’ll be practicing in a more professional environment too, which is also good for your attitude.
It’s all about practice if you want a sporting career. You’re going to need to put the hours in, and you’re going to need to make constant improvements to your skill levels. Make sure that you maintain a high level of health and fitness, but don’t forget to work on your hand-eye coordination as well. Never forget just how competitive pro baseball is, and always focus on getting faster, stronger, and more agile. You can be the best player in the world, but if you can’t make it around the diamond at a fast pace, then your baseball dreams might well come to nothing. The more you practice and the more that you train, the more likely that you will be picked up by a big team.
On a final note, it’s also worth considering what to do if your career does take off, and you hit the big leagues. Remember, you only have a limited number of peak years, so you need to think about what you’ll do after you’ve passed that peak. There are plenty of career options, such as commentator, scout, or coach, so think about possible options for when you’re no longer at the top of your game. That will make it easier to start building up those additional skill sets that will make the next stage of your sports career easier to break into | 3,184 | 1,464 | 6,650.73224 |
warc | 202143 | Get to know us - Rebecca Leakey
At our practice in Oxford Circus (W1W), all of our therapists are qualified psychologists, psychotherapists or counsellors. They are registered with several professional bodies, including the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the British Psychological Society (BPS), as well as, BACP, UKCP and BABCP. They use CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, humanistic and integrative approaches, tailored around your needs to help you deal with your challenges and reach your goals.
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I am passionate about the field of therapy. My passion and enthusiasm, I feel, come from my personal experiences and witnessing the transformative power of this work. The time I spent in Asia, learning and practising different methods and therapeutic approaches orientated in Eastern philosophy, was growth-promoting. I feel these experiences positively inform my practice as I have a holistic view and appreciation of each individual. I am particularly interested in how the body can advise and guide therapeutic practice.
I have trained with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute in London. I am currently undergoing Somatic Experience training in London and Edinburgh to deepen further my knowledge and understanding of the role of the body and nervous system in understanding trauma, mental health, and recovery. I am also nearing completion of my Internal Family System’s training: a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy.
I am committed to my ongoing personal and professional development. I am constantly looking to evolve my practice and the effectiveness of my work. I am a registered member of the BACP, adhere to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions and attend regular supervision sessions. I have experience working with trauma, addiction, and other complex issues in private practice and organisations.
I am a versatile therapist and work integratively to ensure I can meet each client’s individual needs. I draw on a variety of approaches in my work. These include (although not exclusively); Somatic experiencing, which works by bringing awareness to the sensations in the body, thus giving access to the nervous system and the body’s natural healing powers to resolve trauma and other stress-related disorders. Internal family systems therapy – which works on supporting the relationship between the “self” and the parts that make up the self, allowing us to work with defence and protective patterns which have built up over time in response to trauma. Compassion-focused therapy, which aims to promote healing by encouraging individuals to practice compassion towards themselves and others. Sensorimotor psychotherapy – a body-centred approach that seeks to treat the somatic symptoms of unresolved trauma. Sensorimotor psychotherapy combines somatic therapies, attachment theory, cognitive applications, neuroscience, and techniques from the Hakomi method.
The core values of the person-centred approach underpin all my work. I believe wholeheartedly that individuals can move in the direction of change, growth, empowerment, fulfilment, and the opportunity to reach their full potential when provided with a safe and facilitative environment.
I have proven experience of working with clients from broad demographic and cultural backgrounds. I am creative, empathetic and nonjudgmental, dedicated to ensuring ethical and reflective practice. I am also collaborative and conscientious, committed to meeting the unique needs of every individual.
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warc | 202143 | By DEB PIROCH
Why do we use a saint’s or other Christian name as our given choice? Early Christians took new names in Baptism, just as many of us are given these names at infant Baptisms. We also may take a saint’s name at our Confirmation (or stick with our Christian baptismal name), and religious often take another name when they take their vows.
These all indicate a conscious embrace of new Christian life, the putting on of the wedding garment and making all things new in Christ. So, too, a bride takes the name of her husband as she sheds her single life and embraces the married one. If you thought you were imagining a trend in odd name-giving, it’s not your imagination. Lack of religion is shown when a quarter of Americans state they are “spiritual but not religious” (What does that even mean?) and two percent of the population of the UK census self-identifies as pagan or Wiccan. Such trends demonstrating today’s populace veering away from Christian values give alarm. Practices from socialism to witchcraft are becoming more mainstream; likewise the embrace of non-Christian names and neo-pagan practices. Social Security lists the most popular names of 2020 and two of the top ten female names — Harper and Mia (“mine” in Italian) — are not religious. In the ancient beginnings of the Church, however, there were no great lists of saints’ names to adopt. We are told that it was not uncommon to take the name of a martyr, or of a holy person, however. So, waiting for precedents is certainly not unheard of….And throughout history, NewAdvent.org explains, in its entry on “Christian names,” even in the Catholic Middle Ages there were a great many names that had no saint’s names as their precedent. No, it was not a hard and fast rule, but it is nonetheless an excellent one to emulate. Likewise, there are many other Christian types of names, for instance, ones associated with Christian virtues — like Benedict (“blessed”) or Pius. Likewise, there are names like Noel (Christian festivals) or Redemptus (Christian dogmas), and so on. Tesla CEO Elon Musk named his son X Æ A-12. I could explain but there’s really no point. I thought it might be a car model, but there is a plane model included in there. When actress Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter “Apple,” it was quite controversial. She didn’t mean the computer company. She opted for the fruit as she finds apples “wholesome” and “biblical.” Really biblical would be looking at the obvious Christian example: Christ turns to Simon in the Gospels, saying famously, “You will be called Kephas,” meaning Peter, and upon that rock Christ built the Church. We also think of Saul becoming St. Paul, though we do not know specifically why he chose this name. We must assume, again, that he was taking this name as a symbol of his new life, walking in the light of God made man. “We are all called to be saints,” said Mother Angelica. In our journey to Heaven, cannot each of us use a special intercessor before God? This is one of so many good reasons to choose a particular saint for one’s baptismal or Confirmation name. Obviously, something about that person’s holiness should resound with us. Hopefully, we can find that saint a good one to imitate and turn to throughout our lives, and imitate his or her virtues. Alternatively, perhaps one is devoted to a certain cause associated with one saint, or there is a saint associated with one’s family. In ours, the first boy for six generations has been named for St. Joseph, as protector of the family. We also as a family celebrate St. Joseph’s feast in giving the person named for Joseph a saint’s card and, in doing so, also honor the saint. I often wondered what would happen if someone in our family had a girl but later no boy came….I thought if I’d married I could have covered this eventuality, by naming a girl St. Josephine “just in case” that girl was the only girl! This is a lovely tradition, especially as it fosters a love for the protector of the Holy Virgin and the Christ Child, a love for the family, for marriage, for unity, for holiness, for so many virtues. St. Joseph fosters a love in so much depth, because as one ponders the sacred mystery of the “Word became flesh,” it was Joseph who protected the Christ Child and kept Him safe. So too, he keeps us safe, even as we finish the year of St. Joseph proclaimed by our Holy Father. As a reminder, you might consider special devotions to St. Joseph especially through December 8, to receive special graces and to honor the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Joseph, as Patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX. Ah, and Mary’s name we honor as she is the greatest and most holy of saints. Even though we do not refer to her as “St. Mary,” we do name churches after her (St. Mary Queen of Grace, and so on). So, for reasons already mentioned we honor her, as Christ honors her, and many opt to have a variation of her name as part of their own. This includes even male religious who may take the name “Mary” or “Maria” as their middle name — Fr. Kolbe’s full name is St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. One way to hear the names of the saints and pray at the same time is to listen to or sing the beautiful Litany of the Saints. Hearing the prayer sung in chant is particularly moving, with the intoning of each name, followed by the choir answering, “Ora pro nobis.” This litany is the oldest of those approved for public worship, dating to the sixth century, the reign of Pope Gregory the Great (lived 540-604; Pope from 590-604). We can expect to hear it again the evening of All Souls’ Day as we prepare for All Saints’ Day November 1. The Litany of the Saints is also heard variously on feasts throughout the year, and is used also at the blessing of cemeteries; the ground must always be consecrated before Catholics are buried there. Indeed, as the winter nights grow darker, we might also recall that a singular reason for taking the name of a saint is for the protection this affords. Having a saint’s name isn’t a magic amulet, but an extra protection, along with all that the Christian life affords: with primarily the Mass and the sacraments as the sources of tremendous grace we are so blessed to be able to have. For the Devil roams through the world and we belong to the Church Militant, and the battle rages: “For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12). | 6,861 | 3,247 | 13,865.685864 |
warc | 202143 | We choose the heart of summer to write about “deep technologies” in order to propose a definition of deeptech, with the help of Bpifrance’s work.
If the word synonym of disruption and contraction of “deep technology” is not yet on everyone’s lips, it is more and more used, up to the point that we forget that its definition is not very clear.
Here is ours: a deeptech technology is a non-digital technology resulting from fundamental research. It has various industrial applications that have the potential to disrupt one or more existing markets or to create a new one, without necessarily disrupting society. These applications are developed by start-ups that are themselves very unique. Here are some explanations. Without science, there is no deeptech
A deeptech technology is inextricably linked to the idea of “disruption”, which has an obvious corollary in the form of a strong link with research, particularly fundamental research. This research, sometimes carried out for decades and with mostly public funding, is the most likely to allow the production and development of ideas – and consequently, technologies – that are sufficiently unusual to bring about the much hoped-for breakthroughs.
A deeptech cannot be (only) digital
Although it may seem counterintuitive, a corollary of this idea of disruption is that a deeptech technology cannot be digital. Unless an algorithm or a digital system with a fundamentally different functioning and efficiency is created, digital technologies, even advanced ones (high-tech technologies), rely on already existing technologies.
From deeptech comes a world of possibilities driven by start-ups
While each deeptech technology offers numerous development prospects, the choice of destination market rests with the start-up, which is the vehicle for bringing the technology out of the laboratory and onto the market. This choice will depend on the background of the holders and market trends.
In the current context of recovery, reindustrialization, industry 4.0 and the fight against climate change, “industrial” applications seem to us to be by far the most interesting to retain. That said, not all deeptech applications have the potential to affect the whole of society or humanity. Disruption or the creation of one or more markets, even if they are niche markets, is enough.
A deeptech start-up therefore proposes a product based on one or more deeptech technologies combined with more “classic” technological building blocks, including digital ones. It is created with the objective of propelling these combinations onto a market. But is this simple fact enough to qualify this start-up as a deeptech? Probably not as other questions arise: is the founding or management team highly scientific? Does the proposed product present intellectual and technical barriers to entry? What is its state of maturity? What are the proposed costs for its development? And finally, will it disrupt its market?
Without a scientific team, no deeptech start-up
The fact that the technology was developed in a laboratory has two consequences. First, the founding team is composed mostly of high-level scientists who have worked on the technology. The share of scientists may decrease over time, leaving room for more commercial profiles for certain positions, but the majority of employees, from management to the board, will preserve the scientific background of the start-up over time.
An immature product, but well protected…
The second consequence is that when they leave the laboratories, deeptech technologies display very different states of maturity, affecting their time to market, which can be quite short if the technology is well mastered.
In any case, it is clear that the product developed does not escape the need for intellectual protection. In addition to this protection, it presents potential competitors with two other types of barriers to entry: an “intellectual” barrier, which comes from the experience accumulated by the founders during their academic work on the technology, and a “technical” barrier, linked to the resources developed around the technology during this academic phase.
… to costly but not necessarily long development
The development of the product is announced from the creation as capital-intensive and, as we have seen, possibly long. The capital-intensive aspect may come from the low level of maturity of the technology, the need for an industrialization phase, with the installation of non-standard equipment, but also from regulatory obstacles. Indeed, the existing regulations in a given country may not be adapted to the new context created by the technology. International expansion also requires compliance with new regulations, some of which may be put in place to block or pre-empt the development of the technology.
Although very promising, the market for a deeptech start-up is not self-evident. The breakthrough must be desired by its target market and accepted by the company. These two acceptances, which depend on the famous momentum coupled with a pedagogical work around the technology, can be very sudden.
To convince ourselves of this, we can ask ourselves whether, without the global pandemic that has been hitting us since 2020, messenger RNA vaccines would have been developed and marketed so quickly and so strongly on a planetary scale?
— Frédéric Jehl, Deeptech analyst, Economic Studies for Crédit Agricole Group | 5,565 | 2,468 | 12,230.372771 |
warc | 202143 | The task of declare residential property problems appears to be so dreadful that lots of people select the help of a property claims lawyer. When people locate themselves victim of unforeseen losses, they try to find legal counsel to help them in submitting an appropriate claim. A residential or commercial property loss legal representative can assist you in getting a just and also appropriate settlement for all your building losses. In this short article, we will go over the significance of residential or commercial property problems attorneys. It is actually a widely known reality that the insurer do not compensate for building problems because they know that it will certainly cost them excessive. For that reason, public insurers have been assigned by the state government to check homes before the storm period begins. Public adjusters carry out a series of tests consisting of the checking of electric circuitry, roofing products, pipes, water drainage system and various other important components of the house. When these tests reveal that there are no damages whatsoever, the insurer will not compensate the homeowners. Every house owner has a right to get a residential or commercial property damage legal representative if the residence obtains damaged due to the oversight or inability of the owner. Public insurance adjusters are not permitted to make repair work to the residential or commercial property unless the home owners to file a claim for the damages from the insurer. If the property owner does not have a valid case, the insurer will not spend for the fixings. This is why you need the solutions of a reputed residential property insurance claims attorney. There are numerous law practice that offer legal depiction to house owners that require this kind of lawful representation. there are minority states where there is no statute of restrictions on the filing of building insurance claims. This indicates that, you can declare any insurance claims for injuries or home damages as long as you haven’t vacated the state. The only point that you require to do is to inform the Department of Insurance concerning your insurance claim. This will permit the division to check out and also process your insurance coverage claims. One more benefit that you can get from hiring a residential or commercial property asserts lawyer is that they have accessibility to the ideal lawyers and injury companies who have an excellent performance history with their clients. Considering that the insurance provider can not validate the claims, it is far better to obtain lawful depiction from an injury company. A reliable injury firm will most definitely see to it that the process of filing the insurance claims is finished within the called for amount of time without any hiccups. It is essential to keep in mind that these companies will not have the ability to offer you an exact amount for the building damages and also injuries that you have endured. They will just offer you with an estimated quantity that is based on the approximated value of the home that was damaged or injured. It is recommended that you obtain a cost-free examination from an insurance plan lawyer prior to you sign an insurance policy with an insurer. This will certainly help you understand if you are getting the most effective deal from the insurance provider. | 3,370 | 1,498 | 7,565.627503 |
warc | 202143 | Use a spray bottle to moisten the paper towels and then store the cushioned seeds between two plates, under a face-down bowl, or gently place them in a plastic bag. Maintain a temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, keeping the paper towel wrapped seeds in the dark and away from a windowsill. In two to five days, the seeds will pop inside the paper towel sandwich and emit tiny roots, ready to plant when they reach about five millimeters in length.
Monitor your soil every day and keep it moist. Within four to seven days, you should see tiny stems sprouting from the soil.
To germinate seeds indoors, use any of the methods described above. Within a few days, you’ll have popped seeds ready to transfer to a growing medium.
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Whether you’re planning an indoor cultivation or outdoor grow, it’s best to germinate your seeds indoors. It’s easier to maintain proper temperature, light exposure, and moisture inside, and you can protect your seeds from the elements. Indoor germination, whether using soil or paper towels, will ensure your cannabis seeds have the best chance for survival.
So, you’ve decided to grow your own cannabis plants. You purchased a pack of seeds, assembled cultivation materials, cleared a space in your garden, and are ready to grow your first cannabis crop . With everything in hand, it’s time to begin the very first step of cannabis cultivation : germinating seeds.
To employ water germination, fill a glass with tap water and let it sit until it reaches room temperature or around 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Add two to three plant seeds per cup and allow them to sit, watching for any changes. Change the water to fresh tap water every two days, making sure it stays at room temperature.
When a seed enters an environment with enough moisture, it will increase in size and slowly break out of its shell. A seedling or germ forms from which roots will emerge, helping the baby plant absorb nutrients from the soil. Seeds naturally develop roots facing down and stems stretching upward, allowing the young cannabis plant to simultaneously feed off light and earth.
If seeds sprout, but then stop growing…
Water your seeding in the Rapid Rooters until you see a root coming out the bottom. Keep Rapid Rooters moist but not wet. During this time, give seedlings bright filtered light. A CFL or LED light bulb kept several inches away works well. I’ve left mine on the kitchen table next to a sunny window, and that’s also worked fine for me as long as it doesn’t get too hot.
You should see a root come out the bottom in just a day or two!
3.) Germination
Try to let the seedlings break free if possible. But if you have a seedling that’s stuck in a shell after a day or two, and doesn’t seem to be getting any better, you need to go in and help.
Turn your cannabis seeds…
Example of cannabis seedlings growing in coco coir, about to get seedling-strength nutrient water. If they were in soil, I would give plain water for the first few weeks.
We have a cannabis seedling germination page that includes everything you need to know about
all the different germination methods, but this tutorial is different. In this tutorial, I’m going to share exactly how I do my seeds from beginning to end. Just follow these instructions and you’ll end up with healthy, fast-growing plants that germinate in just a few days. It’s basically fail-proof. | 3,477 | 1,658 | 7,086.117612 |
warc | 202143 | Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Projects Ready to Start
9:41:58 PM | 3/4/2013
Ninh Thuan province has been chosen to host two atomic power plants and these facilities are expected to create new opportunities and motivations for development in the new stage. According to the national electricity development plan, ground will be broken for the two nuclear power plants in December 2014 and work completed by 2020. The facilities are expected to start generating electricity by the end of 2020. Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Director of Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Project Management Board, said the preparatory progress is very favourable and the feasibility report is scheduled to be submitted to the Government for approval this year. Cong Luan reports.
Vietnam will build two nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan province. Could you tell us the role and importance of these two plants to the province’s socio-economic development?
The intent of building two first nuclear power plants in Vietnam was ratified in the 12
th National Assembly’s Resolution 4 /2009/QH12. Accordingly, the Article 3 specifies nine major tasks the Government has to carry out and the tasks related to Ninh Thuan province are to elaborate detailed plans for the relocation and resettlement of local inhabitants, and construct infrastructure facilities serving the project, ground area and auxiliary structures serving the construction of the plants; to properly carry out information work and mobilisation of the people through various specific forms, creating high consensus in society. 1
The province is elaborating migration and resettlement projects to build two resettlement areas with synchronous technical infrastructure for reallocated people. Ninh Thuan is also working on personnel training plans.
As regards technical infrastructure, the Government of Vietnam has invested in building coastal roads to serve the projects and create a coastal traffic route to link Khanh Hoa province and Binh Thuan province. Besides, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group will invest two roads connecting National Road 1A and the coastal route.
As for human resource attraction, the construction of the two nuclear power plants will create direct jobs for over 30,000 people, including 2,000 foreigners. Many services will be created for domestic and foreign experts when power plants are being built. When the two atomic power plants go in operation, they will produce 28 billion kWh a year. Given a kWh of electricity is sold at 8 cents
, total revenue will be US$2.24 billion year. The province will collect VND5,000 billion of taxes a year. In addition, these facilities will help Ninh Thuan province attract more investment projects which will create jobs for local people and raise incomes in the province. in 2022, total revenue will be US$2.24 billion year. The province will collect VND5,000 billion of taxes a year. In addition, these facilities will help Ninh Thuan province attract more investment projects which will create jobs for local people and raise incomes in the province.
How is the progress of the two nuclear power plants? To prevent nuclear accidents, how is the safety issue for the two plants addressed?
The Russian - Ukrainian contractor consortium, consisting of E4 - KIEP - EPT, has basically completed the survey for the first phase of the Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant No. 1. Currently, the contractors are collecting, analysing and processing geological and environmental data to choose the location. In the fourth quarter of 2013, they will complete and submit location and project documentations for approval.
Japanese contractor, JAPC, has completed the field survey and supplemented surveys for the Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant No. 2. The contractor is continuing with analytical surveys, processing data and materials collected to make location and project documentation for approval. JAPC has fulfilled legal procedures to serve additional surveys to confirm geotechnical properties. The consultant will complete and submit location and project documents for approval in the second quarter of 2013.
In addition, component projects are also being carried out together with the two atomic power plants.
Safety for two facilities, with experience learnt from the Fukushima (Japan) incident, is given more attention, particularly response solutions to natural disasters, with computing and simulation of extreme cases like extreme climate and geological events, taking into account the concurrence of rain, storm, flooding, earthquake, tsunami and other Act of God. The contractor also researches and assesses the full impact of tectonic fracture, climate change and sea level rise in the project area. In addition, we consider the project design of special standard, ensure the highest security, safety, and pass all protection assumptions. We also thoroughly examine the design and closely manage the construction to ensure standard quality. Besides, we focus on human resource training to ensure professionalism and discipline and build a culture of safety.
Could you share about the training of management personnel for nuclear power, nuclear regulatory personnel, project management personnel, and nuclear power operation personnel in the future?
Currently, the board has 104 staff, with 88 holding university degrees or higher. They have been trained with basic knowledge of nuclear power, reactor technology, project management, finance and procurement, public information on nuclear safety and radiation, human resource development and nuclear regulations. Training courses in foreign countries have been provided for 74 staff and 182 turns have taken part in advanced training courses and conferences related to nuclear power.
As regards personnel training for the operation of these power plants, EVN has established a project to train some 2,200 people to operate the two atomic power plants. In 2009, EVN recruited 29 talented students and sent them to training in France and Russia. From 2010 to present, the group has coordinated with the Ministry of Education and Training to recruit, finance and send 169 students to training programmes in Russia. Especially, EVN has dispatched 15 experienced electricity specialists to Japanese power plants to train key staff for Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant No. 2 in accordance with a 2-year programme (2012-2014). In the coming years, EVN will continue to recruit talented students for the nuclear power industry. On the other hand, it will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to recruit and finance students, and seek long-term service commitments to the project after they graduate.
How about the results of topographic, geological, hydrological and oceanographic surveying and environmental impact assessment on these projects to date?
Topographically, we have completed the terrestrial terrain map on a scale of 1:5,000; seabed map on a scale of 1:10,000 and 1:1,000 for the two plants.
Geologically, the Ninh Thuan 1 nuclear power plant has completed the first-phase field survey (test drilling, geophysical measuring, geological drawing, etc.); processed and analysed data to make reports, and started the second-phase fieldwork survey. Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear power plant has completed exploratory drilling and geophysical measuring (seismic exploration, logging methods) and is now adding additional survey works.
As regards meteorological and environmental impact assessments, we are investigating and collecting field data and process data to make detailed reports. | 7,587 | 3,117 | 18,386.974013 |
warc | 202143 | Room: AAPM ePoster Library
Purpose: Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is extremely sensitive to patient motion, requiring consistent anatomical position across b-value images for apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) calculation. This work presents the impact of respiratory motion management (RMM) with patient biofeedback on DWI of liver SBRT cancer patients.
Methods: Eight patients were imaged pre- and post-treatment on a 1.5T MRI with navigator triggered acquisition and no RMM. Two patients were imaged once before and twice after treatment on a 3.0T MRI with a manually triggered sequence during biofeedback guided breath hold. Biofeedback was provided using an in-house developed RMM system and an MRI safe monitor displaying real-time breathing traces to the patient. Clinical imaging protocol was followed for the 1.5T machine (b = 50, 400, 800s/mm²) and an eight b-value protocol on the 3.0T scanner (b = 0-1000s/mm²). ADC values were calculated in ROIs using least squares fitting with all b-values. ROIs were drawn in the GTV, liver, and spleen for all patients, and liver dose regions receiving >50Gy, 25 to 50Gy, and <25Gy. Liver dome position was compared on coronal views for all b-values.
Results: SNR of b0 images was significantly greater on the 3.0T system than the 1.5T system as expected (Average 515 versus 95). Liver dome superior-inferior position varied by 3.1mm and 1.04mm on average without and with visual guidance respectively, with maximum values of 9.5mm and 3.4mm. The standard deviation of tumor ADC values was two times greater for images acquired on the 3.0T system than on the 1.5T system but similar in the spleen and low dose liver.
Conclusion: The RMM system was able to significantly reduce liver dome motion during DWI acquisition, possibly improving the localization of ADC values. The increased STD in the tumor may indicate increased tissue heterogeneity which is not visible with respiratory motion.
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warc | 202143 | Everyone is aware of the importance of water for our bodies, and that we can’t live without it. But we want to show why drinking water is so important by highlighting the main benefits of proper hydration.
We spent long hours researching expert sources to identify the best benefits of water consumption, backed up by studies.
Continue reading to find out the benefits and an infographic that summarizes them all.
#1 – Increases brain function
Around three quarters of your brain is water, so it is vital that you drink enough water to make sure that you are able to focus and have the right levels of energy and brainpower during the day.
#2 – Promotes cardiovascular health
If your body lacks enough water, it may negatively impact your heart because it will lower the volume of blood and your heart has to over-work to ensure that your body has enough oxygen.
If this happens frequently, it may lead to heart attacks or strokes [3], that is why it is so important to drink enough water to take care of the health of your heart!
#3 – Great for weight loss
Drinking water will help you if you are trying to lose weight for different reasons. Some studies have shown that drinking water may increase your weight loss by 44% in a 12 week period [4].
Also, if you are following a weight loss plan, drinking water is better for you than drinking diet beverages, because will lead to greater weight loss and will add extra benefits, like improving your insulin resistance [5].
Increasing your water consumption can make you more sated, which will lead you to eat less and avoid frequent snacks during the day, but will also increase your metabolism, which will make you burn more calories than usual.
Another potential benefit for weight loss is if you drink water before a meal – this method will help you reduce the meal energy intake [6].
#4 – Improves physical performance
If you exercise, make sure that you are well hydrated from the start, and that you drink regularly during the workout. Some studies have shown that dehydration impairs physical (and also mental) performance [7], with a special negative impact on activities that take more than 30 seconds [8].
#5 – Helps joints and muscles to work better
Proper hydration helps lubricate your joints, and improve the joint’s shock absorption capabilities, preventing joint pain.
If you dehydrate your muscles will tense up, which can cause muscle cramps. The water inside muscle cells helps cleansing waste allowing better performance [9].
#6 – Improves skin health
Lack of enough water in your body will make your skin less elastic, becoming more susceptible to skin issues [10].
Drinking water also helps to remove toxins from your body and skin, contributing to cellulite reduction and better skin health.
The only bad news is that proper hydration won’t prevent wrinkles 🙂
#7 – Regulates your body temperature
Sweating is a mechanism that the body has to cool down and regulate its temperature in an optimal way. That is why it is so important that you are well hydrated to ensure that your body is capable of regulating your temperature.
#8 – Prevents kidney damage
Your body uses water to filter waste from your body and blood, producing urine to expel it. If you are dehydrated the toxins in your body can accumulate, and may cause your kidneys to stop working.
Water may also help to dilute the concentration of minerals in your kidneys, which may prevent the formation of kidney stones (more studies are necessary to ensure this).
#9 – Helps to prevent and treat headaches
If you suffer from headaches, drinking water may help you in two different ways.
First, drinking water may help relieve headaches in people with frequent headaches
And second, other studies have shown that mild dehydration may trigger headaches [11], so good hydration may prevent headaches from showing off.
#10 – Relieves constipation
Having the right amount of water will help to improve your bowel movements, preventing constipation. Even if you consume fibers, if you don’t have enough water in your body, the stool won’t be soft enough to move through leading to constipation [12].
#11 – Prevents bad breath
Having enough water in your body not only keeps your lips moist but is especially important because it prevents your mouth from becoming dry which causes bad breath [13] and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
What Next?
Now that you are aware of the top benefits of drinking water, make sure you remain properly hydrated throughout the day.
A common recommendation is to drink around 8 glasses of water per day, but most important is that you drink water, and that becomes a habit for you. And if plain water sounds a bit boring for you, spice it up with a slice of lemon or lime!
If the water at your home isn’t great, don’t let it stop you from drinking water. First, learn more about water filters and then buy the best water filter for you to get your daily dose of pure water. | 5,078 | 2,245 | 11,155.766592 |
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warc | 202143 | Suffering from a dead iPhone battery by the time they hit 4pm? Improving the battery life of your iPhone is something that many mobile device users want to know. When you use your phone so frequently and check it for just about everything in your daily life, it can really drain your battery and possibly leave you with a dead phone – just when you need it most!
So, here are some tips to extend and improve the battery life of your iPhone:
Switch to Airplane mode when you don’t need your phone Get rid of background apps – You’d be surprised how many apps are running in the background on your iPhone. Many work tirelessly sending you notifications and draining your iPhone batteries. You can double click on the start key and the applications that are open will appear on your screen; just swipe up on the app screens you don’t want to run. Do this regularly – you will be surprised how many you will have open! You can also go to settings> notification center to choose the apps you don’t want to receive notifications from. Get rid of dynamic backgrounds – They look pretty at first, but moving or ‘dynamic’ backgrounds consume a lot of battery. So choose a normal image for your lock and home screen. Go to Settings> Wallpapers, then choose an image from your gallery or a provided stock image. Receive your email manually – This tip depends on the amount of email you receive and how often you want it to sync. If you only need to check emails every few hours, choose to have push emails instead of searching for them. You can find the options to do this in Settings. Turn off location tracking – Usually you don’t need apps to constantly know where you are. So to stop this, go to Settings> Privacy> Location Services and turn them all off, or select specific apps that you don’t want to track. Think about the heat – Take care of your phone. This means not leaving your iPhone in direct sunlight or very hot. If it gets hot when you are charging it, remove the case or any excess part of the iPhone to allow it to cool down. Get a new battery – If you find that the charge is really junk in your iPhone batteries, you may consider buying a new one. This can really extend the life of your phone. If you decide to do this, be sure to use genuine iPhone battery replacements when looking for Apple replacement parts online. Only a true and genuine iPhone battery will be good for your phone, so don’t be fooled into thinking that a mediocre unbranded battery would be just as good. It could harm your phone more than help it! – One of the biggest battery drain culprits in iPhone batteries is a weak signal; your phone is constantly searching for a signal, and if you are in an area with a poor signal, it can affect the battery. You may consider turning on Airplane mode (find it under ‘settings’). If you are in a meeting or traveling, this is a good idea; Remember to return to normal later or you will not receive calls. You should also try to use Wi-Fi instead of mobile data whenever possible.
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warc | 202143 | (Bloomberg) — U.S. unexpectedly rose in August as a pickup in purchases across many categories more than offset weaker demand for vehicles.
The value of overall retail purchases climbed 0.7% last month following a downwardly revised 1.8% decrease in July, Commerce Department figures showed Thursday. Excluding autos, sales advanced 1.8% in August, the largest gain in five months.
The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 0.7% decline in overall retail sales, with forecasts ranging from a 3.3% drop to a 1.1% gain.
U.S. stock-index futures pared losses and bonds slipped after the report.
The surprising improvement in sales, underpinned in part by back-to-school shopping and payments for millions of families with children, suggests resilient demand for goods. The report showed firmer receipts at non-store retailers, general merchandise stores, furniture outlets and grocery stores.
The delta variant is curbing demand for services such as travel and leisure. The retail sales data showed receipts at restaurants and bars, the only services-spending category in the report, stagnated in August. Grocery store receipts climbed 2.1%.
Still, a surge in Covid-19 infections, rising prices and persistent supply chain challenges prompted a wave of downgrades to third-quarter economic growth forecasts in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, economists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:). downgraded their third-quarter consumption forecast to a 0.5% annualized decline because of delta’s impact on services spending.
Separate data on Thursday from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed an index of services business activity in the region slumped 13 points in September to 14.4, indicating softer growth. Another gauge showed a deterioration in the business climate.
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warc | 202143 | Has this ever happened to you?
You just spent all morning making breakfast, unloading the dishwasher, and packing lunches for the kids. Your partner, meanwhile, just strolled in from a morning workout, seemingly oblivious to all your hard work.
Or you just spent ten hours working your face off so that you and your partner can afford the vacations, the house, and the cost of day care. Your partner, meanwhile, just arrived home from a long walk with a friend and a spacious afternoon where...
Spring is finally here.
If you're like us, you might be cleaning out your closet, sweeping the garage, or tossing out old files from your office.
There's something cathartic about spring clean up. And yet we think this ritual shouldn’t be limited to your home, garden, or storage room.
As you transition out of the snow, cold, and long nights of winter, what would it look like to also spring clean your relationship?
Here are our three favorite tools.
We're thrilled to report that The New York Times did a review this week of our book, The 80/80 Marriage. They linked radical generosity in life to what happens in the bedroom. Read the article and ask yourself: "How does the way I do life show up in sex?"
Click here to read the full article.
At long last, we've launched our new book
The 80/80 Marriage.
So we thought we would break from our usual format this week and use this as a chance to reintroduce ourselves and this idea of the 80/80 marriage.
So who are we anyway? Well, we met each other 24 years ago, during our senior year of high school. Ironically, we met in chemistry class, where the two of us shared the same lab table. We dated for a short while, went to senior prom together, and even got into the same college. But...
Power.
It’s the marital equivalent of the Wi-Fi network in your house. It’s an invisible force and yet it’s always there, operating in the background. And, just like your Wi-Fi, when power goes out of whack, you feel an instant surge of irritation, anger, and sometimes even rage.
When we started writing The 80/80 Marriage, one of our primary goals was to better understand the dynamics of power in marriage. We had both experienced first-hand the sting of resentment that...
One of the unique quirks of the human brain is its propensity to mirror the states of others. When we see an eight week old baby smile, we can’t help but smile. It just sort of happens.
But the opposite is also true. When we experience our partner's irritation and anger, we get pissed. We feel an instant surge of irritation and anger. It just sort of happens.
Psychologists have a name for this phenomenon. They call it “complementary behavior." It’s a fancy way of...
There’s something strange about conflicts in marriage.
Modern couples could fight about thousands of things. Life these days, after all, is messy, complicated, and full of an endless stream of logistical challenges, to-dos, and parenting dilemmas.
And yet, when it comes to what we
actually fight about, most of us have a pretty short list. The same three to five recycled conflicts just keep popping up, again and again.
For us, it's three things: balancing time spent with each...
Over the last few years, we've immersed ourselves in the cultural conversation on marriage. What we've found is that just about everyone, from bloggers to therapists to celebrities, seems intent on promoting the same marital cliché:
marriage is hard.
It's a platitude that is at least partially true. Early on in marriage, it's helpful to hear this. For us, for example, we walked into marriage with all sorts of misguided ideas. We thought marriage would be more like...
Ah, politics.
It’s on everyone’s mind these days. And, let's face it, conditions of polarization and disagreement haven’t just intensified in government, society, and the media. They've also intensified in marriage.
Some couples experience the most extreme form of these political conflicts, with one partner representing the far Left and the other the far Right. In the US right now, this looks like an ardent Biden supporter and an ardent Trump supporter, struggling each...
When something goes wrong, horribly wrong, our first instinct is to blame.
We experienced this first hand last year during our family trip to Mexico (ah, vacations...remember those?). On our drive from the airport to the hotel, we were pulled over by the Mexican police for 45 minutes.
Then, our hotel room ended up sharing a wall with the all-night New Year’s Eve dance party, which meant that we (and our 8-year-old) slept, not at all. And then after moving to a new resort,... | 4,699 | 2,315 | 9,328.986609 |
warc | 202143 | Are you leading with science at the center of your organization?
If you are a sci-fi fan, a technology geek or a leader who nurtures your inner Elon Musk, I urge you to read about "The New Scientific Method" in Accenture's report, Business Futures 2021: Signals of Change.
Many companies are embracing science to transform their businesses and tackle the world’s fundamental challenges. U.S.-based Biomason, which uses microorganisms to grow ultra-strong bio-cement-based construction materials with zero CO
2 emissions, is just one such “scientific” company creating better, cheaper and more sustainable products.
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I'd like to bring the notion of becoming "a scientific company" down to earth. And explain why "The New Scientific Method" is applicable—and in fact, essential—to every organization in every industry.
The key word in "The New Scientific Method" is method.
Here's why: We are living in an era of unprecedented disruption and convergence of industries. We already see it everywhere: Pharmaceutical companies are using artificial intelligence to develop mRNA vaccines against the world's worst diseases. Hardware manufacturers are using biologics to print circuit boards. Consumer packaged goods companies are employing new breeds of scientific talent to develop DNA-based foods. New cars are essentially computers on wheels, as automakers morph into digital mappers of global mobility services.
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Just as every company has had to become a digital company, tomorrow's best-positioned organizations will necessarily be scientific companies.
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If you're not disrupting and converging yet, The New Scientific Method will help you get there. The method is the opposite of scientific wizardry. It is a three-step process to equip any organization to adapt and seize the future:
Reimagine your design-build-test-learn cycle.
Open up to drive your ecosystem forward.
De-risk through alternative investment vehicles.
On a practical level, taking these steps will likely evolve your organization's culture. You need employees who are eager to use data analytics and AI to “Learn from the Future" (another Signal from our report), are comfortable drawing on ideas across many different fields, and are willing to work with partners outside your organization's discipline. Partnerships can enable you to speed up your innovation and spread your capital risk.
Just as every company has had to become a digital company, tomorrow's best-positioned organizations will necessarily be scientific companies. Making this transition will likely be even more challenging than going digital. Particularly in an era of global pandemic, biological threats and genetic engineering, science is a polarizing concern across the globe. So, the onus is on every leader to build understanding and trust of the company and the mission.
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One expert who offers wise advice is Peter Ronco, Head of Global Development at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Talking about "The New Scientific Method" at Accenture's recent Future-Ready Forum, he cited three elements essential to success: transparency (of data and methods), collaboration (across companies and industries) and communication.
"Communicate directly and consistently with the skeptics, with the underserved populations, with the people who disagree with you," Ronco advised, adding, “We all need to play the long game."
Indeed, we are. Are you getting scientific to win your long game?
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warc | 202143 | The Sustainability Research & CPD Committee has oversight of all the working parties listed below and encourages them to undertake research that can be shared with Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) members via sessional papers, articles in The Actuary or the British Actuarial Journal (BAJ), and presentations at conferences and workshops.
The Committee currently has the following research working parties exploring the following topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Energy in the Economy Practical Guide to Climate Change for GI Practitioners Practical Guide to Climate Change for Investment Actuaries Practical Guide to Climate Change for Life Actuaries
The committee also has links to several working parties led by other practice areas.
Members interested in volunteering for a research working party should check Volunteer vacancies for current and new working parties.
The Sustainability R & CPD collaborates with external researchers studying relevant topics. For example:
Sustainable Finance Programme – the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment is seeking to understand how finance and investment intersects with the environment and sustainability, with particular emphasis on “stranded assets”. The IFoA is represented on the Programme’s Global Advisory Council by Mike Clark Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity – the IFoA is a non-academic partner in this multi-disciplinary research centre, based at the University of Surrey.
The IFoA is also actively involved in commissioning strategic and external research relating to Sustainability.
Information on research undertaken by universities and other external agencies which receive funding and/or support from the IFoA, as well as the IFoA’s strategy for involvement, the process for calls for research, current research initiatives and funding, can be found in Research and Knowledge.
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This practical course is aimed at actuaries at any stage of their career who want to develop their own growth mindset and apply it to their work setting and personal or professional lifelong learning. The content of the course builds on the lecture given by Dr Helen Wright on Growth Mindset as part of the President’s 2021 Lecture series, and will be delivered over a period of 2 months, from mid-October to early December.
In this webinar, we will discuss how cause-of-death data from the Office for National Statistics can help us to understand how inequalities arise at the all-cause level. The key to understanding mortality inequality is to think about the chain that connects risk factors, relative risks, and cause-of-death mortality through to all-cause mortality.
The importance of biodiversity for finance, business and policy is being increasingly recognised. While many studies highlight the overall economic impact that biodiversity loss could have, it is much more difficult to quantify and understand the particular impact that is may have on individual businesses or communities. The management and measurement of these risks is a field where actuaries are well placed to contribute.
The climate crisis and the degradation of our planet will affect societies everywhere. How we address these threats will require solutions that transcend borders. As a global profession, the actuarial community is well-placed to consider and propose effective risk management solutions to help manage the climate crisis.
Join leading experts to discuss key issues, emerging ideas and new research across the general insurance sector.
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warc | 202143 | Carrie LaFrenzSenior reporter
Shares in cosmetic injections and skincare group SILK Laser Australia have climbed 3.8 per cent on their debut on the Australian Securities Exchange, pushing its market capitalisation to nearly $168 million.
SILK's shares began trading on Tuesday under the ASX code SLA. The stock rose as high as $3.65 before settling the day at $3.58. The group successfully raised $83.5 million at $3.45 per share.
It is the latest of 17-odd companies listing from Monday until the end of the calendar year.
More than 90 companies have joined the ASX this year, similar to last year's numbers. Nearly all of this year's listings were crammed into the second half, with just over $4 billion in new equity raised in the past three months.
Proceeds from the SILK IPO will support its expansion as it aims to almost triple its retail network from 53 to 150 sites by opening 10 clinics a year. The company will also continue to invest in business intelligence and dashboard tools that have been a key driver of strong clinic performance.
SILK's addressable non‑surgical aesthetics market is estimated to be about $5.4 billion a year.
Chief executive and co-founder Martin Perelman told
The Australian Financial Review strong demand for services was driven by the growing popularity of beauty regimes and increasing affordability, making them more accessible.
"We are a shopping centre lunchtime treatment and an affordable service," he said. "We have realised that this is an essential service to our clients. We do not see any slowdown at all."
He said all the service categories were trading extremely well.
I am confident that with the funds raised we can continue to benefit from this momentum and further accelerate our growth.
— Martin Perelman, SILK CEO and co-founder
"We are really comfortable with our growth plan. From our perspective we have a great business. We are making good money and we are going to hit our forecasts," he said.
Mr Perelman said the IPO is another important milestone for the company founded in 2009.
"Our clinics have continued to perform strongly throughout the year, and I am confident that with the funds raised we can continue to benefit from this momentum and further accelerate our growth," he said.
SILK confirmed the strong operational performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2021 had continued.
Black Friday boost
Results for the quarter ending September 30, and the first two months of the second quarter to November 30, showed clients were visiting clinics for procedures such as laser hair removal, cosmetic injectables, skin treatments, body contouring and fat-reduction services, and for skincare products.
Unaudited network cash sales remain well ahead of last year, up 63 per cent on the prior comparable period. Network cash sales are cash sales of clinics owned by SILK, clinics operated as a joint venture and franchised clinics.
Unaudited year-to-date network cash sales were $38 million, exceeding forecast expectations in the first two months of the second quarter. Unaudited year-to-date pro forma EBITDA reached $8.7 million, representing 63 per cent of the full-year forecast.
The company said a successful Black Friday online marketing campaign in late November helped offset the effect of all clinics in South Australia being closed for three trading days because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Stockbrokers Wilsons and Ord Minnett handled the float for major backer private equity firm Advent Partners, which still controls 28.19 per cent of the company. The stake will remain in escrow for up to 18 months.
Mr Perelman's holding in SILK fell to just under 6 per cent from 11 per cent, making him the fifth largest shareholder.
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warc | 202143 | Thermal camera for body temperature detection have been an instrumental device in identifying suspected carriers of contagion viruses in world history. It is considered one of the most reliable and feasible means to measure human body temperature in critical situations without having to come in contact with others. Historical relevance of thermal camera for body temperature detection
Back in 2003, the world was struggling to seek prevention and protection against SARS coronavirus as the death tolls were rising, over 8000 cases in different countries worldwide were reported. The governments of various nations chose to use thermal imaging sensors as a preventive device to measure the body temperature of visitors and passengers to recognize the possible victims of the virus. High body temperature was one of the most common yet prominent symptoms of SARS akin to COVID-19.
Thermal cameras for fever detection were installed at airports, railway stations, and all major check-points across the world.
Then in 2012, the world experienced another deadly virus MERS-CoV that also has fever as its major symptom. The same approach was taken up once again and thermal cameras for fever detection screening solutions proved to be an effective way to mitigate the perils of virus outbreaks.
Cut to COVID-19 pandemic
Since 2020, the COVID-19 virus outbreak once again has put the world in the doldrums in terms of health and socio-economic disaster but the relevance of thermal cameras is still there and even in a more advanced way. Thermal cameras for fever detection screening solutions in different timelines have been widely used by many nations like Singapore, New Zealand, UK, and others to screen their checkpoints, business, and public locations, etc. to recognize people with high body temperature.
Case in point: Singapore has set a brilliant example of being a technically advanced country that used the power of thermal screening technology. It deployed thermal cameras for fever detection on roads and public areas from where responders tracked the body temperature of all passer-by and identified the potentially infected people. Authorities then recognized, quarantined, and treated infected ones and took preventive actions towards people who had been in contact with the suspected ones.
In the current situation, where human life is getting back to its normal pace and businesses have re-opened, people need to take all the preventive measures for self and public security. And technology is going to be the top companion of businesses and people in safeguarding them against fatal coronavirus infection. Smart thermal cameras are next-gen smart cloud-based screening cameras that come enabled with smart AI analytics software that accurately reads the heat emitted by humans, objects, and surfaces.
Business places such as offices, workshops, warehouses, and many others are the hotspots where people visit regularly so these places are highly vulnerable to contagious infection threats. Therefore, a tough and reliable preventive solution must be installed at these places to safeguard its people, the public, and valuables from catching the virus. And nothing can be better than a thermal screening camera that is a touch less means to read human body temperature, restricting the entry of people with fever. There are a lot more advanced features of smart
thermal cameras, making it an essential part of businesses to seek protection against COVID-19. We will read about a leading thermal camera and its features in the next section. Ambicam Smart Thermal Cameras for body fever detection
They come with a range of innovative features that make them one of the best choices while opting for thermal imaging sensor solutions. They are designed from high-grade material and boast in-built smart analytics based on AI and ML. Compatible with Wi-Fi and 4G technology, these thermal cameras offer 24 hours live screening facilities to the users at places with or without good network connections. Automatic video compression, full HD display, cloud video storage, quick and DIY installation, local feeding facilities, and much more offer utmost usability, reliability, and monitoring advantages to responders – all within nominal rates. Ambicam thermal cameras can be deployed easily at business places, public places, checkpoints, vehicles, etc. for the overall security of the public and properties.
Functionality meets innovation
To determine the significance of thermal cameras during the pandemic situation, let us understand the features of these devices. Here we go.
AI/ML algorithm for smart analytics. AI/ML-based smart features enable these cameras to offer advanced functionality including: 1. Fever detection: Detects body temperature of 6-8 people simultaneously from a distance of 3 meters. 2. Face recognition: Contactless technology to identify faces precisely to allow and restrict entries of known and unknown faces respectively. Thermal cameras for fever detection are also used for marking employee attendance correctly against the right employee ID and departments. Over 80 facial points can be recorded and recognized by each thermal camera. 3. Headcount: Gives automatic headcount that is quite close to the actual number 4. Mask detection: Precisely differentiate between masks and clothes and quickly identify faces without masks even in the crowd 5. Heatmap detection: Successfully determine the pathways that are used by potentially infected visitors in a bid to block those areas from human contact. Precision and promptness
Eliminating all the chances of false alarms and unnecessary hustle, smart thermal cameras deliver accurate and quick temperature readings of humans and objects. These temperature screening solutions provide results within milliseconds with zero error.
Real-time alarms
Smart thermal cameras send quick alarms on recognizing any unfavorable or suspicious behavior to intimate responders in case of any possible act of crime.
The basis on the following features, smart thermal cameras for temperature measurement delivers several benefits to businesses amidst the critical times of the COVID-19 outbreak. Read below in detail. 1. Provide round the clock security to businesses through live screening for enhanced safety 2. Contact less monitoring of surroundings and body temperature of human beings 3. Record data and store it safely on the cloud in an organized manner to help responders find required information immediately. 4. Assist in maintaining COVID-19 preventive measures throughout the business places
Businesses have got
thermal camera technology as an effective weapon to shield themselves against this unseen deadly virus. Sooner or later but the ultimate rescuer in these hard times would be smart and digital technologies – thermal screening cameras to be precise. | 6,879 | 3,017 | 15,613.984753 |
warc | 202143 | Morning rituals are a must for me! It is all about aligning and laying a strong foundation for my day, just like I would for my week, month and year with the flexibility to embrace changes where necessary. Choosing consciously to be in control of your day by setting powerful habits can transform your life significantly.
These are the few things I do as part of my morning ritual that helps me get into the right energy and mindset and have a really productive day!
I like waking up early so that I have enough time to centre and realign before my kids wake up. I remember being enticed by ‘The 5am’ Concept when I was still in law school and waking up at 5:00 AM was the best thing I ever did. Not only did I do well, I even got a scholarship!
I have started implementing that again lately after reading Robin Sharma's 'The 5 AM Club' book and I must say it has been a catalyst for a calmer and more productive day and life. Especially being a full- time single mom, waking up early and just having that hour to my self is non-negotiable. Starting my day right, having a proper schedule and plan for my day is a must in order for the rest to follow! Especially so now, with the chaos and having my three (3) kids at home all the time, centring myself is vital to making the best out of my day.
Affirmations are a great way to start your morning. As put by the queen of affirmation, the late Louise Hay, affirmations are
“A way of opening the door and starting out on a path to change”
Do this first thing in the morning when you wake up. Smile or laugh and say out aloud “I am happy”, ‘I feel amazing’, ‘today is going to be an amazing day’ or any other positive affirmation.
Even if you are very depressed or stressed or worried with all that’s going on. Force yourself to do this. It is not about faking it but it is about stepping into your power and deciding how you want to feel and setting an intention for how your day is going to be. Consciously going against any negativity in your mind creates an immediate shift in your energy field, psychologically causing a change in the brain activity triggering happy emotions thereby reducing stress and improving your mood. Starting your day in positive mood and energy helps bring in more positivity into the day and your life. SMILE FULLY using the facial muscles around your eyes. You will sense an immediate shift in your emotions.
Avoid the news or social media immediately as you wake up.
Remember however, the key is to bring this positive energy into your day. Don’t leave it there in your bed or coffee cup!
I prefer a liquid diet until 11:00 AM where I then have a healthy brunch. I usually have lemon in hot water or a mixture of lemon, cold-pressed ginger, turmeric and hot water first thing when I wake up. These have such strong benefits in helping flush out toxins and boosting immunity and good digestive system as well as being anti-inflammatory. I like adding in mint leaves as well.
I love smudging my space with palo santo or sandalwood powder/chips/sticks and defusing essential oil. (I find these to be the best smudging tools) Different types of smudging have been a spiritual practise for centuries. It has been used to cleanse off negative or stagnant energy from a person or space and to promote healing and wisdom.
Defusing different essential oils also helps with this. I especially love using lemongrass and lime to cleanse the space followed by frankincense to activate higher energy in the space. It is essential to clear the energy in your surrounding as we are energy beings and are influenced by the energy in our surrounding.
In addition, smudging and diffusing essential oils are also seen today as a good way to clear harmful bacteria.
Open up curtains and blinds and windows if possible, to allow sunlight and fresh air in. Allow for energy flow.
After my client Lin started smudging and clearing the energy in her home, she stopped falling ill and was no longer getting angry as she used to before.
I light a candle daily in the south area in home. In Feng Shui practise, the south position of your home/space is positively influenced by the element of fire. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practise that focuses on harmonising the energy of the space to promote peace, harmony and prosperity. I see fire as power and protection and so lighting a candle helps me to ignite this power and protection in the morning. As I light the candle, I visualise light flowing into my home and life surrounding me and my children.
I also like using this time to meditate and realign to Source energy. I would usually do a 20 minutes meditation in the morning, some days I do a longer meditation, although I prefer doing a longer meditation at night just before I sleep. You may refer to my morning meditations here or on my YouTube channel if you wish too. I will attach the links below.
If you are in a hurry, then just do a quick realignment meditation / connection. Remember, meditation is all about aligning to Source energy. What you need to do here is close your eyes and bring your vision within to your third eye. Take three deep breaths in and out and allow your body and mind to relax. Then visualise Source energy (golden light) flowing in from the top of your head and down your spine and all around you activating your inner power and just connecting you directly to Source energy. Visualise your entire body enveloped in this powerful energy. Allow your frequency to rise and expand into Source energy. You are now one with Source and this higher energy now works through you and for you, looking out for you and synchronising everything for your benefit. It is like you are plugged into Source energy and you are constantly receiving wisdom, healing, guidance, protection, love, blessings in all ways. Stay in this positive energy throughout your day. Remember, you are manifesting all the time and you manifest what is in your vibration. So stay in positivity and you will manifest more positivity and an amazing day. If you practise doing this for 100 days, your life will never be the same. The inner bliss is incomparable and the life you can create is beyond your wildest dreams! 100 days and no giving up before the finish line!
Please always remember to ground yourself after meditating. Bring your mind back to your body so that you are not left spacy. Always bring the energy back to the base of your spine and legs after meditating. Otherwise it will be hard to focus on the tasks set for the day as your mind is still floating in the clouds. Grounding is something you can do every time you feel spacy and floaty or find it hard to focus. Squats are a really good way to ground your energy.
I also use this time to focus and thank Source for all the blessings I have in my life. Being grateful helps you focus on all the amazing positive things you have in your life hence enforcing happiness and positivity.
Just like you would lock your home doors and windows to protect your home from intruders, the same way it would be good to lock your energy field to stop unwanted energy from coming in and invading your space.
The best way to do this is to visualise blue light (protective energy) surrounding you creating an energetic shield keeping you safe and protected at all times. The blue light is very powerful higher frequency energy that you can work with to shield and protect yourself as well as remove blockages. Many of my clients have had life changing experiences after practising this. It stops you from absorbing in other people’s energy and stops others from draining your energy. Just in case you have forgotten, allow me to remind you that we are energy beings and working with your energy directly can be much, much more easier and rewarding.
I prefer journaling and planning for my day the night before. In the morning I like looking through my journal and setting an intention to achieve the goals that I have set for the day. This keeps me grounded and helps me perform better.
Having a schedule laid out shows me all the time I have to get all that I need done for the day and week ahead. This way I do not need to panic and stress about time. I am much more relaxed and focused. This is what keeps me sane being a full-time single mom! Being organised and balanced in my mind. I find that I am only easily agitated when I am not centred. Having a plan for your day, week, month and year is useful whether you have three kids, no kids or a dozen kids. I just can't imagine surviving without one.
I prefer basic yoga, stretching, dancing and light weights in the morning while listening to very uplifting music. It especially helps me to ground and bring the focus back to my body. It also 100% helps with boosting focus and improving physical and mental wellbeing. So physical movement is a must!
Well this is my ritual for the first 60 minutes of my day. Having a ritual/routine not only helps you get organised and balanced but also psychologically helps the mind prepare for a productive day.
Remember, remember, remember!!!
The key however is to remember to carry this positive energy into your entire day. You are manifesting all the time so there is really no point of being positive for 60 to 90 minutes and negative for the rest of the hours in your day. Hence checking in with your self every 3 hours will be a good idea! Just taking time to reconnect, breathe, relax and raise your frequency.
My clients who have practised this diligently have had life changing experiences and so can you!
Rituals are something to be practised diligently especially if you are feeling down and are not in the mood for it. I would strongly recommend a 100 days of strictly following your rituals and not giving up if you want to see a positive change in your life. It is really about taking your power back from your subconscious mind!
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warc | 202143 | Among college students specifically, there was also a significant increase in the annual use of hallucinogens and a substantial and significant drop in current alcohol use.
By Maureen Meehan
Marijuana use continued to rise among college students and same-aged peers who are not in college in 2020, according to survey results from the 2020 Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study, reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
This represents the highest levels of marijuana use recorded since the 1980s. The Kids Are Alright The survey also found that marijuana vaping and nicotine vaping leveled off in 2020 after sharp increases were reported every year since 2017 for both college students and same-aged respondents who are not in college. One might conclude that cannabis vaping decreased when the vaping crisis hit nationwide and health authorities found undisclosed additives and cutting agents like Vitamin E acetate in cannabis concentrates.
“That’s when I quit vaping. I have not and probably will not go back to it,” one Ohio college student told Benzinga, not wishing her name to be used, as cannabis is still illegal in the Buckeye State. Psychedelics On The Rise, Alcohol Use Declines Among college students specifically, there was also a significant increase in the annual use of hallucinogens and a substantial and significant drop in current alcohol use between 2019 and 2020.
“The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the way that young people interact with one another and offers us an opportunity to examine whether drug-taking behavior has shifted through these changes,” said NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
“Moving forward, it will be critical to investigate how and when different substances are used among this young population and the impact of these shifts over time.”
NIDA, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funded the MTF study, which has been annually tracking substance use among college students and noncollege adults ages 19-22 since 1980. The survey is conducted annually by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor. The 2020 survey, based on responses collected online from 1,550 college-aged adults between March 20, 2020 through November 30, 2020, noted the following key findings:
Marijuana use reached the highest level in over three-and-a-half decades in 2020.
Forty-four percent of college students reported using weed in 2020, compared to 38% in 2015 — a significant increase. For young adults not in college, annual marijuana use in 2020 remained at 43%, basically the same as 2018 and 2019.
In contrast and worth mentioning, similar increases and record highs in marijuana use were not observed among 12th graders in recent years, with 35% of high school seniors reporting using marijuana in the past year in 2020, thus supporting a recent American Medical Association study that marijuana legalization laws are not associated with increased use among high school students.
Cigarette smoking is down, with only 4% of college students and 13% of non-college respondents reporting having smoked in the past month.
Non-medical use of amphetamines and opioid use continued to decline among college students and non-college peers.
This article originally appeared on Benzinga and has been reposted with permission.
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warc | 202143 | In September 2021, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) reported that net assets in UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) reached €20 trillion for the first time ever at the end of June.
1 Roughly a quarter of those assets are in cross-border UCITS funds.
Within this successful trajectory, €170 billion has poured into cross-border UCITS, with €135 billion from European investors in the first half of 2021, compared to total inflows into UCITS of €235billion. As that growth looks set to continue, several recent changes will impact how cross border fund managers set up UCITS cross border focused funds – typically in Dublin and Luxembourg - and distribute them in Europe, and how they partner in the ecosystem of industry participants.
New Rules for Cross-border Funds
In August 2021, most of the provisions of the EU cross-border fund distribution directive
2 came into effect. Although each European country has not yet transposed the directive into local law, the directive will impact managers looking to distribute products into Europe. Many fund managers have only recently started looking at the practical ramifications of how it affects them.
While most of the European regulatory output in recent years has had some impact on distribution, this latest directive was constructed with the specific purpose to effect cross border distribution. The passporting nature of UCITS has historically been its calling card, and that meant that fund managers could register their funds in one domicile and sell them in another market. However, in practice, the reality was that countries across Europe have created many different rules and regulations within the UCITS world and discovering and reacting to them has been a frustrating process for many fund managers. This directive was written in an attempt remove some of those jurisdictional nuances and in theory make the selling of cross border funds more cost effective and to the benefit of the end investor.
Change of Agent Rules
As fund managers have reflected on the directive, probably the most frequently raised aspect has related to paying agent or facilities agents. Approximately half of the European jurisdictions had requirements for a local paying agent to be engaged by fund managers, but the extent of their role differed from country to country. For example, for some countries that meant simply stating on your prospectus the local agent in place, but in practice they played an almost non-existent role in the investor experience. In other countries, such as Italy and France, the paying agent is involved in the day-to-day operating of a fund in terms of opening accounts for investors and working with the transfer agent.
What’s changed in the directive is quite significant in that the rules state that a fund manager does not need to have their local paying agent physically present in a particular country. It now needs to offer a facility for a paying agent across all European countries. So, for fund managers who have had as many as a dozen paying agent relationships across multiple countries in Europe that they're distributing in, they can continue with those relationships, but they now need to figure out who their facilities agent or paying agent can be in all the other European countries they’re distributing in. This means that fund managers who have historically been distributing in those other countries now need to have a facilities agent in place. The facilities agent needs to be able to provide a service in the local language of that country or in a language that has been approved by the regulator.
This has somewhat complicated managers’ ability to continue distributing into these countries where they have done so for many years but haven't had a need for local agent relationship to be in place. On the other hand, managers with multiple paying agents operating for them in Europe have commenced looking at options to consolidate those relationships into one, in an ideal case, or as few as possible. Fund managers begun to have those conversations with their paying agents in the last few months about whether they can offer those services across multiple markets.
In addition, some parties have begun providing new services in the last few months, extending their service remit across all European countries. While the new directive went live on August 2, 2021, the transposition of that directive hasn't been completed by every local government yet. So, there's still time for managers to appoint their facilities agents, or at the very least progress their conversation with their existing network of agents in the hope they will extend their offering.
Change of Pre-marketing Rules
Another frequent topic of conversation for managers relates to the new pre-marketing rules. The directive creates a uniform definition of what pre-marketing is and a uniform set of rules of what you need to do and when to engage in the pre-marketing process. Pre-marketing enables distributors to gauge the appetite for their product in a country, by registering with the local regulator and intending to pre-market in that country. Under the new rules, the need to initially pre-market your fund should be uniform across countries.
The potential adverse effect of this is the impact on reverse solicitation. For example, once pre-marketing has been triggered by a manager, any investor opening accounts and investing is deemed to have done so as a result of this pre-marketing. This is regardless of whether or not the investor had been in discussion with the manager or not, and the later example, known as reverse solicitation. Regardless of what prompted the investor to take action, the new rules stipulate that while in the pre-marketing window of 18 months, a full fund registration by the manager with the local regulator is now required.
The third most frequent topic of conversation is around fund declassification. While this is only in place for AIF’s and not UCITS, it means if you’re closing a fund in a particular market you cannot reopen that fund or a similar fund for the next 36 months under that pre-marketing notification process. As managers think about closing or opening funds, they need to consider if there really is no immediate or short-term asset raising opportunities for them in this jurisdiction. These are the three main considerations relating to the directive for cross border managers as it relates to distribution and their activity in Europe.
Rethinking the Distribution Ecosystem
Given the breadth of what it takes to operate a successful distribution strategy in the UCITS space, an associated ecosystem clearly exists and success across its component parts is necessary to provide managers with the best opportunity to sell their product. This ecosystem caters to a vast array of roles and responsibilities, from the product creation, to sending out transactional contract notes to investors and making sure that money gets moved.
With this in mind, fund managers should constantly be reviewing the different partners, be they internal teams, or external service providers, who currently play a role for them in any aspect that touches on distribution. Many years ago, asset managers were more comfortable owning all of these roles and responsibilities themselves, but we've evolved to the point where the vast majority are happy to have third parties working with them. There are about a dozen different roles in the distribution ecosystem that continue to grow in their importance in helping managers be successful in their asset raising endeavors.
Looking at some of these roles, one that stands out is the KYD, or ‘know your distributor’ component. The concept of KYD has come to the fore in the last few years where the UCITS board is more than ever expected to display a more hands on knowledge of their distribution network. Showing that they understand their distribution footprint, who is distributing their funds for them, how they’re doing anti-money laundering checks and how are they performing know-your-customer checks is now part and parcel of a proper KYD undertaking.
While some fund managers continue to own the KYD process in house, we see more and more fund managers engaged with third parties to operate that due diligence process on the distributors. For example, if you have 100 distributors working with you across various distribution channels you will have to do due diligence on each of them. This takes time and effort, with very little efficiencies available. Engaging a KYD third party firm to help in this space has proven hugely beneficial for many managers.
Given that it’s very often the same institutional investors that most fund managers target across the world, if you were to engage with a KYD firm it’s likely they've already done the due diligence on 90% of those already for other fund managers. So right away, you've got 90% of your due diligence done. For those remaining 10% they'll happily complete the KYD process for you because they’ll get further payment from you and have a greater distributor reach for all existing and new clients of theirs. With such a win-win business model, it’s not surprising that we’re seeing managers gravitate more and more to these external providers.
Other partners we see fund managers engage with are fund data providers, often used in the distribution of prospectuses, KIID documents, or sending out the NAVs. Given that investors continue to expect more data from fund managers, there is a need to consider who is to perform these key functions? As some of these data providers extend their own offerings, an increasing amount of managers are consolidating more investor related information dissemination with fewer partners.
Finally, another part of the distribution ecosystem we’re seeing interest growing in is the use of third-party marketeers. Whether it’s for assistance in penetrating new markets or to increase brand awareness in existing markets the use of third-party marketeers can make perfect sense to a fund manager. Yes, there’s some heavy lifting at the start of the relationship in gaining product knowledge, aligning culture and indeed agreeing on target investors and distribution channels, but managers continue to utilize these service providers across much of Europe.
Killian Lonergan is in the Market Intelligence team at BBH In a series of upcoming video interviews, the Market Intelligence team will introduce an ‘Exchange of ideas’ series with service providers in the cross-border distribution ecosystem to share insights on how fund managers can navigate the new rules and best sell their product. 1 https://www.efama.org/index.php/newsroom/news/monthly-statistics-may-2021-net-assets-ucits-and-aifs-reach-eur-20-trillion-first https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ck0bec5tyeu050b59qnrcmmad/new-eu-cross-border-fund-distribution-rules 2
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warc | 202143 | ABSTRACT
Computational tools for integrative analyses of diverse single-cell experiments are facing formidable new challenges including dramatic increases in data scale, sample heterogeneity, and the need to informatively cross-reference new data with foundational datasets. Here, we present SCALEX, a deep-learning method that integrates single-cell data by projecting cells into a batch-invariant, common cell-embedding space in a truly online manner (
i.e., without retraining the model). SCALEX substantially outperforms online iNMF and other state-of-the-art non-online integration methods on benchmark single-cell datasets of diverse modalities, (e.g., scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq), especially for datasets with partial overlaps, accurately aligning similar cell populations while retaining true biological differences. We showcase SCALEX’s advantages by constructing continuously expandable single-cell atlases for human, mouse, and COVID-19 patients, each assembled from diverse data sources and growing with every new data. The online data integration capacity and superior performance makes SCALEX particularly appropriate for large-scale single-cell applications to build-upon previously hard-won scientific insights. Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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warc | 202143 | China's State Council issued on Monday a guideline on regulating the use of relief funds for the massive earthquake that jolted the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12.
It required local governments and organizations that receive relief funds to use them transparently and efficiently.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs statistics said the donations to date were valued at 45.654 billion yuan (6.6 billion U.S. dollars)for the affected areas. The 8.0-magnitude quake claimed at least 69,170 lives, left 17,427 missing and made millions homeless. About 30 percent of the donations have already been offered to the tremor-affected areas.
The Red Cross Society of China and the China Charity Federation are major conduits collecting and distributing donations.
The State Council, the country's Cabinet, urged individual donations should go to areas in agreement with donors' wishes.
The priority would be for the improvement of people's livelihoods in the quake-hit areas, the government said.
This has been specified for reconstruction of peasants' houses, re-building of schools, hospitals and welfare institutions, subsidies for those in desperate need, including orphans and the disabled, and public facilities of local transport and power supply, the guideline said.
To keep transparency of the fund allocation and its use, the State Council asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs to set up a database on fund sources, amount, donors' wishes and other concerned information. The ministry was required to publicize the information regularly.
(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2008) | 1,584 | 859 | 2,902.463329 |
warc | 202143 | One of the bright spots in a 2016 Detroit Tigers season that was frustratingly mediocre on several fronts was the emergence of third baseman Nick Castellanos as a legitimate offensive threat.
Anyone who was paying attention in the second half of 2015 could see that Castellanos was on an upward trend. After a sub-par first half, he heated up a bit after the All-Star break, putting up a .269 batting average and an .800 OPS. He did more than pick up where he left off when the 2016 campaign got underway. After a hot first half, Castellanos missed some time in the latter part of the season due to injury, and ended his campaign with a slash line of .285/.331/.496 and a career high 18 home runs.
I’m interested in some of the reasons why he may have found more success in 2016. One interesting nugget I stumbled upon was his performance in two-strike counts. Coming out of the season, manager Brad Ausmus said he would like to see the team strike out less often, and it seems Castellanos might be on board with that sentiment (in two-strike counts, at least). He saw a pretty substantial improvement in two-strike counts in 2016, and it’s one reason why he had such a good year.
Through his first two full seasons, Castellanos sported .160 and .170 batting averages in two-strike counts. He was showing moderate improvement in that category, but 2016 saw the young corner infielder improve by close to 40 points. His .206 average in two-strike counts was a bigger leap than one might expect.
A .206 batting average doesn’t sound like anything to get fired up about, but a batter with two strikes against him is about as disadvantaged as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. In an era that is seeing offense decline in two-strike counts, the average player managed a lowly .176 average, 10 points lower than a decade ago when we seem to have reached peak two-strike hittiness, (or hittitude or some other made-up variation on the word hit).
In this context, Castellanos’ .206 average is a pretty strong number. Add the cherry on top that is a wRC+ of 53 (league average in two-strike counts was a 43 wRC+), which is double the number he posted in 2015, and it’s safe to say Nick was doing good work.
So, what did Castellanos do to improve this area of his game? My best guess is that he adjusted, made good contact when he connected, and got a little lucky.
In the three years Nick has been playing with the big club, it looks like pitchers have been pretty consistent in what they offer up when they have two strikes against him. He has seen the same mix of pitch types, breaking down to approximately 50 percent fastballs, 15 percent off-speed pitches, and a touch over 30 percent breaking balls. These stats aren’t quite as detailed as I’d like — he saw a few more fastballs in two-strike counts in 2016, but the percentages are still close — but they are a decent indicator that pitchers have remained generally consistent in their approach. Knowing roughly what the pitching side of the equation is, we can take a look at Nick’s approach to see if he has adjusted.
Nick’s success rate is a bit of a mixed bag. He has shown some level of proficiency in hitting the four-seam fastball, cutter, sinker, and the changeup, but his swing-and-miss rates actually
increased against those pitches last season in two-strike counts.
His overall numbers have been a little all over the place, but he fared much better against fastballs and breaking balls, pitches he saw over 85 percent of the time in two-strike counts last year.
In addition to the adjustments against breaking pitches, the kind of contact he made also improved. His hard hit ball percentage rose above 30 percent for the first time in his career, and was up almost five percentage points over his average from his previous two years.
He also showed a tremendous ability to barrel up balls he put in play. His fly ball rate was an above-average 43 percent, while his infield fly ball rate was a minuscule 1.8 percent. If he hit in the air, there was a good chance he hit it pretty hard.
Numbers like that don’t come about without a certain amount of luck. We should talk about this, because Castellanos was pretty lucky. With a batting average on balls in play (BABIP) of .365, it’s a given that he had some balls find holes here and there. When you’re working with roughly 240 at-bats, it wouldn’t take too many of those hits getting turned into outs to bring him back down to league average.
Castellanos’ improvement in two-strike counts is just one small part of a variety of different situational improvements that helped him become a better hitter. He adjusted positively against the pitches he saw the most of, and hit them harder than he has in previous seasons. Tack on some lucky drops here and there, and you’re looking at a guy who seems to be learning and improving. Pitchers may adjust to how they approach him, and his luck is probably going to regress back to something closer to league average. It’s going to be up to Castellanos to learn and to re-adjust in response. | 5,159 | 2,374 | 10,980.803286 |
warc | 202143 | BMF CARES SPOTLIGHT
Ava had just turned five and started kindergarten at Hollidaysburg’s Foot of Ten Elementary. She had only attended three weeks of school, when our world was turned upside down. On September 13
th 2018, we discovered a painless lump on Ava’s left buttock. We had no idea that would be our last “normal” day. The next day, Ava was examined by her local pediatric group; who showed concern and ordered her a stat MRI. We took her to Altoona Hospital to have the test performed and we were asked to stay for the results. Our pediatrician called us and told us that the radiologist was very concerned with the test and told us to go the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Emergency Department. After several hours of poking and prodding, we were given the news that Ava had a tumor, likely cancerous. We were discharged from the hospital early Saturday morning and told that someone would call us on Monday to get us scheduled for surgery. On September 18 th, Ava had a surgical biopsy performed.
Due to the distance from Pittsburgh, we agreed to receive the results over the phone. Six days after the procedure we got confirmation that Ava had Ewing’s Sarcoma, an aggressive and rare pediatric cancer. That same day we spoke with folks about fertility preservation. Due to Ava being only 5, they could not harvest an egg but could take an ovary for preservation. The long-term effects of the chemotherapy regimen to treat Ewing’s Sarcoma, as well as radiation required; could leave Ava sterile.
The day after learning our child’s diagnosis, she underwent surgery to have an ovary removed for preservation, bone marrow biopsies to assess whether her disease was localized or metastatic and had her mediport implanted. She began chemotherapy that same week.
Ava had a total of 14 chemotherapy treatments. Each were performed as an inpatient. She alternated a 5-day course of one type of chemo with a 2-day course of another. Ava suffered nausea, hair loss, mouth sores, loss of appetite, and low blood counts due to the chemo. She really struggled with oral medication and at times it became impossible to get her take her required medication. Early on, she had to switch from an oral medication for pneumonia prophylaxis, to an IV to make things easier. She also had severe anxiety with needles, particularly for accessing her port. She worked with a psychologist, as well as child life specialists to finally make this not such a traumatic task. She had frequent blood transfusions as both her hemoglobin and platelets would drop extremely low.
After a month of recovery, Ava resumed chemotherapy for her final three cycles. She completed her last chemotherapy at the end of July. Ava had her end of treatment scans on July 17
th. We were given the news that she is NED (No evidence of disease). She had her mediport surgically removed and started kindergarten on August 27 th. Her six month scans were performed in January 2020 and everything was good.
Ava will continue to have frequent follow ups. She will need to have an echocardiogram of her heart and kidney function testing to check for damage induced by the chemotherapy. She will also have chest x-ray/chest CT and MRI of her pelvis, and lab work. This will occur every three months for the first year, every 4 months year 2, and then every 6 months for years 3 through 5. She will then graduate into the cancer survivorship phase, which no longer includes scans but is to monitor the long- term side effects of chemo. Risk for relapse is the greatest for Ewing’s in the first two years, which is why the monitoring is at a higher frequency.
Ava has resumed life as a kindergarten student at Foot of Ten Elementary. She has resumed swimming, dance classes at Blair Dance Academy and is thriving. She recently returned from her Disney Make-a-Wish Trip in December and is enjoying life with her mom, dad, and cat, Doozie. Her hair is growing, though not as fast as Ava would like, but we are thankful for our present outcome.
This has been the worst experience of our lives. The shock of the diagnosis, the hardships of the treatment, and fear of the outcomes. We are thankful that Ava is doing well and is presently displaying only some minor effects from the chemotherapy. We are appreciative of the Brian Morden Foundation, for their mission to help local pediatric cancer families along with funding research for Ewing’s Sarcoma.
The physical, psychological and financial burdens of pediatric cancer are immense. It is with the help and generosity of the community that we can fight together for better, more effective treatments; as well as support the financial burden of those going through treatment.
At the request of Ava’s parents, the *BMF CARES Spotlight program will donate $1000 to the Amelia M. Sharer Foundation. Amelia was diagnosed about the same time as Ava. The two girls and their parents became very close. The Amelia M. Sharer Foundation’s primary goal is to help ensure that no child is denied emergency medical transportation due to a lack of medical insurance. This mission is particularly close to the foundation’s heart, as Amelia initially waited for over six hours for ambulance transportation to the Children’s Hospital, due to a temporary lapse in insurance coverage. It wasn’t until an EMS crew two hours away heard of the situation and selflessly offered to transport Amelia at no cost to the family.
*The Brian Morden Foundation based in Altoona, PA, was created in May 2003 to fight back against childhood cancer. The Brian Morden Foundation CARES Spotlight began in January 2018. The program is shining a light on our Children with Cancer, Raising Awareness, and Providing Funds for Research, Education, and Support for children with cancer and their families. | 5,860 | 2,749 | 12,299.818116 |
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