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Answer In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. In this fatwa: 1- Muslim couples should not follow dubious and doubtful methods to solemnize marriage contracts. 2- They should get the marriage done by following the proper procedures recommended in Islam At the same time, we should fully conform to the legal requirements of the country where we perform the marriage.
In responding to your question,
Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states; Correct Procedures of Marriage
I do not advise anyone to follow dubious and doubtful methods to solemnize marriage contracts. Marriage is a solemn social contract that should be performed by following correct procedures of Islam while duly endorsed by the laws of the land.
Marriage in Islam is essentially a social contract,. So long as it conforms to the stated requirements, it shall be deemed valid. The presence of an Imam at the function is not at all one of the stated requirements. However, the marriage should be solemnized by a person who is authorized to perform marriages.
The stated requirements of marriage in Islam are as follow; full consent of both partners to the marriage contract; expressing the above consent through
ijab (offer) and qabul (acceptance); finally, the presence of two reliable witnesses.
Furthermore, according to most schools of jurisprudence, a guardian’s consent is very essential for the validity of the marriage. Imam Abu Hanifah, however, is of the view that a mature woman is fully capable of contracting her marriage. Thus in his view, marriages finalized without guardian’s consent shall be as valid so long the woman has chosen someone who is compatible.
Publicizing Marriage
Furthermore, scholars are also in general agreement to the fact that marriages should not remain a secret affair; rather they should be publicized. Another essential integral of marriage is the bridal gift, although it is not necessary to stipulate it in the marriage contract. Nevertheless, it must be paid either before the consummation of marriage or after.
Now coming to the issue of contracting marriages in a society where Islamic laws are not recognized, it is also highly crucial to get the legal papers before the marriage contract. So, to satisfy the legal requirements of the land, the marriage must be solemnized by a marriage officer. That is the only way to protect the parties involved in the event of a dispute.
Although some people may consider legalization as being not so crucial, I would, however, insist that it is quite vital and essential; it is not advisable for anyone to marry without legal papers.
Marriage: A social contract
We can easily recognize the importance of the above conditions if we consider the fact that marriage is primarily a social contract.
Apart from this, Islam teaches us to do what we do as efficiently, methodically and professionally as we can. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said,
“Allah loves you to do your work as best as you can.” (Al-Bayhaqi, As-Suyuti and others)
In conclusion, I would advise the parties to get the marriage done by following the proper procedures, recommended in Islam – while fully conforming to the legal requirements of the country where it is performed.
Almighty Allah knows best. Source: www.askthescholar.com
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How to find a good and affordable moving company should be on your list if you are looking to move anytime soon. The bottom line is to find one that offers fantastic service. You can also find various commercial moving companies online by
navigating this site.
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Companies and individuals move locations for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it is in your best interest to do the necessary research and homework.
That means planning enough time to ensure quality and affordable prices. Ask friends and family. All of them can be useful in giving some names. It is best to call from there and ask for more information.
Also, ask how they handle the scoring. If possible, try to get a quote for the entire job, not at an hourly rate. Some offer this and allow people to complete their moves with less stress without constantly looking at the clock.
It's best to ask how they pack the various items. For example, they will encase furniture and appliances and protect them from bumps and scratches. It will be in your best interest to find out about the other services they offer.
For example, some can take all the clothes hanging in the closet straight to the truck, which saves a lot of time. Of course, these items need to be covered to protect them from dirt and debris.
As a savvy user, it's up to you to identify any additional fees or charges the company may incur for specific parts. First of all, for maximum protection of your values, make sure the one you choose is connected.
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COMMENTARY When forester Benton MacKaye proposed building an Appalachian Trail 100 years ago, he was really thinking about preserving a larger region as a haven from industrial life. 1057 words. By Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
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COMMENTARY How you respond to a risk depends on how you weigh the costs and benefits of an action. The problem is you’re not just a logical computer, and emotions bias your interpretation of the facts. 1089 words. By Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SCIENCE OR TECHNOLOGY Science is not egalitarian. Top researchers get more credit and funding than lesser-known scientists. The long-held practices creating inequality also amplify gender disparities that hold back women. 891 words. By Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California
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Abstract
Experiments were performed to observe the growth of the turbulent, Rayleigh–Taylor unstable mixing layer generated between air and SF
6, with an Atwood number of A ¼ ðq2 - q 1Þ=ðq 2 þ q 1Þ ¼ 0:64, where q 1 and q 2 are the densities of air and SF 6, respectively. A nonconstant acceleration with an average value of 2300g 0, where g 0 is the acceleration due to gravity, was generated by interaction of the interface between the two gases with a rarefaction wave. Three-dimensional, multimode perturbations were generated on the diffuse interface, with a diffusion layer thickness of d ¼ 3:6 mm, using a membraneless vertical oscillation technique, and 20 experiments were performed to establish a statistical ensemble. The average perturbation from this ensemble was extracted and used as input for a numerical simulation using the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Miranda code. Good qualitative agreement between the experiment and simulation was observed, while quantitative agreement was best at early to intermediate times. Several methods were used to extract the turbulent growth constant a from experiments and simulations while accounting for time varying acceleration. Experimental, average bubble and spike asymptotic self-similar growth rate values range from a ¼ 0:022 to a ¼ 0:032 depending on the method used, and accounting for variable acceleration. Values found from the simulations range from a ¼ 0:024 to a ¼ 0:041. Values of a measured in the experiments are lower than what are typically measured in the literature but are more in line with those found in recent simulations.
Original language English (US) Article number 121101 Journal Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME Volume 142 Issue number 12 DOIs State Published - Dec 2020 ASJC Scopus subject areas Mechanical Engineering
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Some things are timeless and hardwood flooring is on that list. It provides a timeless look to just about any space and, as we've discussed in prior articles, can add value to your home. In addition, it is easy to clean making it great for those that suffer from allergies. And, unlike other types of flooring, cared for properly, hardwood flooring will last a lengthy time. While hardwood flooring is a great solution for most flooring complications, it's very important to shop carefully since there are lots of variables to consider so you select the best kind of flooring for your individual needs.
Hardwood floors can be a huge investment based on the type you select and also the place where it will be utilized. It's our goal here at Floor Sanding Barnes To arm you with sufficient information for you to create an educated and intelligent decision regarding your flooring choices.
Hint 1 -- Establish a Budget.
Like every significant purchase, you would like to begin with a funding when purchasing flooring. The fact is, there are several different options there's something for every budget. In Floor Sanding Barnes professionals will allow you to make the best decision for your individual conditions. They'll also discuss matters like warranty, installation options, different sub-floor options and whatever else you should know about in regards to your flooring project. Quite often it's not what you know that drives a project over budget but exactly what you were unaware of.
Hint 2 -- Different flooring types may be necessary for different areas of the house.
This might be evident in regards to the kitchen and bathroom areas. Obviously, wherever there is water or moisture you will want to utilize an appropriate kind of floors. What might not be obvious are self explanatory areas like hallways. In areas where there is an inordinate quantity of traffic, you'll want to use a more durable hardwood flooring type that's scratch resistant. Irrespective of where there floors is going to end up, there is a"hardwood for that".
Tip 3 – Carbon Footprint.
Among other things, today consumers seem to be more aware of how their decisions impact the environment. There has been a time when a person searching to get"green" flooring had hardly any choices. Today, because of consumer demand, there are lots of alternatives from the environmentally friendly class. From cork to reclaimed hardwood and everything in between, there's something for just about every taste and budget.
Hint 4 -- Setup Considerations.
All floors aren't created equally and to complicate things, almost every different kind of flooring demands individualized setup. Unless you've installed floors before and understand what it is you are doing, it's advised that you employ a specialist. Many flooring types need technical tools, sheets, and sub-flooring. Furthermore, if the floor isn't installed properly it may negate the guarantee. There are many factors involved with the installation of floors, it's ideal to acquire an experienced professional installer to perform it.
Hint 5 -- Do a little digital shopping .
It is not always easy to stop at the regional flooring store. Frequently time the hours they're available aren't conducive to a program. Additionally, based on the shop, they could have a limited quantity of stock to reveal you. For all these reasons it's advised that shopping online or in magazines is a fantastic place to get started. Discover the large number of possibilities before making a choice. That way you're less inclined to become disappointed since you discover a floor sort you had been previously unaware of.
Tip 6 -- Can the flooring come with a guarantee?
If you've never bought flooring before, you may not be aware that most quality flooring includes a guarantee just as with other products. Ensure to read and understand the guarantee before you buy it. If you don't understand it, have your salesperson describe it to you.
Tip 7 -- Flooring should not be an impulse buy.
Whatever you decide to buy when it comes to flooring, chances are you are going to have to live with it some time. Because of this, do not rush into making a decision whether it's about colour, flooring kind or cost. Since you are probably making a large investment, you should speak to flooring professional and have all your questions answered before you. The right flooring individual will cause you to feel completely comfortable about your flooring options.
Hint 8 -- Phone a friend
If, after exercising caution and doing the requisite research, you are still unsure about your flooring choice, speak with a couple close friends which have different tastes to receive some feedback. A good friend will be honest with you and since they have no"skin in the game" will likely point out issues that you hadn't believed.
Hopefully, these tips result in a successful flooring buy. If you are still on the fence about your flooring, feel free to call us at 020 3151 0895 or stop by the Floor Sanding Barnes.
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Whether it be young people selling sports shoes, or carers looking after the elderly, workers in the UK are increasingly being forced into zero-hour contract, writes Prof Jill Rubery. But this hasn’t happened by accident: it is a product of many years of moving towards a ‘flexible’ labour market, one that in practice means more […]
Small area data has lots of potential uses, writes Dr Nissa Finney; by healthcare or education providers to tailor their services, by the local authority in forecasting, or for academic research. But under money-saving proposals currently being considered, the Census as we know it – and the subsequent availability of these data – may disappear. […]
Post written by Colin Talbot for The Conversation. The idea that competition is better than monopoly provision in public services is now established wisdom among the British political elite. Since the advent of something commonly called “New Public Management” in the early 1980s, privately managed organisations have been taken to be more efficient and innovative […]
Geoff Mulgan’s book on ‘The Art of Public Strategy’ is an riveting read, fizzing with insights and ideas. Mulgan played a big role in the Blair government, as a policy adviser and Head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. He also has a strong history as a think-tanker and author, so his writing is full […]
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This week, customer Hele surprised herself. As she is near her goal, she expected her weight loss to slow down, but this week she has lost another 3 pounds, taking her loss to 86lbs in 30 weeks. This week was all about being prepared! Watch her video to get her advice and check out more details below. How this week […]
Customer Hele reveals that after 23 weeks into her TFR weight loss journey, her weight has stayed the same this week. However, her change in mindset has allowed her to handle this with a totally different attitude. My meals plans I love the routine I have with The New You Plan. It is not the usual and boring routine but […]
Can’t get your head in the game? Check out these 11 reasons why you are struggling to be 100% on your TFR diet and what you can do to get re-focused. 1. Your head is elsewhere You’re not focused on your journey. You need to realise that whatever other crap is going on in your life, YOU need to be your […]
Being on a VLCD Diet can be easy or hard. Sometimes nothing has to change in life for you to feel better or worse…. the number one thing that will influence how you feel about anything is YOUR PERSPECTIVE. The people who find doing a VLCD diet easy – have a good perspective about it… ✔ Woohoo – I am […]
Reservations about starting your New You Plan journey? Whatever concern is holding you back from getting started, we have the answer, which is backed up by our customers. Check out these common concerns and put your mind at ease thanks to comments from real customers! “I won’t like the meals” – FALSE At The New You Plan, our range includes over […]
The New You Plan is a Total Food Replacement Plan, which promotes fast, safe weight loss* via a process called ketosis. So how exactly do you know when your body is in this fat burning state? Here, our Customer Transformation Coach Candida looks at the symptoms of ketosis. You have made that fantastic life changing decision to make a stance, […]
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
Parenting is one of the buzzwords of the twenty-first century. So obsessed are people with this concept that new, never-heard-before professions have sprung up over the last few decades to cater to their concerns. To some extent, these concerns are not misplaced. In an age as competitive as ours, it is but natural for parents to want their children to excel in their studies and extracurricular activities. It is both hard and unfair to blame someone for wanting their kids to stay ahead of the pack.
That being said, things do get slightly complicated when children begin to drift apart from their parents and succumb to the three vices that come easy in their age, namely insolence, taking things for granted, and bad company. In such cases, whether or not they meet their parents’ academic expectations tends to take a backseat. And this is arguably the biggest test for any parent – teaching their young ones to stay grounded.
A time-tested method for doing so – one that has been around forever – is to entrust children with some responsibility. This parenting philosophy is driven by the notion that responsible children make for responsible adults. After all, how can a kid, whose shoulders have never been trained to lift the burden of responsibility, grow up to be an accountable human being? Now, this definitely does not mean overburdening their young shoulders with more responsibility than they are designed to handle. It is paramount for our kids to be only entrusted with tasks that they can easily complete, for such tasks aid their balanced growth as responsible, committed individuals.
Erstwhile American radio show host, Pauline Esther “Popo” Phillips, who was more popularly known as Abigail Van Buren, once made a well-known comment in this regard: “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
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The current criminal sanctions for possession, distribution, cultivation, and use of weed seeds throughout the rest of the country vary by state or territory. For example, in South Australia, you will find the most relaxed penalties of any state in the country.
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Possessing, Using, and Selling Marijuana Seeds or Flowers: What Does Australian Law Say?
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fine print — be aware that buying cannabis seeds from seed stores in Australia (except ACT) and then getting caught possessing, using, or selling cannabis is illegal as per the federal government. Always review the local laws where you live to ensure you understand the potential repercussions of non-compliance.
Continue reading below for an in-depth guide on the legal aspects of marijuana and marijuana seeds in Australia.
Once you plan these three factors — all you’ll need to do is kickstart your cannabis seeds and let the Australian sun (or artificial lighting) do its trick!
Fines issued for cannabis-related offenses typically must be paid within 28-60 days to prevent further legal repercussions. Should you be particularly unlucky and be sentenced to imprisonment for a simple (small quantity for personal use) cannabis offense, the maximum sentence is two years in most territories, three years in Queensland.
Illegal planting of cannabis is punishable by a sentence of two years imprisonment . You can also get a fine of up to $100000. The punishment is varying from who the cannabis supplier is selling. Selling cannabis will also affect your job and travel opportunities . Australia has an assumption that anyone that plants over 20 plants of cannabis has the aim of supplying.
Some states in Australia allow the planting of cannabis for medical purposes. As a farmer, you need to buy have the best cannabis seeds. There are different stores in Western Australia where you can purchase. The cannabis law in west Australia has different states that have cannabis laws. Some regions allow the purchase of cannabis seeds; while others are do n allowed it.
The law about the legalization of cannabis keeps evolving around the globe. Cannabis has proven to have more medical benefits. This benefit has given cannabis approval in different states. Under the misuse of drug act 1981 , planting of cannabis to sell or supplying is illegal.
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cannabis for recreation purposes is illegal through the Narcotic drug amendment 2018. There are many cannabis strains, but the cannabis plant consists of two significant pieces. The strains are either pure or hybrid plants, which are the genus of the cannabis plant.
Although the law is against the planting of cannabis, a person or company can apply for a cannabis planting license. Even if cultivating cannabis is not legalized, planting less than five cannabis plants for personal use. Western Australia is looking forward to legalizing two plants of cannabis for personal use .
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Why Israeli gas and Syrian sanctions relief could turn on the lights of Lebanon
Perhaps Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah will soon turn on his lights with Israel’s natural gas, which is produced by an American oil and gas company. How could it be? With the endorsement of the United States and funding from the World Bank, the leaders of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are seeking to supply Lebanon with Egyptian natural gas and Jordanian electricity.
However, any natural gas from Egypt is mixed with Israeli gas before reaching Jordan, making it impossible to separate the molecules, while much of Jordanian electricity is also produced from Israeli gas. . What a bitter pill this must be for Hezbollah and its leader to swallow. It is not clear whether US officials, or Nasrallah himself, recognize or seek to cover up the role Israel’s natural gas can play in saving Lebanon from its largely self-imposed economic collapse.
To make this energy deal a reality, the United States could grant a waiver of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019, which imposes heavy penalties on the regime of Bashar al-Assad, because all gas and electricity coming from Egypt and Jordan – and Israel – must pass through Syria. Joe Biden’s administration can create a loophole that these energy transfers are not “material” and, rather than providing a waiver, choose to ignore the sanctions. Beyond the Caesar Act, the Biden administration will also have to ignore its new rules that prohibit supporting multinational banks, including the World Bank, from financing fossil fuel projects.
The question then becomes why would the United States provide Assad with gas transfers to support the new Lebanese government backed by Hezbollah – a terrorist group designated by the United States and the European Union? Before the United States and the World Bank throw a lifeline on Assad or Lebanon, they should demand concessions that reduce Iranian and Russian influence in the region. The concessions are expected to include a decrease in Iran’s presence in Syria, a decline in Hezbollah’s influence and economic reforms in Lebanon, and the granting of in-kind gas subsidies rather than cash transfers to Assad. Ideally, the United States avoids another regional mistake where the United States again loses more regional influence and reputation rather than demanding concessions that align with American interests.
The energy crisis in Lebanon
Lebanon’s acute energy crisis is a blatant symptom of its collapse and the growing influence of Hezbollah, a descendant of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), within its political and military institutions. Nasrallah became increasingly keen to deflect Hezbollah’s blame for Lebanon’s economic demise, and in August vowed to obtain Iranian fuel that would save Lebanon’s power grid from imploding. As Hezbollah was unable to receive these shipments, Nasrallah blamed the United States and, by extension, Israel. But, in mid-September, Iranian fuel supplies arrived via Syria, further proving the strength of Hezbollah and the failure of the Lebanese state.
Connecting Lebanon to Egyptian and Jordanian energy is not a new concept. However, the Donald Trump administration dismissed the idea because it would materially benefit the Assad regime in Syria and support the Hezbollah-backed Lebanese government without reforms. In fact, Lebanon was set to invest in an offshore natural gas terminal, known as a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU), through a consortium between Qatar Petroleum, Italian energy company ENI and an American subsidiary. However, the bidding process was taken hostage by Lebanese political parties and, instead of an FSRU, as former Prime Minister Saad Hariri noted, Lebanon adopted three FSRUs: “ one for the Shiites, one for the Sunnis and one for the Christians ”.
However, no matter how one disentangles this arrangement, Israeli gas is at the center of this proposed solution.
In August, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea voiced U.S. support for the deal, without mentioning how it supports U.S. national security interests. Yet the broad lines of American rationale slowly emerged. Jordan’s King Abdullah reportedly raised the issue with President Biden at their July 19 meeting, saying that with Russia’s support, engagement with Syria to connect Jordanian and Egyptian energy supplies would somehow diminish l Iranian influence with Assad and in the region. On September 9, the energy ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon met to finalize this roadmap, which would start with Egyptian gas and then be followed by Jordanian electricity.
Much of the Syrian gas pipeline that connects Lebanon requires major repairs and passes through the rebel-controlled southern zone of Daraa province. On September 8, as part of a deal brokered by Russia and presumably with U.S. backing, Syrian forces traveled to Daraa to regain control of the government – another puzzling step where the U.S. United carried out Assad’s recovery of his dictatorial and genocidal control over the country. And it is still unclear what concessions the United States has obtained, other than another expectation of a change in the behavior of Assad and Iran.
In essence, the United States has rationalized that Lebanon is on the path to normalization with Syria, and somehow Beirut and Damascus will become less aligned with Tehran thanks to the energy subsidies. It is a concept as difficult to conceive as it is to write. Ambassador Jeffrey pleaded on September 9 that America’s declining reputation and inability to demand concessions from American adversaries, who have been severely damaged by the failure of the United States’ negotiations with the Taliban, could beg l ‘Biden administration to do something to support Jordan’s plan. However, the United States, so far, has not communicated what conditions it would demand for its support for this political approach and what steps would be required and taken to ensure this outcome.
Demanding concessions
While it is clear that King Abdullah is seeking to resolve the burden of Syrian refugees in Jordan, it should not come at the expense of Assad’s actions that created the crisis or US sanctions aimed at holding the Syrian dictator accountable. Therefore, the United States should demand concessions from Assad before lifting the sanctions against his regime. This should include a clear and verifiable reduction of the Iranian and IRGC presence in Syria and start with stopping ground and air shipments of ammunition through Iraq and Syria which ultimately supply Hezbollah and Hamas in the Strip. Gaza. The United States should also prevent any cash compensation from the Assad regime. Any fees paid to Syria for gas shipments to Lebanon should only be made in kind, with natural gas supplies so that Assad cannot materially benefit from the deal at the expense of the Syrians.
For the Lebanese concessions, the American conditions for economic reform should certainly reflect and support those also pushed by the International Monetary Fund. The new Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Makati, has pledged to reform like his predecessors. However, his cabinet is filled with hand-picked members of the ruling parties responsible for Lebanon’s corruption and dysfunction. It would seem prudent and necessary for the United States to demand some form of disentangling from Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon’s political and economic institutions in return for American support.
Hezbollah’s growing influence with the Lebanese Armed Forces has created an annual debate within the Trump administration and the Defense Department over whether additional US security could be warranted. The Pentagon’s security aid status quo, with the hope of a different outcome, has consistently won the bureaucratic debate, despite evidence that the influence of Hezbollah and, therefore, Iran has failed. has only increased.
In the wake of the Taliban takeover in Kabul, it is to be hoped that such justifications for supporting Lebanon will become more difficult in the future. It will also be fascinating to see how Israel calculates its role in this arrangement, to include its own molecules and electrons from natural gas, which are destined for Nasrallah’s chamber. But together, the United States and Israel, with the backing of close scrutiny from Congress, should determine whether another lifeline for Lebanon and Assad is further eroding American influence in the Middle East.
Matthew Zais is a non-resident principal investigator of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council and vice president of government affairs for Hillwood and HKN Energy Ltd. Most recently, he served as Senior Assistant Under Secretary for International Affairs at the US Department of Energy. Follow him on Twitter: @matthewzais .
Tue Apr 6, 2021
Abraham’s Accords hold key to Biden’s Eastern Mediterranean policy
Though motivated by the potential of a new Iran nuclear deal under the Biden administration, the Abraham’s Accords represent an unprecedented regional unification that was inconceivable just a few years ago. But it also represents an opportunity to continue America’s positive international energy diplomacy, and leadership in the Eastern Mediterranean would be a great place to take over.
Source MENA
through Matthew Zais
Tue Jul 6, 2021
Ensuring our energy security in a sustainable manner in the MENA region and beyond
In our globalized world, meeting energy needs and tackling climate change will require cross-border cooperation. If the Biden administration is to be successful in promoting affordable and cleaner sustainable energy at home and abroad, engaging with partners around the world, particularly in the Middle East, where much of the global oil is produced.
Source MENA
through Ariel ezrahi
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Almost years ago, Chinese astronomers saw a brilliant new star appear in the constellation we now call Sagittarius. Last fall, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory identified the stellar corpse of this supernova explosion: a tiny, superdense, spinning, x-ray- emitting neutron star, or pulsar. According to Vicky Kaspi of McGill University in Montreal, this is only the second pulsar for which an accurate age is known. The other, in the Crab Nebula, resulted from a supernova recorded in A. The Chandra image shows the pulsar as a white spot in the center of a hot, gaseous shell ejected by the dying star. This supernova remnant, some 15, light-years away, was already believed to be associated with the explosion seen by Chinese astronomers in the spring of A. But earlier studies had suggested that it was separate from the shell and far older–by 23, years. By showing that the pulsar is smack in the middle of the remnant, Chandra has proved it was indeed the light seen in China.
This is the brightest supernova ever seen
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Etched into a stone found at a site dating back to B. Focusing on the celestial objects, a team of scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India reinterpreted the artwork and ruled out the bright pair as being the sun and the moon.
By dating the pulsars, it is possible to estimate when the supernova occurred. A recent article, “Redating a Star,” in Science Volume
Supernova is a 3D game set in the distant, space-faring future, when the human race has branched out into the cosmos following the appearance of the mysterious portals. With a universe in peril, humanity must face with vast, unrelenting alien legions, set to wage war across the galaxy. In this time of universal chaos, human and alien races alike must rely on their most skilled commanders to lead their forces in the fight for galactic dominance while uncovering the secrets behind the strange portals.
Battles are won with science and technology instead of magic. Players choose commanders from across the galaxy featuring mech pilots from the human core worlds, ruthless mercenaries of cybernetic origin from lawless outer planets, and terrifying creatures from dimensional planes different to ours. The universe is your arena.
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The royal wedding in England this month is sure to be packed full of pomp, but a 17th century king of Great Britain might have the event trumped with a supernova that announced his birth, researchers say. The theory places the star explosion’s discovery 50 years earlier than previously thought. The glowing hot cloud known as Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a massive star explosion — a supernova — that occurred about 11, light-years away from Earth.
years ago (based on dating with cosmogenic beryllium). This supernova event may be responsible for major environmental changes that.
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Discovered by Indian Scientists, This Rock Art Could Be the Oldest Record of a Supernova!
Supernovae were discovered long before astronomers realized that these spectacular cataclysms mark the death of stars see Making Connections: Supernovae in History. Twentieth-century astronomers reclassified the explosions with the greatest luminosity as super novae. From historical records of such explosions, from studies of the remnants of supernovae in our Galaxy, and from analyses of supernovae in other galaxies, we estimate that, on average, one supernova explosion occurs somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy every 25 to years.
Unfortunately, however, no supernova explosion has been observable in our Galaxy since the invention of the telescope. Either we have been exceptionally unlucky or, more likely, recent explosions have taken place in parts of the Galaxy where interstellar dust blocks light from reaching us. Although many supernova explosions in our own Galaxy have gone unnoticed, a few were so spectacular that they were clearly seen and recorded by sky watchers and historians at the time.
Presumably dating back to 3, BC, the petroglyph in the Burzahama region of Kashmir may be an accurate depiction of a supernova.
By Yonsei University February 4, High precision age dating of supernova host galaxies reveals that the luminosity evolution of supernovae is significant enough to question the very existence of dark energy. The most direct and strongest evidence for the accelerating universe with dark energy is provided by the distance measurements using type Ia supernovae SN Ia for the galaxies at high redshift.
This result is based on the assumption that the corrected luminosity of SN Ia through the empirical standardization would not evolve with redshift. New observations and analysis made by a team of astronomers at Yonsei University Seoul, South Korea , together with their collaborators at Lyon University and KASI, show, however, that this key assumption is most likely in error. They find a significant correlation between SN luminosity and stellar population age at a As such, this is the most direct and stringent test ever made for the luminosity evolution of SN Ia.
Since SN progenitors in host galaxies are getting younger with redshift look-back time , this result inevitably indicates a serious systematic bias with redshift in SN cosmology. Taken at face values, the luminosity evolution of SN is significant enough to question the very existence of dark energy. When the luminosity evolution of SN is properly taken into account, the team found that the evidence for the existence of dark energy simply goes away see Figure 1.
Figure 1. Luminosity evolution mimicking dark energy in supernova SN cosmology. The Hubble residual is the difference in SN luminosity with respect to the cosmological model without dark energy the black dotted line.
What Causes Supernovae Explosions?
The ages of local stars, some of which formed with the SN progenitor system, can constrain the time between star formation and SN, known as the delay time. We compare the local stellar properties to synthetic photometry of single-stellar populations, fitting to a range of possible delay times for each SN. The measured delay-time distribution provides an excellent constraint on the progenitor system for the class, indicating a preference for a WD progenitor system over a Wolf—Rayet progenitor star.
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Research in the prehistory of the sun helps us compare the circumstances of the birth of the sun with those of other stars in our galaxy, setting the existence of the sun, the Earth and humans more firmly within the broader context of the billions of stars and planets and possibly other lifeforms that exist in the Milky Way. Recent historical events have been recorded by the writings of historians. Going back further in time, though, we have to rely on other methods to date events. One of the main tools to achieve this is radioactivity.
Radioactive nuclei, by definition, decay as time passes by emitting energetic particles that can be very dangerous to living organisms. The rate at which they decay is defined by their half-life, which is the time it takes for half of the original nuclei to disappear. A famous example is carbon , which has a half-life of 5, years.
If the recovered bones of a human contain roughly half the amount of carbon present in the biosphere, that individual must have died 5, years ago. Radioactivity has also allowed us to date the age of the Earth at 4. Using the same techniques, we can also learn something about the major events in the prehistory of the matter in the solar system, such as the period prior to the formation of the sun. Elements in our solar system, except for hydrogen and helium which were created in the Big Bang , were produced by nuclear reactions in stars.
At some point, this heavier material became isolated inside a star-forming region of the galaxy, where the gas was cooler and denser than the usual galactic gas. Within this stellar nursery, gas collapsed to form a number of stars, including our sun. By timing the life span of this stellar nursery we can start deducing how massive it was and how many stars were born alongside our sun.
Very Existence of Dark Energy Cast in Doubt After New High Precision Data
Watch how fast its contents move, and you know the date, right? Watch its light curve, and you know the type, right? Ah, that things were so simple. Estimates range from 10, to 25, light-years. The Chinese Supernova is believed to be the slow kind.
Summarizing the Evidence for Dating the Cassiopeia A Supernova Event. John Flamsteed, First Royal Astronomer of the Greenwich. Observatory, Greenwich.
SN is a supernova that was first observed on c. The event was recorded in contemporary Chinese astronomy , and references to it are also found in a later 13th-century Japanese document, and in a document from the Islamic World. The remnant of SN , which consists of debris ejected during the explosion, is known as the Crab Nebula. The nebula and the pulsar that it contains are some of the most studied astronomical objects outside the Solar System.
It is one of the few Galactic supernovae where the date of the explosion is well known. The two objects are the most luminous in their respective categories. For these reasons, and because of the important role it has repeatedly played in the modern era, SN is one of the best known supernovae in the history of astronomy. The Crab Nebula is easily observed by amateur astronomers thanks to its brightness, and was also catalogued early on by professional astronomers, long before its true nature was understood and identified.
When the French astronomer Charles Messier watched for the return of Halley’s Comet in , he confused the nebula for the comet, as he was unaware of the former’s existence. Motivated by this error, he created his catalogue of non-cometary nebulous objects, the Messier Catalogue , to avoid such mistakes in the future. The nebula is catalogued as the first Messier object, or M1.
Supernova 1987A:
The presence of isotope heterogeneity of nucleosynthetic origin amongst meteorites and their components provides a record of the diverse stars that contributed matter to the protosolar molecular cloud core. Moreover, sequential dissolution experiments of the Ivuna carbonaceous chondrite aimed at identifying the nature and number of presolar carriers of isotope anomalies within primitive meteorites have detected the presence of multiple carriers of the short-lived 26 Al nuclide as well as carriers of anomalous and uncorrelated 43 Ca, 46 Ca and 48 Ca compositions, which requires input from multiple and recent supernovae sources.
This implies that similarly to 43 Ca, 46 Ca and 48 Ca, the short-lived 26 Al nuclide was heterogeneously distributed in the inner solar system at the time of CAI formation. Giant molecular clouds GMC constitute the densest part of the interstellar medium ISM and are the primary reservoirs of gas and dust in the galaxy.
Interstellar dust grains incorporated into GMCs include amorphous silicate, amorphous carbon, silicon carbide and possibly crystalline silicates, which have been produced in diverse stellar environments and processed within the interstellar medium.
The most common form of early expression of this date back to almost 20, years is in the form of cave paintings and stone etchings. The rock carving found in.
The star, which was as bright as Venus, was located in the inner parts of the famous W-shaped constellation, which was well known to many common people, let alone astronomers. What Tycho saw looked like the appearance of a new star nova stella. He was so astonished that he sought the confirmation of others to assure himself that he was not hallucinating. While these events were very important to astrologers, they had no lasting effect on astronomical thinking at the time.
Tycho, however, realized that such an event was revolutionary. In one night, Tycho managed to scientifically falsify the millennia-old Aristotelian belief that anything beyond the sphere of the moon cannot change. His hard, lifelong work paid off.
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The price of Ether (ETH) is lagging Bitcoin's (BTC) price action by 13% in October, but is this relevant? To date, the altcoin has still outperformed BTC by 274% in 2021. However, traders tend to be short-sighted and some will question whether the Ethereum network can successfully migrate to proof of stake (PoS) validation and finally solve the high gas fees issue.
Moreover, the increasing competition from smart contract networks like Solana (SOL) and Avalanche (AVAX) have been worrying investors:
One big problem with the “ETH is ultra sound money” meme is that EIP-1559 only limits the supply of ETH if Ethereum continues to have lots of transactions. It’s just as possible that people will tire of $80 gas fees and opt for one of numerous alternatives (SOL, AVAX, etc).— dennis in SF // OP_CTV (@pourteaux) October 8, 2021
According to Cointelegraph, the recent speculation over the possible approval of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) raised traders' appetite for BTC. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to announce its decision on multiple ETF requests over the next couple of weeks. However, it remains a possibility that the regulator will postpone these dates.
Pro traders are unfazed by the recent price stagnation
To determine whether professional traders are leaning bearish, one should start by analyzing the futures premium — also known as the basis rate. This indicator measures the price gap between futures contract prices and the regular spot market.
Ether's quarterly futures are the preferred instruments of whales and arbitrage desks. These derivatives might seem complicated for retail traders due to their settlement date and price difference from spot markets, but their most significant advantage is the lack of a fluctuating funding rate.
The three-month futures typically trade with a 5% to 15% annualized premium that follows the stablecoin lending rate. By postponing settlement, sellers demand a higher price, and this causes the price difference.
As depicted above, Ether's failure to break the $3,600 resistance has not caused a shift in pro traders' sentiment because the basis rate remains at a healthy 13%. This shows that there is no excessive optimism at the moment.
Retail traders have been neutral for the past five weeks
Retail traders tend to opt for perpetual contracts (inverse swaps), where a fee is charged every eight hours to balance the leverage demand. To understand if some panic selling occurred, one must analyze the futures markets funding rate.
In neutral markets, the funding rate tends to vary from 0% to 0.03% on the positive side. This fee is equivalent to 0.6% per week and indicates that longs are the ones paying it.
Since Sept. 7, there hasn't been any real indication of high leverage demand from either bulls or bears. This balanced situation reflects retail traders' lack of appetite for leverage long positions, but at the same time shows little panic selling or excessive fear.
Derivatives markets show that Ether investors are not worried about the recent underperformance versus Bitcoin. Furthermore, the lack of excessive long leverage after a 274% gain year-to-date should be positively portrayed.
By leaving some room for bullishness without compromising the derivatives market structure, Ether traders seem prepared for a rally above its all-time high, especially if a Bitcoin ETF is approved.
The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision.
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Health Service Mobility Market highlight on important developments impact and increase Healthcare Mobility Solutions' market growth including restraints, drivers and prospects. Market Health Mobility Solutions market report proposes a complete synopsis of the market, which includes several characteristics such as product definition, market details based on several constraints, supply chain analysis, and fundamental Key Players views.
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decide on their business strategy and achieve the proposed business goals. Description: Healthcare Global Mobility Solutions is expected to watch CAGR around 25.5% percent during the forecast period 2018–2023. Mobility is quickly becoming an integrated element of the health service ecosystem. Mobility solutions can enable efficient patient care, increase response time, improve workflow efficiency, and improve patient output, while reducing costs and risks.
Improve the Use of Smart Devices (Smartphones, Smart Watches, etc.)
Progress in the field of cellular and computational connectivity has led to the foundation of cellular health technology that is changing the face of health care throughout the world. Increasing the use of cellphones makes cellular health services easier. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) in 2013, 91% of the adult population in the United States used cellphones which resulted in higher adoption of mobile health services in the country. And with the help of strong cellular computing capabilities, people can now track, monitor, and transmit health metrics continuously and in real time. This evolution has benefited people in terms of diagnosis of disease and management of chronic conditions outside the doctor's cabin.
New innovations such as biometric sensors that can be used to help people get their health records in real time with various tools such as smart watches, smart bracelets, etc. The main characteristic of this device is that they can measure and transfer data to health care professionals, family members or certain social networks. This allows someone to connect with other people and get insight into data related to their health. In addition, devices such as smart phones now come with large pixel cameras that help some diagnostic processes easier. For example, dermatological diagnoses are made easy with the help of the smartphone. Because the factors mentioned above, digitalization and increased use of smart devices directly affect the market for health care mobility solutions in a positive way. Other factors that drive the market include increasing the influence of social media on health care, increasing demand for personalized medicines and advanced connectivity that results in better quality health care solutions.
Safety and Security Issues Related to Patient Health Information Limiting the Growth of the Mobility Market for Health Services
Data collected by mobility devices is shared among various platforms, which can somehow cause privacy problems. However, most countries have their own privacy laws that protect patient data. For example, in the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) handles the privacy and security of public health information. According to a survey conducted by the US Federal Trade Commission, which tested several mHealth applications, it was found that data from certain applications was being sent to 76 different third-party companies. Data includes food information from the person, sleep patterns etc. A similar analysis of about 43 fitness applications was carried out and it was found that 40% of the data was shared with third party companies and data including financial information, address, location etc.
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We are suffering: According to the Center for Hate and Extremism, Black people are the most hated race in America. Combine this experience with over 400 years of racism, discrimination, and second class citizenship along with the various forms of social control used to attempt to subjugate Black people (e.g., lynching and mass incarceration) and you have a race of people who have endured chronic generational trauma. The ongoing experience of chronic hate and generationally transmitted trauma have negatively influenced the physical and psychological health of Black individuals with many studies suggesting a strong link between chronic illness and racial trauma. We should go to therapy because we got a lot to talk about. We are resilient: Encoded in the DNA of every Black individual is the resourcefulness, strength, and connectedness that was needed to survive a metaphorical “splitting of self.” The Africans transported across the Middle Passage essentially had their cultures forcibly removed from them and had to recreate a sense of self from nothing with only memories and stories to guide them as the generations progressed. However, out of this process arose a Black culture that has been revered for its authenticity, creativeness, and ability to give voice and connect others. The process of therapy can help Black people to rediscover their resiliency. We get better: Although, Black individuals are the least likely of any racial group to seek out therapy services, we get better at rates equal to or greater than our counterparts when we engage in therapy. Recent research has found that around 80% of Black individuals who participate in therapy report a significant reduction in distress. Our natural way of being as a culture supports this process through our emphasis on relationship building, narration and verbal communication, emotional expression, and process orientation. Essentially, who we are as a people helps us get better through the process of therapy.
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Tecmundo reported a few days ago the discomfort that electric cars are causing in drivers in the United States, to the point that 20% of them return to gasoline models, according to research done by the University of California. The cause of this headache would be the delay in charging time for electric vehicle batteries (EVs).
As a comparison, an ordinary Ford Mustang takes three minutes to fill the tank and runs 480 kilometers. An electric Mach-E, on the other hand, needs to stay connected to a domestic outlet for an hour to run just five kilometers. The report also clarifies that the standard for North American residential outlets is 120 volts of energy, called “Level 1”. Ideal for recharging EVs are “Level 2” connections, with 240 volts – something that more than 70% of users do not have access to, at home or at work. Tesla’s Supercharger stations, on the other hand, provide 480-volt power outlets, in which the batteries take just over an hour to reach 100% charge.
On the other hand, this week was announced by Volkswagen – the world’s largest vehicle producer – to end production of gasoline and diesel cars, turning its investments to electric cars. It is worth remembering that Audi, which belongs to the Volkswagen Group, had already made the same announcement recently.
In an interview with Automobilwoche, Ralf Brandstätter, CEO of Volkswagen, said that the German automaker will continue to update and revise the current gasoline and diesel combustion engines to make them more efficient. Everything indicates that this transition should happen in the next ten years, until 2030 – the year in which the automaker wants half of its sales in Europe to be of EVs.
Infrastructure challenges
Electric enthusiasts, like me, find themselves in a dilemma when following this contradictory news: if not even the United States can provide an efficient network of electric stations to provide a recharge, how can large automakers plan to abandon combustion cars?
Once again, the heart of the matter lies in the need for investments in infrastructure. And when considering cases from countries where the modal is working, like Portugal. In Lisbon, electric cars occupy recharging spaces on the streets, being supplied with public energy. The code for that place then arrives at the driver’s residence or business point, as a kind of “EstaR” or “Zona Azul”.
The governments of Paraná and São Paulo have also been dedicated to this issue, with tax exemptions and reductions aimed at promoting electric vehicles. We can also mention Copel’s electrovia, with a network of electrophores that is creating a smart grid in our region.
Returning to the case of Volkswagen, one of the challenges for the implantation of electric cars are countries like Brazil, with preliminary incentive actions for the adoption of these vehicles. Even with the setbacks, the German giant plans to launch in the country, by 2023, six models of electric or hybrid cars – like the eighth generation Golf, in the GTE hybrid version.
Experts heard in Tecmundo’s report reinforce that the tendency of discomfort in the recharging of trams, if maintained, may hinder the transition not only in the United States, but in other countries. “It should not be assumed that, given that a consumer purchases an electric, he will continue to own one,” write Scott Hardman and Gil Tal, researchers at the University of California.
Without investments, there is no possibility of evolving in this mode, despite the sustainable advantages that we have already addressed in other opportunities in this column. And the same is also true when urban and governmental planning of cities and states encompasses cycle paths and modes of active mobility.
In the same way that, in the past, there was a joint effort by the government and private initiative to popularize and make the national road network for combustion and diesel cars viable, we are facing a historic moment of investing heavily in gas stations efficient for recharging electric vehicles.
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Beto Marcelinocolumnist TecMundo, is an agronomist, founding partner and director of government relations at iCities, a company of projects and solutions in smart cities, which organizes the Smart City Expo Curitiba, the largest event in Brazil on the theme with the seal of FIRA Barcelona.
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There is no federal mandate for placing date codes or expiration dates on cans, but companies recommend drinking the sodas before the printed expiration date. Turn the soda can upside down without excessively shaking the can. Look for two lines of text printed on the can.
The top line will only be numbers. The bottom line will be a combination of letters and numbers. Read the top line of the text. The first two numbers refers to the month.
Does Soda Go Bad
For example, if the numbers say 10, the product manufacturing month was October. Look at the second set of numbers on the top line. This is a three-digit number. This number lists the day of the year the product was manufactured. Read the last group of numbers at the end of the row. This group may be 1 or 2 numbers. This number indicates the year of production.
For example, a soda produced in reads Video of the Day. How to Ship Soda Bottles. How to Date a Bottle of Alcohol. How to Store Irish Soda Bread. Ingredients of Club Soda.Coke - How long does Coke last? Coke can last for months after the date printed on the container if stored properly and unopened. Does Soda go bad? Well, it for sure becomes flat and nasty tasting after the time periods mentioned in our table.
The shelf life of Coke Coca Cola depends on a variety of factors, such as the sell by date and how the Coke was stored. Whether the flavored carbonated beverage is called a soft drink, soda, pop or soda pop, Coke is the world's most popular brand.
So, how long does soda last? When properly stored, the shelf life of Coke past the sell by date is approximately Of course, Coke lasts for a shorter period of time if it is not stored properly. But remember that if Coke and Pepsi, like a lot of other soft drinksusually have a best by date and not an expiration date. Because of this distinction, you may safely use Coke to compliment your favorite meal for months after the best before date has lapsed.
Although not a perfect test, your senses are usually the most reliable instruments to tell if your soda has gone bad. The first thing to go bad with any soft drink is the loss of CO2 the carbon dioxide which makes the soda fizz when you pour a glass. So, it is not harmful to drink soda if the bubbles begin to diminish and then eventually disappear months past the best by datebut it will taste flat.
Artificial sweeteners in diet sodas begin to chemically break down over time and the diet soda will actually taste worse the further away you get from the eat by date plus being flat. There are, of course, certain health risks associated with spoiled drinks so always remember to practice food safety and enjoy your drinks before their shelf life has expired!
You can help Coke keep fresh longer by storing it in a cool dark place with a constant temperature. If the coke is unopened, you can store it in your pantry. A sealed bottle of soda will keep its CO2 a day or two longer than an open can will. The little plastic lids that are made to close up a soda can may be beneficial for keeping your soda fresh for about a day longer than the above table. Some benefits of proper food storage include eating healthier, cutting food costs and helping the environment by avoiding waste.
Middle America tends to go with "soda pop". Yet "Coke" remains a universal term for the world. How long does Coke last? That depends. How long does ice cream last? In general, coke lasts only as long as the quickest expiring ingredient in the dish. In addition, we scoured the web for informative articles and reports related to food safety, food storage and the shelf life of Soft Drinks.
Although the Soft Drinks shelf life information on Eat By Date is generally reliable, please remember that individual cases will vary and that our advice should only be taken as an opinion and not a replacement for your health care professional.
How to Find the Date on a 7-Up Bottle
Please drink responsibly! Soft Drinks.I didn't know this. I've got lots of plastic bottles of water. Not good. Have a fabulous day, Marti. You'd think they'd be more focused on customer's so that they could read the expiration without a code. No soda in this house for several years now, it's too tempting. Do you know how to determine the expiration date on canned Dr. On the bottom: M7 HX L3 The expiration date would be September 26, I'll update this with a new post and full explanation.
Hope that helps. I'm sorry edvil, nothing like that on the code sheet I was given. It sure looks like March 12,doesn't it? Where are you located? I would guess that either Dr. Pepper has a different coding system just for your area, or the company in general is changing their date stamp.
I'll start watching here and see if I see anything similar. Hi Marti, Mach and Januaryare these for expiration date or manufacturing date? Not aware of these stamping. This means that the 2 canned Dr Pepper were already expired? Im in the Philippines. The way the cans and bottles are stamped here, the stamp is the date manufactured and then you have to figure out the expiration date for yourself.
So if they have changed the way they print the date, but not their method, and if they aren't diet drinks, the one with the March date wouldn't be expired until next month and the January can would be expired. But that's just a guess based on the way they do it in the US. The next time you see someone from Dr. Pepper stocking drinks at the store, ask them. The store employees probably won't know. When you find out, please come back and tell me. Hi Marti, I found these codes in the barcode area DP I'll check in the store employee soon and come back to you.Soda is deemed to be safe to drink up to nine months after the expiration date assuming the container remains unopened, undamaged, and has been stored correctly.
This is due to the number of additives and chemicals added to carbonated drinks, which specifically make them last for a very long time. Diet soda, with a lower sugar content, lasts up to four months after the expiration date. Sodas tend not to have an expiration date printed on them.
The soda companies usually put best-by dates on the cans or boxes instead. This best-by date is how long the manufacturers consider the unopened drinks to stay at their optimal quality.
Best-by Dates vs. Expiration Date. A best-by date lets you know when the taste of the soda is likely to degrade because of its age. An expiration date, on the other hand, notifies of a possible hazard to your health if consumed. Types of Soda and Their Expiration Dates. Once opened, a can of Diet Coke lasts for a day in either environment while a bottle of Diet Pepsi lasts for one to three days in a pantry or two to five days in a refrigerator.
How to Store Soda Properly. It helps to lengthen the shelf life if you keep the containers away from direct light or heat, and not in an area with fluctuating temperatures.
A bottle must be tightly sealed beforehand whereas the leftover liquid in a can should be poured into a different container and the top covered to try to retain the bubbles.
The loss of fizz is due to the reduced level of carbon dioxide as the soda begins to expire. This gives it a flat taste but is not harmful. Diet sodas taste worse than regular sodas after the best-by date because the artificial sweeteners break down chemically. Another sign is detecting a bad odor, in which case you should not drink the soda.
How do you read the expiration dates on 7-UP and their products?
When used in food, regardless of the best-by or expiration date, the soda is only as good as the ingredient that has the fastest expiration date in the dish. Home World View. Does Vaseline Have an Expiration Date?
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Carbonated Beverages. How do you read expiration date on 7up soda can? Wiki User Basically, you need the expiration date you don't wanna get sick or drink something yucky and expired, so I would go online and look up 7-UP and read their official site. If you buy it recently it shouldn't be expired, stores usually provide fresh foods. So you should look it up on its official site and type in some code or ask the cashier or manager.
The expiration date is in Julian code Google that to get your expiration date. Asked in Carbonated Beverages Do you like 7up? Yes, I personally like only 7Up as it is my favorite soda. Asked in Email and IM You think 7up is made out of bubbless?
It has a lot of soda in it. That is what causes the bubbles. Asked in Sprite Is 7up okay for children?Sources: For details about data sources used for food storage information, please click here. Food Storage - How long can you keep Tips How long do unopened diet soft drinks last? The precise answer to the question depends to a large extent on storage conditions - store unopened cans or bottles of diet soft drinks including cola, ginger ale and root beer in a cool, dark area.
To extend the shelf life of unopened diet soft drinks, keep unopened diet soft drinks away from direct sources of heat or light.
How long do unopened diet soft drinks last at room temperature? Properly stored, unopened diet soft drinks will generally stay at best quality for about months after the date on the package when stored at room temperature, although they will usually remain safe to drink after that.
How long do unopened diet soft drinks last in the refrigerator? Properly stored, unopened diet soft drinks will generally stay at best quality for about months after the date on the package when stored in the fridge, although they will usually remain safe to drink after that. Are unopened diet soft drinks safe to drink after the "expiration" date on the can or bottle?
Yes, provided they are properly stored and the can or bottle is undamaged - commercially packaged unopened diet soft drinks will typically carry a " Best By," "Best if Used By," "Best Before", or "Best When Used By" date but this is not a safety date, it is the manufacturer's estimate of how long the unopened diet soft drinks will remain at peak quality.
Storage times shown are for best quality only - after that, the unopened diet soft drinks' color or flavor may change, but in most cases, they will still be safe to consume if they have been stored properly and the can or bottle is not damaged.
Discard all diet soft drinks from cans that are leaking, rusting, bulging or severely dented.
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How to tell if unopened diet soft drinks are bad? If unopened diet soft drinks develop an off odor, flavor or appearance, they should be discarded for quality purposes. Today's Tips. Long-Lasting Produce 7 popular choices. Your Questions Answered Keeping thawed ground beef.
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Nobody plans to get sick. Sometimes the flu or a cold just happens and it becomes an inconvenience to perform your everyday activities. Maybe you were involved in a minor accident and you got a sprained ankle. If you have children you know how common it is for them to fall and get cuts injuries that, although they’re not life-threatening, can be dangerous not to seek for a medical opinion. That is where urgent care comes in. urgent care is a very efficient way to get medical attention.
These are some of the benefits of going to urgent care:
Urgent care centers are usually easier to find, you might have one closer to your location than an actual hospital. The waiting time is much lesser than the emergency room. It is the best place to solve timely issues
So, whenever you’re debating if you should go to the Emergency Room or make a doctor’s appointment you will probably be fine receiving urgent care. Read ahead to find out about some of the most common reasons to visit urgent care. If you want to know the difference between a regular appointment, Emergency Room, and urgent care, read our article: When to get a regular appointment, urgent care, or emergency room
#1 Cold and flu
Upper respiratory infections are some of the common afflictions among the population. This means that the flu and colds are common illnesses year-round. Most people do not seek medical professionals to treat them, however, it might be important to get a doctor’s opinion.
For instance, they can help you know if you’ve developed an infection and you’ll need antibiotics or if you’ll be fine with anti-viral medication to treat the symptoms. Also, taking into consideration the Covid-19 pandemic, it is better to make sure that a cold is just a cold and that you haven’t contracted the coronavirus.
The flu and colds are the most common reason to visit urgent care because they’re not life-threatening but they’re unexpected illnesses that can complicate if you don’t get proper treatment and rest. Most people can’t wait until a specialist has time to see them in their office and most cases only require simple treatment.
#2 Sore Throat
A sore throat can mean many things. Maybe you just tired your voice by talking too much or screaming, or maybe you’re developing an infection. Who can tell? A doctor at urgent care.
A sore throat can also be a symptom of the flu or a cold, however, it is placed a whole other reason when it is a reason on its own to visit urgent care. Some people get sudden sore throats because of their work (teachers usually strain their voices a lot), but it may also be an early symptom of mononucleosis, which is an infection that you definitely want to catch early.
Also, some people might get a sore throat as well as developing some ear infections. Throat infections and ear infections come hand in hand, that is why checking what’s going on in your throat can be a motive to visit urgent care.
#3 Sprains and strains
Anyone can have an accident. If you exercise regularly or do a sport, it might not be uncommon for you to be involved in some minor accidents. But also, some people are just prone to falling while doing their usual activities. It is normal, accidents happen and sometimes our joints might get hurt.
Having a sprained ankle won’t kill you but it will keep you from doing your daily activities with ease. When you sprain or strain any muscle you should visit urgent care. No one but a medical professional can accurately tell you if your injury requires more than just some icing. Getting to urgent care will help you to get the attention that you need and not worsen the injury by ignoring the pain, recuring to pain killers, or binding it up in the wrong way.
#4 Upset stomach
Having any kind of stomach ache can be uncomfortable but when you also have vomiting or diarrhea it becomes an issue you want to attend to as soon as possible. As it happens with the flu and the common cold, the stomach is also a common unexpected illness that can be nothing serious but that will make you feel bad enough to keep you from your daily activities.
A stomach ache can simply be a reaction to eating something that wasn’t in the best conditions. However, it can also be the flu, another kind of infection, or food poisoning. To prevent dehydration or further complications you should visit urgent care.
#5 Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
If you’re asking yourself: should I visit an urgent care for a UTI? The answer is yes. A urinary tract infection is not life-threatening, however, you might want to check it has no relation to a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Because in that case, the UTI might just be a symptom of another illness that needs some other treatment.
You should especially visit an urgent care unit for a UTI if the symptoms have been persistent for several days. Sometimes, really minor UTIs go away after one day but if your symptoms are persistent you better get it checked.
#6 Rashes, bites, and stings
An allergic reaction can require a visit to the emergency room if you’re having trouble breathing. But when it comes to the skin you might want to visit urgent care rather than the E.R.
Some allergic reactions present in the form of rashes and can be uncomfortable but not life-threatening. Also, any kind of sting or bug bite that isn’t making your body into anaphylactic shock can be checked in urgent care. There a doctor can determine if you’ll need any medication and make sure the stinger isn’t inside your skin.
We would like to emphasize that if you happen to have a serious allergy that could make your body go into anaphylactic shock and you suspect that a rash is a symptom of it, by all means, go to the E.R. This advice just applies to people who maybe have had a rash for a few days without any new developments or got bitten or stung and just need a quick check-in.
#7 Cuts, scrapes, and minor burns
Most accidents leave a mark. Sometimes it is too small to even put a band-aid on it, a paper cut for instance doesn’t require much care. However, sometimes accidents can be a little bigger, not life-threatening but big enough to need medical attention, that is when you should visit urgent care.
Anyone can have an accident at work or even at home doing chores. It is not unusual for kids to have accidents while playing. It is very common to have accidents in the kitchen that involve knife wounds or burns. However, the most dangerous room in a house is the bathroom as The New York Times reports: Watch Your Step While Washing Up
Accidents in the bathroom will most likely require some sort of urgent care.
Again, it is important to remember the rule of thumb: if you feel like your injuries need medical attention but you’re not in imminent danger by them, then go to urgent care. Any wound that needs stitches, proper sanitization, or medicine to heal up is a good reason to visit urgent care.
#8 Broken Bones
A broken bone might sound like an emergency, but it is only if the bone is sticking out of the skin. A broken bone is very painful, however, it is not life-threatening, therefore, it is an urgent care kind of injury.
Also, broken bones need a proper diagnosis. To get an x-ray and determine if a bone is broken or you’ve suffered from a sprain or strain, you’ll need to visit urgent care. usually, in urgent care clinics, they already have the equipment to properly diagnose a broken bone. Also, given that a broken bone is very painful, you’ll not want to wait in an E.R where your injury will not be a priority.
#9 Conjunctivitis
A very common eye infection is conjunctivitis, also known as Pink Eye. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these are the common symptoms of conjunctivitis:
Pink or red color in the white of the eye(s) Swelling of the conjunctiva (the thin layer that lines the white part of the eye and the inside of the eyelid) and/or eyelids Increased tear production Feeling like a foreign body is in the eye(s) or an urge to rub the eye(s) Itching, irritation, and/or burning Discharge (pus or mucus) Crusting of eyelids or lashes, especially in the morning Contact lenses that feel uncomfortable and/or do not stay in place on the eye
To learn more about conjunctivitis you can read this CDC article: Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
The symptoms of conjunctivitis are very uncomfortable and do require medical care. It is also contagious so it is the most responsible thing to do to seek medical attention.
#10 Heat Exhaustion
During the summertime, it is not uncommon for people to suffer from heat exhaustion. If you were doing some work in your garden and feel ill afterward, if your children have been playing all day outside and they feel a bit dizzy later, you should visit an urgent care for heath exhaustion.
It is usually not a big deal, however, it is important to make sure you’re not dehydrated. Also if you got sunburned, it is important to check if they didn’t reach a second-degree level and what kind of treatment they might need to heal.
Conclusions about when to visit urgent care
Urgent care is an option for illnesses and injuring that aren’t life-threatening but require treatment as soon as possible. Minor injuries, burns, broken bones, and common diseases such as the flu are some of the most common cases seen in urgent care. At urgent care you can also access these services:
Xrays Camp, school, sports and work-related physicals Flu shots Vaccination Drug and alcohol screenings
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A few days ago, I threw my back out. I think a 12-pack of pop was the culprit. Of course, it’s not the weight, it was some tiny mistake I made in moving to pick it up, twisting in just the right way to make standing back up difficult and ouch-filled. By now, it’s just a dull ache as I sit here typing and sniffling a bit from allergies. If it sounds like I’m complaining, I don’t mean to be. Actually it just leads me to my topic – this Thankful Thursday I’m thankful for good health.
Literally. I mean, I count myself lucky. As someone now over half a century old, if occasional back pains and sneezing bouts are all I really have to be bothered by, I am entirely lucky. By now, I’m at the age where I’ve had friends I went to school with pass away from horrible ailments. I see people who look somewhere around my age hobbling through stores lugging oxygen tanks they need to breathe. Each week now, I’m driving an older brother-in-law to doctor’s appointments to try and remedy some weird illness that caused him to basically lose the ability to stand or walk for a year or more. (Now he can do both, but is needing a walker to go more than a few feet.) Some people in my household have diabetes; others, chronic knee pain. Not to mention my dear dad who passed away this year from a heart attack, months after his wife died from a myriad of problems tied to diabetes but best described as “old age.” And of course, the elephant in the room, this awful new disease inflicted upon the world last year that’s killed more people in this country than the entire population of Memphis or Miami. I’ll take an occasional feeling of a jolt of electricity when I pick up a package wrong or a bit of a runny nose until the allergy pill kicks in any day. With good grace.
I try to make a point to walk; I could still do more. I try to eat fairly healthy foods; I could eat more fruit and a sandwich or two less. But I never take being healthy for granted. Money, toys, respect… all fine things. But they don’t mean much at all if you don’t have your health. If you’re feeling good today, say ‘thank you’ to God, Mother Nature, karma or whomever you choose and keep a bounce in your step.
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References & Citations Bookmark(what is this?) Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence Title: Injecting Knowledge in Data-driven Vehicle Trajectory Predictors
(Submitted on 8 Mar 2021)
Abstract: Vehicle trajectory prediction tasks have been commonly tackled from two distinct perspectives: either with knowledge-driven methods or more recently with data-driven ones. On the one hand, we can explicitly implement domain-knowledge or physical priors such as anticipating that vehicles will follow the middle of the roads. While this perspective leads to feasible outputs, it has limited performance due to the difficulty to hand-craft complex interactions in urban environments. On the other hand, recent works use data-driven approaches which can learn complex interactions from the data leading to superior performance. However, generalization, \textit{i.e.}, having accurate predictions on unseen data, is an issue leading to unrealistic outputs. In this paper, we propose to learn a "Realistic Residual Block" (RRB), which effectively connects these two perspectives. Our RRB takes any off-the-shelf knowledge-driven model and finds the required residuals to add to the knowledge-aware trajectory. Our proposed method outputs realistic predictions by confining the residual range and taking into account its uncertainty. We also constrain our output with Model Predictive Control (MPC) to satisfy kinematic constraints. Using a publicly available dataset, we show that our method outperforms previous works in terms of accuracy and generalization to new scenes. We will release our code and data split here: this https URL Submission historyFrom: Mohammadhossein Bahari [view email] [v1]Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:03:09 GMT (3023kb,D)
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Pushups are the most common or Beneficial exercise for you. Push-up is an exercise to build both upper body and core strength. The abdominal muscles used to hold your body rigid during the push-up are the rectus abdominis and the internal and external obliques.
In your daily life, you need to push against objects, from doors to carts. The functional fitness you will be developed with push-ups provides the strength needed to perform these movements. Overall in short pushups will improve your strength.
There are several types of pushups and all pushups work to build your different-different body part.
How to Do Push-ups How to Do Push-ups
Pushups is the one of the best and simple exercise to build your chest and muscle endurance. You do not need any equipment to do this exercise. You will do this exercise also your home & Gym. Pushups are simple but more effective you will simply do this exercise.
Get on the floor at fours, the position your hands slightly wider than your shoulders. Don’t lock out your elbows; keep them slightly bent. Start with your hands underneath your shoulders and toes on the floor. Extend your legs back so you are balanced on your hands and toes, your feet hip-width apart. Keeping your weight on your arms, bend your elbows to lower your chest towards the floor. Don’t let your hips sag or rise during the set: if they sag, it puts pressure on your back; if they rise, it takes the tension off your chest. Pause yourself at the bottom, your chest will be close to the floor as possible without touching it. Back powerfully to return to the start position. Types Of Pushups Types Of Pushups
There are several types of Push-ups but these are the most common or effective Pushups
1: Incline Pushups 1: Incline Pushups
The Incline Push-ups are very helpful for beginners to improve their strength. Incline Push-ups will make push-up exercise easier. Stand little far feet away from the bench. Use the similar push-up technique as above to lower yourself until the elbows are at 90° then raise back up. Keep your core engaged throughout the movement. The incline Push-ups will help to build the lower portion of the chest.
2: Decline Push-ups 2: Decline Push-ups
The Decline Pushups are just opposite to the incline Pushups. Decline Push-ups are difficult Pushups because your feet are on the bench or your hands are on the floor. To performed this exercise raised up your feet on a box or bench. You can adjust the bench or box height to increase or decrease the resistance according to your body weight. The decline Push-ups will help to build the upper part is the chest.
3: Clapping push-ups 3: Clapping push-ups
The Clapping pushups are one of the most difficult pushups. I will recommend this exercise is not for beginners if you are a beginner please avoid this exercise without helping any trainer or any experience person otherwise you will be injured. The clapping pushups is the Plyometric exercise in which your hands will push yourself full of power so that your hands come off the floor and you clap in midair and back to pushups position.
4: Diamond Push-ups 4: Diamond Push-ups
The Diamond pushups help your triceps. Basically, Diamond pushup is to Tarin/build your Triceps muscle. It is done with your hands close together and your index fingers and thumbs of one hand touching the other hand fingers, making a diamond shape on the floor. After that, you then do Push-ups with your hand’s movement and touching the center of your chest and elbows close to your sides back during each rep.
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Back in 1948, Don Callender started his business Marie Callender’s—named after his dear mother—to sell pies, wholesale, to restaurants. Eventually, of course, he turned it into a chain of restaurants and finally into some of the finest frozen food you can buy for less than two dollars. Indeed, Safeway has all of their Marie Callender’s dinners on sale for $1.89. I couldn’t pass up that deal, so I bought a couple. As I was microwaving this dining delight[1}, I noticed something: the picture of the woman and child cooking on the back.
Of course, it is kind of funny in and of itself. It is almost as though the makers are saying: this is the culture that we are proudly destroying with our products! But there is something more. I know from years of looking at models pretending to be Marie Callender, that the woman in this picture is supposed to be Mrs. Callender. That’s why it isn’t
really funny that this frozen dinner has a picture of people actually cooking as opposed to mindlessly scooping potatoes out of a dish while they watch reruns of The Biggest Loser; it’s a picture of Callender doing the home cooking that we all are just too busy to do.
But let’s move in a little closer on this pretend mother of Don Callender:
Note anything strange? The hair looks okay: sort of “active person’s gray.” But her face! She’s younger than I am! She can’t be more than late thirties! I guess it is no longer true that sixty is the new forty. Now eighty is the new thirty.
I am now determined to die old, just so I can get as ugly and old-looking as possible. If I get the money, I’m going to start my own old-person’s network where people look their age and don’t give a damn. And we’re going to stage demonstrations against Marie Callender’s and anyone else who pretends to be old. There are
so many great things that go along with getting old. One of them is becoming knowledgeable. A world run by 80-year-olds wouldn’t need over a gram of salt to make frozen food taste better than cardboard.
Long live the old, and anyone under thirty is best neither seen
nor heard! 1What was this dining delight? It is hard to say. I could read what it says on the box, but they are all pretty much the same. There were mashed potatoes, some kind of meat product thing, and then a vegetable medley that was mostly corn. And 1.09 grams of salt, which I think is your recommended monthly allowance.
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Hostmicrobial symbiosis in the vertebrate gastrointestinal tract and the lactobacillus reuteri paradigm jens waltera,1, robert a. The intestinal microbiota is a plastic ecosystem that is shaped by environmental and genetic factors, interacting with virtually all tissues of the host. University of groningen interaction between the gut and its. The git of an adult may harbour even 2 kg of bacterial biomass representing over bacterial species, of which majority can not be cultivated. Melanie lee,1 yue shen,1 arya khosravi,1 and sarkis k. This exposure applies to every human being, as we all eat, drink fluids, and inadvertently put things in our mouths. The evolution of mutualism in gut microbiota via host epithelial selectionj. Backhed f1, ley re, sonnenburg jl, peterson da, gordon ji. Here, bacteria can have beneficial effects such as the digestion of complex carbohydrates, colonisation resistance against invading pathogens, maturation of the adaptive mucosal immune system and immune cells, and the production of secondary metabolites, including vitamins 8 10. The inability to gain weight is a hallmark of colitis in this experimental setting 4.
Competition and stability a new perspective on the. Our gut microbiota can be pictured as a microbial organ placed within a host organ. The human gut harbours a large and genetically diverse population of. Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine science. A novel combination of culturing and dnabased terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism trflp analysis was used to investigate the effect of probiotics on antibioticinduced gut microbiota alterations to determine if a probiotic preparation containing bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, taken during and after antibiotic therapy, can minimize antibiotic disturbance of faecal microbiota. The gut microbiota have been studied in relation to allergic airway disease. The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host and at the level of the microbial cell. Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine jeffrey gordons lab. Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine johns. This microbiota and its collective genomes microbiome provide us with genetic and metabolic attributes we.
This microbiota in the large intestine is mainly composed of firmicutes and bacteroidetes phyla making up respectively over 75% and 16% of total microbes in. Mutualism is the way two organisms of different species exist in a. We used 16s rrna ribosomal rna gene sequencing to study changes in the fecal microbiota of 12 volunteers during a human. Diet is considered as one of the main drivers in shaping the gut microbiota across the life time. Importance of glycans to the hostbacteroides mutualism in. Undisturbed, this intestinal microbiota provides protection from bacterial.
What relationship does bacteria and human intestines have. Request pdf commensal hostbacterial relationship one potential outcome of the adaptive. The healthy human intestine is represented by the presence of bacterial communities predominantly belonging to obligate anaerobes. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. This term is most commonly used to refer to diseasecausing microorganisms although they may not cause illness in all hosts. Bacteria in the large intestine have a symbiotic relationship with humans. Molecular determinants of hostbacterial mutualism 245 2. Pdf hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine. Microbiota are ecological communities of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic. The human microbiota includes bacteria, fungi, archaea and viruses. This microbiota and its collective genomes microbiome provide us with genetic and metabolic attributes we have not been required to evolve on our own, including the ability to. Glycans from the bacteria themselves are required for the establishment and survival of these organisms in the colonic.
What is symbiotic relationship with bacteria in large. The human intestinal microflora is estimated to contain 500 to species, at least 50% of which cannot be cultivated ex vivo. Effect of antibiotic growth promoters on intestinal. The intestinal microbiota is a diverse and dynamic ecosystem,1 which has developed a mutualistic relationship with its host and plays a crucial role in the development of the hosts innate and adaptive immune responses. Everyone carries around far more of these microbes than the number of human cells in the body. The human gastrointestinal gi tract harbours a complex and dynamic population of microorganisms, the gut microbiota, which exert a marked influence on the host during homeostasis and disease. In the human body, mutualism is seen as a result of resident microbiota performing various functions in specific parts of the body where they are localized and undergo colonization. The host provides plant polysaccharides and hostderived glycans and, in return, receives beneficial end products of bacterial fermentation. The foremost aim of this study is to consider and compare the gut microbiota composition in patients suffering from different stages of uc. In the case of humans and bacteria, the human cannot digest all of the food that it eats.
Individualspecific changes in the human gut microbiota. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine fredrik ba. They live on the skin, in the saliva and mouth, in the eyes, and in the gut and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract. Brittonb, and stefan roosc adepartment of food science and technology, university of nebraska, lincoln, ne 685830919. Much of the mutualistic relationship between humans and their resident intestinal bacteroides species is founded on glycans. Evidence shows that gut microbiota plays a vital role. Readings systems microbiology biological engineering. They include bacteria, archaea, fungi and singlecelled eukaryotes protozoa. Taxon richness estimates for bacteria in the human gi tract. Concepts and techniques in the study of the gut microbiota. The human intestine is a highly populated microbial ecosystem. This is a pdf file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication.
Many signals result from the interplay between the microbiota with its mammalian symbiont that can lead to altered metabolism. The bacterial concentration increases from 10 78 cells per gram of faecal content in the small intestine to 10 11 in the colon 10. Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial. Intestinal microbial communities associated with acute. The evolution of mutualism in gut microbiota via host. Establishment of bacterial communities in the gastrointestinal tract 244 1. The ecological rules that govern the shape of microbial diversity in the. A bacterial immunomodulatory protein with lipocalinlike. Thus, to better understand hostbacterial mutualism in the intestine, in addition to revealing phylogeny information, it is essential to examine functional and metabolic diversity of gut microbiota affected by agp usage using recently developed highthroughput approaches, such as metagenomic sequencing of gut microbiota turnbaugh et al. Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the zebrafish intestinal neutrophil response to monoassociation with an aeromonas isolate, a. Hostbacterial symbiosis in health and disease janet chow,1 s. The majority of these cells reside in the human gastrointestinal tract and, in particular, in the large intestine.
Because of this, the definition has been expanded to how known pathogens survive within their host. Microbiome profiling reveals diseaseassociated alterations, but the functional consequences of such changes cannot yet be predicted. Genomic approaches to studying the human microbiota. Protein delivery into eukaryotic cells by type iii secretion machines. Influence of exercise on the human gut microbiota of healthy adults.
The relationship with their host is called mutualistic when organisms perform tasks that are. Here, bacteria can have beneficial effects such as the digestion of complex carbohydrates, colonisation resistance against invading pathogens, maturation of the adaptive mucosal immune system and immune cells, and the production. Studies that examine differences in intestinal microbial communities across individuals with and without enteric infections are useful for identifying microbes that support or impede intestinal health. Disruptions in the microbial composition are associated with a number of comorbidities linked to the metabolic. Introduction to the human gut microbiota biochemical. Based on the mutualism between aeromonas and zebrafish stephens et al. It is composed of different cell lineages with a capacity to communicate with. Assuming an average microbial genome size of 5 million base pairs bp and 4000 genes per genome, the 2.
Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine created date. Social interaction, noise and antibioticmediated switches in the. Association between the abo blood group and the human. Human gut microbiota is the microbe population involving bacteria, archaea and eukarya inhabiting in our intestine, and has coevolved with the host to live together 1,2. The intestinal microbiome represents a complex network of microbes that are important for human health and preventing pathogen invasion. Bacteria living in the human gut achieve the highest cell densities recorded for any ecosystem. The adult human gastrointestinal gi tract contains all three domains of lifebacteria, archaea, and eukarya. In any mutualistic relationship, both parties are helped in a way. The impact of the human intestinal microbiota on the initiation and progression of etec diarrhea is not yet well understood.
The human microbiome or human microbiota is the collection of microorganisms which live on us. The enormous number of microbial cells in the human gastrointestinal tract was documented a half century ago, 11 while their mutualism to human host was recognized ten more years ago 12 and acknowledged of equal importance as a forgotten organ. Microanimals which live on the human body are excluded. Enterotoxigenic escherichia coli etec is a major cause of diarrhea in inhabitants from lowincome countries and in visitors to these countries. Hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine pubmed. Commensal hostbacterial relationships in the gut login the. The evolution of mutualism in gut microbiota via host epithelial. The host can thereby maintain beneficial bacteria with only small. Editorial the gut, intestinal permeability, and autoimmunity.
Multiple factors contribute to the establishment of the human gut microbiota during infancy. The human microbiome refers to their genomes humans are colonized by many microorganisms. Characterization of bacterial community shift in human. Understanding the interactions between bacteria in the human gut.
Probiotics to minimize the disruption of faecal microbiota. The gut, intestinal permeability, and autoimmunity editorial t he gut is the largest surface of the body, approximately the size of a tennis court that is continually and persistently exposed to bacterial and dietary antigens. Commensal hostbacterial relationships in the gut science. Citeseerx hostbacterial mutualism in the human intestine. The human gut microbiome plays an influential role in maintaining human. Human microbiome simple english wikipedia, the free. The hostpathogen interaction is defined as how microbes or viruses sustain themselves within host organisms on a molecular, cellular, organismal or population level. Recent advances in our capability to identify microbes and their function offer exciting opportunities to evaluate the complex cross talk between microbiota, intestinal barrier, immune system and the gutbrain axis. The intestinal microbiota plays an important role in the development of postnatal gastrointestinal functions of the host. The human gastrointestinal tract git comprises an extremely dense and diverse microbiota. The distal human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with an enormous population of bacteria, dominated by relatively few divisions that are highly diverse at the strainsubspecies level. Mutualism is the mutuallybeneficial association between two organisms. The human intestine, colonized by a dense community of resident microbes, is a frequent target of bacterial pathogens.
The distal human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with an enormous population of bacteria, dominated by relatively few divisions that. Gastrointestinal function development and microbiota. Gut microbiota plays critical physiological roles in the energy extraction and in the control of local or systemic immunity. Gut microbiota and its disturbance also appear to be involved in the pathogenesis of diverse diseases including metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, cancer, etc. Fecal bacterial microbial transplantation position.1342 1167 983 1407 1501 1408 545 833 1575 1532 535 623 384 388 261 1254 753 279 350 418 1156 865 1313 1208 131 1228 316 1140 870 491 1411 1447 1288 1413 1387 1171 632 520 980
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FG’s mass metering programme to generate 500,000 jobs, says expert
A power expert, Mr Kola Balogun, says the Phase One of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) can create 500,000 jobs for Nigerians.
Balogun, who is the Chairman, Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing Company (MEMMCOL), made the assertion on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
NAN reports that the Federal Government launched the Phase Zero of the NMMP in respect of which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in October 2020, issued the Framework for Financing of National Mass Metering Programme.
He appealed to the CBN to create easier access to Forex by local meter manufacturers to source for raw materials ahead of the programme.
Balogun noted that the phase zero of the NMMP recorded the desired success of installing meters for about one million customers.
According to him, under the phase one, about four million prepaid meters were targeted for installation which has a huge potential for job creation.
”President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration must be commended for initiating the NMMP because there is an urgent need to bridge the metering gap in the power sector.
“I want to appreciate the government because the intervention that came to manufacturers under the phase one was a huge success.
“It gave manufacturers the opportunity to have a tested process in place to know their capabilities and capacities and what they can give to the market.
The volume given to us was tested against the equipment, manpower and why we need to upscale further.”
Balogun said there was the possibility of local meter manufacturers increasing their employees and trainees in order to meet the volume required of them under the phase one of the programme.
“We need to employ more engineers on how to handle and service the machines, how to do coding and programming and also installers that will be going into the field.
“I am appealing to them that as the phase one is coming in that they should strengthen local manufacturers.
“There should be an opportunity for more funding to upscale our production and train more hands to ensure its success.
“It is a better way for the government to utilise its Forex by supporting local manufacturing instead of capital flight through the importation of meters.”
Balogun said the CBN needs to have a comprehensive list of local meter manufacturers and give them the necessary Forex support so that the phase one commencement would not be delayed.
He said there was a need to increase the local content compliance in meter manufacturing from 30 per cent to about 70 per cent to create more job opportunities for Nigerians.
NAN reports that the programme is aimed at meeting the target of closing the metering gap in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry by December 2021.
It would assist in reducing collection losses, while at the same time, increasing financial flows to achieve 100 per cent market remittance obligation of the DisCos.
Part of the objectives also includes the elimination of arbitrary estimated billing, improving network monitoring capability and provision of data for market administration and investment decision-making.
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Dubai: Dubai’s foreign trade recorded a strong 31 per cent growth during the first-half of 2021 reaching Dh722 billion, said Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai.
"We continue to strengthen ties with the world in line with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai’s vision to raise foreign trade to Dh5 billion over the next 5 years," said Sheikh Hamdan in a series of tweets.
"Dubai facilitates trade growth for stakeholders with its world-class logistics and advanced IT infrastructure that streamlines transactions. We build on our vast experience to tackle any challenges that may arise in global markets." he added.
Exports grew 45 per cent year-on-year in H1-2021 to Dh109.8 billion from Dh75.8 billion, which supports the goal of the 10 x 10 programme (to increase the UAE’s exports to 10 global markets by 10 per cent annually). Imports rose by 29.3 per cent year-on-year to Dh414 billion from Dh320 billion. Re-exports grew 28.3 per cent to Dh198.6 from Dh154.79.
Dubai’s existing sea and air network will be expanded to cover 200 new cities around the world. We are confident that we will continue to build on our growth momentum to achieve our ambitious sustainable development projects and plans.
“The accelerated pace of external trade growth also reflects Dubai’s role in facilitating and streamlining worldwide trade and supply chains,” said Sheikh Hamdan. “With Dubai all set to receive delegates from 191 nations at Expo 2020, the emirate’s outstanding trade performance further raises its profile as a trading powerhouse.”
“Dubai is at the forefront of international economic recovery and we are on track to increase our global trade to Dh2 trillion in the coming years,” said Sultan bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman & CEO and Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation.
Dubai’s World Logistics Passport (WLP) initiative is helping to reimagine how goods and services move around the globe,
The advanced systems at Dubai Customs completed 12.7 million customs declarations in eight months; an average of 55,000 daily. Customs transactions in H1-2021 grew 53.4 per cent to 11.2 million.
The total share of the five biggest trade partners during first six months of 2021 amounted to Dh241.21 billion compared to Dh185.06 billion during same time last year, up by 30.34 per cent.
Top commodities exported from Dubai: Gold topped the list of commodities with Dh138.8 billion (19.2 per cent of Dubai trade) Telecoms at Dh94 billion (13 per cent) Diamonds came third in the list at Dh57.3 billion (8 per cent) Jewellery at Dh34.1 billion (4.7 per cent) Vehicle trade at Dh28 billion (4 per cent)
Direct trade during January to June period totalled Dh445.6 billion, up 39.5 per cent, while trade through free zones reached Dh272 billion, up 19.8 per cent. Customs warehouse trade weighed in at Dh4.5 billion, up 8.1 per cent. Airborne trade accounted for Dh364.8 billion, up by 46.15 per cent from Dh249.6 billion in H1-2020.
Sea trade reached Dh247.5 billion, up 16.7 per cent, while land trade touched Dh110 billion, up 23.7 per cent compared to Dh88.8 billion.
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Site map Pages About About Us Clients we have helped Contact Us Contact Us Completing Cookie Policy Downloads Exiting your business Growing your business How it works How We Work How we work Leading your business News news test Partners Planning your business Privacy Policy Site Map Testimonials Videos What We Do Working with a business adviser Working with you to plan a successful business exit Your path to business success Posts by category Category: news Begin with your end goal in mind Succession – a key part of exit planning Does having an exit plan mean you have to sell your business? How will you get your business across the finish line? You get an approach to buy your business – good news, right? What’s your business story – and how might it enhance your exit? 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Try these two quick exit planning exercises to excel in the months ahead With lockdown came change – how will you build on the experience? Adding horsepower to build your exit valuation Are you faced with some decision dilemmas? Is your team engaged with your exit plan? Five positive questions to ask yourself as you plan your exit Trust your team, so you can let go and prepare to exit The different rhythms of business life require different perspectives on time How to manage an unexpected approach to buy your business Collaboration is a sign of a growth mindset (a Dick ‘n’ Nick day) Businesses we helped in 2019 – and what they gained Charity support can be so much more than fundraising Does my team deserve a bonus? 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A thought that I often wrestle with is the idea that I should be “trying harder” or “pushing myself.” Although I know that it’s not true, I sometimes question whether it’s my fault that I’m not getting better or am disabled. There’s a common “no pain no gain” narrative that gets applied to many aspects of our lives, and although it doesn’t apply when your body’s energy production system is broken, it still impacts how I view myself. I think the promotion of miracle cures also leads to a sense of “I’m not doing enough” because they suggest that if you just did xyz you’d easily be cured!
When I see other people with ME/CFS going for walks, I think “Maybe I should be trying harder to do that?” When I take rest days, I feel guilty because I could be getting more done in the short run if I just pushed through. When I leave the pharmacy with four prescriptions, I sometimes feel like it’s a personal weakness.
But what would “trying harder look like for me?”
-Not using my wheelchair would leave me unable to leave the house independently without making my condition worse and potentially doing long term damage.
-Trying to “get in shape” would leave me with severe post-exertional malaise symptoms that I may not ever fully bounce back from ( pain, extreme weakness, and fatigue, brain fog, lack of coordination, insomnia, etc.). Pages 3 & 4 of this pamphlet actually outline all the abnormal effects of physical activity on people with ME.
-Cutting down on my plethora of prescription meds would make it harder to function due to brain fog, sleep deprivation, and depression.
-Trying to cook all my own meals from scratch would leave me too tired to do anything else in the day.
-Going on a strict elimination diet would just leave me with more stress, less energy, and wouldn’t actually cure me ( While I know it helps some people, I’ve given a few decent trials and haven’t noticed any results).
Ultimately, the modifications I’ve made to my life are ones I need to make and if you’ve made changes, it’s probably for the best. Everybody is different and two people with the same diagnoses may have completely different needs. You do you and do what you need to do for your mental and physical health. 🙂
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As soon as you get your couches and armchairs reupholstered, you want to make sure that it looks good at all times so that you can avoid replacing the covers again. We do have instances where a drink falls onto the fabric or the family pet decides to sleep on the couch. How would you go around cleaning these types of stains and marks?
Before cleaning the fabrics with special solvents, always vacuum it first to get rid of any dust that could turn into a horrible brown mark. Dust not only makes stains dirtier but it is also bad for your health. Dust attracts insects and fleas which becomes a difficult problem to deal with.
As soon as a drink or any other liquid falls onto the surface of your couch make sure that you dab on the spot with a dry cloth. Absorbing it with the cloth will prevent the liquid from setting into the fibres.
Grease and oil might be the worst type of stain to have on a fabric couch or armchair. Whatever you do, do not wet the oil or grease at it does not mix with water. You need to either apply baking soda or baby powder to soak the grease. Once it has been absorbed, brush off gently and put it in the washing machine or hand wash if the specific fabric specifies as such.
Be careful of what you read on the internet. Many people will tell you to use vinegar, strange DIY mixtures and so on. Your upholstery should have a tag that explains exactly what type of soaps, solvents and liquids it can handle. Follow these instructions.
Water could be damaging to the furniture upholstery. When you see “S” on the tag, you would need to purchase a special solvent based cleaner to avoid damaging or stretching out the fibres.
If the family pet has settled on the couch with its muddy fur and paws, there are ways to clean the material without spreading the mud and making the stain worse. This cleaning method only applies to dryer and more solid mud. Let the sand dry so that it stays in one place. Alternatively, you can careful remove the mud without spreading it around and let the excess dry so that it becomes a sold piece. Once dried, brush it off carefully without scratching your couch. After this, follow the correct cleaning procedures mentioned on the tag of the upholstery.
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One of the companies standing out the most when considering cloud services and colocation is C7 Data Centres. This company, a leader in the provision of disaster-safe Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) and colocation services for small to medium sized businesses, recently announced FuseAp, a new virtual colocation service generation. FuseAp enables companies to manage IT infrastructures remotely while being assured that data and systems remain secure in high performing redundant virtual environments.
Delivering a full set of robust services, FuseAp includes virtual appliance templates to provide rapid deployment; private virtual colocation suites and a pre-built cloud server library. It also offers hybrid colocation-cloud solutions and migration planning. Set-up services are provided free of charge for new FuseAp clients by C7.
The safety of systems and data is assured by the fact that FuseAp is located in specific purpose-built and audited outsourcing facilities for data. C7 Data Centres operates these facilities in Utah, which is ranked by FEMA to have the lowest potential for disasters in the state. Considering the increasing frequency of natural disasters around the world - brought on primarily by no longer deniable changes in climate - this, of course, is in itself a major bonus.
By using FuseAp to virtualise their colocation footprints, as opposed to regularly paying out large amounts in order to operate, maintain and refresh hardware, businesses can save substantially on capital outlay. Including affordable BGP connectivity - providing unlimited high quality data transfer - the new FuseAp also enables companies to configure and manage infrastructures without having to worry about downtimes, overages, penalties or vendor lock-in.
As options within the colocation and cloud services industry are continually increasing, experts recommend that consumers should do thorough research and select reputable, well-established companies like C7 Data Centres or the equally outstanding ViaWest, both of which are proven to not only be trustworthy, but also sound in technological terms.
High quality, technologically sound services, excellent customer service and support combine with an ideal geographic location and affordable pricing to make C7 Data Centres the logical choice for companies seeking to virtualise their IT infrastructures.
Any small to medium sized company looking for quality, safe and reasonably priced cloud services and colocation options would definitely be served well by choosing C7 Data Centres' new FuseAp virtual colocation service. Quotes for these outstanding services can be obtained via telephone or online and are certainly worth checking out.
Truth be told, it’s difficult for a web application that doesn’t have some kind of identification, even if you don’t see it as a security measure in and of itself. The Internet is a kind of lawless land, and even on free services like Google’s, authentication ensures that abuses will...
MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database, which was born in 2007 in California as a service to be used within a larger project, but which soon became an independent and open-source product. It stores documents in JSON, a format based on JavaScript and simpler than XML, but still with good...
Although data persistence is almost always a fundamental element of applications, Node.js has no native integration with databases. Everything is delegated to third-party libraries to be included manually, in addition to the standard APIs. Although MongoDB and other non-relational databases are the most common choice with Node because if you...
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Kenya’s integrated telecommunications firm Safaricom has been confirmed as the country’s top taxpaying company for the fifth year running in the annual awards for top taxpayers from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
Safaricom was among ten top companies that in total contributed KSh115 billion (US$1.3 billion) to the exchequer, making up 17 percent of the total tax collected.
Safaricom still holds the lion’s share of the market at 64 percent, according to the latest statistics. Non-voice products such as M-Pesa, SMS and broadband earn the company 27 percent of its revenue, which the financial report for the year 2011/2012 showed totalled KSh107 billion (US$1.2 billion).
During the release of the report, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore said: “Safaricom operates in an increasingly tough environment characterised by low voice tariffs, intense inflationary pressure, high borrowing costs and foreign exchange fluctuations.”
This trend of being the highest taxpayer is one that is set to continue should the government go ahead with plans to tax mobile money transactions to raise more money for the revenue authority.
With the occurrence of workers in various sectors taking to the streets to demand more pay, the government had to look for ways to raise the deficit to cater for doctors and teachers and one way that was proposed was to impose a tax on mobile payments.
Before this was revealed, Airtel had announced that they would make mobile money transfers free for customers.
This move was yesterday criticised by the Finance Minister Njeru Githae, who stated that the government would be forced to set a blanket minimum transaction fee on mobile money transactions.
The issue of mobile termination rates (MTR) still hangs in the balance. A lower MTR would be a good thing for the customer, although it could see revenues for the telecommunications sector dwindle.
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Peace operations Peace operations aim at stabilizing a conflict and helping to implement a ceasefire or comprehensive peace agreement.
NUPI’s work on peace operations is closely tied to peacebuilding. With peace operations as well as peacebuilding, our research is grounded in extensive fieldwork that can provide important insights into conflict transformation and help peacebuilding processes at the local, national, regional and international levels.
Research topics within the field of peace operations include:
How well do international peace operations actually work? How do local actors interact with international actors in peace operations? How can security be established through security sector reform? News about peace operations 10 Jun 2021
In order to establish a sustainable knowledge base on climate, peace and security issues in the Nordic-Baltic region, twelve research institutes have come together to establish a research network on climate, peace and security.
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NUPI and SIPRI, under the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project have worked on understanding the interlinkages between climate, peace and security in the Sahel-region.
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The Sahel region is highly exposed to climate change, but national and local factors mean that climate change will have differentiated impacts across the region. The region will gradually become hotter, with some areas experiencing increased, but erratic, rainfall.
Publications about peace operations Publication : Academic chapter/article/Conference paper Publication : Popular scientific article 2021For close to a decade, the UN has been under the double pressure of a high number of fatalities and pressure from member states to cut costs, particularly from the United States. Since 2013, the UN has not launched a new large peacekeeping mission, but large missions have been closed in Côte d’Ivoire,... Publication : Editorial Research projects about peace operations Research project2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)
ADHOCISM asks what is the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations?
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Norway has a seat in the UN Security Council in 2021 - 2022. Through this project we will facilitate meetings with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss important strategic issues.
Research project2020 - 2025 (Ongoing)
In its new phase (2020-2025) the TfP will strengthen its partnership and collaboration with the African Union, by providing applied research, policy support and capacity-building.
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To ensure safety throughout the supply chain and in the patient’s home, providers are adopting tamper-evident products for intravenous home infusion.
To better understand the steps home infusion providers are taking to ensure safety, Becker’s Hospital Review recently spoke with Neil Colby, RPh, an infusion pharmacist and Director of Infusion Pharmacy Services for CDRx Infusion
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and American Nurses Association estimate that 10% of health care workers experience substance abuse, given the access to medications in health care institutions. One report estimates that, in 2019, 148 million medication doses were diverted by health care employees.
the record $7.75 million penalty for allegations of inappropriate pharmacy operations involving drug diversion. The Investigation by Drug Enforcement Officials uncovered irregularities concerning the distribution, dispensing, and record keeping of controlled substances…
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Ecuador has released some 500 jailed drug "mules" as part of a new policy that sees them as victims, not just criminals, a progressive shift away from many international strictures that target the lowest rungs in the trafficking chain, in a move that will free up space in the country's overcrowded prisons.
Under the country's new criminal law, which was approved in January and went into effect on August 10, a person caught with under 50 grams of drugs can receive up to six months in prison, and a person smuggling up to two kilos may receive up to three years. Only those moving more than five kilos will receive a heftier sentence of as many as 13 years in prison, reported GlobalPost.
This is a marked difference from previous legislation that placed a blanket penalty on anyone moving up to 20 kilos, no matter how small the amount: eight to 12 years in prison.
Jorge Paladines, the national coordinator of Ecuador's Public Defender's Office, told GlobalPost there is now "a policy of seeing mules as victims of the drug trade."
Another 2,000 drug couriers are expected to be released in addition to the 500 whose sentences have already been cut short.
In order to receive a sentence reduction under the new policy, prisoners must attend a court hearing.
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Ecuador's new policy stands in sharp contrast to the traditional heavy-handed treatment of low-level drug offenders seen in the US-led "war on drugs," and could represent a major step toward changing such perceptions. A shift in policy could also help address prison overcrowding, a problem throughout the region. Ecuador's prison population more than doubled between 2009 and 2013, an increase that coincided with rising cocaine seizures as the country has solidified as a drug transit point -- likely fueling a growth in drug "mules."
SEE ALSO: Coverage of Drug Policy
These couriers -- who may swallow cocaine capsules, attach the drug to their bodies or attempt to carry it in luggage -- engage in one of the more high-risk jobs in the drug trade. They are generally socially and economically vulnerable populations, as noted by GlobalPost senior correspondent Simeon Tegel in a conversation with Huff Post Live. Many are women: the number of Latin American women in prison rose dramatically between 2006 and 2011, with more than two thirds jailed on drug charges.
Additionally, some people employed as mules by drug trafficking groups do not act of their own volition.
It does seem the policy tides are beginning to turn in recognition of these issues. Even the United States has begun moving towards a treatment-based regime for drug users -- who form part of the same gamut of low-level offenders as mules -- and officials have called for focusing on the violent, major traffickers that impact public safety. However, progressive rhetoric regarding non-violent drug offenses is not always matched by legislation.
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It has been about five days since I posted an entry. This week, up until now, there did not seem to be much to say. I have been busy preparing my first lecture to the second year students on “Clinical Optometric Procedures.” I have been settling in to a routine, doing my work.
Here on the equator in the highlands of Western Kenya, the sun rises at 6:45, the sun sets at 6:45. The day starts out sunny, clear and cool at around around 16 degrees Celsius (60 degrees F) and warms to about 26 C (80 F) in the afternoon. We are in the late summer rainy season. I wake up, shower, and have a breakfast of instant coffee, oats, and fruit. The local fruits of oranges, banana, and mango are plentiful and cheap. It is also common to see apples and tangerines in the high end grocery stores and they are more expensive. Yesterday, I asked a grocery clerk, “Which of these coffees is the best Kenyan instant coffee?” “Nescafe,” he answered. There is an assumption among locals that the big international companies have higher quality food, but there was no way I was going to buy Nescafe. I vaguely remember an incident that happened years ago where Nescafe initiated an advertising claiming that their baby formula was more nutritious than mother’s milk, leading to infant malnutrition and deaths. I went for Gibson’s brand which is made in Kenya, and I have no details about how ethical Gibson’s has been over the years, but have not tried it yet. I once bought Dorman’s brand and it was good.
I ride my bike to work through the back roads. There is a side entrance at the University, closest to my place, that allows bicyclists and pedestrians to enter. I enjoy greeting the security guard with a “Jambo” or “Habari?” As I ride, I frequently hear locals say or sometimes yell “
Mzungu!” as I ride by. The look at me and laugh, putting an elbow into their neighbor’s side. “Hey, look at that. There’s a mzungu on a bicycle.” As I have mentioned before, bicycles are for poor people here, and they assume that a mzungu is wealthy. While I have no complaints, and I am still not receiving a salary, I certainly do not perceive myself as wealthy by American standards. I am wealthy by Kenyan standards, however.
As I ride I hear “How are you?,” every few minutes. I am trying to learn Swahili, and will sometimes answer “Mizuri sana,” which means “I am fine.” Oh, they do not like that at all. If someone yells, “How are you?” they want to hear, “Fine, thank you.” So now I say, “Fine, thank you, and you?” as I ride by.
Most mornings I arrive to work and find a place to sit and work. I have no office here and neither does the other full-time faculty member, Richard Donkor, OD, from Ghana. We often sit in the consultation room in the clinic where it is clean, quiet, and there is an electrical outlet to power our laptops, charge our phones. Telecommunications in Kenya are excellent, at least through the company I use called Safaricom. My mobile phone acts as a hotspot, is inexpensive, and reliable. I buy data packages as needed, use it a lot, and have purchased $20 in data so far in my three weeks here.
Lately, I have been working on my lectures. I am partly employed by the Brien Holden Vision Institute out of Australia and have access to their online teaching materials, either in pdf or Powerpoint format. They have extensive teaching materials available and I have enjoyed reviewing their Clinical Optometric Procedures I and II series, which is one of the classes I teach. I have not found any contact lens or visual neurology lectures on their website. For the contacts lectures, I have joined the International Association of Contact Lens Educators
(IACLE) group and should have access to their teaching materials soon. I have purchased a neuro-ophthalmology text but it has not yet arrived. That will help me with those lectures.
Lunchtime here is 12:30 to 2:00. Usually, I start getting lightheaded around 11:30 so often reach into my bag for a snack, often peanuts. I always carry my backpack, which contains my laptop, charger, notebook, rain jacket, some cash, and passport. I carry water, and have unfortunately become dependent on bottled water. I must come up with a better solution than buying all that plastic. Sometimes I do not bring my passport, but only a copy of it. It depends on whether or not I might need it for some administrative task. I always carry tissues or toilet paper. The only restroom on campus I have found that has toilet paper is the optometry clinic, so I often use that. The rest, for example, the restroom near the Department of Optometry and Vision Science has no paper products and no way to wash my hands. An individual sized alcohol hand cleaner is helpful.
Most Kenyans bring their lunch, and some seem to not eat lunch at all, as far as I can tell. I get on my bike and ride the 7 minutes off campus to a local restaurant that has a lunch plate with drink for 550 Kenyan Shillings (Ksh), or $5.50. I often get the chicken curry with rice. Another place called Garden View, and a bit further away, maybe 10 minutes, has the same thing for 360 Ksh. I mentioned this to Jennifer, who is the receptionist at the optometry clinic, and she said that was expensive. I have been doing quite well spending about 10,000 KSh a week ($100,) but that includes several items I have needed to purchase but did not have such as an electrical outlet adapter, towel, place mat, and laundry soap. Perhaps by American standards that is reasonable, even frugal, and by Kenyan standards I am wealthy and extravagant. I am living on savings.
I head back after lunch riding my bike on a pedestrian and bicycle path next to the main road. As I ride, I repeat the mantra “Stay left, stay left.” This helps me to remember to ride on the correct side of the road. If I have to ride on the road, as many bicyclists do, I will be passed by motorcycles and cars just inches away. Drivers here are quite good, and used to all sorts of obstacles including cattle and human-drawn carts loaded ridiculously high with all sorts of materials. Today, heading down the pedestrian/bicycle path, I dodged a herd of twenty cattle led by a Maasai caretaker. It seemed perfectly normal to me.
Once back at the department or clinic I work away on one project or another. As the afternoon wears on the skies begin to darken. Usually, around 4 pm, the wind picks up and I hear thunder. It will start raining in about 10 minutes. I continue working until the rain has passed. Today there was half-inch hail mixed in with the rain, which plinked off the metal clinic roof.
For the last couple of days we have enjoyed the company of a visiting optometrist from Ghana, Dr. Angela Amedo. She helped us out with oral qualifying examinations, a right of passage for fourth year students. We spent all day Wednesday as a panel, quizzing the students, one by one, on all things optometry. Drs. Okenwa-Vincent and Donkor, in conjunction with the Brien Holden Vision Institute, have been taking every opportunity to tighten the standards, make the program more rigorous. They have worked tirelessly to increase the quality of instruction and clinical experience, and their work has been nothing short of heroic.
Having said that, currently, the level of optometric knowledge and skill is still fairly basic. For example, while the students attend lectures and gain book knowledge, the clinic volume is very low, between zero to five patients a day. In fact, and more importantly, the clinic construction and outfitting was just completed in July of this year. It has 9 rooms, 8 functioning lanes with instruments. We still don’t have any frames on the frame board or a way to grind lenses. An optometry clinic without a way to fabricate spectacles is like a pharmacy without medicine. As a result, the students have little experience with actual patients. There is something called “attachment” where the students spend time in optometry offices and ophthalmology clinics around the country, but the quality of the experience varies greatly.
The Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) offers a four year Bachelor’s of Optometry degree and has over 120 students in the program. Despite all of the challenges I have mentioned, this institution offers the highest quality optometry program in Kenya and the Eastern Africa region. I will be the third faculty member, and responsible for teaching, clinic duties, and mentoring Jr. faculty from Kenya that have recently graduated. We are encouraging and mentoring the Kenyan faculty to obtain a higher degree so that they can run their own department in the coming years.
Another important factor is that optometry is not regulated in Kenya. Anyone can open and optician or optometry office. All they would need is some money to buy an autorefractor, some frames, lens blanks and an edger. You see places advertising “Computerized Eye Exams,” and that means using an autorefractor to determine the needed prescription, then making and dispensing spectacles. As a result, whether the student graduates or not, does well or not, they can still open an office. MMUST offers a bachelor’s degree program so they should not call themselves a doctor of optometry, but many do. Even if they do not finish the program, the student will have had much more experience than most. You can imagine, as the head of the department, trying to reign in 30 students per class, many exhibiting the normal arrogance of youth. The head, or faculty member, has very little real influence over the students. If Dr. Okenwa-Vincent, in consultation with Dr. Donkor, decides to fail a student, what real consequence will that have, except for enraging the parents who spent a lot of money to send their child to the University?
Having said that, Kenyans in general show the great respect towards educational systems. The students, for the most part, want to study and do well. The overwhelming majority want to become competent optometrists. The students who work hard often get the best jobs in hospitals, clinics, or working with an ophthalmologist.
For those of you reading this who are not optometrists, it might be helpful to mention the role of optometry and how the profession has developed. Opticians make glasses, and are good at what they do, but have limited knowledge of optics and the human visual system. Say, a hundred years ago, when it became possible to reliably polish glass and put the lenses into metal spectacle frames, opticians had very little idea on how to match the spectacles to the patient. Imagine a table in an open air market or small jewelry shop offering a variety of spectacles. People would try them on, take a look around. If they seemed to help, they paid the requested fee and walked away.
Ophthalmologists specialize in medicine and surgical treatment of eye disease. Many, and there are clear exceptions to this statement, have limited knowledge of optics and vision. They are highly trained, so there are relatively few ophthalmologists. Access to care, especially in rural areas, can be an important limitation.
Optometry has developed to fill a need, an important role in today’s society where vision is so crucial for optimal function. We are primary eye care practitioners, and can handle the majority of the common and routine ocular and visual conditions. We help to educate and prevent eye problems, such as recommending sun protection to prevent cataracts. We can recommend spectacles, fit contact lenses, treat the majority of red and irritated eyes, and remove superficial corneal foreign bodies. Optometrists are trained in providing magnifiers and other optical aids to people with visual impairments, an area we call low vision.
I have no doubt that optometry in Kenya, and the rest of the developing world, will progress as it has in Britain, India, Asia, most of Europe, and the United States. The need has already been recognized, that is why optometry is here. The quality of education will continue to increase. Within the next decade, optometry will be regulated in Kenya as it is currently with medicine and dentistry. It is just a matter of time. The generation that we are training now are the pioneers of Kenyan optometry, and optometry in Africa in general.
As I have settled into my routine here in Kakamega, Kenya, there has been one overlying issue that has not been resolved. Concerning the job appointment, we have run into an important administrative issue. While I have my official transcripts from the University of California, Berkeley that verify my educational credentials, MMUST and the Kenyan government do not recognize transcripts. I do not know why. As I mentioned, they do not recognize optometry licensure in Kenya, so the hard copy of my Arizona license to practice optometry was not recognized. While my colleagues and coworkers know me and know my work, Kenyan government and university officials do not.
I have been informed they will only accept hard copies of my optometry and doctorate diplomas, and I did not bring those. To make matters worse, I seem to have lost them. I know that might sound odd to many, but as I progressed through the educational system there were many moves, many boxes to pack and unpack, and timetables to keep. For example, I finished the Ph.D. at UC Berkeley on December 21, 2001, and my diploma was not ready. I moved to Tucson over the holidays, and started work at the University of Arizona on January 4, 2002. I provided the University with an official, stamped and signed piece of paper that stated I had finished the requirements for my degree. They accepted that as proof, and I went to work. That was over thirteen years ago. My friend Carl Jacobsen, O.D., who lives in Berkeley is currently checking to see, if by some miracle, they have my diploma sitting an a file somewhere. If not, the Ph.D. diploma and O.D. diploma will have to be ordered and signed and that takes a couple months.
In the meantime, I cannot be hired here at MMUST, and cannot be paid. Working without a work permit in Kenya is a serious offense, punishable by fine or even jail time. Interestingly, this administrative snafu has opened up an opportunity for me. Kesi Naidoo, from the Brien Holden Vision Institute (BHVI), has arranged a 4 week teaching tour including visits to Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa to give lectures and an practical training sessions on slit lamp examination and ophthalmoscopy. The BHVI accepted my proof of academic credentials long ago and will be able to pay me a portion of the income stream. I will leave in a week for one of those places, then visit Tucson for a few days to visit friends and take steps to getting the paperwork issue cleared up. There is another issue that has arisen with my mortgage. It seems my mortgage company sold the mortgage to another company and the details of monthly payment need to be worked out. It will be best done from Tucson.
After the Tucson visit I will head to the American Academy of Optometry and Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) meetings in New Orleans, where I will obtain valuable continuing education credits to maintain my license, as well as see friends and colleagues. Then there will be the long flight back to Nairobi, followed by a continuation of the teaching tour to the remaining two African countries. This means that you, the readers, will have plenty of adventures to follow over the next month or so, provided I have the time to write. And I will make the time.
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Physicians Preferences of Virtual Versus In-Person Visits in Neuromuscular Clinical Practice Telemedicine preference of neuromuscular practitioners Keywords:telemedicine, neuromuscular, physician, teleneurology Abstract Background:
While the role of telemedicine is well established in certain fields of medicine, its role in disciplines like Neuromuscular medicine is not clear. COVID 19 pandemic compelled the medical community to utilize telemedicine and policies were rapidly changed to continue patient care during the pandemic. However, to guide the future of telemedicine in this field where a physical exam is an integral part of the visit, it is imperative to get a physician's opinion on this matter. We designed this study to assess the opinion of neuromuscular physicians about telemedicine, their preference, and factors influencing their decision.
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We used an online form composed of eleven questions to survey 94 neuromuscular specialists across the USA and Canada during September 2020.
Results:
90.43% of participating neuromuscular specialists preferred physical visits with new patients versus 44.68% preferred physical visits with follow-up patients. The majority thought that telemedicine reduces revenue (58.51%), quality of service (57.45%), and quality time spent with patients (62.77%). Nevertheless, most surveyed physicians agreed that telemedicine is time-efficient (84.04%), improves patient compliance (70.21%), and will be a long-term solution in clinical practice (67.02%). Finally, 58.51% revealed that telemedicine does not affect workload.
Conclusion:
Neuromuscular specialists preferred seeing new patients and revealing a new diagnosis to the patient in physical visits, but they also considered telemedicine a long-term method that would continue to increase in the post-pandemic future, emphasizing the need to address their concerns to facilitate telemedicine.
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} else { $(“.fotorama-caption”).addClass(“remove_caption”); } }) .fotorama(); THE Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) last Thursday released a new public service announcement (PSA), the latest production under its Save Cockpit Country campaign.
The episode was released via JET’s social media network ahead of tomorrow’s observation of Earth Day and is the second in a three-part series highlighting the importance of the Cockpit Country.
“The second PSA outlines the role of ground-truthing in the process towards the declaration of the Cockpit Country Protected Area (CCPA) under law,” a JET release quotes CEO Suzanne Stanley. “Each episode has a different theme — the first episode highlights the important water resources, biodiversity, forests and communities Cockpit Country supports.”
The PSA series is hosted by 10-year-old Amirah Dixon, a student environmental leader from Marjam Prep School in St Ann, who has been participating in JET’s Schools’ Environment Programme through her school’s Green Kids’ Club since 2014.
Episode 1 of the PSA series features Amirah exploring the rugged terrain of the Cockpit Country on foot.
“Cockpit Country is water… Cockpit Country is people… Cockpit Country is Jamaica’s heartland,” the young narrator exclaims.
In episode 2, Amirah explains that ground-truthing confirms what features along the boundary should be included in the CCPA. She also asserts that if any big changes are made to the protected area boundary, Jamaicans should be told why.
“Every Jamaican should be following the process to protect Cockpit Country — so much is at stake,” says Amirah at the end of episode 2. “Until ground-truthing is complete, the Cockpit Country cannot be protected under Jamaican law.”
On November 21, 2017, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the designated CCPA boundary in Parliament. He said the area would comprise approximately 74,726 hectares and would include existing forest reserves, significant hydrological and ecological features and cultural and heritage sites. The Forestry Department has been tasked with ground-truthing the CCPA boundary, which it has scheduled to be completed in early 2020.
Through its Advancing the Protection of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country project, which began in May 2018, JET has been advocating an expedited ground-truthing of the CCPA boundary and the involvement of civil society and local communities in management planning for the protected area.
“The series aim is to keep the conversation about the protection of the Cockpit Country going,” said Stanley. “The final episode will be released in May and will feature testimonials from Cockpit Country residents who live in communities where bauxite mining is taking place just outside the designated protected area.”
Since 2018, JET and Cockpit Country communities have been advocating that a buffer zone should be established around the CCPA to ensure that important groundwater reserves in and around the Cockpit Country remain intact. They assert that activities which will damage the natural environment, important cultural and historical sites, and local livelihoods should not be allowed within this buffer zone, including quarrying, mining and prospecting.
Now you can read the Jamaica Observer ePaper anytime, anywhere. The Jamaica Observer ePaper is available to you at home or at work, and is the same edition as the printed copy available at http://bit.ly/epaperlive
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. Yogurts with more than 5 grams of saturated fats put you at high risk Disadvantages of Yogurt Homemade Yogurt Requires Advance Planning. This is the primary disadvantage. You can't just enjoy the yogurt minutes after you return from the store. It takes about 14 hours to make a batch Disadvantages of Yogurt Homemade Yogurt Requires Advance Planning. This is the primary disadvantage. You can't just enjoy the yogurt minutes after you return from the store. It takes about 14 hours to make a batch. I make a fresh batch every Sunday around noon. I transfer it to the fridge before bed and it's ready for breakfast in the morning One Disadvantage of Yogurt Not all is perfect in yogurt land. Because of the wide array of yogurt options, it's important to read the product labels carefully, as too much added sugar can outweigh the food's benefits. Some yogurts contain upwards of 25 grams of added sugar per serving, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The type of yogurt is another significant____variable—the researchers were focused on whether the yogurt was full or reduced fat, but not sweetened versus unsweetened. Sugar content could be a. 31 Smoothie Advantages and Disadvantages You Didn't Know About - altinify.com 5- Smoothie Help You Sleep Better. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), about 43% of Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 seldom or never get a good night's sleep on weeknights.. An excellent ingredient to add to your smoothie is tart cherries.. A tart cherry smoothie can help enhance the body. A good amount of vitamin B12 is found in Yogurt, due to which the body gets relief from anaemia, fatigue, irritability, constipation, diarrhoea, visual defects, mouth ulcers, and brain diseases. Eating yoghurt has many benefits, but sometimes it also has its disadvantages The benefits of one yogurt a day . Currently, 90% of US children and adults consume less than 1 cup of yogurt per week. This only represents approximately 0.1% of a serving of yogurt per day, which is less than a quarter of the recommended serving from the milk group
. Briefly, milk is heated to about 90C and cooled to about 44C. Then a concentrated live cells of yogurt culture ,consists of Lactobacillus bulgaricu and Steptococcus thermophilus, is. Yogurt itself lacks any fiber. Flaxseed is packed with a soluble fiber called mucilage as well as insoluble fiber. A tablespoon of flaxseed contains 1.9 grams of total fiber, according to the USDA Yogurt contains lactose, a protein in milk that is difficult to digest if a child has lactose intolerance. Symptoms include stomach pain, gas, nausea, cramps, bloating or diarrhea. Some children may be able to tolerate small amounts of yogurt, while others will experience discomfort with even a bite
Sugar is also added to some dairy products — not just ice cream, but also yogurt, frozen yogurt, cheesecake, and other desserts. Milk contains natural sugar, so when more is added to sweetened yogurt, you can end up with a breakfast treat that's the equivalent of that frosting-laden doughnut. There's been a growing interest in raw milk. Dairy products like milk, yogurt, cheese, and cottage cheese, are good sources of calcium, which helps maintain bone density and reduces the risk of fractures. Adults up to age 50 need 1,000 milligrams (mg) of calcium per day. Women older than 50 and men older than 70 need 1,200 mg. (For comparison, a cup of milk has 250 mg to 350 mg of calcium.
5 Advantages and Disadvantages of Fermented Foods Jan 14, 2017 Oct 18, 2016 by Editor in Chief It's highly likely fermented foods are already in your diet, especially if you enjoy aged cheese, yogurt and wine - just to name a few Yogurt, especially, is a problem - the majority of yogurt companies, ranging from giants like Dannon and Chobani, to smaller independent producers, use packaging that is difficult to recycle
Common fermented foods include kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, tempeh, kombucha, and yogurt. These foods may reduce heart disease risk and aid digestion, immunity, and weight loss. Likewise, people ask, what is the disadvantage of lactic acid fermentation? Since the lactic acid fermentation process is inefficient, cells consume glucose rapidly,. Whether yogurts and other fermented dairy products (such as kefir) provide probiotic health benefits is debatable, but they are excellent foods, high in protein and calcium. Expand to continue reading Side effects: Probiotics are considered safe overall for healthy people; short-term side effects may include mild gas and bloating As with benefits there are also some disadvantages of yogurt when you consume it. When yogurt consumption is not seems suitable for you which cause bad feeling then you must be carefull to eat futher it. Require to stop immediately before any major harm to your body consult with doctor about your health and get yourself checked up
Yogurt is cold, eating on this night can lead to problems like cough and cold. Digestive power is affected by eating curd after dinner at night because eating yogurt slows down the digestion process so that the food does not survive well Activia is a yogurt brand advertised by the Dannon Company as clinically tested yogurt with the natural ability to regulate the digestive system. It is classed as a nutraceutical, otherwise known as a functional food - a food class with medicinal benefits and contains health-enhancing additives Favorite Answer Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat. That said, if you don't want to count calories, and you eat yogurt a lot, stick with low fat or nonfat. If you like fruit yogurt,.. Yogurt is produced by fermentation of dairy animals by some bacteria such as lactic stretococcus, caucasicus lactobacillus, streptococcus cremoris, yeast help move sugar into simple sugars have, lower the pH of the coagulation of milk involves Convergence of calcium in milk, partially converted casein (milk protein) into peptone, acidamin and produce quality flavorings Milk, fruit juice, dairy creamer, cheese sauce, yogurt, wine with less than 14 percent alcohol content: Product is heated to at least 280° for 1-2 seconds; most common in countries where many residents don't own refrigerators: Cost effective; minimal changes in color, flavor, and texture; extends shelf life by months: Milk can taste cooke
And yogurt could be the cause. Another Problem. Yogurt is also high in lactose, a natural sugar found in dairy that many have trouble breaking down (lactose intolerance). The result can be stomach rumbling, inflammation, and gas, making you feel bloated, fat, and miserable. Say 'Goodbye' to Yogurt and 'Hello' to Probiotic Supplement
Finding the healthiest yogurts is a difficult task, as many of the most famous brands come complete with hidden sugars and additives. Yogurts are already a staple in most people's kitchens, as much like healthy cereal, they're a quick and easy go-to for low-calorie breakfasts, dessert and afternoon snacks.But the debate around yogurt, everything from whether Greek yogurt is actually good. Yogurt contains valuable proteins, good bacteria cultures, a considerable and useful amount of calcium and other essential ingredients. According to some medical and fitness experts, yogurt is a perfect food to sedate your escalating evening hunger cravings. It is full of useful nutrients and generally low in calories Yogurt that has high amounts of sugar can spike the blood sugar level and disrupt sleep. You should opt for plain yogurt or those varieties with a low sugar content. To make plain yogurt sweet, you can add naturally sweet foods such as berries or dried fruits. Related: How to Choose the Right Yogurt Disadvantages Of Fermented Foods. Above mentioned were the pros of fermented foods. As we all know, if there is a good side, then there is a bad side too. So here we present some of the disadvantages of the foods which go through the fermentation process. 1. Fermenting Food Prone to Contaminatio
Many cheeses are high in sodium and fat, but the benefits may outweigh the disadvantages. Natural, low-fat, low-sodium cheese can make a healthful addition to most diets. such as yogurt and. Yogurt is made with a variety of ingredients including milk, sweeteners, stabilizers, fruits, flavors, and bacterial cultures. Milk is the main ingredient used in yogurt manufacturing. The type of milk to be used depends on the variety or type of the yogurt that will be prepared..
Nuts, nut butters, yogurt, protein powder, and even honey are the major sources of added sugar, which is really unhealthy for the human body when consumed in large amounts. You should avoid some other items in your smoothies: fruit juices, flavored yogurts, ice creams, canned fruit, and even sweeteners Yogurt is a fermented milk product which offers digested lactose and viable bacterial strains such as Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophiles. It is a great source of various essential nutrients such as potassium, calcium, protein, vitamin B12 and B2 and phosphorus. Greek yogurt is a strained yogurt which is extensively strained to discard whey and lactose resulting thicker. Last Updated on June 3, 2019 by Michael Joseph. Greek yogurt is a creamy dairy product made by straining whey and lactose from regular yogurt.. As a result, it has a thicker texture and contains more protein and less sugar. This article provides a guide to Greek yogurt's nutrition profile, health benefits, and potential drawbacks
Popular uses include yogurt containers and margarine tubs. Polyethylene terephthalate. This is a thermoplastic polyester that synthesizes by the condensation of terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. Almost unbreakable, good barrier to gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) and moisture Disadvantages Of Mixtures. 837 Words 4 Pages. donuts, and cake are loaded with sugar, but did you know the yogurt that's supposed to be healthy for you also has a high amount? Or that salad dressing or spaghetti sauce? You've been told it's important to read labels but I am going to repeat it now because it bears repeating: READ THOSE. Appreciate this article! Especially acknowledging the potential downsides for some.. I had read/heard nothing but amazing things about kefir, and stocked up on the goat milk and coconut water versions, kombucha, fermented foods, even my own homemade water kefir in the hopes of healing my gut Yogurt should always be thawed in the refrigerator. A room temperature thaw is not recommended because bacteria can rapidly begin to form at temperatures above 40 °F over the lengthy thawing period. You should consume the yogurt within two days of thaw Greek yogurt - a fermented milk product, cooking process which is somewhat different from regular yogurt. It is prepared based on pasteurized milk by adding in its composition of beneficial bacteria. During filtration, the yogurt is drained of excess fluid - the serum, which distinguishes it from ordinary yoghurt
10 Health Benefits of Yogurt Whether it be homes or restaurants, parties or get togethers yoghurt find it's place in all. Yoghurt is formed by the bacterial. The Instant Pot yogurt feature is my (current) favorite thing about it. Hands down. If you make yogurt at home, or want to, but don't want a yogurt maker taking up non-multi-purpose space, you'll love this. The Instant Pot brings the milk to perfect temperature every time, and then BINGS to let me know it's ready for the cool-down bath Disadvantages Direct-set cultures are single-use cultures, generally not able to be perpetuated or with very limited perpetuation lifespan If using a freeze-dried starter culture each box contains 4 packets of starter If using store-bought yogurt, you will need to buy a new container of yogurt on a regular basis to use as a starter culture In some specific situations (such as critically ill patients) they could be potentially harmful. In a therapeutic clinical trial conducted by M. Besselink and colleagues in The Netherlands, the consumption of a cocktail containing genetically modified strains of probiotic bacteria, increased the..
The benefits of homemade yogurt. One of the primary advantages of homemade yogurt is that it doesn't contain any preservatives or additives, and the nutrients aren't lost through any commercial processing. Homemade plain yogurt can benefit you in the following ways So yogurt eaters will also get a dose of animal protein (about 9 grams per 6-ounce serving), plus several other nutrients found in dairy foods, like calcium, vitamin B-2, B-12, potassium, and. In one serving of the yogurt, usually contain of several grams of calories, fiber, protein, vitamin, calcium, magnesium, and any other nutrient that good for the body. For further Bulgarian yogurt health benefits, take a look into below items. 1. Better Digestive. The main benefit of consume yogurt usually will help with a better digestive system The same amount of plain whole milk yogurt has 165 calories, 15 grams of protein, and 8.5 grams of fat (4 grams of saturated fat). Like yogurt, flavored cottage cheese can contain added sugars and.
Disadvantages include product waste, theft and accidents. a self-service model yogurt business can be a profitable business opportunity to consider with an increasingly more health conscious. Yogurt provides high levels of this essential mineral at a rate of almost 50 percent of your recommended daily value per 8-ounce serving, according to the U.S. Office of Dietary Supplements. Many prepared granola cereals are also fortified with calcium; however it is important to check for added sugar and fat in boxed cereals Another disadvantage of kefir is that it tends to be high in sugar. Some of the sugar content in kefir milk is natural sugar from the fruit juice or milk, though manufacturers often add sugar and other flavorings to make the drink taste sweeter.Read on about the 7 dangers of kefir no one ever mentions What are (a) the advantages and (b) the
disadvantages of Chobani's Customer Loyalty Team that handles communication with customers-from phone calls and e-mails to Facebook and Twitter messages? (a) The advantages of Chobani's Customer Loyalty Team is that they respond to nearly 7,000 customer e-mails and phone calls a month, and respond to.
Yogurt should be thawed in the refrigerator (if it's very hard, you can put it in the microwave for a few seconds). Please remember to stir the thawed yogurt before eating. If you know that you'll be in need of small portions of yogurt in the future, you can always repackage the product into smaller containers that will meet your needs Yogurt contains both whey and casein protein, supplying a mix of fast and slow digesting amino nutrition. 12. Can Help Preserve Oral Health. While calcium is known to be beneficial on bones and teeth, it is a lesser known fact that probiotics can help keep gums healthy. Consumption of Greek yogurt can reduce the development of cancer sores, and. Answered by Dr. Gurmukh Singh: None: Yogurt is a good source of protein, and if fat free, usually low... Ask doctors free. Top answers from doctors based on your search: Disclaimer. the disadvantages of frozen foods. The disadvantages of food acids. The disadvantages of functional foods. The disadvantages of salting food. The disadvantages. Yogurt is a healthy food that contains good bacteria which are healthy for your gut. It is also loaded with vitamins. This article reveals the surprising health benefits of yogurt when taken in the morning FACEBOOK AND TWITTERS advantage: Directly target market. Customer participate in business. To do market surrey with low cost. Can influence peoples mind. disadvantage: Hard to control the negative feedback. Everything is on public. Customer expectation. 4 As Chobani seeks to build its brand, it opened a unique retail store in New York City: Choboni SoHo. . Why did Chabani do
Sugar-free yoghurt disadvantage. According to nutritiondata.com, there are about 19 grams (0.7 oz) of sugar in 237 ml (1 cup) of plain yoghurt made with skimmed milk. Many flavoured varieties of yoghurt contain a higher sugar content, depending on the flavour and brand Advantages and disadvantages of yogurt for yeast infection . Post a comment. by Amanda Kerry — Last updated: 2011-03-10 . Information on Yeast Infection. There is a recurring question whether yogurt may help or aggravate all the symptoms commonly associated with various sorts of yeast infections. It is a scientifically proven fact that no. Most common single-serve foods, including cups of coffee, violate the material and size rule. Yogurt, especially, is a problem - the majority of yogurt companies, ranging from giants like Dannon..
Disadvantages Yogurt :Find latest news, top stories on Disadvantages Yogurt and get latest news updates. photos and videos on Disadvantages Yogurt - ABP New Curd vs yogurt: Curd is an important part of the Indian diet. It is a rich source of calcium and good option for lactose-intolerant people. Yogurt is a diary product is created by fermenting milk. Naturally fermented foods have been getting the attention of health experts lately because they may help strengthen your gut biome—the bacteria and microorganisms in your digestive tract. These foods contain beneficial probiotics, live cultures found in foods like
yogurt, sauerkraut, and some pickles The lactose in cow's milk can be difficult for people to digest, resulting in nausea, cramps, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. Difficulty with dairy digestion can develop later in life and result in progressively worsening symptoms. 4 Yogurt labeling. The National Yogurt Association (NYA) of the United States gives a Live & Active Cultures Seal to refrigerated yogurt products that contain 100 million cells per gram, or frozen yogurt products that contain 10 million cells per gram at the time of manufacture
High Fructose Corn Syrup and brown sugar syrup are sugars. The peanut flour is one that many have allergies to. There is a lot of flour and sugar in this, and natural flavors are undefined, but often contain MSG to trick the stomach. This means that the granola bar in question (X) has many ingredients that are found in Y, jun A study at Harvard found that women who ate two or more servings of low-fat or non-fat dairy per day, like skim milk or yogurt, had 85% higher risk of infertility than those that ate full-fat dairy products. -Chris Kresser, in response to this study Low fat milk causes weight gain. This is how farmers fatten pigs Yogurt is made from the fermentation of a generic milk mix and forms a gel made up of a network of casein micelles .In this network structure, there are empty spaces that are filled with a liquid phase. This liquid phase, known as whey, is the liquid part of the milk left after fermentation .There are also slightly larger spaces that are occupied by starter bacteria
4. Adding yogurt to my dog's homemade food will cover his needs for calcium. Dogs actually require very high levels of calcium and adding yogurt to your homemade dog food recipe probably won't cut it. Consider this - a 75-pound dog requires about 2,000mgs of calcium per day, or 14,000mgs per week Starter cell concentrates designated as either Direct Vat Set (DVS) or Direct Vat Inoculation (DVI) cultures are used to replace bulk starter in cheese and fermented product manufacture Dairy: Curd, yogurt, cheese, and fermented dairy products like kefir. Healthy Fats: Olive oil, nut butter, avocados, and coconut. Healthy Beverages: Water, green tea, and herbal teas. Always keep in mind that is ideal to implement small changes over time to ensure long-lasting fruitful results. Fitting Fast Food Into A Healthy Die
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The National Safety Council (NSC) has dedicated June as National Safety Month. National Safety Month is an annual observance to help keep one another
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Over the last several decades, young adult literature has been growing in popularity. In 1997 there were a total of 3,000 young adult books published. In 2009 that number jumped to 30,000 with sales exceeding $3 billion (Brown The Atlantic). Today, Generation Z is the target young adult genre audience. Members of Generation Z are ages 12 to 17, or people born between about 1995 and 2009. This generation is accustomed to and grew up with ready access to technology. In order to garner the attention of this generation, marketers have to be more creative and focus on storytelling in their digital marketing methods. In a field saturated with titles, what methods do publishers use to distinguish their titles from others? In this thesis project I examined what visual and rhetorical elements marketers are using to draw in the young adult crowd. Visually, I utilized the criteria outlined by Dr. Frank Serafini in his book Reading the Visual. Rhetorically, I utilized the concepts of logos, ethos, pathos, and kairos. I conducted a visual and rhetorical analysis of the marketing methods implemented by young adult publishers on their young adult web platform, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and on the physical book. I selected 5 novels based on webpage placement, i.e. which novels were placed furthest up the webpage, to the left, and the largest. The webpages I examined were the ones used by the Big Five publishing houses, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Macmillan, and HarperCollins, to push out their young adult titles. Based on placement my novels were Morrighan: A Remnant Chronicles Novella by Mary E. Pearson, Other Broken Things by C. Desir, A Gatlin Wedding by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit, and Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard. This study found that pathos, or emotionally charged language, is the most utilized rhetorical technique. A lot of the time these emotional appeals centered on nostalgia, as 4 out of my 5 novels were part of a series. In addition there was a lot of language evoking feelings of female empowerment. Visually, all of the covers featured objects instead of people. This way, larger portions of the target audience can associate with the main character and envision themselves in that role. Finally, 2 out of the 5 books were novellas, which are companions to a series and available exclusively electronically. This shows that marketers are in some cases choosing to push out cheaper, novellas. Future studies could look at which marketing technique, since each platform varied in its medium focus, yielded the most sales. This would help marketers tailor their future efforts to Generation Z. For example, what yields more sales focusing on Twitter or Facebook? In addition, studies should look at why there is such a push for female empowerment. Since male members of Generation Z are not the target market on the publisher's website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and physical book, where are they being targeted? It is important to figure out how teenage boys select their books, as well.
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Knology Receives NSF Grant to Explore How People Move towards STEM-informed Action
Known for Untangling Complex Social Issues, Knology Strives to Uncover Motivators Behind Decision-Making
NEW YORK, NY — Knology, a social science research organization, has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and run a workshop that will explore theories on how moral motives move people from STEM learning to STEM-informed action.
The virtual workshop, which will be held in the first quarter of 2022, will be co-led by Dr. John Voiklis, a cognitive psychologist who leads Knology’s Behaviors research, and Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, a linguistic anthropologist who heads Knology’s Media research.
“The need to protect and help others, as well as ourselves, is a major motivator for the actions we choose. For those of us who care about promoting STEM-informed choices, a hard question is how to highlight the social and moral relevance of STEM information without moralizing,” said Dr. Voiklis. “For example, what does this mean for health reporters who hope people will comply with the latest CDC recommendation that they report on? The same is true for anyone or any organization that wants to promote STEM-informed decision making.”
The workshop will bring together science communication practitioners and researchers to offer different perspectives on an influential psychological theory, the model of moral motives, and how these affect action around STEM topics. This workshop has two goals: first, to help science communicators understand interpersonal & social motivations for learning and, second, to help researchers understand the constraints faced by science communicators.
“We’ve known for a long time that communication isn’t one-directional, and that learning is social in contexts from museums to media,” said Dr. Barchas-Lichtenstein. “This is an important opportunity to bring together and synthesize a lot of different perspectives on these issues. Researchers aren’t always aware of the practicalities, and practitioners can find it difficult to keep up on theory -- bringing them together benefits everyone.”
Knology has invited 14 experts to participate in the workshop. Participants reflect a range of disciplines including anthropology, psychology, judgment and decision-making, and a range of informal learning settings including science centers, libraries, zoos, and media. The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed as a free E-book on the Center for Advancing Informal STEM Education website and through participants’ professional societies. The co-PIs will also be available to discuss the findings.
“This is a great example of how our researchers are challenging the status quo; using data to explain how people are navigating the grand challenges of our time,” said John Fraser, CEO of Knology.
This project is funded by the NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program which among other things, seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development to STEM learning in informal environments.
For more information or to set up an interview, please contact [email protected]
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First of all, it’s time to stop trying to make open, shared work spaces happen. A comfortable work space is an incentive, and employee incentives build trust between employers and employees that translates into improved products and stellar customer service. Why? Extensive research has shown that office design truly does affect employee productivity and performance. It also improves workplace communication by reducing the number of forced, obligatory interactions. Is your workforce’s productivity lagging? A happy workforce is a productive workforce. It helps them feel dignified and valued. Flexible work arrangements can improve work-life balance by reducing commute times and increasing the ability to focus. And if workspace privacy is something Vice Presidents and CEOs want, why wouldn’t your entry-level employees want it as well? You should see a welcoming space that gives each employee a private working area with multiple lighting options, comfortable furniture, and pleasant colors. You can tell from the first glance if it’s an inviting and productive space to work in. Also avoid covering walls in garish or unpleasant colors, such as pea green or rusty orange. How working in the office vs working from home affects productivity, innovation, culture and engagement Details Written by Aditi Sharma Kalra ... highlighting the need for office space. And as we know, the more productive that staff feel they are, the more likely they are to be happy – while the happier employees are, the more productive they will be. And what effect does office space have on productivity? If there are problems with your office space itself, employee incentive programs may not be entirely effective. It also, by reducing the number of forced, obligatory interactions. How office space affects productivity? Email [email protected] Businesses have chosen fluorescent lighting because it’s cheap, but it can make the environment mentally stressful and increase eye strain. The office environment can have a direct impact not only on workplace productivity, but employee wellness. In turn, you’ll deliver projects on time, hit targets sooner, and do even better business. Here are some benefits of a clean office space… No one wants to feel like they are staring at the person sitting across from them, or feel like they themselves are being watched. Try adding accent lighting that employees can dim or control. Posted on July 9, 2019 by Indoff Office Furniture. The most-engaged teams are the most productive. Set the Environment. Building productive office spaces is something I have a lot of experience in. To a hard-working employee, the office can feel like a second home. Or asked employees if they enjoy working in the space you’ve created? And make sure office furniture is comfortable. How Office Design Affects Productivity? What are the Most Innovative and Effective Employee Retention Strategies? They thought gaining the ability to watch employee activity would increase productivity by pushing employees to stay on-task. Give your employees as much privacy as your office space allows. One of the most noticeable effects of a fresh-looking and polished office space is increase in office productivity. Here at Inproma, it is our mission for everyone to enjoy coming to work. Extensive research has shown that office design truly does affect employee productivity and performance. Productivity is best when the work place is kept around 71-72 degrees Fahrenheit. So, now you know how office space affects productivity. build trust between employers and employees that translates into improved products and stellar customer service. The layout of your office also plays a huge part in workplace productivity. Choose an office space with windows. And isn’t feeling comfortable, valued, and motivated in the workplace necessary before any real productivity can happen? The layout of your office influences employee performance. And in order for people to be highly productive, they can’t waste time constantly feeling self-conscious. Perhaps one of the largest factors of well-being is the physical workspace. With tools like Microsoft Teams, your people can communicate as easily as if they were all at their desks, while also being able to tune out to concentrate. If you take anything away from this article, make it this. In fact employees’ work performance can increase by upwards of 70% according to a Harvard study. In his spare time, he’s a family man who plays rugby for his local club and is occasionally known for his DIY endeavours!
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Two affluent suburban towns, 130 miles apart. Each on the fringe of an old industrial city. Each celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year.
Our sort-of-sister-city is Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb on the East Side of Cleveland. If you’ve never been there before, you could find yourself in a very familiar environment.
Shaker Heights grew up at the end of a trolley line, just as Mt. Lebanon once did. And both towns grew spectacularly in the 1920s and 1930s with the advent of automobile commuting. Both are loaded with neighborhood after neighborhood of gorgeous textbook examples of the Tudor and Colonial revival styles that characterized the best residential architecture of that period.
Both have street patterns of curving, sometimes winding streets that are landscaped to delight the eye.
Both have top-tier schools, plenty of sidewalks, plenty of opportunities for walking and jogging, lots of ball fields and playgrounds, exceptional public services, exceptional public libraries, top tier schools and even collections of quaint shops and restaurants within the town or very nearby.
And both have a long tradition of good public services and good zoning and planning.
Just about the only differences are the racial make-up of the towns (see box) and the extent and reach of Shaker Heights’ laws affecting residential properties. These are undoubtedly among the most stringent municipal codes anywhere, both from a historic preservation perspective and a maintenance perspective.
Most Mt. Lebanon residents are accustomed to thinking our town is very strictly regulated. “Oh, you can’t do that in Mt. Lebanon,” is a sentiment you hear all the time. But a close look at Shaker Heights will most likely astound you. And therein lies a story.
Shaker Heights was developed in the teens and ’20s by two brothers —O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen—who not only laid out lots and streets and places for schools (both public and private) but also built a trolley line into the center of Cleveland to serve the new suburb.
They then set out to tell any and every lot buyer just exactly what kinds of houses could be built there and how the homes should be maintained.
They identified three approved types of houses—Tudor, Colonial and French styles—and even built large and fancy models to demonstrate the styles. (These big, original “models” are historic landmarks in the town today.)
Lot buyers could hire their own architects, but plans had to be personally approved by the Van Sweringen brothers. The brothers were quite picky. Tudors had to have dark trim; only Colonials could have white. They permitted tile roofs for some styles but never for Colonials, since original Colonial-style houses in the U.S. never used tile, they claimed. Buff colored brick and certain colors of mortar were forbidden.
While most subdivisions in Mt. Lebanon—even before there were zoning laws—specified setbacks from the street and distances between houses, only one of our subdivisions—Virginia Manor—was laid out with significant architectural restrictions. For Virginia Manor, developer James Duff hired Thomas Garman, a young architect out of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) to supervise and approve all designs.
Lot buyers in Virginia Manor had to agree to submit their house designs for Garman’s approval. If they disagreed with him, the deeds named two prominent Downtown architects of the day whom they could appeal to. It’s not known if anyone may have done that, but it is clear that Garman enforced a pattern on the Manor, and not surprisingly, he designed many of the houses himself.
His original restrictions required, among other things, stone or brick construction and slate or tile roofs and mandated that all garages be at the side or rear of the houses. As in Mt. Lebanon, Shaker Heights wasn’t designed exclusively for the upper crust. The Van Sweringens provided for apartments near the trolleys, offered both large and smaller lots, and even made spaces for double houses.
Mt. Lebanon has several beautiful double houses on Cochran Road that look a lot like single-family homes. Shaker Heights has several blocks of theses. One row is so remarkable that it is today its own local historic district.
The Van Sweringens also established a strong tradition of household maintenance and architectural standards—and this is one area where Shaker Heights goes beyond Mt. Lebanon. Here, inspectors may cite residents about residential problems in response to a complaint or if they notice a violation while in the neighborhood. In Shaker, the exeriors of all residences are inspected every five years. Cracked driveways and walks (if they exceed a certain size crack) have to be replaced; crumbling steps must be rebuilt, sagging gutters, rotting decks or railings and any peeling paint have to be fixed.
Mt. Lebanon has no similar regulations for existing single family or double homes, although like Shaker Heights, Mt. Lebanon does inspect the inside and outside of apartment buildings regularly. (The fire department conducts these inspections, making fire prevention the main goal but also looking for other conditions that might make a building hazardous.) Interestingly, some towns near us, such as Carnegie and Castle Shannon, inspect residents’ houses—though only when a house is sold. Castle Shannon, for example, requires that before a house can be sold, all windows must operate, steps must be safe, a fire-rated door must be installed between basements and integral garages, and smoke detectors and ground-fault interrupter electrical outlets must be installed at appropriate places, among other things.
In a referendum nearly three decades ago, Mt. Lebanon voters rejected such a point-of-sale inspection code, so there is no municipal inspection when houses are sold, although private point-of-sale real estate inspections are typical these days. Private home inspectors always recommend bringing a house up to code; whether that actually is done, however, is up to the agreement between the buyers and the sellers.
Mt. Lebanon has a historic preservation board that makes recommendations to the planning board and commission regarding design standards and also is available to talk informally with residents about significant architecural alterations they may be considering. Shaker Heights takes this a step farther with an Architectural Review Board that must approve any changes to the exterior of a house. The board discourages replacement windows and regulates windows that need repair. Cheap glass sliding windows may not be installed in any traditionally styled house there, and vinyl windows are frowned upon.
Architectural and maintenance restrictions apply to all houses, but some, either because of their architecture or the history of people who lived in or built them, are considered landmarks—and the town has a separate landmarks board to regulate those. If they owners wants to change a landmark, they must get approval from the architectural review board and then the landmarks commission! And all assumes they’ve met the basic zoning requirements in the first place. In Mt. Lebanon, there are only the basic zoning regulations to contend with (and there is an appeals procedure through the zoning hearing board.)
It is costly to enforce the strict regulations Shaker Heights employs. Still, with a quality school system like Mt. Lebanon’s, Shaker residents pay some of the highest property taxes in Ohio, and their property values held up well during the recession, despite plummeting values in the Cleveland area. Values also held steady in Mt. Lebanon; however, that was true of the Pittsburgh area generally. Both towns are thriving at 100. But as Mt. Lebanon continues to mature, some of the lessons from Shaker Heights might be worth considering here. [email protected]
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This was the year I was finally going to visit Scotland, having convinced one of my best friends to join me on one of my bucket list vacations.
My original dream many years ago was to take a year sabbatical to write quirky mystery novels while living in a small country home in Northern England, and having an abundance of time to explore England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. I figured a year wouldn’t be enough, but I wouldn’t be greedy.
When I realized my sabbatical dream was not a practical reality
yet, I decided to start planning vacations to visit each area, one by one, probably over the course of five to 10 years, or until the sabbatical was back on the table.
First stop: Scotland! In December and January, the excitement of planning a vacation set in. Coordinating schedules, discussing must-see highlights, planning as many hikes as possible, fine-tuning the budget, and outlining possible itineraries.
2020 had other plans!
But, life goes on. Things may not play out the way we want, but we often can make the best of them. This is not
everything has a silver-lining jargon. It by no means is a miraculous recipe to alleviate trauma, illness, or other serious challenges. It is, however, a mindset that can help us get through, and even thrive, during difficult times.
So, in the spirit of making the most out of these bizarre times, I decided to schedule a few long weekends and scattered days off to enjoy the second half of the year — using my PTO to the max — hiking, cooking, baking, reading, writing, spending time with family, taking online courses, and setting aside me time!
Everyone enjoys life differently. I’m looking forward to better days for us all, but let’s make the most out of what we can till then. Discover what you love — what makes you happy and keeps you grounded — and do more of it, especially now, when our lives have been turned upside down.
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NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy
How Does Commercial Lighting Subsidy Works? Is NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy benefiting business?
NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy – The way commercial lighting works is that the lights that are placed in certain locations and are used for specific purposes will be charged different rates. This is different for each type of commercial light, so it’s important to understand what exactly is happening. Even though the commercial lighting subsidy is designed for the benefit of businesses, it can mean big savings for you, the consumer, if you know where and how to find them.
For businesses, there are two types of lights that they may be interested in using.
One type is designed to light their building and the other is designed to provide general light throughout the area in which the business is located. The rates that will be charged for either type of light will be dependent upon a few factors. Luckily, understanding how new commercial lighting subsidy works can help you take advantage of this special pricing.
The first factor that will play a large part in the amount that you will pay for commercial lighting is the location of your business. If you are planning to have a wide variety of tenants walking through your doors at all times, you are going to want to place a high concentration of lights in key areas. However, if you only plan to be open to a select number of hours each day, it will be less expensive to simply leave some of the lights turned off in those areas.
The second factor that will play a role in nsw commercial lighting is the purpose of the lights. Some businesses like to use the lights to create a festive atmosphere, while other businesses need the lights to light up the interior of the building. Of course, if you are placing lights in your establishment for the purpose of improving customer safety, you may also want to use a more direct approach. Either way, if you have questions about how the charges will be applied, you will probably be better served talking with a tax expert or a business planning consultant. These consultants can often help to create an accurate computation of how much the lights will cost to run.
Final information that would be considered for Commercial Lighting Subsidy
The final component that will be considered when you are asking how does commercial lighting subsidize your business will be the type of lights that are used. There are several different types of lights that can be placed in the various spaces within your establishment. Most lights are going to be placed in areas where the light will provide plenty of illumination for customers as well as a way to deter thieves from entering your building. Of course, in many cases, a less expensive option will simply involve placing lights outside of the building that will provide more visibility to potential customers as well as allow you to attract new business.
Obviously, the cheaper option is going to cost less money to implement and will likely appeal to more customers. Of course, this is not to say that you should not consider the more expensive options either. Your business needs to have adequate lighting in order to effectively run and serve customers. However, most experts recommend that the commercial lighting scheme that you choose to be about 40% more expensive than the average. This is simply due to the fact that it is easier to implement and will ensure better results in the end.
Considering various commercial lighting subsidy options
When you are considering how does commercial lighting subsidy work, it is also important to consider the various options that are available. Obviously, some businesses will benefit from having more lights installed than others. Of course, this will be based on the location of the business as well as the amount of money that you are willing to spend on this project. In addition, if you are interested in installing new lights, then you should make sure that you are working with a qualified and reliable company. Ask your potential supplier or electrician to give you references and to talk with others who may be able to provide you with further information and assistance.
Save money by opting for NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy Type of illumination plan can be implemented for many different businesses and industries.
The next time that you are thinking about how does commercial lighting subsidy work, it will help to do so with a clear idea of the financial benefits that can be gained as well. It is important to remember that when you are working with a reputable supplier or electrician, they will ensure that you receive an accurate quote. Additionally, they will talk you through all of the options that are available and explain all of the details of how this type of project can be completed. As long as you are prepared to invest some money and learn some important details, you should have no trouble finding the right commercial lighting scheme for your business needs.
How to Avail NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy Do you know how to avail Commercial Lighting Subsidies?
These are the funds released by the government for the business establishments for installing good quality commercial lights. A well-built and attractive building adds to the overall outlook of the locality, which helps in the development of the economy as well. Therefore, everyone wants a well-managed and properly lit building for his or her everyday work. And this can be achieved with the help of new commercial lighting subsidies.
Basically, what is meant by commercial lighting is anything that is used for the general public. This includes streets, roads, gardens, manholes, bridges, buildings, etc. That means lights such as street lights, manholes, walkway, etc. are all included in the concept of commercial lighting.
There are many advantages for installing good quality commercial lights.
It not only increases the safety and security for the public but also makes the business premises more appealing to the eyes of the customers. As a result, more customers to visit the business premises since the lights enhance the looks of the commercial buildings. This not only increases the productivity of the businesses but also increases their revenue. But the key to all this is proper management of the lights and other related expenses incurred.
Understanding how NSW Commercial Lighting Subsidy is availed
In order to understand how to avail nsw commercial lighting subsidies, one must first of all understand how these funds are released by the government. Generally, there are two sources for these funds. The first category of the funds goes to the local government units and the second category to the private entities that install and maintain the lights. The government units mainly provide the funds for improving road networks. Thus, if you have a well-maintained road network, you will get a rebate on your commercial lighting expenses every year.
On the other hand, the private companies have to make their businesses more competitive by providing better services and products at lower rates. The best way to increase the sales and keep a firm grip over the customer base is to introduce more innovative light fittings. This will attract more customers to visit the establishments in the commercial hub. For instance, if you own a small hotel, you can install fittings such as under-counter lights, skylights, etc. to ensure that your clients have optimum lighting during all hours of the day. If you own a shopping mall, you can also offer better lighting services such as dimmers and automatic light fittings.
Criteria that you need to fulfill if you want to avail these rebates.
First, you must be a licensed holder of the light industry. Second, the light fittings that you are going to install must meet the current market demands. The three categories of commercial lighting that are categorized according to the country are general, specific and special.
General commercial categories are placed in different places in the world such as public buildings, airports, railway stations, etc. They provide general light to the place. On the other hand, the specific category of light fittings includes those that are installed for specific purposes in specific areas. They are used in areas such as hospitals, restaurants and shopping malls.
On the other hand, the special category of commercial lighting involves technical modifications to certain structures or parts of the building. They are mainly used in skywriting, theatres, schools and other public places. If you want to know how to avail NSW commercial lighting subsidies, you should contact your supplier. They will help you choose a suitable fixture for your commercial establishment. After you have made this decision, you can order it online.
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Alexis de Toqueville once observed that a key feature of American government was the decentralized character of administration. “Written laws exist in America,” he wrote, “and one sees the daily execution of them; but although everything moves regularly, the mover can nowhere be discovered. The hand which directs the social machine is invisible.”
1 Toqueville could easily have been describing the state of affairs in the health-care industry before the advent of government regulation and corporate reorganization during the 1970s and 1980s.
Under the old regime, physicians were virtually immune from outside scrutiny. Doctors policed their own by means of local institutions they controlled. The hand that regulated the health-care industry, as well as the quality and provision of medical services, was invisible. Under the new regime, physicians were accountable to employers or third-party payers of medical services, such as HMOs or government agencies. External scrutiny became the norm, rather than the exception. Dependent on the professional monopoly for support, the framework for self-regulation eroded, giving way to government and corporate oversight. Inexorably, the visible hand of corporate management replaced the invisible hand of professional self-regulation.
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The emergence of modern state medical boards in the 1980s was but one of a series of events that reflected the decline of the former self-governing professional order. Government subsidization of health care through enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the 1960s enhanced access to medical services and attracted commercial investors who reaped profits from health-care facilities and new technology. During the 1970s and 1980s costs of health care increased as well as complaints for medical malpractice. The former strained the ability of government and employers to balance budgets and satisfy expenses; the latter led to crises in the availability and affordability of medical malpractice insurance. While efforts to contain costs through prospective payment, utilization review, and market competition altered traditional means of financing and delivering medical services, efforts to curb lawsuits for malpractice focused attention on the lack of medical discipline.
Public pressures to contain costs and improve quality politicized the disciplinary process. Application of federal antitrust to the medical field undercut private means of enforcing professional norms and values and of adjusting complaints that patients filed against their physicians. Grievance committees of state and local medical societies and peer review committees of community hospitals operated at their peril in the absence of “state action immunity” or statutory protection. The medical profession’s model for resolving complaints, which emphasized collegiality, informality, and confidentiality, became impractical for expediting cases, satisfying requirements of due process, and disclosing information on physician performance.
State governments, courts, consumers, and the press further widened the scope of conflict over medical discipline. Responding to crises in medical malpractice, states placed consumers on board panels, curtailed the authority of medical societies to select physician members, and gained oversight of board operations through budgetary practices and reporting procedures. As in other sectors of the economy, consumers organized to protect their interests and pressed boards to resolve complaints for incompetence and professional misconduct. In the event that boards ignored their concerns, courts, the media, and law enforcement agencies offered alternative means of achieving satisfaction.
But boards would not respond overnight. Organized medicine resisted external oversight, as physicians did any threat to their professional autonomy. State governments had neither the resources nor the scientific basis to mount an attack; the best they could do was impose medical discipline through layers of bureaucracy.
For boards to advance, physicians had to reconcile their interests with those of a pluralist society. The unrelenting demands of new stakeholders challenged traditional mechanisms for resolving disputes. Drastic improvements in case management were needed to satisfy the public’s interest in efficiency and neutrality. Physicians in the 1980s were more willing to change board practices and procedures. Unlike their colleagues from earlier generations, they regularly assimilated practices from the business community, including the formalization of professional controls. Unlike their colleagues from earlier generations, they did not resist centralized management and reporting so long as resources and funds flowed in their direction.
The modern state medical board that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s reflected the long-standing struggle among contending forces seeking to privatize and socialize conflict. Physicians comprised a majority of each board but delegated much of their authority over routine matters to an operating core consisting of investigators, administrators, and case managers. Lawyers, medical consultants, and hearing officers rounded out the picture, giving boards the ability to resolve difficult and complex cases through settlement agreements or adjudication. Physicians remained in charge, but they shared authority with government bureaucrats, and their principal theater of operation was in the public, not the private, sector.
Since the 1970s, state medical boards had narrowed the gap between the profession they protected and the public they served. But few outside the medical community and the consumer organizations that monitored their performance proclaimed their social worth. The conquering heroes of corporate medicine and the prognosticators of medicine’s future viewed boards as irrelevant, at best, or as obstacles to a fully integrated health-care system, at worst.
THE ECONOMIC MODEL AND PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
According to health analyst Mark Peterson, 1994 was a watershed year for the nation’s health-care industry.
3 A political cartoon appearing in the New York Times on Sunday, November 26, 1996, crystallized the situation: two years after the defeat of the Clinton plan, most consumers, including the fictional characters Harry and Louise who had been featured in television ads against the plan, were in an HMO. The accompanying editorial indicated that where politicians failed, private industry succeeded in cutting costs by closing hospitals and by restricting consumers’ right to choose their physician. The failure of the Clinton plan did not reflect support for the old status quo. Rather, Peterson claimed that federal inaction “unleashed a private sector initiative that literally transformed the status of patients, the physician-patient relationship, interactions among different types of providers, the meaning and role of insurance, and the very structure of health delivery and financing institutions.” 4 What did the success of corporate medicine mean for state medical boards? Who would police managed-care organizations?
Corporate integration of the health-care industry created multiple levels of accountability, from managed-care plans to institutional providers to individual physicians.
5 Traditional means used to regulate physician behavior, such as licensure, peer review, and malpractice litigation, were inadequate to gauge the performance of the emerging corporate sector. Efforts to monitor individual performance failed to account for institutional performance; efforts to achieve the best outcomes for individual patients led to large disparities in diagnosis and treatment. 6
Just as state medical boards struggled for years to devise a proper formula to evaluate physicians’ performance, so corporate providers searched for appropriate criteria to judge their own performance.
The essential difference was that HMOs had not taken the Hippocratic Oath. Proponents of managed care viewed the provision of medical services from the standpoint of enrolled populations, not individual patients.
7 Free to follow their own path, proponents supported a different model of medicine that rested on “systematic, replicable, statistical research,” rather than “internalized, intuitive professional judgments.” 8 Science-based medicine, they asserted, could provide sufficient criteria for choosing among health plans, physicians, and treatment regimens. Accumulating data on medical outcomes in large patient populations supported the development of practice profiles or report cards that allowed comparison among managed-care organizations. 9
But there was more to evaluating medical practice than furnishing information to consumers about different health plans. Science-based medicine laid the foundation for a corporate culture that regulated physician performance.
10 Just as codes of ethics and disciplinary rules were tools of the professional order, so treatment protocols and practice guidelines were tools of the new corporate regime. According to health economist Alain Enthoven, a high-quality organization “monitors physicians’ performance with accurate data on clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. It develops ways to help physicians improve. It adjusts physicians’ tasks to their current competencies. And it is able and willing to take corrective action if performance turns poor or physicians become impaired.” 11
This corporate environment that Enthoven described eschewed a role for outsiders, particularly government. Claiming that governments worked by “coercion and punishment,” Enthoven asserted that they hindered quality improvement and the ability of managed-care organizations to adjust to market demands. Governments’ role, he stated, was to aid in developing appropriate criteria for quality assessment and performance and to report these results to purchasers and consumers of medical services.
12 The federal government, a strong supporter of efforts to control costs, basically adopted the approach of Enthoven and of other economists. Not only did the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research pursue medical outcomes to advance treatment protocols, but peer review organizations shifted their focus from discipline to quality improvement. According to Mark R. Yessian, Regional Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspection, in the Boston office of the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General, the move toward continuous quality improvement was the reason PROs sanctioned so few physicians. 13 Unless health-care fraud was at issue, the federal government rarely took punitive action.
In truth, the roots of continuous quality improvement (CQI) lay outside the health-care industry. For years, Japanese and some American manufacturers had applied the technique to increase productivity among their workers. The idea, in essence, was that efforts to improve work processes rather than solve problems would promote teamwork and unity. Searching for outliers, or bad apples, was counterproductive. Fear of discovery encouraged workers to defend themselves, as opposed to taking corrective action.
14 To many physicians, this approach was enticing. They welcomed collegial efforts to enhance performance. 15 But CQI operated within an institutional, not a professional, framework. It stressed the solving of problems through an interdisciplinary perspective and was a significant “departure from the culture of fee-for-service solo practice.” 16 CQI was further proof that the new corporate culture reduced the ability of professions to protect their turf.
Corporate medicine and the economic model that it promoted threatened to dismantle the existing regulatory structure that included state medical boards. Boards were now out of step in that they punished physicians for a variety of transgressions. The doyens of CQI suggested that some government regulation was necessary, but they limited it to the most serious offenders, not those who required monitoring and education to improve their performance.
17 Efforts of boards to regulate the quality of medical care through disciplinary actions seemed at cross-purposes with the approach of CQI. Restricting the role of government in policing the emerging health care system made boards gatekeepers and little more.
Corporate leaders also opposed attempts by boards to monitor the utilization review activities of HMOs. Although state laws gave boards the power to regulate the practice of medicine, HMOs argued that boards had no authority over their internal affairs. This assertion had far-reaching implications, particularly since efforts to standardize medical practice through treatment protocols and similar procedures fragmented responsibility for patient care. By requiring approval of treatment decisions before providing insurance coverage, HMOs could override examining physicians. If managed-care organizations successfully prevented boards from scrutinizing patient-care decisions of their medical personnel, then the future of state medical boards in the emerging health-care system appeared rather dim.
Another problem for boards was growing emphasis on technology, teamwork, and use of paraprofessional workers to reduce costs and promote quality. Some physicians, like Lawrence Weed, recognized these trends and called for sweeping changes in the nature of medical decision making. Weed observed that the practice of medicine had become so complex that it had outpaced the capacity of individual physicians to integrate new information and to manage a diverse patient population. Specialization, he argued, was not the answer because specialists often overlooked diagnostic and management options outside their narrow fields. The failure of physicians to rely on external aids and involve their patients in treatment decisions, according to Weed, had contributed to excessive costs for medical care and to an epidemic of medical injury.
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The Pew Health Profession’s Commission echoed Weed’s call for the reform of medical practice. Among its recommendations were the “redesign” of the workforce to favor primary care, downsizing or “rightsizing” the health-care professions, and revising the tools of professional accountability. These market-driven changes that the commission envisioned struck at the heart of professional sovereignty. As part of the old power structure, state medical boards fared poorly in the commission’s analysis. Although limitations on scope of practice were of primary concern, the commission also reaffirmed the perception that physician-controlled boards were “largely unaccountable to the public they served.”
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The Pew Commission’s assertion foretold the uphill battle boards faced for credibility in the new corporate order. Boards were rarely, if ever, mentioned by those searching for ways to hold managed-care organizations accountable for poor performance.
20 Many, of course, justifiably believed that the focus of boards on physician licensure and discipline made them poor candidates for policing institutional providers. 21 But those who argued that boards were unsuited to the task because of lapses in performance or adherence to outmoded norms and ethics overlooked the progress that boards had made over the past fifteen years and their legitimate role in regulating medical practice, however conceived. Public concerns about organized medicine when it controlled health care now applied to corporate medicine. As Schattschneider keenly observed, “organization is itself a mobilization of bias in preparation for action.” 22 Proponents of corporate medicine were also capable of creating a self-governing order that served their interests. BUILDING A NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Corporate domination of American medicine was a gradual process that began long before the appearance of powerful HMOs in the 1980s and 1990s. Changes in American society predisposed the development of institutions that supported for-profit medicine, just as they did those that bolstered the medical profession. Paul Starr’s study of organized medicine demonstrated that cultural authority was “antecedent to action.”
23 Medical schools, hospitals, medical societies, and medical boards did not appear overnight. Broad social, economic, and political forces preceded them, including industrialization, urbanization, and specialization. Physicians’ claim to superior knowledge and expertise sustained institutions that converted cultural authority into professional dominance.
The rise of corporate medicine also rested on broad currents in American society that undermined the professional order. Some called it the “deprofessionalization,” others the “proletarianization,” of the medical workforce. Marie Haug, the principal proponent of deprofessionalization, pointed to trends that had reduced the “knowledge gap” between physicians and consumers, such as rising levels of education, greater availability of information through use of computers, increasing complexity of medical practice, and a growing number of paraprofessional workers. Individual physicians no longer monopolized a specific body of knowledge, Haug asserted. Consumers collaborated with physicians in their care and treatment.
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Proponents of the proletarianization thesis also identified societal trends supporting their position that capitalist expansion had caused a decline in professional autonomy.
25 These trends included corporate consolidation of the health-care industry, increased numbers of salaried physicians working in large organizations, and the rise of intermediaries who dictated the terms of the doctor-patient relationship. Managed-care organizations embodied these trends, bolstering the notion that large organizations, not consumers, were the central players in the emerging system.
However characterized, corporate medicine gained a foothold because government and physicians failed to control costs.
26 During the 1970s policy makers turned to market competition as the mechanism for containing costs and allocating services. They also reversed prior trends through deregulation of highly regulated industries. Deregulation typically involved relaxation of government standards, making it more profitable for companies to compete. This was the case in transportation where economists claimed laws stifled market competition, but not in health care where the medical profession regulated entry, price, and delivery of services. To overcome the institutional and legal barriers that medicine had erected, the federal government passed laws to protect the development of corporate medicine and authorized federal agencies to break up the medical monopoly. Whereas the former self-governing order opposed lay control over professional judgment, commercial exploitation of medical practice, and conflicting professional loyalties, the emerging regulatory framework encouraged managerial oversight, market competition, and integration of insurance and provider systems.
Managed-care organizations benefited from the widening scope of conflict in health care. Behind the shift in power from providers to payers of medical services was a corresponding shift from local to national and from decentralized to centralized controls. Pressures to increase profits as well as reduce costs fueled the effort. As Mark Peterson observed, “a decentralized system with myriad local- or state-based carriers and providers is being supplanted by giant regional and national enterprises in search of a profit.”
27 Many predicted continued integration of group practices, insurers, hospitals, and HMOs, and some even suggested that only a handful of conglomerates eventually would assume control of the entire system. 28
If true, this had serious implications for the future regulation of the practice of medicine. Because HMOs created financial incentives to underserve, the dilemma for physicians was potentially profound. Physicians’ fiduciary duty to their patients conflicted with the financial arrangements that managed care imposed. Providers and payers did not play by the same rules. Efforts by HMOs to retain premium dollars gave rise to multiple compensation schemes, including capitation, pay withholds, bonuses, and penalties, that forced physicians to share in the risk of treating sick patients. According to Deborah Stone, many physicians resented sick patients because of the drain on their income.
29 Although the economic model looked attractive on paper, market-based incentives skewed relations among physicians and their patients. Physicians required guidance in discerning conflicts of interest, and consumers required protection from the excesses of managed care. Science-based medicine and quality improvement were welcome additions, but oversight of managed-care plans was needed to correct the imbalance. 30 THE PLACE OF BOARDS IN THE NEW CORPORATE ORDER
This study has viewed the struggle for power in American medicine as largely the attempt by special interests to capture the regulatory apparatus of government.
31 So long as organized medicine dominated the health-care industry, government worked to its benefit. Courts, legislatures, and state medical boards largely sanctioned the policies of the medical profession. As political scientist Corinne Gilb observed when writing in the 1960s, “government, for the stronger professional associations, is a continuum, a matter of continual interaction between private and public governments.” 32 Boards were part of this continuum.
Those who controlled the regulatory apparatus often succeeded in keeping conflict private. For weaker interests to prevail, they had to politicize the struggle by widening the scope of conflict. In the case of state medical boards, consumer groups, the media, and malpractice insurers persuaded courts, state agencies, and state legislatures to enhance medical discipline for public protection. But it took much more to alter old patterns. The changing contours of medical discipline reflected an ideological struggle between the profession of medicine and the business of medicine. In this power struggle, government took center stage because of the enormous costs of health care. Government’s solution to the problem of rising costs, market competition in the health-care sector, precipitated the entry of new forces, as well as the realignment of old ones.
Corporate integration of the health-care industry had distinct advantages over traditional fee-for-service medicine, among them better coordination of medical services, the development of practice guidelines, enhanced accountability, and cost savings. There was no turning back. Recognizing the situation, physicians responded through closer oversight of their colleagues. Medical groups collected information on practice patterns of individual physicians.
33 Hospitals and professional associations incorporated IPPs, formal peer review, and continuous quality improvement. The AMA expanded existing databases and formulated new ones to increase physician accountability. 34 The bureaucratization of medical practice, characterized by hierarchy, formality, and standardized procedures, occurred at all levels in all professional institutions.
State medical boards, for their part, sought to survive by improving case management and reporting procedures. For a market-oriented approach to succeed, consumers needed reliable information based on quality and cost to aid in choosing among providers. Boards were key to quality control: they were the primary mechanisms for disciplining physicians for substandard care, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and a variety of other offenses. Moreover, they were the only ones responsible for telling the public about it. No other entity seemed interested in ridding the medical profession of the poor practitioners. As James Winn, executive vice president of the Federation of State Medical Boards, observed, “corporations aren’t very good about exposing themselves to potential litigation or bad publicity. If they’ve got a bad doctor, they’re going to quietly show him the door. They’re not going to tell the medical boards about it.”
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Attempts to reform the disciplinary process by consolidating state licensing boards, as the Pew Commission suggested, would likely fail in the current climate and in the foreseeable future. State medical societies, a potent force in state politics, have historically resisted measures designed to upset the status quo. State medical boards are also in a better position to protect their power base and membership. Their staffs have grown considerably during the 1960s, they have established regional and national alliances, and they have become information centers for government, consumers, hospitals, and managed-care entities. Indeed, state medical boards have distanced themselves from other licensing boards. Most are self-funded entities, able to function on their own. Tying them to other government agencies might rekindle old budgetary constraints.
For several reasons, boards’ overall responsibility for public protection is expanding, not contracting, in a managed-care environment. Responsibility for health policy and planning devolved to the states after Congress failed to enact the Clinton administration’s proposed model for health-care reform.
36 Now more than ever, states need boards to police the practice of medicine. While old problems persist, new ones emerge. The conversion to for-profit medicine has increased opportunities for fraud and abuse. Reliance on low-cost providers has led to some questionable medical practices. Financial incentives to underutilize medical services have raised concerns about substandard care.
In 1994 the General Accounting Office estimated that as much as 10 percent of total health-care costs were lost to fraud and abuse each year.
37 Federal efforts to curtail the problem led to the enactment of laws prohibiting physicians from soliciting, offering, or receiving kickbacks, bribes, or rebates as well as those prohibiting physicians from referring patients to ancillary health-care facilities in which they had an ownership interest. 38 Passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1996 expanded federal oversight in this area. 39 The new law called for closer coordination among federal, state, and local authorities and the formation of another federal database to track fraud and abuse activities. The amount and type of information that federal authorities required from state medical boards under the new law was greater than in the past. 40
For-profit medicine also advanced trends toward alternative care. To be sure, conventional medicine did not have all the answers. Many patients who suffered from chronic pain or disease turned to alternative therapies when conventional ones failed. As in the past, nonphysician providers, such as chiropractors, promised relief from some symptoms. But unlike in the past, alternative therapies received support from the new status quo. In 1996 Oxford Health Plans, a major HMO, offered coverage for nontraditional care, including acupuncture, chiropractic, and naturopathy. Maintaining customer satisfaction was a reason for an expanded list of providers, but some HMOs viewed alternative medicine as an opportunity for cost savings on conventional care. Boards monitored these developments closely, poised to take action should physicians venture too far.
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Few of these activities were particularly controversial. The architects of the emerging order agreed that it would be a mistake to abandon surveillance and discipline of “the truly avaricious and the dangerously incompetent.”
42 But boards were not content to stand on the sidelines, disciplining the castoffs from managed-care organizations. Inspired by their leaders, many signaled their intentions to become central players in the quality assurance debate. 43 Regulating the utilization review activities of HMOs as in Arizona was one example; monitoring quality assurance programs of hospitals and other health-care facilities as in Massachusetts was another. Some also suggested that boards promote policies to bolster the status of salaried physicians. 44
Boards faced many obstacles in these new endeavors, including the capacity for such initiatives. According to Mark Yessian, identifying patterns of substandard care “is the most difficult challenge, for it pushes boards into new directions involving the extensive examination of medical records, the use of statistical sampling and analysis, and the interpretation of evolving medical practice guidelines.”
45 HMOs viewed boards as infringing on their decisions. Others suggested that boards were not right for the job because they focused on individuals, not integrated systems. 46 At the heart of the matter was the struggle for control of the evolving regulatory structure. Managed care sought to keep boards at bay. Boards sought to expand their authority.
If not boards, then who? What other state agencies existed to curb the abuses of managed care? The answer was that there really were none, despite all the rhetoric. State insurance departments seemed likely candidates because they regulated the insurance industry, but studies showed that their ability to monitor quality was quite limited.
47 Faced with a consumer backlash against managed care, thirty-seven states passed protective legislation in 1996, ranging from minimum hospital stays for maternity patients to specific quality assurance standards. 48 Although few health care experts supported such legislation, arguing that these laws stifled growth and creativity in the private sector, the size and scale of the undertaking signaled widespread discontent. 49 For many Americans, doctor-patient relationships and community hospitals symbolized a health-care system devoted to compassion and altruism. 50 They perceived that managed-care organizations undermined these core values and institutions.
State medical boards offered an effective check on the emerging health care industry. Although many dismissed boards as candidates for public protection because of their past and continuing affiliation with organized medicine, protecting the public required balancing norms and values of business and of profession. One way to achieve this balance was to secure a role for the medical profession in the ongoing struggle. Boards provided the medical profession with an important voice in the governing process.
For many years political scientists have debated the extent to which responsiveness to political authority should supersede the norms and ethics of professionals working for American government. Fueling the debate were political initiatives, such as those in the area of family planning and abortion, that compromised professional ideals. Although politicians often voiced their concern that bureaucrats threatened majority will, others expressed the belief that, in certain instances, professional standards and values should have priority. As political scientist Francis Rourke proclaimed, “The public itself benefits from having professionals within bureaucracy speak out strongly against policies that violate the ethical or technical canons of their own calling, since these canons are often designed to advance and protect the public interest, and are not solely intended to protect the interests of the professional groups themselves.”
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Just as professional values acted as checks on political authority, so they also protected the public from the excesses of managed care. Efforts by HMOs to maximize profits by introducing incentives to underutilize medical services tested the allegiance of physicians to their patients. Disciplinary rules and professional ethics governing doctor-patient relations potentially conflicted with corporate norms of behavior. Whether corporate enterprise develops adequate mechanisms to ensure quality in the face of economic incentives to cut costs and maximize profits remains to be seen. The current challenge to state medical boards is maintaining professional accountability within a diffused corporate hierarchy driven by multiprofessionals and profit motives.
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State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection by Carl F. Ameringer (1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press). References Democracy in America, The Visible Hand The Managerial Revolution in American Business Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Health Affairs Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Hastings Center Reports; Health Affairs; N Engl J Med Federation Bulletin. Semisovereign People. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Milbank Quarterly Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. The Chicago Board of Trade, 1859– 1905: The Dynamics of Self-regulation Hidden Hierarchies: The Professions and Government Health Affairs. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Health Affairs, American Medical News. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
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Amidst the spiraling inflation, the government sprang into action to contain the rising prices approving a relief package worth ten billion rupees to provide some immediate relief. The economic challenges have increased burden on the country and the common man is been squeezed. The federal cabinet approved a subsidy of Rs2 billion per month for a period of five months to the Utility Stores Corporation for the provision of edible items and groceries at affordable rates. The government is concerned over the rising prices realising a fallout could have adverse economic and political costs. The export of sugar has been banned and a regulatory duty imposed after a mismanaged fiasco last month, while a report is being sought against those responsible for the wheat flour crisis. The PTI government has targeted the lower segments of society for the relief package. This is rather insufficient and will not last for long as the number of those affected is huge and only a fraction will benefit. The relief package worth Rs10 billion is insignificant for a nation where still one-third of the population lives below the poverty line. The compassion for the common man is appreciated but the government should not resort to tokenistic and short-term measures. The inflation rate has reached a nine-year high and the prices of essential items continue to rise making even basic commodities such as flour, sugar, and pulses beyond the reach of the common man. The nation is undergoing tough economic challenges and escalating debts but the efforts to reduce the public’s suffering are certainly inadequate and only temporary. Since economic initiatives are not delivering the desired results, the government should focus on social issues. The financial inclusion Ehsaas Program is only benefiting 4.3 million women and should be expanded, while the number of shelter homes and langar provision schemes should be increased. Most importantly, the government should take action against those responsible for the price hikes. The rising inflation, poverty and unemployment rates have given the opposition any opportunity to criticise the PTI government. Prime Minister Imran Khan may have evaded any corruption allegations or scandals for now, but the economic situation may lead to his own doing. The prime minister’s economic team has an even great responsibility to ensure this does not spill over into a political crisis.
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What is the best lotion to use during pregnancy? Healthline Parenthood’s picks of the best stretch mark creams for pregnancy Mustela Stretch Marks Cream. … Earth Mama Belly Butter. … Glow Organics Belly Butter. … Burt’s Bees Mama Bee Belly Butter. … Bio-Oil Skincare Oil. … Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula Massage Lotion for Stretch Marks. … Munchkin Milkmakers All-Natural Belly Balm. Can Body Lotion be used during pregnancy?
Products such as shampoos, hair sprays, soaps, lotions and deodorants
have not been shown to be harmful during pregnancy. Using these products are generally safe. What lotion is not safe for pregnancy? Beauty Products and Skincare Ingredients to Avoid While Pregnant Retin-A, Retinol and Retinyl Palmitate. These vitamin A derivatives and others can lead to dangerous birth defects. … Tazorac and Accutane. … Benzoyl Peroxide and Salicylic acids. … Essential Oils. … Hydroquinone. … Aluminum chloride. … Formaldehyde. … Chemical Sunscreens. When should I start putting lotion on my pregnant belly? First Trimester Once that pregnancy test comes back positive, start moisturizing the areas where stretch marks are most likely to develop—your belly, lower back, breasts, and hips. Which oil is best for stretch marks during pregnancy? Some of the best choices for stretch marks include: Argan oil. Argan essential oil is a popular natural product for skin and hair care. … Bitter almond oil. … Bitter orange oil. … Lavender oil. … Neroli oil. … Patchouli oil. … Pomegranate oil. … Frankincense essential oil. Is Vaseline lotion safe for pregnant? Moisturize regularly. A product like Vaseline® Jelly is great if you’re experiencing dry skin when pregnant as it creates a sealing barrier to lock in moisture. This is great for protecting your skin against the elements – dry air from cold weather conditions can make dry skin worse. What soap is safe for pregnant?
Most
dish soaps are perfectly harmless, and you shouldn’t have a problem using them while pregnant. A few, however, contain an antibacterial agent called triclosan, which has been found to disrupt the metabolization of estrogen, which is necessary to help the development of a fetus. Is Nivea lotion safe for pregnancy?
What NIVEA body products can be used safely during pregnancy to massage stretch marks? Due to its high amount of caring oils, NIVEA Q10 Firming Body Oil is
ideally for massaging the belly during the pregnancy. Furthermore, it provides a soft feeling when massaging stretch marks. What beauty products are safe for pregnancy? Pregnancy-safe skin care brands Belli Skincare. Earth Mama® Organics. Erbavia Organic Skincare. The Spoiled Mama. BeautyCounter. How can I prevent my belly from sagging after pregnancy? Here are some things you can do to help firm up loose skin. Develop a cardio routine. Cardio exercise can help burn fat and tone your muscles. … Eat healthy fats and proteins. … Try regular strength training. … Drink water. … Massage with oils. … Try skin-firming products. … Hit the spa for a skin wrap. Can my baby feel it when I rub my belly?
Sensation. After around 18 weeks, babies like to sleep in the womb while their mother is awake, since movement can rock them to sleep. They can feel pain at 22 weeks, and
at 26 weeks they can move in response to a hand being rubbed on the mother’s belly. Is coconut oil good for pregnant belly?
Coconut oil also
helps relieve morning sickness, heartburn and constipation (three icky side effects of pregnancy). Other women swear the super-moisturizing oil even prevents stretch marks when it’s rubbed on the belly on a regular basis.
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Some riders love motorcycles because it gives them a short escape from their partner, but riding as couples could have more advantages, including better sex!
Motorbike Writer psychologist Sharon Ledger says sharing your motorcycling passion could lead to more passion in the bedroom.
“By all means, go for a ride with your mates, but also go for rides that include your partner as it will increase your intimacy,” she says.
Sharon and her husband, Brien, not only share a passion for riding, but also Indian motorcycles. Sharon rides a Scout Sixty and Brien a Chief Vintage.
“It is important to have some balance in your riding life,” she says. “If you only ever went riding with others, it could cause resentment in your partner.
“Sometimes it’s good just for one of us to go and bond with our friends. Guys need ‘bloke time’ to talk about bloke stuff and women need ‘girl time’.
“You need time together and time apart to keep things interesting.”
Whether you each ride, or one of you is the dedicated pillion-in-a-million like Mrs MBW, there are many healthy attributes of couples riding.
10 REASONS RIDING COUPLES LAST LONGER
1 BEING POSITIVE
It’s difficult for riders to be negative when they are riding. And studies in this article have shown that couples who have a positive attitude have a healthier marriage.
2 TIME TOGETHER
Couples may live in the same house, but their time together can be limited by TV, social media, household duties and other distractions. When you ride together, you are sharing focused, qualitytime. University studies have shown that couples who share their hobby have a happier marriage.
3 SHARED FRIENDS
If you ride with a group of friends or in a club, you are sharing your social circle which can be healthy for a relationship. However, be warned that some studies have also shown this can lead to unhealthyresults such as jealousy. So, don’t always ride with your club. Enjoy some time riding just as a couple.
4 ECONOMIC BENEFITS
If you have different hobbies, it can be expensive. But if you share the same hobby, you can share costs. Although, if you both have a bike, it can also double costs!
Following on from the above, your priorities become identical, so there is less chance of fighting. If you are both striving to get the housework done so you can go riding, you’ll no doubt work together. There is also the benefit of having a common goal toward saving for a bike, gear or a riding holiday, which is a healthy bonding experience.
6 PRESENTS AND GIFTS
You will never again be at a loss for a gift to buy your partner for their birthday, Fathers/Mothers Day, Christmas and/or Valentines Day. Just hit your local motorcycle store and get some bike accessories or gear for your partner. Or book a combined riding holiday.
7 SHARED MEMORIES
Growing old together is about sharing memories of family, friends and events. If you share your major pastime, you will have so much more to share.
8 COMMUNICATION
The home is not a conducive environment to communicate because of the tensions that may live there. Getting out on the bike and talking at your favourite cafe stop puts you in a more conducive environment for good communication. Also, modern Bluetooth intercoms allow you to continue to chat while riding, pointing out things you see as you go and discussing issues without arguing. It’s hard to argue when you’re having such a good time riding.
9 TALKING TOPICS
Have you ever seen the couple sitting in a restaurant, not saying anything? Sharing a hobby and a ride give you so much more to talk about.
10 BETTER SEX
We saved the best for last. Sharon says being a pillion develops intimacy by constant touching. But even riding on separate bikes is good because it is a mental and emotional build-up to a physical bonding at the end of the ride. “Men just have to think about sex and can have it, but women need time to build up. Riding together can be part of that build-up to a more physical intimacy. Even talking and sharing the emotional experience of a ride can put women more in the mood for sex.”
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Made from chickpea and maize flour, Vegan Easy Egg is a kind and healthy egg replacement, full of fiber and protein. … One pack is equal to 15 eggs. Stock up on Vegan Easy Egg and find out how to make a vegan omelet, quiche, or frittata.
What is the best vegan egg? Here’s a quick rundown of the best plant-based eggs, with a few of the more traditional vegan-friendly egg substitutes also included below. #1. Vegan Egg by Follow Your Heart. Leaf Score: … #2. JUST Egg. Leaf Score: … #3. The Vegg Scramble (and the Vegg) Leaf Score: … #4. Eggcitables. Leaf Score: … #5. Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer. How much do vegan eggs cost?
The company told VegNews that it is planning to reduce the price of JUST Egg by 35 percent—which, for retail consumers, would mean a 12-ounce bottle will be offered at a suggested retail price (SRP) of $4.99 as opposed to its current SRP of
$7.99. What do vegans substitute for eggs? The 10 best vegan egg alternatives for eggless baking and cooking Apple sauce. Using apple sauce is a fat-free way to replace eggs in baked goods. … Aquafaba. … Black salt (kala namak) … Egg substitute powders. … Flaxseed (aka linseed) … Ripe bananas. … Silken tofu & firm tofu. … Tapioca starch. What do vegan eggs taste like?
It
taste like an egg. Texture is pretty close to an egg and once you top it with black salt I think us vegans may be able to fool the vegetarian or omnivore that they are eating eggs :D. Mission accomplished. Does Walmart have vegan eggs?
Vegan JUST Eggs will soon be available at select locations of Walmart. The cruelty-free, plant-based eggs are high in protein and contain no cholesterol. Vegan JUST Eggs will soon be available at select locations of Walmart, the largest retailer in the world.
Why are vegans against eggs?
Why don’t vegans eat eggs? Vegans do not eat
eggs because their production involves the exploitation of the reproductive systems of hens. Female chickens are bought and kept so that farmers can profit from the eggs they lay. Do vegans eat cheese or eggs? Vegans avoid meat, eggs, dairy, and animal products. This includes animal byproducts, such as gelatin and honey.
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Democrats introduced legislation to reverse Trump-era SEC regulations that limited small stockholders’ ability to offer proposals on environmental, social, and governance issues, such as executive pay or climate change risks.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown’s Congressional Review Act resolution, unveiled Thursday, seeks to repeal proxy rules that the Securities and Exchange Commission completed in September under former Chairman Jay Clayton. The rules raised the criteria—such as the value of stock holdings—that shareholders must meet in order to submit or resubmit proposals that investors vote on at companies’ annual meetings.
“By raising eligibility and resubmission thresholds for shareholder proposals, the rules take away an important tool to push for better corporate governance, increase transparency, and address the gender pay gap,” Brown (D-Ohio) said in a statement. “Congress must repeal the rule, and we need to find ways to increase shareholder participation and to make executives more accountable.”
Companies pushed for the Trump-era changes as a way to curb dissident stockholders, arguing that such proposals abused the system. But investor advocates opposed the regulations, saying they would unfairly silence shareholders.
Acting SEC Chair Allison Lee, a Democrat, voted against issuing the rules when Republicans-leaning commissioners controlled the agency. The regulations helped “put a thumb on the scale for management in the balance of power between companies and their owners,” Lee said at the time.
A representative for Lee declined to comment.
The 1996 Congressional Review Act allows Congress to repeal a regulation within 60 legislative days of its enactment with simple majorities in both houses and the president’s signature.
Brown also offered a CRA resolution to undo the Trump administration’s “true lender” rule from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday. Democrats have claimed the OCC regulation permits predatory lending through “rent-a-bank” schemes.
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Cheap locksmith services Singapore guide
Are you looking to find a locksmith in Singapore? If the answer is yes, then you are in the right place. Read on to find out more information about cheap locksmith Singapore services – including what they do, their key responsibilities & how much they can cost.
What is a locksmith?
A locksmith is someone who makes and repairs different types of locks. They may also make keys, open locked items for people or even change or install locks (if required). The job of a cheap locksmith Singapore is an important one as without them many companies/people would be at risk of breaching security protocols. For example, if you ever misplace your house keys it will usually need to be unlocked by a professional locksmith who specializes in that type of lock.
The responsibilities of a locksmith in Singapore can include:
Making keys for people or places (e.g., Your home)
Changing locks when you move into a new place (or remove them completely, e.g. If you are selling your house) or if you lose/misplace your keys or they become damaged in some way. Often there is no need to replace the entire lock – just the parts that contain the key mechanism so this can be an inexpensive solution in many cases, especially where several keys have been lost etc.
Repairing locks when they get jammed or broken somehow – this may be due to wear-and-tear, abuse or damage by another person
Installing locks as part of a home security upgrade – e.g. You may have just moved into a new house with no locks on the doors or windows and want to install some as soon as possible, or someone has recently broken in and you need to update your security system with additional locks
Changing the lock’s key mechanism if it is still intact but too old/broken to easily use normally (e.g., Because it needs a physical key rather than a digital code). In this case there is usually no need to remove the entire lock from the door or window frame, even though they can be swapped out for newer models which are easier to use etc.
In most cases you will not need a locksmith to come and see you in person if your lock needs fixing, there are many online services which can deal with issues like these remotely.
What is an emergency locksmith?
An emergency locksmith (or 24-hour locksmith) is actually exactly the same as a standard cheap locksmith Singapore – but their round-the-clock availability means they can help you out at all hours of the day or night, not just during normal working hours. This is why they are often used by both businesses & private individuals alike who need assistance after hours etc. It also makes them particularly useful for anyone who works long hours e.g., Shifts workers. The fact that there are dedicated emergency cheap locksmith Singapore companies means people don’t have to wait until the next day if they realize there has been a security breach, or their keys are locked inside their car or home.
How much does it cost to use a locksmith?
The prices for locksmith services can vary greatly depending on how serious the issue is, who you are hiring and what time of day/day of the week etc. An emergency call-out fee is usually more expensive than a standard service due to the fact it happens at all hours instead of during normal working hours (9am-5pm).
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Congress ought to require a brand new investigation by the State Division’s arms compliance workplace into the doable function of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology within the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report by two former State Division officers says.
The Biden administration earlier this yr canceled a probe begun underneath President Trump into the virus’s origins by State’s Bureau of Arms Management, Verification and Compliance, often known as AVC, that additionally investigated Chinese language violations of a treaty banning organic arms, mentioned former State Division arms management leaders Thomas DiNanno and Paula A. DeSutter.
“The Biden administration’s ‘don’t ask, don’t act’ coverage serves solely to empower our enemies, and the State Division paperwork has raised the bar so excessive above the legal ‘cheap doubt’ commonplace that holding our adversaries accountable is now practically not possible,” Mr. DiNanno and Ms. DeSutter wrote in a brand new report revealed by the Hudson Institute, a conservative assume tank.
“Within the case of the WIV, the preponderance of circumstantial proof is compelling and can’t be ignored,” the report acknowledged.
China engaged in “blatant violations” of the World Well being Group’s Worldwide Well being Laws and acted in suspicious and opaque methods relating to the phrases of the Organic Weapons Conference’s (BWC) peaceful-purposes clause,” the report mentioned. Consequently China gave up a management place on the world stage and inside organizations such because the WHO and the BWC and “must be held to account.”
China has rejected costs that the COVID virus originated within the Wuhan lab and leaked into most of the people in late 2019, setting off a world pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands. Researchers are divided over the origins of COVID-19, with many contending it occurred naturally and handed from an animal host to people.
Mr. DiNanno is presently knowledgeable employees member of the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence and took half within the canceled probe as performing assistant secretary of state for the AVC bureau throughout the Trump administration. Ms. DeSutter held the identical place on the State Division underneath President George W. Bush, and likewise served as knowledgeable employees member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The report was revealed previous to a joint U.S. intelligence group evaluation into the virus origin that exposed spy businesses divided over how the pandemic started and had been unable to say conclusively whether or not the pandemic began from a virus that escaped from a Chinese language laboratory or emerged naturally from contaminated animals.
The Protection Intelligence Company, based on U.S. officers, believes the virus almost definitely started from an accident or different sort of mishap in a Chinese language lab. Different spy different businesses imagine the virus emerged from an animal host to contaminate people, an unclassified abstract of the intelligence evaluation concluded.
The virus has killed an estimated 4.5 million individuals worldwide, together with over 660,000 People.
Critics say China’s authorities has sought to hide its mishandling of the illness’s outbreak that started in November 2019. Beijing officers have denied the virus got here from one in all its laboratories, regardless of revealed analysis indicating in depth work on making bat coronaviruses, just like the viruses behind COVID, extra infectious to people.
The canceled AVC investigation was launched by the State Division underneath then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 and sought to reply the query of what function the Chinese language authorities virus analysis program performed in Beijing’s organic weapons program.
The investigation additionally sought to find out if China’s virus analysis program and the unfold of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, represented violations of China’s dedication to the Organic Weapons Conference, which bans analysis and improvement of germ weapons.
Mr. DiNanno and Ms. DeSutter mentioned Congress ought to request that AVC resume its investigation into the origin of the virus that was interrupted by Mr. Biden’s order in Might that intelligence businesses ought to conduct a three-month assessment.
“In distinction to the U.S. [intelligence community], the [AVC’s] sole perform is to evaluate different nations’ compliance with their worldwide arms management obligations and, furthermore, has the authorized mandate to take action,” they acknowledged.
Moreover, AVC ought to make public all info and intelligence on the COVID-19 origin to raised assess Chinese language compliance with its arms management commitments.
The American intelligence group, based on the report, largely adhered to the speculation that the virus originated from animals.
“This will partly be the results of briefings to [intelligence agency] components carried out by specialists promulgating and advocating that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 was the results of a zoonotic origin,” the report mentioned.
Chinese language civilian and navy organic analysis is a “complicated internet” reflecting Beijing’s civil-military “fusion” strategy, one which requires sharing all civilian analysis with the Folks’s Liberation Military.
“In reality, it will be tough to say if such a factor as a civilian program as we perceive it exists in right now’s China,” the report mentioned.
Within the fall of 2020, the AVC bureau investigated whether or not China’s dual-use actions probably violated the organic weapons settlement.
Consequently, the annual State Division arms compliance report acknowledged that “obtainable info exhibits China engaged in actions that increase issues with regard to its obligations underneath Article I of the BWC, which requires States Social gathering ‘by no means in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile, or in any other case purchase or retain …[m]icrobial or different organic brokers, or toxins no matter their origin or methodology of manufacturing, of sorts and in portions that don’t have any justification for prophylactic, protecting, or different peaceable functions.’”
The report additionally notes that the newest compliance report produced by the Biden administration mentions issues about China’s toxin work however omitted earlier report language on issues about virus analysis.
“This omission serves as a sign to China and different adversaries and to our allies that the USA will not be involved concerning the probably harmful dual-use analysis that was being carried out on the WIV and its affiliated services,” the report mentioned.
The AVC bureau “should decide the extent of potential Chinese language weaponization of viruses,” the report notes.
The report notes that profession officers on the State Division dismissed the 2019 AVC investigation as probably “opening a can of worms” by pursuing query about Chinese language arms compliance “when troubling details started to emerge in [U.S. intelligence] reporting that SARS-CoV-2 could have the truth is emanated from the WIV,” the report says.
By shutting down the inquiry earlier this yr, the query of Chinese language violations of the Organic Weapons Conference remains to be unanswered, the report says.
A State Division truth sheet on WIV made public in January disclosed the existence of secret navy applications contained in the WIV.
Moreover, statements by Chinese language officers up to now have referred to the pursuit of offensive organic capabilities.
“For instance, in 2015, then-president of the Academy of Army Medical Sciences He Fuchu argued that biotechnology would develop into the brand new ‘strategic commanding heights’ of nationwide protection, starting from biomaterials to ‘mind management’ weapons,” the report says.
Former Director of Nationwide Intelligence John Ratcliffe additionally has mentioned that U.S. intelligence info has revealed China “carried out human testing on members of the Folks’s Liberation Military in hope of growing troopers with biologically enhanced capabilities.”
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What Is BioFit Fat Burner?The combination of specifically selected probiotics turns your metabolic rate into a heater. You will certainly burn extra calories in your relaxing state than you would certainly during an energetic exercise. There are numerous official probiotic supplements on the market, yet BioFit has a special method towards providing to anti-obesity residential properties due to the components designed to interrupt digestive system disruptions that torment those that struggle with harmful consuming practices, medicines with side impacts or excess gas and also stubborn belly bloat. As the claiming goes, individual results will vary when making use of BioFit, yet the probabilities may get stacked in the weight management enthusiasts favor due to the Nature's Formulas powerhouse probiotic, BioFit Keep away from the affordable and fraudulent Amazon listings or Ebay, and with the free perks, 6-month refund home window and also a transparent company with over two decades of natural health supplementation proficiency, it is an easy decision if you made it this much on whether or not the BioFit probiotic for fat loss weight management advantages is best for you today. What Is BioFit?BioFit is a natural supplement that does not utilize any type of chemicals, fillers, stimulants as well as synthetics to draw out its benefits and, due to this really factor, it is extremely unlikely to cause any type of adverse effects. Provided the current lifestyle of modern life which is loaded with unhealthy nutritional habits as well as little to no exercise, the threat of excessive weight is greater than ever before. Individuals in our time are so active in their lives that they seldom have time to spend in their health. In such circumstances, conventional weight-loss procedures, which include restrictive nutritional strategies and also stringent workouts, are out of the concern, since they need consistent time and also effort. In such scenarios, we require something that can normally activate weight management but need minimal initiative from the users. This is why the So many weight-loss products get on the marketplace. Nonetheless, one trouble with this market is that it consists of so lots of comparable products that it can end up being confusing to choose which one to pick. Now, with BioFit pills, the video game has actually changed. Is BioFit FDA-Approved?BioFit is created in a GMP-certified and also fda-approved facility, with each of its products developed adhering to the highest high quality requirements. BioFit probiotic supplement is verified to be safe. Can You Buy BioFit In Stores?No. BioFit is just offered at the main BioFit site. This site links to it. BioFit may appear comparable to other probiotic supplements offered at high-end prices today, the fact is that there has never ever been a probiotic weight loss formula that has actually elicited so much excitement in the hearts of weight loss enthusiasts around the world. The official BioFits website specifies that every little thing you consume comes to be BioFit as a result of its unique capability to balance your digestive tract bacteria. By taking BioFit, you can shed a significant quantity of weight just by eating your favored food as well as staying clear of workout. BioFit is a probiotic that flushes your digestive tract with excellent germs to offer support for weight-loss, food digestion and also immune function. It is a probiotic formula with numerous strains that functions likewise to various other probiotic prescriptions on the market, as well as it is consisted of in Canada as well as the USA. After taking one capsule of BioFit, you can lose a great deal of weight in a very short time. New BioFit customers in the USA and also other eligible countries can take advantage of this limited-time discount offer on BioFit tablets. BIOFIT for weight reduction can be purchased online, at a pretty reasonable expense. No requirement to spend thousands of bucks to get your desire body; this a weight-loss remedy is easy to pay for without putting holes in your pockets. The auxiliary all-natural weight management strategy decreases many wellness dangers associated with a sluggish metabolic system. Does BioFit Have Side Effects? biofitBioFit has no side impacts. BioFit intends at the underlying reason of weight gain. The official web site of BioFit probiotics has actually launched an in-depth checklist containing information concerning all its components as well as the potential systems through which they are likely to generate weight loss.
How Does BioFit Work? biofitBioFit exploits a blend of 7 components from gut-optimized probiotic strains that have been shown in researches sustaining a healthy digestion system, which leads to efficient food digestion, weight loss, much better sleep, as well as various other advantages. BioFit, a probiotic weight loss supplement assists maintain healthy and balanced digestive tract mucosa and also assistance. BioFit claims that the extra probiotic components go into the gastrointestinal system, the extra protective they are, making them a reliable weight loss help.
This video explains the importance of healthy gut bacteria in weight loss. Let’s Look at all the BioFit Ingredients Bacillus Subtilis Does Coconut Oil Raise Triglycerides
This microbial strain normally exists in the GI system of every human being. It is also discovered in the atmosphere around you, specifically in dirt. In general, it is a mild bacterial strain that has no adverse effects in both animals and also humans. Its addition in the BioFit pills is owing to its residential or commercial properties that can lower inflammatory degrees to improve a slowed-down metabolic process.
Lactobacillus Casei
This is another kind of bacteria that is generally discovered in the intestines as well as the mouth of human beings. It is particularly renowned for the function it plays in controlling lactose intolerance. When you supplement BioFit, your body tons up on this probiotic, which aids in the digestion of all intricate food particles which might or else be impossible to damage down. Furthermore, Lactobacillus Casei likewise improves defecation which is why it is a typical component in lots of anti-diarrheal supplements also.
Lactobacillus Plantarum
This specific BioFit active ingredient is very resistant and can endure in all harsh environments because of its huge genomic framework. It is typically located in pickled vegetables, sourdough, and also various other fermented foods. As quickly as this lactobacillus strain gets in the body, it begins working to eliminate contaminants while killing any type of harmful bacteria that could be negatively impacting the digestive system processes.
Lactobacillus Acidophilus Does Coconut Oil Raise Triglycerides
Lactobacillus Acidophilus is an instead prominent bacteria located in the human gut which assists transform lactic acid into lactase. As an essential element of BioFit pills, it stops foreign germs from expanding inside the intestines. This stops multiple issues.
Bifidobacterium Longum
Bifidobacterium Longum is specifically well-known for lowering the levels of oxidative stress inside the body. It additionally aids strike a balance between the bacterial strains in the bowels.
Bifidobacterium Breve
This probiotic strain jobs by strengthening your body’s immune system so that the body can safeguard itself from hazardous virus. In addition, it reduces fat, improves the health of hair and skin, boosts respiratory health and wellness, as well as shields against yeast infections.
A great deal of individuals naturally do not have Bifidobacterium Breve in their body which is why their health and wellness can experience. With appropriate supplements with BioFit, all such problems can be addressed.
Bacterium Lactis
Germs Lactis is the last strain of probiotic germs added to the BioFit supplement with the objective to eliminate anxiety and clinical depression while controling the rest cycle.
MCTs
BioFit pills also include medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). These fatty acids are compounds with high absorbability have been related to weight management in countless scholastic, federal government, as well as corporate research studies. Undoubtedly,, professionals believe that consuming them constantly will lead to fat burning without requiring to customize your diet or exercise routine whatsoever.
Among plenty of weight loss supplements, some natural and also others filled with chemicals, BioFit probiotic has actually arised as the most reliable one, due to completely created synthesis of metabolic boosters. You can likewise check out BioFit independent testimonials as well as see what weight loss benefits this probiotic supplement offers to its customers.
BioFit manipulates a blend of 7 components from gut-optimized probiotic stress that have actually been shown in researches sustaining a healthy and balanced digestive system, which leads to effective digestion, weight loss, much better rest, as well as various other benefits. BioFit, a probiotic weight loss supplement helps keep healthy and balanced intestinal tract mucosa and assistance. BioFit declares that the extra probiotic components get in the digestive tract, the a lot more protective they are, making them an efficient weight loss help.
How Often Will I Need to Order BioFit Probiotic?
You ought to take one capsule of the BioFit probiotic supplement a day. If dealing with biohm discrepancies and also digestive issues, you will certainly need to take a BioFit every day, which equates to thirty BioFit a month.
Is BioFit a Scam?
With just a little bit of study as well as monitoring devices, one can see the steady rise in the BioFit probiotic need is speedy. Given the in-demand nature of BioFit weight loss item by Nature’s Formula, These certainly will be unethical scammers that try to draw in and take benefit of consumers that have not done the correct due persistance in order to recognize how to shield themselves. Fortunately, any individual reading this will be much better situated to make certain not only their best client security, however the finest prices and also easiest way to order BioFit As Chrissie Miller directs out throughout the main GoBioFit presentation for the BioFit probiotic, the only method to acquire BioFit is at GoBioFit.com where the product has been rigorously evaluated and authentically sourced.
Who Makes BioFit?
Nature’s Formulas manufactures BioFit probiotic supplements in an FDA approved, state of the art center. While these dietary supplements are one of their more current productions, Nature’s Formulas has a long background of establishing and also making ingenious superfood pills for more than 25 years. Chrissie Miller formulated BioFit. She is a master nutritional expert and physical instructor that gained weight after her maternity. She created BioFit to use herself. It functioned so well that she determined to share it with the globe. They count on creating all-natural supplements using numerous substances as a more secure option to intrusive surgical treatments and also medicines. Similar is the situation with the BioFit supplements. They aim to help you slim down without extreme diet regimens, exercises, or weight-loss surgical treatments. Chrissie Miller is a mastermind behind these probiotics supplements, an agent for Nature’s Formulas. Unlike other supplements on the marketplace that are frequently promoted by guys that’ve never endured any kind of weight gain issues, BioFit is offered naturally’s Formulas’ Chrissie Miller at GoBioFit.com, that is a actual as well as middle-aged female much like the remainder of us. The 43-year-old has 3 children and also put on weight after each youngster’s birth. She tried 19 various diets to aid her reduce weight, however even after sticking to them for three months, she had the ability to see no outcomes. Eventually, she came across some study on probiotics supplements and how reliable they can be to maintain digestive tract health and wellness, weight loss, and overall body wellness. That’s where the concept for BioFit came from. After further research and also screening, they were able to establish the weight-loss tablets, whereby Chrissie had the ability to lose about 3 pounds each week. All while still eating her preferred foods. Chrissie is not a nutritionist or a physician however assisted assemble the BioFit pills after fighting with weight-loss herself. She is just one more individual who was having a hard time with weight-loss, similar to many individuals in culture.
Biofit How Long Until I See Results?
The weight-loss procedure that BioFit causes starts immediately. You will certainly see cause three weeks. BioFit offers you the active ingredients your gut needs to support food digestion and extract nutrients from food without damaging down the food you consume, unlike other probiotic supplements. This procedure begins immediate as you take BiFit. Not only does the product not have specifically seven probiotic pressures as well as optimal dosages, yet it likewise creates severe negative effects and unfavorable adverse effects in the body unlike less expensive fake strains that need to be taken in to heal the intestine, reinforce resistance, drop weight as well as smooth acid indigestion with the BioFit formula. BioFit is a probiotic dietary supplement whose nutrient material aids to support the body in all facets of the health of the body, consisting of weight management. The keynote behind the dietary supplement is to harness the most effective microorganisms in the intestine to live. BioFit assists males and also females maximize their metabolic efficiency by introducing numerous substantial probiotic microbial stress which make it a giant for weight reduction for the intestines. Available evidence recommends that the main healthy and balanced pressures of microorganisms consisted of in BioFit can help customers lose even more weight than they might on their very own. It is necessary to allow the body do what it does best as well as not try to change or promote it while working to sustain healthy and balanced fat burning (reducing weight via unnecessary fat and also non-essential nutrients) since it does not give up the lost skin or assists to form the torso right into a V shape. Age is not a reversible thing as well as there is no chance of giving a total metabolic boost to the body with a probiotic formula such as BioFit or diet pills. This implies that people can achieve as well as maintain a healthy and balanced weight through long-term probiotic consumption, nutrition and also supplementation with BioFit.
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What Is BioFit Fat Burner?There are many official probiotic supplements on the market, yet BioFit has a special technique in the direction of providing to anti-obesity residential properties due to the ingredients designed to interrupt digestion disruptions that pester those who experience from unhealthy consuming behaviors, drugs with side effects or excess gas as well as belly bloat. Keep away from the affordable as well as deceitful Amazon listings or Ebay, and with the free perks, 6-month refund home window and a transparent company with over 2 years of natural wellness supplementation proficiency, it is an easy decision if you made it this much on whether or not the BioFit probiotic for fat burning weight loss advantages is appropriate for you today. What Is BioFit?BioFit is an all-natural supplement that does not utilize any type of chemicals, synthetics, fillers and also energizers to bring out its advantages as well as, due to this very factor, it is very not likely to cause any kind of side effects. In such conditions, we need something that can naturally cause weight loss yet need marginal effort from the customers. Currently, with BioFit tablets, the game has actually changed. Is BioFit FDA-Approved?BioFit is produced in a GMP-certified as well as fda-approved center, with each of its items developed following the greatest quality standards. BioFit probiotic supplement is verified to be secure. Can You Buy BioFit In Stores?No. BioFit is just available at the main BioFit internet site. This site web links to it. Although BioFit might appear similar to various other probiotic supplements cost high-end rates today, the truth is that there has actually never ever been a probiotic fat burning formula that has elicited so much interest in the hearts of weight-loss enthusiasts around the globe. The main BioFits web site specifies that everything you consume comes to be BioFit because of its special ability to balance your intestine germs. By taking BioFit, you can shed a significant amount of weight merely by consuming your favorite food as well as avoiding exercise. BioFit is a probiotic that purges your gut with great microorganisms to provide assistance for weight loss, food digestion and immune function. It is a probiotic formula with numerous pressures that functions in a similar way to other probiotic prescriptions on the marketplace, and it is consisted of in Canada and the USA. After taking one capsule of BioFit, you can shed a great deal of weight in a very brief time. New BioFit consumers in the USA and also other qualified countries can benefit from this limited-time discount deal on BioFit pills. BIOFIT for weight-loss can be acquired online, at a rather practical cost. No requirement to spend thousands of dollars to get your desire body; this a weight-loss service is very easy to manage without putting holes in your pockets. The additional natural weight loss technique minimizes many health risks related to a sluggish metabolic system. Does BioFit Have Side Effects? biofitBioFit has no side effects. The natural components are in harmony with all food and also medications. The expertly picked, all-natural active ingredients make it outstanding and also worth attempting. Without any adverse effects to worry about, there is not a reason not to attempt this weight reduction ingredient. BioFit focuses on the underlying root cause of weight gain. Generally we put on weight due to a slow metabolism. Biofiit increases your metabolosim with a procedure that has actually been, accepted by researchers and also described in a number of main research study studies. The official internet site of BioFit probiotics has launched a thorough checklist having details concerning all its active ingredients and also the prospective devices where they are likely to cause fat burning. A large component of this list includes probiotics that function naturally and also harmlessly inside the body to not just create fat burning but boost total health. Additionally, the item likewise consists of Medium-chain triglycerides in little amounts, which further affects its weight management capacity.
How Does BioFit Work? biofitBioFit functions by itself. There is no requirement for extensive diet regimens or exercises. Third-party laboratory records reveal that BioFits probiotic ingredients are one of the most reliable means to drop weight. BioFit Probiotics from Nature Formula are created as a weight-loss supplement to improve the body's metabolic process, boost digestive tract health, equilibrium metabolic shipment, as well as improve food digestion and metabolism throughout the body. BioFit manipulates a mix of 7 ingredients from gut-optimized probiotic stress that have actually been confirmed in studies supporting a healthy and balanced digestive system, which brings about reliable food digestion, weight loss, far better rest, and various other advantages. Due to the fact that it the 7 special stress of probiotics it manipulates have been confirmed as the ideal gastrointestinal aids ever, the Nature Formula declares that BioFit functions. BioFit, a probiotic weight-loss supplement helps preserve healthy intestinal mucosa and assistance. There have actually been some questionable vendors trying to trap innocent customers by using similar appearing, yet inferior products with the exact same trademark name and logo. BioFit Probiotic Pills' fat burning and weight loss benefits are best for you today. BioFit gives your intestinal tracts the active ingredients it needs to support digestion by drawing out nutrients from the foods that break down the food you eat. By raising the quantity of leptin, a hormonal agent that ends up being more immune to fat loss, probiotics such as Lactobacillus acidophilus can assist lower leptin hormone degrees and increase weight management in the body. As such, these probiotics can aid reduce fat as well as provide other advantages to the body, even with the tiniest modification or change in diet plan. It is a probiotic dietary supplement whose nutrition content helps with all aspects of body wellness consisting of weight loss as well as the basic idea behind the nutritional supplement is to use the excellent germs that are existing in the intestine and also live normally. These germs are there for a reason to help the body in various methods. BioFit claims that the more probiotic ingredients get in the digestive system tract, the much more protective they are, making them an efficient weight reduction help.
This video explains the importance of healthy gut bacteria in weight loss. Let’s Look at all the BioFit Ingredients Bacillus Subtilis Probiotics Danger
This bacterial strain naturally exists in the GI system of every human. It is also discovered in the environment around you, specifically in soil. As a whole, it is a moderate microbial stress that has no side results in both human beings and also animals. Its incorporation in the BioFit tablets is owing to its properties that can reduce inflammatory degrees to boost a slowed-down metabolism.
Lactobacillus Casei
This is one more sort of microorganisms that is generally discovered in the intestinal tracts as well as the mouth of people. It is specifically famous for the duty it plays in managing lactose intolerance. When you supplement BioFit, your body lots up on this probiotic, which assists in the digestion of all complex food molecules which might otherwise be difficult to break down. Additionally, Lactobacillus Casei additionally enhances defecation which is why it is an usual ingredient in lots of anti-diarrheal supplements too.
Lactobacillus Plantarum
This particular BioFit active ingredient is exceptionally durable as well as can survive in all severe settings as a result of its big genomic structure. It is frequently found in pickled veggies, sourdough, and various other fermented foods. As quickly as this lactobacillus pressure goes into the body, it begins working to remove contaminants while killing any kind of hazardous microorganisms that could be negatively affecting the digestive processes.
Lactobacillus Acidophilus Probiotics Danger
Lactobacillus Acidophilus is an instead popular bacteria discovered in the human intestine which assists transform lactic acid right into lactase. As an essential element of BioFit capsules, it stops foreign microorganisms from expanding inside the intestinal tracts. This prevents several issues.
Bifidobacterium Longum
Bifidobacterium Longum is especially famous for decreasing the degrees of oxidative stress inside the body. It likewise helps strike an equilibrium in between the microbial pressures in the bowels.
Bifidobacterium Breve
This probiotic stress jobs by enhancing your body’s body immune system so that the body can protect itself from unsafe microorganisms. Furthermore, it lowers fat, improves the health of hair and skin, boosts breathing health, and also safeguards against yeast infections.
A great deal of people naturally do not have Bifidobacterium Breve in their body which is why their wellness can endure. With proper supplements with BioFit, all such troubles can be fixed.
Bacterium Lactis
Bacterium Lactis is the last stress of probiotic microorganisms added to the BioFit supplement with the objective to relieve anxiety and depression while controling the rest cycle.
MCTs
BioFit capsules also have medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). These fatty acids are substances with high absorbability have actually been linked with weight management in numerous scholastic, government, as well as business research study studies. , professionals think that consuming them regularly will lead to fat burning without needing to change your diet or workout regimen in any means.
Among numerous weight loss supplements, some natural as well as others filled with chemicals, BioFit probiotic has actually arised as the most effective one, due to completely developed synthesis of metabolic enhancers. You can likewise examine out BioFit independent reviews as well as see what weight loss advantages this probiotic supplement provides to its customers.
BioFit manipulates a mix of 7 components from gut-optimized probiotic stress that have actually been proven in research studies sustaining a healthy and balanced digestion system, which leads to efficient food digestion, weight loss, better sleep, as well as other advantages. BioFit, a probiotic weight loss supplement aids keep healthy intestinal tract mucosa and also support. BioFit declares that the extra probiotic ingredients enter the gastrointestinal tract, the extra safety they are, making them an effective weight loss help.
How Often Will I Need to Order BioFit Probiotic?
You need to take one pill of the BioFit probiotic supplement a day. If dealing with biohm inequalities and digestion troubles, you will certainly require to take a BioFit every day, which equates to thirty BioFit a month.
Is BioFit a Scam?
The BioFit fraud story online is coming to be prominent, as well as permanently reason. With just a bit of research study and monitoring tools, one can see the steady surge in the BioFit probiotic need is speedy. Given the in-demand nature of BioFit weight loss product naturally’s Formula, These surely will be deceitful scammers that attempt to entice in and also make use of customers who have refrained the proper due persistance in order to recognize exactly how to protect themselves. Fortunately, anybody reading this will certainly be much better located to make certain not only their finest client security, however the finest pricing and also easiest way to order BioFit As Chrissie Miller explains throughout the official GoBioFit presentation for the BioFit probiotic, the only method to obtain BioFit goes to GoBioFit.com where the product has actually been rigorously tested as well as authentically sourced. Every one of the intermediaries are prevented too for much less fees, offering consumers the greatest cost savings with the cheapest price possible. To cover it off, the VIP-level assistance group is there to respond to any kind of concerns and all questions prior to making an order. In addition to the 3 totally free benefits in addition to the industry-leading 180-day money back guarantee if the 7-strain probiotic BioFit do not benefit you.
Who Makes BioFit?
Nature’s Formulas produces BioFit probiotic supplements in an FDA authorized, state of the art facility. Unlike other supplements on the market that are frequently advertised by guys who’ve never ever suffered any weight gain issues, BioFit is presented by Nature’s Formulas’ Chrissie Miller at GoBioFit.com, who is a genuine and also middle-aged lady simply like the rest of us. Chrissie is not a physician or a nutritional expert yet aided put with each other the BioFit tablets after struggling with weight loss herself.
Biofit How Long Until I See Results?
The weight-loss procedure that BioFit activates starts instantly. You will discover cause three weeks. BioFit gives you the ingredients your digestive tract requires to support digestion and also extract nutrients from food without breaking down the food you consume, unlike various other probiotic supplements. This process starts immediate as you take BiFit. Not just does the product not have precisely 7 probiotic stress and ideal dosages, however it likewise triggers serious adverse effects and negative negative effects in the body unlike less expensive phony strains that need to be consumed to recover the intestine, enhance resistance, slim down and smooth acid indigestion with the BioFit formula. BioFit is a probiotic nutritional supplement whose vitamins and mineral content aids to sustain the body in all facets of the wellness of the body, including weight-loss. The keynote behind the nutritional supplement is to harness the very best bacteria in the gut to live. BioFit assists ladies and also men optimize their metabolic efficiency by introducing several significant probiotic microbial pressures that make it a powerhouse for weight reduction for the intestinal tracts. Readily available proof recommends that the main healthy strains of bacteria contained in BioFit can assist customers lose even more weight than they can on their very own. It is very important to allow the body do what it does ideal as well as not try to transform or advertise it while working to sustain healthy and balanced weight loss (losing weight with unneeded fat and also non-essential nutrients) since it does not surrender the lost skin or assists to form the torso into a V shape. Age is not a relatively easy to fix thing and there is no chance of providing a total metabolic increase to the body with a probiotic formula such as BioFit or diet regimen tablets. This suggests that people can achieve as well as keep a healthy weight with lasting probiotic intake, nutrition and supplements with BioFit.
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Are you tired of managing your IT budget and constantly feeling a target on your back?
Anybody who has ever managed an IT budget knows there is a target on their back; a financial target that is. An IT department’s budget is often viewed as exorbitant and therefore easy to slash in order to create more company profits.
You are often asked to defer or cancel maintenance, sweat assets beyond their useful life, reduce your capital budget and maybe even defer projects that do not directly benefit revenue growth. This may be acceptable in the short term, but over the mid and long term it will likely:
Introduce security risks as systems become unsupported by the manufacturers Cause lost productivity for employees because old technologies don’t have the performance to efficiently run the more demanding new applications Reduce the reliability of systems because they fail more frequently as they age Increase labor costs because older technologies will demand more attention to keep running Result in brain drain because employees will leave to go to companies where they can keep their skills current
Don’t you think it would be more valuable to focus on generating long term value instead of short-term savings?
I have found a more successful approach which is to
proactively promote and sell new technologies to the C-Suite. Partner with the businesses to find ways IT can grow the top-line for the company and improve the customer experience. This will make IT a value-added service instead of a cost center. In addition, this drives employee engagement higher as they consult with businesses, implement new technologies and become leaders in their field. I have also found that partnering with the CFO is key. Every asset in the IT budget has a useful life. This is not about the number of years it will depreciate/amortize or how long until you sweat it to death. This is about finding the point in the assets’ life where the cost to run it is more than the cost to replace it. With the help of the Finance team, you can determine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which should include items such as: Electricity to run it HVAC to cool it Cost for its data center U’s Cost per Incident and the number of Incidents Cost per Change and the number of Changes The business labor cost for using the technology Depreciation/Amortization Maintenance Cost of cloud and SaaS services
Once you have the TCO, calculate the same for the new technologies/solutions that are available. More often than not the CFO and I have found that there comes a point in time where replacing the asset is more cost effective than continuing to sweat it. With these details you can build a Business Case with a positive ROI and the CFO’s backing to sell to the C-Suite to secure the funding needed to replace the asset. In addition, this also drives employee engagement higher as they see they are on a winning team, implementing new technologies and becoming leaders in their field.
Are there more ways to save money without painful sacrifices? Absolutely, contact me and I’ll be happy to discuss how.
Regards,
Andy
Written by Andy Smith, [email protected], Practice Leader – Global IT Operations Excellence Consulting at Penon Partners
Thank you for your active reading – Discover our services and why Penon!
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Faced with historic injustices that often spilled into violence, Asian-American students at UC Berkeley–buoyed by the support of other student groups–went on strike in May 1968, demanding more diverse curricular representation. Later, leaders like Grace Lee Boggs and Larry Itliong would force a greater reckoning with the country’s past in order to extract social, economic, and legal change for their communities. Join MTV News correspondent Yoonj Kim and National Museum of American History Curator Theodore S. Gonzalves as they pick out lessons for the equally fraught landscape we face today.
Antlions will hide under the sand, undetected, and then emerge to ambush a nearby insect. But it’s the sheer nonchalance with which they discard the corpse afterwards that is especially chilling.
Depending on the species and where it lives, the larva either conceals itself under leaves, debris or pieces of wood, hides in a crack or digs a funnel-shaped pit in loose material. As ambush predators, catching prey is risky because food arrives unpredictably and, for those species that make traps, maintaining one is costly. The larvae therefore have low metabolic rates and can survive for long periods without food. They can take several years to complete their life-cycle; they mature faster with plentiful food, but can survive for many months without feeding.
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Slope streaks are common in the tropics of Mars. Once thought to be caused by flowing water, most scientists now believe that they are avalanches of dust. They are typically darker than their surroundings and often fan outwards downslope. This suggests that the dust sediment is sticky, so that the avalanche broadens as it flows downhill.
Slope streaks are known to fade over time, but the slope streaks at this monitoring site in Arabia Terra go beyond that. Here, old slope streaks appear to be brighter than the surrounding terrain. A comparison between HiRISE images taken in 2008 and in 2019 shows very few changes in the dark and bright streaks.
We can see three new dark streaks in our more recent image. These were the only changes spotted among the hundreds of streaks observed in the monitoring site, suggesting that new streak formation and fading take place on time scales of at least decades.
The map is projected here at a scale of 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) per pixel. (The original image scale is 55.6 centimeters [21.9 inches] per pixel [with 2 x 2 binning]; objects on the order of 167 centimeters [65.7 inches] across are resolved.) North is up.
The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
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Recently an agreement has been signed between a section of IPPs and the government towards resolving the undue and high cost of generation charged by the IPPs. Two separate agreements have been made, one with Wind IPPs and the other with Furnace Oil IPPs (FOIPP). There has been a mixed reaction from experts/analysts. The most extensive agreement that has been made is with Wind IPPs and the most egregious and violating tariff has been in this sector as we will see later in this space. First, the major clauses of the agreement with Wind IPPs: debt-tenor to be extended by five years and LIBOR spread reduced by 50-75 points, while KIBOR spread by 100-125 points. Then, O&M expenses reduced by 20-25 percent; and insurance premium reduced in the operational years. Delayed payment interest rate to be reduced. Return on Equity (RoE) during construction to be reduced to 13 percent. There is some confusion about reduced RoE on total investment to 12 percent on foreign equity and 17 percent local equity. For oil and gas plants, verification of thermal efficiency/heat rate is to be there, and any saving would be shared according to a formula. The main corrections that are required are in the area of financing, RoE and interest rates. All costs are translated into these two financial parameters. There is confusion on RoE reduction; some newspapers have reported that RoE would be reduced prospectively by three percent. However, the signed agreement with WPPs does not mention any such reduction. If this is indeed the case, then it may be considered as a significant achievement.
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On the surface, the predicament of skilled labor market in Pakistan is a rather perplexing dilemma. Our universities churn out an ever-increasing number of graduates and post-graduate degree holders every year. They often complain about the lack of job opportunities in the market. On the flip side, those who hire, have the seemingly unsurmountable task of finding competent applicants for most positions. The issue in the country then is not of ‘quantity’, but of ‘quality’ of higher education attainment.
Before I transitioned into my research role at PIDE, I was a Project Manager in another organization. Tasked with setting up a team of qualified individuals to do the job, I naturally put out a job posting. To say that the sheer number of total applicants overwhelmed me would be an understatement.
With a full inbox, I started screening the applications–one by one; I screened through all of them. And in retrospect I can report, most applications were eligible in terms of ‘degrees and qualifications’. But less than 5 percent were worthy of making the first cut. Ultimately, of the ones that were shortlisted only a miniscule number could write even a single paragraph coherently. I am usually not someone who criticizes the general population’s ability to not write effectively. But if those who hold higher education credentials cannot write effectively, it reflects poorly on the state of our higher education system in Pakistan.
Recently, PIDE organized a series of webinars to discuss the issues that afflict the higher education system in the country. Of specific interest was the discussion around the HEC’s role, and how HEC has been unable to uphold quality standards across the university system.
The criteria for faculty hiring and promotions reflects a system that incentivizes arbitrary accumulation of numbers over quality standards. As it stands, the system incentivizes faculty to publish more in often substandard research journals. Arbitrarily defined ‘number of publications’ link to their promotion and professional ascendancy within the system. Instead of conducting research to solve pressing intellectual problems, the focus of research is the accumulation of numbers and publications.
This dearth of innovative quality research and below par faculty eventually trickles down to the students within the system. No wonder why it is so hard for hiring managers, despite the glut of university graduates in the market, to find trained individuals to perform the skilled jobs. In such a scenario, instead of pressing for more regulation and uniformity through an even stronger HEC, perhaps the better course of action would be to reduce the footprint of the HEC and the government on the higher education system in Pakistan. That is not to say that all forms of HEC regulation are counterproductive, but that we should minimize those regulations which unnecessarily meddle with operational running of universities and impede innovative growth.
The prevalent thinking that somehow administrators in the HEC ultimately know more about what is better for a student than the student and their parents themselves needs to change. The decision to pursue higher education is at its core an investment decision; and students are well aware of the costs and benefits involved. The higher education arena is basically a form of a market which can benefit from liberalization in similar ways to how traditional economic markets benefit, i.e. heterogeneity of products up for consumption, quality assurance through market mechanisms and general integration of higher education with the labor market.
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In addition to acoustic wave treatment, Body Balance MD offers PDE5 inhibitors, penile injections, transdermal cream, nutraceuticals, and PT141 peptides that are each uniquely compounded to assist men accomplish and maintain effective erections (many men). During your initial consultation, our providers will thoroughly listen to your issues and objectives to make an expert suggestion as to which treatment or combination of treatments will work best for you. therapy work.
The symptoms of erectile dysfunction stem from an absence of correct blood flow to the genitals and tend to intensify with age. Since erections are the outcome of increased blood flow to the penis, inefficient or weakened capillary can make accomplishing or preserving an erection an obstacle or perhaps difficult for many males. sexual medicine.
Neovascularization causes brand-new blood vessels to be produced in the body, therefore improving blood circulation to the area where the acoustic wave are used. The acoustic waves likewise work to separate plaque that can accumulate in the arteries of the penis, opening them broader to increase blood flow to the area.
What Can I Anticipate From My Acoustic Wave Treatment? As a noninvasive treatment, acoustic wave treatment is not thought about to be unpleasant or agonizing for the bulk of our clients.
What Results Can I Get Out Of Acoustic Wave Treatment? While numerous males will experience enhancements from a single acoustic wave therapy treatment, most guys will require a series of 6 treatments for really noticeable and enduring outcomes. Consultations can be arranged when or two times weekly, depending upon your condition and your Body Symmetry service provider's suggestion.
As soon as your complete results have actually been achieved, you will observe extreme improvements to the frequency, duration and firmness of your erections. Clinical studies have revealed that results can last approximately 2 years following the conclusion of your acoustic wave therapy treatments, however individual outcomes can differ. You may duplicate the treatment as essential if aging continues to affect your flow or your symptoms of impotence resurface (numbing cream).
With acoustic wave treatment, we can address your symptoms at their source to improve your blood circulation and your intimate life. Body Proportion provides a range of sexual health treatments for men that can be used to design a tailored treatment plan that represents your needs and goals. acoustic waves. To learn more about acoustic wave therapy, call the Body Balance MD office today at 833-789-2639 to arrange your in-person assessment (therapy work).
> > > Why Guy Are Relying On Acoustic Wave Treatment for ED: Process, Cost, Benefits, Treatment Outcomes Erectile Dysfunction Treatment Center (erectile function).
Acoustic Wave Therapy, The Wonder Wave Acoustic Therapy (likewise commonly referred to as Low Strength Radial Shock Wave) provides a non-invasive treatment service that is Conditions treated with The Wonder Wave Therapy: Achilles' tendonitis Adhesive capsulitis Ankle sprain/strain Bursitis Hamstring sprain/strain/tear Jumper's knee Plantar fasciitis Tennis elbow Torn rotator cuff Shin splints Tension fractures And more, Advantages of The Wonder Wave Treatment: Fast and reliable Accelerate Brief Non-invasive with little to involved, Miracle Wave Hip, Miracle Wave Foot, Miracle Wave Neck, Miracle Wave Shoulder, Wonder Wave Knee, On average, each treatment takes about 10-15 minutes and is tailored to each patient's condition - side effects.
Arrange a consultation to discover whether The Wonder Wave Acoustic Therapy is the perfect option for you! Research Study Articles, Check Out the Acoustic Treatment research study posts here (side effects).
Benefits as a Treatment Shockwave Treatment treats causes rather than signs Spontaneous erections are made it possible for 21 days for visible outcomes Clinics have actually proven lasting results Absolutely no negative effects and safe No pain and no invasive procedure is needed for treatment By increasing blood circulation the natural repair capabilities triggered Improves sex with long lasting, strong and firm erections 69-70% Rate of Success Treatments like medications are compatible Acoustic Wave Therapy for Erectile Dysfunction Impotence can cause a host of issues beyond the bedroom; an unfulfilling sex life can affect state of mind and psychological health which can lead to problems at house, in the work environment, and within the social sphere (sexual medicine).
We practice regenerative medicine as a solution to erectile concerns that can grow worse with time as a result of disuse and subsequent loss of function - united states. We take a proactive technique to erectile treatment that quickly and securely deals with the issue while likewise avoiding future issues. The Significance of Early Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction Impotence, like numerous other medical issues, should be diagnosed by a medical professional, and early treatment of ED can assist guarantee the finest possible treatment outcome.
Significant degeneration can limit treatment options and make fixing the problem harder which is why determining the issue at an early stage is important to efficient treatment - pressure waves. Not just does early medical diagnosis permit simpler treatment, however it also assists medical professionals and patients go over a prepare for proactive steps that will reduce the likelihood of future concerns.
Erectile problems become part of a guy's overall wellness, and these concerns can negatively affect numerous aspects of everyday life - united states. Identifying and fixing the reason for erectile concerns at an early phase can lead to a fulfilling sex life and advantage all other places of life. Is Acoustic Wave the Right Choice for Me? Acoustic wave therapy is most reliable for males with moderate to moderate impotence, regardless of conditions consisting of diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, weight problems, or heart problem.
Other treatment choices are also offered for guys who are unable to undergo acoustic wave treatment and those who do not see substantial enhancement - many men. A preliminary medical evaluation carried out by our certified professional is needed before any treatment can be performed. Acoustic Wave and Erectile Issues Among the most typical reasons for impotence is a vascular problem that limits blood circulation to the penis, restricting the body from achieving or keeping an erection from natural arousal.
While the majority of erectile dysfunction treatments look for to create an erection without attending to underlying problems, ED Acoustic Wave Therapy is various. In addition to its usage as erectile dysfunction treatment, acoustic wave treatment has actually likewise been used in various medical fields consisting of urology, vascular medication, and even cardiology. In the exact same method that cardiologists have actually utilized acoustic wave therapy to encourage new cardiovascular blood vessels, we are successfully utilizing the innovation to stimulate capillary development in the penis.
Shockwave Treatment treats causes instead of signs Treating the signs of impotence with pills does not offer a lasting, sustainable option due to the fact that it does not deal with the cause of erectile dysfunction (spontaneous erections). Acoustic wave therapy works by promoting development in the existing damaged or limited capillary that carry blood to the penis.
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Covid-19 continues to advance around the world. However the Coronavirus has not left our surroundings, there are still thousands of people suffering the consequences of the persistent Covid-19, something that thanks to the rehabilitation It could improve in those who, despite having passed the disease, still continue to suffer the ravages that it leaves in some cases.
For this reason, the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SEORL-CCC) have shown that olfactory rehabilitation improves the sense of smell in patients with persistent Coronavirus, one of the most common symptoms of Covid-19. In some patients this symptom persists beyond 4-12 weeks, according to the review document ‘Olfactory Dysfunction in Persistent COVID-19. Upgrade’.
At the moment, scientific studies do not support any drug therapy to restore smell in patients with persistent Covid-19 disorders. Despite this, in 2021 an article was published that studies the effect of olfactory rehabilitation (OR) in 548 patients with post-COVID-19 olfactory dysfunction; concluding that it significantly improves this function, especially if compliance was more than 28 days.
Olfactory rehabilitation in persistent Covid-19
«The classic guideline recommends carrying out two daily exposure exercises to 4 odorants: fruity, menthol, aromatic and floral, for a variable duration of 6-12 months. Another variety of odors and concentrations have been incorporated and it has been seen that being a non-invasive treatment it is highly recommended for the recovery of post-viral smell ”, explained one of the authors and president of the Rhinology Commission of the SEORL- CCC, Isam Alobid.
This type of persistent Coronavirus is defined by the presence of persistent or disabling symptoms, after having been acutely infected by Covid-19 for more than 4 to 12 weeks, after the onset of symptoms. According to the study authors, it is estimated that it can occur between 10-20 percent of patients who have suffered it.
“Of all these symptoms, smell dysfunction is one of the most prevalent, since there is a significant percentage of patients in whom it persists beyond 4-12 weeks and generates greater disability and alteration of the quality of life” , has settled another of the study authors, Alfonso Santamaría-Gadea.
Respiratory rehabilitation exercises for Covid-19
In this sense, from home we can do countless diaphragmatic rehabilitation exercises, postural, aerobic and controlled exercises to improve respiratory capacity. Of course, we must always be supervised and guided by a physiotherapist to meet the objectives set.
«These are exercises that are usually performed lying on their back or sitting down, in which physiotherapists teach and guide the patient so that when taking the air they do it exclusively through the nose, while activating the diaphragm and releasing the air only through the mouth, slowly and consciously, to improve breathing, “says Dr. Carlos Tapia, director of physiotherapy at the Vithas Arturo Soria Hospital and a specialist in respiratory rehabilitation exercises.
Another exercise is to place the hands in the areas where there is more pulmonary fibrosis. In this way, the patient is aware of where they have to take the air when they breathe in, especially to improve ventilation in those areas where more tissue has been damaged.
In addition, it is also advisable to stretch the dorsal muscles in order to improve the muscle tone of the area and thus favor the mobility of the diaphragm. Experts also recommend blowing up balloons and doing inspirational and sad exercises.
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Digital marketing is increasingly becoming an important factor in today’s age run by social media. There are more platforms you can use to promote your brand and engage with your target audience.
If you’re still not convinced of incorporating digital marketing into your strategies, here are several benefits you can gain from doing so.
It Gives You a Good Return on Your Budget
Compared to traditional print marketing, you spend significantly less on advertising space. With digital marketing, having your presence on multiple platforms can come free. You can then allocate your digital marketing budget responsibly.
When you invest in other forms of print marketing, you are also at risk of reaching a limited group of people. Newspaper ads, bulletins, tv spots—these all depend on the time at which your audience can perceive it.
It Boosts Your Brand Awareness
You can also gain a wider reach of your audience. Access to social media platforms are completely free, meaning almost everyone can find your brand and interact with you.
Almost everyone these days can access these platforms through their mobile phones or other handheld devices. This means that your content can be viewed by anyone, anytime.
It Helps You Improve Your Campaigns
Most digital marketing platforms have integrated data analytics features to help you know how the audience is engaging with your content. Thanks to these features, you can track your performance.
For instance, you can track audience retention on your Facebook page. You can even track engagement through likes and comments on a specific post.
These are great sources of information to see where you want to improve in terms of content. To create better ad campaigns, know what the audience is searching for and what types of content resonates with them the most.
It Increases Engagement with Audience
There are many ways to produce content with digital marketing. You can create videos, photo edits, press releases, and more. Each of these types of content can go to various platforms. You can maximize your presence on these different platforms to boost your brand awareness.
You have a great opportunity to tell your brand story through this medium. The best part? You can immediately start tracking engagement data as soon as it is posted.
You can take a look at your entire audience at a glance, whereas traditional marketing would take much longer. Data from a newspaper ad would depend on the number of newspaper subscribers, for instance.
It Is a Great Way to Stay Connected
Another useful benefit of digital marketing would be instant connection. You can gain feedback from your audience in a snap, so you know where to improve or not. Glowing reviews from loyal customers will be helpful in boosting your image.
You will also get a chance to address any negative comments quickly. As long as you have a dedicated team that can respond quickly, you can prevent any delicate situations from arising.
Conclusion
Digital marketing is a beneficial asset that will help the brand reach a wider audience. When done correctly, you will gain several benefits to help the business. It is a great investment and something you should consider.
If you’re looking for an e-commerce service to help you achieve this, Nahr Development can help. We are the best e-commerce web development agency in Egypt that can help you improve your image and digital presence. Contact us now to get started on your digital marketing journey.
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This past winter, I took the AWS Developer Associate certification exam because I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of DevOps and the AWS platform. In this blog, I'll cover what the certification is and why a software engineer would want to get it, how I prepared, the most important topics to study, and some interesting things I learned.
For those who are not familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the simplest way to describe it is a cloud-based environment where you can host your website or application along with data and asset storage for things like photos, videos, and documents. And it extends beyond that to services for machine learning, video processing, analytics, and more.
As of 2021, AWS is a very complex set of over 200 products and services. There are DevOps professionals who devote their entire careers just to AWS. But the certification I took is specifically geared towards software engineers who want to incorporate knowledge of AWS and DevOps principles into their everyday software-development work.
So why would a software engineer want to get this certification? Because the paths of a DevOps professional and a software engineer cross when the application built by a software engineer is ready to be deployed. Having knowledge of AWS services allows you to build cloud-first applications and explore different deployment options, which can greatly impact the speed and efficiency of your application and the financial cost of hosting it. And decoupled service-based cloud applications are replacing monolith applications generally, so software developers need to have knowledge of these cloud-based services.
So what is the certification exam? At the time of writing there are 6 general AWS certifications and 5 specialty AWS certifications for software engineers, DevOps professionals, Network security professionals, etc. Each certification has a suggested number of years of experience you should have before taking it. The Developer Associate exam was the best fit for me because I already had more than one year of experience using AWS, and I am a software engineer looking to incorporate the certification knowledge into my everyday work. Engineers with no prior knowledge of AWS could start with the Certified Cloud Practitioner certification and then move up to the Developer Associate certification.
The exam has around 65 questions, all of which are multiple choice (some ask for one answer, and some ask you to select all that apply). The time limit was around 2 hours. You have the option to take the exam at home with a remote proctor who watches you through your camera or in-person at a local testing center. I took the exam during the COVID-19 pandemic, so I was glad they had an online version of the exam. At the time of writing, it costs $150 USD to take the exam (I used my Giant Machines education budget). The certification is valid for 3 years and then it will expire.
Hands-on experience is a must before taking any AWS certification exam. I had on-the-job training, but if your company is not using AWS there are many different courses and workshops available. One workshop a colleague of mine suggested was BackSpace Academy's AWS certification preparation course on Udemy.
Reading the AWS documentation is also a must, but reading through all of it would probably take years and be painfully boring! A great way to know which parts of the documentation to study is to take practice exams on WhizLabs. I purchased the practice exam package. I would take an exam, see which questions I got wrong, and then WhizLabs provided the correct answer and the link to specific areas of the AWS documentation that I needed to study. I also watched this YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org, but not all in one sitting because it is 12 hours long.
As I mentioned earlier, AWS has over 200 services, but there are only 15 that you MUST know for the exam. These are DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, KMS, CI/CD, X-Ray, SQS and SNS, ECS, Cognito, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, and R2D2. (Just kidding about the last one—there are so many acronyms!) The service that has the most questions on the exam is DynamoDB, so make sure you are familiar with it inside and out.
The most interesting things I learned while studying for this certification were from the questions that start with the phrases "what is the most cost efficient way to..." and "what is the easiest way to..." Not only did I learn about an AWS service, I also learned about cost-saving techniques where you spin up and tear down services as needed, so you only pay for services that are being actively used. (Businesses love cost savings!) These types of questions also helped me learn to compare the different AWS services and choose those which best fit the needs of the business and the application.
While studying, I also learned some very important application architecture design principles. For example, if you know that your application will need to process thousands of requests per minute, you should set up a Simple Queue Service to hold incoming requests and have the application process a certain number of requests from the queue at a time. This will prevent your server from running out of CPU and crashing because it can't handle the load.
I also learned about how AWS services can be used to support some interesting business models. Take, for example, a company that provides tier-based pricing for their service, meaning that if you want faster service you must pay more. The company set up two Simple Queue Service queues, and the lower-tier requests were sent to one queue and the higher-tier requests to the other queue. The application would then process the items in both queues, but when an item came into the higher-tier queue, it would take priority over the items in the lower-tier queue. As a result, the higher-tier items would be processed faster than the lower-tier items.
My experience getting the AWS Developer Associate certification was a positive one. I feel like it helps me out in my current role as a senior software engineer at Giant Machines because it has given me the ability to make important application architecture decisions. I am also able to provide guidance to clients on how to obtain the best performing and most cost-effective architectural solutions. And having an AWS certification on your resume helps you become recognized as an expert in these sorts of complex architectural and deployment issues.
I would love to hear from readers about your experience studying for and taking AWS (or other cloud providers') certification exams. Please leave a comment with the name of the certification exam you took. And it would be great if you could add a link to the study guide that you used, so others can research these options when they decide to take the exam. Feel free to ask questions regarding the exam as well.
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An insect control specialist may be called a pest control expert, pest controller, or pest control professional. They are additionally sometimes known as examiners. An exterminator goes to companies and consumer homes to look for vermin or parasites. Normally, pest control service technicians then use the right technique to get rid of the parasite, whether it be a poisonous substance traps, or any other technique. A lot of pest control operators are licensed by the state to do company, as well as adhere to rigorous standards set by the state.
If you require help doing away with bugs like roaches, there are contemporary bug control solutions that will certainly pertain to your assistance. If you work with an insect control specialist, they will certainly provide you details on approaches that can aid free you of those annoying cockroaches, computer mice, and various other rodents that reside in your house. Commonly, these services will suggest you on what products you ought to be using around your residence, and also which will work much better than others for doing away with your undesirable family pets. щракнете върху хипервръзка
There are 2 sorts of bug control professionals who can help you. The initial type is one who uses traps; the various other type uses both insecticides and DIY approaches. If you require aid with a pesticide application, a lot of pest control men will certainly know the ideal items to utilize to eliminate the insects in your house. Nonetheless, if you are trying to find DIY techniques, it may be essential to find out how to apply those chemicals in your own residence.
If you need to know more regarding Do It Yourself insect elimination, you might start by searching the web for ideas. Among one of the most commonly found pointers is to use simple products to make your roach pest control operator. Lots of structure owners have actually found that creating a bait catch for cockroaches is among the best approaches to get rid of the insects in your house. Many people have issues with roaches remaining in your home because they feed upon the foods that you serve. Nonetheless, when you utilize this easy bait trap you will have the ability to maintain them out of your structure for as long as you desire. Consequently, you will not have to bother with having to deal with dead pests at the end of the day.
If you are seeking a safer choice for eliminating these pests, you ought to take a look at the chemicals that specialist pest control men utilize. These specialists typically utilize a mix of chemicals and traps to clear your house of roaches, mice, and various other rats. The worst component concerning these chemicals is that they are frequently hazardous to put into your food. Nevertheless, if you select to employ a specialist, you will discover that you do not need to bother with any type of risks at all.
Making use of chemicals to eliminate these insects can cause severe illness for you and your household. Therefore, if you would like to stay clear of these kinds of adverse effects, it is very important that you make the appropriate option when it concerns employing a pest exterminator to take care of your problem. Professional exterminators are less likely to place contaminants onto your food. Rather, you need to concentrate on locating the expert who has the most current items and strategies for pest extermination. By doing this, you can be sure to maintain your home free of roaches and other pests for a long-term. можете да проверите тук
If you have a farm or you have a house, then pest control is possibly a home issue for you. There are numerous types of pests, and several of them are not pleasant to people at all. One sort of bug that can actually take a toll on you and also your crops is the fruit fly. This type of insect lays eggs, called larvae, in the plant and then launches these into your plants, which causes them being ruined.
There are several DIY techniques that you can utilize as a means of protecting your plant and keeping these pesky pests far from your residence. If you have a yard, then there are specific blossoms and also plants that are much more at risk to having these pests destroying them. One such plant is the rose. For that reason, if you desire to shield your roses and also wish to employ a DIY method of parasite control, then you ought to plant the Rose shrub. Nonetheless, prior to you do this, you need to make sure that you have actually acquired enough climbed catches for every plant which you understand how to lure these traps.
If you have a yard that surrounds your house, then you might require to employ a pest control operator to do the help you. The reason you would require to utilize an insect control firm is due to the fact that some pests are extremely difficult. They can hide very well, and they have the dexterity to walk around and go under things. Consequently, it is hard for us to identify their tracks, and if we do find their tracks, then it can be exceptionally hard to get rid of them.
If you are looking for an affordable alternative for removing bugs, then incorporated bug monitoring is the way to go. This is additionally commonly known as incorporated bug control and also is perfect for eliminating a wide range of bugs, including ants, crawlers, and also flies. This is a technique that is based upon the use of toxic and safe chemicals that work together to target the insects. This approach has been proven to be extra efficient and economical than using chemicals alone.
If you are wanting to work with someone to carry out pest control on your properties, after that you can search for qualified service providers in your location. It is constantly vital to ask for references before turning over any kind of money. Furthermore, when employing a person to accomplish pest monitoring, you must ensure that they have all the required accreditation as well as licenses to do so. If they do not have the correct licenses to do the work, after that you will certainly be putting on your own in jeopardy of unintentionally placing these unlicensed people in jeopardy, as they might abuse the chemicals and also damage the inhabitants of your residence. намерете повече информация
A few of the common techniques used to manage pest issues consist of baiting, which implies placing a couple of pesticides inside a lure that will eliminate bugs. Another prominent choice is utilizing chemicals that float on the surface of the water. However, this is just advised if you are using chemicals to eliminate bugs, as using them to eliminate fish would be improper. If you are aiming to hire a person to perform your insect control, then you ought to search for the permit details of the person, prior to handing over any money. Also, you must ensure that the person utilizes eco-friendly chemicals and also insecticides, as chemicals can cause a great deal of damage to the community, if made use of in the wrong way.
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Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a detrimental condition for human pregnancy associated with endothelial dysfunction and endothelial inflammation in the fetoplacental vasculature and leads to increased cardio-metabolic risk in the offspring. In the fetoplacental vasculature, GDM is associated with altered adenosine metabolism. Adenosine is an important vasoactive molecule and is an intermediary and final product of transmethylation reactions in the cell. Adenosine kinase is the major regulator of adenosine levels. Disruption of this enzyme is associated with alterations in methylation-dependent gene expression regulation mechanisms, which are associated with the fetal programming phenomenon. Here we propose that cellular and molecular alterations associated with GDM can dysregulate adenosine kinase leading to fetal programming in the fetoplacental vasculature. This can contribute to the cardio-metabolic long-term consequences observed in offspring after exposure to GDM.
Originele taal-2 English Artikelnummer 165397 Aantal pagina's 11 Tijdschrift Biochimica et biophysica acta-Molecular basis of disease Volume 1866 Nummer van het tijdschrift 2 Vroegere onlinedatum 27-jan-2019 DOI's Status Published - 1-feb-2020
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In clinical practice, a de Winter pattern has been regarded as an interesting electrocardiographic (ECG) phenomenon, and is usually considered as an anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) equivalent, observed mainly in relatively young males.1–4 In its classical form, a de Winter pattern presents with certain ECG findings including J point or upsloping ST segment depression (>1 mm) and peaked T waves in precordial leads (usually in V2 and V3) along with a mild ST segment elevation (0.5-1 mm) in the lead aVR.2–4 Mechanistically, the occurrence of this phenomenon was previously attributed to factors including endocardial conduction delay, severe transmural ischemia and defective potassium channels, etc.3 The recently published article by Paixão-Ferreira et al.1 reported an atypical case of a de Winter pattern in a middle-aged male patient. The authors should be congratulated for their timely diagnosis and management of such an atypical de Winter case. Accordingly, we would like to make some comments on the potential implications of an atypical de Winter pattern (with ECG changes that do not conform absolutely to the typical de Winter pattern) in a clinical setting.
Clinically, a de Winter pattern may arise in atypical forms in certain cases, potentially mimicking other semi-urgent cardiovascular conditions.1,2 It requires a high index of suspicion for the early diagnosis of associated STEMI. An atypical de Winter pattern generally refers to alterations in the characteristics and/or location of the classical de Winter criteria. It manifests as atypical ECG findings including widespread J point or downsloping ST segment depression, T wave changes in other derivations including V3-V6 and an absence of ST segment elevation in the lead aVR, etc.1–3 The case reported by Paixão-Ferreira et al. is of a downsloping ST segment depression in leads V2-V3 (and, to some extent, in V1) with an absence of significant ST segment elevation in lead aVR1,1 and thus mimics a true posterior STEMI or acute ischemia due to subtotal occlusion of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery. Similarly, we recently reported an atypical de Winter pattern due an acute LAD osteal occlusion, which strongly mimicked critical left main coronary artery (LMCA) stenosis, in a 36 year-old man presenting with widespread ST segment depression accompanied by ST segment elevation in lead aVR, yet presented a normal LMCA on an invasive coronary angiogram (CAG).2 Furthermore, a recent case report documented an atypical de Winter pattern characterized by prominent T waves and downsloping ST segment depression in leads V3-V6, along with mild ST segment depression in the inferior leads in a young male.3 More interestingly, an atypical de Winter pattern emerging in the inferolateral leads (with J point depression) was previously reported to be associated with an inferoposterior STEMI, due to acute right coronary artery occlusion.5 Therefore, the emergence of an atypical de Winter pattern might not be exclusively confined to an LAD occlusion associated with an anterior STEMI.5 Demographically speaking, atypical de Winter patterns might also have a significant predilection for young or middle-aged males.1–3,5 Mechanistically, the emergence of these atypical de Winter cases might potentially be attributable to the impact of certain anatomical factors (cardiac rotation, etc.) or pre-existing ECG changes, etc.
Interestingly, alternating episodes of anterior ST segment elevation on ECG might be encountered in patients with a de Winter pattern, particularly in those with an atypical presentation,2,3 suggesting the value of frequent or continuous ECG monitoring for the absolute confirmation of acute anterior STEMI, regardless of an invasive CAG. Accordingly, we wonder whether the de Winter pattern in Paixão-Ferreira et al.’s patient1 emerged in a persistent manner (static form) or alternated with findings of classical precordial ST segment elevation (dynamic form)3 preceding the restoration of LAD perfusion.
In conclusion, we are strongly of the opinion that atypical de Winter patterns (with ECG findings that do not strictly conform to the typical pattern) might be more prevalent than the classical pattern, and might lead to a significant delay in the diagnosis and management of the associated STEMI. This delay might be largely based on the fact that these atypical patterns possibly have a stronger analogy to ECG findings of other semi-urgent cardiovascular conditions including non-STEMI, critical LMCA stenosis, etc. Therefore, cardiologists should not feel strictly bound by the categorical definition of classical de Winter pattern and should also consider atypical patterns as STEMI equivalents (particularly in the presence of certain clinical factors including persistent chest pain, etc.) that require emergent CAG and subsequent reperfusion strategies.Conflicts of interest
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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The effects of a serious injury aren't necessarily over when the bones mend or the immediate pain goes away. Cases of permanent scars don't just happen in San Diego -- they happen everywhere.
In addition to the physical pain you may go through if you are permanently scarred or disfigured, you may also be forced to endure tremendous emotional trauma.
The effects of a serious injury can echo through a lifetime, they can be with you every time you see the permanent scars in the mirror, every time you get out of bed, every time you try to stand up straight.
Though the pain may not go away immediately, hiring an experienced personal injury lawyer in San Diego can help you get justice against those who caused your injury. And it all starts when you file a personal injury claim.
Why Hire Our San Diego Personal Injury Lawyers?
Since 1992, the personal injury lawyers at the Pines Salomon Injury Lawyers, APC. in San Diego have been helping people just like you recover the maximum financial compensation for their injuries as well as any permanent scars they caused. We know the legal process can at times be very confusing, but our experience can, however, help guide you through the process.
Our firm’s founder, Michael Pines, is a former insurance company lawyer, so he knows how the insurance companies work. If you don’t want insurance companies to take advantage of you, you should hire an experienced personal injury lawyer from our San Diego law firm. We are dedicated to helping you obtain the fair and just compensation you and your family need to recover and move toward a brighter future.
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You are hereHome › Buildings & Environments › Green Building › Green Building Policy, Incentives, & Resources - Green Building › Requirements - Green Building Topics Climate Action Month 2021 Special Events Energy Transportation Zero Waste Toxics & Health Buildings & Environments Education & Equity Climate Change
San Francisco is a constantly changing city. In order to make our building construction and renovation as sustainable as possible, codes and policies have been enacted to divert waste from landfills, reduce energy and water usage, encourage alternate modes of transportation, and to improve indoor air quality.
Most of the San Francisco of the future has already been built. Existing buildings are a tremendous resource to our city, and the challenge is to protect our rich history while using fewer natural resources. Energy efficiency, water conservation, stormwater, toxics reduction, and zero waste policies help to improve the performance of the existing stock.
SF Environment’s Green Building Program works hand-in-hand with other teams within the department and the departments of Building Inspection, Planning, and Public Health, as well as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
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Often we don’t have to reinvent the wheel to learn something new – we can just ask experts in the field who can draw on their experience to enlighten us. Below, we’ve shared insights insiders from various industries have shared with us.
Jackie Crowell | Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
Most people are unaware they can get physical therapy to address their urinary leakage, constipation or pelvic pain – all ailments that pelvic floor physical therapy can help with. Often women assume they have to just put up with painful periods or pain with sex without realizing pelvic floor physical therapy can help. So many patients come in and tell me that they never knew that there was physical therapy for their bladder, for example. And after a few sessions, depending on the patient and case, they are taken from a world of not being able to hold their bladder to not having to scope out where the restroom is everywhere they go. Read more>>
Dr. Anita “TheGriefDoctor” Green | TheGriefDoctor – Certified Grief Coach and Grief Support Specialist
One thing that I would say is that when we are feeling “some type of way,” about losing someone or something that we’ve been emotionally invested in, then we are grieving. Grief doesn’t just occur when we lose a loved one, but when we lose our jobs, homes, friendships, relationships, our identities and many others. And what happens is that emotional triggers remind us that we are experiencing grief. We want to cry, become angry, feel a sense of loneliness. Grief is all about our emotions and how we process them, with the understanding that everyone grieves differently. Read more>>
Christina Ellenberg | MS, RD, LDN, CSCS
One of the BIGGEST things about my industry that outsiders are unaware of is many people mistakenly use the terms “dietitian” and “nutritionist” interchangeably, when they are in fact, very different. Anyone with an interest in diet or nutrition may call themselves a “nutritionist.” They have no accreditation, licensure and no guidelines for how much or what type of education they need. Read more>>
Sonya Le | Portrait Photographer
I don’t think enough people realize that there is so much work that goes into post-production of photography. When my clients are persistent to ask for updates on when finished photos will be ready after a shoot, I find it necessary to tell them what goes into my process. I may have hundreds of photos that I have to cull through, upload the photos to my digital workspace, get into the creative and technical steps of editing, and with that, may involve indecisiveness and requiring me to walk away from my computer and come back to ensure for a fresh palette of mind and figure out any inconsistencies. Read more>>
Jaquasia Holmes | Hairstylist
The Time Consumption. My industry as a hairstylist is such a time consuming job. Being a hairstylist is like working 2 full time jobs. Especially operating my business in Atlanta, cosmetology is a very popular industry. Because the industry is very saturated, it is a consistent job to stay relevant and up to date on everything in my field. Alot of people outside of my industry thinks that being a hairstylist is easy: play in hair then going home. Unfortunately it so much more than that. When I am not working 8-10 hour days, I am updating my social media, responding to emails/appointments, restocking inventory, and marketing my business. It is a constant job Read more>>
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Pay yourself first is non-negotiable. At the beginning of the month, right after your salary comes in, invest a fixed amount.
Financial independence gives you freedom. Freedom in the form of time, to quit a job you hate or to leave your partner. Whatever you want to leave, or not, money will make the process easier.
The freedom of paying of your mortgage is great! No more monthly bills. But there are some disadvantages of paying off your mortgage.
How and why use a cash book? Take control of your finances with a cashbook. Know where your money is going by tracking it every month.
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All we ever want is more, more, more. More gadgets, more clothes, more money, more house, more cars. More. More. More. Not today. Here is a case for minimalism and Read More
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Do you dream of financial independence? You can achieve it with the 4% rule.
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Health care bills are surging, but some of the biggest health care costs will come in the next year, as states launch new vaccines.
A new study released Tuesday shows that the cost of health care will increase by about $3,500 by the end of 2021, and that the costs will be a lot higher by 2025.
The study, released by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s School of Public Health, found that for all Americans, costs will rise by an average of $7,979 by 2021.
The average increase in healthcare costs is about $4,500, but the study says that for some populations the cost increases will be even more dramatic.
The average cost increase is about 1 percent in the middle of 2021 and the average increase will be about 2 percent by 2025, the report found.
But the biggest impact will be for people over 65.
Those with a Medicare-eligible spouse or dependent on Medicaid will pay about $1,200 more per year in 2021, the study found.
In 2021, Medicare’s costs are projected to be about $23,200.
That’s about $600 more than the cost that the study projected in 2025.
By 2025, Medicare costs are expected to be more than $60,000, according to the study.
People younger than 65 have the lowest expected costs.
For those ages 65 to 74, the average cost of a year of health insurance in 2021 is $1.19, compared with about $5.50 in 2025, according the report.
But people 65 and older, who make up about 40 percent of the population, will be paying $3.60 in 2021 compared with $7.40 in 2025 because of the higher average cost for their coverage.
Those who are older than 65 also have the highest projected costs of all age groups.
The study found that people 65 years or older are projected by 2021 to pay about 40% of their income in health insurance premiums, the most expensive part of their healthcare coverage.
The authors of the study said that they believe that this increase is driven in part by the rapid growth of new vaccines and the fact that the public health system is already struggling to meet demand for medical care.
The cost of new medications is also rising.
In 2021, health care spending will rise $5,200, the highest increase since 1999.
But by 2025 the increase is expected to amount to about $11,400, and by 2025 it will be $15,400.
The increase is largely because the average life expectancy in the United States is going up.
People over 65 have an average life span of about 75 years, and in 2025 that number is expected increase to 79 years, the authors found.
By 2021, people over the age of 65 are projected for life expectancy to be 83.8 years, which is a decline from 2025 when they were 83.4 years.
The life expectancy of people over 75 will be 79.6 years in 2021.
The report said that by 2025 life expectancy will increase slightly to 81.4 in the U.S., and by 2021, that number will be 77.5 years.
People over 65 are also projected to die earlier, according a 2016 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, but that decline is expected in 2021 to be smaller.
The researchers said that this change will mostly be due to the decline in deaths due to diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, but it will also have an impact on deaths from other causes.
By 2025, people 65 or older will be less likely to die from heart disease and diabetes.
The most expensive healthcare system in the countryThe report also found that the average monthly health insurance premium for those aged 65 or over in 2021 will be more $9,800.
That will be an increase of more than 20 percent over 2025.
But the increase in premiums will be offset by a drop in costs related to nursing home care and prescription drug coverage.
People 65 or above who have health insurance plans will pay an average monthly premium of $1 to $2,000.
Those who are younger than age 65 will pay $1 or less.
For people older than age 64, the premiums will rise an average amount of $2 to $4 a month.
People between 65 and 74 are projected spend an average annual total of $4.75, which will be nearly 20 percent more than people 65 to 64.
The increase in costs is largely due to a decline in the number of nursing homes that are available in 2021 due to Medicaid expansions.
The increases are likely to be offset somewhat by higher Medicare premiums.
The Kaiser Family Study found that Medicare costs will increase $5 to $6,400 in 2021 and $6 to $7 on average, and Medicare premiums will increase another $5 a month in 2021 based on the number available nursing homes.
The increased costs of healthcare will also affect some people over age 65, especially people who are living alone or have limited income.
In 2025, about 1 in 5 people over 60 years old will be living alone.
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The European Commission launched five new EU missions on Wednesday 29, including its mission on 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030. The missions are a new and innovative way to work together and improve the lives of people in Europe and beyond. They aim to tackle big challenges in health, climate and the environment, and to achieve ambitious and inspiring goals in these areas.
The missions, a novelty of Horizon Europe and also an original concept in EU policy, bringing together several Commission services under the authority of nine College members, will support research to deliver on the Commission's main priorities and find responses to some of the greatest challenges we are facing today.
In the mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, selected cities will involve their citizens in drawing up "Climate City Contracts" to help reach climate neutrality by 2030.
The Factsheet for the mission points to five major actions to be undertaken:
The Horizon Europe programme will provide €359.3 million in seed funding during the period 2021-23 to help deliver on the mission; Launch of a Mission Platform to provide technical, regulatory, and financial assistance to cities working on the mission; Cities will prepare, sign and implement Climate City Contracts, co-created with citizens and local stakeholders; Launch a portfolio of research and innovation projects and set up a Global Knowledge Exchange Centre; A network of national, local and regional authorities will support the cities’ transition to climate neutrality.
In the official Communication of the missions, the European Commission described how the missions are a new collaborative approach that provides a mandate to achieve specific goals in a set timeframe. They will also deliver impact by putting research and innovation into a new role, combined with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as with a new way of engaging with citizens, including young people.
On October 11th, the Smart Cities Marketplace hosts a EUSEW side event discussing the "The one billion challenge" of how to pay for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities. Register for that session here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5864410610735512845
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Gloves.com is a market leader in nitrile and disposable gloves. Due to world conditions in 2020 and 2021, they needed to rapidly increase their conversion rate to capitalize on the opportunity. They have a targeted demographic of SMB health professionals who continuously buy from Gloves.com. We were brought on to increase the conversion rate of Gloves.com.
Through heat mapping and user testing, we learned that users that landed directly on the product page were not converting as well as those that start from the homepage. We focused on the homepage for split tests, where we found the most profitable tests for the client.
Businesses like medical spas and dentists require vastly different messages, which was a source of pain for Gloves.com. After testing sliders, different hero images, and featured products, we ultimately found what headlines and product titles gave the highest conversion rate.
As we learned the homepage had the highest end-to-end conversion rate, we focused our biggest test slots there. Our most successful test was a homepage layout test, where we tested what sections needed to be highest in hierarchy of design. This was the biggest needle mover in our entire campaign.
Today, everyone relies heavily on a wide range of different tools to manage social selling campaigns for our clients. As you can imagine, it becomes quite a pretty complicated task once you are managing dozens of different social accounts across many brands. To succeed, you need a suite of online helpers. Out of the more… Continue reading Generate More Leads With These 3 Tools
In today’s advertising market there’s a million-dollar question that everyone has. “How can I increase my sales WITHOUT increasing my ad spend?” Legends say those who are capable of doing this have already ascended to marketing mount olympus and have tea time daily with Russel Brunson and Gary Vee… Seriously though. Especially after 2020, ad… Continue reading How We Added $500,000 In Sales With 3 Stupid Simple Split Tests
If you do a Google search for “PPC agency,” you can find thousands of businesses selling AdWords services. Why? Because Google AdWords is complicated and tough to navigate for new PPC marketers and small businesses. Which is why you might be considering getting a Google Adwords certification. Since Google is the most popular search network on… Continue reading 4 Reasons Why You Should Get AdWords Certified
Have you ever been scrolling through Instagram and been drawn to a product you’ve seen repeatedly? Have you ever felt compelled to stop at the coffee shop with a line out the door versus the empty one around the corner? If you’ve ever experienced a sudden fear of missing out when you see other people… Continue reading How to Use Social Proof to Boost Your Online Marketing
You don’t need a business degree to know that your company needs a marketing plan. Successful startups dedicate months to designing a strategy for conversions and online visibility. They run focus groups and conduct market research to guide their execution, but they don’t stop there. Even niche businesses aren’t so scarce anymore. Everyone has someone… Continue reading What Marketing Competitor Analysis Is and How to Do it
Companies are giving employees more time, money, and flexibility to recognize the new reality of 100% remote work. The future of work is a hybrid solution that will include both remote and in-person work, according to Rhiannon Staples, chief marketing officer at the people management platform Hibob. “There is still value in meeting face to… Continue reading 10 new perks of remote work
Going freelance can be a scary prospect, as there are so many unknowns. Will you find enough clients to keep the wolf from the door? How much will you earn? How often will you get paid? 1. You’re running a business Many people think that switching from being a staff member to a freelancer… Continue reading What they never tell you about becoming a freelance creative
Every blogger wants their blog to rank in the top position in Google search results since users commonly select results contained on the first page, especially those in one of the top 3 positions, as you can see in the graphic below. And, for years, the Google search algorithm made content king. This explains why… Continue reading AI Content Creator: 5 Ways it Helps Your Blog Grow
Managing social media shouldn’t be a pain, and it shouldn’t monopolize your entire schedule. Social media platforms are meant to be a fun new way to engage with others within your network. When you apply the right strategies, you can grow your following organically, which can impact your entire business. It never hurts to have… Continue reading 10 Awesome Social Media Tools to Try This Year
That old piece of trivia that paper money carries more germs than your toilet seat has never been more relevant. Society was already trending away from physical bills, but recent studies have found that 60% of consumers plan to use digital payments instead of physical in the future because of COVID-19. It’s official: cashless and… Continue reading Why electronic payment processing is the future of digital banking
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DC voltage levels in parallel to AC voltage in the ASTM inclined plane tracking and Index Terms — DC Inclined plane test, tracking and erosion, ASTM D ASTM D Standard Test Methods for Liquid-Contaminant, Inclined-Plane Tracking and Erosion of Insulating Materials. The use of polymers covered cables for medium voltage electricity distribution grids is an attractive option in Brazil thanks to their low cost and simplic.
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In a bid to get more people on to the RTÉ network, it has developed a number of apps to help people pay off their debts.
One of these is called PayOffr, which helps users find the cheapest and quickest way to pay off loan interest.
The app was launched in early September and it has already raised over $1.5m.
The website for the app was created by RTE journalist, Peter Ritchie and has since received over 1,400 hits.
The main feature of PayOffer is that it helps users pay off debts by displaying a card that they can tap to pay.
It works like this: When you tap the card, the app displays a card reader and a credit card payment card on screen.
To pay, simply tap on the card reader, or tap on any credit card on the screen.
Once you tap on a payment card, it appears on the page where you can add up to 20% interest on the amount you have to pay in order to pay the debt off.
The payment card also shows a countdown timer on the right side of the screen, and once the countdown timer is reached, the card will be credited to your PayOffRite account.
It has a maximum amount of interest to pay, and users can choose to pay as little as 0.1% or as much as 1.5% of the total amount of the debt.
The service can be used to pay back a number or credit card balance as well, as well as a few other payment options such as monthly installments.
One benefit of Payoffr is that users can pay it off in multiple installments, and it can also be used for credit card payments.
PayOfferd is available in both English and French, and is being offered for €5.99 per month.
Another app that has attracted attention from the RTE is Pay-Back.
The startup allows users to pay their loans off over time, so that they will no longer owe the company money in the future.
The payments are processed through PayBack, and the amount paid can be shown on the user’s credit card statement.
PayBack’s main advantage is that you can pay back any amount of money that you have paid back on a credit or debit card, as long as the amount has not been used in the past three months.
Payback has also made a few tweaks to the app to improve the usability of the app.
Users are able to add up-to-date payment information and view their credit card balances, so they can make sure they are not paying back debt that they do not have the right to.
Another advantage of Pay-back is that, unlike PayOffrade, the user has to pay an extra €2.99 if the amount they have paid out is less than the amount owed.
Pay-backs also show a time stamp for each payment, so it is always visible that the payment has been made.
One drawback of PayBack is that the user must also be connected to the same bank account as the payment is being made.
This means that Pay-Outr is not suitable for people who want to pay a monthly mortgage, or anyone who wants to pay down debt from a previous period.
Another interesting app is PayMe.
The company’s app was also launched by Rte journalist, and RTE reporter, Peter Richer, in early October.
The site has been attracting attention from people who have seen the app in action, as the app lets users pay back debts by adding up to 10% interest.
It also shows an image of the payment card when the user adds the amount of their interest to the card.
When paying, users can tap on their payment card to pay it, or they can add a payment option.
When adding a payment, the payments can be paid in installments, as you can see in the screenshot below.
PayMe has been making some tweaks to improve its app, but the company has yet to offer any of these on the site.
Payme is available both in English and English only, but it has also launched an app for the iPad, which lets users add up as many payment options as they like.
Payers also have to have a payment gateway, and if you want to use PayMe, you have a few more steps to complete.
The Payer app, which can be downloaded for free, is available to users of PayOnr, PayOffrs, PayBack and PayMe as well.
Payer was also able to show a countdown time for each payer payment, and can be set to display only payments made within the last three months, so you can keep a track of your payments and not get bogged down in a monthly bill.
Another major difference between Pay-Onr and Pay-Offr is the fact that Payer charges users €2 for each debt payment, whereas PayOff and PayBack charge users €3.
Pay Offr and its app are currently available for iPhone
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The Grind:
The transition away from hydrocarbons is not a seamless as many hope. The latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a significant decline this year in hydropower generation amid historic droughts.
The Details:
The magical thinking about renewable energy and President Biden’s calls for the U.S. power grid to be 100% clean by 2035 is a pipe dream.
The problem with renewable energy is sustainability. California and states in the Pacific Northwest have found out that out the hard way this summer as droughts and back-to-back heat waves have led to a plunge in hydropower capacity. The region produces a bulk of U.S. hydropower capacity.
EIA estimates U.S. hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was in 2020. Hydropower generation in the Northwest, which includes the Columbia River Basin and parts of other Rocky Mountain states, is expected to be 12% lower than the prior year. Hydropower generation in California will be down a shocking 49% in 2021 than in 2020. Read more…
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Companies are having more and more access to data. Data from suppliers, data from intermediaries, data from customers and prospective customers. Traditional companies are not built in a way to make use of all this data. The data has to go through multiple steps and different handlers before business insights can be generated. Typically, the team that handles the data pipeline is buried somewhere under “Engineering” or “Research and Development”. However, the users of the data are spread across every vertical ranging from sales, marketing, logistics and even human resources. Don’t forget the fact that the company itself generates a lot of data everyday from its operations and employees. The crux of the problem with traditional organisation is that data is harvested and probably can be used in most parts of the organisation/ However, not everyone is well-versed with how to play around with data and make sense of it. The whole process of using data to make better decisions isn’t a one-off ceremony. Rather it is a feedback loop of varying cadence that needs close attention.
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K-Pop sensations BTS perform their hit song Permission to Dance in a video produced at the United Nations. The video accompanies the bands remarks at the SDG Moment and is meant to draw their audiences attention to the importance of Keeping the Promise of the Sustainable Development Goals and to inspire action.
What is your promise? - un.cheerity.com/ ------- The SDG Moment serves to place an annual spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will be held at the beginning of the United Nation’s General Assembly’s High-Level Week. It takes place as the world experiences a deeply uneven response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which risks creating a two-tier recovery with significant implications for the advancement of the SDGs, especially in developing countries. Convened by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Moment will provide world leaders with a platform to showcase the bold plans, actions and solutions that are needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and set the world on course towards achieving the SDGs. Held in advance of major meetings on food systems, climate, energy, jobs and social protection, the SDG Moment event is expected to build the momentum needed to deliver on the Decade of Action and Keep the Promise of the SDGs.
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SINGAPORE – Brunei and Singapore will embark on a study to determine the long-term immune response and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines in fully vaccinated individuals in Brunei.
Announcing this on Thursday (Oct 7), Temasek Foundation and Brunei’s Ministry of Health said the results will help public health policymakers decide on Covid-19 control strategies.
These include travel policies and green lane arrangements.
Fully vaccinated travellers from Brunei can enter Singapore via the vaccinated travel lane, without having to serve a stay-home notice period.
Making the announcement at the Asean Ministerial Conference for Digital Public Health, the two organisations said the results will be used to determine the optimum length of quarantine periods for travellers.
It will also help decide if booster shots should be mandated for individuals with low levels of neutralising antibodies.
Temasek Foundation and Brunei’s Ministry of Health said the study is part of efforts to deepen cooperation in public health research in response to challenges affecting Asean and the rest of the world by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Researchers will collect blood samples from 3,000 vaccinated people based in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei’s capital city, the joint statement said.
They will then measure the level of neutralising antibodies against the coronavirus. Neutralising antibodies are highly predictive of immune protection against viral infection.
The results will be used to determine and compare the individual’s immunity against Covid-19 and the efficacy of the vaccines.
Brunei currently uses the Moderna, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca and Sinopharm vaccines. Just over 50 per cent of its population are fully vaccinated.
Data collected can be used to infer the level of herd immunity to Covid-19.
If these vaccinated individuals do catch the virus, the research can also provide some data on the correlation of vaccine protection against infection, the joint statement said.
The research, which is being funded by Temasek Foundation, will be co-led by Brunei’s Ministry of Health, Universitas Brunei Darussalam and the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
Dr Justin Wong, who is head of the Disease Control Division in Brunei’s Ministry of Health, said the research project aims to generate high-quality scientific data that can guide policy decisions on the national Covid-19 vaccination programme in Brunei.
“We look forward to future research collaboration that contributes towards delivering on improved health outcomes across the region,” he added.
Mr Benedict Chong, chief executive of Temasek Foundation, said with the next unknown crisis presenting as an imminent threat to Singapore and countries in region, better dialogue and collaboration can help to enhance preparedness and readiness.
Besides Brunei, Temasek Foundation is collaborating with other Asean countries on various initiatives, such as research and sero-surveillance programmes to enhance to crisis preparedness and response.
Sero-surveys provide estimates of population immunity due to past infection or vaccination.
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With an alignment service, adjustments are made to your Mitsubishi Montero’s suspension system, the connection between the vehicle and the wheels. When your car has an alignment service, calculated changes are made to the angles of your tires. This is so that your tires hit the road at an optimal angle for your vehicle’s performance — just as Mitsubishi intended. When your system is aligned to the measurements that Mitsubishi specifies for your vehicle, there's equal pressure being applied to all of your tires. This gives you several benefits: you enjoy a smoother ride, your tires wear more evenly and last longer, and significant stress is taken off your suspension system. When you bring in your 1989 Mitsubishi Montero, we’ll perform an alignment check first. Then, we’ll adjust the angles as needed until they match recommended measurements from Mitsubishi. Plus, we’ll check to make sure your tire pressure is at an optimal level.
It's a good idea to have your Mitsubishi Montero alignment checked every 6,000 miles or so. Even a small misalignment can decrease your fuel efficiency, and could lead to premature wear and tear on your vehicle if left unaddressed. You might also want to get an alignment check if you experience any of the following when driving your 1989 Mitsubishi Montero: pulling to the left or right, excessive wear on only one tire, a steering wheel that feels off center or crooked while driving straight ahead, or noticeable squealing noises from your tires. You won’t see any warning lights on your Montero dashboard if your wheel alignment is off, so pay close attention to these symptoms.
Mitsubishi Montero wheel alignment doesn't cost as much as you might think. Over the years, it could actually save you money. Appropriately aligned wheels can support increased tire lifespan and fuel efficiency, so you get more miles out of the same tank of gas and set of tires. Regular wheel alignment checks and adjustments could also cut down on future auto repairs. Call a nearby Firestone Complete Auto Care to get an estimate for 1989 Mitsubishi Montero wheel alignment costs today.
Nothing lasts forever. Even your Mitsubishi Montero's many parts and pieces. When something breaks, we're ready. Click on a repair below to learn more about 1989 Mitsubishi Montero repairs.
Ready to roll? Our technicians are trained to perform 1989 Mitsubishi Montero wheel alignments. Schedule your alignment today.
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Australia’s forest industries are disappointed that AUSTimber 2020/21 has been cancelled. We do however understand how difficult this was for the organisers who tried so hard to work around the COVID induced difficulties, CEO of AFPA Ross Hampton and CEO of VFPA Deb Kerr said today.
The event was spearheaded by the Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) and scheduled for November in Gormandale, Victoria. The four-yearly event, held over several days, usually attracts thousands of visitors to the region and is a fantastic way of showcasing the timber industry and its many innovations.
“This is one of the biggest events for Australia’s forest industries. A lot of hard work has gone into the event to showcase what we do, so we feel for our colleagues at AFCA,” Mr Hampton said.
“The timber industry, like many others, has taken a few big hits with the devastating 2019/20 bushfires and then, of course, the pandemic. This flagship event is not suited to a virtual format. The cancellation is sad but ultimately understandable,” Ms Deb Kerr said.
“We thank the organisers for the hard work they’ve put in and hope that the gap in showcasing our industries can be filled in due course,” Ms Kerr concluded.
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7 Important Tips For Choosing A Metering Pump
Metering pumps are used to transfer a pre-determined volume of liquid from one place to another within a specific timeframe. Although they can be used to transfer any type of viscous liquid, as well as acids, bases, and solvents, they are often used in a variety of municipal water and wastewater applications.
A metering pump can be altered to provide different flow rates. They are useful when a precise volume is to be delivered, for example when dispensing chemicals for disinfection, filtration or coagulation. You can easily change chemical dosage rates according to process conditions.
They are different from pumps used for transfer applications as internal operating clearances are much tighter, which minimizes fluid slip internally. This also allows highly accurate, measured amounts of fluid to be metered and transferred.
When selecting a metering pump, it is important to take the following into account:
1. What application data can you compile? It is essential to have correct and complete application data to ensure the pump will work correctly, with minimal maintenance. You can share the following information with the pump manufacturer to ensure you get the right pump for the job: flow rate (minimum, normal, maximum) inlet and discharge pressures (minimum, normal, maximum) viscosity temperature (minimum, normal, maximum) the fluid being handled whether any solids are present, and if so, the percentage, maximum particle size, and hardness of solids motor data (phase, hertz, voltage) and the area classification 2. What is the pump going to be used for?
Discuss how you intend to use the pump with your pump manufacturer, who may have suggestions on designs or better options. It’s important to identify all the possible conditions under which the pump is required to perform as it can be expensive and challenging to fix a problem resulting from application conditions that are overlooked. Be sure to point out that the pump is going to be used for a metering job.
For even greater accuracy, your vendor may advise you to sacrifice the additional clearances applied to pump parts for high viscosity at the cost of somewhat higher horsepower requirements. It’s also important to note that high temperature applications have lower viscosities, so slip factor should be considered if substantial differential pressure is present. 3. What lubricants do you need?
Most metering pumps, depending on their design and the pumping conditions they will operate in, need lubrication for the bearings and seals. These parts can be damaged if they run dry for even a short period of time, so make sure to ask your vendor about your pump’s lubrication needs.
4. Does your pump require ancillary equipment upstream and downstream to enhance its performance?
Some pumps may use strainers, isolation valves, pressure relief valves or calibration columns. Check with your pump manufacturer on the specific needs of your metering pump, such as what mesh size the strainer should be, or the setting of a pressure relief valve.
5. Confirm if your pump needs an external pressure relief valve.
Most positive displacement pumps require the installation of an external pressure relief valve in the discharge piping. This is often an additional layer of precaution to protect the pump, especially if there is a possibility of a restriction in the line such as a plugged nozzle, filter or isolation valve.
6. Do you need to store the pump for a long period of time?
If you intend to store the pump for a long period of time, or between uses, you may need to apply a coat of oil to machined or unpainted surfaces, employ special packing methods or use special materials for storage. You might even need to schedule rotations of the motor and pump shaft, depending on the duration of idle time. Make sure you communicate the amount of idle time you anticipate, so your pump manufacturer can best advise you on the right pump for your needs, and advise if any maintenance will be required.
7. Before you install your pump, make sure you read the installation and operation manual and take note of recommended mounting and piping practices.
Although your metering pump might be fairly rugged, incorrect installation, mounting or piping can affect your pump’s performance. Make sure you read and understand the manual to ensure you get it right.
Finally consider the level of quality required. Metering is very precise, so make sure you take all the above into consideration in order to select the right pump for a metering application. If you’d like our help, please call our toll-free number 1-800- 367-4180. We have experts on hand to help you choose, install, and maintain a variety of equipment.
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When insulin (sugar) reaches the pancreas of our body, the level of glucose in the blood increases. This condition is called diabetes. Insulin is a hormone made by the digestive gland. Its function is to convert food inside the body into energy. This is the hormone that controls the amount of sugar in our body. In this medical condition, the body has difficulty in making energy from food. In this situation, increased levels of glucose start damaging various organs of the body.
This medical condition is more in men than women. This medical condition is mostly hereditary and due to lifestyle deterioration. In this, hereditary type-1 and diabetes due to irregular lifestyle are placed in the type-2 category. Also, if you reduce physical exertion, do not sleep properly, have irregular eating, and consume mostly fast food and sweet foods then the chances of an increase in sugar level in the body.
Type 1 diabetes
In this type of diabetes, the beta cells of the pancreas are completely destroyed and thus insulin is not possible to form. It is caused by genetic, auto-immune, and some viral infections, due to which beta cells are completely destroyed in childhood. This disease is usually seen in the age of less than 12 to 25 years.
Type 1 Symptoms
In type 1 diabetes, increasing the amount of sugar causes the patient to urinate frequently, due to excess fluid coming out of the body, the patient feels very thirsty. Due to this, there is also a lack of water in the body, the patient starts feeling weak, besides, the heartbeat also increases greatly.
Type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes have a very high blood sugar level which is very difficult to control. In this condition, the victim feels more thirsty, has frequent urination, and has frequent hunger problems. It can happen to anyone, but it is seen more in children. In this kind of medical condition, the body is unable to use insulin properly.
Some people with type 2 diabetes can control their disease by making healthy food choices and becoming physically active. Many people with this kind of condition also need medicines.
Gestational diabetes – This kind of medical condition occurs during pregnancy when the amount of sugar in the blood increases. During this period, pregnant women are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 symptoms
Due to this, due to an increase in the level of blood sugar in the body, there are problems like fatigue, low vision and headache. As the fluid comes out of the body in excess, it makes the patient feel more thirsty. He does not heal quickly when an injury or wound occurs. Continuous excess of diabetes affects the eyesight, due to which there is a disease called diabetic retinopathy due to which there is a decrease in eyesight.
Medicines for type 2 diabetes
You may also need medicines along with healthy food and physical activity habits to control your type 2 diabetes. You can take many diabetes medicines with a breathing apparatus. These drugs are called oral medicines.
Metformin 500 mg Medicine
More people with type 2 diabetes begin medical treatment with Metformin tablets. Metformin also comes in liquid form. Metformin reduces the amount of glucose in your liver and helps your body make better use of insulin. This medicine can help you lose a small amount of weight.
Other oral medications work in various ways to reduce glucose levels in the blood. You may need to take another medicine or use a combination treatment after a while. A mixture of two or three types of diabetes medicines can reduce the level of glucose in the blood more than just once.
Type 2 diabetes treatment
Management of type 2 diabetes includes:
Healthy eating Regular exercise Weight loss Possibly, diabetes medication or insulin therapy Blood sugar monitoring
These steps will help keep your blood sugar level closer to normal, which can delay or prevent complications.
Diabetes symptoms
If you have any of the following diabetes symptoms, see your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested;
Urinate (pee) a lot, often at night Are very thirsty Lose weight without trying Are very hungry Have blurry vision Have numb or tingling hands or feet Feel very tired very dry skin Have sores that heal slowly More infections than usual. Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose). Glucose is vital to your health because it’s an important source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. It’s also your brain’s main source of fuel.
Includes: Diabetes mellitus type 2
Diseases or conditions caused: Diabetic retinopathy.
Prediabetes
Prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. Approximately 88 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. Of those with prediabetes, more than 84% don’t know they have it.
Gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that is first seen in a pregnant woman who did not have diabetes before she was pregnant. Some women have more than one pregnancy affected by gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes usually shows up in the middle of pregnancy.
Hyperglycemia
Hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) means there is too much sugar in the blood because the body lacks enough insulin. Associated with diabetes, hyperglycemia can cause vomiting, excessive hunger and thirst, rapid heartbeat, vision problems, and other symptoms. Untreated hyperglycemia can lead to serious health problems.
Diabetic diet
The food groups are
vegetables non starchy: includes broccoli, carrots, greens, peppers, and tomatoes starchy: includes potatoes, corn, and green peas fruits—includes oranges, melon, berries, apples, bananas, and grapes grains—at least half of your grains for the day should be wholegrains includes wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley, and quinoa examples: bread, pasta, cereal, and tortillas protein lean meat chicken or turkey without the skin fish eggs nuts and peanuts dried beans and certain peas, such as chickpeas and split peas meat substitutes, such as tofu dairy—nonfat or low fat milk or lactose-free milk if you have lactose intolerance yogurt Cheese. Insulin Pump
The device releases insulin almost the way your body naturally would: a steady flow throughout the day and night, called basal insulin, and an extra dose at mealtime, called a bolus, to handle rising blood sugar from the food you eat. You program the pump for both basal and bolus doses. If you eat more than normal, you can program a larger bolus to cover the carbs in your food. A bolus can bring down high blood sugar at other times, too.
The pump is about the size of a smartphone. You attach it to your body using an infusion set: thin plastic tubing and either a needle or a small tapered tube called a cannula you put under the skin. The place where you put it in — your belly, buttock, or sometimes thigh — is called the infusion site. Some pumps come with inserters for easier placement even in hard-to-reach areas.
Insulin pumps use short-acting and rapid-acting insulin, but not long-acting since the pump is programmed to deliver a small amount continuously to keep your blood sugar levels even.
Normal blood sugar levels
Normal blood glucose levels for adults, without diabetes, is 90 to 110 mg/dL. Learn the symptoms of high and low blood sugar here.
Blood glucose levels are the amount of glucose that someone has in their blood at any given time. Having high or low blood sugar levels could indicate an underlying health condition that may require medical attention. Use this overview of normal blood glucose levels to understand what your blood sugar levels mean.
Types of insulins for diabetes Rapid-acting Apidra (insulin glulisine) Fiasp (faster-acting insulin aspart) Humalog (insulin lispro) NovoRapid (insulin aspart) Short-acting Entuzity (insulin regular) Humulin R, Novolin ge Toronto (insulin regular) Intermediate-acting Humulin N, Novolin ge NPH(insulin NPH) Long-acting Basaglar (insulin glargine biosimilar) Lantus (insulin glargine U-100) Levemir (insulin detemir U-300) Toujeo (insulin glargine U-300) Tresiba (degludec) Diabetes during pregnancy
During pregnancy—including type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes—can negatively affect the health of women and their babies. For women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, high blood sugar around the time of conception increases babies’ risk of birth defects, stillbirth, and preterm birth. Additionally, among women with any type of diabetes, high blood sugar throughout pregnancy increases women’s risk of having a cesarean delivery and increases babies’ risk of being born too large and developing obesity or type 2 diabetes in the future.
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition in which a hormone made by the placenta prevents the body from using insulin effectively. Glucose builds up in the blood instead of being absorbed by the cells.
Unlike type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by other hormones produced during pregnancy that can make insulin less effective, a condition referred to as insulin resistance. Gestational diabetic symptoms disappear following delivery.
Approximately 3 to 8 percent of all pregnant women in the United States are diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
Home remedies for diabetes
Here are 7 veggies that can help keep diabetes under control:
Fenugreek Bitter gourd\karela Cinnamon Vitamin c Aloe vera Amla or indian gooseberry Drumsticks or moringa.
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Amanda Lunedei says she'll feel a mix of emotions when she finally returns to work after the lockdowns.
Key points: Lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria weigh on national figures Participation rate hits 15-month low Unemployment rate rises to 4.6 per cent, from 4.5 per cent
A Melbourne hairdresser, Ms Lunedei has been unable to work for months and has been relying on the weekly $750 COVID disaster payment.
She cannot wait to get back to the salon, but she knows things won't be the same when the city eventually reopens.
"It's definitely exciting because who doesn't want to get back to work," she told the ABC.
"There'll be a bit of anxiety, we're obviously out of our routine, and we'll come back at a time where it's still quite uneasy, [and] there's a little bit of anxiety in terms of what it's going to look like.
"But we just can't wait to welcome back our clients ... and make people happy."
Ms Lunedei is one of hundreds of thousands of Australians who have been unable to work in recent months, as New South Wales and Victoria and the ACT have struggled through drawn-out lockdowns.
And the most recent unemployment figures show the extent of the damage.
Jobless numbers kept rising
Another 138,000 jobs were lost in September, according to the Bureau of Statistics.
The national unemployment rate edged up to 4.6 per cent, from 4.5 per cent, with another dramatic deterioration in the participation rate the main reason why the unemployment rate did not jump further.
The participation rate hit a 15-month low, with just 64.5 per cent of people aged 15 and over currently working or actively looking for work.
It means more people fell out of the labour force.
The underutilisation rate, which combines the unemployed with the underemployed, edged up to 13.9 per cent from 13.8 per cent.
But the labour markets of New South Wales and Victoria — with a combined share of close to 60 per cent of Australia's employed population — had a huge influence on the national figures.
In September there were large falls in employment in Victoria (123,000 people) and NSW (25,000 people, following a significant 173,000 decline in August).
They were partly offset by a 31,000 increase in Queensland, where conditions recovered from the short lockdown in early August.
However, the extent of the economic damage from NSW failing to contain its COVID-19 outbreak in June has become even clearer.
Over the last three months, participation in the labour force has fallen by 333,000 people, with employment dropping by 281,000 people.
There are now 111,000 fewer people employed than before the first COVID lockdowns in March 2020.
Labour market will not recover until 2022
Economists warn it will take months for employment to recover.
Sarah Hunter, the chief economist of BIS Oxford Economics, says it's unlikely we'll see a "material improvement" in the data until the November labour force survey.
And the results of that survey won't be released until mid-December.
"[So] the labour data will continue to reflect the impact of lockdowns in the near term," Dr Hunter said.
"And, notwithstanding the capacity for a robust recovery in the economy, it is likely to be well into 2022 before the labour market fully recovers."
However, if vaccination rates continue apace and reopening schedules do not cause a damaging spike in COVID cases, workers will start returning to the labour force in coming months, economists say.
EY chief economist Jo Masters says we could even move towards a situation in which labour market shortages become a bigger problem than job losses.
"The worst of the labour market pain is behind us," Ms Masters said.
"We expect the economic narrative to shift from being under-worked to under-resourced – indeed, Westpac’s unemployment expectation has fallen to a 6 month low nationally and a 16 year low in New South Wales, reinforcing the anecdotes of a tight labour market."
Women carry burden of job losses
When labour markets do recover, much of the recovery will have to occur in female employment, because women have borne the brunt of the job losses.
Between June and September — the period covering the recent lockdowns — roughly 281,200 jobs disappeared, and 60 per cent belonged to women.
The bulk of the job losses occurred in part-time jobs which are mostly held by women.
Full-time jobs shrank by 46,400, but part-time jobs plummeted by 234,800 (with 168,800 of those jobs held by women).
Alison Pennington, senior economist with the Centre for Future Work, says women have been withdrawing from the labour force in larger numbers to care for children during lockdowns.
"As the health restrictions have been introduced schools have closed, childcare centres [have] closed, [and] there's been an explosion in the unpaid caring work burden, which is disproportionately falling on women's shoulders," she said.
The underutilisation rate is currently much higher for women (15 per cent) than for men (12.9 per cent).
For her part, Ms Lunedei's looking forward to the time when the salon can take on more staff again.
She said once everyone had had their post-lockdown haircut and the Christmas rush was over, it would be something they'd look to do.
"But to be honest we're not inundated with applications at the moment," she said.
"Hairdressers are very hard to find.
"We're finding that fewer people are willing to be hairdressers, and more hairdressers are dropping off into industries that are maybe more sustainable, or that remain open during lockdowns."
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The Joy of Being a Vegetarian
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Joy from restricting your diet? Joy from eating rabbit food?
Being a vegetarian has been disparaged by many people for many reasons.
They are taking humane treatment of animals too far! Meat is expensive! It's a fad! Only religious fanatics are vegetarians!
As the science of nutrition has advanced during the past fifty years, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a vegetarian diet is superior to a flesh diet in many ways. Vegetarians live longer, are less obese, and are at a lower risk for cancer and other deadly diseases. Dr. Philip Chen, PhD also holds that eating healthy foods causes joy from knowing you are doing something good. Because you become more healthy, your life can be more joyous.
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard London | British manufacturing leaders fear an industrial collapse over the winter as spiralling gas and electricity prices overwhelm the country’s energy defences.
Wafer-thin gas reserves have left the British economy almost uniquely vulnerable to an extreme global supply squeeze, and dangerously reliant on cross-Channel interconnectors that may be curtailed if Europe itself faces power blackouts and serious industrial stoppages.
Andrew Large, outgoing chairman of the Energy Intensive Users Group, said: “It is potentially catastrophic. We’re already seeing plant closures at a time of year when the weather is still warm and domestic heating is low. Fast-forward two months and this could be an acute crisis.
“CF Fertilizers have already stopped output and they account for 40 per cent to 60 per cent of the UK supply, which could have disastrous effects on the supply chain.
“The steel, cement, ceramics, glass, industrial chemicals, and the paper sector are all at risk. Individual companies are facing the very serious question of whether they can continue to operate.”
Gas futures contracts on the ICE exchange have risen fourfold over the past year to 165 pence per therm, while intraday electricity prices have become unhinged. Last week, the National Grid was having to pay £4000 ($7575) per megawatt hour to secure back-up electricity at short notice.
The cost squeeze threatens the economic recovery just as the furlough scheme winds down and fiscal stimulus fades.
In a worst-case scenario it could lead to systemic havoc akin to the industrial paralysis of the 1970s – something that no government or prime minister can survive.
Britain has slashed its strategic gas storage to barely 1.7 per cent of annual demand by closing the Rough facility off the Yorkshire coast, subcontracting the costly task of storage to Germany and the Netherlands. Clive Moffatt, a gas consultant and former adviser to the government on energy security, said: “It should be nearer 25 per cent.”
Data from Gas Infrastructure Europe shows that Britain has less than nine terawatt hours of storage, compared with 75 terawatt hours in the Netherlands (with a quarter of the population).
Dutch storage is nevertheless unusually low for this time of the year at 52 per cent of capacity, compared with 85 to 90 per cent normally. The stocks are 113 terawatt hours in France, 148 in Germany and 166 in Italy.
Mr Moffatt said he warned that closing Rough was a dangerous decision in key meetings with British officials, but the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy dug in its heels. “They refused to listen and kept saying that we had diversity of supply: they misunderstood the responsiveness of liquefied natural gas to short-term shocks,” he said.
“We are now extremely vulnerable, and I’m afraid the situation is going to get worse. Prices could go through the roof.“
“You can’t rely on the interconnectors. Contracts can be rescinded and suppliers can declare force majeure: end of story. The EU made this very clear during the negotiations over Brexit,” Mr Moffatt added.
“We could easily see a three-day working week. The government has been playing dangerous games with the grid and has allowed a situation to develop that is outside their control. It’s terribly depressing.“
Gareth Stace, director-general of UK Steel, said power prices had already reached “extortionate” levels and was forcing a partial suspension of operations across the sector. “Even with the global steel market as buoyant as it is, these eye-watering prices are making it impossible to profitably make steel at certain times of the day and night. The situation gets more urgent each and every day,” he said.
Europe is facing its own problems. The Norwegian fertiliser group Yara is curtailing output of ammonia, which relies on gas as a feedstock. Richard Ewing from the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services said the dominoes were likely to fall across the Continent as far as Ukraine, with producers switching to the US wherever possible.
Abundant shale gas in Texas, Pennsylvania, and the Dakotas means that locally consumed US gas costs a quarter of European levels.
A surge in European carbon prices to €60 a tonne – shadowed in Britain with an extra £18 premium – has compounded the shock and accounts for a fifth of the rise in electricity costs.
This is now leading to open political revolt in Spain, Poland and other EU states. The European Steel Association said last week that the bloc risked being priced out of the competitive global market.
Mr Large said it was becoming a question of manufacturing survival in Britain. “The UK has the most expensive industrial energy in Europe. We are running the very serious risk of meeting our carbon targets by deindustrialising the British economy,” he said.
Everything has gone wrong at once for Britain’s energy system. A wet cold spring depleted European gas inventories. The pandemic disrupted global gas output.
Shipping is in convulsion. Exploding Asian demand for LNG has forced Europe to compete for scarce supplies, causing a tripling of spot prices in Europe in the past five months to a record $US22 MMBtu.
Vladimir Putin has taken advantage of the crunch to try to pressure the EU to certify the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline on his political terms, restricting the normal summer top-flows through Poland and the Ukraine needed to rebuild Europe’s stocks. Gazprom is working to rule with minimum contractual volumes.
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Worried about
Ljubljana Airport cancellations and delays? If your flight was canceled, delayed, or overbooked, you could be entitled to up $700 (€600) per person in compensation from the airline. Check your flight’s eligibility and learn how much you’re entitled to within minutes. Try AirHelp’s Compensation Checker.
If you experience lengthy
Ljubljana Airport delays or cancellations, your flight could be eligible for compensation. This is because Ljubljana Airport (LJU) is located within the EU, which means flights that depart from here are protected by EU Regulation No. 261/2004 — or EC 261 for short. All EU countries are covered by EC 261, including departures from special territories such as the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Martinique.
So what is EC 261 exactly? Well, it’s a law that holds airlines financially accountable when there is an unexpected flight disruption like a delay or cancellation — provided that it was not caused by circumstances outside of the airline’s control. This means that whenever a flight is heavily disrupted and the airline is found to be at fault, the carrier will have to pay their passengers a certain amount of compensation.
The Iaw also requires airlines to provide their passengers with care during the wait, which includes offering food and refreshments, and if necessary, free accommodation, transport, and alternative flights.
To learn more about your rights click here.
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When you first hear about Ljubljana Airport canceled flights, you may be wondering if you should be booking your own flight home. Fortunately, as ruled by EC 261, airlines are required to provide you with an
alternative flight to your intended destination. If you’re lucky enough to get upgraded, you do not have to pay anything extra for your seat, however, if they do downgrade you, expect to get back around 30-75% of the original price of your ticket.
If your flight was canceled
less than 14 days before departure, or if your flight was delayed by more than 3 hours, you may be entitled to compensation. The exact amount that you will receive varies, but you could potentially get up to $700 per person.
You can usually claim compensation
up 3 years after the flight disruption occurs, though some EU countries have shorter or longer limitation periods. Ideally, you will want to make your claim as soon as possible.
Though canceled and delayed flights from Ljubljana Airport can happen, not all flights qualify for compensation. For example, if an airline cancels your flight and lets you know over 14 days before your departure. Likewise, delays under 3 hours don't get compensated.
Cancellations and flight delays at
extraordinary circumstances don’t usually qualify for compensation. This is when an airline is not considered responsible for the delay or cancellation — it includes situations like severe weather conditions, natural disasters, and safety threats that could put the passengers and crew at risk. In these cases, there's no choice but to delay or cancel a scheduled flight.
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Table shows values in € as specified in EC 261
The distance of your flight route can affect how much compensation you receive. The table above breaks it down for you, though in some cases exceptions may apply.
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Dust Mite Allergy
Managing your allergies can be costly — especially when your daily antihistamine isn’t cutting out all of your symptoms. With so many products that claim to reduce allergy symptoms, it can be difficult to know which are worth the investment. In this blog, read about three of the top allergy products that we find to…Read More
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There are so many memories from my childhood about ear infections, sinus infections, migraines, hives, stomach aches, and the list goes on. I had friends and cousins with severe allergies who had “traditional” allergy symptoms – itchy eyes, stuffy nose, rashes, etc. But me? No way could my health problems have been allergies. Or so…Read More
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When you have a pest trouble, you require to find a good
exterminator in Millbury, MA. But where do you start?
Locating the best exterminator for your home can be hard. You want a person who is experienced and knowledgeable concerning pests in North Carolina yet also affordable and credible.
Our pest control experts are the service because we provide a platform that links customers with reputable professionals in their area.
Customers can schedule a visit online or over the phone for any type of pest control problem, including spider removal, termite control, bed bug treatment, and much more! We also provide a satisfaction guarantee on every job carried out by our licensed technicians.
Typical Pests We Help You Exterminate
We also look after ants, ticks, spiders, coyotes and also various other wild animals, fleas & ticks (consisting of cat fleas), scorpions, flies and also various other flying insects, centipedes, millipedes, earwigs (and also associated pests), mosquitoes, and other biting flies/insects, bees, wasps, yellow jackets … among others!
Millbury Pest Control Services
If you are trying to find the very best pest control service, we have the ideal service. We offer a comprehensive list of services to assist with your pest infestation needs.
Our team can remove any type of bug that makes you trouble at home or work, from termites and ants to mosquitoes and also roaches. Our pest control solutions we provide are:
Emergency Pest Control Bed Bug Treatment Cockroach Removal Ant Control Rodent control Termite Inspection & Control Residential and Commercial Pest Control Spider Control Mosquito control Wildlife Control Tick and Flea Control And Much More! Effective Pest Control Millbury, MA
If you are taking care of pests in your home or business, we can help you get rid of them without needing to worry about scenting chemicals.
Our pest control specialists utilize different pest control methods, from eco-friendly services to much more standard pesticide treatments relying on the degree of infestation and also pesticides’ impact on individuals who live or work in the area.
We are straightforward, and also we offer the best service in the area. Our Millbury pest control specialists have actually been assisting clients for many years; they’re the ones you can rely on with your pest infestation troubles!
We offer cost effective solutions that are customized for your requirements, so call today!
Do you need an emergency pest control? Call Us Today Bed Bug Control in Millbury, MA
When it comes to bed bug control treatment, you would certainly be wise to take the time to find pest control experts who have appropriate accreditation for your business or home.
Be added cautious in your selection due to the fact that bed bugs are coming to be significantly immune to offered insecticides. They are well-adjusted pathogens that do not appear to have any type of natural predators.
Bed bugs are real, and they have always been a trouble when left untreated. Bed bug control may be rather simple, depending upon the details infestation.
Nonetheless, once you have actually identified an intrusion of these blood-sucking pests, you must take prompt action to stay clear of any unnecessary illness.
Millbury Cockroach Control Service
Do you have a cockroach issue in the house? If so, it’s time to do something concerning it. There are many common misunderstandings concerning what type of pest inspection is needed for roaches.
Our Millbury pest control expert’s advice will help you recognize why our professionals in Millbury are the most effective choice.
Nonetheless, this isn’t constantly required due to the fact that there could be several reasons your home has an infestation that would certainly call for different treatment methods.
As an example, if your food attracts cockroaches, you could require our top quality pest control service like ours to remove them without hurting your household or animals.
As a homeowner, you could assume that practically any exterminator can get rid of cockroaches. This is not always the case since we just utilize professionals who properly eliminate these pests.
Termite Control Millbury Massachusetts
Termites are a genuine risk to homeowners, and also it is very important to take preventative actions. They can cause significant architectural damage that costs hundreds of dollars in repairs and replacements.
Here’s exactly how you can safeguard your home from these pests:
Inspect for termite activity every six months by searching for mud tubes or frass (termite poop) around the structure. Exclude them by loading any type of fractures or holes with steel woollen with caulking and also seal gaps under windows and doors. Repair damaged posts, sills, piers, columns, or various other wood structures on your property since they bring in termites due to their high cellulose content. It would help if you taken into consideration utilizing our Millbury extermination services to get rid of these termite infestations. Millbury Flea Control
Fleas are a typical house pest. They prey on your pet, and they can make you or your child really ill at the same time.
One of the most reliable means to control these pests is by utilizing a professional flea control service in Millbury, Massachusetts.
Our Millbury pest control technicians will certainly provide a preliminary inspection of your property, determine any areas that need special focus, and afterwards apply our exclusive blend of natural insecticides to kill all fleas residing at your home or business location.
Commercial Pest Control Services for Businesses
Pests are an usual problem in numerous commercial spaces. These pests can be destructive, yet they likewise can spread illness and also cause allergic reactions for those that enter contact with them.
Millbury commercial pest control services provide a vital service by ensuring that your room is clean of pests to make sure that you can focus on running your business.
Our Friendly Pest Exterminator in Millbury
Your home or business is the most important point in your life. We recognize that you don’t intend to take any chances with pests invading your space!
Our friendly and also professional exterminators team in Millbury, MA, is ready and waiting to help maintain pests at bay.
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When you have a pest problem in your house, it can be difficult to understand who to call. We all hate bugs and desire them gone, but hiring the wrong exterminator might make things even worse.
It would certainly help if you had somebody that is both professional and trustworthy. We are
local Scottsbluff, NE exterminators with years of experience dealing with pests of all kinds.
Our team has been trained by the best in the industry, so we’re always updated on brand-new methods for every single kind of insect infestation that comes our method.
Most importantly, we make use of environment-friendly products whenever possible because they’re healthier for everybody included!
Typical Pests We Help You Exterminate
We additionally care for ants, ticks, spiders, coyotes and also various other wild animals, fleas & ticks (including cat fleas), scorpions, flies and other flying insects, vermins, millipedes, earwigs (and also linked pests), mosquitoes, and also various other biting flies/insects, bees, wasps, yellow jackets … to name a few!
Scottsbluff Pest Control Services
If you are looking for the very best pest control service, we have the ideal service. We provide an extensive list of services to assist with your pest infestation requirements.
Our team can get rid of any type of bug that makes you trouble at home or work, from termites and also ants to mosquitoes and roaches. Our pest control solutions we offer are:
Emergency Pest Control Bed Bug Treatment Cockroach Removal Ant Control Rodent control Termite Inspection & Control Residential and Commercial Pest Control Spider Control Mosquito control Wildlife Control Tick and Flea Control And Much More! Effective Pest Control Scottsbluff, NE
If you are managing pests in your home or business, we can help you get rid of them without having to worry about scenting chemicals.
Our pest control specialists make use of numerous pest control techniques, from environment-friendly solutions to extra traditional pesticide treatments depending upon the level of infestation and also insecticides’ impact on individuals that live or operate in the area.
We are straightforward, and also we provide the most effective service in the area. Our Scottsbluff exterminators have been helping clients for years; they’re the ones you can trust with your pest infestation problems!
We provide cost effective solutions that are customized for your demands, so call today!
Do you need an emergency pest control? Call Us Today Bed Bug Control in Scottsbluff, NE
When it comes to bed bug control treatment, you would certainly be important to put in the time to find pest control experts that have ideal accreditation for your business or home.
Be extra careful in your choice due to the fact that bed bugs are becoming increasingly resistant to offered insecticides. They are well-adjusted pathogens that do not show up to have any natural killers.
Bed bugs are genuine, and also they have actually always been an issue when left unchecked. Bed bug control might be fairly basic, relying on the certain infestation.
Nevertheless, when you’ve identified an invasion of these blood-sucking pests, you need to take immediate activity to stay clear of any unnecessary health issue.
Scottsbluff Cockroach Control Service
Do you have a cockroach trouble in your home? If so, it’s time to do something regarding it. There are many common misconceptions regarding what type of pest inspection is required for roaches.
Our Scottsbluff pest control expert’s advice will certainly help you understand why our professionals in Scottsbluff are the best choice.
However, this isn’t always necessary since there could be numerous reasons your home has an infestation that would call for various treatment techniques.
For example, if your food attracts cockroaches, you might require our quality pest control service like ours to eliminate them without damaging your household or animals.
As a homeowner, you might believe that nearly any exterminator can get rid of cockroaches. This is not necessarily the instance due to the fact that we only use professionals who effectively get rid of these pests.
Termite Control Scottsbluff Nebraska
Termites are a real danger to homeowners, and also it is very important to take preventative actions. They can cause significant architectural damage that costs thousands of bucks in repairs and also replacements.
Here’s exactly how you can safeguard your home from these pests:
Inspect for termite activity every six months by trying to find mud tubes or frass (termite poop) around the structure. Omit them by filling up any splits or gaps with steel woollen with caulking and also seal gaps under doors and windows. Repair harmed posts, sills, piers, columns, or various other wooden structures on your property due to the fact that they draw in termites as a result of their high cellulose content. It would certainly help if you considered using our Scottsbluff extermination services to get rid of these termite infestations. Scottsbluff Flea Control
Fleas are a typical family pest. They feed upon your pet, and also they can make you or your child really sick at the same time.
One of the most reliable means to control these pests is by using a professional flea control service in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Our Scottsbluff pest control technicians will provide a first inspection of your property, recognize any areas that need unique focus, and then use our proprietary blend of natural pesticides to eliminate all fleas living at your home or business location.
Commercial Pest Control Services for Businesses
Pests are a typical issue in numerous commercial areas. These pests can be harmful, however they likewise can spread out illness and also cause allergic reactions for those that come into contact with them.
Scottsbluff commercial pest control services offer a vital service by ensuring that your space is clean of pests to make sure that you can focus on running your business.
Our Friendly Pest Exterminator in Scottsbluff
Your home or business is the most essential point in your life. We recognize that you don’t intend to take any chances with pests invading your space!
Our friendly and professional exterminators team in Scottsbluff, NE, prepares and also waiting to help keep pests away.
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With the continuous improvement of my country's opening to the outside world, there is more and more cross-cultural and cross-language business cooperation. At present, the requirements for the translation of business contracts in the market are getting higher and higher, so it is necessary to ensure that both parties to the contract fully understand the content of the contract. Commercial contracts are legal documents. Pay attention to the use of adverbs in document translation to make them organized, logical, and concise.
Business translation includes all translation activities in business occasions such as technology introduction, foreign trade, investment attraction, foreign labor contracts, contracts, international contracts, international finance, foreign insurance, international tourism, overseas investment, and international transportation. According to the function of business communication activities, business texts can be divided into business letters, memos, meeting minutes, advertisements, reports, notices, documents, contracts or contracts, various related documents and forms.
For example, business contracts, the provisions of rights and obligations in business contracts are directly related to the economic interests of the parties. The main body and content of business contracts often include regions outside of China. Therefore, business contracts can choose to apply to other countries' laws and regulations and arbitration clauses. In addition, the form of commercial contract, rigorous vocabulary and clear handwriting are not conducive to translation. Generally speaking, the translation of business contracts should follow the principles of accuracy, strictness, standardization and fluency.
Artlangs Translation Company is a well-known supplier of translation and simultaneous interpretation in China. It was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, with branch offices in Beijing, Wuhan, Changsha, Foshan, Pakistan, etc. Since its establishment, Artlangs Translation Company has been committed to providing competitive translation services for domestic and foreign enterprises, institutions and consumers, enhancing customer image and creating greater value for customers. In the past 20 years, our services have spread to more than 30 regions and have helped domestic and foreign customers and partners succeed.
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Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) drill bits are made with synthetic diamond cutters in either steel or matrix body material. PDC drill bits revolutionized the drilling industry with a wide application range and high rate of penetration (ROP) potential. Whether it is the
Dynamus™ extended-life drill bit or Talon™ Strike PDC drill bit, our selection of PDC drill bits achieve maximum performance to lower your drilling cost.
The wide application range for PDC bits requires unique PDC cutter technology to get the most drilling performance in each application. The Optimus cutter portfolio will maximize performance in any drilling challenge.
The
StabilisX™ reinforced cutter technology provides maximum durability for interbedded formations that can cause heavy impact damage.
The unique geometry of the
Optimus™ Shockwave shaped cutter balances efficiency and durability and works well in interbedded formations that cause thermal damage and chipping.
The reduced friction afforded by the
StayCool™ 2.0 multidimensional cutter technology delivers high cutting efficiency and wear resistance in hard, abrasive formations that cause thermal damage and chipping
The
Optimus™ Apex shaped cutter technology provides a traditional point loading approach by distributing more weight to a smaller portion of the rock. This allows the cutter to penetrate ductile formations and generate maximum rate of penetration.
The
Optimus™ Prism shaped cutter technology incorporates the StayCool feature to deliver peak penetration rate in ductile formations as well as hard and abrasive formations without sacrificing durability.
Our shaped cutter technology has been rigorously designed and tested using a structured development process to provide the most efficient cutter geometry for specific applications. These geometries have been vetted with industry-leading lab testing facilities and digital drilling and integrity simulations.
To deliver optimal performance, the placement of the shaped cutters in the right locations within the cutting structure to suit a specific application is just as important as the cutter design and technology. Our Tetrahedron 3D bit drilling simulation software evaluates cutter and bit body interactions with the rock. Complex formation types are modeled, and field-based parameters are used to create a digital twin of the target application. The proprietary cutter force models have been calibrated by lab tests from the high-pressure simulator drilling lab. The customized cutter placement optimization process includes the Tetrahedron performance analysis that determines the ROP response and bit aggressiveness for the given cutter layout, rock properties, and drilling mode. The simulation is set up to accurately reflect the application description and is calibrated to reflect the bit damage identified by the dull study for the application. Using this powerful software, our service delivery teams determine the selection of the best drill bit frame for the application and establish the ideal placement of Optimus cutters to maximize ROP and footage.
Our culture of continuous improvement drives performance while lowering your drilling cost.
Contact your Baker Hughes representative for more information about our PDC drill bits.
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Getty Images has released new research on Australians’ perception of the financial services industry.
Released alongside a global white paper, the Financial Services Visual Trends Report, identifying trends in the visual representation of the financial services industry, the findings show that financial services brands in Australia are most effectively visually aligning with the values and interests of Generation Z.
The white paper, produced by Getty Images’ Creative Insights Team, reviewed some of the world’s biggest financial services brands’ visuals strategies, as well as Getty Images’ top selling images and search data.
It found that financial services brands are increasingly choosing a ‘human touch’ in visual communications, incorporating diversity, inclusion and realness in their visual representation.
The white paper identified trends that centred around realness, representation and relatability, indicating that financial services brands are attempting to connect with consumers on personal, human issues that resonate across a broad audience.
Searches for terms like ‘belonging’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘disability’ have risen across the industry in recent years, suggesting a desire to connect with consumers on values and on an emotional level.
The local research, conducted by YouGov, reveals that this approach is particularly attractive to Generation Z, who are more socially driven than other generations.
Forty per cent of Gen Z consumers said they trust financial services brands that represent an understanding of Australian society as a whole and almost forty per cent (38 per cent) said that they would trust a provider that represented their values as an individual.
Getty Images senior manager of creative insights, Kate Rourke said: “Today, Gen Z are mostly teens and young adults.
“But by 2020, as they enter the workforce – their habits, preferences and understanding of the internet of things will change the future of banking.”
She added: “Just think about the huge social shifts in the last couple of decades – Gen Z has experienced the most rapid, dramatic shifts of societal standards.
“They are both more accepting of diversity than any other generation and less tolerant of negative social behaviours and banks need to reflect this visually or miss out on this important spending power.”
Over forty per cent of this consumer group (43 per cent) identifies with Commonwealth Bank as the financial services brand they trust the most.
Commonwealth Bank’s focus on diverse representation incorporates the areas that this generation consider most important, including different races and ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds and differently abled individuals, in its visual communications.
Rourke continued: “Younger customers are digital-banking and mobile-banking natives who are increasingly shifting to financial-technologies like PayPal, Amazon and Apple.
“In order to compete, financial services brands need to craft an approach that connects with this ‘powerhouse’ consumer group, especially as they’re considered to become a larger cohort than both Baby Boomers and Millennials.”
Despite a tumultuous few years for the industry, over half of Australians (52.9 per cent) consider financial services providers to be trustworthy.
In order to continue to develop this trust, financial services providers need to ensure that their campaigns align with what consumers want to see, both representing and resonating with Australians.
Hayley Fisher [pictured] is the AUNZ Country Manager at Adyen. In this op-ed, she discusses the upcoming holidays sales season and explains marketers can help drive sales. Over the 18-months the pace of ecommerce has accelerated to new heights. According to latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), a record $44.2 billion was […]
TPG Telecom has announced it will hold a creative pitch to further develop the Vodafone brand here in Australia. Last year’s merger between Vodafone and TPG brought together a family of brands under the TPG Telecom group, with the creative shift to position Vodafone for the future. While Vodafone’s long-standing relationship with WPP will continue, […]
Following 18 months of intermittent lockdowns across Australia, shopping centre giant Westfield is launching a new service that will tap into the ecommerce boom. The new service, named Westfield Direct, will take on the likes of Australia Post by providing shipping directly to customers. Shoppers will also be able to select items from an online […]
SBS has been recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand’s Most Innovative Companies, in the prestigious annual list published by the Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine, from over 700 nominated organisations. Ranked third on the Media and Marketing list, SBS was the only media company to make the list, recognised for its growing and evolving multilingual digital services, exemplifying SBS’s innovative culture and strategy. SBS provides multiplatform services in more than […]
Twitter has confirmed it is experimenting with a new ad format which will see ads placed within conversation threads for the first time. The company’s Revenue Product Lead Bruce Falck made the announcement on Thursday. “Starting today, we’re trying something different and testing a new ad format in Tweet conversations,” he posted on Twitter. “If […]
In exciting news today, Mushroom Group is thrilled to announce much lauded Aussie music program The Sound will return to the ABC this November! Celebrating some of our best musical talents since its launch in 2020, The Sound Season 3 will debut on Sunday 7 November at 5.30pm (local time). Viewers can watch The Sound on ABC TV each Sunday afternoon or catch up with the latest episodes via ABC iview. Across Season […]
Strategic design and innovation company AKQA has received the top industry ranking in the 2021 AFR Boss Most Innovative Companies List. This is the third consecutive year the company has been acknowledged by the AFR for its commitment to innovation in the media and marketing category. The Most Innovative Companies Awards were presented via a […]
National news brand, The Australian, has launched a new podcast from Hedley Thomas, Shandee’s Story. Shandee’s Story is the culmination of six months’ work by Thomas, the award-winning investigative journalist behind The Teacher’s Pet and The Night Driver podcasts. The podcast investigates a harrowing cold case. Shandee Blackburn was left to die after a frenzied knife attack as she walked […]
Greater Bank has won a Silver Award at the 2021 Step Two Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards with its Intranet Built on the Elcom Digital Employee Experience Platform. The global awards recognise outstanding contributions to the fields of intranets and digital workplaces, honouring remarkable solutions that deliver business value to their organisations and then share […]
Two new research reports have revealed key drivers for ‘commerce content’ and the massive revenue opportunity it presents for digital publishers and brands. Published by independent media organisations, commerce content allows readers to understand the goods and services promoted by an editorial team. It’s now a major part of the partnership ecosystem, and a way […]
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Psalm 119:2; Mt 6:33; Ps 63:1; 1 Ch 16:8-11; Various
Hide and Seek
Psalm 119:2; Mt 6:33; Ps 63:1; 1 Ch 16:8-11; Various
Good evening and welcome to BCCC and our nightly devotional study.
When I was a kids I loved to play hide and seek with the other kids in the neighborhood. We actually played where you could hide anywhere in a one block radius. There were a couple of rules. One, you could not enter any building or home. 2. When you were found you had to help whoever was it find the rest of the kids. It was a lot of fun and even our adult neighbors got into the spirit.
I remember a particular time when I hid in plain sight. I went up on Mrs. Steeds porch while she was outside shelling beans. She put her sweater and hat on me and gave me a bowl to help shell beans. We set there and shelled beans while my friends looked all over. One even came up on the porch to ask if we had seen Loren. We both said “no” and away they went. It was the first and only time I did not get found. Some of the kids were a bit worried cause I was usually one of the first kids to be found.
Hiding can be fun but seeking can even be a greater joy. One of the kids in our neighborhood always wanted to be “it.” Most of us didn’t mind because we didn’t want to be “it”. But one day someone asked him why he always wanted to be it and he said, “it’s more fun to find people than to hide.” And from that moment on everyone wanted to be it. We found that there is a joy in seeking something and finding it.
In the Bible there is a verse that says, “Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.” The verse is found in the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119:2. This verse is a collection of verse all out God’s laws, statutes, commands, ordinances, etc. It implies that there is joy in looking through God’s word and finding him in the obedience of following his word. There is joy, blessings, and deep happiness in seeking and finding God.
Jesus tells us to stop seeking after worldly needs and desires and to seek after God’s kingdom and his right way of thinking and living. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Mt 6:33). When we seek God and his kingdom first all the other pieces fall into place. And that is when we realize the true joy of seeking God before everything else we think we need or want.
David recognized the value of seeking God first. David wrote a beautiful psalm to the Lord when he was in the dessert of Judah. There he experienced the constant desire for water and he compared that to seeking God. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water” (Ps 63:1). David was a man who sought after God’s own heart. He compared his search to an unquenchable thirst… nothing will do but the real thing… the Lord Almighty.
In 1 Chronicles 16, David appoints Asaph to write and sing psalms of praise to God and then gives him an example:
Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.
Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. (1 Ch 16:8-11)
David knew the joy of seeking the Lord and wanted to inspire others to seek Him too.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Dear God, We praise you for sending Jesus to seek and save the Lost. We thank you for finding us and redeeming us in your Son Jesus. We ask that you will give us a thirst to always seek you. Help us to find joy and blessing in looking into your word and seeking you in our lives. In Jesus name we pray, Amen!
Have you picked out some verses for our month long challenge? We want to encourage everyone to learn 4 new verses by the end of June. I hope you will join us for this challenge. Psalm 119:2 is another great verse to memorize. Let us know how you are doing. I hope you will join us tomorrow night at 6pm for our Bible devotional. Good night and God bless you.
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Corporate accountability on human rights & the environment threatened by trade deals, new analysis finds
Recent momentum in developing corporate accountability laws across the EU is at risk of being undermined by controversial clauses in trade deals, according to new analysis. In a report published today (28 September 2021), the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre exposed how investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in trade and investment agreements threaten efforts to prevent and hold corporations liable for their social and environmental impact.
ISDS clauses demonstrate the extent to which corporate interests are protected, at the expense of protecting human rights, within trade and investment deals. They provide companies with an avenue through which to sue states if national policies threaten their investment – even if those policies exist to protect human rights and the environment. Corporations have already used the ISDS system to sue states at least 1,100 times in response to laws seeking to raise minimum wages, guarantee affordable water and phase out the use of fossil fuels.
Key takeaways from the report:
EU laws under development seeking to hold companies accountable for their rights abuses could be derailed by claims brought under ISDS clauses. A just recovery from the pandemic could be underminedby international trade and investment agreements, which have played a key role in establishing and entrenching corporate power. ISDS clauses further exacerbate the inequality in developmentbetween the Global North and the Global South.
More than 60% of ISDS cases have been decided in favour of the investor, with an average award of US$125 million. Such cases are conducted through a secretive parallel legal system, separate from national courts and laws, effectively allowing corporations to operate outside the domestic legal system. This has already had a chilling effect on states which have dropped plans for new legislation to benefit social and environmental rights, due to the fear of being undermined by the ISDS system. At the same time, companies have brought persistent challenges to States attempting to enforce existing laws protecting human rights, in an affront to democratic processes.
This presents a real and powerful threat to the incoming EU human rights due diligence legislation, which is designed to hold corporations accountable for their human rights and environmental impact. If such legislation passed- mandating companies to conduct human rights due diligence or change practices that abuse rights- unscrupulous companies could sue the EU for huge sums in compensation, arguing that new legislation damages future profits and violates their right to a stable business environment.
Tom Wills, Project Manager – Corporate Accountability and Trade, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, said: “Governments must be able to implement policies in the public interest. Corporations cannot be allowed to challenge regulations with huge lawsuits, especially where human rights or climate change is at stake. Trade deals must be drawn up in line with countries’ human rights obligations. Failure to do so will make it nearly impossible to achieve a balance between corporate power and human rights, particularly in the Global South.
“When they were created, ISDS clauses in trade deals were justified as leading to greater levels of foreign direct investment. Decades on, there’s no conclusive proof they even do that. In the absence of such evidence, there is no reason for states to support ISDS – a system in which they can only lose. States must recognise the damage which can come from domestic regulations being undermined by trade policy. They must begin looking at their trade and investment agreements and, where possible, terminate or renegotiate any ISDS clauses.”
Thulsi Narayanasamy, Head of Labour Rights, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, said: “While civil society is urging states to introduce new laws to stop forced labour, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, ISDS in trade agreements represents a very real threat to the ability of states to do what they are obligated to – protect rights. When countries like Slovenia try to compel companies to follow basic laws to ensure they don’t destroy the environment and that’s enough to get them slapped with an ISDS case, it’s clear we are reckoning with an extraordinary imbalance of power between big business and people and planet. A system that pits protecting rights against protecting profits simply isn’t compatible with creating the just recovery desperately needed.
“The EU is due to table legislation later this year which mandates companies to conduct human rights due diligence, but there have already been concerns about corporate lobbying efforts to water down the efficacy of the laws so that company liability for abuses is minimal. Bringing in new laws while maintaining ISDS not only demonstrates a failure of policy coherence by the EU, but presents a clear and present risk to EU States’ ability to freely legislate.”
//ENDS
Note to editors: Case study:In 2020 the UK energy company Ascent Resources brought an ISDS case against Slovenia for requiring it conduct an environmental impact assessment of a proposed fracking project. Community campaigners petitioned the government, concerned about the proximity of the project to the local water source. Ascent calls the requirement “arbitrary and unreasonable” and is suing for €120 million in compensation. The case is ongoing. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centreis an international NGO that tracks the human rights impacts (positive and negative) of more than 10,000 companies across nearly 200 countries. We seek responses from companies when concerns are raised by civil society. Legislative initiativesdesigned to hold corporations accountable for their human rights and environmental impacts are gathering pace in Europe and beyond. An up-to-date picture can be accessed here. There are ISDS provisionsin at least 2,800 trade and investment deals around the world, and these have been used to bring cases 1,104 times. Joint statement of businesses and investorscalling for EU-wide mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation. Media contact: Priyanka Mogul (London-based), Media Officer, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, +44 (0) 7880 956239, [email protected]
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