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ICU Management & Practice, Volume 21 - Issue 4, 2021
Diversity is the condition of having many different elements. These may include people with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious beliefs, political beliefs, sexual orientations, heritage, and life experience. The definition of diversity is broad and it is really difficult to outline in practical term what is diverse in a specific context. As a matter of fact, diversity might change based on the context and location. Diversity is very important in the clinical setting to support both patients and healthcare professionals. Diversity facilitates better communication (Laveist and Nura 2002), improves patient satisfaction with care (Walker et al. 2012), provides good practice in underserved areas, and care for minority, poor, and uninsured patients.
In academic settings, work produced by diverse research teams may be of higher quality and more impactful than that by less diverse teams (Valentine and Collins 2015; Cooper et al. 2003). Doctors and nurses from different origins and beliefs have diverse perspectives, better understanding of minorities, increased creativity and productivity which all together improves the clinical decision-making process (Walker et al. 2012; Valentine and Collins 2015; Cooper et al. 2003).
Despite longstanding efforts, diversifying the biomedical research workforce remains an elusive goal, and large sectors of the population remain underrepresented. Certain racial/ethnic groups are represented only minimally in biomedical research: of the nation's scientific research faculty positions, 4% are African American, 4% are Hispanic, 0.2% are Native American, and 0.1% are Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15311/tables/pdf/tab9-30.pdf). There has been little increase in representation of these groups over the last decades, despite them collectively being the most rapidly growing portion of the population, predicted collectively to comprise the majority of the population of the U.S. by 2050.
A number of factors have been shown to contribute to the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in general and in biomedical research. In particular among them are limited infrastructure and research experiences (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine 2011; McGee and Krulwich 2012).
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted this aspect, leading to even less diversity in the workplace (Wernly et al. 2020; Klein et al. 2020; Lokken et al. 2020; CoBaTriCE Collaboration 2009; CoBaTriCE Collaboration 2011; Lane-Fall et al. 2017; Rubulotta et al. 2020). ICU staff, with additional caring responsibilities, such as educating children and caring for the elderly or for sick or vulnerable relatives, suffered the most during these years. Since many women are already disadvantaged when it comes to career development and funding opportunities, COVID-19 challenges pose the question: will women and other disadvantaged groups be disproportionately, affected by the pandemic?
The United Kingdom (U.K.) ethnic minority people make up only 14% of the U.K.'s population, but they account for 35% of all coronavirus patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The U.K. government has commenced an inquiry to assess the triggers behind this disproportionate impact of coronavirus on minorities. Similarly, Black Lives Matter (BLM) has raised several concerns regarding the care and outcomes of COVID-19 patients in the U.S. (Wernly et al. 2020; Klein et al. 2020). The most obvious reason for a potential difference in the mortality rate is the gender and ethnicity related risk (Klein et al. 2020; Lokken et al. 2020).
Why Should We Preserve Diversity?
Patient-centred communication is key for rating the quality of care according to a recent survey including 252 adults (142 African-American patients and 110 white patients) receiving care from 31 physicians (Cooper et al. 2003). African-American patients who visit physicians of the same race rate their medical visits as more satisfying and participatory compared to those who see physicians of other races. Increasing ethnic diversity among physicians may be the most direct strategy to improve health care experiences for patients of ethnic minority groups (Cooper et al. 2003).
The National Health System (NHS) in the U.K. has published a report in 2018 suggesting that diversity is the new prescription for the NHS (Fanshawe 2018). This volume "is designed to open up a new approach to diversity that makes it central to an NHS trust because it delivers a dividend to patients and staff – in terms of health, and clinical and personal success - in line with the NHS Constitution: the NHS "is there to improve our health and wellbeing, supporting us to keep mentally and physically well, to get better when we are ill and, when we cannot fully recover, to stay as well as we can to the end of our lives"(Fanshawe 2018).
Diversity in the ICU gives a different perspective, better understanding, increased creativity, productivity and this translates into better patient care. Administrators, critical care societies and individuals should work toward promoting and facilitating diversity. This is even more needed following the COVID-19 challenges. According to nursing literature, being exposed to cultural diversity including living in multicultural countries, speaking a second language and visiting other countries may influence the development of key competencies and soft skills. Therefore, programmes which facilitate multicultural clinical practice are strongly recommended. Soft skills generated by working in a multicultural environment are required also for doctors. Traditional medical education has been criticised for its failure to ensure that all graduates are adequately prepared for independent work at the bedside (CoBaTriCE Collaboration 2009). Learning and assessing soft skills is challenging. However major effort has been made to address human factor variables, enhance communication/collaboration in clinical practice through improvements in leadership, management, situational awareness and decision-making. Communication, professionalism, as well as negotiation and team working are all needed skills (CoBaTriCE Collaboration 2009; CoBaTriCE Collaboration 2011). Finally, reflective learning and patient or family-oriented feedback are becoming crucial in medical education and these are particularly important in a stressful environment such as the ICU.
Since 2020, ICU physicians are increasingly faced with providing care to a multicultural society complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ensuring safe and quality healthcare for all patients requires physicians to understand how each patient's sociocultural background affects his or her health beliefs and behaviour. In the light of the pandemic, physicians and healthcare systems will need to respond to factors that put racial and ethnic minority groups at a greater risk of getting sick and dying. The conditions where people work and live affect underlying health conditions and also make it more difficult to access needed medical care and tests. This can be complicated by literacy and language barriers along with socioeconomic barriers, such as lack of insurance, lack of access to transportation, and even immigration status. Dr Denis Nash, an epidemiologist and the executive director of the City University of New York Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) said "we live in a country where your wealth and your socioeconomic status is a big determinant for how healthy you are, how long you will live and whether you live with a higher burden of disease while you're alive".
The BMA recommended junior doctors to campaign for better work-life balance (Rubulotta et al. 2020). This was before the pandemic and it has created concerns for starting residency in jobs requiring long shifts such as intensive care medicine. In particular, published data comparing annual trends in the representation of women and racial/ethnic groups across critical care fellowship types between 2004 and 2014 show underrepresentation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in critical care programmes (Lane-Fall et al. 2017). There are concerns about reduced income for universities and decreased number of women interested in critical care medicine as a discipline.
Experience shows that when resources are limited, powerful groups are likely to strengthen their position, which could increase bias. There is a high risk that research and development in the private sector will be severely constrained. Data from several countries have shown that women are underrepresented in the field of intensive care medicine (Rubulotta et al. 2020). The reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in critical care medicine have been studied extensively over recent years (Vincent et al. 2021). In a survey of 283 American anaesthesiologists who were asked to make a collaborative decision, Helzer and colleagues found that when treatment advice was delivered by an inexperienced physician, participants reported relying significantly more on the advice of a man versus a woman. Of interest, although participants' reliance on advice from a woman physician was a function of her experience, reliance on advice from a man physician was not (Helzer et al. 2020).
More importantly, these biases are reinforced through repetitive exposure to stereotypical images seen in social and work groups and in the media, and by the frequent underrepresentation of women speakers at international meetings and in leadership positions. Diversity is crucial to improve these aspects and enhance better team working and problem solving. Parsons Leigh and colleagues described institutional (lack of flexibility and limited job prospects) and interpersonal (bias against women) factors as key drivers of the gender gap in critical care medicine (Leigh et al. 2019). Organisations can promote gender equity and enhance inclusion by developing effective, appropriate and sustainable gender mainstreaming strategies that can be implemented, monitored, compared and updated as required. The diversity report in the U.K. has shown that at the top of British businesses, of the 297 CEOs CFOs and Chairs of the FTSE 100 companies, there are, at the time of writing, more men called John, David and Andrew than women or minorities (Fanshawe 2018). In the House of Commons on 28th October 2015, the Shadow Business Secretary quoted the latest annual survey of 10,000 top business leaders by executive recruiter Green Park: "it shows that the number of visible ethnic minority CEOs is falling, and the number of all-white Boards is increasing, at a time when 14% of our population is from a black or minority ethnic background" (Fanshawe 2018). Institutional changes should be broad and include different fields of science, research, economy and so on.
How Should We Preserve Diversity?
Employers need to change their approach to recruitment and promotion. To achieve greater diversity leaders have to recognise that people make assessments driven by preferences. Awareness does not change behaviour because the only way to change it is to design the processes differently. In the words of the most persuasive researcher on the subject, Professor Iris Bohnet of Harvard University, Co-Chair of the Behavioural Insights Group and Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, "we need to create situations where our biased minds can make unbiased choices. If we want to appoint the best person for the job, we need to design processes where we can eliminate as much noise from our own biases and preferences as possible so we really can appoint the best" (Fanshawe 2018). Iris Bohnet's latest book, What Works – Gender Equality by Design, starts with a famous example. In the 1970s, only 5% of musicians in U.S. orchestras were women and today they are 35%. To achieve this result, they put a curtain between the auditioning players and the people who were listening. That way those choosing could just listen to how the candidates played. When they then selected the best players, they were not all, as before, white and male, but much more mixed (Fanshawe 2018).
We all have preferences. Our intentions may not be to exclude, but the data tell us that this is exactly what is happening. We need to face up to it and make appropriate changes (Fanshawe 2018). Future research should focus on identifying gaps and best strategies to improve diversity in the ICU. We should identify psychological and social factors that mitigate individual and institutional barriers to workforce diversity (Rubulotta et al. 2020; Fanshawe 2018; Vincent et al. 2021). Trusts should develop a sustainable strategy to effectively disseminate and create more diversity within the nationwide scientific workforce.
There is robust evidence suggesting in numerous industries that diversity is fundamental for maintaining a healthy and productive organisation. Women in particular have proven numerous times to bring innovation, equilibrium and balance in the working and production side. According to Prof Goffee and Jones from Harvard Business school "the organization of your dreams… it's a company where individual differences are nurtured; information is not suppressed or spun; the company adds value to employees, rather than merely extracting it from them; the organization stands for something meaningful; the work itself is intrinsically rewarding; and there are no stupid rules". This is even more crucial after this pandemic. The workforce is limited, and emotionally and physically exhausted. There is no possibility of ignoring the resources and energy that employing women and minorities could bring to the workforce structure.
Diversity and code of conduct policies have been adopted by several critical care societies and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Widespread use of such policies will help eliminate inequity and enhance inclusion as well as develop needed soft skills. Acknowledging the existence of implicit and explicit biases is an essential first step. Several strategies need to be put in place by leaders, societies, industries and employers in general. The pandemic's devastating impact on communities of colour clarifies the need for diversity among healthcare workers and public health leaders. Intelligent measures such as having a diverse workforce and a commitment to progress in the quality of care, innovation and engagement of staff are vital.
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Applied Mathematics
Vol.08 No.11(2017), Article ID:80369,9 pages
The Use of Fourier Descriptors for the Classification and Analysis of Peripheral Blood Smears Image
Rimma Tomakova, Vitaliy Komkov, Evgeniy Emelianov, Maksim Tomakov
South West State University, Kursk, Russia
Copyright © 2017 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).
Received: June 10, 2017; Accepted: November 14, 2017; Published: November 17, 2017
The article discusses the use of Fourier descriptors for the analysis and classification of blood cells. A model describing the contour boundaries in the form of two-dimensional numerical sequence Fourier descriptors. The influence of the shape and orientation of the figures on the parameters of the Fourier descriptors. Explore ways to ensure the invariance of the Fourier descriptors with respect to geometric transformations. A model of the graphical representation of the Fourier descriptors of computer graphics tools. A method of forming a space of informative features based on Fourier descriptors for the neural network, classifying the contours of borders image segments.
Fourier Descriptors, Image Processing, Analysis of the Spectrum Boundaries, Space of Informative Signs, Recognition, Classification of Objects
1. Introduction
Currently, in artificial intelligence systems, the segmentation and classification of objects on medical images are widely used Fourier descriptors.
Analysis of existing approaches has shown that the known methods for determining the image descriptors and their segments such as: SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform), SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features), PCA-SIFT (PCA-Principal Component Analysis) etc. intended for use in intelligent systems and similar search similar images, but not in the classification systems. The implementation of these algorithms requires a large volume of samples [1] . However, with regard to medical images provide necessary training sample is not always possible. These restrictions are associated with the presence of disease and the complexity of the experiments on living objects [2] [3] .
2. Implementation of the Method
In practice, the detection of blood cells are faced with a major obstacle, typical of medical applications of computer vision―a large variability in the images [4] .
To carry out the analysis and classification of blood cells, shown in the Figure 1, the image must be analyzed and segmented and binarized [5] [6] [7] . The task is to detect all the blood cells in the image and representation of pixels "units", and pixels other than the blood corpuscles, "zeros".
For the analysis of black and white segments used Fourier descriptors. When identifying and segmenting images used spectral analysis of two-dimensional numerical sequence obtained by sampling the curve describing the image segment of the border. The boundary traversal starting from an arbitrary pixel belonging curve defines this sequence.
Performing bypass loop counterclockwise, obtain a set of coordinates of the border points where ―the number of pixels on the boundary. These coordinates can be represented in parametric form:
In this case, the boundary can be represented as a series of
, (3)
where the number of pixel is .
Thus, we should regard each pair of coordinates as a complex number of the form:
, (4)
for .
Thus, consider x and y as real and imaginary parts of complex numbers sequence. This representation has an advantage: it allows you to reduce the two-
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Figure 1. Blood cells. (a) Erythrocytes; (b) Smear with verdure.
dimensional problem to a one-dimensional spectral analysis [8] [9] .
Discrete Fourier transform of a finite sequence is given by:
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for .
To investigate the spectral maps used architectural software package, developed in the environment of Matlab 7.10. This software package allows you to define and visualize the real, the imaginary and the amplitude component of the contour of the spectrum, to analyze the dependence of the change in the shape of segments of the Fourier descriptors used [10] . Analysis of the spectrum segments boundaries conducted on the basis of (4) showed that the spectrum Fourier descriptors has a symmetric structure (Figure 2).
This means that the Fourier descriptors forms pairs by frequency and each descriptor on the negative real axis corresponds to the handle on the positive half with exactly the same frequency coordinates. The amplitudes of these descriptors may be in various ratios.
Note that to restore the boundaries of contours are not used all but only the first of M Fourier coefficients. As a result of the recovery we have approximation :
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for .
Analysis of the research shows that high-frequency components describe the
Figure 2. Interface window in the calculation of the Fourier descriptors shows the amplitude spectrum.
fine details, while the low-frequency components determine the overall shape of the border. Therefore, less than M, the more detail is lost the boundary [11] [12] [13] .
Figure 3 shows the boundary of an arbitrary contour, consisting of K = 130 points, and also shows the stages of its recovery with the help of Equation (7) for different values of M. The results obtained with the help of a software package, developed in the environment of Matlab 7.10.
Starting from about 33 M values have reduced border corner points are beginning to appear. When M = 98 is restored almost an exact copy of the original. This implies that several lower-order coefficients are sufficient to describe the general shape of the boundary, but for accurate recovery of sharp parts, for example, corners and straight segments, requires a much larger number of high- order terms [9] .
Analysis of the results shows that the Fourier descriptors synthesize space informative features in the area of spatial frequencies to identify the contour shape.
Upon receipt of the boundaries of the spectrum based on (5) is necessary to achieve invariance descriptors to shift and turn the segment, as well as the possibility of selecting segments with different scales.
In the analysis of medical images often arises the problem of segmentation of a certain class. Often these segments derives from a parent segment, the result obtained by converting the original scale. Zooming can be both informative source, and be a hindrance.
3. Invariance with Respect to Scale
If the contour can be scaled by the factor α, then all Fourier descriptors are also can be scaled by α. If the contour of the segment has non-zero area and can be traced counterclockwise, the first factor (first harmonic) is always non-zero.
Figure 3. Stages of recovery circuit boundaries based on Fourier descriptors: M―the number of Fourier coefficients used in the restoration.
Thus, scaling the Fourier descriptors is achieved by normalization of the absolute relative Fourier component of the first descriptor.
Providing invariance under scale is relevant for comparison and classification of segments in various photographs taken with different scales
4. Invariance with Respect to Shift
A single factor (zeroth harmonic) limits the position of the object (contour). All other factors are invariant with respect to displacement. Invariance under transformations "shift" can be achieved by equating to zero the zeroth coefficient (the first coefficient, which has zero or one index depending on the software package; in the package of spectral transformation Matlab 7.10 it is one).
Invariant with respect to rotation. Invariant with respect to rotation defined by absolute value of the Fourier descriptors. This means that the representation of descriptors in the form of complex vector modules is invariant with respect to rotation. Therefore, consider the problems of classification, only peak values of the spectrum should be used.
The optimal choice of the Fourier descriptors used in the analysis of the boundaries of image segments
It is necessary that the frequency range corresponding to a specific Fourier descriptor number is independent of the number of counts in the loop whose spectrum is calculated, to have adequate recognition system. In general, the various circuits contained different numbers of samples. At the same sample rate and different sample quantities in the contours, this requirement is violated.
Based on the research of Fourier descriptors it developed a method of forming a space of informative signs. In the first step specifies the total number of samples in the circuits, which must be the same for all the control loops and training samples. This number is determined based on the results of statistical studies. For microscopic photographs of the vessels, the number of samples (pixels) in the contours varies from 500 to 3000. In order to be able to compare the discrete frequency samples corresponding to different circuits the contours, that have same number of samples, are needed. To equalize the number of samples in the analyzed circuits sample is necessary to make the number of samples in each circuit to a maximum. This is accomplished by supplementing the high-fre- quency part of the spectral band zeros. For example, suppose the number of samples in spectrum of each segment boundary contour maximum, equal to 3000. In this case in the space of signals will appear virtual counts between real counts.
Thus, we have the following chain of transformations: Kmax → spectrum→ zero padding spectral readings at high frequencies up to Kmax.
Note that the Fourier descriptors feature is that the amplitude associated with frequency. Therefore, any changes in the frequency of the signal lead to real changes in the amplitude of spectral components. The criterion of adequacy of any changes in the frequency domain is inverse Fourier transform, and the respective differences between the direct and inverse Fourier transform.
Therefore, in order to save energy equivalent between the space of signals and the space of frequencies, it is necessary to reduce the amplitude of descriptors in proportion to the number of intermediate samples appearing in the signal space. Thus, on the second phase all spectral components in the spectrum of the i-th circuit must be multiplied by Kmax/Ki value where Kmax = 3000, Ki―the number of samples in the i-th circuit.
Figure 4 shows the spectrum circuits before (a) and after modification in the spectral region (b).
Figure 4. Spectrum of contour segment boundaries before modification (a) and after modification (b).
The third stage-the optimization of the number of descriptors used. For the optimal choice of the analyzed descriptors (the optimum is meant to minimize the number) necessary to implement the inverse Fourier transform of the modified spectrum circuit and compare it with the original contour.
Considering that, the Fourier transformation is reversible, and using Equation (7), Fourier descriptors can restore the circuit boundaries of the test segment. In this case for recovery of the circuit use same amount of descriptors as number of counts that were obtained on the contour. If part of the descriptors set equal to zero, then, using a neural network classification model, is lead to a considerable simplification of decision-making model.
To evaluate the efficiency of this method is necessary to assess the information loss arising from equating to zero part of the descriptors. For this purpose, it is proposed to compare the original contour and contour restored on a limited set of descriptors. After the transition from K descriptors to M descriptors (M < K), we obtain the parametric curves that reflect the geometry of the segment boundaries in the form of
Examples of the starting and reconstituted by M descriptors of parametric curves (1), (2) and (8), (9) are shown in Figure 5.
Since the scale of the curves are (Figure 5), the area of S circuit defined as
, (10)
where K―the number of samples in the sample circuits, and ―the value (reconstituted circuit), located at a minimum distance from the k (source circuit), and for bitmaps k = k*.
Figure 6 shows plots of the information loss dependence of the number of descriptors used when restoring circuit segment boundaries.
Optimizing the number of descriptors performed based on Kettel's criterion
Figure 5. Parametric curves of the original and the reconstructed contour border.
Figure 6. Plots of the information loss dependence of the number of descriptors used for the two circuits.
[14] . According to this criterion it is defined a place on the charts, where the decrease of the criterion left to right is slowing as much as possible. In accordance with this criterion, appropriate to use 40 descriptors for the test circuit.
Using the developed methods and algorithms for spectral analysis of the boundary curves, we obtain an adequate description of the curve of any type end, a priori a certain length of Fourier descriptors sequence.
5. Conclusions
A method for forming a space for informative features neural network classifies freeform curve, based on the definition of the Fourier descriptors of the corresponding, circuit was developed.
A model describing the contour boundaries in the form of two-dimensional numerical sequence Fourier descriptors was proposed.
Abstract models of various geometric shapes based on Fourier descriptors were examined; the influence of the shape and orientation of the figures on the parameters of the Fourier descriptors was found; it offered a model of the graphical representation of the Fourier descriptors, allowing forming a space of informative features for intelligent image classification systems.
We explored ways to ensure the invariance of the Fourier descriptors with respect to geometric transformations.
On typical medical images, containing from 500 to 3000 pixels, the proposed model should reduce the space of informative signs in order to further use of the neural network pattern recognition.
A method for forming a space of informative features for neural network, classifying the contours of borders image segments, has been developed. The method is based on determining the Fourier descriptors for the contour, corresponding to the boundary segment, allowing obtaining an adequate classification model, regardless of the number of samples in the circuits.
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Tomakova, R., Komkov, V., Emelianov, E. and Tomakov, M. (2017) The Use of Fourier Descriptors for the Classification and Analysis of Peripheral Blood Smears Image. Applied Mathematics, 8, 1563-1571. https://doi.org/10.4236/am.2017.811114
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FEFAC: Animal nutrition has a huge role to play in boosting sustainability of livestock and aquaculture production
The EU feed trade group has just released its second Sustainability Charter Progress Report, a review of how the European feed sector can contribute to the development of more sustainable livestock and aquaculture value chains. It looks at what has been achieved in that respect over the past 12 months.
FEFAC president, Asbjørn Børsting, said the industry representative body was "proactively and transparently" highlighting its commitment to the EU sustainability agenda for the feed and food sector "despite the very challenging economic situation faced in multiple sectors as well as by many European citizens due to soaring energy prices and food price-driven inflation, triggered by the Russian aggression of Ukraine."
Such challenges have further motivated FEFAC in terms of focusing "on efficient and practically feasible solutions" to improve the environmental performance of European livestock production as a way to preserve and strengthen sector resilience in the long term, he added.
Circular feed
FEFAC said a key highlight of the past year, in terms of showing how animal nutrition can boost the sustainability of EU livestock production, was the trade body's publication on circular feed, which was released in June. It asks regulators to proceed with a systematic review of legislative bottlenecks in the EU regulatory framework in order to facilitate a higher level of circularity in EU food systems through animal nutrition-based approaches.
The trade group also issued a note of caution, saying there is a need for more proactive policy coordination at EU and member state level to ensure that national renewable energy subsidies, ETS credits and exceptionally high market prices for natural gas do not provide a huge incentive for 'traditional feed ingredients' to be diverted to biogas production
"As highlighted in the search for more circular feed, warned FEFAC, the drive for increased EU feed economy holds potential conflict with the drive for increased EU energy autonomy with a prominent role for biogas production. While the anaerobic digestion of manure is certainly a boon for the resilience of the EU livestock sector, the anaerobic digestion of energy-rich feed ingredients is a clear threat."
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology
FEFAC also outlined how with the PEFCR Feed for Food-Producing Animals and the GFLI Database, feed companies have two complementary tools to help them model, calculate and report the environmental impacts of their compound feed production, up to farm gate level.
The publication reports how FEFAC has been delivering on its commitment to facilitate the uptake of these tools by feed companies. It held a webinar in tandem with the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) in October 2021, while both it and the GFLI released communication material in the past year with the aim of assisting feed operators and relevant stakeholders in terms of their understanding of such tools in fostering environmental emission reductions.
Soy sourcing
In addition, the report notes huge interest in its updated Soy Sourcing Guidelines 2021 by many stakeholders and downstream market partners. It believes the revised tool has successfully created increased market transparency on responsible and conversion-free soy production.
"Based on the benchmarking results, it is clear now that there is a mainstream market offer for responsibly produced and conversion-free soy with a cut-off date before December 2020, sufficient to cover the needs of the European feed industry. FEFAC will perform a mid-term review in the second half of 2022, with a view to convert the desired criterion on conversion-free soy into an essential one as well as improve the verification requirements."
The trade group also recounted how it has been actively engaging with other stakeholders in relation to the EU Commission's legislative proposal for deforestation-free supply chains, released in November 2021.
"FEFAC in principle supports a legal framework for deforestation-free supply chains to provide a level playing field for value chain partners and EU livestock farmers. FEFAC has however argued that this legal framework needs to be implementable, with workable traceability requirements that are linked up with an existing chain of custody model. The recognition of currently available private sector certification and verification systems would help to accelerate the mainstream market transition, without disrupting existing supply chains which are under huge strain since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Data collected by FEFAC indicate that the use of responsible soy by the European feed industry has steadily increased in recent years and the exposure to deforestation risk areas has declined."
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
FEFAC stressed how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a topic that continues to be of key importance, with the Commission committed to the full implementation of the European One Health Action plan against AMR. The EU Farm to Fork Strategy includes an aspirational target of reducing overall EU sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture by 50% by 2030.
"FEFAC remains committed to highlight the role of animal nutrition as part of the solution to enhance in particular farm animal gut health, which is fully recognised by EFSA as part of disease prevention measures which help to reduce the need for antibiotics."
Feed prices
In 2021, farmers already witnessed very high feed prices. The situation has been further intensified with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also due to restrictions on the movement of cereals by third countries and even by some member states, said the industry group.
"This disruption of supplies is creating a market imbalance, both in terms of price and volume. The feed price has increased by 20% and 40% on average in the EU. Countries that are highly dependent on raw material imports are even more affected. Given that feed represents on average around 60-70% of the production costs, the situation is especially complicated for monogastric sectors. Lastly, feed availability might be further constrained in Mediterranean countries due to drought problems in 2022."
While COVID-19 was the clear driver for food security discussion at a global level until February 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the start of 2022 exacerbated existing global supply chain problems.
As far as the EU feed sector was concerned, the most notable impact was on the supply of corn, sunflower meal and oil. The missing corn supply could be partially compensated by increased imports, mainly from North America, but also from Brazil and other origins.
Additional market pressure and supply chain constraints were recorded for certain macro and micro-ingredients such as phosphates, vitamins, and amino acids, for which the EU is extremely dependent on the global market, as well as for organic feed materials, said the organization.
Innovation push
Livestock farmers in several markets are under severe pressure, and in some countries, environmental related pressures are added to the mix, stressed FEFAC.
"While the livestock and feed sectors will need to trigger all emergency measures to withstand the many challenges, innovation may be the only real way to overcome them. The push for more EU food and feed autonomy will need to allow for the legislative stars to align to bring the best innovative solutions to the table."
The report also identified the development of new genomic techniques and their potential to provide traits favourable to feed use. "A future legislative framework on new genomic techniques that allows for innovations at reasonable investment costs may well see EU crops delivered with higher yielding varieties and improved nutritional and technical profiles. In line with a more ambitious EU protein plan, it should become more attractive for EU farmers to cultivate oilseeds and protein crops."


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Supertron Electronics Pvt Ltd (SEPL) organized Annual Business Meet recently at Pattaya All Seasons Hotels, Outside India to celebrate their continuous growth in IT Industry and achieving 1500 cr milestone. Total 80 team members attended the meet to discuss future business strategy, planning & action points.
Mr. V. K. Bhandari, CMD of SEPL had given a unique speech for future road map emphasizing on inter personalized skills, motivation and leadership qualities, he had given an example of common areas in T20 cricket match with SEPL business functions specially in product selling.
He also highlighted the areas in optimization of resources such as product, fund, human resources and network. SEPL has set up a target of 2000 crore in IT vertical only for the FY 14-15 with a 33% growth and entire team has taken an oath to achieve this milestone. Mr. Vibhor Agarwal, Director Marketing discussed in details about the Industry, Opportunities and scope of improvement. Mr. Nirmal Kumar Meharia, Director Finance & administration has explained the financial part along with credit policy.
Supertron Annual Business Meet had the theme "Towards A Quantum Leap" all members were ready to take the leap from 1500 to 2000 cr. Company is eying for opportunities in smaller towns and wants to be closer to the customer and hence setting up 5 upcountry branches like Vijayawada, Madurai, Calicut, Hubli and Surat. SEPL also has plans to open satellite branches in Trivandrum, Jabalpur and Rajkot.
All product managers had shared the future business road map of their Products with clear growth opportunities. Meet also had elaborate interaction session on common issues and ways to address them. Individual performance awards in different functional areas were awarded to the deserving candidates and it was followed by celebrating gala night.


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On 02 February 2014, the Hatfield Campus in Pretoria was the venue of the formal beginnings of a partnership between the University of Pretoria (UP) and the ESEFA (Enterprise Systems Education for Africa) programme.
This event, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Build Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at UP, was held to celebrate the newly formed partnership and the start-up of the first ESEFA Open Distance Learning Centre (ODLC) in Africa. Representatives of ESEFA, SAP AG and DEG, as well as academics, representatives of the German Consulate and the African press met to celebrate this momentous occasion.
Following the welcome address by Professor Roelf Sandenbergh, Dean of EBIT, Professor Alta van der Merwe, Head of the Department of Informatics, and Dr. Olufemi Adetunji from the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, provided an overview of the core aspects of the ESEFA partnership. The kick-off event was complimented by a presentation by De Wet Naudé about the SAP University Alliances programme and their engagement in the ESEFA project.
The Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town (UCT), together with the Otto-von-Guericke University (OVGU) Magdeburg and SAP University Alliances, recently started this pioneering project which aims to establish an on-demand Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) teaching and learning platform for sub-Saharan Africa.
The project is financed by DEG (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH) and SAP AG and will span a period of three years. Major emphasis is on the development of a curriculum for Africa, as well as the provision of a technical solution for its implementation with the long-term objective of establishing an African university community to deliver ERP education courses within the sub-Saharan region on an ongoing basis. The ultimate aim of the project is to help establish a long-term sustainable ERP teaching business model at African universities. In this respect, UP has a pioneering role as the first ODLC in Africa and will offer ESEFA courses to students and promote the education programme to other sub-Saharan African universities.
"This is an exciting project where many students should benefit from the opportunities provided through the project to enhance their own knowledge and skills in the ERP space", said Professor Alta van der Merwe.
About 20 guests welcomed UP as a trailblazer and new ESEFA partner. "I am very pleased that on November 15 we concluded the partnership agreement between ESEFA and UP, at the same time marking the beginning of what I see will become a long-standing and successful collaboration", says Patrick Wirz, Strategic Project Manager at OVGU.
Karin Reissenauer, ESEFA Project Manager in the Department of Information Systems at UCT and Professor Lisa Seymour, ESEFA Executive Sponsor and HOD of Information Systems at UCT, both emphasized that the project was addressing a defined need in Africa for skilled employees who are familiar with modern information and computer technology. What ESEFA is going to do is offer opportunities for professional development to the next generation of African employees, not only giving them an in-depth understanding of highly integrated business processes, but also the now-how of standard business software."
De Wet Naudé, SAP University Alliances Manager in South Africa, further underlines that Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects such as ESEFA can make significant contributions to skills development in sub-Saharan Africa; skills that are needed to help realize the huge growth potential of the region.


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Whats the fastest (dosent have to be the safest) way to lose weight fast?
I work out, i run and i even went to the doctor, i cant figure out how to lose weight fast, and i cannot advance in my carreer if i dont =(
19 Responses to "Whats the fastest (dosent have to be the safest) way to lose weight fast?"
September 29th, 2010 at 6:16 pmHere's some weight loss tip's which you can do everyday:
– Exercise 6 to 7 days a week.
– And try to break your workout into two different sessions, this gives your metabolism a jolt.
– Drink 6 to 8 cups of water a day. And try to drink ice cold water, it burns more calories.
– Take enough vitamins, especially ones that promote weight loss (such as 1800 mg. of Fish Oil, Vitamin B Complex, Co-enzyme Q-10, ect. Do your research).
– Drink green tea or take green tea pills ( it's been shown to speed up your metabolism).
– For your metabolism's sake, eat within 1 hour of waking up and don't eat 3 hours before you go to bed.
– Try a vegan or vegetarian diet (it worked for me :D).
– Drink 12 oz. of warm lemon water (use the juice of 1/2 a lemon) with a little sea salt every morning. This will detoxify your body and make your skin look amazing.
– Or, if giving up meat just isn't your thing, just count calories. Try to have around 1200 a day.
– Try to avoid white, bleached, or enriched flour.
– Stay away from high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils.
– Eat every 2 to 4 hours to keep your metabolism going.
– Eat 5 to 6 small meals a day to keep your metabolism up.
– Try to get 6 to 8 hours of sleep. When your body is deprived of sleep your appiteite increases by 15%.
– Sugar and artificial sweeteners are the devil. If you have a sweet tooth, grab some fruit.
– Avoid all junk food, fast food, and fried food.
– Try only drinking water, tea, and black coffee. There are so many hidden calories in drinks.
– Eat whole grain foods and healthy fats (like olives, avacados, nuts, ect) and stay away from refined or "bad" carbs.
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September 29th, 2010 at 6:55 pmDont eat just drink h2-0 and exercise till you drop from exhaustion.
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September 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pmDo not eat. Drink only water. Be sure to have your doctor monitor this activity. It is very dangerous.
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September 29th, 2010 at 7:40 pmdrink lots of water eat lots of fiber carbohydrates can help and try going to the gym or go for a jog
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September 29th, 2010 at 8:01 pmHi Dear,
There is an article i read it's talking about losing weight around 9lbs. every 11 days using a technique called calorie shifting , it's a new diet that alternates the amount of food you eat daily so your body gets confused and starts to burn fat like no other time,
here is the link to that article and i hope it helps.
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September 29th, 2010 at 8:33 pmTry following this diet and exercise plan that is tailored exactly to your own personal needs.
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September 29th, 2010 at 10:06 pmThe BETTER Cabbage Soup Diet:
I have taken the original CSD and added more information to make it more feasible to do, and easier to follow. You can find the recipe for THE CABBAGE SOUP DIET anywhere on the internet or in yahoo answers.
Things to remember:
When making the actual soup, add spicey v8 juice.
Making the soup spicey REALLLLY made it greatJ Remember, you only get gas from veggies if you eat fruit at the same time. ….eat them at different times and no gasJ
IF you think raw celery is bitter or salty, soak ur pre-cut slivers in bag with cut lemons- they then taste like lemons! Mmmm
Freeze grapes and bananas for a frozen treat on the days u can have fruit
Buy all the ingredients for the soup, lots of fruits (no bananas) and extra veggies for munching on throughout the process, like carrots & celery.
All fruit except bananas. Your first day will consist of all the fruit
you want except bananas. Cantaloupes and watermelon are lower calories than
most fruits. Eat only your soup and fruits the first day. For drinks –
unsweetened tea, cranberry juice or water.My notes: Well, this was the easiest day, as we all love fruit. Fruit is also acceptable to eat for breakfast. I was short on money so I grabbed some pears from our pear tree, and some apples off the neighbors tree lol. Then grapes (wash n bag in zip locks, take with u when u leave the house to munch on). The grapes that get a little soggy, I freeze as a treat for at night when the family eats ice cream grrrr. By the end of this first day, I felt a little weak and dizzy (prolly just mental from the lack of carbs, so I ate 4 pretzels, took 2 Tylenol and went to bed early).
All vegetables of your choice. Try to eat green leafy veggies and stay
away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along
with your soup. At dinner time on this day reward yourself with a big
baked potato with butter. Eat all the soup you want this day, but NO
fruit.My notes: Well I woke up STARVING And the thought of veggies for breakfast was not a happy thought. SO I ate a small baked potato w/ butter for breakfast and THAT really hit the spot! Then I was able to munch on carrots/celery stix til almost lunch time then had the soup. Then I cut up a bowl of red pepper, zuccini, chick peas & fresh green beans (all the veggies that weren't in the soup). I sautéed them in some olive oil, sesame seed, garlic, lemon and eh it was ok, at least it was different. Since I had lemons, I started to squeeze the lemon juice into my water, which was like lemonade.
Mix day one and day two. Eat all the soup, fruits, veggies you want. You
CANNOT have a baked potato this day.My notes: Ok, worst day yet, but I was feeling great so I didn't mind. I didn't wake up hungry, and I didn't feel hungry all day. The hard part is that it was a Saturday, which at my house usually means home with the family, and fun snacks & big meals we don't eat all week….and of course beerL SO I used my love of coffee to get me thru this day, having 3 cups. I really have been feeling great, like I have tons of energy, I was afraid I'd feel weak, but instead I was able to go for a long walk today & move an entire bedroom, clean the carpets and paint it! Woke up at 8 am and went to bed at 1 am. Oh ya, today I took the bean, zuccini, pepper mixture I had made and dumped it in the soup which tasted better lol.
Bananas and skimmed milk. Eat as many as 8 bananas and drink as many
glasses of skimmed milk as you can on this day, along with your soup.
Bananas are high in calories and carbohydrates and so is the milk, but on
this particular day of your diet your body will need the potassium and the
carbohydrates, proteins, and calcium to lessen your craving for sweets.My notes: Well, there ARE 2 diff kinds of bananas first of all, firm yellow ones and squishy ripe brownish/yellow ones. I decided since I've missed breakfast the most, that I would dice up some firm yellow banana in a bowl and eat it like cereal – this worked well! I almost fooled myself into thinking it was cerealJ and it was DELICIOUS! That simple banana and bowl of milk at 8 stayed with me! I wasn't even hungry at 11:00? But I ate another banana anyhow ( I like to beat the feeling of hunger if I can)
The really ripe mushy banana, can be smashed and whipped up in a bowl and is just like pudding. Then, you know those chocolate dipped bananas that u freeze? Well I made one w/o the chocolate, for a frozen treat in the evening instead of ice cream lol. (did this the night before). Milk tasted great on this dayJ I was able to add some to my coffee. Up at 8 am, went right to work moving my daughters bedroom to the upstairs bedroom- good workout! I have tons of energy and feel greatJ
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or as many as 6 fresh tomat
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So Obama is to hit the campaign trail once again to reignite the push for gun control. I guess Netanyahu must have straightened him out when he was in Israeli and told him to get his Uncle Tom ass back to the United States and get the confiscations underway, so here comes Obama rope-a-dope across the country, on our dollar, of course.
Yesterday it was reported that the US Senate voted to reject the UN Small Arms Treaty, but don't be lulled into complacency as they still have four more days to accomplish their sedition, thus the rush to get Obama back in our faces.
The whiskey sweating Irish dupe Biden is now saying that expanding background checks would be a gigantic accomplishment. And indeed national registration and state by state takeover of the control of ammunition would be just enough to accommodate the United Nations. This is the push we are about to see.
Colorado sheriffs are saying they will not enforce the infringements signed into treason last week by their seditious Governor Hickenlooper, and the people of New York are standing up in defiance of the international insurgents Bloomberg and Cuomo.
Our enemies have lost the game of lying about numbers as the politicians hunker in fear, being trapped between the United Nations and the American nationals, which in reality is where the true battle line lies. Look at the faces of the traitors within. They are clearly afraid, and well they should be, as they stand on the precipice of unleashing a power that will destroy both them and their UN masters.
They now have their mainstream propaganda machine out front putting forth the ridiculous lie that the massive government purchases of ammunition, which are identified in their own documents, did not occur.
We American nationals are no longer being protrayed as a fringe element, but rather as an overwhelming population of preppers, hiding in caves with storages of food, guns, and ammunition. It is no longer the assertion that we are a few that should be ignored, but rather that we are the bulk of the population and we have been deceived by the alternative media.
This push for the new world order is failing and it has reached the point that the failure will be absolute across the board, as there is no way they can recover and reset their operations to a prior date. In short they have gone too far to turn back and have no choice but to charge headlong into their own death like a World War II era Japanese pilot diving his plane into an aircraft carrier in one last desperate attempt to terrorize an enemy that has proven to be militarily superior.
The beginning of the end is near so be prepared to absorb their Kamikaze attacks and make sure they receive nothing resembling the mercy shown the Japanese after invoking such methods. Remember, the last of the traitors who will be captured for punishment are those who are most in our faces right now. As a reward for their arrogant duplicity they will get to live longer than the rest, scurrying from one spider hidey hole to the next, right up until the day they are captured, said capture to be followed by an episode of them shitting themselves as the noose is drawn up around their necks.
God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.


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How much do y'all pay for your gym memberships?
I pay $45/mo at the YMCA for myself and my 3 year old son.2
The first gym I joined, I got a discount through work, so it was $20 a month ( normally $40 a month) no yearly fee. The current gym I belong to is also $40 with free classes, and it's a medically oriented gym, so there are physical therapists and the head of the gym that has a degree in exercise science and nutrition. I get evaluations every 3 months and my workout changed up every 3 months.0
I pay my insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield $20 a month. That gives me a card that I can use at all the cheaper gyms, and the YMCA in my town. Only the super fancy gym with the towel attendants isn't part of the blue cross deal. So, I pay 20. No commitment, no nothing. Part of Obamacare.
And then I pay for yoga.
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I have an interesting plan through my health insurance. $25/month gets you membership at many gyms nationwide, including their major partners SNAP fitness and Anytime. It is a great deal, especially for someone who travels.2
I have an interesting plan through my health insurance. $25/month gets you membership at many gyms nationwide, including their major partners SNAP fitness and Anytime. It is a great deal, especially for someone who travels.
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I almost don't want to say but it's high. LOL I'm at one of those fancy L.A. gyms that has a ton of amenities and I go everyday so it's worth it to me.2
It's amazing and sad how expensive gym memberships are in some cities. Las Vegas Athletic Club has lots of locations and great facilities for $12/month.
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About $65/month for my local YMCA. It's got a lot of free classes, good facilities, and a nice pool etc, plus the money is going to support community programs as a nonprofit, which is the main reason I chose it over the nearby option that was $20/month less. I like that my membership helps others.
I hate the way traditional gyms are so shady with their contract and pricing, so the same-price-for-everyone, clearly-visible-on-the-website, cancel-anytime-no-hassle aspect of the Y is also very appealing to me.
Even bare bones gyms in my area are rarely cheaper than about $25/month (even the tiny one in my office that we get a corporate discount for is still $30/month and it's not great.)1 -
Been going to a LA Fitness (Signature) that's $45/mo with towel service for a few years. It's more upscale than the typical LA Fitness clubs in SoCal.
Also recently joined a brand new private executive fitness center close to work for $150/mo that's much smaller but includes unlimited group fitness classes (HIIT, spin, yoga, pilates, boxing). The fitness center is $39/mo without classes and has towel service but no pool or sauna. The fitness classes are terrific though and came with a MyZone HRM.1 -
$25 a month at Gold's gym -- in a big city. Unsubsidized.1
I go to a Gold's Gym in So California. $28 a month because i've been there since they opened a few years ago. The average is $40 a month though. Open 5 am - midnight Mon - Fri and 7 am to 9 pm Sat SUn. The only reason the hours aren't longer is because it's attached to the mall. It has tons of equipment, a pool, sauna, steam room and a cycle room. It has a classroom that runs most of teh day with different cardio classes. My favorite thing they have is a cardio cinema. It's a room where they play a movie all day and you do cardio while watching the film. (bike, treadmill or elliptical. That room has turned many of what might have been a 30 minute workout into over an hour because I wasn't willing to just sit in the room and watch while not moving my butt, lol.0
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If you have Blue Cross / Blue Shield check into their wellness program. I pay $25 a month and it gets me into multiple gyms. The one I use the most is LA Fitness. I can go to any of them. This helps when I travel.
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LA Fitness. About 37 bucks a month.
There are four of them within 20 minutes from my house.
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24 Hour Fitness is only $39.99 a month and it goes down every year. And I love it there!
Mine is free because I'm old now and my supplemental insurance pays for it!1 -
I go to EoS Fitness (in other states it's Gold's Gym.) $25/mo including childcare for my 2 boys and lots of classes (which I don't go to, I prefer to lone-wolf it). Open 24/7.0
Retro Fitness - $20/month and has pretty much everything(except a pool that I wouldn't use, anyway).1
If you have Blue Cross / Blue Shield check into their wellness program. I pay $25 a month and it gets me into multiple gyms. The one I use the most is LA Fitness. I can go to any of them. This helps when I travel.
How does that work? I have them too. Are you sure it's not specific to your company and BC/BS? I wouldn't mind a bigger discount on my membership....0 -
I pay for 2 gyms each $30 a month. Plus I can use the facilities at the university where I work for free. I have access to spinning, group fitness, water aerobics, full gym (weights and cardio). I don't use it much because I work off campus and getting on campus and parking is kind of a pain.1
Mine is 1300kr a month( that is after a discount) which is like $160 but that includes PT , clothes, diet plan, body fat measurements ,all classes, towel, locker very very nice gym with sauna of course, also crossfit box, yoga studio etc All the staff know you by name. Wouldn't swap for any other gym totally worth the money. I think the cheapest gym in Stockholm is still around 45$ and that's not somewhere I'd want to go1
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The legality of lotteries
Lottery is a wagering contract. A wagering contract is an agreement to pay money or money's worth on the happening or non-happening of a specified uncertain event
We have all heard more or less about lottery. Whenever we walk along the roadside, we often notice some people selling lottery tickets. They tempt our minds by offering a chance to become rich. How many of us think of the validity of lottery tickets from the perspective of the law? Is it even legal?
A lottery is a wagering contract. A wagering contract is an agreement to pay money or money's worth on the happening or non-happening of a specified uncertain event.
In Thacker vs Hardey, Cotton LJ said, "The essence of gaming and wagering is that one party is to win and other to lose upon a future event which at the time of contract is of an uncertain nature, i.e., that if the future event turns out one way A will lose, but if it turns out the other way, he will win."
For example in a football match, Mr X tells Mr Y that Brazil will win the world cup in football. Mr Y challenges the statement of Mr X. Now they bet with each other over the result, which is an uncertain event. Here no one knows which team will win the match. So, this is a wagering contract.
A wagering contract is void ab-initio. Ab initio, in the legal context, means from the very beginning. So a wagering contract void ab initio means it has no legal effect from the very beginning of it. As per the Section 30 of the Contract Act 1872 in our country, "Agreements by way of wager are void and no suit shall be brought for recovering anything alleged to be owned on any wager."
However, it has to be kept in mind that Section 30 makes some exception for wagering contract. It does not render an unlawful bet on a horse race carrying a prize of 500 taka or upwards to the winners, as well as not below the abovementioned amount, in order to protect poor persons from gambling.
'Lottery is a wagering contract' means by selling a lottery ticket, the seller makes a mutual agreement with the purchaser to pay certain amount of money on the happening of a specified uncertain event in future.
Here, "specified uncertain event" means a raffle draw. In brief, if the coupon number printed in the lottery ticket wins at the raffle draw, the purchaser of the lottery will be declared winner and be paid the certain amount of the promised money.
It means any wagering contract, including lottery, is void and any sum paid or payable in respect of the contract is also void.
No legal remedies are available for the sufferers deceived by such kind of lottery since the contract is initially void or invalid.
Thus, if someone buys a lottery from the roadside and the buyer is refused to be paid the promised money after winning the lottery, the winner cannot sue the authorities concerned for the recovery of the amount as the contract is initially void.
In Md Jafar Ullah vs Bangladesh, 2014, 43 CLC (HCD) case, Jafar Ulla entered into a lease-agreement with Bangladesh Muktijodhya Welfare Club under which the club gave him permission to conduct indoor games including Nipun Khela, Charchari, Dice, Howji and cultural programmes in the premises of the Naogaon Muktijodhya Welfare Club.
The respondent argued that these games include elements of lottery and gambling, which are punishable both under section 294A of the Penal Code 1860 and section 3 and 4 of the Public Gambling Act 1867.
The court said that all of these games were void since they fell within the element of lottery, which is a wagering contract.
Now, it seems quite confusing whether lotteries issued and authorised by the government is valid or not. Lottery issued and approved by the state authority is valid. Section 294A of the Penal Code 1860 provides lottery issued and authorised by Bangladesh government is valid. Section 294A says: Whoever keeps any office or place for the purpose of drawing any lottery not being a state lottery authorised by the government shall be punished with six months of imprisonment, fine or both.
It also provides punishment to those who propose to pay sum, to deliver any goods or to do or forbear doing anything for the benefit of any person, on any event or contingency relative or applicable to the drawing of any ticket, lot, number or figure, in any such lottery shall be punished with fine which may extend to Tk1,000.
So it can be said that any lottery approved by the government is valid. So prize bond issued by the Bangladesh Bank is valid.
We can look at a case of our neighbouring country India, as the Contract Act, 1872 is also applicable there. In H Anraj vs government Of Tamil Nadu case, the Supreme Court of the country upheld the lotteries authorised by the govt as legal. So it conferred the right upon the winner to receive the prize from the draw liable to sales tax.
In India, wagering contract is also void as per Section 30 of the Indian Contract Act. The expression "wager" has not been defined in the Indian Contract Act.
A classic definition is however available in the case of Carllic VS Carbolic Smoke balls -- A wagering contract is one by which two persons professing to hold opposite views touching the issue of a future uncertain event mutually agree, which depend on the determination of that event, one shall win from another, and that other shall hand over to him a sum of money or other stake; neither of the parties having any other interest in that contract than the sum or stake he will win or lose, there being no other consideration for making of such contract by either of the parties. If either of the parties may win but cannot lose, or may lose but cannot win it is not a wagering contract.
But in the case of Gherulal Parekh vs Mahadeo, Indian Supreme Court laid down that though a wager is void; a wagering agreement under section 23 of the Contract Act is not unlawful. Hence a wagering agreement is enforceable and valid.
Finally, in September 2015, the Supreme Court of India conferred the power on state governments to decide on whether the activities can be carried out or not in their jurisdiction. Currently, only 13 provinces of India allow lottery as a legal contract.
If we look at the legal status of lottery in western countries like in the USA, there each state authority has the power to enact laws in respect of lottery within their jurisdiction. Federal lottery law prohibits any kinds of online transaction of lotteries. Several state governments allow state-sponsored lottery tickets for greater revenue. However, Alabama, Alaska, Hawai, Nevada and Utah have completely restricted the sale of lottery tickets.
However it is very difficult to testify the authenticity of the lottery. A mass of lottery seller claims their lottery to be valid and approved by the government. So it is better to purchase a lottery from any branch of an authorized bank as they make valid transaction.
Lottery is totally an uncertain event. There are many lotteries sold on roadside, which are not approved by the government but they make people believe they are so. People often get tempted by the prize money but at last they are deceived. Having no legal remedies in their hand, nothing remains except for regretting. Though no legal remedy exists for recovery of the money, legal punishment prevails for those who are selling lotteries, which are not approved by the government. Section 294A of the Penal Code declares that these types of sellers to be punished with six months of imprisonment or fine or both. More vigilance of the authorities concerned is very necessary to bring the frauds under law. Awareness should be created through mass media so that people become aware of the legal status of lottery.
The writer is a student at the Department of Law in Chittagong University


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It was always something that I had dreaded, as my aunt had one about 50 years ago, - very rudimentary.
So I knew immediately that I wanted immediate reconstruction.
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Radiologists attempt to mammogram it, because it looks better than the other one !
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On my Mac with i5 processor I have a lot of CPU issues with Mulab. A bad experience is that there are hiccups and stuttering especially when I do some editings during the playback. Even with very high audio buffer settings of 2048 it didn't help. Of course it could be the plugins, which I used. But I was very astonished, when I tried Cubase for comparison. Cubase isn't known as CPU friendly, but with the same plugins the performance was much better. There were no hiccups ot stuttering, whe…
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