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Nova Scotia's seasonally adjusted employment decreased by 700 to 453,500 in January 2018. This is the first decline reported since August.
Compared to December, Nova Scotia's labour force increased slightly by 200 to 494,000 in December. With marginal growth in labour supply and a slight decline in labour demand, the net result was a 0.2 percentage point increase in the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate to 8.2 per cent in January.
With labour supply increasing and a similar increase in the working age population (+500), the result was an unchanged participation rate of 62.1 per cent in January. The decline in employment lowered the employment rate down 0.1 percentage points to 57.0 per cent.
In January, the decrease in employment occurred in part-time employment (-2,100) while full-time employment increased 1,300. Changes in part-time and full-time employment can include the net impacts of changing hours of work within the same position.
Year-to Date (January 2018 vs. January 2017)
Comparing the first month of 2018 to the first month of 2017, there was an increase of 2,000 (0.4 per cent) in the average employment level. Full time employment was up 7,300 while there were 5,500 fewer part-time jobs.
The labour force was up 4,400 compared to January 2017. With labour supply increasing at a faster pace, the net result was an increase in the average unemployment rate of 0.4 percentage point to 8.2 per cent. The labour force participation rate increased by 0.1 percentage point to 62.1 per cent. The employment rate decreased slightly to 57.0 per cent.
Compared to last month, the youth population (aged 15-24) saw a small decrease in population (-100) while labour force (+1,500) and employment (+400) increased. With labour supply increasing faster than labour demand, the unemployment rate for 15-24 year olds increased from 17.0 per cent in December 2017 to 18.2 per cent in January 2018. Over the past year, the population aged 15-24 has declined 700; however, the labour force has increased 1,500 with the participation rate rising 1.8 percentage points to 64.4 per cent. A rising labour force and a decline in employment resulted in an increase in the unemployment rate among youth from 15.7 per cent in January 2017 to 18.2 per cent in January 2018.
Core aged (25-54) workers reported little month change in January 2018 with a 100 person decline in the labour force and 100 persons increase in employment, the unemployment rate for core aged workers was unchanged at 6.5 per cent. Compared to January 2017, labour force has increased 1,900 with employment rising 600, resulting in an increase in the unemployment rate from 6.1 per cent in January 2017.
Compared to December 2017, the population aged 55 and over in the labour force survey increased by 700. The labour force and employment both decreased by 1,200 for the age group, resulting in a 0.1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate to 6.8 per cent. Older workers (55+) report the largest population increases over the past year as the baby boomer cohort continues to age into this age group. This puts downward pressure on the size of the labour force and employment in Nova Scotia. In January 2018, the unemployment rate among older workers decreased 0.8 percentage points to 6.8 per cent as employment growth outpaced labour force growth over the past year, but both were notably slower than population increases for this cohort.
The employment decline of 700 between December 2017 and January 2018 resulted from a decline in private sector employees (-4,200) offsetting increases in public sector employees (+1,100) and self-employed (+2,300). Private sector employees had increased by a total of 8,400 over the previous two months. Among goods-producing sectors, monthly employment increased for forestry, fishing, mining, and oil and gas and manufacturing while declining in construction. Services-producing employment declined 1,700 compared to December 2017 with the largest declines in transportation/warehousing (-1,500), professional, scientific and technical services (-1,400), and information/culture/recreation (-800). Retail/wholesale trade (+1,200) and finance/insurance/real estate (+700) had employment gains compared to last month.
Compared to January 2017, employment in the public sector was lower by 1,800 while private sector employees increased 900 and self-employed was up 2,800.
Comparing January 2018 to January 2017, employment in goods-producing sectors increased by 1,800 jobs. Employment gains occurred in manufacturing (+4,000) and agriculture and utilities while resources (-1,400) and construction (-1,300) are lower compared to January 2017.
Services-producing sector employment is nearly unchanged (+100) compared to January 2017. Employment gains in wholesale/retail trade, finance/insurance/real estate, educational services, information/culture/recreation, accommodation/food services, and public administration offset declines in transportation/warehousing, professional services, and health care/social assistance.
Regions (3 month moving average, January 2018 vs. January 2017)
Comparing the 3-month average ending January 2018 with the 3-months ending January 2017, three regions (Cape Breton, Annapolis Valley, and Halifax) reported labour force growth that outpaced employment growth, resulting in higher average unemployment rates. The North Shore region had employment and labour force both decline compared to January 2017 while the Southern economic region had an increase in labour demand while labour supply declined.
The Cape Breton region reported a 100 job increase and a labour force increase of 300 over January 2017. With labour supply rising more than labour demand, the result was a 0.2 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate to 14.3 per cent.
For the North Shore region, employment decreased 3,300 (-4.7 per cent) for January 2017 compared to January 2017 while the labour force declined 3,000 (-3.9 per cent). The faster decline for employment relative to labour supply resulted in an increase to the unemployment rate to 9.1 per cent.
The Annapolis Valley reported an increase in employment of 4,900 (+9.2 per cent) and an increase in the labour force of 5,600 (9.7 per cent) for January 2018 compared to January 2017. The net result was an increase of 0.3 percentage points in the average unemployment rate to 8.1 per cent.
The Southern region saw an increase of 1,000 (+2.1 per cent) in employment along with a small drop of 300 in the labour force. With employment rising and labour force falling, the unemployment rate was down 2.6 percentage points to 8.6 per cent compared to the January 2017 estimate.
Comparing year over year estimates, Halifax (HRM) experienced an increase in employment of 1,100 (+0.5 per cent) along with an increase in the labour force of 2,600 (+1.1 per cent). With the labour supply growing faster than labour demand, the unemployment rate increased from 5.8 per cent to 6.5 per cent in Halifax.
Provincial Comparisons
The Nova Scotia unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent in January 2018. In January of last year, the unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent in Nova Scotia. The Canadian unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent, down from 6.7 per cent one year ago. Compared to the same month one year ago, all four Atlantic provinces reported higher unemployment rates, and the other provinces had lower unemployment rates. Alberta had the steepest decline (1.7 percentage points). The lowest unemployment rate among the provinces in January 2018 was in British Columbia (4.8 per cent) while the highest was in Newfoundland and Labrador at 14.0 per cent.
Comparing January 2018 with January 2017, employment increased 1.6 per cent in Canada. Employment grew in eight of the ten provinces, with the largest gains in Prince Edward Island (+2.7 per cent), British Columbia (+2.5 per cent), and Alberta (+2.0 per cent). Employment declined in Newfoundland and Labrador (-1.2 per cent) and New Brunswick (-0.1 per cent).
National Comparisons: Cities
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the Halifax Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in January was 6.8 per cent. Quebec (3.3 per cent) had the lowest unemployment rate among CMAs in January, while the highest was in St. John's (8.4 per cent).
The seasonally adjusted employment rate for the Halifax CMA was 62.5 per cent, up from 62.2 last month. Saguenay had the lowest employment rate (55.3 per cent), while Regina had the highest (68.8 per cent).
The three month average employment ending in January for the Halifax CMA was up 0.7 per cent compared to the three month period ending in December. The largest gain among CMAs was in Windsor, where employment rose by 2.3 per cent.
Note: Seasonally adjusted, 3 month average.
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As you may or may not know we are mad about Rugby League here at Trade Skills 4U. In fact our Director Carl Bennett is such a mad fan that he has made a guest appearance in a short clip promoting the upcoming Rugby League World Cup. See if you can spot him in the video below:
This is a huge year for Rugby League with the World Cup coming to England and Wales it will become even more prominent. The first game kicks off on the 26th October with a match between England and Australia at the millenium stadium in Cardiff. If you have never watched a game before you will find some amazing matches on offer with the best teams in the world all competing in the tournament which culimnates in the final on the 30th November at Old Trafford.

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A man who has served as alderman in St. Elmo for about seven years has been appointed mayor in that community.
In a 4-1 vote during a recessed meeting on Thursday evening, the St. Elmo City Council appointed Jayson Porter to the mayoral seat.
Porter's election as mayor came three days after Randy Watson submitted his resignation. After Watson resigned, Porter was picked by the council to conduct the remainder of Monday's regular council meeting. The council recessed the meeting until Thursday night.
The regional Financial Aid Night Lake Land College scheduled this evening for South Central High School has been canceled due to the weather. It has been rescheduled for Thursday, Dec. 13 at 6 p.m.
Representatives from Lake Land's Financial Aid office will present information on the 2008-2009 application process. The presentation will include information on state, federal, institutional and local financial aid programs.
Lets remember Pearl Harbor, as we go to meet the foe,
Lets remember Pearl Harbor, as we do the Alamo
Those were the words to a song that quickly rose to popularity following the infamous date of Dec. 7, 1941, the date of the attack of the Japanese on the American ships at Pearl Harbor, which instigated the involvement of the United States in World War II.
During that early morning surprise raid, which lasted just under two hours, eight American battleships were sunk or seriously damaged, along with 13 other naval vessels.
The Vandalia City Council approved seven requests for TIF (Tax Increment Financing) funds on Monday, with one of those requests drawing considerable discussion.
The council approved a $17,400 grant for Arthur Young Inc., which plans to demolish the buildings to the west of its dealership and also remodel its building at 122 W. Gallatin St.
After the demolition work, the dealership will use that property to display vehicles. The total project estimate is just under $50,000.
Five individuals, including three Brownstown residents, were charged with aggravated participation in methamphetamine manufacturing after a raid on a Brownstown residence last Tuesday evening.
Those who have been charged with the Class X felony, which carries a penalty of up to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $400,000, are:
• Betty L. Jackson, 47, 446 S. College St., Brownstown.
• Glendal F. Jackson, 47, 446 S. College St., Brownstown.
• Patricia N. Barron, 18, 446 S. College St., Brownstown.
A successor to retiring Fayette County Health Department Administrator Jan Forbes has been selected.
The health department announced on Tuesday morning that Rhonda Andrews will join the FCHD staff early in January.
Andrews comes to the health department with several years of experience in public health, having served as the administrator of the Marion County Health Department.
She also completed several special projects for area departments after leaving the Marion County position.
The St. Elmo City Council will meet this Thursday evening to pick a successor to Randy Watson, three days after Watson stepped down from the city's mayoral post.
Watson surprised aldermen on Monday night when he submitted a brief letter of resignation, then left the council's regularly scheduled meeting.
The council voted to have Alderman Jayson Porter conduct mayoral duties for the remainder of the meeting and recessed after completing scheduled matters.
The council will recovene at 7 p.m. this Thursday to choose an interim mayor.
Randy Watson resigned from the mayoral post in St. Elmo at Monday night's city council meeting.
Watson reportedly read his resignation, then left the meeting.
The council appointed Alderman Jayson Porter to serve as mayor for that meeting, and agreed to recess the meeting until Thursday, at which time it could appoint a successor.
For more, see this Thursday's issue of The Leader-Union.
The Vandalia Statehouse's annual Christmas Open House will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. this Saturday.
The first 100 families registering at the event will receive a handmade Christmas ornament.
The open house is free and open to the public.
Period music will be provide by Baroque Folk, and cookies and mulled cider will be served by members of Friends of the Old State Capitol.
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KOCH Media's UK-based publishing house Deep Silver has revealed a brand new title that's expected to debut at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo two weeks from now in Los Angeles. Known as D1RT, the Nu Generation-produced actioner is in simultaneous development for the Windows PC and PlayStation 2, and is expected to appear in European territories by the end of 2005.
Described by its handlers as "RPG Lite," D1RT is a fast-paced action/adventure set in the deserts of Nevada. Spanning 14 different levels, the game puts players in control of a mysterious female badass who's on a mission to infiltrate a secret government installation and kill a whole lot of people. Boasting a "play as you want" game design, D1RT also enables its users to approach any level with four unique and different styles -- stealth, aggression, exploration, and sharp shooting. In all the lead character will boast more than 20 different weapons as well as multiple offensive and defensive maneuvers to help her along the way.
Additional details about D1RT are still under wraps, but we'll have more at E3. Check back with us again in a couple of weeks.


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Morocco is shaping up as the next ''moderate'' Arab country in North Africa making a bid for extra US help to ward off the designs of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
King Hassan of Morocco is in mounting trouble and his parliament has already pointed the finger at Libya and Algeria as likely sources of some of his woes.
He has sent messages to President Reagan and a handful of other key world leaders calling their attention to this alleged outside interference. The US State Department had already voiced its concern at the escalation in hostilities.
The growing challenges to King Hassan:
* An apparent resumption of the war over the Western Sahara, in which inhabitants of that territory are challenging the assumption of Moroccan sovereignty over it after Spain's withdrawal in the mid-1970s.
* A simultaneous stepping-up of the level of weaponry in use against the Moroccans in that war - including surface-to-air missiles and tanks. What was perhaps the biggest battle in the conflict occurred last week around the Moroccan garrison town of Guelta Zemmur.
* The breakdown within Morocco of the national consensus behind the King's policy on Western Sahara. Late last month four opposition socialist leaders were sentenced to one-year jail terms - basically for having criticized him.
* A worsening social and economic situation, which burst into open protest demonstrations last June 20 in Casablanca.
* A change of French policy toward the two major countries of northwest Africa following President Giscard d'Estaing's defeat by Socialist Francois Mitterrand. The former had tilted toward Morocco in the longstanding rivalry between Morocco and Algeria. Mitterrand tilts toward Algeria.
(The US still tilts toward Morocco, despite Algerian help at the turn of the year in freeing the US hostages held in Iran.)
There are still unanswered questions about the resumption of hostilities over the Western Sahara. In effect, the new warfare would seem to wreck hope of implementation of the compromise plan worked out by King Hassan during the summer with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) for a referendum in Western Sahara to confirm - or otherwise - Moroccan sovereignty.
What is not clear is who might want to ditch the plan by stirring things up.
Is it King Hassan, in a mounting sea of troubles, who sees in a resumption of hostilities the basis for: (1) a claim on US help against Colonel Qaddafi; and ( 2) rebuilding the national consensus at home, broken by socialist criticism of royal ''weakness'' in ever agreeing to a referendum?
Or is it Polisario, the Western Sahara guerrilla organization, with its own government-in-exile, which has come to the conclusion that King Hassan's referendum proposal is a maneuver?
A Polisario spokesman emphasized on Havana Radio this month that his organization insisted on independence for Western Sahara under the name of the ''Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.'' They wanted to achieve it by negotiation and peaceful means. But if Moroccan ''intransigence'' prevented this, ''a solution will have to be achieved on the battlefield.''
On the ground in Western Sahara, the Moroccan Army has secured for itself the so-called ''useful triangle'' bounded by El Aiun (the capital), Semara, and Bu Craa (site of valuable phosphate deposits). Most of the rest of the sparsely populated territory is virtually a desert no man's land.
As for King Hassan's manipulation of the situation, there is little doubt that he did his utmost to convey to the outside world (and the US in particular) that the surface-to-air missiles that shot down two Moroccan planes were either installed or operated by non-Africans. Clearly he wanted the inference drawn that Cubans, Russians, or other Soviet-bloc personnel were involved. Moroccans suspect that the missiles and the tanks used at Guelta Zemmur must have been paid for by the oil-rich Libyans.
Behind all this is maneuvering involving all four northwest African states.
King Hassan accuses Mauritania of helping Polisario in the latest hostilities and has admitted Moroccan bombing of Polisario positions allegedly inside Mauritania.
Morocco has in the past correctly accused Libya and Algeria of supporting Polisario. But in the summer there was a surprise rapprochement between Morocco and Libya. King Hassan apparently hoped Qaddafi would thereafter stop his arms supplies to Polisario. Qaddafi counted on Morocco's being more sympathetic toward Libya's presence in Chad and Qaddafi's presidency of the OAU next year. That now seems to be coming unstuck.


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SOMERS, N.Y. -- Somers High School will be hosting its Somersfest, a day of high school sports, for families to enjoy on Saturday, May 10.
Here's the schedule of events:
9 a.m.: Varsity Softball vs. Fox Lane High School, Freshman Boys Baseball vs. Mahopac High School
9:30 a.m.: Varsity Girls Lacrosse vs. Albertus Magnus, Turf #1, JV Girls Lacrosse vs. Albertus Magnus, Turf #2
11 a.m.: Varsity Tennis vs. North Salem High School at Reis Park
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Varsity Baseball Clinic Turf #2
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m: Girls/Boys Track at SHS
11:30 a.m.: JV Softball vs. Mahopac at Vantessel
Noon: JV Baseball vs. Irvington
3 p.m.: Varsity Baseball vs. Irvington, Freshman Boys Lacrosse vs. Mahopac Turf #1
5 p.m.: JV Boys Lacrosse vs. Lakeland, Turf #1
7 p.m.: Varsity Boys Lacrosse vs. Lakeland, Turf #1. The Somers Dance team will be performing at half time.
Support Somers High School's Clubs by visiting the following stands at the events:
- The Concession Stand run by the Student Council
- Somers Booster Club's buy-a-brick fund-raiser
- Somers Cheerleading raffle to support their journey to nationals
- Somers High School STAT Club's socks stand
In addition, donate lightly used sports equipment to the school. Or bring a non-perishable item, shampoo, or detergent to St. Luke's Pantry Donation.
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How to Achieve Balance
We hear a lot about the need for balance in our lives, but often the things people say about balance indicate that they have no idea what balance is. Sometimes the need for balance is expressed in terms of not having "too much" of something. Balance in diet means not eating "too much". Balance in ecology is expressed in terms of not consuming "too much". Balance in the economy is expressed in terms of not earning or owning "too much." But how do we know what "too much" is, or "not enough" and how do we determine that something is "just right"? Often it is expressed in numerical terms: a certain number of calories, or of kilowatts or of dollars. But the moment we start thinking of it that way, we have lost sight of the original concept of balance.
Balance implies a natural equilibrium between countervailing forces.
Balance requires Equilibrium
When we first begin to study balance, we often use a simplified model where there are only two countervailing forces, as in the case of a scale. In a scale, balance is maintained when the weight on one side is equal to the weight on the other. However, in nature balance often involves many different forces that have a complex and dynamic interplay, and any change in one of them can have cascading effects on all the others.
The balance beam
Mechanical Equilibrium
According to the Wikipedia article on mechanical equilibrium: "The necessary and sufficient conditions for a particle to be in mechanical equilibrium is that the net force acting upon the particle is zero."
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If you are a bird in flight, or the pilot of an airplane, you have to achieve balance in three dimensional space. That means that you must balance at least three different variables: roll, pitch and yaw.
In an airplane, pitch is controlled by the elevator, yaw by the rudder and roll by the ailerons.To keep your plane from spiraling out of control, it is not enough to keep the wings level. You have to use the rudder, too. In a controlled turn, rudder is applied in the opposite direction from which the ailerons are going, so as the achieve balance. To avoid stalling during a climb, you must not pull up too high, so you balance the lift of the wings with the attitude you select.. To avoid a dive when descending, you keep the nose higher than it would go if left to its own devices. Any change in one of the three dimensions requires a countervailing correction in at least one of the others.
Tarantula on a Human Hand: Thermal image
Biological Model of Balance: Homeostasis
So far, we have only been talking about a physical, mechanistic model of balance. Biological models are much more complicated and include more variables that balance each other out. An important concept in biology is homeostasis. Homeostasis is the "property of a system, either open or closed, that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition." (Source: Wikipedia).
An example of a homoestatic system is a warm-blooded animal that maintains a constant temperature regardless of what the temperature is outside, what, if anything, it has had for dinner, and what its level of activity is at the moment. A human being is such a system, and it is this system that comes into play when the issue of weight maintenance comes up.
A calorie is a unit of heat. It is the controlling unit for the maintenance of body temperature. Under ideal conditions, a mammal will tend to maintain the same body temperature and the same overall weight, despite other variables such as ambient temperature, calories consumed and the level of activity that the animal has recently engaged in. The system adjusts other factors, such as metabolism, in order to maintain a stable state.
To be a healthy mammal means that your body maintains this equilibrium entirely on its own, without any conscious intervention on your part. The best policy, so long as this equilibrium is functioning, is laissez faire. Most mammals, including humans, have no earthly idea how the system functions, and the less they interfere with it, the better.
No Pilot -- and Yet It Flies
Unlike the example of how the airplane is kept in balance by a pilot, the homeostatic system has no central planner, no chief honcho, no pilot to guide the flight safely on its way. This is an involuntary, automated system that has evolved naturally to maintain balance in the organism -- for a time.
When the system breaks down, and it always does eventually, the balance becomes more and more difficult to maintain, until the result is death to the organism. This happens in many different ways, but it always happens eventually. If injury or disease does not cause it sooner, then the imbalances of old age will eventually snuff out the life of the organism.
No matter how well balanced a life we lead, we can't stay balanced forever. Anybody who offers us immortality in return for a lifestyle change is lying. But it is true that lifestyle choices can greatly curtail the period when we remain healthy and balanced. If the human maximum life expectancy is somewhere around one hundred and twenty years, it is always possible for it to be cut much shorter by actions that promote imbalance.
Many people are looking for a balanced lifestyle in order to promote long life and good health. While some of these people are quite extreme in their pursuit of "balance", most people equate balance with moderation. How wrong they are!
Moderation is Bad -- If Your Theory is Wrong
Why would it be wrong to exercise moderation in order to attempt to maintain balance longer? If not thinking about what you eat works pretty well, wouldn't a few calculations make the balance even better calibrated? A lot of people sabotage themselves this way.The fact is that "moderation" is not a theory-neutral concept. It depends on your theory of nutrition what constitutes moderation.
For instance, there are those who think that calories consumed are everything. That is their theory. They believe that they can change their weight by controlling the number of calories they ingest. If they continue to do the same things, only cut their caloric intake by a couple of hundred calories each day, then in the end they will lose weight. But does it work that way? No. What they really end up doing is slowing down their metabolic rate. The system has a set point. It will try its darndest to maintain stability in body temperature and weight. It will make adjustments in the less manipulable area of the caloric economy, and despite the change in diet, the weight will be maintained.
What about those whose theory is that fat is bad, but non-fat is good? Those people may decide that they'll cut down on fat and maintain a diet that consists of exactly the same number of calories as before. Since they think that body fat is directly related to dietary fat, they will shun foods high in fat and embrace those that are low fat. What will their body do in reaction to this policy? Foods low in fat are high on the glycemic index. They trigger a sugar spike and a release of insulin and induce hunger faster. Such people will end up eating more often and more calories, and will eventually risk becoming diabetic. If they hadn't had the anti-fat theory bolstering this behavior, they would have eaten less.
But isn't that cheating on your diet? What if the low fat people had insisted on sticking to the low-fat diet with the same number of calories? Well, then the body, sensing hunger and impending starvation would have lowered the metabolic rate, and again there would be a net gain -- or at the very least, no loss. (If, due to a lowered metabolism, a fat to muscle ratio shift occurs, the lower metabolism may become permanent, in which case the low fat dieters will have to consume even fewer calories to maintain the same weight. This sort of policy has the potential to spiral out of control and induce imbalance.)
What about somebody who decides to leave the diet alone, but embarks on a moderate exercise regimen in order to reduce weight by burning calories? The more you exercise, the more you will want to eat in order to regain the energy expended. If you don't eat as much as your body tells you to, the body will decide that it needs to lower your metabolic rate. Many of us who took up moderate exercise in the hopes of inducing moderate weight loss have been disappointed by the results. This expedient usually does not result in a greater imbalance, but there is no overall weight loss.
People who try to outsmart their bodies often end up outsmarting themselves. The automatic mechanism that maintains homeostasis will not allow us to cheat the system. Because there is no central control, there is nobody to bribe.
Conservation of Energy
There is, of course, the law of conservation of energy. Energy is neither created nor destroyed.This applies to all physical entities, including living organisms.
If you do cut down the calories consumed over an extended period of time without any opportunity to cheat and get more food, there is a limit to what the body can do in terms of reducing metabolic rate. You can't reduce your energy consumption to zero and still keep living indefinitely. Eventually weight will be lost, and if the starvation diet persists, the individual will die. This is a very unpleasant process and there is nothing moderate about it. It is not a good way to try to maintain balance. Even if the food supply is again replenished before death occurs, the consequences to the metabolic rate may be permanent.
Have you ever wondered what happened to conscientious objectors in the United States during World War II? Some of them were used as medical guinea pigs in experiments concerning changes to the metabolic rate when people are starving. In his paper Bodyweight Setpoint, Metabolic Adaptation and Human Starvation, mathematician Frank P. Kozusko describes one such experiment.
Kozusko develops a mathematical model for calculating daily energy requirements that includes the metabolic response to weight loss. He bases his calculations on data from the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Under his model, calories have to be cut down even more with every drop in metabolic rate in order to maintain a constant rate of loss. Maintaining a steady low calorie diet will not lead to consistent weight loss results. He also admits that not all research subjects in the Minnesota experiment fit neatly into his model, and he speculates that perhaps deviations are due to original differences in body fat ratio prior to the experiment.
Restricting calories is a way to achieve loss that fights against the natural balance of the organism. The more you restrict the calories, the more the system will fight back and restrict the caloric consumption of the body at rest. To choose this path is to choose to be at war with your natural balance.
Changes That Move the Set Point
People do gain weight sometimes without intentionally changing their diet. People do lose weight sometimes, even though they are not on a calorie restricted regimen. If the naturally maintained homeostasis were some kind of unbreakable magic formula then this could never happen. When it does happen, here is what usually occurs:
First, something that seriously affects metabolism happens, then the set point is moved, and afterwards a shift in caloric intake comes into effect. For instance, many medications can lower metabolic rate. People who are on these medications start out eating and exercising just as before, but somehow don't burn as many calories. As the extra calories accumulate, weight is gained. After weight gain, the body's fat to muscle ratio changes, so that the metabolic rate is even lower. With the metabolic rate that much lower, people become lethargic and exercise less than before. They feel the need to maintain their current weight, so they eat an amount that prevents them from losing the newly gained weight. This scenario will eventually result in consuming more calories than in the original diet, but the consumption of more calories is a result of weight gain, not its cause.
Weight loss can occur if the body isn't able to metabolize the calories consumed. It can occur if instead of digesting them, the body excretes more of them. Weight loss can occur if the metabolism is speeded up, whether with drugs or due to a rise in the ratio of muscle to fat. Weight loss can occur when the same number of calories are consumed per day, but it takes longer to break them down into usable energy and more calories are needed to effect that breakdown. Eventually, after such a metabolic change has occurred and weight has been lost, the person, feeling a need for fewer calories to maintain current body weight, will start to eat less. The reduction in eating is usually the result of weight loss, not its cause.
If you are an overweight person with a sluggish metabolism, some things to try would be a low carb diet and an exercise regimen of lifting weights to build muscle mass. These expedients are calculated to shift metabolism, not control caloric intake or output directly. After metabolism changes, then the homeostatic system will take care of the calorie balance itself.
However, the point here is not that every imbalance can be fixed by the expedient of manipulation. The point is that inasmuch as your system works, you should not do anything to undermine it. My theory may be wrong. Your doctor's theory may be wrong. Your grandmother's theory may be wrong.There are so many variables to work with and making a miscalculation is easy. It is better to let the natural balance work, than to think that we can micromanage it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.
This means that instead of trying to virtuously tell our body what it should be doing, we should listen more to what our natural urges tell us we should do. Healthy people don't think about health. Balanced people don't think about balance. Achieving balance means allowing nature to re-establish itself.
Amish Work Hard and Eat A Lot
I recently read a hub about how the Amish live. It described both their work habits and their diet. The Amish eat a hearty, calorie rich diet -- the kind that most of us would never allow ourselves -- but they work very hard. Because of the physical labor in their lifestyle, they can afford to eat this much, and they do not become obese or even overweight. I wondered idly to myself, reading this, whether it ever occurred to them that they need not work so hard, if only they ate less. Of course, it was one of those silly thoughts that are based on a simplistic understanding of conservation of energy. Calories in, calories out. If only it were that simple! I then realized that it would probably not work out the way I envisioned, either in terms of metabolism or of economics. The forces at play are too many and too complex for me to know why, but the Amish probably are living their optimal lifestyle. If they worked less, it would not simply result in eating less. There would be so many other cascading repercussions that nobody could have predicted in advance, many of which might include reduced property ownership, less land per person and greater crowding.
An on-line friend who shares my faith in laissez-faire recently described his idea of how the economy is similar to a stable equilibrium. He suggested that everything would take care of itself, if only we didn't interfere, and that random fluctuations would not result in system-wide changes. My view is a little bit different. I see the economy as a dynamic system with a lifespan, much like a living organism. The life of the average human is not going to exceed its highest potential, no matter what lifestyle is chosen. However, by going against the natural balance, one can greatly curtail the lifespan. Many people are diabetic now, not because they followed their natural urges and ate too much, but because they followed the advice of physicians and ate the wrong things -- things they didn't even enjoy. They chose margarine over butter, cereal over eggs, feeling very virtuous about eating food that tasted worse. But these "virtuous" unnatural choices made them sick, and attempts to correct the problem made them even sicker.
Intervention in diet leads to trouble and more intervention until a thirty-year-old has the body of someone else at ninety. Economies and civilizations also have a limited lifespan. It would be unreasonable to expect the United States to remain young forever. It would be unlikely that America would remain a force to be reckoned with for more than a thousand years. Eventually old age and the depredations of a bureaucracy would have surely ended the life of this nation, and a new nation would have arisen as the next world power. However, the United States of America is less than three hundred years old, and thanks to interventions in its economy, it is as aged as a thousand year reich. One intervention has to led to another in rapid succession, and the barbarians are at the door!
Can the effects of aging be reversed? Can a natural balance in the economy be restored? Not so long as the majority don't understand what balance is.
(c) 2010 Aya Katz
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We have definitely forgotten about balance in this world. It would be good if we had more autonomy to interact with each other and make our own decisions in life.
great information on balancing.. Its good to stop at this hub.. I got to know many things which I was unaware of .. good job..
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Re this hub, I have read or heard much of this before pertaining to weight loss stragegies, and it is probably generally true. Nonetheless, my testimonial is that I lost over 20 lbs. in the earty 90's doing the T-factor low-fat diet, with no calorie counting, eating as much low fat food as I wanted (even hi sugar), no increase in exercise, and I maintained the loss as long as I kept eating low fat. Choosing low fat foods as much as my will power will allow is still a cornerstone of my weight maintenance routine. However, in general I believe in moderation and different strokes for different folks, where healthy weight maintenance is concerned.
A very good hub. I will read it again when I have more time. It is hard to achieve the right balance in our lives but it is very important. Thanks
An organon of biochemistry
Molds the free market's physiology.
The biomechanics of economies
With bureaucrats is subject to disease.
Biomechanics implies balance.
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But forcing someone out of their job is?
That's some very creative morality you have there.
No, it's not.
Tell me how many people have died from not getting their wedding cake or wedding license, and if it's even remotely comparable to the number of people that would die of police or doctors or drugstores refused service then I'll concede your point.
Yeah, if you do something that is illegal or immoral, lets say you work at a daycare center but you are a nudist, they can go "don't be naked". Its not a right to be naked around children even if you have some beliefs such as "clothes are evil". They can force you to wear clothes or get fired (or in the other case give marriage licenses to gays).
So racism is fine as long as nobody dies......
Suffering is suffering, and everyone should try to prevent needless suffering.
Suffering is NOT: not being allowed to call black people niggers and refuse to sell shit to them.
If a devout Christian issues a marriage license to a same sex couple, the consequences are far beyond that of "interfering with someone's diet." To someone who does not understand or follow that person's religious beliefs, it may seem like a petty thing to do, but to them there are severe moral, social, and religious conflicts and repercussions.
The issue lies within the United State's current business laws. You're allowed to refuse service if it would hinder your ability to provide service or negatively effect your business, but you are not allowed to deny service based on the characteristics of the possible customers.
I personally believe that any business owner should have the right to deny service to anyone for any reason. Sure they will lose a sale, and possibly other sales because of their choice, but that should be the only punishment they receive as a result.
"Cant tell a black guy to go to another store because I'm racist.
I'm such a victim"
Discriminating others is not a right........
I think being equally treated in the economy is a right tho.
In a world where white people are assaulted or killed for stepping foot in the ghetto, you have to go with "imagine being a black person going into a store and being told you have to leave!"?
Take a step back and put yourself in the shoes of the victims of these situations.
Exactly how is "not getting married" more suffering than "loosing your job/business"? In what world is that correct? Exactly why is discriminating based on religion ok, but based on sexuality not ok? Exactly why should someone be forced to do something they believe to be morally wrong when not doing so would cause absolutely no harm? Why are you so supportive of deviant sexuality, but so anti-religion?
She is in the wrong, and should be punished.
We could always just discuss what you mean by wrong..


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Preface from Wade and Sharon
I moved to Vancouver in 1991 and was instantly drawn to the North Shore mountains and their enticing mystique. My experience in numerous bike shops in Kamloops opened up multiple opportunities here in Vancouver. Inevitably, I started to explore the local trails and participate in the emerging mountain bike race scene. I was fortunate to have arrived early enough to respect and appreciate the cross-country side of mountain biking, and to be an integral part of the local "freeride" movement that was just gaining momentum. This combination sparked my appetite for seeking out the best rides on the Shore which is something I love to share!
Wade Simmons
I grew up in Vancouver and was on a bike at a very young age. My first mountain bike ride was in 1991 on Severed D on a Kuwahara Roc'Dazur. I came out bloodied, muddied and hooked. I became involved with the North Shore Mountain Bike Association (NSMBA) in 2001 and was president from 2002 to 2006. Since then I have helped organize the North Shore BikeFest and I continue to be involved in mountainbike advocacy on the North Shore. This map book represents a continuation of my desire to share this trail knowledge with those who ride here.
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No traditional Bullets today, as the Joe Maddon stuff is overshadowing anything else we'd want to be discussing right now (especially on a Sunday). So let's just look at more Maddon bits …
- Patrick Mooney writes about the way the Cubs pursued Theo Epstein three years ago, and how it became a point-of-no-return kind of thing. He's drawing a certain parallel there, which is understandable given the continued silence emanating from the Cubs about Maddon and current manager Rick Renteria. We've long passed the point where the Cubs could credibly deny that they are looking into this thing, but does that mean the point at which the Cubs could come out with a strong statement that they're sticking with Renteria is already gone? We'll see.
- My guess on the silence at this point is that the Cubs are looking into the possibility of hiring Maddon, and, to the extent they had anything to say publicly at all about that, they don't want to do it during the World Series.
- Mooney's piece also has comments from Maddon's agent, Alan Nero, who reiterates that Maddon could wind up sitting out a year and doing the TV thing if a perfect managerial situation doesn't arise. Paul Sullivan writes on the same subject, with comments from Nero, who told Sullivan that any allegations of tampering are ridiculous – in part, it sounds like, because the Cubs haven't even contacted Nero yet. At least as of mid-day yesterday.
- To that point, Gordon Wittenmyer has a source saying that Theo Epstein flew to Tampa Bay yesterday to meet with Maddon, though Maddon's agent denied that. Wittenmyer's piece, together with Mooney's and Sullivan's, should be your Sunday Maddon reading if you can't get enough of this story.
- Nick Cafardo received a plain denial of interest from the Red Sox, but he seems to remain of the mind that a number of other teams are going to go hard after Maddon as soon as the World Series dust clears. Which teams might that be? We still don't know for sure yet, because there have pretty much been three categories of clubs: the deniers (which includes most of the obvious places), the Cubs (heavily rumored, but no comments publicly), and the non-deniers-non-rumored. Like, for my own example … the Cardinals.
- I have a strong feeling, by the way, that Maddon will wind up going wherever he feels the most excited about the fit. The money is likely to be similar in every offer, but, to the extent there's a small difference here and there, I think he's the kind of guy who's ultimately going to go where he sees the brightest future. I'm not saying that's the Cubs for sure, but you do have to love their position, in that respect (Obligatory: But sticking with Renteria could be good for the future, too.)


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Relations between Dublin and London are not as warm as would be expected after last week's successful seizure of a gun-running trawler off the Kerry coast.
A recent speech to police recruits in Ulster by Douglas Hurd, the new secretary of state for Northern Ireland, sparked a series of complaints from the Republic of Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. The department interpreted Mr. Hurd's speech as claiming there was growing support among Ulster's Roman Catholics for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
This was regarded by Dublin as ''misleading,'' and the government's ''serious concern'' was expressed to the British ambassador in Dublin.
Early this week, however, Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald admitted the Irish protest may have been ''a bit too hasty,'' and added that while one phrase of the Hurd speech ''did not reflect reality,'' he did not believe a particular remark taken out of context merited the sharp Dublin reaction.
The tiff between the two governments points to a deeper Irish concern.
Irish nationalists from north and south claim the half-million Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland are becoming increasingly ''alienated'' from the institutions of state, and that they have little or no faith in the impartiality of the police and judicial system.
Against such a background, the Ulster police have an almost impossible task of pleasing everyone. There are some 12,000 (7,000 full-timers and 5,000 part-timers) in the force, and unofficial estimates indicate that only 10 percent are Roman Catholics. The RUC does not recruit on a basis of religion, but because many Catholics are unwilling to join for fear of reprisals by the Provisional wing of the illegal Irish Republican Army, the police force is largely Protestant.
The British government in its response to the New Ireland Forum report - a nationalist blueprint for Irish unity with Protestant consent - has the difficult task of trying to increase Catholic participation in Ulster and its institutions such as the police, while at the same time avoiding the alienation of Protestants by giving too much away to Irish nationalists from north or south.
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Teramind Review
By Business.com Editorial StaffLast Modified: August 22, 2018
An employee monitoring software solution should serve multiple purposes, from tracking the sites an employee visits to ensuring that no crucial files are shared, copied or printed. Many newer employee tracking programs, such as Teramind, include tools to monitor worker productivity. Because it includes all of the important monitoring and filtering tools we looked for as well as the option of on-premises or cloud deployment, Teramind is a top employee monitoring software application.
When evaluating which workplace monitoring solution is best to implement, you will want to take stock of the help and support options they offer. Teramind offers all the support methods we consider important – telephone, email, live chat. We recommend calling the company for quick responses, as its live chat didn't provide the quickest response.
To learn more about the program, you can consult Teramind's FAQs section and the technical documentation provided on their site. The documentation is particularly helpful because it has step-by-step instructions and screenshots to help you find where a particular function is located.
The core function of any employee monitoring software program is the ability to track an employee's computer usage. This goes beyond tracking the websites they're visiting. It discloses the files they open, delete, or modify; the documents they print; and whether they transfer files to a removable drive.
Teramind allows you to monitor employee activity in real time rather than providing snapshots that can be reviewed later. You can also use this program to create rules in real time. You do this by setting a threat level for certain activities and creating actions and responses specifically tailored to that action. For example, if an employee is using Facebook, you can set the threat level to low and give them a warning after they've been on that site for 15 minutes. For a high-risk action, such as copying sensitive files to a flash drive, the employee's computer may be locked.
In addition to monitoring employee activity for security threats, Teramind evaluates employee productivity. This workplace monitoring program shows you how active your employees are, so you can see not just what sites or programs they are using, but how actively they are engaging with them. This means you can see which of your employees are idle, and you can use Teramind's productivity reports to uncover inefficiencies in your workforce and take steps to correct them. Teramind also monitors when your employees log in and out.
Website filtering and blocking is one of the core components of employee monitoring. Teramind allows you to set up rules that are triggered when a user goes to a specific website or a certain type of website. You can either give an employee a warning for visiting these sites or block them completely. You can create exceptions and allow them to visit those sites, if there is a need to use those sites for a work-related project.
One unique aspect of Teramind is that you can bunch employees into different groups and create rules that govern those specific teams. For example, you can give unlimited access to Facebook and Twitter to your social media team while restricting those sites for the customer service team. In addition, Teramind allows you to set aside certain times of day for monitoring and filtering so employees can use certain sites when they're on their lunch break.
You can also use this employee monitoring software to block files from being transferred to a removable drive. This ensures that no vital data is given to competitors.
When using an employee-tracking program, you will most often deploy it in silent mode. This allows you to filter, track and observe the behavior of your employees without them knowing it. Teramind offers silent tracking as well as a transparent mode, which this program refers to as Freelance mode. This is a good option if you have contract employees, freelancers or employees who work from home.
Teramind offers two different options for deploying its workplace-monitoring program. You can have it installed on-premises, which is the standard for these programs. On-site deployment means you need to dedicate server space to run the program and store that data. If you have an established IT infrastructure, on-site deployment is a good option, especially if you need to maintain regulatory compliance.
Cloud deployment is also available. This requires significantly less IT knowledge and is a more simple and rapid deployment option. You won't have to manage servers, and any updates and maintenance is managed by Teramind. One advantage of cloud deployment is that if an employee uses their computer off-site, their activity is still logged.
Teramind employee monitoring software provides all the basic and expanded features we looked for. In addition to allowing you to monitor and block employee web browsing and file manipulation, you can use this program to track employee productivity. Teramind also offers both cloud and on-premises deployment options, and is our top choice for an employee monitoring program.
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