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Issue 51, May 2009
The Rudd government has opted to give solar power rather than hot rocks geothermal – or wave power – a big push in the May federal budget.
It has decided to provide $1.365 billion over six years to support four solar energy generation projects, starting with $315 million in 2009-10 for demonstration plants on an industrial scale.
The move follows on the support given by the Howard government ($75 million) and the Victorian government ($50 million) totalling $125 million for a solar power station now being developed by Solar Systems and TRUenergy near Mildura. This 154 MW project is touted as the largest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power plant in the world, able to generate 270,000 megawatt hours a year – enough to earn some $17.5 million in renewable energy target subsidies annually under the proposals recently announced by Rudd. It is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
The government proposes to supply up to a third of each new project's costs, suggesting that it expects solar developments to reach $4.5 billion in addition to the existing Mildura project.
The most likely other areas for developments are seen as northern South Australia, western NSW and south-east Queensland.
While the budget solar decision is winning environmental activist plaudits, they are angered by the government also deciding to increase its support for development of "clean coal" projects by $2 billion over nine years. Greenpeace celebrated a cut in the ration of government spending on fossil fuels and renewables from 28:1 in last year's budget to 9.5:1 this time round. It labelled the government contribution of $2.4 billion to "clean coal" projects over nine years as "absurd."
Clean Energy Council chief executive Matthew Warren said endorsement of clean energy, including solar project and energy efficiency promotion, would help to deliver new jobs, especially in regional Australia.
Meanwhile the government has also decided to establish an independent innovation agency to be called Renewables Australia, with a brief to promote the development, commercialisation and deployment of green energy technology, and to divert $365 million from the non-solar elements of the Renewable Energy Fund to RA's use.
The Australian network service providers remain unhappy with the rate of return on investments allowed by the energy regulator, even though the Australian Energy Regulator caved in and increased the weighted average cost of capital from its initial 8.5 percent to 8.8 percent.
Energy Networks Association chief executive Andrew Blyth has responded to the rise by arguing that it is, in fact, a "severe cut" to investment returns in the midst of a global financial crisis that had already caused "capital rationing."
The stockmarket apparently agrees because an early reaction was a seven percent fall in listed SP Ausnet's share price in the wake of the AER decision.
Blyth argues that the regulator has not recognised "real world business conditions" and appears to be alone in a view that the cost of capital has gone down. He warns that setting inappropriately low rates of return will deter new investment in energy infrastructure over the next decade.
For his part, AER chairman Steve Edwell acknowledges "extraordinary conditions" in global financial markets but argues the decision takes a long-term perspective and that the regulatory regime will continue to compensate networks for the ctual cost of debt they incur at the time of the next determination.
The regulator has approved the largest network capital works programs in Australian history. Over the five years to 2014, it has allowed $275 million of capex in the tiny Australian Capital Territory market for ActewAGL and $14 billion in outlays by the three government-owned distribution businesses in New South Wales, an 80 percent increase over the permitted spending in the five-year term now ending.
The AER has agreed to Country Energy spending $3,955 million, EnergyAustralia spending $8,435 million (including high voltage capital works) and Integral Energy spending $2,914 million – a total, including the transmission outlay, of $15.3 billion. It went on to agree to the government-owned transmission service, TransGrid, spending $2.4 billion on capital works over the next five years, a 72 percent increase over the $1.4 billion outlayed in the determination period now ending.
The AER approvals bring the total outlays for the wires businesses in NSW, including the Capital Territory, to just under $18 billion.
Some $800 million of the EnergyAustralia expenditure will be focused on the Sydney CBD, where the distributor has had three highly-publicised blackouts in recent weeks.
Looking at the distribution capex, Edwell comments that, in part, the need for increased investment is being driven by a greater use of air-conditioning. "Expanding the networks to keep air-conditioning running on a few hot days makes (them) more costly to build and operate as this capacity is then under-utilised for much of the year."
Fitch Ratings note that the unprcedented level of expenditure comes at a time when capex for water supply is also increasing rapidly along with the need to augment gas distribution – and they warn that the regulator needs to ensure that there is enough incentive for debt and equity providers to make available adequate funds to essential service sectors
They also note that IPART, the pricing regulator in NSW, has recently proposed increases in electricity bills of 18 to 20 percent, about half of which was due to network charge rises, and predict tariffs will need to rise further to cope with new capex outlays.
Meanwhile the Energy Users Association, which claims to speak for more than 100 companies, argues that end-user businesses are facing multi-faceted and substantial cost pressures and the new round of cost increases will impact on their competitiveness.
One network business breaking ranks on the cost of capital issue is Envestra, which has "cautiously welcomed" the AER decision. Envestra has no electricity assets and is looking at the cost of capital decision in the light of its gas network capex applications to be made in 2011 for South Australianand Queensland assets and in 2012 for those in Victoria. Chief executive Ian Little is pleased that the AER agreed to increase the allowable rate from its draft decision late last year, saying that this is recognition of the increased capital costs confronting infrastructure companies in the economic crisis.
The electricity industry has reacted negatively to the Rudd government decision to make changes to its proposed emissions trading scheme compensation and to push out its introduction by a year.
The Energy Supply Association says the revised scheme has the same critical flaws as the first concept – it will just be implemented later. What is proposed, it says, "could compromise efficient supply in the next few years."
The association wants further changes to address the stranding of coal-fired power stations, to provide a firm 10-year emission cap and a further 10-year "rolling gateway," to ensure that there are no additional working capital requirements for liable suppliers and to remove retail price regulation.
ESAA chief executive Clare Savage told the Senate select committee on climate change policies that its members would need to purchase 200 million one-tonne emissions permits a year, meaning that, with a $20 price, the industry would need to hold $10 billion worth at any given time. The government now proposes to hold permit prices to $10 for the first years, with a transition to to full market trading from July 2012.
International Power Australia CEO Tony Concannon told senators that the Rudd government scheme "will provide a dislocation in the electricity sector." Coal-fired assets, he said, would find their cost base increased by 200 to 400 percent, depending on permit prices. ""That will result in insolvency or near-insolvency and certainly a reduced ability to do maintenance. In turn, this could lead to reduced energy security or energy supply."
Savage added that the combination of the ETS and the renewable energy target could see retail electricity prices rise by between 40 and 50 percent by 2020.
Appearing two days later for the National Generators Forum, Concannon said power station owners were faced, on Treasury analysis, with having to spend $55 billion buying ETS permits by 2020 under the initial scheme. This, he argued, would "increase operational costs for some coal-fired plants by 100 to 200 percent and render a number insolvent by 2015."
He warned that, because of the reporting requirements of the Corporations Act, the ramifications for some generators would become increasingly apparent in the next three to six months.
He rejected assertions that generators were asking for more compensation, saying they were calling on the government not to take so much money from them.
In a riposte to environmentalists arguing for the closure of brown coal power stations in Victoria, International Power Australia CEO Tony Concannon has told senators that he does not believe there are adequate gas reserves to replace 7,000 MW of capacity in the state on a long-term basis. debaters of global warming policy would do well to read some Stern comments.
Origin Energy CEO Grant King has told the Senate select committee on climate policy that the uncertainty the electricity industry now faced with a carbon pricing regime is beginning to exceed the gains that might accrue to a company like his.
In an uncertain environment, he added, less supply facilities will be built and this will lead to "an increased change in the supply/demand balance." This would result in higher risk, higher market volatily and increased consumer prices.
"Uncertainty is becoming real," he said, "and the outworking will probably be price outcomes of greater consequence than those caused by the (emissions trading) scheme itself."
King said that Origin, however, is a strong supporter of the concept. "We very strongly endorse the fact that an emissions trading scheme is the best solution."
Dr Regina Betts, joint director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, at the University of New South Wales, has told the Senate climate policy inquiry that the proposed ETS legislation has areas of "enormous complexity" that will add to transaction costs. The definition in it of "liable entity," she points out, runs to 80 pages compared with one page with an annex in the European Union scheme. CEEM can see six areas where improvements could be made in the legislations efficiency.
Trevor St Baker, executive chairman of ERM Power, the largest power station developer in the country for the past four years, says the company is "marking time" on the development of $1.8 billion worth of projects because of the "sovereign risk threat" of the emisisons trading draft legislation.
St Baker, who has overseen the investment of $2.5 billion in 2,500 MW of joint venture, gas-fired power stations in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia since the middle of the decade, has told the Senate inquiry in to climate policy that pushing ahead with a unilateral policy to impose carbon charges and the imposition of trading from the start of the emisisons trading scheme, is affecting the credit worthiness of the electricity sector.
He also told senators that there is no immediate or near-term alternative to gas-fired generation for carbon emissions reduction for the bulk of Australia's electricity needs over the next decade. This means, he said, that any scheme to lower emissions must encourage investment in new gas-powered plant. At least 1,000 MW of new generation is required every year over the decade at a cost of $1.5 billion to $2 billion annually, he added. "The proposed (legislation) will not achieve this."
St Baker said the power stations on which ERM is "marking time" are proposed for development in regional NSW and regional Queensland. "They are required for security of supply three years from now. Construction needs to be committed within a year. The $1.8 billion of finance needed will not be obtainable unless lenders and investors are re-assured that the Australian electricity sector can maintain its high credit rating."
With a greatly shrunk global banking sector from which to source debt finance, he said, the remaining international lenders are sensitive to country risk. "The certainty that the Australian industry needs is that Australia will not legislate for a scheme prior to a global scheme design being decided and implemented."
St Baker pointed out that lower-emission power development has been pursued in Australia throughout the decade. "There has been no new coal-fired power generation approved for the NEM since 2001. More than 5,000 MW of gas-fired generation has been built or commenced over the past five years. There is an ample gas resource in Australia to continue as a transitional low-carbon emissions source until lower emission baseload technologies are invented and commercially rolled out."
He argues for a gas generation incentive scheme to be introduced nationally along the lines of the Queensland requirement, which is credited with driving the development of the state's coal seam methane business. Retiring coal plants and replacing them with gas power stations could achieve a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions to 12 percent below 2000 levels by 2025, he claims.
In a talk this month to a joint forum of the Netherlands and American chambers of commerce in Melbourne, Russ Caplan, chairman of the Sehll companies in Australia, has called for changes in behaviour across the energy supply and consumption chain.
Caplan said: "Today, in much of the world, we take energy for granted. We treat it as a right and we're careless in its use: consuming ever more energy-demanding gadgets, enjoying hot buildings in winter and freezing ones in summer, and driving gas-guzzling cars."
He added: "Today the economics of energy use encourage this profligacy. For example, a consumer may buy a television that uses more energy rather than a more efficienct, but also more expensive, model. In order to meet that greater energy need, multiplied by millions of consumers who turn on the TVs at peak times, power companies have to invest in additional capacity which is unused for much of the day."
He set out an argument for introduction of emissions trading in Australia to promote efficiency in consumption, but acknowledged the critical issue of how this country manages the competitive disadvantage of applying a carbon price before its trading partners.
Australia's largest transport fuel supplier, Caltex, has told the Senate inquiry in to carbon policy that the proposed emissions trading scheme will impose $20 billion worth of cost on refiners to buy permits over the next decade, but the compensatory excise reduction for consumers means that there will be no reduction in greenhouse gases from vehicles "and absolutely no environmental effect whatsoever."
Caltex government affairs manager Frank Topham told senators that the excise reduction will actually see petrol prices fall for several years below what they actually otherwise would be, with emissions from petrol going up. "It will take about 15 years to recover that increase," he argued.
Caltex is calling for private motorists and smaller commercial vehicle users to be removed from emissions trading compensation – as well as moves to provide cash back for purchase of high-efficiency vehicles, better consumer education, improved public transport and grants for R&D of alternative fuels.
Topham said that, even with the company compensation proposals of the Rudd government scheme, Caltex would find itself spending $25 million to $40 million a year on the ETS.
Caltex, he added supported the concept of emissions trading and its introduction in Australia when rival refiners overseas faced similar carbon costs.
Smart politicians are forever on the lookout for the hidden traps in feel-good policies. "Unintended consequences" is a phrase that sends shivers down the corridors of power – and more and more federal Labor MPs must be wondering about the timing and impact of the Rudd government's carbon policies as the Senate moves towards making a decision on emissions trading.
The Senate committees looking at carbon policies – three of them no less: the standing committee on economics (which has rubber-stamped the ETS legislation) and the select committees on fuel and energy and on climate change – have drawn one of the largest assemblies of opinion on an issue for many years.
One of the problems for the ALP is that its approach to the carbon policies is strongly oriented to its constituency in the capital cities – with the Greens hovering at its elbow, waiting to snatch electoral advantage – but the areas likely to take the biggest hits are over the metropolitan horizon in rural and regional areas.
The extent of this challenge is highlighted in a submission to the Senate from the Geelong Manufacturing Council. The Geelong region, as the GMC points out, is one of the most carbon-dependent in the country, with industries engaged in aluminium smelting and rolling, petroleum products, cement manufacture, fertilisers, chemicals, automotive manufacture and carpet production, along with the firms that service their needs, accounting for half its economy and half its employment -- and viable in global markets because of the low cost of brown coal-fired power.
With a population of 240,000, the region currently has around 14,000 people directly employed in the manufacturing sector.
The way in which these industries affect their community base is demonstrated by the council pointing to manufacturing being a major generator of R&D in the tertiary institutions in the area.
The GMC is willing to support emissions trading "providing it strengthens the economy and preserves the jobs and social benefits that accrue from Australian manufacturing and export industries." Feedback from its members, it says, indicate a "high level of concern" about the policy. "Several industries are concerned that the scheme may make them uncompetitive."
The council also joins the major energy user chorus complaining about the government's proposed much bigger renewable energy target. "More realistic" transitional measures need to be pursued to reduce reliance on carbon fuels, it argues.
The litany of "don'ts" that accompanies the Geelong submission will be familiar by now to senators. They are hearing it from across the business sector. The underlying message, as Peter Coates, chairman of Xstrata Australia, put it to the select committee on climate change in mid-April, is: "Even if the Copenhagen meeting fails, Australian firms will start paying $8.5 billion in carbon costs every year from 1 July next year. None of our competitiors will confront any such costs."
Coates, who also chairs a Minerals Council of Australia committee focusing on climate change, accused the government of "making one fundamental mistake" – it decided that raising revenue was more important than a sensible, measured transition to an ETS, he said. "In its first year the Australian scheme will impose a cost burden on the economy about 200 times that imposed on the 27 nations of the EU in the first three years of its scheme."
The MCA argues for a phased approach to auctioning permits "to establish a price signal without putting the economy in to reverse." This, Coates told senators, would reward firms that reduced emissions, raise revenue to avoid disadvantage to low and fixed income earners and do away with the need for special treatment of certain business sectors.
It is hard to believe that this continuous drumbeat of concern across much of the business community is not starting to drown out the noises of climate crisis alarm – especially for MPs in marginal seats. Some will be reminding themselves of the lessons of '96 when marginal took on a whole new meaning for the Hawke/Keating era MPs.
And the economic downturn preceeding that political disaster compares with the present crisis like a bad cold to swine flu.
Coolibah's Keith Orchison now has a blog, entitled PowerLine, on the Business Spectator website at www.businessspectator.com.au.
Debate in Australia about decarbonisation policy is becoming increasingly dysfunctional.
As an example, complaints about "big polluting industries rent-seeking" protection from heavy carbon costs vie for media space with widespread political and public concern about the impact of the Great Financial Crisis on employment in manufacturing. These are the same businesses – directly employing about a million Australians and wide open to the global backwash of the GFC because they are trade-exposed.
Then there is a public view, shared by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and leading members of the federal government, that global warming merits strong action because the situation is at a crisis point. This is the rationale for the emissions trading scheme – which is planned to have the cumulative effect over 10 years of reducing Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 250 million tonnes. But the government cannot bring itself to change uranium mining policy to deliver a potential one billion tonnes of abatement a year to the global effort to curb emissions.
Also, the government proposes through the emissions trading scheme to impose domestic costs on liquid natural gas production that, the developers say, will result in local projects being disadvantaged in competition with rivals whose host nations embrace no carbon cost, thus denying Australia desperately-needed new investment for no discernible benefit – the LNG plants will exude the same volume of greenhouse gases and contribute to replacing coal emissions regardless of where they are built.
And again: while preaching the need for all Australians to make every effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the federal government is shaping the emissions trading scheme so that the initial impact on petrol prices will be wholly eliminated by a simultaneous reduction in the fuel excise.
There are numerous other examples of dysfunctionality, not just in politicians and their advisers but in the community at large. One prominent public poll asked people back in October whether, in the light of the GFC, which was just beginning to bite at that point, the introduction of emissions trading should be delayed. More than four our of 10 respondents said it should. In February, by which stage the GFC was much more severe, the same poll, this time eliminating the reference to the economy, asked the same question in the context of "beating climate change" and less than one respondent in 10 favoured a delay.
The local euphoria over the "success" of Earth Hour – an Australian idea – can be set against the fact that only some 817,000 householders have embraced GreenPower, paying extra for their electricity to assist use of renewable energy, notwithstanding years of vigorous campaigning and all the publicity about global warming, while another 7.3 million have not, mostly on the grounds that they lack information or because of its extra cost.
Media commentary, blog contributions and public polls demonstrate an almost complete inability to link the impact of higher energy prices, as a result of carbon policies, with loss of employment and higher retail costs for most things Australians buy. The "they" who should bear the cost – the "big polluters" – are almost universally not seen as "us," the consumers of what the manufacturers make.
This situation is exacerbated by the thousands of Australians who work in "polluting" jobs living in places like Gladstone, the Latrobe Valley, Mt Gambier and the Hunter Valley rather than Sydney's Marrickville or Melbourne's Fitzroy or Canberra, where there has been vociferous opposition to the siting of a gas power station needed to fuel and cool a large IT data centre, the very type of "green job" provider the environmental activisits argue should replace "dirty factories."
A wind farm developer can drop a media release about his project creating 300 jobs and expect national media coverage, especially from the ABC. An aluminium developer can tell a Senate committee that it is concerned that a $4 billion project, offering 3,500 full-time jobs and 15,000 construction jobs, may be in jeopardy under the carbon policy and the submission goes unreported.
Huge public support – in the abstract – for wind farms and solar power does not connect their large-scale introduction with large increases in electricity costs. Attempts to point out that the Rudd government's proposed renewable energy target will add nearly $20 billion to consumer costs – if, that is, the full 35,500 GWh is taken up in the market at $65,000 per GWh, a situation complicated by the latest unclear proposals to shelter energy-intensive industries to some extent from the scheme -- appear of no interest to journalists and the community at large.
Academics who want to talk up the latest modelling about melting ice, rising seas and more drought are virtually guaranteed a media hearing. Scientists, like the Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering members, who argue that the long-term cost of addressing emissions abatement can be halved with better policy, struggle to be heard.
Nicholas Stern and Ross Garnaut can attract political and media attention at will. Australian media ignored Todd Stern, Obama's special envoy on climate change, when he delivered a hard dose of reality at the Bonn UN meeting on climate policy about what can be expected from America's new administration. No white horse. No magic wand, he said. And no coverage in Australian media at all.
To steal a line from the Friends of the Earth, we seem to be at Code Red in this debate, but I'd suggest the alarm bells in Australia should be ringing for the dangerous unreality of the discussion rather than "dangerous climate change."
Keith Orchison
16 May 2009
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[Closed] Open Research Tools & Technologies
A FOSDEM devroom to discuss the creation and use of Free Libre Open Source Software in any kind of research context such as: science, investigative journalism, activism...
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It's been five years that the médialab presents at the european Free, Libre and Open Source developers conference (FOSDEM) to share the open source research instruments produced by the lab methodological research.
For the 2020 édition, the médialab will join the organisation team to propose a thematic track (called devroom at FOSDEM) about the use and development of Free, Libre and Open Source software in a research context.
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Research is understood as the general process to produce knowledge such as scientific research, investigative journalism, NGOs fieldwork, etc.
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Talks will last around 20-40 minutes + 5-10 minutes Q&A, have to be in English, will be video recorded by the amazing FOSDEM staff and will be available on the FOSDEM video recordings archive.
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Deadline: 2019/12/01 23:59 CET
Submissions must include:
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- Paul Girard, Sciences Po médialab, @paulgirard
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Corporate America will start publishing its Q2 2020 earnings releases any day now, followed by complete 10-Q filings by end of the month. These will be the first reports to encompass one full quarter in the era of coronavirus, and we'll all be looking for numbers, narratives, and other disclosures about how Covid-19 is affecting corporate performance.
To help with that, Calcbench offers this list of tips and tricks to help find relevant disclosures quickly.
First, above all, know that companies you want to follow and set up email alerts for when they file something. Calcbench indexes all manner of filings, usually within minutes of those documents hitting the Securities & Exchange Commission database. So your first step is to be in position to receive news of a new filing when it happens.
To establish a peer group of companies you want to follow, just press the "Choose Companies" button you see at the top of most Calcbench search pages, and follow the instructions from there. We also have a detailed post dedicated to peer groups that is worth reading if you're new to the service.
You can set up email alerts from your account preferences page. We have a detailed post dedicated to this task, too.
Second, rely on the Interactive Disclosures page and our text search capability. Our Interactive Disclosures page is where we index the footnotes and similar disclosures, and remember this law of financial analysis: the most important and juicy stuff is in the footnotes, always!
We recently expanded how subscribers can search corporate disclosures, giving you more ability to narrow the date range. So for example, you could search for all filings from one company (or a set of companies) within the last week or the last month. And you guessed it, we have a detailed post on this feature.
We also urge subscribers to use the text search capability on this page, which is the field on the right side of your screen. There, you can search for terms such as "COVID-19" (all capital letters seems to be the style that filers use), "impairments," "coronavirus," or whatever else is on your mind.
Analysts' best bet might be to combine several of these search features, to get precise, highly relevant results. For example, you could search for "impairment" in earnings releases filed within the last month for whatever peer group of firms you follow, and immediately find who has been taking a write-down since coronavirus began.
Third, when in doubt, visit our Recent Filings page and see who has been updating earnings guidance. We added that category earlier this year, along with all the other types of filings we track — 10-Ks or 10-Qs, proxy statements, earnings releases, and 8-K filings of other news. As always, we have a detailed post dedicated to this subject.
A few other thoughts…
Personally, we'll be watching Kimberly-Clark ($KMB) for details of its toilet paper business segment. But whatever data point you're looking for this quarter, Calcbench has it.


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One Olympic veteran and one rookie will represent their countries later this month.
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The legendary WSU broadcaster died on Sunday at age 91.
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Medal of Honor recipient and WSU alumnus has died at 41
He succumbed to complications from lung cancer.
Steve Gleason receives Congressional Gold Medal
Gleason received the honor for his work in finding a cure for ALS, with which he was diagnosed in 2011.
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Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) may have unchanged high levels of symptom severity that negatively affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL), according to a study published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research.
Researchers conducted a prospective longitudinal cohort study at 8 centers in the United Kingdom of 185 individuals diagnosed with PH who at baseline reported significant impairment of HRQoL, anxiety, depression, dyspnea, and severe fatigue. Individuals were observed for a total of 18 months, with 126 participants completing the study (68%). The purpose of the study was to observe HRQoL measurements over the course of 18 months in individuals diagnosed with PH in an effort to identify factors that predict a decline in HRQoL over time.
Baseline scores for fatigue were more than double the normal scores, and even higher than cutoff values in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome. The only difference in HRQoL scores over time was a reduction in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-Anxiety score, indicating a small decrease in emotional distress in participants from their baseline values. There were no other significant changes in test or questionnaire scores during the study.
Individuals with a higher HADS-Depression score had a statistically significant higher risk of dropping out of the study (OR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.05-1.24), and both depression and dyspnea were found to be the only statistically significant predictors of HRQoL (P =.002 and P =.03, respectively).
Although the need for oxygen did not significantly affect the sleep patterns of the participants, the multilevel regression found those who used oxygen had reportedly higher emPHasis-10, Fatigue Severity Scale, HADS-Anxiety, HADS-Depression, and Dyspnoea-12 scores compared with those who did not use oxygen (P ≤.001).
Researchers concluded that despite the statistically significant improvement in anxiety scores, the negative effect on HRQoL did not change during the 18-month study. Furthermore, strong relationships between HRQoL scores and factors such as breathlessness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and sleep were demonstrated during the study, with even stronger relationships observed with breathlessness and depression. In addition, researchers found the use of oxygen therapy to be associated with a significantly higher impairment in HRQoL scores in all symptoms assessed during the study, with the exception of sleep. Clinicians should consider assessing and intervening where appropriate to help individuals with PH maintain or improve their HRQoL long term.
Yorke J, Denton C, Campbell M, et al. Symptom severity and its effect on health-related quality of life over time in patients with a pulmonary hypertension: a multisite longitudinal cohort study. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2018;5(1):e000263.


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Unless you completely ignored the NFL this offseason, you by now know that Karlos Dansby left Arizona to sign with Cleveland, and that Daryl Washington was served a full season ban for violating the NFL's drug policy. That quickly left Arizona reeling, after they had fielded two of the best inside linebackers for the 2013 season.
In 2014, the Cardinals are looking to replace their star linebackers with 2013 second round pick, Kevin Minter, and either Larry Foote, Lorenzo Alexander, Ernie Sims, or one of many young players with little to no NFL experience.
Add Pat Angerer into that equation.
The 63rd overall selection during the 2010 draft, Angerer had his impact felt in his first start, a week six game against the Washington Redskins. In the game he had a sack, 11 tackles, and two passes defended. He showed enough in his rookie season to earn the starting role in 2011. He made the best of it, racking up 148 tackles, one sack, two forced fumbles ad an interception. He started all 16 games that season.
However, 2012 he only managed to play 11 games, and in those games, he recorded a mere 28 tackles.
The Colts decided not to re-sign Angerer this past offseason because of his injuries. In 2012 he suffered a knee injury that forced him to the IR list, and in 2011 he found his way there as well, where he surgically repaired his foot twice.
Angerer drew interest from multiple teams during the free agent period, but decided not to sign anywhere until he was fully healed. He set a June-July deadline, and that is quickly passing.
Angerer worked with Arians, Goodwin, and James Bettcher in 2012, so he has connections to the team. Angerer is a two down player, but when he is on the field and healthy, he is making tackles.
Arians made the signing of Karlos Dansby towards the start of training camp, and we saw how that played out. Other possible names are Stewart Bradley and Desmond Bishop, but after Arians regime cut Bradley, it's unlikely he's their guy.
If the signing was to be done, free agent pick up Ernie Sims seems like the guy to be let go, seeing as he has had very little success in the NFL.
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We checked into Isleta Lakes RV Park for a week.
It is just a few minutes south of Albuquerque.
There are two lakes on one side of the RV Park and a rolling green golf course on the other.
The Lakes are a perfect place for an afternoon stroll.
There are quite a few geese and ducks. Must not be time to fly south yet. The fish were jumping. You can pay and fish if you want.
We have spent a relaxing couple of days staying pretty close to Gypsy. It was time for some down time.
Pretty and relaxing.
But the lure of the road (or the track) called us. Very close to the RV Park is a stop for the commuter train that runs to Santa Fe. Some who stay here complain about the whistle blowing and the train rumbling by but it doesn't wake us up and when it goes by while we are awake we like the sounds. Reminds me of days gone by.
I had wanted to do the Cumbres and Toltec Train Ride out of Chama while we were in northern New Mexico but their season ended Oct. 19th so we didn't make it this year. So we got up early and took the Rail Runner from Isleta to Santa Fe. You can never have too many trips to Santa Fe. We sat in the upper level so we had the best views. The train is so nice. The people who commute for work can start their work day on the train. Tables, power outlets, and wifi are all provided.
Bright and cheerful. ( I was lucky to get this shot before people started boarding). A super alternative to driving. Multiple stops along the way with commuter bus connection (at no extra fee) to get directly where you need to go. The round trip for both of us was $14. If we had purchased online prior it would have only been $12. What a bargain.
Nice views out our window.
In 2 hours we were in Santa Fe. We went to the Flying Star Cafe for breakfast. We shared a huge breakfast burrito.
We planned on taking the 4:15 train back to Isleta so we had 6 hours to wander around Santa Fe. We retraced some routes and tried some new ones.
Perfect fall day. Crisp but not cold.
The Plaza was practically empty. We found a bench in the sun and watched a little bit of the world go by.
Looks like they are waiting for something.
Nice to see someone holding down my dream job. As soon as she stepped into the Plaza the birds all flocked around her. They were very impatient until she got out the bag of food and started tossing it out. She must come very frequently because they sure recognize her.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi was built between 1869 and 1886. Before reading about it I was bothered by the unfinished look of the towers. The towers were originally planned to be topped with dramatic 160-foot steeples but due to lack of funds they were never built. The left tower is a single row of bricks taller than the right tower. Curious why after 228 years no one has taken on the project of having them completed.
So many details to see.
Time for another delicious pizza and salad at Upper Crust. End of season bargains on clothes, art and jewelry. So many things to dazzle our eyes.
Ooooh, a marquise diamond with opal (my birthstone) inlay. Wouldn't that be a wonderful souvenier of Santa Fe?
San Miguel Church is the oldest church structure in the U.S. The original adobe walls and altar were built by the Tlaxcalan Indians from Mexico under the direction of Franciscan Padres around 1610.
Back to board the return train. The sun was still good for another hour of splendor viewing the landscape. Another enjoyable day!
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A letter from multiple county leaders calls on Governor Larry Hogan to reconsider his plan for the November general election and instead consider the "hybrid" vote-by-mail election with extended in-person voting centers, recommended by the Maryland Association of Election Officials (MAEO).
As previously reported on Conduit Street, under Governor Hogan's plan, all in-person voting locations will be open and voters will be mailed an absentee ballot application (instead of an absentee ballot).
MAEO, the professional membership organization comprised of local election officials and Election Boards from all 24 jurisdictions in the State of Maryland, has warned that Governor Hogan's plan will be "costly, inefficient, and unsuccessful" and says that the directive will lead to confusion and long lines at polling places.
In a letter to the governor, Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman, Baltimore City Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young, Baltimore County Executive Johhny Olszewski, Jr., Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks say that his directive "will require local Boards of Elections to, in essence, conduct two elections – a vote-by-mail election as well as a regular election."
From the letter:
We have only to look at the failures across the country of states that required vote-by-mail ballot applications in which millions of additional dollars had to be spent, elections staff overwhelmed with last minute applications that could not be processed in time for Election Day, and the resulting need to extend voting hours as voters were forced to the polls.
Our own experience tells us that people will be standing together for prolonged periods indoors as they wait to receive and then cast their ballots. And, as we saw in primaries across the country, the volume of voters at polls makes it difficult for voters to effectively practice physical distancing.
We are also very concerned about the capacity to support the necessary number of polling places, as facility use may be limited. Many of our traditional polls are housed at K-12 public schools to which we have not had access during the pandemic. Based on feedback we have already begun to receive, we believe there will be limited availability of private venues, like places of worship, community centers, nursing homes and senior centers, due to health and safety concerns.
Further, we expect there will be a need for an increased number of poll workers in order to adequately extend voting hours and opportunity. Those staffing polling centers will also have to perform the necessary enhanced cleaning and sanitizing required to comply with CDC and health department guidelines. While this level of staffing would be difficult in a typical year, health and safety concerns of volunteers due to COVID-19 will drastically impact the ability of election boards in this area. This shortage of poll center staff will be further exacerbated by the fact that many of our long-standing volunteers and election judges are older and, therefore, more vulnerable.
Your directive may cause a hardship for voters. We are worried that voters will be challenged by the timeline in having to submit a vote-by-mail application in order to receive a ballot in time. We are concerned there will be confusion among voters who voted with the process used during the primary election. And we are most especially concerned that voters, unable to meet the ballot application deadline, will be forced to go to the polls, putting themselves and others at undue health risk.
Maryland's Congressional Delegation last week wrote to Governor Larry Hogan to express concerns with his plan to proceed with in-person voting for the November 3 general election.
As previously reported on Conduit Street, Senate President Ferguson and Chair of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee Paul Pinsky recommended a "hybrid mail-in ballot preferred election" in November. The Senate Republican Caucus called for Maryland to hold a traditional election in November, noting that voters can request an absentee ballot if they choose not to vote in person.
Stay tuned to Conduit Street for more information.
Useful Links
County Letter to Governor Hogan (July 14, 2020)
Maryland Congressional Delegation Letter to Governor Hogan (July 9, 2020)
Previous Conduit Street Coverage: Local Election Directors Ask Hogan to Reject "Ill-Advised" Plan for Nov Election
State Board of Elections: Report on June 2 Election & Recommendations for November 3 Election
Maryland Matters: Elections Officials Send Hogan 3 Options for November Vote
MAEO Letter to Governor Hogan (July 6, 2020)
Previous Conduit Street Coverage: Local Election Administrators Urge (Mostly) Vote-By-Mail Election in November
Conduit Street Podcast: A View From the Senate
Previous Conduit Street Coverage: Senate Leaders Outline Roadmap for November Election
Previous Conduit Street Coverage: Maryland Senate Republicans Oppose Statewide Vote-By-Mail Election in November
Letter to State Board of Elections from Senate Republican Caucus
Previous Conduit Street Coverage: Hogan Urges Marylanders to Vote By Mail for Presidential Primary Election
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Polyethylene (PE) was $0.005-$0.01/lb lower, pressured by weak exports and negative sentiment, while spot polypropylene (PP) rose $0.015/lb, driven by Hurricane Sandy related disruptions that affected monomer production and resin reactors. Spot-trading platform, The Plastics Exchange (TPE), noted that energy, commodities, and stock markets were all lower ahead of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6, with TPE positing that "some anxieties should be relieved this coming week, perhaps new ones will also develop." TPE said there was minimal movement in October commodity resin contracts, with price increases nominated for November.
Energy markets were "choppy" and prices fell again in nervous trading, according to TPE. December crude oil futures spent much of the week in higher territory but dropped sharply on Friday, erasing earlier gains to settle at $84.86/bbl, a net loss of $1.42/bbl. December natural gas futures peeled off another $0.207/mmBtu to end the week at $3.554/mmBtu, more than $0.40/mmBtu lower than the previous week's peak. The crude oil : natural gas ratio expanded slightly, to almost 24:1, but it is still near the tightest level in a year.
Ethylene's spot market reversed course, giving back the $0.03/lb gains acquired in the previous week. A few crackers remain offline for both planned and unscheduled maintenance. Ethylene for November delivery last changed hands at $0.545/lb, but was bid a tad higher by week's end. While the forward curve remains backwardated, TPE CEO Michael Greenberg said that it flattened out somewhat as the bulk of the losses were taken from the prompt months' premiums. Prices are currently indicated to drop about $0.005/lb each month during 2013, and ethylene for delivery 12 months out is priced around $0.49/lb. Ethane eased, ending the week at $0.3075/gal ($13/lb).
Polyethylene (PE) availability was good and prices slipped $0.005-$0.01/lb. Weak export demand and falling crude oil prices have lowered the floor price that had been supporting the domestic market. For the second month in a row, PE producers were unable to implement their $0.05/lb price increase. Greenberg said that going forward, he was "sure they will give it another shot in November, but the market seems a bit tired." With incremental orders scarce, traders are limiting fresh purchases and instead lowering prices and looking for bids to unload their uncommitted inventory. Producer inventories have grown, but coming from historically low levels "there is still plenty of room to build if need be," Greenberg said. "In the meantime, limited outlets for less desirable offgrade have widened the discount required to move that material."
Propylene's spot market moderated a bit, but generally maintained the elevated level reached ahead of Hurricane Sandy. Short-term monomer supplies were impacted by refinery shutdowns, and PP production also experienced reduced output. Refinery grade propylene (RGP) prices held in the $0.50/lb range and polymer grade propylene (PGP) for November delivery most recently transacted at $0.565/lb. The PGP forward curve maintained its gentle upward slope to reach a $0.02-$0.025/lb premium 12 months out.
Polypropylene (PP) spot prices jumped $0.015/lb fueled by higher feedstock costs and a price increase announcement, while Hurricane Sandy also caused some regional supply disruptions. TPE said a pretty good flow of offgrade PP railcars were seen at the end of the month, but generic prime offers disappeared when November PGP monomer contracts were nominated to increase as much as $0.07/lb. The month is just beginning and while some level of increase is likely, the full seven is considered steep. Exports have not been much of a factor, but interest from the India/Asia markets is starting to brew again at low bid levels.
Final thought from Michael Greenberg
October saw price deviation between the two major commodity resin categories. Polypropylene contracts added $0.015/lb and spot saw equal strength this past week. Despite the nickel nomination, polyethylene contracts settled flat late in the month, and the lost momentum carried over as spot PE prices slipped as much as a penny this past week. There are sizable increases on the table for November: PE +$0.05/lb and PP +$0.07/lb, but also still plenty of time to see how the markets shape up. Best wishes for our friends and colleagues impacted by Hurricane Sandy, we hope the recovery is swift.


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3 big reasons why online learning makes financial sense for the younger generation
How do the tuition fees compare to that of a university education, and how does online learning get the next generation career ready and earning faster?
As part of our series for parents, we've looked a little more closely at why online learning makes more financial sense for the younger generation against traditional education.
What are the benefits of online learning?
Online training is designed and written to be self-paced and self-directed. This naturally dictates flexibility and empowerment, helping the learner organically absorb and retain information at a higher rate to that of a classroom. In addition to the facilitation style of delivery, online learning means that we can choose our environment. A more comfortable learning environment ensures happiness and high productivity levels.
It's often said that 'time is money' and learning from your chosen destination equals increased flexibility, so 'fitting it in' is free from journey time (just to engage with a subject) which equates to an overall increase in study time itself.
The 1-2-1 nature of online learning also creates an enhanced interaction with the subject matter, leading to those of a shy or reticent nature to have a genuine participation. This is where those nervous of a classroom or group scenario can thrive and grow without the fear of peers or general insecurities halting their progress. Learning mentors and tutors can also be exclusively communicated with by email or web-chat, automatically removing the embarrassment of 'asking a stupid question' directly or verbally.
A big financial win for self-paced studies is the ability to engage with gainful employment whilst up-skilling. This will ensure that 'real life' soft and hard skills can be learnt and absorbed whilst earning and learning. Employers also love self-starting and motivated candidates. Should your end goal be an advanced role within the IT sector, then any employer will love the fact you're spending your own time and money on achieving your goal. They'll also benefit from an ultimately 'over qualified' member of staff to that of which they originally employed.
"Demonstrating that you have skills for the role is always important and, when it comes to standing out from other applicants, having the right training under your belt will stand you in good stead.
If you're in employment, taking the initiative to learn a new skill will bring added value to your current job. In an increasingly competitive market, employers are willing to pay higher salaries for applicants with up-to date knowledge who can bring the most sought-after skills to their business." – Mark Rhodes, Reed
Is online learning cheaper than university?
English universities can charge up to a maximum of £9,250 per year for an undergraduate degree and the total average cost of studying in the UK is estimated to be at least £22,200 per year, with studying in London likely to be significantly more expensive. Add this to the cost of living and the overall expense of a university education becomes somewhat eye-watering.
Online learning cuts out the need for accommodation, travel, or venue. It also 'spreads the cost' of a physical tutor across unlimited students – due to video based instructor led content accessible in the cloud. This can be likened to e-commerce, where once we would have to make a physical journey, followed by a physical interaction to obtain an item, the world wide web now enables us to simply 'one click' removing all associated overheads and time to the equation.
Do I have to pay up front for the course or are there payment options to help me?
Our mission is to enable people to achieve fulfilling careers through education. With this at the forefront, we attempt to ensure that all of our online learning and the associated support provided is both accessible and financially achievable.
With a number of high level vendor examination fees being into four figures, we understand that simply 'paying to sit a certification exam' is simply not a reality. With this in mind, we always include the examination costs as part of tuition fees and will help students manage the cost with interest / charge free learning finance to suit most budgets.
Our approach is simple, if you are willing to invest in yourself, then we will to invest in you. If you would like to speak to one of our dedicated career consultants for IT, cyber security, project management, or code and development, then please do not hesitate to get in touch. We'll help find a pathway to the career of your choice for a budget to suit.


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Fertility Yoga & Exercise Programs
Fertility yoga supports your body, mind, and energy to be as fertile as possible, enhancing your chances of pregnancy and birth.
Fertile Body Yoga works in harmony with your menstrual or IVF cycle, spends time in the relaxation response, moves energy and blood throughout the body, and helps to balance hormones.
Kerry's fertile body yoga classes are soothing and healing for mind and body. Each class has a thoughtful, grounding theme that always speaks to me. I keep coming back to my mat for Kerry's classes because my mind, heart and body feel calm, grounded, peaceful and grateful following each class. I have gratitude for Kerry's approach to teaching, which includes clear instructions and options, depending on where your body is during each class. This journey of life is hard, no matter where we are on it, and Kerry's classes offer a safe, happy, nurturing place to bring your whole self.
Core Components
Fertility and Stress
Research shows, with overwhelming evidence, that it is stressful to be infertile and/or undergo ART. Not a huge surprise!
Studies have also shown that those with a lower stress level are more likely to become pregnant, especially when doing IVF.
If you are tired of hearing that you need to relax to get pregnant, which stresses you out more – KEEP READING!
Pregnancy and Stress do not have a cause and effect interaction with pregnancy. Women all over the world are getting pregnant while totally stressed out, and many women are not getting pregnant who are super chill. Stress does not negate pregnancy! It is one variable of a very complex biological and hormonal dance.
Yoga and Fertility
Research is also showing that the use of Yoga and other mind/body practices to mitigate the inherent stresses of assistive reproductive therapy and infertility can greatly reduce the symptoms of stress.
Those that regularly practice Yoga are better able to handle the ups and downs of treatment, are overall less stressed out, and have higher pregnancy rates.
And even more specifically, studies looking at Fertility Yoga programs from 6 weeks to 3 months long show that those participating had statistically significant higher rates of pregnancy for Frozen Embryo Transfers.
Benefits of Fertility Yoga
In case you're not convinced yet that Yoga can benefit your fertility, check out this list of all the benefits of Fertility Yoga.
- Helps to balance hormones
- Increases blood flow to the reproductive organs
- Reduces Inflammation
- Decreases anxiety
- Decreases mild depression
- Improves quality of life
- Improves sleep
- Decreases the symptoms of stress
- Reduces isolation
- Provides community support
- Yogic principles help to put your experiences into perspective
I have really enjoyed, and gotten a lot out of the Fertile Body Yoga classes with Kerry. It has helped me to both learn about and pay attention to the mind-body connection, as well as keep my stress level down while trying to conceive. I have appreciated the unique opportunity to connect and have conversations with other women who are also trying to conceive.
Each class has a theme and focuses on a concept that relates to fertility. My favorite part of every class was the wonderful meditations at the end that would connect to the theme. I would wholeheartedly recommend this class to any woman trying to conceive!
Frequently Asked Questions
Most often fertility, infertility, and its treatment revolve around the physical body and its systems – generally the reproductive organs and the endocrine (hormonal) system. Similarly, many view the practice of Yoga to be one of mostly the physical body.
However, there is so much more to fertility than the reproductive organs, and so much more to Yoga than physical Asana (postures). If we understand the mind/body connection (that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind) then we can see fertility obstacles and their treatment to be experiences of both the mind and body. This makes Yoga a perfect addition to your fertility efforts because it is a system that addresses physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Fertile Body Yoga takes all these layers of mind/body/soul into consideration. You'll find that many other fertility yoga classes emphasize postures and offer inspirational platitudes. As much as I would love for there to be a magic pose that would help you get pregnant, there just isn't (and you should be weary of those offering one!). It is all that Yoga has to offer that assists in making your body as fertile and receptive as possible.
Fertile Body Yoga is appropriate for those building a family through pregnancy.
FBY honors that every situation and relationship is different. The majority of people who access Fertile Body Yoga classes are cisgender women with single or dual factor cases of infertility and undergoing some sort of ART (assisted reproductive treatment). However, support has been found here by many from the LGBTQ+ community, others who are opting for IVF because of genetic conditions, single moms by choice (SMBC), and surrogates.
For those not seeking intervention, or just starting to try to conceive, Fertile Body Yoga can also be supportive to your efforts. Nurturing the body, balancing hormones, and staying positive and grounded all enhance the body's ability to be as fertile as possible.
Many have found Fertile Body Yoga classes beneficial for healing from pregnancy loss and trauma associated with loss. Having a place to turn during these times is so important, as we can often feel alone and unsupported after losing not only a physical child, but also the mental and emotional associations with that pregnancy. When ready, processing these losses through the body, can, in time lead to the other layers of emotion and mind. Although Fertile Body Yoga is not labelled as 'trauma-informed' Yoga, Kerry takes the perspective that there is trauma everywhere and that providing choice during practice can lead to profound healing. Kerry has continuing education in Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy and Pregnancy Loss Support.
Start as soon as possible.
Students sometimes wait until they are in their IVF cycle to add yoga to their process. Although this is better than no yoga at all, I would highly recommend starting at least the month before. Yoga, relaxation, meditation, and movement are all practices – the more prolonged exposure and practice you give yourself, the easier it is to access or benefit from these practices.
When starting a Fertility Yoga program, being in the right mind set is important. There needs to be an understanding that Yoga is not a miracle cure, nor is it a quick fix. It is a slow nurturing process of retraining and rebuilding the mind/body connection. It takes time and dedication.
I get this question a lot! When you are trying to conceive and may have one or multiple diagnoses (including unexplained infertility) the best style of physical yoga for enhancing your chances of conception are: fertility yoga, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, somatic yoga, and slow flow yoga. These types of yoga are replenishing, nurturing, and balancing – exactly what we want for this time. Heated yoga and power vinyasa, which are depleting, should be avoided, especially during IVF cycles and if you think you might be pregnant.
Some people have a hard time giving up their heated yoga…I get it! I want to work with your body instead of against when you are trying to conceive!
When you're trying to conceive, finding the right exercise is important – because when the body moves, so do the emotions and stress! Keeping healthy improves immunity and reduces inflammation (all needed for a healthy reproductive system!)
And let's be clear, there is a difference between exercising and 'working out' – we are focusing on moving the body to be healthy and balanced, not to lose weight or get a six pack at this time.
I always recommend doing the exercise that is the one you will do!
My favorites for fertility are fertility yoga, walking, hiking, cycling, and swimming.
If you have regular healthy periods and jog or run moderately, this is fine! Marathon running and sprinting you may want to put on hold.
Remember, talk to your doctor about what is appropriate for you and your fertility treatment.
It depends on what you mean by 'work'. Yoga is not a cure for infertility, nor will it ensure a positive pregnancy test. BUT – studies have shown that women who do weekly fertility yoga for more than 6 weeks have statistically higher rates of successful IVF cycles, pregnancy, and birth.
No one really knows what it is about yoga, but since fertility yoga helps to reduce stress, balance hormones, and calm the mind, which improves fertility, we can say that yes, having a regular fertility yoga practice can improve your chances of becoming pregnant.
Yoga is a wonderful companion to navigating fertility.
Please note that fertility yoga is NOT heated nor is it power yoga. These styles of yoga are not recommended when you're trying to conceive.
Fertility is a body & mind affair – so boosting fertility really involves working at both levels.
Let's start with the BODY.
What are you putting in it? The food you eat affects your fertility – so following a fertility friendly diet is important. This will be individual, based on your needs, so working with a nutritionist who specializes in fertility is advised. But in a pinch, follow a Mediterranean style diet with as much organic food as possible.
What are you putting on your body? Sometimes we don't think about this, but there are hormone disrupting, estrogen mimicking chemical in most of the body and beauty care products in production. It is important to put non-toxic products on the largest organ of your body! Check out my recommendations!
How are you moving your body? If you are consistently depleting your energy by 'working out' then it's time to reduce your output. Walking, Swimming, cycling, and fertility yoga are great fertility friendly exercises. Don't over do it!
How is your sleep? If you are having insomnia or frequent wakings during the night, it's time to work on your sleep. Studies have shown that a sleep deficit reduces fertility. There are some great natural products that you could try to get a good nights sleep – but always check with your doctor first!
The mind level
What are you filling your mind with? What media do you consume, how do you speak to yourself , and who do you surround yourself with?
Are you getting support from a professional or group? These avenues can be so helpful in reducing isolation.
Meditation is a wonderful way to calm the anxiety, fear, and frustrations of infertility.
When our mind is calmer, the body follows. When the body is calm, it is more receptive and balanced – thus boosting fertility.
All these and more fertility boosting practices are covered in Fertility Foundations: Mind + Body Practices to Boost Fertility. An 8 week small group program.
Disclaimer: While yoga does not guarantee conception, it can help increase fertility by reducing stress, balancing hormones, and providing the necessary tools to help cope with the challenges of a fertility journey.


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Images play an essential role in the composition of knowledge, activity and thinking; any professional occupation needs proper understanding of reality, which means the ability to construct its image. Simulation (or business) games are a valuable source of the imagery assisting in the formation of conceptual language of socio-economic knowledge in general and environmental economics in particular, and the potential of this source is far from being exhausted. It rests on the ludic culture, which is genetically related to the festive (carnival) folk culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. As a category of consciousness images have profound influence on peoples opinions and attitudes; therefore, they may be useful when it is necessary to attempt to inculcate the sense of ecological responsibility in the students of economics. The Paper identifies the features of festive activities that constitute the deep foundations for the ludic culture and hence for the simulation game. It also discusses methods and principles of the games that can be used in an academic course on environmental economics
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Michael Kryukov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Tatiana Suprun, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
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2 Tips to See the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights, who never dreamed of seeing one?
The Northern Lights of Iceland
It was during our trip to Iceland that we had the chance to see the Northern Lights for the first time.
Over ten days of travel, we were even able to attend this show four evenings.
We had put all the chances on our side and for that we realized that we should not listen to what most people say, sites, blog…
If we had followed their reasoning we would not have seen any Aurora Borealis.
You know this reasoning where you are told that it takes a totally clear sky with no clouds, far away from the cities because you have to be in complete darkness or very (too) late in the night. Yes, these conditions are PERFECT but they are NOT MANDATORY.
We were even told that there was no chance of seeing it because at the time we were there, there were no Aurora Borealis…
Then we made a choice, that of trying anyway, to believe in our luck and to believe that maybe, even if the conditions of which we have heard so much were not gathered we had a chance and well taken!
I told you right away, we saw the Northern Lights around 7:00 pm as after 00:00, near the cities not to say IN CITY and with clouds.
To tell the truth, it was snowing even when we decided to go and we saw them.
But to put all the luck on your side, there are two important points to know because we're not go to the blind either. We met the one we missed, the one that changed our way of thinking, an Icelander, to whom we had taken a room for a few nights and seeing us looking for advice.
First tip: watch the weather
This first tip may seem obvious and yet the number of people we met in the youth hostels or even outside that didn't think about doing it is consistent.
Iceland is a country where there is a lot of micro climate, it can snow above you and have a great sky clear up a few kilometers.
But positive, you will find on the site en.vedur.is very precise weather predictions. It was on this one that we watched the cloud cover around us and we knew well in which direction to go and especially when to venture out.
Second tip: the Kp index.
I hear you already say "Kp? But what is it?". This is simply an indication to the intensity of solar storms. The larger number is, the more likely you are to see the Northern Lights. In fact the larger number is, more the aurora borealis is visible on low latitudes. The index varies between 0 and 9.
In Iceland, an index of 3 would give you a good chance of seeing a Aurora Borealis. But, we could see with clues slightly less than 2 (1.84 if my memories are good).
This index is noted on the site I mentioned above, but it's to be taken with caution.
We have also advised us the softservenews site which will provide you with all the information you need to know the Kp index but also the real-time position of the Northern Lights. Be careful though, on the spot we noticed that there was a discrepancy between the moment noted and the actual moment of about 10/15 minutes.
To conclude, if you want to see Aurora Borealis don't stay in your room, take the good weather information and Kp clues on the two sites I have given you.
And above all, go ahead and be patient.
And last word, a little precision, I only give you advice on something I have applied on the spot, and I want to tell you that I am only telling you to put all the chances of your side, this unfortunately doesn't guarantee Northern Lights every time. We have come back empty-handed too.
Wishing you a good hunting for the Northern Lights.
This article was written by Herdroud and Laetitia. Visit their website here.


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Nendoroid 1179 GOODSMILE Racing & Type-Moon Racing Nero Claudius: Racing Ver.
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The Roman Emperor, wishing for GOODSMILE RACING & TYPE-MOON RACING's success.
A new Nendoroid of Saber/Nero Claudius in her GOODSMILE RACING & TYPE-MOON RACING costume has arrived! The illustration by popular illustrator Arco Wada has been brought down to Nendoroid size.
She comes with three face plates including a gentle smiling expression, a confident expression and a blushing expression. As for optional parts, she comes with a helmet, perfect for the race track, and her halberd type Noble Phantasm. Be sure to add her to your collection and cheer on the team!
- This product does not balance on its own. Please use the included stand.
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Andrea + Victor.
Ahh. This day was a real life fairytale! I knew after Andrea chose a tulle skirt for her engagement session that her wedding gown was going to be beautiful, but it was even more perfect that I could have imagined. Champange tones, sparkles, and lace… it fit her like a glove!! And the color palette she chose was perfect for fall while still being elegant and unique. I'm always such a sucker for a good blue, and paired with pinks and burgundy- SO pretty! I loved it!!
Then of course it goes without saying that she and Victor made a stunning bride and groom. I thought their portraits surrounded by golden rod were going to be hard to beat, but then there was such a breathtaking golden hour- it felt like we were transported so Sonoma. Ahhh! And they did such a fantastic job creating a reception space that was magical and beautiful and so much more. It was all the epitome of fall perfection!!
Love, love, love these two, their friends, and their families all so much!!
Victor and Andrea, SO happy for you and so honored to have been a part of your day!! XO


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A story of passion and what just might happen if you follow it.
Updated: Jan 21, 2022
Hi All. Sharing a story of my daughter made possible by the incredible efforts of director Justine Moyle. Everyone has a story and this is just one but I think this story touches us all in terms of the value of focus and commitment, following our passion and how we have all been impacted by the global pandemic. Follow your passion. Be prepared for anything and roll with it. Live slowly. Laugh quickly.
...from Justine...
Well hello there LinkedIn.. please excuse any typos or guffs being my first post on the platform. Please be kind :) I made a film, thanks to an incredible crew and my tenacious & extraordinary producer Jo Austin of Candid Films. A Feature Length Documentary, all about a girl finding her way in the world. She also happens to be the first female to represent Australia in Park Skateboarding at the Olympics in August. It's out next week in Australian cinemas for one week only. Find all the details and session times at tallpoppymovie.com#film #director #debut #documentaryfilm #skateboarding #premier #directorlife #independentfilmmaker