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– My mom always said it's rude to talk about people behind their back. So welcome to this video where you and I talk about Gary Vaynerchuk
behind his back. Come on in, grab a seat and a beverage. Let's have some fun. (gentle chiming music) In 2008 I was 22 years old, and I was sitting at my
girlfriend at the time's apartment and I watched this video
of this guy in the internet say that he wanted to
own the New York Jets. My dream as a kid, ever
since I was a little kid, was I wanted to own a baseball team. Specifically the Cleveland Indians. And I thought to myself, this
is somebody I need to watch, because if in 10 years he's
closer to owning a team than I am, then he's got
something figured out that I don't have figured out. This to me is modeling success. Watching people who've done
amazing things and said, "What are they doing differently than me?" How are they thinking differently than me? And so in this video I'm gonna
tell you what I've learned from Gary Vaynerchuk after
spending a little bit of time with him one-on-one
and in a group setting. And also analyzing his
business thought process. And I'm gonna do the
whole thing while drinking some Empathy wines, one
of Gary's companies. So let's dive in. In 2015 we had our first
event at capitalism.com, and the first person that I
called to key note the event was Gary Vaynerchuk. And Gary was big, he was
a well-known entrepreneur, but he wasn't big like he is today. But the thing that compelled me to him, was I wanted to find
out, what's your strategy that you're confident
is gonna have you own the New York Jets. And it was the first time
that I ever heard him describe the strategy, which was,
I'm gonna build an engine. I'm gonna buy companies,
put them to the engine, and I'm gonna sell them,
make a bunch of money, and buy the New York Jets. That was interesting. But something else was
more interesting than that. – You didn't have anything,
you found an idea, you found somebody that
gave you a concept. You got something that worked,
and now you got something. Something that you were sold
by the American Media Machine that you want, like a
fucking watch, or a car. You got something, and the fear is, you don't wanna go back to not having it. My greatest rationale for marrying my wife and the greatest thing
that I know about myself is not only am I capable to going back to Queens studio apartment,
I secretly want it to happen. Like you know, "Rocky V"
when it's all sad and shit, 'cause he's like back to the thing. And there was like, "Ah, too bad." I'm like, "That's fucking awesome." Like for me it's the game, right? And so like, I don't need fancy shit. Like fuck, that stuff kills me. Yes, I wanna buy the Jets. But I won't buy a jet
on the way there, right? I may, because it's
actually time-efficient I've come to learn, but
it's really interesting. I think the thing that makes me sad is people accumulate a little something and they don't want to go backwards. And so they're not willing
to change their behavior to go three steps forward. People are literally, literally crippled and scared to take one step
back, a place they've been, and they should understand,
that's what scares them, though. Instead of going three steps forward, and they get into that hump. And that million they're making
is now they're handcuffs, and they're stuck. And the reason I push hard work is, there's a lot of people in here who are in that exact situation, and still have seven hours a
day to start something new, but aren't putting in
the hustle to do that. – You see, at the same event I had Grant Cardone speak, and Grant made the entire experience about him. – So you know, you gotta be liquid, baby. You gotta be liquid, you gotta be ready, you gotta have more. – It was all about Grant. He had people chanting his name. – What's my name? – [Audience] Grant Cardone! – [Grant] What's my name? – It was the Grant show from day one. – Yeah!
Yeah! – Oh, dear. I immediately regret this decision. Gary, the person who I
thought was all about hustle, and grind, and killing
it, and bravado, and ego, humbly walked backstage. Quietly without drawing
any attention to himself. You said something, I
will never forget this, 'cause it changed my brain. When I asked you, I think
you were talking about 137. – [Gary] Okay. – You were talking about
the business that you build and acquire, and you scale the teams. I was like, Gary, like how do you manage all of the scale for that? And you're like, well,
we don't make much money. And then I said, how are you
comfortable just continually rolling all the profits back in? And you said this, "My only
fixed expense is rent." And I was like, "Holy shit." You have no fear in losing it all, because you can if it all goes away, your only fixed expense
is rent, and you're fine. – That's right. – There's no ego in that. There's like no ego in that. I have to understand how
like, that mentality. – Because I'm humility
disguised in perceived ego. My personality, my vibes,
my energy on camera makes people think I'm ego. My actions over the last 20 years, and the people that know me the best, know I predicate on humility. I have audacity, and
confidence, and fucking, I'm an alpha. But I'm built on the ground of humility. – So many times as entrepreneurs, we think that we have to
force ourselves into things. We have to dive into the
extra energy reserve, and force ourselves to do things in order to get the result. But the people who are
extraordinary performers are operating at a different gear, because they're just
amplifying what is completely natural to them, they're
doing what is unique to them. And what I learned after
spending some time with Gary, was that is really where
success comes from. I have spent so many years in my career trying to force things,
trying to make things happen, trying to hustle. But when Gary talks about
hustle, what he really means is doubling down on what makes you happy. I really believe that's what he means, because I've observed that. The last time I was at Gary's office, we were drinking some Empathy wines, and he sat down and looked up at me like we'd been there all day. And here I was, like
ready to go, all amped up. I had drank a bunch of coffee to get ready for this interview. And he just looked at
me like, "I'm ready." He is constantly present,
which is why he's able to work 17, 18 hours a day when he needs to. If you are present in what you are doing, your energy is infinite. If you are not present
in what you are doing, you're operating from a drained battery. Most of the time we get
burned out and we get tired, because we're doing things
that we don't see as meaningful or inherently fun, and it's
usually not how we succeed. If we don't find it meaningful,
or if we don't find it fun, we're probably not going to
give it everything we have, which is what success requires. That is the biggest lesson
that I've learned from Gary, from spending time with him in person. The second thing that
I've learned from Gary from spending time with him, is that the way that you
get wildly successful is always operating in
service to other people. Here's a clip of Gary sitting with me and telling me how his
strategy was not to monetize his audience, was not
to go for the big get, was not to cash in the chips, was not to give with the
expectation of getting. But here's where he describes
that his real strategy is just to contribute as much as possible. Let's watch. – I put out good content for the sake of putting out good content. I built VaynerMedia in
2011 to take advantage of K-Swiss or this. I never and still don't anticipate having six million people, 5.5 million people on Instagram convert. Which is actually why I think it works. I'm comfortable asking my audience to, like my whole picture's very simple. If you wear sneakers, if you drink wine, I'd love for you consider buying mine versus buying someone else's. But it's amazing. The reason I'm so happy
is the value I've brought versus the return on my investment. And what I've gotten is a terrible deal. Like the people that are
hucksters that I make fun of who are just converting
their audience from day one, they're killing me in the short term. But I'm not playing for money. I want my audience to
show up at my funeral. I mean that. I don't need their fucking money for my wine and my sneakers. I have a marketing capability. I'm gonna sell way more
Empathy wine to people that have never heard of
me than to the audience that has extracted
enormous value out of me. How much value I've given away, especially the last two years, and how big my audience has become. It's a joke, I should be sold
out of all 30 thousand cases. I'm not, 'cause it's not how humans act. Humans do not feel a
sense of responsibility to deliver back to somebody. This is why I keep telling everybody. You wanna be happy? Give without expectation. You wanna be super unhappy? Think you're getting
something for your actions. You wanna get really unhappy? Do shit for the sake of
something else happening, which is what everybody does. I watch people gain me every day. The problem is they don't understand that I understand what they're doing. – I'm having what we call a brain-gasm here at capitalism.com. You see, what I though
Gary's strategy was, was to build a big giant
audience so that he could launch the Empathy wines. And he admitted that there
was benefit in having a big audience when he
wanted to do a big launch. For example, I bought 100
cases of Empathy wines when it launched, I'm
talking about it right now, I'm drinking it right now. So of course, him producing
value in the world, produces business results
that are unrelated to the content that is created. But the reality is that
what his strategy was is just to continue creating things that he loves and enjoys. And to build the machine that
can scale these businesses. My strategy. My strategy for one day
buying Cleveland Indians, is very similar. It is to build the
relationships, the assets, the connections and the skillset. So that when you've got the thing that you wanna bring to the world, you have the capital, the relationships, the connections to be able
to bring that thing to life. I call it lighting a fire. My logo at capitalism.conm is
a C with a flame at the end. And it's made that way
because I believe my purpose as a business owner is to light fires, is to start new things,
is to light the next idea and watch it catch. That's what we do as
entrepreneurs and as capitalists. It's our job to bring together resources, to bring together capital, to
bring together connections. So we can light the next great idea. So that we can create
the next thing of value, so that we can solve the next problem. So often we confuse entrepreneurship with the process of getting money. But our real job is to multiply resources. We do that by bringing people together, bringing ideas together,
and solving problems. And the byproduct of that is money. You said, you believe me 92%.
– Yes. – And you are saying
it from the context of. – It was more than the time
I saw you at the Core Club. That I remember, too.
– Yeah. – I don't know if I said it out loud, but I remember that as well. – And you said that, and
it meant the world to me. And then you said, but
right now you still don't believe me, 92% about,
there's no ask, there's no. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – It purely is just a give
play 'cause it feels good and I believe you 100% now. So, it has been a lot of personal work to get to that point. – The fact that you're
getting to this point now is so scary good.
– Thank you. – Honestly dude, it makes me so happy. – I just want you to know I get it now. I don't know that I would
have gotten there as quickly without your example. And so one of the things like, the reason why I put a lot
of energy into seeing you once a year or so, is because you're kind of
like a mirror of where I'm at, because I think you're
really clear internally about who you are. And it acts like a mirror
to me of where I am. And so I just wanted
to thank you for that. – It makes me happy, bro. I really get it. And honestly, it feels so. It's not the alcohol, it
feels warm in my body. And it's actually, to think about the kid that I met at the event to this moment, is the actual dead example of the process that I'm trying to do at scale. I think something happened
where I get the great blessing to be the communicator that
takes a lot of alpha winners and eliminates the bad
behavior, and instills more. I don't know what to say. It's super heady, it's
super in the clouds. It can even be consumed as obnoxious, it's just actually I still believe it. I believe that it took a very unique voice to take guys that look like you and me and actually get them to think Empathy, and long game, and kindness
was actually the cool thing, not all the other stuff. – Serve first, give first. Make deposits first. Put deposits in other
people's bank accounts. In your relationship bank accounts. And let there be interest
before you cash that check. That's, "Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook." That is really the philosophy
of creating content. So many of you are creating content to draw attention to yourselves. – The young people that are
trying to put out content for people are trying to trick people into their own money. And everybody who actually
is a great entrepreneur is selfish, they keep putting out shit. – I promise you that I will
at least try match that. – I believe you 100%.
I believe you 100%. – Thank you. – Because I believe
that's actually my legacy, that I'm gonna frame it,
and the understudies– – I believe that about you.
– I believe that. – 'Cause I think you turned that page. You're the first person to turn that page. – I think so too. – And like my context–
– Really committed to it. – My context of growing
up was always about the, do this so that you can have that. – Correct. – And you are the first
example in my life, that it was just about doing it because it was the right thing. – And not being uncomfortable with asking, because there's a level
of practicality to it. But being remarkably okay with a no. – Yeah, that's one thing
that makes you special, man. I've known you for a while,
I've seen you grow up. And you were sincere. – Thanks, Kamal. – And you have all those fences here, that's your rock-solid foundation. – Thanks, Kamal. – And in my opinion, the day I met you, you had subconscious
aspirations for sincerity, but you were it. – I think that's a fair analysis. – That was my status-quo. – I can almost guarantee
that I won't get it right. Thank you. I can almost guarantee I
won't get it right every time, but I promise you that
I will at least try. Whatever change you wanna create, if you wanna create
change it starts with you. It doesn't start with the government, doesn't start with your neighbor, it doesn't start with social media. It doesn't start with
anything outside of you, it starts with you. Own that change, create something new, and always be in service to other people. That's how you create change. My name's Ryan Daniel Moran. I help entrepreneurs build businesses and create new ideas
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Curling: Swiss stun Canada to take bronze medal
Canada's Olympic curling nightmare was completed Friday when the men's team, gold medalists in the last three Games, lost 7-5 to Switzerland in the bronze medal match.
Canada's men had missed out on the final for the first time since the event was reintroduced to the Games in 1998 and their defeat followed the failure of the Canadian women's team to win a medal for the first time since 1998.
Switzerland's triumph matched their third place from 2010.
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With both the House and Senate poised this week to deal with some form of repealing the Affordable Care Act (the official name for Obamacare), the White House is unclear as to just which form it favors.
Republican House members and senators favor either outright repeal of the ACA, with a replacement package to come later, or amending and trying to proceed with the American Health Care Act (the Trump-backed measure that has narrowly passed the House but held up in the Senate because of questions by Republican lawmakers).
At the White House last Tuesday, Newsmax noted that Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., has introduced a proposal for complete repeal of Obamacare and that there was strong support for it among his fellow House Republicans.
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The following day, however, Marc Short, the President's top liaison with Congress, strongly signaled that the administration favored amending the AHCA rather than spending any political capital on Biggs' direct repeal bill.
"Again, I don't want to really differentiate those," Short told us, "because I think the president is trying to say, 'We need to get on the bill to amend it.' And if you're not willing to do that, you're basically saying there's no problem here."
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Evening Aarti performed during Durga Puja, Jorhat, Assam
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Durga Puja, also called Durgotsava, is an annual Hindu festival
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Start of the Kecak Dance, Uluwatu Temple, Bali
Kecak has its roots in "Sanghyang", a trance inducing exorcism dance...
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Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Environmental Remediation ; Process Engineering Design ; Water and Wastewater Treatment ; Oil Spill Response and Clean-up ; Process Safety and Loss Prevention; Business Process Re-engineering ; Oil and Gas Reservoir Management and EOR ; Oil and Gas Strategic Business Management ; Oil and Gas Project Management and Economics
Augustine has over 20 years' experience that spans the petroleum industry, water industry and the academia. He is a chartered environmentalist, chartered water and environmental manager and currently an Associate Professor in Energy and Environment in the School of Energy, Construction and Environment. His research interest is focused on the following themes; water and wastewater treatment, oil/water separation and spill remediation, enhanced oil recovery, process safety, process engineering design and petroleum management. Prior to joining Coventry University, he was a process design engineer at Severn Trent Water where he was involved in several multi-million pounds' capital and research projects including the £40M UK DEFRA National Demonstration Programme (NDP) for the removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in wastewater treatment plants in England and Wales. As part of the NDP, he was a co-investigator in the Severn Trent £3M Hallam Fields demonstration pilot plants for the removal of EDCs as well as the £2.7M EDCs monitoring in river catchments. He has also recently secured and leading a $2.4M World Bank Assissted Project on International Twinning assignment to conduct International Accreditation, Curriculum Adaptation and Training of faculties at Uganda Technical College Kichwamba in Oil & Gas related construction trades.
He also previously worked for Fugro Consultant, consulting for various multinational Oil & Gas companies in both the upstream and downstream sector. He led and carried out various quality and HSE compliance audits, oil spill monitoring, remediation and environmental studies for some of the largest oil & gas projects in West Africa onshore and offshore environments for Shell Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Addax Petroleum, ChevronTexaco, Total, ENI, Schlumberger, Oildata and ConocoPhillips etc.
Augustine is a reviewer for over a dozen journals including Water Research, Energies, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Chemosphere, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering etc. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Environmental and Analytical Toxicology and Journal of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering. To date, Augustine has over 50 academic publications including journals, conferences and book chapters.
Vision Statement
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster was a reminder that despite the advances in technology in the exploration and production of oil and gas; there have not been significant improvements in the way we respond to oil spills. My vision is to work on the development of novel materials using facile methods and low cost inputs that can be applied for oil water separation and spill clean-up. I am currently researching on the development of superhydrophobic and superoleophilic sorbents for oil water separation and on processes and protocols to reduce process accidents in high-risk industries particularly the oil and gas industry.
Education/Academic qualification
Environmental Engineering, Doctorate, Coventry University
Environmental Engineering, MSc, University of Port Harcourt
1 Dec 2003 → 1 Sep 2004
Water & Wastewater Engineering, MSc, Cranfield University
29 Sep 2004 → 10 Sep 2005
Chemical Metallurgy & Mineral Processing, MSc, University of Port Harcourt
15 Dec 1999 → 1 Dec 2001
Industrial Chemistry, Degree, University of Benin
1 Mar 1994 → 1 Dec 1998
External positions
PhD External Examiner, De Montfort University1 Jan 2019 → …
PhD External Examiner, Heriot-Watt University2019 → …
PhD External Examiner, University of the West of England2019 → …
International Team Lead - Albertine Regional Sustainable Development Project, UTC, Kichwamba, Uganda, The World Bank29 Jan 2018 → 30 Mar 2021
PhD External Examiner, Newcastle University2018 → …
EPSRC Grant Reviewer2016 → …
External Examiner, Plymouth University1 Dec 2015 → 1 Dec 2019
External Programme Reviewer, Teesside University2014 → …
Education Advisory Board Member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
- TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
- TP Chemical technology
- QD Chemistry
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Research Output
Brexit and UK Energy Security: Perspectives from Unconventional Gas Investment and the Effects of Shale Gas on UK Energy PricesAcquah-Andoh, E., Ifelebuegu, A. & Theophilus, S., 14 Feb 2019, In : Energies. 12, 4, 21 p., 600.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Coalbed Methane Development in Indonesia: Design and Economic Analysis of Upstream Petroleum Fiscal PolicyAcquah-Andoh, E., PUTRA, H., Ifelebuegu, A. & Owusu, A., Aug 2019, In : Energy Policy. 131, p. 155-167 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Effect of Aluminium Salt Dosing on Activated Sludge Settleability Indicators: A New Settleability Model DevelopmentOjo, P. & Ifelebuegu, A., 21 Jan 2019, In : Water (Switzerland). 11, 1, 19 p., 179.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Modelling the effects of ferric salt dosing for chemical phosphorus removal on the settleability of activated sludgeIfelebuegu, A. & Ojo, P., Oct 2019, In : Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 7, 5, 103256.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Renewable Energy in Africa: Policies, Sustainability and AffordabilityIfelebuegu, A. & Ojo, P., Jan 2019, Energy in Africa: Policy, Management and Sustainability. Adesola, S. & Brennan, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 199 - 221 23 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities per year
The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology, At Bangkok, ThailandAugustine Ifelebuegu (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
INDO-UK Workshop on Clean Water through Advanced and Affordable MaterialsAugustine Ifelebuegu (Invited Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology ConferenceAugustine Ifelebuegu (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
World NOCs Local Content CongressAugustine Ifelebuegu (Keynote Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
International Conference on Advances in Applied Science and Environmental TechnologyAugustine Ifelebuegu (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
2017 Top Peer Reviewer for Multidisciplinary Research
Augustine Ifelebuegu (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2018 Top Peer Reviewer for Evironment/Ecology Research
Augustine Ifelebuegu (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
CIWEM Dr Jenkins Memorial Competition
Augustine Ifelebuegu (Recipient), Feb 2009
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Top Reviewer in Cross-Field, 2019
Augustine Ifelebuegu (Recipient), Sep 2019
Prize: National/international honour
Top Reviewer in Environment and Ecology 2019
Augustine Ifelebuegu (Recipient), Sep 2019
Prize: National/international honour


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Nothing can take an expectant mom's mind off her pregnancy like a good movie. In recent years, studios have started to focus some release towards the moms to be crowd, realizing movies that have been very successful at the box office. But when you're sitting down to a movie, how do you know which ones are good and which ones stink?
To help, we decided to watch some movies for you and make a list of our 10 Best Pregnancy Movies In 2020 to give you some ideas of the options out there for mom and dad to watch and enjoy.
We hope that with our picks, we can make movie night a much more relaxing affair.
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The Best Pregnancy Movies
Life as We Know It
Where the Heart Is
The Back-Up Plan
What To Expect When You're Expecting
Away We Go
Knocked Up
Baby Mama
Nine Months
How To Choose The Best Pregnancy Movie – Buying Guide
Choosing the best pregnancy movies isn't as simple as you may think it is. There can be a lot of different things to consider when movie time comes. Our criteria included:
Even the most popular movie can be a waste of time if the story isn't engaging. A good movie grabs you from the first few minutes and doesn't let go til the end. Now, we're not talking about horror films here but if you're bored while watching a movie, it's likely because the story isn't that great.
How many times have you and your friends said that you wanted to go see the new Channing Tatum movie? It's not because you're dying to see 29 Jump Street or something like that, unless maybe you are. But it's more likely that you're going to see the actor and studios realize this. Which is why they put the biggest stars in the biggest movies.
In any movie, there can always be some breaks with reality. Whether it be a man flying or aliens, movies can take some liberties. With pregnancy movies however, they can be a reflection on real life and in some cases mirror your own circumstance which can make it more relatable.
Going through pregnancy can be a painful process. Watching a movie about pregnancy should make you laugh. Part of watching a funny movie is to help distract you from real life and a movie with a lot of humor can help.
Benefits of a pregnancy movie
Watching a movie can offer viewers many benefits outside of enjoyment of the movie. For a pregnant mom to be, these can be very beneficial for their bodies and what they're going through. These benefits include
Laughter can have many benefits and not just for a pregnant mom to be. Laughing can lower your blood pressure, release endorphins, and improve heart health. These are all wonderful benefits for a pregnant mom as laughter can also help produce a general sense of well-being.
Stress reduction
All that laughing that you're doing can be a major stress reliever. The stresses of the day can slip away at least for a little while so you can sit back, laugh and enjoy the movie and at the same time help both you and your baby.
All this laughter and stress relief can only lead to one thing that many doctors prescribed or expectant moms. Relaxation. Enjoying a movie can help you relax, breathe easier and feel more comfortable.
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Movie night can be a sacred thing in a lot of houses and choosing the best pregnancy movie to watch can take a lot of time and effort to make sure that both dad and especially, mom to be enjoy every minute of it.
Our hope is that with our list of the 10 Best Pregnancy Movies in 2020, our recommendations will easily help you choose a movie to watch.
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Quick takes: Singapore Q2 GDP growth still lacklustre, caution prevails
SINGAPORE'S gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.2 per cent in the second quarter of this year, marginally higher than the 2.1 per cent expansion in the first quarter and matching analysts' expectations, according to advance estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on Thursday.
Here are some economists' comments:
Euben Paracuelles and Brian Tan, Nomura:
"This implies lacklustre sequential growth of 0.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter seasonally seasonally-adjusted annualised basis (q-o-q saar) in Q2 from 0.2 per cent in Q1."
"The slight increase in year-on-year GDP growth was led by the manufacturing sector, in which output rose by 0.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) after a 0.5 per cent decline in Q1, supported by biomedicals and electronics segments. This offset construction sector growth weakening to 2.7 per cent from 4.5 per cent, while services sector growth was stable at 1.7 per cent."
"We continue to think that, with growth fundamentals still weak, the external headwinds from the Brexit vote will likely tip the economy into a technical recession in H2 ( We expect widespread interest rate cuts). Biomedical manufacturing, for example, tends to be volatile and may not sustain; similarly, strong motor vehicle sales may have boosted retail trade, but this was mainly because of an increase in the supply of car certificate of entitlement quotas (which will be cut in August).
"For full-year 2016, we maintain our GDP growth forecast of 1.1 per cent, which is below potential and close to the bottom of the MTI's forecast range of 1.0-3.0 per cent. We would not be surprised if the MTI narrows its forecast to 1.0-2.0 per cent or lowers its forecast altogether in August."
Weiwen Ng, ANZ Research:
"We remain cautious on Singapore's growth. The risk of external weakness spilling into domestic activity -if materialise- will continue to be a drag on the labour market, muting both growth and inflation outlook."
"Policy support needs to step up to counteract the waning momentum in domestic activity as well the absence of an external led demand. Already, Singapore is leaning in heavily on its fiscal levers with an expansionary stance, with an estimated impulse at slightly more than 1.0 per cent of GDP."
"With MAS's policy complicated by the strength in the S$NEER, there is still space for subsequent off-budget fiscal measures should the economic outlook deteriorate further."
"Interestingly, there are some parallels in the policy response now similar to the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The increase in public sector capex support- evident in the recent surge in government construction contracts awarded- would help mitigate the softer private sector residential construction activity. Notably, this was also the case during the GFC, which incidentally coincided with a period of neutral FX policy. While this is growth supportive, this is unlikely to sustain an acceleration in growth. Hence, sluggish GDP momentum ahead is inevitable for Singapore on account of the ongoing regional trade recession, China's waning growth momentum as well as Brexit uncertainties."
Philip McNicholas, BNP:
"Superficially, Singapore's advance estimate of Q2 GDP growth was in line with consensus but slightly weaker than our forecast. Yet, upward revisions to Q1 services output, more than compensating for cuts to prior manufacturing and construction estimates, indicate a stronger platform for 2016 growth than previously thought. This stands the city-state in good stead to weather any external growth pressures."
"Moreover, with core consumer price index (CPI) set to accelerate back toward 2 per cent y-o-y on average in 2017, arguments for the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to re-centre the SGD nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) policy band lower appear stretched. Consequently, we retain our call for policy settings to be unchanged in October."


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Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) is an evidence-based approach rooted in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), that integrates mindfulness exercises and provides some guidance on moving towards the things that are important. PLEA provides parent workshops, staff trainings and organizational trainings that are based in ACT. These trainings are ideal for families, social service agencies, and schools.
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I had coffee with Chris Backert yesterday morning.
Thursday is my day off, but Chris and I hadn't been able to work out any other time and the idea of having coffee at Starbucks with a missional church strategist didn't sound like something I would hate. In fact, it sounded like something I would want to do.
Plus, Chris is a really nice guy.
We started talking about the decline of the church in America these days and the recent statistics suggesting that twenty percent of Americans claim no religious affiliation at all, a number that has grown by five percent in just the last five years. That means that in the last five years roughly fifteen million people have stopped saying they are Baptist, or Catholic, or whatever. Now they just say they "unaffiliated."
The evidence is everywhere.
Church attendance in America is falling off at an alarming rate. While some 40 percent of Americans say they go to church, the truth is that on any given Sunday the number of people in the pews is less than half of that. In fact the latest statistics suggest that only 17 percent of the population is in church on Sunday.
It wasn't like that fifty years ago, and the people who can remember how things were fifty years ago—when about half of all Americans went to church—are anxious. That anxiety often expresses itself in hurtful ways. I talked with a pastor last week who had been forced out of his church, not because he wasn't preaching the gospel but because he wasn't filling the pews, or, more truthfully, because he hadn't figured out a way to make it 1962 again.
I told Chris I thought that kind of institutional anxiety is just beneath the surface in most of the churches in America these days, and that many of them keep hiring and firing pastors in the hope that they can find the one who will "pack them in," just like they did back in the good old days. I told him the church in America seems to be going through the stages of grief Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described so many years ago: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. And that's when he began to tell me about the church in England.
The church in England has already worked its way through those stages. These days less than 17 percent of the population in Great Britain can say "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it" and only about three or four percent of the population goes to church. In other words, Christians in the U.K. have had to accept the fact that the church as it once existed in that country is dead, and rather than try to merely resuscitate it, they are trying to resurrect it in new and different forms.
And that's what Chris wanted to talk to me about: not just another way to boost church attendance, but ways of thinking about God's mission that may not look like church at all, what Chris and his friends in England are calling "Fresh Expressions."
I don't have time to tell you everything we talked about yesterday, but here's a link to Fresh Expressions in the U.K., and another to Fresh Expressions in the U.S. If you have some time take a look, and then tell me what you think by leaving a comment below. This is a conversation we need to continue as we think about how to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia.


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AS2.1/OS5.3Turbulence in Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers (co-organized)
|Convener: Arakel Petrosyan
Turbulence in cloudy boundary layers. (vi) The roughness sublayer of the turbulent boundary layer. Near-surface turbulent fluxes over land (vegetation, urban canopy, dust, snow, etc.) and over water (open ocean, costal waters, storms, swell). (vii) Advanced turbulence closure models (achievements, experimental verification, limits of applicability, alternative approaches).


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Back to Journals » Drug Design, Development and Therapy » Volume 11
Hepatoprotective effect of calculus bovis sativus on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice by inhibiting oxidative stress and apoptosis of hepatocytes
Authors He WX, Xu YJ, Zhang CL, Lu JL, Li J, Xiang D, Yang JY, Chang MJ, Liu D
Received 28 August 2017
Accepted for publication 31 October 2017
Published 5 December 2017 Volume 2017:11 Pages 3449—3460
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/DDDT.S150187
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Editor who approved publication: Professor Jianbo Sun
Wenxi He,1 Yanjiao Xu,1 Chengliang Zhang,1 Jingli Lu,2 Juan Li,1 Dong Xiang,1 Jinyu Yang,1 Mujun Chang,3 Dong Liu1
1Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; 2Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; 3Center for Translational Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Abstract: Calculus bovis (CB, niu-huang) is a high-class therapeutic drug that is often used in traditional Chinese medicine. CB helps to eliminate heat and toxic components, and prevents the accumulation of phlegm and blood stasis in the liver. In Asian countries, CB Sativus (CBS), an ideal substitute for natural CB, is presently extensively used for long-term treatment of chronic liver diseases. The present study aimed to evaluate the effects and potential mechanism(s) of action of CBS on mice with fructose-induced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The NAFLD model was established in C57BL/6 mice by exclusively feeding fluids containing 30% fructose for 8 consecutive weeks. After these 8 weeks, mice were given CBS (50 mg/kg/day or 100 mg/kg/day) for 2 consecutive weeks. Treatment with CBS reversed the fructose-induced impaired glucose tolerance. Compared with the model group, in which mice received 8 weeks of high-fructose diet and 2 weeks of 0.5% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, CBS treatment significantly decreased the levels of fasting serum glucose, fasting insulin, triglyceride, and total cholesterol, and increased levels of high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol. CBS treatment also significantly decreased the levels of triglyceride, total cholesterol, and free fatty acid in the liver. The activity of superoxide dismutase in the liver was increased after treatment with CBS, however, levels of malondialdehyde and reactive oxygen species decreased. Histopathological examination showed that liver steatosis and injury were significantly reduced in CBS-treated mice. The expression of fatty acid synthase, nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells, Cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinase-3, and synonyms B-cell leukemia/lymphoma-2 gene-associated X protein were downregulated after treatment with CBS, whereas the expression of nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 was upregulated. In conclusion, CBS treatment exerted therapeutic effects in the liver of mice with NAFLD, which may be associated with amelioration of metabolic disorders, enhanced antioxidant effects, and alleviation of apoptosis.
Keywords: antioxidant, fructose, lipid metabolism, liver
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Domestic violence and sexual assault remain a problem in the Palmetto State. The Office of the Attorney General has designed a program to drastically reduce the incidences of these pervasive crimes: the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Program. Please click on the programs' related links for more information.
The Federal Violence Against Women Act (1994) was the first national legislation to specifically target domestic violence (DV) and other abusive behaviors toward women. Through the Violence Against Women Act, a grant was established in the Department of Justice.
The South Carolina Office of the Attorney General established the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women program in 1996 with monies the VAWA grant provided. Within the program there are two special prosecutors, a program coordinator and a program assistant.
The goals of the S.T.O.P program are twofold. One goal is to prosecute domestic violence and sexual assault cases. The other is to train law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, and victim advocates throughout the state about the causes, consequences and laws pertaining to domestic violence and sexual assault. Employees of the program regularly give speeches at other trainings or seminars in the state, as well.
In addition, the Office hosts an annual Silent Witness ceremony to remember the DV homicide victims from the preceding year. It is important that South Carolina and the nation understand what a significant problem domestic violence is to our communities.
Finally, the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women program acts as a clearinghouse for DV statistics. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division graciously provides this office with data necessary to bring to the attention of the public the growing need for strong action against domestic violence.
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Currently South Carolina ranks sixth in the nation for the amount of homicides caused by domestic violence. Each year in October, the Attorney General hosts a Silent Witness ceremony to honor the victims from the preceding year. During this ceremony, wooden silhouettes represent the women and men who have died due to domestic violence in South Carolina during the previous year. Attorney General Alan Wilson will read the name of each victim and the circumstances of their death. As each name is read, volunteers or family members of the victim carry the silhouette and take a place on the State House steps. The event is open to the public. For more information about Silent Witness, or to find out how you can be a volunteer, please contact the Violence Against Women Department at (803) 734-3745.
Silent Witness Ceremony
October 6, 2020
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The Poster Project
One of the goals of the S.T.O.P Violence Against Women program is to raise awareness about resources for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Our office works to achieve this goal by providing free posters to businesses, schools, police, counselors, hospitals, and other professionals. To view the posters, click here. To request these posters for your business or organization, please email our office.
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I am a slow reader. Maybe it is the artist part of my brain that likes to picture everything I am reading. I can see the characters and it takes me time to get to know them and hear their voices in my head. This morning, I sat glued to my kitchen chair, not able to attend to anything but finishing my summer read titled "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. The story takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960's. The "Help" are the black women who worked as maids for the white women of the south. It is a powerful story of how far we have come in the last 40 years.
I was a little sad when I turned the last page. I felt as though I had grown to love the ladies of the story and had come to look forward to my daily walk with them. Their stories and wisdom had become a part of me. One of my favorite quotes that made me stop and say a silent "amen" is when Aibileen says to Minny: "All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries." Now that is the gospel truth isn't it?!
It seems we are in another ugly election climate with strong opinions on both sides of every issue. The lines in the sand are being drawn. Sharing my beliefs and opinions is important, but it also makes me weary. Standing strong is hard. The women of "The Help" illustrated that very well. But they also showed how a little kindness and understanding can be the very tools you need to change the world.
There is another book that I like to read and walk with the characters daily; The Bible. It gives me all the tools I need to change the world one kindness at a time.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 (emphasis and italics mine)
23 This is what the LORD says:
"Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches,
24 but let him who boasts boast about this:
that he understands and knows me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,"
declares the LORD.
Abba, Thank-you for the ancient & modern stories that reveal your truth. May we find ourselves lost in the pages of your word. May the wisdoms you share become a part of our being so that we may boast that we know you and take delight in your kindness, justice and righteousness. Amen
Julie Weldon
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When I learned how to play I was always trying to write with Queen … but I could never quite get a song. And then I started listening to the Beatles and got more into the knack of songwriting. And then, finally, my dad bought me a book called Complete Beatles, and ... I played every song in that book again and again, and I did develop a rapport with the Beatles songs. I began to re-work because of what Ringo said in an interview. He said, "We took other people's songs and rearranged their chord structures to write songs," and I go, "Wow!" and I started doing that with their songs. And it was like magic, rearranging the chords. It was like a mathematical situation.
It was just a phenomenal theory for me. Of course, if the Beatles heard about this today they'd roll over in their graves, but you know, that's what I did and it was revolutionary to me and that went on forever. This book was like a bible to me and I knew all their songs and I played them, and then I kept … writing with the Beatles theory over and over again. Millions of songs.
Well, I wouldn't know what to say. From Yesterday to I Am the Walrus to... Yer Blues ... so many. I wouldn't do without any of them. I love the Beatles, they are my favourite band.
Pitchfork: The first time I heard a tape of yours it reminded me of Rocky Raccoon.
Well, when John Lennon wrote [Rocky Raccoon]*, he had a book called Enter in the Words**, where he would play around with words and everything was hilarious, and that really was a big influence on me. I had a song called Never Relax, and I was playing around a lot with words that way. And it took a long while for John. I mean, in the early days, he was writing songs-- love songs-- and those were great songs, and at the same time he was writing really hilarious poetry. But it took him until Revolver to take that hilarious poetry and work it into his songs.
But that was an influence on me, in writing lyrics. You know because John was hilarious with his lyrics, and you know, we miss him. But I believe the Beatles are still alive, and with me, because I can put on any record at any time and there they are. And so the Beatles mean a lot to me, and I listen to them a lot. They're my main influence. And I just acquire anything I can get a hold of, from bootlegs to solo albums to whatever.
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The Beatles – Daniel Johnson (from the album Yip)
When I was born in '61***
They already had a hit
They worked so hard and they made it too
They really were very good
They deserved all their success
They earned it, yes they did, they didn't buy their respect
And everybody wanted to be like them
Everybody wanted to be the Beatles
And I really wanted to be like him but he died
A legendary rock group
Like history now to read
Like a magical fairy tale that's hard to believe
But it really did happen
Four lads who shook the world
God bless them for what they done
God bless them for what they done
*Paul McCartney wrote Rocky Racoon
**There's no book with this title. Perhaps Daniel means In His Own Write, or Spaniard In The Works.
***Their first hit was in 1962
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The Community Foundation of Mendocino County recently awarded $103,500 in local grants. Twenty-three "Community Enrichment" grants will fund projects from across Mendocino County. Among the focus areas in this year's grants are programs that will provide healthy food, increase access to outdoor recreation, beautify community spaces, preserve local history, and enhance opportunities to improve people's lives. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens received $5,000 for the purpose of repairing five bridges within the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens to create a more usable and visitor-friendly atmosphere. The repair of these five bridges will be a huge asset creating a safer and more sustainable network of trails allowing visitors full access to the Gardens... all the way to the ocean. We plan to dismantle the bridges and repurpose the useable planks and rails. MCBG wants to thank the Community Foundation of Mendocino County's staff and dedicated board of directors for your continued support!
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Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens used the 2016 Bishoff Grant funding toward the purchase of mulch and newly planted specimens in the Heath & Heather Collection and Entry Garden.
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Where does one go from this point?.
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When the Stanford study came out saying that there was no nutritional benefit organic food. I take two issues with this work. One Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute is supported by the chemical and agribusiness industries. To say they are bias, would be an understatement. Second, this was a study of studies and an aggregation of those bodies of work. The main reasons why I try to get organic products is to remove GMO, pesticides, etc. from my food. Plus it supports more sustainable practices and when you get local higher nutritional qualities. Keep in mind, when veggies are on a truck, boat, etc. to come around the globe, it was picked way too early to have full nutritional value.
But when this study came out, my Zite feed just lit up about how organic was not this, not that, etc. It's nice to see some press looking that the research in more depth and willing to provide a second opinion. The NYT just did that and it's a nice piece.
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ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) — Grenada has named a former magistrate and government minister as its new ambassador to the Caribbean Community (Caricom). Economic Development, Trade, Planning & Cooperative Minister Oliver Joseph told reporters at the end of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that Arley Gill, who served as a minister in the Tillman Thomas
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Canada's legal cannabis drives prices up 17%
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — The average price of cannabis in Canada went up 17.4 percent after its legalisation, according to data released by the government statistical agency. Since legalisation of recreational use last October, prices have jumped to Can$8.02 (US$6.06) per gram from Can$6.83, Statistics Canada said in a news release late Wednesday
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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China's global trade volume rose last year but its surplus fell again, as its imports outpaced its exports, official data released Monday showed. Total trade reached US$4.62 trillion, a 12.6 per cent rise from 2017, according to Customs data. But the trade surplus in the world's second largest economy fell 16.2 per cent to US$351.76 billion
British pound rallies on May's Brexit setback, stocks gain
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KINGSTON College's(KC) Wayne Pinnock continued from where he left off last season with a brilliant show last Saturday at the Charlie Fuller Field Event Meet at Manchester High School. Pinnock produced two big winning marks in the Boys' Class One long and triple jump events on a day when the North Street team showed their strength in the field events
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The Met: Live in HD presents an encore of Cilea's 'Adriana Lecouvreur', at Palace Cineplex on Sunday, January 20, 2019. For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczala. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea's tragedy, directed
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Sandi and Helen have been evicted in another double eviction.
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Giambi testifies before the BALCO grand jury in San Francisco. He had been targeted by investigators as one of the athletes who received performance-enhancing drugs from trainer Greg Anderson.
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Giambi is put on the disabled list with a benign tumor in his pituitary gland that may have been exacerbated by steroid use. Giambi plays only 80 games in the '04 season and hits .208.
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports Giambi's leaked grand jury testimony. According to the report, Giambi admitted using human growth hormone while with the Yankees in the first half of the 2003 season and steroids for two years before that. The Yankees explore voiding the slugger's contract, but never take action.
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Before a limited media gathering at Yankee Stadium, Giambi apologizes to the Yankees and their fans, but never specifies what he's apologizing for.
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Most farmers in Australia regard themselves as custodians and protectors of the countryside.
Yes, mistakes have been made in the past and nobody is suggesting that the farming community is perfect. However, given most farmers earn their living from the land they are not likely to treat it with extreme disrespect.
Over many years now though, both state and national governments have passed increasing numbers of environmental protection laws that appear to suggest that confidence in the farming community is less than total. Some of these laws appear to make little or no sense and in some cases, even contradict each other.
At this stage, we'd like to shift the focus over to France. Like Australia, many European countries over the last 20 years have passed increasingly aggressive environmental protection laws and some are arguing that these have gone too far.
We read of a situation recently where numbers of French villages are becoming completely overrun with weeds in their very centres because laws now state:
1. herbicides cannot be used under any circumstances, where said weeds are near any form of water course or drain system;
2. even if pulled manually, bonfires/incinerators can no longer be used to dispose of garden or agricultural waste;
3. landfill sites and other waste disposal units are no longer accepting anything other than the most trivial quantities of green garden waste. This is apparently to do with trying to encourage more "recycling" and reduce the dumping of even vegetable matter – though recycling is often impossible given the volumes, scale and nature of the materials involved.
What this means is that much agricultural and rural detritus simply cannot be processed. So, many areas now just don't bother pulling weeds and keeping the countryside tidy anymore because they can't do anything with the detritus produced if they do.
Many of these laws have been passed in isolation to each other and nobody seems to have recognised their circular nature or the fact that nobody has a sensible legal option for disposing of garden and agricultural waste products. Almost inevitably, some of the laws are being ignored not because people are anarchic in nature but simply because they have been painted into a corner and can't get out.
The danger of well-intentioned but ultimately illogical and destructive environmental protection laws has been stated before. Let's hope that here in Australia, we can keep a sensible balance between protecting the environment and being able to live our lives on a day-to-day basis.


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