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How To End Insomnia According To A Naturopathic Doctor Georgia Residents Rely On

By Brian Stewart

Insomnia, contrary to everyone's belief, is not just about being unable to catch some shut eye immediately. If you keep waking up during the night and you find it challenging to fall asleep again, then you may have the sleep disorder. No matter what, it's for certain that your physical and mental health will suffer as a result of insomnia. Based on the statement of a naturopathic doctor Georgia residents depend on, attaining a good night's sleep is very much possible. If you like to know some effective yet highly simple tips on beating insomnia, keep on reading.

Take freshly brewed chamomile tea. Even though it is usually taken for dealing with acid reflux, indigestion and also excess gas, the truth is chamomile tea is also an excellent insomnia fighter. This herbal drink is capable of encouraging a good night's sleep as it promotes relaxation of not only the body but also the mind.

Go for passion flower. Being sold as tea and capsules, passion flower is a powerful insomnia remedy. In fact, it's one of the most commonly recommended herbal solutions for insomniacs recommended by traditional healers. By the way, passion flower is usually given to people who are battling anxiety and depression, both of which can easily leave anyone having a hard time getting some sleep.

Give valerian a try. Another well known herbal solution for anxiety and depression is valerian, and it may also be employed for dealing with lack of sleep. You can get your hands on it in tea or capsule form, just like passion flower. It's important to note that you should never use valerian for several days or weeks straight. That's because it is known to cause unfavorable side effects, plus it's associated with some health risks.

Pop melatonin tablets in the mouth. A type of hormone, melatonin regulates a person's body clock. Studies have shown that many people who are bugged by insomnia have low melatonin levels in the bloodstream. The good news is melatonin is readily available in supplement form. Food products such as nuts, seeds, whole grains and various cruciferous vegetables are scientifically proven to help increase the body's melatonin levels.

Consume tart cherries. According to health authorities, those super foods known as tart cherries have melanin raising properties. This is the reason why individuals who are suffering from insomnia should consider having a glass of pure tart cherry juice before hitting the hay. A few frozen or fresh whole tart cherries may also be consumed before going to bed.

Put your trust in lavender essential oil. A particular kind of oil is proven effective against insomnia, and it's called lavender essential oil. Uncap its bottle, place a few drops of the contents on your pillow, and then start dreaming away. Aside from lavender, other fantastic anti insomnia essential oils are cedarwood, sandalwood, marjoram and chamomile.

More often than not, the inability to get enough shut eye can be blamed on poor sleeping habits and uncontrolled stress. There are instances, too, in which it's due to an underlying medical condition. Consider meeting with a primary health care provider especially if your insomnia is paired with all kinds of unusual symptoms.

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By Michael Nielsen, November 21, 2019

Note: Rough and incomplete working notes, me thinking out loud. I’m not an expert on this, so the notes are tentative, certainly contain minor errors, and probably contain major errors too, at no extra charge! Thoughtful, well-informed further ideas and corrections welcome.

In these notes I explore one set of ideas for helping address climate change: direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide – basically, using clever chemical reactions to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, so it can be stored or re-used.

It’s tempting (and fun) to begin by diving into all the many possible approaches to DAC. But before getting into any such details, it’s helpful to think about the scale of the problem to be confronted. How much will DAC need to cost if it’s to significantly reduce climate change? Let’s look quickly at two scenarios for the cost of DAC, just as baselines to keep in mind. I’ll discuss how realistic (or unrealistic) they are below.

As of 2014, the United States emits about 6 billion tonnes of CO2 each year. Suppose it cost about 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 to do direct air capture. To capture the entire annual CO2 production from the US would cost about 600 billion dollars.

US EPA graph of CO2 emission

Source: US EPA

That’s a lot of money! As of 2019, the US military budget was about 700 billion dollars, so at 100 dollars per tonne the cost of DAC would be a little less than the military budget. And it would be a little over half of total energy spending in the US (about 1.1 trillion dollars in 2017).

Suppose instead that direct air capture cost 10 dollars per tonne. In this scenario the cost to capture all the US’s CO2 emissions would be about 60 billion dollars per year.

That’s still a lot of money, but it’s starting to look like the cost of a lot of things humans already do, in government, in commerce, and even in philanthropy.

A particularly striking cost comparison is to the amount we already spend on cleaning up or preventing air pollution. In 2011 the US Environmental Protection Agency estimated that compliance with the Clean Air Act cost about 65.5 billion dollars in 2010.

(The choice of year may sound a little odd and dated – why did I go all the way back to 2010? It’s not a cherrypicked year – rather, the EPA only very rarely reports on the costs of the Clean Air Act, and it happens that 2010 is the most recent year for which an estimate is available. It is, by the way, in line with the EPA’s estimates for earlier years, and it seems reasonable to assume with the cost in more recent years.)

So if DAC cost 10 dollars per tonne of CO2, the cost to make the US carbon neutral would be comparable to the existing cost of compliance with the Clean Air Act and associated regulations.

To make the comparison more concrete, let me mention the sort of regulations (and benefits) the Clean Air Act involves. One example is the imposition of emissions standards on vehicles, and the requirement that they use catalytic converters to reduce pollution. Catalytic converters typically run to a few hundreds dollars, and nearly 20 million cars and trucks are sold annually.

Presto: many billions of dollars each year in compliance costs!

Of course, what we get in exchange for this money is far cleaner skies over our cities, and a much improved quality of life. I don’t just mean that it’s pleasant to enjoy smog-free days; I also mean that this makes a particularly large difference in the quality of life for asthmatics and people with respiratory diseases, and certainly saves many, many lives. Overall, it’s a very good exchange, in my opinion, though I know people who disagree.

Returning to direct air capture, it’s worth keeping these two numbers in mind as reference points: at 100 dollars per tonne for DAC, the cost of DAC is comparable to the US military budget; and at 10 dollars per tonne for DAC, the cost is comparable to the cost of compliance with the Clean Air Act and related regulations.

None of this tells us at what cost point it’s possible to do DAC. It doesn’t tell us how to set up a carbon economy to fund this, at any price point, or how to get the political will for any necessary changes (as was required for the Clean Air Act). Nor does it tell us what to do about other greenhouse gases, or other countries.

Still, it’s helpful to have a ballpark figure to aim for. If DAC is scalable at $100 per tonne, it starts to get very interesting. And at $10 per tonne, the costs start to resemble things we’ve done before for environmental concerns.

As we’ll see in a moment, the $100 cost estimate is at least plausible with near-future technology. $10 per tonne is more speculative, but worth thinking about.

What I like and find striking about this frame is that many people are extremely pessimistic about climate change. They can’t imagine any solution – often, they become mesmerized by what appears to be an insoluble collective action problem – and fall into fatalistic despair. This direct air capture frame provides a way of thinking that is at least plausibly feasible. In particular, the $10 per tonne price point is striking. The Clean Air Act was contentious and required a lot of political will. But the US did it, and many other countries have implemented similar legislation. It’s a specific, concrete goal worth thinking hard about.

Incidentally, in most analyses like this it’s conventional to engage in a lot of cross-comparison between approaches. Analyses which don’t do such cross-comparisons tend to get criticised: “but why didn’t you consider [other approach] which [works better because]”. Doing such comparisons makes good sense if your goal is to figure out where to invest resources, or what outcomes are likely. But those aren’t the point of this analysis. The point here is to more clearly understand the bounds on the overall complexity of the problem. If some approach can work at a reasonable price point, then better solutions are certainly possible. So let me say: I think we can likely do much better than direct air capture. But I think this analysis is useful for bounding the difficulty of the problem.

I’ve been talking at an abstract level, in terms of government programs and so on. It’s also worth putting these numbers in individual terms. On average, US citizens produce about 20 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. At $100 per tonne for DAC, that’s $2,000 each year. At $10 per tonne, it’s $200 each year. Again, we can see that the $10 per tonne price point looks very feasible – $200 is quite a bit of money for most people, but it’s about what they routinely spend for many important things in their life. And while $2,000 really is a lot of money for most people, it’s also much less than the median US citizen routinely spend for many important aspects of their lives.

There’s a lot of variation in other countries, but among large, wealthy countries the US is on the high end of per-capita emissions. In countries like France and Sweden, which have worked hard on reducing emissions, the numbers tend to be more like 5 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. And so $100 DAC comes out to $500 per person per year, and $10 DAC to $50 per person per year.

I guess it’s not currently popular to memorize numbers and simple models of climate change. Still, I wish people discussing climate change knew not just these numbers (or some equivalently informative set), but also many more. I’ve sat in meetings about climate change where many attendees appeared to have almost no quantitative awareness of the scale of the problem. Without such an awareness of, and facility with, quantitative models, their only chance of making substantive progress is by accident, in my opinion.

How much will direct air capture cost, in the near future?

So, how much does direct air capture actually cost? And what are the prospects for driving the costs down?

Unfortunately, it’s not very clear. Although technologies for direct air capture have been used since the 1930s, it’s usually been done on a small scale, for reasons unrelated to climate. Doing it at the giant scales – ultimately, billions of tonnes! – required to impact the climate is quite another matter.

If you read around about direct air capture, you discover a few things: there are many approaches, with widely-varying cost estimates; those estimates are often back-of-the-envelope theory, not even based on a pilot, much less an operating large-scale plant. There’s nothing quite as inexpensive as an industrial plant that exists only on paper. Or, as I once overheard someone say, half cynically, half optimistically: “my favourite form of science fiction is the pitch deck.”

One of the most detailed proposals comes from the company Carbon Engineering, which has been working on direct air capture since 2009. In 2018 they published a paper estimating the costs associated to direct air capture. Their basic proposal is to build cooling towers, filled with a liquid that absorbs CO2, and run big fans to blow air from the atmosphere over that liquid. They then run the resulting material through a second process that produces nearly pure CO2 as output. That CO2 then needs to either be stored or else somehow re-used, perhaps as raw material for manufacturing fuel or something similar. Obviously, this is a very simplified account of what they’re doing, that leaves many details out!

Abstract of the Carbon Engineering paper

Unlike many proposals, Carbon Engineering isn’t just working on paper. They’ve built a small pilot plant in the town of Squamish, British Columbia, an hour north of Vancouver. It runs at a rate of hundreds of tonnes of CO2 captured per year. They’ve attempted to do detailed costings of all components necessary to make a large-scale plant, one with a capacity, if run at full utilization (they estimate it’ll be run at about 90% utilization), of removing a million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. They estimate that it’ll cost from $94 to $232 per tonne of carbon removed. The exact amount depends on details of the configuration the plant is run in, and also reflects things like possible variations in interest rates on debt, and so on.

Photo of pilot plant, sketch of the proposed plant

It’s tempting to be skeptical of this proposal. For one thing, in the short term Carbon Engineering has a vested interest in making their direct air capture scheme look attractive and inexpensive. And there’s also just natural human entrepreneurial optimism, and the fact that, by definition, you can’t anticipate the details of unexpected problems. So caution is called for. I also lack the expertise to seriously evaluate the technical details of their proposal. While to my eye, it looks as though Carbon Engineering has been careful, maybe they’ve missed some important factor, and their estimates are way off. On the other hand, there are at least quite a few eyes on it – although the paper was published just a year ago, in 2018, it’s already been cited 132 times, and it’s clear it’s seen as something of a gold standard.

There are some interesting critiques of direct air capture in the scientific literature. For instance, this 2011 paper by House et al claims a minimal cost of $1,000 per tonne, based on a relatively general argument, whose main input appears to be the cost of electricity. The analysis is quite complicated, and I don’t understand many of the details (working on it, but it’s a real research project to track everything down!) The essential gist seems to be: when you separate the CO2 from the atmosphere, you’re ordering the system, and so necessarily lowering the entropy of the system. The second law of thermodynamics tells us there will be an intrinsic energy cost associated to doing this, even if done with maximal efficiency; that, in turn, puts some constraints on the costs. In any case, they conclude that “many estimates in the literature appear to overestimate air capture’s potential”.

The Carbon Engineering paper mentions this paper and similar critiques, and rebuts it with an argument that amounts to “well, we actually went and built a plant which works, and we did detailed costings of how to scale it up”. This is a good start on a rebuttal, but obviously as an outsider it’d be good to go back and dig into both pro and con details much more than I have. That may be a project I do in the future. For the sake of argument, and the remainder of these notes, let’s stick with Carbon Engineering’s numbers, but keep in mind that they should be taken with a grain of salt, until examined much more closely.

I must admit, part of the reason I’m inclined to be sympathetic toward Carbon Engineering’s estimate is that I read lead author (and Carbon Engineering’s cofounder) David Keith’s book about a different topic, solar geoengineering. Keith seemed to me to be very honest in the book, carefully describing many of his own uncertainties, the complexities of the problem, and giving charitable explanations of the position of his critics. None of that makes him correct, but I’m inclined to believe he’s careful, serious, and worth paying attention to.

An influential prior study of DAC came in 2011 from an American Physical Society (APS) study. The costs estimated were much higher, more in the ballpark of $600 per tonne of CO2.

What accounts for the difference – likely a factor of 3 or more?

In the words of Carbon Engineering’s paper:

The cost discrepancy is primarily driven by divergent design choices rather than by differences in methods for estimating performance and cost of a given design. Our own estimates of energy and capital cost for the APS design roughly match the APS values.

This is then followed by a relatively detailed (and, to my eye, plausible) account of the differences in design choices, and how Carbon Engineering improved on the prior design decisions. I’ll say a bit more about that below.

On its face, the numbers in the Carbon Engineering paper don’t seem so encouraging. Let’s call it $200 per tonne. At that level, for the US to achieve carbon neutrality would cost more than the US currently spends on energy in total.

What about other approaches? Let’s broaden the field, and consider negative emissions technologies in general, especially those pulling CO2 directly out of the atmosphere in some way. (In contrast to technologies which capture carbon at the source of production – often a less costly but also less general, more bespoke approach.)

Earlier this year, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released an informative report surveying negative emissions technologies. In the report, they attempt to estimate both cost ranges and the scalability of many different technologies. If you’re interested, there’s a good summary on pages 354-356 of the report.

I won’t summarize all their results here. But there is much (cautiously) encouraging news. There are a lot of possible negative emissions technologies. One approach is coastal blue carbon – storing carbon in mangroves, marshes, and sea grasses, the kind of ecosystems one sees along the coastline. This perhaps doesn’t sound terribly promising. But the big advantage is that the carbon tends to be stored underground, in the soil, and can be stored there for decades or centuries. The NAS survey reports a cost estimate of $10 per tonne.

That price point is much more encouraging than Carbon Engineering’s. Unfortunately, the report also projects a “potential [global] capacity with current technology and understanding” of 8-65 billion tonnes. That’s not enough for even two years of global CO2 production. So at most, this can simply help out.

Another approach is based on storing carbon in forests. The National Academies report’s estimated price is somewhat higher – from $15-50 per tonne of CO2. (I don’t know if that includes proper burial – when trees die most of their CO2 is typically returned to the atmosphere). But the approach is also much more scalable, with an estimated global capacity of from 570 to 1,125 billion tonnes, using “current technology and understanding”. Per year, the NAS estimates a capacity of 2.5 to 9 billion tonnes, again using current technology and understanding. That’s global, so it’s not enough to make the world carbon neutral (global CO2 emissions are almost 40 billion tonnes per year). But it’s starting to put a sizeable dint in the problem.

(A caveat to the discussion in this section: I haven’t been careful about which of these numbers include the cost of storing or utilizing carbon. That’s a genuine cost. My impression is that it’s likely to cost less than $20 per tonne, maybe much less, or even turn a profit. This is based in part on the cost of storing CO2 in the Utsira formation – a giant undersea aquifer off Scandinavia – where several million tonnes of CO2 have been stored at a Wikipedia-reported price of 17 dollar per tonne. If this impression is correct then the cost of capturing CO2 is likely to either dominate or in worst case be comparable to the cost of storage and utilization. Still, a more detailed analysis would be careful about this costing.)

How much can the costs drop?

These numbers are tantalizing. Apart from the (probably not scalable) coastal blue carbon, they’re about an order of magnitude away from where they need to be for climate to be a problem of similar order to air pollution. But the numbers are also based on “current technology and understanding”.

How much can these costs drop with improvements in technology? And are there other ways of dropping the effective costs?

The most famous technology cost curves are those associated to Moore’s Law – the exponential increase in transistor density in semiconductors, and associated things like computer speed, memory, energy efficiency, and so on.

This is, in fact, a common (though not universal) pattern across technologies. It seems to have first been pointed out in a 1936 paper by the aeronautical engineer Theodore Wright. Wright observed the cost of producing airplanes dropped along an exponential curve as more were produced. Very roughly speaking, for each doubling in production, costs dropped by about 15 percent. Essentially, as they made more airplanes, the manufacturers learned more, and that helped them lower their costs.

This pattern of exponential improvement is seen for many technologies, not just in semiconductors and airplane manufacture. It’s been common in energy too. For instance, the cost of solar energy has dropped by roughly a factor of 100 over the past four decades (link, link). That cost reduction was driven in part by technological improvement, and in part by economies of scale.

One wonders: will the cost of direct air capture or some other negative emission technology follow something like Wright’s Law? If so, one might hope that it would drive the cost of carbon capture in some form down below 10 dollars per tonne. Indeed, it’s even possible to start to think about whether there’s ways it could be made net profitable.

Unfortunately, while Wright’s Law is interesting, it’s far from a compelling argument. Indeed, it’s a little silly to call it a Law: it’s an observed historical regularity, an observation about the past for certain technologies. If you’re Intel, planning for 5 to 10 or more years from now, you need to set targets. You may perhaps be able to project reliably a few years on the basis of in-train improvements. But longer-term improvements may be more speculative, and require new ideas, ideas that by definition you can’t directly incorporate into your current models. Studying history is an alternative approach to help set plausible targets. But eventually such historical regularities break down. Indeed, we see this in recent years where many aspects of Moore’s Law have started to break down.

And so the fundamental problem here is that we don’t know how much the costs of DAC will go down. At best, we can make guesses. That’s a nervous position to be in – the usual situation for challenging problems!

To make this more concrete, let’s come back to Carbon Engineering’s proposal for DAC. Here, in more detail, is how they cut the cost by a factor 3 or so from the APS study. The details won’t make much sense, unless you’ve read the paper (or similar work); what’s important is to read for the general gist:

The cost discrepancy is primarily driven by divergent design choices… The most important design choices involved the contactor including (1) use of vertically oriented counterflow packed towers, (2) use of Na+ rather than K+ as the cation which reduces mass transfer rates by about one-third, and (3) use of steel packings which have larger pressure drop per unit surface area than the packing we chose and which cost 1,700 $/m3, whereas the PVC tower packings we use cost less than 250 $/m3. … In rough summary, the APS contactor packed tower design yielded a roughly 4-fold higher capital cost per unit inlet area, and also used packing with 6-fold higher cost, and 2-fold larger pressure drop.

The paper continues with a discussion of why the APS made those different design choicees, and also with a discussion of some differences in the way input energy was used in Carbon Engineering’s design versus the APS design.

I’m not an industrial chemist, but to me those changes sound like low-hanging fruit. But they’re also not the kind of low-hanging fruit that the APS could have planned for in 2011. If they could have planned for it, they would have come up with a different cost estimate.

Of course, low-hanging fruit is what you’d expect. Carbon Engineering has been, until recently, a tiny company, with a small handful of staff. They were founded in 2009, and appear to have subsisted on relatively small grants and seed funding until 2019, when they raised 68 million dollars. It’s interesting to think about what they’ll achieve with that funding. Hopefully, they’ll be able to pick some higher-hanging fruit. Assuming their initial cost estimates bear out, for this design, will it be possible for them (or someone else working on direct air capture) to achieve another factor of 3 reduction in cost?

I’ve been focusing on cost reductions due to better design and technology. In fact, part of the job will be done in a very different way. The carbon intensity of a country is the CO2 emissions per dollar of GDP. Carbon intensities in the US dropped more than 18% per decade from 1990 to 2014, the latest year for which the World Bank reports numbers. This isn’t surprising: all other things equal, most people and companies try to keep doing things in more energy-efficient ways, since energy costs them money. If this drop in carbon intensity continues, it means that considered as a fraction of the total economy, the cost of DAC will go down. Effectively, it’s as though we’re automatically making progress toward $10 DAC, at a rate of about 18 percent per decade. On its own that won’t make DAC economically feasible. But over two or three decades, it’ll help a lot.

It’s also interesting to think about cost reductions due to plausible emissions reductions. As noted earlier, in countries such as France, Sweden, etc, average emissions per capita are something like 4 times lower than in the US. This is often attributed causally to their extensive use of nuclear power; nuclear certainly plays a large role, but as far as I can see it can only be part of the story (since electricity production is only responsible for a moderate fraction of total emissions). Rather, it’s that they’ve also been more serious than the US in other ways about reducing emissions; their use of nuclear is, in part, a symptom of this seriousness, not the cause. In any case, such examples illustrate that nuclear plus other moderate efforts can lead to large emissions reductions.

(I should point out: of course, drops in carbon intensity and emissions reductions are intertwined, not independent! I’ve mentioned them separately because there are ways in which they’ve very different kinds of goals with, for example, different kinds of expression in policy.)

Of course, neither changes in carbon intensity nor emissions reductions are literally the same as a drop in price of direct air capture. But considered as a fraction of the economy they may as well be; it’s a kind of drop in the effective cost of DAC. And so I think a factor 10 or more reduction in the effective cost of DAC is plausibly possible, in part through technological improvements, in part through emissions reductions as already implemented in countries with similar standards of living, and in part through reduced carbon intensity. Put another way: it’s plausible that doing DAC to make the US carbon neutral ends up costing an amount comparable to or less than the current cost of the Clean Air Act, as a fraction of the total economy. That seems encouraging.

I’ve focused a lot on direct air capture, and it sounds like I’m bullish about this approach. Actually, I’m too ignorant to have a really strong opinion. From my point of view, a big part of concentrating here was simply that (a) there was what seemed a particularly juicy paper to dig into, and (b) as I said at the start, this could be treated as a boundary case, setting a kind of worst-case scenario. It’s entirely possible – indeed, likely, – that other approaches to dealing with climate are considerably better. But this already looks promising. My tentative conclusions are that direct air capture offers a promising but far from certain approach to making major progress on climate change. And, more broadly: negative emissions technologies offer a promising approach to making major progress on climate change.

I got interested in direct air capture in part after reading Matt Nisbet’s survey of US climate and energy foundation funding (summary here, with a link to the full survey). Here’s his summary chart. Note that it covers funding from 19 major funders of climate and energy work, and the years from 2011 to 2015:

Graph by Nisbet summarizing breakup of US climate and energy foundation funding

You see enormous sums of money going into renewable energy, sustainable aagriculture, and into opposing fossil fuels. But just a tiny fraction of the spending – 1.9%, or just over 10 million dollars – went to other low carbon energy technologies. And of that, just $1.3 million went to evaluate carbon capture and storage.

Now, admittedly, these numbers focus on just a tiny slice of the total funding pie (US foundation funding), and are somewhat outdated. In particular, the last few years have seen substantial progress on investment in negative emissions technologies (as witness the $68 million invested in Carbon Engineering). Still, my impression is that the qualitative picture from Nisbet’s research holds more broadly. Humanity’s collective priorities are research and development focused on renewable energy sources, especially solar and wind; and anti-fossil fuel messaging and lobbying. By contrast, negative emissions technologies like DAC are receiving relatively little funding.

As a non-expert, I’m reluctant to hold too firm opinions here. But, frankly albeit tentatively I think this makes no sense! Of course, renewables (say) should receive a lot of funding. But if you genuinely believe climate change is a huge threat, then we should collectively and determinedly pursue lots of different strategies. Direct air capture (and, more broadly, negative emissions) look very underfunded and underexplored. Yes, it requires considerable improvement. But compared to other historic technologies, it’s within striking distance of being able to have a huge impact, especially considering the relatively minor effort so far put into it.

This is a tiny slice through a tiny slice (direct air capture) of the climate problem. Climate is intimidating in part because the scale of understanding required is so immense. You can spend a lifetime studying the relevant parts of just one of: the climate itself, the energy industry, solar, wind, nuclear, politics, economics, social norms. It’s extremely difficult to get an overall picture; it’s easy to miss very big things. I wrote these notes mostly because the only way I know to get a handle on big problems is to start by doing detailed investigations of very tiny corners. So consider this one very tiny corner.

To finish, I can’t resist reporting an uncommon opinion: overall, and over the long term, I’m optimistic about climate.

I’ve focused on direct air capture, but it seems to me there are many other promising approaches. I believe humans will figure out how to address climate change. There will be a lot of suffering along the way, much of it falling to the world’s poorest people. That’s a terrible tragedy, and something we’re too late to entirely avert; indeed, it’s very likely already happening. But over the long term work on this problem will also lead us to strengthen existing institutions, and to invent new institutions, institutions which will make life far better for billions of people. It’s a huge challenge, but I think we’ll rise to the challenge, and make human civilization much better off for it.

Acknowledgments: Thanks to Andy Matuschak for conversations about climate.

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David L. Wolper's Mini-Crab Dolly #157

I've been meaning to write about #157's previous owners for more than a year now, especially the most famous one of all, David L. Wolper.

Soon after purchasing #157, I was quite surprised when I removed the bottom panel for the very first time. Hidden beneath years of oxidation on the panel was the stamped name of D. L. Wolper.

At first glance, I didn't recognize his name until I did some research. I quickly recalled that Mr. Wolper was one of the most accomplished Hollywood and TV producers of our time. According to his site, Mr. Wolper won a total of 2-Academy Awards (Oscars), 50-Emmy's and 5-Peabody Awards. Undoubtedly, one of the most celebrated producers of all time.

Needless to say, as a filmmaker myself, it's an honor to have had in my possession, one of Mr. Wolper's pieces of equipment. To me, it's like having one of Ansel Adams' Hasselblad cameras. You can see more of Mr. Wolper's work at:

David L. Wolper - IMDb

Some images of the DL Wolper stamping before cleaning it.
It's quite possible the stampings were done at the ColorTran factory in Burbank.
After using a little rubbing compound, I was able to clean many years of oxidation off the stamping. As you can see, the stamping is more legible.

Tip...If you own a ColorTran Mini-Crab, be sure to check the inside of the bottom panel for any stampings. You'll have to look hard as it may be under years of oxidation.

During the conversation I once had with the former president of Berkey-ColorTran, I was told that a handful of famous filmmakers purchased the Mini-Crab soon after its release. I know two of which for sure, Francis Ford Coppola and David L. Wolper. Who knows...with only around 200 or so of these dollies being built, it's quite possible you too may have a famous 'Hollywood' dolly! Check your dolly and let me know what you find!

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In a market day as rainy as the weather up here in Montreal, KORS seems to be standing out.

After beating earnings estimates (+138% EPS). Retails sales are up 59% and gross margins increased 2%. ROE seems to be 53%. EPS has accelerated last three quarters (96%, 129%, 138%). Guidance was a disappointment however.

KORS has been plagued by public offerings near each breakout but this time, it doesn't seem to be happening as it finally showed conviction in breaking out today despite the bad market day. Volume was well over 1000% (385% as of now) this morning which usually is a good sign it will beat the 40% necessary for a solid breakout at the end of the day. Some people like to wait until near the end of the day to buy once more volume info is available. I like to be more active and project volume based on current % above average as stated in IBD. If you see 4 digit volume percent increases, you're pretty much OK to dive in.

This stock survived 80% of my checklist which is good enough for me. Where it failed is RS >= 80 and U/D >= 1.1. Let's see if the resistance at 65.10 is a threat.

Alright, lunchtime is over on the east coast. Back to my real job!


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tenor singer, 6.apr.1841 he was dismissed as choirboy at Ermita de San Saturio in Soria but remained being a member of the chapel, since on 12.jan.1855 his salary was increased 'with the obligation to compose something and sing the role of tenor on the days when needed'

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Day 3: 70 km around 1 tp

Another day in paradise. Stinking hot paradise - we had 40C today, and I was melting... is this Forbes or what??? How could I be so stupid and forget me e-cooline gear that has saved me on the hot paddock when we had the worlds?
It was a lot of hang-waiting on launch after the alternate window guys got off. Nils was first in the air, and he soared around, barely 100m above take off, for about two hours before the inversion finally broke and the rest on the hill got moving.
Of course we hit a strong cross-headwind again, like on any other Tambo day. It was going slow and low in the blue again. Only towards the first turnpoint Palen Creek I saw some clouds, but those were too big for my taste, some of them with thunder and lightening, so I decided to land. A little bit of rain cooled me down :)
Guy Hubbard flew furthest and won the day, as nobody made goal in Rathdowney due to the shaded area. Blinky is in first place now, closely followed by Adam Stevens and John Smith (NZ), you find the results here!
Looks like we will go to Beechmont take off for a few days now, as a trough moved through and hopefully brings us fresh, more active air!

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Belgium: the new 2020 Belgian Code on Corporate Governance

The Corporate Governance Committee has published a new edition of its corporate governance code ("the 2020 Code"): see here (pdf, Dutch), here (pdf, English) or here (pdf, French). The new Code applies to reporting years beginning on or after 1 January 2020, replacing the Code published in 2009. A list, in English, of the changes contained in the new edition is available here (pdf) and a more general summary can be found in the press release available here (pdf, English).

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Smriti Irani files her nomination from Amethi

Smriti Irani

Amethi । Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani filed her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections. She is contesting against Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi Parliamentary constituency.

Irani filed the nomination at the District Magistrate’s office in Gauriganj. She was accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

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Earlier, she held a four-kilometre roadshow, cheered by supporters.

Wayanad people should visit Amethi before voting: Smriti Irani

Irani earlier left the guest house at Gauriganj, the district headquarters of Amethi, along with her husband Zubin Irani.

On her way, she prayed at a temple and then went straight to participate in a puja organised at the BJP office here.

Smriti Irani is contesting against the Congress President for a second time. In 2014, despite a Modi wave, she lost to Gandhi by a margin of over 1.07 lakh votes.

Rahul Gandhi filed nomination from Amethi after road show with family

Amethi is considered a bastion of the Congress. The seat has remained mostly with the Congress since 1980.

The parliamentary seat of Amethi was first represented by Sanjay Gandhi between 1989-81. After his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv Gandhi represented the seat till 1991.

After Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, his wife Sonia Gandhi contested from the seat in 1999 and won. Since 2004 the seat is being represented by Rahul Gandhi.

Voting in Amethi is scheduled on May 6 in the fifth phase. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.


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About Sub-Races

The concept of Sub Races is related to Root Races, in that Sub Races are a subdivision of Root Races. In href=””>Theosophy there are seven Sub Races for each Root Race. Steiner maintained the structure, but renamed the Root Races “Epochs” and the Sub-Races “Cultural Epochs” and specifically de-emphasized the racial aspects.
In 1908 Steiner said:
“When people speak of races today they do so in a way that is no longer quite correct; in theosophical literature, too, great mistakes are made on this subject … Even in regard to present humanity, for example, it no longer makes sense to speak simply of the development of races. In the true sense of the word this development of the races applies only to the Atlantean epoch … thus everything that exists today in connection with the [different] races are relics of the differentiation that took place in Atlantean times. We can still speak of races, but only in the sense that the real concept of race is losing its validity.”
Steiner, Rudolf. Universe, Earth and Man (GA 105), London 1987, lecture of 16 August 1908.
“For this reason we speak of ages of culture in contra-distinction to races. All that is connected with the idea of race is still a relic of the epoch preceding our own, namely the Atlantean. We are now living in the period of cultural ages … Today the idea of culture has superseded the idea of race. Hence we speak of the ancient Indian culture, of which the culture announced to us in the Vedas is only an echo. The ancient and sacred Indian culture was the first dawn of post-Atlantean civilization; it followed immediately upon the Atlantean epoch.”
Steiner, Rudolf. The Apocalypse of St John (GA 104), London 1977, lecture of 20 June 1908.
Explaining the issue at length in 1909, when he was still the General Secretary of the German section of the Theosophical Society in Germany, Steiner said:
“If we go back beyond the Atlantean catastrophe, we see how human races were prepared. In the ancient Atlantean age, human beings were grouped according to external bodily characteristics even more so than in our time. The races we distinguish today are merely vestiges of these significant differences between human beings in ancient Atlantis. The concept of races I only fully applicable to Atlantis. Because we are dealing with the real evolution of humanity, we [theosophists] have therefore never used this concept of race in its original meaning. Thus, we do not speak of an Indian race, a Persian race, and so on, because it is no longer true or proper to do so. Instead, we speak of an Indian, a Persian, and other periods of civilization. And it would make no sense at all to say that in our time a sixth “race” is being prepared. Though remnants of ancient Atlantean differences, of ancient Atlantean group-soulness, still exist and the division into races is still in effect, what is being prepared for the sixth epoch is precisely the stripping away of race. That is essentially what is happening.
Therefore, in its fundamental nature, the anthroposophical movement, which is to prepare the sixth period, must cast aside the division into races. It must seek to unite people of all races and nations, and to bridge the divisions and differences between various groups of people. The old point of view of race has physical character, but what will prevail in the future will have a more spiritual character.
That is why it is absolutely essential to understand that our anthroposophical movement is a spiritual one. It looks to the spirit and overcomes the effects of physical differences through the force of being a spiritual movement. Of course, any movement has its childhood illnesses, so to speak. Consequently, in the beginning of the theosophical movement the earth was divided into seven periods of time, one for each of the seven root races, and each of these root races was divided into seven sub-races. These seven periods were said to repeat in a cycle so that one could always speak of seven races and seven sub-races. However, we must get beyond the illness of childhood and clearly understand that the concept of race has ceased to have any meaning in our time.”
Rudolf Steiner. The Universal Human: The Evolution of Individuality. New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1990. Pages 12-13. Lecture of December 4th, 1909.

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I’m excited to announce another album coming out this week! On Tuesday, May 18th (Mt. St. Helens Day!) And this one is different. It’s just my music. I love hymns, I love making covers of songs. But, I also love writing my own music.

I’ve entitled the album “Aphiemi”, (Pronounced: af-ee’-ay-mee) which is the greek word for forgiveness and sending away. It means: to send away; to bid going away or depart; to send forth, expire; To let go, leave alone, let be, disregard; To leave, go away.

Matt 27:50. “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up (Aphiemi) his spirit.”

This album is the story of that “giving up” and the consequential “sending away”. It’s the story of what Jesus did for us and what we receive because of what He did.

Aphiemi: David Lindner. May 18, 2021

Colossians 1:13-14 – “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness (Aphiemi) of sins.”

“What’s with all the greek words?” Good question. As I’ve been working to get my music on playlists, I’ve noticed something. The songs that don’t have too “churchy” of a title aren’t rejected as much as those that do. I also noticed a lot of other pianists who title their music with words from other languages. So, I thought, what if I used greek words that mean something to me as the inspiration for the song. Then the word itself shouldn’t be a turn off for someone looking for good piano music and, if someone likes the song, then they go look up what the word means, maybe a seed gets planted?

This will be a digital release only, meaning I don’t plan on making physical CD’s. You can purchase the album on iTunes and Amazon on Tuesday, May 18th (Mt. St. Helens Day). But, one of the most meaningful things to me is when you add it to your prayer and worship playlists and when you share it with your friends.

Thanks to all of you who support me and my music!


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April 28, 1970

 Your Excellency:

            It is a very great pleasure for me to extend to you and to the Clergy, Religious and Laity of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown my heartiest congratulations on the occasion of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Birth of Father Demetrius Gallitizin.

            This memorable and significant occasion, marking the great accomplishments of a truly remarkable figure in the early history of the Church of the United States, affords us an opportunity to admire once again the indefatigable zeal of this genuinely priestly figure.  The people of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown can look back with deep gratitude for Father Gallitzin's spirit of renunciation and apostolic vision, both of which enabled him to dedicate his entire self to the area's Catholics, notwithstanding numerous obstacles.

            I know that this Anniversary will be replete with blessings from on high, and it is while conscious of this that I join Your Excellency and the People of God in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in offering thanks to Almighty God for his many graces and countless blessings of the past, together with a prayer that the future be marked with comparable heavenly favors.

            With renewed felicitations and sentiments of esteem, I remain

Sincerely yours in Christ,

 Luigi Raimondi

Apostolic Delegate

Most Reverend James J. Hogan, D.D.
Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown
Altoona, Pennsylvania

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The material offered for download in this section of the site is copyright. You may not publish any of this material in any form, reproduce it on public Web sites, or pass it off as your own. It is supplied for use in private and institutional study only.

The files supplied here are mainly Photoshop (PSD) files, and some are quite large. The photographs are not necessarily at their original resolution – in many cases we have downsampled to produce more manageable file sizes, where this does not interfere with the purpose of the exercise.

Resolution and Resampling

DMT3 Fig4 5 Cactus Download the photograph of cactuses [PSD:6.6MB]

Download the photograph and try changing the resolution without resampling, to see what effect this has on the display of the image. Change the resolution back to 72 dpi and experiment with reducing the size of this large image without changing the resolution again. (Refer to page 85.) Blow up the image on screen (View>Zoom In) to see the effects of the downsampling in detail. Assess how far you can downsample without a substantial loss of quality, but think about the size at which you might want to display the image.

DMT3, Chapter 4, Lighthouse photograph Download the photograph of the lighthouse [JPEG:32kB]

Download this small JPEG file and experiment with enlarging it. Try each of the different interpolation methods and observe any differences. Try enlarging the image by several hundred percent, and then repeating this process again. What happens to the image and why? Can you see a sort of halo round the lighthouse and perhaps in other areas? What do you think might be the cause of this?

Making and Using Selections

You will often find it helpful to zoom in to the images when making precise selections. Make a habit of saving the selections as well as keeping an unchanged copy of the original file.

DMT3 Figure 4.31 Flower Download the photograph of a red flower [PSD:2.5MB]

Refer to pages 109–110 and experiment with using Select>Color Range… to see how much of the red flower you can select in this way without including the background. Invert the selection and delete everything other than the red flower, then fill the inverted selection with a background colour and observe areas of partial transparency in the flower.

DMT3 Figure 4.32 Fish Download the photograph of a fish under water [PSD:10.7MB]

Use the pen tool to select the fish in the way described on page 111. Invert the selection and delete the background; compare your result with Figure 4.32.

DMT3 Figure 4.40 Moat Download the photograph of the Bishop's Palace in Wells [PSD:2.0MB]

Read the section on masks (pages 118–123). Experiment with making a feathered selection using the Refine Edge adjustments, and save the mask as an alpha channel or a layer mask.

DMT3, Chapter 4 Buddleia photograph Download the photograph of a buddleia [PSD:1.1MB]

Use the magic wand to select all of the plant in the foreground and none of the sky behind. Save the selection.

DMT3, Chapter 4 Butterfly photograph DMT3, Chapter 4 Butterfly mask Download the photograph of a butterfly [PSD:2.3MB]

Try to select only the butterfly using the magnetic lasso. Save the selection as an alpha channel and compare that channel with the black and white image shown here.

Adjustments and Retouching

DMT3, Chapter 4 Sailing Boat Download the photograph of a sailing boat [PSD:455.6kB]

Using any selection tool of your choice, select just the sails (make sure you include the bits in shadow), and nothing else in the image. Save the selection as an alpha channel, and make sure that the selection is still loaded. Change the colour of the sails to a strong dark colour, such as red or purple. Now, using whatever means you find appropriate, change the colour cast of the whole image to give a distinctive but still naturalistic result, without altering the new colour of the sails. (Red sails in the sunset?) You may find it helpful to read the section on colour adjustments, starting on page 133.

DMT3, Figure 4.58a Red Door Download the photograph of the red door [PSD:5.2MB]

Start by making as complete a selection as you can of the red colour in the door, without selecting any of the rest of the image. (You may need to use a combination of tools to do this.) Experiment with changing the door's colour by using the Hue/Saturation dialogue, as described and illustrated on pages 137–140.

DMT3 Fig4 73 Blurry Roses Download the photograph of roses [PSD:4.2MB]

Read the section on blurring and sharpening, on pages 151–156. If you haven't got a suitable photograph of your own, download this one for the "Try This" exercise on page 156. See whether you can achieve a better result than the one shown on the right-hand side of Figure 4.73.

DMT3 Fig4 64 Foghorn Download the photograph of a foghorn [PSD:4.6MB]

Experiment with using both the Spot Healing brush and the Clone Stamp tool to remove the unsightly rusty streaks on the wall. Make sure that you retain the wall's texture and lighting. See which tool does the better job. Refer to the section on retouching by hand, pages 142–146, and to Figure 4.64.

Effects and Filters

DMT3 Fig4 78 Tile Download the tile pattern [Illustrator:167.9kB]

DMT3 Fig4 78 Vanishing Download the photograph of the tiled path [PSD:1.7MB]

Download both the photograph and the tile pattern. Read the section on the Vanishing Point filter (pages 159–162) and look at the colour illustrations for Figures 4.78 to 4.80 provided on this site. Try to duplicate the effect that we created, shown in the left-hand image of Figure 4.78. If you are feeling ambitious, apply the tiled pattern to both of the paths (independently), but adjust its colour so that they are not identical.

DMT3 4 Cawdor Download the photograph of Cawdor Castle [PSD:10.7MB]

Experiment with the different filters in the Filter Gallery to produce several different dramatic graphic representations of the castle. you can try applying multiple filters but the building should remain recognizable. The results should be suitable for a tourist brochure with stylized illustrations.

We have deliberately not corrected the exposure in the original photograph (though it's corrected here on the site), so you could start by making adjustments to improve it.

Erasing and Fills

Certain types of erasing can be very demanding on your hands. Be careful to take frequent rests to avoid injury.

DMT3, Chapter 4 Pere Noel Download the photograph of Pere Noel [PSD:7.3MB]

Using the Extract filter (see pages 116–118), try to extract Père Noel (complete with snowshoes and basket) from his background. Compare your result with the right-hand image shown in Figure 4.37. Now fill the background with a festive pattern. Why would it be difficult to extract Père Noel from his background by selection using the magic wand or Select>Color Range?

DMT3, Chapter 4 Crockery Download the photograph of crockery [PSD:4.6MB]

Using whatever methods you prefer, erase all the background of this picture, and the partially hidden cup in the top left, leaving just the two large cups on the right and the bowl full of packets of sugar. Fill the background with a plain colour that provides good contrast with the crockery.

DMT3, Chapter 4 Agricultural implement Download the photograph of an old agricultural implement [PSD:4.5MB]

Download this photograph and save an unaltered version of it to return to.

(a) Practise using the background eraser to isolate this agricultural object from its background. Experiment with different tolerance settings, but try to get as clean a result as possible.

(b) Starting from a new copy of the original image, this time isolate both the object and its shadow. Is the background eraser the best tool for this job?

(c) Again, starting from a new copy, and using whatever tool or combination of tools you feel most appropriate, extract and save only the shadow of the agricultural object. See whether you can create a complete shadow by repairing the gaps left after the extraction.

DMT3, Chapter 4 Daffodils Download the photograph of daffodils [PSD:4.9MB]

Erase all the background of this photograph, leaving only the daffodils (including their leaves and stems).

DMT3 Figure 4.92 Sheep Download the photograph of a Shetland sheep [PSD:3.1MB]

Refer to the section on making patterns on pages 175–178. Experiment with generating patterns from the sheep's wool, or any other part of the image that looks interesting to you. Save the patterns you like for use as fills in other documents.

Read the section on animation on pages 179–188 before trying these exercises.

DMT3 Figure 4.96 Geranium Download the photograph of a geranium flower [PSD:288kB]

Using only this small low-resolution image, make a simple animation. You can either try to duplicate the example described on pages 182–183 and shown on this site – but using different colours – or create an original animation of your own by making a sequence of adjustments to the image to make its appearance change over time. Save the result as an animated GIF and test it in a Web browser.

DMT3 Figure 4.98 Sailing boat Download the photograph of a seascape [PSD:5.2MB]

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The American Kennel Club (AKC®) and ESPN are happy to announce that they have signed a 3-year content agreement which brings 100% unique, high-energy dog programming to the channel and includes digital rights for selected events to stream live on the ESPN App.

The agreement also brings the AKC National Championship Presented by Royal Canin, to ABC for the next three years. The three-hour show will air on Sunday January 17, 2021 at 2p ET. The show is the largest dog event in North America and features thousands of dogs from around the country and the world competing for the coveted title of National Champion and the prize of $50,000.

Building on the success from their collaborations “ESPN Dog Day” and “ESPN Puppy Day,” the AKC will produce championships and competitions for the leading sports network. Each show will give audiences an insight into the fun and intensely competitive world of dog sports. The slate includes:

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Each program will have two re-airs on ESPN television channels as well as re-airs on the Nat Geo WILD Channel. The agreement also grants ESPN access to the AKC’s extensive library of dog programming for potential future programming.

“We are thrilled to expand on our amazing relationship with the leader in sports television,” said Dennis B. Sprung, President and CEO of the AKC. “AKC Sports demonstrate the very best in canine athleticism and the strength of the human-canine bond. It is exciting to introduce new audiences to these action-packed events and showcase the stellar dogs that compete, and we cannot think of a better place to do so, than ESPN.”

Programming kicks off on Friday December 11th with AKC Fastest Dogs USA competition live-streamed on the ESPN App from 2-4p ET and airing on ESPN2 Sunday December 13th at 6p ET. The AKC National Championship evening and group events will also be live streamed on the ESPN App on December 12th and 13th at 4:30p ET each night.

“People just love their dogs and our viewers responded very well to our previous AKC telecasts,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN Executive Vice President, Programming and Original Content. “We’re very pleased to be able to bring them more in the years to come, showcasing the beauty and athleticism of dogs and the great teamwork these events require, and making ESPN the home of dog action sports. I know my black labs Luna and Stella will be joining me to watch.”

The AKC is the largest purebred dog registry in the world and the leading governing body of dog sports in the United States. More than 22,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred and mixed breed dogs are held under AKC rules and regulations each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog tests.

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Kurt Goetzinger is the founder of Dog Friendly Business and owner of Omaha Advertising, a digital marketing firm in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied journalism and advertising at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and started a monthly newspaper called the "Omaha Pet Gazette" in the 1990s. He and his family are all avid dog lovers. In his spare time he runs a community garden on a lot he purchased next to his home.


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Sonia Kaur is an Indian Actress and Model. She is well known for her hot looks and cute smile. She is famous on various social media platforms including Instagram. Sonia Kaur has earned over 21.2K followers on Instagram.

Sonia Kaur was born on 17th August 1990 in Jammu and Kashmir,  India in a middle-class Hindu family. She was raised in Jammu and Kashmir and completed her education from Jammu and Kashmir. She is 30 years old.

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Date of Birth17th August 1990
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Sonia Kaur is 30 years old. She is about 5 feet 4 inches in height and 49 kg in weight. Her hair color is black and her eyes color is also black.

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Suchi Doll is an Indian Instagram Star. She is well known for her hot looksd cute smile. She is famous on various social media platforms including Instagram.Suchi Doll has earned over 90.6K followers on Instagram.

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Diseases reference index «Testicular failure»

Testicular failure is the inability of the testicles to produce sperm or male hormones.

See also:

  • Hypogonadism
  • Secondary hypogonadism

Testicular failure is uncommon. Causes include:

  • Certain drugs, including glucocorticoids, ketoconazole, and opioids
  • Chromosome problems
  • Diseases that affect the testicle, including mumps, orchitis, and testicular cancer
  • Injury to the testicles
  • Testicular torsion

The following things increase the risk for testicular failure:

  • Activities that may cause constant, low-level injury to the scrotum, such as riding a motorcycle
  • Frequent and heavy use of marijuana
  • Undescended testicles at birth

  • Decrease in height
  • Enlarged breasts (gynecomastia)
  • Infertility
  • Lack of muscle mass
  • Lack of sex drive (libido)
  • Loss of armpit and pubic hair
  • Slow development or absence of secondary male sex characteristics (growth and distribution of hair, scrotal enlargement, penis enlargement, voice changes)

Men may also notice they do not need to shave as frequently.

Exams and Tests

A physical examination may reveal:

  • Genitals that do not clearly look either male or female (usually noted in infancy)
  • Abnormally small testicle
  • Tumor or mass (group of cells) on or near the testicle

Further testing may show decreased bone mineral density and fractures. Blood tests may reveal low levels of testosterone and high levels of prolactin, FSH, and LH.

Testicular failure and low testosterone levels may be difficult to diagnose in older men because testosterone levels normally fall with age. The level of testosterone at which replacement therapy would be likely to improve symptoms and other outcomes is unpredictable and variable.

Male hormone supplements may successfully treat some forms of testicular failure. Men who take testosterone replacement therapy need to be carefully monitored by a doctor. Testosterone may cause overgrowth of the prostate gland and an abnormal increase in red blood cells.

Avoiding a specific drug or activity known to cause the problem may result in return of normal testicular function.

Outlook (Prognosis)

Many forms of testicular failure cannot be reversed. Hormone replacement therapy can help reverse symptoms, although it may not restore fertility.

Possible Complications

Testicular failure before the onset of puberty will stop normal body growth, specifically the development of adult male characteristics.

When to Contact a Medical Professional

Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you have symptoms of testicular failure.

Avoid higher-risk activities if possible.

Alternative Names

Primary hypogonadism - male

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Homebuilding must modernize

To lower costs, methods must be brought into the 20th (yes, the 20th) century.

President Joe Biden’s idea to generate more affordable housing by tying federal infrastructure moneys to states’ progress in reforming zoning and land use regulations is a good one. Elimination of certain types of exclusive zoning has the potential to significantly reduce housing prices.

Unfortunately, though, the president’s exclusionary zoning reforms will not get the job done.

Nonetheless, there are other exclusionary zoning rules whose repeal would succeed in greatly reducing housing prices and lead to significant, lasting progress in making housing more affordable.

To explain this requires a little background.

1. The fundamental reason for the increasing cost of housing (relative to other goods) is that the construction sector employs an outdated and inefficient technology.

Rather than manufacturing homes in factories, they are constructed outside, with a centuries-old technology sometimes called the “stick-built” method. Whereas manufacturing industries that produce goods similar to houses (i.e., durable goods industries) enjoy average annual productivity growth of 3% and more over long periods, the stick-built construction sector has had no productivity growth over the last several decades.

Hence, the productivity of the manufacturing sector, and the rest of the economy for that matter, is regularly growing relative to that of stick-built construction. There can be no escaping the consequences of these diverging productivities — ever-increasing real prices of housing and worsening affordable housing problems.

2. An inefficient technology is used for housing because producers in the stick-built industry, whose existence would be threatened by production of homes in factories, have formed monopolies to sabotage factory-built homes. This organized opposition, which started more than 100 years ago, involves all manner of groups that have actively opposed factory-built homes: Local building contractors, local building inspectors, construction unions, local building-materials suppliers, architects, banks with mortgage portfolios in existing houses and more.

For the last 50 years, the monopolies inflicting the greatest damage to the factory-built housing industry are National Association of Home Builders and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

3. Monopolies in stick-built construction have employed many weapons to sabotage factory-built homes and they have had to create a scapegoat to blame for increasing real housing prices: zoning and land-use regulations faced by stick-builders.

NAHB issues reports claiming such regulations add 30% and more to new home prices. Yet academic research shows these regulations add very little to new house prices. While stick-builders have not succeeded in improving productivity for decades, they have been wildly successful at selling the idea to the public that zoning and land use regulations greatly increase building costs.

And here we arrive at Biden’s plans for zoning reform. The changes he proposes will not change the technology used in producing homes. Hence, they have no chance of breaking the monopoly-induced cycle of ever-increasing home prices.

A key Biden proposal is to eliminate exclusionary zoning practices in areas that permit only single-family homes. Plans call for allowing duplexes, triplexes, quads and multifamily housing more generally. But the new housing will still be built with centuries-old stick-built methods. Adding more residences by building duplexes and so on, will not lead to lower housing prices. Housing prices are determined by costs of production, which are primarily determined by technology. Despite oft-made claims that increasing supply will reduce price, house prices won’t fall below the costs of producing the homes.

What could Biden do? He could focus on repealing zoning regulations that block certain types of factory-built homes from most localities in this country. These are small modular homes, sometimes called manufactured homes, which are typically restricted to undesirable locations like manufacturing districts if they are allowed at all. As the Census Bureau reports, these homes are produced at costs up to one-third less per square foot than stick-built homes.

Groups have been attempting to change these rules blocking manufactured homes for decades, with little success. Biden is on the right track by addressing exclusionary zoning laws, but he needs to go further to help these groups succeed.

James Schmitz Jr. is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

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