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Sequestration Replacement Package Should...
Sequestration Replacement Package Should Maintain Parity Principle Set by Budget Control Act
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Sharon Parrott and Joel Friedman
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) have said they intend to focus the recently started budget negotiations on replacing sequestration (in whole or in part) for the next year or two with alternative deficit-reduction measures. An agreement to ease the sequestration cuts should reflect the following principles:
Any relief from sequestration should be evenly split between defense and non-defense programs. This is necessary to maintain the principle of parity that the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) established when it divided the sequestration cuts evenly between defense and non-defense programs.
The savings needed to replace sequestration should come from both spending cuts and revenues. Some have proposed that the sole financing mechanism for replacing sequestration cuts should be domestic entitlement cuts. This would mean that domestic entitlement cuts would replace both defense and non-defense sequestration cuts. Under this approach, the net result would be much largeroverall cuts in non-defense programs than under sequestration alone. Policymakers should identify tax loopholes to close and other savings outside of domestic entitlements that, at a minimum, can replace the defense sequestration cuts.
Of particular concern, using non-defense entitlements as the sole source of savings for even a year or two of sequestration relief could set a dangerous precedent for any future deal for sequestration relief. Replacing all eight years of sequestration (2014-2021) would require about $900 billion in savings. Entitlement cuts of that magnitude would almost certainly require cutting benefits in key programs that serve millions of low- and moderate-income children, seniors, people with disabilities, and families that work for (or have earned) modest wages — programs such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP.
Thus, a more balanced set of deficit-reduction measures will be needed to replace sequestration over the coming decade. Policymakers should start down that path now, rather than set a deeply troubling precedent.
Policymakers should design sequestration relief to help the still-struggling economy. Sequestration is acting as a drag on the recovery. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) states that if policymakers canceled sequestration for 2014, the economy would have the equivalent of 800,000 more full-time jobs, and real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) would be 0.6 percent larger, in the fourth quarter of next year than under current projections.[1] Replacing sequestration for 2014 and 2015 with measures that produce equivalent savings over the decade, but phase in more gradually, would both help the economy now and provide more deficit reduction than sequestration over the longer term.
Policymakers have an opportunity to strengthen the economy and undo some or all of the sequestration cuts for the immediate future by replacing them with better designed, better timed deficit-reduction measures. If those measures include both revenues and spending cuts and provide relief to non-defense areas as well as defense, the result can be a balanced package that reverses the worst of the sequestration cuts, bolsters near-term economic growth, and lowers longer-term deficits.
If, however, policymakers set the precedent that only domestic entitlement cuts can replace sequestration, they likely won't be able to agree on replacing sequestration in subsequent years or will ultimately replace it with hefty cuts in basic assistance and social insurance programs that worsen poverty and hardship.
Like Sequestration Cuts, Sequestration Relief Should Affect Defense and Non-Defense Equally
The Budget Control Act imposed annual caps on discretionary funding through 2021 and established the so-called "supercommittee" to develop a plan to achieve at least $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction. If Congress failed to enact such a plan, the BCA called for $109 billion in annual sequestration cuts — equally divided between defense and non-defense programs — from 2013 through 2021, to reduce the deficit.
Congress failed to reach a deficit-reduction agreement, so sequestration took effect. Most of the cuts are to discretionary programs, but some entitlements also are subject to sequestration, including Medicare, federal unemployment benefits, and the Social Services Block Grant.
Just as the BCA called for an even split in sequestration cuts between defense and non-defense programs, any package that replaces some or all of those cuts with alternative deficit reduction should provide equal relief to both sets of programs. Adhering to this core principle of parity recognizes that sequestration has left significant gaps in key non-defense areas — from medical research to public health and safety to education — and also reduced defense funding to levels that concern many policymakers.
Some argue, instead, that defense should have first claim on sequestration relief, asserting that the 2014 sequestration targets defense disproportionately. This impression is mistaken (see Figure 1). While defense discretionary funding will fall by $20 billion from 2013 to 2014 if sequestration remains in effect, this year-to-year decline occurs because defense received $20 billion more funding in 2013 than the BCA originally provided, primarily from one-time provisions in the "fiscal cliff" bill enacted in January 2013.[2] Funding for non-defense discretionary programs is scheduled to remain flat under sequestration in 2014 because that part of the budget did not benefit from these one-time relief measures in 2013. (See box for details.)
Further evidence that sequestration does not target defense disproportionately is that policymakers have cut non-defense discretionary programs more deeply than defense since 2010, when they began efforts to shrink deficits. This will continue to be the case in 2014 even if sequestration remains in effect and defense funding falls $20 billion below its 2013 level (see Figure 2).
The non-defense discretionary cuts are causing real damage. As a result of the cuts, for example, fewer children are participating in Head Start, Meals on Wheels is delivering fewer meals to homebound seniors, fewer high-quality medical research projects are getting support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), fewer low-income families are receiving housing assistance, jobless workers are receiving smaller emergency unemployment benefits, state and local law enforcement is getting less federal support, and agencies across the federal government are furloughing workers.
The effects of these cuts in non-defense discretionary programs are likely to become more severe in 2014 if sequestration is continued. In some cases, agencies were able to mitigate the impact of sequestration in 2013 with one-time funds that have now been depleted. For instance, housing agencies relied on program reserves to soften sequestration's cuts in rental assistance for low-income families in 2013, but the reserves at many of these agencies will likely be exhausted during 2014, leading to two to three times as many low-income households being denied assistance next year if sequestration continues.[3] In other cases, the effects of these cuts cumulate. For instance, the medical research projects that NIH won't fund in 2014 if sequestration continues will be in addition to the research projects that were not funded in 2013 due to sequestration.
Explaining the Defense Sequestration Cuts in 2013 and 2014
Under the Budget Control Act (BCA), sequestration in 2014 will entail $109 billion in cuts, evenly divided between defense and non-defense programs. To comply with sequestration in 2014, however, defense discretionary funding must come down about $20 billion from its 2013 funding level, while funding for non-defense discretionary programs would essentially remain flat. This apparent disconnect is largely a function of one-time changes that disrupted the balance between defense and non-defense discretionary funding cuts under sequestration in 2013, in favor of defense.
These one-time changes raised defense funding in 2013 by $20 billion over the level called for in the original BCA if sequestration was triggered, while providing no net relief to non-defense programs. As Goldman Sachs recently noted, the sequestration cuts "fell more heavily on non-defense spending in FY2013, but will fall equally on defense and non-defense spending in 2014."a
These one-time changes in 2013 included the following:
In the "fiscal cliff" bill enacted at the start of the year, policymakers reduced the size of the 2013 sequestration, primarily by cancelling the first two months of the cuts. These changes reduced the size of the sequestration cuts in 2013 funding for both the defense and non-defense categories.
The fiscal cliff bill also changed the composition of the two discretionary caps, shifting from caps on "defense" and "non-defense" funding to caps on "security" and "non-security" funding. The "security" funding category includes not only defense programs but also non-defense areas such as international affairs, homeland security, and veterans' programs. This switch allowed Congress to provide more funding for the defense portion of the security category than would have been possible under the original defense sequestration cap for 2013. Thus, these changes increased defense funding but reduced overall non-defense funding in 2013.
Finally, a technical factor in the application of sequestration known as the "crediting rule" permitted a modest amount of the 2013 sequestration to be cancelled. The bulk of this benefit went to defense programs.
As a result of these changes, defense ended up receiving roughly $20 billion more funding in 2013 than originally called for under sequestration. In contrast, the various one-time changes were largely offsetting for non-defense discretionary programs. This is why defense funding drops by $20 billion between 2013 and 2014 under sequestration, while non-defense funding remains flat. This treatment simply restores the equal application of sequestration to defense and non-defense programs that lies at the heart of the BCA but was temporarily disrupted in 2013.
a Goldman Sachs Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research, "The Probability of a Small Deal is Rising," November 5, 2013.
Sequestration Relief Should Not Increase the Cuts to Non-Defense Programs
There is broad agreement that the sequestration cuts are poorly designed. But policymakers would be well-advised not to replace one set of harmful cuts with another set of harmful cuts.
Since 2010, policymakers have enacted several deficit-reduction measures that, taken together, will shrink deficits by $4 trillion over the 2014-2023 period if sequestration remains in place. (This $4 trillion reflects policy changes and the accompanying interest savings, not the effects of an improving economy or the phasing out of temporary stimulus provisions.) Some 79 percent of the policy savings come from spending cuts. Just 21 percent come from revenue increases.[4]
Deficit Reduction Enacted to Date, 2014-2023
Policy Savings Interest Savings Total Deficit Reduction
Discretionary savings from cuts in 2011 funding and caps imposed by the BCA* (excluding sequestration) $1.58 trillion $340 billion $1.92 trillion
Savings from ATRA* (includes revenues and spending cuts) $732 billion $119 billion $851 billion
Total before sequestration $2.31 trillion $458 billion $2.77 trillion
Sequestration cuts $976 billion $224 billion $1.2 trillion
Total with sequestration $3.28 trillion $682 billion $3.97 trillion
*BCA=Budget Control Act; ATRA=American Taxpayer Relief Act
Source: CBPP based on Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation data.
In the budget negotiations that recently started, congressional Democratic leaders have emphasized that any replacement for part or all of sequestration should include both spending cuts and revenues. Even if policymakers replaced half of the sequestration cuts in 2014 and beyond with revenues, nearly two-thirds of the deficit reduction achieved over the 2014-2023 period still would come from spending cuts.
Key Republicans, by contrast, have called for cuts in domestic entitlements to be the sole source of relief from sequestration. Under this approach, spending cuts would continue outpacing revenue increases by 4 to 1, and non-defense programs would bear a larger share of the cuts than under sequestration, since new non-defense cuts would replace the defense sequestration cuts.
Relying entirely on domestic entitlement cuts to undo sequestration would also overturn a key piece of the compromise that led to the BCA. In the negotiations over that compromise, the Administration proposed that the automatic deficit-reduction measures that would be triggered if the supercommittee failed should be evenly divided between spending cuts and revenue increases. When Republicans rejected that approach, the two sides agreed that half of the savings would come from defense programs and half from non-defense; they agreed that sequestration's goal was to prod both parties to negotiate a deficit-reduction package. For policymakers now to shift more cuts to non-defense programs, without any new contributions from revenues, would turn that deal on its head.
Policymakers thus should avoid a sequestration-replacement package in which all of the savings come from non-defense programs. At a minimum, they need to consider other replacements for the defense sequestration cuts. These should include revenues and could also include user fees and reforms in defense-related entitlements such as military-related health and pension benefits.
Both Democrats and Republicans have endorsed cuts in tax expenditures — the roughly $1 trillion that is spent each year through the tax code via deductions, exclusions, and credits (among other tax breaks) and that Alan Greenspan has aptly referred to as "tax entitlements." (See Figure 3.) The disagreement is whether all of the savings from paring back tax expenditures should go to lowering tax rates, as in the House-passed budget, or whether some should replace part of sequestration and reduce the deficit.
While it may be possible to come up with enough domestic entitlement cuts that represent reasonable policies and don't harm vulnerable individuals to offset some of the sequestration cuts for a year or two, the amount of such "low-hanging fruit" is modest. To fully replace sequestration over the next decade would take more than $900 billion in cuts. Domestic entitlement cuts of that magnitude would almost inevitably have a significant impact on key programs that assist millions of low- and moderate-income children, seniors, people with disabilities, or families that work for (or have earned) modest wages.
Thus, replacing the remaining years of sequestration cuts entirely with entitlement cuts — with no contribution from tax expenditures — would represent a major retreat from the principle of balance in deficit reduction. And, it almost certainly would mean that deficit reduction would exacerbate inequality and increase poverty and hardship, going against a key principle embodied in prior large-scale deficit-reduction legislation and articulated more recently by fiscal commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.
A few basic figures explain why this is the case. The majority of entitlement benefits go to the bottom two-fifths of the population, while the majority of tax-expenditure benefits go to the top fifth.
Sequestration Relief Should Help, Not Hinder, the Still-Struggling Economy
The current budget negotiations occur against a backdrop of continued economic weakness. Despite 44 consecutive months of private-sector job growth, overall unemployment and long-term unemployment remain high. Moreover, the share of the population with a job has barely improved since the recession hit bottom.
Sequestration is part of the problem. According to CBO, if policymakers cancel the 2014 sequestration cuts, the economy would have 800,000 more full-time-equivalent jobs, and real GDP would be 0.6 percent larger in the fourth quarter of next year, than under current projections.[5]
Cutting spending when the economy is weak places a drag on growth and jobs. Cutting less now would help the economy. Thus, replacing sequestration in 2014 and 2015 with alternative deficit reduction that takes effect as the economy strengthens and produces equivalent savings over the coming decade as a whole would be better for the economy than keeping sequestration in place.
Such an approach also would be better for our medium- and longer-term fiscal challenges because it would focus the deficit reduction in the latter years of this decade and in future decades. Deficits in the next few years aren't the problem. Even without sequestration, deficits are projected to be below 3 percent of GDP over the 2015-2018 period before beginning to edge up. Doing less deficit reduction in the near term and more over the longer term would target deficit reduction to where it's needed more, while fostering economic growth and job creation now.
[1] Congressional Budget Office, Letter to the Honorable Chris Van Hollen, "Re: Economic Effects in 2014 of Eliminating the Automatic Spending Reductions Specified in the Budget Control Act," September 26, 2013.
[2] Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan and Sharon Parrott, "Clearing Up Misunderstandings: Sequestration Would Not Be Tougher on Defense Than Non-Defense Programs in 2014," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 18, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4019.
[3] Doug Rice, "Sequestration Could Cut Housing Vouchers for as Many as 185,000 Low-Income Families by the End of 2014," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 6, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4044.
[4] Sharon Parrott, Richard Kogan, Krista Ruffini, and William Chen, "Chart Book: Deficit Reduction, the Economy, and the Budget Negotiations," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 5, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4043.
[5] Congressional Budget Office.
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I have a frame I'd like to hack & use, but I'm not sure if I can. It's "4130". Not weldable, is it?
4130 (CrMo) can be welded (it welds similar to mild steel). However, due to the grain structure of 4130 the resulting weld may be prone to cracking after it cools. It is really better suited to either o/a or TIG welding, but it can be welded using stick or MIG.
1) The base metal cannot be too clean--no grease, oil, rust or paint. After you have removed all the contaminants, clean it again. Wipe down the area to be welded with a solvent like acetone or lacquer thinner.
2) Preheat the area to be welded--200-300°F will do the job. Don't let it cool down--get to welding once it is up to temperature.
All that being said, we're not talking about aircraft quality work here. A lot of cycling purists tear their hair out at the mention of using EMT on a bicycle frame, in addition to welding the joints instead of brazing them.
To illustrate the point, one of my co-workers built a TE Clone five years ago using two junked CrMo frames and enough 3/4" EMT to make the chainstays. He MIG welded all the joints with the only preparation being removal of paint and rust with a wire wheel on his angle grinder. He now has over 1500 miles on the bike and has not had any sort of weld failure. Call it what you will, it's either dumb luck, excellent craftsmanship (uh...not quite) or the 4130 weld issue is somewhat overblown on bicycle frames.
That's my $0.02 worth. YMMV.
Okay, thanx. That's about what I thought. I was pretty sure it was Cro-Mo, but wasn't certain.
I'm not gonna fool with it... more hassle (& risk, considering my lack of welding skills) than it's worth.
My Meridian, and I suspect most others, had 4130 cromo seat and chainstays, as well as the pilot steering tube, from donor bikes. It's pretty hard to find donor bikes that aren't made of cromo these days. I didn't do any prep other than to wire brush the paint off the donor parts, and the coating off the square tubes. I had no problems with the welds. In fact, the only problem I had with the frame was that the 1 1/2" square tube main boom bowed slightly under the seat. I wouldn't be surprised if the donors you used for your projects were cromo. Not all cromo frames are stamped.
Well, that takes a load off my mind! I have several frames in the pile that are either partially or completely CrMo... I was going to scrap or Freecycle them! Now I know better!


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Vol 73 – MARTIN SJÖHOLM
Friday, 16 July 2021 by AHA Centre
MARTIN SJÖHOLM
This month The Column had the opportunity to chat with Mr. Martin Sjöholm, the Training and Exercise Expert of LACER. Martin worked as a paramedic before he joined the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) in 2000 as a medical coordinator. A member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC), European Civil Protection Team (EUCPT) and the Red Cross, he has worked as a project manager in the humanitarian sector, being deployed to various disasters and humanitarian projects across the globe.
When asked why he chose to become a training and exercise expert, Mr. Martin explained that for a long time he had been engaged in training and exercises around the world and found it rewarding to see participants grow and understand the way forward. He was particularly drawn to ASEAN having previously worked there. Given the region's propensity for disasters every year, he was as keen to learn from others as he was to teach about how different disasters should be handled. The LACER team's enthusiasm also inspired him.
"It is rewarding to work with different partners, such as the AHA Centre and to learn their ways of working. Working as a European Civil Protection Team member around the world, I have knowledge and experience that I can share with the AHA Centre,"
For Martin, trainings and exercises are the key to achieving new ways of working and improving current practices, as participants can learn in a relatively relaxed environment, without the stress of major consequences. The most important component of the LACER project is information management. It is Marin's belief that if the AHA Centre can be established as the main source of information during a disaster, this will have a beneficial effect in the affected country or region. Today, information travels very fast and it is essential to be on top of things when a disaster strikes and to have the right support in terms of personnel and equipment.
Martin has worked in the field for the last 15 years in disasters, conducting assessments and reporting. As a mentor for the Assessment Mission Training (AMC) in Cyprus every year he learned about how assessments should be performed, and training of the ASEAN Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT) is one of the prioritised sections he would like to work on. The ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX) is another priority.
As to what he hopes to achieve from the project, he emphasises mutual support.
"I hope to learn more about how the [countries in the] region support each other and how LACER can support this work to be more effective and precise,"
Implementing material and work from the European Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) into the AHA Centre is also a very important component of the project.
When not at work Martin enjoys relaxing with his wife Marie at their home outside Gothenburg in Sweden, fixing up his house and babysitting his grandchildren. As the Swedish summer approaches, he is particularly looking forward to barbecues with family and friends.
Written by : LACER team, Michael Hillary Hegarty | Photo Credit : LACER project
Published in The Other Side
Vol 72 – 2ND PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE (PSC) MEETING OF THE ASCEND
2ND PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE (PSC) MEETING OF THE ASCEND
On 20 May, 2021 the AHA Centre held the second project steering committee (PSC) meeting of ASCEND. The meeting was presided over by co-chairs Indonesia and Singapore of the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) Working Group on Global Leadership and attended by the Mission of the Republic Korea (ROK) to ASEAN, the Korean National Fire Agency (KNFA), the ASEAN-ROK Development Cooperation Programme Management Team (AKPMT), the ASEAN Secretariat and the AHA Centre.
During the meeting, the AHA Centre presented the ASCEND project implementation progress report for December 2020 to April 2021. It provided updates on the overall implementation of the ASCEND project and covered three major areas of work, namely the development of documents and systems, the development of communication materials, and continued coordination and expanded collaboration with various stakeholders. Due to limitations brought about by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the ASCEND project management team (PMT) has focused its efforts on conducting studies, developing guidelines and establishing the IT system needed for the certification process. The AHA Centre expects to introduce and pilot use all of the materials and the IT system within workshops and training planned for late this year and early next year. In addition to the aforementioned progress, the ASCEND-PMT of the AHA Centre has also expanded its collaboration to more than 90 individuals from at least 30 institutions or organisations.
The ASCEND-PMT also presented updates on the establishment of the ASCEND Reference Group. The ASCEND Reference Group aims to ensure that the preparation and implementation of the ASCEND project incorporates all recommendations from the ASEAN Member States. On this occasion, the PSC members discussed the possibility of establishing an effective communication flow between the ASCEND-PMT and the Reference Group members.
Lastly, the meeting explored the possibility of conducting an ASCEND benchmarking visit to the Republic of Korea. Given the ongoing COVID-19 situation, it was agreed that the AHA Centre and the KNFA should explore alternatives to conducting the benchmarking visit aside from a physical visit. One of the ideas from the PSC members was to combine a virtual study visit first before considering a physical visit later. The AHA Centre and the KNFA gave an assurance that these options would be considered when developing the concept note. The concept note will also include the risk and benefit analysis of conducting benchmarking visits based on the alternative options available. The co-chairs of the ACDM Working Group Global Leadership closed the meeting by thanking the PSC members for the fruitful and productive discussion during the meeting.
ASCEND is a three-year project grant-funded by the ASEAN-ROK Cooperation Fund (AKCF) to the tune of USD 3.3 million. It aims to enhance the quality of human resources within ASEAN in disaster management through establishing a common set of standard skills and competencies, along with a validation process.
Written by: Haura Mayang | Photo : AHA Centre
Published in AHA Centre Diary 1
Vol 73 – EU-ASEAN BLUE BOOK 2021
EU-ASEAN BLUE BOOK 2021
In conjunction with the celebration of the 44 years of partnership between the two regions, the European Union (EU) Mission to ASEAN officially launched the EU-ASEAN Blue Book 2021 on Friday, 7 May 2021. The sixth edition of the Blue Book highlights the cooperation between the two regions, including the partnership with the AHA Centre through the Integrated Programme in Enhancing the Capacity of the AHA Centre and ASEAN Emergency Response Mechanisms (EU-SAHA) project.
The EU Ambassador to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Igor Driesmans explained that the book illustrated how the diverse cooperation had a tangible impact on individuals and communities. "The EU and ASEAN became strategic partners based on our shared values of effective multilateralism and rules-based international order. We have come so far as partner regions, having stepped up our relations to strategic economic, political, development and security cooperation," he said during the virtual launch.
One of the important elements of cooperation highlighted in the book is how to reduce disasters caused by natural hazards. The chapter features the EU-SAHA project, which was officially launched in January 2020. The EU provided support worth EUR 8 million aimed at strengthening the capacity of the AHA Centre, to achieve operational excellence in disaster monitoring and emergency response. This project is implemented through a combination of a direct grant to the AHA Centre, as well as capacity building by EU Member States' civil protection agencies through the LACER project.
Executive Director of the AHA Centre, Ms Adelina Kamal, quoted in the book chapter, stressed that the project would also benefit the ASEAN Member States through its support for a number of capacity-building activities, workshops and other events. "The support from the European Union through this project is crucial for the AHA Centre to ensure its continuing development. It allows the Centre to develop its internal mechanism and expand at the same time," she said.
The book also highlighted a success story from the LACER project as part of the EU-SAHA programme. Implemented by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and the Estonia Rescue Board (ERB), LACER provides capacity-building support to the AHA Centre through a series of knowledge-sharing activities. The first phase of the project is designed to lay the foundations of the project's work with the AHA Centre.
"It's important to build our relationship with the AHA Centre on trust, and despite the pandemic we have managed to do just that."
Mr. Carl Johan Breitholtz, LACER project manager, concluded.
Written by : Moch Syifa
Published in Partnership
Vol 73 – ESTONIAN RESCUE BOARD (ERB) – THE TURBULENT YEAR OF 2020
ESTONIAN RESCUE BOARD (ERB)
THE TURBULENT YEAR OF 2020
Although the Estonian Rescue Board (ERB) has not been the lead body during the COVID-19 pandemic, it nevertheless has played an important role in the crisis. On 12 March, 2020 the government of Estonia declared an emergency situation for the whole territory of Estonia. For those of us in the ERB this meant that we had to switch from our regular working regime to a staff regime in which we reduced drastically the services that we provide (e.g. prevention, fire supervision etc).
The main task for us was to secure business continuity in our field, meaning responding to incidents and supporting the local government authorities across the country in coping with the crisis and coordinating the information exchange between different local and state authorities. This may sound like a simple task but it was not, because as in any crisis, being on top of the information flow is one of the greatest challenges. The main reason why the ERB was given that task was due to its expertise in the crisis-coordination field. Although the emergency situation ended on 1 May 2020, our role of being the main crisis partner for local authorities and our continuous support for the Estonian Health Board in resolving the crisis is still ongoing. Another important role was to deliver face masks and disinfectant all over the country. The ERB has a good network of professional and voluntary fire stations throughout Estonia, and that was the main reason it was used to reach as wide a range of people as possible. In addition we helped the police and border guard board with our drones to prevent mass gatherings and transmission of the virus.
As mentioned above, one of the tasks for the ERB was the maintenance of business continuity. In order to achieve that, we worked out different solutions for our first responders. As we were in a pandemic that mainly spread through contact, it was important to work out how to reduce such contact. We tried to maintain every fire station as a bubble, and within each fire station every shift also. So, the changing of shifts in stations was made contactless. We tried to avoid moving firefighters between stations as we did previously in order to maintain a lifesaving number of personnel in a station. All in all, this was more costly initially, but kept the spread of the virus under control and we had no case of an entire fire station being closed for more than 24 hours/one shift as a result of having a shift in quarantine for being in contact with a COVID-positive individual. Of course, all of this was done hand-in-hand with the conventional measures of using face masks, disinfectants etc.
Estonia has a relatively small population and low population density and this in combination with a reasonably good COVID-19 testing system meant that test results were available in less than 24 hours, sometimes even 12 hours, and we could respond to the positive test result quickly and isolate any close contacts. First responders received video instruction on how to use protective equipment and how to safely dispose of it when attending incidents such as car accidents.
Estonia has a quite low natural-hazards risk, limited mostly to occasional flooding and forest fires. The year 2020 was record-breaking for the ERB in a positive sense in many ways: the number of building, dwelling, forest and landscape fires was the lowest since Estonia regained its independence. The number of casualties in fires was also the lowest since 1991. No major forest fires were reported last year in Estonia. There were not even any European Civil Protection Mechanism activations on forest fires within the whole of Europe last year.
As Estonia was the scene of fierce fighting during the Second World War, one of our challenges each year is the recovery of war relics such as unexploded ordnance. In 2020, a record-breaking 9,041 explosive devices were defused. The main reason for this is probably that the winter and spring of 2020 were warm and more people spent time in nature because of COVID-19 restrictions and many discoveries were made by people by walking in the forests.
In 2020 the work of the ERB was greatly transformed by COVID-19. Cooperation with partners from different countries also suffered due to the pandemic. Many trips and meetings were postponed and several had to be cancelled. Luckily, several employees could still participate in international cooperation events to develop partnerships, learn something new and help people in need. At the end of the year, Sudan suffered from a refugee crisis, when thousands of refugees arrived daily from Ethiopia fleeing a military conflict there. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asked the International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) network for support in creating housing and working conditions for the people involved in solving the crisis. Estonia contributed with a base camp technician during the period of 19 December 2020 to 23 January 2021. The challenges included travel restrictions and spending a compulsory 14 days in isolation in Khartoum, before advancing to relief operations. All in all it took more time with the restrictions, but that is the new reality!
Written by : Toomas Kääparin / Photo Credit: ERB
Published in Insight
Vol 73 – MONTHLY DISASTER REVIEW AND OUTLOOK
MONTHLY DISASTER REVIEW AND OUTLOOK
MAY 2021 | DISASTER MONITORING & ANALYSIS
(DMA) UNIT, AHA CENTRE
GENERAL REVIEW OF MAY 2021
For the month of May 2021, a total of 105 disasters were reported. The ASEAN Member States that were affected were Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. A majority of the disasters (64.76%) occurred in Indonesia, which also saw 69.5% of the total number of affected people for the month (Cambodia – 2.1%, Malaysia – 0.7%, Myanmar – <0.1%, Philippines – 26.1%, Thailand – 1.5%). May 2021 saw disasters affecting 60 per 100,000 people* and displacing 4 per 100,000 people* in the region. May 2021 also accounted for roughly one-fifth (20.5%) of the total disasters reported so far in the current year.
The majority of the disasters that occurred in May 2021 were floods (58%) and this is consistent with May of the previous year and May on a five-year average (2016-2020). Flood victims comprised a little over three-quarters (77%) of the total number of affected people. The reported disasters in the region for May 2021 in comparison with the historical data (average for May 2016-2020) indicates that there were 5.5 time more reported disasters; almost 5 times more people affected; almost 3 times more people displaced; twice as many houses affected to some extent; 32 times fewer lives lost; 5 times fewer people suffering injuries; and lastly, 100 times fewer people missing.
Geophysically, 28 significant earthquakes (Magnitude ≥ 5.0) were reported by Indonesia's Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) and the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). A Magnitude 6.2 earthquake (later downgraded to M5.9) that occurred 57 km southeast of Blitar in East Java in week 20 caused injuries to two individuals, affected 6,200 persons, and caused damage to thousands of houses, and hundreds of public facilities. Volcanoes in Indonesia and the Philippines have shown recent activity but they have not resulted in significant events and are continuously being monitored.
*Computed based on 2020 population data from worldometers.com
According to the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), during May 2021, the largest positive anomalies (wetter conditions) were detected in southern Philippines due to Tropical Depression 03W (local name: Crising). Despite below-average rainfall over the southern Maritime Continent, over half of all recorded disasters that were apparently hydrological in nature (flooding and severe local storms) were reported across Indonesia. A mixture of below and above-average rainfall was observed in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Over the tropical Pacific Ocean, La Niña conditions declined and returned to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-neutral conditions by the beginning of June. The sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean continued to warm, with atmospheric indicators (cloudiness and wind anomalies) remaining consistent with the ENSO-neutral conditions. ENSO-neutral conditions are neither El Niño (warming of ocean surface, reduced rainfall in Indonesia) nor La Niña (cooling of ocean surface, increased rainfall in Indonesia), which are the extreme phases of the ENSO cycle.
According to the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), through May 2021, the monsoon rain band continued to move northwards over the northern ASEAN region. Concurrently, the prevailing winds over most of the southern ASEAN region strengthened to blow mainly from the southeast or southwest, in line with the transition to Southwest Monsoon conditions. With a strengthening of the prevailing winds, Southwest Monsoon conditions are expected to become fully established in June 2021. The Southwest Monsoon season is likely to extend through the June–August period and is the traditional dry season for the southern ASEAN region, characterised by persistent dry conditions over the region. For the northern ASEAN region, the Southwest Monsoon season is the traditional rainy season.
For the June to August 2021 period, models predict a small increase in chance of above-normal rainfall over parts of the southwestern Maritime Continent. Elsewhere, there is no consistent prediction for the rainfall outlook between the models consulted for much of the region. The La Niña event is nearing its end and most ENSO indicators are generally consistent with ENSO-neutral conditions. For July and August, ENSO-neutral conditions are forecast.
Warmer-than-usual temperatures are expected for much of the ASEAN region, with higher confidence over the Maritime Continent.
As the southern ASEAN region enters the traditional dry season, increased hotspot activities and the development of smoke plumes are likely in fire-prone parts of the region. In the coming months, it is expected that the hotspot and smoke haze situation may deteriorate in parts of the southern ASEAN region that experience prolonged dry conditions.
Sources: ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet), ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), ASEAN Disaster Monitoring and Response System (DMRS), Cambodia National Committee on Disaster Management (NCDM), Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), Malaysia Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA), Myanmar Department of Disaster Management (DDM), National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), Thailand Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA), Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG), Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi (PVMBG), Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS)
Written by : Keith Paolo Landicho, Sadhu Zukhruf Janottama, Lawrence Anthony Dimailig
The AHA Centre's estimation is based on data and information shared by National Disaster Management Organisations (NDMOs) and other relevant agencies from ASEAN Member States, international organisations, and news agencies. Further information on each recorded significant disaster, description, and detail of data and information are available at: http://adinet.ahacentre.org/reports.
Published in Monthly Disaster Outlook
Vol 73 – HELiX 2021 SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS GAPS IN LOGISTICS CAPACITIES
HELiX 2021
SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS GAPS IN LOGISTICS CAPACITIES
It is heartening and exciting that even with the pandemic complicating travel and communications everywhere, the spirit of cooperation and eagerness for learning and exchange remains undimmed worldwide. In this spirit and with the aim of capturing new and emerging innovations in the field of humanitarian logistics, provoking insights and constructive discussions, as well as being a convergence between innovators and potential users, the first Humanitarian Emergency Logistics and Innovation Expo (HELiX) was held virtually from 24 to 25 May 2021.
The event was successfully organised by the AHA Centre in cooperation with the Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA). HELiX, the first such event held by the AHA Centre, is a testament to the flexibility and resilience of the AHA Centre and VNDMA staff who worked diligently to prepare the expo, especially as the pandemic necessitated its adaptation into an online setting. HELiX is also aimed at capturing new and emerging innovations in the field of humanitarian logistics, provoking insights and constructive discussions as well as to be a convergence between innovators and potential users. Furthermore, HELiX was a welcome step, in the AHA Centre's 10th anniversary year, in its journey towards becoming the premier regional disaster response authority in the region.
Executive Director of the Logistics Institute Asia-Pacific Dr. Robert de Souza, concluded his opening keynote speech on the Futures of Humanitarian Logistics by wishing HELiX success, noting that "[HELiX] brings all of us together to solve the problems that need to be solved, and to focus upon supply chain management, which was understated before, but is now brought to the fore."
Supporting the points made in the earlier keynote speech, Executive Director of the AHA Centre Ms. Adelina Kamal emphasised during her introduction to the event the importance of a true desire to solve problems and to fulfill needs in driving innovation in order to achieve fit-for-purpose and sustainability. The context of the ASEAN region as a disaster-prone area should drive the region forward as leaders and pioneers in humanitarian innovation. "Therefore, let's use HELIX sessions as the platform for convergence of innovative minds and ideas, that transcend and transform the way we do things in humanitarian logistics," said Ms. Adelina.
Moreover, knowledge, engagement and collaboration are essential in actualising and executing the innovative ideas. In this regard, HELIX supported by Temasek Foundation, the UPS Foundation and Angel Investment Network Indonesia (ANGIN) successfully united almost 100 diverse speakers from humanitarian logistics actors and institutions, who ranged from academia and NDMOs to government and intergovernmental organisations, as well as from the private sector. They delivered 21 focus session talks and two keynote speeches in the plenary sessions. Some 21 companies and institutions took part in the virtual international exhibition along with almost 1,000 attendees in total from around the world.
What sort of innovations and ideas were in play? HELiX covered a wide array of topics and issues in the entirety of the humanitarian logistics field. There were innovations within the classic issue of capacity building, with solutions and experiences presented by the IFRC, ICRC and HELP Logistics. Gender and inclusion, an important aspect of humanitarian logistics, was emphasised in the session hosted by UN Women and UNFPA. Similarly, customs procedures in the context of delivering humanitarian aid were also discussed by the IMPACCT Working Group and the Humanitarian Logistics Association. There were also insights on new emerging technology related to data science, mapping and crowd-sourced apps in the sessions by Yayasan PetaBencana and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and the exhibits by UN Pulse Labs Jakarta and the Thai Red Cross. Youth involvement and participation was the focus in a session hosted by the Philippine National Youth Commission and the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth.
The important participation of new emerging innovators and technology could also be seen in one of the most interesting events in HELiX: the iPitch competition, where teams of innovators pitched their innovative projects to win prizes and advisory by experts. Winners of this competition were the Fleet for Emergency integrated platform by FleetHelp from Indonesia, the THINKLog supply chain management game by the TLIAP-GO team from NUS and the Padayon donation-matching app by the Asian Institute of Management from the Philippines.
Looking ahead, important lessons can be drawn from the success of HELiX. Moreover, HELiX could not have been successful without the participation and support of the partners of the AHA Centre, thus making clear the importance of cooperation, engagement and effective communication among humanitarian actors, academia, experts, etc.
In the near future HELiX will be followed by the AHAckathon hacking competition in October – a hacking competition aimed at students looking to contribute innovative ideas through programming and app creation. Stay tuned for further updates on this upcoming part of HELiX.
Written by : Yohanes Paulus, DELSA Intern | Photo Credit: AHA Centre
Published in Highlight
Vol 78 – AHA CENTRE WELCOMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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PHILIPPINES – At least 36 dead in Manila casino attack - by Barbados Today June 2, 2017
MANILA — Philippine police say the attacker was a tall, English-speaking white man with a moustache. They say he carried an assault rifle, and that he used gasoline to start a casino fire that caused clouds of smoke that left at least 36 people dead Friday morning in a sprawling entertainment complex in Manila.
But by Friday evening, police said they still didn't know the man's name, or why he launched his attack at the Resorts World Manila complex, only to flee to an adjoining hotel and kill himself.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Philippine police said they believed it had been a robbery gone wrong.
Police told reporters the man stole more than $2 million in gambling chips and avoided shooting people he encountered in the casino, pointing his gun upward when he fired some shots.
"He would have shot all the people gambling" if his goal was terrorism, national police chief Ronald dela Rosa said.
But hours later, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility in a statement, saying "Brother Abu al-Kheir al-Arkhabili was able to immerse among a gathering of Christian fighters in the Resorts World Manila in Manila where he carried out killing and hurting until he died as a martyr. About 100 Christians were killed or wounded."
A man holds back tears tears as he lights candles for victims in an attack at the Resorts World Manila complex, Friday.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla rejected the claim, saying the attack "does not have the slightest signature of terrorism whatsoever".
"As in previous incidents, this group is prone to claim and admit every criminal incident and label it as its own, clearly indicative of its pure penchant for propaganda," Padilla said.
Many in Manila feared after the attack began early Friday that it was linked to ongoing battles with Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State group in the southern city of Marawi. The fighting has placed much of the country on edge and raised fears that the IS group was gaining a foothold. The Philippines has faced Muslim insurgencies for decades, though much of the violence has occurred in the troubled south, where Marawi is located.
The attack occurred at a sprawling mall-like complex near the Manila airport that includes hotels, restaurants, stores and a multi-floor gambling area. Police said that during the attack the man stole more than $2 million worth of casino chips, though he apparently abandoned them in a toilet soon after.
"Either he lost in the casino and wanted to recoup his losses or he went totally nuts," Metropolitan Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said.
As the gunman left, he exchanged shots with a building guard who managed to shoot him in the leg after being wounded, police and casino officials said.
"Severe blood loss from the gunshot wound significantly slowed the assailant down and resulted in his holing up in a room where he took his own life," said Stephen Reilly, Resort World's chief operating officer.
Dela Rosa said security video showed the gunman earlier ignoring a guard who tried to question him at the complex's entrance. He then barged into the crowded casino carrying the gasoline and assault rifle after overcoming efforts by guards to stop him. He stuffed a backpack with the gambling chips, fired his rifle at TV screens and set gambling tables on fire by pouring gasoline onto them from a two-liter bottle he carried, dela Rosa said.
The gunman, whom dela Rosa described as "white, with a mustache", about six feet tall and English speaking, fled the gambling area and barged into a room on the fifth floor of Maxims Hotel, which is part of the Resorts World complex. He lay down on the bed, covered himself with a blanket, doused himself with gasoline and then set himself on fire, dela Rosa said. He carried no identity documents, police said.
"I saw the gunman," said a 23-year-old casino employee who declined to give her name. "He was a tall man, he was wearing a ski mask. He was carrying an armalite [rifle]. I saw him fire his gun twice, I saw him burning gaming tables. But I did not see what he did after that because I fled."
Police were examining a car that the gunman left in a complex parking garage, authorities said. Police Senior Superintendent Tomas Apolinario said the car's owner was being questioned and had denied knowing the gunman.
The attack sent hundreds of people fleeing through the complex and into the night. A South Korean died of a possible heart attack suffered during the evacuation, the Foreign Ministry said. More than 70 people suffered mostly minor injuries in the stampede to escape.
Family members of employees spent hours waiting for news of their relatives, hoping through the night that they had survived.
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Benefits, side effects and dosage of inositol
Research suggests that inositol, or vitamin B8, may have various benefits, such as aiding people with mental health or metabolic conditions. Here are the benefits, side effects, and dosages for inositol.
Inositol sometimes referred to as vitamin B8 naturally occurs in foods such as fruits, beans, grains, and nuts.
Your body can also produce inositol from the carbohydrates you eat.
However, research suggests that additional inositol in the form of supplements may have numerous health benefits.
This article takes a detailed look at the benefits, recommended dosages, and potential side effects of inositol supplements.
What is inositol?
Though often referred to as vitamin B8, inositol is not a vitamin at all but rather a type of sugar with several important functions.
Inositol plays a structural role in your body as a major component of cell membranes.
It also influences the action of insulin, a hormone essential for blood sugar control. In addition, it affects chemical messengers in your brain, such as serotonin and dopamine.
It has been estimated that a typical diet in the US contains around 1 gram of inositol per day. Rich sources include grains, beans, nuts, and fresh fruits and vegetables.
However, supplemental doses of inositol are often higher. Researchers have studied the benefits of doses up to 18 grams per day — with promising results and few side effects.
Summary: Inositol is a type of sugar that helps provide structure to your cells. It also affects the hormone insulin and the function of chemical messengers in your brain.
Mental health benefits of inositol
Inositol may help balance important chemicals in your brain, including those believed to affect your mood, such as serotonin and dopamine.
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Interestingly, researchers have found that some people with depression, anxiety, and compulsive disorders have lower levels of inositol in their brains.
Though more research is needed, several studies suggest that inositol has the potential to be an alternative treatment for mental health conditions. It also seems to have fewer side effects than traditional medications.
While research is still limited, inositol supplements may help treat panic disorder, a severe form of anxiety.
Those with panic disorder experience frequent panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of intense fear. Symptoms include rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, sweating, and a tingling or numb sensation in the hands.
In one study, 20 individuals with panic disorder took either an 18-gram inositol supplement or a common anxiety medication every day for 1 month. Those taking inositol had fewer panic attacks per week, compared to people taking the anxiety medication.
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Similarly, in a 4-week study, individuals experienced fewer and less severe panic attacks when taking 12 grams of inositol per day.
Inositol may improve symptoms of depression, but research has had mixed results.
For example, an early study demonstrated that taking a 12-gram inositol supplement every day for 4 weeks improved symptoms in people with depression.
In contrast, subsequent studies were unable to show any significant benefits.
Overall, there is not enough evidence yet to say whether inositol has a true effect on depression.
As with the other mental health conditions, research on the effects of inositol and bipolar disorder is limited. However, the results of preliminary studies seem promising.
For example, a small study in children with bipolar spectrum disorders showed reduced symptoms of mania and depression when a combination of 3 grams of omega-3 fatty acids and up to 2 grams of inositol were taken daily for 12 weeks.
In addition, studies suggest that 3–6 grams of inositol taken daily may help reduce symptoms of psoriasis caused by lithium, a common medication used to treat bipolar disorder.
Summary: Though more research is needed, inositol shows potential as an alternative treatment option for mental health conditions, including panic disorder, depression, and bipolar disorder.
Inositol may improve symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that causes hormone imbalances in women, which may lead to irregular periods and infertility. Weight gain, high blood sugar, and undesirable cholesterol and triglyceride levels are also concerns with PCOS.
Inositol supplements may improve PCOS symptoms, particularly when combined with folic acid.
For instance, clinical studies suggest that daily doses of inositol and folic acid may help reduce levels of triglycerides in the blood. They may also improve insulin function and slightly lower blood pressure in those with PCOS.
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What's more, preliminary research found that the combination of inositol and folic acid may promote ovulation in women with fertility issues from PCOS.
In one study, 4 grams of inositol and 400 mcg of folic acid taken daily for 3 months induced ovulation in 62% of treated women.
Summary: Inositol may help reduce blood triglyceride levels, improve insulin function, lower blood pressure and promote ovulation in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Inositol may help control metabolic syndrome risk factors
Clinical studies suggest inositol supplements may be beneficial for those with metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions that raise your risk of chronic disease, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Specifically, five conditions are associated with metabolic syndrome:
Excess fat in the stomach area
High levels of triglycerides in the blood
Low "good" HDL cholesterol levels
In a year-long clinical study in 80 women with metabolic syndrome, 2 grams of inositol taken twice daily reduced blood triglyceride levels by an average of 34% and total cholesterol by 22%. Improvements in blood pressure and blood sugar were also seen.
Amazingly, 20% of the women taking inositol supplements no longer met the criteria for metabolic syndrome by the end of the study.
Summary: Inositol may help control metabolic risk factors by helping lower blood triglyceride levels, blood pressure, and blood sugar. It may also improve cholesterol levels.
Inositol may prevent diabetes during pregnancy
Some women experience high blood sugar during pregnancy. This condition is called gestational diabetes (GDM) and complicates up to 10% of pregnancies in the US every year.
In animal studies, inositol has been directly related to the function of insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels.
Only a limited number of studies are available on the supplement and GDM in humans. However, some suggest that a combination of 4 grams of myo-inositol and 400 mcg of folic acid may help prevent GDM when taken daily throughout pregnancy.
However, more research is needed, as other studies have not shown the same effects.
Summary: Inositol may help prevent high blood sugar levels during pregnancy when taken in combination with folic acid, but more studies are needed to confirm this effect.
Other potential benefits of inositol
Inositol has been studied as a potential treatment option for many conditions.
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Besides those already mentioned, research suggests inositol may be helpful in the following conditions:
Respiratory distress syndrome: In preterm infants, inositol appears to help treat breathing issues from underdeveloped lungs.
Type 2 diabetes: A preliminary study suggests that inositol and folic acid is taken daily for 6 months may aid blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): A small study suggests that 18 grams of inositol taken daily for 6 weeks may reduce symptoms of OCD.
Summary: Inositol is a potential treatment option for preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome. It may also aid blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes and may reduce symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Side effects of inositol
Inositol supplements seem to be well-tolerated by most people.
However, mild side effects have been reported with doses of 12 grams per day or higher. These include nausea, gas, difficulty sleeping, headache, dizziness, and tiredness.
Up to 4 grams of inositol daily has been taken by pregnant women in studies without adverse effects, though more research is needed in this population.
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There are also not enough studies to determine the safety of the supplements while breastfeeding. However, breast milk seems to be naturally rich in inositol.
In addition, it's unclear whether inositol supplements are safe for long-term use. In most studies, inositol supplements were only taken for a year or less.
As with any supplement, talk to your doctor before taking inositol.
Summary: Inositol supplements are associated with very few and only mild adverse effects. More research is needed to determine its safety in pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as in long-term use.
Recommended dosages of inositol
There are two main forms of inositol used in supplements, namely myo-inositol (MYO) and D-chiro-inositol (DCI).
Though there is no official consensus on the most effective type and dosage, the following have appeared to be effective in research studies:
For mental health conditions: 12–18 grams of MYO once daily for 4–6 weeks.
For polycystic ovary syndrome: 1.2 grams of DCI once daily, or 2 grams of MYO and 200 mcg of folic acid twice daily for 6 months.
For metabolic syndrome: 2 grams of MYO twice daily for one year.
For blood sugar control in gestational diabetes: 2 grams of MYO and 400 mcg of folic acid twice daily during pregnancy.
For blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes: 1 gram of DCI and 400 mcg folic acid once daily for 6 months.
While these inositol doses appear to be helpful for certain conditions in the short term, more research is needed to determine if they're safe and effective over long periods.
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Summary: There is no official consensus for recommended doses of inositol. Dosage and type of inositol supplement vary depending on the condition.
Research suggests that inositol may aid people with mental health and metabolic conditions, such as panic disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, polycystic ovary syndrome, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes.
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Why Did Friends Get Cancelled?
Is Phoebe from Friends a twin in real life?
Was friends almost Cancelled?
Why is Chandler so thin in Season 3 of friends?
Why is Chandler so red?
Does Chandler die in friends?
Do the Friends cast still get paid?
Are Joey and Chandler friends in real life?
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Who got paid the most in friends?
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Why did Chandler leave friends in Season 9?
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Originally Answered: Why is Chandler so thin in season 3? Because that time he was battling a serious addiction to drugs and alcohol. … He lost 20 pounds due to pancreatis, and he was also battling an addiction to Vicodin for about 3 years.
He is half Strawberry Poison Frog and half human. The Strawberry Poison Frog inheritance from his also gay father enables him to change his skin colour to red once in a while. Besides that his skin colour changes automatically when he is under stress.
The bizarre and brilliant masterpiece is fittingly titled "The One Where Chandler Dies." Basically, Chandler gets hit by an ice cream truck and tragedy ensues following his death. The five remaining friends mourn his absence, with Monica drowning her sorrows in drugs, alcohol, and Joey.
"Friends" ended in 2004, but 14 years later, the cast still makes millions of dollars off of the popular sitcom. According to Marketplace, each member of the "Friends" main cast still makes $20 million a year thanks to syndication and Netflix. … show will remain on Netflix through 2019, they could make even more.
Joey Tribbiani and Chandler Bing were best friends on the show, and as time goes on, it turns out they are still BFFs in real life, too. In recent interviews, LeBlanc said of Perry: … Perry was working on The Odd Couple, while LeBlanc was starring in Man With a Plan.
In 2000 he was hospitalized with pancreatitis as a result of his addictions. During that summer he lost 20 pounds, appearing noticeably thinner during the 7th season premiere of Friends, in a scene that continued directlyvfrom the 6th season finale.
The stars were paid $75,000 per episode in season three, $85,000 in season four, $100,000 in season five, $125,000 in season six, $750,000 in seasons seven and eight, and $1 million in seasons nine and ten, making Aniston, Cox, and Kudrow the highest-paid TV actresses of all time.
4. Although, Lisa Kudrow once joked that the cast only became close after they all slept together. In a 1996 Us Weekly cover story, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox were asked what would happen if the male cast saw them naked.
Nope, Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer never dated each other in real life. … It's also pretty common knowledge that Aniston also dated Paul Rudd, when they worked together on a film called The Object of My Affection. Later in Friends' run, Rudd actually played Phoebe's other half Mike on the sitcom.
In Friends season 9, Chandler's hatred for his job caused him to finally quit despite the great pay. Monica helped him find a new job through an old friend, and he was hired as an unpaid intern before being promoted to a junior copywriter at an advertising agency.
Courteney Cox strategically hid her pregnancy during Monica's final on-screen moments. Toward the end of filming season 10, Cox was pregnant with her first child, her daughter Coco, who was born just a few weeks after the final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
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They offer the Kate's Special, such as Sweet potato pancakes, Pumpkin French toast, Pigs-n-blanket, and banana nut French Toast.
Serving up the eggs anyway you want them, over-easy, scrambled, 15 choices of omelets, 6 choices of eggs benedict.
Are you hungry yet! Well we are not finished yet!
We need to talk about the many health breakfast choices, such as the California platter, Kate's delight and Multigrain pancakes.
Breakfast isn't complete without a side of meat, they have, sausage patties, links, turkey sausage, bacon, ham, corned beef hash and sausage gravy.
They are worth the trip, make them a must try when you are visiting the Carolina Beach and Wilmington Area of NC. We had a half stack with sausage and a egg plate with grits, wheat toast. Thanks Kate and crew, we'll be back!!


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Surfside Building Collapse Reddit
This is at least somewhat reminiscent of Reddit's botched inquiry into the Boston Marathon bombing, or more recent inquiries into the Tesla accident in Texas that killed two people, or a subreddit dubbed "Reddit Bureau of Investigations." In this instance, though, Redditors aren't aiming to blame a single individual or protect a firm from harsh media coverage; instead, they're trying to find out why the building fell.
We can't go in to collect samples of materials and take those samples and analyze them to determine what the different components of the building that came down were until they perform their job, structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer told CNN.
Kilsheimer, who also studied the aftermath of the 9/11 Pentagon assault, said he had approximately 20 or 30 hypotheses of probable triggers the first night he was on the site.
According to NBC Miami, Velasquez worked as a music executive for Live Nation Entertainment in Los Angeles. Her corpse was discovered two weeks after the building fell, on July 8. According to the fire department, the 36-year-old informed first responders she was visiting the Surfside apartment to see her parents. According to NBC Miami, both of her parents, Julio and Angela Velasquez, perished in the crash.
Morabito Consultants highlighted various concerns, including possibly extensive degradation of concrete around the pool area, in a summary of work issued on Oct. 13, 2020.
The pool "was to continue in use for the length of the work" and the required severe excavation of concrete at the pool "might impair the integrity of the existing nearby concrete projects," thus full restoration and repair work "could not be conducted."
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We can't go in to collect samples of materials and take those samples and analyze them to determine what the different components of the building that came down were until they perform their job, structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer told CNN. Kilsheimer, who also studied the aftermath of the 9/11 Pentagon assault, said he had approximately 20 or 30 hypotheses of probable triggers the first night he was on the site.
According to a county statement issued late Thursday, identifying casualties has grown more challenging, with a heavy reliance on the medical examiner's office and specialist technical and scientific expertise. As recovery efforts continue, more than 26 million pounds (12 million kg) of rubble and concrete have been removed. The collapse has sparked concern and heightened examination of other older residential complexes. Two Miami-Dade County high-rises have been evacuated due to structural issues. Another three-story apartment complex in northeastern Miami-Dade County was evacuated on Thursday after a partial roof collapse.
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Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman has appointed attorney Michael Goldberg as receiver to supervise the difficult legal and financial problems involved and to investigate the land's worth as a possible source of compensation for the victims.
According to Christina Pushaw, a spokesman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Hanzman also authorized the start of the process to sell the property, which may bring up to $110 million. The revenues from the sale, according to the court, should go immediately to the survivors and victims' families.
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It's no accident that Ron DeSantis was at the Shul of Bal Harbour (the Big Synagogue in the Surfside region) to sign two crucial pieces of legislation, one of which supports Jewish policies and financing while also making a pro-Israel speech. This happened on June 14th, only ten days before the Champlain Towers collapsed. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-jewish-voice/20210618/282046215049859
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said the video brought him back to the early morning hours, when he got on the site at 2 a.m. and was rushing for answers. Rescue workers dig amid the ruins of a 12-story condo complex that partially collapsed on June 24 in Surfside, Fla. Getty Images / Joe Raedle
(CNN) — Since the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South building on June 24 in Surfside, Florida, many people have worked tirelessly to uncover and identify fatalities amid the rubble, including search-and-rescue teams, first responders, and government workers.
Their operations have been continuous, with only minor weather and safety setbacks due to the perilous and unstable situations. Casualties are still being ascertained as the conflict enters its fourth week.
The reason of the collapse is unknown, although according to a 2018 study, the structure had "severe structural problems." Residents and a previous tower manager allegedly raised worry that enormous volumes of seawater, which can erode concrete, would flood the building's garage on a regular basis. According to Surfside Vice Mayor Tina Paul, the building passed a roof inspection the day before the collapse.
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The governor, like everyone else, wants answers concerning the reason of the collapse as quickly as possible. At a press conference, DeSantis said, "We need a concrete explanation for how this could have occurred." It is really a one-of-a-kind catastrophe to have half a building fall in the middle of the night.
Sabotage is an option that has not been stated but should be regarded as a reasonable possibility. Many of the condominium's occupants were presumably rich, and they included Jews and other ethnic minorities. Someone knowledgeable enough with explosives and building demolition methods might have bypassed whatever security measures were in place to keep unauthorised individuals out of the subterranean parking garage, planted the explosive charge, departed, and remotely detonated it. If this was done, the proof is hidden behind tons of shattered concrete and will ultimately be discovered, but not for a long time. One witness described feeling the building shake first, then hearing a boom and watching two-thirds of the structure collapse. This is compatible with an explosive occurrence, in which vibrations would be conveyed faster than the speed of sound in air through the solid structure. However, since sudden breakdowns of huge strained structural sections often sound like explosions, this report should not be taken as definite.
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Its a difficult subject to have, but the structure, along with many others, should not have been there, Pilkey said. We were overdue for a true awakening. Meanwhile, Zalewski predicts that buildings of a comparable age will likely face further assessments and inspections in the wake of this disaster. He predicted that in the future, Florida will require construction reports to be submitted to the state for examination.


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Appuntamento con la paura è una raccolta di racconti gialli della scrittrice inglese Agatha Christie, pubblicati per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti nel 1961. La raccolta contiene otto racconti che hanno diversi protagonisti.

I racconti
Agatha Christie scrisse, per questa raccolta di racconti, una piccola introduzione in cui si paragonava il libro ad un pranzo di Natale, Agatha era lo chef e il piatto forte era il racconto L'avventura del dolce di Natale.

I racconti contenuti in questo libro sono:

 Doppia colpa, in cui Hercule Poirot indaga sul furto di alcune preziose miniature e riuscirà a smascherare una coppia insospettabile di truffatrici.
 Nido di vespe, un insolito racconto in cui Monsieur Poirot riesce a prevedere e a sventare un efferato omicidio.
In L'avventura del dolce di Natale Poirot deve indagare sul furto di un preziosissimo rubino.
Uno dei più singolari racconti di questa raccolta è La bambola della sarta, una bambola che si diverte a fare strani scherzi, animata da chi sa quale spirito.
Appare Miss Marple in La follia di Greenshaw che dovrà indagare sull'insolita morte di una ricca donna proprietaria di un enorme villa: i sospetti sono tre, ma tutti hanno un alibi di ferro... L'idea di base di La follia di Greenshaw è stata in realtà ripresa ed estesa da un racconto precedente cioè Il mistero di Hunter's lodge, in cui il protagonista era Hercule Poirot.
In Doppio indizio torna Hercule Poirot, che viene chiamato ad indagare sul furto di alcuni gioielli, rubati durante una festa in cui partecipava l'alta società inglese. Nel racconto si trova un personaggio, la contessa Vera Rossakoff, apparsa insieme a Poirot in altri racconti come La cattura di Cerbero della raccolta Le fatiche di Hercule ed in romanzi quali Poirot e i quattro.
Più inquietante degli altri è il racconto L'ultima séance, in cui una medium viene assassinata nel bel mezzo di una seduta spiritica. Il racconto prende spunto da un avvenimento accaduto realmente alla Christie.
Chiude il ciclo di racconti Asilo, in cui compare di nuovo Miss Marple alle prese con un omicidio avvenuto in una chiesa.

Quattro di questi racconti (Doppia colpa, Nido di vespe, L'avventura del dolce di Natale e Doppio indizio) sono diventati film per la serie TV Poirot mentre il racconto La follia di Greenshaw è stato adattato come film nella serie televisiva Miss Marple.

La bambola della sarta
Londra, anni 30. Sybil Fox e Alicia Coombe, due sarte, stanno preparando il loro laboratorio per la visita di una cliente, la signora Fellows-Brown. Sulla poltrona di velluto vicino alla finestra. Arriva la signorina Fellows-Brown e iniziano le prove di vestiti. Mentre discutono la signora Fellows-Brown rimane abbastanza inquietata dalla bambola sulla poltrona e consiglia alle due donne di toglierla, perché a lei fa venire la pelle d'oca. Chiede a Sybil da quanto la tengono lì, ma la ragazza non se lo ricorda minimamente. Anche la signora Groves, la donna delle pulizie, non l'aveva notata fino a quella mattina. La signora Groves rabbrividisce anche solo alla vista della bambola. Sybil, non ricordandosi affatto della bambola, pensa che sia di Alicia, così le chiede da quanto ce l'ha, ma lei risponde che non ricorda molto bene. Sybil e Alicia ricordano che c'era anche prima di quel giorno, anche se non l'avevano mai notata.

Il giorno dopo la signora Groves dice ad Alicia che la bambola le ha fatto prendere uno spavento perché l'ha trovata seduta alla scrivania, come un essere umano. Alicia va a controllare nella stanza della scrivania e vede la bambola accasciata sulla sedia. Alicia, infuriata, chiede a tutte le ragazze del laboratorio se loro hanno fatto il brutto scherzo, ma non è stata nessuna di loro. La bambola continua a fare questi scherzi, finché Sybil, spaventata, la lancia dalla finestra. Alicia si arrabbia e iniziano a litigare, quando una bambina raccoglie la bambola da terra dicendo che loro non le hanno dato amore e che la bambola voleva solo attirare la loro attenzione. Così finisce il racconto.

Edizioni italiane
 Agatha Christie, Appuntamento con la paura, traduzioni di Grazia Griffini e Lidia Lax, Mondadori, I ed. 1981
 Agatha Christie, Vita, morte e miracoli di Miss Marple, collana Omnibus Gialli, Mondadori, I ed 1977 (contiene due racconti tradotti da Grazia Griffini: Asilo e La follia di Greenshaw)

Raccolte di racconti di Agatha Christie

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