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She was later pronounced dead by Allina EMS.\n\n• On March 29 in the 4400 block of Reservoir Boulevard NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On March 29 in the 1200 block of Polk Place NE mail was stolen.\n\n• On March 29 in the 5000 block of 51st Court NE there was a theft from a vehicle.\n\n• On March 29 in the 4900 block of Central Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On March 29 in the 5000 block of 51st Court NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On March 30 in the 4900 block of Central Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 1 in the 4400 block of University Avenue NE there was a theft from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 1 in the 5000 block of Fourth Street NE a vehicle was stolen.\n\n• On April 1 in the 4400 block of Washington Street NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 4 in the 600 block of 40th Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 1 in the 1300 block of Circle Terrace Boulevard NE city property was damaged.\n\n• On April 2 in the 5000 block of Fourth Street NE property was damaged.\n\n• On April 4 in the 4000 block of Central Avenue NE property was damaged.\n\n• On March 29 at the intersection of 37th Avenue NE and Madison Place NE a female driver, from Columbia Heights, was arrested for a second-degree DWI and for driving after revocation.\n\n• On March 29 in the 4900 block of Fourth Street NE a female driver, from Minneapolis, was arrested for a second-degree DWI test refusal, driving after revocation, having no proof of insurance and for being involved in a hit and run crash.\n\n• On March 30 in the 5900 block of University Avenue NE there was a burglary at a business.\n\n• On March 30 in the 5800 block of East River Road NE an unwanted female in an apartment complex who was later located by officers in an abandoned apartment. She was arrested for a second-degree burglary, criminal property damage and was issued a trespassing notice.\n\n• On March 30 in the 5600 block of University Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On March 31 in the 5900 block of University Avenue NE a license plate was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 1 in the 7700 block of Beech Street NE an unoccupied stolen vehicle was recovered. The suspect who stole the vehicle is believed to have been involved in a prior flee from officers incident in St. Francis.\n\n• On April 3 in the 700 block of 53rd Avenue NE a woman reported she had lost her phone in a store and it was then taken by a suspect who was tracked to a Brooklyn Park residence.\n\n• On April 3 in the 5600 block of Main Street NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 3 in the 1200 block of Cheri Lane NE a catalytic converter was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 3 in the 1200 block of Cheri Lane NE there was a theft from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 4 in the 1200 block of 73rd Avenue NE a catalytic converter was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 4 in the 500 block of Osborne Road NE there was a theft from a vehicle and criminal property damage.\n\n• On April 4 in the 600 block of Osborne Road NE two lock box and keys, one for the Fridley Police Department and another for the Fridley Fire Department, was stolen by an unknown suspect(s).\n\n• On March 30 in the 5800 block of East River Road NE a window was damaged in an apartment building.\n\n• On March 31 in the 1000 block of North Circle NE juveniles were involved in a vandalism incident.\n\n• On April 1 at the intersection of 57th Avenue NE and University Avenue NE two vehicles were involved in a crash that resulted in injuries.\n\n• On April 1 in the 5500 block of East Bavarian Pass NE a rear windshield was damaged.\n\n• On April 2 in the 7300 lock of Evert Court NE a fire occurred.\n\n• On April 3 in the 5800 block of East River Road NE three tires were punctured on a vehicle parked at an apartment complex.\n\n• On April 5 in the 4500 block of Main Street NE a window was damaged.\n\n• On March 31 in the 5200 block of Central Avenue NE there was a secondhand report of an assault. Officers spoke with the female victim and subsequently a male.\n\n• On March 31 in the 800 block of Osborne Road NE a fifth-degree assault occurred.\n\n• On April 4 in the 5900 block of Woody Lane NE there was a report that a female patient had been assaulted and threatened by her husband. The complainant observed minor injuries on the woman. The husband was not at the scene. The woman declined to press charges.\n\n• On April 4 in the 1600 block of 68th Avenue NE a woman was arrested for a domestic assault.\n\n• On March 30 in the 5200 block of Central Avenue NE narcotics were found in a hotel.\n\n• On March 31 at the intersection of 83rd Avenue NE and University Avenue West Service Road NE a driver was arrested for possession of more than 1.4 grams of marijuana in a vehicle and for driving without a license.\n\n• On April 1 in the 5900 block of 2 1/2 Street NE there was a report of a possible domestic. When officers arrived they located multiple parties engaging in mutual wrestling and were involved in underage consumption.\n\n• On April 2 at the intersection of Highway 65 NE and Medtronic Parkway NE a driver was arrested for a third-degree DWI and for driving without a valid drivers license after being pulled over for failure to obey a traffic control device.\n\n• On April 3 in the 5200 block of Central Avenue NE a male was arrested for possession of more than 1.4 grams of marijuana in a motor vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia, for having an outstanding warrant and for providing false information to police officers.\n\n• On April 4 in the 7400 block of East River Road NE a unresponsive male who had overdosed on a large amount of methamphetamine was provided Narcan and transported to a hospital. He was later charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance.\n\n• On April 1 in the 6900 block of Hickory Drive NE there was a report of a male not breathing. He was later pronounced dead by Allina EMS.\n\n• On April 4 in the 6000 block of Main Street NE an individual reported seeing a male inside with a gun. Officers determined the call was fictitious and arrested the reporting party for making a fictitious emergency call and for providing officers a false name.\n\n• On April 4 in the 5900 block of University Avenue NE there was a report made about an incident involving the dissemination of pornography involving minors. The case was forwarded to Anoka County Criminal Investigative Division.\n\n• On April 4 in the 8400 block of University Avenue NE there was a secondhand report of an individual recklessly discharging a firearm in a parking lot while an officer was station on site for extra security. The alleged victim was uncooperative and there was no evidence a firearm had been discharged.\n\n• On April 1 in the 8000 block of Central Avenue NE a license plate was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 3 in the 8100 block of University Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 4 in the 600 block of Rosedale Road NE a license plate was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 4 in the 7700 block of Highway 65 NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 5 in the 8400 block of Center Drive NE there was an attempted theft of a vehicle that fled from police officers.\n\n• On April 5 in the 8200 block of Middletown Road NE there was a report that a vehicle was stolen.\n\n• On April 6 in the 1100 block of 81st Avenue NE a theft occurred.\n\n• On April 7 in the 7800 block of University Avenue NE gasoline was stolen from a vehicle.\n\n• On April 7 at the intersection of Central Avenue NE and 81st Avenue NE property was damaged.\n\nOn April 2 in the 8300 block of Lakewood Drive NE an assault occurred, disorderly conduct and property damage.\n\n• On April 5 in the 400 block of Manor Drive NE a domestic assault occurred.\n\n02\nA New Dimension to a Meaningful Life\n\nWhen we think about lives filled with meaning, we often focus on people whose grand contributions benefited humanity. 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The phenomenon reflects the feeling of a deep connection to events as they transpire and the ability to extract value from that link. It represents the detection of and admiration for life’s inherent beauty.\n\nWe recently set out to better understand this form of appreciation in a series of studies, published in Nature Human Behaviour, that involved more than 3,000 participants. Across these studies, we were interested in whether experiential appreciation was related to a person’s sense of meaning even when we accounted for the effects of the classic trio of coherence, purpose and existential mattering. If so, experiential appreciation could be a unique contributor to meaningfulness and not simply a product of these other variables.\n\nAs an initial test of our idea, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, we had participants rate their endorsement of different coping strategies to relieve their stress. We found that people who managed stress by focusing on their appreciation for life’s beauty also reported experiencing life as highly meaningful. In the next study, we asked participants to rate the extent to which they agreed with various statements, such as “I have a great appreciation for the beauty of life” and “I appreciate a wide variety of experiences,” as well as other statements that related to coherence, purpose, existential mattering and a general sense of meaning in life. Our results showed that the more people indicated that they were “appreciating life” and its many experiences, the more they felt their existence was valuable. In fact, these two elements related strongly to each other even when we controlled for other aspects of a meaningful life. In subsequent studies, we further explored the connection between these concepts. For example, we found that participants asked to recall the most meaningful event of the past week generally reported high experiential appreciation in those moments.\n\nFinally, we conducted a series of experiments in which we gave people specific tasks and, once more, asked them to report how strongly they identified with statements linked to purpose, mattering, et cetera. In one case, we found that participants who watched an awe-inspiring video, such as the opening sequence of the BBC documentary Planet Earth, reported having a greater sense of experiential appreciation and meaning in life, compared with participants who watched more neutral videos, such as an instructional woodworking video. Similarly, participants who wrote about a recent experience for which they were grateful had a greater sense of meaning and experiential appreciation afterward when compared with participants who simply wrote about a common place they had visited in the past week.\n\nThe results confirmed our original theory: appreciating small things can make life feel more meaningful. But applying that insight can be difficult. Our modern, fast-paced, project-oriented lifestyles fill the day with targets and goals. We are on the go, and we attempt to maximize output both at work and at leisure. This focus on future outcomes makes it all too easy to miss what is happening right now. Yet life happens in the present moment. We should slow down, let life surprise us and embrace the significance in the everyday. As former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in 1950, “We live in a wonderful world.... 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According to the public health department, readers can check the website for the latest updates and totals.\n\nThis article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: COVID-19 report marks 1st time 0 patients in ICU or on ventilators\n\n02\nWeekly COVID report: Two more deaths, 10 new cases as pandemic ends second year\n\nThe number of new COVID-19 cases have continued to decrease during the past week in Tuscarawas County, according to Jennifer Demuth, director of health promotion and community relations for the Tuscarawas County Health Department.\n\nAs of 2 p.m. Thursday, the county had 158 active cases, 41 fewer than in the previous week.\n\nThe county had 10 new COVID-19 cases reported between 2 p.m. March 11 and 2 p.m. Thursday. The reporting period includes only six days because the Ohio Department of Health began releasing weekly data on Thursdays only, starting Thursday.\n\nThere were four new hospitalizations of county residents and two more deaths in the same period. As of Friday, 488 Tuscarawas County residents had been lost to COVID-19.\n\nTwo people with confirmed diagnoses of COVID-19 were receiving treatment in Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital on Friday. On March 11, the facility had three inpatients with COVID-19. No COVID-19 inpatient was in intensive care Friday.\n\nMonday marked two years since the Tuscarawas County Health Department learned of the first case of COVID-19 in the county. The agency released a six-minute YouTube video to reflect upon shared experiences throughout the challenges of the pandemic, and to show appreciation for the support it received from the community.\n\nThe video is available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW99f-NSy_w.\n\nThis article originally appeared on The Times-Reporter: 10 new COVID cases and two more deaths in Tuscarawas County last week\n\n03\nCNN+ headed for 100,000 subscribers in first week — report\n\nUnder pressure from new owner Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. to justify its costs, CNN’s streaming service eclipsed 100,000 subscribers in its first week, according to a person familiar with the matter.\n\nThe number for CNN+ is small relative to mass-market entertainment services like Netflix and Disney+, which have been around far longer, but suggests a favorable start for a news service in a business where only a handful of players top 1 million customers.\n\nThe leader is the New York Times, with almost 8 million paying customers at year-end.\n\nCNN has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to program and market the service, which executives describe as the news organization’s most ambitious new venture since the founding of the network more than 40 years ago.\n\nCNN+ offers a mix of lifestyle shows and traditional news, including a daily interview show from Chris Wallace and a food and travel show hosted by actress Eva Longoria.\n\nThe most popular shows thus far include Wallace’s and “5 Things with Kate Bolduan,” a fast-paced countdown of the day’s big events, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing numbers that aren’t public.\n\nCNN charges $5.99 a month for the streaming service, the same as Fox News’ paid streaming service. Fox Corp. hasn’t said how many people pay for Fox Nation.\n\nCNN declined to comment on the subscriber number. “We continue to be happy with the launch and its progress after only two weeks of being available to customers,” a spokesperson for the network said Wednesday in an email.\n\nThe pressure on CNN+ stems in part from last week’s merger of Discovery Inc. with CNN parent WarnerMedia, creating the new Warner Bros. Discovery. 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      "body": "Weekly report notes 92 active COVID-19 cases, 4 new deaths\n\nThe Amarillo Public Health Department (APHD) reported an increase of 27 new COVID-19 cases and four new deaths over the past week in its weekly COVID-19 report card released Friday.\n\nThe report is posted every Friday with updated data from BSA Health System, Northwest Texas Healthcare System, and Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center.\n\nTrauma Service Area A, which includes Potter and Randall counties as well as the majority of the Texas Panhandle, is recording a .75% COVID-19 hospitalization rate as of Thursday, according to the State Department of Health Services website.\n\nThe weekly COVID-19 report, issued Fridays by the Amarillo Public Health Department.\n\nThe 27 new COVID-19 active cases amount to a seven-day, new-case average of four, with a seven-day positivity rate of 1%, according to the report card.\n\nThat brings the total number of cases in Potter and Randall counties to 74,155 and the total number of deaths to 1,224 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.\n\nFull numbers can be found on the APHD website.\n\nA total of 92 cases were considered active on the website Friday.\n\nAccording to the site, there have been 72,839 total recoveries for the area.\n\nPotter County's total cases rose to 35,806 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total, 44 are active, with 35,037 recoveries and 725 deaths related to the virus, according to the APHD website.\n\nRandall County's total COVID-19 cases rose to 38,349 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total, 48 are active, with 37,802 recoveries and 499 deaths related to the virus.\n\nAccording to the APHD website, 579,197 COVID-19 tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBy the Centers for Disease Control standards, both Randall and Potter counties' community levels of COVID-19 were considered Low, or Green, as of Thursday.\n\nThe Amarillo Public Health COVID-19 Hospitalization report, also being released each Friday, noted five COVID-19 patients hospitalized, 60% of whom are not vaccinated, with one patient in the ICU and none on ventilators. 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According to the public health department, readers can check the website for the latest updates and totals.\n\nThis article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Weekly Amarillo report notes 92 active COVID-19 cases, 4 new deaths\n\n02\nAzelis: Weekly Report on LTIP Implementation Program\n\nAzelis reports on progress of LTIP implementation program\n\nANTWERP, Belgium, April 15, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:\n\nFurther to the launch of the Long-term Incentive Plan (LTIP) announced on 16 March 2022, the Group reports the purchase of 13,000 ordinary shares of Azelis (Brussels: AZE) in the period from 8 April 2022 until 14 April 2022.\n\nDate\n\nNumber of shares\n\nTotal amount (EUR)\n\nAverage price (EUR)\n\nLowest price (EUR)\n\nHighest price (EUR)\n\nTrading venue\n\n8 April 2022\n\n3,000\n\n66,983.40\n\n22.3278\n\n21.8800\n\n22.6400\n\nEuronext Brussels\n\n11 April 2022\n\n5,000\n\n112,066.50\n\n22.4133\n\n22.1200\n\n22.5000\n\nEuronext Brussels\n\n12 April 2022\n\n1,500\n\n34,446.60\n\n22.9644\n\n22.2600\n\n23.2800\n\nEuronext Brussels\n\n13 April 2022\n\n2,000\n\n46,750.00\n\n23.3750\n\n22.9200\n\n23.8000\n\nEuronext Brussels\n\n14 April 2022\n\n1,500\n\n35,829.00\n\n23.8860\n\n23.7000\n\n24.000\n\nEuronext Brussels\n\nTotal\n\n13,000\n\n296,075.50\n\n22.7750\n\nSince the start of the implementation of the buy-back program on 17 March 2022, Azelis has bought back 77,900 shares for a total amount of EUR 1,698,537.38. 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Azelis Group NV is listed on Euronext Brussels under ticker AZE.\n\nAcross our extensive network of more than 60 application laboratories, our award-winning staff help develop formulations and provide technical guidance throughout the customers’ product development process. We combine a global market reach with a local footprint to offer a reliable, integrated and unique digital service to local customers and attractive business opportunities to principals. EcoVadis Platinum rated, Azelis is a leader in sustainability. We believe in building and nurturing solid, honest and transparent relationships with our people and partners.\n\nStory continues\n\nImpact through ideas. 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      "body": "Yoga shows promise for weight-loss maintenance, study finds\n\nYoga burns fewer calories than aerobic exercise so it’s usually not the go-to workout for people who want to lose weight. But what if the mind-body connection fostered by yoga could help them maintain that weight loss for the long term?\n\nIt’s an idea researchers set out to test in an intriguing study, published last month in PLOS One, with some promising preliminary results.\n\nLead author Jessica Unick, an exercise physiologist at The Miriam Hospital’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center in Providence, Rhode Island, started looking into yoga’s potential after taking up the practice herself.\n\n“I enjoy playing tennis and so I started taking yoga classes just to increase strength and flexibility. But what was so interesting to me is that I’d always leave the classes feeling more relaxed and less stressed,” Unick, who is also an associate professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, told TODAY.\n\n“I feel like yoga has been overlooked in the weight management field… people just assume because you don’t burn a lot of calories, that it’s not going to be effective for weight. But I was more interested in the psychological benefits.”\n\nSpecifically, Unick and her colleagues wanted to see if yoga could help people maintain weight loss by improving their:\n\nMindfulness, or becoming more aware of their behaviors or habits. “It’s so easy to mindlessly eat food,” she noted.\n\nDistress tolerance, or being able to deal with uncomfortable feelings and sensations. People often regain weight due to emotional or stress eating, “so if you’re better able to tolerate these uncomfortable sensations, the thought would be that it would maybe help prevent some of these dietary lapses,” Unick said.\n\nSelf-compassion, which could help end the vicious cycle of having a dietary lapse, feeling guilty about it and then eating more because of that guilt.\n\nSurprisingly very little research had been done on combining both a weight-loss and a yoga program, Unick said.\n\n'People are just generally feeling better'\nThe study involved 60 women who were overweight or obese. They first took part in a three-month weight-loss program that prescribed eating 1,200 to 1,800 calories a day and regular aerobic exercise. It also included weekly group sessions with a psychologist and nutritionist.\n\nAfter losing weight over that period, the women were then randomly assigned to either take two yoga classes per week or two nutrition/cooking classes per week for the next three months.\n\nResearchers tracked their weight and used questionnaires to gauge their psychological states.\n\nIt turned out the women who did particularly well in the initial weight-loss program and were then assigned to do yoga classes lost 3.5% more weight than their counterparts who attended the nutrition/cooking classes.\n\n“(If you) lost a significant amount of weight in the first three months and you were in the yoga group, you continued to lose weight from three to six months,” Unick said.\n\nShe didn’t have a scientific answer why — the effects likely weren’t due to burning many more calories since the study used a low-intensity type of yoga on purpose — but pointed out that those participants also had greater improvements in mindfulness, self-compassion and the ability to tolerate uncomfortable feelings and sensations.\n\n“I would suspect people are just generally feeling better so therefore, they may be less likely to stress eat,” she said.\n\nAt the same time, the findings suggest yoga may not be particularly helpful as long-term weight-loss maintenance strategy for people who don’t initially lose a lot of weight.\n\nUnick cautioned these were preliminary results from a small pilot study that involved women only. She’s planning a follow-up study that includes men as well.\n\nYoga is for all sizes\nTo see if yoga can help you maintain your weight loss, the researchers encouraged just trying it. The vast majority of the participants in this study had never practiced yoga before but ended up rating it very highly — whether taking in-person or online classes.\n\n“There’s this misconception is that yoga is for predominantly thin women. But these were all women with a BMI between 25 and 40, so they are classified with overweight or obesity, and they can do yoga. Yoga is for all sizes,” Unick said.\n\nThis study involved Iyengar yoga classes twice per week for 60 minutes, but there are many types of yoga to try — less and more intense.\n\nThe participants did yoga in addition to their regular aerobic exercise routine, not instead of it, which Unick recommended because research shows aerobic exercise is important for long-term weight-loss maintenance.\n\n“Many people would surprise themselves in terms of how yoga makes them feel,” she said. “Yoga is one of those exercises that people may not always be open minded about… (but) even if you’re not sure you’re going to like it, just give it a try and see what you think.”\n\nA. Pawlowski is a TODAY senior contributing editor focusing on health news and features. Previously, she was a writer, producer and editor at CNN.\n\n02\nPsychology Today\n\nSource: Kike Vega / Unsplash\n\nA new study published in the academic journal PLOS ONE suggests that yoga is a viable way to improve the physical and cognitive faculties necessary for maintaining long-term weight loss, even if it lacks the physical intensity that is often the focus of calorie-burning workouts.\n\nJessica Unicke, a researcher at Brown University and lead author of the study, stumbled upon the idea after experiencing the benefits of yoga firsthand.\n\n“I am a tennis player and was looking to increase my flexibility and strength through yoga,” said Unicke.\n\nHowever, the more I practiced yoga, the more I began to notice how relaxed I would feel after each class and how I was more mindful of how I was feeling throughout the day.\n\nBeing a weight loss researcher, it piqued my interest into the role of yoga for individuals seeking to lose weight. Surprisingly, when I reviewed the literature in this area, there weren’t any prior studies that tested the combined effect of yoga and weight loss.\n\nTo explore this further, Unicke and her team recruited 60 women that were either obese or overweight. The women first took part in a three-month behavioral weight-loss program which included diet and exercise goals. Then, the researchers randomly assigned the women to one of two groups. One group took part in 12 weeks of culinary classes and nutrition education, while the other group participated in a 12-week yoga course (with classes meeting twice per week).\n\nThe researchers then compared the two groups on measures of weight loss/gain, perceived stress, mindfulness, and distress tolerance. They also tracked participants’ enjoyment and satisfaction with the programs.\n\n“Participants reported enjoying the yoga program, being highly satisfied with the yoga program, and being glad that they were assigned to do yoga,” reported Unicke.\n\nOur preliminary data suggests that for individuals who lost a significant amount of weight during the 12-week weight loss program (>5 percent of initial body weight lost), those in the yoga group lost an additional 3.5 percent of their body weight and had greater improvements on psychological measures when compared to those in the nutritional education group.\n\nThe authors believed that, beyond its physical benefits, yoga instills people with a mindset that makes it easier for them to follow through on their weight loss goals. Specifically, yoga is able to benefit long-term weight loss in the following ways:\n\nReducing stress. Prior research shows that higher levels of stress are associated with higher body weight and more unhealthy eating behaviors.\nIncreasing mindfulness. It is common for individuals to mindlessly eat in response to emotions (e.g., boredom, stress, anger, etc.) rather than eating when one is hungry. Frequent emotional or mindless eating could lead to less weight loss. Because yoga increases mindfulness, it reduces one’s automatic response to eat when faced with unsettling emotions.\nIncreasing distress tolerance. Becoming more ‘distress-resistant’ — i.e., increasing one’s capacity to withstand negative emotional or physical states — can improve one’s ability to resist cravings or dietary temptations and can lead to fewer dietary lapses.\nUnicke encourages individuals who have lost weight and are looking to keep the weight off to give yoga a try. And according to their study, practicing yoga virtually is just as beneficial as attending classes in person.\n\n“You may enjoy it more than you expected, and you may find that the skills practiced during yoga assist with sticking to important weight control behaviors,” said Unicke.\n\n03\nYoga for weight loss—why it works, when to practice and the three moves you need to know about\n\nWoman practising yoga for weight loss in a studio with brick wall © Provided by Woman&Home Woman practising yoga for weight loss in a studio with brick wall\nYoga for weight loss may not seem like the perfect combination when compared to the calorie-burning potential of running or strength training, but it can be just as effective as high-intensity exercise when it comes to getting in shape. \n\nWhether you want a workout with minimal strain on your joints or you want to add another exciting element to your training plan, yoga may be just the activity you need. A practice that's been carried out for thousands of years, it focuses on combining strength with flexibility and breathing for a workout that targets your body and your mind.  \n\nAnd all you need to get started is one of the best yoga mats to help you get comfortable and a good pair of workout leggings, along with advice from some of the top trainers around. \n\nDoes yoga for weight loss work?\nYes, doing yoga can help you lose weight. Research from The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health found that restorative hatha and vinyasa yoga were particularly beneficial to those who were overweight or obese in helping them to lose weight. While all participants saw changes on the scales, those who lost the most were those who did the most yoga. \n\nHowever, yoga will only help substantially if you maintain a calorie deficit. Without this, you won't be able to lose any weight for a longer period of time. \n\n\"If your goal is to lose fat, then you need to be in a calorie deficit,\" explains Steven Virtue, fitness development manager at Total Fitness. \"This is when you consume slightly fewer calories than you are burning which in turn makes your body tap into the stored body fat for extra energy.\" \n\nWhile there are plenty of ways to get into your deficit, from utilizing a plan like the Cambridge Diet plan to basic calorie counting, research from the University of Vienna confirms that it's the only way to lose fat mass. \n\nWhile not always 100 percent accurate, having one of the best fitness trackers on hand is always a good idea to find out roughly how many calories you burn every day. \n\nWhat are the benefits of yoga?\nThe benefits of yoga for both the body and the mind are endless. As well as helping with weight loss, there are plenty of physical changes you'll likely see. These include: \n\nIncreased flexibility\nMuscle growth \nIncreased muscle strength\nImproved respiratory system\nIncreased energy levels\nImproved cardiovascular and circulatory health\nReduced risk of injury\nSo, if you prefer going slow, you're in luck. \"High-intensity exercise, as we know, has big benefits, especially towards fat loss,\" says Nick Hewitt, personal trainer for The Training Room. \"However, high-intensity exercise often includes a good level of strength and fitness to perform safely without the risk of causing injury. Low-intensity exercise reduces the likelihood of injury.”\n\nYoga also helps to build muscle mass, a study by the University of Mississippi explains, as participants tend to hold poses for a longer period of time and repeat movements several times during a workout. Not dissimilar to strength training in this way, it can help to prevent conditions such as arthritis, osteoporosis and back pain.\n\nIt also helps learn how to deal with stress, one of the biggest contributors to weight gain. When we're feeling under pressure, our bodies produce cortisol⁠—a stress hormone that's been known to lead to an increase in appetite, insulin resistance and high blood pressure. All of which, according to University College London, are contributors to weight gain.\n\nJust remember, if you’re working out at a lower intensity, you will need to up the duration to reap the same benefits.\n\nBest yoga practices for weight loss \nHere's the good and bad news. Yoga for beginners is fun and accessible, while yoga for back pain is often slow and gentle. But, for the practice to make an impact on your weight loss, you need to go for a more dynamic style.\n\nAs leading yoga teacher Sarah Highfieldsays, yoga can help some people to lose weight but they have to try a more intense practice, like a Vinyasa or power yoga. “While most styles of yoga are not strenuous enough to be considered exercise, it will definitely help you to strengthen your body and reduce stress,” she says. \n\nWhat are the best yoga moves to help you lose weight? 1. Hip opener \nFirst, get into a downward dog position. In downward dog, lift your left leg towards the ceiling, foot flexed, and hips level. Bend your left knee and let your heel move towards your hip. Hold for 15 to 30 seconds and repeat with the other leg. Return to downward dog before walking your hands to your feet and slowly curl up to a standing position. Repeat on the other side. \n\n2. Easy lunge twist\nIn downward dog, exhale and bring your left foot forward and place it between your hands. Bend your left knee to 90°. Then place your right hand next to your left foot, so it’s directly under your shoulder. Inhale and lift your left arm up towards the ceiling by rotating the upper body to the left. Rotate your gaze up to the ceiling and lengthen through your spine. Hold for 30 to 60 seconds and then repeat on the other side.\n\n3. Malasana yoga squat\nStand feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, toes pointing outwards. Squat as deep as you can and bring your elbows to the inside of the knees and bring your palms together. Use your elbows to push your knees apart and hold the pose for 30 to 60 seconds.\n\nHow to get the best weight loss results from yoga\n“For best results, practice as often or as little as makes you happy,\" says Sarah. \"Yoga should never be an activity that you don’t look forward to.\" \n\nTry to find a balance that works for you. For some people that might be a 30-minute session every day. But, for others, it’s three 45-minute sessions per week or it could even be one 60-minute session per fortnight. \n\n“My recommendation is do what you can, and you will find that if you enjoy it, you will end up doing more and if it’s not for you, then don’t worry,” says Sarah. “I personally try to fit in three 45-minute sessions per week and that helps to keep me feeling healthy and balanced.”\n\nOther low-intensity exercise to help you lose weight\nNot sure yoga is right for you? These other low-intensity exercises could also help you lose weight.\n\nTai Chi\n\n“Tai Chi is great for your mental health as well as physical wellbeing, as it can help reduce stress whilst improving your posture and strengthening your legs,” says Nick. “It can also improve your balance and general mobility, which, if you are an older adult, will help reduce the risk of falls.” Practitioners recommend that you attend two to three classes a week and diligently practice 10 to 20 minutes a day for beginners. 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      "body": "Fearing families could be separated, US orders staff to leave Shanghai\n\nSHANGHAI, China: Due to concerns that Shanghai's strict COVID-19 lockdown could leave parents separated from their children, the U.S. has ordered all non-essential consulate employees to leave Shanghai and warned Americans not to travel there.\n\nA day before the quarantine appeared to be easing, the U.S. Department of State evacuated staff on April 11.\n\nHowever, this week, some of Shanghai's 25 million residents were allowed to leave home for the first time in two weeks.\n\nThe State Department had also updated its travel advisory, urging Americans to \"reconsider\" going to China because of \"arbitrary enforcement of local laws and COVID-19-related restrictions.\"\n\nDue to COVID-19-related restrictions, the U.S. issued a stronger \"Do not travel\" advisory for Hong Kong and Shanghai, including the risk of parents and children being separated.\n\nTravelers will have to \"quarantine at a government-designated location for a minimum of 14 days,\" the department warned, adding that travelers will undergo daily tests and be locked in rooms, and those testing positive will be forced into \"a government-designated medical or other quarantine facility.\"\n\nOn 28th March, Shanghai abruptly closed businesses and ordered residents to stay home due to the worsening outbreak of COVID-19.\n\nHowever, the vast majority of cases have been asymptomatic, with just 998 of the 23,346 new cases, or some 4 percent, recorded in Shanghai reporting any symptoms.\n\nIn addition, no deaths have been reported among the 200,000 cases recorded during the latest wave.\n\nDuring a news conference, Lei Zhenglong of the National Health Commission, said, \"The epidemic is in a period of rapid growth. Community transmission has not been effectively contained.\"\n\nA Foreign Ministry spokesman also defended China's handling of the outbreak and accused Washington of politicizing its evacuation.\n\n02\nUS warns against travel to China over ‘arbitrary’ enforcement of local laws, COVID-19 restrictions\n\nThe U.S. State Department has warned against traveling to China as the East Asian country pursues a zero-COVID policy to contain its worst outbreak in two years.\n\nThe travel advisory, which was issued on Monday, urged Americans to reconsider trips to certain parts of China due to the government’s “arbitrary enforcement of local laws and COVID-19 restrictions.”\n\nThe advisory specifically warned against travel plans to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jilin Province due to “COVID-19-related restrictions, including the risk of parents and children being separated.”\n\nAdditionally, it urged people to reconsider travel to Hong Kong over “arbitrary enforcement of local laws,” which reportedly came after Beijing’s imposition of the National Security Law on June 30, 2020.\n\nIn mid-March, China saw its biggest COVID-19 surge in two years. But despite its zero-COVID policy, the country has struggled to contain the latest outbreak.\n\nShanghai, which was placed on a two-stage lockdown on March 28, reported a record 26,087 cases on Sunday. The lockdown was supposed to end on April 5 but was extended to cover the entire city’s 26 million residents.\n\nIn addition to Monday's advisory, the State Department ordered the departure of non-emergency employees and their family members from the U.S.’ Shanghai Consulate. It cited the “surge in COVID-19 cases and the impact of restrictions related to the PRC’s response” as reasons behind its decision.\n\nChina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian condemned the evacuation in a regular press briefing on Tuesday.\n\n“We are strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the U.S.’ politicizing the issue of personnel departure and using it as a tool,” said Zhao.\n\n“We have made solemn representations with the U.S. side,” he added. “The U.S. should immediately stop attacking China’s anti-epidemic policies, stop politically manipulating the epidemic and stop smearing China.”\n\nThe move, however, has also frustrated several Americans currently residing in China.\n\n“Many Americans in Shanghai were dismayed to hear of the previous consulate staff departures given the current situation,” Josef Gregory Mahoney, a professor of politics and international relations at East China Normal University in Shanghai, told Bloomberg.\n\nHe added, “This new order will certainly increase the impression that the situation is worsening despite indications to the contrary, or that this is political posturing on behalf of the U.S., or that consulate staff — who are already rather privileged — are unable to stomach the inconveniences that others are required to endure.”\n\nStory continues\n\nEnjoy this content? Read more from NextShark!\n\nInmate Brutally Punches Asian American Custody Assistant, Could Face Hate Crime Charges\n\nDaniel Dae Kim and Randall Park are Making a Heist Movie on Amazon\n\nWashington ER Doctor Fired After Calling Out Hospital For Not Protecting Staff From COVID-19\n\nLA Dodgers' Black-Asian American Manager Pens Email on Surge in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes\n\n03\nTravel chaos grips US: 12,000 flights canceled or delayed over weekend\n\nSome 12,000 flights were either canceled or delayed over the weekend, stranding hundreds of thousands at airports nationwide as airlines said inclement weather in Florida as well as technical glitches snarled air traffic.\n\nAirlines canceled more than 3,500 domestic flights this weekend and delayed thousands more during the peak of spring break holiday travel.\n\nAccording to FlightAware, which tracks domestic air travel in the country, more than 3,400 flights were canceled and 8,800 flights were delayed as of Sunday afternoon.\n\nSouthwest, the largest domestic carrier in the US, canceled 520 flights on Saturday and 398 flights on Sunday.\n\nThe company said storms in Florida were also partly to blame since between 40% and 50% of its flights fly through the Sunshine State on any given day.\n\nThe airline cited “intermittent performance issues following routine overnight maintenance of some of [its] backend technology.”\n\nJetBlue plane JetBlue was among the major US carriers that canceled hundreds of flights over the weekend. 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      "body": "Albie the Albatross, world’s loneliest bird, lands in Yorkshire\n![c9a556bd84854108b83b3527dd7bf3c2.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYP1XmzxoANsZr9XEhwJTo15eQTWADMg2kRBwQTc7sLiT/c9a556bd84854108b83b3527dd7bf3c2.jpeg)\n\n\nAlbie the albatross was regularly see at the Bempton Cliffs last summer (James Hardisty / SWNS)\n\nEurope’s only albatross has returned to Yorkshire. Nicknamed Albie, the albatross is believed to have lived in the northern hemisphere since 2014.\n\nThe black-browed albatross, or any kind of albatross, is not commonly found in Europe, and it is thought that Albie was blown off course and has been left unable to return to his breeding grounds.\n\nAs a result, he will be not be able to find a mate and has been dubbed the ‘world’s loneliest bird’ as a consequence. Albatrosses are known for being socially monogamous, meaning the birds pair for life and can sometimes stay together for the entirety of their 70-year life spans.\n\nAlbie the albatross will likely never find a mate (Ralph Paul Samuels)\n\nEquatorial winds make it unlikely that Albie will ever return to albatross breeding grounds in the Falklands and South Georgia.\n\nAlbie the albatross was regularly seen at RSPB’s Bempton Cliff nature reserve last summer and has now returned to the spot after a hiatus. Celebrity bird-watchers who have come to see him include Bill Oddie, and All Creatures Great and Small actor Samuel West.\n\nAlbie the albatross tussles with a gannet at Bempton Cliffs (Beth Clyne / SWNS)\n\nHe has also been spotted across the North Sea in Germany and in Scandinavia where he spends the winter.\n\nAlbie is a black-browed albatross, which is a medium-sized albatross that has a wingspan of 200-240 cm. Until 2013, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the species as endangered but it is now a bit of a success story.\n\nBlack-browed albatrosses are one of the only albatross species not currently listed as threatened and their global population is increasing, according to the RSPB.\n\nHowever, they are still at risk from threats such as being caught in commercial fishing gear.\n\nAlbie the albatross has returned to the RSB Bempton Cliff nature reserve (James Hardisty / SWNS)\n\n02\nHidden world of birds in the city: Highlight moments\n\nEditor's note: Hidden World of Birds in City is about exploring a world of birds that usually goes unnoticed in urban spaces. This episode features photographs from Wang Xiaobo, who has been bird-watching near his residential community in Beijing for the past eight years.\n\nSo far, Wang has recorded 192 species of birds that flew past or permanently stay in his community. The latest \"new visitor\" is the Saker falcon as shown in the following three photos. Although the images were taken far from the bird, Wong is still unable to contain his excitement as his ultimate goal is to find out the species that come to his community, rather than just taking pictures.   \n\nThe following two photos of crested honey buzzards were taken by Wang last year. He said he spotted the flock of 35 buzzards afar, circling close to mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. It then took these birds 35 minutes to reach his community since they hover a lot during the journey either to wait for the wind or for their companions.\n\n\nThe first Grey-faced buzzard flew over Wang's community.\n\nThe first Grey-faced buzzard flew over Wang's community.\n\n\nThe first Grey-faced buzzard flew over Wang's community.\n\nThe first Grey-faced buzzard flew over Wang's community.\n\n\nThe first Northern goshawk observed this year.\n\nThe first Northern goshawk observed this year.\n\n\nThe first Northern goshawk observed this year.\n\nThe first Northern goshawk observed this year.\n\nMore from Hidden World of Birds in City:\n\nHidden World of Birds in City: Air predators\n\nHidden World of Birds in City: Migratory birds\n\nHidden World of Birds in City: The birds awaken\n\n(If you want to contribute and have specific expertise, please contact us at [email protected].)\n\n03\nWe Are Massacring Birds to Slow Climate Change. It's Got to Stop | Opinion\n\nThe world's biggest producer of renewable energy, the Florida-based NextEra Energy, has killed at least 150 Bald and Golden Eagles at its wind projects in eight different states since 2012. ESI Energy Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra, pled guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) last week and was sentenced to probation and $8 million in fines and restitution; it must also implement a plan to protect eagles which could cost another $27 million.\n\nThe Department of Justice's enforcement of the MBTA should be welcome news to birdwatchers and citizens alike. But there's a larger lesson here: American taxpayers should not be subsidizing an industry that has shown what the DOJ calls \"blatant disregard\" for federal wildlife laws. It's especially relevant right now; the prosecution of the company is coming to light at the same time that the wind industry is lobbying to extend, yet again, the federal production tax credit, which expired at the beginning of this year. The PTC, which was supposed to be a temporary subsidy, has been extended 13 times and is now the single most-expensive energy-related provision in the tax code.\n\nThe Justice Department's April 5 press release on the agreement with the company reads like an indictment: It says that NextEra repeatedly ignored warnings from federal authorities that its proposed wind projects would kill eagles. Despite the warnings, the company went ahead with the projects.\n\nBirds fly past wind turbines near Husum, northern Germany, on September 20, 2010. The Wind Energy 2010 fair is running in the northern city from September 21 to 25, 2010. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images\nAs the DOJ explains in its press release, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a letter to ESI in March 2019 warning that the company's proposed wind project in Wyoming, known as Cedar Springs I and II, \"could result in the collision mortality of 44 golden eagles and 23 bald eagles over the first five years of operation,\" and that \"because of the unusually high number of occupied golden eagle nests, the proposed wind facilities\" should not be built.\n\nBut the warning fell on deaf ears. (A photo of the Cedar Springs facility is featured prominently in NextEra's latest ESG report.) In September 2019, the agency \"sent additional letters\" to the company \"noting that the defendant's parent company had documented that the project was anticipated to kill eagles\" and recommended that the facilities apply for an \"eagle take permit\" from the Fish and Wildlife Service that would allow the company to kill a small number of eagles if certain conditions are met. But according to the DOJ, the company never applied for the permits, thanks to \"an admitted nationwide posture and alleged corporate policy.\"\n\nThe DOJ also says the company rushed to build the Wyoming wind project to meet \"deadlines for particular tax credits for renewable energy.\" In other words, NextEra and CSI didn't get federal permits because they were racing to collect even more federal subsidies.\n\nNextEra \"received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for generating electricity from wind power at facilities that it operated, knowing that multiple eagles would be killed and wounded without legal authorization, and without, in most instances, paying restitution or compensatory mitigation,\" per the DOJ.\n\n150 dead eagles would be crime enough. But the actual number of eagles and other birds that are being killed by the wind industry every year is far higher. The DOJ's prosecution only focuses on NextEra's operations in eight states and it only counts the bird carcasses that have been found and determined to have been killed by turbines. That tally doesn't include the tens of thousands of turbines operated by other companies.\n\nFurthermore, biologists don't search the areas around wind turbines every day, and many of the birds killed by turbines are carried away by scavengers.\n\nWind turbines are also taking a deadly toll on bats, which are important pollinators and insectivores. A 2020 study by biologist K. Shawn Smallwood estimated turbines are killing some 2.2 million bats in the U.S. per year.\n\nOn April 5, the company issued a press release quoting NextEra President and CEO Rebecca Kujawa, who said, \"We disagree with the government's underlying enforcement policy, which under most circumstances makes building and operating a wind farm into which certain birds may accidentally fly a violation of the MBTA—even when the wind farm was developed and sited in a way that sought to avoid avian wildlife collisions.\"\n\nBut as the DOJ noted, the company was repeatedly warned that its Wyoming wind project would kill eagles.\n\nKujawa also said the company has \"never sited a wind turbine knowing an eagle would fly into it nor have we taken any action in disregard of federal law.\" Again, that claim directly contradicts what the DOJ said in its press release.\n\nMike Parr, the president of the American Bird Conservancy, was one of the only environmental leaders in the country to condemn NextEra and its claims. In a statement, Parr said, \"the company seems to want to blame the laws and the birds for its violations. Blaming the birds is like directing cars to drive on the sidewalk and then blaming pedestrians for being run over. It is well-known that if you put turbines in eagle habitat, there will be fatalities.\"\n\nRenewable energy promoters never tire of claiming that wind and solar are cheaper than conventional forms of electricity generation. But it is abundantly clear that wind turbines are exacting a heavy toll on our wildlife. I've been reporting on the MBTA since 1990 and on the wind sector and bird kills for over a decade. It's beyond dispute that more wind turbines mean more of our eagles, birds, and bats will be killed.\n\nKilling our most iconic birds in the hope that wind turbines will slow climate change is nonsense on stilts. The prosecution of NextEra should mark a turning point in American energy policy. It's time to end our infatuation with landscape- and wildlife-destroying wind turbines. It's time to stop subsidizing the slaughter of our wildlife.\n\nRobert Bryce is the host of the Power Hungry Podcast, executive producer of the documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the author of six books, including most recently, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. Follow him on Twitter: @pwrhungry.\n\nThe views in this article are the writer's own.\n![a4d1c9953e594e7aa7123508870ec6f7.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUdX5GMHxKgeob9dzn2CgmLhJ199BeDPWkTB6qSvAczyc/a4d1c9953e594e7aa7123508870ec6f7.jpeg)\n\n![5a6dc4384ccc44ce85911d15f9f33745.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ4z4pPQ3QhpAw7BusckYDhAYr6Byk1cAfmTK3Ka69bje/5a6dc4384ccc44ce85911d15f9f33745.jpeg)\n\n![e698338f14aa4f20b26e9d5062034e95.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWDC82B4MqiSpot8uHRbcpFx5ibJTspAWsuMzb6KzCi5i/e698338f14aa4f20b26e9d5062034e95.jpeg)",
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      "body": "How Birds Perform Amazing Migratory Feats—and the Mysteries That Remain\n\nMigrating birds employ skills far beyond human abilities. They depart on time without the use of a calendar and navigate long distances sans smartphone. They fly for days with few, if any, pit stops. Scientists can explain a lot about these arduous journeys, but the quest to fully understand them continues. \n\nHow do birds prepare their bodies for flight?\nMigrating is a major physical challenge. To get ready for the trip, birds can make huge changes to their bodies in a matter of days. Birds rely on fat to fuel flight, in contrast to humans who burn a lot of carbohydrates and sugars during exercise. Some will double their body weight beforehand by gorging on berries, insects, or mollusks. Others pump up the size of their flight muscles, increase their metabolism, and even grow or shrink their digestive organs to pack on or shed weight.\n\nIn a study of Gray Catbirds, for example, University of Rhode Island physiologist and ecologist Kristen DeMoranville found the birds’ flight muscles were larger during fall migration than in summer. And while the birds wintered and rested in the tropics, their hearts shrank in size, and they gained fat, perhaps anticipating the next migration season.\n\nScientists like DeMoranville are working to understand what genes and proteins are responsible for these body-morphing abilities, using findings from human medical research as a starting point. The results could signal which foods are crucial for birds’ journeys, which in turn could help conservationists identify and protect the most important sources for nutrition.\n\nHow do birds know when to migrate?\nEven captive migratory birds get restless in fall and spring when they’d normally embark. Varied cues help birds decide when to start their journeys, says University of South Carolina ornithologist Nathan Senner, including day length, temperature, rainfall, food availability, and body condition. Birds may also pay attention to others, using social cues to decide when it’s time to leave.\n\nHow birds are using this information—and how much they can change their behavior based on what they are sensing—is less clear, says Senner. Researchers are also curious about how juvenile birds work out their migratory schedule when they’ve never made the journey before.\n\nStudies of the European Nightjar show how a bird’s migratory timing can be finely tuned to its fueling needs. Susanne Åkesson, an evolutionary ecologist at Lund University in Sweden, and her colleagues found that nocturnal nightjars hunt more actively on bright, moonlit nights and are also more likely to start migrating after a full moon than a new moon. After gorging for days, as if at a brightly lit buffet, they’re fueled up and ready to take off.\n\nHow do migrating birds find their way?\nAny animal, be it a bird, shark, or human, needs both a “compass” and a “map” to know where it is and where it is going. Birds can sense which direction they are flying based on the position of the sun, the stars, and Earth’s magnetic field. Artificially changing the magnetic field around a captured migratory bird, for example, can cause it to fly in the wrong direction, says Nikita Chernetsov, an ornithologist at the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia.\n\n“The map has been much more controversial,” says Richard Holland, a sensory biologist at Bangor University. Here magnetic fields probably play a role, too. Each spot on the Earth’s surface has a unique magnetic signature based on its position relative to the North and South Poles, which birds seem to be able to sense. Research suggests smell may also be important, says Holland: When scientists have suppressed this sense in some species, experiments show that birds can’t find their way as precisely. But scientists don’t know exactly which smells, whether vegetation or sea spray or even air pollution, these birds rely on as a guide. Identifying the biology underlying these navigational abilities—like where magnetic sensors are located in a bird’s body and what genes code for migratory direction—is a major focus of ongoing research.\n\nIn addition to these innate abilities, some navigational skills are partly learned. Adult White-crowned Sparrows captured in the western United States and released in the eastern part of the country will find their way back to their usual migratory route, says Holland, who has tracked the birds. Young sparrows, however, will start migrating south, but don’t know to backtrack west, so they end up in the wrong place. In essence, although their internal migrating compass is inherited, how exactly to reach their wintering grounds is learned by doing.\n\nHow do birds sleep on long migratory flights?\nSome birds take breaks during trips to rest and refuel. Others fly for days, crossing lakes, oceans, mountains, and continents without stopping. Scientists know it is possible for birds to sleep while flying, but don’t know how much sleep different migrating species are actually catching on the wing. Proof birds can catch in-flight z’s comes from tracking Great Frigatebirds, seabirds that can forage over the open ocean for weeks without landing. The frigatebirds would typically rest half their brain at a time, with one eye closed, while gliding upward on spiraling air currents. \n\nJust because birds can sleep while flying doesn’t mean they do. “We have good reason to think some birds might just not sleep at all during flight,” says Niels Rattenborg, an avian sleep researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. For one, there’s no proof birds can sleep while actively flapping their wings. The ocean-going frigatebirds only slept about 45 minutes a night compared to more than a total of 12 hours a day back on land—and none of that was while flapping. What’s more, extreme sleep deprivation doesn’t seem to affect birds as drastically as it does humans. How much time these animals need to sleep is relatively flexible, he says. In fact, related research in migratory Pectoral Sandpipers found males that slept the least during the breeding period performed the best: They fathered more offspring. \n\nFor now, batteries that power gear scientists use to track bird movements and brain activity in flight are too big for most species other than sizable frigatebirds, which wore trackers on their backs and heads. Definitive answers about migratory sleep will require a technological breakthrough.\n\nThis story originally ran in the Spring 2022 issue as “Enduring Mysteries.” To receive our print magazine, become a member by making a donation today.            \n\n02\nThe spider that looks like bird poo—and other amazing (and gross) tricks animals deploy to survive\n\nAnimals do all sorts of disgusting things. While these gross behaviours might turn our stomachs, they're often crucial to an animal's survival.\n\nI and my colleague Nic Gill have done the dirty work, and collected a bunch of unexpected facts about how these behaviours help animals live their best lives: making a home, finding mates and food, and surviving predators.\n\nOur new book, titled \"Poo, Spew and other Gross Things Animals Do,\" is aimed at kids, but much of it will be news to adults, too.\n\nSo what does it take to survive and thrive in the wild? It's not always about being the biggest and fiercest. Many animals have evolved much more entertaining—if not impolite—strategies for evolutionary success.\n\nGrossness in love (and self-defence)\n\nFor wild animals, finding a mate is no laughing matter. But the lengths to which some animals will go to obtain one can be.\n\nFemale lobsters wee on their potential mates' face for an invitation into their lairs. Even stranger, a lobster's bladder sits below their brain—so the wee squirts from their face.\n\nHippopotamuses, meanwhile, have become YouTube sensations for their rather unpleasant \"dung showering\" behaviour. Hippos spin their stumpy tails to propel a mixture of wee and poo up to ten metres—using the technique to mark their territory.\n\nHippos have also been observed flinging poo directly into their love interests' face during courtship.\n\nLiving in the wild can be tough. Unless you're a top predator, something, somewhere nearby, probably wants to eat you.\n\nSome animals are fast enough to run away from predators—or, like echidnas, protect themselves with armour.\n\nOthers have developed more revolting survival strategies. Sperm whales for example, are known to defecate into the water \"for a startling length of time\" . This creates a \"poo-nado\"—a cloud of excrement that conceals them from perceived attackers (or unlucky snorkelers!).\n\nAnd some spiders have taken advantage of the fact that birds, unlike some other animals, don't like to eat their own excrement.\n\nAs its name suggests, the bird-dropping spider has evolved to protect itself from bird predators by looking like bird poo.\n\nThe spider bears a black, brown and white colour pattern and a squat shape. It sits still on leaves and other exposed locations during the day, tricking predators into assuming its a blob of poo.\n\nBut if there was a competition for most repulsive yet effective self-defence mechanisms, it would go to Eurasian roller chicks.\n\nWhen frightened, these baby birds spew a foul-smelling orange liquid all over their aggressor, and themselves. This not only deters the predator, it warns the birds' parents of danger around. Vomit as as emergency beacon—who knew?\n\nPoo detectives\n\nScats (poo) and reject-pellets (spew) contain a surprising wealth of information for researchers looking at hard-to-study species.\n\nThe presence of poo or spew can help researchers determine where in the landscape a species lives—especially when, like in the case of wombats' cube-shaped poo, it's helpfully engineered to not roll away.\n\nPoo and spew can also reveal important information about an animal's diet, through identification of the bones or genetic material present. Taking this to the next step, info from poo and spew has even been used to describe whole ecosystems.\n\nFor example, scientists have used owl spew to monitor the threatened mammals present where the bird lives. And information on an animal's disease status and gut microbiome can all be extracted from poo and spew.\n\nThese methods also have the benefit of being non-invasive—meaning researchers can check an animal's health without physically handling it.\n\nConservation dogs are becoming an increasingly popular method of detecting these data-rich, smelly goldmines.\n\n3 more poo particulars\n\nStill unconvinced by the power of poo? Consider these facts:\n\n1. Creating white sandy beaches: Parrot fish have some of the strongest teeth in the animal kingdom, which they use to graze on coral. Their digestive system turns it into fine white sand, meaning parrot fish poo helps create beautiful beach destinations\n\n2. Threatening the outdoor dining scene: In the 1950s, scientists realised native beetles were uninterested in eating poo from introduced cows. This left the country covered in cow poo—a perfect breeding ground for disease-carrying flies.\n\nAt one stage, flies were so numerous that outside dining was forbidden to protect public health. Eventually, poo-eating dung beetles were flown in from overseas to solve the problem.\n\n3. Cooling the planet: Researchers have shown bird poo can help fight climate change. They discovered that in the Arctic, ammonia produced from tons of seabird poo helps form clouds that can partially block sunlight.\n\nSo now you know a little about how grossness makes the animal world go round. Feel free to share these tidbits with your friends—though perhaps not while they're eating.\n\nPoo, Spew and other Gross Things Animals Do by Nic Gill and Romane Cristescu, illustrated by Rachel Tribout, is published by CSIRO Publishing.\n\nCitation: The spider that looks like bird poo—and other amazing (and gross) tricks animals deploy to survive (2022, April 6) retrieved 13 April 2022 from https://phys.org/news/2022-04-spider-bird-pooand-amazing-gross.html\n\nThis document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.\n\n03\n7 Amazing Bird-Watching Spots In Michigan\n\nAccording to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, bird-watching is the second-fastest-growing hobby in the nation after gardening. Michigan features a wide range of habitats for birds, and as a result, birdwatchers have spotted over 450 species in the Great Lakes State. From shorebirds along the Great Lakes coastline to birding trails, state parks, and bird sanctuaries, Michigan is a paradise for birders, with over 2 million residents enjoying bird-watching.\n\nThis article will cover seven of the best bird-watching hot spots in Michigan, where they are, and which birds to look for while you’re there. Here are some of my favorite Michigan bird-watching spots that represent a variety of birds. I listed them from north to south.\n\nNote: My visits to Copper Harbor and Kalamazoo were partially hosted trips. The opinions offered are based on my experience.\n\nBrockway Mountain Drive near Copper Harbor Brockway Mountain Drive (Lane Alholinna / Shutterstock.com) 1. Brockway Mountain Hawk Watch, Copper Harbor\nLocated in the Keweenaw Peninsula, you’ll take Michigan 26 west from Copper Harbor, and Brockway Mountain Drive is the first road on the left. This seasonal road has a steep slope, but the effort is worth it for its stunning views of the water and woods below. The official Brockway Mountain Hawk Watch takes place between March 15 and June 15. While it depends on the weather, mid-May is generally the peak timing. Birds stop in Keweenaw to prepare for their flight over Lake Superior and on to Canada. During this time, counters have documented 15 types of hawks. Falcons, owls, turkey vultures, and eagles contribute to the thousands of birds found in this area during migration.\n\nOther birds frequently spotted include the cedar waxwing, snow bunting, cackling goose, American pipit, and the rusty blackbird.\n\nFrom the end of April through mid-May, the Annual International Migratory Bird Festival occurs. During the festival is the perfect time to learn more about birding through a series of birding activities, dinners, and programs.\n\nPro Tip: If you’re looking for a place for lunch or dinner, the seasonal Eagle Harbor Inn is a perfect choice while in the area. Stop by Jampot, a monk-run bakery that offers the ideal snacks to take on the trail for a sweet treat.\n\nWhitefish Point Bird Observatory Fsendek / Shutterstock.com 2. Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, Paradise\nSituated in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 11 miles north of Paradise, you’ll find the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory on the point of land that protrudes into Lake Superior. Before making the long journey across Lake Superior, thousands of birds will use Whitefish Point as a place to refuel and prepare. Hence, the region is a Globally Important Bird Area, where birdwatchers have identified about 340 species of spring and fall migratory birds in this corridor.\n\nThe Michigan Audubon runs a research project that counts waterbirds and raptors during migration. They also monitor piping plovers and band owls.\n\nTo discover more about the area’s maritime history, you’ll want to explore the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, where the Edmund Fitzgerald’s 200-pound bronze bell is on display.\n\nPro Tip: Tahquamenon Falls is a must-see while you’re in the area. Approximately 20 minutes from Whitefish Point, Tahquamenon Falls Brewery & Pub, located in Tahquamenon Falls State Park, makes the perfect place for a meal after birding or exploring the falls.\n\nTrumpeter swans at Seney National Wildlife Refuge Trumpeter swans at Seney National Wildlife Refuge (Wildnerdpix / Shutterstock.com) 3. Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Seney\nLocated about 12 miles north of U.S.-2, Seney National Wildlife Refuge offers the perfect place for birders to get back to nature for a day. First, stop by the visitor’s center, where the staff can orient you to the grounds. Then, check out the observation decks that offer spotting scopes to watch for osprey nesting.\n\nSince I have difficulty hiking, I particularly enjoy the Marshland Wildlife Drive at Seney, where I could enjoy some of the best birding from my car. With a habitat for more than 200 bird species, you’re likely to see a variety of waterfowl and raptors — trumpeter swans, common loons, bald eagles, osprey, and sandhill cranes. The Pine Ridge Nature Trail is an excellent option if you prefer walking. Go to their website for a list of the dozens of birds you might see.\n\nOther ways to enjoy the refuge’s outdoor activities include Northern Hardwoods Hiking, cross-country ski trails, and snowshoeing, with miles and miles of unpaved roads for hiking and biking through the backcountry.\n\nWhile there’s no camping in the almost 96,000 acres of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, you can camp in the nearby Fox River State Forest Campground.\n\nPro Tip: For spring migratory birds, visit in May, but be sure to wear long sleeves and don some bug spray, as the area is prone to bugs during May. For fall migratory birds, September and October are the months to visit.\n\nRose-breasted grosbeak at Hartwick Pines State Park Rose-breasted grosbeak at Hartwick Pines State Park (Stubblefield Photography / Shutterstock.com) 4. Hartwick Pines State Park, Grayling\nLocated about 2 hours north of Michigan’s capital city Lansing, the area near Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling is home to one of the world’s rarest birds, the Kirtland’s warbler. They also call them jack pine warblers because they breed almost solely in the jack pine forests in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula. Unfortunately, the only way to see this conservation-dependent species is to take a guided tour of the nesting area.\n\nThe Michigan Audubon and Hartwick Pines State Park partner to provide guided tours between mid-May and early July. In nearby Roscommon, on the first Saturday in June, they also hold the Kirtland’s Warbler Festival.\n\nThe Michigan Audubon offers a variety of tours, and each has a difficulty rating listed on its events calendar. Check those listings for walking distance, terrain, and tour duration.\n\nPro Tip: At least once a summer, I pass through Grayling on my way up north, and I always stop by Dead Bear Brewing Company. One of my favorite sandwiches is the Aporkalyse Burger, a cheddar cheeseburger topped with in-house smoked pulled pork, bacon, ham, and barbecue sauce. \n\nA cerulean warbler in a maple tree A cerulean warbler (Frode Jacobsen / Shutterstock.com) 5. Otis Farm Bird Sanctuary, Hastings\nThe Michigan Audubon owns and operates the 128-acre Otis Farm Bird Sanctuary. Located adjacent to the Barry State Game Area, it is a Globally Important Bird Area for giving cerulean warblers a breeding habitat. The Michigan Audubon offers cerulean warbler guided tours early through late May at 8 a.m. at the Otis Farm Bird Sanctuary. Note that when trying to find the tour location, GPS trackers may not be accurate. It is best to use the directions on their website to find the correct place.\n\nSpring and summer are the best times to go bird-watching at Otis Farm Bird Sanctuary. In addition to warblers, you’ll likely find red-headed woodpeckers, osprey, sandhill cranes, and various sparrows. While you’re in the area, you can discover more nature by biking at Hammond Hill Trail.\n\nPro Tip: For lunch after your exploration, try San Marcos Mexican Bar & Grill. \n\nWhitford Lake at Fort Custer Recreation Area Whitford Lake at Fort Custer Recreation Area (Dean Pennala / Shutterstock.com) 6. W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, Augusta\nLocated in southwest Michigan, about 15 minutes from Kalamazoo in the town of Augusta, W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary is a tranquil area to sit and observe waterfowl, like Canada geese, ducks, and trumpeter swans. In addition, their birds of prey enclosure features eastern screech owls and bald eagles.\n\nAt the center of the sanctuary, you’ll find Wintergreen Lake. Although this is a year-round location, and we visited in the winter, spring through fall is the best time to visit. Even in the winter, we saw various birds feeding at the bird feeders, including cardinals.\n\nYou’ll find about 3 miles of trails, so it’s a great place to get outdoors for a walk where you’ll see lots of other wildlife besides birds. Take a picnic lunch, as there are plenty of picnic tables to enjoy an alfresco meal. A small general entry fee applies.\n\nAlso in Augusta, the Fort Custer Recreation Area provides another opportunity to get out into nature with hiking, horseback riding, and swimming. I also enjoy the Gilmore Car Museum while I’m in the area. The museum is the largest car museum in North America.\n\nPro Tip: Stop by Player’s Grill and give their famous burgers a try.\n\nSand dunes at Warren Dunes State Park Andy Wilcock / Shutterstock.com 7. Warren Dunes State Park, Sawyer\nSituated about 15 miles south of St. Joseph in Sawyer, Warren Dunes State Park offers 1,952 acres, including open dunes and wooded birding habitats. With 3 miles of shoreline, you’ll find shorebirds, gulls, terns, and waterfowl along the beach. In addition to birds, you’ll have stunning views of Lake Michigan from the top of the 260-feet dunes.\n\nOver 6 miles of hiking trails are home to raptors and songbirds. One of the best areas in the park for birding is the Organizational Youth Camping Area.\n\nWarren Dunes State Park has two campgrounds and some rustic mini cabins if you enjoy camping. You’ll relax to the sounds of Lake Michigan’s waves in their lake-front camping. Whether you prefer modern with hot water, bathrooms, and electricity or a more rustic campsite, you can have it all in this park.\n\nPro Tip: Vehicle entry and parking in Michigan State Parks require a valid Recreation Passport.\n\nTo learn more about Michigan and birding, check out these articles:\n![Warren-Dunes.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSmaYhQVhTEKLF2NsGbNCBM1dVBCpQQvshyLCmPMQfceq/Warren-Dunes.jpg)\n\n![Fort-Custer-Recreation-Area.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXb1KgRH8dCorHWg6sh2BpsycfWYG2H2ZthaTgrLZ5xyF/Fort-Custer-Recreation-Area.jpg)\n\n![Cerulean-Warbler.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcUN3FsPcsXLXzGrg98jGFkSeNL4YiuPNKqFxhX6fHpmK/Cerulean-Warbler.jpg)\n\n![Hartwick-Pines.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPw62Vne1tfxNQvLWuAh4brdbor8xNT4iqTup6hNkHKcu/Hartwick-Pines.jpg)\n\n![Seney-National-Wildlife-Refuge.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ7WdqYY32PaAinCgnNR6AZSdKjA7JX3dQmjvPsoBdJAb/Seney-National-Wildlife-Refuge.jpg)\n\n![Whitefish-Point.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmefPkKVMQNY8irwfusgWCEoA5bpU2nWZqa7uRsJS595FY/Whitefish-Point.jpg)\n\n![Brockway-Mountain.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmW34RwFXPdWKHNoPX4QtBJ6am6ZD6iwu4A51mbp1ej7V4/Brockway-Mountain.jpg)",
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      "body": "US development of biological weapons in Ukraine\n\nTehran, IRNA –After the change of the government in Ukraine in 2014, and with the financial and organizational support of Washington, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was deployed in Ukraine, engaged in research work on the study of deadly diseases. This was confirmed by the official statement of the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and earlier official publications of American institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences. \n\nThe customer was the US Department of Defense Office for the Reduction of Military Threats. According to Fox News, there are documents showing the efforts by Americans to get rid of the traces of the military biological program being implemented in Ukraine. These measures by the United States well indicate what Ukrainian and American scientists were doing in those locations. It’s worthy to know that Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, on 24 February 2022 (the beginning of the Ukraine war), ordered full destruction of the biological warfare in the laboratories. All observations prove that Washington and Kyiv are seriously worried about Russian likely access to the evidence of practical work to enhance the pathogenic capabilities of microorganisms using synthetic biology methods. These facts would expose the systematic violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) by Ukraine and the United States. One of the most important cases that were reported by the media is the project codenamed UP-4. The purpose of this study was to identify bird diseases that could pose a significant danger to human beings and also could cause an epidemic situation in a particular area in a specific period. Another task, in this project, was to study the migration routes of birds that were supposed to pass through the territory of Russia in a way to have a lesser impact on European countries down the road. Trapping birds on Russian territory and transferring them to the territory of Ukraine and tracking their way back to Russia, prove the aforementioned evidence and reasoning. This approach is one of the most reckless, inhuman and highly irresponsible methods of warfare. Using such “living weapons” would end in a situation where even its creators would inevitably lose control over them.\n\nThe U.S. has conducted those experiments near densely populated areas of European countries. Americans seem to be neglecting the safety of even their partners.\n\n6125**1424\n\nFollow us on Twitter @IrnaEnglish\n\n02\nPolice Look for Baby Believed to be Taken by Biological Father in Bridgeport, Conn.\n\nBridgeport Police said they're searching for a baby that was allegedly abducted from the park by their biological father Friday night.\n\nPolice said Jalayjah is with 30-year-old James Douglas, who appears to be the biological father.\n\nDouglas is driving a 2014 maroon Honda Civic EX with the license plate BE36105. Jalayjah is believed to be a passenger in the car.\n\nJalayjah is 11 months old and has black hair and brown eyes. It's unknown what she was wearing when she went missing.\n\nConnecticut State Police issued a Silver Alert was Jalayjah. She is 2-feet tall and weighs 20 pounds.\n\nAuthorities said the child came to the park with her foster parent and was playing when she was taken.\n\nThe incident happened at Wordin Avenue and Hanover Street at approximately 7:15 p.m., according to police.\n\nState police are calling the incident a family abduction.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact Bridgeport Police at 203-576-TIPS. You can also contact your nearest police department.\n\n03\nCRISPR gene editing reveals biological mechanism behind common blood disorder\n\nAsymptomatic sickle cell disease patients actually lack a tiny part of the genome, UNSW scientists have shown.\n\nUNSW researchers have used CRISPR gene editing—a type of \"molecular scissors\"—to understand how deletions in one area of the genome can affect the expression of nearby genes. The work, led by UNSW Associate Professor Kate Quinlan and Professor Merlin Crossley, together with collaborators from the US, will help researchers investigate new therapeutic approaches for one of the world's most devastating genetic blood disorders—sickle cell disease.\n\nThe team's findings are published today in academic journal Blood. Just last week, A/Prof. Quinlan and Prof. Crossley received a $412,919 ARC linkage grant to fund a collaboration between UNSW Sydney and CSL that follows on from the work described in this paper.\n\n\"Sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia, a closely related disease, are inherited genetic conditions that affect red blood cells. They are fairly common worldwide—over 318,000 infants with these conditions are born every year, and hemoglobin disorders cause 3 percent of deaths in children aged under five years worldwide,\" says co-lead author A/Prof. Quinlan.\n\nGenetic mutations—specifically, a defect in the adult globin gene—are responsible for the disorders. The mutant genes affect the production of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen around our bodies.\n\n\"Interestingly, when children are born, they don't show disease symptoms at first, even if they have the mutations, because at that stage, they're still expressing fetal globin and not yet adult globin. That's because we have different hemoglobin genes that we express at different stages of development,\" says A/Prof. Quinlan.\n\n\"As the fetal globin gets turned off, and adult globin gets turned on—which happens within about the first year of life—the symptoms start to manifest.\"\n\nWhen that happens, the red blood cells take on unusual, sickled shapes and block small blood vessels, causing pain, organ damage, and premature death. The disease is particularly common in tropical countries, and in people from places where malaria is endemic.\n\n\"The goal of our research is finding out how we can reverse the fetal to adult globin switch, so that patients continue to express fetal globin throughout life, rather than the mutant adult globin genes that cause blood cells to become stiff and block vessels,\" says A/Prof. Quinlan.\n\nInterestingly, this already happens in some people with sickle cell disease: thanks to another, beneficial genetic mutation, a rare subset of patients keeps the fetal globin gene 'on' throughout their life and are protected from sickle cell symptoms.\n\n\"In these patients, the persistent expression of fetal globin effectively compensates for the defective adult globin—but up until this piece of research, we didn't really understand the process that led to this incredible advantage,\" A/Prof. Quinlan says.\n\n'Deleting' genes with CRISPR\n\nTo get to the bottom of what's going on in these lucky people's genome, UNSW Ph.D. student Sarah Topfer compiled data on the rare families that express fetal globin throughout life.\n\n\"As a first step, Sarah compared deletions in lots of different patients' genomes—essentially, she looked to see if any shared element was missing in all of them. What do these patients have in common? She found one very small region was deleted in all these patients' genomes.\"\n\nSarah then used CRISPR gene editing to replicate some of these big patient deletions—and the small deleted bit they all had in common—in cell lines in the lab.\n\n\"CRISPR allows us to 'cut' bits of DNA out of cells grown in the lab, to modify genes and see what happens as a result—it's essentially a tool to figure out what genes do inside living cells,\" A/Prof. Quinlan says.\n\n\"We found that deleting just that one little bit was sufficient to make fetal globin go up and adult globin down—which suggests that we have found the key mechanism that can explain why fetal globin levels remains high in these asymptomatic patients,\" A/Prof. Quinlan says.\n\n\"Effectively, by deleting the adult globin 'on switch,' we made the fetal globin 'on switch' active.\"\n\nProf. Quinlan says the results were unexpected.\n\n\"It was surprising to see the findings—many people have studied these mutations for many years, so the idea that there'd be one unifying hypothesis that could explain them rather than them all working through different mechanisms will be surprising for the field.\n\n\"While we went in with the hypothesis that there might be one mechanism, we didn't expect it to come out so cleanly—we thought that perhaps it would be more complicated than what we'd initially thought.\"\n\nThe CRISPR revolution and potential therapies\n\nCo-lead author Prof. Crossley, who is also UNSW's Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic & Student Life, says it was impossible to test this model prior to the advent of CRISPR gene editing.\n\n\"Our group has specialized in using this new technology to understand globin gene switching,\" Prof. Crossley says. \"Australia now has a significant number of people with either sickle cell disease or thalassemia.\n\n\"The work, supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council, is an important example of how the CRISPR gene editing revolution is accelerating scientific understanding and will deliver new therapies to the clinic.\"\n\nThe scientists say the work revealed today is improving our fundamental understanding of the mechanism behind sickle cell disease.\n\n\"What this really helps us to do is understand this process of turning off fetal globin and turning on adult globin and how we could reverse that, so that we can use this understanding of the mechanism to help us look for new therapeutic approaches—it's a key piece of the puzzle,\" A/Prof. Quinlan says.\n\nSome of Prof. Crossley's team's previous discoveries in the field are informing clinical trials already—by using beneficial mutations they've discovered in the past that could lead to therapies for these disorders.\n\nAt the 2020 NSW Premier's Prizes for Science and Engineering, Prof. Crossley won the award for Excellence in Medical Biological Sciences (cell and molecular, medical, veterinary and genetics) for his work in the field.\n\nMore information: Sarah K. 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      "body": "Mindset Matters: Contemplating The Future Of Accessibility\n\nIsraeli flag in the middle of the book. Knowledge and education concept.\n\ngetty\nThe writer Dan Senor in his book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle wrote that “it is a story not just of talent but of tenacity, of insatiable questioning of authority, of determining informality, combined with a unique attitude toward failure, teamwork, mission, risk, and cross-disciplinary creativity.” This past week I had the good fortune of being part of a select group to participate in a five-day program known as the Global Accessibility and Inclusion Summit, or GAILS for short sponsored by Access Israel, a nonprofit whose primary mission is to both promote accessibility and inclusion across the State of Israel and improve the quality of life for persons with disabilities. Yet, throughout the summit what became quite apparent was not only the structure of the event but the fact that Israel provides such fertile ground for exploring the ever-changing scope and definitions of accessibility.\n\nAccess Israel’s philosophy for this event was built on the premise of bringing together a diverse a group of leaders across the accessibility space and developing an environment for cross-pollination of ideas, building trust, and planting the seeds to bolster a greater sense of community that has the potential to grow exponentially. Through these five days, this diverse group of thinkers and practitioners from all over the globe developed a sense of collegial harmony and built relationships that challenged the traditional framework of accessibility and offered new pathways to think about the potential opportunities of what can be done, not only in the State of Israel but across the globe.\n\nEven though this was the first year that Access Israel has embarked on such an endeavor, what they understood through their programming included meeting with team members at tech stalwarts from the Israel campuses of Microsoft and Google to a bevy of young entrepreneurs who shared their start-up visions is the recognition of the changing parlance of accessibility goes far beyond curb cuts and ramps to something even more profound, a model of innovation that will have a tectonic effect on the century ahead.\n\nThe takeaway from these five days beyond feeling a part of a newfound community was the ability to recognize that accessibility is very much an umbrella term that has significant nuance and complexity. We are living at an inflection point where we must engage in exploring the many tributaries that will define accessibility for the future to come and identify that the lived experience of disability is inextricably connected to various elements of innovation including design, technology, and the future of work.\n\nAccess Israel understands that as an organization they are embarking upon a new paradigmatic model within the disability space. They are positioning themselves as a key mechanism for change that espouses the values of innovation leadership and highlights the disability community as central to building a new formula to help discover more effective solutions tying government, academia, nonprofit and corporate entities together to look toward a future society that embraces full inclusion as a fundamental ethos.\n\nAccess Israel and the Global Accessibility and Inclusion Summit (GAILS) is a monumental step forward in disrupting the status quo and pushing accessibility in all its permutations to the forefront of societal thinking. No longer can accessibility be an afterthought, but essential to the framework of shaping a better quality of life for all.\n\n02\nThe Power Of The Changing Mindset\n\nDavid is a best-selling author, speaker and trainer. He is also CEO of IPD, a world-class marketing agency based in Tampa, Florida.\n\ngetty\n\nIn his book Think Again, Adam Grant writes: \"The problem is that we live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.\"\n\nIt takes a wise person to be able to acknowledge areas that they need further education in. It takes a determined person to put forth the efforts required to educate themselves in these areas, and it takes a humble person to change or unlearn the beliefs that they hold when faced with the fact that they are incorrect.\n\nThis is a hard pill to swallow, but it is also necessary if you want to grow. Changing your pre-existing beliefs takes real work. It requires you to look inward at times, and it demands that you properly educate yourself on topics that you may or may not have had any experience in. Change in any form is difficult.\n\nI have had to unlearn many habits, beliefs and opinions within my lifetime, and I attribute the success that I’ve experienced to an ability to not just learn but to unlearn. It hasn’t been easy. Luckily, I have a solid team around me to help me along this journey. I started my marketing company back in 1995 with my wife, making sales calls out of the bedroom of our apartment.\n\nSince then, we as a country have seen massive change: The internet boom that took nearly every business online. The 2008 recession, which hit the automotive industry that I serve particularly hard. The introduction and rise of social media marketing, which has steadily taken the place that TV, radio and newspaper ads once held. And the pandemic, which effectively put thousands of companies within hundreds of industries on halt.\n\nEach one of these instances has led to changes in the world. They have changed the way we do business. They have changed the way our day-to-day lives look. They have changed how we view the world.\n\nMarketing itself is an ever-changing aspect of business. The tools we use change constantly, and the platforms are continuously growing and evolving. Ad spaces within popular magazines used to be prime real estate for marketers. Now, they take a backseat to digital advertising. No one would have dreamed of using sites like Facebook and Instagram to market their businesses 10 or 15 years ago. Yet, here we are.\n\nWhat I have found in my life is that there are two key reasons why someone will change:\n\n• They are forced to by some outside circumstance.\n\n• They see an upside in doing so.\n\nUnfortunately, history and battlefields are littered with the results of the former.\n\nThe power of the changing mindset is strong enough to alter your life. To be able to stand up and say “I won’t do it this way anymore” can be the difference between success and failure. We have to stop waiting to be forced into change, because often by then it’s too late. We have to see the upside in changing with the times and not resisting these changes, regardless of how uncomfortable they may be.\n\nThe ability to think is crucial, but so is the ability to rethink. Innovation breeds efficiency, but before there can be innovation there must be the acknowledgment that whatever we are doing right now isn’t the best way.\n\nOne of the most important figures within my own respective industry would be Henry Ford, who saw the disconnect between the building and selling of cars. He recognized the issue of building vehicles and attempting to sell them at a cost that most families would never be able to afford. Instead of continuing to do it the same way, Ford had the assembly line developed. With the assembly line, Ford was able to manufacture vehicles in a fraction of the time it took before. Less time meant lower cost, and a lower cost meant that more consumers could afford Ford’s vehicles. Innovation bred efficiency.\n\nHenry Ford could very well have decided to keep producing cars without the assembly line. He could have followed what other manufacturers were doing at the time, and perhaps have even been successful. It was his willingness to rethink how he was running his operation, however, that changed not only his organization but the world as we know it. It starts on a small scale, and then it grows.\n\nFor myself, a lot of my rethinking has been in regards to my own skill as a leader and a salesperson. I’ve had to rethink my methods of training, my leadership style and my approach to sales multiple times within my life. The way I do things today is not at all like how I did them when I was just getting into sales.\n\nGrowing as a person, a business owner, a trainer, a salesperson, and a marketer takes effort. 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      "body": "27 Easy Ways To Make Money Online\n\nNow it's possible to quit your day job, make money online and work anywhere.\n\nGetty\nWho needs the 9-5 grind and struggling to pay rent in an expensive place like San Francisco or New York when you can easily make money online? Since your office can be wherever you open your laptop, more and more people are quitting their day jobs to do remote work. According to a study by Global Workplace Analytics and FlexJobs, the remote workforce has grown by 159% since 2005, and remote workers will make up as much as 50% of the entire workforce by 2020, thanks to the ease of making money online. The statistics also show another exciting trend for digital nomads: Remote work gives women, especially female entrepreneurs, an edge and is helping close the wage gap. And here's the best part: By making money online, you have the choice of living wherever you want. You can work from home or you can travel the world, which gives you another advantage—by earning U.S. dollars as a digital nomad and living in countries that are much cheaper than at home, you can live very well indeed.\n\nWe sleuthed out some creative ways that digital nomads have found to make money online, from the website International Living—which just issued a new report detailing how expats are traveling the world and earning a living abroad—to FlexJobs, which recently published a story on the best fields to for remote work. The lesson? It's time to rip up the old rules and try something new.\n\nREAD MORE: \"The Ultimate Paid Time Off: 17 Companies That Will Give You Money To Travel\"\n\nWith remote work, you can be a digital nomad and live and travel anywhere.\n\nGetty\n1. Set Up an Online Course\n\nDo you have a skill that you want to share? International Living suggests setting up an online course with written tutorials, PDF downloads and videos. For instance, Rebecca Groskruetz used her talent for furniture painting to create a site where members can go at their own pace. When she soft-launched the business, she sold 33 programs at $127 each. After doing a bigger launch later the same year, she sold 216 programs at $149 each. Her total sales the first year: $36,375. Some online resources for teaching courses include TakeLessons, Udemy and Skillshare.\n\n2. Tutor\n\nAnother way to take advantage of your skills: Become an online tutor. The website Cambly helps you get paid to chat with people from around the world. While you're doing the tutoring, the site automatically tracks the time you spend, paying $10.20 an hour. While that might not sound like a lot, consider the fact that you can set your own hours, work as little or as much as you want—and if you're living abroad, $10.20 an hour can go a long way.\n\nBecoming a travel agent is a great way to earn money and travel.\n\nGetty\n3. Become a Travel Agent\n\nDo you love to share advice on travel? Put your expertise to work and become a travel advisor. You can sign up for courses through a place like The Travel Institute. Or you can pay a fee to a company like Cruise Planners, which recruits and trains advisors to work remotely not only in planning cruises but in all kinds of travel—on land and at sea. The company was started in 1994 by a woman named Michelle Fee, who didn’t take a paycheck for the first three years so that she could invest back into the business. Now in its 25th year, Cruise Planners is the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise with more than 2,500 franchisees.\n\n4. Be a Juror\n\nHere's a case where you won't dread jury duty. The site eJury has revolutionized the way that lawyers prepare for trial by creating online mock juries and focus groups that help attorneys determine prepare case. You'll get paid for participating.\n\n5. Play Poker\n\nSeriously. Matador Network published a story called \"How to Fund Your Travels Playing Online Poker.\" We'd say that's better than Vegas!\n\nREAD MORE: \"Why You Should Skip Iceland And Go To These 9 Under-the-Radar Places\"\n\nYou can fund your travels with poker.\n\nGetty\n6. Let Someone Pick Your Brain\n\n7. Become a Virtual Assistant\n\nAre you organized and resourceful? As a virtual assistant, you make money by helping people and businesses with tasks ranging from data entry to research to customer service—the sky's the limit. The website VANetworking was founded by a virtual assistant and is loaded with tips and job leads.\n\n8. Sell Your Photos and Videos\n\nIf you're traveling, it's likely that you're surrounded by gorgeous photo ops, and now that digital cameras are widely available, photography and videography can be a good way to earn an income. Stock websites make it easy for photographers and videographers to upload their work, then will market on your behalf and create passive income for you while you're off shooting the next beautiful location. Stock agencies looking for submissions include Shutterstock, Photoshelter, Fotolia and iStock.\n\n9. Become a Travel Writer\n\nAgain, if you're traveling the world, it's the perfect opportunity to write about your experiences and get paid for it. That said, making money as a travel writer isn't easy since you must be able to sell your articles or create a revenue-producing travel blog. But where there's a will, there's a way, and Lonely Planet even published an entire book on the topic, \"How to Be a Travel Writer,\" available in print and as an e-book.\n\nREAD MORE: \"Bucket List Travel: The Top 50 Places In The World\"\n\nWith a laptop and a hot spot, you can literally work anywhere.\n\nGetty\n10. Write an E-Book\n\nSpeaking of e-books, it's a great way to turn your expertise into a platform that people will buy, creating a form of passive income. Kindle even has a step-by-step guide for how to create, publish and market an e-book.\n\n11. Publish an E-Book\n\nAccording to International Living, an even faster and easier way to make money with e-books is to find a book that has already been published in print and license it to publish online. \"The person doing the online publishing gets the lion’s share of the money—paying the author the standard 8% to 15% royalties based on net sales,\" says International Living. You can sometimes do a one-time payment for the rights to publish online, like Vic Johnson. \"I once bought the rights to a book for $200, simply because I liked the content,\" says Johnson. \"Over the years, I’ve made over $50,000 selling it as an e-book.” Consider this statistic: There are over 44 million print books on Amazon but only 2.6 million Kindle books—that's a lot of material that could be converted to e-books.\n\n12. Teach English\n\nMost people think you need to be living abroad in order to teach English to foreign students. But as GoOverseas.com points out, \"With video chatting and conferencing growing easier and more reliable every year, teaching English lessons online is another great way to fund your life abroad or at home.\" For a slew of companies that will set you up with online students, check out this article on Teach Away. Rates for teaching English online can go up to $22 an hour.\n\n13. Create Software Reviews\n\nIf you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, you can get paid for creating reviews. SoftwareJudge.com pays up to $50 dollars for, as they describe it, \"tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight-talking software reviews.\"\n\n14. Translate\n\nDo you speak another language? Consider doing translating. \"Translation positions are plentiful in an ever-melding world with more global travel among those who speak different languages,\"says FlexJobs, which offers a sampling of available positions. The company Smartling also makes it easy to become a translator.\n\n15. Create a Blog\n\nSo you're an expert on a topic? Create a blog about it. \"Always think about the value you’re providing,\" says International Living. \"Why should anyone read what you’re writing? What’s in it for them?\" The best blogs showcase your experiences by providing info that's helpful to others. So how to earn money? A big method is by affiliate income: earning a commission if people end up buying someone thanks to your blog. “Right now, my biggest source of affiliate income is from Amazon, which is anywhere from $300 to $600 per month,\" says Ali Garland who has been blogging since 2009. \"And the great thing about this type of income is that the money keeps rolling in even if I decide to take a couple of days, or even a week, off.\" The blogger Nomadic Matt has multiple e-courses on the topic.\n\n16. Become an Account Manager\n\n\"If you have exceptional listening skills, as well as the ability to anticipate the needs of others, becoming an account manager could be a good career choice for you,\" says FlexJobs. Some of these positions include pharmacist account executive, link building specialist and account strategist.\n\n17. Make a Podcast That Pays\n\nPodcasts are red-hot. Want to create one? All you really need is a laptop and a good microphone. And here's the other good news: Podcasts don’t need to run daily, and because they're not live, you can record multiple episodes at once. According to International Living, there are many ways to make money from a podcast, including commercial sponsorships or advertising products or services. “I can record and broadcast a podcast wherever I am in the world,\" says podcaster Luis Congdon.  \"It’s remarkably simple, and it can also be profitable. Using a lightweight and low-cost microphone and a laptop I’ve recorded from a hut in the Philippines, a co-working space in Bali and even while staying on a farm in Colombia.”\n\n18. Get Crafty\n\nAre you a crafty entrepreneur? Everyone knows the site Etsy, which is a marketplace for handmade items. But now you can sell your jewelry and other handmade wares on sites like Amazon Handmade, ArtFire, Cargoh and more. You'll find many more resources in this helpful article.\n\n19. Write\n\nYou don't just need to write about travel when you're traveling. If you're a good writer, you can probably write about anything. According to International Living, Leslie Patrick Moore is a writer who lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and earns two-thirds of her income by crafting marketing copy for companies. “My creativity has been able to flourish here without having to constantly worry about money,\" says Moore. \"And it doesn’t hurt that my office is often my hammock, set amidst the colorful bougainvillea that grow against the brick walls in our backyard.” One company that hires online writers is iWriter, which pays up to $80 per 500 words once you're promoted up the ranks.\n\nVlogging from a beach.\n\nGetty\n20. Create “How-To” Videos\n\nJump on the YouTube vlogging wagon by creating how-to video courses. How do you earn money? \"Instructors can monetize their videos by charging a subscription fee or password protecting content for paying customers only,\" says International Living. \"Once you have a loyal and engaged following, you can start partnering with brands that will pay a fee to have their product mentioned or reviewed.\"\n\n21. Get Paid for Online Searches and Surveys\n\nThis one's easy: Just add the site Qmee to your browser. If you click on a search result, you'll earn money. You can also earn cash rewards for taking online Qmee surveys and sharing your opinions on brands.\n\n22. Do Narration and Voice-Overs\n\nThanks to smartphones, there's a boom happening right now in the audiobooks industry, which is in turn creating a demand for freelance narrators, according to International Living. “My typical ‘work day’ consists of two to four hours of recording during late morning and early afternoon,\" says Meghan Crawford, a freelance audiobook narrator. International Living says that even new narrators can earn an average of $100 an hour based on completed work. Joel Young is a top freelancer on Fiverr who has made more than $1.5 million dollars by selling his voice-over services. “That is an amount of money that would have taken me decades to earn without this platform,” Young told CNBC.\n\n23. Become a Day Trader\n\nAre you a whiz with the stock market? It's possible to earn a living by day trading, which can be done anywhere in the world. Marcello Arrambide from WanderingTrader.com tells how to turn it into a profitable career that will allow you to travel.\n\n24. Be a Freelance Designer\n\nAre you a talented designer with skills in areas like graphics or web design? You can do what you love and get paid for it on the website 99Designs.com, which will allow you to become a part of a global community of designers and bid on jobs.\n\n25. Conduct Internet Research\n\nAccording to International Living, you can make good money (up to $50 an hour) by surfing the internet. “An interesting new income category has emerged, thanks in part to the world of 'fake news,'” says Winton Churchill, the founder of an international training and consulting company. \"Companies and individuals are more concerned than ever with fact-checking the information they use on their websites and in their promotional materials. And they’re willing to pay someone to make sure it’s correct.”\n\n26. Fundraise\n\nAccording to FlexJobs, digital nomads can make money by helping with fundraising \"Fundraising positions are designed to garner the funding needed for projects and to maintain a business entity’s operations,\" says FlexJobs. \"Donations can be solicited in the form of monetary tithing or gifts for a nonprofit organization.\" Here are some positions to look for: senior digital strategist, eCRM contractors, senior campaigner.\n\n27. Freelance\n\nNeed more ideas? There are tons of general freelance websites loaded with opportunities from companies and small businesses. Some of these include Upwork.com, a website for freelancers in fields ranging from sales and marketing to accounting to customer service. Or you can market your own services—whatever they are—on sites like Fiverr. The site was built on the fact that you can charge $5 for anything, but the sky's the limit. Kendell Rizzo went from waiting tables to marketing her services on Fiverr; now she makes six figures while she travels the world.\n\nREAD MORE:\n\n• \"The Ultimate Paid Time Off: 17 Companies That Will Give You Money To Travel\"\n\n• \"Ranked: The 20 Most Dangerous Places to Live\"\n\n• \"Bucket List Travel: The Top 50 Places In The World\"\n\n• \"Why You Should Skip Iceland And Go To These 9 Under-the-Radar Places\"\n\n02\nHow to Make Money Online: 25 Examples and Ideas\n\nWith the gift of the internet, it seems everyone is eager to have a side-hustle. But, not everyone has the time or resources to get a consistent job outside of their house. And, with so many jobs that can be done virtually, getting a side job on the internet has never been easier. So, what are some ways you can make money online? \n\nHow to Make Money Online\nWhile some may require the use of your car or your house, these 25 online job ideas can help you earn lots of extra cash without having to exert too much energy. And, the best part? Most can be done in addition to your daytime job (read - disposable income). \n\n1. Use Apps Like Uber and Lyft\nYes, you will have to leave your house in your car, but using apps like Uber and Lyft can help you earn lots of extra money (up to hundreds of dollars per week). \n\nIf you are 21 years of age and have a four-door car, you're good to go to start earning money through the apps. Simply register on Uber or Lyft, and start earning cash in your spare time. \n\n2. Take Online Surveys\nYou can get paid (or get coupons or discounts) for taking surveys online. \n\nWith sites like Swagbucks, you can get gift cards and discounts for taking surveys - which can add up in savings. Other sites like MySurvey and SurveyJunkie offer money in exchange for surveys. \n\n3. Become a Virtual Assistant\nA great way to earn some extra cash from the comfort of your bed is to be a virtual assistant. \n\nTypical duties of a virtual assistant include things like administrative tasks, booking travel, or managing calendars. Typical hourly salary of a virtual assistant is around $15.62 - posing a tempting option for an internet side-hustle. \n\n4. Begin Investing\nIf you've got a tiny bit of extra cash, starting to invest in the stock or bond market can be a great way to earn  money online. \n\nUsing online investment sites like Fidelity (FNF) - Get Fidelity National Financial, Inc. - FNF Group Report or PNC (PNC) - Get PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Report  can potentially pay off in a big way. \n\n5. Sell Clothes or Items Online\nEveryone has an extra coat or pair of jeans in their closet. An easy way to turn clutter into cash is to sell clothes online on sites like Poshmark or eBay (EBAY) - Get eBay Inc. Report . \n\nWith the ease of listing items and receiving payment, selling extra items or clothes online can really give you a boost for a minimal effort. \n\n6. Tutor Online\nIf you've got smarts or expertise in a certain area, being an online tutor can be a great option to earn some extra cash on the internet. With dozens of high school, college or other level tutoring jobs available, you could potentially make up to $18 an hour from your computer. \n\nDefinitely worth a look into using your brain. \n\n7. Become a Transcriptionist\nIf you've got a computer and fast typing skills, becoming a transcriptionist is an ultra-easy way to earn money from your home. \n\nWhile salaries vary, you can typically make about $15 per hour, with some of the bigger freelance transcribing sites like TranscribeMe or Go Transcript paying by the minute you transcribe.\n\nScroll to Continue\n\nTheStreet Recommends\n\n8. Become a Freelance Writer\nWhile a knack for writing is necessary, becoming a freelance writer online can earn you hundreds of dollars - and is typically a pretty easy gig to find.\n\nSites like UpWork offer lots of great freelance jobs that can earn you over $1,000 - and, lots of other freelancing pays per hour as well, earning you an average of $15 to $20 per hour.\n\n9. Sell Crafts Online\nAh, Etsy (ETSY) - Get Etsy, Inc. Report - the go-to for craft lovers Web-wide. \n\nIf you've got a talent for making crafts, or even have crafting supplies to sell, you can potentially earn lots of money selling your items. \n\nEven though the site takes a 3.5% fee for every item sold, you can still generate a good amount of income for your goods (and possibly even build a small business). \n\n10. Start a YouTube Channel\nDespite the fact that not all of us will earn YouTube stardom, some of us might - and that's exactly how you can make money for your videos on YouTube. \n\nThe popular platform can potentially generate thousands of dollars of income - but, there is more than one hoop to jump through. Learn more about making money on YouTube here.\n\n11. Use Online Sites Like Craigslist and UpWork \nIf you've got a product or service for hire or sale, using online sites like Craigslist or UpWork can help you sell your services (or products) to make that additional buck.\n\nHowever, when using sites like Craigslist, beware of scams - you can read about some of the most common Craigslist scams here. \n\n12. Work as a Consultant\nAnother way you can potentially earn big on the internet is by consulting.\n\nAccording to Forbes, offering consulting services in a variety of fields can even earn you up to $100 per hour. Sites that can get you started in the field of online consulting include Clarify.fm - and it's free. \n\n13. Use Money-Making Apps\nSome apps like Drop can help you earn extra money or cash rewards when shopping online. \n\nApps like Drop let you choose your favorite stores and link a credit or debit card so you can earn points as you shop online. These points can definitely add up, giving you some extra cash or savings on the internet. \n\n14. Start a Blog\nWhile there are dozens of ways to make money through online writing, creating a blog can definitely help you add to your bottom line once you've built it up.\n\nUsing your blog to build a platform and begin getting advertising or affiliate deals can help you earn money. But make sure to promote your blog on social media and gain a consistent audience while targeting money-making opportunities within your niche. \n\n15. Use Cash-Back Credit Cards\nYou can actually earn a good bit of money online by using your credit or debit cards via cash-back deals. \n\nIn addition to percentage rewards with certain cards, many cards like Discover (DFS) - Get Discover Financial Services Report have better interest rates - and, in the case of Discover, can earn you 1.80% APY - which can add up to big dollar savings per year. \n\n16. Create Online Courses or Webinars\nAccording to Entrepreneur, offering online webinars or courses can help you make lots of money by talking about areas of your interest or expertise.\n\nUsing sites like GoToWebinar can help you get started in the process of creating your own webinar. \n\nAdditionally, you can create online courses using your experiences or knowledge to make money - with sites like Teachable.com being a useful resource. \n\n17. Become a Data Entry Clerk\nEntering data on a freelance basis online can help you earn a good amount of extra dough for a fairly simple job.\n\nAccording to Entrepreneur, the average pay for data entry is around $12 to $13 per hour. You can often find jobs for freelance data entry on sites like Fiverr and Indeed. Simply search \"data entry clerk\" and you'll get a handful of options.\n\n18. Help College Applicants or Students Write Papers\nEven if you're not fresh out of college, you can still help those who are trying to get in by freelancing in the area of helping students work on papers.\n\nFor most gigs, you could make around $15-$25 per hour, while some fees per essay may be much higher. Using your writing skills can potentially earn you some extra cash - and help students learn how to construct a winning essay. \n\n19. Write Resumes\nAlong the same lines, helping write or work on people's resumes to ensure they are in tip-top shape can earn you a surprising amount of extra money.\n\nIn fact, working on or writing resumes can potentially earn you between $15 and $20 an hour, or even make over $100 per resume.\n\n20. Rent Out a Room on Airbnb\nYou presumably have a home or room - which means that by renting it out, you can earn some extra cash. \n\nWhile the specifics are slightly more complicated, the idea is simple - you can earn big bucks for letting people rent out an extra room (or your whole house, if you're out of town). Learn more about how Airbnb could earn you money online here. \n\n21. Become a Web Designer\nIf you've got skills with website creation, SEO, or web design, you can earn lots of money by freelancing and creating sites.\n\nUse sites like UpWork, Fiverr, or Freelancer  to help find options - which, if you can manage full time, can potentially earn you upward of $70,000 per year as a web designer or creator. \n\n22. Create an ECommerce Store on Shopify\nIf you've got things to sell online, Shopify may very well be the online eCommerce store for you.\n\nWith a fairly easy process of setting up an online store, Shopify offers a great way to sell things you make online and earn a good amount of additional cash. \n\n23. Become a Brand Ambassador\nIf you've got a strong social media presence, becoming a brand ambassador could be just the right online job for you. Getting paid to promote products on social media is certainly appealing - and, if you create enough of a platform on sites like Instagram (FB) - Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report , you could even earn thousands per year. \n\nEven if you aren't fortunate enough to score a deal with a brand through social media, working events and handing out goodies or promoting companies can earn you a decent amount of cash. \n\nIf you're lucky, you can even earn up to over $17 per hour. \n\n24. Invest in Cryptocurrency \nYes, this may not be an avenue for the faint of heart (or those low in cash). But if you have a little extra money to spend, investing in slightly riskier investments like cryptocurrency could possibly earn you thousands from the comfort of your home computer. \n\nStill, before diving in the bitcoin deep end, make sure you know the downsides and possible scams to avoid getting conned. \n\n25. Review Music or Videos Online \nPerhaps surprisingly, you can actually make money by reviewing music (or other forms of media like videos) online. \n\nYou can use sites like Slice the Pie to review things like music, videos, artists or even clothing products and earn money while doing it. \n\nThe Bottom Line\nThere are countless ways to earn money online - including dozens more than these 25. Do your research and use your particular talents, areas of expertise, and resources to earn money online. \n\n03\nWant To Earn Some Extra Money On The Side? Here Are Some Ideas How\n\nWho doesn’t like to earn some extra money? In today’s world, our lives are governed by money. As inflation increases, so does the need for more earnings. You may have a couple of free hours aside from your job during which you would want to be productive by taking on a side job. This is a great idea for earning some extra money for you or your family. Here are a few ideas on how you can earn easy bucks on the side.\n\nBecome a Personal Trainer\nBecoming a personal trainer is actually one of the most effective ways to earn some extra cash. The best part about personal trainers is that you can also coach someone over the web. There are plenty of platforms that hire personal trainers. Moreover, if you wish, you can also open up your own small business in the form of a social media page or account. Places like California have an abundance of personal trainers. They work individually or in groups to help people reach their fitness goals. The reason getting started as a personal trainer in Santa Clarita is not an easy task is because of the sheer number of trainers already based in that location. There is a lot of competition and the market is already crawling with personal trainers, so make sure you find yourself a unique edge to offer your prospective clients. However, it is still a terrific way to make some extra money.\n\nTrade Cryptocurrency\nAs our world is evolving, so is the currency we use in it. What seemed like the stuff of science fiction in the past is ultimately becoming the preferred medium. Even though cryptocurrency is a relatively new concept, it may very well become the standard in the next couple of years. Some primary cryptocurrency platforms are as listed below.\n\nBitcoin\nEtherium\neToro\nKraken\nOnline Tutoring\nOnline tutoring is an amazing way to earn some quick bucks. It all depends upon your niche or what area of knowledge you are particularly adept at and able to tutor. Certain websites such as “Tutor.com” and “Tutor Me” provide resources for starting this endeavor. You don’t necessarily have to use these platforms, you can use other platforms such as “Upwork” and “Freelancer” as well.\n\nBlog Writing\nBlogs are an incredible way to earn passive income. Starting a blog may sound simple, but it’s a rather difficult task. You need to put in the hours in order to benefit from it. However, once the blog starts thriving then it’s a piece of cake. You can promote your business and generate an income. Just keep creating more content and the blog will steadily grow.\n\nNotebook And Computer\n\nThere are countless ways to earn a side income nowadays. You can even freelance or sell your services on platforms like Fiverr. The possibilities are endless and you can generate a side income in plenty of ways. 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Their training takes place across multiple platforms including books, audio books, online classes, and more, which allows them to reach more people.\n\nUnstoppable Self Confidence has a proven 3 step system to transform anyone's confidence, no matter how they feel about themselves today. They show them how to unlearn all the limiting ideas, stories and ways of thinking that are blocking them from being that amazing confident and successful person they always were - but were simply blocked from expressing.\n\nFor Unstoppable Self Confidence, confidence-in general-is more than just a good feeling to have. As a business, they see that confidence gives people the ability to act decisively, to make the right calls, to take opportunities, to live free of nagging self-doubt, the ability to live fully, without the handbrake on and become the very best version of themselves. Goals finally become achievable in other words.\n\nUnstoppable Self Confidence was created by Andrew Leedham. After finding himself at his lowest point, Andrew went on a mission to discover the secrets to creating the unstoppable self confidence of the 1%. What he discovered shocked him - that most teaching on confidence and success was not only wrong but destructive. And that with the steps he discovered, anyone could transform their confidence and success permanently and fast. Andrew started Unstoppable Self Confidence when he was recently divorced, caring for his kids as a single dad, and in massive amounts of debt. However, Andrew's re-discovered self confidence helped get him through this tough time and he wanted to teach others to do the same.\n\n\"Through my own journey of going from rock bottom back to confidence and success I knew I had found the process that could help anyone transform their confidence no matter what their lives look like today,\" Andrew explains.\n\nUnstoppable Self Confidence including launching Unstoppable Mindset! To find out more about Unstoppable Self Confidence, check out their website here.\n\nCONTACT:\n\nPaula [email protected]\n\nSOURCE: Unstoppable Self Confidence\n\nView source version on accesswire.com:https://www.accesswire.com/692307/Unstoppable-Self-Confidence-is-Showing-People-How-to-Live-a-Life-Full-of-Confidence\n\n\n\n02\nLIMITLESS With Lydia: Achieve killer confidence, laser focus and unstoppable drive through a limitless mindset\n\nLydia Lukic utilizes a limitless vs. a limited mindset approach to show people that mindset in action is everything.\n\n\n\nEvery successful entrepreneur and small business owner attributes at least part of their success to having the right mindset, but for many it is a hard-to-pinpoint skill that seems almost unattainable. Distractions, feelings of overwhelm, and a limited mindset are a few of the reasons cited by mindset coach Lydia Lukic for people stalling in their success journeys. The power of a limitless mindset unlocks potentials and perspectives, giving people the much-needed confidence to pursue their passions. LIMITLESS With Lydia breaks down what a limitless mindset is and why it’s so important for entrepreneurs to embrace if they want to succeed in their quest to create more abundance and freedom in their lives.\n\nMindset has broadly been categorized into fixed and a growth mindset. A fixed mindset dictates that intelligence is fixed, which could not be further from the truth. “Align your mindset in the right direction to achieve laser focus, unstoppable drive, and killer confidence.” Lydia Lukic demonstrates the power of a success mindset through three principles.\n\n–  Unapologetically Authentic – Taking ownership, attaining killer confidence and attracting opportunities with magnetic presence. This is one of the key values of Lydia’s six-week coaching program The W.A.Y (Who Are You) Principle that equips entrepreneurs with the tools to become the best version of themselves\n\n–  Dedicated – Also, part of the W.A.Y (Who Are You) Program with a focus on helping entrepreneurs stay accountable, be their own competition and lead by example.\n\n–  Fierce – Reinforcing thoughts with action to achieve desired outcomes. This core value is part of the M.Y.L (Mind Your Limits) Principle six-week coaching program “Imagine laser focus setting in and a calm confidence taking over as soon as you walk into your space.”\n\n\n\nMindset coaching has come in handy as a way for people to gain focus and clarity in their journeys. Lydia explains that her programs aim to empower people to rise above their current level and keep thriving. Since most people struggle with staying on track and keeping their focus, LIMITLESS With Lydia provides the tools to help people starve their distractions. “The tools you attain from these programs give you the ultimate blueprint for a limitless mindset — the key to taking your success to epic levels.”\n\nLIMITLESS With Lydia tailors programs to help people become unstoppable versions of themselves. These programs result from years of research, time, and skill. “Mindset in action is EVERYTHING,” she explains, “When you’re on fire, you’re able to accelerate your massive wins in business and life. But when your mindset drops to zero, that same fire fizzles out.” \n\nMedia ContactCompany Name: LIMITLESS With Lydia™Contact Person: Lydia LukicEmail: Send EmailCountry: CanadaWebsite: https://www.limitlesswithlydia.com/\n\n© 2022 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.\n\n03\nAn expert shares tips for having an unstoppable lion mindset – and changing your life as a result\n\nEmbrace your inner lion (Picture:Getty/Metro.co.uk)\nWhat animal do you most relate to?\n\nPerhaps a sleepy housecat? A sneaky snake? A timid mouse?\n\nEntrepreneur and author Terry Blackburn reckons it’s time for us all to model ourselves on lions.\n\nHe says that having a lion mindset can change your life for the better, setting you up to win in the realms of work, relationships, health, and wellbeing.\n\nSo, what does it mean to have a lion mindset? And how do you get one?\n\nLet go of self-doubt\n‘The unstoppable lion mindset is one with zero self-doubt,’ Terry tells Metro.co.uk.\n\n‘There are many similarities between lions and people who win in life in general.\n\n‘Lions don’t limit themselves as to what they can achieve. If they want something – a gazelle, a zebra, a wildebeest – they just go after it.’\n\nDon’t let failure get you down\nA lion isn’t bothered by things not going to plan. They don’t obsess over why stuff didn’t work out or blame themselves. They just try again.\n\n‘If they don’t succeed, if their prey outruns them, or escapes, they don’t feel sorry for themselves or give up,’ notes Terry. ‘They dust themselves off and try again.’\n\nHave confidence in yourself\n‘When a rival lion comes into your life and tries to take what you have – as often happens in both business and life – you need to have a pride that has your back, so you are strong enough mentally, physically, financially, to fight back and win,’ Terry says.\n\n‘Lions don’t see a gazelle, or a zebra walking past and think, I’m not good enough to eat today or go and catch that zebra. No, they go and run after that zebra with no self-doubt at all.’\n\nLions work best as part of a pride (Picture: Getty Images) Embrace teamwork\nYes, the lion is the king of the jungle – but that doesn’t mean they’re solitary creatures doing everything themselves. Lions are their best when they’re part of a pride.\n\n‘Lions do a lot of things together. They communicate well with one another and enjoy relaxing as much as hunting. When they hunt, each one has a specific role it plays,’ explains Terry. ‘Some will play the role of “centres” and others are “wings” that push the prey towards the centre. The more lions are involved in the hunt, the more successful they are.\n\n‘In majority of successes in business, property, life, health or fitness, the bigger and more skilled and experienced your team is, the bigger the things you can achieve.’\n\nWatch out for poachers\nTerry says: ‘In my life there have been people who laughed at me and told me to forget my dreams. I know these people now as “poachers” – people who stalk lions and take pleasure in killing their dreams.’\n\nMore: Work Live life on your terms\nNo comparison, no doing things just because you ‘should’.\n\n‘Lions are the kings of the jungle,’ Terry tells us. ‘They are the dominant animals in many locations and habitats – they live the life they want on their own terms.\n\n‘They don’t have any self-doubt, any worries or issues. They just dominate their lives and do whatever they want whenever they want.’\n\nTerry Blackburn is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of Be A Lion, out now.\n\nDo you have a story to share?\n\nGet in touch by emailing [email protected].\n\nMORE : There are four motivation styles – here’s how yours affects the way you work\n\nMORE : Does the ‘eat the frog’ productivity technique really work? Could it even change your life? 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Babel X is a text analytics platform that allows users to search multiple online media websites and search by location.\n\nThe software is sold by AI data company Babel Street, which is led by Jeffrey Chapman, a former Treasury Department official. Earlier in his career, Chapman was a White House aide and intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, according to LinkedIn.\n\nIn documents issued during the procurement process, the FBI said that prospective vendors would need to offer a tool that can search a wide range of different social media websites in multiple languages. The award of the licenses could be worth up to $27 million.\n\n“The tool shall be able to gather information from the following mandatory online and social media data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Deep/Dark Web, VK, and Telegram,” the bureau said. It added that the ability to search Snapchat, TikTok. Reddit, 8Kun, Gab, Parler, ask.fm, Weibo, Discord. and “additional fringe platforms, and other encrypted messaging platforms,” would be a bonus.\n\nIn procurement documents, the FBI said information collected from online sources through the tool should be retained in the vendor’s systems before being exported to the bureau, and that the system should be able to continuously monitor sources.\n\nThe tool was sought by the Strategic Technology Unit within the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence, which is responsible for managing internet search tools for social media exploitation of publicly available information.\n\nThe FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence is in the process of developing a comprehensive strategy that matches the social media exploitation needs of the agency’s workforce and mission, according to procurement documents. \n\nNews of the Babel X contract award was first reported by The Washington Post.\n\nDetails of the award come amid heightened interest from privacy groups in the monitoring of social media by federal government agencies. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security was hit with a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation over its social media data collection program for visa applicants and other foreign visitors. \n\n According to the nonprofit’s complaint, VLVI is a multimillion-dollar immigration screening and vetting program used by DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\n\nIn response to a request for comment, the FBI said: “The FBI uses social media tools to search publicly available information pertinent to predicated investigations in order to identify and respond to threats of violence, acts of terrorism, and potential federal violations within the scope of the FBI’s mission.”  \n\nThis story was updated to include comment from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\n\n03\nNavigating Through Social Media Without Compromising Your Mental Health\n\nDr. Jeff J. Rocker Celebrity Therapist of Rocker Management Inc.\n\ngetty\n\nThese days, having a social media presence is pretty much non-negotiable if you’re a leader in your industry; Hollywood figures, professional athletes, recording artists, political candidates and household-name business executives all maintain accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. For celebrities and individuals with high visibility, social media is an important component to building a brand, enabling them to put out messaging and content that promote unique products (including upcoming movies, albums or sports events), values and career goals.\n\nSocial Media Is A Double-Edged Sword\n\nHowever, social media isn’t all engaging content and positive messaging. In fact, the links between social media usage and anxiety and depression are well-documented in clinical literature. While selective aspects of social media (such as receiving “likes” or shares) can provide a euphoria-inducing spike in dopamine and actually diminish depression and anxiety, the reverse is also true: Negative experiences (encounters with social media “trolls,” hurtful or shaming comments) can adversely impact users’ mental health—as can social comparisons that are implicitly thrust upon all individuals who engage on these platforms.\n\nHow can individuals who require social media for career promotion and advancement—particularly celebrities, who are already subject to extensive public scrutiny—manage these platforms while avoiding the negative impacts? If you’re looking to use social media without compromising your mental health, here are some helpful strategies.\n\n1. Guard What You Post\n\nBe selective about what you choose to share with the world. Some celebrities may not share information about their romantic relationships. Others, such as Prince Harry and the Duchess Meghan, rarely share photographs of their children. Keeping parts of your life to yourself—and out of the range of public consumption—can provide a healthy boundary between professional and personal. And, there are good security reasons for keeping knowledge of your private life out of the hands of people who may have ill intentions. What you share is up to you—just know that you don’t owe anyone a window into your private spaces.\n\n2. Every Post Should Have A Purpose\n\nWe’re all familiar with silly, attention-seeking posts, such as photographs of dinner plates, selfies in bathroom mirrors or hazy group shots designed to subtly signal popularity. There’s no need for empty content—that is, posts that don’t have a purpose other than just being out there. Make sure what you post is relevant to your brand, conveys the message you want and builds your reputation. Keeping your posts purposeful and focused will help you avoid unhelpful emotional involvement.\n\n3. Find Supportive Communities\n\nOne of the great benefits of social media is finding groups of individuals whom you might not otherwise have a chance to meet “in real life” due to geography or lack of shared connections but who nonetheless share common experiences and add value. Professional groups, athletic groups, coalitions of artists or musicians, chronic illness support groups—these communities can motivate, offer encouragement, lend an ear and provide ideas or suggestions to resolve issues all members have in common. Finding and engaging in these types of communities can allow you to meaningfully connect with others like you—which can provide emotional stability as well as building your brand.\n\n4. Don't Feed The Trolls\n\nAhhh, trolls. We’ve all had encounters with them—whether they seek to insult, threaten, instigate conflicts or spread disinformation, these bad actors are an unfortunate and ubiquitous feature of social media. Reading mean, mendacious and malevolent comments by trolls can send your heart-rate through the roof. Trying to engage with them is counter-productive: It just amplifies their negative messaging, and gives them satisfaction by allowing them to cause the drama they seek to foment. Don’t give these individuals a moment of your time. The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them, suffocating them with a lack of attention. Alternately: Block them (though beware, they may pop up again under new avatars or aliases.)\n\n5. Take A Break\n\nSometimes, if social media becomes really unbearable, you need to take a breather. Many A-listers have, at one point or another, gone on a social media diet in order to step back, refresh themselves and get their heads out of the endless competition, gossip mongering and thoughtless commenting that represent the worst aspects of the most popular platforms. If you start feeling like social media is causing you more harm than good, it’s absolutely fine—encouraged, even—to take a step back and avoid logging in for a few days. If it’s imperative to your brand to have content posted on a certain schedule, have an assistant or trusted friend manage your social media for you so that you don’t have to deal with it for a while.\n\n6. Amplify The Positive\n\nOne way to leverage the best of social media is to use it as an agent of positive change. A great example of this is celebrities who use their platforms to raise awareness and much-needed funds for good causes, such as Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who have together raised over $30 million to support Ukrainian refugees. Using your position to support positive initiatives that improve people’s lives is a great use for social media—and one that can, at the same time, boost your own feelings of well-being. Now, that’s what we call a “win-win.”\n\nNever Compete With Anyone But Yourself\n\nThey say comparison is the thief of joy, and that’s never been more true than on social media, where the temptation to measure yourself against other people’s posts is almost irresistible. Remember that, like you, everyone posting is merely trying to create a certain social media persona; you never really know what’s going on behind that veneer.\n\nSocial media can be an asset to your brand or business if you use it correctly. Savvy social media users know that these platforms present a tool—a useful one, for brand-building and expanding your reach—but just that. 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      "body": "Commentary: Elon Musk will herald new era for social media from Twitter's boardroom\n\nThere are also questions about whether his threats to launch an alternative platform ahead of buying the Twitter stake amount to market manipulation. With the SEC currently investigating him over tweets in November asking his followers whether he should sell his Tesla stake, he may now attract further ire from the regulator.\n\nBut whatever happens on that front, Musk will certainly be able to weigh if his removal from Twitter is ever on the cards. That is a huge defensive advantage for Tesla from losing such a significant source of marketing. So while Musk can say that he is focused on freedom of speech by buying this stake in Twitter, let’s not forget that he has the most to gain from the deal.\n\nMost of the internet and its users are now controlled by a handful of companies including Alibaba, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Google and to a lesser extent Twitter. This has created a power hierarchy where many startups and investors actively avoid areas where these ever-growing ecosystems have extended their reach.\n\nMusk and Tesla have so far been sheltered from this phenomenon by focusing on disrupting the largely unconnected automotive industry, to much success. By buying into Twitter, Musk now has a small, but well established, beachhead from where he can take on these entrenched players.\n\nHis infamous penchant for having a long-term view and unconventional strategic choices is likely to mean that he will shake things up, even if it is not clear today how he will do so. Certainly, it can be said, with a sense of surety, that Twitter is now a far more interesting company than what it was a few days ago.\n\nHamza Mudassir is a Lecturer in Strategy at the Cambridge Judge Business School. This commentary first appeared in The Conversation.\n\n02\n\nSocial Media Trends Every CMO Should Know in 2022\n\nKnowing the trends before they become trends is necessary for successful social media marketing. In 2021, more than 72% of Americans used social media platforms on a regular basis.\n\nIf you want to keep those users’ attention, it’s imperative to stay up to date with current and upcoming trends in social media marketing. That may sound like a tall order with trends coming and going at what seems like a moment’s notice; but a good fractional CMO will know what to focus on and what to let die. Here are a few key social media trends every CMO should know for 2022.\n\nSocial Media Marketing Budget\n\nOne of the most significant changes you’ll notice in social media marketing this year is the budget. Most companies have started moving investments from traditional television and newspaper ads to email marketing and social media. For good reason, too, as spending on social media advertising is expected to reach $56 billion this year. Facebook is still the king of social media, but Instagram and LinkedIn recorded double-digit percentage increases in usage from 2019 to 2021. Knowing this information will help determine where you should spend that social marketing budget.\n\nContent Trends\n\nVideo content has seen a considerable increase in popularity over the years, but with the emergence of TikTok, short-form video content rises above the rest. In fact, 50% of social media marketers are bringing short-form video content into their marketing strategy for the first time this year; and 95% of those already using short-form video are either planning on maintaining their existing budget or increasing it.\n\nSocial Media Shopping\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic propelled virtual commerce to the forefront early on, and social media platforms were quick to capitalize on that. Instagram has been one of the leading social eCommerce outlets, with 70% of consumers looking to the platform for product inspiration. Facebook recently added Facebook Shops to their shopping tools, and TikTok started experimenting with product links at the end of 2019.\n\nSocial media shopping is expected to become more accessible as well. With the new Instagram Checkout feature, shoppers can complete a purchase without going through a third-party site. Facebook Shops provides a way for consumers to contact businesses via Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram Direct, as well as make purchases directly from those chats. Consumers are becoming more reliant on eCommerce, so it makes sense that social media companies have continued to add more purchasing features.\n\nAugmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence\n\nIt’s possible that you’ve used augmented reality and weren’t even aware. Do you have Snapchat, Instagram, or TikTok? Those filters that add makeup, hats, or even facial hair to your picture in real-time are a form of augmented reality. Companies have seen the benefits of the technology beyond the funny images it can create, though. If you’ve shopped online for furniture lately, you’ve likely seen a “see it in your room” option. When you choose this option, the app or website will either access your camera and digitally add the image of furniture, or it might superimpose the image onto an uploaded photo of your room.\n\nGiving consumers the ability to “try before you buy” is priceless, potentially boosting click-through rates up to 33%. The possibilities are endless for a variety of eCommerce brands. As such, this trend and the technology behind it are expected to grow over the coming years.\n\nInfluencer Trends\n\nPreviously, social media influencers’ follower counts held more weight than their ability to sell a product. More recently, though, marketers have discovered that less widely known “micro-influencers”—those with between 10k and 100k followers—are more relatable, community-driven, and niche-oriented. Since micro-influencers have smaller (and usually more devoted) audiences, it’s much easier for them to engage with followers directly than those with higher follower counts. This enables them to deliver the highest post-engagement rates across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.\n\nBrand Accountability \n\nConsumers want to believe in who they’re buying from. They certainly don’t want to buy from companies that have been historically problematic regarding customer service or accountability. In fact, 57% of consumers will be loyal to a brand that commits to addressing social inequities and actually does something about it. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are the new face of society, and CMOs should champion authenticity in their brand messaging.\n\nSocial media and marketing go hand in hand, and a successful fractional CMO will know how to marry the two seamlessly. Knowing the coming trends will help get your social media marketing strategy squared away for the coming year, but feel free to reach out if you have any questions.\n\n03\n\nFive Ways To Make Social Media Work For Your Business\n\nYvethe Tyszka is a creative and dynamic global marketing executive at Zesty Paws & Solid Gold Pets.\n\ngetty\n\nThink back to the last time you decided to purchase something. Chances are you either heard about the item on social media or looked up reviews online prior to your purchase. In fact, in 2019, Facebook IQ released data showing that 87% of survey respondents took action, such as making a purchase or following a brand, after seeing product information on social media.\n\nBeyond being a way for people to stay in touch with friends and family, learn about current events or find entertainment, social media has also weaved its way into the shopping experience. Throughout my career, I have seen it evolve from a “nice to have” to an integral part of a business’s strategic marketing plan.\n\nAt first glance, social media can be intimidating with new platforms around each corner and constantly shifting algorithms rewriting the rules of the game, but there are five things I see working for brands that may help to navigate the social media space:\n\n1. Create more video content.\n\nIn addition to the continued rise of TikTok, Instagram is now a video-first platform, solidifying video as a vital component to a successful social strategy driving the growth of video content across all platforms. According to Sprout Social, half of social media users said they prefer video content, supporting why so many platforms are prioritizing this shift in their algorithms.\n\nWhile video content can sometimes prove to be a costly investment, striking a balance between highly produced videos and organic and authentic video is something smaller brands can leverage and bigger brands should explore, as social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram offer opportunities to create more content with a lower investment. By testing various strategies to determine what leads to the best results for your brand, you can adjust your goals and budgets appropriately, making sure you’re investing in the programs that prove successful.\n\n2. Tap into social commerce.\n\nNearly every social media platform has an integrated shopping feature, making it easier than ever for consumers to make a purchase in-app. And now, with “phygital” marketing strategies popping up, businesses are beginning to investigate these hybrid online and offline shopping experiences using social media as the bridge.\n\nSprout Social recently found that 98% of consumers plan to make at least one purchase on social media this year. According to an Accenture study, social shopping will be a $1.2 trillion channel by 2025. With these rising trends and statistics in mind, it’s clear that now is the time to make sure you maximize your brand’s presence and engagement on social media.\n\n3. Experiment and test.\n\nYou’ll find hundreds of people claiming to know the secret to social media success on the internet, but the hard truth is there is no one formula that works for every audience or brand. What your audience is interested in and what resonates with them is unique to your brand.\n\nThat’s why it’s important to test content types, captions, hashtags and other strategies regularly so you can figure out what works for your business. At Zesty Paws, we are consistently testing new things, online and offline, and closely track the analytics to support our findings. This allows us to optimize our content-creating efforts to ultimately influence engagement and ROI.\n\n4. Leverage influencer partnerships.\n\nWith the influencer market projected to be worth over $15 billion by the end of 2022, businesses can expect influencer strategies to be part of the discussion year over year.\n\nConsumers look to influencers for recommendations on where to eat, what to do and what products to buy. And as with our brand, even if our influencers have four legs and are covered in fur, this third-party validation from a trusted source can help a potential customer bypass the consideration stage and skip right to purchase.\n\nThe key to success is picking the right influencer for your brand and setting the right goals for the partnership. In addition to validation, influencers provide authentic and relatable content that you can cross-promote on your channels. These partnerships prove invaluable to business goals like expanding customer base and building brand awareness.\n\n5. Foster a community.\n\nThrough community engagement, like replying to customer comments, interacting in social “stories,” resharing positive feedback and responding to incoming messages, businesses can meet the customer where they are and begin to form a relationship.\n\nSocial media is one of those marketing tactics where the more you put into it, the more likely you are to see results. 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      "body": "5 Tips For Growing Your Social Media Accounts Organically\n\nSocial media is a great tool to help business owners expand their online presence, publish informative and authoritative content, and, most importantly, engage with their customers. Having a strong social media strategy can grow your business exponentially.\n\n \n\n\n\nUsing an organic approach to help grow your social media accounts results in authentic engagement and true consumer loyalty.\n\nBut first, to grow your social media accounts, you need to master your social media strategy.\n\nWhether you’ve recently started your own business or work in-house, here are 5 top tips to organically grow your social media accounts.\n\nConsistent & Captivating Content\n\nCreating content is one of the most important aspects of growing your social media account. Users tend to gravitate towards consistency. This includes consistency in the type of content shared and the frequency with which it is posted.\n\nYou will find that social media users are more likely to engage with a post if they know the type of message or branding experience they are signing up for.\n\nYour content has got to be consistent; it has to be exciting! Whilst consistency is key; you should remember the old age saying quality over quantity.\n\nPlanning, identifying and researching one’s target audience and keeping an eye on the competitors are just a few ways to create meaningful content.\n\nEngage & Acknowledge Your Followers\n\nWould you keep talking to someone who never returned your messages? Probably not. The same works for customers.\n\nUsers will not want to communicate with you or follow your brand on social media if they receive no benefit. That’s why it’s crucial to interact with your followers on social media.\n\nIf you want to create a social media presence, you must turn your accounts into a community. That isn’t to say if someone comments on one of your posts, you must respond, but at the very least, you should like it.\n\nYou may also use posts to ask and answer questions and acknowledge and share user-generated content to show your appreciation to your followers and customers. Engaging with your followers will help you develop authentic relationships and boost your social media presence.\n\nEstablish Your Niche\n\nI’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “jack of all trades, master of none” before. This is true not only in business but also in content marketing.\n\nDefining your niche is preferable so that even your customers know your values, which helps you stand out.\n\nMonitor Your Competitors\n\nOther successful competitors’ social media accounts can be great blueprints for beginners. Keep an eye on accounts that have a similar audience target as you. Have a look at what is working for them? What type of posts generates the most engagement for them?\n\nWhen looking to increase growth organically, there are many challenges to getting your business off the ground. However, studying what has worked and, most importantly, why it works can help you understand the best ways to grow your account.\n\nChoosing The Right Social Media Platform\n\nIt is very tempting to be active on all social media platforms, but do all platforms benefit your business?\n\nKnowing which social media platform works best for your business is essential. For example, Instagram/Facebook may be a good platform if you own a clothing business or sell jewellery products. Still, if you are offering a service, it may be best to use Linkedin due to its professional audience.\n\nAnother tip is to focus on the platform that delivers the best results. Although this is not something you would necessarily know when you first start using social media, you may need to give it a few months to monitor results. But once you’ve identified the platform for you, you can determine what needs to be done to organically push your social media account.\n\nUltimately have fun with it; social media should be used to spread positive messages and show your brand’s personality. Using these five tips, you lay the groundwork in terms of strategy, but if you find something that works, stick with it. Don’t be afraid to get involved in the conversation.\n\n02\n\n5 Ways To Improve Engagement On Social Media According To Akinwumi\n\nMaking £300,000 within six months of starting a reselling project is a statement of natural ability and hard work in learning the art of selling. However, the art of reselling is something British entrepreneur Pritesh Patel has mastered. Now he’s turning his skills in a new direction – helping others learn about NFTs and how to resell them.\n\nPritesh Patel is a natural reseller. The UK national has been reselling all his life. He began with limited-edition sneakers – buying them up and selling them at a considerable profit. Pritesh took the skills he learned here and applied them to Forex trading.\n\nHowever, during this time, he was also learning web development – particularly Web3. In late 2021, he moved into the growing NFT market. An NFT is a non-fungible token that cannot be copied, downloaded, or otherwise distributed. It is a one-off digital asset stored on a decentralized blockchain. Since their inception in 2014, NFTs have grown in importance and, in recent years, have exploded as a new, hot market across the globe.\n\nAfter generating £300,000 in a few months, Pritesh caught the attention of AMGI Studios. They are the geniuses behind My Pet Hooligan, a PvP NFT video game featuring 8,888 angry bunnies rebelling against a baddie called Zuck. They hired Pritesh as their Lead Alpha Caller, where he advises clients and customers on which NFTs they can profit from the most.\n\nMy Pet Hooligan is an exciting demonstration of the growing, evolving nature of the NFT world. Many started as producers of digital art. They sold then disappeared. Others began to take this further by creating long-term brands with expanding collections, features, and utilities. Others created avatar versions in the Metaverse, where actual communities could be built. For example, my Pet Hooligan made a Metaverse called The Rabbit Hole, where holders of the 8,888 NFTs could have their NFTs as characters in an immersive, play-to-earn video game.\n\nNot content with advising as part of a company or just in trading, and as with his sneaker reselling, Forex, and web development skills, Pritesh combined and compressed his skills by founding Paragn Network in 2022. This takes the growing concept of NFT collections as brands and communities and builds one for NFT resellers.\n\nThe NFT reseller is different from the collector or the community-focused character customer. They are looking for opportunities to get in early and resell for a significant profit. You just need to look at some of Pritesh’s successes to see how well this works. With the Azuki collection, he turned 30 mints bought for £84,000 and resold them for £236,000 while he made a £37,957 profit on 2 NFTs bought for £840.\n\nWith Paragn, Pritesh is now offering fellow NFT resellers help and guidance. Over 150 members of Paragn now receive guides suitable for all levels, one-on-one advice, YouTube videos, project analysis, and even an in-house NFT tool. Members also access new drops, projects, giveaways, and raffles. Pritesh Patel is now leading the NFT reseller world by showing that here too, a community can thrive. Things are taking off for Patel and Paragn, so keep an eye on where he goes next.\n\n03\n\n5 TIPS TO GROW YOUR AUDIENCE ON INSTAGRAM\n\nGROW YOUR AUDIENCE ON INSTAGRAM\n\nLondon, United Kingdom– Instagram is one of the biggest platforms of social media. It has over 1 billion users in it. Its community is still growing in normal users, brands, and other famous celebrities public figures. People love to use this app because it is completely free and friendly.\n\nMoreover, Instagram provides different features and tools that they can use in their content to make it more engaging. And with over 1 billion users, there are so many chances to create your own business. Many brands use Instagram as an awareness source because of the engagement rate it provides to its users.\n\nTHE ART OF ENGAGEMENT\n\nInstagram is in deep love with the visual content. More the visuals are attracting more will be chances of getting more reach over your content. However, there is one thing that you have to study about while doing business or sharing any content, and this is an Instagram algorithm. If you think it depends on the chronological order, you are wrong, my friend. Instagram algorithms change almost every day, so threes no chance of understanding it properly.\n\nBut there are some sliders/features or tips that you can use to improve your audience amount. And it will also help you in hacking the Instagram algorithm. Many brands follow these tips and tools to increase followers and audience regardless of the Instagram algorithm. So, if you are starting new or creating awareness content for your brand or yourself, these tips will surely help you make a huge number of followers with a high engagement rate. Let’s start.\n\n1.UNDERSTAND YOUR NICHE OVER INSTAGRAM\n\nYou have to ask what you will invest time and money on. Because Instagram is all about Niche, the more it will be, the more audience engagement rates will be. So, write down all the goals you need to achieve in simple words because it encourages you over your plans.\n\nIf you can’t be able to decide over this. Don’t worry, and there are thousands of solution means over here. Social meido can provide you with many websites and software to help users make choices for their future and give suggestions according to it. You can say it is a digital assistant that helps you in organizing goals for the future.\n\n2.OPTIMIZE YOUR PROFILE\n\nThis section has so much in it to talk about. Starting with two main things, profile photo and bio. Profile photo describes your account visually. It shows what’s going on over your profile. A profile can be a logo or maybe your pic with the trend you are following.\n\nThe trend doesn’t mean anything or a brand. It could be anything. Like photo with some black tune edit, which is popular nowadays or with dark silver tune which is probably most used tune or we can say preset use in photography as it gives you some refreshing looks over your content.\n\nThe second thing is bio. It is one of the important over your profile looks. Because it has a big role in making the first impression of get Instagram followers uk, you should be careful with it. Try to make the bio clean and neat full of necessary details. You can also add your website as a call-to-action options or add any other type of call to action in bio. This will help followers direct reach you with just one click.\n\n3.BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR CONTENT\n\nOn Instagram, there is one big problem. Which is you don’t own your follower. It can hurt you if you are not sharing good content because they are only here for your interesting content. When it loses its consistency and quality, it will divert someone else with better content. So, it is important to interact with your followers. You can make a schedule for this purpose, which will surely help you get more followers than your potential.\n\nIf this thing is confusing to it don’t worry, we keep you covered over here. The Internet is full of the solution, and you can get real Instagram followersor get scheduling software that will act as a digital assistant. These kinds of software make working smoother because they provide you with scheduling features that Instagram doesn’t offer you.\n\n4.UNDERSTAND YOUR ACTIVE HOURS\n\nWe talk about consistency in content. Everything has its pattern, so does Instagram engagement. You should post when your follower is active otherwise, it is no use to post blinded.\n\nPost when they are active then there will be high chances of getting more traffic over your content. In professionally we say it active hours. Instagram provides insight over your content and profile too. 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Dr. Nune Grigoryan, assistant professor of communication at Cabrini, believes it does:\n\n“It definitely does matter,” she says. “If you have branded content, it makes your voice more recognizable.”\n\nSenior digital media manager at Cabrini and alum, Emily Rose Rowan, agrees.\n\n“It’s taken me a really long time to grow the Cabrini University account,” Rowan said. “You have to make sure your content stands out because there is so much competition.”\n\n \n\n\n\nDr. Nune Grigoryan shares her input on social media marketing. Photo by Marion Callahan.\n\nRowan manages three different Instagram accounts: @cabriniuniversity, @err_photography (her photography page)  and her private account. She says that it’s really important to find your niche.\n\nA good tip is to not put too much attention on the analytics, because it could make you more stressed about posting.\n\n“Sometimes I’m like ‘this picture is going to be seen by so many people,’’’ Leigha Sepers, freshman communications and secondary education major, said. “But it got to the point where I thought whatever I’m just going to post what I want and it’ll make me happy and that’s all that matters.”\n\nIn some cases, people gain a following for simply their vibrant personality or attractiveness.\n\n“I truthfully do not know how I grew my account,” Boulden said. “I think a lot of people tuned in for my story times that I used to have that were funny, but other than that I have not done much.” \n\nA lot of people want to get famous now, especially on TikTok.\n\n“TikTok is one of the fastest, in terms of growing your account because people usually love short videos,” Grigoryan said. “The algorithm [on TikTok] is a lot more flexible.”\n\nOne popular influencer, Kaiti Yoo, who has almost 500,000 Youtube subscribers, considers “a catchy personality, unique editing and content value” as the key factors that led to her success.\n\n“In order to blow up on [Youtube], you need to have at least two of these,” Yoo said in a Youtube video.\n\n \n\n\n\nKaiti Yoo, a lifestyle Youtuber, explains the elements to Internet success. Credit to Kaiti Yoo.\n\nTips   ⤵\n\nThink about what your interests are and how you can incorporate that into your social media accounts.Decide what your personal branding is.Ask your audience or followers what they like and do not like to receive feedback and constructive criticism.Post regularly, keep your content fun, interesting and not repetitive.Connect with your audience.\n\nKeep this in mind, Boulden said:\n\n“When you have an abundance of followers, especially on a public page, anyone can see what you post,” Boulden said. “It is just a matter of being mindful and for me I am raw and authentic, but others may like to keep a conservative image.”\n\nSepers said that maintaning who you are is the most important part of growing your social media account:\n\n“Be yourself. Don’t try to be someone else because transparency is really key.”\n\n02\n\nHow to Develop a Meaningful Social Media Following\n\nAnd once someone clicks “follow,” keep giving them what they signed up for. “Especially within the design space, the easiest way to gain traction and grow a following is to be consistent,” Janelle says. “If you’re an interior designer, you really just want to be posting interiors, architecture, your own work, or inspiration, over and over.”\n\nWrite compelling Instagram captions and use hashtags\n\nDon’t discount the power of captions to grab potential followers’ attention, Blakeney says. “There are so many ways to engage an audience and the picture is only half of it. The copy is extremely important in how you’re telling the story.” It’s about more than simply discussing each photo, Janelle says—captions are a great way to set yourself apart, draw in a new audience, and establish brand voice. “You may have beautiful images, but communicating and letting your personality show through is so important.”\n\nFor many visual people like designers, words just aren’t a default way to communicate ideas—they may think best in color and shapes—but it’s essential to consider how a post is going to be received by the audience, not only what’s easiest to create. \n\nBlakeney’s had success boosting her profile by experimenting with how she designs her captions. “It’s unbelievable,” she says, “that the exact same photo can get up to twice the engagement with different types of copy.” Because designers like Blakeney have followers who live and breathe decor, a popular caption could mean sharing sources on the projects she posts, which she makes sure to do generously. “When people are finding that they are learning something from you, they’re going to come back. And that’s the ultimate goal.” It may mean connecting in other ways: discussing her personal career journey, her design process, or asking a thoughtful question to invite followers to engage. “It’s experimentation, practicing every single day and then reflecting,” she says. “Looking back and saying, ‘wow, people really like this thing, I’m gonna continue to do that but put a spin on it.’” \n\nAnother trick to get better at writing copy? Don’t forget to make it your own so it feels more fun to do. “As a creative, stop thinking about it [the captions] so much as this power PR and marketing tool—even though that is what it is. Think of it as an art project,” says Blakeney. Words are just another tool to shape her feed and the point of view of her brand. (Using emojis can add a bit of fun, too.) “Think of it as something you’re trying to share, which has a narrative arc that tells a story. That’s how you engage people, that’s how you bring people in, that’s how you get people excited about what you’re doing.”\n\nFinally, don’t miss the opportunity to supercharge your reach by using hashtags—targeted keywords that can help you tap into a whole new community. Taking the time to include relevant hashtags to your captions will increase the likelihood that your content will get in front of the eyeballs of people who are already interested in, and searching for, what you offer. People who—if they like what they see—will be more likely to hit the follow button. But for higher quality engagement, do your research. Before you use popular hashtags, take a look at what other posts are linked to that keyword and ensure sure it’s a group you want your content to be associated with. Taking the time to use accurate and relevant hashtags will not only make your posts look credible to potential followers but also to the Instagram algorithm.\n\nCultivating engaged Instagram followers\n\n“It’s one thing to put content out there, but if you’re not making some noise, then nobody’s going to discover your content,” Janelle says. “Ultimately this is a social medium, and being social, engaging, and being active is the thing that’s going to help you gain you visibility.” In fact, he says, interacting with other users—ones that you might find on the Explore page, for instance—is just as important as what you post on your feed.\n\n03\n\nHow to Use Instagram to Grow Your Blog Traffic\n\nInstagram is a highly engaging social media platform that can help to grow your blog traffic. In this article, we’ve discussed ways you could leverage this powerful tool in order to capture the attention of new visitors and drive quality traffic back to your site.\n\nInstagram turned into a marketing tool for bloggers by featuring square-shaped snaps of people on vacation, selfies, and food pics. What began as an innocent social media app has now grown to be one that can help build audiences in the blogging community through targeted traffic from high-quality sources.\n\nOver a billion individuals use Instagram on a monthly basis, which means it’s one of the most popular social media platforms out there. Tons of different brands – from beauty companies to subscription services to bloggers and larger big box brands – have found major success on this platform by building their brand or engaging with followers in various ways.\n\nThe secret to driving traffic from Instagram is in understanding the psychology of social media sharing.\n\nWith limited capacity for links, you need a strategy that will not only drive engagement on your posts but also generate clicks back to your blog post or site. \n\nThree Words for Success: Link in Bio\n\nIn order to post a link on Instagram, you’ll need to use your bio. In posts with captions or comments, for example, most people won’t take the time to copy and paste the link into their browser window.\n\nHowever, your bio on the site allows for a link to be posted. This can lead to increased traffic to various parts of your blog, such as its homepage or certain posts or brand partnerships.\n\nHitting this particular aspect of traffic generation has two sides.\n\nKeep your bio up to date by updating it with the link of your latest post or changing it depending on where you want to drive the traffic to.\n\nHowever, sharing a link to your blog post is not enough if you want to increase traffic. Link in bio is only successful when you make your followers aware of it. Make sure you make the most of Instagram Stories, Reels, and Feed to promote the link you added in the bio and get the word out.\n\nUse images and videos to stand tall in a sea of content\n\n \n\n\n\nSource\n\nSocial media is a visual world. On Instagram, posting images that attract followers to your blog and showcase your expertise is vital.\n\nStep into your content creator’s shoes. Create eye-catching visuals and share them with the world to make a lasting impression on your audience! Experiment with Instagram filters, color overlays, and cool fonts for captivating posts that will keep people wanting more from you in their feed.\n\nCanva is a free online photo editing and image creating tool. The interface is easy to use, yet the features are advanced enough for more sophisticated bloggers. You can create stunning graphics by using pull quotes from your blog content or bold titles over images of video thumbnails on social media feeds.\n\nYou can also use Canva to make your Instagram posts more interactive by using hashtags and logos.\n\nVideo content is currently surging in popularity among nearly all social media platforms, and Instagram is no exception. Videos have the added bonus of generating longer engagements with your posts when posted on an account feed. Tell your followers about what they’ll find in your latest article by including a video teaser or direct link to it!\n\nKeep viewers glued to your posts by including videos in both stories and the regular feed. The more engagement you get, the higher up on their feeds they will appear- leading them right towards that link in your bio!\n\nPlace your calls to action on images in bold, eye-catching ways. Direct followers back to your bio with every chance you get!\n\nWhat about captions?\n\nWhat makes or breaks a marketing campaign? The combination of engaging content and successful persuasion is geared towards driving traffic to a website.\n\nYour Instagram captions allow you to use a wealth of creativity. You can’t include links in your caption, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its uses. 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