From the end of May 2022, private charging stations located on the territory of residential buildings and organizations will be reconfigured so that charging of electric vehicles is forcibly turned off for several hours on weekdays.

Reason: the fears of members of the government about the emergence of an excessive load on the National Grid and, as a result, possible rolling outages of some network clusters.

According to the rules, which will take effect in May, new chargers in homes and workplaces will be automatically set to be off from 8 to 11 in the morning and from 4 to 22 in the afternoon.

The changes do not apply to public chargers and high-power "fast" chargers on motorways and A-roads, which will still be available 24 hours a day.

In addition to the aforementioned restrictions, in charging stations affected by a government decree, the ability to remotely activate an "additional charging station shutdown" for up to 30 minutes at any other time is activated. The function is required by power supply regulators as a tool to reduce the load on the power grid, if motorists of one territorial region will massively put traction batteries for charging at the same time.

Nyrstar will cut production by up to 50% at its three European zinc smelters from Wednesday due to the soaring price of electricity, the Belgium-based company said in a release.

“The cost burden of carbon emitted by the electricity sector which is passed on to industrial and domestic customers, mean it is no longer economically feasible to operate the plants at full capacity,” Nyrstar said.

“Indirect cost compensation for energy-intensive producers to protect their competitiveness versus non-EU producers varies by European country and this puts Nyrstar’s Budel, Balen and Auby plants at a competitive disadvantage, compounding the impact of extreme energy prices.”

1. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10
2. Canon EOS R6
3. Canon EOS RP
4. Canon EOS R5
5. Nikon Z 6II
6. Sony α7C
7. Fujifilm X-E4
8. Fujifilm GFX 50S II
9. Nikon Z 5
10. Sony FX3

Used

1. Sony α7 III
2. Sony α7 II
3. Canon EOS 6D Mark II
4. Ricoh RICOH GR III
5. Sony α7R III
6. Sony α7R II
7. Canon EOS RP
8. Canon EOS 5D Mark III
9. Sony α7R IV
10. Nikon D750

An editorial published in a special issue for the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland states that treatment contributes significantly to "greenhouse gas emissions" and that this carbon footprint can be reduced if only "health professionals" can learn how to reduce "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment".

Health care accounts for 4-5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In the NHS, 62% of these emissions are associated with supply chains and 24% with health care. Healthcare professionals can be facility leaders that drive hospital decarbonization by reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in healthcare, eliminating waste, streamlining services, and better managing supply and procurement. All of these efforts will bring us closer to making health care more sustainable.

The desire to diagnose cancer as early as possible is another important factor affecting the carbon footprint of modern medicine. For several years we have been told to continually lower the cancer suspicion threshold, and we are calling for earlier and more thorough screening. In primary care, most patients with moderately high or even normal platelet counts are currently undergoing a flurry of tests in case thrombocytosis is an early sign of cancer. What should be the performance of these tests to make this approach acceptable? And shouldn't we take into account the environmental impact of having so many patients on the pipeline for various examinations as part of our cost-benefit calculations?

Isn't it nice? To make them get perfect life by "fighting for low CO2" you need to die from cancer.

Eating a predominantly plant-based diet, walking more, cycling and using public transportation will significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and improve our health.

Animal products (meat, dairy products, fish) typically use much more land and water and generate more greenhouse gases than plant products. Sustainable and healthy diets consist primarily of a variety of plant foods that are low in animal products, unsaturated fats, and limited amounts of refined grains, highly processed foods, and added sugars. The nature and extent of the changes needed will depend on the existing dietary patterns of the local population. For example, to meet global dietary guidelines, the average meat consumption in Africa may increase slightly (2 percent), while in North America and Europe it should decline by 79 percent and 68 percent, respectively.

I propose to start eating capitalists, it will solve lot of problems, and it also will reduce CO2 emissions.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has just recorded the highest homicide increase in modern history.

Preliminary data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday morning, showed the United States homicide rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. This is the highest growth recorded in modern history, that is, confirmed by public health data, an increase in the number of homicides, which until now has only been identified using crime statistics.

According to the NCHS, the previous largest increase (by 20%) in the number of murders in the United States was recorded between 2000 and 2001 due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"This is the largest increase in 100 years," said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at NCHS.
"The only time the recorded increase was greater than it is now was between 1904 and 1905, and this increase was most likely - at least in part - the result of better reporting," Anderson told CNN. "We had states that were added to what we call death registration areas, so over time we counted deaths in more areas. We didn't have all state records until 1933."

New data shows that the U.S. homicide rate has increased from about six murders per 100,000 in 2019 to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2020, according to the NCHS. Center researchers noted that the 2020 murder rate of 7.8 is the highest recorded in the United States since 1995, but still significantly lower than the rate in the early 1980s, which exceeded 10 murders per 100,000. human.

"So this is obviously a concern, but we're not at the level we were at the time," Anderson said. "Although we are definitely heading in the wrong direction."

Independent experts and the Facebook team both stated that the reason for this massive failure was a change in the configuration of the central routers. They are responsible for coordinating traffic between the data centers of the social network. Inexperienced Employee Company representatives performed an unsuccessful reconfiguration of their routers, resulting in traffic disruption and other problems. The equipment in question is responsible for BGP sessions and their announcements, plus the company's internal network. After that, the FB NS servers were no longer available, and the DNS records disappeared as well. Naturally, under such conditions, there can be no question of any normal operation of the social network and its services.

The failure was cumulative, which can be compared to the effect of falling dominoes. One problem caused another, one caused the next, and so on. There are many rumors about the culprit or the culprits of the global network outage, but the company has not made an official statement on this matter.

The failure was not promptly eliminated precisely because of the fall of not only the external, but also the internal network of the company. So the team of emergency responders simply did not manage to quickly get to the data centers. All the passes did not work for the employees.

Everything had been planned by "geniuses", so if one router is misconfigured everything falls, including doors.

The nation’s mail service is preparing to implement core components of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the agency, a program designed to cut costs and raise new revenue to fix its many financial problems.

Your mail may slow down because the Postal Service lengthened its “service standards,” or the amount of time it says it should take for a piece of mail to get delivered. And how much slower it will get depends on where you live.

That’s because the Postal Service is changing the way it transports your mail. The Postal Service used to put about 20 percent of your mail on airplanes to move it across the country. This is the mail that was going from coast to coast, and to make the three-day service standard, the agency had to move it faster than was possible on a truck.

Now it’s going to drive. The new service standard will cut air transportation to only 12 percent of first-class mail. Postal leadership says this will both cut costs — the agency spends a lot more flying mail than it does trucking it — and increase predictability. During the 2020 holiday season, the air-transport network was not reliable enough to keep the Postal Service’s processing centers running on schedule. So even if trucks take longer, the agency hopes they will be more predictable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/01/usps-slowdown-prices-faq/