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The UK Digital Twin Centre has officially opened in Belfast, marking a major milestone in the UK's digital innovation landscape. Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by the Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the project is set to drive the next wave of industrial transformation by accelerating the adoption of digital twin technology across the UK's critical sectors, projected to reach £62million in GVA for the economy over the next decade. A Digital Twin is a dynamic virtual representation ('twin') of a physical asset, process, or system, bridging the physical and digital worlds. They turn data into real-time insights that can optimise performance, reduce costs, and predict outcomes before they happen. Since funding for the project was announced, Digital Catapult has brought together industry and innovators to identify adoption barriers and strategic interventions. At the Centre's opening, the project's co-investing industry partners - Artemis Technologies, Spirit AeroSystems, and Thales UK - utilised the cutting-edge facilities, including the 360-degree immersive space and advanced technology lab, to demonstrate how digital twins are helping to solve complex operational challenges. These early-stage use cases emphasise the power of cross-sector collaboration to create scalable, practical solutions while building expertise that can be shared across industries, ultimately improving product design, building supply chain resilience, and decarbonising operations. Programmes delivered by the UK Digital Twin Centre will help businesses across the UK to demystify, demonstrate, and deploy digital twins. With expert support, test environments and tools to experiment and validate, combined with shared learnings from industry use cases, it offers a practical route to adoption. The Centre has convened capabilities across digital twins six enabling technology areas - intelligence, data services, immersive and UX, cyber-physical systems, integration, and security - to make this emerging technology more accessible and interoperable across sectors and suppliers. "The UK Digital Twin Centre marks a major step for Belfast, driving innovation in high-growth sectors like advanced manufacturing," said the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Micky Murray. "Through the Belfast Region City Deal and with Digital Catapult's UK-wide reach, we're connecting our SMEs to a powerful network, unlocking access to new markets, collaboration opportunities, and cutting-edge technologies. This will boost local businesses, create high-skilled jobs, and drive real economic impact for the region." The Centre's first six-month Accelerator Programme, now open for pre-application expressions of interest, will support partnerships between tech SMEs and industry to fast-track digital twin adoption in maritime, aerospace, and defence. Alongside Innovate UK funding, participants will also gain access to mentorship, workshops, and specialist support to develop proofs of concept for enabling technologies - such as IoT, data integration, and simulation tools - bringing their solutions closer to real-world deployment. "The UK Digital Twin Centre brings together our technical expertise, facilities, and networks to unlock the power of deep technologies,' said Susan Bowen, CEO of Digital Catapult. "By connecting industries with cutting-edge technology through our programmes, we are enabling businesses to harness the full potential of digital twins-driving operational efficiencies, advancing sustainability, and sharpening the competitive edge of UK businesses." Dean Cook, Executive Director for Place and Global?at Innovate UK, added, "Seeing real-world use cases coming to life at the UK Digital Twin Centre is a powerful demonstration of how digital twins can deliver tangible advances for UK industry. These cutting-edge tools will solve complex business challenges in aerospace, maritime, and defence. "It's a testament to how we are leveraging the strengths of local inno...

「横浜FM移籍ウォルシュ反応！インドネシア代表帰化に「批判あるが…」」　　ベルギー1部KVメヘレンから横浜F・マリノスへ完全移籍のDFサンディ・ウォルシュは、オランダから帰化でインドネシア代表入り。2024年1月のAFCアジアカップ日本代表戦でゴールを奪うなど、国際舞台で結果を残しているが、本人がインドネシアサッカー協会（PSSI）が推し進める帰化戦略に言及した。　年代別オランダ代表でプレーの過去を持つウォルシュは、2022年夏にインドネシアへ帰化すると、同年11月の東南アジア選手権に向けたトレーニングキャンプで同国のA代表初招集。2023年9月の国際親善試合トルクメニスタン戦でA代表デビューを飾ると、その後は16試合プレー。2024年11月15日のFIFAワールドカップ北中米大会アジア最終予選の日本戦でもピッチに立った。　PSSIは2025年1月に韓国人のシン・テヨン監督を解任し、オランダ人のパトリック・クライファート氏を招へい。オランダから帰化した選手が多いことを考慮した監督人事とみられるが、インドネシア国内ではこうした帰化戦略を加速させる動きへの反対意見も湧き起こっている。　そんななか、ベルギー紙『GVA』では2月11日にウォルシュのインタビュー記事が掲載。これによると、本人はインドネシアへの帰化や同国代表入り、監督人事についてこう語ったという。　「僕は他の欧州出身の選手のために扉を開いたんだ。まわりから（僕のインドネシア代表入りやPSSIの帰化戦略への）批判や疑問はあるけど、僕の選択肢は祖父母のためのものだ。代表入りのプロセスを最初から見て、帰化選手と地元の人々をつなぐ存在になれたことをうれしく思っている。インドネシアのサッカーの質は上がっているし、インドネシアの人々を幸せにしたいんだ」　「シン・テヨンは僕たちを遠くまで連れて行ってくれた。FIFAワールドカップ出場まであと少し。予選突破が目標だ。その可能性をより高めるために、新しい監督が来たんだ。僕たちはエリック・トヒル会長の選択を支持している。長い目で見れば、改善されるはずだ」　なおインドネシア代表は最終予選6試合を終えて1勝3敗2敗。グループCで3位と、W杯本大会ストレートイン圏内の2位オーストラリアから勝ち点1差だが、4位以下の中国、サウジアラビア、バーレーンとも勝ち点で並んでいる。

「横浜F・マリノス移籍。帰化・インドネシア代表ウォルシュの契約内容明るみに」　　横浜F・マリノスは2月9日、ベルギー1部KVメヘレンからインドネシア代表DFサンディ・ウォルシュを完全移籍により獲得したと公式発表。オランダから帰化し、2024年1月のAFCアジアカップ日本代表戦でゴールを奪った同選手の契約内容を、海外メディアが報じている。　ベルギー出身のウォルシュは、現在29歳で右利きのサイドバック。KRCヘンク、ズルテ・ワレヘムなどを経て、2020年10月からメヘレンでプレーしているが、2024/25シーズンはベルギー1部リーグでスタメン出場2試合と控え要員に。2025年1月19日の第22節ヘンク戦以降は全試合つづけてベンチ外となっていた。　同選手の去就を巡っては、ベルギー紙『GVA』が2月4日に「彼には新たな挑戦の可能性がある。アジアからの関心を集めている。いくつかのマーケットが開かれたままだ」とリポート。ベルギー人ジャーナリストのファン・デ・ヴェニエ氏が6日に「彼は8日にも横浜FMと正式契約を結ぶ」と報じると、クラブも9日にインドネシア代表DFの獲得をアナウンスしている。　『GVA』は横浜FMの公式発表とほぼ同じタイミングで、ウォルシュのJリーグ移籍を詳報。「6日の時点で合意に達していた。選手本人は横浜FM移籍を見越して母国インドネシアに留まり、8日に来日した」と正式契約までの過程を伝えたほか、両者の契約内容について「単年契約を結んだが、1年半の契約延長オプションが付帯」としている。　横浜FMの守備陣では、2024シーズンまでアルビレックス新潟でプレーしていたオーストラリア代表DFトーマス・デンが加入。しかし、同選手はプレシーズン期間中に負傷している。

“Als je als crimineel ernstig genomen wil worden moet je regelmatig je hoofd laten zien in Dubai, en er liefst ook iets bezitten.” Dat ontdekten GVA-misdaadjournalisten Joris van der Aa en Sam Reyntjens en ze stelden een lijst samen van een 30-tal gekende drugscriminelen en familieleden, die samen minstens 200 villa's en appartementen bezitten in Dubai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Marine Institute, in partnership with the University of Galway's Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU), has published the latest report on the performance of Ireland's ocean economy, providing a comprehensive analysis of the sector's economic contributions and trends. Key Findings The report reveals that Ireland's ocean economy achieved a turnover of €6.5 billion in 2023, contributing €2.7 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) and supporting approximately 39,000 jobs. Over the five-year period from 2019 (pre-COVID) to 2023, turnover increased by 20%, GVA rose by 31%, and employment grew by 8%, demonstrating the resilience and steady expansion of the country's marine industries. While the overall turnover and GVA showed moderate declines between 2022 and 2023, eight out of 13 marine sectors experienced growth, reflecting a robust post-pandemic recovery. Sectors such as Shipping, Sea Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing, and the Gas industry faced specific challenges contributing to declines, but the broader trends point to a period of adaptation and innovation. Welcoming the report, Dr Rick Officer, CEO of the Marine Institute, stated: "I am delighted that the Marine Institute, in partnership with the University of Galway, has published Ireland's 2024 Ocean Economy Report. This report not only highlights the impressive economic contributions of Ireland's marine industries but also underscores their strategic importance in shaping a sustainable future for our country. Capturing detailed insights and trends, including measuring the economic value of our marine industries, is an important element of our work in supporting the Government with the best available evidence to inform policy. This collaboration, supported by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), provides a robust analytical framework to inform marine and maritime planning and deliver equitable and sustainable ocean and coastal economies." Commenting on the findings, Professor Stephen Hynes, Director of SEMRU at the University of Galway, said: "It is clear from the data and trends that there is a continuing post-pandemic recovery across most sectors. This remains a period of transition for Ireland's ocean economy as marine industries innovate and respond to new policies and opportunities aimed at addressing the climate and biodiversity crises." Economic and Geographic Insights Ireland's ocean economy extends across 13 industries, each with distinct geographic concentrations. For example, international cruise activity is focused on ports and harbours, marine aquaculture is largely located on the West and South coasts, and the tourism sector - the most geographically widespread - supports enterprises and employment in all coastal counties. The latest demographic analysis from the CSO Census 2022 further underscores the importance of coastal economies, with over 60% of Ireland's population (3.2 million people) living in coastal areas. Future Outlook The report highlights the ongoing resilience of Ireland's marine industries in navigating global economic challenges and adapting to evolving policies on sustainability and climate action. It provides valuable data for policymakers, industry leaders, and community stakeholders to foster a sustainable and equitable future for coastal and ocean economies. Published every year, the report provides an update on Ireland's ocean economy across three main economic indicators: turnover, gross value added (GVA), and employment. The report also provides commentary on changes in Ireland's marine industries over a five-year and ten-year timeframe and presents a comparable analysis and representation of Ireland's ocean economy since 2010. The full report, Ireland's Ocean Economy, 2024, is now available on the Marine Institute's website at Ireland's Ocean Economy, 2024. This year, the report is also accompanied by an interactive data dashboard, Ireland's Ocean Economy Dashboard | Marine Institute.

We've partnered with BrewDog for January to help bring some balance to our GTCC members. You can get 15% off BrewDog's alcohol free range by visiting: https://brewdog.com/collections/geraint-thomas-cycling-club G'day GTCCers. G's still living it up in the heat of Adelaide ahead of the Tour Down Under, while Tom and Producer George continue to do battle with the elements in Greater Manchester. It's alright for some, isn't it? As a legend of the cobbles, today's guest was no stranger to the cold and rain during his career either - albeit his biggest ever win came in the summer Olympic heat on the Copacabana beach. Yes, that's right - today we welcome Greg van Avermaet to the GTCC! GVA is one of those riders that we feel like must have been on before - but has somehow never made it to the GTCC, until now. He chatted to the guys about that incredible Gold medal ride, his remarkable run of success in 2017, his gravel exploits today and so much more. We are also very excited to confirm that our ROUVY rides are back for 2025 - and will take place each and every Wednesday at 18:30 UK time. You can sign up for tomorrow's ride (15th January) by clicking here. And if you haven't signed up for ROUVY yet, use the code GTCC1M for a free month on us. Enjoy Greg. Music courtesy of BMG Music Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Als ik premier word, wordt Els Van Doesburg burgemeester." Met die woorden beslechtte Bart De Wever een maandenlange discussie in Antwerpen. Maar wat gebeurt er dan met die andere kandidaat, Koen Kennis? "Hij wordt de machtigste man in het stadhuis", weet GVA-reporter Sacha Van Wiele. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Vermink alle zionisten” en oproepen tot “Jodenjacht”: na antisemitische boodschappen op social media wil burgemeester Bart De Wever meer beveiliging op straat. Maar hoe onveilig voelen de mensen zich daar zelf? We vragen het aan GVA-reporters Elien Vanwynsberghe en Sasha Van Wiele. “Ze zeggen dat ze zich veilig voelen. Maar als je die verhalen hoort: dat hoort eigenlijk niet normaal te zijn.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Balance de la primera jornada de voluntariado convocado por la GVA

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In this episode we explore how the ONS measures our natural environment and the green economy.        Relevant datasets: ONS Environmental Accounts    Transcript     MILES FLETCHER   Welcome again to Statistically Speaking, the official podcast of the UK's Office for National Statistics. I'm Miles Fletcher and this time we're getting back to nature as we explore the work of the ONS in measuring the economic and social value of the natural environment.   Is classical economic growth - as measured by gross domestic product or GDP - always achieved at the expense of the environment? What price can we put on the amenities our environment provides? What is the green economy and what are green jobs? And what are the key data to watch as policymakers strive for net zero carbon emissions, while also seeking to improve national prosperity?   Our guides through the rich and perhaps under explored landscape of environmental data are ONS's Deputy Director for Environmental Statistics Analysis, Ian Townsend; Head of Natural Capital Accounts, Gemma Thomas; and Sophie Barrand, Monetary Accounts lead in the Environmental Accounts team.   Welcome to you all.  Ian to come to you first. The ONS is mainly known for measuring the economy and the population of the UK. So, what exactly is its role when it comes to the environment? What are we seeking to achieve?  What do we do? What do we publish?   IAN TOWNSEND So the environment is quite a broad topic that links with a lot of other issues and a lot of different national and devolved government departments and other related bodies producing statistics on the environment. And with all that range of statistics, we tend to focus at the ONS on the intersections between our environment and both the economy and society. This includes measuring what we call the Low Carbon and renewable energy economy, how many green jobs there are, the greenhouse gas emissions produced by different economic sectors, and valuing the services that nature provides to us, as well as providing rapid insights into what people and business think about climate change in the environment and their actions or indeed otherwise.    MF And what are the major publications that come out of the ONS that people ought to be looking at to get a sense of what we're saying about the environment and its value?   IT So I mentioned a couple in the introduction there - things like low carbon and renewable energy economy, green jobs, etc... and our emissions figures. But perhaps one that is quite worth bringing to the fore is our natural capital accounts. So, it's something we've done for several years, which basically looks at the value that ecosystems provide to nature and ecosystems provide to us, and the services that provides. So, we bring this out as a report every year - have done so for several years - and that looks beyond the economy, beyond gross domestic product, to look at all those natural resources and we found that in 2021, the total value of all those natural assets was around one and a half trillion pounds. It's such a big figure, I think it can be quite hard for people to grasp. But a useful comparison might be that it's not that far off the 1.7 trillion pounds that homes in the UK were valued at in 2021 as well.   MF It's very difficult to arrive at a financial figure or value like that. Can you just give us a brief explanation of how it's calculated?    IT Sure. So, there are internationally agreed guidelines that we follow around how to measure or indeed account for the current value of what natural capital could provide for us and our current and future generations. And all that process, all those guidelines are aligned with how we measure the GDP in the economy. It's really quite a complex exercise and includes things like the value of trees, rivers, peatlands, and many other habitats and natural resources in them. We've been developing and improving these approaches for probably at least 10 years, and probably have some of the most developed accounts in this form globally. Our estimates have improved over the years. But there are some things that we don't cover. So, in a way, this is probably best seen as a kind of partial and minimum value, even though it's already very large. And it's also part of a wider mission that the ONS has to capture the value of what's called missing capital, things that we don't currently measure so well in gross domestic product. So that's including social capital as well as natural capital. So that's called ‘inclusive wealth' and that's another publication the ONS produces that people might be interested to have a look at.   MF And it's important, I guess, to have this economic value of the environment so that can be compared against the traditional measure of economic progress and prosperity, which of course is GDP. And it's sometimes – and we've heard this in other podcasts - because GDP is like the big beast of the economic statistical world. It's very important, it's very influential, but of course it does have significant weaknesses and omissions, and notably its lack of account for environmental factors being notoriously one of those.   IT Sure. And actually, there's a process going on right now internationally that would bring some of that into the way that we measure some of the key economic indicators. But I think one of the key things you say is putting out there is a measure of how our natural capital assets are doing. But I think the other real benefit of these statistics, and particularly the natural capital accounts, is that it helps literally to account for nature to give an estimate of some of the benefits that the environment does provide. So, when people make decisions, they can take that into account. We're not exactly saying that nature has this given value. It's more that that's the value that we've estimated so far that provides those. It helps people to make sure that when they're taking their decisions, they take into account what would happen if we reduced or depleted that natural capital, and indeed, the benefits we might get in the future if we were to increase that natural capital as well.   MF Because – and this is the other side of the question – high per capita GDP often goes with high carbon emissions in an economy, doesn't it? This way, we can look at the other side of the balance sheet and say, well, yes, you might be achieving this high economic performance in traditional terms, but look at the cost on the other side and, as you say, this is part of a big international movement to recognize that called ‘beyond GDP', which is a topic we've covered in previous podcasts already.     IT Sure.  I think, just getting back to your point around GDP and emissions one of the things that we produce in the ONS is a piece around a different emissions measurements there are, and actually if you look at those, you'll see that over time, all those measures have been reducing. So there is an element to which whilst the economy is expanding, we are actually reducing emissions on all three different measures that are available.    MF And we say the environment is - we're putting it at 1.5 trillion pounds – that's the capital value of the natural environment, broadly equivalent to the value of all the houses in the UK. Some people might say that's a low figure perhaps you can think we measure human capital being much, much greater than that but that's a debate for another time. But explain for us who is using this number, how does it inform decision making at the moment at national and local level? How might it influence policymakers in future do you think?    IT Sure, I think it's not necessarily about the big number at the top although that is one that will get a lot of interest from people and as you say, it might be an underestimate. I mentioned that there are some aspects of nature that we don't currently measure. But in terms of how it's used lots and lots of detail that's available underneath that key figure in the natural capital accounts we publish every year, at kind of macro level. The figures we use are important considerations for decision making by UK and devolved governments. So Defra published a policy paper, for example, on the accounts, I think, a couple of years back, which looked at what the key takeaways for policy there were from there, and we think that some of the figures were used in some of the bids that departments put in for the 2021 Spending Review. I think at the micro level figures are definitely used in the analysis of costs and benefits that are used for judging different government projects. It's part of what Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs call enabling a natural capital approach - it is in that guidance, and that has a lot of impact at kind of micro level. We're also publishing more and more data from the natural capital accounts at a local level. And making that available means that councils and others can use that in their decision making as well. And we're also building our connections and encouraging use where we can and it's also something that's being worked on internationally as well, which we're part of working with other national statistics offices and the UN.   MF Turning to Gemma then, you're the head of natural capital accounts at the ONS. Let's get into the nuts and bolts then of what contributes to this valuation, this figure, because by understanding that we can better understand what it contributes to the economy and what it contributes to our wellbeing. Talk us through those elements if you would.   GEMMA THOMAS Yeah, of course. So as Ian mentioned, there's some international standards that we abide by, but essentially what we do is we say, okay, what services does nature provide to us? And we identify those services, and then we attempt to put a value on them. Now those services can fall into three broad categories. The first would be provisioning services, which might be what you would expect the environment to provide and nature to provide such as things like timber, oil and gas, so it's all the goods that are provided by the Environment, water, renewable energy, and they are what we call provisioning services...    MF How we exploit the environment, to put it coldly.   GT You said that Miles, not me. [Laughing] But yes, it's where we capture the goods that the environment does provide. But the other things that nature does for us is it regulates, so regulated services are another part of services and where nature helps maintain the quality of the environment. And so a sort of obvious example of this can be where vegetation removes pollutants from the air, but also nature can mitigate noise. So if you're in an urban area, and there's lots of trees that can mitigate noise pollution, or heat, it can regulate heat. So that's another example. And the other example that is maybe not so obvious is what we call cultural services and they are the non-material benefits that we obtain, such as recreation. And actually, in many of our publications, we have found that those services provide the greatest asset value, the cultural services, actually almost two thirds in 2021 of all of that 1.5 trillion figure, 950 billion of that was from cultural services.   MF That's why I mentioned exploitation - like it or not it's the traditional economic exploitation of the environment, when we talk about those things that we take out of the environment. But what the ONS has established, certainly when it comes to the UK's environment, it's actually the amenity value of the environment, which contributes more to our economy.    GT Yes, exactly. And actually, when you say about that exploitation, this is one of the benefits of the natural capital accounts because we measure actually the value of 16 different services at this moment in time and it allows us to be able to see things like actually, in terms of value, for example, it is more valuable to the UK to have pollution removal from woodlands than it is to obtain timber or wood fuel, and we put values on that. So yes, as you say, it's cultural and recreation. And that's in a couple of ways. There's expenditure on recreation, and tourism. But there's also, and this is the biggest asset that we've found, is health benefits from recreation that was worth in 2021, nearly half a trillion so 445 billion.   MF Crikey, that is a big number! Can you unpack that for us then, what are the health benefits that we're itemizing there?   GT Research has found, outside of the ONS, that spending time in nature has a positive impact on your health and wellbeing. But interestingly, you need to spend on average two hours a week in nature. So some of our figures, and this is the great thing that you can sort of dig under the hood a little bit, is you can see things like maybe more people are visiting nature, but if they're not doing it for long enough or regularly enough, they can't obtain that health benefit. And that is what our data has found in 2021 and 2022. There was a slight drop in the sort of health benefits gained from nature because people weren't going for long enough. In terms of measurement. We have experts in the team who are excellent and they work with lots of people across government, but essentially it's sort of calculated in the number of years of a life lived in perfect health and then what we do is we say how much would the NHS have to spend to provide the equivalent health benefits and that's how it's done. But yeah, it's just a really good example of how that sort of top figure can sound interesting but when you dig in is a real story and there of nuance.   MF I guess that also reflects the importance of when we're talking about the environment. It's not just the great outdoors, it's not the wide open spaces necessarily. It's about having environmental areas near towns and cities as well where people can get out and feel the benefits of exercise and fresh air and so forth.   GT Exactly. And actually it's really interesting you mentioned that, because some of the things that are found that can be quite difficult to explain to people is that actually nature can have more value in some situations in urban areas than in rural areas. So if you take the example of pollution, there's more pollution in urban areas and there are more people breathing in that pollution. So by having trees and woodlands, etc within them that can absorb that pollution, that means that there's a higher value in that. That's why we have to be careful in how we explain all of our figures because sometimes a higher value - not in general, not for the top level, but for some of them - is not necessarily a good thing. Because if you think about it, if there's absolutely no pollution, then trees wouldn't be removing that pollution, and the value of that would be zero. So it's a challenging thing to communicate and get across to users, yeah.    MF It's a fascinating equation, isn't it? And also in terms of outputs, of course, we can't ignore the growing influence of renewables, which of course is energy from the environment.   GT Yes, exactly. Yes. And that's a service that's actually seen some really big growth in its asset size as we possibly would expect over recent years.   MF  Give us the numbers on that.  GT  The renewable energy was worth 40.7 billion, although I have to say - which will be surprising to some people - the oil and gas asset value is actually still higher than that at 111 billion. So, it shows that although things are changing and renewable energy has seen the biggest growth, at present oil and gas would still have a higher asset value.     MF We'll talk a little about the dash for net zero, or progress towards Net Zero at least, a little bit later. But nonetheless, it can't be ignored that is renewable electricity provision increased by we're saying 275% between 2011 and 2021. The last estimates - that's 21,899 gigawatt hours. So almost a threefold increase and, you know, without being political the drift of policy is to increase that much, much more.   GT Yeah, we have. We have seen that, and you'll see that across all of our figures. Renewable is definitely a growing sector.   MF We've talked about what we get out in a traditional economic sense of course, but historically the biggest example has been agriculture, and farmland. There's a big debate going on about the use of farmland and again, in classical GDP terms, the contribution of agriculture has not been great because it's been maintained by subsidies traditionally - at the risk of upsetting the farming community. Could we say that the decline in closed farmland being reported is because less and less of our natural environment is devoted now to agriculture? Are we saying that we can move away from that as long as the other economic benefits of the environment are being delivered on the other side of the equation?   GT Well, I think with any sort of figures, you need to look at it in the round. So, you could look in isolation within the natural capital accounts, but in reality you'd need to look at, you know, employment and those sorts of things. I mean, the interesting thing about the natural capital accounts is that technically farmed land - we need to look at it in its raw state. I mean, we can't yet separate that with our figures, but it's about what nature provides us. So, for example, we wouldn't include farmed fish, but we would include wild fish catch. So, with the national capital accounts, what we aim to do is separate that out. But in terms of the amount of farmland we can record that and we can publish that and look at it, but I think for anyone making decisions, they probably need to look at the whole.   MF But certainly we're saying that woodland, for example, is contributing more to the economy in terms of its beneficial effects in offsetting carbon and removing pollution, than it actually contributes through the felling of timber.   GT Yes, yes, that is very clear from our figures.   MF And indeed there are some other takeaways from the publication as well as. In cruder financial terms, just living closer to nature can be good for the value of your house.   GT Yes, yes. So, where we don't have a price, we have to look at a way to value it. And so, we know that being close to nature or having a nice view can add value to your house. I think it added around 1.5% To the average house price in 2021, or just under 5000 pounds, 4700. It did vary though by the type of property and flats and maisonettes it added around 4%. So yes, being close to nature and accessing nature, having access to green space is really important and in fact we have publications on our urban accounts, which pull that out, and as well on our house prices, where those interested can look in more detail.    MF Of course this continues to be a big area of ‘work in progress'. What other measures could potentially be included, particularly as the response to global warming continues to be refined and developed?   GT So yes, at the moment, I believe it was mentioned earlier that we cast this almost as an underestimate. We know there are services we're not capturing. So, for example, flood regulating services. So how much nature helps in preventing floods, that is an area that we are hoping to develop, but it is quite challenging. We do look for areas where we can maybe produce more local stats to help the decisions at the local level. Because it's not just our data that's really important. It is also our methods. Our methods get used by sort of local authorities and those who maybe want to produce their own sort of natural capital accounts for their region. So, it's something we're looking to develop.   MF And I guess it's going to be vital if we're looking at an era of increased house building. Once again, we can look at the other side of the balance sheet and say, okay, this is this is going to be the environmental cost of the development before major decisions are taken.    GT Yes, essentially. It's just about making it easier for decision makers to see that actually it does have this value, rather than before when it would be anecdotal. Now by having these figures, you can measure those up and use it in sort of cost benefit analysis. Yeah.    [Music Break]   MF Well, that's a fascinating look under the bonnet of natural capital, a concept that's clearly evolving in stature, in a really fascinating and important way. Another area that the ONS is very much involved in, and a very important set of publications that the ONS produces are the environmental accounts. Sophie Barrand joins us now. Sophie, you're the lead on monetary accounts in that team. Just to start, can you explain for us what's covered in the environmental accounts; what's the publication for?   SOPHIE BARRAND Yeah, so our environmental accounts ultimately looks to measure the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of economic activity on the environment. So, when we're thinking about changes in an area that's constantly evolving, it's rather a tricky thing. So, in general, what we consider is how our measures work as different pieces of this net zero puzzle where each informs the other. So, our accounts produce information on UK greenhouse gas emissions, things like economic measures of low carbon activities, government revenue from environmental taxes, and things like the use of different energy types and whether we're moving to more renewable alternatives, just to name a few. So ultimately, we're looking to quantify the flows that impact on the environment through both physical and monetary ways.    MF So natural capital if you like is the stock, and in the Environmental Accounts we're looking at the flows, we're looking at the nature of change.   SB Absolutely, yes. So, we're looking at measures of things that can sometimes be considered as the green economy. So, if we were to try and put a value on things like the environmental goods and services sector, the services and goods that sort of flow within that space, we look to produce annual estimates of that data. And within that we can also draw from different measures from each parts of our accounts. And because we produce our data on what's called a residency basis, that is any activity as part of UK registered businesses, it means that it's aligned with our national accounts data so we can start to compare across our measures, and consider things like how does our data compare to measures such as GDP or GVA and where we sort of fit within that space. So, it's really interesting to uncover some of these trends.   MF  And when we talk about progress towards net zero, this is where the action happens, isn't it? This is where progress towards that is tracked.   SB So within net zero, the measures that typically get used to action net zero is the territorial approach to measuring greenhouse gas emissions. So those are figures produced by DESNZ and what we do is we communicate that information on a residency basis to align with the national accounts side of things.   MF DESNZ being the government department concerned here.    SB Yes, so the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. And what we can do with our accounts is that we can compare with regards to broader measures such as GDP and GVA, how we can capture some of those trends, but what we're ultimately seeing across all three of the measures of greenhouse gas emissions is that they are falling over time, which we can go into a bit more detail on.    MF Yeah, well let's get stuck into that detail because it's a crucial area of public policy right now. And it's surely going to continue to be over the next few years. What are the data telling us at the moment then, what are the most compelling findings around greenhouse gas emissions and carbon generally?   SB Yeah, so what we've seen is a reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. Though we have experienced an increase in recent years that does reflect the economy coming back from the period affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, and what we've seen is that the largest contribution to the decrease across our time series has come from energy industries such as electricity and gas supply, and what we've seen as well is the compositional shift within this space where there's been a shift away from fossil fuel use and a move towards renewable sources. So, for example, in 2022, we saw the energy from renewable sources accounted for nearly 14% of all energy use in the UK. And although that figure has been increasing, we are still seeing a large reliance on fossil fuels, and it remains at 81% in 2022.    MF You talk about the substantial reduction in emissions, what about the suggestion that is sometimes made that countries, like the UK, have effectively exported their emissions simply by closing down their heavy fossil fuel driven industries?   SB Just in terms of exporting emissions, it's a really tricky space.    MF  How so?  SB  So, for example, within our statistics, because we cover a residency basis, we do capture some parts that might sort of deviate into that space. Because we measure UK registered businesses and residents the effect of things like UK tourism and the emissions data for that is going to be captured within that space. But then for example, when we look at the aviation industry within the UK, we do capture some of that so where we have the UK registered businesses such as British Airways, activity from that space across our accounts will be captured, but things like Ryanair wouldn't be captured because I believe it's an Irish registered business.   MF I was going to ask you how flights are accounted for, because we're told constantly, of course, that they are a big contributor to emissions. So if you're a British airline you count towards UK emissions, it's not flights flying over Britain or flights terminating or starting in Britain. It's a much more economic analysis, then, it's aeroplanes that are essentially British owned, is that how we do it?   SB Exactly yeah, so it's UK registered. So if they're a company that are registered as being a UK business, then it will capture that activity, but there's no sort of physical boundaries that you might experience with other measures. It's more of, as you say, an economic term where it's more about the registration of the business.   MF Well that does say something about what a global issue this is really. If it's not measured in that local way, it's an issue for the world to address collectively.   SB Absolutely. And by combining those international comparisons, it should give you that full picture of exactly what's happening there. We can do that across different measures of our accounts as well. And for example, within the environmental taxation space, we put our taxation data in the context of the sort of broader international space where we compare against EU countries for example, so with all of our measures, what we're really looking to do is to sort of piece together this net zero puzzle, and each of our measures look to inform the other, and it is not without that broad picture that you can actually start to understand some of these.   MF Certainly where we are now, it's households that are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, and previously of course it used to be the industrial sector. So it explains the policy focus doesn't it on households and vehicles as well, because those are the big emitters of greenhouse gases as far as the UK is now concerned.   SB Yes. So you touched on households there, as you say they now emit more greenhouse gas emissions than any other economic sector. And while households do tend to have limited influence over emissions related to things like heating their homes, we have seen that half of all household emissions do come from travel. And as you can imagine, we saw dips in these in the Coronavirus period. Where the biggest emitters used to be energy and manufacturing there has been a switch from oil to gas and things around improved processes. And the more recent increase that we've seen in renewables has seen big declines in greenhouse gas emissions from these two sectors in particular.   MF Have we seen any lasting impacts from the pandemic or have things just reverted back to exactly as they were before?   SB So it depends on which measure you're looking at as to how continuous the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic was with our statistics. So for example, with our environmental taxes, we saw quite a big dip there after a relatively stable annual increase. Since then it's pretty much bounced back to what it was in 2019 and we'll look to future years to see whether this continues. Transport is now responsible for 16% of all UK greenhouse gas emissions and because of its increased importance in our stats when all transport stops during the pandemic greenhouse gas emissions did fall dramatically by about 11% or so, and with the recovering of transport we have seen the greenhouse gas emissions have increased in recent years.    MF So to that extent people have reverted to their same old pre-pandemic ways, which raises a whole question of how policymakers can influence behaviors and of course the classic way for policymakers to stop people doing things is to tax them. And the effectiveness, or otherwise, of environmental taxes Sophie is something we also look into, because that's a very important factor in all this. Tell us what we've found about all that.   SB The intention of those is to create these behavioural shifts and allow people to be making those decisions to move towards more environmentally friendly alternatives. So what we found is that through this taxation we have raised 52 and a half billion pounds in 2023 in the UK, with fuel duty being the single largest tax contributor to this at nearly half the amount. This coincides quite nicely with what we're seeing on the greenhouse gas emissions data where consumer expenditure from car transport is contributing largely to this. In the international space, when we look at our environmental tax figure as a percentage of GDP, this now amounts to 2% of GDP. So that sits a bit lower than the EU average, which currently sits at 2.3%.    MF What other environmental taxes are there then that are included, which again, might be varied or even increased in the years to come?   SB That's a very good question. So we're constantly considering how our statistics might evolve, and how our definitions might evolve. Some examples about environmental taxes include things like energy taxes, so things like your fuel duty and taxes on the type of energy sources that you're using. We then also have things like transport taxes. So these are air passenger duty, and things like that. But then we also have what we call pollution and resource taxes. So one of the most recently introduced ones of those is plastic packaging tax. So we do split up the different tax types in our release.   MF And again, on a local level, there's the whole question of how effective low emission zones are, and the crackdown on old diesel cars and so forth. Is that local picture available if you're a local authority seeking to investigate the effectiveness of measures like that?   SB So we don't currently disaggregate our data into below UK level unfortunately, but we are constantly discussing these things and I believe there's a discussion this year around the low emission zones and how we classify these. We generally follow the national tax list when it comes to categorizing our different taxes. So we're regularly reviewing these and considering which could be considered environmental and which wouldn't.   MF Interesting. Finally then with you Sophie, the whole question of jobs and employment, because if you look at traditional economic measures you want to have lots of people in productive industries making things, creating economic value. When the environmental factor comes in of course, you can see reasons why it's not such a great idea to have lots of people working in high emitting industries, and that's where the whole concept of green jobs - and on the other side of the fence, non-green jobs – is something the ONS has been developing its work around as well.   SB Yes, absolutely. So in looking at employment, which is an area of the economy with high user interest, particularly with regards to the green job space, we can look at things like jobs in high emitting industries as an example. So what we've seen is that five industry sections have accounted for around 82% of total industry greenhouse gas emissions across the UK, and of these five industries they employed around 16%. So that's one in every six or so UK employees.   MF Now there are some quite substantial variations around the UK regionally, when it comes to the numbers of people employed in these non-green jobs, aren't there?   SB Yeah, so what we're seeing is that one in five Midlands workers were in high emissions industries in this time compared with one in 12 workers in London.   MF And Gemma then, this idea of a green job and a non-green job, how do we define those two things?   GT Well Miles, it's really, really challenging, and it's something that ONS has been working on for a long time and it's been a real leader in the field. You'd think, “Oh, green job”, and that term is used a lot. But in reality, it can mean different things to different people. ONS has done a lot of work over the years like with the low carbon economy, measuring that where that is looking at things in the low carbon and renewable energy space. But we realised that people wanted more and they wanted this definition and after a lot of work and discussion, we have agreed a definition where it's as: ‘Employment and activity that contributes to protecting or restoring the environment, including those that mitigate or adapt to climate change.' And I think the key thing is it's wider than net zero. It's also about nature. It's also about jobs that are protecting nature, not just those that are helping to reduce emissions. And then in terms of non-green or brown as it's sometimes called, that is a challenge. And that's where Sophie has talked about, we look at high emitting industries. Because in reality you need to be practical, and those are the industries that maybe we'll see the most change - the industries that have high emissions. The real challenge, though, is that our current classification systems, you know, some of those green jobs will occur in those high emission industries. You think of things like the energy sector, not only does it have oil and gas jobs, but it also has renewable energies, and our way that we currently do economic statistics doesn't allow us to break that down. And that's the big challenge and that's what people are grappling with including us at the ONS.   MF Thank you Gemma. And Ian then, finally from you. This whole question of nailing down precisely what is a green job, what is the green economy - as we've heard from Gemma, it's very dynamic and there is a lot of work going on in this area. But where is this all going internationally? How are we collaborating with other statistical organisations around the world on this, and is there anything we can learn from other countries?   IT I think in many ways we're near the front of the pack on this internationally. So a lot of the work we've been doing is about sharing our experiences, and in the kind of broader space of environment measurement we're very involved with the UN in particular, particularly on natural capital accounts. And we're also looking at some major revisions to some of the systems that underlie how we do these things. So for example, there's a big shift internationally in the way that we measure GDP and there's an element of that which is around the environment, so we're engaged with that too. So quite a lot going on in that space. We also have regular bilaterals with other national stats institutes as well, to share learning and understand what other people are doing. And obviously, the more organisations doing this work, the more mutual learning we can benefit from as well.   MF And how do you see things developing from here on, in terms of ONS's measurement of the environment?   IT I think we've been able to do quite a lot over the last few years, building on great work over a much longer period. And there's a lot that we could be doing- of course the challenge is always about channeling the resources available to the highest impact activity that we can be doing. I think one of the things we're going to be looking at is to move to accredited ‘official statistics' status for the natural capital accounts. It might sound a bit inward looking but it's a real mark of quality that we'd like to have, and it would set it alongside economic statistics that have that kind of accreditation. We're also reflecting on, of course, the new government's priorities following the general election. One of the things that we've been experiencing quite a lot of demand for, and particularly from local and combined authorities across the country is around greater granularity for our environmental data - so data at Local Authority / Combined Authority levels. So that might be in the mix. It's something we've been thinking about and gradually releasing more for. We'll also continue to be working across the ONS and across the wider government statistics service on the topic as well, so do watch out for collaborations in that space. And of course, as we've just talked about, the international aspects as well. And of course, we always welcome interest and feedback in our work, so if people are interested, please do get in touch.   MF I'm sure they will. And it's worth pointing out to our listeners that once a quarter, the ONS publishes key statistics on Wellbeing and Beyond GDP, which can help people understand the environment in the context of the economy. And I think on the same day you can also check out the latest quarterly greenhouse gas emissions data.   That's it for another episode of ‘Statistically Speaking'. Thanks to Gemma Thomas, Sophie Barrand and Ian Townsend for joining us. And of course as ever thanks to you for listening.  You can subscribe to future episodes of this podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts and all the other major podcast platforms.    You can also follow us on ‘X' - previously known as Twitter - via the @ONSfocus feed.     I'm Miles Fletcher and from myself, and our producer Steve Milne... goodbye.   ENDS 

ADS Group's latest annual report shows bullish growth across the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors, with aerospace, in particular, continuing to rebound strongly from the pandemic. These industries contributed £38.2bn in gross value add (GVA) to the UK economy, a sizeable increase from £37bn the previous year and almost 20% of total manufacturing GVA. Turnover rose to £88.4bn, up from £82bn, and exports to £38.7bn, compared to £36bn. Direct employment also experienced a sizeable uptick, reaching 427,500 jobs, up from 417,000. As uplifting as these year-on-year increases are, the true scale of expansion becomes more apparent when viewed over a somewhat longer period. For the first time, the 2024 report includes ADS' analysis of how the UK aerospace, defence, security and space sectors have performed over the past decade. Between 2013 and 2023, these industries delivered ‘truly staggering' growth, as described by one spokesperson: GVA increased by 50%, turnover by 40%, exports by 32% and employment by 29%. That the past decade has been marked by frequent disruption, downturns and delays makes this more remarkable. Aimie Stone, Chief Economist at ADS, says this success is due to aerospace, defence, security and space is reliant on a highly skilled workforce, a strong culture of innovation and the rapid development and adoption of new technologies and techniques. WORLD-LEADING R&D The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), for example, plays a pivotal role in advancing the UK's global reputation for innovation. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024, the strategic partnership between industry and government has a particular focus on cleaner and greener air travel.  Since its creation, the ATI programme has allocated £3.6bn of joint government-industry funding to more than 400 aerospace R&D projects across the UK. Notable successes include the Rolls-Royce UltraFan demonstrator engine, which reportedly boasts a 10% efficiency improvement over the Trent XWB, the world's most efficient engine in service today. Another key initiative is the Airbus-led Wing of Tomorrow programme, which is developing the next generation of carbon composite aircraft wings. A new Wing Technology Development Centre (WTDC) recently opened in Bristol and is now working in parallel with Filton's existing Aerospace Integrated Research and Technology Centre (AIRTeC), which opened in 2021. Other research facilities that have benefited from substantial ATI investment include the Osney lab in Oxford, the new Whittle Lab in Cambridge and the National Centre for Combustion and Aerothermal Technology in Loughborough. Alongside supporting global OEMs, the ATI is also helping nurture the UK's thriving ecosystem of SMEs, such as ZeroAvia, developing hydrogen-electric engines for zero-emission flight. Reflecting on the 10-year milestone, Val Miftakhov, Founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, says the ATI's impact on advancing zero-emission hydrogen engines within the industry is of ‘huge importance.' He says this will not only help deliver “a clean future for flight” but predicts it will bolster the UK's ability to “capture more exports as the world becomes reliant on cleaner propulsion technologies.” SOARING EXPORT GROWTH Strong export performances underpin growth, generating nearly half of the combined turnover. The security sector has seen tremendous export growth of 228% since 2013, demonstrating the growing global demand for the UK's cutting-edge security technologies and solutions. Geopolitical tensions and proliferating international security challenges have also heightened demand for advanced military equipment and cybersecurity measures. The UK has established itself as a leading developer of high-tech defence systems, whether on land, sea, beneath the waves or in the air – manned, partially unmanned or fully autonomous. This strategic positioning has led to a substantial 28% year-on-year increase in defence exports. ADS' Aimie Stone expects defence exports to continue to grow, driven by the UK's continued strengthening relations with the EU, collaborative efforts with NATO allies and participation in major international programmes such as AUKUS and the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). Rising passenger demand for long-haul travel and renewed interest from airlines in updating their fleets with more fuel-efficient and technologically advanced aircraft have seen record-breaking global orders for widebody aircraft – up 169% in 2023 compared to 2022. This trend will bring significant benefits to the UK, says Stone, as almost 20% of the value content of widebody aircraft comes from the UK, with engines and wings representing the largest share. One company reaping the benefit is Arrowsmith Engineering, whose overseas sales have rocketed by nearly 400% following the pandemic and now account for a third of its £8.3m turnover. Precision components manufactured at its Coventry factory are shipped to customers in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Singapore and Spain for use in aerospace engines, landing gears and airframes. Shortly after receiving its second King's Award for International Trade earlier this year, Arrowsmith Engineering announced a string of new contract wins, resulting in the largest order book in its 57-year history. According to Jason Aldridge, Managing Director, investments in new technology and robotics, along with the creation of 10 new jobs, have provided the capacity and capability to win work against much larger rivals. The company recently expanded its capacity further with the delivery of two additional dual spindle Lynx 21000ISLYA/B CNC machines from Mills. This follows the success of its installed 5-axis DVF5000 and 4-axis DNM4500 cobot systems. A LONG-TERM VISION Another transformative opportunity for the UK lies in the rapidly expanding global space economy, where the country has already established itself as a world leader across multiple domains. Bolstered by technological innovations and strategic investments – both public and private, the UK is poised to unlock new capabilities and skills in launch capabilities, satellite communications, surveillance and reconnaissance, position, navigation and timing (PNT), in-orbit services and manufacturing, among others.   Ensuring space exploration and operations are sustainable is a key focus, as it is across aerospace, defence and security. Efforts are underway to develop cleaner propulsion technologies for satellite launches and to tackle the escalating challenge of space debris. ClearSpace, for instance, intends to do just that through its CLEAR Mission, funded under the UK Space Agency's national debris removal programme. The company plans to deploy its novel robotic capture system to safely remove two obsolete, washing-machine-sized UK satellites from orbit. By leveraging advanced technologies to mitigate the risks posed by space debris to satellites and crewed space stations, ClearSpace aims to ensure cleaner, safer and more sustainable space orbits. Space and sustainability are central themes for Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) 2024, alongside innovation, defence, skills and future flight. FIA provides a crucial platform to showcase the UK's aerospace, defence, security and space capabilities to a global audience, and holds tremendous political importance. Even more so this year. FIA 2024 is scheduled just two weeks after a general election, which could bring a change of government. This shift brings new uncertainty at a critical time. Recent government commitments indicate a growing intent to develop a new generation of aircraft, defence systems and space technologies, supporting thousands of high-skilled jobs nationwide. The UK has untold opportunities to develop and expand its existing strengths, from additive manufacturing and lightweighting to decarbonisation and the use of quantum computers for threat mapping. Given the political instability the country has experienced of late, it's imperative that the party in power acknowledges the international attention FIA receives and harnesses it to send a clear signal to industry and the global community that the UK takes these opportunities seriously. Uncertainty and ambiguity often spook markets, notes ADS' Aimie Stone, adding that while the UK may not match other nations in funding levels, it can surpass them with a clear, robust and long-term strategy. Reflecting on the past 10 years, the UK aerospace, defence, security and space sectors have made remarkable progress. Looking ahead to the next decade and beyond, the stage is set for the UK to build on these achievements. And the time to start is now.

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18 New CA Gun Laws That Take Effect In 2024 And Beyond CALIFORNIA — More than 42,000 people died of gun violence in the United States during 2023. The Dec. 29 figure comes from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that touts itself as an independent data collection and research institute with no affiliation to any advocacy group. The Golden State was not spared firearm deaths over the last year, according to GVA. California saw its share of suicides, mass shootings, homicides and accidental gun deaths involving all ages, races and genders. In response to firearm violence, state lawmakers... View Article

Penny Hacking, Principal, Member of the European Executive team, and Managing Director of European Capital Markets at Avison Young. Penny has over 25 years' experience in EMEA Capital Markets having transacted in excess of 3bn Euros in all the major markets in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Nordics and CEE. She has experience across all sectors but has a predominant focus on industrial, logistics and offices. She has worked with clients such as Tristan Capital Partners, UBS, CBRE GI, Prologis, Evans Randall and WP Carey, adding value to investors and owner occupiers on dispositions, acquisitions, joint ventures, forward funding and forward commits. Penny has worked at King Sturge, JLL, Victorios and GVA during her career and is at the forefront of delivering change and driving diversity, equity and inclusion across our industry. I sat down with Penny to discuss a broad range of subjects, which covered some of the following topics:   * How she got into real estate  * European market recovery * What makes a good agent * Female representation in investment agency * How the industry has evolved * Sale & leaseback  * Buyside & Sellside mandates   Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Penny invest should she have £500m of capital at her disposal.   Catch the full episode, which is live on Spotify, Apple and Youtube NOW!   The People Property Place Podcast

We discuss Les 2 Alpes in France, Trysil in Norway and find out more about a great new way of travelling to the snow on your ski holiday. Iain was joined by freelance journalist, Rebecca Miles and Tarrant Anderson, founder of Vans For Bands. Intersport Ski Hire Discount Code Save money on your ski hire by using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' at intersportrent.com, or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout.  SHOW NOTES David George joined me to discuss the impact of climate change on ski resorts in Episode 206 (3:30) Simon Burgess was in Flaine (3:45) Steve Angus reported from Val d'Isère (4:45) Alex Irwin from 150 Days of Winter reported from Courchevel (6:20) Iain took part in the X3 Triathlon in Courchevel in 2022 (7:00) It was the warmest start to April ever in France, hitting 29C in Grenoble & 27C in Albertville (8:15) This winter was already the third warmest winter in France (8:30) Lobbying is underway for a direct Train from London to GVA (8:45) Take a look at this year's ski April Fools in this Skipedia blog post (9:15) Vail Resorts themed April Fools including Disney buying Vail Resorts &  Vail buys Alterra(12:30) Les 2 Alpes is a great trip for older teens looking for apres-ski! (13:30) Highly recommended is the Umbrella Bar (14:00) Anthony Guzman is Sales & Marketing Director at Les 2 Alpes lift company AEON (14:15) SATA has rebranded as AEON (15:15) You can find out more about the new Jandri 3S lift here (17:00) Iain drove to Les 2 Alpes in a 9-seater luxury splitter minivans from Vans For Bands (23:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tYRSizJYAE Vans For Bands was founded in 2006 (23:15) The VFB coaches are like ‘hotels on wheels' (26:30) Listen to Iain's interview with Bode Miller (27:00) There is SO MUCH storage space (31:00) Vans cost from £145pd to rent, including insurance, breakdown cover & snow chains You can drive a splitter van on a regular driving licence (33:15) Read Bec's article about Trysil in The Telegraph (34:30) Becs flew into Scandinavian Mountain Airport (35:30) Find out more about Trysil ski resort (39:00) Have a look at the piste map for Trysil (40:30) Is Salen the closest ski resort to an airport? (42:15) Find out more about train travel to ski resorts at Ski Flight Free (46:00) Becs booked group train travel with Eurostar and SNCF at a good discount (46:45) Feedback (43:30) I enjoy all feedback about the show, I like to know what you think, especially about our features so please contact on social @theskipodcast or by email theskipodcast@gmail.com Adam Fisher: "Really enjoy listening to the podcast, you're doing a great job. It helps me out with a bit of research. I'll just let you know that I am your English but Mexican listener as I spend a bit of time over there" Michael Hart: "Enjoyed listening to The Ski Podcast as usual. I appreciate the work you do both on sustainability, but mindful of the difficulties that skiers in the north/Scotland have with train travel. I have taken the decision to offset my carbon to mitigate air travel, but the lack of economically viable train option from Manchester and similar areas remains a problem." Andy Aitkenhead: "I found the recent episode on Andermatt and Vail Resorts of interest - I was in Andermatt just before the deal was announced. I'm heading to Engelberg in just over a week. I'm currently wrestling over travel - given my concerns around climate change. Currently my calculations are that it will be cheaper to fly. I wondered whether you have any tips for reducing the cost over the Eurostar and SNCF published prices. Keep up the good work with the podcast." If you like the podcast, there are three things you can do to help:   1) Review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 2) Subscribe 3) Book your ski hire with Intersport Rent using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout   You can follow Iain @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast 

Could selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) trigger violent and even homicidal behavior? Which non-drug treatments can be effective against depression? There were 656* mass shootings in America in 2023 according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA). This up from 272 mass shootings in 2014 when the GVA began logging data. Amid the gun rights versus gun control debate, some have pointed to SSRI antidepressants as a potential trigger for mass shootings. Can antidepressants fuel violent behavior? When can antidepressants do more harm than good? Today, Dr. Jingduan Yang MD joins Vital Signs with Brendon Fallon to probe these and other aspects of treating depression. If the “patient has trouble metabolizing the SSRI…that can cause so called serotonin syndrome – Basically, people get disoriented from [other] people, places, and time,” says Dr. Yang highlighting one lesser known side effect of SSRIs. Dr Yang is a psychiatrist and integrative medicine doctor who combines western medicine with traditional Chinese medicine. As such he is experienced in non-pharmaceutical treatments of depression. In this Vital Signs episode he discusses transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), ketamine, acupuncture and other methods that he uses to treat depression in his own practice. *The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) defines a mass shooting as when four or more people are shot in one location at around the same time. ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

Episode #09 des Podcasts von Automotive Insights: Immer mehr Reifenhersteller engagieren sich im Azur-Netzwerk. Welche Pläne haben die Verantwortlichen für 2024? Darüber hinaus sprechen wir über die Einschätzungen von GVA-Präsident Thomas Vollmar zu aktuellen Branchenthemen, behandeln einige Personalien und blicken zum Abschluss über den Atlantik auf ausgesuchte Highlights der Consumer Electronics Show 2024.

Blanka, Ati, Pogacar, Van der Poel, az év versenyzője, és a legemlékezetesebb pillanatok. Itt a nagy karácsonyi ESB podcast! A tartalomból: 0.44 – Most kell vinni a bicót, nem áprilisban! 1.30 – Sagan, Pinot, GvA - megint elég nagy nevek vonultak vissza 4.25 – A magyaros 2023-as szezon 6.45 – Blanka 9.30 – Ati első Jumbós szezonja 12.50 – Erik és a lejáró szerződés 15.40 – Mit lehet mondani Pogačar évére? 18.45 – A szezon "legfontosabb" bukásából nem láttuk semmit 21.18 – Pogačar és a tervezés 23.20 – Történelmet írt a Jumbo-Visma 27.42 – Rogla vs volt csapat 29.05 – „Figyelj Primož, hogy is csináltátok a Jumbónál?” 31.55 – Uijtedbroeks, Kuss 33.55 – Van Aert elmegy a Giróra 37.05 – Evenepoel, akiről mindig beszélni kell 39.25 – Akkor most ki az év versenyzője? 42.20 – Két emlékezetes Girós pillanat (a felvétel idején még nem tudtunk Tadej Pogacar Giróval kapcsolatos bejelentéséről!)

John Tavares hits 1000 points vs the Islanders. After 30 games, what teams are overachieving and which are underachieving? We do a bit of a statistical evaluation to predict the rest of the season.  Team of the Week is the Tampa Bay Lightning.    Listen Here:  iTunes  Google Play  Stitcher  Direct MP3   iHeart Radio   Title Player: Harry Watson - connect to John Tavares News: 1. Tavares gets 1000th pt vs Islanders Leafs continue to go to OT - 27 GP - 15-6-6 / 13 OT games - 7-6    2nd in division despite injuries Matthews at 23 G - on pace for 70G 2. Kyle Connor out 6-8 weeks - no suspension for Strome? https://youtu.be/TPZow5phhEA?feature=shared 3. 2 investigations into Wild front office AGM Chris O'Hearn fired or “agreed to part ways” Was Guerin's right hand man Something is afoot but everyone is very quiet 4. Rob Ray takes puck to face between the benches - https://youtu.be/E3z40vmKm5s?feature=shared 5. Oilers finally lose a game - need help for Skinner Outshot Lighting 57-24 and lost 7-4  Lost 5-1 to Panthers 6. All Star Game - back to skills 8 skills - 12 players compete for $1MM prize Guess the 5th Who is for real and who is not? Method - xGF% - GF% - per Naturalstattrick.com at 5v5 Top 5 Pretenders Vancouver - 48.7-61.2 Winnipeg - 49.6 - 59.4 Detroit - 46.8-55.8 Boston - 50.1-56.9 Arizona - 47.2-51.8 Top 5 Underachievers - xGF%-GF% - Oilers - 58.0 - 47.4 New Jersey 53.3-46.09 Calgary - 51.9 - 45.5 Carolina - 55.7-50.4 Seattle - 51.3-47.1 ** San Jose and Anaheim have large difference but xGF is still well below 50% so wouldn't expect much improvement Team of the Week Tampa Bay - xGF% 48.98 - 44.78 Should expect some improvement, but not good enough SF% 48.37 (21) GF% 44.78% (29) xGF% 48.97 (19)  SV% 90.24 (26) SH% 8.45 (15) Vasilevskiy .902 after injury - expect that to improve Kucherov - 50pts, 1st in league Depth? Hagel-Point-Kucherov - most TOI - dominant stats 62% GF Anyone plays with Kucherov - stats are over 50% Without, almost everyone below. BucPower - turnovers like crazy - via  Statmuse.com TBL are 9th in league in GVA with 250 League leaders- CHI, MTL, EDM, NSH, TOR Kucherov leads league with 41.  (Draisaitl next with 37) D Pairs Hedman / Perbix - 231:58 - xGF 41% GF% 52 Cernak / Sergachaev - 218:15 - xGF 47.9% GF% 42 Raddysh / Sergachaev - 217:36 xGF 55.6 GF 20% Of all regular 6 D, Hedman is only one with +50% GF Summary - I think depth is the story. Kucherov is pushing the river but supporting cast is weak Need Vasilievskiy to save them Hot / Not Atlantic - TOR 5-1-4 / OTT 3-7-0  - 4 teams with 5 wins Metro - NYI 6-1-3 / CBJ 4-5-1 - (NJD 7-3-0 ) Centroal - NSH 7-3-0 / CHI 3-6-1 - Pacific - EDM 8-2-0 / ANA 1-9-0  - (Van 7-3-0, SJS 6-3-1) Crazy Stat DOPeS - Perron 6 games suspension for cross checking Zub NHLPA Appealing  - will they go to an arbitrator? Gudbranson 1 Game -https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/player-safety/erik-gudbranson-suspended-one-game-for-actions-in-blue-jackets-game Should hit by cousens on Gudbranson have been a suspension? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfShpOFYqZs Pastrnak kicked out of game vs Rangers for similar hit

3. Episode des Podcasts von Automotive Insights – unsere Themen sind: GVA begrüßt EuGH-Feststellungen, Michelin und Goodyear schließen Reifenwerke, Eindrücke und Stimmen von der Essen Motor Show

Als het vandaag verkiezingen zouden zijn, winnen enkel de extreme partijen kiezers blijkt uit de GVA Peiling. Is iedereen de politiek beu? Snappen we het politiek systeem nog wel? En op wie moeten we eigenlijk stemmen? “Ik ga geen kiesadvies geven”, vertelt GVA-hoofdredacteur Kris Vanmarsenille in onze actuapodcast. “Informeer je goed, neem deel aan het debat en pas op met mensen die heel eenvoudige oplossingen voorstellen, want die bestaan niet.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CMU's Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, competition law expert (as well as musician and label owner) Amelia Fletcher's letter to Spotify boss Daniel Ek about the streaming services plan for a two-tier royalty system, and the rickrolling takedown battle between two stream-ripping platforms.  SECTION TIMES 01: Spotify (00:04:27) 02: Stream-ripping (00:19:56) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Spotify two-tier payment “discriminatory and exploitative” says competition law expert • Stream-ripper gets court order to identify who is behind rick-rolling Google takedown notices ALSO MENTIONED • Music industry contributes £6.7 billion GVA to British economy • Download the UK Music This Is Music 2023 report • Amelia Fletcher's full letter to Daniel Ek

De dreiging is voelbaar in de Joodse wijk in Antwerpen, nu 3.000 kilometer verder de oorlog in Israël woedt. We praten erover met Jan Stassijns, stadsreporter bij GVA die de wijk goed kent, en met Michael Freilich (N-VA). "Ja, de schrik zit erin. Logisch ook, als Hamas wereldwijd oproept tot acties." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Voor het eerst in zijn geschiedenis speelt Antwerp vanavond een Champions League-match op de Bosuil, ook wel gekend als "De Hel van Deurne-Noord". Maar de wereld zal vanavond een lege, bouwvallige tribune zien. Want het stadiondossier zit nog altijd muurvast. "Ik zie niet hoe Paul Gheysens en Tania Mintjens hier nog uit geraken", zegt Peter Goris, nieuwsmanager bij GVA. "Deze zomer is er echt iets gebroken tussen die twee." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En este episodio nos sumergimos en el fascinante mundo de la arquitectura con el arquitecto Carlos Aguilar de la firma internacional GVA.A lo largo de la conversación, Carlos nos lleva a un viaje a través de su visión única sobre cómo la arquitectura puede moldear y transformar la experiencia humana. Descubre cómo GVA aborda una amplia gama de proyectos, desde edificios emblemáticos hasta íntimas residencias, y cómo cada diseño está intrínsecamente vinculado a la creación de comunidades vibrantes y experiencias memorables para sus habitantes.Carlos nos comparte su profunda convicción de que la arquitectura va más allá de la construcción de edificios; se trata de construir conexiones entre las personas y su entorno. Aprenderemos cómo el equipo de más de 50 colaboradores en GVA colabora para llevar a cabo estos proyectos, creando espacios que inspiran y enriquecen la vida cotidiana.Únete a nosotros en esta conversación y descubre cómo la arquitectura puede ser una fuerza transformadora en nuestras vidas. No te pierdas este episodio con Carlos Aguilar.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5664376/advertisement

On today's episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to T Koshy, CEO of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) as well as ICICI Securities strategist Vinod Karki.SHOW NOTES[00:50] Pace of Road construction in India, could go up 25% by next year, says Crisil Ratings. [02:22] How Taxi & Auto Unions Are Driving Adoption of  ONDC by the thousands. [10:52] India's traditional industries like iron and steel lead the pack in gross value add or GVA contribution to the economy.[18:01] 32 Companies Apply to Make Laptops in India.For more of our coverage check out thecore.inSubscribe to our NewsletterFollow us on:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Linkedin | Youtube | Telegram

This week Max and Amit have some updates on BIPA the GVA, Non-Compete Laws & AI Cases

Breakfast Business has done some digging into the impact on the overall Irish economy if you were to strip out the Dublin economy from average incomes. Including the capital, GDP per capita at current prices in 2020 in Ireland stood at €75,000. Remove Dublin from that equation and the number drops to €60,000. The number minus Dublin for GVA or Gross value added is even lower. It all shows that without the capital city, Ireland would be a significantly poorer place. But is that an unavoidable reality or something to be worked on? Speaking to Joe this morning was Prof Jim Walsh, Professor Emeritus of Geography and a former Vice-President of Maynooth University. He recently published a book on income disparity between urban and rural dwellers.

CPABC's president and CEO Lori Mathison discusses greenwashing and ESG fraud with Marshal Wong, CPA, CA, a senior manager with KPMG's GVA forensic practice and a member of the firm's national forensic ESG team. 

RNA Interference, known as RNAi, is a biological process that leads to the silencing of gene expression.  A lot of plant viruses are RNA viruses including grapevine leafroll-associated virus and grapevine red blotch virus. Yen-Wen Kuo, Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is researching ways to induce RNAi in grapevines to target virus. Growers may have heard of double-stranded RNA sprays which are intended to initiate RNAi. The challenge has been that double-stranded RNA breaks down quickly in the elements. The Kou lab is working to improve this process and look for alternatives that will have little impact on the ecology. Resources: 71: New Techniques to Detect Grapevine Leafroll Disease 131: Virus Detection in Grapevines Abstract: Development of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Infiltration of Infectious Clones of Grapevine Geminivirus A Directly into Greenhouse-Grown Grapevine and Nicotiana benthamiana Plants Kuo Laboratory – Plant Virology Maher Al Rwahnih, Foundation plant services RNA-Based Vaccination of Plants for Control of Viruses Yen-wen Kuo's Google Scholar page Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year Sustainable Winegrowing Education On-Demand (Western SARE) – Sign Up! Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  Our guest today is Yen-Wen Kuo. And she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis. I'm Craig Macmillan, your host, and I'm very excited to have Dr. Koh here with us today. Welcome.   Yen-Wen Kuo  0:11  Thank you for having me.   Craig Macmillan  0:13  So you've been doing some interesting work the lab on interference RNA, and also how it affects plant viruses and possibly insects in the future. Can you explain for those of us that did not take genetics like we were supposed to in college, what interference RNA is and how it works?   Yen-Wen Kuo  0:29  Sure. So RNA interference is a biological process in which certain types of RNA RNAs can trigger RNA interference. And then once it's triggered, it will produce specifics more RNAs, that can regulate gene expression, by degrading or binding to the target RNAs containing a homologous sequence containing a similar sequence of those small RNAs. So this is a general concept of RNA interference, we also call it RNAi is very complicated the whole process. And there are different pathways and mechanisms included in the RNA interference. RNAi is a primary and effective antiviral defense in plants, but also found in some fungi and insects and lower eukaryotes. And because of all these different mechanisms, scientists and researchers, they they work on different aspects of this mechanism for either plants or animals. And they're also looking for different potential and better ways to use RNAi for different applications.   Craig Macmillan  1:45  So if I understand correctly, you have cell and there is DNA in that cell, and there's genes that code for certain things. And so the RNA is was transmitting or was carrying information from that's encoded with the gene out into the world to do something, is that a fair explanation?   Yen-Wen Kuo  2:05  So the genome there in plants or animals and human is their DNA genomes is DNA, and then the DNA will transcribed into RNA. And those RNA, some of the messenger RNAs can translate into proteins. So it's a how the central dogma from DNA makes RNA and then RNA makes protein. In the old days, we thought that oh, the protein is the important things because the protein can have different functional, different functions in different ways to to regulate everything in the body or in different organisms. But then afterwards, we found that actually RNAs they have many different forms and they can function at the RNA level. So it can interfere with gene expressions and many different things.   Craig Macmillan  3:03  And how does this apply to plant viruses because you've done some really exciting work with Gemini viruses, I believe with grapevine virus a Tell me a little bit about that work and how that works.   Yen-Wen Kuo  3:15  A lot of plant viruses, they are RNA viruses, a lot of those devastating viruses in grapevines, for example, grapevine leaf roll associated virus or grapevine red blotch virus they. So grapevine leaf roll associated viruses and RNA virus and grapevine red blotch is DNA virus. So there are different types of viruses. And so my work is trying to use different viruses making them into viral vectors to induce RNAi in Grapevine plants, to target those important viruses causing diseases in the field for the grapevines. And because so for example, when the viruses they are infecting plants, they will trigger RNAi in the plant, so that plants can protect themselves from virus infection. And because of that, we're trying to develop viral vectors can trigger RNA interference to target those viruses that's causing diseases. The work I have on the grapevine Gemini virus A that GGVA is to either develop the virus into viral vectors to target RNA virus first. So that's the initial plan for us to use. GGVA the grapevine Gemini virus A target grapevine leaf roll associated viruses. So before we eventually target that virus, we have to do a lot of different tests. We need to know if the clones the constructs or DNA constructs we have of this, GGVA can actually affect Gravelines plants, so we have to do that. And then we want to see if we can develop it into viral vector to carry the sequence we want them to express in grapevines to do the work we want them to do. So then we use it to target genes in the plants to see if they can silence the genes in the plants. So then we did that, we found that yes, we can use that viral vector to silence genes in plants. And then now we try to see that if we can use this viral vector to target other RNA viruses, or other grapevine RNA viruses, because we are actually at the same time developing different viral vectors, and one of them is GBA, is grapevine virus, a another's name, it can be very confusing. GGVA is a DNA virus. GVA is an RNA virus totally different to viruses. So since we have both viruses in the lab, so first, we try to prove the concept. We use the GGVA, the DNA virus, to target the GBA wild type virus, to see if we can see any effects. The GBA infection viral titers in the infected grapevines. So this is what we're working on right now. And so eventually, we want to use this viral vector, and potentially other viral vectors to to target grapevine leaf roll associated virus. And maybe we can use it to target mealybugs too.   Craig Macmillan  6:35  How are these vectors introduced to the plant?   Yen-Wen Kuo  6:38  We modify from the previous reports how people try to deliver those constructs the plasmids into grapevines. Most of the experiments or the assays, from before, they needed to have grapevine plants grown from in vitro, on media or from embryos. But that's really a lot of work. And it will be harder to have applications in the field. So then we develop vacuuming filtration method that we can directly vacuum infiltrate those plasmids that those DNA construct plasmids directly into the greenhouse grown grapevine plants. So those plants are propagated from the cuttings and then those plants, they are usually maybe 12 to 19 inches high above the soil when we infiltrated those plasmids into those grow vine plants. So this is an we got pretty good results, we successfully introduced those DNA constructs into the grapevine plans and those constructs can be infectious and initiate the whole the virus replicate in the grapevine.   Craig Macmillan  7:50  So is this something that can be done in a nursery then with new plants? And basically, they then would come with the vector or is it something you could do in the field?   Yen-Wen Kuo  7:57  Yes, I think the plan is that we can introduce those plasmas in the nursery in greenhouse plants before we plant them into the field. So then the plants that's planted into the field, they can have this viral vector to protect the plants from specific viruses.   Craig Macmillan  8:18  Got it. That's really neat. That's a great idea. And it's pretty cool. So that's fantastic. And in the work that you're doing so far, it sounds really exciting. And it sounds like the direction that you're kind of going in the future is with leaf roll virus that you mentioned. And then also, interaction with mealybugs you mentioned. Can you tell me more about that? What's that work all about?   Yen-Wen Kuo  8:39  Because this virus does GGVA and other viral vectors we're working on to a lot of viruses infecting grape vines, their phloem limited virus, so this GGVA is also phloem limited, meaning that the virus is can only infect the tissues around or in the phloem  is restricted. It doesn't go to like mesophyll cells or epidermal cells in infected plants, because mealybugs they feed on phloems. So we think if they can pick up those RNA interference signals, may be those RNA interference signals those small RNAs can target mealybugs too. So we can choose different target sequences in mealybugs. Hopefully you can see some effects for many bucks to to prevent that from transmitting viruses or have lethal effects for mealybugs. That's the plan. Hopefully we can do that. But we have to do tests to see how the efficacy and everything though it can have mealybugs, because there are previously they are different studies they use RNAi on insects, and many people prove that they can see some effects. We hope that the viral vector approach can also use for really apply this into the field for grapevine plants.   Craig Macmillan  10:00  What kind of index on insects are we talking about?   Yen-Wen Kuo  10:03  Depends on what target genes or sequences we choose. For my first choice, I would like to have a target that can prevent the transmission of the virus by mealybug, that will be my choice. I'm not sure if it's good to kill the insects, if it's going to affect the ecology too much. So if we can make the mealybug not transmitting the virus or other diseases, I think there will be a very good first step if we can see a lower transmission rate. And and then we can see if we need to adjust from there.   Craig Macmillan  10:40  That is amazing. And we haven't, yeah, the little bit of research that I did we have we do have proof of concept basically on this in other cropping systems. Is that right?   Yen-Wen Kuo  10:55  Yes,   Craig Macmillan  10:55  Can you tell me a little bit more about that, because that might give us some some vision of where we might go in the vineyard industry.   Yen-Wen Kuo  11:01  So, the RNAi applications, people are already trying to do some of those works. So, one example is that before people can spray double stranded RNA into the field. So, let me talk a little bit about the introduction of why using double stranded RNA. So, there are different types of RNAs that can induce RNA interference, certain types, one of them is double stranded RNA, either double stranded RNA or the single stranded RNA, they can form into a secondary structure in folding into a structure like a hairpin RNA, those are found to be able to induce RNA interference. And there's also other things like artificial micro RNAs, there are different types of RNAs that can induce RNAi and most convenient ways to make double stranded RNA. And people have been synthesizing the double stranded RNA or using bacteria to produce those double stranded RNA and then spraying to the field to get some protection for the plants. It worked at some level, but it's just not stable enough. Although double stranded RNA is more stable compared to single stranded RNA, steroids and RNA can be degraded in the field with the sun and everything the whole environment it can be degraded, people started to look for ways like bio clay to protect the RNA, and then so, they can spray in the field. So, the RNA can last longer and cause the effects. So, those double stranded RNAs can be absorbed by the insects, they can pick up from the surface of the plant or the plant can absorb those double stranded RNA into the plants. So, those are different ways and people started to see some effects on that, but still, we have to improve those different methods delivering double stranded RNA or other types of RNA to induce RNA interference in the plant. So, they are different different approaches. So, one of that is now we are trying using virus to introduce the RNAi to induce the RNAi in the plants. So, people are trying different ways to deliver those specific RNAs to induce RNAi to target specific diseases, sometimes not just viral diseases, that they will try to target fungal disease or something else and insects. This is what many different groups they are trying to do also previously, another way is to try to make transgenic plants. So if we can make plants to express those RNAs that can induce RNAi targeting to specific diseases, then you don't need to really use any tool to the deliver because the transgenic plants itself can produce those RNAs doing to induce RNAi plants. So that's also another way that people are trying to do we call that host induced gene silencing HIGS, and the virus induced gene silencing is the way my group is working on and we call it VIGs vigs. So there are different ways that which we would use to introduce those RNAs to induce RNAi in the plants.   Craig Macmillan  14:31  And right now you are at the greenhouse stage, if I understand correctly.   Yen-Wen Kuo  14:35  Yes.   Craig Macmillan  14:36  Have you introduced mealybug into your experiments into your work yet?   Yen-Wen Kuo  14:40  Not yet. We are just working on targeting grapevine virus first to see the effects. So where we have to continue monitoring those tested plants to see if the effects can last long, and the efficacy and how good they can be. So now we're at four for five months, so it's still we can see the targeted virus is being suppressed in a very, very low titer. So GVA can cause some symptoms in the grapevine plants when they see the plans are infected. But we have to peel off the bark to see the symptoms, we want to see that after targeting to the GBA virus, we saw that the viral titer is very low, if we can see that, also, the symptoms is not there anymore, is now like wild type, when when the virus was infecting in the plants alone, if we can see the difference, we don't even see the symptoms there will be really great. And this part, hopefully I can collaborate with the collaborators, Maher, he's run the foundation plan services, he can help my group on this, to see that how good the effects can be using this GGVA viral vector. So after that, if we can successfully target two different viruses, then we will start to work to change the target sequence in this viral vector to target mealybugs. So that's after the virus work.   Craig Macmillan  16:12  Yeah, well, that's very exciting. This is a really fascinating idea, and obviously is still relatively new. And I think it's really great that you and everybody else is working on this sounds like there's tremendous potential, and I hope that you folks continue on are able to continue on, is there one thing really related to this topic, you would tell growers one thing that you would advise them or you would educate them with?   Yen-Wen Kuo  16:34  I understand that there could be some concerns and maybe doubts, questioning RNAi applications in the field, because before, they already probably heard about the spray of double stranded RNA or other methods, and they saw some effects but not stable enough. So they may have some concerns or doubts, I think many scientists are trying different delivery methods that can be applied efficiently in the field. And we will do different types of tests and trials to make sure we work on any potential issues of this technology before applying them in the field and try not to affect the whole ecology or anything in the field too. And obviously, the current approaches we have are not enough to keep certain grapevine diseases, at low enough incidence. So we have to explore more potential control approaches before those diseases get worse, and adjust the ways to manage those different grapevine diseases with this changing environment. And I think hopefully, we can all work together to achieve this same goal. And I understand this is something new, I hope everyone can keep an open mind and willing to work with us to do different trials and see if we can improve different approaches to control different diseases.   Craig Macmillan  17:58  Well, I hope so too. grape growers are very creative. And they're always looking for solutions to their problems that very much fit what you're describing. And it sounds to me, this could be another tool in the IPM toolbox that may not be the single solution may not be a silver bullet. But it sounds very exciting that it may play a very important role to improve the efficacy of other techniques we have, which is great. Where can people find out more about you?   Yen-Wen Kuo  18:22  So because I will, setting up my lab, so hopefully I can have a lab website soon. I don't have accounts at Twitter or Instagram.   Craig Macmillan  18:34  Neither do I.   Yen-Wen Kuo  18:36  I don't use social media a lot. So my email that people can reach me through the email. And hopefully, when this is up or in your podcast, I will have my lab website set up so people can find us our work, my lab website.   Craig Macmillan  18:53  And we will have links and everything else that we can find posted on the episode page at the Vineyard Team podcast website. I want to thank you for being on the program. This was really, really interesting and is a kind of a view into the future of what's possible. Yeah. Our guest today was Dr. Yen-Wen Kuo. She is with the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California Davis. And I want to thank you for being on the podcast.   Yen-Wen Kuo  19:20  Thank you for having me on the show. I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about research to explain some details about our work to the course and hopefully, I answer some questions that growers might have. I look forward to in the future maybe collaborating with different people to make this thing to work.   Nearly Perfect Transcription by https://otter.ai

Entrevista a Rafa Carrió, vicealcalde de Dénia, en Hora 14, en una legislatura que ha supuesto el regreso de Compromís per Dénia al equipo de gobierno (en coalición con el PSPV-PSOE). Ambas formaciones en el ejecutivo local se alternarán la alcaldía, una condición sine quanon de los valencianistas en las negociaciones. Carrió será el alcalde durante el último año de legislatura, para "acabar proyectos", como ha señalado en la entrevista, además de aportar "estabilidad, diálogo, confianza y experiencia de estos años". También hemos repasado las concejalías que ostenta durante esta legislatura: Vivienda, Salud Pública, Normalización Lingüística y adjunto a Presupuesto Municipal. Así como, la incorporación de sus compañeros de grupo, Maria José García y Valen Alcalà, dos nuevas incorporaciones en el gobierno municipal. En cuanto a prioridades, asegura que desde Compromís serán firmes en el Pla Edificant y el Pla Convivint. Y respecto al cambio en el color político de la GVA (goberanada por PP y Vox), el vicealcalde asegura que estarán "vigilantes para que no haya retrocesos" en temas relacionados con las políticas inclusivas o la defensa del valenciano, entre otros.

Entrevista con la popular Rosa Cardona, alcaldesa de Xàbia, la primera mujer que ostenta este cargo en el municipio. Con Cardona hemos repasado las negociaciones con CpJ y Vox, socios de gobierno del PP, para conformar este nuevo ejecutivo. La munícipe ha asegurado que, al acceder, se han encontrado con un “Ayuntamiento en cao técnicos”, con presupuestos prorrogados, partidas agotadas y sin cerrar el año 2022 que impide usar un remanente. Entre las prioridades para esta legislatura, ha señalado acabar con aquello que está a medias o parado, como el auditorio, la piscina municipal o la Casa Candelaria, pero una de sus grandes preocupaciones, ha recalcado, es el Ciclo Integral del Agua. En cuanto a las relaciones con el gobierno de la GVA, PP-Vox, Cardona considera que con Mazón al frente, se reemprenderá la mejora de colegios, el Pla Edificant, en  Xàbia, y también señala que es conocedor de la falta que hace invertir en la depuradora. Asimismo, ha indicado que con Nuñez Feijoo en el Gobierno Central, se dará salida a la AP-7, se mejorará el cuartel de la Guardia Civil y se mejorarán las calas del municipio.

Entrevista mantenida con José Ramiro, alcalde de Ondara, en Hora 14, en esta tercera legislatura de coalición entre el PSPV-PSOE y Compromís per Ondara. Entre otros aspectos, Ramiro ha señalado la importancia de cruzar concejalías entre los concejales socialistas y valencianistas del equipo de gobierno, respecto a la anterior legislatura, “para dar una mayor frescura después de ocho años”. Ramiro ha resaltado que el equipo de gobierno ofrece “experiencia, juventud y energía”, ya que de los ocho ediles, cinco son nuevas incorporaciones. El alcalde socialista también ha repasado las líneas programáticas del gobierno. En cuanto a la investidura del popular Carlos Mazón como presidente de la GVA, Ramiro ha recordado que como presidente de la Diputación, durante esta última legislatura, ralentizó algunos proyectos para el municipio, tales como el Plan Planifica, el cambio del césped artificial del campo de fútbol y el centro de día. También espera, tras la entrada de PP y Vox en el gobierno valenciano, que no se retroceda en todo lo que se ha avanzado en derechos. 

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In this episode of Statistically Speaking we shine the spotlight on local data and look at how good statistics for small areas make for better targeted policy interventions, and more effective use of valuable public resources.     Transcript    MILES FLETCHER  Welcome again to Statistically Speaking, the Office for National Statistics podcast. I'm Miles Fletcher and in this episode we're talking about local data for local people - How good statistics for small areas make for better targeted policy interventions, and more effective use of valuable public resources.   We're going to explore, for example, how new data sources are helping to precisely calibrate economic circumstances and local communities. How we may even be able to calculate the GDP of your street or village. Now many economic forces are of course global. Some of the solutions to issues like competitiveness, productivity and inequality might begin on our doorsteps.   As ever, we have the cream of ONS expertise here on hand, this time in the shape of Emma Hickman, Deputy Director of the ONS sub national stats division, and Libby Richards, Deputy Director for UK wide coherence and head of an important new initiative called ONS Local, which we'll be hearing about in full. Also joining us is Stephen Jones, Director of Core Cities UK. Its aim is to promote the role of our great cities in creating a stronger fairer economy and society.   So Emma, to set the scene for us first then please explain precisely if you would, the value of really good local stats.   EMMA HICKMAN So the needs are multiple, really. I think the most important thing is that we are seeing a huge increase in locally targeted policymaking and that's at a range of different levels across government. So in central government, we see near the department for levelling up Housing and Communities kind of really wanting to think about how do they target policies that are going to help to level up the country but equally what we're also seeing is an increase in devolution which is giving more power to local areas and local policymakers. And so it's really also important that they have the statistics and the data that they need and the evidence that they need to make really, really good decisions for their local areas. And they can do that in a really powerful way because they also have knowledge of their local areas. And then finally, you know, actually for citizen kind of uses of our data and statistics really one of the inclusive data principles that people are able to see themselves in the data and that they feel that the data and the statistics that we're producing as an office represent them. And so having statistics and data available at really geographies that are very meaningful to people is hugely helpful in making sure that as a country, right across the UK that we are kind of reflective of the experiences of really kind of a wide range of people and you know, local economies and end users and understand kind of how they're experiencing that as well.   MF  I guess one of the fundamental principles here is that it's it's local knowledge. It's all very well and everybody thinks they know that local area, but to understand all local areas, we need comparable statistics and data produced to consistent standards.   EH Yes, absolutely. And that's, I mean, that's one of the key challenges. I think we'll probably kind of come to talk about a little bit later, but you know, absolutely. And that's really about understanding you know, where are the where are the inequalities within regions, as well as between regions? I think we have a lot of information available about, you know, kind of regions, but actually, we also know that some of the inequalities that people really feel are much greater actually within regions and between them and kind of being able to draw that out of data and statistics in a comparable way I think is really important for helping sort of policymakers and decision makers to understand where best to target resources.    MF Stephen, from a policy perspective, describe the demand for local data at the moment, what sorts of policy solutions are policy makers coming up with and how are those best informed by really good data?    STEPHEN JONES I think it covers all branches really of policymaking. I think as Emma was saying, the kind of need for really understanding and having a kind of quantitative basis for what's happening in a place is, is actually absolutely crucial for designing policy, whether that's policy about trying to make the economy grow, whether that's policies aimed at trying to reduce disadvantage and challenge facing individuals, whether that's policy about delivering the most effective and efficient public services in the right places at the right times, all of those things, whether that's done in public or private sector need to be built on a good evidence base, good understanding. I think the other thing I would add to the richness of local data can do you can kind of contextualise and understand, you know, a number on its own doesn't mean a huge amount, but if you know that you are 10% higher or 20% lower than your neighbouring place. Or the city of the same size. It's those kinds of contextual dimensions that really help nuance and finesse your policymaking.   MF And it does come back to that question of trust in data than to make those comparisons in a really reliable and meaningful way. Which I guess is where the ONS, the Office for National Statistics, where we come in. Now Libby tell us about ONS Local. This is an initiative which is all about making sure that that really high quality data is available for the policy makers   LIBBY RICHARDS ONS Local is our advisory service that is staffed by ONS analysts who are based in every nation of the UK and every region of England. And the idea is that we are here to help local policy makers, regional observatories, and lots and lots of different users of sub national data to really understand the enormous offer from ONS in terms of local data. Having said that, it's also very much about those working relationships as well. Stephen's talked a lot about context and understanding the nuances and so understanding the situations and challenges that are happening locally is absolutely key to ONS Local helping local areas understand that context better.   MF The big ONS surveys of course have long carried, many of them are typically think about the Labour Force Survey over a very long period of time, carried a great wealth and local data that obviously gets lost in the national headlines that these data releases generate. But is it a question of getting better value out of what the ONS is already creating or actually about sourcing new data from different sources?   LR It's a bit of both, very much, in being able to take people through what we already have when understanding their questions, particularly when multiple local areas are asking the same question that's really maximising what ONS already do. However, Emma's side of the house in particular, less so in the regionally and nationally distributed ONS Local is really about developing those new statistics getting into how do we get down to hyper localised sort of 400 to 1200 household building block data that then allow people to build those areas that means something to them. Emma, I don't know if you want to chip in?   EH Yeah, very happy to. There's two strands I think to that Miles. I think there's one which is about, you know, how do we make the most of survey data and kind of new administrative data sources together to enable that level of granularity? And then the second part is actually when we talk about administrative data probably, that might not really mean things to lots of people. That's data that is collected for a different purpose, but collected on a on a very, very routine basis. And there are actually a fair number of new sources of that kind of data that we're able to get into the ONS.   MF That's interesting. Can you give us an example of that?   EH So, I say relatively new. I mean, I think ONS have had this data for quite some time now. But in order to get the level of granularity that we need on Gross Value Added statistics, for example, which is a measure of productivity, we use HMRC's VAT data for businesses and then we can link that to kind of our survey data and think about how can we then apportion estimates down to the level of geography that we need, knowing that the survey is the place where we've been able to ask the question that we really want to know the answer to and then we can use the other data to model sort of some of the other granularity that we need. The other thing is we've been really successful and using card payments data throughout the pandemic to inform the government's response. And we've recently successfully acquired a really exciting new data source from Visa, it's aggregated, so there's absolutely no way of identifying people in the data, but they've aggregated it at a really granular level of geography for us. So again, it would be in the region of probably hundreds of households, but actually that's granular enough for us to get some really, really good insights into kind of how you know, consumer spending is kind of playing out in the local economy. And there are all sorts of applications for that, that we're really excited to be to be able to start taking forwards now that we've got that data in the office.   MF So just with those three very important data sources, suddenly we're creating right down to that very micro level, as you say, 400 to 1200 households really quite a full picture of local economic activity.   EH And the really exciting thing about that is that people can then build their own geographies as well from that. So you know, traditionally in statistics, we tend to produce data at the level of an authoritative boundary like a local authority, but actually you might really want to know about, I don't know, West Midlands Metro, for example, they extended the line a few years ago, you might really want to know about local economic activity around that and actually, that's not going to be captured in the sort of administrative boundaries and so having the data at that level of granularity really allows people to build a geography that sort of area of interest or importance to them in some way.   MF Creating a GDP of your street or village.     EH  Indeed.    MF  Okay, that's the project for now, but it comes across with some pretty significant challenges. It comes back to this problem of comparability doesn't it, and particularly if you're looking across the UK contexts there. We've got different government structures, we've got some devolved areas, we've got areas and we've got big metropolitan authorities as well. How difficult is it to be able to standardise and to make uniform the data right across that rather complex government picture?   EH Incredibly so. To the point where we don't necessarily aim for uniformity. It's very much about how do we make sure that we're able to tell stories that are coherent and consider that UK wide angle when thinking about the nations but also thinking about how do you enable that comparability that's very tricky. And the more and more devolution happens, the more and more difficult that actually can become, particularly when you're looking, for example, at health data where it is a devolved policy area across the four nations. But actually, if you live on the border, let's say between Wales and England, actually, you may well be getting your health care on the opposite side of the border from which you live and therefore you've got to be able to have an opportunity to consider that.   MF There's the issue then of course of samples as well. And the more local you go, of course the less representative your sample is going to be.   EH Absolutely. And that gets particularly tricky. Even at a nation level where we're thinking about Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, for example, the opinions and lifestyle survey, actually, it's quite difficult to find out what that looks like for Northern Ireland. And ideally, we'd want to be able to get more granular than the nation level, but sample sizes make that really tricky to still be representative. And so either we'd need to expand the survey to get that level of granularity or we have to actually say the best we can do is this.   MF Yes, because there is only one holy universal survey of course and that is the census and that only happens once every 10 years. I recall when we were running the big COVID infection survey at the height of the pandemic, even a massive data gathering operation like that. We could still only end up getting it down to sub regional level which is what units are for half a million people. So it does show doesn't it how important it is to make the most of that admin data which can be extremely comprehensive sometimes   EH I, you know, completely agree with you there Miles on administrative data and how important it is to be able to kind of think about innovative ways to combine that data with our survey data to get a more granular level of information. I talked a bit earlier about kind of estimates of gross value added and I can say that's just that's a measure of productivity and it feeds into the largest component of GDP and in local areas. What we were able to do there as I mentioned kind of earlier, we took HMRC's VAT tax data which is collected for all businesses that pay VAT, we were able to link that to a data set that ONS hold called the interdepartmental business register and the information that's held on that is all of the information about business structure, so has a VAT reference in there so we can link it to HMRC data. But the most important information on there for us was actually that where the local units are, so for example, Tescos will have a headquarters somewhere but you probably have a Tesco Express quite close to where you live. And that's one of the local units so tells us where the local units are and their postcodes and it also tells us how many employees work in those local units. And so we can make an assumption like productivity for all employees in the organisation is the same, and then we can look at actually what the productivity for that firm is top level and then divide that by the number of employees to kind of say, well, actually, if all employees are equally productive, this local unit has a productivity sort of measure of this much, and then we can aggregate that back up again to the sort of area so you know, really kind of key to be able to understand those methods, but there are some other challenges as well, but I can probably come back to those.   MF That's fascinating stuff. I mean, you could point to a certain, perhaps a certain enterprise, a certain employer, that is considered to be, you know, fundamental to a local economy. But this way, you can actually really press precisely quantify what that importance is.   EH And I think that's one of the challenges because actually as a as an office, we don't want to be disclosing the productivity of any single firm or any single business because that is personal information. So one of the things that we've had to do in very local areas where there are what we call dominant businesses or dominant organisations who have like most of the productivity for that area, is we've actually, you know, I'm gonna be honest, we've we've sort of masked it a bit. And so we've kind of averaged a few local areas together so that you still have a building block level of data, you still have a building block so you can build a bigger area, but you don't actually have any businesses that are considered dominant within the statistics that we produce. That's taken quite a complex algorithm to be able to achieve that. I won't go into too many details just to say that it is a consideration and the challenge that we've had to really innovate to be able to be able to publish that information.   MF It's important to stress Isn't it that all the usual principles of non-identification and confidentiality apply in this work as much as they do anywhere else across the ONS.   EH Yeah, absolutely.   MF Give me a couple of examples of some specific bits of work that you've been doing then. There's been an analysis of towns and out of town locations particularly and how local employment growth is happening outside of town and city centres.   EH My team kind of over the last sort of couple of years have been doing a whole series of analysis of towns in particular, like I say, that's a geography that people can really relate to, you know, lots of people kind of live in a town or a city. And that's something that's a bit more understandable than maybe a local authority and is a bit closer to them than the region for example. Our recent analysis on towns and out of town locations when we looked at employment growth, I think has some quite important findings actually for transport planning. For example, what we found is that actually employment growth is not happening the most in town centres, it's happening more and faster within two kilometres of the edges of a town of the town boundaries. And so what we think it might be happening is that kind of employment growth is actually happening in industrial parks are situated on that cusp between town and kind of rural areas. And when you're thinking about, you know, how people might travel to work, for example, I think it's really, really important to have those insights so that we're not just planning transport routes, for example, that go into town centres  MF  And what other insights have we been generating?     EH  So another recent piece was a new piece of analysis on the nighttime economy. So I think lots of people will think about the nighttime economy as being predominantly about bars and restaurants and obviously, you know, they will have a really, really big impact on those sort of industries during the pandemic. But in fact, what we find is that actually the nighttime economy in rural areas are surprisingly busy and that's because we also have a nighttime economy that is around health and health care. Nurses, for example, kind of working night shifts and that sort of thing. And then the other kind of aspect to it is sort of warehousing and transport as well. There's often kind of an overnight element to that, too. And again, having that understanding of like how that kind of plays out in different parts of the country is kind of a really, really useful. We originally did it just for London, interestingly, and then we've done this kind of new analysis looking at the whole country, which was really interesting. Other things produced quite recently as well are an expansion of job quality indicators of work across the UK, which is important because if you just look at kind of employment numbers, you're not really getting a sense of, you know, you get a sense of who's employed and who's unemployed in terms of characteristics of people, but what you don't get is like how good is the job quality for those people and actually, job quality is probably quite important for a lot of individuals and in terms of how good they feel about kind of going into work and how productive they are? And all of those those kinds of things,   MF That also forms the understanding doesn't it of why some people have opted out of employment in recent years.   EH Absolutely. And it also can tell us about things like how many people are working part time who want to be working full time for example. Or vice versa, you know, so there's kind of like a measure of underemployment in there. It tells us a little bit about what percentage of people are working on zero hours contracts versus permanent contracts, all those kinds of things, I think are quite, you know, sort of quite important.   MF Some other developments well worth pulling out as well. I think we've been able to produce very interesting picture of comparative housing affordability down to quite local level.   EH Yes, I think our main housing affordability release goes down to local authority level, but we have produced actually a range of housing affordability statistics, the local authority, one that we published recently probably been the most comprehensive, we're also doing a lot of work on the housing data that's collected through the census as well to understand dwellings and their characteristics as well. You know, how many dwellings are occupied and versus non occupied and how that varies by different parts of the country as well. Housing affordability in particular tells us about how people's earnings relate to what they spend on housing, and obviously that has huge impact on again, kind of, you know, people's disposable income at the end of the day. So I think it's certainly an important one.   MF So lots of fresh insights that are coming from the ONS and local statistics, but it's important to point out that a lot of this you could be doing for yourself if you're so inclined, and we've brought forward a tool called and it's much more exciting than the name implies, actually. It's called the Sub National Indicator Explorer tool. Libby, can you explain how that operates? And some of the really interesting insights that you can generate with it.   LR So the Sub National Indicators Explorer is something that we know and have known for a while that users desperately want. So often, if you are trying to understand a particular place, you have to go to lots of different sources to actually find information about one area. So for example, if you want health you have to go to one place. If you want to find out about education, you have to go to another and find your area and then collate that yourself. What the sub national indicators Explorer allows you to do is bring together all of those relevant indicators into one place so you can find your local authority and compare it with say up to three others across more than 40 different metrics ranging from gross median pay, right the way through to healthy life expectancy, and so you have this incredibly useful tool where you go, I want to know everything about place x and you get it all in one place. Our intention is to develop that a little bit further and eventually head into some of the developments that have come out recently around the census where you can build your own maps, build your own areas and flexibly bring different data things together. Alongside that we've also been thinking about how else we might be able to compare other areas and the team have recently done an analysis that clusters local areas together under metrics similar to and including some of the same from the sub national indicators tool and so that explores places that are statistically similar using things like regional growth metrics, and we can see what different parts of the country could potentially learn more from each other. They might be facing similar challenges and therefore getting beyond their local area to kind of join up with other areas across the country and this also gives some really weird potentially interesting insights.   MF Yes, which shows that despite the north south divide, about which we continue to hear a great deal some places in North and South have a great deal in common with each other.   LR Indeed, and actually places for example, in the south may be very different. So Portsmouth down on the south coast can look a lot more like places in the Northeast than possibly other areas on the south coast. Portsmouth is in a cluster of higher connectivity but lower health and well being whereas neighbouring Havant is in a much higher health and wellbeing and moderate educational performance cluster and you can see this all over the place. So for example, Newcastle upon Tyne is actually very similar to the New Forest and Havant and in fact, so is York and Great Yarmouth. And so they're actually disperate across the country, but mostly situated in particular areas. However, if Havant or the New Forest is facing a particular problem, maybe going and having a chat with York might actually be quite helpful depending on the problem.    MF That seems an excellent moment to bring in Stephen Jones as director of Core Cities. Stephen, the local picture, of course, is much more complex than that old cliche about the north south divide. But what work are you doing with the ONS and with others, to produce a really informed picture which policymakers can then act on to deal with these issues of localised deprivation, economic disadvantage and so forth.   SJ Firstly, we're doing a piece of work as Core Cities with the Royal Society of Arts called Urban Futures Commission, looking at the kind of like what's the long term potential and trajectory of our biggest cities in the UK and within that, you know, this is the sort of position of why do UK cities relatively underperform compared to the international peers in the developed world is quite a well established problem that's decades old. What some of the new data available is allowing us to kind of really get a better handle on is, why is that the case what is happening to for example, a fairly recent new release of fixed capital formation, so investment data, at a local authority level split by the different asset classes that the ONS have produced is really helpful to bring an understanding and a kind of richness to basically what both public and private investment we can see that our big cities outside of London have a relatively lower levels of public and private investment, particularly then if you strip out real estate investment. So investment in capital and business intangibles, those things are particularly low. So not all of our core cities, the total investment in Greater Manchester most recently was about 9000 pounds per head, central London, it's 55,000 pounds per head. If you go down to Newcastle I think it's down to 3000 pounds per head. You know, that's a dramatic difference in levels of public and private investment.   MF Does having much more reliable local data, perhaps hold with it the promise that the policy interventions that result from it can be therefore much more effective?   SJ So completely. You know, one of the things that I'm quite excited about in terms of using the local GVA data that Emma was talking about as a new release is there's been a whole host of different policy interventions over the last 10, 20, 30 years trying to kind of create economic activity within zones areas and whatever was saying about the ability to build your own geographies, I think is really has real potential in it. So whether it's the enterprise zones of the Heseltine era or the enterprise zones of the George Osborne era, whether it's free ports policy more recently, whether it's transport led regeneration schemes around new road junctions or new rail stations, whether it's the role of universities, science parks, investment in innovation zones, the government recently announced in the budget just a few weeks ago, the question of investment zones, all of these policies, they are some of the national ones – there's many more when you think locally are attempting to try and create concentrated economic activity within certain locations. One of the main criticisms in a policy sense is that that activity will just get displaced from elsewhere. If the business that is currently located three miles up the road will move to within the zonal boundary to gain sort of benefits and advantages that are being offered there. Well, we'll kind of be able to tell whether that's true or not, by actually looking to see whether the areas nearby have sort of reducing GVA compared to the areas that are growing and I think being able to properly evaluate policy interventions over the last 30 years to really then decide, well, is it worth pursuing policies like the investment zone announcement of recent weeks or actually should we be trying other approaches? I think that that kind of insight is going to be incredibly valuable.   MF Indeed, and perhaps also with data at a much lower level and much more micro local level as well, perhaps much smaller, more precisely targeted interventions might be what's called for.   SJ Exactly and I think that again, picking up some of what Emma was saying earlier, some of this data is a tool for local authorities. This has huge potential sort of exactly where are the jobs located? Are they in the town centre? Are they in the business park on the edge of town? What time of day is that activity happening? Is it shift patterns versus is it concentrated in the sort of 945 when we know these things, whether you're sitting there working out your local plan and working out where you're going to zone, your new employment land where you're working out whether you're going to offer any business rate incentives in a business improvement district when you're sitting there working out and what time of day do you need to have your trading standards officers available, these kinds of planning decisions day to day when you're trying to think about what your refuse collection plans and patterns are those things that local authorities are doing on just managing public services bringing together those different aspects having that sort of insight to know what's happening, when and what's most effective, we'll just make our policies more efficient. And in a world where public finances are constrained, particularly so for local authorities and have been for a while or be able to use the funding that is available more efficiently and the delivery of those services I think is hugely beneficial. The other thing that I'm interested in I think, is an area where we as Core Cities can can work with the ONS and others going forward is how do we make more advantage and take more advantage of the data, administrative data that is held locally? So if you think of an average local authority, they have huge amounts of data about that area. Whether that's through kind of council tax dates on collections, arrears, council tax discounts, whether that's through business rate data, whether that's through library card membership, planning applications, the list goes on. Obviously, for the same reasons, as we've talked about the need for protecting individuals and protecting data confidentiality, some of that data, you know, we'll need to be careful about how do we use but at the moment, it's largely sitting there on databases being under explored. If we can get to a world where we can start matching some of that data with some of the data sources that the ONS are making available, and then matching it with data sources such as Emma was talking about that the private sector can bring to the table like Visa and others. I think it's in bringing those sort of insights together. You can actually really, really develop the rich pictures. I can see Libby you would like to come in, so I might just pause there.   LR Yeah. I was just gonna say Stephen there mentioned about utilising locally held local data alongside national level local data, sort of your ONS data, your government department data, and actually that is one of the things that we're really hoping that ONS Local can help with by having people locally with very good relationships with those individuals in local government, local authorities, regional observatories, actually, if we can pull together their administrative data with what we have at the national level and help with some of that analytical insight because also aware, as Stephen said, local governments are constrained and resources actually, if ONS can help in that analytical insight, then even better that we can help along the way.   MF So Emma, an exciting vision of the future there and the possibility to be really improving local and regional policy interventions. What's coming next?   EH The really big exciting development that I just wanted to mention is the kind of opportunity for collaboration and I think ONS as an organisation are on the cusp of opening up the Integrated Data Service more widely, and actually, we've been working really, really closely with that team over the last couple of years or so to understand what a good data asset would look like for subnational. And to kind of start to make sure that we can do some of the data engineering to make that micro data. So when I talk about micro data, I'm talking like response level information from surveys kind of available in a secure and safe way and also in a way that's easily linkable, so that you can easily pick up something about health and something about quality jobs and link them together in that service and do the analysis that you were talking about. That's one of the most exciting developments. I think that's on the horizon in terms of how we'll be able to collaborate and kind of use and share data more widely, keeping in mind that privacy aspect. So you know, the idea is that all of that data is anonymized before it goes into the service and then things will be in kind of really strictly controlled through it. But there is that opportunity for those wider collaborations. I don't know Libby, whether you wanted to come in a little bit on some of the other kind of future developments as well.    LR  Yes, so over the last 9 to 10 months we have co-designed the ONS Local service going out across the country, doing round tables, getting people together in the room, putting forward our vision of what ONS Local might look like but very much saying “tell us why we're wrong, what doesn't work for you, tell us what we're missing”. So really building that service with our users, and now we're really beginning to fly now that we have people across the country. Other bits of new work also on the horizon include new data looking at the effect of place on geographic mobility across towns and cities, so we can follow those trends as people move around the country and can help us build pictures of places, track educational outcomes and workforce trends by area, at a level that we've not been able to do in the past. We've also talked a lot today about the Gross Value Added (GVA) data, and that obviously focuses on businesses. The next innovation for those sorts of granular statistics is more looking at the households aspect, and therefore allowing more targeted policymaking for those bespoke areas, and understand those hyper-local affects that are so important at the moment, particularly when considering all those devolution aspects.   MF  Some insight there on the work underway here to ensure people across the UK see themselves in our data. Many thanks to our guests today Emma Hickman, Deputy Director of ons sub national stats division, Libby Richards, Deputy Director for ONS Local and UK wide coherence, and Stephen Jones, Director of Core Cities UK.   I'm Miles Fletcher and thank you to you for listening. If you've got a question or comment about these ONS podcasts, you can find us on Twitter @ONSfocus. You can also subscribe to new episodes of the podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts and all other major platforms.   Many thanks to our producer for this episode at the ONS Alisha Arthur. Until next time, goodbye.    ENDS 

Rogue Farm Corps and the Growing Veteran Agripreneurs program of Oregon State University Extension. GVA Coordinator Diane Choplin visits and Edward Night of Oak Mountain Farm and a Farm Corps alum, and Greg Pavellas, an alum of GVA.

[This blog will always be free to read, but it's also how I pay my bills. So, if you like what you read, please consider a paid subscription.]On Monday morning, at The Covenant School, a private elementary school in Nashville, TN, a mass shooter opened fire over fourteen minutes, killing three children who were students there, all nine years old, and three staff members before police arrived and took out the shooter, mercifully bringing the horror to an end.The children were Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs. The staff members were Katherine Koonce (the head of the school), substitute teacher Cynthia Peake, and custodian Mike Hill. According to Gun Violence Archive, this is the 150th mass shooting in the United States this year. GVA is an independent research and data collection organization that defines a mass shooting as “four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter.”This definition has been criticized by some conservatives, who feel that the metric poorly frames America's gun violence epidemic and accuse those who adopt GVA's definition of “four or more injured” as inflating the problem. They point to the FBI's definition of “mass murder,” which describes any type of violent incident in which four or more people are killed, not just injured.Of course, the more you think about it, that doesn't make much sense. For example, if a mass shooter wounds 10 people—perhaps paralyzing several, to say nothing of other longterm health complications of a bullet ripping through one's body—but only kills one person, that would not fit the definition of a “mass shooting” by the FBI.Nor if a mass shooter wounds 50 people but only kills three. Or wounds 100 people but kills none. Neither of these are “mass shootings” under the FBI's definition.Does that make any goddamn sense? Of course not.Okay, well, fine, conservatives might say, but the threshold is still too low because GVA allows for just four people to be injured—not killed—in order to qualify as a “mass shooting.”Some of them may hint that certain injuries are more qualifying than others. What if, they seem to say, four people are merely grazed by bullets, simply burning their flesh rather than entering their bodies?Gee, I don't know, if their child were merely grazed by a bullet, their tender flesh burned by it, how would they feel? Would they think it's a problem worth addressing?Of course they would, and they'd be right. So, we're sticking with GVA's “mass shooting” definition. Because common sense.Last year, there were 647 mass shootings in the United States. In 2021, there were 690 mass shootings. Since January 1, 2016, GVA has tracked 3,581 mass shootings in the United States.When the carnage at The Covenant School began hitting news and social media in a way that has become nauseatingly familiar, the gun extremists immediately starting doing what they do best: pointing fingers and blaming anything but our country's ludicrously easy access to firearms.Fox News contributor Nicole Parker attempted to posit that “side doors” to schools—meaning physical entrances to schools other than the front—are the real problem here.Bless her heart.There were the other usual excuses by gun extremists — their greatest hits of shifting blaming: that teachers should be armed, that it's an issue of mental health, etc.Of course, I'm not sure anyone expected GOP Congressman Tim Burchett to openly admit he and his conservative colleagues have no interest in finding a good faith solution to the gun violence epidemic. I'm not kidding. Here's the full quote, and I'll even link you to the video:“We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese — he said ‘Buddy, if someone wants to take you out and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'”So, there you have it. Criminals are gonna be criminals, the man said. Why bother trying to stop children from being slaughtered? Mr. Burchett's children are homeschooled, by the way.When I first heard of the shooting, my stomach dropped in the same way it has every other time this senseless violence has occurred. And when you find out children were killed, it only compounds that feeling.But this time, on top of that, it was eventually revealed that the shooter—whose name I refuse to mention—was a trans man. Predictably, anti-trans conservatives seized the opportunity to cynically exploit the murder of these children and staff members to further their transphobic propaganda and distract from their own complicity in enabling gun violence. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed testosterone was to blame, something she has never said all the other times when a cis man was behind a mass shooting. Donald Trump, Jr. and others put up tweets and memes implying trans people are especially violent.You see where this is going.The obvious problem here, of course, for anyone who has mastered 3rd grade math, is that the numbers indicate trans people are substantially less likely to commit gun violence compared to cisgender people and far more likely to be victims of gun violence ourselves.Of the 3,581 mass shootings that have occurred in the United States since January 1st, 2016, four were perpetrated by a trans person. I absolutely refuse to count the Colorado Springs mass shooter who murdered five people at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub, and then attempted to claim, through his lawyers, that he identifies as nonbinary, clearly in an effort to troll the victims. And this after neighbors and police brought forward evidence of his long history of anti-LGBTQ hatred.Thus, of that total number of mass shootings since the start of 2016 and the available data on those mass shooters, cisgender people account for 99.9 percent of them. According to a report released last year by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law—which is considered one of the leading data sources on LGBTQ people—the trans community makes up about 0.6 percent of the 267.8 million people in the United States who are age 13 or older.So, trans people make up 0.6 percent of the population but 0.1 percent of mass shooters, six times less than what would be proportionally expected in an even distribution of mass shooters.It turns out that cis people are disproportionately more likely to be mass shooters.I have no problem recognizing that a trans man murdered these children and staff members. I'm glad police arrived and killed him before he could murder other innocents. But if these anti-trans conservatives are gonna demand trans people answer for him, shouldn't they answer for the 99.9% of mass shooters who aren't trans?I have a feeling we'll never get an answer to that.This week, I am holding the families of these children and staff members in my thoughts. I cannot begin to imagine their suffering, and I am filled with rage at this coward, at this piece-of-s**t, who cruelly took the lives of these innocents.I am praying for two things: 1) a measure of peace and healing that must seem impossible for these families in this moment and 2) that anti-trans conservatives will actually start giving a damn about vulnerable children instead of exploiting their deaths to further a hateful agenda.Charlotte's Web Thoughts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Hi, I'm Charlotte Clymer, and this is Charlotte's Web Thoughts, my Substack. 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Het personeel van de Antwerpse gevangenis in de Begijnenstraat weigert nieuwe gevangenen binnen te laten. Want de gevangenis zit overvol. Dat zag onze journaliste Maaike Floor met haar eigen ogen. “Het toilet staat gewoon in de kamer waar ze eten en slapen”, zegt ze in onze actuapodcast De Insider. “Ze verbranden zelfs sinaasappelschillen om de geur te verbergen.” Deze podcast is een productie van Nieuwsblad, in samenwerking met Nostalgie en GVA. De montage gebeurt door House of Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

India's Gross Domestic Product grew 13.5% in the first quarter of FY22-23 compared to a year ago helped by the base effect, thereby registering the fastest growth in four quarters.   But the numbers came in below the 15.2% forecast by economists, and much lower than the Monetary Policy Committee's projection of 16.2%. The last time India's economy grew faster was in Q1 FY21, when it gained 20.1% from the pandemic-depressed level a year earlier. With rising interest rates, uneven monsoon and slowing global demand, analysts fear the economy may fall short of the 7.2 per cent annual growth target for FY23 projected by the Reserve Bank of India.   The GDP during April-June 2022 stood at Rs 36.85 trillion, compared to Rs 35.49 lakh crore in the corresponding quarter of the pre-pandemic year 2019-20. This means, the country's economy has grown at an average of 1.26% a year in real terms over the past three years. On a sequential basis, GDP in the first quarter contracted 9.6% from the preceding three-month period. According to Sachchidanand Shukla, Group Chief Economist at Mahindra and Mahindra, this is three times the average sequential contraction of 3.2% witnessed in the first quarter of each of the last five years before the pandemic. But, the year-over-year growth in GDP was led by consumption and investments, which grew 25.9% and 20.1%, respectively. The growth in government expenditure was a weak 1.3%. Looking at the sectoral trends, the GVA growth in manufacturing was 6.5, while the construction sector grew 16.8%. The labour-intensive trade, hotels and transport segment showed a strong 25.7% growth. The data released by the National Statistical Office showed while the services sector lifted growth during the quarter, activity in the trade, hotels, and transport segment, despite heightened betterment in hospitality, was below the pre-pandemic level of the June quarter of FY20. Aditi Nayar, Chief Economist at ICRA however said that relative to the pre-Covid level, this stood out as the only sub-sector reporting a contraction in Q1, in line with the robust but incomplete recovery in contact-intensive sectors. Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist, Bank of Baroda says, coming off a low base, one shouldn't reach much in the 13.5% number. Agri, real estate, finance and govt sectors contributed to the growth. Pvt investment and consumption should sustain for 7.2% annual growth. Pent-up demand could get diluted due to high inflation.  Inflation remains one of the biggest risks as it impacts consumer spending, which accounts for about 60% of India's nominal GDP. There is also a possibility of slippages in terms of rice and pulses production if the area under cultivation is lower than normal. This can result in further price shocks if sowing doesn't see a recovery. On the fiscal side, buoyancy in tax collection will give enough comfort to the government in terms of budget management.  Aurodeep Nandi, India economist and vice president at Nomura said even if one were to discount the low base, this marks a stellar rise in sequential momentum with post pandemic tailwinds lifting GDP growth in June quarter.   As the year progresses, experts say that that slowing global growth, higher inflation, and tightening financial conditions will impact the pace of growth.

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has chosen the island of Ireland for the first time as the destination for its 34th Annual Conference, entitled ‘Neart Le Chéile: Strength Together' in the Convention Centre, Dublin, from June 26 to July 1, 2022. Over 1,000 people from six continents will participate, as the not-for-profit aims to deliver worldwide coordination and cooperation among computer security and incident response teams. From Tonga to Tanzania, Greece to Guatemala, Australia to America, the participants from nearly 80 countries are the leading lights in their field. Governments, academia, and businesses, all have a critical agenda as cyber security issues continue to rapidly increase worldwide, and global coordination is now vital to make the internet safe for everyone. Google's Maddie Stone delves into the unknown during the conference, focusing on 0-day exploits used in the wild. A security researcher on Google Project Zero, she will disclose crucial insights and learnings from previously detected 0-day attacks – which occur when a cyber attacker abuses a vulnerability that was totally unknown – to help delegates defend organisations and society in future incidents. The five-day event will explore various themes with contributors from industry and academia, from notable organisations such as the World Economic Forum, National Police Agency from Japan, Amnesty International, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. Other notable discussions on the agenda include the preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Games, analysis of the SolarWinds supply chain compromise, and lessons learned from supporting national responses to COVID-19. Brian Honan, CEO, BH Consulting and FIRST Annual Conference Programme Chair, commented: “Dublin, and Ireland, is a perfect setting to host leading experts in this area with the cyber security sector on a significant growth trajectory on the island. The recent State of Cyber Security Sector in Ireland 2022 report states that by 2030 the industry will be worth €2.5 bn GVA – an increase of €1.4 bn from 2021 – employing over 17,000 people. “This conference is critical for the global community of incident responders and security teams. After two years of pandemic uncertainty, we can all come together in person once more to tackle cyber security issues in a united fashion to create a fix and ensure organisations can continue to operate with limited disruption. Our theme, ‘Neart Le Chéile: Strength Together', is exactly how we, as experts, will beat the criminals and keep people safe from cyber security attacks going forward.” Chris Gibson, CEO, FIRST added: “The conference program this year is both intuitive and timely, with our keynoters' covering topics across the full spectrum of computer security – from the practical to the emotional. “As a membership organisation, we work to ensure that our Annual Conference brings as much value as possible. Over the five days, our goal is to inspire and empower participants to take new thinking and tools back with them to their everyday roles as they continue to defend people across the globe against cyber-attacks.” Cyber specialists must work together to tackle online crime, as many instances do not occur in isolation, or just in one geographical area. FIRST provides a unique platform for everyone to unite and work towards a safer cyber community for all. At the FIRST Conference participants will share goals, ideas, and information on how to improve global computer security, with delegates learning the latest security strategies in incident management, increasing their knowledge and technical insight about security problems and solutions, and gaining insights into analysing network vulnerabilities. Alongside numerous talks and panel discussions, the conference also features Lightning Talks, a Vendor Showcase and Exhibits, and networking opportunities. The full program can be a...

Muitos Gerentes de Projetos conhecem as práticas de Gestão de Valor Agregado (GVA ou EVM – Earned Value Management)! Inclusive, é um dos temas comuns na prova para a Certificação PMP (Project Management Professional) do PMI! Apesar do benefício de agregar prazo, escopo e custo em uma mesma base de acompanhamento, quando o tema é a gestão do prazo do projeto, as práticas de GVA / EVM possuem limitações. É aí que entram as práticas de Prazo Agregado (Earned Schedule) e de Gerenciamento da Duração Agregada (GDA / EDM – Earned Duration Management). Para falar dessas técnicas, eu convidei o consultor Paulo André de Andrade. Paulo André graduou-se em Engenharia Eletrônica pelo Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA): possui MBA em Gerenciamento de Projetos pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas e detém certificado de Project Management Professional (PMP) pelo Project Management Institute (PMI). Trabalhou em importantes e complexos projetos pela IBM por 24 anos, e tem experiência internacional em países como Alemanha, Estados Unidos, Japão, Canadá, Inglaterra, Itália, França, México e Bélgica. Paulo é autor de diversos artigos sobre Prazo Agregado e técnicas de gestão e controle de projetos, além de ter traduzido para o português dois dos mais importantes livros sobre prazo agregado. Dê um play e depois me conte: você já usou técnicas de valor agregado, ou de prazo agregado em seus projetos? Se sim, como foi? Se não, quais são as barreiras que estão te impedindo de usar? Para conhecer mais sobre o tema, seguem alguns links úteis: Site do Earned Schedule com artigos, apresentações e planilhas: https://earnedschedule.com/ Site do Operations Research & Scheduling Group da Univerisdade de Ghent na Bélgica: https://www.projectmanagement.ugent.be/?q=research Site do Integrated Program Management Division (IPMD) da National Defense Industrial Association: https://www.ndia.org/Divisions/IPMD/ Site do Defense Acquisition Magazine: https://www.dau.edu/library/defense-atl/ Link para a página do Paulo André no LinkedIn (textos próprios e artigos traduzidos): https://www.linkedin.com/in/pandre/ Esse Podcast tem o apoio de Teams Ideas by Prosperi (https://www.teamsideas.com/), da Technique Engenharia (http://www.technique.eng.br/) e da GSUP / Nexos. Tem curtido o nosso conteúdo? Que tal tornar-se membro do Capital Projects Podcast, apoiando o canal? Assim, podemos continuar crescendo e ajudando tantos profissionais da Gestão de Projetos! Acesse o link e confira os planos: https://lnkd.in/d8QQ6twk Também estamos com canal no YouTube! Confira as novidades: https://lnkd.in/d55qbgGy Acompanhe também as minhas redes: @andre_choma e https://linktr.ee/andrechoma Produção: Voz e Conteúdo – www.vozeconteudo.com.br - @vozeconteudo #capitalprojectspodcast #capitalprojects #projetosdecapital #projectmanagement #podcast #gestao #projetos #gestaodeprojetos #earnedvalue #earnedvaluemanagement #EVM #earnedschedule #earnedduration #valoragregado #análisedovaloragregado #GVA #prazoagregado #duraçãoagregada #frontendloading #metodologiafel

In 2021, the European Commission (EC) announced the “Path to the Digital Decade,” a vision for Europe's digital transformation by 2030, which is divided into four areas—skills, infrastructures, government, and business—with key metrics to challenge and monitor progress. Amazon Web Services (AWS) shares the EC's vision for Europe's digital transformation, and we commissioned Public First to undertake the “Unlocking Europe's Digital Potential” study to understand how we can work together to help Europe unlock its digital ambitions. According to Public First's report, the Digital Decade could unlock over 2.8 trillion euros in gross value added (GVA), the measure of the value of goods and services produced in the region's economy, which is equivalent to nearly 21% of the European Union's (EU) current economy. Digital transformation for EU growth The study highlights that 55% of the estimated GVA gain depends on cloud computing. Cloud computing refers to the on-demand delivery of information technology (IT) resources on the internet. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining data centres and servers, organizations can access computing power, storage, databases, and other services on the cloud on an as-needed basis. With cloud computing, AWS manages and maintains the technology infrastructure, achieving the highest levels of security, privacy, and resilience for businesses. The potential 2.8 trillion euros in GVA comprises 1.3 trillion euros the EU is already on course to achieve plus a further 1.5 trillion euros if digital progress is accelerated. If progress isn't accelerated, the EU will achieve only 45% of the potential GVA of the Digital Decade. At the current rate of progress, achieving the EU's full digital target will take until 2040, an extra 10 years. Unlocking this value requires private and public sectors to join forces to accelerate the uptake and adoption of digital skills and technologies, such as cloud technologies. AWS, with its cloud expertise and action to help 29 million people globally grow their technical skills with free cloud computing skills training by 2025, supports the EU's ambitions. The EU is making good progress towards some of its Digital Decade targets. For example, it's on track to meet its aim of doubling the number of “unicorns,” privately held startups valued at over $1 billion, by 2030. The EU is also making progress towards digitizing 100% of core public services and is likely to meet its gigabit for everyone and 5G everywhere target for internet connectivity. These successes must be replicated across all of the EU's Digital Decade targets. Accelerating progress requires a collective focus across public and private sectors on digital adoption, skills development, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, and digital government. Accelerating digital transformation In 2021, the EU had over 200 unicorns, double the level in 2017, and the number is on track to double again by 2030. However, many European companies have not yet adopted existing technologies, including the cloud. Digitizing the overall economy would boost growth by 20%, which is 8.5 times the value of growing the EU's tech sector. The report also estimates the following: Few European companies have adopted foundational technologies such as the cloud (26%), artificial intelligence (AI) (25%), and big data (14%). By using services based on the cloud, e.g., customer relationship management (CRM), companies can boost business productivity by 10–25%. If EU businesses accelerate their adoption of cloud, AI, and big data by 10%, they would add 370 billion euros in GVA to the EU economy, an amount larger than the EU's financial services industry. Many businesses surveyed were unaware of the benefits of digital technology. Governments can play a crucial role, particularly for small businesses, in providing training and support to address this. Closing the skills gap While a majority of Europeans possess basic digital skills, significant differenc...

Cultural and creative sectors have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall contribution to global gross value added (GVA) of the sector fell by around 21% between 2019-20. 10 million jobs were lost worldwide in these industries. However, the impact of the pandemic has been uneven. Businesses with strong digital content have done very well, such as the gaming and music streaming services. Public support measures helped to cushion some of the COVID-19 blow, but now we need a sharper focus on the diverse needs of culture and creative industries for a stronger recovery. To learn more about the OECD's work in culture, go to: oe.cd/pub/culture. Guest: Katia Travkina – OECD Policy Analyst, Culture and Creative Sectors Host: Shayne MacLachlan - Communications and Public Affairs Manager, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE)

Zamir Shukhov is the Founder and General Partner of Vibranium.VC fund, CEO and partner of the Global Venture Alliance, serial entrepreneur (created 10 companies and organizations), business angel/investor, an expert in venture capital, management, acceleration, corporate innovation and marketing over 19 years of professional career. Former Managing Partner of GVA Capital Fund 1, partner of GVA LaunchGurus Fund 1, mentor of startups, author of a column in Forbes Russia and 48 publications in leading media, certified coach of the Stanford I2M program. Included in the TOP-30 of the most prominent participants in the venture capital industry according to MoneytoStartup.ru. Member of the Council of Entrepreneurs of the city of Moscow, Lecturer of EMBA programs on innovations. Under his management, 550+ events were organized and 40 accelerators were created: MEGA Accelerator, PepsiCo Lab, MTS Startup HUB, Startup Kazakhstan, Faberlic Accelerator, GVA TeenStart, SteelTech Accelerator, ED2 EdTech Accelerator, ForestTech Accelerator, Tech Export to India, and many other leading programs, through which 1250+ startups have passed. GVA has received a number of awards, including the World No. 1 Private Business Accelerator by UBI Global. GVA funds have invested about $ 150 mln in 220+ startups around the world. Zamir has 39 professional commendations from the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO, RVC, Skolkovo, IBM, MTS, Severstal and many other significant organizations. He is married with three children & a dog, loves sports, yachting and outdoor activities. Engaged in volunteering and charity work in his spare time. FIND ZAMIR ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Have you ever wondered what it's like staring down the barrel of a gun? As of Aug. 5, which was the 217th day of the year, there have been 255 mass shootings in the U.S., according to data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which tracks every mass shooting in the country. The GVA defines a mass shooting as any incident in which at least four people were shot, excluding the shooter. Our guest Jim Kane RN, MN, CNS, NE-BC, joins us wuth his psychiatric nurse expertise to discuss the recent mass shootings in America and what part if any mental health may play. Nurses get 1 CE https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XPW7QLC Throw us some bucks, and help support our cause! Venmo: @Nurses-Hypo https://www.gofundme.com/nurses-hypochondriacs-podcast Give us a rating on itunes... Need consulting or have questions: nursesandhypochondriacs@gmail.com

Steffan with sound from last night’s Democrat debates, with audio from Warren, Beto, and more. Then, a study from the Gun Violence Archives claims over 200+ mass shootings. We check the funding for the GVA and find out some not-so-surprising facts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.