Ever wondered what the ideal weight for your height is? If you have, then, like most people, you've probably consulted your trusty BMI chart or calculator. All you need to do is multiply your weight in pounds by 703, and then divide that number by your height in inches squared. Easy peasy, right? Yeah - admittedly it's not the easiest calculation to work with, and even with handy online calculators, you're only given a 'range' in which you would be considered healthy...but what does it really mean?
BMI, or body mass index, has long been the gold standard for determining whether an individual is in the 'healthy' range for their height. The problem with this formula, however, is that with ranges come discrepancies and confusion about the 'right' weight to be for optimal health. That's why Professor George Fernandez of the Center for Research Design and Analysis at the University of Nevada has come up with a much easier and simpler system that might eventually replace BMI.
According to Fernandez, we should be able to know what our Maximum weight limit is and stay below it, just like a speed limit, and not dabble about in some 'range' of weights. All you need to do is remember these baseline numbers and the rest is simple. For men, the baseline is 5-feet, 9-inches tall and the Maximum Weight Limit is 175 pounds. For a woman, the baseline is 5-feet tall with a Maximum Weight Limit of 125 pounds. From there, you add or subtract 5 pounds for every inch taller or shorter (respectively) you are than the baseline height. So, for a woman standing at 5'8'', her MWL would be 8x5lbs more than 125 lbs, or 165lbs, which matches up on the BMI chart. With a much simpler formula and easy reference numbers to remember, MWL seems like just the thing we've been waiting for to help with health and weight loss goals.
Read more about MWL in the article called "New Way To Calculate Body's 'Maximum Weight Limit" from ScienceDaily (Sept 21, 2009).
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International Programmers’ Day was last week; today we give a special shout-out to those programmers who developed the apps that allow companies to communicate easily and provide services to clients from around the world.
NTR Lab is one of those companies; we work remotely using multiple technologies to communicate and collaborate with companies in dozens of countries. We also connect with them in person during road trips taken specifically to meet them.
Today we would like to tell more about life of our software development company and present the most popular and interesting stuff happened recently. We prepared list post with our TOPs.
Blockchain technology continues to develop rapidly both in Russia and the worldwide. According to some recruiting agencies, the demand for blockchain specialists in just the Russian Federation has grown 40 times over the past six months.
There have been conducted about 10 hackathons for blockhain solutions in Russia over the past year. Many large Russian banks, such as Sberbank, Alfa Bank, Otkritie Bank, RosEvroBank, continue pilot projects to implement blockchain in their business processes and some have already switched its to commercial operations.
Shortage of qualified developers? No time to build the right team? Have an idea, but aren’t technical? Startup needs been there/done that advice? Speed is everything; to develop fast you need new developers to both start and scale.
We are NTR Lab — a custom software development company. We can help with all the questions above. We offer solutions. We develop our clients’ ideas using our existing teams.
Three great co-hosted events are happening today at Amsterdam’s RAI! Visit Twitter and Facebook for pictures and updates.
Next week we will be in Amsterdam to attend AI Expo Europe: Europe’s Leading Artificial Intelligence Event.
In 2009 a new online payment system was created by an anonymous entity with the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day no one knows if Nakamoto is one person or a group, but just about everyone has heard about what they created — bitcoin. Bitcoin became the first widespread cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency allows you to store its value without intermediaries. In this, it is similar to cash. As cash lies on your nightstand, your bitcoins are stored in a large file called a blockchain.
The file is structured so that new blocks can be added only to the end chain; nothing written previously can be changed. The blocks store records of transactions, what address to what address, amount, transaction time.
A group of representatives of various organisations recently attended a PARN event to discuss the UK’s impending exit from the European Union.
Selman Ansari, Senior Consultant at law firm Bindmans, was there and now writes exclusively for us on the legal implications of Brexit for professional bodies.
Despite the plethora of strong, and often opposing, opinions regarding Brexit, it is largely agreed that the future is currently uncertain. This is not least because exiting the European Union is unlikely to be done unilaterally. For the United Kingdom to exit from the EU (if, indeed, it is the entirety of the United Kingdom that eventually exits) in an orderly fashion, there will need to be some level of agreement with remaining member states as to the terms of exit. Those terms will have trading, constitutional and legal dimensions, all of which also overlap. To understand what Brexit preparations membership organisations should be undertaking, it is useful to understand these dimensions.
With regard to trading, broadly the conundrum that the UK faces is whether we move away from the single market EU rules (such as freedom of movement) but also then have to move away from current favourable trading rights. Or, whether we seek to retain the rules and the current trading rights.
Constitutionally, there is uncertainty about exactly how the vote to exit the European Union will be brought about. There are, at least, a couple of aspects to this particular issue. Firstly, once negotiations with other member states have been concluded, will the negotiated deal be put to parliament for ratification prior to implementation? It has even been mooted that any new deal should be put to the country in a second referendum prior to implementation. Sticking with a parliamentary vote; given that a majority of MPs backed remaining in the EU and that many might have their own agendas with regard to any exit deal with the EU, this adds to the uncertainty.
Perhaps the most difficult question is the one that receives least attention: how will the hundreds, possibly thousands, of EU inspired legal instruments that are law in the United Kingdom right now be replaced?
EU laws comprise the famous ‘directives’ from Brussels, that tell governments rather than citizens what to do, as well as regulations, which are ‘directly effective’ and stand as laws applicable to citizens. Directives generally must be translated into domestic law. There are other laws, regulations and practices too which are derived from our current membership of the EU. Key laws in the UK, in areas as diverse as employment, financial services, the export of antiquities, and, food safety, are derived from the EU (either as a result of directives or regulations, or, in an effort to remain integrated within the single market). The nature of the exit terms will be crucial in making a start in determining the UK’s post-Brexit rule book. But this will only be the start. Even in the unlikely event of the UK ripping up all EU rules, what will replace those rules? Given the sheer breadth of EU laws, many of which are highly technical and uncontroversial, replacing such legislation with UK specific legislation (not taking into account devolution issues) will be a mammoth task.
The key top tip for starting to deal with Brexit’s impact on your members and their profession or sector is to assess which of the current trading rules and laws your members operate under are European. Some such rules and laws will clearly be labelled as such. However, some may be more difficult to discern as such and advice may be needed.
To avoid reinventing the wheel and to ensure some degree of harmonisation with our continental neighbours, whatever our political relationship with them might be, many of these laws may remain the same or very similar. It is difficult to remove laws or rights in one fell swoop – so, where there is substantive change, transitional arrangements are likely. It is important to be aware of what will change and what will remain the same.
There may be wider consequences of Brexit that might disproportionately impact your members. For example, restrictions on free movement of workers may well affect any sector that relies on European professionals. Or, your members’ sector may be one that relies heavily on the EU for funding. Whilst the government has made some commitments with regard to current funding, what is the future?
Mapping the EU’s current impact (both direct and indirect) on your members and their sector now allows you to develop a vision of how a post-Brexit future for your sector should look and to be a thought leader. In the whirlwind created by the big Brexit vote, much thought has been devoted to the ‘three dimensions’ but little to anything else, particularly in government. This creates an ideal opportunity for professional associations to lobby and advocate for what is needed for their sectors to thrive in a post-Brexit United Kingdom.
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We had a most lovely First Friday event with Mary Briggs, really lovely, very special. And the seasons they're a changing and so is the store....bringing in all kinds of fall goodness. And I did some hunting and gathering in Portland and even hired a new manager! (More on that in future post)
Facebook has a bug directing all links here to the blog. For the main site please go to http://www.PoliticsDebunked.com
According to the Pew Center: "Among adults younger than age 30, as many saw news on a social networking site the previous day (33%) as saw any television news (34%), with just 13% having read a newspaper either in print or digital form". Other groups aren't as far along but show the same trend.
The site now provides "posters" at the end of each article that are sized to be posted on Facebook or tweeted, along with links to make that easier. You may also copy the images and spread them anyway you want. The main PoliticsDebunked.com page has been updated with posters for existing articles and those "coming soon".
The only way the government will ever change is if those who wish to see change spread the word virally. If you don't take part in the process, then don't complain after the next election or major new law change. Perhaps information on this site is nothing new to you and your friends.. but it may be to friends of friends. The only way to reach the public is if *you* help do the work to spread the word via email (still the most viral media), social networking sites (posting on your own page, and on group pages or asking the owners to post to group pages), posts on blogs, letters to the editor, emails to talk shows an columnists, etc.
The general sharing links let you get to any sites that are missed. Better integration for some like Google+ are considered as time permits. If the lack of a Facebook "like" button seems odd, its partly because the "share" and "send" buttons on Facebook are more viral (especially if you share things directly on the page of friends).
Its also because the Facebook "like" button won't work with the site even though oddly other Facebook methods do. It appears likely to be due to a censorship campaign on the part of those who didn't like some content posted to Facebook . CNET reported before that some partisans have taken to seeking out any political content they don't like to label it as "spam". They'll go to facebook groups of their opponents and label anything they disagree with as spam even when its non-commercial content relevant to the topic and with the same political leanings the group was intended for. . People reported having PoliticsDebunked.com content labeled as "spam". Its necessary to risk posting even to groups that may not always agree with the content to get other voices heard, risking closed minded censors.
There wasn't a like button on the site at first, and adding one didn't work, it gives an error claiming PoliticsDebunked.com is a "suspicious URL". Alternatively there are reports on the net that a Facebook bug may also be causing that error for some sites, research is ongoing. This site is new, so after more people share its content another test will be done in case that helped.
Note: when the site was first launched recently there was a glitch. At some point Google's web creation and blogging tools didn't play well together and the PoliticsDebunked.com main website links were going to the blog for some people, notably many from Facebook. They worked for the site author so it wasn't noticed right away. This has been fixed, so please tell others who may not have seen the main site to go take a look. Or to look again if they haven't seen the new site :-)
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