This has been fun, but now it's time to concentrate on the geopolitical and economic matters as the "intermission" in the Middle East looks to have ended. I promise to keep you updated on any developments concerning the tall blonde, though. There was something exceptional about #Geopolitics #MiddleEast #Economy #IL #US
This is a very dangerous development. The response of Iran is likely to be devastating. I would argue that the IRGC has been waiting for this. #Iran #IRGC #Geopolitics #IR
BIG DEVELOPMENT GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER: RUSSIA CONSULATE IN BONN, RUSSIA HOUSE IN BERLIN TO BE CLOSED OVER LEIPZIG ATTACK 🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ #Russland #Deutschland #Leipzig
An important conversation about the future of development—and how we turn limited resources, knowledge and partnership into better jobs, greater opportunity and results that people can see and feel. #Development #Opportunity #Partnership #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
The real return on childcare investment isn't measured only in buildings, places or euros spent. It's measured in the quality of care children receive and the developmental environment we provide them. ☝🏻 #Childcare #Education #ChildcareQuality #AQUEN #PublicTransparency #Childcare #ChildcareQuality #Education #Thetweetdoesnotspecificallymentionanycountries.Therefore #thecountrycodestoreturnare:
The Belyaev Fox Experiment: Selective Breeding, Tameness, and Domestication In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitry Belyaev began a long-term experiment at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk to investigate how wild animals might undergo domestication. Working with silver foxes (*Vulpes vulpes*) from fur farms, he selected approximately the tamest 10% in each generation as breeding parents. Selection focused mainly on behaviour—reduced fear and aggression and greater willingness to interact with humans—rather than on physical traits. The results were rapid and striking. Within about six generations, some foxes licked researchers’ hands, accepted physical contact, wagged their tails, and actively sought human attention (Dugatkin, 2018). Over time, selection for tameness was accompanied by changes in coat pigmentation, ear and tail shape, reproductive patterns, physiology, and behaviour (Trut et al., 2009). These traits resembled features found in domestic dogs and other domesticated mammals and became associated with the “domestication syndrome,” which includes reduced aggression, increased social tolerance, juvenile behaviours, pigmentation changes, and altered craniofacial development. Belyaev proposed that selection for reduced fear and aggression could affect wider developmental and physiological systems. Later research suggested that changes involving neural crest cells might help explain how behavioural selection could produce multiple physical traits (Wilkins et al., 2014). The experiment also offered a model for dog domestication. Early wolves that were less fearful and aggressive may have remained near human settlements, where they experienced a new selective environment. Over generations, increasing tolerance of humans could have led to further behavioural, physiological, and morphological changes. Belyaev’s experiment remains important because it shows how behavioural selection can rapidly influence development, genetics, and evolution, while also highlighting the need for caution when applying the concept of a universal domestication syndrome. **References:** Belyaev (1979); Dugatkin (2018); Lord et al. (2020); Trut et al. (2009); Wilkins et al. (2014).
🚨🔵 Chelsea have made contact with Lamine Camara’s camp and 22 year old midfielder would be open to join #CFC. Follows a direct meeting yesterday between AS Monaco and Chelsea to discuss a late deal. He’s on Chelsea list waiting for developments. https://t.co/T069ih3qjx #ChelseaFC #LamineCamara #TransferNews #GB #MU
Development finance must evolve. Aid still matters. But aid alone cannot provide the financing needed. #UNDPEB 3/3 https://t.co/Zq33Grl2tI #DevelopmentFinance #Aid #SustainableFinance #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.
Development is not on the sidelines of a changing world. It is central to how we shape it. In my speech to @UNDP’s Executive Board, I urged countries to step up support. 🔗Read in full: https://t.co/mZb8YwSNYX #UNDPEB 1/3 https://t.co/qbnhpRvBzC #Development #UNDP #SupportForChange #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
I condemn in the strongest terms today’s actions by the Israeli authorities to unlawfully enter & remain on the @UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre in occupied East Jerusalem & carry out unauthorized works in those premises. I am greatly alarmed at this development, as it will #Israel #UNRWA #EastJerusalem #IL #PS
Given the severity, I will also discuss the drought situation at the informal #AGRICouncil 🇮🇪 6-8 Sep & formal Council 28 Sep. Member States’ arable crop experts will take a first stock 27 Aug. We need to closely monitor developments & be ready to protect Europe’s food security. #FoodSecurity #Drought #AGRICouncil #IE #EU
Στον Παναθηναϊκό AKTOR ο Στέλιος Τζούτζης Η ΚΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός AKTOR ανακοινώνει την έναρξη της συνεργασίας της με τον Στέλιο Τζούτζη, ο οποίος αναλαμβάνει τη θέση του Director of U.S. Scouting & Player Development. Ο Στέλιος Τζούτζης θα έχει ως βασικό αντικείμενο την παρακολούθηση και αξιολόγηση της αγοράς των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών ενισχύοντας περαιτέρω τη διεθνή παρουσία και τη στρατηγική του Συλλόγου μας στην αμερικανική αγορά. Διαθέτει πολυετή εμπειρία από το αμερικανικό κολεγιακό μπάσκετ, έχοντας εργαστεί σε σημαντικά προγράμματα του NCAA όπως το Wake Forest, το University of Virginia και το Liberty University. Μάλιστα είναι ο μοναδικός Έλληνας προπονητής που έχει κατακτήσει το πρωτάθλημα του NCAA, ως μέλος του τεχνικού επιτελείου του Virginia το 2019. Μάθετε περισσότερα στο https://t.co/J8BD32QBRY #WeTheGreens #paobcaktor #Club1908 #WeTheGreens #paobcaktor #Basketball
🇷🇺 RUSSIA IS LOSING THE WAR OF ATTRITION — AND PUTIN’S OWN STATE ECONOMIST SAID IT Andrei Klepach, the longtime chief economist of Russia’s state development corporation VEB.RF and a former Russian deputy economy minister, issued a devastating warning from inside the Russian https://t.co/89fu6QkXue #Russia #WarOfAttrition #Putin #RU
Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.
🇨🇳 #China to Accelerate Implementing New Policy Financing Tools - Statement *China to accelerate implementing new form of policy financing tools and step up support for private investment projects, according to a statement by the National Development and Reform Commission. *NDRC #China #NDRC #Investment #CN
Interview of Jeffrey Sachs (renowned American economist, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, who chaired a Lancet commission on COVID-19 and collaborated with the WHO). Sachs asserts that: Politicians and "TheScience™" (the (translated)
The Welsh runner Finlay Tarling, 19 years old, died following a collision with a car driving in the wrong direction during the 8th stage of the Tour of Portugal, which led his team, NSN Development, to withdraw from the competition and raised an investigation into the circumstances of this tragic accident, highlighting increasing concerns about safety in cycling races. (translated)
🇵🇹🇬🇧⚫️🚴 DRAME | Le cycliste britannique Finlay Tarling, 19 ans, est mort lors de la 8e étape du Tour du Portugal, après un grave accident. Le jeune coureur de NSN Development aurait été percuté par un véhicule circulant en sens inverse, qui n’appartenait pas à la caravane de la course. (L'Équipe) #Cyclisme #Accident #TourduPortugal
In Smíchov, the largest Prague project of modern times is being built, a multifunctional district on a former brownfield that will offer housing, offices, shops, a public school, and other services for 12,000 people, aiming to create an attractive and diverse urban atmosphere. (translated)
