The Ever Given ship ran aground in the southern part of the Suez Canal, Egypt, on March 26, 2021. (Photo: AFP/VNA) The Ever Given ship is no longer blocking the Suez Canal, but the story doesn’t end there with companies embroiled in a lengthy legal battle related to the event, hoping to “save” it. goods worth hundreds of millions of dollars are still being held on this ship for months. IKEA and Lenovo are two of many companies whose goods were detained on board the Ever Given after the ship was stranded at the airport. Suez Canal for six days in March. Many smaller companies such as the British bicycle manufacturer Pearson 1860 and Snuggy UK also had many important orders stuck on this ship. An Egyptian court has detained the Ever Given and its 18,300 containers after the Suez Canal Authority filed its first petition against the ship’s owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha of Japan, for 916 compensation. million USD for damages and losses caused by the above incident. Therefore, the Ever Given ship and all its cargo are being held at Great Bitter Lake in the canal during the aforementioned legal battle. Many companies have products on ship Ever Given said they were completely unaware of the status of the goods while the proceedings were ongoing, and were not involved in the negotiations surrounding the release of the goods. Even if the parties reach an agreement, these companies or their insurance companies may still be liable for some part of the award. Companies may be forced to spend money under the “General average” clause in international maritime law, under which the parties involved in a shipping voyage are forced to share the costs proportionally if there is a loss. happening. Clyde & Co., a law firm representing companies and insurers with more than $100 million worth of cargo stranded on the Ever Given ship, estimates the total value of the cargo on board at between 600-700 million dollars./.

However, the female financial expert in the city of Boston (Massachusetts, USA) still retains the tight belt genes. Body-shaping clothing became a post-Covid-19 craze in the US. Photo: Spanx. As the country gradually returns to a new normal, with weddings and face-to-face meetings happening more often, Angela thinks her waist belt collection will grow even more. “I have to admit that I’m pretty excited about wearing the gene, tightening the fat and looking slim again,” she told The Washington Post. Body-shaping accessories, which fell in sales during the pandemic, have skyrocketed again as Americans are looking for ways to get back in shape before the time of staying at home to avoid Covid-19. Shapermint, the online retailer that accounts for nearly 20 percent of U.S. bodybuilding clothing sales, said its revenue doubled from the previous month. Skims, Kim Kardashian’s corset brand, also sold more than 4 million products. It soon grew into a $1.6 billion brand and put the TV star on Forbes’ billionaires list. Spanx, the most successful accessory brand in the corset industry, is seeing a spike in sales, especially with its OnCore super-contour line. Compared to the corsets of the past, today’s waist belts are more comfortable with wide elastic, but still basically have the same purpose: to “edit” women to fit their criteria society and fashion standards. Kim Kardashian’s Skims are valued at more than $1.6 billion. Photo: Skims. Candyce Lindsay (59 years old), an auditor in Tempe (Arizona, USA), wore a waist belt during the pandemic. She has been fascinated with this accessory since giving birth nearly 30 years ago. Her wardrobe contains all styles and brands of waist belts: from cheap ones at Walmart to branded ones at Nordstorm. “I still have to answer a lot of video calls while working from home and I want to look my best, that’s all,” she explains. Post-Covid-19 customers still prioritize comfort, but they also want to create the “illusion” of slimmer waists, firmer buttocks and flatter stomachs, according to Sara Blakely, the company’s founder and chief executive officer. Spanx. This change in shopping was also quickly discussed on television. Jimmy Fallon, producer and host of The Late Night Show, quipped that: “The decrease in pajamas sales, and the increase in waist belts is proof that the number of people getting the Covid-19 vaccine is increasing. much”. After Covid-19, Americans still prioritize comfort, but they also want to create the “illusion” of a slimmer waist, toned buttocks and flatter belly. Photo: Honeylove. Jens Grede, the co-founder of Skims, said sales of the company’s body-contouring clothing have been on the rise since February. Even last month, when the brand opened its first branch in Los Angeles (USA), they sold 12,000 units in the first week alone, or about 3 pieces per minute. Roy Thomas (22 years old), a male singer-songwriter in Murrieta (California, USA), bought his first waist belt before the pandemic appeared to go to a nightclub with friends. A few months later, he bought a second one and started wearing it everywhere, from work, out to lunch, to the market. “I use it almost every time I leave the house. Now that the world is starting to reopen, I want to invest in more belts,” he shared.

A colony of giant grasshoppers is a terrible disaster. They begin with a black streak on the horizon, followed by darkening gradually. The small rustling noises gradually turned into the shrill noise of the millions of yellow insects that came. Since the end of 2019, grasshopper clouds have spread across the Horn of Africa, devastating crops and meadows, prompting people to trigger a massive campaign to destroy them. The ground and air spraying of insecticides in eight East African countries, coordinated by the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), prevented the worst scenario – the destruction of the grasshoppers. the food source of millions of people. In 2020, according to FAO calculations, the campaign will preserve the amount of grassland and food enough for 28 million people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen in a year. But this progress has come with unspecified consequences for the environment, and the difficult problem is to find a way to destroy this invasive insect without destroying plants, harming insects, and wild animals. wild and human. The consequences have not been determined To date, 2.3 million liters of chemical pesticides have been sprayed on 1.9 million hectares, at a cost of about $ 195 million (according to FAO statistics). This campaign will continue this year. Assessment of damage to the environment is not complete, but the effects of the insecticide have been recorded for centuries in other areas. Extensive pesticides not only kill grasshoppers, but also bees and other insects. They penetrate into water sources and can affect human health. Dino Martins, executive director of the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, said: “Of course there will be uncontrolled damage. All these chemicals are made to kill insects, and they do it with that. bulk”. Grasshoppers formed in 2018, after a hurricane brought heavy rains to the Arabian desert, allowing them to breed on wet sand. Strong winds in 2019 push the flock to Yemen, then across the Red Sea into Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Grasshoppers proliferate quickly and eat everything in the way they fly. Photo: National Geographic. The spraying was carried out even when the Covid-19 pandemic spread around the world. Wearing masks, hundreds of local volunteers and Kenyan conscripts wore aerosols and sprayed the grasshoppers with any pesticide in stock. They sprayed tens of thousands of liters of deltamethrin, as well as hundreds of liters of fipronil, chlorpyrifos, and other insecticides. In particular, many types are banned in Europe and some parts of America. In the reported case in the northern Samburu region, a ground control team sprayed 35 times the recommended amount of chemicals on an area, killing both bees and beetles. “Originally, this was an emergency situation. The idea was to try to control as quickly as possible to control the environment,” said Thecla Mutia, head of the environmental impact monitoring group of locust control efforts in Kenya. ensure food security “. Struggled to find an alternative Pesticides are poisons. Four types used in Kenya under FAO censorship have a high risk of harming bees, low to moderate to birds, medium to high with grasshoppers and soil insects, such as ants and termites. The European Union has banned the use of chlorpyrifos since early 2020, and some American states such as New York, California, and Hawaii also banned it. Fenitrothion is not approved for use in Europe, but is used in the US and Australia against grasshoppers. “We are not hiding the nature of the insecticide, but we cannot do anything while the grasshoppers spread. We want to reduce the number of desert locusts,” said Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s team leader in Nairobi. in a responsible way. Grasshoppers wreak havoc on crops with terrifying speed and scale. Photo: BBC. Biological solutions that are non-toxic, which can kill grasshoppers without harming other species, have been around for decades. However, chemical pesticides remain the top choice, accounting for up to 90% of the solution sprayed during the campaign in East Africa. The development of biological insecticides began in the late 1980s, after the grasshopper epidemic lasted for many years, stretching from North Africa to India. Christiaan Kooyman, a Dutch scientist who makes a bio-insecticide from the fungus Metarhizium acridum, which attacks grasshoppers, said: “When we see the number of millions of liters of pesticides sprayed, even the community. Donating them was also frightened. And they asked, ‘What else can I do?’ Metarhizium, marketed since 1998, has been proposed by FAO as “the most suitable control solution” for grasshoppers, but is rarely used. The drug works slowly, giving it a low “suppression” rate – that is, killing after days instead of hours. At the same time, its use was very expensive and difficult, more effective with young than adult swarms of grasshoppers – which was a great threat at the time. The biggest advantage of Metarhizium – just killing grasshoppers – also makes it a less profitable product. Companies make very little money making the drug, and go through the costly licensing process in one country and take a long time until it is allowed to be used. “Grasshoppers don’t usually show up, and businesses aren’t interested in producing something that isn’t used,” said Graham Matthews, a scientist on the Pesticide Review Foundation founding council. The grasshoppers come, you don’t want to wait for new production, you want a solution. As a result, governments have used wide-ranging, readily available chemical pesticides. Pesticides are the solution of choice to control grasshoppers. Photo: FAO. What worries the farmers, herders, scientists and conservationists of Kenya with these chemicals is that there is so much unknown – if any – about the harm they cause. A US government assessment warns “the risk of a significant negative impact on the environment and human health”, and the World Bank considers that the risk to the environment is “enormous”. “The use of large amounts of pesticides will of course harm biodiversity, but the magnitude of the effects has not been determined,” said Sunday Ekesi, an entomologist who joined his own anti-desert locust force. Nairobi, said. A major concern in Kenya is the impact of pesticides on pollinators. Farmers believe that the disappearance of bees is a factor in the low production of honey and mango. However, the lack of surveillance information makes it difficult for scientists to know what is actually going on. FAO’s 2003 guidance on safety measures shows that aerial spraying has no less impact on human health than ground spray, but often presents “more environmental concern” because There is a risk of entering sensitive areas in the ecosystem. In general, Kenya’s current grasshopper eradication campaign has improved compared to the first few weeks. If done correctly, the environmental impact will be very low. However, not many official reports have been published on this matter. Aircraft sprayed insecticides in the area invaded by locusts. Photo: FAO. Raphael Wahome, an animal scientist at Nairobi University, said FAO needs to release reports soon, so that researchers can evaluate more comprehensively. “Our main concern is that it’s all focused on locust control without the parallel monitoring system for undesirable effects,” he said. occurred where the “pesticide was used”.

Different from everyone’s sorrow about beauty and “bud”, this time, Tran Tieu Vy uses the colors of the sea sky such as red, orange, yellow highlight of sunlight, white and beige. neutral, gentle like clouds. In particular, some designs also use dyed materials to change colors, creating unique color effects such as sunset on the sea. During the past 2 years, the 18-year-old girl has become more brave on the catwalk, more professional through each photo shoot. The biggest plus point for Tieu Vy is the handling of seductive, feminine cuts but still skillfully so as not to lose the element of elegance. She once shared that, always looking at herself in front of the mirror to realize her strengths and weaknesses, so that she can strive to perfect each day. Not only is a beauty symbol pursued by young people, Tieu Vy also cherishes her plan to enter the film field. Before that, she also made fans fall in love with the movies when participating in the music video. Many viewers eagerly awaited what color Tran Tieu Vy’s acting debut would be. Miss Tran Tieu Vy Revealing her sexy body, Tieu Vy said that in the past few days, she regularly practiced hard and ate according to a reasonable diet. It can be seen that not only in the new set of photos but in recent events, the queen always makes the audience admire her toned body. Along with that, the tanned skin helps to bring up the international standard beauty of the beauty of Quang.

In the current layout of semiconductor companies in my country, SMIC is undoubtedly the leader and the most advanced company in domestic chip foundries. It has successfully mastered the production technology of 14nm chips and has begun to launch an offensive horn to 7nm. As for the achievements of SMIC, Liang Mengsong played a key role in it. It can even be said that without Liang Mengsong, there would be no SMIC today. However, it was such a leader in chip manufacturing and R&D who submitted his resignation to the SMIC Board of Directors at the end of 2020, which aroused widespread domestic discussion.

Liang Mengsong has worked for TSMC and Samsung, two companies with the world’s top chip manufacturing technology, and has made significant contributions during his tenure. In 2017, Liang Mengsong formally joined SMIC, served as its co-CEO, and became a director. While the precarious SMIC was respite, it also ushered in a major change. During Liang Mengsong’s tenure, he led SMIC to successfully achieve the five-generation leap. It took 300 days to upgrade SMIC from 28nm process level to 14nm process level, which enabled SMIC to secure its position as the most advanced chip foundry in China. Currently the only domestic chip foundry that has achieved 14nm mass production. However, why is such a powerful person in the field of chip manufacturing suddenly submitting his resignation? In this regard, the outside world has mainly speculated on three points.

One is because of the controversy over SMIC’s future development route

Liang Mengsong adheres to the advanced process technology route, and believes that SMIC should launch into 7nm and higher-level processes, and strive to catch up with the R&D and production steps of TSMC and Samsung, making SMIC a real breakthrough in technology. However, the new leader Jiang Shangyi believes that SMIC should adopt packaging technology and chiplet technology, and strive to make breakthroughs in these two areas to make SMIC gain more profits. In this environment, Liang Mengsong submitted his resignation.

The second is because of the checks and balances of power, or Liang Mengsong did not get the corresponding respect

As the company’s co-CEO, the company’s major personnel changes should be known long in advance. However, Liang Mengsong was not informed of the news until a few days before Jiang Shangyi took office, which made Liang Mengsong extremely unbalanced. Of course, Jiang Shangyi and Liang Mengsong had had grievances before, which further aggravated Liang Mengsong’s dissatisfaction and submitted his resignation.

The third is because of the internal power struggle of SMIC

Before Liang Mengsong joined SMIC, SMIC was in a state of disarray, with all parties competing with each other and no control. This is mainly because Zhang Rujing introduced capital from the United States, Singapore, China and other countries when he was founded. Under the leadership of Liang Mengsong, SMIC has made continuous breakthroughs in technology, and naturally some capital is not happy.

Although Liang Mengsong submitted his resignation to SMIC, he did not get a reply immediately. On the contrary, now it has been satisfactorily resolved, making SMIC a promising future. After the resignation storm, Liang Mengsong continued to serve as the co-CEO of SMIC, and achieved tremendous improvements in all aspects such as salary. Liang Mengsong’s resignation storm has come to an end! SMIC has laid down its capital and its salary has quadrupled. It is reported that Liang Mengsong’s annual salary has risen from US$340,000 to US$1.53 million, which has quadrupled, and he has obtained a house worth about 22.5 million yuan. It is not difficult to see from this that SMIC has indeed made a bloody effort in order to retain Liang Mengsong.

With a four-fold increase in salary and a delivery of properties worth 22.5 million, Liang Mengsong’s resignation finally ended. In this ending, some people might think that Liang Mengsong is just for the money? In fact, personally feel that whether it is or not, this is human instinct, even if it is the original intention of Liang Mengsong’s resignation, there is nothing wrong with it. From the perspective of Liang Mengsong’s contribution to SMIC, he can fully accept such treatment. Not to mention that Liang Mengsong almost donated his income from SMIC to Chinese charity.

After Liang Mengsong’s resignation storm ended successfully, SMIC was once again on the right track of research and development. It is reported that SMIC will conduct trial production of 7nm process chips in April this year, which is undoubtedly a huge piece of good news for the Chinese semiconductor industry. Once it succeeds, it shows that my country has successfully entered the high-end chip manufacturing process industry and solved the worries of many technology companies.

In fact, it should be expected that Liang Mengsong will stay at SMIC in the end. Liang Mengsong’s contribution to SMIC is indelible, and it also proves that Liang Mengsong’s key to SMIC’s future development. For such an outstanding semiconductor scientific research talent, SMIC will naturally not let Liang Mengsong go away at the critical moment of the national semiconductor industry and the shortage of related talents. And even if Liang Mengsong resigns from SMIC, with his own level, he can enter other major scientific research companies such as Huawei HiSilicon, continue to lead China’s semiconductor industry to prominence and shine in scientific research.