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Increasing demand worldwide Oil price close to $ 100?

Status: 23.06.2021 3:10 p.m.

Oil is more expensive than it has been in two years. Experts warn of a supply crisis: The prices for crude oil and thus also gasoline, kerosene and heating oil could soon rise much higher.

From Angela Göpfert, tagesschau.de

Oil prices hit new multi-year highs this week. For the first time in two years, a barrel (159 liters) of the North Sea Brent cost more than $ 75 again. For a barrel of the US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) variety, more than 73 dollars were paid on the market – the highest amount since October 2018. Rising oil prices – something that businesses and consumers may need to get used to. According to some experts, the new multi-year highs in oil prices, which many consumers are already feeling painfully at gas stations or when buying heating oil, are just the beginning of a longer upward trend in the oil market.

Analysts predict rising oil prices

The experts at the US investment bank Goldman Sachs expect the Brent price to rise to $ 80 this summer. But that is not the end of the story. An oil price of $ 100 is a “real possibility”. Alex Sanna, top oil trader at Glencore, the world’s largest commodity trading group, also said, according to the Financial Times, that an oil price of $ 100 is becoming increasingly likely.

The experts at JPMorgan even see a new oil super cycle looming and recently renewed their forecast of an oil price of $ 190 in 2025.

Demand congestion as a price driver

Francisco Blanch, raw materials expert at Bank of America, may not look quite that far into the future. For this he has the most precise 100-dollar forecast ready: the oil price could crack the round mark as early as 2022. The market hardly changes on the supply side – and this in turn is offset by an immense backlog of demand. It is easy to explain where this backlog of demand comes from: Just as many private households restricted their consumption during the pandemic, so too many companies put the necessary investments aside. Now that the global vaccination campaign is gaining momentum, at least in the major industrialized countries, consumers, companies and economies have a lot to catch up on.

Delta variant is a risk factor

The more relaxed Corona situation and the awakening global economy are leading to higher demand for crude oil, gasoline, diesel – and kerosene. Oil expert Blanch sees the rising travel industry as a major price driver.

The delta variant of the virus from India, which could lead to a further tightening of the corona measures, is currently also posing a risk to the economy.

Signal of a shortage of supply

In search of signs of whether demand is actually exceeding supply at the moment, it is worth taking a look at the market for so-called oil futures. Current oil futures contracts are quoted there higher than contracts with delivery at a later point in time. Such a constellation, referred to by experts as “backwardation”, is rather unusual and a clear indication of fear of scarcity – “and thus for further rising prices”, as market expert Robert Rethfeld from Wellenreiter-Invest emphasizes.

A price corrective called fracking

The rising prices should actually make re-entry into the oil market attractive for the US shale industry. In the past, the US frackers acted as flexible price correctors on the oil market: If prices rose, more shale oil was drilled in the short term, supply increased, prices fell again.

As a reminder, the last time oil traded above $ 100 was in 2014, when a rapidly growing supply from the US fracking industry brought an abrupt end to the last oil super cycle.

Sustainability trend slows US oil industry

But this mechanism doesn’t seem to work that well anymore. This is due on the one hand to the new US President Joe Biden, who imposed a stop on oil and gas drilling on state-owned land in January, and on the other hand to the global trend towards sustainable investment.

“The number of active US oil wells is increasing only slowly,” emphasizes wave rider expert Rethfeld. “The investors do not want to see an expansion of the production capacities at the moment, but instead demand investments in renewable energies.”

Iran as a risk factor

The production countries of the OPEC + oil cartel, especially Saudi Arabia and Russia, could benefit from the West’s climate policy. It remains to be seen how willing they are to expand production to fill the void left by the US oil industry.

Especially since there are supply risks on the part of OPEC: “After the election of an ultra-conservative cleric as the new president, Iran will have a hard time overturning US sanctions and increasing oil exports,” said Eugen Weinberg, raw materials expert at Commerzbank .

Inflation Risks Before Revaluation?

Should the oil price actually rise further towards 100 dollars, this would inevitably lead to a reassessment of the inflation risks in the financial markets, since the oil price is one of the main drivers of consumer prices.

Just yesterday, Jerome Powell, head of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), told the House of Representatives budget committee again that the Fed was considering the current high inflation rates a temporary phenomenon considered. However, market expert Rethfeld emphasizes: “Any oil price above $ 100 would suggest to the public that Powell is wrong.”

It is understood that the theme of this summit forum is “Intelligent Leadership and Seeing the Future”. Tan Jianrong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Yang Hong, Secretary-General of the Financial Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Financial Society, and Former Inspector of the Science and Technology Department of the People’s Bank of China, China Industrial Zhang Yu, Director of the Policy Research Institute of the Internet Research Institute, Zhou Aoying, Vice President of East China Normal University, Zhang Mingzhong, Deputy Secretary-General of the Industrial Supply Chain Committee of China International Chamber of Commerce, Zhao Jianchun, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, Tian Chao, General Manager of Tencent Cloud Operations, and many other digital transformation fields Senior research experts from, as well as outstanding pioneers in digital transformation from various industries such as finance, industry, education, and retail, combined their own practice and thinking, and jointly discussed the digital transformation of enterprises in the information age.

Tencent Cloud TVP Industry Ambassador Program officially released

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The Tencent Cloud TVP Industry Ambassador Program is an important part of Tencent Cloud’s concept of building a digital ecosystem for the entire industry. It will target digital leaders in thousands of industries, such as digital transformation leaders of major traditional companies, managers of digital service companies, and financial technology management. The person in charge and the backbone of the industry’s technological change, aiming to promote in-depth communication between Tencent Cloud and various industries by establishing a communication platform with these industry technical experts, and to be able to improve Tencent Cloud’s product capabilities and industry solutions in a more targeted manner. Plan to realize the beautiful vision of “influencing the world with science and technology”.

The scope of the plan will include education, finance, real estate, industry, transportation, energy and other production and life industries. TVP industry ambassadors in each industry will regularly exchange information on the difficulties and key goals of the industry in the development of information technology. Provide suggestions on the design and application of cloud service products from an industry perspective. At the same time, as an invited guest, he will participate in events held by Tencent Cloud from time to time, share experience in digital construction, and work with Tencent Cloud to jointly promote the digital transformation of the industry.

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In fact, Tencent Cloud has been deeply involved in the digital transformation of the industry for a long time. With the help of Tencent’s deep capabilities and open ecology in the fields of cloud, security, artificial intelligence, location services and other fields for a long time, Tencent Cloud has already contributed to finance, industry, education, retail, etc. The industry provides digital transformation services. In the financial industry, Tencent Cloud has served a large number of customers in the financial sector, including more than 150 banks, dozens of brokerages, insurance, and more than 90% of licensed consumer gold and many pan-financial companies. Tencent Cloud has also cooperated with leading financial institutions such as Bank of China, China Construction Bank, PICC, China UnionPay, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and Bank of China International Securities to build a financial cloud platform. It is worth mentioning that Tencent Cloud enterprise-level distributed database TDSQL has served nearly half of domestic TOP 20 banks, and the service ratio of TOP 10 banks is as high as 60%. In the field of industrial manufacturing, more and more companies are beginning to seek digital solutions for lean production and intelligent manufacturing. As a product of the deep integration of the real economy and the new generation of information technology such as 5G, cloud computing, and big data, the Industrial Internet is releasing new momentum for economic development and becoming a booster for accelerating industrial transformation and industrial digital transformation and upgrading. Tencent’s WeMake industrial Internet platform currently covers more than 10 industrial cloud bases across the country, with the widest coverage and the fastest growth rate among domestic cloud vendors. Take Zhangjiagang as an example. The first batch of the platform has completed the introduction of 25 cooperative service providers, and 207 companies have gone to the cloud, providing 69 companies (including Dow, Shagang, Yonggang, Donghua Energy, Jordan and other industry leaders) The “Industrial Internet + Safe Production” solution provides 137 small and medium-sized enterprises with lightweight SaaS tools. In addition, in the education industry, Tencent Education has currently served more than 1,000 provinces, municipalities and counties across the country, with more than 100,000 smart campus benchmarking schools, serving more than 1,000 universities, 100 million teachers and students, and more than 300,000 schools. As an educational institution, Tencent Classroom has served more than 400 million students. Through digital means, Tencent Cloud is accelerating the development of classroom intelligence and education fairness in the education industry. In terms of co-construction of the digital ecosystem, Tencent Cloud also has relatively mature landing experience.As early as 2018, it released the Tencent Cloud’s most valuable expert for building a developer ecosystem-the TVP plan. So far, more than 270 technical experts have joined. TVP, and through various forms of online and offline communication and sharing, jointly promote the development of cloud computing technology and the prosperity of the developer community. 11 experts were awarded TVP industry ambassador certificate on site The release of the Tencent Cloud TVP Industry Ambassador Program this time is Tencent Cloud’s renewed effort in promoting the digital transformation of enterprises and building the digital ecosystem of the industry. In the future, Tencent Cloud will focus on the current and future of digital transformation in various industries, and make TVP industry ambassadors. A communication platform with influence radiating the whole industry and multi-industry. Together with TVP industry ambassadors, we will continue to deepen the differentiated needs of various industries, continue to polish Tencent Cloud products and services, and make every effort to promote the digital upgrade of the industry

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Warnings from economists Pension system on the brink of collapse?

Status: 21.06.2021 10:35 a.m.

Too few contributors and high household burdens – experts repeatedly point out the problems of statutory pension insurance. Does that inevitably lead to retirement at 68 or even 70? By Andreas Braun, tagesschau.de The criticism of the German pension insurance system, which has been publicly discussed for weeks, is sharp. The entire structure of the pay-as-you-go pension has been called into question by economists in recent weeks. Many of the criticisms have been known for a long time, but above all caused a stir Paper of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics , an advisory body within the federal government. Economics Minister Peter Altmaier himself presented the committee’s proposals as “not binding” on his ministry The advisory board is “independent”.

Pension and contribution guarantees aggravate the situation

With their description of the state of the German pension insurance system, the authors of the study are anything but alone among experts. You see “suddenly increasing financing problems” approaching the pension funds. These problems are mainly caused by the guarantee of the pension level introduced in 2018 at 48 percent of the average wage and the limitation of pension contributions to a maximum of 20 percent.

Together with the introduction of the “pension at 63”, this led to the deficit within the pension insurance system being further expanded. More than a quarter of the federal budget had to be diverted to the pension fund in 2019 to fill this gap. In 2040, almost half of the federal funds are threatened to be used for this.

Increasing life expectancy

The conclusion of the economists of the advisory board with its chairman, the Munich economics professor Klaus M. Schmidt, reads: The coupling of the retirement age to life expectancy is “inevitable”. So if Germans tend to live longer and receive longer pensions, the start of retirement will have to be pushed back accordingly. This would correspond to a “pension at 68” in around 20 years.

In addition, the experts are calling for pension increases no longer to be carried out consistently in the future. While existing pensions should only increase with the development of purchasing power, a guarantee of 48 percent, for example, can still be guaranteed for “access pensions”, ie employees who are going into retirement.

Criticism of “unsocial” proposals

While politicians from many parties immediately criticized the committee’s proposals as “anti-social” or unrealistic, the authors also received support from academia from other quarters. The researchers from the employer-related Institute of the German Economy (IW) also see a further extension of the working life as a sensible way to stabilize the German pension system.

IW study director Jochen Pimpertz sees this as an opportunity “to slow down the rise in premiums and at the same time to stabilize the security level”. He recommends raising the retirement age from 2031 by two months for each year of birth. In 2052, the standard retirement age would then be 70 years. The Freiburg economist Bernd Raffelhüschen also sees a dramatic need for reform in the pension system in Germany. The federal government can only choose between “plague and cholera,” he said in a recent interview. Either the contribution rates for the pension fund or the federal subsidy would have to be drastically increased. In the past few years, the federal government gave the “majority of the elderly” too generous gifts, he said.

Swedish stock pension model

Martin Werding, professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum, is calling for a radical move away from today’s pure pay-as-you-go financing. Werding has calculated that a “share pension”, in which employees invest two percent of their gross income in an equity fund, could increase pension payments by up to 30 percent for average earners who have been insured for many years. The consumer advice centers also consider such a provision component, which is based, for example, on the Swedish pension model, to be sensible. Klaus Müller, member of the board of directors of the Federal Association of Consumer Organizations, sees the share investment as an opportunity to get “more money in old age” for insured persons.

But even a fundamental reform of the pension system is unlikely to close the gap between earned income and retirement income for many contributors. The Riester pension, which was introduced around 20 years ago , however, many experts are convinced that it is hardly suitable for this. There are increasing votes for Riester subsidies to expire under a new federal government in autumn. A prominent critic of the Riester model is, for example, the economist and former “economy” Bert Rürup. He advocates pension accounts that could be managed by a foundation and should be accessible to all citizens. Here, too, the idea is that additional contributions are invested primarily in the capital market and converted into payment plans in old age that supplement the statutory pension

Corona risk when traveling On a vacation flight into the fourth wave?

Status: 06/18/2021 5:16 a.m.

Falling incidences and more and more vaccinated people, many people hope for a carefree vacation – almost without Corona. But does the travel wave threaten a setback for autumn like last year? Four experts offer advice on how to reduce the risk of a fourth wave.

By Stefan Keilmann, tagesschau.de

For weeks the number of new infections in Germany is falling , In addition, the vaccination campaign against Corona is making progress: Every second person in this country has already received the first vaccination . Many people are now all the more hoping for an end to the pandemic and a piece of normality. The tour operators register one Record increase in bookings , In many holiday regions in Germany, it is hardly possible to get hold of a room for the holidays.

But what does this mean for fighting the pandemic? Last summer, the incidences were also low, many people traveled within and outside of Europe – and some brought the virus back with them. According to In the meantime, every second new infection was due to a trip abroad due to a special evaluation by the Robert Koch Institute . But can the experiences from last year be carried over to the summer of this year that easily? After all, many people are protected by vaccinations – but there are significantly more contagious virus mutants such as the Delta variant . Therefore, experts are already warning against that there could be significantly more infections in autumn . How is vacation possible in the second Corona summer – and what has to happen so that there is no fourth wave in autumn? tagesschau.de interviewed scientists from various disciplines.

Ralf Bartenschlager, virologist

To person Prof. Dr. Ralf Bartenschlager is President of the Society for Virology and heads the Department of Molecular Virology at Heidelberg University.

“I think you have to differentiate here whether you are fully immunized – and by that I mean both vaccinations – or whether you have not yet been vaccinated or have only been vaccinated once. With a complete immunization, more vacation is certainly possible than with a missing or partial immunization, even if you can create a certain compensation through testing. Basically, the holiday destination should also be chosen carefully this summer. One should consider the incidence, the vaccination rate and the presence of worrying variants – such as the delta variant – in the destination area. We have to use the summer months to avoid a fourth wave in autumn / winter. The vaccination must be given priority here, and it must be complete. The latest results show that the second vaccination is very important, especially with regard to protection against the SARS-CoV-2 variants. In addition, we must minimize the entry of infections, especially with SARS-CoV-2 variants, as far as possible for those returning from abroad. ”

Kai Nagel, mobility researcher

To person Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel is a physicist and head of the Department of Traffic System Planning and Traffic Telematics at the Technical University of Berlin. With the help of a simulation model – which also uses real cellular data – he is investigating how the coronavirus spreads in schools, at work and when traveling.

“Our simulations show that, due to the rapid progress of vaccination and the summer, we are currently in a situation in which we have a certain amount of leeway for relaxation . the proportion of dangerous mutations is not significantly higher than in Germany. The same principles apply when traveling as here. First: Wherever possible, carry out activities (e.g. visits to restaurants) outside. Second: Wear masks indoors. And third: Avoid contexts with a high density of people. However, our simulations also show that an autumn wave is likely if the vaccination protection decreases due to a mutation. For this reason, tourist trips to regions with dangerous mutations should be avoided at all costs, and if they do take place, be bound to a quarantine (also for vaccinated / convalescent) after return. It cannot be assumed that this will completely prevent the entry of these mutations, but it can at least be slowed down. ”

Gérard Krause, epidemiologist

To person Prof. Dr. Gérard Krause is one of the leading epidemiologists in Germany. Among other things, he heads the Epidemiology Department at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig.

“How the epidemiological situation of the pandemic will develop in the second half of the year does not depend solely on how we organize the vacation time. What will also be decisive here will be the extent to which the priority target groups can be fully vaccinated and how well the vaccination against newly emerging variants of the virus and how the autumnal environmental conditions favor the spread of the virus again. Also important is how successfully the public health service will be able to contain local outbreaks that occur. To the extent that social restrictions on mobility and contacts no longer apply, the importance of case-related contact person management increases. To make matters worse, the health authorities may not be able to fall back on extensive staffing as they were recently. Well-focused and optimized processes are required here. ”

Clemens Wendtner, chief physician

To person Prof. Dr. Clemens Wendtner is the head physician for infectious diseases at Munich Clinic Schwabing. At the beginning of the pandemic, Germany’s first corona patients were in his clinic.

“Enjoy with common sense – that should be our motto for the summer. After months of restrictions, the longing for sun and distance is understandably great and the development of incidence allows us more freedom again. That is good and right, as long as we have the security with us Last year the number of cases increased after the holidays, in autumn we mainly looked after returning travelers at our wards. We have to learn from this and, particularly with regard to the mutations, continue to consistently link safety measures with the relaxation. And: We have to keep our vision through the sun’s rays, constantly advance the vaccinations in the summer, keep the vaccination speed high. The higher the vaccination protection in autumn, the flatter a possible fourth wave. Then we have a good chance that the months of restrictions will finally be a thing of the past. ” The Corona variants and their names The World Health Organization (WHO) is now using neutral names for the variants of the coronavirus. They are no longer to be named after the countries in which they were first discovered. With this, the WHO wants to prevent discrimination and stigmatization.
alpha The name of the variant that first appeared in Great Britain is B.1.1.7.
beta is the name for the variant B.1.351 discovered in South Africa.
gamma stands for variant P.1, which has been proven in Brazil.
delta refers to variant B.1.617.2, which was initially found in India.

The origin of this incident is that some cities have made a wish for a “digital economy”, admiring the name of “smart cities”, and they want to build “urban brains” one after another. This is a good thing. Who doesn’t want to be a fan of the computing power economy? If the local government builds the platform down-to-earth and the manufacturer deploys the product honestly, there is nothing to write about. But there are some weird phenomena, which creased this pool of spring water. Attention, there is weirdness! For example, more than half a month ago, a city’s artificial intelligence computing center project was completed and put into use to provide services such as public computing power for the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. What a good thing! However, in the media reports on the computing power of the center, such a strange appearance appeared: “The first phase of the center’s construction scale is 100P FLOPS artificial intelligence computing power… Its computing power is equivalent to 50,000 high-performance computers.” XX release, investment XX, a little information XX, etc. “The computing power of artificial intelligence is equivalent to 50,000 high-performance computers”, which is typically misleading. Coincidentally. Two years ago, when a large-scale intelligent computing project was launched in a city, the computing power released to the outside was “100PFLOPS”, and the topic was forcibly added: “Domestic AI training clusters enter the field of supercomputing”… The AI ​​dedicated smart computer became an all-round supercomputer at once, wonderful! Speaking of dollar as a “knife” and intelligent computers as supercomputers, who is pretending to be confused? Sorry for joining the stage! Is it really all the media? not necessarily. Regardless of whose pot it is, but see that the unhealthy wind is getting longer. In some places, in order to quickly launch the computing power project, the computing power is not discriminated, as long as the number is beautiful enough. Perhaps the local area did not spend a particularly large amount of capital, and built the so-called tens of P, hundreds of P computing power, thinking that it can compete with the national supercomputing center and launch a wave of computing power to drive the economy. Unexpectedly, when they invited supercomputer experts to ask, it didn’t seem to be the case. Why? You get what you pay for computing power. In order to quickly launch the computing power project, the smart computer and the supercomputer are stupidly unclear, and they are even more confused about what is the reasoning performance and what is the training performance. As a result, I thought that I spent a small amount of money to build a world-class supercomputer. It may cost a lot of money to build a machine with only reasoning performance. What does that sentence say? “ The gift of all destiny , The price has already been secretly marked . ” Today we will talk about the mystery of this. Smart computer VS super computer, can’t tell the difference? First of all, supercomputing is supercomputing. Some machines dedicated to AI computing are also called supercomputing, which is questionable. The Linpack test, which is currently used in the industry to measure supercomputers, tests the “double-precision floating-point computing capabilities” of supercomputers, that is, the calculation of 64-bit floating-point numbers (FP64), which is a high-precision numerical calculation. Among the digital precision expressed in binary, there are single precision (32-bit, FP32), half-precision (16-bit, FP16), and integer types (such as INT8, INT4). The higher the number of digits, it means that people can reflect the changes of the two values ​​in a larger range of values, so as to achieve more accurate calculations. Unlike many scientific calculations, the computing power required by AI does not need to be too high-precision. For example, some AI applications need to process speech, pictures, or videos. Inference or training can be completed by running low-precision calculations or even integer calculations. This kind of special computer processing AI algorithm is fast and low energy consumption, which is determined by its characteristics. To sum up, we can distinguish as follows: Smart computer Is a kind of dedicated computing power, they Good at intelligent calculations such as reasoning or training , But because AI reasoning or training generally only uses single-precision or even half-precision calculations, and integer calculations, most intelligent computers do not have the ability to perform high-precision numerical calculations. This also limits its use in application scenarios other than AI computing. In contrast, supercomputer It is a kind of general computing power, and its design goal is Provide complete and complex computing capabilities They are more capable of high-precision computing and have a wider range of applications. For example, scientists often use supercomputers for planetary simulation, new material development, molecular drug design, genetic analysis, and other scientific calculations and big data processing. Chen Zuoning, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, once vividly used supercomputing for AI calculations “Big Horse-drawn Car” , To illustrate that although supercomputing is “decathlon”, it is not tailor-made for AI after all; in order to do things cheaply, intelligent computers have emerged. The fusion of AI and supercomputing, which was once hyped before, is also an improved high-performance computer “AI Specialization” Strictly speaking, they no longer belong to the category of supercomputing in our traditional discourse system. Nowadays, regardless of the completion of the supercomputing center or the intelligent computing center, they all claim the computing power “FLOPS”. In fact, this unit is “floating point computing power per second”, and the unit of some smart computers is actually “OPS” – ―The number of operations per second. If there is no distinction, it is easy for everyone to mistake it for the same calculation accuracy and the same calculation ability. This also leads to Some places think that they have spent a small amount of money to build the world’s top “big supercomputing”, which seems to have taken advantage of it; when the project was launched and introduced to the supercomputing industry, they were dumbfounded. . Sorry, it’s on stage again! Use new indicators to guide the healthy development of the industry To avoid misleading and chaos in the industry, the concepts of smart computers and supercomputers must be clearly distinguished. As mentioned above, there is another misleading in the industry, that is, the reasoning performance and training performance of fuzzy intelligent computers. Compared with inference, training performance often requires higher calculation accuracy, such as 32-bit or even 64-bit. Most AI chips with “dazzling” performance often refer to their inference performance, and may only be theoretical values. For AI computing, training performance is often more important-many intelligent models depend on this. If you want to draw a schematic diagram of the computing power required by AI, “inference” is at the bottom of the computing power matrix, because half-precision computing power (FP16) or integer computing power (such as INT8) can meet the inference needs. The top one is “training”, which generally requires the use of single-precision computing power (FP32) or half-precision computing power (FP16); the most demanding computing power is the brain-like “simulation”, which requires double-precision computing power. Both computing power (FP64) and low-precision computing power are supported at the same time. In order to achieve better guidance, A simple and effective indicator is needed to help judge the AI ​​computing power of the system and the development status of the entire high-performance AI field . November 2020, Researcher of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Secretary General of the High Performance Computing Professional Committee of the Chinese Computer Society Zhang Yunquan Joint Professor of Tsinghua University Chen Wenguang , Researcher of Argonne National Laboratory Pavan Balaji And professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Torsten Hoefler , And the ACM SIGHPC China Committee jointly initiated the “International Artificial Intelligence Performance Computing Power 500 Ranking” (ie AIPerf500) based on the AIPerf large-scale AI computing power benchmark evaluation program. Those who are interested can look through this list, The computing power unit of the machines on the list is OPS . “Supercomputing and AI computing, one yard equals one yard, requires a new scale to guide the AI ​​computing industry on the path of healthy development.” Zhang Yunquan said. Can’t get around Nvidia?Domestic AI chips are waiting to be fought The computing power starts with the chip. On the AI ​​chip track, my country has chip design companies such as Huawei N Ten, Baidu Kunlun, and Suiyuan, but even so, domestic smart computers rarely bypass the American GPU giant Nvidia. This is a helpless reality: Nvidia is a tangible beneficiary of the many intelligent computing centers launched in China . AI chips that specialize in intelligent computing can achieve faster speeds and performance that is several orders of magnitude higher in low-precision calculations as long as the number of cores is large enough and the main frequency is high enough. However, if a computing cluster requires both high-precision calculations and low-precision calculations, the requirements for AI chips are high. This is also the killer of NVIDIA GPUs. Their computing power in various precisions is outstanding and very balanced (of course AI computing power is stronger), not to mention NV has a better software stack and application ecology. Sorry, it’s on stage again! This is one of the reasons why it is difficult for most domestic AI chips to compete head-to-head with NVIDIA GPUs. And if Nvidia finally successfully acquires ARM, it will be even more powerful and take off completely. However, domestically produced AI chips are not entirely without opportunities. first of all, At present, my country’s computing power infrastructure has a strong willingness to localize. Even if giants such as Nvidia and Intel take the lead, the tide of localization is still unstoppable due to various factors such as comprehensive cost and ecology. Secondly As far as the current development of AI is concerned, scenarios, data, models, and computing power are indispensable, which means that China will be a place where global AI computing power is rich in the future. As a core requirement, AI chips cannot be monopolized by one form or one ecology. The outstanding domestic AI chips such as Cambrian and N-Teng still have huge room for development. Furthermore Although the chip is the main source of computing power and the most fundamental material basis, the production, aggregation, scheduling, and release of computing power is a complete process that requires the cooperation of the software and hardware ecology of a complex system to achieve “effective computing power.” Therefore, we should not only pay attention to the single performance index of the chip, but also pay attention to the upper-level software application ecology. Is it impossible to develop AI without huge computing power? Finally, let’s talk about the development trend of AI. Behind the confusion of the concept of computing power is the soaring demand for computing power in AI computing like a wild horse. This is not surprising. The amount of AI training is determined by the amount of parameters. What is the scale of the parameters for training AI now? Hundreds of billions, trillions! OpenAI, an artificial intelligence non-profit organization jointly established by a number of Silicon Valley “tycoons”, launched its new generation of unsupervised translation language model GPT-3 in May 2020. It currently has 175 billion parameters and a training data volume of 45TB ( About 1 trillion words). The GPT-3 model has made major breakthroughs in semantic search, text generation, content understanding, and machine translation. Its greatest value is to verify the machine’s unsupervised self-learning ability, and to verify that performance can be improved purely by scaling up. The trillion-parameter model is already on the way. In early June, Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute released “Enlightenment 2.0”, claiming to reach 1.75 trillion parameters, surpassing the Switch Transformer previously released by Google, and becoming the world’s largest pre-training model. The rapid growth of the parameter volume also means higher computing requirements-some may require thousands of GPUs to provide the necessary computing power. For giant models like GPT, the demand for computing power is not a joke. Is it impossible to develop AI without huge computing power? Experts believe that in the current stage of AI development (perceptual intelligence and cognitive intelligence), computing power is still the first. In fact, the development of AI can be improved through computing power, or through the algorithm revolution, but at the current stage of “capital orientation”, Compared with the uncertainty of the algorithm model breakthrough, the increase of computing power is the easy choice. However, it must be pointed out that the use of huge computing power is not the only direction for the development of artificial intelligence. Giant models such as GPT-3 also have shortcomings, such as lack of common sense; and explore the mysterious mechanism of the human brain to realize small data learning and migration learning. It is also an important means. After all, the power consumption of the brain is only about 20W, and the realization of a smart system with low energy consumption may be a more important direction for efforts. (This article was written under the strong guidance of experts in the field of supercomputing such as Zhang Yunquan, Senior Commissioner of the Chinese Computer Society, and I would like to thank you!)

During the restoration of the Golden Stupa, workers accidentally discovered many rare treasures. (Photo: Kknews) It is known that the Golden Stupa is located on the premises of Bao Tuong Pagoda in Wen Shang District, Shandong Province, China. Because the roof tile on the top of the tower is covered with a layer of gold glaze, looking from afar, it has a bright yellow color, so the locals have named the tower Hoang Kim. According to historical records, Bao Tuong Pagoda and the Golden Stupa are up to 1,500 years old and were built during the Northern Wei Dynasty. In the memories of the workers involved in the repair of the stupa on March 15, 1994, by following the mysterious fragrance that kept emitting from the foot of the Golden Stupa, they were able to find a palace. Underground. They immediately stopped construction and contacted archaeologists in Shandong province. The stone box was discovered inside the underground palace at the foot of the Golden Stupa. (Photo: Kknews) The underground palace includes a corridor nearly 4m long, 0.97m wide; 1.65m high and a room located in the middle of the tower’s foot is 1.47m long; about 1.43m wide and 4.2m high. In the middle of the room is a round well, the mouth of the well is covered with a stone slab, surrounded by carved lotus flowers. Behind the large room there is a small niche, inside there is a Buddha altar, on the altar there is a stone box. Gold and silver coffins were found inside the stone box. (Photo: Kknews) On the left side of the stone box there is a Bodhisattva statue made of clay, about 50cm high. The face of the Bodhisattva statue has been peeled off, his hair is in a high bun, his arms are raised across his chest, he is kneeling on a lotus, his body is slightly bent forward. According to archaeologists, normally the statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that we see are made in standing, sitting or lying positions, but this statue is in a kneeling position, which is unprecedented. here. The tooth relic of Buddha Shakyamuni is considered by experts to be an extremely rare treasure. (Photo: Kknews) While observing the Bodhisattva statue, inadvertently the light from the experts’ flashlights passed through the lid of the stone box, through the cracks in the surface, some flickering rays of light flashed, the mysterious fragrance also emanated. out from here. Former secretary of the Institute of Confucius Research – Duong Xuan Binh, the commander-in-chief of the archaeological team that year, quickly decided to open the mysterious stone box. The treasure inside the stone box is nearly a thousand Buddha relics. (Photo: Sohu) Inside the stone box there are nearly 1,000 relics and a golden coffin is placed in the center. In the golden coffin is a smaller coffin made of silver, divided into 2 compartments, the upper compartment is a yellow satin cloth wrapped with a Buddha tooth relic up to 5.5cm long. After studying Buddhist texts, the expert was able to verify that the tooth relic belonged to Shakyamuni Buddha. With this discovery, the tooth relic of the Buddha discovered at the Golden Tower is considered the supreme sacred relic in the Buddhist world and a rare cultural relic of the world. Reference: Kknews

The rare, seemingly extinct species of Truong Son Mang has just been discovered by camera traps in Phong Dien Nature Reserve, TT-Hue. Photo: Provided by the Nature Reserve On June 12, information from the leader of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of TT-Hue province said that the local functional forces had just discovered the endemic, rare, and seemingly extinct ungulate through photo traps for many months. Along with that are records of the diverse appearance of many species of birds and wild animals in Phong Dien Nature Reserve. International experts said that it could be Truong Son or Mang Roosevel. Photo: Provided by the Nature Reserve Previously, Phong Dien Nature Reserve Management Board and Viet Nature Conservation Center conducted a survey and set up more than 100 photo traps in the deep forest area of ​​this reserve. The choice of photo traps is located in dangerous areas according to the diagram that coincides with the foraging path of wild animals. In particular, the mission set up photo traps focusing on the habitat of the white-crested Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi). As a result, after 2 months (from March 12 to May 28) setting photo traps in an 11-hectare forest area of ​​Phong Dien Nature Reserve, the team obtained more than 200 photos of 20 species of mammals. and 11 species of birds; in which, the number of photos of wildlife accounts for the majority. Gam civet at Phong Dien Nature Reserve. Photo: Provided by the Nature Reserve Although there were no images of the White Crested Pheasant as the original target, the mission recorded the appearance of some extremely rare animals. In particular, among them are the extinct Truong Son Mang (Muntiacus truongsonensis) and the Red Civet (Chrotogale owstoni) – an endangered animal on the IUCN Red List 2016. According to Mr. Nguyen Dai Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of TT-Hue Province, as soon as he received the information, he contacted Dr. Rob Timmins – Technical Director of Saola Foundation, the world’s leading expert on hoofed mammals. clogs to exchange information correctly. The interesting appearance of two individuals of Truong Son Mang – an extremely rare and seemingly extinct species in Vietnam. Photo: Provided by the Nature Reserve From the images sent, Dr. Rob Timmins said that it is not a big Mang. Mr. Rob doubts between Mang Truong Son and Mang roosevel. The special thing is that both of these species are endemic and rare ungulates that have just been discovered or re-discovered in Vietnam and Laos. According to Mr. Le Ngoc Tuan, Director of Phong Dien Nature Reserve, Truong Son Mang has been discovered in the Truong Son mountain range in Vietnam in 1997. Tri Sao. Photo: Provided by the Nature Reserve Although there is not enough data to assess the risk of extinction, it has been a long time since this individual was rediscovered in the TT-Hue forest area. The results show that there are at least 2 individuals of this species in the forest. That fact is extremely valuable for the scientific study of this species. In addition to the Truong Son Mang, the camera traps recorded rare animals such as the star pheasant (Rheinardia ocellata), the golden cash chicken (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), the Central Vietnamese chicken (Arborophila merlini) and some mammals such as the striped rabbit. Nesolagus timminsi), chamois (Capricornis milneedwardsii maritimus)… Moldy Civet Elephant. Photo: Phong Dien NR According to Mr. Tuan, in the study area through recording camera traps, the presence of people is very little; There is no hunting or logging phenomenon. Thereby, reflecting the well-protected research area. However, the fact that there are 20 species of mammals and 11 species of birds recorded through photographic traps located within the study area is still modest, compared to the total area of ​​more than 41,000 ha of the reserve. Cauldron. Photo: Phong Dien NR Star hemorrhoids. Photo: Phong Dien NR In the coming time, this reserve will continue to expand the research area, update the list of animals and establish distribution maps of endemic and endangered species for effective protection solutions.

Because of the more frequent mutations of the new coronavirus recently, “is the vaccine still effective?” has become a concern for everyone. If you want to add annual keywords to the new crown virus, then “mutation” is probably not inferior to “popularity.” “Preliminary research results show that my country’s existing vaccines can cope with the variant strains emerging in India.” Shao Yiming, a researcher at the China Centers for Disease Control and a member of the Vaccine R&D Team of the Scientific Research Group, said in an interview a few days ago that the domestic new crown vaccine still has a protective effect. . How can the domestic new crown vaccine be able to deal with the variant strains emerging in India? A reporter from Science and Technology Daily interviewed industry experts on this matter. The virus has changed Can the antibodies raised by the vaccine not drop? Today, when the antibodies in our body encounter the new coronavirus, it is very likely that we will whisper the phrase “you have changed.” In fact, it is difficult to stay the same, because it travels the world and meets different people and even animals. In the latest “Epidemiology Weekly Report” released by the World Health Organization on May 18, 10 variants were “named”, including 4 “needs of concern” that were first discovered in the UK, South Africa, Brazil, and India. The mutated strains also include 6 strains that “need attention” found in the Philippines, France and other places (slightly lower than the strains of concern). The report specifies the location of the virus mutation sequence change in detail. When the virus changes, can the antibodies raised by the vaccine fail to drop? Not necessarily, it depends on where the virus has changed. Most of the mutations of the concerned strains and the concerned strains fall on the key spike protein, which is responsible for allowing the virus to invade the cell. Its mutation may enhance the virus’s infectivity and may also invalidate existing vaccines, especially for the spike protein. Designed vaccine. “Relevant departments have previously shown based on sequence mutation predictions that although the mutation of the Indian strain falls on the spike protein, it may have little impact on the protective effect of the existing vaccine. Of course, this needs further experimental confirmation.” Said Lu Shan, project commissioner and deputy director of the Public Health and Modern Medicine Division of China Biotechnology Development Center, Ministry of Science and Technology. Changes in viral RNA sequence must pass at least three passes to affect the formation of a protein structure, including changes in coding amino acids, changes in protein folding, and changes in protein three-dimensional conformation. Therefore, from the perspective of sequence analysis, protein simulation, neutralization reaction prediction, etc., the mutation of the Indian strain has not reached the level of “cannot be reduced”. In addition, for the mutant strains that emerged in India, relevant departments are also conducting “practical drills” on them with neutralizing antibodies. Previously, similar studies were conducted on the mutant strains discovered for the first time in South Africa. “The Lancet-Microbe” published the results of two Chinese vaccines on April 13th. The 24 serum samples of vaccine subjects were tested for the neutralization activity of live virus, and wild-type virus strain HB02 and the virus strain BJ01 carrying the D614G mutation were used as controls. The results showed that the neutralization ability of the vaccine evoked antibodies was maintained at a percentage. It’s about sixty or seventy. Multi-party attention and continuous tracking of virus changes Shao Yiming said at the meeting that relevant departments and companies are closely following the mutation of the new crown virus. Once there are variant strains that cannot be dealt with by existing vaccines, we will have new vaccines into use. So, what does close tracking mean? If a new vaccine is needed, how quickly can it be developed? “Vaccine research and development teams continue to pay attention to virus mutations and carry out research and development of new vaccines based on virus mutations.” Lu Shan introduced, for example, the Academy of Military Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and related companies have gradually carried out. “The eighth edition of the prevention and control plan requires genetic sequencing of all imported cases and the first or early cases in the local epidemic.” Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission’s Disease Control Bureau, said at a press conference earlier that through gene sequencing dynamics Monitoring virus mutations can provide a scientific basis for subsequent studies on the impact of virus mutations on pathogen detection and vaccine protection. Source: Visual China These sequence information will be aggregated to the National Bioinformation Center (National Genome Science Data Center), the new coronavirus information database released by the center, which will continue to track virus mutations. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and other units continue to track the sequence changes of the new coronavirus and conduct in-depth virus mutation analysis. In addition to continuous gene sequencing and analysis for continuous tracking, vaccine research and development companies and research institutes will also conduct dynamic cross-protection experiments on newly emerging mutant strains. The above-mentioned “Lancet-Microorganism” published research is one of the typical studies of various units concerned about the strength of vaccines and viruses. For newly mutated strains, inactivated vaccines have a very quick way to deal with them. Shao Yiming introduced that as long as the virus of the new mutant strain is added to the feeding end, the entire production process does not need to be changed, and a new vaccine against the mutation can be produced. A reporter from Science and Technology Daily also contacted relevant units. In response, Dr. Hangwen Li, the founder of Sri Lanka Microbiology, said that the iterative vaccine development for mutant strains was carried out earlier. The serum produced in animal experiments can be tested by relevant national institutions to have a good neutralizing effect on the new coronavirus mutant strains of concern to the World Health Organization. At present, the iterative vaccine is improving related research applications to carry out a phase 1 clinical trial. Academician Zhong Nanshan judged in an interview not long ago: Due to the mutation of the virus, the new crown vaccine may be given regularly in the future like influenza prevention. So in response to mutations, the new crown vaccine may also be similar to the flu vaccine. After continuous research and development by the R&D team, several vaccines against variant strains of the new coronavirus have been produced, and the corresponding vaccines have been vaccinated. Source: Science and Technology Daily

Kaiserlu, this is an over-the-counter drug that the common people are very familiar with, and often find it difficult to tell. However, Kaysaluru has recently become an extremely cost-effective “skin care artifact”, and many celebrities and Internet celebrities also endorse it. Is Kayseri really so magical? The reporter launched an investigation on this.

Citizen:

The skin becomes smoother after applying the corkscrew

Citizen Ms. Pang is 26 years old this year. As a beauty lover, she likes to learn various skin care skills by using Douyin and Xiaohongshu during her breaks. Recently, Ms. Pang became fascinated by Kay Selo.

“I think Tranquility, Fan Bingbing and many internet celebrities are all bringing goods to Kaisalu. After a period of time, after rubbing the body with Kaisalu, the photos taken out have indeed turned white and delicate, but they said they need to stick to two or three. Months, I really want to try it, but I’m afraid that it won’t work or have side effects.” Ms. Pang said that because of her dry skin, she used to rub body lotion before going to bed. Recently, according to the celebrity’s recommended method: Snake oil ointment was mixed with Kaisailu, and tried to apply it on hands and feet. It felt smooth. As for the whitening effect, she hadn’t felt it yet. The point is that this hybrid skin care product is much cheaper than body milk.

Mr. Luo, a citizen, told reporters that he had an unbearable past for Kaisalu. “When I was a child, the adults in the family bought some kaiser, because the bottle looked cute, so I secretly used it to play with it, and then bit it open and found it was sweet.” Mr. Luo said, after tasting the sweetness, he felt it opened. After closing the door of the new world, I drank five or six bottles of corkscrew at home as a drink in the afternoon, and then had diarrhea. When his parents came home from get off work, in addition to the peculiar smell at home, he was also weakened…

“So, no matter which one tells me that Kaysaluru can be used for skin care, I would never believe it!” Mr. Luo said.

social platform:

A small number of bloggers recommend using Kaisailu for skin care

Reporters log on to platforms such as Douyin and Xiaohongshu and found that a small number of bloggers indeed recommend the use of Kaisero for skin care, and most of the video content is only an analysis of the ingredients of Kaisero.

More exaggeratedly, some bloggers said that Kaiseru should not be used during the day, because Kaiseru is “photosensitive”, and it is easy to “blacken” when used during the day. At the same time, everyone has also developed a lot of mix and match methods, such as whitening with rose pure dew, white vinegar can shrink pores and blackheads, etc. As for exfoliation and acne, there are also some corresponding matching methods…

In the video of Xiaohongshu bloggers at Fourteen O’clock, Xiaodiwo Ethan and Ah Piao, they all mentioned that the main ingredient of Kaisailu contains glycerin. This ingredient is also contained in most skin care products, but it is very different from the glycerin concentration in Kaisailu: In ordinary skin care products, the concentration of glycerin is usually between 5% and 20%, while Kaisailu The glycerin concentration in the glycerin is as high as 50% to 58%.

It is reported that the main function of glycerin is to absorb and store water, not to create water. Therefore, when added to cosmetics, other oils and moisturizing ingredients are usually added to achieve a better water-locking and moisturizing effect. If you simply use high-concentration glycerin, such as Kaisailu, when the external environment is relatively dry, he will suck out the moisture from the skin, which will cause counterproductive results. In addition, for groups with sensitive or oily muscles, it is more likely to cause skin redness and swelling, allergies or clogged pores, acne and other adverse symptoms.

Netizens’ various evaluations of Kayseri

Pharmacy staff:

It is not recommended to use Kaiserol for skin care

The reporter visited Nan’an District, Jiulongpo District Heping Pharmacy, Tongjun Pavilion, Baijiaxin and other pharmacies. These pharmacies have different capacities of Kaiserol for adults and children. The content for adults is 20ml, and for children it is 10ml. There are also slight differences in the price of different brands of Kaisero. For example, the Kaisero for adults from Shanghai Jiayun is one yuan, while the Kaisero with the same content of Zhengyuan brand is three yuan.

Kayseri for adults and Kayseri for children

Regarding the claim that Kaisero can be used for skin care, only one young female staff member in the pharmacy said she had seen it on the Internet, but as a practitioner, she just laughed and would not recommend the use of Kaisero for skin care to customers. “All brands of Kaiseroun are labeled as laxative and used for constipation. Really used for skin care may not be effective.” said the staff member.

The reporter also bought a box of corkscrew, which is in the shape of an inverted lollipop. The plastic bottle is filled with a transparent liquid. The reporter opened it and smeared it on the palms and arms. Compared with skin care products, the corkscrew had a more tactile feel. Greasier.

The indicated indications of Kaiserlu are for constipation

expert:

The effect of Kayseri is exaggerated

In this regard, the reporter consulted Zhou Xun, director of the Department of Dermatology and Beauty, Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The other party said that the main ingredient of Kaisai Lotion is glycerin. Glycerin has an emollient effect, just like the shell oil used by citizens in the past. If citizens’ skin needs to be repaired, skin care products with ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, collagen, and ceramide are needed. “If the skin is compared to the structure of a city wall, these components are like cement mortar, which can make the city wall stronger and denser.” Zhou Xun said.

The meeting also emphasized the importance of having a deep understanding of the importance of doing a good job in 5G security, effectively grasping the characteristics of the stage, innovation, and complexity of 5G development and evolution, planning and collaborative innovation as a whole, and integrating security concepts and measures throughout 5G. Plan all aspects of the entire process of construction and integration of applications to achieve synchronization of 5G development and security.

The reason why 5G security is so important is that, on the one hand, the value brought by 5G is not simply to allow consumers to watch videos faster on mobile phones, but to create for the age of the industrial Internet and the Internet of Things. “In the future, a large number of scenarios will be transferred to 5G, and more critical infrastructure and important applications will also be built on 5G.” 360 security experts said.

On the other hand, 5G accelerates the interconnection of all things, opening up the virtual world and the physical world, so that attacks that were only in the virtual world in the past can turn cyber attacks into harm to the physical world through the Internet of Things, leading to social shutdowns, factory shutdowns, and large-scale Area power outages, this hazard far exceeds the intrusion of viruses and Trojan horses today.

“When tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of IoT devices are connected via 5G, we must consider how to ensure their security.” 360 security experts said. He pointed out that 5G specifically faces six cyber security challenges. First, the core network modules of 5G are more complex, and there will be more security issues when building private networks in conjunction with MEC; second, low-latency services expand the attack surface; third, large-connection services make 5G a high level of hacker attacks. Value goals; fourth, network slicing technology makes the network boundary blurred; fifth, the problem of pseudo base stations still exists; sixth, higher requirements for the protection of user location privacy.

Therefore, escorting 5G security is imminent. It is reported that 360 has discovered and assisted in repairing the world’s first 4G network protocol vulnerability, which allows attackers to hijack text messages and voice calls from any 4G terminal. This work makes 360 the first security team to enter the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Mobile Security Hall of Fame.

In the direction of 5G security, 360 conducts research from four aspects: terminal layer, network layer, edge layer, and platform application layer, and proposes corresponding security deployment plans. In 2020, 360 participated in the establishment of the power 5G application security management technology project in cooperation with the Electric Power Research Institute, and conducted in-depth research based on the key technologies of 5G regulatory business security protection.

At present, 360 has built a 5G open source platform to realize NSA’s terminal access and business data transmission. The follow-up will rely on the boofuzz ​​fuzzing test framework for protocol conformance testing. After automatically sending a mutation message each time, for different monitoring APIs, the current device status can be observed in real time through the protocol monitoring window to determine whether the device is abnormal. The tool can be deployed in private networks such as corporate campuses to cooperate with multi-network and multi-standard drive test systems to discover device 5G module protocol vulnerabilities.

Disclaimer: This article is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice.

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Crisis in the training market Where the trainees are most absent

Status: 08.06.2021 2:09 p.m.

Much fewer apprenticeships, far fewer applicants – Corona has massively thinned the training market. What alarms experts: Professions in which there is already a shortage of skilled workers are severely affected. From Philipp Reichert, SWR Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, significantly fewer training positions have been offered than before. This is shown by figures from the Federal Employment Agency SWR has evaluated. According to this, companies across Germany reported only around 430,000 apprenticeship positions from October 2020 to the end of April, i.e. after more than half of the current application year. That is around 60,000 fewer than in the same period of 2018/2019, i.e. before the pandemic. This means that by the end of April, around every eighth training position in the country was no longer offered. The number of applicants also fell significantly in the same period: from around 418,000 to 345,000 – a decrease of around 18 percent.

The healthcare and hospitality industries are particularly hard hit

Accordingly, there were particularly strong slumps in the tourism industry and in the hotel and restaurant sector. By the end of April, an average of every third apprenticeship position was no longer offered compared to 2019. But also in large occupational groups in the craft, for example in food production, the metal industry and in some technical professions, thousands fewer training positions were reported. The SWR -Data analysis shows that all federal states are affected by the development – albeit to different degrees.

Young people feel insecure

The Federal Employment Agency attributes the decline in training places and applicants primarily to the Corona crisis. “This mainly reflects the pandemic restrictions and the associated economic uncertainties,” it says SWR -Inquiry. Young people are also unsettled because personal consultations were more difficult in the pandemic and, for example, training fairs were canceled. “We also suspect that some of the young people are withdrawing from the dual training market in the current situation and switching from the outset to alternatives such as further schooling or possibly studying,” says the Federal Employment Agency. In addition to the corona crisis, changes in the labor market, for example in the automotive and supplier industry, as well as demographic change have contributed to the development.

Can the gap still be closed?

For labor market experts like Stefan Sell from the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, the development is alarming. “These are extremely strong slumps, they are extraordinarily high.” Sell ​​therefore fears long-term consequences if fewer young people start an apprenticeship in the fall of the new training year. “Losses of this magnitude could never be made up again.” Past crises would have shown that. “Unfortunately, we have to expect that the level of apprenticeships will remain significantly lower overall than before the Corona crisis,” said Sell. From the labor market expert Sell’s point of view, it is particularly problematic that such occupational groups are also affected in which companies already need an above-average long time to fill vacancies. According to calculations by the Institute for Employment Research, for example, companies in the field of mechatronics and in some technical and health professions are looking for skilled workers for a particularly long time. “Even before Corona, we did not train enough in these professions,” says Sell.

Criticism of “small funding programs” by the government

The SWR data analysis shows: It is precisely in these occupational groups that there are now also significant drops in the number of applicants. At least one in ten applicants broke away there compared to the time before Corona. Labor market expert Sell sees the significant drop in applicants in the professions with a shortage of skilled workers extremely critical. “In some of these areas, such as the health professions, we will run into significant shortages,” said Sell. The responsible Federal Ministry of Education divided up SWR request with, you take the decline in the training market very seriously. That is why a program to secure training positions was decided last summer, which for example provides training and employment bonuses as well as grants for training and trainer remuneration. 700 million euros are earmarked for this and the coming year. Sell, however, criticizes that the program is insufficient to cushion the decline in the training market. “This is a small funding program, one should have set clearer signals.” The program was also too late and too complicated for companies.

Everyone knows that our country is a country with vast land and abundant resources. There are many treasures, which are preserved with the heart of our ancestors. There are also many collectors. Whether it is for gifting or decorating at home, it can make people have a great Good promotion. Today, the editor wants to tell you the story of my brother-in-law giving pictures to my sister-in-law.

In a program of appraising treasures, an older sister brought a painting from her younger uncle to appraising treasures. At this time, someone will definitely say: Why would my brother-in-law give a picture to my sister-in-law? In fact, this is the case. Prior to this, my uncle started his own business. The failure of the business lost more than 100,000 yuan and owed more than tens of thousands of debts. The sister-in-law saw that my uncle was very pitiful, so she discussed with her husband to take all of her The savings were lent to his younger uncle. This savings amounted to 500,000. It can be seen that having such a brother and sister is really a blessing for the younger uncle in his previous life.

Later, with the help of his brother and sister-in-law, my uncle’s business slowly prospered, and he made some money, so he wanted to repay his brother and sister-in-law. In order to repay his sister-in-law’s kindness, the uncle bought this painting and calligraphy for 38,000 and gave it to her sister-in-law, and told her: If this painting is real, it will start at least 500,000 yuan. . Please rest assured my sister-in-law, I can rely on my sister-in-law’s help today.

After the expert took over the painting, he studied it carefully for a while, and then asked his sister-in-law: Is your heart ill? Don’t get too excited, if this painting is real, it must be at least 1.5 million. This painting was originally created by Mr. Yu, the most famous painter in the 20th century. It is a pity that this picture is not real, and experts have seen several problems from this picture.

Mr. Yu is very good at painting pigeons, but this painting does not see the level that Mr. Yu should have, and the paint is not very authentic. In general, this is a fake painting. However, experts say that although it is a fake painting, this exquisite painting of 38,000 is not a loss. The most important thing is this kind of uncle’s intention, which must be repaid if there is grace. Moreover, we Chinese pay the most attention to etiquette. In order to repay the kindness, although it is an imitation, the heart is priceless.

Poland’s high inflation With price jumps from the pandemic

Status: 08.06.2021 8:12 a.m.

The Polish inflation rate is well above the German rate – now more than five percent. In many ways, this is a consequence of the pandemic, experts say. But when will the central bank react? From Martin Adam, ARD studio Warsaw The pandemic is not over yet when another topic is pushing the front pages of Polish newspapers. “Why so expensive?” Asks the “Gazeta Wyborcza”. The “Rzeczpospolita” replies: “We pay for growth with inflation.” In fact, what is happening in Poland is what financial experts in Germany are warning of: the inflation rate is rising – currently to a ten-year high of well over five percent, according to the standardized European calculation. That is one of the highest values ​​in the European Union. For comparison: In Germany, the inflation rate was 2.5 percent in May .

Devaluation clearly noticeable

The devaluation of the Polish zloty is clearly noticeable, explains financial market expert Pawel Majtkowski. “Compared to last year, wages have risen by ten percent, but the prices of fruit and vegetables by 20 percent. So we are already feeling the price increases,” he says. “In addition, there are higher production costs, transport costs and the costs of higher wages.” All of this is reflected in prices. Inflation is most evident in the case of fuels. According to the national statistics office, gasoline and diesel for private cars have become more than 30 percent more expensive within a month.

“Polish economy is doing well”

But don’t panic, it’s all normal and a consequence of the corona pandemic, explains economic advisor Lidia Adamska. “Inflation in Poland reflects processes that we see in the post-Covid landscape around the world. But the Polish economy is doing well,” she says. “The gross domestic product is growing, the employment and unemployment figures are also optimistic.” There are various factors that are currently weighing on the Polish currency, only some actually have to do with the corona pandemic: The low interest rates, which are supposed to stabilize the economy, make money cheap. It is available in large quantities, which always carries the risk of being devalued. After the rapid slump last year, crude oil prices are also picking up again, making gasoline and diesel more expensive. In addition, there are higher food prices because Polish agriculture has not recovered from the past two years of drought. A bad harvest means high prices. With restaurants and hotels that are slowly reopening in Poland, demand is also increasing.

Raising the minimum wage is having an effect

The political decision at the beginning of the year to increase the gross minimum wage to 18.30 zloty per hour, the equivalent of around 4.10 euros, also has an impact. This is supposed to distribute the Polish economic boom more fairly. However, the service industry in particular, which has been shaken by the corona lockdown, is passing the higher wage costs through to customers. The bottom line is that everything will be expensive. But it will certainly be countered soon, suspects the economics expert Ignacy Morawski. “In a sense, inflation is the price of low unemployment,” he says. “I suspect the central bank will soon raise interest rates to control inflation.” When exactly this will happen and how far inflation will rise, hardly anyone in Poland has yet wanted to make a forecast.

The lack of information raises more questions. Recently, 24 scientists sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) asking for an independent and rigorous investigation because they thought that the international investigation to China in early February was not deep enough. US President Joe Biden on May 26 also ordered intelligence forces to “double efforts” to investigate the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the possibility of a leak “from a laboratory accident”. While the theory that the corona virus leaked from the laboratory was “resurrected”, two competing groups of experts in the study of bat diseases in Wuhan became the target of criticism. The reason is that they are willing to ignore safety measures during research. Many new diseases in the past originated in bats. Photo: SCMP. “Batwoman” and Wuhan Institute of Virology Nicknamed “bat woman”, Dr. Shi Zhengli is a famous Chinese corona virus researcher. She has identified many strains of the virus similar to SARS (severe acute respiratory distress syndrome) over the years and forewarned of new pandemic risks. Thach’s laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) also discovered and studied viruses that are closely related to corona virus. However, the scientists point out that the two viruses are still decades apart in natural evolution. According to the report of the WHO expert team, Ms. Thach said that all field activities were carried out with full protective clothing, including N95 masks, overalls, visors, and gloves. However, in a speech in June 2018, Ms. Thach said that is not the case. “Most of the time, we’ll wear simpler protective gear, and that’s fine,” Thach said in her speech. That’s because most diseases in bats can’t be directly transmitted to humans, but can only be through intermediate animals, Ms. Thach explained. To illustrate, Ms. Thach showed the audience during the presentation a photo of her team casting nets to catch bats in the cave and sorting the samples. Some people on the team only wore medical masks and thin rubber gloves, while others used their bare hands and did not wear masks. “When are we going to strengthen the protective gear? For example, when there are too many bats in the cave or when there is a lot of dust when entering the cave,” Thach said. When the pandemic hit, Ms. Thach became quiet and appeared only occasionally. On February 2, 2020, she posted to friends on the social network WeChat and “swore on her life” that her lab was not related to the pandemic. Three months later, Ms. Thach continued to post denying rumors that she had brought intelligence files to the West, according to Global Times . Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: AFP. When suspicions fell on the WIV, Ms. Thach sent a statement to the scientific journal Science in July. She said the corona virus could not have come from the WIV because her team did not encounter this strain during research. In addition, every employee here has tested negative for corona virus antibodies. According to Ms. Thach, before the pandemic, her team “never exposed or studied this virus, and did not know of its existence”. But she also admitted that her lab has not yet sequenced the genes of every sample due to financial and human constraints. She declined to say how many samples remain unsequenced. In January, Thach’s laboratory was questioned even more after the US State Department announced that there were “reasons to believe” that some WIV researchers showed symptoms similar to Covid-19 in the fall of 2019. May, Wall Street Journal also cited intelligence reports that three WIV researchers had been so sick that they needed to be examined. Vien Chi Minh, WIV’s laboratory director, called this a “blatant lie” in response to state media. Bat explorer and Wuhan CDC CDC During this time, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab was less visible than the WIV. The WHO expert team’s report on the trip to the Wuhan CDC did not include notes on research safety measures. According to the report, the laboratory moved on December 2, 2019 to a location near the Huanan market – the market that was linked to the first cases of corona virus infection. “Such activity can disrupt the operation of any laboratory,” the WHO expert team said. However, the Wuhan CDC laboratory did not record any interruptions, according to the WHO expert. The Wuhan CDC is the place to monitor China’s initial response to the pandemic. At the Wuhan CDC, there is also a person who regularly works with bats – Dien Tuan Hoa. According to the Washington Post , in terms of position, Dien Tuan Hoa is a deputy technician in the pest control department of the Wuhan CDC. But Mr. Dien is known for being an aggressive adventurer when it comes to working with bats and insects. “He often goes to places that other people cannot find to get the necessary specimens,” a colleague said of Mr. Dien on a local TV station in January 2020. “He can confidently say that he can catch what others can’t.” Tian Junhua on a field trip to collect insects in Hubei province. Photo: China Daily. Using nets and traps, Mr. Dien’s team caught 155 bats in his home province of Hubei, and hundreds of bats in other areas for research in 2013. Mr. Dien was also a member of the team. discovered 1,445 new vertebrate RNA virus species. This result was published in a famous scientific journal Nature in 2016. Once, Wuhan CDC held an internal meeting with the theme “Learning from the achievements of Dien Tuan Hoa”. “No one can remember how many mountains he climbed, how many rivers he waded, how many bat caves he explored, how many stables he crawled, and how many landfills he had to search,” the CDC wrote of the event. However, Mr. Dien also admitted that sometimes he did not comply with research safety rules. In 2017, Mr. Dien told the state newspaper Wuhan Evening News that he once forgot his personal protective equipment, so he had to be isolated at home for 2 weeks after being shot in the body by bat urine. On several other occasions, he got bat blood on his skin while trying to control the animal with forceps, Mr. Dien said. On February 3, 2020, Mr. Dien’s team continued to appear in the journal Nature with early-stage clinical descriptions of a corona virus patient in Wuhan. The team’s research indicates that bats can be a host for pathogens. But when Covid-19 spread, Mr. Dien became quiet. March 2020, the state newspaper Health Times An anonymous source said Mr. Dien was not infected with corona virus. According to the article, Mr. Dien was in a bad mood because of rumors about whether he was patient zero. According to a report at the end of March by the WHO expert team, the Wuhan CDC denied storing or experimenting with bat viruses before the pandemic took place. However, in a video, Mr. Dien said he had been to dozens of bat caves and studied 300 types of virus vectors. Also from March, Mr. Dien no longer spoke in public. This highlights the challenge of an independent investigation into the origins of Covid-19: Many of the people who might have had key information in Wuhan are now silent. Mr. Dien continued to research during this time. In August 2020, Mr. Dien was a co-author on a study on ticks. Another of his November 2020 studies focused on antibiotic resistance genes in fish. Mr. Dien no longer speaks or publishes research on bats.

“Logically, minimizing exposure will help reduce harm.” To date, health authorities have argued that the FDA’s decision only allows the product to be designated “reduced exposure”, but that does not prove that heated tobacco products reduce the risk of disease to the health of the user. use. In addition, there have also been some medical experts who have made statements that contradict the FDA’s decision, saying that the product is not different from cigarettes. According to official information from the FDA, studies on heated tobacco have demonstrated that the aerosols produced by these products still contain high levels of harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including: formaldehyde, acrolein, carbon monoxide; NNN and NNK (substances related to diseases caused by tobacco smoke) but significantly lower than the currently circulating combustible cigarettes. Specifically, depending on the type of substance, the average concentration in aerosol gas will be reduced from 55% to 99% compared to the smoke of cigarettes. The FDA declares a heated tobacco product to be marketed in the United States as a risk-modified tobacco product. At the same time, the FDA also said that in the process of reviewing the records, FDA has consulted users. The results showed that users also found that the risk of using these products was lower than that of smoking cigarettes. However, they are also fully aware that using this heated tobacco product carries a higher risk than quitting smoking or using nicotine replacement products. PGS.TS.BS. Tran Van Ngoc – Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Respiratory Association said that, logically, minimizing exposure will help reduce harm. Assoc. Dr. Le Van Quang, Director of Central K Hospital also stated: “From the oncologist’s perspective, when a patient smokes, the greater the amount of carcinogens exposed, the higher the cancer risk. And for cigarettes, one thing is important: nicotine is not the cause of cancer caused by smoking, but the cause of cancer is the molecules in the smoke created by the combustion of cigarettes. leaves”. Heated cigarettes: Young people are many times harder to access than cigarettes The US FDA is a reputable health authority in the US as well as globally. Accordingly, protecting the young generation and people’s health is the top goal of FDA. Therefore, allowing a single heated tobacco product to be allowed access to the US market shows that they have done thorough research and considered carefully before making a decision. Not only in the US, but in countries where this product is allowed to be sold, it is almost impossible for young people to access the product. In order to make a purchase, the buyer must go through a background check to ensure that the buyer is a smoker and is of legal age of majority in the country of origin. At the same time, although allowing this tobacco product to be commercialized, FDA also requires manufacturers to regularly update their sales and trade processes to ensure control of young people’s access to the product. This product is at its lowest. Meanwhile, compared to heated cigarettes, young people can easily buy cigarettes anywhere with as cheap as giving. FDA representative, Dr. Priscilla Callahan-Lyon, confirmed that the FDA has carefully studied the issue of the product’s impact on young people. Accordingly, in terms of appearance, a heated cigarette is a rather large set of equipment, difficult to conceal and is not cheap, must be used with its own custom cigarette, and this product also does not contain attractive aromas. young. Not only in the US, but in countries that allow the circulation of heated cigarettes, the level of impact of this product on young people or new users is almost under control. Despite accounting for 85% of global sales of heated cigarettes, only 0.1% of middle and high school students in Japan use heated cigarettes daily, which is only one-fifth of the total. percentage of students smoking burned cigarettes. It is worth noting that the number of students using heated cigarettes is the same group of students who have used cigarettes before. According to an independent study of 7,000 teenagers in Germany, the number of people aged 12-17 who used a heated tobacco product in the 30 days before the survey was almost zero. One study Another independent study of more than 11,000 teenagers aged 11-15 years old in Switzerland also found that less than 2% had ever used heated tobacco, while the number of people who smoked lit cigarettes in this same age range increased. to over 33%. Regulating heated tobacco: No violation of the FCTC . Framework Convention In a seminar held recently, Ms. Tran Thi Trang, Deputy Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Health said: “The Ministry of Health proposes not to allow the import and sale of e-cigarette products, heated cigarettes because these products are addictive, harmful to health, and cannot be piloted for people’s health.” If according to the above argument, invisibly, cigarettes – the product with the highest level of addiction and harm to the health of users and the community – becomes a product that is protected exclusively and consumers. no longer have the right to choose harm reduction products. “Smokers don’t deserve to die just because they don’t know about less harmful nicotine products,” said Cliff Douglas, director of the University of Michigan’s Tobacco Research Network and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. American Cancer Society (ACS) Tobacco Control Policy, former Advisory Counsel on Tobacco Control Policy to the US Surgeon General. Meanwhile, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) also recognizes heated tobacco as a tobacco product. Therefore, if Vietnam manages heated tobacco like the current tobacco control law in the host country, it is also completely consistent with what the Framework Convention has stipulated. Lawyer Phan Hoang Lam, Law Firm DT LAW. On the other hand, Lawyer (LS) Phan Hoang Lam, DT LAW Law Firm said that: The Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms 2012 defines “tobacco is a product produced from all or part of tobacco ingredients, processed in the form of cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipe tobacco or other forms”. On this basis, heated tobacco is considered “tobacco” because it contains tobacco leaf ingredients, consistent with the concept of “tobacco” under the current legal provisions of Vietnam. Therefore, this drug should absolutely be regulated by Vietnam’s Drug Prevention and Control Law. According to LS Lam, in order to manage smokeless tobacco products more effectively, Vietnam needs to consider international scientific bases to evaluate and compare the level of harm to health of tobacco. smokeless compared to burned cigarettes. At the same time, with the function of State management, in order to create free and fair competition among manufacturers and products and protect the interests of consumers, protect public health, regulatory agencies The state should immediately come up with a plan to build a legal corridor for the production, circulation and control of these products.

Medical staff treat COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Riga, Latvia. Photo: THX/VNA The report also highlights the importance of “overhauling” the global alarm system to prevent a similar disaster from happening again. Report “COVID-19: Making it the Last Pandemic” produced by the Independent Committee on COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) at the request of World Health Organization member countries. world (WHO). As policymakers make a series of ineffective decisions, the report says, adding to the scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the pandemic has killed at least 3.3 million people so far, while the global economy has been devastated. According to the IPPR, institutions “failed to protect the people” while leaders denying scientific data has eroded public confidence in health interventions. The lack of urgency in the early response to the COVID-19 outbreak detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019 led to unfortunate consequences, when February 2020 became the “lost month”. cool” seriously in the context that the alarm situation has not been paid enough attention by countries. IPPR also said that WHO could have declared a global public health emergency (PHEIC), the highest alert level, on January 22, 2020. Instead, it took the organization eight days to do this. Then, only in March 2020 after WHO recognized COVID-19 as a pandemic, did countries realize the danger of the situation and really “get involved”. Ineffective strategic choices, unwillingness to address inequality issues, and “disparity” in coordination within a country or between countries have created a “toxic formula” that creates favorable conditions. for the COVID-19 pandemic to turn into “a catastrophic human crisis”. The threat of a pandemic has been ignored and countries are struggling to deal with its consequences. In order to reverse the current pandemic, IPPR recommends that the world’s richest countries from now until September 1 share 1 billion doses of vaccine to the 92 poorest countries through a mechanism of equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines called COVID-19 vaccine. WHO-initiated COVAX and more than 2 billion doses of vaccine by mid-2022. IPPR calls on the world’s leading industrialized countries (G7) to pay 60% of the $19 billion needed to fund vaccine development, development diagnostic and therapeutic approaches through the WHO-led “Accelerated Access to COVID-19 Response Tools” global collaboration to distribute COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics to countries poorer. Health workers give people a COVID-19 vaccine in Essen, Germany. Photo: THX/VNA According to the committee, the group of the world’s leading developed and emerging economies (G20) and others need to support the rest. The WHO and the World Trade Organization (WTO) themselves also need to encourage countries and vaccine manufacturers to voluntarily agree to license and transfer technology to produce vaccines against COVID-19. To address future outbreaks and pandemics, the IPPR calls for the creation of a Global Health Threat Response Council made up of world leaders, as well as a convention on pandemics. Translate. The G20 should also set up an international pandemic response financing mechanism, whereby $5-10 billion can be spent per year on ensuring epidemic preparedness capacity, as well as ensuring readiness to mobilize $50 billion to $100 billion in the event of a crisis. Speaking at the event to announce the report, WHO Director-General Tedros Gebreyesus said the organization will join 194 members to discuss the above recommendations as well as the opinions of other expert groups, aiming to “construct” Stronger WHO, for a healthier, safer and fairer future for all of us.”

If you want a natural and beautiful look, even with light makeup, you should see what your facial skin needs, according to Bobbi Brown. Do you have darker skin? Dry or oily skin? Do you have combination skin? Moisturize your skin with a cream specially made for your skin type. In addition, you must also drink plenty of water. 2. Choose a foundation that closely matches your skin tone Occasionally, some people may choose a foundation color that does not match their skin tone. If you do, the foundation will be exposed. Bobbi Brown says foundation does not change skin color, it simply evenens skin tone. To choose the right foundation, you should not apply it on your hands to choose the foundation color. Instead, you can apply it directly to the face to see if it is suitable. If the foundation “goes away” or “blends” with your skin tone, that’s the right color. Avoid foundation with a pink pigment, as they look less natural. Try foundation creams with a yellow pigment. 3. Do not use concealer to conceal defects According to Bobbi Brown, you should not use concealer under the eyes to cover up any blemishes on the skin. That’s because, this product is lighter and instead of hiding the detail you’re trying to disguise. So it’s better to use a concealer specifically made to cover up facial blemishes like pimples, blemishes or redness. Don’t forget to choose the right concealer that matches your skin tone. Apply concealer immediately after applying foundation and spread evenly with your fingers. 4. Apply concealer under eyes properly When there are dark circles under the eyes, you can use a peach pink concealer to lighten the skin around the eyes. Then you just need to apply regular eye concealer. Finally, use a little yellow-toned chalk. 5. Let the expert shape your eyebrows instead of doing it yourself at home For clear eyebrows, says Bobbi Brown, it’s best to seek a specialist. Let the eyebrow color be the same color as the hair. To treat stubborn eyebrows, use a gel. 6. Use your index finger instead of a curler After applying mascara, Bobbi Brown says, wait and let the mascara dry a little. Then use your index finger to gently push the lashes up. Hold for a few seconds and then release. 7. Use your fingers to mix the eyeliner And, once again, Bobbi Brown recommends using your fingers to keep your eyeliner from smudging. First, line the upper and lower eyelids with the eyeliner. Remember to use your finger to blur the eyeliner. You can try it a few times until you get the eyeliner you like. 8. Choose a blush that is similar in tone to your blushing cheeks Blush powder is formulated to add a natural look to the face. It comes in powder or cream form. Choose a blush that is similar in tone to your blushing cheeks. For special occasions or parties, you can choose a lighter blush. 9. Use cream-based blush for eyes and lips You can also use the creamy blush that you have applied to the cheeks on your eyelids and upper lip, by gently swiping or using your fingers. This way, you will get the natural look you would expect without having to think about choosing the right makeup tone. 10. How to apply lipstick without using a mirror When applying lipstick without using a mirror, apply the lower lip contour. Then, gently press the lips together and use your fingers to apply the above lipstick color evenly. If you don’t have lipstick and still want to add some color to your lips, you can lightly bite your lips. 11. Follow the diet for healthy, natural skin If you want healthy skin, follow the right diet. Be sure to stay away from processed foods, limit salt, sugar and white flour, and soft drinks. 12. Be confident and be yourself Bobbi Brown believes that beauty comes from confidence. She thinks that confident people not only look more attractive, but also have fresher skin. The next time you stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself, stop comparing yourself to others. Instead, be happy to be yourself, because you are unique. Focus on what you like rather than what you lack.

However, an incident later occurred when the core of a missile weighing up to 20 tons lost control and fell back to the ground at an extremely high speed. According to forecasts by both the US space agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) at that time, the missile is likely to fall on May 8-10 – and currently the latest forecasts show. It will fall on May 9. Missile Truong Chinh 5B. Description: Thanh Luan Its location is a densely populated place or falls into the sea or uninhabited area is still a big question mark, so this event attracts the attention of most of the world’s major powers. . But many experts advise people in the countries concerned that “should not be too worried”. Specifically, sharing his opinion with CGTN channel on May 8, according to expert Zhang Xiaotian working at the School of Astronaut, Beihang University, told CGTN: “ As for the missile’s return to the ground, we need it to fall into a predetermined safe zone and there are many measures to achieve this goal such as choosing the launch location, controlling the brake. degrees at different stages “. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Uong Van Ban also said that the ability of fragments or missile cores to fall to the ground is extremely low because the missile is designed with special technology. . The Hindustantimes Indian newspaper quoted the Paris-PSL Observatory astronomer Florent Delefie as saying: “ The chance of the debris falling in an inhabited area is very low, with the probability of 1 in 1 million “. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, in an interview on Space.com even said that the probability of a personal danger being hit by a piece of paper is just 1 in many billions of possibilities. “The chance of someone getting hurt is probably 1% and the chance of you getting hurt is 8 billion times smaller than that, so don’t worry about it.” Even so, McDowell also criticized China for its somewhat irresponsible actions: “Usually, after the missile completes its mission, the engine will be reactivated and dropped into the ocean or inhabited place, so the damage is very little. However, China did not do that,” he said. they put rockets in orbit and then set them free. “ Theverge quoted Dan Oltrogge – founder of Space Safety Coalition as well as leading expert at Commercial Space Operations Center expressed optimism about the missile core will fall into the sea. He said: “Most of the Earth’s surface is covered with water (70%), so there is almost no danger, the chance of it falling into a residential area is not zero but there would be little to worry about if it does. fell into the ocean “. “The chance of anyone getting hit by debris is very low, extremely low”, he stressed . Have there been instances of missile debris hit causing significant injury? In fact, in more than six decades since humans put their first satellite into the air, there have been no cases of debris hitting people causing significant injuries, according to Stijn Lemmens, an expert at Mechanical European Space Agency. The likelihood of falling into the residential area of ​​the Truong Chinh 5B missile core is very low. Photo: Bulletin The China Space Agency, the main unit responsible for this incident, still keeps information related to the missile secret, so it is still possible to estimate the specific drop position of the missile core. a big question. Most recently, they just made an official announcement. This is not the first case of a Chinese space object losing control, before in 2018, a space station named Thien Cung 1 weighing 8 tons also lost control and fell back to the ground. but no one was injured. Articles translated from sources: Space, CGTN, Hindustantimes, Theguardian

Launched 3 online training programs for artificial intelligence with European experts for Vietnamese students After the establishment of the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under Hanoi University of Technology on March 31, 2021, the first three programs of study are planned to be organized exclusively for SoICT students. blocks belonging to HUST. The first program took place at 8pm on May 11 with lecturers who are leading experts in the field of natural language and speech processing, of Naver Labs Europe in France – Professor Laurent Besacier, University of Grenoble Alpes ( 2009). The lesson provides the basics of self-monitoring learning and advanced techniques such as APC, CPC, multitasking self-monitoring, encoder-decoder model … The second study program was held at 21:00 May 17, 2021 on visual performance and detailed identification by lecturer Yannis Kalantidis in charge. He used to work at Facebook AI (2017-2020) and Yahoo Research (2015-2017). Lastly is the program Visual Search (Visual Search), held at 19h30 May 31, 2021. The lecturer is Dr. Diane Larlus – one of the experts of Naver Labs Europe team (since 2010). Dr. Diane Larlus will introduce the intuitive and applied search problem, presenting traditional search techniques using manual extraction features such as Bag-of-words, VLAD to modern techniques based on on neural networks such as disentangled learning, learning to rank … In parallel with the study programs, experts in Vietnam will discuss with Naver Labs experts to study AI in practice and put it into use in life according to the goal of building a “Research Belt. global AI rescue ”.

According to posted information, one beauty specialist With the nickname on the social network Tiktok, Minke328, recently uploaded pictures and videos of him handling his chapped, chapped feet like the ground with long drought, attracting attention great online community. The client’s feet suffer from epidermal keratosis, which many people cannot help but shiver. Where this customer has hardened leg skin Specifically, the epidermis on the soles of the feet is extremely thick, opaque yellow, and is heaviest in the feet and heels. Worth mentioning, this epidermis turns horny and then cracked, looking creepy at first glance, like a mutant of the land in science fiction movies. To handle the problem, the Minke 328 used a specialized knife to cut the skin of the keratinized skin, thinning the dead epidermis. After the processing process, many epidermal debris piled up, indeed making the viewer not afraid and shiver. It is known that after being processed, the customers are extremely satisfied, not only more comfortable but also feel relieved and healthier. This beauty expert said that he mainly helps clients with skin problems such as feet, wax, and nails, mainly diseases (Paronychia) – a common infection under the surrounding skin. nail. Minke328 also regularly posts the treatment process on the social network Tiktok, attracting more than 3 million fans, watching. As reported by Good Morning Health, external irritation and dryness are the main causes of thickening of the skin, when the skin is stimulated by these effects, the epidermal tissue begins to trigger a defensive response to protects the feet and causes keratosis of the skin, significantly thickening.

An ancient tomb was found in an ordinary village, the contents have astounded archaeologists: A banquet table is still intact! In 1993, a resident in Zhangjiakou, Hebei accidentally discovered that there was water seepage on the ground, so he called the concerned person to investigate. Thanks to that, an ancient tomb was discovered. According to experts, these graves belong to a family of Zhang built in the Lieu dynasty, more than a thousand years ago. The entire passage of the tomb is more than 6 meters long, going down the path is the arched tower gate, on this tower gate there are many carved decorations, lifelike patterns. There are two doors underneath the gate, like the houses we see today. The expert opened the door to see two statues on either side, similar to the guard. If you continue forward, there will be another wooden door, which can be opened to enter the back room, where a lot of precious burial items are placed. What surprised the experts, however, was not how luxurious the funeral items were, but a dining table. Photos of the dining table found (Photo: Sohu) In the back room, there is a large round table with eating utensils and fruit and dishes. Although most foods have gone rancid after thousands of years, they can still be distinguished: There are grapes, chestnuts and other common dishes on the table. Because the owner of the tomb believes in Buddhism, the meal is vegetarian, without meat. Next to the table and chairs, seems to want to invite the owner to dine at any time. In addition, there is also a small granary for storing sorghum and grains. There was also a green bottle of water on the table, in which there was a little liquid and an orange-red color, when approaching one could smell a strong aroma, it was deduced that it must be the wine thousands of years ago. . Based on the grapes and wine found, it can be inferred that in the Lieu period, people already had grapes and could use it for wine making. According to the epitaph found in the tomb, it can be speculated that the owner is a Lieu family and has done a lot of good deeds throughout his life, so it is loved by everyone around him. His epitaph also states that by entering the tomb, everyone can sit down and drink a glass of wine, which shows that this person is open and friendly. Rarely, an ancient tomb thousands of years ago can still be kept as intact, it is of great significance for later research. According to Sohu

Artwork: Internet On the morning of May 9, the Ministry of Health said that there were 832,635 people vaccinated against COVID-19 nationwide. With the motto “Where to get vaccinated safely to there”, the procedure for vaccination against COVID-19 in Vietnam has been carried out methodically and differs from other countries in the world, including advanced countries. up. Up to 16:00 on May 8, 2021, a total of 832,635 people were vaccinated against COVID-19, phase 1 and 2 in the provinces / cities. COVID-19, health workers perform tasks such as sampling, testing, tracing, members of community COVID-19 groups, Steering Committee for epidemic prevention at all levels, police forces. , army. TS.BS. Pham Quang Thai, Immunization Specialist – Head of the Northern Regional Expansion Immunization Office, said: Currently, Vietnam is one of the leading countries in ensuring the COVID-19 vaccination process. With the motto “Where to get vaccinated safely,” the procedure for vaccination against COVID-19 in Vietnam has been carried out methodically and differs from other countries in the world, including the first countries. up. While in many countries, they organize injections, injections in the community (carry the syringe to each house), inject at mobile sites (people pass by, stop the injection, and then continue), inject in drugstores or supermarket. In Vietnam, ensuring safety of COVID-19 vaccination is always on top priority; strictly comply with each step, step by step at all immunization facilities. The COVID-19 vaccination establishment must have facilities and equipment (with sufficient means to prevent shock), and have a team that is well trained for safe vaccination. These facilities themselves are also regularly supervised, as well as vaccination operators are regularly trained to update new vaccines and safe injection procedures. This is the strength of the vaccination system in Vietnam and has been recognized by the world. In addition, Vietnam is also one of the very few countries that have a national immunization information system that manages each person to be vaccinated. Data from the system helps ensure injection safety

The largest missile center in China is falling out of control in orbit, after it carried part of the new space station into space last week. The object is expected to fall to Earth during an “uncontrolled re-entry” on May 8 or 9. Whether it falls harmlessly into the ocean or affects the land where humans live, the reason the Chinese space program allows this to happen is – again – unclear. And given China’s planned launch schedule, it is entirely possible that such uncontrolled re-imports continue to occur. Missile Truong Chinh 5B in a launch in 2020. (Photo: Xinhua) The China space program has a series of major spacecraft achievements over the past six months, including bringing back lunar rocks and sending spacecraft into orbit around Mars. However, the programs seem to continue to pose a small, though small danger to people across the planet without control of the path of the launched missile. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who tracks objects in space, says: “I think it was their negligence. I think it is irresponsible. The uncontrolled drop is the reinforced core of Truong Chinh 5B, designed to lift large, heavy sections of the space station. For most rockets, the lower layers typically fall back to Earth shortly after launch. The upper layers, when they reach orbit, often reactivate the engine (after releasing the load), directing them to re-enter deserted areas such as the oceans. For the past three decades, only China has lifted layers of such large rockets into orbit and let them crash somewhere, said Dr. McDowell. “It is a technical decision based on possibilities.” He said that Chinese engineers were able to design the trajectory of the rocket so that it would remain in orbit, fall back to Earth shortly after launch, or they might have planned to activate the booster. fig to get it out of orbit in a non-dangerous way. Ted J. Muelhaupt, director of the Center for Orbital Research and Aerospace Debris re-entry, says: “The reintegration design cannot be taken lightly, it’s something the world as a whole has done because we need it.” As for Truong Chinh 5B reinforcement, it could be anywhere between 41.5 North latitude and 41.5 South latitude. That means Chicago, located further north, is safe, but big cities like New York could suffer. On May 6, Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded nonprofit that conducts research and analysis largely, predicts the re-entry will take place on May 8 at 11:43 p.m. Eastern time (10:43 p.m. 9/5 Vietnam time). If that is correct, the debris could fall to Northeast Africa, in Sudan. The timing uncertainty – a 16-hour fluctuation – and location are still large. A day ago, Aerospace predicted the re-entry site an hour in advance in the Eastern Indian Ocean. The calculations are complicated by many factors, for example, the sun. The increase in the intensity of the solar wind – charged particles sprayed by the sun – will inflate the Earth’s atmosphere, increasing its force on the object and increasing its rate of fall. The movement of the object also affects. The US Space Command and the Russian space agency are both monitoring the missile division. The Russian statement noted that the re-import will not “affect the territory of the Russian Federation” . The US agency meanwhile promised to update it regularly before the event was likely to take place. Currently the object is moving at a speed of about 29,868 km / h, so prediction of position also changes with each minute. China plans to launch several more launches in the coming months as the construction of its third space station is completed, known as the Heavenly Palace, or “palace in the sky”. That would require additional flights of giant rockets and the possibility of more uncontrolled re-imports leaving people on the ground anxious to follow, even when mishaps from single parts. very small. Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said on May 5: “For the mutual benefit of all nations, it is necessary to act responsibly in space to ensure the safety, stability, security and long-term sustainability of space activities”. America hopes to push “Responsible spatial behavior”.

“The MiG-35 has completed the integration test and received a very positive response from the pilot. There are only a few minor defects that need correction before the MiG-35 officially joins. training and combat in the Russian Air Force, “said a representative of the manufacturer MiG. MiG-35 fighter. MiG-35 fighter (NATO designation Fulcrum-F) is designed to operate in all weather conditions. Can strike air, land and sea, whether it’s a static or dynamic target. Recently, the Russian manufacturer announced the development of a new profile MiG-35D. An impressive showcase version but it’s not really a new platform. Because they are only developed based on the prototype MiG-29KR from the Soviet era. “The name MiG-35 is essentially the Russian manufacturer’s clever intent to market to the market because the number 35 makes many people pay attention to the same power as the Su-35 – a product of the manufacturer Sukhoi or Lockheed Martin’s F-35. But apart from the number 35 with the above fighters, the MiG-35 hardly performed much in the Russian Air Force’s tests and exercises, although they were integrated with the most advanced technology. Now compared to fighters of the same generation, “wrote Peter Suciu. The manufacturer equips the MiG-35 with the Phazatron Zhuk active phase array radar, and the RD-33MK engine pair allows the aircraft to reach maximum speeds of up to Mach 2.5. In terms of weapons, this fighter jet is designed with 9 armaments under the belly to help it carry most types of bombs and weapons available in the Russian Air Force including: Kh-31A anti-ship missiles with active radar probes, Kh-31P anti-radar missiles, Kh-29TE missiles and TV KAB-500Kr guided bombs … In addition, the MiG-35 is also equipped with a gun. 30mm high speed cannon. Information about the MiG-35 program has been known since 2007, but due to slow development, it was not until 2013 that the Russian Air Force announced an order for a plane for testing and evaluation before official. buy 37 pcs. But after 3 years, the manufacturer produced 3 more units. Thus, on average, each year MiG produces 1 MiG-35 fighter. At the current production rate, US experts say it is unclear whether the Russian Air Force will continue to pursue the 37-aircraft deal as agreed or not. This is also the reason why Indian customers have expressed special interest in this fighter line for a long time, but no agreement has yet been signed with the MiG manufacturer. The situation also appears to some customers in Africa and Southeast Asia. “A line of fighters produced for the purpose of domestic and export equipment, but this goal is difficult to accomplish with the MiG-35. Until now, no Russian fighter has produced any quality product. So hiu “, the American expert wrote. However, the MiG-35 is still highly appreciated by the Russian manufacturer. MiG affirmed that, although it is only a 4 ++ generation fighter, the MiG-35 fully converges the leading advanced technologies of the world military aviation industry. MiG-35 is highly competitive with the world’s leading fighters such as the Rafale, Typhoon … because MiG-35 dominates in this race because they have many outstanding features. The MiG-35 is more maneuverable, has more arsenal and is cheaper. Their specifications, avionics, electronic warfare equipment and arsenal allow the MiG-35 to compete with any kind of potential foe. With these systems equipped, in theory, it is not unreasonable for the Russian manufacturer to see the MiG-35 as a rival to the F-35.

As we all know sleep is so important because one-third of our time is spent sleeping. Sleep helps us to rest and relax to regain energy after a hard working day, and the bedroom is also a place to set a fire of happiness in every family. So when designing the bedroom, not only must create a beautiful space; but also have to meet feng shui standards for the bedroom. For important spaces such as bedrooms, it is necessary to choose the layout of the house; and ventilation factors must be ensured. Bed placement Do not put under the bar as it will feel compressed while sleeping; makes the sleeper feel poor and tired easily. Should not put under the toilet or turn around the toilet will make the sleeper feel insecure; Affect many health. Should not be placed on top of the stove will make people sleep or upset … Bedroom colors Color is the expression of light. We use color to express emotions, convey different messages, and we can use color as a way of sharing energy. Par Kim: Those who are destined to be Kim are suitable for white and gray bedrooms, representing Kim or Earth colors such as brown, yellow brown, earth brown, … However, it is necessary to avoid colors such as red. , Orange pink,…. for Hoa Khac Kim. Mo Moc: Mo Moc is suitable for green, green, in addition, it can be mixed with black, blue, blue, .. because these are the colors of Thuy, but Thuy is born Moc. Avoid using blinds belonging to the Kim element. Destiny: The bedroom of a fiancée should be blue, blue, combined with black, these colors are compatible with the destiny. In addition, you can also combine with metallic colors such as yellow, white, iridescent,…. Do not use terrestrial colors such as dark yellow, brown yellow, brown, … Destiny: Color suitable for those who are destined to be red, pink, orange, purple, … in addition, the owner of the fire can also choose green as the main theme for the bedroom, these are the colors of the Wood element. Five elements feng shui, Moc born Fire, and the colors of the Thuy element. Par brothels: The Earth’s destiny person can use brown, yellow brown, and dark yellow as the main color for the bedroom, in addition, the owner of the Earth family can combine with the colors of the Fire element such as red, orange, pink, … At the same time, avoid using the colors of the Water element such as blue, blue, … Harmonious interior arrangement In addition to the scientific bed bed, you also need to pay attention to the arrangement of the interior so that it is harmonious and scientific. A well-balanced combination of furniture will create a homogeneous and reasonable space. Do not put too many furniture in the room, avoid messy rooms, cause inconvenience for users. Any bedroom should have a window, a window will bring natural light, help air conditioning. The sunny and windy room will bring good inspiration to the homeowner. Room door direction The bedroom door is not connected to the main door: In addition to the function of rest, the bedroom is also a place that represents personal life as well as personal feelings. The bedroom door connecting to the main door in addition to creating disadvantages for the home’s health and fortune, also signaling the unhappiness of the couple, a third person entering the married life. In the event that the space conditions are tight or not allowed, you can make a fake door or a screen between the two doors to counteract this disadvantage. Avoid placing a mirror facing the bedroom door: In feng shui, placing a mirror opposite the bedroom door is a taboo. Mirrors have the function of reflection, often used to prevent the flow of air from entering the house, in addition to the effect of repelling evil. The position of the mirror directly on the bedroom door will cause conflicts, bring aggression into the bedroom, and bring bad things to the house. C vomit bedroom opposite toilet / bathroom / kitchen door: The toilet is a place of elimination, with a lot of smells of pollution, so the toilet door straight to the bed will affect your health, and at the same time dispel good luck in the room. The kitchen is also a place with a strong smell, in feng-shui this is also not good with positive energies in the bedroom. The bedroom door is opposite the bed: The bed is the central place of the room, concentrating the most positive energy. The door is the intersection between the airflow inside and outside the room, the bed facing the front will create a lot of conflict between the airflow, which is not good for the health of the person lying on the bed. .

According to many studies from nutrition experts, from the age of 30 to 35, the concentrations of these two hormones: progesterone and estrogen both begin to decrease, in which progesterone levels decrease faster. Higher estrogen levels contribute to fatty tissue formation that is difficult to control. After the age of 30, energy metabolism also slows down, making it harder to keep weight and lose weight; therefore, the older women get, the harder it is to lose weight. Korean nutritionist and bodybuilder: Rami. Korean nutritionist Rami said she successfully lost weight after 30 years old. From 89 kg to 48 kg, of course she also went through many wrong paths during her weight loss period, but finally succeeded and learned 6 things women in their 30s need to remember. to lose weight as well as manage his weight problems. #first. Weight loss after age 30: Women should eat 3 meals a day Rami said that women in their 30s are physically weaker than they were in their 20s, so they should never fast to lose weight. She still eats 3 meals a day, she has to eat enough to have the strength to lose weight, not just fasting is good. If you want to exercise, you should eat 2 hours before starting to exercise, and eat the last meal of the day 4 hours before going to bed. #2. Lose weight after age 30: Choose the right carbohydrates for weight loss Starch is an indispensable food in our life, no matter what, you cannot live without carbohydrates. But if you lose weight, choose carbohydrates that will aid your weight loss. Choose whole grain breads, brown rice, whole grains … to replace white rice when you are losing weight. Breakfast is sometimes possible with sandwiches and all pastries should be avoided. # 3. Lose weight after age 30: What fruits should be eaten Fruit will help add natural vitamins to your body, but not all fruits will help you lose weight. The fruits that women in their 30s should eat a lot are grapefruit, apple, pear, watermelon … both help to lose fat, lose weight, and fight against aging agents, and help brighten a rosy skin. Avoid all kinds of sugar-rich fruits such as sapodilla, lychee, longan … these fruits are not very helpful for weight loss and fat loss, but also make the skin grow old, acne easily appears on the skin. # 4. Lose weight after age 30: When hungry eat nuts or drink 1 cup of water When you feel sad or hungry, you should eat some nuts or grains or simply bite sunflower seeds, you can invest more than you can eat dried seaweed … With Rami, sometimes feeling hungry, She will drink a glass of warm water, which is both healthy and healthy for her skin and extremely effective in losing weight. # 5. Weight loss after age 30: 3-month weight loss process, 9 months to keep weight Don’t try to force yourself to lose weight fast, this will gain weight again very quickly. During the weight loss phase, there will be a lot of loss in the first 3 months, and 9 months later is the time to eat science to keep weight; Don’t be in a hurry to fail your job. The hold time is 9 months, which will soothe your body and mind. Combining exercises you will get a toned and slim body. Rami’s way of exercising is muscle strength training for 1 hour per day, 60-100 minutes of aerobic exercise, Rami takes time to exercise 5 times a week and drinks 3 liters of water per day. # 6. Lose weight after age 30: Look at ingredients instead of measuring calories Rather than just looking at calorie intake, it’s better to look at the food composition of each meal you eat. Carbohydrates, proteins or fiber need to be proportionally adjusted. Eating more carbohydrates at the first meal, gradually decreasing with the second, and adding more fiber with each meal, the body will quickly adapt and lose weight. Source: Instagram, Fashion.ettoday

1. Tea and basil A little cinnamon can be miraculous because it acts as a natural pain reliever and is especially effective in the case of headaches. Likewise, adding basil to your tea has anti-inflammatory properties and acts as a muscle relaxant for tension headaches. How to make cinnamon and basil tea Cinnamon – 1 small bar Basil – 3-4 leaves Mint – 1-2 leaves Water – 1.5 cups Boil water with cinnamon for 10 minutes. Then put basil and mint leaves in a cup and cover for 2 minutes. 2. Fermented apple juice and turmeric Adding unfiltered fermented apple juice to your tea mix can help remove excess mucus, thereby reducing pressure on your sinuses. Turmeric and ginger are both anti-inflammatory. Black pepper also acts as a natural pain reliever. Therefore, it helps to cure sinus congestion headaches. How to make tea: Lemon juice – 1/4 teaspoon Fermented apple juice – 1/4 teaspoon Chopped ginger – 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Preferably minced fresh turmeric) – 1/4 teaspoon Black pepper – 1/4 teaspoon Water – 1 cup To make this tea, boil water and let all other ingredients soak for 5-8 minutes. 3. Cloves and ginger Cloves can treat headaches and stress naturally by reducing inflammation of nerve cells and improving blood circulation. They are highly effective in controlling pain and are widely used for pain relief in dental procedures. Ginger, on the other hand, controls nausea and has been used as a long-standing headache remedy.
Mixing: Cloves – 2 pcs Ginger – 2 pieces Mint – 3-4 leaves Lemon- 1 slice Water – 1.5 cups To prepare this tea, boil water with cloves and slice ginger for 2-3 minutes and steep for 5 minutes. Then add the mint and lemon slices. 4. Hibiscus tea Hibiscus tea contains many antioxidants that help treat headaches. Furthermore, drinking hibiscus tea can also help boost immunity. • Five petals hibiscus petals • 15ml: -Fruit juice (depending on taste) • 15ml: – Sugar syrup • 30ml: – Water • 4/5 mint leaves for decoration To make this tea, wash the hibiscus flowers in cold water. Only take the petals, the buds are not used because they have a bitter taste. Pour 300ml of water into the blender and petals, puree. Pour into a glass, ice, add lemon juice, sugar syrup and mint sprout on top./.

The Indonesian navy KRI Nanggala-402 went missing on Wednesday. Alex Widojo / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images The search for a missing Indonesian Navy submarine has been going on for days, and time is running out, hopes seem to have faded. “The submarines are designed to be hard to detect, this is a problem that can happen when one sinks,” said Bryan Clark, a former US Navy submarine officer. Submarines are built to penetrate enemy waters, engage and engage enemy navies, shoot at ground targets with cruise and ballistic missiles, and even deliver force. amount secretly entering enemy territory / territorial waters. Not all submarines can perform every task, but regardless of the mission and the ship’s capabilities, stealth is considered to be of primary importance. The KRI Nanggala-402 is a German-made diesel-electric attack submarine that is more than 40 years old. Due to the age of the submarine, it may lack the coating and stealth features of newer ships, even after being refurbished in 2012, giving search and rescue teams a bit of an edge. as they try to look for it, but other challenges will overwhelm any potential advantage. In the event of an emergency, the submarine can either trigger a “ping” device on the ship or send a buoy to monitor (if the Indonesian submarine has these systems and the systems are in operation as well. the submarine crew knew how to use them and did not lose their ability to act). A “ping” signaling device is extremely valuable because it allows search and rescue teams to use passive sonar to scan a larger ocean area with other tools. There is no indication that KRI Nanggala-402 is making a sound that would aid with the search. Mr. Clark, a defense expert at the US Hudson Institute, speculates that if the ship makes a sound, it may have been located. “If it makes a sound no matter what form it is, it will be much easier to find,” he said. Without a ping or other type of noise, search and rescue teams are limited to using active sonar, narrowing the scanning range and prolonging the time it takes to search for a site. field. While passive sonar involves listening to sounds coming from objects in the ocean, sonar actively emit pings and then listens for echoes from objects in the ocean. The Indonesian navy identified the submarine disappeared in the waters north of Bali island. Search teams soon noticed oil slicks in their search area, narrowing the scope of interest. In this common area, search units found an object with “strong magnetic resonance” that could be emitted from the missing submarine. While these developments have significantly reduced the overall size of the search area, there is still a lot to consider. Indonesia has dozens of ships and aircraft, supported by international forces participating in the search. The Indonesian navy said the ship may have sunk at a depth of more than 600 meters, which would certainly complicate the search. Not only does that depth exceed the maximum depth of the ship, potentially putting the hull in danger of rupture, but it could also leave it out of the reach of existing recovery options. Finding things on the ocean floor is also quite difficult, Mr. Clark said. “Like we’ve seen with so many airline crashes, it’s hard to find something, even big, when it falls to the sea floor, because it’s mixed up in the mess down there,” he said. The ARA San Juan submarine of the Argentine navy went missing in 2017. It wasn’t until a year later that search teams found the ship, 44 crew members killed, on the ocean floor at a depth of about 1,000m. “If a diesel submarine as small as an Indonesian submarine sinks more than 600 meters, it is unlikely to survive,” Clark said.

Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft, Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung – Deputy General Director of SoftTech Da Nang, consultant on digital transformation strategy Dao Trung Thanh (Photo: Hoa Binh) Just a distant ideal? Regarding the proposal of Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung – Deputy General Director of SoftTech Da Nang, mentioning that there should be a set of criteria for opening an API to share data between businesses, Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft (TP. Ho Chi Minh City) said: “The regulation of the API Open Criteria is just an idealized desire, but it is difficult to implement in reality”. Explaining more carefully, Mr. Cao Trung Hieu said: “The method of application development via API is a communication method between software, it belongs to IT expertise, and for users only need to know the software. is it useful or not? Big businesses around the world all have their own APIs that can be free or paid, but there will often be some discrepancies between one business and the other. With the same problem solving direction, IT businesses will surely have different ways, using different functions to create solutions to satisfy the problem posed by customers ”. Mr. Cao Trung Hieu gave a specific example: “For example, to make accounting software & comply with the requirements of the Ministry (if any), Dan Tri Soft when developing products have API standards for internal or to To share it outside, other businesses will use other functions as well to solve the same problem. The API integration will be done together by software enterprises to solve a certain customer request, so it is an administrative task to provide an API open criterion to share data. or ineffective for the software business. The essence here is the problem of market demand, assuming customers are using discrete software, these software companies will discuss together to offer an API connection system without a regulation. any key ”. Mr. Cao Trung Hieu – CEO of Dan Tri Soft (HCMC) – Photo: Hoa Binh Mr. Cao Trung Hieu analyzed: “It is easy to say API, but not all programmers and software development companies are capable of making API from the beginning, because it is much more complicated and expensive, but not necessarily. satisfy customer needs more than usual. When they were children, they worked quickly to make a living. When a little bit older, to get 100 customers, they must have the API as prescribed (if there is an administrative regulation as suggested). At that point, rewriting the program with the API would be difficult for them, especially maintaining compatibility with legacy clients (or at least maintaining the software development documentation). How many companies (including big ones) do Vietnam have? Recently, as the press published, Google decided not to use Oracle in the internal system but switched to SAP. The reason is that Oracle does not grant certification for Google’s cloud service to be compatible with the Oracle system. They said that Oracle cloud is competing with Google cloud, so they will not certify competitors … Thus, it can be seen that, if there was no architecture, design from the beginning, it would have to “beat up. “But repairing is even more expensive than making new ones”. There is no set of API criteria Agreeing with Mr. Cao Trung Hieu, consultant of digital transformation strategy Dao Trung Thanh also rejected Mr. Ngo Thanh Tung’s proposal: “What to do with the so-called API criteria set? APIs of Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amazon, SAP, Oracle … all have their own API sets! The problem is that they can publish to other software to use their API functions and thus can integrate system. The purchase of individual software from companies and then integrating is always a headache for the developers ”. Mr. Dao Trung Thanh Mr. Dao Trung Thanh affirmed: “Such a proposal is very impractical! For example, say that the software developed by Viettel and VNPT or FPT is already having API functions and they are certainly different. Then what kind of criteria is agreed? Beating the API over and over? It’s not that simple when the system has millions of lines of code and has to be reworked ”. Mr. Dao Trung Thanh further analyzed: “There are 2 issues, about openness depending on company policies, policies for publishing APIs. Some companies forcefully defend their APIs. For example, Sony typically only makes PlayStation 2’s official API available to registered PlayStation developers. This is because Sony wants to limit who can write games on PlayStation 2, and wants to profit from these people as much as possible. This is often the policy for companies that do not benefit from selling their API implementations. However, PlayStation 3 is fully announced APIs. Some companies offer free APIs. For example, Microsoft publishes almost complete information about APIs, so that software can be written to run on Windows platforms. The sale of third-party software coincides with the purchase of the Microsoft Windows operating system. These are usually the companies that profit from the sale of API implementations ”. Mr. Cao Trung Hieu assessed that, in terms of drug management alone, the data sharing has a positive effect: “All information on circulation and sale of pharmacies and pharmacies is linked to The health department adopts an API method between the software of the health department and the pharmacy management software, helping the management agency get more timely and more honest data ”. “However, it should be understood that this is data sharing according to national standards, not the health ministry opening data API to the outside. As for data connection from pharmacy management software and pharmacy to the medical department software, free software companies choose their own API connection method, as long as the data is in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Health. to include in the data system of regulatory agencies. The story of opening API data only concerns IT companies, but for users, they only need the result of convenience thanks to connectivity, stability and software development capabilities ”- Mr. Cao Trung Hieu confirmed.

People wear masks to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic in Paris, France. Photo: THX / TTXVN

Experts note that the confusion about airborne viral transmission has led to this simple measure being overlooked.

In the BMJ medical paper bowl, the authors, including expert Julian Tang from the University of Leicester and expert Linxey Marr from the University of Virginia Technology, indicated the likelihood of the virus spreading through inhalation at close range This is higher than through exposure to or breathing at a long distance. But airborne transmission is “only mentioned through loudspeaker in a few translation control guidelines”.

Part of the problem, experts emphasize, is that the definition of “droplet” and “airborne” is not yet clear when describing how the virus is spread,

The BMJ article states that careful measures like wearing a mask, keeping distance and reducing crowds in enclosed spaces all help prevent the spread of the virus. But experts stressed the need to add ventilation equipment because small suspended particles can remain in the air for hours and this is an important pathway of disease transmission.

Last March, the World Health Organization (WHO) also released a guide to epidemic prevention, which recommends creating better ventilation in buildings.

• On the same day, French President Emmanuel Macron on April 14 announced that France would provide free psychotherapy for children and adolescents who have suffered psychological harm due to the effects of COVID-19 epidemic.

Speaking during a visit to a psychotherapy facility in the city of Reims, President Macron said France’s social security system would reimburse a total of 10 psychotherapy sessions with a specialist for children from 3 – 17 years old.

After meeting with patients and psychologists at the facility, Mr. Macron said that France is currently having a medical problem affecting children and adolescents in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cases of anxiety and other psychological problems have increased among young people to the extent that they were not seen in the first blockade last year.

Currently, France is implementing a third national blockade to prevent COVID-19 epidemic, but the measures are not as strong as the previous two waves. Schools remain open for a longer period than their European neighbors, although France has now extended the Spring break to halt the epidemic.

The above comments of Mr. Konstantin Roginsky, deputy director of the Institute of Oceanography of the Russian Academy of Sciences shared with the media on April 13.

“The amount of wastewater announced by the Japanese side is a small amount. This is a drop of water in the ocean. Even in the worst case, if the wastewater is poorly treated, this heavy water will sink to the bottom and lie at a depth of 5-6-8 km, ”said Mr. Roginsky.

The waste water is planned to be discharged into the ocean, not posing a threat to the ecosystem of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, because the currents in that area go from north to south in the direction of the Russian scientist. Japan”.

The wastewater discharge will begin in about two years and the entire process is expected to take decades. (Image: Reuters)

According to Roginsky, the discharge of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant does not pose a threat to the Sea of ​​Japan, which is separated from the Pacific by islands of Japan. “US naval bases are much more harmful to Japan’s coastal fisheries,” added Roginsky.

“About 1.5 million tons of wastewater will be dumped into the ocean. Accordingly, the water is diluted, losing its natural salinity. This can be more harmful to marine organisms than it is with poor radiation release. They are used to living at a certain salinity, at a certain depth, in a certain chemical composition of water, ”explained the Russian expert.

Also commenting on the contemporary Japanese announcement of the discharge of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the expert of the Federal Council on Agricultural Policy – Food and Environmental Management, Ms. Natalia Sokolova undertook that if the wastewater is properly purified, there will be no radioactive threat to Russia.

“Right now, the amount of liquid accumulated is very large. Most of it is regular water. If purified from all harmful impurities, including tritium, the wastewater can be safely discharged into the oceans, as well as the coastal waters of other countries will not be affected. “, Ms. Sokolova shared with Sputnik.

According to the ecologist, discharging water from nuclear power plants is a common process for operating plants. But Fukushima is an emergency, so it is not known whether or not an operation will be able to proceed. It will become clear by 2023 whether wastewater can be filtered to the required parameters.

“Rigorous laboratory analyzes should be performed during the entire wastewater purification process. Two years prior to discharge is called approximate figure. I am sure that the Japanese government will make a decision on the outcome of the wastewater purification process. So far, these are just plans and the reality is that not all wastewater can be 100% purified ”, believes Ms. Sokolova.

Japan insists it is safe to discharge water from the plant as it has been treated to remove most of the radioactive elements and will be diluted. (Image: Reuters)

Meanwhile, Dmitry Lisitsyn, President of the Far East (Russia) environmental protection organization, said that the discharge of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan would lead to radioactive pollution. was brought to the heart of the North Pacific, where Pacific salmon are inhabited.

“The Fukushima nuclear power plant is located on the Pacific coast of Honshu Island. When radioactive pollution enters the Pacific off the coast of Honshu, they are quickly transported to the northeast by the Kuroshio currents, then into the North Pacific stream. All polluted wastewater is sent directly to the North Pacific. How does this threaten Russia? The fish forage in the North Pacific, then infiltrate the Russian table and there will be more before the polluted wastewater completely disappears, “RIA quoted Mr. Lisitsyn.

Lisitsyn noted six Pacific salmon species live in the Far East. They spawn in rivers, feed and grow in the ocean. Specifically in the central region of the North Pacific. This is exactly the site where this pollution was done.

What does the IAEA say?

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi, welcomed the decision of the Japanese Government to discharge wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea and promised that the organization would assistance to avoid negative consequences.

“I welcome Japan’s announcement of how they will treat wastewater stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The IAEA will work with Japan before, during and after discharge to help ensure this is done without negatively affecting health and the environment, ”wrote Grossi on Twitter.

According to Mr. Grossi, the controlled discharge of water into the sea is regularly used by nuclear power plants operating in the world and in the region, they comply with strict environmental safety standards and regulations. .

The start of wastewater discharge is expected to be around 2023. At the current rate of storage in reservoirs, all available reservoirs will be filled by the end of 2022.

Earlier, speaking at a press conference on April 13, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide announced that it would discharge more than 1 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, saying that the discharge of water into Thai waters Binh Duong was the “most realistic” and “inevitable” option to achieve the recovery of Fukushima.