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Background notes on Interview with Richard Byworth, CEO, Diginex
Background notes on Interview with Richard Byworth, CEO, Diginex
Host: Emmanuel Daniel, Chairman, The Asian Banker
Guests: Richard Byworth, CEO, Diginex
The discussion will focus on these topics:
- The recent listing of Diginex
- The future of the markets for digital assets
- Views on the future markets in a networked world
The recent listing of Diginex
- Diginex, a digital assets financial services company, has completed its business combination transaction with 8i Enterprises Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. The Transaction, which was approved at a Special Meeting of Shareholders on September 15, 2020, creates the first listed company on Nasdaq with a cryptocurrency exchange.
- With the ambiguous relationship that digital currencies and digital assets have with policy makers and regulators around the globe, this marks an historic event, and significant milestone for the digital assets sector and the financial services sector overall.
- Diginex Limited will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “EQOS” where it will offer investors the opportunity to participate in the growth of digital assets. The company’s warrants will trade under the ticker “EQOSW”.
- Diginex brings together a comprehensive ecosystem of financial services for digital assets, comprising the recently launched cryptocurrency exchange EQUOS.io, digital asset trading technology platform Diginex Access, securitization advisory firm Diginex Capital, digital asset custody provider Digivault and the investment management business Bletchley Park Asset Management.
- Diginex came to market via the now increasingly popular Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) route. After two rounds of SEC approvals and a COVID-19 impacted delay, the company listed on October 1, 2020. The Nasdaq listing comes with requirements that had the company remained private, it would not have had to address. An example of this is having a minimum of four non-executive directors.
- Approximately $50 million was raised, comprising both Diginex’s private raise completed in advance of the listing and the cash remaining in the SPAC. This will strengthen the company’s balance sheet and will enable it to realize its vision to build a digital assets ecosystem that offers innovative products and services that are compliant, fair and trusted.
- The keystone of Diginex’s digital playbook is its virtual currency exchange EQUOS. Launched in July, EQUOS is built using an advanced architecture designed to bring trust, transparency, and innovation to investors in the world of digital assets. The EQUOS roadmap delivers the infrastructure for managing derivatives and capital efficiency that is common in traditional markets but as yet unseen in the digital asset sector.
- EQUOS Capital that operates today in the traditional world, and provides buyers the option of taking their securitization investments in paper today and converting them to digital assets in the future, at the request of the investor. Byworth is a huge proponent of the future that blockchain can bring and the likely disruption this will bring to capital markets.
- “When we started building Diginex, we felt strongly that we needed to help raise standards and the transparency of the industry in order to help it grow. Nasdaq was the ultimate destination as a technology company and now investors will be able to participate in the ‘picks and shovels’ of this burgeoning new asset class via the rich ecosystem built across the Diginex group,” says Richard Byworth, CEO of Diginex, and EQUOS, the group’s digital asset exchange.
- Partnering with industry leaders has been a focus across the Group. Diginex's multi-venue trading platform, Access, plugs into the portfolio management systems of two of the world’s largest trading technology providers: FIS and ITIVITI. Any clients of either of these two traditional financial technology firms can now access the digital asset market utilizing the Access suite of algos and spread trading functionality to ensure best execution across a globally fragmented liquidity pool.
- The firm also runs an asset management business under the brand Bletchley Park Asset Management, a tribute to the secret home of the UK’s World War 2 cryptographic code breakers. The firm runs a fund of funds that after years of research has understood many of the pain points for asset managers to allow them to allocate to this burgeoning asset class with fewer barriers and hassles. The removal of 'pain points' for professional investors is a core design principal that has been addressed in much of the EQUOS framework.
Source: (2020, September 16). Diginex Receives Approval on Business Combination from 8i Shareholders, Representing Another Important Milestone Prior to Diginex’s Nasdaq Listing. Retrieved November, 2020, from www.diginex.com
The future of the markets for digital assets:
- The push for wider institutionalization of digital assets is driving significant investment in new technologies. Five aspects need to be aligned to institutionalize digital assets. The technology needs to be mature enough. We need to identify valid business cases where real problems can be solved. The projects must be funded properly. The regulators need to be on board. Finally, market participants need to be prepared for the transformation.
- There is a demand in other industries beyond the capital markets where there’s an ask for institutional grade services for enabling marketplace to digitalize new types of assets such as the insurance industry, healthcare industry, betting industry, real-estate and commodity agriculture industry etc. wherever there is a need to actually more efficiently trade assets of value.
- Many processes that incumbent marketplaces currently operate manually will likely shift to a digitalized workflow, enabling market participants to connect easily with one another to trade those assets. They will also be looking to expand their product coverage by digitalizing assets traditionally dealt with bilaterally in OTC or manual and paper-based markets.
- Meanwhile, new types of financial and non-financial marketplaces for trading of digital representations of physical assets and certificates will be created. Their participants will be able to trade and track assets easily through their entire life cycle by operating on a harmonized, shared platform. Not only will they enjoy a high level of transparency, but they also reduced friction because there will be no need to reconcile data between multiple participants.
- Financial institutions are starting to see the technology’s power to provide robust and regulation-grade infrastructure, supporting the digital transformation of traditional financial assets and processes. Since conception in 2017, two STO projects collectively raised around $22 million, according to the report by PWC. As per an analysis by BlockState, in 2018, the number of STO projects increased to 55 and have collectively raised a total of $452 million. A PWC 2020 report identified major entities like the World Bank and the Austrian Government tokenizing financial assets on the blockchain.
- Furthermore, the asset tokenization market is predicted to witness exponential growth this decade. According to this research, the global tokenization market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 22.45% from 2019 to 2025. According to Data Bridge Market Research, the tokenization market in Europe itself is predicted to reach $1.4 trillion by 2024.The adoption of Digital Assets by financial institutions is also on the rise – as demonstrated by the fact that the European market for tokenised assets is set to reach $1.5tn by 2024.
- Byworth said, “Currently digital asset derivatives volumes are around three to four times the underlying crypto spot market if we include perpetuals, whereas traditional assets like FX or interest rates derivatives volumes many hundreds of times the spot market. This perceived volume differential between digital and traditional finance is largely due to infrastructure and capital efficiency gaps. Daily volumes in this market can still grow 20x from here and this is what we have built EQUOS for,”
Source: (2020, April 29). The Journey Toward Digital Assets Institutionalization. Retrieved November, 2020, from nasdaq.com
Views on the future markets in a networked world
- Technology is the fundamental driving force behind most of the changes in the capital markets industry. The two technologies with the potential to transform capital markets over the next few years: artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT).
- The influence of AI can already be observed in alpha generation, alpha extraction and product generation. Indeed, quantitative hedge funds are using AI at scale. Other firms, including some fintechs, are pursuing its use in fields like signal mining.
- AI will also be used in knowledge-intensive tasks, such as research and risk analysis, and to automate the IB deal-making process. It also has powerful use cases relating to the monetization of data and services. Exchange and data groups are pursuing this vigorously, but we see even more potential in this area. Developments like data-driven client targeting and management, for instance, are still only in their infancy.
- DLT or blockchain infrastructure has many potential applications in the industry, from issuance (putting deal processes on a distributed ledger, redefining syndicates, and so on) to asset and wealth management (where it could be used to update reference data and create fractional and digital asset vehicles). Blockchain also has many uses in trading and market infrastructure.
- A few of these use cases can already be seen in the exchange sector. The Australian and Toronto Stock Exchanges are using blockchain to replace legacy settlement systems, and the DTCC is rebuilding its credit default swaps processing platform with blockchain. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is working on putting collateral management on a ledger. And other exchanges are experimenting with tokenized assets beyond crypto.
- Moving the capital markets infrastructure to the cloud allows for the democratization of markets. Given the elasticity of the cloud, services that have been limited in availability, such as co-location, become seemingly unlimited. Leveraging the dynamic infrastructure and APIs, marketplaces and firms can benefit from increased agility, an even higher level of security than on-premises, and access to disruptive technologies including machine learning and A.I. to enable innovation.
- Many trading firms co-locate their servers in exchanges’ local data centers to achieve the lowest network latency possible. However, that access comes with a tradeoff: Since physical space is at a premium, the co-located infrastructure isn’t suitable for storing large volumes of data or running analytics, making it less than ideal for those workloads. The elasticity of the cloud could address this issue.
- Managed services in the cloud are engineered to be compliant, performant, secure, and scalable. Outsourcing to a cloud-based managed service provider can reduce firms’ capital burden and allow them to focus resources on their core expertise and create differentiated offerings with a quick time to market.
- Most capital markets staff are working from home during the COVID-19 global pandemic, and this will likely continue until companies can bring employees back to the office safely. In our new normal, the cloud can help support remote teams and operations for an extended period of time.
- In June 2020, NASDAQ announced the launch of the Marketplace Services Platform. The platform provides marketplace capabilities spanning the transaction lifecycle to facilitate the frictionless exchange of assets, services and information across various types of market ecosystems and machine-to-machine transactions, including, but not limited, to standard financial assets, tokenized assets, credit card receivables, loyalty points, real estate, insurance contracts, gaming and wagering and more. The already established universal marketplace services, which includes matching, risk management and market surveillance, will be accessible on the platform.
- Complementing the rollout out the Marketplace Services Platform, Nasdaq is now offering its Digital Assets Suite. The suite of services, which is both DLT-agnostic and multi-cloud, is designed specifically to support the transaction lifecycle of digital assets and tokenized markets leveraging DLT technology to facilitate issuance of the asset through matching, custody, delivery and payment.
Source: (2020, April 29). The Journey Toward Digital Assets Institutionalization. Retrieved November, 2020, from nasdaq.com
Richard Byworth’s Profile:
Richard is CEO of Diginex, based in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, and fintech sectors.
Previously Managing Director at Nomura, the Japanese Investment Bank, Richard was running Derivative and Equity Linked product Sales for Asia Pacific product globally. The youngest Managing Director in the firm’s history, Richard led the build of the #1 franchise for Convertible Bonds in Asia from 2005. In both 2008 and 2009 he was the firm’s largest producing salesperson across Nomura’s global wholesale investment banking franchise. Richard led the syndication and distribution of some of Asia’s largest convertible bond deals in the last 15 years including China Unicom and Softbank.
In business, Richard has founded several companies and is an active investor, having started his first trading company in 1990. He is a board member of Bletchley Park Asset Management, Jersey, Diginex, and sits on the advisory board to PrivateMarket.io, a private equity fund marketplace.
Richard is Hong Kong Regional Ambassador for the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), and has spoken extensively around the merits of blockchain for business and finance at WEF (Davos) and the United Nations (Geneva).
Initially dismissive of bitcoin, he started to question that position after reading the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri, who discussed bitcoin as a logical progression in societal belief systems around money.
As an early stage investor, he supported Diginex founder Miles Pelham in the early development of the business. Miles approached Richard following his departure from banking to help build the strategy for the future of digital investment banking. What came next was a very deliberate design of a full suite financial services firm addressing the emerging and growing opportunities presented by digital assets.
Byworth has written a playbook that looks as if it will serve as a masterclass for smart capital focused on penetrating and growing the burgeoning future digital assets market. It seeks to occupy everything from the traditional payments space, to equity and debt assets, currencies and derivatives.
Source: Richard Byworth. Retrieved November, 2020, from diginex.com
Byworth's comments on central bank digital currency (CBDC):
How the pandemic has accelerated central banks to issue CBDCs
Prior to the pandemic, the implementation of a CBDC was generally perceived as something interesting to explore with much theoretical potential, as opposed to an urgent policy issue. The concept of a central bank issued digital currency (CBDC) had been developing within the walls of central banks across the globe over the past year, and while Libra of course catalysed a more proactive response, the economic crisis being faced as a result of COVID-19 really kicked deliberations into high gear, and cemented CBDCs on the mainstream policy agenda for central bankers globally.
While the rush to implement ultimately superseded exploration of CBDC archetypes as conduits for the disbursement of stimulus packages, the renewed interest by policymakers is fast tracking the advance of this space.
In the broader context of a post-pandemic future, CBDC’s could offer central banks a more efficient and reflexive apparatus for implementing monetary policy, which will be all the more critical in the coming years as we seek to restore global growth. They could additionally be of massive benefit to treasury’s in the streamlining of tax collection, enabling individuals to settle dues directly from their digital wallet.
What is also interesting is the parallel trend in digital asset investing. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have been heralded as both uncorrelated assets against traditional asset markets equities backdrop, and as a hedge against currency devaluation as a result of quantitative easing (QE) due to its absolute scarcity. With watershed fiat printing undermining confidence in conventional monetary instruments, the digital asset class is increasingly being contemplated as a portfolio hedge to counter recurrent market volatility and inflation. This becomes all the more prescient during periods in which markets are particularly exposed to politics in the form of crisis-related protectionism, stimulus policy interventions and geopolitical hostilities.
An all-inclusive participation of commercial banks in case of an interest-bearing CBDC
Prior to the advance of COVID, incumbent banking and monetary models were already being confronted with the pressures of persistently low interest rates, surging competition from digital and shadow banks, mounting compliance burdens, Brexit, as well as the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies. While enhanced liquidity may offer some temporary respite, COVID-era economics will likely compound these pressures with further subdued interest rates and the threat of insolvencies and non-performing loans.
However, crypto markets are actually already starting to hint at how easily transferable currency within trusted and regulated platforms could lead to an opening up of peer to peer lending markets leading to far higher rates of interest for savers than we are witnessing in the traditional banking. USD stablecoin rates for savers on the Celsius crypto borrowing platform are currently north of 8% annually.
We are at the early point of phased adoption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but the next phase is likely to see very steep growth. Indications of this are being seen in recent newsflow with Diginex integrating now with ITIVIT as well as FIS to accommodate new institutional participants, JPMorgan has opened up its banking services to U.S.-based crypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, and the announcement from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), that all nationally chartered banks in the U.S. are permitted to provide custody services for crypto.
To what extent can the CBDC’s overcome the shortcoming of cryptocurrencies
The biggest issue that cryptocurrencies have versus fiat currency right now is instability of price. Speculation and leverage lead to some violent price moves, and so the usage of blockchain technology to deliver fiat currencies in digital form will likely lead to far greater adoption of the technology.
The other key factor is trust. Whether it fits with your political view or not, governments and their money are generally more trusted than the current landscape of cryptocurrencies, and in the majority of cases this is for very good reason. Trust in the federal reserve and a digital dollar that they may issue could again lead to rapid adoption of the technology.
Progress of BoE in terms of the design and implementation of its CBDC
Virtually all Central Banks are actively looking in some way at creating their own digital currencies, whether that is for retail use or for wholesale settlement between banks, which has put this burgeoning asset class at the forefront of banking policy agenda.
The Bank of England is keeping central bank digital currency research high on its 2020 agenda. This was evidenced as recently as this week with their active participation in a roundtable discussion hosted by global central banking think tank, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) to discuss potential infrastructural designs for CBDCs.
It is encouraging to see that the recently appointed Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, much like his predecessor Mark Carney, has come out as a proponent of CBDCs - acknowledging that in a few years’ time the UK will likely be heading towards some sort of digital currency solution.
Governor Bailey recognises that the future of the banking sector is under increasing threat, and that COVID has only accelerated the shift towards disruptive alternatives, with these digital-first players having the optimal set-up to thrive in such an environment. His statements are an acknowledgment that innovation must also come from the top-down.
While England is of course exiting the Eurozone, it’s closest neighbours are also closely engaged in this space, and Governor Bailey will be watching developments across the water closely. France is so far the highest-profile Eurozone member to launch a CBDC RFP and a Eurozone-wide CBDC solution may not be too much of a remote possibility, with Christine Lagarde, an advocate for CBDC exploration taking the helm as head of the European Central Bank in November of last year.
Byworth’s comments on technology and rising marketin during a pandemic
- Over the years, technology has improved by leaps and bounds, therefore making life more cost-effective and efficient. Such technological improvements, however, may not save citizens money as intended, due to inflationary efforts. According to Byworth, “technology is just so deflationary on many of our goods and services”.
- In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, Byworth explained he entered the crypto space looking to protect his capital against inflation. Money devaluation concerns have risen significantly in 2020, in line with COVID-19 prevention measures and various governments' efforts to fix economies struggling as a result of such measures. Countries around the globe continue printing money as a solution. “It's gotten to a point of being frightening”, Byworth said.
- “If you look at a trend line of monetary expansion over the last 40 years, and then it's a fairly steady line until you hit about 2008. Then the gradient just increases. It gets much steeper, and then suddenly, in April of this year, you have a straight line up that is an increase of 25% on the entire increase that you've seen over that 40-year period — you've seen that in four months.”
- In 2020, amid money printing and COVID-19 difficulties, the public has seen rapidly rising prices for assets and services that hold limited quantities, such as certain real estate for example. These rising prices stem from the aspects Byworth mentioned regarding currency devaluation.
- Inflation, however, benefits governments with debt. “The U.S. government has a gigantic amount of debt, so if the money is worthless, then the debt is worthless,” Byworth said.
Source: (2020, October 02). Technology itself is deflationary, Diginex CEO says. Retrieved November, 2020, from cointelegraph.com


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From the standpoint of absorption, the drinking of tobacco juice and the interaction of the infusion or concoction with the small intestine is a highly effective method of gastrointestinal nicotine administration. The epithelial area of the intestines is incomparably larger than the mucosa of the upper tract including the stomach, and the small intestine represents the area with the greatest capacity for absorption (Levine 1983:81-83). As practiced by most of the sixty-four tribes documented here, intoxicated states are achieved by drinking tobacco juice through the mouth and/or nose…The large intestine, although functionally little equipped for absorption, nevertheless absorbs nicotine that may have passed through the small intestine.
Some work has been done on estimating the value of IQ, both as net benefits to the possessor (including all zero-sum or negative-sum aspects) and as net positive externalities to the rest of society. The estimates are substantial: in the thousands of dollars per IQ point. But since increasing IQ post-childhood is almost impossible barring disease or similar deficits, and even increasing childhood IQs is very challenging, much of these estimates are merely correlations or regressions, and the experimental childhood estimates must be weakened considerably for any adult - since so much time and so many opportunities have been lost. A wild guess: $1000 net present value per IQ point. The range for severely deficient children was 10-15 points, so any normal (somewhat deficient) adult gain must be much smaller and consistent with Fitzgerald 2012’s ceiling on possible effect sizes (small).
In 2011, as part of the Silk Road research, I ordered 10x100mg Modalert (5btc) from a seller. I also asked him about his sourcing, since if it was bad, it’d be valuable to me to know whether it was sourced from one of the vendors listed in my table. He replied, more or less, I get them from a large Far Eastern pharmaceuticals wholesaler. I think they’re probably the supplier for a number of the online pharmacies. 100mg seems likely to be too low, so I treated this shipment as 5 doses:
Medication can be ineffective if the drug payload is not delivered at its intended place and time. Since an oral medication travels through a broad pH spectrum, the pill encapsulation could dissolve at the wrong time. However, a smart pill with environmental sensors, a feedback algorithm and a drug release mechanism can give rise to smart drug delivery systems. This can ensure optimal drug delivery and prevent accidental overdose.
Armodafinil is sort of a purified modafinil which Cephalon sells under the brand-name Nuvigil (and Sun under Waklert20). Armodafinil acts much the same way (see the ADS Drug Profile) but the modafinil variant filtered out are the faster-acting molecules21. Hence, it is supposed to last longer. as studies like Pharmacodynamic effects on alertness of single doses of armodafinil in healthy subjects during a nocturnal period of acute sleep loss seem to bear out; anecdotally, it’s also more powerful, with Cephalon offering pills with doses as low as 50mg. (To be technical, modafinil is racemic: it comes in two forms which are rotations, mirror-images of each other. The rotation usually doesn’t matter, but sometimes it matters tremendously - for example, one form of thalidomide stops morning sickness, and the other rotation causes hideous birth defects.)
So it's no surprise that as soon as medical science develops a treatment for a disease, we often ask if it couldn't perhaps make a healthy person even healthier. Take Viagra, for example: developed to help men who couldn't get erections, it's now used by many who function perfectly well without a pill but who hope it will make them exceptionally virile.
Common environmental toxins – pesticides, for example – cause your brain to release glutamate (a neurotransmitter). Your brain needs glutamate to function, but when you create too much of it it becomes toxic and starts killing neurons. Oxaloacetate protects rodents from glutamate-induced brain damage. Of course, we need more research to determine whether or not oxaloacetate has the same effect on humans.
Another class of substances with the potential to enhance cognition in normal healthy individuals is the class of prescription stimulants used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These include methylphenidate (MPH), best known as Ritalin or Concerta, and amphetamine (AMP), most widely prescribed as mixed AMP salts consisting primarily of dextroamphetamine (d-AMP), known by the trade name Adderall. These medications have become familiar to the general public because of the growing rates of diagnosis of ADHD children and adults (Froehlich et al., 2007; Sankaranarayanan, Puumala, & Kratochvil, 2006) and the recognition that these medications are effective for treating ADHD (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999; Swanson et al., 2008).
Alpha Lipoic Acid is a vitamin-like chemical filled with antioxidant properties, that naturally occur in broccoli, spinach, yeast, kidney, liver, and potatoes. The compound is generally prescribed to patients suffering from nerve-related symptoms of diabetes because it helps in preventing damage to the nerve cells and improves the functioning of neurons. It can be termed as one of the best memory boosting supplements.
Our 2nd choice for a Brain and Memory supplement is Clari-T by Life Seasons. We were pleased to see that their formula included 3 of the 5 necessary ingredients Huperzine A, Phosphatidylserine and Bacopin. In addition, we liked that their product came in a vegetable capsule. The product contains silica and rice bran, though, which we are not sure is necessary.
Furthermore, there is no certain way to know whether you’ll have an adverse reaction to a particular substance, even if it’s natural. This risk is heightened when stacking multiple substances because substances can have synergistic effects, meaning one substance can heighten the effects of another. However, using nootropic stacks that are known to have been frequently used can reduce the chances of any negative side effects.
One study of helicopter pilots suggested that 600 mg of modafinil given in three doses can be used to keep pilots alert and maintain their accuracy at pre-deprivation levels for 40 hours without sleep. However, significant levels of nausea and vertigo were observed. Another study of fighter pilots showed that modafinil given in three divided 100 mg doses sustained the flight control accuracy of sleep-deprived F-117 pilots to within about 27% of baseline levels for 37 hours, without any considerable side effects. In an 88-hour sleep loss study of simulated military grounds operations, 400 mg/day doses were mildly helpful at maintaining alertness and performance of subjects compared to placebo, but the researchers concluded that this dose was not high enough to compensate for most of the effects of complete sleep loss.
The Defense Department reports rely on data collected by the private real estate firms that operate base housing in partnership with military branches. The companies' compensation is partly determined by the results of resident satisfaction surveys. I had to re-read this sentence like 5 times to make sure I understood it correctly. I just can't even. Seriously, in what universe did anyone think that this would be a good idea?
…It is without activity in man! Certainly not for the lack of trying, as some of the dosage trials that are tucked away in the literature (as abstracted in the Qualitative Comments given above) are pretty heavy duty. Actually, I truly doubt that all of the experimenters used exactly that phrase, No effects, but it is patently obvious that no effects were found. It happened to be the phrase I had used in my own notes.
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A fancier method of imputation would be multiple imputation using, for example, the R library mice (Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations) (guide), which will try to impute all missing values in a way which mimicks the internal structure of the data and provide several possible datasets to give us an idea of what the underlying data might have looked like, so we can see how our estimates improve with no missingness & how much of the estimate is now due to the imputation:
The price is not as good as multivitamins or melatonin. The studies showing effects generally use pretty high dosages, 1-4g daily. I took 4 capsules a day for roughly 4g of omega acids. The jar of 400 is 100 days’ worth, and costs ~$17, or around 17¢ a day. The general health benefits push me over the edge of favoring its indefinite use, but looking to economize. Usually, small amounts of packaged substances are more expensive than bulk unprocessed, so I looked at fish oil fluid products; and unsurprisingly, liquid is more cost-effective than pills (but like with the powders, straight fish oil isn’t very appetizing) in lieu of membership somewhere or some other price-break. I bought 4 bottles (16 fluid ounces each) for $53.31 total (thanks to coupons & sales), and each bottle lasts around a month and a half for perhaps half a year, or ~$100 for a year’s supply. (As it turned out, the 4 bottles lasted from 4 December 2010 to 17 June 2011, or 195 days.) My next batch lasted 19 August 2011-20 February 2012, and cost $58.27. Since I needed to buy empty 00 capsules (for my lithium experiment) and a book (Stanovich 2010, for SIAI work) from Amazon, I bought 4 more bottles of 16fl oz Nature’s Answer (lemon-lime) at $48.44, which I began using 27 February 2012. So call it ~$70 a year.
(As I was doing this, I reflected how modafinil is such a pure example of the money-time tradeoff. It’s not that you pay someone else to do something for you, which necessarily they will do in a way different from you; nor is it that you have exchanged money to free yourself of a burden of some future time-investment; nor have you paid money for a speculative return of time later in life like with many medical expenses or supplements. Rather, you have paid for 8 hours today of your own time.)
“One of my favorites is 1, 3, 7-trimethylxanthine,” says Dr. Mark Moyad, director of preventive and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan. He says this chemical boosts many aspects of cognition by improving alertness. It’s also associated with some memory benefits. “Of course,” Moyad says, “1, 3, 7-trimethylxanthine goes by another name—caffeine.”
All clear? Try one (not dozens) of nootropics for a few weeks and keep track of how you feel, Kerl suggests. It’s also important to begin with as low a dose as possible; when Cyr didn’t ease into his nootropic regimen, his digestion took the blow, he admits. If you don’t notice improvements, consider nixing the product altogether and focusing on what is known to boost cognitive function – eating a healthy diet, getting enough sleep regularly and exercising. "Some of those lifestyle modifications," Kerl says, "may improve memory over a supplement."
Endoscopy surgeries, being minimally invasive, have become more popular in recent times. Latest studies show that there is an increasing demand for single incision or small incision type of surgery as an alternative to traditional surgeries. As aging patients are susceptible to complications, the usage of minimally invasive procedures is of utmost importance and the need of the hour. There are unexplained situations of bleeding, iron deficiency, abdominal pain, search for polyps, ulcers, and tumors of the small intestine, and inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn's disease, where capsule endoscopy diagnoses fare better than traditional endoscopy. Also, as capsule endoscopy is less invasive or non-invasive, as compared to traditional endoscopy, patients are increasingly preferring the usage of capsule endoscopy as it does not require any recovery time, which is driving the smart pill market.
Sarter is downbeat, however, about the likelihood of the pharmaceutical industry actually turning candidate smart drugs into products. Its interest in cognitive enhancers is shrinking, he says, “because these drugs are not working for the big indications, which is the market that drives these developments. Even adult ADHD has not been considered a sufficiently attractive large market.”
The data from 2-back and 3-back tasks are more complex. Three studies examined performance in these more challenging tasks and found no effect of d-AMP on average performance (Mattay et al., 2000, 2003; Mintzer & Griffiths, 2007). However, in at least two of the studies, the overall null result reflected a mixture of reliably enhancing and impairing effects. Mattay et al. (2000) examined the performance of subjects with better and worse working memory capacity separately and found that subjects whose performance on placebo was low performed better on d-AMP, whereas subjects whose performance on placebo was high were unaffected by d-AMP on the 2-back and impaired on the 3-back tasks. Mattay et al. (2003) replicated this general pattern of data with subjects divided according to genotype. The specific gene of interest codes for the production of Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme that breaks down dopamine and norepinephrine. A common polymorphism determines the activity of the enzyme, with a substitution of methionine for valine at Codon 158 resulting in a less active form of COMT. The met allele is thus associated with less breakdown of dopamine and hence higher levels of synaptic dopamine than the val allele. Mattay et al. (2003) found that subjects who were homozygous for the val allele were able to perform the n-back faster with d-AMP; those homozygous for met were not helped by the drug and became significantly less accurate in the 3-back condition with d-AMP. In the case of the third study finding no overall effect, analyses of individual differences were not reported (Mintzer & Griffiths, 2007).
The question of whether stimulants are smart pills in a pragmatic sense cannot be answered solely by consideration of the statistical significance of the difference between stimulant and placebo. A drug with tiny effects, even if statistically significant, would not be a useful cognitive enhancer for most purposes. We therefore report Cohen’s d effect size measure for published studies that provide either means and standard deviations or relevant F or t statistics (Thalheimer & Cook, 2002). More generally, with most sample sizes in the range of a dozen to a few dozen, small effects would not reliably be found.
The methodology would be essentially the same as the vitamin D in the morning experiment: put a multiple of 7 placebos in one container, the same number of actives in another identical container, hide & randomly pick one of them, use container for 7 days then the other for 7 days, look inside them for the label to determine which period was active and which was placebo, refill them, and start again.
This doesn’t fit the U-curve so well: while 60mg is substantially negative as one would extrapolate from 30mg being ~0, 48mg is actually better than 15mg. But we bought the estimates of 48mg/60mg at a steep price - we ignore the influence of magnesium which we know influences the data a great deal. And the higher doses were added towards the end, so may be influenced by the magnesium starting/stopping. Another fix for the missingness is to impute the missing data. In this case, we might argue that the placebo days of the magnesium experiment were identical to taking no magnesium at all and so we can classify each NA as a placebo day, and rerun the desired analysis:
A record of nootropics I have tried, with thoughts about which ones worked and did not work for me. These anecdotes should be considered only as anecdotes, and one’s efforts with nootropics a hobby to put only limited amounts of time into due to the inherent limits of drugs as a force-multiplier compared to other things like programming1; for an ironic counterpoint, I suggest the reader listen to a video of Jonathan Coulton’s I Feel Fantastic while reading.
Smart pills have huge potential and several important applications, particularly in diagnosis. Smart pills are growing as a highly effective method of endoscopy, particularly for gastrointestinal diseases. Urbanization and rapid lifestyle changes leaning toward unhealthy diets and poor eating habits have led to distinctive increasing lifestyle disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), obesity, and gastric ulcers.
Long-term use is different, and research-backed efficacy is another question altogether. The nootropic market is not regulated, so a company can make claims without getting in trouble for making those claims because they’re not technically selling a drug. This is why it’s important to look for well-known brands and standardized nootropic herbs where it’s easier to calculate the suggested dose and be fairly confident about what you’re taking.
I can only talk from experience here, but I can remember being a teenager and just being a straight-up dick to any recruiters that came to my school. And I came from a military family. I'd ask douche-bag questions, I'd crack jokes like so... don't ask, don't tell only applies to everyone BUT the Navy, right? I never once considered enlisting because some 18 or 19 year old dickhead on hometown recruiting was hanging out in the cafeteria or hallways of my high school.Weirdly enough, however, what kinda put me over the line and made me enlist was the location of the recruiters' office. In the city I was living in at the time, the Armed Forces Recruitment Center was next door to an all-ages punk venue that I went to nearly every weekend. I spent many Saturday nights standing in a parking lot after a show, all bruised and bloody from a pit, smoking a joint, and staring at the windows of the closed recruiters' office. Propaganda posters of guys in full-battle-rattle obscured by a freshly scrawled Anarchy symbol or a collage of band stickers over the glass.I think trying to recruit kids from school has a child-molester-vibe to it. At least it did for me. But the recruiters defiantly being right next to a bunch of drunk and high punks, that somehow made it seem more like a truly bad-ass option. Like, sure, I'll totally join. After all, these guys don't run from the horde of skins and pins that descend every weekend like everyone else, they must be bad-ass.
This is one of the few times we’ve actually seen a nootropic supplement take a complete leverage on the nootropic industry with the name Smart Pill. To be honest, we don’t know why other companies haven’t followed suit yet – it’s an amazing name. Simple, and to the point. Coming from supplement maker, Only Natural, Smart Pill makes some pretty bold claims regarding their pills being completely natural, whilst maintaining good quality. This is their niche – or Only Natural’s niche, for that matter. They create supplements, in this case Smart Pill, with the… Learn More...
The acid is also known to restore the vitamin C and E levels in the body. Alpha Lipoic Acid’s potent antioxidant property protects brain cells from damage during an injury. This helps in making sure that your brain functions normally even if there is any external or internal brain injury. OptiMind, one of the best nootropic supplements that you can find today contains Alpha Lipoic Acid that can help in enhancing your brain’s capabilities.
(In particular, I don’t think it’s because there’s a sudden new surge of drugs. FDA drug approval has been decreasing over the past few decades, so this is unlikely a priori. More specifically, many of the major or hot drugs go back a long time. Bacopa goes back millennia, melatonin I don’t even know, piracetam was the ’60s, modafinil was ’70s or ’80s, ALCAR was ’80s AFAIK, Noopept & coluracetam were ’90s, and so on.)
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Nootropics, also known as ‘brain boosters,’ ‘brain supplements’ or ‘cognitive enhancers’ are made up of a variety of artificial and natural compounds. These compounds help in enhancing the cognitive activities of the brain by regulating or altering the production of neurochemicals and neurotransmitters in the brain. It improves blood flow, stimulates neurogenesis (the process by which neurons are produced in the body by neural stem cells), enhances nerve growth rate, modifies synapses, and improves cell membrane fluidity. Thus, positive changes are created within your body, which helps you to function optimally irrespective of your current lifestyle and individual needs.
A total of 14 studies surveyed reasons for using prescription stimulants nonmedically, all but one study confined to student respondents. The most common reasons were related to cognitive enhancement. Different studies worded the multiple-choice alternatives differently, but all of the following appeared among the top reasons for using the drugs: “concentration” or “attention” (Boyd et al., 2006; DeSantis et al., 2008, 2009; Rabiner et al., 2009; Teter et al., 2003, 2006; Teter, McCabe, Cranford, Boyd, & Guthrie, 2005; White et al., 2006); “help memorize,” “study,” “study habits,” or “academic assignments” (Arria et al., 2008; Barrett et al., 2005; Boyd et al., 2006; DeSantis et al., 2008, 2009; DuPont et al., 2008; Low & Gendaszek, 2002; Rabiner et al., 2009; Teter et al., 2005, 2006; White et al., 2006); “grades” or “intellectual performance” (Low & Gendaszek, 2002; White et al., 2006); “before tests” or “finals week” (Hall et al., 2005); “alertness” (Boyd et al., 2006; Hall et al., 2005; Teter et al., 2003, 2005, 2006); or “performance” (Novak et al., 2007). However, every survey found other motives mentioned as well. The pills were also taken to “stay awake,” “get high,” “be able to drink and party longer without feeling drunk,” “lose weight,” “experiment,” and for “recreational purposes.”
Regardless of your goal, there is a supplement that can help you along the way. Below, we’ve put together the definitive smart drugs list for peak mental performance. There are three major groups of smart pills and cognitive enhancers. We will cover each one in detail in our list of smart drugs. They are natural and herbal nootropics, prescription ADHD medications, and racetams and synthetic nootropics.
Flow diagram of epidemiology literature search completed July 1, 2010. Search terms were nonmedical use, nonmedical use, misuse, or illicit use, and prescription stimulants, dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate, Ritalin, or Adderall. Stages of subsequent review used the information contained in the titles, abstracts, and articles to determine whether articles reported studies of the extent of nonmedical prescription stimulant use by students and related questions addressed in the present article including students’ motives and frequency of use.

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Small businesses affected by red tide now have another option for to help them recovery.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering low-interest economic injury disaster loans of up to $2 million to Florida small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small aquaculture businesses and private nonprofits affected by red tide starting Nov. 1, 2017.
Companies in Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties are all eligible for the loans, and SBA staff will be on hand at two area business recovery centers to answer questions and help with loan applications.
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The interest rates on the loans are 3.385 percent for small businesses and 2.5 percent for nonprofits, with terms of up to 30 years. They're given out based on the size and type of business and its financial resources, and can be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and other bills that could have been paid if it weren't for red tide. They're not meant to replace lost sales or profits.
The Manatee County business recovery center is at the Island branch of the county library at 5701 Marina Road in Holmes Beach. It is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.
In Sarasota County, companies can get help at Bee Ridge Park at 4430 South Lockwood Ridge Road from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
Red tide continues to hurt business up and down the Gulf. Companies have reported losses, layoffs, reduced hours and, in some cases, closings. Voluntary surveys from Visit Sarasota County found over $1 million in losses for Sarasota businesses in the first two weeks of August alone.
As of June, tourist development tax figures were up compared with the same period last year. That "bed tax" is collected on short-term rentals. Total tourist development tax revenue was $1,855,726.75 in June, compared with $1,682,730.77 last year, according to Sarasota County. In Manatee County, tourist development tax collections were $1,308,818 in July compared to $1,245,449 the year before.

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The meeting adjourned from 9 November due to a lack of quorum will see vote on a controversial financial restructuring package which Rickmers Trust Management says may result in the trust’s liquidation if not approved.
The proposed restructuring on the SGD100m notes would see partial redemption of SGD60m of the issue by way of an equity swap for 60% of the units in an enlarged trust. While the maturity date of the remaining SGD40m in bonds will be moved to November 2023 from May next year.
Rickmers Maritime has been with a faced with a group of bondholders calling for immediate redemption of the notes due in 2017.
While the previous meeting required a quorum representing 75% of bondholders, the 21 December meeting requires just a 25% level of two or more noteholders.

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What kinds of sensors are used to detect LEL combustible gas?
Confined space instruments almost always include a sensor used to measure percent LEL combustible gas. There are two types of widely used LEL sensors; catalytic “Wheatstone bridge” or infrared (IR) sensors. Each type of sensor has both advantages and disadvantages.
Catalytic LEL Combustible Gas Sensors
Wheatstone bridge combustible gas sensors detect gas by catalytically oxidizing the gas on an active bead located within the sensor. Catalytic LEL sensors contain two coils of fine platinum wire, which are coated with a ceramic or porous alumina material to form beads. The beads are wired into opposing arms of a balanced Wheatstone bridge electrical circuit. One bead is additionally treated with a platinum or palladium-based material that allows catalyzed oxidation to occur on the "active" (or detector) bead. The catalyst is not consumed by the oxidation process.
The temperature of the active bead must be high enough for the gas to be oxidized. While other gases can be oxidized at lower temperatures, in order to detect methane the temperature of the active bead must be 500°C or higher. If combustible gas is present, oxidation heats the active bead to an even higher temperature. The temperature of the untreated reference bead is unaffected by the presence of gas. Because the two beads are strung on opposite arms of the Wheatstone bridge circuit, the difference in temperature between the beads is registered by the instrument as a change in electrical resistance.
Catalytic combustible gas sensors are unable to differentiate between different combustible gases. They provide one signal based on the total heating effects of all the gases capable of being oxidized that are present in the vicinity of the sensor.
Catalytic-bead sensors respond to a wide range of ignitable gases and vapors. The heating effect on the active bead varies between gases. For this reason readings may vary between equivalent concentrations of different combustible gases.
An important consideration is that catalytic LEL sensors require the presence of oxygen in order to detect gas. As the concentration of oxygen drops, the ability of the sensor to oxidize gas is reduced, resulting in increasingly inaccurate readings. Most manufacturers specify that their catalytic LEL sensors cannot be used if the concentration of O2 is less than 10%.
Another important consideration is that catalytic LEL sensors can be poisoned by exposure to chemicals that inhibit or poison the sensor. Catalytic LEL sensor poisons include molecules that contain sulfur, phosphorus, or vapors that contain silicones. Catalytic LEL sensors should never be deliberately exposed to vapors that contain silicones.
Infrared (IR) LEL Sensors
Infrared (IR) LEL sensors measure gas as a function of the absorbance of infrared light at a specific wavelength or range of wavelengths. Molecules can be conceptualized as balls (atoms) held together by flexible springs (bonds) that can vibrate (stretch, bend, or rotate) in three dimensions. Each molecule has certain fixed modes in which this vibratory motion can occur. Each mode represents vibrational motion at a specific frequency. When a chemical bond absorbs infrared radiation the bond continues to vibrate at the same frequency but with greater amplitude after the transfer of energy. For infrared energy to be absorbed (that is, for vibrational energy to be transferred to the molecule), the frequency must match the frequency of the mode of vibration.
When infrared radiation passes through a sensing chamber that contains a measurable gas, only those wavelengths that match the vibration modes of the chemical bonds in the molecules of gas are absorbed.The rest of the light is transmitted through the chamber without hindrance. The instrument measures the amount of light that is absorbed by the molecules in the sensing chamber. The greater the concentration of measurable gas, the greater the reduction in the amount of light that reaches the active detector when compared to the reference signal.
It is the chemical bonds in the molecules being measured that actually absorb the infrared light. Since larger molecules have more chemical bonds holding the atoms in the molecule together, they provide more opportunities for infrared radiation to be absorbed. Thus, NDIR sensors are actually more sensitive, not less sensitive, to larger combustible gas molecules like hexane, octane, and nonane.
A primary benefit of IR LEL sensors is lower power consumption than catalytic LEL sensors. Another benefit is that IR LEL sensors do not require the presence of oxygen in order to detect gas, and can be used in oxygen deficient or inerted atmospheres. Additionally, IR LEL sensors do not include catalysts or materials that can be damaged by exposure to silicones or other catalytic LEL sensor poisons.
IR LEL sensors are excellent for the detection of common combustible gases like methane and propane. However, IR sensors cannot measure a gas unless the bonds in the molecules absorb IR at the measurement wavelengths.
Hydrogen does not absorb infrared light, and IR LEL sensors cannot be used for measurement of hydrogen (H2). In applications where H2 may be potentially present, the instrument should be equipped with a type of sensor designed to respond to H2, such as a pellistor LEL sensor or an electrochemical sensor capable of measuring H2 in the desired range.
IR LEL sensors used in portable CS instruments are not usually designed to detect acetylene. Depending on the manufacturer, they may or may not be able to detect benzene or other “unsaturated” volatile organic chemical (VOC) vapors. It is important to verify that the IR LEL sensor is able to detect the gas(es) of interest before use.
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Russian metal big Severstal has introduced it would make investments RUB6.7bn ($100mn) in IT and digital initiatives this 12 months, up 7% from 2019, reviews East-West Digital Information (EWDN).
The group’s initiatives for 2020 span “new options for managing materials flows and optimising the standard of completed merchandise” to constructing “new technological networks to enhance the standard of information transmission [and address legal requirements].” The group may even proceed growing its ERP enterprise administration techniques in addition to its on-line retailer.
When it comes to digitalisation, Severstal will “proceed to develop and implement clever options [to] detect and predict future product defects, difficulty suggestions on the manufacturing course of, and enhance manufacturing volumes.” Synthetic intelligence shall be used to automate the associated management processes. For example, Severstal cites the usage of a neural community to “recognise sure defects on metallic sheets.” The system was launched final 12 months in one of many cross-cutting items of a metallic ending store within the Cherepovets metallurgical plant.
Amongst different digital options, the group is utilizing a mathematical mannequin to automate the center part of a steady pickling unit.
In response to Severstal CFO Alexey Kulichenko, the group has “doubled [its] funding in IT and digitalisation over the previous three years,” which has supplied “a major constructive financial affect.”
Investments in Severstal’s innovation actions have a world dimension. Simply weeks in the past, the group took half in an fairness funding spherical for Dutch firm Airborne, a world chief in digital automation platforms for the manufacturing of composite components and merchandise to automate superior composites manufacturing.
“Working along with Severstal’s technical improvement and high quality division, Airborne will look at the potential of built-in options primarily based on composites and metal, and Severstal will provide its shoppers the chance to check these built-in options,” the corporate defined.
Final 12 months Severstal introduced the launch of an open innovation portal accessible in each Russian and English. The positioning options Severstal’s present initiatives for co-operating with startups, modern groups and business specialists from internationally. These embrace the Severstal tech park, a wide range of technological and R&D challenges and the Metal Tech startup accelerator.
A minimum of 200 Russian startups utilized for this acceleration course of final 12 months. Because of this, the group says it’s co-operating with 9 of them. An Open Day shall be held on March 11 in Skolkovo, the worldwide tech hub being accomplished on the outskirts of Moscow. Severstal additionally launched two internationally-oriented funding autos: Severstal Digital Companies and Severstal Ventures. Among the many latter’s portfolio of firms is a US firm known as Modumetal, which claims it’s “reinventing metals to dramatically outperform conventional steels and industrial alloys.”


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The regional conference, held in Montenegro under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Women and the Council of Europe (12-13 December 2016), brought together a wide spectrum of partners in the region – from governments and parliaments to civil society – to identify concrete common challenges to the empowerment of women and gender equality that can be addressed through regional cooperation.
Participants in a regional conference on advancing gender equality in the countries of the Western Balkans* and Turkey have agreed on the need to intensify cooperation to increase women’s presence and influence in decision-making and end all forms of violence against women.
In addition, the conference sought to stimulate joint action and peer support to ensure that national standards on gender equality are aligned with targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and those of the European Union (EU).
Participants emphasized the need to strengthen institutions that safeguard women’s rights and create supporting structures for the enforcement of EU standards on gender equality and the implementation of international legal instruments, such as the Istanbul Convention on combating violence against women.
For many years, UNDP, UN Women and the Council of Europe, in collaboration with their partners, have supported the implementation of gender equality standards and mechanisms in the Western Balkans. But the region is still facing obstacles on multiple fronts.
“Gender equality is a matter of human rights. It is a matter of sustainable development. And it is also a matter of common sense,” said Cihan Sultanoğlu, Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
“To achieve significant progress in gender equality in political representation and end violence against women and girls, we need concerted actions by governments, parliaments and civil society working together to bring about real change,” she added.
The conference is expected to galvanize collaborative actions across the region through concrete measures and activities for joint capacity development, learning and peer support.
*Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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Below you can find conference supporting documents : Concept note, Agenda and Academy Play background note and Speaker's Power Point Presentations.

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Your Mozzarella & Ricotta DIY Cheese Kit includes these carefully selected and tested supplies: -Instruction/recipe handbook and unlimited email support -Fine-mesh , 100% cotton cheesecloth (also known as butter muslin) -Glass dairy thermometer (alcohol, not mercury) -Gluten-free, non-GMO vegetarian rennet tablets -Gluten-free, non-GMO citric acid - Pure, non-iodized flake salt The ingredients allow you to make at least eight batches of cheese.
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Let’s get this out of the way up front: Thou are a heavy fucking band. Thou are one of the heaviest fucking bands I have ever heard. In fact, Thou are such a heavy fucking band that you may find yourself with your ears blown off if you’re foolish with your headphones.
Thou are a (primarily) sludge metal band from Louisiana that blend doom and post metal elements and at times could even be labelled blackened sludge. The result is an intense, forceful, small-town-levelling sound that most bands could only dream of achieving.
Through four studio albums, they have firmly established themselves as an intimidating force and gained enormous respect and admiration from fellow musicians.
This admiration has extended to numerous collaborative live performances with artists from different styles – demonstrating a malleability and willingness to adapt to other genres while still managing to inject their now trademark sound. This collaborative nature has also grown into some magnificent studio recordings (more on that tomorrow…).
Further on their adaptability as a band, Thou have released entire albums of covers (such as Nirvana and Black Sabbath), managing to imbue each song with their own sound while also paying respect to the source material.
Thou are one of the most prolific and adaptive extreme metal bands working today. A (thus far) incredible career consisting of powerful original material, masterful covers, and an exceptional talent for collaboration makes them one of the most exciting metal bands I’ve ever heard.


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What is Usain Bolt’s Net Worth in 2024?
Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter known as the fastest man in the world, has achieved remarkable success both on and off the track. As of 2024, Usain Bolt’s net worth is estimated to be around $100 million. Throughout his career, he has secured numerous lucrative endorsements and sponsorships, which have significantly contributed to his wealth. Let’s delve deeper into the life and achievements of this legendary athlete.
Early Life of Usain Bolt
Born on August 21, 1986, in Sherwood Content, a small town in Jamaica, Usain St. Leo Bolt showed early signs of his incredible athletic abilities. Growing up, Bolt had a passion for cricket and football, but it was his speed on the track that truly set him apart. At the age of twelve, he won his first major race, the 200-meter dash, at the annual Jamaican high school championships.
Professional Athletics Career of Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt’s professional athletics career took off when he participated in the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where he won a silver medal in the 200-meter race. In 2004, he became the youngest Olympic competitor for Jamaica, competing in the Athens Olympics at the age of seventeen. However, it was in the 2008 Beijing Olympics that Bolt captured the world’s attention.
During the 2008 Olympics, Bolt shattered both the 100-meter and 200-meter world records, setting a new standard for sprinting. His lightning-fast speed and charismatic personality made him a global sensation. Bolt went on to dominate the track, winning a total of eight Olympic gold medals and numerous World Championships titles.
Outside of his athletic career, Usain Bolt has maintained a relatively private personal life. He is known for his outgoing and jovial personality, often entertaining the crowd with his famous “lightning bolt” pose. Bolt is a proud father to a daughter named Olympia, born in 2020, with his long-time girlfriend, Kasi Bennett.
In addition to his sporting achievements, Usain Bolt has ventured into entrepreneurship. He has launched his own clothing line, Bolt Speedwear, which offers a range of athletic apparel and accessories. Bolt’s brand reflects his unique style and passion for sports.
Usain Bolt’s remarkable speed is evident in his record-breaking performances. His world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter races stand at 9.58 seconds and 19.19 seconds, respectively. These records have remained unbroken for over a decade, solidifying his status as one of the greatest athletes of all time.
How has Usain Bolt Spent His Wealth?
With a net worth of $100 million, Usain Bolt has made strategic investments and indulged in a luxurious lifestyle. He owns several properties, including a mansion in Jamaica and a house in the upscale London neighborhood of Enfield. Bolt is an avid car enthusiast and has a collection that includes high-end vehicles such as the Ferrari 458 Italia and the BMW i8.
Bolt has also established the Usain Bolt Foundation, which focuses on improving the lives of children in Jamaica and promoting education and cultural development. Additionally, he has supported various charitable causes and donated to organizations such as UNICEF and the Special Olympics.
Did Usain Bolt Have any Crypto Investments?
As of now, there is no concrete information available regarding Usain Bolt’s involvement in cryptocurrency investments. While many athletes and celebrities have dabbled in the crypto market, it is unclear if Bolt has actively participated in this realm.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Usain Bolt’s fastest recorded speed?
Usain Bolt’s fastest recorded speed is 27.8 miles per hour (44.7 kilometers per hour) during the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
Has Usain Bolt ever been disqualified from a race?
No, Usain Bolt has never been disqualified from a race throughout his professional career.
What is Usain Bolt’s height and weight?
Usain Bolt stands at 6 feet 5 inches (1.95 meters) tall and weighs approximately 207 pounds (94 kilograms).
How many world records has Usain Bolt broken?
Usain Bolt has broken a total of three world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter races.
Is Usain Bolt retired from professional athletics?
Yes, Usain Bolt announced his retirement from professional athletics after the 2017 World Championships in London.
Usain Bolt’s net worth in 2024 stands at an impressive $100 million, which he has earned through his successful athletics career and various endorsements. From his early beginnings in Jamaica to his record-breaking performances on the world stage, Bolt has left an indelible mark on the world of sports. Beyond his sporting achievements, Bolt has pursued entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and a fulfilling personal life. His legacy as the fastest man in the world will continue to inspire generations to come.
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MTA Plan for Pride Weekend is a Dangerous Farce
Reclaim Pride demands Governor Cuomo pressure MTA to avert disaster as large crowds expected for Stonewall anniversary
New York, NY - Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC)—organizers of the Queer Liberation March and Rally scheduled for Sunday, June 30—today condemned the MTA’s refusal to provide full weekday schedule service on subways and buses throughout New York City for Pride weekend, June 29th and 30th. "Politicians brag about the extra millions of people expected for Pride on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, but the MTA is condemning those crowds to chaos, confusion and dangerous conditions as passengers fight for a place on trains and buses that will not be able to handle the overload,” said RPC organizer Eric Sawyer.
Reclaim Pride demands that the MTA run expanded bus and subway service on Pride weekend (June 29-30), on at least a full weekday schedule (as opposed to the more limited weekend schedule), if not more often. And:
Open the turnstiles at departure points in the vicinity of Pride events for ease of exit from busy stations
Maintain all elevator and other mobility access at all stations on Pride weekend
Add extra staff at MTA stations near the March locations to assist with directions and assistance, especially to those with disabilities
Provide free access for all students who want to attend Pride events, and for all low income people to MTA services.
“Imagine millions of additional subway riders crowding onto subway platforms as they wait 10 or more minutes between trains, then trying to squeeze into smaller weekend trains, with fewer train cars, while competing with New Yorkers for a spot on the train," said Andy Ratto, of the Reclaim Pride Coalition. “Governor Cuomo has an urgent moral imperative to expand subway and bus capacity during Pride weekend to accommodate massive crowds, for the safety of all New Yorkers,” Ratto added.
The Queer Liberation March Accessibility and Inclusion Committee expressed concern for accessibility for all people regardless of mobility, sight, hearing issues, or other forms of disability. “New York City's Public transportation system is already difficult to access for people with disabilities. Offering fewer trains and buses during a weekend that is expected to bring a very large number of people into Manhattan will cause overcrowding and longer wait times in the sweltering summer heat; such conditions are especially harmful to people living with disabilities and with chronic conditions,” added Gabriel San Emeterio. The Queer Liberation March has a commitment to Disability Justice, and we oppose any plan from the MTA that would marginalize the disability community.
Concerned New Yorkers should contact Governor Cuomo and demand the MTA put full weekday service in place for all of Pride Weekend. The Governor’s office phone number is 518-474-8390 and emails can be sent via https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form.


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Carole King’s famed 1973 Central Park concert is the subject of a new documentary that will be streamed for the first time ever later this month, and now fans are getting their first taste of what to expect.
King has released a clip of her performance of the Tapestry track “Home Again” at the homecoming show, which took place May 26, 1973, at the Great Lawn in NYC’s Central Park. It was the first concert ever held on the Great Lawn.
Home Again: Carole King Live In Central Park is set to start streaming exclusively on The Coda Collection, via Amazon Prime, on February 9, which is also Carole’s 81st birthday. The following day the live album, Home Again, will be released digitally.
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