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FINALLY CHINA MANUFACTURES A FULL BALLPOINT PEN

How it took all the might of Chinese national power to master the humble ballpoint.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18/finally-china-manufactures-a-ballpoint-pen-all-by-itself/

Finally, China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself As Chinese President Xi Jinping touts globalization at Davos, a more complicated picture is drawn at home.

"The Social Dilemma" (Netflix) - I never knew that AI has taken over already!! I admit that I too have taken the poison.. My thinking has undergone a change few months ago due to Twitter & FB.. But thanks to this Lockdown, I came out of this.. I became d person, who I was before I drank this fake media poison in my mind.. Will advice all to watch this Netflix original.. I will make it work that my kid does not have social media presence till she reaches 16.. Their is still time for Developing countries like India, to stop its presence, which has already ruined Developed countries (European, USA).. I argue all my friends & family members to restrict d usage of social media.. This are my personal views. Few small things can be done such as -

* Uninstall apps which r wasting ur time
* Turn of notifications (very important)
* Change your search engine from google to "Duck Duck Go" or "Qwant" as they does not store search history
* Never accept a video recommend to you on Youtube. Always chose. That's another way to fight.
* There's tons of chrome extension that remove recommendation.
* Before u share, fact-check, consider the source, do d extra search.
* You vote with your clicks. So use it cautiously.

FB, Google & Twitter are now a basic part of our life. They can never be deleted from our life. But this giants can certainly bring Reforms in their system, which we all should work on together..

humanetech.com

Center for Humane Technology Millions of people around the world — from around the dinner table to the halls of government — are demanding change.

In one Indian state, Covid-19 has led to a spike in the number of child marriages -

This year, child marriages appear to be on the rise in Odisha, a state which has done well to bring down their numbers in the past two decades.
The months-long lockdown starting March 25 to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic ended up devastating the livelihoods and income of the poor. The economy has not recovered to the pre-pandemic levels even after the lockdown was lifted. Besides economic hardship, the poor have been left feeling socially and psychologically vulnerable, which seems to have triggered a rush to get their children below 18, especially girls, married, say activists in Odisha.
At least in the first four months after lockdown, many marriages went off our radar as preventing child marriage slid down our priority list,” said an anganwadi worker in Ganjam, one of the districts worst affected by Covid-19, requesting anonymity.

According to a UNICEF report in 2017, around 27% of the girls under the age of 18—over 15 lakh—became child brides in India, which is the highest in the world. Just four states—Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal—are responsible for nearly half the child marriages in the country, several reports suggest.

Odisha’s position among the states is somewhat in the middle. The first round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 1992-93 found 45.5% of women aged 20-24 in Odisha were married before the age of 18. Two decades later, this had dropped to 21.3% in the fourth round of NFHS conducted in 2015-16. In contrast, the child marriage rate in West Bengal was 40.7%, and in Bihar, it was 39.1%.
However, eight districts of Odisha—mostly inhibited by Adivasis and Dalits—have an alarmingly high percentage of child marriage cases comparable to the worst-performing states. According to NFHS-4, Malkangiri district had the highest child marriage percentage of 39.9%, followed by Nabarangpur (37.9%), Mayurbhanj (35%), Koraput (34.7%), Rayagada (34.4%), Nayagarh (31.3%), Ganjam (29.8%), and Keonjhar (28.1%).
To prevent child marriages, said Dandapat, the government would need to come up with a holistic strategy. Not only would children, especially girls, have to be engaged in educational and vocational activities, the government would also have to focus on creating livelihood opportunities for the poor to restore some equilibrium in their lives.
Source - https://qz.com/india/1933734/covid-19-has-led-to-a-spike-in-child-marriages-in-indias-odisha/

You might think you’ve exhausted everything there is to watch on Netflix.
The chances are, though, that there are probably a large quantity of films and TV shows you’ve never come across while searching through the streaming service’s extensive library. It turns out there are actually thousands of codes that will make searching through Netflix much easier for you.
It is worth noting that this only works on the website, and won’t be available on phones, NOW TV boxes or the Amazon Firestick.
The kind people over at ogres-crypt have compiled the comprehensive list of genres, but you can also find a wide selection below.

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Source - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/netflix-secret-codes-movies-tv-shows-b1723603.html

The huge list of secret Netflix codes that unlock hidden films and TV shows There are loads of titles you didn’t know were on the streaming service

The peculiar rise of protein inflation -

In October, retail prices of meat, fish and egg grew at 19-22% year-on-year. At 18% higher prices, pulses too were significantly expensive compared to last year. The only solace is that consumers were spared a spike in retail prices of milk and milk products, primarily because the pandemic did not impact the dairy supply chain (though farmers incurred heavy losses due to lower procurement and a fall in consumption as hotels, restaurants and catering came to a grinding halt).
Currently poultry meat is retailing at over ₹200 per kg while eggs are selling between ₹7-10 per piece, a steep rise from last year.
High prices of eggs, in particular, also threaten to worsen the nutritional standards of poorer households. Cereals constitute about 47% of the average Indian diet and 70% of the calorie consumed by the poorest rural households—indicating an excess consumption of cheap carbohydrates and not enough of proteins, fruits and vegetables, found a June 2020 study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
A 10,000 bird broiler unit (for meat) needs an investment of about ₹10 lakh and it takes about 45 days to ready the birds for consumption. For a 30,000-bird layer firm, one needs to invest about ₹1.5 crore. “It is a risky venture. The pandemic wiped out these investments (back in 2016 the industry received a blow due to demonetization) and many farmers were forced to sell their land," said Ahlawat, the farmer leader from Haryana.
The current steep prices of items comprising the retail food basket—be it eggs, pulses or vegetables—is evidently taking a toll on millions of households. And the pandemic could be worsening India’s nutritional standards.
Even before the pandemic hit, a leaked government survey showed a sharp 9% fall in rural consumption, including on staples, between 2011-12 and 2017-18. A more recent survey by ActionAid India found that about a fifth of the surveyed families did not have enough food for two meals a day.
Source - https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-peculiar-rise-of-protein-inflation-11606053333700.html

Covid Causing A Global Mental Health Crisis, Warns Red Cross -

As 2020 drags on and the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, the number of people reporting mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and stress, has skyrocketed. From maintaining routines to stopping negative self-talk, Dr. Sell shares some of these coping mechanisms with us.
One: Focus on the things you can control.
Focusing on the things in your life that you can control. For instance, we can control going for a walk, or eating healthy foods— but we cannot control what other people do or say.
Two: Adjust your inner dialogue with positive self-talk.
Often, it takes on the stance of fear or doom. Instead, catch yourself when your dialogue becomes fearful or negative and say, “STOP” and then say an easy phrase, song lyric or something else that stops the negative dialogue. You can take it a step further and just say, “I’m ok.” If you begin to do this you will eventually create a new neuropathway which is the key to better self talk.
Three: Use your senses in a new way.
Our senses are important and often we leave them to passively happen, like when we smell something good or bad.So, when you are stressed out or even depressed grab an essential oil, something like orange or peppermint and take a big inhale right out of the bottle. It will instantly put a smile on your face and uplift your mood in a positive way. Combine that with the words, “I’m ok” and now you are creating a partnership between a smell and a positive mantra.
Four: Maintain routines.
Our body is used to patterns and structure. We thrive on consistency, yet the pandemic has made so many things in our lives inconsistent— parents working from home, kids doing school online. There is so much chaos around schedules that our brain is likely to trip into a fight or flight response when the next change occurs. It is important to create structure around your work day and school day. Maintaining the same sleep wake pattern by going to bed and waking up at the same time each day. “Don’t let the days get w***y nilly or it might send your emotions into a state of chaos again.”
Five: Limit your screen time.
Use text books, worksheets or printed materials more frequently and make sure you shut down your computers when you are finished working or participating in school activities. In other words, don’t go from work to social media without a lengthy break. Set a limit on screen time for the day and make sure you shut down screens at least 2 hours before bed. Screen time interferes with serotonin production and therefore melatonin production which will negatively affect your sleep.
Six: Connect.
Loneliness and isolation have become problematic during the pandemic. If you find yourself feeling lonely or isolating from friends or family, it is time to take action. Thankfully there are many ways to connect via live chats while watching a show on TV or having face time calls with family and friends.
However, if your loneliness moves to despair, reach out for professional help immediately.
(https://www.forbes.com/sites/geekgirlrising/2020/10/10/6-strategies-for-beating-covid-anxiety-depression/ )

Covid Causing A Global Mental Health Crisis, Warns Red Cross World Mental Health Day: 5 Tips for Coping with Covid Anxiety, Depression As 2020 drags on and the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, the number of people reporting mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and stress, has skyrocketed.

'One day everyone will use China's digital currency' -

A payment system created by the Chinese state and known as Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). It's really a digital version of China's official currency, the yuan. "DCEP will be successful because there are a lot of Chinese people living outside of China - there are 39 million Chinese living outside of the country.
China plans to launch DCEP later this year. But so far, the People's Bank of China has not given an exact date for the nationwide launch.China began testing the digital currency earlier this year in selected cities. When rolled out it will allow users to link downloaded electronic wallets to their bank cards, make transactions and transfer money.
"It's hard to predict the timeline but the People's Bank of China is under a lot of pressure to accelerate the development because they do not want to be in a world where Libra (Facebook's digital currency) becomes the global currency, which they think is worse than the current global financial system controlled by the US," says Linghao Bao, an analyst from Beijing-based Trivium. "The Chinese government believes that if some other countries can also use the Chinese currency it can break the United States' monetary sovereignty.
Although Facebook has scaled back its plans for Libra, it was still a concern for China. The social media giant plans to roll out an e-wallet known as Novi later this year. It will work as a standalone app but can also be available on Messenger and WhatsApp.
China's digital payment systems are widely seen as the most advanced in the world. The country is on the verge of becoming a cashless society. In 2019, four out of every five payments in China were made through either Tencent's WeChat Pay or Alibaba's Alipay.
"America is the leader of the global financial system. But they don't have the motivation like China to make the change [to a digital currency]," says Bitfool. "China wants to share that power. But for America, Libra is just a backup plan.
However, DCEP will be centralised and state-run, unlike Bitcoin or Ethereum which are free of state control. "DCEP is the antithesis of Bitcoin. The ultimate goal of a cryptocurrency is the separation of money and state," says Stewart Mackenzie, a cryptocurrency expert based in Hong Kong. "It's easy for them to say that it's like Bitcoin when it's worlds apart."
"DCEP is built on an idea of centralised control. The value of Bitcoin lies in its decentralisation nature and its isolation from the financial system,"
(https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54261382)

Anil Ambani told a UK Court that he sold his wife's jewellery to pay his legal fees and owns nothing, just one small car! This is the guy to whom Modi gave the Rafale offset contract worth 30,000 crores!
(Prashant Bhushan- Public Interest Lawyer and Activist)

Quick question; will the government of India have 80,000 crores available, over the next one year? Because that's what Ministry of Health, India needs, to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in India. This is the next concerning challenge we need to tackle.
(Adar Poonawalla - CEO and Owner, Serum Institute of India, Chairman)

An alarming economic situation -
India is facing the worst economic crisis since 1991 and fourth since Independence. This is the first GDP contraction of India in more than 40 years and the steepest shrink in G20 countries. Everyone was expecting the GDP to shrink 5-10 per cent even though the SBI had expected a 16.5 per cent fall, and the NCAER, 26 per cent. The full-year GDP could perform worse as the Covid cases are yet to peak. The RBI is now silent on the GDP projection.
Covid-19 has impacted global growth too. The WTO notesworld trade will fall between 13-32 per cent in 2020. UNCTAD is expecting a 27-per cent decline in the value of international trade in goods in Q2 2020. IMF projects a 4.2-per cent fall in global growth. The World Bank and OECD are estimating that the global fall will be 5.2 per cent and 6.0 per cent, respectively.
Data reveal that construction sector took the steepest hit, a 50.3-per cent shrink, followed by trade, hotels and transport — 47 per cent; manufacturing, 39.3 per cent, and mining at 23.8 per cent. These sectors create maximum new jobs in the country. The contraction in these sectors would raise unemployment. The agriculture sector grew by 3.4 per cent in terms of gross value added. But a matter of concern is also there. An SBI study shows the share of rural loss in the overall GDP of eight States is significantly large as compared to the urban sector. Most of these States produce cereals, pulses and edible oils.
Revenues are also declining. The total net direct tax collections dipped 26.3 per cent at ₹1.89 trillion against ₹2.56 trillion a year ago. GST revenue collection is also declining. Neither the budgeted target of disinvestment of ₹2.10 lakh crore nor the GST revenues of ₹6.90 lakh crore for FY21 is looking to be achieved. The average collection of GST for the first four months for FY21 is only ₹68,165 crore, against an unofficial monthly target of ₹100,000 crore.
The government needs to take corrective measures. It must work to restore confidence among bankers, businesses, and international organisations. A robust fiscal plan to revive the economy must be introduced. Former PM Manmohan Singh has already suggested means to revive the economy. It is the time to resolve the problems of fear, uncertainty and insecurity felt by people, businesses and institutions. The finance minister had already announced a ₹20-lakh crore stimulus package. But new spending was not more than 2 per cent of GDP. The government must wake-up and act swiftly to save the economy.
(https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/an-alarming-economic-situation-for-india/article32697446.ece/amp/?__twitter_impression=true)

More listeners tune in to radio but advertisers switch off -
Advertising on radio channels hit rock bottom in the three months to June with revenues falling 80-87%, year-on-year. While radio did experience a surge in listenership during the intense lockdown months — up nearly 30% according to an industry body — monetising this has been a challenge.

Even before the pandemic, the industry was in trouble with revenues down 7.5% in 2019 to Rs 3,110 crore, according to EY. While they were expected to rise to Rs 3,280 crore in 2020, that seems unlikely now; experts expect a contraction of 30-40%.
“Radio is not seeing the same recovery rates as mediums like television or print. “During January-March 2020, approximately 260 categories advertised on radio. This dropped to about 150 during April-June,”.
A majority of radio advertising revenue comes from categories like real estate, retail, education, jewellery and events. The spends from these categories are barely lukewarm as of September.
FM radio channel Radio Mirchi earned revenue of `37 crore during the quarter ended June , a 72% drop over Q1 FY20. Radio City earned Rs 14 crore in the April-June quarter, close to 80% less than its earnings in Q1 FY20.
(https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/highs-and-lows-more-listeners-tune-in-to-radio-but-advertisers-switch-off/2082416/)

Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis -

A mid-career crisis can happen to anyone. It can hit even those who objectively have the most fulfilling jobs. When it does, it inflicts pain on the individual suffering it and causes productivity losses for employers. Yet, the phenomenon remains stigmatized and under-researched, leaving crucial questions unanswered.
Mid-career crises are, in fact, a widespread regularity, rather than the misfortune of a few individuals. But here’s the good news: In the second half of people’s working lives, job satisfaction increases again, in many cases reaching even higher levels than earlier in the career — essentially forming a U-shaped curve.
On average, life satisfaction is high when people are young, then starts to decline in the early 30s, bottoming out between the mid-40s and mid-50s before increasing again to levels as high as during young adulthood. And this U-curve occurs across the entire socio-economic spectrum, hitting senior-level executives as well as blue-collar workers and stay-at-home parents. It affects childless couples as well as single people or parents of four. In short, a mid-career crisis does not discriminate.
Young people, it turns out, are overly optimistic, expecting significant increases in life satisfaction, rather than anticipating the slide down the U-curve. Young adults typically believe that they’ll “beat the average” — that they’ll be the lucky ones who end up with a top job, a happy marriage, and healthy children. As we age, things often don’t turn out as nicely as we planned. We may not climb up the career ladder as quickly as we wished. Or we do, only to find that prestige and a high income are not as satisfying as we expected them to be. At the same time, high expectations about the future adjust downwards. Midlife essentially becomes a time of double misery, made up of disappointments and evaporating aspirations. Paradoxically, those who objectively have the least reason to complain (e.g. if they have a desirable job) often suffer most. They feel ungrateful and disappointed with themselves particularly because their discontent seems so unjustified – which creates a potentially vicious circle.
But there is more we can do in the face of mid-career malaise:

At the individual level, acknowledging mid-career dissatisfaction as a normal and temporary stage in your work life provides a light at the end of the tunnel when you feel like there’s no hope. Moreover, hearing that it’s OK to feel regret from unmet aspirations helps you break the vicious circle of disappointment about feeling discontent.
At the firm level, HR could create mid-career mentoring programs. Mentoring is usually directed at early career stages and continues only informally through the rest of the career. My findings suggest that those in a mid-career low can learn from their older colleagues who already went through the valley and have emerged feeling less regret, having adapted to life’s circumstances. A corporate culture that openly addresses mid-career discontent could support employees in this reorientation process, helping them explore new opportunities — within the firm.
While a mid-career crisis can be a painful time in life, it can also be an opportunity to reflect and to reevaluate personal strengths and weaknesses.
(https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-so-many-of-us-experience-a-midlife-crisis)

Also read this blog about - What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age
(https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis/382235/)

The Sharmas of Arunachal Pradesh -
The family business has clocked a turnover of ₹2,000 crore in fiscal 2020. Three-fourths of it came from power trading, and the rest from liquor. Karan has made his company among the top five in power trading in India, with offices in Gurugram, Noida, Guwahati and Bengaluru, and now plans to set up ferrosilicon steel units. His sister has expanded the liquor retail business over the last few years, tied up with Allied Blenders Distilleries to produce Officers Choice Blue Whiskey from October 2018, launched vodka brand Romane, and will soon roll out wine brand Rubiru.
Sharma’s vast distribution footprint is what his daughter realised is their biggest asset. But what was needed most was to cement the tie-ups and expand production. In December, the Sharmas will commission their new brewery with an installed capacity to produce 6 million cases per annum, and has entered into an exclusive contract with Kingfisher to produce Kingfisher Ultra, Kingfisher Strong and Kingfisher Lager. “Meenakshi saw the potential in focusing on her own brand,” he says. She tied up with a Russian master blender Olga Morozova and launched Romane last December.
The challenge, though, is daunting. Building a vodka brand and scaling it pan-India is not going to be easy. Secondly, having a manufacturing unit in Arunachal Pradesh and catering to markets across the country won’t make sound business sense in terms of pricing.
For Karan, the challenge would be to keep on aggressively expanding across the country. A meagre bottom line would also be something that the second generation would like to work on. For the year ended 2018, on operating revenue of ₹1,035 crore, Arunachal Pradesh Power Corporation had a profit after tax of ₹5.8 crore, according to an ICRA report, underlining the low-margin nature of the power trading business.
(https://www.forbesindia.com/article/family-business/liquor-and-power-can-the-sharmas-of-arunachal-pradesh-go-national/62649/1)

Liquor And Power: Can The Sharmas Of Arunachal Pradesh Go National? | Forbes India The Sharmas have built a sizeable business on the back of liquor retail andpower trading in India's north-easternmost state of Arunachal Pradesh. Now comes the challenge to scale it across India