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DEM offers tips to prevent conflicts with coyotes – Valley Breeze

5/18/2020

PROVIDENCE DEM has announced that Rhode Islands coyotes are on the move again. Coyotes are intelligent, adaptable, and willing to eat almost any available food whether natural, including small animals, birds, insects, and fruits; scavenged roadkill; or easily obtainable human-provided sources such as garbage, pet food, birdseed, and compost.

DEM officials say that typically, adult male and female coyotes breed in late winter and the female gives birth to a litter of four to eight pups in April. Consisting of the adult pair and the pups, this social unit will be maintained until the pups become yearlings and disperse or get booted out by the parents. Noisy, hungry pups must be fed. That means adult coyotes will be seen and heard foraging and hunting for food in rural, suburban, and even urban Rhode Island neighborhoods over the next several months. As daylight hours increase, adult coyotes may spend more time actively foraging during daytime than they would at other times of the year. DEM advises Rhode Islanders that the best way to minimize interactions and conflicts with coyotes is reducing food sources available to them, either intentionally or unintentionally around our homes and neighborhoods. Coyotes that rely on natural food sources remain wild and wary of humans. Feeding coyotes or any wild animal makes them less fearful of people and they can become casual or even bold when encountering people.

If you see coyotes that are bold and brazen, its often directly related to intentional feeding or easy and reliably available food sources associated with human activities, said DEM wildlife biologist Charles Brown. Intentionally feeding wild animals habituates them, causes them to lose their inherent fear of humans, and may lead to brazen behavior. It also leads to a whole series of problems, including frequenting areas close to homes and preying on domestic animals such as chickens, cats, and small dogs.

Coyotes play an important ecological role by controlling populations of rodents, resident geese, and in some cases white-tailed deer, Brown said. Shy and elusive by nature, most coyotes usually make every attempt to avoid interactions with people. Coyote attacks on people are rare. On the other hand, more than 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year in the United States, over half of dog bite injuries occur at home with dogs that are familiar to us, and over 800,000 receive medical attention for dog bites, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

How to cut down on coyote conflicts:Remove attractants from your yard. This means removing all food and water sources like pet food dishes and birdfeeders and keeping barbecue grills clean of grease. Dont put meat or sweet food scraps in your compost pile, and keep compost in secure, vented containers. Put your trash in containers with secure lids and store them in sheds and garages away from doors if possible. Put garbage for pickup outside on the morning of collection, not the night before. If you have fruit trees, pick up fallen fruit.

Cut back brushy edges and dense weeds from around your yard and structures like sheds. These areas provide cover for coyotes and their prey.

Chase coyotes off your property. Keep coyotes wild by hazing them, which means doing things to scare them or chase them away. According to the website CoyoteSmarts.org , the following actions are effective hazing tactics:- Be as big and loud as possible. Do not run or turn your back.- Wave your arms, clap your hands, and shout in an authoritative voice.- Make noise by banging pots and pans or using an air horn or whistle. The sounds also can alert the neighbors.- Throw small stones, sticks, tennis balls, or anything else you can lay your hands on. Remember: the intent is to scare and not to injure.- Shake or throw a coyote shaker a soda can filled with nuts and bolts, pennies, or pebbles and sealed with duct tape.

Protecting pets. Keep pets, particularly cats, indoors. Coyotes dont distinguish between domestic and wild animals and are likely to view cats and small dogs as potential food and larger dogs as competition. For the safety of your pets, always keep them leashed when outdoors and feed them indoors. Outdoor feeding can attract many wild animals. Do not leave small dogs outside unattended, especially at night.

When confronted by a coyote. Stand up and look big. Wave your arms. Yell loudly. Dont lose your head. Keeping an assertive posture and making eye contact will convey a message of authority that coyotes will typically respect. Maintain eye contact. If the coyote does not retreat, walk slowly away toward the house. Do not turn your back on the animal.

Report aggressive behavior. Coyotes that exhibit bold or aggressive behavior towards humans should be treated with caution and reported to authorities. Also, animals that appear or act aggressively or are noticeably sick should be reported to the DEM Division of Law Enforcement (401-222-3070) or to your local animal control officer. Also, any contact between a coyote and a dog or other domestic animal should be immediately reported to your veterinarian and animal control officer.

Never feed coyotes. Feeding coyotes or other wild animals causes behavioral changes that will almost certainly cause unintended problems for neighbors and the animals that were meant to benefit. Report neighbors that are feeding coyotes to the DEM Division of Law Enforcement (401-222-3070) or to your local animal control officer.

Adult female coyotes typically weigh 33-40 pounds, while males typically weigh 34-47 pounds. They often look heavier because of their thick fur. The first appearance of coyotes in Rhode Island occurred in the mid-1960s, part of a range expansion into the eastern United States that began at the end of the 19th century. Coyotes can currently be found in all Rhode Island communities except New Shoreham. They may hunt and travel alone or sometimes will travel as a group, usually an adult pair with their offspring from the most recent litter. In our area, coyotes are mostly nocturnal, mainly to avoid interactions with people. They remain active year-round and do not hibernate. Coyote pairs are territorial and will exclude other coyotes from their established territory.

Coyotes are now well established as part of our native fauna and unless you live on Block Island, you can expect that coyotes occur in your town or neighborhood and at some point, you may actually see one in your yard, on the bike path, or crossing a farm field, said DEM wildlife biologist Charles Brown. Not all coyotes exhibit bad traits and those that do have likely been encouraged or conditioned to behave that way because of human behavior.

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The Key to Building a Successful Remote Organization? Data. – Harvard Business Review

The Covid-19 crisis forced many businesses to suddenly adapt to having an entirely remote workforce. And once we all got past the novel challenges of family interruptions, #funnycatvideos, and virtual etiquette, a more complex problem raised its head: How do you work together when you are, in fact, alone?

For a virtual organization to function, geographically dispersed teams need the ability to communicate effectively. But thats only half the story. Decision-making has to be delegated and decentralized as well and that means using data to shake up your culture.

Centralized offices have one big advantage: you can get everyone in a room until they solve a problem. But when you work virtually, you have to plan every part of the decision-making process, especially when it is asynchronous. Small things that we take for granted in physical meetings such as body language, non-verbal agreement, and interpersonal connections require a different kind ofattentionwhen you work remotely. That, however, may be an advantage.

Consider a company that was born digital, like workflow automation company Zapier, which was designed to operate with virtual teams from the outset. The coronavirus crisis didnt force the company to manage a complex transformation in work style. For them, there is no such thing as remote work only work.

I spoke with Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, who is adamant that the discipline that comes with distributed decision-making can bring out the best in us. In his view, when it comes to managing people and outcomes, traditional organizations let leaders get away with too much: In traditional organizations, leaders can manage by presence you can see your folks, and you can see work getting done, he says. But when you cant see your team, when youre not sure whats happening, or you literally dont know if theyre at work or not you have to redesign how you manage your workforce from the ground up. That forces you to be a better leader and a better manager.

For many traditional organizations, sending teams home was a direct response to emergency stay at home orders not an organizational design choice. When your entire head office decamps to WFH, the hardest part to manage is not the technology or connectivity, but the culture shock.

Didier Elzinga, CEO of Culture Amp, a software firm that helps organizations track employee engagement and performance, believes that the shift to remote work will have profound implications for the organizational culture of big companies, especially when it comes to giving distributed teams autonomy to make their own decisions.

Leaders struggle to delegate when they wrongly believe that only certain people in the hierarchy can make a particular decision someone who has earned the right to do so on account of their experience or skill. Actually, he says, it is because they have the context that somebody else doesnt have. Fortunately, data is a pathway to context.

When the pandemic hit, the first thing Culture Amp did was to address the impact that the crisis was having on the speed of their decision-making. Weve created a daily situation room, he says, where we track everything thats changed overnight, internal to the business, but also in the external world.

The situation room at Culture Amp is a daily meeting with about 20 leaders where they run through a deck of the latest information related to the crisis, which is then published on an open channel on Slack. Once they gave people the data they needed to contextualize their decisions, Elzinga and his team made an exciting discovery. Leaders were more comfortable distributing authority and allowing teams to make their own informed decisions, without wasting time chasing down information and approvals. Autonomy means getting to make your own decisions, and being trusted to make your own decisions, argues Elzinga. But it also means trusting others to make decisions on your behalf, too.

When it comes to building trust, a little bit of structure goes a long way. At Zapier, distributed teams use a framework called DACI, which stands for driver, approver, consulted, andinformed. Anyone involved in a decision will play one of four roles: a person responsible for driving the work and collecting the relevant data; an approver who gives the go-ahead; consultants who can provide expert opinions; and finally the informed, who need to know about the outcome because it impacts the work that they do. Knowing decision roles upfront speeds up team interactions and avoids ambiguities that can cause delays or friction.

Transparency is critical at both of these organizations. Major decisions at Zapier are documented in a decision logcalled Async, which is an internal tool that they built.The purpose of Async is to surface important conversations that might get lost in fast-paced Slack forums. It replaces internal email and acts as a searchable archive for anyone on the team to reference old discussions and keep up with company updates. According to Foster, Slack is where the teams at Zapier talk about work, while Async is where they share work with the rest of the team.

In this respect, distributed organizations are typically ahead of more traditional ones where documentation can be sparse or buried in private email chains. In theory, explains Foster, this means we should get better at making decisions over time because everyone can benefit from the organizational decision-making muscle.

A good decision will still be wrong if it takes too long. Mars, Incorporated, makers of treats and services for humans and pets alike, was already well advanced in their plans for digital transformation before the crisis hit. However, when I spoke to Sandeep Dadlani, the companys Chief Digital Officer, he explained that the pandemic led Mars to embrace a new internal clock speed. Typically, big global consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies develop a rigid annual plan with their retailers that covers their products, promotions, and inventory. However, in this new world, with rapidly shifting consumer patterns and unpredictable events, rigidity no longer works. In week one of the coronavirus crisis, getting your groceries was not a challenge, says Dadlani. But by week six, suddenly buying groceries online had become 15% of the American market, a number that Mars was trackingto reach five years from now.

With speed now of the essence, or as they call it at Mars, delivering value at 100x,Dadlani realized that the organization needed to reduce some of the subjectivity in communications and decision-making, and encourage their newly remote teams to frame problems in a way that led to scaled-up solutions. Dadlani told me, Our supply chains are built of wonderful leaders who have known each other for many years, who pat each other on the back, and who know how things run because theyre in the factories. They watch the trucks, pick up the phone, and get calls from the retailers. They nudge their other friends and workers to push another batch out or to get another production line changed. But, as the crisis accelerated, Dadlani noticed a behavioral shift. Now that the logistics and technology teams have lost their in-location perspective of the supply chain and can only access raw data about inventory, supplies, materials, and packaging, their interactions have changed. Conversations between remote team members have become more focused and less subjective, productivity has improved, decisions have become more data-driven, and new, more probing questions are being asked: Why is inventory at this level? Can the raw materials in these factories be moved elsewhere? Can we drive a higher throughput? It was, in other words, what the digital transformation team had been trying to achieve for some time.

Organizations like ours have to pivot to identify trends, pick the right business models, fail a few times, and then succeed, he says. At Mars, we call it the Digital Engine: find the problem, solve the problem, and then scale the solution as fast as we can.

Notwithstanding the importance of agility and response time, as companies and teams become more digital, there is a corresponding need for leaders to be able to grasp the nuances and risks of data-driven thinking. At Culture Amp, Elzinga coaches his clients and employees on recognizing the limits of AI and other statistical models especially when it comes to predicting human behavior, or making sensitive hiring and firing decisions. The challenge for us as an industry and for HR in general, he says, is that we have to work not just on finding the answers, but also on data literacy.

Data literacy is a hard-won skill. It does not come easily, even to a generation fluent with apps, emojis, and hashtags. To get there, organizations need to invest in dedicated training and education. At Mars, Dadlani was shocked when an email intended for his technology team inviting them to a course on machine learning accidentally went out to thousands of employees at the firm, and much to his surprise many of those unintended recipients showed up, which changed his thinking about how ready everyone in the organization was to take on the challenges of new technology.

Foster has actively encouraged data literacy programs at Zapier, offering employees a five-part mini-course called The Golden Path to Data, which provides training on using data tools, creating queries, and interpreting results. As a further incentive to upgrade skills, requests to the data team are prioritized for people who have actually done the course.

Foster says, You dont need everyone to be an expert, but the real benefit starts to happen when every team has a data power user in it, which can help the team respond to new questions and challenges faster. And that increases the decision-making velocity thats happening inside the organization.

Data will never be a substitute for genuine social interactions or company culture, but as we build more global, distributed, and virtual organizations, what it offers is something just as important: a common language for transformation.

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Human Behavior

More people are speeding during the pandemic, but tickets are down 93% – IndyStar

Drone video above Downtown Indianapolis on Monday, March 23, 2020, shows a drastic reduction in people and traffic during the coronavirus pandemic. Indianapolis Star

Traffic is down. Speeds areup.

But speeding tickets written by State Policeare down, too. They're down more than twiceas muchas traffic volume.

The reason for the disproportionate decrease in tickets, State Police say,has to do with the reason traffic was down in the first place: safety precautions around the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Traffic declined in the weeks after Gov. Eric Holcomb's first stay-at-home order took effect at 11:59 p.m. on March 24.

The number of vehicles on the roads in the Indianapolis area March 24 through April 30 dropped 40%fromlast year, according to an IndyStar analysis of data from seven locations monitored by the Indiana Department of Transportation. The locations include two interstates, a U.S. highway, three state routes, and Binford Boulevard.

And when fewer vehicles are on a roadway, drivers are likely to drive faster. It's science.

Civil engineering professor Darcy Bullock teaches this to his undergraduate engineering students at Purdue University.

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Different scientific modelsshow this, but he said the core of it is simple: When there are fewer cars out there, people drive faster.The civil engineer said the exact reason whyis beyond his expertise. Its not good or responsible for me to speculate on human behavior, he said.

The science has become reality. Ron Galaviz, an Indiana State Police spokesperson, said speeds are up "across the board" not just in Indiana but nationwide.

Some of it is extreme. He referenced a driver Michigan State Police ticketed for going 180 mph on a 70 mph highway.

"We have seen an increase of high speeds," said Sgt. John Perrine, an Indiana State Police public information officer for the Indianapolis area.

If you sit somewhere long enough, youre bound to find somebody driving ridiculously fast," he said."But the combination of that and the lack of traffic on the road kind of opened the door for people that wanted to drive a little bit faster.

With higher speeds comes more opportunity for speeding tickets, yet that's not what happened.

The number of speeding tickets written by Indiana State Police troopers in Indianapolis and the doughnut counties March 24 through April 30 dropped by 93%fromlast year to this year, according to data from State Police. That is more than twicethe decrease in traffic volume over the same days.

The tickets include anything related to speed, which may include offenses like reckless driving.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has also written fewer speeding tickets since the governor's stay-at-home order, Chief Communications OfficerAliyaWishner said. She said city police haven't seena great increase in speeding on city streets. This may be because the increase in speed caused by less traffic volume is even more common on large multi-lane routes like interstates.

The difference in citations issued by State Policeis caused in part by officers trying to follow social distancing guidelines, Perrine with ISP told IndyStar. He said officers are thinking about the safety of the person they're stopping in addition to their own safety.

Our officers were using their discretion in an effort to keep everyone safe. We cant just ignore the violations of course, but we also have discretion, and that discretion allows us to pull over the most dangerous of the drivers.

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Perrine said troopers are getting creative to encourage drivers to slow down without being ticketed, though he wouldn't share many details.

"Those are the kind of things we want to keep closer to the vest," Perrine said."For a very broad example, we encouraged our troopers to sit in the crossovers on the highways so that people could see them. ...Instead of sitting in a hiding spot, we wanted them to sit out in the open so theyre visible, and hopefully that in itself could generate some of that compliance."

Engineering professor Bullock said law enforcement, like the troopers often seen oninterstates,is effective at getting people to slow down while they're out there, but the effect goes away when the troopers do.

When officers are out patrolling, there are brake lights and people slow down, he said. But "as soon as they're gone, there's no kind of history of them being out there." Drivers resume the speed they would otherwise travel.

"It's challenging for law enforcement," Bullock said."They can work hard, but it's really, really hard for them to get ubiquitous coverage consistently."

Bullock is looking at the bright side, though.

"The glass half full is let's hope the economy improves and Hoosiers are out there driving and the problem goes away."

EmailIndyStar digital producer Ethan May at emay@indystar.com.Follow him on Twitter @EthanMayJ.

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Sentiment Speaks: You Need To Show Your Grandchildren This Chart – Seeking Alpha

Yogi Berra was quoted as saying that its tough making predictions, especially about the future.

However, there are times when one is able to at least obtain a probabilistic reading about the future based upon an understanding of mass human sentiment and human psychology.

In fact, back in the 1940s, an accountant named Ralph Nelson Elliott identified behavioral patterns within the stock market which represented the larger collective behavioral patterns of society en masse. And, in 1940, Elliott publicly tied the movements of human behavior to the natural law represented through Fibonacci mathematics.

Elliott understood that financial markets provide us with a representation of the overall mood or psychology of the masses. And, he also understood that markets are fractal in nature. That means they are variably self-similar at different degrees of trend.

Most specifically, Elliott theorized that public sentiment and mass psychology move in 5 waves within a primary trend, and 3 waves within a counter-trend. Once a 5 wave move in public sentiment has completed, then it is time for the subconscious sentiment of the public to shift in the opposite direction, which is simply the natural cycle within the human psyche, and not the operative effect of some form of news.

This mass form of progression and regression seems to be hard wired deep within the psyche of all living creatures, and that is what we have come to know today as the herding principle, which gives this theory its ultimate power.

And, over the last 30 years, many social experiments have been conducted throughout the world which have provided scientific support to Elliotts theories presented almost a century ago.

But, even before these more recent studies have begun to support Elliotts understanding of the market set forth 80 years ago, Elliott provided us with an extraordinarily bold stock market prediction. Allow me to present you with the following prediction made by Ralph Nelson Elliott in August of 1941:

[1941] should mark the final correction of the 13 year pattern of defeatism. This termination will also mark the beginning of a new Supercylce wave (V), comparable in many respects with the long [advance] from 1857 to 1929. Supercycle (V) is not expected to culminate until about 2012.

For those of you that do not understand this quote, Elliott was predicting the start of a 70-year bull market in the face of World War II raging around him. Quite an amazing prediction, no?

Now, the rally that Elliott was predicting seems to have gone beyond his expectations from a timing standpoint. In fact, if we follow through with Elliotts original assessments, and we take into account the actual structure we have seen over the last 70 years, I believe the rally he was forecasting will last considerably longer than his expectations, especially when we now can fill in the wave structure of the rally he expected. You can see what I am speaking of on the attached chart compiled by Garrett Patten of Elliottwavetrader.

Specifically, what it tells us is that the market could very well be in the final stage of a multi-year rally off the 2009 lows, which, in our work, has a minimum target in the 4000 region. Yes, that means that we will still likely see higher market prices in the coming years. Moreover, as you can see from this much longer-term perspective chart, it even has potential to rise as high as the 6000 region in a blow off top. (I will have a much better idea of that topping target within the next year or so).

Yet, the main take away for those investing over the coming decade is that we are likely approaching a point in time where the market can enter into a multi-decade bear market in wave [IV], as outlined on the chart above. While that would likely be the next generational buying opportunity, it seems to suggest that the last half of the current decade will result in a lot of pain for investors.

At a minimum, I would expect the next bear market would have us revisit the 1800SPX region in the second half of the new decade. So, enjoy the profits of this last hurrah over the coming several years, as we are likely setting up for a once in a century event, which can rival the Great Depression, as it is of the same long-term wave degree. Remember, while history does not exactly repeat, it certainly does rhyme. And, those that are unwilling to learn from history are certainly bound to repeat it.

But, in the meantime, I still think we reach at least the 4000 region, but there is strong potential for us to target as high as 6000 in the SPX. After this next segment of the market rally off the 2009 low completes, I will then move into the bear camp for quite some time. But, for now, there are still profits to be gained on the long side of the market for the next few years.

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Lost world and extinct ecosystem in South Africa revealed in new research – Fox News

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence for human behavior, projectile weapons and much more at an amazing archaeological site in South Africa, a previously lost world revealed in new research.

Researchers in the area have always faced a challenge in understanding the context of these evolutionary milestones, since most of the landscape used by the ancient people who lived there is submerged underwater. The archaeological remnants are from caves and other areas that now look out on to the sea.

Now, the publication of 22 articles inQuaternary Science Reviews examines this "lost world" in a profound new way, thanks to the efforts of Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins Director Curtis Marean, who began assembling a team to build the ancient landscape's ecology a decade ago.

The work started by using the high-resolution South African regional climate model -- running on U.S. and South African supercomputers as a way to simulate glacial climate conditions. That climate output then fed into a vegetation model that allowed scientists to recreate the vegetation landscape.

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Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site--left, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and lower sea levels, and right, today where the ocean is within yards of the cave entrances at high tides. (Erich Fisher)

Scientists then harnessed things like marine geophysics and deep-water diving for sample collection to validate the model and adjust its output.

"Pulling the threads of all this research into one special issue illustrates all of this science," said Marean in a statement."It represents a unique example of a truly transdisciplinary paleoscience effort, and a new model for going forward with our search to recreate the nature of past ecosystems. Importantly, our results help us understand why the archaeological records from these South African sites consistently reveal early and complex levels of human behavior and culture."

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The Arizona State University IHO's field study site of Pinnacle Point sits at the center of diverse and rich ancient record, both geographically and scientifically, having contributed much of the evidence for different milestones on the road to humanity's modern evolution.

"This unique confluence of food from the land and sea cultivated the complex cultures revealed by the archaeology and provided safe harbor for humans during the glacial cycles that revealed that plain and made much of the rest of the world unwelcoming to human life," Marean said.

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Human Behavior

EGBA: concerns over forced limitations – Gambling Insider – In-depth Analysis for the Gaming Industry

The European Betting and Gaming Association (EGBA) supports the Spelinspektionens advice against government-imposed mandatory deposit limits. The Swedish gambling regulator is concerned over channelisation.

Swedens health minister Ardalan Shekarabi proposed a list of restrictions related to online gambling, including a weekly deposit limit of 5000 SEK (471). Spelinspektionenwarned the restrictions could do more damage than good if players turned to illegal operators where they wouldnt have the protection and security.

In agreement, EGBA states the new regulations could harm gambling and tax revenues. EGBA secretary general Maarten Haijer said EGBA understands the governments point of view, as it aims to protect citizens during hard times. But she also stressed the regulations could have an opposite effect on the players. Many Swedes are already gambling on unlicensed websites and these restrictions will make unlicensed websites which dont apply any limits even more attractive to them. We must remember gambling is human behavior, consumers will always make their own choices and top-down regulation rarely works.

Haijer warned the limits on gambling would end up pushing the players towards the unlicensed sites because while they are less secure, those websites wont interfere with the players experience. EGBA also stated European countries didnt register an increase in online gambling after lockdown began.

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Human Behavior

Behavioral Biometric Market Outlook: Heading To the Clouds | BioCatch, SecureAuth, Zighra – Azizsalon News

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Human Behavior

EGBA joins opposition to Swedish casino restrictions – iGaming Business

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has criticised the online casino restrictions set to come into force in Sweden next month as not evidence-led and warned they may do more harm than good for Swedish player protection.

Proposed by Minister for Health and Social Affairs Ardalan Shekarabi, the restrictions would set an SEK5,000 (401/459/$495) mandatory weekly deposit limit and a SEK100 cap on bonuses from 1 June to the end of 2020.

Maarten Haijer, secretary general of EGBA, said the restrictions could end up doing more harm than good.

We understand that politicians seek to reassure and protect their citizens during these difficult times, but the proposed gambling restrictions could actually harm more customers than they protect, Haijer said. Many Swedes are already gambling on unlicensed websites and these restrictions will make unlicensed websites which dont apply any limits even more attractive to them.

EGBA said that the regulations were not evidence-led and the more effective way of preventing problem gambling during lockdown would be to focus specifically on at-risk customers. The Association cited data from Belgium, Denmark and Great Britain as well as H2s global gambling forecasts, all of which it said proved online gambling has decreased substantially.

Rather than one-size-fits-all restrictions, which will have no effect on the majority of customers and jeopardise consumer protection for those they seek to protect, EGBA supports targeted measures, including tailored interventions, to protect those at risk of problem gambling at this time, it said.

EGBA echoed the Swedish Gaming Authoritys (Spelinspektionen) sentiments towards the rules, which the regulator said could have a negative effect on channelisation towards the licenced market in Sweden

The deposit limit could, as Spelinspektionen rightly warn, drive high-spending players towards unlicensed websites which undermine their consumer protection these websites are readily available, easy to access and do not apply any limits or responsible gambling measures, including the countrys Spelpaus self-exclusion scheme, EGBA added.

Haijer concluded by saying that top-down regulation is rarely the most effective way to solve problem gambling issues.

We must remember gambling is human behavior, consumers will always make their own choices and top-down regulation rarely works. In this case, it could have detrimental or counterproductive effects by pushing more gambling onto unregulated websites.

Many businesses active in the Swedish market have also criticised the controls. Cherry warned that the controls could make it harder to track changes in customer habits and spending as players would move between operators more frequently.

AB Trav och Galopp (ATG) said it supported efforts to improve safeguards, though also noted that it has seen no increase in unhealthy play among its customer base.

Henrik Tjrnstrm, chief executive of Unibet operator Kindred, called the proposals an open invitation to illegal gambling sites, while Svenska Spel chief executive Patrik Hofbauer argued existing regulations set out each operator's responsibilties to customers, meaning that additional controls were unnecessary.

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Human Behavior

No, you don’t have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong – Salon

Every so often an academic article liberates itself from the bonds of turgidity that characterize scholarly prose, and instead welcomes readers with a refreshing gust of literary flair. Such is the case with a recent piece published in Current Directions in Psychological Science,and co-authored by Joseph Cesario and Heather L. Eisthen of Michigan State University and David J. Johnson of the University of Maryland.

The title? "Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside."

No, this isn't an article debunkingfringe conspiracy theories about how the world's leaders are a bunch of literal lizard people. Rather, it addresses (and debunks)one of the most commonly-used metaphors in evolutionary psychology, the idea that the human brain evolved from lower life forms and hence has evolutionary remnants from those animals akin to an onion with layers.

If you've ever heard someone speak of you possessing a "lizard brain" or "fish brain" that operates on some subconscious,primallevel, you've heard this metaphor in action. This is called the triune-brain theory;as the authors write, the basic crux of it is that"as new vertebrate species arose, evolutionarily newer complex brain structures were laid on top of evolutionarily older simpler structures; that is, that an older core dealing with emotions and instinctive behaviors (the 'reptilian brain'consisting of the basal ganglia and limbic system) lies within a newer brain capable of language, action planning, and so on."

Even respectable science magazines frequently fall back on this metaphor of the triune-brain theory.ADiscover article from 2010, titled "You Fall in Love Because Your Brain is a Jellyfish, Lizard, and Mouse Ice Cream Cone," is a prime example of triune-brain theory in action. As writer Kyle Munkittrick wrote then:

Feel that pebble in your shoe? Thank a jellyfish. Ever duck before a rogue Frisbee collides with your noggin? Thank a lizard. Remember where you left your keys? Thank a mouse. Hamiltoninterviewed David Linden from John Hopkins University whoexplained that our brain is the way it is because evolution is "the ultimate tinkerer and cheapskate." Evolution built our brain by taking simpler brains and just piling more brains on top - like adding scoops of ice cream to an ice cream cone. Hence, the pieces of our brain inherited from these other creatures are largely unchanged.

The problem, though, is that it just isn't true. Or, as the coauthors of the aforementioned paperput it:"this belief, although widely shared and stated as fact in psychology textbooks, lacks any foundation in evolutionary biology."

As they explain, thetriune-brain theorypromoted the overly-simplistic idea that animals can be easily organized from "simplest" to "most complex," and implies that evolution "is a linear progression in which one organism became another and then another." The authors explain that "the correct view of evolution is that animals radiated from common ancestors"; another implication of the assumption, "that structural complexity endows functional complexity," is in fact still up for debate.

"Perhaps mistaken ideas about brain evolution persist because they fit with the human experience: We do sometimes feel overwhelmed with uncontrollable emotions and even use animalistic terms to describe these states," the authors conclude. "These ideas are also consistent with such traditional views of human nature as rationality battling emotion, the tripartite Platonic soul, Freudian psychodynamics, and religious approaches to humanity. They are also simple ideas that can be distilled to a single paragraph in an introductory textbook as a nod to biological roots of human behavior. Nevertheless, they lack any foundation in our understanding of neurobiology or evolution and should be abandoned by psychological scientists."

It is worth noting that the "lizard brain" metaphor appears often in science journalism as well. Last month Elon Musk discussedhow he believes the lower brain is the "boss" and issues directives to the upper brain during an YouTube interview on a MIT Lex Friedman podcast episode. In March,Mike Lofgren of BillMoyers.com used the analogy to explain why conservatives tend to be more motivated by fear than liberals, arguing that "MRI tests have shown that different centers of the brain light up more robustly in these persons than others, and their amygdala the so-called 'lizard brain'that controls the threat response is larger than average. To what extent this characteristic is an inherited tendency and to what extent socialization alters the highly adaptable components of the brain is debatable." (Not to say thatMusk and Lofgren were wrong about the larger points they were trying to make, merely that they used a misleading scientific analogy to express it.)

Unfortunately, the triune-brain theory remains a staple of introductory science textbooks. The study's coauthors sampled 20 introductory psychology textbooks, published from 2009 and 2017. "Of the 14 [textbooks] that mention brain evolution, 86% contained at least one inaccuracy along the lines described above," they said."Said differently, only 2 of the field's current introductory textbooks describe brain evolution in a way that represents the consensus shared among comparative neurobiologists."

That means ifyou're clinging to a neurobiological misconception and feeling angry about it, you can no longer blame your lizard brain for those strong emotions. You have only your own human brain to blame.

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Restorers of Xumishan Grottoes prove to be picture of dedication –

Relic restoration experts repair murals in the No 48 cave of Yuanguang Temple at the Xumishan Grottoes in Ningxia on April 27. It's the first repair and recovery project carried out at the 1,500-year-old grottoes since the Qing Dynasty.[Photo/Xinhua]

Even during the scorching summer, the team of seven had to wear layers of thick clothes and knee pads to stay warm in a freezing and damp grotto. The dark space is dimly illuminated by their headlights and is home to wall paintings dating back hundreds of years.

They are not adventurers, but seven restorers who are helping to bring back the luster of the artwork found in more than 160 grottoes that dot the red cliffs of Xumishan in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

The Xumishan Grottoes, first built in the late period of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), house 162 caves and more than 1,000 statues, along a main stretch of the ancient Silk Road.

The murals, which total 185 square meters, are now in dire need of repair due to destructive human behavior and natural factors such as erosion that have occurred over the course of a millennium.

"I got goosebumps when the whole pattern of the painting showed up clearly after we had spent some 20 days cleaning it," says 60-year-old Wang Minquan, an expert in the group who has been participating in the year-long repair program-the largest of its kind since the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)-since April.

The work can be tedious and demanding, Wang says, adding that young people these days do not have the patience to climb up and down the scaffolds, fix cracks and clean flaky walls all day.

On some steep rocky slopes, the team has to scramble a few dozen meters to reach a higher stone statue, with ropes tied around their waist like a climber.

Years of work in the freezing and dark grottoes has resulted in cervical spondylosis and cold legs for Wang and his colleagues.

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