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CAMPING chairs are not only useful for camping, but it's a great choice for the park, picnics, outdoor events and even the garden if you don’t want to leave patio furniture out all year round. Keep a couple in the storage cupboard and you’ll find yourself taking them out for all sorts of reasons. Generally, you get what you pay for with camping equipment – the more expensive designs tend to be sturdier and will last longer, though there’s no shame in buying budget chairs if you’re only going to be using them occasionally. On that, one important thing to consider before investing in camping chairs is where you’re going to store them, as some designs, though folding, still take up a fair amount of space. You’ll also need to think about how comfortable you want to be – many camping chairs sit lower to the ground than normal chairs so can be tricky to get out of, and some aren’t padded so can become uncomfortable after a while. Our round-up of portable camping chairs brings you … [Read more...] about The 13 best camping chairs you can buy in 2021

Nearly eight years ago, fitness trainer Chris Jordan published a simple sequence of 12 exercises in a medical journal. It was notable because it combined aerobic and resistance training into a single bout of exercise that lasted just seven minutes. “As body weight provides the only form of resistance, the programme can be done anywhere,” wrote Jordan, who has a master’s degree in exercise physiology from Leeds Metropolitan University (now known as Leeds Beckett University) and has provided fitness advice to both the British army and the US Air Force. After The New York Times Magazine wrote about the research, under the headline, The Scientific 7-Minute Workout, the exercise routine became nothing less than a global phenomenon. Dozens of exercise videos and apps followed. The original seven-minute workout was based on a training programme that Jordan developed as a civilian fitness programme consultant for US Air Force personnel stationed in Europe. Later, while training … [Read more...] about 12 exercises in just 7 minutes – all you need is a chair and a wall

MONACO: By 2050, many coastal megacities and small island nations will experience once-a-century weather catastrophes every year, even with an aggressive drawdown of greenhouse gas emissions , a major United Nations (UN) report said on Wednesday (Sep 25). More than a billion people will, by mid-century, be living in areas prone to cyclones, large-scale flooding and other extreme weather events amplified by rising seas, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected. READ: Tides of change: Rising sea levels threaten homes on pristine paradise of Palau READ: Greta Thunberg's 'How dare you?' a major moment for climate movement It also highlighted that since 2005, sea levels have risen 2.5 times faster than during the 20th century due to melting sheets. This will likely jump four-fold again by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated, said the report. "Regardless of emissions scenarios, we face a world of higher sea levels," said co-author … [Read more...] about Once-a-century weather catastrophes to occur at least once a year by 2050: UN report

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported its first COVID-19 case on Jan 23. Md Sharif Uddin remembers it well. Even though that first case was an imported infection, he was concerned the coronovirus would spread to the dormitories and light the fuse of a potentially explosive health problem. “I know our living and working conditions,” said the 41-year-old construction safety coordinator. “If a migrant worker gets infected, then it’ll spread very fast, because our dormitories have a lot of people living together inside a room. It means we will get sick together.” He was right. About two weeks after Singapore’s first infection, the first migrant worker case was identified. On Feb 8, a 39-year-old who worked at a Seletar Aerospace Heights construction site was confirmed to have the virus. Before he was hospitalised, the Bangladeshi national visited Mustafa Centre, a department store popular with foreign workers. He lived at The Leo dormitory. READ: Bangladeshi national with … [Read more...] about IN FOCUS: The long, challenging journey to bring COVID-19 under control in migrant worker dormitories

AUSTIN, Texas: Harvard Kennedy School’s William Hogan is credited with designing the Texas energy market. As Texans froze and their water pipes burst, he reportedly remarked that the state’s energy market has functioned as designed. Hogan is right, which says a lot about how some economists think. For years, electric utilities were a stable, dull business. To counter the effects of monopoly, utility commissions set and stabilized prices, and companies got a rate of return on their investment that was (in principle) enough to cover construction, maintenance, and a fair profit. But economists complained: Utilities had an incentive to over-invest. The bigger their operations and the higher their total costs, the more they could extract from the rate-setters. READ: Biden approves Texas disaster declaration following deadly freeze READ: Commentary: Biden needs to build bridges, literally, in the US A FREE MARKET FOR ELECTRICITY Electricity is the ultimate standard … [Read more...] about Commentary: Meltdown in Texas’ power and water supply was a long time coming