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GREY-BRUCE This year marks the 55th time that Grey Bruce Farmers Week, Jan. 5-12, has offered local producers the opportunity to network, hear expert speakers both local and international, and find out the latest news in agriculture. This year will be no different in the ways that matter. However, the decision was made last summer to make the event completely virtual in fact, the best virtual conference possible. Co-ordinator Lorie Smith said in a press release that the event was in an ideal situation to shift to a virtual format, as a result of livestreaming for the previous three years. They were the dress rehearsal, she said. The shift in format comes with some incredible challenges, Smith said. In essence, it required taking everything learned over the years and throwing it out the window. Running a virtual conference is nothing like running an in-person one. And Smith noted it isnt being done cheaply, something reflected in ticket prices. We will take all of the best features about GBFW, box them up, and create an online experience that mimics all the feels of the live event, she said. An added benefit will be the opportunity for those interested to access additional content. A person with a ticket will also be able to access the recorded presentations for 30 days after the event (items will be posted within 48 hours, said Smith). Having a trade show that allows attendees to interact directly (therell even be door prizes) is crucial to the overall experience, said Smith, but its not easy to do. She encourages everyone in attendance to visit the trade show the best opportunities will be on Jan. 5, 10 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m. Other days, those who wish to interact face-to-face should visit the trade show 9-11 a.m. Fortunately, the sponsors were on board even ones who were unfamiliar with the format. The decision was made to switch over early, and put together a well-organized event rather than wait and cobble together a last-minute plan B. And the conference schedule shows it. The virtual conference will continue to be a seven-day event plus tradeshow a full eight days. Trade Show Day on Tuesday, Jan. 5, opens the conference. Its followed by Beef Day on Jan. 6, Dairy Day Jan. 7, Goat Day Jan. 8, Sheep Day Jan. 9, Horse Day Jan. 10, Ecological Day Jan. 11, and closes with Crops Day on Jan. 12. Each day begins with an 11:15 a.m. welcome and concludes about 4 p.m. There will be over 60 speakers and panelists with presentations, some delivered in real time and others pre-recorded. Special features include the opportunity for audience members to speak directly to speakers and exhibitors, and to mingle with fellow producers. Interaction and networking are vitally important. Our community is feeling the loss of social activities, so it is important that the virtual conference attempt to re-create these opportunities, said Smith. The 2021 format means that organizers will be able to share whats been called a gem of a conference with the rest of the province, country and beyond. Smith said the virtual format has resulted in both attendees and speakers being part of the conference from quite a distance Sheep Day features a speaker from the U.K and another from New Zealand. Attendees include people from across Canada and several from the United States. Therell be one from the U.K. as well. Weve broadened our audience base, Smith said. The format has also expanded support for the conference from sponsors right across the country. When asked about the highlights of this years conference, Smith said the simple fact its happening is the main highlight. And how its happening is another interactive, with the best of the usual conference in a virtual format, and a wider variety of speakers including more from the United States. The conference offers sessions covering a vast array of topics targeting the issues and challenges facing the farming community today. Of note, reflecting a deep concern for the wellness of our farmers, at GBFW21 there will be a daily Mental Health in Agriculture presentation. More details On Beef Day, Anne Wasko, market analyst with Gateway Livestock will provide a Cattle Market Outlook. On Dairy Day, producers will glean significant nuggets to take back to their operations. GBFW welcomes Travis Busman, who will present Modern Hoof Care: A Method for Success. Goat Day welcomes two speakers from Cornell University. Dr. Mary C. Smith will address Goat Udder Health including the diagnosis of mastitis and implementation of control programs. Dr. tatiana Luisa Stanton will delve into Goat Nutrition, and explore the concept of potential fermentable fiber. On Sheep Day, GBFW puts the powers of a virtual conference to great use by live streaming speakers from around the world. Robert Hodgkins from the U.K., and Johanna Scott from New Zealand will dig into Using Genomic Markers in an Ovine Breeding Strategy. Horse Day will deliver an abundance of practical tips and information regarding: Nutritional and Nutraceutical Methods for Maintenance of Joint and Gastrointestinal Health; The Science of Bits, Spurs and Training Tack. How we Choose, Use or Sometimes Abuse Them; and Horse Pasture Management. Ecological Day, has something for everyone. Dr. Scott Weese will address livestock producers as he turns the focus on Emerging, Re-emerging and Changing Infectious Disease Threats. Ellen Polishuk, owner Plant to Profit Maryland will share Improving Soils = Making More Money. The focus on soil continues with Brett Israel, who will dig into Keys to Cover Crops, followed by Janine McGowan who will provide tips on how to nourish pollinators while building your soil with cover crops Cover Crops & Bees. GBFW21 ends with Crops Day on Jan. 12. Crops Day also shines the spotlight on soil with Dr Lee Briese, agronomist, Centrol Ag Consulting, diving into Soil and Crop Management: The Details Matter. Briese attempts to reduce some of the complexity around the topic of soil health and encourages growers to adapt and customize practices to fit their individual farms and needs. Matthew Pot, consultant and economist will dig into 2020 Vision: What Have We Learned? Perennial favourite, Peter Johnson, will wrap up the week with, The Holy Grail: Organic Matter! Visit http://www.gbfw.ca for more information. Pauline Kerr, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Walkerton Herald Times

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CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom Although finding peace and tranquility may sound like a great plan, a new study finds not everyone can clear their mind through meditation. Researchers at the University of Cambridge say the benefits of mindfulness vary depending on the person and their setting.

Mindfulness involves sitting silently and focusing on your thoughts, sounds, and sensations in the present moment. This popular form of meditation can help reduce anxiety, stress, and even the symptoms of depression. It is often touted as a universal tool for boosting mental wellbeing.

Researchers worldwide have conducted randomized control trials to determine whether this is really the case, but results have varied. Now, The Cambridge team has reviewed these previous studies to provide more robust conclusions.

For the average person and setting, practicing mindfulness appears to be better than doing nothing for improving our mental health, particularly when it comes to depression, anxiety and psychological distress, Dr. Julieta Galante says in a statement. But we shouldnt assume that it works for everyone, everywhere.

People often practice mindfulness in community settings such as universities, workplaces, or instructional classes. The researchers identified 136 trials which looked at whether mindfulness in a community setting promotes better mental health.

These trials included 11,605 participants between 18 to 73 years-old in 29 countries. More than three-quarters (77%) of the participants were women. The results reveal, in most cases, mindfulness did indeed reduce anxiety, stress, and depression compared with doing nothing. In more than one in 20 trial settings however, meditation did not work.

Mindfulness training in the community needs to be implemented with care, Dr. Galante explains. Community mindfulness courses should be just one option among others, and the range of effects should be researched as courses are implemented in new settings.

Researchers suggest it could also be possible meditation works best for people who are already under large amounts of strain.

The courses that work best may be those aimed at people who are most stressed or in stressful situations, for example health workers, as they appear to see the biggest benefit, Galante adds.

The study also determined that mindfulness is no more effective than other feel-good activities such as exercise.

While mindfulness is often better than taking no action, we found that there may be other effective ways of improving our mental health and wellbeing, such as exercise, says study co-author Professor Peter Jones. In many cases, these may prove to be more suitable alternatives if they are more effective, culturally more acceptable or are more feasible or cost effective to implement. The good news is that there are now more options.

The number of mindfulness classes available to the public has jumped significantly over the past few years. They are particularly in demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the effectiveness of online courses has yet to be determined, preliminary research suggests they work, despite the lack of direct contact. Still, researchers warn that your personal results may vary.

If the effects of online mindfulness courses vary as widely according to the setting as their offline counterparts, then the lack of human support they offer could cause potential problems, Dr. Galante cautions. We need more research before we can be confident about their effectiveness and safety.

The techniques and frameworks taught in mindfulness have rich and diverse backgrounds, from early Buddhist psychology and meditation through to cognitive neuroscience and participatory medicine, Galante concludes. The interplay between all of these different factors can be expected to influence how effective a program is.

The findings appear in the journal PLOS Medicine.

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Backlinethe music industrys mental health and wellness resourceis proud to announce a new partnership with Breathwrk, a health & performance app that empowers people to harness their breath to maximize mental & physical health.

Breathwrk has successfully decoded breaths impact on human physiology and translates that knowledge into simple, effective exercises designed to induce states of being like focus, creativity, calm & many others in as little as 90 seconds. In Backlines growing effort to provide easily accessible tools to this community, the partnership will initially provide free subscriptions to the music industry, and grow to include in-app breaths engineered by and for musicians, functional workshops and more later this year.

Breathing correctly is such a powerful yet underutilized way to improve mental & physical health, and our Backline partnership is an incredible opportunity to scale this knowledge through the entire music industry during a period of uncertainty & adaptation, says Breathwrk Co-Founder & CMO Addie Conner.

Mental health journeys look different for everyone, expresses Backline co-founder and COO Kendall Corso. We hope to provide as many access points as possible to this at-risk community while the music industry has this rare, but important, time off to learn new tools to bring back on the road once its safe to do so. Corso will be hosting an IG Live with Breathwrks Head of Education and Community, Davi Brown, today at 3pm EST.

Backlines new partnership comes on the heels of several other app collaborations with Meditation Studio by Muse, Wanderlust, Hemi-Sync, and GTHX that break down financial barriers and provide free subscriptions and curated content for the music industry. Regular routine and wellness practices can drastically improve ones overall mental healthultimately positioning individuals for a more positive future. This includes meditation, yoga, breathwork, and other modalities that promote wellbeing: all of which can be done at home, and by ones self.

Backlinewhich offers free case management, support groups, and educational resources to the music industryhas partnered with these like-minded organizations to make resources more easily accessible to a community that has been drastically affected by the effects of COVID-19. The pandemic has brought nearly all live events to a halt, magnifying stress and insecurity on individuals and the industry as a whole. It is Backlines goal to bring purpose to this pause and help music industry professionals integrate these important practices into their everyday living before returning back to the strenuous realities of life on the road.

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If your last days of 2020 included some binge-watching to go along with your binge-eating, I come not to judge, but to advise. What you need is a palate cleanser, something to make you forget how much you miss The Queens Gambit already and how the next season of Succession cant come soon enough. Here are three shows two newbies from Netflix and a repurposed HBO series now airing on AXS TV that will clear your head with short bursts of timeless insight, pop-culture history and profanity. Two of them are less than 30 minutes long, and all of them are chess-free. Youre welcome.

Campy, yet semi-serious. Foul-mouthed, yet educational. Too short, but also repetitive. As you might have guessed from the cheeky yin-yang title, Netflixs History of Swear Words packs a bunch of competing qualities into one compact package. Compact being the operative word. If you want to ease into the New Year with the TV equivalent of jalapeo bites (small, spicy and only marginally filling), this could be the show for you.

Under the sly eye of host Nicolas Cage, who presides over the NSFW fun from a Masterpiece Theater"-style set, History of Swear Words takes a bawdy, breezy look at six of the English languages most bleeped words, most of which I cant print here. Using a large and lively mix of commentators that includes comedian Sarah Silverman, lexicographer Kory Stamper and film critic Elvis Mitchell, each episode tackles one word, looking at how and when it became a swear word, what makes it so inflammatory, and why some uses are far more offensive than others.

Along the way, we also discover many fun facts. Such as which part of the brain controls swearing. And why swearing has health benefits. And who is considered Hollywoods sweariest actor. (Youll want to save that nugget for your first post-lockdown cocktail party.) There are also some witty touches, like the appearance by actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. of The Wire, whose virtuoso reading of one particular swear word makes him the perfect guest star for the episode devoted to that word.

"(Bleep) has become a huge part of my career, Whitlock deadpans. I didnt plan it that way.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the most entertaining installment is the one devoted to the f-word. From Cages opening roundup of the words best Hollywood moments to Stampers playfully informative examination of its history and Mitchells thoughtful take on the words use in gangster rap, this episode is a pretty terrific tribute to the power of language itself. If one notorious word can have so many moods, meanings and uses, what does that say about everything else in the dictionary?

Thanks to the on-screen experts, all of whom are smart and highly quotable, the show manages to cover a lot of territory in 20 minutes. But unlike Netflixs Song Exploder, which devotes each of its short episodes to just one song, History of Swear Words is less of a deep dive and more of a sprint. Even when its taking on tough subjects like racism, sexism and homophobia, the insights pass in a flash. Or half a flash.

Like the overexposed but underutilized Cage himself, History of Swearing is both too much and not quite enough. Darn it. (History of Swearing is streaming on Netflix.)

Since 2012, the Headspace app has been providing accessible meditations that help users deal with anxiety, pump up their creativity, cope with grief and increase their focus. With its cheerful animated tutorials and soothing yet friendly guidance from former Buddhist monk (and Headspace co-founder) Andy Puddicombe, the app has seen me through the loss of my parents and some scary health stuff while making the low-level stresses of being a human easier to take. I cant imagine surviving our current reality without it.

I love Headspace, but I wasnt sure how I felt about the idea of Headspace on TV. Could the medium that brought us the Game of Thrones finale and Baby Yoda also be a tool for enlightenment? On Jan. 1, Netflix gave us the chance to find out.

Just in time for New Years resolutions, Netflix debuted Headspace Guide to Meditation, an eight-episode introduction to basic mindfulness techniques and to the process of meditation. Each 20-minute installment includes a brief tutorial from Puddicombe about subjects like meditation myths (It is not about stopping your thoughts! Really!) and how visualization works. The mini-lesson is followed by a 10-minute guided meditation led by the approachable Brit I call Guru Andy, whose reassuring voice is like a security blanket for your ears.

Throughout the episode, Puddicombes wise words are accompanied by lovely animated sequences that are the visual equivalent of his voice. The animation continues during the meditation portion, when you would ideally be closing your eyes. But if the idea of closing your eyes for 10 minutes makes you feel claustrophobic or antsy, the loop of abstract squiggles or puffy clouds is a serene backdrop to the meditation itself. While your conscious brain is zoning out on the pretty pictures, meditation is working its magic.

It was during the squiggle portion of the first episode that I decided that I was OK with the idea of Headspace on TV. Stressful times call for flexible measures, and if Netflix can convince people that meditation can be as comforting as The Great British Baking Show and as uplifting as The Good Place, then Im all for it. So put down your baggage and grab your remote. Guru Andy awaits. (Headspace Guide to Meditation is streaming on Netflix.)

After originally airing as a two-part, four-hour documentary on HBO in 2017, Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge is now airing as a six-part series on AXS TV. Its the same series, but if you missed it the first time, its worth catching up with now. The documentary covers the rise of the magazine from a counterculture upstart working out of a San Francisco printing factory to a glossy heavy-hitter that was as likely to chat up Britney Spears as it was to bring down a United States general. The organization of the episodes can be a little scattershot, but as the magazines larger-than-life journalists (Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Fong-Torres, Cameron Crowe) take on politicians, Ike and Tina Turner and David Bowie, viewers get a look at rare photos, unreleased film footage and interview recordings that bring the stars to us. As any music fan could tell you, the bootlegs have all the best stuff. (Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge airs Wednesdays at 6 and 9 p.m. on AXS TV.)

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"They're trying to drum up a little bit of excitement and show that they have some traction in the EV sector as they go into this rollout of this whole new onslaught of EVs," said Paul Waatti, an analyst with AutoPacific. "They need to build a little bit of credibility going into that."

Last year, GM said it would invest $27 billion toward electric and autonomous vehicle development and launch 30 EVs through 2025. Today, the automaker's only U.S. EV is the Bolt, but GM has a utility version of it coming this year along with the GMC Hummer pickup, followed by the Cadillac Lyriq in 2022.

Bolt sales rose 26 percent in 2020 after more than doubling to 6,701 from October through December. The Bolt was the top-selling EV built by a traditional automaker, surpassing the Nissan Leaf by more than 2,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter.

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