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Teeth sensitivity
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Are you avoiding eating or drinking cold or hot foods and drinks, due to pain or sensitivity?
Sensitive teeth are one of the most common dental complaints we hear about in the practice. The pain suffered by many when eating anything cold of just breathing in the cold winter days can be very debilitating.
Tooth sensitivity is due to either the enamel, the outer/protective layer of the tooth, being very thin. Or the dentine, the underlying root surface, being exposed. These can result from many factors like over-brushing, gum recession, acid erosion or grinding, amongst other causes.
Unfortunately the dentine of our teeth is very porous and the hot or cold will pass straight through it into the nerve, causing sensitivity and in some cases sever pain.
As mentioned above, one of the reasons of teeth sensitivity is gum recession; over-brushing can cause this. An incorrect brushing technique can cause a lot of irreparable damage – if you press too hard and/or the brush bristles are in the wrong angel you are basically wearing away your teeth every time you brush. The bad news is that once the gum recedes it will never go back, the damage is done.
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Bloomberg
How to Drive the World Off a Cliff
19 April 2017.
When nations gathered in Cancún for the annual United Nations climate talks in 2010, Felipe Calderón, then Mexico's president, memorably likenedthe process to a stricken airplane or “a truck on a winding road, and the driver has a heart attack, and we’re all on the edge of hitting a tree, going over a ravine, squabbling again.” Somebody, he said, has to take control or hit the brakes.
It’s not a bad analogy. How hard should you apply the brakes on climate change?
This brief video colorfully illustrates three ways to respond to climate change. The mainstream approach is to tap the brakes, with a gradually rising, government-mandated carbon price, such as this research example. A more aggressive response, gaining favor among some economists as the years tick by without major cuts, is to slam on the brakes with a higher carbon price, informed by the scale of climate risk and uncertainty about how bad the impacts may become...
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Bloomberg
BBVA Taps Blockchain to Make International Payments in Seconds
21 April 2017
Blockchain may finally be moving out of the lab and into the marketplace.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain’s No. 2 lender, has executed its first cross-border payments through a system based on the software that supports bitcoin, the company announced Friday. Using a program built by Ripple, a San Francisco firm, BBVA has transferred about 50 euro-denominated payments to Mexico from Spain in seconds. Such transactions normally take up to four days to clear, the bank said.
BBVA plans to use Ripple’s distributed ledger offering to provide corporate customers a quicker and cheaper way to pay overseas suppliers and execute other international transactions, said Alicia Pertusa, head of the lender’s Digital Transformation in Investment Banking unit. Processing payments on Ripple costs, on average, 81 percent less than the correspondent banking network that’s been used to send payments around the world for decades, according to the company...
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Bloomberg
Mexico Seeks New Home for Its Oil as Gulf Coast Turns to Canada
21 April 2017
One of the world’s leading botanical science research institutions, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is signing a Letter of Intent aimed at strengthening collaboration with the National Forestry Commission of Mexico (CONAFOR) to help conserve their native tree species.
This new collaboration includes survey and identification of trees; collection and conservation of seeds from native forests; propagation of seeds and seedlings in community nurseries in the region, and management of genetic diversity of Mexican native trees through research, dissemination and building evidence that can be used by managers and policy makers making important decisions about land use.
Mexico is a centre of diversity for some key groups of trees such as Oaks (Quercus) and Pines (Pinus). The extensive and varied forests of Mexico...
Shipments of crude to the U.S. from Mexico fell to a new low last week, extending a trend that goes back to when the Energy Information Administration began compiling preliminary weekly import data in...
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Forbes
The Man Who Imports Corn (And How He's Saving Mexican Food)
22 April 2017.
Jorge Gaviria makes his living importing corn from Mexico.
That may seem quixotic, given that the United States is the world capital of corn production, churning out 13.6 billion bushels of it last year, and accounting for more than 30% of global corn exports. Moreover, nearly 80% the corn consumed by Mexico is imported from the United States. So there’s definitely something a little “coals to Newcastle” about Gaviria’s enterprise. Nevertheless, Masienda, the small import company Gaviria founded in 2013, has grown steadily, bringing in more than 2,000 tons of corn last year. Along the way, Gaviria was named a member of the 2017 class of the Forbes 30 for 30: Food & Drink.
The reason for Masienda’s success is simple enough: The corn in this country sucks.
That’s because U.S. corn is the most industrialized crop in the most industrialized agriculture system in the world. The vast majority of the corn grown here...
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Financial Times
Avocado imports soar as China develops taste for ‘butter fruit
23 April 2017.
China’s soaring appetite for avocados, driven by demand from its burgeoning health-conscious middle-class, has made the “butter fruit” — unheard of a few years ago — the country’s star performer in the imported fruit market.
Exports from Latin American nations such as Mexico and Chile are growing by about 250 per cent a year, leaping from just 154 tonnes in 2012 to more than 25,000 tonnes in 2016.
“More people are paying attention to healthy lifestyles and avocados meet that need,” said Zhang Hui, a sales manager at Fruitday, an online food delivery company.
Even western fast food brands such as KFC and McDonald’s are being forced to address the changing tastes of their affluent consumers. Yum China, which operates 5,000 KFC stores in the country, last month launched an “avocado series” of chicken burgers and wraps slathered with...
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Reuters
Hedge Funds Jump on Gold for Life Raft as Dollar Ship Sinks
23 April 2017.
There’s no stopping the gold bulls.
Hedge funds increased their wagers on a gold rally to the highest since November, betting that this year’s 11 percent advance has more to go. Investors are also loading up on the metal through exchange-traded products, pouring $487 million into SPDR Gold Shares on Wednesday. That was the biggest daily inflow into the world’s top bullion ETF in seven months.
Gold is shining bright as the dollar trades near the lowest since November, lifting the appeal of alternative assets. At the same time, escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have boosted demand for a haven, while delays in implementation for President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to cut taxes and pursue a pro-growth agenda are clouding the outlook for earnings.
“There’s an appetite for storehouses of wealth at this point,” said Peter Sorrentino, the Dallas-based chief investment officer of Comerica Asset Management Group, which oversees $43 billion, including gold ETFs...
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The Guardian
Mexico's ancient city guards its secrets but excavation reveals new mysteries
24 April 2017.
For decades, the hunt for a royal tomb at the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán has gripped archaeologists trying to unravel the secrets of the kingdom’s extraordinary political power.
It is a mystery investigators thought they were on the verge of solving in 2015, when large quantities of liquid mercury were found amid a treasure trove of precious artefacts in a secret tunnel.
But after almost eight years of painstaking excavations inside the pyramid, hopes of finding the buried remains of Teotihuacán’s enigmatic rulers are fading.
“At the beginning of this investigation we thought the tunnel was a metaphoric representation of the underworld, the place of creation and transmission of power, and that we would find a tomb of Teotihuacán’s leaders in this very scared place,” lead archaeologist Sergio Gómez told the Guardian.
“It would have been a transcendent discovery which would help us understand Teotihuacán’s power structure and system of government..
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Financial Times
Speculators bullish on Mexican peso for first time since 2015
25 April 2017.
President Enrique Peña Nieto hailed the arrests of two fugitive former governors from Mexico’s ruling party within a week as a “convincing message” on the state’s commitment to fight corruption, which is often seen as a bigger problem for the country than Donald Trump's threatened renegotiation of North American Free Trade Agreement.
The detention of Javier Duarte, who is accused of bankrupting the southern state of Veracruz before absconding last year, and of Tomás Yarrington of the state of Tamaulipas*, who enjoyed state-assigned bodyguards for part of his five years on the run from money-laundering and drugs charges, are undeniable advances, analysts say.
But the number of other former senior officials still wanted, and the slow progress in arming a new anti-corruption system with a prosecutor to lead the fight against endemic graft, suggest a lack of political will to match the rhetoric, critics say...
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The Independent
Trachoma: Mexico eliminates infectious disease which is world's leading cause of blindness
25 April 2017.
Mexico has succeeded in eliminating trachoma, an infectious disease that is the world’s leading cause of blindness, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.
The disease, which causes the inner surface of the eyelids to become rough, is believed to be responsible for the blindness or visual impairment of 1.9 million people worldwide.
It remains a public health problem among poor, isolated populations in 41 countries following Mexico’s elimination of the disease – a "historic moment for public health in Mexico and the Americas", said the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO).
Mexico is the first country in the Americas to receive validation of having defeated the disease, which is still endemic in countries including Brazil, Guatemala and Colombia.
Carissa Etienne, PAHO’s director, said...
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Excelsior
We can be heroes, just for one day
25 April 2017.
David Bowie tenía uno de los rostros más conocidos de la música y la cultura. Famoso por su look andrógino y una mirada bastante peculiar, producto de un golpe que propició que su pupila izquierda estuviera todo el tiempo dilatada, se abrió paso durante cuatro décadas como uno de los artistas más creativos en la escena musical. Su ausencia hace del mundo un lugar más pequeño y menos creativo, pero nos ha dejado una herencia extraordinaria.
Dentro de los múltiples legados de Reino Unido se destaca en el último medio siglo la música británica, la cual nos ha ofrecido a los más grandes exponentes de la cultura pop. Se calcula que la industria musical británica genera alrededor de 4.1 mil millones de libras cada año y que es el mercado de música digital más competitivo y diverso del mundo, con más de 70 servicios legales para todo tipo de aficionados a la música.
Es bien sabido que la música británica es reconocida mundialmente por romper paradigmas. En este sentido, uno de los primeros artistas que...
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The Guardian
Can Donald Trump better renegotiate Nafta? Yes, by bringing back TPP
25 April 2017.
onald Trump’s administration says it is sticking with its campaign promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). Indeed, Trump has now reiterated his intention to invoke the procedures for renegotiating Nafta soon (within “the next two weeks”), triggering a 90-day consultation period with Congress, before talks with Mexico and Canada commence. Assuming that happens – a very big if – it is worth asking how renegotiation could be done right.
Of course, the US president could simply decide to abandon his promise to renegotiate Nafta, which may be unpopular with many Americans, but is considered by economists to have been beneficial. After all, he has dropped many other campaign pledges, including (fortunately) his oft-repeated vow to label China a currency manipulator “on day one” of his administration.
Another possibility would be for Trump to attempt to bully Mexico – the main target of his renegotiation plans – by, say, raising tariffs, in violation of Nafta and World Trade Organisation rules...
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Business Insider
Japan wants to bring the Trans Pacific Partnership back from the dead — even if it means leaving the US behind
25 April 2017.
President Donald Trump spiked U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a massive free trade pact five years in the making among countries representing 40 percent of the world’s economy — during his first days in office.
But now Japan wants to bring the trade pact back from the dead, even if it means leaving Washington behind.
Japanese trade officials told theFinancial Times over the weekend that Tokyo is ready to carry TPP forward in essentially the same form it was in when Trump killed it.
“We will start talks on an eleven-member TPP, minus the US, at the [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] meeting in May,” Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said at a recent event in New York.
The move signals that, even as the United States is in full retreat from free trade, many other countries are pressing ahead...
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