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4 key work habits of successful Singapore finance leaders
By Robert Half on 26 February 2017
Singapore is a cosmopolitan city-state and is one of the world's leading hubs for commerce, finance, and technology. It's rapidly becoming much more than just a stopover destination, and for those considering a career in finance, it's certainly not a location to dismiss.
Singapore ranks 3rd on the global financial centre's index, jumping in front of Hong Kong and nipping at the heels of London and New York. It's also staying ahead of the times, with The World Economic Forum 2016 ranking Singapore as the most tech-ready nation.
With so many opportunities, it's no surprise that some of the richest people in the world live here. But which of these entrepreneurs should you aspire to? In this article, we look at Forbes list of Singapore's 50 Richest and take a closer look at 4 of the most successful leaders in finance, along with the key work habits behind their accomplishments:
1. Khoo Family
At the age of 17, Khoo Teck Puat went to work for Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) as a clerk. Working his way up the business, he became Chairman of the Board of the Central Provident Fund (CPF). However, in 1959, Khoo saw a gap in the Malay banking market and set up Maybank. By 2003, he was the richest individual in Singapore. Khoo sadly passed away in 2004, but his family continues to be one of the wealthiest in Singapore, with a net worth of US$6.3 billion.
One of Khoo's many work habits was fearlessness. At OCBC, he challenged views and often found himself at odds with managing director, Tan Chin Tuan, who took a much more conservative approach to business. According to Hotel & Resort Insider, Khoo also thought OCBC was growing much too slowly and therefore made the bold decision to walk away from the business for a fresh start. He bravely set up his own business, Maybank (now Malayan Banking Berhad), where he injected US$4 million of his own money and developed it into the fastest growing bank in the world. Throughout his career, Khoo continued to make large investment decisions worth millions of dollars and even diversified into new areas, such as financing and acquiring properties, particularly hotels, building the largest hotel group in Singapore.
2. Wee Cho Yaw
Wee Cho Yaw started work at his family business, Kheng Leong, learning from his father. He later became the youngest director of United Chinese Bank (UCB) before heading off to London to study the operations of a British bank. He returned to UCB, expanding the business in Singapore as well as internationally. He is now the 7th richest person in Singapore, with a net worth of US$4.9 billion.
At the heart of Wee Cho Yaw's success is his drive. After taking over from his father in July 1960, Wee Cho Yaw drove the company forward, expanding from a local business to international financing, and diversifying into other areas, including property, insurance, realty and more.
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3. Richard Chandler
New Zealand-born businessman, Richard Chandler, relocated to Singapore in 2006 and started Clermont Group, a private investment group. He has since been named as the 10th richest person in Singapore, with a net worth of US$2.45 billion.
Richard Chandler's work habits have helped him achieve the success he has today. One key trait that was instilled in him by his mother was being a hard worker, according to the International Business Times. At the age of 24, Richard took over his father's business and expanded into fashion design, retail, and manufacturing, with 200 employees across four offices. Since then, Richard has grown his own business, Clermont Group, investing in both public and private equity across a range of industries, including energy, finance, and health care.
4. Peter Lim
At the age of 20, Peter Lim began dabbling in stocks. Despite losing some money initially, Lim honed his skills to become the 11th richest individual in Singapore, with a net worth of US$2.4 billion. He has a diverse investment portfolio, ranging from property and security to health care and sports. He even has a joint venture with former Manchester United football players, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes.
Lim's success can be credited to his many work habits, but one in particular, is patience. In an interview for "The Way of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board" book, Lim explains that "You may not have a lot of money, but you have a lot of time". Lim goes on to explain that investments can take five to six years, or usually ten to 12 years before you see a good return.
What work habits do you really need for success?
All of these finance professionals from Singapore have worked extremely hard to achieve what they lead today or the legacy they have left behind. Their drive and determination has kept them moving forward, through finance industry trends and business challenges.
But being a leader isn't always about following the norm. It also requires courage to question the standards and to make your own career path in the world. In addition to these work habits, it's important to remember that success doesn't happen overnight - leaders need to be patient and wait for the right opportunities.
Do you possess any of these work habits? If you're interested in a career in the finance industry, you can use the traits of these successful leaders in Singapore as inspiration, to help shape your own work habits and lead you onto your very own career successes.
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Studies on the indigenous Jewish communities of Southern Europe and the Balkans.
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Counting Down From Destruction and Looking Forward to Redemption; On an Interesting Custom of Romaniot (and many Sephardim too).
"Corfu ketuboth are distinguished for using double dating, the year since creation and the year since the destruction of the Temple. The two dates on this ketubah read at the wedding of Yani, the son of Raphael De Osmo, and Esther, daughter of David De Mordo, are 5573 and 1745. The decoration is calligraphic, inscribing verses from the Books of Isaiah and Ruth which speak of bridegroom, bride, rejoicing, and blessings, (Ketubah, Corfu, 3 Heshvan, 5573 (1812), Hebraic Section, Library of Congress Photo)".
(photo and description of Ketubah graciously provided by Mary Raz from the "Greek Jews" group on Facebook).
The custom of calculating the years since the destruction of the Temple seems to have been a widespread one across the Balkans. Both Sephardim and Romaniotes prided themselves on their roots from the exiles of Jerusalem (Sephardim would often refer to 'The exiles from Jerusalem that is in Sepharad', mentioned in Obadiah, while Romaniotes and Italkim [like De Rossi, for instance] cited oral tradition that they arrived in the area as Titus' slaves after the destruction of the Second Jewish Commonwealth in 70 CE).
When Eliezer ben Yehuda began his Zionist project of reviving Hebrew as a spoken language, he encountered strong Sephardic support. This community, which people like A. Papo in his Sephardim in the United States, dubbed 'zionist in nature', was enthusiastic about such a project.
...Yet when Ben-Yehuda began publishing his weekly Hebrew newspaper Hatsvi in Jerusalem in the autumn of 1884, the date on its first issue was, "Friday, 5 Heshvan, 1816 years since the destruction of the Temple, 5645." (There was no Gregorian date at all.) This formula was followed in the first seven issues of Hatsvi, after which "5645" was dropped. From then on, the only year on the masthead referred to the destruction of the Second Temple, which Ben-Yehuda chose to date to the beginning of the Romans' siege of Jerusalem in 68 C.E. rather than to their final victory in 70. In everything else that he published, including his monumental 16-volume dictionary, he followed the same system.
We say something like this after 'arbith of 9 de Ab (the traditional date that commemorates the destruction of both Temples), in Spanish: "Nuestros hermanos hijos de Israel, por nuestros pecados etc." with the number of years.
The vicissitudes of the Jews under Orthodox rule can be briefly summarized as follows: Under the Christian Roman Empire (from Constantine through Justinian and his successors), they were prohibited by law, with occasional exemptions, from participating in government, the courts, the army, and the universities, from holding and converting slaves, and from building new synagogues. During the Middle Byzantine period (Herakleios to Romanos Lekapenos), they were subjected to four attempts at forced baptism, a state tactic apparently repeated by Ioannes Vatazes in the rump empire of Nicaea in the thirteenth century. In the wake of the tenth-century Byzantine Crusades, Jews migrated into the empire, and by the twelfth century flourishing communities of Rabbanite and Karaite Jews were to be found throughout the Balkans and Anatolia. The Late Byzantine period (Michael Palaeologos to Constantine Palaeologos) saw further improvement in the political position of the Jews, who, along with the Armenians, provided economic resources for the weakened imperial government.
After his conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II appointed Gennadeios Scholarios as patriarch over the entire Roman population. By 1455 the Romaniots, now formally zimmis (dhimmis) (see dhimma ), had succeeded in establishing their own autonomous community (later millet) under the leadership of Moses Capsali, appointed chief rabbi (rav manhig) of the Romaniot communities forcibly relocated to the capital, now called Istanbul, as part of the sultan's efforts to repopulate the devastated city. In the cadastral register of 1477, the transplanted Romaniot communities numbered about fifteen hundred households and constituted some 10 percent of the city's denizens. They were to hold the status of sürgün (forced migration) throughout most of the Ottoman period. This restrictive status, which deprived them of freedom of movement, placed the Romaniots at a distinct disadvantage compared to the Sephardi Jews, who enjoyed the more liberal status of kendi gelen (voluntary migration to the sultanate) granted them by Sultan Bayezid II.
According to later Sephardi memory (considered doubtful by some modern scholars) Bayezid invited the banished Jews of the newly united kingdom of Catholic Spain to his realm. In any case, they arrived shortly after 1500, and within a generation had supplanted the structure established for the Romaniots in the first seventy years after the conquest. Moses Capsali (d. ca. 1498) was succeeded by Elijah Mizraḥi (d. 1526) as rav manhig. Successive rabbis continued the institution for another generation until it fell into abeyance. In 1835 the office of haham başı(Heb./Turk. Hakham Bashi - chief rabbi) was established as part of the tanzimat reforms.
The Romaniot population of Istanbul consisted of both Rabbanite and Karaite Jews, who alternated between cordial and hostile relations. The twelfth-century Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela informs us that a fence separated the two communities to prevent communal strife. In the fifteenth century, Karaites studied with Rabbanite teachers. In the sixteenth century, conservative Romaniots prohibited teaching Karaites, while Karaites nearly split their community over internal rivalries. The Greek-speaking Romaniot congregations numbered forty-seven in 1540, each with its own synagogue named for its city or area of provenance; they were still listed as sürgün, as were the Karaites, in late seventeenth-century Ottoman documents and numbered some fifty-two hundred of the eighteen thousand Jews in Istanbul. Ottoman sources record a decline in the Romaniot population of the capital between 1535 and 1688, most likely due to the better legal status of the Sephardim as well as the mingling of the congregations and intermarriage between the two groups. The vicissitudes of urban life in the Ottoman capital, in particular fire and plague, also contributed to the decline.
Outside the capital Romaniot communities flourished in Epirus and the Peloponnese. The Romaniot communities in the Ionian islands, the Archipelago, Crete, and the Dodekanisoi (Dodecanese) came under the control of Venice; Genoa controlled Chios; and later the Angevins took the Ionian islands. The Romaniots in these areas became Italian-speaking until they were rejoined to the Greek kingdom in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the Ottoman period (Grk. Turkokratia) the Romaniots were under Turkish protection and usually lived within the walls of the kastro that controlled each city and town. The Jewish communities of the Peloponnese (also calledMorea, which later included Boeotia and Attica) were destroyed in 1821 during the initial stage of the Greek Revolution. During the Holocaust the Jewish inhabitants of the main Romaniot centers of Ioannina (Yanina) and Corfu were deported to their deaths in Auschwitz. Over ten thousand Romaniots (and over fifty thousand Sephardim) were sent to Nazi concentration camps. About eight thousand members of the Greek-speaking communities of the mainland either served with the resistance or hid in the mountains, many under the protection of the resistance.
The question of a neo-Romaniot identity among contemporary Greek Jews, who are primarily Greek-speaking even if of Sephardi origin, is in a state of flux among locals and scholars. Romaniot Jewry is characterized by its use ofJudeo-Greek, which preserves archaic elements (especially among Ioannina Jews) from its development over the past two millennia. Their synagogue rite is also unique to the regions from Corfu to the Black Sea (e.g., MaḥzorRomania, Maḥzor Korfu) and is characterized by the use of Greek and a highly developed liturgical poetry ( piyyuṭim) that derives from Byzantine Palestine in Late Antiquity. Romaniot culture also further developed the midrashic tradition inherited from the Hellenistic period and from later Palestinian Jewish scholars. Kabbala and philosophy were particularly studied during the late Byzantine and early Ottoman periods along with medicine, astronomy, and Bible commentary. In addition, their customs present a mix of Late Antiquity Palestinian Jewry and contemporary Byzantine and post-Byzantine customs (primarily marriage, as in the medieval use of stephanomata [wreaths], and dowry arrangements), many of which are discussed by Joseph Caro in his Bet Yosef. This ancient Jewry, once numbering in the millions in Roman and Byzantine times, comprises only a few hundreds in modern Greece and perhaps a myriad of identifying descendants in its diaspora.
The Bulletin of Judeo-Greek Studies has an ongoing bibliography on the topic.
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Goldschmidt, Daniel. "On the Mahzor Romania," Sefunot 8 (1964): 205–236. Heyd, Uriel. "The Jewish Communities of Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century," Oriens 4 (1953): 299–314.
Rosanes, Solomon. History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, vol. 1 (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1930) [Hebrew].
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Weinberger, Leon. Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in Greece, Anatolia and the Balkans (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1975).
———. Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical Poetry in South-Eastern Europe (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991).
Perform the search and gather up all the crumbs as a family project. Tie them in a bundle, which will be burned the next morning.
Kol chamira va-chami'ha d'ika vir'shuti, d'la chamitei u'd'la viartei u'd'la yadana lei livteil v'lehevei hefker k'afrah d'ar'ah.
All manner of leaven which is in my possession, that I have not seen or removed, shall be annulled and considered as the dust of the earth.
On Wednesday morning, recite the following as you burn the chametz.
Kol chamira va-chami'a d'ika virshuti, da-chazitei u'd'la chazitei d'chamitei u'd'la chamitei, d'viartei u'd'la viartei livteil v'lehevei hefker k'afra d'ar'ah.
All chametz in my possession, whether I have seen it or not, whether I have removed it or not, is hereby nullified and owner-less, as the dust of the earth.
A little online searching brought me to a webpage that was created by a member of this mentioned family (spelled there 'colchamiro').
The story we always tell is that our ancestor was a rag merchant in Greece and was very meticulous about picking good scraps; that he would look through the goods as carefully as one looks for leaven on Passover. The prayer that one says after locating all leaven in the house is called "Kal Chamira" and so his friends and associates said he was so picky that he might as well say "Kal Chamira" over his rag finds. Supposedly he was known by this name in Greece and gave it when arriving at Ellis Island, and that the immigration officials invented their own spelling.
"My mother's maiden name was Kalchamira (spelled Colchamiro in the United States). The family explanation is that her father, a cloth merchant, used to examine material as closely as if he were searching for leaven (hametz). This was associated with the statement made the night before the eve of Passover, beginning KAL HAMIRA DE IKA BIRSHT (May all leaven in my possession)."
By a stroke of incredible coincidence, an Israeli journalist researched this very same same topic, at the same time as I did. His article appears here (in Hebrew).
More details and photos of Hania Synagogue attack.
At the excellent Abravanel Blog.
Greek Jew Yitzhak Ganon Rebuilt his life after Horrors.
He is a thin man. His wine-red cardigan is a little too big, and his legs are like matchsticks in his brown pants. Yitzhak Ganon takes care of himself. He's freshly shaven, his white mustache neatly trimmed. The 85-year-old sits on a gray sofa, with a cushion supporting his back. He is too weak to stand by himself, but he still greets a guest in German: "Guten Tag."
Speaking is hard for him. "Slowly, Abba," his daughter Iris says, and brings him a glass of water. Her father has never in his life complained of any pain, she says.
A month ago he came back from his morning walk and lay down. "Are you sick, Papa?" Iris asked. "No, just a little tired," Yitzhak Ganon answered, before going to sleep. But after a few hours he was still tired. "I don't need a doctor," he told his daughter.
The next morning things were even worse. Ganon's wife and daughter called a doctor, who diagnosed a viral infection and told him to go to the hospital. Ganon resisted, but finally realized his life was in danger. At some point he stopped fighting the doctor's orders.
His family brought him to the hospital in his home town of Petach Tikva near Tel Aviv. He had hardly been admitted when he lost consciousness. Heart attack, the doctor said. The blood clots were cleared with the help of tiny balloons, and the doctors put five stents in him. "We thought he wouldn't survive the operation," said Eli Lev, the doctor. "Especially since he had just one kidney."
When Yitzhak Ganon came to, he told the doctors where he lost the other kidney -- and why he had avoided doctors for 65 years. A reporter from the Israeli paper Maariv heard about the story. And now, weeks after the operation, Ganon is ready to tell his story to a German reporter for the first time.
He stretches his back and looks at a photo on the living room wall. It shows the Acropolis in Athens. "I come from Arta, a small city in northern Greece. It happened on Saturday, March 25, 1944. We had just lit the candles to celebrate the Sabbath when an SS officer and a Greek policeman burst into the house. They told us we should get ourselves ready for a big trip."
The 85-year-old slides the sleeve of his shirt up and uncovers his left forearm. The number 182558 is tattooed there in dark-blue ink.
The transport to Auschwitz took two weeks. His sick father died on the journey. Upon arrival, they had to strip and submit to an inspection. Ganon's mother and five siblings were then sent to the gas chambers.
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. Yitzhak Ganon made it back to Greece and found his surviving siblings -- a brother and a sister -- and emigrated to Israel in 1949. He got married. And he swore never to go to a doctor again. "Whenever he was sick, even when it was really bad," his wife Ahuva says, "he told me it was just fatigue."
But now Ganon is happy he finally went to the hospital after his heart attack. One week later, he had another heart attack, and was given a pacemaker. "If the doctors hadn't been there," he says, smiling for the first time, "I would be dead now." Yitzhak Ganon has survived, again.
Normally I would wait for our monthly e-newsletter to pass on recent news from Greece, but some news deserves to be passed on immediately, especially when it is such good news. Too often, negativity makes the front page. In recent years, anti-Semitism is all too prevalent. What then can be more emotionally rewarding than to pass on the news of a recent mass demonstration against anti-Semitism? Where did this demonstration take place? In Ioannina! It was organized by the Christian citizens of the city and was heralded as a "a human chain against racism." The cemetery was surrounded by the citizens of Ioannina to show their support for the Jewish community of the city and to publically show their outrage at recent desecrations of Jewish tombstones. In addition, a public exhibition was held, highlighting the ancient Jewish presence in the city and the importance of the Jewish cemetery as a monument to the long Jewish presence in Ioannina. The committee that organized the public display of support made the following statement: "The Jewish cemetery is not only the religious space of the Jewish Community but, also, a cultural monument of our city, the protection of which, like other historical monuments of our city, is the duty of every citizen." Let us all applaud the good citizens of Ioannina who organized and took part in this historic event. Photos of the event can be found in the attachments.


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Humanization of Virtual Communication: from Digit to Image
by Inna Khmel1
1 South University (IUBiP) (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
Received: 25 April 2021 / Accepted: 2 June 2021 / Published: 1 October 2021
The study aims to identify the mechanisms of communication humanization in the virtual environment with the help of new signs as the means of communication. The factors which limit emotional connections while using written signs in digital communication as a form of alienation are provided in the article. The scientific novelty is shown through the essential role of nonverbal signs and symbols used to overcome alienation under conditions of limited communication. The widespread use and evolution of nonverbal signs and symbols in the process of digital communication is becoming a new frame that promotes communication to expand in the interactive sphere and make it more human. Understanding new signs and symbols go with socio-cultural issues of the current age and provides integrity and unique character of the individual.
Keywords: human, alienation, humanization, transformed form, simulacrum, digital communication, emotions, sign, meme, emoji
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Mountain Climbers. Woolrich John Rich & Bros. showcased their men's lookbook with town (urban) and mountain style clothing. Town pieces include washed denim, tailored looks, lightweight flannels, fitted outerwear and cool blazers, meanwhile mountain line includes weekend adventure looks, leaving city borders and offering activewear, cozy outerwear, water-resistance fabrics and stylish details.
Woolrich has been synonymous with quality outdoor clothing for over 180 years. The company got its start in 1830 when John Rich, an immigrant from England, built his first woolen mill in Plum Run, Pennsylvania. Rich would visit the lumber camps that dotted the area and sell his woolen fabric, socks, coverlets, and yarn from a mule cart. By 1845, he built a new mill a couple of miles up the road next to Chatham Run, which provided a steadier source of water. That building exists today as part of the group of buildings, homes, and community establishments that have become Woolrich, Pennsylvania.
Legend has it that Woolrich was the first company to use a zipper in men's trousers. The timeless Railroad Vest, introduced when the railroad was being built through Pennsylvania, is still a popular item. Another garment with roots back to the mid-1800′s is the Buffalo Check Shirt that has kept many generations of outdoorsmen warm.
Today the little village of Woolrich is still headquarters for the company, but the business has grown to a worldwide lifestyle company with a full range of outdoor-inspired products, from jackets and shirts to outdoor furniture. The company that provided blankets to the Union soldiers in the Civil War today keeps folks warm under its wonderful throws as they cuddle up by the fireplace. You can buy a wool jacket your great-great grandfather may have worn in the woods or a parka that's all about the latest in advanced technology.
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The twelve resorts of the Best of Alps are four season destinations known the world over. Whether skiing, hiking, biking, climbing, golfing or simply enjoying the alpine scenery, these resorts will leave you with a lifetime of memories. The only problem will be deciding which one to visit next!


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Pebble App Store to Launch in Early 2014
Early next year, Pebble will launch an online store for iOS and Android apps built for the startup's smartwatches.
By Damon Poeter
https://www.pcmag.com/news/pebble-app-store-to-launch-in-early-2014
Early next year, Pebble will launch an online store for apps built for the startup's smartwatches.
The Pebble app store will be a "a one-stop shop for searching, browsing, and installing awesome Pebble watchfaces and apps," the company said, and will tie in with last month's release of a new software development kit for creating Pebble apps for iOS and Android.
"The Pebble app store will be included in the official Pebble smartphone application and will be the first place where Pebble users look for Pebble apps. For developers, the Pebble app store is the best way to promote and distribute your Pebble applications to users," the startup said in a statement.
Pebble's online app portal will stock apps in seven categories: Daily, Remotes, Games, Notifications, Tools & Utilities, Sports & Fitness, and Watchfaces. The company will curate its app store, presenting "best apps" and "new apps" for each category.
The app store will initially only feature free Pebble apps but developers will be able to submit apps that "work with an iOS or Android companion app and charge for the mobile apps in the Apple App Store or Google Play," according to Pebble.
Developers submitting Pebble apps with companion iOS or Android apps will be able to link to those apps in Apple's and Google's app stores. Links to Android apps that work on Pebble without requiring a separate Pebble app to be installed on the smartwatch will also be accepted in the Pebble app store.
Pebble App Store
Apps built on the first edition of Pebble's software platform won't work on watches running the upcoming 2.0 version of the company's firmware. But Pebble said this week that it will "automatically upgrade existing Pebble apps on a user's Pebble when upgrading the new firmware."
Developers can facilitate the porting of their 1.0 apps to the 2.0 firmware through Pebble's dev portal, the company said.
The smartwatch startup now has some 10,000 developers in a burgeoning ecosystem that's sprung up since Pebble ran its record-setting funding campaign on Kickstarter in early 2012, according to Pebble's Eric Migicovsky. Pebble shipped its first watches to its Kickstarter backers in July 2012 and had moved nearly 200,000 units to date as of last month, Migicovsky told PCMag in November.
In fact, the startup has had trouble keeping up with demand from customers in recent months despite increased competition in the growing smartwatch market from the likes of Samsung and Sony.
The good news for would-be Pebble owners is that the startup now has plenty of product in stock, Migicovsky said. Pebble watches can be purchased for $149.99 in Pebble's online store with free worldwide shipping, or through exclusive U.S. partners Best Buy and AT&T.
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Did you hear? The sort of old, sort of new, but much smaller iPhone is coming out tomorrow! Sometimes people are so excited for phones that they line up for them.
Should you be one of them?
What if I am a HUGE Apple fan?
But what if I don't stand in line and they sell out?
What if I don't have an internet connection at home, so I can't preorder like a normal human being and have it delivered to my door?
What if I've stood in line for every iPhone since the original, and at this point it's like a tradition? Like, part of how I self-identify?
What if someone is paying me to do it for them?
What if I just happen to have that day off of work and find myself near an Apple Store and the line is only like eight people deep and I've got nothing better to do?
What if my standing in an iPhone line was my dying grandmother's last wish?
What if someone straps a bomb to my chest and demands that I go stand in an iPhone line for them, sort of like that movie 30 Minutes or Less and/or the real-life events that inspired that movie?
This post originally appeared on Gizmodo in Sept 2013. It's been updated to reflect this year's crop of iPhones, and we will keep updating it for as long as people stand in line for iPhones.


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The President, the children and your liberties
Pied Piper?
I don't think so
Pied Piper? Hardly. . .
When President Obama addressed the school children of America this month, few of us expected the outrage, furor and fear engineered to stop him.
In a small town in southern Minnesota, an elementary school teacher I know was forbidden to bring the address into his classroom. His principal told him that if he did so, he would lose his job.
A middle school teacher in St. Paul was threatened with the same tactic. Her principal told her that the address would be taped, previewed, discussed by faculty - and if found acceptable, presented to the students. She too, was told that if she brought the content into the classroom, she would lose her job.
"We need to protect our families," one of the principals said, "from this pied piper of health care."
You remember the legend of the Pied Piper.
The Pied Piper came to Hamelin to drive out the village rats. All he needed, he said, was his pipe, his personality and a chance.
The year was 1284, and the little town of Hamelin, Germany was suffering from a rat infestation. When they thought all hope was lost, a marvelous man arrived, dressed in pied clothing. He brought hope to the little town,
He played a musical pipe and promised the village elders he could lure the rats with a song. He told them he could drive all the Hamelin rats into the Weser River. Once in the river, he promised they would drown and free Hamelin of the infestation.
The village elders agreed to pay him a handsome amount of gold if he would do as he promised, And so the piper piped, the rats were eradicated from the land. And if everyone had behaved as they promised, the story would have ended there.
But the elders refused to pay. The piper asked for what was promised him and the elders, knowing full well their problem was solved and they need not follow through on their agreement, refused. The piper was furious - and left Hamelin filled with rage. Little did the elders know that the rage would turn against them.
It happened on the feast day of Saint John and Paul, while the town elders were busy in church. The children were playing in the town square when the piper returned.
This time when he played his pipe, he called all the children of Hamelin to his side.
One hundred and thirty boys and girls followed him out of the town, where they were lured into a cave and never seen again. The village elders, devastated at their losses, tried to make sense of the disappearance of all the children. The answer to their questions came from one little lame boy who, because he used a crutch, was left behind as the others danced to the piper tune and disappeared in the mountain. He alone survived to tell the tale.
Great story - but Obama is not a piper of Hamelin or anywhere else. He is the president of the United States - the brightest and the best we have had in decades.
Even so - his desire to speak directly to our children about education, perseverance, courage and commitment threatened many people in this nation. Not because the nation is afraid of the charisma of our dynamic leader. No - they are afraid of him because he is the President of the United States, a Democrat and a strong, happy black man.
Parts of this country are frozen in racism. Let's be frank about this - if Obama were tall, dark, handsome and white, no one would think twice about him speaking to American children.
But our president isn't white. He's black. He's aggressive with an agenda to change America. His name is odd - and simple folks are frightened by him.
So much so that they don't want their children watching, hearing or talking about him.
Not a word of the speech has was published prior to its release. Nonetheless, the speech became immediately controversial because the White House issued a set of lesson plans for teachers. These lesson plans included suggested ways for educators to encourage discussion of the speech.
The plans suggested that pupils write letters to themselves on what inspired them about the President and how they could help to achieve his goals.
Apparently that was too much for certain Americans.
I watched the speech. He wasn't too much for me. If I had school age children, I would have done whatever I needed to make certain their classroom was plugged in on the day he spoke.
But then - I'm a citizen of a nation who made a promise to us - to uphold the constitution of the United States of America. I'm on his side.
And I've never been too fond of the village elders.
Pouting will get you everywhere. . .
Sometimes it's hard to be a gentleman– giving all your love to just one nation.
Sleep deprived, over caffeinated and intellectually bankrupt , Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put away all pretense to Southern hospitality and went on the attack.
The Senator's target? President Obama, his stimulus package and creative fight to right the wrongs of the failing American economy.
"Scaring people is not leadership," Graham said, referencing the President's attempts to communicate with the American people. " Writing an editorial that if you don't pass this bad bill we're going to have disaster — we've had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions."
Graham's comments over-viewed his contempt for the Obama's administrative approach to open communication and reliance upon the feedback and input from the American people.
Although exhausted from working more than any white man from South Carolina should have to, Graham yesterday found the energy to flail himself into a petulant rage on the Senate floor, protesting the President's efforts to save the American economy.
Coming to the conclusion that the stimulus bill is an "orgy of spending," for the poor, Graham openly yearned for the good old days when government supported stimulus served only the rich.
"The process that's led to this bill stinks," he said. "There is no negotiating going on here. Nobody is negotiating. We're making this up as we go. This is not the way you spend a trillion dollars."
The Right Way to Spend a Trillion
To be fair, it is important to acknowledge that as a long-time supporter of failed Republican economic decision making, Graham knows a great deal about the correct way to spend a trillion dollars. His comments signal his intention to hold-out for some old-time thinking to solve these new-age problems.
"Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill set (sic) down," he said, "and found a way to go forward with Social Security."
Of course, Graham seems to have forgotten that the Social Security administration is weaker today than ever before. His comments signal an ignorance of the fact that the American infrastructure is crumbling. Federal financial systems are inept and bankrupt.
But perhaps the Senator is not exhausted afterall. Puffed, privileged and petulant, perhaps the rages we hear from the Senator are the last gasps of an old era, yielding the the fresh winds of change.


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India and Portugal Sign 11 Pacts
June 25, 2017No comments
India and Portugal have signed 11 pacts after in-depth talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa in areas like counter-terrorism, space and climate studies. This is the first-ever bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Portugal.
India thanked Portugal for its support for India's permanent membership of UNSC, and of Multilateral Export Control Regime.
India and Portugal have agreed to set up a joint Science and Technology fund of four million euros. The two countries also signed MoUs for the creation of an India Portugal Space Alliance for advancing collaborative research. This agreement is expected to promote India's science and technology partnership with Portugal and to set up Atlantic International Research Centre on the Azores Archipelago. This Centre will act as a research, innovation and knowledge hub for tratrans-Atlantic and north-south cooperation. The objective behind the Centre is to provide a shared environment for supporting new climate, earth, space and marine research.
The other agreements cover cooperation in outer space, double taxation avoidance, nano technology, improving cultural ties, youth and sports, higher education and scientific research, and Portugal-India business hub and Indian Chamber of Commerce. They are:
Protocol amending the Double Taxation Aviodance Agreement
MoU on Nano Technology
MoU on Public Administration & Governance Reforms
MoU on Cultural Cooperation
MoU on Youth & Sports
MoU between Portugal India Business Hub & Indian Chamber of Commerce
MoU on Cooperation in the fields of Higher Education and Scientific Research
MoU on Biotechnology
MoU on Collaborative Research
MoU between Portugal India Business Hub & AICEP
Month:Current Affairs – June, 2017
Categories: International
Tags: Bilateral relations • Current Affairs - 2017 • India-International Relations • India-Portugal • International


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Once Upon a Time in Bath (The Brides of Bath #7)
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REGENCY: Lord Appleton has never lost his head at the gaming tables, yet in a single night he cannot remember, he has gambled away his fortune, and now his debts are being held by a vile man who seeks Appleton's sister's hand in return for the I.O.Us.
The Lord of the Highwaymen (Hearts and Highways Book 1)
VICTORIAN: The Honorable William Haddington is having no end of trouble wooing the woman he loves. Prone to bumbling scholarly recitations when attempting to flirt with his best friend and love, Lady Amelia Fellowes, William and his friends attempt to plan his proposal at Brooks club.
To Win a Widow (Soldiers & Soulmates Book 5)
Rhys Armistead never expects to rise above his station as a stable groom, a job he loves. When a distant cousin selects Rhys as next in line for Earl of Sheffington, he is shocked and in total disbelief. He's on the Continent fighting when he's notified the time has come, and he must assume the title of Earl. When he meets widow Dalinda Baker by chance, the wheels of fate begin to turn.
Pursued by the Rake (Season of Scandal Book 1)
Hazel Curwen, attendant to the Princess of Wales in 1814, arrives for duty in Connaught Place to find a raucous party occurring. She adroitly avoids the inebriated men on her way to the princess's chambers, only to find three other young ladies hiding within the antechamber.
A Widow's Guide to Scandal
All Henrietta Smith wants is her roof fixed. Instead, she ends up with a British soldier in her home threatening her friends, a dog tracking mud through her house and stealing chickens, and Marcus Hardwicke disrupting her life by trying to improve it. After falling off of Henrietta's roof, Marcus cannot leave until his broken ankle heals.


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NEW YORK—The 226-room Fairfield Inn & Suites New York Manhattan Central Park has opened.
Located at 538 W. 58th St., the property offers complimentary amenities, including a full American hot breakfast, wired and wireless internet access and a seven-day pass to a local fitness club. The property is proximate to local attractions such as Central Park, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall and the Fifth Ave. shopping district.
Guestrooms, configured as 165 king rooms and 61 double-double rooms, are equipped with a 42-in. HD TV with premium channels, laptop safe, coffee- and tea-maker, mini fridge and new bedding. A desk and office chair are also provided. The centerpiece of the hotel's lobby is Bar 58, a lounge showcasing artwork, natural window light and a spiral marble staircase to the lower level. The hotel also will offer a complimentary 24-hour, on-site gym and business center.
"Delivering both function and comfort, our new design and decor elevate the Fairfield brand, setting a new standard in moderately priced hotels," said Shruti Buckley, VP and global brand manager, Fairfield Inn & Suites.
The hotel will be the first Marriott to be owned by M&R Hotel Group and managed by M&R Hotel Management, both of Great Neck, NY.
M&R Hotel Management is a third-party management company with a portfolio of 17 hotels, including 14 in New York City, one near Boston and two in the Caribbean. The company is headquartered in Great Neck, NY with an office in Dallas.


A new study aims to analyse the risks of smart devices, from the humble smartphone right up to TVs, smart bulbs, plugs, sensors, smart speakers, Alexa, Google Home, Amazon Echo, security cameras, and any other internet-connected device used in the home.
Researchers want to explore risks in terms of their security and privacy, as well as bandwidth risk that could slow down the home's internet connection.
The researchers are offering a tool called the IoT inspector, which is available to anyone who wants to participate in the research.
"Our goal is to measure and visualise these risks, both for research and for the user. To this end, we release IoT Inspector — an open-source software that you can download to inspect your home network and identify any privacy, security, and performance problems associated with your IoT devices," the researchers state.
The IoT Inspector collects and transmits information about devices connected to the home network. The information includes: Who the IoT device contacts through the internet and whether the contact is malicious or a known user tracker; how much data is exchanged; and how often data is exchanged.
That information is used to provide transparency into IoT devices, including whether those devices are sharing information with third parties; whether the devices have been hacked or used in DDoS attacks; and whether the devices are slowing down a home network.
The IoT Inspector doesn't collect information about devices' network activities, the contents of the communication, or personally identifiable information like network IP addresses, or names and emails.
Those who are keen to use IoT Inspector but want to exclude particular devices from monitoring must either power the devices down while setting up IoT Inspector, or specify the device's exact MAC address.
There may be a few side effects of running IoT Inspector on your device. Those effects include a drop in network performance (it may slow your network down); bugs and errors; and data breaches in the event that the university's secure server is compromised.
"An attacker will have access to this form and the collected data. However, the attacker will be unable to infer what IoT devices you own (because the attacker would not know the real-world identities behind each device), and what you do with your devices," the researchers state.


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The 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball season, also known as 7DAYS EuroCup for sponsorship reasons, is the 17th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is the 11th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the third season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.

Team allocation
A total of 24 teams participate in the 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball.

Distribution
The table below shows the default access list.

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
WC: Wild card

Notes

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Draw
The draw was held on 5 July 2018 at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona.

The 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six, with the restriction that teams from the same country could not be drawn against each other. For this purpose, Adriatic League worked as only one country. For the draw, the teams were seeded into six pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.

Notes

 Indicates teams with points applying the minimum for the league they play.

The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general are not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).

Regular season

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-up, third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams advanced to the Top 16, while the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were 2–3 October, 9–10 October, 16–17 October, 23–24 October, 30–31 October, 6–7 November, 13–14 November, 20–21 November, 11–12 December, and 18–19 December 2018.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Top 16
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the Playoffs, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were 2–3 January, 8–9 January, 15–16 January, 22–23 January, 29–30 January, and 5–6 February 2019.

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Playoffs

In the playoffs, teams play against each other must win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the game that remains is omitted. The team that finished in the higher Top 16 place will play the first and the third (if it is necessary) legs of the series at home. The playoffs involves the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the Top 16.

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Attendances

Awards

7DAYS EuroCup MVP

7DAYS EuroCup Finals MVP

All–7DAYS EuroCup Teams

Coach of the Year

Rising Star

Regular Season MVP

Top 16 MVP

Quarterfinals MVP

Semifinals MVP

MVP of the Round
Regular Season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

See also
2018–19 EuroLeague
2018–19 Basketball Champions League
2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup

References

External links
Official website

EuroCup Basketball seasons

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Q: Imitating a blink tag with CSS3 animations I really want to make a piece of text blink the old-school style without using javascript or text-decoration.
No transitions, only *blink*, *blink*, *blink*!

This is different from that question because I ask for blinking without continuous transitions, whereas OP of the other questions asks how to replace blinking with continuous transitions

A: Another variation

.blink {
    -webkit-animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;
            animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink { 50% { visibility: hidden; }}
        @keyframes blink { 50% { visibility: hidden; }}
This is blink

A: Try this CSS

@keyframes blink {
  0% { color: red; }
  100% { color: black; }
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink {
  0% { color: red; }
  100% { color: black; }
}
.blink {
  -webkit-animation: blink 1s linear infinite;
  -moz-animation: blink 1s linear infinite;
  animation: blink 1s linear infinite;
}
This is blink

You need browser/vendor specific prefixes: http://jsfiddle.net/es6e6/1/.

A: If you want smooth blinking text or something a like you can use following code:

 .blinking {
    -webkit-animation: 1s blink ease infinite;
    -moz-animation: 1s blink ease infinite;
    -ms-animation: 1s blink ease infinite;
    -o-animation: 1s blink ease infinite;
    animation: 1s blink ease infinite;
  }

  @keyframes "blink" {

    from,
    to {
      opacity: 0;
    }

    50% {
      opacity: 1;
    }
  }

  @-moz-keyframes blink {

    from,
    to {
      opacity: 0;
    }

    50% {
      opacity: 1;
    }
  }

  @-webkit-keyframes "blink" {

    from,
    to {
      opacity: 0;
    }

    50% {
      opacity: 1;
    }
  }

  @-ms-keyframes "blink" {

    from,
    to {
      opacity: 0;
    }

    50% {
      opacity: 1;
    }
  }

  @-o-keyframes "blink" {

    from,
    to {
      opacity: 0;
    }

    50% {
      opacity: 1;
    }
  }
I am smoothly blinking

A: There's actually no need for visibility or opacity - you can simply use color, which has the upside of keeping any "blinking" to the text only:

blink {
    display: inline;
    color: inherit;
    animation: blink 1s steps(1) infinite;
    -webkit-animation: blink 1s steps(1) infinite;
}
@keyframes blink { 50% { color: transparent; } }
@-webkit-keyframes blink { 50% { color: transparent; } }
Here is some text, <blink>this text will blink</blink>, this will not.

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/2r8JL/

A: The original Netscape <blink> had an 80% duty cycle. This comes pretty close, although the real <blink> only affects text:

.blink {
  animation: blink-animation 1s steps(5, start) infinite;
  -webkit-animation: blink-animation 1s steps(5, start) infinite;
}
@keyframes blink-animation {
  to {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink-animation {
  to {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}
This is blinking text.

You can find more info about Keyframe Animations here.

A: It's working in my case blinking text at 1s interval.
.blink_me {
  color:#e91e63;
  font-size:140%;
  font-weight:bold;
  padding:0 20px 0  0;
  animation: blinker 1s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes blinker {
  50% { opacity: 0.4; }
}

A: Let me show you a little trick.
As Arkanciscan said, you can use CSS3 transitions. But his solution looks different from the original  tag.
What you really need to do is this:

@keyframes blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0.0;
  }
}
.blink {
  animation: blink 1s step-start 0s infinite;
}
Blink

JSfiddle Demo

A: I'm going to hell for this :
=keyframes($name)
  @-webkit-keyframes #{$name}
    @content
  @-moz-keyframes #{$name}
    @content
  @-ms-keyframes #{$name}
    @content
  @keyframes #{$name}
    @content

+keyframes(blink)
  25%
    zoom: 1
    opacity: 1

  65%
    opacity: 1

  66%
    opacity: 0

  100%
    opacity: 0

body
  font-family: sans-serif
  font-size: 4em
  background: #222
  text-align: center

  .blink
    color: rgba(#fff, 0.9)
    +animation(blink 1s 0s reverse infinite)
    +transform(translateZ(0))

.table
  display: table
  height: 5em
  width: 100%
  vertical-align: middle

  .cell
    display: table-cell
    width: 100%
    height: 100%
    vertical-align: middle

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/kaGxC (sass with bourbon)

A: Please find below solution for your code.

@keyframes blink {
  50% {
    color: transparent;
  }
}

.loader__dot {
  animation: 1s blink infinite;
}

.loader__dot:nth-child(2) {
  animation-delay: 250ms;
}

.loader__dot:nth-child(3) {
  animation-delay: 500ms;
}
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A: if you want some glow effect use this
@keyframes blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0.0;
  }
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0.0;
  }
}

atom-text-editor::shadow  .bracket-matcher .region {
    border:none;
    background-color: rgba(195,195,255,0.1);
    border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(155,155,255);
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 9px 4px rgba(155,155,255,0.1);
    border-radius: 3px;
    animation: blink 2s steps(115, start) infinite;
    -webkit-animation: blink 2s steps(115, start) infinite;
}

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ONGC appoints Pomila Jaspal as the Director (Finance) and CFO
Prior to being appointed as the Director (Finance) of ONGC, Jaspal served as the Director (Finance) at MRPL, which is an arm of ONGC. She was the First ever woman Functional Director on the Board of MRPL.
April 19, 2022, 15:05 IST
Government-owned oil and gas explorer and producer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has appointed Pomila Jaspal as the Director (Finance) and Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect, the company informed the exchanges on Tuesday.
Jaspal, who is a Fellow Member and Gold Medalist of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, has 36 years of experience across varied segments of the oil & gas Industry comprising operating, regulatory, and policy aspects of upstream and downstream industry.
Jaspal has been working with ONGC since 1985. She has also served as Director on the Board of ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL), Petronet Mangalore Hassan Bangalore Limited (PMHBL) and ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL).
Jaspal holds a B.Com. (Hons.) degree from MCM DAV College, Chandigarh and M.Com from Punjab University.
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For years, Republicans and Democrats alike have called for middle-class tax cuts. Last week, the Senate passed legislation that will finally deliver it.
This tax reform plan helps middle-class families directly in three main ways. It lowers tax rates, doubles the child tax credit to $2,000, and doubles the standard deduction to $24,000 per family.
This means a larger "zero income tax bracket," which will take about 3 million more lower-income Americans off the tax rolls altogether.
The independent Tax Foundation estimates these reforms will benefit families across middle-class income brackets in 2018. For example, a single parent with two children earning $52,000 a year will see a 36 percent reduction in their taxes. A family with two kids earning $85,000 a year will see a 20 percent reduction in their taxes. And a family with two kids earning $165,000 a year will see an eight percent reduction in their taxes. This is because the biggest proportion of tax benefit goes to middle-class families at the lower end of the economic ladder.
The Tax Foundation also estimates that the tax cuts in this proposal will save an Ohio family making $65,000 a year $2,375 a year on their taxes by the time the plan is fully phased in. That extra $2,375 helps working families make a car payment, pay for health care, or save for retirement.
Opponents of this tax reform have claimed that repealing the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate will somehow hurt the poor, but the opposite is true. The individual mandate is a regressive tax that hurts lower-to-middle-class Americans who choose not to purchase an Affordable Care Act-approved health care plan. In fact, about 83 percent of Ohioans who paid the mandate tax in 2015 were in families making $50,000 or less. Every American will continue to have the ability to sign up for health care and receive subsidies under our bill; they just won't be taxed and penalized if they choose not to.
This bill also takes important steps toward reforming our business tax code and leveling the playing field internationally to make American workers and companies more competitive.
A recent Ernst & Young study said that since 2004, there would be 4,700 more American companies today if we would have had a 20 percent corporate tax rate, as we have in this bill.
In addition, there are between $2.5 trillion and $3 trillion of earnings trapped overseas because of our outdated tax code. Our bill encourages companies to bring that money back here and to invest in America. The result of these changes, the Tax Foundation says, will be nearly one million new jobs for the U.S. and more than 35,000 new jobs in Ohio.
I believe claims this bill will increase the deficit are wrong. The antiquated budget process we are forced to use assumes that the economy will grow at a paltry 1.9 percent over the next 10 years. That's much lower than the national average over the past 30 years, and much lower than the last two quarters of more than three percent growth.
These distinguished economists who wrote the open letter agree with my optimism. They estimate that tax reform can generate an additional 0.4 percent growth annually and $1 trillion in new revenue, which is consistent with data from the Congressional Budget Office showing that every tenth of a percent of economic growth will generate an additional $273 billion in revenue over 10 years. The pro-growth reforms in this bill will result in more investments and job creation in America, and ultimately, lower deficits.
Lastly, I'd like to address the suggestion that our plan will result in cuts to Medicare through a budget sequester. This bill does not touch Medicare. On a bipartisan basis, Congress has waived these sequesters 16 times since 2010 to pave the way for middle-class tax cuts, and I fully expect that to happen again.
I've had roundtable discussions with small business leaders in Cleveland and around the state and they agree this reform will create jobs and boost the economy.
I think most Ohioans agree that middle-class tax cuts are a good idea, that our nation's businesses should be given the chance to compete, and that we should encourage investment in America — not overseas.
This bill is a commitment to create a better economy and a better future.


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Michael Vinikoor
mjv3@uab.edu
Associate Scientist (C), Center for AIDS Research , School of Medicine
Associate Professor (P), Medicine - Infectious Diseases , Department of Medicine
Scholar (C), Sparkman Center for Global Health , School of Public Health
Infectious diseases doctor
Global health researcher based in Africa
HIV and viral hepatitis expert
Mentor and trainer of trainers in public health, clinical medicine, and clinical research
2022 High Unreported Mortality in Children and Youth (<25 Years) Living With HIV Who Were Lost to Care From Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Southern Africa: Results From a Multicountry Tracing Study 2022
2022 Advanced HIV disease management practices within inpatient medicine units at a referral hospital in Zambia: a retrospective chart review. AIDS Research and Therapy. 19. 2022
2022 Comparative effectiveness of in-person vs. remote delivery of the Common Elements Treatment Approach for addressing mental and behavioral health problems among adolescents and young adults in Zambia: protocol of a three-arm randomized controlled trial. Trials. 23. 2022
2022 Growth patterns of infants with in- utero HIV and ARV exposure in Cape Town, South Africa and Lusaka, Zambia. BMC Public Health. 22. 2022
2022 Liver steatosis and metabolic dysfunction-Associated fatty liver disease among HIV-positive and negative adults in urban Zambia. BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 9. 2022
2022 Alcohol reduction outcomes following brief counseling among adults with HIV in Zambia: A sequential mixed methods study. PLOS Global Public Health. 2:e0000240. 2022
2022 Effect of antiretroviral therapy care interruptions on mortality in children living with HIV. AIDS. 36:729-737. 2022
2022 Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma among adults with HIV/HBV co-infection in Zambia: a pilot study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 116:391-396. 2022
2022 Efficacy of the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) for Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Adults with HIV in Zambia: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 26:523-536. 2022
2022 Tracing People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Who Are Lost to Follow-up at Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Southern Africa: A Sampling-Based Cohort Study in 6 Countries. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 74:171-179. 2022
2022 Identifying barriers to ART initiation and adherence: An exploratory qualitative study on PMTCT in Zambia. PLoS One. 17. 2022
2022 Intersection of alcohol use, HIV infection, and the HIV care continuum in Zambia: nationally representative survey 2022
2021 Testing the validity of the AUDIT-C and AUDIT-3 to detect unhealthy alcohol use among high-risk populations in Zambia: A secondary analysis from two randomized trials. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 229. 2021
2021 TREAT-B: Simple low-cost diagnostic score for when to treat hepatitis B. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73:E1078-E1079. 2021
2021 Variations in the characteristics and outcomes of children living with HIV following universal ART in sub-Saharan Africa (2006–17): a retrospective cohort study. Lancet HIV. 8:e353-e362. 2021
2021 Effect of Enhanced Adherence Package on Early ART Uptake Among HIV-Positive Pregnant Women in Zambia: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 25:992-1000. 2021
2020 Advanced HIV disease during the 'Treat All' era in Botswana. AIDS. 34:2321-2323. 2020
2020 Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) for unhealthy alcohol use among persons with HIV in Zambia: Study protocol of the ZCAP randomized controlled trial. Addictive Behaviors Reports. 12. 2020
2020 Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis in Zambian adults is characterized by increased liver stiffness: A nested case-control study. Vaccine Reports. 6. 2020
2020 Characterizing the double-sided cascade of care for adolescents living with HIV transitioning to adulthood across Southern Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 23. 2020
2020 Eligibility for hepatitis B antiviral therapy among adults in the general population in Zambia. PLoS One. 15. 2020
2020 Propranolol reduces portal vein diameter in schistosomal liver disease with portal hypertension: A prospective cohort study. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 102:832-837. 2020
2019 Concordance of Self- and Partner-Reported Alcohol Consumption Among Couples Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence in Zambia. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 43:2568-2577. 2019
2019 High Rates of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Functional Cure among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-HBV Coinfected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 149:218-222. 2019
2019 Care Continuum and Postdischarge Outcomes among HIV-Infected Adults Admitted to the Hospital in Zambia. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 6. 2019
2019 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Detected in the Central Nervous System (CNS) after Years of Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy Can Originate from a Replicating CNS Reservoir or Clonally Expanded Cells. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69:1345-1352. 2019
2019 Changes in rapid hiv treatment initiation after national "treat all" policy adoption in 6 sub-saharan african countries: Regression discontinuity analysis. PLoS Medicine. 16. 2019
2019 Temporal trends in co-trimoxazole use among children on antiretroviral therapy and the impact of co-trimoxazole on mortality rates in children without severe immunodeficiency. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 8:450-460. 2019
2019 Hepatitis B Therapy as HIV Prevention in Africa: A Case Series From Zambia. Hepatology. 69:458-460. 2019
2018 High prevalence of binge drinking among people living with HIV in four African countries. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 21. 2018
2018 Mortality and losses to follow-up among adolescents living with HIV in the IeDEA global cohort collaboration. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 21. 2018
2018 Global temporal changes in the proportion of children with advanced disease at the start of combination antiretroviral therapy in an era of changing criteria for treatment initiation. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 21. 2018
2018 Mental health comorbidity in low-income and middle-income countries: a call for improved measurement and treatment. Lancet Psychiatry. 5:864-866. 2018
2018 Lamivudine monotherapy as a holding regimen for HIV-positive children. PLoS One. 13. 2018
2018 No Impact of Hepatitis B Virus Infection on Early Mortality among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients in Southern Africa. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 67:1310-1311. 2018
2018 HIV Self-Testing in Lusaka Province, Zambia: Acceptability, Comprehension of Testing Instructions, and Individual Preferences for Self-Test Kit Distribution in a Population-Based Sample of Adolescents and Adults. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 34:254-260. 2018
2018 Retention and mortality on antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: Collaborative analyses of HIV treatment programmes: Collaborative. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 21. 2018
2018 Assessing the association between changing NRTIs when initiating second-line ART and treatment outcomes 2018
2018 Chronic hepatitis B virus monoinfection at a university hospital in Zambia. World Journal of Hepatology. 10:622-628. 2018
2018 Field performance of the Determine HBsAg point-of-care test for diagnosis of hepatitis B virus co-infection among HIV patients in Zambia. Journal of Clinical Virology. 98:5-7. 2018
2018 Hepatitis B virus contact disclosure and testing in Lusaka, Zambia: A mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 8. 2018
2018 Point-of-care urine ethyl glucuronide testing to detect alcohol use among HIV-hepatitis B virus coinfected adults in Zambia. AIDS and Behavior. 22:2334-2339. 2018
2018 Predictors of Infant Hepatitis B Immunization in Cameroon: Data to Inform Implementation of a Hepatitis B Birth Dose 2018
2018 Rifaximin reduces markers of inflammation and bacterial 16S rRNA in Zambian adults with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis: A randomized control trial. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 98:1152-1158. 2018
2017 Trends in hepatitis B virus testing practices and management in HIV clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17. 2017
2017 Stage of disease in hepatitis B virus infection in Zambian adults is associated with large cell change but not well defined using classic biomarkers. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 111:425-432. 2017
2017 Risk factors for impaired fasting glucose or diabetes among HIV infected patients on ART in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Lipid Disorders. 16. 2017
2017 Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Liver Fibrosis among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults with and Without HBV Coinfection in Zambia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 64:1343-1349. 2017
2017 Awareness and management of elevated blood pressure among human immunodeficiency virus–infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in urban Zambia: A call to action. Global Health Action. 10:1-5. 2017
2016 Association between hepatitis B co-infection and elevated liver stiffness among HIV-infected adults in Lusaka, Zambia. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 21:1435-1441. 2016
2016 Kaposi sarcoma risk in HIV-infected children and adolescents on combination antiretroviral therapy from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 63:1245-1253. 2016
2016 Liver fibrosis in treatment-naïve HIV-infected and HIV/HBV co-infected patients: Zambia and Switzerland compared. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 51:97-102. 2016
2016 Absence of active hepatitis C virus infection in human immunodeficiency virus clinics in Zambia and Mozambique. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 3. 2016
2016 Hepatitis B infection, viral load and resistance in HIV-infected patients in Mozambique and Zambia. PLoS One. 11. 2016
2016 Corrigendum to "Hepatitis B viral load in dried blood spots: A validation study in Zambia" [J. Clin. Virol. 72 (2015) 20-24] Doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.08.019. Journal of Clinical Virology. 74:88. 2016
2015 Pediatric HIV-HBV coinfection in Lusaka, Zambia: Prevalence and short-term treatment outcomes. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 61:464-467. 2015
2015 Hepatitis B viral load in dried blood spots: A validation study in Zambia. Journal of Clinical Virology. 72:20-24. 2015
2015 Implementation of routine screening for chronic hepatitis B virus co-infection by HIV clinics in Lusaka, Zambia. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 22:858-860. 2015
2015 Response to 'Is AST-to-platelet ratio index a reliable tool in HIV patients in Africa?'. Liver International. 35:2060. 2015
2015 Elevated AST-to-platelet ratio index is associated with increased all-cause mortality among HIV-infected adults in Zambia. Liver International. 35:1886-1892. 2015
2015 Validation of medicaid claims-based diagnosis of myocardial infarction using an HIV clinical cohort. Medical Care. 53:e41-e48. 2015
2014 Chronic hepatitis B virus coinfection is associated with renal impairment among zambian HIV-infected adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 59:1757-1760. 2014
2014 Age at antiretroviral therapy initiation predicts immune recovery, death, and loss to follow-up among HIV-infected adults in urban Zambia. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30:949-955. 2014
2014 Effect of baseline renal function on tenofovir-containing antiretroviral therapy outcomes in Zambia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 58:1473-1480. 2014
2014 Leveraging rapid implementation of an HIV treatment policy to reduce confounding in observational analysis of antiretroviral outcomes. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 19:499-500. 2014
2014 Short communication: Late refills during the first year of antiretroviral therapy predict mortality and program failure among HIV-infected adults in Urban Zambia. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30:74-77. 2014
2013 Incidence and clinical features of cerebrovascular disease among HIV-infected adults in the southeastern United States. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 29:1068-1074. 2013
2013 Antiretroviral therapy initiated during acute HIV infection fails to prevent persistent T-cell activation 2013
2013 Do all candidemic patients need an ophthalmic examination?. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 17. 2013
2012 Clinical scoring for risk of resistant organisms in pneumonia: Right idea, wrong interpretation. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 55:749-750. 2012
2011 Herpes simplex virus type 2 mimicking necrotizing fasciitis. ACP journal club. 155:567-568. 2011
2009 Influenza A virus subtyping: Paradigm shift in influenza diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47:3055-3056. 2009
My research focuses on 3 areas:
#1 Hepatitis B virus infection in sub-Saharan Africa: I want to better understanding the natural history of the infection, disease co-factors, diagnostics, and accelerating elimination through scale-up of treatment and discovery of new therapeutics. My research on HBV occurs in sub-Saharan Africa where there are distinct viral genotypes and where integration with the HIV response offers significant opportunities.
#2 Nexus of Alcohol and HIV: I want to understand how alcohol undermines efforts at HIV epidemic control, develop sustainable and effective alcohol reduction treatment for people living with HIV, and advance the use of alcohol biomarkers, which reduce measurement issues.
#3 Inpatient and post-discharge HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa: I want to develop individualized and health system interventions to improve HIV care at the point of hospitalization and in the post-discharge period.
Principal Investigator On
Application of Implementation Science Approaches to Assess the Effectiveness of Task-shifted WHO-PEN to Address Cardiometabolic Complications in People Living with HIV in Zambia awarded by Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Developing Research Training in Zambia to Address the Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Mental Illness Amongst HIV Infested Population awarded by Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Evaluating Implementation Strategies to Scale-Up Transdiagnostic Evidence-Based Mental Health Care in Zambia awarded by Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment Approach for Alcohol Misuse Integrated Within HIV Care in Zambia awarded by Johns Hopkins University
Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment Approach for Alcohol Misuse Integrated Within HIV Care in Zambia awarded by Columbia University
Feasibility of an Integrated Intervention to Reduce Advanced HIV Disease Mortality among Hospitalized Adults in Zambia awarded by National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
HVTN 705 Protocol Funds awarded by Hutchinson (Fred) Cancer Research Center
Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Liver Fibrosis in Zambian HIV/HBV Patients awarded by Fogarty International Center/NIH/DHHS
Management of HEP Cohort awarded by UNIVERSITY OF BERN
Mechanisms of HBV Functional Cure During Tenofovir-based ART in HIV/HBV Coinfection awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Private Grant awarded by Gilead Sciences ^
Re-Engagement at Discharge (Re-Charge): Improving Post-Hospital Outcomes for HIV-infected Adults in Zambia awarded by University of Maryland
UAB Center for AIDS Research - Care Cascade and Discharge Outcomes of Hospitalized HIV + Aambians awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA) - CHARTZ awarded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH/DHHS
A-Z Clinical Trials Unit awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS
UAB Center for AIDS Research awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS
Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA) awarded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH/DHHS
Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA) - Admin-Core awarded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH/DHHS
Teaching Overview
I serve as a teaching medicine attending at UAB hospital, I mentor global health-oriented students through the UAB Sparkman Center and medical students at UAB medical school. I also serve as a mentor for numerous public health practitioners and junior investigators at Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (www.cidrz.org) and for masters and PhD students at University of Zambia.
Rush Medical College of Rush University, Residency
University of North Carolina Hospital Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Doctor of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago 2006
Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Biology, University of Illinois System : Urbana-Champaign 2001


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'You're a diva, Jackie O!'
THERE was a heated exchange on radio this morning when Jackie O was called out for how she treated a hairdresser.
Melissa Overman | September 05, 2016
The KIIS FM host was shocked when she read a recent interview in the Courier Mail with a Brisbane-based hairdresser who was dishing the dirt on some of her famous clients.
"Everyone is lovely, except for Jackie O," Carole Haddad from the Corcorz Hair salon said in the article.
Jackie O and her co-host, Kyle Sandilands, called the hairdresser live on air this morning to find out what the radio star did to upset her.
News.com.au recaps what happened then perfectly ...
"Do you want me to tell you live on radio?" Haddad asked. "A lot of people think Kyle is a diva but I believe it's you Jackie," the hairdresser said. "I believe you're the quietest assassin there is in Australia."
A confused Jackie O continued, "What happened though?"
Haddad then revealed that she's been holding a grudge since 2008 when she did hair and makeup behind the scenes of Big Brother, which at the time was hosted by Kyle and Jackie O.
"We were booked to come for every Sunday," Haddad said.
"As a single mum and I care for my mother, I travelled all the way down to Dreamworld to do your hair. You didn't even turn up to hair and makeup. You did not even bother telling us not to come. You did your own hair and makeup."
Jackie O explained to Haddad that she told the producers from the outset she was going to do her own hair and makeup on the reality show and she blamed the misunderstanding on a "communication breakdown".
Ms Haddad wasn't buying it.
"You actually totally ignored hair and makeup," the hairdresser said, "Not to turn up to hair and makeup, I thought that was rude".
A fired up Jackie O then let her have it.
"Do you know how embarrassing it is for you in your profession to talk badly about people," the radio star said, "Do you know that's the biggest no no?"
But Haddad didn't back down.
"Do you know how unprofessional it is in your industry to treat hairdressers like peasants?" she said.
Jackie O again apologised for the misunderstanding and asked Haddad, "But is that what warrants going and absolutely sh*t canning me in the paper?"
"Well no, not really," Haddad admitted.
"I just said diva and you are a diva. You're the black widow of the TV stations."
And that was the comment that tipped Jackie O over the edge.
"You're crazy," the KIIS FM host said, "I honestly can't believe that".
Judging by the backlash the hairdresser has received on social media we'd say the result of this one is: Jackie O one. Haddad none.
For more on the story go to news.com.au.


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Baroness Scotland And The Illegal Worker
Baroness Scotland, who was a Home Office minister when laws were passed to fine bosses who employ illegal workers up to £10,000, has herself been fined after being found to have employed a housekeeper who was not allowed to work in the UK.
It is understood that the lady she employed arrived in the UK in 2003 on a temporary visa which has since expired. Baroness Scotland says she hired her housekeeper in good faith and saw documents which led her to believe that she was entitled to work in this country, but failed to make and keep copies of relevant documents as required by the law.
Unfortunately, this is not sufficient defence under the terms of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act, which states not only that employers who knowingly take on an illegal worker face a two-year prison sentence and an unlimited fine, but that those who unknowingly (our italics) take on illegal workers face a maximum £10,000 fine.
Although her housekeeper was registered for tax and national insurance prior to her being hired and the attorney general had paid tax and national insurance on her wages, a spokesman for the Immigration Advisory Service explained: 'The perusal of a National Insurance certificate in itself is insufficient to escape a civil penalty'.
So what can you do to protect yourself in this situation, and ensure that you are following the law? As an employer, you must ask prospective employees to produce a document, or documents, from one of two lists if you are to ensure that they can work for you legally and so that you can establish a statutory excuse ('the excuse') against payment of a civil penalty.
Documents provided from List A establish that the person has an ongoing entitlement to work in the UK; documents from List B indicate that the applicant or employee has restrictions on their entitlement to be in the UK.
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Mumbai, Aug 10 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been hosting "Kaun Banega Crorepati" (KBC) for several seasons now. Beyond hosting duties, he is also fully involved in the process of making the game show, says its director Arun Sheshkumar.
"He is fully involved in the process (of making the show). Right from the time that 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' gets announced, he meets the team and is involved in the process of making the show a success. Even today, he rehearses everything beforehand, even though we all know he doesn't need to," said Sheshkumar, whose association with the show started in 2008.
"He does his homework without fail. I remember once he called me and said, 'I don't just walk into the set. I think through it all night; I think about it on my way to Filmcity. I am only thinking KBC, what to do and when to do it."
The 11th season of KBC will premiere on August 19 on Sony Entertainment Television.
It has been about 11 years that Sheshkumar has been part of KBC. This is his sixth season where he is directing the show.
How is it like working with Amitabh?
"Honestly, very stressful (laughs). Even after such a long association, I still have sleepless nights before the start of KBC. I have been in the industry for about 19 years, I have worked on multiple shows but, till date, when I come on the sets of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', for the first 15 minutes I am very nervous. That feeling is great for me, I know that after such an extensive experience in the industry I shouldn't be nervous, but I love the butterflies in the stomach for a simple reason because it keeps me on the edge. Mr. Bachchan is a perfectionist and for him I want to deliver my best. So, I love the feeling of excitement and nervousness. Every time I come on the set it is as good as directing my first," said Sheshkumar.
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