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Kuala Lumpur, 28 April 2015 – Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) today unveiled its international waqf foundation, the first Islamic foundation designed with an international market in mind, strengthening its position as an international Islamic wealth management centre.
Labuan IBFC's Chief Executive Officer, Saiful Bahari Baharom, said: "Labuan IBFC is Asia's only midshore jurisdiction with conventional and Islamic wealth management solutions. Capitalising on this strength, the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA) established a waqf using widely-recognised foundation and trust laws, giving it greater international standing and appeal. It is our hope that the Labuan international waqf foundation will be taken up by the Muslim community in both Malaysia and abroad."
The waqf was unveiled at the Labuan IBFC and BNP Paribas – INCEIF Centre for Islamic Wealth Management (CIWM) annual Islamic Wealth Management Symposium that is aimed at raising awareness of Islamic wealth management, particularly Islamic trusts and foundations.
The Director of the BNP Paribas – INCEIF CIWM, Professor Dr Shamsher Mohamad, said: "Waqf is the least exposed aspect of Islamic wealth management. It has great potential to spur economic growth and help develop the nation. History has provided us with evidence on how the waqf system can generate revenue to support education, welfare and even hospitals in Turkey and Egypt. The waqf is still functioning effectively today. In Malaysia, we have the potential, being a predominantly Muslim country, but need the support of the people and political commitment to make waqf a successful and complementary part of our nation's economic support system. The Islamic Wealth Management Symposium 2015 is one of the many series of events planned and organised by CIWM to create awareness and seek ideas to lay the foundation to develop effective waqf structures in the country. There are many challenges ahead, but nothing is impossible, God willing."
From left: Prof. Datuk. Dr. Syed Othman Alhabshi (Chief Academic Officer, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF)), Prof. Dr. Shamser Mohamad (Director, BNP Paribas - INCEIF Centre for Islamic Wealth Management (CIWM)), and Saiful Bahari Baharom (Chief Executive Officer, Labuan IBFC Inc).
The Symposium addressed a number of issues pertinent to the future growth of Malaysia's Islamic wealth management industry, including:
Malaysia's role in developing a global wealth management industry;
The need for a more diversified Shariah-compliant investment product range;
How Malaysia can better service the growing Islamic high-net-worth client base;
The merits of establishing an international waqf foundation.
Segments from the event, including speaker presentations, are available on-demand at www.libfc.com and www.inceif.org/CIWM.
Shamillia Sivathambu, Director, Communications
Labuan IBFC Inc. Sdn Bhd
Tel +603 2773 8977 shamillia@libfc.com
Charu Srivastava, Senior Consultant
Bell Pottinger
Tel +65 9450 7678 csrivastava@bellpottinger.com
ABOUT LABUAN IBFC - ASIA PACIFIC'S MIDSHORE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL CENTRE
Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) offers global investors the benefits of a leading international financial centre with access to Malaysia's network of over 70 double taxation treaties. As a leading midshore jurisdiction, investors enjoy the benefits of Labuan's efficient fiscal framework and market-friendly business environment, supported by professional service providers specialising in all aspects of insurance, takaful, international tax, trust and law.
Located off the North West coast of Borneo, Labuan IBFC is a leading jurisdiction for conventional and Islamic financial services.
Please visit: www.libfc.com.
ABOUT BNP PARIBAS – INCEIF CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The Centre is a joint initiative between BNP Paribas Malaysia Berhad and INCEIF dedicated to support the growth of the Islamic wealth management industry, asset management and capital markets with the key objectives of furthering education and research, industry innovation, and policy development.
To facilitate the planned objectives, the Centre will undertake applied research, and conduct workshops, conferences, roundtable discussions and public lectures in the areas of Islamic wealth management that covers aspects of wealth generation, accumulation, protection, purification and distribution.
The Centre aims to be a catalyst of innovation in the nascent area of Islamic wealth management by enhancing the knowledge and know-how of practitioners, Shariah scholars, students, investors and the public. It will also undertake applied research in specialized Islamic wealth management areas to provide solutions to issues in the global Islamic wealth management industry, thus further enhancing Malaysia's position as a regional and international hub for Islamic finance.
The scope of the Centre is aligned to support the growth of the Islamic wealth management industry that can offer innovative financial solutions to meet the more sophisticated investment demands of the increasingly affluent population particularly in Asia and the Middle East, thus positioning Malaysia as a regional and international Centre for Islamic fund and wealth management, as stated in the Financial Sector Blueprint of Bank Negara Malaysia.
The Centre is an important collaborative effort between a global bank with a strong local presence and a university aiming to be a thought leader in Islamic Finance education. The setting up of the Centre augurs wells for Malaysia as the country seeks to become an internationally recognised hub for Islamic wealth management.


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Obama once visited '60s radicals
Politico ^ | Feb 22, 2008 | Ben Smith
Posted on 02/22/2008 3:54:45 PM PST by ricks_place
Former radical activist Bernardine Dohrn and her companion William Ayers leave court in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1981. Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the 'Days of Rage' disturbance in Chicago in 1969.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they're better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.
"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress," said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. "[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor."
Obama and Palmer "were both there," he said.
Obama's connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.
Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men...
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; barackhusseinobama; chebama; dohrn; husseinobama; nobama; obama; obomber; weathermen; weatherunderground
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Former radical activist Bernardine Dohrn and her companion William Ayers leave court in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1981. Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the 'Days of Rage' disturbance in Chicago in 1969. Photo: AP
1 posted on 02/22/2008 3:54:46 PM PST by ricks_place
To: ricks_place
Damn! You could take a picture of a radical liberal, and it would fit anywhere in a 50+ year time span.
2 posted on 02/22/2008 4:07:21 PM PST by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn," Warren wrote on her blog in 2005. "They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread."
Ayers and Dohrn are rich kids who still believe in violent, leftist ideology. A good insight into Ayers and Dohrn is a quote by Dohrn describing the murder of Sharon Tate:
"Dig it. First they killed the pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room as them. Then they even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach. Wild." SDS activist Bernadine Dohrn praising the activities of the Charles Manson group.
3 posted on 02/22/2008 4:08:28 PM PST by detective
The story describes Obama and Ayers as "friends".
Why would anyone be friends with a person who does not regret having planting bombs in order to kill innocents?
This story will not go away.
4 posted on 02/22/2008 4:09:05 PM PST by reagandissiple
I know he might be too young, but I would love to know what Obama was doing while John McCain was a POW.
5 posted on 02/22/2008 4:18:57 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: reagandissiple
Go, Hillary!
6 posted on 02/22/2008 4:20:10 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
Is Obama taking his marching orders from
him via his pastor, Jeremiah Wright
or am I just a member of the paranoid right? ;-)
BTW, a Nation of Islam member, Know4Life, put up the U-Tube video praising Obama on 2/15/08, but the interview is a year old.
If you click on Know4Life's homepage, you can find an interesting video of Farrakhan's Minister of Health, Dr. Alim Mohammed, on the biological causes of AIDS.
Guess who is responsible for AIDS? He's a real doctor, but obviously went nuts when he joined the Nation of Islam in 1968.
I know that no one needs to be reminded of Farrakhan's beliefs.
Nevertheless, here is a video on Farrakhan:
Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he "truly epitomize[s] greatness."
To this day, Obama has not distanced himself from most of Rev. Wright's comments. In a statement supposedly issued to address the matter, Obama ignored the point that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of Farrakhan and that Wright's church was behind the award to the Nation of Islam leader.
Instead, as outlined in a Jan. 17 Newsmax article, he disingenuously claimed he thought the magazine bestowed the award on Farrakhan for his efforts to rehabilitate ex-prisoners.
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/michelle_barack_obama/2008/02/21/74416.html
7 posted on 02/22/2008 4:33:54 PM PST by vrwc54
Williams Ayers gave $200 to the Obama campaign according to Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times.
To: detective
"Then they even shoved a fork into the victim's stomachpregnant tummy. Wild."
There. Corrected.
9 posted on 02/22/2008 4:38:18 PM PST by oblomov
To: BallyBill
He's 45 years old, so he was still in grade school.
10 posted on 02/22/2008 4:39:17 PM PST by oblomov
To: oblomov; detective
Actually the fork in stomach and eating dinner with the corpses refers to the LaBianca murders that took place after the Tate murders. Leno LaBianca had the fork stuck in his stomach. Still, horrifying stuff to be exaulting.
11 posted on 02/22/2008 4:42:29 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Oh, I thought it was Sharon Tate.
To: ricks_place; Beckwith; Candor7; george76; jan in Colorado; USF
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973623/replies?c=16
Ayers went underground with several comrades after their co-conspirators' bomb accidentally exploded on March 6, 1970, destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse and killing three members of the Weather Underground (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers' girlfriend at the time). He and his colleagues invented identities and traveled continuously. They avoided the police and FBI, while bombing high-profile government buildings including; the United States Capitol, The Pentagon, and the Harry S Truman Building housing the State Department. Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn raised two children, Zayd and Malik, underground before turning themselves in in 1981, when most charges were dropped because of what Ayers described as "extreme governmental misconduct" during the long search for the fugitives.
Ayres defends Ward Churchill:
"....Ward Churchill is under a sustained, orchestrated, and determined attack because of his political beliefs and statements and activities, and nothing more. No one doubts his productivity or his accomplishments. But the attack on Churchill is neither isolated nor innocent— the high school history teacher on the west side of Chicago gets the message, and so does the English literature teacher in Detroit and the math teacher in an Oakland middle school: be careful what you say; stay close to the official story; stick to the authorized text.
If someone of Ward Churchill's stature and standing for so many years at the University of Colorado can suffer this kind of campaign, what chance do I have?
Every committee, every investigation, every report plays out under a shadow of the star chamber; everyone must choose who to be and how to act in response. For this reason I support Ward Churchill unequivocally, unapologetically, whole-heartedly. I urge my colleagues and my students and everyone who values education as a grand enterprise geared toward enlightenment and liberation to speak out forcefully and fearlessly now on behalf of the liberty of teaching and learning, on behalf of the right to think at all.
Sincerely, William Ayers
Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar University of Illinois at Chicago billayers.org
The William Ayers Problem: William Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist, though he is normally described as a distinguished education professor. One does not necessarily rule out the other, but he himself acknowledges planting bombs in U.S. Federal buildings. There is now undeniable proof of a longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers. We are not talking about two guys who just happened to bump into one another on the street. We are not talking about a secret admirer (Ayers) who quietly sent $200 to an aspiring politician.
No, we are talking about William Ayers hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama and actively working with him to secure Barack's first electoral victory in Illinois. But wait, there is more. Barack and Ayers also served on the board of the Woods Fund. And they worked together to give money to some other folks, including a group with ties to the PLO.
What makes Ayers so toxic is his own written record equating U.S. Marines with terrorists. Look at the beating that John Kerry took for tossing his medals over the White House fence. Ayers did not toss medals, he threw bombs. Real ones. Bombs that exploded.
Do you think that Republicans will ignore Obama's ties to Ayers? The two were serving on the same board in 2002. We are talking less than six years ago and the record will come out showing some questionable grants by these two characters. William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be Barack Obama's Willie Horton.
13 posted on 02/22/2008 5:14:17 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
You're right. It was the Lo Bianca murders. But it shows what kind of people launched Obama's career.
14 posted on 02/22/2008 5:32:03 PM PST by detective
To: Fred Nerks; fish hawk
15 posted on 02/22/2008 6:05:44 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
Thanks Fred.
Time for Obama's chickens to come home to roost.
Freedoms Enemies - Barack Hussein Obama
Obama: Most Liberal Senator In 2007
Radical Muslims for Obama
Obama wants summit with Muslim countries
Obama aide wants talks with terrorists
16 posted on 02/22/2008 6:13:16 PM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade)
Darn, From the headline, I thought it was his trip to the Clinton White House.
18 posted on 02/22/2008 6:15:38 PM PST by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
Dr. Quentin Young is an old, longtime identified member of the Communist Party USA (Chicago/CP hearings, HCUA, 1960s').
He also headed a front known as the "Medical Committee for Human Rights" and now heads a group roughly entitled "Physicians for Health Care Reform".
Long active in CPUSA fronts in Chicago and was an attendee at the "10th National Committee" meeting of the CPUSA legal front, the National Committee to Abolish HUAC/House Internal Security Committee, March 22-24, 1969, which this writer attended and testified about ("Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders", Part 2, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, Aug. 15, 1969). Young also listed in "Fifteenth Report Un-American Activities in California, 1970", by the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities, 1970 regular session of the California Legislature, Sacramento, Ca.m, p. 105
Also at this conference was Hillary's law professor "Thomas I. Emerson", Tommie the Commie, an id. CPUSA member,. p. 104
From Madmax, the news you won't find in the mainstream media.
19 posted on 02/22/2008 6:47:40 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Madmax, the Grinning Reaper)
I find THIS
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56626
to be as bad as anything else that Saddam Obama has done.
20 posted on 02/22/2008 6:56:13 PM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)

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Birmingham UK is set to boost tech startups all over again as Oxygen Accelerator prepares its new program for 2012.
Companies that register for the hot-house can benefit from investment of up to €41,000 per team and it is taking applications right now.
The Oxygen Accelerator program consists of a 13 week boot camp, starting on October 1st with a another 13 week incubation period following that. 10 startups will be selected to work in Birmingham's Science Park with access to industry-leading mentors who will provide support and advice on how to close on funding rounds and become revenue generating businesses.
The new program sees some changes based on feedback from the teams, investors and mentors who worked on last year's efforts.
The arrangement of 13 weeks acceleration followed by 13 weeks of incubation means that teams get more support while trying to close investment rounds. As a result of tax changes in the last budget, Oxygen Accelerator changed from a soft loan to equity investment.
Founder investment has increased from €6k to €7,500k per founder with a maximum of 3 founders per team. There is now up to €6k re-location allowance available too so in total, funding could be as much as €28,500k for 8% equity.
Oxygen Accelerator has also introduced a further €12,500k of investment for the incubation phase for a further 2% of equity. So the total potential investment of the whole 26 weeks is €41,000 for 10% equity.
When it comes to advice from the experts, the accelerator has some rich pickings, 110 mentors signed up for this year's program. So it sounds as though it will be an intense but rewarding process.
Those who wish to take part had better get a wriggle on, applications close on July 31 and with more than 50 pre-applications already received, competition will be stiff. The online application forms can be found here.
We look forward to hearing about the companies that can take things further and generate some interesting new businesses out of the Midlands.


The craftsman style main house is 8958 square feet with five bedrooms and multiple fireplaces including one in the kitchen and master suite as well as a playroom media room and wine cellar. Born to a german mother and american father in idar oberstein germany he moved to the united states with his family in 1957.
Shortly after selling his idaho ski compound actor bruce willis is listing another luxury property.
Bruce willis house. A 12 bedroom 13000 square foot compound in westchester county ny a posh area thats home to such luminaries as martha stewart richard gere and bill and hillary clinton. Collectively he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of 25 billion usd placing him in the top ten stars in terms of box office receipts. The comedy central roast of bruce willis may not air until july 29 but collider had a front row seat to the taping of the show on saturday night and lets just say that nothing was off limits.
Walter bruce willis born march 19 1955 is an american actor producer and singer. Die hard star bruce willis has been actively buying and selling real estate for years but this latest listing is a cracker. Actor and musician bruce willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard edged characters often in spectacular action films.
Die hard star bruce willis has been actively buying and selling real estate across the country for years while still managing his other business ventures and a tight film schedule. Willis might be one of americas greatest movie stars but hes not technically from america. According to his bio his mother was german and his father was an american soldier who met his mom while stationed in west germany.
Born walter willis an army brat to parents stationed in idar oberstein west germany on march 19 1955 bruce willis grew up in new jersey from the age of two. When willis purchased the property in 2003 reportedly for less than the 55 million asking price it set a new record as the highest price ever paid for a home in hailey.


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Vassell, Polite too much as FSU hands Virginia its third straight loss, 54-50
Florida State got a huge 3-pointer from Devin Vassell with 14.5 seconds remaining, and held on to defeat Virginia in Tallahassee, 54-50, extending the Cavaliers' losing streak to three games.
The Wahoos (11-5, 3-3 ACC) held a three-point edge with just over three minutes to play after trailing much of the contest, but FSU's Anthony Polite nailed a 3-ball — his fourth of the night — to tie the game at 47-all with 2:24 to go. Senior point guard Trent Forrest then sank a pair from the line with 1:30 left to put the Seminoles (15-2, 5-1) ahead to stay.
Virginia's Tomas Woldetensae couldn't get the ensuing inbound pass across the half-court stripe within 10 seconds, giving it right back to the home team, but Forrest missed the front end of a one-and-one opportunity and the Cavaliers still had life, down by two, as the game went inside a minute to play.
Kihei Clark committed his ninth turnover on a wayward entry pass with 40 ticks showing, leading to Vassell's triple on the other end that made it a five-point affair. The ninth-ranked Seminoles converted 18 UVA giveaways into 18 points.
Woldetensae redeemed himself with a tough 3-pointer — his third of the game — with 5.9 seconds on the clock, but Vassell swished two free throws to put it out of reach. Braxton Key couldn't get a final shot up, as he slipped onto his backside as time expired.
UVA fought back from an early 11-2 deficit, scoring 16 of the game's next 19 points to take a four-point advantage by the under-eight timeout of the opening half. The 'Hoos led 24-20 on a Clark reverse layup with 4:54 left in the half before going cold, as the 'Noles closed the period with 11 unanswered points — nine of which came via Polite 3-pointers — over the final 3:45, and the Cavaliers trailed 31-24 at halftime.
Woldetensae banked in the team's first triple of the night (after an 0-for-8 start) to trim it to 35-34 with just under 14 minutes to go, as the 'Hoos took the lead back on a steal and a mid-range jumper from Clark. FSU responded with a 9-2 spurt over the following four minutes to lead 44-39 with 7½ minutes left.
The Cavaliers countered with eight straight points to take the late lead, but they came up short for a third straight game despite having a chance to win in the closing minutes.
Vassell led all scorers with 18 points, while Polite added 14 (5 for 6 FG, 4-4 from 3) in 20 minutes off the bench. FSU only shot 37 percent (20 for 54) for the game, but knocked down eight 3-pointers, prevailed 31-29 on the boards, and recorded 10 steals.
Mamadi Diakite was the only 'Hoo in double figures with a team-high 16 points (6 of 8 from the field), two blocks, two steals and six rebounds, but fouled out in the closing minutes.
Key and Woldetensae each had 9 points, while Clark had 8 and 5 assists. Key and Clark combined for just three rebounds, as the Cavaliers will now prepare for two games in three days — at Georgia Tech Saturday night and then back at home for NC State Monday night.
Courtesy UVA Media Relations:
Team Notes
UVA has lost three consecutive games for the first time since losing four straight from Feb. 12-20, 2017 (Virginia Tech, Duke, UNC, Miami).
The teams will meet again in Charlottesville on Tuesday, Jan. 28
UVA is 1-1 vs. ranked opponents in 2019-20 (both top-10 foes)
The Cavaliers are 43-35 against ranked opponents in the Tony Bennett era
FSU closed the first half on an 11-0 run, aided by six UVA turnover in the last 3:47
UVA was scoreless for the last 4:52 of the first half
Series Notes
Virginia is 25-26 all-time vs. Florida State in a series that began in 1991-92
UVA has won seven of the last 11 meetings between the teams
UVA has limited Florida State to fewer than 70 points in each of the last 18 meetings between the teams
Head coach Tony Bennett is 8-9 all-time vs. Florida State
Double-figure scorers: Mamadi Diakite (16)
Tomas Woldetensae (9 points) had a season-best three assists and matched a season high with a trio of 3-pointers
Jay Huff had a team-high seven rebounds off the bench
Kihei Clark had a career-high nine turnovers


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Shaun Wright-Phillips retires
Neil Leigh
Sat 24 Aug 2019, 13:58
Shaun Wright-Phillips has called time on his illustrious playing career.
The City legend confirmed his decision today on Soccer AM.
His magnificent football journey, that took him from City to Chelsea, back to his beloved Blues, and then onto Queen's Park Rangers and finally spells in America with New York Red Bulls and Phoenix Rising ends at the age of 37.
Over the course of his two spells at the Club, Wright-Phillips made 277 appearances, scoring 48 goals in total as well as 20 assists.
And in that time, SWP carved his name into City folklore with his bold fearless attacking play and ability to conjure up spectacular goals.
While with City, he was part of the squad that won both the English Division One crown in 2001/02 as well as the FA Cup in 2010/11.
Wright-Phillips was also a Premier League winner with Chelsea in the 2005/06 season along and also tasted FA Cup success in 2006/7 with the Londoners.
WATCH: Goal of the Day: Wright-Phillips v Everton
During the course of his stellar career, he also represented England on 36 occasions, scoring six goals and was part of the England's 2010 World Cup finals squad.
"I was trying to hold on to [my career] for as long as possible," SWP said today.
"But over the last few weeks, I've decided it is time to be official and say: I'm officially retired.
"I was doing stuff with Manchester City and little stuff with TV - and it helped me glide out of it.
"I knew growing up it was not something that lasts forever, but after I had my last operation, it fell into place."
It's now the stuff of legends that after Nottingham Forest rejected Shaun for being 'too small'. City snapped up the young midfielder, along with his kid brother Bradley and began to prepare the pair for life at the Academy.
After Joe Royle had returned to the club as manager in 1998 after his first training session at Platt Lane, he commented to the Academy staff that "the little fella was terrific" – Shaun had already caught the manager's eye aged 16.
WATCH: Goal of the Day: Wright-Phillips v Palace
It was Royle that drip-fed Shaun into his team, giving him his debut against Burnley in 1999 before bringing him more and more into the first team picture. It was clear he was a special talent and when Royle was sacked in May 2001, Kevin Keegan said that he thought Shaun would one day play for England
His skill, endeavour and energy soon made him a crowd idol at Maine Road and he quickly became an indispensible member of the senior squad.
A huge crowd favourite, SWP was also named City's Young Player of the Year over four consecutive seasons from 1999/2000 through to 2002/03.
He was then voted City's Player of the Year in the 2003/04 season.
His efforts at club level did not go unnoticed at international level, either, and he won his first full England cap against Ukraine in 2004. In doing so, he also became the first Academy player to represent his country.
After more than 150 games for City, 'Wrighty' joined Chelsea in 2005 for £21m, later admitting that he' broke down' on the way to sign for the Stamford Bridge side.
Though he won his first medals with Chelsea, he always harboured hopes that he could one day return to City and in 2008, his wish came true.
Mark Hughes brought Shaun back to the Blues in August 2008 and he announced his return with two goals in a 3-0 win away to Sunderland, much to the delight of the travelling City fans.
Though a regular in Hughes' team, Shaun began to drift out of the first XI during Roberto Mancini's first season and was only occasionally included during the 2010/11 campaign, though he did come on as a sub in our FA Cup semi-final win over Manchester United in 2011, before he moved on to Queen's Park Rangers in the summer of 2011.
He subsequently went on to make a further 74 appearances for Rangers before then embarking on a new adventure in the MLS in the United States where he figured 27 times for Phoenix Rising and 25 times for New York Red Bulls with his last appearance coming in late 2017.
Reflecting on his time at City, SWP revealed: "I just want to acknowledge how much they mean to me.
"I just hope that, in the 10 years of playing for this club, I've shown my appreciation back. It's harder for me to give it back, I wouldn't know how to but 10 years I've been lucky enough to play in front of them have been fantastic.
"For me, the biggest pull has been the fans.
"They've been with me since I was playing as a schoolboy, all the way through the reserves, right the way through my career. They didn't even turn their back on me when I left for Chelsea, they've always supported me. When they came to Chelsea and when I returned as a Chelsea player, I always received a brilliant welcome. It's more like a family situation.
"The way I look at it is they always give good support and they always support the team with all their heart. I just try on the pitch to give it everything and 100% every time I play because I know there's people out there who have supported me when things haven't gone so well, they've always been behind me."
News Club News Shaun Wright-Phillips


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Steve Jobs is the Best Movie in Three Years
This week we've got five new movies. Four of the new movies bombed including The Last Witch Hunter, Jem and the Hollograms, Rock the Kasbah and Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs however according our resident film critic is the best movie in the last three years. The other three are pretty bad. Then we were invited by A24 to screen Room, so we sent Josh to Chicago and he thinks it was good but was hoping for great.
Top Five this week is biopics. We talk Raging Bull, Amadeus, Shindler's List, Good Fellas, The Social Network, Love and Mercy, Straight Outta Compton, Good Night and Good Luck, Lawrence of Arabia, Frida, Milk etc
Our Undisputed Classic this week is Oliver Stone's The Doors.
In 1985 we take on Krush Groove.
Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens
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2013 Year in Review: The Wolf of Wall Street & Grudge Match
Welcome to The I Hate Critics 2013 year in review. First we're going to talk about Justin Bieber's "Believe." It was dumb so we moved on to the highly anticipated "Grudge Match." Sean liked it!!!! "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" divides Sean and Josh. "The Wolf of Wall Street" pisses both Sean and Bob while Josh watched Keanu Reeve's career flash before his eyes.
10) "Yentl"
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I have a Google Plus page; like a lot of people, I don't tend to go there that often, because I've not yet found anything compelling. And, thanks to the latest changes that Google has made, giving it a new look, I'm even less likely to go there in future.
Because Google has made it just too much hassle to log in to their site.
I have a couple of Google accounts; the one that I use most is the one for my AdSense account, but my GooglePlus page is actually a different account, with my Gmail address; I can't remember exactly why that happened – I think at the time it was open only to Gmail addresses, or something like that. Anyway, AdSense is on my 'real' email address, and I seldom use Gmail anyway.
Until the recent change, this didn't make much difference. I tend to be signed in to the AdSense account most, but when I go to Google Plus, there used to be, alongside the offer to create a G+ account with the account I'm signed in as, the option to switch to another account. I could click that on the dropdown, select the Gmail account, enter the password, and I'd be in.
The only thing I've done to that screenshot is blur the email address; there are no links off the page that I'm hiding. In case it makes a difference – but G+ isn't so crucial I'm going to change my browser to find out – I'm using Firefox on the Mac.
What's missing? There's not only no switch account option, but there's also no sign out link. Google knows I'm signed in to an account that doesn't have a G+ profile. It wants me to create one, and that's the only option. The About Google+ link tells me how wonderful it is, and has more links to information about G+, and to Google's main pages. But certainly within a couple of clicks, I can't get to a page with a signout link.
So, what I have to do instead is go back to my bookmarks, or the address bar, and navigate back to AdSense, then click Sign out. And then come back to Google Plus, and type the Gmail address and password for the account that I used when I created my Google Plus page.
The problem is that, although AdSense doesn't officially support multiple sign in, on the previous version of Google Plus, since that did, I could indeed click my email address and choose a different account to sign in with, just like that help text says.
Now that option has been removed from the G+ start screen, making it harder for me to sign in without jumping through hoops.
It seems, frankly, lunatic to have done that. Why make it harder for people to log in to your site than you need to?


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Interview with directors Charlie Brafman & Magnus McCullagh
Neither of us can pin down one moment. Growing up, we both just loved watching films. When it comes to making them, we're attracted to the kinds of stories that you can tell in 100 or so minutes and we're passionate about the visual storytelling that is the essence of cinema.
We certainly hope it isn't essential, as neither of us attended one. We are, of course, constantly learning and teaching ourselves, by watching, making and writing films and reading or listening to the words of other filmmakers.
Getting started. There's always going to be a hundred reasons to put off starting the project but once it gets underway, it builds an inertia of its own. There becomes an inevitability about everything and your only job is to keep caring and giving it your full attention until it's done. Which of course can be difficult at times, but the first steps are always the toughest.
The most important lesson seems to be that making a film will always be a massive undertaking and involve a fair amount of ploughing headlong into the unknown. Embracing that has a positive effect on the film. You have to solve the problems presented to you by working as creatively and intelligently as possible in the moment that they arrive. Meanwhile the whole process involves learning one lesson after another.
You will never have enough money. Everything takes longer than you think it will. You have to balance being faithful to your vision with production realities that can feel like compromises. You have to judge when to be pragmatic and when to spend extra time and money, both of which are limited resources. It's all about constantly exercising that judgment. How well you manage to do that will be reflected in the quality of the final film. Fight too few battles, and the end product will be compromised. Refuse to compromise at all and there will be no end product.
Directing a film is, in the simplest terms, about constantly making choices and decisions. You can't begin to make those if you haven't established the proper foundations that will underpin them. The hardest choice is what the film will be in the first place: what is the tone, what are the genres that your working with or against, what styles are you playing with, do you want the film to have any specific meaning at the heart of it? If you can answer those questions clearly then hopefully everything else can flow from there.
We started assembling our team by approaching people that we'd met in a whole variety of ways through the years and had become friends with. Then we looked to fill in the remaining gaps by approaching people in their networks. After that, we found people online: Twitter, personal websites, even LinkedIn led us to crew members. We think that it was key that our crew were passionate about the project and it helped that making a Western in a Spanish desert was a fun break from the norm for many of our cast and crew. We always tried to be decent people and lead by example: we never asked anyone to do anything that we weren't willing to do ourselves, however menial the task, especially when the going got tough and when we were all exhausted.
Audiences want to be engaged. When you make a film, you are trying to communicate with the audience, so you are constantly considering how your storytelling choices are likely to be interpreted and understood. Simultaneously, you will never please all the viewers and it's entirely legitimate to embrace ambiguity and complexity, even if that may alienate some. Considering the audience doesn't equate to making films for the lowest common denominator.
Honestly, we haven't been to enough of them and that's something that we need to improve upon. It's fantastic and necessary that there's a forum for independent films to be shown. Having our film selected for a few festivals now has been a boost to us. To know that strangers have watched and enjoyed our film, selecting it from amongst hundreds or even thousands of entries, is flattering and encouraging.
You have to love what you do, and you can't aim to please everyone. Ultimately you have to make the film that you think you yourself would like to watch if someone else had made it. Pick whichever style you believe best suits your story and make the type of cinema you want to make, or you'll come to regret putting in the insane effort that goes into making a film, only to find that you don't like it yourself.
[Brief bio of upcoming projects: The feature film 'King of Nowhere', written by Charlie Brafman & Magnus McCullagh, produced by CZAR and directed by Lieven Van Baelen, is shooting in summer 2019. Charlie & Magnus are currently working on another feature film with Lieven, as well as working on their own writing and directing projects through their production company Strange Lightning – www.strangelightning.com]
Magnus McCullagh
Charlie Brafman
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING@ SHORT TO THE POINT – DECEMBER 2018 AWARDS
The Rabbit's Foot
Director: Charlie Brafman, Magnus McCullagh
Synopsis: 'Lucky' Francis, a card player blessed with an improbable degree of fortune, is digging a grave next to the old hanging tree, nine miles west of Yackton. An uncivilised brute by the name of William Barleycorn rides through the desert to meet him, having accused Francis of a most blasphemous indecency. Naturally, scores must be settled… Meanwhile, in a river out beyond Cob's Hollow, in parts as yet uncharted, a hitherto luckless prospector has struck gold and the worm may finally have turned… But fate is a fickle friend, as the prospector has surely learned by now. Under the auspices of a mystical rabbit's foot, the fortunes of these three men shall intertwine with fatal consequences in this pitch black comic fable.
INTERVIEW WITH SCREENWRITER ROSHNI "RUSH" BHATIA
INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR VLADIMIR DZYAKEVICH
INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR KEI UEHARA


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By Gaurav Dogra and Brenda Goh
BENGALURU/SHANGHAI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Capital investment by Chinese firms has ground to its slowest pace in three years, as a weakening economy, tight credit and prolonged trade war with the United States dent sales growth and cash reserves, a Reuters analysis showed.
Companies are also spending more days to turn inventory into sales and eking out smaller profit gains, the analysis showed, in an economy growing at its weakest pace in nearly three decades, with many analysts expecting the slowdown to intensify.
The outlook became even more uncertain on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China might have to wait until after the U.S. presidential election in November 2020.
"Things will get much worse before getting better," economists at Macquarie said in a client note on Monday. Even positive economic data from China recently is volatile and vulnerable to one-off factors such as warm weather, they said.
"After all, the so-called phase 1 deal is mainly about preventing things from getting worse, instead of making things significantly better," they said, referring to negotiations in a 16-month Sino-U.S. trade war punctuated by tit-for-tat import tariffs.
TIGHT CREDIT
Chinese firms raised capital spending by 1.6% in the three months through September versus the same period a year prior, the weakest growth in three years, showed a Reuters analysis of about 2,900 firms with market capitalisation above $100 million.
"The weak appetite to invest is a problem in terms of generating a strong recovery in the Chinese economy," said senior China economist Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics.
"Overall credit conditions are still quite tight and credit growth is actually slowing ... because, in particular, the non-bank forms of credit access have become much more restrictive in the shadow banking sector."
Though the government has taken steps to encourage lending, bankers told Reuters they have little appetite to lend to small firms due to the trade war and uncertain economic outlook, as well as a years-long drive to cut risk in the financial system.
Cash reserves at surveyed firms grew 5.6% on year in the September quarter, the weakest since the first quarter of 2018. Moreover, the average number of days a company holds inventory before sale was 108 in the first nine months of the year, topping an annual average of 100 or less in the last four years.
Revenue grew 6.7%, the weakest in at least three years - the earliest period for which data from a comparable number of firms is available - while net profit rose 7.8% versus nearly 22% two years earlier.
The consumer discretionary and communications services sectors were among the poorest performers, with revenue shrinking 1.4% and growing just 1% respectively.
Companies' financial reports indicate consumers have been cutting back spending on vacations and big-ticket items such as cars and home appliances, while falling smartphone sales have capped growth among telecommunications network providers.
Car maker Zotye Automobile Co Ltd saw revenue in the September quarter drop 88% on year, and TV and smartphone maker TCL Corp cut capital expenditure by 72%.
Yet while earnings reports indicate a slowdown, growth in factory activity neared a three-year high in November, reinforcing upbeat government data released over the weekend.
(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra in Bengaluru and Brenda Goh in Shanghai; Writing by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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This course will introduce students to the myriad visions of South Asia that have been expressed through historical, social, economic, political, religious and cultural movements and debates over the past three centuries. It will focus on the crucial question: what is South Asia? In the multiplicity of dynamic and often ephemeral answers, the course will offer glimpses of the many Indias, Pakistans, Sri Lankas, and so on that reside in peoples imaginations.
It will begin during a critical period of the British Raj and survey the complex processes, events and ideologies that went into the shaping of the nations and regions of South Asia. It will follow the progression of colonialism and the emergence of anticolonial and national movements as well as struggles that slipped under the radar of popular national movements. The course will explore the violent moments of Independence and the contending aspirations of the newly minted nation-states.
Apart from opening up the world of South Asia to students, this course will also foray into questions of what it means to study Asia in the contemporary world. It will explore ways to understand the transformations the region has been undergoing.
Identify the main controversies in South Asian history and the evidence and arguments that are applied to those debates.
Two hours lectures and one hour tutorial each week.
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It was maybe the first spring-ish day we have had thus far.
Lucky for me I got to spend it in an ambulanza per la prima volta — an ambulance…for the first time in my life and then, on a gurney in the green hallway of the Ospedale Policlinico di Milano.
I was considered "Code Green"…Codice Verde.
It was not my fault…nor might it have been the fault of the verbi pronominali that I was learning when I realized I was starting to faint. All'improvviso, I am now sul pavimento — on the floor.
But alas, I don't think it was the verbs.
The school office calls the ambulanza.
And then the Italian equivalent of EMT's arrive.
The guys who wheel me to the doors of the ambulance (everyone craning their head to see who is being taken away) are actually super nice. B, a school friend, rides with me to the hospital. "I can't wait to see what you write about this", she says.
Nothing says "you are fluent" as much as successively describing your situation to triage after having also described it to the super cool EMTs who came to evaluate you…and later, in the successive adventure which will follow.
I mean, you have not really lived until you have said, si', si', urinavo normalmente…yes, yes, I have been urinating normally.
In no time at all I am on my gurney, my lettino, in the green hallway, lined up for nine hours behind a man calling for Mamma, a man with a packed suitcase and a wife feeding him…and a growing line of lettinos behind me.
If you take your standard emergency room situation and multiply it by la burocrazia italiana…you get…an adventure.
Nine hours in the green hallway behind the guy whose wife was feeding him sandwiches, behind the guy actually growling, screaming for Mamma (and yes, vomiting). Behind my lettino, there was a guy with a head injury, blood everywhere, a woman who had an accident/incidente (la polizia arrived to take her statement) and onwards down the hall.
Family members arrived with bags of food. And suitcases. Obviously they knew what we didn't know…that it would be a really long time and that there would be no food or water…or help.
– Bottles of water, wine, grappa, sambuca, whatever you wish to drink or will need to drink for the next number of days…enough for you and for any and all family and friends waiting for you. It will be forever.
– Food. Anything at all, really. Pizza, sauces, pasta, panini, fruit, vegetables, dolci, tiramisù….once again, enough for you and your whole family and for the patient…and maybe a little something extra for the idiot American couple that had no idea that they would end up at the Italian hospital for the first time and would be totally unprepared.
– Camp stove, sleeping bag, towel. Never go anywhere without your towel.
– Raincoat. This will be helpful if they spill your blood all over you…to protect your new camel coat. After all, this is Italia.
– Phone charger…never mind, on second thought, just bring an electric generator. A phone charger just isn't enough.
– Sense of humor. Bring it. You will need it.
After nine hours they wheeled my gurney into a room with fourteen other beds…all filled with very ill older italiani, some screaming in italian, moaning…one man as he relieved himself into a bloody bag "brucie, brucie"…it burns. It burns.
They took my vitals. Finalmente. One nurse came to take my blood. Devo avvisarti, I tell him…I must warn you…i miei veni sono molto difficile. My veins are very difficult. Don't worry, he assured me…sono un esperto. I am an expert. After three punctures and quite a bit of digging he went to get another nurse.
When she arrives, I ask her, "E tu?" And then she stabs me.
It took three nurses and multiple punctures to get my blood…and then they spilled some of it on the floor. The one thing that I can say is…my blood is red.
I was trying to make light of the situation…I told the first nurse…Ahh…il mio sangue e' rosso. My blood is red. But ah, he answered,…not blue? Oh, solo Donald Trump ha sangue blu, he says, smiling.
Not funny, I told him.
Two hours later they came back to tell me that I was normal. That I was probably dehydrated and that is why I fainted. That my blood pressure was low. My blood pressure is always low, I told them.
And now I am receiving a pint of IV saline. Still no food or water.
And now I am excused. They remove the port from my hand and my blood begins squirting all over the floor…again. I suppose I have had enough fluids, I tell them.
R walks me out the door into the night. It is 2.30. Streets are empty. Miraculously, a taxi passes. We hail it and get in.
I wake up five hours later with a fever. I am too ill to think, but I am mad at Italia.
Feeling a bit traumatized, I can now tell my tale…but from the couch.
Photo credit: R. Coff. I was the idiot on the gurney. Cover photo at top taken by B. Actually me in ambulanza. Good times.
And I thought the UW ER was bad!. How is your fever? Hope you didn't catch anything at the pronto succorso. What an adventura.
You should feel really proud of your language skills. Miss you. Feel better soon.
We have the window open. I actually heard birds today and I was wondering which birds they were…since I had not heard these songs before. I will keep you posted…but this was the warmest day so far.
Hope you feel better pronto!


Speech by AHC at Advance Level Books distribution ceremony on 25th July 2018 at BKK auditorium.
Speech by Principals at Advance Level Books distribution ceremony on 25th July 2018 at BKK auditorium.
Speech by AHC at Musical Instruments distribution ceremony to 50 schools in Central province on 10th November 2017 @ BKK auditorium.
In association with Art of Living Foundation, AHCI, Kandy organized a Yoga Camp at Dunbar Ground, Hatton on 21st June 2016. Mr. V.S. Radhakrishnan, Hon'ble State Minister of Education was the Chief Guest of the event.
On the occasion of 67th Republic Day of India, a Flag Hoisting Ceremony was held at the residence of AHC on 26th January 2016.
International Day of Yoga at Police Ground, Kandy on 21st June 2015 !
Bharatanatyam perfomance by Ms. Nandini Nagaraj on 21st May 2015 at the auditorium of Hindu Cultural Centre, Kandy.


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Remix OS: China's take on an Android operating system – but for PCs
Think of it as a productivity kit
Andrew Orlowski Wed 16 Mar 2016 // 10:28 UTC
Getting Google Play store to work
Once you've allowed Remix to download from unknown sources, you can install a Play .APK. Don't download from unknown sources – I went with one recommended in the Google+ Remix group.
At first it didn't work, throwing up errors. I'd forgotten to flush the data and reboot. But that still didn't work.
Once I'd expunged the data associated with the Google Frameworks and Play app and another reboot, I was away.
A "brand new" desktop OS with tons of native apps? It can't be...
Most apps downloaded fine. One or two didn't...
Shortcuts are placed on your desktop and in the Start menu. Not the most sophisticated arrangement, but fairly foolproof. And there's a Mac/Windows style Notification sidebar.
And what you want to know is, how well does it run sophisticated apps? Pretty well, actually.
Basic keymapping is implemented.
On a Remix OS PC, you drag with the trackpad to scroll, or navigate through a box of icons. It generally works well most of the time. One of the place it didn't was when the Start menu needed to be scrolled.
There's a little way to go I think, but for a Beta this is very promising. End users shouldn't have to sideload. Jide says Google Play should eventually be bundled with it. But it's a glimpse into the future: Android has been given a productivity makeover. ®


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Sea Dogs kick off annual Strike Out Cancer In Kids campaign
Campaign raises money for Maine Children's Cancer Program
Updated: 9:43 PM EDT May 20, 2014
Arthur Villator SOURCE: Arthur Villator
On Tuesday, the Portland Sea Dogs kicked off the 20th annual Strike Out Cancer In Kids campaign.The program has raised more than $4 million for the Maine Children's Cancer Program.Click for photos from the eventStella Hang, 6, of Portland is this year's Slugger's Kid. She has battled leukemia, but has been off her medication for three years.Members of the media had a chance to raise money for the program with a fast-pitch contest."(We're) letting everybody know that we're encouraging more people to get involved with Strike Out Cancer In Kids this year, it's a really fun program. We're encouraging people to sign up for sock teams. It's really easy to do that. We're encouraging people to grab their co-workers and their family and their friends and form a fundraising team," said MCCP development manager Tara Studley.Each strike out thrown by Sea Dogs pitchers raises money for the program, but the Maine Children's Cancer Program is hoping to get more supporters involved by working as teams.
On Tuesday, the Portland Sea Dogs kicked off the 20th annual Strike Out Cancer In Kids campaign.
The program has raised more than $4 million for the Maine Children's Cancer Program.
Click for photos from the event
Stella Hang, 6, of Portland is this year's Slugger's Kid. She has battled leukemia, but has been off her medication for three years.
Members of the media had a chance to raise money for the program with a fast-pitch contest.
"(We're) letting everybody know that we're encouraging more people to get involved with Strike Out Cancer In Kids this year, it's a really fun program. We're encouraging people to sign up for sock teams. It's really easy to do that. We're encouraging people to grab their co-workers and their family and their friends and form a fundraising team," said MCCP development manager Tara Studley.
Each strike out thrown by Sea Dogs pitchers raises money for the program, but the Maine Children's Cancer Program is hoping to get more supporters involved by working as teams.


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However, with regard to the portability plan feature—specifically, the participant's decision regarding account distribution at the point of job-change—the opposite has been the case. Research on the mobile workforce conducted last year by Boston Research Technologies in collaboration with Retirement Clearinghouse demonstrated that participants are in fact selecting the easiest option with respect to their prior-employer balances—cash-outs—but that decision isn't the smartest. Participants know this, as evidenced by the high percentage of participants who later regret their cash-out decision.
By managing portability—facilitating roll-ins, in particular—plan sponsors can promote lifetime participation in retirement plans and effectively address some of the unintended consequences of the autos, such as the proliferation of small accounts and missing participants. Plan advisors can point to the improvement in certain plan metrics that consolidating retirement assets in the participants' active plan can lead to, such as an increase in average account balance. More importantly for all stakeholders, encouraging and facilitating roll-ins leads to a significant drop in cash-outs, thereby improving participant retirement readiness and the overall health of the retirement services industry.
Leakage (the removal of assets from the U.S. retirement system) from cash-outs—premature withdrawals of retirement assets, resulting in taxes and penalties—is a persistent problem in the retirement system, and growing more pervasive as employee mobility increases. Cash-out leakage represents 89% of all retirement plan leakage, according to a 2009 Government Accountability Office report. The problem is particularly acute for small balance retirement accounts—those with a balance of less than $5,000. Recent studies published by Aon Hewitt, Fidelity and Vanguard all point to a cash-out rate of almost 60% for these accounts. Retirement Clearinghouse recently demonstrated that the actual leakage for these accounts may be as high as 89% when you factor in the cash-out rates of the safe harbor IRAs that many of these accounts are swept into as a result of mandatory distributions.
We have calculated that a hypothetical 30-year-old who cashes out a $5,000 401(k) savings account today would forfeit as much as $52,000 in lost earnings and appreciation by age 65. Furthermore, Aon Hewitt found that a hypothetical worker who cashes out three times during their working life would cut their retirement savings from over 6 times pay to 1.25 times pay.
Leaving these small balances behind is not the answer either. Workers with multiple retirement savings accounts have to pay fees for each open account, and lose money on the lost earnings and compound interest that those fees would have yielded. Even one extra retirement savings account can deplete nearly $7,000 from a retirement nest egg. In addition, these balances are subject to a mandatory distribution, whereby the balance is swept into a safe harbor IRA with a money market fund or similar cash investment vehicle as the default investment option. Safe harbor IRAs often have higher fees, and when combined with low investment returns from the default investment options, they may decay to a zero balance over years or even just months of inactivity.
According to the same mobile workforce study by Boston Research Technologies, 62% of participants who completed a roll-in required help to move their balances forward, and it took many weeks, if not months, of effort to do so—cashing out was just easier to do. The problem of portability friction that causes so many participants to cash out screams for a solution that includes a nationwide cooperative framework for seamlessly and automatically transporting retirement savings forward to current-employers' plans as workers change jobs.
The good news is that recent comments from the White House and a bicameral group of Congress members have raised awareness of the issue, and taken us one step closer to establishing such a framework to make it easier for retirement-savers to transport their 401(k) balances from job to job as they move. In addition, the Bipartisan Policy Center recently called for the creation of a nationwide retirement clearinghouse to facilitate seamless plan-to-plan portability (and auto portability for account holders with balances below $5,000).
If all of the 5 million Americans with less-than-$5,000 balances who change jobs every year would forego cashing out and instead transport their savings, the U.S. retirement system as a whole would benefit tremendously. Retirement Clearinghouse illustrated in a recently released Auto Portability Simulation that, if auto portability is widely implemented, $115 billion in new retirement savings would be added to the nation's retirement system over 30 years—simply by cutting cash-out leakage from small-balance accounts.
Referring back to the mobile workforce study from Boston Research Technologies, when asked if they would take advantage of a sponsor-provided roll-in service to help with the consolidation process, 83% of Millennials, 83% of Generation-Xers and 78% of Baby Boomers responded affirmatively—if the plan paid for it. Furthermore, the study found that even more participants—91% of Millennials, 89% of Gen-Xers and 65% of Baby Boomers—would likely roll IRA balances into the plan if such a service existed. Finally, 93% of participants said a roll-in service would be a good or excellent benefit compared with other employee benefits received from their employer.
Most plans allow roll-in contributions. The Plan Sponsor Council of America reported in its 58th annual industry survey, published this past January, that 97.6% of defined contribution plans are capable of accepting roll-ins of account balances from other plans, and 61.9% of plans can accept roll-ins from IRAs. The issue is not plan design, but rather, offering a service to take advantage of the roll-in feature the majority of plans already possess.
Financial planners and advisors that work with retirement plan sponsors can start by ensuring the plans they work with allow roll-in contributions from both retirement plans and IRAs. Next, advisors can encourage their clients to promote their plans to new hires as consolidation vehicles for retirement savings. Finally, advisors can help the plans they serve choose and retain an unbiased roll-in assistance provider. Such a third party's service offering should involve preparing all participant documentation for signatures and coordinating form submission along with the resultant asset movement, thereby minimizing the time participants have their retirement assets un-invested. The offering should also be available on a fee-for-service basis so that participants with balances of all sizes can be encouraged to consolidate.
Defined contribution plan participants overwhelmingly indicate that they need and want help with account consolidation—and would use roll-in services if sponsors offered and/or paid for them. Out of all the initiatives currently employed by plan sponsors today to improve retirement readiness and promote savings, the roll-in service may be the most cost-effective. Make the smart decision the easiest decision in your client's plan by encouraging them to offer a facilitated roll-in program.


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Al-Jazeera's "Alternative Viewpoint" in Qatar's Paradise
by Amin Farouk
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3524/al-jazeera-qatar
Al-Jazeera, which bought Current TV from Al Gore, is not a communications medium in the Western sense. It is a psychological warfare medium, a fundamentalist terrorist communications base operating under Qatari cover. It sets its sights on changing regimes.
Al-Jazeera TV, located in and financed by Qatar, which just bought Current TV from former presidential candidate Al Gore for a reported $500 million, "is providing an alternative viewpoint on domestic news," according to Cathy Rasenberger, "a cable consultant who has worked with Al-Jazeera on distribution," as stated by the New York Times of January 3, 2013.
What sort of alternative viewpoint?
Anyone regularly watching Al-Jazeera TV in Arabic cannot help being aware of its Islamist agenda, inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood's Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, wo is currently a resident of Qatar.
Regular viewers are familiar with the network's biases -- also apparent in its otherwise different English-language programming -- in covering events in the Middle East. Its reports are stunning in their lopsided descriptions of the cruelty and oppression of Arab leaders who, because they became weak and thus vulnerable, were called by Qatar's opportunistic rulers, "oppressive dictators whose time had come."
Here and there are points of light, when we become aware of regional events about which we might otherwise never have known. For example, the recent exposure of Iranian terrorist cells in Yemen and the Gulf States, the accelerated progress of Iran's nuclear agenda in the Persian Gulf, and Iran's naval exercises designed to challenge the United States.
Al-Jazeera is not, however, a communications medium in the Western sense; it is a psychological warfare medium. Its cameras are always turned outward; they never criticize Qatar's tyrannical, dictatorial, corrupt, plutocratic leaders or their exploitation of foreign workers, who have neither the status nor rights of Qatari nationals. Al-Jazeera's ongoing propaganda campaign against the Arab states in the Middle East is a move chosen by the rulers of Qatar to deflect Arab, Western and effervescent local attention from what is happening in the corrupt Al-Thani family's dark, closed emirate of wealth.
Although it promises aid to financially needy Islamic countries, it sends just the occasional pittance when t feels a need to bolster its popularity. Meanwhile huge unreported sums go to support Islamist terrorist organizations such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Jabhat Alnusra Al Islamiya in Syria. The rest of country's enormous oil revenues are channeled into the coffers of the rulers and their close associates, and are used to pay for their entertainment or for building enormous towers. The rest of the population -- most of which are foreign workers whose labor they exploit and who have no civil or social rights -- is not invited to join the party.
Although Al-Jazeera incites Muslim masses around the world to revolt against "repressive regimes," while calling for "democracy," "pluralism," and the ousting of totalitarian rulers, Qatar itself does not hold elections, has no political parties, has no democratic institutions, and its citizens have no political or social rights. What Qatar does have, with the help of Sharia [Islamic religious law], is a strong, family-run system of enforcing internal security and suppressing opposition. Al-Jazeera is the well-oiled and well-funded machine of a family employing armed mercenaries who call themselves "media personnel": Propaganda warriors who use cameras and microphones as weapons. Qatar therefore has every reason to hide what happens within its borders and look for defects in other places.
Al-Jazeera takes two editorial routes: its English-language programs present a moderate, cultured version of its propaganda, different from what is broadcast by its Arabic-language programs. Nonetheless, its purpose seems to be to spread Islam and undermine secularism.
Al-Jazeera's reporting is unbalanced in that it gives favorable coverage to Islamic regimes and movements it wants to strengthen, and slanders those it wants to weaken. Its sights are set on changing regimes. Al-Jazeera effectively created the Arab Spring by endlessly rebroadcasting footage of the fruit-seller in Tunisia who set himself on fire to protest his government. Every time there was a small demonstration, Al-Jazeera would cover it and air it time and again until the people of Tunisia were sufficiently whipped up.
Al-Jazeera's reporting is also unbalanced when it is turns to the religiously-motivated activities of Islamist groups in other countries, where the Arab Spring was turned into an Islamist Winter, and where the good intentions of democratically-minded young Muslims were exploited and perverted as, after the revolutions, Islamists seized power. Al-Jazeera's bias is also evident in its support for the dictatorship of Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt at the expense of the country's moderate, secular, democracy-seeking opposition, on whose back the Islamization of the country is taking place.
Al-Jazeera, perhaps as part of a program to replace secular dictators with Islamic ones, and perhaps partly to replace Shiite dictators with Sunni ones, has also fully supported the destruction wrought by the radical anti-Assad Islamists who have poured into Syria to turn it into a killing field under the banner of the so-called "Free Syrian Army."
Recently Al-Jazeera seems to have decided to topple the Palestinian Authority [PA], and transfer to Hamas -- Al-Qaeda's ideological and practical brother-in-arms -- the international recognition that the PA received from the UN in September, and to make Hamas sovereign in the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip. To that end, it airs biased programs that are disproportionately favorable toward Hamas, and covers Hamas's "achievements," such as its "heroism" in firing rockets at Israeli civilians. The PA at least claims it wants to reach an agreement with Israel. Hamas, which uses its citizens, schools and hospitals as human shields during warfare it provokes, publicly proclaims day and night its intention to wipe Israel off the map.
Al-Jazeera is now embarked on a campaign glorifying Hamas at the expense of the PA, having sentenced it to death by lying about its mistakes. It recently cast suspicion on the PA as having collaborated with Israel in "poisoning Arafat," and broadcast a biased and exaggerated report of the alleged "tortures" inflicted on Hamas prisoners in PA jails, including claims of rape, threats toward female members of Hamas under interrogation and other horrors – all of which are meant to represent the "crimes" committed by the PA in collaboration with, and at the behest of, Israeli intelligence.
Other Al-Jazeera initiatives aimed at toppling the PA include spreading rumors of a third intifada, and encouraging Hamas in the West Bank to hold marches and carry cardboard models of Qassam rockets.
Al-Jazeera has also for years consistently demonized Israel and reiterated what it calls "Israel's horrible crimes" against the Palestinians. Every action taken by Israel, and especially the Israel Defense Force [IDF], is a "war crime." When IDF soldiers fire rubber bullets at the legs of Palestinian rioters, it is a "war crime" comparable to -- if not worse than -- Assad's systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of his own Syrian citizens.
The names Al-Jazeera gives its programs are also manipulative: "Our History in Their Archive: Zionist Terrorism," for example, is a 47-minute propaganda movie with a carefully-constructed title. In seven words, it manages to imply that the Palestinians were the victims of Israeli terrorists, who not only committed unspeakable acts, but then went on to rewrite history, leaving out what was inconvenient. There are, it suggests, two versions of events: the "true" one of the Palestinians, and the false one of the "Zionists."
Al-Jazeera often reports on visits paid by Arab and international political figures to the Gaza Strip as guests of Hamas, including the visit of the Emir of Qatar with his generous financial donations. There were also many broadcasts lately showing Hamas activists constructing bomb shelters as Gaza rebuilds after Israel eventually responded to attacks by Hamas, as well as Hamas activists engaging in activities for the public good, representing Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the savior.
Al-Jazeera deliberately hides the underground civilian swell that is trying to make its voice heard against Hamas's theocratic and dictatorial rule. It does not broadcast the grumblings of the hungry, unemployed Gazan public against Hamas's sectorial economic policies, which discriminate in favor of its supporters and neglect the rest of the populace; which kill and oppress Gazan Fatah activists, and which use assault rifles to enforce the norms of Sharia law on civilians, some of whom Hamas has executed on the flimsiest of pretexts.
As a TV channel, Al-Jazeera does not operate under accepted Western norms. It is a fundamentalist terrorist communications base operating under Qatari political cover, with a pretense of pluralism. While in the other Arab countries, to reach the Islamic paradise, people need to kill Jews and be killed in wars, dying as shaheeds [martyrs] in the battles of Islam, according to Al-Jazeera only Qatar is already a genuine paradise on earth. Everything there is perfect, so there is no need to report the news.
Amin Farouk is a journalist based in the middle east.
Recent Articles by Amin Farouk
The Crisis of Islam, 2013-04-12
Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled Mashaal, 2012-12-24
Al Jazeera's Plan, 2012-12-17
"The Sheikh's Dog Thinks He is the Sheikh", 2012-12-13
Hamastan: The Genie in the Bottle, 2012-12-11
Denny • Jan 8, 2013 at 22:24
If you do watch the English version, look at it as prophecy unfolding. Since the Muslim world has a hardened heart, they dont see what the Bible already tells us. I have seen some very one-sided stories, but we have to just laugh sometimes or change the channel. I cannot condemn this network when the major US networks are one-sided in their agenda -- it all comes down to the dollar. Many US networks don't even cover the ever spreading Muslim Brotherhood, but this network does; if it is to promote them I have not seen it covered that way. I'm starting to see how the Arabs will come together with the help of the Brotherhood, and it seems to look as if it may be the Brotherhood who will bring the Arabs together to start things up as described in the final book of the Bible - Revelation.
Hussien • Jan 6, 2013 at 07:42
Al-Jazeera is the most biased news source you can find. If you read the Arabic version it gives favorable views to the Muslim Brotherhood, largely ignoring their crimes aganist the protestors recently. It does not even cover demonstrations in Qatar and Bahrain, which have been hit by the Arab spring as well.
Kate Brennan • Jan 6, 2013 at 07:01
It can't work under Western norms: it's Islamic. Most of the Qur'an is about the hatred and blame of Jews and of 'the other.' With such a background, one can't expect anything Western (biblically based, whether people like that or not) on societies which hate the West.
Rita • Jan 5, 2013 at 23:26
Al Gore and Al-Jazeera share their first names? Birds of a feather? At least Al Gore did one good thing: he made me discover yet another courageous journalist/writer. And I agree with the other commentators that this excellent article should be published as widely as possible. I linked to it on my little blog.
http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/al-gore-al-jezeera.html
Unfortunately, Al-Jazeera has sneaked into Australia and is increasingly present - our tax-payer funded media outlets play lap dogs to them to a sickening point. In any item about the "Palestinian" conflict, they shamelessly broadcast the Al-Jazeera perspective - and we know what that is.
Rick Lambert • Jan 4, 2013 at 12:21
Thanks, Amin Farouk, for doing what few of your colleagues in the West have the courage to do. For you to do it requires even more courage. Western "journalists" could learn a lot about journalism and guts from you.They probably won't, though.
Chike Emehel • Jan 4, 2013 at 08:45
I really wish that many will read this in the United States of America. Many are so blind to this truth that they gullibly believe the trash from this trouble breeding media network. They also report nothing of the kidnapping of young Christian girls in Egypt, for instance... and the violence against women who do not dress in the hijab or niqab.
Now, they have taken their seat in the United States of America to take the war closer home to them. Soon, Americans will be blaming themselves for all the woes in the world, giving way to the ideas of a few oligarchs, denying the freedom to speak of many good Muslims who see this evil but cannot speak and even if they did, no one will hear them since the medium is skewed. Americans, prepare for a new wave of war. We in Nigeria know them very well, and we are ready for their evil through their correspondents...
Phillip Slepian • Jan 4, 2013 at 08:42
Excellent work by Farouk. The good news is that New York's Time Warner Cable announced it would immediately drop Current TV when it was sold to Al-Jazeera. However, I am sure not every TV service provider in the U.S. will do the same. Al-Jazeera is clearly another component of jihad against the West, even if it is subtle and nonviolent. At least for now.