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Singapore companies embrace technology enabled techniques to fight fraud
Category: May 2018 - Cybersecurity & Data Protection
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In today's digital and globalized economy, organizations face a heightened threat of fraud. This, coupled with more effective detection of fraud, has driven reported economic crime to its highest level, PwC's bi-annual survey of economic crime recorded.
In Singapore, detection of the most disruptive frauds, using suspicious activity monitoring, appear to be at a much higher level compared to global average, PwC's survey shows. In fact, Singapore based organizations are embracing technology to detect fraud, indicating a more proactive approach in the fight against fraud.
Overall, the results have shown that more than one in three respondents in Singapore said their organizations had suffered fraud in the last two years (35%), up from 22% in 2016. Globally, the proportion of organizations reporting economic crime has also gone up from 36% in 2016 to 49% in 2018.
With the increased awareness and higher numbers of reported fraud incidences, investments to combat it have increased in tandem. In Singapore, results show that half of the organizations (51%) spent more on investigations and/or other interventions than what was lost through their most disruptive crime. This is significantly higher than the global average of 28%.
Facing the threat of fraud, organizations in Singapore are beefing up their internal controls, as corporate controls remain the top means of detecting the most disruptive economic crimes (54%), going up four percentage points from 2016. Many respondents also reported addressing fraud prevention through corporate culture initiatives through which 33% of the most disruptive frauds in Singapore based organizations were detected via tip offs or hotlines.
The survey also shows that organizations in Singapore are planning to invest in advanced technologies at a faster rate than their global counterparts (see PwC's graph below).
Organizations planning to implement the following technology enabled detection methods:
For more details, please read the full report.
PwC's Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey examined over 7200 respondents from 123 territories, of which 118 were from Singapore.
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The IRS sets the mileage reimbursement rate for employees who drive their own Privately Owned Vehicles (POV), but this rate is a guideline for employers and a tax deduction opportunity for employees. You can choose whether or not you want to pay your employees more or less than the IRS rate. Also, keep in mind that you have to follow your state's reimbursement regulations as well. In Addition to that, under FLSA regulation, you must pay your employees the standard minimum wage. If their expenses lead them to an hourly rate below minimum wage, you will have to assist them with the cost.
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Markup is the percent of increase in selling price from the original cost. Companies mark up products they sell in order to make money for their business. How much they mark up the products depends on many factors, including demand, whether the product is a luxury item, and so forth. Some items are marked up considerably. It's hard to believe we pay what we do for common items.
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Return on investment is a performance measure used to evaluate the value of an investment. ROI is a straight forward concept and it doesn't take complicated math to calculate it.


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This leak comes just days after the manufacturer confirmed that it will launch the model at the Mobile World Congress, scheduled for February 24-27.
LG G Pro 2, as the images show, will have the volume and power/lock keys below the camera. The company had introduced this hardware key setup with the G2 smartphone in September last year.
According to earlier reports, the successor of last year's Optimus G Pro phablet will have a 6-inch display with 1920x1080p resolution. It is also said to feature a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system with LG's Optimus user interface. LG is also expected to add software features like Knock, Guest Mode, Slide Aside etc in the upcoming model.
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'We're sorry. We've done all we could.' He was holding his 11-month-old daughter. He went stiff, making a gurgling sound.': Medical examiner says father died after drinking energy drinks that 'ultimately stopped his heart'
"My son had an energy drink then sat to enjoy his evening with his family. I was taking my shower when the call came in. It was my son's fiancée. She rarely calls me, and was panicked. 'Has Buddy ever had a seizure?' I said, 'No! Why do you ask?' She stated, 'I think he is having a seizure!' He wasn't sick. He had no health issues. His toxicology report came back negative to everything except stimulants."
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Wow, first of all can I just apologize for disappearing for awhile? I always seem to forget how hectic the first few months of school are! Now that we had a few teacher workdays I think I am caught up...a bit...for now. Don't worry though, I've been busy snapping pictures and trying new ideas in my room. I can't wait to share soon.
While I was gone my little blog did see a bit of action! K's Classroom Kreations was nominated for a very special award for new bloggers called the Liebster award. And get this...not just once but 4 times! I am so incredibly humbled and grateful for the nominations. It makes me so happy to have others see potential in this little blog. Thank you to Suzy from StudentSavvy, Paige from Paiges of Learning, Hannah from 21st Century Kindergarten, and Mandee from Mrs. Ashline's Rules.
I began blogging this past August after taking the summer to have my blog designed. Blogging is a totally new adventure for me but one I am excited for. I began creating items on Teachers Pay Teachers almost a year ago. I was finding that I had so many ideas to share and some just didn't lend themselves to products. I also wanted to be able to share ideas, pictures, and stories while connecting with other teachers. So, a blog seemed like the next natural step.
Sharing. Like my reason "why" explains, I am all about sharing my experiences, ideas, and products. I also hope to learn from many other bloggers as well with all of the great information they share.
I consider myself a newbie to blogging world but I did learn quickly how much more time and effort goes into creating a post than originally expected. Also, it's important to take great pictures that include step by step directions.
I truly have the heart and mind of a teacher! I love creating new products, hanging out with teacher friends, and pinning new ideas. When my brain needs the occasional break my newest addiction has become Revenge or Scandal on Netflix. Guilty pleasures. It's ok.
I usually have to wait until the weekends to do most of my blogging. I am still trying to find the balance and get better about posting more frequently and throughout the week. Baby steps.
I love educational blog posts that are full of great pictures. I am also a very crafty person and enjoy DIY sites. Now if only there was enough time in the day to create them all.
Everyday experiences. I always have my camera (phone) with me to snap shots of what's happening in my classroom each day. I keep a list of ideas (again on my phone) with me and add to it when something new pops up. Don't know what I'd do without technology!
I am still new enough where each post is a major labor of love! One of my favorites however is my Halloween Blog Hop post. I had so much fun learning how to do a raffle, linky, and blog hop for the first time.
9. Is there any post you have been planning to do, but have postponing it for a while now?
Math Tip Monday. I started it several weeks ago with great intentions but really want to get the ball rolling with a weekly series. I plan to focus on a different standard each week and share math game/center ideas, freebies, and tips for teaching it.
What I love most is the thought of another teacher learning something from my blog. We have such a challenging job and if I can inspire even just one idea to make someone's day easier I feel proud.
I love the idea of a Sunday Scoop that Mrs. Ashline's Rules takes part in each week. I always have such good intentions with a Five for Friday link up but just don't make it in time.
I also really like the decorative pumpkins from Student Savvy. I painted pumpkins this year as well and they didn't turn out quite as classy. Great work!
I absolutely love the Franken-Pudding project from Paiges of Learning. How simple! I know my first graders would love it. This year I was at a conference on Halloween and it would have been a biiiiit much for the sub to handle...but next year it is on my to-do list!
21st Century Kindergarten has tons of great advice on how to bring technology and 21st century skills to young learners without losing what's developmentally appropriate. I especially love the way she talks about using a travel theme with Thanksgiving.
1. In your post, link back to the blogger who nominated you as a thank you and "shout out."


The great thing about travelling by train is that you have no obligations or responsibilities. No car to park, no tour group to keep up with, and there's more than one train per day (unlike planes) so you can, for example, get of the train in Pisa, look around for a few hours, then get back on another train. Brilliant stuff.
Pisa is an interesting city. It's a bit like Cairo in that 99% of the tourists head straight for the leaning tower, have their photo taken like they're holding it up, maybe climb up and down again, and then walk straight back down the street that runs from the station to the tower and leave. The surrounds of the tower would even fit in in Cairo, with hawkers and overpriced tourist restaurants, though neither anywhere near as bad as Egypt, of course. Outside of the tower, Pisa is actually a pretty nice and non-touristy city, where people actually live rather than leech of tourism, which is surprising for the home of the most recognisable Italian monument outside of the Coliseum.
We, of course, didn't run straight through- more by accident than design. I'm starting to doubt whether Dad has an amazing sense of direction at all and doesn't just get lucky while vaguely wandering in the right direction. Then again, I guess that's the definition of a sense of direction, since I don't even know what vaguely the right direction is, whereas he seems to.
The tower hardly dominates the skyline, which actually makes it more impressive in a way. I was taking photos of the city wall (Pisa was once a walled city and the walls are still extant and in pretty good condition) when I walked around a corner and saw the tower, like so.
Hardly a stellar first impression.
Once you get over the slight shock of seeing a famous monument pretty much appear in front of you and actually walk around it, it's not really that tall. The only really impressive thing about it is how much it's leaning. It really is aptly named- I'm surprised it's still standing. The climb to the top is interesting. The stairs are worn on the edges where people walk ('solid marble' and 'eroded by people walking on it' aren't really two thoughts which occur often together, but there you go) and you can feel the direction of gravity change slightly as you walk up but otherwise it's not actually that hard a climb. The Americans behind us didn't think so though- they were panting and complaining and making a melodrama about passing out of exhaustion when they reached the top- don't they have stairs in America?
I know it's dorky... but you have to do it!
So outside of the tower Pisa is actually a fairly interesting city to walk around, especially if you follow the city walls for a bit. There's an old fortress thing which we walked through (we think) and didn't even realise because it's got a city park running alongside and through it. I really like the concept of city walls, even though they don't serve much purpose any more. Probably for the same reason I like the idea of 'city-states'. Maybe it traces back to living somewhere like Perth with no clearly defined boundaries, the idea of saying 'this is the city, and outside isn't' is novel or something. It certainly gives a place a different character to a modern urban sprawl.
That's me under the arch. SO WHO WAS PHOTO?
One other thing we saw which seemed interesting. Along the banks of the river there's this little church. It's similar in style to places like the Duomo, but much, much smaller. You could probably fit only a couple of dozen people in there. Tiny. What's more, it's the only thing which is on the bank of the river directly- all the other houses are separated from the river by a road. It looks a bit out of place, as if someone left it there by accident or it fell off the back of a truck or something.
Dad's very good at taking photos of me nonchalantly walking past things.
So that was Pisa. I'm on the train again- another advantage of trains is that they're quieter and (this one anyway) less crowded than planes, so it's easier to write. We're going to be in La Spezia tonight, walk the Cinque Terre trail (or part of it) tomorrow, and then probably head up the Italian coast on a slow train into the south of France the day after.


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I am able to log on to my att/net email account and use all of the functions except I am unable to load the chat and get signed on. When I click on the dropdown and select available, it says loading chat and then after 10 seconds or so goes back to offline. This is happening in both FireFox 19.0.2 and IE 8.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Installing Yahoo Messenger Client is NOT an option for ME.
Using multiple version of OS's, and browsers per day, my biggest concern is SECURITY.
Thank you for letting us know about the problems you are experiencing with Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo engineers have been informed and are working on a resolution. Updates will be posted in this forum as they become available.
Well, it was said this was going to be fixed on April 27, 2013. Its now the 29th and still doesnt work.
Any update? I have not heard anything from AT&T....It would be different if I had a free account but i pay for this one.
This is really unacceptable and you are about to lose a customer.
I emailed again for an update... No response.
I also have been having the same problems. I have a personal yahoo account that loads chat just fine in all browsers but my att/sbcglobal email the chat will not load. It has been a few weeks now and I use that text feature often for work puroposes. Is there a solution for this yet?
I have written to them twice and both times received a response of 'no news'. Honestly, I don't even think they are working on this. I find it impossible to believe that it has been going on two months with no solution if they actually are trying to fix the situation. No network issues take this long to correct.
Why is this post listed as "solved" on the 1st post of the first page??
It certainly isn't solved and should be listed as such. The problem has been going on for quite a while with no resolution in sight.
Thank you AT&T for keeping us updated on what is going on. Glad this still isnt fixed yet even though you said it was going to be by April 27th. And somehow this topic is marked as answered still as well. This is great! Thanks!!!
I apologize but there is currently not a solution for the chat issues we have been having. Once it is solved we will post information within our fourms.
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I've been using the "upgraded" version (mentioned above) of web mail for several months now. It was made available to Yahoo users back in December 2012. The "upgraded" version does NOT fix the problem discussed in this thread.
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Turner – Aivazovsky: An Auspicious Encounter
By Khatchatur I. Pilikian, London UK, January 2010
An abridged version of this paper was first read at the Aivazovsky International Symposium on July 23rd 1990, Theodosia, Crimea
Once upon a time there was Hovhanness Haivaz, an Armenian lad born in Theodosia, the "God-given" city built by the ancient Greeks on the shores of the black sea in Crimea. He had the gift of the muses. He soon began singing, playing the violin – oriental style—and drawing on the walls with charcoal.
Hovhanness became Ivan, and Haivaz stretched to Haivazovsky, Aivazian and finally was established as Aivazovsky.
Ivan Aivazovsky became the greatest marine painter of Imperial Russia. Early in his carrier, he was elected a member of five Academies of Fine Arts, including those of St. Petersburg (his Alma Mater). Rome, Florence, Stuttgart and Amsterdam. He was an Academician at 27, and Professor of Marine Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, at the age of 30.
He fell in love with an Italian diva, the ballerina Maria Taglioni. She wrote to him: "your marvellous talent makes me proud to be called an artist." Lifelong friendship was sealed, although they never married. He was 25 and she 38.
Falling in love anew, at 31, he married Julia Graves, an English governess in St. Petersburg. They had four daughters. After twelve years of marriage, Julia left her husband. Twenty-two years later, Aivazovsky, at 65, married Anna Boornazian, a young Armenian widow from Theodosia. Anna stayed with him till the end.
Aivazovsky left nearly 6000 works – accounting for more than 100 exhibitions all over Europe, Russia, England, Netherlands and the United States of America.
A master painter for 65 years, Aivazovsky was celebrated as the "marine poet" of his time, the 19th century.
With his death in 1900 marine painting lost its last "poet", and has yet to find the new. Until then, 20th century Western Art, having totally forgotten Aivazovsky, is resurrecting the other 'poet of colours' of the first half of the 19th century — J. M. W. Turner. He is the new 'prophet'.
Prophets are admired, for better or worse. They rarely admire others. That rarity is the microcosm of their "prophecy", or indeed, their humanity.
And the 'prophet' Turner admired the "poet" Aivazovsky.
He said it in Rome in 1842.
SIMILAR LEGEND
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was in his mid-fifties when he first met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), in Vienna.
Haydn-Mozart mutual admiration is now a legend.
"Nobody can do everything like Joseph Haydn", Mozart is reported to have said of his "dear friend and father." In his turn, Joseph Haydn, whose fame then stretched throughout Europe, confessed that Mozart was "the greatest musical genius". The professional appreciation was such that it paved the way for creative reciprocity, leaving its fascinating traits in music literature and performance practice.
A strikingly similar legend seems now possible to reconstruct in the domain of art history.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) met in Rome, in 1842. Turner had just seen, at an exhibition, some paintings by Aivazovsky – the talk of the town in those days. Recently, Pope Gregory XVI had purchased Aivazovsky's painting, titled: "Chaos – The Creation of the World", for the Vatican Gallery.
Turner at 67, the acknowledged master of the day of landscapes and marine paintings, was literally overwhelmed. The art of the young marine painter Aivazovsky inspired the venerable master to write a poem, in Italian, the last two lines of which are intoned in a panegyric mood:
'L'arte tuo ben' e potente So good and potent is your art
Perche il genio t'inspiró!..' That only genius could have inspired you
"OLD RUSSIA"
Perusing through the Aivazovsky literature at the British Library, I came across the entire Italian poem of Turner, published in the Russian periodical "Ruskaya Starina" = Old Russia, of 1878.
Eureka! Here it was at last. For many years only these two lines of the original Italian, mentioned above, were known to me, plus few more lines in Russian verse or prose, and an entire poem in an Armenian translation from a Russian rendering of the Italian poem. The Armenian translator was none other than the late Hovhanness Shiraz, one of the great Armenian poets of mid 20th century. The fascination and enthusiasm of H. Shiraz with the Russian version of the poem resulted in rendering his Armenian version in a flourish of expansive interpolations. Furthermore, H. Shiraz presented Turner as the "venerable English poet", placing him alongside Lermontov, V. Hugo, Li Tai Po and Barashvili. The said Armenian poem of Hovhanness Shiraz was in turn translated into English by Hovhanness Pilikian to relocate the poem in Turner's own native English. (See Appendix)
That was in 1978 when I had based my research and hypothesis on those scanty sources, albeit the only available ones appearing in the Aivazovsky literature after 1940s.
But now at last, I was able to read the entire poem in its original Italian which "Ruskaya Starina" had published among the autobiographical notes of Aivazovsky, in Russian, informing us, among others, the latter's Roman sojourn of 1842. Surprisingly and curiously enough, to date no western scholar of Turner seems to have come across this unique document in verse. Furthermore, they all agreed that Turner did not visit Rome in 1842. Meanwhile the Russian scholars of Aivazovsky had merely dealt with the said poem as no more than a panegyric curiosity.
I have no hesitation in considering Turner's Italian poem—published among Aivazovsky's autobiographical data–as an important document that illustrates our understanding of the creative worlds and the consequent reciprocity of Aivazovsky and Turner.
Perhaps it is the only poem Turner wrote in Italian or any other language other than his native English. We know that Turner versified throughout his entire creative life. He accompanied his sketches and paintings mostly with his own verses which he labelled more often than not as "Fallacies of Hope".
CLAUDIAN AND FAUSTIAN "LEITMOTIVES"
I suggest that the significance of the poem in its art-historical context lies in its remarkable Claudian "leitmotiv". Turner has 'repainted' in Italian words Aivazovsky's most Claudian landscape, which, I suggest, is the one titled: The Bay of Naples by Moonlight, 92 x 141 cm. now at the Aivazovsky Gallery in Theodosia. Most strikingly, the formal composition of this painting is a mirror/reverse image of a Turner painting titled: The Bay of Baiae, of 1823, now at the Tate Gallery. Furthermore, the poem resonates the aura of the spell the venerable master was under, of that "noble moment" created by the "art divine" of the young master, not unlike the Faustian Augenblick = glimpse/moment, uttered by Goethe's old philosopher in his now famous words:
"Verweile doch! Du bist so schön." = Yet, stay/stop! You are so beautiful.
Whereas Goethe's lofty, Faustian bliss is only envisaged in a future moment which might be won only by the "ultimate good", Turner's "sublime moment" is a felt reality "by art betrayed" but won, nevertheless. Even at 67, metaphysical bliss was beyond the reach of the sense-wrought artist, Turner, even though it touched the threshold of his colours. But that bliss was in abundance in the mature, disciplined will, classical skill and character of the art of the young Aivazovsky— an art luxuriating in romantic subject matters notwithstanding. That was, I believe, what fascinated and inspired Turner, the "magnificent giant of English painting" (Herbert Reed), to write a poem in praise of his young colleague, Aivazovsky.
Turner acquainted himself with Goethe's (1749-1832) treatise on colour, "Zur Farbenlehre" (1810), which was translated into English by his friend and colleague Charles Eastlake in 1840. In 1843, one year after his "enchantment" in Rome with the "potent art" of Aivazovsky, Turner 'illustrated' Goethe's theory with his own colours and words. Two oil paintings, accompanied by verses of his omnipresent Fallacies of Hope, were the result of that endeavour. One was titled: Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge. This was to exemplify Goethe's so called "minus" colours of blues, purples and blue-greens which, according to Goethe, were associated with restlessness, anxiety and susceptibility. Turner's accompanying verses read thus:
The other oil painting was titled: Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses writing the Book of Genesis. This painting was to exemplify Goethe's "plus" colours of reds, yellows and greens, which were supposed to produce feelings of happiness, joy and warmth. The accompanying verses of Turner read thus:
Turner knew his Bible well. His decision to choose Moses and not Noah the morning after the Deluge was the outburst of the artist's sensuality indulging in the eternal vortex of creation – the matrix of regeneration. Eventually the vortex as a structural, formal image had become Turner's pictorial obsession. Hence, letting Moses write the Book of Genesis, and not the Ten Commandments, meant, I believe, re-enacting the life cycle after the Deluge all over again.
In fact, Turner did not forget also reminding us of the Creation myth's archaic symbol of a rod with the serpent twisted on it. The rigid divinity of the Patriarchal Commandments – epitome of divine finality once and for all – would have interrupted the vortex drive of that divine matrix of rebirth — regeneration. Such was Turner, the sensual genius at his most poetic.
ARARAT – AIVAZOVSKY'S "ARMENIA"
Incidentally (or is it?), Turner's choice of the Ararat theme to exemplify Goethe's theory of colour came after his meeting with the Russian-Armenian painter, Ivan (Hovhanness) Aivazovsky (Aivazian) in Rome, in 1842.
Bearing in mind that Ararat is the perennial symbol of the land called Armenia, it would not be surprising to find Aivazovsky depicting the Ararat landscape. But he painted the landscape with the imposing mountain first in 1868, decades later than Turner's reference to it in his verse accompanying Light and Colour. Incredible but true, depicting Ararat made Aivazovsky the first Armenian painter ever to do so. The awesome majesty and 'sanctity' of mount Ararat, graciously treasured in popular myth, had a foreboding, quasi-iconoclastic influence on Armenian painters. Aivazovsky broke that 'spell'.
Indeed, Aivazovsky returned to paint the majestic two-summits mountain in 1882, titling it: The Valley of Mount Ararat. Moreover, he singed his name in Armenian, "Aivazian, 1882", on the image of the rock lying at the bottom left corner of the painting, in addition to his usual signature in Russian, Aivazovsky, at the bottom right corner. In 1885, he singed another Mount Ararat, both in Armenian and Russian, on the bottom right corner of the unusually small oil painting measuring 23 x 34 cm,
But in 1887, Aivazovsky too, like Turner, painted mount Ararat's biblical theme of 'after the Deluge.' He named it simply as Noah Descending from Ararat. As mentioned above, the subject matter in Turner's painting of Ararat after the Deluge is swept up in the dynamic vortex of regeneration. In Aivazovsky, the vast emptiness of the world-universe after the Deluge, the majesty of mount Ararat and the chilling serenity of the disciplined descent of the survivors, all breathe Biblical inevitability. Moreover, in the Aivazovsky oil painting Noah's group has chosen to bend the path of the caravan in a semicircle (the painter has modified the straight path of the caravan in his initial sketch.) The Patriarchal group is pushed further away from his followers, in an anticlockwise motion, towards the right, thus creating a guiding momentum for the bewildered survivors in their descent.
A journalist of the acclaimed Venice periodical "Bazmavep", reported that in a Paris exhibition of Aivazovsky's paintings, in 1889, the master himself stood aloof and afar, pointing to his large painting Noah Descending from Ararat, saying:
"Here it is, our Armenia." (M. Sargsian, H. AIVAZOVSKI. "Knowledge" Publications, Yerevan 1967, p 32)
As for Aivazovsky's painting titled The World Deluge, of 1864, there is a distinct and violent contrast of light and shade bisecting the world/canvass vertically, as if each trying to subdue the other half totally. Humans, whether drowned or still alive are all depicted as statuesque details, nay even as broken stone remnants of the massive earth/rocks defoliated by the flood. The whole world is engulfed in a visually frozen battle/tension, a halted still of the natural tragic event – a Faustian augenblick, indeed, albeit not of bliss but of affliction.
Nothing indeed could exemplify better the difference between the two painters as these paintings pertaining to the biblical events before and after the Deluge. Their formal and pictorial treatment of the same subject matter by both artists created the opposites in the classic-romantic dialectics of the spectrum of art.
Sir Kenneth Clark has pointed out that "three-quarters of the paintings by Turner which we admire most were not exhibited in his lifetime; many of them were not put on stretchers or seen by another human eye till over fifty years after his death" (The Romantic Rebellion, p 223). Sir Clark's observation serves as a warning when we try to assess which works of Turner Aivazovsky knew and admired. We cannot yet tell that story in full. That Aivazovsky did admire Turner, even before he met the venerable master in Rome in 1842, is obvious from Aivazovsky's autobiographical notes, which has served as a primary source for his biographers and catalogue compilers. Research will have to be done to recapture the essence of that mutual admiration.
Yet it seems obvious that the venerable English painter Turner, "certainly the greatest of English Romantics and colourists" (A. Finberg), was powerfully attracted not so much by Aivazovsky's romantic subject matter, employed abundantly with heightened pictorial moods, as with the young artist's attainment of classical visual discipline which moulded his youthful exuberance without containment.
I propose that Turner conceived of the Russian-Armenian painter Aivazovsky, as the 'new' Claude. Turner and many an artist before and after him, tried to emulate Claude Lorraine (1600-1682), the French-Italian master of 17th century classical landscape and seaport paintings. But Turner's natural and powerful romanticism, I think, 'failed' his lifelong obsession to become a 'new' Claude, despite earning a reputation as the 'British Claude'. That 'failure' was to become his strength especially after his encounter with Aivazovsky's work. Unlike Turner, the essentially classicist Aivazovsky never entertained such an obsession but was able to become Claudian with a panache, whenever he chose to. Hence, I believe that Aivazovsky's art helped Turner to abandon his Claudian obsession. As a result of which and especially after 1842, a 'radical' Turner emerged, tenaciously unbound.
Aivazovsky at 25 was Turner's 'Claudian Hope' incarnate. To emulate Claude after having experienced Aivazovskt's work would have been pointless exercise and truly a 'fallacious hope' for Turner at the age of 67. Thanks to that auspicious encounter, Turner relentlessly pursued his creative independence. A unique and essentially a revolutionary painter, Turner was no more in need of Ruskin's defence of his art of 1843 (Modern Painters). J. M. W. Turner had absorbed the Delphic Dictum. He knew himself. He became the Bard of Visual Culture for our own times and the millennium to come.
AN EPILOGUE
The 'benefit of doubt' is a helpful tool for research all right, but not an excuse for a-priori neglect. The most hardened misconception remains the one claiming that Turner did not visit Italy after 1840. Nevertheless, here are a few 'encouraging' hints from noted British scholars of Turner:
The editor of Turner Society News, Cecilia Powell recently wrote the following about Christine Bicknell's journal the latter jotted down on 24 June 1845:
"Christine Bicknell noted briefly 'Turner going to Venice'. This suggests that Turner's 1840 visit to Venice was perhaps not his last, as is usually supposed, but further evidence to confirm a later visit is not, as yet, forthcoming." (TSN 56, p 6)
In his A Wonderful Range of Mind (1987), John Gage questions the possibility of Turner's visits of Tyrol and North Italy in August/November 1943.
But Andrew Wilton is quite sure, in his Turner Abroad (1985, p 30), about Turner visiting Lake Como and Bolzano in August 1842.
Hence, there is no reason whatsoever not to regard Aivazovsky's autobiographical notes published in 1878 as one such further evidence of Turner visiting Italy after 1840, not unlike Bicknell's journal of 1845 referred to by C. Powell.
Furthermore, the Russian scholars of Aivazovsky, namely Kuzmin (1901), Skvortsov (1943), Barsamov (1955), Wagner (1871) and Novouspensky (1980), all do tell us that the author of the poem in Italian in praise of Aivazovsky was non other than J.M.W.Turner.
All the above notwithstanding, I think further research is needed to consider, among others, the following: Did Turner write the said poem first in English and then asked an Italian friend to translate his poem into Italian? It's worth mentioning, also, that Aivazovsky had his first London exhibition in 1843, hence the meeting might have even been then in London and not in Rome. But Aivazovsky's autobiographical notes leave no doubt as to when, where and who was the original author of the poem in question—1842, Rome, Turner.
Delving into the intricacies of the so called 'late Turner', Prof. W. Vaughan argues that late Turner, or, as he calls it, 'private' Turner was bound through "associative Romantic Aesthetics" to the "superior taste" of the "superior observer" of the "aristocratic class" or the "nouveaux riches" in Britain (TSN 56, p 14)
Nevertheless, it is significantly better to point out that 'late' Turner manifests not so much a 'private' Turner but a 'primary' Turner. His visual Romanticism, naturally omnipresent in his oeuvre, was 'bound' in Claudian Classicist obsession, until early 1840's. The encounter with Aivazovsky's oeuvre made Turner 'unbound', reaffirming the time honoured, ageless and never fading or failing truth in life and in art –the Delphic dictum: Gnothi Seauton = KNOW THYSELF.
On Aivazovsky
A few years ago, while I was in St.Petersburg as a tourist, my group was being guided by a charming Russian lady in the museum. There were some Aivazovsky paintings and she elaborated on their famous "RUSSIAN " painter. When I told her that he was only a Russian national, was not a Russian but an Armenian, she got upset that I had contradicted her in front of the group. We had a little argument.
I do not know how the rest of the group (all English speakers) took my harangue, but I was satisfied
Aivazovsky
Dear Serj,
In addition to the Russian guide's inclination to appropriate what is not theirs or perhaps her ignorance, it's worth remembering that states are hostile to nations, and particularly to ethnic groups. States are man-made administrative constructs which feel threatened by nations, races and ethnic groups. States see minority groups as challengers who might drift towards separatism, and perhaps to the dismantling of the state. Thus many states try to assimilate their minorities overtly, covertly, or forcibly.
Thus Atom Egoyan is Canadian
William Saroyan is American
Charles Aznavour is French
Aram Khachaturian is Russian
The ideal for states is to have 100% homogenous race-ethnic population. Ironically, Armenia is one such state, although it's not because of planning by the state. Japan is nearly 100% homogenous, but that condition was planned by Tokyo. Israel would love to be a homogenous state.
The Russian guide was a state employee who was tutored by the state and used state-approved texts for her "education".
Gospels in Eastern Armenian
Thank you, Raffi. Your advice was helpful. Can you help me one more time? Could you suggest an online (or non-online) dictionary for reading the Gospels of Eastern Armenian? I need for my studies. Thanks again.
I agree with much of these comments about Aivazovsky's ethnicity. However, the tour guide was also right, because there are two words for "Russian" in Russian and English does not translate the distinction which they make between ethnicity (Russkii) and citizenship (Rossiiskii). There is more than one kind of ignorance here, in other words. Aivazovsky was born in Ukraine, which made him a subject of the Russian Empire. (I don't like to use the word "citizen" because subjects of the Empire had so few civil rights.) But, of course, he was also ethnically Armenian and a Ukrainian provincial. Lastly, we should not forget that he voluntarily chose to identify himself with and to work very closely with one of the major institutions of Russian state power, to wit the Imperial Navy.
Turner – Aivazovsky
I have read this article with much interest. What I would like to know is…
1. Where can I find the full article.
2. N. Novouspensky's 1980 book is very difficult to find. Do you have any suggestions?
I enjoyed the article and I am very interested in learning more about Turner and Aivazovsky.
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USS LBJ (DDG-1002)
Good googly moogly, the naming foolishness continues. Is SECNAV just phoning it in now?
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Zumwalt-class destroyer will be named the USS Lyndon B. Johnson.
The selection of Lyndon B. Johnson, designated DDG 1002, continues the Navy tradition of naming ships after presidents and honors the nation's 36th president.
The USS Lyndon B. Johnson is the 34th ship named by the Navy after a U.S. president.
"I am pleased to honor President Johnson with the naming of this ship," Mabus said. "His dedication to a life of public service included bravely stepping forward to fight for his country during our entry into World War II."
OK SECNAV, let's fact check this decision, shall we?
First of all - the nice version.
On June 21, 1940, Lyndon Johnson was appointed Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve (USNR). Reporting for active duty on December 10, 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., for instruction. He began working on production and manpower problems that were slowing the production of ships and planes, and he traveled in Texas, California, and Washington, assessing labor needs in war production plants. In May 1942, he proceeded to Headquarters, Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco, California, for inspection duty in the Pacific. Stationed in New Zealand and Australia, he participated as an observer on a number of bomber missions in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Army Silver Star Medal by General Douglas MacArthur and cited as follows:
"For gallantry in action in the vicinity of Port Moresby and Salamaua, New Guinea, on June 9, 1942. While on a mission of obtaining information in the Southwest Pacific area, Lieutenant Commander Johnson, in order to obtain personal knowledge of combat conditions, volunteered as an observer on a hazardous aerial combat mission over hostile positions in New Guinea. As our planes neared the target area they were intercepted by eight hostile fighters. When, at this time, the plane in which Lieutenant Commander Johnson was an observer, developed mechanical trouble and was forced to turn back alone, presenting a favorable target to the enemy fighters, he evidenced marked coolness in spite of the hazards involved. His gallant actions enabled him to obtain and return with valuable information."
In addition to the Army Silver Star Medal, Commander Johnson has the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
On July 16, 1942, Johnson was released from active duty under honorable conditions. (President Roosevelt had ruled that national legislators might not serve in the armed forces). On October 19, 1949, he was promoted to Commander, USNR, his date of rank, June 1, 1948. His resignation from the Naval Reserve was accepted by the Secretary of the Navy, effective January 18, 1964.
Five months of DC duty. Two months in Australia and New Zealand, got a ride of a NMC-M bomber with a follow-on politician's Silver Star? 8-months active duty total.
You can get the full story of his Silver Star from Barrett Tillman and Henry Sakaida authoritative piece on the story, LBJ's Silver Star: The Mission That Never Was. That or the executive summary from The Guardian;
For most of his political life, Lyndon B Johnson wore a second world war military decoration for valour under fire despite never having seen combat, an investigation broadcast on CNN yesterday revealed.
LBJ was awarded the Silver Star, the third-highest US combat medal, for a 1942 fact-finding mission over the Pacific while he was a Texas congressman and an acting lieutenant commander in the navy.
The citation, issued in the name of General Douglas MacArthur, said the plane, a B-26 bomber, was "intercepted by eight hostile fighters" and that Johnson "evidenced coolness".
In fact, according to surviving members of the crew, the plane developed mechanical problems before reaching its target and never came under fire. No other crew member received a medal for the mission.
The biographer of LBJ, Robert Dallek, said the medal was the outcome of a deal with Gen MacArthur, under which Johnson was honoured in return for a pledge "that he would lobby the president, FDR, to provide greater resources for the southwest Pacific theatre".
Perfect. Could there be a greater poster child for what has happened to the once honored practice of naming ships?
We don't even need to go in to what impact LBJ had on this nation and its military during the Vietnam War.
Is that really where we are now? Like some inbred, lead poisoned, flabby, late-Roman Empire Senate - the only thing that matters is petty political pandering, and shallow narcissistic proclamations? Will DDG-1003 be the USS INCITATUS?
I guess I should find some snarky way of folding in the fact DDG-1002 has so much balsa wood in the superstructure (yes, really) - but, naw. I don't want to get in to a composite-sandwich geek fight.
Well, at least it wasn't a CVN.
UPDATE Laugh, cry, or scream. I choose to laugh. As such, I have started a rather lame attempt at sophomoric humor not worthy of a Navy officer (except for Skippy) on twitter using #USSLBJ.
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Jan.January 24, 2012 09:30 AM
The city's low office vacancy rates and slowly rising rents are overshadowing a disturbing office leasing trend, according to the New York Post. Ground-up office projects have been unable to secure major tenants, which in turn has stifled development.
Yesterday's news that Silverstein Properties might cap off 3 World Trade Center at seven stories because of its inability to land a tenant, is just the most recent example. (The Post said building beyond seven stories had always been dependent upon landing an anchor tenant.)
Nearby, at 1 WTC, there's been little actual leasing activity beyond the Conde Nast deal, which was first conceived of in the summer of 2010. At 4 WTC, Silverstein is still searching for a private-sector tenant.
Coach inked a deal at Related Companies' Hudson Yards, but those talks kicked off in November 2010, and Brookfield's Manhattan West and Hines Interests' 7 Bryant Park each have yet to begin construction thanks to an absence of tenants. SJP Properties has 600,000 vacant square feet at 11 Times Square and has not landed a new tenant since the fall of 2010, and Boston Properties' 250 West 55th Street has just 180,000 square feet accounted for in its planned 1 million-square-foot tower. Minskoff Equities has given up, for the time being, on finding a tenant and is building a 475,000-square-foot tower at 51 Astor Place on spec. [Post]
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It's been eight years since Clearway Driver Training started providing professional driving tuition in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Middlesex. As we celebrate our 8th birthday, let's take a quick look back at some of the highlights of the past few years!
Our driving school opened for business on 15th November 2004. We covered the high spots of our first five years in a previous article we wrote in 2009: Clearway Driver Training Celebrate 5th Anniversary!
So what's happened since then? Quite a lot!
We've welcomed two new members to our team of Approved Driving Instructors. Hayley joined us in June 2010 and stayed with us specialising in intensive courses until April 2011. In February 2011 Jarek Radomyski came to us from RED Driving School. Jarek is bi-lingual and his arrival has enabled us to meet the needs of a diverse local community by offering driving lessons in Polish as well as English.
In March 2012, Clearway Driver Training instructors and their cars were featured on the popular BBC television programme, Top Gear! Filming for the show had taken place in Windsor and featured Top Gear presenter James May behind the wheel of a very expensive Ferrari (owned by TV and radio personality Chris Evans), interacting in an on-road sequence with driving instructors Paul Kirkpatrick, Rob White, ` Plenty and Peter Fearon.
On the subject of cars, our instructors have changed their vehicles a few times! In our previous overview in 2009, Paul Kirkpatrick and Ted Plenty were using Fiat Grande Puntos, Peter Fearon had a Toyota Yaris and Rob White drove a Peugeot 207. Today, Paul, Peter and Ted drive Renault Clios, Rob continues to be a fan of Peugeot's and has recently acquired a shiny new Peugeot 208, while Jarek has a Fiat Grande Punto. You can click here to see our current fleet of driving school cars.
Back in 2009 in our overview of our first five years, we were approaching our 300th driving test pass. We achived that goal in December 2009, followed by our 400th test pass in December 2010, our 500th in December 2011 and on 24th October 2012 we racked up number 600! We're so proud of the achievements of our students and their instructors, that we now have a Hall of Fame featuring photographs of some of our successful customers proudly showing off their driving test pass certificates!


Machine learning helps improve our lives in a huge number of ways.
For example, when you're booking a taxi, you're shown how much the trip would cost. Or when you're on the trip, you're shown the path the taxi would take to reach your destination. All of that, is machine learning.


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Should You Be Adding IHS Markit (NYSE:INFO) To Your Watchlist Today?
January 8, 2021, 5:06 AM ·3 min read
Like a puppy chasing its tail, some new investors often chase 'the next big thing', even if that means buying 'story stocks' without revenue, let alone profit. But as Warren Buffett has mused, 'If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.' When they buy such story stocks, investors are all too often the patsy.
In contrast to all that, I prefer to spend time on companies like IHS Markit (NYSE:INFO), which has not only revenues, but also profits. While profit is not necessarily a social good, it's easy to admire a business that can consistently produce it. Conversely, a loss-making company is yet to prove itself with profit, and eventually the sweet milk of external capital may run sour.
View our latest analysis for IHS Markit
How Quickly Is IHS Markit Increasing Earnings Per Share?
As one of my mentors once told me, share price follows earnings per share (EPS). That makes EPS growth an attractive quality for any company. It certainly is nice to see that IHS Markit has managed to grow EPS by 33% per year over three years. As a general rule, we'd say that if a company can keep up that sort of growth, shareholders will be smiling.
Careful consideration of revenue growth and earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) margins can help inform a view on the sustainability of the recent profit growth. IHS Markit's EBIT margins have fallen over the last twelve months, but the flat revenue sends a message of stability. Does that sound particularly bullish? No, it does not.
In the chart below, you can see how the company has grown earnings, and revenue, over time. To see the actual numbers, click on the chart.
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You don't drive with your eyes on the rear-view mirror, so you might be more interested in this free report showing analyst forecasts for IHS Markit's future profits.
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Since IHS Markit has a market capitalization of US$36b, we wouldn't expect insiders to hold a large percentage of shares. But we do take comfort from the fact that they are investors in the company. Notably, they have an enormous stake in the company, worth US$192m. This suggests to me that leadership will be very mindful of shareholders' interests when making decisions!
Should You Add IHS Markit To Your Watchlist?
Given my belief that share price follows earnings per share you can easily imagine how I feel about IHS Markit's strong EPS growth. Further, the high level of insider ownership impresses me, and suggests that I'm not the only one who appreciates the EPS growth. So this is very likely the kind of business that I like to spend time researching, with a view to discerning its true value. Still, you should learn about the 3 warning signs we've spotted with IHS Markit .
Of course, you can do well (sometimes) buying stocks that are not growing earnings and do not have insiders buying shares. But as a growth investor I always like to check out companies that do have those features. You can access a free list of them here.
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Area unknown yet? You Aberdeen boys up for a wee drive down this way since there are a few of up there now, maybe a Perth meet to go half way for us all?
I assume the Christmas meet never went ahead?
I can't do weekends unless I get back home for 4 pm, and I'm an hour north of Aberdeen, so Aberdeen would be the farthest I could do really.
I wouldnt mind coming along to a meet. Been a long time since i was at one.
Can combine Scottish car show and the voyage to the same weekend if prefered?


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Hyderabad woman swims across Palk Strait
By Nirosha Rajapakse
'Mark Twain' noted "age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter". Syamala Goli, a 47 year old Indian swimmer who goes into the history book as the world's second woman to have swum across the 30 mile-Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, bears testimony to the statement of 'Mark Twain', one of the greatest American writers of all time.
Goli has been able to be a source of great inspiration and a tower of strength for anybody, particularly the women who tend to abandon and shatter their hopes, dreams and aspirations due to their pessimistic thoughts on ageing. She became a household name overnight notably, among the women folk in the Indian subcontinent over her courageous and fearless battle to conquer the world of swimming, which gave her popularity and acclaim, despite being the oldest competing with those as young as 15-20 years.
Crossing the Ganges
Representing her hometown of Hyderabad, Syamala Goli became the first woman swimmer to have crossed the river Ganges at the 12th National Takshila Open Water Long Distance Ganga Swimming Competition in Patna, Bihar which concluded on November 10, 2020. At the encounter, having competed with 40 others, she became the sixth.
She was seen crossing 13 kilometres in one hour and 50 minutes. Her starting point was the Siva Ghat and the finishing line was the Law College Ghat of the river Ganges. Following her history making achievement, Goli said, "I feel very satisfied because initially I was apprehensive whether I could pull it off, but as the race started, I gathered my thoughts and gave it my best shot."
She is of the belief that your mind is empowered with the strength and capacity of taking over and executing the adventures as long as you are not discouraged over the hardships and obstacles encountered during the run up to the achievement of your goal.
Goli was initially not allowed to participate in the competition, owing to the fact that the organisers of the competition were of the belief that her age would not be apt to compete in an adventurous and audacious swimming competition. But a decision of such nature did not discourage the spirit, interest and devotion with which Goli was heavily immersed.
Challenging the beliefs
Amid resistance and demotivation by the attitudes of some people, Goli won her battle of getting herself approved to participate in the competition. Goli's efforts and the timing reported during the competition were remarkable.
Goli is one of the examples which demonstrate the fact that your inner most interest, enthusiasm, the sense of heroism, the feeling of adventure and the willingness to explore the hidden potential of yourself are the genuine factors which contribute towards the path of success regardless of the fact that how old you are.
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Fashion and food make unlikely bedfellows
Plain Vanilla Bakery's owner Vanessa Kenchington (second from left) and the co-founders of lifestyle and womenswear label In Good Company (from left) – Julene Aw, Jaclyn Teo, Sven Tan and Kane Tan – opened a retail-and-dining store at Ion Orchard.
PHOTO: The Straits Times
Ankita Varma
Thousands of shoppers and commuters hurry through Raffles City each day, most oblivious to one thing: There is a vegetable farm above their heads.
The enormous 10,000 sq ft urban rooftop garden at the retail-commercial complex is home to herbs and plants, including aloe vera, tarragon, passion flower and cat's whiskers.
Run by urban farming company Edible Garden City, the crops are not for any restaurant or bar.
Instead, they are grown to make calming tinctures for beauty brands under the Spa Esprit Group. The local beauty and lifestyle company is behind apothecary spa, Spa Esprit and waxing specialists Strip.
The four-year $1 million project that launched in July this year is just one of the many unexpected business partnerships that have cropped up in recent months. Diverse Singaporean companies are coming together to collaborate in unexpected ways.
For Spa Esprit Group's chief executive Cynthia Chua, 44, collaborating was the best way to venture into an unfamiliar area. "Even though I had learnt about the concept of urban farming three years ago, I didn't think it was feasible in Singapore until I met the passionate farmers behind Edible Garden City," says Ms Chua.
"It might seem strange that a beauty brand is working with a farm, but for us, it was a fantastic way to explore a new area of growth and learn from the technical expertise brought to the table by the team at Edible Garden City."
As a long-term tenant at Raffles City, Ms Chua floated her idea for an urban garden to the building's management earlier this year and they let her use the space rent-free for a year.
Venturing into unfamiliar territory was also the reason local lifestyle and womenswear label In Good Company decided to collaborate with Plain Vanilla Bakery. The two outfits opened their first 3,300 sq ft standalone store at Ion Orchard earlier this year in August.
"As a conceptual retail store, we knew we wanted to have a food and beverage (F&B) element within our space but didn't know where to start, seeing as we knew nothing about the F&B industry," says Jaclyn Teo, 37, one of four co-founders of In Good Company.
The group decided to cold call Plain Vanilla Bakery's owner Vanessa Kenchington to ask whether she would like to collaborate with them.
"None of us even knew her," says the brand's designer Sven Tan, 36. "We just loved her stuff and thought there was no harm trying our luck."
It turned out that Ms Kenchington, 31, was intrigued.
She says of their first meeting: "We had a real synergy of ideas and realised that our customer profiles were very similar even though our businesses were so different. Plus, because their proposal offered an opportunity to test a cafe concept with a savoury menu, it was win-win all around."
The result is an airy, organic retail-cum-deli space - offering customers a chance to take a break and have a quiche or a cupcake in between browsing the racks.
"Not only did the partnership create a relaxed, communal vibe and give dads and kids a place to relax while mum shopped, but it also increased customer dwell time in the store," says Ms Teo. "That has been the best part for all of us about the whole experience."
Encouraging customers to stay and browse was what local bookbinding company Bynd Artisan was going for too, when it decided to open a small cafe within its newest atelier at Holland Village last month.
"We wanted our customers to be able to grab a cup of tea or coffee and some sweet treats while attending our workshops or waiting for their items to be customised," says Ms Winnie Chan, founder of Bynd Artisan's parent company Grandluxe, who is in her 40s.
"And since we constantly collaborate with artists for our stationery products, it seemed only appropriate to do the same to kick off our new F&B concept as well."
Tapping on the expertise of her uncle Ignatius Chan, who owns iconic fine-dining establishment Iggy's, the two collaborated on a set of eight petit fours with an Asian twist - umeshu jelly, popping candy chocolate and green curry, gado gado and salted egg yolk macarons - all presented in a beautifully designed keepsake box shaped like a book. The limited edition set is priced at $30.
Says Mr Chan of the experience: "I really enjoyed the challenge. It gave me a chance to learn about a business completely different from my own, while still paying homage to the handcrafted work that binds us both."
The limited-edition set is a runaway success.
Madam Janice Ho, 44, who bought four sets of the box to give to friends and family, says: "It's a collaboration that combines two different industries in a unique way. I love how both these businesses have stepped out of their comfort zones to create something different and exciting.
"As a customer, that's what makes me happy to support them," adds Madam Ho, a personal wealth manager.
Another consumer, engineer Josef Mahadevan, 39, however, feels that it is important that businesses make the effort to sync their style or ideas before collaborating with each other.
"It's so evident to the customer when businesses are blindly jumping on a bandwagon or partnering on a superficial level," says Mr Mahadevan.
"Personally, I feel that collaborations like that become very gimmicky and end up turning the customer off both brands entirely."
avarma@sph.com.sg
This article was first published on October 18, 2015.
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Our little girl is growing up! Just look at her cute new logo!
I've used the site Fiverr.com once before for logo creation. The name comes from the fact that you can get freelance work done for as little as $5.00, and that's just what I set out to do. In the end, I spent a bit more than that, but it was still very affordable and the resulting image is something I could have never created on my own.
The first step in the process is to determine which designer you want to work with. This can be a bit overwhelming!! There are so many to select from, and so many of their sample images are high quality. I looked around a bit and finally settled on krishankj from India. They had great reviews from over 1,000 customers, and I liked the style of their art. They offered several pricing packages, one of which was at that magic amount – $5.00. One other thing they provided was a link to their sample work on Flickr, and I found an RV logo in the mix! Sold!!
A day passed and I had my first logo to proof.
I was SO.EXCITED!! I think the level of detail they including from the photo was great! It really looked like Mary D! Since it was a proof, it had a watermark. I asked for a change to the font and added another $5.00 (+ $1.00 processing fee) option to get a rectangular version of the logo. Total spent was now $22.00.
Another day passed and I had what I wanted – a square and rectangular logo in multiple formats with source files which I can edit as desired. You might noticed I slimmed down the logo to just the RV and added her name for the small version in the top left of the blog. I'm one happy girl when I can do my own thing with it!
Is it perfect? Not really. There are small things that could be cleaned up, but for the price I paid, I'm super happy with it! And I think Fiverr.com is a great site for logo creation!
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 Казони, Бернар (род. 1961) — французский футбольный тренер.
 Казони, Гвидо (1561—1640) — итальянский писатель.
 Казони, Томазо (1880—1933) — итальянский врач.
 Казони, Филиппо (1733—1811) — итальянский куриальный кардинал.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Alphas;
using QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Execution;
using QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Portfolio;
using QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework.Selection;
using QuantConnect.Interfaces;

namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.CSharp
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Test algorithm using <see cref="AccumulativeInsightPortfolioConstructionModel"/> and <see cref="ConstantAlphaModel"/>
    /// generating a constant <see cref="Insight"/> with a 0.25 confidence
    /// </summary>
    public class AccumulativeInsightPortfolioRegressionAlgorithm : QCAlgorithm, IRegressionAlgorithmDefinition
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initialise the data and resolution required, as well as the cash and start-end dates for your algorithm. All algorithms must initialized.
        /// </summary>
        public override void Initialize()
        {
            // Set requested data resolution
            UniverseSettings.Resolution = Resolution.Minute;

            SetStartDate(2013, 10, 07);  //Set Start Date
            SetEndDate(2013, 10, 11);    //Set End Date
            SetCash(100000);             //Set Strategy Cash

            // set algorithm framework models
            SetUniverseSelection(new ManualUniverseSelectionModel(QuantConnect.Symbol.Create("SPY", SecurityType.Equity, Market.USA)));
            SetAlpha(new ConstantAlphaModel(InsightType.Price, InsightDirection.Up, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20), 0.025, 0.25));
            SetPortfolioConstruction(new AccumulativeInsightPortfolioConstructionModel());
            SetExecution(new ImmediateExecutionModel());
        }

        public override void OnEndOfAlgorithm()
        {
            if (// holdings value should be 0.03 - to avoid price fluctuation issue we compare with 0.06 and 0.01
                Portfolio.TotalHoldingsValue > Portfolio.TotalPortfolioValue * 0.06m
                ||
                Portfolio.TotalHoldingsValue < Portfolio.TotalPortfolioValue * 0.01m)
            {
                throw new Exception($"Unexpected Total Holdings Value: {Portfolio.TotalHoldingsValue}");
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate if the open source Lean repository has the required data to run this algorithm.
        /// </summary>
        public bool CanRunLocally { get; } = true;

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate which languages this algorithm is written in.
        /// </summary>
        public Language[] Languages { get; } = { Language.CSharp, Language.Python };

        /// <summary>
        /// Data Points count of all timeslices of algorithm
        /// </summary>
        public long DataPoints => 3943;

        /// <summary>
        /// Data Points count of the algorithm history
        /// </summary>
        public int AlgorithmHistoryDataPoints => 0;

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used by the regression test system to indicate what the expected statistics are from running the algorithm
        /// </summary>
        public Dictionary<string, string> ExpectedStatistics => new Dictionary<string, string>
        {
            {"Total Trades", "199"},
            {"Average Win", "0.00%"},
            {"Average Loss", "0.00%"},
            {"Compounding Annual Return", "-12.611%"},
            {"Drawdown", "0.200%"},
            {"Expectancy", "-0.585"},
            {"Net Profit", "-0.172%"},
            {"Sharpe Ratio", "-10.169"},
            {"Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio", "12.075%"},
            {"Loss Rate", "78%"},
            {"Win Rate", "22%"},
            {"Profit-Loss Ratio", "0.87"},
            {"Alpha", "-0.149"},
            {"Beta", "0.035"},
            {"Annual Standard Deviation", "0.008"},
            {"Annual Variance", "0"},
            {"Information Ratio", "-9.603"},
            {"Tracking Error", "0.215"},
            {"Treynor Ratio", "-2.264"},
            {"Total Fees", "$199.00"},
            {"Estimated Strategy Capacity", "$26000000.00"},
            {"Lowest Capacity Asset", "SPY R735QTJ8XC9X"},
            {"Fitness Score", "0.002"},
            {"Kelly Criterion Estimate", "38.796"},
            {"Kelly Criterion Probability Value", "0.228"},
            {"Sortino Ratio", "-22.493"},
            {"Return Over Maximum Drawdown", "-77.93"},
            {"Portfolio Turnover", "1.211"},
            {"Total Insights Generated", "100"},
            {"Total Insights Closed", "99"},
            {"Total Insights Analysis Completed", "99"},
            {"Long Insight Count", "100"},
            {"Short Insight Count", "0"},
            {"Long/Short Ratio", "100%"},
            {"Estimated Monthly Alpha Value", "$135639.1761"},
            {"Total Accumulated Estimated Alpha Value", "$21852.9784"},
            {"Mean Population Estimated Insight Value", "$220.7372"},
            {"Mean Population Direction", "53.5354%"},
            {"Mean Population Magnitude", "53.5354%"},
            {"Rolling Averaged Population Direction", "58.2788%"},
            {"Rolling Averaged Population Magnitude", "58.2788%"},
            {"OrderListHash", "3c4c4085810cc5ecdb927d3647b9bbf3"}
        };
    }
}

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SVE which has a renowned name in manufacturing DTH bits & hammers is founded by Mr. S V Mohan Reddy, who has got a rich vision to cater quality products at cost-effective prices in water well, mining and construction segments of DTH drilling.
Looking at a bigger picture ahead, he has started slowly with DTH bits and expanded the product range to different sizes and different product lines.
Being from a normal remote village in southern part of India, he possesses a vast and rich experience in various organizations in crucial departments like heat treatment, design & development, sales and possess a wide range of expertise and versatility, altogether, starting from a lower level employee to a managerial cadre and then started an organization, leading about 200 employees.


Charlotte-based Bank of America was just ordered to pay over 1,000 former job applicants a total of $2,181,593 in back wages and interest after a federal judge ruled that they had discriminated on them due to their race.
America's largest bank must now pay $964,033 to 1,034 African American applicants who were rejected for jobs in 1993, and another $1,217,560 to 113 job seekers who were denied work between 2002 and 2005. They've also been ordered offer jobs to 10 applicants who were originally turned down.


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Amel Larrieux Announces First Album in Seven Years: "Ice Cream Everyday"
Posted on July 7, 2013 by 2020k | RJ Kozain
Not counting 2007's cover LP Lovely Standards, it's been seven years since our ears have been blessed with original tunes from independent R&B artist Amel Larrieux, which is, well, far too long. Now, on August 27th, 2013, comes the follow up to the last release (Morning) with Ice Cream Everyday.
Although the 80's inspired cover and happy-go-lucky album title seems like this project could be a stray from the well-thoughtout music we've come to love about Larrieux since the Groove Theory days, don't be alarmed! "Afraid," the first single from the record and most added urban AC track of the week, sounds like a proper follow up and brilliantly engineered continuation of the immaculate discography this songbird has stacked up through the years.
"I dream of you nights, daytime too," Larrieux sings over top of a repetitive kick and snare track, funk bass, and euphoric, flowing pads. There's lovely delay effects all throughout the song, including fantastic play on the first verse. It's an apprehensive, but optimistic love song with progressive mixing techniques and an impressive unfolding composition that incorporates the smooth, signature Amel sound. It's impossible to be afraid of this track, especially with the sly, stripped opening second verse section.
Currently, "Afraid" is available on iTunes now and there's an exclusive deluxe edition of Ice Cream Everyday on Blisslife.com that contains three bonus mixes.
Amel Larrieux is relieved to share this with us and we're excited to have it. The rapture stirring inside of this track is certainly refreshing.
PS Follow Amel Larrieux on Twitter. So much positivity and love! And be sure to follow 2020k on Twitter & Facebook for all of the developing updates on Ice Cream Everyday.
What's your favorite flavor? Give me cotton candy.
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Philippine journalists 'live in danger'
By Vaudine England
Some 63 journalists have been killed in the Philippines in eight years
Another report on local corruption or the conduct of a war, another dead journalist in the Philippines.
Family members, friends and witnesses flee for safety; no one dares to testify about what they saw - perhaps a motorbike licence plate and a glimpse of the men who shot the journalist in the head.
Local prosecutors are too close to the warlords or army commanders and decline to pursue the case.
And so the toll rises: 63 dead journalists in the past eight years.
It sounds like a military-run state, where rights are routinely suppressed and no laws exist to guarantee democratic freedoms.
But this is the Philippines, where press freedom is often touted as a crowning achievement of the democracy brought about by the "people power" uprising which overthrew the autocratic Marcos regime 23 years ago.
Deadly freedom
Julie Alipala, Zamboanga correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper, remembers when, in September 2007, four military intelligence men appeared at her local shopping centre and started playing with her six-year-old son.
"They said I had to tell them the source of my stories [about high death tolls among the marines] or they would not give me my son back," she recalled.
It's so ironic, it's one of the freest media in the region but it's also probably the area that's most deadly for journalists
Malou Mangahas
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
"I started making a noise and there were people around so they let him go and I then reported the threats. I was told to avoid going out," she said.
Loreto "Lhoy" Rosario, a radio reporter in Cotabato City, has been threatened twice.
The most recent occasion came in November 2008 after he reported that a fire at an ammunition dump was arson, not an accident.
He says an army colonel told him: "Rosario, be careful, we know your movements, your days are numbered."
Mr Rosario said the colonel later apologised to him.
Al Jacinto, editor-in-chief of the Mindanao Examiner, based in Zamboanga City, said he was intimidated last August after his stories angered the city council.
Local officials refused to license his newspaper and felt entitled to "investigate his role".
"I cannot fight them, I can only be a messenger for the truth - but the truth can really hurt," he said.
Malou Mangahas, executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and a trustee of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, said the situation in the Philippines was deeply ironic.
"It's one of the freest media in the region but it's also probably the area that's most deadly for journalists," she said.
The death toll for journalists is part of a wider pattern of killings - of activists, leftist organisers and others in the many complex conflicts across the Philippines.
'Cycle of violence'
The latest victim of the killing spree is Badrodin Abbas, shot dead on 21 January in Cotabato City.
Filipino journalists are campaigning for an end to the murders
Like many of the 63 journalists killed during the presidency of Gloria Arroyo, Abbas worked for local radio and had a reputation for strong commentary on Muslim and military issues.
Police say they will investigate, but have already offered the theory that he was mistaken for his brother who is alleged to be involved in a love triangle.
"We are concerned that Badrodin Abbas' murder may be a continuation of the cycle of violence against journalists," said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
"The culture of impunity that has left Philippine journalists vulnerable to attack will not be broken until authorities bring those responsible for past killings to justice," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia programme co-ordinator.
According to the PCIJ's Malou Mangahas, there are many reasons why the killings continue.
Every man and woman in our country is entitled to speak, free from fear that they will pay for their beliefs with their very lives
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Philippine President
"Weak rule of law, an effete justice system, poor police investigation," she says.
"There's terror... directed at the witnesses and the survivors, inadequate funds to prosecute, there's indifference, denial and token action by the authorities, and not enough public outrage."
She blames a breakdown in democratic institutions.
Several international media watchdogs consistently place the Philippines among the top five most deadly places in the world to be a journalist.
There was a brief flurry of action two years ago after a UN report highlighted the deadly trend.
"Democracy in the Philippines will not stand for senseless political killings," President Arroyo said in 2006.
"Every man and woman in our country is entitled to speak, free from fear that they will pay for their beliefs with their very lives."
But according to Ms Mangahas, little has changed since then.
"At the very least we think, in the independent media community, it's negligence on [Mrs Arroyo's] part," she says.
"Turning a blind eye? Yes... she has to be friends with the military and generals for her tenure."
Injustice denied
Ricardo Blancaflor, under-secretary for justice, told the BBC that his taskforce is monitoring 40 cases of media killings, and is acting on four killings from last year.
Journalists' murders are not the only ones to go unpunished in the Philippines
Three of those are now in the courts, and involved the arrest of policemen.
"We dispute the media groups' figures. We have got the trust of witnesses. We wish the media groups would sit down with us and discuss this openly," Mr Blancaflor said.
Rights activists insist inconsistency on the government's part hurts efforts to solve other extra-judicial killings.
But all sides are agreed on the murkiness behind the frequent, sudden deaths.
Perpetrators "include policemen and soldiers and paramilitary forces trained by the military, private goons of local officials, rebels and vigilante groups, combatants in areas of conflict and even private and personal enemies of the journalists," Ms Mangahas said.
And she concedes that it is sometimes hard to distinguish who are observers and who are participants in the murky conflicts over land, resources, and ideology that persist across the archipelago.
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