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Top Forex Brokers in Singapore
The global market for CFD (contract for difference) trading is growing at a rapid pace. As one of the most important Asian financial hubs, Singapore offers access to CFD platforms that are both regulated, and offer a deep set of financial instruments.
Contracts For Difference (CFDs) are a relatively new financial product that evolved over the past four decades. Singapore has been highly successful in developing a CFD market that serves both its domestic population and overseas investors.
Brokers must be regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate in the nation.
Singapore Regulations
Ever since Singapore took its path to Financial streams and became a financial center for Asia, many Singapore Forex Brokers are big companies known worldwide that hold and comply also with other respected regulations. In parallel, those brokers delivering trading services and building a strong reputation among the Asia market therefore established their respected branches in Singapore.
The operations of these based in Singapore numerous financial companies and institutions, walk together with the financial regulatory development, supervised by the MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore). MAS official website: www.mas.gov.sg, read more of the history via Wikipedia.
MAS was incorporated by the Central Bank of Singapore back in 1971 with the purpose to supervise financial services and provide unparalleled protection to the investors.
Due to the country regulations, every investment services firm before the operations are set must become authorized and to submit a MAS license.
MAS is among the most stricter and well-developed authorities internationally, regularly updating its policies and working closely with the clients.
What are the requirements for MAS Brokers?
One of the requirements to be licensed by MAS, is that business funds are kept completely segregated from client funds. This is to ensure client funds are safe and not used for business expenses, dividends, or other payments.
Another requirement is that the broker only employs staff that is properly qualified to operate in money markets. Each broker must provide a full list of employees in combination with their qualifications before a business can become operational.
Similar to other money authorities around the globe, brokers in Singapore must provide evidence of a complete breakdown of business transactions, auditing and accounting.
Online CFD Trading in Singapore – Accessibility
Unlike shares, CFDs allow investors to gain access to numerous markets from a single platform. Singapore-based CFD providers offer their clients Forex, commodities, share, and cryptocurrency CFDs, and also the ability to use leverage in these markets.
Best CFD Brokers 2023 in Singapore
Singapore is a top-tier financial market, and all of the CFD trading brokers that offer services in the nation are regulated by the MAS.
In addition to the CFD-focused brokers on this list, many of the banks that operate in Singapore offer CFD trading services. In some cases, the brokers listed here may not offer non-Singaporean residents services via the Singapore-based company.
CFD Trading in Singapore – Today
Singapore remains one of the top five markets for trading globally. In addition to the host of international CFD brokers that operate in Singapore, and also allow Singaporeans as offshore clients, some major CFD brokers have emerged as homegrown companies in the nation.
Phillip Securities, CIMB-GK Securities, and Kim Eng Securities are some of the larger local CFD brokers that operate in Singapore. International brokers that have attracted clients in Singapore include Saxo Capital, Oanda, Plus500, IG Markets, and CMC Markets.
Singapore has a highly educated population that has a higher level of financial literacy than many other nations. It is estimated that more than 20,000 Singaporeans trade CFDs.
In Singapore, CFDs are also used by institutional traders who want the higher liquidity that CFDs offers, as many traditional financial products, like long-dated futures, aren't as liquid as CFDs.
Reasons for CFD Trading in Singapore
– CFD trading in Singapore is likely displacing the use of other financial products, like structured warrants.
– Most traders in Singapore are between the age of 22 and 55, and many are retail traders.
– CFD trading in Singapore is fully regulated, and offered by many brokers, both domestic and international.
– The majority of the traders in Singapore use CFDs for forex market trading, with shares coming in second.
– Traders in Singapore can access thousands of financial instruments, with forex, bonds, equities, and commodities as staple products.
Regulations for Online CFD Trading in Singapore
For the moment the MAS is still taking a relaxed approach to regulating brokers that operate in Singapore. Reports indicate that the MAS may introduce regulations in 2023 that regulate the local CFD market and impose lower levels of leverage.
However, the MAS points out that there are no laws that prohibit Singaporeans from accessing offshore brokers that are allowed to offer trading services long whatever lines they wish. Additionally, it may be difficult for offshore investors to open an account with some Singapore-based brokers.
Current MAS Regulations:
– Allow CFD brokers to offer high-leverage trading to clients
– May prevent some offshore clients from opening an account
– Require brokers to be adequately capitalized
Trading CFDs – Drivers of Growth
The recent year we have seen a movement trading CFDs emerge from nowhere, mainly powered by the popularization of online leveraged trading in the US. When meme stocks and crypto went viral on the internet during the COVID lockdowns we saw the World looking for alternatives to the US-centric platform Robinhood.
The CFD providers quickly came in and marketed their platforms giving access to a range of popular products and allowing the investors to trade with leverage.
CFD Trading since the pandemic
Since the start of the pandemic, we have seen double-digit growth in all markets in which CFD trading is in compliance with the local regulations. To trade CFDs quickly became a new tool for investors to seek higher risk-reward opportunities and to participate in the global financial market.
The most popular underlying assets for the new traders were mainly the trending shares and cryptocurrencies e.g. GME, AMC, BTC, and Dogecoin. CFD trading has also been a popular financial tool to hedge risk in this volatile market, by taking a long or short position i .
CFD (Contracts for Difference) Risks:
Understand CFD Trading and its Risks
CFD trading generally employs the use of leverage, which is different from other forms of trading. Before undertaking a trading strategy, it is vital to understand risk management techniques.
CFDs on Cryptocurrencies are Here
Many brokers now offer CFDs on major cryptocurrencies. These instruments offer access to a volatile market that can create large returns.
The COVID-19 Crisis is Ongoing
More than a year after a pandemic was declared, COVID-19 still remains a major economic driver. It may cause volatility at any time.
Governments are Borrowing Huge Amounts
Governments in the USA and EU are borrowing money at a pace not seen in decades. While this has not been a major influence on interest rates, that may change.
Working With the Right Broker
Traders in Singapore have a wide range of brokers to choose from. If the potential for higher regulations from Singapore-based brokers is a concern, choosing an offshore broker may be a consideration.
Macro Drivers for CFD Trading
Singapore's economy has remained resilient over the past year, thanks partially to its small physical size, and high level of development. Singaporean traders must look to offshore markets for direction, as the economy of Singapore isn't large enough to influence global asset prices or capital flows.
The global economy remains subdued, and inflation has started to manifest in leading economies. While many central banks have stated that this inflation will be transitory, the amount of money that was created during 2020 as a response to COVID-19 may be one of the driving factors that is pushing prices higher.
Shares Remain Expensive
The value of global equities remains high by almost any measurement. As an asset class that is bought by both retail and institutional traders, global shares were a go-to asset in the wake of central bank intervention last year.
While H1 2021 saw a rise in the value of almost every asset class, the leading shares, like the NASDAQ 100, seem to be treading water as the Northern Hemisphere enters its summer. While it is difficult to point to any specific factor for this, it could mean that a correction in prices is coming.
The fact that many billionaires have used record high equity prices to sell large blocks of shares points to a medium term top in blue chip stocks, although this selling may not indicate that a round of heavy selling is right around the corner.
The Borrowing Binge
The US Government is on track to run the largest deficit in its history in 2021. While 2020 saw the largest US deficit in history, this year will likely surpass the record of $3.1 trillion in 2020. While bond prices have come off their highs, rates remain subdued.
In the new normal central banks appear willing to keep rates near zero, and are also open to a negative interest rate environment.
These policies made sense in the low inflation era that existed pre-2020, but may make less sense going forward.
Investors may reward central banks who raise rates, which could create opportunities for nimble forex traders.
Cryptocurrencies Rise in 2022-2023
Cryptocurrencies created incredible returns for investors in H1 2021, however they appear to be consolidating the recent rise in prices. Cryptos are still a new asset class, and many investors aren't entering the space due to the perception of risk, or technical barriers.
While CFDs may not be the best way to buy and hold major tokens, they do offer an easy way to trade cryptos. Instead of swapping in and out of crypto and fiat currency, CFDs allow traders to gain exposure to a volatile market, and settle the trades in fiat currency.
Many public companies are buying cryptocurrencies, such as Square. Major retail financial service companies are also allowing their clients to use cryptos, with PayPal being a prime example. With greater use, the long term view for cryptocurrencies appears to be positive.
Trading Authority is a privately owned financial-services industry research company based in London, UK. We deliver independent, deep insights research on the behaviors, preferences, and needs of retail investors and intermediaries for the financial services companies that serve them across Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Spain, and the UK.
How to start trading forex in Singapore
All forex trades have to be conducted over-the-counter, so the easiest way to trade forex is to do so with an online broker.
Popular brokers offer a wide selection of fx pairs, competitive trading fees, well-designed trading interface and convenient funding options.
Some good quality brokerages also offer beginner guides, news and educational material that can help increase your chances of success.


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GFG Alliance wants to implement the program "Greensteel"
The company GFG Alliance is a British group, which includes Liberty House. The latter is engaged in production of steel and rolled products. Liberty House in the past two years absorbed the other companies. Now the company intends to increase production volumes. At present, its steel production is 1.1 million tons per year. It is planned to increase to 5 million tons. The expansion of smelting should be carried out within five years.
To achieve this goal, the British group intends to implement a «Greensteel». This program provides some changes in the steelmaking process. So in its production furnaces use some electricity. It is obtained from renewable sources. Yourself furnace is made using scrap metal. This maneuver will help to reduce the emitted amounts of carbon dioxide. Moreover, they can be cut by almost 10 times. This is for 1 ton of steel. The use of blast furnaces and converters do not allow this.
GFG Alliance has studied the situation regarding the scrap metal in the UK. Thus, according to her for a year approximately 10 million tons. Of these, 7.2 million went for export. From abroad entered the country of 6.6 million tons of steel products. It is subject to further processing. «Greensteel» is committed to replace a large volume of its import. The redistribution of scrap metal in the country will increase in volume.
All anything, but the question remains regarding funding. Their sponsors, the project is not yet found. However, the company hopes for the best. She emphasizes that to become «green», which means a more environmentally friendly product. Because hopes that British and European companies will support financially.


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You were SO loud. SO loud and rowdy and messy. But you were having so much fun. I love seeing you guys with your friends (usually Noah) and just being super silly. You aren't naughty and you aren't mean — you're just very, very busy. I would take loud, silly kids over naughty and quiet kids any day.
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Tiny robot finds an asteroid that's freakishly free of dust
by kritz August 23, 2019 August 23, 2019 045
For the last few months, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been engaged in various acts of interplanetary aggression, shooting the asteroid Ryugu in order to blast free material for a return to Earth. But Hayabusa2's visit has also featured various less violent activities, as its imaging and characterization of Ryugu has given us a new picture of the body, which is thought to act as a time capsule for material that formed at the earliest stages of our Solar System.
As part of these studies, Hayabusa2 dropped off a French-German robot that was meant to hop across the asteroid's surface in order to sample some of its rocks. Despite landing upside-down, the robot eventually hopped into the right orientation, and a paper describing what it found was published in Thursday's edition of Science.
Hopping, but not like a bunny
If you're like me, then the image of a small robot hopping across the surface of an asteroid brought something adorable and possibly anthropomorphic to mind. You may get rid of those images immediately. MASCOT, the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, is a rectangular box. Its ability to hop is provided by an internal weighted device. By rapidly rotating this weight, the robot could generate enough velocity to overcome Ryugu's tiny gravitational field and launch the box to new locations.
This hopping capability turned out to be critical to the mission. After Hyabusa2 dropped MASCOT off 40 meters above the surface of the asteroid, the robot bounced for 17 meters before settling down in an awkward position. An attempt to orient the probe didn't exactly go well: "An up-raising maneuver at this first measurement position left the lander upside down, with most instruments aimed toward the sky." Imaging from that position managed to confirm that Jupiter, Saturn, and the star σ Sagittarii do exist.
So, the appropriate commands were sent, and the box did another hop. This time, it landed in the right orientation to do some observing. In addition to its weighted arm for hopping, MASCOT had a camera, a magnetometer, a radiometer, and infrared spectrometer. These gave it the ability to get some sense of the materials around it and associate their properties with specific rocks.
A tale of two rocks
The area around MASCOT had two different rock types. The first was darker and rough, with a surface appearance the researchers describe as "cauliflower-like." The second was brighter and had smoother surfaces and more angular shapes. These two categories of materials are consistent with the idea that Ryugu's "rubble pile" appearance is the product of a collision between two bodies with different properties, with the debris slowly re-aggregating under the body's weak gravity. (It's also consistent with an alternative view that Ryugu is made from a small fraction of the remains of a single body that had formed different geological layers.)
The Hyabusa2 team suspects that the features of the two different materials are the product of the heating/cooling cycles that take place as the rocks are exposed first to sunlight then to the darkness of space. In some cases, this leads to the shattering of the rock, producing the smoother surfaces seen among some of the materials. In others, the rock slowly disintegrates, losing its internal structure and producing the other rocks observed by MASCOT.
The weird thing about that, however, is that crumbling and shattering rocks typically produce dust and sand-like materials. Yet there were no signs of any of this. "MASCam observed no deposits of fine material during the descent," the researchers note, before going on to say that "We expect dust to be formed continuously on the surface of Ryugu through exposure to the space environment." They assume the smaller grains are either lost to space or end up working their way into the interior of the rubble. But the rocks that could be seen by MASCOT were all tens of centimeters across or larger (some were tens of meters).
Ready for my closeup
In any case, closeups of several of the rocks viewed by Ryugu showed that they were composites of many small inclusions embedded into larger matrixes of material. This is exactly the sort of things scientists were hoping to see. That's because the first rocks formed as our Solar System started to condense were thought to be composites, with the inclusions representing the materials with high melting points that condensed first. If similar materials end up in the cache returned to Earth by Hayabusa2, then they can help inform our ideas about Solar System formation.
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Flesh-eating bacteria scare along Gulf Coast has locals on alert
Infections from Vibrio vulnificus are rare and there is no official tracking of cases – but some people have started to cobble together their own ideas
Matthew Teague in Bay St Louis, Mississippi
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Beachgoers take to the Gulf's shores for a long holiday weekend in Orange Beach, Alabama. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP
At the peak of the summer vacation season, a flesh-eating bacteria has infected the shores of the Gulf Coast.
Brain-eating amoeba forces closure at North Carolina waterpark after death
From Texas to Florida, the water-borne bug – a strain called a Vibrio vulnificus – has spooked locals and tourists in the way shark attacks do: infections are rare, but when they strike, the victim is likely to lose a limb or die.
There is no central authority tracking cases – states are not required to report cases to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in Atlanta – so no one holds current, comprehensive statistics for deaths and illnesses.
People, including public officials, have started to cobble together their own ideas.
"I've got my theory," said Kim Farve, director of public works in Bay St Louis, Mississippi. "They say this Vibrio has been in the water forever. But I grew up on the water, and I don't remember it ever being a problem until after the [2010] BP oil spill."
Down the coast in Biloxi, Jocko Angle described an identical theory. His left leg is swollen to twice the size of his right, following a battle with Vibrio three years ago, and he now runs a Facebook page called Vibrio Along the Gulf Coast, where fearful residents go for information and victims commiserate.
"I think the oil in the water, combined with the chemicals they used, created the perfect environment for Vibrio to thrive," he said.
There is usually an uptick in cases, Angle said, after heavy rains stir up murky wetlands water, especially when the water is warm.
"We've had a lot of rain," he said. "Now we've got crowds coming in for the Fourth of July holiday. Mark my words: someone is going to get it this weekend."
Vibrio can infect humans in two ways: through raw seafood, like oysters, or through contact with a cut or wound, even if the cut is invisible. Once in the body, the bacteria infiltrates the layer of flesh between muscle and skin, where it releases a toxin that destroys the tissue.
States can voluntarily report infections to the CDC, where the latest report dates from 2014. That year, 97 people were hospitalized with Vibrio vulnificus, and 21 died. The Food and Drug Administration reports a higher death rate – 50%.
Among the people who survive, most come away from the encounter like 69-year-old Dick Empson did, this past week.
Empson and his wife had traveled from Baton Rouge to the Mississippi coast for a vacation, and he fished in the shallows along the shore. He was physically fit, with no cuts or sores. At about 2am last Monday, he woke up with an undefinable ill feeling. He took two Tylenol.
Later, the couple got up and decided to return home. "It came on so fast," said Empson's sister-in-law, Loni Daggett. "By the time they had packed their things, he said, 'I can't make the drive home. I need to go to the hospital.'"
By 3am on Tuesday, doctors had amputated his leg.
On Wednesday, Empson woke from his coma, and indicated with his hands that he wanted to know how much of his leg was gone. His wife took his hand and helped him feel it: mid-thigh.
The psychology of such a loss is devastating. When they removed Empson's breathing tube, Daggett said, his first words were: "It's my fault. I should have known not to go in the water."
Last week, along the beach in Hancock County, Mississippi, there were no notices about Vibrio visible on the beach or in parking areas. Beach crowds were noticeably thin, and fewer people entered the water.
Jon and Heather Helvie, of Larned, Kansas, had travelled to Mississippi to visit their son at college, and spent an afternoon on the beach. Before their trip, they had heard of so-called flesh-eating infections in Texas and Florida, but they thought the water in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was safe.
"We won't be getting in anymore," Heather said, when told about Dick Empson's case.
Nearby, two women and a small child played in the water. Adrienne Gerstenecker, from Boston, and Rosie Colomb, from New Orleans, splashed with Colomb's little girl. Both were taken aback to learn about Vibrio. It may be rare, Colomb said, but the consequences are too severe to risk.
She pulled her daughter from the water. Gerstenecker squinted, looking in each direction on the beach.
"You would think they would at least put up a sign," she said.


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La  du festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer s'est déroulée du  au . Le président du jury était Claude Lelouch.

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 Claude Lelouch (président du jury)
 Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian
 Francois-Eudes Chanfrault
 Guillaume Gouix
 Jonathan Lambert
 Gilles Marchand
 Dominik Moll
 Louise Monot
 Mathilde Seigner
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 Justine Le Pottier
 Philippe Nahon
 Olivier Van Hoofstadt
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Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan Dispute on Track for Resolution, but Risks Remain
By: George Voloshin
December 7, 2017 06:37 PM Age: 3 years
Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Nursultan Nazarbayev in Minsk, November 30 (Source: newslinekg.com)
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are the only two countries of Central Asia that participate in regional economic integration as members of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). While bilateral relations have historically been cordial, with Kazakhstan actively supporting Kyrgyzstan's efforts to modernize its economy and ensure macroeconomic stability, their recent trade dispute has had many skeptics predicting the unraveling of the EEU. Indeed, it seems highly likely the five-strong EEU would not survive a prolonged border standoff along its southern rim.
Relations between Kyrgyzstan and Belarus, another EEU member, have been strained since 2010, when Minsk provided refuge to former Kyrgyzstani president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, ousted by a popular uprising. Meanwhile, Armenia's legacy conflict with Azerbaijan over Karabakh is a bitter pill to swallow to both Kazakhstan and Russia. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan share cultural and linguistic similarities and strive to develop economic ties across the Caspian. As for Russia, it actively sells weapons and military equipment to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces all the while guaranteeing the territorial integrity of Armenia, without Karabakh, within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) (Eadaily.com, June 24; Exclusive.kz, January 24; see EDM, February 15, October 16).
The outgoing Kyrgyzstani president's accusations of interference in his country's domestic affairs, which he personally addressed to Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev after he met an opposition candidate in the October 15 presidential election, led to a full-blown crisis (see EDM, September 27, October 18). Kazakhstan retaliated by closing the border, under the pretext of an alleged terrorist threat and uncontrolled migration flows. Ardak Tengebayev, the chairman of the Kazakhstani State Revenue Committee, said on October 17 that the southern neighbor had been intentionally undervaluing re-exported goods from China. According to his boss, Finance Minister Bakhyt Sultanov, Kyrgyzstan's actions entailed annual damages of up to $300 million to the entire EEU. Bishkek quickly lodged a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, leading some observers to speculate that a long and costly trade war was in sight (Lsm.kz, Ozodlik.org, October 18; Inform.kz, October 17).
When Almazbek Atambayev's former prime minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov confidently won the election in mid-October (see EDM, October 18), there was initial hope that the dispute would die away. Contrary to many expectations, the now-former president terminated half a dozen agreements just a week before leaving office. Those included an accord to develop economic integration in the EEU, a technical assistance protocol signed in December 2016, and a $100 million financial stability grant from Kazakhstan. The defiant gesture came on the heels of Atambayev's stubborn refusal to attend a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Sochi and his then–prime minister Sapar Isakov's almost failed trip to Astana, where he managed to obtain only limited border concessions from the Nazarbayev administration (Tengrinews.kz, October 24; Kloop.kg, October 19; Lenta.ru, October 9).
The head of Kazakhstan's government, Bakytzhan Sagintayev, reiterated Astana's firm position at a subsequent CIS summit for prime ministers in Tashkent, in early November. He accused Kyrgyzstan of breaking the common customs area rules by authorizing the illegal re-exportation of Chinese goods and neglecting to check the safety of food products in transit. He also made public a five-point ultimatum comprising such broad measures as "making Kyrgyz laws compatible with EEU tax administration regulations" or "preventing violations of EEU transport norms." Despite the lack of specific evidence of contaminated or otherwise dangerous food imports, last month Kazakhstan banned the entry of 300,000 Kyrgyzstani-made eggs, followed by Kyrgyzstan's reciprocal move to suspend the exports of seeds and agricultural products (Novosti.kg, November 13; Akipress.kg, November 8; Sputniknews.kz, November 3).
The Kazakhstani-Kyrgyzstani dispute has resulted in numerous appeals by civil society activists, political scientists and ordinary citizens on both sides of the border to resolve the crisis in a peaceful manner. Despite their differences, the two countries' leaders are still driven by pragmatism as the state of their bilateral relationship directly impacts on the economic well-being in border areas and wider regional stability and security. Nursultan Nazarbayev met his new Kyrgyzstani counterpart, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, on November 30, in Minsk where the presidents of the CSTO member states gathered together for the final summit of 2017. Following a friendly handshake, Nazarbayev declared that "an agreement had been reached to establish joint border controls not only between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan but also on the border with China," while Jeenbekov added that "all outstanding issues would be resolved" (Inform.kz, Total.kz, Sputnik.kg, November 30).
A subsequent visit to Astana by Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Prime Minister Tolkunbek Abdygulov paved the way for the signing of a detailed roadmap, which contains a list of as many as 50 separate measures to be taken as part of a mutual settlement (Sputnik.kg, December 2). This is a major step in the direction of dispute resolution and a powerful reminder to skeptics that Kyrgyz-Kazakh relations are stronger than the pursuit of near-term political gains. Yet, it also underscores the fragility of the EEU itself, amid constantly delayed plans to set up a common market for such strategic goods as crude oil and petroleum-based products. Unlike European integration, which took decades to develop from a customs area of highly developed economies toward a full-fledged economic and monetary union, the EEU has been pushed forward by Russia's ambition to resurrect a mini-Soviet zone of exclusive control. So far, the experiment has little to show for it and its future remains uncertain.
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Early the following morning, a group of children were escaping from Austria – traveling by train to London. Uri's parents had secured him a permit to join them. They gave him the address of a distant relative in London, confident that that he would care for their son.
Before leaving the house the following morning, Uri's father asked him to solemnly kiss the mezuzah on the front door of their home. "May the angels that protect our home with this mezuzah shelter you on the journey of life," he tearfully declared. Deep down, Uri knew that he would never see his parents again.
In London, Uri was taken by car to the address of the relative and left alone outside the house. He looked around. Everything was so strange and unfamiliar. There was no mezuzah on the door. "Is this where his relative lived? Perhaps in England people do not put mezuzot on their front doors" he thought. After repeated knocking, an elderly fierce-looking man opened the door holding his dog. He took one look at Uri and yelled, "No Jews here" and slammed the door.
Uri swallowed his tears and began to walk the streets. Nobody gave a second look to the forlorn boy wandering along, holding a small suitcase that contained all his worldly belongings. He was so tired and hungry. "If only I could find a house with a mezuzah," he thought.
A couple of hours later, he turned into a street and there on the doorpost of the first house was affixed a large mezuzah. With a joyful shout he rushed up the path and knocked frantically on the door. It opened immediately and there in front of him stood a bearded elderly man who reminded him so much of his father.
Uri was too exhausted to talk but when he recovered, the family reassured him that he would live with them and they would care for him as their own child. Uri never found his relative but he saw that G-d fulfilled his father's prayer – the angels of the mezuzah had indeed protected him.
As a reminder of that morning so many years ago, he presents a beautiful ornate mezuzah to each of his children and grandchildren on their eighteenth birthday and although already an old man, every year, on his birthday, he gathers his family and tells them again the story of how a mezuzah saved his life!


This is opinion was shared by ex-Minister of Finance Alexey Kudrin.
The government has already discussed the possibility of increase tax rate not so long ago. This included Vat and sales tax. The main idea is to fulfill budgets of different Russian regions. However ex-Minister of Finance Alexey Kudrin is not so positive about such plans. He shared this opinion in his last interview. Kudrin says that sales tax increase will eventually lead to low economic development. At the same time minor tax increase will make it possible to shift the burden on the population.
Kudrin has also noted that Russian economy is in stagnation phase at the moment. In other words business is not ready for big tax increases which will inevitable result in economy development decrease. He also said that he is against regressive tax rate as well as increase of rate on excise duty. The main goal for the government is to lower budget costs and make them as effective as possible. Kudrin is sure that it is also necessary to change already existing system and shift the burden on individuals. Anyway the scale should not be regressive.


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Mia Farrow (født Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow; 9. februar 1945) er en amerikansk skuespiller, sanger og tidligere model. Hun været nomineret til en Golden Globe Award otte gange og en BAFTA Award tre gange. Hun har bl.a. spillet med i film som Rosemary's Baby af Roman Polanski og 1974-filmatiseringen af Den store Gatsby.

Mia Farrow har bl.a. været gift med sangeren Frank Sinatra, og har senere haft et forhold til filminstruktøren Woody Allen. Farrow har spillet med i tretten af Woody Allens film, bl.a. Broadway Danny Rose, Den røde rose fra Cairo og Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Filmografi i udvalg
 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
 Den store Gatsby (1974)
 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
 Zelig (1983)
 Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
 Den røde rose fra Cairo (1985)
 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
 Radio Days (1987)
 September (1987)
 Another Woman (1988)
 New York Stories (1989)
 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
 Alice (1990)
 Shadows and Fog (1992)
 Husbands and Wives (1992)

Eksterne henvisninger

Skuespillere fra USA
Amerikanere i 1900-tallet
Amerikanere i 2000-tallet


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MIRACLE CHILD: Meet Cora Shelton
By Anna Johnson
Published: Nov. 29, 2022 at 10:37 AM CST|Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:52 AM CST
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Meet Children's Miracle Network Hospital child Cora Shelton.
"Cora is totally a child that walks to the beat of her own drum," says her mom Brittany. And though she's little– she's far from shy. She's a girl who knows what she likes.
Something Cora's parents Austin and Brittany Shelton feared might be a reality. Those fears set in while Brittany was pregnant and some complications started to pop up. Halfway through her pregnancy, she started seeing a high-risk doctor.
Severe pre-eclampsia and cholestasis… Brittany was scheduled to be induced before 40 weeks to protect her and Cora. That turned into a c-section. She'd go from her rural Salem hospital to Cox in Springfield for delivery.
And just like that Cora was born. Cora's Dad remembers how she started turning purple and they kept saying, "everything will be all right everything will be all right."
"At this point, she was really upset and asked me what's going on what's going on and I told her nothing… they're just taking her. Then they had to put her on Oxygen from there."
Austin Shelton
That was the beginning of their NICU stay. Cora needed oxygen and feeding support. With kids at home, the Sheltons needed support. That's when Children Miracle Network Hospitals stepped in.
The Sheltons say, "they didn't make us feel like a charity case when we came in there. Nobody likes to have to ask for help but we were at a place and a point in our life that we did need help."
Food and gas were covered so they could make the trip to Springfield. It was a way to focus on their kid getting better and not on some of the other details. It was a little relief in a scary time. While their littlest family member at the time– fought for her life– and came out strong on the other side.
"Children's Miracle network took a lot of ugly out of the world."
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Anthony is a Consultant with the Corrs Workplace Relations Group. He oversees the firm's thought leadership in workplace relations and work health and safety, publishing regular articles on new legislation, case law and policy, as well as delivering seminars to clients and in-house. He also provides practical advice to corporate and public sector clients on employment and workplace relations issues.
He is also a Law Professor in the Graduate School of Business & Law, RMIT University. Anthony teaches Labour Law, Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Research in the Juris Doctor Program at RMIT. His research interests cover collective bargaining, union recognition and good faith bargaining, workplace dispute resolution, trade unions, workplace privacy/social media and labour hire/agency work.
Anthony recently completed a Fair Work Commission-funded study of the tribunal's involvement in the enterprise bargaining process; an in-depth study of the 2011-12 Qantas dispute; an overview of Australian workplace privacy law for the Japan Institute for Labour Policy; and a comparative study of how individual employment disputes are resolved in 10 countries for the International Labour Organization.
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Sometimes stereotypes blast in, both barrels blazing, making them easy to see, and, perhaps, easier to confront. Most of the time, however, stereotypes are a lot more subtle, and more invidious. We don't notice them because of our stereotype of stereotypes: big, ugly, showy statements made by people motivated by hate, or ignorance, to think the worst of those in another social group.
Communication Professor Donald Rubin (1992) asked North American college students to listen to an audio lecture by a popular instructor with a Midwest American accent. The students were shown a photograph of the person they believed had given the talk. Half of them saw a White woman, and half saw a woman of East Asian descent. Students who thought they were listening to an Asian woman reported that her accent sounded significantly more foreign. They even had lower comprehension of what she said. They heard what they expected to hear based on who they saw.
Sociologist Devah Pager (2007) sent fake job applications to real employers advertising openings in Milwaukee. They were strong applications, all identical except for two things.
1. Half of the applications ostensibly were from White men, and the other half ostensibly from Black men.
2. Within each racial group, half of the applications ostensibly were from men with no criminal history and half ostensibly were from men recently released from prison for a felony drug conviction.
In spite of the fact that 2/3 of White Americans believe that "less qualified" Black people are taking jobs away from White people (Bobo, 2012), White men with no drug conviction were 2½ times more likely to get a call back as Black men with no drug conviction and an identical résumé. In fact, White men fresh out of prison were just as likely as Black men with no criminal record to be invited for an interview. Being Black had the same effect on an otherwise excellent job application as serving time for a drug felony. Being Black with a drug conviction? Don't ask . . .
The history we inherited has become the history we inhaled.
Prof. Tatum's point is not that we are all strident, obnoxious bigots, simply that the mental categories we use to think about the world and its people have been shaped by our environment. We don't even have to have bad feelings toward those we stereotype; it's more a matter of osmosis than intent.
So just how deep did we inhale?
Here's the kicker: changes in interviewer perceptions of race were not random, but responded in predictable ways based on the life experiences of those being surveyed. Did you spend some time in jail last year? If so, the interviewer was more likely to see you as Black. Did you lose your job, or have an income below the poverty line? Same thing. It worked in reverse, too. If you got out of jail, or found a new job, or had a higher income, you were more likely to be described as White by this year's interviewer than you were by last year's interviewer.
But it wasn't just the interviewers. Research participants themselves described their own race at the beginning of the project, in 1979, and again at the end, in 2002. And—believe it or not—some people who described themselves as White in '79 described themselves as Black in '02, if they had spent time in jail, experienced unemployment, or drifted into poverty. Racial stereotypes are so strong—so deeply inhaled—they even affect how we think about ourselves.
The Bottom Line: Stereotypes are a lot more pervasive, and a lot more subtle–and therefore a lot more invidious–than we believe them to be. They usually operate without our conscious awareness, making them much more powerful than we'd like to think.


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With years of experience working for firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Emilie Elliott joined Carmel & Naccasha as Of-Counsel July 2021. Emilie has distinguished herself in many of the firm's primary practice areas including business and intellectual property transactions and employment law. Emilie has also practiced in antitrust and unfair competition, business and entertainment litigation and intellectual property litigation. Additionally, she brings an exciting new skill set and depth of experience to the firm in health care law.
Emilie earned her Bachelors of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from the University of Southern California. While in law school, she earned the Peter Knecht Award for Excellence in Copyright, Contract and Entertainment Law and was the production editor of the Review of Law and Women's Studies Journal. She also participated in the Post-Conviction Justice Project. She has been a member of the California Bar since 2005 and is additionally registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Emilie also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Creighton University, where she graduated number one in her class. In 2011, Emilie returned to her roots in Visalia, California. After spending over two years there working as a registered nurse in an emergency room, she decided to return to the practice of law.
Emilie makes her home in Arroyo Grande with three kids. Emilie has served on the board of directors of CASA of San Luis Obispo County and the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo. In her spare time she enjoys doing yoga and Pilates, meditating, running, snowboarding and SCUBA diving.
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American Bar Association, Health Law Division
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United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registered Patent Agent/Attorney (2004-present)
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University of Southern California Law School (J.D. 2005)
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FDA grants Gardasil two new indications
Some good news for Merck's Gardasil: The FDA says the human papillomavirus vaccine is approved for prevention of vulvar and vaginal cancers, in addition to its current use as a cervical cancer shot. The new indications come at a good time, when Gardasil was faltering on lower-than-expected use among women 19 to 26. And Merck lost its FDA bid for approval in older women, so it couldn't mount a marketing push for that segment of the market.
Now, the company can tout increased protection. "This is fabulous stuff," said Rick Haupt, Merck's program leader for Gardasil.
Next up: data on the use of Gardasil in men. The company hopes to submit a study in support of that new indication by year's end.
- read the FDA release
- check out the story in the New York Times


Home > News > Bitcoin News > Cryptocurrency Donations, A New Think? UNICEF France Accepts Crypto-Donations!
Cryptocurrency Donations, A New Think? UNICEF France Accepts Crypto-Donations!
With ever-growing applications of the cryptocurrencies, the new big news came out from France, where the UNICEF accepted the cryptocurrency donation for needy children. Now, Fiat currency donation is not the only way for you to make a difference. In fact, you can actually put the cryptocurrency in good use now by donating it.
Recently, the UNICEF France made an announcement that they will now onwards accept the cryptocurrencies for donations. As per the sources, they took this step to expand their circle of donors. In their announcement, they also mentioned the nine cryptocurrencies that they will accept a donation. These 9 cryptocurrencies include – Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Monero, Litecoin, Dash, and Stellar.
The executive director of UNICEF, France also mentioned that the blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have actually made a huge difference by providing the humanitarian world with an opportunity to be innovative and progressive.
This news of the UNICEF seems to be driven by the success of GameChaingers this February, where they launched an initiative to help the needy kids in war-torn Syria by asking all the gamers for their computing resources to mine the cryptocurrency.
This concept of donating the computing power for the purpose of mining cryptocurrency was also implemented by the UNICEF Australia. In this case, the mining was carried out by visiting the website, hopepage that have been set for the purpose of Monero mining.
Hopepage is actually a page that allowed Australians to provide the help and hope to the needy kids by simply opening the page while they surfed the internet.
UNICEF France, however, went to another great length to get best out of cryptocurrency. This was not all that UNICEF France did to help the vulnerable kids. It even went to the extent where they actually implemented the system to accept the cryptocurrency donations from the people.
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Over the holiday period there's been a flare-up among US higher education bloggers, that began with important questions about the miserable process of tenure-line job searches conducted at big annual conferences (do candidates really end up sitting on the bed in front of the search committee? Good Lord), and jumped from there to whether those currently tenured are doing enough to change the system that gives them their privileges. Understandably, tenured US bloggers wrote back, most substantively agreeing that university work is broken, and pointing out some of the reasons other than tenured privilege that higher education can't afford to pay its staffing bills properly.
For those of us in other places, where neither hiring nor tenure work in the same way, it's been like visiting someone else's family for Christmas dinner and watching them fight. Every old thing gets raked up. Seething alliances form. Insults are defensively reexplained and stuff gets overstated. Once there's a crowd, reactive escalation becomes its own self-sustaining energy. So then tone-policing becomes a thing, a penalty dive, in much the same way that "political correctness" was used by Australian conservatives in the 1990s: claiming to be silenced in order to silence others back.
Something that Australians would recognise is at work here: the art and tactic of sledging (which has nothing to do with snow). Sledging isn't just there to unsettle your opponent, but to build solidarity among the team dishing it out. Sledging is a public test of team loyalty and commitment to the cause. Whose side are you on anyway? Whenever critics of sledging say that that it's gone too far and is tipping into bullying, and indeed when it does evident harm to some of those on the receiving end, sledgers amp it up a bit while disavowing it in the same neat move. It's just a game, and off the pitch we're all mates.
Social media sledging in the current climate is tangling with the ways that universities (and governments) are mobilising to minimise critique from higher education workers, by widening the definition of inappropriate speech online to include anything that brings the institution or its brand into disrepute. And to this powerful audience, some of the obvious strategies for breaking up this brawl while clawing back more money from university staffing are already on hand. So if we want to get beyond sledging and make workplaces worth applying to, really we need to try to think about these other options and familiarise ourselves with what they might mean.
So academic work itself remains the least outsourced part of the institution's activity, and this could change. Public universities could run on outsourced online labour quite straightforwardly—other major corporations do, as do MOOCs, and many private education providers. Casualisation itself is already both outsourcing and sharing, but it's still relatively costly compared to how cheap it could be if it was unbundled and the cheaper bits put out to tender. Of course this work then wouldn't go to those who are currently trying to find local employment in higher education, because there will always be cheaper sources of piecework labour in other states or other countries, just as there are in other industries. So this wouldn't create more just employment, but it would save money.
The second option is potentially more attractive to people who want to work in higher education: remove tenure and make universities like other sectors, where security of employment is based on continuation of demand for what you do, matched to your continually tested capacity to do it better than the next person. This is exactly what life on the open market is like for car workers, basketballers, miners, IT workers, business professionals and farmers, not to mention journalists, artists, and people who make cricket caps. Demand for what you do can change, and someone younger, fitter, taller or cheaper than you can offer a better deal to your employer.
So if you're sitting on a CV that's more impressive than someone currently in a tenured position, maybe this would work in your favour. And maybe the younger, fitter, taller, cheaper person would never come along to replace you either.
As it happens, this one's also already here, because the underlying bargain also favours the employer. Many Australian universities have in their three year contract with their workforce the capacity to redeploy or retrench academics if the discipline market shifts, or technology makes a difference in very unexplained ways, and it's no longer in the business interests of the organisation to commit to the expense of someone's permanent salary. This is what makes the culture of continuous departmental restructure so serious. While universities shuffle their salary commitments around the disciplines to optimise their ranking performance, academics now also need to imagine remixing their expertise quickly to be something else if that's the way the wind blows—which is to say that expertise itself has already been redefined as a barrier to flexibility.
This whole judgment is painful to study. At its heart is the story of three real people fighting unsuccessfully to keep the jobs they signed up for, and a union fighting alongside them; hidden behind this are all the stories of their significantly less expensive colleagues whose terrible working conditions have become the very low-lying marker in the struggle for fair work in sustainable universities, and whose situation could yet get worse under MOOC-driven disruption and tech-supported unbundling of work.
So if you still really think that people who talk about structure are avoiding the struggle for fair work and turning a blind eye to humans harmed by it, or that it's possible to separate the struggles of the academic precariat from the management of those on salary, then read this judgment closely. Because this is the court of opinion where real power is at work, and where the structure is already being redesigned.
Big thanks to Stephen Matchett (@SRMatchett) for daily higher education reporting in Australia. His Campus Morning Mail is where I first read about the judgment discussed here.
Even before the rage/tone episode (not sure what to call it), there has been rather a lot of rage simmering barely beneath the surface, ready (itching) to break out. Fragile alliances shatter. MLA also seems to bring out the rage, offer it a tempting focus, come January. I don't know whether the other annual meeting are so intensely toxic. Too bad there is not a way to enforce a sector timeout — send everyone to stand in corners. It's exhausting to follow, let alone be caught up in.
That's what really strikes me about the situation we're in: rage itself is really a kind of luxury, the privilege of no longer believing that something this complicatedly wrong is capable of being changed. And yes, it's exhausting, and saddening, because it feels like a capitulation to the logic of power itself. Australians know a lot about this, both in politics and sport.
I hadn't thought of the rage as being a luxury but, thinking on it — yes. The angriest ones are more privileged whether they recognize it or not. The higher ed sector and its institutions should have done better by them, which is true but not particularly productive. Few if any of the change scenarios are acceptable, but their choice, going back, does not seem to be an option in this quantum universes — caught in denial between a rock and a hard place. The less privileged and more beleaguered are hunkering down in desperation, some undertaking small measures.
So I'll keep looking at/for ideas about options and posting.


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"Pain, Captain?"
Further to the remarks (the gift that keeps on giving) of Senator Stephen Alves at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce's legislative lunch last week – specifically:
"I think we have been fair to the business community," Alves, D-West Warwick, said. "The pain should be shared equally."
Gosh, that sounds good in theory. The hitch is that, to date, distribution of the pain has been quite uneven, as the numbers starkly reveal.
Rhode Island taxpayers are the fourth highest taxed. Rhode Island corporations literally could not be in a worse position, tax-wise and, further, probably would like evidence of the fairness purportedly shown to them.
On the flip side, Rhode Island spending on social service programs is in the top third nationally. Rhode Island teacher pay (the ultimate destination of much of the Education Aid to Cities and Towns) ranks eighth highest nationally. And benefits for Rhode Island state employees constitute an additional 88% of salary versus 29% in the private sector.
In light of these numbers, it is understandable that the reaction of Rhode Island corporations to Senator Alves' statement would be, "Thanks, Senator, but we've been 'sharing' the pain for a while. Is it someone else's turn yet?"
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Alves was just trying to give taxpayers a little dab of "oratorical KY" before he sticks it up their behinds … just like every year.
Of course, some are more equal than others…….


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Trainee technician dies as SpiceJet plane's landing gear doors close
NEWDELHI (Reuters) – A trainee aircraft technician died after becoming pincered between a plane's landing doors in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday, the airline said.
Rohit Pandey was working on a SpiceJet Bombardier-developed Q400 turboprop plane when the hydraulic landing gear doors closed, the airline said in a statement.
"The hydraulic doors were broken to rescue Mr. Pandey but he was declared dead," the statement said.
Kaushik Bhattacharjee, director of Kolkata airport, said a team from the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had visited the site of the accident, which happened just after midnight.
"DGCA has already started an inquiry," Bhattacharjee told Reuters, adding that Pandey was a 23-year-old trainee technician.
In 2017, SpiceJet, a low-cost carrier, agreed to buy up to 50 Q400 aircraft in a deal, estimated to be worth up to $1.7 billion, from Canada's Bombardier. The Q400 aircraft programme is now owned by Canadian plane manufacturer Viking Air.
SpiceJet did not provide more details of the accident.
(Reporting by Subrata Nag Chowdhury in KOLKATA and Devjyot Ghoshal in NEWDELHI; Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Nick Macfie)


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Friends at the End welcomes successful Noel Conway appeal
Posted 13/04/2017 13/10/2017 | News
We welcome the successful appeal by Noel Conway in his fight for the right to end his own life, at a time of his choosing.
Mr Conway, who has advanced motor neurone disease, was initially refused a hearing at the High Court of England and Wales as part of his bid to legalise assisted dying for those with terminal illnesses and less than six months to live. The overturning of that decision means that this case will go a full hearing in the near future, potentially paving the way for legalisation.
Mr Conway is pursuing his case with the assistance of Dignity in Dying and the law firm Irwin Mitchell. This case is separate from the case brought by Omid and Bindmans LLP, which seeks to legalise assisted dying for people with incurable diseases, but who do not necessarily have a terminal diagnosis.
Friends at the End welcomes both the Conway and Omid cases and gives both appellants their full support. We believe that anyone who wishes to should have the right to end their own life, in a safe and legal manner, and at a time of their own choosing. While these two cases differ significantly regarding restrictions on who should have access to assisted dying, both cases are tremendously important and represent courageous attempts to overturn an unjust law.


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Erdogan slams NATO partners for abandoning Turkey in northern Syria
BringBackOurGirls group to commence fresh round of protests
NDLEA discovers cocaine inside soles of new foot wears
The officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja have discovered parcels of whitish substance that tested positive for cocaine inside foot wears.
The suspected cocaine, according to a statement released on Monday in Lagos by the agency's spokesperson, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, weighed 9.150kgs.
"The discovery was made in a shipment of shoes during inward screening of passengers on a Turkish airline flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"The cocaine was industrially concealed in the soles of new foot wears.
"It was the last arrest of 2016 at the Abuja airport with an estimated value of 3.8 million pounds.
"There was an arrest at the weekend of a 34- year old suspect, Kingsley Okolo.
"The suspect who is a motorcycle parts dealer said that he was offered the N1 million to smuggle the drugs to Nigeria.
"Investigation is on going and the suspect is cooperating with our team of undercover officers," Ofoyeju said.
He also quoted the chairman of the NDLEA, Mr Muhammad Abdallah, as saying that the huge profit derived from drug trafficking has made it a top priority for drug cartels to be financially incapacitated.
"We must continue to take deliberate steps to intercept drugs and ultimately prevent the criminal enrichment of drug cartels.
"Illicit drug proceeds negatively affect economic development and could be used to corrupt government officials and fund terrorism thereby subjecting mankind to widespread destruction," Abdallah stated.
Abdallah also commended the arresting officers describing the seizure as one of the benefits of training.
"The seizure is a validation of enhanced capacity of officers due to series of training programmes carried out by the Agency."
The NDLEA boss appealed to stakeholders to intensify the anti-narcotics campaign adding that 'we needed all hands on deck as we begin the new year.
He said the suspect will soon be charged to court. (NAN)


Modify tricep pushups are such a good workout. Being pregnant and doing them is even better haha I can't go as far down due to my belly, but I know it's a good workout because I'm always sore after.
Yesterday was a beautiful overcast kinda day. J and I went out for a walk(I walked he sat in a stroller) and it was so peaceful. After our walk, I picked up my mom and headed to Cherry Hill to meet up with my family. My brother and his family came and it was so fun to play with them and their kids. J even mastered his fear of the 'dragon slides' and went down them 7-8 times(thanks to his uncle and cousins who took turns taking him)!
There's not a lot of room for food these days, so I eat small but more frequently.
This week I'm doing the update differently. I'm just going to update on how I'm feeling and not go through all the other stuff I have in previous bump updates.
This stage in pregnancy is the hardest for me. I'm finally considered 'term' meaning the baby healthy and can come anytime, but that doesn't mean the baby will actually come. I have to practice patience and kindness haha. I'm feeling pretty miserable. My clothes don't fit very well anymore, she's sitting really low so any waist band that is too tight is really uncomfortable, and the anxiousness of not knowing when she'll come drives me bonkers. I have contractions a lot and they're getting more uncomfortable and painful(which is a good thing=)).
I love comparing my belly with J with baby girl. The left is with J at 38 weeks the right is 37 weeks with baby girl. I know they're different babies, but it amazes me how different my belly looks with each of them.
what workout always leaves you sore?
we still haven't decided on a name, so last suggestions are welcome!
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Q: Incomplete or broken lines in Line Graph in SSRS How can I complete the broken lines in Line Graph in SSRS?
I set the EmptyPoint to be ZERO but the lines are not there? Any solution is highly appreciated.
Development Tool: Visual Studio 2010

A: Just set your field value to zero if it is nothing.

Set the following expression:
=iif(isnothing(Sum(Fields!Value.Value)),0,sum(Fields!Value.Value))

With the expression it will preview this:

Without the expression:

Let me know if this could help you.

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Hard Hat Zone
A field guide to new buildings at UVA
As the University's most extensive period of construction since the 1970s continues, several buildings have opened their doors to students and faculty, while others are slated for completion within the next year. In addition to the buildings listed below, changes around Grounds include renovations to Garrett and Newcomb halls, a 1,700-square-foot expansion to the University Bookstore above the central parking garage, and the ongoing replacement of the Alderman Road residence halls.
Jefferson Scholars Center
Project Cost: Unavailable
Architect: VMDO
Completion Date: April 2010
Surrounding a courtyard, three interconnected buildings house the Jefferson Fellows Center, Foundation Hall and the foundation's administrative offices. With spaces to study, teach and conduct research and lectures, the buildings encourage the interaction among Jefferson Fellows, graduate students from a wide array of academic disciplines.
Bavaro Hall
Project Cost: $37.4 million
Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Completion Date: July 2010
Located between Ruffner Hall and Emmet Street, this 64,149-square-foot, four-story building nearly doubles the space previously available to the Curry School of Education. Centralized faculty offices and clinics, conference rooms and a courtyard garden will enhance Curry faculty members' ability to collaborate on projects and interact with students.
South Lawn Project—Phase I
Project Cost: $105 million
Architect: Moore Ruble Yudell with Glazerworks
Completion Date: August 2010
A 100-foot-wide, landscaped terrace across Jefferson Park Avenue connects the South Lawn Project with Central Grounds. The complex's new academic buildings, Nau and Gibson halls, will house the history, politics and religious studies departments. The buildings are connected by a conservatory—with three-story glass walls—that contains lounge spaces and a café.
Rehearsal Hall
Architect: William Rawn Associates
Completion Date: May 2011
The Cavalier Marching Band will have a new home in this 16,400-square-foot rehearsal hall on Culbreth Road. The facility will contain a 4,000-square-foot rehearsal room, multipurpose practice and teaching areas, instrument storage and administrative space.
College of Arts & Sciences Research Building
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Intended primarily for chemistry and biology research, this five-story, 100,000-square-foot building's modern laboratory facilities—including wet lab and low-vibration space—will help relieve the increasing shortage of laboratory space on Grounds. It is connected to the existing chemistry and biology buildings with pedestrian links.
Rice Hall—Information Technology Engineering Building
Rising from the corner of Whitehead and Stadium roads, this six-story, 100,000-square-foot information technology engineering building will provide space for computational research and student projects, classrooms, research laboratories, offices and a 150-seat auditorium for the School of Engineering.
Medical Center Projects
In addition to the numerous construction projects in various places on Grounds, the University continues to improve existing medical facilities and build new ones.
McLeod Hall—which housed the Nursing School for nearly 40 years until the opening of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building—is undergoing an extensive renovation. A $59 million, six-story addition to the University Hospital will add 72 patient rooms by early 2012. The Barry and Bill Battle Building, projected to cost $75 million, will become the UVA Children's Hospital's new home on West Main St. Groundbreaking on the six-story building is expected in 2011.
Claude Moore Medical Education Building
Architect: CO Architects with Train and Partners
This five-story structure consolidates medical education programs currently scattered across Grounds and creates a central entrance to the School of Medicine. Among the building's amenities are robotic simulation rooms where students will be introduced to emergency, obstetric and operating room experiences.
Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center
Project Cost: $74 million
Architect: Zimmer-Gunsul-Frasca Partnership
This 150,000-square-foot building will house comprehensive outpatient services for adults diagnosed with cancer, consolidating oncology treatment and diagnostic services currently located throughout the Medical Center. The building includes a 29,000-square-foot, unfinished fifth floor for future expansion.
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Google intends to buy a connected thermostat that knows when you're home and where you are within it. Google Gets a Nest, But Is It Flying Too High? When Google closes the Nest deal, privacy issues for the internet of things will hit the big time article tells that Google rocked the smart home market with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed conversation about data privacy and security for the internet of things. Google's proposed $3.2bn purchase of Nest Labs, a maker of internet-connected round-the-home devices, shows that the online advertising giant considers the Internet of Things a serious proposition. A very serious proposition. Google values that company at more than 10 times its sales, derived from shipment figures. Nest cost Google more to buy than YouTube!
Actually, It's Google That's Eating the World column suggests that Google is getting too big. When the company was younger, most of its acquisitions related to its core businesses (search, advertising, network infrastructure, and communications). More recently, it's been colonizing areas with a less obvious connection to search, such as travel, social networking, productivity, logistics, energy, robotics, and — with the acquisition this week of Nest Labs — home sensor networks and automation. Nest is best known for an internet-enabled thermostat and a likewise cloud-connected smoke detector, both snazzy looking but ultimately prosaic devices.
Internet of Things coverage tends to centre on the essential novelty of linking "non-technology" products, like thermostats, to the cloud to give them extended remote control. But these devices can also host sensors which feed back environmental data about the location in which they are situated. Google's servers can crunch those numbers to analyze usage patterns and thus extract information.
When a company like Google — which has had numerous run-ins over privacy in the U.S. and abroad — plans to buy a company that makes products equipped with motion detectors that track what's happening inside the home, it's time that conversation about privacy and the internet of things takes a step forward. The reason is that 'Any sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure is indistinguishable from Big Brother'.
What if you want smart thermostat without Google? There are also other players on the field you can look on. Some rival Internet of Things players, most notably Electric Imp, are trying to do: to become not a branded device-maker along the lines of Apple or Samsung, but a technology provider styled on Intel, with their own "inside" sticker placed alongside the manufacturer logo on the connected fridge, car, oven, thermostat, bike lock, burglar alarm, electricity meter et cetera. Plug those devices to your own cloud if you don't trust the big brother.
What about a do-it-yourself open source option? Nest Who? Here's How to Build Your Own Smart Thermostat, Move Over, Google Nest: Open Source Thermostat Is HeatingUp the Internet of Things and Building an Open Source Nest articles tell that in the wake of Google's purchase of connected devices interest Nest, the gents at [Spark] set about to making one in roughly a day and for a fraction of the cost it took Nest to build their initial offering. They we spent about $70 on components to put this together (including $39 for the Spark Core) and did their prototype in in less than 24 hours Hackathon with 3.5 engineers involved. A place for all things related to ye olde Spark Thermostat Hackathon are at http://blog.spark.io/2014/01/17/open-source-thermostat/ and https://github.com/spark/thermostat. [Spark]'s aim is to put connected devices within reach of the average consumer, and The Next Big Thing within the reach of the average entrepreneur. Building a new high-tech product is easier now than it's ever been before thanks to many interesting open source development boards.
It's been almost a year to the day since Nest purchased Dropcam for $555 million, and today we're seeing the first real fruits of that acquisition. At an event in San Francisco this morning, Nest unveiled the new Nest Cam — a home security and monitoring device that looks exactly like the one that leaked just last week.
You can no longer purchase Google's popular smart thermostat on Apple's online store or at its retail locations.
Apple confirmed to Mashable it has pulled the web-connected product — considered the first mainstream smart home product — from its shelves and website. The move comes as the first batch of smart home products that work on Apple's HomeKit platform become available for purchase.
ZPriddy] was looking for a way to control his Nest thermostats with Amazon Echo. He didn't want to settle for using AWS or some other hosted service. [ZPriddy] wanted something that he could host and manage completely on his own. The end result is what he calls EchoNestPy.
EchoNestPy is a python based API server running on flask. It allows the Amazon Echo to talk to the server and then the server will talk to your Nest allowing you to control it. This version is setup to allow multiple Amazon Echo users to share the same server to control their own Nest without interfering with the other users Nests.
Right now it will control multiple Nests in the same house however when setting the temperature to a set value, it will set all Nests to the same temperature. But when changing the temperature by warmer or cooler it will +/- 2 degrees f to each Nest, even if they are different values.
Back in June, Nest overhauled just about every product they make… save for one curious exception: the smart thermostat that most know them for best.
Two months later, Nest's thermostat is getting an upgrade of its own.
Side-by-side, though, the differences are a bit more obvious. The third-gen Nest packs a bigger display (2.08 inches versus 1.75 inches) into a body that, while ever so slightly bigger (about a tenth of an inch larger in diameter), doesn't jut quite as far out of the wall. That larger screen also packs a higher resolution than the one before it, with a resolution of 480×480 versus the 320×320 display of v2.
Meanwhile, Nest has introduced something that they're calling "Farsight" — a fancy way of saying that its motion sensors can sense movement from a greater distance now.
The third-gen Nest thermostat goes on sale today at the same price as before: $249. Meanwhile, they've cut the price of the 2nd-gen model down to $199 — but only until the remaining stock runs dry.
Owners of the Nest thermostat have been unable to heat their home after bug in the internet-connected controller forced it to shut down.
The company, bought by Google for $3.2 billion (£2.2 billion) two years ago, admitted that that a software update had gone wrong, forcing the thermostat's batteries to drain and rendering it incapable of controlling temperature.
It left users of the £200 "smart" device, which is designed to save energy by learning what temperatures owners like and when they are away, with cold houses and fears of burst water pipes.
"Woke up to a dead Nest and a very cold house. Not good when you have a baby sleeping!" one user wrote on the Nest internet forums.
The thermostat connects to the internets and smartphones, allowing users to control central heating and hot water remotely, as well as programming itself to save energy.
Sales of Nest and other "smart home" products are growing rapidly, but some experts have feared that connection failures and cyber-attacks could disable or compromise these devices.
Nest urged owners to follow a nine-point guide to reset their thermostats, including recharging and resetting it, and said it was preparing a solution.
"We are aware of a software bug impacting some Nest Thermostat owners," a spokesman said.
Some Nest Thermostats that have been updated to software version 5.1.3 or later may become unresponsive or may not charge the battery efficiently, causing it to shut down. Recharge and restart your thermostat to get it working again.
A thermostat is a component which senses the temperature of a system so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint. The thermostat does this by switching heating or cooling devices on or off.
Since I wanted to test the concept of how it would be like to build a thermostat, I created a prototype.
The system is controlled by a Particle Photon or Core dev kit. Since it needs to know the temperature, a DHT22 is required. Also, to control the HVAC system I have at home, I used 5 volts relays.
This project will be messing around with an expensive system, my HVAC. When the time comes for the installation I want to be sure that nothing goes wrong, or at least minimize my chances of something going bad.
Soon I discovered that there were no FSM libraries for the particle, but when searching a library for Arduino, I found this one. I tried it and it was an excellent fit for me.
With the permission of the original author, I ported and published it in the particle libraries for everybody's benefit.
Whatever happened to … Nest?
Remember Nest Labs? Google spunked $2bn (£1.41bn) on the home appliance outfit two years ago.
The acquisition was supposed to put Google-owner Alphabet at the heart of the "internet of things," and in the consumer mainstream. Nest cofounder Tony Fadell had been the design force behind the iPod as a contractor. Google mostly innovates through acquisitions rather than its own in-house R&D.
But, other than the odd reiteration, Nest hasn't released a new product since 2013.
puts the blame on egos – Fadell's, principally – and also the bean counters within Alphabet. Nest's last product was a rebadged camera, the result of a $555m acquisition of Dropcam.
Four new Nest products are in the offing, including Bluetooth key fobs and a low-power wireless hub codenamed "Flintstone," The Information also reveals. The trouble is, everyone else is making these too: Huawei and Samsung have comprehensive "connected home" products stacks. Even Amazon is miles ahead.
Nest CEO Tony Fadell went to Google's all-hands meeting to defend Nest. Here's what he said.
After a spate of damning articles about Nest, CEO Tony Fadell came to the weekly staff meeting of sister company Google to counter the negative press and defend Nest's corporate culture and sales figures.
Nest is the smart-home device subsidiary under Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which bought Nest for $3.2 billion in 2014. Late last month, some of Nest's struggles surfaced in a series of reports.
The first, a lengthy article in The Information, detailed a corrosive internal culture after Nest's acquisition of Dropcam, which makes connected video cameras. Dropcam's founder, Greg Duffy fired back in a Medium post further attacking Fadell's management style and said he regretted selling his startup. On March 30, Re/code reported that Nest's sales figures for 2015 — around $340 million — fell short of the initial targets set by Google at acquisition.
Nest quadrupled its employees, launched no new products, and caused constant bad PR.
Nest CEO Tony Fadell wasn't officially "fired" from Nest, but it certainly feels like it. Nest and Alphabet announced Fadell would be "transitioning" to an advisory role at Alphabet, dropping both Nest and Fadell into a sea of negative press.
When Google bought Nest in January 2014, the expectation was that a big infusion of Google's resources and money would supercharge Nest. Nest grew from 280 employees around the time of the Google acquisition to 1200 employees today. In Nest's first year as "a Google company," it used Google's resources to acquire webcam maker Dropcam for $555 million, and it paid an unknown amount for the smart home hub company Revolv.
Actually delivering a product to market is Nest's biggest problem. Dive into reports about Nest and you'll see those 1200 employees were busy with countless products that never got out the door.
Flintstone seems like another case of Nest being too slow for Google. The Information report says that Google's OnHub router "performs some of the functions that Nest's Flintstone was at one time meant to perform." Google even included a dormant Thread radio in the device. Rather than wait for Nest, it seems Google went out on its own.
Performance of the existing products is an issue too.
Fadell "won't be present day to day" at Nest, but he remains at Alphabet.
Nest, the pioneer of the iPhone-like digital thermostat, is readying several new products in its quest to modernize the home.
Alphabet Inc.'s Nest, seeking a bigger share of the connected home market, is developing a cheaper version of its flagship thermostat and new home security products, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The company is working on a version of its "learning thermostat," which adjusts the temperature based on usage patterns, that would sell for under $200, the person said. The current version sells for $249. The cheaper model would include less expensive components and at least one internal prototype lacks the flagship model's metal edges, the person said.
A home-security alarm system, a digital doorbell and an updated indoor security camera are also in the works, representing potential good news for a company that has struggled to release many new products.


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