that is crumbling and dying.
I can only look at you.
My eyes like only your light.
I could learn to love.
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your name on these walls.
if you don't plan to stay.
and that is how I will be even after I die.
will make your heart bleed.
There is a reason I don't speak much.
it is to save this world from few more sad poems.
if you can't tag along.
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News in Brief 18 February 2019
A 'welcome step' towards peace in Central Africa
UN programme for 'ethically produced, environmentally sustainable gold'
International labour standards more important than ever, says ILO
Audio Credit:
Ana Carmo, UN News
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Central Africa Republic education Peace and security human rights Labour
This is the News in Brief from the United Nations.
The peace agreement signed this month in the Central African Republic is "a welcome step" that "brings hope to millions of children," the head of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday.
Plunged into turmoil in 2013 when Muslim rebels seized power in the mostly Christian country, thousands have since been killed in the violence and more than a million displaced.
UNICEF chief Henrietta Fore welcomed the commitments made to protect children's rights, but asserted that pledges are not enough, saying "Now is the time for action".
She noted that two-thirds of the children need humanitarian assistance, one-in-four is displaced, and millions are out of school, malnourished and vulnerable to disease and exploitation.
Ms. Fore presented concrete steps to turn the agreement into practice, including by releasing all children from armed groups and judicially treating them as children and victims.
"UNICEF…is hopeful that this agreement will be a fundamental step towards long-lasting peace for the country's children," maintained Ms. Fore.
From smartphones to wedding rings, the hidden cost of everyday gold threatens human and environmental health, according to a new UN initiative launched on Monday.
Each year, gold production exposes millions of men, women and children globally to toxic levels of mercury.
Moreover, artisanal and small-scale gold mining, called ASGM, is the single largest source of man-made mercury emissions and causes health risks, such as brain damage; vision and hearing loss; and delayed childhood development for miners and their communities.
The new $180-million GEF GOLD programme aims to improve mining conditions for artisanal and small-scale gold miners across eight countries while also slashing harmful mercury emissions.
Jacob Duer, the Head of UN Environment's Chemicals and Health branch said: "By phasing out mercury use and connecting miners to markets for responsibly produced and sourced minerals, GEF GOLD will help to ensure the gold value chain both supports miners and provides consumers with access to ethically produced, environmentally sustainable gold."
In keeping with the theme of work, as part of its Centenary, the International Labour Organization, known as ILO, is urging all countries to ratify at least one labour convention in 2019.
For 100 years, ILO labour standards have improved the working lives of millions of people – from eliminating forced and child labour to ensuring seafarers rights and promoting gender equality.
While they have been the bedrock of ILO and its mandate, much work remains and globalization and cross-border activities bring on new challenges.
Corinne Vargha, Director of ILO's International Labour Standards Department, underscored that by ratifying global labour standards, millions of workers would be lifted, and "no one will be left behind in the world of work."
Negotiated by government, employers' and workers' representatives, ILO Conventions cover work discrimination and collective bargaining; strengthen social dialogue and labour policies; and address a range of issues, such as minimum wages, pensions and occupational safety.
"We hope that as many member States as possible will step up to the plate and ratify this year," stressed Ms. Vargha.
Ana Carmo, UN News.

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Many savvy investors have multiple streams of leads from various sources. Bidding for and buying HUD homes may be a great addition to whatever else you're focused on, and in this FlipNerd.com VIP Flip Show, Larry Goings shares his knowledge about HUD homes. Larry is a wealth of knowledge…so don't miss this show!
Meet Larry Goins – experienced real estate investor and national speaker.
Learn some tricks to buying HUD homes.
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Mike Hambright: Welcome to the FlipNerd.com podcast. This is your host, Mike Hambright and on this show I will introduce you to V.I.P.'s in the real estate investing industry as well as other interesting entrepreneurs whose stories and experiences can help you take your business to the next level. We have three new shows available each week which are available in the iTunes store or by visiting FlipNerd.com. So without further ado, let's get started.
Hey, it's Mike Hambright with FlipNerd.com. Welcome back for another exciting Flip Nerd V.I.P Flip show. Today, I have with me, the one and only Larry Goins who is an investor, coach and author. He's a national speaker with 20 plus years of experience. He has a lot of great knowledge on real estate investing, but today we're specifically going to talk about buying HUD homes as a real estate investor. Before we get started with Larry, let's take a moment to recognize our featured sponsors.
Hey, Larry. Welcome to the show.
Larry Goins: What's going on, buddy? How have you been?
Mike Hambright: Good, good. How are you?
Larry Goins: I am doing awesome.
Mike Hambright: Awesome, awesome. So, for those that don't know you… I know you get around a lot and you've met a lot of people across the country, but for those that maybe don't know you or don't know you as much as they will after this interview, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you.
Larry Goins: Sure. My name is Larry Goins and I'm from Lake Wiley, South Carolina. It's a little town right outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. We buy and sell about ten to twenty houses a month. We wholesale most of them. We fix and flip a few. We sell or finance some. We also keep a few as rentals. We've done all different kinds of investing, but wholesaling is what we specialize in and what we do. We have done deals in eleven different states and I've written several books. My first book is called, Getting Started in Real Estate Day Trading. It's in book stores everywhere. It's how to buy and sell houses the same day using the internet. My latest book is called, HUD Homes Half Off: How to Buy a House at 50, 40 even 30 percent of list price. We do buy a lot of HUD houses. We do those all over the country as well.
Mike Hambright: Great, great. So talk a little bit about…. For folks that don't even know what a HUD house is, why don't you tell us a little bit about what that is?
Larry Goins: That's really good because a lot of people really don't know, how does a house become a HUD house?
Larry Goins: When somebody goes to get a FHA loan, they get that loan through a bank like Bank of America or Wells Fargo, and it's an FHA loan. It's actually a bank loan, but FHA insures the loan. In other words, a little portion of your payment goes to what's called Mortgage Insurance to cover insurance in case the borrower defaults, then the bank can go back to FHA and say, "Hey. This borrower defaulted. We have insurance on this loan to pay us off. So you pay us off. You take over the loan and you foreclose and deal with it." That's how an FHA foreclosure becomes a HUD house.
Mike Hambright: OK. Said in another way, are all… Basically when you go to county auctions, some of those are FHA loans as well, but they're not sold through HUD. How does it differentiate whether a house would ultimately go to a county auction or be sold through HUD home store or a traditional HUD Home?
Larry Goins: Every foreclosure goes through the same process in your state, whether you live in a [inaudible 4:32] trust state or a mortgage trust state; so if you go to the courthouse steps and it could be the bank, it could be HUD, it could be whoever, but that goes through the same process. If it is a FHA loan and it goes through that process, it will end up being owned by HUD and it will be listed through a realtor, but put on HUDhomestore.com.
Mike Hambright: OK. That's interesting. A question just popped up, because I know that with FHA loans, there hasn't been a lot of conversation about this, but it's happened where basically the amount that you pay in mortgage insurance, the insurance part has gone up pretty substantially for borrowers. Is that right?
Larry Goins: Well, I think it has and that's because the markets have changed, the economy has changed, and quite frankly, I don't think they want to get a whole lot of houses back anymore. They want to make sure that that person can pay a higher premium and quite frankly, they're going to make them pay a higher premium so chances are they will not get it back. If they do, at least they've had some compensation for taking the risk of making that loan in the first place.
Mike Hambright: That was my first thought was if they have essentially a bigger insurance premium, then they may be more likely to sell them quicker or at lower prices to investors because they were made whole from the insurance. I guess we won't know how that plays out for many years, but that should be interesting.
Mike Hambright: I know and I teach and a lot of the other folks I know teach real estate investing never rely on just one source of leads. I know you don't either. HUD homes is just one iron in your fire. Talk a little bit about, not necessarily your business, but maybe some of the things you teach in terms of having multiple strategies and maybe how HUD homes plays into that.
Larry Goins: There's a lot of different things you can do. Now, HUD house is a listed house with a realtor, but all of your offers go through HUDhomestore.com and they are placed by an agent that has an NAID number. We also buy a lot of REO's, bank properties, just listed properties. We do direct mail as well, in fact, I'm still very active in the business. Just before we got on here, I probably made ten or fifteen phone calls and talked to about five or six different sellers everywhere from in the Carolinas to New York around and asking them about their property and making offers on properties myself; even though I have a team, I'm very active in it as well.
Mike Hambright: Would you say in terms of different strategies, different lead generation tools you have, how does HUD homes come into the mix in terms of margins? For example, I personally buy a lot of houses direct from sellers. We do a lot of advertising to generate those leads. I don't really buy a lot from other investors or almost nothing off of the MLS. My reason is because the margins are just too thin. So talk a little bit about, specifically with HUD homes, especially if you're wholesaling them, maybe how the margins compare to self- generated leads or direct mail and other things you might do.
Larry Goins: I think the margins really depend on a couple of things. It depends on, number one, what market you're in. It's a lot more difficult to buy a house at a deep discount in San Diego or L.A. or San Francisco or New York City or parts of Florida than it is in the Carolinas or Kansas or Tennessee. Something like that; that depends on that as well. That also depends on your negotiating skills. How good of a negotiator are you? One of the big things that we get when we're talking with sellers is they've been price-conditioned to think, "Well, tax value is X. So I ought to be able to get X." One of the things that I do is I say, "I would love to give you that, but unfortunately you're paying taxes based on that." They want to get as much tax as they can from each property. If you really want to talk value, let's just go to realtor.com or zillow.com.
Let's say I'm talking to somebody that has a two bedroom, one bathroom house with 1,000 square feet. You get a lot of that in direct mail. People inherited an old house or something or it's a rental house or something. I say, "OK. In your city, two bedroom houses are starting at $4 thousand and go up to around $15 thousand, but you're asking for $30 thousand. Unfortunately, as somebody in business to make a profit, now never make an excuse for making a profit, but I want to create a win/win situation. It's very difficult for me to pay $30 thousand for your house when I see some over here listed for five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars. Tell me what reason I should have to purchase your house for $30 thousand? What's different about your house? Help me out." They can't say, "It was my mom's house. I grew up there." That's all well and good, but that doesn't mean anything.
Mike Hambright: Right, right. Yes. Now talk a little bit about the general opportunity for investors to buy HUD homes. For example, I know, I think, this could be a misconception, but generally speaking HUD wants to sell those to owner/occupants. Obviously there are some houses that are in more disrepair than what an owner/occupant is willing to pay for it or what their financing will allow. So talk about that area, that subset of HUD houses that ultimately comes into play for investors instead of owner/occupants.
Larry Goins: I think it's important and I'm glad you really started there because as we go through the flow of a HUD house, all the HUD houses are listed at HUDhomestore.com. Every day you can pull up a list. The auctions end every day at midnight. Every day you can bid on the same house. Every day and resubmit your offer. That's what we do. We make an offer on every HUD house in North and South Carolina every day, but for the first 15-30 days, depending on the area you're in… I've been in different areas and some people say 15 days and some people say 30 days. It's only open to owner/occupants because HUD wants to promote homeownership. It's only open to owner/occupants. Don't even search for properties that are only open to owner/occupants. You're just going to get yourself worked up about trying to get a property that you can't have. Who knows? It may be gone those 15 or 30 days are up anyway.
What we do is search for investment property. We sort them prices low to high and we run our numbers. We just have a formula that we shotgun it out. I will tell you this. When you submit your offer at HUDhomestore.com or your realtor does, one of three things is going to happen. Either nothing happens. Your offer simply expires. You don't hear from them or your realtor doesn't. Or, the second thing that could happen is your realtor gets a counteroffer. HUD sends an e-mail that says, "We will not take your offer, but we will take X." Then you can either counter back, you can accept their counter, or do nothing. Or you can submit a new offer. The third thing that could happen is that they accept your offer. Usually about three o'clock, the next day, you're going to get an e-mail, or your realtor is, that says we've accepted your offer. Then you have two business days, 48 hours, to get all the paperwork in, including your deposit. They're very strict about things that need to be done such as having it signed in blue ink. Any contract purchase amount for $50 thousand or less requires a $500 deposit. If it's over $50 thousand it's a thousand dollar deposit. That's all across the country. It has to be official funds, certified funds and it has to be the asset manager within two business days.
Mike Hambright: OK. So the game, really, is to try to get them to accept your offer and in order to make a lot of offers, you're not looking at these houses before you make offers, at least physically. So you're making offers, you're making some assumptions about the repairs that are probably needed based on square footage or age of the home, maybe. Then you're making essentially blind offers. If they get accepted you have a two business day period to get out there and say our assumptions were accurate or not and we'll do the deal or we won't, right?
Larry Goins: Right. I'm glad you brought that up. At HUDhomestore.com on every page for a property there is a PCR. Property Condition Report; you can pull that and they've had an inspector go out and do an overview and the plumbing worked, the electrical worked or didn't work, the HVAC worked. It's not going to be in detail with things like paint, carpet, trim, landscaping. It's not going to be that. It's big items. Also, there's been an appraisal, but it's an as is appraisal. It doesn't really mean a whole lot to us as an investor. You do have that plus online now there's usually a lot of pictures. You can get an idea by zooming in on a picture. Does that floor look level? Is there a hole in the wall there? What's that hanging down from the ceiling? Does the roof leak? You can kind of get an idea.
Mike Hambright: It's a body hanging from the rafters.
Larry Goins: Exactly. We do a couple of things. If you're really concerned about those two days, because HUD does not allow you to have any contingencies; you can't say, "Subject to an inspection, subject to an appraisal. Subject to buyer's financing." If you send in your money as an investor, not an owner/occupant, but as an investor, if you don't close on that deal for any reason, you will never see your money again. The only time you would ever get your deposit back is if for some reason HUD was unable to close. We've had that happen a couple of times. Some title issues came up. They didn't do their foreclosure correctly. We've had those come up, but it still takes months to get your deposit back. What we do is, if you're concerned about those two business days, just submit your offers on Thursday; that way when you get an acceptance its' on Friday. Now you have Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to get all of your paperwork in. It gives you some extra time.
Mike Hambright: I know this is going to probably differ dramatically depending on market, but any kind of rules of thumb if we put offers on this many houses, we convert about this many to being accepted, then we ultimately buy about this many. Do you have an idea of the general conversion rates?
Larry Goins: It's very difficult to give you conversion rates because it depends on several things. It depends on the market. Where the property is, it also depends on the month and the quarter and where we are in the year. Is it near the end of the year? Is it near the end of a quarter? Do they need to turn more properties? It also depends on how much you offer. If you offer 100% of list price, you're going to get a lot more offers than offering 30% of list price.
Larry Goins: So it depends on a lot of things, but we do have… We make offers two different ways. We have a shotgun approach that we use where we just blast off offers to every HUD house in the Carolinas every day. Then once we get a counter we start narrowing it down and pulling comps and riding the street on the internet. Looking at rent clumps, checking out the property in more detail to figure out what is our highest and best.
Mike Hambright: OK. I understand there are some changes going on at HUD and I know that they change periodically with asset managers and things like that. Do you have any insight as to the changes that are going on or that upcoming and how that might impact the opportunity for real estate investors?
Larry Goins: Actually, I do; every so many years. Like every seven to ten years, HUD will put out to bid contracts for asset managers to be their exclusive asset manager in specific areas. Now is the time. So HUD has but out to bid for asset managers to bid on how much they're going to charge to work with HUD and what they will do it for. They're supposed to make an announcement as to who's going to be the new asset managers somewhere around the end of July I heard. We work a lot with the asset managers so we… I wouldn't say we have an inside, but I would say that we know a lot about it because we have had the North Carolina HUD attorney tell us that we buy more HUD houses in North Carolina than anyone else. South Carolina told me that they do more closings for us than anybody else so I would assume the same there.
In fact, the HUD attorney for South Carolina, he uses our office every Thursday to come up here because we're in the upstate of South Carolina and he has a lot of closings. He said, "I'm usually up here anyway. Can I use your office for other closings that I have?" Which was pretty cool, it works out good. Yes. They are getting ready to put that up for bid or have and they are supposed to announce that around the end of July. Then I'm guessing around the end of July or August, you're going to see a lot more HUD houses come to the market, which is probably going to help us get better prices.
Mike Hambright: That's great. I know that I want to ask you some other general questions about real estate investing and your structure and how you streamline your team and things like that, but before we get off the HUD topic here, you were gracious enough to give the folks that are listening to FlipNerd your new HUD book for free. They can download it. I think the link is LarryGoins.com/Flipnerd. Is that right?
Larry Goins: Exactly right. LarryGoins.com/flipnerd; we've created a special page just for your listeners.
Larry Goins: They can buy it in the bookstore or on Amazon if they want to, but if they would like a free copy of it, just go to that webpage we prepared at LarryGoins.com/FlipNerd and get a free copy of it.
Mike Hambright: We'll put a link down below the video here, but it is Larry G-O-I-N-S dot com slash flipnerd. Awesome. Well, Larry, talk a little bit about your team. I know one of the things that I spend a lot of time doing is trying to build processes and automation. I try to teach a lot of the folks that I mentor those things because if you don't, you've effectively created a job for yourself instead of a business. I know you really focus a lot on automation and processes and being able to utilize a team to help a lot of your day to day activities. Talk a little bit about how you teach folks, or maybe some of the things that you use to go from a new independent single investor up to truly building a business that can operate with more than just you.
Larry Goins: I do have a lot of systems, processes and procedures in place. We have SOP's. Quite frankly, we run our business based on a book called The Rockefeller Habits. I don't know if you've ever read that before. It's a really good book. It's about how Rockefeller ran his business. We have daily huddles and we have weekly meetings. In the daily huddle, it may only be five minutes, but it's like, "OK. How many offers did you make yesterday? Which ones? What properties were they on? Tell us about it? Do you have pictures? Do we need to look at this? What properties do we have under contract? Do we need to look at the pictures? Let's drive the street. Do we need to back out of this one? Do we need to renegotiate it?" All of that stuff. What do we have coming up closing? Ok, we have one closing on Tuesday, we have one Wednesday and we have one Friday. Tell us about that. Do we have that sold? Yes? How much are we making on it, all that good stuff. What are we doing with marketing? How many postcards did you mail out this week? How many REA groups because we can get all of the REA groups in the Carolinas, the Real Estate Association as a vendor every month. We have different people to go to the different events.
We can hand out CD's, we can hand out flyers about our properties. We're building our buyer's list. That's some of the things we do right there, but I start it myself. I would do it all. I would find the deal. Negotiate the deal. Get it under contract. Do the due diligence. Sell it and close it. Then, I hired somebody… I ran an ad on Craigslist that said, "Learn to flip houses using my money." I would bring them in and shadow me. Just work with me. After a couple of days they would get on the phone and they would be making offers on properties. I would work with them and help them get up and running. They would do it all. Then I thought, "I could do more deals if I separate it out." Then I had the acquisitions doing acquisitions and due diligence and then I hired sales people to do sales and closings. So I separated that out. After a while we had somebody come in to do due diligence. That way acquisitions didn't have to do that, then we had somebody come in to do all the closings so that sales didn't have to do that. Now we have acquisitions, due diligence, sales and closings. We have one person doing due diligence, one person doing closings and we have a couple of people doing sales and a couple of people doing acquisitions.
Mike Hambright: OK. Do you cross train those folks, Larry? One of the challenges I always face as a small business owner is you can never really afford to have redundancy. You probably tend to have a person who is an expert in one area and in the event that somebody is out sick or gets hit by a bus or something like that, somebody has to fill that role and it either has to be you to step in because you know how to do it or quickly find somebody else. How do you overcome that as a small business?
Larry Goins: Our acquisitions guys know how to do due diligence. Our sales guys know how to do closings. Also, we hired a new closing person so now our existing closing person, she's moving more into an operations, so she's handling the direct mail. Getting all of the direct mail out. Taking all the calls. We did a thousand mailers last week, just a thousand, that was it, in one county and we've already gotten 60 calls off of that.
Larry Goins: Well, 59 to be exact. We got 59 as of yesterday and I'm sure she… I'm sure it's more than that now because I saw her with the headphones on back there earlier taking calls and checking voicemail. We try to cross train people and I'm a firm believer in training and education. Look at my library. This is my education. I don't have a college degree. I'm a firm believer in education. We do cross train people and every week I have a training. I usually have it at one o'clock on Wednesdays or Thursdays. It might be about sales, it might be about motivation, it might be about negotiating. It might be about setting goals. It might be about technology or some software we're using, or whatever. Every week we do some kind of training and sometimes it's even personal development. For example, not too long ago, every day at noon… Well not every day. I think it was every Tuesday at noon, we would pay the Day of Ramses videos in our big room that we have on the big screen TV and people would bring their lunch or run and grab lunch to come right back. They would sit and watch that about getting out of debt or setting up an emergency fund, becoming financially independent, paying off all your bills, all that good stuff. We just did it for our employees. They love that.
Larry Goins: We have a Massage Envy or something. We had them come to our office one day and they setup in the lobby and gave free massages for the next two hours. Everyone just took their turn.
Mike Hambright: That's great. Great. I know you've got your ear to the ground in a lot of things that are associated with real estate. Where do you see things going over the next couple of years? I don't know what to say besides it's a very interesting time. There's a lot of things that could happen with interest rates. The government will be at the point where they can never dig out of debt. It's just a very interesting time. If there is any sort of sneeze anywhere it could really change the real estate market quite a bit. Where do you see things going over the next couple of years?
Mike Hambright: It's interesting because I sometimes worry about what's going to happen. There's really not a lot that I can do about it obviously, but one of the great things about being a real estate investor, especially if you own rental properties and you focus on entry-level houses, it's almost like no matter what happens, people need places to live. If you focus more on the entry-level first-time owner type houses, it just seems like there is always going to be opportunity there one way or another. Your proverbial cheese may move, but there will be some way to monetize those deals.
Larry Goins: That's true. One thing I've found out that is the lower the price of the house, the more buyers there are available. It's just a bigger pool of buyers.
Mike Hambright: Right, awesome, Larry. Thanks so much for your time today. Again, for those that want to get the HUD book that Larry had offered to give Flip Nerd listeners graciously for free, go to LarryGoins.com/FlipNerd. We'll have a link down below the video for that. Larry, thanks again so much for your time. I really appreciate your insights and your information.
Larry Goins: Man, I appreciate it, any time.
Mike Hambright: Alright. Have a great day. We'll talk to you soon.
Mike Hambright: Bye. Thanks for joining us on today's FlipNerd.com podcast. To listen to more of our shows and hear from incredible guests, please access all of our podcasts in the iTunes store. You can also watch the video versions of our shows by visiting us at FlipNerd.com.


PESTLE analysis is a tool used in business to gain information about a company's circumstances (its "environment"), and what may come of them. This simple analysis, which revolves around the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors that affect a business, is an extension to PEST analysis (which only looks at the first four of the aforementioned factors).
Conducting a PESTLE analysis, much like conducting a SWOT analysis, is as simple as listing all 6 of the categories, and filling them out with appropriate factors. However, plenty of individuals run into confusion when trying to decide what falls into which category, and why.
In this series of posts, we're reviewing each of the 6 'PESTLE' categories separately to help you understand them thoroughly, which will in turn improve your analyses. We've already covered the 'P' for political factors (see this article), and the 'E' for economic factors (see this article), so be sure to check those out before moving on.
In business analysis, the word 'environmental' can sometimes be used refer to all external factors that affect a business (just like in environmental analysis), from Political to Legal, and everything in between.
However, in the context of PESTLE analysis, environmental factors — which are also sometimes called 'ecological factors' — refer to variables regarding the physical environment (the climate of Earth, for example). This can include things like consumer health, climate change, the availability of energy, or any direct consequences of these things.
How can environmental factors affect business?
From the sound of it, it may seem that environmental factors have very little to do with business. On the contrary, though, environmental factors can affect many different important aspects of business. Examples include customer willingness to buy a product (who needs heaters in a hotter climate?), employee efficiency, and crop/resource availability.
Availability of non-renewable goods — The availability of non-renewable goods, especially popular ones like oil or natural gas, can vastly change the market. Should the supply of these goods drop (as is currently happening), prices might grow higher, greatly affecting businesses that use the fuels in any significant amounts — like industrial or logistical ones.
Existence of certain biological species — This point doesn't need too much explaining. Hypothetically speaking, if climate change were to make every cow and goat extinct, it would not mean good things for any businesses in the dairy industry.
The UAE has a hot, arid climate. Resultingly, the productivity of workers might not be as high, farming may not yield as much, and air conditioning systems may have a larger market.
The United Arab Emirates is situated near several coastal areas, allowing for convenient sea based trade.
You can find the rest of this PESTLE analysis of the UAE on our site here.
Falling fuel prices might increase business, thanks to cheaper travel. Conversely, increased fuel prices would reduce business — especially that funded by international tourists who travel by airplane.
Over a greater span of time, climate change might affect the appeal of various resorts.
Taken from this PESTLE analysis of Marriott.
To summarize what has been said, environmental factors that affect business refer to the physical environment on Earth, including everything from climate and weather to the availability of resources. This category is also sometimes quite appropriately named 'ecological'. There are many different examples of environmental factors that (contrary to what you might think) do actually affect business, which can be seen in big countries like the UAE or scene-dominating companies like Marriott.


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RECOMMENDED VIEWING: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Film: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Vous n'avez encore rien vu)
Cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Lambert Wilson (with Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, and Michel Piccoli)
"Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,
And the Mountaine tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing…
In sweet Musicke is such Art,
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Ancients Revisit an Ancient Myth and Lose Themselves in it Once More
Before dying, a director has left his butler with detailed instructions: He's to invite a group of older actors to view a video of a new performance of a play of his, a play in which they've all performed at one time or another. The videotaped play is performed by his new young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. The older actors are supposed to critique the play, but instead they start acting it out themselves.
Alain Resnais was 89 when he directed this film. One of the few living progenitors of the French New Wave, his meditation on the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus is astoundingly original and insightful.
The lovers in the film-within-the-film are desperately seeking their true selves—in art, in music, in pleasure, in ideas, in love—but they find themselves only to abandon themselves. Classic narcissists, they don't know who they are, and when they encounter their true selves they're ready to die.
In the original myth, Eurydice is stung by a viper. Serpents appear often in hero myths, usually symbolizing the danger the hero faces in thinking of himself as bigger than life—entitled to rise above morality and obligations—and a failure to trust fate.
The women who play Eurydice are fraught with anxiety, shame, and a desperate paranoia of anything from the outside that might threaten the love relationship. Their love for each other is so insular, so exclusive, and so defensive that it threatens its own fruition. It's this paranoia that leads to Eurydice's demise.
Resnais and co-writer Laurent Herbiet used material from two plays by Jean Anouilh—Eurydice and Cher Antoine ou l'Amour rate as the basis for this film. For the play seen on the screen, the one the actors are viewing, Resnais asked director Bruno Podalydès to direct it independently in order to maintain a distinction between his own direction and that of the film-within-the-film. This made the results harder to control, but ultimately all the more exciting.
In a universe where human beings are underlings of a destiny they can't control, illusion is a popular means of diversion. Illusion can be a good thing as long as it gives only a temporary respite from a truth we don't deny. Illusion can't, however, become our shield in the face of our own existential struggles.
The actors are too self-absorbed to really pay attention to the play before them, but in the end what they think of as "self" is only a mist that arrives and is quickly burned away. They reveal a very deep attachment to the play itself rather than to the performance, seeing the play as a means of finding their true selves. The play is their only shot at immortality. The onion's layers are peeled off to reveal simply more layers and in the end, nothing.
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THE BOXER UPRISING 1899 – 1900.
The background and events leading to the actual Boxer Uprising during the critical months of May to August 1900.
Before proceeding to describe the series of military events that culminated in the relief of the Foreign Legations in Peking and the occupation of the capital of China by the contingents of the Allied Powers, it may be of interest to discuss the background of the Boxer movement. The real origin of the I-ho-ch'uan, or 'Fists of Patriotic Union', commonly known as the 'Boxers', is difficult to trace, one argument is that it was the outcome of the cession of Kiao-chou to the Germans, and had for its object the defence of the province of Shan-tung against the invasion of the foreigners, others maintain that it is really an old society, which the general state of unrest had brought to life again. Whatever its origin, it is now a matter of history that the obscure society, which in the beginning might have been easily suppressed, grew rapidly into a vast and dangerous association of brigands, which the Government soon found beyond its powers to control.
During many centuries the Chinese empire has been a hotbed of secret societies, of which some were political and anti-dynastic, whilst others are of a more harmless nature, and were originally founded with the object of mutual protection of their members either against the illegal exactions of unjust officials or the depredations of robber bands. One of the oldest societies the Ko-lao-hui 'Elder Brother' society was initially founded for mutual protection of its members, an offshoot of the parent society is the Ta-tao-hui 'Big Knife' society, which has its head-quarters in Ho-nan, and was said to be violently anti-foreign, and especially anti-Catholic.
Foreigners through the Boxer society.
The Boxers rapidly increased in numbers, and with the objective of pleasing the people, the Boxers declared their aim to be the destruction of the Roman Catholic priests and converts, and their first attack in 1899 was upon a Roman Catholic chapel at Li-lien-yuan, in Shan-tung, where a temple had formerly stood which had been purchased by the Catholics and replaced by a chapel. Attacks by the Boxers were directed against the Catholic converts, many of whom had their houses burnt down and their possessions confiscated. The violence grew, and very soon the Protestant converts shared the same fate as the Catholics; houses burnt and possessions confiscated, while a few were killed, all were 'secondary devils' and only less obnoxious than the pure foreigner.
At first the Boxers confined their operations to Shan-tung, but towards the end of 1899 they spread into the southern part of Chi-li, where the persecution of the Christians also commenced. The foreign Ministers and missionaries had for some time been watching the growth of the Boxer society with some anxiety, when the news reached Peking that an English missionary, Mr. Brooks, had been murdered. The British Minister at once demanded the execution of the murderers, the punishment of the officials concerned and the suppression of the Boxer society, in return the Chinese Government decreed that the two men who actually committed the murder were beheaded; some of the lesser officials were reprimanded; and Yu-hsien, ex-Governor of Shan-tung and head patron of the Boxers, was ordered to Peking, having been succeeded in office by General Yuan Shih-k'ai. In Peking Yu-hsien was received with honour by the Empress-Dowager, and shortly afterwards, being appointed to the Governorship of the neighbouring province of Shan-hsi, where he had ample opportunity of fostering the Boxer movement. An edict was published ordering the suppression of seditious societies, but pointing out that all societies were not harmful. In fact, the whole decree was so worded as to exonerate the Boxers from blame and encourage them to persevere.
The Viceroy of Chi-li, Yu-lu, had recognised the necessity of keeping the Boxers in check, but on the 22nd May 1900, a party of his cavalry was ambushed at Lai-shui and destroyed. Fresh reports were constantly arriving of attacks on Chinese Christians, and the London Mission chapel at Kung-tsun, 40 miles southwest of Peking, was destroyed. On the 19th May 1900, Pere Favier, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Peking, whose experience of the Chinese is unrivalled, and whose sources of information through the Roman Catholic converts are very extensive, reported to the French Minister that he considered the situation to be extremely serious. In the district of Pao-ting-fu numerous Christians had been murdered, and the persecution of converts was daily drawing nearer to Peking.
This new movement was aimed against all Europeans, and not only against the foreign religion, as was clearly stated by the Boxer society. Père Favier further stated that the rising would spread to Peking, where first the churches and then the Legations would be attacked. The city was full of anti-foreign placards and with everyday more were appearing. In fact, the movement was very similar to that of Tien-tsin in 1870 when the same form of threats existed and the same warning were given and disregarded, with most disastrous results. Pere Favier also asked for guards to be sent to protect the Pei-t'ang cathedral, which is the Roman Catholic headquarters in Peking. This warning was communicated by M. Pichon to his colleagues, this information from such a source, was not to be disregarded. The Foreign Ministers accordingly addressed another strong note to the Tsung-li Yamen demanding the suppression of the Boxers and the restoration of order. The Tsung-li Yamen claimed to be taking all means within their power to suppress the rising, and assured the Foreign Ministers that the safety of the Legations would be paramount and in the special care of the Chinese Government, who regarded the Boxers as rebels and outlaws.
Whilst the Tsung-li Yamen was giving these assurances to the foreign Ministers, the Manchu party, notably Kang-yi, was doing all in its power to encourage the Boxers and assure them of the favour of the Empress Dowager.
On the 28th May 1900 the Boxers burnt Feng-tai railway station, and tore up part of the line, which however, was quickly repaired. The Foreign Ministers now considered that the situation in Peking had become critical and telegraphed to Tien-tsin for armed guards for the Legations. These were despatched immediately and 337 men, reached the capital without opposition on the 31st May 1900. At the same time the Boxers had also begun to destroy the railway at Pao-ting-fu, with all of the European railway employees leaving on the 29th May by river for Tien-tsin. They were, however, pursued and attacked by Boxers, and four of their members were killed.
On the 1st June 1900 two English missionaries, Messrs. Robinson and Norman, were attacked at Yung-ch'ing-hsien just 40 miles south of Peking. The Church of England Mission was burnt and Mr. Robinson was pursued and at once cut down, but Mr. Norman, having been taken prisoner, was not murdered till the following day, having in the meantime been subjected to the most inhuman tortures.
In the meanwhile Tung Fu-hsiang's Kan-su troops, who were wild, undisciplined, anti-foreign Mohammedans, who had been taken from the neighbourhood of Peking at the instance of the Foreign Ministers during the winter of 1898-99, were ordered back to the capital and immediately supported the Boxers.
On the 7th June 1900 General Nieh's troops, who had been protecting the railway line from Tien-tsin to Peking, were ordered to return to their camps at Lu-tai, but they remained in the neighbourhood of Yangtsun for several days. All communication between the Legations and the outside world was by this time cut off, and the Boxers were soon openly drilling in Peking itself. During the 9th June, Tung Fu-hsiang's troops entered the capital and with them came hoards of Boxers, who, openly in the uniform of their society, and armed with swords and spears, boldly paraded the streets, declaring that their mission was to exterminate the foreigners. Sir Claude MacDonald the British Minister in Peking wired Admiral Seymour at Taku and requested that he advance on Peking.
On the 11th June the Japanese Chancellor, Mr. Sugiyama, was murdered by Tung Fu-hsiang's troops, whilst on his way to the railway station to greet the expected Seymour relief column, at the Yung-ting man, or south gate of the Chinese city. A tardy decree was published the following day to the effect that the Empress Dowager was grieved at the occurrence, which was the work of outlaws, though it was well known throughout Peking to have been done by regular troops. On the 13th June the Boxers first attacked the Legations, and on the same day commenced with their massacre of Chinese Christians.
By the 16th June 1900 all foreigners and Chinese converts to Christianity in Peking were either in the Legation Quarters or in the Catholic Cathedral Pei-t'ang. On this same day the Boxers set fire to a large area of the Chinese city of Peking, see map of Peking – Figure 1, that housed shops and firms that dealt with foreigners, this fire destroyed over 4,000 businesses. Now on the 19th June the Foreign Ministers received an ultimatum from the Tsung-li Yamen stating that all foreigners had to leave Peking within 24 hours or their safety could no longer be guaranteed. Safe transit to Tien-tsin was offered to all foreigners who were ready to move on the morning of the 20th June.


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National: A Democrat on Trump's voter fraud commission asked for more transparency. Here's what happened next | Los Angeles Times
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The request from Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap seemed to be a given for any member of President Trump's voter fraud commission: He wanted transparency. But Dunlap, among a handful of Democrats on the panel launched by executive order in May with the stated goal of restoring confidence and integrity in the electoral process, said he was denied full access to internal information. So he sued the commission he sits on. On Friday, a federal judge ruled the panel must give Dunlap access to relevant documents in order to allow him to fully participate in the commission's work. "He has a right to access documents that the commission is considering relying on in the course of developing its final recommendations," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a lengthy opinion.
Last month, Dunlap filed the lawsuit against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, alleging he was being denied access to the commission's records and effectively frozen out of its activities. He wanted access to, among other things, communications about how to select experts who would testify before the committee and the scheduling of meetings. At the core of his lawsuit, Dunlap argued that the voter fraud commission had run afoul of the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires transparency and balanced membership for government advisory groups.
The commission has convened twice — in Washington, D.C., in July, and in New Hampshire in September — and heard testimony about how to improve the registration and voting process. The panel's work is expected to be completed sometime next year in the form of a written report.
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 Canadian International Development Agency
 Uganda Literacy and Education Program
 The ACCC

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require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../lib/duxml/ruby_ext/string')
require 'test/unit'

class StringTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def setup
    # Do nothing
  end

  # Called after every test method runs. Can be used to tear
  # down fixture information.

  def teardown
    # Do nothing
  end

  def test_constantize_and_back
    assert_equal 'MailMan', 'mail_man'.constantize
    assert_equal 'mail_man', 'mail_man'.constantize.nmtokenize
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    assert_equal 'mail-man', 'mail-man'.constantize.nmtokenize
    assert_equal 'MailMan', 'MailMan'.constantize
    assert_equal 'MailMan', 'mailMan'.constantize
    assert_equal 'mailMan', 'mailMan'.constantize.nmtokenize(:snakeCase), "example of non-reversible transform: 'mailMan' -> 'MailMan'; 'MailMan' -> 'mail_man'"
  end
end

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Youibot Robotics develops "Being Integrated" strategy for overseas markets
Ngân Kim — 13-07-2022, 19:02 —  Suggestion Box
With a plan to increase its proportion of overseas business to over 30% in the next 3 years
SHENZHEN, China, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Youibot Robotics, a leading provider of industrial mobile robots and solutions in China, has recently announced what the firm has released their "Being Integrated" strategy for overseas markets, as part of a mission to integrate into the foreign expansion plans its own in-country experience and best practices in terms of semiconductors, 3C, and lithium-batteries, alongside the efficient integration capabilities and long-term customer service experience of its local partners. Based on its 4 Options solution which is more accessible to overseas partners, Youibot Robotics is committed to providing comprehensive user-friendly services as a component of its customer-oriented overseas business expansion with the help of local partners.
Youibot Robotics' product matrix
This year, Youibot Robotics participated in four industrial exhibitions successively in the Asian Pacific region, showcasing a rich lineup of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that have attracted much attention from professional customers in South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. To date, the company has exported its products to over 30 countries worldwide and operates a global sales and service network in more than 60 countries and regions.
The company's continued expansion and strong leadership in overseas markets is the result of its robust technologies in combination with best practices that it developed in China in relation to precision electronics manufacturing with semiconductors as the core. Based on its extensive industry know-how, Youibot Robotics is dedicated to developing a full-process intelligent logistics solution from wafer production to packaging and testing, in combination with applying its experience in logistics transformation to 3C, PCBs and other precision electronics manufacturing sectors. A number of factory-wide upgrades and other transformative projects have served a wealth of well-renowned brand partners worldwide, among them, TSMC, SMIC, TCL CSOT and Luxshare Precision.
Youibot Robotics' AMR product family has drawn the interest of overseas customers and integrators as it was built based on market conditions in China, and tailored to meet the actual needs of different market niches.
The head of leading South Korea-based automation company S said, "We've seen leading AMR companies around the world developing their technologies continue to mature. When choosing an AMR product, the main concern is how to ensure the product has practical application at scale in the same scenario. What impressed me most is Youibot Robotics' excellent performance in cooperation with company F, rather than its product features."
Leveraging domestic strong R&D resources and strengths, alongside its practical experience in industrial applications, Youibot Robotics is taking the lead in industrial logistics intelligent upgrades in Japan, South Korea, Germany and several countries in Southeast Asia. The Chinese company is also reinforcing its market leadership in Malaysia's and Singapore's semiconductor and electronics manufacturing sectors. In Vietnam, Youibot Robotics has provided flexible and efficient logistics solutions to a world-leading Apple supply chain manufacturer, helping the plant become a demonstration production line for fully automated industrial interconnection across the country. In addition, with the help of existing domestic partners, the company has expanded its business footprint to PCBs, lithium batteries, electronics manufacturing and other sectors in Vietnam. Youibot Robotics has been well received by overseas customers for its superior products and technological prowess.
To better serve overseas customers, Youibot Robotics plans to provide 24×7 sales, technical support and after-sales service capabilities in Japan, Germany and across Southeast Asia. Looking ahead, the company is on track to increase the proportion of its overseas business to over 30% in the coming three years, while continuing to serve global partners with excellent products, and leading the development of mobile robots.
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<?php namespace TextReplace;

use Dan\Events\EventArgs;
use Dan\Events\EventPriority;
use Dan\Irc\Location\Channel;
use Dan\Irc\Location\User;
use Dan\Plugins\Plugin;

class TextReplace extends Plugin {

    protected $messages = [];

    public function load()
    {
        $this->subscribe('irc.packets.message.public',  [$this, 'replace'], EventPriority::AboveNormal);
    }

    /**
     * @param \Dan\Events\EventArgs $eventArgs
     * @param bool $action
     * @return bool|null
     */
    public function replace(EventArgs $eventArgs, $action = false)
    {
        /** @var Channel $channel */
        $channel = $eventArgs->get('channel');
        /** @var User $user */
        $user    = $eventArgs->get('user');
        /** @var string $message */
        $message = $eventArgs->get('message');

        if(strpos($message, "s/") !== 0)
        {
            foreach($this->messages as $chan => $lines)
                if (count($lines) > 30)
                    array_shift($this->messages[$chan]);

            $this->messages[$channel->getLocation()][time()] = [
                'message'   => $message,
                'user'      => $user->getLocation(),
            ];

            return null;
        }

        $data = explode('/', $message);

        if(count($data) < 3)
            return false;

        $find       = $data[1];
        $replace    = $data[2];
        $global     = isset($data[3]) && $data[3] == 'g';

        if(!array_key_exists($channel->getLocation(), $this->messages))
            return false;

        $messages = $this->messages[$channel->getLocation()];

        krsort($messages);

        foreach($messages as $time => $data)
        {
            if(strpos($data['message'], $find) === false)
                continue;

            $new    = preg_replace("/{$find}/", $replace, $data['message'], ($global ? -1 : 1));
            $format = preg_replace("/{$find}/", "{b}{$replace}{r}", $data['message'], ($global ? -1 : 1));

            $this->messages[$channel->getLocation()][$time]['message'] = $new;

            $channel->message("{reset}[ {cyan}{bold}{$data['user']}{normal} ] {$format}");

            return false;
        }

        $channel->message("Nothing found to replace!");

        return null;
    }
}


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package go.graphics.event.mouse;

import go.graphics.UIPoint;

/**
 * This is a proxy that translates the pan event.
 *
 * @author michael
 *
 */
public class GOPanEventProxy extends GOEventProxy<GOPanEvent> implements GOPanEvent {

	private final UIPoint displacement;

	/**
	 * Creates a new pan proxy.
	 *
	 * @param event
	 *            The base event.
	 * @param displaced
	 *            The dsiplace vector.
	 */
	public GOPanEventProxy(GOPanEvent event, UIPoint displaced) {
		super(event);
		this.displacement = displaced;
	}

	@Override
	public UIPoint getPanCenter() {
		UIPoint real = (this.baseEvent).getPanCenter();
		return new UIPoint(real.getX() - this.displacement.getX(), real.getY() - this.displacement.getY());
	}

	@Override
	public UIPoint getPanDistance() {
		UIPoint real = (this.baseEvent).getPanDistance();
		return real;
	}
}