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Our conglomerate model, which is not only multi-business but also multinational, continues to shield us well from economic and operational volatility. We are resilient and we have repeatedly shown that we can navigate through tough cycles.
In 2016, the Group celebrated its 135th Anniversary, a milestone few organisations anywhere in the world are ever privileged to observe and honour. We contribute significantly to national development, creating traditions and bonds that are inseparable from the fabric of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. Our award winning corporate song called "TOGETHER", was inspired by our employees and our rich history.
Our employees also benefit from educational programmes and continuous professional training in relevant fields of expertise.
We have long held the view that, as leaders, we must think beyond our own interests to the interests of those we lead and serve, and to the interests of the communities within which we operate. Even as we strive for continuous investment in our people and infrastructure, we cherish our environment and are pioneers in the recycling industry in Trinidad and Tobago, with our glass container recycling programme originated by our Group company Carib Glassworks Ltd.
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Tennessee Voter ID Law To Disrupt 96-Year Old's Election-Day Routine : It's All Politics Wherever Republican legislators and governors institute voter ID laws, Democrats and civil libertarians always warn that those requirements will make it harder for some citizens, especially the elderly and poor to exercise the franchise. An example that made headlines recently is that of Dorothy Cooper, a 96-year old in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Wherever Republican legislators and governors institute voter ID laws, Democrats and civil libertarians always warn that those requirements will make it harder for some citizens, especially the elderly and poor to exercise the franchise.
An example that made headlines recently is that of Dorothy Cooper, a 96-year old Chattanooga, Tenn. The long-time voter went to a Tennessee driver service center recently to get her free, state-issued voter ID so she'd be able to vote next year only to be refused by a clerk.
So she would need her marriage certificate if she wanted to get the photo ID that would let her vote.
Cutting to the chase Cooper, an African American recalls going to the polls in every election since she was in her 20s except one, the 1960 presidential election when she had just moved.
That includes years of voting when southern blacks were routinely kept from exercising their franchise through poll tests and other stratagems by white local and state officials . She will now vote by absentee mail. That won't require her to produce a marriage license.
Cooper's experience points to the collateral damage of the new voter ID laws. In this case it's disrupting the long practiced habits of citizenship. Maybe a law that makes it harder to a super old citizen to vote helps American democracy though many people will have trouble seeing how.
Also, this law would seem to have a unequal impact on unmarried men and women who lack the other forms of ID that are considered primary, like a drivers license or passport.
If Cooper were a man, for instance, her birth certificate would have sufficed. But because she was married, it didn't.


By now you know it was no April Fool's joke.
You know it has privacy advocates worried. You know there seems to be a trademark issue.
But have you thought about how Google's GMail, and an archive and search strategy in general, will force businesses to kiss their email (non)retention policies goodbye, or at least recognize the fact they may not be very effective?
Gmail simplifies this process by placing your messages in 'All Mail' when you use the archive function.
'All Mail' is the holding place for all of the messages you've sent or received, but not deleted. When you delete a message, it's gone forever. With Gmail, you have enough storage space to last for years without deleting a single message. Just archive everything and all your messages will be searchable and easily accessible.
From the standpoint of businesses seeking to keep smoking email guns from coming back to haunt them, it should be a loud wake up call. But wait, you say. GMail won't replace carefully crafted corporate email systems, policies, and IT routines that periodically purge. It's going to be a public, Web based service like Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, right? People will use it to hit on each other and send pictures. What's the big deal?
Well, we're talking a gigabyte � years worth � of storage space, coupled with everyone's favorite search technol"
Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (GCHEESE).
Swamp Gas Forums -> Google Mail: "then perhaps it's like a reverse April Fool's joke. You think it's false, but it's true"
"The Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches, and Proposals"
"Query letters are a much-debated practice in the writing community. The majority of writers swear by them, but others feel they are a waste of time.
There are many successful writers who stick to sending completed manuscripts or informal, ultra-brief queries.
This practice has especially grown in the age of email, where a less formal writing style has taken root.
See Bob Sassone's article The Query Trap if you want to look further into that strategy"
Because query writing has become such a mainstay in the freelance writing world that I think that too many writers are relying on them TOO much.
Because we live in such a quick, microwavable, I-want-it-now-culture, writers are using queries as a crutch, and forgetting about the ACTUAL WRITING."
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Message from MOAA President and CEO Lt Gen Dana T. Atkins
Memorial Day events at Arlington National Cemetery this year will be limited to a private ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Many other ceremonies around the nation will see adjustments and changes, including cancellations. For many, this means an even heavier heart as they attempt to honor the fallen without relying upon time-honored traditions. It's one more sign of "these unprecedented times" – a statement that has, unfortunately, become cliché.
The methods may change, but the message remains the same. We pay tribute to those who've sacrificed in service to our nation. We offer support to the families they've left behind. Above all, we pause and we remember – not just those close to us we've lost, but the generations of servicemembers who came before.
Our pent-up demand for "back to normal" is set to burst, but calm must prevail as our nation flexes to reopen and release from stay-at-home proclamations. Instead of gathering together for these moments of remembrance, we may reflect alone, or meet online to commune in spirit, if not in person.
Our customs take a backseat to safe behaviors and social distancing still needed in many places. Our duty is to protect others first and before our own self-interests. The fighter pilot in me is wired to want to return to action, but I see the merit to being prudent rather than merely courageous.
I have recently heard from many their greatest fear is bringing the virus to someone they love and unintentionally hurting them. So, we follow our community guidelines. We strive to keep our families and neighbors safe. We honor the health care workers and others at the front of this fight – including thousands of servicemembers, past and present – for their bravery and sacrifice.
Yes, these are unprecedented times. But soon, we will return to our traditions. We will share in our reflection and in our patriotism. We will come together to honor our fallen. So, even under these circumstances, we can privately and collectively honor the legacy of true American heroes…men and women who answered a calling beyond the normal duties of everyday life, who gave more than is expected or required, who shouldered the burden of fear and sacrifice, and who did so without thought of fame or fortune. Until then, on this Memorial Day, amid this pandemic, make time to remember
A tribute for those who paid the price of our freedom
Turn up the volume
This is a Memorial Day Tribute to all of the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to preserve our freedom and the American way of life. Thank you so much
Remembering those who gave it all so that we can live in freedom. Speech from Ronald Reagan, 1985. Arlington National Cemetery
This is an original arrangement by Brian Brink of the Military trumpet piece "Taps" along with some photos for Memorial day. Thanks to our fallen soldiers for all of the freedoms we enjoy today!
Memorial Day 2019 United States Armed Forces Medley
While we remember and honor those who have paid the ultimate price, it is fitting to recognize and honor the Military Services from which they Served.

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Q: Calling things in
A: You've misidentified the problem. This has nothing to do with moving the script from inline to an external file.
You've also (and more significantly) moved the script element from below gameCanvas to above it.
Now, when you say var canvas = document.getElementById('gamecanvas'); you get null (because the element doesn't exist yet).
(It also looks like you've moved it to before babylon.js, so you'll also error because BABYLON.Engine won't yet exist either).

A: To extend what @Quentin mentioned.
<script src='jquery2.2.2.min.js'></script>
<script src='game.js'></script>
<script src='jquery.js'></script>
<script src='babylon.js'></script>

Where these script tags are placed is important, and so is the order. When they are in 'HEAD' they will be executed very early in the rendering process. Your HTML is rendered top-down and each script is executed when they are called. If you do not want to worry about the DOM (everything inside the BODY tag) not being ready you will want to place all the script tags at the bottom of your HTML BODY right before the closing </body>. Additionally if they do not function correctly at that point make sure they are in order. From your original content the above list is NOT correct as you need to have babylon.js before game.js most likely.
Also as a side note: don't import jQuery more than once as that can be problematic.

A: Here's how I load my JavaScript...
FROM THE HTML:
The include:
<script src="http://js.awwshop.com/render/pub/shkawn/shkawn.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The call:
<body onload="Init.Load();">

THE LOADER CLASS
var Init = new function () {

// POPUP IMAGE SCRIPT
document.write("<script src='http://js.awwshop.com/render/pub/shared/parse.js' type='text/javascript'></script>");
document.write("<script src='http://js.awwshop.com/render/pub/shared/popup-image.js' type='text/javascript'></script>");

// GO TO URL SCRIPT
document.write("<script src='http://js.awwshop.com/render/pub/shared/go-to-url.js' type='text/javascript'></script>");

this.Load = function () {

    PopupImage.LoadPopupImages("http://img.awwshop.com/render/pub/shkawn/progressbar.gif");

}

}
Also, I use classes for all my stuff. That means that each of those files referenced includes/all-it-is-is a class.
I've never run into null reference errors doing it this way.

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package com.palmelf.eoffice.dao.customer.impl;

import java.sql.SQLException;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateCallback;

import com.palmelf.core.dao.impl.BaseDaoImpl;
import com.palmelf.eoffice.dao.customer.CusLinkmanDao;
import com.palmelf.eoffice.model.customer.CusLinkman;

public class CusLinkmanDaoImpl extends BaseDaoImpl<CusLinkman> implements
		CusLinkmanDao {
	public CusLinkmanDaoImpl() {
		super(CusLinkman.class);
	}

	public boolean checkMainCusLinkman(final Long customerId,
			final Long linkmanId) {
		final StringBuffer hql = new StringBuffer(
				"select count(*) from CusLinkman  cl where cl.isPrimary = 1 and cl.customer.customerId =? ");
		if (linkmanId != null) {
			hql.append("and cl.linkmanId != ? ");
		}
		Long count = (Long) this.getHibernateTemplate().execute(
				new HibernateCallback() {

					public Object doInHibernate(Session session)
							throws HibernateException, SQLException {
						Query query = session.createQuery(hql.toString());
						query.setLong(0, customerId.longValue());
						if (linkmanId != null) {
							query.setLong(1, linkmanId.longValue());
						}
						return query.uniqueResult();
					}
				});
		return count.longValue() == 0L;
	}
}

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Let's face it, the study of ecology, conservation and sustainability can be very depressing. Try as I might to provide some positive angle to a particular topic I am presenting in a public seminar, I invariably leave the audience slightly depressed. Yes, there are some good-news stories in conservation ecology, but they are few and far between, and are wholly overshadowed by the massive loss of biodiversity we are witnessing right now. For every half step we stumble forward, we take 10 giant steps backward.
Whether it's spiralling climate change, bad government, extinctions, toxicity, poverty, human over-population, deforestation, corporatochracy, or the notion that most people couldn't give a tinker's cuss about the plight of our planet, we get inundated with bad news daily. It's a wonder that any of us get out of bed in the morning – even if we only keep doing it for the ones we love.
I'm not about to stop fighting for my environment, but I have been wondering lately just how much this never-ceasing flood of negativity affects my psychological state. I'm not depressed, but I wonder if I am experiencing even a modicum of what people in the military or emergency services experience after dealing with constant death, disease, injury and destruction. For I, like many of my conservation ecologist colleagues, deal with death, disease, injury and destruction of the planet and its species every day.
It would be academically interesting (there go my autistic tendencies again) if psychologists examined the effects of such negativity on our outlook, capacities and even our personal relationships. A quick Google Scholar search suggests that the psychology of conservationists is a non-existent field of research. Perhaps it should be.
Regardless, removing the increasing pressure and negative trends of academic institutions made room for full-time personal immersion and involvement with conservation. Here I can experience and see the small advances in conservation efforts. Additionally, consumption of the Shiraz had decreased in favor of large doses of wildlife.
Just managed to get 5 minutes to read this…finally.
I have battled a lot with this. To be honest, I would go so far as to say I do suffer from depression as a result of doing research and being faced with information about the plight of our natural world everyday.
During one of my bad stints, I decided to do some literature searching about this exact topic. Like you I came up short. By that I mean, nothing, zip, zilch had looked specifically at the mental health effects on scientists doing research in conservation.
Anyhow, it is hard. I have recently come to the conclusion that yeah, what I am (we are) doing probably won't change the ultimate result. BUT, at least when the you know what hits the fan (in a way everyone takes notice), we will know we were on the right side….
This is a great article. I do understand, accept and agree with your premise (including the academic autism bit!! :-)). I have often heard it described as conservation fatigue! I think we as scientists need to think about the problem differently and we can also learn management skills from how medical professionals especially, oncologists, and others who live with and deliver bad, often horrible news every day. One solution they offer is to revise down expectations. They often advise those supporting their dying loved ones to concentrate on the here-and now- and talk about having a good day rather than planning for the nest 10 years. They also rarely describe the horrible process the sufferer will go through before death. yet we do (about the planet) all the time! Obviously oncologists don't sugar coat news but they do look for ways to create realistic hope and support in the carers– because without hope we are in an awful position.
Our job as environmental scientists is to collect all the information we can and develop the best solutions we can – then present them to the community in bite-sized chunks they can best understand and in ways which empowers them to make a difference. Yes every once in a while hit 'em with the big picture –but not too often or it takes away hope.
Hi, I read your blog a lot but this post particularly resonated with me. I've just finished my PhD and am back in field getting more data, giving talks about the importance of bats, and trying to feel like a drop in an ocean of people who give a damn as opposed to one of a few drops who care trying to change the tide of an unstoppable ocean who don't.
While doing my PhD I was treated for the depression and anxiety I've struggled with all my life, which got worse partly because I felt like it's so futile as one individual trying to make a difference, but sometimes it seems hard to get into a group that's making changes. I have long periods free of depression where I marvel at the beauty still left in the forests and wild places, and that motivates me to keep going. When things get bad and I feel like I'm wasting my life because I can't make a difference, I do two things: I look at a letter I got from a young student in Bangalore who said I changed her mind about bats, and I look at the stars and remember how tiny this planet is, that there may be life elsewhere, and that in 5 billion years we'll be torched by our exploding sun anyway so I should allow myself to have a beer and chill out every now and then!
Anyway thanks for this post, it came at a really good time for me. Sometimes it's just enough to know you're not alone.
Good article Corey, I wonder if there is a follow up article along the lines of our pub discussion at Alice Springs. What drives ecologists to continue in this field without becoming cynical and "hateful"?
You have addressed similar issues in posts prior, but I wonder if this is the case more broadly among many ecologists. After all, one does not want to reach the grave feeling their contribution was for naught.
Sadly you are not alone in feeling like this and there have been some studies on this phenomenon.
To make matters worse: 'Perceptions that their in-group status as environmentalists separates them from larger society or the communities where they work can also engender feelings of isolation or the sense that their work is unwanted.' Fraser et al. (2013). "Sustaining the conservationist." Ecopsychology no. 5 (2):70-79.
On balance though, my online surveys found that the Australian public is very concerned about loss of species, so I don't think we should feel alone in all this. We just need to get better at letting people know how they can get involved and breaking down social norms and structural barriers that deter conservationists and the public from collaborating more on creative solutions.
Another fabulous post. I read your blog regularly and recommend to all my students and colleagues. We just ended class today and had this very conversation. I've thought for awhile now about your same question/suggestion regarding the study of this outcome. It is time for an actual study – count me in to help.
Thanks Corey. My experience, of course, has been similar for much of my career. Yet, more recently, my psyche is shifting towards lighter places.
For long, I just enjoyed the dregs of our planet while getting a rush out of playing war zone doctor (in the battle fields of conservation)—believing that the possibility of a decent future was nothing short of delusional. But, once our daughter was born, it became obvious that I had to ditch the comfort of the "we are all fucked" script—which so easily frees us from real emotional investment and, therefore, responsibility—to something like "doom-and-gloom prophecies ain't good enough for my daughter." At the same time, it became so obvious we already have enough great science to dig our way out of the deep hole…should we muster the political will and societal support towards such a move.
This awareness propelled me into the scientific, emotional, and philosophical journey of writing a book (http://blur.by/ZF3xrl) that taught me, among many other lessons, the following.
1)	Do not disregard history. To mention a single example, if the economic engines of institutionalized slavery could be abolished, a shift in the large-scale economics of how we run our world today is entirely possible.
3)	The world has changed irrevocably and loss will continue. That is obvious. Yet the difference between the "we are fucked" script vs. a message in which "things are really messy and challenging, yet there is still a lot that we can work with, and must work with" is huge.
I recently gave a guest lecture to an engaged group of undergraduates, most in their early 20s. Because I chose to give them the latter message, most students stayed afterwards and chatted about the myriad ways in which we might navigate our way through the Anthropocene into a world of genuine optimism. To me, if a bunch of young and emergent conservation biologists can feel that possibility in their bones (as they did), then all of this is real and not some Panglossian delusion I concocted while wearing pink-coloured glasses.
Sure. The loss is real and horrible. Yet when I walk through the forest with my 10-year-old daughter, my awareness of that loss transforms into something beautiful—a commitment to engage our human potential into becoming a wise species that practices coexistence.
Thank you for this post on the psychological toll working in conservation takes on those scientists and practitioners. I've been observing this for years, as I'm sure you and others have, and have been thinking of a project to more fully examine the effects.
P.S. You showed a lot of compassion for me this past summer. Is that emotion number three?
Thanks for the great blog you have. I read conservation bytes often!
Nice. Sure gets to me occasionally, but good Pinot Noir always brings relief.


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In 2011 Mike successfully guided Nordic Oil to better energy investment opportunities, namely with Lucas Energy, in the Eagleford Shale in Southern Texas. He directed the purchase and sale of Nordic Oil USA I, LLP oil and gas assets in Gonzales, Karnes and Wilson Counties, Texas. The Nordic LLP was purchased for $9.7 million and sold for $22 million.
In 2011 he was made president of Broadleaf Capital Partners in an effort to revamp the company and make it profitable.
Princeton Research brings to the attention of prospective investors new and dynamic opportunities. Other ventures include Smiling Wheels Holdings Corporation, a Philippine Corp registered with their SEC for the development of transportation industries, namely large trucks that can navigate rural areas and a taxi service utilizing innovative energy technologies in Manila. He has followed the working of Dr Mohammed Yunis for the development of capitalism in poverty areas. Smiling Wheels also has sponsored the development and harvesting of Mangoes in the most difficult climate environments.
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He built and owned the Beaux Jardine Apartment complex in Springfield, Missouri in 1965. Then, while engineering a plant for Chromalloy in Athens, Georgia, he met the individuals who became central in his founding Tuskeegee Mills in Tuskeegee, Alabama in 1966, the first business entity that hired female black women for gainful employment in factory wage-earning jobs. They were so immediately successful that Dr Martin Luther King reproduced them in other locations.
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India: harassment of writer must cease
Posted on Monday August 7th, 2017 by Writers in Prison
4 August 2017 – Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar must be free to practice his craft of writing without fear of intimidation and harassment, PEN International said today.
Shekhar's critically acclaimed literary and journalistic writing focuses on the Santhal community, which lives primarily in eastern India and parts of Bangladesh. His books include The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (Aleph 2014) and The Adivasi Will Not Dance (Speaking Tiger 2015).
Since 2015, some aggrieved readers have been running a campaign of harassment against him in social media, calling him a 'pornographic' writer. Some have threatened violence. On 4 August, they have threatened to burn his effigy and copies of his two books in Pakur, Jharkhand, where Shekhar works as a government physician.
Shekhar's detractors, who claim that his works are pornographic and misrepresent Santhal society, have set up a dedicated parody Facebook page to express their views, where they have published photographs of Hansda with other prominent writers. Shekhar reports that the local police have offered him protection in the wake of the calls to burn his effigy. PEN welcomes this news and calls on the authorities to investigate those responsible.
"The outrageous intimidation of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar must stop and the authorities must continue to offer him protection from any threats of physical violence as well as investigate those who are making such threats. Shekhar is a novelist; he writes fiction, and as a writer he has the freedom to imagine. He writes for himself and offers his view of the world. Those who disagree with his writing have the option of not reading his books, of criticising his writing without threatening violence, and writing their own books. Shekhar should continue to enjoy the freedom to write without fear," said Salil Tripathi Chair of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
"The intimidation of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is part of what seems to be becoming a pattern in India, where the threat comes from organised groups, who attack perspectives they disagree with. Women, minorities, and other voices, forced to remain on the margins, are often the targets. The state must uphold their right of free expression," PEN Delhi added.
A medical doctor by profession, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's debut novel, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (Aleph, 2014), won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2015 and jointly won the Muse India Young Writer Award 2015, while his collection of short stories The Adivasi Will Not Dance (Speaking Tiger, 2015) was shortlisted for The Hindu Prize in 2016. His stories and articles have been published widely in Scroll.in, The Statesman, The Asian Age, LiveMint, The Wire, and Alchemy: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories II (Tranquebar Press, 2012), among others. Shekhar's works, written in English, have been translated into Hindi, Marathi and Tamil.
Online harassment of writers is not uncommon the world over, however, the phenomenon in India is particularly aggressive. According to PEN's research, online trolls are succeeding in silencing their intended victims in the country as the authorities fail to grapple with the issue. In its recent statement in support of Shekhar, the Indian Writers' Forum raised concerns for the rising number of attacks on writers on social media.


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Donald Trump's volatility leaves global trading powers floundering
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After a G7 meeting at which his behaviour was eccentric even by his own high standards, Donald Trump has added new and complex layers to the question of how on earth the other big trading powers should deal with him. This is one of the few areas in which experience does not necessarily bring wisdom. The US president's actions are now so volatile that each extra piece of data, if anything, makes it harder rather than easier to discern his decision criteria and create a game plan accordingly.
Anyone who thought he was playing a cunning game about boosting votes in the heartlands, for example, has to explain why he is doubling down on tariffs against China despite increasing cries of pain from American farmers hit by retaliation.
So, with a nascent US-Japan trade deal emerging, deadlines ahead for the EU and tensions escalating with China, how do those involved plan on dealing with Mr Trump?
Japan's proposed agreement — cutting farm tariffs for US exporters to the same level as under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, in return for a bit more market access for industrial goods — is out of the same playbook as the EU's manoeuvre last summer. A year ago Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, started talks about a minimal deal on industrial tariffs to give Mr Trump just enough to hold off imposing car tariffs.
Unlike the EU deal, the outline Japan agreement has the benefit of being designed to avoid a US congressional vote, which would have been unlikely to succeed given the narrowness of the deal. But leaving aside domestic opposition in Japan, it has something unfortunate in common with the EU agreement: it will quite possibly violate World Trade Organization rules by failing to cover "substantially all the trade".
By agreeing to such narrowly focused talks in defiance of WTO principles, the EU was always likely to start a trend towards countries signing quick partial agreements with the US just to get Mr Trump off their back. It is disturbing that even Japan, champion of the multilateral system, seems to be succumbing. Mr Trump could always lose patience and impose car tariffs on the EU anyway. As Simon Evenett, professor of international trade and economic development at Switzerland's University of St Gallen, says in a good paper on the EU's response to Mr Trump, the appeasement strategy looks fragile and more of a tactic to buy time.
As for the EU itself, it is moderately optimistic that Mr Trump will be content with imposing tariffs related to the Airbus ruling rather than reaching for car tariffs as well, when the deadline for deciding the latter comes up in November. But that could be upended at any time.
Meanwhile, China has maintained the same course for a while, continuing to retaliate against the US with selective tariffs that are as tightly targeted as possible. China has also evidently become more adept at recognising when Mr Trump is talking with any degree of seriousness. His sudden outbreak of bonhomie directed at Chinese president Xi Jinping during the G7 aroused very little enthusiasm in Beijing.
One tactic that no big trading power has tried is simply to do nothing. Don't react to WTO-illegal US tariffs, don't start talks as long as those tariffs are in place, get on with liberalising trade outside the US relationship. Difficult politically, of course, but it could at least be a valuable exercise in divining Mr Trump's psychology.
Some pause for Boris Johnson as he eyes US trade deal
The theatre of UK politics continues to descend from light farce towards dark tragedy. On Wednesday the Queen agreed to the prime minister's request to suspend parliament — usually a routine event, but certainly not for five weeks or under such circumstances — to try to prevent MPs stopping the country sliding towards a hard-deal Brexit.
Part of Boris Johnson's strategy is to convince the public and MPs that a no-deal outcome wouldn't be as bad as all that. The latest wheeze was reviving the idea of a quick bilateral deal with the US as soon as the UK has left the EU, which set off a frenzy of investigation into Mr Johnson's protests against American food hygiene laws that prevent British-made pork pies from entering the US market.
It would be easy enough to make such an agreement as long as the UK basically gave in to US demands. A quick and dirty deal has been done before involving the US and an ally. Beginning in 2003 — when ideological soulmates (and comrades in the Iraq invasion party) Australian prime minister John Howard and US president George W Bush were in power — a bilateral deal between the two countries was negotiated and signed in little over a year.
Unfortunately, it won Australian companies, and particularly their globally competitive beef and sugar farmers, very little access to the US market. Still, it fulfilled a short-term PR function, and perhaps that's all Mr Johnson needs.
In reply
Dealing with Donald Trump on trade has become increasingly difficult, not easier, with time, complicating the calculations of all America's trading partners, writes Free Trade co-author James Politi.
Partly, this is because the cycles of escalation and reconciliation have become shorter, more intense and less predictable — a trend that has been on vivid display with China but is also noticeable with the EU and which stunned Mexico earlier in the summer.
A notable exception may be Japan, where we have now been in a protracted phase of conciliatory dealmaking that could result in an agreement next month.
The idea of ignoring the Mr Trump, rather than responding to him, will sound very appealing in many capitals, but the rub is that not playing his game may trigger even more of the US president's ire.
The number: $689bn
The value of estimated worldwide remittances by workers in 2019, surpassing foreign direct investment to developing countries, according to the World Bank.
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In 2000, trade between China and Africa was about $10bn, according to the China Africa Research Initiative (Cari) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. By 2015, it had peaked at more than $200bn.
● Outlook for US corporate profits dims as trade war bites (FT)
● African governments are trying to put together a continent-wide trading area (FT)
● The US has blacklisted more than 20 of Huawei's R&D sites worldwide (Nikkei Asian Review)
● The Federal Reserve should discourage Trump's trade war by refusing to loosen monetary policy to compensate, says a former New York Fed president (Washington Post)
● The Trade Talks podcast discusses Germany's controversial trade surplus
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For 3 of these diseases are scientific studies available where Argan oil has a positive impact on the prevention or healing if the diseases. We frequently post abstracts in our blogs. A new initiative with a more scholarly approach is created by the Argan Info Center through its platform for the Argan community: www.arganinfocenter.ma.
And Communicable -or infectious – diseases are caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another. Some are transmitted through bites from insects while others are caused by ingesting contaminated food or water.
Praia, Cabo Verde, 27 March 2019 – The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across its 47 Member States in Africa, now amounting to a loss of more than 2.4 trillion international dollars ($) from the region's gross domestic product value annually.
Noncommunicable diseases have overtaken infectious diseases as the largest drain on productivity, accounting for 37 percent of the disease burden. Other culprits for lost healthy years are communicable and parasitic diseases; maternal, neonatal and nutrition-related conditions; and injuries.
Around 47%, or $ 796 billion, of this lost productivity value, could be avoided in 2030 if the Sustainable Development Goals related to these health conditions are achieved, WHO found.
"Four years into the implementation of countries' efforts towards achieving UHC, current average expenditure on health in the Region falls short of this expectation," the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, writes in the foreword to A Heavy Burden: The Productivity Cost of Illness in Africa, which was launched during the second WHO Africa Health Forum this week in Cabo Verde.
As the report emphasizes, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including the target of universal health coverage, will require political will and a greater focus on government-led planning and financing for health. It will also necessitate greater outlays from public revenue, reforms to raise additional revenue and strategic purchasing mechanisms. And it will require that people usually left behind be put at the center of health financing reform.
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Émile Hennequin entre à la Police de Paris en 1912.

Pour avoir organisé la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver, il est condamné en juin 1947 à 8 ans de travaux forcés, mais bénéficie d'un décret de grâce le  ; il est mis en retraite d'office le même jour.

Il a reçu la Francisque.

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Bibliographie
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Membre de l'ordre de la Francisque
Naissance en décembre 1887
Naissance dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris
Collaborateur français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Shoah en France
Policier français
Décès en octobre 1977
Décès à Boulogne-Billancourt
Décès à 89 ans

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If you are an advertising copywriter, your cover letter should exude with skill. A cover letter is an essential document when applying for a position. It is a formal document and follows the format of a formal letter. You must show the reader that you have read the job announcement carefully and that you are really interested in that particular job. A well-written cover letter will increase your likelihood of receiving an interview with a business. One of the most frequent mistakes people make when writing their own cover letter is to focus on what they are looking for at work.
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using System;

class OddAndEvenProduct
{
    static void Main()
    {
        long n = long.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
        string enterNumbers = Console.ReadLine();
        long evenProduct = 1;
        long oddProduct = 1;

        string[] numbersSplit = enterNumbers.Split(new char[] {' '}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

        for (long i = 0; i < numbersSplit.Length; i++)
        {
            long stringTolong = long.Parse(numbersSplit[i]);

            if (i % 2 == 0)
            {
                evenProduct *= stringTolong;
            }

            else
            {
                oddProduct *= stringTolong;
            }
        }

        if (evenProduct == oddProduct)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("yes {0}", evenProduct);
        }

        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("no {0} {1}", evenProduct, oddProduct);
        }

    }
}


The Lord Mayor's Show takes place in the City of London today. The weather may not be great, but the organisers are keen to stress that it has only ever been cancelled once, for Wellington's funeral.
Your author seems to remember that the weather was pretty awful at the start of last years parade, and then the rain stopped and it was jolly nice, so you shouldn't let a bit of rain put you off. The show takes place under the watchful eye of the Lord Mayor of the City of London and is one of the longest established and annual events in London which dates back to 1535 (or 1215, depending on who you listen to). One interesting aspect of the show is that it is the origin of the word "floats", which is often used in the context of carnivals. The Lord Mayor used to arrive by boat, apparently, and was followed by a procession of "floats".
The parade includes all sorts of military, business and community organisations, and the Great Twelve Livery Companies (the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Merchant Taylors, Skinners, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners and Clothworkers) also take part, as does the Lord Mayor himself, in his special coach. If you're still enjoying it when dusk falls, don't forget the annual firework display, which begins at 5pm.
But don't hang about. It starts at 11am.


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In tune with the ambitious anti-corruption campaign launched by Azeri president Ilham Aliyev last spring, more and more initiatives for transparency in the oil sector have appeared. Despite a lack of big scandals, some journalists have reported concrete corruption cases in which bribes did not come in the form of cash, but in bids and contracts
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Most reports on the oil sector in Azerbaijan highlight the industry's extreme lack of transparency, but those reports usually fail to present solid evidence. It is hard to find concrete references to the cases or characters involved, or even an explanation of how corruption works. Osservatorio has reported on the effects of oil corruption in Azerbaijan, namely the huge waste of wealth. The dominant view in Azerbaijan is that corruption happens when petrodollars are spent in non-oil sectors, but that is not exactly the whole story. Digging deeper, it becomes clear that many rumours are more than mere allegations. The oil sector is certainly not the most corrupt in Azerbaijan, but that does not mean it is immune from the plague.
Concrete cases
Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, formerly responsible for RFE/RL Azerbaijan, explains the scandalous case of Socar Trading, a subsidiary of the state oil company has used for direct selling of a portion of the national oil since 2008. Socar Trading's structure and activities are ambiguous to say the least.
"It is registered in Switzerland and is shared, half by the Azeri state company and half by private investors who sprung out from nowhere, " Ismayilova, who is currently investigating this story, tell us. "Nobody knows where the capitals came from and how private investors got the shares in the first place, since there was no public bid."
Independent press agency Turan recently investigated Socar Trading and found that the company allegedly sold oil at much lower prices than AIOC (Azerbaijan International Operating Company) did. Azerbaijan's loss is apparent if considering that the difference ended up straight in the traders' pockets. Despite the recent progress made, the company still has serious transparency issues.
"A recent, independent report by RFE/RL," continues Ismayilova, "revealed that Socar and Tekfen, builder of futuristic Socar Tower, signed their contracts two years before the public bid took place."
There was no truly competitive public bid for the relatively small onshore fields in Binagadi (close to Baku) either. Quite the opposite. It is common knowledge that business in Binagadi is especially shady. Anar Aliyev, Socar Trading's shareholder, is also the hidden owner of several companies legally based in Arabic countries and involved in exploiting onshore oil fields similar to Binagadi.
"Determining the property and share composition of sub-contractors is very hard, both because they are offshore and because investigative journalism in Azerbaijan is constantly under attack," concludes Ismayilova. "But in a country where the first lady owns five companies based in Panama, nothing is a surprise."
The Binagadi case involves another controversial company, Global Energy, which is registered in the Virgin Islands. Global Energy is connected to Russian citizen and ethnic Chechen Mikhail Gutseriyev who, according to the director of the Centre for Oil Studies, Ilham Shaban, enjoys a "special relationship with Azerbaijan".
In 2001, another case of oil corruption denounced in a report from the Committee for Oil Workers' Rights involved Baku Factory of Deepwater Constructions (BFDC), formerly Šelfprojektstroj, which is controlled by Socar. The company allegedly rented BP construction land for developing infrastructures for the ACG (Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli) project, which was financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a World Bank (WB) branch, the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The profits generated were supposed to fund the company's relaunch (renovating equipment, expanding production, re-building the plant), but were instead used to pay for grossly overpriced maintenance by sub-contractors. Those sub-contractors were indirectly controlled by Socar managers, or by BFDC itself. According to the report, the case involved Socar's Rafiq Aliyev and Rovnak Abdullayev, hidden owners of Ildurum Flash Company and AG Grade respectively.
The incident underscores a broader corruption mechanism at work in the oil sector: sub-contracting. By means of complicated financial transactions, the state company hires sub-contractors that are often indirectly owned by Ministry of Oil or Socar officials. In most cases, sub-contractors are managed by engineers who left multinationals operating in Azerbaijan to start their own businesses. While many of them are the owners of legitimate sub-contracting companies, others are simply puppets. The system also benefits multinationals, since using sub-contractors for short- or medium-term projects spares them the cost of importing experts at much higher salaries.
Western companies
Public opinion holds Western companies in low regard for the double standards they apply to wages, and a few people accuse them of complicity in corruption.
Some observers, including Daniel Heradstveit , go as far as to draw a parallel between today's Azerbaijan and the Shah's Iran. They fear that extreme inequalities may cause extreme reactions. The culture of secrecy that permeates companies operating in Azerbaijan translates into their routine silence about serious events, such as workplace accidents or hydrocarbon leaks from platforms.
For instance, a Wikileaks cable reports that, 18 months before the BP tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, BP covered up a leak in one of its platforms on the Azeri offshore. Another serious problem is that local managers of multinationals are never employed longer than five years: they want to get quick results and don't bother too much with establishing more ethical practices. A more moderate view – and perhaps more reasonably inferred from the available documentation – sees companies as not directly engaging in corruption, but still supporting it with their crucial economic presence.
Ilham Shaban is optimistic about the transparency of the agreements between the Azeri government and oil multinationals. All these agreements have to be ratified by the Parliament – Azerbaijan is the only post-Soviet country where this is the case – and the mechanism guarantees a certain level of transparency and stability. Shaban regards the favourable conditions obtained by Azerbajian as proof of transparency.
"If they were corrupted," he explains to Osservatorio, "multinationals would have gotten away with cheaper conditions." Shaban points out that in Azerbaijan, it was agreed that flaring gas was to be given to the state for free. Companies agreed to rigidly-defined boundaries and allowed depth-of-field exploitation as well as the maximum limit of usable reserves. An R factor was established so that, in the case of rising oil prices, part of the profits would go to the state. Furthermore, Shaban says that he personally witnessed Exxon's transparency policy. He says cash never circulated in its Azeri office, and that even though the company refrained from giving the president the usual birthday gifts, it still obtained multi-million Dollar contracts. As regards bonuses to Azeri authorities for signing the "contract of the century" in 1994, Shaban puts it at 300 million dollars. However, all the money went first through special Ministry of Finance accounts, and only then into Sofaz.
Unlike Shaban, Ismayilova is convinced that there is no evidence of international companies' irregularities for the simple fact that they are smart with PR and, at the time of the "contract of the century", there was no International Initiative for Transparency in the Extraction Industry (EITI).
One thing is clear: international companies have been implicated in an embezzlement scandal surrounding social initiatives sponsored by AIOC. According to the PSA agreement, humanitarian aid is an integral part of the consortium's budget. Indeed, foreign companies' PR campaigns boast about their social commitments. "Between the Nineties and the 2000s, however," says Ismayilova, "most of the social budget ended up with Hayat, an NGO run by a relative of an MP who managed the Committee for Social Policies."
On the one hand, these cases show that the Azeri oil sector is not immune from corruption at all. On the other hand, it remains less compromised than other sectors (e.g. infrastructure development, education, healthcare, and the police). Some progress, spurred by the anti-corruption campaign launched in March, is being made thanks to the vigilance of civil society, and especially thanks to Azerbaijan's adhesion to international frameworks like EITI.
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Crown Realty & Development completed two long-term office leases encompassing 128,000 square feet at its Wateridge office campus in Los Angeles.
The total value of the transactions was not disclosed.
With the two new leases, including a 100,000-square-foot commitment from children's services provider Crystal Stairs, Wateridge is now 95 percent occupied as of the time of sale. Crown Realty will now move forward on the development of a four-story, 95,000-square-foot Class A office building, the third and final phase of new construction at the site.
Country Villa Health Services signed a lease agreement for 28,000 square feet of space.
Jeff Pion and Deron White of CB Richard Ellis are the exclusive leasing agents for Wateridge and represented Crown Realty in the above transactions. Additionally, Crown was represented by Ari Brumer, Esq., Attorney at Law, practicing with the Los Angeles office of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro.
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This year we are really excited to welcome Felicity Aston and Martin Post as our keynote speakers. British polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE is an author, speaker, expedition leader and former Antarctic scientist. In 2012 she became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica. It was a journey of 1744km that took 59 days to complete and which gave her a place in the book of Guinness World Records.
Martin Post, is the Regional Schools Commissioner for North-West London and South-Central England and is responsible for make decisions about the academies and free schools across 27 local authorities.


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On Jordan Peterson and Filling the Void
By The Epoch Times
Jordan Peterson occupies a unique place in the cultural sphere. Grounded in the small Alberta town of his upbringing, the University of Toronto professor of clinical psychology has been elevated to the status of Canada's foremost public intellectual.
An almost mythic figure to some, Peterson is a pariah to others. For those who worship at the altar of woke ideology, he represents an existential threat. In one example, after Random House announced it would publish Peterson's latest book "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life," it had to contend with the outrage of multiple staff members.
This is nothing new to Peterson. Since he arrived on the scene through a series of YouTube videos exposing the problems with Bill C-16, the Liberal government's gender identity rights legislation, he has been a lightning rod for criticism.
But Peterson has proven himself a force to be reckoned with, selling out lecture halls across the world and calmly dismantling the arguments of conceited journalists along the way. He has engaged in robust debate with the likes of American liberal podcast host Sam Harris and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, while sounding the alarm about the influence of Marxist thought on campuses and in corporations.
Last year, his meteoric rise was derailed by a devastating descent into prescription drug addiction, illness, and depression. Just as quickly as he rose to prominence he disappeared from the public eye, leaving a noticeable void in the conservative sphere. And now he is back, or at least on the upswing, having published his new book this month and once again engaging publicly through interviews and podcasts.
Peterson's ideas are at once straightforward and complex. Underscoring deep philosophical and psychological thoughts are practical, actionable ideas like his exhortation to "clean up your room," a saying that earned him meme status. It's a simple proposal that is hard to actualize, as anyone who has seriously attempted to set their lives in order can attest. Peterson prescribes nobility and humility in this elementary endeavour, contrasting it with those who agitate to change the fundamental institutions of Western society while unable to sort out their own lives.
"Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life" contains chapters of similar practical wisdom, with titles such as "Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that," "Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated," and "Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible."
Far from being trite, these principles require a high degree of self-awareness. They take grit, persistence, and sacrifice scarcely exercised in our modern age of creature comfort. But adopting them out of choice and not necessity can set one apart from those looking to shirk personal and social responsibility.
Instead of promoting unconditional optimism, Peterson recommends embracing the full brunt of reality, even as it swings toward your head. In typical self-help books, one would be hard-pressed to find a similar suggestion to this one from his 2018 book "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos":
"It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity."
Implied in that ambition is the prerequisite that you must have your life sufficiently together to be a pillar of strength to buttress the hardships that will inevitably come along.
Affirming Masculinity
Peterson's audience is largely male, judging by attendance at his lectures and the demographic of his YouTube audience. This has been a point of criticism for some, who equate it as evidence that he is somehow fortifying patriarchy. But this is the wrong lens in which to view the Peterson phenomenon.
Anyone who has taken the time to actually read his work or listen to his lectures would have difficulty finding anything explicitly misogynistic.
The crux of his message could be summed up in the sentiment that meaning is more fulfilling and less fleeting than happiness, and adopting maximum responsibility is the greatest means to actualizing one's spiritual and psychological potential.
The reason this seemingly obvious message has resonated so profoundly is because it is sorely needed in the modern age, but rarely articulated. It flies in the face of our current obsession with identity politics and moral relativism, which are at odds with the virtues of self-reliance and moral responsibility.
The current value-neutral and "follow your bliss" approach to life is not leading to fulfillment for young men who have been educated to believe their essential masculine traits are inherently toxic. By promoting masculinity as a virtue instead of a vice, Peterson has found an audience hungry for encouragement and reassurance so that they can ennoble themselves through refining those same characteristics into a force for good in the world.
Ryan Moffatt is a journalist based in Vancouver.
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Fake ETF Shares..
April 4, 2020 October 15, 2020 stocktrades.exchange	6 Comments
If somebody were to tell you that you do not technically own your shares in a public company, you probably wouldn't believe them, would you? That seems rather ridiculous, doesn't it? Many people have their life-savings invested in the stock market, and how could somebody else own something that you paid for with your own money?
Unfortunately it's true, and you are not the legal owner of your investments. The banks and brokers are the real owners, and you are just issued an entitlement, an unusual relationship that they characterize as "street name" ownership, and all shares are held in book-entry form (electronically) at the DTCC, with the banks and brokers acting as the registered holders on the company's books.
"Under Article 8, the beneficial owner of the shares held in a custodial account with an intermediary (such as a broker) is considered to be the holder of a "securities entitlement" in a "financial asset" which is ultimately held by a depository",
—Marcel Kahan, The Georgetown Law Journal
Now for the trip down the rabbit hole. What would you say if someone were to tell you that, through this ownership structure, these mega-banks and brokers can technically invent fictitious share entitlements that don't actually exist ?
You'd probably tell them they were full of sh*t, wouldn't you?
That's a conspiracy you'd say!
Fake news! Somebody call the fact-checkers!
Only publicly traded companies have the right to create and redeem shares, and brokers are just the middlemen that facilitate capital formation, so they can't create shares, right?
… it's already happened…
This screenshot is from an old SEC complaint that details the tricks that these brokers can use to invent shares out of thin air. Let's break this all down so it's easy to understand.
As it was stated before in the first article of this series, "Reminiscences of a Stock Algorithm", if a broker executes a sell order to another broker, but then fails to deliver on time, they are allotted 13 days to find the shares before their clearinghouse will forcefully close them out.
But as we all know, there is no industry better than Wall Street at finding legal loop-holes, and what this SEC complaint proves is that there exist ways around this supposed forced close-out rule.
It describes a scenario where the seller of the fake shares uses a sort of "partner" that will temporarily loan them new shares, thus resetting the 13 day forced buy-in period back to day #1. In theory, this can enable a person to maintain a short position using fictitious shares for as long as they want.
As you can see in the image below, the traders were issued buy-in notifications by their clearing firm via email, giving them time to find someone who is willing to loan out new shares long enough so the 13 day forced buy-in date is reset back to day #1.
Just for anybody who doesn't know, a clearinghouse is the middleman that sits between a trade, guaranteeing both the buyer and the seller receives their cash or securities. If a buyer or seller fails to deliver the cash or securities, they guarantee delivery to the counterparties by making up for the loss with their own money.
"Central clearing virtually eliminates counterparty risk by interposing a "clearinghouse"between the two counterparties to the loan. The clearinghouse becomes the borrower to every lender and the lender to every borrower. In the event one party fails to meet its obligations, the clearinghouse steps in and assumes the obligation. The clearinghouse maintains sufficient capital to stand behind every trade it clears. By doing so, the clearinghouse creates a more efficient market and mitigates systemic risk, allowing borrowers and lenders to trade without concern of counterparty default" (https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/Iowa-Public-Employees-039-Retirement-System-et-al-v-Bank-of-America-Corporation-et-al/COMPLAINT-against-Bank-of-America-Corporation-Credit-Suisse-AG-Credit-Suisse-First-Boston-Next-Fund-Inc-Credit-Suisse-Group-AG-Credit-Suisse-Securities-USA-LLC-EquiLend-Europe-Limited-EquiLend-Holdings-LLC-EquiLend-LLC-Goldman-Sachs-Co-LLC-Goldman-Sa/nysd-1:2017-cv-06221-00001)
For the sake of brevity, we're going to refrain from getting into reverse conversions as it will most likely just leave you confused. But to put it into layman's terms, in this particular context, it is basically just being morphed into an agreement to call the stock back from one another other at a specific time:
"I get to put it to you tomorrow, you get to call it from me tomorrow".
Again, it's just a day loan (in this particular context), and it's easy to understand once you get past all that complicated phraseology.
This is where it gets interesting.
Remember that "partner " we talked about?
They were also using fake shares!
Yes, they were just inventing fake shares and cycling them back and forth between each other — like a hot potato!
One person was loaning the other person fake shares until the forced buy-in date was reset back to day #1, then the other person who received the day loan was simply repeating the favor down the road!
It's important to understand that stock trades are just broker to broker transactions, and all these IOU's are simply credits from one broker to another, with the DTCC acting as their ledger. Just these six corporations pictured below account for 70% of the prime brokerage industry, and as we noted before, they are the true record holders listed on the company's books.
Technology has also made rapid advances since the days of those SEC complaints, so we can only assume that it is a lot easier to complete these transactions today.
Back then, this problem was also more concentrated into individual stocks – usually mid/microcaps — but today these IOU's have now gravitated into the ETF market, where dealers — known officially as "Authorized Participants" — will buy stocks in the open market, then exchange these stocks for ETF shares.
For example, let's say there is an ETF that is supposed to represent the technology sector; the dealers will buy — for instance, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft — then exchange these stocks for the ETF shares.
ETF's now represent 78% of all equity related failure to delivers, and anybody who has followed the market long enough probably knows very well that many of histories worst financial scandals have involved structured financial products that represented a basket of goods; mortgage backed securities being the first that should come to mind.
Pictured below is one of the most glaring examples of this problem. This went on for 4 years prior to the publication of this report.
It's pretty safe to say that this table speaks for itself…
https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-11-15/s71115-19.pdf
1Response to SEC Questions Regarding Exchange Traded ProductsFile Number S7-11-15
Understand that there is nothing normal about that picture you are seeing. A fictitious loan is probably one of the worst forms of fraud one can imagine. It would be like loaning someone fake gold, charging them interest, then threatening to seize their assets if they didn't pay you back!
Remember, ETF shares are simply claims to ownership of an underlying asset, so just imagine what would happen if the market were to suddenly collapse while there is potentially as much as 400% more share entitlements circulating at any particular moment in time.. A run on these ETF's could result in the ETF operator — in this case State Street — becoming liable for all these extra ETF shares, or worse, it could cause the institution going bankrupt.
Sounds kinda like a ponzi scheme, doesn't it?
You might have also noticed that the NSCC (a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) reported fail to deliver tally doesn't seem to be identifying all these fake shares for some unusual reason. This could indicate that the shares are being laundered through the "ex-clearing" system. "Ex-clearing" is just industry lingo for trades cleared by the brokers outside of the DTCC (they own the DTCC too).
Now take a look at the largest institutional holders.
Oh look! It's them: the owners of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation..
Another example of this strange dichotomy can be seen in the price of $GLD between March and December of 2013. During this time period, the value of its assets decreased by 52%, while the price of the ETF (Ticker $GLD) only fell by 24%, meaning if you were an investor in the $GLD and you tried redeeming your shares, you technically could've lost an extra 27%!
51% of the shares outstanding were short during this time period.
Just for anybody who doesn't know, the GLD's only asset is gold.
You can see that the price of $GLD falls almost at the exact same rate as the price of Gold, yet oddly, the amount of gold held in the fund decreases by 40%, from 39.6 million troy ounces, to 21.8 million troy ounces.
Yet as the price goes up, you barely see any new shares being created..
So they'll redeem the ETF certificates when the price is dropping, but they won't create them on the way up?
If there was ever a more blatant example of counterfeiting in our capital markets, it would be this. Even the author of this report acknowledges that it's probably due to all the fake shares in circulation.
The ETF market has a combined market cap of $6.18 trillion, so again, you can only imagine the chaos that would erupt in the event of a financial crisis when everybody tries redeeming their shares all at once..
Remember, an ETF is essentially just a mutual fund.
"ETFs offer investors an undivided interest in a pool of securities and other assets."
"Apart from the fact that ETFs trade intraday, most ETFs are similar to mutual funds in that they both translate investor purchases and sales in the fund into purchases and sales of underlying holdings."
–Eileen Rominger, director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management
And if you didn't think it could get any worse, they can actually use these ETF shares as collateral for loans; collateral that can be rehypothecated to multiple lenders!
(Financial Times) "However, in the past two years (at the end of 2017 and 2018), the amount of pledged collateral received by the major banks that could be repledged onwards was $8.1tn, up 33 per cent from 2016's end…. there has been an increase in pledged collateral to almost all global banks (adjusting for conversion to US $). The source of primary collateral was $3.7tn of underlying securities, implying a velocity of about 2.2*".
—Manmohan Singh, Senior Economist with the International Monetary Fund
5 banks ….2 owners…
As you can see, this is just par for the course on Wall Street.
—->IHS Mark-It
"Why it pays to lend ETFs "
"US listed ETFs are the most widely traded in the securities lending market due to that market's relative maturity.Securities lending utilisation rates for these ETFs have been three times higher than those of conventional US equities in the first three months of the year. Notably, investors were also willing to pay a premium to borrow US ETFs, which have a cost of 55 bps to borrow on average, a quarter more than the 46 bps earned by conventional US equities"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200224214201/https://cdn.ihs.com/www/pdf/Why-it-pays-to-lend-ETFs-brochure.pdfhttps://archive.is/9JpqG
"Bank of England in 1694, to use the moneys he had won in privateering, said, "The Bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing." This was repeated by Sir Edward Holden, founder of the Midland Bank, on December 18, 1907″
–Dr. Carroll Quigley, 1966
It almost seems like the combination of these banks and brokers that came with the elimination of the Glass Steagall Act has resulted in some kind of cultural run-off between the two divisions, where the idea of fractional reserve banking has somehow made its way into the board rooms of these brokerages houses, and they've managed to find a way to convince themselves that extending the existing supply of a corporations outstanding capital stock somehow benefits society.
There is obviously no pressing need to issue more share entitlements than actually exist in the secondary markets because technically you are not facilitating any kind of tangible business activity.
Short to medium term price fluctuations have very little impact on the actual business operations because by that point the company has already raised the capital, and thus everything that happens after the IPO or secondary offering is simply people passing around their certificates.
Sometimes it might help to issue extra shares when the price has diverged excessively from its intrinsic value, or to facilitate bidding and selling, but it's nowhere near as important as it is in banking, where you can exponentially increase the amount of productively you can get out of every dollar that is in circulation at any particular moment in time.
Through broker to broker transactions, and combined with their complete control over the only centralized clearing mechanism in the country, the current settlement system as it exists today also creates terrifying conflicts of interest. There is nothing normal about Exchange Traded Funds reporting 8 institutional owners per outstanding share in circulation over a period of 4 years, or assets under management that fall in value by almost twice the rate of gold — that is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme.
There is also a risk that all these fake share entitlements could be loaned out — which again, is probably one of the most egregious forms of financial frauds you could possibly imagine.
Sadly, there is already two glaring examples that suggest this has been happening for a very long time — and on a massive scale.
Part 3 coming soon…
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External Menace / Droogettes split 7" review
External Menace / The Droogettes
Split 7"
External Menace started in Scotland in 1979. These two tracks are classic punk. Think 999, UK Subs and Rezillos. Rocking with professional ease and energy to please. Thankful they have decided to grace us with some more vintage punk rock.
The Droogettes are a Philadelphia punk band that most definitely set out with a specific mission statement in 2013. Simplistic and minimalist oi (think early Blitz and Infa Riot), performed by all females, dressed in the Clockwork-droog uniform, complete with sugary pop sweetness and tongue in cheek ultra-violence. I say tongue in cheek as their song "Girls at the Milk Bar" has obvious Clockwork Orange roots, which should have readied these young ladies as it did in the movie: "The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence." But I have yet to witness the Droogettes waltzing--left two three, right two three--and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight. Down this blood poured in like red curtains. Yeah I hope they haven't done that.
I always enjoy the Droogettes live and love the roots approach on these two tracks.
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? You can witness the Droogettes twice in the next week. July 10 at the Legendary Dobbs in Philadelphia and Saturday along with FOD at Siren Records in Doylestown.
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King Parrot "Dead Set" Review
KING PARROT
"Dead Set"
Housecore
If there was a grindcore version of Turbonegro, I would expect it to sound and appear like Australia's King Parrot.
Out of their minds, over the top, precise without the appearance of much effort. This isn't work for these guys. Pure simple grindcore fun that comes second nature.
The guttural death metal vocals accentuate the Sam Kinison-like vocals. I love the grooves this band creates as much as I love their all out attack. The grooves reminded me how much I love the grooves of fellow Australians Blood Duster.
Check out this video for "Like a Rat" which features producer Philip H. Anselmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6welxMRKZ9Y
"Dead Set" reached number 21 on the Australian national album chart in it's debut, the highest debut for an Australian extreme metal album to date.
I loved their last album too. Read the write up here: http://frankfoe.blogspot.com/2014/03/king-parrot-bite-your-head-off.html
"Dead Set" is a high volume, aggression with a smile, death/grind/groove metal fest of debauchery.
King Parrot will be in Lancaster PA on Saturday July 18, 2015 with Superjoint Ritual and Child Bite.
See you in the pit!
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Cymbals Eat Guitars Lose Review
"Lose"
In case you missed it, Cymbals Eat Guitars released a great alternative pop record about a year ago. You can go see them live this week.
They play Monday July 6th in Lancaster at the Chameleon, Thursday July 9th at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville NJ and Sunday July 12 in Philly at the Electric Factory.
My ears hear the driving bass and emotional feel of the best of Archers of Loaf, the dream-pop meets angst of a band that knows that alternative music exists across the Atlantic and beyond the current decade and rounded out with the pop feel of Weston meets the Strokes.
Check out the video for "Warning". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nFHXNN_dzk
By the way, that isn't the band in the video. The band Crosshair is in the video.
"LOSE" is an exceptionally solid pop record. Repeated listens brings out an understanding of the multiple layers that producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) captured masterfully from vocalist and guitarist Joe D'Agostino, bassist Matthew Whipple, keyboardist Brian Hamilton, and drummer Andrew Dole.
Check out the vintage Flaming Lips-like "Laramie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOLtkgkHMI
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Christopher Leroy Ramsey  (born 28 April 1962) is a former professional footballer who is currently technical director at Queens Park Rangers. He played as a defender, most often as a right back, for Bristol City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Swindon Town, Southend United, Naxxar Lions and Cocoa Expos. Ramsey coached for Tottenham Hotspur working with their academy and was appointed as first team coach where he assisted Tim Sherwood and Les Ferdinand. He was placed in temporary charge of Queens Park Rangers, in February 2015 following the resignation of manager, Harry Redknapp. After being temporary coach of Queens Park Rangers and following their relegation to the Championship, Ramsey was named head coach on a permanent basis in May 2015. He is nicknamed "Rambo".

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to football and diversity in sport.

Playing career
He began his career as an apprentice at Bristol City before moving on to Brighton and Hove Albion. He played for Brighton in the 1983 FA Cup Final. The opponents were Manchester United. With Brighton leading, Ramsey was injured by a bad tackle from Norman Whiteside and was still hobbling as Frank Stapleton got ahead of him to equalise for United. Moments later Ramsey received further treatment for his injury and was promptly substituted. After a drawn final at Wembley, Ramsey missed the replay due to the injury and Brighton lost 4–0.

Ramsey went on loan to Swindon Town from Brighton on 30 August 1984, who were then under the management of Lou Macari. He signed on a permanent contract on 13 December 1984 and stayed at Swindon for three years until joining Southend United on 14 August 1987.
Whilst at Swindon he won a Fourth Division championship medal in the 85–86 Swindon team, playing 43 of the 46 league games. He also played 25 games the following season when Swindon won back-to-back promotions by beating Gillingham in the Third Division play-off final replay at Selhurst Park on 29 May 1987.

Coaching career
Ramsey was also a player-coach for the Naxxar Lions in the Maltese Premier League, and in the United States was a player, assistant coach and coach for the USL PDL team Cocoa Expos.

In 1998 Ramsey began working for the Football Association (FA), holding the position of Regional Director of Coaching. While working for the FA he served as the head coach of the England national under-20 football team. During his tenure as the U-20 coach, Ramsey guided the team to the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria. He was also the assistant coach of the England national under-16 football team at the 2000 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship in Israel. In addition to his coaching responsibilities while at the FA, Ramsey was a scout for the England national football team under Kevin Keegan. After leaving the FA Ramsey was the assistant coach at Luton Town until November 2000. Ramsey holds a UEFA coaching licence and a FA Coach Education Diploma.

From 2001 to 2004 he managed American club Charleston Battery, during which time the club won the 2003 USL A-League championship. After leaving Charleston in 2004, Ramsey worked as Head of Player Development with the Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Reserves and Academy. In 2008, he was listed amongst the 30 most influential black people in football by The Voice, a newspaper for the black community.

Ramsey left Tottenham Hotspur on 19 June 2014, following ten years of service to the club.

In August 2014, he was appointed as assistant manager of the England U17 national team.

Queens Park Rangers
On 1 November 2014, he was appointed Head of Player Development and Academy Manager at Queens Park Rangers. Following the resignation of manager Harry Redknapp on 3 February 2015, Ramsey was placed in temporary charge, first with Les Ferdinand and Kevin Bond, then solely with Bond. Ramsey's first competitive match as QPR head coach was on 7 February, losing to a 92nd minute, added-time winner, a 1–0 defeat to Southampton at Loftus Road. His first Premier League win came three days later, on 10 February, a 0–2 victory against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, in QPR's first away victory and first away points of the season. On 12 February, Ramsey was given the job until the end of the 2014–15 season. On 10 May, QPR were relegated to the Championship, after a 6–0 away defeat to Manchester City. He was appointed head coach on a permanent basis on 19 May, signing a three-year contract. On 4 November, he was sacked as QPR head coach, with the club in thirteenth place in the league. On 5 January 2016, Ramsey returned to QPR to become technical director.

Career statistics

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Honours

Player
Brighton
FA Cup Runner-up (1): 1983 FA Cup Final

Swindon Town
Fourth Division Champions (1): 1985–86
Third Division Play-offs Winners (1): 1986–87

References

External links
Chris Ramsey player profile at http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/

1962 births
Living people
Bristol City F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Black British sportsmen
English Football League players
English expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Malta
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
English football managers
United Soccer League (1984–85) players
Luton Town F.C. non-playing staff
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff
Association football defenders
Cocoa Expos players
Naxxar Lions F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. managers
Queens Park Rangers F.C. non-playing staff
English footballers
Premier League managers
Charleston Battery coaches
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Members of the Order of the British Empire
FA Cup Final players