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Decentralized Exchanges as the Future of Cryptocurrency Trading (PART I)
By Justin Chan June 14, 2018
Among cryptocurrency's most prized attributes is the high level of security facilitated by the blockchain when conducting transactions. Through the use of cryptography, a decentralized network can ensure that the ledger upon which all transactions are recorded is effectively tamperproof.
And yet we're constantly hearing stories of hackers making off with millions of dollars' worth of crypto at a time. How is this possible, given blockchain's fortress-like qualities? Well to date, the responsibility for this failure has mostly lay with crypto exchanges.
Indeed, it already seems anachronistic that despite all the talk of security when it comes to crypto and blockchain, exchanges continue to represent a distinct weak link in this space. Well, centralized exchanges do, that is…
Bittrex, Binance, Poloniex and hundreds more exchanges play a crucial role in the crypto world. Between them, they provide venues to purchase virtually every token on the market. They also generate much-needed market liquidity by matching buyers and sellers, they offer stable trading platforms for crypto investors to make money, and they are relatively easy to use.
But it's also no secret that centralized exchanges are also prime targets for cyberhackers – from the $473 million hack of Mt. Gox which led to its eventual bankruptcy, to the $72 million Bitcoin theft from Bitfinex in August 2016, and most recently to the biggest heist of all – January's $530 million hack of Japanese exchange Coincheck. Many of the biggest thefts of all time have taken place on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges.
The Problems with Centralized Exchanges
The moment you put your crypto on a centralized exchange, you no longer control it. Even if it is stored in your exchange wallet, the exchange itself remains in control of your holdings, as well as your wallet's private keys, until you withdraw and send the coins elsewhere (to a personal wallet, for example).
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That's clearly disconcerting to say the least. And to compound matters, the exchange holds all customer funds in just a few addresses. Known as 'honey pots', these addresses become prime targets for hackers.
As a Reuters investigation last year found, many cryptocurrency exchanges are "plagued with poor security and lack investor protections common in more regulated financial markets". Although the SEC recently asserted that exchanges should seek appropriate registration with regulators on the back of such security concerns, it doesn't seem as though the rate of successful hacks will decelerate any time soon.
And speaking of regulation, given that centralized exchanges are centrally domiciled businesses, this subjects them to the rules of the country in which they are based. So, if the exchange has been operating in China, for instance, the chances are that its very existence as been severely threatened by the country's crackdown on cryptocurrencies and ICOs that began in earnest last September.
Furthermore, the trading fees that are taken by centralized exchanges can be hefty and are not necessarily transparent in how they are calculated. Such fees are indicative of the costs centralized exchanges have to bear, such as the costs of maintaining the infrastructure required to securely manage user funds.
With such concerns in mind, the need for an alternative system of exchange has become a priority for crypto users, authorities, and in many cases, the exchanges themselves.
Decentralized Exchanges as a Viable Option
A decentralized exchange (DEX) primarily differs from a centralized exchange by not having a centralized third party to take custody of user funds or to settle trades and disputes. Instead, DEXs enable peer-to-peer transactions on a blockchain, which in turn means that users can retain control of their crypto and private keys at all times.
DEXs are governed openly by their users, as opposed to one single authority, which allows them to operate in a trustless and significantly more secure environment than their centralized siblings. With funds not being kept in one centralized place, the likelihood of large-scale hacks is therefore greatly reduced.
To date, most DEXs have been built on the Ethereum blockchain, and are therefore able to support the exchange of ETH and ERC-20 tokens. Using smart contracts, transactions between network peers are executed using the private keys of the participants.
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Thus far, the process to trade on existing DEXs has been fairly similar across the board:
Create your own wallet and accompanying private keys
Use a bridge such as Metamask, MyEtherWallet, or a hardware wallet to enable safe transfer of tokens between the DEX and your wallet.
Link your wallet address to the exchange via the bridge facility.
Send your coins to the DEX's smart contract and begin trading
Popular Decentralized Exchanges
Etherdelta– one of the first and best-known DEXs. It operates using Ethereum-based smart contracts, into and out of which you can move your funds without the need for third-party interference. The code for these contracts can found on Etherscan.
Idex– a product of the Aurora DAO, Idex is the most traded DEX at present, and is a significant improvement over Etherdelta. Whilst also allowing the trading of ERC-20 and ETH tokens, Idex has a significantly more user-friendly interface. It also has an active team that seemingly make consistent upgrades to the exchange, while the recent introduction of the AURA token allows market makers to be suitably rewarded.
Bisq (formerly Bitsquare)– this open-source DEX has a few key features. It can be downloaded on Windows, Mac and Linux and used for trading, it enables trading with fiat currencies in addition to cryptocurrencies, and allows for virtually full anonymity by using the Tor network and requiring identity/email verification. Bisq supports over 100 altcoins at present.
Radar Relay– Another DEX for ETH and ERC-20 tokens, Radar Relay is built using the 0x protocol, which uses smart contracts to complete orders on the Ethereum blockchain. You can trade tokens on Radar Relay without having to disclose your personal information, and unlike Etherdelta or Idex, no lockup period or fees for deposits and withdrawals are required to use the exchange.
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Many more DEXs exist, and can be identified on a comprehensive list that is being updated on GitHub, along with their respective protocols.
Advantages of Using Decentralized Exchanges
Security– given that you retain control of your funds in your personal wallet, a DEX will not require you to place your trust in the hands of the exchange/third party. And like blockchain, there is no single point of failure, making it much more difficult to hack than a centralized exchange. Moreover, the peer-to-peer nature of DEXs eliminate counterparty risk associated with a centralized exchange, which could engage in market manipulation (such as front-running the order book) and also tamper with clients' funds.
Privacy/Anonymity– There is no need to register with the exchange or provide any personal information. With stricter KYC/AML laws now being enforced, it is becoming more difficult to trade anonymously on centralized exchanges.
Regulation– Decentralization removes the central domicile of business for the exchange, which means that it is not at the mercy of any one country's regulatory policy. As such a DEX can operate securely without the threat of restrictive oversight coming into play.
Cost– Removing the need for a centralized third-party greatly reduces the costs associated with managing users' funds, which ultimately leads to reduced trading fees for DEXs.
Hardware wallet integration– Many DEXs seamlessly integrate with hardware wallets such as Ledger and Trezor. Users can directly send their coins from their hardware wallets to the DEX's smart contract. This is not possible with centralized exchanges, where transfers from hardware wallets require you to manually enter your private keys, and thus potentially expose you to phishing and keylogging attacks.
Such benefits could ultimately mean that DEXs become the preferred venue for trading digital assets, especially if there is no end in sight to the cyber-attacks being carried out on centralized exchanges.
At this stage, however, DEXs have their own challenges to overcome. In our next piece on this topic, we outline a few of those challenges, and some of the potential solutions currently being proposed.
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Would be interesting to see the list of games that did not reach 30 votes also!
The complete list will be published in the next issue of Fairplay, so all subscribers get the information.
What a "cheap" answer, dear Wolgang. But thanks anyway for the list as it is.


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The New South Wales and Tasmanian state Liberal governments have expressed concern the federal religious discrimination bill will override their anti-discrimination laws.
Central provisions of the Morrison government bill, including those protecting statements of belief and religious institutions' hiring practices, would override state laws potentially making claims unworkable, they submitted to a parliamentary inquiry.
The Coalition is struggling to win support for the proposed legislation, with a trio of moderate Liberal MPs reserving their right to vote against it and a deal between the attorney general and another group of disaffected MPs breaking down after a religious backlash.
The bill is being considered by two parliamentary inquiries, including the joint committee on human rights.
The Tasmanian attorney general, Elise Archer, submitted the federal bill appeared "to effectively invalidate the operation of the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act", including the provision banning speech that offends, insults or humiliates a person based on a protected attribute.
Archer submitted a person need only claim that their statement was a protected statement of belief and the Tasmanian anti-discrimination tribunal "must decline to hear the matter" unless the claim was specious.
While the person who made the statement was not required to show it was a statement of belief, the complainant would be required to prove it breached the bill's safeguards that such statements must not be malicious, intimidating or harassing, she said.
"I would like to reiterate that the Tasmanian government's view is [the package] would diminish the ability of the Tasmanian anti-discrimination tribunal to deal with certain complaints and … we continue to strongly advocate for no weakening of our anti-discrimination laws."
The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, has openly questioned the need for the federal bill.
Anti-Discrimination NSW, the state government body that administers discrimination law, submitted it "remains concerned" the bill does not strike the right balance between freedom of religion and other rights.
It warned the religious discrimination bill would override provisions in state law "that limit the circumstances under which faith-based schools can discriminate against job applicants and existing employees".
The statement of belief and hiring clauses "would also create significant procedural and access to justice issues", it said, because the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal may not have jurisdiction to consider state claims where the federal law is invoked as a defence.
Moving the matter to a federal court would add "procedural and financial burdens on complainants and create a barrier to access to justice".
Professor of constitutional law Anne Twomey submitted the federal government had attempted a "provocative" takeover of state law, but the drafting was "conceptually confused and probably invalid".
Both sections "seek to control the operation of a state law", she argued, rather than merely creating an inconsistency with state law.
"How can a commonwealth law dictate the interpretation of what amounts to discrimination under a state law?
"It cannot do so. It cannot amend or alter a state law or instruct a court as to how to interpret the state law."
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference praised the bill, arguing that it "does not go far enough" to ensure that freedom of religion is protected. The conference accused state governments including Victoria of seeking to constrain religious institutions' hiring and firing powers.
The Australian Human Rights Commission submitted that it "strongly supports the introduction of enforceable protections against religious discrimination for all people in Australia".
But while it endorsed those elements of the bill, it warned other sections "would provide protection to religious belief or activity at the expense of other rights".
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These were "unnecessary and disproportionate, or are otherwise inconsistent with international human rights law" and should be removed, it said.
In addition to the statements of belief clause, the AHRC complained the bill "provides very broad exemptions that allow 'religious bodies' to engage in religious discrimination" and allows corporations to make a complaint of religious discrimination.
"This is a significant departure from domestic and international human rights laws which protect only the rights of individuals, that is, humans."
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First Impression: She can do Reverse Prayer Hands while doing a backbend.
Second Impression: Show-off.
This DVD starts off with the presenter, Suzanne Deason, being interviewed in a red L.L. Bean sweater in front off a babbling-brook backdrop. Her blonde helmet of hair has been parted using a t-square and a mechanical pencil.
There, all set for her Sears portrait, she lays out her theory for using yoga as permanent, effective, weight loss. She claims that yoga will help establish a connection between your mind and body to develop a sense of calmness, so that you will better handle everyday stresses and won't reach for "that piece of pizza" to make yourself feel better.
Sing a new tune, Suzanne. Pizza is delicious. Food is good. The holidays are coming and I want to stuff my face. That's why I exercise. That's why most people exercise: a potent combination of food-love and vanity.
Also, sometimes it feels really good to eat your feelings. At one of my jobs, when interacting with management starts to feel like being emotionally mugged, we excavate a freezer-burnt tub of generic ice cream from its special hiding place. Then all the ladies dig and gobble with plastic spoons. This off-brand frozen treat tastes like chemicals and broken dreams, but when eaten in sympathetic company, it's the cure for what ails you.
Speaking of sympathetic company, the three backup yogis must have a hissy-whisper session whenever Suzanne's back is turned, because she has made them wear the most unfortunate onesie leotard things I have ever seen. They look like pears. Colorful pears doing yoga on a mountaintop in Sedona, Arizona. The red rock formation where all their mats are laid out resembles the thing the alien ship landed on in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Somewhere, Richard Dreyfuss is making a mashed-potato sculpture of it all.
Since this gentle, basic yoga routine doesn't make you break a sweat, I don't think it will work on its own for weight loss. In her interview, Suzanne Deason pooh-poohs the notion that the way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. I'm afraid a nutritionist would say, "Yeah Suzanne, that is exactly how you lose weight, because science."
Tagged 45 minutes, boring, filmed outdoors, strange, telepathic instruction, yoga


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AccessTokenURL The URL for the authorization server that issues access tokens (e.g. https://api.dropbox.com/1/oauth/access_token).
CallbackID The callback ID returned by the InitializeOAuth Choreo. Used to retrieve the callback data after the user authorizes.
ConsumerKey The Consumer Key provided by the service.
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My Beautiful Canada
by Kamal (Kam) Joshi
The land of the beautiful Maples trees, the gold and red Maple leaves, the sweetest Maple syrup, the Niagara falls, the Great Lakes, the golden Fields of wheat and corn, the enchanting Rocky Mountains, the Tar Sands full of oil and natural gas, the tiny Fishing Ports and the massive Container Terminals, the beautiful clean Cities and the magnificent cultured People –is the great nation called Canada. O! Canada –I love you so very much but, I lack words to describe your beauty. All I can say that you have a million lakes and thousands of rivers; and only a handful have even seen your mighty Mackenzie River-- although she is mightier than her beautiful sister the Mississippi, which millions traverse every year.
The Mackenzie flowing from the South to the North in the Northwest Territories is pristine like the day she first appeared, unpolluted, untouched and hardly even seen by any one. O! Canada, this is only a tiny testimony to your vast expanse and great outdoors. Visiting your immense Northwest Territory – is only a dream for anyone and everyone. You are surely, beautiful Canada, God's precious gift for all humanity. And, whenever I envision your beauty, I am reminded of a quotation attributed to Jahangir-- a Mogul King of India—"If there is heaven on earth – this is it, this is it, this is it."
After Columbus, looking for India came to America, another great explorer John Cabot came to Newfoundland in 1497. Some say He was an Italian, Giovanni Caboto others that he was a Spaniard Juan Caboto –who so ever he was, John Cabot discovered the path to the most beautiful Country, God's repository of all the precious natural resources, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Timber, Oil, Gas, coal, Water, Land, Lakes and Rivers that He put there for all of humanity. We can only but admire Cabot's courage to come to Canada in 1497, in a very small boat, from the shores of the mother country England opening up untold opportunities for everyone, for prosperity and peace, for now and forever.
Canada is the most peaceful country of 35 Millions, who have the highest standard of living in the World and they give, and spread their wealth and love and kindness and their unique cultured classiness and style of living—to the poor huddled masses of the World—with joy and graciousness, which is uniquely Canadian. Canada has a very open immigration policy and fully recognizes that countries like India and China and Indonesia and many more, each individually add 40 Million to their population every year. Canada's infrastructure developed for 35 Million must be added every year, by these aspiring nations of Billions, just to keep up. An average Canadian uses a towering 2000 Watts of electric load per hour per person compared to 50 in India and 250 in China. And yet Canadians work harder with their hands and bodies than anyone else does, to provide grains and fish and fruits and coal and oil and gas and minerals and timber – to all their brethrens who too, aspire a 2000 Watt standard of living—like that of a Canadian. Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Indians take from Canada --coal, Iron ore, oil and gas, timber and grains, process them and ship them back; to the whole World as Cars and Machines and toys and lumber and Cell Phones and TVs and Appliances and Cakes and Pastries. Canada knows that God's gifts are to be shared joyfully and with love—Canadians live in the harshest of the Winters, brave the fiercest storms of the Oceans and yet, use only as little of their resources for themselves as they can, knowing full well "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required"
It was a really cold day in January and I was in an Air Canada plane sitting in the middle of the three seats, ready to take off, from Montreal to Halifax. I was very tired, had just arrived from Paris, where I had flown in from New Delhi. This was my first ever trip by air. I was young although tired, yet, very excited to go to Halifax and continue my education there. I could sense the cold howling winds outside, and thought, "How great technology is that I am warm despite all the weather hazards of the Canadian winter, hazards that only a few years ago would forbid one from even coming out of one's home, and here I am confident that in the next few hours I will be in Halifax meeting my professor."
And then there was an announcement, "The weather in Halifax is absolutely not suitable for flight landing – this flight is cancelled". For me it was a very new situation –one who had no money, and was in a city 12000 miles away from the familiar grounds. In those days the Government of India allowed only $4.00 to be taken out of the country—not only that, before flying to Canada the only mechanical vehicle I had used, like almost every other Indian, was a bicycle. I had no idea what I will do on that cold, awfully cold, icy, windy dark, night in Montreal. I knew that Montreal is a magnificent city, they had just put on the World's Fair with a flawless brilliance—I had read about it written in glowing terms in the Indian News Papers. I wanted to visit Montreal and spend some time there – but, not like that, penniless, tired, hungry and sleepy and after a 36 hour flight. I was hungry and wanted to shower, eat and sleep – and suddenly the announcement.
I was sitting in the middle seat, a young girl to my right, and an older man, on the aisle seat, to my left. I tried to ask the young lady what should I do next, explaining to her about my University admission in Halifax, she was French and could not understand me. The Older man sitting to my left overheard me and suddenly said, "I am an alumni of the same University, if you want I can help you deal with the situation". I was speechless, and breathed a deep a sigh of relief, and displayed a look of appreciation and gratefulness and thanks on my lonesome worried face. My gratitude needed no words to express it—the looks said it all. Yes I was lonesome and apprehensive, tired and quite worried. "It is so nice of you sir" I said, "Please help me—I will always remain grateful. I am new, very new to this country. I am not used to such frigid cold and really have no money with me. But, I have come here to study and soon I will become self reliant, but, at this time – I am helpless." He said, "Not anymore, never ever and any more say that you are helpless—you are in CANADA". Those words still ring loud and sweet – NOT ANYMORE.
Mr. Fred Buckley was a very distinguished senior executive in a Paper mill and a Power company – the Chief Engineer. He was very honest and always travelled frugally in the economy class, especially on company business- but that night for his new friend, he asked Air Canada, to put the two of us in a pent house suite of a five star hotel, one of the best in the World at that time, in Montreal. Those were the heavenly days of air travel, now gone forever, when Airlines did provide extraordinary customer service to their preferred customers and he was one.
After I had a shower in the best pent house suite in the World, we went for dinner. Fred, my new Canadian friend, and I had dinner, in the posh and beautiful dining room of the Five Star Hotel, bedecked with the fabulous chandeliers and ornate decorations, fit for Royalty, where piano was being played in the background and a violinist mesmerized everyone supporting a quartet singing soft songs to make the dining experience every bit worth the upper crest of the society, some of whom were dancing gracefully on the glamorous dance floor. Fred all dressed up in his fine suit, asked me, "What can I order for you my friend as your first dinner in this land of plenty, can I order the best thing in the menu – Filet Minion, with Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine that goes good with the stake." He was looking like Hollywood handsome, and I—even the waiters were better dressed than I was, and I was bit apprehensive of what was to come, and said, "I am a vegetarian and a teetotaler. And do not know what is a Filet Minion or Cabernet Sauvignon. I really would like a Vegetarian meal and orange juice."
Fred looked at me incredulously and realized that I was very different, that built up his interest in me even more, and he asked the waiter to fix for me a vegetarian dinner. And the dinner was served -----he had lobster and stake with his favorite wine and I was served a platter of boiled veggies – cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, potatoes etc. That was not my idea of a vegetarian meal. I wanted Dal, Roti and Sabji. But I was hungry and at that time any vegetarian meal was the best meal. I enjoyed the meal and the conversation. Fred told me all about Montreal – how it's shops and offices are mostly built underground, with fabulous shops – like the Tiffany, the Nordstrom, the Chanel, the Louis Vuitton, the Neiman Marcus, the Versace and thousands of other retailers. He told me about the Montreal underground metropolis-- all underground, so people can work, shop , live and enjoy – remaining oblivious to the harsh winter above. For me it was a technological wonder and I was in a fairy land. Fred was a practical man – he next showed me around, showing me what he had so eloquently described, we rode limousines and the underground metro and walked at least five miles, underground, window shopping the fabulously decorated stores at midnight on that cold night, very very cold night in January.
That was my first night in Canada spent in the best of the five star hotels, dining in the music filled gorgeous dining room, window shopping in the best stores of the World – and I was dirt poor with no money. That night, for the first time I heard, "NOT ANY MORE" the most encouraging words of my life, from my best friend, my Canadian friend and mentor –Fred Buckley.
As we settled down in Canada I was amazed at the tenacity of those who opened her vast land for the future generations searching and finding a lifestyle – typically Canadian, prosperous yet, hard, adventurous yet, peaceful. After John Cabot arrived and established the outpost and the Colony, others could follow his path and they too reached the Canadian shores in his manner, most went back to Europe, enjoying the adventure. And the very first group who wanted to settle in Canada, in Nova Scotia, arrived in the spring of 1632, and developed a system of irrigation, building dikes, and settled near the Port Royale, coming in through the Bay of Fundy, in the Annapolis valley. They had the most beautiful summer a bountiful crop and really loved it there, and then came the winter – long nights of awful cold winter with little sunlight, merciless cold winds and snow and frozen everything –lakes, the ground and the spirit too. Most of them died a treacherous death inflicted by scurvy, caused by a lack of vitamin C, – they did not know what hit them—winter was never like that in the mother country and perhaps that is the first time one knew the absolute necessity of vitamin C for good health. But, immigrants kept on coming, braving the elements and other hazards and finally developed a great system, learned to live together—the French and the English.
The French came to Quebec and also to the Annapolis Valley. This time they not only survived but thrived and established the first community in the Atlantic Canada, a French outpost, and called it Acadia. But, as fate would have it the British and the French had their Wars and in the wheeling and dealing and winning and losing that happens in all Wars, the French King abrogated his rights to Acadia and the French living there were mercilessly banished and shipped, yes shipped, to a treacherous land down south-- to the country of Louisiana. The Acadians—CAJUNS—thus arrived in a land infested by alligators, snakes, flees, mosquitoes, storms, floods and what not. But, they were no patsies or pawns of the war games; they were well honed had learned to live in the harsh environments in Canada, their Acadia. So they coped, and coped exceedingly well developed the famous city of New Orleans, and gave America her only cuisine – the Cajun cuisine, they were after all-- French. They also harbingered the only American music – the Jazz. They, like those who bravely fight adversity, in the most horrible circumstances, sowed the seeds that developed the best of the best music --- the Jazz. Music is the answer to the cruelty of humans on humans—"Jai Ho".
In all Wars of revenge and land grab and religion –it is the children who suffer the most – always. And in the French and British War also-- they did; and there is a heart breaking story of Evangeline, who was an Acadian, put down in one of the longest poems written by H.W. Longfellow. I read the "Evangeline" when in school in India and little did I know that one day I will stand in the hallowed land where she lived. You too can read it in the internet. Such is the legacy of all wars – stories of children are the only ones whose memories live on forever – like that of Anne Frank.
Every war always ends and nothing really ever changes, so did end the British and the French Wars—and they started to live in peace and harmony in Acadia, and in the whole of Canada, because they learned the hard way whatever language they spoke, they worshiped the same God – Jesus Christ, whatever songs the sang they played the same Violins, whatever home they went to they drove on the same Freeway, whatever boat they took to the Ocean they brought back the same Lobsters. Canada thus became the country of love and peace and hard work and harder play; the country where everyone comes with dreams in ones eyes – for a bright future for ones family.
And on that cold January night I too came with the same dreams of a brighter future. Soon after that I met Mrs. Buckley, she invited me to her most beautiful home, the likes of which one sees and reads about in the Ladies Magazines—very Hollywood like. She had prepared a vegetarian dinner for me and was curious about my meals. I told her, I live in a shelter for the homeless and live on milk and bread only and an occasional potato chip snack, because I do not know how to cook. "I can understand your diet but why do you live in a homeless shelter?" she asked. I told her, " I have many responsibilities and want to save every penny to fulfill my obligations. My parents have raised me with love, and like everyone else in India my father is a poor man, he wants me to help him educate my brothers and sisters and meet the expenses of their weddings. They too want to be Doctors and Engineers; and education and weddings are not cheap in India. The only way I can help him is by sending money, and the only way I can do it is by saving it, and thus obey my Father. That is why I live with the most beautiful people – the Homeless, Old, Sick and yet, full of joy and kindness, in a shelter for the Homeless—to save money to send back home."
Mrs. Buckley looked at me with an admiring smile she hugged me and asked, "Do you know the other Nine." I did not understand—"The other Nine?" I asked with curiosity. And she said, "The other Nine Commandments." And she continued looking at me with moist eyes, "I am a Christian and try to live following the Ten Commandments in the Holy Bible and one of them is – 'Obey thy Father and thy Mother and Love and respect them'. You Kam, are a good Christian."
That day I got the name Kam, given to me by my Mom in Canada and that day I learned another lesson of my life – every Good Hindu is also a good Christian and vice versa. I was reminded of the sermon by our Shastri ji (Pastor) who told us that the message of the Holy Hindu Book Ramayana is 'Obey thy Father and respect and love thy Parents and respect your Elder Brother'. He said those who do not do that waste their lives and live like those in the Mahabharata, -- jealous, angry and violent.
Mrs. Buckley learned to cook Vegetarian food for me—I do not know how. Those days unlike today –there was no Indian Restaurant or store in Halifax, no one in India had Telephones, Televisions, and Cars and Computers or anything Twenty First Century. There was no book describing Indian Vegetarian cooking. She still managed to learn it; only a Mom could do it, and greatly helped me remain a Vegetarian and a teetotaler.
The last time I met her was three years ago in Vancouver on the Mothers day. It was my greatest pleasure and privilege that we, my spouse and I, could take her out to lunch – a vegetarian lunch of course. She was 92 years old and had a sparkle in her eyes, a beautiful smile on her face, petite and stunningly gorgeous– she looked Bollywood beautiful.
O! Canada—I love you so very much.
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Middle Eastern Oil Needs More Risk Priced In: Experts
Scott Tibballs
Sep. 19, 2019 03:00PM PST
This week's attack was an escalation in a series of clashes in the Middle East directed at oil infrastructure and transportation.
Recent events in the Persian Gulf saw 5 percent of the world's daily oil production wiped out, triggering a spike in oil prices around the world.
The Saudi Arabian state-owned facility that was attacked accounted for halfof the Kingdom's production capacity of over 12 million barrels per day, and, according to Maplecroft's principal Middle East and North Africa analyst Torbjorn Soltvedt, the impact of the attacks is going to be felt much longer after the damage has been repaired.
"There are a couple of problems that perhaps aren't being priced in as much as they should be, and one is of course the risk of further attacks," said Soltvedt.
The September 14 attacks represented an escalation in a series of attacks and clashes in the Middle East directed at oil infrastructure and transportation.
Speaking with the Investing News Network (INN), Soltvedt said that the attacks had exposed a vulnerability in the world's oil supplies that was likely to remain in the current situation between Saudi Arabia, Iran and the US.
Soltvedt said that in looking at potential next steps for Saudi Arabia, Maplecroft modeling was pointing toward further attacks staying on the radar.
"The common theme there is that in all of the scenarios there's still the ongoing risk of further attacks even if (Saudi Arabia) decides to do nothing at all, which has been very much their approach."
He explained that the Kingdom had two courses of action available, neither of which were ideal.
"They have to either completely neutralize that kind of asymmetrical threat that Iran poses, which is not something that can be done overnight … (or) the other alternative is to address the root cause of the tensions — so come up with some kind of diplomatic solution."
That diplomatic option, said Soltvedt, was not ideal, because both the US and Saudi Arabia did not want to be seen as appeasing Iranian aggression.
Commodities analyst at Scotiabank (TSX:BNS,NYSE:BNS) Rory Johnston said that most intelligence being released on the attacks was pointing towards a connection with Iran, which meant there was an open question on whether or not there would be a forceful retaliation.
"I would say that as of this morning (September 18), the risk of that is slightly lessened because the Saudis are talking of bringing in UN investigators, and that means it will take a bit longer and naturally cool down tensions as time does.
"On the other side you have the United States announcing a new round of sanctions," he said, though he noted that Iran's exports were already being crushed by previous sanctions so there was little they would achieve in addition — but it was still pointing towards a non-military option.
"I think the White House leaning on sanctions rather than any kind of, call it, 'kinetic response' is promising from the direction of there not being any military engagement there."
While Saudi Arabia has been talking about repairing the damage and bringing production back to pre-attack rates by the end of September, Soltvedt concluded that, currently, it was Maplecroft's position that the situation in the Gulf was only going to get worse before it could get better.
With accusations thrown against Iran being vehemently denied, when asked for his thoughts on who carried out the attack, Soltvedt said that the characteristics of the attack pointed towards a state actor due to the timing and targets.
"I think one thing that's clear is that whoever carried out the attack knew exactly how to cause maximum disruption to Saudi oil infrastructure … All of those factors put together makes Iran very much stand out as the most likely culprit."
Ongoing impact
Because of the Gulf's role as a major exporter for oil, Soltvedt said that it was too early to say what effect tensions or conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran would have on the region's overall oil industry, but more risk needed to be priced in.
"It's fair to say the risk has been underestimated so far … The threat against energy infrastructure hasn't been taken seriously enough."
He said that most companies operating in the region would be waiting to see how events played out, and due to the extent of the oil infrastructure in the region, global consumers elsewhere couldn't just switch to other suppliers overnight.
"(Events) could accelerate a trend, (and) it could cause key importers to look at import security a lot more carefully than they have in the past."
That trend is the world's efforts to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East first triggered by the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s that caused a recession and inspired oil consumers to find new sources of oil — such as in Alaska and Canada.
Johnston said the same about the risk premium, saying that there would be a big impact because the vulnerabilities of the global oil market had been laid bare.
"As of right now there are people that look to do the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia harm and the easiest way to do that is to hit at its oil infrastructure, and yet it has not shown an ability to fully rebuff those attacks."
He noted, however, that the Kingdom would be spending time and money looking to increase security of its facilities, and it was less likely that they would be caught off guard in the future, even if it was very difficult to defend against the type of attack that was carried out.
"The market's going to need to begin pricing in some kind of insurance. Historically we've thought of it as a historical risk premium. But that risk premium before these events was negligible if not zero flat-out."
When asked about investors potentially going somewhere else given the now laid-bare vulnerabilities of the Middle Eastern oil market, Johnston said that a higher political risk premium meant that investment would likely increase elsewhere.
"I think conversations around security are going to start rising to the fore again, which has traditionally benefited jurisdictions like Canada which is seen as a very politically secure allied backdoor producer to the United States."
Impact in Canada
Speaking of the rest of the world, Johnston said that energy security issues like the ones being discussed now were part of how initial proposals for Keystone XL were first pitched in North America.
He said it was still too early to know how the investing landscape could change. "But all else equal, it raises investor interest in the Canadian space, but that will take time for that to move through the portfolio inflows and new capital in the space … That type of thing takes time, but a sentiment shift is the first step, and I think that's what we've seen."
Canada is locked away though, according to Tim McMillan, who is president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
"We may not have terrorists risks in the same way that the Middle East does, but we have had foreign activists that have limited our ability to put infrastructure in place that could allow us to reach these new markets.
"As countries around the world are probably assessing their supply sources … they can look at Canada, but there is no ability to get our substantial resources to them," he said.
"Those are self-inflicted wounds here in Canada, largely based on successful campaigns from foreign activists to limit our pipeline infrastructure, to cancel Northern Gateway (rejected in 2016 by the Trudeau Government), to cancel energy east (cancelled in 2017 by TransCanada (TSX:TRP)), to stall Trans Mountain. Any one of them could have given us very substantive access to those global markets for times just like this."
When asked whether events abroad could increase pressure on the Canadian government to approve petroleum infrastructure investment projects, McMillan countered that pressure from activists wouldn't stop regardless of events overseas or Canadian political will.
"I don't think that their interests will have shifted from this. Their interests have always been based on Canadian production with blinders on to the Middle East and other sources that have had substantial growth in their production."
Looking ahead, McMillan said he was confident that eventually the Canadian petroleum industry would be able to free itself from what he called foreign activism, it had the capacity to fill any void left by events abroad.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney clearly feels the same way, hitting the airwaves on Tuesday to talk up the withheld potential of the province.
Changes to prices
The attacks triggered the largest daily spike in oil prices since the first Gulf War in 1991, and represented the largest ever single disruption to the oil market, but Johnston said that the attacks wouldn't result in a huge volumetric hit to the market.
"What we've seen and heard from Saudi authorities since then and from authorities at Saudi Aramco … is they've been very firm about their ability to quickly bounce back and basically not lose a ton of production — they're going to fulfil customer orders regardless."
He explained that they would do that by tapping into spare capacity, doing some quick repairs and meeting the balance by using commercial and strategic inventories.
As on September 19, oil was trading at US$58.35 barrel — still above its pre-attack level of around US$55 a barrel but below its spiked value of almost US$63.
Going forward, Johnston said that the attacks could push oil markets from being bearish due to concerns over a global slowdown and the US-China trade war to being bullish.
"(The attacks are) a counterweight, something that's going to push up potential premium pricing on the supply side," said Johnston.
At the same time, he added that America and Saudi Arabia leaning more towards sanctions on Iran's economy instead of direct military action means could have a counteracting bearish affect on oil prices.
On where the market could go from here, Johnston stressed that we were still in the very early stages of the event and there was a lot of information still unavailable.
"I think that the market is going to be tracking both how this rolls out in terms of repairs and the timeline, but also how the knock-on security ramifications develop."
Another thing to watch out for, said Johnston, was that all of the world's spare oil production capacity was up in smoke. "We don't have any spare capacity left in the market, so if there was another attack, heaven forbid, now there wouldn't be anything we could tap into to offset that."
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Q: How to merge cells in Spotfire Table chart for output rows I am displaying a report in the form of Table chart in Spotfire. I will state my requirement with an example. Typically in table chart when data is displayed they will be repeated for each and every value of the query. What is want is that repetitivie data to be merged when displayed in table chart like this:

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Larry Chin: "steering the masses towards total war"
Larry Chin writes the latest in our series challenging the narrative of the "new 9/11", offering different perspectives on the Paris attacks, all of which are largely ignored by the corporate media.
It goes without saying that the atrocities of Paris on November 13, 2015 were unspeakable and sickening. But what is not being said in the wake of the incident—what has been ignored by the mass media—is predictably telling and ominous.
As in the wake of 9/11, the people of the world are being provoked, agitated and mobilized; the fear, horror, rage and shock channeled and shaped into wave of collective vengeance and hatred. Hatred towards what and whom?
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But what is the Islamic State?
The fact that remains willfully unacknowledged is that Islamic State is the guided military-intelligence and political apparatus of the West, created, trained, financed, advised and protected by the West and NATO—including France.
The Islamic State and Islamic extremism, including Al-Qaeda, functions on behalf of NATO and Western geostrategic interests.
The intelligence agencies of the West and NATO, led by the CIA, MI-6, the Mossad, the Pakistani ISI, etc. run the Islamic State terrorists.
Jihadist terrorism would not exist without the nurturing of the West, which started with the Cold War, continued into the conflicts in the Balkans, and exploded with 9/11 and the "war on terrorism", and continues to metastasize with the so-called war on the Islamic State, a rebranded continuation of the same fabricated criminal war of deception.
The West and its architects of war are ultimately responsible for all acts of terrorism perpetrated by their own terrorist shock troops.
As noted by Michel Chossudovsky:
the notion that the Paris attack was an act of retribution and revenge directed against France is questionable and contradictory inasmuch as the evidence confirms that France has been channeling weapons to jihadist rebels in Syria including Al Nusrah and ISIS.
What if it was "blowback"? What if the Paris terrorists went "rogue" and attacked their own sponsors? What if these terrorist cells were "out of control"? What if these and other groups are simply "going berserk" for "inexplicable reasons"? What if one accepts the (highly unlikely) notion that the CIA, the NSA, French intelligence, the Mossad, etc. —agencies with the most sophisticated spying capabilities on the planet—suddenly and simultaneously lost track of everything? There are red herrings. The West is still responsible for the actions of its assets. The West has not "lost control" of the Islamic State. In fact, the terrorists are being run with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness. The chaos and plunder are not random. The atrocities are designed. Were it not for unwelcome Russian "interference", the Anglo-American empire would now control more geography than it already does. The Syrian regime arguably might have fallen.
Anglo-American war policy is what has set terrorism loose. It continues to sow, foment and expand terrorism in an unimaginable scale, with no end in sight. The trail of blood leads back to the policy, and its policy makers.
This apocalyptic crisis is not a war "on" terror, but a war "of" terror, committed by terrorists, guided by terrorists, and psychopathic war criminals that operate beyond the reach of law.
Stopping terrorism is not the real agenda. In fact, the opposite: the West's terrorist armies are key assets used to infiltrate and destabilize, to topple the regimes that NATO seeks to co-opt, invade and conquer. One by one they fall in this manner, from Iraq and Libya to what is unfolding now in Syria, towards the even greater agenda.
The "war on the Islamic State" is not even about the Islamic State, no matter what horrific acts are committed by the ISIS/ISIL killers themselves. The war is, and has always been, a superpower world war pitting the West against Russia and China, everywhere Western geostrategic/resource/corporate interests dictate.
The "spectacular" bloodshed—the unspeakable scale and intensity of the murder—will only become more outlandish and "creative", as the war planners become increasingly desperate to keep the easily distracted masses in home countries galvanized and fearful, and militantly supportive of the larger war agenda, and deepening involvement on the front lines.
Who benefits? Who benefits from weaponizing France and its people? The same forces that have benefitted from all such atrocities since 9/11. All of the governments that are aiming to destabilize, invade, and conquer the Eurasian subcontinent, including the Middle East and Central Asia, and beyond. All of the governments seeking regime change in Syria: NATO.
The operatic expressions of remorse on behalf of officials hide the realpolitik; the cold, calculating sociopathy that views war as industry, mass murder as a means to "victory", and slaughter of innocents as "necessary collateral damage". Three thousand dead on 9/11. A jetliner full of Russian tourists. Tens of thousands across the killing fields of the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. More than one hundred snuffed out in Paris. All in a day's work.
The current line justified by the bloody headlines and propaganda is that even more endless "total war" must be waged. President Hollande now channels Dick Cheney's "war that will not end in our lifetimes", and George W. Bush's "with us or against us".
Paris proves, according to the propaganda, that time is overdue for regime change in Syria. Syria, the "hotbed" of terrorism, where the Islamic State is "out of control". The Assad regime has "failed to stop it"; therefore the Assad regime must be "taken out" along with the "terrorists".
It is no coincidence that Paris has prompted President Barack Obama to promise an escalation of military involvement in Syria. More accurately, the justification to openly invade Syria has been given the green light. The "boots on the ground" invasion of Syria, which is already underway, is now accelerated. Obama undoubtedly wants to finish the job before he leaves office in 2016. A new series of air strikes on Raqqa, Syria began less than 48 hours after the Paris attacks.
What of the Paris attacks themselves? The official narrative is being created. Although it is early in the process, questions about the Paris attack are mounting. The similarities to the false flag operation of 9/11 are abundant.
Quoting the New York Times, it "remains unclear how a plot of such sophistication and lethality escaped the notice of intelligence agencies, both in France and abroad." But emerging evidence suggests that the intelligence agencies not only knew, but knew enough to prepare for the attacks, which suggests that they were allowed to happen.
France had foreknowledge of imminent attacks and preparations were underway weeks before November 13th, including emergency meetings with CIA director John Brenanan, and unusual advanced preparation of first responders—who happened to be ready in Paris on November 13th.
A massive cyberattack—one beyond the capabilities of the terrorists–took down French security systems prior to and during the incident.
French officials knew the attackers and were tracking them continuously for a significant period, yet did nothing to stop them.
From the orchestration and execution of the atrocities themselves, to the response, to the reaction, the signs of long planning, scripting, choreography, and calculation are evident.
There will be incompetence excuses ("we were caught off guard"), hopelessness and chaos excuses ("we cannot predict nor stop anything"), and other variations. But they fail to explain evidence to the contrary.
According to the CIA operatives, think tank "terrorism experts", and other warmongering blowhards that spewed nonsense nonstop on CNN all day and all night following the Paris attacks, another "new normal" has been set.
All such brainwashing must be resisted.
The larger context must not be lost amidst chaos and panic.
It is the war itself—its architects as well as its murdering operatives—that must be condemned.
The killers who coldly executed innocent people acted on orders from handlers. The handlers themselves had handlers. And they in turn took orders from individuals occupying high positions of power. It is these individuals who must be identified and exposed; their war agenda resisted and stopped. For the sake of what is left of humanity.
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mohandeer
This article might be dismissed as over reaching and very left field if not for the ever growing mountain of evidence supporting the theory. Such truths and facts are now gathering momentum and the cry of deniers of "conspiracy theorist" rants, is itself becoming less credible and more dubious, precisely because the alternative narratives just don't fit the way the corporate media and government propaganda would have us believe. Certainly this accounting does not present as wild imaginings, in stark contrast to some of the ludicrous claims the western media hype and governmental lies brandished daily. Good read.
Mick McNulty
Too many people would resist conscription in the west. The governments would have to win the war against their own people on the streets before they could send them off to war abroad. Let those who have it all go and fight.
Reply to Mick McNulty
Wishful thinking.
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Bobby Militello has played with many artists for the last five decades, along with leading his own groups. He is Adjunct Instructor at the University at Buffalo since 2016 and member of the University at Buffalo Faculty Quartet with John Bacon, Jr., George Caldwell, and Sabu Adeyola since 2017.
From 2014 to 2018, he led the Bobby Militello Quartet, featuring Bobby Jones on keyboards, Jim Colemon on bass, and John Bacon, Jr. on drums. This band performed at the 2014 Monty Alexander Jazz Festival, along with many other concerts and local venues. Bobby is a member of the jazz sextet Star People, co-led by pianist George Caldwell and drummer John Bacon, Jr., featuring the music of Miles Davis. He is also a member of the Mark Filsinger eleventet and sextet.
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From 1975 to 1979, Bobby played with Maynard Ferguson, also a childhood dream, on baritone sax and flute. During his tenure with Maynard, he appeared in the Downbeat magazine readers polls from 1976 to 1979 on bari and flute and received critical acclaim in numerous articles and reviews throughout the United States and Canada. He also became Maynard's road manager for three years.
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The Rite of Spring @ 100
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Today's the centenary of the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, an event which has become part of classical music legend. The BBC has an article commemorating the debut, asking did The Rite of Spring really spark a riot? Depends on who you talk to. According to the composer, the trouble started "when the curtain opened on the group of knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas jumping up and down".
I have been in the front row of the NCH while the RTE NSO cranked out the RoS at full whack: who needs Heavy Metal, eh? :cool:
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pconn062
Probably the most important piece of music of the last hundred years. Apparently stories regarding the riot at the premiere were grossly exaggerated (some would say by the composer himself!) in an attempt to further publicize the work. Had to listen to the full work today with the day that was in it.
#3 30-05-2013 5:14pm
purebeta
I don't mean to be pedantic or anything but what Mr. Stravinsky was hi-lights
was 1/2 of the event the Le Sacre, it was not just a piece of music,
but a music fused with dance in a ballet setting.
We must not forget that the dance, movement, steps, narrative & characters
depicted were a big part of the scandal also and that it must not be forgotten
that the Rite as a work of art was a fusion of these art forms.
So when we talk about the Rite we must remember the original conception
on how shocking it was as a ballet,
and in relation to what had happened previously in the Paris ballet scene.
In this case the shock was a double blow of the two art forms into a fusion,
and manifestation of an avant-garde approach in both genres of art.
True but it says a lot about a piece of music when it can stand alone as a concert work on it's own. Nijinsky's choreography was certainly very striking based on some of the recreations I have seen, especially when mixed with the original costumes. What an amazing night it must have been.
#5 02-06-2013 9:19am
The Guardian has an article by composer George Benjaminm with a more musicological analysis of the piece:
From start to finish The Rite of Spring exalts in a new and explosive sense of musical movement. Not the subtle interplay of periodic symmetries typical of the classical era, nor the curvaceous, subjective flexibility in the flow of time that romanticism relished.
Stravinsky's rhythms pound and batter; though highly irregular they are still pulsed – and pulsed in such a novel way that the score required innovations in musical notation to make Stravinsky's invention playable.
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