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Do 8,300 super-rich Kenyans own more than the rest?
In highlighting inequality as a priority for Kenya's growth, Chatham House said 8,300 Kenyans owned more wealth than the rest of the population.
The figure comes from a proprietary report by private consultancy New World Wealth.
Without information on the consultancy's methods, it is difficult to assess whether inequality is this extreme.
Kenya's wealthy have little trouble remaining in the spotlight. In April 2018, British think tank Chatham House spoke of the country's "rampant" inequality while promoting a speaking appearance by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
"8,300 Kenyans own more wealth than the rest of the population," the organisation wrote on its website, putting Kenya's population at "around 48 million people".
(Note: The latest official estimate - for 2017 - placed the country's population at 46.6 million.)
Where did the stat come from?
Chatham House directed Africa Check to the website of anti-poverty campaign group Oxfam as the source of its statistic.
The webpage does not cite the origin of this number but in a December 2017 report the group attributed this figure to "a 2014 New World Wealth survey".
New World Wealth is a Johannesburg-based consulting firm whose wealth reports get media attention in Kenya. Its head of research, Andrew Amoils, confirmed to Africa Check that the number was sourced from one of its reports, and sent us a copy.
Who are 'high net-worth' individuals?
The report said that "in 2013, there were approximately 8,300 high net-worth individuals in Kenya, with a combined wealth of US$31 billion, accounting for roughly 62% of Kenya's total individual wealth". Total wealth was placed at US$50 billion.
New World Wealth defines high net-worth individuals as those with US$1 million or more in net assets.
The firm produced its findings from a number of sources. It said it had a database of 120,000 high net-worth individuals, 200 of them from Kenya. Most of the names were sourced from company and director databases.
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It also had "profiles on luxury brands, private banks, wealth managers and family offices in each market" and "access to various luxury goods databases with a focus on prime property, yacht, art and private jet owners".
"We use a model to calculate wealth breakdowns for each country," Amoils said. The data fed into this model included "income distribution, GDP per capita, stock market statistics and prime property statistics in each country".
There was a disclaimer that the findings were "based on information gathered in good faith from both primary and secondary sources, whose accuracy we are not always in a position to guarantee". (Note: Africa Check was unable to get a publicly available copy and is prevented by licence restrictions from publishing the complimentary one.)
'Hard to know who owns what'
The methods used to arrive at the figures published in the report are not available, making it difficult to check the claim's accuracy.
Any assessment of the strength of an estimate would depend on knowing what data was used and the assumptions made, Prof Daniel Hruschka of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University told Africa Check.
"Since the actual methodology is hidden, it's difficult to vet the claim. That would never fly in the scientific community," Hruschka said. His work has included researching household wealth for the World Health Organisation.
According to Dr XN Iraki, a senior lecturer at the School of Business at the University of Nairobi, New World Wealth's figure for high net-worth individuals "is such a small number" that it casts little light on the country's general inequality.
Another difficulty in measuring wealth in Kenya is finding the real owners in records of assets.
"The use of holding companies makes it hard to know who owns what," Iraki said. Someone's spouse being the registered owner of an asset was another example, he said, of how difficult it was to identify the "exact owner".
Kenyan economist Dr David Ndii said the claim "is unverifiable. I am not aware of a tried and tested method of estimating household wealth in the absence of household balance sheets."
Top 480,000 own less than half Kenya's wealth?
James Davies is professor at the University of Western Ontario's economics department and an author of Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report and Global Wealth Databook.
While they did not have enough direct wealth data for Kenya, Davies said they used a model to relate household assets and debt to a number of variables to do with the population and economy.
"On that basis we estimate that year-end total household wealth in Kenya was US$45 billion in both 2013 and 2014. I should emphasise that this should only be regarded as a rough estimate."
In their latest work, published in 2017, they estimated the distribution of wealth in 39 countries where there was sufficient data, Davies told Africa Check.
In 37 of these, the richest 1% of the population owned less than 50% of the country's wealth.
"If the same were true in Kenya, the top 480,000 [using Chatham's population estimate] would have less than half the total wealth. In that case, the top 8,300 could not have more than half of the total wealth."
Conclusion: Weak data on assets makes it difficult to know Kenya's wealth distribution
In April 2018 UK-based think tank Chatham House claimed that "8,300 Kenyans own more wealth than the rest of the population (around 48 million people)".
We traced the statistic to New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based consulting firm whose findings on high net-worth individuals in countries such as Kenya are widely reported in the media.
But experts told Africa Check that both official and private data on how Kenya's wealth is distributed was difficult to find. And without verifiable information on the methods used by New World Wealth, it is difficult to assess the claim.
We therefore rate the claim as unproven.
Edited by Lee Mwiti
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https://africacheck.org/reports/pretty-much-on-the-money-worlds-80-richest-own-more-than-bottom-half-do/
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Well, that's just souper! | I'm Gonna Cook That!
First of all, Happy New Year! I hope everyone's 2016 is starting off well. I know we all have resolutions or intentions or maybe just things we're NOT going to do this year, and I wish you the best possible outcome for all of that. I've got some goals for this year, for sure. One of the biggest, most important ones is to REALLY focus on this blog, and my social media presence, and connecting with all my readers, other bloggers, and other food industry folks. The boyfriend and I are in the process of clearing out some space for me to create a little home office, so I can do this whole thing in some sort of organized, professional manner. Even though I have lots of past content here, I'm looking at it as a brand new project, and that means approaching it in a brand new way.
*Forrest Gump voice* And that's all I've got to say about that. For now.
Let's get down to business, and my love of soup. I adore soup. It seems like the perfect vehicle for experimentation with (usually) a minimum of fuss. Of course, this time of year in our part of the world it's pretty cold, so soup also has the added benefit of being warm, hearty, and satisfying without being too heavy. This Latin American inspired Turkey Meatball Soup is no exception. It's colorful, flavorful, and filling without landing with a thud in your guts. It also comes together pretty quickly, making it great for a weeknight, and, depending on how many you're feeding, has the potential for leftovers later in the week.
FYI: You can totally leave out the meatballs and replace the chicken stock with veggie stock and this would be vegan and vegetarian.
Mix the spices, salt, and pepper into the ground turkey and form it into walnut sized balls. Heat your soup pot over medium high heat, add the canola oil, and brown but do NOT cook through the meatballs. They'll finish cooking through in the soup. You'll probably want to do them in two batches to avoid crowding the pot.
Hold the meatballs on the paper towel lined plate while you put together the rest of the soup.
Add the diced onion and pepper to whatever fat is left behind in the pot. Saute until the peppers are softened slightly and the onions are translucent. Lower the heat to medium, then add the tomato sauce and stir to combine. Let all that hang out for 2-3 minutes while you open and drain all your cans. Add the diced tomatoes, corn, black beans, and the spices. You can also add black pepper if you want, but don't add salt until the very end because the soup will reduce a bit and you don't want it to get too salty.
Give all that another big stir, and let it simmer together for about 5 minutes. Then, add the stock and the browned meatballs, knock the heat down to low, cover and let it simmer away for about 30 minutes.
Remove the lid, and let it continue to simmer for another 10-15 minutes, then give it a little taste to see how much salt, if any, you want to add. There's so much flavor in there already, I only added maybe an 1/8th of a teaspoon.
You can garnish this with pretty much anything you think works. We used diced avocado and a lime wedge, because a little squeeze of lime juice at the end brings another layer of flavor to the party. You could also use tortilla chips or strips, shredded cheese, sour cream or Mexican crema, sliced olives, or some rough chopped cilantro. Of course, a bottle of hot sauce might come in handy, too, if some of you want to kick up the heat in there.
I hope you'll give this one a try. If you do, let me know how it works out for ya. Enjoy!
Soup season is my favorite season!
Yum! I will try this with some home made tear and share onion bread to scoop it up. Thank you.
We used some crunchy wholegrain bread for ours, but onion bread sounds brilliant!


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With so many glittery decorations, your unicorn cake would be the best one. Let's try it today.
First, let's make the rainbow cake from scratch. Add all the ingredients: sugar, water, flour, eggs, vanilla extract etc to the bowl.
Pick as many food coloring as you like to add to the mixed batter. You can make so many colors together.
Combine your cake mixture colors as you like.
Then Bake your cake. Make sure it is OK.
Decorate the rainbow cake with so many unicorn decorations. Rainbow cream, candy, toppers etc. You are the best designer.
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'Lives of the Constitution' Looks at Minds Behind 'America's Supreme Law'
Nick Blumberg | July 5, 2018 5:48 pm
The Constitution's significance as the founding, guiding document of the American experiment is hard to overstate – but the stories of the people who wrote, promoted, defended and reimagined it are sometimes lost to history.
Helping to correct that oversight is Joseph Tartakovsky's new book "The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law." Among those chronicled by the author: pioneering Chicago journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Field, and James Wilson, described as the most important framer nobody's heard of.
Tartakovsky is a constitutional law fellow at the Claremont Institute and former deputy solicitor general of Nevada. He joins us in discussion.
Below, an excerpt from the book.
Excerpt from The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law, by Joseph Tartakovsky, from Chapter 7: "Ida B. Wells- Barnett: Rights after Reconstruction to the Jazz Age"
Socrates is said to have chosen a wife so headstrong that, if he could get on with her, it would prove that philosophy is indeed a form of consolation. Yet perhaps it was his experience with Xanthippe that led Socrates to make the immortal argument for female equality that appears in Plato's Republic. It has stood unrebutted these last 2,400 years. Socrates, in response to the conventional prejudice that the home was a woman's place by "nature"—a dangerously slippery synonym for "custom," he noted—he offered what one might call the Parable of the Cobblers. Some men by nature were bald, and others hairy-headed, he said, but this fact was perfectly irrelevant to their capacity to hammer shoes. Likewise, women differed from men in many wonderful ways, but in no respect that disqualified them from a share in political power, or even from ruling men.
Ida B. Wells, a black woman born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, could have sympathized with Xanthippe. Wells, too, was called irascible, rebellious, and stubborn. Wells, too, had a thoughtful partner—a leading Chicago lawyer named Ferdinand Barnett, who made her "Wells-Barnett," in an avant-garde instance of feminist hyphenation (and which I'll use even when referring to her premarital days). But it was Wells-Barnett, not her husband, who did the philosophical work.
For several years in the 1890s, according to Wells-Barnett's biographer Linda O. McMurry, no black American, except Frederick Douglass, enjoyed more press attention than Wells-Barnett. Once labeled the "uncrowned queen of the Negroes of America," she rose as a newspaper journalist whose fiery editorials in defense of black rights were cast across the nation like hot embers. When Frederick Douglass died, says McMurry, Wells-Barnett was heir apparent, "better known than W.E.B. Du Bois and more ideologically compatible with Douglass than Booker T. Washington." But black women didn't lead black men in those days. And that is what makes the career of Ida B. Wells-Barnett so memorable: she stood at the intersection of the two great socio-legal contests between 1880 and 1920—the struggles against White Supremacy and against Male Supremacy—and battled both quite successfully.
Ida's father Jim was the son of his master and a slave named Peggy, meaning that Ida's grandfather owned humans. The master's childless wife, still bitter about her husband's liaison years later, waited until her husband died and then ordered Peggy whipped. As a little girl Wells-Barnett remembered her mother pacing the floor anxiously, about something called the Ku Klux Klan. Ida studied to become a teacher in the postwar South when, at age 16, yellow fever killed both her parents within hours of each other. "After being a happy, light-hearted schoolgirl," she wrote in her memoir, Crusade for Justice, "I suddenly found myself at the head of a family." To support five younger siblings, each week she rode a mule six miles away to teach, then returned on the weekend to wash, iron, and cook.
Wells-Barnett had an irrepressible sense of dignity that was often aroused to her peril. In 1883, riding a train to Memphis, where she would soon teach, she refused an order to move from the ladies' car into the smoking car. The conductor grabbed her shoulder; she bit his hand. It took three men finally to remove her, as she watched white passengers applaud her humiliation. For Wells-Barnett, unlike for Rosa Parks, no NAACP existed in 1883 to bring a lawsuit, so the 21-year-old hired a lawyer herself, in one of the first suits of its kind in Tennessee. "A Darky Damsel Obtains a Verdict for Damages," read the headline in the Memphis Daily Appeal. (The Tennessee Supreme Court promptly reversed her victory.)
Not long after, she was fired by the Memphis school board for her criticism in the press of the inadequate buildings and poor teachers given to black students. By now she had begun regular publication. Friends thought her needlessly confrontational—a theme of her life—but she "thought it was right to strike a blow against a glaring evil," as she wrote in her memoir, "and I did not regret it." Nor should she have, for it forced her into full-time journalism. This eventually transformed her from a teacher of a schoolroom into the teacher of a nation.
The "remarkable and talented young school marm from Memphis," marveled the Washington Bee, a black paper, has "developed into one of the foremost among the female thinkers of the race." She wrote for a bewildering number of papers in a newspaper-rich era—the New York Age, Detroit Plain-Dealer, Indianapolis World, Little Rock Sun, Memphis Watchman, Chattanooga Justice, to name a few—on subjects all relating in one way or another to black "uplift." This meant everything from etiquette and homemaking to school-board elections and national politics. In 1887 Wells-Barnett attended the Louisville gathering of the National Colored Press Association, in the year it first accepted female journalists; soon she obtained a leadership position within the organization.
"She reaches the men by dealing with the political aspect of the race question," one colleague wrote, "and the women she meets around the fireside." "There is scarcely any reason why this woman, young in years and old in experience, shall not be found in the forefront of the great intellectual fight in which the race is now engaged for absolute right and justice under the Constitution," said another journalist. "[I]f she fails to impress her personality upon the time in which she lives, whose fault will it be?"
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Is Turkey again a democracy?
There is probably no concept that has been abused as extensively as democracy. Once the regimes of the Soviet bloc presented themselves as the champions of democracy. Dreadful African states love to put "democratic" in their names. The newly established far-right group in the European Parliament has named itself "Identity and Democracy". A system, in these people's terms, can be called democratic so long as voters are electing the enemies of democracy.
Meanwhile, in countries with functioning democracies, there is no such self-admiration and image-creation. Turkey does not fall into this latter category, though some say democracy suddenly returned to Turkey after this year's local elections. There are two reasons for this assumption.
Firstly, the fact that elections were held and the opposition won the mayoral seats in five of six of Turkey's largest cities means Turkey has found its democratic feet again. Nobody cares that the elections were neither free nor fair. So long as democracy is back, it doesn't matter.
The second assumption is that the opposition, composed of apples and pears, is democratic just because they are opposing a totalitarian regime.
But let's start with the first assumption. Pro-government commentators, writing for the foreign press, spread propaganda claiming that the opposition's victories in the March 31 local elections proved the resilience of Turkish democracy. When the Istanbul vote was cancelled unfairly, they repeated this rhetoric and started saying that the result of the Istanbul rerun, held on June 23, proved democracy's existence.
The most ridiculous thing is that those apologists do not realise that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is espousing the very same theory: "The people's will has manifested itself once more, our strongly grounded democracy has won again."
When the word democracy is used so easily by everybody, you enable Erdoğan by creating the image of a so-called unity of national purpose and belief to the rest of the world. Those who are looking at investing and who are doing business in Turkey have hopped on the bandwagon because they hoped Turkey would resolve its troubles so they could profit from this so-called new era of hope. They rejoiced at the government and opposition's joint chorus of "Turkey is a democracy"
So here is a Turkey, where millions -- yes millions -- of citizens suffer, get bullied, or are insulted, where people who are dismissed from public service face societal death, where thousands were imprisoned for no reason or have to flee the country and seek the protection of a different state, where justice is almost totally lacking, where the law only works in favour of the regime. This very same Turkey that is now being referred to as a democracy is a country that has sunk to the lowest ranks of all rights and freedoms indexes. Shame on you!
Leaving aside the sincere democrats, whose only hope was to somehow rupture the regime's fortress by voting in local polls, let's now discuss what this pathetic celebration of democracy means for the opposition.
Generally, there is hope that the 'Alliance for Istanbul' of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will turn into a nationwide 'Alliance for Democracy', which is also an ambition of the Kurdish movement. Yet, with whom and on what common platform?
It is time to revisit the performance of opposition parties so far in supporting democracy and to recall to what extent they can be deemed democratic.
Is the CHP, which joined the AKP's "Yenikapı spirit" – Erdoğan's call for national unity after the failed coup – democratic? Can the CHP be considered democrats when the party indirectly allowed the regime to imprison Kurdish politicians? Unfortunately, this party has no such programme apart from empty talk.
The Islamist Felicity Party, a small rival to Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), is headed by a lawyer who defended the perpetrators of one of Turkey's deepest traumas, the 1993 Sivas Massacre, in which 35 people, mostly of Turkey's large Alevi minority, perished. Furthermore, contrary to the CHP, this party has never claimed to seek democracy.
The same is true for the nationalist Good Party. Neither Meral Akşener, the hawkish interior minister of the mid 1990's, nor her party has any intention to make the country more democratic. An attack against Syrian refugees last week in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district in which the Good Party, which is anti-Syrian, indirectly played a part is just one obvious example of why nothing democratic will come out of this party.
Moreover, some expect that a new party that will be formed by former AKP luminaries will join the opposition. Reports indicate that the party will aim to resurrect the AKP of old, to take the movement back to its early days through democratic reforms, a return to the parliamentary system, re-establishing the separation of powers and by ensuring a fully functioning market economy. It is not too difficult to see that this party will fail to collect and reconstruct even the tiniest part of Turkey's ruins with its "well intended" priorities and principles, let alone bringing it democracy.
We are still acting with the laziness of creating political alternatives through elections and hoping for solutions through new leaders. The extensiveness of "election and leader fetishism" gives miraculous weight to those institutions. People think that democracy means changing those in power from one election to another. According to this logic, the criteria is to defeat Erdoğan who has been ruling the country for a long time and whom people are sick and tired of.
Is it possible to actually create a democratic reality from these grand post-election words with this opposition?
And, does not this verbal crescendo that Turkey has "returned to democracy" risk hurting the resistance against the totalitarian regime and Erdoğan by creating merely hope and lethargy?
Isn't it time to seek more local, civil and disobedient ways of resisting a totalitarian regime that go beyond election fetishism; to ask the question "how did we find ourselves here in the first place"?
The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Ahval.
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6 things to know in Austin food right now: Healthy downtown eatery sprouts new dining room
Trey Gutierrez
Aug 10, 2021 | 10:33 am
The Well's new dining room is a comfy spot to cozy up with some healthy fare.
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Editor's note: We get it. It can be difficult to keep up with the fast pace of Austin's restaurant and bar scene. We have you covered with our regular roundup of essential food news.
Eating healthily and still enjoying yourself? Yes, it's now actually possible in the heart of downtown Austin. The Well, Nova Hospitality's new concept, has opened a new dining room offering a full dinner menu and a "better-for-you" beverage program. Located in Austin's Second Street District, The Well features a menu that comes courtesy of the dynamic culinary duo of chef Jon Oh and nutrition consultant Liv Langdon. Highlights include main dishes like seared sea bass, Texas wagyu steak, and half chicken tagine with tomato sofrito and eggplant. For drinks, guests can expect unique offerings like Majik Matcha (mezcal, Blue Majik spirulina, matcha tea, and raw organic honey) and a keto Old-Fashioned featuring bone broth fat, washed bourbon, and medjool dates. The Well dining room is open for reservations and walk-ins Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday from 4:30-9 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 4:30-10 pm. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday from 4:30-6 pm and includes half-off deals on all alcoholic beverages and wines by the bottle.
There's more than just great beer brewing at one of the city's favorite carb-centric hangout spots, Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches. Now open at the east side hang's popular beer garden is a new food truck lead by chefs Carrie Legner and Laura Connolly, a duo previously known for their elevated in-home catering service, Food for Thought. Via their new food truck concept, Envie, the pair will serve up an eclectic fusion of Mexican and Cajun fare designed to please any palate. Offerings include mulitas, crispy corn tortillas stuffed with melty Monterey cheese; Blue Bossa, buttermilk fried local green tomatoes in crispy Barton Springs Mill blue cornmeal; and Cajun elotes, grilled corn topped with remoulade and cotija cheese — all of which are designed to pair with Batch's wide variety of beer offerings. Envie is open daily from 4-10 pm, and is located at 3220 Manor Road, in Batch's outdoor beer garden.
Dripping Springs: a bucolic stretch of Texas Hill Country that is home to some of the state's best wine, ales, and — burritos? Yep, Freebirds World Burrito has finally arrived in Dripping. The brand-new burrito-and-bowl-slinging location is slated to open this winter at the Shops at Ledge Stone. Though no official opening date has been announced, Freebirds will hold a public grand opening celebration with free samples and special promotions on a date to be announced soon. In preparation of slinging meaty burritos, tacos, and gallons of golden queso, Freebirds is looking to hire more than 40 employees at the new Dripping Springs restaurant. For more information, visit Freebirds.com/careers.
Other news and notes
After more than a decade of building up one of the state's most impactful culinary nonprofits, the head of the Austin-based Texas Food & Wine Alliance is moving on. TFWA announced August 6 that founding executive director Mariam Parker will transition out of her role and relocate to Chicago this fall. Gina Burchenal, a founding member of the alliance and past board president, will serve as the interim executive director until a successor can be found, according to the organization. In addition to Parker's departure, TFWA has named two new members of the board of directors: John Carbajal of San Antonio and Paula Rester Salinas of Fredericksburg, who previously worked as a sommelier at Uchi, Vino Vino, and the La Corsha Hospitality Group.
Your prayers to the pepperoni gods have been answered, pizza fans. Now, thanks to Detroit-style pizza shop Jet's Pizza, cheesy, meaty pies are just a text away. The company recently introduced its text-to-order program and is offering 20 percent off menu-priced pizzas to customers who order via text message to any of the three Austin locations. Using the same local number customers would call to place an order, they can text their order, choose pickup or delivery, provide payment information, and ask basic questions. Jet's specialties include the meat-tastic Jet 10 pizza and the BBQ chicken pizza. Get more info about the new text-to-order program and offer on the Jet's website.
Get ready, veg heads. Hopdoddy Burger Bar, one of Austin's favorite spots for a great burger and fries, is going where it never has before: Beyond Meat. As of this month, all Hopdoddy locations are shifting to the Beyond Burger as their exclusive plant-based burger offering and marking the occasion with the August Burger of the Month — Beyond a Reuben —a Beyond Burger patty topped with pastrami-spiced mushrooms, Gruyere cheese, Dijon mustard, sauerkraut, pickles, and Russian dressing on a fresh-baked caraway-seeded bun. With this launch, Hopdoddy becomes one of the first restaurant groups to offer the new meatier and juicier Beyond Burger, the latest iteration of the popular Beyond Burger. As part of the new partnership, Hopdoddy is taking over Beyond Meat food trucks in Dallas, Los Angeles, and other cities across the country to give Beyond Burgers a Hopdoddy twist. Dates, times, and locations will be shared in the coming months via Hopdoddy's social media pages: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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On Monday, February 5th, the US equity market experienced a sudden bout of volatility. The Dow Jones Industrial Average logged its largest-ever point decline to close down just over 1,175 points, although it had briefly dropped nearly 1,600 points during the day. It was the index's largest one-day percentage decline since August 2011. The ripples were felt around the world as Asian and European equity markets followed suit on Tuesday, February 6.
The suddenness of the market decline has left some market observers searching for an explanation, with one being a recognition that the era of cheap money globally appears to be ending.
However, equity investors have had good returns for many years now, so we view a market correction as healthy.
When you consider the markets have had a relatively strong, unprecedented rise the past couple of years, market corrections can serve as an opportunity to improve valuations so it's not quite as expensive to buy stocks. This helps to make new portfolio allocations more efficient.
Investors should not confuse the market for the economy. We have seen real, solid, economic growth globally. Companies that have low levels of debt, good earnings visibility, pricing power and positive cash flow should be able to do well even in an environment of tighter monetary policy and rising interest rates.
It's important to stress that while markets can be volatile in the near term, over the long term, they reflect the underlying fundamentals of companies and countries. In our view, long-term structural growth drivers are still in place, and a slight rise in interest rates or inflation should not have a significant detrimental impact. Consumer spending, infrastructure, technological innovation/adaptation are the long-term structural drivers of global growth, along with health care innovation.
We recognise that challenges remain across the globe. Structural reform (while often unpopular) is needed in some countries. Elections can bring uncertainty and change, and there is always the possibility of policy errors or unexpected geopolitical shocks.
In times of market turmoil, it's tempting to focus on the short term. However, it's important to consider one's long-term investment horizon and why you are investing, whether it's for retirement, your children's education or some other goal.
Market returns may vary over time, but as long as the world economy remains healthy and companies continue to innovate and grow, we think there is still a case for staying invested in equities for the potential growth we see likely ahead.
Most investors have significant investments in their home countries, which in the realm of behavourial finance is called home-county bias. For all investors, we think there's a case to be made for diversifying across asset classes and markets to help protect against the negative impact of a single event. Additionally, in times of volatility, we think active management can really prove its worth. We recommend investors consult with a financial advisor to determine the most appropriate portfolio allocations for their situation.
The recent market noise has not changed our view of the world. While additional volatility may follow, we remain optimistic about the coming year.
All investments involve risks, including possible loss of principal. The value of investments can go down as well as up, and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Stock prices fluctuate, sometimes rapidly and dramatically, due to factors affecting individual companies, particular industries or sectors, or general market conditions. Diversification does not guarantee profit or protect against risk of loss.


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Understanding the nature of state financialisation is crucial to ensure definancialisation efforts are successful. This paper provides a structured overview of the emerging literature on financialisation and the state. We define financialisation of the state broadly as the changed relationship between the state, understood as sovereign with duties and accountable towards its citizens, and financial markets and practices, in ways that can diminish those duties and reduce accountability. We then argue that there are four ways in which financialisation works in and through public institutions and policies: adoption of financial motives, advancing financial innovation, embracing financial accumulation strategies, and directly financialising the lives of citizens. Organising our review around the two main policy fields of fiscal and monetary policy, four definitions of financialisation in the context of public policy and institutions emerge. When dealing with public expenditure on social provisions financialisation most often refers to the transformation of public services into the basis for actively traded financial assets. In the context of public revenue, financialisation describes the process of creating and deepening secondary markets for public debt, with the state turning into a financial market player. Finally, in the realm of monetary policy financial deregulation is perceived to have paved the way for financialisation, while inflation targeting and the encouragement, or outright pursuit, of market-based short-term liquidity management among financial institutions constitute financialised policies.


After experiencing unparalleled success overseas, Denmark's Lukas Graham will now be releasing his first two tracks in the U.S.—"Mama Said" and "7 Years." Hailing from Christiania, an autonomous, artistic community in the center of Copenhagen, Graham's honest soul and gritty songwriting immediately captured Europe's attention, earning him multiplatinum albums, top 10 singles, as well as countless sold out shows and festival main stage spots across the continent. Classically trained with the Copenhagen Boys' Choir, with a musical scope widened by his Irish folk roots and passion for hip-hop, Graham possesses a distinct, poetic ability to capture the full range of emotions in his music. His raw blend of soulful vocals with personal songwriting, building to infectious hooks, is showcased on the lead, semi-autobiographical tracks "Mama Said" and "7 Years."
Already, he's making history with "7 Years." Until now, it was only available in Nordic territories, yet still managed to break into the Top 40 of Spotify's coveted Global Viral Chart, went #1 in Sweden, #2 in Norway. He's the first Danish artist to ever hit #1 on the Swedish Spotify chart.
Growing up in Christiania—an enclave of 850 residents in the center of Copenhagen with no cars, streetlights, or police, and where a personal toilet and running water are considered luxuries—shaped his dynamic sound. Graham drew from both his experience and a deep record collection. That experience spans everything from touring the world at 10-years-old in the choir to voice acting for Disney as the Danish Andy in official dubs in Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3.
For a glimpse of what a day in Graham's life is like in Christiania, watch the "Mama Said" video.
A lyricist first, Graham's style comes alive through the stories he tells, drawing listeners in to make their own connections. This style defined his 2012 self-titled first full-length album, which would go quadruple-platinum in Denmark and yield three smashes—"Drunk In The Morning" and "Better Than Yourself" would go #1 and "Ordinary Things" peaked at #2. All in all, cumulative single sales in Denmark would surpass 150,000 with nearly 40 million collective streams. That success translated to the rest of Europe. In Germany, "Drunk In The Morning" became a staple and the record reached #1 on iTunes. "Happy Home" would give him his third number one in Denmark in 2014, additionally going platinum in Sweden and triple platinum in Norway.
"Mama Said" and "7 Years" set the stage for the release of Graham's full-length North American debut, which will arrive in 2016.


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Microsoft announced the alpha release of its open-source, portable, event-driven runtime called Dapr. The aim is to make it easier for developers to build microservice applications.
According to the company, microservices benefits of scalability, loose service coupling and independent deployments come at the expense of increased complexity of distributed systems. In addition, writing an application may involve working with multiple languages, developer frameworks and infrastructure platforms.
Nevertheless, microservices is expected to grow and uphold 90% of all new apps by 2022, according to the consulting firm IDC in a report.
The new project Dapr is set to make it easier to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge. It consists of building blocks that are accessed by HTTP or gRPC APIs that work with any programming language. It also includes language-specific SDKs.
"This enables developers to write a combination of stateless and stateful functions and actors all in the language of their choice. And because these SDKs share the Dapr runtime, you even get cross-language actor and functions support," Microsoft wrote in a post that described the project.
Dapr consists of a set of building blocks accessed by standard HTTP or gRPC APIs that can be called from any programming language.
The alpha release includes some prominent building blocks such as:
Service invocation – enables method calls, including retries, on remote services wherever they are running in the supported hosting environment
State management – with which stateful services can be easily written, alongside stateless services in the same application. The state store is pluggable
Publish and subscribe messaging between services – simplifies horizontal scalability and make them resilient to failure
Event driven resource bindings – which build further on event-driven architectures for scale and resiliency by receiving and sending events to and from any external resources such as databases, queues, file systems, blob stores, webhooks, etc.
Virtual actors – A pattern for stateless and stateful objects that make concurrency simple with method and state encapsulation.
Distributed tracing between services – Easily diagnose and observe inter-service calls in production using the W3C Trace Context standard and push events to tracing and monitoring systems.
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Jakub Lewkowicz is a multimedia journalist who loves all things tech. Polish-born and Long Island-bred, he is an Online and Social Media Editor for SD Times. He is also a Carnegie Hall pianist and music producer.
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Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world. Albert Memmi depicts colonialism as a disease of the European but crucially he demonstrates that colonialism destroys both the colonizer and the colonized, providing penetrating insights into colonial inheritance and resistance that remain as relevant today. One of the great works of twentieth-century political thought, The Colonizer and the Colonized speaks to experiences in the Global South as well as European countries such as Britain and France, who are still struggling with their imperial pasts. In revealing the mechanisms of colonial oppression, it also highlights the origins of all oppression of one group by another. This edition includes introductions by two of the greatest writers of the twentieth-century: South African novelist and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Aurora Series Results!
By Amanda BridgemanSeptember 23, 2015August 16th, 2016Action, Aurora Series, Books, Serial Books, Statistics, Survey, Writers
Recently I set up a survey about the Aurora series in an attempt to learn more about my readers. I wrote a very brief blog post about it here. In short, I understood that not everyone is comfortable writing reviews, some people just want to read a book and leave it at that. But as an author, I am faced with the challenge of trying to find out who my readers are, and connecting with them to see what the like/don't like about the series. Therefore I hoped this survey would help gain feedback in such a way that it wouldn't take much of my readers' time, and being anonymous, they would (hopefully) feel that they could be totally honest.
I have to say, some of the results surprised me! Because of this, I think the exercise proved useful, as it helped me gain an extra insight into my readers that I didn't have before. As some of my readers expressed a desire to see the results as well, I have chosen to share them here today – question by question. But it's not just for the readers, I think some writers may find this of interest as well.
So how many responses did I receive?
55 surveys were received. Not a bad collection for a first try, I think! However, as this is only a minute fraction of the total Aurora readers out there, this needs to be kept in mind when reviewing the overall results.
*Note (1): I added in the last 3 questions after the first 8 responses had been collected (sorry, I was new to this!). So responses weren't collected to these questions (age, sex, and location) for the first 8 people.
*Note (2): according to the stats, 2 of the total survey responses were 'incomplete', meaning the respondent did not finish answering the questions. Upon looking at these two entries, they both only answered the first two questions.
*Note (3): many surveys were completed prior to the release of AURORA: EDEN, so this should be taken into account as some clearly referred to Eden in their comments, while others stated that they were looking forward to reading it, and this may or may not have had an effect on 'Favourite Characters', etc. In hindsight, I probably should've run this survey either before Eden came out, or after it did. Oh well, you live and you learn!
How were the surveys collected?
Now, this is probably more of interest to other writers who may be thinking of doing the same thing, but a quick snapshot of which channel the results came through, are as follows:
70% via the Facebook link. (Note: the two incomplete entries also came via this channel)
19% via a web link (posted through Twitter and also Google+)
11% via a pop-up on my website (I should note that my website was recently updated and this pop-up was accidentally removed, so this channel had been disabled for some weeks. Therefore it's not a very clear indication of how successful this channel was, but I suspect that had it been left in place, it would've exceeded the figure of the straight web link via Twitter, etc).
So, what questions did I ask in the survey? The ten questions are broken down below:
How did you find out about the Aurora series?
I always knew that Word of Mouth was one of the most powerful ways an author can reach new readers, so it didn't really surprise me that it was ranked second on this list. I was surprised that the Online Book Retailer came in the first place, though. But I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, because readers obviously bought the books via these channels, so it's only natural that that is how they discovered my books too. I did have some great exposure through the Australian iBooks Store 'Book of the Week' promotions, and the deal advertised through Bookbub saw Aurora: Darwin hit #1 on the Sci-fi Military chart on Amazon.com, which would've have increased my 'discoverability' significantly, albeit only for a few days.
It's clear to see that Twitter swooped into third place, with some of my guest posts on websites like SF Signal, and the BookBub promotion, came in fourth spot for how readers discovered my books. Google+ has never worked for me, so I'm not surprised by no score there, and I don't use Pinterest as a promotional tool, so that makes sense too.
It's nice to know that votes were cast for having discovered my books at a convention. Sometimes you wonder whether you reach anyone at these events, so it's nice to know that it can happen! Other hits were cast for discovering me via Facebook, my publisher's website, and also on Goodreads. I think, in short, it's good for a writer to cover their bases, and reach out through however many avenues they're comfortable with. Even if a certain avenue only picks you up one reader, well, that's one you didn't have before. And that one reader may just tell their friends (see Word of Mouth, in second place).
How many books have you read in the series?
Again, these results aren't much of a surprise. Given most of the people who completed the survey are fans of the series, it makes sense that they had read all of the books in the series. And it also makes sense that Darwin rates highly, because everyone tends to read the first book in a series, but they may not go on with the others if they find it's not their 'cup of tea'. All in all, it's nice to know I have readers who are well and truly enjoying the whole series!
What do you like most about the series?
Watching as the results came in, for a long time 'The Characters' was in a clear lead. But 'The Plot' stormed home to almost call it a draw. This question was my attempt to see if readers could put their finger on one certain aspect that they particularly enjoyed, or that keeps drawing them back to the series. It's good to see people are liking the characters and the overall story equally. Perhaps I should've put an option in there for 'All of the Above'?
Who are your favourite characters on the UNF Aurora?
This was an interesting result! One could expect to see both Carrie and Harris in equal first place, but that wasn't the case. For a long time, watching the results come in, Carrie was in a clear lead. Then McKinley caught up and they were neck and neck, then Carrie took the lead again, until finally McKinley stormed home to draw equal first place (always competing those two!). This actually put a huge smile on my face, to see how popular he is with readers. I can only assume that because Harris, so far, has been relatively steady and drama-free compared to Carrie, that that is why he is trailing in third place. But I'm sure that will change in the next few books . . . Another big surprise for me, was that of the rest of the Aurora crew, Yughiarto (Yughi) was the next most popular, after Doc. It's nice to see he has made an impression. 🙂
Who are you favourite characters off the UNF Aurora?
Captain Lee of the UNF Vortex took first place among the characters off the UNF Aurora, and that was nice to see – that he had struck readers so clearly as a favourite. He had a clear lead for most of the time, until Professor Sharley caught up and slid into 2nd place, and Chet into 3rd. Which, as an author, is great to see – that readers like the bad guys you write also! It was nice to see Taya Harris and Colonel Welles rate, along with Ellen Walker, Doc's mother. Again, sometimes you're not sure whether the secondary characters leave any impression on your readers, so it's great to see that most of them have been. 🙂
Do you have a favourite book so far in the series?
This question was aimed at finding out whether enjoyment of the series was increasing or waning. Thankfully the majority of readers have enjoyed all the books equally. Phew! And of course it must be taken into account how many books each reader had actually read, in order to rate their favourite book. Some respondents had only read Aurora: Darwin, so naturally, they could only select that one as their favourite. And as said earlier, many respondents had completed this survey before reading Aurora: Eden. What is interesting, is that Aurora: Meridian technically rated least of the four (when voted on singularly), and yet this is the book that was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award! Go figure! Still, at the end of the day, the majority of readers have enjoyed all the books equally, and that's what counts!
Are there any other thoughts (positive or negative) that you would like to share about the series?
I gave readers the option to leave comments, so they could convey any thoughts to me that weren't necessarily captured in my (very general) ten questions. 28 of the 55 respondents left comments. I won't print the individual comments here, mainly because I didn't state in the survey that they might show up on my blog at some point, so I think it's best I don't! But, in general terms, I really appreciated all the comments and feedback, which were predominantly positive – like having 28 mini-reviews! It was also interesting to see the contrast in readers' opinions. For instance, some said they loved the pace of my books, where others said that they could be a little slow in places – but that the endings were always exceptional. Some commented on how much they enjoy the action sequences, while others said how much they like the character development, and some even said they wanted to know more about the secondary characters. And speaking of contrast, I couldn't help but find it amusing that one respondent said they were devastated when I killed off a main character in Centralis, while another respondent said they were glad that I killed them off. LOL.
What age range do you fit into?
The last three questions in the survey, were basically about trying to find out who my readers were, in general terms. According to the results, there's a nice spread of age ranges that are enjoying the books, with the 36-45 age range coming out on top. It would be interesting to compare these results with general stats of 'typical' readerships out there. After all, is the 36-45 age group considered the most prolific readers generally in the world? And how do these stats compare with sci-fi readership in particular? And then there are the comparison with ebook vs print readers and what age ranges they tend to fall into as well…
What sex are you?
Ok, so this result surprised me. I had assumed that females made up the majority of my readers (I'm not sure why), but according to these stats, I have more male readers. Which is really cool, actually! My books do have plenty of action and intrigue, violence and swearing, but I guess I always wondered whether the strong romantic subplot would turn male readers away. Well, apparently not. This was an awesome thing to discover! Again, it would be interesting to compare these stats with 'general readership' figures, and also of 'typical' sci-fi stats. After all, do more males tend to read sci-fi? Or was this recently debunked as a myth? That's probably another blog post, I think.
Where do you live in the world?
I'm not surprised at all that Australia came in first place for where my readers resided, being an Australian author and all, but I was surprised to see that, although the USA came in second, it was a quite distant second – which doesn't reflect my sales. Based on recent stats given to me by my publisher, Australian readers accounted for 43% of my sales, and readers from the USA accounted for 42%. Perhaps Aussies are just more into filling out surveys? LOL. Aside from the countries listed, I also received surveys from Singapore and Sweden.
As a writer in today's world, there are many challenges faced with growing your readership, and fighting to be heard among the millions of books flooding the market. And while we experiment with different marketing tools and social media platforms, we get out and about at conventions, and do guest posts on various blogs, at the end of the day, sometimes it helps to just get in touch with your current readers and interact with them. Ask them questions and listen to what they have to say. This was only a very basic survey (and yes, it probably could've been run a little better), but I've learned a lot, and I'm really glad that I undertook this exercise. I think it will be really interesting to run this survey again in twelve months time, try to increase the number of responses, and see how/if the results change.
So there you have it! I hope you have enjoyed this little insight into the Aurora series readership. A big thank you to all those who took part in this survey. I really appreciate it – you're awesome!
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See in Glossary and a brief description of the package, as well as the earliest version of Unity the package is compatible with.
The package manifest uses the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) syntax to describe what the package contains. The file's format is similar to npm's package.json format, but uses different semantics for some of its attributes.
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Kirovsk Branch of Apatit is a 90-year old mining and processing plant.
It was incorporated in 1929 as Trust Apatit to mine the unique apatite-nepheline ore from the Khibiny deposit. This is one of the world's biggest and richest deposits and the main source of phosphate rock in Russia, unique in terms of environmental friendliness and safety.
With more than two billion tonnes of ore produced and processed since the facility's foundation, Kirovsk Branch has churned out more than 700 mt and 72 mt of apatite and nepheline concentrate, respectively.
Khibiny Branch of Apatit is PhosAgro's flagship producer supplying eco-friendly apatite concentrate to the Company's facilities across the country so that they could put out fertilizers for our clients in Russia and over 100  foreign countries.
Currently, Kirovsk Branch of Apatit is the world's leading producer of high-grade (P2O5 content of at least 37.5%) phosphate rock and Russia's only producer of nepheline concentrate.
It develops six Khibiny deposits: Kukisvumchorr, Yukspor, Apatitovy Cirque, Rasvumchorr Plateau, Koashva and Njorkpahk.
Some 10.1  mt of apatite concentrate and 986  kt of nepheline concentrate were produced at the company's beneficiation plants in 2018.
Kirovsk Branch of Apatit is developing six Khibiny deposits: Kukisvumchorrskoye, Yuksporskoye, Apatitovy Tsirk, Plateau Rasvumchorr, Koashva and Nyorkpakh.
Andrey Abrashitov
Director of the Kirovsk Branch of Apatit
1 Leningradskaya Street, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, 184250, Russian Federation
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Minakova Galina
High-grade phosphate rock
Syenite alkali aluminium concentrate
Nepheline concentrate
Investment program
The key focus areas of Apatit's Kirovsk Branch investment programme are developing its resource base, processing capacities and production infrastructure facilities and ensuring industrial and environmental safety. The company is actively running a digitalisation programme. For example, a modern transport operations control centre for support service vehicles was rolled out jointly with Samoilov Scientific Research Institute for Fertilizers and Insectofungicides. Total investment in the development of mining and processing capacities for the last five years exceeded RUB 53 billion.
Completed projects Current projects Plans
To increase the supply of fresh air to the lower horizons of underground mines, in 2017 we launched main ventilation fans in the western service shaft of Kirovsky Mine and the VS-1 and VS-2 shafts of Rasvumchorrsky Mine. The air supplied to the mine is heated using gas-powered heating units.
Investment in the project stands at RUB 1.5 billion.
The main shaft No. 2 (GS-2) equipped with two skips (self-unloaders) with a capacity of 45 t was put into operation after an overhaul at the Kirovsk mine in August 2015. From the engineering perspective, it is a highly complex underground crusher and above-ground mining facility designed to deliver ore from the underground facility to the surface from a depth of about 350 m. The launch of GS-2 enabled us to replace retired capacities and boost the mine's production from 14 to 22 mtpa.
Total investment in the project exceeded RUB 12 billion.
In August 2018, Kirovsky Mine saw the launch of a project (the first of its kind in Russia) to introduce remote underground drilling in deep wells. Currently, one operator manages six drilling rigs, with their number set to increase to ten going forward. The plan is to manage underground drilling at both Kirovsky and Rasvumchorrsky Mines using a single operator dashboard. Apart from enhancing occupational safety during the underground works, transition to remote drilling will bring about a 20% improvement in the efficiency of drilling rigs thanks to shorter downtime between the shifts.
The project's target investment will be over RUB 90 million.
The facility introduces cyclical and continuous technology for crushing, transportation and dumping of overburden. The target production capacity of the facility is 5,500 tph, or 30 mtpa of rock. Three conveyor belts with a total length of about 5 km will replace a fleet of dump trucks cutting overburden transportation costs by 15%.
Investment in the project exceeds RUB 5 billion.
To increase Kirovsky Mine's production volumes to 22 mtpa in 2024 (up from 20 mtpa in 2018), PhosAgro plans to launch a crushing and delivery unit and an additional ore drawing capacity at the Kukisvumchorrskoye deposit in 2021. The Company also plans to commission a crushing and delivery unit and an additional ore drawing capacity at the Yuksporskoye deposit in 2022, with the total volumes of reserves to be involved in processing amounting to ca. 300 mt.
According to the rough estimates, investments in the project in the period up to 2035 will amount to RUB 19 billion.
Apatite-nepheline beneficiation plant No. 2 (ANBP-2)
In 2017–2018, the phosphate rock production unit at ANBP-2 saw a technical upgrade, which helped bring production costs for high-grade apatite concentrate down by 10% and increase recovery rates for low-grade ores by 1%. Investment in the ANBP-2 upgrade project exceeded RUB 3 billion.
In 2013–2018, ANBP-3 was upgraded, with its production capacity increasing from 4.5 mtpa to 9 mtpa of apatite concentrate. The upgrade also involved the creation of a greenfield nepheline concentrate production facility with an annual capacity of up to 1.3 mt.
The project helped improve the ore processing efficiency (with the recovery rate increasing from 90.5% to 91.5–92%) and reduce the production costs for high-grade apatite concentrate by 10%.
Investment in the ANBP-3 upgrade project exceeded RUB 10 billion.
Kirovsk mine
To extract 22 mt of ore by 2020, the Company plans to retrofit the GS-1 shaft (ore output at GS-1 will be 3 mtpa).
Target investment in the project will be over RUB 90 million.
To provide underground mining operations with proper ventilation, the facility's development programme up to 2023 specifies the construction of two air heating and ventilation units with a total capacity of 1,300 cu m/s.
Investment in the project will total RUB 1.2 billion.


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Young Taiwanese Merchants Association of Toronto (YTMAT) was founded in 2006 under the guidance of the Taiwan Merchants Association of Toronto (TMAT). TMAT was established in 1995 under the government of Ontario with the purpose of connecting Taiwanese business owners closer to the global business world.
We aim to provide an inspiring environment that fosters ideas and aspirations in hopes of sparking entrepreneurial innovation between our members. By bringing together a diverse collection of young professionals and post-secondary students from different fields of expertise, we believe in establishing ourselves as an entrepreneurial development group dedicated to the professional growth of our respective members to better prepare them for the business world. Additionally, we encourage the building of professional and personal relationships between our members to nurture constructive, long-lasting friendships.
YTMAT focuses on supporting young Taiwanese professionals who aspire to strive in the business community. In the future, members of YTMAT will be the ones to reinforce the strong and sustainable professional community that our Taiwanese elders have pioneered. This professional community should not only continue to grow in Canada, but also maintain a positive relationship with our comrades in Taiwan as well, strengthening the bridge between Taiwanese industry and Canadian markets. Working closely with other Taiwanese organizations, YTMAT hopes to raise cultural awareness and national pride for our young professionals.
YTMAT is part of a worldwide network of Taiwanese Associations, with over 20 chapters in North America and many more in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Oceania. Every year we participate in 2 conferences in North America and 2 conferences around the world. As a member, you also have opportunities to join and meet with thousands of Taiwanese business professionals all over the world.


We (hopefully) acknowledge where we have gone wrong, we resolve to take a path that leads us to healing and to right relationship with God, and we express our gratitude to the Lord for another opportunity to live out His will for us.
Our yearning for a shot at redemption reaches its pinnacle when we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ at Easter. That God sacrificed his only begotten Son so that we might be reborn in faith, and that Jesus brought this promise to fulfillment by rising from the dead, is the bedrock of our Christian belief. It is the greatest example of God's abounding love and mercy for us.
We don't have to look too far today for examples of the pain and destruction that happens when people become estranged and separated from that which gives them love, support and acceptance. Whether it is the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the acrimonious public dialogue over issues like immigration and gun control, or the rising number of brothers and sisters living on our streets, we are faced with so many situations that need healing.
As with most things, it begins with us—acknowledging our own need for healing and reconciliation with those who we might have hurt or who have hurt us. The well-known parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke's Gospel, and its three principle characters, can help us reflect on this. The departure of the Prodigal Son and his squandering of family wealth causes an estrangement. In the end, however, it is the older brother who remains isolated and bitter, refusing to join in the celebration of his brother's return and his reconciliation with the family.
In this Easter Season, will we be like the father; forgiving and reconciling, or the older brother; holding grudges and refusing to open ourselves to love again?
Let us take this time of rebirth in the Resurrection of our Lord to look at our own need for healing and to be agents of healing and reconciliation with those around us. And let us offer our gratitude for the many blessings we receive from God, who so loved us that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life (John 3:17).
I offer my prayers and blessings to all for a joyous Easter Season. He is Risen. Allelujah!


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Marriott Gets Flak for Wild-Animal Displays
PETA Will Push Executives at Annual Meeting to Ban Wild-Animal Exhibits at Weddings, Other Events
David Perle 202-483-7382
Bethesda, Md. – "When will Marriott ban cruel and dangerous wild-animal displays at its properties?" That's the question a PETA representative will ask Marriott executives at the company's annual meeting on Friday. PETA bought stock in the company in 2012 in order to advocate for animal-friendly reforms. Marriott has allowed elephants to be used in weddings and big cats to be displayed at its properties.
In the full question, PETA points out that wild animals used in traveling displays are separated from their mothers at a young age and beaten or whipped in violent training sessions in order to break their spirits. Being deprived of mental stimulation and subjected to chronic stress and frustration causes many captive animals to develop abnormal forms of behavior, such as constant rocking, swaying, or pacing—and some, unable to endure the harsh treatment any longer, have lashed out at and even killed humans.
"Marriott is on the wrong side of history as long as it permits exploitative wild-animal exhibitors to haul suffering animals around its properties," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "PETA is calling on the company to join the hundreds of properties that bar these abusive displays."
Wild animals are prohibited at more than 650 U.S. facilities, including those owned by CBL & Associates Properties, Macerich, and Simon Property Group. Other companies, including Tripadvisor, Airbnb, and Booking.com, have taken steps to remove activities that exploit wild animals, such as riding elephants, petting tiger cubs, or swimming with dolphins.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way"—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.


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Борба на Бељаковцу била је 16. јуна 1905, када је петочлана чета са војводоом чича Павлом Младеновичем и шефом Горског штаба Бацетом откривена од бугараша и опкољена турском потером. У покушају да се пробију погинуло је свих седам четника. Четници су након опколења покушали да се пробију кроз два супротна правца. Том приликом група чиче Павле Младеновића је изгинула, док се Бацета успео решити са једним четником и склони у шуму близу цркве. Туда је пролазило турско одељење и пошто си мислили да су откривени, Бацета и четник отворе ватру на Турке, једнога убију али и сами погину.

Према изјавама Косте Пећанца, Бацета је тада имао 25 нових четника, које је прикупио од околног становништва а да им се због тога не знају имена. Оволики број новоангажованих људи са терена није вероватан и не слаже се са писањем Илије Трифуновића-Бирчанина.

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 Владимир Илић: Српска четничка акција 1903-1912, стр 63.

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Историја Србије у новом веку
Историја Македоније у новом веку
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Србија у 1905.

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