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Libby stared into the offending corner for a few seconds, lifting a hand to her cheek to check the damage. A small flap of skin had been detached by the glancing blow, and she picked it off and examined it, then brushed it off her fingers. Then she swivelled round in her chair, searching for the stone. It was lying inert by the door, and she stood up and went to fetch it. Standing in the middle of the room, she tried the experiment again. Again the stone came hurtling back at her. Forewarned, she managed to dodge it this time. It hit the door behind her, which opened on cue.
Libby bent to pick up the stone. 'It just landed one on me with this,' she said.
'I don't see why not. It was a long time ago. I'm not sure quite when, but several hundred years ago, I believe. There's a story that if you happen to be in the hallway at midnight, you might just see copious quantities of blood dripping down the banisters. I've never seen it myself,' he added hastily.
Adam waved a hand at the assorted tubes and wires still sticking out of his body. 'Not unless they manage to get rid of all these first,' he said, ruefully.
'I'll need a wheelchair, if I can come. And someone to push it.' His glance was shy, a mixture of hope and self-effacing deprecation.


Options in India: Hiring Sentiments up!! More than meets the eye?
Hiring Sentiments up!! More than meets the eye?
India's job market is yet to recapture the highs seen in 2008, but it seems set to outdo 2009—a year when the economy slowed down—if the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for the first quarter of 2010 is any indication.
India's adjusted net employment outlook for this quarter is 39%. The outlook is the difference between the proportion of employers who say their headcount will increase in the three months to March and those who say it will decrease, adjusted for seasonal variations.
-This number is the highest it has been in five quarters, an indication of a return to normalcy in the job market.
- 2010 will see a mix of replacement hiring, to fill up vacant positions and hiring for new positions, signifying expansion.
- Employers in 25 out of 35 countries reported positive hiring intentions for Q1. The most optimistic employment forecasts after India were reported by employers in Brazil, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia.
Is it as hunky dory as it sounds? After all one must differentiate the 'intent' to hire-and the willingness/ability to hire, right?
Whats the ground reality? Take two of the biggest employment sectors in India that drive the frenzy.
a) IT industry: The financial results in the last 2 quarters indicate that IT companies seeing a drop in consulting income! Global majors such as Accenture and IBM, both large players in consulting, saw decline in that business, as clients deferred investments. Ditto with the revenue for 3 major Indian IT majors (TCS, Wipro and Infosys ) saw a decline in the September quarter compared with the corresponding quarter last year!!. (Recall that was before the Lehman fiasco and the subsequent events!!).
-slower pace of ongoing projects and deferment of decisions to expand work beyond current commitments.
b) Telecom industry: Airtel reported a lower-than-expected profit as a brewing price war among India's mobile operators depresses margins-as Tata DoCoMo, offering per second instead of per minute billing and Reliance Communications slashed its rates. Rajesh Jain's blog captures the mood for mobile operators well!
Uninor recently had an All India launch, and that meant quite a decent number of replacement hiring in the respective companies.
However, the entry of new players and the launch of third-generation, or 3G, services are also expected to expand demand for people.
1. Thickness of the Times of India Ascent -supplement is directly proportional to the hiring activity!
The good news -it was 8 pages this week-compared to the 4 pages in the recent months.It was a delight to see 4 half page colour ads.
However analysing them further, one gets into the bottom:.
Infosys-HR leaders for over 10yrs exp in talent acquisition, OD and Business partner HR team.
Pardon me for going on and on..like a broken record!! Companies have been cherry picking!!
2.There is increased activity...not resulting in higher offers though!
No tearing hurry as in the hey days! Our experience- while companies go thru the different rounds and rounds of hiring process of screening before and finalising the shortlist, and even negotiating the salary to be offered-there is a certain reluctance to sign on the dotted line. There is an underlying assumption that lot of talent is available..so let us wait for a "Sachin Tendulkar' to come along, and lets be more patient :-)!
The media hype has had the job aspirants in a tizzy. Perhaps it has to do most of the professionals being shortchanged out of a decent hike in 2009-reckoning that it entitles them to a higher negotiating posture. Most of them expect up to 30% to 40% hike while changing jobs-little realising they are out pricing themselves :-)! They have no compelling reason to change at the conservative figures clients are willing to pay in the 'present market'!!
3.Strategic hiring! It is interesting to note that in the last 12 months, one has seen a range of activity from the clients in India. First, they stopped hiring. For a while, there was firing 'non performers'. A period where most companies did well to extract the best of the rest-till a recent phenomenon when companies are finally hiring for 'vacant' positions. Cautious but studied hiring.
I recall listening to a speech by Mr Subroto Bagchi. Frustration happens when there is a gap between ability and aspirations. Two choices to bridge it. Either increase ability. Or reduce aspiration!
Time will tell -who will blink first-the corporates wanting to hire? Or the job aspirant willing to give in!!


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Q: Как отправить на websocket сообщение из node js? В моем приложении node js понадобилась отправка сообщений на websocket. Я решил что надо написать клиента websocket серверу. Вот пример:
 var WebSocketClient = require('websocket').client;

var client = new WebSocketClient();

client.on('connectFailed', function(error) {
    console.log('Connect Error: ' + error.toString());
});

client.on('connect', function(connection) {
    console.log('WebSocket Client Connected');
    connection.on('error', function(error) {
        console.log("Connection Error: " + error.toString());
    });
    connection.on('close', function() {
        console.log('echo-protocol Connection Closed');
    });
    connection.on('message', function(message) {
        if (message.type === 'utf8') {
            console.log("Received: '" + message.utf8Data + "'");
        }
    });
});

client.connect('ws://192.168.0.180:8080/', 'echo-protocol');

Как отправить сообщение из обработчика события, где уже произошел connect, это понятно, в данном случае connection.sendUTF например.
А как отправить сообщение не через обработчик события я не понимаю. Пробовал client.sendUTF, client.send и тп - все без толку... При запуске пишет что не найдена функция. Пробовал вручную найти метод, не нашел, в документации тоже нету.
Как отправить сообщение не из обработчика события connect?

A: Проблема у Вас в том что client и connection  разные объекты(разных "классов"). Для решения вашей задачи надо как-то сохранить переменную соединения
var WebSocketClient = require('websocket').client;
var client = new WebSocketClient();
var _connection = null;

client.on('connectFailed', function(error) {
   console.log('Connect Error: ' + error.toString());
});

client.on('connect', function(connection) {
    console.log('WebSocket Client Connected');
    connection.on('error', function(error) {
        console.log("Connection Error: " + error.toString());
        _connection = null;
    });
    connection.on('close', function() {
        console.log('echo-protocol Connection Closed');
        _connection = null;
    });
    connection.on('message', function(message) {
        if (message.type === 'utf8') {
            console.log("Received: '" + message.utf8Data + "'");
        }
    });
});

function Send(data){
  if (_connection === null){
      throw 'Not connect';
  }
  _connection.send(data); //не ведаю какое у вас апи подставьте свой метод
}
client.connect('ws://192.168.0.180:8080/', 'echo-protocol');

Тут есть одна проблема вам в любом случае нужно каким-либо способом дожидаться события соединения что-бы корректно начать обмен.
Можно написать какой-то контроллер и биндить его.

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Meet Captain Moore: The (Almost) 100-Year-Old Hero
Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, some opt for walkers and long strolls around their colorful gardens. Folks, meet Captain Moore: the 99-year-old World War Two veteran who just won the hearts of users worldwide.
It all started when the army hero set out on an inspiring goal to not only boost his health during these trying times, but to give back to the community.
"It started off as a family joke," as Moore himself put it, but quickly turned him into an overnight sensation, as he raised a whopping $25 million for the NHS.
Well, what exactly did our beloved superstar do, exactly? After being "Treated so well by the NHS," the 99-year-old decided to raise £1,000 (about $1,250) for the health service by completing 100 laps around his garden before his 100th birthday on April 30th.
Reuters / Peter Cziborra
Sure enough, after officially starting the uplifting challenge on April 6th, Moore has since completed his applaud worthy task - and earned the hearts of you and me in the process.
"It's a fantastic sum of money. I would never have imagined that amount. It's unbelievable that people have been so kind," he revealed on his viral accomplishment.
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Soooo…new website….! Thank you to my lovely mate Lee Prior Collier for putting this together, and getting it online, and to Jess Williams for designing what I think is a really cool logo…. if anyone wants to buy my licence for Adobe Contribute, I'll sell it at a good discounted price…!! What I need to do now is 'populate' the website with videos, photos, and stuff I've never been able to do with the old site.
A couple of weeks ago (12th March), I bizarrely had another 'Notice of intent to revoke' (my visa application) from the United Sates Customs and Immigration department, BUT with leave to (once again) appeal it. At the end of May, it is four years since this whole absurd, odd, and – unfair? – saga began: four very expensive years in many respects. In the USCIS communication, what was good for me to read is that I wasn't rejected based on anything I'd done….it's actually to do with the USA end of things. I'll tell my immigration lawyer before I leave for Colombia whether or not I'll appeal, but unless God tells me with a loud voice otherwise, I won't be appealing…. It seems that, after many months of trying to get people to clear the house in the USA of my stuff, a very kind lady, Kiki, who used to be in the church I used to be part of, has done an amazing job: and it seems that at last, having tried to get this underway last August, the stuff I need to be shipped back to the UK is on its way. I just need somewhere to store it now… while I get round to selling some of it in the hope of clawing back some of the huge costs. As you can imagine, too, the long delays have cost the owners of the house dear, as house prices have crashed through the floor even since getting it valued last August, when it was ALREADY 40% lower than the price paid for it….
So I owe the enemy big time, and plan to pay him back – with God's help of course! – over the coming trip, and trips! I'm thrilled to bits that, on this trip, I have two guys going for their second visits – Chris from Devon (Head of Maths, but I can just about forgive him for that!), and Lee, doctor and web genius, along with his lovely wife, Katie, also a doctor (who just, as it happens, has done a course on knee injections!!). And… really, really thrilled to have my lovely friend Benny Osorio with me: I've known Benny since 1996, he's from Mexico City, where he and his lovely wife, Paty, head up a church, and a network of churches across Mexico. I've been part of their family, really, since '96: sad that his lovely dad, Enrique, went to be with Jesus three years ago, but thrilled to see Benny not only stand in his dad's place, but grow it… in 2001, I had the absolute delight of marrying Benny & Paty, a week before Christmas, in Mexico City: and their son (they have a beautiful daughter, Ceci, too) is named Pablo… after me, which I find incredibly honouring and humbling…. God has really intervened BIG TIME in getting Benny there, so it's going to be a blast…..


With the advent of messenger apps, the speed at which information travels has increased significantly. This is abundantly clear with apps like WhatsApp acting as our first news sources and followed by traditional online media. This is usually then confirmed after more than a day with traditional print media with the daily news at 8pm containing the story.
The story of the now former Minister of Home Affairs for Namibia Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana bears reference. The story was widely shared in groups within minutes of it having occurred. Messages started flying at 3:45pm in the afternoon (1 February 2018) with an official looking letter from the president's office confirming the news. The nature of the letter clearly shows that it was photographed whilst lying on a desk somewhere and shared widely.
This means that even before the recipient of the letter had received the letter, we the public via WhatsApp had already learnt of its contents. Reporters who tried to call the now ex-minister could not get any comment from the Minister as she was unaware of the letter and its contents. Of course, it latter turned out that the letter was indeed valid and the minister had been relieved of her duties.
This means we are now in the real-time news realm. News travel very fast and people can consume it as it happens. As this becomes the norm, news that's a few hours old becomes stale news. WhatsApp groups have largely contributed to this real time news phenomena which social media heavyweights like Facebook had started. There are other popular instant messaging apps like Wechat and Facebook Messenger, to name a few that provide almost similar functionality. However, the largest instant messenger by number of users and by number of messages delivered is WhatsApp.
Sending a message in a group means everyone in the group receives the message and notification on their phones. These people also then tend to share this message with their other colleagues in other groups and in a short period of time, everyone knows what's happening. The thing of groups is also that members can be from different countries thereby accelerating the movement of news across borders.
Traditionally in Namibia, media houses that deal with print usually have a 24 hrs news cycle. This means they print a copy of their newspaper once daily usually from Monday to Friday. This means if something happens at 10am in the morning, you will only see this news item in the newspaper only in the following day. Some countries have morning, afternoon and evening newspapers and the idea was to reduce the time of something happening and it being reported. Some media houses in Namibia have resorted to a semi-hybrid approach where they use social media or their websites to post breaking news articles. They usually provide headings and only a paragraph with a "Story developing more details to follow" disclaimer. The story is then featured in the print copy the following morning.
This then means that a vacuum is then created for real time news in between print runs. Reporters usually follow some ethics code that requires them to verify facts before publishing them. This also adds a delay to their publishing of stories. In my own humble opinion, this an archaic and ancient method of disseminating news. A quick search on Google tells me that the first printed newspaper came out in 1666, three and half centuries (351 years to be exact) ago and there has been no real change to this method of news dissemination till the 21st century.
All this does not affect WhatsApp news, or news shared via instant messaging apps. The public is not bound by an ethics code liked media houses. So, if one sees an interesting story, in this case a letter, they will share and comment on it like there's no tomorrow. This is what has made real time news popular, technology and ease of access to smartphones which personalize news. Mobile apps like Lela, have to some extent tried to cover this vacuum by providing verified news as it happens. The fact that only verified news is displayed in Lela means people are more likely to trust the news than the news shared on WhatsApp groups.
Of course, there are downsides to this real time news culture. Forwarded content is usually never checked to verify facts. This means that a lie or a made-up story can move around the world in a very short time, sometimes causing irreparable damage. This happened to The University of Namibia where a made-up story contained in a memo about the university losing student marks and grades was widely circulated. The story circulated so widely that the University was forced to respond and issue a press release saying that the story was in fact a made-up story and therefore false. In some cases, damage would already have been done. This is more-so in cases whereby personal issues are widely circulated. Sometimes the affected party cannot issue a media release or respond to content shared via instant messaging.
I'm a technology person, I'm all for fast and real time news. However, because of some of the content shared on instant messages, I tend to be skeptical about everything unless confirmed by traditional media. This gives me a good balance between real time news access and verified factual stories. But that's just me.
What's the weirdest story that you received on WhatsApp that turned out to be false?


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Q: Opposite of a sentinel value I need to indicate an error value that is encapsulated in a string. For example, here would be an example:
int a = "asd";
==> '\x00asd'
// meaning an error was generated and the original value
// that generated it was 'asd'

Where \x00 at the start would indicate that the value to follow is actually an error. Is there a term for this type of "sentinel-value" at the start of a string?


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We have posted a number of pages from my father's FBI files which we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Some of the documents I found the most interesting/disturbing were about 'informant No 11″ who was repeatedly interviewed by the FBI and claimed my father had tried to delay the winning of the war by 'insisting on doing more theoretical calculations rather than shooting rockets"- of course one my father's major contributions to the development of astronatics was the application of applied mathematics and controlled experiments ( working with his thesis advisor Theodore Von Karman).
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My mother used to tell the story of walking by the car with the agent watching our front door in Paris watching the comings and goings in our home- she started buying him coffee and croissants !
Selected pages from the Frank Malina FBI files. Pages have been selected by Nina Czegledy in connection with the exhibition of the work of Gyorgy Kepes and Frank Malina.
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I've started reading your blog now, I think its great.


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How to attend the TED conference without leaving Guangzhou? Go to TEDxXiguan! TEDxXiguan organized the TEDxXiguanLive event on 29th Apr, the Live on its tail means it's a simulcast event, live-streaming from the TED Conference, where the most forward thinkers and doers of our time take the stage in turns and give the talk of their lives under 18 minutes.
Yet not all of the TED talks will be published on TED.com, not to mention you will only be able to see them when the buzz is gently hushed. That's why TEDxXiguan organizes this Live event, wishing to bring the ideas into our community in their most original form in a timely manner.
100 audience joined the party, we watched the talks and enjoyed snacks and wine. Discussion topics including gender equality; the future of Internet; how should we work and how should we set goals; the power behind China's tech innovation and many more. The audience left feeling a healthy dose of critical thinking and open-mindedness.
For more TEDxXiguan events please follow its official WeChat account: tedxxiguan and website www.tedxxiguan.com.
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On August 13th, the 2016 TEDxXiguan annual conference will be held, where 13 speakers will share their great ideas around the theme of "Constructive Disruption".
* Speaker line-up in no particular order.
Jun Lu was honoured as one of the 100 creative and talented artists in Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists. He won the Photography Gold medal, the Sculpture Bronze and the Digital art Silver Prize separately on the 7th, 9th and 10th X Biennale di Firenze, and also won as the outstanding photographer of Pingyao International photography, his works being on exhibitions in museums and galleries across the world.
He is a pioneer in the development of "Digital Ink and Wash". By capturing the moments that the colours taking changes in the water, he perfectly presents different scenarios while colours meet the water. Actually, this can be tracked back to the Chinese traditional wash paintings in the old time, but he renovates the storytelling style, and develops it into a more abstract and contemporary artistic expression.
Martin Yan, the world's foremost expert on Chinese cooking and the host of the famous cooking TV show, brings the ancient country's beauty to the table with gorgeous dishes, breathtaking photographs, and fascinating information about the food, history, and culture of China. He is also the author of 6 cookbooks.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Martin has remained an active international food ambassador. He roams the world respresenting different commercial and social concerns to entertain and educate the public, sharing with them his unique humor and strong passion for Chinese cooking.
Zhiyong Xi is a professor at Sun Yat-sen University and Michigan State University.
Xi has led a Guangzhou- based pilot field study using mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which aims at curbing on the reproduction of mosquitoes that carry dengue and Zika virus in order to prevent dengue and Zika diseases spreading around the world.
Remarkable achievements have been made since the launch of this project. Xi hopes that, in the future, the way to reduce the number of mosquitoes that carry virus can be developed in controlling the number of roaches, flies and other pests.
Metro started their career in 1998 singing aboard several ships with Celebrity Cruises. After four years with the fleet, they moved to Tokyo, Japan and performed for Tokyo Disney Sea in the American Waterfront. Their reputation for being exceptional entertainers caught the attention of the directors of Hong Kong Disneyland and in 2005, they were asked to open the park. After two years with the company, Metro made the decision to enter the mainstream music industry and they have never looked back. Since that time, Metro has discovered an entirely different variety of Cantonese and Mandarin music from the last 50 years and now performs some of China's most beloved songs as well as their own compositions. After recording two trendsetting albums, in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, Metro has established themselves as powerful artists in the Asian music market.
They recorded their first Cantonese music video, My Pride, in 2009 and the response was overwhelming. Shortly after, in 2010, Metro recorded Beyond's famous rock ballad, Under A Vast Sky, making them a household name in Asian communities around the world. Metro currently makes their home in Hong Kong, China.
Benjamin T. Wood works includes Shanghai's famous Xintiandi, Foshan's Lingnantian and Hangzhou's Xihutiandi, which perfectly incorporated local features.
For years, Wood has been thinking about the way to reshape urban landscape, to provide a living place in rapid development still remaining its particular icon.
Wilson is a Chartered Member of the UK Landscape Institute, a Professional Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design. In 2012 he received award from the China International Urbanization Development Strategy Research Committee for his outstanding achievements.
Wilson has designed, documented and administered a wide variety of architecture, landscape, urban planning and environmental projects, whilst specialising in sustainable design solutions with particular emphasis on socially inclusive design. He is devoted to bringing contemporary solutions to Clients. On August 13th, he is going to share with us how he designs with a forward-looking perspective and turns them into reality.
Being designed humanoid, robots are dubbed as a kind of human in Chinese. There is never a lack of innovations and changes in technology.
However, industrial designer Tommie Varekamp believes that we should pay more attention to user experience and human-machine interface by diversifying and individualizing robotics, rather than merely focus on technology. After all it is humans, instead of robots, who bring a whole new take toward the future.
Linda TAN is the partner of Rice Harmony Cooperative, in charge of brand strategy, product development and farm and food education as well.
She thinks and takes actions accordingly: how can we produce rice and vegetables in a more bio-friendly way? how should we guide ordinary people to a more sustainable pattern of production as well as consumption? Come and find the answer in person on August 13th!
Chang works for the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society. It has been 3 years since Taison started being involved in the research of Chinese white dolphins after graduating from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He fights hard for the survival of dolphins with the local research team whose aim is to help the population of Chinese white dolphins and finless porpoises to thrive within Hong Kong water. Besides, they also give a lot of importance to captive animals, making joint efforts with local and international organizations to raise awareness in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Yahan Cao is a social designer from Taiwan and who now lives in Guangzhou. She is leading a project to design a better world for the elders. Instead of thinking that she knows everything, she asks for help and participation from the community itself as she facilitate changes to happen.
Using design thinking to address social topics, she gave up her original identity, and blended herself into a new community and its cultural context. As she was experiencing unfamiliarity and change, she realized that design for the elders is actually design for us all.
Our common belief is that photography highly relies on vision. However, Jing Li and her team are proving the opposite, through a photography project that is not visual. Their project has proven that visually-impaired people can also take incredible photos.
Drawing a conclusion is not the only goal, Jing Li and her team move forward by inviting people with regular vision to take part in this project in the hope of arousing public awareness of the daily problems that visually-impaired people encounter.
She is a PhD candidate of urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. As a professor of the State University of New York at Albany, she focuses on studying social development in an innovative way to enhance maintenance among societies. Additionally, she also maintains the collaboration between the Asian Development Bank and The United Nations Development Program.
She focuses on new ways and means for reconstruction after a disaster. She believes minority in our common context can demonstrate adaptation and innovation when facing disaster.
Teamacting is a consulting company, specialized in management and leadership. As the founder of Teamacting, Tristan believes that no matter how much we are used to the modern work style, there is still room for development. Tristan also provides suggestions and consulting to the European chamber and Roquette Corporate.
When I was on my way to attend TEDSummit in the end of June, I got the news that Britain voted to leave the European Union. It stroke me hard not only because I never thought it would really happen, but also many other things, horrible things, started to seem possible. And the belief of mine that we all humans can work together, finding common ground more than disagreement might be totally wrong.
A week of TED conference is like living in an utopia. Countless encounters, smiles, deep conversations. There was no border, no difference of colours of the skin, no "tags". We were all the same, we were all there to listen, and learn from each other.
TED's curator Chris Anderson gave one talk, then he turned it into a blog piece posted on ideas.ted.com. I decided to translate it and share it with my community. It explains where we stand, and why we organise TEDx events.
This piece was originally published on ideas.ted.com. This translation and publication of this translation have been authorised by TED. The original post could be found at here.
Original post could be found at here.
What _______ experience do you own besides working and studying?
Have you ever considered how to create more possibilities for you and the community you belong to?
TEDxXiguan is a TEDx event, devoted to spreading ideas and forging them into action. We pride ourselves with the most historical name in Guangzhou, representing the juncture between the new and the old, the change & the unchanged. The first TEDxXiguan event was organised in 2014 but some core team members have been part of the TEDx community since 2011.
Our mission, is to stage ideas and explore possibilities that make positive changes in our community.
In the past year, we held TEDxXiguanED, and pictured future education widely over and over. At the very beginning of this year, another event took place in an old building in Xiguan, which was TEDxXiguan Live, then we were endowed with chances to talk with the world.
We are grateful for the support of everyone as always, and you, who may just start noticing us now. It's you who made every TEDxXiguan event possible and better.
If you are the kind of people who are curious about our local community with fresh ideas springing out from your mind, congratulations you have found your camp! Now, let's see how our second life might match yours.
Vitality stays in us permanently.
Please believe people who embrace dreams and being ambitious always have young blood.
Members of our team are from all walks of life, such as media, PR, advertisement, interpretation, freelance etc. Our arms are open to people who want to enjoy the life of slash. .
We are convinced that, it is nothing but difference that makes life splendid, and diversity that makes it dynamic.
Eyes on global changes, minds on community progress.
We are curious about anything and everythjing, and making effort to bring wonderful & enjoyable experience to as many people as we can.
It takes wisdom to think and act accordingly.
What we have been doing is to explore our individual potential and step out of our comfort zone.
With this spirit, we march on.
Thought-collision is such a pleasure.
It inspires ideas ,even solve problems.
It also keeps us curious about the world all the time, just like children.
With TEDxXiguan, There Is No Limit.
There is no limit on you we believe.
Join us, make TEDxXiguan the HUB for great ideas.
Let's embrace life harder, explore the world deeper, spread fantastic ideas even further.
- Engaged in Team building.
- From individual communication with any teammate to overall team development.
- You are expected to be experienced in brand-promotion and enjoy wide connection among different industries.
- Manage existing partnership resources, responsible for maintaining partner ship and develop more cooperative opportunities.
- Splendid as the world is, it is you who are supposed to discover those marvelous and spread them.
- Capable to turn usual translation into interesting, beneficial, and useful expression.
- Work closely with the Curator to select and prepare speakers.
- Responsible for all visual works.
- Come and generate some visual creation.
- For instance, create some new ways to record the world with us.
How Slash your life could be?
You can be more ( ) ?
TEDxXiguan is a local yet at the same time international platform, celebrates great ideas and forging them into actions. This platform is built around TED's ideal "Ideas Worth Spreading" and officially licensed TEDxXiguan conferences and activities.
This year is a critical year in TEDxXiguan history. Not only because we have successfully finished the first TEDx ED (Education) event in mainland China in 2015, then a big TEDxLive party, everybody is watching what's TEDxXiguan's next move. We ourselves are also striving to deliver something new, something bigger, something bolder, with only improvement in quality in every single aspect we operate in.
That doesn't mean we are distracted by the idea of becoming "better". In fact, we are investing unprecedented effort, into putting together the speaker line-up for this year. And that is where you can help us.
We are a small group, as a matter of fact we can't find all of the great ideas in Guangzhou, on ourselves, not to mention all of the great ideas in the world. That's why we opened "Speaker Nomination Process", if you know someone belongs to TEDxXiguan Stage, or you think yourself belong there, nominate him/her from the menu on our WeChat account, or on our website.
Another way of being part of our mission, is to become a partner. As an non-profit organisation all of our income are 100% put into the production and maintenance cost of our event. Nobody working with TEDxXiguan, not even the speakers, are being paid. So partnership is really our lifeblood.
We don't call it "Sponsorship", because marketing with TEDxXiguan is not only giving your marketing budget out for a logo appearance opportunity. For every single one of our partners we customise our package for their best experience. We offer design consultancy from our own organising committee and our Braintrust, a group of people working in media, advertising, marketing, internet, law, etc., to ensure our partners create meaningful interaction with their target audience. Partnership with us is not only an one-off activity, some of our partners get to "travel the world" with our talk videos. For your customised partnership plan, please contact us at partnerships@tedxxiguan.com, or simply drop us a message in WeChat, one of our team will reach out to you.
Our TEDxXiguan events are made possible by our great partners, and we invite you to think with us, how you can be part with us. Be you a creative agency who could help us on our design and marketing strategy, a staging company could help us to do audio & visual set up, a F&B business want to showcase your latest recipe. Let's create something great for our community that we are all proud of it.
There were some great companies joined our mission last year, I encourage you to check them out on our website.
If you neither know anyone to nominate, nor control your company's marketing budget - no problem at all, help us by sharing this message, and become a TEDxXiguan Ambassador, the reason why you are reading this, we believe, is because you believe in the power of great ideas, just like us.
Last night in a space where old historical building meet modern creative minds, TEDxXiguanLive concluded with some great conversations.
We streamed live from TED2016 in Vancouver, and we chose Session 8: Nightmare? as our content.
This session started by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and Nobel Prize laureate. In his 4th TED Stage appearance, he passionately pointed out for the climate crisis we are facing, we need to change, we can change, and we will change. In one of his slides, our beloved city Guangzhou is featured as one of top 10 cities at risk from sea level rise in 2070 by assets at risk.
Now with CRISPR, gene editing seems to become a tool at anyone's reach. According to Jennifer Kahn a talented high-schooler can do it, where can this technology lead us, and what are the potential dangers?
We then heard the beautiful singing from Rhiannon Giddens, her voice bring history to life through music.
Because of video stream became not as smooth at this point, we moved into planned conversation. There are some great conversations and some audience even felt the conversation part was the most enlightening session. We discussed climate change, some weird imagination of gene editing, and what we can do to stop extreme poverty.
There will be more TEDxXiguan events down the line for year 2016, as we have announced our theme - Constructive Disruption - share with us what's your take and what do you expect.
If you have taken some nice pictures, please share them and tag #TEDxXiguan#.
Have you ever dreamed of attending TED Conference? Yes I am talking about THAT TED conference Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall and many more great minds have spoken at. Here is a little peak into the 'taste' of TED Conference.
But attending TED Conference can be very expensive. You normally need to travel to Vancouver, or Long Beach, not to mention the entry ticket is around 8,000 US dollars. Even if you decided to buy a license to watch it from home, it will cost you 100 US dollars. And, who wants to watch these great talks ALONE without like-minded friends to talk with and have some fun in the same time?
So we, TEDxXiguan, decided to bring the TED experience closer to you in Guangzhou, free of charge.
Imagine a home party, a full house of people just like you, who pay extra attention to our society, the planet (and many other planets!), who cares, striking to make some difference, with food & drinks. And of course, watching the TED Conference LIVE STREAMING together - can anyone name anything better?
We expect you to be curious, open-minded, respectful and tolerant. Does that sound just like you? We think so!
Your great ideas to share with others, and a small amount of cash to cover some food & drinks. All purchase will be made directly to the venue or our vendors, TEDxXiguan will not be handling any money or have any income.
On the night of Feb 19 (nothing better than doing this for the first Friday night after CNY), save the date and stay tuned, application will be opened soon and venue to be announced too.
More contents are coming, stay tuned.


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Ex-Cons Face Long Odds, But Families Can Be The Game Changer
The day the prison doors swing open and an inmate walks free can be as unnerving as it is joyous.
Many prisoners, while no doubt eager to reclaim their freedom, arrive at that moment with no place to live, no money and no job prospects.
Perhaps that's one reason that, within five years of release, about three-fourths of inmates are arrested again.
"Leaving prison is a scary time for most inmates," says Christopher Zoukis (www.PrisonerResource.com), a prison-reform and inmate-education advocate who is serving time at Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg Medium in Virginia.
"While no one wants to admit it, the idea of such a radical change in daily circumstances can be quite jarring."
Support from families can be critical at such a time, Zoukis says. They can take several easy steps that can make the process much smoother and more successful:
Make reentry a priority. Ideally, reentry planning should start at least a year out from the prisoner's expected release date. "But, frankly, the prisoner should be using all of their time in prison to create the foundation for a new life," Zoukis says. "This means education, vocational training, psychological classes, getting in shape, and the like." From a family member's perspective, making reentry a priority consists of talking about it, thinking about it, and planning for their loved one's eventual release.
Secure housing. If possible, family members should make a room available for the newly released prisoner to live in. This way there is not only a place to live, but also support close at hand. This support is essential because the prisoner will need a period to adjust to their new surroundings, especially if they have been in for some time. If living with family isn't an option, then other housing should be secured before the prisoner's release.
Secure employment. This one can be difficult, but family members should ask around in an attempt to find initial employment for their incarcerated loved one. This doesn't need to be a high-paying job, but one the person is well suited for and which can help give them not only money, but structure. By being able to pay their own way, they will feel in charge of their own destiny.
Create a support network. The final essential element is a support network. A good start here is to have a primary point of contact, such as a parent or spouse, who is helping secure housing and employment. Others in the support network might include a mentor or other community member to help them get used to life on the outside; a therapist or counselor, such as a psychiatrist or a religious leader; and other positive community members willing to help out.
"The entire community benefits when a prisoner successfully returns to society," Zoukis says. "With the right help, they have a much better chance of becoming productive, law-abiding citizens rather than returning to a life of crime."
About Christopher Zoukis
Christopher Zoukis, author of the forthcoming Federal Prison Handbook (Middle Street Publishing, 2017), Prison Education Guide (Prison Legal News Publishing, 2016) and College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons (McFarland & Co., 2014), is a leading expert in the fields of correctional education and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He is founder of www.PrisonEducation.com and www.ChristopherZoukis.com, and a contributing writer to The Huffington Post, the New York Daily News and Prison Legal News. He is incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg Medium in Virginia. He can be found online at www.PrisonerResource.com.
Brittany Thomas
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dr. Bailie believes that excellence in Orthopedic Surgery requires a superb academic training experiences, continuing subspecialty education, innate surgical skills and execution of clinical and/or laboratory research to advance the specialty.
Dr. Bailie has performed clinical research since medical school. He has published many articles in prestigious peer reviewed journals including:
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (J Bone Joint Surg or JBJS), Journal of Arthroscopy and Related Research (Arthroscopy), American Journal of Sports Medicine (Am J Sports Med or AJSM), Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (J Shoulder Elbow or JSES), Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (JAAOS), Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research (Clin Orthop or CORR), Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (J Ortho Sports Phys Ther), Medicine & Science in Sports Exercise (Med Sci Sports Exercise), American Journal of Knee Surgery (Am J Knee Surg), American Journal of Orthopedics (Am J Ortho), Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery (Foot Ankle), Orthopedics and Sports Health.
Below are some of the articles and book chapters he as has published:
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He has also been invited by editors of leading Orthopedic textbooks to serve as chapter author and asked to publish his opinions and techniques on shoulder surgery. Finally, he has given presentations around the world on various shoulder and knee topics and taught surgical anatomy and techniques to hundreds of Orthopedic Surgeons in hands-on skills labs globally. He has hosted experienced surgeons from Europe, Asia and Latin America, who have traveled to Arizona to witness his surgeries in person and learn his advanced surgical methods.
The importance of his research has been recognized and has been selected as the subject of test questions for the Orthopedic Board examination in both General Orthopedics and Orthopedic Sports Medicine.
Intra-operative photograph of a humeral head (ball of shoulder) during a shoulder replacement surgery in a 24 year old baseball player whose shoulder was destroyed by a pain pump after undergoing a labral repair 2 years prior.
In addition, his clinical research resulted in the early detection of a devastating complication in shoulder surgery; Post-Arthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis (PAGCL). This led to his collection of data on an early series of patients who had developed this problem after having undergone surgery with a postoperative continuous infusion of local anesthetic using a pain pump. This was commonplace in the United States for post-op pain control from the late 1990's until 2006. At this time, Dr. Bailie and a small number of other surgeons were seeing a large referral of patients from around the country that had rapidly developed severe arthritis following shoulder surgery. His instincts and subsequent investigation helped the Orthopedic Community identify the cause of this complication, leading to the FDA warnings and subsequent removal of pain pumps for use within any joint. As he was widely recognized as a leading expert on this condition, he was referred many patients from around the country and was interviewed for a story in the New York Times Sports Section in 2010 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/sports/27painpump.htmL) about the career ending effects this problem had on high level athletes.
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On Monday, something sad will happen in the world that Bowen Craggs spends its time closely watching.
One of the very best corporate websites, SABMiller.com, will be switched off.
Why? Because the takeover of SABMiller by fellow brewing giant AB InBev will be completed. SABMiller's 120-year history as an independent company will end.
But the web team at SABMiller is dropping the final curtain in style. They've used their global site's most distinctive feature – editorially and visually rich "stories" – to publish a poignant final piece reflecting on "the legacy SABMiller leaves the beer industry".
The approach, far more powerful than a bog-standard press release, has garnered positive coverage in the business press – and been warmly received by employees too, judging by the tweets from some of them.
It also offers an important parting lesson to web managers at other companies on how the heavily hyped but often badly executed idea of corporate "storytelling" can be used to bring an organization's past achievements and future plans to life.
SABMiller is currently ranked third in the Bowen Craggs Index of Online Excellence 'Message' metric, and 14th overall among the world's 200 largest companies.
When it relaunches online on Monday evening as a newly-merged entity, AB InBev's website has a tough act to follow.
SABMiller published more than 160 'stories' on its global website. This is its last.
'Thought leadership' is remarkably resilient for a concept that has such a bad reputation. Like the fashion for 'stories', thought leadership is too often exactly the opposite of what the name implies.
Apart from not always being terribly well thought out, a lot of supposed thought leadership – rather than lead anywhere new – simply follows the latest trends, herd-like, over a cliff of irrelevancy; 'big data', 'digital transformation' and 'emerging markets', yes, we are looking at you.
Why, then, are we still talking about it?
One of the biggest reasons is because, when done right, it can be incredibly effective as a marketing and communication tool. From a marketing perspective, there is the white paper that starts a conversation that leads to a multi-million dollar contract. For corporate communicators, a steady stream of well-focused and high-quality editorial can be an important part of 'selling' the group to its stakeholders and boosting it reputation with customers.
It has been many years since 'thought leadership' was a cutting edge buzz phrase, but corporate digital teams are still being asked how best to position their organization's thinking on websites and social medial channels. We have picked out a few examples of best practice across the corporate web that we think are worth emulating.
Thought leadership can be effective, but as I've mentioned, the name is outdated, smug, dull and usually misleading. That is why, even if it is handy shorthand internally for what your organization is trying to do, it should not be used as a label on the website.
Goldman Sachs, for example, prefers 'Our thinking' as a primary menu label on its corporate website (Bowen Craggs also uses this as a signpost to our thoughts about the corporate web). KPMG, the big-four accountancy firm, goes for 'Insights'; as does its competitor EY.
Linklaters, the UK-based multinational law firm, uses 'Insights' as a primary menu item, but 'thought leadership' crops up in the secondary menu, along with the categories of 'publications' and 'seminars'. This brings up another labelling no-no – referring to categories of content rather than themes. 'Publications' and 'seminars' make the website sound like a filing cabinet rather than a destination to learn something new.
Insurance company Axa's new website does a good job of naming the themes and headlines for its thinking from the perspective of target audiences' likely interests – such as 'future of insurance' and 'a new way to work'. Axa does not always get it right – 'environmental challenges' and 'protecting people' are on the vague side – but the intent is clear (and it's all far better than 'seminars' or 'publications').
KPMG's global home page is effective at showing off the company's thinking on current business issues, offering multiple points of entry for existing and potential customers to browse the Big Four auditing firm's views on Brexit and renewable energy, as well as promoting its in-house research, a CEO survey.
Axa, as well as choosing good headlines to draw people in, uses a modern design – large, clear fonts, original imagery, and clever use of pull quotes and captions to draw people into in. In its 'Spotlight' section, thought leadership often blends seamlessly with storytelling, as in the case of 'Axa Lab Asia: commerce goes mobile in China'.
Goldman Sachs' corporate website is carefully designed and curated to position it as a font of knowledge and expertise about socioeconomic and financial trends.
Its 'Exchanges' podcasts are housed on its corporate website in the 'Our Thinking' section. The series started in 2014, and is updated two or three times a month.
Each episode features Goldman Sachs experts analysing global financial, social and technology trend. They are regularly updated with an interesting mix of editorially engaging topics; draw people in with sharp headlines; employ an easy-to-use menu on the site; and allow people to subscribe on iTunes.
Goldman Sachs is taking advantage of the rising popularity of podcasts in the wider digital world, and adapting the form well for its own online needs.
EMC, the US technology company about to be merged with Dell, uses blogs written by senior leaders and topic specialists to help build up a meaningful portrait of what the group cares about, and what it knows about.
An organization's experts may not always have the time or editorial skills to finish a piece that is web-ready, or to come up with the right ideas in the first place. It takes a dedicated editorial team to source a steady stream of fresh content that highlights relevant themes; and to shape contributed draft copy into punchy prose.
The mix can include human-interest features from around the business, and issue-based pieces on topics of direct relevance to customers' business problems.
At our conference, brewing giant SABMiller highlighted the importance of having an editorial board with deep networks in the business, in order to encourage everyone to contribute. You may already be lucky enough to have someone blogging somewhere in the far corners of the organization, and their efforts can be brought into a larger 'content' strategy for thought leadership material.
A central editorial team can also help to avoid some of the hallmarks of bad thought leadership – thin arguments, dull headlines or a failure to see how multimedia elements such as video, infographics or interactive features could bring the content to life.
Following some of the above examples – good labelling, strong signposts, creative design, a clear editorial voice and focus – can help to turn the corporate site into a 'destination' on important industry themes, and a nonstop idea factory that creates and maintains sales leads; and boosts your reputation among important stakeholders such as journalists and jobseekers.
It's been two weeks since our 10th annual conference in Copenhagen, and we'll be publishing a summary next month (email Dan Drury to request a copy: ddrury@bowencraggs.com). In the meantime, I've come up with a list of five lessons I took away from the event.
Our keynote speaker, Allister Frost, former head of digital marketing marketing strategy at Microsoft, had unkind things to say about corporate attempts at 'storytelling'. So-called stories, he said, often 'just get in the way' of website visitors finding what they need to solve a problem.
Still, Allister also said that corporate online content, whether marketing or communications, needs to aim to do one of two things – inform or entertain. So just because there is so much bad storytelling out there does not mean companies should give up, but try to get better. One way, Allister said, is to be more audience focused. The 'story' is not about what is interesting to your company's head of marketing, but what will interest the intended reader or viewer.
I would add two things: it is also about strong editorial governance and quality – good headlines, clear writing, etc – something we talk a lot about at Bowen Craggs. And also signposting and placement – stories in a section for investment analysts are likely to go largely unread; but creative, relevant material for private investors or jobseekers, for example, is more likely to find an audience.
Greenpeace, although sometimes in direct confrontation with the companies at our conference, faces some of the same challenges that corporates do in getting audiences interested in online messages. Michael Hedelain of Greenpeace shared his organization's approach. 'People are at the centre of our stories,' he said, an idea inspired by Winning the story wars, a 2012 book by Jonah Sachs, which casts the audience as 'heroes' in a broken world that needs fixing.
Practically speaking, Greenpeace focuses on four things to tell a good story: suspense and jeopardy; personal motivation; audience interaction through social media; and duration – activities that go on for weeks and months to allow a story to build momentum.
Approaches to website measurement are maturing and companies are trying to move beyond 'clicks' and 'likes' as a way to evaluate online communications.
'Clicks are proxies for success but they do not tell us if we got a sale,' Allister said. 'Did seeing an article make our employees more or less enthusiastic about their work or not? Did downloading a white paper inspire an investor to buy or sell?' Data can only ever be a clue, 'ROI' from marketing and communications will always be elusive.
SABMiller considers measuring the impact of stories to some extent a 'leap of faith' – by knowing the company a little better, audiences will think well of them.
The Financial Times's Tom Betts proved that all measurement is specific, presenting the publisher's own algorithm for measuring 'engagement' – 'recency', 'frequency' and 'volume'. There was not an exact correlation with corporate editorial, which is not subscription-based, but companies could consider coming up with their own combinations of individual data points as a metric for engagement.
Zurich Insurance has a way of working with so-called whisperers – external web agencies that convince managers to break with global governance guidelines. Give them a publicly accessible, downloadable toolkit to build on-brand pages with their own code, which has 'brand guidance baked in' and 'allows agencies to post elements into the system without Zurich's involvement'.
5. Third parties add credibility but what happens when they criticise you?
Simon Thresh of SABMiller showed a video from an investor seminar with outside analysts praising its performance, including a professor from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University talking about the success of the company's CSR efforts. The video was much more credible as a result.
Accepting third-party praise is the easy part though. What about organizations and websites that criticise you? The corporate site is just one of multiple information sources, and probably less trusted. An important question for corporate communicators in the future will be how much to engage with sites that are seen to be more objective, such as Glassdoor, and in what ways.


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Q: Replace non UTF-8 from String I have a table that has strings with non UTF-8 characters, like �. I need to change them in order they have back all accents, and other latin characters, like: cap� to capó. The field is a VARCHAR.
So far, I have tried:SELECT "Column Name", regexp_replace("Column Name", '[^\w]+','') FROM table
And:
CONVERT("Column Name", 'UTF8', 'LATIN1') but don't work at all.
For instance, the error I get is: "Regexp encountered an invalid UTF-8 character (...)"
I have seen other solutions, but I can't go on them because I cannot change the table because I am not administrator.
Is there any whay to achieve this?

A: If the database encoding is UTF8, then all your strings will contain only UTF8 characters. They just happen to be different characters than you want.
First, you have to find out what characters are in the strings. In the case you show, � is Unicode codepoint FFFD (in hexadecimal).
So you could use the replace function in PostgreSQL to replace it with ó (Unicode code point F3) like this:
SELECT replace(mycol, E'\uFFFD', E'\u00f3') FROM mytab;

This uses the Unicode character literal syntax of PostgreSQL; don't forget to prefix all strings with escapes in them with E for extended string literal syntax.
There are odds that the character is not really �, because that is the "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER" often used to represent characters that are not representable.
In that case, use psql and run a query like this to display the hexadecimal UTF-8 contents of your fields:
SELECT mycol::bytea FROM mytab WHERE id = 12345;

From the UTF-8 encoding of the character you can deduce what character it really is and use that in your call to replace.
If you have several characters, you will need several calls to replace to translate them all.


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11/01/2013 2013/13 ESMA and the EBA take action to strengthen Euribor and benchmark rate-setting processes Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
14/02/2013 2013/215 ESMA issues first risk report on EU securities markets Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
28/02/2013 2013/266 ESMA and the EBA warn investors about contracts for difference MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
119.01 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) have published a warning to retail investors about the dangers of investing in contracts for difference (CFDs).The two authorities are concerned that during the current period of low investment returns, inexperienced retail investors across the EU are being tempted to invest in complex financial products, which they may not fully understand and which can end up costing them money they cannot afford to lose.Andrea Enria and Steven Maijoor, Chairs of the EBA and ESMA, warned:"Retail investors across the EU should be aware of all the risks arising from investing in CFDs. These products appear to promise investors substantial returns at a low cost but may ultimately cost them far more than they may have intended or could afford to lose."CFDs are complex products that are not suitable for all types of investors, therefore you should always make sure that you understand how the product you are buying works, that it does what you want it to do and that you are in a position to take the loss if it fails."Investors trading CFDs should protect themselvesInvestors should only consider trading in CFDs if they have extensive experience of trading in volatile markets, if they fully understand how these operate and have sufficient time to manage their investment on an active basis.Investors should carefully read their agreement or contract with the CFD provider before making a trading decision. They should make sure that they at least understand the following: • the costs of trading CFDs with the CFD provider, • whether the CFD provider will disclose the margins it makes on their trades, • how the prices of the CFDs are determined by the CFD provider, • what happens if they hold their position open overnight, • whether the CFD provider can change or re-quote the price once an investor places an order, • whether the CFD provider will execute investor's orders even if the underlying market is closed, • whether there is an investor or deposit protection scheme in place in the event of counterparty or client asset issues.If investors do not understand what's on offer, they should not trade. Further information Always check if the CFD provider is authorised to do investment business in your country. You can check this on the website of the CFD provider's national regulator. A list of all the national regulatory authorities, and their websites, is also available from:• ESMA at http://www.esma.europa.eu/investor-corner; and • EBA at http://www.eba.europa.eu/Publications/Consumer-Protection-Issues.aspx.The investor warning on CFDs will be translated into the official EU languages.Concurrently with the publication of this warning, the EBA is addressing an internal Opinion under Art. 29 of the EBA Regulations to national supervisory authorities on the prudential supervision of CFDs. Notes for editors1. ESMA/2013/267 Investor Warning – Contracts for Difference (CFDs)2. ESMA and the EBA are independent EU Authorities that were established on 1 January 2011 and work closely with the European other European Supervisory Authority responsible for insurance and occupational pensions (EIOPA).3. ESMA's mission is to enhance the protection of investors and promote stable and well-functioning financial markets in the European Union (EU). As an independent institution, ESMA achieves this aim by building a single rule book for EU financial markets and ensuring its consistent application across the EU. ESMA contributes to the regulation of financial services firms with a pan-European reach, either through direct supervision or through the active co-ordination of national supervisory activity.4. The EBA has a broad remit in the areas of banking, payments and e-money regulation, as well as on issues related to corporate governance, auditing and financial reporting. Its tasks include the protection of consumers and depositors, preventing regulatory arbitrage, guaranteeing a level playing field (especially by building a single rule book for the European banking system) strengthening international supervisory coordination, promoting supervisory convergence and providing advice to EU institutions. Further information:Reemt SeibelESMA Communications Officer Tel: +33 (0)1 58 36 4272Mob: +33 6 42 48 55 29Email: reemt.seibel@esma.europa.eu David CliffeESMA Senior Communications OfficerTel: +33 (0)1 58 36 43 24Mob: +33 6 42 48 29 06Email: david.cliffe@esma.europa.euRomain SadetEBA Communications Officer Tel: +44 (0) 207 997 5914Mob: +44 (0) 7785 463278 Email: romain.sadet@eba.europa.eu Franca CongiuEBA Communications OfficerTel: +44 (0) 207 382 1781Mob: +44 (0) 7771 376395Email: francarosa.congiu@eba.europa.eu
06/06/2013 2013/684 ESMA and the EBA publish final principles on benchmarks Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases, Benchmarks Press Release PDF
28/06/2013 2013/845 Joint Committee of ESAs holds its first Consumer Protection Day Warnings and publications for investors Press Release PDF
20/09/2013 2013/1324 ESMA TRV: market conditions improve, as systemic risks persist Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Press Release PDF
149.46 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published today its Trends, Risks, Vulnerabilities (TRV) Report and a Risk Dashboard for the second quarter of 2013. The TRV examines the performance of securities markets in the first half of 2013, assessing both trends and risks in order to develop a comprehensive picture of systemic and macro-prudential risks in the EU, to assist both national and EU bodies in their risk assessments. ESMA's TRV contributes to promoting financial stability and enhancing consumer protection by regularly looking into cross-border and cross-sector trends, risks and vulnerabilities, both at the wholesale and retail level. The TRV finds that EU securities markets and investment conditions in the EU have improved for a second quarter in a row since the 4th quarter of 2012, although systemic risk persisted at medium to high levels. Amongst other risk factors, uncertainty remained high due to concerns over funding sources, low interest rates and recent market fluctuations, resulting in increased market risk, while liquidity, credit and contagion risk continue to be significant. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said: "While the easing of stress in financial markets is a positive sign, systemic risks in the EU remain high and uncertainty in the international market environment has risen. Valuations in securities markets, volatility in fund flows, and continuity issues around financial benchmarks remain a matter of concern. Faced with these issues regulators and market participants should remain vigilant. "ESMA's work on identifying those risks facing Europe's securities markets is an important component in the European System of Financial Supervision's efforts to foster recovery in its markets and promote financial stability." The TRV identifies the following key trends for the first half of 2013 in EU securities markets: •	Securities markets: market conditions improved moderately while issuance was subdued with equity prices declining and inter-bank lending increasing. The second quarter saw an increase in sovereign borrowing costs, and corporate bonds; covered bonds and securitised products were subdued; •	Collective investments: asset managers benefited from improved market conditions, mainly driven by bond, equity or alternative funds whereas money market fund assets decreased. Overall, leverage remained moderate but capital inflows were volatile reflecting a decline in investor sentiment; and •	Market infrastructures: trading on EU venues increased in early 2013. Central clearing of interest rate swaps continued to grow. Potential continuity issues around financial benchmarks give rise to concerns. Key risks identified in the Report, and published separately in the Risk Dashboard, include: •	Liquidity risk: even though policy action helped to reduce liquidity risks in main market segments, others rose, leaving the overall liquidity risk at high levels; •	Credit risk: securities markets in the EU saw a reduction in issuance volumes, mainly in asset classes with higher risk and longer maturities. Despite recent debt refinancing, overall credit risk remains high; •	Market risk: equity and bond markets risks increased driven by rising concerns over the valuation of assets; and •	Contagion risk: the risk of contagion between market segments remained unchanged, while the level of credit default swap exposures declined. In addition, the TRV presents in-depth analyses on four specific topics: •	First evidence on the impact of the Short-Selling Regulation on securities markets; •	Contagion risks and the network structure of EU CDS exposures; •	Overview of the EU UCITS industry; and •	Overview of bail-in and contingent capital securities. Next steps As part of its on-going market surveillance, ESMA publishes its TRV semi-annually, complemented by its quarterly risk dashboard.
07/02/2014 2014/152 ESMA tells firms to improve their selling practices for complex financial products MiFID - Investor Protection, Warnings and publications for investors Press Release PDF
92.57 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an Opinion on practices to be observed by investment firms when selling complex financial products to investors. ESMA is issuing this opinion to remind national supervisors and investment firms about the importance of requirements governing selling practices under MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive).ESMA is issuing this Opinion as it is concerned that firms' compliance with the MiFID selling practices when selling complex products may have fallen short of expected standards. The concerns relate mainly to the suitability and appropriateness of complex products that are increasingly within the grasp of retail investors. The Opinion sets out ESMA's minimum expectations with respect to the conduct of firms when selling complex products to retail investors.Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said: "Investment firms increasingly sell complex financial products such as warrants, different types of structured bonds, derivatives and asset-backed securities, which were previously accessible mainly to professional investors, to retail investors."ESMA is concerned that this trend greatly increases the risk that customers do not understand the risks, costs and expected returns of the products they are buying. Therefore, we believe that it is crucial that investment firms act responsibly and in the best interest of their clients."The level of concern regarding the risk posed by these products to investor protection when MiFID rules are not fully respected is such that we have also issued an EU-wide warning to investors in order to raise awareness about the risks arising from investing in these types of complex products." The marketing and sale of complex financial products, in particular to retail investors, is an important investor protection area where ESMA wants to ensure a consistent approach to the application of the MiFID conduct business rules - thereby improving supervisory convergence.The areas covered by the Opinion relate to: firms' organisation and internal controls; the assessment of the suitability or appropriateness of certain products; disclosures and communications in relation to products; and compliance monitoring of the sales functions.
11/03/2015 2015/562 Press release- ESMA sees continued tense securities market conditions Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
05/05/2015 JC/2015/02 ESAs- main risks to EU financial market stability have intensified Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases, Joint Committee Press Release PDF
125.34 KB The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published its fifth Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System. Overall, the report found that in the past six months, risks affecting the EU financial system have not changed in substance, but have further intensified. The EU's economic performance improved slightly in early 2015, however the financial sector in general continues to be affected by a combination of factors such as low investment demand, economic uncertainty in the Eurozone and its neighbouring countries, a global economic slow-down and a low-interest rate environment. The main risks affecting the financial system remain broadly unchanged from those identified in the report's previous edition, but have become more entrenched. The major risks include: •	Low growth, low inflation, volatile asset prices and their consequences for financial entities; •	Search for yield behaviour exacerbated by potential rebounds; •	Deterioration in the conduct of business; and •	Increased concern about IT risks and cyber-attacks. Despite these risks, a number of ongoing policy and regulatory initiatives are contributing to improving the stability and confidence in the financial system as well as facilitating additional funding channels to the real economy. These include ongoing regulatory reforms in the securities, banking and insurance sectors such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR), the work on the implementation of the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation (CRDIV/CRR), the work on the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD), the Deposit-Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGS) and the Solvency II Directive, as well as the European Commission's plan for a Capital Markets Union (CMU). Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the current Chairman of the Joint Committee, said: "The Joint Committee has noted some improvement in overall market conditions; however, the recovery is not yet sustained and is exposed to risks related to broad macroeconomic conditions, in particular the low interest environment and resulting search-for-yield behaviour. Additionally regulators continue to have concerns about the operational risks generated by some financial institutions' inappropriate business conduct, as well as those risks posed by inadequate management of IT risks. "However, recent regulatory initiatives across the banking, insurance and securities sectors, such as the Comprehensive Assessment, the insurance sector stress test and Solvency II along with, the ongoing MiFID, EMIR and PRIPS reforms are contributing to improving the stability and confidence in the EU financial system." Key Risks Identified The identified risks in the Report can be divided into macro risks to the EU financial system and economy and operational risks. Macro Risks The key macro risks identified relate to: 1.	Risks from weak economic growth and low inflation environment, which include: •	Adverse effect that low interest rates and uncertainties about the economic recovery have had on the outlook for the financial industry; •	Higher valuation and market liquidity risk has raised concerns about the outlook for financial entities' stability in the event of reversals in interest rates and asset prices; 2.	Low profitability is motivating financial institutions and other investors to search for yield, which requires increased supervisory attention to the viability of business models, related restructuring activity and adequate management of risks. However, the promotion of sound and innovative business models for market-based funding structures could help to deliver additional stimulus; and 3.	Some continued doubts on the comparability and consistency of banks' calculations of risk weighted assets. Operational Risks The key operational risks relate to: 4.	Business conduct risk remains a key concern with the Report recommending that supervisors should include misconduct costs in future stress tests where appropriate, while financial institutions should strengthening product oversight and governance frameworks. Further improvements in the regulatory framework and supervisory practices to address conduct risks are also warranted. In addition, further progress needs to be made on benchmark reforms where continuity and integrity remain a source of concern even if key panels remained stable; and 5.	IT operational risk and cyber risk remain of great concern and pose challenges to the the safety and integrity of financial institutions. IT risk increased due to costs pressures, outsourcing, the need for additional capacities and a mounting number of cyber-attacks. The adequate integration of IT risk into overall risk management is a key policy for mitigation.
14/09/2015 2015/1379 ESMA raises its market risk indicator to highest level Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases Press Release PDF
17/03/2016 2016/366 ESMA maintains market risk indicator at highest level Press Releases, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Press Release PDF
02/06/2016 2016/743 ESMA assesses usefulness of distributed ledger technologies Innovation and Products, Press Releases, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Press Release PDF
06/06/2016 2016/907 Economic Report on order duplication and liquidity measurement in EU equity markets Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Report PDF
06/06/2016 2016/743 Multi-venue trading increases liquidity in EU equity markets despite duplicate orders Press Releases, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Report PDF
30/08/2016 2016/1283 ESMA sees risk outlook deteriorate for EU securities markets Press Releases, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Press Release PDF
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04/10/2016 2016/1415 ESMA reporton on securities financing transactions and leverage in the EU Post Trading, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Report PDF
04/10/2016 2016/1432 Press release- ESMA reports on shadow banking, leverage and pro-cyclicality Post Trading, Press Releases, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors Press Release PDF
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The huge strain being put on Accident and Emergency departments up and down the country has dominated the Scottish headlines in recent weeks.
Indeed, the most recent statistics show that in December 2014 over 12,000 people had to wait more than four hours before being treated.
In one instance a hospital was forced to use a portakabin to cope with the A&E overspill.
As the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said in a briefing for MSPs last week, overcrowding in emergency departments is happening because there are not enough beds for people who have been seen in A&E and who are ready to be admitted to hospital.
This is creating a blockage in the system as it means that new patients arriving at A&E have to wait longer to be treated.
The shortage of beds is symptomatic of a wider problem which is primarily to do with the fact that there is a lack of appropriate facilities for people to be cared for within the community.
This means that patients, primarily the elderly and infirm, who are ready to leave hospital, are often forced to stay until a space frees up.
Protecting the NHS budget is of course of crucial importance, but we also need to ensure that the social care sector is properly funded to help shift the balance of care into the community and ease the strain on our hospitals.
Ultimately we need a whole system review of health and social care if we are to get our National Health Service back on the road to recovery.
Patients and staff deserve nothing less.
This entry was posted in Holyrood Message on February 16, 2015 by duncanmcneil.


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Is There a Story Shaping Your Life?
Have you ever wondered what you would write if you had to write a personal biography of your life?
It's a great exercise as a way to figure out what you really think of yourself. It might not seem the deepest, most novel, or soul-searching exercise, but when I give it to my clients, the outcome never fails to fascinate me and incriminate them, each and every time. Are you ready to hear it?
As an aside (and, no doubt, a fact that will perfectly explain my penchant for the bio), I was a Russian Literature major many (3) decades ago in college. It's no surprise that I'm the type who is tickled by tales of the twisted and epically tragic figure of the hero. My heroes were always the screwed.
What interests me the most are the details we handpick to sum up our lives today. Out of the gazillion stories from which we could choose, there are a particular handful that we favor when telling the story of how it all went down. Sure, some reasons are obvious: the time you broke your leg, your parents got divorced, you got fired from your job, which siblings were the worst, etc. We can't help but make sure that the reader knows that: 1) We suffered here, here, and here; and 2) We suffered at the hands of him, him and her.
We love to accentuate the negative (e.g., where we got dumped, cheated on, hit puberty early, our parents failed us, etc.)! Even when something great happens in our life that actually makes it into our bio, oftentimes we make it sound accidental and credit chance or coincidence for our success (i.e., I ended up in Harvard, I got this job, met this mate). We rarely brag about what it took to believe, to fight for something, and to actually cause something great to happen. Why is that?
Everything that happened happened. So why do our stories seem so out of our hands? Usually we assume it's the translator's fault.
But who is currently in charge of writing YOUR bio, anyway? (Spoiler alert: you). And how old are they? While we're at it, who exactly is scoring it? Because truth be told, so many of the bios I read from my clients sound like they would go perfectly with a sad, weepy violin. Sure, they might think they are just culling the most important stories that honestly paint the full picture of who they are today, but they tell it (and live it!) like they have zero choice about the story's current translation.
A WORLD of difference, no?
At that moment, I remember being awed by the deceptively simple but potent power of words. It occurred to me even then, how important they are not just to the telling of the story, but the meaning of it too.
The reason we prefer sad stories to the great and powerful ones is way sneakier than than it is tragically sad. If we really had to write a bio that claimed we were amazing, we'd have to be responsible for being amazing again, again, and again.
We'd have to stop wishing the anecdotes were different, our parents were better, our breasts were bigger (or smaller!), the relationship worked out, etc. Yet, we carry those stories around like a security blanket, pretending we can't put them down because we don't want to put them down.
If we believe that we have nothing to do with what works or doesn't work in our lives, we don't have to do anything about it.
I should know! For many years, my favorite translator of my story was (shall we say for the sake of argument, cause it's true), "Middle Marnie," the 3rd child of four. Middle Marnie had craftily curated all of her childhood memories to garner proof that she was misunderstood, unappreciated and different (and unique!) Switching summer camps every year because I didn't fit in, unfairly punished for innocently, oh, you know, pushing my older sister Beth down the stairs, or taunting her in front of my already edge-teetering mother.
Somehow, I managed skillfully to tell all the stories ONLY from the perspective of poor misunderstood Middle Marnie. A far cry from the current and possibly more accurate perspective of another translator, "Mofo Marnie!" If I had been telling my story from that perspective from the beginning, holy crap Batman, I'd be a CEO today. I'd be the one to not screw with, versus the screwed.
The power to write or rewrite or translate your life story, your bio, is always up to you. I had to fire my translator and thank her for trying to keep my fingerprints off of anything in my life that didn't work out. I had to find a new translator (Mofo Marnie!) that focused on designing, telling and writing my bio in a much braver, bolder way.
And, with a good edit and a heavy dose of the truth, that story gained layers of nuance. The characters came to life in a whole new way. Now cast as the main protagonist, my actions and reactions determine what kind of story it is – a comedy, a tragedy, a powerful coming-of-age. Best of all, as the author, I'm writing the plot as I go, making it whatever I wish it to be.
Think about the bio YOU would write. Who is the protagonist of your story, a hero or victim? Who did you hire to be your translator? Who's holding the pen, you sneak?
Okay, fine, nobody holds pens these days. So who's tapping on the keyboard?
PS: Speaking of rewriting history … my sister Lauren and one of her clients (and BFFs!) Dr. Mark Hyman are tackling a big subject this month when it comes to family history and lineage: the subject of epigenetics. Join them for a Facebook Live on Tues May 15th on Mark's channel.