Albion drew 1-1 with fellow promotion chasers Norwich at The Hawthorns on Saturday. Here are five things we learned from the match.
It was a sink or swim moment for the 18-year-old, thrust into the limelight because Jake Livermore, Matt Phillips and James Morrison were unavailable. But the teenager didn't even need any armbands.
A coming-of-age performance on his full league debut, Harper proved why he has leapfrogged Sam Field in the pecking order and why Albion have such high hopes for him. It's time to get his contract sorted out because he could be the dynamic central midfielder the Baggies have been crying out for.
Although Tosin Adarabioyo deserves credit for filling in out of position, that flank has been weaker than the opposite one this season. Against Norwich though, Holgate was a constant outlet on the wing and his aggressive runs forward and devilish crossing caused the Canaries all manner of problems.
As one promising loanee exits the building, another comes in. And while Holgate may not play in the same position as Harvey Barnes, Albion's defence now has a top-tier feel to it. Time to rack up some clean sheets.
Before 2006, the Professional Footballers' Association's official retirement age was 35. That's when players used to be able to pick up their pension. Next month, Barry turns 38.
Thanks to Gareth McAuley, Albion have become accustomed to Peter Pan players, but the way Barry controlled the midfield in a promotion six-pointer still beggars belief.
No wonder his team-mates are so in awe of him. He's due to play his 800th career game this season and remains one of Albion's key men.
When Albion are behind, Moore is not afraid to change it, sending on double or even triple subs to try and affect games. And the Baggies have won a joint league high 17 points from losing positions.
But when his team are ahead, he is reticent to make changes. Sometimes it's dangerous to upset the apple cart, but sometimes fresh legs and a different test for tiring opposition puts them on the back foot. Daniel Farke's successful substitutions proved that and painted Moore's inaction in a bad light.
Albion have had three complete sell-outs in just over a month and all three have finished in draws. They needed last-minute goals against Villa and Sheffield Wednesday but then conceded late on to Norwich.
Albion also lost to Bolton on opening day and tasted defeat on Regis Day last season and Astle Day in 2015.
They did beat Wigan on Boxing Day, when they had more home fans than any of these games, but technically there were still tickets left in the home end because the Latics sent some back.


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Sika 1 Screeding Mortar is part of the Sika 1 Structural Waterproofing System and is a pre-batched multi-purpose screed mortar. Sika 1 Screed Mortar is a factory proportioned pre-bagged powder component containing specially graded aggregates, sand cement and additives, that is mixed with Sika 1 Liquid and water as the gauging liquid to produce waterproof floor screeds as part of the Sika 1 Waterproofing System.
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The Cost of Legality: Nav… - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The Cost of Legality: Nav…
The Cost of Legality: Navigating Labour Mobility and Exploitation in Malaysia
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Anja K. Franck
Joseph Trawicki Anderson
International Quarterly for Asian Studies
School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research
School of Global Studies
https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2019....
Malaysia, Myanmar, guestworkers, employer sponsorship, legal status, labour mobility
International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Peace and development research, Work Sciences
Through examining the experiences of Burmese migrant workers in Malaysia this paper analyses the complicated relationship between legal status and protection from violence and abuse. While legal status has often been promoted as a means to protect migrants, we suggest that legal status is actually pursued only at particular moments and on the basis of particular cost/benefit calculations made by migrants. Even as legal status offers some protection from state authorities, the linkage between legal status and employer sponsorship means that it also binds migrants to specific employers. Crucial to these calculations too is the cost of legal status for both migrants and employers, imbuing the relationship with financial risk on both sides and turning legal status into an expensive "commodity". Therefore, while migrant labour is often constructed as being "cheap", our study reveals that a key factor in the exploitation of migrants is that they are in fact so expensive to hire. Thus, as we argue here, it is important to look beyond a narrow focus on legal status and consider the basis on which such status is extended – especially as such status is increasingly predicated on a sponsoring employer and significant financial investments.

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Insulating system for pipes and pipe bends
An insulating system (10) for protecting the exterior surfaces of steel pipes and pipe bends (100) from corrosive elements wherein, the insulating system (10) includes a primary coating (20) on the exterior surface of the steel pipe (100) a first inner layer of tape wrap (30) a pair of polyurethane half shells (40) (40′) surrounding the first layer of tape wrap (30) wherein, the exterior surfaces of the polyurethane half shells (40) (40′) are provided with a coating of mastic (50) that bonds with a second outer layer of tape wrap (60).
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BRUENJES, CHRISTOPHER P
STURM & FIX LLP (666 Walnut Street, Suite 1552, Des Moines, IA, 50309, US)
1. An insulating system to provide a protective barrier on steel pipes and/or pipe bends against corrosive elements encountered in the oil and gas industry wherein, the insulating system comprises an inner layer of tape wrap disposed in an enveloping relationship with the exterior surface of the steel pipe a pair of elongated polyurethane half shells having generally C-shaped cross-sectional configurations, wherein the terminal ends of the C-shaped configurations are operatively connected together to surround the steel pipe and the inner layer of tape wrap; and, an outer layer of tape wrap disposed in a surrounding relationship relative to the joined half shells.
2. The insulating system as in claim 1; further comprising a primer coating disposed intermediate said inner layer of tape wrap and the exterior surface of said steel pipe.
3. The insulating system as in claim 2; wherein, said primer coating is selected from among one of the following: epoxy, polyurethane, FBE.
4. The insulating system as in claim 2; wherein, the primer coating has a uniform thickness in the range of approximately 1-2 mils.
5. The insulating system as in claim 1; wherein, said inner layer of tape wrap is thinner than said outer layer of tape wrap.
6. The insulating system as in claim 5; wherein, the outer layer of tape wrap has a thickness that is as great as the inner layer of tape wrap.
7. The insulating system as in claim 1; wherein, the C-shaped polyurethane shells are joined together by a mechanical connection.
8. The insulating system as in claim 1; wherein, the C-shaped polyurethane half shells are joined together by a chemical bond.
9. The insulating system as in claim 1; wherein, the polyurethane half shells are joined together by both a mechanical connection and a chemical bond.
10. The insulating system as in claim 3; wherein, the C-shaped polyurethane shells are joined together by a mechanical connection.
11. The insulating system as in claim 3; wherein, the C-shaped polyurethane half shells are joined together by a chemical bond.
12. The insulating system as in claim 3; wherein, the polyurethane half shells are joined together by both a mechanical connection and a chemical bond.
13. The insulating system as in claim 1 further comprising a layer of mastic disposed intermediate the outer layer of tape wrap and the exterior of said polyurethane half shells.
16. A method of insulating the exterior surface of steel pipes comprising the steps of a) applying an inner layer of tape wrap along the entire length of steel pipe b) joining two polyurethane half shells together in a surrounding relationship relative to said inner layer of tape wrap c) applying an outer layer of tape wrap around the joined polyurethane half shells.
17. The method as in claim 16 further comprising a preliminary step prior to step a): d) applying a primary coating of a selected one of the following materials: epoxy, polyurethane, FBE to the exterior surface of said steel pipe.
18. The method as in claim 16 further comprising an intermediate step between steps a) and b) e) coating the abuttable surfaces of he polyurethane half shells with a chemical bonding agent.
20. The method as in claim 16 further comprising an intermediate step between steps b) and c) f) applying a layer of mastic on the exterior surfaces of the polyurethane half shells.
[0001] Not applicable.
[0003] The present invention relates to the field of pipe insulation in general and in particular for pipe insulation for use in highly corrosive environments such as in the petrochemical industry.
[0005] As can be seen by reference to the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,058,979; 4,606,953; 4,946,528; 5,178,902; and, 5,534,319, the prior art is replete with myriad and diverse pipe insulating systems employed in a variety of different environments.
[0006] While all of the aforementioned prior art constructions are more than adequate for the basic purpose and function for which they have been specifically designed, they are uniformly deficient with respect to their failure to provide a simple, efficient, and practical multi-layer precision fit pipe insulating system for use in highly corrosive environments such as the petrochemical industry.
[0007] One of the major causes of corrosion developing on pipe surfaces in the oil and gas industry has been determined to be based at least in part on the improperly manufactured and/or fitted insulating half shells which allow condensation and/or other corrosive liquids to collect on the exterior surfaces of the pipes upon which the exterior surfaces of the pipes are installed.
[0008] As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a longstanding need in the oil and gas industries for a new and improved multi-layer insulation system for steel pipes in general and steel pipe bends in particular, and the provision of such a system is the stated objective of the present invention.
[0009] Briefly stated, the multi-layer insulation system for steel pipes that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general an inner layer or coating, a pair of intermediate polyurethane half shells, and an outer mechanical barrier all of which cooperate with one another to form an effective barrier against both concentrations of and migrations by corrosive elements along steel pipes and pipe bends in the oil and gas industry.
[0010] As will be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, the inner layer may comprise a spray coating of epoxy, polyurethane or FBE applied to the exterior surface of the bend in a steel pipe inasmuch as that appears to be one of the highest areas of concentration for corrosion and/or a tape wrapping along a running length of pipe to form an initial mechanical barrier.
[0011] The intermediate layer includes a pair of polyurethane half shells having generally C-shaped cross-sectional configurations that are precision cut to exact thicknesses, wherein one of the half shells is provided with a pair of elongated longitudinal grooves formed on the ends of the opposite arms of the generally C-shaped configuration and, the other of the half shells is provided with a pair of complementary longitudinal projections on the ends of the opposite arms of the generally C-shaped configuration, wherein the grooves and projections matingly engage one another in a dovetail fashion to operatively connect the polyurethane half shells together.
[0012] In addition, the outer and final layer comprises a mechanical tape wrap barrier that overlies a mastic coating to form ship lap ends, wherein the mastic coating further chemically bonds the opposed faces of the polyurethane half shells together to form a tight seal and prevent the migration of corrosive elements along the exterior surface of the steel pipe and pipe bends.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
[0013] These and other attributes of the invention will become more clear upon a thorough study of the following description of the best mode for carrying out the invention, particularly when reviewed in conjunction with the drawings, wherein:
[0014] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the components and layers that form the basis of this invention in relation to a section of steel pipe;
[0015] FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken through line 2-2 of FIG. 1; and,
[0016] FIG. 3 is an enlarged exploded detail view of the various layers and components that comprise this invention.
[0017] As can be seen by reference to the drawings, and in particular to FIG. 1, the insulating system for steel pipes that forms the basis of the present invention is designated generally by the reference number 10. The system 10 comprises a primer coating 20, a first layer of tape wrap 30, a pair of polyurethane half shells 40 joined together both mechanically and chemically bonded together by a layer of mastic 50 which is also applied to the exterior surface of the polyurethane half shells 40 wherein, the exterior portion of the mastic layer 50 also adheres to an outer layer of tape wrap 60. These components and layers will now be described in seriatim fashion.
[0018] As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the primer coating 20 is sprayed on the running length of steel pipe and comprises a generally uniform thickness ranging from 1-2 mils of either epoxy, polyurethane, or FBE. The inner tape layer 30 is wrapped around the primer coating 20 in a 25% to 50% overlapping fashion to a thickness of between 13 to 14 mils wherein, the primer coating 20 and the tape layer 30 form the initial corrosion barrier of the pipe insulating system 10.
[0019] In addition, the pair of polyurethane half shells 40 40′ each has a generally C-shaped cross-sectional configuration and is fabricated from 3# minimum 90% to 95% closed cell polyurethane foam the normal uniform thickness of which ranges between 1 to 3 inches. Furthermore, the half shells 40 40′ are spray- or injected-molded and then precisely contoured to exact specifications by computer guided cutting machines.
[0020] As can also be seen by reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, one of the polyurethane half shells 40 is provided with a pair of longitudinal contoured grooves 41 41 wherein, each groove 41 is formed on the terminal ends of the C-shaped configuration, and the other of the polyurethane half shells 40′ is provided with a pair of raised longitudinal projections 42 42 formed on the terminal ends of the C-shaped configuration wherein, the configuration of the grooves 41 41 and the projections 42 42 are complementary with one another, so as to be mechanically joined to one another in a mating dovetail fashion.
[0021] At this juncture, it should be noted that prior to the mechanical joining of the half shells 40 40′, their abutting faces are first provided with a layer of mastic 50 to allow for the mechanical joining and chemical sealing of the juncture between the half shells 40 40′. Then once the half shells 40 40′ have been sealingly engaged with one another, an additional uniform layer of mastic 50′ is applied to the external periphery of the joined half shells 40 40′ in anticipation of the final step in the application of the insulating system 10 to the exterior of a steel pipe 100 and/or pipe bend.
[0022] This final step involves the application of an outer layer of tape wrap 20 employing a 25% to 50% wrap overlap to an approximate thickness of 35 mil to form the final mechanical barrier to the invasive effects of corrosive elements on the exterior surfaces of steel pipes and/or pipe bends 100.
[0023] The outer layer of tape wrap 60 also includes shop lap fitted ends and as shown in FIG. 2, at least one of the half shells 40′ may be provided with a discrete longitudinal bore 70 which forms a heat trace conduit or the like.
[0024] Although only an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this invention. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this invention as defined in the following claims.
[0025] Having thereby described the subject matter of the present invention, it should be apparent that many substitutions, modifications, and variations of the invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that the invention as taught and described herein is only to be limited to the extent of the breadth and scope of the appended claims.
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I have a GraphQL query to search repositories and I want to paginate my result.
The query works fine when provided with a cursor. When I want to get only the first page and provide the query with a null cursor to get the first page, I get "Variable cursor of type String! was provided invalid value" error.
How can I retrieve the first page without having to write another query with no cursor parameter?
Thanks for being here! If I'm not mistaken you'd have to send the initial request again because no variables are specified :( Let me do a little digging on my end and see if there are any alternatives.
Thank you for your help. Please let me know if you can find any alternatives.
Would you please attempt you query again making sure to define the $after cursor parameter as $after: String. Please let me know if this does the trick, I hope this helps!
Just remove the `!` from String to make the variable accept either a String or a null value.


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Catalog > Photo & Video > Adobe Photoshop > Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp > Optimizing Grayscale With Levels
Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp
Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
And now let's think about what would I do if I've already adjusted an image with camera and then I need to do further adjustments? Well, there's a bunch of adjustments that we have available. Let's start talking about a black and white image. And let's say that this image, since it's an old picture, is one that it wasn't taken with a camera directly. Instead, this is a photographic print that was scanned, and therefore I don't have a raw file available. Well, I'd like to show you how in adjustment known as Levels works, and I'm gonna use to images to do so. We'll use this image and also use a simplified image, which is this generically known as a gray wedge. And I'm gonna start by choosing image adjustments. And here we have a bunch of adjustment choices, this images in grayscale mode. That means that Photoshopped knows it does not contain any color. If I come up here, you'll see that it's in grayscale mode and therefore any adjustments that require color become great out. If I wanted ...
to use any of those, I'd have to change the mode up here from grayscale to RGB, then everything would be available. But looking at the adjustments that do show up, let's just take a look at him. First. We have brightness and contrast with brightness and contrast. We just have to sliders. The brightness liner is gonna brighten or darken your picture in the one thing that's nice about it is watch what happens to the extremes of black and white. When I dark in the image noticed that white remains white and when I brighten the image noticed that black remains black. Therefore, if you had the full brightness range to begin with, your going to still have the full brightness range from black to white. When you're done, it's just everything that's in between. Those two will be brightened or darkened. Then we have contrast. In contrast, means how big of a difference is there between British areas in darkish areas. So if you look at areas that are relatively bright in areas that are relatively dark, if I increase, contrast will be a greater difference between the two, and therefore bright areas will get brighter in dark areas will get even darker Now there's a greater difference between bright and dark. If I reduce it. Then instead, the difference between bright and dark is gonna be more come more similar, and therefore both the bright areas and the darker is are going to get closer to middle gray. Yes, I lower this well. The problem with this is it's always thinking about an images if it has the full brightness range available. So if your image that you originally opened up was a picture of snow and the snow had no real shadows to it may just slightly shadowy areas so that the entirety of the image went from white down to about this brightness level here, that's the darkest there was in the entire photograph. Well, then, when I increased contrast, since it changes the relationship between British and darkish tones, increasing it, it's just gonna brighten that entire snow photograph because the entire images in that bright range in lowering contrast will just darken the entire snowy photograph. This doesn't allow me to really target things with precision. This is simply the simplest brightness or tonal adjustments. Now there is a check box called use legacy. There used to be a different version of brightness and contrast, one that was so basic that you almost never use it. And if you want to use the old version, you can turn on use legacy in. In that case, if I adjust brightness, every single tone in the images brightened an equal amount. So do you see what happens to black? And if I darken every single tone and the image will be darkened, an equal amount so you see what happens toe white and then, with contrast, it's going to make bright areas brighter, dark areas darker. But it'll be very easy for areas to turn solid white or solid black. And if you bring it down, it'll be much easier to get to, uh, like everything being identical for a photographic image that's not very effective. And that's what we used tohave. If he went with Photoshopped 1.0, up through photo shop. I don't remember what number but many years that's all we had for brightness and contrast. Now you mentioned that because the use legacy check box is extremely useful, just not when you're working on a photographic image. Instead, it's useful. When you're working on a mask, you can have a layer mask. We have a lesson about layer mass as part of the ultimate guide. And if I was working on that layer mask, I might want to take the entirety of whatever happens to be there in brighten or darken it, and this would be an effective way to do so. But you won't see me using brightness and contrast on any pictures unless I'm teaching an absolute beginner and Photoshopped because they usually want more control. So as you work your way down these top three choices, you get mawr, INM or control. So now let's go toe levels and see how it works with levels there a total of five adjustment sliders to work with. If you start with the upper right slider, it will force areas toe white as I bring it in towards the middle. More and more of my image will become solid white. But to truly understand the way it works, you need to pay attention to the Grady int That's right down here, this ramp that goes from black toe white and you need to look at where that slider is relative to that little bar. That bar shows you all the brightness levels you could possibly have in your picture. And as you move this slider to the left and you go straight down here, anything that's to the right of the slider in the bar at the bottom is going to turn white. And so if I were to bring it into the middle, that means go straight down from it. Anything that used to be this brightness level, my picture and anything brighter than that will be solid white. And then everything that's darker than that is going to be brightened along with it. Actually, yeah, So watch this. If I bring this in, you'll Seymour in Maura, the image becoming white because all those shades that turning white are found in this region right here. Then it just keeps h a consistent transition between all the other shades. So as they bring this up now that this shade here is white, this one is just a different from it, as it was before. And so it brightened up along with it. If I bring in the upper left slider, then it's going to force areas to black. Anything to the left of it will turn black. And when I say left of it, I mean in the Grady int at the bottom and therefore for bringing halfway in. Everything it was 50% gray or darker becomes black. Now that could be very useful. Let's say you're scanning your signature, and when you wrote your signature, used a pencil on a sheet of paper and the paper was not vividly white. It wasn't extremely bright. Instead, there had a little atonality to it. So when you scan in your signature, the paper comes in is a shade of gray in your signature comes in as a darker shade of gray. But what you want is solid white paper in a solid black signature. Well, if you brought this in, you could. You could end up getting that paper eventually to turn white because it would be in this general brightness range. Then, if your signature, let's say it was about this bright when you scanned, Ickes was in pencil. You could bring this slider over until it's beyond it, and you'd force it to black. So it being really nice way of working the middle slider, is going to force things to 50% gray. So that's why it starts out in the middle because if you go straight down from it, that's where 50% Gray has found originally. If I were to move in this direction, then what is right here? If I get it to be right above, that will end up being 50% gray. Well, this used to be darker than 50% gray. So moving in this direction will brighten your image, making what's directly below it 50% gray. If I move in the opposite direction, then something over here is gonna become 50% grade. These were originally brighter than 50%. So when I get it over here, it's gonna be darkening. Now that is very useful. When you're working with textures, we have a session within the ultimate guide that covers a feature known as blending modes. In blending modes. There's one set of modes that makes 50% go away, and so if you scanned in a texture, then you want the majority of the texture to go away. Then you want the majority the texture to be exactly 50% gray. When using those modes, will this middle slider right here if you can get it pointing at the exact shade of what's in your texture, it could be very useful. So it's really good to know how these sliders work because it's not just one adjusting normal images that you're going to be using this. It's also when you're applying textures when you're working with masks and all sorts of other things that you might want to think about this. There's two more sliders, and they're found down here at the bottom. The slider on the left, if I pull it in, is going to make what used to be white in our picture. It's gonna change it to the shade of gray. This points at so over here is white in this image, and if I were to pull this over to left, we're no longer gonna have any white. Instead, the brightest part of our picture will be whatever this points at. I bring in the opposite, one that controls how bright things are that used to be black. When you bring it in. Now black will become whatever this points at. There's a bunch of good reasons for using that. Let's say you prints on a printer that you have on your desk, and you find out that every time you print the dark part of your image, where you could see detail on screen comes out of solid black. It's just you're using cheap paper when you're using ink to print with, and that ink is absorbing into the paper. And as it does, it spreads out. Is it absorbs in in any variation there was in an area that was 98% gray, or something like that becomes solid black. Well, you could do a test. You could print an image similar to this, although you have it so all the shades or dark. So it's kind of like that. And then you could print it out and say, What's the 1st 1 of these? That actually looks different than black? And if you were to figure out how bright that shade waas, then when you're about to prepare an image to print on your printer, you could just take the slider and point it right at that shade, the darkest shade where you can still see a hint to detail. So that should give you an idea of what these sliders do. Let's use them now to adjust an image
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Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
Bridge vs. Lightroom
Tour of Photoshop Interface
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Overview of Lightroom Workspace
Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
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Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
Developing Raw Images
Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
How to Save Images
Using the Transform Tool
Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
Combining Selection Tools
Using Automated Selection Tools
Quick Mask Mode
Select Menu Essentials
Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
Masking Multiple Images Together
Using Layer Masks to Remove People
Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
Adding Texture to Images
Layering to Create Realistic Depth
Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
Understanding Curves
Editing an Image Using Curves
Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
Editing with Blending Modes
Curves for Color
Hue and Saturation Adjustments
Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
Match Colors Using Numbers
Adjusting Skin Tones
Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
Retouching with the Clone Stamp
Retouching with the Healing Brush
Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
Extending an Edge with Content Aware
Clone Between Documents
Frame Tool
Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
Paint Brush Tools
History Brush Tool
Eraser and Gradient Tools
Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
Blur and Shape Tools
Dissolve Mode
Multiply Mode
Hard Light Mode
Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
Blur Filter
Filter Gallery
Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
Combing Filters and Features
Select and Mask
Manually Select and Mask
Creating a Clean Background
Smart Object Overview
Nested Smart Objects
Scale and Warp Smart Objects
Replace Contents
Raw Smart Objects
Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
Light Painting Composite
Remove Moire Patterns
Remove Similar Objects At Once
Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
Replace a Repeating Pattern
Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
Remove an Object with a Complex Background
Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
Puppet Warp
Displacement Map
Organize Your Layers
Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
Layer Style: Knockout Deep
Blending Options: Blend if
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Layer Comps
Black-Only Shadows
Create a Content Aware Fill Action
Create a Desaturate Edges Action
Create an Antique Color Action
Create a Contour Map Action
Faux Sunset Action
Photo Credit Action
Create Sharable Actions
Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
Image Compatibility with Lightroom
Scratch Disk Is Full
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Four-wheel drive will be offered on some models. While a six-speed manual gearbox will be standard, an automatic option will be available. Most people are aware that their car is fitted with ABS, but few know what it does or how it works. Sensors fitted to a car's wheels determine if one is on the verge of locking up under braking. If a wheel does lock, then hydraulic valves release to reduce braking pressure ever so slightly to prevent this happening. In many ways the electronics are performing cadence braking - where the driver pumps the brake pedal to prevent wheel lock. This allows the driver to maintain steering control, which is lost when the wheels are locked. • Winter car checklist: top products to buy sDrive models are front-wheel drive, while xDrive versions offer four-wheel drive. In any case, an automatic gearbox is standard, with seven speeds in petrol models and eight speeds in diesel versions. As revealed by Auto Express earlier this year, it will sit between the Outlander and the full-size Shogun, with a price tag around £30,000 looking likely. It'll follow the all-new Eclipse Cross crossover into showrooms, which is scheduled to land on sale in Britain in January. Elon Musk promised the upgrade back in August, after responding to a driver's tweet requesting easier entry and exit in and out of his Tesla. The X2's engine range will grow soon after launch, with the addition of more petrol and diesel models, including petrols with four-wheel drive. Our favourite engine in the X1 is the sDrive18d diesel; in the X2, this engine produces 148bhp and returns up to 62.8mpg. Essentially a fancy term for leasing, these deals remove much of the hassle that comes with car ownership – although, unlike personal contract purchase deals, they don't give you the option to buy the car outright at the end of the term.


A native of the planet Korugar in space sector 1417 (as the Guardians designate space), Sinestro was initially considered to be one of the greatest Green Lanterns, but as the years passed, he became more and more fixated not simply on protecting the magenta-skinned Korugarians, but on preserving order in their society. Eventually he concluded that the best way to accomplish this was to conquer them, and to rule the planet as a dictator.
When Hal Jordan joined the Corps, Sinestro was assigned to be his instructor. Jordan was horrified at the way Sinestro ruled his people like a dictator, though Sinestro maintained that his iron-fisted rule was necessary to protect his people from alien forces. As such, while repelling the alien warlords known as the Khunds from attacking the planet, the Korugarians rebelled. When Jordan called for help from the other Green Lanterns, Sinestro's dictatorship was exposed and he was forced before the Guardians for punishment. Sinestro's Green Lantern Ring was given to Katma Tui, the leader of the rebellion who had felt that Sinestro's "protection" kept his people from growing as a society through contact with other alien races.
The Guardians decided to punish Sinestro by banishing him to the "anti-matter universe", in particular, the alien world of Qward. Their motive for doing so was to humble Sinestro, by exiling him to a world ruled by evil and in particular, beings who hated the Guardians and the Green Lanterns. This would be a major miscalculation, as Sinestro instead was taken in by the Weaponers of Qward. The Weaponers were a group of warrior and scientists who hated the Guardians as much as Sinestro did and the two became allies, with the Weaponers offering to help Sinestro gain revenge on the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians.
Creating a yellow power ring for him to use, they sent him back to his home universe to seek his revenge. Sinestro quickly became a powerful nemesis toward the Green Lantern Corps, partially due to the fact that their power rings cannot directly affect anything yellow. Despite this, skilled Green Lanterns like Jordan always found ways to defeat him.
Before the Guardians took a leave of absence from their universe to attempt mating with their counterparts the Zamarons, they constructed an inescapable prison for Sinestro and thousands of others on Oa. However, Sinestro's cunning prevailed once again and he managed to free himself through the mental manipulation of the Mad God of Sector 3600. Now wielding nearly unlimited power, Sinestro murdered entire star systems until he was finally subdued by the Green Lantern Corps of Earth. Now guilty of multiple acts of genocide, Sinestro was put on trial again by the assembled membership of the Green Lantern Corps. Finding him guilty, they condemned him to death and executed him, not realizing this activated a failsafe system within the Central Power Battery on Oa that caused it to be destroyed should ever a Korugarian male be killed by a Guardian or their agents (the failsafe was created by the Guardians after their mates, the Zamarons left them to live with Korugarians, a fact that they told no one out of jealousy and shame). Ironically, Sinestro's death then resulted (temporarily at least) in what he sought to achieve in life; the destruction of the Corps. He had also managed to cheat death itself by transferring his consciousness into the Central Power Battery, where he made a startling discovery about the ancient Yellow Impurity within the Green Lantern's light.
The yellow impurity turned out to be a sentient entity known as Parallax and the two merged as Hal Jordan entered the battery to desperately try and save the few remaining Green Lanterns, whose power rings had not been rendered powerless by the death of Sinestro. Jordan ultimately defeated Sinestro, whose spirit was condemned to remain trapped inside the power battery for eternity. But for Sinestro, his was a victory that was greater: not only had he decimated the Green Lantern Corps, but through him, the yellow impurity entity Parallax had successfully infected Hal's mind, setting up Sinestro's ultimate triumph.
Guy Gardner, forced to forfeit his Green Lantern ring after a grudge match with Jordan, set out on a quest to regain his power and identity. With the help of Lobo, Gardner acquired the yellow power ring of Sinestro from Oa's Crypt of the Green Lantern Corps. The yellow ring did not use a battery to recharge but actually needed to be used against Green Lanterns to restore power. Gardner found this out by accident when a member of the GLC fought him while he had absolutely no power.
As the yellow ring spoke Sinestro's native language, Guy was unable to communicate with it, although it seemed to understand him to a degree.
Guy only wore the yellow ring for a short while as the character was caught up in the new editorial direction for the Green Lantern franchise that led to the controversial Emerald Twilight storyline in Green Lantern (vol. 3) #48-50 and it was decided to take the yellow ring from Gardner and completely reinvent the character.
In the meantime, the return of the Guardians resulted in the Corps being re-established, only to be attacked and annihilated by Jordan himself when he was possessed by the Parallax entity, and taking it's name. Driven mad with grief by the destruction of his home city and the apathy of the Guardians towards his plight, the yellow impurity pushed Hal towards a Parallax-induced homicidal rampage that left scores of Green Lanterns dead or maimed as Parallax sought to absorb the Central Power Battery's energies into his being.
Sinestro was then revived by the Guardians and sent to stop Hal only to be murdered by his enemy. But Sinestro's death was not as it appeared, as he would later imply that the being that Jordan killed was a construct made by Parallax and unknowingly extracted from the Central Power Battery.
Hal Jordan promptly finished off the Green Lantern Corps by absorbing the Central Power Battery's energies into himself. How Sinestro escaped remains unknown, but he survived and went into hiding as he watched Hal become what Sinestro had become: a traitor and a murderer reviled by his friends and his allies.
Sinestro eventually revealed the charade when Kyle Rayner discovered the existence of Parallax and revealed it to Green Arrow and the Justice League. Nearly killing the two heroes, Sinestro was stopped by the newly resurrected Hal Jordan, who reclaimed his ring and was purged of Parallax's influence. The two fought to a draw, with Sinestro escaping to the anti-matter universe when his ring was damaged by Hal during the fight.
Sinestro later appeared in the miniseries Villains United, where he captured Lady Quark for the Secret Society of Super-Villains. Sinestro had been a member of the group in the past and played a major role in the Society's massacre of the Freedom Fighters, with Sinestro murdering the second Black Condor early on.
Sinestro also has engaged in other sinister schemes: with the Green Lantern Corps restarted with the return of Hal Jordan, Sinestro has decided to found his own Corps, offering yellow power rings, and a role in the Sinestro Corps, to the most feared and savage warriors of the universe. The size and scope of this new organization has yet to be revealed but stands to be a major threat for the Green Lantern Corps in the near future.
In a recent interview with Geoff Johns, writer of the current Green Lantern series, it was revealed that the Sinestro Corps are actually meant to mirror the GLC, to the minutest of details. Johns said, "The Sinestro Corps [will have] its own Oa-type planet, its own Guardians, [and] its own oath."
Enslaving all the Qwardian Weaponeers, surveilled by Arkillo, a large and muscular vicious alien with the same role of Drill Sergeant held by Kilowog in the GLC, he forced them to continuously build new yellow rings, programmed to breach the barrier between anti-matter and matter universe, find and recruit new warriors.
All Qwardians now sport slave collars, put on them by Sinestro himself to assure their loyalty, and the planet has now a huge yellow "Central Battery", like the Oan one.
Known members, other than the Corps namesake and Arkillo, include: Karu-sil, "the girl next door" from a planet populated by murders and sociopaths; Despotellis, a sentient virus capable of attacking Lanterns from the inside; Bedovian, the sniper of the Corps, capable of taking out a target from three sectors away while living off of the fungus growing on his "hermit crab" like shell.
Recently, the Sinestro Corps tried to recruit Batman, known for being able to instill fear into the hearts of man. Batman rejected the ring however, due to Batman's own willpower and his former exposure to a Green Lantern Corps ring. The ring, seeking a "replacement" was sent to Amon Sur, the disgruntled son of Abin Sur, who was attempting to steal Hal Jordan's ring at the same moment.


Knowing as much as you can about the credit cards you have and about the company that issues them is all a part of being financially savvy. While the Credit CARD Act, passed in 2009, aims to make credit card practices more transparent and fair, there are still a few little known facts about credit card companies, which can affect your relationship with them.
Legally, a credit card company can charge as high of an interest rate as it wants, as long as the rate applies to new purchases. Case in point: in 2011, First Premier Bank shocked some cardholders when it introduced a new rate that was nearly 80 percent, according to CNN Money.
Interest rates tend to be the central focus of the little known facts about credit card companies. For example, another "secret" fact is that a fixed rate doesn't mean the rate needs to stay the same forever. Instead, "fixed" simply means the card company has to tell you before it raises the rate.
The CARD Act made it a bit trickier for card companies to change fixed rates, which is one of the major reasons why you see so many cards offering variable rates, which change based on the market.
Just as a credit card company can raise your fixed rate after giving you notice, you can also try to get it to reduce your rate. If your rate is so high that paying your bills is a challenge, the company might be willing to work with you and reduce it.
If your card company lets you know that it's going to bump up your rate, you don't have to just accept it. You can decline the rate increase. The company might close your account at the point, but it can't legally make you pay the full amount right away.
Although you probably receive a new credit card in the mail every few years, the truth is that they don't actually expire. Your card number stays the same, after all. Typically, expiration dates are used to prove that a person actually has the credit card in his or her hand when placing an order online or over the phone.
For years, credit card companies didn't allow merchants to set minimum purchase limits. That's changed in recent years, though. For example, Visa now allows merchants to set a minimum purchase amount for credit cards, as long as it is not more than $10.
Under federal law, you can't be responsible for more than $50 in unauthorized charges. The amount can be even less, depending on your card company's rules.
The average credit card company spends about $80 getting a new customer, according to the Database Marketing Institute. If all goes well, that customer will bring in $120 per year, meaning the card company makes a profit.


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Irresistible review – subtle satire from Jon Stewart
Mark Kermode, Observer fim critic
Sunday, 28 Jun 2020
# Comedy films
# Jon Stewart
Steve Carell is a political strategist lost in backwoods America in the former Daily Show host's Capra-esque second film
"I don't kid," Donald Trump said last week, when asked if he was (as White House aides had claimed) "joking" about telling his Coronavirus team to "slow the testing down". By the time you read this, he may well be claiming that he never said any of the words captured on camera. Who knows? Even those rolling news networks sympathetic to the president's chicanery are struggling to keep up with the tsunami of untruths, falsehoods, and barefaced lies that now pass for policy in the US. As for political satire, it's largely indistinguishable from the insanity of an administration flailing chaotically through economic, racial and medical turmoil.
Amid such horrors, there's something reassuringly nostalgic about Irresistible, the second feature from former Daily Show host Jon Stewart. It's not just that the film was shot in 2019, before the current crises. It's more that Stewart adopts a gentle Capra-esque tone, looking beyond the ghastliness of the current incumbent, focusing instead on the wider, non-partisan problems that beset American politics.
Steve Carell plays Gary Zimmer, a liberally minded, corporate-mouthed (and typically untrustworthy) political strategist who was blindsided by Hillary's defeat in 2016. Realising that the Democrats are in urgent need of a non-elite, "rural-friendly" face, he leaps upon a viral video of Colonel Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper, oozing old-fashioned sincerity) standing up to a town council meeting in the remote Wisconsin backwater of Deerlaken. "If you can't live your principles in the bad times," Jack tells the council, "I guess they're not principles – they're just hobbies."
What follows is a broad-strokes comedy drama pitched between the satire of Wag the Dog and charm of Local Hero
A marine veteran, farmer, and (most remarkably) a Democrat, Jack is everything Gary's party needs, but sorely lacks – a "Bill Clinton with impulse control", or "a church-going Bernie Sanders with better bone density". So Gary decides to make Jack run for mayor, assembling a team who descend upon Deerlaken to manufacture a down-home Democratic victory. At which point, Gary's arch rival Faith Brewster (Rose Byrne, flashing hair and teeth) arrives to fight the Republican corner, turning a local election into a bellwether battle that attracts national attention, and national dollars.
Stewart's first feature, Rosewater, was a solid adaptation of journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his detention in Iran shortly after appearing on a spoof Daily Show segment in which Jason Jones pretended to be an American "spy". The situation may have been absurd, but there was nothing funny about Bahari's ordeal, powerfully portrayed in Stewart's film. With Irresistible (the name of which seems to nod toward Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui), Stewart is back on home ground, opening with a TV show-style segment about the falsehoods of the "spin room" ("I look forward to lying to you in the future") that we now take for granted.
What follows is a broad-strokes comedy drama pitched somewhere between the satire of Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog and the fish-out-of-water charm of Bill Forsyth's Local Hero. As with the former, the manipulation of "truth" into a saleable product allows for much wise-cracking fun, with number-crunching focus-groups mistaking nuns for contraception-conscious single women, and television adverts funded by "Powerful Progressives for Strength" or "Wisconsinites for Religiously Based Compassionate Empathy". This is familiar fare, the kind of thing Stewart could do in his sleep – entertaining, if unsurprising.
The connection to Local Hero, however, is rather more subtle. When Gary first arrives in Deerlaken, the responses to his search for universal wifi ("good luck with that!") echo the muffled laughter that greets Peter Riegert's Mac when he asks his Ferness hosts if they have a charger so he can plug in his briefcase. Like Mac, Gary thinks he's gone back in time, and we fondly imagine that a few days on the farm will somehow reset his metropolitan compass. But the gorgeous sting in the tail of Local Hero is that the villagers aren't what Mac imagines at all – in fact, they have the measure of him long before he begins to understand them. Perhaps Gary should have boned up on his movie history along with all those statistical analyses.
"It's just math," Gary ruefully tells Diana (Mackenzie Davis), Jack's 28-year-old daughter with whom he creepily imagines he has made "a connection". "We need what they get… plus one." Whether Irresistible is the movie we "need" in such testing times is open to debate, with some already accusing Stewart of having gone soft. But as a non-partisan response to the craziness of "this system, the way we elect people" (which is indeed "terrifying and exhausting"), it gets my vote.
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Writer and broadcaster Mark Kermode is the Observer's chief film critic. He is the author of Hatchet Job and The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex. Follow him on twitter: @kermodemovie
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England's Kate Cross urges more red-ball games to boost women's cricket
England seamer Kate Cross has called for an increase in red-ball cricket to help raise standards across the women's game.
Cross, currently turning out for Lancashire-based Thunder in the 50-over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy tournament, would like to see more opportunities for women to play the longer format.
The 29-year-old, who played the last of her three Tests in 2015 but remains a key member of England's white-ball squad, also feels a points structure – as already used in the women's Ashes – should be introduced across the board for international series.
England begin their international summer on June 16, when they face India in a single Test at Bristol, live on Sky Sports Cricket, followed by three ODIs and a three-match T20 series.
"We don't get the opportunity to play red-ball cricket that often," said Cross. "We had one three-day game that was washed out in monsoon season in May last week!
"The preparation is probably never going to be as good as it is for white-ball cricket. We learn about four-day cricket while we play it.
"I think you will get more out of female athletes if you give them the opportunity to hone their skill in the longer format.
"I'd love to see a lot more three and four-day cricket played and I think all our international series should be played like Ashes series – the Test match, three T20s and three one-dayers as part of a points system. I think that's a brilliant idea."
We are still in a generation where girls need to focus on university or school before they can really commit to cricket because there's not that money yet. It's getting there, but there is still a bit more investment needed so we can give it a real good go.
England international bowler Kate Cross
Cross, who has represented England 41 times in white-ball cricket, applauded the ECB for its commitment to growing the women's game in recent years.
She also believes credit should go to former England women's coach Mark Robinson, who spent four years in the role and guided the team to World Cup glory in 2017, for the part he played in driving forward levels of professionalism.
"I think Mark Robinson was key. He really drove the standards of what a professional environment looks like," Cross added.
"He came from the men's game, knew what that environment looked like, and saw there were a few gaps in the women's game.
"I can't praise the ECB enough. We were in the midst of a global pandemic and they really committed to the game.
"It easy to say you want to support the women's game, but the ECB invested in it in a difficult year financially for everyone. It's positive steps – we just need to play more cricket.
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How can I copy a record to a different table, while updating the value in two fields from the original? Use case is we have a proposal table that contains active proposals, and from time to time those proposals have to be revised. At the time the proposal is revised, we'd like to copy what we had up to that point to a Revision History table and then change the Revision value on the original record and change the status value on the original record.
So, are you looking to have a single button do that? How will the new revision value be calculated? What's the pattern. Like 1234, or A B C D.
What is the new status to be on the current record?
The new revision status is calculated via a formula field that I've set up separately, and it's a 1-2-3 pattern (would LOVE an A-B-C-D pattern but couldn't figure out an easy way to do that). Status is a text field field, and will be "Working PSA Tasks".
I have posted an app in the Exchange called URL formuals for Dummies, which helps you understand how to make formula URL buttons which will do successive actions.
Basically you want to push a button which will do three successive actions.
1. Add a record to a table.
2. Edit the record that you are sitting on.
3. Display the record that you are sitting on.
You will need to decide if you want to use Application tokens as an extra security layer. I suggest for now, that you turn off that requirement by going to the Application Properties tab abd disabling that requirement.
// first we will create the record in another table.
var text URLONE = urlroot() & "db/" & [_DBID_ the table that you are writing to from its advanced properties tab] & "?act=API_AddRecord"
// next we update the record we are sitting on.
// next we will need to display the record.
// OK now we string them, all together.
fid will be the field in the new table that's being populated; all I have to do is replace [some field here] with the field ID/field name? from which the value is derived? How does it know from which table to pull that data?
The value will pull fomr the record you are sitting on when you click the button.


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Currency trading on margin involves high risk, and is not suitable for all investors. Risk and forex trading While investing and trading in stocks involves risk of loss as well as risks associated with ownership of a company, forex trading involves some different risks. There very instrument traders and investors use to capture more from small movements in currency price can also magnify substantial price swings.
While the research and tools may be different from platform to platform, most offer economic analysis, real-time news, and advanced data analysis. In order to provide you with this free service we receive advertising fees from brokers, including some of those listed within our rankings and on this page.
On the contrary, Canadian Forex brokers do not enforce any trading restrictions; however, the country may change its policies from time to time to ensure that fraudulent financial practices are kept to a bare minimum.
Governments back their home currency. Canadian Forex websites are by all means not few, but numerous, so it is our duty to put some light over their specifications, too. Canada is also pretty lenient towards sending and receiving money from international brokers, provided that both the trader as well as the company adheres to all existing anti-money laundering laws.
However, there is always a chance that you are the victim of some of the misleading techniques and methods which fraudsters use and rsi day trading strategy we will discuss further down in this article. So what Canadians can do then?
The residence of the broker does affect not the broker, itself only, but only on the customers, who have the possibility to join it. British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are some of these provinces.
Stop order: The IIROC on its website offers a chance for future traders to gain information about the background, qualifications and disciplinary information of Canadian Forex brokers. Central banks and governments use interest rates as a way to increase and decrease money supply within the economy. Once that specific price is hit your position is exited using a market order.
How we made our selection Canada is somewhat limited in the number of forex brokers that can be used relative to other areas of the globe like the U. However, the brokers that are available happen to be top notch.
Although there are some advantages of choosing brokers from Canada, traders should also be aware of a few drawbacks of Canadian Forex Brokers. Couple that with their solid mobile applications, and Forex.
Canadian financial forex trading platform canada is divided into different territories that impose different regulations through multiple regulatory organizations. The company provides investors with webinars, commentary, educational videos, as well as short courses to cover the basics of trading for new investors.
First the broker must have a physical presence in Canada and second it has to be registered as a broker with securities in Canada.
These different regulatory agencies have different duties as far as regulating different types of firms are concerned.
Liquidity risk: Types of forex orders Like stock trading, the forex market uses some basic orders for buying and selling: Interest rates: Once a specific price is hit your position is exited using a limit order. Volatility risk: The following are the main Canadian regulatory authorities in charge of regulating companies: Nevertheless, at present, Forex brokers in Canada are regulated according to the territory of operations.
It is indeed a fair assumption that brokers from the US, the UK, and other parts of the EU are more trusted than any other regions in the entire world. How To Choose The Best Canadian Forex Brokers Due to the multiple regulatory agencies in Canada and the forex haram ou halal of laws that do not force brokers into setting up an office in Canada, it is indeed difficult to get a large number of choices for Forex brokers forex trading platform canada Canada.
Market order: When you compare it to other markets around the world such as the US or UK Forex market you see that the security it offers against scams and frauds is not paralleled. How can I check if a Forex broker works legitimately? You might be surprised by the advantages that the country offers to investors, which can in turn lure traders into depositing their trading capital with Forex Brokers Canada.
Of course, there are tax benefits and the renewed sense of trust from Canadian traders by getting regulated by a Canadian authority; however, the cost involved in setting up a company from scratch along with a confused Canadian regulatory structure can act as the primary deterrent for brokers.
The company says it has one of the widest arrays of currency pairs available, along with a proprietary platform and global presence. We work hard to offer you valuable information about all of the brokers that we forex trading platform canada. Even trik profit konsisten trading forex it is quite difficult to regulate the fast paced Forex market, there are quite a few governmental and non-governmental agencies around the world which regulate the flow of capital in the Forex market.
All recognized and regulated Forex brokers, including those under the umbrella of IIROC, offer their clients the chance to start trading with a forex trading platform canada or demo account if they are new to Forex trading.
Such a move is designed to increase the competitive nature of the retail trading market, but it can also have severe shortcomings.
The company takes it a step further with their plethora of research and insights.
This might not seem as a consolation for the misled party, but penalizing actions such as these are designed to prevent Forex brokers from going into a fraudulent deal in the first place.
Users can take advantage of the platform that best suits their needs, as well as incorporates automated trading for the more advanced programmers. Several brokers have different features and functionalities that are unique to a particular group of traders. In the US and several other countries, it is illegal to forex trading platform canada funds to overseas FX brokers.
Is a forex swissquote Forex broker a guarantee for an exceptional service? As a leveraged product losses are able to exceed initial deposits and capital is at risk.
Different provinces may have to comply with additional rules and requirements unless an exemption is granted.
Fills the order at the best available price, usually at the bid when buying or ask when selling Limit order: All Canadian Forex brokers which intend to provide services to Canadian citizens have to be registered as a member of the IIROC as well as to be registered in the province in work at home jobs in houston texas they will conduct their business if they want to be able to offer trading on margin.
If you look on YouTube you can find its free market analysis videos. Part of this is due to what many see as excessively complicated guidelines and fragmented options trading at schwab between provinces.
The US also enforces strict regulations on international payments due to threats to national security; hence, US citizens have very limited freedom while moving their funds around. Are they entirely restricted from the Forex market?
This makes it very popular with individual investors and small businesses as well as with banks, insurance companies and financial institutions. This is not very common, but you can find it as a trend for many different trader types.
For instance, the Canadian regulators will have no control over scam brokers that are located in other parts of the world, which can result in Canadian investors losing a ton of money. Forex brokers in Canada do not follow the same rules as adopted by American brokers. The Advantages Of Choosing Forex Brokers In Canada Disregarding the fact trik profit konsisten trading forex Canadian citizens have the option of choosing any Forex broker of their choice, choosing FX brokers and other related companies in Canada provides unprecedented levels of security of client funds.
The limitations we are now talking about are due to the national laws in the countries. Low Leverage Forex Trading. If you always check that the Forex broker that you deal with is registered with the CSA, complies with the IIROC regulations and is also adhering to specific provincial or regional laws then you cannot and will not be involved in a scam.
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Independent Albania was proclaimed on 28 November 1912. This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia,Montenegro and Greece from the time of the declaration until the period of recognition when Albania relinquished many of the lands originally included in the declared state. Since the proclamation of the state in November 1912, the Provisional Government of Albania asserted its control over a small part of central Albania including the important cities of Vlorë and Berat.
1912 was to be an eventful year in Rumelia. From August, the Ottoman Government recognized the autonomy of Albania. In October 1912, the Balkan states, following their own national aspirations jointly attacked the Ottoman Empire and during the next few months partitioned nearly all of Rumelia, the Ottoman territories in Europe, including those inhabited by the Albanians. In November, with the outbreak of the First Balkan War, the Albanians rose up and declared the creation of an independent Albania, which included all of what is now Albania and Kosovo.
Caricature shows Albania defending itself from neighboring countries. Montenegro is represented as a monkey, Greece as a leopard and Serbia as a snake. Text in Albanian: "Flee from me! Bloodsucker Beasts!"
nian state before the declaration of Albanian Independence in Vlorë. On 18 November 1912, after a successful uprising and 10 days prior to the Albanian Declaration of Independence, local Maj. Spyros Spyromilios expelled the Ottomans from the Himara region. The Greek Navy also shelled the city of Vlora on 3 December 1912. The Greek Army didn't capture Vlore, which was of great interest to Italy.
The New York Times, 31.December 1912.
The Balkan League (comprising:Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria) jointly attacked the Ottoman Empire and during the next few months partitioned all Ottoman territory inhabited by Albanians. The Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Greece occupied most of the land of what is today Albania and other lands inhabited by Albanians on the Adriatic coast. Montenegro occupied a part of today's northern Albania around Shkodër.
The goal of the forced expulsions and massacres of ethnic Albanians was a statistic manipulation before the London Ambassadors Conference which was to decide on the new Balkan borders. The number of victims in the Vilayet of Kosovo under Serbian control in the first few months was estimated at about 25,000 people. Highest estimated number of total casualties during the occupation in all the Albanian areas under Serbian control was about 120,000 Albanians of both sexes and all ages.
Ferizaj fell to Serbia, the local Albanian population gave a determined resistance. According to some reports, the fight for the city lasted three days. After the fall of the city to the Serbian Army, the Serbian commander ordered the population to go back home and to surrender the weapons. When the survivors returned, between 300-400 people were massacred. Then followed the destruction of Albanian-populated villages around Ferizaj.
When General Janković saw that the Albanians of Luma would not allow Serbian forces to continue the advance to the Adriatic Sea, he ordered the troops to continue their brutality. The Serbian army massacred an entire population of men, women and children, not sparing anyone, and burned 27 villages in the area of Luma. Reports spoke of the atrocities by the Serbian army, including the burning of women and children bound to stacks of hay, within the sight of their fathers. Subsequently, about 400 men from Luma surrendered to Serbian authorities, but were taken to Prizren, where they were murdered. The Daily Telegraph wrote that "all the horrors of history have been outdone by the atrocious conduct of the troops of General Jankovic".
Leo Trotsky, one of the leading figures of the Russian revolution, was sent as a journalist to cover Balkan Wars in Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. In his report sent to Kiev newspaper Kievskaya Misl he writes about many "atrocities committed against the Albanians of Macedonia and Kosovo in the wake of the Serb invasion of October 1912". Among other instances he tells a shocking case of drunken Serbian soldiers torturing two young Albanians. "Four soldiers held their bayonets in readiness and in their midst stood two young Albanians with their white felt caps on their heads. A drunken sergeant – a komitadji – was holding a kama (a Macedonian dagger) in one hand and a bottle of cognac in the other. The sergeant ordered: 'On your knees!' (The petrified Albanians fell to their knees. 'To your feet!' They stood up. This was repeated several times. Then the sergeant, threatening and cursing, put the dagger to the necks and chests of his victims and forced them to drink some cognac, and then… he kissed them...", shows an excerpt from the report.
Henrik August Angel, a Norwegian military officer and writer who personally followed the trail of the Ottoman army and army of Kingdom of Serbia, in his work described demonization of Serbs in texts published in newspapers on English, and especially on German in newspapers from Germany and Austria-Hungary, as "shameful injustice".
As a result of the Treaty of London in 1913 which designated the former Ottoman lands to Serbia, Montenegro and Greece (namely, the large part of the Vilayet of Kosovo being awarded to Serbia), an independent Albania was recognised. As such, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro agreed to withdraw from the territory of the new Principality of Albania. The principality however included only about half of the territory populated by ethnic Albanians and a large number of Albanians remained in neighboring countries.
These events have greatly contributed to the growth of the Serbian-Albanian conflict.
Borislav Ratković, Mitar Đurišić, Savo Skoko, Srbija i Crna Gora u Balkanskim ratovima 1912–1913, Belgrade: BIGZ, 1972, pages 50–62.
Kondis Basil. Greece and Albania, 1908–1914. Institute for Balkan Studies, 1976, p. 93.
Koliopoulos, John S.; Veremis, Thanos M. (2009). Modern Greece: A History Since 1821. Malden, Massachusetts: John Wiley and Sons. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4051-8681-0.
The Conference of London 1913. Robert Elsie.
Mazower, Mark (2001) . "Building the nation-state.". The Balkans, From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day. Great Britain: Phoenix Press.ISBN 978-1-84212-544-1.


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Goodyear South Africa to invest 44 million euros in Uitenhage, South Africa plant
Date: 15th September 2015 Author: Tyrepress Editors Comments: 0
Goodyear South Africa has announced plans to invest 670 million South African rand (£32.216 million; 43.847 million euros; US$49.557 million) in increasing production of so-called high-value-added (HVA) consumer tyres at its Uitenhage manufacturing plant. Meanwhile, medium radial production currently at the location is to be relocated across the EMEA region.
The investment plan sees the firm bring the latest manufacturing technology in order to "meet the strong and growing market demand for HVA consumer tyres in South Africa and Sub-Sahara Africa". The tyre market in South Africa and Sub-Sahara Africa is expected to experience double-digit growth through 2020 led by the consumer segment.
"This is an important investment by Goodyear and is consistent with our strategy to serve the needs of our customers and the company's focus to invest in high return projects that drive profitable growth," said Jean-Jacques Wiroth, managing director of Goodyear South Africa.
The new technology and accompanying comprehensive employee training will further improve the plant's capability and capacity to produce Low Rolling Resistance tyres that promote fuel economy in vehicles to meet the growing demand from vehicle manufacturers and the replacement market, as well as meet the increase in market requirements for HVA 4X4 SUV tyres.
Medium radial production being relocated
At the same time, Goodyear South Africa also proposes to relocate the plant's production of Medium Radial Truck tyres (MRT) to other plants across the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Under the proposals, Goodyear has affirmed its intention to consult with the union representatives and employees who are currently working in the MRT area to minimise the impact through offering a variety of alternatives.
Subject to consultation, the company expects to be substantially complete with the investment plans by the end of 2016 or early 2017.
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How Does the Idea of a Millennial-Only Cruise Make You Feel?
Because that's a thing that exists now.
Elite Daily reports U by Uniworld will begin millennial-only cruises in 2018. There will be two cruise ships ("A" and "B") which'll hold 120 people each. All of said people must be aged 21-45.
Two sister ships are designed to be "part boutique hotel, part yacht and part resort," with stylish staterooms, rooftop morning yoga sessions, two bars, a rooftop lounge with local DJs, and free Wi-Fi. Meals are inspired by the street food of cities you're cruising through (with craft brew to match), in addition to comfort food crafted by celeb cookbook author Bea Tollman. Master bartenders lead the way with onboard mixology courses, and passengers can capture scenery in more than just a photograph with Wine & Paint classes, which include a glass of local vino. Nights don't end when you get back onboard, either. Passengers can keep the party going on the rooftop lounge or at the silent disco with the ship's resident DJ. Since excursions start later in the day, passengers have plenty of time to sleep in after a late night out.
If you're really still with me here, prices start at $200 per day per person (cruises average around $1,699) and there are, as of now, nine cruise options available.
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