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BILL SINGER ANNOUNCES POSSIBLE RETIREMENT PENDING $7.5 Million Settlement
Robinhood reports more monthly trades than rivals Charles Schwab, E-Trade combined (CNBC by Kate Rooney)
Disbarred Beverly Hills Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Federal Charge that He Embezzled His Client's Money and Used It to Pay Off Debt (DOJ Release)
SDNY Says You're Gonna Have To Serve Somebody (And Email Ain't Gonna Cut it) (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog)
SEC Charges Interactive Brokers With Repeatedly Failing to File Suspicious Activity Reports / Firm Will Pay a Total of $38 Million in Penalties to Settle With Regulators (SEC Release)
CFTC Orders Interactive Brokers LLC to Pay More Than $12 Million for Anti-Money Laundering and Supervision Violations / First Case to Charge Violations of CFTC's Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Regulations (CFTC Release)
FINRA Fines Interactive Brokers $15 Million for Widespread AML Failures (FINRA Release)
FINRA Imposes Fine and Suspension On Rep Whose RIA Charged Fees Beyond Those Disclosed to BD
In the Matter of Kimberly Ann Barentsen, Respondent (FINRA AWC)
BILL SINGER ANNOUNCES POSSIBLE RETIREMENT PENDING $7.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT / Famed Wall Street Legend In His Own Mind Awarded $7.5 Million Windfall Settlement As Part of Google Plus Class Action / Lawyer Promises to Remember All The Little People But Can't Remember Their Names And Says That He Will Send Them A Christmas Card Provided They Pay The Postage / Says It Will Be Only One Christmas Card And Each Recipient Will Have To Forward At His or Her Own Expense To The Next Little Person On The Mailing List / Offer Void Where Prohibited
Last Friday I received an email titled: "Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus - Your Rights May Be Affected," and learned that I had, indeed, hit the jackpot! As one of the few, not-so proud owners of a Google Plus account during the relevant period of 2015 to 2019, I had been awarded $7.5 million in damages. As best I understand from the email, on "June 10, 2020, the Honorable Edward J. Davila of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, granted preliminary approval" of some class action settlement. Wow!! I may well have used my Google Plus account nearly as many times as the multiplicity of fingers on my right hand!!! That's some damn pay-off for that usage.
As best I can tell, there were likely dozens of Google Plus accounts (or, you know, maybe only a dozen or, like, maybe up to but not equaling two dozen accounts). In last Friday's email, the legal mumbo-jumbo seems to be claiming that up to 500,000 Google Plus users had their personal data exposed via a software bug. Now, mind you, I'm a bit skeptical here because I'm not believing that some 499,999 idiots other than me used Google Plus but, hey, I'm certainly more than happy to accept my $7.5 million settlement. I'd tell you that I was very, very sorry to learn of the shutdown of Google Plus in 2019 but, frankly, I didn't even know it wasn't up and running until I read somewhere that, well, you know, it wasn't up and running.
Things have been rough the past few months, what with COVID and all, but this is certainly going to turn the year around for me. If my wife had listened to me, which she never does, we would have had two Google Plus accounts, and, if she had listened to me which, as noted previously, she never does, we would have been awarded $15 million in settlements. Sigh -- we'll just have to make do with my paltry $7.5 million. I'm just about ready to send out my claim for my massive award along with proof of my usage of the social media account and . . . what? Oh damn, what the hell is this:
If sufficient funds remain after calculation of the aggregate initial maximum distribution of US$5.00 per Claimant, the allocation shall be recalculated on a pro rata basis up to a maximum distribution of up to US$12.00 per Claimant. For clarity, the maximum Settlement Payment to be made to any single Claimant shall not exceed US$12.00.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/10/robinhood-reports-more-monthly-trades-than-rivals-charles-schwab-e-trade-combined.html
As reported in part by CNBC's Rooney:
Robinhood saw 4.3 million daily average revenue trades, or DARTS, in June, the company told CNBC Monday. This is the first time the start-up has shared monthly totals. Robinhood's debut total was higher than all of the major incumbent brokerage firms, and more than E-Trade and Charles Schwab combined.
TD Ameritrade saw the next highest monthly total at 3.84 million DARTs, according to the company's monthly report. Interactive Brokers saw 1.8 million DARTs in June, followed by Charles Schwab and E-Trade at 1.8 million and 1.1 million, respectively.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/disbarred-beverly-hills-lawyer-pleads-guilty-federal-charge-he-embezzled-his-client-s
Disbarred lawyer Alan F. Broidy, 65, pled guilty to an Information filed in the United States District Office for the Central District of California charging him with one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. As alleged in part in the DOJ Release:
[B]roidy was hired to represent GRL-Mesa Investments LLC, a Phoenix-based company that filed for Chapter 11 protection in United States Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles in December 2015.
In August 2016, the bankruptcy case was resolved and dismissed. Broidy was directed by the court to hold $2,469,926 in a client trust account - funds derived from the sale of assets belonging to GRL-Mesa's bankruptcy estate. This money was supposed to be distributed to Mesa's creditors.
Although he transferred a total of $1,937,400 of Mesa's funds to its creditors, including $975 owed to the United States Trustee, Broidy did not return the remaining $512,526 that belonged to Mesa. Instead, he stole it and used it to pay for personal expenses.
Broidy admitted that on August 16, 2016, without his client's knowledge or consent, he deposited $100,000 of Mesa's money into his personal bank account, and then transferred $75,000 of that money to the bank account in New York of one of Broidy's own creditors. Through these unauthorized transfers that were hidden from Mesa, Broidy arranged to pay one of his own expenses with Mesa's money.
In July 2019, the State Bar of California disbarred Broidy based on the facts involved in this case.
http://www.brokeandbroker.com/5363/aaa-sdny-email/
Famed rock 'n roll litigator Bob Dylan offers a fabulous course on civil procedure. In one of his most popular lectures, lawyer Dylan explains that you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes, indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but, you're gonna have to serve somebody. Of course the way Dylan delivers his lesson is a lot more catchy than drab prose, plus his method has a beat and you can dance to it. In a recent Petition to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, we come across the plight of a former employee seeking to vacate an arbitration award. In order to stand before the folks in the robes, the employee needed to serve somebody. He did. Well, technically he did. Well, maybe not technically but he did give it the old college try.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-178
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8218-20
https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2020/finra-fines-interactive-brokers-15-million-widespread-aml-failures
Without admitting or denying the findings in an SEC Order https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2020/34-89510.pdf SEC's findings, Interactive Brokers LLC agreed to findings that the firm had violated the financial recordkeeping and reporting provisions of the federal securities laws and a related SEC rule. Interactive Brokers agreed to be censured, to cease and desist, and to pay an $11.5 million penalty. In parallel actions, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) penalties of $15 million and $11.5 million, respectively, were imposed, for a total of $38 million in penalties paid to the three agencies. As alleged in part in the SEC Release:
[O]ver a one-year period, Interactive Brokers failed to file more than 150 SARs to flag potential manipulation of microcap securities in its customers' account, some of the trading accounting for a significant portion of the daily volume in certain of the microcap issuers. The order finds that Interactive Brokers failed to recognize red flags concerning these transactions, failed to properly investigate suspicious activity as required by its written supervisory procedures, and failed to file SARs in a timely fashion even when suspicious transactions were flagged by compliance personnel.
The CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Interactive Brokers, and pursuant to CFTC Order
https://www.cftc.gov/media/4386/enfinteractivebrokersorder081020-1/download, the registered futures commission merchant ("FCM") to pay an $11.5 civil monetary penalty and a $706,214 disgorgement. Also Interactive Brokers undetakes in part to hire a third party compliance consultant to review and report on the AML and supervisory issues raised in the order. This case purportedly marks the first CFTC enforcement action charging a violation of Regulation 42.2, which requires registrants to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act. As alleged in part in the CFTC Release:
[F]rom June 2014 through November 2018, Interactive Brokers failed to ensure that its employees followed established policies and procedures with respect to supervision of customer accounts. Interactive Brokers also lacked a reasonably designed process for conducting investigations of account activity and making SAR determinations. These failings contributed to its inability to maintain an adequate AML program. As a result, Interactive Brokers employees failed to adequately investigate and identify certain signs of suspicious activity in accounts that, according to its own compliance procedures, should have prompted the filing of SARs with appropriate authorities.
While Interactive Brokers maintained basic written policies, it failed to commit adequate resources to ensure that its AML program was reasonably equipped to monitor, detect, escalate, and report suspicious activity in practice. Interactive Brokers also had no mechanism to combine information generated by various reports to identify patterns and trends over time. Given the size and nature of Interactive Brokers' business, the lack of these procedures limited the ability of its analysts to recognize the full scope of an individual customer's activity. This resulted in the company overlooking red flags that indicated potentially suspicious activity. Additionally, Interactive Brokers did not put any procedures in place that required compliance personnel to document steps taken and decisions made during the investigative and SAR consideration process. As a result of all of these deficiencies, Interactive Brokers failed in its duty to detect and report instances of suspicious activity.
The order states that Interactive Brokers represented in its settlement offer that it has since engaged in substantial remedial measures, including the engagement of outside consultants to conduct various assessments, independent testing of its AML program, and the development and ongoing implementation of a new case management system. Interactive Brokers has also continued to retain an independent consultant to report on the status of its implementation of previously-made recommendations and to make any additional proposals for improvements in internal controls, policies, procedures, systems, and training.
Without admitting or denying the charges in a FINRA AWC
https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/Interactive-brokers-awc-081020.pdf, Interactive Brokers agreed to FINRA's imposition of a $15 million fine and undertakes to certify that it will implement the recommendations of a third-party consultant to remedy the firm's AML program failures. As set forth in the "Summary" portion of the FINRA AWC:
This matter concerns registered broker-dealer IB's failure to file suspicious activity reports ("SARs") as required by Section 17(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 17a-8 thereunder. A registered broker-dealer is required to file a SAR when it knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect that certain transactions (1) involve funds derived from illegal activity, (2) involve the use of the broker-dealer to facilitate criminal activity, (3) are designed to evade any requirement of the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA"), or (4) have no business or apparent lawful purpose. From at least July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 (the "relevant period"), IB failed to file SARs relating to suspicious activity involving certain U.S. microcap securities2 transactions it executed on behalf of its customers.
During the relevant period, IB ignored or failed to recognize numerous red flags, failed to properly investigate certain conduct as required by its written supervisory procedures, and ultimately failed to file SARs on suspicious activity. In a number of instances, IB's customers deposited a large block of U.S. microcap securities, sold the securities into the market, and shortly thereafter withdrew the proceeds of these sales from its accounts. In other instances, the sales by IB's customer accounted for a significant portion of the daily trading volume in certain U.S. microcap securities issuers. In addition, IB failed to review at least 14 deposits of U.S. microcap securities where the security had been the subject of a Commission trading suspension. In connection with this activity, IB failed to identify red flags and, therefore, did not report this activity via SARs. In those few instances where IB personnel identified red flags concerning U.S. microcap securities trading activity during the relevant period, IB failed to file a SAR where one should have been filed. These failures were the result of IB's failure to implement a reasonable surveillance program despite the significant size of IB's U.S. microcap securities business.
As asserted in part in the FINRA Release:
SANCTIONS CONSIDERATIONS
In determining the appropriate sanctions in this matter, FINRA considered, among other factors, that during the course of this investigation Interactive Brokers took proactive steps, invested substantial resources, and began taking meaningful steps, to remediate its AML program. The Firm has developed and implemented new, automated surveillance reports, and a new case management system that improves the type and amount of information available to its analysts. The Firm also has hired many dozens of AML-dedicated staff, including senior personnel with regulatory and law-enforcement backgrounds. The Firm has engaged a number of consultants, including a third-party outside consultant (the "Third-Party Consultant") to conduct a nonprivileged review of its AML processes and systems. The Third-Party Consultant has provided recommendations concerning the Firm's AML program, which Interactive Brokers has adopted and is implementing. Additionally, Interactive Brokers has retained third-party vendors to assess the AML risks posed by the Firm's business and to conduct third-party testing of the Firm's AML program.
Accordingly, the sanctions imposed on Interactive Brokers by this AWC reflect FINRA's consideration of these factors, and FINRA's determination that the Third-Party Consultant is qualified and not unacceptable to FINRA.
Finally, Interactive Brokers attached the following "Statement of Corrective Action" to its AWC:
Interactive Brokers LLC ("IB") submits this Statement of Corrective Action in connection with the foregoing Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent ("AWC") describing the steps it has already taken to correct and substantially reduce the risk of recurrence of the issues addressed by the AWC. As set forth in detail below, IB has invested significant resources to enhance its AML program, and those efforts continue to this day.
Independent Consultants. IB has retained several experienced and well-respected consultants and advisors to assist the firm in improving its AML program. In 2018 IB retained Consultant I to conduct a comprehensive review of IB's AML program and identify areas of focus and improvement for IB's AML program going forward. IB has accepted all of Consultant I's recommendations and is in the process of implementing them. IB has also retained Consultant II to conduct assurance work following IB's implementation of the recommendations resulting from Consultant I's review. IB retained a third consultant to draft a risk appetite statement and conduct a formal AML risk assessment, and IB has retained an independent firm to conduct its 2019 independent testing of the AML program.
Hiring and reorganization of AML function. IB hired new leadership and increased headcount in its AML function. Since the beginning of 2018, the firm has added approximately 80 permanent personnel to its AML and surveillance team (in addition to approximately 35 temporary staff), including many with significant industry and AML experience:
Chief AML Officer (the function was formerly consolidated with the Chief Compliance Officer) with more than 15 years of relevant experience, including building the Customer Identification Program for a major commercial bank and serving as an AML team lead at another major bank;
Deputy AML Officer who has been a practicing attorney for fourteen years with four years serving in legal and compliance roles at Nadex, NYSE, and FINRA;
Head of Sanctions;
Head of Enhanced Due Diligence;
Head of Quality Assurance and Training;
Head of Financial Intelligence Unit;
Head of AML QA;
Dedicated AML and Sanctions Counsel;
Approximately 10 Team Leads (some were promoted from the analyst ranks);
And dozens of Compliance Analysts.
IB also reorganized its AML program to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Each AML unit-a QA and Training unit, a Financial Intelligence unit, a Know Your Customer ("KYC")/Enhanced Due Diligence ("EDD") unit, a Sanctions and Lists Screening unit, and an AML Risk Assessments unit-now reports to the Chief AML Officer. The Trade Surveillance unit, which reports to the Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer, also reports to the Chief AML Officer for AML purposes.
New Case Management System and Surveillance. IB has developed and is building a customized proprietary case management system, IBKR 360, which allows compliance analysts a holistic view of customer information and activity when they conduct surveillance. The firm has enhanced many of its exception-based surveillance reports and report parameters and is migrating them to IBKR 360. IB LLC retained outside AML consultants to enhance the firm's existing cashiering surveillance reports to address potentially suspicious cashiering typologies. The consultants designed additional report parameters and tuned existing parameters based on their analysis of IB customer data, and IB is in the process of programming and testing the enhancements designed by the consultants.
Policies and Training. IB has adopted a new AML policy, completing a risk assessment and risk appetite statement, and developing desktop procedures within each AML team to maintain uniformity in procedure and analysis. These desktop procedures will provide detail on day to day operations aligned with specific tasks, such as conducting investigations and reviewing specific reports. The firm enhanced its standard employee AML training and developed material for additional training of AML and Surveillance Analysts on SAR-filing and AML "red flags." Surveillance Analysts and key New Accounts staff of the firm are becoming CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) certified.
Governance. Various committee and working groups meet regularly to monitor IB's progress in achieving its goals and to discuss ongoing, future enhancements. These groups include the following:
AML Advisory Committee - the AML Advisory Committee is comprised of the Chief AML Officer, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Regulatory Officer, the Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer, the General Counsel, the Global Head of New Accounts, and other in-house counsel. During the quarterly meetings, the Chief AML Officer provides metrics on the AML program and notifies its members of progress made in IB's focus areas for improvement. This committee also discusses regulatory findings and progress made in addressing regulatory matters.
Account Opening Working Group - the Account Opening Working Group consists of the Chief AML Officer, the Head of New Accounts, and several AML and sales related inhouse counsel (as well as members of senior management). This working group meets weekly and makes recommendations as to the acceptance or rejection of any correspondent accounts for foreign financial institutions or other complex clients with material negative news or on which the Head of New Accounts would like further guidance. In addition, the working group discusses potential issues related to AML, potential customer processing, appropriate licensing, and customer risks.
Data Integrity Working Group - the Data Integrity Working Group is composed of the Chief Data Officer, the Chief Regulatory Officer, and the heads of the major programming groups and meets every other week. This working group discusses issues identified related to the inputs into IB's new AML case management system, IBKR 360, and the surveillance reports that it houses to ensure that such issues are resolved in a timely and efficient manner.
Risk Ranking and Enhanced Due Diligence. IB has implemented a Customer Risk Ranking Program designed to capture the overall AML risk posed by individual customers considering a variety of factors. IB has also implemented an EDD program tied to the Customer Risk Ranking Algorithm that subjects certain IB customers to heightened scrutiny both at account opening and on an ongoing basis.
Restrictions on Certain High-Risk Activity. The firm is implementing restrictions on money movement designed to mitigate higher risk cross-border and other cashiering activity. The firm has further limited the types of accounts it will accept from high risk countries. The firm also implemented significant restrictions on transfers of U.S. microcap securities in early 2018 and is conducting enhanced surveillance on U.S. microcap securities
In the Matter of Kimberly Ann Barentsen, Respondent (FINRA AWC 2019062246401)
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For the purpose of proposing a settlement of rule violations alleged by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), without admitting or denying the findings, prior to a regulatory hearing, and without an adjudication of any issue, Kimberly Ann Barentsen submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent ("AWC"), which FINRA accepted. The AWC alleges that Kimberly Ann Barentsen was first registered in 1990 and from October 2011 to April 8, 2019, she was registered with FINRA member firm First Allied Securities, Inc. he AWC alleges that Kimberly Ann Barentsen "does not have any relevant disciplinary history with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, any state securities regulators, FINRA, or any other self-regulatory organization." In accordance with the terms of the AWC, FINRA found that Barentsen had violated violated FINRA Rules 3270 and 2010; and the self regulator imposed upon her a $5,000 fine and an two-month suspension from association with any FINRA member in all capacities. As alleged in part in the AWC:
In the fall of 2016, Barentsen created her own registered investment adviser of which she was the sole owner and employee. In seeking approval for this outside business, Barentsen told the firm in an email and in a disclosure questionnaire that her advisory business would only charge hourly fees and fixed one-time financial planning fees. First Allied approved her outside business based on these representations.
In December 2016, Barentsen began offering a new service to her advisory clients where she would charge an annual 1.5 percent asset-management fee for managing variable annuity subaccounts. She did not disclose this new service or the associated fees to the firm. After First Allied discovered the undisclosed asset-management fees in January 2019, Barentsen ceased charging the fees and terminated her arrangement with the variable annuity provider.
In addition, in 2017 and 2018, Barentsen made inaccurate statements in her annual compliance questionnaires to the firm. In response to questions asking whether her advisory business had assets under management and if she was compensated through a percentage of the assets under management, Barentsen incorrectly stated that she did not manage assets and only charged hourly fees.


I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my loyal followers and visitors, a Very Happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year filled with happiness, love and success.
Thanks to all of you for continuing to encourage me to endure my journey. There are new people joining us daily. Without you I would not be as enthusiastic as I am to keep going.
I will soon be uploading the next post which is entitled Spitting Hippos, Cranky Crocodiles and Fighting Tigers. Watch out for it.


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Q: OpenSSL libssl.so error undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_remove_padding' I am currently patching a older version of OpenSSL to the latest stable 1.0.0o build (via import_openssl.sh)for use with a Android application via the NDK r10c.
While building the libssl.so sharedlibrary i am presented with the following errors.
[armeabi] SharedLibrary  : libssl.so
jni/openssl/ssl/s3_enc.c:542: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_remove_padding'
jni/openssl/ssl/s3_enc.c:739: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_record_digest_supported'
jni/openssl/ssl/s3_enc.c:764: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_digest_record'
jni/openssl/ssl/s3_pkt.c:464: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_copy_mac'
jni/openssl/ssl/t1_enc.c:763: error: undefined reference to 'tls1_cbc_remove_padding'
jni/openssl/ssl/t1_enc.c:919: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_record_digest_supported'
jni/openssl/ssl/t1_enc.c:925: error: undefined reference to 'ssl3_cbc_digest_record'
jni/openssl/ssl/ssl_lib.c:1058: error: undefined reference to 'dtls1_min_mtu'

Taking the first error for example, i can see a reference in the file s3_enc.c (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_0_0-stable/ssl/s3_enc.c)  to a function 'ssl3_cbc_remove_padding' but the actual function is nowhere to be seen, only a prototype in ssl_locl.h (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_0_0-stable/ssl/ssl_lib.c) so i am a little confused.
Any help or previous experience would be greatly appreciated in order to get these errors cleared. if you need me to elaborate further, please ask.

A: Check the files (s3_enc.c, t1_enc.c, ssl_lib.c), included in their respective .mk files or not. In my case it was not included so I just add these source files in ssl/Android.mk under LOCAL_SRC_FILES section.

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Clock Shadow Creamery pioneered urban cheese manufacturing in Wisconsin and a commitment to local sustainability. Located in an award winning building (worth a tour!) in Walkers Point, Clock Shadow creamery makes a variety of cheese focusing on cheddars and soft cheeses including a specialty called quark. Clock Shadow Creamery sources its milk from local farmers and cheese products are made in view of visitors. Tours are offered Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and the retail store is open Monday thru Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.
About the building: The building took shape using recovered materials from the Milwaukee area – over one half of the materials are reused including rebar stairwell railings, pickle barrel wooden siding and a variety of fun material uses. The building also has a rooftop garden which is available for events, geothermal heating and cooling system and a power generating elevator. Local artists works are used in the building for a splash of color.


Yes, this page will given the all university such as VTU, JNTU, Anna University, Osmania University, Madras University, Annamalai University, Pune University etc examination time table 2016. Candidates from 1st year, 2nd year and third year can download the upcoming semester exam schedule and starts prepare for the exams. The even semester( 2nd/ 4th/ 6th/ 8th sem) time table for April May June month is now available and for odd semester( 1st/ 3rd/ 5th/ 7th sem) time table for November December Jan is given later from this link.
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Bombay Sapphire recently announced the launch of a 6-month hunt for the Most Imaginative Cocktail in Singapore, which captures the attention and encourages the imagination of cocktail drinkers in the country. The official launch of the campaign was held on August 6, at the newly opened Canvas bar, where exclusive guests and press were introduced to details of the campaign and to imagination-infused cocktails. Taking centre stage, along with Bombay Sapphire was, Diageo World Class (Singapore) 2012 3rd runner-up, Caryn Cheah.
Guests at the event had an intimate gin appreciation session with Caryn – who is also Bombay Sapphire's Brand Ambassador. She dished out valuable tips about drinking and enjoying gin. They also had the chance to try their hand at making the classic gin and tonic cocktail under her expert guidance. The event at Canvas, also introduced the guests to Most Imaginative Cocktail campaign – from September this year, Bombay Sapphire will embark on a six-month search for what's essentially the Most Imaginative Cocktail campaign.
Bombay Sapphire will visit a bar each month and taste two new original Bombay Sapphire gin-based cocktails. During these tasting, cocktail lovers are invited to join in the party to caste their vote. At the end of the hunt, the winning cocktail will be honored at a Bombay Sapphire-styled party in March, 2015.
"Imagination has always been the heart and spirit of Bombay Sapphire and through this campaign, we hope to inspire imagination in others via the creation of new imaginative gin cocktails and honour the best originally crafted cocktails from Singapore," says Henrik Resurreccion, Brand Manager for Bombay Sapphire.


Portland cement type I-525 has been defined as cement type one with a compressive strength of 525 kg/cm2 in ISIRI 389.
The major feature of this type is its similarity in chemical specifications to those of Portland cement type V. therefore this type can as well be called Portland cement type V with high anti-sulfate feature, with a compressive strength class of 525.
The type I-525 cement produced in MOMTAZAN meets better specifications than those mentioned in the standard documents, as a result of high quality raw material and meticulous quality control during production process.
In terms of compressive strength, this type is categorized as CEM I 52.5N according to the European standards.


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CBDC: Sweden Begins Testing the Electronic Version of its National Currency, the E-Krona
February 21, 2020 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi
Sweden has reportedly begun piloting an electronic version of its national currency, the krona. The European nation's government says that the e-krona is a step closer to its official launch as a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The testing of the country's CBDC will go on for one year, and is scheduled to end in February of next year.
As noted on Riksbank's (Sweden's reserve bank) website,
"The use of banknotes and coins is declining in society. At the same time, technological advances with regard to electronic money and payment methods are proceeding rapidly. The Riksbank sees potential problems with the marginalisation of cash and has therefore initiated a pilot project to develop a proposal for a technical solution for Swedish kronor in electronic form, an e-krona. No decisions have yet been taken on issuing an e-krona."
If and when the e-krona is officially launched for use by Sweden's residents, the main idea will be that this blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled national currency will support payments and banking activities within the country. Users will not need to swipe their credit cards or make payments using the regular e-krona. Instead, they will be able to complete everyday transactions via a DLT-enabled payments network.
Sweden is notably just the second country (the first one being the Bahamas) to introduce what seems to be a real, working version of national digital currency, or CBDC. The Bahamas began its CBDC testing program in December of last year and intends to officially launch its national digital currency during the second half of this year.
China has hinted several times that it's creating its own CBDC, however, developments in the $13 trillion economy don't appear to be as focused as in the Bahamas and Sweden.
Introducing a national digital currency in Sweden appears to be a good idea, because the nation is one of the world's most cashless societies, with most locals opting for digital payments.
CBDC: Sweden's Central Bank, Riksbank, Reveals It's Considering Issuing E-Krona As Cash Use has Declined
CBDCs: Modern Central Sandbox Introduced by EMTECH to Help with Testing Central Bank Digital Currencies
Ocean Protocol to Work with Central Bank of Germany to Develop Decentralized Data Sovereignty Solution
CBDCs Might Help Reduce Fraud, Streamline Auditing Processes, and Enable Financial Inclusion, NEM Group Executive Explains
CBDCs: Ukraine's Reserve Bank Official Claims Central Bank Digital Currencies Need Private Sector to be Successful
People's Bank of China Is Reportedly Inching Closer to Issuing a Digital Yuan
Dave Hodgson: CIO at NEM Group and MD at NEM Ventures Discusses Plans for Enterprise Blockchain Development and Support for DeFi
Reserve Bank of the Philippines to Continue Working on its Central Bank Digital Currency which Might Streamline Financial Services
Consumers Might Shift Financial Holdings to Stablecoin Denominated Assets if Existing Payments Systems aren't Improved, Sweden's Riksbank Says
CBDCs: South Korean Reserve Bank Appoints Legal Team to Explore Feasability of Issuing a Digital Currency
People's Bank of China Announces Second Batch of 11 Fintech Projects to Participate in Regulatory Sandbox Program
Qatar Central Bank Is "Actively Working" on Fintech Initiatives, and Exploring Blockchain Use Cases
Brazil's Financial Regulators are Working on a Blockchain or DLT-enabled Data-Sharing Platform to Conduct Background Checks on Politicians and Corporations
CBDC: Bank of Japan's Deputy Governor, Masayoshi Amamiya, Says Central Bank Digital Currencies Won't Offer Significant Benefits to Developed Countries
Russia's Central Bank Is Reportedly Testing Several Stablecoins, Head of Reserve Bank Elvira Nabiullina Confirms
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If the breathtaking views of atolls, islands and lagoons that you glimpse during the descent into Male' International Airport leave you wanting more then the air taxi transfer to Summer Island is just for you. Flying in a 16 seater Twin Otter float plane gives you a second chance to fully appreciate the splendour and beauty of this island nation from the air. For those who can't wait to get onto the water, the boat transfer offers a first opportunity to look out for flying fish and pods of dolphin. However you decide to travel it won't be long before you reach your chosen destination: Summer Island Village.
As you step onto the main jetty the crystal clear waters of the lagoon will reveal a host of reef creatures waiting to greet you. Curious batfish, wary stingrays and a giant moray eel all make their homes here alongside scores of brilliantly coloured reef fish. The jetty leads you onto a garden island with an informal environment carefully designed to help you relax and forget the cares of the outside world. The lovingly tended gardens have attracted native species of small parrots, as well as fruit bats and the island's resident heron.
Summer Island is found close to the outside reef on the north-western edge of North Male' Atoll. This is an ideal location for a dive base because it put us within easy reach of some 40 top sites that offer very different types of diving. For the adrenaline junkie we have channel dives with strong currents that whisk you along at an exhilarating rate. (Make sure your mask is on tight!) In places these currents cause upwellings where large sharks congregate to cruise effortlessly back and forth. Examples of such spots are the legendary shark points at Kuda Faru and Woshi Mas Thila. For divers who prefer a more relaxed pace, the Outside Reef has minimal current, superb visibility and lots to see at all depths. The overhangs along the bottom reef make ideal resting places for smaller white tip reef shark. Over the middle reef countless blue triggerfish gather to feed and a school of batfish might follow you for the whole dive. The cracks and crevices of the top reef attract lobster, moray eel, and the splendidly decorated lionfish.
Madigaa and Eriyadhoo Outside are two of the prime spots on the Outside Reef. Keen underwater naturalists will enjoy the dives of the inside atoll where hard and soft corals are fast recolonising the reef and attracting the highest diversity of colourful smaller fish. The coral growth at Ziyaarai Thila and Blue Canyon is among the best of North Male' Atoll. During the northeast monsoon, from November through April, giant manta rays regularly come to the thilas (sea mounts) of North Male' Atoll to feed and visit the cleaning stations. Encounters with other big fish, such as grey reef shark, eagle rays, and Napoleon wrasse, are a year round possibility.
With 15 years of diving experience in the Maldives and an impeccable safety record the Diverland team has taken over the dive centre on Summer Island in 2003. At Diverland we ensure that divers of all experience levels get their money's worth. We happily cater to the needs of more accomplished divers, as well as complete beginners and those who want to advance their dive training. Our team of NAUI instructors offer a full range of scuba courses from the entry-level Scuba Diver certification up to professional Divemaster and Instructor.
If you are leading a dive group please contact us in advance of your arrival so that we can let you know about our special group rates.
We look forward to welcoming you to Summer Island Village. Once here you will soon be enjoying the very best of North Male' Atoll diving.


Back Ground: Health care workers commonly experience high levels of occupational stress with negative consequences on their physical and psychological health organisational and community service delivery. Strategies to enhance building resilience to occupational stress do exist however occupational stress threatens to be an epidemic by 2020. There are individual interpersonal organisational, community and policy factors that affect building resilience to occupational stress. Minimal research studies had been conducted in the western and metropolitan setting and while in low developed countries like Uganda and in the rural setting less was done on what affects building resilience to occupational stress.
Method: The study employed the explorative case study approach that involved two focus group discussions of 12 participants which include the registered midwife, register nurse heads of in and out patient departments , clinical officer or doctor , head of clinical team and the medical superintendent or hospital administrator , document review in relation to occupational stress and strategies that enhance building resilience and observation of the Information on the notice boards, consultation rooms and available literature material on occupational stress management. The participants were asked to explain their understanding of occupational stress and resilience building.
The initiatives to reduce occupational stress and build resilience were : work load modification on hospital based initiatives early communication in case of any changes, forwarding suggestion for change , music and special events, individual and organisational development ensuring the health workers had breaks , leave or vacation massage and occupational health specialist in the hospitals had supportive leadership and involvement of health care workers in decision making, acknowledgement from management and leadership within and outside the hospital.
Rewarding and recognition motivated and enable an individual to deal with stress Factors that affected the effectiveness of the resilience building strategies included: intrapersonal factors froe example attitude, self-esteem, age and educational level. Interpersonal factors like conflicts and lack of peer social support, unsupportive leadership job demands and span of control, role ambiguity communication delivery and information sharing among health care workers.
Conclusion: The findings high light the need to understand the local perspectives of occupational stress and the importance involving the health care workers in identifying the initiatives to reduce occupational stress and enhance building resilience. Avail IEC materials on occupational stress on stress prevention, identification and management in a work place, train staff on peer to peer social support in addressing occupational stress.
Implication for health care workers management : A health work environment can be enhanced through local understanding of the contributing factors to occupational stress and productively engaging the health care workers in developing occupational stress reduction and resilience building initiatives for their effectiveness and sustainability.
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Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey to Launch Test of Rival Social Network
By Giovanni Prete
Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey to Launch Test of Rival Social Network. Credit: Mark Warner / CC BY 2.0 / Wikipedia
Following Elon Musk's $44 billion ownership of Twitter and the subsequent firing of its CEO, the platform's founder, Jack Dorsey, is set to launch a public test version of a new social media network.
The app, called Bluesky, is gearing up for a test run. It already has a waiting list of users waiting to try out the app's beta version. It's not yet clear what Blueksky will eventually look like or how it will function, but it has been noted as a rival to Twitter.
Twitter's rival, a "simple, fast, and open" network
According to the company's blog, Bluesky's AT Protocol is being touted as the critical element of a revolutionary "federated social network" that integrates ideas from the latest "decentralized technologies into a simple, fast, and open network."
It will thus be a social network that will be managed by various sites rather than using a single location to have its servers.
"We call the app we're building Bluesky because it will be a portal to the world of possibilities over the AT Protocol," Jack Dorsey said.
Users of Bluesky will be able to move freely in between various social media platforms using a single browser.
Bluesky was founded by Twitter in 2019. "The larger, long-term goal is to build an enduring, open protocol for public conversation," Dorsey wrote.
The goals are "that it not be owned by any organization, but contributed to by as many as possible," he reported. "And that it is born and evolves on the internet with the same principles."
Speaking on whether the network will be a rival to Twitter, Dorsey tweeted earlier this month that it is a rival to "any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it."
It's a competitor to any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it
— jack (@jack) October 18, 2022
Some critics believe Bluesky could be part of a surreptitious collaboration between Dorsey and Musk.
The new social network is in a testing stage
According to Dorsey, the next step is to start testing the protocol.
"Developing a distributed protocol is a complicated process," Bluesky shared via a press release. "It requires coordination of many parties once a network is deployed, so we're going to start in private beta to iron out the kinks."
"As we beta test, we will continue to refine the protocol specifications and share details about how it works," Dorsey said. "When it's ready, we'll move into open beta."
Join the waitlist to try the beta before it's publicly available https://t.co/xjTBYE9oOJ
— bluesky (@bluesky) October 20, 2022
Celebrities announce intention to quit Twitter
Dorsey's new social network could be a success, as an air of uncertainty has settled over Twitter users.
Musk has tried to calm concerns about what Twitter might become under his leadership. He told potential advertisers in a message earlier this week that Twitter will not become a completely uncensored "free-for-all hellscape," as he has indicated in the past. However, his latest moves have caused concern about the future of the platform.
Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, is already back on Twitter after he was bounced for dangerous antisemitic screeds. However, Musk claims he played no role in the controversial rapper's return and that his account was restored before he finalized the Twitter purchase.
Consequently, several A-list celebrity users have already announced they're quitting Twitter now that Musk is in charge.
Elon Musk seals Twitter deal, fires CEO
Musk officially assumed ownership of Twitter on Thursday as part of a $44 billion deal.
He arrived at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday and began meeting employees. Late on Thursday, he fired Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer and other executives. He has also made a public appeal to advertisers, who provide the bulk of Twitter's revenue, to assure them that the social platform will be a respected advertising destination.
the bird is freed
The world's richest man is taking time to evaluate other areas of Twitter, such as deciding what posts to keep and what posts to remove from the site.
Elon Musk enters Twitter carrying a sink. credit : Elon Musk / Twitter
He initially said he wanted Twitter to be a place respectful of free speech, which will welcome all kinds of commentary. He also claimed he would bring back banned users, including former U.S. President Donald Trump. However, Musk made it clear on Friday that such changes would not happen immediately. Instead, he announced that he planned to form a specialized council to handle content questions.
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Biomarkers are used extensively in medicine to help determine health problems and come to an acceptable diagnosis or treatment plan for all kinds of things. They are used in neurology and cardiology extensively among other things such as the tracking of cancers. The term generally refers to proteins found in blood that mark the presence or the extent of a disease or illness by how concentrated that protein is. It can also be something that is introduced to the human system in order to trace things like heart disease and how your body reacts to the chemical that has been introduced.
Biomarkers have provided an invaluable amount of information when studied with relation to neurological disorders and observed during clinical trials. It has been found that they are helpful at all stages of a disease and aid in classifying the disease alongside various risk factors. They work by altering things within the human cells or tissues and include anything that can be measured from a biological perspective. Biomarkers can include anything that helps health professionals understand a disease and the treatment of it, and how the treatment is affecting the disease. They can also help to understand what has caused the disease in the first place.
Biomarkers used in studying the nervous system can include taking blood or other bodily fluid, or even scans and images of the human body and applying measurements to them to track changes that have occurred. The need for them has developed because physicians and specialists need to have a form of measurement that tracks the causes of the disease and gains information as to how it is progressing without having to worry about bias. By having biomarkers applied regularly throughout the course of a disease like cancer or something affecting the nervous system, health professionals are able to track the response of the disease to treatments, and are provided with information that can help them greatly as they make decisions as to what treatment should be applied next.
In the case of neurological diseases, biomarkers can help to classify them according the clinical criteria that define the disease and can provide further information as to what the disease pathogenesis actually is from both a clinical and an epidemiological perspective. They can also be an accurate way to measure the risk factors that are connected to a disease, as they measure the level of exposure rather than the history of potential exposure. This means that the chance of misclassification is reduced significantly and a much more specific result is achieved.
Biomarkers are also an excellent medical tool in that they are capable of measuring each individual person's susceptibility to a certain disease or illness, whether neurological or otherwise. This is based less on the family history and more in the biological make-up of a person's genotype.
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Sunday Groups at 9:00am Kids & teens attend age-graded groups while adults are in their own groups. Babies and preschoolers may be checked in to a secure area where they can enjoy age appropriate activities throughout the morning until worship is over. A volunteer at the Welcome Desk will assist you in getting kids to their groups and help you find an adult group.
Sunday Worship at 10:15am, Kids & teens attend the multigenerational gathering with family and friends. Kids in Kindergarten-2nd grade may choose to participate in Children's Worship when they are dismissed halfway through the 10:15 gathering of all ages, or they may remain with their families. Babies and preschoolers are cared for in the Preschool & Nursery areas as part of the "Extended Teaching Care" ministry.
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Before homes were equipped with sewing machines, cotton threads were often presented on thread cards. The choice of forms and colours was very varied and these cards have now become a charming collectable item.
Ours are of excellent quality, retracing the principals of cards of old, to make organising your threads a real pleasure. They are sold in series of 6, printed on both sides on 2mm thick cardboard.


John Risebero is co-director and designer of award-winning theatre company Antic Disposition, along with co-founder and director Ben Horslen. Next month they'll be reviving their acclaimed production of Henry V; previously performed in France, with two London runs and a 2016 national tour, the show is taking to the road once more, giving audiences another chance to see what British Theatre called "one of the most impressive revivals of a Shakespeare play that I have seen in recent years".
In addition to Shakespeare's text, the play also includes original songs and live music inspired by the poetry of A E Housman. "We knew we wanted to include music in the show but using period songs seemed too obvious and we weren't comfortable writing new ones," says John. "Then we discovered George Butterworth's musical setting of 'The Lads in Their Hundreds' from A Shropshire Lad and found that Housman had acknowledged he was inspired by Shakespeare. Although Housman's work predates the Great War, so much of it reads like he knew what was coming. Our brilliant composer, Christopher Peake, set six more poems to original music for our show but we still use Butterworth's version of 'The Lads in Their Hundreds' – it's our tribute to him, as he died on the Somme in 1916.
Antic Disposition's Henry V visits eight cathedrals around the UK from 2nd to 22nd February.


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If you think Realtors pick out the homes purchasers should tour and buy, think again. The everyday practice of searching for a home is no longer in the hands of the Realtor. With such sites as Zillow, Trulia, Homes.com, NewHomeSource.com plus emailed personal criteria-matched listings from local MLS sites, today's buyer is in total control of which homes they want to be shown. Incenting agents adds brand exposure but has little effect on which homes a Realtor shows.
Do Buyers Look On Realtor Incentive Favorably?
Realtors are required to take an ethics course every two years and they work under state license law that can revoke their license and end their livelihood with one egregious infraction. Adding a significant increase in commission or offering a bonus to attract a contract puts Realtors in a tough position since license law calls for full disclosure of all extenuating circumstances of a transaction.
3) Or, "Did you steer me to this home to gain the bonus?" Ouch.
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Today's buyers are driving past your properties sun up to sundown, IPad or phone in hand. Allowing them the opportunity to tour your locked specs –and not just peer in the windows–is a game-changer for these buyers. Instant access technology saves them from the inconvenience of having to call, set an appointment and return.
One company offering such a shopping-friendly experience to builders, NterNow, says that for every buyer's agent touring a community, there are more than three buyers driving thru unaccompanied by agents. Offering instant home access can help you gather these leads into your funnel and find the buyer for that hard-to-sell home faster.
So do away with all those Realtor incentives and concentrate on giving what buyers what they most desire – a special feature they can tout to friends, and a better home shopping experience that gives you more prospect leads for those hard-to-sell homes.


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Could Lagerfeld's cat Choupette inherit his millions?
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The pampered eight-year-old puss has enjoyed a jetset lifestyle eating off silver platters since Lagerfeld "kidnapped" her in 2011.
Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette was already the most famous cat in fashion.
Now the white fluffy Birman cat that the late fashion designer doted on could be about to become the richest feline on the planet.
The pampered eight-year-old puss has enjoyed a jetset lifestyle eating off silver platters since Lagerfeld "kidnapped" her in 2011 from his young friend, male model Baptiste Giabiconi.
Now she could be about to inherit a slice of his estimated $200-million fortune.
Long before his death on Tuesday, Lagerfeld said he had made sure that Choupette would go on living in the style that she had become accustomed to, with her own personal bodyguard and two maids.
"Choupette is a rich girl," he once told French television, hinting that had written her into his will.
"She has her own fortune," he added, thought to be at least three million euros ($3.4 million) which she earned with him doing adverts for a German car firm and a Japanese cosmetics brand.
"If anything happens the person who looks after her will not go without," said Lagerfeld, who designed for Chanel, Fendi and his own brand right up to his death aged 85.
Choupette who the designer they called the Kaiser compared to the enigmatic star Greta Garbo is something of a cult figure in the fashion world, with more than 170 000 followers on social media.
She is also the hero of a book, "Choupette: The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat", where she was photographed in arms of supermodel Linda Evangalista and snuggling with model turned actress Laetitia Casta.
Unlike them, the spoiled feline has never had has to watch what she eats.
The book includes recipes for her favourite meals prepared by some of the best restaurants in Paris.
One typically lavish repast is a mix of king crab, smoked salmon and caviar.
And unlike ordinary cats, Choupette eats at a table.
"She is like a human being, only with an extra quality silence," Lagerfeld quipped.
Despite her reputation as a gastronome, the designer forbade her from doing ads for cat food.
Lagerfeld, an incorrigible collector of art and fine furniture also famously showered his friends with gifts and money.
Choupette's big rival for the Lagerfeld millions is likely to be his godson Hudson Kroenig, who the designer utterly adored, seeing something of himself in the blond 10-year-old son of his muse, US model Brad Kroenig.
"I consider them like my family," Lagerfeld said of the Kroenigs, using Hudson and his brother Jameson in many of his spectacular Chanel shows at the Grand Palais in Paris..
He often appeared at the end to acknowledge the applause holding Hudson's hand.
Yet Lagerfeld thought so highly of Choupette that if she had died before him, he wanted to have her ashes scattered with his own and his mother's.
Under French law, Lagerfeld could not leave his millions to a cat.
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Kai Althoff was born as the second child to his parents, Ingrid and Dieter Althoff in 1966 in Cologne.
His mother studied graphic design, yet stopped to pursue this path to raise her two sons. His father went through the various stages of a police detective's career. Kai Althoff had his first solo show in Berlin in 1993, at Galerie Lukas and Hoffman. He would do many things, from environments and performances to video-films and music. Painting and drawing was deeply interwoven as a primary vehicle of demonstration. Then conceptually ridden, even if only for means of being able to explain his work, he never conquered his innate tendency to be entirely absorbed by the persona whose work he executed, his very self, wishing to be another.
Yair Oelbaum, aged 29, grew up in West-Hempstead, New York. He received a bachelor of arts from New York University, where one of his professors, Mister Brandon Stosuy a critic, writer and journalist, then working on a series of evolving discursive happenings with Kai Althoff, introduced them to each other.
This encounter, after some knotty wrangling, led Yair Oelbaum to write a theatre play, entitled: There we will be buried, in which Althoff was to play Oelbaum's counterpart Lydia, a woman in search of her lost child. The play was performed on various occasions, including The London International Festival of Theatre at the ICA.
Apart from its performative and visual execution that seemed to derive from an ill stricken 15 Year old child's fever laden dream, in which an elaboration of a play currently explored in drama-class, is driven to implosions of a sensuality supreme, its spinal column was all language, words coming from speakers to which mouths would lip-sync.
And then spoken language is almost entirely subdued in FORERUNNER, which Oelbaum and Althoff started to film in 2013, and finished in 2016. Argumentative bombers having lost all attraction, light, several female protagonists with their unfathomable knowledge of what will be when Moshiach (the Messiah) comes, and a forbearance not to be confused to the slightest with tepidity, are the elements to rule this disposition.
Yair Oelbaum received his master's degree in clinical social work in in 2016.
He always continued to write and take photographs of objects in spaces, which are of inexplicable beauty, yet from a world that has no need and esteem for human struggle. The aestheticism of this work is close to that of a world in its last revolt against final transformation.


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Interview With A Defeated Leader
This satirical essay was written in 1969 but still feels fresh and relevant today.
Shrilal Shukla	20 June 2014
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Shrilal Shukla	June 20, 2014 00:00 IST Interview With A Defeated Leader
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Translator's Note
Daisy Rockwell
When the great Hindi author and satirist Shrilal Shukla passed away in October of 2011, I was approached by the editor of outlookindia.com to write a short piece about his work. I agreed, but said I might need a week. It's now been nearly 140 weeks and I'm only now writing a few very tentative and preliminary thoughts on Shukla ji. I could give all sorts of excuses, of child care, of other deadlines and pressing concerns, but the truth of the matter is that I had not read much of Shukla––nothing more than his celebrated novel Raag Darbari––so I thought I would dip my toes in and read a bit more before I wrote something suitably knowledgable in his memory. I ordered some books, other novels, satirical essays, short stories, and began to read. And I continued to read, and kept on reading. In fact, to this day, I'm still reading Shukla on a regular basis, but I must admit I still haven't quite gotten to the point that I feel I have a real grasp of who he was as a writer. This has less to do with my own perfectionism, or even my own dull wits (I hope), and more to do with the tremendous range of his work. Raag Darbari is something of an epic, a portrait of village India that with its vast sweep and intricate details completely overturns the utopian Gandhian ideal of village life on its head. If the heart of India lies in her villages, then her heart is very disturbing indeed, Shukla wishes us to know.
I went on to read other novels, expecting more of the same trenchant critique. Instead, I found a noir-ish novel set in Delhi with a female protagonist (there are virtually no women in Raag Darbari), Simaaen Tuuttii Hain; an incredibly depressing novel about an alcoholic sitar player and government servant in search of a house (Makaan); and a youthful novel of progressive idealism, (Sunii Ghaatii kaa Suraj). I started reading the short stories then, and the satirical essays. Here we find Shukla at his most trenchantly critical and humorous. I found his stories always somehow timely and fresh. A tale of a writer on retreat at a forest guest house who becomes the unwilling drinking buddy of a misogynistic forest ranger; a group of men (presumably government bureaucrats, like Shukla himself) goes hunting and accidentally shoots a young woman fleeing from her wedding day; a satirist writing a witty piece about improving attendance at one's death procession is appalled to see an elderly man get hit by a car in front of his house.
In all of these, the boundary between fiction writing and essay writing is unclear. In the fictional pieces, the protagonist or narrator is often an older man, a bureaucrat or writer, just like the author himself; in his satirical essays, there are sometimes narrators or even characters that are clearly meant to be fictional. The lines are blurred, and the subjects always feel fresh and contemporary no matter when they were written. I chose this bit of satire to share on Outlook because of that feel of contemporary relevance. Shukla, or someone like him, interviews a defeated leader just after the election. The leader is clearly an R.K. Laxman-style Congress politician who has lost sight of the goals of national service. No matter where one might stand on the recent election results in India, this small essay will make you smile, or even laugh out loud, because it contains a kernel of truth. This is what makes Shrilal Shukla such an extraordinary critic of society whose relevance will stay with us for a long time to come.
When I arrived at his bungalow, he lay on the verandah like a piece of furniture. I stood in the field of Waterloo after the battle.
The front lawn was a scene of devastation. There were a couple of jeeps covered in dust; discarded tyres and old car parts lay scattered about. Four sets of loudspeakers and some old tattered durrees lay beneath a shed. Several bamboo poles and lathis lay about to one side, willy-nilly. There were four or five sacks under the shed as well; I couldn't tell if they contained knives or bottles of liquor.
A bundle of posters rolled back and forth in the breeze, and sheets of voter rolls flapped about.
I told him I was a journalist. "I've already lost and left my post," he said. "There's nothing I can give you now."
"You could give me an interview," I said.
To encourage him, I added, "You're like Napoleon. You've been defeated, but you're not dead. Even if there's nothing else you can do in this state, you can still give an interview. Look at your other elderly colleagues. What else have they given the country for several years besides interviews?"
He agreed. "Wait two minutes," he said."Let me get my senses in order."
He was eighty-two by now, and up to now I'd been yelling into his ear. He pressed the buzzer and had his servant bring a few items. He fitted false teeth into his mouth, put on his glasses, and stuffed an earphone into his ear. As soon as he was done, he began to look just like he did in cartoons. After this, he lay on his easy chair in a pose that lay somewhere between sitting up and lying down, living and dying.
"I was very sorry to hear of your defeat," I said.
"Several people have already said this to me," he said, "even those who voted against me."
"That's no surprise," I said. "Actually the public is in a sorry state. They'd be sorry whether you won or lost. What are your plans for the future?" I asked.
"Giving interviews—as you yourself already noted," he responded.
"I understand," I said. "But a few days ago they said in the papers that you were going to become a sanyasi and retire from politics."
"They said wrong. Actually what I said was that sanyasis should also take up politics."
His responses were quite sharp. It seemed that his mind was not a separate part of his body; it didn't have to be brought in from somewhere else like his false teeth, and fitted in.
"So you'll continue to take an active part in politics?" I asked
"If I'd won it would be a different matter," he responded. "But now what do I have left but active politics?"
"You've been an active politician for half a century," I asked, "you don't get bored?"
"This is what we call service to the nation," he said in a serious tone, and turned his face away.
"Don't you think some room should be made now in politics for the new generation?"
He lifted his head with some effort and stared at the ceiling for a little while. Then he said, "But where is the new generation? I don't see it anywhere."
This response threw me. I repeated myself, "So in your opinion, there aren't any young men at all?"
He was perhaps annoyed at my insistence on this question. "There may well be!" he retorted sharply. "They may well be, somewhere, but I don't know them."
In the same vein, I asked again, "And in your opinion there aren't any people in the public that could…"
He said, interrupting me, "The public! There's probably a public somewhere too! But I don't know it."
I fell silent, with a view to calming him down. After a bit, when he seemed calmer, I asked, "What was the reason for your defeat in the election? To what extent do you consider it a defeat of your policies?"
He thought for a little while. Then he said, "Look, it can't be a defeat of my policies, because I didn't have any policies."
"But that's off the record," he added quickly.
"It's actually more attractive to say that my policies were defeated than to say that I was defeated," he explained. "That removes the stain of defeat."
"So then what other reason could there be? Casteism?"
"I have no problems with casteism. I've won many times with the help of casteism." He shook his head. "The real reason for my defeat is Saturn and Rahu. Policies, philosophy, the public mood—these are all just excuses. Actually I was defeated by my planets. I knew it would happen beforehand. Seven astrologers warned me that Saturn and Rahu were transiting through my twelfth house, the house of loss, and to make matters worse, Mars had them both in its sights."
He stopped for a moment and then asked, "Do you believe in astrology? This is the boon given to us by our rishis. Astrological science!"
I ignored the question, and said, "Even though you'd been warned by the astrologers, you continued to fight the election?"
"There was no way to save myself from it!" he said. "Again, it's all the rotation of the planets! Jupiter was in its exaltation in my fourth house with a benevolent eye on the tenth. In such a situation, of course I had to fight the election."
I realized he was now about to go over each planet, but the one planet he wouldn't set foot on was the one known as earth. I closed my notebook, thanked him, and stood up. He was still talking about astrology.
I interrupted him to say my final piece, "Society today is in a sorry state. They need a message of asha, of hope, from you."
Perhaps he hadn't quite heard what I said. He blinked and said with some agitation, "Asha? Do you know her? Where's she living these days?"
Message received. Now there was no need to push me out.
Originally published as "Ek Haare Hue Netaa kaa Interview" in the collection Yahan se Vahan in 1969. The translation is published with permission from the author's estate.
Shrilal Shukla (1925 - 2011) was among the most celebrated Hindi authors of the post-Independence era. Shukla was known for his satire and unstinting critiques of Indian life after Independence. He worked as a Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, and later became a member of the IAS. He wrote over 25 books, including the famous Raag Darbari, a satirical novel of village India with an epic sweep.
Daisy Rockwell is a translator, painter, and writer who lives in Vermont, USA. She has a PhD in South Asian literature and has written widely on Hindi and Urdu literature, including her book Upendranath Ashk: A Critical Biography, Katha, 2004. Rockwell has translated a collection of Ashk's short stories, Hats and Doctors, Penguin, 2013, and her translation of Ashk's novel Falling Walls is forthcoming from Penguin India in 2015. She is also the author of a novel, Taste, Foxhead Books, 2014.
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Emmy winners Katt Williams and Tiffany Haddish flicked it up last night during the prestigious ceremony, just days after Williams took aim at Haddish during an Atlanta radio interview.
The pair clearly settled their differences privately and are choosing to keep things that way. TMZ caught up with Williams after the Emmys to ask about their "beef," with Williams saying he never had a problem with the Girls Trip star.
Soon after, TMZ asked Haddish how Sykes was able to squash her issues with Williams, to which she replied that there was no issue.


Dozens of Chrysler and General Motors dealers in Indiana were terminated last year. Now, a dealer trade group wants to block automakers from preying on termination fears to wrest concessions from surviving dealers.
Meanwhile, lawyers for some dumped dealers are preparing arbitration challenges in hopes of winning back their franchises.
"We're going to wind up with 12 or 15 of them," Ronald Smith, an attorney at Indianapolis-based Stewart & Irwin, said of arbitration requests his firm is expecting.
The Automobile Dealers Association of Indiana is backing Senate Bill 117, filed by State Sen. Randy Head, R-Logansport. The measure declares it an unfair business practice for an automaker to strike an agreement asking a dealer to waive dealer protection laws in Indiana.
Marty Murphy, executive director of the ADAI, said he's not aware of such pressure in Indiana but that there are reports of it elsewhere.
"We think it's an unfair practice to require them, in order to stay in good graces, to give up franchise [protections]," Murphy said.
Chrysler, which slashed nearly 800 dealers nationwide, terminated 21 in Indiana.
General Motors said it was phasing out about 1,200 dealers nationwide but didn't break down the number by state.
Both automakers argue it's cheaper for them to support fewer dealers and that fewer stores afford survivors better margins.
During the 2009 legislative session, the ADAI backed a trio of bills to bolster state franchise laws. They included requiring carmakers to buy back cars and parts from terminated dealers. The bills died and it was just as well: General Motors and Chrysler were able in bankruptcy court to trump state dealer franchise laws.
But it's only a matter of time before the automakers emerge from bankruptcy, and the ADAI wants stronger franchise protections in place.
"We know what can happen," Murphy said.
Indeed, at the beginning of 2009, there were 503 new-car dealers in the state; now, it's about 450—an 11-percent decrease.
"Nobody anticipated the thinning of the herd we took with bankruptcy," Murphy added.
Dealer ranks were already thinning, particularly in the General Motors ranks, with the closing in recent years of such local firms as Payton Wells Chevrolet, Bud Wolf Chevrolet and Eric Dickerson Buick.
Some lots disappeared as GM eliminates Saturn and Hummer brands. Lockhart Group recently closed Saturn of Indianapolis, on Pike Plaza Road near Lafayette Road.
Such is the decline in the new-car ranks that ADAI has opened its membership to large used-car dealers—those selling at least 120 cars a year.
Franchise terminations last year forced a number of new-car dealers to focus exclusively on used vehicles. Among them is the former Gene Beltz Shadeland Dodge, on North Shadeland Avenue near 16th Street, and Palmer Dodge, on Pike Plaza Road near West 38th Street. The Palmer operation, now known as Palmer-Huffman Automotive, had to reduce payroll and other expenses. Although principal Don Palmer also had a Hyundai new-car dealership, he decided to sell it to Ray Skillman Automotive to help cover part of the $3 million it cost him to remodel his Dodge store—just before Chrysler dumped him.
Skillman now sells the Korean cars out of the remodeled former Palmer building, while Palmer sells used cars nearby at Lafayette Road and West 38th, as well as at his former Dodge facility along East 96th Street.
If there's an upside to the used car business, it is that "you're not having to listen to the manufacturer on 'how to do business,'" said Gary Huffman.
Some dealers are itching to get back their old franchises. Attorney Smith, while he wouldn't name the dealers, said most of the 15 or so for which he plans to seek arbitration are GM dealers.
President Obama recently signed into law an appeal procedure for the roughly 2,000 GM and Chrysler dealers who were axed. Dealers have until Jan. 25 to decide whether to take the case to arbitration.
But Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne is threatening to file suit to challenge the law.
"I can't be tortured into capitulating," he told Automotive News earlier this month.
"I think it's going to be a real battle," Smith said.
Meanwhile, a measure has been filed in the Indiana General Assembly to help dealers who've been terminated. House Bill 1049, by Rep. Dale Grubb, D-Covington, would under some circumstances give former franchisees a shot when a new franchise is being considered for the axed dealer's former territory.


"No one realizes the impact of these social platforms and how we are actually looking at ourselves differently based on our depiction of others and what we "should" be."
I know it's 2018 and times have changed but let's take a second and focus on the person that you are versus the one you see online. Everyone is so intrigued by the people that lead or generation by style, presence, and materialistic items that don't really mean anything.
It's time for us millennials to support one another and stop judging by appearance and style because there are so many other important aspects of a person to look at. We are so caught up in the future and what we should be versus what we are today, which is a major issue within itself.
No one realizes the impact of these social platforms and how we are actually looking at ourselves differently based on our depiction of others and what we "should" be. This stigma has raised so many eyebrows to the point that people are actually changing their appearances to fit the social "norms" of our decade. Even starting at the age of 8 or 9, kids are starting to look to those online for the ways that they should be looking and speaking.
It's really odd hearing it back and realizing that we are actually going out of our way and changing our lives to do things that other people say is "normal". We need to stop doing this, but saying that is so much easier than actually going through the process. But let's say a video goes viral, people are listening and following up with the continuous thread immediately. Everyone is so fascinated by trends, and what if the trend was to stop and just smell the flowers.. I think if all of us just stopped and smelled flowers for a few minutes, our perception of things could actually change a little.
We don't think about things enough in this generation, we just jump to conclusions and irritate each other about perspectives that we don't necessarily agree with. If anything, just take a moment and listen to yourself and hear the things that you've never let yourself digest. As millennials, we are all too scared to even think about our present and our future when we are just sulking on the past.
Times are always changing and everyday there is something new occurring within the world around us. Just keep in mind that you're such a major part of life itself and your views my change by the actions of others, but always remember to stay true to yourself.
That's the major thing that our generation is having issues with, we don't even know who we are because everyday we are seeking the approval of others. Whether it's the social media influencers that we check up on everyday, or the one's that stream online for a a few minutes every week, someone is influencing us. The things we wear, the way we talk, and how we reach out to other people is all impacted by others.
So yes, watching people online is perfectly fine and amazing because it's entertaining and interesting to see people in all different walks of the earth sharing their stories. But make sure to stay true to yourself and keep finding out who you are and don't let anything change your process.


I recently was asked to comment on this video featuring Mr Kimmel.
Perhaps a more balanced view would include some Physicians who better respect, their patients, themselves and profession.
Rejecting all vaccination is like rejecting all medications because PHARMA is a ruthlessly predatory corrupt cartel and acetaminophen is poisonous.
There are some medications that are ineffective, many that have harmful side-effects, many are obscenely expensive and many are just harmful.
Likewise, vaccinations have the same issues with even more problems mixed in like international politics and the assault upon private practice medicine in the USA.
As the misinformation is stirred up to distract the sheeple, more wrong is being done duplicitously under the banner of "public good" for various ulterior motives.
Unfortunately, HealthCare has become neither and it is getting worse by the day.
Please , Stop the hysterical stampede and apply some logical thought .
Take a responsible role in your wellbeing by choosing to be the customer again instead of a passive victim.
If people applied as much thought and comparison shopping to their healthcare as they do to picking out a toaster, they would be healthier and happier.
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Holly Flynn — November 24, 2014
The new Australian crime/drama/comedy The Mule could be a game changer for the way local industries distribute and promote their films. The offbeat film about a pathetic drug mule is set for release on December 7th – not in cinemas, but on iTunes!
The Mule is a black comedy, about a klutzy Aussie man who returns from Thailand with a stomach full of drugs, and the subsequent waiting game the police officers who arrest him play by locking him up in a hotel room until he empties his bowels.
Surprisingly, it's not the film's wacky premise that has had tongues wagging this month, but the film's distribution decision. Aside from a handful of Q&A sessions with the filmmakers, The Mule will not be released in any cinemas, instead it is available for download (paid) on iTunes from December 7.
According to co-director, co-writer and star Angus Sampson, taking The Mule directly online means it will skip the lengthy four month waiting period between a limited cinema release and then the DVD launch, and in turn, could potentially reach a much wider audience. The film will also be available to stream in America, Canada and New Zealand, breadth that the usual channels for an indie Australian release would prevent.
The Thornbury actor says another main motivation behind the revolutionary release was wanting to "put the viewer first at every step of the way of this film…we want the reader in Preston who can't get a babysitter on Saturday night to read about it or hear about it and press a button and watch it."
Shot in and around Footscray, Thornbury, St. Kilda, North Melbourne, Coburg, Sunshine (and Bangkok) early last year, the film has utilised great Australian talent, being executively produced by Chopper's Michelle Bennett, and co-written by Wilfred's Jamie Brown.
The Mule boasts an impressive cast too, with veteran Aussie exports Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and John Noble (Fringe) taking the helm alongside household names Ewen Leslie (Jewboy), Noni Hazlehurst (City Homicide) and Geoff Morrell (Ned Kelly).
The Mule will be available to download from December 7th on iTunes.
Check out the official trailer below:
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L'egiptopitec (Aegyptopithecus zeuxis) és un fòssil primerenc dels catarrins que va precedir la divergència entre els homínids i la resta de simis. És l'única espècie coneguda del gènere Aegyptopithecus.

Morfologia
Era una espècie amb fórmula dental 2:1:2:3 tant en la mandíbula superior com la inferior.

Els molars mostren una adaptació anomenada de compartimentació.

Els ullals d'aquesta espècie eren sexualment dimòrfics.

Pesava uns 6,7 kg.

Compartia característiques amb els haplorrins, com la mandíbula fusionada, símfisi frontal i clausura postorbital.

Era un quadrúpede arbori.

Dieta
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Enllaços externs

Catarrins
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It's good to know we weren't the only ones confused by the constant plot twists and convoluted storylines of Push: Stars Camilla Belle (KIra) and Djimon Hounsou (Agent Carver) admit that even they had trouble keeping up at times.
"I remember a few moments where we all sat down and said, 'What happens? Where are we supposed to be going now?'" Belle told said in a group interview over the weekend in Los Angeles. "The plot itself is very confusing," she laughed. "We still don't understand exactly what happened."
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In the film, Belle's Kira is a "pusher"—someone with the ability to manipulate memories—who has escaped the government agency that's trying to experiment on her. Hounsou's Carver is an agent of the secret government agency known as "Division" who is trying to retrieve Kira. Carver is also a very powerful "pusher" and a master of telekinetic ability.
"You do have to surrender," Hounsou said with a smirk at the twists and turns of Push's plot. "At that point it's all hell for the director. I can't keep up with where you are at all times. As an actor, you become too analytical about the story."
The role of the ruthless, powerful Agent Carver afforded Hounsou (Gladiator) his first chance ever to play the bad guy, which attracted him to the character. "I've never played a bad guy," Hounsou said. "This was nice. It's one of the reasons [I chose this], but the most important reason was the theme of the story, to tap into that cult world that most of us are doubtful about and whether our government is actually utilizing that stuff. That was my attraction to the story."
Likewise, Belle (10,000 B.C.) was drawn to Push because it gave her a chance to try her hand at action again. "Our stunt coordinator, Nick Powell, he had done films like Braveheart and Last Samurai," Belle said. "I felt like I was in really good hands with him. What I loved about the fight scene was it wasn't martial arts or anything I'd do with formal training. We had a week and a half of training. It was more about choreography. When you get to the day, it's all about muscle memory. It's just in your body, and hopefully you don't hit a person in the head too many times [laughs]."
The majority of Push was shot guerilla-style in Hong Kong using handheld and hidden cameras. Director Paul McGuigan wanted to avoid green screens and limit the slick computer backgrounds. As a result, the crowded streets of the city became another character in the movie.
"It's so crowded," says Hounsou. "I was in shock the way they pass each other in that city. People bump into you hard and don't even turn around or say sorry. You better just keep on going. Nobody has time to fight you. It's so overwhelming."
Cameras were hidden in windows, behind trucks and in just about any other place they could avoid drawing attention. "We had one scene where I get grabbed by [Hounsou]'s two agents," Belle said. "I wish I had seen some of the reactions [of passers-by]. I was in the scene, so I couldn't see it, but I heard that some people stopped and freaked out. Other people just kept going and couldn't care less." Push opens Feb. 6.


Telltale's Batman: The Enemy Within Drops Trailer for Episode 2 | Nerd Much?
We don't have much longer to wait before jumping back into Batman: The Enemy Within. Telltale dropped the first episode of season two back on August 8th. Now, after roughly a two month wait, we'll see the second episode release on October 3rd.
In anticipation of the upcoming rollout, Telltale Games has dropped a new trailer for our enjoyment. It starts off with praise from multiple gaming outlets for the series, before rolling into the proper teases and snippets of gameplay. Dr. Harleen Quinzel makes her presence felt in this outing. Sporting, of course, a very dangerous sledgehammer.
"John Doe" continues to be involved in the game's narrative. He's been released from Arkham Asylum on good behavior, and Bruce needs to meet some of his friends. It's through Doe it that we get introduced to Dr. Quinzel directly. The duo are destined to dance with each other in every iteration of the canon it seems.
Telltale purposely avoids showing us who the Russian voice belongs to. The man is large in build, so some think it may be a new iteration on Bane. However, the third upcoming episode of the series is entitled Fractured Mask, so I suppose Black Mask could be an option as well.
Episode two, entitled The Pact, continues the story for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Android devices on October 3rd.


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