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text: Baltimore City's Congressional Delegation was thanked by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today for their unrelenting support of the YouthWorks summer jobs program during a press conference held at the National Aquarium. "Job opportunities for young people have dried up in this difficult economy." Congressman John Sarbanes said it right. With unemployment rates on the rise, it is even harder for high school students to find good, high-quality summer jobs. Summer jobs do not only provide extra cash, but they give our youth a sense of responsibility and the skills needed for their future career. "This year, thanks to a grant sponsored by Congressman John Sarbanes and supported by the entire delegation, our YouthWorks summer jobs program is able to employ 300 young people in career-oriented positions at worksites such as Sinai Hospital, Civic Works and the National Aquarium," said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. The congressional delegation acquired a Department of Labor grant that provides six-week summer jobs to Baltimore's youth and young adults as a part of YouthWorks new Baltimore Career Corps project. This project helps connect youth to jobs at more than 20 various worksites, including the National Aquarium. The National Aquarium has been an economic engine for the city of Baltimore and state of Maryland for almost 30 years, and is proud to be a worksite for the YouthWorks summer job program. This summer the National Aquarium helped provide jobs to 28 of Baltimore's youth and young adults. "We're very pleased to partner with the city to support our future workforce through the 2010 Youth Works Baltimore Career Corps," said Paula Schaedlich, chief operating officer for the National Aquarium in Baltimore. "The kids who are participating learn so much during the time they're with us, and it's gratifying to help them begin to develop the skills they'll need to have successful careers." Two YouthWork participants from the National Aquarium expressed their gratitude for having a job this summer. Dayna King, a senior at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, first worked at the National Aquarium last summer through the YouthWorks program. He was then hired to work at the Aquarium part-time during the school year. "Summer 2009 was the best summer ever because I had a job," he said. Derrick Murrell, a 2010 Patterson High School graduate, started at the aquarium this summer. He plans to study at TESST College of Technology in the fall. Categories: Education

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Monday February 18, 2013 10:02
In the last update we called a bottom in silver the day after it put in a high-volume bull hammer early in January, and while it did reverse as expected, the short-term uptrend that developed has since stalled out in recent weeks and it now looks like it is about to reverse to the downside again.
On silver's 6-month chart we can see how the price has advanced out of the intermediate base area that formed late in December and early in January, and also how the advance has fizzled out so that another top area appears to have developed, and with the price on the uptrend line it looks like it will break below it soon, or immediately, and in so doing reverse to the downside again. The advance out of the base was anemic and the price has fallen way short of making it to the upper boundary of the larger downtrend channel, which is an ominous sign. There is still an outside chance that it could now do so – although the latest COTs offer no comfort for bulls here.
If the price does now break down from the minor uptrend its first stop will be the support near the late December – early January lows, and if it breaks below this support it next port of call will be support in the $28 - $28.50 area.
We can see the long-term uptrend in silver on its 7-year chart. On this chart we can also see that there is very strong support at the multiple lows of the past 18 months, at and just above $26, which also happens to be very close to the support of its long-term uptrend line. A dip into this zone will be the point at which to buy silver (in the approx. $26 - $27.50 area circled in green) for the next major upleg, and the proximity of a very clearly defined strong support level affords a very favorable risk/reward ratio, as a protective stop can be set just below it.
If silver does go on to break down below the strong support level at $26, it will be very bad news indeed, as such a development could be expected to trigger a brutal plunge, and there is a scenario in which this could occur as set out in more detail in the parallel Gold Market update.
The Fed must be desperate to support the beleaguered dollar and Treasury market, and it can be presumed that they will stop at nothing to do so. A highly effective way to achieve this objective would be to create a deflationary scare and an exodus out of commodities and stocks, with the hot money panicking into the dollar and Treasuries again, which tactic has the added advantage that they can later claim that only another massive infusion of QE will save the economy from ending up on the rocks again, although the reality is that it never got off them. Various COT charts show that the Commercials will be prime beneficiaries of such a scenario, should it unfold, which of course makes it that much more likely, since they are seldom losers.
The latest silver COT chart should strike fear into the hearts of silver longs, although it usually doesn't because they either don't understand it or ignore it, preferring instead to march to the drumbeat of their favorite cheerleaders, one of whom recently described silver as "being on the precipice of a massive (upside) breakout", a choice of words that could come back to haunt him.
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24 November 2008
In February of 1998, the president of APG notified us of our official chapter status. From the group I initially called together two years previously, OCAPG joined the worldwide organization that now numbers well over 2,000 members. Our founding members on the application were myself, Sharon Murphy, Barbara Samson-Willis, Louise St Denis and Jeff Stewart.
What are professional genealogists and what do they do? The answer is almost as varied as the individuals and like many professions has specialties within the field. Genealogical research is the bedrock of our profession whether we work as independent business contractors, for commercial companies, for genealogical societies, libraries, publishers or family organizations. Some of the specialty research areas are heir searching, adoption, DNA and genetics, teaching and writing, lineage society applications and ethnic or geographic concentrations. Some members like to apply their expertise to website design, translation of documents, arranging and leading overseas homeland tours, photography of ancestral sites or the indexing of original records.
Mutual goals are outlined in the APG Code of Ethics: www.apgen.org. The APG mail list, one of the most active genealogy listserves on the Internet, reflects the international nature of our membership and helps provide unique insight to resources not possible ten years ago. The word professional applies not only to those who undertake work for clients. Serious family historian members approach their work with the same dedication to careful scholarship and source citation.
As the first chapter in Canada, OCAPG has seen changes and advancements over the past years. We have expanded our membership to more than 50. Not all can attend regular meetings in Toronto—our chapter mail list exists to stimulate news, information and assistance. Early days saw members who recognized a need and branched out to create the groundbreaking project called APOLROD (Association for the Preservation of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents) and the online National Institute for Genealogical Studies. We've had excellent committees to work on our workshops, seminar events and the essay contest. At the annual conference of the Ontario Genealogical Society, we plan special activities: "Ask A Professional" has been a popular venue for free research consultations. And ... like all genealogical groups ... we have cycles in the numbers of volunteers we can call on.
Why am I writing about this? Because the chapter seems to occupy quite a bit of my time. Because the more experienced among us can mentor the newer members. Because we need to encourage self-directed education and support and yes, even socializing. Because I appreciate the time a handful of people invest for the greater good of the membership and the profession. Because we know the value of family history and its sources and must fight, sometimes, for gaining or maintaining access to historical census returns and vital records. Because some day we will see university degree programs in genealogy and family history studies. It's coming.
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- Sheri Fenley said...
Brenda Baby,
You know how to hot link don't ya? Well Just in case you have forgotten -
Here is the "formula"
(this is where the word for the link goes)
In this sentence "She's a Bad Mama Jama" let's say you want the word Mama to be the hot link and the link is to my website. Then the formula would look like this:
Did I help or confuse you?
- Tuesday, 25 November, 2008
- Sheri Fenley said...
Oh Sh_t, I forgot, you need to be in html mode in order to see it! LOL
- Tuesday, 25 November, 2008
- Charley "Apple" Grabowski said...
Hi Brenda,
You should be able to create a link with the blogger tool bar - look for the green ball. (If you use blogger in draft I think it actually says link)
For a good, but basic html tutorial check out Dave Site
My knowledge is limited but if you email me I'll help if I can.
fallnappl (at) aim (.) com
- Tuesday, 25 November, 2008
- BDM said...
Thanks, Apple. The green ball was a good clue. So was Mama's hint about html mode. Maybe it worked. >:{
- Tuesday, 25 November, 2008
- Janet Iles said...
Hi Brenda
Thanks for writing about our chapter. I appreciate all the work you and others do for the well being of our chapter of APG.
OCAPG member
- Wednesday, 26 November, 2008


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On February 20, 2013, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner, "Say NO to GM, Yes to Food Security" on the Food Corporation of India's godown in Delhi. 12 of them were detained and have been charged with criminal trespass.
Tonnes of food grains in our country rot in badly kept godowns. Instead of fixing this, our government wants to genetically modify our crops.
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Stevens Seniors Build Portable Water Backpack for Disaster Areas
Though water is seemingly everywhere, it's not always safe to drink, especially in disaster areas after earthquakes and hurricanes. Victims in disaster areas are often prone to waterborne diseases if they drink from a contaminated supply.
A team of Stevens students has been working on a handy device to solve that problem, and they're going to present to it the university during the Stevens Innovation Expo on April 24.
Seven graduating seniors under the name AquaNOW – Mechanical Engineering majors Seung kook Burns, Mason Compton, Scott Reardon and Mikelann Scerbo; Electrical Engineering majors Marlon Montoya and Suwen Shen; and Environmental Engineering major Jennifer Wehof – designed and built a solar powered water treatment system that's small enough to fit in a backpack.
"It's light enough to ensure portability by a single person," Compton said. "The idea is to provide drinkable water to disaster areas where water is contaminated."
The backpack, which weighs roughly 50 pounds compared to other systems that only fit in a truck or a building, includes pumps, filters, a battery and other equipment that work together to purify two gallons of contaminated water per minute. Burns said the team checked the Red Cross guidelines for the amount of water a person needs per day, and said that the backpack can provide drinking water for up to 500 people per day, or for up to 250 people with enough left for cooking, washing and other common uses.
The backpack also avoids the logistical problem of transporting clean water in bottles, which relief organizations sometimes do to make sure victims drink the daily required amount of water. Stockpiling the bottles costs money, shipping the bottles also costs money and might be difficult or even impossible in rough terrain, and the bottles add to landfill waste.
The AquaNOW members have worked on the backpack project since last August, as part of their senior design requirement, but they all had special reasons for volunteering for this particular project.
Compton said he had recently gone on a relief mission to Haiti, which suffered a catastrophic earthquake in 2010 that killed 300,000 people and left one million homeless.
"I thought working on something that would be able to bring the people there clean water would be a great project," he said.
Burns agreed.
"I thought it was very important that this project has practical implications," he said.
Civil Engineering Professor Leslie Brunell and Mechanical Engineering Professor Yong Shi advised the students.
The team spent around $1,000 on equipment, not including the backpack itself, which the outdoor apparel company REI donated. The team assembled everything in the Stevens machine shop in the Davidson Lab, under the direction of machinists Bruce Fraser and George Wohlrab.
The students overcame a few challenges, the first being that none of them had any experience building a water treatment unit. Burns said the team conducted deep research on topics such as fluid mechanics.
"We really didn't know anything going in," he said.
Compton said the team members learned how to blend their diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
"We had to figure out how to distribute work," he said. "We had to define what each team member would do. Everyone pulled together because we each knew the others were relying on us."
The team will present the backpack in the startup pitch competition during the Innovation Expo, where it has the chance to win a cash prize. And the AquaNOW members have already impressed one panel of judges. The team participated in a student poster competition during the annual meeting of the New Jersey chapter of the American Water Works Association, and won first place over NJIT, Rider, Rutgers and TCNJ.
Compton said the AWWA judges appreciated the team's presentation.
"One of them was really interested and wanted to follow up with us, which was really encouraging," he said.
The AquaNOW members think their backpack has a viable market value, with potential customers in the Red Cross, FEMA and other relief agencies.
The students are all either entering the workforce or going to graduate school after they graduate in May, so they won't be able to continue developing the backpack, but they hope a new group of seniors will work on it for their design project next year.
"Hopefully a new group of students will pick up where we left off, and hopefully they can improve upon it," Scerbo said.


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#1 Descriptions of wanted criminals09-27-2008, 02:56 AM
Felons are on the loose in Ohio, and police need your help. They have video of the suspects, described below.
Just one question - what critical (and quite helpful) fact about these criminals is missing from this description?
Police describe the primary suspect as 6 feet tall and weighing 170 pounds. He was wearing a two-tone blue Nike hat, a white and blue Nike windbreaker and black jeans. The two other men are described as being in their middle 30s, between 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a medium build, moustaches and goatees, and were wearing black T-shirts and long black shorts.
Just another example of blatant racism in the media.**** Obama and **** you too.
Ah! The Men Of No Appearance as House of Dumb calls them.I'm thinking Laban is becoming the master chronicler of MONA related events. He's just passed on news of clashes between the Men Of No Appearance and the Men Of Fabulous! Appearance.
Of course, we must treat such incidents with the seriousness they deserve:
Yep, that's me: harsh! But can you blame me when even the guy breaking omerta wraps his statement up in every weasely liberal phrase imaginable?
On the other hand, who'd have thunk that the alliance between the Religion of Peace and the Religion of Getting A Piece would end badly? Well, yes, every rightist ever, but the gayers have spent years calling us fascists, so the sympathy buffer is kind of empty at the moment.
For sure, incidents like this, are a sign of the cultural death spiral in modern Britain, not only in terms of the thuggery itself, but also the reluctance to call it what it is. But few people are less qualified to complain about all this than you-know-who. Gayers have served proudly as shock troops in the liberals' war on British culture.
True, some would claim they were only against certain aspects of traditional British culture. At best, this position devolves down to a kind of cultural jenga, and the proposition that it's possible to hack away whole chunks of the underpinnings of British culture, while leaving the culture itself still in place.
More to the point though, whatever they claim to believe, the rest of their rhetoric makes clear these guys aren't just opposed to the family values, they hate the whole idea of people having values. That's why the same people who blather about The Homophobia, think blaming the spread of AIDS on Mrs Thatcher is a perfectly valid debating point.
The hysterical denunciations of those who support traditional values - let alone the open harassment - is just a symptom of the way the gay rights movement have fully bought into the left's cult of indiscriminateness. They're appalled that no one will take a stand against thuggery? Hey, they've spent years describing anyone who takes a stand for traditional values as a Naaaaaaaaaazi!!!!! Besides, who's to say that beating people up is wrong? Did the cat sit on the mat, or is it equally true to say that the mat sat on the cat? And what is this 'cat' thing anyway?
The gay rights movement bought fully into the left's core belief that the only truly moral position is no position at all. At the same time, they were perfectly happy to break bread with the Islamofascists when it came to denouncing Britain as the Worst Country Evah! It is only now, with our culture in ruins, that these people have suddenly realised that there really are worse cultures out there after all.
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A Non-Skynyrd Fan Reflects on Going to a Skynyrd Concert
What? I Can't Hear You.
Maybe it's my northern extraction. It's been a long time since anyone related to me traveled south of the Mason Dixon line. It was 1864 and they were just "marching" through on their way to the beach.
But I digress. It was Thursday and I was offered a free ticket to see Skynyrd and ZZ Top at Tingley Colosseum. It was either that or, I don't know, suicide or something, so I jumped at the opportunity.
Soon I was attached to an elite unit of Alibi Hipsters going to see Lynyrd Skynyrd, ironically.
Surprisingly enough, they kind of rocked. I soon gave up on trying to figure out who was an original member and enjoyed the show. Oddly enough, I even enjoyed the more jingoist flag waving moments, though I could have done without the Confederate Flag. I know it's cool looking, but give it a rest.
They played about ten songs. I wasn't sure what most of them were. "Simple Man" was big with my group, as was the "What's that smell" song. They also played "Sweet Home Alabama." I sang along, off key.
They left the stage. Suddenly, I felt the overwhelming urge to hear "Free Bird," perhaps for the first time. It was partly because I wanted to actually be able to yell "Free Bird! Free Bird!" and have it mean something, rather than the default thing a dumb person yells at every other concert.
Also, it was a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert.
Tingley quit serving beer so most of the elite squadron of Alibi Hipsters left the building like they were on fire, leaving only the hard core members waiting for ZZ Top.
What is there to say about ZZ Top that hasn't been said about God? Lots of people imagine the All Mighty as a bearded man. ZZ Top has two. And they wear sequined jackets. It was the closest to a religious experience that I will ever get to. If I ever have sex again, I hope ZZ Top is playing. That's love making music.
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That's what a source who witnessed the incident told ESPN's Chris Broussard:
"He didn't haul off and punch the glass; he hit it out of frustration. He kind of slapped it, but with a closed fist. He said he thought it was plastic instead of glass.
"Half of his hand was just hanging off. It was really bad. Blood was just squirting out. That's why they had the paramedics come in, because they thought he might have punctured an artery because of how much blood was coming out."
Broussard's report goes on to say Stoudemire is out for tomorrow night's Game 3, and that he's "doubtful" for Sunday's Game 4. I'm kinda thinking he's out for that one, too.
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In the last fifteen years the branch of sea cliff rock climbing referred to as Deep Water Soloing has grown in popularity and spread its watery wings around the Globe. Deep Water is the first guidebook dedicated to documenting the major areas that have seen significant amounts of Deep Water Soloing interest and development over this period. The main author, Mike Robertson, was one of the first climbers to ditch the rope and security of standard protection and rely upon the safety-net of the sea. Mike has travelled far and wide, developing new routes and climbing old sea cliff lines in the Deep Water Solo style, and has published many articles and photographs in climbing magazines worldwide.
Deep Water Soloing is a sociable activity that has been popularised by several summer festivals and, during the warmer 'in' seasons, many of the popular venues documented in Deep Water see plenty of action from first-timers and old hands alike.
The first experience of Deep Water Soloing is for most climbers a major revelation, allowing the movement and flow of the climbing to be appreciated to the full without the encumbrance of a rack and rope, as well as the surge of excitement as progress is made above the water - if you can swim, try it!
The routes in the guidebook are described in full and are attributed Sport Grades in conjunction with the now accepted S-grade that gives an indication of the climb's seriousness, with regard to height above the water, and tide considerations. The difficulty of the routes included spans all grades, ranging from dreamy grade 4s, 5s and 6s above the warm waters of Asia and the Mediterranean to many hard grade 7s and 8s, some above the less-tepid seas of Northern Europe and the Southern Ocean.
The majority of the destinations covered in Deep Water are distinctly exotic and are a must for the climber who loves sun, warm water and stunning routes.
The Book - The information is presented in the full colour Rockfax photo-topo style and includes crucial advice on when and how to tackle the deep water solos. The guidebook is enticingly illustrated with many stunning photographs, the majority taken by Mike Robertson. As a stand-alone comprehensive reference book, or an essential companion to the guides to the venues, the Rockfax book Deep Water, is an essential read.
Area Guides
The book covers so many different areas, so there is no single 'area guide'. Some of the areas are already covered by exisiting Rockfax area guides which give information and accommodation tips: Dorset (- Swanage, Lulworth and Portland), Costa Blanca, Mallorca, Sardinia
Route Database
There is no single database for the deep water solo routes and they have all been integrated into the various areas. In some cases the routes existed in the database as conventional roped routes (particularly the Dorset crags) and these have been left described in their original form to avoid confusion. The links below take you direct to the relevant section of the database although sometimes the actual DWS crags may still take some finding.
Swanage, Lulworth, Portland, Devon, Cornwall, Pembroke, Scotland, Portugal, Costa Blanca, Mallorca
Other areas covered briefly in the book are: North Wales, Sardinia, Croatia, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and Tasmania.
Access Issues for Costa Blanca
- Approach Changes (Feb, 2016)
- Leyva, Approach Update (Apr, 2015)
- Mula Approach Changes (Nov, 2014)
- Foradà Approach (Jan, 2013)
- Bovedon, Bernia & Aventador Approach Changes (Feb, 2012)
Access Issues for Mallorca
- Access Restrictions (Sep, 2019)
- Access Update (May, 2014)
- Puig de Garrafa, Access A Detailed Update (Feb, 2014)
- Access Update (Jan, 2014)
- Major Access Problems on (Dec, 2013)
Access Issues for Sagres - DWS
- Smiley Face is now Sad Face Sagres DWS (Aug, 2012)
5 Reviews for Deep Water
Just got my copy of this. Completely new to DWS and this book has so far answered all my queries.
Typically good format and layout, great pictures and local info. A good buy.
A guide to the best deep water soloing areas in Britain and around the world. 320 pages of body watering madness on some of the most stunning sea side cliffs on this earth. This is the sort of book that begins a revolution and in usual RockFax style it's full of symbols, topos, photos and even a new grading system. If you believe the guide hype the UK is the centre of the known aqua climbing world, and every Englishman is bronzed beauty. With a mind boggling variety of overhung rock perched above the sea you are assured of inspirational trip. It's authored by Mickey Roberston, one of the foremost aficionados of this new climbing style. Get it and get wet.
What a work of genius. More than just a guide of how and where to indulge in the watery art, it's a top quality, inspirational picture-feast of the human fascination with rock and water, destined to live beyond eternity.
Nice colours too.
"Amazing guide, showing amazing routes, in really good detail. I'd recomend it to anyone."


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景帝陵曰峻平,文帝陵曰崇陽,武帝陵曰峻陽,惠帝陵曰太陽: I wonder if the "names" were the names of the mountains they were buried on. Seems weird for the tombs to have names.
It was standard practice for imperial tombs to have names, dating back to at least Western Han. For example Gaozu of Han's tomb was called Changling, Wu of Han's was Maoling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoling), Wen of Wei was Shouyangling, and so on. For the Western Han, calling the tomb for 陵 "Hill" was sort of justified, the Jin tombs were much more modest.
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Technology has indeed changed the way we think, act and react. Every activity we perform is directly or indirectly linked to technology one way or another. Like everything else, technology also has its pros and cons, depending on the way it is used. Since the advancement in cyberspace, scammers and hackers have started using advanced means to conduct fraud and cause damage to individuals as well as businesses online.
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 1.4 million cases of fraud were reported in 2018 and in 25% of the cases, people said they lost money. People reported losing $1.48 billion to fraudulent practices in 2018. This has caused considerable loss to individuals and businesses. Global regulatory authorities have introduced KYC and AML compliances that businesses and individuals are encouraged to follow. However, banks and financial institutions have to follow them under all circumstances.
KYC or Know Your Customer refers to the process where a business attains information about its customers to verify their identities. It is a complex, time-taking process and customers nowadays don't have the time or resources to deal with the government, consulate, and embassy offices for their KYC procedures. However, due to technological advancement, the identity verification process has been automated through the use of artificial intelligence systems. These systems seamlessly increase the accuracy and effectiveness of the identity verification process while reducing time and human efforts.
The following methods are used to digitally authenticate identities nowadays:
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Document verification is an important method to conduct KYC or verify the identity of an individual. The process involves the end-user verifying the authenticity of his/her documents. In banks, financial institutions and other formal set-ups, customers are required to verify their personal details through the display of government-issued documents. The artificial intelligence software checks whether the documents are genuine or have been forged. If the documents are real and authentic, the digital documentation verification is completed and vice versa.
There are four steps that are mainly involved in the digital document verification process. First, the user displays his/her identity documents in front of the device camera. Then the document is critically analyzed by artificial intelligence software to check its authenticity. Forged or edited documents are rejected by the software. The artificial intelligence system then extracts relevant information from the document using OCR technology. The information is sent to the back-office of the verification provider and analyzed by human representatives to further validate the authenticity. Then the results are sent to the business or individual asking for the verification. The whole process takes less than five minutes.
The document authentication process can detect both major and minor faults in the documents. It can detect errors and faults in forged documents, counterfeed documents, stolen documents, camouflage or hidden documents, replica documents and even compromised documents. The verification process can be done on a personal computer or a mobile device using a camera. Although only government-issued documents are used for the authentication process, the following are accepted by most verification providers:
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Illegal and fraudulent transactions have dangerous consequences for both individuals as well as businesses. Losses due to scams and frauds trickle down at every level and ultimately have negative consequences on the whole system. Therefore it is imperative to conduct proper customer verification and due diligence in order to minimize the risks of fraud. Digital documentation verification plays a key role in the KYC process.
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Headline crude prices for the week beginning 23 March 2020 – Brent: US$27/b; WTI: US$23/b
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Crude oil prices have fallen significantly since the beginning of 2020, largely driven by the economic contraction caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID19) and a sudden increase in crude oil supply following the suspension of agreed production cuts among the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and partner countries. With falling demand and increasing supply, the front-month price of the U.S. benchmark crude oil West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell from a year-to-date high closing price of $63.27 per barrel (b) on January 6 to a year-to-date low of $20.37/b on March 18 (Figure 1), the lowest nominal crude oil price since February 2002.
WTI crude oil prices have also fallen significantly along the futures curve, which charts monthly price settlements for WTI crude oil delivery over the next several years. For example, the WTI price for December 2020 delivery declined from $56.90/b on January 2, 2020, to $32.21/b as of March 24. In addition to the sharp price decline, the shape of the futures curve has shifted from backwardation—when near-term futures prices are higher than longer-dated ones—to contango, when near-term futures prices are lower than longer-dated ones. The WTI 1st-13th spread (the difference between the WTI price in the nearest month and the price for WTI 13 months away) settled at -$10.34/b on March 18, the lowest since February 2016, exhibiting high contango. The shift from backwardation to contango reflects the significant increase in petroleum inventories. In its March 2020 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), released on March 11, 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast that Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) commercial petroleum inventories will rise to 2.9 billion barrels in March, an increase of 20 million barrels over the previous month and 68 million barrels over March 2019 (Figure 2). Since the release of the March STEO, changes in various oil market and macroeconomic indicators suggest that inventory builds are likely to be even greater than EIA's March forecast.
Significant price volatility has accompanied both price declines and price increases. Since 1999, 69% of the time, daily WTI crude oil prices increased or decreased by less than 2% relative to the previous trading day. Daily oil price changes during March 2020 have exceeded 2% 13 times (76% of the month's traded days) as of March 24. For example, the 10.1% decline on March 6 after the OPEC meeting was larger than 99.8% of the daily percentage price decreases since 1999. The 24.6% decline on March 9 and the 24.4% decline on March 18 were the largest and second largest percent declines, respectively, since at least 1999 (Figure 3).
On March 10, a series of government announcements indicated that emergency fiscal and monetary policy were likely to be forthcoming in various countries, which contributed to a 10.4% increase in the WTI price, the 12th-largest daily increase since 1999. During other highly volatile time periods, such as the 2008 financial crisis, both large price increases and decreases occurred in quick succession. During the 2008 financial crisis, the largest single-day increase—a 17.8% rise on September 22, 2008—was followed the next day by the largest single-day decrease, a 12.0% fall on September 23, 2008.
Market price volatility during the first quarter of 2020 has not been limited to oil markets (Figure 4). The recent volatility in oil markets has also coincided with increased volatility in equity markets because the products refined from crude oil are used in many parts of the economy and because the COVID-19-related economic slowdown affects a broad array of economic activities. This can be measured through implied volatility—an estimate of a security's expected range of near-term price changes—which can be calculated using price movements of financial options and measured by the VIX index for the Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500 index and the OVX index for WTI prices. Implied volatility for both the S&P 500 index and WTI are higher than the levels seen during the 2008 financial crisis, which peaked on November 20, 2008, at 80.9 and on December 11, 2008, at 100.4, respectively, compared with 61.7 for the VIX and 170.9 for the OVX as of March 24.
Comparing implied volatility for the S&P 500 index with WTI's suggests that although recent volatility is not limited to oil markets, oil markets are likely more volatile than equity markets at this point. The oil market's relative volatility is not, however, in and of itself unusual. Oil markets are almost always more volatile than equity markets because crude oil demand is price inelastic—whereby price changes have relatively little effect on the quantity of crude oil demanded—and because of the relative diversity of the companies constituting the S&P 500 index. But recent oil market volatility is still historically high, even in comparison to the volatility of the larger equity market. As denoted by the red line in the bottom of Figure 4, the difference between the OVX and VIX reached an all-time high of 124.1 on March 23, compared with an average difference of 16.8 between May 2007 (the date the OVX was launched) and March 24, 2020.
Markets currently appear to expect continued and increasing market volatility, and, by extension, increasing uncertainty in the pricing of crude oil. Oil's current level of implied volatility—a forward-looking measure for the next 30 days—is also high relative to its historical, or realized, volatility. Historical volatility can influence the market's expectations for future price uncertainty, which contributes to higher implied volatility. Some of this difference is a structural part of the market, and implied volatility typically exceeds historical volatility as sellers of options demand a volatility risk premium to compensate them for the risk of holding a volatile security. But as the yellow line in Figure 4 shows, the current implied volatility of WTI prices is still higher than normal. The difference between implied and historical volatility reached an all-time high of 44.7 on March 20, compared with an average difference of 2.3 between 2007 and March 2020. This trend could suggest that options (prices for which increase with volatility) are relatively expensive and, by extension, that demand for financial instruments to limit oil price exposure are relatively elevated.
Increased price correlation among several asset classes also suggests that similar economic factors are driving prices in a variety of markets. For example, both the correlation between changes in the price of WTI and changes in the S&P 500 and the correlation between WTI and other non-energy commodities (as measured by the S&P Commodity Index (GSCI)) increased significantly in March. Typically, when correlations between WTI and other asset classes increase, it suggests that expectations of future economic growth—rather than issues specific to crude oil markets— tend to be the primary drivers of price formation. In this case, price declines for oil, equities, and non-energy commodities all indicate that concerns over global economic growth are likely the primary force driving price formation (Figure 5).
U.S. average regular gasoline and diesel prices fall
The U.S. average regular gasoline retail price fell nearly 13 cents from the previous week to $2.12 per gallon on March 23, 50 cents lower than a year ago. The Midwest price fell more than 16 cents to $1.87 per gallon, the West Coast price fell nearly 15 cents to $2.88 per gallon, the East Coast and Gulf Coast prices each fell nearly 11 cents to $2.08 per gallon and $1.86 per gallon, respectively, and the Rocky Mountain price declined more than 8 cents to $2.24 per gallon.
The U.S. average diesel fuel price fell more than 7 cents from the previous week to $2.66 per gallon on March 23, 42 cents lower than a year ago. The Midwest price fell more than 9 cents to $2.50 per gallon, the West Coast price fell more than 7 cents to $3.25 per gallon, the East Coast and Gulf Coast prices each fell nearly 7 cents to $2.72 per gallon and $2.44 per gallon, respectively, and the Rocky Mountain price fell more than 6 cents to $2.68 per gallon.
Propane/propylene inventories decline
U.S. propane/propylene stocks decreased by 1.8 million barrels last week to 64.9 million barrels as of March 20, 2020, 15.5 million barrels (31.3%) greater than the five-year (2015-19) average inventory levels for this same time of year. Gulf Coast inventories decreased by 1.3 million barrels, East Coast inventories decreased by 0.3 million barrels, and Rocky Mountain/West Coast inventories decrease by 0.2 million barrels. Midwest inventories increased by 0.1 million barrels. Propylene non-fuel-use inventories represented 8.5% of total propane/propylene inventories.
Residential heating fuel prices decrease
As of March 23, 2020, residential heating oil prices averaged $2.45 per gallon, almost 15 cents per gallon below last week's price and nearly 77 cents per gallon lower than last year's price at this time. Wholesale heating oil prices averaged more than $1.11 per gallon, almost 14 cents per gallon below last week's price and 98 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
Residential propane prices averaged more than $1.91 per gallon, nearly 2 cents per gallon below last week's price and almost 49 cents per gallon below last year's price. Wholesale propane prices averaged more than $0.42 per gallon, more than 7 cents per gallon lower than last week's price and almost 36 cents per gallon below last year's price.


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H: "What?
A: "You know what?"
H: "What?"
A: "Your time is up. It's time for you to come back."
H: "But..."
A: "But what? You have tried your best."
H: "I know. But...."
A: "You have really tried your best. It's up to them to make good use of it or not. But your time is up dear."
H: "Tell me. Am I such a failure?"
A: "No. You are not. I can see how you put your heart and soul into it. And..."
H: "And what?"
A: "And you are now falling into it. That's why you are reluctant now."
H: "Well... Is it a mistake?"
A: "No. It isn't. You are just caring and loving too much. That's it."
H: "So how?"
A: "There is nothing you can do now. You see, things get better now. She's been happy with her life and she has already known what she must do now in order to live her life to her fullest. What else do you want? Unless.."
H: "Unless what?"
A: "Unless you are willing to let everything go and go back to the earth, be reborn again."
H: "Reborn again?"
A: "Yes, reborn again."
H: "But it means..."
A: "Yes, it means... you can be born as her son."
H: "Her son?"
A: "Yes, her son."
H: "But... I don't want to be her son. I want to be beside her, protect her all through her life."
A: "That's what the son's job is. To protect his mom all through her life."
H: "Well, I do want to, but her son?"
A: "You don't have much choice dear. Either you come back to where you belong, or you will be reborn as her son."
H: *speechless and head spun around...
PS: This post was inspired by this afternoon's conversation with my besties. They were saying that Chinese believed that if the son was the Mom's past life's lover while the daughter was the Dad's past life's lover. Then I told them that in this case, my father must have had many lovers in the past, and my poor hubby didn't even have one... :D


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- "The school nurse had seen what Aunt Petunia's eyes - so sharp when it came to spotting fingerprints on her gleaming walls, and in observing the comings and goings of the neighbours - simply refused to see: that, far from needing extra nourishment, Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale."
- —On the subject of a letter sent from the nurse to the Dursley family.[src]
This female (c. 1994) was a woman employed by the Smeltings Academy of Great Britain sometime in or, possibly, before 1994.[2]
Sometime in or before 1976[1] this woman was sired to a Muggle family somewhere in the world.
She eventually was hired by the Smeltings Academy of Great Britain as a nurse there, and during her time in the career sent a letter, in 1994 to be precise, to the Dursley family to inform them that the school no longer carried knickerbockers large enough to fit their son anymore. She also included a diet sheet comprised mostly of fruits and vegetables.[2]
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Little is known of this woman's personality; however, it seemed that she was a fairly caring person as she not only was hired by a school, but was troubled enough by the weight of Dudley Dursley that she sent a letter and a diet sheet to the Dursley home to try and get the family to help Dudley lose weight.[2]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The legal age of becoming an adult in the wizarding world is seventeen, and as Dudley is known to not become of age until a year after Harry, it is assumed eighteen is the legal age in the Muggle world. Therefore, the earliest she could be working is eighteen years old, and 1994 (the year she sent the sheet) with eighteen subtracted is 1976.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 3 (The Invitation)


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LONDON: In the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan and following the release of three important climate change reports, negotiators at the COP19 climate talks in Poland are under increased pressure to make urgent progress to tackle climate change.
The COP19 climate talks in Warsaw, Poland are being dominated by the devastating Philippines' typhoon, which has further stressed the reality of climate change to delegates.
On the first day of COP19, Philippines delegate Naderev Saño, announced his decision to go on hunger strike to put pressure on the negotiators to take decisive action. And today at Warsaw, the World Meteorological Institution (WMO) Secretary-General Michel Jarraud reiterated the importance of progress in the wake of Haiyan. He said: "The Philippines is reeling from the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to hit the country and one of the most intense ever recorded anywhere. It is still struggling to recover from Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) one year ago. Although individual tropical cyclones cannot be directly attributed to climate change, higher sea levels are already making coastal populations more vulnerable to storm surges. We saw this with tragic consequences in the Philippines."
The WMO released a provisional report today called State of the Climate in 2013 that aims to put the heat on COP19 negotiators. It warns that 2013 is on course to be one of the top ten warmest years since records began and explains that human-caused climate change is making storms like Haiyan more dangerous.
Further putting the pressure on COP19, another study released yesterday by non-profit GermanWatch, Global Climate Risk Index 2013, reveals that the communities least able to protect themselves from dangerous weather are those currently being worst affected by climate impacts. Super Typhoon Haiyan has killed an estimated 10,000 people and left millions homeless and vulnerable to food shortages and unrest.
Sönke Kreft, International Climate Policy, Germanwatch, said: "The unfolding human tragedy caused by super-Typhoon Haiyan will only be captured in future reports. The Global Climate Risk Index 2014 tells the story of a country constantly battered by climate-related catastrophes. Our results are really a wake-up call to ramp up international climate policy and to better manage weather-related disasters. The year 2015 represents a major milestone, which needs to deliver a new climate agreement, and the international disaster framework is also up for renewal."
Also released yesterday and being spotlighted at COP19 is the International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2013, which shows how greater investment in renewables and energy efficiency can help curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit the climate impacts on extreme weather like Taiyan.
"Major changes are emerging in the energy world in response to shifts in economic growth, efforts at decarbonisation and technological breakthroughs," said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. "We have the tools to deal with such profound market change. Those that anticipate global energy developments successfully can derive an advantage, while those that do not risk taking poor policy and investment decisions."
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A California financier accused of bilking his investors out of hundreds of millions in a Ponzi scheme to support a lavish lifestyle, Danny Pang, has died. He was 42.
Newport Beach police said the cause of death was not immediately available, but foul play is not suspected, according to reports.
Pang, the founder of Irvine-based Private Equity Management Group Inc. and Private Equity Management Group LLC, had been free on $1 million bail and set to go to trial next week. His companies have been put into receivership.
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"Danny was a wonderful husband, loving father, and honest businessman," Pang's family said in a statement, The Associated Press reported. "It is distressing that Danny had to endure such a mean-spirited assault on his character without ever having a chance to defend himself. "We remain steadfast in our believe that Danny would have been vindicated if he had been given that opportunity."
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- Cecilia: "My God, what an eyesore! Couldn't your father have that hovel cleared away, Tom?"
- Tom Riddle Sr.: "It's not ours. Everything on the other side of the valley belongs to us, but that cottage belongs to an old tramp called Gaunt, and his children. The son's quite mad, you should hear some of the stories they tell in the village..."
- Cecilia: "Tom, I might be wrong--but has somebody nailed a snake to that door?"
- Tom Riddle Sr.: "Good lord, you're right! That'll be the son, I told you he's not right in the head. Don't look at it, Cecilia, darling."
- — Cecilia and Tom Riddle Sr. riding in Little Hangleton[src]
Cecilia was a young, pretty Muggle woman who seemed to have been romantically involved with Tom Riddle Sr. prior to his marriage to Merope Gaunt.[1]
At some point during her youth, Cecilia began a romantic relationship with Tom Riddle, the son of wealthy landowners Thomas and Mary Riddle.
When Bob Ogden, in the course of his duties as Head of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, visited the Gaunt shack in Little Hangleton to interview Morfin Gaunt about hexing a local Muggle (Her boyfriend), Cecilia and Tom rode on a grey horse past the house. The two sneered and gossiped at the ruined cottage. Later, when Ogden ran from the house to escape Morfin Gaunt's hexes, he knocked into Tom and Cecilia's horse, making the couple laugh at him.[1]
Presumably, Cecilia lost contact with the Riddle family after Tom married Merope. It is unknown what happened to her after Tom abandoned his wife and returned to Little Hangleton in 1926, although it may have been possible that had she not married that Tom may have resumed his relationship with Cecilia. It is also unknown how she reacted to the deaths of her former paramour and his parents.
It is unknown whether she has died.
The name "Cecilia" is the Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus "blind". Saint Cecilia was a semi-legendary 2nd- or 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman deities. After attempts to suffocate her failed, she was beheaded. She was later regarded as the patron saint of music and musicians. The name may also be close to "cecaelia", a Greek mythological creature with the upper torso of a human and the bottom torso of an octopus.
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When we each take our own cars to work, we contribute to traffic jams and slightly increase our risk for a collision or mechanical breakdown. Congestion is a leading cause of accidents, and can have a maddening domino effect. All it takes is a single car hitting a guardrail during rush hour. Traffic thickens and becomes more dangerous as the car is cleared and our natural rubbernecking tendency kicks in. Prime time for fender benders.
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And encouraging our customers and associates to carpool is another way we're able to help green the planet. Consider the eco-benefits of carpooling: If you carpool 30 miles a day with 3 other people, the shared car (let's say it gets 25 mpg) emits 3.122 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That might sound like a lot, but by leaving Cliff's Chrysler, Joe's (classic) Scout, and Diane's Prowler at home, the 4 of you end up saving 9.366 tons of CO2 a year.
That's a full-grown elephant's worth of greenhouse gas saved by a few friendly commuters.
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Esurance sponsors and supports community events from Tampa to Tacoma, and what better way to get to them? To make it easier for everyone to find a ride, we work with Zimride to create event-specific pages for all of our sponsored events.
Last year was a banner year for Esurance ridesharing. People who signed up to share rides to sponsored events saved 1,484,853 driving miles over the course of the year. That's 6.21 trips to the moon, not to mention an army of greenhouse-gas elephants spared.
So there you have it. Hopefully that clarifies our car insurance company's interest in filling seats as easily as possible. See what ride-shareable events are in the cooker and sign up for a seat by visiting the Esurance carpool page.
This post originally ran on Zimride's blog earlier this month.


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Friday, 17 October 2008
Ghoul-Graveyard Cake
Ghoul-Graveyard Cake
For the cake:
250ml milk
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
225g plain flour
50g cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
one-half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
200g caster sugar
110g butter or soft margarine
2 eggs
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
For the buttercream frosting:
150g unsalted butter, softend
300g icing sugar, sifted
Splash of milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Black colour paste
Black sugar sprinkles
Hallowe'en-themed jelly lollies, at least 1 per child
Preheat the oven to gas mark 3/170C. Grease and line a 23cm springform tin. Mix the milk and vinegar together and set aside.Make sure all your remaining ingredients are at room temperature if you can, but since no one's going to be overly worried about the cake, you shouldn't be either. If the ingredients are cold, the worst that can happen is that the cake will be heavy. But you do need soft butter (or the cake won't mix), so substitute marge if that's not a goer. Put everything for the cake, except the vinegary milk, into a food processor and blitz to mix. Remove the lid, scrape down with a rubber spatula and then put the lid back on and with the motor running, add the vinegary milk.Scrape, spoon or pour the brown batter into the tin and spread to fill it evenly, baking it for 40-45 minutes until it is well risen and springy to the touch. Remove the cooked cake, in its tin, to a rack and leave to cool for about ten minutes, then spring open the tin and let the cake get completely cold.
To make the icing, beat the butter until fluffy, then beat in the icing sugar and vanilla extract. Add a splash of milk to soften the consistency slightly. Swirl the icing on top and sides of the cake once it has cooled. Sprinkle over the black sugar sprinkles to cover the top and trim the lolly sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3-4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard.
17 comments:
- Finla said...
Thare areally creepy, especially the last mummu-y one, but so fun to see :-)))
- 17 October 2008 at 17:53
- Hayley said...
Where's this recipe from? I swear I've seen it recently! I'm really lacking in brain cells at the mo so it's prob a really obvious place, sorry!
- 17 October 2008 at 18:23
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks Happy cook :-)
Hayley the recipe is in Feast by Nigella Lawson!
- 17 October 2008 at 18:32
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
I love this cake, making it again for the kids the Halloween.
Always popular with children isn't it.
- 17 October 2008 at 19:14
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
Great cake - I really need to buy Feast!!
- 17 October 2008 at 21:25
- Anna's kitchen table said...
That looks fantastic! Well done!
- 17 October 2008 at 22:29
- Coby said...
Maria,the cake is wonderful:) I have always wanted to try this cake, but I've never bothered because I haven't seen black food colouring or sprinkles. Well I have black liquid food dye, but I doubt that would work. Now though, thinking the cake might be as delicious as it is ghoulish, perhaps I should give it a go anyway;) Hope you have a great day!
- 18 October 2008 at 11:50
- Ivy said...
The cake looks great and the kids will love it. Like your spooky decoration.
- 18 October 2008 at 16:29
- Abitofafoodie said...
What a fun cake for Halloween! I'm amazed that you can get the icing so black!
- 18 October 2008 at 17:50
- Reeni said...
I love it! Especially the little ghosts and pumpkins. The black icing looks so cool!
- 19 October 2008 at 01:57
- Emily said...
How cute! I love it!
- 19 October 2008 at 11:26
- Kelly-Jane said...
That's great Maria! I have always forgotten about this cake at Halloween.
- 19 October 2008 at 17:06
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone for the lovely comments. The cake went down a huge hit with the kids and adults!
- 20 October 2008 at 09:22
- Rosie said...
Oh I love this cake Maria with your spooky lollies - just brilliant!!
Rosie x
- 20 October 2008 at 13:28
- Nic said...
Great idea, love it!
- 22 October 2008 at 16:46
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- 23 October 2008 at 15:38
- Tina Butler said...
How cute is that. Happy Halloween. You did a great job.
- 30 October 2008 at 13:47