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Asterisk voice prompts for Asterisk, Trixbox, FreePBX®, Callweaver, Elastix, a2Billing & AsteriskNow
Asterisk voice prompts for Asterisk, Trixbox, FreePBX®, Callweaver, Elastix, a2Billing & AsteriskNow
Westany is the number one provider of international voices for Asterisk and voip telephony.
But that's for a reason, we have more than 100 languages available from the top voice artists in the world and can record anything you need.
We regularly record full language products for many different telephony systems for the top companies in the world. But were also giving back… hence the many languages you can buy at great prices for Asterisk… our system of choice.
Custom voice prompt recordings from €9.97 each.
If you want to build a custom IVR that guides your customers when you answer the phone, want to record some adverts on hold or simply need to have your company name recorded, then our custom recording service is for you.
Not only do we record your voice prompts at fantastic prices, but we can get them back to you in a few days, sometimes as fast as a few hours.
You can order from as little as one single voice prompt or as many messages as you need. So if you want a short greeting or a fully blown IVR Systems then were here to help.
Your customised voice prompts are recorded by the same voice artist as our language products to provide a seamless telephone experience. Learn more
Trixbox, the original 'one click' asterisk installer.
Trixbox is a great open-source application that reformats a standard PC into a fully functional PBX with all the features of Asterisk along with some other great tools for extending Asterisk.
All our languages are professionally recorded to fully exploit the power of Trixbox straight out of the box.
Trixbox, formally know as Asterisk@Home allows you to pop a CD into an old PC, that your probably not using, and turn it into a fully functioning PBX.
What's really amazing about Asterisk and Trixbox is that you don't need a high powered PC to install the software onto. You can get the full functionality out of an old PC that is sitting in the corner gathering dust.
It usually takes about 1/2 an hour to transform your PC into a fully featured telephone system, but after the initial installation it might take you a day or so to get used to the vast range of features.
FreePBX®, the open source Asterisk configuration interface
FreePBX® is the graphical user interface of choice for most asterisk users.
It was the first user interface that allowed you to use the full features of Asterisk without digging into the code and rolling your own version. It has since become the main interface used by Trixbox and many other companies.
We have supported the platform since it's inception and continue to do so. It's still the best extendable Asterisk interface out there.
It now allows downloadable updates so you no longer have to install 'when your ready'.
At the click of a button you can update the system to the latest version and be secure in the knowledge that you won't be hacked, and you'll have the latest features.
Version 3 of FreePBX® will also support FreeSWITCH™. Newly designed with the developer in mind to create a friendly platform development platform.
Asterisk, the pbx and AsteriskNow the software installer
Asterisk is, of course, the open source platform we use to create the new VOIP industry. Yes there are others, but this is the big beast in the market.
The fact that it's open source and not closed source, is why we have a voip industry to start with. No longer do the big Telco's have dominance, we can change that...
And were doing so... but. It doesn't mean that Digium or Mark Spenser, the creator, of Asterisk can get big brother over us either.
But they are doing something towards the effort of not leaving FreePBX® and Trixbox as the only "big brothers' in the market. So they have created their own "one CD install' called AsteriskNow. And it's their own flavor of how you do things "Asterisk wise" But regardless, we support them anyway and release languages that support their efforts.
FreeSWITCH is a scalable, multi-protocol, open-source, cross platform soft switch. The FreeSWITCH telephony platform is built for stable scalability and can interconnect and route most popular protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It supports communication technologies such as Skype, SIP, H.323 and GoogleTalk making it easy to interface with other open source PBX systems such as sipXecs, Call Weaver, Bayonne, YATE or FreeSWITCH.
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blue.box maximizes the power of FreeSWITCH and is hosted at 2600hz. blue.box makes it easy to configure and manage your freeSWITCH installation though their easy to use online interfaces. 2600hz powerful open-source projects help you build and manage rich, customized VoIP services. From a fully functional FreeSWITCH and FreeSWITCH configuration GUI to a next-generation monitoring and management toolset, they help make VoIP easy. Learn more
FusionPBX is an easy to use open-source configuration GUI for freeSWITCH. It can easily be used on a single computer or scaled to a multi-tenant PBX such as used in a full blown call center or as a fax, voicemail, conference or voice application server. FusionPBX's web based interface makes it especially easy to modify the FreeSWITCH xml files that are used throughout FreeSwitch to configure the telephony system.
Learn more
Callweaver, the community driven software PBX project
Callweaver is a vendor-independent, open source, cross-platform PBX software project.
Formally known as OpenPBX, it was originally derived from Asterisk but now offers aditional features including official support for operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MacOS X as well as running on virtual machine installations such as Xen, VMware and VPS.
As well as extensive cross-platform support, the Callweaver team focus their efforts on making the software PBX as reliable and efficient as possible using some of the best libraries available.
Tests have confirmed that Callweaver surpasses the reliability of Asterisk and many users that have migrated to Callweaver confirm this.
Elastix, the open source telephony software package
Elastix provides an impressive list of features. It integrates numerous software packages, each with an extensive feature set.
As well as allowing the creation of third party modules, Elastix also includes new easy-to-use user interfaces and detailed reporting capabilities, making it one of the best software packages available for open source telephony.
The appliance software offers support for a variety of telephony hardware, including OpenVox, Digium, Sangoma, Rhino Equipment, Xorcom, Linksys & Cisco.
Elastix focuses on 3 primary goals, modularity, reliability and ease-of-use. All these elements combined make Elastix a strong contender when chosing an Asterisk-based PBX.
A2Billing & Star2Billing, the soft-switch billing solution
A2Billing extends the functionality of the Asterisk PBX by offering a soft-switch billing solution.
The impressive array of features include self contained billing, converged services, rate calls as well as preparing & sending out invoices.
Star2Billing is the commercial arm of the open source project A2Billing. They offer extensive services from installation to configuration and customisation. Star2billing is the same code base as A2Billing so you have the same set of extendable feature set. If you need to be sure of the security of your A2Billing installation then contact Star2Billing and use their services instead..

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1. Wash chicken and pat dry.
2. Beat egg and water in large bowl. Mix flour and Old Bay in plastic bag. Dip chicken in egg mixture; shake in flour mixture (a few pieces at a time). Discard any remaining flour mixture.
3. Heat oil in large skillet on medium heat. Fry chicken about 15 minutes per side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. If desired, sprinkle chicken with additional Old Bay.


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When you love your guests and want them to know it, make this powerful and premium punch. It's yet another winner from Jerry Thomas's 1862 How To Mix Drinks by way of David Wondrich and was featured in the December 2009 issue of Esquire magazine. (Do go subscribe; they really have been keeping the quality very high lately and we often read it cover to cover).
One key to this punch is the oleo saccharum – the potent oil which lemon peels will give up to sugar after half an hour or so. There was no liquid in the pot shown in the picture on the right when the peels and sugar were first stirred together. It's magic! (Well, fine, it's osmosis, but that's as good as magic).
As with all good punches, freeze up a big piece of ice using a small bowl 48 hours before you'll be serving.
On the day of your party, peel 1 dozen lemons, getting as little pith as possible. Put them in 2 or 3 gallon pot and muddle them with 1 cup sugar. Leave them alone for 30 minutes and then come back to marvel at the delicious lemon oil exuded.
Add 2 bottles of a nice smoky single-malt Scotch – we recommend Laphroaig – and 2 bottles rye whiskey – Wondrich was right about how wonderful Sazerac is here. Stir, then put in 1 gallon boiling water and stir to dissolve the sugar. Cover and let cool.
When you pour it over your big ice block in your punch bowl later, add 4 thinly sliced, de-seeded lemons and grate half a nutmeg over the top.
Stunning. Possibly literally. This is a 44 proof punch. Put out the small glasses.


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TechRadar Verdict
Let's not beat around the bush: the 1Ds Mark II is an awesome camera
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Peerless resolution
Every feature you could think of
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Have you got six grand lying about?
Why you can trust TechRadar
How many pixels are enough? That's the question that's most often asked by photographers contemplating the purchase of a digital camera. And can you ever have too many?
While resolution is an issue of considerable interest to amateurs, for professionals it can be a matter of success or failure. Photography is an increasingly competitive business, and if your rivals can produce better quality images, they're more likely to get the job than you - it's as simple as that.
This is less of an issue in wedding and portrait work, where many customers seem happy with the results they get from six to eight megapixel cameras, but when it comes to advertising and stock photography the ultimate file size can be extremely important.
Many professionals make sales through picture libraries as a way of supplementing the income they earn from commissioned work. But over the last couple of years stock agencies have become more demanding and discriminating when it comes to accepting images that have been captured digitally. Most, such as Alamy (www.alamy.com), for example, now insist that files be 48Mb and over without interpolation.
It may be a remarkable coincidence, but the ultimate file size you get from the Mark II version of Canon's EOS 1Ds is 47.5Mb, which is within a whisker of that magic figure. This means that for an investment of £6,000 - not an outrageous sum when you consider that a single image could easily return that in a year - the door could be opened to a lucrative career as a stock photographer.
High quality
In the studio, meanwhile, this incredible resolution means you can now match the quality of a 6x7cm film camera with a 35mm-style digital SLR.
But it's not only Canon's new 16.7 megapixel resolution that makes it a significant development. There's also the fact that it uses a CMOS sensor that's capable of producing images with little of the noise or chromatic aberration (fringing) issues that have dogged some other high-end digital SLRs such as the Kodak Pro14/n.
Add to that the full-frame capture you get from the 24x36mm sensor and you can see why the 1Ds Mark II is such a tempting proposition for professionals in all areas. Not only does this mean that your wideangles really are wide-angled, but there's no lens magnification to narrow the field of view.
Whether the 1DS Mk II will appeal to amateurs affluent enough to buy this is another matter entirely. This is a camera built without compromise. For a start, it's big and heavy; tipping the scales at over 2kg with a typical zoom lens and memory card.
Some 320g of that, the bottom 3cm of the camera, is accounted for by the battery, which is a heavy-duty cell that's good for 1,200 shots before it needs recharging. While it adds significantly to the weight, it's well worth it to know you're not going to run out of juice at a crucial moment when you're on location.
The EOS 1Ds Mark II is also stuffed to the gunnels with just about every advanced feature you could imagine. However, this makes it potentially complicated and confusing for those whose requirements are not so demanding.
For anyone wanting a '35mm' SLR with the ultimate current pixel count, Canon's update of its flagship model is in a class of its own. The increase from the 11.1 million pixels of the original EOS 1Ds to the 16.7 million pixels of the Mark II version places it fully at the front of the pack.
Focusing on the pixel count, however, can blind you to the many other reasons for buying the camera. In fact, listing all the features on offer would fill this review alone, so we'll only concentrate on the most exciting developments.
Where to begin? Well, how about the startup time and the speed of capture? Situations often change rapidly when you're taking pictures, and professionals need to be able to respond quickly.
Sharp shooter
With a start-up time of just 0.3 seconds, the 1Ds Mark II is ready to go immediately, so you never miss a shot. Even at its maximum resolution you can capture 32 images at a rate of 4 frames per second as JPEGs. This is more than sufficient for most situations, and even makes the camera suitable for some sports jobs and specialist areas such as fashion.
Images can be recorded to CompactFlash and SD cards - there are slots for both - but you'll need high capacity cards. If you decide to shoot in RAW for maximum quality, each file will take up around 14.6Mb. For everyday work the highest JPEG setting will do fine, but even then files are between 8Mb and 13Mb - depending on factors such as the subject, the ISO, and the processing parameters - and in our test we only got 83 shots on a 1Gb card.
Be prepared for the first time you view images from the 1Ds Mark II up on the screen - because if you haven't set any in-camera sharpening, they look rather soft. But implement a little Unsharp Mask in Photoshop and the true quality of the files jumps out at you. Use the magnifying tool to enlarge a particular area and you'll be amazed at the tremendous depth of detail - sufficient for images to be printed at A2 size and beyond.
The standard ISO range is 100 to 1600, but this can be expanded at both ends to 50 and 3200. The quality throughout is exceptional. At ISO100 to 400 noise is minimal and even at high settings it is more than acceptable.
When it comes to metering and white balance, the 1Ds Mark II boasts everything but the kitchen sink. And if it doesn't have it, then you probably don't need it!
The 21-zone Evaluative exposure that showed its worth on the original 1Ds is retained - and it's so accurate you really don't need anything else. But that doesn't prevent Canon giving you a complete set of options, including Partial (8.5 per cent), Spot (2.4 per cent), Multi-spot (averaging 8 different readings) and even good old Centre-Weighted. And on top of that, you get a memory lock, exposure compensation and bracketing.
Shutter speeds go all the way up to 1/8,000 sec, and the flash synch speed is 1/250 sec - ideal for subjects like weddings and portraits where fill-in flash may be required.
As with most professional SLRs, there's no built-in gun, but the camera is equipped with the latest E-TTL II flash metering control when used with a Canon EX Speedlite for almost total flash accuracy.
The auto white balance is pretty reliable as well, but once again there's all the overrides you could want, including six pre-sets, Kelvin settings and custom controls. Plus there are five user-selectable colour spaces, including sRGB and Adobe RGB.
Superb AF
The EOS 1Ds Mark II is fitted with Canon's well established 45-point auto-focusing system, which is blisteringly fast and bitingly accurate. There's the option to allow the camera to choose the focusing point for you, or you can do it yourself.
A professional camera needs to be reliable, and Canon has always had an enviable reputation in this area. Built around a tough water and dust-resistant body, the EOS 1Ds Mark II has a shutter durability of 200,000 cycles - enough to take 250 pictures every single day for over two years.
Despite its size and weight, the camera handles beautifully, with every control both easy and intuitive to operate. In fact, after a few days of use it begins to feel like an extension of your own hand.
At this moment in time there is no better 35mm-style digital camera on the market. However, it isn't a camera that will suit everyone and price is a real deciding factor. Some professionals don't need the enormous resolution it delivers and would be happy with the eight million pixel EOS 20D - which costs £5,000 less. Steve Bavister
Via PhotoRadar
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I've been asked if I have any quirky writer's habits. And I have to say (chomp) that I absolutely (crunch, munch) positively (gulp, yum) don't have any.
Sorry about that. You don't mind if I eat eight Freddo Frogs while I write this post, do you?
Make that nine. |
I'm sure it doesn't surprise anyone to learn that I eat chocolate while I'm writing. A lot. I eat a lot of chocolate anyway, but when you're sitting at a computer with words to write, people to please and deadlines to meet, it's easier to justify eating a few hundred more frogs. Or bars. Or blocks.
I eat chocolate, but that's far from the quirkiest of my writer's habits. So I'll let you in on what I do when I'm stuck on something. When I'm yet to decide which direction to take a piece, or when I'm simply suffering from a good old fashioned case of writer's block, I usually do one of two completely different things, depending on where I am, who's with me and what I might have already done that day to combat writer's block.
I will either get up, crank up the music to a favourite song, and belt it out at the top of my lungs. (Thorn in My Side, I Like You Better When You're Not Around and Belle are particular favourites, as are any songs from Les Miserables or The Little Mermaid.)
Or, I will sit there and write to the general theme of what I'm doing in as Seussian a way as possible. I will rhyme, make up words, invent ridiculous scenarios that haven't yet happened (and are most unlikely to), or do all three.
For example, if I'm writing a blog post about quirky writer's habits and I can't think of any to write about, I might write this:
Or if I'm writing a future best-selling dinosaur murder mystery set in Antarctica, and I'm not yet sure which dinosaur dunnit, I might write this:
Or if I'm writing a special Budget edition of a company's e-newsletter (unfortunately, this is the exciting sort of thing I'm much more likely to be writing), and I'm a little uninspired by the actual Budget that was handed down (surely not?!), I might write the following:
(NB: If Mr Hockey announces a $100 million MP marshmallow program next month, just remember that you heard it here first.)
Each month, I receive a writing prompt as part of a link-up called Writers Reveal. This post was inspired by the prompt 'Quirky Writer's Habits' from Ashley at Author Ashley Howland.
You can see what everyone else has done with the same prompt at:
Do you have any quirky writer's habits? How do you deal with writer's block?


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On October 24, 2009, the new Church of Scientology of Rome opened in the Casalotti di Boccea district of the Eternal City. More than 6,000 Scientologists and their guests came from across Italy and beyond to celebrate the dedication of this magnificent new Church in its 70,000-square-foot home on 28 acres of parkland.
The new Church marks the largest expansion to date for Scientology in its 30-year history in Italy and will serve parishioners of Central Italy and other regions of the Mediterranean.
Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, welcomed parishioners to their new home in the historical crossroads of Western civilization. His presence signifying the stature and prominence of this Church, Mr. Miscavige spoke of what inspired every Scientologist to make the new Church possible:
"How on Earth can one possibly speak of history without a nod to Rome? This City of God, this City of Man, this center of the Western World for at least a thousand years—if ever a place was destined for an Ideal Church of Scientology, it's here. For what better arena to show what Scientology can do than this age-old religious empire?"
Among those participating in the dedication of the new Scientology Church were Mr. Dino De Pasquale, Disaster Manager of the Civil Protection Agency; Professor Silvio Calzolari of the Theological Faculty at the Vatican University in Florence; Professor Luigi Berzano, Professor of Sociology of Religions at the University of Turin; and Ms. Laura Guercio, President of Legal Aid Worldwide.
The new Church home is a contemporary building that has undergone extensive remodeling to accommodate all Scientology religious services, the many community activities of Church members, and introductory services for visitors.
An expansive Public Information Center houses a permanent audiovisual exhibit containing more than 230 films covering the Church's beliefs, practices and activities. Along with incisive descriptions of Scientology principles and information on the life and accomplishments of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, here is the definite introduction to all Church-sponsored social betterment programs to combat drug abuse, illiteracy, criminality, immorality and human rights violations.
Central to the building is the 300-seat auditorium for Church and community events.
The Church of Scientology of Rome will coordinate the social betterment programs of the Church in Central Italy. With two decades of experience in drug prevention, its "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" program provides proven, effective solutions to one of the most pressing problems in Italian society.
In closing the dedication ceremony, Mr. Miscavige emphasized the importance of the Church's social mission and underscored the vital necessity of Scientologists taking responsibility for the community in which they live:
"You owe [Rome] our salvage campaigns to eradicate drug abuse, instill a respect for human rights and provide basic technology for living through The Way to Happiness.
"You owe her our learning and literacy programs.
"You owe her a system of criminal reform based not on punishment, but the restoration of self-respect.
"You owe every addict a drug-free life and every lost and hopeless soul the chance to discover Something Can Be Done About It.
"But most of all, you owe every Roman citizen an opportunity to discover Dianetics and Scientology."


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Think about your last leg workout, how many quad dominant exercises did you do? How many hip extensor dominant exercises did you do? Was there a balance between the two? Do you even know the difference?
Most Leg Exercises
Most leg exercises fall under the quad dominant category. Squats, deadlifts, leg presses and the like are all quad dominant exercises. While the hip extensor muscle groups (hamstrings and glutes) are activated during these movements, the quads take most of the training stress, and therefore receive the largest training response. If you do not make a conscious effort to balance your quad and hip extensor training, you will eventually develop a strength imbalance between the two muscle groups.
This imbalance can lead to several less than desirable conditions, with both physical (frequently pulled hamstrings) and cosmetic (less than perky backside) manifestations. Because hip extensor training can have such a wide range of benefits, it makes sense for everyone to include it in their training program—from general health and fitness clients looking for some improved "assets," to athletes looking for improved performance and injury prevention.
So what exactly are hip dominant exercises? The hip extensors are the muscle groups that act to extend the hip which, as mentioned earlier, are primarily the hamstrings and the glutes. When most people hear the word "hamstrings" attached to the hip extensor definition, they automatically start to think "leg curls," and why not? Leg curl variations are probably the most common and popular hamstring exercises in the history of the iron game.
In fact, if you asked someone in the gym who was doing leg curls to name another exercise that targeted the hamstrings, they would probably give you a blank stare and go back to reeling off their 12 reps on the lying leg curl machine.
But guess what? Leg curls are not hip dominant exercises. To qualify as one, there has to be movement at the hip joint, and the leg curls simply do not do this, making them a poor choice for balancing the strength levels between the two main sections of the upper leg.
So, considering that the only exercise that most people associate with hamstring training is woefully inadequate for our ultimate purposes, what should you be doing as a hip dominant exercise? One of the most effective, most overlooked, and on the rare occasion it is performed, most poorly executed exercises for this purpose is the Romanian Deadlift (RDL).
The RDL isn't a true deadlift, and its origins are not Romanian (American lifters saw a World Champion weightlifter from Romania performing this exercise back in the '50's and dubbed it the "Romanian Deadlift"). The term RDL proved to be a catchy name, and has stuck with this exercise throughout the years. Certified Fitness Instructors with the ISSA will recognize this exercise from the CFT text, although Dr. Hatfield referred to it by another less common name, "keystone deadlifts."
First let's establish what proper form is for this exercise, before we start to get into why it's one of the best hip extensor exercises available to you, and how you should integrate it into your training program.
How To Perform The RDL (Romanian Deadlift)
Set the racks in a power rack to just about knee level (there is no need for safety rods—if you lose control during a lift, simply drop the weight), and set a standard Olympic bar on the rack. Walk up, squat down slightly while maintaining a small curve in the lower back, grasp the bar, and stand back up. You want your hands to be shoulder width apart, perhaps slightly wider if you find it to be more comfortable. Take a few steps back, and set yourself for the exercise. Being set includes making sure your feet are shoulder width apart, your chest is up, your lower back has a slight curve in it, and your knees are slightly bent (not locked). Once set you're ready to start the exercise.
Start by tightening your core musculature (abs and lower back) to ensure a secure spine. Keeping the bar close in to your body (it should maintain slight contact with the body at all times) start to bend at the hips, taking care that the lower back does not move.
It may take some people a few sessions of practice to make this distinction. Your lower back should not loose its natural curvature at any time during the movement. Loosing this curve and bending or even straitening the lower back will put your lower back in a potentially injurious position. Practice with a light weight until you can bend over at the hips without bending the lower back as well.
As you descend, your butt should move back ever so slightly and you should feel a stretch in your hamstrings. In fact, I find it's easier to learn this exercise if you visualize it as a hamstring stretch with no lower back movement. Most people will find that they can safely bring the bar down to around knee level before their lower back begins to straighten.
At the point right before you reach the limit of your hamstring range of motion you should stop and then reverse the movement, taking care to keep the bar in close and maintaining a safe (slightly curved) lower back position. Towards the top of the movement really force the hips through be squeezing the glutes. Repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions, walk the bar in over the racks, squat down slightly and return the bar to the rack.
The biggest mistake most people will make in the execution of this exercise is not maintaining the position of their lower back. Some will even go so far as to bend all the way over till the weight touches the ground. This is a huge no-no and is a reflection of the misunderstanding of this exercise and its purposes by most fitness instructors. It is not meant simply as a hamstring stretch as some would claim, nor is it meant to directly work the lower back, although the lower back will get stronger from performing this exercise.
In order to properly stress the hip extensor muscle groups, you must use intensity levels that are much too high for the lower back to handle in a prime mover or synergistic role. In order to derive maximum benefits from the RDL, you must keep the lower back from moving and let it play a much safer role as a stabilizer.
In fact, if done properly, you can safely handle extremely large weights on this movement with little to no danger to your lower back. I have personally done 405 pounds for sets of 8 on this movement with absolutely no ill effect on my lower back (that's for all the "don't go heavy, it's dangerous for your lower back" critics out there).
What Makes The RDL So Great?
Two words—intensity and functionality. First, the RDL allows a much higher intensity level (basically more weight can be used) than a leg curl does. Considering that hamstrings are made up of primarily fast twitch muscle fibers which are best trained with higher intensity levels, the RDL is one of the most effective hamstring exercises you can do.
Second, the RDL is also far more functional than leg curls. Sorry folks, but leg curls are not a functional exercise. Although it may seem like knee flexion is a big part of your every day activities like running and walking, a look at the true biomechanics of these activities shows that it is, in fact, hip extension that plays the major role in these activities.
Your knee simply flexes in order to reset the leg and start the locomotion movement again, and even there the momentum generated from the hip extension helps swing the lower leg back. Hip extension plays a huge role in several everyday activities, such as the above mentioned running and walking, not to mention jumping and biking. In addition, when you learn to bend over with a heavy weight in the gym while protecting your lower back, you have learned better body mechanics for use outside the gym as well.
There is one last thing that makes the RDL special, at least in most of my client's eyes. I've yet to find an exercise that delivers better results as far as firming up the hindquarters, if you catch my drift. I've had dozens of frustrated people come to me after years of leg lifts and donkey kicks and all sorts of other silly exercises that supposedly target the glutes. These frustrated athletes are ready to give up their dream of looking good in tight pants again.
After a little instruction, every single one of them saw better and more satisfying results in just a few months of executing the RDL than all their previous training combined. Some may scoff at it, but most people work out with an eye on improving their physique, so these benefits do rank high on a lot of people's priority list.
When you add the RDL (or any other hip extensor exercise) into your program, your best bet is to split your leg work up over two different days. Day one, use a quad intensive exercise; day two, use a hip extensor intensive exercise. Allow at least two days between your two leg workouts so as not to overly stress any of the stabilizers and synergists that assist in lower body movements.
I've found the following split to be very effective:
- Day 1: Leg Workout #1 (Quad Dominant)
- Day 2: Chest/Biceps
- Day 3: Rest
- Day 4: Leg Workout #2 (Hip Extensor Dominant)/Back/Triceps
- Day 5: Shoulders/Abs/Rotator Cuff
- Day 6: Rest
- Day 7: Rest
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And check out our workout database and design a workout program to fit your needs!
Note: You'll probably notice that there is no direct tricep work, and that is because I prefer to use pressing movements such as bench press and military press to work the triceps.
Since I split my chest and shoulder work up over two days, I've effectively hit the triceps twice in one week, making more direct work unnecessary and possibly counterproductive. Look at your training log (you do keep one, don't you?) and take a peek at your last dozen or so leg workouts. Odds are all of them used nothing but quad dominant exercises with perhaps some leg curls thrown in. Isn't it about time you stopped working only half your upper leg musculature? Now that you know the benefits, you'd be a fool not to start incorporating the RDL into your routine. After all, who doesn't want to run faster, jump higher and be able to bounce a quarter off their butt?


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- Fluff rice with a fork, never stir it with a spoon.
- Vaseline is the best night time eye cream on the market.
- You can buy alcohol and chips with your parents' gas station credit cards.
- If you force something, you'll break it. That could be good or bad.
- It's important to read the care tags on your clothing and follow those instructions.
- Related: don't wash and dry j. crew wool sweaters.
- Changing your car's oil is not optional.
- Whatever physical objects you acquire you will one day have to put into a box and move.
- You're allowed to disagree with negative feedback.
- It's always worth reading the instruction manual.
- Nostalgia, like any drug, can be a poison or a remedy.
- Pets are like human friends but better in every conceivable way.
- Good doctors listen more than they talk.
- You can't fix a burned roux.
- Floss.
- Just because someone is an authority figure does not mean they are intelligent/competent/right.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- Get your nice jeans and dress pants tailored by a professional.
- If you're uncomfortable wearing it you will not look good.
- You're not required to drink alcohol while in a bar.
- There are a few things that cure all ills: the beach, your favorite album on vinyl, and fresh garlic.
- Kindness is not weakness.
- Baking soda is not baking powder.
- Taking Excedrin P.M. while still in public is not advisable.
- Terrible people will succeed. Wonderful people will fail. The world is not fair.
- Appropriate footwear is always key.
- You can absolutely be too forgiving.
- Real humor punches up, not down.
- Reading the assigned chapters will actually help you learn the material.
- There are no adults. Everyone is as clueless as you are.
- Applying eyeliner well is a timeless art.
- You can always leave. Awkward dates, suffocating jobs, hometowns that you outgrow, relationships that aren't growing in the right direction.
- You can always come home again.
- But it won't be the same.
- Life is too short for bad books, boring movies, shitty people, and margarine.
- Never underestimate the importance of eyebrows.
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text: November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others. ~ The Forgotten Battle storyline


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 22, 2001
Remarks by the President in Greeting with the U.S. Mission
The Loews Concorde Hotel
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. I used to call him "Governor," I now call him "Ambassador." I'll always call him friend. I appreciate you very much, Ambassador, and it's great to see your beautiful bride here, too.
I first want to say something about your immediate boss, and that's the Secretary of State. As you're going to find out, he is a man who respects the job you do. He's a man who loves his country, a man who is going to be a fabulous Secretary of State for America. (Applause.) And I think the other three Cabinet Secretaries up here might do a pretty good job, too. (Laughter and applause.)
We've had a very interesting stay here in Quebec City. It turns out that Quebec City has now hosted three history-making summits. The first two in 1943 and 1944 involved only three world leaders. Therefore, they had it in one hotel. (Laughter.) This one was a little more complex, it turns out. (Laughter.)
When I see how much work it is to organize a presidential visit, it surprises me sometimes that I'm welcome anywhere. (Laughter.) And so, I want to thank you very much for the job the U.S. Mission did in preparing for our arrival, not only making sure that the arrival was well-prepared, that when we're here, that it went smoothly, and it did, and you're to be congratulated.
We have no more important bilateral relationship than that with Canada. It's true the relationship doesn't always make the headlines in the United States. That's a good sign. (Laughter.) Generally, when we make the news, it's because there is a dysfunctional relationship at hand. It shows what a good job you all are doing at relaying our priority to your fellow folks in the foreign service or civil service in Canada that we care about our relationship, that America knows how important it is.
And it's a vital relationship. As the Ambassador noted, the statistics are strong -- 200 million border crossings a year. Canada is our biggest trading partner. Canada is the biggest exporter of energy to the United States. It's an important relationship. This administration will keep it that way, and I know you will join us in doing so.
I just finished an interesting luncheon with Prime Minister Jean Chretien and President Vicente Fox about how to expand the unique relationship our three countries have. It's called NAFTA, as you know. But it's an incredibly important relationship. I first came -- became aware of the relationship as the Governor of Texas. I saw how important it was for us to understand that family values don't stop at the Rio Bravo River. That family values -- that there are people in Mexico who are hungry and worry about their children; who, if they can make a better living somewhere else, will do so. Oftentimes it was in my state, occasionally it was in -- more than occasionally it was in other people's state.
But I also saw the hope and promise of what trade could mean, and good relations between the three of us. It meant better jobs in Mexico. It meant a mother or a dad might be able to find work closer to home, which is the aspiration of people in Mexico. It also means we've got to -- that it helps enable -- to keep closer ties with Canada. And for that I'm grateful.
And so our discussions today was how to expand and strengthen NAFTA. And one way we can do so is through energy. America is short on energy, Canada is long on energy. America is short on energy. Mexico, with the right policy, could be long on energy. And so our discussions today were not only on other subjects, but we talked about establishing an energy group for the hemisphere, which we will do.
And the reason I bring this up is that it's an indication of why this future -- our relationship is just as strong in the future as it is today. And it makes eminent sense for us to continue to work with our friends and allies in our hemisphere.
I leave the summit very optimistic about what took place here. Because I want you to think about this interesting fact. We had all but one country represented here, because all but one country in our hemisphere has embraced democracy. For some of you old-timers -- I'm trying to find a few -- there looks like a guy who might be an old-timer. (Laughter.) You know, we couldn't have said that long ago. It's an amazing fact. It's a wonderful testimony to freedom and democracy. So I'm very optimistic about what took place here. It gives us a great chance to expand the opportunities around our hemisphere, knowing that it will help our own country.
I've always believed that it's -- the best foreign policy is one that improves your own neighborhood first. And so when I say a priority of ours is this hemisphere, it's not idle chit-chat. It's reality, as witnessed by the fact that my first summit was a summit with leaders from our own neighborhood.
I want to say something about your Ambassador. He is a -- you'll find him to be a good listener, a strong American. He is going to be a thoughtful manager. He's really a good guy. He's a good guy. (Laughter.) And he married, like me, above his head. (Laughter.) I, too, want to thank the Deputy Chief of Missions, Steve Kelly. I want to thank the acting -- the Consul General in Quebec City.
I want to thank Nick Nixon as well. I want to thank Roberta Smolik -- Robin Smolik -- Robert Smolik. (Laughter.) I want to thank the guy who wrote this on the card wrong. (Laughter and applause.) Knowing how the presidency works, there's a card writer somewhere pulling his hair out now. (Laughter.) I want to thank Marina Nalli. Did I get it right? (Applause.)
I want to thank you all very much on the American side for your hard work. I also want to thank Reggie Tremblay. (Applause.) He made sure I got to my meetings on time. (Laughter.) I hope word has filtered out of Washington that I believe on starting meetings on time. (Laughter.) I don't believe in making people wait. I want to make sure that Lori Fortin gets thanks as well. (Applause.) Not one member of this huge delegation had to sleep on a couch, thanks to you. (Laughter.) I want to thank Fred Bishop. (Applause.) He's known as "Emergency Guy." (Laughter.) He fixed problems before they became emergencies.
I want to tell you all how much I appreciate your service to the country. It's more than just making sure the mission works -- however, this mission worked well -- it's to make sure the mission always works. I want to thank you for understanding that there is something greater than yourself in life, and that's the greatest country on the face of the earth. God bless. (Applause.)


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Where the Forex markets continue in the trader's perspective it isَ linked to information. Because facts are related to the way they are seen and which determines the course of trade.
Utilizing a Forex convoluted technique
If you ask yourself how to trade Forex you will find that the complex Forex trading methodology will not outperform the simple straightforward methodology because it needs many components to break it down. But live frameworks work better and work consisَtently, because they are more powerful.
Bringing in money in Forex demo account means you will make money seriously
Bringing money into the demo account means that you will earn money seriously
Assuming you need fun and enthusiasm to accomplisَh something different. Assuming you need to bring in money, showing self-control isَ a vital learning component of your Forex training.
Forex trading means grabbing profits to soon
At the point when you initially begin exchanging, you will be enticed to grab benefits – however take a gander at a Forex graph – the huge patterns keep going for many many days and even weeks and a much more long time.
In the event that you dare to hold them and take momentary value swings against you, you will be all around remunerated when the exchange isَ at last shut with a pounding benefit.
Dealers have a larger number of isَsues holding benefits than they do cutting misَfortunes, don't commit thisَ error.
At the moment, these are the serious misَtakes that make most of the Forex trades for beginners lose so we advisَe you to:
You should know your trading advantage for example, what isَ the reason why you win, while 95% of traders lose? And what isَ your advantage? And do you have no idea what your exchange feature isَ?
And if you don't have an advantage and you will lose you must go back to your Forex training to do so.
We are sure that you have found misَtakes in Forex trading for beginners, that you will walk away from it in your Forex trading procedure and appreciate your achievement in Forex trading.
How to build a winning Forex trading system?
90% of Forex merchants fail in the initial not many months. The rest get consisَtent pay, yet they continually pay for market access and adjusting tasks. A large portion of thisَ cash goes to financier locales. In thisَ article, you will figure out how to make such an Internet webpage and get a lot of the benefits on one of the biggest monetary business sectors.
Starter readiness:
Disَpatching a trading stage on Forex isَ a mind-boggling and costly occasion that requires exhaustive primer planning. Thisَ cycle incorporates such things:
Showcasing research. It isَ essential to examine the rivals ahead of time and comprehend who your intended interest group isَ: age, sexual orientation, pastime, pay level, country, etc. The spot of enlisَtment of the legitimate substance, the way to deal with advancing the stage, the number of dialects upheld, and so forth will to a great extent rely upon thisَ.
Arrangement of start-up capital. When disَpatching a financier business, you need to design the allotment of assets to cover current costs for a while. To do thisَ, decide the size of the working and trading asset and fill them.
Enrollment of a financier organization. To acknowledge cash from merchants, you need to open a financial balance for a lawful element with a financier permit.
Concurrence with installment specialisَt co-ops (PSP). isَ fitting to build associations with a few PSPs to broaden the dangers related to monetary estimations.
Picking the sort of trading stage. They are of three kinds: Market Maker, STP, and ECN.
The minutes related to statisَtical surveying and the development of startup capital needn't bother with an extra depiction, since they are normal of a business. The remainder of the things (on account of the disَpatch of the Forex trading stage) isَ one of a kind and requires close consideration.
Enrollment and permit:
Perceived Forex Centers. There are some global organizations wherein you can enlisَt an organization and acquire a financier permit by the monetary guidelines of the host country.
With thisَ permit you can:
give financier and other monetary adminisَtrations;
improving benefit because of low or zero duty;
hold and control client resources;
get more great terms with banks;
Work everywhere in the world.
Perceived monetary focuses incorporate the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Belize. They are trailed by Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan. In these nations, there are no isَsues with unofficial law and control of monetary exercisَes; subsequently, trading stages with such enrollment are trusted.
Seaward. A merchant's permit costs a ton of cash, and its plan takes quite a while (from a month to a year). To accelerate thisَ interaction and decrease costs, you can enlisَt a seaward organization. For thisَ fit:
The Britisَh Virgin Islands.
Holy person Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Cayman Islands.
In the event that you choose to enroll in the seaward zone, kindly note that thisَ may antagonisَtically influence the standing, as merchants, banks, and financial backers don't confide in specialisَts with obscure proprietors. Additionally, since the mid-2000s, created nations have started to battle seaward organizations, passing laws that force limitations on seaward organizations and their accomplices.
Kind of trading stage:
Market Maker Key component. Market producers make managing focuses that give "fake" costs for certain cash sets. At the point when the client makes a bet on such locales, he plays against the dealer. If there should be an occurrence of winning, the dealer gets a prize – the disَtinction in the estimation of the resource, in the event that he loses – the specialisَt takes thisَ disَtinction to himself.
Market creators perform three errands:
Make accessible market interest rates for certain money sets.
Embrace to manage exchanges with all merchants at a value that isَ shown in the graphs of the managing focus.
Face monetary challenges for each position.
Market producers create benefits from the contrast between the buy and deal cost of a resource. Or on the other hand, to lay it out plainly, the departure of a merchant in an exchange isَ the representative's benefit. Hence, such trading stages are treated with an alert, as there are concerns (and affirmed points of reference) of conceivable conversion scale control from the site to the harm of dealers.
STP Broker:
Key component. STP represents Straight through Processing. Such trading stages send client orders to liquidity suppliers (banks or liquidity pools) and along these lines stay away from irreconcilable circumstances. In a perfect world, the request isَ shipped off a few providers who submit a request on the inter bank market with various conditions, after which the request isَ executed with the best accessible cost.
Thisَ kind of Forex trading stage produces benefits through commisَsions and spreads. Commisَsions are determined for a request or an exchanged parcel, and the estimation of spreads generally relies upon the liquidity of each market.
ECN Broker:
Key component. ECN represents Electronic Communications Network. These destinations send merchants arranges straightforwardly to the Forex market, generally speaking, with no delegates. Because of thisَ, exchange orders are executed with negligible postponements, thusly, dealers can react to advertisَe elements with the most extreme proficiency.
Intermediaries don't ensure the execution of orders correctly at the value that the broker showed in the trading request, since orders are set on the inter bank market where there are no "ensured orders" (just managing focuses assurance such).
Site Development Approaches:
Purchasing a stage. The Forex trading stage can be bought at a fixed cost, to which you typically likewisَe need to add a generally little month-to-month charge.
MetaTrader4 (MT4) trading terminal for trading in fiat monetary standards, which can be associated with the site for $100,000 in addition to another $20,000 for a year or $1,500 a month to month for support. What's more, you can likewisَe utilize MetaTrader5 (MT5) with an all-inclusive rundown of resources for trading: stocks, sepulcher, Fiat, and so on
Such an ACT Forex. The cost of thisَ terminal isَ $ 25,000 or more $ 2,000 month to month for support.
Different terminals. Most can be purchased for $ 100,000 in addition to a couple thousand more each month.
White name. To begin the trading stage, you can likewisَe utilize another person's product, demonstrating the name of your image on it. Through thisَ methodology, you can save a great deal, yet to the detriment of losing disَtinction in numerous things.
The least expensive alternative will cost $ 5,000 or more $ 1-1500 every month (the most costly choices cost countless dollars.). In the event that you decline upkeep, it will be considerably less expensive.
Stage rental. Here costs can go from $1 to $20,000 each month. the methodology permits saving toward the beginning, yet over the long haul, it isَ considerably more costly than different alternatives.
Forex what reason isَ everybody purchasing gold with deteriorating financial conditions?
Gold has consisَtently been a place of refuge in the midst of monetary strife and a store of significant worth to fence against the monetary emergency, and lately gold tried untouched highs, as financial backers and national Forex ran to the valuable metal as other monetary resources imploded, for Forex, securities exchanges and security yields dive.
It isَn't new for financial backers,
regardless of whether they are people, establisَhments, or even governments, to be influenced by the "gold-purchasing fever" wonder, which Forex ascends all through the ages in the midst of monetary emergencies and wars.
In such manner, experts said in isَolated proclamations to The Independent, that the shortcoming of the US dollar isَ the principle factor behind the ascent in gold costs to record levels, particularly with a government way to deal with a boost plan of almost three trillion dollars, which squeezes the US money. , and upholds the buying force of the yellow metal Forex.
Investigators expressed that gold will in general profit with wide based improvement measures from national banks, as it isَ viewed as a fence against swelling and cash devaluation, anticipating that gold should settle and drop marginally prior to Forex its ascent once more.
The valuable metal isَ getting support from the wagers of more boost measures pointed toward recuperating the depleted economy from the pestilence, as dealings for another improvement bargain worth a trillion dollars are as yet in progress, while new instances of the scourge keep on expanding inside the United States, and many American states had to stop Or suspend plans to return the economy, and the quantity of contaminations with the new Forex plague (Covid 19) universally surpassed 19.92 million individuals as of Sunday.
Since the start of thisَ current year,
agreeing with the Forex pandemic, the valuable metal has figured out how to accomplisَh in excess of 33% additions, after it rose from the degree of $ 1523 toward the start of the year to the degree of $ 2035, at the end cost of last Friday, acquiring about $ 512.
In its scientific audits, Goldman Sachs Bank expresses that gold has become, since the start of thisَ current year, the most productive and solid monetary instrument, contrasted with US Treasury bonds, however with portions of organizations like Microsoft, Apple, Forex and Alphabet, and Berkshire Hathaway and Facebook.
purchasing Forex
In such manner, Mohammed Hashad, Director of the Research and Development Center at Dubai-based Noor Capital, said that gold profited with the reasonable purchasing Forex upheld by high exchanging volumes and an increment the liquidity proportion in the midst of financial backers' attention on the place of refuge, and away from other high-hazard venture devices.
Hashad added, that the valuable metal costs are recording record gains inside a long series of gains, during which he prevailed with regards to contacting the degree of $ 2075 for each Forex , after he prevailed with regards to building a strong help floor around $ 2000 for every ounce, and maybe the developments of gold currently are quite possibly the main things he centers around. Forex backers are both medium and long haul financial backers, considering the political and international changes and improvements that the entire world isَ seeing.
Hashad proceeded, that we can say that gold isَ the most dynamic during the previous months, and it isَ the best venture device that has made a wisَe interest in the decay of the US dollar,
which saw a solid selling wave during last July, notwithstanding essential factors that helped the nonstop ascent in gold Forex, the most significant of which isَ the energy Purchasing versus the substantial selling of the US dollar, which gives way to the schemes of dollar-designated instruments.
He expressed that the dollar's shortcoming came because of a few reasons,
most eminently: the expanding ascend in instances of Corona infection in the United States, Forex shook the situation of the US dollar, and prompted a decrease in certainty levels, in the midst of worries about the recuperation of the biggest Forex on the planet soon,
thisَ comes in Forex with the acceleration of contrasts between The American and Chinese sides, in the midst of clues from the US organization that it isَ thinking about growing its actions against Forex.
He highlighted the reasonable decrease in the US Treasury security yields for ten Forex, contacting record levels, to at last lose eight Forex focuses around 0.56 percent, notwithstanding the decrease in the 30-year security yields by around 14 focuses, recording 1.25 percent.
which comes in light of a legitimate concern for the expanding Forex for gold as a place of refuge in the midst of market unpredictability,
notwithstanding the political stalemate from the second round of US monetary upgrade, just as selling tasks." The extreme tension on the dollar, because of the decay of the work market, with the chance of Congr Forex neglecting to arrive at the financial improvement bundle, and if Forex doesn't act to help the Forex, the Federal Forex might be compelled to take more upgrade Forex, and diminisَh the reference loan fees on the dollar, and it could be compelled to Negative revenue levels, which increment tension on the US dollar, and the yellow metal endeavors it to target new value tops.
On the assumptions for impending costs,
Forex said that it isَ important to screen the cost conduct well around the course keys from the highest point of 2075 dollars, and its infiltration increments, speeds up and affirms the strength of the current vertical pattern, so the street isَ straightforwardly open towards 2130 dollars an ounce, while in the occasion that costs neglect to keep up with The exchanging level isَ over the $2000 support, as we might observer a negative rectification, whose underlying focuses in the present moment are $1,937.
What isَ the Forex free market?
Free Market isَ the Forex that enables buyers and sellers to conclude the transactions they desire without any interference from any party, except for the forces of supply and demand, and similar examples are the stock market,
Thisَ process takes place in a Forex system that isَ subject to a small amount of government control, so that prices and profits are determined by the level of demand for goods and services.
Forex characterisَtics
Free Forex isَ characterized by many characterisَtics that make it among the important economies, the most important of which are the following:
Private ownership of resources:
Where resources are considered to belong to individuals and not to the government, and thus individuals control the means of production, disَtribution, exchange of goods, and labor. Flourisَhing financial markets: Financial Forex, such as banks, provides individuals with capital that enables them to obtain goods and services, and these markets, in turn, impose fees on transactions to make a profit. Freedom of participation: where individuals are free to obtain Forex, to consume it, or to produce enough or less for their own needs.
Common Restrictions on Forex Many restrictions are imposed on free markets, through the use of implicit or explicit threats to use force, and the most prominent restrictions imposed are the following:
Prohibit exchanges related to taxes, regulations, licensing requirements, and stock market controls, except with certain conditions. Monitor prices, Forex lots, and commodity purchases. Monitoring the recruitment of employees within the duty free markets. Monitor exchange rates and services provided to the public. Free Forex regulation, scaled down. Monitor voluntary exchanges within the framework of government regulations.
The negative effects of the free market Many opponents of free markets tend to believe that some of the things that take place in them require government intervention, and thisَ isَ due to the following reasons:
Sometimes the Forex prices at which the sale isَ made do not match the true costs of goods or services. The possibility of causing damage to the environment by some of the goods or services provided therein. Exploiting goods or services in a manner often harmful to others, unless such exploitation isَ prohibited by government laws. The monopoly of some competitors in the free market for some goods.
Thisَ makes it necessary to enforce Forex prevention policies. Some strong companies in the market gain huge market power, which may harm other competitors. Presenting business transaction costs to people as the best isَ detrimental to spot markets. Considering the allocation of optimal resources to the free market as a violation of the principles of fairness and fairness in disَtribution.
The largest economy in the world
The Chinese Economy The Chinese economy isَ classified as the second largest Forex in the world, as the nominal GDP in China isَ estimated at approximately 14 trillion US dollars, and China has witnessed an annual economic growth of 10% since 1978 AD; Thisَ isَ due to the transformation of its economy model from a centrally planned economy to an industrial economy based on exports, and thus it gained the title of the largest exporter of goods in the world, with its exports in 2016 amounting to approximately $2.09 trillion, in addition to China owning one of the largest consumer markets, and it isَ the second largest consumer market in the world. The world's largest importer of goods.
Forex Economics Components
China built its Forex growth as a result of its reliance on low-cost exports of machinery and equipment. Huge government spending in state-owned companies supported and boosted these exports. China also developed cities around major Forex; Thisَ isَ with the aim of attracting workers, and as a result a quarter of China's economy isَ based on real estate, in addition to government funding to build railways, and other infrastructure to support its growth. services and light industries, then the shift to reform the banking sector, which led to the most important transformations in the Chinese economy during the twentieth century.
The most important Chinese Forex manufacturing industry China contributes to the manufacture and sale of goods more than any other country in the world, and its industries include iron, steel, aluminum, textiles, chemicals, toys, electronics, ships, and aircraft, where the field of manufacturing has become the largest and most important sector diversified in the country since 2015.
Services The services sector isَ one of the largest industrial sectors in the Forex market, as it constitutes approximately 43% of the Chinese gross domestic product, as it began to flourisَh since 2015, in addition to contributing to the promotion of tourisَm, the spread of the Internet, and phone products.
One of the main industries in Chinese Forex, where China ranks as the largest consumer and producer of products despite having only about 15% of suitable Forex, as the country manages to feed its huge population, and China has Forex production 30% greater than the United States In addition to the presence of about 300 million workers in the Forex sector, and it isَ considered one of the most important Forex that isَ produced, and which isَ cultivated on large areas.
worldwide Economy and Forex in Five Charts
The worldwide economy began the year 2018 with hopefulness,upheld by the improvement saw in mechanical and business movement at the world level until the finisَh of 2019.With the decrease in financial backer trust in the possibilities of the worldwide economy, the accomplisَhed recuperation additionally declined.
Forex from the State Department's Bureau of Economic and Trade Affairs says:
'We, at the State Department's Bureau of Economic and Trade Affairs, are currently more dedicated than any other time in recent memory to empowering development and getting our future! Our authority, FX, has requested the Assisَtant Secretary from State for Economic and Trade Affairs, how we can add to returning America to the pre-Covid-19 thriving. The appropriate response: With the worldwide financial action and recuperation methodology.'
Forex The United States has driven the worldwide battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, allotting more than $12 billion to worldwide well being security drives; creating antibodies, medicines, and diagnostics for COVID-19; giving philanthropic guide; And plan for crisَes.
As a worldwide forerunner in advancement, the United States isَ likewisَe very much situated to spike a financial recuperation. The World Intellectual Property Organization, in its Global Innovation Index 2020, positioned the United States among the main three imaginative economies.
US advancement, alongside US government support, has assumed a vital part in the improvement of two creation competitor Covid-19 immunizations that have all the earmarks of being profoundly viable in forestalling disَease during clinical preliminaries.
Under the Global Economic Activity and Recovery (GEAR) technique, choices on financial recuperation will be founded on proof based investigation of the harm brought about by the pandemic. The United States will work with industry and global accomplices to execute measures, for example, well being screening, clinical testing, and social removing at movement centers, air terminals, and on airplane.
The Forex additionally uncovered the risَks of over-dependence on specific nations to give basic supplies, like clinical or interchanges gear, US authorities say. Strikingly, the "Worldwide Economic Activity and Recovery" (GEAR) methodology upholds current US endeavors, like the spotless lattice, and US admonitions that accomplice Forex can't depend on inconsisَtent 5G specialisَt organizations like Huawei, which presents security hazards. huge.
Through the Forex Deal Team, the US government organizes the endeavors of 14 US offices to help US organizations' business and speculations abroad to propel nations' financial and improvement objectives.
differentiate worldwide inventory chains by focus on speculation at home and in different nations law :
order isَ regarded and where foundations are responsible to residents and purchasers," State authorities say.
We disَcuss consisَtently with our partners and accomplices to talk about these basic matters and guarantee that we are cooperating to handle the worldwide Forex store network."
Thisَ fundamental Forex has additionally become a wide field as it contributes decidedly to uniting individuals, diminisَhing disَtances and working with all monetary and business activities,
in an extremely brief time frame contrasted with the old customary strategies that are as of now not legitimate completely for our time. Hence, monetary globalization has accomplisَhed its viable objectives, with the goal that the genuine system would now be able to be set for the significance of current correspondence advances in reinforcing the ties of worldwide disَcretionary relations.
In thisَ specific circumstance :
it isَ feasible to decide the advantages and disَadvantages of the utilization's and practices of these advancements and the degree of their effect on worldwide relations between nations. In spite of its benefits to pass on data precisَely and rapidly, and to speak with different portions and classes of residents using web-based media stages, Forex mail and the formation of sites and online journals, the negatives, completely, have become an immediate danger to individual information and uncover numerous mysteries of interest The sacredness of the individual and hisَ relations inside the family or with society.
Notwithstanding the risَk of utilizing these methods adversely, most nations of the world are as yet wagering on the computerized economy and the information and innovation local area as an essential objective to connect the advanced separation and foster the data framework.
In thisَ specific circumstance, the Britisَh and US Foreign Minisَtries rushed to embrace the online media Forex, particularly Facebook and Twitter, to draw nearer to the resident's voice, speak with him, pay attention to hisَ perspectives and ideas, and circle back to hisَ remarks.
The job of these Forex has likewisَe been enacted in different strategic misَsions fully intent on controlling the media transmisَsion and data framework from a good ways, to work on regulatory methodology electronically and improve the situation with business and monetary relations among the nations of the world. The Forex addresses present day data and correspondence, a gift and a revile simultaneously, because of the advantages and gains it abandons, or some of the time the damages and harms that influence the exisَtence of the individual or the political and financial interests of nations.


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It's Ada Lovelace Day! 24th March has been selected by Suw Charman-Anderson as an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. This is my contribution.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace, was the daughter of Lord Byron of poetry fame. A mathematician, she's widely regarded as the world's first computer programmer.
"Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised," says Charman-Anderson. "We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines."
For my contribution, I decided to interview Australian geek girl Pia Waugh, and this is the result — the first time I've actually edited video with my own hands. Well, with a computer. Enjoy. It runs for just under nine minutes.
If the embedded video player (above) doesn't work, try over at Viddler.
This is is also my first attempt at building a workflow for recording video interviews. There may more in the future.


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One of the earliest take aways from the global financial crisis was the importance of access to information for effectively functioning financial markets. And, in that regard, credit ratings can serve an incredibly useful role in global and domestic financial markets—in theory.
In practice, credit ratings have inadvertently contributed to financial instability—in financial markets during the recent global crisis and more recently with regard to sovereign debt. To be fair, the problem does not lie entirely with the ratings themselves, but with overreliance on ratings by both borrowers and creditors.
In one of the background papers for the Fall 2010 Global Financial Stability Report that I prepared with IMF colleagues, we recommend that regulators should reduce their reliance on credit ratings. Markets need to end their addiction to credit ratings.
Credit ratings should be seen as one of several tools to measure credit risk, and not as the sole and dominant one. Instead, credit ratings, which measure the relative risk that an entity such as a government or a company will fail to meet its financial commitments, have become hardwired into various rules, regulations and triggers. Central banks often use ratings in their collateral acceptability rules. The Basel II standardized approach to determining bank capital requirements relies heavily on ratings. And, many institutional investors—pension funds, insurance companies, retirement funds, and the like—have rules that trigger the sale of securities when they are downgraded below certain levels.
Yet, when investors, regulators and borrowers rely on credit ratings too mechanically, changes in ratings, particularly abrupt downgrades, can lead to deleterious selloffs of securities. Not only does this create the potential for broader spillovers, but the resulting declines in the prices of securities trigger further sell-offs. In other words, those notorious domino effects!
Actions by ratings agencies to "smooth out" or make changes in ratings less abrupt—for example, through a warnings ahead of a possible downgrade—may be intended to minimize disruptions. However, they we find that much of the market reaction occurs when these warnings are released rather than when the actual rating changes.
And, as events of the past year or so have highlighted, sovereign ratings could have taken better account of debt composition and contingent liabilities. However, in some cases—Greece for example—the rating agencies did not have access to all the information they needed. In that regard, the IMF encourages countries to prepare and make publicly available a fiscal risk statement.
Still, the real solution lies in reducing the reliance on credit ratings as much as possible. This should start with removing the mechanistic use of ratings in rules and regulations, which some countries are already beginning to do. Investors must be weaned off credit ratings too. Policymakers should persuade the larger ones, at least, to perform their own risk assessments as part of deciding what to buy or sell.
Realistically, of course, not all investors have the same 'in house' capacity for risk assessment. Smaller and less sophisticated institutions will have to continue to rely heavily on third-party ratings. So, the process of reducing reliance on ratings should differentiate according to the size and sophistication of institutions, and the instruments being rated. Also, agencies—the main ones being Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch—whose ratings continue to play key regulatory roles (as in the Basel II standardized approach) should be subjected to increased oversight. (Both of these approaches were included in the recently signed U.S. financial sector reform legislation.)
Beyond this, our paper recommends that policymakers should also continue to push rating agencies to improve their procedures, including those related to transparency and governance. This will provide more assurance to those that use ratings that they are fairly constructed. Credit rating agencies aggregate information about the credit quality of various types of borrowers and their financial obligations. The ratings they issue allow many of those borrowers to access global and domestic markets they would not otherwise have, enabling them to attract investment funds. As a result, ratings add liquidity to markets that would otherwise be highly illiquid.
Wringing out the volatility, without drying up the liquidity, is the goal of any effort to reform the credit ratings agencies that issue them.


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Becoming Realer: Identity, Craft and the MFA is a column that explores issues of poetry, theory and writing craft in relation to the personal experiences of Saint Mary's College of California Creative Writing MFA candidate and LR staff writer, Kelsay Myers.
Earlier this month, Beijing-born storyteller and essayist Yiyun Li came to Saint Mary's for a craft talk and reading. One of the things she said is that we write to be in dialogue with writers whom we admire. Li's words reminded me of something similar I heard in high school from a screenwriter, who said writers write because they love actors. I couldn't agree more.
Before our summer hiatus, I wrote about feeling like I was finally a part of the Asian American movement in San Francisco after meeting Flo and Nellie Wong at an art exhibition last spring. After such a grandiose rush of historical connection, my thoughts have turned inward once again, mainly to ideas about persona and "the dialogical self."
One of the first books of poetry recommended to me was Open House by Beth Ann Fennelly. In her long poem, "From L'hotel Terminus Notebooks," her speaker has an internal argument with a man who represents the critic's voice. The voice is antagonistic and imaginary, yet also a part of herself. Psychologist Hubert Hermans considers this, the relationship between all the disparate voices in our minds, to be "the dialogical self." The self in dialogue.
Continue reading "Becoming Realer: A Conversation with the Surreal"


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As coronavirus infections hit Ukraine, a single shift for Dr. Oleksandr Molchanov now stretches to 42 hours — 24 of them in Kakhovka's hospital, followed by another 18 hours spent visiting tents set up to care for 120 COVID-19 patients.
While vaccination rates in Eastern Europe have generally lagged, Ukraine has one of the lowest in the region. But because of its underfunded and struggling health care system, the situation has turned dire nearly two years since the virus swept into Europe.
The country is setting records almost every day for infections and deaths, most recently on Tuesday, when 838 deaths were reported.
"We are extinguishing the fire again. We are working as at the front, but our strength and capabilities are limited," said Molchanov, who works at the hospital in the city in southern Ukraine on the Dnieper River. "We are working to the limit."
After his grueling shift, the 32-year-old doctor goes home to sleep and recover for two days. The next one may be even more challenging.
"The situation is only getting worse," Molchanov said. "Hospital beds are running out, there are more and more serious patients, and there is a sore lack of doctors and medical personnel."
The tents beside Kakhovka's hospital have 120 beds, and 87 of them are occupied, with more patients arriving every day. But Molchanov is one of only three doctors to care for them.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's administration inherited a health care system that was undermined by reforms launched by his predecessor that closed many small-town hospitals.
In those communities, people have to seek care in large cities. If the problem is severe enough that a patient needs an ambulance, the wait can be as long as eight hours.
"They are bringing patients in extremely difficult condition, with a protracted form" of COVID-19, said Dr. Anatoliy Galachenko, who also works at the tent hospital. "The main reason is the remoteness of settlements and the impossibility of providing assistance at the primary stages of the disease."
Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who leads the opposition Batkivshchyna party, said she has traveled to many hospitals in Ukraine and found shortages everywhere.
"The mortality from COVID that is now recorded in Ukraine, is not just mortality; it is the killing of people by this government, which does not have oxygen, antiviral drugs, beds and normally paid medical personnel," she said in parliament.
"There are no free beds in the country anymore — a new patient immediately comes to the bed of a discharged person," Tymoshenko added.
Four coronavirus vaccines are available in Ukraine — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Sinovac — but only 21% of its 41 million people are fully vaccinated. The Ministry of Health reported that 96% of patients with severe COVID-19 weren't vaccinated.
Zelenskyy has promised every fully vaccinated Ukrainian a payment of 1,000 hryvnia ($38), about 5% of the average monthly wage, but widespread hesitancy persists.
Doctors say the vaccines are highly effective at preventing deaths and hospitalizations, and when infections in vaccinated people do occur, they usually are mild.
Oleksandr Kymanov, who refused to get vaccinated, ended up getting infected and was brought to the tent hospital in Kakhovka from the town of Rozdolne, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away.
Connected to supplemental oxygen, he cited various falsehoods about the vaccine, saying it was "useless" and that "people still get infected and get sick."
Doctors complain that vaccine falsehoods about containing microchips or that they cause infertility and disease is driving the COVID-19 surge.
"People believe in the most absurd rumors about chips, infertility and the dangers of vaccines, elderly people from risk groups massively refuse to be vaccinated, and this is very harmful and increases the burden on doctors," Molchanov said. "People trust their neighbors more than doctors."
The government has required teachers, doctors, government employees and other groups of workers to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 1. It also has also begun to require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test results for travel on planes, trains and long-distance buses.
The regulations have spawned a black market for fake vaccination documents, which sell for the equivalent of $100-$300. A phony government digital app for smartphones is reportedly available, complete with fake certificates installed.
"COVID cannot be fooled with a fake certificate, but many Ukrainians learn about it only in intensive care," Molchanov said.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs said 1,200 groups have been sent throughout Ukraine to verify the authenticity of medical documents. Police already have identified several clandestine printers who were creating fake certificates.
Doctors say the fake certificates make their job harder.
"We are working to the limit, but we are tired of fighting not only with disease, but also with stupidity," Molchanov said.