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Conservatives Intensify "Not As Advertised" Video Campaign Against Trudeau
The Conservatives have released a slew of new "Not As Advertised" video ads attacking Justin Trudeau, most of which focus on the Prime Minister's role in the SNC Lavalin scandal, and the growing federal deficit.
The Conservatives lead in ad spending this week, spending close to $18,000.
Meanwhile the Liberals have spent nearly $10,000 over the same time period. Their newest ad campaign is a series of french language simple sign up ads asking voters to pledge to vote Liberal.
The NDP have drastically increased their Facebook advertising budget, spending nearly $7000 over the past 7 days. They continue to run a diverse campaign of issue-based simple sign up ads and fundraising ads.
Read on below to see all of the latest ads from the major parties!
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservatives have been busy this past week, releasing several new video ads in their "Not As Advertised" campaign against Prime Minister Trudeau.
Many of the ads are short (6-10 seconds) and jarring, featuring brief sound bites that portray Trudeau as an unethical PM who has failed to keep his promises.
In addition to these new video ads, the Conservatives have also launched a simple sign up ad campaign promoting their plan to make maternity benefits tax free.
They also ran a number of riding-specific ads asking constituents to urge their Liberal MP's to vote in favour of a parliamentary investigation into the SNC Lavalin scandal.
You can view the Conservative Party of Canada's Facebook ad library here.
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberals are testing out a variety of french language simple sign up ads this week. They all feature the same ad copy, with different images.
They are likely A/B testing to determine which images resonate best with their target audience.
The Liberal party has also re-launched their simple sign up campaign designed to survey voter motivation.
The ads feature very similar images, with different ad copy related to a variety of issues, from fighting poverty to fighting climate change.
These ads allow the Liberals to assess which issues are more engaging for voters, which can help direct their future messaging.
You can view the entire Liberal Party of Canada ad library here.
New Democratic Party of Canada
The most notable change in the NDP's Facebook advertising lately has been their drastically increased budget. Almost half of their total spending since June occurred in the past week.
They briefly ran a new petition ad (from August 14-16) targeting Justin Trudeau's ethics violation in relation to the SNC Lavalin scandal.
Apart from that new petition ad, the NDP continue to run the same issue-based sign up ads focused on lower cellular fees, affordable housing, universal pharmacare and climate change.
You can view the NDP Facebook ad library here.
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*You can see Justin Trudeau's ads here. You can see Andrew Scheer's ads here. You can see Jagmeet Singh's ads here.


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Not even low interest rates are enticing consumers to borrow
In developed countries around the world, consumers have become noticeably less interested in spending – and much more intent on saving – than they were before the Great Recession.
Consumers are saving a lot more money than they did before the Great Recession, and it is changing the world of finance in significant ways.
Finance officials hoping to stimulate developed economies with spending are frustrated, as nothing they do tempts consumers out of a savings-first mindset, Reuters reported.
"I do think we should entertain (the idea) that this is a substantial change in household behavior and that means a much less leveraged consumer than in the past," Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Reuters.
On the one hand, the increased awareness of markets and savings on the part of homeowners is encouraging, because the reckless borrowing that inflated housing prices in the mid-2000s helped cause the economic downturn. But on the other hand, the consumer mood has now shifted so far back that financial institutions worry their faith in the promise of economic growth has been permanently stunted, Mark Trumbull wrote for The Christian Science Monitor.
"Many were traumatized by the financial crisis of 2008 and are waiting for the other shoe to drop. They fear that something is bound to blow up in the credit markets, the way Lehman [Brothers] did, leading to a global financial contagion," economist Ed Yardeni, who runs a New York area investment strategy firm, wrote in a note e-mailed to clients. "The risk is that we talk ourselves into a recession."
The Great Recession seems to have permanently altered consumer spending habits, and now homeowners are intent on paying off their mortgages instead of borrowing against them. Interest rates for a typical 30-year home mortgage have slipped to a three-year low because of economic worry, mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac announced Thursday. The rate currently sits at 3.58 percent, and dropping. This is not the expected path of mortgage rates in a growing economy and suggests that consumers are acting independent of the actual economic benchmarks, Reuters reported.
Financial institutions the world over are throwing everything they have at their sluggish economies, even experimenting with previously unheard-of negative interest rates. The International Monetary Fund is pushing its standard strategy: urge governments to spend more when consumers won't. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates just once since the Recession's end, but the response was so cautious that future raises are on hold.
Consumers remain intent on trying to live within their means and pay off debts, and financial officials are increasingly recognizing that they need new policies to manage economies in which homeowners behave differently.
"You can't create demand from thin air," a top policymaker from Japan, who is involved in this week's Group of 20 negotiations in Washington, told Reuters. "What's needed is to create an environment in which companies and households feel confident to spend."
This report includes materials from Reuters.

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My dog Baxter doesn't concern himself with pandemics. He's oblivious to the changing landscape of masks, vaccines, stimulus checks, or social distancing.
In fact, I'm pretty sure if he was able to talk, he'd tell us the last year has been the best year ever.
Baxter is a 7 year-old German Shepherd/Yellow Lab mix. When we adopted him, his golden fur was baby soft and he had one ear that stood straight up and another ear that stuck out to the side, making him look like he was questioning everything around him.
Starting in March, my husband, myself, and our two teenagers living at home have been, well, home more. School moved to a remote format. My high schooler and middle schooler attend school from our couch or from our dining room table. I work from home most days. My husband's teaching job has vacillated between hybrid and remote. All our evening obligations, the ones that kept us running, forcing us to eat sandwiches in the car, water or coffee in thermal cups with tightly fitting lids so they didn't spill on the interior of our vehicle—they all vanished. Sometimes we go days without seeing humans outside our little family unit.
On the flipside, Baxter went from his routine of welcoming us back from our busy lives, tail wagging, tongue lolling — with equal excitement whether we'd been gone for hours or minutes — to having us barely leave the house at all.
I wonder what Baxter thought about this. I wondered if at first he was annoyed, that we were suddenly around all the time: causing a commotion when he was used to at least 6 hours a day of uninterrupted quiet, allowing him to sleep on the couch, or bark with reckless abandon to scare away the squirrels who visited our garden. Now, we were helping ourselves to his couch real estate, and his ferocious barks were generally frowned upon. They interrupted our Zoom calls, after all.
If we annoyed him, he didn't let on. In fact, overall, I'd say Baxter has had a pretty good year. Baxter went on a 10-day camping trip with our family over the summer. He surprised us (and himself) by learning he is a fantastic swimmer. We discovered this when he saw our kids swimming in Lake Michigan. He took it upon himself to "rescue" them, not seeming to give it a moment's thought that he'd never jumped in a lake before.
If I were to characterize Baxter's place in the family before the pandemic, I'd describe him as "beloved family dog." He's a classic good boy. Now, however? I'd describe him as "essential." Stroking his velvety ears when he rests his head on your lap is 100% effective in lowering stress levels. Watching my daughter do yoga in the living room over Zoom while her dog tries to lick her face is guaranteed to get a few smiles out of everyone. Baxter's intense eagerness to perform all the tricks he knows for a tiny dog treat is something that makes me laugh every time. Asking him to simply "sit" gets you a sit-shake-jump-roll over combo. A true overachiever.
In these early days of 2021, I'm still recovering from this past year. We all are. It's been a year of change, loss, and disappointment, with an unhealthy dose of fear thrown in. But my dog, my goofy dog with ears that stick out in all directions depending on his mood, has been the purest, most uncomplicated thing in my life. He looks up at me with absolute love in his deep brown eyes as I read a few chapters before I drift off to sleep at night. He's there wagging his tail the first thing when I wake up. He pulls me along at the end of his leash and gets me outside, moving forward, especially on the days I really don't want to.
How do I thank him for all he's done to keep our family going when everything else feels like it's been standing still? I'd like to give him the world, when all he really wants is a belly rub, a treat, and a "good boy."
Originally published Jan. 11, 2021 at MyHuntleyNews.


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Business Development Manager full-time
The Business Development Manager, Fleet Outsourcing Services (BDM) is responsible for prospecting and developing new business opportunities for Canada Cartage's fleet outsourcing division. Working with an established database of prospects, the BDM will develop and execute a business plan to generate first appointments and then progress qualified opportunities through the needs assessment, proposal, contract negotiation, and on-boarding stages of the sale.
The BDM is supported by:
Canada Cartage's industry-leading brand recognition in fleet outsourcing services;
sales support from experienced, senior-level business development professionals who will assist in opportunities;
Teleprospecting Partner - Xerox Business Services
progressive marketing campaigns to increase awareness of the fleet outsourcing model;
a recently launched CRM platform; and,
on-boarding and new business implementation teams who will ensure the success of new customer start-ups.
Territory Development and Action Plans
Prospecting for New Opportunities for Canada Cartage Fleet Outsourcing Services
Leverage Marketing Campaigns and Teleprospecting Partner (Xerox Business Services)
Internal Collaboration With Operations, Pricing, Solutions, Legal and Business Implementation Teams
Support Rate Increases & Account Management with Account Base
Collaborate With Other Specialized Sales Teams
Desired Experience and Skills:
7 – 10 years' of marketing or business development experience in the transportation or business services outsourcing industries with progressive, market-leading organizations
Experience in selling complex business solutions to senior level decision makers
Experience with the project management of selling complex solutions both internally and externally


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Our Union – UFCW Canada Local 248P
The long and vibrant history of UFCW Canada Local 248P first began in 1941 with the unionization of Intercontinental Packers. At the time, the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) were engaged in an ambitious organizing program across Canada. With the establishment of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, the UPWA organized more than 3,200 new members in Canada in less than two years. Intercontinental Packers opened in 1940 and was quickly organized and certified as Local 248.
Local 248 members and elected representatives quickly began participating in the Saskatchewan Provincial Council of the UPWA. The council then consisted of other UPWA locals in the province, including Locals 234 at Burns in Prince Albert, Local 313 at Palm Dairies in Saskatoon and Local 342 at Robin Hood in Saskatoon. Representing Local 248 on the council was Financial Secretary George O'Keefe. Chief among the council's achievements was further organizing victories across Saskatchewan during the 1940s and 1950s, including Canada Packers and the Dairy Pool chain. The council also pressed the Saskatchewan government to enact a 40 hour, 5 day work week and an increase in the minimum wage. In this regard, Local 248 was already fighting for the betterment of all workers across Saskatchewan.
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"When the makeup artist brushed an eyebrow on me, I almost stood up and kissed her."
— Sportscaster Hannah Stormon returning to the air, three weeks after a freak accident in which a propane grill blew up in her face, leaving second-degree burns and singeing her eyebrows, lashes and hair. She looked perfectly fine while broadcasting the Rose Bowl, but she explained on abcnews.com that it took a lot of work: "I spent an hour in hair and makeup this morning."See video (warning: grisly photos). . .
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Markets Media Group and GlobalTrading are pleased to present the 2020 Markets Choice: Women in Finance Asia Event.
This year's event was held virtually on Thursday, September 24.
Although we were disappointed to not be able to celebrate in person we are equally excited to be able to host a much wider audience. We are very proud to have such a remarkable list of nominations amid challenging market conditions, and we are grateful for the industry support that shows how important this initiative is for the financial community.
The WIFAA program recognizes the most talented and accomplished women in multiple categories across the business of finance. WIFAA nominees may come from buy-side and sell- side trading desks, institutional investors, wealth managers, securities exchanges, technology providers, corporate finance, venture capital firms, fintech start-ups — really any area within the financial sector.
Nominees are first put forth by readers of GlobalTrading Journal and MarketsMedia.com, and shortlists and winners are determined by the editorial staffs of the two platforms, in conjunction with the WIFAA Advisory Board. As with our six- year-old Markets Choice Awards franchise, our methodology in selecting nominees and then winners for WIFAA is simple yet thorough, and keeps the focus on the important opinions: those of market participants, not ours. Categories awarded in previous years have included Excellence in Leadership, Fixed Income Trader of the Year, Rising Star, Trailblazer, Disruptor of the Year, CEO of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement.
Geraldine Buckingham, Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chair and Head of Asia Pacific and a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee. She is responsible for all business activities in the region, which includes Greater China, Japan, Australasia, Southeast Asia, India and Korea. Dr. Buckingham previously served as BlackRock's Global Head of Corporate Strategy. She was named to Fortune Magazine and Crain's New York Business' "40 Under 40" lists for 2017.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Dr. Buckingham was a partner with McKinsey & Company's financial services practice based in New York. She worked primarily with large global asset managers with additional experience in wealth management and private equity, as well as functional expertise in strategy and organization.
Dr. Buckingham received the Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University, where she earned a Master of Philosophy degree in Comparative Social Policy. She earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degrees from Monash University.
|Rising Star
Liesbeth Baudewyn, Systematic Trader, Citadel
|Rising Star
Carrie Cheng, Trader, BNP Paribas
|Rising Star
LeiLei Qu, Associate, JPMorgan Asset Management
|Best in Exchanges
Joelle Yap, Director - Client Development and Sales, CME Group
|Best in Custody
Angely Yip, Head of Sales and Relationship Management, North Asia, BNP Paribas Securities Services
|Best in Operations
Edna Chan, Director, Asia Pac Head of Cash Equities Middle Office, Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd
|Best in Fintech
Rebecca Sin, Head of Equities, Asia, Tradeweb
|Excellence in Trading Platforms
Janice Lau, Executive Director, ET, Instinet
|Excellence in Buy-Side Trading
Cheryl Chan, Equity Trader, Blackrock
|Excellence in Sell-Side Trading
Mary-Anne Peril, Head of Execution Services Australia, Virtu Financial
|Best in Hedge Funds
Elizabeth Lo, Chief Operating Officer, TX Capital
Winnie Khattar, Head of Market Structure, BofA Securities
|Crystal Ladder
Susan Chan, Head of Asia, and Head of ETFs & Index Investing and Trading and Liquidity Services Asia-Pacific, BlackRock
|Individual Achievement
Erica Poon Werkun, Head of Securities Research Asia Pacific, Credit Suisse
|Excellence in Leadership
Terecina Kwong, Chief Operating Officer, HSBC China, HSBC
|CEO of the Year
Susan Soh, Singapore CEO and Co-Head of Asia Pacific, Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Limited
|Lifetime Achievement
Cecilia Chan, CIO Fixed Income, Asia Pacific, HSBC Asset Management
CEO of the Year Azila Abdul Aziz, Kenanga Futures
Excellence in Leadership Nellie Dagdag, DTCC
Individual Achievement Lauren Degney, Citi
Crystal Ladder Jessica Morrison, Morgan Stanley
Trailblazer Carrie Cheung, BNP Paribas
Excellence in Sell-Side Trading Josephine Kim, BAML
Excellence in Buy-Side Trading Christine To, T Rowe Price
Best in Trading Platforms Shilesh Shekhawat, Virtu Financial
Excellence in Fintech Lisa O'Connor, SWIFT
Excellence in Asset Management Belinda Boa, BlackRock
Rising Stars
Nicola McGreal, State Street Global Advisors
Sandy Ngai, AllianceBernstein
Vivian Peng, JP Morgan Asset Management
Lily Xiong, BlackRock
Ms Azila Abdul Aziz, is Chief Executive Officer / Executive Director & Head of Listed Derivatives at Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, a Listed Derivatives Brokerage Company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Azila has been with company for more than 18 years and from the year 2012, she serves as the CEO. An accomplished Executive equipped with leadership, management and entrepreneurship & intraprenuership capabilities. Azila currently leads the overall running of the Listed Derivatives Broking Company that includes both in-bound & out-bound businesses overseeing the entire Front Office Sales to Back Office Operations. She sits on the Board of Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd as an Executive Director, an appointed member of Senior Management Team for the Group Executive Committee and a member of several other committees within the Kenanga Group. Prior to joining Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, Azila held the position of Institutional Sales at RHB Securities Sdn Bhd from 1996 - 2000. She was involved in sales role for both regional equities and futures markets with clientele base includes international institutions, banks, global hedge funds, domestic institutions, state funds and various asset management companies.
Azila holds a Bachelor's Degree (Hons) in Finance and a Diploma in Investment Analysis from Malaysia's MARA University of Technology (UiTM). In addition to her present role in the company, Azila has diverse industrial participation where she has been appointed for various roles: President of Malaysia Futures Brokers' Association (MFBA), Member on the FTSE Russell Bursa Malaysia Index Advisory Committee, Member of the Market Participants Committee (MPC), Principal Representative of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Advisory Group, Committee member of the task force for Professional Certificate Investment and Finance (PCIF) program developed by PNB Investment Institute Sdn Bhd (PNBI/I) and an Associate Member of Palm Oil Refiners' Association of Malaysia (PORAM).
Managing Director, Head of iShares, Asia Pacific
Susan Chan, Managing Director, is the Head of iShares and Index Investing Asia
Pacific. She is a member of the BlackRock Asia-Pacific Executive Committee and the
BlackRock Global Operating Committee. Ms. Chan joined BlackRock in July 2013 as
head of Asia Pacific iShares Capital Markets and Products.
Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG, Hong
Kong where she was Head of Equity Structuring, Strategic Equity Transactions and
DBx Asia Pacific. Before Deutsche Bank, she was Managing Director at Barclays
Capital Asia Limited where she held various positions in equity derivatives with the
most recent as Head of Equity and Funds Structured, Asia Pacific. She was also a
member of the Global EFS Executive Committee, the Asia Pacific Structuring
Executive Committee, Founder and Executive Sponsor for the Women's Internal
Network, Asia Pacific and a Board Member of Barclays Capital Hong Kong Limited.
Ms Chan is a graduate of Boston University, Boston, MA.
Ms. Carrie Cheung is currently Head of Electronic Trading, Equity Cash Asia Pacific, Global Markets, BNP Paribas. Carrie is leading the development of BNP Paribas algorithm, DMA and program trading business.
Carrie joined BNP Paribas in 2013 from J.P. Morgan where she was responsible for the sales and marketing of the prime DMA platform. Prior to that, she has worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Japan for 11 years. In her last capacity as Head of Electronic Trading, Carrie was instrumental in building out the equity trading platform and electronic business in the region.
Carrie comes with a diversify culture, worked in multiple locations in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.
She is the first female and foreigner co-chair of FPL(FIX Protocol Limited) Japan, which is one of the leading industrial organization for finance, particular in electronic trading.
Carrie majored in computer science and holds a Bachelor's degree from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Andrea Fletcher is the Chief Operating Officer for the APAC region
Andrea has been based in London, Sydney and Hong Kong and has worked extensively with the US, Europe and across Asia. She joined the Investment Banking industry in London in 1994 as a graduate and moved into European Equity Sales before re-locating to Sydney in an Equity Sales role in 1998. Andrea joined Citi in 1999 and worked on the Australian Equity Sales desk in Sydney from 1999 until 2007 before taking on the role to run the Australian Markets Client Management team. In 2010 she moved to the Asia region to head the Markets Client Management team for Pan Asia. In 2015 she took on a newly created role as the Global Head of Client Strategy for Equities and Prime Finance spearheading the Equities Sales strategy to help drive Citi's global growth strategy in Equities. In March 2020 Andrea moved to a cross franchise role by taking on another newly created role as Chief Operating Officer for the APAC region as part of which Andrea will help drive Citi's efforts to grow the regional franchise.
Throughout her career Andrea has been a keen supporter of diversity in the workplace and involved in mentoring and leadership programmes. Andrea was the co-chair of the Citi Women's Network in Sydney in 2009 and a foundation member of "Females in the Finance Industry' – fundraising in Sydney. Andrea helped to establish the Citi Women's network in Hong Kong in 2014 where she was co-chair from 2014 – 2015 and remains a key supporter of that group.
Andrea received a BA in French and Business from the University of Loughborough and has two daughters aged 15 and 13 years.
Nasrine Ghozali re-joined Oasis as Chief Risk Officer & Member of the Strategies Group in February 2016 and is based in Hong Kong. She was previously a Convertible Bonds Strategist and Equity Derivatives Trader for Oasis between January 2006 and March 2010. Prior to re-joining Oasis, Ms. Ghozali co-founded Silver Tree, an Asia-focused event driven hedge fund, in June 2010, and served as Principal Portfolio Manager and Responsible Officer until January 2016. Prior to joining Oasis, she was Co-Head of Convertible Bond Arbitrage at Natexis Arbitrage, Group Banques Populaires in Paris from August 2001 to December 2005. Before that, she was a Convertible Bond Trader with BNP Paribas Arbitrage in Paris between August 2000 and August 2001. Ms. Ghozali received a Master of International Finance & Economics, a Master of Economics majoring in Bank Finance Insurance, and a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Applied Economics from University Paris IX-Dauphine. Ms. Ghozali co-founded the Board Diversity Hong Kong Investors' Initiative, which aims to improve gender diversity on boards of Hong Kong-listed companies, and she is a member of the steering committee of the 30% Club Hong Kong Chapter and of the investor group of the 30% Club Japan Chapter.
Joel Hurewitz is Managing Director, Head of Sales & Global Head of Broker Dealer Strategy and Product Development for Instinet. He is responsible for sales of the group to buy and sell side clients across the Asia Pacific Region as well as the broker dealer strategy globally. Joel joined Instinet in 2008 to run broker dealer sales, but in the course of his 8 years with the firm has held a number of positions including Head of Product Strategy and Head of Electronic Trading.
With over 20 years equities experience in Asia, Mr. Hurewitz has been an active member, pioneer, and supporter of FIX Trading Community since the early days of electronic trading in Asia.
Prior to joining Instinet, Joel held roles within Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and CLSA where he built electronic businesses, products, and teams.
Josephine J Kim currently runs Equity Execution Sales team in Asia Pacific.
She joined Bank of America in July 2010 and sent to Singapore with a mandate to grow electronic trading business in South Asia and set up the operation in Singapore. Under her leadership, just after 2 years, the firm ranked from nowhere to #1 in Execution consulting and sales by one of the major surveys.
Starting from late 2016, she was relocated back from Singapore to Hong Kong to head up Electronic Trading Sales team for Asia Pacific region. In 2019, she then took an expanded role to head Asia Execution Sales team being responsible for High touch, Program and Electronic Execution Sales effort. In addition to the day to day senior management engagement, Josephine is spending significant time with the head traders and quant teams around execution consulting, TCA analysis, quant studies and market structure discussion. She also runs the regional BofAML client events and trading conferences throughout Asia to promote BofA's thought leadership. Josephine also writes industry opinion, interviews with the industry media and magazines and she has been an active speaker at the external conferences.
Her passion is also on the D&I side where Josephine sits in Asia D&I Council Committee and Co-chair APAC Global Markets Women's Leadership Council(WLC) at Bank of America. Externally, she sits on Women in Finance Asia advisory board where she actively promotes and nurtures top female talents for the industry. She won the Excellence in Sell-Side Trading Award at the inaugural Women in Finance Asia Awards in 2019. She also has her greatest passion on charity work where she actually went through 3 rounds of amateur boxing match at the White Collar Boxing and won a trophy for charity.
She has Economics undergradugate degree from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and a Master degree in Finance & Accounting at CASS Business School, London, UK
Nicole Kim is Vice President, leading sales for Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services(AES) team in ASEAN. Based in Singapore, Nicole has over 10 years of experience in APAC equities markets and is currently responsible for algorithmic trading sales in cash equities, multi-asset and quantitative trading products at Credit Suisse's ASEAN region. Previously, Nicole has worked as a high touch sales trader in Korea for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Nicole holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Jacqueline Loh PhD, leads the trading team at AIA Investment Management. In her previous role as Head of Trading- Asia at Schroders Management Investment Singapore, she was a proponent of the use of electronic trading across all asset classes to increase efficiency and transparency.
Her interests include derivatives, quantitative analytics of market trends, big data and artificial intelligence.
Jacqueline graduated with a BSc Immunology, London and MBA Finance from Cass Business School, London.
In June 2020, Jessica joined global financial technology firm, Virtu Financial APAC, currently under transition following the 2019 acquisition of ITG. Virtu uses advanced technology and transparency to deliver liquidity to the global capital markets and help clients pursue best execution in a scalable, efficient and data-driven manner.
Jessica offers an extensive background in APAC market structure, having moved to Hong Kong in 2011. She is an active participant in several industry initiatives around the development of the A Share Market Structure in China through Hong Kong Stock Connect, IOI and FIX protocols, and Electronic Trading guidelines. While running Virtu's APAC Execution Services team on a day-to-day basis, Jessica continues to track developments and publish market structure content with regards to both macro market structure such as regulation, technology and explicit costs, and their impact on the micro structure liquidity indicators such as volume, volatility and implicit costs in the region.
Prior to Virtu, Jessica held the position of Head of Execution Services Sales for Asia at the Institutional Equities Division of Morgan Stanley from 2017-2020, having originally worked in their London Compliance team from 2006-2009. Between those dates, Jessica worked for Deutsche Bank initially in an Equities Compliance role before transitioning to and establishing the APAC Market Structure and Commission Management team in Hong Kong in 2011.
Jessica holds a MA in Law from the University of Cambridge.
Vivian Peng, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Vivian Peng, specializes in systematic and quant driven trading on APAC equity trading desk at JP Morgan Asset Management. Vivian Peng joined the APAC equity trading desk at JP Morgan Asset Management in year 2016 and is responsible for automation and establish quant driven trading on JPM's Hong Kong desk. Vivian started her career working in Lehman's equity division in New York. Subsequently, she moved to Hong Kong and joined Barclays Asia where she spent five years to buildout their electronic trading business across APAC markets. She then joined JPM investment bank to work on their equities algorithmic product and electronic sales trading before moved into JPM Asset Management world. Vivian studied in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics.
Head of Asia Electronic Trading, Cash Equities, Macquarie
Stuart is Head of Asia Electronic Trading at Macquarie, based in Hong Kong. He was previously Executive Director JP Morgan in Hong Kong and Head of European Electronic Trading at RBC in LONDON. He drove the internal discussions for THOR to Europe and oversaw the build, release and distribution to clients. In that role he spent significant time in the US and Canada advising clients on European execution. He is an "A" Director of FIX Protocol Limited and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Trading. Stuart served on the AFME Securities Committee for three years and was a founding Quorum 15 Board member in Australia (2011) as well as being a long term Q15 member in London (2008). Stuart holds an undergrad from Southampton University (UK), two Masters degrees, one from Durham University (UK) and one from the London School of Economics (UK), with majors in decision sciences, information technology, innovation and technology. He holds the ACE from MIT Sloan in Innovation and Technology Management and is enrolled and will be attending the Class of 2020/2021 SEP at Stanford Graduate Business School.
Emma Quinn
Global Co-Head of Equity Trading
Emma Quinn was appointed Global Co-Head of Equity Trading in October 2014. Previously, she was Head of Asia Pacific Trading from 2011. Before that she was Head of Asia Pacific Fixed Income and Australia Equities Trading from 2010, and Head of Trading for Australia and New Zealand from 2009. Quinn joined the firm in 2001 as a senior trader. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein she worked as an equity trader at AMP Henderson Global Investors. Quinn holds a BBus in finance and law from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Committee and is currently a Director of FIX Trading Community.
Managing Director
Global Client Development
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd ("HKEX")
Mr. Kevin Rideout joined HKEX in April 2015 as Head of the Global Client
Development. He is principally responsible for the International and Mainland client
relationship management and marketing services.
Mr. Rideout joined HKEX from Citigroup Global Markets where he served 5 years as
Head of Wholesale Execution Services Asia. He was also Chief spokesman on the
implementation of Stock Connect program launched by HKEX. Prior to this he was
Global Head of Market Infrastructures based in London for 5 years where he led a
global team to harness commercial arrangements with stock exchanges, clearing
houses and depositories around the world. In addition he founded and led a new
business group for Citigroup in clearing HFT/Prop trading business.
Prior to joining Citi, Mr Rideout spent 10 years at Thomson Reuters. He held various
positions in Thomson Reuters, including Regional Manager Hong Kong, Regional
Director Japan and Korea, Managing Director Asia in Singapore and Managing
Director - Global Head of Relationship Management and Sales in London for the
Omgeo (DTCC) Division. Mr Rideout holds a Bsc (Hons) Environmental Chemistry
from the University of Hertfordshire UK.
Head of Execution Services Sales, Morgan Stanley Asia
Malavika currently leads the Execution Services Sales team for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, which encompasses Equities & Listed Derivatives. In the role, Malavika is responsible for execution consulting with clients and represents the firm on industry bodies to advocate for key market structure changes across the region. Malavika has over 12 years of experience in Equities - having held a number of roles as APAC Head of Distribution, Product Manager & COO at both Societe Generale & JP Morgan prior to joining Morgan Stanley. Malavika holds a Masters in International Affairs from Hong Kong University & a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Singapore Management University.


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(CNN) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's first major speaking engagement after leaving office won't be in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina.
Instead, she's apparently headed to Hong Kong.
According to the Hong Kong-based brokerage firm CLSA, Palin will be the keynote speaker at their 16th annual investor's conference in September. The conference of financial heavy-hitters brings together hundreds of CEOs, CIOs and fund managers from around the world. In agreeing to speak, Palin's joining some esteemed company: past speakers at the conference have included Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu.
The former governor's spokesman was not immediately available to confirm the speaking engagment, which was announced in a press release Monday by CLSA. Palin's team hasn't always been on the same page as event organizers who have billed her as as a headline speaker. Over the last four months, organizers at conservative events in Alaska and in Washington, D.C. have announced appearances by the GOP star, only to discover at the last minute she would not attend.
CLSA appeared firm in their plans Monday, telling reporters that Palin is making her first trip to Asia. "As the first female governor of Alaska and the youngest person ever elected governor of that state, Palin has broken new ground in U.S. politics and we are delighted that she will make her first visit to Asia to present at the CLSA Investors' Forum," CLSA chairman Jonathan Sloane said in a statement.
Since departing office in July, Palin has been busy writing her book, a memoir set to be published in spring 2010 by HarperCollins. Her father Chuck Heath told The (Spokane, Washington) Spokesman-Review Friday that his daughter "has been out of town for almost a month now" working on the draft.
"I don't know exactly where she is, but she's writing her book," Heath said. "She e-mails me quite frequently. She asks, 'Oh, what happened on June 13, 1978?' This is material for her book."
Heath said Palin asks him about "trivial things like maybe a basketball game, 'How many points did I score here?' 'When did we go to the Boston Marathon?' Mainly sports."


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Sweet Sour
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Since their debut album, English rockers Band of Skulls have only gone from strength to strength. Rather than occupy a single genre, they've made themselves a veritable indie powerhouse, with Sweet Sour including tracks that range from gentle acoustic tunes to rockers that demand the volume be cranked to 11. Like The Dead Weather, they switch off male and female vocals and do it well, unlike some other acts that have suffered for that duality.
The title track is the opener and a call to arms. "Sweet Sour" is a strong, ballsy entrance with metal guitar riffs but lyrics that still retain a singalong quality. There are notes of The Smashing Pumpkins in their heyday only with a bit more melody. Another rocking track, "The Devil Takes Care of His Own," has shades of The White Stripes if Meg White happened to be a more capable drummer.
On the other side of the coin, Band of Skulls hold their own when the bombast is stripped back. "Lay My Head Down" is surprisingly vulnerable, as is the slow-burning "Navigate," which builds to crashing cymbals and intricate guitar only to quiet down again.
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Gangsheng Shi (far left) defeated Jianing Gan Saturday morning to become the second US-certified professional in the AGA-TYGEMGO Pro Finals that concluded today in Black Mountain, NC. Shi and Andy Liu won professional certification and $1,500 each in prize money.
"You both played beautifully and really earned this honor," American Go Association President Allan Abramson (second from left) said at a special welcoming ceremony Saturday afternoon with tournament organizer Myungwan Kim 9P (second from right) and TD Jeff Shaevel (center). Kim outlined the rights and responsibilities of a professional go player to the newly-minted professionals as they sipped organic green tea from US-made cups. "You're eligible to play in major Korean tournaments as well as other tournaments where US pros are invited," Kim said. He also discussed the "high expectations" of professional go players, noting that "You are not individual go players any longer, you are now representatives of the AGA and the US go community." The two nodded solemnly, looking a bit overwhelmed.
"It sounds very exciting," Liu said, "the KBA has been so very generous to us all." Added Shi, "I'm very happy for the opportunity to play and I hope that our success will influence more people to play go." TD Jeff Shaevel agreed, saying that "A lot of people, including right here at the Congress, are looking up to you now. It might seem like the same as a few days ago, but everything's changed now."
Here's the final set of results from the AGA-TYGEMGO Pro Finals, including all standings and prizes. For latest standings and game records, click here and scroll down to Results.
Promotional League:
7A (Game 2): GANSHENG SHI (W, PRO), Jianing Gan (B, Seed)
Exhibition League:
Game 1: Curtis Tang (W), CALVIN SUN (B)
Game 2: SOOIL KIM (B), Matthew Burrall (W)
Game 3: YUAN ZHOU (B), Edward Kim (W)
Game 4: BILL LIN (B), Andrew Lu (W)
Game 5: JUSTIN TENG (W), Ned Phipps (B)
Final standings and prizes
Promotional League:
PROS: Andy Liu, Gansheng Shi ($1500, each)
SEEDS: Jianing Gan, Eric Lui ($800 each)
ALTERNATES: Jing Yang, Hugh Zhang ($400 each)
Exhibition League:
1st (Final score: 6 points, $300 each) : Curtis Tang, Calvin Sun, Bill Lin
4th (4-4.5 points, $175 each): Andrew Lu, Sooil Kim, Yuan Zhou
7th (3-3.5 points): Justin Teng, Edward Kim, Matthew Burrall, Ned Phipps
11th (2 points): Ben Lockhart
photos: top right: Shi and Liu receive pro certificates from Myungwan Kin 9P and AGA President Allan Abramson as TD Jeff Shaevel looks on (photo by Chris Garlock); middle left: Shi and Liu meet with Kim for a special welcome ceremony (photo by Chris Garlock); bottom right: the entire AGA-TYGEMGO Pro Finals group; photo by Nik Gonzales, Second Camera, The Surrounding Game


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This story was first published in Balkan Transitional Justice on July 6, 2016.
by Carolyne Paletta
SIT Spring 2016
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Djordje Bojovic was 19 years old and fearful the first time he visited Kosovo. Although there are four buses running between Belgrade and Pristina each day, the young Serb did not want to take the six-hour trip.
"Kosovo is something really untouchable to my generation," Bojovic said.
"There are more Serbs walking around New York than in Pristina."
Kosovo is a former province of Serbia that broke away in war in 1999 and claimed independence in 2008. Years of conflict, both political and physical, have caused intense strains between the Serbian and Kosovar people.
When an academic exchange programme sent Bojovic to study in Pristina, he crossed the border warily, even telling his taxi driver he was Austrian in an attempt to conceal his Serbian nationality.
But by the time the programme ended four weeks later, Kosovo felt like a second home.
"I spent the most fabulous time of my life, I fell in love with the city and the people, I broke all of my prejudices and stereotypes," Bojovic said.
"Even the password on my phone is 2013, the summer when that happened."
Student exchange programmes, like the one Bojovic participated in, have proven to be a powerful tool in repairing long-standing regional divisions in the Western Balkans.
Many young people in the region were raised on narratives that depicted their neighboring states as enemies. Children who were born during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia are now in their late teens and early twenties.
Though they were too young to experience the wars of the 1990s firsthand, the stories from their parents, history books and television screens have instilled a distinct sense of otherness and fear towards those living just across the border.
"I was full of hatred from the very first history book lesson until the last news I saw on TV before I went to Kosovo," Bojovic reflected.
"The exchange programmes give you another perspective by allowing you the possibility to meet 'the others', the ones who you have been taught are your enemies."
Governments sign up
A new government-sponsored initiative is now looking to create an institutionalised system of student exchange programmes in order to reconnect the youth of the Western Balkans.
On Monday, the prime ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia on Monday signed up to approve the establishment of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) – an idea based on a reconciliation project to bring French and German youth closer together after World War II.
The RYCO will fund and facilitate exchange programmes between the participating states. Schools, organisations and individuals will be able to apply for a variety of grants and programmes infields such as education and research, activism, culture and sport.
Up until now, such cross-border exchange programmes have been provided solely by non-governmental organisations, and have faced considerable limitations in scope and capacity.
"We see the establishment of RYCO as an opportunity to have a real game changer in the region," said Anita Mitic, the director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) in Serbia, an NGO that has been facilitating cross-regional exchange programmes in the Balkans for the past 13 years.
"The majority of our participants [at the YIHR] were already open-minded and interested to find out about the other side. Now that this process is going to the governmental level, it means that schools and universities will be able to apply for money to organise youth exchanges, and that is the space where people who are really closed-minded can be changed," Mitic added.
Mitic said that tensions can still flare upinstantaneously in the Balkans because not enough moves towards reconciliation have been made. She cited the on-field brawl at a Serbia-Albania football match in 2014 after a flag depicting 'Greater Albania' was flown over the pitch – an incident that sparked angry reactions across the region such as the burning of Albanian bakeries in Serbia, the stoning of the Albanian embassy in Montenegro and nationalist rallies in Albania.
"You need one thing to happen for things to fall apart this quickly," Mitic said, snapping her fingers.
"But when the nation has a name, and a surname, and a face, and possibly some happy memory joined to it then you change how you see it."
The Franco-German Youth Office was established in 1963 as part of the Élysée Treaty of friendship between France and Germany. Student exchanges played a vital role in dissolving hostility between these former enemy states and the office is still operating today. More than eight million people have participated in around 300,000 of its exchange programmes.
Now it will bring the knowledge and experience it has gained to the Balkans, serving as the official moderator of the RYCO, providing technical assistance, funding and overall monitoring of its implementation and performance.
Political complications
While there is a lot of momentum and positive support for the new office, those involved are staying realistic about the current social and political situations in the Balkans. Two of the six participating countries, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, do not recognise Kosovo as an independent state.
The written agreement to establish RYCO is carefully worded as a joint declaration between "the Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans participants", avoiding any word that would affirm or deny Kosovo's claim to statehood.
The most immediate issue this presents concerns travel in the region.
"Bosnia and Herzegovina does not recognise Kosovo as a state, and visa procedures are very complicated and expensive," explained Rasim Ibrahimagic, a civil society activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Two noticeable absences in the RYCO are Slovenia and Croatia.
Though both ex-Yugoslav states are already in the European Union, there is still a considerable amount of reconciliation left unfinished, especially in Croatia.
Morana Starcevic, the executive director of the YIHR in Croatia, said it was important that Croatia becomes part of the RYCO.
"Research from the Institute for Social Research in Croatia had shown that the youth has a huge social distance towards particular ethnic groups such as Serbs, Roma and Albanians, which is very problematic," Starcevic said.
A group of 20 Croatian civil society organisations have formed the Coalition for Croatia's Participation in RYCO in order to lobby the Zagreb government.
"By supporting this initiative, Croatia would follow the best European examples of dealing with the bitterness of the past and looking forward to a better future that is built on regional cooperation," Starcevic said.
At its heart, the RYCO is about establishing friendships and restoring the freedoms that war took away.
"It's really cool when you can go to each of the capitals and still feel at home," Bojovic said.
"We do listen to the same music, we eat the same food, we drink the same beer. We are basically the same and, even more importantly, we do understand each other without any translation."
Mitic agreed: "I believe that everyone should be able to live the lives that we are living; having friends everywhere, being able to go for a weekend, have fun, come back," she said.
"All young people in the region deserve that kind of life. Because it's a good life."


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A woman in California who tested positive for COVID-19 had not traveled to an affected country or likely been in contact with another confirmed case, marking the first time that the novel coronavirus has spread in the U.S. without a known source of infection.
This is an indicator that the outbreak could now spread much more quickly in the U.S.
The latest case, who is in Northern California, was identified by "astute clinicians," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday night, about an hour after President Donald Trump held a news conference aiming to ease American worries about the outbreak.
The UC Davis Medical Center officials treating the patient said it took five days for the CDC to agree to conduct a test.
"It's possible this could be an instance of community spread of COVID-19," the CDC said. "It's also possible, however, that the patient may have been exposed to a returned traveler who was infected."
There are now 60 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. That includes 45 people who were repatriated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, and from Wuhan, China, considered the epicenter of the epidemic, and 15 cases of people who had either recently been to China or had become infected from a spouse who had been to China. In California, there are at least 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including some repatriated citizens who have been quarantined at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. At least four counties (Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) in California have declared emergencies.
A sharp increase in the number of cases and deaths over the weekend in Iran, Italy and South Korea stressed markets early in the week as investors worried that an outbreak that has primarily impacted China could spread to other parts of the world. The outbreak there has led to the closures of factories, restaurants, bars, and shops, snarled supply chains, disrupted travel, forced companies to lower guidance for the quarter, and led some countries including the U.S. to close their borders to recent travelers from mainland China.
Iran now has 245 cases, 26 deaths, and 49 people have recovered; Italy has 528 cases, 14 deaths and 40 people have recovered; and South Korea has 1,766 cases, 13 deaths, and 22 people have recovered. In Japan, a woman who was treated for COVID-19 and released from the hospital later tested positive again, according to Agence France-Presse, citing a local official in Osaka.
Worldwide, there are now 82,550 cases of COVID-19, at least 2,810 deaths, and about 33,252 people, primarily in China's Hubei Province, have recovered, according to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering's Centers for Systems Science and Engineering. The virus was first detected in December in Wuhan, China, a city in Hubei Province.
"This virus has pandemic potential," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's director-general, said during a news conference on Thursday. Still, he urged people and nations to "calm down and do the right things to fight this very dangerous virus."
In the U.S., which has had a fairly flat number of cases compared with countries like Iran and Italy, criticism is mounting about the Trump administration's response to the outbreak, with critics taking aim at the CDC's testing procedures, its messaging, and plans for preparedness.
"The administration did some very good things, but I think they're sending a lot of mixed messages and they should stop," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a news conference on Wednesday. "They should just get [on] one page. It should be, this is going to be with us for a long time until further notice. We all have to work together. Localities have to be empowered."
De Blasio called for the CDC to issue additional screening requirements for travelers coming into the U.S. from regions with community spread, including Hong Kong, Italy and South Korea, and to loosen its requirements about lab testing, to allow local laboratories to more quickly conduct all steps of the test. Questions have previously arisen about the quality of the CDC-developed test that has been shipped to other states.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state is currently monitoring an estimated 8,400 people who arrived in California on commercial flights from Asia over COVID-19 concerns. The state currently has 28 confirmed cases. He also said the state has an inadequate supply of testing kits for both surveillance and for diagnostic purposes, but the CDC has assured him that more tests are coming. "We need to substantially increase access and availability to testing, and we need to do that today," he said.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, on Monday urged Americans to begin planning for an outbreak, telling them to talk to their children's schools about the possibility of closures and to ask their employers about work-from-home policies. Later that day, health officials attempted to soften her comments, with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar saying: "We hope that we don't face those kinds of eventualities, but transparency is being candid with people."
Trump's decision to put Vice President Michael Pence in charge of the U.S.'s COVID-19 response has also prompted questions. "The Vice President, to our knowledge, does not have any extensive experience with outbreaks," Chris Meekins, a Raymond James analyst and former HHS official, wrote in a note on Thursday. "There is also a question about whether this action will create uncertainty in HHS and actually make the response more difficult."
On Thursday, Pence announced a number of new additions to the U.S. response effort, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top White House economist Larry Kudlow to the task force and ambassador-at-large Debbie Birx as the White House coronavirus response coordinator.
Here's what companies are saying about the virus:
• Best Buy Inc.
• Crocs Inc.
• JetBlue Airways Corp.
• Marriott International Inc.
• Microsoft Corp.
• PayPal Holdings Inc.
• Sanderson Farms Inc. US:SAFM said the outbreak of African swine fever in China should eventually boost the poultry market in the U.S., but COVID-19 is now disrupting markets in China, depressing demand, hurting shipping and supply chain logistics and slowing China's economic growth rate. The chicken meat producer said the Chinese lifting of the ban on chicken from the U.S. had led to orders for about 18 million pounds of chicken products.
• Workday Inc.
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Regulatory News | 03 August 2017 | By Nick Paul Taylor
Welcome to our European Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top EU regulatory news.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is encouraging drug developers and regulators to consider the needs of older people when designing and assessing medicines and their packaging. EMA took the step to drive the development of products that cater to the difficulties some older people face when trying to break tablets or open containers.
Members of EMA's Quality Working Party set out their thinking in a draft reflection paper. The text outlines how various approaches to the design and packaging of medicines affect older people. Examples cited by EMA include the consequences of decisions about the route of administration, dosing frequency and container closure systems. This gives the document a broad scope in keeping with EMA's desire for it to condense the current state of discussions on the topic.
EMA wants to focus the next stage of the discussion on three sections of the reflection paper and three broader points. In the paper, EMA picks out the accuracy of tablet breaking as a topic about which it wants feedback. The agency thinks all tablets that have a break-mark must split into equal pieces when broken at that point. This applies to all populations, but is especially relevant to older people, who may find it hard to break tablets. EMA wants to avoid this to improve adherence.
The agency also wants feedback on the minimum data in regulatory submissions on the delivery of drugs via feeding tubes. Given some people rely on this route of administration, EMA wants drug developers to ensure at least one preparation of their active ingredients is suitable for delivery via feeding tubes. The product information for this preparation should include instructions.
EMA's final point for discussion relates to the use of multi-dose dispensing systems and multi-compartment compliance aids. Use of these systems entails taking medicines from their original packaging and putting them into compartmentalized boxes designed to aid compliance. EMA is concerned this may affect stability and is encouraging companies to study the topic.
The agency also wants feedback on three broader topics relating to the paper. Officials want to know if a reflection paper is more appropriate than formal guidance, which would provide technical and regulatory requirements. EMA is also seeking feedback on the target audience for the paper and the use of the term "older people" rather than "the elderly."
EMA is accepting feedback on the draft until the end of January. Depending on the feedback it receives, EMA may use the reflection paper and comments as the basis for draft guidelines. Either way, the agency expects sponsors to take the points raised in the paper into consideration when filing applications to market or modify products.
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EMA has indicated its willingness to accept reduced nonclinical development packages for certain radiopharmaceuticals. The agency made the case for streamlining development of candidates with well-known molecular structures and those that are given at microdoses in a draft concept paper.
Today, there is no specific guidance about the nonclinical development of radiopharmaceuticals for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes apart from Euratom documents on calculating the absorbed dose of radiation. This means the unlabeled components — also known as "cold" parts — of conjugated radiopharmaceuticals are subject to general nonclinical guidance, despite sometimes having distinct risk-benefit profiles.
EMA wants to address this gap with guidance tailored to radiopharmaceuticals. In a concept paper drafted to move it toward this goal, EMA outlines how the guidance may affect development. If the cold parts of a radiopharmaceutical are well known or administered in doses low enough to have negligible pharmacological activity, EMA is proposing to allow reduced nonclinical development. This is expected to reduce the use of animals and accelerate development.
The guidance will also address biodistribution studies of the cold parts of radiopharmaceuticals, good laboratory practices and types of clinical settings in which candidates are used. Given the breadth of products that fall under the banner "radiopharmaceutical" — some of which are made in small quantities without the goal of winning market authorization — EMA plans to release "generally-applicable development principles" rather than specific instructions.
EMA is accepting feedback on the draft until the end of October. The agency plans to release draft guidance on guiding principles for the nonclinical development of radiopharmaceuticals six months after completing the concept paper consultation.
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Officials in Europe have given manufacturers of methylprednisolone injections containing lactose until the middle of 2019 to provide data on reformulations of their products. The demand follows a review that found the drugs may trigger allergic reactions because they contain traces of proteins from cow's milk.
Doctors use methylprednisolone injections to treat allergic reactions. However, reports of patients suffering from bronchospasm, anaphylaxis and other serious allergic reactions after receiving the drug led to an investigation by EMA's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC). The committee ruled there is no safe level of cow's milk protein. Given the injections are administered to patients with allergies in emergency settings where not all details of their medical histories are always known, this makes it difficult to safely administer the shots.
Now, the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh) has endorsed PRAC's recommendation. CMDh handles questions about drugs approved in multiple member states under the mutual recognition or decentralised procedure. As such, the group's endorsement advances the case against methylprednisolone injections.
CMDh's goal now is to eliminate cow's milk proteins from the products. To do this, the group has asked manufacturers of affected drugs to "provide data allowing the replacement of formulations containing lactose from cow's milk." Manufacturers have until the middle of 2019 to provide the data.
In the meantime, CMDh is working to update product information to state products containing lactose must not be given to patients with cow's milk protein allergies. Clear warnings against the use of the drugs in these patients will also be added to vials and packaging.
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Kite Pharma Is set to become the first company to have a marketing authorization filing assessed under EMA's Priority Medicine (PRIME) pathway. The status grants Kite accelerated assessment of its CAR-T cell therapy, axicabtagene.
Axicabtagene, also known as KTE-C19, was one of the first four experimental drugs admitted to the PRIME program last year. Since then, the candidate has come through a clinical trial in patients with aggressive forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, giving Kite the data it needs to file for approval of the CAR-T in Europe.
The novel aspects of PRIME, such as the appointment of a rapporteur, mainly apply to drugs during clinical trials. Now that Kite has filed for approval, axicabtagene will follow an accelerated assessment timeline that predates the creation of PRIME. Accelerated assessment cuts the review time from 210 days to 150 days.
Kite's filing means it should become the first company to win approval for a CAR-T therapy in Europe. Novartis filed first in the United States but, while it also has PRIME status, it is yet to do so in Europe.
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The entire world is excited about the next generation Apple iPhones, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and second generation Google Pixels. Along with that, the Indian consumers are eagerly awaiting for a feature phone. Yes, and the feature phone is from Reliance Jio.
The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio is slated to launch two variants of Jio 4G feature phone later this month. Recently, we've leaked an image of the retail box, which allegedly revealed the specifications of the device. Another report leaked the pictures of the device, which gave a clear idea of how the device would look like.
While the launch date is unknown at the moment, Jio is said to pack the device at Rs. 1,500, and it will come with support for 4G VoLTE. The complete specifications of the device are leaked as well. Here are the five standout rumoured specifications of Reliance Jio 4G Feature Phone.
Internet Sharing
Ever since the news about Jio 4G Feature Phone broke out, we have been receiving a lot of comments from our readers about the Wi-Fi Hotspot feature. However, with our last report, we've confirmed that the device will come with Wi-Fi hotspot feature for internet sharing. That said, the device will sell in a big number, because several users are looking to make this device a secondary phone for the hotspot feature.
512MB of RAM, 4GB of Storage
Did you ever imagine a feature phone to arrive with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of massive storage? All these days, vendors are packing a smaller amount of storage with the feature phones. For example, the Nokia 3310 (2017) comes with just 16MB of storage. But the Jio 4G Feature Phone will come with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, which is expandable with a microSD card.
An In-Built Voice Assistant
Along with our report, another report has appeared online, which has a clear video demonstrating a voice assistant. It works same as other digital assistants available in the market right now and performs basic operations such as setting the alarm, call a number, etc.
A 2.4-inch QVGA Display and a 2MP Rear Camera With Flash
The Reliance Jio 4G Feature Phone will come with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, as per the retail box. And there will be a 2MP rear camera along with a flashlight. That said, the flash can also be used as a torch.
Affordable Price Tag
The major reason about the entire craze about Reliance Jio 4G Feature Phone is the price tag. An HSBC report said that it could be priced as low as Rs. 500 to gain more subscribers. And some other reports claim that it would cost Rs. 1,500. The pricing is still a mystery, but if Jio manages to price the product below Rs. 1,500, it will stir the Indian feature phone market.


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The warm air is intoxicated by the harmonizing voices, enticing scents, and traditional dancing of the Wapa, as Bonaire's locals partake in the Simadan Festival. This cultural event commemorates the Sorghum harvest and uplifts the spirit of Bonaire as its atmosphere becomes immersed by the sanctity and unity flowing from the vibrations of instruments and the melodious chants of the emblematic Remailo, Dan Simadan, and Belua songs. Bonaire sings of the spirit rooted in its African veins to its European and North American influences, which makes it one of the most cultural destinations in the world. It is very easy to fall in love with Bonaire, an island whose heart overflows with rhythm, soul, and harmony.
Bonaire is a charming Dutch Caribbean Island set in the Netherlands Antilles. Its beauty is mirrored in the faces of its warm inhabitants, exotic wildlife, and multihued ocean. From the hands of the Spanish to eventually the Dutch, Bonaire's history was first awakened by the Caiquetios, which later led to a past dominated by slavery and a prominent role in the salt industry. On your road to discovery, it is quite easy to become engulfed by the preserving spirit that flows in between the small picturesque huts, the petroglyphs-style Omina (cave), and red roof houses of Kralendijk. Nature lovers would enjoy the fascinating creatures that roam the island's landscape such as the iconic donkeys of the Donkey Sanctuary, the pink flamingoes that beautify the Goto Meer, and the exciting sea creatures of the Marine Park.
Whether you are wind surfing the waves of the ocean or diving in the blue depths of Klein Bonaire (Bonaire's neighboring island), you must touch dry land sooner or later. What better way to celebrate your adventures then with a souvenir from the Artist Market in Kralendijk, authentic sea salts, or with a taste of Bonaire's finest beverages. Your nights can be spent soaking in the scenic backdrops while indulging in delicious cuisines, music, and dance. The island's cultural background has especially left imprints in its delicacies, making it easy for every food lovers to find the specific tastes they are craving. Okras, plantains, goat stew, and funchi just to name a few, make up the culinary temptations that make Bonaire's dining experience a cultural phenomenon.
Bonaire experiences a hot semi-arid steppe climate. From the months of August to September (warm season) the temperatures average from a high in the 90s to a low in the 80s. During January to March (cold season) the weather fluctuates between a high in the mid-80s to a low in the upper-70s.
There are several ways to navigate throughout Bonaire. Tour buses are available to help you explore the island's different sites. Taxis are great for traveling to beaches, resorts, and the airport; however, rates are set and it is best to agree upon a price before beginning your journey. Renting a car is the preferred mode of transportation and drivers must produce a valid driver's license.


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PayPros, Inc. is a payroll company with branch offices along the East Coast. We have been working with small businesses since 1999 – specializing in business start-ups. Our clients range from the 1 person auto body payroll to multinational corporations with thousands of employees. PayPros was started in response to the lack of proper service offered to small business.
What we found is that most other payroll companies do the same things, basically produce checks, generate reports and file payroll taxes. That's it. They are check writing factories. When it came to flexibility to meet the specific needs of small business they were unwilling or unable to give their clients what they wanted.These companies regard customers as numbers and there is little to no personal guidance or relationships. Call these other firms during business hours and get lost in an automated voice maze. PayPros was started with a different attitude.
If you call PayPros you get a live person ready to answer your questions, because we believe you deserve better. We take a proactive approach to clients' payroll needs by offering more flexibility, greater guidance for startups and business owners and outstanding client service.Our internal system is superior to the Industry Giants, because their former programmers built it. We improved the product, making it the 5th largest producer of payroll checks in the US right now. It helps us to watch for "red flags" that cost companies unnecessary money, penalties and interest. In other words we offer our clients peace of mind and most importantly – we save them hundreds to thousands of dollars per year in the process. PayPros is fully insured and bonded for your continued security.
PayPros offers the largest package of powerful payroll tools in the industry. Your small business can utilize the same tools Fortune 500 companies around the US enjoy for a price small businesses can appreciate. We offer pricing that is generally 15% below that of the national check writing services.PayPros flexibility across all industries ranks us at the top of the list for high quality client service. The bottom line is…we're small business, so we understand you better than anyone else does and that is why so many small businesses choose PayPros.
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*I received free copies of the three books mentioned in this review from Tricia Goyer and Litfuse Publicity Group in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. I was not required to write a positive review.
Tricia Goyer Christmas Reading List
BookGirl and I really enjoyed all three of the Christmas novels by Tricia Goyer and other authors. I was pleasantly surprised that BookGirl wanted to read them too, but I shouldn't have been. She's a voracious reader. It was so much fun to swap off books and discuss them together as we finished reading them.
A Christmas Gift for Rose by Tricia Goyer
I was excited about reading A Christmas Gift for Rose from the time I found out that it was inspired by a true story. It's the story of a young Amish woman who has rejected the man she loves because he went against the rules of their Amish community and helped the Englisch during World War II. As she tries to work through the fact that she still loves him, she discovers that she was adopted into her family and is an Englischer herself. In her mind, that changes everything, and she begins an entirely different process that involves changing the way she views herself—and the man she loves.
The story, while simple in concept, kept both my daughter and me wanting to turn the pages. We both read it quickly, and we couldn't stop until we were finished. Rose's journey of self-discovery and learning her community's secrets are an amazing read, and the ending is very satisfying. (Warning: I needed tissues to get through the ending. 😉 )
An Amish Second Christmas by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, Ruth Reid, and Tricia Goyer
An Amish Second Christmas is the book that BookGirl couldn't wait to get her hands on first. She read it quickly, and when it was my turn, I could see why. The book contains four novellas that revolve around Amish Second Christmas and celebrate the romances blooming between four young Amish couples. The four novellas are: When Christmas Comes Again, Her Christmas Pen Pal, A Gift for Anne Marie, and The Christmas Aprons. (BookGirl liked A Gift for Anne Marie best. I haven't been able to pick a favorite, although Her Christmas Pen Pal and The Christmas Aprons are running neck and neck.)
If you like Amish romances filled with Christmas spirit, you will enjoy this collection. The novellas are full of situations that keep the stories moving quickly, and they are quite different from what I expected to see in Amish novellas—not boring at all! I enjoyed how different all the romances were. This was important to me because I hate to feel like I'm reading the same thing over and over again. I also like how God's love, goodness, and grace are prominent in each one in a gentle way, not in a way that is preachy.
Where Treetops Glisten by Tricia Goyer, Cara Putman, and Sarah Sundin
Where Treetops Glisten moves away from the Amish community to connect readers with an Englisch family during World War II. This book contains three stories: White Christmas, I'll Be Home for Christmas, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Unlike An Amish Second Christmas, which consists of stand alone stories, Where Treetops Glisten's stories can be read individually but are connected because they all deal with members of the same family and refer to events that are explained in the other stories, which leads to a unique reading experience that I really enjoyed.
Where Treetops Glisten follows a group of siblings from their Indiana hometown all the way to the Netherlands. They deal with betrayals, loss, pain, and rejection. They have great faith in God and in His care and provision for them, even in the midst of pain, but they are definitely tested as they walk through the situations that World War II brings to their family. In the end, not only does God see them through, but He brings them love in the middle of it all.
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If you're looking for some great books to add to your Christmas reading list this year, consider one (or all!) of these books by Tricia Goyer. The stories are heartwarming reads that have already brightened the season for my daughter and me, and I think they can do the same for you.


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Big Brother star, crazy milf Lisa Appleton Braless shows off her big boobs and butt in Cheshire, England, 12/13/2017
Lisa Appleton is a housemate from Big Brother 9.
Lisa Appleton was born in 1968 in England. She has been married to Mario Marconi since June 2010.
One half of the first ever summer Big Brother couple, Lisa is dating fellow new housemate Mario. The former bodybuilder is a fitness and health fanatic who teaches fitness classes alongside her regular job as a sales rep for tanning products. She is also involved in charity fundraising.
Lisa's the proud mother of an 18-year-old daughter, and has a spiritual side – she believes in reincarnation, life after death, clairvoyants, ghosts, spirit guides, and universal dynamics. Lisa met Mario three years ago when she bought a crystal ball from him on ebay and met up with him to collect it. She says the most significant event in her life was when Mario pawned his Rolex to buy her a boob job.
Lisa says she's often likened to Xena Warrior Princess, and says she's "like a magnet exerting powerful attraction". A "punk rocker" at age 11, she later developed an interest in archaeology at age 13, even going along to local excavations to help out. She wants to be in the Big Brother house to unlock her inhibitions and to test herself, and would be very happy if she found the boyband Westlife in the House so she could have a bath with them.


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From 2009.igem.org
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Project :
Sensitivity Tuner
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--- Modelling
Colour Generators
--- Carotenoids (Orange/Red)
--- Melanin (Brown)
--- Violacein (Purple/Green)
The Future
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Team Logistics :
It is fair to say that without our sponsors the Cambridge iGEM team would have had a much harder time getting anything done.
The people we would especially like to thank for their enthusiasm and support of the Cambridge team are:
|Renata Almeida at Bioline for T-shirt sponsorship and molecular biology products.
|Euan Forbes and Charlotte Batley (formerly) at Fermentas for Fast Digest enzymes, ligases, ladders and T-shirt sponsorship.
|David Laflin and Dominic Hogan at Fisher Scientific for chemicals, plasticware and lab consumables.
|Suravi Chatterjee, Rosemary Sinclair and Chris Uff at VWR for the molecular biology chemicals.
|Everybody at Labtech International, in particular Glynis Johnson and Rachel Keevil for the loan of a Piko thermal cycler, plus Finnzymes Phusion DNA polymerase mixes and a Nanodrop 2000.
|Ya-Chi Chen at Clontech for the In-Fusion Advantage kit, competent cells and chemicals.
|Hilde Moseby at Starlab for a huge resource of pipette tips and PCR tubes.
|Jeremy Minshull and colleagues at DNA2.0 for Biobrick DNA synthesis, in particular their generous offer to synthesise the Vio operon at no charge.
|Lauren Dyer and John Pickering at Sterilin for the large supply of microbiological sterile plasticware.
|Stephanie McHugh at Source BioScience/Geneservice for organising free DNA sequencing.
|James Newton and Phil Dobson at Cambridge Biosciences for providing Zymo Research DNA clean up, extraction and plasmid prep kits.
|Nina Markillie at GRI for loan of a GeneTechnologies G-storm PCR machine and free KAPA DNA polymerase.
|Alex Orda at Anachem for the supply of Earthsaver pipette tips.
|Miles Collier at Invitrogen for supplying the E-gel system with E-gels and loan of a Blue light transilluminator.
|Edward Bagenal from New England Biosciences for T-shirt sponsorship, and donations of Turbo Electrocompetent E. Coli, 2-log DNA ladders, Phusion Flash High-Fidelity Master Mix and Supercoiled DNA ladders.
|Everyone from BMG Labtech for an Omega Series Multidetection Microplate Reader.
The University of Cambridge: The School of Biological Sciences, Department of Genetics, Department of Plant Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development and the Herschel-Smith Chair, The School of Technology, Department of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Department of Physics.
And finally a massive big Thank You to Duncan Rowe who helped us tremendously with organising sponsorship.


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Spiritual Time and Movement Explained by the Source Texts
Spiritual movement in unlike physical relocation from one place to another. It's a movement in one's intention, a renewal of qualities.
Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot, item 1
Time is a sensation of movement. The brain envisions images of movement, copying them in its imagination into the category of "time." If man and his surrounding were in absolute peace, there would be no notion of time.
Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot, item 1
The notions of time, past, present and future, are man made notions and are not absolute. Everything exists in the Upper Force without any action on behalf of the Upper One. Everything that exists in the force later takes place in action. And those who come closer to the Creator – above the universe, ascend above time.
Rav Kook, "Letters. Volume 2"
The Book of Zohar does not speak of this world at all, but only of the Upper Worlds where there is no time like in the corporeal world. Spiritual time is a change in qualities.
The Book of Zohar, Vayatze, collection 2
Human egoism constantly prevails over man, unless the Creator helps him by bringing his soul closer to Him through shining His Light at specific times.
"Yesher Divrey Emet," p. 35
All times and all actions exist eternally. The future receives influence from the past and from that which will happen afterwards. Time submits to forces that operate in the past, in the present, and in the future.
Ramchal, Adir BaMarom, p. 187
That which shines in alternation will shine constantly in the future, when all the past will gather into an eternal state.
Ramchal. Adir BaMarom, p. 18
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Chapter from the book Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: "Kabbalists Write About Kabbalah"


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Are you a Mess Maven suffering from Paperosis Misplacea?
Do you work with a Deadline Deadbeat or have Phone-o-phobic clients?
Have you ever felt overwhelmed or overloaded?
For anyone struggling with too many projects, too little time, and too much paper, organizing guru Harriet Schechter -aka The Miracle Worker- offers innovative methods for conquering the five types of workplace chaos: Time, Memory, Communication, Information, and Projects. And she shows you how to handle the real Chaos Creators:
- Bosses who expect you to cover for them
- Coworkers who leave messes for you to clean up
- Assistants who are even more overwhelmed than you are
- Clients who won't return your phone calls
No matter who or what is creating the chaos that drives you crazy, Conquering Chaos at Work has the practical, easy-to-adopt solutions you need to overcome disorganization now…and forever.
Find and buy all of Harriet's books on Amazon.
Praise for Conquering Chaos at Work
"…offers real life solutions that will help you keep up with the pace of today's fast moving world of business, without going crazy in the process." Ken Blanchard, Coauthor of The One Minute Manager
"I wish I had read Harriet Schechter's book 48 years ago when I started my mail order business. It would have saved me a lot of time. This is a must-read for busy people on the fast track." Lillian Vernon, Founder and CEO, Lillian Vernon Catalogs
"These principles will bring more prosperity to an organization's bottom line than all the marketing and executive development books put together." Dick Lyles, Author of Winning Ways
"Disorganization causes daytime stress and nocturnal insomnia. Conquering Chaos At Work is a step-by-step, easy to follow program that will certainly give you more productive days and restful nights." James B. Maas, Author of Power Sleep
"This book fundamentally redefines the nature of work and productivity for the 21st century. At a time when people are facing unprecedented adversity, Conquering Chaos At Work gives us a vocabulary, mindset, and method for climbing each and every day. Put all the old time management manuals to rest. This book redefines the genre." Paul Stoltz, Author of Adversity Quotient


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Firefighter Frame with Personalized Print
This firefighter frame would be a great gift for the firefighter in your life. They will love seeing this displayed in their home with their name in custom firefighter letter art.
1) Please write the name of your firefighter
2) If you would like the frame with no print please select this option.
Frame Size: 10" x 9.5"
Photo Size: 5" x 7"
The frame is made out of resin material.


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Immersion, thrill, peril, and emotion, A Knight's Tale is an adventure map that fires on all cylinders and delivers absolutely every single thing that we've come to expect from this map category over the years. This is a map that's absolutely loaded with unique features and, on top of these features, it has probably one of the most well thought out stories that we've seen in an adventure map. We highly recommend trying A Knight's Tale out if you're interesting in playing adventure maps because it is, without a single doubt, one of the absolute best of its class.
In A Knight's Tale, you play the role of a brave knight who's on a quest to rescue a princess for danger. Slimbo, the evil King whose reign of tyranny has lasted for many years, has captured Princess Slimara and taken her away to some faraway place in order to instill fear in the hearts of the local townspeople. You, playing as the fearless knight, must embark on a journey filled with peril in order to locate Princess Slimara and return her home safely before the evil King does something to her. The journey won't be an easy one, but it'll be worthwhile when your efforts return the whole town to its once tranquil state.
In terms of gameplay, A Knight's Tale basically has it all. The map has three expertly crafted boss fights for players to test their skill with, there's lots of great dialogue to enjoy, there are puzzles to complete, lots of different mobs to slay and, on top of all this, there's an absolutely enormous game world for players to explore. A Knight's Tale even supports multiplayer with up to four players, and perhaps the most impressive thing about its multiplayer is the fact that it gives each player a unique class to use. Overall, A Knight's Tale is a phenomenal map that does not cease to impress.
How to install A Knight's Tale Map?
- Press the Windows or Start button, then press R. This will open the Run prompt.
- Type %appdata% into the prompt and run the command.
- A folder filled with other folders will now open. Just find the Minecraft folder among these and open it.
- In .minecraft you will find another folder, saves. Unzip and move your world file into this folder and you're all done.
Download Link for A Knight's Tale Map
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Since everyone tuned in to hate-watch Peter Pan, let's do this again, shall we? Next up, NBC has reportedly obtained the rights to The Wiz.
Deadline reports that the network is producing a live musical version of the iconic film, which was based on The Wizard of Oz and produced in conjunction with Motown. It also featured an all-black cast, including Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt describes The Wiz as "catchy (?) and cool."
The same producers behind Sound of Music and Peter Pan, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, are on board. The Wiz is a smart choice, but will they also bring on some black people behind the scenes? Who will play the Scarecrow? Nick Cannon? Start clicking your ruby slippers together and hope this won't be a spectacular disaster. Hopes are moderate!
Along with The Wiz, NBC is also remaking The Music Man and both will air either this year or in 2016.
(h/t: Flavorwire)


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Complaining About Complaints in the Funeral Industry
by littlemissfuneral
Do you know what I'm really good at?
When it comes to funeral service, I've heard my fair share of people complaining about what it is that I do for a living. I think that a large reason for this is because for so long funerals and the work that funeral professionals do have been behind closed doors. If the public has no idea the job that we do, they can't possible understand the value in it. And you know what? That's our fault. The work of a funeral director is some of the most sacred work that we can undertake as humans. To be able to care for a deceased person is a privilege that many do not have. One of the main reasons why 'normal' people do not get this privilege in our Western culture is because we've decided that death should not be a part of our everyday lives. Even though we know that everyone who lives will die, we block this from our minds.
Our society therefore, does not understand that death is not a nine to five job. Death does not wait for a convenient time to occur for the living. Death is messy, and difficult, and heavy, and funeral professionals have chosen to carry this weight. All the while, sacrificing time with our own loved ones. Many times, taking on this job for not great pay. We do this, because we understand the importance of this work. We understand that every life deserves respect when it ends. We understand, that by caring for the dead, we are also caring for the living.
"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals." – William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, 1809–1898
So if you're interested, in hearing me complain about complaints that I've heard within the funeral industry, you can watch my video below. The work that we, as funeral professionals, do matters. Until the day comes when are nation will care for our own dead, funeral directors will continue to be there for families and help them through the death process.