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Indoor Market is held the last Saturday of January, February, March and April. Purchase hydroponics, micro greens, olive oils, baked goods, body products and more! 9AM-1PM.
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Magento extension to translate products and categories
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1. Its needed to create a translator user profile that only allow to translate categories names, and products products name, products descriptions, short descriptions and metas, the other fields should not be showed
2. the system will allow to select the source and target language for every translator. we will manage 8 languages: english, spanish, french, german, italian, russian, chinesse, japanesse
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3. System will allow us to assign every translator to a language or several languages
by example a translator could translate from english to german and from english to russian too.
4. System will show at any time a table with translators and we should see this info:
translator, source translation language, target translation language, date of start translating, , total products translated, total word translated, date of last translated products, date of last payments, total payed, pending translated work after last payment
We should see too the list of of periods of times that it has been working translating products with this info:
translator, source translation language, target translation language, date of start translating, , total products translated, total word translated, date of last translated product, date of payment, total payed, payment $ by word
5. System should manage payments for each translation period monthly or weekly and will show a log of all payments for every translator selected, in the user profile we should have the prefered payment method by example paypal or western union and the paypal email address. Evreytime we proceed to pay at anytime we should record the payment date and total paid to the translator.
6. system will check duplicated products descriptions and short description when products are translated and will copy translated text to other products translations (store views), but this words should not be counted as translated
7. the system will allow to configure the payment we will do by every word independiently to every translator, and it will be a default value of [url removed, login to view]$ by word using this price system will calculate the payment we should do to the translator. So the system will record the payment in $by word,
8. products will have 5 states:
UNT untranslated
TNR translated no reviewed but not approved
TRN translated reviewed but not approved
TAP translated approved
TP translated and payed
every product will have a new attribute with translation comment where admin will write any comments about the translation in the case that the admin change product state from TNR to TRN to explain to the translator what changes should be made to be the product approved
9 the system will show reports of every translators with the past work, progress of actual work for the admin and every translator only can see his own work progress
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The Irish Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, condemned the murder: "This was an outrageous act of cold-blooded violence that has left a family without a husband and father and An Garda Siochana without a brave and valued member." President Michael D Higgins described it as a "dreadful crime and all Irish people will be truly appalled by it".
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Bobby, I would take a completely different approach.
I like to grow my hostas in black nursery pots. That way I am able to
keep the roots separate and provide my special soil mix just to the hosta
pots and not all the soil around the tree roots. The plants in pots are
planted under the tree, and the pots should be tucked in among the roots
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Ohio's unemployment rate fell below 7 percent in January as the state added nearly 17,000 jobs from December.
Ohio's jobless rate dropped to 6.9 percent in January from 7.1 percent in December, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The jobless rate was 7.3 percent a year ago.
Ohio's unemployment rate remained above the U.S. rate of 6.6 percent in January. (The federal government released national unemployment statistics for February on Friday; Ohio's February jobs figures will be released later this month.)
People counted as working in Ohio grew 16,700, from 5,268,900 in December to 5,285,600 in January. That is the largest number of people counted as working in January since a low of 5,005,900 in 2010 going back to the start of the century. The jobs figures were adjusted to take into account seasonal factors.
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"Ohio also has still not recovered from the 2007 'Great Recession,' and our state still has 197,000 fewer jobs than it had before the terrible 'Great Recession' hit us," George Zeller, Cleveland economic analyst who studies employment figures, said in a note. "Thus, we continue to still have an urgent need to speed up Ohio's too slow rate of recovery."
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A couple who tortured and murdered a 15-year-old boy in the belief that he was a witch have been jailed for life. Magalie Bamu, who drowned Kristy, her own brother, in a bath, will serve at least 25 years in jail. Her partner, Eric Bikubi, will serve at least 30 years behind bars. MORE
Al-Qa'ida militants kill 107 soldiers
Al-Qa'ida militants attacked army bases in southern Yemen yesterday, killing 107 soldiers and parading 55 captured troops through a local town. Militants have taken advantage of the political instability created by the year-long uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Tax rule could cost poorer nations £4bn
ActionAid has claimed new tax rules in the upcoming Budget will mean poor countries are deprived of up to £4bn a year. It said George Osborne's plans to only tax multinational companies when profits are shifted from the UK to tax havens abroad would make it easier for companies to move profits from developing countries.
Israel presses US for action on Iran
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu said his nation must remain "the master of its fate" at a meeting with US President Barack Obama. Mr Obama said "there is still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution" but added that the US would consider "all options".
Italian marines jailed over 'pirate' deaths
Rome has expressed "very real concern" over an "unacceptable" decision by Indian authorities to jail two Italian marines who allegedly shot two fishermen they mistook for pirates. Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone had been protecting the Italian merchant vessel Enrica Lexie when the incident occurred.
Baby P father wins £75,000 in libel case
The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 after the publishers of The People wrongly described him as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. Lawyers for the father said the newspaper was guilty of "one of the gravest libels imaginable".
Lord St John of Fawsley dies at 82
The politician, author, barrister and constitutional expert Lord St John of Fawsley has died at the age of 82. As Norman St John-Stevas, he served in the governments of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. For Life in brief CLICK HERE
DNA helps convict suspect 25 years later
Conclusive DNA evidence has led to the guilty plea of a man who was acquitted of committing rape more than 25 years ago. Alexander McGuire, 60, admitted to the Berkshire rape of 1986, when he attacked a girl in a McDonald's restaurant. DNA techniques not available at the time were used to secure a new conviction.
Extradited Briton is refused bail
A US judge has ruled that a retired British businessman must remain in custody while he awaits trial on arms dealing charges. Chris Tappin, 65, has been refused bail after he was extradited to the United States two weeks ago. His wife, Elaine Tappin, called the decision "heartbreaking". US prosecutors told the federal court in El Paso, Texas, that Mr Tappin may be a "danger to the community" if released.
McCain suggests helping Syrian rebels
John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, said last night that the US should lead an international effort to protect "safe havens" for "opposition forces" in Syria through air strikes on President Bashar al-Assad's government forces.
Two set themselves alight in protest
A young mother and a student have died after setting themselves on fire in separate protests against Chinese rule in Tibetan areas, according to media reports. More than 20 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the past year to draw international attention to "repressive" Chinese policies.
Anti-smoking campaign launches
The Government will announce plans to cut the number of smoking-related deaths today, including a campaign showing the effects of second-hand smoke. More than 80 per cent of smoke is not visible to the naked eye. New print and television adverts will show children are exposed even if parents are smoking outside.
Humans descended from two-inch worm
Scientists have claimed humans evolved from a two-inch long worm-like creature that inhabited the world's seas 500 million years ago. The extinct Pikaia gracilens is the earliest known member of the chordate family, which includes all modern invertebrates. Researchers discovered the worms had primitive backbones.
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About 100 buildings are to be fitted with giant air bags to help protect against earthquakes. The bags are fitted underneath buildings and have sensors to inflate them within one second of detecting movement. The devices lift the building 1in to keep it stationary as the ground shakes.
Penguin takes flight from zoo
Police are attempting to track down a penguin, after it escaped from the Tokyo Sea Life Park on Sunday. Zookeepers realised the penguin had broken free only when it was spotted swimming down a river.
X Factor contestant's swearing censured
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has described a live episode of The X Factor as "unacceptable" after a contestant swore before the 9pm watershed. Frankie Cocozza sparked more than 100 complaints when he shouted "F***ing have it!" when he had made it through to the next round.
Supermodel's father 'threw tantrums'
Gunther Klum helped turn his daughter Heidi into one of the world's richest models, but a German magazine has accused the former cosmetics-industry executive of throwing tantrums and locking young models into unfavourable contracts. MORE
Early Picasso is put up for sale
An important early work by Pablo Picasso marking the start of his Blue Period has been put up for sale by its aristocratic Welsh owners and is estimated to be worth around £50m.
MP stripped of post because of nose job
A fundamentalist Muslim MP has been sacked by his party after he lied about having plastic surgery on his nose. Anwar al-Balkimy, an MP for the Salafi al-Nour Party, had the operation in a Cairo clinic last month – despite religious edicts forbidding surgery on cosmetic grounds. MORE
The fish with a nose for trouble
It was thought that critically endangered sawfish were harmless creatures that used their spiky snouts to sift sand on the ocean floor. But after witnessing them splitting fish in half with their saw-like appendage, researchers in Australia have claimed that they are impressive predators.
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British athletes are being told not to shake hands in case they catch a bug which wrecks their Olympic dreams. A mild bug which can knock athletes off their stride could be picked up in the "quite stressful environment" of the Games, said Dr Ian McCurdie, of the British Olympic Association.
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Senator Patrick Brazeau And Political Ethics
UPDATE: Since posting this article yesterday, Senator Patrick Brazeau has been formally charged in a Gatineau court to one count of assault and one count of sexual assault. The charges are unproven at this time and under our system of law, Senator Brazeau is entitled to the presumption of innocence until and if it is proven otherwise. This has not stopped the mainstream and social media from convicting him of these and every other charge they can imagine including just being too young to be in the Senate, misuse of Senate Housing Allowance and being rude to a National Post Reporter and Theresa Spence.
The feeding frenzy has begun and the sharks have gathered, maddened by the smell of blood in the water.
The Senate Board of Economy is now investigating Senator Brazeau for abuses of both the Housing Allowance and his expense account and many, including some in the mainstream media and many in the NDP, including that bastion of morality Charlie Angus, are calling for his expulsion from the Senate. Apparently the NDP don't support the presumption of innocence unless it's for one of their own and the mainstream media seem to just enjoy a good lynchin'.
As far as this blog is concerned, continuing events and attitudes only further legitimize the rest of this post.
Well – that didn't take long.
Senator Patrick Brazeau was arrested this morning over a domestic disturbance incident and he's already been removed from the Conservative Caucus in the Senate. We don't even know what the actual charge is yet and he hasn't been found guilty of anything but to hell with presumption of innocence. Social media has already convicted him and written him off as just another 'irresponsible Indian'.
Apparently, so have the Conservatives. Politics is becoming increasingly ethically-challenged and not merely on one side of the aisle.
Conservative Dean Del Mastro is under investigation for illegal campaign contributions but he remains in caucus. Former Liberal Cabinet Minister Joe Fontana is charged with fraud but he remains Mayor of London. Former Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne was convicted of fraud and sentenced to six months in prison. He was removed from both the Liberal Senate Caucus and the Senate but only after he was convicted an most likely only because it's pretty much impossible to attend sessions from prison.
The New Democratic Party was charged with illegal fund raising and was fined more than $300,000 and the Liberals got caught hiding the fact that one of their Senators was suffering from dementia and had been declared legally incompetent; a fact they tried to cover up in order to try and prevent the government from replacing her.
Various senators are being investigated for misuse of the residency grant that is available to senators who live in other parts of the country but who require a residence in Ottawa to attend to their duties. Liberal Senator Mac Harb, for example, represented Ottawa Centre in the House of Commons prior to being called to the Senate. He worked and lived in Ottawa before moving into politics. As a resident of Ottawa, Senator Harb would not be entitled to the residency grant but no need to worry, he suddenly has two residences with his primary residence declared to be in Pembroke, Ontario.
Too many politicians lately just don't seem to get it. If you have to do some fancy dancing to qualify for extra cash, then you aren't really entitled to it.
Despite the continual accusations about the Conservatives undermining democracy with fraudulent RoboCalls, the only politician actually charged was in fact a Liberal. MP Frank Valeriote, who after being found in violation of both CRTC regulation and the Elections Canada Act, remains a sitting member.
And, of course, there was AdScam where Liberal bagmen literally handed out taxpayer cash to supporters in dingy diners in Montreal in brown paper bags. Some of bagmen went to prison but no politician was ever removed from office or the caucus.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Our government – the people's government – is being played like a cheap violin by political parties with situational ethics and practices. People like Senator Brazeau and Helena Guergis are removed from office before anything is proven while some who are actually convicted sail on through.
It almost makes you feel sorry for Ms Guergis who was unceremoniously booted from her position as a Cabinet Minister based on unsubstantiated rumours and from the Conservative Caucus on flimsy accusations that were later found to have no basis in fact. I said almost. The woman was a train wreck as a Cabinet Minister.
We don't make it any better for ourselves because we play right along.
Instead of demanding the highest possible ethical standard from all politicians and their parties, we ignore the sins of those we support while loudly condemning those we oppose. We are quick to judge harhly our opponents, usually before the facts are known and even quicker to defend our guy long after the facts have revealed wrong-doing and ethical breaches.
We litter social media with hysterical accusations and self-righteous comments about the accused or in his or her defense and the media throw gas on the fire. The National Post lost no time in getting up a poll to measure support for having Senator Brazeau removed from the Senate.
Well why not? He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet but why wait for the facts or a trial. Grab a rope and string the bastard up. We have other things to do.
Nobody has bothered to stop and ask, "What happens if the allegations turn out to be fraudulent and he isn't even charged let alone found guilty?" There was a time when it was considered appropriate for a member of the government to step aside when they came under investigation. It was understood that they would be welcomed back should their name be cleared. This sometimes slash and burn and alternatively deny, deny, deny is simply corrupt gamesmanship.
This isn't the first time this kind of lynch-mob mentality has occurred and it won't be the last but every time I watch it happen, I always have the same thought. I always wonder just how happy those who are so quick to condemn without knowing the facts would be to have themselves condemned before the truth in their situation was known, especially if they were innocent.
Judging by how hurt and even crushed many are when somebody unfollows them on Twitter or unfriends them on Facebook, I doubt they would handle being harshly judged by the mob very well at all.
I don't expect much from many on social media. It's a jungle that you take seriously at your own peril but I do have a higher standard for those who govern us and it isn't being met.
Either everyone should be removed from their cabinet position or their caucus when arrested and charged or none should until after they have been convicted. This selective approach to the appearance of ethics is a sham designed more to protect the party and some loyal members than to protect the institution of the people's Parliament.
I find it disturbing that so many of us not only simply accept the game but support it. But to be honest, I don't find it all that surprising that we are seldom satisfied by the government we get because quite frankly, based on our own convenient and ideology-based ethics, we usually get the government we deserve."I know a lot of fancy dancers – people who can glide you 'cross the floor they move so smooth but have no answers, when you ask them "why'd you come here for?" – Cat Stevens
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Reid learned Italian on a Roman playground when he was 12 years old while his father, Frank, a painter and professor at Tyler School of Art, was teaching at the school's Temple University Rome campus. That's how Reid ended up spending his adolescence exploring Europe in a hippie-orange VW camper van with his parents.
Reid later took a break from his studies in Cornell's anthropology department to spend his own junior year abroad in Italy.
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Reid lectures regularly on Italy and other travel topics at the Smithsonian Institution, and has spoken at many other venues, including the New York Times Travel Show, the New York's Explorer's Club, many bookstores and libraries, and various professional conferences, including those of SATW (the Society of American Travel Writers, where he was elected to serve as the Active-at-Large).
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In addition to ReidsItaly.com, Reid also maintains the award-winning ReidsGuides.com trip-planning site (and its offspring sites NoFrillsAir.com and BeyondHotels.net), which has been recommended by CNN, USA Today, Smart Money, the Washington Post, MSNBC.com, Frommers.com, Fodors.com, Men's Health, Away.com, and National Geographic Traveler, and was been proclaimed "Among the best" by Arthur Frommer.
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On 8 March, International Women's Day, Birungi Mayanja received from the hand of Uganda's President H.E. Y.K Museveni the medal of the Order of the Golden Jubilee for her contribution to education nationally and globally, as a teacher, an advocate for education, founder of the very dynamic Uganda National Teachers' Union, an education manager, a sport teacher, an athlete; and for her nomination to the International Commission on Financing Global Education, along with 20 other high-level people in September 2015.
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Don't feel bad; just because some can't understand what you wrote doesn't mean it's incoherent. ;-)
Now, I do agree that preparation is the key. A few weeks ago, Ricky Rood suggested that, since it was likely pointless from here on out to try to convince many unmoveable deniers (skeptics/denialists/whatever) of the overhwhelming science, those supporting AGWT should simply declare victory and move on to toward the next stage, which is preparing for the numerous ill effects of rapid warming by a) making sure ourselves, our families, and our friends, are prepared, and b) try to make money off of those who refuse to budge from their current stance no matter how much science is thrown their way. So, again, I agree that preparation is key.
Having said all that, I believe you're very wrong in your take on China. To suggest that the Chinese government is ignoring its own contribution to rising CO2 levels is simply incorrect. To be blunt, China has done more to combat climate change over the past decade than has the U.S. (though that is, admittedly, not saying much). Yes, China recently overtook the U.S. as the world's leader in CO2 emsissions--but given that they have roughly four times as many people as we do, one would expect them to be putting out more CO2. (FWIW, India's per capita CO2 output is 1.4 tonnes. China's is 6. In the U.S., it's a whoppping 17.) And China's leaders, for all their shortcomings, seem to understand that even their current rate of output is unsustainable, so they are working feverishly on expanding into clean energy. Last year, more than 1/3 of all new wind power installations in the world were in China. China has doubled its solar energy capacity in just the past two years. China is the world leader in hydropower. And so on.
In short, it's hugely unfair for those of us in the West to look at emerging powers like China and India and blame the rapid rise in CO2 on them. And it's foolish for us to throw our hands up as some are doing and say, "They don't care, so why should we?" Would that some of our elected leaders had the vision to follow China's lead.
On a related note, perhaps more volcanic eruptions like the one in Iceland last year might be a good thing CO2-wise: while the volcano emitted about 150,000 tonnes of CO2 each day at the peak of its activity, the cancellation of 60% of flights in and around the area saved 344,109 tonnes of CO2 per day, for a net savings of 206,465 tonnes per day. ;-)
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The influence of patent protection on firm innovation investment in manufacturing industries
Countries enact various mechanisms, such as patent protection, to encourage, protect, and reward firm innovation. The degree to which these mechanisms afford firms protection over their intellectual property influences the innovation strategy that firms pursue and innovation investments they make. To date, empirical evidence on the relationship between patent protections and firm innovation is lacking, despite the relationship being the subject of intense theoretical and policy debate. To further consider the influences on firm innovation, we test the influence of a country's patent rights and changes in them on firm-level investment in innovation. Data for 706 firms competing in ten manufacturing industries across 29 countries were gathered and analyzed. Even after controlling for various firm, industry, and national factors, there is a strong positive influence of patent rights and changes in patent rights on a firm's propensity to invest in innovation. In addition, we consider the sensitivity of this result to alternative measures of patent and other intellectual property protection. We also find that the influence of patent rights on firm-level innovation varies across industries for example, the impact appears greatest in the scientific instruments and industrial chemicals industries.
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I recently wrote about one of my favorite topics, volatility and how to trade both the bullish and bearish sides concurrently.
I suppose that if I really thought about it, volatility has long been a favorite of mine as it is at the very core of the ability to create revenue streams from selling covered calls or puts. The more volatile the better, as long as there's some attempt to return to the mean that has meaning for me.
Most people would, justifiably, consider covered call writing to be an essentially conservative and pessimistic strategy. Equally justifiably they would criticize the technique for underperforming during a bull market.
Neither of those assertions have ever concerned me, though, as equally valid is the assertion that the ability to protect your portfolio during a downturn is far more valuable than the opportunity costs of having missed a bull run. Don't believe that? Then just do a little exercise and see what your empirical response is to a very simple question.
Which is more likely to occur? A 20% fall in prices or a 25% rise? In absolute terms, the two are identical, but a 20% drop in prices requires a 25% rise in order to get back to even. It may be the same $20 dollars on every $100, but once investor psychology and emotions take hold, climbing that mountain becomes a bit harder as the most pessimistic of traders take opportunities to cut losses during the climb back and undercut the climb. They help to create the "two steps forward, one step backward" phenomenon.
The fact that I am a conservative investor by nature doesn't preclude the use of potentially volatile and speculative investment vehicles. Despite all of the cautionary warnings regarding leveraged ETFs and, even worse, ETNs that ostensibly have no value, there are many opportunities to use a potential poison as an antidote.
Do you remember the classic book "The Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison? The secret to the most pure of pure white paints was just a tiny drop of adulterating black paint. Sometimes, it's the counterintuitive thinking that moves you beyond the banal.
In a previous article "When is Speculation Not Speculative?" I focused on a year's experience with ProShares UltraShort Silver ETF (NYSEARCA:ZSL) and only casually made mention of the ProShares UltraSilver ETF (NYSEARCA:AGQ). As their names imply they are both leveraged, while they track silver prices inversely or directly, respectively.
Silver itself, as many will tell you, is a speculative choice within an already speculative category. Forget about your grandfather's day when its movements were very predictably related to that of gold, with a sacrosanct 35:1 ratio. Forget about trying to be its master, as its price movements have confounded the most deep-pocketed and successful investors.
So why would a conservative sort look to silver and to leverage, beyond that? The answer is that within the underlying unpredictability there is safety, thanks to the uber-speculators who seek to further leverage their game play through the purchase of options on the already leveraged products.
While ZSL and AGQ move in opposite directions in response to silver's price action, if their share numbers are balanced against one another -- as there is a large price-per-share differential -- theoretically, on any given day, the loss on one side of the equation is equally offset by a gain on the other position.
Well, at least that meets one of the goals of investing, which is to not lose money. It just leaves the other objective, that of making money out of reach.
But imagine having sold calls on both of those positions. Reflective of their volatility, those option premiums that you, as the seller, receive are quite nice and help form the basis for a very meaningful return on investment.
The key, however, is deciding how to enter into the trade. Ultimately, what entry point you use determines how you subsequently manage the silver-centric portion of your portfolio.
What's necessary is the patience to wait for a large move in one direction or another. Essentially, having an opinion as to direction may be counterproductive, as opinions and biases introduce emotion rather than allowing events to determine appropriate actions. By patience that may mean on any given day, as the market has recently been prone to outsized moves.
Consider the possible entry points following a large decline in silver price, as illustrated in the table below.
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Since you have no existing positions, the only actions available are to either purchase AGQ or sell the AGQ puts.
If you opt to sell puts, you must decide whether to sell "near the money," "in the money" or "out of the money" options. That decision is a personal one and must balance risk and reward, knowing that the greatest premium achieved would derive from selling in the money puts, as long as silver prices recovered sufficiently before the contract expiration date, in return for the greatest risk of assignment. Regardless, you should always choose a strike price at which you would be comfortable owning shares, because sooner or later your contract will be exercised and you will own those shares. Of course, that presents the opportunity of then selling calls on your newly owned shares.
On the other hand, your entry point in response to the decrease in silver prices could simply have been the decision to purchase of AGQ and then selling calls on the long position. Now, if in the course of owning shares of AGQ the price of silver continues to rise, that offers an opportunity to execute a ZSL-centric strategy, even while owning shares of AGQ or short the puts. The choices would be to buy shares of ZSL and sell calls, or to sell puts.
If short the puts and witnessing a rise in silver, an investor can simply close out the position and use the funds to either purchase shares of ZSL or sell calls, again using the same guiding principles as with the original AGQ decision. The precisely opposite approach is taken if silver presents with a price surge and you are ready to enter into the trading cycle.
Due to the liquidity of the AGQ market over ZSL, for both the underlying shares and options, my preference where possible is to initiate on the AGQ side, but I wouldn't sacrifice a good entry opportunity with ZSL if it came along the way. The volatility in the silver market can easily be an intraday phenomenon and offers many opportunities to the investor who has the ability to monitor the movement and the desire to capitalize on those quirky moves in response to the stream of conflicting rumors coming from Europe.
It may not be unusual to find yourself opening and closing a position during the course of the day and perhaps even initiating a new position in the same vehicles and in the same direction as you had when the day started. Keeping track of where you started may prove difficult, but getting lost in realized profits more than offsets getting lost in the history of your trades.
As a potential complication, the ZSL only offers monthly options, whereas AGQ has both weekly and monthly. An additional obstacle is that ZSL recently had a 5-to-1 reverse stock split. As result, some new strike prices -- particularly those that when divided by five yield a strike price in dollars and cents, such as would a post-split strike of $67 -- have very little open interest and have wide bid-ask ranges. I expect that situation will change, possibly from the elimination of some of those strike levels, if necessary.
Now, if I could figure out a similar strategy to deal with the 25-ounce bar of silver that I purchased more than 30 years ago that still hasn't reached its breakeven price, I'd really be a very happy person.
Disclosure: I am long AGQ, ZSL. I may sell puts on either ZSL or AGQ as price movements warrant and currently have sold calls on both, with the possibility of closing one or both positions in the very near future.


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In the aftermath of the Fulani pogrom unleashed on residents of Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani LGA, the chief security officer and Governor of Enugu State have maintained he alerted security forces in the state hours before the attack happened.
According to Ugwuanyi, "On Sunday, April 24, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo-Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the state. I immediately summoned a meeting of the State Security Council which commenced by 10 pm.
"The meeting was attended by the following: Garrison Commander, Brigadier General Olufemi Akinjobi who normally represents the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army; the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nwodibo Ekechukwu; the State Director of Department State Security Services (DSS), Mr. M. Abdul Malik; the State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Lar Stephen; Representatives of the Nigerian Air force, Federal Road Safety Corps and Nigerian Prison Services, who attended as observers.
"In the meeting, we received assurances from the Commissioner of Police that the Area Commander of SARS was on ground in Nimbo. That the Anti-Terrorism Unit was at Nimbo. That he was in contact with the Kogi State Commissioner of Police and reported suspected herdsmen grouping at Odolu in Kogi State preparatory for an attack on Nimbo and Abbi communities. That Police mobile force and conventional police were already drafted to Nimbo and Abbi communities.
Sadly enough, the Fulani invasion took place leaving scores dead. In reaction to this revelation, the Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC) issued an ultimatum to all Hausa-Fulani herdsmen in seven Southern Nigerian States including Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Delta, Imo and Rivers, to vacate their lands in 3 days. The directive was signed by the National Vice President of the group, Mazi Obinna Achuonye and the Chairmen of OYC.
In response, Fulani herdsmen and pety traders of Northern extraction have vacated towns and coties in South-East. They have joined forces with Fulani herdsmen who are currently regrouping in the forests around Amalla in Udenu Local Government and Umuogbo Agu and Ette border in Igboeze North Local Government areas of the state.
Recall that Fulani herdsmen relocated their cattle from Uzo Uwani LGA and neighboring LGAs before hitting Nimbo.


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Bloggers: a culture phenomenon or an epidemic issue?
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There are many questions about the invasion of fashion bloggers. Why are they so credited? Why do they sit in front row? Why does the Chamber of Italian Fashion thinks so highly of them, so much as to provide them with a driver during the shows as it's happened during menswear?
Are they important for Vogue? Do we need all these bloggers? They don't offer an opinion but only talk about themselves, take their own pictures wearing absurd outfits. What's the point? I don't even know who they are except a few names because they are so many and all the same, they are so worried about what to wear to get noticed that my eyes only see a crowd in the end.
They want to be recognized during the shows. I see many of them because they tell me their names, or I ask, because they are sitting front row, but I forget quickly. They are the bloggers, like the veline, no one has a real name. It's a category. Anonymous, but real.
They don't do much damage because they are like moths. They live only one night. If they last longer, it's not because they are better bloggers or their blog is more interesting. It's a trend and like it happens with all trends in fashion, it gets blown up out of proportion and creates many followers.
Still, it's an interesting phenomenon because it changes the approach to fashion. These aren't people who have been working in fashion too long to end up criticizing everything, the shows, and they don't have a background in fashion so they are not conditioned by their knowledge or interests. There comments are naif and enthusiastic. They don't hold a real importance in the business. Of course not.
Personally I would like to know their opinion to understand a new point of view and not just rely on journalists "who have been doing this for thirty years!" Not being biased at times helps to see what people who work in this industry miss.
Non reliable opinions? It doesn't matter because what matters is having different opinions from all kinds of people with different backgrounds. Journalists can be harsh in their comments. These are partly personal opinions too. At the end if we are being honest, who comments and who buys? Who should we listen to; the buyer or the journalist? Why not a blogger?
There some bloggers that are outstanding. Girls and boys who dictated their own style, at times circus like, but personal. They are original, they have invented a new way of communication.
Not all trends are nice and not all bloggers are good, but so it's for designers and journalists. Time is needed to emerge, and when you make it, to resist. Time decides what's successful or not. What makes history. The blogger phenomenon is too young, too new.
Lets wait a minute before acclaiming it or hating it. There are still a lot of people who don't know what blogger means, and none of us knows how it will evolve. It's still under observation. The only thing I can say with certitude it's that if it were a disease, we would call it a viral cold. An epidemic!
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DENTON, Texas – Residents, business and residential renters, and business owners in Bellaire, Texas can now enjoy a 5 to 15 percent reduction in flood insurance premiums because of the city's active participation in the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS).
This means those policyholders who reside in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) will receive a 15 percent reduction on flood insurance premiums, and policyholders located outside the SFHA will enjoy a 5 percent discount.
In addition to lower premiums, the rating program helps to reduce the threat of damage from flooding, according to officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "The flood insurance program rewards communities for implementing programs and policies that protect their residents from flooding," said FEMA Region 6 Administrator Tony Robinson. "Bellaire's higher regulatory standards, public education outreach, drainage system maintenance and effort at developing additional flood data, among other activities, have earned the city lower premiums as a CRS Class 7 Community."
The reduction in flood insurance premiums represents an annual savings in premium costs for Bellaire policy holders and will take effect at the time a new policy is written or an effective policy is renewed. Those individuals and business owners with a Preferred Risk Policy will not receive premium rate credits under the CRS because it already has a lower premium than other policies.
The city's participation in the program has been beneficial in many respects. In addition to the reduction in insurance premiums, local officials are more knowledgeable about floodplain management and residents are more knowledgeable about mitigation and flood insurance. The CRS program has helped make Bellaire a safer place to live, reduced the economic impact of flood hazards and saved their citizens money on flood policy premiums.
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