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(Serves 6)
2 bunches of leafy carrots
50g beef dripping
100g butter
100g honey
100g Lyonnaise onions, blitzed to a puree with a blender
40g caramelised walnuts
For the Lyonnaise onions:
6 small white onions, thinly sliced
150g sliced beef fat
2tsp salt
Half tsp picked thyme leaves
For the caramelised walnuts:
400g caster sugar
400g water
200g walnut halves
Oil, for deep-frying
Maldon salt
1. First make the Lyonnaise onions. Combine the onions with the beef fat and salt in a heavy-based saucepan and place over a low heat. Add the thyme and gently stew until the onions begin to caramelise, stirring occasionally. This takes a couple of hours to do properly. When the onions are a rich golden brown colour, remove from the heat and strain off any excess fat.
2. Make the caramelised walnuts. In a heavy-based saucepan, warm the sugar and water over a low heat. Once the sugar has dissolved, drop the walnuts in. Bring to a medium simmer until the water reaches 116C on a kitchen thermometer. Meanwhile, heat some oil for deep-frying in a small saucepan to 180C. Drain the walnuts through a colander and shake off the excess sugar syrup. While the walnuts are still hot, deep-fry them in the hot oil for 15-20 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon and leave to drain on kitchen paper. Season generously with Maldon salt.
3. Preheat the oven to 190C.
4. Cut the tops away from the carrots, leaving 3cm of stalk still attached. Pick the green leaves off the tops, wash and reserve. Peel and wash the rest of the carrots.
5. Coat the carrots in the beef dripping in a small roasting tray and season with salt. Roast for 15 minutes before adding the butter and honey. Mix well and roast for another 15 minutes.
6. Leave the carrots to rest while you heat the onion puree and roughly chop the walnuts.
7. To serve, get yourself a sharing dish or platter and start by spreading over the warm onion puree. Add a layer of carrots and pour over the carrot resting juices and fats. Finally, sprinkle over the carrot top leaves and the caramelised walnuts.
l The Quality Chop house: Modern Recipes And Stories From A London Classic by William Lander, Daniel Morgenthau & Shaun Searley, published by Quadrille, £30.


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For Chennai-based Vortex Engineering, this makes for a huge business opportunity. With its portfolio of innovative automated teller machines (ATMs), the company is all set to aid banks in reaching out to unbanked and under-banked regions. The company is backed by investors like Tata Capital, Aavishkaar, Ventureast, Oasis and IFC. Vortex has ATMs that are tailor-made for the Indian rural milieu. Its indigenous Gramateller ATM can run on solar power, has a builtin uninterrupted power supply (UPS), doesn't need air-conditioning, prints receipts in regional languages, is designed to work in extreme temperatures and can operate through biometric authentication. Its Ecoteller model is a low-cost, low-power-consuming machine.
As reported in various media and on the company's website, "Conventional ATMs are designed [for] a developed-world scenario — they require airconditioning and consume 1,500 to 2,000 watts of power. It is an unviable and expensive proposition to install them in rural or semi-urban areas [in India] where the transaction amounts are low and operational costs are high. The people in these areas, therefore, end up traveling 15 to 30 miles to access banking services," says Mr V Vijay Babu, CEO of Vortex. According to Babu, the overall cost (installation, operations, etc.) of Vortex ATMs works out to 35% to 50% less than conventional ATMs, which typically cost around US$6,000.
Vortex currently has more than 800 ATMs deployed in the country. Of these, over 300 are solar. "We have orders to set up 9,000 ATMs in the next two years. We opened our second manufacturing facility in January this year, upgrading our capacity from 100 ATMs to 900 ATMs per month. We closed last fiscal [year] with a turnover of US$2 million and are targeting US$7 million this year," adds Babu. The company also has been exporting its machines to SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations and a few African countries over the past six months. Mr Babu's optimism is rooted in pure numbers. "Though India has seen a four-fold increase in the number of ATMs in the past four years — from 25,000 in January 2008 to 100,000 in December 2012 - [the country's] ATM industry is largely underdeveloped. It is also the fastest growing ATM market in world… expected to touch 250,000 by 2015."
Other players are not far behind. NCR Corporation has rolled-out a host of new ATMs with features including solar power, biometric readers and a text-to-speech engine that provides detailed instructions for the visually challenged user. Mr Ashok Shankar, solutions deployment manager for NCR India, was quoted in the press thus: "The market dynamics have changed significantly in the last year.… As part of the new announcement by the ministry of finance, PSU banks will roll out over 60,000 ATMs in rural India by 2014. Our new ATMs particularly address the challenges that banks could face in rural India."
The opportunity comes with its set of challenges, though. "Unless financial literacy is in place, chances of people adopting these modes of technology seem bleak. RBI is taking proactive steps in this direction, which will hopefully address the behavioral and psychological barriers that people have," according to business and financial services experts.
According to Mr Babu of Vortex, loading cash in ATMs that are geographically dispersed in semi-urban and rural areas is a huge logistical challenge. But he believes that it is a short-term concern. "As the ATM density increases, this problem will get addressed automatically."
Industrial Spectrum September 2014
The Third Edition of IMS Foundation and Laghu Udyog Bharati's flagship event 'IMS Manufacturing Trade Fair India and Manufacturing Show-2014 organized in Bangalore turned out to be a grand success. Innovations and Quality which was the focus theme of this edition got the right orientation at the show as many high-end innovative and precision engineering products were showcased to the audience. Innovation and Quality are the two constant drivers that are driving the MSME sector in the country.
The theme for the third edition aptly focused on 'Renewed focus on the Indian Manufacturing Industry: Make in India' as that is what exactly Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi is pitching in for considering the huge business potential and the quality outlook change among the foreign countries towards India in the recent years. Within the overarching agenda to facilitate India's transformation into an economically vital, technologically innovative, socially and ethically vibrant global leader by year 2022, IMS Foundation's focus this year was on the revival of the Manufacturing sector, Economic growth, fast tracking Infrastructure and improved Governance. Each of these is inter-connected in the GDP growth of our nation.
IMS 2014 was also an exclusive business-to-business exhibition, the single largest convergence of the best talent from the manufacturing and engineering industries across the globe. The uniqueness of this Edition was about interacting and networking with international and national audiences including global manufacturers, investors, diplomats, Government officials and industry stalwarts and understand the investment in Technology, Quality systems and Applications development.
Over 200 CEOs, domain experts, top bureaucrats, senior quality and strategic planning professionals from across the nation were present at the three-day Summit to exchange and share their inputs. This edition had highly narrowed sessions on Innovation, Aspiring Entrepreneurship and vendor development with speakers sharing their thought processes and experiences to the participants. Keeping in view the fast changing world economic dynamics and how India Inc has to make its moves to grab business opportunities at the world markets, deliberation topics were chosen to derive maximum knowledge sharing on a single platform. Concerns related to economy, infrastructure, governance, quality and innovation were discussed exhaustively. Thought leaders from industry, government officials and domain experts shared their perspectives on contemporary topics and provided ample pathways for MSME sector to learn from experiences and incorporate best practices to meet challenges ahead on.
We hope to make the next edition coming up in 2016 a much bigger event and the ground work has already begun in that direction.
Mr. Anand Mahindra's recorded speech delivered at the IMS 2012 Curtain Raiser.
The timing of the India Manufacturing Show 2012 is very fortuitous because I truly believe that we might be on the threshold of a new era for manufacturing in India. Manufacturing in India has always reminded me of those fairy tales where the quiet, diligent, honest heroine is constantly pushed aside and overshadowed by her more high profile and glamorous sister. In India we have leapfrogged from the age of agriculture to the age of Information Technology without really going through an Industrial Revolution between the two. And as a result manufacturing for the last couple of decades has consistently been eclipsed by its more glamorous sibling, Information Technology. Happily, I think that situation is about to be rectified. With the adoption of the National Manufacturing Policy last October I am hopeful that manufacturing will finally get the focus that it deserves. It is after all the missing piece in India's growth story.
The preface to the new Policy recognizes the stagnant state of the manufacturing sector, and the need to accelerate its development. And here's a very good reason for doing this: For the first time there is a real pull for giving manufacturing the support it deserves. If India is to reap the benefits of its much-wanted demographic dividend, 220 million jobs will have to be created by the year 2025. And this is going to be impossible without a major contribution from the manufacturing sector. The Policy envisages that 100 million out of these 220 million jobs - a full 45% - will have to come from the manufacturing sector. And if this doesn't happen, we will have an angry and unemployed population of young people whose disenchantment will turn the demographic dividend into a demographic disaster. So almost overnight manufacturing has moved from playing a side role to being the lead actor on the economic stage. And this is an opportunity that we must seize with both hands.
The two large national goals of increasing the contribution of manufacturing to 25% of GDP and creating 100 million jobs have now to become our goals. The Government is displaying an appreciation of the potential that manufacturing holds and an intention to support it fully. I must particularly mention the efforts of the Government of Karnataka and express my thanks for its vision and its constant proactive support.
Government support is welcome and is necessary and I know that all my fellow manufacturers will leverage it to the fullest. But I would like to emphasize that the responsibility to achieve and outperform on the goals is really ours. I would even say that the goal of contributing 25% of GDP is not ambitious enough for a large sector like manufacturing. Why not 35%? Why not 50%? I believe the Government policies set out the baseline goals. But it is for us manufacturers to embrace the goals and indeed to enhance and to outstrip them. Government policy is but the supportive framework, the actions and the efforts have to be ours.
That's why I think the timing of the India Manufacturing Show is so perfect. At just the right moment, it offers a platform for the entire manufacturing fraternity across the spectrum to meet, to learn and collaborate with each other and with global players. It offers knowledge through technical seminars & inputs and networking through vendor development programes. Whether your industry is large, medium or small it offers a forum where you can add value to your business. It is a platform to dream, to act and to achieve.
The IMS Foundation supported by the Reliance Broadcast Network and Bloomberg TV has worked relentlessly to give a thrust to the manufacturing sector. This Show has set itself the ambitious goal of becoming the best B2B platform for Indian manufacturers globally. With supportive Government policies also falling into place it seems to me that this is the right time and the right place to make a concerted thrust to take the manufacturing sector to the next level of performance.
All the planets seem to be in alignment so to speak, for a very great leap forward. I would urge all of you in the manufacturing sector to make full use of this opportunity and to use this platform to grow your business and at the same time to grow the nation.
I am always inspired by the story of the Chairman of Sony Corporation who in 1946, amidst the ashes of Japan's defeat in World War II articulated a seemingly impossible vision. In 1946, when Japan was on her knees, he said that Sony would see to it that in 50 years, the words 'Made in Japan' would stand for the best quality in the world. And he achieved that goal in far less than 50 years. I too dream of a time in the not too distant future when the words "Made by India" which is the tagline of the India Manufacturing Show, will stand for outstanding global quality. I believe that the India Manufacturing Show is the first step to facilitate and kick-start this ambition. With your help and your participation I have no doubt that we will move manufacturing from playing just a side role to being the hero of India's economic story
Industrial Spectrum August 2014
It has taken just about 100 Modi days for the green shoots of hope to break through the topsoil of policy paralysis and despondence that the National Democratic Alliance government inherited in May this year. Official figures released by the government indicates the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 5.7 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal, up from the 4.6 per cent growth rate recorded in the preceding quarter. Growth in the manufacturing, mining and financial services sectors are the steeds the latest economic turnaround is riding.
With the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government pushing hard to bolster the economy through fast clearance of growthoriented projects and other affirmative action - in sharp contrast with the previous United Progressive Alliance government - positivity seems to have been unlocked.
Economic growth has hit a two-and-a-half-year high during the AprilJune quarter, the highest in 10 consecutive quarters. Experts say that we are at the starting point of the pickup in the growth cycle in India. The pickup in growth was mainly on account of a rebound in the manufacturing and mining sectors. Manufacturing which makes up nearly 15 per cent of the economy, expanded by 3.5 per cent in the three months to end June, recovering from a 1.4 per cent annual contraction in the past quarter.
According to the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the business confidence index continued to show an upward trend for the quarter ended June 2014. But there is an apple cast upset. Despite claiming the strongest election mandate in 30 years, Modi lacks the majority required in the Rajya Sabha to assure him of approval for key bills. In the first three months of his term, Modi has focused on incremental measures like faster regulatory clearances to make it easier to do business. But he has yet to hit his stride in tackling structural reforms, such as a proposed General Sales Tax that would unify the market, needed to revive investment and deliver sustainable growth. That has already delayed the proposed legislation to increase Foreign Direct Investment limits in the insurance and pension sector. Meanwhile, India Inc. has cheered the rebound in the economy by saying it expects the GDP to pick up further on the back of conducive investment policies and reforms, which is expected to follow in a phased manner.
May 2013 | Industrial Spectrum
If reports are anything to go by, Indian SMEs are going green and this is not just about green technology. SMEs across the board are adopting greener technology. Increased exposure to environment-friendly solutions is prompting small companies to adopt green technologies and resort to non-polluting modes of production.
Earlier the main deterrent was the high cost, according an official of the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII). High cost of clean and energy efficient technologies acted as a deterrent for these small units to go green. A near total lack of indigenous development of green technologies was cited as the main culprit. However, the scenario is changing as SMEs are now collaborating globally to adopt cleaner, greener practices.
Many Indian SMEs are entering into tie-ups with firms across the world to develop green manufacturing technologies and eco-friendly production processes, according to a report recently published in the Economic Times. In an important development SMEs, which have been in quest of environment friendly technologies, signed an agreement with the European Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The agreement was signed with Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) in this regard. According to a FISME official, formalising cooperation with Europeans would positively impact the efforts of SMEs' access to green technologies. Indian SMEs are continuously under pressure of supply chains to improve and upgrade technologies which are environment-friendly and sustainable.
The European Union needs "more robust" SME policies in order to create jobs and economic growth and to face up to globalisation and energy and environmental challenges, EU competitiveness ministers concluded at an informal meeting in Lisbon recently. Besides, as part of their social responsibility and support to environmental concerns of the country, SMEs are adopting energy efficient, zero emission technologies. The Gujarat example seems to have inspired companies across the country to adopt these technologies as SMEs in Vapi, Ankleswar and other industrial areas of Gujarat have proved that greener technologies are cost-effective in the long run.
Through the FISME programme, co-funded by the European Union and implemented by Euro Chambers, the Indian SMEs will connect to an association of more than 1,200 European industry bodies and which voices the interests of over 19 million member enterprises in 45 European countries.
However, it's not smooth going. Particular focus should be given to developing new methods of financing for start-ups and reducing the "disproportional regulatory and administrative burden" placed on small companies in comparison with larger ones, said industry sources, citing a study showing that, on average, where a big company spends `62 per employee because of a regulatory duty, a small business might have to spend up to 700. "That's clearly a big difference," says the CII official.
It has been estimated that manufacturers and assemblers of electronic equipment in India alone generate about 1,200 tonnes of electronic waste per year. India's burgeoning scrap business also attracts substantial amount of degraded components from the developed countries, which adds to the alarming volume of e-waste is a critical issue. However, this problem has been addressed to a certain extent through the initiation of environmental protection and pollution control measures across the globe.
This also sends a message to buyers out there, especially in the western markets. Companies are opting for environment management systems (EMS) to send a strong message to their environmentally conscious buyers in the world market. Some big IT companies like Wipro and Infosys have already begun sharing their internal green computing practices with their clients. Increasing awareness about such technologies is enabling SMEs to tread the green path in the face of growing environmental concerns. Green practices by SMEs will pave the way for a cleaner and greener environment for future entrepreneurs ability in adopting the right cleaner production concepts in production process, know-how in eco-product design, identifying a cost-effective pollution control technology, understanding the local and global legal requirements in environmental protection, proper ways in responding global environmental supply chain pressures, strategic planning for long-term environmental improvement and obvious constraints from capital and human resources.


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Anyone who knows me will confirm I'm not the most astute or taste-appreciating clothes shopper in the world. Back home, I'd honed it down to a fine internet-based art, using up minimum time and brain capacity. I don't read enough Chinese to enjoy the same luxury here, so face-to-face, time-consuming shopping is my only option.
Don't let me give you the impression that shopping for clothes in Taipei is an unpleasant experience. It is not, as evidenced by the hordes of people I encountered today. Department stores, independent retailers, night markets, malls; the choices are legion. I'm told in Yonghe in west Taipei, there are streets of clothing shops.
Here in eastern Taipei, my choices revolve around large malls such as Sogo, global chains such as Uniqlo, Esprit, Zara and Benetton, or any of the thousands of independent shops on streets or in night markets. Personally, I prefer to shop in large stores, but would like to buy clothes at independent retailers. Their clothes are more interesting and individual. However, shop owners usually attach themselves to you as soon as you enter the shop, and then, if you actually buy something, keep offering additional items all through the transaction process. In a large store, I have freedom to indulge my various clothes shopping neuroses in peace (though not quiet).
Zhongxiao East Road between Zhongxiao Fuxing and Zhongxiao Dunhua MRT stations seemed as good a place as any to stock up on warm winter clothes. I walked from one station to the other, visiting the shops along the way, in search of such things as boots, trousers, long johns, a scarf and anything else that looked useful. Here's a flavour of the day:
I was reasonably successful. There are two Clarkes shoe shops and while I blanched at the price, my new boots are likely to last me a good while. Trouser shopping was an interesting example of West meets East. I'm a medium verging on large in Taiwanese sizing, which I found out also means a 28, or a 67, depending on where you go. But I'm the wrong shape. I mean, like most women, I always knew that, but today I had evidence to prove it.
I go out from my waist downwards - I'm including my calves in that description - but the trousers I wanted to buy went the other way, starting out large at the waist and getting narrower all the way down. Part of the problem is that 'skinny leg' and 'stretch fit' are back in fashion. (How depressing it is to write the words 'back in fashion'.) I've never had, nor will ever have, skinny legs. But I think the main fault lies with my just being a different shape to Asian women. I also discovered, by the way, that Boyfriend Fit means Doesn't Fit.
I bought long johns for my son and I at Uniqlo, as I thought Japanese technology wouldn't fail us. I also bought a big scarf that vaguely matches the one winter clothing item that came with us from the UK, a woolly hat. It seems I really like that hat.
So, I survived clothes shopping in Taipei. (Seriously, it's a great place to shop if you enjoy that kind of thing, and millions here very evidently do.)
Next week's post will be a little late, and probably a little cold, too.


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A diaspora lobby has condemned Kenyan MPs for forcing President Uhuru's nominee for Kenya's High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi to renounce her US citizenship before taking up the position.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Kenya Community Abroad (KCA) accused MPs of hypocrisy, adding that the way they have treated Ms. Mwende was a reflection of the contempt they have for Kenyans in the diaspora.
KCA, which was at the forefront in the fight for inclusion of dual citizenship clause in the 2010 Constitution, vowed to stand with Mwende.
"As someone with family in the US, it is cruel to ask a fellow Kenyan to shoot themselves in the foot in order to serve their country," the group said as quoted by Daily Nation.
"This is a familiar pattern in Kenyan politics where backdoor schemes are done to secure high-level positions. With the presidential strategizing already in place, political factions have been seeking to have their "person" in lucrative missions. Diplomatic corruption is both an international and local reality. South Korea is a coveted station that requires someone who will not give in to grand corruption schemes," it added.
The MPs' fight against Mwende is a threat to diaspora rights and a war against Kenyans living abroad, the group said.
"The sheer hypocrisy of the case has been exposed by the call to probe Members of Parliament who hold dual citizenship. The Kenyans for Justice and Development organization want eight MPs and two senators probed. This places the vetting committee's credibility in question," the group noted.
The statement was jointly signed by Ms. Mkawasi Mcharo Hall (Lecturer, Howard University, Washington DC), Dr. David Otwoma (Chief Scientist, National Commission for Science Technology and Innovation) and Dr. Warigia Bowman (Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Tulsa, OK) on behalf of KCA Board of Trustees.
Mwende has filed a case at the high court seeking to block MPs' move to force her to relinquish her US citizenship. In court documents, she argues that the move amounts to a violation of her constitutional rights.
"My US citizenship was acquired by birth and as such, my citizenship or the process of opting in was a consequence of circumstances out of my control," Mwinzi argues in an affidavit.
"I did not participate in the decision to be born in the US and I cannot "opt-out" of that decision. Article 78(3) (b) would only be applicable to people who opted in by applying for citizenship and renunciation would be the process of 'opting out'," she adds.
MPs insist that Mwinzi, a Kenyan and US citizenship holder, must renounce her American one before being deployed to Seoul.
MPs cite section 31(1) of the Leadership and Integrity Act, which bars persons with dual citizenship from holding State offices unless they renounce one.
It has been alleged that Mwende was born in the US. Do if this is true, then she has NO business renouncing her US Birthright.
The law is very clear on this matter. If she really wants the job that bad, then she should simply follow the law and renounce her citizenship. The choice is hers. I'm sure there are many other capable and qualified candidates who could fill this role. Besides, an ambassadorial role is very sensitive. Total allegiance to the motherland is a must.
If 9 Mpigs are purported to have dual citizenship and the law for bid that,then how come it has taken this long to"smoke them out"or better yet did they circumvent the law,and how...Yes this places the credibility of the vetting committee into question.
In RIO Olympics,Calvin Nkanata,a kenyan american with dual citizenship represented Kenya in 200 meters.Granted that this was not apolitical position,my take is that we should look at what the individual can do for the country as the tipping point as to whether he or she should be allowed to hold a "political" position.Its obvious that some of the Mpigs apart for fighting for big salaries for themselves practically do not produce.And many would argue that such Mpigs would be best replaced by diaspora who can make positive changes.
She is going to represent her interest and that of the person appointing her. I know of no Kenyan ambassador that serves Kenyans out thre. All I hear are complaints and corruption and fraud. She should follow the law. If she becomes ambassador to SK she will be a US citizen represented by the US ambassador to SK. That chain of linkages should not be allowed to become.


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There is something magical about making money from the stock market which is difficult to describe.
Where else can you invest a sum of money and find yourself becoming richer even though you have not lifted a finger to earn it, as the price of the stock you bought goes up?
Of course, you may encounter lemons among your investments. Companies may fail and such calamities may cause you to lose money. But if you take the trouble to analyse the company you are buying into, the likelihood is that you will come out as a winner in your investments.
The sad thing is that many investors only learn this lesson the hard way after losing a lot of money in the stock market.
Indeed, for me, my first lesson came as soon as I started working in 1986.
Just months before that, five stock-broking firms had folded and the stock market had to close for an unprecedented three days in order to clean up the mess caused by a massive fraud involving a then-major listed firm known as Pan-Electric which was on the buy list of most remisiers.
Lesson #1: Never buy a stock because someone spins you a good story. You will find that most of these stories are fairy tales. Always do your homework and understand the stock which you are buying into.
Lesson #2 came in October the following year when disaster again struck the stock market as the Straits Times Index (STI) nose-dived 25 per cent in a single day, following a 23 per cent overnight plunge on Wall Street known in history as the Black Monday crash.
It provided a foretaste of how a squall on Wall Street could transform into a mighty global tempest, as financial systems across the world become more and more intimately connected due to globalisation.
Larger markets such as New York and Shanghai will always have a bearing on local stock prices. As such, even when you have done your homework on a stock, you should consider the overall global investing environment before you make your investment decision.
Then there was the 1997/1998 Asian financial crisis when Malaysia shook the Singapore stock market to the core when it imposed capital controls on the ringgit and declared Singapore's then-thriving market trading Kuala Lumpur-listed shares to be illegal.
It rammed Lesson #3 forcefully into me: Never take for granted any additional risks which you may encounter when you make an investment outside Singapore.
Yet, investing in the stock market can be a very profitable activity if an investor displays perseverance and ignores the occasional turbulence that rocks the market.
In 1985, the STI fell to as low as 700 points following the Pan-Electric debacle. An investor who picked up blue-chips at that point would have trebled his gains over the next three decades, as the STI is now trading at 2,800.
Over the years, the make-up of the stock market has also changed significantly.
Local companies had made up the bulk of the listings here 30 years ago. But almost half of the firms listed on the Singapore Exchange are now based overseas. This has made investors as familiar with foreign firms like Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong Land and Indonesia-based Golden Agri-Resources as they are with local household names such as DBS Group Holdings, Singapore Airlines and Keppel Corp.
For me, there is never an unexciting day in the market. Over the years, I have woken up each morning looking forward to seeing how the market will perform during the day. There is nothing like a sky-rocketing stock price or a sudden plunge to get the heart pumping.
Over the years, I have come to this conclusion: To be a successful investor of the stock market, one doesn't need complicated investment strategies involving complex computer programmes.
Instead, a lay investor can succeed in his investments using a simple approach.
These strategies, outlined in my 2014 book Small Change: Investment Made Simple (Straits Times Press/98 pages/$15), include:
1. The dollar-cost averaging approach
Most investors find that the more they trade, the less likely they are to make money. Worse, they may even pile up huge transaction fees from over-trading.
To overcome this handicap, one suggestion is to adopt a "dollar-cost averaging" approach towards your investments.
This involves setting aside exactly the same sum of money every month to buy into a fund which tracks a widely-watched market gauge such as the Straits Times Index. These are called exchange-traded funds (ETF) and include the SPDR STI ETF and Nikko AM STI ETF.
When the market goes up, you will get fewer shares. But when the market is down, you get a little more.
Best of all, even if you are a salaried worker working long hours in the office and do not have the time to monitor your investments, you can open an account with a bank or brokerage to invest a fixed sum in the STI ETF every month.
This gives you a hassle-free way to invest There is no guarantee that an investor will make any money putting his savings in the STI ETF over a short period of time, but if he is willing to hold it for a long period - say, five to 10 years - he is likely to emerge a winner.
The United States market, for example, offers some insight as to what a dollar cost averaging investor can achieve if he perseveres in his effort in investing in an ETF.
If this investor had entered the US stock market in the three years after the 1929 Wall Street crash, he would still have lost about two-thirds of his money. But he would have broken even the following year in 1933, and doubled his money in 1936.
What is more extraordinary is the reward he gets if he diligently put aside US$100 every month, starting from the Great Wall Street crash in 1929, and continued to do so for 30 years. While his outlay was only US$36,000, the size of his investment would have grown to US$411,000, or more than 10 times as much.
Currently, there are four financial institutions offering a monthly investment plan on the STI ETF. They are POSB, OCBC, Phillip Securities and Maybank Kim Eng Securities. All of them allow an investor to start an investment saving plan with as little as $100 a month.
2. Go with the fund flows
One lesson from the 2008 global financial crisis for me was that stocks everywhere seem to move in lockstep most of the time.
This runs counter to the premise held by some stock analysts that an investor can hunt for undervalued stocks and buy into them in the hope that their attractiveness will eventually be recognised by others.
Tracking fund flow data - which measures the amount of money entering and leaving different markets - often offers valuable insights as to whether a market is overheating or unloved. In fact, merely following the money in and out of a market can be a very profitable endeavour.
Fund flow data also offers investors an indication as to when to re-enter the market when stock prices go on the roller-coaster.
To give an example, take the period at end-February 2009, when the global banking system teetered on the edge of collapse as US banking giant Citigroup broke US$1 in share price while HSBC Holdings tumbled 24 per cent in one day.
Those who followed fund flow data would have noticed that investors had already started streaming back into Asia, pouring US$583 million into China stocks alone in the space of one week.
It turned out to be a master stroke for those who were re-entering the market even though situation seemed bleak, with financial markets experiencing a V-shaped recovery as they responded to the measures made by then newly-inaugurated US President Barrack Obama to calm the global banking panic.
While fund flow data was once available to only well-heeled investors served by private bankers, retail investors can now tap on research reports issued by big investment banks such as CitiBank and Morgan Stanley for such information from their brokers.
3. Buy-and-hold and make good money
It is a myth that you need large sums of money to invest successfully. In fact, most of us started our investments in a small way.
In my case, I was introduced to the world of investing early in my working life when I paid $3,000 in 1986 to buy 1,000 Singapore Bus Services (SBS) shares. This was to enable me to qualify for the concessionary monthly bus travel pass which the company offered.
Even though I started driving to work some years later, I kept the shares for sentimental reasons. It turned out to be the right decision. The original SBS shares have multiplied into 16,040 ComfortDelgro shares and 1,200 SBS Transit shares which are now together worth about $50,000.
I am sure that my experience is not unique and that there are many investors who have enjoyed similar windfalls in holding on to their stock investments over the years.
As investors, we tend to spend too much of our time monitoring our investments, and this distracts us into selling the winners early. What we should do is to put our money into assets that we are comfortable with, and carry on enjoying what we are doing.


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Google is paying handsomely for a massive "acquihire."
The company said late Wednesday that it would pay HTC $1.1 billion for a team of employees of the Taiwanese phone maker, including many who have previously worked on the Google-branded Pixel phones. Separately, Google will get a non-exclusive license to HTC intellectual property.
The deal highlights Google's renewed bet on hardware.
The HTC team transferring to Google, whose size the companies did not disclose, will work under Rick Osterloh, the veteran executive that Google brought in about 18 months ago to lead a new hardware unit responsible for the Pixel phones, the Google Home smart speaker and other devices.
Ironically, Osterloh had been the top executive at Motorola, the smartphone maker which Google bought in 2012 and sold in 2014, after deciding it didn't want to be in the phone-making business after all. Until it did again a year or so later.
"Creating beautiful products that people rely on every single day is a journey, and we are investing for the long run," Osterloh wrote in a blog post announcing the transaction.
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Osterloh said many of the employees transferring from HTC to Google had worked on the Pixel phones, which Google introduced a year ago. The company is expected to announce the second version of the well-reviewed devices on October 4.
Google and HTC have been longtime partners. The Taiwanese company made the very first Android device, the HTC Dream, in 2008, just months after Apple introduced the iPhone.
HTC is not getting out of the hardware business. The company plans to continue making its own HTC-branded phones, virtual reality headsets and other devices. "This agreement is a brilliant next step in our longstanding partnership, enabling Google to supercharge their hardware business while ensuring continued innovation within our HTC smartphone and VIVE virtual reality businesses," said Cher Wang, chairwoman and CEO of HTC.


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Radio One Dallas VP/GM Tami Honesty says, "We're excited to bring a fresh, new vibe to the airwaves with Majic. With today's fast-paced news cycle, the return of Tom Joyner during mornings, and the addition of D.L. Hughley in afternoons, we'll connect with our listeners on another level, giving us the right balance of music and entertainment."
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TORONTO, July 3, 2019 /CNW/ – First Capital Realty Inc. (TSX: FCR) invites you to participate at 2:00 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, August 1, 2019 in a live conference call with senior management to discuss the Company's results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2019.
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First Capital Realty is one of Canada's largest owners, developers and operators of necessity-based real estate located in Canada's most densely populated urban centres. The Company currently owns interests in 166 properties, totaling approximately 25.3 million square feet of gross leasable area.
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In the wake of Beijing's move to enact a draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong this week, China's state-owned media outlets and foreign ministry have gleefully highlighted a statement by Cuba's delegate to the U.N. on behalf of 52 other countries lauding the law. Curiously, none of these reports mentioned any of the other countries standing with China.
The statement's co-signatories remained unknown — until this morning, when Axios published the full list.
These countries include North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Eritrea, and Belarus. Of course, none of the governments in this group have particularly admirable human-rights records; most of the 53 countries are autocracies with one-party rule. That the U.N. Human Rights Council — which earlier that day was addressed by pro-Beijing Hong Kong executive Carrie Lam — would be the forum for the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda games is unsurprising, to say the least.
More interesting, as many have pointed out online, is the geographic dispersion of the group of 53, when compared with the 27 countries that condemned the National Security Law in their own statement. The CCP allies wrap around less-developed parts of the world, tracing the path of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Meanwhile, most of the 27 opponents of the law were liberal democracies located in Europe, in addition to Canada, Japan, and Australia.
Coordinated opposition to Beijing by Western democracies has percolated for years now. In the United States, it's conventional wisdom that the past three years have seen a dramatic shift in China policy, moving from an approach that prioritizes the management of a problem to one that mitigates a threat. The coronavirus marked another sharp shift — U.S.–China relations reached new heights of acrimony, and Europe, Canada, and Australia saw an acceleration of the deterioration of their relations with Beijing. As it turns out, spreading disinformation, sentencing prisoners on political grounds, and launching massive cyberattacks has not won the CCP many friends. Meanwhile, an international coalition of legislators working on China-related issues formed in June. And political parties across the West are beginning to re-evaluate their attitudes toward China.
The events of the past week seem to mark a significant new rupture. In addition to the National Security Law, this stems from new concerns that the CCP's treatment of the Uighurs constitutes a genocide. These are only the latest outrages. We can certainly expect many more.
Will there be a united Western response? Despite the usual concerns about America's treatment of its allies in the Trump era, U.S. partners have no choice but to stand with Washington against Beijing's assaults on fundamental human rights. As the CCP rallies authoritarian regimes around its worldview at international organizations, liberal democracies catch a glimpse of how an emboldened CCP will wield its influence around the world. Fortunately, they're getting their act together.


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Operation Retroshock - Episode 118 (San Diego Comic Con 2018)
Welcome everyone to Episode 118 of Operation Retroshock!
On the agenda:
- San Diego Comic Con Special - Allan & Chris sit down in almost a bumper Retroshock News fashion and take you through and discuss alot of the things that interested them from SDCC 2018 and some from just before. Including: The Joker movie, Uncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Batwoman, Toys That Made Us, TMNT, Spiderman, Power Rangers, Buffy, Ducktales, Fantastic Beasts, Godzilla, Shazam, Aquaman & more! (Spoiler Warning for the topics above & more)
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Deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly service (UFAS) across St.-Petersburg Petr Yakovlev for submission to the General Prosecutor's office dismissed in connection with loss of trust due to false Declaration of income.
According to the Prosecutor General's office the audit compliance officer anti-corruption laws «revealed the facts of ignoring the… requirements under the representation of the information about incomes, property and obligations of property character».
In particular, said the GP, the Deputy head of the FAS in the income statements did not reflect information about the proportions of their participation in commercial organizations, and the income from them. He also reported false information about Bank accounts. The official violated the law on the state civil service without notifying the employer of their intentions to simultaneously do paid work in a commercial entity.
«By results of consideration of representation made by the General Prosecutor's office… the head of the Federal Antimonopoly service, Deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia for Saint-Petersburg dismissed from service in connection with loss of trust», — informs the General Prosecutor's office.
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By magic_hat, June 1, 2011 @ 12:20 pm
Scott, this is awesome. I've been looking for something like this for months.
Can you point me to examples of projects using this? Would be really helpful to see the code in use…
By magic_hat, June 8, 2011 @ 1:07 pm
that would great! Thanks.
By Scott, June 13, 2011 @ 12:51 am
@magic_hat – check out https://github.com/smontgomerie/Appcelerator-MVC-Demo for an example project.
By John, August 4, 2011 @ 2:01 am
Nice implementation!
Is there a way to create global variables? E.g. I want to access a certain value across all my controllers and views.
By Scott, August 4, 2011 @ 9:06 am
@John – Because of the way Appcelerator handles execution contexts, you have to pass variables from one window to the next. For example, in building a navigation controller-based app, I typically pass a pointer to the nav controller to any windows I add to the stack.
That being said, there are more hacky ways to do it, but I've never had much luck with this method. Check out:
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For LastPass admins, it is recommended that you complete the steps for enabling Multifactor Authentication in the Admin Console.
Set up and configure
- Download the Toopher authenticator app on your iOS or Android device.
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- Go to https://lastpass.com/?ac=1 and log in with your username and Master Password.
- In your web browser toolbar, click the LastPass icon then click Open My Vault.
- Select Account Settings in the left navigation.
- Click on the Multifactor Options tab.
- Click the Edit icon for Toopher Authentication.
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- For the "More Information" section, you can choose to be directed to the Help manual.
- Click Update when finished, then enter your Master Password and click Continue.
- Open the Toopher application on your mobile device, then tap Pair this device with a Toopher-enabled service. This will generate a unique 2-word pairing phrase.
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- Open the Toopher app on your mobile device.
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Please note that if you have more than one Multifactor Authentication option enabled for your account, you must select your desired default authentication option from the drop-down menu at the bottom of your Multifactor Options window in order to be prompted to authenticate with your preferred option when logging in to LastPass.
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One of my friends told me that his co-worker wanted to redesign the company website and use a lot of animated gifs to make it "exciting". (hmmmmmm.... there's a thought...)...
(on another note, welcome to "animated gif hell")...
the restaurant story
another christmas story
wild west monkey
the mailman story
Hey, I'm not crazy about animated gifs, but... I have to admit, for the time that I was initially putting this site together, I did find it kind of amusing. Yeah, it's true, I think animated gifs can be annoying, but... unless they're done in a "tasteful" way, (or... happen to be out of the ordinary), they can be pretty alright.
Now... unless you've actually gone to those particular sections where I placed the animated gifs, you'll have no idea what these here are. As for the ones in this section, no matter how silly or lame as they can be, each served their purpose, and... aside from the ones above that were used in the "
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" section, I think that the other ones were more interesting, or... at least worthwhile showing here.
alien abduction story
For example... this image here to the left, was originally for the header for a children's story I wanted to do about a boy getting abducted by aliens, and I thought it'd be really funny to do a little stick figure abduction thing, but... for what I wanted, the file was too large to have people "waiting" on it, so... modified it about as basic as i could get it. It worked out fine, but... I never was "completely" happy with it.
rotating razor blade
frog in a tea cup
turtle - love
broken heart
See... what did I tell you... ? how much fun were these animated gifs to see around this site. For those of you who have taken the time, the razor blade (above and below), are from "
songs to kill yourself to
", the frog trapped in the tea cup is right on the
main page
, (if you watch him long enough, you'll see him *blink* in a very subtle way. Uhmmmm... as for "turtle-love", (one of my favorites), well, check out the "
dark stuff
" section and also the limerick that reads next to it. Then there's the beating broken heart from the "
great love songs
" section, (which by the way, I'm considering working on a volume IV to... am very excited about that)...
slicing razor
boiling skeleton
punk-ass frog
As for the 3 animated gifs just above here, everyone who's been to the "
dark stuff
" section is sure to see the "boiling skeleton" welcoming you inside with a short disclaimer. The one in the middle was for a "job", which... I'm... kind of believing wasn't used even though I was paid for it. Was for a product called "hydrant", and... well, they wanted a dog urinating on a hydrant. Click on it check it out, it's fun.
For all those people who never take the opportunity to say "hello" or send an email my way (and believe me, I do appreciate them), you would all have missed the "
" section where there was a nice tailored form with the "punk-ass" royalty frog on it. Once again, the gif I had in mind was slightly longer, but... too long for anyone to wait to see it unless they were writing a long message. Here, you can find the full length when the frog "peaks out" a first time before actually emerging from the mug to release a fly. (Go ahead, send me email and check it out... !)...
Now... as far as this one goes, it's the original "alien abduction" gif that was cut from the site on the file size being too big. (898k). Check it out if you dare, it's pretty hefty but... funny to watch.... (sort of)...
Now... would I make any more animated gifs given the chance... ? hmmmmm.... ? I don't know... I... think I'd like to have a little fun with flash... maybe see how silly I can get...
alien abduction (original)
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The old analogy is that life is about give and take. And frankly, it is. It is the law of nature for there to be perfect harmony; two equal and opposite forces working together, constantly and each at its own time.
In society, we have been taught this principal of equality; what we give, we should receive back. That we should not give any more when he have nothing to give, or no strength to give. Or we should not give any more because we are not receiving.
But what about the quality of what it is we give? If we give a hug, should we receive the equal? If we love someone, are we right to expect the same love in return? Do we only give as much as we want to return? Society is very much enthralled in the concept of quantity and not quality. We want 'value for money', a 'return on our investment', a 'bang for our buck'. This is why we are only concerned with what we will receive for our trouble, and not the quality of what we are giving.
Two ideas come into play here. Living in the present and giving in the present. If we are concerned with what we will get, we concern ourselves with future outcomes that for some elusive reasons may or may not happen. We are inhibiting the giving, because we are already measuring the worth of our future return. To give and expect equal on return, is to shape your giving so as to try and influence the outcome. It is to be quantitative and not qualitative.
To be giving in the present, we must concern ourselves with what quality we wish to offer for the world, from the goodness of our hearts and not from the emptiness we wish to fill upon return. To give and give and give, and feel that we can keep on giving, is a true blessing. To be an endless wellspring of giving, offering, contribution with the pure attitude of non-attachment is a virtue that needs to be practised and developed daily.
It is in this way that the law of nature works. To be so concerned with giving in a non-attached way as to almost forget about receiving, is not naïve or wearying; it is truly gratifying. Because for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What I have personally noticed, is when we are not receiving what we want, when we are so focused on the 'getting' that we adjust the 'giving', it is purely because we are not giving quality. We acknowledge the lack we feel in ourselves, and dwell on it, rather than attempting to give more to the experience. A concept of Zen teacher John Daido Loori is if we practise non-attachment, we increase and experience unity. Unity is to focus on heightening experience and not to get too involved in the processes of how, when, what and why.
My goal and focus for the coming months is to focus on what I can give and offer to my experiences and in turn, through quality giving what unity I can create.
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The power needs to be given back to the people, the political food chain disrupted in what is a society the circulation of which is calcified as a result of corruption, party chains of command, and growing red tape, says the newly elected chairman of the Free Party Artur Talvik.
A punk wearing a red cap joins a party to become chairman. What is wrong with that sentence?
Former punk! (Laughs heartily.)
Is it something you can leave behind?
That red cap is so worn by today. I could have continued living in my comfort zone: be visible, address society's pain spots, and be independent and connected to a party at the same time. However, and to tell the truth – searching for the picture boy of the Free Party, it's me. A lot of people do not even know I wasn't a member.
The party has become settled, infantile complaints have been dealt with, and we're left with a good team. But now we need some action! While my briefcase of lifelong dreams never had an entry called "become a party chairman", the decision was a simple one in the end.
There is little conflict and struggle within you?
Parties are an invention of the century before last; so very outdated in nature: leader-oriented, in-house struggles, the need to keep growing despite being run by a very close circle. The Free Party at least tries to do things differently.
I have run all manner of organizations and companies, so that is not a problem for me in itself. Right now it is exciting to try and create a modern political organization that would operate on a different frequency.
The Free Party is rather like a club, not an organized undertaking. How does that fit the Estonia of today where ratings belong to sprawling and well-organized parties?
We are not a club! My ideal party is made up of visionaries and missionaries. So you have brain trust to describe a perfect society, and then you have missionaries or gladiators trying to realize that vision.
A club is not a place for struggles, while a political organization is a place where you fight for your ideas. Therein lies the difference. Everything that currently looks like a club should be forgotten.
We had very different people from all walks of life come together out of protest, not because they used to drink beer together in college. Now is the time to decide on the society we want after the protests!
In order for the people to understand that, the Free Party should wake from its lethargy, standstill. The Conservative People's Party (EKRE) is far more outspoken.
We are not standing still. Looking at the work of the Riigikogu, we are the hardest working faction there. And our work in the Riigikogu clearly reflects our worldview. To compare us to EKRE, they are riding the wave of a few very emotional topics while lacking a big picture for society. We are in the process of constructing one.
But it doesn't show.
Yes, communication is very weak. It is our primary task to render our messages precise and legible.
A simple example: our democracy package is pivotal; however, who cares about a democracy package in its current dressing?! However, only by telling people that one of the biggest problems in Estonia is that their voice is not heeded, and that they are simply being steamrolled can we spark interest.
Our main goal is to achieve a bottom-up society. This means small communities that can decide matters for themselves and have the money to realize their desires and decisions. On the next level it will be the autonomous parish that ties different local governments together that can make its own decisions. Next there is the state to weave together these collections of communities. That is our logic!
Today the central government tells people it knows best, and what's best is for you to do what we tell you to do. Party control and service to the party food chain is growing out of hand. If you can explain that the democracy package means a person can decide more for themselves and take greater responsibility, and that we stand for that, people will understand.
There is reluctance to talk plainly in fear of it sounding unintelligent?
Exactly! And the democracy package is but a single example! Why is the Free Party talking about corruption? Because our country's arteries are thick with it! And it is upheld by established parties that are in control for the sake of money. We need to fight corruption, bureaucracy because people say they are fed up with orders-bans, over-regulation, in other words the philosophy of the government today.
We fight for a self-sufficient citizen who can make their own decisions in life and community. That is how we can build a creative, dynamic society, an exciting state! Not the kind of welfare state we are building today where only men in suits know how people should live!
People do not have to fight the common cold in the ER, security is not just the state's prerogative; we must work on a society where you can handle it yourself. Security can be created by every single person working with others in a state that offers them the means to do it.
Do not be injected with learned helplessness! We, Estonians, lack social skills. The skill to negotiate, to convince.
Negotiation, speaking one's mind – do you perceive these things have become increasingly dangerous? A situation where Kaido Kama is let go from the National Audit Office because he dared express an opinion about forest management that differs from that of his superiors in Postimees is not normal!
They have become more dangerous, and Kaido Kama's example is most unfortunate. To have a position you dare express as a citizen, and then to be fired… That is not a society I would want to live in. Instead of taking a moment to consider: perhaps we are doing something categorically wrong in forestry.
Are you embarrassed over how the Free Party tried to get into Center's government?
We didn't try to curry favor to get into the government. I admit: our communication failed. We sent a clear message that we're willing to adopt government responsibility as part of a coalition and hoped others would approach us. However, we quickly learned that no one really wanted to talk to us. The main reason is that we would have taken away some of their positions.
I suppose you are relieved things turned out this way today?
Of course! We are very glad we're not in this government. Yes, we are also very glad the Reform Party's hegemony was ended and the air cleared to an extent; however, the state the current government is building is not what the Free Party dreams of. Orders and bans, deepening helplessness, an encroaching welfare society – that is not who we are.
The fact members of the party are not running in local elections seems like extreme folly!
On the contrary – it is so cool! We have been against the so-called two chairs act the entire time, and the era of decoy ducks must end! Local authority belongs with local people and has to be up to them. You cannot just show up and tell people how they should live.
This fall's post-administrative reform local elections will be a star parade. Chairman of the Riigikogu Eiki Nestor (Social Democrat Party) will run in Hiiumaa and take half the island's votes. How will that help the Free Party and your worldview?
That is what's wrong! That is what we are fighting against! If you believe in something, you have to act the part! Local power is for local people and should be decided in election coalitions. Why should a party meddle in local politics? That way the skirmishes of Toompea Hill also become local problems.
It is another link in the political food chain: having one's people in the parish government creates fertile soil for forced partification. Yes, the Free Party is taking a big risk with this step; however, it is the only option for us. Ideological struggle happens duting Riigikogu, not local elections.
You prefer power without parties, yet as the head of one you should be able to recruit more members into your own. How to achieve that?
Yes, it is a big problem that people are afraid of politics. It has been made so disgusting that there are people who can give you good advice in private conversations but are not willing to go public.
The idea that people only go into politics for personal gain is too widespread. A lot of MPs do become larger than life upon being elected. They are invisible in the Riigikogu; however, you can spot them outside the parliament. We have such a small society that no one should be that much more important than anyone else.


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Interested in potash investing, but not sure where to start? Here's what you need to know about potash, from supply and demand to stocks.
The world's population is increasing rapidly, and is expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050.
A larger population will have many consequences, one of which is that much higher amounts of food will be needed. But with more people will come further urbanization and less farmland to work with, which means farmers will have to increase crop yields.
That's where fertilizers like potash come in. They not only provide essential nutrients to food, but also allow higher output from farms. Put simply, fertilizers improve water retention in plants and strengthen their roots and stems, allowing them to produce more food.
Phosphate and potash are increasingly important to enhancing crop production and will also have a large role to play in the cultivating of the pot industry.
Unsurprisingly, many investors are wondering what potash investing is, and how they can get involved in this exciting space. Read on to find out.
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- How to Invest in Agriculture
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- 10 Top Countries for Potash Production
- Introduction to Phosphate Investing
- Top Phosphate-mining Production by Country
Potash investing: What is potash?
First, it's important to understand what potash is: an alkaline potassium compound that is most commonly used in fertilizers. All in all, 95 percent of the world's potash supply is used to grow food.
The term "potash" refers to potassium compounds and potassium-bearing materials. It includes potassium chloride, which is a salt-like mineral that is naturally white or colorless, but sometimes takes on a pink or red color due to impurities such as clay.
Most potash comes from salt left over from ancient evaporated seas, which lie underground. There are two different types of potash: sulfate of potash (SOP) and muriate of potash (MOP).
SOP is used on high-value crops, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, tea, coffee and tobacco, and is considered premium quality. MOP is more common, and is typically used on vegetables such as sugar beets, celery and Swiss chard.
Potash investing: Supply and demand
According to the US Geological Survey, global potash production capacity is expected to reach 64.6 million metric tons (MT) by 2022, a large increase from the 58.7 million MT produced in 2018.
Last year, the top potash-producing country was Canada, whose output came in at 12 million MT. Saskatchewan potash accounts for 90 percent of that amount, and makes up about 50 percent of the global supply.
Canada was followed by Russia, which produced 7.5 million MT last year, and Belarus, whose output totaled 7.1 million MT. As it stands, there are only 12 countries currently producing potash.
In terms of demand, the US Geological Survey says that world potash consumption is expected to grow to 46.2 million MT over the next three years. In 2018, world consumption clocked in at 42.2 million MT. China, India and Brazil are the three largest importers of potash.
The potash space has suffered from oversupply in recent years, and that has created lower prices and put pressure on potash companies. That said, the 2019 potash outlook is fairly promising, and, as noted, population growth is expected to spur even more demand for potash in the long term.
Potash investing: Companies to watch
Given the solid outlook for potash, many investors are interested in entering the space. One popular way to do so is by investing in potash stocks.
There are a huge number of companies to consider, so it's important to do your research. Our lists of potash companies on the ASX as well as on the TSX and TSXV are good places to start.
This is an updated version of an article first published by the Investing News Network in 2016.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Georgia Williams, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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