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When people hear of forex trading, they think it is too difficult for them to understand. This is not always true. As long as you are willing to learn new information, you have a chance at being successful at forex. The following article is going to provide you with crucial information.
Some currency pairs have what is called an inverse relationship with another currency pair. What this means is that when one pair is trending upwards, the other trends downward (and vice-versa). The classic example is that of the EUR/USD vs. the USD/CHF. This comes about because the The Swiss economy is closely tied with the rest of the European economy. Additionally, there is the common factor of the US dollar in both pairs.
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Plant Tissue Culture is a technique of growing cells, tissues or organs in sterilized nutrient media under controlled aseptic conditions. The plant material to be cultured may be cells, tissues or plant organs such as excised root tip, shoot tip, shoot bud, leaf petiole, inflorescence, anther, embryo, ovule or ovary.
The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell/explant is called Totipotency. Unlike animal cells, highly mature and differentiated plant cells retain the ability of totipotency.
During the 1950s, scientists learned that the whole plant could be regenerated from explant i.e. an isolated plant part cultured in a test tube. The explants (buds, stem, seeds) are trimmed and then subjected to sterilization in a detergent solution. After washing in sterile distilled water, the explants are placed in a suitable nutrient medium and incubated. The nutrient medium used in the technique must provide a carbon source such as sucrose and also inorganic salts, vitamins, amino acids and growth regulators like auxins, cytokinins etc.
Also Read: What are Explants?
Types of Tissue Culture:
There are different types of plant tissue culture techniques, mainly based on the explant used.
- Callus Culture: The culture of differentiated tissue from explant which dedifferentiates to form callus.
- Organ Culture: The culture of isolated plant organs such as embryo, seed, anther, ovary etc.
- Cell Culture: The culture of isolated individual cells, obtained from an explant tissue or callus is regarded as cell culture.Protoplast Culture: Plant protoplasts (i.e. cell devoid of cell walls) are also used for culture.
Benefits of Tissue Culture:
- Tissue Culture is used in Micropropagation i.e. large scale propagation of plants in very short durations. Many important food plants like tomato, banana, apple etc. have been produced on the commercial scale using this method.
- This technique is used to recover healthy plants from diseased plants. Although the plant is infected with a virus, the meristem (apical and axillary) is free of viruses. Scientists have succeeded in culturing meristems of banana, sugarcane, potato etc.
- Tissue culture technique is also the best method for storing germplasm and maintaining a specific genetic type (Clone). This technique is used in those plants which produce recalcitrant seeds or produce highly variable seeds.
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CHENNAI : M. Prabhu, a 38-year-old autorickshaw driver in Tamil Nadu, died on Wednesday after consuming rat poison over escalating tensions over the Cauvery waters, police said.
Prabhu, a resident of Annadhanapatti near Salem, took the poison on March 31. "He is said to be a DMK sympathizer," a police official in Salem told IANS over telephone.
According to him, DMK members visited Prabhu's residence. After autopsy, the body was handed over to Prabhu's family.
Speaking from Salem, R. Rajendran, a DMK legislator, told IANS: "Prabhu is a DMK sympathizer. He has written a suicide note thanking DMK leader M.K. Stalin for convening an all-party meeting over Cauvery.
"Prabhu has also said he is committing suicide against the proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tamil Nadu," Rajendran said. Modi is expected to visit Chennai on April 11 to inaugurate a Defence Expo.
Prabhu is survived by his wife P. Sumathi, daughter Roshini (8) and son Dhanush (5).


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The FW de Klerk Foundation, its Board of Trustees and its staff members, want to wish all our subscribers and supporters a prosperous and fulfilling 2019. We hope that you will be happy and blessed in both your professional and personal lives.
2019 is shaping up to be particularly exciting year and as usual, South Africans will not be bored! However, certain events on the national calendar, as well as the Foundation's own calendar, make 2019 a special year.
In June, the Foundation will be celebrating its 20th year of existence, with a special event marking this milestone. More details will be released later, but it promises to be exceptional. The mission of the Foundation - to promote and protect the Constitution - remains of vital importance.
The biggest political event of the year will most likely be the general election, to be held in May. Political parties have already kicked off their campaigns, and South African voters are set to be cajoled and bombarded with information, some real and some fake news. It is therefore prudent to keep a cool head and the necessary perspective in the months ahead. We will assist our supporters and the general public with informative articles, statements and speeches, from the Foundation, as well as our Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) and Centre for Unity in Diversity (CUD).
The Foundation's annual 2 February Conference (commemorating former President FW de Klerk's historic speech in Parliament in 1990), will this year be held on 1 February, with the important theme, "Addressing Inequality". It is a sad fact that inequality amongst South Africans has remained stubbornly high since 1994. It is in the collective interest (and a mandate of our Constitution) to address this grave issue to ensure a country for all. Invitations to this very important conference will follow shortly.
The annual CFCR Human Rights Report Card will be launched on 20 March, the day before Human Rights Day. This publication has become the "go-to" publication in assessing especially the Government's upholding of the Bill of Rights. This year will be no exception.
The first publication of a CUD Report Card on Cultural, Religious and Language Rights will see the light in the first half of 2019. It will address the upholding of these and other rights (such as non-racialism) by the Government and other relevant institutions. We are excited by this, as it will add to the existing Human Rights Report Card in a meaningful way.
In addition to these four events, the Foundation and its two Centres will host the usual breakfast discussions, roundtable discussions and workshops throughout the year. Our public discussions for the first half of the year will, as is appropriate, focus on election-related issues, including the value of public participation in democracy. We will also continue to comment publicly and make submissions on proposed legislation. Our first of these will be on the Prevention and Combatting of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill and on the draft Expropriation Bill, both with deadlines before the end of February. The other theme we continue to watch closely, is the process around expropriation without compensation (EWC). Once the proposed wording of the change to section 25 is made public, the Foundation - together with many other organisations opposed to this constitutional amendment - will likely go to court to oppose this change.
In closing, I would like to thank our subscribers and supporters for your support during 2018, and over the past 19 years. We hope that we can count on your ongoing support (also in the form of financial contributions) in 2019, as we continue to promote and defend the cornerstone of our society, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
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Fleming Rutledge is a preacher and teacher known throughout the US, Canada, and parts of the UK. She is the author of eight books, all from Eerdmans Publishing. Her most recent book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, is the product of the work of a lifetime and is being described as a new classic on the subject.
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George Kennan on tortureA letter to The New York Times today reminds us of the great diplomat George Kennan's famous "long telegram" of the Cold War era, with its caution that we Americans must "have the courage and conviction to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet Communism is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping."
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Donna Brazile is so disgusting:
Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express outrage. Instead he asked me what I thought Hillary's chances were. The polls were unanimous in her winning but what, he wanted to know, was my own assessment?
I had to be frank with him. I did not trust the polls, I said. I told him I had visited states around the country and I found a lack of enthusiasm for her everywhere. I was concerned about the Obama coalition and about millennials.
Of course, now it turns out she has such a brilliant political mind that she knew Hillary was going to lose. Nobody knew yet she did. It's easy to claim prescience now, of course, because it costs nothing.
The party leadership had nobody but whiny, weak, pathetic losers. What use is any of this (and other) shit now? I want to hear what the plan is finally to win something in the future. I don't care about this idiotic squabbling about the past. It's been a year since the election was lost. Since then, we've heard nothing but excuses, moaning and blaming everybody else. If anybody is aware of any new, fresh ideas advanced by the DNC or anybody in the party, please let me know. For now, what I'm seeing is beyond pathetic.


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- May 6, 2019,
Anyone who's taken on a new job in an enterprise over the last ten years knows that there's always a whole slew of new systems to learn over those first weeks. Increasingly, these are SaaS applications, each with their own unique logins, interfaces and workflows. These are a company's core HR systems; their travel and expense reporting systems; customer service desks; ticketing resolution systems; procurement & purchasing systems, and so on.
Getting up and running on new systems comes with the territory of any new job, and yet the complexity of doing so is now compounded by the fact that SaaS solutions also now come with their own mobile apps, downloadable from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Precious real estate on an employee's own personal device now needs to be gobbled up by the likes of SAP Concur, Ariba, Slack, ServiceNow, Coupa, Salesforce and the many other SaaS apps we use for the myriad ways we conduct daily business in the modern enterprise.
While companies can generally push internal programs to ensure adoption of SaaS apps on the company-provided desktop computers that live within their walls, they often struggle with employee adoption on mobile. In fact, Capriza's customers – many of whom are 100% SaaS-based and run all their core software in the cloud – tell us that adoption of SaaS mobile apps within their employee base is a paltry 15-20%.
Why is this? There's one obvious reason: the disconnect between the desktop computer (usually owned and provided by the employer) and the mobile device (usually owned and provided by the employee). That aside, a common complaint among SaaS users are that they really can't do on the mobile app what they can on the web or desktop app. Take a look at some of the mobile app reviews in the app stores for certain popular SaaS products, and depending on the app, it can often tell a pretty grim tale. SaaS mobile apps often take snippets of functionality from the greater, fully-functional app, and compress them down into what's often assumed to be manageable mobile-optimized components. This "second-class status" also often makes them stepchildren at best, and complete afterthoughts at worst when it comes to ongoing IT development and attention – making it near-impossible to drive mobile adoption within the enterprise if they're not doing what they're supposed to.
The flipside of this problem is that SaaS mobile apps can actually be too robust for users, when only certain, limited functionality is really needed. This makes them too frustratingly complex to navigate in this smaller, mobile form factor. Many users of these apps just want to casually dip in and dip out to review items and approve requests. These employees might leave the app icons sitting on their phones, yet save the work they need to do in the SaaS application for the next time they're on the desktop, even when they're being pinged with notifications that attempt to drive them to complete their work on mobile.
Reversion to the SaaS Status Quo
This reversion to the "status quo" is just human nature. As Jerry, the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at a broadcast media company, says in our white paper Four Perspectives on Digital Transformation: Leaders Share Lessons Learned:
"We do a great job on-boarding and training people for timesheets, expense reports, and so on. But once they're actually doing their jobs and real work, those things become a drag. We try to keep an eye on the user experience. How can we make life easier for employees? But it can be a struggle to actually move the needle on improving things. Again, the status quo has a lot of momentum in organizations of this size."
Having your employees fumbling through 10 different SaaS apps on their phones to do their jobs is not a good experience – particularly when so many of these apps really deliver value across your employee base in one core, essential area they hold in common: approvals. These are approvals for expenses, time off, purchases, contracts and so on. This is where the need for consolidation is great, and where, as Richard says, life can be made easier for employees while also moving the needle on organizational improvement. One of our customers tells us that with so many apps competing for his attention (and with some SaaS apps not having a mobile option at all), he's forced to put off his batch of approvals for a later time, and complete them all at once on desktop.
Multiple logins and complex workflows that don't quite work on mobile are why enterprises only see 15-20% adoption of their mobile SaaS apps. When there are dozens of applications and approval types, approvals get lost in email and are slowed down – resulting in late fees, delayed collections, compliance risks and dissatisfied employees. Managers with a hefty amount of approvals decide to punt, and wait until they're back in the office – or worse, back from vacation – to approve what should be so easy to approve right now.
At Capriza, we know a few things about mobility. Our ApproveSimple solution, which is a consolidated and simplified experience for all your approvals using your existing SaaS applications, grew out of 7+ years of experience mobilizing workflows from enterprises' existing web-enabled corporate applications. ApproveSimple elegantly bridges approvals in one place, across mobile, desktop and even Slack and Microsoft Teams – wherever your employees happen to spend their time.
It's the sort of SaaS solution that can actually become not merely a competitive advantage, but even a hiring advantage as well. Take it from Richard, the Head Administrator at an Outpatient Surgery Center whom we talked to in this digital transformation white paper:
"We think that with the right system in place and investments in training we can make our day-to-day tooling a hiring advantage. As in, 'You can go work there on a clumsy system, or you can come work here where things are state-of-the-art'."
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Top 10 security enhancements in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 offers many new features to help DBAs and developers lock down the database and protect access to sensitive data. SQL Server MVP Adam Machanic identifies what he considers the 10 most significant security features, in no particular order.
As database systems continue to be more widely used to back stores of networked applications, it is increasingly necessary to focus on security. Although much of the buzz surrounding SQL Server 2005 has been from a development perspective, Microsoft's new database management system (DBMS) includes many great new features that can help both developers and DBAs lock down the database system and protect access to sensitive data.
The following is a high-level list, in no particular order, of perhaps the 10 most significant security enhancements in SQL Server 2005. Ordering these by importance would be difficult, as every DBA has very different needs.
Surface Area Configuration tool
User-schema separation
Granular permission sets
Password policies
Limited metadata visibility
Security catalog views
DDL triggers
Mapping Windows user credentials
Impersonation, or context switching, refers to the process of temporarily changing a connection's security settings in order to gain access to a resource. This is especially important in systems designed from a least privilege perspective. Granting users only the minimum possible permission to resources and using impersonation to selectively elevate permissions when necessary can help to reduce overall exposure.
In SQL Server 2005, the EXECUTE AS and SETUSER statements are used to control context switching. For more information on these statements, see this excerpt from A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers.
Surface Area Configuration tool
SQL Server 2005 is a large product -- large enough to include many new features that, potentially, can be used as vectors for security exploits. To prevent such events, it's important to be able to easily and quickly view the status of -- and configure -- each of these features. If a feature is not being used for the applications supported by the database, it should be disabled in order to prevent the possibility of misuse.
The Surface Area Configuration tool is a utility provided with SQL Server 2005 that allows DBAs to manage external resources from a single place. Features such as CLR integration, SQL Mail and Native XML Web Services can all be configured using this tool. Although each of these features could be configured using Transact-SQL (T-SQL), the Surface Area Configuration tool provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface for doing so.
For more information about this tool, see the Developer.com article Managing the "Surface Area" of SQL Server 2005.
User-schema separation
In SQL Server 2005, objects in a database are no longer necessarily owned by a user. Instead, they are contained within a schema, a logical container to which permissions can be granted. This separation means that users can be assigned permissions to multiple objects in one fell swoop, rather than the DBA having to assign permissions one at a time, as in previous versions of SQL Server. In addition, deleting users from a database no longer means that the objects they own must also be removed or reassigned.
For more information on schemas, see my tip Granting permissions in SQL Server 2005.
Granular permission sets
In previous versions of SQL Server, DBAs had very few choices when it came to granting access to server resources. Pretty much the entire permissions scheme boiled down to a set of rigid "fixed server roles," which never seemed to fit any situation perfectly. For instance, it was impossible to give a developer access to run a Profiler trace without giving the same person access to every other resource on the server!
Luckily, these fixed roles are no longer necessary in SQL Server 2005, thanks to the new granular permission sets feature. It's now possible to assign permissions to virtually every server resource, one at a time. Users can be given access to any combination of resources -- or only specific resources. The system is as flexible as a DBA needs it to be.
For more information on granular permissions, again see my tip Granting Permissions in SQL Server 2005.
Password policies
When installed on Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 can exploit the operating system's password policies for SQL Server logins. This translates into more secure passwords and fewer opportunities for brute-force attacks to occur on the database server. SQL Server 2005 supports both password complexity rules (ensuring minimum length, enforcing combinations of alphabetical and numeric characters, and so on) and password expiration policies (ensuring that old passwords must be changed).
To use these features, DBAs can set the CHECK_POLICY and CHECK_EXPIRATION options using the ALTER LOGIN statement.
Most databases that store sensitive data use encryption techniques to secure that data. Until now, such techniques could only be realized in the application tier, using technologies like the Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider.
SQL Server 2005 reduces the need for application-based cryptography by natively exposing encryption technologies. DBAs and developers can now set up a certificate store, create symmetric or asymmetric keys, and use a variety of algorithms, including triple DES (Data Encryption Standard), RC4 and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).
Encryption is a huge topic. For more information on what SQL Server 2005 provides in this area, see the Database Journal article SQL Server 2005 Security - Part 3 Encryption.
Limited metadata visibility
In earlier versions of SQL Server, metadata was not secured based on access control mechanisms. A user may not have been able to select data from a certain table, but he or she could still see that the table existed using a system table such as sysobjects or an INFORMATION_SCHEMA view, such as INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.
SQL Server 2005 DBAs now have one less thing to worry about: The database system's catalog views (including the compatibility views and the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views) are now secured so users will only see objects they have access to. This is helpful both to DBAs worried about securing data and to users who might not want to see resources they are unable to access
For more information on SQL Server 2005's catalog views, see my tip Say goodbye to system tables in SQL Server 2005.
Security catalog views
In addition to the security of catalog views that contain information about database objects (described in the previous item), SQL Server 2005 includes a series of comprehensive views that allow DBAs to quickly get information about access rights.
The monolithic sys.database_permissions view contains information about all permissions granted in a given database. This view exposes data with the same level of granularity at which permissions can be applied, making it easy for DBAs to determine who has access to what. A similar view, sys.server_permissions, contains information about server-level grants.
Other security views expose information about principles, roles and encryption-related data. See SQL Server 2005's Books Online for more information about these views.
DDL triggers
SQL Server DBAs have long exploited the power of triggers to embed event-based logic in data manipulation operations. So-called DML (Data Manipulation Language) triggers have existed in the product for several years.
Now this same power can be extended to DDL (Data Definition Language) statements. DBAs can write server or database-level triggers that fire on such events as creating or dropping a table, adding a server login or altering a database. From a security and auditing standpoint, these triggers are invaluable. DBAs can now very easily program automatic logging triggers to capture events as they occur.
For more information on SQL Server 2005 DDL triggers, see the Developer.com article Using DDL Triggers to Manage SQL Server 2005.
Mapping Windows user credentials
In SQL Server 2005, logins used to access external resources are no longer bound by the access rights of the SQL Server service account. DBAs can use a new statement, CREATE CREDENTIAL, to create an access point that can be mapped to one or more logins.
This new method will allow for greater flexibility when working with SQLCLR modules or SQL Server Agent tasks that require access to external resources. For instance, if a SQL Server Agent task requires access to a remote file for a nightly data import, the SQL Server service account will no longer need access to browse the remote server to retrieve the file.
By exploiting the new security features in SQL Server 2005, DBAs and developers will be able to create database applications that are more flexible and less prone to attack. As security continues to become increasingly important in our information-obsessed society, database professionals will need more tools to fight against threats. SQL Server 2005 meets this challenge with these and other security enhancements.
Adam Machanic is a database-focused software engineer, writer and speaker based in Boston, Mass. He has implemented SQL Server for a variety of high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and also specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified Professional. Machanic is co-author of Pro SQL Server 2005, published by Apress.
More information from SearchSQLServer.com
- Tip: Say goodbye to system tables in SQL Server 2005
- Tip: Granting permissions in SQL Server 2005
- Ask the Experts: Ask Adam Machanic a question about SQL Server 2005


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- Windows OS :Windows 8.1 / Windows 8.1 (x64) /Windows 10 / Windows 10 (x64) / Windows 8 / Windows 8 (x64) / Windows 7 / Windows 7 (x64) / Windows Vista / Windows Vista (x64) / Windows XP / Windows XP (x64) / Windows 2000 / Windows Me
- Mac OS :Mac OS X v10.12 (Sierra) /Mac OS X v10.11 (El Capitan) / Mac OS X v10.10 (Yosemite) / Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks)/ Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion) / Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion)
- Linux :Debian & redhat, Source File
How to Printing from a Computer?
Printing with Application Software that You are Using (Printer Driver)
Printing with Easy Setup
- The simple setup procedure for carrying out appropriate printing on this printer is as follows:
- Check that the printer is turned on
- Load paper on the printer
- Select the printer
- Select your model from the Printer list in the Print Dialog.
How To Install Canon PIXMA MG3170 Printer Driver?
How to install printer driver on computer, Follow the tutorial below step by step?
- Be certain the pc and also the Canon Device not connected
- Once the download is finish and you simply are prepared to put in the files, simply click Open Folder, after which click on the downloaded file. The file identify finishes in. Exe.
- You could acknowledge the default locale to save lots of the files. Click Up coming, and afterwards hold out whilst the installer extracts the documents to prepare for installation.
- NOTE: If you closed the Download Finish screen, search on the folder in which you saved the. Exe file, after which you can click it.
- Select your language with reference to the language list and click "OK".
- Please stick to the set up display screen directions.
How to perform a printer driver deletion on the computer?
- Open Devices and Printers by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, and then, on the Start menu, clicking Devices and Printers.
- Right-click the printer that you want to remove, click Remove device, and then click Yes.
- If you can't delete the printer, right-click it again, click Run as administrator, click Remove device, and then click Yes.
Note :
- These instructions are for Windows seven Operating Program , may possibly be various from the other Variations or Operating Program .
- In the event the driver is set up on your own laptop or computer , eliminate it ahead of installing the new driver
- You must log in as Administrator
- If Windows User Account Control prompt is displayed , click Yes .
- If the Windows Security dialog box Appears , check Always trust software from " Canon Industries , ltd ." and click Install


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Paul Castro Million Dollar Screenwriting Method
I am adding support for various screenwriting guru methods to Viziscript starting with Paul Castro's million dollar screenwriting method based on his Udemy course.
Method writing is popular with screenwriting gurus. The idea is that if you structure your screenplay in a specific way, the audience will remain engaged with the movie and subsequently the word of mouth will be better so the resulting movie is likely to be more successful.
Of course, method writing was originally popularized by Syd Field's 3-Act structure in the 1970s (based on Aristotle's Poetics). But since then, many other methods and 3-Act variants have been proposed and popularized by a legion of screenwriting gurus.
Paul Castro's method is explained in his Udemy course (see link) and is easy to understand, focusing on various basic concepts and the clear identification by the writer of a series of significant structural beats in the screenplay.
These beats are typically prescriptive in that they should occur on or around specific pages in the screenplay or at specific points in the movie's runtime given the industry convention that 1 page of screenplay equals one-minute of movie runtime. So, for example your 'inciting incident' should happen before page 10 of your script or within the first 10 minutes of the movie.
I have added a simple way to record the Castro method concepts and beats into a table in Viziscript to encourage you to think about this method as part of your screenplay structuring methodology. On the script home page there is now a new panel on the right called Screewriting Methods and the link to the Castro method is listed in the panel. Just click it to go to the form.View Link


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Oh dear. Today Jeremy Corbyn is expected to back 'a' customs union when Britain leaves the EU. To begin Labour's Brexit blitz, Barry Gardiner was sent onto the airwaves to wax lyrical about Labour's new pitch.
Q. Can you name a single leader or country that backs a deal like this?
Barry Gardiner's answer to that ☝ on Corbyn's Brexit plan below 👇 #r4today pic.twitter.com/KD2EHr8uTE
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) February 26, 2018
The problem is that of all of Labour's shadow cabinet – other than Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell – it's Gardiner who has been the most critical of the customs union. Back in July, Gardiner helpful explained in the Guardian why remaining in 'a' customs union such as Turkey has would be a bad idea – saying it would 'preclude' the country from 'making our own independent trade agreements with our five largest export markets outside the EU':
'Other countries such as Turkey have a separate customs union agreement with the EU. If we were to have a similar agreement, several things would follow: the EU's 27 members would set the common tariffs and Britain would have no say in how they were set. We would be unable to enter into any separate bilateral free trade agreement. We would be obliged to align our regulatory regime with the EU in all areas covered by the union, without any say in the rules we had to adopt. And we would be bound by the case law of the ECJ, even though we would have no power to bring a case to the court.'
An inspired decision by Labour HQ...


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My fiftieth birthday is ten days away. Most people celebrate birthdays, especially "milestone" ones such as this. They're ticked off as they go and used as causes for celebration. It's great for anyone… Read More
Random Thoughts…
I've not written anything I've felt worth posting here in months. This isn't either, but my "social media advisor" kicked me squarely in the backside today and said, "POST SOMETHING." And so… a… Read More
Bye Bye, Bayh
A few moments ago I learned that former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh has died at the age of 91. For those unfamiliar, Senator Bayh has the distinction of being the primary architect of… Read More
It's Hard To Maintain a Blog When You Have Nothing To Say
It dawned on me a few moments ago that I'd not posted anything here in nearly a month. My impression is that no one's reading this anyway so there's little point in making… Read More
Master of My Own Domain
I haven't slept well lately, and as I write this, it's around 3:20 a.m. on a Friday morning in which my "day" started at around 9:30 Thursday night. I used to maintain this… Read More
Spectacles… Greek Philosopher, Right?
I've not written anything here in nine days, which per my 'social media consultant' is a bad idea. As I keep being told, somehow the fact that I post inane things here on… Read More
Something That Cheers Me Up
Donald Trump is now in the second half of his four year term as President. Unless this nation is beyond redemption-level stupid? We're on the way back to sanity.
Corporate Bored
Back in the old days, a businessperson sometimes conducted themselves simply as themselves – sole proprietors, putting their name, their money, their credit and everything else they had on the line with the… Read More
Read, But Don't Bet…
I don't focus on the National Football League much anymore. The idea of young men scrambling their brains for sake of my entertainment, knowingly or not, doesn't hold a ton of appeal for… Read More
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By Leah Froehle Bloom Intern and MPH Student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Third Space With Jen Cort - Dr. Stephanie Akoumany
Do you ever feel like it's hard to connect with the teenage girls in your life? As we take on careers, relationships, families, and other responsibilities we often feel very out of touch with with them. it seem like adult women often forget how to talk to teenage girls? How do we pull from our experiences to carve out safe spaces where girls can share their worlds with us?
In her recent podcast interview on Third Space with Jen Cort, Dr. Stephanie Akoumany tell us, "First things first, make eye contact. Match the other person's body. Align yourself physically and relax." These basic tenets of effective communication extend beyond the world of adulthood. Above all else, helping teenage girls feel comfortable should be one's priority and being mindful of body language is always the first step. However, teenage girls also tell us a lot with their own body language.
As adults we should be very aware of what we perpetuate in the next generation. It's our duty to stop pushing when a girl's body language says "stop". Girls live lifetimes internalizing the world around them. They are constantly told how to act, how to speak, how to look, how to dress, and how to be. If a girl doesn't want to talk, we should never force her to talk. Teenage girls aren't to be worn down. They aren't to be coerced into speaking. They aren't to be taught to shrink themselves or force themselves into discomfort for others. All forms of communication are valid-- verbal or non-verbal. Let's start showing our girls we're listening and give them the space, and thereby the strength to say, "I don't owe you anything."
So if we manage to start a conversation, what's next? Dr. Akoumany's advice is simple: "Meet the person where they are." In every sense. Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. Sit on the floor if a girl is on the floor, read the energy in your shared space, match that energy, and actively listen. As adults, we often see interactions with teenage girls as moments to teach or lend advice. But we should never listen for the sole purpose of responding. Girls want to be heard, not lectured. A good strategy to avoid an accidental three-hour long lecture on the importance of good grades is to earnestly repeat what she tells you. Avoiding long-winded orations is the first step in dissolving the power dynamics that prevent us from truly meeting a girl where she is. We can retain our wisdom as adults without holding power over others, so let's sit on that beanbag and listen.
If we manage to make our way through these initial conversations, growing the relationship deeper will eventually require vulnerability on both ends. Girlhood can be a swirling universe of chaos, harmony, sadness, and triumph all at once. What do we remember of girlhood? Sharing our lives is powerful without necessarily being allegorical. Sharing a story without expectation is vulnerability. Share your challenges. Share the wrong turns you took. Share how you survived it all. Shine light on the path that led you to your identity as a woman. This is what it is to speak to a girl: remembering girlhood, remembering what came before us, and remembering who we needed when we were her. As Dr. Akoumany puts it: "I am a black girl and was a black girl." We are girls. We were girls.


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Here's the 7 Step Strategy for property investing we learned from Robert Kiyosaki and other luminaries on the web:
Formulate a game plan
Know your location
Learn the Market
Generate Leads
Analyze Properties
Learn about Financing
Find the Right Deal
Starting Your Investment in Property
Understanding Property – Investing Made Easy
Lesson 1: The 4 strategies to Wealth creation
There are basically 4 ways to build wealth through property. They are through:
1. Cash-flow – income from property rentals.
2. Appreciation – income from increased value.
3. Amortization – value creation through renter's pay-down of your loan.
4. Tax Savings – savings through incentives and write-offs


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... Our planet, our home.
A dynamic system of living and inorganic material comprises the environment in which we live. Wonderfully diverse ecosystems, both terrestrial and oceanic, create the Earth's biosphere, sustaining a wide variety of plant and animal life.
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Is prayer worthwhile?
Believing in prayer may help, unquestionably. When we pray, we go appropriate into a momentary hypnotic like condition, that alterations our hormones, distresses your body, and improves our frame of mind miracle healing prayers. That normally impact of praying, is stuffed with exceptional improvements to our feelings, in general body, and soul. To wish is normally a blessing, largely mainly because it reestablishes our senses and guides our intentions within the universe, and enhances our structure.
Tend never to question that if you say a prayer, that it is not reverberating through the common cosmos. Collectively, prayer is commonly a strong resource of healing and wellness. Individuals are inspired by this reaction from prayer, that some request health care pros that give prayer therapeutic. That will be any time you decide to get a wellness practitioner which includes an added individualized to his patient's visits, prayer is therapeutic and has been confirmed fairly functional. It provides convenience and simplicity, reinforcement throughout the patient's perception methods, and so, stimulates the discharge of feeling terrific hormones this kind of as dopamine and endorphins.
Connectedness prospects to godliness. Now we have been social creatures, and by this advantage we've bought the necessity being one with the many universe. By praying and indicating our prayers, we've been speaking for your universe, making an attempt for being just one with all of the creator of his wondrous generation. It encourages excellent carry out, willpower, persistence, and benefit. To exercise prayer, is often a notice in discipline and enjoy. For a method to create into vigilant in prayer, you need to have self-discipline. being aware of which the father in heaven awaits your prayers everyday, and never ever getting rid of that standpoint will raise your energy of will, and benefit.
Upcoming time you question that prayer is helpful or useful, or perhaps the power of prayer. Comeback on the textual content earlier described and recite them verbatim, you'll definitely sense you resonate working with these phrases, after which you can you may realize that you have executed one among the most spectacular matter on the overall health and wellness. You are going to concur that praying will breed in you the electricity of will and edge that a lot of other folks might nicely not be so fortuitous to understand.
I'm a Registered Nurse with all-around fourteen a long time of sensible practical experience, doing the job using the critically unwell, chronically sick, moreover the mentally unwell. I do think that religion is therapeutic, and provides in your dimension of therapeutics inside the realm of infectious ailments and continual ailments. I hope that you have found this information important.


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Continental, a technology company that serves mobility of the future, develops intelligent technologies for the transport of goods and people. It serves industries across the world through five divisions: Chassis & Safety, Powertrain, Interior, Tyres, and ContiTech. In France, the company is present in 18 sites and Continental Automotive in Toulouse is its headquarters. Having been set up in 1979 this plant is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. It was a 50:50 joint venture between Renault, a French OEM, and Bendix, an American company, to make brake systems, hydraulics and starter motor components. The company changed name and hands until it became part of Continental in 2007. Recently T Murrali of AutoParts Asia had an opportunity to visit the Toulouse plant and interact with Stefan May, CEO of Continental Automotive France and Focus Country Head of Continental in France. He said, "We have had several changes in ownership but these always led to bigger sizes with the same goal: to be on the brink of innovation. Growth can only come through quality; we are working hard continuously to keep it at the highest level. We have achieved single digit PPM, now we are looking at single incidents." Edited excerpts:
Q: Can you tell us about the plant in Toulouse?
May: The Toulouse plant is active in making tyre monitoring devices, body controllers and other applications linked to the interior of the car. We do mainly electronics here. This plant has about 2,000 people with quite a big R&D centre catering to body controllers and vehicle interior parts, functions linked to comfort, safety and security. We have another R&D centre for powertrains and ECUs.
In January this year the company was reorganised into two in the same campus – one part focusing on powertrain and the second on other automotive technologies. We also work on the chassis here looking at safety and security; in applications we are a Tier-2 supplier. We sell electronic functions and software to several suppliers including many in Asia who do have mechanical knowhow but not electronics; we bridge that gap.
Another activity in this campus is Continental Engineering Services, selling engineering solutions to the automotive world. We also try to grow in other industrial areas by selling engineering services, mainly to the aeronautics sector. We not only have the complete supply chain for the aeronautics industry here but also for the European Space Agency; the French Space Agency has a major tech centre here in Toulouse. These market needs are also met by Continental in order to diversify our portfolio.
Q: There are several activities at this plant – right from making components for car interiors to R&D for powertrains, chassis, safety and security and engineering services. Is this all-in-one-campus unique to the Toulouse plant?
May: It's not really unique but there are not that many centres like this within the group. Regensburg, a German site, is similar but bigger. Then there is Schwalbach, yet another German site, Auburn Hills in the US, and Shanghai in China.
When exposed to major changes in our company history – e.g. changes of ownership, one positive is that we were always able to keep track when exposed to such strong changes. In the latest one 12 years ago, when this plant was acquired by Continental, we saw the opportunity to have a variety of technologies in one campus. The question was, is it okay to stay with one expertise for the automotive industry? The answer was in the negative. What this campus brought with it was the possibility to propose a variety of genuine development opportunities for the young people for the present and the future. We are able to provide real career paths to our employees in the long-term and keep their innovation spirit going. Cross-functional opportunities help think out-of-the-box. Another advantage is that the French State funds certain R&D activities; incentives are given to help innovation and attract new projects.
Q: Is this the reason to have R&D for Interior and Powertrain on one campus?
May: Yes, it is part of the equation.
Q: What kind of benefits do these cross-functional teams bring to each division?
May: Let me give you two examples. When Powertrain people switch over to Interior, the feedback I get is that they bring in Systems Engineering to the mix; this helps as Powertrain has been a system-oriented business for the last 25 years since it has electronics with software, actuators, sensors, etc. This has also been the case with Interior over the last 10 years as system knowledge contributes to enrichment of the segment.
On the other hand Powertrain people have to go deep into the systems approach to tackle complexity. They set rules regarding the generic principles on how a project should be run, how to standardise the PCB and populate it with our components; the same is done in the areas of electronics and software. The disadvantage is that at a certain stage you lose agility. So what the Interior people bring to the Powertrain world is agility. Take for example multimedia. Who do we compete with? It's with the people in the consumer business where there is change every six months, with new technologies and upgrades coming up. So the enrichment is on both sides, agility when needed with a structured and organised approach representing what we stand for: safety in automobiles. However, we need to open up to more agility.
Q: Going forward, how would it help both the divisions, as change is the biggest constant in the automotive industry? What are the sweet spots you see? Has this R&D centre evolved to a Centre of Excellence for any particular aspect of innovation?
May: Regarding sweet spots what we do see is that the automotive industry cannot continue to have decentralised architecture with many small intelligences like electronics and software everywhere in the car. It prevents us from doing upgrades and updates – as Tesla has shown – to come up with different structural designs that lead to high-performance computing. In order to do this you need to address not only the function but the complete car; that's the sweet spot. The fact of having all the bricks of technology already on-site will certainly help and enable us to address such issues quickly.
Regarding this centre evolving to a Centre of Excellence, I hope it does. I think that the French naturally do have a real asset when it comes to systems engineering. They are very rational in their approach when it comes to Physics and Chemistry and elite engineering schools mean that you get highly skilled people in the labour market mainly on the systems approach. Centre of Excellence means keeping in mind the entire system and not just the components segment.
Q: How would innovation and the sweet spot, as mentioned, help commercialise products for the Continental Group? What kind of products could you make?
May: First and foremost, high performance computers; nowadays there are around 1,500 components in a PCB; with high performance computing that figure could go up to 8,000 or so, increasing the computing power four-fold. This would entail many technical challenges with respect to subjects like electro-magnetic compatibility or heat dissipation, etc. Space in a car is at a premium today and fitting in all systems properly is the key. The systems approach will help us upgrade the content of the products we manufacture in the Toulouse plant. A technical challenge is always an opportunity to show our customers how prepared we are.
Q: According to experts, with hybrids the current 48V technology may settle at 60V. Do you see a sweet spot again in this?
May: Definitely, yes. For powertrains, in addition to Toulouse plant, we have two satellite plants 80 km from here with around 700 employees, one of which is dedicated to electronics or ECUs and the other to sensors. We are active on the 48V and do have a first project with Renault with this technology. Emission standards in the EU need to come down; 95 gm/km is the target set by the European Commission. We cannot reach that until we massively go in for hybrids. The first affordable hybrid solution to bring emissions down is 48V.
Q: What are your initiatives to increase the content per vehicle?
May: With regard to content enrichment, we as a group certainly see opportunities in autonomous vehicles: increasing sensors, cameras and things like that. Within Continental Engineering Services we do have a group of around 50 people working on cameras specifically.
We feel the connected car clearly represents an opportunity to bring in new and additional features; it's a bit less in the changeover from IC engines to hybrid, electric or fuel-cell cars. So you either add new technology or replace the current know-how with something better. The diesel experts will have to change and adopt the new systems. The switchover would be a challenge for the whole industry. With new features like ADAS coming up we could even feed service businesses based on data. Continental is well prepared for this. A subsidiary created in 2016 called Continental Digital Services France (CDSF) addresses all the questions around ITS – Intelligent Transportation Systems. We want to develop expertise on e-horizon where the vehicle has an upstream and downstream link with the cloud. Embedded electronics would be in use but you will have to address the communication, content, data fusion and many other things linked to the vehicle. We have a group of 170 here in Toulouse taking care of all these. Their background is not only automotive but includes telecommunication, IT Services, R&D, big data treatment, etc.
Q: Was it intentional to choose people from other areas than automotive?
May: Yes; of the 170 mentioned, only 15 have an automotive background while all the others are from different areas.
Q: Was this plant first owned by Siemens VDO?
MAY: Yes, like in India. In France the automotive area has existed for 75 years but that is the plant south of Paris. The Toulouse plant was set up in 1979 as a 50:50 joint venture between Renault, a French OEM, and Bendix, an American company, to make brake systems, hydraulics and starter motor components. Then it was called Renix. It came up here since Toulouse was identified as the place for electronics engineering because of the aerospace industry. It was a time when the auto industry didn't have a clue about electronics. But it soon attracted people from the space sector to automotive. Unfortunately, the JV did not succeed and was withdrawn in 1985 leaving Bendix by itself. The company was later sold to Siemens in 1988 which correctly foresaw the advent of electronics in a big way in the automotive industry. We were part of Siemens VDO from 1988 to 2007, when it joined Continental. There had been continual changes in ownership but they always led to bigger sizes, always with the same goal: to be on the brink of innovation.
Q: Which are the customers that this plant supports?
May: To a large extent the national OEMs as Peugeot-Citroen of the PSA group and Renault / Nissan/ Mitsubishi, as part of the alliance. We serve Ford; the Volkswagen group is served by the three plants in this region. Our tyre monitoring system serves Japanese customers; BMW is another valued customer. So the customer profile includes 50 percent of French OEMs with the rest being high-profile names from the industry.
Q: Do you supply to the aviation sector from here?
May: We do provide some small support to aviation, not with Airbus directly but with their sub-suppliers, helping them to improve pilot monitoring for helicopters for instance.
Q: What are your short-term and long-term plans?
May: Growth is a must; we always need to keep that in mind. Growth can only come through quality; we are working hard continuously to keep it at the highest level. We have achieved single digit PPM, now we are looking at single incidents. This plant contributes in ensuring high quality to the Continental group; we need to be always on the positive side of the equation. We are in a high-cost country unlike some other areas of the world where wages are lower; all the more reason for us to maintain high quality at all times. We have the expertise to ensure this. High performance computing with bigger devices produced to increase sales is all part of this journey towards growth.


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1. How were you discovered?
I was with my cousin in the Faroe islands, and one of his friends thought I should be a model and sent a picture to his friend working at an agency in Copenhagen.
2) Biggest/Proudest career achievement?
My Ralph Lauren billboard on Sunset Blvd next to the Chateau Marmont.
3) What is your middle name?
4) How many languages do you speak? And what are they?
I speak four languages. English, Faroese, Danish, and Russian.
5) Do you have a nickname? If so what is it?
Yes! My friends call me Naomi Campbell.
6) What is your favorite physical feature?
My Lips
7) Do you believe in love at first sight?
8) What do you find attractive?
9) Have you ever had your heart broken?
10) When is the last time you cried?
Last night.
11) What is one thing you can't live without?
12) Most expensive purchase?
My Audemars Piguet
13) Mile High Club?
14) What is your favorite fragrance?
Mr Burberry
15) Boxers or Briefs?
16) What is the first song on your playlist?
Gucci Gang by Lil Pump.
17) What was the last song you listened to?
Luchini (This is It) by Camp Lo
18) What was cool when you were young but isn't cool now?
19) How do you feel the fashion industry needs to change?
Bring back the 90's.
20) What is the most comfortable bed you have ever slept in?
The bed at the Mercer Hotel.
21) What do you sleep in?
22) What fictional character have you had a crush on?
Lara Croft
23) What is your Guilty Pleasure?
Lumpy's Flower's 'Ben N Berries' strain
24) Do you think aliens exist?
25) Favorite Movie?
The Tree of Life
26) What did you Google last?
Jonah Hill
27) What is your Fitness Regime?
I hike Runyon Canyon or swim laps in my pool
28) Favorite cheat day food
29) French Kiss or French Fries?
French Fries while French Kissing.
30) Shower or Bath?
31) Netflix or Youtube?
32) Phone Call or Text?
Phone Call
33) Nintendo or Playstation?
34) Pikachu or Mickey Mouse?
35) Hot Tub or Hot Spring?
Hot Spring
36) Greatest issue facing the world today?
A lack of common sense.
37) What was the best vacation you ever had?
My life is a vacation!


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Chantel Pearson is Client Manager.
Chantel has worked as an Owners Corporation Manager for over 5 years and brings a great work ethic and dedication to our clients, particularly around Committee Governance, Communication and Community.
Her role involves the management of clients within our portfolio from Committee operations, Governance & Compliance, owner invoicing, client communications, client intranet administration and management, Arrears Management, Client VCAT representation, financial reporting, accounts management.
Four random facts about Chantel:
1. Huge Disney Fan
2. Luv's a Coffee
3. Doesn't follow any AFL team
4. Enjoys a good curry


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Does the winter weather leave you feeling slow and sluggish? Could you use a pick-me-up? Then you should definitely try this detox bath recipe with essential oils.
The Best Detox Bath Recipe
If you are feeling sluggish or have skin issues this natural recipe is a simple, easy, and inexpensive way to boost health!
Kaolin Clay
I have poor circulation in my legs, thanks to genetics, and this bath is just what I need quite often to keep my ankles from looking like I am 9 months pregnant. The great thing about kaolin clay for someone like me is that it helps circulation in the body, among a few other things.
Kaolin clay can help cleanse, purify, heal, and soothe all skin types. There are no chemicals in kaolin clay and it is very beneficial. It is very mild, and has proven effective in improving blood flow to the skin, cleansing and exfoliating. Kaolin clay is recommended for oily and normal skin but should be discussed with a doctor if one has sensitive skin.
Kaolin clay helps remove toxins and oils from your skin and eliminates skin blemishes when used on the face.
Benefits of Sea Salt Baths
According to the Saltworks company, bathing in Dead Sea salt may be particularly beneficial because it contains an array of minerals that include potassium, which helps to balance skin moisture; bromides, which reduce muscle pain and stiffness; and sodium, which improves the circulation of lymphatic fluid.
Epsom Salts
Epsom salt is a pure mineral compound made of magnesium and sulfate. According to the Epsom Salt Council, many Americans are deficient in magnesium due to diets high in processed foods. Burton M. Altura, Ph.D., says this can lead to numerous health risks, including high cholesterol, atherosclerosis (where plaque builds up inside your arteries), high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems, inflammatory conditions and nervous disorders. To combat this deficiency, Altura recommends soaking in Epsom salt, which is actually magnesium sulfate. Dr. Christiane Northrup, an award-winning, board-certified OB/GYN says that Epsom salt can be absorbed through the skin and help replenish magnesium stores.
Epsom salts cause you to sweat, which is the central purpose of a detox bath. Drugs, toxins and poisons in your body will escape through the pores in your skin. You want the water to be pretty warm and you need to soak in it for about 20 to 30 minutes, though you shouldn't soak any longer than that.
As the water cools, the toxins will be sweated out of your skin. Be sure to drink lots of water during and after the bath, to replenish the liquids you've sweated out.
Soaking in a bath of Epsom salt can relax your muscles, reduce inflammation, minimize pain, fade bruising, aid digestion, relieve stress and tension, and detoxify your body.
Some experts maintain that you can take a detox bath every day, while others suggest no more than three or four a week. Talk to your doctor to see what he recommends before starting a detox bath regimen.
Benefits of a Detox Bath
From eHow Health:
Having too much adrenalin in your body due to stress and tension can result in a low magnesium level. When you soak in an Epsom salt bath you allow magnesium to be absorbed through the skin. Magnesium then attaches to serotonin, a mood-enhancing hormone, and helps to relax you. It can also lower your blood pressure, improve your concentration and help you sleep.
Your body can accumulate a residue of medications and impurities from the environment. Soaking in a bath of Epsom salt can pull these toxins from the cells of your body through reverse osmosis. This is a process where salt is drawn from your body and the toxins come with it. It can also soothe your nerves by balancing your electrolytes.
According to Natural Home Remedies, Epsom salt can assist in blood circulation, aid in wound healing, remove foot odor, soften your skin and increase your strength and stamina. The Epsom Salt Council says that Epsom salt can also increase the effectiveness of insulin, lower blood pressure, improve oxygen use and ease the pain of migraine headaches.
Epsom Salt Benefits and Soak Time
- Softer skin / 20-minute bath soak
- Muscle soreness and pain / 12-minute bath soak
- Relaxation and anti-stress / 1-hour bath soak
- Laxative / 20-minute soak or oral ingestion
- Ingrown toenails / 12-minute foot soak
- Magnesium balance / 12 to 20-minute soak
Source: Healthline
It is recommended that you drink one full glass of water at room temperature before your detox bath.
Detox Bath Recipe
Makes 2 1/2 cups
- 1 cup sea salt (medium or coarse)
- 1 cup dead sea salt (fine)
- 1/2 cup Epsom salts
- 2 tbsp. kaolin clay (china clay)
- sprinkles of any dried herbs or botanicals
- 1 tsp essential oils (lavender, rose, tea tree, peppermint, etc)
- Add all the ingredients together in a bowl. Mix well with your hands. The salts act as a carrier for the oils and herbs. Add to warm bath water. Make sure to drink 1 glass of room-temperature water before getting in the bath.
- Soak for 20 to 40 minutes. Drink water during the first 20 minutes of your soak.
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- Mountain Rose Herbs
- Amazon
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Equity financing
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- Common shareholders- forecasting dividends and retained earnings
- Share buy-backs and rights issues
Debt Financing
- Linking cash flow and debt requirements
- Different types of debt financing
This section is designed to introduce bond market. The participants will understand yield, yield curve, bond pricing. The course comprehensively explains concept of Macaulay duration, modified duration and convexity.
Categorization of Bonds
- Categorization by Issuer
- Categorization by Coupon and Maturity
Characteristics of Bonds and Interest Rates
- Present Value, Price and Yield
- Relationship between Price and Yield
- Yield Curves
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Bond Prices and Yields
- Introduction to Bond Pricing
- Present Value Formula
- Time-Value of Money
- The Mathematics of Discounting
- Nominal versus Real Interest Rates
- Time Basis and Compounding
- Frequency Conventions
- Continuous Compounding
The Yield Curve, Bond Yield, and Spot Rates
- Practical Uses of Redemption Yield and Duration
- The Concept of Yield
- Yield Comparisons in the Market
- Measuring a Bond's True Return
- Implied Spot Rates and Market Zero-Coupon Yields
- Spot Yields and Coupon-Bond Prices
- Implied Spot Yields and Zero-Coupon Bond Yields
- Determining Strip Values
- Strips Market Anomalies
- Strips Trading Strategy
Duration and Convexity
- Macaulay Duration
- Modified Duration
- Convexity
- Duration–Convexity Approximations to Bond Price Change
This section is a buildup on the previous section. It focuses on term structure of interest rates, PV01 hedge etc. Modeling of term structure of interest rate is also covered. Interest rate modeling is explained using Short-Rate Processes, Ito's Lemma, One-Factor Term-Structure Models, Two-Factor Interest Rate Model.
Term Structure of Interest Rates
- Definition and Properties of the Term Structure
- Bootstrapping spot rates and forward rates
- The Pure Expectations Theory
- The Pure Risk Premium Theory
- The Market Segmentation Theory
- The Biased Expectations Theory
Present Value of Basis Point
- PV01 and Value Duration
- Approximations to PV01
- Understanding Interest Rate Risk
Modeling The Term Structure Of Interest Rates
- Modeling the Yield Curve Dynamics
- The Binomial Interest-Rate Tree Methodology
- Continuous-Time Models
- Arbitrage Models
Interest Rate Modeling
- Basic Concepts
- Short-Rate Processes
- Ito's Lemma
- One-Factor Term-Structure Models
- Two-Factor Interest Rate Model
- Vasicek Model
- Hull-White Model
- Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) Model
- Brennan-Schwartz Model
- Extended Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model
- Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) Model
- The Multifactor HJM Model
Inflation-Indexed Bonds
- Basic Concepts
- Choice of Index
- Indexation Lag
- Coupon Frequency
- Type of Indexation
- Index-Linked Bond Cash Flows and Yields
- TIPS Cash Flow Calculations
- TIPS Price and Yield Calculations
- Assessing Yields on Index-Linked Bonds
- Which to Hold: Indexed or Conventional Bonds?
- Analysis of Real Interest Rates
- Indexation Lags and Inflation Expectations
- An Inflation Term Structure
Convertible Bonds
- Characteristics of Convertible Bonds
- Pricing Models for Convertible Bonds
This section is aimed at explaining the concept of swaps. Concepts of The Key Principles of an Interest Rate Swap Generic Swap Valuation, Zero-Coupon Swap Valuation, Calculating the Forward Rate from Spot-Rate Discount Factors are some of the many concepts covered.
- Interest Rate Swaps
- Market Terminology
- Swap Spreads and the Swap Yield Curve
- Generic Swap Valuation
- Intuitive Swap Valuation
- Zero-Coupon Swap Valuation Calculating the Forward Rate from Spot-Rate Discount Factors
- The Key Principles of an Interest Rate Swap
- Valuation Using the Final Maturity Discount Factor
- Non–Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swaps
- Swaptions
- Valuation
- Interest Rate Swap Applications
- Corporate and Investor Applications
- Hedging Bond Instruments Using Interest Rate Swaps
Forward Rate Agreements and Interest Rate Swaps
- Forward Rate Agreements
- Interest Rate Swaps
- Cash Flows on Vanilla Swaps
- Cross-Currency Swaps
The objective of the section is to explain hedging using fixed income. Hedging Framework is introduced the participant. Also Hedging INR Floating-rate Liability and Hedging USD Floating-rate Liability is explained. Hedging Interest Rate Risk through caps and floors is covered as well.
Hedging through Fixed Income
- Hedging Bond Instruments Using Interest Rate Swaps
- Hedging INR Floating-rate Liability
- Hedging USD Floating-rate Liability
- Managing Rates and Currency Risk
- Hedging through Cross Asset products
Hedging Interest Rate Risk
- Caps
- Floors


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Count the Fouls
This one should be a game in the back of today's newspaper. How many Jersey Fouls can you spot in this image?
1. Shanahan doesn't play for Detroit anymore – update your jersey
2. Starter jersey? Spend the extra $20 next time.
3. Cutoff sleeves? really?
He's standing in the beer line, but I guarantee if we took a photo a few seconds later we'd see the clerk hand him a wine cooler.
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Walking and texting, driving & texting, should be banned – moan for today.
Thought for the day…"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
Are you one of those people who walk down the street with their head permanently fixed on their mobile phone?? I have given up moving out of the way for these people who walk with no regard for anybody else who is walking towards them. Numerous videos on Youtube of people who have walked into fountains and off piers whilst they used their mobile phone. Even worse are those people who you see cycling and driving whilst texting at the same time. Asking for trouble. The trend seems to be getting worse in cafes and restaurants too, where the mobile phone is THE centre of attention. Full marks to the cafes and restaurants who are now trying to restrict the use of mobile phones. One bar in Pembroke, New Zealand has a sign up saying "we do not have internet, TALK to each other ". Let us hope that more cafes and bars follow suit.
And the photo today is from Sydney, Australia, where there used to be an ex-Russian MiG 15 fighter that you could go flying in. Not much space in the cockpit !! Despite being an early jet fighter, it could fly at over 1000 km/h and it could fly up to 2500km. It could also climb to over 50 000 feet/15500m.
and another photo from the archives….sailing boats line up to start a race…..
The Worm Has Turned.
Thought for the day…"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
"Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." (Margaret Thatcher).
When I was 16 years old, I would always shop around for the cheapest (as students do), with little thought for quality or service. But now it is the opposite. I cannot understand why Ryanair (which is so often on the internet or newspapers for cancelling flights or upsetting passengers) is still in business. There are so many people who will automatically go for the cheapest airline ticket, with no thought about quality or service. Ryanair can upset thousands of passengers, yet still makes large profits. When an airline upsets me (and many have) then they lose my business for good. I vote with my feet. Plenty of airlines out there, and those that mistreat passengers do not deserve business. But why do people keep flying with Ryanair? Cheap is not always good. Service costs money to provide, but by paying more, you can often avoid problems. Airlines such as Singapore Airlines are not the cheapest, but the service levels and reliability (and inflight experience) are FAR better. If more people voted with their feet then average service levels would go up, as airlines such as Ryanair and Air Asia would be out of business. Same thing with the airlines who are now putting 10 across seats into their Boeing 777 aircraft. If more people refused to fly on these cramped aircraft then the airlines would be forced to go back to 9 across. But too many people want the CHEAPEST. But some of us are saying no, and are voting with our feet/money.
A photo from Aruba, in the Southern Caribbean for the photo today..
and another photo from the archives…beautiful coastline around Antigua, Caribbean……
Buying local – the advantages
Thought for the day…."It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."
There was a time in my younger days when I would spend hours looking for the cheapest price. Getting something for the cheapest price was the target, and an important one. But gradually I have come around to looking at VALUE, rather than price. I have just had delivery of my new camera. I know that I could have ordered it online cheaper, but because my local photo shop (Photo & Video International, Christchurch, New Zealand) has given me such great service, then it was an automatic and easy decision to order from them. True, I may have paid more for the camera, but when I need help or advice, the dealer will be there, and will be only too happy to help, even if there is no direct profit in it for him. Not only that, but it makes trading much more friendly. And it is good to know that when I need some extra bits, that he will supply them, even if there is little or no profit in it for the shop. Previously I would have gone for the cheapest, but the value of personal customer service from a shop cannot be measured in money terms. The best part is that at the end of the transaction, that both the buyer and the seller come away feeling satisfied and happy. Too many negative experiences with online 'shops' located in far off places, who once they have sold you something, do not want to hear from you again. Long live the friendly local shop !!!
And a couple more photos from the old camera…….
and another photo from the archives….the Finnish capital of Helsinki
Handy new invention for photography
Thought for the day…." Learn to appreciate what you HAVE before time makes you appreciate what you HAD"
"To err is human, to arrrh is pirate"
The current craze of selfie photos is sure to get a boost with the latest invention, the arm selfie stick. Instead of a basic pole or stick, users now have the chance of a friendly arm reaching out to them…just right for the photo…..
I assume that you can purchase these from an armoury, or perhaps from a second-hand shop !!! No 'arm in asking though.
And for the photo today, Spring sunshine in Hankø, southern Norway. Taken a few days ago, still quiet there before the summer rush in July.
and another photo from the archives….a Cuban man ponders the future…..
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Wonderful Copenhagen – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…" Happiness is not getting everything that you want. It is enjoying what you have".
" The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet" (Aristotle).
Why is there a 'fashion' at the moment to make most running shoes in bright colours, or even white? How long do white running shoes stay white? Not long. But it seems that nearly all the current offerings in the shops are just in bright, light colours, which if you are running off road (or even on road) are not going to stay looking good for very long. Bring back darker running shoes!
Today's photo comes from the waterfront area in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Nyhavn, which means 'new harbour' in Danish. The famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen lived in Nyhavn for many years. Copenhagen claims to have the world's longest shopping street (Stroget). With a population of around 1.2 million people the area has prosepered, especially after the opening in 2000 of the bridge joining it to nearby Malmo in Sweden. It is said that Walt Disney, after visitng the amusement park (Tivoli) in Copenhagen, was inspired to build his own version back in the USA. Denmark is also the home of LEGO, and it is estimated that over the last 60 years, that more than 320 billion bits of Lego have been sold. That works out at an average of 56 LEGO bits per person worldwide. LEGO is an abbreviation of the Danish words "leg got', which means 'play good'.
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Environmentally UNfriendly, no common sense – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…." Taxes could be worse. Suppose we had to pay what we think we are worth"
" The greater the struggle, the greater the victory". " It does not have to glitter to be gold"
An amazingly stupid story on the TV news last night about Fjordline, which runs ferries between Hirtshals (Denmark) and Stavanger and Bergen (Norway). They have recently taken delivery of a new LNG (gas) powered ferry. The new ferry had already won a prize for energy efficiency and with stricter controls on ferry emissions, then LNG was seen as the way to go. BUT having just started, Fjordline now have a big problem. Norwegian law does not allow them to refuel the gas with passengers onboard, and the ship is only in port for a short time. So, after all the hype about saving the environment and energy efficiency, they are now sending 10 trucks by road each week, from Stavanger, Norway, via Sweden, then across to Denmark, to refuel there. The distance that the trucks have to drive is around 1600km, leaving from almost the same place as the ferry (Stavanger) and then driving 1600km to meet it in Denmark, where the ships refuels with LNG and sails back to Norway, where the gas came from in the first place. Very environmnentally UNfriendly. And also rather stupid.
So, staying on the subject of boats, here is a colourful photo of some fishing boats in Africa. Good light and bright colours make this photo.
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Photo of the Day Saturday 1st June 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…" Failure is not falling down, it is remaining where you have fallen "
" Follow your heart, but take your brain with you"
Mobile phone applications have gone too far. Now being tested in Brazil by Kimberley Clarke is the Tweet Pie app. This is a sensor which is placed in babies nappies/diapers, and when moisture is sensed, then sends a message to the parents' telephone informing them that it is time to change the nappy/diaper. Or how about iSteam, which covers your mobile telephone screen with vitual steam so that you can write messages on it. Then there is the 'Annoy A Teen' app which sends out high frequency sounds to apparently annoy younger people. Or if you really want to waste USD 1 then you can buy 'Passion App', and app that judges you whilst you have sex and then gives you a score out of 10.
Did you know that the British city of Birmingham has more kilometres of canals (over 160km) than Venice? The Kiel Canal is said to be the busiest canal in the world, and is 97 km long, and used by over 60 000 ships a year. The world's longest canal is the Grand Canal in China (over 1776 km long), with 24 locks along its length. This leads nicely to a canal photo…….
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Very happy not to be working at the Quality Spa Resort Hotel in Norefjell. Not missing it at all.
Photo of the Day Tuesday 21st May 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…" Today is the oldest that you have ever been, and the youngest that you will ever be again"
" If you cannot convince them, confuse them" Harry S. Truman
I read a very interesting article on the net about an experiment performed by some Danish school girls who discovered that cress seeds would not germinate in a room which had internet routers turned on. No problem for the seeds in the room without the routers, so it appeared that the radiation from the routers was preventing the seeds from germinating. More research is now going to be done on this surprising discovery by the schoolgirls, but again it raises the question of radiation levels. Mobile phones and their radiation levels have been investigated several years but now it appears that routers may also be suspect. More details about this story here;
The photo today is from the archipeligo outside of Stockholm, and shows the village of Furusund, near the edge of the archipeligo.
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Photo of the Day Thursday 9th May 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…" Success comes in cans, not in can'ts" "The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open"
Did you know that 9 major planets orbit the sun? Or that 109 planet Earths would fit onto around the surface of the sun, and that every 11 years that the sun reverses its polarity, so that the north pole becomes the south pole? Or that it is around 150 million km away from the earth. In the 16th Century Copernicus said that it was the Earth that travelled around the Sun, although a Greek philospher Aristarchus had claimed this much earlier. So for the photo today, a picture of a sunset over the Baltic Sea……
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Photo of the Day Saturday 4th May 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell
Thought for the day…" We all have stumbling blocks, the import thing is turning them into stepping stones"
" You do not know where you are going if you are always looking back".
Built on more than 14 islands, Stockholm is the capital of Sweden lies at almost 60 degrees north, meaning cold and dark winters and a short summer. The city has a population of around 900 000 people, although over 2 million live in the metropolitan area. It is said to have one of the world's most expensive public transport systems in the world. Sweden is also said to have the highest number of Mcdonalds stores per capita in the world.
The photo today is from Stockholm, looking across the water towards the Gamla Stan/Old Town, on 1st May 2013
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