UPDATE: ESPN’s Buster Olney reports that the Yankees never made Martin an offer. In fact, they haven’t made an offer to any position players so far this offseason.
8:44 PM: David Waldstein of the New York Times reports that Martin agreed to a two-year, $17 million deal with the Pirates. You could understand if the Yankees balked at a three-year deal at $8.5 million AAV, but it’s surprising that they weren’t willing to match the Pirates for two years.
8:29 PM: Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Pirates have reached an agreement with catcher Russell Martin, pending a physical. No word yet on the exact terms, but there was a report earlier this week that they could be willing to give him a three-year deal.
The Yankees were said to be reluctant to go beyond two years for Martin, who batted .211/.311/.403 with 21 homers, 53 RBI and a .713 OPS this past season. The Mariners and Rangers were also mentioned as potential suitors, but it appears the Pirates had the best offer on the table.
Pirates’ catchers combined to hit .218/.300/.392 with 23 home runs and a .692 OPS this past season, most of that from Rod Barajas and Michael McKenry. With his pop and patience, Martin should be able to equal or exceed that level of production. He also figures to be a nice upgrade from a group who threw out a major-league worst eight percent of attempted basestealers in 2012. Martin checked in at 24 percent, which was just around the league average. He also has the reputation as a solid receiver.
If the season started today, the Yankees would have to rely on a combination of Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart behind the plate. Of course, it’s very unlikely they’ll end up going that route. The Yankees haven’t been involved for Mike Napoli, but A.J. Pierzynski has been mentioned as a possible fallback to Martin.
Free agent right-hander Jeff Manship has reportedly signed with the NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization, according to FanRag Sports’ Jon Heyman. The righty was non-tendered by the Indians in December.
Manship, 32, completed his second season with Cleveland in 2016. He delivered a 3.12 ERA, 4.6 BB/9 and 7.5 SO/9 rate over 43 1/3 innings, a slight decline after posting an 0.92 ERA with the club the year before. During eight years in the major leagues, Manship carries a 4.82 career ERA, 3.6 BB/9 and 6.4 SO/9 in multiple stints with the Twins, Rockies, Phillies and Indians.
The right-hander will be joined by fellow MLB transplants Eric Hacker and Xavier Scruggs, each of whom took one-year deals with the Dinos last month. Steve Adams of MLB Trade Rumors notes that each KBO team is allowed up to three foreign players, so Manship will round out the trio when he joins the roster. Any salary terms have yet to be disclosed.
With the Braves on the cusp of formalizing their one-year deal with Kurt Suzuki, the market for free agent catcher Matt Wieters is dwindling. ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick references an inside source that lists the Angels, Rockies and Reds as potential suitors for the 30-year-old’s services.
Wieters is coming off of an eight-year career with the Orioles. In 2016, he played through his first full year after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2014 and batted .243/.302/.409 with 17 home runs and a .711 OPS in 464 PA. A return to Baltimore in 2017 isn’t out of the question, Crasnick writes, citing some within the team that would be open to Wieters stepping into a DH role and catching platoon with Wellington Castillo. However, he also points out that the front office appears divided on the veteran catcher, and sees the Orioles as a long shot for the foreseeable future.
The Angels have already been tied to Wieters this offseason, while the Rockies and Reds don’t appear to have made any formal inquiries so far. Both could use a veteran presence behind the dish, as the Rockies are planning to platoon rookie catcher Tom Murphy with 24-year-old Tony Wolters in the spring. The Reds, meanwhile, are banking on a quick recovery for 28-year-old Devin Mesoraco, who missed most of the 2016 season after undergoing shoulder and hip surgery and forced the club to rely almost exclusively on back-up backstop Tucker Barnhart.


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JK Rowling roasts Canada's minister of transport's Hope in Heels campaign (VIDEO)
A bizarre video that aims to bring awareness to violence against women has drawn ridicule online and even caught author JK Rowling’s attention.
On April 20, Canada’s minister of transport, Omar Alghabra, posted a nine-second video on his Twitter account. The clip shows several politicians walking around a conference table wearing pink heels. Around them, women can be seen taking videos and cheering.
Alghabra explained that the event aims to “spread awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution.”
He added that they wore the signature pink heels as a show of support.
Watch the video below:
Violence against women is still prevalent in our society. Hope in Heels is an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution. We wore their signature pink heels in support to this important cause. @HaltonWomensPl pic.twitter.com/5qngxQ6Myu
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) April 20, 2023
The intention might have been good but the reactions? Not so much.
Rowling retweeted the video, stating, “Keep us posted on how many femicides this prevented.”
Keep us posted on how many femicides this prevented. https://t.co/DvqsYbprzs
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 22, 2023
“Exactly what I thought,” responded Twitter user @benpalmach1967. “It looked like they were mocking the way women walk in heels.”
User @lascapigliata8 stated, “This circus is not helping women in any way, shape or form. It’s men having a goddam laugh. Male violence against women is not a laughing,g matter, and it certainly won’t be reduced to a bunch of pr*cks parading around in heels.”
@bobingie responded with an image.
Undeterred by the criticism, on April 21, Alghabra posted a response under his original tweet.
“Now that I have your attention, violence against women comes in all forms, not just physical,” he wrote. “Men, starting with me, need to be aware of the consequences of our actions and words and do better to create space for women around us.”
“Do all these angry posts from women have your attention yet? Read the bloody room,” stated @barbie_pouc,h.
“Omg are you done?” asked user @jonkay.
“‘Now that I have your attention’ is a fabulous lead-in for demonstrating that you’re not snotty or patronizing,” commented @jennifer626.
According to a report by the web-based research and information centre Canadian Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA), one woman is killed in Canada every 48 hours.
In 2022, 184 women were violently killed across Canada. Compared to 2019, that number shows a rise of 24%.
Canadian women and girls killed by violence up 24% compared to 2019: report #CallItFemicidehttps://t.co/4azZ5fuzQv
— Canadian Femicide Observatory (@CAN_Femicide) April 1, 2023

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The trade association for the shopping industry today said consumers would likely spend more this holiday season than in the same period a year ago.
In a new report, the International Council of Shopping Centers projected that 90 percent of Americans plan to buy gifts for the holidays, up from 82 percent in 2014. That’s good news for the footwear industry, with 49 percent of people polled said they would shop for shoes and apparel.
The two other categories besting footwear were gift cards, at 54 percent, and electronics and devices, coming in at 51 percent.
“With gas prices and unemployment down, and housing prices up, holiday shoppers are heading into the season with increased confidence in their spending power,” ICSC spokesman Jesse Tron said in a statement. “While certain headwinds exist, such as uncertainty in global financial markets and minimal wage growth in the U.S., the positive macroeconomic trends are likely to win out and propel retail sales throughout the holiday season.”
The organization forecasts retail sales growth of 3.3 percent, with consumers spending on average $702, up from $677 last year.
“It appears to be shaping up as a solid season for retailers, and if ICSC’s forecast holds, one that would better the average of the previous ten seasons by 1.5 percentage points,” Tron said.
While online growth is projected to be a major contributor to sales, in general, the survey also found that 95 percent of holiday shoppers would head into brick-and-mortar stores. The reasons for more store visits ranged from the comfort gained through trying on multiple items to ease of returns to the ability for one-stop shopping.
The findings comes on the heels of a report last week from the National Retail Federation. The organization forecast holiday sales for 2015 to top $630.7 billion.


In case you missed it, during yesterday’s CNN town hall, 17-year old Cameron Kasky, a student and survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, confronted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) about the more than $1 million in campaign support he’s received from the NRA.
During the exchange, Cameron Kasky pointedly asked Sen. Rubio if he would refuse future financial support from the NRA, which has repeatedly worked to weaken U.S. gun laws and stood in the way of progress on common-sense gun safety measures. Sen. Rubio declined to reject the NRA’s funding in the future.
WATCH the incredible exchange below.
Other NRA-backed elected officials should expect the same question.


Raytheon recently conducted an open-air test of an operational 15kW high energy laser (HEL) weapon system at the George H W Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC) at Texas A&M University – the first such test in Texas, establishing a new capability to advance critical defence technologies. The system is due to be shipped to the United Kingdom later this month for final integration and delivery to the UK MoD customer.
“We see drone attacks having an out-sized impact in combat zones and even civilian settings, and they are extremely difficult to detect and defeat,” said Michael Hofle, Senior Director of High Energy Lasers at Raytheon. “That’s why we’re making Texas a hub for solving these challenges, side-by-side with the Bush Combat Development Complex. Our combat-ready laser weapons are a cheat code against drones. So, having the ability to test our systems in our own backyard is a game changer for getting this technology into the hands of uniformed personnel quickly and affordably”.
The Raytheon test is an example of how the BCDC will help various customers accelerate innovative R&D impacting national security. The complex’s labs offer a wide array of capabilities for collaboration between stakeholders in industry, academia and government. The organisation will establish a more formal relationship with Raytheon over the coming months.
(Image: A Raytheon engineer prepares the 15-kW HEL for test at the Texas A&M-Rellis campus in September. Credit: Texas A&M University)


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A federal judge has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge against the National Security Agency's Upstream surveillance program.
While the non-profit could show that its content was likely traveling through connection points monitored by the NSA, it could not prove the data was copied - because the tools to run Upstream are classified.
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The case was originally filed by the ACLU back in 2015 on behalf of nine educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations (including Wikimedia), but was dismissed later that year after the court concluded that the plaintiffs lacked “standing” to sue because they had not sufficiently alleged that their communications had been intercepted.
In 2017, after appeal, the decision was reversed - with Wikimedia allowed to continue as the size of its traffic needs (primarily due to Wikipedia) met the standing required to continue the case. Essentially, Wikimedia users download so much data, that it's statistically inevitable that the traffic would pass points monitored by NSA.
Wikimedia alleged that the NSA's Upstream surveillance program was illegally conducting bulk surveillance, and that this hindered the plaintiffs’ ability to ensure the basic confidentiality of their communications with contacts abroad.
While the PRISM surveillance program acquires communications directly from US Internet service providers - with the "compelled assistance" of those ISPs - Upstream focuses on data collection with the "compelled assistance" of providers that control the telecommunications backbone.
Judge T.S. Ellis III explained in his ruling: "Thus, Upstream collection, unlike PRISM collection, 'does not occur at the local telephone company or email provider with whom the targeted person interacts.' Instead, the collection of communications for Upstream surveillance 'occurs upstream in the flow of communications between communication service providers."
The government claims that Upstream follows Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires the surveillance to be targeted at non-US persons, and should not lead to the "intentional acquisition of wholly domestic surveillance."
Bulk collection is prohibited and, instead, the NSA must use 'selectors' - specific communication identifiers, such as email addresses or telephone numbers. Selectors cannot be as simple as key words, such as "bomb."
Once the NSA has targets in mind, the Attorney General and the DNI can jointly authorize surveillance for up to a year, if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approves a written statement from the government demonstrating that the surveillance complies with the requirements. Should that happen, the government can then issue a 702 directive to US telecoms companies requiring them to assist in acquiring the communications involving the selectors.
The government describes Upstream as follows: "Certain Internet transactions transiting the Internet backbone network(s) of certain electronic communications provider(s) are filtered for the purpose of excluding wholly domestic communications[,] and are then scanned to identify for acquisition those transactions [that contain communications] to or from... persons targeting in accordance with the applicable NSA targeting procedures; only those transactions that pass through both the filtering and the scanning are ingested into Government databases."
With this in mind, Wikimedia challenged the legality of Upstream, claiming it violated 702, the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment.
The case against the NSA
The organization's case relied on three assertions - one, that Wikimedia's communications were so vast that they almost certainly traverse every international backbone link. Two, that the NSA conducts Upstream surveillance on at least one of those points. And three, the NSA must be copying and reviewing all text-based communications going through that point.
The judge agreed with the first two points, while the third claim formed the crux of the deliberation process.
Wikimedia's chosen expert, Scott Bradner, said that the NSA "most likely" copies all communications traveling across one of its surveilled points, and then filters it. "Even if the NSA were monitoring only a single circuit under upstream collection, it would be copying and reviewing at least some of Wikimedia's communications."
This was challenged by the NSA's handpicked expert, Dr. Henning Schulzrinne. While Schulzrinne does not know how the Upstream program works, he provided details on how the NSA could hypothetically avoid collecting Wikimedia's communications. Using traffic mirroring, the NSA could conduct surveillance "without intercepting, copying, reviewing, or otherwise interacting with [the communications of Wikimedia."
He said that, among other things, the NSA could blacklist all of Wikimedia's static IP addresses and not collect any data from those addresses.
Bradner admitted this was possible, but countered that it was "simply implausible as a practical matter given everything we know about Upstream collection."
The judge, however, found that Schulzrinne's hypothetical "is consistent with [the] government's public disclosures about Upstream surveillance." More importantly, Schulzrinne proves that "it is not a technological necessity that the NSA must copy all of the text-based Internet communications traversing a circuit that the NSA monitors."
We don't know the truth of the matter, and we probably never will, as the actual details as to how Upstream operates are state secrets.
Judge Ellis said: "For Wikimedia to litigate the standing issue further, and for defendants to defend adequately in any further litigation, would require the disclosure of protected state secrets, namely details about the Upstream surveillance program's operations. For the reasons that follow, therefore, the standing issue cannot be tried, or otherwise further litigated, without risking or requiring harmful disclosures of privileged state secrets, an outcome prohibited under binding Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit precedent.
"Thus, the case must be dismissed, and judgment must be entered in favor of defendants."
The judge noted that Wikimedia's loss was "not through any fault of its own," but added: "It is appropriate, however, 'in limited circumstances like these, [that] the fundamental principle of access to court must bow to the fact that a nation without sound intelligence is a nation at risk."
Patrick Toomey, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and one of Wikimedia's representatives on the case, told DCD: "The public record shows that Wikimedia, like millions of Americans, is swept up in the NSA’s mass Internet surveillance.
"It is disappointing that the court accepted the government's flawed secrecy claims to deny Wikimedia and its users the opportunity to defend their privacy rights. The decision places one of the government’s most intrusive and expansive surveillance programs beyond the reach of the Constitution, and we are exploring all options in response."
Wikimedia also contended that Upstream surveillance impaired its communications with community members, as shown by a drop in readership of certain Wikipedia pages.
It used data from a statistical analysis by Dr. Jonathon Penny, which concluded that it is "highly likely" that "public awareness of NSA surveillance programs, including Upstream surveillance... has had a large-scale chilling effect on Wikipedia users."
The judge, however, noted the data - covering a 32-month period - ended in August 2014, before the lawsuit was filed. This means that it does not show anything about ongoing harm.
He also said that the readership effects were from public awareness of media coverage of NSA surveillance generally, and not of Upstream surveillance specifically.
"Accordingly, Wikimedia cannot establish standing under this theory."

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Question & AnswerWe’re married. What happens to my partner’s property if they die?
If your partner’s will is valid, compare what you would get from
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- your partner’s will
If your partner’s will isn’t valid or if they didn’t make a will, compare what you would get from
- an equalization payment or
You calculate the equalization payment as if you and your partner had separated and divided your property. But there are a few special rules on how to calculate equalization after one partner dies.
If you separated before your married partner died, you value property on the date you separated. But if you were not separated when your married partner died, you value property on the day before your married partner died.
There are also some special rules on how to calculate the equalization payment if your partner left gifts for you in their will. Depending on what the will says, you might get these gifts in addition to an equalization payment.
Read your partner’s will carefully to see what property is left to you. Calculate the value of what they left you. If the will is valid, your partner is generally allowed to deal with their property after death however they want.
But there are some things that they must do. If they have a legal duty to support a child, a former partner, or other dependants, the will must leave enough to take care of those people. They might have this duty even if there was no or agreement that said so when they died.
If the will didn’t leave enough, a dependant can go to court and ask for the will to be changed to give them support. This is called a “dependant’s support claim”.
No will or if the will isn’t valid
If there is no will, or if the will is not valid, the intestacy rules say that you get the first $350,000 of your partner’s property. Any amounts over $350,000 are shared between you and your partner’s children or grandchildren, if any. If there are no children or grandchildren, you get all of your partner’s property.
Comparing your options can be complicated. This is especially true if there are special rules to apply to calculate an equalization payment or if there is a dependant’s support claim. You can talk to a lawyer who can also explain your options.
If you can’t afford to hire a lawyer for your whole case, some lawyers provide “unbundled” or “limited scope” services. This means you pay them to help you with part of your case.
If you can’t afford to hire a lawyer, you may be able to find legal help in other places.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an investigation into a report of an alleged $3 million fraud involving a Nigerian firm, Zenith Carex.
Global Fund, an international health sector funding mechanism, had raised the $3million fraud allegation in the latest report issued on March 9 by its Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The global organisation, which pools the world’s largest financial donations for the prevention, treatment, and care of AIDS, Tuberculosis, and malaria, blacklisted Zenith Carex in its report.
It accused the firm of systematically inflating invoices for the distribution of health commodities to warehouses and health facilities throughout Nigeria.
The company committed the alleged fraud between 2017 and 2019, a period of two years, the report had stated.
EFCC confirms probe
EFCC, Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption agency, has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that it has begun an investigation into the matter.
It confirmed the ongoing investigation against Zenith Carex and others in its reply to this newspaper’s Freedom of Information (FoI) request.
PREMIUM TIMES’ request was fuelled by the rising concerns about the poor attention, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies pay to Global Fund’s indictment of Nigerian firms over the years.
This is despite the reputational damage and possible loss of goodwill the blacklisting of the Nigerian firms is capable of causing the country in the global space.
Assuring this newspaper of its efforts to ensure justice is done regarding the matter, EFCC wrote that it is investigating “Zenith Limited for an alleged offence of conspiracy and criminal breach of trust with regards to contracts for the distribution of drugs/vaccine supply chain programme in all states of the federation.”
The letter signed by the head of FoI desk of the agency, Elizabeth Ayodele, wrote that the commission had also met the representatives of Global Fund over the matter.
“It will interest you to know that the investigation has reached an advanced stage,” the letter read in part, adding, “A zoom meeting was even held with representatives of Global Fund to enable them to assist our office on the allegations against the suspects.”
Zenith Carex contacted
When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES in March, a representative of the firm said the company was aware of the OIG report. The contact, however, said the company would not want to comment publicly on the matter as their lawyers were exploring the best possible legal option to take.
But, Zenith Carex denied the allegations in a report by Punch Newspaper on March 11, three days after the OIG’s report was issued.
The firm said EFCC was aware of the development and had invited some of the parties involved. It also called on the federal government to intervene in the matter.
Confronted with EFCC’s fresh revelation to PREMIUM and asked to comment on it again on Friday, an official at Zenith Carex whose phone number appears on the firm’s website, declined to speak.
The official, whom Truecaller identified as Adelana Olamilekan, told our reporter, “The commission had already invited some of our staff for questioning regarding the matter.
“So, I cannot speak further as the case is still under investigation.”
Global Fund is a funding mechanism that pools the world’s largest financial donations for the prevention, treatment, and care of AIDS, Tuberculosis, and malaria.
Given that Nigeria has the highest malaria burden in the world (one in four cases globally), the world’s fourth-largest tuberculosis burden and about two million people living with HIV, funding programmes to stem the tide of these grim indices became a central focus for Global Fund.
Since 2003, the Global Fund has disbursed over $2 billion in Nigeria. But despite that, the country is still dogged by disturbing health statistics partly because corrupt and incompetent officials undercut progress in health management, health experts say.
Zenith, a sub-contractor of Chemonics International, who managed an integrated supply chain for Global Fund Principal Recipients in Nigeria and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was blacklisted by the Fund.
The OIG report said Zenith allegedly inflated distribution invoices up to ten-fold and misrepresented the services executed, resulting in a $3 million overcharge.
The revelation builds on previous yearly reports by the OIG accusing Nigerian companies and government agencies of abusing millions of dollars of the Global Fund aid.
Aside from the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) had previously said it commenced investigation into allegations against Nigerian firms, agencies, and their proxies.
We also sent a similar FOI request to the ICPC seeking to know the status of its investigations of allegations reported by the OIG but there is no response yet.
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I just returned from the most incredible adventure of culture, humanity & safaris. Tanuj Choudhary prepared my travel itinerary and it was filled with diversity and flexibility. When the Canadian Embassy advised for me to return back to Canada as soon as possible due to the pandemic Coronavirus, Tanuj promptly assisted me with all the internal flight and hotel arrangements. My driver, Nand was extremely polite & assisted in whatever I needed. His professionalism & expert driving skills was outstanding.I highly recommend Rajasthan Four Wheel Drive for the individualized and safe travel. Thank you for being an instrumental part of my journey. I am humbled and blessed to experience life in India.
Day 1: Arrival Bangalore
Meeting and assistance upon arrival from a long journey as our representatives will be present there to welcome you and escort you to your car. On arrival, check-in at prebooked hotel and later you will be taken for sightseeing tour of Bangalore which will be a wonderful start of the journey visiting the Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain at which fountain will flow with the effects of music, Miracle Centre Church to have some devotee time to god and is also the famous church there, Manchinbele Dam Surayanarayana Temple, Art of Living International Centre which is major for yoga and also has its branches at other cities also.
Day 2: Bangalore – Mysore
After an early breakfast at the hotel, check out from the hotel and drive to Mysore which is the third largest city in Karnataka. On arrival, check into the prebooked hotel. Relax a while and then you will be taken for Sightseeing tour of the city including The Brindavan Gardens which is very peaceful place, Mysore Palace, Chamundi Hills to have some thrilling experiences, Mysore Lake, Zoo, St. Philomena’s Church to have some devotee time to god and many more highlights and famous spots of this ancient city in covered in this trip. Overnight Stay at the Hotel in Mysore
Day 3: Mysore – Coorg
Early morning after breakfast at the hotel check out from Hotel and precede to Coorg/Kodagu a coorg country, upon arrival check into prebooked Hotel. Day at leisure. Couples can enjoy the day with each other exploring the local places there. Overnight stay at the hotel in Kodagu.
Day 4: Coorg
After breakfast at the hotel proceed for sightseeing tour of Coorg which will be a amazing experience for the couples. Enroute visit Madikeri Fort which has beautiful architecture, Raja’s Seat, Nagarhole National Park to have some thrilling experience there, Iruppu Falls, Abbey Falls and Omkareshwara Temple to have some devotee time to god. Overnight stay Hotel/Resort.
Day 5: Coorg – Bangalore
Early morning after breakfast at the hotel check out from Hotel and it’s time to return back to Bangalore, upon arrival check into Hotel. Day at leisure. Couples can spend time by relaxing at hotel or can go out and do some shopping. Overnight stay at the hotel in Bangalore.
Day 6: Departure
Early morning, have you breakfast at the hotel. Check out from the hotel and board your respective flight/train to your destinations.
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I actually went to India in late 2018 and used the service from four wheel drive to visit several places in Rajasthan. My driver named Narwal gave my friend and me a very lovely service. The most impressive thing is that every restaurant he took us to, served the best food ever. I really enjoyed that trip and have been thinking of it lately. Anil also coordinated the service for us very well. I hope things will get better from the pandamic soon and hope to visit India again. I also hope that Anil and Narwal are doing well.

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Time for another Manuscript Monday!
In this week’s writing update, I revealed the cover for my next book, Vampire Campfire. Of course, if you’re particularly eagle-eyed, you might have already seen it floating around this website, but just in case you didn’t, here it is:
Isn’t it… pink? It’s like Legally Blonde: Vampire Edition.
I’ve finished the outline and I’m working my way through the actual writing part now, which is fun! There are orcs and witches and ghosts and – you guessed it – vampires in this one. Lots of fun magical scenes to write!
In other news, I’ve got a jogging-related injury. The only reason I’m telling you this is because I’m astounded that I’ve actually exercised enough to sustain a sports injury. How did this happen? It means I’m limping around the house and whimpering every time someone glances in my direction, hoping to garner some undeserved sympathy. I guess injuries are a part of life when you get to my age. Speaking of which…
It’s nearly my birthday!
June 1st. First day of winter here in Australia (which is still warmer than summer in Canada, as I found out last year.)
This time last year I was at Disney World having the time of my life. This year I’m at my desk, which is fun too, I guess.
Just kidding. I really do love my job. I still can’t believe I actually get to make up stories full-time now! A year ago, yes, I was in Disney World, but despite my best efforts I had so few readers that becoming a full-time author seemed impossible.
Yet here we are in May 2017, and I’ve just had my best book launch ever.
Thanks to you guys, my lovely readers.
Thank you so, so much. I’ll keep putting out books as long as you guys still read them, and I’m hoping that will be for many years yet. (Even if my body has started to deteriorate and I have to limp around everywhere.)
OK, here’s this week’s video. I hope you enjoy it!
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The Brazilian satellite called SPORT (Shiny Prediction Observation Research Mission) will be launched this Tuesday (22), the result of a partnership between the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and the North American Space Agency (NASA). Ballistics will monitor and investigate magnetic anomalies in the South Atlantic for data collection.
The data collected will be part of studies of the effects of solar storms, which can cause disturbances such as plasma bubbles, which impair communications and GPS signals and could compromise security and the country’s critical infrastructure.
The launch of the sport will take place aboard the Elon Musk Space X rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (USA). The satellite has a maximum capacity of six liters and weighs up to 9 kg. The launch is scheduled for 5:54pm this Tuesday and can be watched live on YouTube by the Brazilian Space Agency from 5:30pm.
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Although Sport bears this name as an acronym for “Task for Research of Scintillation Prediction Observations”, in the free translation the name it received is also a tribute to the football team Sport Clube do Recife.
The shell is named after NASA Space Weather Division Commander Jim Spahn, who grew up in Recife and supported the team as a child. “With regard to the name, his intent was not only to honor his favorite team, but also to promote space education for the next generation,” the league said in a statement.
The nanosatellite was developed by the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), in partnership with NASA, with scientific instruments provided by the Universities of Utah, Texas and Alabama; and by Aerospace Co., according to AEB.
In addition, the data obtained will be used by the Brazilian Program for Space Climate Study and Monitoring (Embrace), coordinated by INPE.
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(Yicai Global) March 2 -- A Chinese lab said it has developed a Beidou chip with a precision level at meters. The chip can find wider use in China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System, which is similar to US Global Positioning System (GPS)
Wanglian Communications United Lab unveiled in Beijing on March 28 a Beidou chip which is to be used by cars and has positioning precision level at meters, Xinhua News Agency reported. With the new chip, it will take just three seconds to achieve quick positioning, which means Chinese cars will enter an era of meter-grade navigation.
The meter-grade Beidou chip, which can help achieve quick positioning, can satisfy the needs of in-vehicle smart network terminals such as navigators, recorders, monitors and gateways, said Li Xueli, publisher of Wanglian Communications United Lab's products.
China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) is a global satellite navigation system developed by China. It is the third satellite navigation system developed after the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system.


From all accounts I've found, SHS makes some of the most powerful motors available. There is just no comparison to stock ceramic magnet motors. I feel that motors are one of the most important upgrades to make toward improving the performance of an airsoft gun, and because of this and the much higher cost of a motor compared to other upgrades parts I'm going add a writeup about using and modding motors soon.
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- No load RPM at 8.4v: 39011.7
- No load RPM at 11.1v: 51282.1
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Notes on RPMs: These speeds were tested by me so are only as exact as my rather primitive equipment. The 8.4 was taken with a stock Echo 1 gun and battery and the 11.1 was taken with a 1500 mah 20C lipo with a mosfet, super heavy gauge wire and low resistance connections. As with all DC brushed motors, peak power output is at 50% of the above values, this means that if you use the gear ratio (18:1 is what most stock guns are) you can find at what ROF these motors will be pumping out maximum power. For a 8.4 nimh this is not too bad as the current will be quite reasonable due to the lower voltage and higher internal resistance of NIMH. With a 11.1 lipo running at these peak power outputs means you will be drawing maybe something like 40+ amps and would have a serious FPS ROF combo, I do not recommend doing this unless you know what your doing and have the batteries to back it up. Use these values for reference when deciding for high torque vs high speed.
(Max RPM/2)/(gear ratio)/60 = the peak output ROF in RPS
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Elon Musk stated that the electrical car maker is not going to sell any bitcoin and intends to use bitcoin for transactions as quickly as mining moves to extra sustainable energy. You can buy bitcoin from India’s trading platforms after which store them in your wallets. You can also buy a bitcoin via numerous platforms to supply peer-to-peer companies, such as LocalBitcoins, WazirX, Paxful, and so forth. WazirX offer you an app lock to prevent entry to your wallet by an intruder.
Many governments have been quick to leap into crypto, however few have a staunch set of codified laws concerning it. Additionally, crypto is extremely risky as a result of those aforementioned speculators. It then jumped to about $16,000 a token in 2018, dipped to around $3,one hundred, then has since elevated to more than $60,000. Lack of stability has brought on some individuals to get very rich, while a majority have still misplaced hundreds. Crypto reduces the necessity for individualized currencies and central banks- With blockchain, crypto can be sent to anywhere and anyone on the planet without the necessity for currency exchanging or with out interference from central banks. One of the most important ideas in blockchain know-how is decentralization.
The new regulation treats digital currencies as “money service businesses” for purposes of anti-money laundering provisions. For now, individuals can entry this service in the three crypto-friendly branches that Cashaa has opened, whereas an automatic online model will go live in lower than a month from now. Gaurav started out as an engineer at Wipro, where he built navigation methods for Ferrari and BMW. Later, he built a decentralised network in 2016 for money transfer using cryptocurrencies referred to as BTC to Bid, which grew to become very popular as a platform that saw millions of dollars moving throughout it. One experiment in crypto-friendly banking is already underway in India, courtesy of Cashaa’s Kumar Gaurav. His banking platform is generally aimed toward businesses trying to use cryptocurrencies, with operations in Britain, Europe, Canada, US and UAE.
If daily profits in the cryptocurrency markets matter to you, you might want to be careful for the unstable 5 cash we’ve listed below. Ripple is premised on the assumption that distributing value is a robust method of bringing out certain values in folks and organizations. This is why they’re keen on distributing XRP to those who offer inflexible cost strategies and those interested in making sooner and safer funds internationally. The platform was established in 2012 and with an goal of enabling banks to settle cross-border payments on a real-time basis. Ethereum has been around for three years now, and within that point, it has managed to qualify because the second largest traded coin around the globe after Bitcoin. It is each a decentralized platform and a coin, and more lately, they launched a token as properly; it is called ERC-20.
, a strong and revolutionary cryptocurrency market that is strategically essential for the corporate’s international ambitions. We thrive for our college students to study the need of monetary independence. We teach our college students in regards to the importance of starting to invest, how you ought to use money like a device to accumulate belongings for yourself. People are spending their money on ineffective stuff and aren’t saving their money for investments which could presumably be very harmful for them on the long run. A plan for monetary independence is the most effective reward you would give to your future self.
Cryptocurrency blockchains are highly safe, but different elements of a cryptocurrency ecosystem, together with exchanges and wallets, are not proof against the risk of hacking. In Bitcoin’s 10-year history, several online exchanges have been the topic of hacking and theft, sometimes with millions of dollars worth of “coins” stolen. The semi-anonymous nature of cryptocurrency transactions makes them well-suited for a host of illegal actions, similar to money laundering and tax evasion.
- The SEC’s criticism acknowledged that Garza, via his companies, had fraudulently sold “funding contracts representing shares within the earnings they claimed can be generated” from mining.
- The Ethereum platform stays pivotal within the cryptocurrency operations; according to them, their platform can be utilized to codify, decentralize, safe, and trade absolutely anything.
- The underlying technical system upon which decentralized cryptocurrencies are based mostly was created by the group or particular person known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Even China, which has banned mining and trading, does not penalize possession.
LTC operates on an open source network around the globe that is not centrally regulated, and it uses “script”, a password key era perform. Bitcoin is the mom of all different cryptocurrencies; the coin was the primary of its sort to be established in 2009 and presently controls the costs of all different coins. The coin is also essentially the most capitalized at the time of this writing at $110 billion and can additionally be the most traded coin globally.
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The app has a recurring buy option, where users can choose how a lot and the way frequently they wish to buy a certain cryptocurrency, and Binance automates the the rest of the process. Users can even send and obtain crypto from pals or household via their Binance wallets by scanning QR codes. About ninety eight % of cryptocurrencies on Coinbase are stored offline, and the app claims to be as safe as a traditional bank. It has over 10 million downloads on Google Play Store, and is rated 3.eight out of 5. Even as India faces its worst financial crisis in virtually three a long time, native crypto trading, particularly on peer-to-peer exchanges, has peaked.
Because there isn’t regulatory clarity yet and no specific government regulatory institution dealing with crypto, “the space is just like the wild wild west,” in India, Gaurav says. And that’s additionally the problem that Cashaa is attempting to solve as a banker for retail customers in India. Unlike most crypto businesses, Cashaa is trying to open physical branches the place people can go and study using cryptocurrencies. “If folks know they will go to somebody at a department if there’s a problem, there might be extra trust,” Gaurav says. Cashaa has simply began providing private banking providers in the US and India, after buying United Multistate Cooperative Society, a ten-year-old cooperative with 17 branches in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Delhi. These will embrace a MasterCard facility, conversion of Indian rupees to crypto currencies, loans, deposits and so on.
We’ve rounded up 31 fascinating examples of US-based companies utilizing blockchain. Investors on the lookout for returns in a brand new technology sector are still interested in blockchains and cryptocurrencies – but should beware that they’re advanced techniques that are new even to those who are promoting them. “We are additionally looking at different cryptocurrencies that use “1 % of bitcoin’s energy/transaction,” Musk said in a tweet. You can even deposit via NEFT, IMPS, RTGS, Net banking, and peer-to-peer deposits.
Cryptocurrencies are a potential software to evade financial sanctions for instance against Russia, Iran, or Venezuela. Russia also secretly supported Venezuela with the creation of the petro , a national cryptocurrency initiated by the Maduro government to acquire useful oil revenues by circumventing US sanctions. Jordan Kelley, founding father of Robocoin, launched the primary bitcoin ATM in the United States on 20 February 2014.
Cryptocurrencies hold the promise of creating it simpler to transfer funds instantly between two events, with out the necessity for a trusted third party like a financial institution or credit card firm. These transfers are instead secured by means of public keys and private keys and different forms of incentive techniques, like Proof of Work or Proof of Stake. Cryptocurrencies are systems that allow for safe payments online which are denominated by way of digital “tokens,” which are represented by ledger entries internal to the system.
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On his channels, you’ll be able to be taught every thing you have to learn about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain expertise. If you need to know what crypto property are and their current status available on the market, Crypto Conversation is your go-to man. Well, probably the most unstable one among the many five will be the one with the least market capitalization, and that’s Ethereum Classic, adopted by NEO, then Binance Coin, and EOS, and lastly Ethereum. This is one of the cash has come out strongly in face of price variations by Bitcoin and other major cash.
The company serves about 1,800 clients and moved about $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies on its network last year. It has about $20 million in funding from seed to Series B from buyers together with Coinbase, Polychain Capital, Bain Capital, Temasek and Jump Capital. “Any investor who understands the Indian market shall be naturally bullish,” Sumit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Mumbai-based CoinDCX, a crypto exchange, tells Forbes India in an interview on April 25.
One of the options cryptocurrency lacks compared to credit cards, for example, is shopper safety against fraud, similar to chargebacks. Recently, several non-public and public sector banks have urged customers to keep away from dealing in digital currencies and denied companies to some cryptocurrency exchanges, citing a 2018 RBI circular. The country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX, confronted trouble for depositing and withdrawing buyer funds together with its banking companions all through the month. Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use blockchain know-how to report and safe every transaction. A cryptocurrency can be utilized as a digital form of cash to pay for every little thing from everyday gadgets to larger purchases like vehicles and houses. It can be purchased using certainly one of a number of digital wallets or trading platforms, then digitally transferred upon buy of an merchandise, with the blockchain recording the transaction and the model new proprietor.
Once recorded, the data in any given block can’t be altered retroactively with out the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority. Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk has usually endorsed cryptocurrencies on social media, however opinion seems to be divided on whether or not he is actually a supporter, particularly after the latest market crash. Some individuals have welcomed his assist to digital assets similar to Dogecoin — and even Bitcoin, beforehand — but others have accused him of being a “manipulator” who’s utilizing his position and massive following to influence the crypto market. Now, some cryptocurrency fanatics have formed a gaggle to “stop Elon” from tweeting on the topic and focus extra on building cars instead. Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, dropped sixteen.fifty nine % to $1,915.34 on Sunday, dropping $380.97 from its previous close.
Another potential enchancment is to remove inefficient mining actions by altering the consensus protocol altogether. Decentralized cryptocurrency is produced by the entire cryptocurrency system collectively, at a rate which is outlined when the system is created and which is publicly identified. In centralized banking and economic systems such as the Federal Reserve System, corporate boards or governments control the availability of currency by printing models of fiat money or demanding additions to digital banking ledgers. In the case of decentralized cryptocurrency, companies or governments can not produce new items, and haven’t up to now provided backing for different firms, banks or corporate entities which maintain asset value measured in it. The underlying technical system upon which decentralized cryptocurrencies are based mostly was created by the group or particular person generally recognized as Satoshi Nakamoto.
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We are also partnering with them to conduct research on scaling generalized sensible contracts. Bitbns lets customers store their funds in a safe, 2FA-enabled cryptocurrency wallet with the choice to withdraw, transfer, deposit, or trade immediately. It additionally allows customers to trade at 4X their net worth by borrowing from others. Zebpay additionally comes with features like real-time and historical crypto market information monitoring, 24X7 price alerts for users’ favorite crypto assets, and immediate fund deposits via Zebpay’s third-party partners. Exploring this ultimate list of crypto YouTubers in India is a good start line, as you’ll have the ability to learn all you have to know about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain expertise on the outlined channels and begin trading. One of the most trusted Indian Crypto channels, you will get access to crypto news, discussion, mining, and crypto app movies in Hindi on this platform.
Whether you’re a day trader or scalper, typically you’re better off not gaining something on a certain trade than speeding your means into losses. From our years of market analysis, we will comfortably tell you that on certain day or durations, you possibly can only keep worthwhile by keeping off some trades. Every day we take heed to stories on varied news platforms about this or that with regard to cryptocurrencies and, with the latest bitcoin mining hardware price in india market correction, the market has been in a state of confusion. Some, like ABC News as can seen within the video below, reported that there may be a potential bubble in market costs months ago. Justin Sun based the Tron Foundation in Singapore in 2017 with the aim of making a protocol that could “decentralize the internet” and support decentralized applications. Beginning on Ethereum, it migrated onto its own blockchain in 2018, and Sun has now immediately positioned Tron as a competitor to Ethereum.
Its report highlighted the positive aspect of distributed-ledger technology and advised applications for it in monetary companies. However, the federal government wasn’t convinced about cryptocurrencies and proposed a blanket ban on them. Visa’s move comes as main monetary companies within the US including BNY Mellon, BlackRock and Mastercard have embraced some digital cash, fueling speculations that cryptocurrencies may become an everyday part of funding portfolios. Cryptocurrencies are nonetheless thought of to be risky and never very clear.
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The scheme lures buyers with mouth-watering guarantees, corresponding to a return of as a lot as 900%. Only a small $1 initial investment is required to participate within the scheme. A representative lawsuit has reportedly been filed to have the ability to cease a cryptocurrency rip-off from continuing to dupe Indian investors.
All of this comes on the again of the rising recognition of Blockchain in areas corresponding to identification management, good contracts and provide chain. The global user base elevated by 190% between 2018 and 2020 to 200 million, driving the market capital of cryptocurrency to $2 trillion in April 2021. The crypto universe has been within the news for different causes just lately – Bitcoin went into freefall from $65,000 in April to under the $40,000 mark. Bitcoin, perhaps bitcoin mining software open source the best-known, is considered a hot investment, rallying 400% over the past year. And it’s not just millennials who’re shopping for it in India – business estimates say that since January 2021 folks above 45 years of age have been showing a eager curiosity in it. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction in opposition to the scammers and to block all web sites and mobile apps used for this scam in India.
Nodes may be any type of electronic system that maintains copies of the blockchain and retains the network functioning. When we create a document and share it with a gaggle of people, the document is distributed instead of copied or transferred. This creates a decentralized distribution chain that gives everyone access to the document at the similar time. No one is locked out awaiting modifications from one other get together, whereas all modifications to the doc are being recorded in real-time, making modifications utterly clear. Many preliminary coin offerings have turned out to be scams, with organizers participating in crafty plots, even renting fake offices and creating fancy-looking advertising materials. In 2017, a lot of hype and media coverage about cryptocurrencies fed a huge wave of initial coin providing fraud.
New know-how is upending every little thing in finance, from saving to trading to making funds. RBI has requested banks to strictly observe KYC rules and anti money laundering rules. Since 2020, Lakhs of Indians have dipped their toes into cryptocurrencies, and with the quantity going up every single day, India appears exciting for the crypto revolution.
Later in June 2020, the company launched its India unique crypto platform, CoinSwitch Kuber, to simplify crypto investments for Indian retail buyers. Blockchain expertise is most easily outlined as a decentralized, distributed ledger that data the provenance of a digital asset. By inherent design, the info on a blockchain is unable to be modified, which makes it a legitimate disruptor for industries like payments, cybersecurity and healthcare. Our guide will walk you thru what it’s, how it’s used and its history.
CoinDCX provides access to trading merchandise like spot, margin, futures, and lending utilizing a single powerful portfolio wallet. Also, it has an Insta characteristic where you should buy 40+ cryptocurrencies with INR in less than a minute. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he believes in blockchain as a future expertise, giving the ledger system a vote-of-confidence from Wall Street. Combining public information with a system of checks-and-balances helps the blockchain keep integrity and creates belief amongst customers. Essentially, blockchains may be thought of as the scaleability of trust by way of technology.
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However, cryptocurrency advocates typically extremely value their anonymity, citing benefits of privacy like protection for whistleblowers or activists residing underneath repressive governments. A cryptocurrency is a form of digital asset primarily based on a network that is distributed throughout a lot of computers. This decentralized structure allows them to exist outside the management of governments and central authorities.
The attraction of cryptocurrencies is that every little thing is recorded in a public ledger and secured utilizing cryptography, making an irrefutable, timestamped and safe record of every fee. India has higher potential when it comes to cryptocurrency trading due to its progress in the blockchain area, as a lot of the expertise and monetary companies have embraced the nuances of digital currencies. The Indian market is full of alternatives for merchants and the financial system as a whole. Even earlier than the crypto ban was lifted, a variety of the crypto enthusiasts resorted to P2P trading, with a sure stage of doubt and uncertainty. Cryptocurrency is a digital asset, a type of cost that may be exchanged online for items and providers. Many companies have issued their own currencies, usually known as tokens, which could be traded for the company’s offerings.
The Delhi court final week directed a discover to be printed in main Indian newspapers to invite victims of the rip-off to come forward. A class-action lawsuit has reportedly been filed in opposition to a cryptocurrency rip-off that has duped many Indian buyers. The scam, promoted in three Indian languages, lures buyers by promising up to 900% return on investments. The Delhi court has directed a discover to be positioned in major newspapers, in search of victims of this rip-off to return forward. But how the startup, which goals to add 5.5 million customers by the top of this year, performs sooner or later is not entirely in its hands.
Now that the crypto fanatics can trade and make a transaction with none concern or contempt, this paved a way to a model new milestone altogether. The Indian cryptizens can now buy cryptocurrencies with the Indian rupee immediately, with the help of the crypto exchanges. As per a examine by Paxful, seventy eight.5% of the survey respondents believe bitcoin mining india that conventional finance is corrupt, and 64.8% imagine this is the best way to realize monetary freedom. The trade volume in January two months before the Supreme Court lifted the ban on crypto, was over 3 million USD, and over 23,500 transactions represented an 11% month-over-month enhance.
“The bill additionally seeks to ban all private cryptocurrencies in India, nonetheless, it allows for certain exceptions to advertise the underlying expertise of cryptocurrency and its uses,” according to the agenda. The 4th of March, 2020 proved to be an iconic day when the Supreme Court of India handed their judgment on a two-year-old banking ban on cryptocurrency trading. In April 2018, the Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban that barred any financial establishments from facilitating any virtual currencies related services. Now, the decision to raise the crypto ban by the Supreme Court of India may lead to tapping the potential Indian advertising, which may translate to notable progress in trading volumes. Since 2017, Diffcoin has become one of many trusted brands inside the crypto neighborhood. This success award goes to the mixture of individuals, accurate crypto market analysis and information, the latest news, latest blogs, advertisement placements, and a lot of more.
Cryptocurrency transactions are normally irreversible after a selection of blocks confirm the transaction. Additionally, cryptocurrency non-public keys may be permanently lost from local storage due to malware, data loss or the destruction of the bodily media. This precludes the cryptocurrency from being spent, resulting in its efficient removing from the markets. The crypto currency market cap has historically thus far been dominated by Bitcoin holding at least 50% of the market cap value the place altcoins have increased and decreased in market cap value in relation to Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s value is basically determined by speculation among other technological limiting factors known as block chain rewards coded into the architecture technology of Bitcoin itself.
On 9 July 2018 the exchange Bancor had $23.5 million in cryptocurrency stolen. In February 2014 the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, declared chapter. The company said that it had lost almost $473 million of their prospects’ bitcoins probably because of theft. This was equivalent to roughly 750,000 bitcoins, or about 7% of all the bitcoins in existence.
— Crypto News (@CryptoNewsBitco) April 22, 2021
Being an ardent stock trader, I made my method into cryptocurrencies by way of CoinSwitch Kuber; the live charts and data have helped me make informed choices. Over-the-counter activity has picked up for the explanation that Communist Party reiterated its ban on crypto providers on May 18. He shares his pursuits in media, private finance and can be a keen motorcycle enthusiast. Founded in 2013, UnoCoin is the oldest cryptocurrency exchange in India, with over 1,000,000 prospects.
With the proper regulation, combined with the fast-growing digital economy, India could be residence to a Blockchain boom – just as we did with information expertise and knowledge know-how enabled companies. What worries the government and observers is the volatility and decentralised nature of cryptocurrency. After all, cryptocurrencies usually are not issued by a government-controlled centralised authority the way, say, the rupee is minted by the Reserve Bank of India. There isn’t any definitive count of what number of Indians deal in cryptocurrencies however, judging from the trading ranges, business estimates peg the number at 15 million. Their holdings are estimated at Rs 15,000 crore and month-to-month trading volumes at Rs 60,000 crore.
It has a circulating provide of 770 Billion WIN cash and a max provide of 999 Billion. If you are trying to buy or promote WINkLink, Binance is currently the most energetic exchange. Despite the supreme court’s order, some Indian banks continue to be reluctant to help virtual currencies. “Some banks are co-operating with us, while some are still hesitant,” Singhal of Coinswitch stated.
Blockchains, which are organizational strategies for making certain the integrity of transactional knowledge, are an integral part of many cryptocurrencies. The word “cryptocurrency” is derived from the encryption techniques which are used to secure the network. Cryptocurrencies make monitoring donations simpler and have the potential to allow donors to see how their money is used . A number of help agencies have began accepting donations in cryptocurrencies, together with the American Red Cross, UNICEF, and the UN World Food Program. The journal encourages authors to digitally sign a file hash of submitted papers, which can then be timestamped into the bitcoin blockchain. Authors are additionally asked to incorporate a personal bitcoin address within the first page of their papers.
ZebPay is a well-liked crypto exchange and app in India that gives a clean interface that also provides superior trading features. Users can make payments on the Bitcoin Lightning Network and revel in an enhanced safety function for disabling any outgoing funds or transfers. Users can also set trading alerts, trade pairs and buy a spread of cryptos with little slippage. About Youtuber Official channel of CryptoPotato web source for Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. We often add crypto news, ICO list additions, ICO evaluations, post-ICO interviews, product reviews, and market analysis. Cryptocurrencies have been in comparison with Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and economic bubbles, similar to housing market bubbles.
Nick is a data scientist who teaches economics and communication in Budapest, Hungary, where he received a BA in Political Science and Economics and an MSc in Business Analytics from CEU. He has been writing about cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise since 2018, and is intrigued by its potential economic and political usage. In current years, non-public digital currencies / cryptocurrencies / cryptocurrencies have become popular. In India, regulators and governments are skeptical of these currencies and are concerned concerning the risks concerned, the RBI said in a January 2021 booklet on payment systems. The Cryptocurrency Circular was issued by the Reserve Bank of India on April 6, 2018, and the identical was revoked by the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020. According to the 2018 Circular, entities regulated by the RBI have been banned.
That leaves Islamic buyers to determine on between sometimes conflicting judgments by students at advisory corporations, financial companies and educational establishments. But the difficulty of non secular permissibility is influential and will determine whether Islamic funds and institutions, which are formally committed to the rules of Islamic regulation, deal in cryptocurrencies. Among other experiments, United Arab Emirates-based Halal Chain conducted an preliminary coin offer in December which is linked to knowledge on Islamically permissible items. About 60 p.c of the planned variety of cash remains to be bought; OneGram hopes to problem all of them before listing them on exchanges across the end of May. A native start-up company founded final year, OneGram, is issuing a gold-backed cryptocurrency – a half of efforts to convince Muslims that investing in cryptocurrencies complies with their faith.
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Now people of India can usitile the cryptocurrencies with its full potential. Cryptocurrencies are decentralised digital property operating on blockchain know-how. There are more than 5000 cryptocurrencies on the market, Bitcoin being the first-ever cryptocurrency launched. CoinSwitch was based in 2017 as a world aggregator of cryptocurrency exchanges.
While taking a chance with Altcoins prior to now was adventurous, traders must be more cautious and look for bull confirmations, earlier than stepping their toes in again. The unreliability of the market does not scream bullishness but, so it’s higher to be on the sidelines for now. Historically, such market durations have additionally been a worthwhile buying alternative. While some alt merchants will take the dive and probably buy on the current market costs, it may be more cheap to hold your horses. The government can also be in the process of submitting a bill on cryptocurrencies as present laws is inadequate to deal with these issues.
Up to now, WIN has been listed on Binance, KuCoin, Poloniex, Bithumb, HitBTC, WazirX and many different well-known international exchanges. The data of digital currencies are kept on an open-ledger however the anonymity of householders can create issues. This means cryptocurrencies could be misused to switch illegal money or evade taxes.
In 1998, Wei Dai printed an outline of “b-money”, characterised as an nameless, distributed electronic cash system. In India, regardless of government threats of a ban, transaction volumes are swelling and eight million buyers now maintain one hundred billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in crypto-investments, based on trade estimates. Musk has previously in contrast Bitcoin to fiat money and sometimes tweets about cryptocurrencies which have sent values for Bitcoin and the meme digital currency Dogecoin up and down. Musk has announced not to use the favored cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a fee mode to buy its electrical automobiles, citing environmental harm. Musk mentioned that the electric car maker is not going to promote any bitcoin and intends to make use of bitcoin for transactions as quickly as mining moves to extra sustainable power.
It’s a digital currency powered by cryptography, a built-in security characteristic that makes it difficult to counterfeit, with most operating via blockchain technology. It’s decentralized, meaning that instead of an institution appearing as a gatekeeper, a network of computer systems each preserve distributed ledgers and run the programs that keep the currency’s authenticity. Gupta graduated as an electrical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in 2014.
Trading volume on Mumbai-based WazirX, certainly one of India’s main crypto exchanges, rose 400% and 270% month-on-month in March and April, respectively. Now, the exchange is facilitating round 60 million trades per day as compared to 20 million earlier than March. Crypto.com’s dedication to blockchain, cryptocurrency, innovation and delivering impactful benefits to its clients and all stakeholders is extremely inspiring. I have deep respect for all the work that has taken place to additional the vision of ‘cryptocurrency in each wallet,’ and I look ahead to working with an excellent staff to drive it further.”
This is why I saw the need to put up this submit and supply some useful tips to guide your trading in a time when the market appears to be bullish. Other than the information, I will also share with a number of the most volatile cryptocurrencies you have to be careful for and the most effective one among them for day trading. Binance also has a Binance Academy app where customers can be taught more about blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrency exchange operators in India are attempting to dissuade the government from banning digital currencies. India’s WazirX has launched an NFT marketplace for the exchange of digital assets. The launch comes after a powerful month for the exchange’s in-house WRX token. Their bets, often fueled by rumors and speculation in online boards and chat groups, are prompting more seasoned money managers to warn that markets are overheating, and that small traders could possibly be damage when prices reverse course. A survey of major bitcoin traders showed most have been upbeat initially of the year, with the bitcoin price anticipated to soar to over $20,000 per bitcoin in 2020.
Bitcoin has always been on the highest, sustaining its standing in the crypto house. BTC is the oldest and the most popular cryptocurrency ever, with the very best demand amongst the global cryptizens. As the Bitcoin provide is scarce with 21 million, of which only around three hundreds of thousands are left to mine, it’s thought-about as an asset. Bitcoin is that one cryptocurrency that individuals are aware of, if not completely into it. When it comes to choosing cryptocurrencies, you must all the time go together with the ones that have a excessive probability of an excellent return on trading.
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According to a survey by Paxful, 43.50% of respondents believe that this crypto independence would result in an increase in jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities. India’s crypto volumes are increasing every week, as more and more people are displaying curiosity in virtual currencies. Due to COVID 19, most of the places are underneath lockdown, and this is proving to be a contributing issue to the ever-rising crypto trading quantity in India. Binance isn’t only one of many world’s main cryptocurrency exchanges, but it owns one of many well-liked coins, too- Binance Coin .
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Bitcoin markets operate 24/7, setting the stage for price swings at unpredictable hours. In addition, on Friday China cracked down on mining and trading of the most important cryptocurrency as part of ongoing efforts to forestall speculative and financial risks. In the absence of a central authority, there’s lots of room for consultants to build careers each within cryptocurrency and as a critical business talent. Virtual currencies could change the method in which we do just about every thing with the cryptocurrency system forming the premise of actions beforehand served by conventional monetary establishments. Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges function and what makes these revolutionary financial transactions so, well, revolutionary puts you on the forefront of a business world built around open-source, peer-to-peer markets. India’s bitcoin and crypto ban was initially introduced in to calm over-eager traders who were vulnerable to shedding money to the myriad of scams that plagued the market in 2017 and 2018.


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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ANNOUNCES
THE COHEN AND GRIGSBY TRUST PRESENTS SERIES
WILL FEATURE AN ARRAY OF DIVERSE, DYNAMIC,
INSPIRATIONAL & UNIQUE THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES
BY AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS IN FEBRUARY 2018
THE HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOW
MUSICAL THRONES: A PARODY OF ICE AND FIRE
BOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD: A JOURNEY THROUGH HINDI CINEMA
POSTSECRET: THE SHOW
PITTSBURGH—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents series brings an array of diverse, unique theatrical performances by award-winning artists to the Cultural District this February, as follows listed in chronological order: The Hollywood Special Effects Show, MUSICAL THRONES: A Parody of Ice and Fire, Bollywood Boulevard: A Journey Through Hindi Cinema, and PostSecret: The Show.
The Hollywood Special Effects Show
Monday, February 5, 2018 | Byham Theater | 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $25.
Audiences will be able to get closer to the action than ever before as this interactive and explosive family show goes behind the scenes of many favorite blockbuster films to discover the science and secrets of creating movie magic. Live on stage, the show’s team will give a revealing insight into the world of special effects, taking families on an exciting journey as they feel the heat of an onstage inferno, marvel at gruesome sci-fi monsters, are blown away by apocalyptic weather and hold on tight through huge explosions!
The Hollywood Special Effects Show uses more pyrotechnics than any other touring theatre show, and for some sequences, the audience is protected by bullet proof glass placed across the stage. The animatronic dinosaur that appears in the show was built by specialists in Japan, and the large air cannon used in the finale of the show is capable of firing a projectile over an incredible 1500 feet! The team of professionals behind this special effects show have also been involved in other touring productions: The Dark Knight Rises, Guardians of The Galaxy, The Phantom of the Opera, and Game of Thrones. This show uses pyrotechnic effects. Effects may include, but are not limited to: strobe lighting, smoke and haze, airbursts, and gunflashes. To view a video preview: https://vimeo.com/140079784
MUSICAL THRONES: A Parody of Ice and Fire
Thursday, February 8, 2018 | Byham Theater | 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $35
Fans of the most talked about show on television can now get their fantasy fix live on stage with the hilarious send-up MUSICAL THRONES: A Parody of Ice and Fire. Composed by the hysterical mad men behind the long-running SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, Jon and Al Kaplan, MUSICAL THRONES: A Parody of Ice and Fire brings your most beloved and be-hated characters to life as you journey through all 6 seasons of the Emmy Award winning Game of Thrones series. Sing and dance along with Daenerys and her dragons, Tyrion, Joffrey and all the jolly members of the Lannister and Stark families in this love letter to fans.
You will be transported to Thrones’ magical locations (if you close your eyes) where bloodthirsty musical theater comics leave no joke unturned in serving up Thrones’ notorious violence, power struggles, and more - plus worse yet - a ballad or two. This show is preparing for battle so saddle up and come on down to King’s Landing - and hold onto your swords! This show contains adult content and is recommended for audience ages 12 and up.
L.A. Theatre Works in The Mountaintop
Saturday, February 17, 2018 | August Wilson Center | 3:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $25.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside room 306 of The Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 the night before the killing is a mystery. In her internationally acclaimed play, The Mountaintop, playwright Katori Hall fantasizes what may have transpired in the overnight hours between the legendary civil rights leader and a seemingly inconsequential hotel maid.
Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop is rife with humor and political jabs, while giving us a glimpse at the human side of Martin Luther King Jr. Hours after his famed final speech, punctuated by the immortal line, "I've been to the mountaintop," the celebrated Reverend reveals his hopes, regrets, and fears, creating a masterful bridge between mortality and immortality. In 2018, America and the world marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., yet, struggles to resolve racial tension remain a challenge for communities everywhere. The Mountaintop premiered in London in 2009 and subsequently ran on Broadway starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson. The Mountaintop contains some mature language.
Bollywood Boulevard: A Journey Through Hindi Cinema
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | Byham Theater | 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $30.
The artistry of Hindi cinema comes alive during this exuberant stage show that fuses live music, dance, and imagery that will thrill lifelong fans and novices alike. Join a passionate group of performers as they trace the evolution of Bollywood, from black-and-white classics to colorful blockbusters, and bring the spirit and romance of India's grand palaces, mountain vistas, and sweeping mustard fields. Bollywood Boulevard premiered on August 3, 2017 at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
PostSecret: The Show
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 | Byham Theater | 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $30.
PostSecret: The Show is an immersive, poignant journey through the humor and humanity of the personal stories we keep to ourselves, and on rare occasions, share with others. Projected images, videos, three actors and a guitarist guide the audience through crowd-sourced narratives revealing the true stories behind the secrets. See the hopeful, shocking, and painful secrets that brought hundreds of millions to the PostSecret blog, became six best-selling books and are currently in a Smithsonian art exhibition. Frank Warren, Internet phenomenon and recipient of the Mental Health Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award, collaborated with an award-winning team of theatre professionals to bring PostSecret to life, theatrically, for the first time. PostSecret: The Show is a breakthrough in audience sourced storytelling that reaches beyond the confines of the stage, reminding audiences that secrets can be both walls and bridges. This show content contains adult themes and is recommended for audience ages 16 and up.
Tickets and Information
Tickets are available at the following official Pittsburgh Cultural Trust ticket sources: online at TrustArts.org, by calling Guest Services at 412-456-6666, or in person at Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue. For groups of 10+ call 412-471-6930, online at TrustArts.org/GroupSales or in person at Theater Square Box Office.
Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series
The Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents series will feature an exceptional season of dazzling area premiers, returning favorites and one of a kind performances - for all ages. From music to dance, comedy, theater and more, the series will bring an array of national and international award-winning performers to the unique stages of the Benedum Center, Byham Theater and August Wilson Center located in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Cohen & Grigsby has been the presenting sponsor of the series since the 2008-2009 season. For more information about the current Cohen &Grigsby Trust Presents series, visit: www.TrustArts.org.
For more information about Cohen & Grigsby, visit: www.cohenlaw.com.
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. www.TrustArts.org

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Lufthansa has submitted a revised package of proposed commitments to the Commission in connection with the planned acquisition of Austrian Airlines. This follows the Commission’s earlier statement that the commitments originally offered were insufficient to overcome competition concerns on a number of routes out of Vienna that could lead to a lack of choice and increased fares for passengers.
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is reported to have instructed her services to draft a conditional clearance decision for the planned merger between Lufthansa and Australian Airlines.
Besides the merger clearance aspects, there are elements of state aid control to be looked at, as the merger goes together with a public takeover offer. This offer is subject to approval by the Commission of €500 million in restructuring aid to be granted to Austrian Airlines by the Austrian government. Nevertheless, there are clear signals that a positive decision is also forthcoming in the financial aid proceedings.
Lufthansa had originally set a deadline of 31 July for the completion of the merger, failing which it threatened to pull out of the deal, but has now asked the Austrian competition authorities for an extension of time up to 31 August in order to complete the transaction.
The Commission’s initial investigation found that the proposed merger transaction would lead to competition concerns with respect to, among others, the routes from Vienna to Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Zurich, Geneva and Brussels. Some third parties remain dissatisfied with Lufthansa's suggestions for remedying these concerns, the opponents of the deal stressing the existence of the aforementioned regional dominance, which would be further enhanced with the takeover of Austrian Airlines. Lufthansa argues that the merger with Austrian airlines will have positive effects on consumer welfare, revenues, costs, employment levels, and existing needs to restructure.


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Welcome to the Book Review blog of the LDS Forever Friends Email Group. This is where you'll book reviews of every book we read. Orson F. Whitney said, "We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own. God's ammunition is not exhausted. His brightest spirits are held in reserve for the latter times. In God's name and by his help we will build up a literature whose top shall touch heaven, though its foundations may now be low in earth."
I received this jewel from the publisher way back in April, so read this small book while waiting for Bob at the doctor's. The story is about a family that loses their dad from an auto accident and the mysterious stranger that leaves Christmas packages on the doorstep each day just before Christmas, along with a "Santa Letter.". As the wife has a lot of difficulty with grief, this surprise helps her and her children to learn the true meaning of Christmas. They come to anticpate each day's surprises, getting the day's chores done so as to be together to open each gift and read each letter. They become closer as a family, enjoy the gift of giving, which gets them out of feeling lonely and sorry for themselves. I was quite surprised at who "Santa" was, who kept delivering a "Santa Letter" that would teach the family about Christmas and true charity. Last Christmas, we started doing the 12 Days of Christmas to a family in our ward and we will be doing it this Christmas, by giving a family a 12 piece Nativity. It's a new tradition for us. This little treasure will be another classic in The Christmas Jars tradition. I learned the only way to peace and happiness is through Our Savior Jesus Christ and that family is the most important thing of all besides Our Savior and Our Heavenly Father.
Forever Friends Rating 5 Stars from Teri Until next time, happy reading!!!!
Santa Letters by Stacy Anderson Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781599551456 Pub. Date: August 2008


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Re-enforcing natural defencesNews
Posted by: Dental Design 20th August 2020
With health awareness at an all-time high right now, dental professionals have an ideal opportunity to promote dental health. This is especially important during an epidemic, as it strengthens cross infection and encourages patients to look after their health while they have restricted access to professional care. The body already has a number of natural defences in place, which it utilises when triggered to protect itself from infection. However, there may be quick and easy steps you can take in the dental practice when seeing patients again in order to support these defences further.
A strong natural defence
Pathogens commonly enter the human body through the mouth, eyes, nose or urogenital openings, or open wounds.[i] From here, they can spread around the body. Their replication in the body is referred to as infection, making us ill when they start to damage organs within the body and/or inhibit their functions.
The immune system is activated when immune cells detect antigens – any microbes that are not the body’s own. There are two subsystems providing immunity – innate and adaptive. [ii] The former provides the first line of defence, fighting pathogens with phagocytes. These contain, kill and process pathogens by enveloping them and causing them to degrade.[iii] It is a non-specific system and is designed to attack any microbes it doesn’t recognise. The adaptive immune system creates antibodies to fight specific pathogens, which it uses whenever it detects a pathogen that the body has encountered before. The adaptive immune system’s ability to constantly learn and remember pathogens protects the body from potentially infectious microbes it regularly comes into contact with. How well it does this and the effectiveness with which the antibodies adhere to and destroy antigens is believed to influence the level of immunity the body builds to a particular pathogen. There is also some research to suggest that the body loses its protective immunity over time.[iv] For example, antibodies triggered by protein vaccination decay quicker than those caused by replicating viruses.
As with many areas of the body by which pathogens can enter, the oral cavity puts up its own fight against infection. There are several defence proteins in saliva, including immunologlobulins, which support the innate and adaptive immune systems with immune activator or modular properties that help to trigger the immune system when foreign microbes are detected in the mouth. This defence may be stepped up around mucosal surfaces, periodontal sulcus and oral wounds or ulcers to provide greater protection.[v]
How can mouth rinses help?
While mouth rinses should never replace traditional oral hygiene techniques (or standard pre-procedural infection control protocols), careful use of the products could provide an adjunctive layer of protection for patients. The formulation of the products in question is key. Various ingredients have different roles to play. For example, chlorhexidine helps to fight any pathogens present in the oral cavity, binding to the mucosa and teeth to provide an effective defence. Other substances like cyclodextrins help to deactivate viruses. In addition, polymers are used to form a protective layer over the hard and tissues in the mouth for a longer-lasting barrier against pathogens. Plus, hyaluronic acid is known and widely utilised for its ability to support tissue repair and help restore any damage caused by previous infection.
As such, some mouth rinses could prove highly effective either before or after dental procedures, helping to further reduce the presence of pathogens in the oral cavity and minimise the risk of infection. Using a combination of the above ingredients, leading products afford greater peace of mind for you and your patients. They are also quick and easy to use and therefore simple to integrate within your existing protocols.
Not all mouth rinses were created equal
As suggested, not all mouth rinses will be equally as effective at defending against infection in the oral cavity. Perio Plus+ provides a range of mouth rinses you can trust. They contain chlorhexidine to fight pathogens, but their unique formula minimises any potential side effects associated with other products like taste disturbance and staining. They combine this with cyclodextrins, polymers and hyaluronic acid to offer superior protection. Taking this one step further, they even contain CITROXÒ – a naturally occurring bioflavonoid derived from bitter oranges. With anti-microbial, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, it helps to break down plaque in the mouth and attack bacterial cells for total protection.
At any time, the minimisation of infection risk is crucial for all dental procedures, but it is of even greater importance right now. By simply using high-quality mouth rinses in pre- or post-procedural protocols, you can give your patients’ natural defence systems a boost and help protect them from infection.
[i] Drexler M; Institute of Medicine (US). What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2010. I, How Infection Works. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/ [Accessed May 2020]
[ii] InformedHealth.org [Internet]. Cologne, Germany: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG); 2006-. How does the immune system work? [Updated 2020 Apr 23]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279364/ [Accessed May 2020]
[iii] Harris J. Phagocytosis. British Society for Immunology. https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immunology/systems-and-processes/phagocytosis [Accessed May 2020]
[iv] Antia A, Ahmed H, Handel A, Carlson NE, Amanna IJ, Anita R, Slifka M. Heterongeneity and longevity of entibody memory to viruses and vaccines. PLoS Biol 16(8): e2006601. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006601
[v] Fábián TK, Hermann P, Beck A, Fejérdy P, Fábián G. Salivary defense proteins: their network and role in innate and acquired oral immunity. Int J Mol Sci. 2012;13(4):4295‐4320. doi:10.3390/ijms13044295
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