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A memo for the revision of the contract cost for a 22km section of the 100km Enugu-Onitsha highway has been approved by the Federal Government.
This was disclosed by Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, while addressing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.
According to Fashola, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a memo for the revision of the contract cost for a 22km section of the 100km Enugu-Onitsha highway.
The revised section of the road, which is under contract to Niger Construction Company, had a budgetary increase of N8.649 billion.
Speaking further in his statement, Fashola said the variation was to cater for the payment for change of pavement surface, wearing cost to increase the thickness, utilize modified bitumen and also strengthen the shoulders and some bridge works.
Fashola said, ‘’The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing presented one memorandum to the council and which was for the revised estimate total cost of our project on the Enugu-Onitsha highway and it was to add the sum of N8.649 billion to the section under contract to Niger Construction which is a 22 km section of the 100 km road so that we can expedite the conclusion of work there.
‘’The variation was to cater for the payment of change of pavement surface, the binder cost and the wearing cost to increase the thickness, to utilize modified bitumen and also to strengthen the shoulders and some bridge works. So the council approved this variation of N8.649 billion in favour of Niger Construction Company.’’
Observers are optimistic that this would ameliorate the plight of travelers and motorists plying that route, as the reconstruction and rehabilitation project which had commenced in 2009 has been marred by several setbacks and delays.


As the sun rose above Morocco on Wednesday morning, the thrill and ecstasy from the night before had barely settled.
It is just hours after the Moroccan football team had created history – a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup after beating Spain on Tuesday evening in Doha.
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It was an unprecedented feat for a side that not many picked to be in the last eight.
In Doha, the fans sang, danced and celebrated into the early morning. And it was a feeling not lost on Moroccans back home.
“What a great day to be a Moroccan,” Abdessamad told Al Jazeera in Marrakesh. “My heart sank every time we failed to score from an opportunity. As Spain missed their penalties, I forgot everything around me. Suddenly, the loud roar around me made me realise we made it to the quarter-finals.
“Our team is on the road to something more magical, something bigger, something insane.”
In the capital, Rabat, cafes were lined up with people eager to watch the match, roads were packed and squares where screenings were taking place were filled with flags and Moroccans wearing team jerseys. A feeling of hope and optimism prevailed.
The win gave them an excuse to celebrate all night.
“It’s the first time I had this feeling,” Fahd Belbachir was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. “We’re so proud.”
It was a day where history was made and Moroccans on the streets the morning after said they could not be more proud of what the team had achieved.
Some were even in disbelief, not fully able to comprehend that the dream was in fact reality.
“We are so proud of our Lions, who fought hard to get us into the quarter-finals,” Niama Meddoun, a Rabat resident, said. “We are delighted to be Moroccans today, since we are the first Arab country that has reached the quarter-finals.”
Videos circulating online showed the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, out celebrating with a Moroccan flag.
He praised the national team “who gave their all and blazed a trail throughout this great sporting event”. He added that the players represented the “hopes and dreams of Moroccans in Morocco, Qatar, and all over the world”.
With only eight out of the 32 teams left, Morocco is the only Arab and African nation in the tournament at this stage at the first World Cup being held in the Middle East.
Morocco’s success at the tournament has reverberated across the Arab world and among Moroccan and some other immigrant communities in Europe.
Ceuta is a Spanish exclave which borders Morocco on the North African coast. Its population is a mix of Spaniards and Moroccan residents and workers. The Associated Press reported that the win was also celebrated with cars honking horns there.
“What pride, what happiness, now to celebrate with friends. I have lost my voice,” said 20-year-old Ismael Mustafa. “We were able to pull it off. For Spain? You will win next time, so no worries.”
TV channels in Morocco dedicated the news bulletins to pan to various celebrations taking place across all cities and regions in Morocco.
The common denominator in all: euphoric supporters enjoying the joyous occasion. “Spain is gone, who is next” was a common phrase shouted across the country.
“The national team doesn’t only represent Moroccans, it represent Arabs and Africans from all over the world,” one fan told Al Jazeera in Marrakesh. “Football has united all these nations under the Moroccan flag.”
Reporting by Khadija Satou in Marrakech and Faras Ghani in Doha


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Selective Aggregation. This allows you to direct traffic from specific network ports to single or multiple monitoring ports. It is similar to having the capabilities of several aggregation TAPs on one network packet broker.Network Access and Monitoring appliances, what the market now christened Network Packet Brokers (NPBs), aggregate network traffic from switch SPAN ports or network TAPs and then manipulate or copy that traffic to enable the more efficient use of security and performance tools – inline and/or passive. In short, they make existing security and performance tools work better, enabling to get more out of their investments and lengthen the lifecycle of these tools.
Networks are becoming ever more complex and network speeds are increasing. Organizations are ramping network speeds up to 10Gbps and higher, but have already invested significantly in security and monitoring tools that only work at 1Gbps or have lower throughput. NPB as their load balancing capabilities provide for even distribution of packets from a high-speed links to less expensive or already existing tools designed for lower throughput.
IT departments currently deploying multiple network tools per link or group of links in a network running applications such as security, compliance, analytics and performance management. Each tool installed creates additional latency and risk in network. To avoid this, NPBs are utilized to enable tools to have visibility into network links without the risk of availability degradation or failures.
Someof the benefits
- Network Intelligence Optimization. Using network packet brokers, you can add a network intelligence optimization layer, which will allow your network to become fast and efficient. The network packet brokers in this layer mediate between you Network and tools.
- Centralized Administration. Leading vendors for network packet brokers provide a unified management console that is often web-based for users. This will allow you to monitor, manage, and report on the performance of your network packet brokers, either individually or in groups, across your entire company from one centralized area. Some of the vendors have implemented access rules to match company compliance rules.
- Fault Tolerance. Great network packet brokers will feature fault-tolerance capabilities, which will help keep undesirable network downtime at a minimum.Power-Loss Packet-Flow Policies. You can determine whether your network packet broker device should fail open or closed depending on the desired outcome following power loss. Link-state Mirroring Capabilities. Network packet brokers prevent situations known as asymmetric routing, ensuring that traffic can be rerouted in case of a power loss.
- Traffic Grooming. With traffic grooming capabilities, the network packet brokers will only route relevant traffic to the tools connected. This will ensure that each tool stay reliable, efficient, and effective.
- Packet Optimization. Modify captured packets and make network security and other performance tools efficient and effective with functions such as time-and-port stamping, packet de-duplication, conditional packet slicing/masking, packet fragment and assembly, Header maniplation etc.
- Hardware-Based Packet Filtering. Use the hardware included within network packet brokers to filter packets based on your criteria. Drop unwanted packets with a negative filter and extract desired packets with a positive filter.
- Perform these functions at speed of up to 100Gbps and eliminate the need for other monitoring tools.
- Aggregation of monitored traffic from multiple links/segments
- Filtering and grooming of traffic to relieve overburdened monitoring tools
- Load-balancing traffic across a pool of tools
- Regeneration of traffic to multiple tools
- Customizable heartbeat (HB) support to detect and automatically recover from monitoring and security tool failures
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The German defense minister says the government will do everything in its power to de-escalate the crisis with Russia, but arms transfers to Ukraine are not an option.
Germany plans to send a field medical facility to Ukraine next month, but continues to refuse arms transfers despite fears of a Russian invasion.
In February, “a full field hospital will be handed over, including the necessary training, co-financed by Germany in the amount of 5.3 million euros [$6bn]”German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht told the Sunday edition of Die Welt.
Germany has been supplying respirators and treating severely wounded Ukrainian soldiers in its military hospitals for years, the minister said.
Lambrecht said the German government would do everything in its power to de-escalate the crisis with Russia, but arms transfers to Ukraine were not an option.
“The supply of weapons would not be useful at the moment – this is the consensus in the federal government,” she said.
Ukraine has again asked Germany for help with defense, saying it “urgently needs 100,000 helmets and life jackets for volunteers who have just enlisted in the army to defend their homeland with the armed forces,” the Ukrainian ambassador said. Germany Andriy Melnik in front of the Handelsblatt newspaper on Saturday.
“The seriousness of the situation requires an immediate rethinking and change of course [German coalition] the government on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine, “Melnik was quoted as saying.
Kiev “will not rest to persuade the German government and the opposition to supply defense weapons to Ukraine,” he added.
Meanwhile, the first shipment of the $ 200 million US security support package for Ukraine arrived in Kiev on Saturday, the US embassy said.
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will send American anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine.
Russia last week described Western arms supplies to Ukraine as extremely dangerous, adding that the move would do nothing to reduce tensions.


Is ChatGPT here to revolutionize Cloud development too?
First, a quick introduction to ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI that can perform a wide range of tasks related to natural language processing (NLP). It is trained on massive sets of text data, allowing it to understand and generate human-like responses to a variety of queries.
Its most recent update has made it even more approachable by introducing the concept of “generative AI”, which presents an interface that allows users to interact with the artificial intelligence conversationally.
One of the key features of ChatGPT is its ability to understand and respond to natural language queries. This means that users can interact with ChatGPT in a way that feels natural, without needing to use specialized commands or syntax. ChatGPT can understand complex sentences and can even handle multi-turn conversations, making it an ideal tool for a wide range of applications.
ChatGPT top 10 applications
- Customer Service: answers customer inquiries and provide support 24/7.
- Language Translation: translates languages in real-time, making it an ideal tool for communication between individuals who speak different languages.
- Personal Assistant: helps manage tasks, schedule appointments, and provide reminders.
- Mental Health Assistance: it can provide support and resources to individuals who are struggling with mental health issues.
- Educational Applications: provides personalized learning experiences for students and answers questions in real-time.
- Virtual Shopping Assistant: it can help customers find products, answer questions about products, and provide recommendations.
- Chatbot: it can be used as a chatbot to automate customer support, sales, and other business processes.
- Social Media: it can be used to analyze social media data and provide insights to businesses and individuals.
- Personalized Marketing: ChatGPT can be used to provide personalized marketing experiences to customers based on their preferences and behavior.
- Content Creation: it can generate content for websites, blogs, and social media platforms.
Can you guess if this blog post was created using ChatGPT’s help?
The impact of ChatGPT on Cloud
As the world becomes more connected and data-driven, businesses are turning to the cloud to store, manage, and analyze their data. With the increasing complexity of cloud infrastructure, ChatGPT sounds like a promising way in which developers can profit from to find new ways to streamline their workflows, reduce errors, and improve the user experience.
But, is ChatGPT really going to mark the beginning of the new era of software creation? Opinions are certainly polarized in regard to this topic. As revolutionary as it may sound, it does not come without drawbacks and risks such as the possibility of flawed and unchecked code that could make its way into production or the fear of job elimination.
Let’s take a look at some of the applications of ChatGPT:
1. Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
One of the most popular applications of ChatGPT is in the development of chatbots and virtual assistants. These tools can be integrated into cloud applications to provide users with a more natural way to interact with the system. Chatbots can help users find information, troubleshoot issues, and even place orders, all through a simple text-based interface.
By using ChatGPT, developers can create chatbots that are more sophisticated and capable of handling complex queries. For example, a chatbot for an e-commerce website could use ChatGPT to generate personalized product recommendations based on a user’s past purchases and browsing history.
2. Natural Language Processing
Another area where ChatGPT can be useful for cloud developers is in natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a field of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and human language. With ChatGPT, developers can build more accurate and efficient NLP models that can be used for a variety of tasks, such as sentiment analysis, language translation, and voice recognition.
ChatGPT can be trained on large datasets of text to learn the nuances of human language and generate responses that are contextually relevant. This can help developers create more natural and engaging user interfaces, and improve the accuracy of NLP models.
3. Code Completion
ChatGPT can also be used to improve code completion in cloud development environments. Code completion is a feature in many text editors and integrated development environments (IDEs) that suggests code snippets based on the context of the code being written. By using ChatGPT, developers can create more accurate and intelligent code completion tools that can suggest code snippets based on the user’s intent and the context of the code.
This can help developers save time and reduce errors by automating the process of writing code. For example, a code completion tool using ChatGPT could suggest the most appropriate function or variable names based on the current context, or even generate boilerplate code for common tasks in different programming languages.
4. Automated Testing
ChatGPT can be used to improve automated testing in cloud development. Automated testing is the process of using software tools to test software applications automatically. By using ChatGPT, developers can create more sophisticated test cases that can simulate real-world scenarios and identify potential issues before they arise.
For example, a testing tool using ChatGPT could simulate user interactions with a cloud application to identify potential issues with the user interface or underlying infrastructure. This can help developers ensure that their applications are reliable and performant, and reduce the time and cost of manual testing.
Does this play a role in the cloud-migration process?
One of the reasons why organizations do not adopt automated testing is that it can be a wary process due to the amount of test scenarios and test cases that have to be generated for this.
ChatGPT can help to generate these scenarios and test cases that can be used to validate the migration process and identify possible issues in the process. This can make the migration a lot easier. It plays a role in the successful completion of the migration process and ensures that the new cloud-native application is stable and delivering to the SLAs.
Microsoft and ChatGPT
When it comes to the AI race, many companies including Microsoft, Google, Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and even Elon Musk are competing against each other to dominate the field.
Microsoft definitely leads the race, having invested $10 billion in OpenAI, which should give it access to some of the most popular and advanced artificial intelligence systems. OpenAI revealed that it uses Microsoft’s cloud-based service Azure to train all of its models and that Azure will remain the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI for the future.
Furthermore, in February, Microsoft integrated the chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine Bing. Since then, Bing has had a massive increase not only in daily active users (DAUs) but also in daily searches, putting Bing back into search engine competition.
Currently GPT-3 powers ChatGPT and other technologies that provide only text-based responses. And with the upcoming release announced by Microsoft, GPT-4 should receive multimodal capabilities, meaning it will be capable of translating text not only accordingly into images, but also into music and video. It seems like Microsoft is bringing its A-game and not giving its competitors a break.
ChatGPT is a very powerful technology that has many applications for cloud development and even infrastructure. By leveraging its natural language generation capabilities, developers can create more natural and engaging user interfaces, improve the accuracy of NLP models, and automate tasks such as code completion and testing. As the field of AI continues to evolve, it is likely that ChatGPT will become an increasingly important tool for cloud developers looking to streamline.
As for the fear of job elimination, AI per se will not necessarily take the job of a developer, but learning about AI is a must to stay relevant and up to date with the ever evolving technologies.


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Visual Art prepares young people for a future in the workforce by requiring them to seek creative solutions to complex design problems, think divergently and use higher order learning skills to articulate an informed and individualised aesthetic (style/expression). At a time when creativity is sought by industry, visual art significantly contributes to the design and manufacture of images and objects needed for living. Artists, designers and craftspeople reflect identity and document culture through persuasive and inventive ideas.

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Paralysed woman continues London Marathon with bionic legs
3 May 2012 Last updated at 15:26 BST
12 days after the London Marathon ended for thousands of competitors, a paralysed woman in a bionic suit is still on the course trying to complete it.
After losing the use of her legs in a horse riding accident six years ago, Claire Lomas has spent the past three months training using a robotic walking suit.
Lomas is raising money for Spinal Research.
Sophie Raworth reports.

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By Luke Brankley
The Arcadia Firebirds host the Laurel Bulldogs on Wednesday afternoon. The Firebirds lost the game by a score of 8 to 6. Nathan Barnes got the start on the mound and the loss for the Firebirds. He pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up 6 runs on 6 hits while striking out 7 batters. Offensively, the Firebirds had 7 hits in the game. Brian White and Barnes each had 2 hits in the game.
The Firebirds fall to 2-2 on the season and will be in action again on Friday as they host Lancaster.
The Northampton Yellow Jackets traveled to play the Lancaster Red Devils and lost 11-1 on Wednesday afternoon. Brayden Downing got the start on the mound and the loss, pitching 2 innings in the game, giving up 4 runs on 4 hits while striking out 2 batters. Offensively, the Yellow Jackets got 2 hits in the game, both from Trent Ferebee.
The Yellow Jackets fall to 1-2 on the season and will be in action again on Saturday as they host the Essex Trojans.


Mullets in the Wild: Are Mullets Making a Comeback in Montana?
Back-to-school time is here, and I recently asked my 11-year-old son what kind of hairstyle he was considering for the beginning of the school year. He simply said, "I WANT A MULLET!" I couldn't help but laugh as if he was making some kind of joke. But, he looked at me square in the eyes and I could tell he was serious. It took a few hours of pleading with him not to go with the mullet. But, I feel it is going to happen someday.
I used to treat a sighting of a mullet, like seeing a majestic unicorn. When someone who took pride in their hair, would walk into a bar rockin a mullet, they would shine like a beacon of light. I used to snap photos with the glorious hairdos and post them on my very own wall of fame. But, now it seems the sighting of a mullet is no longer a rare occurrence. In just the past few years, I have noticed more and more mullets in different locations around western Montana. So, the question is "Is the mullet making a comeback?"
According to mulletchamp.com
The peak of mullets ended in the early 1990’s, but the style has never completely faded from relevance. Instead, it slipped from the good graces of the masses and became iconic in various subcultures: everyone from country music stars and lesbians, to hockey players and Native Americans.
They say that history and even fashion trends repeat themselves every 20-30 years. Maybe it is time that the mullets make a comeback. It appears that there are plenty of mullets in the wild. Just recently a Tennessee woman claimed the record for the world's longest mullet. A 58-year-old woman from Knoxville, Tennessee named Tami Manis is now an official world record holder. It's down to her ankles and measures an impressive 5 feet 8 inches.
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Cain being charged on sex, but not the Murder and Robbery and Slavery
By Brother Jonah
NOT MY TRIBE - 11/09/2011 10:36AM MDT
He’s paid to support War, it’s the base of Capital.
Now they’ve got some sex accusations brought to bring him down. As heinous as rape is, or the statutory rape of an employee or job candidate as a condition of being hired…
There’s the literally countless murders of civilians including children done to support the lavish lifestyle of the Corporate Class. It would pale in comparison to even one such wanton murder. It’s drinking from the same fount, though, War, Slavery, Prostitution, Rape… but so far there’s a thunderous silence booming from the Right over any and all of those issues. To raise the issue that War is equivalent to any of the other crimes, or even a solid foundation to mask and enable them, has been political suicide since the time of the Athenians. The beating of War drums awakens and energizes people who only vote on emotion, and Capital is subsidized by War. It cannot survive without war, it’s not a self-sustaining system as the “Invisible Hand Free Market” proponents claim.
To take away another persons freedoms, rights or properties by force is called Robbery, yet that’s what Capital does by renaming “robbery” as “regime change”, declaring whole nations to be “outlaws” or “rogues” because they don’t allow Corporate ownership of their national holdings. Just how DID “our” oil get under THEIR sand? Capitalists like Cain, and McCain, other persons who are paid to champion and advance the so-called self-supporting “free” market, are collecting welfare on a massive scale.
They LIE by renaming conquest as liberation, Servile knee-jerk enforced “patriotism” as Freedom, using the word Nationalism to justify taking away the national sovereignty of everybody else.
They embroil themselves in the Organized Crime that IS Corporate Rule.
But to come out and SAY it, means you’ll never be elected anywhere and you’ll never get the privilege of being one of the Corporate Slaves.
Not a bad trade off.

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* FTSEurofirst 300 down 1 pct, Euro STOXX 50 down 1.2 pct
* FTSEurofirst breaks below 50-day moving average
* Comments on China from Burberry CEO weigh on luxury stocks
By Blaise Robinson
PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - European stocks dropped in earlytrade on Monday, with one benchmark index hitting a four-weeklow, as the lack of progress in resolving Washington's budgetstandoff kept investors on edge.
Shares in luxury goods makers were among the heaviestfallers after Burberry's CEO was quoted in French dailyLes Echos as saying that the slowdown in luxury goods sales inChina may constitute a new market trend.
Burberry was down 2 percent, while France's LVMH was down 1.8 percent, and Swiss watch maker Richemont lost 1.5 percent.
At 0729 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was down 1 percent at 1,231.25 points, a levelnot seen since Sept. 10. The benchmark index broke below its50-day moving average of 1,232.47, which had been an importantsupport line.
The euro zone's blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 indexwas down 1.2 percent, at 2,892.78 points.
U.S. Democrats and Republicans came no closer on Sunday to abudget agreement that would end a government shutdown, let alonereaching a deal on the U.S. borrowing limit by Oct. 17 to avoidan unprecedented default.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner said he would notraise the debt ceiling without a "serious conversation" aboutwhat is driving the debt. Democrats said it was irresponsibleand reckless to raise the possibility of a default.
"The strong optimism seen just a week ago is eroding, andinvestors are getting nervous, with all eyes on Washington, atleast until Alcoa's earnings," said Guillaume Dumans, co-head ofresearch firm 2Bremans.
Around Europe, UK's FTSE 100 index was down 0.9percent, Germany's DAX index down 1.2 percent andFrance's CAC 40 down 1.4 percent.
A number of traders in the market, however, still expectWashington to reach a deal, which would spark a recovery rallyin the market.
"We're going to wobble our way down until about Thursday andthen there's going to be a solution and there will be amelt-up," said Justin Haque, a broker at Hobart Capital Markets.
Bucking the trend, shares in Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena rose 4 percent after the Italian lender said it wouldhold a board meeting on Monday to approve a new restructuringplan aimed at gaining a green light from European authoritiesfor a state bailout it was granted earlier this year.
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This week, the lone survivor of clergy sexual abuse on the Vatican's commission on clergy sex abuse resigned from the group because of what she calls "shameful" hindrance from top church officials.
Marie Collins was a member of the Commission for the Protection of Minors. It was created by Pope Francis in 2014, and charged with proposing new church initiatives to protect children from clergy abuse.
Marie Collins, former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. She tweets @marielco.
This segment aired on March 3, 2017.

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The US Air Force is expected to unveil its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber on Friday. Designed to conduct long-range and nuclear bomb missions, it's described as a sixth-generation plane, meaning it's the most advanced aircraft on Earth.
Northrop Grumman Corp. was awarded the contract to build the plane in 2015. While the exact cost to develop, purchase, and operate the bombers is unclear, 2010 data put the price at $550M each — around $753M today. The Air Force reportedly plans to build 100.
The accomplishments of this program are two-fold, as the US faces growing scrutiny over both its budget and security. The B-21 was developed in a timely fashion and within budget, overcoming past failures to do so. Its stealth and long-range capabilities are also needed today as the US faces both hypersonic technologies and advanced mobile and deeply buried targets from its adversaries.
This unveiling proves that the imbalance between military and non-military spending is alive and well. After decades of unnecessary wars, the Pentagon is now using the Cold War 2.0 trope to trick the nation into spending billions of dollars to fight its new enemies, Russia and China — a policy that completely disregards other major challenges. If the nation continues to hand over a blank check, there will be no signs of peace or military downsizing in sight.
There's a 19% chance that there will be a US-China war by 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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Forex Traders – 3 Reasons Novice Traders Can NEVER Run Profits and Lose
The old saying goes “Run your profits to cover your inevitable losses” most forex traders simply never do this, for 3 main reasons. They could but they don’t because they make fatal errors which means they lose all their money. Let’s look at the reasons.What Exchange Rates Exactly Are
You might have come across foreign exchange market – forex, FX, exchange rates, but still some points will not be cleared. Following are some details that will prove helpful for you to understand the confusing and complex terminology. It is very important to know about exchange rate before going any further. In simple terms exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another currency. The exchange rate is the actual cost of the currency identical to any good or service bearing its individual price.Transferring Money Abroad – Banks are Expensive
If you are changing currency and sending it abroad, your bank may be charging you 10% or more. This is partly in direct fees and partly through a poor exchange rate. Here is how to reduce the fees from about 10% to about 1%.Shoebox FOREX – The Iraqi Dinar and Vietnam Dong
Some people aren’t using leverage in their desire to make big gains in the FOREX market. In fact they aren’t even using the internet or a computer. A simple shoebox under the bed will suffice…Basic Forex Trading – What Are Pips?
If you’re a forex trader, everything is usually about pips. For example, you might say, “I’m up 35 pips for the day,” or, “I made 127 pips on my last trade.” Although this sounds like a lot of fun, it would probably be helpful to explain what a pip actually is. Read this article to learn about pips.Forex Trading – If 95% Of Traders Lose Then To Win You Need To Do This
Do the opposite of what they do! This may sound obvious but most traders like to follow accepted market wisdom and trade in the direction of the crowd. If you want to win at forex trading you need to step away from the crowd – and that’s what this article is all about.Futures Trading – Common Order Types
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In materials science, candidates for new functional materials are typically explored by trial and error through calculations, synthetic methods, and material analysis. However, the approach takes time and requires expertise. Now, Japanese researchers have used a data-driven approach to automate the process of predicting new magnetic materials. By combining first-principles calculations, Bayesian optimization, and monatomic alternative deposition, the proposed method can enable faster development of next-generation electronic devices.
Materials scientists are constantly looking for new “functional materials” with favorable properties geared towards certain applications. For example, the discovery of new functional magnetic materials could open the doors to energy-efficient spintronic devices. In recent years, the development of spintronics devices like magnetoresistive random access memory – an electronic device in which a single magnetoresistive element is embedded as a bit of information – has progressed rapidly, for which magnetic materials with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) are required. Ferromagnetic materials, which retain their magnetization without an external magnetic field, are therefore of particular interest as data storage systems. For instance, L10-type ordered alloys consisting of two elements and two periods, such as L10-FeCo and L10-FeNi, have been actively investigated as promising candidates for next-generation functional magnetic materials. However, the combination of constituent elements is extremely limited, and materials with extensive element type, number, and periodicity have rarely been explored.
What hinders this exploration? Scientists point to combinatorial explosions that can easily occur in multilayer films, requiring a lot of time and effort in component selection and material fabrication, as the main reason. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult to predict the function of MCA due to the complex interplay of various parameters including crystal structure, magnetic moment, and electronic state, and the conventional protocol relies heavily on trial and error. errors. Thus, there are many possibilities and needs to develop an efficient way to discover new high performance magnetic materials.
On this front, a team of Japanese researchers including Prof. Masato Kotsugi, Mr. Daigo Furuya and Mr. Takuya Miyashita from Tokyo University of Science (TUS), as well as Dr. Yoshio Miura from the National Institute of Science materials (NIMS), has now turned to a data-driven approach to automate the prediction and synthesis of new magnetic materials. In a new study, which went online on June 30, 2022 and published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods on July 1, 2022, the team reported their success in developing an exploration system of materials by integrating computation, information, and experimental sciences for high-MCA magnetic materials. Professor Kotsugi explains: “We focused on artificial intelligence and combined it with computational and experimental science to develop an efficient method of material synthesis. Materials that show promise beyond human expectation have been discovered in terms of of electronic structure. So it will change the nature of materials engineering!”
In their study, which was the result of joint research by TUS and NIMS and supported by JST-CREST, the team calculated the MCA energy by first-principles calculations (a method used to calculate electronic states and physical properties of materials based on the laws of quantum mechanics) and performed Bayesian optimization to search for high-energy MCA materials. After examining the Bayesian optimization algorithm, they found promising materials that were five times more efficient than by the conventional trial-and-error approach. This robust materials search method was less sensitive to the influences of irregular factors such as outliers and noise and allowed the team to select the top three candidate materials — (Fe/Cu/Fe/Cu), ( Fe/Cu/Co/Cu), and (Fe/Co/Fe/Ni) – including iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni) and copper (Cu).
The top three predicted materials with the highest MCA energy values were then fabricated via the monatomic alternate stacking method using the laser pulsed deposition technique to create multilayer magnetic materials composed of 52 layers, namely [Fe/Cu/Fe/Cu]13, [Fe/Cu/Co/Cu]13and [Fe/Co/Fe/Ni]13. Of the three structures, [Fe/Co/Fe/Ni]1 showed an MCA value (3.74 × 106 erg/cc) much higher than that of L10-FeNi (1.30 × 106 erg/cc).
Additionally, using the second-order perturbation method, the team found that MCA is generated in the electronic state, which was not realized in previously reported materials. This attests to the relevance of using Bayesian optimization to identify electronic states that are likely impossible to imagine by human experience and intuition alone. Thus, the developed method can autonomously search for suitable elements to design functional magnetic materials. “This technique is extendable to advanced magnetic materials with more complicated electronic correlations, such as Heusler alloys and spin-thermoelectric materials,” observes Professor Kotsugi.


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Helen Pearce was the child star of the film When the Whales Came (1989), based on Michael Morpurgo's book Why the Whales Came which is set on the island of Bryher. She is daughter of the artist Richard Pearce who lives on Bryher.
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Texas farmers have depended on aquifers for generations to help their crops thrive. Even during some of the state’s frequent dry seasons, droughts, and extreme summer heat. Farms across the Texas panhandle boasted luscious green fields full of corn, cotton, and wheat. For decades, area farms used wellsprings to draw water from the nearby Ogallala aquifer to sustain these crops.
All of this is changing, however, as Texas farmers are discovering the seemingly bottomless water source is beginning to dry up. And, without the water, the fields become dry. When the fields are dry, the much-needed soil can blow away; taking crop opportunities with it. It was a situation similar to this one that created the infamous dustbowl in the 1930s.
Texas farmers were faced with a dilemma; what could they do aside from the impossible task of creating water where there isn’t any?
Farmers Are Finding Answers To Combating Drought Conditions
The answer, notes some area farmers, lies in the history of the land. Many farmers have turned to cultivating crops that are native to the area; ones that tend to be less “thirsty,” and whose roots take hold well enough to grow to luscious greens with even the slightest bit of rain.
“There’s a reason Mother Nature selected those plants to be in those areas,” notes Nick Bamert per the New York Post.
Bamert and his family are sort of experts in the “field” – yes pun intended – of native seeds and grasses. Bamert’s father developed a seed company that specializes in native grasses over seventy years ago.
“The natives … will persist because they’ve seen the coldest winters and the hottest dry summers,” Bamert added.
Other farmers have taken to using the native crops to feed cattle. Forgoing the other crops when the dry seasons are upon them.
“We wasted the hell out of the water,” explained one Texas farmer, Tim Black. Black is now transitioning his farm to cattle.
The second-generation farmer notes that he hopes this move will bring his own children back to the family farm.
“You want your kids to come back, but damn, there’s better ways to make a living than what we’re doing,” the farmer said. “It’s just too hard here with no water.”
“Everybody knows … the water’s going away,” said Jude Smith, a biologist with the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.
The National Wildlife Refuge was developed during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression to try and combat exactly what is currently happening in the area; preserving native prairies and spring-fed lakes in the area.
Areas within the “Dust Bowl Zone” which include parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, are being prioritized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for grassland conservation.
A Complicated Transition
With this effort comes funding for farms seeking to make the transition to the native grasses. However, the process is not an easy one, and it will certainly take some time.
Additionally, the transition will take effort as the native plants begin to take hold.
“Farmers may need to use some remaining groundwater to reestablish the native grasses,” notes Meagan Schipanski, an associate professor of soil and crop sciences at Colorado State University. “In an ideal world, there would be some forethought and incentives available.”
Less than 328,000 acres in the “Dust Bowl” area have enrolled in the USDA’s Grasslands Conservation Reserve Programs since the program’s development in 2016.


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In order to advance the sustainability in long-term development of agro-ecosystemsSTACCATO ("SusTainable AgriCultural ChAnge Through ecological engineering and Optimal use of natural resources") plans to quantify the sensitivity of ecosystem functions and the generated services to environmental pressures in representative agriculturally dominated landscapes in Europe.
The research consortium, combining the expertise of scientists from various fields of study from different European countries, will focus on investigating land use intensity at local as well as regional scale, the prevalent socio-economic backgrounds of farmers and stakeholders, and the potential impacts of future climate and land use change on biodiversity and the affiliated ecosystem functions and services.
Exploring possible case study sites in the Plovdiv region, Bulgaria; Credit: Anja Schmidt
During the kick-off meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria (20-22 April 2016) the scientists agreed on methodologies to be used for data acquisition in five pre-selected case study areas in Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. . Landscapes will comprise annual crops, like winter wheat or oilseed rape, and semi-natural grasslands.
"In particular we intend to investigate the interactions between annual crops and the surrounding landscapes including the sprawling urban areas, and the potentials of ecological engineering as a tool for eco-functional intensification." explains the project coordinator Prof. Dr. Josef Settele, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ.
"The overall objective is the elaboration and testing of generally applicable principles within the frame of ecological engineering, and to contribute to the loss of valuable soil and land for agricultural productivity." he adds.
Ecological Engineering is an emerging discipline, concerned with design, monitoring and construction of agro-ecosystems in order to maximize ecosystem services through exploiting natural regulation mechanisms instead of suppressing them.
As a core output, STACCATO aims at developing guidelines for optimizing ecosystem functions and services provision and their stabilization under future climate and land use change. Therefore, STACCATO will analyze the potential of ecological engineering as a tool for eco-functional intensification.


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Australian media artist Adam Donovan presents his ongoing project ‘Terra Aura’ developed during his Q21, MQ – MuseumsQuartier Wien residency with the Research Institute for Arts & Technology. On display at Artisticbokeh is a prototype model of the large sound beacon Donovan is installing in the Australian desert. This speculative device uses the principle of atmospheric reflections to amplify the phenomena of the ’strange sounds in sky’. The device tunes into the atmospheric songs of the Earth’s aura to perform a machine-mediated duet between artist and sky, a sorrowful swan song as the ground beneath us begins to burn.

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ALBANY, GA (WALB) - The Darton College Men's soccer team have already won the region 17 championship but the Cavs doubled up and also claimed the district championship. Darton beat Spartanburg Methodist 3-0 to clinch their first ever Southeast District Championship. Darton had been ranked 7th in country, one spot ahead of Spartanburg who was ranked 8th.
The win advances Darton to nationals in Texas, where a field of eight teams will battle in a single-elimination tournament to determine a NCJAA Division I champion.
Head coach Bart Sasnett said "Its amazing these guys laid it on the line, they played. One thing we ask of them is that they play the best bit of soccer they've played all year and I think we just did."
Darton will need three wins at nationals to claim a title. The first game is on November 18th.
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Mischa Barton has said filming The Hills reboot gave her a new respect for the reality genre.
Fans can apply for tickets for the UEFA Super Cup clash between Liverpool and Chelsea from Tuesday, Europe’s governing body has announced.
Tom Watson’s fresh call for Labour to campaign for a second Brexit referendum has come under fire from the party’s chairman.
A decade after seemingly wrapping up The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins is bringing readers back to Panem with a prequel set 64 years before the beginning of her hit trilogy.
Paris St Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is “200 per cent” certain Kylian Mbappe will remain with the club but appears to have questioned the commitment of Neymar.
A new independent advisory commission should be set up to look at how to meet Scotland’s energy needs, with a report warning “difficult decisions” will need to be taken on how to cope with a looming energy shortfall.
Parts of the UK are continuing to suffer with flooding as weather forecasters predict further deluges.
Theresa May’s efforts to improve the chances for vulnerable youngsters are being hampered by “paralysis” in Westminster and the focus on Brexit, the Children’s Commissioner for England warned.
Afghanistan may not yet have caused the upsets that many were expecting of them at the World Cup but they could provide stiff opposition for England on Tuesday.
Jeremy Hunt has said he agrees “150%” with US President Donald Trump’s assessment of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s record on tackling knife crime.


AdChoiceTV News — Manila City Mayor Francisco Domagoso signed Wednesday the deed of absolute sale for the purchase of a P111-million private lot for the city government’s socialized housing program.
In a statement sent to reporters, the Manila City public information office said that the 6,003-square meter private lot at Pasigline in Sta. Ana will be used for the city’s Land for the Landless program for some 600 low-income informal settlers and homeless families.
He also stressed that the local government is committed to providing ample and livable spaces for Manileños to enjoy a more decent urban living in the nation’s capital.
“We will not stop until we have safe and decent communities that every Manileño will be proud of,” Domagoso said.
As it stands, thousands of Metro Manila’s urban poor live in the densely-populated Tondo and Baseco districts of Manila City.
Recent surveys by the Social Weather Stations have found that as some 5.2 million families have experienced involuntary hunger and that as much as 79% of adult Filipinos felt that their quality of life has worsened. The pollster found that 45.5% became jobless over the coronavirus pandemic.
‘Nobody’s rich or poor’
With Metro Manila approaching a year under community quarantine—good for the longest coronavirus-induced lockdown in the world—urban poor groups continue to sound the alarm on the coronavirus situation in their communities and called for urgent measures for poor Filipinos, 17.7 million of whom live in poverty.
“This is the modern times, with a modern government, that we can at least make you feel that there is no politician here. The government turned to you because the Manila government shows concern for everyone,” Domagoso said in his statement in mixed Filipino and English.
“Nobody’s rich or poor in Manila. Everyone is equal,” he also said.
Most urban poor communities have been forced to rely on themselves and their own community-initiated projects to get by, though others have not been lucky enough to find opportunities to assert self-determination.
Bernadette Sabalza, President of Samahang Magkakapitbahay sa Slip-0, an urban poor community in Tondo, Manila, said that the community’s residents have been forced to go to piers and wet markets scavenge for vegetables and fruits that went unsold amid the pandemic.
The Slip Zero community, composed of 141 families in Philippine Ports Authority Compound in Tondo, Manila, has been advocating for on-site or in-city housing since 2002. Families living in the area have long been threatened with eviction and seeking government aid for on-site housing development instead of relocation to places where they neither have employment nor access to basic social services.
“We don’t want to depend on the government for our daily needs. However, this pandemic and lockdown have brought us deeper suffering and hopelessness,” she said in an exclusive statement sent to AdChoiceTV News in an earlier story.
“We never experienced this before lockdown. Sometimes when I go around the community, I cannot help but cry. The next morning, I and the leaders go again to Divisoria to pick up any food that we can get to share with the community. That is all we can do to survive. We might not have die of COVID, but we thought we could have died when there is no more food to scavenge.” — via Albert Rovic Tan


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The event not to be missed for all art lovers, collectors and dealers of the world, is the famous Art Basel! Although I have not had the good fortune to travel to the original art fair held in the spring in Basel, Switzerland, the first week of December attracts the largest collection of art exhibitors in the world in beautiful Miami. The festivities start the Monday after Thanksgiving with parties and previews and fabulous art buying opportunities.
(Picasso - $10MM)
Approximately 250 of the most important art galleries in the world exhibit in the main convention hall in Miami Beach which opens to the VIP crowd on Wednesday morning through Sunday. As you walk in the door of this enormous convention hall, you feel a virtual spiritual experience because of the extensive collection of magnificent art works.
Incredible art by Alexander Calder at a cool $35M
The worldwide energy and effort that goes into this event is staggering. To study the art carefully in this massive exhibition will take you many many days. When you return each day, you tend to gravitate to the works of art that attract you the most. I have included here a few of my favorites which I photographed. Interestingly, I neglected to photograph the iPad art of David Hockney, which has been extremely tempting as a possible purchase.
Astounding beauty by Anish Kapoor
It was great seeing so many friends from all around the world, as well as attending the amazing social events connected to all of the artists. Nick Jones, Soho owner, hosted a fantastic luncheon in the Soho House tent on the beach next to the water with his many wonderful friends and artists that are part of the extraordinary Soho House family. One of the tickets was a personal visit with Peter Marino at the Bass Museum, which had a special exhibition of his astounding architecture, as well as his own personal art collection.
Another sold out event was a Miley Cyrus concert at the Raleigh Hotel. Crowds began to gather quite early, and we were all warned to pick up our wrist bands in advance. She puts on quite a show, and certainly energizes the crowd! Who doesn't love rock and roll - 2014 style!
Having a blast with Mohammed Hadid
Coldwell Banker joined in the festivities by hosting a VIP dinner with Haute Living, Hublot Watch Company, and Dom Perignon at the magnificent estate of William Dean, with an after party where everyone danced the night away.
I'm pictured here with Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, who joined Coldwell Banker and Haute Living in hosting the very exclusive Art Basel VIP dinner and after party at the exquisite Villa Terra Veritatis on the water overlooking Miami Beach.
The yacht on the front dock was to die for! I loved dining with friends at Mr. Chow, and visiting the additional fairs for emerging artists as well as the terrific Design Fair showing extraordinary interior design and the list goes on and on. This sell out event, sponsored by UBS gets bigger every year! One of the fun points of the week was a tour of some of the top Miami residential properties for sale with "the Jills". Coldwell Banker has a corner on that Miami market. I am looking forward to a return trip next year.


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Financing development projects might seem like a complex and technical topic while being vital to sustain the future of people and planet. In this conversation, Jeroen Kwakkenbos from Oxfam International EU Office, guides us in a clear and comprehensive way through the new trends in aid and the more recent mechanisms put in place to finance development objectives in innovative ways.
Tune in to this episode of our Talking Development podcast with Jeroen Kwakkenbos (Oxfam International EU Office) to learn more on new trends in aid and more recent mechanisms put in place to finance development objectives in innovative ways!
You can’t just stop aid because millions of people will die, that is the fundamental aspect of it. We are seeing aid being used more as a geo-political tool than as a development tool. For financing development, innovative mechanisms are essential ways to increase the amount of aid available without raising taxes.


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Marriott International, which purchased Starwood in 2016, issued a statement Tuesday indicating that the Starwood-Uber partnership will not be renewed in 2018. Starpoints that already have been earned through Uber will not be affected, and registered SPG members who have stays posted with their accounts through the end of this year can earn Starpoints for Uber rides until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 17.
The partnership between Starwood and Uber was established in 2015, and allowed customers to link the two accounts. The arrangement allowed 0.5 hotel points to be earned for each dollar spent on Uber rides. Promotions were later added that enabled customers to multiply the points earned.
This arrangement was considered highly significant because it was the first between a hotel company and a ridesharing firm. It was popular among meeting professionals and other business travelers, in particular, because Uber and Starwood are leading companies in their respective fields.
Skift stated that it’s unclear whether or not Uber is planning to link up with another loyalty program and speculated that it may want to switch its loyalty program to more of an internal platform. Earlier this week, Uber announced that it is launching its own branded credit card, which could indicate that it wants more control over how points are earned and spent.
This could indicate that Uber’s partnership with American Express—which provides platinum cardholders with a $200 annual credit and membership reward points for every ride—could be discontinued in the future.

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