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Tech giant Amazon has announced two updates for Alexa Voice Remote on Friday, 26 March. The updated remote is available for pre-order on Amazon. It is compatible with Fire TV Stick (2nd and 3rd Gen), Fire TV Stick Lite and Fire TV Stick 4K. For quick access to streaming services like Prime Video, Prime Video, Amazon Music and Netflix, the Voice Remote will have preset buttons. Along with this, a guide switch is also present, which will provide users with remote access to the program listings and consolidated channel from live TV apps.
Shipping of this latest remote will start with Fire TV Stick (3rd Gen), which is going to be released on 21 April 2021, with the updated Alexa Voice Remote. It is available at the price of Rs 3,999 on Amazon after a discount of Rs 1,000.
There are also options to add an extended warranty while pre-ordering the product. On the Amazon website, a one-year extended warranty from Acko is available at the price of Rs 299. While purchasing, customers can also get an extended one-year warranty for Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote by buying a One Assist warranty for Rs 249.
As per the press release, the Fire TV experience has been redesigned and will begin rolling out for Fire Stick 4K devices, Fire TV Stick (2nd gen) and Fire TV smart TVs.


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A Jordanian study recently published in a US medical journal revealed that psychological stress due to COVID-19 may cause heart complications.
The study showed that symptoms of stress, anxiety, and loneliness in heart patients and those at risk of arteriosclerosis must be taken very seriously.
The study was conducted by the Jordan Collaborating Cardiology Group (JCC), considered #1 worldwide, and was published by the International Journal of Clinical Cardiology on Thursday, June 18.
The primary researcher of the group, Dr. Ayman Hammoudeh, stated that the study has been conducted on 55 individuals who are not infected with COVID-19 and were admitted to hospitals due to acute myocardial infection. The cause of these acute myocardial infections is stress related to loneliness, loss of jobs, loss of income, fear, or other such factors.
It was clear to the researchers that the majority of these patients have previously suffered from heart problems and/or factors contributing to arteriosclerosis such as smoking, diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol.
The IJCC hurried in publishing the Jordanian study without the usual delay required for approving and peer-reviewing research, which could have taken months, due to the importance of making the study accessible to doctors all over the world. This was done especially because many countries are still under lockdown.
Dr. Hammoudeh also pointed to the fact that the coronavirus crisis has caused people worldwide terrible losses, noting that the most important measure taken by many countries is imposing lockdown and isolation, and halting international transportation.
He emphasized that countries that imposed lockdowns in the early stages of the pandemic such as Jordan were successful in impeding the consequences of the corona crisis, putting them ahead of other nations.
However, lockdowns and isolation have caused other complications. Some of which include, loneliness, disrupted sleep, fear, stress, as well as economic stresses such as loss of jobs and lack of income.
The primary researcher also noted that patients’ inability to handle these complications and psychological stresses may lead to acute myocardial infection.
Dr. Hammoudeh mentioned studies that have revealed that patients of COVID-19 have been diagnosed with arteriosclerosis and myocardial prolapse, while others have died suddenly. As for those not infected with, studies showed that the stress of the COVID-19 crisis has caused disruption in sleep and negatively affected individuals' professional performance. However, the effect of such stresses on complicating heart problems has not been studied before. The JCC is the only entity that has researched the issue.
He clarified that in spite of the decrease in heart attacks in Jordan and worldwide, a substantial number of heart-related problems arise due to psychological factors that must be taken into consideration.
The Jordanian study urged doctors and patients to pay close attention to psychological symptoms such as fear, loneliness, anger, and stress in members of quarantined families so that early psychological aid might be provided before such cases develop into severe acute myocardial infections.
Many Jordanian cardiologists and medical interns participated in this study, and expect another study to be published soon, which goes into more detail with more patients concerning further medical complications such as strokes and different types of heart attacks.

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Watchdog: Glad City Council will let voters fill Agopian’s vacant seat, needs to adopt a policy
Regrettably Antioch has still not adopted a policy in regard to filling a City Council vacancy since the situation arose in 2000 when Donald Freitas was sworn in as Mayor, leaving a vacant council seat. Shortly thereafter, the council, consisting of then Mayor Mary Rocha (having just lost her bid for county supervisor), Arne Simonsen and Brian Kalinowski voted to appoint council candidate Jim Conley, third-place finisher in the previous month’s election and the only candidate council members could agree on.
Previously, a vacancy had occurred in the Mayor’s seat, in 1994 when Joel Keller was elected to the BART Board mid-way through his term as Mayor. None of the then Council Members, including Mayor Pro Tem Allen Payton, and Council Members Mary Rocha, Elizabeth Rimbault and Ralph Hernandez, could get the necessary three votes for the appointment. So, the council majority chose to appoint former Police Chief Len Herendeen to fill the position for the remaining two years.
A vacancy occurred again in 2008 when Jim Davis was sworn in as Mayor, leaving his prior council seat with two years remaining on his term. Unfortunately, the council did not appoint the third place finisher, Arne Simonsen who was one of 14 applicants to fill the vacant seat. They decided instead to appoint Martha Parsons, the union-backed Democrat fundraising consultant for Torlakson and DeSaulnier.
The options for addressing a vacancy on council remain the same now as they did then:
1) Call a special election to fill the vacant seat.
2) Invite applications for appointment to fill the city council vacancy and establish dates and rules for the application process, or
3) Appoint a person to fill the Council vacancy until the election results in November are certified and the elected council member seated.
According to the city attorney, not appointing someone and waiting for the November election would incur no additional staff time or costs and involve some savings as to the salary and benefits provided council members. The option of appointing someone directly would have the opposite effect.
Thankfully the council agreed unanimously to fill Gary Agopians’s vacant seat through the election process.
The city received fourteen applications but only ten filed their nomination papers by the filing deadline. Eight qualified for the ballot. The city clerk is awaiting verification of signature count for another candidate and one did not qualify due to insufficient number of valid signatures of registered Antioch voters.
Councilman Tony Tiscareno is one of the qualified applicants. He was appointed by the council to complete Wade Harper’s term when Harper was elected mayor in 2012, midway through his first term on the council. Tiscareno must run for election this November in order to retain his council seat.

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Namibia: Africa’s adventure playground. The land of unrelenting sun, where the ground appears to beg the heavens for rain and the vast landscapes stretch uninterrupted for hundreds of kilometres, without signs of human intervention. Living deserts, where one gazes in wonder and amazement at the displays of changing natural colours, and at the animals and plants that somehow survive in this seemingly harsh environment.
This international camping tour covers all of the popular highlights, but also includes many “off the beaten track” destinations, seldom visited by mainstream tourism.
Flexibility, a willingness to participate, an awareness of the elements, and a desire for unlimited adventure, are essential in order to best absorb all this tour has to offer.
Windhoek City Tour; Private Namib Desert reserve: Open-vehicle game drive; Desert walk; Desert night drive; 4×4 trip to Sossusvlei and Deadvlei dunes; Sesriem Canyon; Walvis Bay; Swakopmund; Skeleton Coast; Cape Cross seal colony; Brandberg; Etosha National Park;
This is a camping tour. Camping mats and tents will be provided. You will need a sleeping bag and pillow for the tour. There is an option to upgrade this tour to an accommodated tour
Minimum age is 12, max 65. Older travellers are welcome if they can send us a medical certificate stating they don’t mind climbing daily in and out of the overland truck and that they are in good health.
Quad biking Dune Boarding Sky Diving Marine Wildlife Boat Trip, Kayaking and more. Please Note: Optional Activities can be booked on arrival. No bookings are made in advance. Rates are subject to change without notice Activities are subject to availability Activities are weather dependent
Your tour will depart from: Hotel Safari, Corner of Auas & Aviation Roads, Windhoek @ 14h00 on day of of the tour. Guests not staying at the Hotel Safari must arrive at the Lodge at 13h00. Tel: 264 61 296 8000 Please note that we strongly advise against flying out on the day that the tour ends. We will not be held responsible for missed flights on this day. We generally travel long distances and late arrivals are common
Windhoek – Windhoek
14h00 on day of departure
Our adventure in Namibia begins in the capital city of Windhoek.
After a short tour briefing and “meet and greet”, we set off exploring Windhoek, viewing the attractions of the city before ending the day welcoming the warm hospitality at the infamous Joe’s Beerhouse restaurant. Tonight we spend in comfort at our hotel and prepare for the next day’s adventure.
Meals: Dinner own expense
– Windhoek city Tour
Leaving the city lights behind we enter the heart of the Namib, taking in its vast plains, red dunes, towering mountains and ever changing landscapes. Late afternoon, we reach the GREENFIRE DESERT CAMP, a remote camp nestled against a rock outcrop, within a conservancy that forms part of the vast Namib Rand Nature Reserve, and home for the next two nights. The reserve gives life to a variety of desert adapted fauna and flora and many an animal species. Enjoy an extensive walk as well as a day, and a night desert drive during our time here.
Meals: B L D
– Private Desert Camp
– Private Desert Reserve
We awake to desert vistas that extend further than the eye can see. All animals here exist in completely natural surroundings, and are free to move unrestricted over the full extent of the reserve. Our expert guide will help us understand the unique desert fauna and flora, so today we start off with an ecology walk in this beautiful environment, searching for animals, foot prints, and signs of the behaviour and survival strategies that allow them to exist in these harsh conditions.
During the heat of the day guests have time to relax at the camp, or to explore the surrounding area on foot, should they wish to. Mid-afternoon we depart on a desert drive, up and over the magnificent dunes. As the evening approaches, a traditional sundowner drink is enjoyed while the sun dips over the African landscape. Once dark, we slowly drive back to camp anticipating to encounter some of the nocturnal animals adapted to living in the desert.
Meals: B L D
– Open-vehicle desert drive
– Desert walk
– Private Desert Reserve
Setting off early, we cross the endless desert plains to the Sesriem Canyon and the awesome red Sossusvlei dunes – reputedly the highest in the world.
We transfer into the heart of the dunes, to spend some time climbing these spectacular mountains of sand, before taking a 4×4 transfer into Sossusvlei and Deadvlei – a clay pan characterized by dark dead camel thorn trees against the white pan floor. We explore these truly unique sites on foot, before the 4×4’s take us back to our vehicle.
In the afternoon we visit the Sesriem Canyon, before continuing to our camp-site for the night.
Meals: B L D
– Sesriem Canyon
– 4×4 transfer into these areas
– Dune climbing
Crossing through Kuiseb Canyon, and the Namib-Naukluft National Park, we make our way to the port town of Walvis Bay, and then on to Swakopmund, where German influence still lingers from late 1800’s, and spend two nights in comfortable accommodation.
We explore this holiday town and its surrounds thoroughly, and enjoy both our evening meals at local restaurants (own expense).
Swakopmund is a must-see for any visitor, and offers guests a variety of adventure activities. Clients will have the opportunity to partake in quad biking, sand boarding and skydiving whilst here (own expense). For those that simply want to relax, the town offers a variety of restaurants and shops, where one can get a feel for the local culture.
B L; B (Dinner on Day 5, lunch and dinner on Day 6 all own expense)
– Scenic drive through Namib-Naukluft National Park
Today we head north up the harsh Skeleton Coast, a barren stretch of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, with scattered ship wrecks, littering the beaches.
We visit Cape Cross, a spectacular breeding ground for Cape fur Seals where more than a 100 000 seals take refuge.
We then venture back inland, travelling through the vast desert to the iconic Brandberg Mountain, the highest mountain in Namibia, and view a canvas of ancient rock art. Those not up for the walk can remain in camp and enjoy the beautiful surrounding views.
Tonight we snuggle in at the foot of the mountain, hoping to encounter the elusive rare desert elephant.
Meals: B L D
– Cape Cross seal colony
– Brandberg White Lady
Our trip takes us to breath taking Damaraland, region and home of the Damara people. Along the way we include several stops including visiting the Organ Pipes – formed about 150 million year ago, and the Ancient Rock Engravings at Twyfelfontein before reaching our camp for the night in the Khorixas area.
Meals: B L D
Making our way further north, we enter the renowned Etosha National Park, arguably the highlight of the tour. Becoming one with nature we enjoy two days of exploring the park. During these days we conduct extensive game drives, visiting little water holes, exploring, letting your senses free, making the most of our time in the park.
In peak season when the park rest camps are very busy tours might stay outside the park and go in and out for game drives.
Meals: B L D, B L D
– 2 days within the Park
– Extensive game viewing opportunities
An early morning, we pack up and begin our journey back to civilization. The drive to Windhoek will take the majority of the day and the tour will officially come to an end in the late afternoon on arrival back in the capital city.
– Scenic drive to Windhoek
The day by day descriptions published are intended as a rough guideline only. Adventure travel by nature is unpredictable, weather patterns, game migrations, road conditions and a multitude of other factors may necessitate itinerary changes that ultimately are for the client’s benefit. It is essential that clients are flexible and open minded in this regard.

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Somewhere in an alien galaxy lies the planet Mardar, a planet inhabited by humanoid people. These people have been worshiping a small-growing black hole called the Maelstrom as a holy execution tool for administering righteous judgment against their most heinous criminals, judged by a sentient machine called the Inquisitor. After a recent struggle, the people have successfully arrested the witch Aguira; a deceptive and destructive creature often disguised as a young girl, Aguira is sentenced to death by the people by being sent into the Maelstrom.
However, Aguira's transport vessel is struck by a nearby asteroid orbiting the sun, killing everyone on board but fatally injuring Aguira. To her surprise, the asteroid was rich in a chemical called Xyanide, a chemical known for its abilities to make an exposed person's thoughts become reality. Aguira uses the Xyanide - now pulsing in her blood - by creating her own space station and fighter squadrons at her command with herself as the ship's core to exact revenge against the Inquisitor and spread her destructive influence. It is up to the Bioship escort pilot Drake, Aguira's executioner, to stop her from accomplishing her goals.
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The 2007-8 season is just getting started for the National Football League, but advertisers are already making plans for the next Super Bowl.
Cars.com, owned by a consortium of media companies, said today it intended to start its marketing campaign for 2008 with commercials to appear during Super Bowl XLII, scheduled to be played on Feb. 3. It will be the first time that Cars.com becomes a Super Sunday advertiser.
Cars.com is looking at buying two commercials during the game, said a spokesman, Steve Nolan, that could appear in the first and third quarters. It is part of efforts to increase ad spending by more than 50 percent next year, he said.
To some, it may seem like jumping the gun to announce intentions for the Super Bowl four months before the game is played.
But “there’s a lot of thought that goes into it outside the commercials,” Mr. Nolan said, referring to the myriad measures that sponsors take to augment their Super Bowl buys in other media, like the Internet, in-store advertising, print and radio.
Cars.com is not discussing the cost of its Super Bowl commercial time. Estimates are that Fox Broadcasting, the News Corporation unit that will present Super Bowl XLII, may charge as much as an average of $2.7 million for each 30-second spot.
For Super Bowl XLI last February, CBS charged a record price, estimated at an average of $2.6 million.
At least one other advertiser during the next Super Bowl is known: Anheuser-Busch, which has agreed to be the sole beer sponsor through 2012.
Another marketer that has advertised during the game in recent years, GoDaddy.com, is considering whether to buy commercial time again, its chief executive, Bob Parsons, wrote in his blog. His company has advertised during the 2005, 2006 and 2007 games.
The Super Bowl is almost always the biggest day of the year for advertising as well as for football. The commercials that run during the game are usually watched by more people each year than any other spots and as a result are scrutinized closely before, during the after each game.
The media concerns that own Cars.com include the Gannett Company, the McClatchy Company and the Tribune Company. The Cars.com creative agency is the Chicago office of DDB Worldwide, part of the Omnicom Group.


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12 April 2016, Lagos — AS part of efforts to ensure efficient service delivery to its customers across its network, Nigeria’s largest electricity distribution company, Ikeja Electric, have cautioned customers against making cash payments to its staff, calling such actions an act of sabotage on efforts of the company to improve service delivery across her network.
In a statement by the Company’s Head of Corporate Communications, Felix Ofulue noted that the company’s Linesmen, Engineers and Technicians are not authorised to receive cash payments of any kind.
He said, “Basically, our Linesmen should not collect reconnection fees, neither are our Energy Sales Representatives (ESR’s) permitted to receive bill payments on behalf of customers. We have therefore embarked on an aggressive “Name & Shame” campaign where parties who engage in this fraudulent act will face prosecution as dictated by the laws of the land,” he said.
Ofulue, who labelled staff and ex-staff who engaged in this illegal act as saboteurs, further urged all customers to resist efforts by any staff to extract monies from them illegally and ensure to report such illegalities to the management.
He disclosed that new multiple payment channels have been provided by the company to enable customers to make convenient and seamless payments and purchase of tokens, adding that the new payment options were designed to offer all customers security, greater convenience, and choice.
He maintained that “By expanding our payment platforms, customers can now make payments and purchase tokens seamlessly by using scratch card vouchers, which are sold by vendors and agents across its networks; Quick teller which can be accessed on mobile devices and through internet banking on online banking portals.
“The other payment channels include Pawakad, a mobile app payment system which is managed by strategically located agents; Baxibox, commonly known as ‘Baba-Ijebu’; Point-of-Sales terminals as well as through Direct Bank Teller in any Zenith Bank branch.
“We are committed to providing our customers with the greatest level of customer service and introducing these multiple secure and convenient payment channels is yet another aspect of our service offering,” he stated.
Addressing the challenges Ofulue explained that with the expansion of the payment channels, the company is addressing the challenges of all category of customers as post-paid customer accounts are credited promptly, avoiding unplanned service interruptions while prepaid customer is provided with more convenient vending channels.
He, however, reminded customers to ensure they collect their receipts as it is the only proof of payment. He warned that customers who continued to make illegal payments to IE staff were not only doing so at their own risk but were also sabotaging the efforts of Ikeja Electric to improve service delivery across her network.
*Ediri Edjoh – Vanguard


Robey-Coleman agreed to a one-year contract with the Eagles on Wednesday, Jordan Schultz of ESPN reports.
The 28-year-old logged 36 tackles and two forced fumbles in 16 games (including three starts) for the Rams last season. He'll add depth to Philadelphia's cornerback corps, but Robey-Coleman is unlikely to be a factor in most IDP leagues.
The Rams have informed Robey Coleman that they won't exercise his contract option for 2020, Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times reports.
A cap hit of $4.5 million seems like a bargain for one of the better slot corners in the league, but the Rams have been forced into tough decisions after giving out big contracts to Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, Brandin Cooks, Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey in recent years. The team's offseason losses so far include Robey-Coleman, DL Michael Brockers and ILB Cory Littleton. It shouldn't take long for NRC to find a new home.
Robey-Coleman finished with 36 tackles, seven pass breakups and two forced fumbles over 16 games in 2019.
Robey-Coleman was impressive in coverage this year, as he allowed 6.3 yards per target, 25.3 yards per game and one touchdown. The 27-year-old corner has two more years on his contract at $5.25 million per season, and barring a free-agent or draft acquisition, he's in line for another consistent workload in 2020.
Robey-Coleman signed a three-year, $15.75 million contract with the Rams on Tuesday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Robey-Coleman had a solid 2017 season with the Rams, as he compiled 49 tackles, nine pass breakups and two interceptions in 15 games. However, he'll have to battle for defensive snaps now that the Chiefs' Marcus Peters and the Broncos' Aqib Talib were traded to the Rams. Therefore, he may be a solid depth corner for the Rams, but fantasy owners should beware a decline in his snap count.
Robey-Coleman recorded 49 tackles (39 solo) and two interceptions during the 2017 season.
The first-year Ram played primarily in nickel sets while manning the slot this season, and it's a role he's beginning to be pigeonholed into. Robey-Coleman is set to become an unrestricted free agent during the offseason along with fellow defensive backs Trumaine Johnson and Lamarcus Joyner, so Los Angeles has some question marks in the secondary to address. If Robey-Coleman were to open 2018 as a cornerback (with the Rams or another team), it could provide a notable boost to his fantasy value. However, it's more likely that he continues serving as a nickelback.
Robey-Coleman (thigh) was a full participant in practice Thursday, Rich Hammond of the Orange County Register reports.
Head coach Sean McVay hinted earlier in the week that Robey-Coleman was expected to return to action this week after sitting out of Sunday's game against the Saints. With no limitations in practice, the cornerback can shift his focus to containing the Cardinals' passing attack this week.
Rams head coach Sean McVay indicated that Robey-Coleman (thigh) should be able to practice this week, Rich Hammond of the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
Robey-Coleman did not play in Sunday's win over the Saints after not practicing last week, but McVay said that he is now "90-95 percent healthy." The 25-year-old's practice reps Wednesday and the rest of the week should indicate the accuracy of his coach's assessment and his availability for Week 13.
Robey-Coleman (thigh) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Saints, Rich Hammond of the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
Coleman exited the Week 11 loss to the Vikings with the thigh injury and was unable to practice this week, effectively sealing his fate for Sunday's contest. With the fifth-year cornerback unavailable, Dominique Hatfield and Kayvon Webster could be thrust into enhanced roles in the secondary.
Robey-Coleman (thigh) is considered doubtful for Sunday's game against the Saints, Rich Hammond of the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
Robey-Coleman injured his thigh in Sunday's loss to the Vikings, and it looks like his recovery is not going fast enough for him to participate in Week 12. However, an official ruling on his status is unlikely to be determined until shortly before kickoff. Kevin Peterson and Dominique Hatfield will presumably see an increase in snaps should Robey-Coleman ultimately sit out.
Robey-Coleman injured his thigh during Sunday's game against the Vikings and is doubtful to return, Lindsey Thiry of the Los Angeles Times reports.
Robey-Coleman has been an important part of the Rams' secondary, accruing 29 tackles, five pass breakups and two interceptions through nine games. The Rams' defense is skimpy without Robey-Coleman since Kayvon Webster (concussion) has been ruled out for the rest of the game. With just two healthy corners remaining, Trumaine Johnson and Dominique Hatfield, the Rams may have to pull down a safety to the cornerback position for man-coverage situations.
According to head coach Sean McVay, Robey-Coleman may start this Sunday if Kayvon Webster (shoulder) is ruled out, Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times reports.
Webster did not participate in practice Thursday so there's a chance Robey-Coleman is called upon to start Sunday. However, Webster's status for Friday's practice will give a better indication of what to expect in the Rams' secondary this week.
Robey-Coleman signed with the Rams on Friday.
Robey-Coleman joins the Rams after playing college ball at the Los Angeles Coliseum for USC. In returning to his former stomping ground as a Bills player last season, Robey-Coleman intercepted two passes, returning one for a touchdown. Although those were the 25-year-old's only picks of the campaign, Robey-Coleman still showed good promise as a nickel cornerback, where he figures to bolster the Rams' ranks this season.
Robey-Coleman was released by the Bills on Monday.
Robey-Coleman's release comes as a bit of a surprise right before free agency begins. He had 35 tackles, a forced fumble, and seven passes defensed, including two interceptions, while playing in all 16 games in 2016. He'll be entering his age-25 season in 2017 and is coming off a campaign in which he emerged as one of the league's better nickel cornerbacks.
Robey-Coleman lost his main nickel role to rookie Kevon Seymour in practice last week. He only played 15 defensive snaps in Sunday's win at Cincinnati.
The Bills had trouble in the secondary leading up to the big Week 11 win, so they turned to Seymour -- who offers more size -- for a bigger role. (Seymour ended up with 40 snaps.) Since the secondary ended up having one of its best games of the season, this situation may continue. Robey-Coleman did end up with three tackles and one pass defensed in that limited action.
Robey-Coleman picked off his first two passes of the season during Sunday's win over the Rams. He returned one to the house, his second TD of the season following a scoop-and-score during the Week 2 loss to the Jets.
This was quite the return to home for the USC product, and Robey-Coleman certainly didn't let down any friends and family in attendance. That all said, Robey-Coleman isn't a starter and has played a modest 53.9 percent of the defensive snaps this season, leaving him off the IDP radar, as his 10 tackles attest.
While Robey-Coleman (knee) was able to return to practice Tuesday, he won't travel with the team for Thursday's preseason finale, BuffaloBills.com reports.
Robey-Coleman looks to be on track to return for Week 1, when he's expected to serve as the Bills' main nickel corner.
Robey-Coleman remains sidelined with a knee injury but expects to be back for Week 1 of the regular season, BuffaloBills.com reports. "Yeah, give me, I feel like another week, two weeks I will be ready," said Robey-Coleman. "I am doing good. I did a lot of running today, side to side movement and things like that and it felt real good on my joints, and felt good on my body."
Rookie Kevon Seymour is thought to be pushing Robey-Coleman for the top nickel job, but he's also injured. Assuming Robey-Coleman can in fact suit up for Week 1, we think he'll still be the coach's choice. Seymour may push him all season, however.
Robey-Coleman left practice early Tuesday due to a quad contusion, BuffaloBills.com reports.
Robey-Coleman just returned Monday from an ankle injury, so he must be getting frustrated that things aren't breaking his way as he tries to seal up the main nickel job. A rising Kevon Seymour continues to make a good impression in his stead.
Robey-Coleman (ankle) returned to practice Monday, Joe Buscaglia of WKBW reports.
Robey-Coleman missed Buffalo's most recent preseason game nursing his ankle, but after a week of healing, the 24-year-old appears poised to pick up where he left off.
Robey-Coleman didn't play in Sunday's preseason win over the Giants as he continues to be bothered by an ankle injury.
Robey-Coleman should enter the season as the team's nickelback and No. 3 overall corner, though he had enough ups and downs last season that it would help if he can get back this week and further cement the job, particularly with rookie Kevon Seymour coming on strong.
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The Case Against Stakeholder Capitalism – Investopedia
Welcome back, and welcome aboard. We're in another one of those good news equals bad news moments in the markets and the economy when the good news in the labor market is bad news for equity investors. After U.S. equity markets rallied more than 5% to start the week and the month of October last Monday and Tuesday, investors backed away from buying mid-week as more tough talk from the Fed dampened hopes of a pivot on interest rates. Friday's jobs report for the month of September all but confirm those dashed hopes, as U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs to their payrolls and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%. Wage growth ticked slightly higher and has risen 5% on an annual basis. The Federal Reserve wants to cool wage inflation along with every other inflation that remains sticky high.
So, the thinking goes, the Fed will stay the course and raise the Fed funds rate a couple more times at its next two meetings this year. We don't have to guess or hope it changes its mind. Various Fed presidents were out on the speaking circuit last week, all but promising a 75 basis point hike, followed by a 50 basis point hike in December. No pivot there. As soon as investors wrap their minds around that Friday morning, they sold, and they sold hard, wiping $930 billion in market cap off the stock market in a single day. Still, through it all, U.S. equity markets actually ended the week higher. The first positive week for stocks in seven. It may not have felt that way, but the numbers don't lie. The Dow rose 2% for the week while the S&P 500 added 1.5% percent and the Nasdaq posted a 0.7% gain. Volatility, which had been at a simmer through the sell-off in September, has been boiling over in the past couple of weeks. The S&P 500 has moved at least 1% in 11 of the past 14 trading days, the most volatile 14-day surge since April of 2020, according to Dow Jones Market data, which leads us to our Big Three for the week.
Number one: What's the fair value for the S&P 500? First of all, what is fair value anyway? Fair value, basically, is the sale price agreed upon by a willing buyer and a willing seller. The fair value of a stock, ETF, or index is determined by market participants who are looking at the price of a security compared to its future earnings. That's the forward price-to-earnings ratio that is used to value a company's share price or the price of an index like the S&P 500. Currently, fair value for the S&P 500 is around 14 times forward earnings per share, which translates to a price for the index of around $3,300. The S&P 500 closed a week just above $3,600, actually trading slightly higher than what would be considered fair value. The question big investors are asking is whether that is still too optimistic, given what they believe is likely to happen with interest rates.
Number two: Let’s dig a little deeper into earnings estimates, since that will be a dominant theme in the coming weeks. Analysts are forecasting 2.4% earnings growth in the third quarter for S&P 500 companies. That’s according to FactSet. The few companies in the S&P 500 that have already pre-released their results have reported earnings that are in aggregate only 0.4% higher than a year earlier. That’s pretty weak. Most of the companies have seen their share prices fall in the days surrounding those reports, so the bad news is not being taken well at all. Leading up to the end of the third quarter, analysts have trimmed their forecasts for S&P 500 third quarter earnings by 6.8%. That’s the largest cut to estimates during the reporting period since the second quarter of 2020, according to FactSet. They also have dialed back their projections for the fourth quarter and the full year 2023.
Number three: Hiring and consumer spending have been surprisingly resilient all year, despite persistently high inflation. We know consumer spending in the U.S. inched up in August, even though inflation was still stuck above 8%. Wages have grown at a 5% annual rate, which is not keeping up with inflation. So, where is all that spending power coming from, especially with the stock market in a tailspin? Turns out we're saving less, a lot less. The U.S. personal savings rate is at its lowest level since 2008. We're also borrowing more as consumer credit is increasing at the fastest pace since 2011. That combination heading into a potential recession is not the recipe for success, especially with interest rates on the rise. As the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, that pushes up the prime rate for banks, which pushes up APRs on credit cards. The average APR for a credit card is about 18.5 %. Consumer spending, my friends, is 70% of U.S. GDP. If consumers pull back, watch out.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management. He previously founded and served as the CEO of Roivant Sciences, in addition to leading the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016. Mr. Ramaswamy is the New York Times bestselling author of Woke, Inc. and the recently released Nation of Victims. He has also authored articles and op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review and regularly appears on national television networks, including CNBC, Fox Business, and The Fox News Channel.
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You may have heard the phrase “stakeholder capitalism” over the past few years. It’s become a popular catchphrase among CEOs, including Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon; it’s been embraced by business groups like the Business Roundtable; and it’s been used to create thousands of financial products for investors of all sizes. Stakeholder capitalism refers—or at least used to refer—to the idea that companies should serve not just their shareholders but also other societal interests, which include suppliers, consumers, their employees, and the planet overall. But there’s also been a growing backlash against the term and what it represents. One of the most outspoken critics on stakeholder capitalism and its cousin ESG (environmental, societal, and governance concerns) is Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s the founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management and also the author of Woke Inc., a 2021 book, and the forthcoming book, Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, The Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence. And he’s our special guest this week on the Investopedia Express. Thanks so much for being with us.”
Vivek: "Glad to be here. And I'm happy to report that actually Nation of Victims is now officially out. So that is the sequel to Woke Inc. And so, thank you for having me. It's actually just came off the book launch."
Caleb: “I’ve had the pleasure of reading an early edition of it, so thanks for sending it. And folks, we’ll link to those books in the show notes. So, you’re certainly not the only person who takes issue with stakeholder capitalism and its cousins, but you chose to write a book about it, now a sequel, and become very public with your criticism. You are a successful CEO, you’re a big philanthropist. You’ve done very well, Vivek, by most measures. Why devote your energy to this subject? Why are you so passionate about it?”
Vivek: “It’s a good question. I mean, I started on this journey in early 2020 when I wrote my first editorial in The Wall Street Journal, the first of many that followed. So, this is about a little over two and a half years ago at this point. And I felt like there was something incomplete in the debate where there was a legitimate viewpoint that companies ought to be responsible for more than just making products and services for profit. And Milton Friedman had always said the social purpose of a corporation is to pursue profit, and that’s what makes companies more effective, is if they’re focused exclusively on making widgets. But to me, it felt like there was something incomplete about that defense of the classical shareholder model.”
"And so, Milton Friedman's long dead and gone and I felt some sense of obligation to pick up where he left off, to get to the other half of the story that he never touched. And the other half of the story that he never touched was that this wasn't just about defending the integrity of capitalism. It was equally about defending the integrity of democracy. And that's actually what bothered me the most. This has since entered the public discourse, but when I first started writing about this in early 2020, this was a head turner of a view. No one was thinking about it this way. So, I felt compelled to make the contribution to the dialog to say, 'You know what, the problem with stakeholder capitalism isn't just that it distracts companies from being less profitable. It is that it signals to citizens that your voice on political questions doesn't matter.' What it says is, instead, 'We settle our most important political and normative differences through the corporate boardroom, through the use of economic force, through use of economic power, where everyone's voice and vote is adjusted upward or downward by the number of dollars they control in the marketplace. And to me, that that's not the American vision."
"For better or worse, the American way departed from the Old World European model, which said, 'You know what, church leaders and business leaders get together and decide what's right for the rest of society at large.' No, that is not the American way. The American way is, for better or for worse, we the people, as co-equal citizens, settle the answers to our most important political questions. Be that how we fight climate change, or how you address historical racial injustice—every person's voice and vote ought to count equally. And I grew concerned that this trend of stakeholder capitalism was sucking the lifeblood, the air, out of what it meant to be a citizen in a democracy. And so, I don't know what made me so passionate about it. I don't know. It just seems like an issue that I care about. It turns out I care about democracy, and that's what sent me on the journey that I've been on for the last couple of years."
Caleb: "Well, if you read Woke Inc. like I read it, you understand where a lot of that comes from. Your family comes from India. You learned a lot through traveling there with your family over time. But you've also come to America. You've grown up in America, in Ohio of all places, and done very well there. But you write in Woke Inc. and I thought, 'This is pretty powerful.' There's a new invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America, one far more nefarious. It's defining scam of our time, one that robs you of not only your money but your voice and your identity. You spoke to that a little bit earlier, but what brings you to that overall conclusion? Because I think a lot of folks might say, 'I'm free to believe what I want, even though I know that the places I spend my money believe a certain thing and want us to believe a certain thing.' But what brings you to the conclusion that made you write that?"
Vivek: "I think a lot of citizens… I mean, take where I live in central Ohio today. In a 50 mile radius of where I live, it's a pretty good cross section of the country. It's one of the reasons I love living in Ohio as opposed to the years that I spent in Manhattan, which as much as I enjoyed it, it was a bit of an echo chamber. I think that if you take that cross section of people across the country, or across 50 miles of where I live, there's a sense that something is amiss. The sense that something is amiss is that my voice no longer matters. My voice is no longer relevant. The world that I travel in as my country feels like I'm traveling in a foreign land. It's foreign because my voice is irrelevant to shaping the norms that govern the place where I live. And where does that come from? I think it comes from a sense of fear, a sense of fear created… Let's say you're working at a company. The idea that expressing your viewpoint freely may be used as a basis for terminating your job or for being denied a promotion. I think that sense of the everyday citizen's voice mattering in a body politic, that is what we lose when we hand over the power to… not just determine what products rise to the top."
"And by the way, I'm a big believer in American capitalism. I don't think that everyone has an equal say in determining whether it's this phone in my hand or a different phone in someone else's hand that rises to the top of the products that get sold at a store. That's a $1, one vote system, as it should be. But the right way to address climate change, the right way to address historical injustice, racial- or gender-driven injustice… These are fundamental political questions where Larry Fink's voice, as the CEO of BlackRock, might matter on which stocks rise to the top and which ones don't. But it ought not matter with the respect to which ideas rise to the top of the marketplace of ideas in a democratic society."
“And so, I think that it’s this idea… It’s a heist. I think it’s the heist of our time where, when managing other people’s money, the things you stole (and I use that word intentionally) as an ESG-promoting asset manager was also their voice and their vote that they never intended to give to you. I think it’s the largest scale form of (and I don’t say this lightly) financial fraud, at least the largest scale financial breach, fiduciary breach of duty in the 21st century. It was hiding in plain sight. No one stepped up to the plate to address it. And I thought the least I could do was to share my perspectives on the pages of The Wall Street Journal, in the form of a book, in the form of writing and speaking about it. When I didn’t see much progress being made in terms of institutions changing their behavior in response to that (a little bit, but not a lot), I said, ‘Look, we got to actually just do this through the market,’ which is what led me more recently to found Strive.”
Caleb: "I want to get into Strive in a few minutes, but I also want to come back to this notion of the corporations and corporate CEOs stepping into what may have seemed like a moral vacuum. A lot of this stuff has been bubbling up over the past few years. There was a pandemic. There was racial issues, racial injustices. There was George Floyd, a number of other incidents like that across the country that brought a lot of this to the surface and brought a lot of companies off the sidelines and their CEOs into the mainstream, where maybe they felt like there was an absence of leadership, whether that was political or through communities or through family, that they felt like they had to speak up. Am I hearing you saying that it wasn't about their conscience, it was about what was best for their company and what they wanted the people who follow their companies and shop with them to believe. Why do you think that this happened?"
Vivek: "So, I think that there's no one answer, to overgeneralize, and that's why it takes a book to explain. I think there are some cases in which it was in the best financial interests of the company to signal something that they or their executives absolutely did not believe. So, that's the case of what I sometimes jokingly call 'blowing woke smoke' to be able to deflect accountability from the issues you'd rather not be addressing. If you're Coca-Cola, you'd rather teach your employees how to be less white (their words, not mine) or to pontificate about a voting law in Georgia, then you would talk about your own products' impact on the nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity, by the way, including in the Black community that you profess to care so much about. So, in some cases it's a deflection move."
“I think in other cases, it is actually not in the financial best interests of a company, but they’re forced to adopt that behavior by large asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard because it’s in their financial best interests to be able to aggregate assets from pension funds like New York and California to agree to then foist those policies on the companies, even if they’re not in the best interests of the companies themselves. So, in some cases, it’s imposed by financial institutions on the companies when it serves the financial institution, even when it doesn’t actually serve the company. And then in other cases, I think you have executives who say that, ‘You know what, you only live once, and I’m going to impose my views on everybody else. And these are my views and I authentically hold them, even if it is going to hurt the company’s interests.’ And that’s a principle agent problem of a different kind.”
"So, I think that there's no one-size-fits-all answer, it's a complicated phenomenon. Different cases have different forces at work. But at the end of the day, all of them, I think, represent a threat to democracy because they involve an empowered market actor making a political or social judgment, but without the backstop of political accountability on which our system is built."
Caleb: "You kind of experienced maybe the flip side of this as the CEO of your biotech company when a lot of these racial incidents were coming up over the past few years. And you didn't necessarily address it head on, although you address that you got some backlash from that from your staffers, from your employees. Talk about that experience. How did that shape your thinking around this?"
Vivek: "It's a good question. I mean, it was a big part of the experience I talk about in the book. Look, I think that there's… The first thing that I reflect on as a CEO and as a leader is that a lot of times when your younger employees are clamoring for you to make a statement or adopt a social or public position, it comes from in many cases, and in this case, an earnest place, a good place different than the cynical motivations of the BlackRocks of the world that are imposing this in a top-down manner. Oftentimes, young people, it comes from a good place, wanting to do their part to make the world better. And I think that that's important to acknowledge in the response so we don't hammer out the good impulse underlying it, even though it may be misguided in the end."
"And I think the job of leaders is to fill what I see as a generational hunger for purpose and meaning and identity, a black hole of purpose in the heart of the generation, millennials and Gen Z included. They're hungry for a purpose, hungry for a cause but used to have that cause or purpose filled by things like faith or patriotism or hard work as those things have receded in modern life. That, I think, creates a situation where they start to fill that void by looking to fill it with fast food instead. You know, go into Ben and Jerry's and ordering a cup of ice cream with some social justice sprinkles on top. They think that fills their moral hunger, but you don't satisfy a moral hunger with fast food."
"And what can a CEO do? A CEO is not in a position to revive patriotism or national identity or family. I don't propose that they try. But I think a CEO can fill that void with a strong sense of corporate purpose, to actually remind their employees about the importance of the work that they do. Maybe it's being an entertainment company. Maybe it's being a biotech company that makes medicines that save people's lives. Maybe it is through becoming a technology company that makes people more effectively able to live their lives. Whatever it is, there's a presumption in favor of a company that's able to sell a product that people want to pay for because generally people want to pay for something that has value to them. That means that there's likely… not always, but likely a really worthy mission at the heart of that."
"And I think that sometimes CEOs who feel pressured, as I did even at times—I mean, this is a reflection on my own failures as as a leader in some ways—is that many CEOs, many of us who might find us in a position of responding to the calls to fulfill a social purpose that's different from the purpose of the company might mean that we weren't even doing a good enough job of articulating our own company's and institution's purpose, and that could actually fill that millennial, Gen Z hunger for a cause more effectively than just waving like a flag in whatever direction the wind blows on a given day, which is like the equivalent of fast food, to satisfy a much deeper hunger."
Caleb: "I want to pull another quote from the book. I think you're an excellent writer and some of these things you just put in such interesting context. But you write here, 'The real problem with stakeholder capitalism isn't that it's inefficient. The deeper threat is this: It's the Goldman Rule in action. The guys with the gold get to make the rules, not just market rules, but moral rules too.' You, Vivek, you were referring to Goldman Sachs, of course, the giant legendary investment firm where you worked for a few years. Are things like pushing for more diverse workforces, broadening suppliers, protecting the environment… Are these things that just bankers with fleece vests want, or is this something that you think a lot of people want but shouldn't be pushed from a corporation out into its customers and its shareholders?"
Vivek: “I mean, it was a few months that I worked at Goldman as a summer internship. I ended up working at a hedge fund after I graduated for a few years thereafter. But it was an edifying few months. And the Goldman Rule, as I said, it was the guy who had the gold gets to make the rules. You know, that’s not the way democracy is supposed to work. Do the fleece-vested bankers actually want it? No, actually, it’s funny because most of them didn’t want it. Most of them could care less. Most of them want they want their year-end bonus and are going to be able to say or do whatever it takes to get that year-end bonus.”
“But I think that the reality… And by the way, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I don’t think that someone needs to apologize for wanting to make money, especially if they’re working in the financial services industry. Presumably you went into that because you care about managing and making money. So, I think that this apologist culture to cover up for that sin when it wasn’t a sin at all, but you’re trying to cover it up, is itself fake and creates a new sin of dishonesty in its wake. That being said, I think that there are people out there who authentically want, with their own money, to advance an environmental or social or cultural agenda. It’s a free country. They ought to be free to do that.”
“But I think what’s happened right now is large financial institutions have captured the money of everyday citizens who don’t want to advance those agendas and are still using them to advance those agendas. I think BlackRock is an epitome of this example of which. California and New York might have said you need to adopt environmental and social standards, modern diversity, equity inclusion standards in the Paris Climate Accords, and net zero pledges by 2050. Great. Do that for clients who demanded, but you can’t vote everyone else’s shares or advocate on behalf of everyone else to do the same thing.”
"That's actually what's happened, and I think that breeds a sense of mistrust. I think it stifles open public discourse and debate about these issues. And I think that that's something that leaves everyone worse off in the end, whether or not you're a proponent of an environmental or anti-climate change or anti-racist agenda, you don't want to win that debate by force, or at least you shouldn't want to win that debate by force. You should want to win it on the merits of the ideas themselves because that's what's going to give you lasting victory in a way that matters in a society of co-equal citizens, rather than using economic force to foist your ideas on to people who are never persuaded by them in the first place. I think we need more persuasion. That's what we need our country. We need more authentic persuasion as a way to win people over rather than the use of economic force."
Caleb: “Sounds like the title of a new book, potentially. Let’s see if you have time for that. But let’s talk about ESG. We’ve been dancing around it and talking about it a little bit, but this is a way that the financial industry has basically productized a lot of this. We know that assets under management in ESG-related investments are up to something like $11 trillion and growing every year, every year. But it has become the subject of a lot of criticism, a lot of companies being accused of greenwashing. We know the SEC is looking into it. We have folks like Tariq Fancy, who I had on to my other podcast, The Green Investor, talking about what a sham it is. Why do you think that it is such a poisonous part of what’s going on in this industry?”
Vivek: "I think Tariq is focused on the narrow issue of greenwashing, which is to say that any ESG fund that claims to do a certain thing may not even be doing that thing, and even if it did do that thing, it's not going to move the needle very much. And that's one set of issues. I'm focused on the converse issue, which is what I call green smuggling, which is actually taking all of the funds that weren't described as ESG funds, but in fact are using ESG-linked voting principles and voting guidelines to advocate for policies that people who invested in those funds didn't actually expect or know they were subsidizing. And it turns out that's even a much bigger-scale problem."
"I think the problem at the root of the ESG movement is it's irreducibly vague. It's vague on purpose. The definition of what counts as ESG changes on a given day. A couple of years ago, it was being against oil and gas until Russia invades Ukraine, in which case, 'Eh, we're not really against oil and gas anymore because gas prices are higher and we might need to invest in production some more.' That's a year-to-year change. Investing in weapons manufacturers. 'Oh, well, that's not ESG. Eh, unless you're actually selling weapons to Ukraine, in which case it might be ESG.' Nuclear energy. 'Eh, systematic exclusion from the Vanguard ESG funds if you're a nuclear energy producer. But wait a minute. Actually, maybe nuclear energy is ESG friendly because it's carbon neutral.' The definitions change by the day. It's purposefully vague. That's not by accident, it's by design because it further empowers the people who get to design and define the three letter acronyms in the first place."
Caleb: "Let's talk about how you invest. Furthermore, you have an asset management firm, Strive Asset Management. I don't want to get too much into what's in there, but how do you direct investors' money? What is the philosophy and the ethos behind Strive, and what is your take on investing to maximize shareholder return?"
Vivek: “So Strive was formed… I mean, I co-founded the company to fill what I saw as a gap in the marketplace created in the wake of the ESG movement. And what we wanted to offer was not an anti-ESG voice, but a pro-excellence voice. A voice that stands for a different view. A voice and a mandate to corporate America to focus exclusively on delivering excellent products and services to their customers and maximize shareholder value that way, rather than focusing on anyone else’s social or cultural or political agenda. And as simple as that might sound, in today’s environment that ends up being a very contrarian message. Leave politics to the politicians and tell companies to focus on products and services for their customers. It’s that simple, and that was the mantra of Strive. ‘Invest in Excellence,’ advocate not for stakeholder capitalism, but excellence capitalism.”
“And you know what, for the people out there… you asked about this earlier too. Are there people out there who want with their own money to advance an environmental agenda or a worthy social agenda or political agenda with their money? It’s a free country, and they’re free to do that. And Strive would probably not be a good home for their capital. I think that’s one of the things that more asset managers need to do. They need to be transparent about the fact that there are certain customers or clients whose interests… you can’t be a good fiduciary to everybody, you can’t be a good fiduciary to them either. And so I think that in a society of mutual respect, they deserve a fiduciary who looks after their interests if they want to advance an environmental or social agenda. But conversely, if somebody wants to exclusively, with their money, tell companies to focus on products and services for profit without apologizing for it, maximize shareholder value that way, that’s the kind of client for whose business Strive wants to compete.”
Caleb: "Well, Vivek, you know we are Investopedia, a site built on our terms, on our dictionary. We like to ask our guests for their favorite investing term. I have a feeling I know what your favorite investing term is not, but I would love to know what it is. What is that term that just means so much to you that so special to you as an investor, as a CEO, as someone who has grown up in this industry, which term really speaks to your heart?"
Vivek: “I’d say Alpha. Alpha is a term that speaks to me because it means it’s doing something distinctive. You’re doing something that achieves a unit of extra outperformance as a consequence of ingenuity, generally human ingenuity. Maybe these days it can be algorithmic ingenuity too. But the use of ingenuity to create something that did not otherwise exist, which is outperformance relative to the herd. That’s the term that if you put me on the spot means something to me.”
Caleb: “That’s a great term. We love that term. Well, it’s been really interesting talking to you. Folks, we are going to link to your social media platforms, to Strive Asset Management, and some of the articles that you’ve written, and also to your books because they are fascinating. So good to talk to you. Vivek Ramaswamy, so good to have you on the Investopedia Express. Thanks for your time.”
Vivek: "Thank you. Good talking to you."
It’s terminology time. Time for us to get smart with the investing term we need to know this week. And this week’s term comes to us from Mahmoud, who hit us up on Instagram. Mahmoud suggests credit default swaps this week, and we like that term given all the action in the credit default swaps under Credit Suisse last week. According to Investopedia, a credit default swap, or a CDS as we call them, is a financial derivative that allows an investor to swap or offset their credit risk with that of another investor. To swap the risk of default, the lender buys a CDS from another investor who agrees to reimburse them if the borrower defaults. Most CDS contracts are maintained via an ongoing premium payment similar to the regular premiums due on an insurance policy. A lender who is worried about a borrower defaulting on a loan often uses a credit default swap to offset or swap that risk.
It's basically insurance against default. And if you're old enough to remember the great financial crisis in 2009, credit default swaps were at the heart of it. They were highly used during that time to reduce the risks of investing in mortgage-backed securities and fixed-income products. But when the bottom fell out of the mortgage market, premiums on credit default swaps spiked, prompting defaults and a liquidity crisis for the ages. Cut to last week, and the price of credit default swaps for Credit Suisse jumped dramatically as there were rumblings about the bank's solvency as it undergoes a restructuring. The stock nosedived as the price of those credit default swaps soared, but by the end of the week, those reversed as the company announced that it would be buying back $3.3 billion of its own debt. We haven't seen reader interest in credit default swaps like that in a while, and they don't bring back great memories, but it's an important product to understand and a good term for our investing vocabularies. Great suggestion, Mahmoud. We're sending you a pair of Investopedia's finest socks.
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Build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT)
A build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) contract is a project delivery model that can be used for large projects developed through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The term 'Public Private Partnerships' refers to a very broad range of partnerships in which the public and private sectors collaborate for some mutual benefit.
Under a BOOT contract, a private organisation undertakes to complete a large project, such as a complex infrastructure project, which they are granted a concession to finance and build by a public sector partner, typically a government department. The public partner may provide limited funding or other benefits (such as tax exemptions) but the private organisation accepts most of the risks.
The private organisation is then granted the right to own, maintain and operate the project for a set period of time, during which they can draw fees from users of the asset. Once the time period has elapsed, the control of the project transfers to the public sector partner, either freely or for a fee that is stipulated in the original contract. It is common for the time period to be several decades in the case of big infrastructure projects that carry a lot of construction and operational risk.
- Build, operate, transfer (BOT), whereby the private organisation does not own the project as an asset, they merely receive a concession to operate it for a period of time.
- Build lease transfer (BLT), in which the public sector partner leases the project from the contractor and also takes responsibility for its operation.
- Design, build, finance and operate (DBFO), which also assigns the design responsibility to the private organisation.
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Arashi's new song "Party Starters" will be released in digital form on October 30.
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Arashi will be revealing the lyric video for "Party Starters" on the song's release date, October 30 at 1:00 pm JST. They will also upload its music video on their debut anniversary day, November 3 at 1:00 pm JST. Stay tuned!


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Residential construction shows signs of life
Just a few years ago, the Memphis residential real estate market was on life support.
Like cities all over the nation, Memphis developments and new home construction almost came to a dead stop. But slowly, the market thawed and new construction now is beginning to pop up again.
Though it isn’t a singular story, one subdivision in the suburb city of Arlington has begun to turn the corner, mirroring the recovery in residential real estate across the area.
The town of Arlington, about 30 miles northeast of Downtown Memphis, was a small community of just over 3,000 in 2006.
But by 2010, driven by a lower property tax rate, good schools and a convenient commute into the city, the town’s population had swollen to more than 11,000.
Between 2003 and 2010, more than 2,200 permits were pulled for new home construction.
Combine that huge population boom with a flurry of new construction projects and Arlington seemed poised to become the next suburban town to be swallowed by the mass of Memphians looking for quieter streets, better schools and newer, larger homes.
Thanks to the recession, though, it didn’t turn out that way.
Throughout 2007 and 2008, in the heyday of new home construction, homebuilder Chamberlain & McCreery was working on a new subdivision not far from the center of Arlington, off Forrest Road and next to the successful Ewing Place subdivision. It had 109 lots and Chamberlain & McCreery intended to build 4- and 5-bedroom homes in the $250,000-$300,000 range.
The homebuilder purchased the property in March 2007.
Chamberlain & McCreery had already completed two developments in Arlington — The Villages at White Oaks and Arlington Oaks — and was looking forward to the fruits of a third, having purchased the land for just less than $2 million.
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However, if a patient underwent surgery in another country, but experiences post-operative complications, he or she will need to pay to travel back to the same destination if they wish to have the same doctor oversee any revisions. Revision surgery performed by a different surgeon is extremely difficult, and thus more expensive. In fact, it can cost 50 percent more than the original surgery. Therefore, it can actually be far more economical to pay for a surgery within the U.S.
The cost of a revision rhinoplasty (a second surgery to correct previous work you’re not happy with) costs closer to $10,000 on average; However revisions vary “perhaps more than any other plastic surgery,” according to Marina del Rey, California plastic surgeon Dr. Ziyad Hammoudeh., in a RealSelf Q&A. “Sometimes a revision rhinoplasty can be a very minor tweaking performed by the original rhinoplasty surgeon while other times it can be major reconstruction with rib cartilage that necessitates a revision rhinoplasty expert.”
Women with ruptured silicone gel implants also need to factor in downtime when asking how much do breast implants cost. Whether you take time off work, hire a babysitter for your kids, or make other accommodations while you recover from surgery, you need to factor in these costs. Dr. Jane Rowley, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Lubbock, Texas, explains the difference between removal of silicone gel implants and the IDEAL IMPLANT, “there’s a big difference between removing a ruptured IDEAL IMPLANT and a ruptured silicone gel implant. A ruptured IDEAL IMPLANT can be removed easily with a local anesthetic. A silicone gel implant, if they’re not ruptured, can come out that easy. But if they are ruptured, most of the time its stuck, and it bleeds, and you have to put drains in. So it’s not an easy recovery, it’s not an easy surgery. With an IDEAL IMPLANT I can almost guarantee them ahead of time, if your implant is leaking it will be easy to remove and replace, you will be back to work in a day or two at the most. With a silicone gel implant I’ll say, ‘I don’t know what your recovery is going to be, it might come out easily, it might not come out easily. You might need to take week off work, you might have to take two days off work.’”
A complicated surgery will take longer, and cost more than a straightforward operation. “Some rhinoplasties involve only removing a hump or tip work while others require correction of breathing problems with cartilage grafts,” says Dr. Hammoudeh, in a RealSelf Q&A. “The cost can range widely based on the amount of time needed to complete all of the steps.”
Within a week, the transmission of a nerve impulse causing a contraction of muscle is gradually stopped. It stretches, the skin is straightened, fine wrinkles disappear completely, and the deep ones become less pronounced. Its peak effect of botulinum toxin reaches two weeks later and lasts from 4 to 6 months. During this time, the tissues remember their new relaxed state and the subsequent introduction will preserve the effect of the drug for a longer period (up to 8 months). It should be noted that the procedure should be conducted no more than 2 times a year, otherwise excess doses of toxin can cause the formation of antibodies in the body and provoke immunity to the action of the drug.
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When estimating your cost for breast augmentation surgery, make sure to account for all of these fees. You should ask the surgeon directly if these are all the costs involved in your estimate. Since there are no set costs for any of these expenses, it is important to explore multiple options by meeting with several surgeons and getting estimates for not only their surgeon fees but also the additional surgical-related expenses.
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In addition to the financial cost of breast implants, women need to be aware of the emotional cost when asking how much do breast implants cost. Not knowing the status of their implants can take a toll on woman’s peace of mind. Recent survey findings* showed over 98% of women reported feeling concerned about silent rupture, including many women who already had silicone gel implants. When rupture is detected, it can result in feelings of insecurity and anxiety, as they don’t know how long it has been going on or whether they could have found out sooner. Both the worry and reality of silent rupture take a real toll on a woman’s overall well being, yet too many women don’t have all the facts before making a decision about their choice of implant.
“I’ve found that sometimes MRIs are not actually very reliable. In some instances, a patient’s MRI said the silicone gel implant had ruptured, and then when I went in to operate on it, it actually hadn’t. I’ve had one or two patients where an MRI showed the implant wasn’t ruptured, but based on my clinical exam I really thought there was a concern, so I went in and it turned out it was ruptured.”
If you’re having what’s called an open rhinoplasty, the surgeon will make an incision (about 6 millimeters long) in the skin between the nostrils. “Open rhinoplasty is a very common technique, where the skin is lifted upward like the hood on a car,” says Dr. Ronald Schuster, a Baltimore plastic surgeon, in a RealSelf Q&A about open vs. closed rhinoplasties. If you’re having a closed rhinoplasty, all incisions are placed on the inside of the nose, so there are no external scars.
For example, if your rhinoplasty is a straightforward reduction, that’s a 30-45 minute surgery, according to Nashua, New Hampshire plastic surgeon Dr. Mark Constantian, in a rhinoplasty cost Q&A. It’ll cost much less than an operation requiring “septal surgery for your airway, spreader grafts (to support your internal valves and make sure the sides of your nose line up), a radix graft (to maximize your nasal proportion), and tip grafts (to improve tip projection and contour).” In these cases, the length of the surgery may double or triple—and so might the cost


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Manchester United midfielder Donny van de Beek is set to return to his parent club and former manager Erik ten Hag following the conclusion of his loan spell at Everton.
The midfielder is filled with enthusiasm as he returns to Manchester United to begin work under his former Ajax manager Erik ten Hag following the conclusion of the Premier League season. The Dutch midfielder joined Everton on loan for the remainder of the season in January after falling down the pecking order under United’s interim boss Ralf Rangnick.
The 25-year-old made five starts in seven Premier League appearances for the Toffees, finishing his brief spell at Frank Lampard’s side with a goal in their 5-1 defeat against Arsenal on Sunday. Overall, he played 484 minutes for Everton – only marginally more than he got during a frustrating first half of the campaign at United.
Despite his limited personal impact, Van de Beek enjoyed his spell under Lampard’s management at Everton. “Not the way we wanted to finish the season but we already reached our goal a few days ago,” he wrote on Instagram . “I want to thank all the players, staff and especially the fans who were there in the good and tough times. Up the Toffees.”
Everton secured their Premier League status with a dramatic 3-2 comeback win over Crystal Palace on Thursday. With survival assured, Lampard made several changes to his starting line-up for the last game of the season at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Van de Beek started the game on the substitutes’ bench, but came on in the 37th minute for Abdoulaye Doucoure. The Netherlands international made the score 2-1 with a tap-in from Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s cross just before half-time, but Arsenal ran away with the game after the break.
After a short break, Van de Beek will now return to his parent club, where Ten Hag awaits. Van de Beek thrived under his compatriot’s management at Ajax, where he made 175 appearances and helped the club reach the Champions League semi-final in 2019.
His move to United for an initial fee of £40million in the summer of 2020 is yet to work out, but Ten Hag’s move to Old Trafford offers him a clean slate. The 52-year-old is confident he can get the best out of the midfielder.
Speaking in his first press conference as United manager, Ten Hag was asked about whether he was looking forward to working with Van de Beek again. “Yes, of course,” he said. “We had a fantastic squad in that time at Ajax. I really had a good relationship with him. Of course I am looking forward to meeting him again on the pitch.”
Ten Hag ended his Ajax contract six weeks early in order to start work at United, who finished sixth in the Premier League after taking just 58 points from their 38 games. As Mirror Football exclusively reported , the players were due to be back in for pre-season training on July 4, but Ten Hag wants some of them to report for duty the week beginning June 20.
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That's a wrap for the 2013-14 school year ...
June 9, 2014 - Seth Staskey
It seems like only yesterday that golf, cross country, volleyball and football were getting cranked up as the school year was basically in its infancy. Now, with the presentation of the state championships in track, baseball and softball last weekend in Ohio, the 2013-14 school year is nothing more than a distant memory. It provided many good memories, too. As I sit here and write this blog, there are less than seven weeks until the Rudy Mumley OVAC All-Star Charity Football Classic and just over eight weeks until the start of golf season in Ohio. Trust me, those will be here before you know it. And also on its way is the 2014 prep football season, which is something that almost everyone in the Ohio Valley gets pumped up about. Hopefully the athletes, and coaches, get a little re-charge before they dive back into preparation for next school year. Enjoy the summer, everyone!
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LILONGWE (MaraviPost) — Officials of the Minibus Owners Association of Malawi have admitted that minibus business is struggling due to lack of recapitalization owing to punitive excise duty taxes imposed in minibus imports.
MOAM General Secretary Coxley Kamange said in an interview that they have written finance minister Goodall Gondwe to consider reducing the excise duty on minibus importation so that the grouping is enabled to afford importing minibuses at sustainable rate.
“We are currently unable to import new minibuses, if you can see our minibuses you will notice that they are the same old ones which we are continuously maintaining, nobody is daring to import new minibuses because we fear that once we do that there is no returns that we can generate during the life span of the bus.
“These days all you see are small Nissan Vanette minibuses popularly known as Bongos because they have no punitive excise duty on them. This is why we have written a letter of appeal for government consideration on the matter” said Kamange.
He added that they will be presenting the same grievances among others when finance minister will be conducting the 2014 – 2015 national budget consultations and that the MOAM family will also present the same grievances to parliamentarians lobbying for assistance through parliament.


text: Han Ryner (1861-1938) was a French anarchist, a philosopher and a startlingly original science fiction writer in pre-Wellsian, French scientific romance; he was once voted the Prince of Storytellers by a popular magazine. In The Human Ant (1901), a man is miraculously transformed into an ant by a fairy. Trapped into the universe of the ants for a year, he discovers the beauty, intelligence and heroism of this tiny species which, in turn, forces him to reflect upon the sad world of men. In The Pacifists (1914), a small band of men shipwrecked in the Sargasso Sea encounter a peaceful utopian Atlantean civilization who have domesticated a universal form of energy. The Human Ant is a relatively mild admonition to humans to broaden their minds and become more sensitively aware of their limitations; The Pacifists is a full-frontal assault on human vanity and so-called civilization.


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The Delhi government will purchase 60,000 doses of goat pox vaccine to inoculate healthy cattle in the capital to prevent the spread of lumpy skin disease.
These vaccine doses will be administered free of cost.
Development Minister Gopal Rai on Saturday said that 173 cases of lumpy skin disease have been found among cattle in Delhi, mostly in the southwest district. This is for the first time that the Delhi government has reported cases of lumpy skin disease in the city. A senior official said there has been no increase in the cases since last evening.No death has been reported so far.
“Delhi has a cattle population of 80,000. The central government which is finalising the rate contract with the supplier has assured that 60,000 doses will reach us soon,” he told PTI.
“We had a meeting with officials of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying on Saturday and requested them to make the vaccine available as soon as possible,” the official said.
The government will adopt the ring vaccination strategy in which healthy cattle in a 5 km radius of the affected areas will be given goat pox vaccine with the Uttarkashi strain of the virus, he said.
Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease that spreads among cattle through mosquitoes, flies, lice and wasps by direct contact, as also through contaminated food and water. It does not transmit from cattle to humans. The symptoms include high fever, reduced milk production, skin nodules, loss of appetite, increased nasal discharge and watery eyes, among others.
According to the Centre, the disease has spread in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh and more than 57,000 cattle have died due to it.
In Delhi, most cases of lumpy skin disease have been detected in the Goyla dairy area, Rewla Khanpur area, Ghumanhera and Najafgarh.
The Delhi government has deployed two mobile veterinary clinics and set up 11 rapid response teams to collect samples. Four teams will make people aware of the virus.
The city government has also set up a special control room with helpline number 8287848586 for queries related to the disease.
An isolation ward has been set up in Rewla Khanpur Gau Sadan in southwest Delhi for stray cattle suffering from lumpy skin disease, Rai said.
The cow shelter can accommodate 4,500 cattle. The isolation ward has been set up away from healthy cattle and mosquito nets have been installed there.
Experts said the disease is unlikely to spread in Delhi to proportions seen in other states as the number of cases is low and manageable. They said the virus doesn’t normally lead to the death of cattle and the mortality rate is just one to two per cent.
The high number of deaths in Rajasthan and Gujarat could be due to poor health of those cattle and the development of secondary infections.


Land cover mapping of marshland areas from satellite images data is not a simple process, due to the similarity of the spectral characteristics of the land cover. This leads to challenges being encountered with some land covers classes, especially in wetlands classes. In this study, satellite images from the Sentinel 2B by ESA (European Space Agency) were used to classify the land cover of Al Hawizeh marsh/Iraq Iran border. Three classification methods were used aimed at comparing their accuracy, using multispectral satellite images with a spatial resolution of 10 m. The classification process was performed using three different algorithms, namely: Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The classification algorithms were carried out using ENVI 5.1 software to detect six land cover classes: deep water marsh, shallow water marsh, marsh vegetation (aquatic vegetation), urban area (built up area), agriculture area, and barren soil. The results showed that the MLC method applied to Sentinel 2B images provides a higher overall accuracy and the kappa coefficient compared to the ANN and SVM methods. Overall accuracy values for MLC, ANN, and SVM methods were 85.32%, 70.64%, and 77.01% respectively.


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You won’t have any hobbits coming to save your ass, you dope.
Well he already has Voldemort for vp
It says a lot about the GOP senators that they don’t even have a nominee yet, but Mitch says he has the votes to confirm.
It really doesn’t matter who Trump picks – to the mindless rabble of the republican Senate, ANY choice of the president ( as engineered by the Federalist Society overlords) is perfectly okay with them!
The IMPORTANT thing is that they get the new justice in place before the election.
If you’ve been paying attention, Trump is planning, along with his minions in certain state legislatures, to contest the balloting of the election and throw the election to the state-chosen electoral college electors – which will result in a great hue-and-cry from democrats which will result in suits and challenges which will ultimately go to the Supreme Court which will ultimately be decided by his new “pet picks” which will result in Trump being “president” until he dies!
All you people reading this will be able to watch (in fascination, I assume) as American democracy is destroyed by a fascist political party that cloaks itself in the name of a once proud and honorable party that gave up honor and integrity for naked power.


In Ep. 95 we discuss the ways in which COVID-19 and technological innovations have changed our thinking on smelling. We’ll also explore the nose’s ability to dramatically enhance a whole spectrum of experiences, from our own memory to a glass of wine.
Is “Natural Wine” a category, a lifestyle, or just a buzz phrase? In Ep. 94, we hear about the Cold War between natural and conventional winemakers, question the possible quackery of so-called “clean wines,” and more.
Are social media “vinfluencers” bringing new consumers to wine, or simply devaluing expertise? In Ep. 93 we discuss what it takes to be a successful wine pro in the digital age, and what authenticity looks like in a world of polished Instagram feeds.
What do toilet paper and Bordeaux have in common? In Ep. 92, we dive into the economics of the wine world. We discuss the various ways the pandemic has upended the industry, and debate what changes might be here to stay.
In Ep. 91, we reminisce about our most memorable moments from wine trade shows and consumer fairs with guest panelists Alpana Singh and Stevie Kim. We also discuss the ways in which these mega-events forge connections and propel the industry forward.
In the first episode of The Four Top’s new wine season we are joined by Regine Rousseau and Derrick Westbrook to discuss why “traditional” wine pairings (think Champagne and caviar) don’t work, and explore more abstract pairing concepts, such as wine with music, poetry, fragrance and… CBD?
Before taking off for our summer break, we prep our cocktail conversation for reentry into the social world, discuss the humor value of various foods, and unpack the experience of becoming a culinary celeb or star sommelier. (We’ll be back in September!)
As congress considers legalizing marijuana nationally, it’s time to revisit our conversation about cannabis in the kitchen. Sparkling Wine Anytime will be on shelves in a few short weeks, and submit your ideas for the future of The Four Top!


In electrical design, current sensor is any of the various techniques utilized in controlling the voltage of existing that’s going through a circuit. The measurement of existing differs from microamps to numerous amperes per secondly. This worth is called I currents. The I currents refers to the overall quantity of currents moving through a circuit or the path of the very least resistance. There are several types of currents I sensing units, that include high voltage present sensing units, stress, temperature and also resistivity regulated existing sensors. They all carry out the very same task, however there are some differences in between them. High voltage existing sensors can be made use of to regulate systems that need high present states for brief circuits as well as to discover the overload. Regulating brief circuits with a high voltage current sensor requires a collection of conductors with various thickness and also conductor dimension. This will certainly allow the sensing unit to sense the change in present and also deal with the circuit as necessary. An electromagnetic field sensor is designed to discover modifications in the electromagnetic field around it. If a part of the tool steps, the sensing unit will be set off to create an analysis. A part of the magnetic field may relocate due to a placement issue in the gadget or a few other factor. A little portion of the circuits using magnetic field sensors will certainly produce incorrect analyses because they stop working to use the appropriate referral structure. This suggests the tool will be producing an incorrect voltage as well as will continue to create incorrect signals till it is repaired. Several of the different types of I currents sensors consist of: key conductors sensing unit, direct expansion controller, power loss prevention device, and also high frequency existing sensor. A primary conductors sensing unit will certainly utilize the turning of a main conductor to spot adjustments in the input voltage. It measures the quantity of time the power is on and also whether the current is consistent or rises and fall. If it fluctuates, the tool will fall short and also it will be essential to change the part. Other kinds of eye currents sensors include: detection, air conditioning circulation, air conditioning preload, as well as air conditioner supply. An a/c discovery sensor keeps an eye on the quantity of present streaming via an Air Conditioner connection. It can stop working if the input present surpasses the maximum enabled degree or if the output current is too reduced. A high frequency of the controller is utilized to regulate the air conditioner degree by adjusting the air conditioner power degree for the different temperatures throughout manufacturing processes. A power loss prevention device is often utilized with the ac-detection sensor. This tool avoids the DC power from getting to the tool when it is running. The gadget is composed of a magnet and an element that senses the altering magnetic fields produced by the device. The part will usually fail when the magnetic field produced by the gadget reaches a certain threshold worth.


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