Finnish troops charging.
Finnish troops charging.
Finnish soldiers storming Soviet positions.
Puukko of a Finnish Border Guard Jäger. The scabbard has been engraved with the places that 1st Border Guards Jäger Battalion (RP 1) fought at.
Slingshot, that Finns are using to sling hand grenades to the enemy’s side. Men in the photo are a part of the Infantry Regiment 32 (3/I JR 32). Lieutenant Kauniskangas and Ensign Turunen are operating the sling. The record distance, that Finns used to sling grenades with this was 150 meters.
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Finnish soldiers with Lahti-Saloranta M/26 light machine gun on the western shore of Vyborg Bay, Finland, 1940.
Finnish soldiers stating the Oath of Allegiance.
Finnish machine gun crew ready to fire.
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The Japanese Arisaka and the Finnish Civil War.
After the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the Grand Duchy of Finland, a once autonomous territory within Russia, became a newly independent nation. However the state had some political disputes to work out, particularly between the socialist leaning Democratic party and the Conservatives. On the 27th of January, 1918 the new nation broke out into civil war.
Since Finland was a new country without an established military, both Socialist forces (Red Guards) and Nationalist forces had a motley collection of firearms including American Winchesters, Russian Mosin Nagants, German Mausers, and most strangely Japanese Arisakas. Yes, you heard that right, Japanese Arisakas in Finland. After fighting the Russo-Japanese War with Japan in 1905, the Russian Empire had managed to captured a number of Japanese Type 30 bolt action rifles and carbines along with ammunition. With nothing to use the rifles for, the Russians simply stored them in arsenal as military surplus. With the outbreak of World War I many of these rifles were refurbished and issued to Russian soldiers. Thousands more Type 38 rifles were sold to Russia during WWI as both Japan and Russia were Allies. In particular many were issued to units stationed in and around Finland, which would later be captured and used by the Fins. Furthermore, after Russia fell to the Bolsheviks, a number of Arisaka rifles were donated to Socialist forces. Altogether between 34,000 and 36,000 Japanese rifles and carbines were used in the Finnish Civil War.
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Finnish Border Guard troops after a battle.


The tiger population in Maharashtra is rising and currently, the state has a total of 312 tigers; with Chandrapur having the highest tiger population in the state.
Even though the rise in tiger population is seen as a positive sign, however, the increase in the incidents of man-animal conflict has also become a cause of concern for the state government and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray reviewed the works of the forest in this matter as he made certain vital suggestions.
Thackeray asked the concerned officials to submit the proposal for the rehabilitation of two villages near the Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve immediately.
It may be mentioned here that the suggestion to rehabilitate the two said villages is of utmost importance as the tiger population in the Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve will further increase in future.
“To avoid tiger-man conflict due to the rise in tiger population, it is better that these two villages are rehabilitated,” the CM opined.
He also instructed that the villagers should be compensated in cash and he urged forest department officials to build protection walls around the wells as there have been many incidences of tigers succumbing to their injuries after falling into these wells.
Maharashtra environment minister Aditya Thackeray also suggested expanding the Tadoba tiger reserve area.


The much awaited election results will be announced tomorrow, guiding which government will take over power at the Centre. And if the exit polls prediction comes to be true i.e. Modi led BJP rules once again, there is expected to be seen some profit-booking and with it the indices will be pulled back as the markets have already factored a Modi win for the second term.
And marketmen see the impact of election results to be only transient. Once the thing settles at the centre and market stabilizes, fundaments would be focused on.
And despite the global headwinds due to crude oil price volatility, US-China trade dispute and Brexit issue and some of the domestic issues such as liquidity crisis engulfing the whole of Indian economy, monsoon season impact etc. few of the sectors expected to outperform include capital goods, infra, cement etc. as they are some of the prime areas of focus of the NDA government.


When the Miami Marlins' front office made the decision to sign Reyes, Buehrle, and Bell, and trade for a Carlos Zambrano that had issues on and off the field throughout the 2011 season, they only had one thing in mind: Winning. With a new ballpark and several new faces, they felt there was absolutely no reason this team couldn't win consistently.
Another disastrous June put the Marlins in the basement of the NL East (just ahead of the slumping Phillies) after being tied for first place in the beginning of the month; however, when the Marlins begin the second half of their schedule on Friday, they will find themselves nine games out of first place, but just five games out of a wild card spot.
Miami begins the second half with a crucial four game series against the first place Washington Nationals at Marlins Park. The Marlins swept the Nats the first time they visited the Marlins' new home,as the team concluded the best May in franchise history on a positive note. A series victory could get the Marlins back in contention in the National League East.
Ozzie Guillen has also stressed the importance of having a healthy Emilio Bonifacio. Before going down, Bonifacio led the league in stolen bases and was getting on base consistently in the seven spot. Guillen has also said that the return of Juan Carlos Oviedo (formerly Leo Nunez) is like "a mid-season trade." Oviedo may get the opportunity to close games, as Heath Bell continues to struggle.
A hot Justin Ruggiano will allow the Marlins to give certain players a day off (a Logan Morrison or Giancarlo Stanton), and quality starts from the starting pitchers may give the Marlins (at 41-44) the push they need to play postseason baseball.
-Miami had a rather inconsistent first half, mainly because of poor play in June. The offense was streaky and the bullpen pitched well, with the exception of Heath Bell at the back end. The Marlins were one of two teams in baseball that have only used five starters. Injuries hurt the team as well, with the most recent injury to Giancarlo Stanton causing concern.-Juan Carlos Oviedo took another positive step forward on Wednesday, as he threw 31 pitches over 1 2/3 innings. Oviedo will be eligible to rejoin the Marlins on July 23, following his suspension for using a false identity. With the struggles of Heath Bell, Oviedo may be pitching the ninth inning if Bell's struggles persist.
-Ozzie Guillen recently announced that he may go with a "closer by committee" after Bell's first half struggles. Bell blew six saves in the first half after blowing five in 2011. "I have to," Guillen said. "The players, the club, the fans, myself, himself, it's kind of hard dealing with this every other day. In the meanwhile, we'll try to figure out how to win games and we'll go down that road right now.
-Wednesday night's debut of "The Franchise" revealed quite a bit of information that was not immediately revealed to the public. Miami could have traded Stanton for Manny Ramirez a few seasons ago, David Samson admitted, and Heath Bell had a heated discussion with Ozzie Guillen after his consistent struggles. "It's one of my favorites pieces of footage that we've gotten in two years," executive producer Mike Tollin said. "It's an extremely frank head-on conversation between an embattled player and a very open and honest manager, who reaffirms his faith in his closer.
-Miami hasn't had many notable All-Star game moments, however some Marlins, such as Jeff Conine and Dan Uggla, have many memories from the mid-summer classic.
-Logan Morrison is good for the occasional home run, however he is currently trying to become more of a patient, contact hitter at the plate. Morrison has put in time with hitting coach Eduardo Perez, while chatting with Perez during games in between at-bats.
-The Marlins did not have a representative in Kansas City for the All-Star game after Stanton went down with an injury, which bothered team president David Samson. "I spoke to MLB. Cishek, Ruggiano, I think there were a lot of different ways that Tony [La Russa] and MLB could have gone. I think it’s unfortunate. I think that every team should be represented on the line in an All-Star Game."
-After an inconsistent first half, the Marlins will look to keep their players healthy. Carlos Lee is expected to produce, and Oviedo, Bonifacio, and Edward Mujica are all expected to contribute.
-Josh Johnson will get the start against the Nationals on Friday night, as the Marlins begin the second half with a four game series against the division-leading Nats. Jordan Zimmerman will be on the hill for Washington.
-Outfielder Justin Ruggiano, who the Marlins traded for to get some outfield help after Bonifacio went down with an injury, has seen a lot of playing time due to his hot bat. Ruggiano hit a home run in each of the first three games in Milwaukee, and was the hottest Marlin at the plate in June. "I just try to take every at-bat like it’s your last,’’ Ruggiano said.
-Ozzie Guillen's two sons both do something that their father has shown he is never afraid to do: express their opinions. Guillen admitted that he raised both of his boys that way, teaching them to "not speak if they don't know, and not to lie." "Just go and say what you have to say and move on," Guillen says.
-Heath Bell, who the Marlins signed for three years this past offseason, has said that his weight is not the reason he has struggled. "I came into camp in shape, ready to go, just like I do every other year," Bell said.
Around The League
-Edwin Encarnacion of the Toronto Blue Jays signed a three year, $27 million dollar contract extension on Thursday. Encarnacion is hitting .295 with 23 home runs and 58 RBIs.
-Ben Sheets will make his first start of the 2012 season on Sunday against the New York Mets wearing an Atlanta Braves uniform.
-Several teams might be trying to add pieces as the July 31 trade deadline nears, but some teams might be more hesitant with another wildcard spot up for grabs.
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-Would it still be considered a successful draft for the Miami Marlins if they failed to sign their first round pick? It appears Andrew Heaney is not going to agree to terms with the Marlins.
-Miami will now be using the "closer by committee" method to try and close out games. Who are the Marlins likely to call upon to pitch the ninth? See the candidates here.
-Here are the results from the 2012 Marlins draftees.


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Like I said brackets look easy. ESPN has proof they’re not.
Thanks to a Final Four with no No. 1 or 2 seeds, plus an 8-seed in Butler and an 11-seed in VCU, just two out of 5.9 million-plus brackets in Tournament Challenge correctly predicted the entire Final Four.
A dweeb writing on the community forums at discovery.com noted there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible ways to fill out your bracket! That’s a lot of room to make mistakes.
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Legendary artist Frank Miller's cover art for Batman #62 (NOV180403) has been revealed.
Mitch Gerards, who will provide the interior art for the issue, tweeted the image.
Miller is well-known for his contribution to the lore of Batman, having served as the writer and/or artist on Batman: Year One, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: The Dark Knight Knight Strikes Again .
Batman writer Tom King revealed future arcs of his series recently, saying the next arc will be titled "Knightmares".
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The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies thanks to vaccine inequity and a lack of fiscal support, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Tuesday
While the latest update to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook sees the global economy still growing 6 percent this year – unchanged from its April estimate – Chief Economist Gita Gopinath noted that the composition of the recovery continues to change.
“The recovery is not assured until the pandemic is beaten back globally,” Gopinath told reporters during a virtual press conference as she presented the latest outlook titled Fault Lines Widen in the Global Economy.
The IMF sees global growth decelerating to 4.9 percent next year. Advanced economies are expected to achieve 4.4 percent growth in 2022 – down from 5.6 percent in 2021 – while growth in emerging and developing economies is seen slowing to 5.2 percent in 2022 from an expected rebound 6.3 percent in 2021.
Rich, emerging and developing nations all took an economic beating last year when the coronavirus pandemic forced governments to close borders, shut businesses and idle manufacturing hubs worldwide.
As countries rolled back COVID restrictions this year, growth forecasts jumped as people emerged from lockdowns and unleashed pent-up demand for products and services. That demand surge though is expected to moderate next year.
Developed economies armed and shielded with a healthy supply of COVID-19 vaccines and fiscal firepower have managed to open up businesses and resume operations. But the emergence of new COVID variants and infection spikes laces uncertainty into the recovery path.
Growth in the US, the world’s largest economy, is seen slowing to 4.9 percent in 2022 after a bounce back of 7.0 percent expected this year. Europe is also expected to slow to 4.3 percent in 2022 from 4.6 in 2021.
Growth in the Middle East and Central Asia is expected to decelerate to 3.7 percent next year from 4.0 in 2021, while emerging and developing Asian economies are expected to dip more than a point from 7.5 in 2021 to 6.4 in 2022.
Latin America and the Caribbean are forecast to experience the sharpest fall from 5.8 percent in 2021 to 3.2 in 2022 after plummeting 7.0 in 2020.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region that is expected to see growth climb – from 3.4 in 2021 to 4.1 percent in 2022.
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Vaccine inequality is seen as a chief driver of the widening gulf between recoveries in developed and less developed economies.
Close to 40 percent of people in advanced economies have been fully vaccinated compared with only 11 percent in emerging market economies and a tiny fraction in low-income developing countries.
Fresh waves of COVID-19 cases this year, notably in India are a major source of the deepening inequality between rich and poor nations.
“The emergence of highly infectious virus variants could derail the recovery and wipe out four and a half trillion dollars cumulatively from global GDP by 2025,” Gopinath warned.
To make matters worse, poor countries and even emerging markets lack access to the funds necessary to jolt economies back to health. Advanced economies, on the other hand, passed $4.6 trillion in fiscal support for 2021 and beyond. In developing economies, most measures expired last year.
And some emerging markets like Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Russia and Turkey have also started raising interest rates to contain soaring inflation triggered by supply chain bottlenecks as economies reopen. Higher interest rates cool economic growth.
“A worsening pandemic and tightening financial conditions would inflict a double blow to emerging markets and developing economies and severely set back their recoveries,” Gopinath warned.
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A significant portion of the “abnormally high inflation” readings is transitory, resulting from the pandemic’s hit to vital parts of the economy such as travel and hospitality, and from a comparison with last year’s abnormally low readings, Gopinath said.
The IMF forecasts inflation to remain elevated next year. In emerging markets and developing economies food price pressures and currency depreciation will continue to create yet another worrying disparity in economic recovery.
Major central banks must clearly communicate their outlook for monetary policy and ensure that inflation fears do not trigger rapid tightening of financial conditions, the IMF stressed.
The Fund’s proposal to end the pandemic, endorsed by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, sets a goal of vaccinating at least 40 percent of all people in every country by the end of 2021 and 60 percent by the middle of 2022.
The IMF urges at least 1 billion vaccine doses to be shared in 2021 by countries with more than enough of them and calls on manufacturers to prioritise deliveries to low and lower-middle-income countries.
The fund said its allocation of some $650bn worth of its reserve currency, known as Special Drawing Rights, should be completed quickly to help countries in need fund their spending needs. Greater action is also needed to ensure the G-20 successfully delivers on debt restructuring for countries where debt has ballooned and become unsustainable, said the IMF.
Gopinath further urged countries to focus more on reducing carbon emissions and slowing the rise in global temperatures to avoid yet another human and financial catastrophe. As it stands now, only 18 percent of recovery spending has been on low carbon activities.
“Concerted policy actions…can make the difference between a future where all economies experience durable recoveries or one where divergences intensify, the poor get poorer and social unrest and geopolitical tensions grow,” she said.
Oil prices climb to highest in years as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand
Oil prices hit their highest in years on Monday as demand continues its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, boosted by more custom from power generators turning away from expensive gas and coal to fuel oil and diesel.
Brent crude oil futures rose 87 cents, or 1%, to $85.73 a barrel by 0111 GMT, the highest price since October 2018.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed $1.12, or 1.4%, to $83.40 a barrel, highest since October 2014.
Both contracts rose by at least 3% last week.
“Easing restrictions around the world are likely to help the recovery in fuel consumption,” analysts from ANZ bank said in a note on Monday.
“The jet fuel market was buoyed by news that the U.S. will open its borders to vaccinated foreign travellers next month. Similar moves in Australia and across Asia followed.”
They added that gas-to-oil switching for power generation alone could boost demand by as much as 450,000 barrels per day in the fourth quarter.
Still, supply could also increase from the United States, where energy firms last week added oil and natural gas rigs for a sixth week in a row as soaring crude prices prompted drillers to return to the wellpad.
The U.S. oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose 10 to 543 in the week to Oct. 15, its highest since April 2020, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said last week.
China’s economy, meanwhile, likely grew at the slowest pace in a year in the third quarter, hurt by power shortages, supply bottlenecks and sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks.
The world’s second-largest oil consumer issued a new batch of oil import quotas for independent refiners for 2021 that show total annual allowances were lower than last year, a first reduction of import permits since these firms were allowed into the market in 2015.
(Reporting by Jessica Jaganathan; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)
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Supply chain shortages and inflation are hurting consumers and Democratic election prospects in 2022 and 2024. The Biden administration, no doubt aware of this possibility, is taking action to address the ill-effects of scarcity and higher prices. Recently, the administration mandated that the Port of Los Angeles remain open 24 hours a day so merchandise idling in shipping containers can be delivered faster to fill empty supermarket shelves and consumer shopping carts.
But this response may be coming too late, because shortages and inflation have created uncertainty in the minds of consumers that cannot be easily reduced.
While the administration has handled the COVID-19 pandemic well, it has been much less successful in dealing with the negative effects of the ensuing adjustments, including shortages, inflation, supply chain disruptions, high demand and uncertainty.
The widespread shortages were caused by sudden and rapid increases in consumer demand and by manufacturers and suppliers that were too slow or unable to respond swiftly.
Once supply chain disruptions are straightened out as manufacturers increase their production and distributers move their products faster, shortages are bound to ease, though some could linger.
The U.S. economy is also experiencing a modest annual inflation rate of 5.4 percent, caused by the trillions of dollars that the Treasury gave Americans in 2020 to spend to avert a pandemic-induced depression. Flush with this cash and what they had saved while sheltering in their homes during the pandemic, consumers quickly increased demand for most products and services. They became less price sensitive and pushed inflation higher. Still, though worrisome, an annual inflation rate of 5.4 percent is hardly runaway or stagflationary.
But the excess cash is tapering off. Without it, consumers will be forced to reduce their demand and thereby push most prices downward. As a result, future inflation won’t be as drastic or widespread, especially since the Federal Reserve Board is planning to reduce the money supply, which will dampen inflation.
But the uncertainty produced by the pandemic is likely to prevent people from getting back to normal and might foster some continued shortages and inflation.
Americans have been feeling confused and unsure about their future. Before the pandemic, they took stable prices and product availability for granted, knew the content and location of their jobs, woke up in the mornings to feed their kids and send them to school and were fairly content with their lives. Not anymore. Their world had changed, and the new one seems unfamiliar and scary to many. As a result, 4.3 millions have left the labor force since the onset of the pandemic.
What can the White House and Congress do to alleviate shortages, inflation and uncertainty? Here are four ideas.
1. Take measures to ease shortages. Mandating that the Port of Los Angeles work nonstop will increase some supplies, but it’s not enough. It should be followed by similar action in other ports. Likewise, factories should be instructed to increase production. Such measures are easy to take in the case of consumer staples but more difficult in the case of computer chips, as chips are part of a global industry, and increasing their production requires building large factories and investing billions of dollars.
2. Stop handing out free money to consumers. With less money to spend, demand and inflation will ease. Though Americans are no longer receiving government manna, many still have cash to spend, which will continue to exert some upward inflationary pressures.
3. Think again about the size, timing and spending schedule of infrastructure and Build Back Better initiatives. Pumping trillions of dollars into the economy could create a new round of inflation inflammation.
4. Reduce uncertainty. Unfortunately, policymakers lack the knowledge, skills and tools to address this effectively. What is desperately needed is trusted and steady leadership to assure Americans that their lives as consumers, employees, parents and human beings will be more certain again. Unless they can be made to feel more content with their lives, the economy may continue to sputter and keep a fuller economic recovery at bay.
Can these challenges be successfully addressed in the coming year or two? Maybe. The U.S. discovered and produced a life-saving vaccine against COVID-19 in record time and enacted policies that averted depression. Likewise, I expect shortages and inflation to subside and a sense of normalcy to rise. This, plus efforts to make consumers feel more confident, would put the country on a more prosperous path.
Avraham Shama is the former dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas – Pan American. He is a professor emeritus at the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. His book, “The Impact of Stagflation on Consumer Psychology,” was published by Praeger publishing.
Shekel surplus weighs down Palestinian economy – FRANCE 24
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Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP)
Palestinian businesses flush with too much Israeli cash: it may not be the most talked about aspect of the occupation, but experts warn it is a growing concern for the Palestinian economy.
Palestinians in the West Bank use the Israeli shekel but, beyond that commonality, the two financial systems are dramatically different.
In Israel, as in many advanced economies, digital payments are rapidly growing, taking the place of transactions once done with bills and coins.
But in the West Bank, a territory under Israeli military occupation since 1967, cash is still king.
Tasir Freij, who owns a hardware store in Ramallah, told AFP he now has to pay a two percent commission to deposit paper money because his bank is reluctant to receive it.
“This is a crisis… and we are feeling its effects,” Freij told AFP.
Much of the paper money is brought in by the tens of thousands of Palestinians who work inside Israel or Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and who get their wages in cash.
Experts and business people say the buildup of hard currency risks stifling the Palestinian financial system.
Freij fretted that buying goods from abroad typically requires converting shekels into foreign currencies, especially dollars or euros, but the abundance of shekels in the market has forced him to accept painfully unfavourable rates.
– ‘Dumping ground’ –
The Palestinian Monetary Authority, which functions as the central bank in the West Bank, has warned that paper shekels are building up because it has no way to return the hard currency to Israel.
PMA governor Firas Melhem told AFP that the cash buildup was “a very worrying problem,” causing headaches for banks and businesses.
“If the problem is not resolved quickly, the Palestinian market will turn into a dumping ground for the shekel,” he added.
The shekel was established as the official currency in the Palestinian territories as a result of economic protocols known as the Paris agreements that followed the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Much has changed since those 1994 agreements.
As they lean more on digital transactions, Israel’s banks no longer want to reabsorb paper cash that accumulates in the West Bank but does not circulate rapidly through the Israeli economy.
The Bank of Israel cited security as another reason.
“We stress that uncontrolled cash transfers could be misused, especially for money laundering and terror funding, and would not be in compliance with international standards on the prohibition of money laundering and terror funding,” the bank told AFP in a statement.
– Solutions? –
Palestinian banks have tried to encourage customers to moderate their cash deposits, but that risks limiting the capital available to banks, which would lower their ability to offer loans.
The cash surplus predicament has fuelled renewed calls from some Palestinian experts in favour of ditching the shekel, either in favour of a unique Palestinian currency or that of another nation, including the Jordanian dinar, which also circulates in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Monetary Authority is also pushing the Bank of Israel to take back more hard currency.
But Melhem stressed that Palestinians also needed to “keep up with developments in financial technologies,” and move towards more cashless payments.
© 2021 AFP
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Children, ethics vs big business
It is undeniable that socio-economic factors affect every aspect of the business environment. It is businesses that are able to consider these factors that are able to remain sustainable in the area they choose to operate in. A large portion of multinational companies’ budgets goes into research that provides solutions seeking to make strategies "local".
In years past, the United Nations has been very vocal on the rights of children in the workplace. As more and more organisations start crossing their borders to stamp their footprint on untapped markets, businesses find that they encounter challenges that might not have been present in the areas they originate from. The violation of children’s rights is a serious offence that can ruin the reputation of any business; therefore no business can afford not to look with seriousness the significance of these rights.
Head of Sustainability at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Rachel Jackson, explained in a report titled Protecting children's rights "is good for business", the importance of organisations observing the rights of children. Rachel Jackson noted that there are 168 million child labourers around the world; in a planet of 7 billion people this is still a very high figure. The number of child labourers was estimated at 821 000 by the labour minister, Mildred Olifant in South Africa. Rachel Jackson’s call, to CFOs and their accounting teams, focuses on the need for a greater sense of awareness and the power CFOs possess in reducing such figures through their daily business activities.
It needs to be noted that odds become lesser for a former child labourer to be an efficient contributor in the market place as an adult due to a lack of education. While their peers are in the classroom, child labourers spend that time doing hard labour losing out on skills that could help them secure better employment.
As CFOs approach this issue, they need to understand that children are tomorrow’s workforce; the rights of these young ones need to be enforced in order for them to become engaged and productive members of the business world in the future. As CFOs aim to maintain and improve the reputation of businesses, children’s rights cannot be ignored as the negligence of these can disrupt businesses from achieving their bottom line. South African organisations have in the past lost market share because of allegations that hinted that they were involved in the violation of children’s rights in the market place. “People are a firm’s greatest asset”, said Karen Smal, Acting Head of ACCA SA. Businesses across the world are working at improving their business models by integrating long-term planning to their strategies. If CFOs are concerned about future sustainability then they will start investing and protecting these ‘assets’ as early as possible. CFOs will make sure that they don’t violate the rights of children and that the stakeholders they do business with uphold a strong sense of ethics.
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I. Goldberg to downsize into new space on Chestnut Street due to rent hike
I. Goldberg Army-Navy is moving from 13th and Chestnut Streets, its home for the last 15 years, to a smaller space a few blocks to the east.
The move to 718 Chestnut St. is being necessitated by an unaffordable rent increase at its current space, according to a release Tuesday from Nana Goldberg, president and third-generation owner of the military-surplus and outerwear store.
"Surrounded by major chains, it will continue as one of a few established privately owned small retail businesses in Center City," the release said.
I. Goldberg will use the entire three-story building at 718 Chestnut, including its basement, for a total of about 12,600 square feet, said broker Jamie Weiner of Delphi Property Group LLC, who had marketed the property. The lease is for 10 years, Weiner said.
Nana Goldberg said in an email that the store aims to open there in the spring.
Currently, I. Goldberg occupies a space of about 14,000 square feet over a basement and two floors at 1300 Chestnut St.
It is to be replaced by a Wawa of similar size, according to a person familiar with the convenience store's lease but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
In the release, Nana Goldberg lamented the growing dominance of national retail chains in Center City shopping districts, which are driving rents up beyond what independent businesses like hers can afford.
Companies such as Wawa and Target Corp. have substantially boosted their Center City presence in recent years.
Retail rents in the so-called Midtown Village corridor along 13th Street just south of Chestnut have surged 128 percent since 2005, to about $57 a square foot, real estate services firm CBRE reported early last year.
"Faced with the thought of closing the business, Ms. Goldberg thought of the thousands of customers who have followed and shopped with her family for generations," the release said.
"She feels that there is a need for their store in a city that is now overrun with national chain stores," it said. "There is nothing unique about these stores, they are found in every major city and shopping mall."


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*interpreted to include stage productions and movies especially those connected with books
I've had to make a very difficult decision. I finally got Erik Larson's In the Garden of the Beasts from my local library but wasn't able to start reading it until today. Because it is due in just a couple of days, I tried to renew it but that didn't work since it has other readers waiting. And on top of that, my ARC (advanced reading copy) of Louise Penny's new Inspector Gamache book arrived in the mail today. Then there's Elizabeth Kostovo's The Swan Thieves sitting by my reading chair as well. There was no other solution but to plan to return In the Garden of the Beasts on time and request it again.

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But none of the American films had the intensity and dark beauty of Tim Roth's The War Zone, an austere adaptation of Alexander Stuart's novel about a seemingly loving family destroyed by father-daughter incest. In an assured directorial debut, Roth eschews the obvious close-up, handheld-camera perspective on dysfunctional families. Instead, he uses extremely wide-angle compositions with very little camera movement. The effect is to give us a necessary distance from what might otherwise be exploitative material. It also allows Roth to define what's happening among the family members simply by showing how they position themselves in their living room in relation to one another. Roth gets strong performances from all the actors: Ray Winstone as the father, Tilda Swinton as the mother, and two novices, Lara Belmont and Freddie Cunliffe, as their teenage children. Belmont, in particular, is extraordinary. The film builds toward a brutal sexual encounter that virtually guarantees it an NC-17 rating. What makes the sex scene so disturbing is that it might turn you on. Forbidden games have a way of doing that. And Roth deliberately gives the audience the time it takes to feel guiltily complicit.
Another smart and sophisticated British film, Christopher Nolan's Following, screened
at Slamdance, the self-consciously déclassé festival that tries to challenge Sundance on its own stomping ground Park City's Main Street and which becomes less threatening every year. Following (which was, full disclosure, executive produced by one of my Sundance housemates, Next Wave Film's Peter Broderick) is a shifty, paranoid neo-noir, shot in gleaming black and white. In addition to Slamdance, the Sundance spawn included minifests Souldance (Black films), No Dance (movies made on digital video), and Van Dance (a guy offering to show you the trailer for his movie in a van parked on Main Street).
Chris Smith's American Movie, the documentary grand prize winner, and Tony Bui's Three Seasons, the fiction grand prize winner, are both deeply flawed but emblematic Sundance films that made audiences leap to their feet and cheer. (In an unprecedented sweep, Three Seasons also won the Audience Award and the Cinematography Award.)
Three Seasons is more interesting for its behind-the-scene story than for what happens on the screen. Bui, who was born in Vietnam but has lived in the U.S. from the age of two, wanted to make a film set in contemporary Saigon, with Vietnamese actors speaking in their own language. Not an easy sell. He developed the script in the Sundance Lab, where he also found his producers Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente of Open City Films. Financing was obtained from October, still the most adventurous large American indie distributor. The production was difficult; the Vietnamese censors questioned everything, including the use of the color red.
Expertly photographed by Lisa Rinzler, the film is full of swoony close-ups, picturesque landscapes, and cityscapes shot in slow motion so that they look pretty, too. The narrative (another multiple-story mélange) is stunningly vacuous and hackneyed. There's a simple peasant girl who brings a moment of grace to a reclusive poet, a street urchin who eventually finds another street urchin to love, a hardworking cyclo driver who rescues a beautiful prostitute. And there's the peripatetic Harvey Keitel playing a former American soldier now searching for the daughter he fathered during the war (who's also a prostitute). It might as well have been The World of Suzie Wong, subtitles notwithstanding.
A few years ago, Bui made a powerful short film about two Asian American brothers, jail time, and basketball dreams. Three Seasons has none of the cultural specificity or personal perspective of that film. It does, however, bear the unmistakable handprint of the Sundance Lab, where projects go through a process that's not dissimilar to development at a Hollywood studio. True, the labs encourage "difference," but not at the expense of "universal meaning," which is code for saying that you must manipulate the audience's emotions in a way that's familiar to them from 100 years of Hollywood movies. The result is a bunch of deracinated, sentimental films trying too hard to be audience-friendly. It's notable that almost all the films that put the Sundance Film Festival on the map in the last decade from sex, lies to Poison to Slacker came from the outside. They had nothing to do with the labs.
A lively, sharply edited, and smartly photographed documentary, Smith's American Movie focuses on the ultimate Sundance subject, the passion to make independent films. Smith followed fellow Wisconsinite Mark Borchardt for two years while Borchardt simultaneously tried to finance his magnum opus, Northwestern, and finish his four-years-in-the-making horror short, Coven. Borchardt is a horror buff who fetishizes the films that scared him when he was a kid. He scrutinizes George Romero the way Scorsese scrutinized Mario Bava, the difference being that Scorsese scrutinized other filmmakers as well.
Watching American Movie and watching Smith, Borchardt, and two of Borchardt's loyal buddies who are also featured in the film at the postscreening discussions, I was reminded of Warhol and his entourage of superstars and creatures, a similarity accentuated by Smith's quiet, passive persona. There's an imbalance of power between Smith and his subjects that is never dealt with in the movie. In effect, what Smith has done is to take away Borchardt's cherished project, Northwestern, and make a version of it himself. American Movie is Northwestern, but packaged in a way that Borchardt, probably, is incapable of doing. Smith might have righted the balance of power somewhat by occasionally handing Borchardt the camera, but the thought seems not to have occurred to him.
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Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn PART I: FAMILIES AND BEYOND: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW SOCIAL ORDERS Chapter. 1 East in west? Turkish migrants and the conception of the ethnic other in Germany Lisa Vanderlinden Chapter 2. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies: Women's voices from Bulgaria Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova Chapter 3. ICSI: Reflections on male infertility and manhood in the Middle Eastern Muslim world Marcia C. Inhorn PART II: COUPLES AND OTHERS: ASSISTING REPRODUCTION WITH THIRD PARTIES Chapter 4. The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador Elizabeth Roberts Chapter 5. Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shi'a Iran Soraya Tremayne Chapter 6. Inappropriate relations: The ban on surrogacy with In Vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam Melissa J. Pashigian Chapter 7. Contested surrogacy and the gender order: An Israeli case study Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli PART III: TESTING GENES AND USING CELLS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ADVANCED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 8. The genesis of embryos and ethics In Vitro: Practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina Kelly Raspberry Chapter 9. Assisted life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India Aditya Bharadwaj Chapter 10. Doubt is the mother of all invention: DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting Claudia Fonseca Notes on contributors Bibliography Index

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Planning out your K-12 school budget and searching for ways to cut costs are two things discussed by school districts across the country every year. Decision makers look for efficient ways to streamline school operations and save valuable pennies without putting students, faculty, staff, and parents at a disadvantage.
This is often easier said than done!
So, what is the purpose of a K-12 school budget? The AASA White Paper: School Budgets 101 explains the role of a school budget as, “a district’s plan for the upcoming year as related to anticipated revenues and expenditures. School budgets allow districts to translate sometimes intangible missions, operations and objectives into reality by outlining and providing specific programs and funding/financial terms.” A school budget is much more than allotted funds for textbook upgrades and supporting classroom supplies for teachers. There are multiple categories to consider, including:
- Transportation ‐ buses and drivers to transport students
- Facilities - to ensure students attend schools that are clean and well maintained
- Energy ‐ the school is lit during the day, heated in the winter and cooled in the summer
- Health and Safety ‐ the school nurse cares for ill students, and security measures keep staff and students safe
- Instruction ‐ students have a qualified teacher, teachers have instructional aides, and classrooms have supplies
- Curriculum and Staff Development ‐ curriculum, training and instructional support to ensure teachers can provide students with necessary knowledge and skills
- Food Services ‐ nutritious and affordable breakfast and lunch
- Library Services ‐ the library full of resources and librarian/staff provide research assistance and resources
- Counseling Services ‐ counselors for testing prep, college prep, drug/alcohol abuse programs, and supporting family needs in seeking outside counseling
- School Leadership and Support - principal, assistant principals and administrative support staff
(List from AASA)
With the many moving parts that make up a K-12 school district, it’s important to consider ways you can cut costs to make room for new updates needed for your schools.
Making Room in Your K-12 School Budget
Below are a few things schools and districts have done to slim down yearly costs.
- Target School Utility Costs
Utility costs can certainly add up if you’re a large school district with many buildings. If you’re able to bring down some of your electricity costs from lighting and building equipment, that could free up some room in your school budget. According to School Leaders Now, a district in Grapevine-Colleyville found that the lightbulbs in all of their buildings were not energy efficient. “A company was hired to help encourage more energy-minded behavior, from decreasing water usage to making sure all lights were turned off at night. Together those strategies lowered the district’s utility bills from $4.7 million in 2011–12 to $3.3 million this past year (2017).”
- Contracting & Sharing Services
Contracting services, or outsourcing, is essentially utilizing services from outside organizations. This can be a great way for a school district to maximize their school budget by cutting costs on services such as food & nutrition, transportation, security, custodial services, maintenance, tutoring, and more. School districts can also share the contracting services with other local districts. A study found, “potential savings across the country from shifting just a quarter of non-instructional services to shared services could potentially yield savings in the range of $9 billion.”
- Go Green!
Many schools strive to “go green” especially around Earth Day but going green all year long can save a school a lot by just cutting down on printing and paper costs. Consider sending voice and text messages or emails home to parents instead of printing and handing out field trip permission slips and homework reminders - even report cards can now be digital! Utilizing your school notification system can make saving money on paper and printing easy.
- Online Schools & eTextbooks
K-12 school districts often receive funding from the state based on the number of students enrolled. The Grapevine-Colleyville district launched a virtual school in 2013 which boosted their number of students enrolled to almost 14,000. “The virtual campus within the district teaches students from all over the state. The expansion was a way to increase state funding and service a larger number of students with fewer teachers, resulting in cost savings.” K-12 schools also save money and utilize online schooling when choosing to host Summer School online instead of on school grounds. Some schools have also chosen to switch from traditional textbooks to eTextbooks. Governing tells us “Traditional textbooks cost California $350 million annually. By transitioning to online textbooks, the state hopes to encourage student participation in virtual learning while radically reducing textbook costs.”
Planning for EdTech
Making room in your school budget for new EdTech is important for any school decision maker or superintendent. With technology continuing to expand to help with school safety, online learning, STEM programs, and more, it’s important to make the most of your school budget to allow for these new technologies to benefit your staff, teachers, and most importantly, your students. In a recent webinar, Strategic Technology Planning and Investment, hosted by edWeb.net and a part of CoSN’s Empowered Superintendent series, three superintendents discussed and explained the different ways they plan financially for technology.
Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership
Although many may choose to look at the price tag and think that’s that, these three superintendents explain you must understand the total cost of implementing a new technology or software. “Total cost of ownership is not just the cost at the beginning but the total cost over the years of the program. Most educators look at the cost of their devices and software, but the total cost includes professional development, technical support and sustainability costs.”
Balancing Student Outcomes and Budget Management
K-12 school districts need to find a happy medium between balancing the desired impact and learning goals for both students and teachers with a realistic budget. One school district avoided grants because many of their teachers would need training and assistance when using new digital tools. Instead, the district applied for grant money for technology coaches. A superintendent came across challenges when looking at the value of technology for the students vs. the cost. His district “decided to stop hosting applications on-site and moved them to the cloud. In addition, the district transitioned to e-books to save on cost. The district has slowly built everything into the budget, and after seven years he said budget lines are steady.”
Prioritize the Value of Investment
School districts should always base their spending on specific goals and strategic priorities. EdScoop gives this priority example: if you want to be able to measure student outcomes based on new technology initiatives, then your school board needs to reprioritize and invest in that goal. Many K-12 schools are making school safety the priority, with the unfortunate growth in school shootings, bullying and cyberbullying, and natural disasters. Easy-to-use panic button applications and K-12 communication solutions are both technologies school districts are including in their school budgets to ensure the safety of all staff, students, and faculty.
Is your priority school safety? Learn more about our K-12 suite of communication solutions and incorporate those in your school budget today!
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SPRING BRANCH, Texas – Comal County investigators believe they have recovered the body of Shana Alison DiMambro, though positive identification is still pending.
The body was found around 7:50 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of Mitchell Drive by someone who was walking along the property.
DiMambro, 45, was reported missing on July 19 at her home in the 100 block of Mitchell Drive, not far from where the remains were discovered.
Her husband, Chris Anto, said she was last seen at their RV when he left for work around 7 a.m.. When he came back home for lunch, she was gone.
Search and Support San Antonio teams began searching for DiMambro on Friday night.
Vice President of SSSA Eric Herr said in under an hour, the body was found less than 200 feet from where DiMambro lived.
Herr said the remains were found on private property in a retention pond.
“You could see a human skull. You could see the deterioration of the bone in the hands and the arms,” Herr said.
Although the body was decomposing, one detail still remained.
“I saw the tattoo on her back and her husband had told me that she had a tattoo of a sunflower on her back,” Herr said.
At the time of her disappearance, DiMambro was wearing a white v-neck t-shirt, pink shorts and black flip-flops.
No arrests have been made and investigators haven’t said whether or not they suspect foul play.
Her family is aware of the investigation’s findings so far and Travis County officials are working to positively ID the remains.
We’ll bring more updates as they become available.


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Lymph node ratio (LNR) as a complementary staging system to TNM staging in salivary gland cancer
ConclusionsLNR classification should be considered as a complementary system to TNM staging and LNR classification based clinical trials deserve further research.
Conclusions: PBT should be strongly considered when ipsilateral radiation therapy is indicated for major salivary gland cancer based on a considerably lower incidence of acute grade 2 or higher toxicity in this analysis compared to historical IMRT outcomes. PMID: 31805791 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
CONCLUSION: This combination demonstrated activity in HN, with fewer responses in SGC. Toxicities were higher than reported with pembrolizumab alone. PMID: 31796519 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
CONCLUSION: A favorable response of HER2-positive salivary gland carcinomas to an antibody-drug conjugate could be shown. Furthermore, no convincing data regarding response to programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors in advanced salivary gland cancer were presented. Further studies and ideas for new treatment approaches will be needed to improve the therapeutic options for patients with salivary gland carcinoma. PMID: 31628530 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Salivary gland cancer (SGC) is a distinct but heterogeneous group of malignancies comprising approximately 6.5% of cases within head and neck cancer . This makes it a rare cancer, with an estimated age-standardized annual incidence of less than 2/100.000 in most countries . The most recent World Health Organization classification of Head and Neck Tumours distinguishes 22 histopathological subtypes of SGC, which makes each subtype even rarer . Recognition of, and differentiation between these different subtypes is notoriously difficult and different subtypes exhibit different clinical features adding up to the comp...
ConclusionsWe are the first that have successfully developed and characterized long-term organoid cultures for ACC and SDC. These organoid cell lines will facilitate pre-clinical and pharmacological studies. Other SGC organoid cultures do not grow infinitely, but do provide an in vitro model to study different treatments during initial growth.Legal entity responsible for the studyRadboud University Medical Center.FundingDutch Salivary Gland Cancer Patient Platform.DisclosureAll authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
In conclusion, our data showed that pan-Trk IHC is a reasonable screening test for diagnosing secretory carcinoma of the salivary gland.
In this study, we added 11 years of follow-up (1958-2009), used improved radiation dose estimates, considered effects of smoking and alcohol consumption and performed dose-response analyses by anatomical sub-site. In examining 52 years'worth of data, we ascertained the occurrence of 394 oral cavity/pharyngeal cancers, 486 esophageal cancers and 5,661 stomach cancers among 105,444 subjects. The radiation risk for oral cavity/pharyngeal cancer, other than salivary gland, was elevated but not significantly so. In contrast, salivary gland cancer exhibited a strong linear dose response with excess relative risk (ERR) of 2.54 pe...
Myoepithelial carcinoma (MEC) is an extremely rare salivary gland malignancy accounting for 1% of all salivary gland cancers [1 –4]. MEC has long been reported as a low grade malignancy with indolent clinical behaviour and good long-term survival . These tumours have been reported to arise from a number of organs viz. major and minor salivary gland, breast, airway, etc [1,6,7]. Irrespective of sub-site, surgical resecti on is considered as corner stone of therapy. Even after surgical resection recurrence has been reported, and this highlights an aggressive group of MEC and a plausible benefit of adjuvant therapy.
Abstract Although salivary gland cancers comprise only ∼3-6% of head and neck cancers, treatment options for patients with advanced-stage disease are limited. Because of their rarity, salivary gland malignancies are understudied compared to other exocrine tissue cancers. The comparative lack of progress in this cancer field is particularly evident when it comes to our incomplete understanding of the key molecular signals that are causal for the development and/or progression of salivary gland cancers. Using a novel conditional transgenic mouse (K5:RANKL), we demonstrate that Receptor Activator of NFkB Ligand (...
Conclusions: TLG on restaging FDG-PET predicted PFS and OS in patients with RSGC; patients with predicted poor outcome may benefit from alternate, escalated treatment strategies. Multivariate analysis of clinicopathological and imaging parametersParameterPFS HR (95.0% CI)PFS p-valueOS HR (95.0% CI)OS p-valueHistologic subtype, Adenocarcinoma vs. Non-adenocarcinoma2.27 (1.33- 3.89)0.0031.60 (0.91-2.80)0.09TMTV1.01 (0.99-1.012)0.081.00 (1.00-1.011)0.14TLG1.00 (1.00-1.001)

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Quite new to thunkable and building an webapp - My question is, how does a webapp handle local data sources? Where is it stored? I think I understand this for a device app, but not a web app.
My app does not have a login. An easy example would be a user navigating to the app. Then adding food to a shopping list which is linked to a local data dable through thunkable.
In a webapp, where is that stored? will it work for each user?
A Local Data Source is stored in your app whether it is a mobile app or a web app. Local Data Sources are accessed by your app as a shared resource to all users unless you implement a sort of filtering to view specific rows to specific users.
So if I for instance have a local data source called “Profile” where users create a profile Name / Age (example). They press save, and insert new rows into the Profile data source.
Is that data that was inserted, local and viewable to them? or will someone going to the web app on a different device / location see the profile they have inserted?
That is a tricky question but for a web app users will share the Profile local source but for a mobile app each user will have a separate data source of his/her own.
You’re building a webapp intended to be used on desktops/laptops or on mobiles?
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Paxful, a reputable P2P cryptocurrency exchange, has suspended its operations. The exchange was a prominent player in the market due to its high trading volume.
The decision was announced by the company’s founder and CEO, Ray Youssef, who attributed the suspension to regulatory challenges in the industry and the departure of key personnel.
The announcement was made via the official website of Paxful. In his official statement, Youssef emphasized the importance of safeguarding user security and recommended exploring self-custody alternatives and alternative trading platforms during the current uncertain period.
The statement read,
This will probably come as a big shock to many. While I cannot share the full story now, I can say that we unfortunately have had some key staff departures. Also, regulatory challenges for the industry continue to grow, especially in the peer-to-peer market and most heavily in the U.S. While we work through these issues, we have taken the most secure option and ask you to explore self-custody and trade elsewhere.
Customers of the P2P exchange had received a message from the founder, who also stated that Paxful might not resume operations again.
All Users’ Funds Are Accounted for, Paxful Ensures
Youssef has reassured users that all their funds are secure and accounted for and that the Paxful Wallet will be available for customers to retrieve their funds safely. Ray has recommended self-custody options such as Exodus Wallet and Muun Wallet to simplify this process.
For non-U.S. users, Paxful is offering an effortless migration to other platforms, including Noones, a new P2P exchange operating in Global South, and Bitnob, a platform that will carry out easy access to Bitcoin for Africans.
According to Ray Youssef, Noones offers lower trading fees, affordable wallets, a superior affiliate program to Paxful, and an efficient KYC process.
This has depicted the exchange’s commitment to the security and convenience of its users during a period of ambiguity. Youssef quoted:
The Paxful Wallet will be up for customers to retrieve their funds. Right now, safeguarding customer funds is my biggest priority.
Increased Regulatory Challenges In The US
With the recent suspension of Paxful’s marketplace, regulatory scrutiny over the cryptocurrency industry, especially in the U.S., has increased. This highlights the significance of self-custody for investors and emphasizes the necessity of having trustworthy and secure P2P cryptocurrency exchanges that can deal with regulatory challenges while safeguarding customers’ funds.
In February, LocalBitcoins, a competitor of Paxful and a company with a decade of experience in the cryptocurrency exchange market, announced its decision to shut down operations.
The company cited market conditions as an important reason for its decision to cease operations. In response to this development, Ray Youssef sent a message welcoming all users of LocalBitcoins to Paxful.


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I’ve written occasionally my whole life, mostly just for school or work, and didn’t really get into it seriously (subjectively speaking) until I came back from Britain to Florida in 2008 and used writing as therapy to deal with some personal issues I’d been facing.
While taking an English course at Manatee Community College, I was exposed to Ginsberg, Plath, and Tim Dorsey for the first time, and they inspired me to start writing poetry and stories, or at least something resembling that.
Then I found Everypoet.net, Myspace blogs, and Literotica, and posted a few pieces for the fuck of it, and things snowballed from there.
I met other writers from all over the world and was subsequently encouraged to submit to literary mags, some of which actually published me, and I had over 300 subscribers to my blogs at one point and would end up getting over a million page hits and thousands of comments, emails, and even some threats of physical violence from humans, vampires, Canadians, and aliens from other galaxies.
The most fun I had was probably getting into BTR online radio shows with 10K poets, Yossarian Hunter, Nick and Dan, Murphy Clamrod, Hijack Flash, Sigerson, Pantifesto, and, most of all, probably the best friend I made throughout the whole thing, Frankie Metro.
Around late 2010, as Myspace and Everypoet started to die, and my hatred of Facebook grew (oh, its sterility and conformity!) I decided to step back from social media and writing and got the fuck out of my gulf-side apartment where I’d been taking too many prescription meds and drinking too much and masturbating and being on the computer too much and decided to go travel the world more before I die, the earth dies, or we all blow up.
I’ve sporadically written since then, posting shit occasionally to the blog “The Meth Lab” I ran for a while with Mr. Metro and every so often sending out a harassing submission to some lit mag or another.
It recently came to my attention that Myspace removed their blog function in favor of shitty music pages no one looks at and that Everypoet also got rid of their blogs, effectively wiping much of my archive off the internet.
While I’m sure this makes some people happy, I feel it’s my duty to still harass, annoy, disappoint and amuse whomever might be goggling subjects like aliens, baboons, and buttsex, so I decided, for the fuck of it, and 7 or 8 years entirely too late, to put together a simple E-Book compilation of all my best (or worst) known pieces, re-edit some, add a few pics, and have it all one place.
In this compilation is stuff from 2008-2017, divided into categories of description, with a few unreleased pieces (that were wisely rejected by editors- the best rejection I got being from Jersey Devil Press, reminding me their submission guidelines outlaw stories involving rape, even that of cats! Touché!). I’ve also included one new and a couple fairly new pieces.
I doubt anybody is going to read or give a shit at this point, but, if you do, please download this, read it and like it, share with friends, your blog, on Torrents or wherever.
And THANK YOU for checking this out, for reading my blogs, publications and for finding my spot on the net. Out of the petabytes of info out there in the abyss of the net, I’m honored you came across mine.
And for those who don’t like it, it’s free, so go fuck yourselves! But thanks for reading anyway. Seriously.
Much love to everyone, my cat, the aliens, and all the hookers. RESPECT!


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Delicious soy-free vegan blueberry muffins? Yep, it’s totally possible!
OK, bear with me, y’all.
I’m not vegan. I’m not even vegetarian, although I’m trying to have more of my meals be meatless. And hey, I have friends who are vegan, so I figure I need to learn how to cook foods they can enjoy too.
These muffins came into being because it was my turn to bring treats for one of our training sessions at work. I wanted to make a muffin that was not only vegan, but could be made using ingredients I already had in my house, which meant no soy substitutes. I already knew to use coconut oil for the butter, flax and water for the egg, but what about the milk? I put the call out on Twitter for a soy-free, vegan muffin recipe and got a lot of great responses, but most of them were also for gluten-free muffins or recipes that used other alternative milks like almond milk.
Finally, one friend told me he often uses flax and water to substitute for milk. Awesome! Since I already was planning to use this combo it was the perfect solution. Because the substitution is thicker than milk, I was a bit worried about how these would turn out — often vegan muffins are flat and dry — but they were fantastic!
The muffins taste best right after they come out of the oven, of course, but they hold up fairly well for a few days if stored in an air-tight container. Looking at these the flax is obvious, but they don’t taste like OMG flax!, unlike a certain frozen waffle I’ve had before. Plus my kid happily ate them, and that automatically makes it a win!
You can make these even more healthy by swapping in white whole-wheat flour, but keep in mind that additional liquid might be needed.
You can see in my original photo, above, that I created the recipe with regular blueberries. You can use standard blueberries if you like, but the smaller wild blueberries are my recommendation now. They distribute more evenly within the batter, helping to create a tender texture.
Love this recipe? Please leave a 5-star review below! It means so much when you enjoy my recipes, so let me know how it goes and leave a comment if you have any questions.
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup flax meal
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups wild blueberries
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a 12-cup muffin tin with papers, or grease with canola oil spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together water and flax meal and let rest for about 5 minutes to thicken. Add sugar and coconut oil and whisk to combine.
- In another bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt, then add to wet ingredients.
- Toss the berries in 1 tablespoon flour and mix into batter.
- Bake for 18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
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This post was updated March 13, 2015
Disclaimer: I was sent the coconut oil I used in this recipe from Tropical Traditions. I was under no obligation to post reviews or recipes using this product.
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Protective orders are designed to provide victims with a measure of legal protection against their offenders. This may not seem like it’s enough, though, if your offender makes indirect threats toward you, shows up near your place of work, or harasses family members.
If you believe that you have experienced a violation of a protective order in Texas, then you can take action. You are not alone in the fight against your offender, and I will unpack the steps you can take to help increase your level of protection.
Action to Take When There is a Protective Order Violation
You can protect yourself and other affected family members by taking the following steps.
– Call the police. If you feel severely threatened or in danger, especially if family violence is involved, then you should call 911 or local helplines to find immediate assistance.
– Always make sure you have the Protective Order with you. If you report a violation of the protective order and the police come to your home, you should be ready to produce the documentation if asked.
Also, it’s a good idea to keep the order with you in case you need to flee from your offender and find a safe place. This way, you can present the order to a police officer or another authority figure who can help you out until it’s safe to return home.
– Be prepared to follow your safety plan. You should prepare yourself and other family members (e.g., your children) to follow your safety plan if there is a serious situation. As part of your plan, you should develop a secret phrase, a safe place to meet if separated, and other signals to help you during an incident.
– Gather evidence. You should attempt to gather as much evidence as possible about a potential violation of the protective order:
- Capture emails, phone calls, voice mails, text messages, social media posts, and other forms of communication (both directly to you and indirectly to others) about the violation.
- Make logs of when your offender was violent, attempted to be violent or committed another form of violation.
- Try to gather eyewitness accounts of the violation to support your claim.
This will help you present the best possible case to a judge when reviewing evidence of the violation to determine the next course of action to protect you from your offender.
– Enforce the original order. Sometimes the violation is not violent, and your offender could be trying to play games or try to get into your head as an attempt to get your attention.
If you believe that your offender is trying to skirt around the protective order, such as trying to reach out to friends and family about you or trying to follow your social media activity, then I can help you enforce the protective order.
As a family law attorney, I’ll work on your behalf to present the evidence and advocate on your behalf for the court to reinforce the terms of the order. In addition to this step serving as a strong reminder to your offender, this could also lead to necessary punishments.
Punishment When There is a Violation of a Protective Order
According to the Texas Family Code, there are multiple types of punishments that are designed to deter your offender from continuing to interfere in your life.
– A person who commits a basic violation of a protective order could be held in contempt of court. This carries a potential jail sentence of up to six months and/or a fine of up to $500.
– Repeat violations of a protective order could result in further charges, including a longer period of confinement and a larger fine.
– A person who violates the order by performing an act that is specifically prohibited by the order could be punished by a one-year jail sentence and a fine up to a $4,000 fine.
– If there is continued family violence after a protective order is issued, the offender could be prosecuted by a separate court. This could result in prosecution as a separate misdemeanor or felony offense. If convicted, your offender could be imprisoned for at least two years.
Because of the various punishments available for a violation of a protection order, it’s important to work with a family law attorney to fight on your behalf. I will pursue the strictest form of punishment allowed by law to provide you with the maximum protection that you need.
Find Support With a Violation of a Protective Order in Texas
I understand it’s difficult continuing to fight against your offender when you have already obtained a protective order. Let me stand in your corner to provide you with the legal support you need.
I practice family law exclusively so that I can provide the best legal support to my clients. I currently help individuals in Fort Bend County, Brazoria County, and Harris County find support with a violation of a protective order in Texas.
Do you live in one of these counties? Call my offices at 281-944-5485 or 979-267-7660 to discuss your case. I’m here to help.

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Alan Pardew will learn whether or not he has earned a stadium ban from the FA tomorrow.
The Newcastle United boss is due to face a Wembley commission and the FA will listen to his personal hearing before deciding on his fate.
Pardew headbutted David Meyler during Newcastle's 4-1 win over Hull City earlier this month.
He will be hoping that he is slapped with a touchline ban as opposed to being excluded from the stadium in all out ban.
Paul Ince suffered that fate earlier in the season when he hurled abuse and threatened officials.
However, Pardew has already been warned over his behaviour in January when verbally abusing Manuel Pellegrini.