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The initiative coincided with the Year of Giving.
Dubai Municipality is planning to relocate the second branch of its food bank and several fridges under the UAE Food Bank project to serve more beneficiaries, said Maitha Al Merri, a senior food grade hygiene officer, who is coordinating the activities.
“We are going to move the food bank in Al Bada’a to another area in Jebel Ali where there are more activities,” she said, referring to various food manufacturing units and warehouses in the area.
The second branch was opened next to the Canadian University of Dubai campus in Al Bada’a in October 2017 following the first one off Al Khail Road in Al Quoz in April 2017.
Al Merri said the municipality’s food banks are designed to be mobile so that they can be relocated as per requirements.
Many of the UAE Food Bank’s 80 fridges spread across mosques and supermarkets in Dubai will also be relocated, she said.
How does the UAE Food Bank work?
■ It has partnered with 40 food establishments and 13 charity organisations linked to the UAE Food Bank through an online system.
■ They upload the data when they have surplus food.
■ The food is collected by charity organisations either through food bank branches (canned, packaged products) or directly from food outlets (cooked meals and fresh produce).
■ The food is then distributed to disadvantaged workers, poor families and orphans.
Residents can also donate food through 80 fridges located in mosques and retail outlets across Dubai. Log on to Dubai Municipality’s website www.dm.gov.ae or call 800900 to find out the location of the fridges.
If you believe the rumours, vultures are circling Palm, eyes peeled for carrion. So can its latest smartphone save the company? We have a play to find out.
Once the dominating force in the smartphone arena, Palm has lost its way of late. Here at Pocket-lint we hated the Centro, didn't think much of the 500v and were only mildly impressed with the 700v back in 2007.
Fast forward 12 months to September 2008 and to cut to the chase, this is the best palm we've seen since the Handspring Treo. Why? Let me explain.
When it comes to the design, the Palm Treo Pro hits the nail on the head. iPhone like in its approach, the curved black glossy case is comfortable to hold, fits nicely in the hand and still manages to give you that "I do care about design" feel. Compared to previous devices from the company this is consumer through-and-through, even more so than the Palm Centro - the "consumer" model in the family.
The front splits the real estate between a QWERTY keyboard, panel of shortcut keys and a square 320 x 320 pixel resolution screen. The QWERTY keyboard is small and tight, with the keys spongy in their response, but on the whole it is easy to use and after half an hour we were typing with speed.
The number pad is coloured in white, contrasting against the black keys of the rest of the keyboard and, while only a small detail, makes finding the numbers in a dark room (i.e., presentation) easy, similar to the BlackBerry Curve. The shortcuts are mostly found sitting between the screen and the keyboard. Here you get the usual array of quick links to things like the calendar, mail, start bar and OK as well as hang-up and answer. There is also a d-pad for navigation.
Rather than opting for touch-sensitive buttons for the shortcut keys, Palm has done the sensible thing and opted for actual buttons and this means you know when you have pressed them. Not wanting to confuse the user too much, Palm has wisely added further shortcut keys on the side and top of the Palm Treo Pro. To one side is a volume switch, to the other a button for turning on/off Wi-Fi - a great little feature. The top features a mute button to save you looking for the option via a software menu and music fans get a 3.5mm headphone socket.
Of course all these buttons are in addition to the touchscreen that will be, alongside the QWERTY keyboard the main stay of your input usage.
The screen is responsive in use, although does occasionally suffer from the age old problem that affects most Windows Mobile devices - pressing that "x" icon in the corners of the screen. For these moments there is a stylus if your fingernails aren't chiselled to a fine point.
So the design is vastly improved, what about the tech specs?
The Palm Treo Pro is powered by a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM7201 processor which on the whole is nippy, but not as nippy as we would have liked. There have been quite a few times in our tests where we've had to wait a second longer than we perhaps wanted to. That's not to say that it was killer slow, it's just that it would have been nice if we never had to see the spinning multicoloured circle saying it was thinking about it.
On the connectivity front you get Wi-Fi for fast internet access around the home or office and HSDPA for when you are out and about. Internet browsing speeds, via Internet Explorer were fast on the Vodafone connection we tried the handset on, although our advice would be to download Opera Mini pronto.
Storage is supplied via microSD, not hot swappable, rather than in-built (you do get in-built, but only 256MB), while the Palm Treo comes with a 2-megapixel camera, GPS and AGPS with Google Maps for when you get lost.
On the software front, the Treo Pro hasn't really been messed around with Win Mob 6.1 too much. There are some tweaks here and there from Palm and users switching from HTC will notice a couple of familiar features like the drop down task menu that lets you close programmes without going back into them and the software interface when it comes to using the camera.
Palm has added a Google search bar so you can search from the Today screen and overall the Windows Mobile software is easy to use, well as far as you can say that about Windows Mobile 6.1.
Like an England qualifying game, somehow Palm has managed to pull something out of the bag with the Palm Treo Pro. Palm has struggled to create a device that we would actually want for a long time, however the Treo Pro goes a long way to change that.
A good looking design combined with a decent feature set in a device that doesn't try to be everything to everyone means that this is a Windows device we would happily recommend. This, like the Nokia E71, really takes the fight to RIM’s BlackBerry and its dominance of the QWERTY keyboard arena. It's been a long time coming, but this could just be Palm's saving grace.
Kylie Jenner, her daughter Stormi and best friend Jordyn Woods wore swimwear in vivid lime green on a recent beach vaycay.
‘Living Coral' might have officially been declared the colour of 2019, but unofficially, a very different shade is making its way onto the fashion radar.
Lime green has been flashing up on celebrity Instagram accounts for some time now, as some of the most famous faces in the fashion industry embrace the vivid neon hue. But how can you incorporate it into your wardrobe?
For the boldest of fashion followers, the obvious choice would be to channel Blake Lively or Nomzamo Mbatha and do head-to-toe green in an eye-wateringly vivid shade.
Lively, who was one of the earliest champions of the current trend, stepped out in a zesty suit and matching sweater back in August, igniting Hollywood's fascination with the trend.
While Mbatha was spotted in a lime zest dress by Toju Foyeh on the front page of the Sunday Tribune's Christmas issue.
If that feels a little too full on, make like DJ Zinhle, Boity and supermodels Ashley Graham and Kendall Jenner and opt for neon separates.
Zinhle recently posted a snap of herself in lime green tee paired with pants in a multi-coloured check on Instagram.
Graham caused a stir back in November when she debuted a pair of bright lime flared pants, while Boity paired a neon shirt with black pants for a rap performance.
Meanwhile, Jenner was seen wearing the shade more than once over the holiday period, ringing in the new year in a lime ruffled top paired with black pants.
One of my favorite nights of the year- @glamourmag WOTY? I can’t express how inspiring every single womans speech was!! My biggest take away - your voice is enough, make it heard and stand up for what you believe in the most. Special thank you to @csiriano for my incredible outfit!???
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really into green these days ? Happy New Year!
Since then, there have been several other celebrity lime incidents, including Victoria's Secret model Elsa Hosk's mini dress (toned down with a black jumper and Doc Martens) and Kylie Jenner's lime green swimwear (she also dolled up her best friend Jordyn Woods and daughter Stormi in the shade).
Bella Hadid has shown her appreciation for all things neon with a knitted vest, and Rita Ora has been snapped combining trends in a neon animal print bikini. There has never been a better time to indulge your inner green-eyed monster.
Brattleboro Savings and Loan President and CEO Dan Yates has been serving on a state subcommittee to explore taxation and regulatory policy for legalizing recreational marijuana — a policy change he thinks will be inevitable.
This interview is adapted from the Dec. 5 broadcast of Green Mountain Mornings on WKVT-AM and is published with the station’s permission. Host Olga Peters was for many years the senior reporter at The Commons. The show airs daily from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. To hear audio of the show on demand, visit the show’s Soundcloud page at soundcloud.com/wkvtradio.
BRATTLEBORO—Dan Yates, president and CEO of Brattleboro Savings and Loan, serves as a member of the Taxation and Regulation Subcommittee of the state’s Marijuana Commission, which is looking into legalizing marijuana in Vermont.
I find it fascinating. When we talk about legalizing marijuana — and it does look like the state is moving in that direction — we pay attention to very important things like impairment and prevention and regulation.
But for Yates, who is heading up a bank, he is stuck in a tricky kind of gray area between state law and federal law, because even if the state should regulate marijuana, the federal government still sees it as illegal — and the feds govern a lot of what banks can and cannot do, and what kind of services they provide.
Olga Peters: So, Dan, what is your greatest concern as someone who is managing the bank right now, if Vermont were to go forward with legalizing?
Dan Yates: I think the biggest challenge for Brattleboro Savings and Loan, as well as all the other banks and credit unions in Vermont, is the fact that at the federal level marijuana is a controlled substance. It is illegal and, therefore, as a federally insured financial institution, we are technically prohibited from engaging in any business that is considered illegal.
And one of the things that most concerns the federal government about this industry, aside from its concern with relations to health issues, is where organized crime fits in and how this industry is used for the purpose of laundering money.
O.P.: Which, I have to say, just kind of blows my mind, because as a layperson I’m thinking, Well, if marijuana is legal in Vermont, how could you possibly launder money if it’s legal money? But you’re right. There are forces outside Vermont that could potentially come to bear.
D.Y.: Absolutely, as some of the studies that we’ve read in places like Colorado talk about the volume of business and the fact that it is right now a cash business because of the inability to get banking services. You hear about retailers who have vaults filled with cash.
Now, as banks begin to think about offering these services because of guidance that has been provided by the federal regulators, there is always the risk that it’s more than the cash generated from the sale of recreational marijuana that’s going to find its way into the system to try and be laundered as legitimate.
O.P.: When you say services, you mean everything from providing a bank account to providing a loan. And one of the risk to banks is if you, say, lend money to a new marijuana business. And then if the feds decide that business is shady, for whatever reason, they can seize its assets, which then of course leaves the bank holding the bag.
D.Y.: So to speak. Exactly. The federal government can come in and seize the assets, which typically would be the collateral the bank would take to secure the loan. Now the bank is facing [being unable to recover its assets from] a business that has been put out of business. No secondary source of repayment will go against the assets that it held as collateral, and the bank would be looking at potentially significant losses.
O.P.: — empire. There you go. This is an industry that has been running underground and technically has the opportunity to come to light and legitimize. You worry about the feds, but what are some of the other issues you’re trying to watch and pay attention to?
D.Y.: Well, as I think about the legalization of recreational marijuana, I compare that to, say, liquor and think back to Prohibition, when it, too, was an underground industry. And while certainly there were legal distillers in places like Canada, Mexico, and other parts of the world, there was a huge amount of bootlegging going on.
So you also begin to think about the potential risks to the health of the consumer. Consider your bathtub gin. What was that, anyway?
O.P.: Stuff that burned your eyeballs out, basically.
D.Y.: I’m sure, among other things. And so, when I think about the marijuana business, one of the advantages I see to legalizing at the state level and — ultimately, I think — at the federal level will be quality controls.
Will you have an agency like the Department of Liquor Control assume responsibility for this industry where they can manage the levels of THC [tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive chemical component of marijuana] in the various products that are produced? Who are the producers?
We really need to make sure that it is a well-regulated and -licensed industry.
O.P.: What do you feel is really important for people to understand right now about legalization in Vermont?
D.Y.: I think the important thing for people to understand is that the governor, through the appointment of this commission and the subcommittees, has taken both a very pragmatic approach and a very structured approach to the question of legalizing recreational marijuana. My personal opinion is that it will happen.
The governor wants to make sure that it happens in a manner that is as safe as possible, as secure as possible. So he’s really charged the commission and the subcommittees to look at health issues, taxation, regulation, safety.
In states where recreational marijuana has been legalized, studies have shown the increase in traffic fatalities where THC has been present in the victims of those accidents. It makes sense that somebody who is smoking marijuana and perhaps in combination with alcohol may be more likely to be involved in an accident than somebody who isn’t.
I think that the ideal outcome of this commission is to find a way to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana.
D.Y.: Well, that’s a big risk for us, because part of it depends on the mood at the U.S. Justice Department.
D.Y.: And also with the regulatory agencies — whether it’s the FDIC, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, the National Credit Union Administration — there are still significant risks to the banks.
For example, Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote a memorandum back in 2014 about banks engaging in this business saying that if banks follow the guidance that has been provided by the regulatory agencies, the DOJ may choose not to prosecute.
They’re not saying that they won’t.
And the risks are great — again, related to the money laundering aspect. We could face fines of up to half a million dollars. And somebody in the bank could go to jail for 20 years.
Personally, I’m disinterested in spending time in prison. Nor am I interested in any of my employees spending time in prison as a result.
O.P.: Right. And, however, on the other side of the coin just to play devil’s advocate, there is also a pretty good chance that marijuana will be a revenue generator for the state.
D.Y.: Absolutely. That’s the reality of it. Like alcohol, like tobacco — and it doesn’t matter what your personal feelings are on those substances, they generate tax revenue. The Department of Liquor Control for the state of Vermont contributes roughly $25 million to the general fund, once all of the expenses have been covered.
O.P.: We are a small state. We are a small county, and we are a county that borders two other states. Have you been able to give thought to how the bank may be impacted going down the road, depending on what Massachusetts or New Hampshire does?
D.Y.: We have thought about that, particularly, because, as you know, Massachusetts passed a legalization bill last year. It wasn’t passed at the legislative level; it was a referendum on the part of the voters.
So the state is struggling with how to implement the sale of recreational marijuana. In the meantime, you are allowed a certain number of plants to be grown in your own home for your own consumption. However, once they’ve figured out how they’re going to manage the public sale of marijuana, we’ll have to look at that and, you know, where might the closest shop be and might they want to bank with us.
O.P.: When I hear the folks from the state talk about impacts from other states, they’re really looking at tourism as something they would have to consider for people coming from outside Vermont. I think this is just because so many of them are in the Montpelier and Burlington area. Because [in the Brattleboro area] we share our workforce and the labor market with two other states, you’re right. You might have a shop in Greenfield that could potentially approach you.
D.Y.: Absolutely. We will provide banking services to businesses outside of Windham County, whether they’re in Franklin County, Mass. or in Cheshire County, N.H. So it really depends upon location and what the bank is willing to do. It drives whether or not someone banks with us.
O.P.: I realize that the subcommittee’s in the early stages of its work, but it seems like there’s a lot more uncertainty with all these intricacies than there is yes-we-know-how-we’re-going-to-move-forward-with-this. Is that just because the work is so new, or is it just because there are that many unknowns around marijuana?
D.Y.: I would say it’s both. The governor signed his executive order in September, the subcommittees had their first meetings at the end of September, beginning of October, and we’re meeting pretty regularly. A couple of times every month I’m up in Montpelier.
And as we dig into this issue, we find that there’s more and more that has to be thought through, that it’s not simply a matter of well-this-makes-sense-so-let’s-do-it-and-we’ll-figure-out-how-to-get-all-the-pieces-together-afterwards.
O.P.: And does your subcommittee have a milestone, like a report that’s due?
D.Y.: All the subcommittees do have milestones or deliverables. And, on January of 2018, each of the three subcommittees is expected to provide at least their initial reports to the commission.
But the work goes on. We have another deadline in December of 2018. So I think one thing that people should not expect is that this is all going to be done in 2018. I think it’s probable that it will take longer.
I think, again, people should be patient. There are a lot of dedicated people working very hard at this. So stay tuned.
O.P.: How helpful has it been to look at other states like Colorado that have legalized marijuana?
D.Y.: It’s been helpful for the Health Subcommittee, and it’s been helpful for the Subcommittee on Safety. Not so much when I think about it from the banking standpoint. I have yet to find a bank that provides banking services, either in Washington or Colorado. I continue to search, and contact colleagues in those states.
I think really the answer for us in Vermont is if the banks and credit unions come together and agree upon an approach to providing banking services that are uniform.
One reason is safety in numbers. If we’re all willing to provide these services, it’s less likely that we’re going to run afoul of the federal government.
Two, if we all come together with uniform services, we can minimize the risk that we’re afraid of now, which is, will organized crime or other bad apples use our banking system for nefarious purposes?
O.P.: Thank you, Dan. It does sound to me as we’re talking that the state is working really hard to come up with a system that works for Vermont, even if it takes time.
D.Y.: Absolutely. And I think it’s a commonsense approach.
Originally published in The Commons issue #439 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017). This story appeared on page D1.
"I am informed by the Fuhrer for the first time that the big rocket bomb weighs 14 tons. This, of course, is a devastating murder weapon. I suspect that when the first projectiles plunge down into London, the English public will panic."
"The employment of this weapon represents a new effort by the enemy to shake the morale of our civilian population. In doing so, they have false hopes of preventing the threatened defeat on the field by that means."
Near the end of World War II, Germany used "vengeance weapons" (Vergeltungswaffe) against the Allies to strike terror into civilian populations and disrupt military operations. V-weapons could not be used effectively to strike with precision or support advancing troops -- they were terror weapons that could only hamper Allied operations behind the front and affect civilian morale. V-weapons included the self-guided V-1 Buzz Bomb and the V-2, the world's first rocket-powered long-range ballistic missile.