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Right tackle Lane Johnson, who missed the first meeting with Dallas because of an MCL sprain, has played every game since. |
Many wealth managers believe dynamic equity funds are a good bet. |
Broad indices also continue to trade at a premium to long term average valuations. |
There is much talk of a recovery in corporate earnings. Broad indices also continue to trade at a premium to long term average valuations. Given these conditions, many wealth managers believe dynamic equity funds are a good bet. |
1. How is a dynamic equity fund different from a diversified fund? |
Most diversified equity mutual fund schemes are fully invested in stocks as per their mandate and do not take any cash calls. Dynamic equity funds invest in a mix of debt and equity. They increase/ decrease their allocation to equities and debt depending on their view of the stock markets. Typically, when stock markets... |
2. Why do many financial planners recommend these to first-time equity investors? |
Many first-time equity investors are not used to volatility in the equity markets. They are moving money from fixed deposits to equities. In case the markets were to correct, a portfolio with a mix of debt and equity would face lower volatility than a pure equity fund portfolio. This would give them a better experience... |
3. What are the pros and cons of such funds? |
Dynamic equity funds automatically rebalance portfolios and hence it is recommended for first-time equity investors. If the market was to enter a corrective mode, dynamic funds with a lower allocation to equities could see a lower erosion in their net asset value (NAV) as compared to a pure equity fund. Since dynamic e... |
4. How are these funds treated from a taxation perspective? |
One huge advantage of these dynamic funds is that they are structured in such a way that they are taxed as equity funds for investors. Most funds when they lower their exposure to equities, ensure that the equity plus arbitrage component of the scheme is at least 65 per cent of the corpus, which helps it qualify for eq... |
What is a dynamic equity fund? |
Canada's first national umbilical cord blood bank is expected to get underway in 2013 with $48 million in government funding through this decade, health ministers announced. |
Canada's first national umbilical cord blood bank is expected to get underway in 2013 with $48 million in government funding through this decade, health ministers said Monday. |
Cord blood remains in the umbilical cord after birth. It contains stem cells that can be used to regrow blood and bone-marrow cells, and to treat diseases such as leukemia and some immune disorders. |
Monday's funding announcement by provincial and territorial health ministers aims to fill a 2007 call for a national, taxpayer-supported approach. |
"Something that's otherwise medical waste has the opportunity to save a life," said Sue Smith, executive director of OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network at Canadian Blood Services (CBS) in Halifax. |
The blood agency will develop and manage the cord blood bank. |
"This is a game changer for Canadian patients. It allows us to really target the unique needs that Canada has." |
Provinces and territories have long recognized the need for a public bank, said Nova Scotia Minister of Health and Wellness in announcing the investment. |
There are currently more than 800 people who need a stem cell transplant in Canada, Smith noted. |
It is estimated about 70 per cent of patients who require a stem cell transplant must look outside their families for a match and have the best chance of finding it within their own ethnic group. A national, public umbilical cord blood bank will improve the chance of finding high-quality cord blood for patients, accord... |
"Every year, I still encounter children even with the existing cord blood banks that I can't find a donor for," said Dr. John Doyle, who specializes in blood and marrow transplantation at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. |
"I'm hoping by us going to our own community to get cord bloods that I will be able to find a donor for those children." |
The national plan will be implemented over eight years, starting next month in Ottawa. It aims to bank 20,000 cord blood units, and will include two accredited cord blood stem cell labs and a collections network across Canada, CBS said. |
The approval includes a fundraising campaign by the blood agency that aims to build national support for the bank. The three-year campaign aims to raise $12.5 million of the investment. |
Parents will be able to choose to donate their children's umbilical cords anonymously to a public umbilical cord blood bank, making their donations available for any patient in need. |
Over the next two years, the blood agency will develop procedures to build the bank, and a cord blood stem lab will be established in Ottawa. |
The project will then expand to collect cord blood in Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton hospitals. At that point, people will be able use special kits to donate and send cord blood to their nearest centre. |
Quebec runs its own cord blood banking program through Héma-Québec. |
Since stem cells from cord blood are more flexible than bone marrow, the match between donor and recipient does not have to be as close. |
In 2007, experts said a representative sample of 10,000 donations from the country's diverse population would probably be enough for use in Canada and international recipients when there is a match. |
Canada has 10 private cord blood banks, which offer to store frozen cord blood for years for use by a child's own family. The companies charge about $1,000 up front, and another $100 or so annually to store the cord blood. |
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and the American Academy of Pediatrics do not routinely recommend private cord blood banking. |
Participants in a previous Breckebeiner 60k. |
On March 18, the Breckenridge Nordic Center will host the 15th annual Breckebeiner 60K. The event runs from 3-8 p.m. New to the event this year is a dinner and candlelight ski. |
Fundraising teams or individuals were able to start showshoeing and skiing on March 11 to reach their kilometer goal. During the event, 6K Nordic loops, as well as a 3K showshoe loop, will be marked. There is a 1K snowshoe loop for children and families, and a treasure hunt at 4 p.m. Registration forms can be found at ... |
Tonight’s the night: HBO’s gripping and evasive miniseries Big Little Lies delivers its grand finale. We’ll learn—presumably—the identity of the person whose death propels the retrospective murder mystery. Hopefully we’ll see justice for Celeste, Jane, and Ziggy. And Madeline—will she commit to her marriage or seek hap... |
A confession: I know the answers to these questions because a writing assignment afforded me the opportunity to watch the finale in advance. But I am nonetheless excited to witness everyone else’s reactions! |
First, here is Jezebel’s own Bobby Finger: he argues that the way people have written about the show reveals how we struggle to talk productively about abuse. |
Over at ELLE, I wrote about how Monterey’s culture of surveillance has devastating impacts on female intimacy, particularly as evidenced in the friendship shared by Jane, Madeline, and Celeste. |
Lara Zarum at Flavorwire explores how Big Little Lies’ “schoolyard drama” runs parallel to the adults’ conflicts, demonstrating the complex entanglement of violence and desire. |
Emily Nussbaum, television critic for the New Yorker, composed a lovely, perceptive review of the show. |
Vulture ranked its favorite murder theories according to plausibility. |
Alexander Skarsgård spoke to Vanity Fair about his role as the villainous Perry Wright. |
While you’re watching tonight, I endorse following the razor-sharp live-tweets of Tom + Lorenzo. They are brilliant and hilarious, and their observations will enhance your viewing pleasure, I assure you. |
In the meantime, let’s sign off with “Cold Little Heart,” by Michael Kiwanuka. As you likely know, it’s the song from the show’s opening credits. It has also become the default soundtrack to my life because, after listening to the song ad infinitum, it shows no sign of vacating my brain anytime soon. Perhaps some of yo... |
Have fun tonight, darlings, and take it away in the comments! |
Nature teaches us a lot about what it takes to survive in the world. If only we’d listen. |
As I watch the snow fall outside my window, I can’t help but be impressed. This perfect snow clumps on the tree branches, building a forest of white. |
But branches can only take so much weight. What happens when the snow becomes too much? |
This is where nature’s amazing architecture comes into play. Nature has a simple solution to the weight of the world — and it’s one we can all learn from. |
The branches fill up with snow. When it becomes too much, the branch gently bends, relieving itself of the snow and its weight. The branch, we could say, is practicing resilience. |
Nature has considered all the possibilities of life, and built in mechanisms to ensure that things survive. It brings snow to the trees, and the trees bend to the weight of snow, allowing no real harm to come to them. |
Nature has built these same mechanisms into us, too. We just don’t always recognize or use them. |
Some of us are more resilient than others, but we all have reserves of resilience deep inside of us. Here’s how to better tap it. |
The more you know yourself, the better you understand where you’re strengths lie — and your weaknesses. If you don’t understand yourself, you’re less able to handle stress or problems in life. If you face a problem in life and are confident in your own abilities, you know that the obstacle you face in life can be overc... |
Too many times we spend time wishing things were different. Some people spend a lot of time and energy railing against the unfairness of life. But often things are simply the way they are in life and we may not be able to change it. Accepting that — and that most feelings related to unhappiness or obstacles in life are... |
Research shows that people who have gone through [adverse] events experience less impairment and distress than someone who’s gone through no adverse events, or someone who’s been through very traumatic events. Don’t hide from adversity — embrace it, in moderation. It will help you hone your coping skills further and be... |
Adversity not only helps us build our coping skills, it also helps us put things into perspective. A person who hasn’t experienced any adversity in their life is going to have an especially hard time when the first event hits them, especially if it’s not until later in adulthood. |
Learn to be more grateful for what you’ve got in life. Resilient people remember that things could always be worse. Things we often take for granted — food, clean water, shelter, Internet access at our fingertips — are things much of the world doesn’t have. |
Some people get stressed out every time they have to wait in line, or wait a few moments in order to get one of their needs met. Stress caused by impatience chips away at your overall happiness little by little, so much so that it can go unnoticed. But being impatient also reduces your ability to focus on what’s really... |
Resilient people never close themselves off to new ideas or new ways of being. If you’re the kind of person who says “No” to everything, then everything will pass you by. Become the person who says “Yes” instead, and try out new things — even those things that you’ve decided you didn’t like in the past. Our tastes chan... |
As I said back in 2011, our social relationships bolster us. They appear to provide us a buffer against stress, especially our close friends. It helps to be able to share our trials and tribulations with those trusted souls who understand us best. |
Resilient people reach out when they are in trouble. They don’t reach out to strangers, but to those most trusted and who understand our history, perspective, and resources. Resilient people don’t shun help — they accept it with open arms understanding that no one can overcome every problem on their own. |
One of things that drive resilient people is the knowledge that virtually every problem in life has a solution, even if it’s not obvious at first. This doesn’t mean you have to search endlessly (and stress yourself out) looking for that solution. It means instead that a resilient person knows that if they tap their res... |
If you want to be happier, turn to nature. Be more like nature, and learn to bend when confronted with life’s obstacles. Such as snow. |
REAL MADRID cannot afford Valencia's £55million valuation of midfielder Andre Gomes, according to reports. |
Real are frontrunners to sign Portugal international Gomes ahead of suitors Manchester United, Chelsea and Barcelona. |
The Euro 2016 winner only joined Valencia from Benfica last summer but his performances in La Liga have caught the eyes of scouts. |
And Spanish newspaper AS claim Real are determined to secure a deal for Gomes but are struggling to raise the funds to meet Valencia's demands. |
As for Chelsea, manager Antonio Conte is also seeking midfield reinforcements and talk of a move for Roma's Radja Nainggolan has cooled in recent weeks. |
Chelsea signed Leicester's N'Golo Kante in a £32m deal on Saturday and have the funds to match United's spending power should a bidding war for Gomes ensue. |
Gomes started four games for Portugal during their successful Euro 2016 campaign this summer but lost his place for the final in Paris against France. |
MADISON, Ala. - No one in the Madison City Council disputes that Madison needs a new pool, and it would mean a lot to some 400 swimmers and their families. But there's still a question about how it's going to happen. |
Monday, the council explored possible solutions. |
Option 1 is a cover to go over Dublin Park's outdoor pool during the colder seasons. The project includes updated water heating. City Administrator to the Mayor Taylor Edge said this option would cost around $420,000. |
"We could literally start tomorrow," said council member Maura Wroblewski. |
"It's not a bad deal to solve a short-term 4-5 year problem by spending $400,000," commented Mayor Paul Finley. |
Option 2 is building a second indoor pool at Dublin as an extension of the building that exists now. This would cost $4,977,500. |
Option 3 is a new Aquatics Facility featuring 10-lane pool. The problem there: it would cost $10.5 million that the city and school board don't have. |
"It's a permanent solution for our swim community. That's the pro. The cons are purely financial," commented Edge. |
While Finley believes it's best to move forward with a less-expensive option until they have more time, and funds, to come up with longer-term options, council member Steve Smith said it's best to bite the bullet. |
"We don't need to just put a Band-aid over it," he said, "because a Band-aid won't fix anything. The Band-aid is going to be more costly long-term than spending the extra money now and getting it done the right way." |
There are lots more work to be done, and the council and board of education still need to come to a consensus about this issue after their discussion Monday. But they agree it's time to have this step forward, and these options were the right way to start. |
"We want the pool community and the swim community to know, we really are serious about helping them solve their problem," said Finley. |
The Environmental Protection Agency is hiring for ethics positions as its chief ethics official has grown more concerned about mounting reports of misconduct by Administrator Scott Pruitt. |
An agency spokesman on Tuesday confirmed to Government Executive the existence of a letter to the governmentwide Office of Government Ethics sent on June 27 from Kevin Minoli, deputy general counsel and designated agency ethics official, acknowledging multiple referrals of complaints about Pruitt’s behavior to the insp... |
The New York Times had reported on Saturday that Minoli had reversed an earlier stance largely defending Pruitt against such accusations as accepting inexpensive lodging from a lobbyist, overuse of first-class travel, and overspending on personal security. |
Minoli’s letter responding to concerns raised in a 2016 OGE program review and a letter this April by acting OGE chief David Apol also revealed that last summer’s hiring freeze had caused a depletion of EPA’s ethics office staff. Retirements and other temporary departures had reduced it to only one full-time employee, ... |
To handle the current expansion of issues being raised, he plans to rebuild it to six staffers. “These additional resources will focus on expanding the availability of ethics officials to provide ethics advice and increasing the support of [designated ethics officials] across EPA,” Minoli wrote. |
Pruitt, meanwhile, faces as many as 13 investigations between the IG and congressional committees, on issues such as his $43,000 sound-proof booth in his office and alleged use of agency staff to run personal errands. |
His issues have only grown in visibility. On Monday, CNN quoted former Pruitt operations deputy Kevin Chmielewski saying that Pruitt’s staffers regularly met to “scrub” the administrator’s calendar of any entries that might prove politically embarrassing. Some two dozen, meetings, events or calls were omitted, CNN esti... |
While Saturday’s nor’easter was impressive in the amount of rain that fell across the state; up to 1.56 inches in Fairfield and 1.50 inches in Hartford; as well as the wind gusts that topped off at 51 mph in New London and 47 mph in Greenwich; it was the coastal tidal flooding that was the most impressive. Moderate flo... |
Viper Networks Acquires Global Services International, Inc. |
TROY, Mich., March 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Networks, Inc. (OTC Pink:VPER), (Company), an international leader in the LED lighting products & integrated systems markets (Smart Cities), is pleased to announce that the Company has concluded negotiations to acquire 100% of Global Services International, Inc. (GS... |
Terms and conditions include an initial stock payment of 500 million restricted Viper Networks common shares and $10 million U.S. Dollars to be paid over the period of the current multiple GSI projects, which is estimated to be within 3 years. |
Headquartered in Chicago, Global Services International (www.GSI-Networks.com) is currently working on several public/private partnership LED Lighting Systems and Control Sensors projects throughout the State of Illinois. The Company’s estimated value of the collective projects total approximately $100 million annually... |
The Company will continue to update shareholders as milestones occur in its Smart City LED sector, as well as its new block chain division. |
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