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The dataset generation failed
Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 82
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 4084)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 82
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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The Ambience Act
In Gaming, Alexander Galloway argues that a theory of action for computer games requires at least two dimensions. Acts are either diegetic (set within the narrative of the game) or nondiegetic, and can be due either to the operator or the machine. Diegetic operator acts are probably what most people think of when they think of video games: grinding on a skateboard, shredding, stealing a car, rolling everything in the universe into a giant ball, or what have you. The operator acts in a nondiegetic way when he or she starts, pauses, saves or stops the game. The machine acts in a nondiegetic way by keeping score or declaring "game over" when the operator proves to be too stupid to live (diegetically).
Galloway's discussion of the fourth quadrant of this scheme, diegetic machine acts, is particularly interesting in its implications for digital history because it portrays worlds with change but without history. Here is his description of Yu Suzuki's game Shenmue.
One plays Shenmue by participating in its process. Remove everything and there is still action, a gently stirring rhythm of life. There is a privileging of the quotidian, the simple. ... When games like Shenmue are left alone, they often settle into a moment of equilibruium. Not a tape loop, or a skipped groove, but a state of rest. The game is slowly walking in place, shifting from side to side and back again to the center. It is running, playing itself, perhaps. The game is in an ambient state, an ambience act. Not all games have this action, but when they do, they can exist in an ambience act indefinitely. No significant stimulus from the game environment will disturb the player character. ... Things continue to change when caught in an ambience act, but nothing changes that is of any importance. No stopwatch runs down. No scores are lost. If the passage of time means anything at all, then the game is not in an ambient state. It rains. The sun goes down, then it comes up. Trees stir. These acts are a type of perpetual happening, a living tableau. ... The ambience act is the machine's act. The user is on hold, but the machine keeps on working. In this sense, an ambience act is the inverse of pressing Pause. While the machine pauses in a pause act and the operator is free to take a break, it is the operator who is paused in an ambience act, leaving the machine to hover in a state of pure process. [8-10]
One important role for computer games in education is as things to think with. Many researchers have focused on the kinds of lessons that gamers are implicitly or explicitly learning from the diegesis of particular games. Kurt Squire's work on historical simulation games like Civilization and Age of Empires is an excellent example.
As the ambience act of Shenmue shows, however, computer games can also serve as a laboratory for exploring ideas of change and history in nondiegetic ways. Setting aside the historical relevance of the Shenmue storyline, the game is still interesting because it clearly distinguishes between two kinds of events: those that can have consequences and those that cannot. When the operator is involved, choices and actions can make a difference later on, the score changes and it is possible for the game to end. In contrast, the ambience act is purely ahistorical. If characters aged while the game was idling, or could become sick or die, the game wouldn't really be idling. Allowing students to experience the contrast between game play and the ambience act might be one useful springboard for discussion of the myth of people without history in a historiographical or methodological seminar.
Tags: computer games | digital history | historical consciousness | history education | simulation
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When you are trying to get out of trouble, like the infamous Breakfast Club, it's better to do so with friends, colleagues or whatever motley "squad" you can muster. The scientists of the squad have alerted us to the fact that climate change means trouble if we don't band together in unexpected ways to solve it. Now universities, colleges, businesses, cities, states and more must figure out how to make change happen. We are all different and come from diverse backgrounds and specialties, but that is the kind of motley crew we need. As a new member of the UC3 expressed at the Vancouver Summit, when we "jump in" together, we have greater courage and stand a better chance of success. Plus, we like you guys. Thanks for jumping in on one of the most, if not the, most important challenges of our day.
UC3 Vancouver Summit Highlights
Climate crew feels were flying last week at the UC3 Summit in Vancouver hosted at the University of British Columbia, where presidents, sustainability staff and government officials gathered to collaborate on meeting climate commitments and align efforts to reduce emissions to keep global temperature rise under 2ºC.
The two-day event included interactive cross-sector planning for UC3 members, multilateral meetings with ministers from the BC area and UC3 presidents and President Napolitano's announcement of UC3's new "Research for Policy" platform with the release of a Carbon Pricing Policy guide for presidents. The Breakfast Club would have been proud.
Research for Policy Platform Overview
For an ultimate group project, the University Climate Change Coalition launched the Research for Policy Platform at the UC3 Vancouver Summit. The Platform is a joint research and development platform that will establish a unified set of principles and policies in order to directly support Higher Education Leaders in local, national and international 1.5 degree-aligned climate policy engagement.
Transitioning towards a net-zero emissions economy requires coordinated action across sectors and enabling policy frameworks. Universities are well positioned as anchor institutions to drive forward policy and goals at various levels of government that will help humanity address the current climate crisis in time.
Research for Policy Platform
Accelerate Action: Climate Emergency Declaration
When the crew goes global: Networks representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six continents came together to announce a Climate Emergency declaration earlier this month during the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative meeting as a part of the UN’s High-Level Political Forum in NYC. Some of the coverage included: LA Times, Times Higher Education, University World News.
One striking thing about this effort is the reminder of how unique the Climate Leadership Network is - its order of magnitude and more campuses committed to aggressive climate action than anywhere else in the world - which is an opportunity to scale. -Tim Carter, president of Second Nature.
There's still time to sign on to the letter. Ideally, the president or chancellor of respective institutions will sign on to this letter on behalf of the institution. However, if an institution has already committed to the outlined actions, any faculty or staff member of the institution can sign on to reiterate its pre-existing commitment.
Climate Emergency Letter
Calling for an Inconceivable 2020 Summit Cast of Presenters
The Summit Request for Proposals is open through September. Share with your president / faculty / staff colleagues and join us in Atlanta, February 23-25, 2020.
The 2020 Summit is the premier gathering of higher education leaders committed to driving our nation’s climate action. Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network are inviting the Climate Leadership Network and friends from all disciplines, backgrounds and perspectives to submit proposals for next-level conversations, workshops and concurrent sessions for the 2020 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit.
Higher Ed Highlights
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Lane Community College gets students involved in planning their latest Climate Action Plan "Lane has a strong commitment to becoming carbon neutral and to helping to educate the next generation of leaders about the importance of reducing greenhouse gases.
University of Cincinnati's partnership with Second Nature set the blueprint for impactful and integrated campus sustainability initiatives. Explore how the school incorporates the tenets of innovation and urban futures into the latest Climate Action Plan by clicking the button below.
UC3 member, the University of Toronto, recently published their 2019 Annual Report of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability (CECCS). Created in 2017, the CECCS has been advancing the understanding of sustainability as embracing environmental and human wellbeing, and the interactions between them. Check out the report to learn about the university's achievements integrating operational and academic sustainability.
UC3's New Higher Ed Carbon Pricing Brief
As its first product of the newly announced Research for Policy Platform, UC3 presents “The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Carbon Pricing: A Preliminary Briefing for University Leaders”.
UC3 convened subject matter experts from across North America to discuss Higher Education’s Role in Advancing Carbon Pricing. This preliminary brief includes a menu of options for college and university leaders who want to engage on this issue internally on their campuses or externally with cross-sector partners. The full report is forthcoming later this fall.
Download the Brief
New Carbon Offset Resources Page
Carbon Offsets Resources
We have significant interest from campuses, especially those with rapidly approaching carbon neutrality dates, about carbon offsets. Many are familiar with our C2P2 program where we sell campus offsets, but there is also a lot of other activity in the space. Therefore, we've created a new online portal where these resources can be accessed all together and which you can find here.
Large-Scale Renewable Energy Resources
Renewable Resources Page
Three new LSRE resources exclusively for signatories in the Climate Leadership Network are now available on the Second Nature website. We are providing a set of renewable energy resources for campuses, developed by Second Nature Clean Energy Fellow Will Elmore. It includes guidance for institutions exploring large-scale renewable energy procurement and supports aggregations to move from the interest stage to the advisor RFP signing stage. To access the resources, email support@secondnature.org for password and visit our Renewable Energy Resources Page.
The Campus as City
The Chronicle has offered Climate Leadership Network members $20 off a print or digital copy of "The Campus as City." The discount code is CAMPUS20.
This Chronicle report examines the tensions and challenges of running a city within a city. With greater financial pressures bearing down on colleges, they can’t operate in isolation anymore: Partnerships with private companies, local agencies, and community groups are vital. The report explores creative new ways to deliver services, what it means to be a responsible anchor institution, and the deep collaborations that drive large-scale projects.
Climate Change and Human Health
Simmons University School of Nursing and Health Sciences recently published an article titled “A Clinician’s Role in Climate Change Awareness." The resource reviews the impacts that climate change has on human health, from respiratory implications to weather-related injury and illness. In addition to outlining these impacts, it also analyzes the role of health professionals in advocating for climate-related health policy. I believe this would be a valuable resource for your community to learn more about the greater health impacts of climate change.
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Online Tools are Making Sustainability Management in Higher Ed Easy
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Join this upcoming AASHE webinar with presenter and Climate Programs Senior Manager at Second Nature, Steve Muzzy. "Management of sustainability data in higher education has experienced an exciting evolution over the last few years. Whereas spreadsheets used to dominate, there are now a variety of online tools available to help institutions efficiently track, manage, and reduce their environmental impact while generating financial savings. Each of these tools fills an important niche. However, it can be challenging for energy management and sustainability professionals to determine where they fit into a campus’s sustainability management plans. Learn more.
Boston Event with Engie
Second Nature, Engie, Boston University, and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission are co-hosting a workshop today (7/31) in Boston with participants from numerous campuses. The focus is on energy services and also incorporates a "Bring Your Own Problem" session where participants will present a challenge that they are facing at their campus and then the other 8-10 people at the table will respond, saying how they would approach that particular challenge. Participants are coming from BU, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Clark, Emerson, Harvard, MIT, Mass Maritime, Northeastern, Ohio State, Pace, Smith, Tufts, and UMass-Boston, among others. Slides from the presentations can be available to campus representatives. Email Eric Howard at ehoward@secondnature.org to request slides.
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Call It What It Is and Then Do Something About It
In our most recent blog, Tim Carter, President of Second Nature, reflects on the climate emergency messaging
"I ran across a new term today: Crisification. It doesn’t show up in any online dictionary, and I’m honestly not sure it’s a real word, but it seems to refer to the act of framing something as a crisis that may otherwise exist as a “problem” or “issue.'"
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Roy Jones Jr.: “Usyk Beats Canelo Easy In My Opinion”
Posted on 12/26/2021By: Hans Themistode After carefully surveying the cruiserweight landscape, Oleksandr Usyk was proud of what he accomplished. From 2016-2019, Usyk successfully dethroned every cruiserweight world titlist. In the process, the Ukrainian star became an undisputed champion. With little left to accomplish, Usyk opted to try his hand at the heavyweight division. While his first two results resulted in lackluster wins over the likes of Chazz Witherspoon and Dereck Chisora, Usyk had everything clicking in his most recent appearance against Anthony Joshua. Though he was pegged as a sizable underdog, Usyk made oddsmakers eat their words as he went on to dominate the hulking former titlist to begin his own championship reign. In all likelihood, Usyk is heading towards an immediate rematch with Joshua during the first half of 2022. But while the pound-for-pound star is focused on proving that his win over Joshua was legitimate, he’s slowly but assuredly begun looking at his former weight class. In recent months, Canelo Alvarez has expressed his desire to become a cruiserweight world champion. Officially, the newly crowned undisputed super middleweight titlist will face the winner of the upcoming contest between WBC cruiserweight belt holder Ilunga Makabu and Thabiso Mchunu. Should Alvarez successfully nab another world title, Usyk revealed that he would be willing to return to a weight class that he once dominated. “I can fight him at cruiserweight,” said Usyk to BoxingInsider.com. While news of Usyk’s willingness to face Alvarez at the cruiserweight 200-pound weight limit sparked intrigue amongst fans, former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. believes a showdown between them would be an utter mismatch. “To me, Usyk is too big for Canelo,” said Jones Jr. during an interview with IFL TV. “Usyk beats Canelo easy in my opinion.” Although Jones Jr. suspects that Usyk would go on to dominate Alvarez due to their size difference, the newly inducted Hall of Famer believes Usyk’s success as a heavyweight would be untenable. To further back his claim that Usyk could be forfeiting future glory for immediate triumph, the former four-division champion points to recent history to further prove his point. “Usyk has no reason to come down and fight Canelo,” continued Jones Jr. “Usyk is the heavyweight champion of the world. Why would you go to cruiserweight, when you’re the heavyweight champion of the world? Look what happened when Chad Dawson went down from light heavyweight to fight Andre Ward at 168? That was the end of his career. Why would you do that to yourself?” Seemingly at the top of his game and after picking up notable wins against Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins as a light heavyweight, Chad Dawson willingly dropped down to the super middleweight division in 2012 to take on unified champion Andre Ward. Despite being a consistent fixture on numerous pound-for-pound lists, Dawson was thoroughly dominated as he was dropped three times and later stopped in the 10th round. Though Dawson would later return to the light heavyweight division, he was never quite the same. In his first appearance as a full-fledged light heavyweight since Ward, Dawson was brutally knocked out against Adonis Stevenson in the very first round. His career would continue to spiral downward as he registered losses to fringe contenders Tommy Karpency and Andrzej Fonfara. In a similar move, Jones Jr. also drastically moved up and down in weight nearly two decades ago. In 2003, after stopping Clinton Woods in the sixth round to defend his light heavyweight titles, Jones Jr. opted to move up to the heavyweight division to take on WBA champion John Ruiz. Although Jones Jr. did his best to not overload his body with too much weight, coming into his heavyweight debut at 193 pounds, his durability seemingly suffered soon after. Following his victory over Ruiz to capture a heavyweight world title, Jones Jr. stripped a considerable amount of muscle from his frame to return to the light heavyweight division. While he picked up a few wins here and there, Jones Jr. was no longer the pound-for-pound star most were accustomed to seeing. The former multiple division champion would go on to pick up eight of his nine career losses after making the move back down in weight, five of which came via stoppage. In addition to Jones Jr. wanting Usyk to steer clear of a return to the cruiserweight division due to the weight discrepancy, as the Florida native sifts through the names available to the newly crowned heavyweight champion, he believes there’s a bevy of big fights available to him currently. “You got Tyson Fury, you got Deontay Wilder, you got Anthony Joshua again, you got Andy Ruiz. You got so many big guys who are in the weight class that you are champion at right now that it makes no sense. Unless it’s way more money that you’re going to make which he’s not because you vs. Fury right now is probably one of the
Dec 27, 2021 - 12:40 Updated: Dec 27, 2021 - 12:41
After carefully surveying the cruiserweight landscape, Oleksandr Usyk was proud of what he accomplished. From 2016-2019, Usyk successfully dethroned every cruiserweight world titlist. In the process, the Ukrainian star became an undisputed champion.
With little left to accomplish, Usyk opted to try his hand at the heavyweight division. While his first two results resulted in lackluster wins over the likes of Chazz Witherspoon and Dereck Chisora, Usyk had everything clicking in his most recent appearance against Anthony Joshua. Though he was pegged as a sizable underdog, Usyk made oddsmakers eat their words as he went on to dominate the hulking former titlist to begin his own championship reign.
In all likelihood, Usyk is heading towards an immediate rematch with Joshua during the first half of 2022. But while the pound-for-pound star is focused on proving that his win over Joshua was legitimate, he’s slowly but assuredly begun looking at his former weight class.
In recent months, Canelo Alvarez has expressed his desire to become a cruiserweight world champion. Officially, the newly crowned undisputed super middleweight titlist will face the winner of the upcoming contest between WBC cruiserweight belt holder Ilunga Makabu and Thabiso Mchunu.
Should Alvarez successfully nab another world title, Usyk revealed that he would be willing to return to a weight class that he once dominated.
“I can fight him at cruiserweight,” said Usyk to BoxingInsider.com.
While news of Usyk’s willingness to face Alvarez at the cruiserweight 200-pound weight limit sparked intrigue amongst fans, former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. believes a showdown between them would be an utter mismatch.
“To me, Usyk is too big for Canelo,” said Jones Jr. during an interview with IFL TV. “Usyk beats Canelo easy in my opinion.”
Although Jones Jr. suspects that Usyk would go on to dominate Alvarez due to their size difference, the newly inducted Hall of Famer believes Usyk’s success as a heavyweight would be untenable. To further back his claim that Usyk could be forfeiting future glory for immediate triumph, the former four-division champion points to recent history to further prove his point.
“Usyk has no reason to come down and fight Canelo,” continued Jones Jr. “Usyk is the heavyweight champion of the world. Why would you go to cruiserweight, when you’re the heavyweight champion of the world? Look what happened when Chad Dawson went down from light heavyweight to fight Andre Ward at 168? That was the end of his career. Why would you do that to yourself?”
Seemingly at the top of his game and after picking up notable wins against Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins as a light heavyweight, Chad Dawson willingly dropped down to the super middleweight division in 2012 to take on unified champion Andre Ward. Despite being a consistent fixture on numerous pound-for-pound lists, Dawson was thoroughly dominated as he was dropped three times and later stopped in the 10th round.
Though Dawson would later return to the light heavyweight division, he was never quite the same. In his first appearance as a full-fledged light heavyweight since Ward, Dawson was brutally knocked out against Adonis Stevenson in the very first round. His career would continue to spiral downward as he registered losses to fringe contenders Tommy Karpency and Andrzej Fonfara.
In a similar move, Jones Jr. also drastically moved up and down in weight nearly two decades ago. In 2003, after stopping Clinton Woods in the sixth round to defend his light heavyweight titles, Jones Jr. opted to move up to the heavyweight division to take on WBA champion John Ruiz. Although Jones Jr. did his best to not overload his body with too much weight, coming into his heavyweight debut at 193 pounds, his durability seemingly suffered soon after.
Following his victory over Ruiz to capture a heavyweight world title, Jones Jr. stripped a considerable amount of muscle from his frame to return to the light heavyweight division. While he picked up a few wins here and there, Jones Jr. was no longer the pound-for-pound star most were accustomed to seeing. The former multiple division champion would go on to pick up eight of his nine career losses after making the move back down in weight, five of which came via stoppage.
In addition to Jones Jr. wanting Usyk to steer clear of a return to the cruiserweight division due to the weight discrepancy, as the Florida native sifts through the names available to the newly crowned heavyweight champion, he believes there’s a bevy of big fights available to him currently.
“You got Tyson Fury, you got Deontay Wilder, you got Anthony Joshua again, you got Andy Ruiz. You got so many big guys who are in the weight class that you are champion at right now that it makes no sense. Unless it’s way more money that you’re going to make which he’s not because you vs. Fury right now is probably one of the biggest fights on the planet. You vs. Joshua again is also a big fight.”
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This Is Wales
Thread: This Is Wales
Isla Woodcraft
NE Scotland
Llangollen was always a favourite place of mine. When I was aged 12-15 I belonged to a cycling club in Liverpool, and one of our regular runs was Llangollen and back in a day, a round trip of about 100 miles. After I was married I took my wife and younger brother on the same cycling trip, although we stayed overnight on that occasion
Plas Newydd - A 14th-century country house in Llangollen, North Wales. Rebuilt in Victorian times and remodelled in the 1930s.
One time home to The "Ladies of Llangollen"..
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[1] The pair moved to a Gothic mansion in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages. Over the years, numerous distinguished visitors called upon them. Guests included Shelley, Byron, Wellington and Wordsworth, who wrote a sonnet about them.
Throughout their lives, the two ladies dressed in men’s clothes leading to the assumption they were lesbians. However, research of their diaries and correspondents hint at no sexual relations, prompting some historians to conclude it was a Boston marriage, or platonic romance.
The rather magnificent front doorway..
Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle
Re: This Is Wales
Close to Llangollen is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure is for use by narrowboats and was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build.
Just don't look down
Rigadog
That bridge/aqueduct is stupendous
If he ever drinks the brew of 10 tanna leaves, he will become a monster the likes of which the world has never seen
The magnificent Menai Straits which divides the Welsh mainland from the island of Anglesey.
Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge is in the foreground, with Thomas Telford’s Suspension Bridge behind..
Then there is Snowdonia. No it's not always snowy Photographs just don't do it justice, so I'll just post one Winter and one Summer - and we're still in North Wales, so plenty to post for mid-Wales and the South. What have you got?
Originally Posted by isla
The Britannia bridge was burned down in 1970 in an act of vandalism by some acquaintances of mine. I still remember the explosive crack noise as pieces of white hot wrought iron, hit the water.
The bridge was originally a train only bridge and didn't have those arches. The tubes were jacked into place, using those mortises in the towers.
The current historical view is that the fire was a good thing, because it accelerated the building of a second road crossing.
Last edited by Hwyl; 10-22-2020 at 07:57 AM.
SOF64
Heilbronn, Germany
I have got a few pictures from further down south. I was lucky enough to do regular student exchanges to Port Talbot from 2005 to 2015. I made some good friends and remember some impressive sights.
The first impression was always the view of the M4 motorway suspension bridge.
Rhossili Beach and Worm's Head were part of our schedule whenever possible.
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I was able to visit the Senedd in Cardiff with my students on several occasions.
We stopped going on college trips to Wales in 2016 but received groups from Port Talbot until last year. This year the corona virus made it impossible to go anywhere with our students, and I fear next year won't be any different.
Thanks for #6 Gareth, I forgot about that.
Gluten Enthusiast
Connecticut, of the newer England.
What color are their hands now?
South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, Anglesey.
Then there's music. A viscous connecting fluid.
Barmouth (or Abermaw or Y Bermo) in Mid-Wales. A great place to drop anchor, or pick up a guest mooring for the night, if you're cruising Cardigan (Ceredigion) Bay.
The way National anthem should be done.
#11 - Genuinely brought tears to my eyes, thanks Gareth.
This is a favourite of mine, also popular at Rugby matches - Calon Lan..
# 11 - Thank you, Gareth. That is beautiful.
David G
Love bridges... and those are some lovely ones.
Is Wales considered 'way out there'? A verdant version of the Aussie's 'outback'?
Which part is coal country?
Harbor Woodworks
https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/
"It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)
The Valleys in the south are coal country.
Big Pit 1.jpg
This is a picture of Big Pit in Blaenavon, which is a museum where you are led underground by former miners.
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This is a view from the hilltops on Rhondda, a miners' town in Rhondda Valley.
Peerie Maa
Old Grey Inquisitive One
Walney, near Cumbria UK
Originally Posted by David G
Coal country was in the south of Wales. The north had copper ore and lots of slate.
Slate mining waste.
It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Isla and Gareth,
let me thank you for sending me down memory lane. I have been browsing through my photos. Unfortunately, I can't post any where my students are shown without their consent.
However, I found these pictures which are connected with some portable memories that also keep well - until the bottle is opened and emptied.
I was given Penderyn Welsh Whisky as a present repeatedly and bought some more, but it took me until 2017 on a private trip to visit the place itself, Penderyn Distillery in Hirwaun, and I was there again in 2019 to carry home more memories.
^ Great stuff, thanks for posting.
On a visit to Big Pit with a group of students I had a wonderful experience. Some of my students came from a salt-mining town in our region and were members of a miners' choir. We went down the mine shaft and were shown around the mine by a guide who was an ex-miner. We enjoyed the tour immensely and had a good time. Then, on the way back up the mine shaft, my students started singing one of their traditional miners' songs. The guide, who was still with us, recognized the tune and accompanied my students singing the same song in Welsh. I was quite touched by that and realized that there is a miners' culture that transcends borders and languages. Unfortunately, coalmining in Wales is history now while our salt mines are still open.
It is said that Wales has more ancient fortresses per square mile than anywhere else in Europe.
This is one of my favourites - Conwy - because I spent a summer living on my boat in Deganwy Harbour, just across the river, and I could see the castle from my cockpit.
My favorite Welsh bridge near Cenarth. Talked to a volunteer who was making a coracle for the museum. I remember him saying, “Never been to the states, but I been to EuroDisney.”
I have been interested in traditional skin-on-frame boats for a long time, and I have got some literature about Welsh coracles, too. I thought I might once try a hand in building one, but I haven't come round to it yet. It seems that they are handled in quite a special way, but as far as I know fishing from coracles is still practiced on the River Teifi.
J.Madison
I spent 8 months living in N Wales, and I could still feel the wind in that picture of Holy Head.
Thanks for the good memories, it is a beautiful place. Snowdonia especially, but my top favorite is the many views of small green paddocks surrounded by ancient stone walls sprawling across the valleys.
Speaking about castles, I have found a photo of Caerphilly Castle that my son took on our bicycle trip from Port Talbot to Dover.
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It was late in the afternoon, and we were in a hurry to get to Newport.
And speaking about bridges, in Newport we wanted to cross the River Usk using the Newport Transporter Bridge, but we were too early and did not have the patience to wait for it to open.
I hope there will be another chance to use it.
P.I. Stazzer-Newt
obnoxiously persistent.
Deepest Darkest Wales
There's lots of Wales...
I'd much rather lay in my bunk all freakin day lookin at Youtube videos .
Port Talbot.
Nearby...
The wonderful carved stone animals at Cardiff Castle - more here.
Along the coast a bit
From the same mad rich bugger who gave us the animal wall....
P.I. Stazzer-Newt, thank you especially for #28. We had the chance to visit Port Talbot Steel Works several times with groups of students. The visits gave our students valuable insights into steel production, and I regretted deeply when Tata discontinued the visitor programme. I can't find any pictures in my photo files, but I think we were not allowed to take any on the steel works premises.
I have followed the development of the steel works in the media because directly or indirectly friends and their family depend on them for their livelyhood. The latest development I am aware of is the merger with Thyssen-Krupp that didn't take place in the end. I fear that the Corona crisis will make things even more difficult.
PS.: I found one picture that we took from the coach on arrival. The steel works were always the first sight of Port Talbot when we arrived on the M4.
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Paul Pless
pinko commie tree hugger
why is there no 'welsh' whisky?
i mean there's scotch whisky, irish whisky. . .
there's even english whisky - who drinks it no one knows, but it does exist
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Isla, thank you for the leopard and the hyena. I'll raise you the pelican and the tower itself.
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Temporary Field Lights Proposed For Winn Brook, PQ Grounds Heads To Select Board
July 25, 2019 By Franklin B. Tucker 2 Comments
Photo: (foreground) Charlie Conway, president of Belmont Youth Soccer, at a community meeting on field lights at Winn Brook playground.
After a pair of bruising meetings with skeptical neighbors on Wednesday night, July 24, the Belmont Recreation Commission unanimously approved allowing Belmont Youth Soccer to install temporary field lights at Winn Brook Elementary School and Pequossette (PQ) Field for approximately 10 weeks this fall.
The set of four lights will illuminate a 80 yard by 80-yard area for up to two hours until 8:30 p.m. beginning on the first week of September and lasting until early November as part of a pilot program.
“We will bring this [decision to allow lights until 8:30 p.m. weekdays] to the Select Board with the commission’s approval,” said Jon Marshall, assistant town administrator and Recreation Department director.
The commission did place conditions on the proposed permit that echoed resident’s major concerns by prohibiting diesel-generated lights which neighbors to the field considered too noisy and a potential source of air pollution.
In addition, the commission will suggest the Select Board begin a discussion that would lead to the lights being rotated to other play spaces, Town Field and Grove Street Playground, allowing fields to rest and regenerate the grass playing surfaces.
The lights request by Belmont Youth Soccer is an unintended consequence of the new Belmont Middle and High School, said Charlie Conroy, BYS president, who made the presentation to the committee and public at the Beech Street Center on Wednesday, July 24.
Recreation Commission Chair Anthony Ferrante with member Marsha Semuels responding to residents concerns.
With the school’s long-standing practice fields ripped up as the land is being prepared for construction, high school athletic teams will train on town fields and playgrounds (field hockey will be at Winn Brook, Girls’ Soccer at Grove Street and Boys’ Soccer at PQ) from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., dislodging the youth league which has 1,500 players between kindergarten and eighth grade.
The four lights will allow teams of older players, about 40 in 7th and 8th grade, to practice well after dusk. “We will not light up the whole field just a specific part” of the playgrounds,” said Conway.
In addition, said Conway, Youth Soccer is also renting a field at Belmont Day School for $25,000 to supplement the playgrounds already being used this fall.
At both meetings, held consecutively, residents immediately pointed to the impact of diesel-powered lights on the quality of life of the neighborhood.
The fumes from the engines will prevent nearby residents from opening their windows “and that is completely unacceptable,” said Sherman Street’s Linda Matthews, who also pointed to the likelihood of light pollution from their use.
Conway said there are alternatives to diesel generated power sources including solar and electrical. But unlike the diesel machines which can be rented, the alternatives have to be purchased.
“And what we need from the town is a five year commitment to this plan for us to make this investment,” said Conway.
As much as the fumes, residents protested the diesel lights adding “another audio assault,” in the Winn Brook area, said Joanne Adduci of Hoitt Road. “Our chances to sit outside will be gone,” she said from the loud hum of the running motors.
Attendees at both sessions pointed to possible additional traffic, the noise of kids playing past nightfall and the location of the lights along abutters – at PQ it totaled 45 houses and 90 families – homes rather than closer to the center of the grounds.
Rose O’Neil, a Precinct 4 town meeting member from Maple Street adjacent to PQ, said as a member of the Friends of PQ Park, when the playground at the park was being developed this year, lighting was prohibited to prevent constant use.
“There has to be time for the residents … who are not part of league,” said O’Neil, seeking to preserve the park as “a communal place.”
“I love that feel,” she said.
While Conway and members of the commission attempted to reassure the residents that their concerns were being listened to, some in attendance didn’t have the same faith in the responses.
“With all due respect, is this a done deal? Do we get a fair shake,” said a resident.
After the end of the night’s meetings, the commission moved to approve the permit with the conditions against diesel use.
Filed Under: Government, News Tagged With: Belmont, Belmont Youth Soccer, Pequossete Park, Winn Brook Elementary School
Andrea Masciari says
I can’t believe the Belmont Day School is charging $25000 for use of their playground. Shameless.
Peg Callanan says
I agree. Shame on the Belmont Day School administration.
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WARNING!!! POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
With the next Star Wars movie only two weeks away, Ryan Daly indulges in some idle and not-so-idle speculation. Presented here are Eight Expectations--that is, eight predictions about the plot and characters of Star Wars Episode VIII. But Ryan's not alone, he's brought in eight friends of the podcast (Rob Kelly, Andy Kapellusch, Aaron Bias, Mark Marble, Angela Drew, Paul Hix, Mike Garvey, and Mike Gillis) to share their own predictions about the movie. Consider yourself warned: You may want to save this episode and come back and listen to it after you see STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI. Then you'll know which of these predictions was right on, and which were pure fantasy.
Rob Kelly's podcasts can be found here at the Fire and Water Podcast Network: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com
Andy Kapellusch's Force-95 podcast at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-S1T4h5Sgi2-i05DoSRFzA
Aaron Bias' A Long Time Ago Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/A-Long-Time-Ago-294700321018403/?ref=br_rs
Mark Marble on the LanternCast at: http://www.lanterncast.com
Paul Hix and Mike Garvey on Waiting for Doom at: http://waitingfordoom.podbean.com
Mike Gillis on Radio vs. The Martians at: http://radiovsthemartians.com
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Thanks for listening, and May the Force Be With You!
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Tags: star wars, Star Wars The Last Jedi
8 responses to “Give Me Those Star Wars 24: Eight Expectations”
Jeff R. says:
I remain not only uninterested but actively opposed to any sort of redemption arc for Kylo Ren whatsoever. In fact, what I want/predict for 8 (and possibly 9) is a story that rejects that possibility entirely and does so directly commenting on how morally insane the idea of Vader’s ‘redemption’ is. I want to see his force ghost twisted and shunned by the other force ghosts.
Of the predictions given in the show, I want to see Lando the most. Followed by the great porg hoax.
Mark Baker-Wright says:
That Lando prediction was the one that irritated me the most, since there’s been a news report from the director himself saying that Lando wasn’t in The Last Jedi. I can only assume that more people missed that (it WAS rather click-baity) than I’d thought.
Here’s a less-click-baity version: http://comicbook.com/starwars/2017/11/21/lando-calrissian-star-wars-the-last-jedi/
Or it’s possible I made that prediction before the news broke that Johnson said Lando isn’t in the movie.
Rift says:
Fun ep Ryan and rest assured as someone who was in two minds about listening to this ep, fan based predictions and expectations happily did not equal spoilers. Well done.
There have been so many theories thrown about for this movie, Luke and Ray, Fin and Phasma, Kylo and Snoke and of course Leia. I have already said in comments for previous episodes that I just can’t decide which to put my money on so I’m just going to sit here and enjoy the ride while we wait and see.
So what do I want from this movie? Answers damn it!! Like Ang I want to know what the hell happened to Luke. I want to know what went wrong with Kylo’s training. And most of all I want a fitting end for Leia and Carrie Fisher. I know it’s damn near impossible given the circumstances but I just want it done right. I know “right” will have a different meaning for everyone but I’m going to be selfish and say I want it “right” for me. I feel we will see her die. Han and then Leia one movie after another, it’s going to hurt. I don’t know if Kylo will kill her. This will be the decider of his “redemption” arc. If he kills both Han and Leia there will be no redeeming him. From every novel, film, comic and video game they have made concerning the Light and Dark side of the force he would be too far down the Dark Side to come back. Well Annakin did kill a bunch of kids and he made it back so maybe…
I also hope they fix the Leia/Chewie thing. You know what I’m talking about. At the end, Han is dead and Leia and Ray have this really good scene of mutual grief and poor Chewie gets nothing, nadda, zip!! He just walks passed Leia in the background and gets on doing whatever it is he is doing. I didn’t notice it until it was pointed out but now everytime I rewatch Force Awakens it sticks out like a giant set of dogs balls. This is such a massive oversight it’s almost unbearable and needs to be addressed and fixed as soon as possible.
Of all the predictions mentioned I’m most excited by Lando. I don’t think it will happen but geez wouldn’t be great if it did. After Han’s death you could totally see Leia reaching out to Lando. And the other is a Force Ghost. That would be amazing!! I can’t even calm down enough to consider which character would be best. I always thought see a Qui-Gon force ghost at the end of Revenge of the Sith would have been great. Obiwan feels like the best choice but that’s just because he is the most familiar in that role. Given Kylo’s turmoil I don’t think it could be Annakin, would be a bit of a sell out to him turn up and tell Kylo “You idiot” or to Family Guy if he says “Thank you. He was never good enough for my daughter. I never liked him.”
Anyway until the post movie review, and there will be a post movie review ep wont there Ryan. Not like this Justice League sized whole the FW Network has left me with, may the Force be with you.
Nathaniel Wayne says:
So… any plans to revisit what was and wasn’t accurate in a follow up episode like you did last time?
Yes. I have no idea when the next episode will come out, but whenever it does, it will include an assessment of all the predictions made on this show.
Tim Price says:
I’m a big spoiler-avoider, so i just listened to this ep. Kudos to everybody for such interesting predictions. Much braver than I. Looking forward to the inevitable TLJ review.
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Forex Brokers for US traders (accepting US clients)
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US Trader Woes, Looking For Advice
Hello! I'm an experienced stock & options trader but am relatively new to Forex. The reason I sought out forex to add to my current trading patterns was the ease of automation. My two passions are trading and computer science, so I became very interested in MetaTrader when I discovered it several months ago. I made an account with Forex.com and have been messing around with MT4 and EAs which I've come to enjoy. I've already made tons of trades using EAs and am constantly learning new things. My EAs got my meager $50 initial deposit to $85 in a couple of days so, obviously, I was inclined to add more. Big mistake. It was too perfect, something was wrong. Enter: Market Maker brokers! It seems I've been duped, which was my fault for being foolish and not digging deeper before giving them money. I'm fairly confident that I've been betting against them and now it's cost me a couple hundred buckaroonies. Oh well.
Anyway- now I'm looking at other brokers such as ATC Brokers who claim they're STP, but that still leaves the potential for Market Making. Also looking at FastBrokers, and plenty of others. My question is: should I continue on this route and cross my fingers, or should I abandon spot forex as a US resident? I see sooooo many good reputable true ECN brokers in Australia, etc but sadly they aren't options for me.
I hear good things about futures currency trading, but I have yet to explore that.
Is there any method for automating forex futures trading? Is that reasonable? Should I still pursue spot forex? Should I try another broker? Should I just go back to stocks & options and accept it? Should I kill myself? I'm kind of at a loss as to how I should proceed, so any opinions are welcome. Thanks :)
TL;DR Any worthwhile spot forex brokers for US residents that don't bet against you and/or can I automate futures trading somehow.
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Forex tax questions for US residents that use offshore brokers
Hey everyone, I use an offshore broker but am a US resident so Im wondering how those in my situation file their taxes? Do you use a CPA or a tax program like turbotax? And if you do use a CPA, I was advised to find one that specializes in filing taxes for forex traders but am having a hard time finding one in my area(Orange County), any tips? Thanks in advance!
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European Banks - Where Can I Easily Open a Bank Account?
Choosing a foreign bank to open an account in is a difficult task. Many details must be taken into account so that you don’t run into failure or problems with account operations in the future.
Today, we have gathered 7 banks that will easily open an account for you (sometimes even remotely) and will not strictly monitor transactions on it.
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Year of foundation: As an online broker - since 1993, as a bank - since 2010.
FIO is the most loyal bank in Europe. There, you can open an account for any type of activity, from FOREX to gambling. There are no extra fees for maintenance or minimum balance and limits. Of course, the FIO does not require documentary evidence of the payments made.
Documents required to open an account:
foreign passport and internal passport;
company documents;
apostille of the Certificate of Incumbency to the corporate director or founder, if the company is older than 6 years;
strictly colored scans of all documents;
account opening term: 2-3 days
Do I need a personal visit to the bank? Yes. After reviewing the documents by the bank, you need to personally visit the department to verify your identity.
CSOB Banka
CSOB Banka is the second largest bank in the Czech Republic in terms of capitalization and one of the most influential banks in Europe. There are no restrictions on dollar payments and a minimum deposit. You can manage your account through the online banking. CSOB is loyal to operations via the account, and does not require confirmation by agreement or invoice.
Documents required to open an account
Personal account:
passport or another identity document.
confirmation of address.
Corporate Account:
apostilled set of legal documents for the company.
If the company is with a nominee service, remote identification of an individual as a director or shareholder is required.
Account opening period: 5-7 days.
Ceska sporitelna
Ceska Sporitelna is a very loyal bank that does not require confirmation of each payment made. All financial tasks can be quickly solved with the help of Internet banking.
statutory documents for the company (originals);
full extract from the Register without apostille (only for Czech companies);
Certificate of Good Standing with an apostille (for 3+ months companies);
beneficiary's domestic and foreign passport;
certified power of attorney to open an account;
a brief description of the business or website URL for online business;
account opening period: 7-14 days
MKB Bank
MKB Bank is one of the largest banks in Hungary. An account will be opened for free, if necessary, a plastic Visa or MasterCard will be issued. You can open an account for an offshore company, but MKB will refuse this if the company is registered in a country from the OECD black list. Nevertheless, the MKB is quite loyal to the operations carried out on the account..
passport;
trust declaration;
power of attorney declaration;
Charter and memorandum of association of a company certified by a notary;
Protocol on the appointment of officers;
Certificate of incorporation, certificate of shares and certificate of good condition;
Power of attorney;
Account opening period: 7 days.
Do I need a personal visit to the bank? Yes. After reviewing the MKB package of documents, you must visit Hungary and meet with a bank agent.
BOS bank
BOS Bank is a Polish bank. If your company is not older than a year, then account maintenance in the first 18 months will be free. There, you can open an account for offshore companies and any other activities. The bank is loyal to transactions carried out on the account.
polish visa
extract from the registry translated into Polish and notarized;
Account opening period: 14 days.
Do I need a personal visit to the bank? No, the account can be opened remotely.
Bank Zachodni WBK is the third largest bank in Poland in terms of assets. The bank is not picky about corporate documents, opens accounts for any kind activities.
polish visa.
account opening period: 14-21 days.
ING Bank Slaski
ING is the largest bank in Poland. The bank opens accounts for onshore companies and is loyal to non-resident customers in Poland. You can issue a Visa or MasterCard plastic card.
You can learn more about the conditions for opening an account with these banks from Bizonaire specialists. Call us or leave a request on the site chat, and we will contact you ASAP!
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Corretoras Internacionais - qual utilizar?
EDIT FINAL - Boa noite a todos! A minha conta na TD Ameritrade foi aprovada e aberta. O processo foi muito mais rápido do que minhas expectativas.
Solicitei a abertura da conta no dia 07/11/2019, enviei os documentos online através de um e-mail criado em uma plataforma da própria TD (não precisei enviar por FAX, enviei para [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])):
uma nota de corretagem da Clear;
o scan do meu passaporte;
o formulário W8BEN preenchido (preeencham com atenção pois se for preenchido incorretamente, pode atrasar o processo de abertura), assinado e escaneado;
a página final que aparece ao finalizar a aplicação da conta, onde assinei a última das 3 páginas e mandei escaneado.
Enviei os documentos pelo e-mail no dia 11/11/2019 e hoje, 15/11/2019, recebi um e-mail que minha conta havia sido aprovada.
O último passo foi ligar para um número da AT&T que redireciona chamadas para alguns números dos EUA. O número que liguei foi 0800-888-8288 (do celular, para fixo é o 0800-890-0288). Após atenderem, você disca o número que quer ligar - no caso, é o número de atendimento internacional da TD: 800-368-3668.
Após esperar (demorou uns 15 minutos), fui atendido e expliquei que abri a conta e precisava de um PIN para acessar a conta. Esse PIN te enviam pelos Correios, mas eu não quis esperar pois demora vários dias. O atendente me passou o PIN, loguei na conta, troquei a senha e o userid, e após responder algumas informações adicionais, estou acessando a plataforma normalmente.
No futuro, caso seja interesse de alguém, providenciarei um feedback sobre minha opinião sobre a corretora. Até agora, após desanimar um pouco com a aparente burocracia para abrir a conta, estou satisfeito pois deu tudo certo.
Bom dia, gostaria de uma opinião ou qualquer comentário que possa agregar com essa decisão.
Vou utilizar a Remessa Online para enviar capital. Meu objetivo é, primeiramente, comprar ETFs de metais e algumas opções derivativas, e, daqui alguns meses, algumas REITs e stocks.
Estou em dúvida entre algumas corretoras, vamos lá:
TD Ameritrade - uma das maiores e mais renomadas, zerou os custos de corretagem recentemente. Parece uma boa opção. O problema é a taxação de 30% do dividendos para os Non US Residents.
EDIT: prós - plataforma sensacional ThinkOrSwim.
Interactive Brokers - também é uma das maiores, as taxas parecem justas ($0.005 por cota e $ 0.7 por opção) e boa plataforma para opções... até agora é minha escolha. O problema dela é o custo de $ 10 caso não opere no mês (ou $ 20 se possuir menos de $ 2000 na conta, que será meu caso).
EDIT: prós - suporte bastante rápido; produtos globais e não apenas americanos - operam ETFs do Reino Unido, como por exemplo os da Irlanda que são 'accumulating', ou seja, não passam pelo processo de cobrança de IR e corretagem na hora de reinvestir pois reinvestem por conta própria e nunca distribuem dividendos.
TastyWorks - parece excelente para operar opções, com uma plataforma muito boa. Entretanto, as taxas não são muito agradáveis.
DriveWealth - é renomada mas achei o site confuso, aparentemente a corretora está se voltando para serviços prestados à outras empresas de investimentos (business to business), para abrir uma conta até onde entendi precisa preencher e enviar um formulário de contato, é algo burocrático e parecem estar deixando o varejo de lado.
Avenue Securities - parece uma boa opção para brasileiros, mas é uma corretora recente (tem pouco mais de 2 anos) e está com alguns problemas com a CVM. Também não tem opções derivativas, então acho que não me serve.
EDIT: prós - sessão de documentos para IR e carne leão, tudo formatado, calculado e com dólar certo. O fundador dela é o Roberto Lee, que fundou a Clear e foi diretor da XP, então já tem muita experiência de mercado. Outra coisa ótima dela é poder transferir valores por TED, como se fosse pra qualquer corretora brasileira. Você pode transferir qualquer valor, não tem mínimo, além disso, o exchange funciona dentro da plataforma, você fica com saldo em reais e converte quando quer para dólar.
Utilizei o site Broker Check e a IAPD da SEC para averiguar a situação legal das corretoras.
Qualquer relato de experiência própria ou prós e contras de alguma dessas corretoras será de grande ajuda para a escolha, e conforme os comentários apareçam, vou atualizando o post com esses prós e contras.
Outras opções vindas dos comentários:- TradeRepublic (Alemanha): 1 euro por operação e sem cobranças adicionais.
- Oanda: mais voltada para trading e Forex.
- DeGiro: corretora holandesa, frequentemente recomendada para europeus.
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Forex--Commodities-Futures
Hi guys. I am new to reddit. I heard reddit will give you a better answer than google. I am currently reside in the US. I have been trading stocks for awhile now. I am very interested in (Forex, Futures and Commodities). Does anyone know a good broker that allow hedging account to those instruments?
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Looking for safe and inexpensive solution for holding/exchanging NOK/EUR/USD
A safe (not a fintech) bank account outside of Norway that can hold NOK, ideally outside the EU/Euro zone
Ideally it would give me a personal IBAN account number, so my client can pay me directly in NOK
Ideally it would offer cheap currency exchange (NOK/EUUSD)
Being able to buy ETFs or stocks would be a plus (I have zero experience or training, but would like to get started)
Being able to fund the account with a credit card without a fee would be a plus (for credit card points etc.)
I'm open to combining several products
Some background in case you're wondering:
I'm a self-employed IT consultant and I'm currently working for a Norwegian customer via an agency in Estonia. I'm originally from Germany, but now traveling full-time.
Usually, my client (the agency) has simply paid me in EUR into my German bank account because it was easier, but now that NOK has devalued so much and I don't need the money immediately, I'd prefer to be paid in NOK. So that I can store/invest it and maybe exchange it to EUUSD some time in the future when the exchange rate is better.
However, I don't really trust German banks because of the Euro crisis and I'd prefer to have my money elsewhere. I actually also have a Norwegian bank account from many years ago when I used to work there, but I'd prefer not to use that either as I'd like to avoid issues with the Norwegian tax office ("Why is there so much of our currency in your account when you don't live or work in Norway?!").
I've thought about Swissquote, which seems to offer a multi-currency account, as well as the option to invest in ETFs/stocks. But they seem to have high fees.
Interactive Brokers is supposed to be very cheap, and they allegedly have even better asset protection. But their user interface is supposed to be difficult to use for beginners? And I guess they also don't have individual IBAN account numbers?
Saxo Bank looks very nice, but it seems a bit more expensive, too? On the plus side, they seem to support funding the account with European credit cards without a fee.
According to https://brokerchooser.com/compare-brokerage , for example Lynx is even cheaper than Interactive Brokers when it comes to forex.
Revolut is great for cheap currency exchange (I use it all the time), but they have terrible support (they once froze all my money for over a week and you can only communicate with them through their app's chat feature) and I don't really trust them as they don't have a banking license yet.
In case it matters, I have a US ITIN (taxpayer ID/"SSN" for non-residents) and credit score, and a Norwegian "D number" (basically the Norwegian equivalent of an ITIN), in addition to a German passport etc.
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Message from Ruslan on the telegram channel
Ruslan Kamenskiy:
"Hi everyone!
I just got pm’ed a link to another Reddit post by someone disappointed with something.
From the very first day of Genesis Vision company existence I’m getting different comments from dissatisfied people.
For example, at the time of Genesis Vision ICO we had a Pre-Sale based on Options Program. People were investing 5% of their total investment amount during Pre-Sale to get the right to invest remaining 95%, getting the maximum 30% bonus. As a result, less than 50% of Options were executed. The rest Option holders were disappointed with something (no exchange listing announcements, bad marketing, etc.)
Little has changed since then. Regularly somebody writes a longread about GV team not matching his/her expectations, sells GVT and leaves the community. This is a normal process for a big project and this is inevitable. Somebody leaves, others join.
Nonetheless, I read most of these comments and I’d like to elaborate a bit more on the most common points.
Team promised something, but failed to deliver it in time
There are two main point here:
1) Our project is quite complicated from the technological perspective. Sometimes we really can’t develop and test everything properly in time. Sometimes we get additional technological challenges, which can be difficult to predict from the very beginning. Such things happen, this is the fact, we’re working on this and doing our best to avoid it in future.
2) Not everything depends on us. We’re a project “uniting all market participants”, and we depend on all these participants. We depend on legal, compliance and even political relationships between countries. Unfortunately, not everything is under our control and some questions are really time-consuming
My main idea is that we’re developing the innovative product in the extremely unstable environment. It’s impossible to publish the exact roadmap and meet all the deadlines to the nearest day. Simply because the new factors affecting our development appear every day.
I expected bigger marketing efforts, but I can’t see it
I would’ve rephrased it to: “your marketing doesn’t meet my expectations” or “I can’t see your banners on forums”.
To create an illusion of BIG marketing, all you need is: - Crank up the retargeting (in this case all your web site visitors will see only your banners everywhere) - Make 10 post per day in all social networks - Buy articles on cointelegraph, forbes, etc.
And then everybody will have a feeling of a big marketing campaign and will be satisfied. But not for a long time. Because in the reality it’s not a “big marketing campaign”, it’s a big marketing budget sink.
What you need to understand here is that our main marketing is the product and our partnerships. It takes much more time and efforts that buying banners, but it’s much more important in a long run. And that’s our main goal at the moment. However, we’re still having advertising campaigns. But each marketing campaign has it’s geo targeting, so there is a chance that you’ll never see our banners since you live in a region, that is excluded from our targeting.
You’re not available in US and do nothing to solve this problem
To clarify the situation I took top-3 Forex brokers from https://www.forexbrokers.com/guides/forex-trading
Namely, Saxo Bank, IG, Etoro These are the companies with multi-million profits and armies of lawyers. However, they don’t work with US, which is clearly stated it the footers of their websites:
https://www.home.saxo/en-sg/legal/disclaimesaxo-disclaimer https://www.ig.com/en/forex
"Products and Services offered on this website is not intended for residents of the United States"
If the US regulation question was easy to solve, these guys would’ve been there long ago.
P.S. Please, share my post in Reddit"
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Some news you may have missed out on part 75.
Thanks to all who gave me such wonderful appreciation and to the mods who gave me platinum, I don't deserve your praise, I just love our country. I want it to succeed.
Now let's get riiiiiiiiigt into the neeeeeeewwws.
-PM Khan makes it to Foreign Policy magazine's 2019 Global Thinkers list
Prime Minister Imran Khan has been named among Foreign Policy magazine's 2019 list of 'Global Thinkers'. The short writeup on the premier states that Khan, "a former cricket star, finally got the job he had long coveted ─ prime minister"."His reward was an incredibly difficult to-do list, starting with Pakistan's looming fiscal and debt crises," it added.
Prime Minister Khan shares the spotlight with other world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and US lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
-Atletico shoot for football future in Pakistan
Spain´s Atletico Madrid are taking on a challenge tougher than winning La Liga — developing football in cricket-mad Pakistan, where bat and ball are king, pitches come with stumps not goalposts, and even the prime minister is a former World Cup winner. During a recent session at the club´s new facility in Lahore — the country´s first European football academy — a cabal of Spanish coaches watched as a new class of young Pakistani hopefuls fired off penalty kicks.
-National Job Programme to be launched for providing jobs to youth
The National Job Programme will be launched under the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme for providing job opportunities to the educated youth. In this connection Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Muhammad Usman Dar held a meeting with Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Islamabad on Monday to explore avenues of collaboration for the development of an effective National Job Programme.
The special assistant to the prime minister appreciated GIZ for its role in the development of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Pakistan. He expressed hope to leverage their expertise in the field for creating better employment opportunities for the youth. The National Job Programme would include vocational training of youth in best Technical and Vocational Training Institutes and their placements in relevant industries to spur national economic growth.
-You Can Even Sleep in This New Luxury Bus Service from Karachi to Quetta
The 9-hour journey between Karachi and Quetta has now been made easier thanks to a newly launched luxury service. ‘Super International’ is aiming to make the experience of traveling on a bus as comfortable as possible. For that, apart from the usual amenities, it offers an onboard sleeping facility. Hence, the company’s slogan ‘Sleep Well, Live Well.” According to details, the bus will depart from Sadar area of Karachi on alternate days throughout the week. The ticket price is still to be confirmed but it will be around Rs. 3,000 per person.
-KSE 100 picks 237 points on foreign inflow news
The benchmark KSE 100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange surged by 237.27 points or (+0.60%) closed at 39,543 on Monday. Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that the Market moved upwards on the back of positive news flow on financial support from friendly countries in Gulf, as well as anticipation of China’s support in the offing. Higher international crude prices helped E&P sector to perform better, with OGDC and PPL scoring 4M and 3.1M shares respectively. Besides, expectation of improvement in Core Delta for EPCL, helped stock reach new highs and last half hour’s trading pulled the price back above 41.
-Federal government released Rs 233 billion under PSDP
The federal government has released Rs233.4 billion against the total allocation of Rs675 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2018-19 for various ongoing and new schemes. The released funds include Rs86.5 billion for federal ministries, Rs111 billion for corporations, and Rs25.6 billion for special areas, according to a data released by Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform on Monday. Out of these allocations, the government released Rs101.46 billion for National Highway Authority out of total allocation of Rs185.2 billion, whereas Rs9.6 billion have been released for NTDC and PEPCO for which an amount of Rs33.36 billion was allocated under PSDP 2018-19. Similarly, Rs4.6 billion have been released for Communication Division (other than National Highway Authority) for which the government has earmarked Rs13.97 billion under PSDP 2018-19. Railways Division received Rs8.07 billion out of its total allocation of Rs28.06 billion whereas Aviation Division received Rs443.5 million out of total allocation of Rs3.65 billion. The government also released an amount of Rs11.8 billion for various development projects of Higher Education Commission out of total allocation of Rs30.9 billion.
The government also released Rs2.2 billion for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Division, for which an amount of Rs10.9 billion have been allocated. An amount of Rs1.44 billion has been released for Finance Division out of its total allocations of Rs12.34 billion and Rs540.68 million have been released for Climate Change Division out of its total allocations of Rs802.7 million for the current year, Rs20.3 million for Human Rights Division, and Rs408.5 million for National Food Security and Research Division.
-Discussions Continue on Economic Bailout Package for Pakistan: IMF
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Pakistan are continuing discussions for a bailout package. Fitch Solutions stated in its latest report that the latest round of Chinese largesse has given Islamabad the confidence to snub the IMF’s more stringent requirements for obtaining funds. However, should Pakistan experience acute signs of a currency crisis over the coming months, we would not be surprised to see talks between Pakistan and the IMF resume, it added.
-PM Imran Khan holds important meeting with Qatari PM, followed by official dinner
Prime Minister Imran Khan met Prime Minister of Qatar Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani at his residence in Doha on Monday. Bilateral relations, with a focus on economic cooperation between the two countries, were discussed during the meeting. The Qatari Prime Minister also hosted a dinner in the honour of Prime Minister and his delegation.
-USD likely to trade in Rs138 and 139 range, positive news expected from Qatar: Malik Bostan
President Forex Association of Pakistan (FAP), Malik Bostan Khan has said that at positive news is expected from the Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit of Qatar, adding that if Pakistan is able to get deferred payment facility on imported gas from Qatar, the country will sail out of economic crisis in three years. He said Pakistan’s delegation visiting Qatar would also discuss human resource and security exports to Qatar, which will give a boost to remittances.
-Over 3.9 crore children under age of five to undergo polio immunization across Pakistan
The first nationwide polio vaccination campaign of 2019 started across the country on Monday to immunize over 39 million children despite harsh cold weather with continuous rainfall and snowfall on hilly areas. According to an official of National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), as many as 260,000 front line workers started going door to door across all provinces and towns to ensure more than 39 million children under the age of five receive two drops of the vaccine to protect them against the polio virus.
-Pakistan sees increase in IT exports, government targets $7 billion
The Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunication industry of the country has contributed US $ 540 million foreign exchange to national kitty through exports during first two quarters of this fiscal year 2018-2019. The telecommunication, computer and information services managed to export IT and IT-enabled services worth US $ 540 million, seeing an increase of US $ 20 million as compared to exports figures of same period last year, statistics of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) revealed. It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan's IT industry achieved a benchmark of US $ 1.065 billion of exports in last financial year 2017-18.
Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Monday said that IT sector would bring a change in the country in future, so it is need of the hour time to digitalize the country. Talking to the media persons during his visit to the Virtual University (VU) here, he said that Pakistan was earning one billion dollars per annum through software development and its volume could be increased up to seven billion dollars per annum in the next five years
Similarly: IT exports fetch $540m in six months
According to Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), Pakistan’s IT & ITES-BPO industry comprises more than 2,500 companies, and this number is growing each year. The industry employs over 300,000 English-speaking professionals with many world-class experts in current and emerging IT products and technologies.
-UNGA president acknowledges Pakistan's peace-keeping history
President of the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA), Ms Maria Fernanda Espinosa Monday acknowledged Pakistan’s meritorious contributions to the United Nation peacekeeping missions and termed it one of the largest countries to have contributed to bringing peace in areas marred by insecurity and unrest. Ms Fernanda stated this while interacting with faculty members and students of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) during her visit to the university.
Ms Fernanda, accompanied by Ms Maleeha Lodhi, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, paid a visit to Centre for International Peace and Stability (CIPS) at NUST. Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI (M), (Retd), Rector NUST, along with NUST senior management and faculty received the esteemed guests upon arrival at the main campus. She also lauded NUST for providing peacekeeping training both to local and foreign troops.
-More than 40 World Nations to participate in Pakistan Navy International Exercise
Pakistan Navy will host AMAN 19 exercise in February this year under the slogan of 'Together for Peace'. According to Pakistan Navy , more than forty countries will participate in the exercise. It is aimed at fostering maritime cooperation, promoting safe and security maritime environment for regional and global stability and for preserving oceans which is the common heritage of mankind.
-Gwadar to be made a modern port city
The Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar chaired a meeting to review progress on Gwadar City Master Plan project here on Monday. The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Syed Ali Haider Zaidi, Commander Southern Command, Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, Balochistan Provincial Minister for Information Zahoor Ahmed Buledi, Secretary Planning Zafar Hasan and other officials, said in statement issued by Ministry for Planning, Development and Reform.
Director General Gwadar Development Authority, Dr. Sajjad Hussain and Project Director China Pakistan Economic Corridor Hasaan Duad briefed the participants regarding the master plan. It was agreed to develop Gwadar as a modern smart port city, keeping in view the international standards being followed across the globe.
-Top Pakistani company announces completion of mega construction project in Iraq
Attock Cement on Monday announced it had finished civil, mechanical and electrical work on its Iraq project and the cement grinding unit was at commissioning stage. In a notification sent to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), Attock Cement said it was in the process of obtaining permission for the import of clinker. It added once it got the approval, the company would start the process of import of clinker and thereafter commence trial production.
-European Union to provide 40 Million Euros for Balochistan Water Conservation Projects
European Union and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have agreed to work in Balochistan in Water Conservation projects. This was told by EU Ambassador to Pakistan Jean-Francois Cautaian and IUCN Country Representative Mahmood Akhtar Cheema who called on Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam.
Under the agreement European Union will provide forty million Euros and IUCN will provide technical and human resource assistance.The Advisor briefed the delegation about the Ministry of Climate Change performance in environmental protection and conservation and apprised them the" Recharge Pakistan Project " which aims at raising the under water table by conserving flood water in the right and left bank of Indus River reservoirs, that water could be utilised for domestic as well as horticulture purposes.
-Pakistan, Turkey could increase bilateral trade between through FTA
Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and Turkey could potentially increase bilateral trade with direct impact in the emerging geo-political scenario, said Secretary General of The Businessmen Panel (BMP-Federal) and former chairman of FPCCI standing committee Ahmad Jawad on Monday.
-Punjab government to construct tunnel at Baba Guru Nanak birthplace for Sikh Pilgrims
Provincial Minister Human Rights & Minority Affairs Aijaz Alam Augustine Monday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had planned the construction of a tunnel from the railway station Nankana Sahib to the birthplace of Baba Guru Nanak to facilitate the Sikh pilgrims. The minister was talking to a delegation of minorities, led by MPA Mahendra Pal Singh, here.
He said that after completion of the project, the Sikh pedestrian pilgrims would be able to reach the birthplace of Baba Guru Nanak more comfortably. He said that under the PTI government, equal opportunities were being provided to the minorities in each sector besides protecting them. He said that provision of special funds for upgradation of the minority communities' worship places, upkeep and protection of their graveyards and their residential areas would be ensured. MPA Mahendra Pal Singh acknowledged the efforts made by the PTI government for the Sikh community.
-$1 billion export opportunity for Pakistan
Chief Executive Officer Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) Mian Kashif Ashfaq has said Pakistan has great potential to export at least one billion dollars handmade wood furniture annually if the government properly patronizes furniture industry. In a statement, he urged the government to introduce a skill development programme for the export-oriented furniture industry with a view to promoting the country’s value-added sector. He said that a tax exempted furniture sector in Pakistan will enliven the economy in general, create new jobs and increase production level
-Bakhtiar calls for investor-friendly regulations in Gwadar
Planning, Development and Reform Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar on Monday called for the provision of basic facilities to uplift Gwadar. He was chairing a meeting in the federal capital to review progress made on the Gwadar Master Plan project. The Gwadar Development Authority director general briefed the meeting about the master plan. It was decided that Gwadar would be made a green, clean and environment-friendly city. The minister instructed the authorities to initiate the process of preparing investor-friendly regulations in order to attract maximum investment in the port city.
-‘Govt taking all possible measures to facilitate private sector’
President Dr Arif Alvi said on Monday that revival of the economy was among his top priorities, adding that the government was committed to taking all possible measures to facilitate businesses. “The government is committed to developing the private sector through investment promotion, improvement in the ease of doing business, employment generation and fast growth of manufacturing sector,” he stated while talking to Amreli Steels Chairman Abbas Akberali.
The president underscored that investment in value-added products, where the country enjoyed a comparative advantage, was vital for economic revival. He said despite all challenges, the incumbent government was striving hard to develop an ecosystem which could attract investment in the country.
-FBR resolved 20% of total tax evasion and fraud cases involving billion of rupees in 2018, unearthed tax evasion worth Rs170 billion throughout Pakistan last year
Around 20% of the overall tax evasion and fraud cases involving billions of rupees have been resolved by the tax department during 2018.
The Director-General Intelligence and Investigation-Inland Revenue department has unearthed tax evasion worth Rs170 billion throughout Pakistan. Moreover, official data regarding these cases shows around 50,000 real estate transactions worth around Rs600 billion at deputy commissioner (DC) rate have been unearthed. However, the market value of these transactions unearthed is possibly going to be higher than the stated amount.
Out of these, around 7,500 transactions included people who were not present in tax rolls. Likewise, cases of people not on the tax rolls who purchased vehicles more than Rs10 million were also unearthed. According to an official, the number of these kinds of people numbers in the thousands in Islamabad alone. And all case reports were forwarded to the Federal Board of Revenue’s regional tax offices (RTOs) and large taxpayers’ units (LTUs) for recovery and execution.
-Govt to install 0.1m digital meters by Feb-end
Federal Minister for Power Omar Ayub Khan has directed electricity distribution companies to immediately undertake GIS (geographic information system) mapping of all 11-kilovolt feeders and replace 100,000 electromagnetic meters with digital meters by the end of February 2019 in order to reduce line losses.
The directives were issued in a meeting with chief executive officers of all the power distribution companies at the committee room of the Power Division on Monday.
The minister directed the CEOs to personally inspect the power transformers of various capacities on a random basis to ascertain their mechanical fitness. He also called for launching a clean-up operation in the highly populated areas and removing hazardous wires and other such things.
-Peshawar airport to commence night-time flight operations after five years
After a gap of five years, Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar will start night-time flight operations from January 22. The first flight, after the resumption of 24-hour flight operations, will be to Sharjah. Night flight operations were ceased in 2014 after gunmen fired at a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft while it was landing. One passenger was reported dead in the incident while a member of the cabin crew was injured.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan was apprised about the plan and has been requested to appear for the inaugural flight. On January 3, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) installed a state-of-the-art full body scanner at the terminal to check for smuggling and money laundering.
-Weekly review: KSE-100 index posts gains for third successive week
The stock market had a somewhat decent performance during the outgoing week as the KSE-100 index advanced 258 points or 0.66% to settle at 39,307.
It was the third successive weekly rise, indicating that the cloud of uncertainty that hovered over the market was finally vanishing. The renewed interest was seen ahead of the upcoming mini-budget announcement, hinting that the new finance bill may bring good news for the investors. Expectations of a possible reduction or abolition of advance tax of 0.02% on brokers fuelled positive sentiments at the bourse.
The positivity was evident on first trading day of the week as the benchmark index rallied, following Finance Minister Asad Umar’s reassurances to the business community during his visit to Karachi at the weekend. Additionally, anticipation of measures to improve ease of doing business and reduction in input cost for the export-oriented sector also helped boost sentiments.
-Mazari underscores need for restructuring in Sindh, Punjab police
Underscoring the need for restructuring in Sindh and Punjab police, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari on Monday accused Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government of politicizing police. Mazari said that time has come to end the decades of tolerance for killing through encounters. She said that cops involved in Sahiwal shootout should be given exemplary punishment. The minister clarified that Prime Minister Imran Khan had not appreciated the counter terrorism department.
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Qash being listed on Bitfinex, Binance and Bithumb
READ THIS FIRST PLEASE!
My goal here is to make you aware of the project. I couldnt care less if you invest or not, its going to attract institutional money just like Ripple did. (Softbank, Goldman Sach, Morgan Chase, PWC, VISA, Forex brokers - all these companies are strongly tied to this platform)
Qash is also being referred as the bankers coin. Qash has solved the biggest issue for crypto to go mainstream, it lets users buy crypto from all over the world with the currency of their choice. Its implenting the worldbook on all the major exchanges and giving users the best possible price. Its regulated by the Japanese government, which makes the project even more impressive.
How Qash describes its project:
‘LIQUIDITY, the lifeblood of every industry, is the single most important element lacking in the crypto economy today.’
The only available resources of liquidity are siloed across:
• Developed markets that have standalone exchanges operating in closed pools of liquidity, which are not available to non-residents.
• Emerging markets which are underserved with illiquid local currencies that must interact with bigger liquidity pools to utilize crypto tokens in their home currencies.
Solution: LIQUID Platform
QUOINE is launching a single globally-sourced trading platform (World Book) with an associated suite of services (Prime Brokerage) that brings together the entire global network of cryptocurrency exchanges to enable the highest level of liquidity to all markets.
Do a quick research on their team/background and you will be impressed. One of founders of Qash is Mike Kayamore; former Vice President of Softbank.
Qash will be listed is now trading on Qryptos but will soon be listed on major exchanges such as Bitfinex, Binance and even Bithumb.
Japans Richest man is one of the Qash investors; link below has a quick breakdown of Taizo Son.Mike Kayamore and Taizo Son both mentioned in the article below.
Ladies and gentleman, this is one of the biggest projects crypto has witnessed and is exactly what we need to get crypto mainstream. Financial institutions are getting involved with Qash and will make this a multi billion marketcap very soon.
DYOR and let me know below what you guys think.
Coinmarketcap hasnt updated yet but as soon as they do Qash will most likely end up in the top 30 instantly. And again it will be listed on Bitfinex Dec 1st and is now available on Qryptos.
http://blog.bitfinex.com/announcements/bitfinex-quoine-partnership/
https://liquid-qash.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013595687-Which-exchanges-can-I-trade-QASH-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUa80idlxY4
https://news.quoinex.com/articles/elusive-billionaire-taizo-son-is-an-investor-of-quoine/?lang=en
Disclosure: The original text was posted here yesterday by someone and he deleted it, I got so impressed by the project that I tried to re-create it.
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"Satoshi Nakamoto" the mysterious creator of Bitcoin is no other than the CIA
Bitcoin has surged to all time highs, Who created Bitcoin, and why?
The creator of Bitcoin is officially a name, “Satoshi Nakamoto” – very few people believe that it was a single male from Japan. In the early days of Bitcoin development this name is associated with original key-creation and communications on message boards, and then the project was officially handed over to others at which point this Satoshi character never appeared again (Although from time to time someone will come forward saying they are the real Satoshi Nakamoto, and then have their posts deleted).
Bitcoin could very well be the ‘one world currency’ that conspiracy theorists have been talking about for some time. It’s a kill five birds with one stone solution – not only is Bitcoin an ideal one world currency, it allows law enforcement a perfect record of all transactions on the network. It states very clearly on bitcoin.org (the official site) in big letters “Bitcoin is not anonymous” :
Some effort is required to protect your privacy with Bitcoin. All Bitcoin transactions are stored publicly and permanently on the network, which means anyone can see the balance and transactions of any Bitcoin address. However, the identity of the user behind an address remains unknown until information is revealed during a purchase or in other circumstances. This is one reason why Bitcoin addresses should only be used once.
Another advantage of Bitcoin is the problem of Quantitative Easing – the Fed (and thus, nearly all central banks in the world) have painted themselves in a corner, metaphorically speaking. QE ‘solved’ the credit crisis, but QE itself does not have a solution. Currently all currencies are in a race to zero – competing with who can print more money faster. Central Bankers who are in systemic analysis, their economic advisors, know this. They know that the Fiat money system is doomed, all what you can read online is true (just sensationalized) – it’s a debt based system based on nothing. That system was created, originally in the early 1900’s and refined during Breton Woods followed by the Nixon shock (This is all explained well in Splitting Pennies). In the early 1900’s – there was no internet! It is a very archaic system that needs to be replaced, by something modern, electronic, based on encryption. Bitcoin! It’s a currency based on ‘bits’ – but most importantly, Bitcoin is not the ‘one world currency’ per se, but laying the framework for larger cryptocurrency projects. In the case of central banks, who control the global monetary system, that would manifest in ‘Settlement Coin’ :
Two resources available almost exclusively to central banks could soon be opened up to additional users as a result of a new digital currency project designed by a little-known startup and Swiss bank UBS. One of those resources is the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system used by central banks (it’s typically reserved for high-value transactions that need to be settled instantly), and the other is central bank-issued cash. Using the Utility Settlement Coin (USC) unveiled today, the five-member consortium that has sprung up around the project aims to help central banks open-up access to these tools to more customers. If successful, USC has the potential to create entirely new business models built on instant settling and easy cash transfers. In interview, Robert Sams, founder of London-based Clearmatics, said his firm initially worked with UBS to build the network, and that BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, ICAP and Santander are only just the first of many future members.
the NSA/CIA often works for big corporate clients, just as it has become a cliche that the Iraq war was about big oil, the lesser known hand in global politics is the banking sector. In other words, Bitcoin may have very well been ‘suggested’ or ‘sponsored’ by a banker, group of banks, or financial services firm. But the NSA (as we surmise) was the company that got the job done. And probably, if it was in fact ‘suggested’ or ‘sponsored’ by a private bank, they would have been waiting in the wings to develop their own Bitcoin related systems or as in the above “Settlement Coin.” So the NSA made Bitcoin – so what?
The FX markets currently represent the exchange between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ currencies. In the future, why not too they will include ‘cryptocurrencies’ – we’re already seeing the BTC/EUR pair popup on obscure brokers. When BTC/USD and BTC/EUR are available at major FX banks and brokers, we can say – from a global FX perspective, that Bitcoin has ‘arrived.’ Many of us remember the days when the synthetic “Euro” currency was a new artificial creation that was being adopted, although the Euro project is thousands of degrees larger than the Bitcoin project. But unlike the Euro, Bitcoin is being adopted at a near exponential rate by demand (Many merchants resisted the switch to Euros claiming it was eating into their profit margins and they were right!).
And to answer the question as to why Elite E Services is not actively involved in Bitcoin the answer is that previously, you can’t trade Bitcoin. Now we’re starting to see obscure brokers offering BTC/EUR but the liquidity is sparse and spreads are wacky – that will all change. When we can trade BTC/USD just like EUUSD you can bet that EES and a host of other algorithmic FX traders will be all over it! It will be an interesting trade for sure, especially with all the volatility, the cross ‘pairs’ – and new cryptocurrencies. For the record, for brokers- there’s not much difference adding a new symbol (currency pair) in MT4 they just need liquidity, which has been difficult to find.
So there’s really nothing revolutionary about Bitcoin, it’s just a logical use of technology in finance considering a plethora of problems faced by any central bank who creates currency. And there are some interesting caveats to Bitcoin as compared to major currencies; Bitcoin is a closed system (there are finite Bitcoin) – this alone could make such currencies ‘anti-inflationary’ and at the least, hold their value (the value of the USD continues to deteriorate slowly over time as new M3 introduced into the system.) But we need to pay
Here’s some interesting theories about who or whom is Satoshi:
A corporate conglomerate
Some researchers proposed that the name ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ was derived from a combination of tech companies consisting of Samsung, Toshiba, Nakayama, and Motorola. The notion that the name was a pseudonym is clearly true and it is doubtful they reside in Japan given the numerous forum posts with a distinctly English dialect.
Craig Steven Wright
This Australian entrepreneur claims to be the Bitcoin creator and provided proof. But soon after, his offices were raided by the tax authorities on ‘an unrelated matter’
Soon after these stories were published, authorities in Australia raided the home of Mr Wright. The Australian Taxation Office said the raid was linked to a long-running investigation into tax payments rather than Bitcoin. Questioned about this raid, Mr Wright said he was cooperating fully with the ATO. “We have lawyers negotiating with them over how much I have to pay,” he said.
Other potential creators
Nick Szabo, and many others, have been suggested as potential Satoshi – but all have denied it:
The New Yorker published a piece pointing at two possible Satoshis, one of whom seemed particularly plausible: a cryptography graduate student from Trinity College, Dublin, who had gone on to work in currency-trading software for a bank and published a paper on peer-to-peer technology. The other was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Vili Lehdonvirta. Both made denials. Fast Company highlighted an encryption patent application filed by three researchers – Charles Bry, Neal King and Vladimir Oksman – and a circumstantial link involving textual analysis of it and the Satoshi paper which found the phrase “…computationally impractical to reverse” in both. Again, it was flatly denied.
THE WINNER: It was the NSA
The NSA has the capability, the motive, and the operational capacity – they have teams of cryptographers, the biggest fastest supercomputers in the world, and they see the need. Whether instructed by their friends at the Fed, in cooperation with their owners (i.e. Illuminati banking families), or as part of a DARPA project – is not clear and will never be known (unless a whistleblower comes forward). In fact, the NSA employs some of the best mathematicians and cryptographers in the world. Few know about their work because it’s a secret, and this isn’t the kind of job you leave to start your own cryptography company.
But the real smoking Gun, aside from the huge amount of circumstantial evidence and lack of a credible alternative, is the 1996 paper authored by NSA “HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH”
The NSA was one of the first organizations to describe a Bitcoin-like system. About twelve years before Satoshi Nakamotopublished his legendary white paper to the Metzdowd.com cryptography mailing list, a group of NSA information security researchers published a paper entitled How to Make a Mint: the Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash in two prominent places, the first being an MIT mailing list and the second being much more prominent, The American Law Review
The paper outlines a system very much like Bitcoin in which secure financial transactions are possible through the use of a decentralized network the researchers refer informally to as a Bank. They list four things as indispensable in their proposed network: privacy, user identification (protection against impersonation), message integrity (protection against tampering/substitution of transaction information – that is, protection against double-spending), and nonrepudiation (protection against later denial of a transaction – a blockchain!).
It is evident that SHA-256, the algorithm Satoshi used to secure Bitcoin, was not available because it came about in 2001. However, SHA-1 would have been available to them, having been published in 1993.
Why would the NSA want to do this? One simple reason: Control.
As we explain in Splitting Pennies – Understanding Forex – the primary means the US dominates the world is through economic policy, although backed by bombs. And the critical support of the US Dollar is primarily, the military. The connection between the military and the US Dollar system is intertwined inextricably. There are thousands of great examples only one of them being how Iraq switched to the Euro right before the Army’s invasion.
In October 2000 Iraq insisted on dumping the US dollar – ‘the currency of the enemy’ – for the more multilateral euro. The changeover was announced on almost exactly the same day that the euro reached its lowest ebb, buying just $0.82, and the G7 Finance Ministers were forced to bail out the currency. On Friday the euro had reached $1.08, up 30 per cent from that time.
Almost all of Iraq’s oil exports under the United Nations oil-for-food programme have been paid in euros since 2001. Around 26 billion euros (£17.4bn) has been paid for 3.3 billion barrels of oil into an escrow account in New York. The Iraqi account, held at BNP Paribas, has also been earning a higher rate of interest in euros than it would have in dollars.
The point here is there are a lot of different types of control. The NSA monitors and collects literally all electronic communications; internet, phone calls, everything. They listen in even to encrypted voice calls with high powered microphones, devices like cellphones equipped with recording devices (See original “Clipper” chip). It’s very difficult to communicate on planet Earth in private, without the NSA listening. So it is only logical that they would also want complete control of the financial system, including records of all electronic transactions, which Bitcoin provides.
Could there be an ‘additional’ security layer baked into the Blockchain that is undetectable, that allows the NSA to see more information about transactions, such as network location data? It wouldn’t be so far fetched, considering their past work, such as Xerox copy machines that kept a record of all copies made (this is going back to the 70’s, now it’s common). Of course security experts will point to the fact that this layer remains invisible, but if this does exist – of course it would be hidden.
More to the point about the success of Bitcoin – its design is very solid, robust, manageable – this is not the work of a student. Of course logically, the NSA employs individuals, and ultimately it is the work of mathematicians, programmers, and cryptographers – but if we deduce the most likely group capable, willing, and motivated to embark on such a project, the NSA is the most likely suspect. Universities, on the other hand, didn’t product white papers like this from 1996.
Another question is that if it was the NSA, why didn’t they go through more trouble concealing their identity? I mean, the internet is rife with theories that it was in fact the NSA/CIA and “Satoshi Nakamoto” means in Japanese “Central Intelligence” – well there are a few answers for this, but to be congruent with our argument, it fits their profile.
Where could this ‘hidden layer’ be? Many think it could be in the public SHA-256, developed by NSA (which ironically, was the encryption algorithm of choice for Bitcoin – they could have chosen hundreds of others, which arguably are more secure):
Claims that the NSA created Bitcoin have actually been flung around for years. People have questioned why it uses the SHA-256 hash function, which was designed by the NSA and published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). The fact that the NSA is tied to SHA-256 leads some to assume it’s created a backdoor to the hash function that no one has ever identified, which allows it to spy on Bitcoin users.
“If you assume that the NSA did something to SHA-256, which no outside researcher has detected, what you get is the ability, with credible and detectable action, they would be able to forge transactions. The really scary thing is somebody finds a way to find collisions in SHA-256 really fast without brute-forcing it or using lots of hardware and then they take control of the network,” cryptography researcher Matthew D. Green of Johns Hopkins University said in a previous interview.
Then there’s the question of “Satoshi Nakamoto” – if it was in fact the NSA, why not just claim ownership of it? Why all the cloak and dagger? And most importantly, if Satoshi Nakamoto is a real person, and not a group that wants to remain secret – WHY NOT come forward and claim your nearly $3 Billion worth of Bitcoin (based on current prices).
Did the NSA create Satoshi Nakamoto?
The CIA Project, a group dedicated to unearthing all of the government’s secret projects and making them public, hasreleased a video claiming Bitcoin is actually the brainchild of the US National Security Agency.
The video entitled CIA Project Bitcoin: Is Bitcoin a CIA or NSA project? claims that there is a lot of compelling evidences that proves that the NSA is behind Bitcoin. One of the main pieces of evidence has to do with the name of the mysterious man, woman or group behind the creation of Bitcoin, “Satoshi Nakamoto”.
According to the CIA Project, Satoshi Nakamoto means “Central Intelligence” in Japanese. Doing a quick web search, you’ll find out that Satoshi is usually a name given for baby boys which means “clear thinking, quick witted, wise,” while Nakamoto is a Japanese surname which means ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’ as people with this surname are found mostly in the Ryukyu islands which is strongly associated with the Ry?ky? Kingdom, a highly centralized kingdom that originated from the Okinawa Islands. So combining Nakamoto and Satoshi can be loosely interpreted as “Central Intelligence”.
Is it so really hard to believe? This is from an organization that until the Snowden leaks, secretly recorded nearly all internet traffic on the network level by splicing fiber optic cables. They even have a deep-sea splicing mission that will cut undersea cables and install intercept devices. Making Bitcoin wouldn’t even be a big priority at NSA.
Certainly, anonymity is one of the biggest myths about Bitcoin. In fact, there has never been a more easily traceable method of payment. Every single transaction is recorded and retained permanently in the public “blockchain”. The idea that the NSA would create an anarchic, peer-to-peer crypto-currency in the hope that it would be adopted for nefarious industries and become easy to track would have been a lot more difficult to believe before the recent leaks by Edward Snowden and the revelation that billions of phone calls had been intercepted by the US security services. We are now in a world where we now know that the NSA was tracking the pornography habits of Islamic “radicalisers” in order to discredit them and making deals with some of the world’s largest internet firms to insert backdoors into their systems.
And we’re not the only ones who believe this, in Russia they ‘know’ this to be true without sifting through all the evidence.
Nonetheless, Svintsov’s remarks count as some of the more extreme to emanate from the discussion. Svintsov told Russian broadcast news agency REGNUM:“All these cryptocurrencies [were] created by US intelligence agencies just to finance terrorism and revolutions.”Svintsov reportedly went on to explain how cryptocurrencies have started to become a payment method for consumer spending, and cited reports that terrorist organisations are seeking to use the technology for illicit means.
Let’s elaborate on what is ‘control’ as far as the NSA is concerned. Bitcoin is like the prime mover. All future cryptocurrencies, no matter how snazzy or functional – will never have the same original keys as Bitcoin. It created a self-sustained, self-feeding bubble – and all that followed. It enabled law enforcement to collect a host of criminals on a network called “Silk Road” and who knows what other operations that happened behind the scenes. Because of pesky ‘domestic’ laws, the NSA doesn’t control the internet in foreign countries. But by providing a ‘cool’ currency as a tool, they can collect information from around the globe and like Facebook, users provide this information voluntarily. It’s the same strategy they use like putting the listening device in the chips at the manufacturing level, which saves them the trouble of wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, and other risky methods that can fail or be blocked. It’s impossible to stop a cellphone from listening to you, for example (well not 100%, but you have to physically rewire the device). Bitcoin is the same strategy on a financial level – by using Bitcoin you’re giving up your private transactional information. By itself, it would not identify you per se (as the blockchain is ‘anonymous’ but the transactions are there in the public register, so combined with other information, which the NSA has a LOT OF – they can triangulate their information more precisely.
That’s one problem solved with Bitcoin – another being the economic problem of QE (although with a Bitcoin market cap of $44 Billion, that’s just another day at the Fed buying MBS) – and finally, it squashes the idea of sovereignty although in a very, very, very subtle way. You see, a country IS a currency. Until now, currency has always been tied to national sovereignty (although the Fed is private, USA only has one currency, the US Dollar, which is exclusively American). Bitcoin is a super-national currency, or really – the world’s first one world currency.
Of course, this is all great praise for the DOD which seems to have a 50 year plan – but after tens of trillions spent we’d hope that they’d be able to do something better than catching terrorists (which mostly are artificial terrorists)
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Pros of Trading Forex With an Overseas Account
The evolution of the internet has benefited traders with easy access to the options trading platform in any corner of the world. With the forces of globalization garnering pace, the forex markets also have benefited from the impending storm. While it is subjective to reason out whether the FOREX markets are suited for you or not, the core theme of this article is to ascertain the advantages of trading in the markets with an overseas account.Before deliberating on it, one may wonder why it is beneficial to open an overseas account given the numerous challenges associated with it. The advantages are provided below.
SPECIFIC INCENTIVES IN SOME REGIONS
The first reason to open an overseas account is due to the underlying incentives in some regions which may be unavailable in other regions. For example, in the USA, the federal agency associated with the securities market-Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), prohibits traders to hedge the positions from a similar account. Hedging implies opening two positions on the same currency pair but in two opposite directions. SEC opposes this feature with a simple logic that hedged positions embody a higher level of risk for the clients. Therefore, keeping the client's interests in mind, the facility of hedging is unavailable. However, on the other hand, there are numerous hedging trading strategies that are beneficial to the options trader which are often overlooked by the traders in the USA. To corroborate the example further, suppose you use technical analysis to determine the trading signals on different time-frames. Hence, while one may give a buy signal in a 5-minute chart, a 1-hour chart can provide a sell signal. Since time-frames are spread, it is inevitable that the same currency pair in two different time-frames can display buy and sell signals simultaneously. A trader based in the USA can miss out on these opportune moments. A smart trader may open two distinct accounts but this is time-consuming and wastage of resources. To overcome this glaring issue, a trader can open an overseas account and take advantage in other markets where hedging facility is allowed i.e. a broker not based in the USA but is regulated by an apex institution in that jurisdiction.
DENOMINATED IN DIFFERENT CURRENCY
A trader trading in an overseas account has the opportunity to have the trading account denominated in a different currency. For instance, if your analysis proves that during the medium to long-term period, the Australian Dollar (AUD) is predicted to appreciate against the US Dollar (USD), then you should search for an AUD-denominated account. The way forward will be to look for a broker who would offer this facility and open an AUD-denominated account. Thereafter, along with generating profits upon the right prediction of the markets, you will also generate higher profits due to the appreciation of the corresponding currency pair i.e. AUDUSD. This strategy is widely used by traders who open an overseas account in different parts of the world. However, it is recommended to use this analysis only after careful scrutiny of the currency pair that the resident nation will observe.
OVERCOMING FIFO RULES
In most nations, traders have to respect the FIFO (First in First out) rule. This rule implies that the first position that was opened should be the first position to be closed on the same currency pair in currency options trading. While many may argue that it does not inflict a significant impact on the overall performance, it does, however, impact the psychological level of the trader. Settling a trade in an unfavorable territory to release some margins can be avoided by squaring a trade in positive territory opened at a later phase from a better level. However, if the account is following the laws of the FIFO system, this does not apply. While your jurisdiction may follow the FIFO system, other nations do follow the LIFO system whereby the last opened positions can be settled first to allow the initial opened positions to run their course.The above factors highlight the various virtues of options trading FOREX with an overseas account. Although these factors exemplify the reasons against trading in your domestic account, it is recommended to explore the offshore opportunities prudently before realizing the final decision.
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Forex trading under someone elses name
The US has limited it's residents to be capped with a 1:50 leverage for forex trading. Overseas, some brokers offer up to 1:500, most 1:400. If I know someone in another country, would they be able to open an account for me under their name? IE I give this person cash, they open the brokerage account in their name and I trade from the us. I expect to withdraw the money at some point and bring it to the us, and pay taxes. Is this legal? Any advice on where a question like this should be directed?
TPDR: is it illegal for me to use someone's brokerage account overseas? I reside in the US
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NON US TRADERS - WE NEED YOUR HELP
I was updating the wiki and discovered that we never put any names of foreign brokers into it. This is likely because the majority of the mods are US based. Reddit is international, so we need your help, those of you who are based anywhere that is not the United States: Tell us about your broker.
We need: * Name of Broker * Home page html link * Is the core language something other than English? Do they not have English interface? This is fine, let us know. * Assessment of spreads (tight, wide, unfair, fair, variable, unknown, etc.) * Assessment of Customer service * Minimum Deposit required (It does not matter which currency, just tell us which one with the appropriate symbol) * Country of residence (the Broker's) * Max leverage on Majors, Crosses, and Exotics * Any restrictions we in the US may not be aware of (do any of you poor bastards have strangling regulations like we do in 'Murica??!) * Any relevant information that may influence a new trader's decision, such as finances, deserved reputations, treatment of customers, etc.. In the US, the best example is FXCM having almost gone bankrupt and needing a bailout from Leucadia LLC. Overseas, I am looking for info such as Saxobank being a basket of cunts to overdrawn clients about the CHF, Dukoscopy constantly being the home of advanced forex competitions, how Oanda treats non US clients, etc.
As many as possible. Not just Europe, either! I want to hear from Asia, Africa, South America, and the Pacific Rim. Antarctica and Mars can chime in too.
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10-16 02:23 - 'Hurling Rocks at Caimans: A Cowboy's Tale' (self.Bitcoin) by /u/mine_myownbiz13 removed from /r/Bitcoin within 56-66min
In 1991, my mother had the foresight to leave Venezuela for the United States. She sacrificed a medical profession, her family, her friends, and the comforts of her own land and culture. It was before Chavez, before communism, before famine, before societal collapse. She didn’t know it at the time (perhaps she felt it), but she was saving our lives. Recently, I was asked by her brother, my uncle, to give some words of advice to his youngest son, whom he sent to live in upstate New York earlier this year in the hopes that he might find some opportunity there. He’s 17 and fascinated by cryptocurrencies, but knows next to nothing about them. I wrote this letter for him.
Hello Cousin,
I write you in the hopes that you will take away something useful from my own experience.
There’s a saying in English that’s always stayed with me, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” In other words, nothing in life is easy, not money, not love, not anything. Nothing worth your time is ever going to be easy. There’s no free lunch!
I first got into trading in 2008. Your dad had heard from a friend that Citigroup stock was going to pop soon and that he should buy it. The US Stock Market can only be traded by U.S. citizens and special types of corporations, so he asked me to act as a proxy for his investment, and I did. I did it because I thought it would be a get-rich quick rich scheme that I could learn to do on my own. At this time I was in graduate school and unsure of what to do with my life. I’ve always been good at school. It’s easy for me. I had professors telling me I’d make a great scholar or a great lawyer, but at the time I was teaching middle-school English in a poor neighborhood of Miami. I had a big decision to make.
Naturally, I decided to get rich quick! I spent 2-3 months reading books on stock trading and executing simulated trades on practice accounts. I learned to work a variety of trading platforms so that I could trade several markets around the world, which I did. I quit my job in the fall of 2008 and took my entire life savings of $20,000 into the market. The broker gave me 3.5 times leverage on my money and I had $70,000 of available trading capital. When your dad made his deposit my account had a trading capacity of over $2,000,000. With that kind of margin, I was able to turn $20,000 into over $160,000 in less than 9 months! I was making over $15,000 a month. As a teacher, at the time, I think I made about $2,700 a month. So, as you can imagine, I thought I was a genius! I was getting rich quick, right?
Wrong. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. When your dad sold his share of stock being held in my account I was also forced to liquidate my own positions. I had bought call options on the future price of Apple stock, and the way that kind of trading works is that your money is locked until the future event you are betting on occurs. If you liquidate before a certain date there may be a penalty to pay. In my case, it was $35,000. After this, I had the good sense to step away for a moment, to cash out my chips and think about what came next. Also, I didn’t have a $2,000,000 trading desk anymore, and without the added margin, there was no way I could continue to trade the way I wanted to. I wanted to make medium to long term trades, because one of the first things I learned along the way is that short term trading (day-trading, scalping) is, for the most part, a scam. There are technical reasons for this, but trust me, short-term trading any market, be it cryptos, stocks, or commodities is a bad idea. You will lose money with an almost 100% guarantee.
I walked away from the stock market in 2009 with $150,000 cash but no market to trade it in. So, I did the next best thing: I bought a nice new car (in cash), took a crazy trip to Europe, and consumed over $25,000 worth of shit I didn’t need, and when it was all said and done, I went back to teaching. I taught at an even poorer neighborhood this time. I had gang members in my class. There were arrests on a monthly basis. Some of the kids had psychological problems, emotional problems, learning disabilities, and many of them were being abused at home in one way or another. This was a middle school. Twelve year-olds. I did that job and others like it because I believe in morality and in helping people. That’s the reason I’m writing you this letter, because I want to help you, and I think it's the moral thing to do. And you’ll see what I mean by that when I tell you about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain later on. Anyway, during that year of teaching I discovered a new market to trade. One that would give me 100 to 1 leverage on my money. One where I could manage a $5,000,000 trading desk with only $50,000! That market is called FOREX, and its the global “fiat” currency market. It’s the opposite of the crypto market, which is the global “digital” currency market. More on what all that means later, but for now just understand that FOREX is the most liquid and highly traded market in the world.
After the school-year ended in May of 2011, I took that summer off to research the FOREX market. I read many new books on trading, which were specific to the currency markets. I watched hundreds of hours of video on technical analysis and even more hours of “financial news,” which is mostly economic propaganda, but I won’t digress here. The point is that by late August of 2011, I was once again ready to dive head-first into trading. This time, I thought, it would be even better, because I’d have even more money to “play” with! This time, I thought, I’m going to get rich!
I’ll stop here and tell you that the journey up until this point had not been the smoothest. While trading stocks there were many days when I lost hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of dollars in hours, sometimes in minutes! You may imagine the added level of stress I had to deal with because I was trading with my entire life’s savings and my wife had just given birth to our son, Sebastian. He was a toddler at the time. I’ll give you a brief example of trading’s unpredictable nature, and the unpredictability of financial markets in general: I had spent several months preparing for my first live trade. I’d read many books and practiced my ass off until I thought I was ready. I had a system, a strategy. I was going to get rich, quick! The first week I traded stocks I lost $10,000 in 3 days. I will never be able to fully articulate what it feels like lose 50% of all the money you’ve ever had in less than 72 hours. All the while knowing that if you fail, it will be your family who suffers the most.
You might be wondering: “Shit, why’d you do it?” or “Why’d you keep doing it?” That’s understandable. After all, my academic background is in history and political science, not finance and economics, not statistics. Well, cousin, I did it because I’m a cowboy. A risk-taker. I’ve always been one. I remember being four or five, at our grandfather’s farm, and lassoing calves in the cattle pen by myself. Men were around, but they let me do it. Although, in retrospect, some of those calves were twice my size and could have easily trampled me, I don’t ever remember feeling scared---I loved that shit! I remember sneaking out and walking down to the pond, then going up to the water’s edge to see if I could spot the caiman that lived there. I would even hurl rocks at it sometimes, just to see it move! Another time, I found myself alone in the dark with a 15-foot anaconda not more than a yard away, and all I could do was stare at it, not out of fear, but wonder. Again, in hindsight, probably not the best of ideas, but I’ve never been scared to follow the path laid out by my own curiosity. I am a natural risk-taker. I tell my city-slicker friends that it's because I come from a land of cowboys, where men are born tough and always ready for a challenge. Cowboys are risk-takers by nature, they have to be, the land demands it of them. There’ll be more on risk-taking and the role it plays a little later, but for now, let’s focus on FOREX and what I learned from it.
Trading FOREX was not easy. The hardest part was that it had to be done between 3:00 am - 11:00 am, because these are peak trading hours in London and New York, where the majority of the market’s money resides. This means major price moves, the price swings that can be traded, for the most part, happen during this time window. For me, this meant I had to live a type of quasi-vampiric lifestyle, waking up at 8:00 pm and going to sleep at noon, every day. At first, it takes a toll on your social life, and eventually starts to affect you mentally and emotionally. There is a certain degree of isolation that comes with it, too. You are awake when your friends and family are asleep, and asleep when they are awake. It can get lonely. However, my first six months of trading FOREX were OK. I wasn’t making $15,000 a month anymore, but I was making more than I would have been, had I been teaching. However, I had a deep-rooted feeling of uncertainty. Although I’d had some initial success in trading stocks, and now currencies, I’d always felt, at the back of my mind, that I’d just been lucky, and nothing more.
This fear materialized itself in June of 2012 when the strategy I’d been using for some time was no longer profitable. I panicked. I started experimenting with new strategies, which only made matters worse, and lead to even more panic. It is no exaggeration to say that trading is one-third mathematical, and two-thirds psychological. No amount of books, videos, or paid mentorships, which I also consumed, had prepared me for this eventual reality check: I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing. I had no clue.
I left FOREX humbled, with barely enough money to buy a decent car, much less trade any time soon. The next two years, 2013-2015, were some of the hardest of my life. Harder even than 1991-1993, which, up to that point, had been the worst couple years I’d ever experienced. Those were my first years in the United States, and they were full of hardship. A type of hardship I’d never experienced before, and never have since. Remember the school I mentioned? The one with the gangs and the troubled kids and all the poverty? Well, I attended schools just like that as a kid, too, until I turned 15. I had many more encounters with caimans and anacondas there, except now they had first names, and for some reason, were always more prone to strike! Anyway, those were tough times, but not as tough as the post-FOREX experience.
Failure at FOREX took a mental toll on me. After all, I had gambled everything, my entire future on the bet that I could earn a living as a professional trader. I realized I had failed because of my own intellectual laziness. I always knew I had been lucky, and instead of using the wonderful gift of leisure-time the universe had granted me through that initial success to fill the knowledge gaps I knew would keep me from true and long-lasting success, I let my ego convince me otherwise, and talked myself into making decisions I knew to be extremely dangerous and outside my expertise. I wanted to wrestle the caiman! Cowboy shit. Irrational, youthful folly. Needless to say, I lost 80% of my account, which was also my family’s savings, in less than four months.
Now, I had a real problem. How was I going to pay the bills? What was I going to do with my life? I was 30 years old, had a five-year old son, very little real-world work experience and a college degree in history and political science. How was I going to make money? Serious money? Enough money to help my mom retire and give my son all the advantages I never had? Enough to deliver on the promises I had made to my wife during all those years she put up with my crazy hours and wild ideas about getting rich quick? What was I going to do now? I tell you, cousin, these are the kinds of questions you will find yourself asking if you do not heed my advice.
I didn’t want to teach anymore. I didn’t want to do anything anymore. I was depressed. I had what we call here in the United States, “a quarter-life crisis.” I abused alcohol and drugs to cope with the pain of my failure. I was weak. I was unprepared for the realities of life. I did not yet understand, even at 30 years old, that there is no such thing as a free lunch. I won’t dwell on the specifics of the hardships I endured during these two years, except to say that I almost lost it all, including my life, but I’m grateful I didn't.
However, it was also during this period, 2013-2015, that I began to fill gaps in my knowledge about markets, economics, and the nature of money itself. Gaps I knew would need to be filled one way or another, if I was ever going to trade or invest in anything again. Luckily, towards the end of my FOREX days, I had come to realize there was something wrong with all the information I had been given by the mainstream media, specifically on the topics of economics and finance. I noticed that nothing they ever said about the markets turned out to be accurate, that mainstream financial “news” could not be trusted for investment purposes. It took tens of thousands of dollars in losses and several years of headaches before I learned that lesson. I’m glad I finally did.
I decided to use the last bit of money I had left to buy some gold and silver (by this time I had begun to understand the definition of sound money) and to open up a brick and mortar business. I did not want to work for anyone else, only for myself. I wanted to be an entrepreneur. The trouble was that the only business I had enough money for was a mobile car wash. So, a friend and I bought a van, some pressure cleaners, a whole bunch of soap and got to work! We were going to hustle hard, work warehouse and shopping center parking lots, save enough to reinvest into our business and go after the luxury car market. We were going to charge rich people $1000s to detail Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and it was only going to take six months, tops! Great plan, no? Easy money, right? Well, we washed cars for exactly one day before we realized what a terrible mistake we had made. It turns out car-washing is a backbreaking, low-paying, and degrading business. There’s no free lunch, remember that.
My friend and I were lucky. We quickly transitioned our business from a mobile car wash to a painting/pressure cleaning company, and had immediate success. In less than two months we were hired as subcontractors by a much larger company and I was more or less making what I had made teaching, but working for myself. After a couple of months, my partner and I were already envisioning the hiring of our first employees. Cool, right? No. About a year after we started the business, my partner, a high-school friend of mine, a guy I’d known for more than ten years, decided he didn’t want to do it anymore. That he was too tired of the hardships that come with that kind of work. Tired of making the constant sacrifices required to be successful in business. So, he quit. I lost everything I had invested, because without him, I could not operate the business on my own, and our corporate partner dropped us. I begged him not to quit. I told him that business takes time, that there’s no free lunch, and that we would be rewarded at some point for our hustle and hard work; that we would be able to hire laborers to do the work in less than 6 months, and that we would then focus on sales, and start to make some real money. He did not care. He had his own demons, and chose to steal from me and end our friendship instead of facing the hardship head-on. By this time, however, I was already used to failure, and although I was still coping with the mental stress of having failed at something I once had thought would be my profession, it still did not stop me from following my curiosity, as I always have.
It was during these years that I first learned about Bitcoin. About blockchain. About the nature of money, economic history, the effects of monetary policy on financial markets. I’d wake up at 6:00 am every day, paint houses, pressure clean dirty sidewalks and walls, spend over 2 hours commuting back home every night, and then stay up for as long as my body would allow learning about macroeconomics and the history of markets. I researched the nature of debt and gold a medium of exchange. I read about counter and Austrian economics. I became a libertarian, later, an anarchist, and, after almost two years study, I began to discover legitimate sources of financial news and information, intelligent voices that I could trust. I had acquired enough knowledge and experience to discern the truth from the propaganda, and it was during these same years, these terrible times of hardship, that I finally learned a most valuable lesson on money and markets: capital preservation is the key.
Remember, when I said we’d come back to risk-taking? Well, the trick is not to take it, but to manage it. The secret is education, knowledge. Knowledge truly is, power. Traders are only as successful as the depth of their own knowledge, because it's the only way to keep in check that inherent, paralyzing fear which “playing” with money eventually engenders. As a trader, you must have complete confidence in your “playing” abilities, and this is something only achieved through much study and practice. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, ever.
I want you to know that Bitcoin, the blockchain, and cryptocurrencies are NOT get-rich-quick schemes. They are NOT Ponzi schemes either. They are cutting-edge financial technology, and an emerging asset class. The blockchain has been compared to the agricultural revolution of the Neolithic age and the invention of writing by ancient Mesopotamians, in terms of its importance and potential impact on human civilization. It is a technology which will eventually affect and reshape almost every single industry in the global economy. In the next two decades, all types of industries will be impacted and disrupted by this technology--banking, real estate, healthcare, the legal industry, politics, education, venture capital, just to name a few! This technology allows for something called “decentralized store of value.” Basically, it allows for the creation of an alternative financial system, one where power resides in the hands of the people, instead of corrupt governments and corporations, so that currency crises like the one Venezuela has recently experienced, may one day be completely eradicated, like polio, or bubonic plague.
I will tell you that, at 17 years old, you have an amazing opportunity to set yourself up for incredible success in this brand new industry called the blockchain. There are entire professions that will be birthed into existence in the next 5, 10, and 20 years, in the same way the internet made possible millions of people around the world to work from home, wearing their pajamas, doing a million different things--things which were unimaginable to those who knew the world before the advent of the internet. Of course, it will require a great deal of work and effort on your part, but I assure you, it will be totally worth it!
Today, I am 35 years old. I run a successful ghostwriting business that I manage from the comfort of my own home. I invest exclusively in Bitcoin and precious metals, and hope to retire by the time I’m 40. Well, not really retire, but start on a much-anticipated new phase of my life, one in which I don’t have to worry about financial independence anymore.
To that end, cousin, here is my advice:
Forget about getting rich quick. There’s no free lunch!
Learn the English language, it is one of the tools you'll need for success.
Work or go to school. Either way, dedicate yourself to learning about this new technology as much as you can, and begin to save, as much as you can, in Bitcoin.
I reviewed the website you told me about, [[link]3 , and while I respect, and to a certain extent admire what those gentlemen are doing, I can tell you, unequivocally, that taking those courses won’t turn you into a trader. It won’t make you rich quick. Far from it. In fact, there is nothing that these "warriors" will teach you, that you could not teach yourself for free at [[link]4 .
I’ll end it here. Hopefully, you made it to the end and took away a nugget or two. Please feel free to ask me anything you want about any of it, cousin. I’m always here to help.
Hurling Rocks at Caimans: A Cowboy's Tale
Author: mine_myownbiz13
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Investing in MM/Certificate Deposits as a part of portfolio
I have a chunk of money to invest and I would like to allocate part of it in a low risk asset with max 19m maturity. I don’t live in the US and don’t earn in USD, moreover interest rate in the country of my residence is extremely low.
I have brokerage account with Interactive Brokers and have been eyeing USD Certificate Deposits they broker. Since I never bought any MM/bond instruments I wanted to ask if:
Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea , except for currency risk exposure? Is there something I need to look out for ?
I don’t plan to trade but hold the instrument until maturity and cash in coupons - will Interactive Brokers simply handle all the cash flows for me?
If I wanted to hedge currency exposure is entering and inverted currency position via forex/cfd a viable strategy or is it bettecheaper to buy a put option on USD?
Would you recommend a different low risk alternative ?
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Can US Citizens Go With Foreign Brokers?
It seems like most US brokers don't allow hedging and you need to deposit min $5000 to get started. Is it legal for US residents to open forex broker accounts overseas that don't have FIFO regulations? If so which overseas brokers do you recommend that accept US residents? I need to find a broker that have instant execution since I use EA's
I saw allot of brokers overseas that have min $100 deposits that accept US clients not sure if I can legally open account with them. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Dodd-Frank and resident aliens
I'm pretty new to the whole Forex thing and I'm looking for a broker.
I've come across some confusing and conflicting information about whether US citizens can use foreign forex brokers and use higher leverage and trade CFDs and the like.
From what I know, I believe the answer is "no" thanks to the recent Dodd-Frank legislation, which forbids foreign exchanges from serving US citizens without being registered with US regulators.
However, although I'm personally living, working and residing in the US, and am subject to US taxes, among other things, I'm not a US citizen.
As a resident alien, am I subject to these regulations?
If someone subject to these regulations opens a foreign forex brokerage account anyway, what's the penalty?
Are there any issues with foreign forex investing and tax?
Can anyone recommend a good lawyer to talk to about this? (I'm in CA if it matters)
I had a brief look at the text of the act itself but apparently it's nearly 900 pages long.
EDIT: Reading into it more, it seems the penalties are generally imposed on the brokers themselves under "Memoranda of Understanding" between the US and various countries. It also seems that the restrictions do indeed apply to residents as well. At least the brokers that make a statement on the matter use the word "resident". It seem mainly the media and forums that use the word "citizen". My impression so far is that some brokers operate in countries that aren't subject to the memoranda and as such are outside the jurisdiction of the US regulators, so continue offering services to US citizens/residents.
There's a good list of foreign brokers that work this way here. Tallinex, Tradersway and Fxchoice seem to be the main ones. Out of those only Fxchoice appears to be regulated but it's not clear whether it's selling ECN (they call it "NDD") or not.
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WorldWideMarkets Online Trading to Accept Bitcoin deposits
WWM is an established broker offering online trading in Forex, CFDs and US Stocks to individuals around the world.
Along with many others, we are still studying and debating the ideal role of Bitcoin and other alternative currencies in the world economy. However, as innovators in the financial space and experts in currency management and risk, we are pleased to accept deposits in BTC from qualified depositors for the purpose of trading forex and other instruments from their USD based accounts.
The process is simple: After opening a live account through our website and providing the required ID’s and other documentation, customers can fund with Bitcoin by emailing [email protected] to get the wallet address and instructions.
The deposit will be credited to the customer account in USD at the BTC/USD spot rate from Bitstamp. Any withdrawals would be based strictly on a USD amount, but returned in the equivalent quantity of BTC based on the current spot rate.
WWM is not a Bitcoin exchange, and we do not currently offer actual trading in Bitcoin, although we do plan to introduce a BTC derivative trading product in the near future. The purpose of the BTC deposit must be expressly for trading. We do not solicit or accept any US persons or UK residents as customers.
Learn more about WorldWideMarkets or open an account at our website, or email us for more information: [email protected] www.worldwidemarkets.com
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Default denied based upon quirk of NYCCCA 403 and 404
S & R Med., P.C. v Allstate Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co., 2017 NY Slip Op 50551(U)(App. Term 2d Dept. 2017).
I always knew this quirk existed. I have not seen it utilized, but when you are in default and do not have a leg to stand on, you hunt down procedural hammers that have grown dusty.
“Section 403 of the New York City Civil Court Act provides that service “shall be made only within the city of New York unless service beyond the city be authorized by this act or by such other provision of law, other than the CPLR, as expressly applies to courts of limited jurisdiction or to all courts of the state.” Plaintiff appears to be arguing that defendant is not a resident of the City and, thus, to be implicitly arguing that the service was valid pursuant to CCA 404, which provides for service outside the City upon nonresidents in certain enumerated instances. However, defendant’s position is that it is a [*2]resident of the City of New York, in which case, pursuant to CCA 403, service was invalid. As neither plaintiff’s complaint nor its motion papers set forth any facts allowing for jurisdiction to be acquired over defendant by service outside the City of New York pursuant to CCA 404 (see All-State Credit Corp. v Defendants Listed in 669 Default Judgments, 61 Misc 2d 677 [App Term, 2d Dept, 9th & 10th Jud Dists 1970]), plaintiff has failed to show that service had been validly effectuated, and, thus, plaintiff failed to establish its entitlement to a default judgment.
Defendant is correct here.
Allstate has claims offices in the City and elsewhere. Thus, service must be made at one of the NYC claims offices. The way around this is to cough up $40 and to serve pursuant to Ins Law 1212. Ins Law 1212(b), last sentence states: “Service of process so made shall be deemed to have been made within the territorial jurisdiction of any court in this state.” Therefore service would be as if it was made on one of Allstate’s New York city offices.
No need for traverse hearing where there was no opposition
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v DeCesare, 2017 NY Slip Op 01592 (2d Dept. 2017)
“The detailed and specific evidence submitted by DeCesare in support of her motion was sufficient to rebut the allegations contained in the process server’s affidavit of service, thereby shifting the burden of proof to the plaintiff to establish jurisdiction at a hearing by a preponderance of the evidence (see Wells Fargo Bank, NA v Chaplin, 65 AD3d 588, 589; Bankers Trust Co. of Cal. v Tsoukas, 303 AD2d 343, 344). However, because the plaintiff, which was well aware of the existence of the motion, elected not to file any opposition papers, no hearing was required, and the Supreme Court should have granted DeCesare’s unopposed motion and vacated the order of reference (see Walter v Jones, Sledzik, Garneau & Nardone, LLP, 67 AD3d 671).”
The added bonus is that the statute of limitations has probably run and now the Defendant has a house free and clear.
Consolidation and belated discovery denied
SEE COMMENTS FROM DAMIN TOELL, ESQ. – for further explanation of this case.
Kipor Medicine, P.C. v GEICO, 2010 NY Slip Op 51247(U)(App. Term 2d Dept. 2010)
The branch of defendant’s motion seeking consolidation should have been denied since defendant failed to demonstrate that the actions it sought to consolidate had common questions of law or fact (see CPLR 602 [a]; S & B Neurocare, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co., 20 Misc 3d 132[A], 2008 NY Slip Op 51450[U] [App Term, 2d & 11th Jud Dists 2008]). In addition, the branch of [*2]defendant’s motion seeking leave to amend the answer should have been denied since defendant’s papers presented no evidence that the proposed amendment might have merit (see CPLR 3025 [b]; Ingrami v Rovner, 45 AD3d 806, 808 [2007]). Defendant sought to amend its answer to assert that plaintiff’s certificate of incorporation had been revoked following the surrender, in April 2006, of the medical license of plaintiff’s sole shareholder. Plaintiff, however, is entitled to wind up its affairs and seek to recover no-fault benefits for the services it rendered to its assignors prior to April 2006 (see e.g. A.B. Med. Servs., PLLC v Travelers Indem. Co., 26 Misc 3d 69 [App Term, 9th & 10th Jud Dists 2009]). Defendant has not demonstrated that the facts herein are akin to a fraudulent incorporation (see State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v Mallela, 4 NY3d 313 [2005]).
Moreover, since defendant failed to submit an affidavit specifying that any unusual or unanticipated conditions had developed after the notice of trial had been filed which made it necessary for defendant to engage in further pretrial proceedings (see Uniform Rules for New York City Civ Ct [22 NYCRR] § 208.17 [d]; S & B Neurocare, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co., 20 Misc 3d 132[A], 2008 NY Slip Op 51450[U]), the branch of defendant’s motion seeking to compel plaintiff to respond to discovery demands and produce its sole shareholder for an examination before trial should also have been denied.
Two points. One, consolidation motions seem to have the same rules as severance motions. While it is easy to sever, it is equally as difficult to consolidate. Two, belated discovery following the filing of a notice of trial is shunned upon.
A better question is assuming the facts as presented by Justice Golia are accurate (see below), why would anybody prosecute this type of action. Does this make the law firm prosecuting this action a co-conspirator or accessory after the fact to a fraud? I am not sure –
“Unlike the majority, I do not find that defendant failed to demonstrate that the actions it sought to consolidate had common questions of law or fact,” or that defendant’s papers presented no evidence that the proposed amendment might have merit,” or that additional discovery should also have been denied.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, I agree with the majority in the ultimate result in that defendant waited nearly two years from the time it knew that Dr. Meisher had committed insurance fraud and was losing his medical license. Indeed, it was this very defendant, GEICO, that was the named victim” in the case to which Dr. Meisher entered his guilty plea. I can find no valid reason for this particular defendant to have ignored these concerns for such an extended period of time. Certainly, if defendant had submitted the same motion within a reasonable time, I would have voted to affirm the order of the Civil Court.”
Summary judgment denied based upon the failure to plead the "emergency doctrine" as an affirmative defense
Franco v G. Michael Cab Corp., 2010 NY Slip Op 02744 (2d Dept. 2010)
“The defendant could not properly rely on the emergency doctrine in support of its motion. Since the defendant failed to plead the emergency doctrine as an affirmative defense in its answer, and the facts relating to the emergency were known only to the defendant and Badrane, the motion raised new issues of fact not appearing on the face of the pleadings, which resulted in unfair surprise to the plaintiff.”
This is interesting because the trend in the case law has been to either excuse unpleaded affirmative defenses or to almost always grant a motion to amend the complaint to plead the affirmative defense, provided the proposed affirmative defense has merit. There was a no-fault case a year ago – its name escapes me now – where the Appellate Term, Second Department held, point blank, that the failure to plead an affirmative defense or move to amend the complaint to include the proposed affirmative defense was of no moment.
Summary judgment denied based upon the failure to plead the “emergency doctrine” as an affirmative defense
Leave to amend should not be granted on the eve of trial
We often see motions to amend being denied because an amendment is palpably devoid of merit. We rarely see these motions denied because the motion to amend was made too late. Here is an example: American Cleaners, Inc. v American Intl. Specialty Lines Ins. Co., 2009 NY Slip Op 09172 (2d Dept. 2009)
“However, where the application for leave to amend is made long after the action has been certified for trial, judicial discretion in allowing such amendments should be discrete, circumspect, prudent, and cautious'” (Morris v Queens Long Is. Med. Group, P.C., 49 AD3d at 828, quoting Clarkin v Staten Isl. Univ. Hosp., 242 AD2d 552, 552). “Moreover, when . . . leave is sought on the eve of trial, judicial discretion should be exercised sparingly” (Morris v Queens Long Is. Med. Group, P.C., 49 AD3d at 828; see Comsewogue Union Free School Dist. v Allied-Trent Roofing Sys., Inc., 15 AD3d 523, 525; Rosse-Glickman v Beth Israel Med. Ctr.-Kings Hwy. Div., 309 AD2d 846). “In exercising its discretion, the court should consider how long the party seeking the amendment was aware of the facts upon which the motion was predicated, whether a reasonable excuse for the delay was offered, and whether prejudice resulted therefrom”
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