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On 7 March 2019 the Home Office introduced changes to the Immigration Rules consisting of 296 pages! Followed on 1 April 2019 - with more changes!
The main change was to allow for the universal roll out of the EU Settlement Scheme for EEA nationals living in the UK on 29 March 2019.
However, digesting the volume of changes has been a challenge.
Herewith, is a summary of the changes and during the next few months we will issue further news updates and comment further, on our specific immigration service pages. We would advise potential applicants to consult the impact of any potential changes related to them with an immigration solicitor:
7 March 2019 changes
1 April 2019 changes
*due to the impending change of Prime Minister the rules may be altered in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit.
Some of the changes and the effective commencement dates are buried within the 296 pages. No doubt the ongoing saga of Brexit will result in further changes to the immigration rules and challenges for applicants and immigration practitioners.
For those intending to apply for through the EU Settlement scheme it now applies to those living in the UK up to 31 October 2019 given the extension granted by the EU.
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The Municipality of Thiva (Thivaion) belongs to the Prefecture of Boeotia of the Region of Sterea Ellada and its present form is due to the consolidation of the former municipalities of Thebes, Vayion, Plataeans and Thisvi according to the Kallikratis Program. The islands also include islands that exist on the coasts of the Corinthian Gulf: Alatonisi, Vroma, Grompourara, Kouveli, Makronissi, Tabourolo and Fonias.
The Municipality has an area of 822.92 km2 and a population of 36,477 inhabitants, based on the latest census of 2011.
The seat of the Municipality of Thebes is the city of Thebes.
Thebes is one of the oldest cities in Greece and has a great and interesting history. According to mythology, its founder is Cadmus, the son of King Phoenix Agenoras, who left Phoenix to find his sister Europe, which Zeus had kidnapped. When he arrived in Greece, he took an oracle from the Delphi oracle, following the first heifer he would meet and at the point where the animal would kneel to build his own city. Indeed, in the hills of the Boeotian Plain was built the heptai Thebes. From Kadros came the genus of Lavadakides, which belonged to Oedipus.
The first monuments that have been found prove that Thebes first inhabited the first season of copper and the inhabitants were probably Kares. The Mycenaean years Thebes was an area very strong economically and militarily. He was kept intact by the Peloponnesian war and did not take part in the war of Troy. In the 8th and 7th centuries, Thebes dominated all the cities of the Boeotian alliance. In 570 BC the Plataeans gained their independence with the help of the Athenians. Thebes, due to the Athenian attitude, favored the Persians when they invaded Greece. After the Battle of Plataea, where the Persians were defeated, the Greek victors besieged Thebes and defeated it. The Thebes then allied with the Spartans, later the Spartans wanted to become the Thebes subordinates to them, there were battles and in the end Thebes with Pelopidas were freed from enslavement and lived great prosperity. In 362 the decline began and the great catastrophe occurred when Alexander captured the Thebes and destroyed it. The city was rebuilt by Kassandros, followed by a decline until the 6th century BC Justinian rebuilt walls to protect Thebes from the invaders. The silk culture helped Thebes, became a shopping center and the textile dyeing industry was developed. In the 9th century, Leo VI the Sophos appointed Thebes the capital of the subject of Greece with the seat of archbishop and general. Centuries later Thebes lived an invasion by the Normans. The Franks followed, the Catalans, and in 1456 Thebes was conquered by the Turks.
Today in Thebes due to the close distance from Athens and the harbor of Halkida has been favored in the establishment of industrial units.
The area has important monuments and archaeological sites: Mycenaean tombs, just outside the city center, the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, the spring of Ag. Theodoroi, known as the Oedipus fountain, since Oedipus washed the traces after the murder of his father, the Dirk Fountain in the Frankish Aqueduct, a monument of the times of the Ottoman domination, the church of Evangelist Loukas, where there is the shrine which was placed pile of the Evangelist. Also Thebes has many churches and monasteries.

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Destigmatizing Facial Disfigurement - A shame free guide for parents, caretakers and anyone looking to understand face equality
Face Equality International released the first shame-free guide for parents on how to talk facial disfigurement for the 3rd annual Face Equality Week, which was May 17-24, this year.
- "Mummy, what's wrong with that man/woman?" is a phrase many will recognize and is an all-too-common experience faced by people with a facial disfigurement.
- So, working with ambassadors including Adam Pearson and Jono Lancaster, Face Equality International has created an illustrated guide to help parents normalize facial differences for children, and equip them with the dialogue to deal with potentially awkward situations.
- The launch comes as 35 worldwide NGOs unite as part of an annual campaign to amplify the movement for face equality.
- Support the campaign by downloading the guide via Face Equality International's website or sharing it on social media via: http://devarea.live/FEI/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Destigmatising-Facial-Disfigurement-FINAL-.pdf
Monday 17 May: Today, Face Equality International (FEI) and ambassadors including Adam Pearson, Jono Lancaster, and Carly Findlay mark the third annual InternaFonal Face Equality Week, by releasing the first ever guide for parents on the facial difference.
InternaFonal Face Equality Week is an annual global campaign aiming to highlight the contemporary issues facing people with facial differences. The guide contains simple to absorb Fps and illustrations detailing how to discuss facial disfigurement with children, how to react if your child points at a person with facial difference out in the street, and the best ways generally to normalize an underexposed area of diversity for little ones.
Jono Lancaster, Co-Founder of the Love Me Love My Face FoundaFon, said; "This guide is to tackle moments like when a child is helping mom do the big shop in the supermarket asks "Mom, what's wrong with that mistakes face? Then the mom goes, shut up, drags the child away and they both scuttle off in the other direction whilst trying to avoid me for the rest of the time. All I really expect is for you to be open-minded and to be greeted with a genuine smile."
Award-winning disability rights campaigner, actor, presenter, and speaker Adam Pearson, comments; "How can we normalize anything unless we are prepared to learn about it? Children noticing and asking questions about my face is perfectly natural. Parents telling them this is rude isn't it. That's my decision to make. I have a disfigurement...let's talk about that!"
Research* by Changing Faces, the UK's leading charity for anyone with a scar, mark, or condition that makes them look different, shows that almost a quarter (23%) say they feel self-conscious or embarrassed going out in public as a result of their visible difference. Everyday activities can be a challenge with over a third (38%) feeling uncomfortable at school, (35%) at work, and on (34%) public transport.
After over a year of mask-wearing and social restriction, arguably the issue of facial disfigurement is less exposed than ever and anxiety about having to return to public situations is increasing. At a time when parents globally are also thinking more about how to ensure their children are open to a greater level of diversity and grow up in a kinder, fairer world, the guide could not have come at a better moment.
In fact, research shows children as young as four years can have negative attitudes towards others because of how they look (Parnell, Williamson, Lewis & Slater, 2021). Unsurprising perhaps, given that in today's advertising, tv, film, or even in retail and packaging there are very few neutral or positive examples of people with facial differences. However, there are many negative examples; see this open letter from FEI to Amazon TV following a casting call for their Lord of the Rings series.
FEI's remit is to advocate for people with facial disfigurements alongside their partners. So, identifying that parents, in particular, might struggle for what to do if their child asked (usually very loud, embarrassing) questions - and that children are the perfect place to start when it comes to changing perception of an issue, they took advice from members and experts to create this visual guide.
Phyllida Swie, CEO of Face Equality InternaFonal comments; "Many of the negative experiences faced by someone with a facial disfigurement are a result of unwilling, well-intentioned awkwardness around saying or doing the wrong thing. But a drastic drive for greater education across key sectors and communities can all help us to make face equality a reality. That's why we've created this guide for parents, recognizing the power that they can have in shaping young minds to respect and understand differences. Education starts at home, and we want to guide and encourage shame-free, open conversations from an early age."
Although the guide is aimed at people who don't have personal experience of disfigurement, it can be equally helpful for people who do. You can find plenty of other tools and guidance materials for helping us to make face equality a reality on the Face Equality InternaFonal website. https://faceequalityinternational.org
To support the campaign, download the guide HERE.
To find out more about FEI and the guide itself, please visit www.faceequalityinternational.org. The International Face Equality Week campaign will include a variety of activities in addition to the launch of the guide, in order to amplify the voices of the facial difference community by providing a moment in the year to highlight their lived experiences and to engage with wider society. AcFviFes will include an online resource-hub, selfie campaign, and dedicated Instagram and Facebook filter as a direct challenge to the look-perfect culture associated with the concept of a selfie.
FEI will also run a series of educational sessions on Facebook Live throughout the week featuring key voices from the community offering life lessons and practical guidance on issues including representation in books and film, teaching face equality in the classroom, and how to share your story to bring about change.
Notes to editors
*Research conducted by ComRes for the 2019 Changing Faces "My Visible Difference" report. The full report is available to download here:
- InternaFonal Face Equality Week runs from 17-24 May 2021 and is currently in its third year, having started in the UK in 2017.
- For more information, visit Face Equality International's website.
- For any media inquiries or interview requests during InternaFonal Face Equality Week please contact: [email protected]
About Face Equality International
The mission of Face Equality International (FEI) is to mobilize the many groups and organizations, big and small, national and international, which support and represent people with facial differences and disfigurements and thereby to create the critical mass and solidarity needed to gain global aUenFon for the campaign for face equality. The alliance acts as a powerful, collective voice for those affected by facial difference.
Face Equality InternaFonal was created by Dr. James Partridge OBE, founder of Changing Faces UK, with the support of nine founding members. The alliance was launched in November 2018 and now has thirty worldwide members.
Most member NGOs are condition-specific (ie: for people with clefts, burns, craniofacial conditions, psoriasis, and other conditions) and their members have very different medical and surgical needs and treatments. But their members also face very similar psychological, cultural, and social barriers to living fulfilling lives.
Face Equality International advocates for people who have any condition which can affect their faces – such as those which affect faces only like cleft lips and palates or facial paralysis and those that affect faces and bodies like scars, vitiligo, and alopecia.
FEI UK members include
- Birthmark Support Group
- Changing Faces UK
- Clee Lip and Palate AssociaFon
- Future Faces
- Katie Piper Foundation
- MicroFa UK
- Project Harar
FEI has member organizations in the following countries:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- France
- Italy
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Turkey
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The textures of Elucid's music—the sandpaper grate, the demons groaning to life on the low end, the stabs at spiritualism, the stabs of Björk's sampled voice—are more varied, and layered more densely, than those that bubble on rap radio today. In fact, you would probably have to go back nearly three decades to find a precedent in the genre's mainstream for the New York rapper's sound. The closest analog might be Fear of a Black Planet, one of Public Enemy's twin masterpieces. That record, released in 1990, was manic, cacophonous. The Bomb Squad, who produced the album in its entirety, shifted moods and tempo with a striking clarity of vision; they also sampled nearly 150 songs, according to best estimates. In the years that followed, that labyrinthine style not only fell out of creative vogue, but became vastly more difficult after a New York district court ruled against Warner Bros. and Biz Markie, codifying new rules around sampling.
Elucid does not exist in rap's mainstream. He's also not sanding down his messaging for megaphones the way Chuck D often did. His writing is full of cryptic asides and rhetorical double-backs, closed loops and dead ends. In 1990, the idea of rap as reportage was novel to much of white America; in 2018, Elucid is making music that seems to have internalized and processed not only hundreds of years of American history and racism, but the collapse of both into bad-faith, contextless internet squabbles.
His music isn't about the internet in any obvious way, but it could only be the product of a world where East New York real estate and Nazi recruiters and lupus fundraisers slip past you, one after another on an infinite scroll. On a song called "Obama Incense," from his remarkable 2016 LP Save Yourself, he details a yard littered with "crack stems and scratch-off tickets," blows dust off a kalimba, watches pimps kill time by writing Yelp reviews of diners, sees "babies wave guns out in plain view," then gets to the vein: "You want it all, but it can't save you." Where that album took aim at the small- and capital-G Gods who claimed to see through that postmodern fog, his latest, Shit Don't Rhyme No More, comes across as an urgent attempt to give order, in small increments, to an orderless time. It often addresses its subjects obliquely, but that's when Elucid, as a writer, is at his best; as he raps on "RZA Taught Me": "If I can make you really feel it, I won't have to explain shit."


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It's that time of year again at Moose's school…ISAT time.
Now, he hasn't been affected by this directly, yet. I believe the actual testing begins in third grade. But he's already indirectly feeling the effects (and has been since he started in the Early Childhood program way back when), as they have signs up all over the school demanding quiet in the hallways, the teachers are constantly reminding them that tests are beings taken, and there's a general somber feeling that clouds the school. Yes, they try to make it fun, too, by having special themes each day, but those end up being just another hassle, as he tries to locate the right color of shirt to wear each morning for two weeks.
Yes, I said two weeks. That is true bureaucracy for you. Perhaps if we didn't take two weeks out of every school to test the children's knowledge on what they've learned, the teachers would actually have time to, I don't know, teach. Or maybe that's just too reasonable of a thought.


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Productivity and performance tracking have been on the rise since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote and hybrid work. Now, as pandemic restrictions recede and more traditional work habits reemerge, it's inevitable some organizations will want to extend tracking beyond the company PC to mobile devices.
That means IT could soon be involved in selecting, implementing, and supporting productivity and performance monitoring solutions that keep tabs on workers wherever they are — even if they're not sitting in front of a computer.
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Get Setup
In order to get the most of this book, you will want to be able to execute the examples in the notebooks, modify them, break the code, and fix it. Pedagogically, that is the best way for you to learn the concepts. Here are the recommended ways in which you can get set up.
We recommend the use of Binder! This is because Binder will automagically setup an isolated and ephemeral compute environment for you with all of the packages needed to run the code in your notebooks. As such, you won't have to wrestle with anything at the terminal. To go there, click on the following button:
VSCode Development Containers
Assuming that you're using Visual Studio Code and have attempted to use development containers before, you can run the Network Analysis Made Simple tutorial content inside a development container. After Binder, this is the second easiest way to get set up. You need to have Docker installed on your computer but don't worry -- you won't have to execute any Docker commands :).
Install the Remote Containers extension
This is found in the Extensions marketplace.
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conda environments
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If you are feeling confident enough to set up
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(We'll be assuming you've already cloned the repository locally.)
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We've provided a Makefile with a single command:
make conda
On most *nix systems, that should get you most of the way to having the environment setup.
Alternative: Execute individual commands
If you encounter errors, then you should know that the Makefile command
make conda
basically wraps the following steps.
Firstly, it creates the conda environment based on the
environment.yml file:
conda env create -f environment.yml
Next, it activates the environment:
conda activate nams
We have a custom module for the project, which is called
that you will have to install.
# In the root directory of the cloned repository
python setup.py develop
Finally, it runs a check on the environment to make sure everything is installed correctly:
python checkenv.py
venv environments
If you're not a
conda user, then you can use
venv to create your environment.
Leverage the Makefile
As with the
conda commands, you should be able
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Peredur Owen Griffiths, who represents Plaid Cymru, is one of four regional Senedd Members serving the South Wales East region.
This week marks the two-year anniversary since many communities across Wales were devastated by Storm Dennis. In my region, Llanhilleth was hit particularly hard, as was Ystrad Mynach and Machen in Caerphilly County Borough. At the time, this was billed as a once-in-a-lifetime event in terms of the levels of rainfall we experienced during that storm and the ones that followed in quick succession. I know I was not the only one who was sceptical about such claims considering the climate emergency we face. The science clearly points to what was once regarded as 'freak weather' becoming much more of the norm. Many people who were flooded during those dreadful events two years ago now find it hard to relax and sleep at night whenever we receive the kind of stormy weather we have had in the last week. It is unreasonable to expect people to live like that.
In the last week, that scepticism many of us felt about the storms of 2020 not likely to repeat themselves any time soon has been validated by none other than the chief executive of Natural Resource Wales, Clare Pillman. She has warned that storms are the "future reality". This acknowledgement may unease many people – and that is completely understandable. No one wants to see those terrible pictures of people losing all their downstairs belongings in waist-high water in their homes. However, with this acknowledgement comes a responsibility on those in power to make the changes necessary to mitigate against these storms whenever they may happen. It is no longer acceptable for the authorities to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to flood alleviation measures.
Plaid Cymru has made sure that flood prevention is on the to-do list of the Labour Government thanks to the co-operation agreement we signed with them. The agreement contains a clear commitment to "commission an independent review of the local government section 19 and Natural Resources Wales reports into extreme flooding in winter 2020-21 and act on its recommendations." Further to this was a pledge to "invest more in flood management and mitigation and plan to respond to the increased risk of flooding."
This is a good start but Plaid Cymru wants more. I echo the calls of my Senedd colleague Heledd Fychan – who represents many flooded communities in the South Wales Central region – in calling for the establishment of a Welsh Flood Forum. This would be based on the body established in Scotland tasked with collaborating with communities at risk of flooding to develop resilience groups and provide fast and effective support when it is needed. A common complaint throughout many communities after Storm Dennis was that help was slow to arrive and, when it did come, it was inadequate.
As we have seen in the last week, heavy rain and storms are here to stay. Wales needs to adapt to the dangers posed by the climate emergency if we are to give people the peace of mind they deserve. It's not too much to ask for.
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Plastic Surgery Award.
—The Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery offers as its 1950 award $500 (first prize of $300; second prize of $200) and a certificate of merit for essays on some original unpublished subject in plastic surgery.Competition shall be limited to residents in plastic surgery of recognized hospitals and to plastic surgeons who have been in such specific practice for not more than five years.The first prize essay will appear on the program of the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, to he held in México D. F., Mexico, November 27 to 29, 1950. Essays must be submitted before Aug. 15, 1950.Communications should be addressed to the secretary, Dr. Clarence R. Straatsma, 66 East Seventy-Ninth Street, New York.
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The COP26 summit in Glasgow received mixed reactions from activists and onlookers, with many arguing that national leaders remain too lax on a time-bound strategy for halting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. However, quantifiable progress was achieved on one major climate driver – methane – giving reason for optimism amid much uncertainty.
Global emissions of this tiny molecule – made up of one carbon surrounded by four hydrogen atoms – are responsible for up to 30% of all global warming, with 60% of total emissions deriving from human sources. Furthermore, methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timeframe, meaning that aggressive action to remove and mitigate methane emissions in the near-term can provide immediate benefits for the climate, and will be key to achieving Paris Climate Agreement targets.
As regulators in Europe and North America edge ever closer to imposing Methane reporting requirements and emissions restrictions on companies, it is essential that business leaders are proactive in their response and acquire a firm understanding of why supply chain action is key to fulfilling the Global Methane Pledge.
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Five parking terminal pay stations will soon replace "smart" parking meters on Sherman Avenue between Clark and Church streets, described by City staff as "one of the busiest and highest volume blocks for parking sessions in the City of Evanston." In the first four months of 2017, 59 meters processed more than 65,000 transactions.
Gross revenue from those transactions topped $51,000. Apparently, the wear and tear is delivering a beating to the relatively new meters, and staff recommended replacing them. "This is evidently because the meters that I dearly love just aren't working properly," said Alderman Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, who has long opposed pay stations that require parkers to return to their car after paying to leave receipts on car dashboards.
The new pay stations eliminate that need, said Parking Division Manager Rick Voss. The stations allow a "pay by space [cell phone] application. You don't have to walk to the meter if you have that app." The stations will be pay-by-space, allowing users to enter their space number at the pay station if they are not using the cell phone app.
The single-space parking meter heads frequently process credit card transactions. "When the meters are used, every time the credit card is run," a communication is wirelessly initiated, said Erika Storlie, the City's Director of Administrative Services. The result: Batteries inside the meters burn out and fail even though they are solar-powered. The meters have a proprietary battery, expensive and time-consuming to replace.
The City received 2,430 requests for service on broken or non-functioning meters between April 2016 and April 2017, an average of about 46 per week. Evanston spent $7,500 for the repair of 40 meters that could not be serviced by staff. Meters originally cost about $500 each.
The contract also calls for a single source purchase from Total Parking Solutions (TPS) in Downer's Grove. Mr. Voss told the RoundTable that TPS is the local vendor for Cale Webb, and the City decided to use Cale Webb products in order to maintain uniformity across all City parking pay stations.
The City plans to encourage more use of cell-phone apps in parking transactions. "As parking technology has evolved, there has been a huge adoption of the mobile parking app, where users can pay for their parking via their cell phone," wrote staff in their memo. "To encourage greater use of the app staff is currently working with our vendor to offer the 'wallet' feature, which allows users to pre-load a set dollar amount to use toward parking sessions. We will be offering incentives for this such as offering $1 extra for each $20 that is pre-loaded…"
The recommendation came from City staff alone, and not the City's Parking and Transportation Committee. That committee's website shows it has not met since November, 2016, generally because of the lack of a quorum, Mr. Voss told the RoundTable the committee simply has not been able to meet because members have not been willing to show up.
The Committee's meeting scheduled for May 24, the Wednesday after Council's vote, was once again canceled. This time, according to the City's website, the committee did not meet because of "a lack of agenda items."


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Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.
There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.
Cumulative gains in Innovation
There is much focus on radical shifts and disruptive technology, but in fact the vast majority of radical shifts result from incremental improvements. This is similar to change in general ? the most significant gains are made by applying what is already known:
a) There is usually no break with the past ? all products are evolutions from that which previously existed.
b) Small incremental changes result in greater shifts over time than single radical movements.
c) Radical shifts result from small changes ? Dell revolutionised computer order and delivery systems by simply applying the Internet model.
d) The Internet itself has a long history of development, which can be traced back to the solid state transistor and beyond.
These and other topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with an Innovation Bible, Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com/
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MUMBAI, Mar 2 (The CONNECT) - Consumer technology brand Acer today unveiled the Ozone Antibacterial Sanitizer. Ozonated water has strong antibacterial power. It can be used in our daily lives for cleaning and keeping things sterile, fresh, healthy, and bacteria-free. The newly developed and exclusive patent of the "instant ozone generation technology" will instantly dissolve ozone in water, which removes 75% pesticides from the surface extending the shelf life of edibles by 2 to 3 times.
Sooraj Balakrishnan, Head - Marketing, Acer India said, "Our mission at Acer is to make people's lives better and healthier. With the ongoing pandemic, we aim to bring products that create a safe environment which is essential now than ever before. With the Ozone Antibacterial Sanitizer, we believe that the cutting-edge technology will provide our customers with access to clean & bacteria-free environment using the power of ozonated water keeping their family and loved ones safe and healthy at all times."
This simple and easy-to-use product is fixed on our regular tap water pipe which then produces ozonated water that can be used to clean products like fresh food, utensils, and surfaces. The water from the Ozone Antibacterial Sanitizer is also proven to eliminate pet diseases such as bacterial infections, fungal infections, parasites, and allergies. During the reduction process, the water can achieve sterilization, deodorization, bleaching, and preservation. The ozonated water is FDA approved, especially used in the Food and Beverage industry, used to sterilize bottles and utensils.
Acer Ozone Antibacterial Sanitizer can be purchased from the company's online store and Amazon and Flipkart at a starting price of ₹16,999


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Most beginners who have already acquired a certain level of knowledge, or have their own experience in trading, know that active trading is a process that requires a sufficient level of training, knowledge and trading practice. Even if you have training, a certain level of knowledge and trading practice, the question arises what else you need to know to secure yourself from losses and start to increase your capital steadily.
In this article, we will look at the 3 main whales that keep a successful and profitable trade.
- The first thing you should have 100% is a trading strategy. Trading strategy is a set of rules, following which you open trading transactions. For example, our team, Biko Trading, uses a breakout strategy and a false level breakout.
Example # 1 – breakout of the resistance level (level of $4196 in the chart).
Example # 2 – breakout of the trend line.
Example # 3 – false breakout of the support level.
- The second thing you should definitely have is a risk management system. An important part of risk management is the risk per trade. Risk per trade is the percentage of capital you risk when opening a trade. 1% risk is the most optimal. It is better if this percentage is even lower. For example, if your deposit is $1,000, you need to set no more than $10 risk per trade.
Of course, if your risk per trade is 10%, then after 5 unprofitable trades your balance will be reduced two times. You can learn on this page the exact way how to calculate the risk per trade.
- The third thing to understand is the market trend. You may have a good profit strategy and strictly follow the rules of risk management, but if the market trend does not match your trading system, you will get more unprofitable trades, or just stand still. Therefore, another important task is the ability to identify the direction of the market.
There are three types of trend in the market:
Upward trend
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Sideways trend
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Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to abolish the House of Lords in his first term if he is elected prime minister.
Speaking to Sky News, the Labour leader confirmed his party "do want to abolish the House of Lords", adding that he does not think anybody could "defend" the institution.
Sir Keir told Kay Burley: "It's one of the recommendations, as you know, in today's report.
"What we're going to do after today is now consult on those recommendations, test them, and in particular, look at how can they be implemented."
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Asked if it is his hope the House of Lords will be abolished within his first term as prime minister, Sir Keir replied: "Yes, I do.
"Because what I asked when I asked Gordon Brown to set up the commission to do this, I said what I want is recommendations that are capable of being implemented in the first term."
He added: "We're going to get one shot at fixing our economy and fixing our politics and I want to make sure we get it exactly right."
But Tory peer Lord Norton has urged caution over proposed reform to parliament's second chamber after suggestions it should be replaced with elected representatives.
"One has to be wary of some Big Bang reform, grand reform, which often takes the form of displacement activity – the nation's got problems, people must come up with constitutional reform because it's a fairly simple, straightforward proposal, rather than actually getting down to the real issues," he told Times Radio.
Asked if he will continue to nominate peers to the House of Lords, as Labour unveiled plans to abolish the upper chamber, Sir Keir later told the PA news agency: "Everyone wants a functioning House of Lords until it is abolished and replaced by a second chamber."
Transfer of power
The proposal forms part of Labour's blueprint for a "New Britain", outlined in the report of its commission on the UK's future – headed by former PM Gordon Brown.
Unveiling the report at a joint press conference with Sir Keir in Leeds, Mr Brown said the work is proposing "the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster and Whitehall" that "our country has seen".
Sir Keir told the audience: "You are being held back. Held back by a system that hoards power in Westminster.
"A system which smugly thinks it knows what skills, transport, planning and job support West Yorkshire needs better than the people who live here.
"I've long been convinced that this broken model has held back our politics and held back our economy. And I'm determined we unbind ourselves and free our potential."
The report on the UK's future, commissioned two years ago, also makes the following recommendations:
• Handing new economic, taxation and law-making powers to mayors and devolved governments
• Sweeping constitutional reform in an attempt to "clean up politics"
• Banning almost all second jobs for MPs
• Moving 50,000 civil servants – 10% of the workforce – out of London
• Developing 300 "economic clusters" around the country – from precision medicine in Glasgow to creative media in Bristol and Bath – with the aim of doubling growth in the UK
'Scotland has an alternative'
Sir Keir and Mr Brown also took the launch to Scotland, promising extra powers for the country – as well as for Wales, and restored and strengthened devolution in Northern Ireland – and a new culture of co-operation across the whole of the UK.
Pointing to the last Scottish independence referendum, Mr Brown said: "In 2014, I had so many people saying I'm voting for independence because I think there isn't any other alternative to change Scotland or to change Britain.
"Now, we an alternative. Now we have a set of proposals that are ground-breaking, that can actually make a difference.
"The debate is no longer between the status quo and independence. The debate is no longer between yes and no. The debate is no longer between change and no change.
"The debate is between change within the United Kingdom, led by the Labour Party, and change by leaving the United Kingdom, which would not benefit Scotland under the Scottish National Party."
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sawar also joined the pair and told reporters: "For 12 years in Scotland, people haven't believed that we could deliver a Labour government and therefore deliver change – that's the difference with this report. People believe a Labour government is possible.
"People know there is a better way of doing things and that will be delivered by Keir Starmer as our prime minister in the first term of a Labour government. That is a transformative change."
But Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said his government had "devolved more power out of London than any government before it" and it would "carry on delivering".
"More cooperation is of course right, it is something we are calling for… but the Scottish people are not marching in the streets for a change to the devolution settlement," he told reporters.
"The Scottish people want to see both their governments working together for the benefit of the Scottish economy and the wider Scottish people."
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Elsewhere in his morning broadcast media round, Sir Keir said he does not want to abolish private schools, but argued their existing tax breaks cannot be "justified".
He also said he does not believe returning to the single market would boost the UK's economic growth – but added that he believes there is a case for a "better Brexit".
Meanwhile, probed on whether former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn could be readmitted to the party, Sir Keir told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: "I don't see the circumstances in which he will stand at the next election as a Labour MP."
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A government source said: "This report highlights what we already know about Labour – that while the government is focusing on the major issues people care about, Keir Starmer is playing politics with topics only relevant in Westminster."