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Q: Optimization function yields wrong results im trying to replicate a certain code from yuxing Yan's python for finance.
I am at a road block because I am getting very high minimized figures(in this case stock weights, which ca be both +(long) and (-short) after optimization with fmin().
can anyone help me with a fresh pair of eyes. I have seen some suggestion about avoiding passing negative or complex figures to fmin() but I can't afford to as its vital to my code
#Lets import our modules
from scipy.optimize import fmin #to minimise our negative sharpe-ratio
import numpy as np#deals with numbers python
from datetime import datetime#handles date objects
import pandas_datareader.data as pdr #to read download equity data
import pandas as pd #for reading and accessing tables etc
import scipy as sp
from scipy.stats import norm
import scipy.stats as stats
from scipy.optimize import fminbound

assets=('AAPL',
'IBM',
'GOOG',
'BP',
'XOM',
'COST',
'GS')

#start and enddate to be downloaded
startdate='2016-01-01'
enddate='2016-01-31'
rf_rate=0.0003

n=len(assets)

#_______________________________________________
#This functions takes the assets,start and end dates and
#returns portfolio return
#__________________________________________________
def port_returns (assets,startdate,enddate):

    #We use adjusted clsoing prices of sepcified dates of assets
     #as we will only be interested in returns
    data = pdr.get_data_yahoo(assets, start=startdate, end=enddate)['Adj Close']

    #We calculate the percentage change of our returns
    #using pct_change function in python
    returns=data.pct_change()
    return  returns
def portfolio_variance(returns,weight):
       #finding the correlation of our returns by
        #dropping the nan values and transposing
       correlation_coefficient = np.corrcoef(returns.dropna().T)

       #standard deviation of our returns
       std=np.std(returns,axis=0)

       #initialising our variance
       port_var = 0.0

       #creating a nested loop to calculate our portfolio variance
       #where the variance is w12σ12 + w22σ22 + 2w1w2(Cov1,2)
       #and correlation coefficient is given by covaraince btn two assets  divided by standard
       #multiplication of standard deviation of both assets
       for i in range(n):
           for j in range(n):
            #we calculate the variance by continuously summing up the varaince between two
            #assets using i as base loop, multiplying by std and corrcoef
               port_var += weight[i]*weight[j]*std[i]*std[j]*correlation_coefficient[i, j]

       return port_var

def sharpe_ratio(returns,weights):
    #call our variance function
       variance=portfolio_variance(returns,weights)
       avg_return=np.mean(returns,axis=0)
        #turn our returns to an array
       returns_array = np.array(avg_return)
        #Our sharpe ratio uses  expected return gotten from multiplying weights and return
        # and standard deviation gotten by square rooting our variance
        #https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
       return (np.dot(weights,returns_array) - rf_rate)/np.sqrt(variance)

def negate_sharpe_ratio(weights):
       #returns=port_returns (assets,startdate,enddate)
    #creating an array with our weights by
    #summing our n-1 inserted and subtracting by 1 to make our last weight
       weights_new=np.append(weights,1-sum(weights))
    #returning a negative sharpe ratio
       return -(sharpe_ratio(returns_data,weights_new))

returns_data=port_returns(assets,startdate,enddate)

# for n stocks, we could only choose n-1 weights
ones_weights_array= (np.ones(n-1, dtype=float) * 1.0 )/n
weight_1 = fmin(negate_sharpe_ratio,ones_weights_array)
final_weight = np.append(weight_1, 1 - sum(weight_1))
final_sharpe_ratio = sharpe_ratio(returns_data,final_weight)
print ('Optimal weights are ')
print (final_weight)
print ('final Sharpe ratio is ')
print(final_sharpe_ratio)

A: A few things are causing your code not to work as written
is assets the list of items in ticker?
shouldstartdate be set equal to begdate?
Your call to port_returns() is looking for both assets and startdate which are never defined.
Function sharpe_ratio() is looking for a variable called rf_rate which is never defined.  I assume this is the risk-free rate and the value assigned to rf at the beginning of the script.  So should rf be called rf_rate instead?
After changing rf to rf_rate, begdate to startdate, and setting assets = list(ticker), it appears that this will work as written

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UNB students upset over March Break loss
by Sam Laidman February 4, 2014
University of New Brunswick students continue their semester this week, after being locked out of classes for three weeks due to stalled contract negotiations between the university and its faculty association.
Last Monday provincial post-secondary education minister Jody Carr ordered both sides back to the table with a mediator. By Thursday a tentative deal was struck.
Details of that deal came out Friday, including a big one for many students: March break will be canceled.
Social media was abuzz with talk of the news. Some students were relieved to be back, but many more were upset to have their March break plans ruined.
Mohannad Saadeh was one of those students. His father is coming to see him for the week, departing from his home in Amman, Jordan. Saadeh is upset that they wont get to spend as much time together or travel.
"They messed up the plan. Basically, it's the students who are going to face the consequences of the strike," he said.
He said that the time off for the students during the strike is not the same as the March break. Students often make plans for that time. Unlike with the strike, the break has a definite end, making plans and travel easier.
"What were the students doing during the strike? Not a lot. Some people liked it but most people hated it. At least after a while they hated it. You have no job, no plans, nothing to do… and we couldn't leave either," he said.
Kevin Bos, a fourth-year physics student, isn't upset but understands those students who are. He said he's just glad to be back.
"Personally, I'm not too bothered by it, simply because I had nothing planned…The fact that many students will have already made plans for the break is something that the university should have considered, but in the end they're just trying to minimize how much class is missed."
The university also announced classes will likely extend until April 17, and the exam period will now be from April 22 to 30. Previously classes were taught up to April 9.
UNB administration says they are looking forward to a return to the "vibrant UNB campus life," that has been almost non-existent in January.
"With this settlement in hand, we can now turn our attention back to our students and focus on improving on our stature as one of Canada's great universities," UNB president Eddy Campbell said in a statement.
The agreement in essence postpones talks of a wage increase for two years. The faculty gains language in their contract that compares UNB wages to other universities of comparable size, but at the cost of only seeing a 2.5 per cent annual increase until arbitration takes place in the third year of the four-year contract.
"They knew what was going to happen – both sides… They tried to get what they want, and they couldn't get what they want. After the third week they knew the strike would end and they'd put [negotiations] off… They didn't really lose anything," said Saadeh.
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The print portion of the package.
Objective: When Kevin Warren took over the real estate division of the Albany Times Union, advertising in the segment had been in a four year decline. "My goal was to stop the bleeding and get the department going by maintaining print ROP while growing digital revenues."
Strategy: With these two key goals in place, stabilizing print while growing digital, the first step was an assessment of and business plan for the department. The new strategy had three overall components: 1. Designing new print digital packages to sell media-owned assets; 2. Adding additional digital products and services; and 3. Executing a marketing plan for self-serve options.
• Replacing separate rate cards for print and digital with a new rate card that combinea print and digital and mobile into packages that run 13, 26 and 52 weeks.
• Adding Run-of-Site impressions to packages to improve the overall traffic level of real estate banner ads. Merely running ads, agents and brokers in the search-oriented real estate channel did not deliver substantial traffic, so including a share of the massive run of site traffic delivered the clicks advertisers wanted.
"With a decent CTR, we had a good story to tell when we upsold larger packages," Warren said.
• Creating more compelling calls to action for real estate ads. Some ads utilize an image of a classic Victorian home for $150,000 or $200,000 as a "low leader" that appeals to home buyers' imagination. Another realtor offered an instant home valuation to help capture e-mail addresses of people who are potentially interested in selling their home. Whichever strategy was used, the team's expertise in designing creative that "works" grew.
Once real estate revenues were on the increase and "we showed we can do a good job selling our own website," the team began to sell digital packages that included advertising elsewhere on the web and other digital products.
Using the Kenshoo platform, the company began making PPC purchases with dynamic SEM retargeting using the Kenshoo platform. Ads were served based on zip code within a ten mile radius. Kenshoo allows the user to set-up criteria to drive the ads, such as search on homes or anything related, and build the buy for every key word in that geo, retargeting users who click.
Warren used a company called Recrue to set up its targeting and retargeting by creating custom networks. "We had home manufacturer who had a campaign not working, they built it out and it was a success, so we started using them."
Pricing for the packages ranged from $499 to $2,500 per month or custom. The most popular for brokers is a range of $800 to $1,000 no more. Print was a component in one form or another. If they were on print contract, they received a reduced rate. If the spend was $1,000 in digital, they would "match it back" giving them $1,000 value in print.
"Some clients say print's dead. Some young brokers say their clients want their homes marketed in the newspaper," Warren says.
"Everyone was different....Coldwell Banker locally advertises themselves and their new construction sites. RealtyUSA only markets their name. Another brokerage advertises its resell properties. Most brokers don't focus on the agents; they leave it to the agents to market themselves."
In 2014 the team sold 25 to 30 or more of these packages. Print was a component in some form or fashion - either print, adding on the digital, and matching space back. If they were not given a dramatically reduced rate.
Another successful product is general presence services including some claim and cleanse, social media posting.
"We talk to them about SEO SEM to promote themselves; our service includes claiming the google plus page, Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, YouTube and posting regular. If they take pictures, putting them into a YouTube video and on their website helps them outrank Trulia and Zillow.
Hearst entered into a partnership with Boston-based Placester.com, its first media contract, to develop specialized websites for real estate agents. The Times Union now sells these agent websites for $5 a month, basically a low leader Warren says, "to get a foot in the door."
Placester basically is automated building of 12 or more all real estate-oriented Wordpress templates. "The hardest part is getting the IDX feed into the website and inputting your information and verbiage. They look pretty good." After just 90 days into the partnership, a dozen are already sold.
The third component of the real estate turn-around plan was self-serve posting. A self-serve advertising platform was already in place, but rarely marketed. To create a real marketing plan, Warren tapped a list of realtors from the MLS, then began e-mailing packages and specials available via the self-serve portal, a platform created by Wave2Media, to sell two products, a Gallery of Homes and EZAds listings.
The first email, promoting print listings goes out on Monday night, and the the second for Gallery of Homes packages, goes out on a Friday.
Gallery of homes is a pictorial gallery of higher end open houses that runs both in print and online. The real estate team pulls the list of open houses every Monday, identifies homes worth more than $300,000 and sends them an email offer: Feature the home on the real estate website for seven days, and run it Friday, Saturday and Sunday in print, for $189 (take that Trulia!).
Since e-mail marketing began, the print section alone grew from one page to four pages, "100% self-service."
Print listings upsells are print only, in-column line ads, and marketed separately to agents and borkers in a Monday email.
Typically ads ran in the range of 400 to 500 on the weekend, but with the email boost, lineage goes up to 1,500 to 1,800 ads.
Other kinds of marketing for self-serve include sales sheets taken out by reps and numerous visits to real estate offices to train agents and increase their comfort level with using the self-serve tools.
"We showed them how to place an ad, what it looks like after-words, how to enter their credit card information, and where to call with questions."
Since the two main competitors are "unquestionably" Trulia and Zillow, the pricing and packaging is specifically positioned to be compete with them and to pick up realtors priced out of those options.
"We talk about the traffic to our website generally. We have 40 million page views and two million unique visitors, making the TimesUnion.com the third largest media in the area after Google and Facebook. Zillow and Trulia are not even in the top ten."
"If we have the audience - and we are cheaper - it makes a lot of sense (to buy newspaper packages.)"
"We have a package to allow realtors to feature all their properties on line - from 0 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 35 and 36 plus, for $199, $399 and $499 respectively, or $25 for an individual home.
"So for a flat rate they can feature all their properties, which allows them to run in the right hand rotation. It's considerably cheaper than Zillow," Warren said, which would charge $2400 or more for a similar service.
All told, 2015 sales are projected and tracking 35% more than 2014 and total digital sales have grown from $18,000 $20,000 a month to $45,000 to $50,000 a month.
Many thanks to Kevin Warren for sharing his field-tested expertise with our members.


In February 2014 Rosie's world was uprooted. Her only son Luke was murdered in an incomprehensible and brutal act of family violence by his father Greg Anderson while he was at cricket practice.
Rosie could have fallen into a dark hole that day and never returned. But she didn't let herself.
Today on No Filter the current Australian of the year speaks to Mia Freedman about life after Luke and what she plans to do next.
No Filter is hosted by Mia Freedman and produced by Elissa Ratliff.
You can find out more about this Podcast on the Mamamia Podcast Networks facebook page, or on my Facebook page Mia Freedman online.


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Die Mech. Schuhfabrik Wolf & Comp. im Heilbronner Stadtteil Sontheim war eine Schuhfabrik, die von 1890 bis 1970 in der Hofgartenstraße in Sontheim bestand und ihre Schuhe unter dem Namen Wolko vertrieb. Die von jüdischen Geschäftsleuten begründete Fabrik wurde zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus arisiert und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg rückerstattet.

Geschichte
Im Jahre 1889 wurde die Fabrik von Salomon Israel in Öhringen gegründet. In der zweiten Generation beteiligten sich Salomon Israels Söhne Isaak (* 19. Januar 1863 in Ernsbach; † 20. Oktober 1933 in Heilbronn), Moriz (* 1874 in Heilbronn; † 1958 in New York) und Albert am Unternehmen des Vaters, außerdem der Schwiegersohn Hermann Wolf (* 4. November 1862 in Stebbach; † 14. Oktober 1926 in Heilbronn). Die Marke Wolko war das Kürzel für Mech. Schuhfabrik Wolf & Comp.

1891 siedelte das Unternehmen nach Sontheim um, wo man von den Erben des Handelsunternehmens Tscherning ein Anwesen erwarb, das 1760 als Tabakfabrik der Familie Bianchi errichtet worden war und sich danach im Besitz des Kaufmanns August Schreiber befand. Im Jahr 1900 waren 200 Arbeiter bei Wolko angestellt. Für die Unternehmerfamilie Israel/Wolf wurde 1903/04 die Villa Wolf errichtet. 1907/08 wurde die Fabrik in Sontheim um ein neu erbautes, fünfstöckiges Fabrikgebäude erweitert. Der Personalbestand betrug damals rund 800 Beschäftigte. Zum Unternehmen gehörten nicht nur direkt der Schuhproduktion dienende Anlagen, sondern es wurden auch eine eigene Schlosserei, Schreinerei usw. betrieben.

Gerhard Wolf (Sohn von Hermann Wolf) und sein Cousin Ernst Israel (Sohn von Albert Israel) veranlassten bei einer abermaligen Erweiterung der Fabrik 1927/28, dass bei Wolf & Comp. die Schuhfabrikation am Fließband erfolgte. Zu jener Zeit hatte der Betrieb etwa 1110 Beschäftigte, wobei jeden Tag 4000 Paar Damenschuhe und 1000–2000 Schuhe einfacher Art hergestellt wurden.

Die Fabrik wurde zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in eine GmbH unter der Leitung der bisherigen Direktoren Eugen und Alfred Beck umgewandelt, später enteignet und zwecks Arisierung einem Bankkonsortium unterstellt. Isaak Israel verstarb im Oktober 1933 in Heilbronn, Moriz Israel zog 1934 nach Berlin und floh 1937 oder 1938 über Zürich in die USA, Albert Israel wurde in ein KZ deportiert und verstarb dort. Auch Gerhard Wolf, Ernst Israel und Eugen Israel wurden ausgebürgert und emigrierten ebenso wie der einstige Geschäftsführer Adolf Herz, der durch Eugen Beck aus dem KZ Dachau befreit worden war.

Nach dem Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges fand in der Schuhfabrik zeitweilig auch die Produktion von drei aus Pirmasens ausgelagerten Schuhfabriken statt, bevor diese nach dem Ende des Frankreichfeldzuges nach Pirmasens zurückkehrten. Daraufhin wurde ein Teil der Elektroartikel-Produktion der AEG in Wolko-Gebäuden untergebracht, während die eigentliche Schuhfabrik nur noch 120 Beschäftigte hatte. Gegen Ende des Krieges dienten die Wolko-Gebäude als Rot-Kreuz-Station und Notlazarett, auch die Entbindungsstation der ausgebombten Heilbronner Frauenklinik kam in den Räumen unter.

Der enteignete Besitzer Gerhard Wolf erhielt die Fabrik nach Ende des Krieges zurück und baute darin die Schuhproduktion wieder auf. 1959 wurde das Unternehmen in eine Aktiengesellschaft umgewandelt. 1961 beschäftigte Wolko rund 700 Personen. Als Unternehmenszeichen diente in den 1960er Jahren die schwarze Silhouette eines stehenden Wolfes von rechts.

Als in den späten 1960er Jahren die Konkurrenz durch günstige Importe aus Italien und Asien erdrückend wurde, begann der Niedergang des Unternehmens. Ab 1967 konnte keine Dividende mehr ausgeschüttet werden. 1969 hatte das Unternehmen nur noch 300 Beschäftigte und verkaufte einen Teil der Maschinen. Der Aufsichtsrat beschloss die Auflösung des Unternehmens. Die Produktion lief im Januar 1970 aus.

Die Fabrikgebäude kamen 1970 in den Besitz der Stadt Heilbronn, die die Gebäude zunächst an verschiedene Unternehmen vermietete. 1977 begann der Abriss der Gebäude, und 1978 wurde ein Bebauungsplan beschlossen, der die Umwandlung der ehemaligen Industriefläche in ein Wohngebiet vorsah. Nach einem Ideenwettbewerb der Stadt wurde 1984 das Sanierungsgebiet Wolko mit Einfamilien-Reihenhäusern überbaut.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Hans Franke: Geschichte und Schicksal der Juden in Heilbronn. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgungen (1050–1945). Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 (Veröffentlichungen des Archivs der Stadt Heilbronn. Band 11), S. 206–207
 Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach: "… für Ihre Rechnung und Gefahr". Rechnungen und Briefköpfe Heilbronner Firmen. Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-928990-48-9 (Kleine Schriftenreihe des Archivs der Stadt Heilbronn. Band 30).
 Firma Schuhfabrik Wolf & Co (Wolko). In: Sontheim 1188–1988. Historische Erinnerungen anlässlich der 800-Jahrfeier. Sontheimer Offener Kreis, Sontheim 1988
 Einzelheiten zur Enteignung während des Nationalsozialismus auf crt-ii.org (PDF; 97 kB)

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Nuts.com acquires Kopper's Chocolate in multimillion-dollar deal
By Douglas Yu contact
Kopper's Chocolate will debut a brand new booth this year at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York. Photo: Nuts.com
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Nuts.com has acquired gourmet chocolate brand Kopper's Chocolate and has relocated the brand to its New Jersey headquarters.
The multimillion-dollar deal officially closed in 2016, and Kopper's has since completed the move from its Greenwich Village, New York, warehouse to Nuts.com's headquarters in Cranford, New Jersey.
Nuts.com is an online business that mainly supplies nuts, dried fruit, snacks, chocolate, and pantry staples.
Separate strategy
"We felt it was time to reinvigorate the creativity and innovation that made Kopper's what it is today and part of that was updating the brand look and feel," Nuts.com CEO, Jeffrey Braverman, told ConfectioneryNews.
"While we are working on integrating some pieces of Kopper's business with Nuts.com's business, they remain more process-oriented such as customer orders and customer service… Nuts.com shines in the areas of sourcing, and high-quality products," he said.
"Although part of the Nuts.com family, Kopper's still remains its own brand with a separate strategy based on their current customers and unique areas of growth," Braverman added.
No job loss
Nuts.com said it has retained all Kopper's employees and production team members throughout the transition.
"We work very closely with each Kopper's employee to understand their specific travel needs and support each of them to minimize their commutes given their new headquarters in New Jersey," Braverman said.
"We provide multiple shuttles and reimburse employees for public transit," he said. "We made it a priority to retain the team with some employees having been with the company for more than 25 years."
Kopper's was one of the founding brands for the first Summer Fancy Food Show in 1954 and will debut a brand new booth this year, the first in over 20 years, at this year's tradeshow in New York.
Kopper's will also unveil three new chocolate varieties, including cherry chocolate cashews, strawberry shortcake almonds, and dark chocolate-covered gummy bears.
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Holy See to UN: Use of Drones Needs Review, Perhaps a Challenge
The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations spoke about the halted Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the ongoing Syrian crisis in a statement Tuesday to the UN Security Council open debate on "€œThe situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question,"€
In his statement Archbishop Bernardito Auza reiterated Pope Francis"€™ denouncement of those responsible for the Syrian crisis, especially those who provide weapons to fighters.
The presidency of the UN security council is currently presided over by a delegation of Japan.
Here is Archbishop Auza"€™s full statement:
The Holy See commends the Presidency of Japan for bringing the difficult situation in the Middle East once more to the attention of the International Community, in light of the release of the Quartet"€™s July 1st "€œReport on the Middle East"€ and in the context of the continuing violence in Syria, the deadly sectarian violence in Iraq and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The Palestinian Question has remained without an answer that is satisfactory to both the Israelis and the Palestinians. Almost sixty-nine years after its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 181 remains only half-fulfilled. Decades of negotiations have failed to achieve the creation of a Palestinian State. The time is long overdue to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has become increasingly unacceptable as it becomes increasingly intractable.
My delegation would not miss this occasion to underline once again that, for the Holy See, the two-State solution holds the best promise. Durable peace will remain a distant dream and security will remain an illusion if Israel and Palestine do not agree to exist side-by-side reconciled and sovereign within mutually agreed and internationally recognized borders. Let the two States be created now, for the sake of the Israelis and Palestinians who, in the depths of their hearts, desire nothing greater than peace and security. It is time to act on the recommendations of the 1st July 2016 Report of the Quartet by bringing peace and security to the citizens of Israel and the State of Palestine and to the people of the world.
The situation in Syria continues to be one of unspeakable suffering for the Syrian people who are killed, forced to survive under bombs or flee to less-ravaged areas. My delegation feels the duty to call anew the attention of this Council to the continued persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other ethnic and religious minority groups by non-State actors in parts of Syria and Iraq.
Pope Francis denounces in the strongest possible terms all those responsible, from whichever side of the conflict in Syria they may come, for the senseless slaughter of civilians.
The Pope also denounces those who supply substantial amounts of money and weaponry to the fighters who kill and maim the innocent population and destroy civilian institutions and infrastructure. One cannot but lament the duplicity of simultaneously talking peace while supplying arms to those who kill, on every side of the conflict. Pope Francis has asked: "€œHow can you believe in someone who caresses you with the right hand and strikes you with the left hand?"€
My delegation avails itself of this opportunity to plead once more to weapons-producing States strictly to limit the supply of arms to client States and to monitor their use. In particular, my delegation asks the International Community to stop the illegal supply of arms to non-state actors, who have been lately responsible for crimes against humanity and other forms of mass atrocities and egregious violations of human rights.
Statistics have clearly shown that it is the civilian population that is disproportionately victimized by ever more technologically sophisticated weapons. Remote-controlled assassinations without due process of law and the "€œcollateral damage"€ to civilians by Lethal Autonomous Weapons System (LAWS) brings to the fore ethical and legal questions that merit careful review and perhaps even a challenge on the basis of international humanitarian law.
The Holy See believes that peace processes do not depend solely on formal negotiations, no matter how indispensable these may be. As a cradle of great civilizations and the birthplace of the three main monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Middle East has the cultural, intellectual and religious resources that make it a fertile ground for civil society and track II diplomacy, including faith-based "€œinformal diplomacy"€, to play their role in promoting the values of encounter and mutual acceptance, thereby equipping all citizens to become active protagonists in peacemaking and peacebuilding in the region.
Religions and believers, in particular, must prove themselves worthy of their rightful place in the whole process of pacification in the region. They must put an end to any form of mutual hatred that could lend credence to a "€œclash of civilizations."€ My delegation believes that the more religion is manipulated to justify acts of terror and violence, the more religious leaders must be engaged in the overall effort to defeat the violence that attempts to hijack it for purposes antithetical to its nature. Spurious religious fervour must be countered by authentic religious instruction and by the example of true communities of faith. It is only then that faith-based "€œinformal diplomacy"€ can fruitfully compliment the formal diplomacy of States and multilateral bodies.
Thank you, Mr. President.


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General Raymond Thomas Emphasised On The Need For Furthering Military Cooperation In The Field Of Technology And Military-to-military Exchanges Between The Two Countries.
PTI | Updated on: 08 Mar 2019, 11:56:18 PM
General Raymond Thomas, the Commander of the US Special Operations Command, met Army Chief General Bipin Rawat here Friday, during which the two officers deliberated on the developing regional security environment and discussed Pakistan's "continued support to terrorism", according to a statement.
Raymond emphasised on the need for furthering military cooperation in the field of technology and military-to-military exchanges between the two countries.
"Both the generals deliberated on the developing regional security environment, issue of global terrorism and Pakistan's continued support to terrorism was also discussed," the statement said.
The visit of the senior US Army officer comes days after the Indian Air Force struck at the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed's biggest training camp near Balakot, deep inside Pakistan, on February 26.
A day later Pakistan also retaliated by attempting to target Indian military installations. However, the IAF thwarted the plan.
The Indian strike on the Jaish camp came 12 days after the terror outfit claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Kashmir, in which 40 personnel were killed.
The statement further said in the current scenario, the Indian Army remains fully prepared for emerging challenges.
"In the last three weeks, disinformation campaign by the adversary on digital media has increased. All ranks have been well sensitised of these disinformation campaigns and all ranks can see through the lie, deceit and deception of the terror sponsors," the statement said.
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Steady Flow in Oil and Gas Sector is Crucial to Meet Rising Energy Requirements
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A steady flow of industry investment into the oil and gas sector is crucial to meet rising energy requirements, says Opec secretary general Mohammad Barkindo
"Oil and gas will continue to play an important role in world energy supply in the medium to long term and meeting these rising energy requirements will be dependent on a steady flow of industry investment," Mr Barkindo said at a workshop organised by the International Energy Agency, the International Energy Forum and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Thursday.
Investment is also "essential to advancing innovation and technology that will be instrumental in further improving the environmental footprint and reducing emissions", he said.
The virtual workshop was co-chaired by Mr Barkindo, along with Joseph McMonigle, IEF secretary general, and Keisuke Sadamori, director of the office for energy markets and security at the IEA.Oil and gas will continue to play an important role in world energy supply in the medium to long termMohammad Barkindo, Opec secretary general
Energy prices are surging due to limited investments in the hydrocarbons and infrastructure sector, as well as low inventories amid a rise in demand globally, Saudi Arabia's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told the CeraWeek India Energy Forum on Wednesday.
Analysts including top US economist Nouriel Roubini expect oil prices to touch $100 per barrel by the end of this year due to a lack of investments in the energy sector as the world focuses on transitioning to clean energy in a bid to cut emissions.
"It is exactly these types of close collaboration that we will need to see more of in the weeks and months ahead as this industry continues to rise to the challenge of adapting to the paradigm shifts that are currently taking place," Mr Barkindo added.
There is little over a week until the highly-anticipated United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow and investment would be one of the deciding issues for the industry in the years ahead, the Opec secretary general said.
Global demand is rebounding after the Covid-19 pandemic but private sector investment is yet to respond adequately, Mr McMonigle said. This could lead to price fluctuations that will impact market stability and derail a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the pandemic, he added.READ MOREEnergy prices surge due to higher demand and lack of investments in hydrocarbonsClean energy investment needs to triple over the next decade, IEA saysNet zero: These technologies need tenfold increase in investment to hit target
The world is not investing enough to meet its future energy needs, Mr Sadamori said. Transition-related spending has gradually picked up, but remains far short of what is required to meet rising demand for energy services in a sustainable way, he added.
The amount currently spent on oil appears to be geared towards a world of stagnant or falling demand. A surge in spending on clean energy transitions provides the way forward, but this needs to happen quickly or global energy markets are likely to be volatile for years to come, according to Mr Sadamori.
"An effective and orderly transition will be critical – not only to reach international climate targets but also to prevent serious supply disruptions and destabilising price volatility along the way," Mr Sadamori added.
The joint workshop is one part of the trilateral work programme established by the three agencies and endorsed by energy ministers at the 12th International Energy Forum in Mexico in March 2010.
The three organisers will convene for the next joint workshop next year.
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How men present, and who they really are: Greg McGee's new novel, reviewed
Catherine Robertson | Guest writer
Four decades after holding a mirror up to Kiwi masculinity with the sensational play Foreskin's Lament, Greg McGee is back with Necessary Secrets, a new novel that asks the same question: whaddarya?
At a time when we might feel we've reached peak old privileged white bloke, it's a brave writer who devotes the first 61 pages of their novel to an old privileged white bloke indulging in a pity party. It's the day of Den Sparks' 70th birthday, to be held at his large villa in Herne Bay. His mind is failing, his wife is long dead, he's estranged from two of his three children, his lucrative career was ruined by millennials and technology, and though he's stashed a snub-nosed Walther PPK in his roll-top desk – his exit strategy – it seems unlikely he'll have the guts to use it.
Despite his nice line in self-deprecating humour, it's hard to feel sorry for Den. Good news is we're not supposed to, because this is a novel written by Greg McGee, who has never gone easy on the dude-bros. By opening with the lament of old Den, Necessary Secrets feels like a bookend to McGee's 1981 play, which ended with young Foreskin's famous "Whaddarya?" challenge to New Zealand's destructive sports-obsessed masculine culture. McGee's 2015 novel The Antipodeans also explored the damage caused by men unable to connect emotionally, and how Kiwi resourcefulness can mask a callous disregard for other humans. McGee has spent nearly four decades reminding us that how men present may be socially approved of, but it's a rug under which lasting hurt and harm is swept. Whaddarya? That is the question. And do our men have the courage to look closely enough at themselves to give an honest answer?
The irony of this novel is that Den Sparks is only half-able to take a long, hard look at his life. Dementia is catching up with him, and he's in that terrible position of being aware of the decline but unable to do anything about it. He relies on his daughter, Ellie, who lives with him as housekeeper, financial controller and old man minder, while working for a domestic violence charity and undergoing the emotional process of fertility treatment. In her mid-thirties, Ellie has no partner, and is reviewing potential sperm donors, trying to judge their worth as decent human beings on the basis of a short written profile. She has no illusions about the gap between how men present and who they are.
Ellie is the moral heart of this novel. She keeps the family connected and ensures her brothers, Stan and Will, come to their father's birthday. She minds Den and babysits the children of Will, whose wife has kicked him out for his refusal to give up drugs. She provides a safe place for Jackson and Lila, troubled teens fleeing a violent father. She's a good daughter, sister and friend, and most of her effort is taken for granted, a point that isn't ignored but could have been given more emphasis. McGee dumps the lot on her shoulders with what reads like a sense of relief. But just because Ellie can carry that weight doesn't mean she should.
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Brother Will is the opposite, the dark Sparks. A meth user, who thinks he has it all under control, Will is fighting to keep solvent the advertising film business he bought from Den. At his father's birthday, Will announces that he wants to sell the Herne Bay property, and that he doesn't much care what the rest of the family thinks. Will doesn't much care for people, full stop – even his children get in his way – but he is under more pressure than his ego will admit. McGee plays it well by not making Will a total monster. Monsters we can hate without question. Those we have flashes of sympathy for are infinitely more dangerous.
Stan is the third and youngest brother. We meet him briefly as a reluctant attendee at Den's 70th birthday, and don't see him again until the final part. Gentle Stan has fled to a commune in Golden Bay, where until recently, he's managed to shut out most evidence that the environment is going to hell in a plastic hand basket. Now, the tentacles of commerce are tightening, forcing Stan back to a family who, apart from his sister, Ellie, he's never felt he could trust.
Stan is not as well developed a character as the others, and while the short trip to Golden Bay gives the novel some welcome air, it seems like Stan's main purpose is to be the stooge for a rather good ending that will not be spoiled here. Suffice it to say there's a rug, and McGee yoinks it out from under you.
The novel is in four parts – four seasons – and each is ostensibly told from the point of view of each of the Sparks. While McGee doesn't want us to let old Den off the hook for being a shitty father, unfaithful husband and willing exploiter of capitalism, he does seem to want us to like him best. He certainly gives him more page-time than any of the other characters – Ellie's part in particular feels Den-dominated – and all the humorous lines, right to the end.
Fair enough, given that McGee and Den are of similar age, and McGee has mined some of his own career and business experiences for Den's back story. If you can't use your own novel to get stuff off your chest, then what's the point of the thing?
And Den is likeable enough to carry you through white old-dude narrows and into open sea, where there's plenty to enjoy. McGee is a fine writer who isn't afraid to let his anger out on the page, muzzled only by a blackly comedic touch. When it comes to the women, this novel perhaps could have done more, but it gets points for keeping its foot on the neck of destructive masculinity. Four decades on from Foreskin, the question remains, and it's good to know McGee hasn't given up trying to answer it.
Necessary Secrets, by Greg McGee (Upstart Press, $35) is available at Unity Books.
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I enjoy meeting new people and experiencing different cultures. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
When I had the opportunity to experience the perfect sunrise on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Another amazing travel moment was seeing the amazing scenery and sheer marvel that is the Great Wall of China. Another highlight was seeing Blue Footed Boobies and Giant Tortoises in the Galapagos Islands.


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Both times December 23rd, 2002 had rolled around for Neil Taggart, it had rained like a sonofabitch.
The night before at dinner, while Penny had refilled bottomless coffee cups and Neil tried hard not to notice the smiles she kept giving his dad, Sarah had told them all a funny story about the Workout Weatherman at KNBS. The place had been decked out for Christmas since Thanksgiving, and Kurt had already threatened the life of the Salvation Army Santa outside twice that week. It had felt good to laugh, even at a story that wasn't hugely funny. Something about how he'd started to think of Sarah as some sort of weather savant, since she always seemed to have her coat and umbrella only on those days when the sky just opened up and pissed down rain. She could hardly tell him it was because they'd lived it all before, and Sarah just had this weird memory trick where she could remember what day it had rained the first time.
She never said it, but Neil guessed it had something to do with trying to remember every single day of those last few months with her son Corey. It was like the elephant in the middle of the room that no one talked about, having already attended two funerals this time around they hadn't the first time. So instead, they made jokes about the Workout Weatherman over bowls of chili and cheeseburgers.
Neil only remembers the rain because he remembers the first December 23rd.
Since Marc had taken off, his dad had actually been letting him borrow the Mustang—something which had never happened before their entire world had been shook up by the Golden Boy turning out to be as much of a fuck-up as everybody seemed to assume only the younger Taggart boy was capable of being.
His mom hadn't stopped crying since she'd come home to find Neil sitting in the living room alone. She'd lost weight, between Marc taking off, and then Grandma's heart attack scare. There were circles under her eyes, and her fuzzy flannel bathrobe fit a little looser around her than it had a month before.
His dad hadn't believed it was possible, not until Ed Scrivens had come to the house, explained Marc had been washing out, had even been caught trying to buy the answers to tests. That winter, his dad was never around because Chuck Taggart's mantra was "maintain," and that meant burying himself in work at the centre to avoid remembering he even had a family, let alone that it was utterly falling apart.
That winter everyone had been so focussed on Marc that Neil had been pretty much ignored, which had been just fine by him.
December 23rd, take one, he and Holly had gone to the movies. They'd seen the new Bond movie in a second run theatre for a dollar each. The print had been scratched, and they'd shared a joint in the car before going in. The theatre had been only half full, mostly kids who talked through the whole thing and occasionally threw spitballs at the screen. They'd sat in the last row, inside the shadow of the exit door, and made out through most of it. He'd looked up when Halle Berry had walked up on the beach in that bikini, and Holly had elbowed him in the ribs. When her hand had ended up in his lap, he'd pretty much given her his undivided attention.
When they'd come outside, it had already been raining for a while, and instead of joining Kayli, Wade and Diaz at the junkyard like they usually did every other night, they'd parked at the kiddie park around the corner from her house. It had been deserted, and they'd curled up beneath his coat in the backseat underneath a big tree at one end of the parking lot.
She'd made fun of his farmer's tan, when he'd pulled of his long-sleeved t-shirt and balled it up behind his head as she'd straddled him. He'd almost come in his jeans before she'd even gotten her top off. She'd let him slip his hands under her shirt plenty of times, but he'd never actually seen her naked before. He didn't think he'd ever seen anything so beautiful in his life. She'd been self-conscious about the chicken pox scars on her side, from the summer between sixth and seventh grade. He'd been pretty much a total wreck about everything, but had tried to play it cool, which he was pretty sure she'd seen straight through.
It had been awkward, and brief, and afterwards she'd cried a little. She'd tried to pretend that it hadn't hurt, but he knew it had. They'd cleaned up, using McDonald's napkins from the glove compartment, and he'd been freaked out a little by the blood, but hadn't said anything. He'd tried to pretend it wasn't a big deal, but it had been a huge deal. Everything from that point on would be different, because they'd gone all the way.
A week or so later, just before school had started back up, he'd ended up going down on her, because he'd felt so bad that she hadn't come that first time. He'd never gone down on a girl before, and she'd never had a guy go down on her, so it had been a learning experience for both of them. He learned that she went fucking nuts when she did come—almost broke his nose the first time. He also learned that there wasn't anything in the world so beautiful as Holly, her dyed red hair all in her face, and her make-up smeared, and her cheeks pink from just what he could do with his fingers and tongue. Maybe some guys would have been all macho about wanting to make a girl come "the old-fashioned way" whatever the fuck that meant, but he figured that was bullshit. Watching her totally lose it just from his hand down her pants? That was just about the coolest thing he'd ever seen. Any guy who said otherwise was probably just an asshole. And the last thing he'd wanted to be, all of seventeen years old and trying like hell to "be a man" was an asshole.
As they lay there that night, the rain coming down in sheets and the puddles beneath the swings at the far end of the park just getting bigger and bigger, she'd read him the riot act, cloaking what he now—with the wisdom of a 22 year old—knew was fear with a false shell of toughness. She'd said that just because they'd had sex, that didn't mean she had to do it every time they went out. And if he so much as breathed a word of it to Wade, not only would he never get laid ever again, but he'd have to start looking for a new girlfriend because she wasn't going to put up with that locker room bullshit. He'd nodded, and promised, and said that if she told Skye, he wasn't adverse to a three-way, and he'd been laughing so hard he'd barely gotten his arms up in time to protect his face as she'd started pummelling him.
Then they'd just listened to the rain hitting the roof of the car for a while, before they'd gotten dressed and he'd driven her home, promising to meet her later that week so they could exchange Christmas presents.
The first time around, they'd been two kids in the backseat of a vintage Mustang, trying to pretend that they were all grown up.
As Neil sat in the park on his bike, watching the rain come down the second time around, he still felt like a goddam kid at twenty-two. Except this time, instead of being freaked out by Marc going AWOL, he was remembering how he'd come home late that night and caught shit from his mom because she'd smelled the pot on his clothes as he'd tried to sneak in the side door.
She'd lit into him right there in the kitchen, standing just where Marc had as he'd packed his duffel and told Neil he was bailing, with Neil's bike money in his pocket and a six-pack of dad's beer in the top of his bag. She'd stood there, and gone on and on about how Neil was a screw up, and all he was ever going to be was a screw-up unless he started acting like a man.
"Like Marc was that great of a 'man,' Mom?" he'd shouted, unable to keep the anger bottled up inside after two months of burying it deeper and deeper to try and keep it from surfacing at the wrong times.
"Like he was so fucking great that he cheated and he stole and he fucking took off, all because he was too much of a candy-ass to stand up and tell you he was fucking tired of trying to live up to your expectations?" he shouted, hating how shrill his voice was in his anger. Hating the fact that he couldn't stop even though he knew he was only saying it to be cruel. "Is that the kind of man you want me to be?"
He'd seen the slap coming, and just took it. Maybe he'd thought he deserved it. Maybe he just thought that if she was hitting him at least it was a gesture of some kind, instead of her walking past him like she never really saw him. Maybe he'd thought she'd get that look on her face afterwards, that "Oh my God, what have I done" look and they'd cry and hug and she'd make him fucking cocoa and he'd have a mom again for the first time since he was a kid.
Instead, she got that steely look. The look she usually only got when she was arguing with Dad, because you sometimes had to be one mean motherfucker to put up with Chuck Taggart and Paige wouldn't have made it this far if she hadn't been able to shout down his dad when she had to. And there was steel in her spine as he'd stood there, tears in his eyes and he'd fought so hard not to say he was sorry and not to reach up and touch his cheek which felt hot and sore.
He'd kept his hands at his side, and he'd just stared her down, Chuck Taggart's son even if they both forgot that these days, and she'd snarled that it was past his curfew and from now on, he'd be home every night by ten or she'd fucking kick his seventeen year-old ass out into the street if that was how little respect he showed his mother. And when his father got home, she'd be telling him the whole thing, and Neil wasn't too old to be turned over her knee if it came down to that.
She never once showed even a glimmer of acknowledgement that he'd been right. Never, not once. Nothing could tarnish her golden boy, and more than anything in the world, that had hurt. It had hurt more than having to tell her that day that Marc was gone for good, not just out hunting with the boys. It had hurt more than her fury when she'd found out he'd given Marc his bike savings to cheat on a physics exam, and he'd probably use that money to go to Canada to dodge the Air Force and his career was totally blown. It had hurt more than her looking at him and telling him to his face that he was a screw-up and that's all he was ever going to be.
The first time around, he stormed up to his room and buried his face in his pillow and cried like a little kid. Cried like he hadn't cried since he was nine years old and they'd pulled Isaac's body out of the water. He'd made a vow that night that he'd show her how wrong she'd been. He'd busted his ass and graduated early. He'd finished college on an accelerated schedule, joined the astronaut programme to show her once and for all that Marc hadn't been cut out for NASA but he'd been born for it. He'd sailed through the exams, made headlines as the youngest astronaut in NASA history, shown up Marc every way he'd known how. And it was a fucking wonder his back hadn't broken, from the weight of the chip on his shoulder. A weight he thought would grow lighter every time his mother told him she was proud of him. A weight that just seemed only to grow, with every unspoken "If only Marc..." that he couldn't help but imagine followed every "My son the astronaut" speech she'd grown so practised at giving he'd wondered if she even really remembered anymore what she'd said in the kitchen, two days before Christmas.
First time around, he and Holly had broken up after senior year, right before she'd gone off to Texas State in San Marcos because he'd been too busy with school to really spend much time with her. Too busy trying to step out of his big brother's shadow to pay attention to the girl who'd always believed in him. It had hurt, but not as much as he'd thought it would, and they'd stayed in touch via email for a while before they just drifted apart for good. He'd only see her once a year when she came home for Christmas, and then not at all once she'd met a guy and they'd gotten a place together in Austin. Before that last shuttle mission, Mrs Culverson had run into Paige at the grocery store and told her that Holly was engaged, and going to get married the following summer.
First time around, he'd just been a boy, trying like hell to pretend he was a man.
Second time around, Neil stood in the rain watching the puddles beneath the swings grow with every drop that fell from a steel-grey sky, trying not to think about how when he got home, his mother wouldn't be waiting for him in the kitchen next to a cold cup of coffee, December 23rd, 2002.
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slang To cause issues or disruptions for someone or something. "Hob" is short for "hobgoblin," a type of imp or elf that causes mischief. This wonky Internet signal is raising hob with my work day. The nasty weather raised hob with our plans for the weekend.
to do something devilish to someone or something; to cause trouble for someone or something. (A hob is a hobgoblin, a wicked little elf.) Your sudden arrival is going to play hob with my dinner plans. Sorry, I didn't mean to raise hob with you.
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A full-scale rescue operation was launched when the Golden Lab' started the blaze after he reached up to the stove and knocked one of the hobs on.
Four positions led to a significant change in ICP: (a) supine with HOB 45[degrees] (decrease), (b) left lateral with HOB 15[degrees] (increase), (c) fight lateral with HOB 15[degrees] (increase), and (d) knee elevation with HOB (decrease).
HOB VDI-VS1 (Virtual Solution One) has been designed for accessing virtual desktop infrastructures over a company LAN.
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Since developing the world's first dry cutting gear production system using no cutting fluid in 1997, MHI has expanded its dry-cut product offerings, including machine tools such as gear hobbing machines and gear shaping machines as well as cutting tools such as super dry hobs and super dry gear shaper cutters.
International IT consulting group Avanade, jointly owned by Microsoft and Accenture, said on Thursday (1 November) that it has acquired the Danish consulting company HOB Business Solutions A/S.
Los Angeles-based HOB ran 10 House of Blues locations in cities such as Toronto, San Diego and Dallas.
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It's summer and that means a visit to the granddaddy of Sarasota's outdoor luncheon spots--the Hob Nob.
Ovens were the cooks' priority, but today oven top or hob cooking is more popular.
For Claire Vernon, of Cardiff University, all it took was an electric hob to confuse a friend and set off the fire alarms.
McVitie's is strengthening its hold on the sweet end of the snack market with the addition of another big biscuit barrel favourite -- Chocolate Hob Nobs -- to its sweet mini bagged snacks range.


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Best described as a "portable" Classic Reverb/Custom Clean hybrid, the Studio Pro 35 offers ample clean headroom, dynamics, and a variety of tone shaping options. We've added a pickup loading feature, which optimizes pickup balance between single coil and humbuckers. Our stellar reverb circuit with send and return controls, contour control, and full buffered effects loop are standard on this amp.
The new Pickup Loading feature control has 5 settings. In the first position (fully counterclockwise), there is no additional pickup loading, with 4 additional settings available. Fully clockwise(last position) is full loading. Loading the guitar pickup(s) to varying degrees changes the impedance relationship between the pickup and the amplifier's first gain stage. Loading reduces inductive "ringing" in the pickup coils. The effect is a more controlled high frequency response and a reduction in high frequency artifacts produced when a pickup's magnets and coils feed back with each other, usually at or near the pickup's saturation point. The damping effect will also reduce the gain, which is normal.Tonally speaking, reducing these artifacts results in a cleaner waveform and an apparent lack of harshness in the upper frequencies.


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Most people love their cup of coffee for the reason that it presents a refreshing taste.
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Well the list of good-looking perks of your morning brew is really long.
It is the presence of antioxidants in coffee which label it as a skin caring agent. Not only having a cup of coffee, but also you can use a facial scrub made of coffee to reap the astonishing skin payback.
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The majority of people in this world have become totally overworked. Due to this, mainstream america are not getting enough sleep. And this normally leads to puffy eyes and dark circles.
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You can leave it for a relaxing knowledge for about twenty minutes before your rinse off the grounds.
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Watch the harrowing video of a Sterling Heights police officer saving a 3-week-old girl
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) — A Sterling Heights police officer is being called a hero after the harrowing rescue of a 3-week-old girl was caught on the officer's dashcam.
Just before 11 pm Thursday, the officer was called to a home on the 36000 block of Waltham Drive on a report of an infant not breathing.
Officer Cameron Maciejewski was the first to arrive and jumped into action. The officer was met by the family outside the home and took the baby, who was not breathing, into his arms.
Officer Maciejewski is seen on video calmly taking the baby in his arms and performs back thrusts in an attempt to clear her airways. After a few seconds, the baby coughs up the obstruction and begins the cry.
The baby was then turned over to the Sterling Heights Fire Department and transported to the hospital for evaluation.
"If it wasn't for Ofc. Maciejewski's quick, calm, lifesaving actions, the outcome of this incident could have been tragically different. Not only did the officer save the baby, but the officer did an outstanding job consoling the family," said police in a statement.


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