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Bangladesh’s Forex reserve reaches all-time high
Bangladesh Journal - Dhaka, Aug 28: Country’’s foreign exchange reserve rose to the highest ever level Wednesday to stand at US$3.5 billion on strong remittance and export earnings, reports UNB. The reserve level of US$3,557.36 million would be equivalent to import

There is a very lengthy and very good article on why MS Word documents are bad for email. I personally find them more problematic than many other formats.

Here is a quote that should scare some of you into avoiding using MS Word in emails:

Microsoft Word is often configured by default to automatically track and record changes you make to a document. What many people do not realize is that this record of changes is actually silently embedded in the file every time you save your document. When you send such a document to a third party, it is a trivial matter for them to recover this log and see how the document appeared several revisions ago. Thus compromising or confidential information you thought you removed from a document before sending it may in fact still be accessible to the recipient.

Euro hits record high against yen
Boston Online - The minutes do not look like a dollar selling factor in the medium-term,” said Kosuke Hanao, head of forex sales at HSBC in Tokyo. “I think the market is now shifting its focus to the U.S. payrolls report on Friday.” The Fed left its key interest

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If you are a part of a minority, you need to understand what is going on in California and in Colorado.

By a minority, I am not just speaking of racial minorities. There are many types of minorities. For example, family farms, which are not part of a national corporation are owned by a minority known as farmers. There are fewer farmers in the USA than there are city dwellers, therefore farmers are a minority.

Many times, members of one minority feel that their rights are threatened by another minority receiving help, but the threat that I am addressing in this article will affect many kinds of minorities and will create widespread disenfranchisement.

The founding fathers of the USA were a minority before the USA was established. They were governed from England, but they had little ability to affect the policies of the government which ruled over them. Their recognition of their political plight had an impact years later on the governmental structures which they tried to install into the US Constitution. Some of their efforts have, since their time, been removed or eviscerated.

At the time of the creating of the Constitution, Virginia was much larger than it is today and its percentage of the total US population was also higher. (This would also have been true, even if, population counts had only included white, male citizens. This comment is added because someone might seek to detract from this article due to the fact that Virginia had a very large population of people who were not given the right to vote.) Smaller states, such as Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut, were afraid that there ability to be significantly involved in federal decision-making and policy would be destroyed by the states which had a large population. Therefore, the original US Constitution contained not only language of a democratic nature but also of a geo-political nature.

Some of the geopolitical safeguards which were originally placed within the constitution have already been eliminated or eviscerated. Currently, there is a movement afoot to remove even more geopolitical safeguards.

Why should minorities feel threatened by this?

Because any attempt to remove geopolitical safeguards destroys any minority’s ability to be heard.

For example, although there have been several representatives in the US House of Representatives of African-American descent, there have only been three Senators in the last century and only one Governor. Why? Because without geopolitical safeguards, the African-American vote becomes lost in the crowd.

The greatest chance that the African-American vote has of producing a US President whose skin coloring is undeniably dark is the Electoral College, provided that the geopolitical safeguards are reinstated and beefed up.

For example, the winner take all, policy of most states has already destroyed most of the impact of minorities. And California is currently attempting to overwhelm the voice of any minority population to such a degree that those congressional districts which have a dense minority population will never again be able to impact the race for US President.

Imagine if each congressional district was able to elect one elector to the Electoral college independently of all “winner take all” schemes. There might be several congressional districts spread out across many states who could elect a number of minority electors to the Electoral college. This mechanism was NOT required by the original construct for the electoral college, but the subsequent “Winner Take All” schemes have weakened what should have been beefed up.

Each state’s overall population should still be allowed to be counted together and awarded two votes apiece in the Electoral College. This was part of the democratic safeguards which were part of the balance between a bi-cameral federal legislature. The number of statewide electors is equivalent to the number of Senators (2) and the number of proportioned electors (as originally conceived) was based on the number of Representatives.

Any state which has a section of the state that is demographically distinct from the rest of the state has already experienced geo-political disenfranchisement on a statewide level, unless the state legislature has labored to prevent such disenfranchisement, but now this destruction of the geo-political voice is gaining national momentum. One example is a state with one or two large metropolitan areas and a much smaller farming population. In several states, the independent farmer’s voice is no longer able to be heard because there are fewer geo-political safeguards allowing his or her region to significantly affect the state’s political decisions.

Because the purpose of this article is to discuss minority disenfranchisement in Presidential elections, I am not going to discuss in this article, the original purpose of the US Senate except to note that the geo-political impact of the US Senate has been weakened.

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Many webmasters focus on getting more traffic to their web sites. While getting visitors is very important, there is one thing that is more important than getting as many visitors as possible. Read on to learn what it is.

In June 2006, Marshall Goldsmith posted an article which contains one of the strangest leadership related sentences which I have read this year in a blog by a “thought leader.”

At Arthur Andersen, Johnson & Johnson, and Shell International, the heads of the leadership development process have senior-level business experience.

Arthur Andersen’s executives failed in their stewardship of their company. It does not matter how senior your leadership development team is, if the culture that they create and the proteges which they develop create the type of situation which led to their prosecution. Although the US Supreme Court overturned the verdict, this company which used to be one of the biggest accounting firms in the US is now involved in managing its defense against civil lawsuits and managing what appears to be the process of corporate dissolution.

Read the context of Marshall Goldsmith’s sentence at www.marshallgoldsmithbl…

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Les junk bonds sont des obligations au rating spéculatif ou bénéficiant d’une note de BB+ ou inférieure. Ces obligations donnent un return plus élevé que les obligations d’Etat sans risques en raison de la plus faible solvabilité de leur émetteur.