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  Law of Attraction - Affirmations and the Best Way to Use Them! (Add Power to Your Man
Posted by: lindmitchello - 11-30-2021, 05:13 PM - Forum: Health News - No Replies

Just think of affirmations as hypnotic suggestions. But just like any other technique or tool, to get the best results from them, you have to use them in the best way. Use them poorly and get poor results, use them in the most proper and effective instant manifestation secrets fashion and get magnificent results. It's as simple as that. People who lack the understanding of how affirmations work usually apply them improperly and of course, they get poor results. Make sense?

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  Merdeka 118 tower amid Covid-19 pandemic a great engineering achievement for Malaysia
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 05:10 PM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies

PM Ismail: Construction of Merdeka 118 tower amid Covid-19 pandemic a great engineering achievement for Malaysia

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 — The construction of the Merdeka 118 tower amid the Covid-19 pandemic marks a great engineering achievement for the country and reinforces Malaysia’s position as a modern and developed nation.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said he was informed Merdeka 118 would be the first tower in the country to receive triple platinum green ratings in international sustainability certification as well as the prestigious WELL certification.

(The WELL Building Standard takes a holistic approach to health in the built environment addressing behaviour, operations and design.)

“This makes Merdeka 118 the industry benchmark in Malaysia as an iconic tower of the future,” he said at the Merdeka 118 tower spire completion ceremony here today.

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  Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 04:27 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies

Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result.

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Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year, Donald Trump made several calls from the White House to top lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington and talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January.

The former president first told the lieutenants his vice-president, Mike Pence, was reluctant to go along with the plan to commandeer his largely ceremonial role at the joint session of Congress in a way that would allow Trump to retain the presidency for a second term.

But as Trump relayed to them the situation with Pence, he pressed his lieutenants about how to stop Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January, and delay the certification process to get alternate slates of electors for Trump sent to Congress.

The former president’s remarks came as part of strategy discussions he had from the White House with the lieutenants at the Willard – a team led by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn and Trump strategist Steve Bannon – about delaying the certification.

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  Achieving semiconductor independency is ‘not doable,’ EU competition chief says
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 03:56 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies

  • “What is important is that there is a different level of production capacity in Europe,” Vestager said.
  • The European Commission has said that it wants to double the market share of semiconductors in Europe by 2030.
  • At the moment, “on a good day,” Europe’s market share is at 10% — it used to be 40% in the 1990s, according to data from the commission.
  • Vestager said the EU is working with the United States to identify what is causing shortages in the production of semiconductors. 
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Becoming completely independent on semiconductor production is just “not doable” because of the high levels of investment needed, the EU’s competition chief admitted Monday.

Carmakers and other businesses in the bloc have struggled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as supply chains were impacted and limited access to the much-needed technology. As a result, European policymakers have been looking at ways to boost production of computer chips.

For some officials, the EU needs to become a global powerhouse in this space — but Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition chief, has cautioned against any unrealistic expectations.

“The numbers I hear of, sort of, the upfront investments to be fully self-sufficient, that makes it not doable,” Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission, told CNBC in an exclusive interview in London.

“What is important is that there is a different level of production capacity in Europe,” she said.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, has said that it wants to double the market share of semiconductors in Europe by 2030. At the moment, “on a good day,” Europe’s market share is at 10% — it used to be 40% in the 1990s, according to data from the commission.

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  Rolling back U.S.-China tariffs would ease inflation in the U.S.
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 03:50 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies

Rolling back U.S.-China tariffs would ease inflation in the U.S., former Treasury secretary says
  • Eliminating tariffs imposed on goods during the worst of the trade war would help ease inflation in the U.S., former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told CNBC.
  • But there’s currently “no political space” to do so, he said on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”
  • Worries over inflation have shot up this year, as energy prices spiked and the ongoing supply chain crisis led to shortages of goods. But Lew said there’s been “a bit of excess nervousness about inflation.”
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Eliminating tariffs imposed on goods during the worst of the trade war would help ease inflation in the U.S., former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told CNBC on Tuesday.

But there’s currently “no political space” to do so, he said on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”

“I think that the United States and China have deep differences. I’ve never thought it should just be about negotiating the exchange of one good or another on one side or the other. It should be about a level playing field,” Lew said. He served as treasury secretary from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama administration.

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  4 big questions about the new omicron variant
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 03:41 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies

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Scientists in Botswana and South Africa first detected the variant, which features significant mutations to the coronavirus’s telltale spike protein, a few weeks ago. The sheer number of mutations was reason enough to worry — “this variant is completely insane,” remarked one infectious disease researcher to another — and, over the holiday weekend, the World Health Organization officially named omicron a variant of concern.

That designation means the WHO believes there is good reason to think the omicron variant is more transmissible than the currently dominant delta variant, that it causes more severe disease, or that it can better evade public health measures, including vaccines — or all of the above.

But at this point, there is so much scientists don’t know about omicron. It takes time to collect samples of the variant and study them, to observe transmission patterns, and for enough data to come in to be confident about how the vaccines are handling omicron. It will be at least a couple of weeks before we start to get firm and specific answers to the big outstanding questions.

Only once science has answered those questions will the world know how serious a threat the omicron variant actually is. Is it a minor setback or a major obstacle to getting to a place where we can live with Covid-19? Researchers are racing to find out.

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  China to further help Africa’s vaccination drive, shielding continent from Omicron
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 03:30 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies

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China has vowed to further help African countries boost their vaccination drive, which Chinese observers said could significantly strengthen the continent's immunological barrier against the COVID-19 pandemic and tackle serious global vaccine inequality. The emergence of the new variant Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa, once again highlights the dire consequences of vaccine inequality in developing countries, especially in Africa, where only 6 percent of its population have been fully vaccinated.

China is also expected to further step up its efforts to help African countries with vaccine production, meeting the continent's core needs with cost-efficient methods for producing inactivated vaccines that are more suitable for these countries than the West's high-priced and complicated mRNA vaccines, analysts said. 

In order to help vaccinate 60 percent of the African population, a goal set by the African Union, China will provide African countries another 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine with 600 million doses offered for free and the rest offered through various means including joint production by Chinese and African enterprises, President Xi Jinping announced in a keynote speech delivered via video link at the opening ceremony of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing on Monday.

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  World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 03:16 PM - Forum: Sciences - No Replies


(CNN)The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce -- and in a way not seen in plants and animals.

Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blobs were first unveiled in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups and self-heal.

Now the scientists that developed them at the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering said they have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

"I was astounded by it," said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research.

"Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you ... liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce."

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  Govt punishing my voters, says Syed Saddiq over allocation of funds to MPs
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 02:56 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies

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KUALA LUMPUR: The government’s move to only provide equal allocation of funds to opposition MPs from parties involved in the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Putrajaya has been criticised by an independent MP who says it is akin to punishing his constituents.

Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman (Independent-Muar) told the Dewan Rakyat that he had written a letter to Speaker Azhar Harun regarding deputy special functions minister Mastura Mohd Yazid’s statement in September that all MPs, regardless of political affiliation, will be given equal allocations for the remainder of the year.

He said Mastura had also “stressed” that the equal allocation to all MPs will be distributed immediately.

“But it’s now December and until today, Muar has not seen a single sen,” he said.

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  Calls to abolish vernacular schools not about BM, but racism, says Ramasamy
Posted by: superadmin - 11-30-2021, 02:52 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry - No Replies

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PETALING JAYA: The calls to abolish vernacular schools has nothing to do with language proficiency or the level of education they provide, but are instead driven by racist perceptions towards these institutions.

Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy said that the long-running debate, reignited this week by Bersatu’s youth wing and a lawsuit filed by three Malay students groups, is fueled by a lack of acceptance of Malay not being the primary mode of instruction in these schools.

“Over the years, vernacular schools have become more integrated with the national system of education,” he said, contrary to some who paint these institutions as outsiders in the system.

The DAP leader said there is “no basis whatsoever” to allegations that vernacular school students lack Malay proficiency, as pushed by Bersatu Youth information chief Mohd Ashraf Mustaqim Badrul Munir.


“This is a wild allegation that is not backed up with facts and figures. Even students in the national schools suffer from the lack of proficiency not only in Malay but also in English.
“The major weakness of our education system is the lack of proficiency in English in both the categories of schools,” Ramasamy said.

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