Gmail's 'Undo Send' Option Officially Rolled Out By Google

Every one of us has experienced an email blunder at some point whether it was accidentally hitting reply to all, sending a message to the wrong person or forgetting to attach a file. For example, I sent a cover letter to the wrong recruiter back when I was in college – which is likely one of the reasons why I did not hear back from that company. Now Gmail has rolled out a feature that lets you recall a message within 30 seconds of it being sent. Gmail originally launched the “Undo Send” feature in March 2009, but it was hidden as an experimental “Labs” feature.

“Previously a popular feature in Gmail Labs, and recently added to Inbox by Gmail, today we’re adding ‘Undo Send’ as a formal setting in Gmail on the web,” said Google in an announcement. Inbox is a mobile app for iOS and Android that keeps your email organized by highlighting important information and bundling similar messages.

In the web-based version of Gmail, you can activate the “Undo Send” option by tapping on the gear icon at the top right and selecting “Settings” from the drop-down menu. Under the general settings, make sure that ”Enable Undo Send” is check-marked. You will notice that the number of seconds can be changed between 5, 10, 20 or 30. I recommend setting up “Undo Send” for 30 seconds because 5 seconds does not seem like enough time. The “Undo Send” feature will remain activated for your account if you switched it on while it was still an experiment.

Some of the other Gmail features available through “Labs” includes an Unread message icon, a Google GOOGL -3.07% Calendar widget, custom keyboard shortcuts and Google Maps previews inside of messages. To test out some of those features, you have to manually enable each one and hit “Save Changes” at the bottom of the Gmail Labs website.

To recall a message after enabling the “Undo Send” feature, you simply have click on the “Undo Send” text at the top of the Gmail website once the email is sent. The “Undo Send” option will disappear even if you click on a link within Gmail before the recall time expires so use this feature with caution. “Undo Send” may not work if you are experiencing connection issues too. Here is what the “Undo Send” text looks like:

Unfortunately, “Undo Send” is not available for the Gmail mobile app. But Mashable reported Gmail is planning to roll out the “Undo Send” feature for the mobile app eventually.

Culled from Forbes

Nigeria's Forex Reserve Rise 5.6% Month-on-month By July 22

Nigeria's foreign exchange reserves rose $30.69 billion by July 22, up 5.6 percent from $29.03 billion a month earlier, latest data from the central bank.

However, the forex reserves of Africa's top crude exporter were down20.9 percent from $$38.8 billion a year ago.

The growth in reserves for the month was attributed to efforts of the present government to plug leakage and demand management by the central bank.

The central bank restricted access to foreign exchange by last month and introduced tight control of the foreign exchange market to curb speculation and conserves forex reserves.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/24/nigeria-reserves-idUKL5N10411G20150724

World's First Malaria Vaccine Approved

The world’s first malaria vaccine has received a green light from European drugs regulators who recommended it should be licensed for use in babies in Africa who are at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.

The shot, called RTS,S or Mosquirix, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria in countries that use it.

The vaccine was developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative,

Recommendations for a drug licence made by the European Medicines Agency are normally endorsed by the European Commission within a couple of months.

Mosquirix, also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will also now be assessed by the World Health Organisation, which has promised to give its guidance on when and where it should be used before the end of this year.

Malaria killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

More than 80 percent of malaria deaths are in children under the age of five.

Andrew Witty, GSK’s chief executive, said EMA’s positive recommendation was a further important step towards making the world’s first malaria vaccine available for young children.

“While RTS,S on its own is not the complete answer to malaria, its use alongside those interventions currently available such as bed nets and insecticides would provide a very meaningful contribution to controlling the impact of malaria on children in those African communities that need it the most,” he said in a statement.

http://www.punchng.com/news/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-approved/

Invest Like a Multi Billionaire By Tony Robbins

“superficially, i think it looks like entrepreneurs have a high tolerance for risk. but one of the most important phrases in my life is ‘protect the downside.’” – richard branson

many people within the investment world will tell you that you have to risk a lot to make a lot. or even that the only way to become financially free is to take great risks! but savvy investors like kyle bass and paul tudor jones use ratios of 6:1 and 5:1 respectively – risking a little to leverage a lot. this is called asymmetrical risk/reward. 

remember warren buffett’s top two rules of investing? rule 1: don’t lose money! rule 2: see rule number 1. these money masters understand that losing money is the quickest way to financial defeat because it takes you twice as long to get back to where you started. 

so, defy conventional wisdom and look for small investments to return disproportionate rewards. 

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U.S., Cuba Re-establish Diplomatic Relations, Reopen Embassies

Havana, Cuba. One bitter holdover of the Cold War slipped into the history books at 12:01 a.m. Monday, when the United States and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations. For the first time since severing ties in 1961, they reopened embassies in each other's capitals.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla was to travel to the Cuban Embassy in Washington to raise his country's flag, an event that Cuban government officials said would be broadcast live on the island's state-run TV.

A Cuban delegation of diplomats, artists and veterans of the revolution were to commemorate the breakthrough with about 500 guests and more than likely down a few celebratory mojitos and shots of Havana Club rum.

U.S. diplomats in Havana have readied everything from new business cards to the embassy sign. But the festivities and flag-raising will have to wait for Secretary of State John Kerry's visit -- the highest-level trip by a U.S. official to Cuba since the 1959 revolution -- for the embassy reopening ceremony in August.

Starting Monday, U.S. officials said, the Cuban government will pull back some of the tight cordon of security that had surrounded America's diplomatic mission in Havana and no longer record the names of Cubans entering the building.

The Cuban and American heads of their respective Interest Sections will became charges d'affaires until ambassadors are named.

Plenty of longtime enmity to overcome

"A new stage will begin, long and complex, on the road toward normalization," Cuban President Raul Castro said in a televised address last week to the Cuban people. "Which will require the will to find solutions to the problems that have accumulated over more than five decades and hurt ties between our nations and peoples."

If there were ever two countries in need of a "new stage" of relations, they are Cuba and the United States.

Already frayed ties between Washington and Havana snapped in 1961 when Cuban leader Fidel Castro threatened to expel American diplomats for meddling in Cuban affairs.

The United States had blasted the Cuban government's seizure of American property and the summary executions of officials from the Fulgencio Batista regime that Castro had overthrown.

"There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure. That limit has now been reached," President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, announcing the rupture.

Swiss diplomats took over the maintenance of the seaside former U.S. Embassy and the sprawling ambassador's residence in Havana.

The failed U.S.-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro's declaration that his revolution was socialist, repeated CIA plots to assassinate Castro, and the Cuban Missile crisis further poisoned affairs for the decades that followed.

But in 1977, during a brief period of improved relations in the Carter administration, Cuba and the United States opened Interests Sections in their former embassies.

A step below embassies, Interests Sections allowed the Cold War foes to have diplomatic dealings without officially restoring relations.

Keeping a diplomatic low profile in Cuba

Diplomats returning to the old U.S. Embassy in Havana found years of dust accumulated on the furniture and calendars from 1961 still on the walls.

Since the United States couldn't fly the American flag or name an ambassador to Havana, there were no obvious signs of a large U.S. diplomatic presence in Communist-run Cuba.

"Most Americans who visit Cuba seem to think there's no relationship, there's just a tiny room in the Swiss Embassy. And every day they are driving past the old embassy, but they don't know there's an embassy because there's no flag," said Vicki Huddleston, who was chief of the Interests Section from 1999 to 2002.

With 51 Americans and 300 Cuban employees, the U.S. Interests Section is one of the largest diplomatic missions of any country in Cuba.

But instead of improving relations with Cuba, the Interests Section often served as a lightning rod for confrontation.

The Cuban government plastered propaganda around the building, including one iconic sign that showed a fatigue-clad revolutionary telling a hissing caricature of Uncle Sam, "Mister imperialists, we are not the least bit afraid of you!"

Fidel Castro called the section "a nest of spies" and led frequent marches with hundreds of thousands of supporters in tow to protest U.S. policies.

Tarantulas would show up in the oddest places

Cuban intelligence kept a close eye on American diplomats' comings and goings.

"They had 3,000 to 4000 people that were focused on our personnel, trying to recruit them or harass us," said James Cason, the chief of the Interests Section from 2002 to 2005. "They would break into your house and do things to show they had control of your existence. In my days, if they knew you didn't like spiders, you would find a tarantula wandering around your room."

Cuban diplomats serving in the United States complained of similar harassment at the hands of American minders.

Cuban flags all but block out the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana during frostier diplomatic times.

Sometimes the intimidation backfired, as when Huddleston was informed that her Afghan hound, Havana, could no longer take part in local dog shows.

"You have been thrown out of the dog club because of your country's policies and your actions," Huddleston said the letter of expulsion read.

But negative publicity over the incident led Cuban officials to declare it all had been a mistake, since the dog really belonged to Huddleston's husband.

"The Cubans were really embarrassed," Huddleston said. "Fidel said he would give my husband's dog a pardon. "

Sometimes it was the United States that sparked diplomatic incidents, such as in 2006 when diplomats installed an electronic ticker across the top floor of the Interests Section to display information the Cuban government didn't want reported.

"We decided we would talk over the heads of the regime by putting the moving billboard in the top floor of our windows," Cason said. "And one day, to the surprise of the regime, we started off with, 'People of Cuba, how come we can go to your hotels and you can't?'"

The Cuban government responded by erecting a "forest" of 138 flag poles to block out the offending American messages. Eventually both the ticker and the flags came down.

'We have a formal relationship'

Despite the clashes that often grabbed headlines, in recent years the United States and Cuba have quietly increased cooperation on combating drug smuggling, migrant interdiction and protecting the environment.

Working together on areas of mutual interest is only likely to increase with the restoration of diplomatic relations, said John Caulfield, chief of the Interests Section from 2011 to 2014.

"As an Interests Section, we were kind of radioactive for Cubans," Caulfield said. "This is a signal to Cuba and all Cubans that even if we don't have a normal relationship, we have a formal relationship."

Caulfield said during his final years in Cuba, the thawing of relations was already underway, although his time in Havana was not without its intrigues.

Despite the ban on raising the American flag at the Interests Section, Caulfield said his staff presented him with a memorable and clandestine present when he finished his posting.

"They gave me a flag they had snuck up in the middle of the night and gave it to me as a going-away gift, and I really appreciated the gesture," Caulfield said.

Soon the United States will for the first time in 54 years again fly the American flag in Havana for everyone to see.

Culled from CNN

How To Be Successful With What You Have Right Now By Justin Young

The pursuit of excellence begins with the most humble of steps. Starting down the road of success can seem like a difficult task, one rife with disappointment and hardship, but by simply doing what you can with what you have, you can build the foundation from which to launch your dreams. Keeping in mind that the greatest leaders, businessmen, and heroes all had to start somewhere, you too can stay motivated and focused on your own pursuit of excellence. This launch pad for success prepares you to take advantage of a whole host of opportunities and help that will come your way, you just have to be ready and willing to continue pushing towards excellence. Justin Young shares with us a powerful lesson he learned early on about the need to start doing whatever you can with whatever you have to achieve your goals.

“So many people have settled for a life of mediocrity,” Young begins. “They have dreams, they have goals and visions, but it seems too daunting. We live in a society where perfection is blasted left and right and we don’t even try. It seems like it’s too much, it’s too hard, the journey would be too difficult. But with excellence, when you begin to operate and you do the very best with what you’ve been given, it begins to draw key relationships and key people to your life to help you accomplish and begin to persist in your purpose and walk and function in your destiny and your God-given ability.”

After falling in love with his neighbor’s horse, Young knew that he wouldn’t be satisfied until he had one of his own. Though his family couldn’t afford much, they did what they could with what they had to make his dreams come true. They started small, purchasing what they could on a weekly basis to start building a barn for a horse. Only being able to afford a few posts here and there from the hardware store, it seemed as if they would never finish the barn. But then, something amazing happened.

“People began to notice. Neighbors would drive by and stop and want to help…Saturdays at my house became 10 or 12 people all coming together to help this family fulfill their destiny because people are inspired when you do the very best with what you’ve been given,” Young said. Seeing that he and his family were doing their best to work towards a goal, people began donating their time, equipment, and supplies to help build the barn. “In life,” Young explains, “whenever we begin to do the best and we create a place and we create preparation, then that’s when the blessing oftentimes will come.” Even though the few fence posts didn’t seem like a whole lot, they quickly turned into a finished barn. There was just one thing missing.

“A miraculous thing happened. The very horse that [he] had [gone] and pet and loved on and fed every day, that [he] thought was unattainable,” was waiting for him in the barn. By preparing for his dreams to come true, and taking proactive steps to build the foundation of his dream, Young was finally able to have the horse that he so dearly loved. “That dream, that goal, that vision…whatever it is for your life is absolutely in your reach. It’s not too far…if you’ll just believe and you’ll…prepare to win and expect to win,” emphasizes Young.

“Operating in that excellence will bring those resources, those key relationships that attract other successful people, that will help you absolutely walk in your destiny and live a life of excellence,” Young concludes. So, what can you do today with what you have to start on your own personal path to excellence? The answer may be much simpler and much easier than you ever thought, you just have to be willing to take the first step and be ready to accept the blessings that come your way.

Greek Banks Set To Reopen On Monday For The First Time In Three Weeks.

The banks were shut last last month to stem a rush of money out of the country's cash-starved financial system. The government also set 60 euro limits on daily withdrawals, causing hardship for residents and often long lines at ATM machines.

On Monday, the 60 euros limit on ATM and in-person withdrawals at branches will continue, according to a statement from the Greek Finance Ministry. If weary Greeks don't want to wait in line each day to get their 60 euros ($60), they also will be able to go, say, once a week and take out 420 euros ($455) -- the weekly maximum -- which is a fairly high cap since it's more than many Greeks earn in a week.

The reopening of the banks comes as Europe's central bank promised 900 million euros in new emergency funding for Greece on Thursday.

Formal negotiations on a new bailout -- worth as much as 86 billion euros ($96 billion) -- can now begin after several European parliaments, including Germany's, voted in favor. European leaders agreed last week to offer Greece a new rescue -- its third since 2010.

While the details of the bailout are being hammered out, Greece urgently needs cash to make debt repayments and pay other bills.

Europe is giving Greece an interim loan worth 7 billion euros ($7.8 billion) to tide it over. That won't last longer than a few weeks, however, so the pressure is still on.

Culled from CNN

NASA Probe Makes History At Pluto

NASA says its New Horizons spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Pluto on Tuesday, becoming the first spacecraft to pass over the small, icy world.

The unmanned, piano-size spacecraft went over Pluto at 7:49 a.m. ET, at which time it was expected to be traveling nearly 31,000 mph about 7,750 miles from Pluto.

It's the first mission to Pluto and its five moons.

"I have to pinch myself," said Alice Bowman, the mission's operations manager. "Look what we accomplished."

Because the spacecraft will be busy gathering data during its flyby, it won't phone home to update its status until around 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.

"That's going to be a very highly anticipated event," Alan Stern, the mission's principal investigator, said at a briefing Monday.

The wait will be a tense one.

"There's that small element of danger, so I think we're all going to breathe the final sigh of relief at 9 p.m., and that's when we can really call it a successful flyby," Stern said.

When will you see photos from the flyby? It takes four hours for the probe to get a signal back to Earth, and then NASA has to process the data. NASA has released images of Pluto before, and mission managers expect the images from the New Horizons close encounter to be released online and on NASA TV at 3 p.m. ET Wednesday.

Scientists on Monday said New Horizons already has settled one debate about Pluto -- its size. Information gathered by the probe indicates Pluto is 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter. That's somewhat bigger than earlier estimates, and it means Pluto is larger than all other known solar system objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The probe already has beamed back several crisp photos of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

"Pluto and Charon are both mind-blowing," Stern told CNN on Saturday. "I think that the biggest surprise is the complexity we're seeing in both objects."

The mission completes what NASA calls the reconnaissance of the classical solar system, and it makes the United States the first nation to send a space probe to every planet from Mercury to Pluto. The probe traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto.

Stern noted that Tuesday's Pluto flyby came exactly 50 years after the Mariner 4 probe accomplished the first flyby of Mars.

"I think it's fitting that on that 50th anniversary we complete the initial reconnaissance of the planets with the exploration of Pluto," he said Tuesday.

"But stay tuned," he added. "Because our spacecraft is not in communication with the Earth. We programmed it to be spending its time taking important data sets that it can only take today."

Why go to Pluto?

New Horizons' core science mission is to map the surfaces of Pluto and Charon. It also will study their atmospheres.

The spacecraft was launched on January 19, 2006, before the big debate started over Pluto's status as a planet. In August of that year, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.

But Stern disagrees with the IAU's decision.

"We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before," Stern said earlier. "Fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings."

New Horizons has seven instruments on board to help scientists better understand how Pluto and its moons fit in with the rest of the planets in our solar system.

The planets closest to our sun -- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars -- are rocky. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are gas giants. But Pluto is different: Even though it is out beyond the gas giants, it has a solid, icy surface.

New Horizons looks like a gold foil-covered grand piano. It is 27 inches (0.7 meters) tall, 83 inches (2.1 meters) long and 108 inches (2.7 meters) wide. It weighed 1,054 pounds (478 kilograms) at launch.

The probe won't orbit Pluto and it won't land. Instead, it will keep flying, heading deeper into the Kuiper Belt, a region that scientists think is filled with hundreds of small, icy objects.

"The universe has a lot more variety than we thought about, and that's wonderful," Stern said. "The most exciting discoveries will likely be the ones we don't anticipate."

Stern said mission managers will decide later this year where to point New Horizons for the next part of its journey.

Forgotten By Father, Child Dies In Locked Car

Abu Dhabi: A four-year-old boy died of suffocation and high temperature after his father locked him inside his car and forgot about him in United Arab Emirates (UAE), a media report said on Saturday.

On Friday evening, the child returned home with his father and he thought his son had already gotten off the car and locked it. The car was parked in front of their house located in Al Ramsa area in Sharjah.

The police later claimed they found the boy in car, motionless. He was taken to Al Qasimi Hospital in Al Khezami where he was pronounced dead, Khaleej Times reported.

The Sharjah Police recently warned parents against leaving children locked in cars with the engines running. A top official said leaving children locked in cars even for five minutes in the sweltering heat can lead to suffocation, and could prove fatal.

Last year, more than five such cases were reported in Sharjah alone.

Culled from Zee News

Greece OKs Bailout Deal

_{Greece's parliament voted early Saturday to accept economic reforms the government had rejected just a week ago, making a final desperate bid to secure billions in loans and stay in the euro.}

_{The vote leaves the next step to Europe, which has said it wants to finalize a deal by Sunday.}

_{Earlier this week, European leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras an ultimatum: Convince us you're serious about putting Greek finances in order, or you're out of the eurozone.}

_{With its vote, Greece is pledging to cut spending, raise taxes, and phase out tax discounts on some tourist islands, among many other things. Greece is also proposing changes to public pensions, such as raising the retirement age, and steps to improve tax collection.}

_{But the Greek government has done multiple policy U-turns over the last few weeks.}

_{And now it is asking for a third bailout, after receiving roughly 233 billion euros in rescue financing over the past five years from European and international partners.}

_{The proposals approved by Greece Saturday look eerily similar to the ones previously tabled by eurozone leaders -- the same ones then rejected by the Greek prime minister just 10 days ago and by the Greek people in a referendum on Sunday.}

_{Time is running out. Greece's plan will be considered by 28 heads of state in the European Union, meaning Europe's top leaders hold the key to any new bailout money.}

_{There were lingering concerns that Greece will take the money, but won't deliver on its promises.}

_{Slovakia's finance minister, Peter Kazimir summed up the situation poetically: "Listening to Greece government officials, one can wonder how quickly [a] caterpillar can turn into butterfly."}

_{Greece wants its creditors to help it ease its enormous debt burden, but some European leaders deeply oppose debt relief. This opposition could kill any new Greek deal, causing the government to default on more debt and potentially go bankrupt in a matter of days.}

_{On top of it all, Greece finances are far worse now than they were just weeks ago. Some skeptics wonder whether a third bailout will be enough to help Greece out of its economic hole.}

_{The IMF recently estimated Greece will need at least another 50 billion euros ($55 billion). But analysts say the figure will be much higher since the IMF analysis was conducted before Greek banks were forced to shut down, wreaking even more havoc on the economy.}

_{Here are some of the key proposals that the Greeks are putting forward, which are designed to raise more tax revenue and cut back on spending:}

_{--Streamline the sales tax system and raise sales taxes on Greek islands, which currently receive discounts.}

_{--Clamp down on income tax avoidance and phase out preferential tax treatment for farmers.}

_{--Raise the corporate tax rate to 28% from 26%.}

_{--Slash military spending.}

<sub>--Overhaul the pension system in a bid to discourage people from quickly tapping government pensions. For many Greeks, the new retirement age will be raised to 67.

Culled from CNN</sub>

Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Pledges $32 Billion To Charity

Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud -- who made billions investing in American, European and Middle Eastern companies -- is donating his $32 billion fortune to philanthropy, according to a statement released Wednesday.

Alwaleed said he wants his money to go to humanitarian causes after his death. The release did not identify specific efforts, but said the board of trustees at Alaweed Philanthropies -- which he currently heads -- will craft a plan to spend the money on initiatives related to healthcare, education and poverty.

"Philanthropy [...] is an intrinsic part of my Islamic faith," Alwaleed said in the press release. "With this pledge, I am honoring my life-long commitment to what matters most -- helping to build a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable world for generations to come."

Forbes ranks Alwaleed at the 34th richest person in the world. His major investments have included Twitter and Citigroup, as well as media companies like Time Warner (CNN's parent company) and Disney.

The business magnate said he has already funneled $3.5 billion to his charity for initiatives such as housing, gender equality and disaster relief. Alwaleed Philanthropies has also established centers and programs at several prestigious universities -- including Harvard and Cambridge -- and partnered with charities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Alwaleed's press release from Wednesday quotes Gates saying, "Prince Alwaleed's generous commitment promises to significantly extend the great work that his foundation is already doing."