Toddler dies after choking on chips in UAE

A 14-month-old Emirati baby girl choked to death on Tuesday evening in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah after a piece of chips she was eating got stuck in her throat.

The young victim, based in Wadi Shaam, could not breathe because the piece of chips blocked her trachea, according to sources.

“Though her parents tried hard to save her life and rushed her to the nearest hospital, she was in a critical condition when admitted.”

“The parents turned their baby girl upside down and slapped her back several times, but to no avail.”

The emergency duty doctors exerted their utmost effort and tried several times to resuscitate her, but unfortunately, she was shortly declared dead, they added.

“The young girl’s brain was deprived of oxygen for a long time due to the blocked airway, and her face turned blue due to lack of oxygen.”

The baby girl was moved to the morgue of the hospital and was later buried at the Al Waaeb cemetery.

The emirate of Fujairah, back in 2018, saw a similar case where a two-year-old Emirati baby boy choked after a piece of grape was stuck in his throat.

Dr. Engy Ziada, a specialist pediatrician, urged all parents to take first aid training courses to better deal with such emergencies.

“The life of any person will be dangerously affected if his or her brain is deprived of air for more than four minutes.”

She also advised parents to keep the hard materials away from their toddlers. “Parents should also cut fruit into small pieces when given to their children, and always observe them while eating.”

“If the baby turns blue, parents are advised to start CPR, and call the emergency services for help.”

Dr Dhiraj Sidagonda, a specialist pediatrician, told Khaleej Times that a child’s windpipe has almost the same diameter as a drinking straw.

“Parents need to be careful while feeding their children, and choose the right food, and keep items and toys out of reach.”

According to Injury Facts 2017, choking is the fourth leading cause of ‘unintentional injury’ death.

There are 100,000 unintentional childhood injuries, including choking, according to the Children Health and Environment Report by the World Health Organisation. The Middle East and the region have a whopping 40 per cent unintentional or related to choking incidents in children, whereas Europe, has 7.9-25.4 per cent, a year.

Global child injury deaths by choking, smothering, asphyxiation and animal bites for children aged 0-17 is 31.1 per cent. Moreover, 16.8 per cent of global child injury deaths are caused by drowning. Children under five years of age have the highest drowning mortality rates worldwide, with New Zealand and Canada as an exception.

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First and foremost, I am a mother of two amazing girls and wife to a loving man with a very busy schedule. When I’m not attending to their needs, I try to devote my spare time to my other passions: fashion, music, design, travelling, cooking and fine dining – in short, alI of the other simple (and not so simple) pleasures in life! I understand what it means to be a mom and the need to find an escape (once in while) from the world of lululemon, carpools and lunches on the go to the world of high fashion, exotic travel and fine dinning. That said, the objective of my blog’s is to appeal to and be representative of the life of a young modern women with a family with (admittedly) a penchant for the finer things in life – so expect a bit of both! I hope this blog will serve you as a useful tool to find your pleasure in whatever world you happen to be in. In addition to my latest discoveries, I’ve enlisted the help of my friends in different parts of the world to contribute to my blog – thanks guys!

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my blog as much as I had sharing its contents with you!

It’s crazy to think that less than 5 years ago I was just starting to toy with the idea of blogging. I wanted a platform where be inspired and share all the things I love. From fashion and food to friends and family, I wanted to write about my life, capture all the moments of my life and just put it all out there – no holding back.

Well, it’s been a wild ride so far and my interest in blogging has transformed my life and has become my full-time job! From the Mademoiselle Jules blog and Insta, I’ve had the opportunity to partake in so many amazing endeavours with artists, designers, brands, and influencers; I’ve collaborated on amazing campaigns, I’ve attended incredible events and Paris Fashion Week and NYC Fashion Week. I mean, my life still feels like it’s kind of the exact same, my values and priorities are still my children and family, my friends and people I love, but my day-to-day job I am privileged to say, is something I wake up and look forward to working at. I’m constantly inspired and also exhausted, lol! But, the truth is, I’m mostly just grateful.

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-Mademoiselle Jules

Mark Kolta

Mark Kolta is professionally a SEC REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISOR from Miami Beach. He has owned and overseen all operations at The Kolta Group, LLC, in New York City since establishing the wealth management firm nearly nine years ago. He spent additional time as a registered representative with GAIN Capital. Mark Kolta thinks that Finance is a board term that describes the describes sports associated with banking, leverage or debt, credit, capital markets, money, and investments. Finance represents cash management and the method of acquiring wished price range.

Mark Kolta, unofficially a Wall Street tycoon since the ripe age of eleven years old, showed interest in the financial markets early upon entering the mortgage business
At just eighteen years of age, Mark began his finance career assisting in mortgages and Lending with Certified Funding in 2002. Thereafter, Mr. Kolta officially made his first Wall Street debut in mid-2007 with the brokerage firm Gain Capital (A world leader in online currency brokerage). While at Gain, Mark displayed early talents, , utilizing his negotiation and people skills by consistently ranking in the top spot amongst his peers. During that time Mark also acquired his Series 3 (commodities, options, futures license), and began learning the trades of technical and fundamental trading. With that experience, it was time for young Mark to begin his career as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch. As one of the youngest advisors employed by Merrill in 2008, Mark successfully completed acquisition of his Life Insurance license, Health, Sickness, & Variable License, Series 7 (General Securities Representative exam), and his Series 66 (Combined Uniform State Law). Age 22, Mark was ready to take on a 2008 market crash with JPMorganChase, as a fully registered Financial Advisor.
Having served over three years with JPMorganChase, and growing a book of business of ten million assets under management, to one hundred million (and again ranking within top ten wealth management advisors by production) it was time for not so young Mark Kolta, to take his career independent. Mark successfully left JPMorgan with assets representing approximately 50 million, and now stands tall today at age 31 steering his clients through tumultuous and volatile markets. A non-stop dedicated work ethic has placed Mark Kolta as an outlier to command presence in the future of financial markets to come.

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MelissaMADE. She is the creator of the8hourabsdiet.com and themadediet.com. She has been featured in over 70 fitness videos (including Chalene Johnson’s Turbo Fire and PiYo and Shaun T’s Transform 20) and in the industry for over 20 years. Melissa focuses on helping women with sugar addiction, education on hormones, macros, micros and meal timing.

Currently certified through Primal Restoration, Healthy Weight Loss and Intuitive Eating and is currently finishing up her Nutritional Therapist Practioner license. She continues to focus on helping busy business professional and Moms looking to find an enjoyable lifestyle that helps them maintain their energy and health.
Melissa also helps fitness enthusiasts create online brands where they can take their passion for health and wellness and create an income helping people from around the world. Her goal of ending this trend of obesity is audacious but she’s pretty driven to see it through!

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When I started weight training 17 years ago i was inspired by the bodybuilder figure of Frank Zane & Arnold Shwarzengger , I was always into sports at school back in High School, soccer & Water polo , but I was the skinny kid! I just wanted to gain a little weight and size to help with my performance in general, so i pushed myself to lift at the gym !
My mentality is very much to stay dedicated to a goal , if I want something, I will see it through to the end & what
Kept saying to myself that No one will outwork me !! I worked out twice a day, ate 6-7 meals in order to beat my average genetics!

After 3 years of training I noticed that my biceps had so much similarities to Arnold’s & that began to give me motivation & hope that one day i can have that perfect physique ! gym soon became my passion, and along with my gym buddies we decided to enter a local bodybuilding competition; just for fun to keep us motivated, to train harder, and diet more. Long story short, I won 5 national consecutive titles ! And it felt so good !!. Competing quickly became my motivation to keep training, keep getting better, so my goal was to stand on stage every year.

In 2009/2010 having a bulky physique was the trend and at that time I decided to take my body to a whole new level of shredding, so I started educating myself, using trials & errors in dieting & trying new ways of training & i landed on a 3.5% body fat physique after 4 months of extreme focus & dedication! I made the 1st photo session ever in Sep 2010 that defines the word (FITNESS MODEL) that we see nowadays! It was one of my greatest achievements to date, i tried to compete in musclemania 2010/2011 & 2012 but I wasn’t that lucky as rejections kept coming due to the hard times that the country went through (revolution) !!
After that period I took the decision to stop competing and started doing some fashion shows & modeling and started my professional career at Nestlè.

Now I always make sure to share my experience & healthy lifestyle with my followers and positively influence them to keep fit and healthy.
I want to keep inspiring and motivate people of all ages, to share the importance of the consistency needed in both training, nutrition & achieving their goals in general.

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she is one of best Entrepreneur. Stephanie is an assertive, confident and very caring Loan Originator. She values relationships over anything and her main focus is to teach and educate clients. She strives to serve her community about the mortgage loan process.

Stephanie graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She is a working mother, wife and influencer to her family. In her spare time she enjoys interior design and learning on improving herself mentally and physically.

Real Estate and Mortgage Loans became natural to Stephanie, as she began her gratifying career. She’s achieved million dollar transactions and millions in sales. Her vision is to provide a visual platform, comprehensive structure and understanding of property purchase to each and every client. Mortgage loans are her passion because helping others achieve the American Dream is rewarding to her.

She has created a vision and an educated plan for home buyers who desire the full blue print. Each client benefit’s from Stephanie’s intelectual, one on one and unique pattern that designates the ultimate loan program. The relationships she’s built with whole sale lenders will only enhance the purchase process.

Stephanie Arteaga, is a proud Mexican American Woman, who values and understands the importance of building a foundation within hard work and dedication. She’s formally described among her colleagues as a skilled negotiator, honest and warm human being, which allow her to generate strong, powerful and trusting relationships.

Gianmarco Bollaro wins MR UNIVERSO

It is late at night in Italy, on the other side of the world, in Acapulco, Mexico, the Miki Rutile Sport Commando Team Commando has a titanic feat, wins two world titles of Mr. Universe with both athletes lined up, the Bolognese Nathan Lelli in the Man Physique Muscular category and Gianmarco Bollaro from Livorno in the Man Physique Classic career. Bollaro, in a shaky voice: “This victory is dedicated to my city, in Livorno, to the Mayor and the councilor for sport, in my heart I knew that I had a good condition to enter a top 10, but never and then I would never have thought to win! Miki Rutile is nicknamed the Champion Manager, now I understand why and why she decided to believe in me, it is above all thanks to her if I am here “. Team Commando also announces the creation of a great documentary on the Bollaro company: “At our side we have excellence in the world of cinema, the director Matteo Salpini who filmed all the experience and will make a great documentary that will most likely come released by one of the most important streaming platforms, in the meantime we will live part of the company on the YouTube channel that made us popular with 50,000,000 views, Team Commando, with a docu-video. Bollaro wants to reaffirm himself on 1 December in Portugal with the last title of the year, the continental one, is a historic feat.

Two Italian titles for the strongman Gianmarco Bollaro Castellina. No, this is not a sport for everyone. Translated from English, strongman means strong man. Two words that contain evidence of courage and life philosophies, which Gianmarco Bollaro has … 01 December, 2017 To Castellina. No, this is not a sport for everyone. Translated from English, strongman means strong man. Two words that contain evidence of courage and life philosophies, which Gianmarco Bollaro married by winning the title of Italian champion in the 90 kilos category twice in a row. In recent days, in Vicopisano, he raised the cup to the sky, proving to be the most prepared of all. From Badie, the hamlet of the municipality of Castellina where he lives, he chose the cult of strength to establish himself, participating in the competitions where he won against tough opponents. Bollaro explains that this year’s championship consisted of six stages scattered around Italy. Two successes were enough for him, in Milan and Pontedera, to qualify for the final, where the top ten finishers enter. Being strongman means dealing with five of the 15 tremendous tests required by the regulation. For example: a walk “wearing” the bodywork of an old Fiat 500, dragging a pickup truck, lifting weights with your head, hopping in the company of a barbell, moving heavy stones. Not really a simple exercise. “I would like to go up in category – he says – and compete under 105 kilograms. I am 1 meter and 86 meters tall and out of the race weighing about a quintal, it would be the best way to distribute the effort. I met this discipline when I was 18 years old surfing the internet, because I have always been passionate about it. I train at the B-Well gym directed by Massimo Trotta, in Palazzi, with dumbbells and other tools. From January I will start my own course, since I am an instructor and I can teach ». Last year, when he got his first title, he qualified for the European Championships in Birmingham and then flew to the USA for the World Cup. In the morning he works at the market and in the afternoon he trains. “I recommend this activity because it releases the nerves and relaxes the mind,” he closes.

“EKO” THE COLLECTION 

This collection  be best described as a rich blend of the African prints and exhilarating colours that exude beauty elegance and a free spirit suitable for any happy hour occasion.
The inspiration for EKO is the city of “Lagos”.
The looks are what any urban guy wants to make a fashionable impression at the same time while having a connection with the African culture.

Google halts on-site job interviews due to coronavirus

Halting on-site interviews, Google is now conducting job interviews online via Hangouts or Bluejeans to reduce physical interactions in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak.

Google said in a statement: “In light of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and to protect our candidates’ and interviewers’ health and wellbeing, we will be conducting all Google interviews globally virtually via Google Hangout (or BlueJeans for applicable countries) for the foreseeable future,” reported HT.

Not only Google, but Amazon and Facebook have halted on-site job interviews while Twitter and Microsoft have asked their employees to work from home.

According to reports in Geekwire.com, Google asked all employees to work remotely and urged staff not to bring external visitors into the company’s offices in Washington, though they remain open to employees who choose not to work remotely.

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Google has more than 4,500 employees in Seattle where 27 confirmed cases and nine deaths due to the Covid-19 virus in Washington state were reported Wednesday.

While in India, Paytm shut its Gurgaon offices after one its employees tested positive for the virus. Tech Mahindra, Indian multinational of Mahindra group, imposed restrictions on domestic and international travel and encouraging employees to work from home.

“Restrictions have been imposed on domestic and international travel with immediate effect. We have postponed all internal events which required large gatherings and everyone has been advised to adequately leverage technologies like – Tele Presence and Video Conferencing,” said Harshvendra Soin, Chief People Officer, Tech Mahindra.

According to the latest numbers, there are currently over 97,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with more than 3,300 deaths.

Road to privacy: How GDPR is transforming business practices

Our journey towards making visa processing more agile and efficient is very much about the ongoing digital transformation that is impacting all industries. This positive development, among other things, cannot be realistically achieved without relying on the collection and processing of data to create knowledge, competencies and capabilities. This collection and processing requires a governance oversight to ensure that it’s not used to the detriment of the individual. To this end we have seen an upsurge in data protection legislation in the last few years.

In fact, properly regulated and controlled data protection practices do not have to jeopardise the digitisation of our industry; on the contrary they enhance it by maintaining trust and credibility with customers, partners, employees, shareholders and other stakeholders. In short, good data protection practices have a positive effect on the bottom line.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation designed to harmonise personal data protection laws across the EU member countries, and it entered into force on May 25, 2018. It addresses issues of transparency around personal data usage by companies and gives more control to the individual over their personal data. This far-reaching regulation marks a new stage in the development of data privacy practices in Europe.

Eighteen months on, I have narrowed on three selected takeaways from GDPR that I deem most relevant to our practices in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Automate: Automation via dedicated privacy software is the key to GDPR compliance in large organisations like VFS Global as it enables an organisation to easily know where personal data is located in complex systems. It also helps to fulfil the requirement to keep a record of processing activities. This enhances data security by knowing where all your important personal data is located, and this ensures a rapid response in the event of a data privacy incident or a data access request.

Properly handle personal data: The GDPR obligations for protecting personal data are directly applicable to services like ours. GDPR requires that companies explain how they handle personal data via their privacy notice using ‘clear and plain language’. It is important to see if a company has posted a privacy notice or policy, which should include a simple explanation of how they collect and use data in compliance with applicable laws. We have to make sure that our 1,400 websites are compliant – taking care of simple things like cookies, the small files placed on the computer from the browser session. In certain countries, we have to seek permission to put those files on an individual’s device. Also, if we are using any analytics, like Google Analytics, we have to make the individual aware that we are doing so, and allow them to not accept it.

Be proactive: Services must analyse how GDPR affects their business processes and take proactive steps in achieving compliance. To this end, VFS Global adopts the concept of privacy by design and default. What that means is wherever we have a business or technical process, we look at the outcomes of that process and make the default one – the one that preserves the privacy of the individual.

With high penalties in place, there is a huge financial risk for companies in case of non-compliance. There are also real risks to reputation or brand image. Therefore, we must take GDPR obligations very seriously, and external validation through standardisation bodies helps organisations ensure that they are on the right track to comply with GDPR.

Equally important is the fact that customers are concerned about where and how their personal data is being captured when using services. Most regulations, including GDPR, are designed to ensure that personal data that can be linked to an individual are not shared without the permission or knowledge of the individual. We also know that most consumer concerns centre around their private information, such as personal pictures and other details.

New regulations like GDPR are a big step towards better-protected data. However, this is still the beginning of the journey.

As a company that handles large volumes of applicant information (for visas and citizen services), one of VFS Global’s biggest focus areas is to have an uncompromising approach to maintaining information security at every level of the process. In fact, VFS Global is one of the few companies globally that was already able to comply with the requirements of GDPR when it came into effect in May 2018.

To enable use to be GDPR-compliant, we have a 13-point data privacy and protection framework that has over 130 measurable metrics that enables us to monitor data protection across the organisation. This level of monitoring naturally requires an investment in skills and technology to implement and manage such a framework.

Barry Cook is privacy and group data protection officer at VFS Global. Views expressed are his own and do not reflect the newspaper’s policy.