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06 January 2013
Where to Buy Green Coffee Bean Extract?
- Doubts arise about the weight loss effect of green coffee bean extract
- Green Coffee Bean: An effective weapon against obesity
- Green coffee bean extract price increase, speculations
- Is the research on green coffee bean sufficient to guarantee results?
Antioxidants are not the only great compound in the extract, the chlorogenic acid in it makes your body burn the fats, instead of storing them. The green coffee bean supplements can also suppress appetite and lower blood pressure. Here is a list of websites where you can purchase green coffee bean extract products - easier and faster way than searching for them in stores.
The website sells a lot of vitamins, dietary and nutritional supplements, weight loss products and many more. Here you can find a 100% Pure Green Coffee Bean Extract, the site claims. It recommends to take two capsules per day for 45 days. The capsules contain no binders and no fillers which suggests it’s entirely natural.
VitaminWorld.com is specialized in selling vitamins, protein products, super fruits and antioxidants, cleansing products, sports nutrition items and a lot more. You can select from eight different products, seven brands, pure green coffee bean extracts, or mixtures with other extracts. The products are natural, stimulant and sugar free, which make them perfect for a healthy way of living and eating.
The retailing website Puritan.com sells mainly products by Puritan’s Pride, Twinlab, Source Naturals, and Now. The items are divided into more thirty categories and one of them, naturally, is Green Coffee Bean. You can find different products with extract which are either pure extracts, or mixed with other ingredients for different uses.
We should also mention Amazon.com – the largest online retailer which sells nearly 600 items in the Green Coffee Bean Extract category 
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15 June 2008
New report on inflation in Abu Dhabi
"The new veracity of inflation in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the UAE, which has become a chain of complex internal and external factors, that requires non-traditional solutions, collective coordination amongst stakeholders, accurate comprehensive statistics to effectively address local market conditions, and dissemination of the culture of saving and increased consumer awareness through consumer and community-oriented guidance programs." The report called for developing "an appropriately tailored legislation to monitor markets and maintain balance, as well as establishing a fixed and proportionate relation between percentage of consumer products purchased and salaries and wages." "In competitive markets inflation is either the result of an increase in costs of factors of production, or a rise in demand for goods and services," it says adding that in Abu Dhabi Emirate and the UAE, inflation is caused by a combination of both.
The Price Index in UAE, it notes, still depends on the results of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey of 1997, although the weights have changed significantly due to the changing consumption patterns.
The report says no general consumer price index is available, so far, for UAE and expatriate families, although the pattern of living, levels of expenditure and expenditure items vary greatly among them.
The persistence of high rates of inflation in UAE may reflect negatively on the domestic business environment, and undermines the attractiveness and competitiveness of the state for business, trade and tourism; in view of the high cost of setting up projects, the report predicted.
"This diminishes the state's ability to attract global competencies and expertise, thus high inflation would be at the expense of economic successes achieved by the State." "High inflation hinders the movement and flow of domestic and foreign investments in all economic sectors, and reduces the competitiveness of local products, because of high production costs. The persistence of such a situation would, substantiate negative repercussions and limit economic diversification efforts. Thus competitiveness in many important economic sectors in the medium term might be affected.
Inflation resulting from the increase in consumer prices CPI, particularly the high rents, fuel prices, soaring cost of goods and services.
Among inflation main drives in the UAE are:
--The rising domestic demand for goods and services and the increasing government spending, in light of the economic development which streamlines the country.
-- Soaring rents, increasing fuel prices, led to a rise in cost of production, and thus prices of goods and services.
--Increased costs of production (labour, raw materials, fees of government services), which in turn trigger prices up.
--High levels of liquidity surplus in the banking sector and eased terms for granting loans, contributed to increased consumer tendencies and consumption rates.
--Imported inflation in the light of the deteriorating value of the dollar, and rising global inflation, increased transportation costs due to soaring oil prices, high cost of insurance and political upheavals in the region.
The report names many other variables that it says are no less important. Among those are the global inflation which sweeps the world, together with the continuing decline in the value of the dollar, constantly affects the domestic market inflation rates.
"The domestic monetary policy, which is one of the mechanisms to curtail inflation, is contingent on external determinants and factors, based on priorities that greatly differ from the requisites of the booming local economy." The Dirham, it says, faces increasing pressure with the influx of liquidity from oil exports. "It is not reasonable that domestic interest rates increase or decrease due to external causes, one of which is the U.S. Federal Reserve policy, whereas at the same time, UAE economic indicators require an opposite path." It noted that any rise in fuel price leads to wide spread effects on the general price level in the UAE, being a vital material for all economic activities. Rising prices of fuel often weakens the purchasing power of consumers, and adversely affects competitiveness of all non-oil sectors, especially tourism, hotels, and retail trading sectors. The general increase in price levels makes the UAE a high cost destination. Internal freight rates and costs in the State set a record high of 120% during the first quarter of this year.
In this sense, balancing the equilibrium of fuel prices must be among the priorities of policy to combat inflation. If oil derivatives distribution companies in the State, justify the prices of their products, by incurring financial losses year after year, to an extent that would no longer be tolerated in view of the unprecedented current rise of international oil prices, then fears would continue and even deepen as they are linked to international oil market prices, which in turn are taking an upward trend, that has already resulted in doubling the average price per barrel of crude oil, more than four times since 2003. Due to the increasing global demand for oil, the declining capacity of producing countries to raise production ceilings and the dollar deterioration, oil prices would continue upward.
Soaring oil prices in world markets and the effects on the domestic markets raise fears in the local economic arena that those developments would lead to unsustainable levels of inflation in the State, to unsustainable levels. This requires a package of options to meet the significant potential increase in oil prices in international markets.
The first of these options would be to ensure and accentuate efficiency of local distribution companies, and their ability to control other cost elements and reduce them to a minimum, prior to burdening consumers with any unjustified additional costs. As these companies do not operate in a competitive environment that necessitates rationalizing cost of all items, those companies are required to consider the question of profit and loss in a more comprehensive and inclusive approach, in view of the diversity and multiplicity of their products.
Some "non-physical" support and privileges to the distribution companies is recommended, after some trials have shown that the "material support" prompted the poor use of oil derivatives and thus led to inefficient utilization of economic resources. As for the consumer to waive some of the attributes of fuel consumed, the knowledge and supervision of stakeholders, including reducing production costs.
The report cited initial measures to address the root causes. Among these are: In the light of differing views about the official nature, magnitude and causes of the phenomenon of inflation in the state, it becomes a comprehensive and accurate understanding of inflation phenomenon is the first step to take the right decisions and measures to curtail this phenomenon.
Inflation targeting policy at the macro level needs financial information, and complex, precise economic and commercial quantitative indicators are that not available for the UAE at present, it is necessary to develop a methodology for calculating the precise indications concerning the official high prices at the state level, and disseminate these indicators quarterly, at least.
The negative repercussions of high inflation on the economy and society, doubled with hasty hit-and-miss counter-measures could cause economic and social problems that are no less dangerous than the factors of inflation themselves. Therefore there is an imperative need for cautious and comprehensive study and accurate to description of the treatment of inflation.
Inflation is an overall general socio-economic phenomenon, which requires consolidated common efforts at the local and federal levels.
It presented some unconventional treatments among which are: Reconsider the objectives of macro-economic policy to take into account the achievement of high rates of growth with low inflation rates, in order to maintain the competitiveness of the state, through an alternative policy based on selecting investments that give high value added and maintain the current rates.
Reconsider the laws and regulations governing the real estate market, real estate investment and encourage interest in sectors of real estate directly meet the requirements of employers and low average incomes and productive economic slide.
Reconsider the price of fuels in the domestic market, and propose mechanisms and appropriate federal and local support prices for oil derivatives involved in a number of vital industries.
In light of the difficulty of deciding on monetary policy, at the present time, the tools of fiscal policy must be activated to counter inflation, by controlling the levels of cash and guarantee a high demand for the granting of personal consumer loans, and rationalizing the level of public spending at the local and federal.
Reconsider the number of secondary issues, including the role of cooperative societies, government fees, the removal of monopoly in all its forms, especially in the area of essential goods, and dissemination of a culture of saving and rationalization of consumption.
WAM
The Price Index in UAE, it notes, still depends on the results of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey of 1997, although the weights have changed significantly due to the changing consumption patterns.
The report says no general consumer price index is available, so far, for UAE and expatriate families, although the pattern of living, levels of expenditure and expenditure items vary greatly among them.
The persistence of high rates of inflation in UAE may reflect negatively on the domestic business environment, and undermines the attractiveness and competitiveness of the state for business, trade and tourism; in view of the high cost of setting up projects, the report predicted.
"This diminishes the state's ability to attract global competencies and expertise, thus high inflation would be at the expense of economic successes achieved by the State." "High inflation hinders the movement and flow of domestic and foreign investments in all economic sectors, and reduces the competitiveness of local products, because of high production costs. The persistence of such a situation would, substantiate negative repercussions and limit economic diversification efforts. Thus competitiveness in many important economic sectors in the medium term might be affected.
Inflation resulting from the increase in consumer prices CPI, particularly the high rents, fuel prices, soaring cost of goods and services.
Among inflation main drives in the UAE are:
--The rising domestic demand for goods and services and the increasing government spending, in light of the economic development which streamlines the country.
-- Soaring rents, increasing fuel prices, led to a rise in cost of production, and thus prices of goods and services.
--Increased costs of production (labour, raw materials, fees of government services), which in turn trigger prices up.
--High levels of liquidity surplus in the banking sector and eased terms for granting loans, contributed to increased consumer tendencies and consumption rates.
--Imported inflation in the light of the deteriorating value of the dollar, and rising global inflation, increased transportation costs due to soaring oil prices, high cost of insurance and political upheavals in the region.
The report names many other variables that it says are no less important. Among those are the global inflation which sweeps the world, together with the continuing decline in the value of the dollar, constantly affects the domestic market inflation rates.
"The domestic monetary policy, which is one of the mechanisms to curtail inflation, is contingent on external determinants and factors, based on priorities that greatly differ from the requisites of the booming local economy." The Dirham, it says, faces increasing pressure with the influx of liquidity from oil exports. "It is not reasonable that domestic interest rates increase or decrease due to external causes, one of which is the U.S. Federal Reserve policy, whereas at the same time, UAE economic indicators require an opposite path." It noted that any rise in fuel price leads to wide spread effects on the general price level in the UAE, being a vital material for all economic activities. Rising prices of fuel often weakens the purchasing power of consumers, and adversely affects competitiveness of all non-oil sectors, especially tourism, hotels, and retail trading sectors. The general increase in price levels makes the UAE a high cost destination. Internal freight rates and costs in the State set a record high of 120% during the first quarter of this year.
In this sense, balancing the equilibrium of fuel prices must be among the priorities of policy to combat inflation. If oil derivatives distribution companies in the State, justify the prices of their products, by incurring financial losses year after year, to an extent that would no longer be tolerated in view of the unprecedented current rise of international oil prices, then fears would continue and even deepen as they are linked to international oil market prices, which in turn are taking an upward trend, that has already resulted in doubling the average price per barrel of crude oil, more than four times since 2003. Due to the increasing global demand for oil, the declining capacity of producing countries to raise production ceilings and the dollar deterioration, oil prices would continue upward.
Soaring oil prices in world markets and the effects on the domestic markets raise fears in the local economic arena that those developments would lead to unsustainable levels of inflation in the State, to unsustainable levels. This requires a package of options to meet the significant potential increase in oil prices in international markets.
The first of these options would be to ensure and accentuate efficiency of local distribution companies, and their ability to control other cost elements and reduce them to a minimum, prior to burdening consumers with any unjustified additional costs. As these companies do not operate in a competitive environment that necessitates rationalizing cost of all items, those companies are required to consider the question of profit and loss in a more comprehensive and inclusive approach, in view of the diversity and multiplicity of their products.
Some "non-physical" support and privileges to the distribution companies is recommended, after some trials have shown that the "material support" prompted the poor use of oil derivatives and thus led to inefficient utilization of economic resources. As for the consumer to waive some of the attributes of fuel consumed, the knowledge and supervision of stakeholders, including reducing production costs.
The report cited initial measures to address the root causes. Among these are: In the light of differing views about the official nature, magnitude and causes of the phenomenon of inflation in the state, it becomes a comprehensive and accurate understanding of inflation phenomenon is the first step to take the right decisions and measures to curtail this phenomenon.
Inflation targeting policy at the macro level needs financial information, and complex, precise economic and commercial quantitative indicators are that not available for the UAE at present, it is necessary to develop a methodology for calculating the precise indications concerning the official high prices at the state level, and disseminate these indicators quarterly, at least.
The negative repercussions of high inflation on the economy and society, doubled with hasty hit-and-miss counter-measures could cause economic and social problems that are no less dangerous than the factors of inflation themselves. Therefore there is an imperative need for cautious and comprehensive study and accurate to description of the treatment of inflation.
Inflation is an overall general socio-economic phenomenon, which requires consolidated common efforts at the local and federal levels.
It presented some unconventional treatments among which are: Reconsider the objectives of macro-economic policy to take into account the achievement of high rates of growth with low inflation rates, in order to maintain the competitiveness of the state, through an alternative policy based on selecting investments that give high value added and maintain the current rates.
Reconsider the laws and regulations governing the real estate market, real estate investment and encourage interest in sectors of real estate directly meet the requirements of employers and low average incomes and productive economic slide.
Reconsider the price of fuels in the domestic market, and propose mechanisms and appropriate federal and local support prices for oil derivatives involved in a number of vital industries.
In light of the difficulty of deciding on monetary policy, at the present time, the tools of fiscal policy must be activated to counter inflation, by controlling the levels of cash and guarantee a high demand for the granting of personal consumer loans, and rationalizing the level of public spending at the local and federal.
Reconsider the number of secondary issues, including the role of cooperative societies, government fees, the removal of monopoly in all its forms, especially in the area of essential goods, and dissemination of a culture of saving and rationalization of consumption.
WAM
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Abu Dhabi courts to work in the evening
The Department of Judiciary in Abu Dhabi has announced it will introduce an evening shift in Abu Dhabi courts, starting from Monday, June 16th.
The first phase of this programme will include civil and commercial courts of first instance. The various departments of these courts will start the evening shifts from 6:00 to 9:00pm daily.
According to Sultan Saeed Al Badi, Under Secretary of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary the idea to work in the evening was in line with the directives of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary Department. The move is aimed at speeding up litigation on cases and ensure that justice is better served.
WAM
The first phase of this programme will include civil and commercial courts of first instance. The various departments of these courts will start the evening shifts from 6:00 to 9:00pm daily.
According to Sultan Saeed Al Badi, Under Secretary of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary the idea to work in the evening was in line with the directives of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judiciary Department. The move is aimed at speeding up litigation on cases and ensure that justice is better served.
WAM
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09 June 2008
Themes of Abu Dhabi Summer Festival unveiled
A part of the activities planned for the much anticipated Summer Festival in Abu Dhabi was revealed on Monday by the two organisers, Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) and Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA).
The event will take place for the first time in the capital from June 26 to August 18.
Spread over 13,000 square metres of ADNEC's space, the entertaining and educational festival for all ages is designed on seven unique indoor island themes. The activities on the first four themes were unveiled by ADNEC and ADTA yesterday.
Discovery Island's main attraction is the Robot Zoo, a 1,000 square-metre interactive educational exhibition that will use animatronics to show how animals behave.
The exhibition has already toured 20 science centres in North America and Singapore and has been seen by more than four million visitors. The other attractions are the Optical Illusion Gallery, which will feature exhibits bordering science and magic and a fully interactive three-dimensional animated character called 'Solar the Turtle' which can talk, move and express emotions.
It will also include Woody, a fully-animated singing and storytelling tree with interactive animation controls, which will tell children's stories in English and Arabic.
“This summer programme has been designed by a team of international experts over the last 12 months to appeal to both the young and the old through an atmosphere of active and productive fun,' said Faisal Al Shaikh, head of the ADTA's Events section.
The content of the three remaining islands — Culture and Heritage, Action, and Creativity — will be unveiled later.
The Summer Festival will be open from 12pm to 9pm daily. Tickets are priced at Dh30 for an adult and Dh20 for children below 16 years who have to be accompanied by adults.
/Khaleej Times/
The event will take place for the first time in the capital from June 26 to August 18.
Spread over 13,000 square metres of ADNEC's space, the entertaining and educational festival for all ages is designed on seven unique indoor island themes. The activities on the first four themes were unveiled by ADNEC and ADTA yesterday.
Discovery Island's main attraction is the Robot Zoo, a 1,000 square-metre interactive educational exhibition that will use animatronics to show how animals behave.
The exhibition has already toured 20 science centres in North America and Singapore and has been seen by more than four million visitors. The other attractions are the Optical Illusion Gallery, which will feature exhibits bordering science and magic and a fully interactive three-dimensional animated character called 'Solar the Turtle' which can talk, move and express emotions.
It will also include Woody, a fully-animated singing and storytelling tree with interactive animation controls, which will tell children's stories in English and Arabic.
“This summer programme has been designed by a team of international experts over the last 12 months to appeal to both the young and the old through an atmosphere of active and productive fun,' said Faisal Al Shaikh, head of the ADTA's Events section.
The content of the three remaining islands — Culture and Heritage, Action, and Creativity — will be unveiled later.
The Summer Festival will be open from 12pm to 9pm daily. Tickets are priced at Dh30 for an adult and Dh20 for children below 16 years who have to be accompanied by adults.
/Khaleej Times/
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More than 70 per cent of Abu Dhabi residents depend on taxis
Abu Dhabi is one of the rare cities in the world where more than 70 per cent of the residents depend on taxis for transportation.
It has created an impression that there is shortage of taxis even if there was enough supply of taxis since 2006, Khalid Saleh Al Rashedi, General Manager of TransAD told Gulf News on Sunday on the sidelines of a press conference to announce a reward for an honest taxi driver.
Only two among 10 people use taxis in modern cities but in Abu Dhabi eight among 10 people depend on taxis due to lack of mass transport systems like public buses, he said.
About 90 buses are equal to 1,200 taxis, said Quentin Fulljames Curtis, Transport Advisor at TransAD while referring to the introduction of 90 buses in the emirate this month by Department of Transport.
The officials said introduction of buses will reduce the complaints of shortage of taxis. "Buses will take away a large chunk of passengers from taxis," they said.
Although there was a plan to reduce the number of taxis in the emirate in 2006, about 50 per cent increase in population in the past two years jeopardised all plans, said Al Rashedi.
In 2006, the demand for taxis was estimated at 7,000 but now about 9,000 taxis in the emirate carry about million passengers a day. Out of more than 8,000 old taxis, only 790 were phased out.
"At the end of this month the fleet of new taxis will become 2000", he added.
It has created an impression that there is shortage of taxis even if there was enough supply of taxis since 2006, Khalid Saleh Al Rashedi, General Manager of TransAD told Gulf News on Sunday on the sidelines of a press conference to announce a reward for an honest taxi driver.
Only two among 10 people use taxis in modern cities but in Abu Dhabi eight among 10 people depend on taxis due to lack of mass transport systems like public buses, he said.
About 90 buses are equal to 1,200 taxis, said Quentin Fulljames Curtis, Transport Advisor at TransAD while referring to the introduction of 90 buses in the emirate this month by Department of Transport.
The officials said introduction of buses will reduce the complaints of shortage of taxis. "Buses will take away a large chunk of passengers from taxis," they said.
Although there was a plan to reduce the number of taxis in the emirate in 2006, about 50 per cent increase in population in the past two years jeopardised all plans, said Al Rashedi.
In 2006, the demand for taxis was estimated at 7,000 but now about 9,000 taxis in the emirate carry about million passengers a day. Out of more than 8,000 old taxis, only 790 were phased out.
"At the end of this month the fleet of new taxis will become 2000", he added.
/Gulf News/
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