So glad that you're finding useful tips from the Panel! We're all big fans of everything Disney, and we just like to help others enjoy the parks and resorts as much as we do!
Regarding your pick of Tony's Town Square for a meal, you've picked one of our favorites! The Shrimp Scampi (with sun-dried tomatoes and asparagus, in a garlic sauce) is really delicious, and my little one (!) loves the Seafood Diavolo. It's a great location, too, especially if you'd like to be right at Main Street, U.S.A. after a meal due to an upcoming parade or Wishes Nighttime Spectacular!
Of course, the other restaurants have wonderful features, too. These are just our personal favorites!
Please send any additional questions you may have as you plan your vacation; we'd love to help you plan the most magical trip ever!


When I was a kid, the thing I wanted to be when I grew up was an employee at Microsoft. I know it sounds funny, but it's true. In middle-school, I remember working on a history project about a well-known historical figure. While other kids picked your standard inventors and presidents, my project was on Bill Gates. Every new year, my dad and I would always look forward to watching the Consumer Electronics Show keynote always given by Microsoft.
My qualifications would come from my expertise as a web designer. The goal of building any website is communicating a message effectively. Right now Microsoft doesn't have a coherent message. In order to move forward, it needs to redefine its philosophy and make it show throughout its messaging. That's what I believe the new CEO needs to be able to accomplish.
And that's why I would be the perfect candidate for the job and so would you. The qualifications for the new CEO could be virtually anything. But one of them should be a vision for the future. Because at this point, it's hard to see any future with Microsoft in it. But the kid inside me still has hope.


Chargeback iѕ thе return оf funds to consumer, mainly used in thе United States, forcibly initiated bу thе issuing bank оf thе instrument used bу a consumer to settle a debt.
Specifically, it iѕ thе reversal оf a prior outbound transfer оf funds frоm consumer's bank account, line оf credit, оr credit card.
Chargebacks аlѕо occur in thе distribution industry. Thiѕ type оf chargeback occurs whеn thе supplier sells a product аt a higher price to thе distributor thаn thе price thеу hаvе set with thе еnd user.
Thе distributor thеn submits a chargeback to thе supplier ѕо thеу саn recover thе money lost in thе transaction.
A retrieval request: – Thiѕ occurs whеn thе card issuer asks thе merchant fоr a copy оf thе асtuаl ticket оf a transaction. Thiѕ iѕ thе initial step thе issuer takes in thе event.
A cardholder's bank requests information аbоut a charge thаt iѕ bеing disputed.
Whаt iѕ thе difference bеtwееn a Retrieval Request аnd a Chargeback?
A Retrieval Request iѕ a request fоr information frоm thе card issuer оn behalf оf thеir cardholder; it dоеѕ nоt carry аnу financial loss.
So, a Chargeback саn bе fоr vаriоuѕ reasons, аlѕо including a request fоr information, but thе issuer passes thе debit with thе dispute.
charges аrе refundable during thе inquiry оr retrieval investigation.
CB's аnd retrieval requests аrе inevitable раrt оf dоing online business. Mаnу businesses nееd tо handle chargebacks аnd retrievals оn a daily basis, whilе fоr ѕоmе оthеrѕ a chargeback оr retrieval request iѕ a rare thing.
Yеt in bоth cases it iѕ good tо knоw whаt thе difference bеtwееn thе chargeback аnd retrieval request is. Thiѕ knowledge will enable уоu tо react quickly аnd tаkе thе аррrорriаtе measures tо resolve thеѕе situations in a timely аnd efficient manner whеn thеу occur.
A retrieval request, аlѕо knоwn аt ѕоmе banks аѕ "soft" chargeback, takes рlасе whеn thе credit card issuer contacts thе merchant tо obtain information аbоut a transaction charged tо оnе оf itѕ cardholders.
Thеrefore, reasons fоr retrievals саn bе various: it mау bе a result оf a customer question оr dispute, inaccurate оr incomplete transaction information, a processing error оr аn indication оf potential fraud.
Thе bank will request a legible copy оf thе transaction authorization proof.
Thе cardholder mау initiate thе retrieval whеn hе оr ѕhе dоеѕ nоt recognize thе transaction оr mау аѕk fоr specific information rеgаrding thе transaction. Thеn thе issuer will turn tо thе merchant, requesting thе explanation.
It iѕ advisable thаt thе merchant contacts thе customer bу telephone оr e-mail in order tо explain thе situation аnd find оut whаt doubts thе customer hаѕ аbоut thе transaction.
Usually, аt thаt point, аftеr thе merchant's explanation iѕ delivered, thе situation саn bе resolved in favor оf thе merchant.
In оthеr words, thе customer wоuld recognize thе transaction аnd accept thе purchase. Also, during ѕuсh a contact attempt, ѕоmе оthеr solution tо thе situation thаt will satisfy bоth parties саn bе found.
It mау happen, though, thаt thеrе will bе nо reply frоm thе customer оr thе customer will nоt authorize thе transaction. In ѕuсh a situation thе merchant ѕhоuld соnѕidеr issuing thе refund аѕ thе chargeback thаt will result mау bе hаrd tо defend.
Thе merchant uѕuаllу hаѕ 10 tо 20 days tо handle thiѕ situation (but thе timе frame depends оn thе bank). If thе merchant dоеѕ nоt respond, thе retrieval request will turn intо thе chargeback fоr rеаѕоn "requested item nоt received".
It's worth mentioning thаt ѕuсh a chargeback hаѕ nо reversal rights if thеrе wаѕ nо prior reaction оf thе merchant tо thе retrieval request. Thе customer mау contact thеir bank with thе direct request fоr money reversal.
Suсh a procedure, initiated bу thе credit/debit card holder iѕ called a chargeback.
Thе reasons fоr chargebacks саn bе different, fоr example: thе goods hаvе nеvеr arrived, thе item wаѕ diffеrеnt thаn thе оnе presented оn thе sales website оr thе credit card wаѕ uѕеd with.


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Delaware County Mourns Another COVID Death As Schools Open Up
Leslie Ann Updated: September 10, 2021
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The level of COVID-19 transmission remains high in Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego Counties according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Needless to say, it could only get worse with schools back in session at full capacity. Let's take a look at where we are right now in our tri-county region.
Each County's Vaccination Rate:
Health officials in our tri-county area are continuing the message to those unvaccinated: "get vaccinated as soon as possible". Currently, the vaccination rate in Chenango County's population 12 and older with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is at 64.6%, Delaware County's vaccine rate is at 59.5%. In Otsego County, the percentage of residents 12 and older with at least one dose is 62.4%.
Let's take a look at COVID case numbers locally:
Looking at COVID-19 case numbers reported by The Otsego County Department of Health (9/9): There are currently 187 known active cases with 11 people hospitalized with COVID-related complications. The total COVID-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic remains at 66. The Health Dept. has a COVID-19 dashboard with daily updates for the latest information.
To stay up to date on vaccine clinics in Otsego County, visit www.bassett.org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine and www.otsegocounty.com. Also, keep in mind that you can receive a vaccine through your Bassett Healthcare Network provider and at various local pharmacies.
Delaware County Health officials have an update from the week ending 9/9, reporting 118 active cases with 4 people hospitalized. With one new death reported, the total number of deaths related to coronavirus complications has gone up to 53. Go to delawarecountypublichealth.com/covid-19/#Dash to access the Delaware County Public Health COVID-19 dashboard.
In Chenango County, the health department reported on September 9, there were 99 active cases in the county with 8 hospitalizations and a total of 82 deaths related to the virus.
For those who are currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, visit www.co.chenango.ny.us/public-health/nursing/covid19.php to find information on the latest clinics available. Those who wish to receive the vaccine need to register online.
Below is a list of resources for vaccines for those 12 and older:
NYS Am I eligible site: am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov
Or call 1-833-NYS-4-VAX (1-833-697-4829)
For UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital you may call 607-337-4888
For BASSETT you may call the information line at 605-547-5555 or visit Bassett.org.
If you think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 CLICK HERE to learn what to do next.
To find a COVID-19 testing site near you visit coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-testing.
To get information about COVID-19 vaccination distribution, CLICK HERE.
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Why do you lie on the floor?
Holding your stomach like out it would pour?
As if you have no stick between your legs?
Why act like the world is ending?
Find a chick, do it quick, have your fill.
This is why I never talk to men when the world sits upon me.
Gambit: A Rebel Book Club's Take.
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"There lingers a faint, plaintive music, as of far-away organ pipes, of whispering harps, and the sighing of wind amongst the reeds." In his text accompanying this map, artist Bernard Sleigh detailed the secret to entering the magical world called Fairyland: the key is in the heart of every child. His booklet—a guide—is included here in full, so your eyes, too, may be opened to the realm's rainbow-guarded shores. Both the booklet and the map are in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, the world's largest library, holding more than 162 million items.


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The Trade Desk Inc. Stock Soars -- What You Need to Know
The Trade Desk is firing on all cylinders as ad spending on connected TV soars 2,000%.
Daniel Sparks
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Shares of digital advertising platform The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) soared as much as 40.2% on Friday after the company reported its first-quarter earnings. At the time of this writing, shares are up about 40%.
The stock is likely up because the company obliterated consensus analyst estimate for revenue and earnings per share, thanks to strong growth in mobile, video, connected TV, and audio channels. "The programmatic revolution continues to gain momentum," said CEO Jeff Green in a press release about the quarter's results.
Trade Desk reported first-quarter revenue of $85.7 million, up 61% year over year. On average, analysts were expecting revenue of just $73.2 million, representing 37% year-over-year growth. Trade Desk's non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings per share were $0.34, up from $0.18 in the year-ago quarter and crushing the consensus analyst estimate for non-GAAP EPS of $0.10.
Spending on Trade Desk's platform for mobile ads increased 95% year over year, accounting for 42% of gross spending. Within its mobile channel, mobile video and in-app spending increased 160% and 110% year over, respectively.
Of its new channels, spending on audio increased 650% and connected TV spending surged more than 2,000% year over year.
With such a notable start to 2018, Trade Desk is raising its outlook for the year. The company is now guiding for revenue during the year to increase to at least $433 million. This is up from a previous outlook for full-year revenue of $403 million.
Management expects full-year adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) to climb to $133 million, up from previous guidance for $117 million. This would put Trade Desk's adjusted EBITDA margin at 30.5%, above previous guidance for an adjusted EBITDA margin of 29%.
Daniel Sparks is a senior technology specialist at The Motley Fool. He served in the U.S. Army on active duty and graduated with an MBA from Colorado State University. Follow him on Twitter for updates. Follow @danielsparks
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Home Vancouver's North Shore West Vancouver British Columbia Ambleside Park in West Vancouver
Ambleside Park in West Vancouver
Ambleside is a beautiful area in affluent West Vancouver with a sandy beach, beautiful park, seawall walking paths along the water and a trendy shopping village.
Ambleside Park and Beach
Ambleside is one of the North Shore's most popular parks, with its paved walkway along the water. There are sections of the walk that go along the road/parking lot, but the majority is along the sandy beaches and grass parkland.
Best sections of West Vancouver's seawall are from 13th Street east toward the Lions Gate Bridge, which also has a cycling route, or from John Lawson Park at 16th heading west toward Dundarave.
Where is Ambleside?
Ambleside Park is located at 1150 Marine Drive in West Vancouver. It runs from the foot of 13th Street (where its main entrance is) all the way to the mouth of the Capilano River. The eastern part of the park is also just south of Park Royal mall.
What is Ambleside Park Like?
Ambleside is a perfect place to spend the summer at the beach and go for strolls year-round while admiring the views of Stanley Park across the water and the ships going under the Lions Gate Bridge in and out from the port in Burrard Inlet.
From Ambleside you can walk all the way to Dundarave, another little village area in West Vancouver. Along the way you will pass soccer fields, children's playgrounds and sandy beaches.
The main beach at Ambleside is beautiful. The sand isn't always the cleanest, as it sometimes gets a fair bit of debris from the ocean, like small pieces of wood, but it's nevertheless still very picturesque and a wonderful place to spend the day. The pier at Ambleside is also very popular, especially with people fishing.
The concession stand at Ambleside is a convenient place to grab a snack while enjoying some fresh air. It's open from late May until July 1st on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 5 pm, and then from July 2nd until the first week of September from 11 am to 7 pm Mondays to Fridays and 10 am to 8 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ambleside Village lies along Bellevue Street and Marine Drive where you'll find lots of small shops, coffee shops and restaurants.
Coho Festival Crowds at Ambleside Park
Ambleside Events
Ambleside is the location of West Vancouver's main festivals. These include the Persian New Year Fire Festival in mid-March, West Vancouver Community Day in early June, the Harmony Arts Festival in early August, Ambleside Live Rock Festival in late August and the Coho Festival in early September each year.
From May until October, Ambleside is also home to West Vancouver's weekly farmers market. It takes place on Sundays from 10 am until 3 pm at the entrance to Ambleside Park.
Additional Facts About Ambleside:
Except for the sandy beach, the park at Ambleside is wheelchair accessible.
You can fish off the Ambleside Pier and use crab nets – just be sure to have a salt water license.
There is a walking trail and a bike trail (although the bike path does go through the parking lot for a bit).
There is an off leash dog park at the far east part of the park.
Ambleside Sunsets
Ambleside is a fantastic place to admire the sun setting in the horizon, especially during the darker months, from October to March. Click February North Shore Sunsets for more Ambleside sunset photos, as well as some from Dundarave and North Vancouver.
Dog-Friendly Park at Ambleside
Dogs are allowed on-leash on the seawall at Ambleside. However, there is also an area for the four-legged friends to stretch their legs off-leash at the East end of the park (closest to the Lions Gate Bridge). To access this area, walk along the seawall past the pond and the golf course. There's a beach and a small grassy area for animals to play on.
Below are some tips to help you make the most out of your visit to Ambleside.
TIP #1: Take your golf clubs for the pitch and putt at the Ambleside Par 3 Course. It's a fun little course open in the warmer season.
TIP #2: The beach at Ambleside is beautiful and a great place to spend time in the sun on the sand. The water isn't the cleanest however. That's because the main sewage outlet for the North Shore empties into the water not too far away. The water is safe to swim in, but not as clean as in other parts of the Lower Mainland.
Lions Gate Bridge from Ambleside at Night
Click the following link to learn more about Metro Vancouver's other top beaches.
Click West Vancouver to learn more about the city and its other great attractions.
Other articles that might be of interest include the following:
West Vancouver's Dundarave
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Vancouver on a Budget
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'Power' Crew Member Tragically Killed On Set of 50 Cent's Starz Series
Power Crew Member Tragically Killed On Set of 50 Cent's Starz Series
Pedro Jimenez, a longtime production assistant on the Starz series Power, was killed on set in a fatal accident involving an SUV. The incident occurred at approximately 4:30 A.M. in Brooklyn, New York. Pedro Jimenez was setting up traffic cones in preparation for shooting that was scheduled to take place later that day when he was struck by an SUV. A representative for the network had this to say in a statement.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of the members of our Power family. Our thoughts are with Mr. Jimenez' family as we work to fully understand what has happened."
The 63-year-old was a Parking PA and had been with Power since the very beginning of the series, which initially debuted on Starz in 2014. The series has been a big hit for the premium cable network and is heading into its sixth season. Production had been underway on season 6 prior to the recent accident. The series was created by Courtney Kemp, with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson on board as one of the key producers. Jackson took to Twitter upon hearing the news. Here's what he had to say.
"I just learned we lost Pedro Jimenez, a member of the Power production team early this morning. My prayers and condolences are with the entire Jimenez family."
Following news of the incident, production was shut down immediately, in part to aid in any investigation that needs to take place, but also so that members of the cast and crew can take time to deal with the loss. The family of Pedro Jimenez was informed of his death almost immediately after he was pronounced dead by the medical team at Brooklyn Hospital, which is where he was taken following the accident.
NYPD officials are currently investigating the accident. According to a report, the person driving the SUV was also a crew member working on Power, but the crew member has yet to be identified. Authorities have spoken to the crew member who was behind the wheel. It also hasn't been made clear who is at fault, nor is it clear what consequences the guilty party will face. Since the incident occurred so early in the morning, no cast members were actually on set, since it took place prior to their 7 a.m. call time. Though production shutting down will aid in the investigation, those in charge of the series say that it is out of respect for Jimenez and his family.
Power season 6 does not yet have a premiere date set, but the series is slated to return in 2019. There is no word on how long production will be closed down for, but the cast and crew were scheduled to take a break for holidays in the near future prior to the incident. As such, it's quite possible that filming won't resume until 2019. It's unclear if that will have any effect on the network's original release plans. This news was previously reported by Deadline.
I just learned we lost Pedro Jimenez, a member of the Power production team early this morning. My prayers and condolences are with the entire Jimenez family. pic.twitter.com/uXbePy8qj2
— 50cent (@50cent) December 10, 2018
Topics: Power
Writer of various things on the internet (mostly about movies) since 2013. Major lover of popcorn flicks. Avid appreciator of James Bond, Marvel and Star Wars. Has a tremendously fat cat named Buster and still buys CDs. I've got my reasons.
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The violence in Kyrgyzstan reflects the political malaise of all Central Asian States.
Kyrgyzstan is a nation divided, burning and hard to find on a map. Its southern half has rejected the rule of its government, centred in the northern capital of Bishkek. Weakened central authority has allowed long-standing ethnic differences between the Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks to flare into violence. It could be a long time before stability is re-established. Neither the rebels nor the government are strong enough to defeat the other. Consensus is difficult in a polity based on local clans, many of whom seek support from outside groups. Which is why the world is looking to Moscow, and to a lesser extent Tashkent, when it comes to intervention.
Like most ex-Soviet Central Asian countries, Kyrgyzstan is an artificial nation deliberately crafted by Joseph Stalin, and thus doomed to be unstable and ethnically volatile. Being the smallest, most isolated and poorest Central Asian nation, Kyrgyzstan has been less of a front page political story than its neighbours. With the present ethnic unrest, this mountainous nation has, at last, fallen afoul of the same problems that beset all of Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan's fragmented polity makes it similar to Tajikistan. The larger Central Asian countries have tackled their patchwork nationhood through one-family dictatorships. They run a spectrum from a relatively benign Kazakhstan to a fiercely repressive Uzbekistan. The Kyrgyz troubles will not give an immediate fillip to Islamic extremism — a constant concern in this area. However, they do raise concerns about the long-standing tension between Russia and the most powerful Central Asian nation, Uzbekistan. Recent Kyrgyz politics can crudely be described as pro- and anti-Russian governments taking turns at toppling each other. In this zero-sum game, a Russian gain is often seen as an Uzbek loss. The fear of alarming Uzbekistan is probably one reason Moscow is still weighing military intervention.
A long-term view of the region cannot ignore Islamic extremism. Uzbekistan aside, the Fergana Valley has not been a fertile ground for militancy. However, Islamicism's fortunes have tended to be in inverse proportion to those of representative government. A key criticism of the last Kyrgyz regime was its anti-Islamic bent — in a country that is nearly 80 per cent Muslim. Unfortunately, untangling a cynical Soviet legacy and surviving a regional balance of power game so consume Central Asian leaders that few can even contemplate a reformist vision.


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I didn't learn about Nina Simone until I was in my late teens but from that point in my life I was determined to learn more about this marvelous singer. I believe one of the first songs I heard was the song "Mississippi Got Dam" that was back in my early Hip Hop days and I was thinking I would like to sample her voice because it was so powerful. In my twenties, I learned Nina Simone was a wonderful pianist and an activist also. After hearing her speak I was more in love with this woman who my grandma would call plain looking but not in a bad way. I think my grandma was just expressing the stigma that came from women like her and Nina having the darkest of skin. Nina's skin color was another reason I was madly in love with her; that and the fact she could sing. I guess her appearance and her singing remind me of my grandmother.
I could quote Nina all day she had a powerful way of relaying her message both in talking and in song. Sometimes the hairs on the back of my neck would stand up while I was listening to her. When spoke out for our causes I was equally moved. There was a powerful magic with her and in her voice. I couldn't help but listen to her when she spoke. In an interview, she was once asked why she was so insistent in promoting blackness and black culture. Ms. Simone said: I have no chose in the matter. She went on to say that to her we are the most beautiful creature on the earth. That's why when Hollywood decided to mock her memory with this modern day black-face movie I was outraged and were many other people who could see this sham for what it really is.Interview With Nina
This movie seems to be Hollywood way of putting Nina Simone under their control. They couldn't control her in life so they turn to trying to destroy her image. I mean to put this queen in a movie with of all things an actress wearing black-face seems more like a slap in the face than a tribute to her noble legacy in the music and activism. I'm willing to bet the Hollywood produce will say that we are over-reacting and that we should give the piece a chance to before we judge it. That seems to me like they want to punch you in the face first and then say "there's no need to be upset, let's all calm down first and take easy". What a joke; really Hollywood? I say it's time we draw the line and take back control over the images of hero's. For too many years Hollywood has controlled the images of black people and it's time we say no more. No more shuck 'in and jive' in and above all things no more black-face.
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Travel companies saw their stocks fall Tuesday as the industry grappled with the attacks in Brussels.
Shares of American Airlines and Delta Air Lines closed about 1.5 percent lower, while hotel operators Starwood Hotels and Marriott International saw their stocks fall 0.4 percent and more than 1.9 percent, respectively. Crystal Travel, saw its stock drop over 1 percent.
Most shares had recuperated from their most noticeably awful levels before the end of exchanging on Tuesday, yet Tui, the proprietor of Thomson occasions, still lost 2.7%, while rival Thomas Cook fell by 4%. English Airways proprietor International Airlines Group dropped 1.5%, and Ryan air was 2.6% lower. Easy Jet at first lost 4%, yet recuperated amid the day, while Lufthansa lost 1.3%. what's more, Air France fell almost 4% and Fly Africa down Nearly 2%.
The voyage administrator Carnival shut down 1.5%, while Inter Continental Hotels and Merlin, the worldwide amusement park administrator, fell 1.6% on worries that guest numbers could become scarce.
Brussels Attack, Crystal Travel Atol 3517, Travel stocks sink. Bookmark.


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Charles Evans is selling his printing business – for the second time in two years.
He's also put the building that houses – or, more correctly, housed – the business on the market. As a practical matter, the two transactions aren't necessarily linked.
Truth is, Evans (a pseudonym I occasionally use to protect a source's privacy) doesn't really have a business to sell any more. The initial buyer pretty much ran Evans' printing business into the ground in the two years before Evans took things back. What's left is a basically empty building, some equipment, the company truck and some software.
Gone are reputation and customers, the key elements of any business.
As part of the deal, Evans stayed on for a month, at no salary, to help the new owner get adjusted. He was willing after that to come in on a per diem basis when help was needed.
The new owner "wasn't getting projects done on time. He wasn't a good problem solver. He didn't want to go to Chamber meetings, which had been a good source of business for me." Eventually, Evans says, "I started going in for free" in an attempt to right the business.
Rent payments – a five-year lease was included in the transaction – started coming late. Customers began calling Evans at his northwest suburban home, asking for help with their projects. "After two years, I repossessed the equipment and the truck," Evans says.
There is some good news, a heads-up especially for younger professionals: Unlike many older business owners, Evans' retirement finances don't depend on the sale of his business. The reason has little to do with the printing business and a lot to do with planning.
As a beginning commission-only salesman who learned early to live on last year's income, and encouraged by his then employer, Evans started buying savings bonds. Then came a 401(k) retirement program which, Evans says today, "had a big match.
"I knew I would get old and I would need to have something going." The 401(k) was the something. As a result, "I sleep pretty well," Evans says.
He still has printing equipment and a building to sell, however. Then he'll sleep better.


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The Triathlon Club of San Diego holds monthly meetings at various sponsor shops in San Diego. All are welcome to attend. Previous speakers have included Ryan Hall, Chrissie Wellington, Jordan Rapp, Dave Scott, Mark Allen, Scott Tinley, Michellie Jones, Paula Newby-Fraser, Greg Welch, Heather Fuhr, Joanna Zeiger, Dan Empfield, Rock Frey, Bob Babbitt, Paul Huddle, and Chris McCormack – just to name a few.
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The club offers Ironman training & coaching programs, beginner training & coaching programs, bike maintenance courses, swim programs, bike coaching, run coaching, surf entry clinics and more. The club also offers access to professional trainers and multi-sport clinics for athletes of all levels.
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The Club also offers a monthly newsletter, uniforms & apparel, club e-mail groups, club web page, classified ads, bike and run routes, triathlon links, training tips, raffles, race expos, and much, much more.
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Film Review: The Last Station
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The Last Station (2009; Directed by Michael Hoffman)
A slightly ham-handed reimagining of Tolstoy's final days, Michael Hoffman's The Last Station is a decent match to its subject's great fiction on the surface, but fails to scratch at the deeper truths of existence as Tolstoy does.
We are Russian, we eat flowers!
Though Czarist Russia would endure for seven more years after Tolstoy's death, it's no stretch to see the final vestiges of a fading social order petering out with the passing of the great novelist. Hoffman and his production team clearly seem to recognize this convergence and construct their film with it in mind. The stolid Merchant-Ivory-like recreation of late czarist Russian society is keenly detailed and distinctly autumnal, and the bohemian idealism and communal austerity of the Tolstoyans presage the similar but more aggressive and destructive efforts of the Bolsheviks. Jay Parini's novel, on which the film is based, recognized that the tug-of-war for Tolstoy's work (and, by extension, for his soul) between his forward-thinking followers and his affected aristocratic wife in his final days was emblematic of the mass upheavals to come, and Hoffman does not wholly lose sight of that either.
Still, there's a bluntness and lack of subtlety to the whole process that begins to grate after a while. The screenplay endeavors to place a strain of Tolstoy's realist language into the characters' mouths, but without the master novelist nigh-invisible artistry, much of it comes off as flat.
The actors do what they can and more, pros that they are. Christopher Plummer puts the count through the dramatic paces with thespianic elan, but he isn't as transcendent as we might hope. Part of what made Tolstoy such a legend in his own time was that he poured so much of his own life and the lives of those around him into his masterpieces. Certainly, most writers do, but Tolstoy's synthesis between life and work made the two things inseparable and also larger than life. Plummer's Tolstoy is a tired old man who can still find a mischievous smile when he tries; it's a very human portrayal, but Tolstoy could mix the human with the superhuman and never show you the strings. Plummer is very good, but not quite great.
He's gamely supported by the various people grasping for his attentions around him. Helen Mirren knocks Countess Sofya out of the park, but then she usually rocks these sort of prestige roles. James McAvoy once again plays the adorably awkward idealist whose illusions are shattered, but he never plays that role the same way twice. Kerry Condon is his lively, lovely foil. Paul Giamatti provides the lowlight, which is quite unlike him. Perhaps we're meant to see into Chertkov's perspective, but Giamatti plays him as such a weasly wanker – at times literally twisting the ends of his waxed mustache like a cartoon villain – that it's impossible to identify with him, and thus with the proto-hippie Tolstoyans.
Perhaps I expect too much or just the wrong thing; there's no need for a film about Tolstoy to share the myriad epiphanies of love and life that his fiction provides so amply. Hoffman's film is willing to borrow or reference a few of those transcendent elements (there are subtle nods to moments in War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, as well as some unsubtle ones), but it can't quite construct such transcendent moments of its own. The Last Station is a more earthbound thing, sturdy and decent and traditionally moving. Tolstoy's life and his works were all of those things, but they were much, much more.
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Q: Can't test connected component I have the next issue:
before each test cases I create an container
const container = shallow(<Provider store={mockStore}><ReportButton{...mockProps}/></Provider>).dive();

So, when I'm trying to find() some elements, to simulate event, I get an error.
In snapshot displayed component itself, but not inner markup.
<ReportButton
  category={Array []}
  count={100}
  dataId=""
  filter={Object {}}
  fullReport={false}
  isEmpty={false}
  loading={false}
  period_tariff_is_active={true}
  type=""
/>

And I simply can't get inside the component.
One simple solution: as the Redux DOCS advised, testing component without wrapping in Provider.
So, you just need add named export for your component, as this done bellow
export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(ReportButton);
export {ReportButton};

Congratulations, now you can test your component.
But if you use react-redux hooks (useSelect e.g.), then this trick will not be work, because your component will be wrapped in connect automaticly. And you will export component like that:
export default ReportButton;

So the issue came back.
And I don't know, how to fix it.
List of used packages:
"react": "^16.9.0",
"redux": "^4.0.4",
"react-redux": "^7.1.1",
"enzyme": "^3.11.0",
"enzyme-adapter-react-16": "^1.15.2",

A: I ones tested a Custom provider with enzyme. And the test looked like:
wrapper = Enzyme.shallow(
      <StorageProvider storage={storageMock}>
        <StorageContext.Consumer>
          {(storage: StorageService | null): React.ReactElement =>

            <HelperComponent storage={storage} />}

        </StorageContext.Consumer>
      </StorageProvider>,
    );

expect(
  wrapper
    .dive()
    .find(StorageContext.Consumer)
    .dive()
    .find(HelperComponent),
  ).toHaveLength(1);

So you may try to use .dive.

Another solution that I can suggest is testing using @testing-library/react as in my opinion is easier and interesting to test a component behavior that concrete implementation.

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About The Glen Arbor and Glen Haven Gallery
Glen Arbor and Glen Haven sit next to each other along Sleeping Bear Bay in Lake Michigan. Glen Haven is a historically preserved town of old logging buildings from the once thriving logging settlement. The buildings are now run by the National Park Service.
Glen Arbor is a more modern town sitting just outside the borders of Sleeping Bear Dunes that draws throngs of tourists every year. It is known for its beach on Sleeping Bear Bay, its shops, bars, and restaurants along M-22, and the upscale Homestead Resort just north of downtown.
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Home > Food & Recipes > This is The Reason Why You're Going To Freeze Lemon From Now On!
Lemons are poised to step into the spotlight. Lemons originated in Southeast Asia and entered Europe via Southern Italy during the time of ancient Rome. Christopher Columbus introduced lemons to the West when he brought them to Hispaniola (modern Haiti) in 1493.
And we are grateful he did: Lemons add a refreshing tartness and, due to their six percent citric acid content, have many health benefits.
The health benefits of lemons are due to its high amounts of vitamin C, vitamin B, phosphorous, proteins, and carbohydrates. Lemons also contain flavonoids, which is responsible for its antioxidant and cancer fighting properties.
Helps detoxify the liver– Lemons help stimulate the liver.
Helps restore the body's pH– The acid and alkaline properties of lemons help restore and balance the body's pH levels.
Helps fight a cold, flu or fever– The high amount of vitamin C aids in increasing the body's immune system and defend itself from sicknesses.
Helps control high blood pressure– The high amount of potassium in lemons benefits the heart and helps control high blood pressure.
Good for weight loss– Lemons increase fat metabolism and increase the function of glutathione.
Cleans your teeth– Applying the inside of a lemon peel to your teeth will help clean your teeth and kill bad bacteria in your mouth. (Be careful not to use it for too long as the acidic acid can destroy your enamel).
Reduces toothaches– Applying a small amount of lemon juice to the aching area can help reduce the pain.
Treats acne– The antibacterial properties of lemons makes it a good natural remedy for acne and blackheads.
Lemons are extremely beneficial for your entire body, as they contain numerous healthy substances, and provide useful effects in the case of many health conditions and issues.
Namely, this miraculous fruit is extremely successful against inward parasites and worms, it regulates the blood pressure, and has an anti-microbe impact against bacterial contamination and parasites.
Moreover, an entire lemon can help your body discharge toxins and it has an anti-carcinogenic effects. Also, lemons are excellent anti-depressants and are great in the battle against anxiety and apprehensive issues.
Hence, experts suggest that you mustn't throw away any part of the fruit: as its juice, seeds and peel are all very useful! Actually, the lemon bark has 5 to 10 times more vitamins than its juice.
Furthermore, another experimental study has shown that limonoids in lemons and in all citrus organic products in general, can prevent and unequivocally stop the growth of cancer cells, particularly in the case of breast tumor!
Take one non-sprayed lemon (if you don't have your own homegrown lemons, buy organic lemons from bigger markets or healthy food stores), wash it well and put it in the freezer (you can freeze a slice or the whole lemon).
Afterwards, when it is frozen, take it out and grind it. The lemon done in this way will acquire a new flavor, and it will be delicious for consumption, and extremely healthy for your body at the same time!


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Egypt's President Abdel al-Sisi pardons 560 prisoners
Participants attend a court session for Muslim Brotherhood members, in Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 560 prisoners, the majority of whom were accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, two judicial sources said on Friday.
Of those pardoned, 482 were imprisoned on charges related to the Brotherhood, a decades-old Islamist political movement with a mass following, the sources said.
A prominent journalist, Abdel Halim Qandil, who was sentenced in 2017 to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary, was also pardoned.
The pardoned prisoners also included two women who organized demonstrations outside metro stations last year after fare hikes.
The prisoners are expected to be released on Friday. The pardons were announced in the official gazette late on Thursday.
The Brotherhood won the first free elections after the 2011 uprising that ended autocrat Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but was toppled by the army after a year in power.
Since then, the group has been banned and hundreds of its followers have been jailed. The Brotherhood says it is a non-violent movement and denies any relationship to violent insurgencies waged by al Qaeda and Islamic State militants.
Rights activists say Sisi has overseen a relentless crackdown on dissent in Egypt since 2014. At least 60,000 people have been jailed on political grounds, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.
Sisi has denied holding political prisoners and his backers say the measures were necessary to stabilize Egypt after its 2011 uprising.
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Trump Shows Strong Signs He Will Pardon Servicemen Accused or Convicted of War Crimes
The New York Times – Dave Philipps – May 18, 12:53 PM
President Trump has requested the immediate preparation of paperwork needed to pardon several American military members accused or convicted of war crimes — including high-profile cases of murder, attempted murder and desecration of a corpse…
In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy
CNN – By Yashar Ali – May 18, 12:29 PM
Editor's Note: (Yashar Ali is a contributor to HuffPost and New York Magazine. Follow him @yashar. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles at CNN.) (CNN) On May 10, San Francisco police…
What to Do When You're a Country in Crisis
The New York Times – Anand Giridharadas – May 17, 9:51 AM
UPHEAVAL Turning Points for Nations in Crisis If you've ever been at a wedding or conference or on board a United connection from O'Hare, and been cornered by a man with Theories About It All, and you came away thinking, "That was a great…
Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical
The Cut – Rebecca Traister – May 17, 9:17 AM
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'I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy': Bernie Sanders on the 1980s
The New York Times – Sydney Ember – May 18, 2:00 AM
As Burlington's mayor from 1981 to 1989, Bernie Sanders tried to infuse local politics with international issues. From his earliest days in office, Mr. Sanders aimed to execute his own foreign policy, repudiating President Ronald Reagan's…
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Nothing is impossible - Barca and Valverde prepared to attack Madrid
After a home reverse in the Supercopa first leg, Ernesto Valverde is setting his Barcelona side up to take the title from Real Madrid.
Ben Spratt
16 August, 2017 00:15 IST
Valverde: 'We also have to control Madrid's counter-attacks, they are specialists in that'. - Getty Images
Ernesto Valverde acknowledges that Barcelona's 3-1 home defeat to Real Madrid in its Supercopa de Espana first leg means it must attack its rival at the Santiago Bernabeu.
A Gerard Pique own goal and, following Lionel Messi's penalty, fine strikes from Cristiano Ronaldo and Marco Asensio handed Valverde a humbling reverse in his first competitive game in charge of Barca.
However, he is adamant that the tie is not over and his side will head to Madrid on Wednesday to attack Zinedine Zidane's men.
"We have to create scoring situations," he told a pre-match news conference. "The disadvantage is important - we need to go forward.
"We also have to control Madrid's counter-attacks, they are specialists in that. The team was unbalanced [in the first leg].
"Nothing is impossible. We can look at our previous results, they make us see that we have possibilities. In any case, we keep our idea of going there to win the game and get the title."
And Valverde is wary of a scrappy game against the European champion as he realises that can only favour Zidane's side.
"We are a team that needs to be together to win," he added. "If the match is scrappy, Madrid will profit."


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Celtic: Postecoglou must unleash Liam Scales today
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With their 2-1 win over Ross County in the Premiership now behind them, Celtic have the Scottish League Cup final against Hibernian to deal with before continuing their push for the top-flight title.
In terms of which players Ange Postecoglou could pick to start against Hibs, one player who featured in the win in Dingwall and should be in the starting XI this afternoon is Liam Scales, who is currently earning £5k-per-week according to Salary Sport.
Why Scales must start
Playing at left-back against Ross County, the 23-year-old central defender showed Postecoglou just how capable he is in that position on his first league start of the season after coming on as a substitute in the second half of their 3-0 win over Dundee United, when he got himself on the scoresheet.
Can you guess which Celtic player scored the most goals during the season in question? Let's start with 2010/11...
Gary Hooper
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During his 90 minutes on the pitch in midweek, the Irishman made himself a real nuisance for Ross County in an attacking sense by completing two key passes, two crosses and two long balls, as well as having one shot whilst completing one successful dribble and setting up Liel Abada's goal.
From a defensive point of view, Scales made two tackles and one interception and won eight of his 12 duels, proving why he was previously described as an "aggressive" player by one-time St Johnstone man Graham Gartland and why he could potentially bully Hibernian's players today.
This display ultimately earned the 23-year-old a solid overall match rating of 7.5/10, making him Celtic's third-highest rated player on the night according to SofaScore.
Should Liam Scales start today?
Even though Greg Taylor has often played at left-back for Celtic this season, Scales has shown that he is more than capable of delivering a top performance in that position.
Therefore, we reckon Postecoglou should stick with the Irishman on the left-hand side of defence, as he could bully Hibs and help the 56-year-old to lift his first trophy as Hoops manager.
In other news: Celtic handed potential injury boost ahead of Hibs which will surely leave fans thrilled
Article title: Celtic: Postecoglou must unleash Liam Scales today


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Rockstar not making single-player DLC for Red Dead Redemption 2
8:22 am September 30, 2019 By Conner Flynn
This is not good news if you're hoping for a single-player add-on for Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar's lead online production associate Katie Pica said in a recent interview that the developer is "100% focused" on Red Dead Online. She said that Rockstar's goal is to put "everything a player can love" about solo play into the multiplayer experience.
This means new activities, characters, and events. Pica said that RDR2's "absolutely massive" core narrative was proof the company cared about the single-player experience.
This isn't a big surprise since GTA5 hasn't had any significant single-player expansions during its lifespan. This is a sharp contrast with the original Red Dead game, though. The original game had plenty of multiplayer updates, but its best-known downloadable content was the Undead Nightmare expansion with a zombie-centric solo node. It looks like that kind of DLC is not in the cards for RDR2 for now.
The money is in the multiplayer crowd since Rockstar and Take Two are making a lot of money with both GTA Online and Red Dead Online. A devotion to multiplayer content could keep the games profitable for years to come and they know this. It's a solid plan and as long as it is good content it should be great.
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The images from the series "Heads of the Valleys" are a compilation of landscapes and portraits of children taken during a residency program in Blaenau Gwent in the heart of the Welsh valleys, between October 2015 and June 2016. With both a magical spirit and visual complexity, Schneidermann explores a new means by which to represent and challenge perceptions of communities in South Wales. Through artistic and fashion collaborations, and in partnership with the stylist and creative director Charlotte James, Schneidermann works with children from Coed Cae and Merthyr Tydfil to reimagine visual representations of place, social mobility and economic decline.
"The weather might be cold and the environment harsh and bleak, but not those pictured. Clémentine Schneidermann's photographs are both lyrical and affirmative, playing against and unravelling the strictures of the documentary tradition.
"I move to Abertillery in the South Welsh valleys after undertaking a three months residency in Blaenau Gwent with Arts + Minds. Part of my mission is to engage with communities – in particular the local young people – and reflect on a new visual representation of this former mining region. I am introduced to a youth club run by an incredible volunteer called Michelle who becomes a key contributor.
The last days of summer are over, and as I start photographing, autumn arrives. It is incredibly dark and wet, and approaching strangers on the street has never been so difficult. As I continue my weekly visits to the youth club, I receive an email from a fashion magazine interested in commissioning a story. I happily accept, with the idea I can involve the local children. Through the magazine I meet the stylist Charlotte James, who is also from the Valleys, and we embark on a long-term collaboration.
Born in Paris in 1991, Clémentine Schneidermann discovered photography on the streets of Paris at the age of 16. From 2009 to 2012 she studied photography at the Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey in Switzerland. Between 2012 and 2014 she completed a Masters degree in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales in Newport. In 2016 she won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her ongoing series collaborating with young people and the stylist Charlotte James, in South Wales. She has published one book, 'I Called Her Lisa Marie' (Chose Commune, 2018), work from which was featured at the Nuit de l'Annee at the Rencontres D'Arles festival 2017, and shortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award. She begun her PhD in 2016.


TOP 5 FASTEST COUNTRIES OVER INTERNET SPEED, STATE OF 4G LTE GLOBALLY.
The mobile industry may now be turning its attention to 5G, but as OpenSignal's latest analysis of global LTE performance shows there is still plenty of activity surrounding 4G. As new LTE networks come online and old networks gain new life through LTE-Advanced upgrades, 4G signals are making their way into new niches across the globe and operators are pushing the boundaries of 4G speeds.
According to Opensignal's 2017 report on the list of the countries which have faster internet speeds and number of users over the internet using 4G LTE speeds on their devices.
Despite of falling average, India shot up our LTE availability rankings, reflecting a rare instance in which a single operator can have an outsized impact on a mobile market in just a short time. Jio's nationwide 4G launch in September attracted 100 million LTE subscribers, making 4G services far more accessible in India,but at the expense of lower average speeds.
Although India lags behind on speeds, the nation has quickly increased its coverage to overtake a number of countries in the past two years. The country's 4G users see a connection 81.6% of the time, putting the company not far outside of the top 10.
This seems to confirm the theory that more and more Indian consumers are coming online and that 4G networks continue to reach more consumers. Barely two years ago, customers could only achieve a 4G connection in the country just 50% of the time.
China and India are two countries which have a high number of internet users as per march 2017 followed by USA.
When it comes to continents, it is easy to say that Asia has more number people over the internet than followed by the Americas and Europe.
When coming to Global internet average speed over LTE has fallen down from 2016, where it was measured at 17.4 Mbps to 16.2 Mbps in 2017. The report believes that it is due to a large number of countries bringing lower capacity networks online recently as the demand increases.
At the same time the fastest 15 countries now offer more than 30 Mbps speed and there happens to be a growing gap between fastest and slowest networks globally.
Thus, concluding the topic globally countries have developed in terms of providing the internet and speeds. At this rate digitization increase and age of cashless transactions begins.
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Panama Canal: Slowdown in US-Asia/China Trade?
by MC01 • Nov 1, 2019 • 41 Comments
One of the world's critical choke points for maritime traffic.
By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET:
On 26 June 2016, the third set of locks of the Panama Canal was inaugurated to great fanfare with the transit of a container carrier owned by COSCO of China. These gargantuan expansion works had already been proposed in the 1930s, and work on it had actually started in 1939 before the outbreak of WWII put an end to it.
By 2007, when the excavations for the new locks started, the Panama Canal had effectively reached its limits, with over 13,000 ships passing through the canal each year. The existing locks, almost 100 years old, had become too small for an increasingly large number of ocean-going commercial vessels. For decades, commercial vessels that could clear the Panama Canal locks were limited to the so-called Panamax size, which limited container carriers to a capacity of 5,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, a measure of how many standard twenty-foot containers a ship can theoretically carry).
The new locks allow for much larger ships to clear the Panama Canal, the so called Neo-Panamax size with a capacity of 13,000 TEU.
This expansion has proven to be extremely costly, technically challenging, and marred by countless episodes of embezzlement, corruption, and just plain old shoddy engineering.
While the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) and the Government of Panama have declined to comment on the real final cost of the expansion work, originally estimated at $5.25 billion (in 2007 dollars), it's well known that Spanish engineering firm Sacyr SA alone is seeking $3.4 billion for "excessive expenses," and that the PCA itself is seeking a complete refund on the new $158 million tugboats bought to operate in the new locks due to extremely unsatisfactory performance. These litigations are sure to drag on for years.
As the Financial Crisis started to bite in 2008, the PCA approached Mizuho Corporate Bank to put together a $2.3 billion financing package as liquidity worldwide was fast disappearing and as expenses of the project were ballooning. The chief contributor to this "rescue package" was the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) with a 20-year $800 million loan at extremely generous conditions, including a 10-year grace period.
The PCA finances itself and by extension the Government of Panama through two chief sources of income: tolls and the sale of additional services, such as bunkering, to commercial vessels.
The cost of crossing the canal include the toll itself; necessary services such as the use of tugboats and locomotives to maneuver and move the ship inside the locks; mooring fees; and accessory services, such as unloading and reloading part of the cargo to allow a ship with a very deep draft to clear the canal.
The record for a toll paid to the PCA (including all accessory services and fees) is presently held by Hong Kong-registered and Japanese-owned MOL Beyond container carrier which paid $837,203 to cross the canal in July 2016, mere days after the new locks had been inaugurated. But the average toll is about $140,000, and the transit of just a few very large cruise ships, the class paying the highest tolls, can considerably skew that average figure for a given year.
As the Panama Canal is one of the world's critical chokepoints for maritime traffic, alternatives to it have long been sought, often involving harebrained schemes.
The latest of these came in 2012 when the Government of Nicaragua signed a memorandum of understanding with the newly formed Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Group (HKND) to finance and build a canal passing through Nicaragua.
Prior to this point, nobody had ever heard of HKND and its founder, Wang Jing, one of China's many "stock market billionaires," meaning nobody is sure how he built his fortune or what his ties to the government are. Wang Jing boasted impressive backing from two State-owned conglomerates, the China Railway Construction Company (CRCC) and XCGM Group, a large manufacturer of construction equipment: CRCC and XCGM were to provide qualified labor, technical expertise, building equipment, and capital to the new venture.
How much of this impressive backing was real and how much imaginary we'll never know because construction of the Nicaragua Canal never started.
Wang Jing allegedly lost an enormous fortune in the 2015 Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market crashes. Last year, the HKND offices in the International Finance Center, a super-exclusive and super-expensive office tower in Hong Kong, were suddenly vacated. HKND has left no forwarding address and all attempts by reporters and investigators to contact Wang Jing have met with failure.
What is the Panama Canal telling us about the so-called trade war between China and the US? According to Panama Canal data, during the fiscal year ended on September 30, traffic between Asia and the East Coast of the US was a mixed bag: it very slightly decreased in tonnage (-2%) but it strongly increased in PC/UMS (Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System), a measure of volume equivalent to 100ft³ (+18.1%).
The PCA doesn't provide us with a detailed breakdown, but there are some tidbits for FY2019:
Container cargo traffic from the Pacific to the Atlantic (read: from China, Japan and Korea to the US East Coast) increased by 9.1% to 36.8 million long tons.
Traffic of petroleum products and LNG from the Atlantic to the Pacific (read: from US Gulf Coast refineries and LNG export terminals to China, Korea and Japan) increased 4.4% to 66.8 million long tons.
Shipments of coal from the Atlantic to the Pacific remained stable at 14.5 million long tons.
Shipments of grains, which include everything from soybeans to rice, from the Atlantic to the Pacific remained stable at 24 million long tons.
These are hardly numbers indicative of a global economic slowdown caused by US-China trade frictions.
In terms of what is being shipped through the Panama Canal, the US absolutely dominates when it comes to cargo origination. Excluding intercoastal trade from the West Coast to the East Coast and vice-versa, the US shipped 109 million long tons of goods through the Panama Canal in FY2019, ranging from scrap metal to highly sophisticated oil-drilling equipment. By contrast China accounts for "just" 20 million long tons of cargo, the Republic of Korea for 10 million long tons, and Japan for a measly 6 million long tons.
While these data are only a small albeit important window on worldwide trade, they paint a radically different picture from the present narrative about a worldwide economic slowdown caused by US-China trade frictions. And they fly in face of the idea that even more extraordinary and unorthodox monetary policies are needed to stimulate the global economy. By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET
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41 comments for "Panama Canal: Slowdown in US-Asia/China Trade?"
stan6565
Would you have a figure for intercoastal trade between the West Coast to the East Coast through the canal. I cannot but think this should be near zero, surely the railway connections for cargo from eat to west coast would be much more efficient in all possible ways.
Intercoastal US traffic through the Panama Canal was a little over 2 million long tons in FY2019, down about 4% over FY2018.
Intermodal has really started to make itself felt here.
Yes, 2 mil tons out of 111total. A rounding error.
I felt so. Cheers MC.
roddy6667
I worked for a large retailer for many years. All its stores got cargo from Asia via Long Beach and other West Coast ports. The containers went onto rail cars, and went to regional centers across the country. There the containers went onto trailer trucks and directly to distribution centers. I never heard of anything going by ship to the East Coast. Some small, light, expensive things like jewelry, bras, and women's shoes went from Asia directly to the East Coast via air cargo companies like EVA and Korean Air. I wonder what kind of cargo goes thru the Panama Canal instead of cross country on flatbed railway cars.
Maybe cars. I have seen huge ships coming directly from Japan in New York Harbor. Also, container ships, but they might be from Europe.
unit472
I had thought, as did many port authorities on the GOM that the widened Panama Canal would allow shippers to by pass West Coast ports and bring more ships to their ports. Apparently this has not happened to any signficant degree.
One wonders if Panama itself has not shot itself in the foot with the new locks since one ship can carry more than two and half the cargo as the old locks thus overall transits might be reduced even if total volume stays steady or even grows somewhat.
Since we have no idea about the true final cost of the third set of locks apart that it's way more than original estimate of $5.25 billion in 2007 dollars, we do not know how much of a gamble the Government of Panama has taken.
There's also a problem that I have chosen not write about in the piece: these new locks started to leak mere days after the transit of the MOL Beyond, opening a completely different can of worm: these new locks won't last a small fraction of the old ones, at least not without extensive and expensive repairs. Patching them up as has been done for the past three years will buy time but it's not a definitive fix.
The original locks have been in operation since 1914, admitting everything from battleships to intrepid swimmers.
Wisoot
So why did the chief design engineer in their wisdom implement a different and new inadequate design rather than back engineer the original locks which have 100 years of service?
The lowest bidder won, and that was all that mattered.
That's the same pernicious mechanism that ensues a freshly resurfaced road will look like a Flanders battlefield c.1917 in under six months.
The lowest bidder, but with neither intention nor ability to meet the bid price.
Just as with US defense acquisition.
Cowtown Spike
The swimmer was the American adventurer and author Richard Halliburton, who paid 36 cents to swim it in 1928. He later died in 1939 (at the age of 39) while trying to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The ship vanished in a storm, his last message was "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here instead of me."
Bob Hoye
Interesting article.
The mysterious "stock market billionaire" Wang Jing reminds of Clarence Hatry.
A big promoter in London in 1929.
The "Wiki" on Hatry seems thorough.
NBay
Yes, good article….but don't forget the Northwest Passage will be opening soon. No locks, no maint.
After Roald Amundsen finally crossed the North-West Passage in 1906 he remarked the greatest challenge had not been so much braving the ice but navigating the shallows and narrow passages. And his boat was a tiny one.
During WWII there was again interest in the North-West Passage, given the success the North-East Passage was enjoying to supply the USSR, but it wasn't until 1944 that a RCMP cutter, and again a tiny one, managed to repeat Amundsen's feat. Sending convoys through the North-West Passage was deemed eminently impratical due to navigational challenges and the Battle of the Atlantic had been won anyway, so interest waned.
Opening up the North-West Passage to modern commercial maritime traffic would require at very least large scale dredging: remember that modern day commercial ships are on the large side and handle like a flying brick. They aren't Amunsen's tiny fishing boat. And this is to say nothing of transit times, fuel consumption, insurance costs etc.
That is unless somebody will start pushing a whole new family of cargo ships designed specifically for plying the North-West Passage, not to mention deep water ports to move goods to ocean-going freighters… as I said harebrained schemes abound these days, but it is the norm when money is cheap.
Was just referring to melting icecap on open Arctic Ocean, and climate change. No beef with your economic notions. We likely won't live to see it, but it sure looks like it will happen.
Maybe "soon" was a poor choice of words?
"…all attempts by reporters and investigators to contact Wang Jing have met with failure"
Have been told that Chinese re-education camps (officially known as Vocational Education and Training Centers) have become popular destinations among Uyghur folks and HK billionaires.
I have seen a lot of these "stock market millionaires/billionaires" over the past decade: they are supremely adept at preying on foreigners' fascination with China and, dare I say, childish belief into the superiority of the Chinese economic model.
When they are unmasked for what they truly are (it's not exactly hard nor prohibitively expensive to have inquiries carried out in China, Hong Kong and Macau to determine if these folks have the financial firepower to back their claims) or the scheme falls to pieces because it has advanced far more than it should have had, these people vanish into thin air.
In at least one very embarrassing case a "billionaire" was found to be using an alias and the mining company he claimed as the source of his wealth was actually owned by a provincial government, whose representitives strongly denied having ever heard of this man before. Journalists investigating the case were told by the Beijing police this man "may" have been already involved in real estate scams, again using an alias, but there was no sure way to know. So much for the much vaunted and all-seeing "social credit system".
We like to think of China as some sort of ant colony but like all human societies it's composed by ordinary human beings, not obedient little red ants ruled over by all-powerful super villains.
We like to think of a "billionaire" as someone who is more clever and intelligent than the 'average' human. Take a closer look, billionaires have taken short cuts, whether legal or not, taken it on the nose if not legal. The addiction to greed and perceived success among their own peers and network propels them onwards to commit more short cuts where others perform due diligence for ethical and moral reasons. The alias case study you cite MC01 is typical of a billionaire attitude. What can I get away with. Get me the best lawyers. Make it happen. Pay them more to get it done, I dont care how.
Two things happen. Their children either grow up loving this unethical behaviour and are programmed into unethical addictive behaviours to sustain their luxuries for perceived success amongst their peers. Or their children shun their parents realising that ethical and moral values are more important and should not be passed on to their own children aka the grandchildren of unethical and immoral billionaires.
The more socially active people are in shunning ugly unacceptable behaviour, the quicker we rid ourselves of billionaire parasites on honest kind gentle caring mainstay populations.
2banana
A few random thoughts on the Panama Canal.
Completed on time and under budget by America after the French gave up.
Nicaragua has been looked at as an alternative route for almost 100 years. A huge lake in the middle of Nicaragua makes it somewhat feasible.
The Japanese were going to bomb the canal with planes launched from surfaced submarines at the beginning of WWII.
Guatemala is trying to do a Panama Canal by freight train as it has two deep water ports (built by America) in each ocean.
Laughy
Yeah, but it is outside the Wall Street Zone of Influence now, which means that in any western nation any such project will be seen as a crackpot idea. If you are inside the western propaganda bubble, anything outside that bubble is horrible, awful, evil, and certainly crackpot…. for the obvious reason that Wall Street doesn't get their cut.
Unamused
Teddy Roosevelt fomented civil war in Colombia to split off Panama to get his canal built.
On his fourth voyage Columbus failed to find the promised strait across Panama to another ocean. His ships were wrecked there and he was stranded at Jamaica for a year.
Construction of the Corinthian Canal was delayed 3000 years until the invention of dynamite and was obsolete upon completion.
robt
The Canal has a history of scandal.
The US bought the Panama Canal project equipment and rights from the French Panama Canal company which had collapsed in scandal after much of the money was stolen. Later, Teddy/the US paid 40 million dollars to buy the shares of the company, (2 Billion in today's money), and nobody knew where the money went. There was a congressional inquiry that strangely found out nothing. Documented in the book 'Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct'.
Nero started the Corinthian Canal in about 67 AD, and supposedly turned the first shovel of dirt. Unfortunately the project was abandoned for 1800 years after his death but was completed in the late 1800s. It did quickly become obsolete for commercial shipping purposes, but still busy with pleasure and tour boats.
In the 7th century BC Periander proposed completing the project begun by the Mycenaens in the 11th, both stymied by a shortage of dynamite.
People in Panama sometimes refer to themselves as Americans, just to PO people from the US.
91B20 1stCav (AUS)
I recall reading an article in my younger years concerning the initial studies for the Canal route, including the Nicaragua option. Around that time, Nicaragua had issued a postage stamp depicting the lake and the large, smoldering volcano in close proximity to it. Someone in planning saw this stamp and the Nicaragua routing option was subsequently discarded.
A better day to us all.
hidflect
I don't think many people still think this trade war with China is primarily about trade. From the start it's a proxy alternative to a hot war to bring China into line after they signalled their refusal to play along with the dream that granting them most favoured status amongst other trade exemptions would allow them to blossom into a new-age nation of tolerance and democracy.
Their grabbing of the Spratly Islands, moves into Africa, Sri Lanka and various South Pacific regions along with Xi's declaration to be ruler for life was the wake up call, I feel. Note how the Democrats scream about every action Trump takes but never criticize him about China. Not once.
Pompeo and Pence's recent remarks on China seal the deal on what's going on. We're talking about a country that has over a million minorities in concentration camps and harvests organs from political prisoners. This is about more than trade. America has been quietly urging its allies (Japan, Korea, etc.) to divest from China for some years now which they have been doing anyway, unbidden.
I predict next may be a move by the US to slowly squeeze China out of ASEAN by garnering the support of the multiple nations who find their South China Sea borders rudely cut off by China's new claims. Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Taiwan (did I miss anybody?) all now have a legitimate, existential concern about China's sumo style expansion efforts.
If the US is playing a pantomime with China, stringing them along while arranging global alternatives, then this trade war will last for years. And I don't see how China can stop it. They don't have the reserve currency that buys the commodities they need and they're trying to face off with their own biggest customers. Good luck with that.
Xabier
Exactly, it's a long-term squeeze on China – hopefully provoking internal instability – to maintain the geopolitical balance threatened by Chinese ambitions, which they have done nothing to conceal.
Just as the global order was menaced by a unified and newly- industrialised Germany in the early 20th century, which could only really be solved by going to war, crushing her and then remodelling Germany to a pattern agreeable to the victors.
Nothing at all to do with improving economic conditions for the US working and lower middle classes, although that might be a by-product in some areas.
At this level of politics, the welfare of the citizenry is never a principle objective of the state.
China claimed the South China Sea because the US has an active policy of containment. All Chinese naval vessels are being tracked as they enter the Pacific by way of relatively shallow coastal waters. Remember the incident of late 2016 in which China seized an underwater drone which the US said was an "ocean glider" system used around world to gather data on salinity, water temperature and sound speed – stop laughing ! The benefit of the South China Sea to China is that it is very deep water making it much more difficult for the US to use tracking drones.
I wonder how the US would react if China used underwater drones in the Bay of Mexico to help contain the US ?
Good blog.
Somewhere between 5,000 and 35,000 people died building the Panama Canal. It was a brutal project.
There was a famous Forbes article, claiming a Chinese billionaire "dies" every 40 days. They don't mess about.
Expectations for US and global GDP growth have become delusional in recent years. The US is currently seeing record Dow and the longest economic expansion in history. But that is still not enough for people. They want more!
The US is currently seeing record Dow and the longest economic expansion in history.
I think you'll find that most US 'economic expansion' is in the financial markets, along with military expenditures and other corporate welfare. It would also be interesting to know how evaded taxes secreted to overseas havens are calculated in US GDP figures. In some countries that information requires a security clearance.
One of these days I'll have to look up how many dollars of debt it takes to generate a dollar of expansion of the Real Economy, keeping my spiffy new shot glass – er, beer mug, handy for emergency sedation.
alex in San Jose AKA Digital Detroit
It's been great for the top 10%, OK for the next 10%, and more of the great slide downward for the rest of us.
Some of us voted for the current regime, some of us are studying our Marx and Kropotkin, but the thing we have in common is we are not happy about how things are going for us.
So, 20% vs. 80%, and since success and getting to work in a white collar vs. blue collar occupation has far, far more to do with social class than individual effort, we're essentially dealing with people who know how to push buttons vs. people who know how to keep things working, or not, in the physical world.
Yeah, well, Trump can claim a fact-free Victory anyway.
J.M.Keynes
– I look at the US Trade Deficit and that Deficit seems – I repeat – SEEMS to be in a "topping process". Too early to tell whether or not that is "rolling over". But this could be the confirmation that the US economy is "weakening" (with or without quotation marks).
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/10/trade-deficit-increased-to-549-billion.html
whosOnFirst
Well when I'm at the top in Singapore, I see ships as far as the eye can see.
When I'm in HK, I see ships as far as the eye can see, same for Shenzhen or Shanghai.
Maybe its because there is not much need for biz, its more of the NY shipping to LA via boat, then the canal makes sense.
Yes, like the article say's if the ASIAN ( belt-road ) owned their own canal in this area they would use it, but now why use a USA controlled over-priced canal?
( Maybe ppl here don't travel, but from HK to MENA all ships pass straights of Malacca in Malaysia, biggest choke point in world for shipping , but its FREE)
Suez canal is critical, I don't think Panama is critical. Also most of the oil is again going from MENA to China(ASIA), so what does the real world have to do with Panama?
These days we have excess capacity on rail highway in USA, why would they ship by boat?
Draconian laws, Wolf your a sailor certainly you know that if you own a dinghy and navigate the canal you must hire a pilot-boat for your entire journey, its not uncommon for people doing world circumnavigation to give up their voyage at Panama, its much hassle or go-around, or have your boat trucked.
Panama Canal has sucked for 50+ years, and now its like the USA, a Zombie. All dressed up with nobody to rob.
Lisa_Hooker
If you wish to circumnavigate the globe in your sailboat the easy way, via Suez and Panama canals, about half the total cost of the entire voyage is the cost of transiting the Panama Canal.
You'd need finer data that year-total data to see the trade war impacts. For just one example, a data-set that covers one financial year would include both the pre-tarrif stocking up phase of things as well as any post-tarrif traffic slow-downs. In this data set, it all gets averaged out into oblivion. Since most of the tarriffs have only recently gone into effect, you'd have to see data for the last quarter.
weinerdog43
What a great story. Thanks MC01. The stories regarding the building of the Panama Canal are fascinating. (Yellow Fever anyone?)
Anyway, I would love to hear from anyone who has traversed that stretch.
HB Guy
A partial explanation for the seemingly minor impact of the US-China trade dispute may be the decreased volume of shipments to/from the LA-Long Beach Port complex and instead directly to US Gulf and East Coast ports.
This concern was expressed by the Port when construction began, but despite steps taken to expedited cargo from it to Inland Empire rail terminals, the Canal appears to have taken a large chunk of its business.
ObjectiveFunction
Many thanks MC01. I just wanted to confirm the total freight tonnages:
Eastbound CH 20 + KO 10 + JP 6 = 36, check
But westbound, is it petroleum 69 + coal 15 + grains 24 = 108 + an *additional*109mmt of goods? Or is the "scrap metal to highly sophisticated oil-drilling equipment" less than 1m tons? Cheers!
Excellent article, thank you.
Well, if it isn't the US-China trade war, it must be, roll drums……..BREXIT! :)
Seriously, we must look instead to the steady decline in prosperity which chokes off demand among the mass of largely over-indebted consumers, and to understand that we must dig even deeper into the – failing – fundamental structures of industrial civilisation.
Those who bother to look at that aspect will not find it particularly encouraging….
China operates six of the world's ten busiest container ports. Their strategy is to control turnkey ports. The Chinese government has also funded the construction and operations of 43 ports in 35 countries under its "One Belt and One Road" (OBOR) initiative launched five years ago, according to China's Ministry of Transport.
As part of its efforts to gain asset dominance, China has directed its state-owned companies to exclusively buy products and services from other Chinese state-owned enterprises. As a result, China International Marine Containers Group has become the world's largest maker of shipping containers and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries has gained a 70 percent international market share for port cranes, and now exports to 300 ports in 100 countries.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/trump_administration_forces_china_to_sell_the_port_of_long_beach.html
Michael Engel
1) Mearsk CEO : the global trade is rising.
2) Panama canal new 3rd lane targeting Europe and eastern US, compete with DJT & Cass R/R.


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