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Q: How to get Mobile data status in iPhone when WiFi is ON Currently i am working on an iPhone Application which needs to display the mobile data status(ON/OFF). For network check im using Reachability class but it is giving me correct result when any one of the networks are enable i.e WiFi/Mobile Data, but if both are enable it is giving Wifi status, but my requirement is i just need to mobile data status also.
It would be great if anyone suggest me solution.
Thankq

A: Set some logic , like check , if network is connected to Wifi or Cellular-data , and then set your code in cellular data.
Reachability *reachability = [Reachability reachabilityForInternetConnection];
[reachability startNotifier];

NetworkStatus status = [reachability currentReachabilityStatus];
if(status == NotReachable)
{
    //No internet
}
else if (status == ReachableViaWiFi)
{
    //WiFi
}
else if (status == ReachableViaWWAN)
{
    //3G // Set your code here for cellular data
}

Find more detail on ios-detect-3g-or-wifi set according to your requirement.
Note :- I think when your iPhone is connected with wifi then it lefts cellular data automatically and if disconnect wifi then again connected with cellular data
Edit :- I am not sure but try this ,
if(status == NotReachable)
    {
        //No internet
    }
   else if (status == ReachableViaWWAN)
    {
        //3G // Set your code here for cellular data
       if (status == ReachableViaWiFi)
      {
        //WiFi // Keep Wifi and cellulardata both on.
      }
    }
    else if (status == ReachableViaWiFi)
    {
        //WiFi
    }

     else if (status == ReachableViaWWAN)
    {
      // keep status only cellularadat on
     }

A: Sadly, there seems to be no way to check that mobile data is turned on when WiFi is turned on. You can detect whether there is a WiFi connection, whether there is no WiFi connection but a mobile data connection, or whether there is no connection at all. But if there is a WiFi connection, there seems to be no way to detect whether there is a data connection as well.
Using the telephony classes, you can detect whether the device has a SIM card, and you can detect whether mobile data has been disabled in Settings for your application. You can not detect as far as I know whether mobile data is enabled for the whole device.
You can also not distinguish between Wifi turned off, WiFi turned on but no network nearby or selected, and Airplane mode turned on.

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Q: Deploying express server code as firebase cloud function for react app I have the following express server code which I would like to run as a firebase cloud function. However I have this error (page not found) POST https://vid-chat-app.web.app/video/token 404. What am I doing wrong here?
const config = require('./config');
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const pino = require('express-pino-logger')();
const { videoToken } = require('./tokens');

const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(pino);

const sendTokenResponse = (token, res) => {
  res.set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  res.send(
    JSON.stringify({
      token: token.toJwt()
    })
  );
};

app.post('/video/token', (req, res) => {
  const identity = req.body.identity;
  const room = req.body.room;
  const token = videoToken(identity, room, config);
  sendTokenResponse(token, res);
});

This is my attempt to do convert the code to a cloud function
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const config = require('./config');
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const pino = require('express-pino-logger')();
const { videoToken } = require('./tokens');

const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(pino);

const sendTokenResponse = (token, res) => {
  res.set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  res.send(
    JSON.stringify({
      token: token.toJwt()
    })
  );
};

app.post('/video/token', (req, res) => {
  const identity = req.body.identity;
  const room = req.body.room;
  const token = videoToken(identity, room, config);
  sendTokenResponse(token, res);
});

exports.app = functions.https.onRequest(app)

Here is the firebase.json file
{
  "hosting": {
    "public": "build",
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "/video/token",
        "destination": "app"
      },
      {
        "source": "**",
        "destination": "/index.html"
      }
    ]
  },
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      "npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"
    ],
    "source": "functions"
  }
}

And here is the api request in the react app
  const handleSubmit = useCallback(
    async event => {
      event.preventDefault();
      const data = await fetch('/video/token', {
        method: 'POST',
        body: JSON.stringify({
          identity: username,
          room: roomName
        }),
        headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        }
      }).then(res => res.json());
      setToken(data.token);
    },
    [roomName, username]
  );

UPDATE
I have edited part of the firebase.json file to
{
"source": "/video/token",
"function": "app"
},
That seems to work. I have created a test GET request and tested the address https://vid-chat-app.web.app/video/token on Postman. It works! However, I now have the following 500 error
Error: accountSid is required
    at new AccessToken (/srv/node_modules/twilio/lib/jwt/AccessToken.js:213:28)
    at generateToken (/srv/tokens.js:6:10)
    at videoToken (/srv/tokens.js:20:17)
    at app.get (/srv/index.js:32:17)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at next (/srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
    at Route.dispatch (/srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at /srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22
    at Function.process_params (/srv/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)

A: Try
app.post('/app', (req, res) => { ... })

since that's what the Cloud Functions URI would be if Hosting hadn't forwarded the request.
You could also try:
app.post('/app/video/token', (req, res) => { ... })


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It is in actuality a modified capacitor filter circuit (rectifier circuit) which makes a DC output voltage that is two or more than two times the AC peak input. In this section, we can look into full-wave voltage doubler, half-wave voltage doubler, voltage tripler and finally quadrupler.
The input wave form, circuit diagram and output waveform is shown in figure 1. Here, all through the positive half cycle, the forward biased D1 diode conducts and diode D2 will be in off condition. In this time, the capacitor (C1) charges to VSmax (peak 2o voltage). All through the negative half cycle, the forward biased D2 diode conducts and D1 diode will be in off condition. In this time C2 will start charging.
Throughout the next positive half cycle, D2 is at reversed biased condition (open circuited). In this time C2 capacitor gets discharged through the load and thus voltage across this capacitor gets dropped.
But when there is no load across this capacitor, then both the capacitors will be at charged condition. That is C1 is charged to VSmax and C2 is charged to 2VSmax. Throughout the negative half cycle the C2 gets charged yet again (2VSmax). In the next half cycle, a half wave which is filtered by means of capacitor filter is obtained across the capacitor C2. Here, ripple frequency is same as the signal frequency. The DC output voltage of the order of 3kV can be obtained from this circuit.
The input waveform of full-wave voltage doubler is shown below.
We can see that, both the half-wave and full-wave voltage doubler will give 2VS MAX as output. It does not require any centre-tapped transformer. The peak inverse voltage rating of diodes will be equal to 2VS MAX. When compared to half wave voltage doubler, the full-wave voltage doubler can simply filter high frequency ripples and output ripple frequency will be equal to twice the supply frequency. But the problem in full-wave voltage doubler is that; in between the input and output, the common ground is absent.
Using the method of extension of half-wave voltage doubler circuit, any voltage multipliers (Tripler, Quadrupler etc) can be created. When both the capacitor leakage and load are small, we can achieve tremendously high DC voltages by means of these circuits that include several sections to step-up (increase) the DC voltage.
Here; all through the first positive and negative half cycle is same as that of half-wave voltage doubler. Throughout the next positive half cycle, D1 and D3 conducts and C3 charges to 2VSmax. Throughout the next negative half cycle, D2 and D4 conducts and C4 charges to 2VSmax. When more diodes and capacitors are added, every capacitor will get charged to 2VSmax. At the output; odd multiples of VSmax can be attained, if measured from the top of transformer 2o winding and even multiples of VSmax can be attained, if measured from bottom of 2owinding of transformer.
Cathode ray tubes in oscilloscope, Television receivers, Computer display.
And several other devices which involves low current and high voltage applications.


Biggleswade suffered another heavy defeat in the Beds League on Monday – this time a 5-0 whitewash at Bunyan 1.
Nathan Bascom at string four found his opponent John Wixted too strong and went down in straight games 3-0.
Rich Anthony at string three fared no better going down to his second consecutive 3-0 defeat against Julian Cooper.
Martin Wright at string five put a good fight and for the second week running his match went down to the final game.
Unfortunately for Biggleswade, Keith Browne for Bunyan clinched the final game 16-14 to win 3-2 and take the match for Bunyan.
Simon Gray at string two, lacking a bit of match fitness, was outplayed by Matt Towers and went down to a 3-0 defeat.
Last up was Biggleswade number one Dan Easton, fresh from his TV appearance on Ninja Warriors, however tonight he proved to be no warrior succumbing meekly to Will Montgomery in another 3-0 defeat.
Overall score Bunyan 1 5 (20) – Biggleswade 0 (2).
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HomeNewsVillas-Boas to stay on as Marseille coach
Andre Villas-Boas will return as Marseille coach for next season, the club announced on Monday, despite widespread reports the Portuguese was set to leave after just one year in charge.
"After several discussions in recent days with Frank McCourt and Jacques-Henri Eyraud, Andre Villas-Boas has confirmed that he wants to continue working with OM next season," the club told AFP.
Last week, Marseille offered Villas-Boas – whose existing deal runs until the end of next season – a two-year contract extension as doubts persisted over his future at the club following the departure of right-hand man and sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta.
Villas-Boas, 42, led former European champions Marseille to second place behind Paris Saint-Germain in the Ligue 1 season which was ended early because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Marseille, who are owned by American tycoon Frank McCourt, are therefore set to feature in the Champions League next season for the first time since 2013/14.
However, the former Porto, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur coach has expressed concern about the club's ability to invest in new signings for next season.
Confirmation that Villas-Boas – who is popular with Marseille fans – will remain in charge came just hours after supporters groups castigated the board for what they called "years of ruinous management".
Fans criticised the system of refunds for seat-holders deprived of matches after the season ended prematurely. One option proposed by the club was for ticket holders to forgo a refund and donate the money instead to help its finances.
"It seemed logical to us a month ago to give this money to the club to help it through a difficult period," the fans wrote in a joint statement.
"However, information since then has led us to question this. It's clear that we are in financial difficulty due to years of ruinous management.
"It's easy to ask for financial support from fans… while at the same time the president is incapable of overseeing a dressing room with astronomical salary claims."
Spending since former Los Angeles Dodgers owner McCourt bought the club in 2016 has been way beyond the limits set out in Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules.
They lost 91 million euros ($98 million) last season and that will be compounded by further losses this season, made worse by the coronavirus crisis.
Uefa announced in March that Marseille had been referred to the adjudicatory chamber of their Club Financial Control Body for not complying with an agreement to balance their books.
The club had already signed a "settlement agreement" which set out that Marseille would have to play with a reduced squad in their next European campaign and pay back up to four million euros of any prize money.
Now further sanctions are inevitable, with sports daily L'Equipe suggesting they could even be excluded from the next Champions League.
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Feb 15, 2019 | by Michelle Adams
Calabash is a consultancy firm that specializes in business process optimization solutions using low-code application platforms. Founded by operation management experts John Bratincevic and Matt Hubbard, the firm works with a variety of clients, from Fortune 5 companies to SMEs with 10-20 employees.
In 2018, Calabash teamed up with Kintone to expand its portfolio of services. Now, Calabash offers its clients the ability to empower their own teams by making them citizen developers. Citizen developers are users who can create and maintain their own business applications for personal or company workflow purposes.
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Michelle: John, Matt, it's a pleasure to talk with you. Tell me a little about yourselves and how Calabash came to be.
John: Matt and I have backgrounds in continuous improvement and process management. Matt was a quality engineer at Honda for 14 years, and I was a Lean solutions engineer at a logistics company.
We first met around seven years ago when we were both assigned to the same continuous improvement team. I was presenting on Lean project management, and after the presentation, Matt pulled me into a conference room and said "John, I think you're different." I replied "Don't touch me…"
That's a joke. But it was a little unnerving at first—Matt honed right in on me immediately.
But then we started talking and found we had a lot in common: we both had a passion for delivering excellence and helping people, goals we realized weren't the easiest to achieve in large corporate environments.
Michelle: How did Calabash come to embrace low code as part of its process?
John: Matt was looking for ways to error-proof business processes but found that traditional systems development took too long, were really expensive, and generally inflexible. That doesn't work for continuous improvement, you need to be able to change. A couple years before we met, he discovered low code and started using it for procurement processes. Then he introduced it to me and I began to use it in logistics. Then we started using low code for everything, and over time, we found this was something we could consult on. So we started moonlighting and did that for several years while trying to figure out our business.
Three years ago, we quit our day jobs and went full time with our work. And we've been Calabash ever since.
Michelle: Tell me about your goals. When it comes to your customers, what matters most?
John: We're advocates of excellence. It's our goal to figure out the genuine need of the customer, develop a concrete plan to meet that need, and then make sure that plan works so well it delivers the same desired results every time. I know it sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. We aim to produce as close to perfect quality as we can given the circumstances and where we are in the customer's journey. That's doing excellent work and that's what we prioritize at Calabash.
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Michelle: How does continuous improvement come into play with what you do?
John: Continuous improvement includes the belief that quality is number one and having defects—and treating them like they're a regular part of your process—is terrible. It's amazing, but most of the world operates on the idea that process failures are normal. People are accustomed to muscling through much of their jobs to get what they need. But it doesn't have to be this way. It absolutely doesn't have to be.
Michelle: How do you convey this mentality to your customers?
Matt: So when we approach our customers, the first thing we will do is try to determine what problem we are trying to solve. We're not here just to sell you software. What problem is the software going to solve?
John: This is our craft, and we love it, and we're honored to help people with it because we think it's going to make a difference.
Matt: People often start with a problem statement or tell us where their business is hurting. But what they point to isn't always the root problem, often it's a symptom of something larger. The fact of the matter is, though, if you don't address the underlying problems and have a plan for those, no amount of band-aids on the symptoms will last. That's where these "muscle through" moments occur. The core problem hasn't been addressed and so the solution isn't really a true solution, and it breaks.
Our specialty is helping people develop a problem solving process for their business, and then to use Kintone as the platform on which to execute that plan.
Michelle: Why did you choose Kintone as your platform to execute on?
John: Our decision to work with Kintone started with the Kintone team. I attended your Kintone Connect conference last year and basically came back and told Matt, "Yep, they're all good guys." And Matt said, "Okay, how do we go to the next step with them?"
So that's how we started using Kintone, because we saw you guys over the years, I went to the conference because I had a very good feeling about Kintone's team culture. After that, we reached out and confirmed that you were the kind of people we wanted to work with.
From there, we looked at how the platform fit our needs. One of our biggest goals in choosing a platform was finding one that promoted citizen developers. Kintone does that really well. One of Kintone's greatest strengths is that it's so easy to pick up and learn. That makes it a powerful resource for a business team. In business, we almost always try to develop a solution that includes a citizen developer angle because we are about helping empower teams to solve their own problems.
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Michelle: Why are citizen developers so critical to developing an effective business process?
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One of the principles in Lean is that employees should improve their own work and their own processes to solve their own problems. That's what citizen development is about: making apps yourself, improving your own work, your own department, your process, or whatever is important to you. It's about giving people the power to really improve the hundreds of processes that are the guts of a company—and to do it digitally, with apps.
In the tech world we constantly hear the phrase "Digital Transformation," which is the idea of companies using tech to solve problems. But often when people talk about Digital Transformation they forget to focus on the individuals, even though that's where real transformation actually happens. In the Lean world we talk a lot about "Lean Transformation" instead, which focuses more on the people aspect of transforming. We pay attention to involving every person in the company and creating a "problem solving culture" rather than focusing exclusively on technology.
My vision for companies is that someday every employee, when they start, gets their computer with Microsoft Office Suite on it and whatever other software tools they need, as well as a developer license to develop low-code applications that they are trained on how to use. And that's just part of how everyone does business.
I like to tell executives my story about becoming a citizen developer and the problems I started solving with low code from the very beginning and how powerful it was, and how the lightbulb went off in my head, thinking, Wow, nothing is withheld from me! Then I said to myself Imagine if you had dozens of people like me running around? From there I began to wonder what it would be like if everyone in a company could do this. I mean, that's genuine transformation!
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Sometimes people assume we can only work with a particular industry, but we're actually quite diverse. The thing is, while industries look vastly different on the outside, the business processes—both the good and bad—are incredibly similar between them. That's what gives us the ability to work with anyone.
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Good Samaritan Exits Rolling Vehicle To Help Dog Under Attack By Bobcat! [VIDEO]
19 Jul, 2017 by	Margaret M.
A video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday has been making the rounds with its quick bobcat-on-German-Shepherd-on-man fight.
When a bobcat in Arizona started attacking a dog, a bystander named Jason Garrido jumped out of his car to go help, leaving his car in gear. The video is being filmed by the man who ran after Garrido's car, having jumped into it to put it in park, as he approaches the group of men, complete with dog and bobcat, as Jason swings the bobcat around and prys it off of his now-bleeding hand.
The bobcat ran away, but with others shouting to call 911, we can assume he was picked up shortly in an ambulance to be treated.
In responding to The Conservative Tribune:
…Garrido said that it was indicative of how people in his community help each other out.
"It all happened too fast, I just told the other men that most people would just drive by, and the reason I love Anthem is the community is there for each other," Garrido said.
Comments on the video show some divided opinions on whether Garrido should've bothered to get involved at all, since it was a dog who was in danger and not a human, and because he exited his car so quickly that he left it to drift off down the street by itself:
"this is why you don't f**k with bobcats. kick it, hit it with a club, but don't grab it. what a dumb a**."
"I agree. I applaud his actions, but personally, I'd have done my best Ray Finkel impression and punted him. Bare hands? Nope! Kind of disappointed in the GSD as well. What would his fur missile brothers think of him getting shredded by a kitty?"
"and this is what happens when you drive out the wildlife by building eveywhere you can."
You can watch the video here:
Margaret M.
Internet Specialist at Warfare Media.
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The Masters: Woods proud of response following 12th-hole nightmare
Tiger Woods imploded in remarkable fashion on the 12th hole at Augusta on Sunday, but the five-time Masters champion was proud of his response to the setback.
Woods – who triumphed at Augusta in 2019 – fell apart on the par-three hole at Rae's Creek during his final round, shooting a 10.
The 15-time major winner's tee shot bounced back into the water and a wedge from the resultant drop also found the drink.
Woods' then landed his next shot into a bunker, before his subsequent attempt out of the sand sailed over the green and back into the water for a third time.
He regained his composure to finish with two putts, though the damage was already done as he slipped to four over par.
However, Woods hit back to shoot five birdies over his last six holes, ensuring he ended his tournament by signing for a score of 76, leaving him at one under.
"That's part of our sport," Woods told reporters. "This sport is awfully lonely sometimes.
"You have to fight it. No one is going to bring you off the mound or call in a sub. You have to fight through it.
"That's what makes this game so unique and so difficult mentally. We've all been there, unfortunately. I've been there and you just have to turn around and figure out the next shot, and I was able to do that coming home."
Explaining his error-strewn effort on the 12th, Woods added: "Well, I committed to the wrong wind.
"The wind was off the right for the first two guys, and then when I stepped up there, it switched to howling off the left, and the flag on 11 was howling off the left.
"I didn't commit to the wind, and I also got ahead of it and pushed it, too, because I thought the wind would come more off the right and it was off the left, and that just started the problem from there.
"From there I hit a lot more shots and had a lot more experiences there in Rae's Creek, and then this is unlike any other sport in which you're so alone out there and you have to figure it out and you have to fight and no one is going to pull you off the bump and you just have to figure it out."
Woods finished 19 strokes behind winner Dustin Johnson, who capped a supreme performance with a fourth-round 68 to finish on 20 under, the first player to reach that number in Masters history.


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UB40 FEAT. ALI, ASTRO & MICKEY – SPECIAL GUESTS ANNOUNCED
Aug 16, 2018 | News
UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey return down under for their 40th Anniversary Tour next January and have announced a massive line-up of special guests joining them to celebrate.
Supergroup, the MARLEY NZ ALL STARS are confirmed as special guests for all shows except Church Rd. This mega cast of NZ musicians includes Tiki Taane, Laughton Kora, Warren Maxwell* as well as members of Katchafire, Kora, L.A.B plus vocalists Annie Crummer*, Ria Hall, Anna Coddington and Boh Runga*.
They will perform their highly-acclaimed celebration of Bob Marley, which sold out venues across NZ and Australia in recent months.
TIKI TAANE is possibly one of the country's most well-known and diverse artists and considered a pioneer in the NZ music scene. The frontman of leading band Salmonella Dub, he embarked on his solo career in 2007 and has been firing up audiences with his powerful live performances and much-loved anthems.Tiki Taane will perform his 'one man band' show at the Church Road Winery show in Napier.
OPSHOP burst on to the NZ music scene in 2004 and they quickly became one of the most-loved rock acts of the generation. Their debut album sold Platinum, while the second went 3x Platinum and the third and final album also hit #1. With multiple power tunes such as 'Big Energy in Little Spaces', 'No Ordinary Thing', 'Love Will Always Win', 'One Day' and 'Maybe', plus multiple awards and accolades, we are excited to confirm the boys have been enticed out of their 'hiatus' to join us in Napier, Nelson and Christchurch.
Reggae By The River festival-goers at Waitangi are in for some extra special additions to the bill, with British reggae star MAXI PRIEST and the return of local Northland heroes, 1814 adding to the festival flavor.
With 2019 marking 40 years since UB40 first performed live, the reggae icons will be celebrating with a 'greatest hits' set that features global smashes including 'Red Red Wine', 'Cherry Oh Baby', 'Rat In Mi Kitchen' and 'Kingston Town'. Ali, Astro & Mickey will be joined on-stage by their incredible eight-piece band.
Tickets for all dates are on sale now and all details and ticket links can be found at www.ub40.nz
THE BREEZE presents: UB40 FT ALI, ASTRO & MICKEY – THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
FRIDAY 25 JANUARY – CHURCH ROAD, NAPIER
with special guests TIKI TAANE & OPSHOP
SATURDAY 26 JANUARY – REGGAE BY THE RIVER, WAITANGI,
with special guests MARLEY NZ ALL STARS, MAXI PRIEST & 1814
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Bubble 3.0: How Did We Get Here? (Part II)
By David Hay June 8, 2018 Evergreen Virtual Advisor - Evergreen
"The problem is a moral hazard. If the Fed responds when markets turn down but doesn't suppress exuberance when market are up, private actors will have an incentive to take on more risk than they otherwise would."
-DANIELLE DIMARTINO BOOTH, regular guest on CNBC, former senior advisor to ex-Dallas Fed president Dick Fisher, and author of Fed Up
The ongoing EVA series with excerpts from my upcoming book (tentatively titled "Bubble 3.0, How Central Banks Created the Next Financial Crisis") is getting a lot of attention from clients and readers. Depending on which camp people sit in – see-no-trouble bull or too-lightly-invested bear – the responses either strike a dispiriting or encouraging tone.
However, regardless of pro or con feedback, I feel compelled to continue to write on with conviction that we are currently in the midst of the Biggest Bubble Ever (BBE). And, as I'll cover in a future chapter, I believe the evidence is persuasive that it's also the LBE—Longest Bubble Ever.
If you are just joining us in the middle of this ongoing series – which will culminate in a full-length publication – please take a few moments to review the prior installments in the series:
Bubble 3.0: How Did We Get Here (Part I) (June 1st, 2018)
For those continuing on with us in our journey to inspect and dissect the BBE, we will be moving on with Part II of last week's chapter by completing our examination of the two most recent bubbles and busts. This is much more than an academic exercise. The crucial point is how the reaction to those disasters has now pushed the major asset classes—stocks, bonds, and real estate—to their highest collective valuation in history, leaving us exposed to yet another painful return to reality.
As the "Roaring '90s" came to a close, and the calendar (and computers) flipped over into a new century and millennium, tech stocks displayed no evidence of suffering an early-year hangover. Y2K turned out to be a non-event and the Nasdaq kept rocketing. By early March of 2000, the "NAZ" was up another 24% (or at about a 208% annualized rate), bringing its surge from the lows of the 1998 Asian crisis trough to a mind-blowing 257%. Incredibly, this monster move occurred in less than a year-and-a-half. Then, virtually overnight, the tech world shifted on its axis.
There are typically multiple pin thrusts that puncture a bubble as immense as the one created by the tech/internet mania and this explosive deflation was no exception. The first prick was, in hindsight, the failure of several new issues by dot.com entities. Even as early as April, 2000, the 149 initial public offerings (IPOs) that had already occurred so far that year were down an average of 45% from their first-day close (though this was typically up, sometimes considerably, from the IPO price). Suddenly, the initial public offering (IPO) market was no longer a gullible supplier of limitless funding—not to mention a fabulously lucrative exit strategy for the original investors.
The shockwaves reverberated quickly through the start-up ecosystem. With the IPO market on its heels, venture capital-types became increasingly choosy about which business plans they would finance. The torrent of money that had been sloshing through Silicon Valley and Seattle stopped almost as if someone had closed the gates of a giant sluice. As always occurs when a boom goes bust, the losses came fast and furiously. By the summer of 2000, the Nasdaq was down an ulcer-producing 35%.
Another factor behind the plunge, ironically, was good news about Y2K. The uneventful transition removed the Fed's rationale for not hiking rates further to cool off the ripping economy and equity markets, at least when it came to tech and certain blue-chip growth stocks. (As an interesting side note, most stocks peaked in early 1998 and value issues in particular entered into a stealth bear market that lasted for roughly two years.) In January of 2000, the Fed hiked its overnight rate to 5.75% (yes, those were the days when holding cash wasn't penalized; in fact, it was earning a net-of-inflation yield of 2%).
This would prove to be the first of seven tightening moves the Fed initiated from mid-1999 through mid-2000. Despite the accelerating tech meltdown, the Fed hiked again in June, 2000, pushing the fed funds rate up to nearly 6 1/2%. With inflation running at 3 ½% that year, the real return on money market-type accounts rose to roughly 3%. In those days, cash was definitely not trash and this obviously posed a competitive threat to the stock market—especially once the thrilling gains had turned into chilling losses.
As 2000 came to a close – and what would turn out to be the world-shaking year of 2001 began – hopes were high that the worst was over in tech land. This seemed a reasonable conclusion given that the Nasdaq finished 2000 down a stunning 61.2%! Yet, unfortunately, for all those true believers in the glorious future for the internet and high-technology (of which there were legions), the carnage in tech intensified.
Even prior to the horrific events on September 11th, 2001, the Nasdaq fell another 31.2%, leaving it down 66% from its March 2000, apex, before a feeble rally occurred that summer. The utter nightmare of the 9/11 terrorist attacks—which would reverberate around the planet for years to come (and still does)—only intensified the tech devastation. From the peak of the summer bounce to the post-9/11 low, the Nasdaq melted by another 35%, before a vigorous year-end recovery erased most of the losses caused by the 9/11 panic. Regardless, for all of 2001 the Nasdaq had swooned an additional 20.8%, on top of the 61.2% shellacking in 2000. Once again, many assumed the worst was over. They were once again wrong.
Notwithstanding some rousing rallies during the two and a half year bear market in almost all things tech, once the "NAZ" finally hit bottom in the fourth quarter of 2002, it had fallen from 5000 to 1100, a monstrous contraction of 78%. Not since the Great Depression, when thousands of banks failed and America looked to be on the brink of sheer collapse and/or a social revolution, had a major index declined by this magnitude.
The Fed's earlier unwillingness to put out the raging speculative fire by raising margin requirements had come back to haunt it—and the world—as nearly all stocks markets were ferociously mauled. Alan Greenspan's "Maestro" reputation was in serious jeopardy and his failure to follow-through on his 1996 "irrational exuberance" message was widely criticized. The Greenspan-led Fed then proceeded to make a difficult situation much, much worse.
With hysterical pressure from high-profile sources, especially the New York Times' Paul Krugman (who, in 2008, ironically, would win a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography), the Fed kept cutting its overnight rate until it got down to the unheard of level of 1% by June, 2003. Despite the fact that the US economy only endured a mild recession in 2001—most remarkable given the twin shocks of the tech bust and September 11th—Mr. Krugman literally begged for the Fed to create another bubble. Intentionally or not, Mr. Greenspan and his esteemed colleagues at the Federal Reserve Board—which included future Fed chairman Ben Bernanke—did exactly that.
Even as the US bounced back from its technical recession (GDP actually rose 1% in 2001 and 1.8% in 2002, despite the tech crash and the terrorist attacks), the Fed left its overnight rate at 1% through May of 2004. This negligible cost of short-term money further inflamed an already red-hot housing market. With adjustable rate loans (ARMs) becoming all the rage, in order to fully exploit the collapse in short-term interest rates, the stage was set for lift-off into the bubblesphere.
Source: Bloomberg, Evergreen Gavekal (as of June 7, 2018)
It was at this point that both the mortgage industry and Wall Street formed the unholy alliance that would become immortalized in Michael Lewis' blockbuster chronicle of this era, "The Big Short". Mortgage originators were lavishly incentivized through their cornucopia of fees to extend credit to nearly anyone who could fog a mirror. Unlike in by-gone days when traditional banks and S&Ls would create loans and often hold them on their balance sheet (thereby, ensuring a fair degree of prudence), the new breed of "originate and securitize" mortgage players had no residual skin in the game. By securitizing (i.e., bundling a large number of mortgage into a package and selling them to Wall Street), the originator off-loaded the credit risk. Ergo, a tremendous moral hazard was created at the initial level where the loan was created.
The next moral hazard was Wall Street (I know, what a shock!). Its clients, both institutional and retail, were clamoring for yield. As usual, The Street was thrilled to comply—and supply. After all, it had only been a couple of years earlier when savers and investors were earning 6 ½% on cash (and longer-term investment grade corporate bonds and preferred stocks were yielding 8% to 9%). In what was to be a sneak preview of the conditions that would last for so many years in the following decade (what this book refers to as Bubble 3.0), Wall Street showed extraordinary ingenuity in creating vehicles to satisfy the ferocious appetite for yield. It began to create CDOs by the droves, those securities more formally known as Collateralized Debt Obligations that would be at the epicenter of the coming 9.0 planetary financial earthquake. Increasingly, these CDOs were populated by the subsequently notorious sub-prime mortgages. Why? Because of their lofty yields and, incredibly, as we will see in a moment, their perceived low-risk.
To that point, and next up on the moral hazard list, were the rating agencies. Entities such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's (the Big Two, with Fitch's a distant third), were compensated not by the buyers of the securities they rated but by the issuers—meaning the Wall Street underwriting machine. To reprise a quote from the start of this book by Warren Buffett's long-time partner, Charlie Munger, "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." In this case, the outcome was a steady stream of AAA-ratings on mortgage securitizations comprised totally of sub-prime loans. The logic, such as it was, for this seemingly absurd alchemy of turning junk into gilt-edged securities had to do with the supposed magic of "tranching".
In plain language, this meant that a given pool of dodgy mortgages was sliced into pieces from the most- to the least-protected. It also meant that once the inevitable defaults began to roll in during the next recession, the lowest-rated tranches would take the first hits. Considering the increasingly toxic credit characteristics of mortgage lending during that era--"Liar's" and "Ninja" (No Income, no job…no problem) loans, and negative amortization mortgages, plus the very widespread use of ARMs)--it didn't take a financial wizard to realize it wouldn't require much of an economic downturn to totally nuke the riskiest tranche. But that wasn't to be the big surprise of this egregious example of mass greed.
One could make the argument that the rating agencies' failure to do its job was the most indefensible. After all, the mortgage industry is in the business of making and selling as many loans as the markets and the regulators (more on them shortly) would allow. The same is true with Wall Street. But the rating agencies are supposed to be the safeguard, warning professional and amateur investors if securities are high risk—or has the potential to be under adverse conditions.
Certainly, in the past, the assumption was that if a security was rated AAA, as so many of the sub-prime CDOs were, that it could withstand even a serious recession. In fact, it was common for a very high- grade debt instrument to actually rise in value during tough times, the well-known flight-to-quality phenomenon. But, regardless, the belief was that they should at least hold their own during hard times, as they had during the 1930s. The crisis of 2008 shattered that precedent.
The operating assumption in bestowing a AAA-rating on sub-prime CDOs was that the home default experience would be similar to past down-cycles. Few, other than the cranky renegades who were to become stars of "The Big Short", were connecting the dots between incredibly lax and reckless mortgage underwriting, home prices that were the furthest above their trend-line in history, and, as a result, affordability that was off-the-charts awful.
In his after-the-crisis apologia, Alan Greenspan would muse that it shocked him how financial institutions could have been so imprudent (despite the fact that history was loaded with recurring examples of exactly such imprudence). He had also assumed that securitization was a good thing as the leveraged banking and lending system was off-loading its credit risks to entities like mutual funds who typically were cash buyers. What he somehow missed was that the banks' investment departments were as furiously accumulating these "securities" as their mortgage divisions were disposing of them.
Meanwhile, regulators like the SEC, the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency, were in a deep-REM slumber. Nothing was done to slow down, much less stop, the craziness. It wasn't like they couldn't see what was happening with home values and mortgage debt. The numbers were hiding right there in plain sight.
The New York Fed, given its proximity to Wall Street, should have been in its grill, pushing back vigorously on the blatant shenanigans. Instead its president (and future Treasury Secretary) Timothy Geithner gave a speech in 2006, close to the top of mania in which he said: "You are meeting at a time of significant confidence in the strength of the global economy and in the overall health of the financial system…the core of the US financial system is stronger than it has been in some time. Capital levels are higher and earnings stronger and more diversified…We have seen substantial improvements in risk management practice and in internal controls over the past decade."
The fact that Mr. Geithner could be appointed Treasury Secretary AFTER the crisis that he had no clue was brewing, and it had morphed into the worst financial panic since the 1930s, is certainly testament to the inherent job security in working for the government. But it is stunning—and more than bit terrifying as an American–to think that just two years later, everything he had spoken turned out to be complete nonsense. (In a later chapter, we will examine similar language being used by senior Fed officials in recent years.)
Sadly, nearly all Wall Street strategists and money managers were oblivious or in total denial. (The smug portfolio manager portrayed in "The Big Short", who completely blew-off the concerns of the housing bears, has an uncanny resemblance to Legg Mason's former star, Bill Miller.) However, there were a few brave and insightful exceptions. My good friend Danielle DiMartino Booth, who is cheering me on as I write this book, was one of them. Danielle is the author of the critically acclaimed book "Fed Up" and was a senior advisor to the then-president of the Dallas Fed, Dick Fisher. As such, she had a courtside seat to the inner workings at our country's central bank during the lead up to the crash.
In her words, which she emailed to me this week, "In late 2006, after having written extensively on the potential for the housing bubble to unleash systemic risk across the global financial system, I arrived at the Fed just as home prices were beginning to crack. I was blown away by the calm and the blind acceptance of Alan Greenspan's misguided creed that the economic benefits of homeownership, regardless of buyer qualification, outweighed the financial stability consequences precious few within the Fed saw coming."
(Author's Note: Danielle just launched her new service, The Daily Feather, at only $25 per month, written by her team of insiders, analysts and thought leaders. These brief "dailies" are rich with deep understanding of how the Federal Reserve and worldwide central banks think and operate. Danielle and her associates have an extensive network of Wall Street heavy-weights feeding their team with unique insights. Please check out an example of the Daily Feather here.)
David Rosenberg, then chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch, and Pimco's Paul McCulley were other lonely voices of caution. This author had the privilege of hearing both of them speak at John Mauldin's Strategic Investment conference in the years leading up to the housing crash. It was a key reason why I began to repeatedly warn readers of this newsletter in 2006 and 2007 that housing posed a grave threat to markets and the economy.
The aforementioned lowest-rated slices (tranches) of sub-prime CDOs became the first—and worst—casualties of the housing bust. Most were wiped out during the first phase of the housing melt-down. But what was really shocking—and began to threaten the global banking system—was the utter collapse of the AAA-rated tranches.
By late 2008, many of these were trading at around 30 cents on the dollar, meaning holders who typically had purchased them at or around par were sitting on losses of 70%. Since many of the owners of these instruments were banks with thin amounts of equity capital (especially in the pre-crisis days), losses like this were life-threatening. Moreover, because these were AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities (MBS) vs traditional home loans, banks were only required to have 1.6% in reserves set aside vs. 4% for traditional "whole" mortgage loans. Obviously, the 1.6% reserve was just a tad on the light side.
Greatly compounding this debacle was a formerly obscure accounting rule that had been enacted in 1993, Financial Accounting Standard 115. It required financial institutions to use "fair value accounting", more popularly (or, by 2008, very unpopularly) known as "mark-to-market" accounting. In other words, banks and insurance companies were required to value their held assets at fair market value. From 1993 through 2007, this new rule didn't pose any serious problems (the banking industry was not a significant holder of tech stocks). But once the bottom fell out of the housing market in 2008, it quickly became catastrophic.
It soon became clear that the financial system was loaded with sub-prime CDOs and other derivative securities whose values had collapsed. Even traditional investment-grade bonds and preferred stocks, from companies such as Nordstrom and Comcast, plunged 20% to 40% as the planet was essentially engulfed in a global margin call.
NORDSTROM BONDS
COMCAST PREFERRED
With the new mark-to-mark rule requiring financial institutions to value these formerly low-risk assets at fire-sales prices, it became apparent than nearly all US banks and insurance companies were imperiled. Short sellers were circling even America's strongest financial entities. The more the panic intensified, the lower stocks and bonds went. It was a classic doom loop.
Lehman failed, as did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Washington Mutual. Massive insurer AIG was saved only due to a government rescue that effectively wiped out shareholders. It truly looked like no big bank or insurance company was safe.
During this terrifying time, in the fall of 2008, this newsletter repeatedly urged the Fed and/or the US treasury to borrow (note: not print) a huge sum—like $1 trillion--and then invest the proceeds in the open market in highly-rated corporate bonds and mortgages. Because T-bill rates had crashed to almost nothing, this was virtually free money and the yields the government would be securing were in the high single digits and often above 10%. As I argued at the time, the Fed would have made a killing, an opinion which future events proved out. It also would have almost certainly arrested the panic virtually overnight.
Instead, crucial terror-gripped months went by as the government clumsily rolled out TARP which initially did very little to restore confidence. The Fed, for sure, did some wise things like guaranteeing money market funds and that did lower the panic level. And it executed the trillion dollar intervention I had pleaded for, but it resorted to the aforementioned QE (creating the funds from its computers, initiating a series of these digital money fabrications that continues to this day in many countries). Further, instead of investing the trillion where it was needed most—and where yields were astounding and prices were crushed—it invested that immense sum in the most overpriced debt securities on the planet—US treasuries and government-guaranteed mortgages.
In spite of these splashy but clumsy efforts, it wasn't until the mark-to-market provision was defanged in mid-March of 2009 that markets began their spectacular rise from the ashes. This included bonds such as the Nordstrom's issue shown above which, by July 2009, was back at face value, providing a 58.6% return to those brave enough to buy into the teeth of the panic. In fact, for several years after the turn, securities such as those matched or even exceeded the returns from stocks. For investors intrepid enough to buy the debt securities from AIG at 10 cents on the dollar, the return over the next four years was 754%. (By the way, Evergreen was vehemently urging readers at the time to buy these types of corporate income securities.)
Even today, there are highly intelligent investment professionals who believe the government made a monstrous error by intervening. I do not count myself among them. Despite the ham-fisted way it was done, it worked and I shudder to think what would have happened had they not resorted to measures that no one would have dreamed of mere months earlier. It was truly a near-death experience for the world's financial system.
However, that does not exempt the Fed nor the government's regulatory bodies from the primary responsibility for the disaster that still haunts us today. By allowing bubbles to rise to astronomical heights without trying to cool down markets (raising margin requirements, tightening lending standards, requiring more capital to be held by banks, preserving the separation of underwriting and banking, to name a few), American policymakers blew it big time.
The multi-trillion dollar question is if they have learned from their past disastrous misjudgments and should investors trust in their assurances that the financial system is now safe and sane? We will only know for certain during the next bear market and/or panic. However, the rest of this book will attempt to provide a plausible answer—hopefully, before it's too late – to that most pressing of all questions.
David Hay
To contact Dave, email:
dhay@evergreengavekal.com
No changes this week.
Large-cap growth (during a deeper correction)
International developed markets (during a deeper correction)
Select blue chip oil stocks (as with MLPs, be selective given the magnitude of the recent rally)
Mexican stocks
Short euro ETF (due to the euro's weakness of late, refrain from initiating or adding to this short)
Short-term investment grade corporate bonds
Emerging stock markets, however a number of Asian developing markets, ex-India, appear undervalued
Emerging bond markets (dollar-based or hedged); local currency in a few select cases
Solar Yield Cos (taking partial profits on these)
Bonds denominated in renminbi trading in Hong Kong (dim sum bonds; neutral rating now due to the recent strength of China's currency)
Emerging market bonds (local currency)
Intermediate-term Treasury bonds (moving to "dislike" on longer bonds due to recent breakout above 3% on the 10-year T-note)
BB-rated corporate bonds (i.e., high-quality, high yield; in addition to rising rates, credit spreads look to be widening)
Bubble 3.0: How Did We Get Here? (Part I)
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This post is in conjunction with today's Fashion in Film Blogathon behing hosted by the lovely Angela at The Hollywood Revue!
She is instantly convinced that owning it will make her fella think her [euphemisms] are every bit as noteworthy as Lombard's.
And Hollywood, that eager opportunist, was ready to oblige.
Enter, stage left, a start-up by New York entrepreneur Bernard Waldman called Cinema Shops– a nationwide chain of retail outlets dedicated to bringing big-screen fashion to small town shops.
By the late 1930s, motion pictures were the most powerful influential means of communication the world had ever known. Itsexponential effects were, as of yet still incalculable, but its tremors deeply felt on an international scale.
An MGM short subject from 1940 entitled Hollywood: Style Center of the World does a succinct succint job of capturing this movement at its zenith. Before descending into an MGM parade of studio propaganda, it captures the very spirit of this fascinating—and never to be repeated—time in popular culture.
Mary needs a dress. So she drags Papa into the city and they both pause in front of the town's Cinema Shop.
Driving home its point is a montage of middle America fields of grain, waving against the superimposed image of a smartly dressed young lady. Now a country girl, the narrator assures, is every bit as fashionable as her Big City sisters.
And who do they have to thank? Hollywood.
For Hollywood is a factory town just like any other– be it Detroit or Milwaukee. Only the skilled laboreres in this town happen to be writers, musicians, actors and …artists.
Dilligently working with conte crayon and tablet to furnish the natural wonders of his studios' latest find.
Wouldn't it be great if stores like this still existed? I know after every major awards show, there are always designers eagerly waiting to copy the most sensational dresses, but I love that at one time, you could go to a store and buy those replicas. Thank you so much for your post!
I'm with Angela. I know people who would sell their soul for an affordable knock-off of any one of Grace Kelly's Rear Window costumes (I'm one of them). But no such stores.
And really, Mary? I know Joan Crawford is stylish but is that really the outfit you're going to wear on a date?
Oh my gosh, what a GREAT post! I had no idea there a whole, efficient industry organized,around bringing Hollywood fashion to gals from coast to coast. After reading your post it seems an obvious thing to do – another, more subtle way to get people hooked on the movies (like we ever needed any encouragement for *that*…!) – but I guess it's one of those aspects of modern life that get left in the past. Thanks for bringing it back!
Never realized what a big business that was. I agree with the first comment, "Wouldn't it be great if stores like this still existed?" The only thing is, I don't think most modern outfits are nearly as interesting as what was being designed in the 1930s. Not that those kind of outfits couldn't be designed, I just think a majority of people today are much more casual about their dress.
Great post Carley! And how about if Banana Republic started carrying a fashion line based on Mad Men? The iconic images of the movie stars would/could still sell. How about the subway grate Marilyn Monroe cream chiffon dress? And women are still looking for the Helen Rose designed halter top "Cat" dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (I show it in one of my blog posts). There was so much demand at the time for it that Rose started her own line. Thanks for the fun images from the fan magazines.
This was so interesting! I wish these were still around….except with old movies clothes, not whatever Hipster clothing Kristen Stewart and Leighton Meester are wearing haha.
I didn't know this is how it worked. I read in another article about the dress from Letty Lynton and how it sold something like 500,000-1 million copies of the dress. I thought, "Well how does that work out? Was it illegally copied?" Your blog post answered that for me!
I love the photos and fashion of old hollywood. I wish somebody would publish the covers of vintage Photoplays and the other covers of Old Hollywood fan magazines.


With youth baseball kicking off in the upcoming months across the country, there is an important change coming to helmets that you should know about.
Head protection is an essential topic of conversation in sports right now. With all the head injuries in hockey, football and other contact sports, the sport of baseball can sometimes get overlooked. However, the fact remains that every time a player steps to the plate wearing an improperly fitted helmet, there is a risk of injury. Rawlings Sports is looking to change that with its new RPR System.
The Rawlings Performance Rating "RPR" system for batting helmets was developed over the last three seasons at the company's state-of-the-art facility in St Louis. It all began with a request from Major League Baseball to make a better fitting, more protective helmet for Major League Baseball players. The Rawlings S100P was born, but even though the helmet could absorb up to a 100 miles per hour of impact, MLB players chose not to wear it as they felt it was more bulky and dense than their preferred model.
At the beginning of the 2013 season, Rawlings released its S100PC to the MLB market. This helmet design was brilliant, and it won the company a 2013 Edison Award for innovation. The S100PC was designed using carbon fiber for both the bill and shell of the helmet. The carbon fiber creates a stiffer design, which allows for more impact with less bulk. It was a total hit with Major League Baseball, and in 2013 the league and its players' association (MLBPA) mandated that all players wear the S100PC or S100P on the field of play. Minor league baseball also stepped up, mandating that all of its players wear the S100P on the field of play.
The reason this is so important is because it sends the message (and reminds us) that head injuries do not stop on the football field or hockey rink. They can happen anywhere. Ask Adam Greenberg, who lost his pro career after being hit in the head by a pitch. Rawlings is taking the steps to be the head protection experts and help limit the amount of head injuries on the diamond.
In 2014, the Rawlings RPR system is bringing safer and better fitting helmets to the baseball diamonds in your hometown. Rawlings has developed a baseball helmet line for youth, high-school & collegiate players that exceeds the current NOCSAE standards (which equates to a 68 mile-per-hour pitch speed). The new RPR-approved helmet line from Rawlings will feature helmets approved for pitch speeds up to 70, 80, 90, and even 100 mile-per-hour speeds. This new safety platform from Rawlings has spurred on the "KNOW YOUR SPEED" campaign, which communicates to players, coaches and parents that if you know the speed of opposing pitchers, you can purchase the helmet that matches your level of play.
As the official helmet of Major League Baseball & Baseball Canada, Rawlings is taking head protection very seriously. In 2010, Rawlings also brought a line of football helmets to market that brought industry-leading fit and protection to the football field.
Look for the new Rawlings RPR-approved helmets at a store near you, or check out www.rawlings.com for more information.


Guild Wars 2: Phoenix Weapons, New Faces, and More in the Gem Store!
It's another exciting week for the Black Lion Trading Company in Guild Wars 2. The Black Lion Trading Company offers a brand-new set of weapon skins, new faces in Total Makeover Kits, an adorable Mini Piglet, the return of the Bazaar Quaggan Mini Pack, and a Killstreak Experience Booster revamp!
New Faces in Total Makeover Kits!
The Total Makeover Kit was expanded with three new faces for every race and gender combination!
These brand-new Phoenix weapon skins are as elegant as they are intimidating! Phoenix skins can be bought from Black Lion Weapon Traders with claim tickets found in Black Lion Chests.
This little side of ambulatory bacon can be your forever friend! Remember, each spring mini is available for only one week, so you'll have to act quickly to adopt one of these Mini Piglets!
The Bazaar Quaggan Mini Pack is back for a limited time! Kookoochoo the Incredulous, Poowulpi the Persnicketous, and Peggellegg the "Pirate" are three daring quaggans with a hankering to see the world!
Killstreak Experience Boosters now last for an hour and provide a temporary XP bonus that stacks up to 100% as you kill more creatures. Killstreaks last 60 seconds from your most recent kill and can be restarted as often as necessary within the hour.
Remember that you can exchange gems and gold at the currency exchange on the second tab of the Black Lion Trading Company! Currently, you can get 1 gold for about 15 gems and 50 gold for about 670 gems!
Buy your Guild Wars 2 Gem Card Codes at Markee Dragon Game Codes!


The Dancing Waters Collection brings colorful mermaids and salty seas indoors perfect for your beach house. Dancing Waters is offered as a quilt set that includes one quilt and one or two pillow shams and is available in twin, full-queen and king sizes. The quilt and pillow shams feature a colorful and whimsical pattern of coral and swimming mermaids and reverses to a green and white pattern on a blue ground. We offer the Total Ensemble as shown on the bed.


The IPS Social Inclusion Policy Network is part of the renewed impetus to tackle the problem of inequality in Singapore. Its objectives are to gather experts, public intellectuals and social service practitioners on an on-going basis first, to unearth, examine and conduct applied policy research on social mobility, mixing and inclusion that is relevant to Singapore; and second, to catalyse practical forms of intervention as well as generate public policy recommendations to foster greater social inclusion.
The network will address these issues on three tracks, each headed up by a convener from IPS: Economy and the Workplace led by Dr Faizal Yahya; Education led by Dr Mathew Mathews; and Urban Planning and Housing led by Dr Leong Chan Hoong.
The inaugural meeting, held on Wednesday, 26 September, will gather the members of the policy network, and introduce to them the objectives of the policy network and its convenors, followed by a presentation on inequality and poverty in Singapore.
This will be followed by breakout sessions in which members will be grouped according to the track they select. Within these groups, members are welcome to share their research as well as concerns in their respective tracks of interest.
The aim of the meeting is for members of each group to discuss and propose an agenda for their respective tracks, in order to tackle and bring fresh insight to the specific issues of inequality and its manifestations in Singapore.
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U.S. WOMEN'S MID-AMATEUR
USGA to Relocate U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur From Quail Creek September 19, 2017 | Far Hills, N.J.
Due to damage from Hurricane Irma, the 31st U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur is being relocated from Quail Creek C.C. to a site to be determined. (USGA Museum)
U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Home
The 31st U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship, originally slated for Oct. 7-12 at Quail Creek Country Club in Naples, Fla., will be relocated to a new venue to be identified at a later date, the USGA announced Tuesday.
This follows last week's announcement that the championship would be postponed due to the impact of Hurricane Irma on the region, including extensive flooding and damage sustained by Quail Creek's course and clubhouse.
"Our thoughts continue to be with our good friends at Quail Creek, and with everyone affected by this storm as they continue to recover and rebuild," said Rachel Sadowski, U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship director. "The USGA remains committed to conducting this championship, and we are working diligently to secure a new venue that provides the ultimate test of golf for these exceptional athletes."
Players were notified via email Tuesday of the change. More information on a revised date and venue will be delivered as plans are solidified.
Adverse weather conditions have impacted the location of USGA championships in the past, but a postponement or course change has never occurred this close to the start of a championship.
In 1992, the Wailua Golf Course in Lihue, Hawaii, incurred damage from Hurricane Iniki. This damage caused the USGA to announce in 1993 that it would swap the 1995 U.S. Amateur Public Links, scheduled to be hosted by Wailua, with Stow Acres Country Club in Stow, Mass., which had initially been selected to host the 1996 championship.
It was also announced in 1993 that the 1994 U.S. Amateur Public Links would be hosted at Eagle Bend Golf Course in Bigfork, Mont., instead of Northgate Golf Club in Reno, Nev., which was forced to withdraw its invitation due to severe drought conditions that adversely affected the course.
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Rough Brothers was founded in 1932 as a maintenance and repair facility for greenhouses which were made out of redwood at the time. Over the last 85 years, Rough Brothers has evolved from a small workshop with a handful of employees to become the largest commercial greenhouse and garden center manufacturer in North America.
RBI's design and engineering capability is backed up by decades of experience and thousands of successfully completed projects. The dedicated and enthusiastic professionals at RBI will help ensure that the design, manufactured product, and completed construction yield a fully functional commercial production greenhouse, garden center, educational greenhouse, or conservatory.
Commercial Greenhouse, Conservatories, Greenhouse, and Retail Garden Center.


In NE Arkansas, Does Commercial Business Insurance Cover Payouts for Lawsuits?
In NE Arkansas, the agents of GTW Insurance can help business owners protect their companies from financial loss if a person files a lawsuit due to a defective product, slip and fall accident, or any other type of event in which their life has been dramatically affected. Commercial liability insurance will often pay for a complete investigation, the cost of attorney representation as well as payouts or settlement amounts. Each occurrence is considered an individual event and treated apart from other cases, even though they may have happened at the same time or in the same area.
There are instances in which a commercial liability policy will not pay out after a lawsuit. If the company is proven to be negligent, other sources of payment may have to be considered. Worker's Compensation claims are covered by Worker's Compensation insurance that is required by most states. If an event is considered to be an "intentional act," the insurance company may not cover any cost to the company. There are several types of commercial insurance policies that can be included with a traditional liability policy to protect a company from losses associated with a lawsuit, but they are considered separate and must be added accordingly.
The agents of GTW Insurance serve business owners throughout NE Arkansas. The licensed agents can answer questions, evaluate commercial policies that are already in place, and write new policies that bring the business up to date regarding amounts and types of coverage. Having the right combination of commercial insurance will protect a business no matter what type of event occurs, including lawsuits and other types of legal action.
You probably know that vehicle insurance is a necessity (and the law) and you also know that homeowners and business owners need insurance coverage, too. But did you know that even renters should have an insurance policy? It's true. While you are certainly not obligated legally to have renter's insurance, you really should consider it. If you are in the NE Arkansas area, you can contact GTW Insurance to learn more about the types of renter's insurance available.
As a renter, you only have so much protection when it comes to damage to your property. While you don't have to worry about replacing things like floors, windows or built-in appliances, as a renter, anything you own inside your apartment is your responsibility. If your furnishings or other belongings are damaged in a fire, for example, you alone are responsible for them. The same goes for theft.
In the event of a fire, for example, you'll have enough stress with having to relocate. On top of that, you'll need to replace your belongings. This may include your bed, couch, dining set, all dishes and cookware, all clothing and electronics. Think about that. You may not feel like you have much worth value, but ask yourself what it would cost to replace all of it?
Renters insurance covers things like theft and vandalism as well as damage caused by leaking pipes, falling trees, etc. Earthquake and flood are generally not covered by standard policies, so you'll have to double-check with your GTW Insurance expert.
Another good reason to get renter's insurance is liability. If someone gets injured in your home and you are found to be at fault in any way, your landlord may not be responsible. If you are responsible, the costs could be devastating. Renter's insurance can help cover you and give you peace of mind.
If you would like more information about renter's insurance in the NE Arkansas area, contact GTW Insurance today.


Away from established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a startup in the UK isn't always so clear. It's not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highlighting what some cities, which might not spring immediately to mind at the mention of 'startups', have to offer.
Remember when we said that we were touring the UK in no particular order? Well, we're going back to Scotland today to have a look at startup support in Aberdeen!
PS. startup support in Glasgow and startup support in Edinburgh are already complete.
Elevator offers co-working space for up to 20 startups, freelancers, or contractors in the Balmoral Hub in the city centre. This includes a fixed desk and 24/7 access for £150 + VAT per month.
46 Queens Road saves time by using its address as its name. It also offers flexibility in contract as well as hot desking for those just visiting. Benefits include meeting rooms, kitchen, and private offices if you need.
Desk@theD comprises of 20 hot desks and five fixed desks. Benefits include kitchen with free tea and coffee, quiet spaces, and they even boast included light and heat!
Centrum has an Aberdeen location, which offers co-working space and private offices, which is all-inclusive of video conference and presentation suite, meeting rooms, and showers. They also have what appears to be a weird inflatable igloo thing, so that's a plus.
ONE CodeBase will be opening in Q2 2019, a partnership between Opportunity North East (ONE) and CodeBase to deliver tech company growth and transformation in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, including co-working space offerings.
Naming themselves Aberdeen's leading business angel group, Aurora offers investment levels from £50k to £500k.
For further angel investment, you need look no further than LINC Scotland, a network of Scottish angel investors.
Scottish Enterprise has many ways of helping out starting and growing businesses, including access to funding and funding advice.
As always, we don't like to always encourage loans, but if you want to take that route, Business Loans Scotland is a good place to start, and is recommended by the Aberdeen City Council itself. They offer up to £100k for startups and SMEs.
Business Gateway can provide any stage of business in Aberdeen with free assistance and advice, as well as access to workshops and events.
As well as their co-working space mentioned earlier, Elevator runs an accelerator in Aberdeen, an intensive 12-week programme covering different entrepreneurial themes each week. Elevator takes no equity and there is no fee to participate in the accelerator. Elevator is a social enterprise dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs, business leaders, business owners.
The Data Lab has a hub in Aberdeen, and enables industry, public sector, and world-class university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Among many other things, this means annual data science festival DataFest, monthly data science and technology meetups, sandpit and workshop events, annual thought-leaders away-day, and a guest lecture series.
The Support for Aberdeenshire Business Scheme has a range of grants and loans. These include an up to £10k development grant and a job creation grant of up to £2k per job.
Run by the University of Aberdeen, the ABVenture Zone is an incubation space for new start-up and spin-out companies and is also a comfortable, collaborative working space with state-of-the-art equipment. It is particularly suitable for the development of ideas in the digital and IT sectors but is open to entrepreneurs targeting other sectors.


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All EGS members have borrowing rights to the University of Edinburgh library.
The University Library includes the EGS collection of periodicals and about two hundred books, ranging from Moon, Mars and Meteorites by Peter Adams to Dinosaurs from China by Dong Zhiming.
The EGS books have been purchased over the years, selected for their accessibility and interest to the membership and can be borrowed with the minimum of formality from their current location in the Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library in the King's Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh.
Our books and serials are managed by the University Library, and are accessible by holders of a University Library card. As a member of the EGS you are entitled to join the University Library, for free and you must do this in order to borrow EGS books. It entitles you to full use of the University Library.
The books in the EGS Library have been interfiled with the main Library earth science sequence. This follows the University Library's policy of interfiling deposited Society collections. There are positive benefits – the books are on open access and if you are browsing for a good read on a given subject, you only need to look in one place instead of two. All EGS-owned books can be easily identified from the bright pink dot that is placed on the spine and the EGS bookplate that is inserted on the inside front cover of the book.
Link to the University Library
How to Join the University Library
You can join the Library as follows:
Obtain a letter confirming that you are a member of the EGS from the Society's Membership Secretary – see Society Contacts.
Take the letter to any University Library and fill in the necessary Library application form. You will be issued with a Library Borrower's Card.
Remember, EGS membership entitles you to use most Edinburgh University libraries, not just the EGS library.
Click here for the library locations and opening times.
The Lyell Collection
EGS members have online access to the Scottish Journal of Geology, and the transactions of the Edinburgh and Glasgow geological societies via the Lyell Collection.
Click here for information on Access to the Lyell Collection
Our members' magazine is published twice a year, containing articles of general interest and book reviews.
All editions are available online here.
List of EGS Books in the University Library
List of EGS Books
The Laws of Edinburgh Geological Society


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Isleton – miasto w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w stanie Kalifornia, w hrabstwie Sacramento.

W Isleton urodził się Noriyuki Morita

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Chris Perdikos submitted this photo and caption.
After the Long Island Kingsmen folded in 1984, many members went to march as members of other corps. This photo of former Kingsmen was taken at the DCI East Finals in Allentown, Pa. in 1985.


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Make It Real è una canzone della band Hard rock/Heavy metal tedesca Scorpions inserita nell'album Animal Magnetism e pubblicato nel 1980 con etichetta EMI.

Scritta dal chitarrista Rudolf Schenker e dal batterista Herman Rarebell, è una canzone grintosa e ben supportata dal duetto di chitarre che si alternano nella maniera tipica dei primi anni '80. Il singolo, il secondo estratto dall'album, raggiunse la 72ª posizione in Gran Bretagna.

Tracce
 Make It Real (Schenker, Rarebell) - 3:49
 Hold Me Tight (Schenker, Meine, Rarebell) - 3:58

Formazione
 Klaus Meine - voce
 Rudolf Schenker - chitarra
 Matthias Jabs - chitarra
 Francis Buchholz - basso
 Herman Rarebell - batteria

Collegamenti esterni


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Le Concours international de piano Paloma O'Shea, également connu comme le Concours international de piano de Santander, est une prestigieuse compétition de piano qui a lieu à Santander tous les trois ans.
Il est ouvert à des jeunes pianistes de grand talent et a comme objectif de les faire connaître du grand public et de les aider dans leur carrière.
Fondé en 1972 comme Concours National, il est devenu international à sa seconde édition. Patronné par l'Infanta Margarita et un bon nombre d'entreprises privées, il est organisé par la Fondation Albéniz et porte le nom de sa fondatrice, la pianiste Paloma O'Shea. Il compte aussi sur l'appui de la Mairie de Santander et du Gouvernement de Cantabrie. Le concours organise des tournées mondiales pour les gagnants, y compris des débuts dans des salles comme l'Auditoire National de Musique à Madrid ou Wigmore Hall et prix en espèce.

Le concours
Dans l'actualité, on n'accepte que 20 pianistes pour participer dans la première phase du concours, après un exigeant processus de sélection. Dans l'édition 2018, 241 jeunes pianistes de 44 pays se sont inscrits. La compétition a pour base une phase de présélection (dont les épreuves ont lieu à Madrid, New York et Moscou), une phase de récitals, une autre de musique de chambre et une phase finale de deux grands concerts avec un orchestre symphonique.

Dans cette édition, la Finale aura lieu dans la Salle Argenta du Palais des Festivals de Cantabrie, dans le cadre du Festival International de Cantabrie. Les six pianistes sélectionnés seront là, accompagnés par l'Orchestre de RTVE sous la direction de Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, et ils pourront jouer un concert romantique ou moderne, selon leur préférence.
La remise des prix et l'acte de clôture aura lieu dans la même salle.

Artistes invités

Pendant les dernières phases du concours, les participants jouent avec des différents invités, ensembles de chambre et orchestres. Parmi les orchestres invités d'habitude se trouvent la Philharmonique de Londres et de Dresden, l'Orchestre national d'Espagne, la Symphonique de Madrid, Northern Sinfonia, l'Orchestre de musique de chambre d'Écosse, le quatuor Takacs et Ysayüe, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Vienne et les directeurs Philippe Entremont, Sergiu Comissiona et Jesús López Cobos.

La XIXème édition comptera avec la présence du quatuor Quiroga, l'Orchestre de RTVE et le directeur Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez.

Jury

Parmi les jurés d'autres éditions se trouvent Josep Colom, Gary Graffman, Federico Mompou, Vlado Perlemuter, Joaquín Achúcarro, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikita Magaloff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Hiroko Nakamura, Eliso Virsaladze, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Rafael Orozco, Philippe Entremont, Alicia de Larrocha et Dmitri Bashkirov.

Dans la prochaine édition, le jury sera composé par: le pianiste Joaquín Achúcarro (président), Samuel Holland et Jian Li (viceprésidents), Dimitri Alexeev, Akiko Ebi, Márta Gulyás, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Arie Vardi, Ian Yungwook You et Marco Zuccarini (jurées).

Lauréats

Liens externes
 Site officiel

Voir aussi
 Liste des concours internationaux de musique classique

Paloma O'Shea
Récompense musicale en Espagne
Musique espagnole
Santander


It's about that time in the New Year when those resolutions that seemed so exciting on January 1st, become much more difficult.
I don't know about you, but keeping resolutions is hard.
Exercising every day seemed much easier before actually having to do it right? Getting outdoors more sounded much more fun when the couch and television weren't calling my name.
Getting active is one of the most common New Year's resolutions, but one of the most difficult to maintain! If this is you, then this one may not be quite as difficult as you think. It's easy to stay active in Milly.
With the New Year just underway, it is not too late to get into healthy habits.
Milly is full of opportunities that will keep you excited about your New Year's resolutions-so excited that following through with your resolutions doesn't seem all too difficult.
One of my favorite ways to get some exercise and some fresh air is to head over to the Oconee River Greenway. Take a stroll around the trail, bring your bike and go for a ride, or even bring your friends for a game of frisbee!
Milly is known for its awesome biking trails. If you want to explore more, stop in to Oconee Outfitters, rent a bike and get to exploring! Because Milly is part of the Antebellum Trail, you have miles and miles of biking waiting for you. You can also ride over to Bartram Forest and ride the trails there. Bartram also has the best hammock trees, so if you want to rest and take in the scenery, bring your hammock and kick back!
If you are more a fan of the indoors, not to fear! Milly has two fantastic yoga studios that are a twist on the traditional gym workout.
Good Karma: Center for Yoga & the Healing Arts offers yoga classes for everyone from beginners to the most advanced yogis. If you want a more unique activity, they also offer drum circle and belly dancing classes.
Harmony Hot Yoga is another studio with experts who will help you find the yoga class that's right for you. If you want to work up a sweat, check out their hot yoga classes. If you want something fun and different, Harmony offers Aerial Yoga as well.
Getting active this year will be a breeze in a place like Milly!


1934 Ford Crazy Ben's Rat Rod 1:18 scale diecast car from GMP diecast in flat black with a red and black interior. This model car is part of the Pork Chop series and features suicide doors that open with the door handle, opening trunk to reveal the keg fuel cell, V-8, custom exhaust, tri-carb with aluminum stacks, vintage Stewart Warner gauges, custom satin black paint, white walls, two-tone bench seat, and long throw shifter with skull shift knob! Also has real metal rear leaf springs, white wall tires, custom suspension and big Buick brakes! Limited edition of 1000!


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