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The Woman Promoting Ayurvedic Wellness in Nepal
By:Rachel Jones
A client receives a flower-filled foot bath treatment. | © Moksha Ayurveda & Panchakarma Center
Dr. Padma Bajracharya graduated as an Ayurveda Doctor from Nepal's Trivuwan University and holds a postgraduate diploma in Panchakarma (PGDPK) from Haridwar, India. Four years ago—despite challenges resulting from the devastating 2015 earthquake—Dr. Padma co-founded Moksha Ayurveda & Panchakarma Center in Patan, just across the river from Kathmandu. As the center's Medical Director, Dr. Padma now uses her specialized knowledge of local medicinal plants and ancient healing modalities to provide a unique, holistic Ayurvedic wellness program that serves foreign tourists and local patients alike.
Unearth Women (UW): What first inspired you to study Ayurveda?
Dr. Padma Bajracharya (PB): I was always interested in botany, and when I thought about studying plants, I thought it would be better to do it focused on medicine. It was actually my father who always pushed me to study it—he knew there was a college where you could study Ayurveda. He gave me a choice and then I decided to explore it. I took the exam and luckily I got in, because there used to be only fifteen scholarship seats. At that time there was only one Ayurveda college in the whole of Nepal.
Ayurveda is a holistic approach and it's been around for 5,000 years—these things were practiced at that time, and so many are still applicable today. It may seem like outdated thing, but when you practice it you see the results. You can feel that something is there. We need Ayurveda for both the physical body and mind.
UW: What are some of the challenges you faced on your career path?
PB: It's difficult to convince people [about the benefits of Ayurveda]. The allopathic medicine system has been the go-to, and so Ayurveda still needs to find its place. Sometimes Ayurvedic medicine needs a little more time to take effect compared to the often immediate results of allopathic medicine.
Also, many people don't know that there's a college of Ayurveda, or that the opportunity to become an Ayurveda doctor exists. People assume it's traditional practitioners, who they see as very limited—so they think that the knowledge (in Ayurveda) is very limited as well.
Dr. Padma Bajracharya on the stairs outside of Moksha Ayurveda & Panchakarma Center | © Rachel Jones
UW: Tell me about how you founded the Moksha Ayurvedic and Panchakarma Center in Nepal?
PB: It was 2015, the year that we had the earthquake. The day that we had the earthquake, that was the day that we thought 'OK, now we're going to initiate the work.' We'd registered, and on that day we had interviews with potential employees who came from the nearby village. While en route to their interviews, the earthquake happened. Everything was shut down as a result of the earthquake, and other companies were cutting off their employees, but that was the time that we started our business. The therapists returned back home for a while, and then after that we began work.
UW: What is your advice to women keen to follow your career path?
PB: In every profession there are challenges, but you need to be confident in yourself, believe in yourself, and never hesitate to learn new things. I think you learn by experiencing things, so believe in yourself and just do your work with determination and everything will go well.
UW: Is there a woman in your life who has been a significant role model for you?
PB: I would say my mom, because we're five sisters and she used to be just a housewife taking care of us. Later on, she started working in her 40s. She learned to carve stone sculptures and hasn't stopped since. She founded a company that's a factory and generated more work for other women in Nepal. She has such courage to learn new things, while also taking good care of her home and family.
UW: What is the hope behind establishing the Moksha Ayurvedic and Panchakarma Center?
PB: Our motto is "Journey to blissful health," and that has two parts—the preventative and the curative. We're working on promoting the preventative aspect as well, and creating a healthier environment in our country. This is not only related to bodily health, but to the four dimensions of health, as we say in Ayurveda—body, mental, spiritual and sensory health all go together. We're also contributing to tourism, because we're focusing not only on local people but on foreign clients as well. We have many clients from Nepal, but slightly more from the foreign sector—it's probably about a 60/40 split right now. We're also looking to increase employment here in Nepal, especially following the 2015 earthquake.
Traditional Ayurvedic herbs | © Moksha Ayurveda & Panchakarma Center
UW: What are some ways women can benefit from Ayurvedic treatments?
PB: Because women—especially in Asian countries—are most often the ones handling their houses, if they're trained in knowledge about health then they can help the whole family to be healthier. We say that healing starts in the kitchen and so much of the medicine that we use can be found in our food, from spices to vegetables. By learning about Ayurveda, women are not only helping themselves, but also their families.
Spiritually, women are very sensitive, because they're often not only working, but then coming home from their job and also doing the housework. They're more sensitive and they need more pampering, which Ayurveda promotes with its holistic approach to health.
UW: How has your business changed over the years? What does the future look like for your business?
PB: We are seeing our yearly data and the number of clients we receive growing. The number of clients we receive from different countries has also been growing. We have clients from around 92 different countries.
In the future, we'd like to keep promoting health—especially now, with all of the stress, and how people's lifestyles have been impacting their health. We'd like to advocate for a healthier lifestyle—not only using medicine, but also with other aspects that could be done naturally. We'd like to have a healing center very near to nature. I think that this is what people need— so they can just get away from the busy life of the city, cut off all of the technology and feel more peaceful.
About Rachel Jones
Rachel is a freelance writer and perpetual nomad currently traveling in Nepal and India with her Venezuelan cat. She holds an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and has written for Time magazine, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. She also spent 1.5 years as a correspondent for The Associated Press in Caracas, Venezuela. Lately, she's been focusing on fiction, and enjoying the spaciousness, freedom and opportunity to discover new stories that come with living abroad.
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Markets Jump on Skyrocketing Hog Inventory
Sara Brown
This is highest June 1 inventory since estimates began in 1964.
( Jo Windmann )
Updated June 27, 2019, 5:02 pm.
There's no questioning the volatility in the hog complex as we consider all of the internal and external factors on prices—from lower exports and disease challenges to higher feed and grain prices. Still, nothing bearish jumped out of the latest USDA's Hogs and Pigs report, according to analysts.
Total inventory of hogs and pigs on June 1, 2019, was 75.5 million head, up 4% from June 1, 2018, and up 1% from March 1, 2019. This is highest June 1 inventory since estimates began in 1964.
Breeding inventory, 6.41 million head, was up 1% from last year and up 1% from the previous quarter.
Market hog inventory, 69.1 million head, was up 4% from last year, and up 1% from the previous quarter.
Download a PDF of the latest USDA Hogs and Pigs report here.
Looking at the weight breakdown of market hog inventory, of particular note was the 7½% increase in the number of pigs in the 180-lb. and over category compared to year ago levels, said Lee Schulz, associate professor of agricultural economics, Iowa State University. The number was three percentage points higher than pre-report expectations.
"When we dig back into where the revision showed up, I think it shows why such a larger 180 lb. and over [number]. The December 2018-February 2019 pig crop was increased 1.3% from the previous report. That's about 428,000 pigs more. And that came about because of more sows farrowing," he said. "That collectively contributed to a lot larger 180 lb. and over [category]. I think that very much matches the 9% increase in slaughter we've seen here in November. We are now accounting for those hogs."
Average analyst estimates put total inventory at 103% of last year as of June 1, reported Allendale, Inc. on AgWeb. Sows kept for breeding was estimated to be at 102.1% and kept for marketing at 103.1%.
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The March-May 2019 pig crop, at 34.2 million head, was up 4% from 2018. Sows farrowed during this period totaled 3.11 million head, up slightly from 2018.
The average pigs saved per litter was a record high 11 for the March-May period, compared to 10.63 last year. This is 3.5% higher and certainly one of the numbers market analysists were surprised by.
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The other surprise, Brown said, is looking at breeding inventory for June 1 on a state-by-state basis. Iowa was down 40,000 head, with Minnesota and North Carolina also being lower. "But those declines are being outweighed by what happened in states like Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota. And the "other" state category was also up 25,000 head," Brown said. "To me, that could suggest some increasing growth ahead."
In total, U.S. producers intend to farrow 3.18 million sows during the June-August 2019 quarter, down slightly from the actual farrowings during the same period in 2018, but up 3% from 2017.
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The Elements of A Restaurant Employment Agreement
A restaurant employment agreement is an employment contract that outlines the role of a new employee in your business and may protect how your restaurant is run.
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As a restaurant owner or operator, your job is to protect your business and your team.
An employment agreement is a document that outlines the rights, responsibilities, compensation, and restrictions of an employee.
Though similar in nature, employment agreements and job offer letters are not the same thing. Here's how they may be different .
A restaurant job offer letter is a summary of the position being offered to the job applicant, including the name of your business, their intended title, their start date, compensation, and any guaranteed employee benefits. Offer letters may be extended to anyone you've offered a position on staff, though most restaurants don't extend formal offer letters to hourly employees. We've included a customizable, restaurant job offer template below to help you get started off on the right foot.
A restaurant employment agreement is usually legally binding, details in full the obligations, expectations, compensation, and rights of the employee, and is typically reserved for higher-level employees who have authority over key business decisions and access to sensitive information about how the business is run.
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Which positions sometimes have an employment agreement and why
Why some restaurants have staff sign an employment agreement
What are some common pieces of an employment agreement
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Which Restaurant Positions Sometimes Have an Employment Agreement?
Employment agreements are typically extended to upper-level employees in a business. In a restaurant, these are typically employees who:
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Play a strategic role in developing and overseeing your day-to-day operations and processes
Know sensitive information about how your restaurant is run
Could potentially leave and re-hire your existing staff at another restaurant
With the above description in mind, the following common restaurant positions might warrant an employment agreement upon hiring:
District or regional manager
Kitchen manager
Front-of-house manager
There might be other employees who work in roles that expose them to sensitive information about how your restaurant is run, like a sous-chef, who you might want to consider having sign an employment contract, too.
In the restaurant industry, hourly employees in the restaurant — those working on the line, behind the bar, at the host stand, or on the floor — are sometimes given a job offer letter when they're extended an offer of employment, but not often. In most restaurants, the hiring manager will give a verbal offer, and then on the employees first day they're given a copy of the restaurant's employee handbook, which the new-hire is required to sign after reading.
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Depending on your business, having your more senior restaurant employees sign an employment agreement might be a way to look out for the health and wellbeing of your business while also respecting their rights as an employee.
Running a successful restaurant requires a team who's willing to lend their time, energy, and creativity to the cause.
Take your executive chef, for example, who's undoubtedly one of your most important hires. Your restaurant's executive chef is master and commander of your kitchen. They provide the creative genius to power your brand, delighting your guests night after night with dishes that are as appetizing to the stomach as they are to the eyes. The intrinsic role they play in developing and perfecting what is debatably your restaurant's most important and iconic asset may be grounds for a contract.
It's also common in the restaurant industry to see executive chefs pursue opportunities outside their current role to hone their craft, grow their personal brand, and expand into new profitable business ventures. A chef choosing to grow their personal brand outside the four walls of your restaurant may be grounds for a contract.
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What are the common elements of a restaurant employment agreement?
The following section is an overview of some of the content that typifies an employment agreement. It's provided for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal, employment, career, or other professional advice. Employment agreements and the processes around deciding what to include vary from business to business, so for detailed instructions and advice about how to approach creating a restaurant employment agreement, consult with your legal counsel directly for the most accurate information
A restaurant employment agreement should be unique to your restaurant, the position, and the role of the employee in your business.
In general, an employment agreement may include, among other things, provisions about:
The employee's role and responsibilities
The employee's compensation and potential bonuses
How they're expected to conduct themselves inside your business
Working for the competition
Causes for suspension, dismissal, or termination
1. Employee's name, title, and start date, and your restaurant's name.
This one's pretty self explanatory: Many employment agreements start with a simple sentence that includes the new employee's name, your restaurant's name, their position, and their start date.
2. Compensation
Typically, compensation or salary is first reflected as an annual lump sum, then broken down into the amount they're paid in a pay cycle. For example, if your employees are paid bi-weekly, you may want to explain in your agreement what the employee's annual salary is, and what they can expect to be paid on those pay dates.
3. Job description
Including a well-thought-out, detailed job description promotes transparency with your team from the start. By having a clear job description, there will be little room for ambiguity or confusion with respect to the expectations of your employee. This may make it easier to hold your employees accountable for outstanding work or when things go wrong.
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5. Causes for termination
In the majority of states, employees are considered "at-will," meaning they can resign and be fired at any time and for any reason (with a few exceptions, including terminations based on race, age, or gender). Senior employees, like a regional manager or general manager, will sometimes negotiate employment agreements so that they might only be fired for "cause" (i.e., for good reason).
6. Image & Publicity Terms
The rising popularity of celebrity chefs and mixologists has opened new doors for many executive chefs and bartenders around the country with entrepreneurial ambitions. It has also become a consideration for diners: When deciding where to eat, guests are not only interested in the menu but who's behind the menu.
The success of your restaurant can shine a spotlight on your executive chef or bar manager, and, alternatively, the existing popularity of a chef or bartender might propel your restaurant into the spotlight.
Since established chefs and bartenders have the ability to draw crowds, you may want to consider including provisions in your employment agreement that allow you to use the name and image of your chef or bartender in advertising and promotions for your restaurant, so long as the chef or bartender remains with your restaurant.
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Dodd-Frank No More?
By Danielle Balbi	December 1, 2016 12:08 pm
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President-elect Donald Trump has said a lot of things. But as far as the commercial real estate debt market is concerned, there's one thing he's said that could have a tremendous impact: overturning the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Effective July 21, 2010, and pushed forward by then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and then-Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, the federal law undoubtedly contains the most significant reforms to the financial services industry since the Great Depression.
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Chandan noted that if Dodd-Frank were to be repealed, there would need to be some sort of regulation to replace it. And if that's the case, the GOP is ready: Republican U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the current chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has backed the Financial CHOICE Act (Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs) as a replacement for the Dodd-Frank Act.
As Hensarling said in a speech at the Exchequer Club on Nov. 16, the Financial CHOICE Act would turn single-headed regulatory bodies—like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Housing Finance Agency—into bi-partisan agencies. The act would also require that Congress approve any major financial regulations before they can take effect, as well as end "too big to fail," which is one of the key ideas behind Dodd-Frank.
"Proponents of Dodd-Frank promised it would end 'too big to fail' [the theory that some financial institutions are so gargantuan that their failure would wreak havoc on the economy and therefore they must be supported by the government in the event of failure] and taxpayer-funded bailouts," Hensarling said. "But it did the exact opposite. Dodd-Frank writes 'too big to fail' and taxpayer-funded bailouts into law." (For his part, Frank disagrees with that assessment: "I'm astonished that people say that," Frank told CO back in July. "It would be illegal for any federal official, specifically the federal director of the Treasury, to step in and pay the debts of a failing institution without abolishing it.")
The solution, he said, is "bankruptcy, not bailouts." Learner noted that bankruptcy was not necessarily the lesser of two evils and pointed to Lehman Brothers, which took nearly four years to come out of official bankruptcy, not to mention the additional time it took liquidate all of the firm's assets.
"There are some 'good' parts of Dodd-Frank, so I think we should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater," Learner said. "Credit risk retention on mortgages and greater credit rating agency transparency are positive outcomes. It seems that one of Hensarling's major initiatives is to replace the 'orderly liquidation authority' or wind-down of banks with a bankruptcy process. However, the point of any financial regulation should be to eliminate the need for either a wind-down or bankruptcy; regulation should be about ways to help prevent us from getting there. It's as if a doctor is more concerned with managing a patient's final days than with his life while he's relatively healthy. I think it's too soon to tell how far Hensarling's proposal will go, but he will have the most receptive audience yet in the way of the executive and legislative branches."
While we have yet to hear if Trump will pursue Hensarling's bill, the potential end of Dodd-Frank will likely not come without a successor regulation. But even if there was not replacement, Republicans may not see the growth in the financial sector that they claim has been strangled by Dodd-Frank.
Chandan said that he wouldn't expect there to be "unbridled lending" merely because Dodd-Frank disappeared.
"Ultimately, every bank has to worry about its own health, longevity and function," he said. "Even if you were to strip away all new regulatory constraints, they may still find themselves [not originating a loan] on a high quality property because their own credit officers may say not to, out of a desire to preserve their own institution even if not concerned with overall financial instability."
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Q: Logit coefficients greater than 1? I am attempting to work out probability of sale (binary variable) via a logistic regression to deal with perfect predictors (separation). I am using a firthlogit command in Stata. When I run the command many of my coefficients are greater than 1, how can this be?
Some example coefficients would be: (coefficent, s.e)
WEEKEND |  -2.034167   1.231037
PRIME   |  -1.268926   1.233
FSQ1    |   6.531973   3.790429

A: firthlogit calculates a logistic regression model, for which the coefficients can take any value between -infinity and infinity, as the relation
$$
\frac{log(\mathbb{P}[Y=1])}{1-log(\mathbb{P}[Y=1])} = logit(Y_{1/0}) = \alpha + \beta_1 x_1+ ... + \beta_p x_p + \varepsilon
$$
applies here. Applying the logit transformation to the outcome is the same as applying the logarithm to the odds of outcome 1 vs. outcome 0 $Y_{1/0}$. In reverse, you apply the exponential function to your coefficients or intercept to receive the odds of the coefficient. For more detail, look here.


The Mad Magician stars Vincent Price as an inventor of magic tricks named Don Gallico who has had enough with other magicians getting the accolades for his inventions. Nervously, he has decided to not only create the illusions, but be the showman: Gallico the Great. Unfortunately for him, on the night of his first performance and the unveiling of his new buzz-saw trick, he is shut down by his boss, Ross Ormond. Turns out, Price signed a contract that gives Ormond ownership of "everything but the air" he breathes, which includes any and all inventions, specifically his new buzz-saw trick. Ormond refuses to release him from his contract and gives his inventions to a rival magician and business partner, The Great Rinaldi.
Compounding matters for Don is the fact that his ex-wife Claire (Eva Gabor) left him for Ormond because he couldn't support her high maintenance lifestyle. Not only has Ormond stolen all of Don's magic tricks, but he also caused Claire to leave him. Naturally, Don is a little pissed off and he takes it out on Ormond via his buzz saw blade. But that's not all there is to this story. There's a couple of subplots including a police officer investigating the mysterious deaths and a murder mystery writer who is hot on the trail of Don. See, Don's expertise isn't only in inventing magic tricks. He's also a master of disguise, able to make latex masks and prosthetics to look like anyone, and is able to mimic voices. Great stuff, right?
I thought this movie was great fun. Is it essentially the same film as House of Wax? Yes and no. You can really tell that Wilbur cut and pasted stuff directly from his Wax script into this, but it's still great to see Price do his thing. He really makes his character sympathetic at the beginning. When he finally cracks and murders Ormond (in Price's legendary overdramatic campy way), you're with him all the way. Good riddance! The ensuing scene is hilarious, and a bit suspenseful, as Price has to humorously find his bag (mistakenly grabbed by his assistant) that just so happens to have the severed head of Ormond in it before the police get their hands on it. Plus, seeing Price in various facial prosthetics never gets old.
Where the film stumbles is in the second half, where the plot slows way down and the focus is shifted from Price to the mystery writer who tries to help the cop discover Price's identity. There's some great stuff in here about the police chief not trusting this new-fangled "fingerprint technology" that is underrated, but it becomes a head scratcher when the seemingly intelligent cop can't seem to figure out that Price, well over 6 feet tall, is impersonating people much shorter than him. Did he not realize that his suspects were growing over a foot in a night?
The fact that I couldn't see this in 3-D is sad. As you'd expect, there are numerous shots of things coming straight towards the camera, but they look forced and silly when not viewing the film in its original context. Still, most of the 3-D shots, though obvious, fit within the context of the story. During one scene, Price is performing a magic show and he incorporates a water spraying wand that he shoots toward the audience. You won't find any yo-yo's bouncing repeatedly towards the screen for no apparent reason here.
I thought The Mad Magician was great and give it a high recommendation. In fact, I enjoyed it more than House of Wax and it's a great companion piece to that film. All of the acting is serviceable and you can tell everyone involved was having fun with the material. The Mad Magician is a fine film. As a piece of interesting trivia, I've read that Price broke his nose while making this film (no doubt during the final fight scene) and the reoccurring injury helped shape his unique voice.


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The Bottom, IPO Resurgence, Dry Ships, Tax Day Tea Parties and More!
Investors cheer the Beige Book… but is the economy improving or just worsening slower?
IPO market revives, I-Banks turn profits… Byron King on whether to trust the market's reaction
Data downpour… latest details on housing, industrial production and unemployment
Chris Mayer with a sector so beaten down it's worth buying
A frontline report on a "Tax Day Tea Party"
The U.S. economy is bottoming out… at least according to the Fed it is.
"Five of 12 districts noted moderation in the pace of decline," reads the "money" line of yesterday's notoriously optimistic Beige Book, "and several saw signs that activity in some sectors was stabilizing at a low level." And that was that. Some parts aren't dying as fast as others. A few aren't getting worse at all. Yee-hah!
"Isn't this what happens in a coma?" asks our friend down under, Dan Denning, not really joking. "Leading indicators are breaking down, but less badly. Is that good?"
Consider the alternative, here.
The mob on Wall Street was willing to take the bait, at least. The Beige Book release helped push the Dow and S&P 500 up over 1.3% yesterday, their fourth rally in the last five days.
Bad news from Intel and UBS was overshadowed by nice earnings from CSX, a dividend boost by Procter & Gamble and this news from American Express: Growth in souring credit card loans slowed in March. It's still growing, of course, but focus on the "slower" part… and buy!
The decrepit IPO market showed a sign of vitality yesterday, too. Rosetta Stone, the folks who promise to teach you French or Swahili with software, went public yesterday at a price above its expected range. That hasn't happened in 11 months. Underwriters had set a range of $15-17 a share, but bidding ended up starting at $18 a pop.
This morning, the stock opened at $25. Formidable!
That's the third successful IPO in April. Not bad, considering there have been only two others since August of last year.
And JP Morgan is making billions again!
The bank earned $2.1 billion in the first quarter, it announced this morning, beating estimates just as Goldman Sachs did earlier this week. (Interesting side note: After all the credit crisis shakedowns, JPM is now the biggest bank by revenue in America.)
Coupled with so-so numbers from Nokia, the buyers have gained control of the market again today. The Dow opened up 50 points.
Even home builders have recovered a bit of their former euphoria. The National Association of Home Builders bumped its builder sentiment up from 9 to 14, the biggest gain since 2003 and highest level since last October.
Still, a reading of 50 or higher suggests true optimism among builders. At this rate, it will be at least seven months before they regain a positive outlook.
In all, lousy, but not horrific characterizes most of today's economic news. Here's a rundown of the most notable nuggets:
Initial jobless claims improved last week from their 27-year high. First-time filers for unemployment benefits declined by over 50,000, to 610,000. But continuing claims, folks seeing benefits for 2 weeks or more, broke through the 6 million mark — an 11th straight weekly record
Foreign nations were net buyers of U.S. debt in February, says the Treasury, sighing with relief. Foreigners are, apparently, still interested in propping up the U.S. government. Still noteworthy: China curtailed its purchase of U.S. bonds for the 2nd month in a row. They bought just $4.6 billion in February, bringing their total to a massive $744 billion
And housing starts fell last month, despite February's surprise uptick. New construction fell 10.8% in March, to the second slowest pace since records began in 1959. Permits for future construction fell another 9%, to a record low. (And home builders are slightly more optimistic… because?)
Here's the exception to the "bad, but not that bad" that proves that data rules: Industrial production in the U.S. fell for the fifth quarter in a row, led by a massive decline in capacity utilization.
National output slipped another 1.5% in March, the Fed announced yesterday, to its lowest level in at least 10 years. For all the first quarter, industrial production was down 20%, making it the worst-performing quarter of the past five.
Capacity utilization has now fallen to just 69%, the lowest since at least 1967, when the Fed started keeping track.
"Capacity utilization is one of my fave data prints," notes our friend Chuck Butler, "in that it is one of the few that is forward-looking. Most data is old, stale and backward- looking. But capacity utilization is forward-looking. The capacity utilization rate reflects the limits to operating the nation's factories, mines and utilities.
"So if this is this a 'forward-looking' piece of data… the future doesn't look so bright. Guess we won't have to wear those shades, eh?"
"I don't trust today's market," says Byron King. "When the market goes up, I look for fundamental reasons. And right now, I don't see the fundamentals in place. There is too much smoke in the stock market. There are too many mirrors. The con jobs are still happening. The other day, for example, the market rose after Goldman Sachs released first-quarter earnings for 2009 showing a profit of $1.88 billion. And we all know what's good for Goldman Sachs is good for America. Right?
"There are a few sectors that I like, such as the large, well-capitalized precious metals miners with increasing output and cash flow. These ought to offer some protection in our predestined inflationary future.
"I'm paying most attention to great companies with superb management, with solid reserve positions. They must be excellent operators who know how to dig gold and sell it into a strong investor-driven market. (Jewelry sales are down for gold. Investor demand is up.) Those kinds of mining stocks could take off in the short term if the fear of future inflation hits the marketplace. But these companies are also medium- and long-term plays, say, three-five years out, because inflation IS already baked into the U.S. economic cake."
Byron named five such miners in his latest issue of Outstanding Investments… check it out, here.
"The market for containerships is downright depressing," notes Chris Mayer, our maestro of opportunity amid crisis, "which is creating some very compelling pricing." Exhibit A, the Baltic Dry Index:
"The earnings of dry bulk shippers have fallen more than 80% from their peak," says Chris, "which was just last May. Ships earning $300,000 per day now get about $15,000. Demand for key dry goods — coal and iron ore, in particular — fell dramatically. Making everything worse, the industry ordered a bunch of new ships, thinking more good times were ahead.
"And making everything even worse again, debt fueled much of the new shipbuilding. Since ordering those new ships, asset values have been cut half or worse. Since banks lent 80% against the value of the ships, you can quickly see that they are now underwater on those loans. In some cases, bankers — wise they are not — lent 90-100% on the value of the vessels.
"Why care about dry bulk shippers? Money.
"The market for these ships will self-correct. Old ships are being scrapped. Orders are being canceled as the shipowners fail to take delivery. Newer shipbuilders are going under, too. By some estimates, 50% of the ships on order will never materialize into physical ships. I don't know what the number will ultimately be, but there will surely be a lot of deferrals, defaults, cancellations and the rest.
"Any whiff of a rebound in trade will light a fire under these stocks, because they have been beaten down so much. All the doom creates some very compelling pricing."
You can find Chris' favorite shipping stocks in Mayer's Special Situations.
China's economy grew a scant 6.1% in the first quarter, its government admitted today. That's the slowest pace in nearly a decade, but still… 6% growth these days is still remarkable. In fact, it's almost too good to be true.
Industrial output in the eurozone plunged a record 18.4% in February, says the EU statistics office today.
The dollar — that piece of paper that should act as a proxy for government malfeasance — gained again yesterday and today. European Central Bank minister Alex Weber gave the dollar an extra nudge when suggested the ECB will soon engage in "nonstandard" monetary policy to rescue the euro economy.
Did he mean quantitative easing and cutting rates to zero like in I.O.U.S.A.? Traders didn't wait for the answer… they sold the euro down a penny to $1.32. Obversely, the dollar index is climbing above 85 as we speak.
Oil is down to $49 a barrel today, thanks in part to another dark forecast from OPEC. The cartel cut its 2009 global demand estimates again today. The sentiments echoed similar ones expressed by the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Dept. yesterday.
Oil producers aren't expecting much in the way of increasing demand this year.
"Bring back the Brits — they taxed us less!" read one of many signs at the Tax Day Tea Party yesterday in Annapolis. Two of our resident Whiskey shooters, Sam Buker and Gary Gibson, made the short trip to our state's capital to catch the hoopla.
"Working through the crowd, 2,000 people thick," Sam reports, "we came upon sign after sign and more than a few odd characters. A man pulled his private historic schooner into the harbor with the help of friends. Left on the ship, in full view of the assembled multitude, were wooden crates stenciled 'TEA' — and a few more were scattered on the docks.
"Another fine touch that only Annapolis could offer: a patriot in his Revolutionary garb (shirking duty from statehouse tours) to take a stand today. His trusty mount: a Segway. Poised high and proud, he held a flag aloft. (We drank our morning espresso with him in the coffee shop nearby before penetrating the dense brush of demonstration… he was delightful…and said, in parting: 'See you on the other side of the breech!')
Yeah, that ought to scare the bejeezus out of 'em
"The cries of the crowd: 'Throw the bums out!' 'Cut our taxes!'
"After braving two hours of wind and torrential rain, your hardy Whiskey & Gunpowder staff called it a day and headed for the bar for warm Irish coffees and carried on a heated political discussion with our fine barkeep… who gave Gary a free beer."
Gold has broken out of its range… but in the wrong direction. After hovering at $890 for a couple days, the spot price plunged almost $25 this morning. With traders and investors sighing, "It's not as bad as we think" in unison… what should we expect?
"Gold, in terms of human benefits," writes a reader, matter of factly, "is probably one the most useless of the elements. We are wasting valuable resources to mine it… only to store it underground again.
"Back in 1930, in the one room school I attended, the district school inspector posed this question to us: Which is the more valuable, gold or iron? Of course, we all said the obvious: 'Gold.' Wrong. Gold is more expensive, but not more valuable. Iron touches almost everything we use in life."
The 5: Yet FDR confiscated all the gold in the U.S. just three years later. Hmmmn…
Addison Wiggin
P.S. For a more accurate reading on where the economy is headed, please see the newly revised Richebacher Letter.
P.P.S. Apropos of nothing, the president welcomed the surviving members of the Grateful Dead to the White House on Monday night. The band credits Obama with getting them back together after the death of their longtime frontman Jerry Garcia.


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We sometimes think that we are "zero" in front of this world but don't worry my dear friends, research says a person who thinks like this will only achieve great things because he is open to listen everything just like kids do. Kids always excited to learn new things. Just check, this is the main quality in every successful person. Tell yourself with always "We done nothing till today, lot more things are waiting for us. Wake up every minute to pick those works". Just like kingfisher picks fish in water. Just a minute imagine you as a kingfisher for a change. You are now hungry, now you saw many fishes in the river and you are confused with moves of those fishes. Your mind is puzzled now and luck will not work for you every time. What will you do in this situation?
Just don't give up and only thing you can do is observe and absorb. This is the key here.
By observing many times you will get an idea about fish movements. Then focus on one particular fish just like all the radiation confined in single path and that confined radiation is enough to burn anything. On that burning desire you are focusing on only one fish and you forget all fishes and your surrounding also. In this position your mind is ready to hunt that fish and that fish will seems like a shark to you because of your strong concentration. Then, nobody can stop you to catch that fish because you are so hungry to eat that fish and if not you will die. Great things will be achieved in do or die situation only. If you are not getting this situation then create it every day to save your life and to save this world.


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Andrews, Jane (2004). Zoe and the magic harp. London, GB: Piccadilly Press.
Harp or Harp CD to play in the background.
Paper to cover the lids (old sheet music works great).
Harp shapes (cut from paper).
Students glue paper (sheet music) onto the shoe box lid.
Students decorate their harp shape with crayons, markers, paint, etc.
The students will glue the decorated harp shape onto the shoebox lid.
The shoebox lid then goes onto the shoebox.
Optional: the shoebox can be covered with sheet music as well.
The students will then be told to put the rubber band or elastic band around the box.
The students will be given the salt and/or colored rice and will be instructed to place some inside the box.
Students will be encouraged to experiment by holding the box in different positions to see the different effects on the salt when plucking the elastic band.
The students will experiment with the rubber band making different sounds.
The students will pluck the elastic band and observe the way the salt or rice dances, responding to the vibrations.
Mariella Pace teach special needs children. She brings the harp in the classroom and uses it for sound and science lessons together with making a miniature harp in a box. If you like her artwork, you can see more of it on Zazzle here.
Lesson and image copyright (c) Mariella Pace.


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The Effect of Race and Gender on Bail Outcomes: A Test of an Interactive Model
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- protects against pesticide-induced oxidative stress and heavy-metal toxicity;
- improves the brains electrical activity, cognitive performance, and short-term memory for elders;
- influences the formation and activity of key biomolecules, such as S-adenosyl methionine (SAM-e) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+);
- has demonstrated preventive and therapeutic effects in a number of cancers, such as prostate, cervical, and lung cancers, and multiple and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma;
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Union Pacific Corporation Gives Shareholders a Big Pay Raise
By Robert Baillieul, B.Comm. | August 7, 2019
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Union Pacific Corporation Hikes Dividend 10%. Are More Hikes Coming?
Wall Street has fretted this summer over trade tensions, a looming business slowdown, and a possible war with Iran. But Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP), it appears, may have missed the memo.
In July, management boosted the railroad's quarterly dividend 10% to $0.97 per share. Investors interpreted the news as a big vote of confidence in the business, bidding shares of UNP stock to all-time highs. (Source: "Union Pacific Corporation Announces 10 Percent Dividend Increase for Third Quarter 2019", Union Pacific Corporation, July 25, 2019.)
And this could just be the beginning.
Admittedly, President Donald Trump's trade war has bitten into sales. Union Pacific's revenues dropped one percent to $5.6 billion in the second quarter on lower shipment volumes. But despite these headwinds, executives continue to find ways to boost the bottom line. (Source: "Union Pacific Reports Record Second Quarter Results," Union Pacific Corporation, July 18, 2019.)
The secret comes down to cost-cutting. Union Pacific has embarked on a significant overhaul; it has started sorting rail cars less frequently, exiting less profitable businesses, and running fewer, longer trains. By ensuring that grass never grows beneath the wheels, the company can squeeze more income out of its business with less capital.
Layoffs have also padded the bottom line. Last year, the company laid off 800 employees, or about two percent of its workforce. More cuts will likely follow, given management's aim to cut overhead costs by a third before 2020. (Source: "Union Pacific will cut nearly 700 railroad jobs by year's end," The Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2019.)
Accordingly, Union Pacific has posted a marked increase in profitability. The company spent a record low $0.59 in operating costs on every dollar generated in revenue last quarter, down from $0.63 during the same period last year. That number shocked Wall Street, given that Union Pacific dealt with severe weather that shut down parts of its network during the reporting period. (Source: Ibid.)
The company's strategy has been generating cash that can be returned to investors. In addition to the dividend hike announced last month, Union Pacific Corporation has spent $3.6 billion on stock buybacks since January. This has cut the total number of outstanding shares by seven percent, thereby increasing the claim that remaining investors have to future earnings. (Source: "Union Pacific Reports Record Second Quarter Results," Union Pacific Corporation, July 18, 2019.)
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The Bottom Line on UNP Stock
For shareholders, more cost cuts should translate into further dividend hikes. Over the next five years, Wall Street projects that Union Pacific should grow earnings per share at a low-teen annual clip. And given the company's conservative 45% payout ratio, investors can expect the distribution to grow more or less in line with profits. (Source: "Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) – Analysis," Yahoo! Finance, last accessed August 3, 2019.)
Income investors should take note: Union Pacific stock has a lot more potential upside for 2019 and beyond.


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Return to Forever è il diciottesimo album in studio del gruppo musicale tedesco Scorpions, pubblicato il 20 febbraio 2015 dalla Sony Music.

Il disco
Il disco è costituito in gran parte da vecchi brani composti dal gruppo a partire dagli anni '80, ma fino ad allora mai pubblicati. Gli Scorpions li hanno ripresi e registrati in studio per la prima volta durante le pause del Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour tra il 2011 e il 2014.

Pubblicazione
L'album è stato distribuito nei seguenti formati: CD, CD Deluxe, doppio vinile, box in edizione limitata e in digitale. Per questo disco la band ha inciso 19 brani: 12 sono inclusi nell'edizione Standard, 16 nella Deluxe e 19 nell'edizione Tour Edition. Con il pre-ordine su iTunes e Amazon mp3 è stato possibile ottenere digitalmente We Built This House, estratto come singolo di lancio il 27 dicembre 2014.

Gli Scorpions hanno presentato l'album in diretta streaming sul loro sito ufficiale dall'Hard Rock Cafe di Amburgo, il 19 febbraio 2015.

L'album è stato distribuito in Nord America a partire dall'11 settembre 2015.

Dall'11 marzo 2016 è stata resa disponibile una speciale "Tour edition" dell'album, inclusi due DVD registrati dal vivo a Brooklyn e in Francia.

Tracce

Edizione Standard

Durata totale: 47:48

Edizione Deluxe

Durata totale: 62:20

Traccia bonus dell'edizione iTunes

Tracce bonus dell'edizione giapponese

Edizione Tour Edition
Disco 1 (CD) Return to Forever
Going Out with a Bang – 3:46
We Built This House – 3:53
Rock My Car – 3:20
House of Cards – 5:05
All for One – 2:58
Rock 'n' Roll Band – 3:55
Catch Your Luck and Play – 3:33
Rollin' Home – 4:03
Hard Rockin' the Place – 4:07
Eye of the Storm – 4:28
The Scratch – 3:41
Gypsy Life – 4:51
The World We Used to Know (bonus track) – 3:51
Dancing with the Moonlight (bonus track) – 3:42
When the Truth Is a Lie (bonus track) – 4:27
Who We Are (bonus track) – 2:33
Crazy Ride (bonus track) – 4:22
One and One Is Three (bonus track) – 4:21
Delirious (bonus track) – 2:58

Durata totale: 74:03

Disco 2 (DVD) Live in Brooklyn (12 settembre 2015)
Going Out with a Bang
Make it Real
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
70's Medley: Top of the Bill/Steamrock Fever/Speedy's Coming/Cathc Your Train
We Built This House
Delicate Dance
Acoustic Medley: Delicate Dance/Always Somewhere/Eye of the Storm/Send Me An Angel
Wind of Change
Rock 'n' Roll Band
Dynamite
In The Line of Fire
Kottack Attack
Blackout
No One Like You (Feat. Brandon Niederaurer)
Big City Nights
Still Loving You
Rock You Like a Hurricane

Durata totale: 1 ora e 41 minuti

Disco 3 (DVD) Live at Hellfest, France (20 giugno 2015)
Going Out with a Bang
Make it Real
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
70's Medley: Top of the Bill/Steamrock Fever/Speedy's Coming/Cathc Your Train
We Built This House
Delicate Dance
Acoustic Medley: Delicate Dance/Always Somewhere/Eye of the Storm/Send Me An Angel
Wind of Change
Big City Nights
Dynamite
In The Line of Fire
Kottack Attack
Crazy World
Rock 'n' Roll Band
Blackout
Still Loving You
Rock You Like a Hurricane

Durata totale: 1 ora e 37 minuti

Formazione

Gruppo
 Klaus Meine – voce
 Rudolf Schenker – chitarra ritmica, chitarra solista, cori
 Matthias Jabs – chitarra solista, chitarra ritmica, chitarra acustica
 Paweł Mąciwoda – basso
 James Kottak – batteria, cori

Produzione
 Mikael Nord Andersson, Martin Hansen – produzione, registrazione sonora, missaggio
 Mats "Limpan" Lindors – masterizzazione
 Hans-Martin Buff – ingegneria del suono, montaggio sonoro
 Tim Eckhorst – copertina
 Oliver Rath – foto

Classifiche

Note

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