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Recently I was working with a client who had just encountered the Healing Codes and didn’t know much about Energy Psychology. After a couple of sessions they asked me if I had much experience with their issue. I had but I answered them that my experience with their issue was not the key to their recovery. I went on to say it was about our uncovering and changing the negative thoughts and beliefs in their heart. But I didn’t have the feeling they were convinced.
I realize how deeply we have been programmed into taking a passive role in our society and that is very evident in the health arena. But with the Healing Codes, the practitioner and client make up a team whose roles are both significant in creating the client’s desired outcome. I believe this is a part of the image God had of us when we were “created in the image of God” as said in the Bible. I believe we are budding creators and our work is about awakening to that capacity within us and developing it to our maximum. And beyond ourselves, our world needs us envisioning that which is true and beautiful in the face of the fear and insecurity frequencies being broadcast.
Beautifully said. Our world needs us envisioning, imagining and living what is true in the face of fear and doubt. Until the Healing Codes came into my life I did not understand this truth. I thought I had to search out all the fears and somehow release them. My inner emotional world has shifted from fear and doubt to love and life since I began using the healing codes. What a blessed truth and the codes make it easy. I recommend the music that has been offered as the mind and body remember the feelings of Love at the first note. May we be eternally blessed for this beautiful method of deep healing that anyone can use.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health Inc. (NYSE: ELAN) has begun its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which is being spun off from Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY), is looking to raise more than $1.7 billion from the IPO.
The company is offering 62.9 million shares of its common stock at $24 per share. Elanco is also granting underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 9.4 million additional shares. The IPO is expected to close on Monday, subject to customary closing conditions.
The plan to spin off Elanco from Lilly was first announced in July. Once the IPO is complete, Lilly is expected to hold 82.3 percent of Elanco, though if the 30-day option is exercised in full, that number will drop to 80.2 percent.
The majority of the net proceeds from the IPO will be paid to Lilly as partial consideration for the animal health businesses that Lilly is transferring to Elanco.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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⊕ Eye-catching henna-like decoration that glitters during the day and glows at night.
⊕ The glow can last several hours.
⊕ Sheer, matte foundation with reinforced toes.
⊕ Has a size guide in English/French.
The packaging was pretty much identical to the Wolford tights I reviewed before. There was a small addition – a size guide in both English and French. I have only seen this twice. One was from the structure trousers I bought earlier this year. The other was from a review* by the blogger Sonipanda. The item reviewed was the Pyramid Tights from AW17-18 collection. It seems that the duo language size chart has become a standard.
Wolford kindly placed two tags beside the item as a reminder. The first says “Please wash this high quality product separately in a washbag with reduced spin cycle and dry flat“. The second reminds the customer not to wring dry the item after wash. Hosiery with attached materials can bewilder customers when it comes to washing. A guidance is always welcome.
Bright and attractive: These translucent tights offer a fascinating twist on classic Wolford hosiery. The wonderful henna-like design decorates the leg up to the knee. The innovative night glow technique ensures that the light stored throughout the day glows at night.
Night Glow are sheer (20 Denier appearance) tights in matte fashion. Its main feature is the henna-like decoration from ankle up to the knee. The decoration is made from small, round glitters which are 2mm in diameter. These glitters are white and can reflect light. Once baked under sunlight/UV light, they illuminate in dim light conditions. The knitted waistband measures around 2.7cm and the finger band approximately 5.7cm. There is a knitted gusset and a reinforced toe.
Night Glow Tights promotional image.
The size ranges from XS to XXL. I have included the size chart below. Once again, I used size S for this review.
Night Glow Tights size chart.
There were two colours available at the time of release: Gobi/Glow and Black/Glow. I have bought Black/Glow for this review.
Night Glow Tights colour selection.
The fit was fine. The decoration may seem delicate but are actually quite firm. I navigated my fingers through the hose and rolled it up the calf without too much hassle. There was very good envelopment on the legs. The waistband and the finger band was however tighter than usual. This could correspond to the “tighter knitted section” said in the product description.
The overall appearance was amazing. The white glitters against the black background were itself an eye-catcher. They reflect light, exhibiting a glittering effect during the day. Once exposed to sunlight/UV light, the glitters illuminated a pale green colour in dim light environment. I had the tights bathed under direct sunlight for 1.5 hours. The glow lasted several hours and gradually diminished as the time went on. Based on the above findings, it is probable that the glitters were coated with phosphorescent material.
I also hand washed the tights once to see if the glowing is affected. I used a liquid detergent for delicates, and gently pressed the tights to drain liquid. The glow worked fine after wash, and I didn’t experience any snags in the process.
The texture felt soft but somewhat synthetic. To my knowledge, Wolford’s basic essential doesn’t include matte, 20 den appearance tights in this texture. The closest you can find is Sheer 15 Tights. It is possible that Wolford make variants of such to be used as a foundation in trend collections. In addition, there was good breathability.
You can see from the background noise that the smart phone did its best. The actual surrounding was darker and the glow brighter.
Given the glowing property of the tights, I see many potentials as the winter and festive season draws close. The first is of course party, and I am sure you wont be disappointed with this. In fact, if you are still wondering what to wear for the Halloween party, this may be a good for you. The second is safety. Imagine you are walking along the street in the late evening. Motorists could hardly see you due to poor visibility. The constant-moving glow could at least catch some of their attention.
The Night Glow Tights were priced €80 or £70 when they were first introduced. Since it is an end of season item, you would find them a lot cheaper.

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Being in the plumbing industry, our plumbers in Cape Town know that these little plumbing surprises does not keep office hours and usually strikes at the most inconvenient times, that is why we are available 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We firmly believe in being liable for the work we do and thus we are registered and accredited. We endeavor to always be as timely as life allows and if we cannot make an appointment on time due to unforeseen circumstances, we will surely give you a call to keep you informed.
Our plumber in Cape Town pride themselves in keeping up to date with all the new plumbing technology & innovations and use them to our advantage in our every-day plumbing jobs. Some plumbing dilemmas can only be repaired by a skilled plumber, no matter how much of a DIY Specialist you are. Whether you need some old school plumbing, just a new washer on that annoying dripping faucet or a high tech new bathroom with all the gimmicks and gadgets, we are the best plumber in Cape Town to use! From drain cameras to new bathroom to washer replacements – we do it all.
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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Is a way to provide consistent analysis methods, material allowables, and work flow processes across an organization such as an OEM or Tier 1 and all of their suppliers. These four capabilities that come with a Pro License, are a special interest to an Enterprise framework deployment.
Which equations does HyperSizer use? …. your equations. Analysis plugins enable you to leverage your existing stress methods with the powerful automation and optimization capabilities of the HyperSizer stress framework.
The analysis plugin API enables users to implement their own failure analyses using C++, C, or Fortran code. Analysis plugin results – margins of safety and traceability details – are incorporated in the detailed sizing algorithm, displayed in the user interface, and exported to stress reports like native HyperSizer analyses. Plugins also support the creation of custom user inputs such as correction factors and analysis options.
HyperSizer’s data structures reside in a relational database which stores, among other things, materials data for analysis and sizing. The material database provides an environment to maintain all company data required for stress analysis. In an enterprise environment, material properties can be managed by one or more HyperSizer administrators and can easily be deployed, enforcing their use for all engineers. The key to managing material data is to establish a template database. When users create new databases, only “company approved” materials will be available. See Template Database.
When importing the GFEM, FEM Material entries are linked to material entities in the database using the FEA solver’s material ID. By linking the Material entries, the same material data can be shared without user intervention.
The administrator is required to build Work Package Templates for each program that will have all materials, plug-ins, and preferences for a given work package and no extra analysis plug-ins or materials that are not applicable to that program. Using Work Package templates, structural methods organizations will have complete control over which analysis methods (margin policy) and which version of each analysis method (Failure analyses repeatability) goes to which structural analyst.
Aircraft specific GFEM mapping identifies structure during FEM import such as stringer and skin segments so that HyperSizer can analyze and size structural parts, using skin and stringer element forces and resulting panel section loads. This allows margins to be assigned to the part’s segments and not to FEM elements and to manage structural assemblies such as wing skins, wing ribs, and fuselage sections along with all of the other airframe structural assemblies. This capability is implemented with user defined spreadsheets or a CSV file.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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So, would you like to meet the New Year with fireworks, fun, heartfelt laugh, and tasty dishes in Prague?
We have a lot of options to choose from!
Do you want to ride a time machine and meet the New Year in the company of medieval fakirs, magicians, and beautiful dancers? Then go here! In the evening program – a breathtaking show and dinner of five delicious dishes. A nice bonus is that drinks (beer, wine and non-alcoholic) will flow like water on New Year’s Eve, that is, in unlimited quantities and absolutely for free.
If you like not only to watch the performance but also to join it – you will definitely like this New Year’s Eve. Live music and dancing will not let you feel bored, and unlimited alcoholic (beer, wine) and non-alcoholic drinks will delight you with taste. By the way, you won’t be hungry either: there are four dishes in the evening program for each guest.
Would you like to know more about the Czech Republic? Learn about the folk art of the country! You can do it right on New Year’s Eve! The program of the festive evening – Czech folklore: national dances and songs in authentic costumes. Delicious dinner and drinks are also included.
Bread and circuses – the motto of this New Year’s Eve. Medieval show with professional artists and all inclusive drinks! Beer, wine, mead – are available for all tastes and without restrictions, as well as a delicious three-course dinner.
Celebrate the New Year with soul and body!
So, the choice is made and the New Year’s Eve is booked. What are the guests of Prague going to do on January 1?
We have a great option!
Relax on a comfortable boat and see the town from the best viewpoint – what could be better on the evening of the first day of the New Year? The river cruise will be accompanied by an interesting story guide. You can have a snack at a buffet. The highlight of the program is a fireworks show on the Letna hills, which our guests will see directly from the deck of the ship.
If you want to celebrate the New Year in Prague right now you know nice places where to go. Prague will give you unforgettable lifetime moments and you will back again and again to our magic city.
And if you would like to have help with table reservations please feel free to contact us and we will make a booking for you.

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I watched the Netflix TV series, Grace and Frankie, over the weekend. While billed as a comedy, I found it so true to real life that it is disturbing. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are authentic in their parts, with Jane Fonda enviable with her figure and looks, and Lily Tomlin a little too “over the top” in her performance. The laughs mostly come from their characters, as they try to re-enter life as newly divorced women in their 70’s. What a chore that would be!
The story is about two guys who have been married to their respective wives for over forty years. They have been having an affair with one another for twenty of those years, with the spouses having no idea. As law partners, the duplicitous lives of the husbands were easy to conceal. Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston are cast as the husbands, and Sam Waterston gives a very believable performance in being torn between the man with whom he wishes to spend the rest of his life, and the woman who is loved in a familiar, supportive, and comforting way. Martin Sheen has very few moments as a relaxed and impressive character, and, except for a few tender moments, his ego shines through.
Divorce is calamitous in any situation, and these are especially complicated. The children have to acknowledge that the person whom they thought a heterosexual man, faithful to their mother, has been having an affair with his business partner. It would be particularly burdensome in realizing that their mother is suffering as much as if their father were having an adulterous relationship with another woman.
I object to the way the few gay friends of the new “out of the closet” couple are portrayed. They look ridiculous, supposedly because this adds laughs for the TV audience. I wonder why they have to be stereotyped, why not show them as they are, a part of the community. There are both kinds of people, but the absurd entertains. Let’s get real.
I expected a comedy and instead watched a show that amused me but stirred up thoughts of how awful this world must be for those who feel they would not be accepted for being who they are and showing their true selves to the world. There are many gay and lesbian people who took (and take) shelter in marriage. Both partners would be cheated in such a relationship. When one learns the marriage was artificial, how heartbreaking that would be.
See the series, you will be entertained. Look beyond the meaning of the clever lines, isn’t laughter often next to tears? I look forward to the next chapter.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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text: Mirror carp in Texas are rarer than most would believe. Many of the mirrors that exist in Texas are former baitfish sold until 1992 under the name “israeli” carp. The small mirrors, likely closer related to strains of carp from Italy and France, were used for bait for bass, catfish, and other predator species up until it was made illegal to sell the small carp in bait stores. Many bait stores reportedly dumped their supplies of israelis into the surrounding lakes including Fork, Sam Rayburn, Toledo Bend, and others. The interesting part is many of the mirrors continue to live in the areas they were released from, as most captures (and even a few recaptures) tend to occur around the marinas on the lakes.


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[gr-qc/0304042v1] Do black holes radiate?
Abstract: The prediction that black holes radiate due to quantum effects is often considered one of the most secure in quantum field theory in curved space-time. Yet this prediction rests on two dubious assumptions: that ordinary physics may be applied to vacuum fluctuations at energy scales increasing exponentially without bound; and that quantum-gravitational effects may be neglected. Various suggestions have been put forward to address these issues: that they might be explained away by lessons from sonic black hole models; that the prediction is indeed successfully reproduced by quantum gravity; that the success of the link provided by the prediction between black holes and thermodynamics justifies the prediction.
This paper explains the nature of the difficulties, and reviews the proposals that have been put forward to deal with them. None of the proposals put forward can so far be considered to be really successful, and simple dimensional arguments show that quantum-gravitational effects might well alter the evaporation process outlined by Hawking. Thus a definitive theoretical treatment will require an understanding of quantum gravity in at least some regimes. Until then, no compelling theoretical case for or against radiation by black holes is likely to be made.
The possibility that non-radiating "mini" black holes exist should be taken seriously; such holes could be part of the dark matter in the Universe. Attempts to place observational limits on the number of "mini" black holes (independent of the assumption that they radiate) would be most welcome.


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you know the one? The shark forest?
That’s where I want to go. The shark infested forest.
let it settle. And circled.
I want that. I want to feel as full as this and never have to talk.
I want to breathe in my sides and never see the tops of trees.
and not have to stop.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


text: My name is Lauren Lever and this is my 5th year at GEMS. In those 5 years I have filled various roles including teaching French, teaching Music, and working as a classroom aide. I graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.A. in French. I spent a year living in France working as an English teacher before joining GEMS. In my free time I enjoy playing fiddle and guitar, taking motorcycle rides with my husband, knitting, and travelling.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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TT Games have made a strong reputation at making Lego games. Their breakthrough success with Lego Star Wars have paved the way of over 30 different Lego games of around 10 years. Not only they are making original Lego games, but they still remain doing movie tie-ins now that Lego movies are a thing.
Enter The Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game. The Ninjago line of Lego products have seen mainstray success, which warrants it seasons of animated TV series and now a full movie with a touch of the formula established in the first Lego movie. The video game follows the movie’s plot, bringing the classic 3D platforming with some new additions to the formula.
Overall it is a decent game, but I find it a bit hard to recommend to everyone.
The early levels of the Ninjago City under attack can look splendid, but the frame drops that can occur really is unfortunate.
The Ninjago Game blends the classic Lego games look. Most buildings are looks intentionally plastic-like and blocky. The minifigs are a bit more detailed, some with visible weathering effects to simulate the realistic, stop-motion look that the movie has. Some of the minfigs have stop-motion-like animations, which is lovely to see replicated into the game, but it’s not consistent- your main Ninjago heroes don’t have those animations for the most part.
One thing I love seeing these Lego games is how lovingly they are treating the Lego brand. All those buildings and props you see can technically be recreated with real Lego parts. Even better, items that are based on real Lego sets, like the various mechs each Ninjago hero has, is replicated pretty closely. I looked up some videos of Zane’s Ice Tank and compared it with its in-game depiction. It’s pretty close, even its wreckage reveals some similar part layouts.
Seeing the wreckage of Zane’s Ice Tank shows how closely modeled they are to real-life Lego sets. Not sure if it’s totally accurate, but it’s pretty close.
A lot of the Ninjago Game takes place during the main villain Garmadon’s invasion of Ninjago City, so the typical destruction of Lego blocks are being cranked really high this time. Maybe too high. I’ve experienced some heavy framerate drops in the earlier levels due to them being very busy. A lot explosions, a lot of enemies, and many visual details that makes the city feel in peril.
The dialogue and banter between the heroes is a hit-or-miss situation.
The movie has a star-studded cast, but the unique dialogues for the game can fall flat a lot of times. Don’t expect it to be as witty as the writing in the movie, but it is at least bearable. The soundtrack however, is a bit disappointing. The early levels feel like a bore to explore after the story because I feel like it was the same song being played over and over.
New to the Ninjago Game is an improved combat system. In most Lego games, you just mash square to hit enemies over and over. It’s mostly the same here, but now you have very flashy animations fit for a character-action game.
Your moveset is rather limited however- a normal attack with square (which can be stringed for long combos), a direction + square attack for a lunge, an aerial attack that can be chained to attack other enemies while in mid-air, and a super move that launches your enemy upward so you could mash square over and over to rack up hits (with each hit pushing you higher in the air).
The spectacle is amazing at first, but at the end of the day it is still just mashing square. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun as it is, but don’t expect any depth to the combat. Over time you would accrue Ninjanuity Tokens to upgrade your moves, but by the end of the game you’ll get enough to unlock all of them eventually.
launchers can send you and an unfortunate enemy up sky high. Just mash square!
At its core it’s still a 3D platformer. You jump, you attack, you collect things. It has all the elements of a decent platformer bar one: a really good camera. The camera is fine when it is fixed, but I wish it was more fluid to control manually when it’s not.
The game is broken into 10 levels, each punctuated with scenes from the movie as well as in-game cutscenes. During the story sections it’s a linear affair. You just follow the path available. The cast of Ninjago heroes you will be playing rotates in each level- each with their own unique weapon and ability. Which means you will likely to see a lot of inaccessible locations throughout the story mode.
Of course, like most Lego games, after the story is done for that level, you can go back and explore in free play mode. In this mode you can switch to any of the unlocked characters- about 101 of minifigs to choose from- and utilise their unique abilities to open up locations previously unreachable. After unlocking a few shortcuts then you will see that these linear levels are technically small sandboxes. There are quests to take, races to be completed and a dojo arena.
The dojo arenas are levels purely based in combat. Mostly it is set up so that you would face waves and waves of enemies before a boss appears. Some of these levels have environmental hazards to spice things up a bit. They are enjoyable and well thought out. While optional, it’s a good change of pace if you need it- which you really need it from my my experience.
Early levels have some change of pace thanks to on-rails shooting sections ala Panzer Dragoon.
There are 10 levels, all following close to the movie. So expect a very impressive opening and relaxing middle chapters. The last level feels a bit rushed, which leaves a lot hanging- you better see the movie to understand why. Thankfully the developers know it’s weak, so there’s an epilouge that fixes that. That was a pleasant surprise, and without spoiling anything, it highlights the best thing to do in a Lego game, turned up to 11.
Don’t expect this to be a long game. You can easily breeze through the game in around 7 hours. I finished my playthrough for this review at 60% completion after eight hours. My issue has to be how repetitive the game feels when played in long sessions. Repetitive even, especially the early levels. Sure, there are neat diversions like the on-rails shooting sections, but due to its movie tie-in nature they can’t add much diversions at the later sections of the game.
For me, it’s too much of doing the same thing over and over again. The many abilities that you each minifig can have feels less and less special now. Take the Spinjitsu ability the main Ninjago heroes have. They are all tuned to specific elements, but in reality they feel more like switch activators, for different switches. I would love to see the elemental abilities are more fleshed out, such as multiple solutions to the same problem.
four-player split-screen multiplayer runs fine, and can be player with 1-4 players. Fun variations of capture the flag and king of the hill are available.
A new addition to the Lego games are the four-player multiplayer modes. You can play solo against AI or up to four players in three modes. The modes are of course combat-focused but each have objectives- like capture flags or hold on to items the longest like king of the hill. It’s fun if you have a few spare controllers, and it’s simple enough to let kids play with, if the trademark drop-in drop-out co-op in the main game was not enough.
This huddling scene is from the movie snippet shown in the game, by the way.
The big question before considering getting the Ninjago Game is a simple one: do you want to play another Lego game, with all of the similar features the series has done, but with some new additions? If the answer is no, then most of the game feels like a retread. The new changes in combat are good but it’s not enough of a pull. If you are expecting a major change in the core gameplay and is not fond of the 3D platforming collect-a-thon these games usually have, give this a skip.
If you enjoy all the Lego games so far, a fan of the Ninjago line, or just saw that movie, the game will be highly entertaining to you. Plus points if you have kids around, this would be perfect for them, especially the new competitive four-player mode. It’s still a decent game and collecting all the collectibles are still fun like you used to see before.
I may not thoroughly enjoy the game as much as I would expect, but it did made me want to buy some new Lego sets, especially Zane’s Ice Tank. That thing looks rad.

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It was the week of the Fed. We take a look back at its origins on Jekyll Island and a small look at how the Fed works.
Gold continues to meander and the US$ Index appears poised to go higher. Stock markets could have a rough week following Friday’s drop and volatility picked up. We define the breakdown points.
“The Creature from Jekyll Island”— that is what the Federal Reserve is known as in some circles. The name comes from a book called, of course, The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. The book is a favorite of libertarians, conservatives, and conspiracy theorists because it claims that the Fed is the root of all evil, given its ability to finance wars, spark economic booms, and create depressions.
So, what is Jekyll Island? In 1910 a group of old-boy American financiers met on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia to discuss monetary policy and out of it spawned the legislation that created the central bank—the Federal Reserve. Despite the name, Jekyll Island is actually a lovely place with white-sand beaches and a beautiful landscape. Triggering the meeting was the concern over a series of financial crises that had befallen the markets.
The most noteworthy were financial panics that occurred in 1901, 1903, and 1907. But before that the U.S. and the world had gone through what was known as the “Long Depression” of 1873–1879. Actually, the “Long Depression” was two deep depressions with the golden age of railroads in the middle. There were banking panics in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, and 1896. The second depression ran from 1893 to 1897. Despite the depressions, the period from roughly 1870 to 1900 was known as the “Gilded Age.” Not surprisingly, wealth inequality soared during this period.
The banking panic of 1907 was a financial crisis spread over a 3-week period as the NYSE fell about 50% and there were runs on numerous banks and trusts. The panic would have been worse except for the intervention of J.P. Morgan who put up huge sums of the bank’s money to prevent a bigger collapse. The key, however, is that it led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System with the Federal Reserve Act passed in 1913.
The Fed is an independent entity. It has both private and public sector characteristics. It is divided into 12 regional banks that act like private banks to represent the diverse regions of the U.S. The President and Congress approve all members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The President appoints the Federal Reserve Chair, currently Jerome Powell, but the Chair reports to Congress, not to the President. That is why the President would have a very difficult time firing the Chair of the Fed. The Board is an independent agency and, as such, its decisions do not have to be approved by either the President or Congress.
Other central banks around the world, including Canada, are also independent and they too do not require approval from elected officials. The Bank of Canada is a privately-owned crown corporation with all of its shares owned by the Minister of Finance. While the Deputy Minister of Finance sits on the board, he does not have a vote. The Bank of Canada does provide reports to Parliament. The Governor of the Bank is appointed by the Prime Minister (PM); however, the position does not report to the PM.
The Fed does not receive funding from Congress. Instead, its funds come from its investments acquired as a result of open market operations. The Federal Reserve banks are required to maintain reserve requirements. They can borrow from each other at the fed funds rate. They can also borrow at the discount window at the discount rate. To be a member of the Federal Reserve System commercial banks must own stock. The stock cannot be traded but they are mandated by law to pay the owners of the stock 6% even as all profits must be returned to the U.S. Treasury. The commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve system are some of the biggest names in global banking.
The Fed is responsible for monetary policy through three tools: open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements. It is responsible for helping to maintain a healthy economy and full employment, and to keep inflation in check. Through open market operations, the Fed buys and sells securities. Hence the huge role the Fed played in the 2008 financial crisis even as its balance sheet ballooned from $800 billion to $4.5 trillion. Quantitative easing (QE) was open market operations on steroids.
The Fed (FOMC) has 12 members. Seven are appointed governors including the Chairman, the president of the New York Fed, with the remaining four coming from the other eleven Federal Reserve banks on a rotating basis. The FOMC meets eight times a year, the most recent being March 19–20, 2019. Currently, there are two vacancies. This past week, President Trump nominated economist Stephen Moore to the Fed Board of Governors to fill one of the vacancies. Moore is an outspoken critic of Jerome Powell and a close colleague of Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s economic advisor. Moore has been an outspoken critic of the Fed’s interest rate policy. Assuming he is approved by the Senate, Mr. Moore would still only be one vote amongst 12.
This past week was dominated by the Fed. The Fed surprised many with its dovish report. The Fed surprised when it stated it had no plans to raise interest rates further in 2019. The Fed is concerned about the potential effects of Brexit, a slowing global economy, particularly in the EU, Japan, and China, possible collapse of ongoing trade talks with China, and even some signs of slowing in the U.S. A recent quarterly GDP numbers bear out signs of a slowing economy. Existing home sales have been sliding for months although new home sales have been mixed. Housing starts have also generally been sliding despite a big bump in January. We note GDP and existing home sales below.
The Fed also announced they would end the drawdown of their bonds in September. What that means is that quantitative tightening (QT) will be no more. The markets reacted. After some hesitation, stocks took off. Gold took off at first but when the U.S. dollar bounced back gold sold off. Yields fell and—no surprise—the 2–10 spread narrowed further. (See under Recession Watch Spread Page 15.) The 2-year U.S. Treasury note has been in a downtrend now since peaking last November. The 2-year has, in some respects, been leading the market towards the dovish stance of the Fed.
Other central banks chimed in their concern about the slowing global economy as well. The United Kingdom is careening towards a no-deal Brexit—or maybe they will get lucky and get an extension. Nonetheless, Theresa May’s tenure as PM seems to be slip-sliding away. No matter what happens, Brexit is a disaster. That the Fed is ending its rate hikes came as a surprise because it was only in December 2018 that they suggested two more rate hikes in 2019. Now, none.
Our suspicion is that the Fed knows the global economy is headed for a hard landing but they can’t say that. Friday’s sharp down day in the stock market was a response to signs of a slowing global economy and that the 10-year Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) and the 10-year German bund all went negative. As well, we note the 3-month Treasury bills – 10-year U.S. Treasury note spread turned negative. While these are negative signs, remember we are still early and, in the past, there were at least 6 months of negative spreads before the economy turned down into a recession. The well-followed 2-year—10-year spread remains positive, but did turn down again this week.
For the record, Canada is also slipping as the GDP monthly chart shows below. So, a potential slowdown is not just limited to the EU, Japan, and China. It is spreading in North America as well. But these things take time. And a reminder that in a slowing economy that’s when the accidents occur in the form of a fund going bust, a large dealer in trouble, or a bank in trouble that could spread. A major “black swan” event is most likely months away, but things can change fast.
In any case, we’ll always have the Creature from Jekyll Island. But will he and the other central banks be able to save the day once again?
On Thursday, stock markets appeared poised to take off as both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ leaped to new highs for the current move. Stock indices were responding positively to the Fed’s dovish stance of no further rate hikes and the end of QT in September 2019. On Friday, that was all reversed as a spat of economic numbers from Germany, in particular, were weak, Brexit appeared headed for the rocks, and German and Japanese 10-year bonds went negative. The result was the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) fell 460 points (1.8%) with a sharp uptick in volatility.
So, what happened with the run to new all-time highs? It hit a bump. Time will tell whether this is a fatal bump or merely a forming correction to the sharp run-up seen since the lows in December 2018. On the week the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, the DJI was off 1.3%, the Dow Jones Transportations (DJT) was hit hard falling 2.5%, while the NASDAQ dropped 0.6%. Given that both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ hit new highs for the current move, Friday’s action constitutes a reversal day, although the highs were made on Thursday. Elsewhere, the small-cap Russell 2000 dropped 3.1%, the TSX Composite fell 0.3%, but the junior TSX Venture Exchange (CDNX) put in a positive week, gaining 1.6%.
Overseas, the Brexit-challenged FTSE 100 fell 0.6%, the Paris CAC 40 was off 0.5%, while the German DAX dropped 1.2%. Not so in Asia as China`s Shanghai Index (SSEC) gained 2.6%, maintaining its recent positive run, and the Tokyo Nikkei Dow (TKN) was up 1.5%. The MSCI World Index was off by a small 0.5%.
So, what to make of the reversal of fortune seen on Friday? Expect the volatility to continue into next week. And it is probable that the indices will fall further. There is considerable support for the S&P 500 between 2,700 and 2,750. A break below 2,700, while giving off potential sell signals on the daily charts is not necessarily a fatal move. Of bigger concern would be a break under 2,600, and below 2,450 new lows could loom.
The break for the S&P 500 over 2,825 was supposed to signal a potential move to new all-time highs. However, the breakout was not confirmed by the DJI nor the DJT. The NASDAQ broke as well to new highs for this move. This divergence has, for the moment at least, shifted the focus to the downside. Does this mean the market is finished and we are doomed to crash to new lows? No, it does not. The fact that some spreads went negative and the JGBs and the German bunds turned negative does not signal that a crash is about to occur. But it does signal that the first signs of a potential recession are now upon us. In the past, it has taken more than one reading of negative yields and spreads to suggest an impending recession. Most likely we are anywhere from three to six months away from that and at this point, we are not even guaranteed we’ll see a recession.
If we are correct, then this pullback would be a B wave within the context of an ABC-type move to the upside. The A wave may have peaked this past week. We note that the up wave from the December 2018 low unfolded in five waves. The B wave could take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months to form. Support zones are noted above but beware a breakdown under 2,450. Unsurprisingly, the sentiment at the high this past week was about 95%, meaning there were few bears about. Our guess is once this B wave is formed the indices could return to the highs and possibly see new all-time highs (the C wave). This is where we would get a number of non-confirmations between the indices and between indicators.
In the interim, fasten your seat belt. The next week or two looks a little bumpy. Support zones are noted above.
Here is the S&P 500, the DJI, and the DJT. Note how the S&P 500 made new highs but was not confirmed by the DJI. The DJT wasn’t even close. Watch the relationship between the DJI and the DJT going forward for major divergences.
The NYSE Advance-Decline continues to fascinate. It ran to new all-time highs; however, it was not confirmed by the S&P 500 that remains short of its all-time highs. The Advance-Decline line turned down this past week with the market. What we would like to see is if the markets are headed for a corrective move, as the move on Friday would seem to indicate, then, when we go back up again, ideally, we would see the S&P 500 make new highs with the Advance-Decline line failing to make new highs. All this remains to be seen. A reminder, however, that the NASDAQ Advance-Decline line did not see new all-time highs; thus, it diverged with the NYSE Advance-Decline line.
Wow! A 10.2% drop in just four days for the KBW Bank Index (BKX). It is probably no surprise that banking stocks fared the worst with the Fed’s dovish tone. If a recession is coming, it also suggests that bankruptcies and delinquencies will rise which in turn puts pressure on the Bank’s loan portfolio. As well, thoughts of lower rates also mean lower spreads for the banks. The KBW Bank Index topped way back in February 2007. The recent high in 2018 fell short of the 2007-high. We are in a world where debt has accrued exponentially since 2008 and the banks have a lot of it on their books.
We also note the KBW Bank Index was down 28.7% at its low in December 2018. That was well above the general markets’ 19% decline. The bank stocks were in a bear market. Even now they are still down 18%. Beware the banks. For Canadian banks, we note that the TSX Financials (TFS) fared better than the KBW. Unlike the KBW, the TFS saw its all-time high in January 2018 at a level well above its high of 2007. At its worst, in December 2018 it was down 17.5%. This past week the TFS fell 1.5%, nowhere near the hit the KBW took. Canadian banks are much better capitalized and while they may suffer in a downturn, the odds of one of them going under is nil. They also regularly increase their dividends.
The materials dominated TSX Composite lost a small 0.3% this past week. As it has done in the past, it will follow the U.S. markets to the downside. The TSX has solid support just below 15,800 and down to 15,300. Below 15,200 would spell trouble and likely a severe test of the December low. We note the Income Trust sub-index and the Real Estate sub-index moved to new highs this past week and didn’t follow the market down. Other indices that look positive are golds, materials, and mining.
It has been some time since we showed the TSX Venture Exchange (CDNX). The CDNX is made up of roughly 50% junior mining stocks, but you would also find health care, energy, cannabis, consumer, and other stocks on the exchange. The CDNX is up 14.5% so far in 2019. Grant you, that is after a disastrous year in 2018 when the CDNX fell almost 44% from its January 2018 top. Many junior mining stocks were down even more, with some falling 90%. So, the current rally is welcomed. This may be the beginning of a stealth rally. We note the pickup in volume since this rally got underway. It has a long way to go. There is considerable resistance up to 650, but over 700 the index should perk up. Remember the CDNX can give off both great gains and great losses. After a horrible 2018, the CDNX looks poised to put in even more gains.
Bond yields continue to fall in the wake of the dovish tone adopted by the Fed. In some respects, given that the decline in yields got underway last October, the bond market has been leading the Fed. The question now is, is the bond market spent and will the fall in the yields will come to a halt? The daily RSI indicator has dropped below 30, a level that often signals that a low could form. It was last below when the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to 2.56% in December. If you have been long 10-years above 3%, then it might be time for some profit-taking. It is possible for the 10-year to fall further, but at 2.44% it is hitting a band of resistance from previous declines. Below 2.30% the 10-year could take a run at the 2017 low of 2.05%. The all-time low was seen in July 2016 at 1.37%.
With the fall in yields this past week, our recession watch spread (10-year Treasury note minus the 2-year U.S. Treasury note) fell to 13 bp from 16 bp the previous week. Unlike some others, this spread is still not negative. It remains above its December low of 11 bp. A recession call would come when we see the 2–10 spread turn negative and remain so for at least 3 to 6 months. This spread is nowhere near signaling a recession just yet. We believe the markets will calm down and realize that their fears are overblown — at least for the moment.
The 3-month U.S. Treasury bill and the 10-year U.S. Treasury note spread turned negative this past week. That had pundits jumping up and down screaming “recession” and the stock market tanked 400 points. For the record, the 3-month 10-year spread turned negative a good year or more before the start of the 2007–2009 recession. It first went negative in February 2006. The spread actually bottomed in February 2007, well before the stock market peaked in October 2007. So, the pundits’ screaming is, we believe, premature.
Pundits also screamed about the JGBs turning negative this past week. They peaked at about 16 bp back in October 2018. But the JGBs have been in and out of negative now since the beginning of the year, although this is the lowest so far at negative 7 bp. The JGBs lowest was in July 2016 at negative 29 bp.
The pundits were screaming even louder about the 10-year German bund turning negative. It is down sharply from a peak back in January 2018 of about 77 bp. This week’s low was at negative 2 bp. Like its Japanese counterpart, the 10-year bund was negative in 2016, hitting a low of about negative 19 bp. At the time some pundits were screaming it was the “end of the world.” Not quite. The 10-year bund recovered and hit a peak of about 77 bp in January 2018.
There have been definitive signs of a slowdown in Germany as some German economic numbers this past week were not encouraging. One of the big concerns was the manufacturing PMI falling to 44.7% in March 2019, a level well below the expectation of a reading of 48%. Export orders have been falling. PMI levels below 50 are considered recessionary. The PMI fell below 50% in January 2019 and has remained below that level ever since. Germany is also trying to engineer a merger between the deeply troubled Deutsche Bank (DB) and Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest bank.
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That would create a banking behemoth, considering Deutsche Bank is already a substantially sized bank. But the merger itself has been troubling. DB is saddled with a large number of Italian debts. Not a good place to be, considering the troubles with the Italian banking system. DB also has Russian loans and, apparently, even loans to the Trump organization. DB also has an extremely large derivatives portfolio which could prove troublesome. Could DB collapse? It has been mentioned numerous times, but its size alone brings considerable attention from both the Bundesbank and the ECB.
In all of the screaming over bonds and spreads turning negative, we wonder why the high-yield junk bond spread hasn’t moved higher. Maybe the current concern is overblown. Note how the spread on the high-yield junk bonds started moving higher in 2015, well before its peak in 2016. If the rise in spreads follows the path of 2015–2016, then the spread has probably bottomed and should start rising over the next few months. We’ll keep an eye on this one.
Wither the U.S. dollar? We freely admit that the past few weeks have been confusing as to the direction of the US$ Index. It looks down, but it also looks up. But that is the frustration of these type of patterns. They are complex and give off all sorts of signals, none of which seem to make sense. That line at around 95.50 seems to hold. It was tested as the index dipped down to a low of 95.17 but then rebounded and is now above 96 once again.
We note in following Elliot Wave International that they too have been fighting trying to make sense of the pattern. The best call now is that the US$ Index has made a rather complex ABCDE-type pattern, thus forming a B intermediate wave up from the low of February 2018. The A intermediate wave topped out in August 2018 labeled (A). If this is correct, then a C wave up should soon get underway. That would take the US$ Index to new highs, possibly up to around 100. Breakdown points remain at 95.50 and especially at 94.50.
The US$ Index closed higher this past week, up 0.1%. The U.S. dollar could rise against the euro, pound, and yen, largely because while the U.S. economy might be weakening its performance is still stronger than the EU, Japan, and the U.K. This past week the euro fell 0.5%, the pound sterling was down 0.6% but the Japanese Yen gained 1.3%. The Canadian dollar was weak because of signs of a weakening Canadian economy as it fell 0.5%. A breakout for the US$ Index above 96.50 would suggest another move above 97.
If the US$ Index were to rise as we noted that would be negative for gold. After rallying from $1,167 to a high of almost $1,350 a correction was to be expected. The A wave down took gold to a low of near $1,281. The current rebound is, we suspect, the B wave. The high so far is $1,320. Our target zone was $1,320 to $1,330 so it is possible we have topped for the moment. The C wave down could take us to $1,250. That would be in line with a rise of the US$ Index to 100. Once that wave is complete, we believe it would be the E wave of a rather complex ABCDE type correction that has been ongoing since the top in July 2016 at $1,377. Once that low is in, expected possibly by May 2019, gold should begin a powerful rally that would take it above $1,400.
Gold responded positively this past week to the dovish Fed, but Friday’s drop in the stock market saw gold only rise a small $4.40. The $1,320 to $1,330 zone is resistance, but above $1,330 a push to $1,350 would take place. Gold breaks under $1,300.
We note that platinum continues its amazing run. Once again it made new highs at $1,576.90. Gold should eventually follow platinum to the upside.
The commercial COT for gold slipped to 38% this past week from 39% the previous week. Short open interest rose about 2,000 contracts but long open interest fell around 5,000 contracts. The COT is mildly bullish. The large speculators COT (hedge funds, managed futures, etc.) rose to 64% from 62%.
The bottom pattern forming on gold is one of the best we have ever seen. It is a very complex pattern and trying to figure it out is not particularly easy. The major breakout point remains at around $1,350. But the reality is gold would need to overhaul $1,370 to suggest a move to $1,400 and beyond. The pattern suggests potential targets up to $1,775. But first things first. We need to complete that corrective move, then start our rebound and take out $1,350 and $1,370 before we can even think about $1,400. This all breaks down if gold took out $1,167 on the downside. But we highly doubt that would occur.
Silver remains in a nice uptrend. However, our expectation is that silver should follow gold to the downside. It would be interesting, however, if silver held the channel line and fell no further than around $15.15. If $15.15 were to fall, then a decline to the $14.30 to $14.50 zone could be underway. As with gold we expect this could be final low for silver. Silver’s breakout spot is around $16. A breakout above that zone and especially over $16.50 could suggest a move to $23.50.
The silver commercial COT improved this past week to 38% from 37%. That has to be considered minimum movement. Long open interest rose about 1,000 contracts while short open interest fell about 1,600 contracts. As with gold, we view this as mildly bullish. The large speculators COT fell to 59% from 61%.
Gold stocks did well this past week. They were up on Friday even as the broader stock market fell sharply. The TSX Gold Index (TGD) rose 2.9% on the week and the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) was up 2.2%. The TGD made a zig-zag pattern from the low of 147 in September to the high of 201 in February. Since then, the TGD has been in a choppy pattern of down, up, down, up.
Whether the TGD makes a new high here or not is moot. The pattern suggests the TGD should eventually fall back once again. Below 188.50, a decline to trendline support at 170 is possible. Volume has typically fallen off on this up move. If gold and silver were to fall as we suspect, the gold stocks should follow to the downside. But, as with gold and silver, we believe it will be a final low and then a powerful rally could get underway.
WTI oil rose to a high of $60.39 this past week, but on Friday it followed the stock market lower. We’d love to see WTI oil rise to the top of the channel near $64, but Friday’s drop was brought on by thoughts of a slowing economy. However, we are soon approaching the major driving season. As well, despite threats, OPEC and Russia have not increased production to put pressure on U.S. shale producers. Of course, it all depends on what is being called the NOPEC legislation whereby it would allow the U.S. government to sue the OPEC cartel.
It has been said that if that were to happen, OPEC would flood the market with oil pushing down the price of oil. That would put pressure on the highly leveraged shale producers. If WTI oil failed to hit the top of a channel WTI oil could be forming an ascending wedge pattern which is bearish. It starts to break down under $58 and under $54 a bigger sell-off could be underway. The energy stocks reacted negatively on Friday along with the broader market. The XOI breaks down under 1,275. The pattern that has formed appears as a wedge, so any bullish expectations are limited.
We have constantly heard from central bank officials and finance officials expressing concern about the level of household debt here in Canada. The latest figures from Q3 show Canada’s household debt to GDP is 100.7%. (Note: you usually hear about it in relation to income, but measuring it to GDP is also quite valid). That’s above the levels seen in the U.S. before the 2008 financial crisis. We also read that 46% of Canadians are a mere $200 from insolvency if a household member lost a job. The U.S. household debt to GDP hit a peak of 98.3% in Q1 2008. From there it has been downhill and it currently sits at 74.8% in Q4 2018—still high, but not quite as drastic. Still, it is high and also highly imbalanced. As in Canada, many are merely a job loss away from serious financial trouble.
Corporations have also gorged on debt. Here is the ratio of corporate debt to GDP. Note how it has peaked each time before a downturn. And not only has it peaked but it did so at increasingly higher levels. The late 1980s boom saw it peak at 65%. The dot.com bubble’s peak was also seen at about 65%. It went higher for the housing bubble in 2008 with the peak seen in Q4 2008 at 72.5%. This time it has exceeded all the previous peaks, currently at 73.9% in Q3 2018. We suspect it is probably higher now. Nonetheless, it is not a positive sign.
DISCLAIMER: David Chapman is not a registered advisory service and is not an exempt market dealer (EMD). We do not and cannot give individualized market advice. The information in this article is intended only for informational and educational purposes. It should not be considered a solicitation of an offer or sale of any security. The reader assumes all risk when trading in securities and David Chapman advises consulting a licensed professional financial advisor before proceeding with any trade or idea presented in this article. We share our ideas and opinions for informational and educational purposes only and expect the reader to perform due diligence before considering a position in any security. That includes consulting with your own licensed professional financial advisor.
David has worked in the financial industry for over 40 years. He spent most of his career on the trading desks of a few large Canadian financial institutions where he was a manager and dealer in money markets, foreign exchange and financial derivative portfolios. These included Export Development Corporation (EDC), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and Confederation Treasury Services Ltd. (CTSL), the treasury arm of Confederation Life Insurance Co. (CLIC).David moved into the brokerage industry in 1995, where he applied his experience in financial markets and technical analysis to writing market commentaries and articles as well as acting as an investment adviser. David spent several years writing columns for Investor’s Digest of Canada, as well as institutional and retail clients, and appearing as a guest market analyst on the Business News Network (BNN).David is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI) and a Canadian Investment Manager (CIM).

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We are trying to find out how we can set Index compression on out BI system, already we did for Index compression on ECC as per Note 1109743.
Is anyone faced any experience on BI Oracle index compression?
we are using BI 700, Oracle 11g on Windows.
yes i have introduced the index key compression in BI systems as well. You can only compress B*Tree indexes, so you are not able to compress most of the indexes in a SAP BI system.
However the procedure is the same as for an ECC system. Find the biggest B*Tree indexes and compress them. Maybe there are some B*Tree indexes, that are recreated by process chains - it makes no sense to compress these, because of they will lose their compress attributes.
SAP Note 1464156, is more helpful, I did work on "ctabind - compress tables and indexes".
Index compression comes for free and it can be implemented online. On the other side I could hardly see any improvements for performance, but the space savings alone justify compressing the BW indexes.

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Searching the Internet for the acronyms of CSA would yield different results but when the term is related to UK, this is usually associated to Child Support Agency. This is one of those things that people from UK should be proud of and that other countries should adopt. Child Support Agency is a stable group that specially caters in procuring the needs of a child devoid of care of parents for some reasons. This could be a child who is from a broken family or that a parent is unable to take care of the child due to incapacity or absence. In other words, a parent who is unable to provide the day-to-day needs of his or her child can avail the services of this agency which in turn, the agency will pay the one in charge of the child who is either a guardian, a close relative, a friend or one that is appointed by the court.
CSA is most helpful in cases where a family is undergoing a major problem due to divorce, legal separation or even simply when one spouse is living abroad. These things should not affect the needs of a child. Getting the help of this agency will help the child in the whole transition that his family is going through. Despite such circumstance surrounding the child, he will be able to grow and function normally with the aid of this agency whose role is to make sure that the things needed by the child are being attended to. Child support has never been easier with the help of this agency. If you are one of those who are responsible for providing support to a child, be rest assured that with the help of this agency, the child is taken care of as if you are personally there providing for his needs. Now, losing a case over child custody, mere absence, or incapacity is not an excuse anymore not to be able to give love to the child.
What are the things that typically make up the child support? Under the law these are things which are necessary for sustenance and this includes food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical attendance. Education is also included until the child completes his education, training or vocation. Support for education can also exceed even if the child goes beyond the age of majority. The law requires further that anyone who is obliged to render support should give it in proportion to his financial standing and to the needs of the child. Therefore, if this involves a substantial amount of money, the CSA would be one institution to make sure that it reaches and answers to the needs of the child. They are a good way in bridging the gap of parents who were separated by divorce and other family disputes or location. If the parents or person obliged to give support is amenable to the stipulation with the other party concerning the matter, the agency is competent enough to make the maintenance calculations and adjust it accordingly to the financial status of the giver.

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Chromospheric and transition region heating in active regions are strongly correlated with the magnetic field. Various theoretical models predict that heating through braiding of magnetic field lines, reconnection with newly emerged flux, or dissipation of Alfven waves may play an important role in heating the chromosphere and transition region. To properly study the correlation between the magnetic field and low-atmospheric heating and to distinguish between various heating models, statistical studies of the long-term evolution of active regions are critical. Such long-term studies can track the evolution of both the fields and the chromospheric/transition region heating as an active region crosses from limb-to-limb, thereby providing access to a wider range of viewing angles (important to distinguish wave heating from other heating mechanisms), as well as providinginsight into the role of flux emergence in the energy balance of the chromosphere and transition region. Large raster scans of high-quality measurements of the photospheric magnetic field with SOT/SP, as well as deep exposures of chromospheric and transition region lines with IRIS and transition region and corona lines with EIS, every 8 hours over the course of several disk passages of active regions will provide unprecedented insight into these critical issues.
Two filter observations (Al-poly and thin-Be) observations, with 30s cadence, AEC enabled, and FOV of 384"x384".
which rasters a 256"x256" region with 60s exposure time for a range of lines.
Need observations over 14 consecutive days at 8 hour cadence.
Also HOP 249 on spicules, led to Pereira et al., 2014, Skogsrud et al., 2015.
The target should be an active region as it crosses the disk (from limb to limb, observations every 8 hours).


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@Markgatiss @suevertue It was two years ago #Sherlock Please tell us any 5th season or Special Episode idea? 🥺🥺 2010...2020?
I’ve started watching #Sherlock. It’s 2019.


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Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has hailed the "incredible" Sergio Aguero and strike partner Alvaro Negredo but wants to share out praise for their goals.
Aguero and Negredo have struck up a fearsome partnership in the opening months of the season and have already scored nine league goals between them.
Aguero is leading the way with 13 in all competitions after a hot run of form that has seen him score nine in his last seven games.
Four of those came in three Barclays Premier League games in October and were enough to earn him the player of the month award.
Pellegrini said: "It is absolutely well deserved. Sergio has had an incredible last month.
"I always thought he was incredible because he is a top player, but now he is in a great moment."
Negredo has linked well with Aguero since his £20million summer move from Sevilla and his performances are keeping Edin Dzeko out of the starting line-up.
The Spaniard scored a hat-trick while Aguero grabbed the other two in the 5-2 Champions League win over CSKA Moscow in midweek.
Yet Pellegrini insists there is much more to the goals than simply the form of the front two.
He said: "It is not only Aguero and Negredo - the team is playing very well.
"All the midfielders - (David) Silva, (Samir) Nasri, (Yaya) Toure, Fernandinho - are really playing very well.
"The way the team plays I also think benefits both of them."
City are in good heart after their victory over CSKA took them into the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time.
They now turn their attention back to the Premier League and this weekend's trip to struggling Sunderland.
Last weekend's 7-0 thrashing of Norwich at the Etihad Stadium was a powerful reminder of their force but their away form has so far been indifferent.
City have collected just four points from five games on the road but Pellegrini will continue to approach all games in the same manner.
He said: "I think about different things - one is the Premier League, one is Champions League.
"We finished with the Champions League last Tuesday now we must think about the Premier League.
"But we don't need to change the mind. We are always involved in both competitions exactly the same.
"Normally teams do not play the same way away as at home, it is different, but not in our case."
City must also overcome their recent poor record at the Stadium of Light, having lost 1-0 on each of their last three visits.
Pellegrini is not concerning himself with what happened before his appointment.
He said: "I never think what happened in the past. In the future all the games are different.
"We are going to Sunderland. They are playing well now with Gustavo Poyet and they will be a difficult team to beat."
City are without playmaker Silva, who suffered a calf injury against CSKA and could be out for up to four weeks.
Influential captain Vincent Kompany also remains on the sidelines with a calf problem but he could return after the upcoming international break to face Tottenham on November 24.

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Andrea d\'Agnolo (1486-1530), known as Andrea del Sarto, because of his father’s profession (in Italian, sarto means tailor), was a great Florentine painter, to which the Uffizi Gallery dedicates one of its rooms.
He was called painter “without errors\" by Vasari. Andrea was an important figure, a master of the first generation of \"eccentric\" artists, as Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. In addition to his talent in creating secure forms, perfectly executed, we must recognize his innovative work, always attentive to the innovations of the period, and to change the tradition from within, rather than with gestures of open rupture.
Andrea del Sarto grew up in Florence, and was educated at the studio of Piero di Cosimo. Later he opened his own workshop, together with his colleague Franciabigio. At the end of the first decade of the 16th century great masters, as Leonardo and Michelangelo, had left Florence, so these young artists had much \"space\" at its disposal to work in the city. In this period, in fact, he participated in the creation of numerous frescoes cycles and made many of the drawings that made him famous.
In 1517 he painted one of his most famous paintings, which still stands in his room at the Uffizi: the Madonna of the Harpies. It is an altarpiece made for the nuns of San Francesco de\' Macci, a tempera on wood that is at the Uffizi since 1795. The work represents a Madonna standing on a kind of pedestal, with the baby in her arms and St. Francis and St. John the Evangelist on the sides.
The figures are arranged in a pyramid scheme, while different poses of saints and cherubs, facing the viewer or turning their back on, create harmony, but at the same time they have a monumental character, which reflects Michelangelo’s lesson. There are not the typical forcings of Mannerism, because Andrea is close to the sweetness of the design and also of Leonardo’s sfumato. The name of the work goes back to Vasari, who, in the carved figures at the pedestal base, saw the representation of the Harpies, figures born in the Greek myth. They are present in the Odyssey, in the Aeneid and in many other classical works, but also in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Represented as beings with bird body and woman face, they are probably born as the personification of the storm.
The juxtaposition of these beings to the melancholy and titanic human figures in the painting is mysterious and intriguing. Where it comes from? The reference is to be found in a passage of the Book of Revelation, also called The Apocalypse of John, the saint here precisely represented with a large book in his hands. According to this interpretation, the harpies are the locusts, bearers of destruction, while St. Francis represents humankind saved by Christ and spared from torment. The Madonna is therefore represented as she closes the Hell pit. A masterpiece that, in the classicism of its style, gives a glimpse of subtle tensions, soon exploded in Mannerism.
Andrea del Sarto left many important works in Florence, forming a very interesting artistic itinerary: from the cloister of the Scalzo to the monastery of Santissima Annunziata, from the Uffizi Gallery to the Cenacolo di San Salvi, and to the Palatine Gallery at Pitti Palace.
Like other Italian artists, the Sarto worked at Fontainebleau castle for a period, but he soon returned to his town, where he worked until his death. Today he is considered a very important artist in the Italian and Florentine history art. At the Uffizi there is a room dedicated to the master, but also another, entitled to the \"Friends of Andrea\", as artists his contemporaries are called, like colleagues, students, in short, the Florentine painters with whom he shared a climate and that learned the great art from him.


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Ivan's blog: You’re Entitled To What? Take Some Personal Responsibility!
You’re Entitled To What? Take Some Personal Responsibility!
The turmoil and tumult of the past couple of weeks have led me to the deeper realisation that in the majority of cases immigration has much to offer this country and indeed has brought great benefits over many years. We are beginning to understand slowly that we need willing hands to assist in so many areas of the economy and pre-Brexit concerns are apparently slowing the flow of people wanting to come here to work.
I heard an economist saying recently that in order to continue to maintain the growth in GDP we will need at least 160,00 more people to be employed and most of that will have to come from immigration. Significantly there seems to be the start of a slowdown.
It brought to mind the experiences of my grandfather who, in the 1870s, was sent by his parents to England from Poland, at the age of 15, to escape the prevailing persecution.
Unescorted and unable to speak English, he travelled by horse and cart, train and eventually a ship, with a label attached to his coat bearing an address in Manchester where some relations lived having come to England a few years before.
Miraculously he arrived safely, survived and made a new life in this country which he adored. When I knew him he was a voracious reader, had taught himself English as well as Hebrew, Latin and Greek and was making a somewhat tenuous living as a tailor.
In all his 80-odd years he paid his taxes, never asked the state for anything and, indeed, never expected anything. He was an intensely fulfilled individual who had survived through his own efforts and had made a happy life in this country having married and raised a family of five children.
A recent broadcast by a “community” leader complained that the state was not helping them and that they needed more assistance. My grandfather would have been totally bemused by this; what can the state do to help people if they don’t make an effort to help themselves first? Unquestionably there will always be a proportion of the population that through disability or sickness need assistance and it is right that the state is always there as a helping backstop.
If we consider the situation in business, much the same criteria apply. To employ people who spend their time whingeing and moaning, constantly complaining and in “something needs to be done about it” mode, is depressing and corrosive for other members of the team.
We need to give our people the freedom to express themselves, to encourage initiative and decision making and to ensure that if anything goes awry, then it is looked upon as a learning challenge not a case for reprimand.
We need to get away from the “it’s my right” syndrome and encourage the “it’s my responsibility” attitude.
That way we can start to make headway into a new positive post- Brexit start for the country and for business in general.

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The heralded Orizzonti winner of Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, EASTERN BOYS is the astonishing second feature from Robin Campillo, creator of the international phenomenon The Returned.
The heralded Orizzonti winner of Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, EASTERN BOYS is the astonishing second feature from Robin Campillo, editor and co-writer of Laurent Cantet’s Palme d’Or winner The Class, and more recently creator of the international phenomenon Les revenants (The Returned).
The film centres on Daniel (Of Gods and Men’s Olivier Rabourdin), a successful if solitary middle-aged Frenchman, who cruises the Gare du Nord railway station and solicits a handsome young foreigner Marek (Kirill Emelyanov). After arranging to meet at his apartment, Daniel’s world is upended when someone else knocks on his door, triggering a series of incidents that completely erode his wellbeing and security.
Aesthetically bold, audaciously constructed and unafraid of provocative truths about masculinity and sexuality, EASTERN BOYS has a ripped-from-the-headlines relevance to some of the most important issues facing modern Europe. Skillfully keeping viewers on a knife’s-edge, this mesmerising film stamps Campillo as a distinctive and singular voice in contemporary world cinema.
‘Love is a tangled thing on the streets of Paris’ – Robin Campillo with The Shortlist’s Garry Maddox.
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The tray costs £16 and the coasters £6 from John Lewis.


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Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French: [gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, often in boulevardier roles, in the many plays he wrote, of which there were more than 120. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932.
Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
The later years of Guitry's career were overshadowed by accusations of collaborating with the occupying Germans after the capitulation of France in the Second World War. The charges were dismissed, but Guitry, a strongly patriotic man, was disillusioned by the vilification by some of his compatriots. By the time of his death his popular esteem had been restored to the extent that 12,000 people filed past his coffin before his burial in Paris.
Guitry was born at No 12 Nevsky Prospect, Saint Petersburg, Russia, the third son of the French actors Lucien Guitry and his wife Marie-Louise-Renée née Delmas de Pont-Jest (1858–1902). The couple had eloped, in the face of family disapproval, and were married at St Martin in the Fields, London, in 1882. They then moved to the Russian capital, where Lucien ran the French theatre company, the Théâtre Michel, from 1882 to 1891. The marriage was brief. Guitry senior was a persistent adulterer, and his wife instituted divorce proceedings in 1888. Two of their sons died in infancy (one in 1883 and the other in 1887); the other surviving son, Jean (1884–1920) became an actor and journalist. The family's Russian nurse habitually shortened Alexandre-Pierre's name to the Russian diminutive "Sacha", by which he was known all his life. The young Sacha made his stage debut in his father's company at the age of five.
Lucien Guitry, considered the most distinguished actor in France since Coquelin, was immensely successful, both critically and commercially. When he returned to Paris he lived in a flat in a prestigious spot, overlooking the Place Vendôme. and the Rue de la Paix. The young Sacha lived there, and for his schooling he was first sent to the well-known Lycée Janson de Sailly in the fashionable Sixteenth arrondissement. He did not stay long there, and went to a succession of other schools, both secular and religious, before abandoning formal education at the age of sixteen.
After giving up school Guitry embarked on a career as a playwright with a little musical piece called Le Page, with a score by Ludo Ratz, premiered at the Théâtre des Mathurins on 15 April 1902. Eighteen months later he joined his father's company at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. At first he appeared under the stage name "Lorcey"; the pseudonym deceived no-one, as the press immediately announced the debutant's real identity. His first role was in L'Escalier, by Maurice Donnay in November 1904. He fell out with his father over what the latter saw as Guitry's lack of professionalism. In the aftermath of their quarrel they neither saw nor spoke to one another.
A member of Lucien Guitry's company was a young actress, Charlotte-Augustine-Hortense Lejeune, whose stage name was Charlotte Lysès (1877–1956). In April 1905 she and Sacha set up home together in the rue d'Anjou (now the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré). For her he wrote his play, Le KWTZ, premiered in December 1905 at the Théâtre des Capucins. In the same month he had his first substantial hit with Nono at the Mathurins. When the leading man in Guitry's 1906 play Chez les Zoaques fell ill the author took over, and in the words of a critic, "proved to be his own definitive interpreter". The pattern of his career was set: he remained an actor-author, and later manager, for the rest of his life.
For the next five years Guitry's plays were, at best, moderate successes, but he then had five consecutive hits with Le Veilleur de nuit (1911), Un Beau mariage (1912), Le Prise de Berg-op-Zoom (1912), La Pèlerine écossaise (1912), and Les Deux converts (1914), the last of which was staged by the Comédie Française.
In 1915, Guitry made his first cinema film,[n 1] Ceux de chez nous ("Those of our home"), a short patriotic piece that celebrated great French men and women of the day, including Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand and Camille Saint-Saëns. He was not greatly attracted by the medium of silent film, regarding dialogue as the essence of drama; he did not make a full-length film until 1935. In 1915 he met the young singer Yvonne Printemps, with whom he began an affair that led Charlotte to leave him and obtain a divorce. Guitry started to write leading roles for Printemps some musical and others straight comedies.
Guitry was reconciled with his father in 1918. Lucien appeared in many productions with his son and Printemps, including Mon Père avait raison and Comment on ecrit l'histoire. They played together not only in Paris, but in the West End of London. All three appeared at the Aldwych Theatre in a four-week season in 1920. Sir John Gielgud wrote that Printemps and her husband "returned … many times to delight London in various pieces artfully contrived by him to show them both off to the best possible advantage."
Guitry developed a charming, witty stage persona, often appearing in period-dress light comedies, for instance his 1925 pastiche Mozart, about the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a visit to Paris. To compose the score he approached André Messager, with whom he had successfully collaborated in 1923 on a show for Printemps, L'amour masqué. Messager was unavailable and recommended the composer Reynaldo Hahn, who accepted the commission. The resulting production took some liberties with historical accuracy, but it proved highly popular. Printemps, in a breeches role, played and sang the young Mozart, with Guitry as the composer's patron, Baron Grimm. Gielgud recalled, "she seemed ravishingly youthful and touching in her powdered wig, black knee breeches and buckled shoes, while Sacha hovered over her with avuncular authority, not attempting to try to sing himself, but contributing a kind of flowing, rhythmic accompaniment with his speeches, delivered in a deep caressing voice." After playing successfully at the Théâtre Edouard VII, the company presented the piece for a three-week season in London in June and July 1926. [n 2] After the London production, Guitry and Printemps took the piece to Broadway, Boston and Montreal in late 1926 and early 1927. They returned to the US and Canada in 1929.
In 1931, Guitry was awarded the Legion of Honour, and the following year he marked thirty years on the stage with a banquet, with dishes named after some of his greatest successes. Later in 1932 his marriage to Printemps broke up. He took a six-month break from the theatre, returning in April 1933 in Châteaux en Espagne, which co-starred his new protégée, Jacqueline Delubac, whom he married on his fiftieth birthday. During the 1930s he turned his attention once more to the cinema, as writer, director and star, while not neglecting his theatrical career. Sheridan Morley comments that in 1936 alone Guitry made five films and also wrote five plays. Among the latter was his hundredth play, Le Mot de Cambronne.
In 1938 Guitry wrote a one-act play, Dieu sauve le roi, to mark the state visit to Paris of George VI; the play was given in front of the king and queen at the Elysée Palace. When President Lebrun made a reciprocal visit to London the following year Guitry wrote a short comedy in English, You're Telling Me, in which the author and Sir Seymour Hicks starred at a command performance and for a limited run after it.
As the war approached, Guitry managed to do something which would be of far greater significance. On 16 August 1939, when visiting London Guitry smuggled over a replica Enigma machine supplied by the Biuro Szyfrow and bound for Bletchley Park.
His next play, Un Monde fou was his last to feature Delubac, who, in Morley's phrase, "could no longer bear living with a jealous workaholic". Within months of her leaving him he married for a fourth time; his new wife was Geneviève de Séréville, who had been in the cast of his London play.
Guitry's career was affected by the Nazi occupation of France. He continued to work both on stage and in the cinema under the Nazis. Although this gave him the opportunity to help many of his compatriots it also brought accusations of collaborating with the enemy. He conceived his book and associated film, De 1429 à 1942 ou De Jeanne d'Arc à Philippe Pétain ("1429 to 1942, or Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain") as a tribute to France's past glories, but many saw it as honouring the collaborationist president of Vichy France, Marshal Pétain. In 1944 Guitry's fourth wife left him. In 1942 Guitry was named on a list of French collaborators with Germany to be killed during the war, or tried after it.
On the liberation of France, Guitry was among the first arrested, by a self-appointed militia. He was interned in a detention camp at Drancy, and suffered ill-effects on his health that necessitated his transfer to a Paris nursing home. He was completely cleared of all accusations of collaboration, but the experience left him disillusioned.
In 1947 Guitry married for the fifth and last time; he was sixty-two and his bride, Lana Marconi, was twenty-eight. He was permitted to resume working in the theatre in 1948, when he returned to the Paris stage with Le Diable boiteux. For the London season in 1953, celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, Guitry starred at the Winter Garden in Ecoutez bien, messieurs, a comedy in which he played a voluble Frenchman reduced to baffled silence by an even more voluble Englishwoman, played (in English) by Heather Thatcher. Later in the same year he made his last stage appearance in Paris in Palsambleu. He continued to make films until 1957, when he suffered a disabling disease of the nervous system.
Guitry died in Paris at the age of seventy-two. Twelve thousand people filed past his coffin, and he was buried, like his father, in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris.
Critical re-assessment has been prompted by reissues of Guitry's films. In 2011, an auction of Guitry memorabilia, including manuscripts, drawings, paintings and photographs, was held at the Drouot-Richelieu in Paris; with more than eight hundred items, it was considered the most important collection of material relating to Guitry since the playwright's death.
It may be objected that in all the work of Sacha Guitry there is nothing nearer to idealism than an occasional pretty fancy in sentiment – a sentiment which was always entirely mundane and as entirely selfish as sentiment can well be. It may be objected that characters are nearly always trivial. and their motives at least sensual when they are not base; that his world is inhabited by an idle, cynical, and pretty disreputable crew; that he is obviously contemptuous of his audience, and that his plays are composed with a carelessness which argues a very frail artistic conscience, while literary purists can prove that the language in which they are written is execrable French. It may be objected that all he did as an author was to exploit, with some agility and discretion, his own limited gifts as a performer and the gifts, also limited, of his five successive wives – although the success of Le Blanc et le Noir and other plays, in which neither he nor any of his wives acted, is enough to disprove this last charge. Indeed, there are answers to many of the objections which have been made. For instance, Pasteur and Un Sujet de Roman are based on themes by no means trivial and are developed with sincerity and power. At the same time, most of the objections are well founded, and it is with all the weight of their truth against him that Sacha Guitry remained a great artist.
^ The previous year he had made a film for his family, Oscar rencontre Mlle Mamageot; it lasted less than four minutes and remained unpublished.
^ The critic James Agate wrote, "It is not exaggerating to say that on Monday evening people were observed to cry, and by that I mean shed tears, when Music's heavenly child appeared at the top of the stairs. At that moment of her entrance this exquisite artist made conquest of the house, and subsequently held it in thrall until the final curtain."
^ deRochemont, Richard (24 August 1942). "The French Underground". LIFE.
Keit, Alain (1999). Le cinéma de Sacha Guitry. Liege: Céfal. ISBN 2871300704.
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