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Activities Available:Beer Gardens, River Outfitters, Tube Rental Services
This place rents tubes and rafts for use along the lower Guadalupe River upstream from Gruene. This place is located on a nice stretch of the river for tubing. An advantage of tubing here is that when you take out at the end you can walk up the steps and grab a beer and burger before hitting the road. They have a deck overlooking the river and they are located between the 2nd and 3rd crossings, which is a popular place to go tubing. During the warm months they often have live music on Sundays.


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Habitat: Steep slopes, canyons and washes in desert regions
Diet: Acacia, encelia, sweetbush and other desert plants
Range: Parts of Baja California and the Peninsular Ranges of San Diego, Imperial and Riverside counties, including the San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, Vallecito and In-Ko-Pah mountains
Threats: Habitat loss, predators and diseases
Population in 1998: 280 in the United States
Population today: About 800 in the United States
Reasons for increase: Captive breeding program, fewer disease outbreaks and habitat protection
SOURCE: Bighorn Institute
The rebounding but still endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep will lose 55 percent of its federally protected habitat, a development that will likely trigger a lawsuit from environmentalists.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials will announce their downsizing strategy for the iconic animal today.
"We do plan to challenge this decision because it fails to provide sufficient habitat for recovery of the species," said Lisa Belenky, an attorney in San Francisco with the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit animal-advocacy group with a history of disputing the government's habitat decisions.
She said the new bighorn designation "provides no reasonable explanation" for cutting off critical corridors that allow the sheep to move across different parts of their territory.
Bighorn sheep roam the backcountry mountains and deserts of San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties. Visitors to the Anza Borrego Desert State Park commonly see them in the spring.
During the 1980s and '90s, the sheep were devastated by disease, development and mountain lions. But conservation efforts over the past decade have spurred a resurgence; the population has rebounded from 280 in the late 1990s to about 800 now.
In 2001, the Fish and Wildlife Service designated 844,897 acres as critical habitat – land considered essential for protecting the sheep. The Agua Caliente tribe then sued the agency, saying it improperly restricted development on tribal land.
Today, the service will publish the final habitat designation of 376,938 acres for the sheep. Its officials said the smaller habitat area accounts for new research about bighorns since 2001, particularly improved maps that identify the areas actually used by the animals.
"We have just gained a lot of new, accurate and more specific data that allowed us to hone in on" sheep habitat factors such as water sources, elevation and plant species, said Stephanie Weagley, a spokeswoman for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Carlsbad.
The agency acknowledges conservationists' concerns about the lack of corridors, but it also cites a lack of evidence to show what areas the sheep use to move between major parcels of conserved land.
Excluded from the new habitat designation are 4,790 acres controlled by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and nearly 39,000 acres of private property covered by a multiple-species conservation plan for the Coachella Valley.
Environmentalists said they are galled by the downsizing, especially because they had protested the proposal last year.
"Nothing is different about bighorn biology since the original 2001 critical habitat determination, but the politics have changed," said Joan Taylor, conservation chairwoman for the Sierra Club in the Coachella Valley. "The Fish and Wildlife Service has caved to private developers."
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Recently, there have been a lot of headlines identifying mobile data growth as a crisis in the making — a collection of different voices adding to the discussion, culminating in a chorus of warnings about the coming capacity crunch. Even with upgrades to 4G, there won't be enough mobile data capacity to meet the exploding demand for data thanks to the proliferation of powerful smartphones that put the Internet in our hands, available at every turn.
Andrew Seybold, one of the wireless industry's best established pundits, has added his voice to the chorus with his newsletter article "Managing the Demand for Wireless Data" — and it is one of the most thorough deconstructions of the issue that we've seen in print. Sometimes it takes a seasoned veteran to distill the myriad complexities of the issue down into a single, comprehensive overview that readily addresses the critical aspects of the issue at hand, including the likelihood of increased costs for heavy users due to new tiered pricing structures.
We highly recommend reading his article, and then reading it again. It's that good.


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Theory of Mind and Language in Developmental Contexts
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Part of the The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality book series (SSHE)
Part of the The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality book series (SSHE)
How we think and speak is a reflection of our shared cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Theory of Mind and Language in Different Developmental Contexts blazes new trails in the study of the relationship between the theory of mind—that is, the ability to attribute mental states as the basis of behavior and social interaction—and language.
This volume examines the linguistic variables within developmental contexts, including:
Different levels of analysis.
Intercultural differences (e.g., Western, non-Western).
Intracultural differences (e.g., socioeconomic status).
Conditions of development as well as typical and atypical functions.
Contexts of usage, including personal, social, and business interactions.
Each chapter focuses on issues and methodologies to provide a comprehensive overview of current studies on the relationship between the theory of mind and language. Data and working strategies are provided for clinicians, educators, and other mental health professionals. This volume is a must-have for developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychologists and researchers interested in the most up-to-date information on theory of mind and language.


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Whenever I encounter a paper like this – Towards automatic optimization of MapReduce programs – and there are a lot of them, I find myself sighing inwardly. (Heck, we even had a student of ours who ended up tweaking a bunch of these knobs: http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/node/146).
This seems to be a common refrain in Java programs, but Hadoop especially – rather then either choosing a sensible constant, or adapting a value at runtime, let's foist all of the work onto the user. But the way it's phrased is clever – we're not avoiding the decision, we're just making it so the user can configure things however they want. I've done this a lot myself – it's just so easy to add a flag to your command line or to your config file and pride yourself on a job well (not) done.
The key issue here is that, as a user, I don't know what to put in for these values, I don't know what's important to change, and so I'm the absolute worst person to be responsible for these things.
Seriously, why are you giving the user these parameters to tweak?
- io.sort.record.percent
- io.sort.factor
- mapreduce.job.split.metainfo.maxsize
- mapred.heartbeats.in.second
What inevitably happens is we don't know what any of these things actually mean when it comes to making things faster, so we end up searching the internet for the magic numbers to plug in, rerunning our jobs a whole bunch and wasting a crap-load of time.
This is not a desirable user experience. I mean, here's the interface a car exposes to me:
There's a "go faster" pedal and a "go slower" pedal. These correspond to all sorts of complicated, dynamic magic inside of the engine compartment, but I don't need to know about them – the system handles it for me. Moreover, it can adjust parameters at runtime, in response to the behavior of the car – unlike most of our lazy computer programs!
If only our programs could be more like cars (though hopefully with better gas mileage).


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Grande Region Security and Reliability Day 2014
2014 – Saarland University
General information
Security and reliability are interdisciplinary areas, drawing from several fields: mathematics (number theory, statistics, logic), computer science (algorithms, information theory, cryptology, formal methods, computational complexity, software engineering), electrical engineering (electronics, signal acquisition and processing, secure hardware design), management (security and quality policies, risk assessment) and social aspects (security awareness, ethical and legal issues, privacy).
The objective of the Grande Region Security and Reliability Day (GRSRD) is to increase scientific interaction in security and reliability at the regional level. The workshop provides a platform for exchange of ideas, discussion and co-operation. It focuses on the Grande Region but is open to submissions and participation of the whole scientific community working in security and reliability. The GRSRD is jointly organized by the University of Luxembourg, LORIA-INRIA Nancy, Saarland University, and the University of Trier.
Previous editions of GRSRD were held in:
- Luxembourg - GRSRD 2013
- Nancy - GRSRD 2012
- Trier - GRSRD 2011
- Saarbrücken - GRSRD 2010
- Luxembourg - P1 Day 2009
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Information security and cryptology
- Communication and network security
- System security and reliability
- Formal methods in security and reliability
- Access, information flow and usage control
- Security and privacy policies
- Data mining for security and privacy
- Building secure and reliable software systems
- Trust models and trust management
- Fault tolerance
- Risk management and business processes
- Regulatory compliance
- Socio-technical aspects of security
Important dates
- 14 Feb 2014 Submission deadline
- 21 Feb 2014 Notification of acceptance
- 28 Feb 2014 Registration deadline
- 28 Feb 2014 Submission deadline for on-line publication
- 12 Mar 2014 Workshop
RegistrationPlease fill-in the registration form, sign it and send it to Stephanie Feyahn.
Registration fee for GRSRD 2014 is 40€. It covers:
- coffee breaks
- lunch
- workshop material
Bank: Bank1 Saar eG
Swift Code: SABADE5S
Transfer description: E514112901, GRSRD 2014, Name of participant
Program chairs
- Christian Hammer, Saarland University, Germany
- Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany
Program committee
- Stephan Merz, LORIA-INRIA, France
- Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Michaël Rusinowitch, LORIA-INRIA, France
- Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Dominque Schröder, Saarland University, Germany
- Tomasz Truderung, University of Trier, Germany
Local organisation
For all inquiries please contact
Invited speaker
We are happy to announce that Dr. Graham Steel will give an invited lecture at GRSRD 2014. Dr. Graham Steel is a research fellow at INRIA and recently started the company Cryptosense which does security analysis of security hardware modules and security tokens.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of 1-2 pages via EasyChair. The workshop will not have formal proceedings. Therefore, abstracts submitted to the GRSRD 2014 may report on work in progress, be submitted to other places, and they may even already have appeared or been accepted elsewhere. We particularly welcome submissions that have the potential to stimulate the scientific interaction within the Grande Region. The reviewing process will mainly determine whether a submitted abstract promises to fit into the scope of this workshop. This will be the major reason for acceptance of presentation. This year we will feature both regular presentation and poster presentations in order to accomodate a broader discussion forum. Both of these presentation styles are required to submit an extended abstract.
The authors of the papers accepted for presentation at GRSRD 2014 will be invited to submit the final versions of their abstracts for an on-line publication at this web page.
GRSRD 2014 is supported by


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5 Basic Tips for Camping with a Tent
As I sit here waiting for my first born to arrive, I started thinking about my family's yearly camping trip. Every year we travel from New Jersey to Bar Harbor, Maine for a nice relaxing and scenic camping trip. I look forward to this trip every year and book my campsite a year in advance. … [Read more…]


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We all want the best we gear can get for the lowest possible price, and that's why many bargain hunters end up buying their motorcycle gear from Aliexpress. But is it safe? Are the goods genuine? Are the prices too good to be true? We've bought a selection of gloves, jackets and pants over the past 18 months from the online superstore so you don't have to and our conclusions should help prevent you from wasting your hard earned currency.
For those who haven't heard of the website before, Aliexpress is the online retail arm of Alibaba, a massive Chinese e-commerce company that acts as a source for thousands of importers from all over the world to buy goods and then sell them locally. Most of the stuff you buy on eBay? It's sourced from Alibaba at a wholesale level or Aliexpress for smaller players. At it's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, it was valued at $231 billion. Amazon is only valued at $144 billion and in stark contrast, Alibaba is actually profitable.
You can buy motorcycle fairings, rearsets, sliders, decals, replacement parts and clothing, be it gloves, boots, jackets or helmets. But we're not talking about t-shirts here that you buy for looks. Motorcycle protective clothing is for just that – protection. So are all the Alpinestars gloves and Dainese jackets genuine?
Some of the products you buy are obviously fake. Dodgy looking logos, sizing that's completely wrong and exotic materials that are clearly not what they're supposed to be. But some goods are so realistic that if you put them side by side with the same product at a retail store, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Perhaps they are genuine – there is the potential they've come from the same factory as the full priced items but I'm basing that judgment at a superficial level. The stitching and dyes which hold everything together may very well be poor (and cheap) imitations which completely changes the structural integrity of the product. Here's what we found.
We purchased a number of gloves from Aliexpress as follows:
- Alpinestars S1 (RRP of $159.95 on Revzilla, $29.95 on Aliexpress)
- Dainese Full Metal RS (RRP of $349.95 on Motorcycle Supestore, $80.00 on Aliexpress)
- RS Taichi RST369 (Now discontinued, but $39.99 on Aliexpress)
- REV'IT Summit H20 (RRP of $134.99 on Bike Bandit, $49.99 on Aliexpress)
As you can see there's a massive difference in price between what you can get on Aliexpress compared to general retail stores. So is it a case of too good to be true? Pretty much.
The RS Taichi gloves were the best out of the four. We honestly couldn't tell the difference between them and the genuine article. And out of the four pairs of gloves we purchased, they're the only ones we crash tested – numerous times. They held up perfectly. I have no doubt the carbon fiber palm sliders and knuckle protectors are just plastic, but nevertheless they did the job.
The next best is the REV'IT Summit H20 gloves. They look genuine, the feel genuine but for some reason they just seem off and I can't put my finger on why. The Alpinestars S1's looked genuine until you take a closer look. First of all they're pleather, not leather. Secondly, you know they're fake because the logos are in the wrong places and the holes on the wrists aren't fully perforated.


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This segment is a regularly occurring feature. It gets its name from a joke that is commonly made about technical people. Usually a very simple problem is presented about horses (or sometimes cows) and a physicist/engineer/mathematician is asked to provide a solution. The solution is made complex because incorporating the nuances of the animals in question is extremely difficult, hence the highly technical person is required. The solution then starts with the technical person saying, "I made two assumptions. The first assumption is gravity. The second assumption I made was that all horses are spheres." The crux of the joke, which is often found in the markets, is that approximating is both easier and "accurate enough." Hence the naming of this series on mathematical financial tricks and other interesting tidbits.
Loans are simple enough. I tell you that I would like to originate a loan, which I will securitize, and your interest rate on a loan is going to be 10%. Easy! You just send in 10% of the loan amount every year. Well, not really:
- If I followed convention, I quoted you an Act/360 rate (it accrues yearly based on the actual days, but assumes a 360 day year)–the interest you pay is really 10.14% (~ 365/360 * 10%). (Note that the lower the interest rate, the lower the impact of converting to Act/360.)
- If this was a 10 year loan, those 14 basis points (bps, 1/100th of a percent) are worth about 1.11% of the total notional of the loan (don't forget, that's 14 bps extra one pays per year, for 10 years–take the present value of all those cashflows).
Now, let's look at what happens when I securitize the loan.
- I monetize the 14 bps because the bonds I sell accrue on a 30/360 basis (market convention), so those extra days of interest never get paid to bondholders–I keep it.
- Another nuance: The bonds are priced to the market convention, which is assuming a semi-annual yield. Investors will demand, say, a 10% coupon on their bonds. The bonds, though, match the loan–they pay monthly. What is the 10% worth on a monthly basis? About 9.80% (see below). What do I earn on arbitraging the difference? Well, about 20 bps per year, which, present valued, is worth about 1.59% of the loan amount.
Let's review: I quoted you a loan at 10%. The 10% tuned out to be more than 10%. I then sold the loan using a completely different set of assumptions and, doing nothing at all, managed to pocket 2.7% of the loan amount. On $10 million dollars that's $270,000 I made just for arbitraging various conventions and the difference in how bond investors think and how lenders generally think. Would you have been better off to take the 10.05% loan from the insurance company, quoted on a 30/360 basis? Yep. But the rate was lower … and all bonds are spheres.
The voodoo behind the 9.80% monthly equivalent coupon is easy. The first insight is to recognize that a yield is essentially a discount rate. To find a monthly equivalent to a semi-annual yield one needs only to find the interest rate that, when compounded twelve times a year, equals the yield that assumes compounding twice a year (the semi-annual yield).
We start by saying that an annualized yield, assuming compounding x times a year is
(1 + i/x)^(x) – 1 = annualized yield Formula that codifies the above intuition.
For our example of a 10% semi-annual yield, we get the following:
ann. yield (12 pmts.) = ann. yield (2 pmts)
(1 + (r/12))^12 – 1 = (1 + (10%/2))^2 – 1
1+ (r/12)) = (1+5%)^(2/12) Algebra… 😦
r/12 = (1.05)^(2/12) – 1
r = 12 * ((1.05)^(2/12) – 1)
r = 9.79781526% Our answer!
And that's how I arrived at that solution. I'm sure I'm missing something minor that excel would do for me, but you get the idea.


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Welcome to First Line Friday! I hope you have a great weekend. I'm working on the final draft of my work-in-progress, spending time with my husband and children, and (hopefully) relaxing.
This week, I'm sharing the first line from one of my favorite historical fiction novels In His Eyes by Stephenia McGee. If you'd like to hear more, check out my review.
Note: Links in this post may include affiliate links which provide me with a small commission at no expense to you.
About the Book:
Her heart sought shelter. Her soul found home.
Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has someone to love. In need of a wet nurse, she arrives at Belmont Plantation just as Federal soldiers demand to speak to the owner. Thinking quickly, Ella masquerades as a Yankee officer's widow in order to have a roof over her head and a home for the child.
Major Westley Remington has dedicated his life to serving his country. The Civil War has divided his family, torn his thoughts of glory, and left him with a wound that may never heal. Westley returns home on medical furlough to settle his father's estate at Belmont Plantation, only to find his home is being run by a fiery and independent woman—one many believe to be his wife. Now he is faced with a conflict he's never been trained to fight, and one she has yet to conquer.
First Lines:
"Ella Whitaker braced herself for another of the woman's screams. Swallowing her fear lest it show in her eyes, she bathed Cynthia's sweat soaked brow."
Check out the first lines from some of my blogging friends.
Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen
All the Book Blog Names are Taken
It's Storytime With Van Daniker
If you'd like to join in on the First Line Friday fun, contact Carrie at Reading is My Superpower.
Your Turn
In the comments below, share a line from the book nearest you. The first line might interest a fellow reader in the book which in turns helps spread the word about some of our favorite authors.
Have an amazing weekend!
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Are you someone who wants to learn how to play the guitar? Or do you already have a band practicing in your basement? Either way Acoustic Guitar is the perfect magazine subscription. This magazine subscription has everything you will ever need all in one simple place at the palm of your hand. You will have access to the latest news, how-to-articles, different types of gear, reviews, and event information. Look no further for your guitar needs, subscribe to Acoustic Guitar today.
This magazine is full of excitement and information. Whether you just started playing today, or have played for years this magazine is for you. It is full of content for every type of style. There are articles with rioting topics every guitar player could learn from. There are special features telling the story of how someone made their dreams come true and how it all started for them. That may help the beginners with getting their foot in the music industry.
No matter how much you know you will never know it all. This magazine offers new techniques for beginners and experts. There are step by step how to's ensuring you will be next Jimmy Hendrix. Wow your friends and family with your amazing skills. The only way to get exclusive access is to subscribe to Acoustic Guitar today.
Guitar gear is an important part of being a guitarist. This magazine has all the latest gear you will need. They also have a review section, that way you can decided whether and item is worth buying or not. There will be advice on the best products out there. This will be helpful for the experienced and the beginners players. What are you waiting for? Order your Acoustic Guitar subscription today. You will not regret it.


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Thirsties covers were one of the later additions to our stash, but they have become a staple. We have one in size 1 (Cool Stripes pattern) and one in size 2 (Hoot pattern), both with snaps instead of aplix (velcro-like) closure. I use them with trifolded or Snappi'ed prefolds. Cotton Babies product description: Easy to … Continue reading
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Who Are You?
So, last night, I noticed on one of the widgets at the bottom of my page that I have 49 email followers. First, my heart leaped with joy. It then promptly sunk to my toes when I realized that it was probably spam. But then, another twist. What if I really do have 49 followers … Continue reading


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Enjoy mind blowing puzzle game with Homescapes
Has every tried a game where you can enjoy puzzles and interior decoration together? Well, you can try Homescapes game on your gaming device and have great fun. There are many games which are being launched on the daily basis.
You must have noticed the fact that only the simplest games are becoming popular now. Here in this particular game, you are going to get the combination of both simple and complex games. It will be depending on your choice that how you want to make it.
There are very interesting features which will take your breath away and mesmerize you. The graphics are superb and effective. All the latest gaming qualities are present in this game which is making this game more popular among everyone.
Best gaming features
– The moves are very easy and smooth to make and you will love Homescapes once you download it. After starting it, you will find it very hard to stop playing it.
– The best part is that many things are so practical that you can also use them in the real world as well.
– Interior designing and decorating of the house are very practical and real. You will find that many items which are given to put in the house are also present in your house.
– You can learn to use them and have great advantages.
Earning money is thrilling
– There is no doubt that gaming currency is the most crucial part of every game. Most of the gaming apps come with the free to download feature with Homescapes Hack.
– You have to buy currency to enjoy another important phase of gaming. Here you are supposed to earn coins.
You are expected to be the winner in the match-3 puzzle game and provide enough funds to the Austin who is the main character. He will buy some important items for the house and renovate it.


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The Obelisk Presents: Emerald Haze 2017 Announces Full Schedule
Can I be brutally honest for just a second here? Just a second — won't take long. I'm not worthy.
I'm sorry. I'm just not. I look at the lineup that's come together for the first Emerald Haze on Sept. 1 and 2 in Dublin, I see this site's name on a stage that will be shared by the likes of The Cosmic Dead, Abrahma, Lord Vicar, Sólstafir, Iron Void, Blaak Heat, Church of the Cosmic Skull, Elder Druid, Gourd, WitchSorrow, Gorilla Pulp and Ten Ton Slug, and I have to just shake my head. I've done nothing to deserve to be so honored as to be associated with these people. Nothing. I didn't earn this. I'm not worthy. Seeing a logo for The Obelisk on the posters below, I feel like I'm getting away with some kind of scam.
Again, I'm sorry, but that's how I really feel about it. This show is so god damn sick. They need me as a part of it the way they need a hole in the head. If you had told me eight-plus years ago when I started this site (1:) that I'd still be doing it in eight-plus years and (2:) that I'd be co-presenting shows in places like Dublin, Ireland, I'd have immediately and rightly told you to screw off. There's unbelievable and then there's absurd, and from where I sit, this falls definitively into the realm of the latter.
My flight's booked. If you're going, I'll see you there. Please let me know if you'd like me to tell you all of this in-person, because I am 100 percent ready and willing to do that at any point. What I can't do is even begin to properly express how grateful I am to be involved in this.
Okay. That's my piece.
Full schedule for Emerald Haze 2017 follows here:
Emerald Haze 2017 – Full Schedule
Friday, Sept. 1
Doors – 6.00
The Obelisk Stage
7.00–7.30 Elder Druid
7.45–8.15 Blaak Heat
8.30–9.00 Abrahma
9.15–10.00 The Cosmic Dead
10.30–11.20 Church of the Cosmic Skull
MFB Stage
8.00–8.30 Zlatanera
8.45–9.15 Mount Soma
9.30–10.10 King Witch
10.25-11.05 Electric Octopus
11.20–12.20 Wild Rocket
After Party DJs Til Late – On The Rox
Saturday, Sept. 2
Doors – 2.30
The Obelisk Stage
3.30 – 4.00 Gourd?
4.15 – 4.45 Ten Ton Slug?
5.00 – 5.45 Iron Void?
6.00 – 6.45 Witchsorrow?
7.20–8.00 Dread Sovereign
8.15–9.15 Lord Vicar
9.45–10.45 Sólstafir
11.00-11.40 Gorilla Pulp
After Party DJs Til Late – Voodoo Lounge
MFB Stage
3.45–4.15 Korvid
4.30–5.00 Vulpynes
5.15–5.45 Crowhammer
6.00–6.30 The Magnapinna
6.45–7.15 Death The Leveller
8.00–8.30 Mother Mooch
8.45–9.40 Nomadic Rituals
Subject to change
Day tickets and a limited number of early bird tickets are on sale now from www.tickets.ie
Direct link: https://secure.tickets.ie/Listing/EventInformation/35248/emerald-haze-dublin
Friday: €15 + €2.50 booking fee
Saturday: €25 + € 3.00 booking fee
Early Bird Weekend tickets: €35 + €3.50 booking fee
For more information see www.emeraldhazedublin.com
Event page: www.facebook.com/events/1321221147946613
EMERALD HAZE takes place on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd September 2017 over two adjacent venues – Smithfield's Voodoo Lounge and On The Rox. Performers will be a mix of Irish and international headline acts, alongside established and emerging talent from Ireland and abroad. EMERALD HAZE is a not-for-profit venture, supported by Dublin City Council.
Sólstafir, Berdreyminn (2017)
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Application of 3d Printing in Automotive Industry
The process of 3D printing was first invented in 1980 through the use of a technique known as stereolithography. This used a UV laser which traced the outline of the object to be created in a vat of polymer. When the UV comes in touch with the polymer, it solidifies. This was expensive, cumbersome and didn't yield great results.
Fast forward to today, 3D printing has made great strides when it comes to real-world applications in various fields including healthcare, aeronautics, and automobiles. There are several reasons why 3D printing is one of the fastest growing technologies in the world today.
Why is 3D printing growing rapidly?
3D printing has several advantages when it comes to modern life. As a simple example, let's say you need a replacement part for a gadget at home. If you had a 3D printer at home with the necessary materials, you don't have to buy it from a store. You could just download a blueprint and get it printed right at home. This saves you considerable time and money which is the reason why 3D printing is one of the technologies that is going to take us into the future.
Advantages Of 3D Printing In The Automotive Sector
When it comes to automobiles, replacement parts for cars are expensive to manufacture and sometimes phased out on a regular basis. 3D printing for automobiles has a significant advantage for both the manufacturer and the consumer. It can significantly reduce costs, turnaround times and logistical problems for everyone involved. Let's take a detailed look as to how 3D printing can help the automotive industry.
Decreased Turnarounds and Costs
With 3D printing technology, there are massive savings of time when it comes to every aspect of the pipeline from prototyping to manufacturing. 3D printing also saves material by allowing people to recycle material left over after the process. This directly translates into lower costs for the manufacturer as well as the consumer.
Enables Rapid Prototyping
When it comes to the automotive industry the ability to quickly and cost-effectively prototype a component or a model is integral to the success of the project. 3D printers are able to develop components ranging from scale models to full-size renditions quicker than ever before. Also, with minor investment, this can be carried out completely in-house further adding value to the process.
Economical and avoids wastage
3D printing uses significantly less material than traditional methods of manufacturing, and it is a lot more precise meaning less wastage as well. Another advantage of 3D printing is that when it comes to some types of material, leftovers can be recycled and used in subsequent processes.
3D printing has enabled auto manufacturers to opt for different options or various iterations without needing to change too much in the process pipeline or taking a lot of time. What this means is that manufacturers have become a much more agile force with the advent of 3D printing. They also have tighter control over the entire process.
Reduce Storage Costs
Because 3D printing is one of the quickest methods of manufacturing, there is no need to maintain a considerable inventory of auto parts for older models as they can be manufactured on demand. This can save manufacturers a lot of money when it comes to maintaining burgeoning inventory space.
Summing it up
A lot of manufacturers are opting for 3D printing as a part of their manufacturing process. Big players like BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen and Audi already have 3D printing plants set up aimed at cutting costs. Nice car manufacturers who have annual model revamps and short production runs like Porsche can now opt for 3D printing as a method that doesn't require them to store inventory or invest in expensive tooling.
Another fact is that 3D printing takes a lesser toll on the environment than traditional manufacturing methods. So as we move forward, 3D printing is set to be an important cog in the journey to a better future.


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Anyone who knows me will know about my big love for the gentle giants that roam our earth. Elephants embody a tender and peaceful spirit. These immensely powerful animals have always fascinated for me from a young age.
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During my research on driving the Garden Route in South Africa I stumbled across The Elephant Sanctuary. Nestled within The Crags in Plettenberg Bay on the Western Cape and less than a ten minute drive from where we were staying at Hog Hollow Lodge, it didn't take long for me to book a visit.
The Elephant Sanctuary rehabilitates abused, overworked and abandoned elephants with the aim of ultimately releasing them into the wild. Unfortunately for some of the elephants this will never be as they simply wouldn't survive in the wild, which makes The Elephant Sanctuary their retirement home.
The rare chance to interact with these magnificent creatures through touch, feeding and walking was too great an opportunity to miss. My love for elephants has inevitably rubbed off on my girls too, who were both giddy with excitement when they realised what was in store.
On arrival we were introduced to our fantastic guide Patrick who gave us a quick tour of the elephants sleeping quarters before heading out to the fields to meet them. I was almost in tears when they described the state the elephants arrived in at the sanctuary. Fearful and scared they initially had to sleep with their guides in the stables to slowly help build up their confidence and crushed spirit. It showed the great love, care and respect they're now showered with which is wonderful. We were filled with further anticipation when told the names, ages and special characteristics of the three African elephants.
My heart actually skipped a beat when we finally saw the elephants. Up close Marula, Thandi and Jabu were so impressive. Most of us have seen elephants at zoos, but standing in such close proximity to these gentle giants is beyond amazing.
My girls were fascinated by their stories and the biology lesson in anatomy that followed. We all had the chance to touch their very rough, mud encrusted skin, look into their mouths, rub their trunks, tusks and incredibly velvety skin behind their huge ears.
On the way back from the forest we all had an opportunity to walk 'hand in truck' with these humongous animals. We were shown how to hold out our hands so the elephants could gently place their trunks in. Mr S led the way showing his girls how to do it like a pro.
It was an incredibly proud moment for us to watch our girls confidently lead the elephants out of the forest. Fearless and taking it all in their stride.
Soon it was my turn. After seeing Radha and Asha's wet, mucous filled hands I was suddenly worried about my intermittent skin condition on my right hand. I'd cleverly forgotten to bring my steroid cream on holiday, so it had been further exacerbated with cracked skin. So, when my name was called for my once in a lifetime tactile moment with Jabu, I had a second to decide – do I give up my dream and protect my hand or just go for it and think consequences later.
Two seconds later I had Jabu's hot breath enveloping my hand and do you know what – I didn't care. I was walking 'hand in truck' with an ELEPHANT! This had never even been part of my wildest dreams, but I was living it.
And I should have bottled some of that elephant snot. By the next day my skin condition had seriously improved. Who needs steroid cream eh?
There are various experiences you can book whilst at the sanctuary, we added on the elephants brush down experience to our tour. A brush down to an elephant is in essence a massage. Elephants are no different to humans. They love being pampered. With a hard bristled brush you move in downward stokes on their skin. In the process you're covered in specks of dry mud that flies off – A small price to pay for a unique interaction.
Finally we ended the tour with feeding the elephants a bucket full of apples. Jabu and Marula had lost the tips of their trunk, known as their fingers through traps when they were young. The guides taught us how to lay the food just on the inside of their trunks, rather than right into their nose like the other elephants. They weren't shy about asking for the food. Trunk out, ready and waiting, they hoovered it up sharpish. It was a wonderful way to end our hands-on experience.
The 90 minutes you spend in the company of the elephants is not cheap. The brush down experience is 705 Rand and 310 Rand for children (4-14 yrs). Taking good care of these elephants costs a lot of money, so you can clearly see where the money goes. I would happily pay it again. Repeatedly! The activity is perfect for families. My kids were blown away by this encounter. Although I'm never going to be able to take them to London Zoo again!
This will be a moment in our lives that will stay with us always. I know it sounds dramatic but I felt so humble and honoured to stand between these mammoth animals. I'll also remember the prolonged look into Jabu's doe eyes whilst I massaged him. We shared a moment which left me feeling quite emotional and etched in my memory forever.
They say an elephant never forgets and with an experience as incredible as this one, neither will you.
Have you ever had an up close and personal encounter with an animal? How did it make you feel? Let me know in the comments box below.
The Elephant Sanctuary | Monkeyland Road | The Crags | Plettenberg Bay | South Africa
Below are more posts from my South African adventures:
South Africa: 5 reasons why it's great for families
South Africa: Cape Peninsula tour with CAT-AFRICA
South Africa: Exploring the Cape Winelands with Kids
South Africa: Lunch in Franschhoek at La Petite Ferme
South Africa: 7 Tips for an Incredible Family Safari
South Africa: The Elephant Sanctuary, Plettenberg Bay
South Africa: The Pot Luck Club in Cape Town
Top 5 stops on the Garden Route in South Africa
South Africa: Safari Luxury at River Bend Lodge
10 reasons why Cape Town stole my heart


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The Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show & Crab Feast
4 Hour Tour
Start your tour at the Lumberjack Sports Arena where all of Ketchikan would, once a year, celebrate their logging heritage at the annual Timber Carnival. You will join in this celebration of a bygone era and experience first hand rip-roaring good time that is filled with quality entertainment for all ages. The Lumberjack Show reflects upon southeast Alaska's rich logging history and comes to life with thrilling displays of strength and agility. You'll see Alaska's frontier lumberjacks battle British Columbia's premier woodsmen in a no-holds-barred competition for the title "Bull of the Woods." Your colorful host who delights the crowd with stories of lumberjack history & lore compliments the action.
Meet the Jacks after the show for pictures and then loosen your belt and grab your camera as you sightsee your way to the rustic yet elegant, George Inlet Lodge for an all-you-can-eat crab feast. Rounding out the menu are baby red potatoes, fresh oriental salad, and a delicious, smooth cheesecake with Alaskan blueberry toppings for dessert. The history of this magnificent lodge that was once an old cannery will inspire you with the story how it was moved across the ocean to its current location. There is no doubt the pristine coastal setting and the friendly staff at the George Inlet Lodge will deliver an Alaskan experience that will not soon be forgotten. Last but not least, check out the gift shop for a special souvenir for your trip.
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Established for over ten years, we're the longest established Property Photo enhancers in the UK – in fact, we created the category. Since then, we've grown to be one of the largest and most trusted in the UK, editing thousands upon thousands of images every month for our many clients in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
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So what makes us different?
We like to think we're a little different to the many hundreds of prop-tech companies out there. For one, we're from an award-winning Estate Agency background, so we understand the stresses and needs of the property professional more than most.
We're property marketing experts. In a previous life, John was a judge in the marketing category for the Estate Agency of the Year Awards. He also wrote the RICS Guide to Property Photography and regularly travels up and down the country giving talks on property photography.
We may be small but that makes us agile. We're fast-to-act (especially with our market-leading 2-hour service!), always available, collaborative and professional and we're not just a piece of software…we're human. We love talking to our customers every day & our door is always open.
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Meet the boss
For some 37 years, John was a Partner for an Estate Agency based in Surrey. During his tenure, he was a fellow and Committee Member of the NAEA and also a judge for the Estate Agency of the Year Awards. He loved his job but his true passion was in photographing the houses that he took on.
John sold his Partnership and quickly established himself as a leading country house photographer (hello-photo.co.uk). He wrote the RICS Guide to Property Photography and has been lucky enough to photograph some of the UK's most prestigious properties, as well as working for some of the biggest names in the industry.
Doctor Photo has grown from a cottage industry 11 years ago – when John used to spend his evenings helping local clients with their photoshopping – to become a leading prop-tech supplier, enhancing thousands of images a week for clients around UK & Europe.
Johns passion is to help you sell more houses and to improve your brands through your photography. If you have any questions or just want a chat, he'd love to hear from you. In the mean time, do read our blog which is updated on a regular basis.
As you can probably tell by the name, he's Johns son – although some might say he's Johns boss!
Tom has a background in Sales & Marketing and a key eye for Design & Photoshop. As well as working in Sales & Marketing for Walkers Crisps and KFC, Tom was an Estate Agent during his time at The University of Exeter. He's also worked on a temporary basis for Phoenix PLC, once a leading Marketing Agency for many Estate Agency Clients.
Tom has always been a creative, and some might say, a little eccentric. Setting up and running the Surrey Cider Festival was one of his key accolades – drawing in over 1000 cider lovers from around the County and winning the prize for 'Facebook Marketing Star' in the process. Tom is a keen photoshopper and has a sound business head on him. Please don't hesitate to contact him if you ever wanted to chat about your photos, or your wider business.


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Use our experienced product knowledge and installation expertise of customized metalworks to your advantage. Our skills in metal fabrication and installation combined with our consultative approach makes us a valuable asset to any commercial project. We're creative, flexible and strong, in fact some say we're made of 'metal'.
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Julian Awad experienced entrepreneurship early at the age of 12 when he first started importing candy from Singapore to Malaysia where his family was living at the time. At the age of 19 he started his first company in real estate. Since then, his interest for business and social responsibility has taken him from refugee trips in Sumatra, Indonesia to driving new innovative genetic risk assessments.
After spending 5 years with Xerox as a project manager, Julian was selected for CIGNA's Early Leadership Development Program, while simultaneously graduating from the Wharton School of Business with a double major in Management and Marketing. Mr. Awad received the Snider Seed Award for Wharton's Venture Initiation Program and also graduated Magna Cum Laude. He then secured financing and launched a direct to consumer genetics company that utilized online marketing to market genetic technologies internationally. Working with Google directly for marketing and advertising, Mr. Awad realized the need for marketing agencies that focused on a Return On Investment (R.O.I.) or that were performance oriented. After years of training and providing marketing services on a volunteer basis, JSA Interactive Inc. was formed to meet the growing demand Mr. Awad was receiving for his marketing and commercialization services.
Julian Awad has over 15 years of professional experience in marketing, strategic planning, project management, healthcare IT, and internet technologies. He has secured multiple rounds of investment capital, managed a board of directors and a team of world-class advisors for his genetic startup. He also has 10 years of entrepreneurial experience in marketing companies, launching consumer focused internet startups, and financing small businesses.
He also has mentored at MIT's Venture Mentoring Service, TechStars in Boston, and with start-ups in China via the China Accelerator. He has been a judge for the Wharton business plan competition, MIT's 100k competition, and MassChallenge.
He states his greatest achievements are finding and marrying his wife/best friend and having his new son and twin daughters.
Mr. Awad thanks God for His grace, Jesus for salvation, and the many followers of The Way that have discipled and supported him in life.


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We guide consumers to find rare in demand products and deals since years. To find a popular product like the Nintendo NES Classic or the Nintendo Switch in stock is work, hard work. Now there is a new and easy way to get your hands on hard to find items.
Over the past months we developed The Tracker app, available for iOS and Android. From the list products you select the ones you like to be notified when it is in stock at an online retailer.
That is it. It is set and forget. At the moment we detect a product in stock, you receive a notification on your smartphone. Now you are just a tap away from purchasing the product you want.
For extreme hard to find products, timing is everything. There is nothing faster than a smartphone notification. We continue to work tirelessly to make the Tracker by I4U News the fastest online inventory tracker. To achieve this goal, we need your help. Please tell us about your experience with the Tracker app in the Community tab of the app.
The list of available products to find in stock online includes the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch accessories, amiibo, Hatchimals CollEGGtibles and more. Just in case, the tracker keeps looking for the NES Classic in online stores.
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Webinar: Access Sentinel-1 SAR Data with NASA ASF DAAC's Vertex
Join us as we show new and experienced users how to use Vertex to discover and access Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data at NASA's Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).
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Presenter: Bill Hauer, NASA's ASF DAAC
Event Date(s) and Time(s):
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This webinar shows new and experienced users how to use Vertex, the search-and-download client of NASA's Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC). Focusing on Copernicus Sentinel-1 data processed by ESA, we will survey Vertex features (many of which are new or improved), demonstrate a search, and refine the results. For users who require more in-depth filtering, we will discuss how to export and sort metadata for user-selected products, and how to use sorted results for a search. Finally, we will demonstrate downloading data via browser or using an ASF DAAC provided, pre-loaded script. synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is increasingly used in research and applications across a broad range of fields. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides all-weather, day-night, high-resolution, landscape-level data. Applications include mapping and detecting wetlands, oil spills, landslides, deformation, sea ice, and much more. ASF DAAC is a premier source of SAR data discovery and access for a diverse user community worldwide. Data is available from 1978 to the present.View past recorded webinar videos.
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Shortly before the on-sale date of the new BMW 1 Series Coupé on 24 November, BMW designers have given an insight into what an out-and-out motorsport-focussed derivative might look like. The BMW Concept 1 Series tii will take centre stage at the Tokyo Motorshow and uses lightweight materials, optimised aerodynamics and a race-inspired interior to deliver an uncompromising focus on motorsport. The BMW Concept 1 Series tii is the fifth concept car presented by BMW in 2007. It showcases innovative technologies but also reflects on the traditions of BMW's compact, lightweight and sporting Coupés. The Concept's tii badging harks back to the BMW 2002tii from the 1960's and 70's – a car that set the mould for successful and dynamic two-door BMW models of recent times.
On first inspection, the most noticeable part of the car is its striking colour scheme. Alpine White body panels combine with a visible carbon-fibre bonnet, black and white front-to-rear decals and blue trims to give a dynamic appearance. But the BMW Concept 1 Series tii has sporting substance to back up its bold visual appearance.
The BMW 1 Series Coupé roots are clear in the BMW Concept 1 Series tii but the concept car displays clear motorsport genes. From the front, the bumper and valence have been redesigned to deliver even more air to the engine and braking system. Air flow is also enhanced through BMW's trademark kidney grilles, with the usual vertical slats replaced by wire mesh. The bonnet is constructed of carbon fibre, as are the mirror caps and inserts in the front air intakes to reduce weight and lower the centre of gravity. The fins running along the carbon-fibre bonnet help the flow of air over the bonnet and are reminiscent of the legendary BMW 3.0 CSL from the 1970's.
From the side, the profile of the new BMW 1 Series Coupé is retained, but the Concept 1 Series tii features extensively remodelled side sills and a uniquely-designed 18-inch five-spoke alloy wheel finished in dark chrome. From the rear, the aerodynamic enhancements continue with a carbon-fibre boot-mounted gurney-flap rear spoiler to deliver enhanced rear down force. Weight is further reduced with the rear bumper insert also made from lightweight carbon-fibre material.
The car's exterior colours and motorsport orientation continue inside the car. Supportive bucket seats give the highest levels of lateral support while the three-spoke sports steering wheel is covered in Alcantara with body-colour white inserts. The roof lining, door linings and instrument panel are also covered in Alcantara. Ahead of the steering wheel, the instrument binnacle also reflects the motorsport intentions of the car with a white rev-counter with red needles dominating the driver's view.
There is no current information available on the drivetrain of the BMW Concept 1 Series tii or any plans to develop it for series production.
The new BMW M3 Saloon
Alongside the reveal of the Concept 1 Series tii, the new BMW M3 makes its public debut at the Tokyo Motorshow. Like the M3 Coupé, the engine in the new M3 Saloon develops 420hp at 8,300rpm, 400Nm of torque at 3,900rpm and red-lines at 8,400rpm. To emphasise the real-world drivability of the engine, 85 per cent of torque is available over an engine range of 6,500rpm, starting at 1,750rpm. Power is transferred to the road by BMW M's six-speed manual gearbox and variable M differential. This conveys up to 100 per cent of available power to the wheel with most grip.
The M3 Saloon accelerates from zero to 62mph in 4.9 seconds, being only 0.1 seconds slower than the Coupé, before going onto a limited top speed of 155mph. BMW's EfficientDynamics programme, however, ensures that these supercar levels of performance do not compromise economy with the car delivering 22.8mpg on the combined cycle.


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Pine Cove Outside of TylerSeptember 29 - October 1
Families with young children retreat to the pine forest of east Texas to enjoy the beauty of God's creation, great fellowship with other families, but most of all, to focus on quality time with their own family. Our traditional, planned activities include: pony riding, zip line, and a family art project. While there are lots of things to do during the weekend, the schedule also allows time for families to relax and be still.
The retreat is a great way to get to know other families, as we share meals, play and worship together. The weekend begins on Friday evening and continues through Sunday morning. Sunday morning we dismiss after a short morning worship, designed for children and the whole family.
At Pine Cove each family is given their own private cabin which compares to a quality hotel. This is great for families with young children in need of rest time during the day. (And even grown-ups in need of rest time!) The air conditioned cabins come with towels, linens, a large bathroom (2 toilets, 2 showers, 3 sinks) and plenty of beds for the entire family. We eat cafeteria style, but the food is very good and is designed for young children to also enjoy. It is a peanut free camp to respect allergies, and, upon request, can accommodate gluten free families.
Online registration is required. A $100 deposit secures your place, guarantees a cabin for your family, and applies towards your total. Space is limited. Price per person includes two nights and four meals. Price breakdown is:
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Five key indicators for the Chinese economy
The speed with which volatility originating from China's capital markets spread across the world in August 2015 demonstrated how important it is for investors to understand developments in China and account for them in their asset allocation strategies. No matter where investors' portfolios were held, this summer their value was affected by asset-price moves in the onshore markets and policy decisions made in Beijing. In fact, we think that the People's Bank of China's move to devalue the renminbi on 11 August was probably the biggest realised tail risk for global markets in 2015, and had wide-reaching implications for investors.
We believe that a major challenge for international investors seeking to understand China is that policy can appear to change rapidly from quarter to quarter, and few of the economic indicators are clear.
Beijing is taking an experimental approach to economic and financial policy. To maintain stability the government is making small, regular adjustments to various policy levers, even reversing reforms if a policy is not working, or it becomes concerned that a new move might destabilise the status quo. We expect the State Council to favour stability over pushing further reform and market liberalisation until the National People's Congress meetings in March 2016. Beijing's focus on stability should help quell some of the market volatility that its incremental policy approach has appeared to export to the rest of the world as investors struggled to understand the implications of changes.
The macroeconomic picture is also mixed. The most recent data has continued on a downwards trend. Indicators like industrial production and manufacturing purchasing managers' indices pointed towards further growth moderation. But the picture is not universally bearish. China's consumer, financial, services and technology sectors appear to be growing. But it is still unclear whether these can grow fast enough to take up the slack created by shrinking manufacturing and capital-intensive development in the construction and infrastructure sectors.
In the long term, we believe that China's integration into the global financial system will be a fundamental driver of the fortunes of the world's capital markets. In thinking about the risks that this process may bring to global portfolios, we believe investors need to retain a balanced view: neither underestimating the global impact of the ongoing economic slowdown and rebalancing, nor overestimating the risk of an imminent large-scale crisis of the kind we saw in Western economies in 2008, or in emerging markets in the late 1990s.
Mark Evans, one of our Emerging Market Fixed Income investment analysts, recently travelled to Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai to get an on-the-ground perspective on China's policy direction and economic outlook.
Our Emerging Market Fixed Income team and 4Factor™ Equities team have identified five data series that they think are worth monitoring to get a steer on how China's economy may evolve over the next six months.
Being on the ground in China gives you a different perspective from the view in London. Policy moves that seem opaque and have been poorly communicated become clearer. Here are a few of my thoughts from my recent trip to Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai.
While Beijing's incremental policy response may be unfamiliar and confusing from the outside, on the mainland the intention is clear: underlying all China's economic policy lies the desire for social stability. The authorities have little tolerance for fluctuations in the business and financial cycles to the downside, which could result in rising unemployment. This goal was clear in China in October, but it has now been underlined by President Xi Jinping confirming Beijing still intends to achieve its goals of doubling people's average income and the size of China's economy between 2010 and 2020, which would require a minimum of 6.5% GDP growth annually for the next five years.
Maintaining stability and achieving the growth target, will be a major challenge for Chinese policymakers over the next 12 months, particularly as it is not yet clear that consumer spending will be able to take up the slack of the slowing manufacturing economy. With the new five year plan commencing in 2016, we could see some outperformance of economic activity versus expectations as new projects announced in the plan get front-loaded in order to buoy growth.
However, the desire to maintain stability will likely mean that the pace of reform will slow. The relatively fragile state of the economy and the global implications of so-called big-ticket reforms, like the change in the fixing methodology of the renminbi on 11 August, have reduced the State Council's appetite for immediate change. We've already seen how stability trumps reform, with some backtracking on fiscal policy, financial market, foreign exchange and monetary policy and capital account reform all within the last few months. Eventually, policymakers will roll out much-needed reforms, but they will try to wait until conditions are more conducive.
But Beijing's desire for stability might be undermined by some potentially concerning trends in China's capital markets. With the ongoing challenges in the equity and property markets, more capital is being allocated to fixed income as monetary policy remains on an easing bias. Given the current relatively low yields, to get more bang for their buck some investors, particularly managers of wealth management products (WMP), have been resorting to buying of bonds on a leveraged basis (we heard reports of WMP leveraging from anywhere between two and nine times). Now that the equity market is recovering somewhat, the concern is that investors will start to sell duration again for equities, tightening financial conditions as yields rise, offsetting the transmission of counter-cyclical policy and potentially crimp growth further. This situation has become more acute since the summer's sell off in the equity market, with the potential to result in a very volatile cycle of asset price swings.
On the positive side, on 30 November, the International Monetary Fund announced that the renminbi would be included in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies from 1 October 2016. It was clear from our meetings that this was going to be a political, rather than an economic decision, so we don't expect this to be a game changer in terms of its implications for the short-term evolution of China's macroeconomic policy framework. Nevertheless, at the margin this will bring in more flows via the capital account via reserve rebalancing from global reserve managers.
On the whole, it is a mixed picture and Beijing has its work cut out to maintain the economic stability that it seeks.
China fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) cumulative YoY, 2000-2015
China property sales vs new starts cumulative YoY, 2011-2015
The health of China's builders is an important indicator of on-the-ground activity. But the signals are mixed. "Although traditional leading indicators of construction like housing sales and new fixed-asset investment (FAI) projects have turned up, the actual measures of activity continue to move lower," says Mike Hugman, strategist in Emerging Market Fixed Income. "Based on historical relationships the lags should have cleared and there should now be more activity. If the lags are getting longer and activity picks up this quarter, it could be a multi-quarter growth relief rally." But he warns that if those leading indicators have disconnected from final activity the situation might be more bearish.
"The question is are we stuck in a liquidity trap of sorts, where a combination of balance sheet overhangs, excess commercial property inventory and public-sector finance blockages are preventing the usual sequence of credit-driven activity rebound?"
Watching out for the continuing disconnect or realignment between FAI starts and real activity will be key over the next quarter.
China fixed asset investment by sector, 2012-2015
Throughout 2015 there has been a growing divergence between the various forms of construction investment in China, as illustrated above. Mark Evans, an analyst in Emerging Market Fixed Income, notes that "although state-driven FAI in infrastructure remains robust and will likely remain so under the new five year plan, in other areas, such as real estate and manufacturing, FAI continues to slow." Evans notes that the divergence between investment in infrastructure and other capital-intensive industries marks a breakdown in historical correlation between FAI in the three sectors. He believes that this trend will continue over the medium-to-long term as over-capacity in many manufacturing industries and excess inventory levels in residential real estate for smaller cities and commercial property continue to be worked through.
As China continues to rebalance its economy towards services, watch for the continuing decoupling of FAI as real estate and manufacturing slow, but the government continues to support infrastructure spending under China's thirteenth five-year plan.
China gross domestic product by sector, 2012-2015
Industrial and investment growth has slowed more rapidly than China's overall economy as economic rebalancing has continued. But Greg Kuhnert, Asia portfolio manager in the 4Factor team, believes that services are on the up. "The consumer and services sectors remain in good health," he says. "The services sector has been the largest contributor to growth this year." But while China's services PMI reached an 11-month high in July, it has since stagnated. While the services PMI still shows expansion, it is not yet clear whether services can carry the economy forwards. Kuhnert says that boosting consumption and services "is behind a number of policy announcements to boost growth", he cites reductions in mortgage down-payment restrictions and interest rates to increase disposable income, as well as tax cuts on purchases of compact cars.
Keeping an eye on services' continuing growth both as a percentage of GDP and absolute activity will indicate whether the services sector is getting strong enough to power China's economy.
China Foreign Exchange Reserves (US$ billions)
The People's Bank of China's decision to reform the country's currency fixing mechanism on 11 August sent shock waves around the world. Wilfred Wee, portfolio manager in the Emerging Market Fixed Income team, believes that this move "was intended as a reform-oriented measure in line with China's overall renminbi internationalisation agenda, and to facilitate the renminbi's inclusion into the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights basket." However, Wee doesn't expect any further major devaluations given the volatility that ensued in August and growth risk these reform experiments created. Instead, he believes, Beijing will continue to use other monetary policy levers, such as cutting bank reserve requirements and commercial banks' deposit rates to ease liquidity.
Over the next quarter we don't expect to see any further material moves in the onshore renminbi exchange rate, as the People's Bank of China has decided to re-peg the currency for the time being to stem capital outflows and give more room to manage domestic deleveraging.
China debt stock 2001-2015
China's rebalancing is being complicated by a heavy debt load, under which many local players are struggling. The People's Republic's credit growth has been around double that of nominal gross domestic product since 2007, meaning that the debt-GDP ratio has risen by around 120 percentage points. "We estimate the 'excess' credit growth above a sustainable trend probably amounts to 35-40 percentage points", says Hugman. As much of this debt is domestically issued, Beijing's challenge is to sustain nominal growth while stabilising debt levels. Hugman says the government can do this in two ways. "It can either materially lower the cost of servicing debt through further monetary easing, financial sector reform and maturity extension of lending," he says, or by "creating frameworks for writing down debt related to excess capacity through industry consolidation or debt re-profiling."
Over the next two-to-three years, we would expect to see debt as a percentage of GDP stabilise if Beijing is successful, if not it may have a fundamental effect on economic growth.
|Meet the team
Greg Kuhnert
Greg is the portfolio manager for the Asia Pacific ex Japan and Asia ex Japan Equity strategies and also co-portfolio manager of the China Equity Strategy in the 4Factor Equity Team at Investec Asset Management.
Greg joined Investec Asset Management in 1999 working as an analyst researching Asian and global equities. Prior to this, Greg spent five years at Ernst & Young inJohannesburg, South Africa, within auditing and consulting, where he specialised in mining and financial companies. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997. Greg graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, in 1994 and achieved a first-class degree in Accountancy and is a CFA Charterholder.
Wilfred Wee
Wilfred is an investment specialist in the Global Emerging Market Fixed Income team and a portfolio manager. He is responsible for the Asia Local Currency and Renminbi Bond funds. Prior to joining Investec Asset Management, Wilfred worked for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) for nine years, three of which were based in New York. At the GIC, he was a portfolio manager and lead credit analyst for emerging market credit, focused on Asia. He was also a credit analyst and strategist responsible for European financials.
Wilfred holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University, and is also a CFA Charterholder.
Mike Hugman
Mike is an emerging market debt strategist for the Emerging Market Fixed Income team. He is responsible for the in depth analysis of major emerging market economies, generating trade ideas including top-down/global themes, quantitative modelling, and building dialogues with policy makers.
Prior to joining Investec Asset Management, Mike worked at Amiya Capital, a global/emerging market equity hedge fund where he was an economist, and before that, he was an emerging market economist and strategist at Standard Bank, London. Prior to Standard Bank, he spent two years working as a technical advisor to the Budget Office, Nigerian Ministry of Finance. Mike graduated with distinction with a Master of Philosophy in Economics and a first-class Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, both from the University of Oxford.
Mark Evans
Mark is an investment specialist in the Global Emerging Market Fixed Income team. He is responsible for analysis and modelling of key emerging market countries in the research universe and is responsible for covering Asia specifically. Mark joined Investec Asset Management as part of the summer internship programme before spending the next three years in the institutional client service team.
Prior to joining the firm in 2007, he went to Loughborough University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree in Accounting and Financial Management. As part of his degree, Mark spent one year in the industry working for AXA Framlington Investment Managers. Mark is a CFA Charterholder and also holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC).
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Ten Years After - Where Is the Greek Economy?
An analysis of the Greek economy in relation to other southern European economies
The outbreak of the global financial and economic crisis plunged in particular the southern European economies into a deep recession. Brexit, Trump and geopolitical crises such as the North Korea conflict have caused the economic problems in southern Europe to recede into the background. However, these problems have not been resolved by any means. The economic situation is bad, particularly in Greece. The European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are concerned about Greece's borrowing power. Nonetheless, there are a few bright spots.
Greece remains in a deep recession
The main indicator for a country's economic development is its gross domestic product (GDP). A glance at the development of Greek GDP in comparison to the other three southern European crisis countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal) and Germany shows that Greece's economy has developed much worse than the economies of the other mentioned countries since 2007 (the year before the beginning of the crisis and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers). To facilitate a better international comparison over time, real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) GDP in 2007 has been standardized to 100 percent in each country (see Fig. 1): Italy, Spain and Portugal more or less returned to their 2007 GDP level in 2017, according to preliminary estimates by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In Greece, by contrast, GDP was at just 75 percent of the level in 2017.
Unemployment at a record high
A drop in GDP is usually accompanied by a decline in employment. During the global financial and economic crisis, unemployment rose in all southern European crisis countries (see Fig. 2). However, it rose especially sharply in Greece: In 2013 and 2014, unemployment was above 25 percent. By 2017, it had declined only slightly and was still a little above 22 percent. This is the highest level of unemployment in all four southern European economies.
Falling investments
One reason for Greece's decline in economic activity is the low level of investment. Macroeconomic investments are reflected as a percent of GDP for international comparisons. The investment rate for Greece defined in this way fell from 27 percent in 2007 to just under 11 percent in 2017 (see Fig. 3). The decline in the investment rate by 16 percentage points is the largest decline by far in the four southern European economies. The level of investment achieved is also significantly lower than in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Reasons for the weak growth of the Greek economy
There are many reasons for the low level of economic activity in Greece and the resulting high unemployment:
- The austerity program required by international creditors reduces government demand for goods and services. When Greek companies adapt to this lower demand, then output, GDP and employment decline.
- The decline in employment reduces the disposable income of private households. This means that private consumption drops. Falling wages, pensions and government social benefits have the same effect. The result is a further decline in output, GDP and employment.
- Uncertainty about Greece's economic future, the credit rating of the Greek state and the Greek government's (economic) policy has a negative impact on companies' willingness to invest. The decline in demand for capital goods (mainly machinery and buildings) causes a further decline in macroeconomic demand, which in turn has a negative impact on output, GDP and employment.
- The competitiveness of the Greek economy is low in comparison to other countries. An important indicator for measuring the competitiveness of economies is the "Global Competitive Index". A glance at the current "Global Competitive Report 2017-2018" shows that Greece's performance is very poor in comparison to other European countries: Greece is ranked in only 87th place out of a total of 137 listed countries. In Europe, only Bosnia and Herzegovina in 103rd place is worse. Italy and Portugal are more than 40 places ahead of Greece, while Spain is even more than 50 places ahead of it (see Fig. 4).
Greece has continued to suffer from the economic collapse that began with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and from the consequences of the harsh austerity policies. Nonetheless, the recession seems to have bottomed out. According to IMF estimates, Greek GDP is expected to grow slightly again in 2017 and 2018. The Greek investment rate has also been slowly rising since 2015. Nonetheless, the fragile economic recovery is extremely unstable. In addition to low international competitiveness, the high level of debt in particular is a major burden on the Greek economy. If, for example, the sovereign debt crisis flares up again, this could quickly lead to another economic downturn.


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The Commercial Lending division; Moore Business Management was launched in January 2019 in partnership with Southampton based Corporate Asset Solutions. This new partnership enables Moore Finance to support SME's as a bespoke principal lender in addition to accessing our panel of Finance House partners to provide efficient, cost effective and professional finance solutions.
Nigel Garner, Managing Director commented "the launch of Moore Business Management is a major milestone in our company history. Operating as a Commercial Lender and Lessor puts us in a strong position to offer our clients more financial choice and flexibility to meet their requirements. With a commercial approach to underwriting we can provide funding to a range of businesses from New-Start to Corporates, for asset based and non-asset-based lending.
"2019 has started off strongly for us with 60% increase in funding completions compared to previous periods. This looks to continue, despite the country's uncertainty with the European Union, as our capital is sourced from a network of hand-picked and trusted UK owner organisations only"
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If Carla Bruni isn't deserving of a Vogue Paris cover as a model, singer, actress, activist, and former first lady of France, I don't know who is. Shot for the magazine's December/January double issue cover by photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, Bruni looks youthful and beautiful in a denim button-up top.
"She hasn't looked this good in years," moussemaker commented.
Psylocke posted, "Not very excited about seeing yet another denim look on the cover of Vogue Paris but Carla looks gorgeous. I like the masthead, too. Might be my favorite VP cover of this year, actually," she added.
VogueDisciple93 wasn't so crazy about it. "This is painfully boring. It would still make for a dull cover any other month, but it's especially lackluster given the holiday season," he noted.
Other forum members also found Carla's cover to be lackluster, but I'm not one of them. As iluvjeisa said, "She is beautiful and charismatic – and it still works on a cover."
Vogue is an aspirational publication, and I certainly don't mind aspiring to be at least a little bit like the elegant and striking Ms. Bruni.
Image: Vogue Paris


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