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Bar chair and table
Our products are premium quality cane product made of import Indonesian cane dining table with chair. Indonesian cane is one of the finest and best quality cane in the World . We have operating this business since 1993. We have experience and skill worker. We have our own factory .Product made in our own factory. Our products are 100 percent handmade product. That is why our product is environment friendly. By looking our products you can see the mix of the modern and the tradition royal rattan future. We have our own designer whose jobs are to make unique customize cane furniture design .We also follow tradition rattan furniture design. This product is called cane partition or cane divider or cane fence. You can find any cane furniture in our cane shop. Our shop is one of the biggest cane shop in Dhaka as well as Bangladesh. We make all furniture with cane with any design.
These furniture are environment friendly so you can use it without any tension.
We make it as long time stable and for gorgeous look. It stable minimum 15 years. You make warranty for those cane furniture for 10 years.
This product is called cane partition or cane divider or cane fence. You can find any cane furniture in our cane shop. Our shop is one of the biggest cane shop in Dhaka as well as Bangladesh. We make all furniture with cane with any design.
One of the most distinctive features of the caned furniture is its evergreen appearance and style. Caned furniture never grows out of fashion because of its natural, artistic, and elegant looks. The wicker or weaving patterns in a caned furniture vary, and it is also a kind of skill that only professionals hold.
Because the bamboo strings are made of natural material, the caned furniture fits perfectly in a natural setting such as outdoor setting and complements the character of the space. In the indoors, it invites an outlook of nature to the inside of the home. Some people use cushions or seats to decorate chairs and tables, enhancing their appearance. So, the appearance and style of wicker furniture make it a preferred choice for people.
Caned furniture is a cost-effective solution as the cane and furniture frames are available at affordable rates. However, wicker is an art, and only a few skilled persons are aware of it. It takes time and effort to weave pieces of furniture. As a result, the artistic furniture reflects manual labor and stands out from other types of commercially produced furniture.
It is furniture that not only stays in fashion but is bound to serve for many years. The furniture can easily last for one to three decades with proper maintenance. You may need to hire Caning Repair services if the wicker loosens or straws are broken. Caned furniture is easy to maintain, but you must make sure early repairs to avoid replacements. If you let the straws break or loosen up for a long time, you may need to replace the chair completely.
Also, the cane should be treated to avoid excessive moisture absorbance and must be water-resistant.
As caned furniture is made from natural materials and utilizes natural techniques, it is not harmful to environment. As the wicker allows air to pass, it also lets the back of the person sitting on the seat to breathe, preventing sweating. Overall, the caned furniture is environmentally sustainable and safe for use.
Our shop address
New airport road,
Chairmanbari, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Phone Number : 01624-914609


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The overwhelming majority of General Assembly of the United Nations, Wednesday, voted on five draft resolutions in favor of Palestine. The decision comes after the Assembly discussed the two articles, 'the Palestinian Cause' and 'the Conditions in the Middle East.'According to Al Ray, the first resolution was entitled, 'Using Amicable Methods to Resolve the Palestinian Cause'. The voting results were 148 in favor to 6 against, with 8 abstentions.
The second resolution regarding 'Jerusalem' passed with 144 votes in favor to 6 against, and 10 abstentions. The third resolution was entitled, 'The Informational Program about the Palestinian Cause', which is being handled by the administration of media affairs in the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and passed with 147 votes in favor to 7 against, and 9 abstentions.
The fourth resolution was entitled 'Committee for Palestinians Right to Exercise Ownership of Their Inalienable Rights.' The voting results were 94 in favor to 7 against, with 56 abstentions.
The last resolution, entitled, 'The Section of Palestinians Rights in the Secretary-General of UN', passed with 91 votes in favor to 7 against, with 59 abstentions.
After the voting process, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, gave a speech to show his gratitude and thanks to the member countries of the UN for their initial stand, and their votes in favor of the resolutions that show their support to the Palestinian cause.
Mansour added that the international community represented by the United Nations' protection of international law is a source of comfort and support to the Palestinian people. It will help them in their continuing journey of resisting and striving to maintain their inalienable rights, and bringing an end to the Israeli occupation, which will liberate the state of Palestine and its capitol of East Jerusalem, and fulfill the two-state solution.
The ambassador also affirmed the importance of the resolutions approved by the UN concerning Palestine, saying that what affects the credibility of the United Nations is not as some claim, the adoption of these resolutions but the nonexistence of a necessary political will to force Israel to show respect to these resolutions and apply it.

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Just a day before I left to Indonesia for my brother's wedding, I got worried about my headless Linux PC server: it may freeze when I left it. It happened before because of kernel panic and hardware error, it can happen again. I want to be able to reset the PC in case of errors and to power it down in case the error was not recoverable (for example last year my disk drive went bad).
Just a note before reading this: in case you just want to turn on or off a PC using raspberry PI: just use wake on LAN (WOL) to turn on your PC and SSH access to turn it off. Wake on LAN works most of the time, but it can not handle a PC that is not responding.
I soldered 2 optocouplers that I have (4N25) to a small perfboard with a pin header. Then I use solderless breadboard cables to connect the board to Raspberry Pi, and to the PC power and reset button (so I can manually turn on/off using the power/reset button on the PC).
Watch carefully about the + and – on the motherboard (PW is for power, and RES is for reset, note the polarity is important for the optocoupler, on the picture above: Red goes to + and Black goes to -):
I could just have used one optocoupler to connect to the power button (the reset is not really necessary, because we can turn off and on the PC again to reset), but I just want to use the extra 4N25 that I have (it's really cheap, 5.5 baht or around 17 cents USD).
To reset the PC, I just set the GPIO pin to high for about one second, then set it low again. To power up the PC, I set the GPIO pin to high for about 5 seconds, and set it low again (the same can be used to forcefully power down the PC).
Resetting and powering the PC is easy, the next task is to know what happened if the PC crashed. To do this, I need a serial connection. If my PC has a serial port and I have a USB to serial cable, then everything will be much easier, but since I don't have a USB to serial cable, and my PC doesn't have a serial port on the back, it gets a bit complicated.
I still have a small board based on MAX3232CPE to convert from 3.3V serial to 5.0 V, so I plugged that board to Raspberry Pi and connected it directly to the PC motherboard. This page helped me in finding the pin names (I only need to connect RX, TX and GND).
On the Raspberry side, I need to set up so that it will not use the serial port for kernel output and log in. You can follow the guide here.
On the PC side, I need to activate serial output in three places: to accept login (getty), to get the kernel output (kernel parameters in grub), and in grub itself (to show the boot selection dialog). This guide for Debian works for me, but I was not able to see the GRUB output on screen when I connected my screen (I can only see the output on my serial console, but this was not a problem for me).
I experimented a little bit with SGABios Hoping that I would be able to see BIOS output from my serial port. It didn't work as expected. I can not see the initial BIOS screen, and I can not send a key to enter BIOS setting, but If I connect a keyboard and press a button to enter the BIOS, I can see the BIOS menu via serial port and I can interact with it.
Here are the steps that I tried to get the BIOS serial output: I downloaded the BIOS for my motherboard (an AWARD BIOS). Then on a windows machine, I modified the BIOS using CBROM cbrom bios.bin /isa sgabios.bin
. Then I flashed the BIOS from Linux using Flashrom.
I didn't solve the BIOS problem due to time constraint. There are several solutions that I can think of to solve this: one is to use CoreBoot (but unfortunately my motherboard is not supported by coreboot), another one is to try to do more hacking on the BIOS (maybe removing the VGA ROM to force the output to serial port) and the other one is to simulate a keypress to enter BIOS. The first two methods may not be portable across BIOS, but the last one should be portable. The key simulation can be done by simulating a PS2 device (using bitbanging on Raspberry Pi), or USB HID device. A super simple USB HID device can be made by using V-USB library (you can see this as an example).
Just a few hours before I left, I have an idea to connect a temperature sensor just to see if the temperature around the PC case is too high. We are entering the summer here in Chiang Mai and the outside temperature is getting higher every day (from November to beginning of February, the temperature was around 8-20 Celcius, and now it is around 17-37 Celcius). It was quite easy to add the temperature sensor, I just use the guide and driver from adafruit. Next time I may add an infrared LED on the Raspberry Pi to turn on the Air Conditioner when it gets really hot.
Having everything setup: nothing happened while I was away. The PC was running nicely (and I can access the PC via SSH and the serial console).


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In the past few years Google have been refining the way that it displays results to users. In particular, Google has been increasing the number of Featured Snippets that it displays for queries. This actually pushes organic results further down the page. So what does that mean for SEOs?
Well, that's what I set out to explore. Naturally, ranking in the Featured Snippet itself remedies the problem of positioning, but is this strategy something worth doing? What is a Featured Snippet, anyway? And more importantly, what do you have to do to appear there?
What Is a Featured Snippet?
Featured Snippets — also known as answer boxes — are selections of content displayed on the search engine results page (SERP) without the user having to visit the page where the content lives. Google puts these snippets above regular SERP results but below the ads in an effort of serving the user better.
For example, the Featured Snippet below displays the direct instructions pulled from the tasteofhome.com web page.
There are no ads for this query, so the Featured Snippet shown in the answer box is above position 1 of the SERPs for "how to make bread." The directions are shown in four steps before the user has to click a single link.
Types of Featured Snippet
- Paragraph
- List
- Table
- Video
- Accordion
- Rich Answer
- Tool or Calculator
Paragraph-formatted answer to the searcher's query. This is the most common type of Featured Snippet, encompassing 50% of all snippet results (Moz 2019).
Bulleted or numbered list that answers the searcher's query (typically shows up for more process-driven, step-by-step, and list queries). This is the next most common type of Featured Snippet, encompassing 37% of snippet results (Moz).
List snippets can take the form of numbered or bulleted lists.
Answer to the searcher's query involving data or other information presented in a table format.
Video result embedded on the page intended to answer the searcher's query in a visual/auditory format.
Answer to the searcher's query presented with additional information that the searcher can choose to expand to learn more about.
Rich Answer
Short call-out in which the answer to the searcher's query is featured in bold along with additional information.
These often manifest for questions that have factual, metric-based answers:
In addition, dictionary definitions are common rich answers:
Tool or Calculator
Answer to the searcher's query in the form of an interactive tool that can output user-specific answers.
Tools can appear for very high-level and concrete queries. Examples of tools that Google shows are calculators, conversions, time zones, weather, game scores, and more.
Why Should You Care About Featured Snippets?
One of the first conclusions that a lot of people involved with SEO jumped to was that Featured Snippets would have a hugely negative impact on the amount of people that actually click through to the pages within the results. This actually hasn't been the case. In fact, it's dramatically increased the click-through rate (CTR) of results ranking within it.
From a sample of just under 5,000 queries, I found that the CTR to the HubSpot website for high volume keywords increased by over 114%, even when we ranked #1 (just below the Featured Snippet -- like in the example below).
So to give you an example, let's say you rank #1 (the first post below the snippet) on page one of Google for a keyword that's searched for 10,000 times. From the data I've collected, you could expect roughly 1,700 visits, compared to the 3,700 you might see if you landed the Featured Snippet spot -- and that's just one keyword.
Here's another interesting piece of data that illustrates how valuable it can be to rank in the Featured Snippet within Google:
Again, to decipher this graph, here's a brief overview:
- The x-axis relates to the monthly search volume for the search queries measured.
- The y-axis shows the click-through rate (CTR) of the ranking HubSpot URL from within Google (i.e. how many people clicked on our search result versus the rest of the results in the search results page for a query).
- The blue line plots the CTR from the SERPs for HubSpot URLs when we do not appear in the Featured Snippet, broken down by query search volume (x-axis).
- The orange line plots the CTR from the SERPs for HubSpot URLs when we do appear in the Featured Snippet, broken down by query search volume (x-axis).
By and large, we get much more clicks through to our content when we appear in the Featured Snippet, but this becomes increasingly important as the search volume for a query increases.
For high traffic keywords, ranking in the Featured Snippet saw an average increase in CTR of over 114%, and that's even if we're ranking #1 on page one.
Now that you know that featured snippet acquisition is a worthwhile SEO strategy, there are a few things that you should keep in mind as you attempt to win your own placements.
How to Get a Featured Snippet
- Target question-based queries.
- You don't necessarily need to use schema.
- Organize the structure of your pages with headings and paragraph tags.
- For non question-based keywords, take a definition-style approach.
- When applicable, include steps for solving a problem or answering the question.
- The content should be between 54-58 words long.
- Don't rule out an international approach.
- Don't worry about backlinks as much for Featured Snippets.
If you're looking to learn more about how to optimize your content for Featured Snippets, HubSpot Research has a full research report: HubSpot's Guide to Winning Google's Featured Snippet and HubSpot Academy has a free SEO course.
Featured Snippets have been a bit of a mystery for a lot of people involved with SEO, as it hasn't been that easy to determine what influences getting your content to appear within them. Here's what we know for sure:
1. Target question-based queries.
Stone Temple found that from 850,000 question-based queries, 19% of them had a Featured Snippet.
2. You don't necessarily need to use schema.
There's been a lot of conflicting advice out there about markup for snippets, including the idea that Schema.org data was the reason behind Google displaying this data. However, considering that more than 80% of the websites I've looked at that rank within the Featured Snippet don't use any kind of Schema.org markup data, it's safe to say that this isn't the case.
Not only that but Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, has said outright that structured data has nothing to do with ranking in the Featured Snippet.
3. Organize the structure of your pages with headings and paragraph tags.
Markup aside, a clear page structure seems to be important as well as the semantic relevance to the keyword in question.
There should be an area on the page where the search query appears in a header (h2, h3, h4, etc.). The content you want to appear in the Featured Snippet should be placed in a <p> tag directly below the header.
4. For non question-based keywords, take a definition-style approach.
For shorter, less question-orientated keywords that display a Featured Snippet (e.g. "Inbound Sales"), it's much more likely that Google will pull through a paragraph of text. Google tends to prefer 'answers' that begin logically as an answer would.
5. When applicable, include steps for solving a problem or answering the question.
Some answers require a more in-depth explanation, often involving a step-by-step process. Page structure is incredibly important here. Each step should be structured appropriately in a list format or represented on the page as heading (h3) tags.
6. The content should be between 54-58 words long.
For the paragraph-style answers (not the steps), content that's between 54-58 words long tends to perform the best.
I extracted all of the content from within the Featured Snippets that I sampled. I did this to identify any trends in the content being displayed in order to better understand what Google is looking for.
As you can see, content between the length of 54-58 words in total seemed to appear by far the most frequently.
7. Don't rule out an international approach.
Featured Snippets for the same query often have different content within Google.com, Google.co.uk, Google.com.au, and Google.ie. Try "how to search on Google" as one of many examples.8. Don't worry about backlinks as much for Featured Snippets.
During my analysis of 4,713 HubSpot queries for Featured Snippets, I uncovered something unusual, shown in the chart below.
Allow me to explain what this chart is demonstrating:
- The numbers (1–5) in the y-axis relate to the position on page one that a HubSpot URL ranks for a given query.
- For each position HubSpot ranks for, there is a bar that shows how often we appear in the Featured Snippet (blue) and how often we don't (orange).
So, for keywords that we rank #1 for on page one in Google SERPs, we only appear in the Featured Snippet 18% of the time. Contrastingly, we appear in the Featured Snippet 28% of the time when we rank #5. Strange, right?
Well, what this says to us is that once you're in the top 5 results on page one, building backlinks and other authority signals matter much less for ranking in the Featured Snippet.
In fact, I've seen lots of occasions where relatively unknown websites with much less SEO authority than HubSpot have ranked above us, possibly due to more intentional use of page structure and other best practices described above.
My advice for anyone looking to increase their visibility within the Featured Snippet box is to first run a quick audit of the keywords that you're ranking for within your current SEO campaign and how many of them are question-based queries. Once you've got this list, you can drill down on where you're currently ranking, how well your content is structured, and then devise a plan to reoptimize your content based on the advice I've given above.
Editor's note: This post was originally published in July 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.


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This is an egg for CHICKEN 3, the unsupported old release. You're almost certainly looking for the CHICKEN 4 version of this egg, if it exists.
If it does not exist, there may be equivalent functionality provided by another egg; have a look at the egg index. Otherwise, please consider porting this egg to the current version of CHICKEN.
Rooster Graph, a graph library for Scheme.
Jonah Beckford
For full documentation and examples see the The Rooster Graph homepage.
- 0.3.3 removed interactive test for srfi-40 from .setup script [thanks to Mario Goulart]
- 0.3.2 Adapted to SRFI-69 compatible hash-tables
- 0.3.1 Renamed uses of hash-table-count to hash-table-size (needed for compatibility with Chicken 2.104)
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If you're facing financial hardship because of the coronavirus, it can become difficult to afford your credit card bill payments , especially if you're dealing with a loss of income.
Granting yourself some flexibility may help you adjust your money management strategies, at least in the short term. Once your situation stabilizes down the road, you can shift your strategy once again.
Are you worried about affording your credit card bill payments?Consider starting with one of these tips:
- Ask for the help you need. Credit card issuers are offering assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic , including things like deferred payments and fees, but typically you'll need to reach out to your issuer and ask for such help. Credit card hardship programs may also be available via your issuer if you need longer-term help, again upon request. But such programs may come with drawbacks, including the freezing or closure of your account, or a reduction in your credit limit.
- Turn off autopay. Setting up credit card autopayments can be an easy way to avoid late fees, but as your checking account balance gets lower, there can be some drawbacks. To avoid potential overdraft fees, you may want to tweak or shut off any scheduled credit card autopayments. You can adjust autopay to cover the minimum payment only and manually pay more if your budget allows or simply make manual payments for now.
- Adjust your budget. Your spending habits may have shifted dramatically — less dining out, entertainment and travel, but more groceries and streaming services. Look through your budget or glance at credit card and bank statements going back a few months. What expenses can you trim easily? Start with subscriptions or memberships you no longer use and consider downgrading a credit card to a no-annual-fee version to keep an old account active at a lower cost.
Should you use a credit card to pay your other bills?
By design, credit cards make it possible to buy something now and pay for it later. Charging up to your credit limit even if you still owe a balance from previous months is normally something NerdWallet cautions against. But during times of crisis, certain traditional credit card rules don't always apply, and your credit limit may be what you need to get by until you're working again. Keep these factors in mind:
- Again, start by asking for help directly. You can call your landlord, utility companies and other service providers to explain your financial situation. Whether it's extending due dates or waiving late fees, many creditors may work with you. Some are offering their own hardship programs.
- Weigh the convenience fee. Utility companies, day cares and rent payment services may charge you extra for using a credit card as your payment method. But if you need some extra time to build up your checking account balance, a 2% fee may be worth that convenience in the short term, allowing you to charge the bill on its due date and pay the balance down soon after (ideally, before any interest accrues).
Nerd Tip: A service like Plastiq is an option where credit cards aren't accepted. For a 2.5% service fee, Plastiq will charge your card, write a check in your name and send it to the vendor on your behalf: landlords, day cares, homeowner association boards and more. This could be helpful if you need short-term liquidity and don't want to incur an overdraft penalty, make a late payment or draw a cash advance. But if you're unable to pay off such bills each month, interest will make this an expensive and unsustainable service.
What options can help you save on interest?0% intro APR credit cardsCredit cards offering 0% interest on new purchases or balance transfers can buy you quite a bit of time before interest begins to accrue — often a year or more. If you're carrying debt on another card, or you anticipate a major purchase in the near future, consider these types of cards. But:
- You likely need good or excellent credit to qualify (FICO scores of at least 690).
- Many balance transfer cards charge a fee, usually 3%-5% of the transferred balance (there are options that don't charge this fee).
- Once the promotional no-interest period ends, you'll owe interest on any remaining balance.
Personal loans
A personal loan can be used to consolidate several debts into one monthly payment, ideally at a lower interest rate. Again, applicants with good to excellent credit generally have more loan options available to them, but there are loan products geared toward consumers with lower credit scores.
More From NerdWallet
- 7 Credit Card 'Rules' You Can Break in an Emergency Like COVID-19
- How Credit Card Issuers Are Responding to COVID-19
- What to Know Before Accepting COVID-19 Credit Card Relief
Sara Rathner is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @sarakrathner.


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Buying a home is a big deal, and you want to know who's guiding you through the process. As your Movement loan officer, I'm here to make the home buying experience as straightforward and stress-free as possible.
Reach out to me anytime with questions or to see how much you qualify for. No question is too big or too small. I'm here to help with whatever you need.
If consumers read online reviews before eating at restaurants or buying new cars, why wouldn't the same be true for one of the biggest transactions of your life: your mortgage? See what Movement's clients thought of working with Movement.
At Movement, we know our stuff, which is why we write our own blog posts – we think every decision should be an informed one.
Ready to find a loan? Great news! You have options. Click here to learn more about the types of loans Movement is able to offer.
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The international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty. The most vulnerable nations – the least developed countries, the landlocked developing countries and the small island developing states – continue to make inroads into poverty reduction. However, inequality still persists and large disparities remain in access to health and education services and other assets.
Additionally, while income inequality between countries may have been reduced, inequality within countries has risen. There is growing consensus that economic growth is not sufficient to reduce poverty if it is not inclusive and if it does not involve the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental. To reduce inequality, policies should be universal in principle paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.


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Our team customize your MJ costume with your measurements. Please write down your measurements in the order note.
1. Natural Height _______Inches or_______cm
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If you don't know how to measure your measurements, Please follow the measurement pictures for reference .
Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact with our team. We always do our best to offer you the best service.


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Hey guys-
A LOT of people have been asking me for months how they can get all the old sound packs. So if you missed some weeks, just signed up, or whatever reason you don't have them all now you can pick up weeks 1-14 as well as the Midi Fighter Contest Rack in the DJTT store:
If you're just finding this, these are the sounds used in videos like this:
and this:
as well as songs like this:
and this:
...and stay tuned for BOX SET 2 coming in a month or two.
Big up to all the noisemakers!
Mad Zach


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A meteor is a bright streak of light in the sky (a "shooting star" or a "falling star") produced by the entry of a small meteoroid into the Earth's atmosphere. If you have a dark clear sky you will probably see a few per hour on an average night; during one of the annual meteor showers you may see as many as 100/hour. Very bright meteors are known as fireballs; if you see one please report it.
Meteor showers can be very impressive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
may have been inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that he witnessed in 1797.
The upper air burst into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced betweenAnd the coming wind did roar more loud,
And the sails did sigh like sedge;
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The Moon was at its edge
Meteorites are bits of the solar system that have fallen to the Earth. Most come from asteroids, including few are believed to have come specifically from 4 Vesta; a few probably come from comets. A small number of meteorites have been shown to be of Lunar (16 finds) or Martian (16) origin.
One of the Martian meteorites, known as ALH84001 (left), is believed to show evidence of early life on Mars.
Though meteorites may appear to be just boring rocks, they are extremely important in that we can analyze them carefully in our labs. Aside from the few kilos of moon rocks brought back by the Apollo and Luna missions, meteorites are our only material evidence of the universe beyond the Earth.
Iron | primarily iron and nickel; similar to type M asteroids |
Stony Iron | mixtures of iron and stony material like type S asteroids | |
Chondrite | by far the largest number of meteorites fall into this class; similar in composition to the mantles and crusts of the terrestrial planets |
Carbonaceous Chondrite | very similar in composition to the Sun less volatiles; similar to type C asteroids |
Achondrite | similar to terrestrial basalts; the meteorites believed to have originated on the Moon and Mars are achondrites |
A "fall" means the meteorite was witnessed by someone as it fell from the sky. A "find" means the meteorite was not witnessed and the meteorite was found after the fact. About 33% of the meteorites are witnessed falls. The following table is from a book by Vagn F. Buchwald. Included are all known meteorites (4660 in all, weighing a total of 494625 kg) in the period 1740-1990 (excluding meteorites found in Antarctica).
Type | Fall % | Find % | Fall Weight | Find Weight |
Stony | 95.0 | 79.8 | 15200 | 8300 |
Stony-Iron | 1.0 | 1.6 | 525 | 8600 |
Iron | 4.0 | 18.6 | 27000 | 435000 |
A very large number of meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere each day amounting to more than a hundred tons of material. But they are almost all very small, just a few milligrams each. Only the largest ones ever reach the surface to become meteorites. The largest found meteorite (Hoba, in Namibia) weighs 60 tons.
The average meteoroid enters the atmosphere at between 10 and 70 km/sec. But all but the very largest are quickly decelerated to a few hundred km/hour by atmospheric friction and hit the Earth's surface with very little fanfare. However meteoroids larger than a few hundred tons are slowed very little; only these large (and fortunately rare) ones make craters.
A good example of what happens when a small asteroid hits the Earth is Barringer Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) near Winslow, Arizona. It was formed about 50,000 years ago by an iron meteor about 30-50 meters in diameter. The crater is 1200 meters in diameter and 200 meters deep. About 120 impact craters have been identified on the Earth, so far (see below).
A more recent impact occurred in 1908 in a remote uninhabited region of western Siberia known as Tunguska. The impactor was about 60 meters in diameter and probably consisting of many loosely bound pieces. In contrast to the Barringer Crater event, the Tunguska object completely disintegrated before hitting the ground and so no crater was formed. Nevertheless, all the trees were flattened in an area 50 kilometers across. The sound of the explosion was heard half-way around the world in London.
There are probably at least 1000 asteroids larger than 1 km in diameter that cross the orbit of Earth. One of these hits the Earth about once in 300,000 years on average. Larger ones are less numerous and impacts are less frequent, but they do sometimes happen and with disastrous consequences.
The impact of a comet or asteroid about the size of Hephaistos or SL9 hitting the Earth was probably responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It left a 180 km crater now buried below the jungle near Chicxulub in the Yucatan Peninsula (right).
Calculations based on the observed number of asteroids suggest that we should expect about 3 craters 10 km or more across to be formed on the Earth every million years. This is in good agreement with the geologic record. It is more difficult to compute the frequency of larger impacts like Chicxulub but once per 100 million years seems like a reasonable guess.
Here are educated guesses about the consequences of impacts of various sizes:
Impactor Diameter (meters) | Yield (megatons) | Interval (years) | Consequences |
< 50 | < 10 | < 1 | meteors in upper atmosphere most don't reach surface |
75 | 10 - 100 | 1000 | irons make craters like Meteor Crater; stones produce airbursts like Tunguska; land impacts destroy area size of city |
160 | 100 - 1000 | 5000 | irons,stones hit ground; comets produce airbursts; land impacts destroy area size of large urban area (New York, Tokyo) |
350 | 1000 - 10,000 | 15,000 | land impacts destroy area size of small state; ocean impact produces mild tsunamis |
700 | 10,000 - 100,000 | 63,000 | land impacts destroy area size of moderate state (Virginia) ocean impact makes big tsunamis |
1700 | 100,000 - 1,000,000 | 250,000 | land impact raises dust with global implication; destroys area size of large state (California, France) |
"It is well worth contemplating how we reached this moment of discovery. More than 4 billion years ago this piece of rock was formed as a part of the original crust of Mars. After billions of years it broke from the surface and began a 16 million year journey through space that would end here on Earth. It arrived in a meteor shower 13,000 years ago. And in 1984 an American scientist on an annual U.S. government mission to search for meteors on Antarctica picked it up and took it to be studied. Appropriately, it was the first rock to be picked up that year -- rock number 84001.Today, rock 84001 speaks to us across all those billions of years and millions of miles. It speaks of the possibility of life. If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions, it poses still others even more fundamental.
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Periculum Advisors, LLC ("PA") firm-wide business contingency plan is to respond to a Significant Business Disruption ("SBD") by securing employees' safety and firm property, making financial and operational assessments, promptly recovering and resuming operations, protecting all of the firm's books and records, and allowing our clients to conduct business with the firm.
Significant Business Disruptions (SBDs)
Our plan anticipates two kinds of SBDs, internal and external. Internal SBDs affect only our firm's ability to communicate and do business, such as a fire or power outage in one of our facilities. External SBDs such as a terrorist attack, a city flood, or a wide-scale regional disruption may prevent the operation of the securities markets, its participants, and other securities and investment banking firms. Our response to an external SBD relies heavily on the availability of other organizations, particularly our communications and market data providers.
Approval and Execution Authority
PA's business continuity and disaster recovery plan is reviewed and approved by Senior Management.
Plan Location and Access
Our firm will maintain copies of its BCP plan and the annual reviews, and the changes that have been made to it for inspection by regulators. Members of the BCP team have additional copies of the plan stored off-site.
Business Description
PA is an investment banking advisory firm headquartered in Carmel, IN, providing:
Office Locations
Our firm has one primary office located in Carmel, IN.
Alternative Physical Location(s) of Employees
In the event of an SBD, we will move our staff from affected offices to the closest of our unaffected office locations. If none of our other office locations is available to receive those staff, critical employees will be instructed to work from home.
Data Back-Up and Recovery (Hard Copy and Electronic)
PA uses a third-party provider to back up its electronic records on a nightly basis. These backups are stored off-site and retrieved on an as-needed basis.
In the event of an internal or external SBD that causes the loss of our paper records, we will physically recover them from our back-up site. If our primary site is inoperable, we will continue operations from our back-up site or an alternate location. For the loss of electronic records, we will either physically recover the storage media or electronically recover data from our back-up site, or, if our primary site is inoperable, continue operations from our back-up site or an alternate location.
Financial and Operational Assessments
Operational Risk
In the event of an SBD, we will immediately contact our electronic file services provider and our email provider to identify what means will permit us to communicate with our clients, employees, and critical business constituents, including the SEC and FINRA. Although the effects of an SBD will determine the means of alternative communication, the communications options we will employ will include our website, telephone voice mail, and message blasting capabilities. In addition, we will retrieve our key activity records as described in the section above, Data Back-Up and Recovery (Hard Copy and Electronic).
Financial and Credit Risk
In the event of an SBD, we will determine the value and liquidity of our investments and other assets to evaluate our ability to continue to fund our operations and remain in capital compliance. We will contact our critical banks and investors to apprise them of our financial status. If we determine that we may be unable to meet our obligations to those counter-parties, or otherwise continue to fund our operations, we will request additional financing from our bank or other credit sources to fulfill our obligations to our customers and clients. If we cannot remedy a capital deficiency, we will file appropriate notices with our regulators and immediately take appropriate action.
Mission Critical Systems
Our firm's "mission critical systems" are those that ensure prompt and accurate retention of client data and records entrusted to us as well as information required to be maintained by our business needs and regulatory requirements. We will use our mission critical database to maintain, verify, and reference mission critical applications firm-wide.
We have primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining our business relationships with our clients and have sole responsibility for our mission critical functions.
Our service bureau and market data vendors represent that nightly backs-up are performed, and could be restored at a remote operating facility in a geographically separate area with the capability to conduct the same volume of business as its primary site. Our service bureau has also confirmed the effectiveness of its back-up arrangements to recover from a widescale disruption by periodic testing.
Recovery-time objectives provide concrete goals to plan for and test against. They are not, however, hard and fast deadlines that must be met in every emergency situation, and various external factors surrounding a disruption, such as time of day, scope of disruption, and status of critical infrastructure—particularly telecommunications—can affect actual recovery times. Recovery refers to the restoration of communication and record retention systems after a wide-scale disruption.
Alternate Communications Between the Firm and its Clients and Employees
We currently communicate with our clients using the telephone, email, our website, fax, U.S. mail, and in-person visits at our firm or at the client's location. In the event of an SBD, we will assess which means of communication are still available to us, and use the means closest in speed and form (written or oral) to the means that we have used in the past to communicate with the other party. Options would be available to check on the status of systems and facility access or to leave a message with a member of the firm.
We currently communicate with our employees using the telephone, email, and in person. In the event of an SBD, we will assess which means of communication are still available to us, and use the means closest in speed and form (written or oral) to the means that we have used in the past to communicate with the other party. We will also employ a call tree so that senior management can reach all employees quickly during an SBD. The call tree includes all staff home, office, pager, and cell phone numbers. Options would be available to check on the status of systems and facility access or to leave a message with a member of the firm.
Securities transactions are performed through and under the supervision of Periculum Capital Markets, LLC. Member FINRA* and SIPC**. Disclosures Form CRS
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Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin
With your moderator still recovering from eye surgery, we thank Friend of Ionarts Robert 'Mecki' Pohl for the following thoughts on Thursday's recital by Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin. This review is an Ionarts exclusive.
Beethoven, Cello Sonatas, S. Isserlis, R.Levin (Hyperion, 2014) |
The difference was remarkable, and, in the main, a real improvement. Starting with the quiet Adagio introduction of the first sonata, the warmth of the fortepiano meshed beautifully with the tone of Isserlis's gut strings. The revelations continued even through the sprightly Allegro, with notes that would otherwise be covered up being allowed to shine through. Particularly the quiet section that leads into the final, furious run was so subdued that it appeared that the fortepiano was in another room. As the first movement came to a triumphant end, it was a real testament to the restraint of the audience that nobody burst into applause.
In op. 102, no. 2, which ended the first half of the program, once again it was the Adagio that shone through, with its sublime notes flowing from Isserlis's bow and making a piece that has been played thousands of times feel truly new. (Why the fortepiano is not the go-to instrument in this modern age became clear during the intermission, when a technician came out to tune it, a job that took most of the time available.)
Jeremy Eichler, Uncorking Beethoven, one cello work at a time (Boston Globe, October 28) David Weininger, Steven Isserlis delves into Beethoven at the Gardner (Boston Globe, October 24) |
As an encore, the two musicians offered up more Beethoven: a piece for mandolin and harpsichord which Isserlis said was much too good to be left to them. Levin quickly added that they "apologize to any mandolin players," to which Isserlis replied "no we don't" and proceeded to play the fairly flashy piece with his usual good cheer and skill. It was a wonderful end to a remarkable concert.
The good news is that the rest of the Beethoven Sonatas will be played later this season by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. The bad news is that this concert is not until April 13.


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What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No. I go for the chandelier; it's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I love the cold. Thirty years later I get a postcard. I have a son. And he's the Chief of Police. This is where the story gets interesting: I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
See? Perfect crime…
but in reality that's a statement from an episode of the Office and it's a quote from good ol' Dwight.
So I haven't used this blog in awhile and a whole lot of things and life have been going on, but I am gonna get back into this and start using this place for what it can be used for, all kinds of opinions, events and stories about what is going on in my life and it's changes.


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In order to have an anonymous Internet surf, which of the following is best choice?
A. Use SSL sites when entering personal information
B. Use Tor network with multi-node
C. Use shared WiFi
D. Use public VPN
Answer: B
A penetration test was done at a company. After the test, a report was written and given to the company's IT authorities. A section from the report is shown below:
– Access List should be written between VLANs.
– Port security should be enabled for the intranet.
– A security solution which filters data packets should be set between intranet (LAN) and DMZ.
– A WAF should be used in front of the web applications.
According to the section from the report, which of the following choice is true?
A. MAC Spoof attacks cannot be performed.
B. Possibility of SQL Injection attack is eliminated.
C. A stateful firewall can be used between intranet (LAN) and DMZ.
D. There is access control policy between VLANs.
Answer: C
Websites and web portals that provide web services commonly use the Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP.
Which of the following is an incorrect definition or characteristics in the protocol?
A. Based on XML
B. Provides a structured model for messaging
C. Exchanges data between web services
D. Only compatible with the application protocol HTTP
Answer: D
An attacker with access to the inside network of a small company launches a successful STP manipulation attack. What will he do next?
A. He will create a SPAN entry on the spoofed root bridge and redirect traffic to his computer.
B. He will activate OSPF on the spoofed root bridge.
C. He will repeat the same attack against all L2 switches of the network.
D. He will repeat this action so that it escalates to a DoS attack.
Answer: A
A large mobile telephony and data network operator has a data that houses network elements. These are essentially large computers running on Linux. The perimeter of the data center is secured with firewalls and IPS systems. What is the best security policy concerning this setup?
A. Network elements must be hardened with user ids and strong passwords. Regular security tests and audits should be performed.
B. As long as the physical access to the network elements is restricted, there is no need for additional measures.
C. There is no need for specific security measures on the network elements as long as firewalls and IPS systems exist.
D. The operator knows that attacks and down time are inevitable and should have a backup site.
Answer: A
When purchasing a biometric system, one of the considerations that should be reviewed is the processing speed. Which of the following best describes what it is meant by processing?
A. The amount of time it takes to convert biometric data into a template on a smart card.
B. The amount of time and resources that are necessary to maintain a biometric system.
C. The amount of time it takes to be either accepted or rejected form when an individual provides Identification and authentication information.
D. How long it takes to setup individual user accounts.
Answer: C
Due to a slow down of normal network operations, IT department decided to monitor internet traffic for all of the employees. From a legal stand point, what would be troublesome to take this kind of measure?
A. All of the employees would stop normal work activities
B. IT department would be telling employees who the boss is
C. Not informing the employees that they are going to be monitored could be an invasion of privacy.
D. The network could still experience traffic slow down.
Answer: C
In many states sending spam is illegal. Thus, the spammers have techniques to try and ensure that no one knows they sent the spam out to thousands of users at a time. Which of the following best describes what spammers use to hide the origin of these types of e-mails?
A. A blacklist of companies that have their mail server relays configured to allow traffic only to their specific domain name.
B. Mail relaying, which is a technique of bouncing e-mail from internal to external mails servers continuously.
C. A blacklist of companies that have their mail server relays configured to be wide open.
D. Tools that will reconfigure a mail server's relay component to send the e-mail back to the spammers occasionally.
Answer: B
You are an Ethical Hacker who is auditing the ABC company. When you verify the NOC one of the machines has 2 connections, one wired and the other wireless. When you verify the configuration of this Windows system you find two static routes.
route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 188.8.131.52
What is the main purpose of those static routes?
A. Both static routes indicate that the traffic is external with different gateway.
B. The first static route indicates that the internal traffic will use an external gateway and the second static route indicates that the traffic will be rerouted.
C. Both static routes indicate that the traffic is internal with different gateway.
D. The first static route indicates that the internal addresses are using the internal gateway and the second static route indicates that all the traffic that is not internal must go to an external gateway.
Answer: D
What is the correct process for the TCP three-way handshake connection establishment and connection termination?
A. Connection Establishment: FIN, ACK-FIN, ACK
Connection Termination: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK
B. Connection Establishment: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK
Connection Termination: ACK, ACK-SYN, SYN
C. Connection Establishment: ACK, ACK-SYN, SYN
Connection Termination: FIN, ACK-FIN, ACK
D. Connection Establishment: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK
Connection Termination: FIN, ACK-FIN, ACK
Answer: D
Emil uses nmap to scan two hosts using this command.
nmap -sS -T4 -O 192.168.99.1 192.168.99.7
He receives this output:
Nmap scan report for 192.168.99.1
Host is up (0.00082s latency).
Not shown: 994 filtered ports
21/tcp open ftp
23/tcp open telnet
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
161/tcp closed snmp
MAC Address: B0:75:D5:33:57:74 (ZTE)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6
OS details: Linux 2.6.9 – 2.6.33
Network Distance: 1 hop
Nmap scan report for 192.168.99.7
Host is up (0.000047s latency).
All 1000 scanned ports on 192.168.99.7 are closed
Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details Network Distance: 0 hops
What is his conclusion?
A. Host 192.168.99.7 is an iPad.
B. He performed a SYN scan and OS scan on hosts 192.168.99.1 and 192.168.99.7.
C. Host 192.168.99.1 is the host that he launched the scan from.
D. Host 192.168.99.7 is down.
Answer: B
You're doing an internal security audit and you want to find out what ports are open on all the servers. What is the best way to find out?
A. Scan servers with Nmap
B. Physically go to each server
C. Scan servers with MBSA
D. Telent to every port on each server
Answer: A
Jimmy is standing outside a secure entrance to a facility. He is pretending to have a tense conversation on his cell phone as an authorized employee badges in. Jimmy, while still on the phone, grabs the door as it begins to close.
What just happened?
A. Phishing
B. Whaling
C. Tailgating
D. Masquerading
Answer: C
Which protocol is used for setting up secured channels between two devices, typically in VPNs?
Answer: A
In cryptanalysis and computer security, 'pass the hash' is a hacking technique that allows an attacker to authenticate to a remote server/service by using the underlying NTLM and/or LanMan hash of a user's password, instead of requiring the associated plaintext password as is normally the case. Metasploit Framework has a module for this technique: psexec. The psexec module is often used by penetration testers to obtain access to a given system that you already know the credentials for. It was written by sysinternals and has been integrated within the framework. Often as penetration testers, successfully gain access to a system through some exploit, use meterpreter to grab the passwords or other methods like fgdump, pwdump, or cachedump and then utilize rainbowtables to crack those hash values.
Which of the following is true hash type and sort order that is using in the psexec module's 'smbpass'?
Answer: B
Which of the following Nmap commands will produce the following output?
Starting Nmap 6.47 (http://nmap.org ) at 2015-05-26 12:50 EDT
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.1
Host is up (0.00042s latency).
Not shown: 65530 open|filtered ports, 65529 filtered ports
111/tcp open rpcbind
999/tcp open garcon
1017/tcp open unknown
1021/tcp open exp1
1023/tcp open netvenuechat
2049/tcp open nfs
17501/tcp open unknown
111/udp open rpcbind
123/udp open ntp
137/udp open netbios-ns
2049/udp open nfs
5353/udp open zeroconf
17501/udp open|filtered unknown
51857/udp open|filtered unknown
54358/udp open|filtered unknown
56228/udp open|filtered unknown
57598/udp open|filtered unknown
59488/udp open|filtered unknown
60027/udp open|filtered unknown
A. nmap -sN -Ps -T4 192.168.1.1
B. nmap -sT -sX -Pn -p 1-65535 192.168.1.1
C. nmap -sS -Pn 192.168.1.1
D. nmap -sS -sU -Pn -p 1-65535 192.168.1.1
Answer: D
Which Metasploit Framework tool can help penetration tester for evading Anti-virus Systems?
A. msfpayload
B. msfcli
C. msfencode
D. msfd
Answer: C
You want to do an ICMP scan on a remote computer using hping2. What is the proper syntax?
A. hping2 host.domain.com
B. hping2 –set-ICMP host.domain.com
C. hping2 -i host.domain.com
D. hping2 -1 host.domain.com
Answer: D
Which of the following is a passive wireless packet analyzer that works on Linux-based systems?
A. Burp Suite
B. OpenVAS
C. tshark
D. Kismet
Answer: D
The establishment of a TCP connection involves a negotiation called 3 way handshake. What type of message sends the client to the server in order to begin this negotiation?
Answer: D
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2017 – a relatively smooth year
Global growth continued the acceleration we had seen through the second half of last year. In fact, global growth looks to have been around 3.6%, its best result in six years, with most major regions seeing good growth. Solid global growth helped drive strong growth in profits.
Benign inflation. While deflation fears faded further, underlying inflation stayed low and below target, surprising on the downside in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.
Rising commodity prices. Better than feared global demand and a surprise fall in the $US helped commodity prices along with constrained supply in the case of oil.
Politics turned out to be benign. Political risks featured heavily in 2017 but they turned out less threatening than feared: while political risk around Trump rose with the Mueller inquiry into his presidential campaign's Russian links, business-friendly pragmatism dominated Trump's first-year policy agenda and a trade war with China did not eventuate; Eurozone elections saw pro-Euro centrists dominate; North Korean risks increased but didn't have a lasting impact on markets; Australian politics remained messy but arguably no more so than since 2010.
Another year of easy money. While the Fed continued to gradually raise interest rates and started reversing quantitative easing and China tapped the monetary brakes, central banks in Europe and Japan remained in stimulus mode and overall global monetary policy remained easy.
Australia had okay growth hitting 26 years without a recession, but inflation remained below target. While housing construction started to slow and consumer spending was constrained, non-mining investment improved, infrastructure spending surged & export volumes were strong. Record low wages growth and low inflation kept the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on hold, though.
The "sweet spot" of solid global growth and low inflation/benign central banks helped drive strong investment returns overall.
Yr to date to Nov. Source: Thomson Reuters, Morningstar, REIA, AMP Capital
Global shares pushed sharply higher supported by strong earnings, low interest rates and growing investor confidence. While Eurozone, Japanese and Australian shares saw 5-7% corrections along the way, US shares only saw brief 2-3% pullbacks. So volatility was very low.
The big surprise was that the US dollar fell rather than rose as low inflation kept expectations for Fed rate hikes depressed. This helped boost US shares but dragged on Eurozone shares as the Euro rose.
Asian and emerging market shares were star performers thanks to leverage to global growth, rising commodity prices and a weaker $US, which reduced debt servicing costs.
Australian shares had good returns but were relative laggards as has generally been the case this decade with weaker underlying profit growth.
Bonds had mediocre returns. While inflation surprised on the downside, ultra-low yields constrained returns.
Real estate investment trusts had a somewhat constrained year as investors remained a bit wary of listed yield plays.
Unlisted commercial property and infrastructure continued to do well as investors sought their still relatively high yields.
Australian residential property returns slowed as the heat came out of the Sydney and Melbourne property markets.
Cash and bank term deposit returns were poor reflecting record low RBA interest rates.
Reflecting US dollar softness, the $A actually rose helped by modest gains in commodity prices.
Reflecting strong returns from shares and unlisted assets, balanced superannuation fund returns were strong.
2018 – looking ok but expect more volatility
Global growth to remain strong. Global growth is likely to move up to 3.7%, ranging from around 2% in advanced countries to around 6.5% in China, with the US receiving a boost from tax cuts. Leading growth indicators such as business conditions PMIs point to continuing strong growth, but just bear in mind that they don't get much better than this. Overall, this should mean continuing strong global profit growth albeit momentum is likely to peak.
Source: Bloomberg, IMF, AMP Capital
US inflation starting to lift. Global inflation is likely to remain low, but it's likely to pick up in the US as spare capacity is declining, wages growth is picking up and as higher commodity prices feed through. We don't expect a surge and the flow through in other major countries will be gradual. But higher US inflation may disrupt the yield trade at times and cause some nervousness.
Monetary policy divergence to continue. The Fed is likely to hike four times in 2018 (which is more than markets are allowing) and to continue with quantitative tightening but other central banks are likely to lag.• Political risk may have more impact after a relatively benign 2017. US political risk is likely to become more of a focus again (with the Mueller inquiry getting closer to Trump, the November mid-term elections likely to see the Republicans lose the House and the risk that Trump may resort to populist policies like protectionism to shore up his support), the Italian election is likely to see the anti-Euro Five Star Movement do well (albeit not well enough to form government), North Korean risks are unresolved and there is the risk of an early election in Australia.
Fortunately, there is still no sign of the sort of excesses that drive recessions and deep bear markets in shares: there has been no major global bubble in real estate or business investment; there is the bitcoin mania but not enough people are exposed to that to make it economically significant globally; inflation is unlikely to rise so far that it causes a major problem; share markets are not unambiguously overvalued and global monetary conditions are easy. So arguably the "sweet spot" remains in place, but it may start to become a bit messier. p
For Australia, while the boost to growth from housing will start to slow and consumer spending will be constrained, a declining drag from mining investment and strength in non-mining investment, public infrastructure investment and export volumes should see growth around 3%. However, as a result of uncertainties around consumer spending along with low wages growth and inflation, the RBA is unlikely to start raising interest rates until late 2018 at the earliest.
Implications for investors
Continuing strong economic and earnings growth and still-low inflation should keep overall investment returns favourable but stirring US inflation, the drip feed of Fed rate hikes and a possible increase in political risk are likely to constrain returns and increase volatility after the relative calm of 2017:
Global shares are due a decent correction and are likely to see more volatility, but they are likely to trend higher and we favour Europe (which remains very cheap) and Japan over the US, which is likely to be constrained by tighter monetary policy and a rising US dollar. Favour global banks and industrials over tech stocks that have had a huge run.
Emerging markets are likely to underperform if the $US rises as we expect.
Australian shares are likely to do okay but with returns constrained to around 8% with moderate earnings growth. Expect the ASX 200 to reach 6200 by end 2018.
Commodity prices are likely to push higher in response to strong global growth.
Low yields and capital losses from a gradual rise in bond yields are likely to see low returns from bonds.
Commercial property and infrastructure are likely to continue benefitting from the ongoing search for yield by investors.
National capital city residential property price gains are expected to slow to around zero as the air comes out of the Sydney and Melbourne property boom and prices fall by around 5%, but Perth and Darwin bottom out, Adelaide and Brisbane see moderate gains and Hobart booms.
Cash and bank deposits are likely to continue to provide poor returns, with term deposit rates running around 2.2%.
The $A is likely to fall to around $US0.70, but with little change against the Yen and the Euro, as the gap between the Fed Funds rate and the RBA's cash rate goes negative.
What to watch?
•The risks around Trump – the Mueller inquiry and the mid-term elections. We don't see the Republicans impeaching Trump (unless there is evidence of clear illegality) but he could turn to more populist policies such as a trade war with China, a spat over the South China Sea or a clash with North Korea to boost his support.
How quickly US inflation turns up – a rapid upswing is not our base case but it would see a more aggressive Fed, more upwards pressure on the $US, which would be negative for US and emerging market shares and a rapid rise in bond yields.
The Italian election – the anti-Euro Five Star Movement is likely to do well and, even though it's hard to see them being able to form government, this could cause nervousness;
Whether China post the Party Congress embarks on a more reform-focussed agenda resulting in a sharp decline in economic growth – unlikely but it's a risk.
Whether non-mining investment, infrastructure spending and export volumes are able to offset constrained consumer spending and a downturn in the housing cycle and how far Sydney and Melbourne property prices fall.
Source: AMP Capital 7 December 2017
Author: Dr Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy and Economics and Chief Economist at AMP Capital is responsible for AMP Capital's diversified investment funds. He also provides economic forecasts and analysis of key variables and issues affecting, or likely to affect, all asset markets.
Important note: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this article, AMP Capital Investors Limited (ABN 59 001 777 591, AFSL 232497) and AMP Capital Funds Management Limited (ABN 15 159 557 721, AFSL 426455) makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of any statement in it including, without limitation, any forecasts. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. This article has been prepared for the purpose of providing general information, without taking account of any particular investor's objectives, financial situation or needs. An investor should, before making any investment decisions, consider the appropriateness of the information in this article, and seek professional advice, having regard to the investor's objectives, financial situation and needs. This article is solely for the use of the party to whom it is provided.


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Please note: As of January 20, 2021, information in some news releases may be out of date or not reflect current policies.
News Release
U.S. Department of Labor Reminds Employers That They Cannot Retaliate Against Workers Reporting Unsafe Conditions During Coronavirus Pandemic
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers that it is illegal to retaliate against workers because they report unsafe and unhealthful working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. Acts of retaliation can include terminations, demotions, denials of overtime or promotion, or reductions in pay or hours.
"Employees have the right to safe and healthy workplaces," said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt. "Any worker who believes that their employer is retaliating against them for reporting unsafe working conditions should contact OSHA immediately."
Workers have the right to file a whistleblower complaint online with OSHA (or 1-800-321-OSHA) if they believe their employer has retaliated against them for exercising their rights under the whistleblower protection laws enforced by the agency.
OSHA's Whistleblower Protection Program webpage provides valuable resources on worker rights, including fact sheets on whistleblower protections for employees in various industries and frequently asked questions.
OSHA enforces the whistleblower provisions of more than 20 whistleblower statutes protecting employees from retaliation for reporting violations of various workplace safety and health, airline, commercial motor carrier, consumer product, environmental, financial reform, food safety, motor vehicle safety, healthcare reform, nuclear, pipeline, public transportation agency, railroad, maritime, securities and tax laws. For more information on whistleblower protections, visit OSHA's Whistleblower Protection Programs webpage.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to help ensure these conditions for America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, education and assistance. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
The mission of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.


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More Really Reasonable Ribbon Flowers ~ Chrysanthemum, Cottage Rose, and Open Rose. I've been trying to use up items from my stash and here you can see these sweet epoxy stickers that I tucked around this cluster. I tucked in some White Crochet Lace below and above my photo. Scor-Tape works beautifully for adhering lace and ribbon!!
I painted this butterfly chipboard piece with metallic paints and dry brushed with gesso. The metal piece is also brushed with gesso. This cluster features Chrysanthemums, Cherry Blossom, Cosmos, and a sweet Open Rose.
I hope you've been inspired to grab your RRR ribbon and flowers and create a layout or card today!!
Don't forget to check out this post for the details on how you can enter to win a Bow-it-All:
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Garden Party Handbag 3D Paper Craft Project
Beautiful designer purse made from paper
This gorgeous handbag has all the detail of a great designer bag including a chain strap made entirely of individual paper links and metallic accents. The purse opens to hold a gift or treat, or it can be displayed as a unique home decor piece.
Includes a Gift Card Holder
The little pocket on the front of the handbag is the perfect size to hold a gift card or a note to the recipient.
The finished size is approximately 6" wide by 3" deep by 3" tall, however it can be sized larger if desired. The chain strap is approximately 18" long.
Compatible with Cricut Design Space
The download includes SVG, MTC (for Make the Cut! software), DXF and PDF files. The file can be cut in Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio, Make-the-Cut, Sure Cuts a Lot, as well as other cutter software that accepts any of these file types. Step by step illustrated assembly instructions are also included. This file cuts best on a 12x12 mat.
For people without electronic cutters, a scissor cutting file in pdf is also included that can be printed on the 8 1/2 x 11" paper of your choice and cut using scissors or a craft knife.


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Run & Gun, and...eat? Saw through flesh a new-fashioned way or drill through enemies with fast-paced gunslinging with Bite the Bullet. This game combines some of our favorite game elements, ever, with some fun platforming, skill shots, power-ups, and fast gameplay. Also, cannibalism.
In the 2Xth century, urbanization and pollution caused food and resource shortages. Humanity was able to adopt through technology, devising biologically-implanted nodes which allowed them to consume and metabolize any material, living, or inorganic.
This necessity sparked a trend in biological manipulation, and soon mankind split itself into two species – the Celestials, who embraced bio-mods and expanded across the stars from their new lunar home; and the Ghouls, descendants of humans who never utilized the consumption nodes and remained behind on earth, poisoned and twisted by the conditions there.
The strife between these species has caused mistrust, suspicion, even war, and their planetary conflict has attracted the attention, and ire, of a being that is beyond all mortal Flesh.
Now, two champions - half-caste offspring with parents from both species - will attempt to save humanity's future by fighting through its past on a desolate and perilous world.
Bite the Bullet is a biopunk run and gun action platformer featuring:
- The choice to destroy or consume enemies, turning their biological matter into many upgrades.
- 10 levels infested with bladed drones, flame turrets, lightning geckos, blimp rats, and helmet squids.
- Turn enemies into defenses or weapons, like the Gurtha swarm blowgun, lightning gecko on a stick, or turtle shell plate armor
- Save up all that consumed flesh and metal in the bio-meter to activate Zombro mode, and pound your foes into smoking ash and bone dust.
Vill and Dart
Two soldiers of the Lunarian forces who have a shared Purebread and Ghoul ancestry. They manage to keep their Ghoul genes hidden but still carry the bio-implants which enable them to consume all manner of organic and inorganic material
Most Ghouls are content with eking out a meager existence on the husk of a planet Earth has become. Others intend to take out their human cousins by force, joining ranks under the Ghoul revolutionary leaders.
Lightning Geckos
Reptiles that have evolved bio-electric survival mechanisms. They are often hunted by Ghouls as both a source of power and for designer leather boots.
Sometimes, consumption nodes decay over time and infect other organs of the host. These speedy Ghouls have significant brain damage, which affects their higher cognitive functions.
Dire Puffer Fish
Before the great lunar migration, many animals were developed for sports activities. Mechanically altered pufferfish was one of them, as they provided a deadly challenge to typically peaceful activity.
The Purebreds left plenty of explosives behind on their journey to the Moon. Sappys intend to make this refuse into the instrument of the Purebreds demise.
Mega Mind
The consumption nodes were created in a bioware lab which was the bleeding edge of technology for its time. Long abandoned, the dispossessed bio-material and implants in the facility begin to cohere. Now, a central, seething mass looms at the core of the laboratory, and its tendrils can be felt throughout the building like a pulsing nervous system.
These large ghouls have several bio-modifications which provide them with superhuman strength, allowing them to wield suppressive fire weapons which are normally mounted on vehicles
Blimp Rats
Inflatable sacs in these creatures enable them to float into low hanging trees to gather fruit and leaves. Breathing in the gases stored in these sacs can cause nausea and hallucinations, making these animals short on natural predators.
Hand-picked by Ghoul forces for leg strength and bone density, these individuals were given special implants that allow them to control tiny muscles, allowing them to stabilize and withstand the recoil of their mighty weapons.
Hamster Squirrel
Mutant rodents with acidic saliva, teeth as hard as granite, and a dangerous nether region. If they were not so volatile, some say that they could be domesticated…
Internal filtration membranes keep these Ghouls safe from the harmful effects of the drug of choice but do little to protect their enemies from the spread of their deadly weapons.
Here are some updates from the last two weeks:
Early Ham-Ham implementation: https://gyazo.com/86f0f62dd2460b52b0a423cd3764f47c
Ghoul Character: https://gyazo.com/852336a8db44009c8c8ce66a0d898dfd
Implementing rockets: https://gyazo.com/489bb48cd932bdca397bed9dee592a1b
Kill cam: https://gyazo.com/d37b717d2f0ba6ae493e040fefdefb0a
Critter cannon: https://gyazo.com/760e9934598ebee44e35cc1b72aa4646
Wow, we've come a long way! See more and wishlist Bite the Bullet on Steam!
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Solar power is the basis for all life on earth! Solar heating has been used for thousands of years to warm dwellings (solar thermal). But solar electricity (photovoltaics) is a very new industry.
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) --a zero maintenance, zero fuel cost electric generator
Solar panels have no moving parts. You just mount them out in the sun, hook up the wires, and collect power, without adding fuel or replacing worn-out parts. It's amazing that nobody knows for sure how long a solar panel will last. That's because many of the very first photovoltaic panels are still producing power today.Solar Electricity Basics
We often receive questions here along the lines of 'how many solar panels do I need to power my 3,000 square foot house?' We don't sell or install solar power systems, so we can't provide free consulting services and still keep our business running. However, we've written numerous articles on the topic and compiled a list of resources to help answer your questions and start you on the right track for doing your 'homework' on the topic:- The design, size and cost of a solar photovoltaic power system for your home depends on only a few simple factors:
- How much energy in kilowatt-hours (kwh) do you use per month, and how much does it cost you?
- What can you do to reduce your energy usage, and how much will that cost you? (Every dollar spent on conservation will save you $3-$5 on the cost of an RE power system).
- What solar resource do you have available at your location?
- What Federal, state and local tax credits and incentives are available to you? There may be multiple programs you qualify for. Taxcaster's tool is a great way to determine how your taxes might benefit.
- Renewable Energy Basics -- This article guides you through answering ALL those questions above, in great detail. Includes information on grid-tied, off-grid and grid tie with battery bank systems.
- Designing a tiny solar power system for a camping trailer -- This article goes through the basics of designing a properly-sized solar power system, including calculating your inputs, loads and battery bank size.
- If you are serious about moving to a solar power system for your home or cabin, most local solar dealers / installers will provide you with a free or low-cost estimate and energy estimate. Going local is an excellent choice!
- Most internet solar power retailers have lots of free information online, including system sizing spreadsheets. Two retailers that we patronize frequently because of their great customer service are The Alternative Energy Store and Backwoods Solar -- but there are many more excellent retailers online.
- Shopping by Dollars per Watt is the best way to choose solar panels. Photovoltaic panel prices have steadily been dropping at 3-5 percent per year for the last decade or so. However, prices may not seem all that low to you, because in general the technology is getting better, so each panel is making more watts than those of a few years ago. You have two options for buying photovoltaics, new and used:
- New photovoltaic panels -- This page gives some details about new panels, including how the technology is advancing, and information about tracking mounts.
- Used photovoltaic panels -- This page discusses how to inspect used panels for damage and test their output before purchasing.
- We are no longer maintaining our used solar panel mailing list. Because of strong demand for large photovoltaic installations around the world, there has been a general shortage of new panels. This has increased demand for used panels too, and we have not seen any large lots of used panels available for 4 years now. The best places to look for used PV panels are your local newspaper classifieds, Craigslist, and Ebay.
Solar Thermal Panels -- using the suns energy directly for heat
Using solar power directly to heat air or water is the most efficient way to do it. Solar electric is not a very efficient way to heat things, but solar thermal works great! We don't have a huge amount of information here about solar thermal, but there are some links below for you.- Passive solar house design is an excellent way to heat a home. Generally it's designed into the home from the ground up, with south-facing windows, thermal mass to store heat, lots of insulation, and thermal blankets for the windows at night. DanF's home was designed this way. Until we do get a page up here about passive solar heating, you can search the internet for the term and get a wide variety of books and articles on the topic.
- Solar hot water heating panels became very popular in the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s for preheating a homes hot water. Government tax credits were offered by the Carter administration, and many companies sprang up designing and installing systems. When the Reagan administration cancelled the tax credits, many of these companies went out of business, and there were very few people left to maintain and repair these systems. Many of them are still sitting on roofs today, broken. HOWEVER, it became obvious very quickly that some of these companies were 'fly-by-night' and their products were poorly designed in the first place:
- In general, we advise against purchasing these old systems used. It's actually easy to find one for free, which might be OK if you are experimentor and enthusiast. But these older systems used numerous active controls, sensors and pumps, and were very unreliable compared to the excellent, low-maintainance and reliable systems available today.
- Solar water heating panels are NOT a new idea! This article about the history of solar water heating is an excellent read. Thousands of systems were installed and were very effective in sunny parts of the USA around 1900.
- On the other hand, modern solar water heating panels are an excellent investment in most parts of the county! The technology has changed so much that these systems are now completely different in design than those from the Carter area that caused so many problems. Some industry analysts say that the loss of the tax credits, while it had a large negative impact on the industry at the time, ended up being the best thing that ever happened to the industry in the long run.
- These systems are now often incorporated along with radiant floor heating pipes. The sun heats the fluid, which circulates inside the high thermal mass floor of the home. This is a VERY efficient way to heat a home!
- Solar air heating panels are another new technology that's catching on quickly. It allows the homeowner to retrofit a house that was not orginally designed for efficient passive solar heating, and reap the benefits and energy savings of heating with the sun.
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Placing a Bible in the hands of every Christian believer is a task that the global body of Christ can accomplish in this generation. Here at The Voice of the Martyrs, we are committed to making it happen in countries where Christians are persecuted for their faith, and we need your help.
Together we can make sure every Christian in a hostile or restricted nation has his or her own Bible.
We Know Them by Name
In recent years, thanks to the generous support of American Christians like you, VOM has been able to distribute more than 1 million Bibles each year on the world's most difficult and dangerous mission fields. We know precious persecuted believers in these nations by name, and VOM staff members have witnessed firsthand their joy when they receive their first Bible.
Preparing the Next Generation
One way enemies of the gospel try to prevent the spread of Christianity is by restricting and destroying Bibles for children. They know that if they can indoctrinate children with other beliefs — radical Islam, communism or some other anti-God philosophy — those beliefs can last a lifetime. The Voice of the Martyrs is counteracting this by putting Bibles in the hands of our youngest brothers and sisters, helping them prepare to stand courageously for their faith in Christ.
Covert Operations
No road is too difficult, no risk is too great when our brothers and sisters are crying out for God's Word! Smuggling Bibles into countries where there is no access to God's Word is a vital part of strengthening the church in those nations.
Bibles on the Front Lines:
Difficult. Dangerous. Illegal.
Take time right now to pray for the safe distribution of Bibles in the world's most difficult and dangerous mission fields, as illustrated on this map. Brave men and women are risking arrest, imprisonment, beatings and even death to get God's Word into the hands of those who otherwise might never receive it.
From the Field
In many Central Asian countries, Bibles are considered propaganda and are not allowed to be imported or printed. VOM supports covert Bible operations in this region so Christians have access to God's Word.
In 2014, when ISIS invaded Mosul and surrounding areas of the Nineveh Plains that had been home to generations of Iraqi Christians, the Islamists systematically burned churches and Bibles. VOM provided new Bibles to replace those destroyed.
Last year, the government banned the online sale of Bibles, an additional obstacle in a country where printed Bibles were already difficult to obtain. The Communist Party is also working on a new Bible translation intended to inject Chinese values into Scripture.
As the government tightens its control of religious life in Cuba, Christians there fear it will become more difficult to get Bibles. Over the years, believers have used a variety of ways to bring Bibles into Cuba, including by boat, by hand-carrying individual copies and through government-approved shipments.
If caught with a Bible, Ri Gun would be sent to a labor camp … or worse. So she tucked her small Bible into the fronds of a special mop intended for cleaning the portraits she was required to display of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. VOM workers smuggle both print and digital Bibles into the country.
Together we can make sure every Christian in a hostile area or restricted nation has his or her own Bible.
"I would not believe in a Bible if it would not be worth it to smuggle it in everywhere even at the greatest risk and if it would not be worth it to sit ten days and nights alone in the cold in order to be able to read its wonderful pages."