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A requiem for the Twitter that could have been
Twitter never really understood what it had. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once described Twitter, the company, as "a clown car that fell into a gold mine." The organization languished under Jack Dorsey's leadership for years, stagnating, rolling out mild feature upgrades here and there that served mostly to annoy its users without adding very much by way of value, either to its users or to the company. It found itself hauled before the very same Congressional firing squads that were taking aim at Facebook, except without making Facebook kinds of money. Twitter injected themselves into a handful of social narratives and then, like most Twitter users who do the same thing, found themselves completely uncertain of what to do next. Twitter is a dog that keeps actually catching up to the mail truck.
Elon Musk is trying to buy the company now, and pending regulatory approval, it looks like he will be successful. At least, he will be successful in buying the company. It's not clear at all that he'll be any more successful at running it. After all, the clown car that drove into the gold mine might well have been a Tesla on Autopilot.
…who talked continuously seventy hours from park to pad to bar to Bellevue to museum to the Brooklyn Bridge…
People call Twitter "social media" with casual ease, not really spending a moment to interrogate if a category error is being made. Twitter is unlike Facebook is unlike Tiktok is unlike Telegram, and so on. Posting a tweet on Twitter is a wholly different act than writing a post on Facebook. Facebook is heavier, its threading clunky, its interface perfectly calibrated to optimally commandeer your attention for exactly as long as is needed to maximize what it can take from you, and nothing more. Twitter is designed for discourse. A reply is simply a tweet stapled to another tweet; a thread, several stitched together in a bizarre discursive macramé. Twitter optimizes for brevity and volume; Twitter wants you to scroll, to doomscroll even, and to become immersed in the volume of content.
People call Twitter a social media site, but in reality it is a global chatroom. Twitter is optimized for throwaway bullshit. That's not new. We have always had ways to revel in bullshit, we trafficked in irony and ennui smuggled in fixed-width font. We have always had an outlet for our most mundane thoughts, our passive bemusement at the absurdity of life. Twitter's innovation was simply making it practical to put it all in one place, by abstracting away the complexity of whose bullshit you would see.
The internet is full of antique furnishings covered in dusty bedsheets. A quick glance at bash.org evokes pinprick memories for the generation that grew up on IRC and chatrooms. That era, as the top posts evince, was also unforgivably bigoted. The internet wasn't available to everyone, then. It wasn't practical for everyone. Through obscurity and hostility the gates were kept with hostile verve. The repositories of bullshit we used then were never on the evening news.
Twitter changed that. Twitter gave us an easy way to send our ephemera into the world, let us choose whose we saw, and gave us tools to amplify the best or worst of it on the very same platform with the very same mechanics. It never dissuaded us from it. In fact, its only really effective product changes over the years were tools like retweets, quote tweets, and threads, all of which made it easier to keep our quips flowing.
Twitter is a chatroom, and the problem that Twitter really solved was the discoverability problem. The internet is a big place, and it is shockingly hard to otherwise find people whose thoughts you want to read more of, whether those thoughts are tweets, articles, or research papers. The thing is, I'm not really sure that Twitter ever realized that this is the problem they solved, that this is where their core value lies. Twitter kept experimenting with algorithms and site layouts and Moments and other features to try to foist more discoverability onto the users without realizing that their users were discovering with the platform quite adeptly already. Twitter kept trying to amplify the signal without understanding that what users needed was better tools to cut down the noise.
…whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes…
Twitter, like many technology companies, fell into the classical trap by thinking that they, the technologists, were the innovators. Technologists today are almost never innovators, but rather plumbers who build pipelines to move ideas in the form of data back and forth with varying efficacy. Users are innovators, and its users that made Twitter unique. In fact, those features, like retweets, emerged from user behavior. Among all of the major "social networking" sites, Twitter is the only one that meaningfully handles in serious topics. Presidents use Twitter; tweets appear on the evening news, sit at the forefront of major investigations. Twitter has become the medium for debate and analysis. Facebook mastered the art of sharing and the art of arguing, but Twitter allowed people to mine the depths of content. Some of what was unearthed were diamonds, and some was coal, but Twitter is the only place where serious thinkers attempt to build a brand.
When the site is at its best, it serves as an incubator for new thinking. If you follow the right people, and use the right critical eye, you can read the news before it's been written. Twitter, more than any other site, is a laboratory for journalism and scholarship. Though its users are rarely gentle, for those hearty enough to weather the feedback Twitter is a crucible of creation. But this same mechanism is also a springboard for the absolute worst synthesis you have ever encountered. This is not an accident. It tickles our bullshit centers. To every topic we précis our indignity. Such reactions are out of our control. If you're clever enough, witty enough, you get a high score, and more people will then be raptured into the holy orbit of your public conscience. Twitter is a chat room with bash built in.
Nobody really needs to share their opinion on the Washington Post author who took indecipherable aim at the cultural transgression of stretchy pants on airplanes. But then, neither should said author stand to gain anything from lobbing this moral grenade into the opinion section of one of America's most important newspapers. What honestly do we stand to gain from this transaction? The Washington Post gains. Twitter gains. Clicks are value. Outrage is attention. Attention is the last earthly resource that individuals are the keepers of. Everything else is taken over by corporations. Attention is the only means of production we still control.
Twitter never really did figure out this pattern of synthesis-analysis-synthesis. Users flurry screenshots of the article of the moment around Twitter, destroying searchability and accessiblity. Journalists have adapted their writing style to optimize for a pullquote that fits comfortably in an iPhone screen. Twitter could have done so much more. They could have built an API that allows users to quote articles with text. They could have realized that what made the site unique is that we want to relate to ideas. They didn't understand that we don't want to share content, we want to share our own interpretations and validations of wisdom. We want to create, not produce! Above all, we want to share the naked joy that someone else is pleased with what we created.
…who reappeared on the West Coast investigating the FBI in beards and shorts with big pacifist eyes sexy in their dark skin passing out incomprehensible leaflets…
We called it Web 2.0 when we shifted the dynamics of the chatrooms away from strange corners of an inaccessible Internet and onto the global stage. Celebrities began to join in. You could talk to them. If something in the news pissed you off, you could yell at the journalist directly, rather than writing a letter to the newspaper. This was powerful. And we called it Web 2.0 because we thought we had invented something new.
Twitter, the organization, was convinced of this more than anyone. They had to be. But as time marched on, it became clear that Twitter didn't really understand what it had built, how it was used, or what is was being used for. For years, we watched as doe-eyed star hires proudly announced their leading roles in the company. They were going to fix things! They were going to take feedback! Twitter wasn't perfect, but gosh darn it, it was going to try to be better.
But it was clear that these people didn't really use the platform in the way that the platform drove its power. They hopped on board the Twitter train thinking they were going to be conductors, only to find that they were merely passengers. Time after time, we watched as these bright stars burned out, quietly leaving the company to pursue another journey.
Technologists are never the innovators. Users are the innovators. If you watched how Twitter evolved from 30,000 feet, you could see the growth of citizen journalism. You could watch as activists would shape entire conversations about politics, industry. Open source investigators collaborated in the open and outperformed the world's best law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The platform changed entertainment and culture. It allowed revolutionaries to network, and helped the state crush them. It allowed hate and genocidal ideology to spread. It legitimized conspiracy theories that have permanently scarred our world.
Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the last moment. Whatever happens in the coming months with Elon Musk's attempt to buy the company, the Board has sent a clear and unambiguous message: Twitter will never cross that line, it is tired of being asked to, and now it will never even try.
…Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
Most debates try to locate Twitter's place in the broad framework of free speech. We debate as to whether it is a Town Square, debate whether it should be. We debate the meaning of free speech, and how Twitter has threatened the design limits of the legal and social trusswork that creak and groan as they attempt to support that particular nugget of democracy. This, too, is a mistake, and not least because these debates tend to be polluted with the uniquely American lens on the ethics of free speech.
Free speech is rightfully the most sacred American value, one that has been codified in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. But the First Amendment is much broader than simply a constitutional guarantee against prosecution. It grants the right to pray as you please, something which was, at the time of its writing, one of the major axes of personal identity. Crucially, it also grants the right to petition one's government for a redress of grievances. All this is to say, that if we insist on using American free speech values in the debate over the governance and direction of a global platform, we would do well to include the entire story. The ability be as you are and to seek justice is as essential to free speech as the freedom from government persecution. These things must coexist.
If we are to position Twitter as a Town Square, we should consider that Town Squares were rarely designed as free speech fora. Town squares historically arose from civilization's tendency to self-organize; they emerged as a gathering space where people could connect with people, for trade, for celebration, for ritual. Town squares arose from humanity's need to form community. If Twitter wants to position itself as a Town Square, it must focus not on "free speech," but on the development of community and to improve the features and tooling to allow users to self-select them. This of course includes better tools for users to moderate their community spaces according to self-defined standards.
Twitter has resisted these calls in the past, and it is unlikely that the organization will suddenly embrace them under Elon Musk's leadership. Musk exhibits a child's understanding of free speech. More likely, he will drive the company mercilessly to chase KPIs or OKRs or whatever capitalist numerology that he and his advisors can grasp instead of understanding the platform dynamics. This usually means pumping engagement, seeking to leverage outrage and our generational burden to be fully informed about subject matters that fall well outside our rightful ambit. You can't be different people in different contexts on Twitter, even though this is how most of us live our everyday lives. You have to be all people at all times to all other people on Twitter, the platform. This is the antithesis of community. Ultimately, it will be undoing of Twitter, the company.
…where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets the United States that coughs all night and won't let us sleep…
It may be time for Twitter to have its undoing. Twitter has made too many things too easy for too long. The subtitle of Zeynep Tufekci's fantastic book, Twitter and Tear Gas is "the power and fragility of networked protest." We have constructed the scaffolding of our influence networks on a cracked foundation. It's too easy to build a brand there. It's too often at the expense of building more durable relationships. More important, it's at the expense of building a scalable, stable framework from which we can advance our craft.
Twitter has done great things. They've blown away the barriers that prevented ordinary people from obtaining access to the drivers of culture, politics, and news. It's allowed us a real good look at the emperor's clothes. Individuals have more opportunity than ever before to become agents of substantive change. Through it we could learn so much more, do so much more, become so much more. It's the most accessible, widespread chatroom that has ever been built.
There is a time for builders and a time for breakers. Twitter allowed us many of us to become breakers. Web 2.0 let us speak truth to power at scales never before seen. But it struggled to let us also become builders, because it was so easy for anyone, any community, to be broken. Regardless of how, or if, Musk's acquisition pans out, to me one thing is clear: the groundwork for what comes next must now be laid. In the end, I think it's the most exciting time in technology I've seen in years.
Excerpts from "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg republished without permission under fair use principles.
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Election year offers a chance to change radically Britain's flawed and outdated relationship between government and the arts.
LIKE old war-horses to a bugle call, columnists feel a tingle in their extremities at the dawning of an election year. Not that much is likely to change - least of all in the arts, which no party has ever placed at the heart of its programme.
Politicians fear that fighting for culture on the hustings would risk a demotic backlash. Also, any debate on the arts tends to get bogged down over money, which most governments want to cut. The Germans are struggling to slash spending without offending the gods in Valhalla and two conductors in Berlin. In the US, voices in the Bush team, led by the incoming vice-president's formidable wife, Lynne Cheney, have called for an end to federal aid for the arts.
Here in Britain, we muddle along on a formula that Maynard Keynes sneaked past the War Cabinet in 1945 - a hotch-potch that Keynes himself described as "half-baked" and which survives unrevised to this day. On to Keynes's rickety Arts Council we have piled a National Lottery, an interventionist Culture Department and tax incentives for private donations - with the result that the arts are in constant crisis and the politicians are clueless.
Those who thought that devolution would make a thousand flowers bloom have been swiftly disabused. The arts in Wales complain of Third World rations; in Scotland new opera productions have been halted until next summer. In London, the Royal Opera House, supposed flagship of British arts, is heading hopelessly for the rocks.
So, to clear the decks, I have set out a manifesto that is offered freely to all parties in the hope that they will get to grips with the arts and go into the election with plans for a new relationship between state and stage. Not all of my proposals are original and some may prove too radical for mainstream politics. Their aim is to ensure that tax money is wisely spent and that the arts are able to fulfil a more meaningful role.
The elevation of culture to Cabinet status in 1991 was a mixed blessing, creating an extra tier of bureaucracy. Under New Labour, the Culture Department has taken decisions concerning Covent Garden and the South Bank Centre away from the Arts Council, and appointed a Quest team to monitor its work. Stripped of independence, the Council survives as a Blairite parrot and convenient scapegoat.
Both make pleasant pets, but one tier must surely go. Scrapping the Arts Council of England would save £14.27 million a year, enough to fund a national theatre. Abolishing the Scottish and Welsh Councils would produce comparable savings. None would be much missed. In future, ministers would be held accountable for arts failures and, more importantly, the arts would become a central government concern, no longer held at notional arm's length.
Most Arts Council clients have already been farmed out to local arts boards, on the grounds that Newcastle knows better than any London-based panel how many orchestras and museums it needs and can afford. Giving the arts back to grass-roots control is a prerequisite for renewal.
What is to be done with the "national" companies? The South Bank needs to be restored to the Greater London Assembly. The Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company can be funded from Whitehall, along with Covent Garden, which should, preferably, be privatised.
The National Lottery has yielded novel forms of lunacy. At present, a tin shed in Totnes can put in for a grant and - after spending a million or so on ACE-funded "consultants" - might come out a winner. The process has produced a flush of new buildings that cannot afford to stay open all year, let alone attract worthwhile acts. The nadir of Lottery loopiness was Sheffield's National Centre for Popular Music.
The process needs to be reversed. Instead of inviting applications for Lottery grants, the Culture Department should identify areas of arts need and then build big. A Norman Foster or Frank Gehry marvel in Bristol would gain more attention for culture than a £2 million arts centre in Ballymena.
The severest blow that the arts have suffered is not a decline of state funding but a loss of television time. Over the past five years, the BBC has halved its cultural output, and ITV channels regularly defy their licence terms, which require a minimum of 15-30 minutes' arts programming a week. There is not a single books programme on the whole of UK television. A generation has been robbed of the chance to discover arts.
The next government needs to act. ITV companies that fail to meet arts obligations should be fined - £100,000 a minute should concentrate the minds at Carlton and Granada. The BBC, having neglected national theatres and orchestras, should be made to clear 20 nights a year for live relays, yielding editorial control to performing organisations. Politicians of all parties have come to recognise that there is no point pumping money into the arts if public television is impenetrably philistine.
The two market-leaders in arts web-casting are based in Britain. Both are being held back by delays in fast-cable installation. The state may need to press the phone companies to get cracking.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that exposure to classical arts appears to make kids brighter, patients healthier and prisoners more likely to reform. The governor of one US state now sends a classical disc to every new-born babe. In Sweden, they play Mozart in maternity wards to ease labour pains. Our cultural budget must help to provide live classical music and theatre in schools, hospitals and jails.
This country has far too many music and drama colleges of variable excellence, at least 10 in London alone. Students are taught little beyond performance skills. Royal Academies and Colleges should be required to offer fast-track courses in educational psychology and social work, encouraging those students who may not make it as performers to use their artistic talents in the caring professions, applying their lesser talents where they can do most good.
The dereliction of our Victorian public library system is a dirty national scandal. Millions of precious books have been thrown into skips, to be replaced by tacky videos. Before libraries squander their budgetary future on DVDs, we need to call a time-out to redefine their fundamental purpose.
Knowledge, not entertainment, must be paramount - but new libraries like the one in Peckham can also be used to introduce young people to art by means of regular foyer events. We need fewer arts centres, and more libraries where art can be informally encountered.
These are but a few of the shortcomings that could be resolved by any party bold enough to give arts and leisure the same priority as health and crime. It is no longer true to say that there are no votes in the arts. At the last accounting, 25 million people a year attended some form of publicly funded arts event in Britain. Even in a landslide landscape, this may just be enough to tip the balance in an election that looks to be woefully low on issues.
Instead of Butskellite consensus and Keynsian fudge, a party bold enough to dream about the quality of life could go to the polls later this year with visions of a New Jerusalem.


Joe Neighbour is the Chief Investment Officer at Signal Centre. He is a member of the Society of Technical Analysis (MSTA) and Chartered Fellow (CISI). 15+ years' experience in financial markets across a variety of roles including broking, portfolio managing and analysis. Joe is Signal Centre's specialist in single stocks.


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Erika Jayne And Andy Cohen Are Reportedly Butting Heads, And It Doesn't Sound Too Good For Her Real Housewives Future
Technically, it's unprecedented for Andy Cohen to be exclusively "fighting" with one particular Real Housewives star at a reunion, since he's usually more of a mediator. Sure, he'll spar with them in good, shady fun, which Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kenya Moore knows all too well, but there is a line that tends to go uncrossed.
There was already speculation amongst fans saying that Jayne wouldn't be brought back anyway, given her once-touted lavish lifestyle is seemingly no more.
Cohen is executive producer of the franchise and effectively their boss, so for Erika Jayne to allegedly take it to the next level at the upcoming Beverly Hills reunion doesn't bode well.
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McKie High: To Base Camp on a Bike
Repost Surf Coast Times.
You could go a lifetime without experiencing an adventure the size that Jacob McKie is about to embark on.
The 13-year-old from Torquay is putting his foot down and cycling to Everest Base Camp@journey2everestbc.
On September 10, Jacob and his father Andy will head off to join Serk Cycling, where they will ride a bike from the eastern side of Tibet through to Lhasa and then onto Everest Base Camp on the China/Nepal border.
Jacob said the trip had been over a year in the making, countless 5.30am wake up rides, a minimum 200km per week on the bike, paper runs to save money for equipment and an unwavering dedication to doing what needed to be done.
"Saturday mornings at 5.30am I've been riding with a bunch of cyclists in their 40s, I'm the youngest. Most of the rides I go with Dad who is coming on the trip with me," he said.
"I was doing my first triathlon last year and I went into it with a mountain bike, the other guys were whipping past me on their road bikes. I said to mum and dad I wanted one (road bike) so they said I better go out and get a job.
"I got my first bike this January after saving up money from my paper round with the Surf Coast Times."
It was during one of the numerous adventure races Jacob was competing in with his dad that a fellow competitor mentioned a ride she'd done recently to Mt Everest Base Camp.
"I started thinking I wanted to do that, I researched it and got in touch with the owner of Serk Cycling, Shannon, whose parents live in Torquay. He flew out and had a meeting with us last November."
Shannon Bufton said the 13-day trip covers about 700 kilometres, with his company the only one running road cycling trips on the Chinese side of the mountain.
"In 2016 a new road was paved to Everest Base Camp in Tibet. It's a spectacular trip that provides insights into the life and culture of ordinary Tibetans as you pass through the villages on the side of the road.
"The roads ridden on are some of the highest in the world. The riders tackle six passes over 5,000 metres in height and will be challenged by the lack of available oxygen at these heights. The road finishes at Everest Base Camp right at the base of the towering mountain."
Mr Bufton said as far as he was aware, Jacob would be the youngest person to take on the adventure, and was the youngest to have been on one of his tours.
"I met Jacob back in November last year. I was impressed with his sense of adventure and his interest in training hard for the challenge. I've been following him for the past few months on Instagram and have seen that he has been training consistently in the wee hours before school which shows great dedication and determination," he said.
Jacob said a late sponsorship from Bike Force Docklands and BMC meant he was able to purchase a new bike after his old bike was damaged as a junior ambassador.
"I found out four weeks ago it had two irreparable cracks in it. Luckily the bike mechanic dad took it to told him about the junior ambassador program. I was able to get a new bike at a discount and bike clothing and other cool stuff."
When it comes to the ride itself he said he was looking forward to sharing the experiencing with his Dad who he has always admired.
"When you're riding you're in the moment and you're thinking about the end goal. You've got blood running around, when you get off the bike that's when you think about how tough it was and how cool it's going to be doing it at Everest.
"It feels special to be able to do this dad, amazing and really good bonding time. The real inspiration for me was watching my dad's adventure around the world. He did Kilimanjaro and paddled the Bass Strait, it inspired me to step up and do something myself."
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Q3 2020 Market Review
1) COVID-19 Cases Continued to Rise Globally and the Race for Vaccine
As at end of September 2020, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 30 million mark globally, while the number of confirmed deaths stood at just over 1 million people.
According to the World Economic Forum, while the pandemic has spread to 188 countries or regions, the five with the most deaths account for more than half of the global total which are the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
In view of the dire impact of this pandemic, dozens of research teams around the world are working to develop a vaccine for this virus and hoped to develop it as early as 2021.
Billion of dollars are invested in this development with countries like United States, China and Europe investing the most.
According to medical experts, a vaccine must go through multiple stages before being implemented and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has encouraged countries to cooperate in order to ensure fair global access.
2) The Risk of Global Recession in 2020
With COVID-19 continuing to spread and the vaccines are yet to be developed, many countries across the globe have slowed down the reopening of economy, causing the potential of global recession in this year.
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have forecasted a 5.2% and 4.4% contraction, respectively, in global GDP in 2020 in their latest economic outlook forecast
Mirroring the expectation, the World largest economy, United States has registered a contraction of 31.4% annually in its second quarter reading.
Surprisingly, China has outperformed other G20 members when the country recorded a 3.2% economic growth in April to June period from a year earlier, due to the successful pandemic control in the country.
3) Regional Political Development
Third quarter of this year witnessed many developments happening in Asia Pacific that continue to change the political scene in that region.
A general election was held in our neighbouring country of Singapore which saw the ruling party of People's Action Party (PAP) able to maintain their victory, after the party led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong won 83 out of 93 seats in parliament.
In August 2020, a change of country's stewardship was seen in Japan when their former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, resigned due to health reasons.
His place was replaced by Yoshihide Suga after winning a poll in Japan's lower house.
Back to South East Asia, a political protest occurred in Thailand and Indonesia for a different reason.
In Thailand, the protest, which actually began last year after the court rule the Future Forward Party (FFP) to disband, demanded the removal of leader Prayuth, a new constitution, an end to the harassment of activist as well as a reform to the monarchy.
In Indonesia, thousand of demonstrators went to the street to oppose the Omnibus Law proposed by President Jokowi which they think might impacted the working conditions.
4) US Presidential Election Campaign
The US presidential election, which is the most awaited political event in a year, is scheduled to happen on 3 November 2020.
The campaign season had already started when the first presidential debate was held in late September between Donald Trump of Republican and Joe Biden of Democrats.
Another two round of debates are scheduled to take place in October before the grand Presidential Election on November this year.
Malaysia Highlights
1) The Extension of Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO)
Earlier in June, the Prime Minister had already announced the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) to replace the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) as the number of local COVID-19 infections went down.
The RMCO, which was initiated on 10 June to 31 August, saw most economic sectors allowed to operate at full capacity while adhering to SOPs.
Nevertheless, for the sake of controlling the transmission of COVID-19, the government has extended the RMCO until the end of the year.
On top of that, beginning from 1 August 2020, the government has also made the wearing of face coverings in crowded public areas as mandatory.
2) An Additional Economic Stimulus Package
To boost country's economic recovery, Malaysian government has announced an additional economic stimulus package on 23 September 2020 named as Prihatin Supplementary Initiative Package or Kita Prihatin.
The package valued at RM10 billion consists of RM7 billion Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) 2.0, the Wage Subsidy Programme 2.0 worth RM2.4 billion and Prihatin Special Grant (GKP) worth RM600 million
3) Malaysia's Economic Growth Turned Negative on Second Quarter
Malaysia' economy contracted 17.1% year-on-year in the second quarter due to the lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of coronavirus infections, making it the worst economic performance since the Global and Asian Financial Crisis in 2008 and 1997, respectively.
According to Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) governor, Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, tourism, manufacturing and investment were among the primary sectors hit by the lockdown.
4) The Reduction of Overnight Policy Rate
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting were held twice in the third quarter of 2020 on July and September.
On July 2020, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) cut its overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 basis points (bps) to a record low of 1.75%.
According to the statement made by the Monetary Policy Committee, the reduction is to provide additional policy stimulus to accelerate the pace of economic recovery as the impact of the pandemic on the global economy is severe and the Malaysia' economy contracted sharply in the second quarter.
However, BNM has decided to maintain the OPR at 1.75% in its September meeting citing the continued improvement in the global economy given the easing of containment measures.
So far, BNM has reduced the OPR four times this year for a cumulative 125bps reduction.
5) Local State Election in Sabah
Following the dissolution of the State Assembly on 30 July 2020, a snap election was called for a state of Sabah.
The election took place on 26 September 2020 to elect all 73 elected members of the 16th Sabah State Legislative Assembly.
The election saw a formation of new state government as the new coalition named as Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) won by a two-seat majority over Warisan Plus.
GRS which consisted of Perikatan Nasional and Barisan Nasional won 38 out of 73 seats contested.
Source : Bloomberg, Reuters, The Edge Market and The Star
Overall BMD Performance Q3 2020
No of Trading Days
Q3 2020 : 62
QoQ Performance
BMD registered a moderate performance for its ADV growth where the number of contracts grew 4.17% from 66,619 contracts in Q2 2020 to 69,395 contracts in Q3 2020.
Unfortunately, the quarterly end open interest contracted 0.47% on Q-o-Q basis as the number of contracts reduced from 243,382 contracts in Q2 2020 to 242,250 contracts in Q3 2020.
YoY Performance
On Y-o-Y performance, the ADV for BMD expanded relatively well as the number of contracts improved by 17.48% from 59,068 contracts in third quarter last year to 69,395 contracts in third quarter this year.
Similarly, the quarterly end open interest grew 3.50% from 234,062 contracts in Q3 2019 to 242,250 contracts in Q3 2020.
Source : Bursa Malaysia Website
Overall BMD Market Demography Q3 2020
The domination of foreign institution on overall BMD market continued to be seen in third quarter of 2020 as their participation rate hovering around 46% to 48%.
Domestic retail participants retained their position as the second largest participants in BMD market on third quarter of 2020, having a market share that exceeds 26%.
Like in the previous quarter, locals and domestic institution maintained their ranking as third and fourth largest participants in BMD market for third quarter of 2020 respectively.
Meanwhile, foreign retails recorded no participation on overall BMD market for third quarter 2020.
FCPO Performance Q3 2020
FCPO continued to be the major contributor for the growth of BMD market in Malaysia as the ADV and quarterly end open interest continued to chart an impressive performance.
In terms of its ADV, the number of contracts expanded by 7.28% to 55,392 contracts in the third quarter, compared to 51,634 contracts registered in the previous quarter.
Meanwhile, the quarterly end open interest improved marginally 0.95% from 196,289 contracts in Q2 2020 to 198,151 contracts in Q3 2020.
Similarly, FCPO showed a great improvement in its both ADV and quarterly end open interest when Y-o-Y comparison is made.
The ADV grew at 17.44% as the number of contracts increased significantly from 47,168 contracts in Q3 2019 to 55,392 contracts in Q3 2020.
For the quarterly end open interest, the number of contracts increased by 3.80% from 190,890 contracts in Q3 2019 to 198,151 contracts in Q3 2020.
FCPO Q3 2020 Price Performance
Snapshot of FCPO Performance
Price as at 30/09/2020 (Last trading day): 2,839
Quarter High: 3,102 (18/09/2020)
Quarter Low: 2,395 (01/07/2020)
Q3 2020 Performance (% Change): +18.54
1 Jul 20 – 24 Jul 20 (+20.67%)
FCPO was in an uptrend movement for the first 24 days of July due to the following factors :
i)tracking higher prices from crude oil market amid the drawdown in US crude inventories
ii)A reduction in Malaysian palm oil inventories for the first 10 days of July at 6.3%
iii)Improving in Malaysian palm oil exports for the first 15 days of July
iv)Reports of heavy rains in Indonesia and Malaysia that could disrupt the harvesting of palm oil
28 Jul 20 – 4 Aug 20 (+7.43%)
The local palm oil market continued to rise on the announcement from Indonesia government to raise the bio-content of its palm oil-based biodiesel to 40%
12 Aug 20 – 25 Aug 20 (-5.52%)
FCPO retreated its previous days of gains amid the demand concerns after cargo surveyor showed a decline in early August exports where exports to key destination India has slowed down.
26 Aug 20 – 3 Sep 20 (+8.76%)
FCPO recovered from the previous days of losses tracking gains from rival oil markets and on hopes of demand recovery from India ahead of Diwali festival.
11 Sep 20 – 18 Sep 20 (+7.71%)
FCPO surged to its highest level in the quarter, supported by the strength in crude and rival oil prices while higher exports in the first half of September also aided sentiment especially from China ahead of the key festival week.
Source : Bloomberg and The Edge Market
FCPO Market Demography Q3 2020
The same narrative was seen on FCPO market as foreign institution remained to be the largest participants in Crude Palm Oil futures market in Q3 2020, where its market share was between 42% and 44%.
Although the participation rate has dropped below than30%, domestic retail participants able to retain their second spot in terms of participanship in FCPO market.
Behind foreign institution and domestic retail is locals participant which make up a market share between 16% to 19%.
Meanwhile, the fourth largest participants in the FCPO market for the third quarter of this year is domestic institution with participation rate range between 11% to 12%.
FKLI Performance Q3 2020
Unlike the FCPO, FKLI experienced a weaker quarterly performance for both its ADV and quarterly end open interest on Q-o-Q basis.
The ADV contracted by 6.88% from 14,759 contracts in Q2 2020 to 13,744 contracts in Q3 2020.
Meanwhile, the quarterly end open interest dropped by 12.38% from 28,096 contracts in second quarter of this year to 24,619 contracts in third quarter this year.
The number of contracts grew massively at 48.73% for its ADV as the number of contracts improved from 9,241 contracts in third quarter last year to 13,744 contracts in third quarter this year.
However, the quarterly end open interest dropped by 9.63% from 27,243 contracts in Q3 2019 to 24,619 contracts in Q3 2020.
FKLI Q3 2020 Price Performance
Snapshot of FKLI Performance
Price as at 30/09/2020 (Last trading day): 1,501.5
Quarter High: 1,615.5 (28/07/2020)
Quarter Low: 1,487.5 (10/09/2020)
Q3 2020 Performance (% Change): -0.30
1 Jul 20 – 13 Jul 20 (+6.57%)
FKLI chartered a sharp rise in prices for the first week of July due to the strong buying interest on glove makers' shares amid the rising global COVID-19 cases.
17 Jul 20 – 28 Jul 20 (+0.53%)
Market was traded in a range bound movement as the worries over re-escalation of US-China trade war has outstripped the growing buying momentum of glove makers' shares which caused the trading volume in Bursa Malaysia rose to record high of 12.5 billion securities.
29 Jul 20 – 12 Aug 20 (-3.90%)
FKLI started to retreat from the earlier days of gains in response to the weak Malaysia's economic performance where according to Bank Negara Malaysia, the GDP in Q2 2020 was contracted by 17.1% from a previous year.
19 Aug 20 – 10 Sep 20 (-5.53%)
The local bourse continued to drag down on aggressive profit taking activities on glove makers' shares
11 Sep 20 – 30 Sep 20 (-0.13%)
Market was in a consolidation mode in most part of September as the bargain hunting activities on glove makers' shares was counterbalanced by several discouraging factors like the dovish stance taken by US Federal Reserve and the rising global COVID-19 cases.
FKLI Market Demography Q3 2020
Mirroring the FCPO market, foreign institutions continued to the major contributors for trading volume in FKLI market for third quarter of 2020, able to consistently maintain its participation rate above 60%.
Despite the participation rate was showing declining trend, domestic retail participants retained the second spot in terms of the market share, ranging from 26% to 31%.
The participation rate for locals, which was the third largest market participants in FKLI market for Q3 2020, dropped to 6% on July 2020, before consistently maintained 8% of the market share on August and September 2020.
Domestic institution remained to be the fourth largest market participants in the FKLI market with market share maintained at 3% for July to September 2020 period.
Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Q3 2020 Highlights
Bursa Excellence Awards 2019
On 30 July 2020, Bursa Malaysia Berhad hosted its annual Bursa Excellence Awards to honour the top-performing brokers and market intermediaries.
This year, which marked the 7th edition of the awards ceremony, saw a total of 47 awards in 21 categories were handed out.
Kenanga Futures (KF) has won two (2) categories which are Best Institutional Derivatives Trading Participant (2nd Runner Up) and Best Trading Participant Equity and Financial Derivatives (Champion).
The Relaunch of FMG5 Contracts
On 18 September 2020, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives (BMD) has successfully relaunched the 5 Year Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) Futures contract known as FMG5.
To recap, BMD has suspended the trading in FMG5 back on May 2020 in conjunction with exercise taken to revamp the contract specification.
Following the revamp, the FMG5 contract's settlement, which was previously cash-settled, is now physically delivered.
According to BMD statement, the key modification include the role of the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing Berhad as the central counterparty to facilitate the real-time delivery of the MGS.
Source : The Edge Market
Performance and Key Highlights of BMD Products in Q3 2020
The information contained in this material are derived from proprietary and non-proprietary sources deemed by Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd to be reliable, are not necessarily all-inclusive and are not guaranteed as to accuracy. As such, no warranty of accuracy or reliability is given and no responsibility arising in any other way for errors and omissions (including responsibility to any person by reason of negligence) is accepted by Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, its officers, employees or agents.
This material may contain "forward-looking" information that is not purely historical in nature. Such information may include, among other things, projections and forecasts. There is no guarantee that any forecasts made will come to pass. Reliance upon information in this material is at the sole
discretion of the reader.
The information provided here is neither tax nor legal advice. Investors should speak to their tax professional for specific information regarding their tax situation. Trading in listed derivatives involves risk including possible loss of principal.
Prepared by Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, a Trading Participant of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad and a Clearing Participant of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing Berhad
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Mr. Miller is an associate in the Litigation Group. His work involves complex intellectual property disputes in the U.S. District Courts and in the ITC.
Mr. Miller joined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Nora Barry Fischer at the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Edward J. Damich at the United States Court of Federal Claims. During his clerkships, Mr. Miller handled patent matters in several technology fields, including consumer electronics, chemistry, composite materials and finance.
Prior to clerking, Mr. Miller received his LL.M. in intellectual property law from the George Washington University Law School, where he received the first place Marcus B. Finnegan Prize for his paper, The Unitary Progress Clause: District of Columbia v. Heller and the Structural Interpretation of the Progress Clause, and the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court Award. While attending law school at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Miller served as the Lead Notes & Comments Editor of the Journal of Law and Commerce. He was also awarded the Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association Student Leadership Award, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law ABA-BNA Intellectual Property Award.
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January 16, 2017 Streaming, TelevisionBLOATED PLUTOCRAT, elvis, girlfriend experience, riley keoughSarah Slade
Sarah Slade watches Elvis's granddaughter go through The Girlfriend Experience
Once upon a time I read a novel that confused me; I didn't know if it was a really badly written airport thriller or a satirical parody of a badly written airport thriller. But I kept reading until the end, though now I couldn't tell you the end, because something about it kept me going. The same goes for The Girlfriend Experience, Amy Siemetz and Lodge Kerrigan's TV series based around the life of a Chicago call-girl. I'm eight episodes in (I ran out of ironing) and while I wouldn't call myself hooked, I'm intrigued.
The story takes place in a version of Chicago that looks like it was designed entirely from a picture stock library. This city is all vast halls, angles and glass. Christine (Riley Keough) is a law student at a very clean and tidy law school (what is it about law students? You don't get post-grad philosophers or biologists getting up to this sort of thing in TV land). She lands an internship at a corporate law firm, all dark suits and intrigue in glass-walled offices. Her friend Avery (Kate Lyn Shell) moonlights as an escort, working for the shadowy Jacqueline (Alexandra Castillo). Avery has a Louise Brooks bob and is curiously blank and charmless, like she has turned off a part of her soul.
Avery and Christine have many things in common already. Avery lives rent-free in a client/boyfriend's Chicago flat; Christine is living in an ex-boyfriend's spare room, both dependent on male goodwill and unwilling to change the situation. They don't appear to have any friends apart from each other, and they regard other women with disdain. Avery introduces Christine to Jacqueline, Christine starts 'dating' visiting plutocrats of all shapes and sizes in her spare time, and the money starts rolling in.
So, that's the first two episodes wrapped up. Over the next three episodes Avery and Jacqueline get shunted aside as Christine decides to fly solo. A favourite client dies and leaves her a fortune that she can only claim if she goes public, she starts an affair with her lawyer boss, discovers corporate shenanigans at the workplace and has lots of vanilla sex in lots of very tidy hotel rooms.
Feet OFF the sofa, young lady!
If there's a story arc to the first half it appears to be Christine's adventures in the hellmouth of greed. Christine herself is no innocent; ambitious, sexually confident and definitely not a victim. The friend and the madam are dispensed with as soon as they outlive their usefulness. The affair fizzles out and the corporate malfeasance rumbles in the background. A client gets possessive, a wife finds out…none of these situations merit more than a twitch of Christine's immaculately painted lips. There is no back story, aside from occasional references to parents and a visit from a sister who already works as an assistant DA. Even then, the sister provides no further information than an acknowledgement that Christine has always been 'selfish'. Riley Keough plays Christine as blank-faced and slightly distracted, allowing her clients to project whatever they want onto her (very pretty) face while she calculates her next move. She barely speaks except to deliver lines that may be the truth, but are often not. Sometimes she even smiles, but most of the time she's sullen, defensive and ruthlessly efficient.
Things don't start falling apart until Episode 7. Her part-time activities start interfering with the day job and she develops a strange obsession with her closed circuit tv recordings that document her intensely solitary life. But she still has no back story, no emotional connection with the audience, so why am I still interested?
It's not the sex or occasional full-frontal nudity (mostly Christine, but sometimes the clients with their erections lurking somewhere in the shadows between the chest and the kneecap). We get around two minutes of panting and humping per episode to remind us that she is a prostitute and prostitutes are paid to have sex with people. The clients' sexual demands are usually quite straightforward – no leather or whips here – and most of them are middle-aged or elderly men who just want a compliant pretty girl to make them feel young and horny and interesting; and a blowjob. The show is, I think about power and layers of deceit. Everyone wears a mask and behind the masks are more masks, hiding motives, crimes, and feelings. They don't speak as much as deliver lines; Christine in particular tends to talk in cliches and stock phrases, like life is just another test to be passed. And as we rarely see her off duty, the occasional flashes of anger, fear or humour are more shocking and revealing than her nudity.
Then there are the layers of deceit and double-cross. Christine thinks she's playing the corporate bosses and clients, the bosses think they're playing Christine, the clients know they're playing their wives and the wives play their husbands by paying off Christine. In fact, the most honest person in all of this is Christine, the professional liar. Christine is at the centre of this web, yet she seems unaware of how little she controls, or how close she is to failure. It doesn't make me root for her; she's too unlovable for that, but she's the one who causes the least damage, which makes her the one who deserves to win.
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Former CNN producer John Griffin is seen in a file photograph. (LinkedIn)
Longtime CNN Producer John Griffin 'Ashamed' After Arrest for Enticing Young Girls: Prosecutor
December 21, 2021 Updated: December 21, 2021
Longtime CNN producer John Griffin made statements indicative of "volatility and dangerousness" when taken into custody earlier this month on charges of enticing minor children, according to a new court filing.
Prosecutors also said Griffin is a troubled man who should remain held without detention ahead of his arraignment in federal court in Vermont on Wednesday.
Griffin was arrested on Dec. 10 on three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. He faces at least 10 years and up to life in prison if convicted of a single count.
Authorities say he successfully convinced a woman last year to fly with her daughter from Nevada to Massachusetts, where picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to a ski house in Ludlow and engaged in sexual activities with the pair.
The girl was just 9 years old at the time.
After being arrested, without prompting, Griffin told authorities, "Without incriminating myself, I just want to let you guys know that I'm ashamed you even know my name at all," according to a new filing from prosecutors.
"In the time I'm with you guys, in the event I do anything inappropriate, I just want you to know that I'd feel the same way you guys would if I were in your situation. Thank you," Griffin also purportedly said.
Prosecutors outlined the statements as they asked a judge to not let Griffin have bail. He's been held since being arrested.
Griffin's attorney declined to comment on the filing.
Griffin's lawyer plans on asking the court for bail for his client, according to the Dec. 21 filing.
Prosecutors say Griffin was diagnosed with deep depression and substance abuse. He received inpatient treatment for his problems.
While Griffin said in August that he had been sober for eight months, during an initial court appearance in Connecticut after his arrest, Griffin admitted to having consumed drugs and/or alcohol in the 24 hours before the hearing.
"Considering Griffin's history of addiction, his recent relapse strongly suggests he will be unable to abide by conditions if released. Indeed, to the extent Griffin blames his investigation-triggering conduct on his substance abuse, his admission to recent drinking or drug use is a significant indicator of dangerousness," prosecutors said.
The remarks Griffin made to law enforcement "are additional indicators of volatility and dangerousness," they added.
The filing also contained new details about the evidence authorities have compiled in their investigation, which has lasted over a year.
The case includes a video captured by a drone operated by Griffin that showed the 9-year-old completely naked, standing next to Griffin, who was wearing underwear, and evidence Griffin paid a relative of the girl $4,000 in an attempt to keep him or her quiet.
The woman who brought the girl to the northeast was charged last year with child abuse and other counts.
Described as the girl's adopted mother, the woman allegedly sexually abused the child both at her home and in Vermont with Griffin present, according to court documents filed in Nevada.
While in Vermont, the woman went to the hospital twice, leaving her daughter alone with Griffin, who was fired by CNN after being charged.
The girl told investigators in detail about what happened at Griffin's ski home.
According to the new filing, Griffin was actually pulled over for speeding in a Mercedes convertible with the girl in his backseat last year, but a police officer let Griffin go with a ticket.
Prosecutors also said Griffin tried to persuade federal authorities not to charge him, claiming he "tried to cancel" the mother and daughter trip to Vermont but agreed to follow through when the mother "pressed the issue."
Online activity shows Griffin paid the mother $3,350 to fly across the country.
Griffin wrote in a letter to an assistant U.S. attorney that he "assumed nothing inappropriate would occur with the child present," a claim undercut by messages to the mother that it was "her job, in concert with me," to train the woman's other minor daughter to be sexually submissive.
Griffin has told law enforcement that his estate is worth upwards of $40 million. The court should not bend to attempts to wield the wealth to secure a pre-trial release, prosecutors said.
Griffin "faces not only a significant loss of liberty, but also extraordinary reputational damage. He has dishonestly tried to talk his way out of being held accountable. He has tried to buy his way out of trouble," they wrote. "There is no set of conditions that can assure the Court of his continued appearance or address the danger he presents if released."


Peace world. June 10th I'll be back on the airwaves with DJ Klyph presents… Welcome to the Neighborhood on 107.1FM KZME Portland.
Truly looking forward to getting back to sharing this art with the masses and I'm truly blessed to kick things off with a couple of great guests! At 8pm Haunted Spaceship will make their first appearance on WTTN with producers Pale Soul, Colin Luba and the great vocalist Toni Hill. Their project "Running 2 The Future" just recently dropped and they'll be performing at The Ash Street Saloon on June 13th. Tune in the hear selections from the project.
Also Neighborhood resident and friend Tony Ozier will pass through in the second hour to talk about the 5th Anniversary of The Dookie Jam. It will also be a listening party for the release of BeatsGalore Vol.2. Tony has been on the road putting in work but also building with some of the best NW artists. He's also officially collaborated with musician Farnell Newton on the new label FN|BeatsGalore and we make get a sneak peak at some other upcoming projects.
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According to reports, Jose Mourinho is already lining up Chelsea midfielder Nemaja Matic as his first signing at Manchester United.
The Daily Mail report that the Portuguese coach is set to be afforded an eye-watering £200 million warchest when he arrives at Old Trafford.
The tabloid note that the manager is making plans for a transfer raid on his former club Chelsea, and is keen to snare Serbian powerhouse Matic, a player who enjoyed the best season of his career under Mourinho as the Pensioners won the title in 2014.
The Red Devils parted ways with Dutch coach Louis van Gaal on Monday, with Mourinho looking set to take over as the Dutchman's successor.
Matic looks unlikely to be his only transfer target this summer, with the Mail also noting that the ex-Real Madrid manager will look to return to another of his former clubs to sign Raphael Varane from Los Merengues, while John Stones of Everton and Joao Mario of Sporting Lisbon also being considered by the incoming manager.


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