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From MadMimi, Klaviyo will sync over existing subscriber lists (all or some).
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Click on the Integrations tab in the left sidebar of your account; then, navigate to All Integrations and find MadMimi on the list of available integrations.
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Over the years there have been several methods and/or philosophies regarding the acceptance and maintenance testing of medium voltage underground electrical power cable in the field. Time honored methods such as direct current (DC) High Potential, Insulation Resistance (IR), and Dielectric Absorption (DA) testing have been employed for many years by utilities and industrial facilities for both field acceptance testing and periodic maintenance evaluation of medium voltage insulated power cables. Insulation Resistance provides a simple test for identifying gross defects in the cable and accessories, but offers little to no diagnostic value. A test like dielectric absorption is useful because it can be performed on even the longest of cables, and yields a self-contained evaluation based on relative readings rather than absolute values.
In the early 1990s the benefits of using DC high potential testing for maintenance purposes of extruded dielectric cables has been questioned and written out of most industry guides. Since the days of high potential DC, other testing methods have been developed that may provide a better indication of the integrity of cables, splices, and terminations. These methods include Very Low Frequency (VLF) high potential testing, Tan Delta, and both Online and Offline Partial Discharge testing.
So where do we stand today? What are the modern techniques and what value do they offer? Do we treat Acceptance testing the same as Maintenance testing? What is the difference? This paper will explore developments in testing and evaluation of medium voltage cable seen over the last 20 years. The intended application of each technique along with the advantages and limitations of the technique will be reviewed providing the knowledge necessary to develop an effective cable testing program.


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Even More Aluminium Smelting Capacity To Spring Up In Yunnan In 2021: Antaike
Oct. 17, 2020 by Staff
Estimates show the People's Republic of China adding another 3 million metric tons to its aluminium smelting capacity in 2021, housing half of it in Yunnan Province, the quickly-growing hotspot for new capacity.
China Nonferrous Metals Industry's statistical subsidiary Antaike said earlier this week that the province of Yunnan would see another 1.88 million metric tons of new aluminium capacity, with the southwestern province having already seen another 1.63 million metric tons come online this year.
The remaining capacity next year is expected to be split up among Inner Mongolia (550 thousand metric tons), Guangxi (370 thousand metric tons), Guizhou (100 thousand metric tons), and Shanxi (100 thousand metric tons).
After factoring in permanent capacity closures, China will be home to 43 million metric tons of aluminium-smelting capacity, explained Wang Hongfei while speaking at the China International Aluminum Week conference in Chongqing.
"We expect traditional demand will gradually recover and new infrastructure will bring new consumption," Wang opined, adding that artificial trade barriers still made the rest of the world's market a difficult place.
By the numbers, demand for aluminium is projected to increase by 1.7 percent next year. This year's domestic aluminium demand increased by 1.6 percent over the prior year. Net imports of aluminium for the next year is expected to drop sharply, from an estimated net of 820 thousand metric tons this year to 200 million in 2021.
For alumina, the department predicted a rise in demand in 2021 from 74.53 million metric tons this year to 76.9 million metric tons. Production is expected to rise accordingly, from 70.49 million metric tons this year to 72.9 million metric tons in 2021. Also rising will be alumina imports, Antaike predicted, from an estimated 3.5 million metric tons by year's end this year to 4 million metric tons next year.
Antaike / antaike china / Beijing Antaike Information Co. Ltd / China International Aluminum Week / China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry / China Nonferrous Metals Industry / China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association / Chongqing / wang hongfei / Yunnan

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The (Mutli-phase) Plan
Initial Line
The initial streetcar line (the Green Line) runs down the center of Highway 305, from the Bainbridge Ferry Terminal to the end of Highway 305 in Poulsbo in the College Park development.
Stops include all major intersections on the highway, including: the Bainbridge Ferry Terminal, High School Road, Madison, Manitou Beach, Koura, Day Road, Hidden Cove, Agate Pass / Seabold, the Casino, Hostmark, Lincoln, Bond, Viking, and College Park.
Center-of-305
A set of double streetcar tracks is about the width of one and a quarter highway lanes, 18-20 feet wide. Adding a streetcar line thus widens the highway, but less than adding more automobile lanes or dedicated bus lanes.
Each intersection where the streetcar picks up and drops off passengers will require some additional width for "stations", which can be as simple as raised and covered sidewalks.
In between the stops on 305, the streetcar tracks do not need to be paved. They can be laid on a gravel roadbed. Thus the center streetcar lane adds to the safety of the highway by forming a divider between northbound and southbound traffic.
Streetcar traffic in the center of the highway can easily be interfaced with automobile traffic. Streetcars stop at the same traffic lights as automobiles. Left turn lanes can be situated on the left side of the tracks to minimize interactions of streetcars and automobiles at the road intersections.
Pedestrians today must cross the highway when traveling by bus, whereas with the streetcars in the center of the highway, pedestrians must cross only one lane of traffic to reach the loading/unloading zone. Unless lights are added to the unregulated intersections, crossing the highway will remain an issue, but crossing one lane of highway traffic is far easier and safer than crossing two.
Streetcars do not require stations. Stops require only an additional 4-6 foot wide concrete sidewalk in between the tracks to allow entry and egress to the cars. Such stops are only slightly more obtrusive than bus stops.
Given the wet climate, these sidewalks should be covered. Details such as comfort must be taken into account to entice ridership.
Any new public transport solution on Highway 305 needs to include a plan for increased frequency. The existing Kitsap Transit 45-55 minute schedule works well with ferry riders, but it is inadequate to entice the 60% of highway traffic occupants who are not traveling on the ferry.
Ideally, the streetcar service would run every 10-15 minutes. This makes the average wait 5-7 minutes. This can be achieved by using small streetcars most of the time, and then adding more, larger streetcars to handle the peak ferry loads.
The stretch of Highway 305 to be serviced with a streetcar is 15 miles long, from the Bainbridge Ferry Terminal to College Park in Poulsbo. At a top speed of 45 miles per hour and an average of 30 miles per hour including traffic lights, loading, unloading, and intermediate stops, a single streetcar can traverse the entire line in 30-40 minutes. Thus five streetcars are sufficient to provide service every 15 minutes. A handful of additional cars synchronized with the ferry schedule would lower the average frequency between streetcars to 10 minutes during peak commuting times.
Feeder Routers
The streetcar line can be used to get passengers to more rural bus routes, as well. Today, nearly all of Kitsap Transit bus routes begin and end at the Bainbridge or Kingston or Bremerton Ferry Terminals. For the Highway 305 corridor, having a streetcar line makes it possible to move those bus stops out to the streetcar stops along the highway.
What this means is that we can have bus routes to more locations on the island, and so much more coverage, using the same number of buses and drivers. Instead of all bus routes starting and ending at the ferry (and thus being constrained in how far out they can travel before they must return to the ferry), buses will be free to run loops starting and ending at streetcar stations on Highway 305, such as Day Road, for example, and travel all around the north island neighborhoods. Ferry commuters could take the streetcar to the bus, and the bus to their front door.
The feeder buses thus become neighborhood transport systems. Shorter routes bypass the highway traffic entirely, further unclogging the highway while expanding access of public transit deeper into the outlying neighborhoods. A drawback might be more connections for commuters, but this is outweighed by a much shorter travel time overall.
A similar system is used successfully in Tokyo's train system to maximize the coverage of the transportation network across that large city.
Park-and-Rides
The City of Bainbridge Island has a moratorium on new park-and-ride lots. At a minimum, the most popular stops for the streetcar should have free bicycle, scooter, and motorcycle parking. Such parking is well-used at the Bainbridge ferry terminal and can be used, in addition to the feeder bus routes, to increase streetcar ridership.
Additionally, Bainbridge and Poulsbo should consider additional car park-and-ride lots to further entice riders to ride the streetcar line. Ideally, there would be a park-and-ride at each of the stops along Highway 305, compared with just three intersections today (Day Road, Agate Pass Bridge, and Hostmark). This would allow the maximum number of riders to conveniently reach the streetcar line, minimizing the traffic traveling to and from existing park-and-ride lots.
Expansion Plan
Beyond the Highway 305 corridor, only a few neighborhoods merit a second street line at this moment in time. Expected population growth could change this, making transit access indispensable in the next 20-50 years. But suppose the population growth is moderate. Streetcars could be added as needed, and no sooner. A streetcar is the perfect quaint, affordable, and expandable solution.
A streetcar line, built within the existing city streets, could loop from the ferry terminal, across Winslow Way, up Madison, and back down the highway.
This "Blue Line" loop would service the vast majority of Winslow residents' needs in reaching the central business district and ferry terminal, and allow riders coming down the main "Green Line" to reach the commercial districts of Winslow.
This latter point is crucial, since the majority of highway traffic is due to commuters coming to work at island businesses, teaching at the schools, policing the neighborhood, etc., and not riding the ferry.
As streetcar tracks can lie in existing roads, this line would not require any widening of streets. And since the Blue line is a one-way loop, tracks need to be installed only on the westbound lane on Winslow Way, northbound lane on Madison, and reusing the tracks on Highway 305 to complete the loop.
After Winslow, Lynwood Center is the next logical neighborhood for future expansion. Kitsap Transit currently provides no frequent, reliable bus service around Lynwood, making it difficult to travel there without a car. Like the Winslow loop, the "Orange Line" to Lynwood could be built in the existing roads, without adding any additional lanes. The Orange line would reuse part of the Winslow loop, branching off to Lynwood Center across Wyatt, around the Head of the Bay, and down Lynwood Center Road.
With this line, Lynwood could become a transit hub, with feeder bus routes extending to Crystal Springs, Pleasant Beach, and Fort Ward. Plus, given the simplicity of stepping on and off a streetcar, the neighborhoods along this line between Winslow and Lynwood would also be part of this line, similarly to how Kitsap Transit picks up and drops off passengers as needed along the bus routes today.
A Suquamish line, from the Agate Pass Bridge to the town of Suquamish, continued onward to Indianola Road and ending at the Kingston Ferry Terminal should be feasible as the population of North Kitsap expands. Such a line would connect these communities to Seattle with a known, reliable, and reasonable commute time, bypassing the traffic on Highway 305, and providing hourly passenger ferry service to Seattle via the existing Bainbridge ferry.
These four lines could cover the vast majority of North Kitsap County with a reliable form of public transit, with sufficiently frequent service to entice riders out of their cars.
This might look like a subway map, but remember these are small streetcars, where riders can hop on and off on their way to rural destinations. Unlike lightrail or four-lane highways, streetcars could enhance the ambiance and livability of our community, not undermine it.


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martes, marzo 09, 2021
EVERYTHING IS BROKEN / JOHN MAULDIN´S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
| Labels: Economics, Investment Strategies, Retirees, Stock Markets, The Fed, U.S. Economic And Political, Unemployment
Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds
—Bob Dylan, "Everything is Broken" from the album Oh Mercy, 1989
I was on a client call earlier this week with Steve Blumenthal. The gentleman is at that stage in life where he needs cash income and not risk. Steve commented, "The bond market is broken."
And indeed, the traditional fixed income bond market is broken, thanks to the Fed. We were able to suggest some alternatives (they are out there) that could help solve his problem.
But it got me to thinking... What else is broken? And the more I thought, the more I realized that the data that we use every day, the very systems that we are forced to work with, are indeed in various stages of being broken.
There is a great scene in the fabulous movie The Princess Bride where the criminal "mastermind" Vizzini keeps uttering the word "inconceivable." After the nth time, Inigo Montoya turns to him and says, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Today we are going to look at data from the standpoint of Inigo Montoya. I don't think that data means what you think it means. Indeed, much of the data in the way we use it is simply broken.
(In a few weeks, I will do a letter on things that aren't broken, which are in fact incredible. I am an optimist, but I'm also realistic. I am "long" on the human experiment. Government? Not so much…)
Our economic and financial systems are badly broken in multiple ways. Some of the cracks are enormous, maybe beyond anyone's ability to repair. Step one is admitting they are broken.
Today I will describe several major breaks—some obvious, some not. I hope to help launch a conversation about fixing them. First, however, let me mention something that's changed but isn't broken: the Mauldin Economics Strategic Investment Conference.
This year's online SIC—being held on five alternating days between May 5 and 14—is shaping up to be just as spectacular (maybe more) as last year's.
We are hard at work enrolling and confirming speakers; so far, we have over two dozen confirmed.
Since nobody has to travel for this event, it has been much easier to get world-class experts onto our virtual stage.
We've also listened to your survey responses and more than doubled the number of the lively panel discussions and fireside chats that were so popular with attendees last year.
Sales of our SIC 2021 Pass haven't officially started yet, but if you want to get your ticket now at our deeply discounted price, go ahead and click through to this order form. I can't wait to see you all in May! One of the things we will be discussing is how to fix some of those broken problems.
Now, let's look at some broken things.
Broken Credit
People correctly describe compound interest as a kind of miracle, even the "8th Wonder of the World." The miracle has another side, though. For you to receive the benefit, someone else must go into debt or take risk.
Debt isn't necessarily bad. It can be wonderfully productive if it lets you acquire something (like education) that increases your income, or a durable asset like a home. It becomes potentially problematic when used for other purposes, as is often now the case.
Excess debt accumulates in part because the price of debt (interest rates) is increasingly artificial. Politically-appointed central bankers manipulate interest rates and credit terms in order to achieve desired admirable policy outcomes, like higher employment and economic growth. Elected officials create subsidy programs that encourage yet more borrowing. And while they can point to a link between low rates and their targets, they ignore or forget about some of the unintended consequences.
These well-intentioned efforts may help some people, but they have side effects. Borrowing costs are widely mispriced, bearing little connection to the actual risk of a given loan. This is unfair to both borrowers and lenders. They pay/receive too much or too little. It is the inevitable result when committees, instead of markets, set important prices.
Here's an example. This chart (which I recently shared with Over My Shoulder members) shows the spread between 10-year Treasury yields and 30-year mortgage rates.
Source: Wolf Richter
Obviously, lenders take more risk on mortgages than they do when buying Treasury bonds. We would thus expect mortgage rates to be higher, and they are. But does that risk really swing so wildly? Should it double, or fall by half, in only a few years' time? Of course not. But that's what happened, and there's no mystery why. Mortgage spreads collapsed in 2009 and 2020 because the Federal Reserve bought truckloads of mortgage-backed securities.
Economic fundamentals didn't do this. A committee decided to encourage home purchases and did so by making it cheaper to finance those purchases. The predictable result is a housing boom. Or, in the current case, amplification of a boom that was already happening for demographic and other reasons.
This has benefits. The construction activity creates jobs. Lower mortgage payments leave people more cash to spend on other things. But it also obscures reality. No one really knows what their home is worth. The same for many other asset classes, and for the loans underlying them. We don't really have a bond "market" anymore. It broke long ago, and now we have a bond regime that exists outside the discipline of market forces.
I noted last week that the long-lost "bond vigilantes" are trying to rise from the dead. That is the way markets are supposed to work. I do not believe the Federal Reserve or other central banks will let them take control of the bond markets.
Peter Boockvar writes about what the Bank of Japan did yesterday:
BoJ Governor Kuroda doesn't want any part of a further rise in yields and quashed any thoughts that he would widen the YCC range from the current level of 20 basis points from zero. He said, "Personally I believe it's neither necessary nor appropriate to expand the band. There's no change in the importance of keeping the yield curve stable at a lower level." Yields fell sharply in response with the 10-year down by 3.6 bps to just under 10 bps. It was 16 bps one week ago. The 40-year yield was down by 4 bps to .72% vs .82% one week ago. Again I'll say, they want higher inflation but then panic when rates go up. What they are now finally learning is the danger of what they wish for.
The same thing is happening in Europe and elsewhere. I firmly believe that at some point the Federal Reserve will begin to buy large quantities of longer-dated securities, taking interest rates down and driving a stake into the heart of those who want higher returns for the risks they are taking.
That point is likely when the market drops (say) 20%. Until then they just let things rock along.
The Federal Reserve is going to give us return-free risk.
Broken Retirement
I could call this section "Broken Dreams." Millions of Baby Boomers are approaching what they thought would be a comfortable retirement age and instead finding they're nowhere near ready. Worse, many believe themselves ready when in fact they aren't. They will realize it only when markets show them what reality looks like.
The many reasons for this mostly trace back to the above-mentioned broken bond market. Retirement investing used to be easy. Save money, park it in interest-bearing instruments, and live off the income, with Social Security and maybe a job pension to help. Not complicated and it worked well for decades.
But about the time the oldest Boomers began reaching their mid-60s, this thing called "interest" mostly disappeared as committees and politicians decided to favor borrowers by keeping rates ultra-low. And just like that, retirement broke. The old method stopped working.
This left retirees and pre-retirees little choice but to "stretch for yield" in riskier assets. Indeed, that was the plan. The Federal Reserve under Bernanke, Yellen, and now Powell explicitly wants investors to take more risk. It's the other side of their desire to encourage borrowing. This is also called "financial repression."
So now we have retirees with far too much in stocks, junk bonds, or other risk-heavy assets. And not just individuals; the same is true for large pension funds. Their trustees are truly trapped: contractually obligated to pay certain benefits and unable to do so without robbing future beneficiaries.
I suspect my readers are more retirement-ready than most, but I still hear horror stories: people who worked hard, did their homework, made good decisions, only to see it all collapse. If you think you're prepared, or already retired and think yourself secure, I suggest you reexamine your assumptions. Retirement is broken and your dreams could become nightmares.
Broken Stocks
What happens when you force investors into an asset class they don't especially want or understand? Well, price comes from supply and demand. Artificially generated demand leads to artificially higher prices, and that is what we see in the stock market today. A survey in the year 2000 shows that investors expected future returns from the stock market would be 15% per year. I think current investors have similar expectations. They think stocks only go up, because the Fed will intervene if they don't.
I reviewed stock valuations in more detail a few weeks ago (see here) and everything I said then still applies. Anyone who owns passive index funds will endure a major drawdown at some point. I can't say exactly when but it's going to hurt. And who holds those funds? Investors who don't really want to be in stocks in the first place and/or don't understand the risks, or institutions that have little choice. Both categories are being forced by circumstances to make decisions they wouldn't make in an otherwise "normal" market.
At the same time, managers of many listed companies aren't making the greatest decisions, either. Many are responding to short-term incentives that encourage them to load up on debt, boost their share prices via buybacks, and profit by suppressing competition instead of innovating.
This is a stock market in which, much like bonds, prices bear little resemblance to fundamental reality. But more broadly, the equity markets are broken. I am all for making them accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, the regulatory and educational structure hasn't kept up. So what we've really done is empower people to do risky things without preparing them for the consequences. It's not going to end well.
Broken Data
Computer programmers used to talk about GIGO—Garbage In, Garbage Out. All the processing power in the world doesn't help if it only processes flawed data. That explains some of our economic problems, too.
Just one example, although an important one, is the monthly US unemployment rate. According to the BLS it was 6.3% in January and, as we learned Friday morning, officially fell to 6.2% in February. 379,000 jobs were added, with 355,000 of them being in leisure and hospitality, as hotels and restaurants open back up. We are going to see a lot of large numbers like this in the coming months, which is a good thing.
However, no one I know thinks the unemployment number reflects reality. Even Jerome Powell believes it is deeply understated. He said so in a speech last month, which my friend Mish Shedlock quoted recently.
Here's Powell on February 10.
After rising to 14.8 percent in April of last year, the published unemployment rate has fallen relatively swiftly, reaching 6.3 percent in January. But published unemployment rates during COVID have dramatically understated the deterioration in the labor market. Most importantly, the pandemic has led to the largest 12-month decline in labor force participation since at least 1948. Fear of the virus and the disappearance of employment opportunities in the sectors most affected by it, such as restaurants, hotels, and entertainment venues, have led many to withdraw from the workforce. At the same time, virtual schooling has forced many parents to leave the work force to provide all-day care for their children. All told, nearly 5 million people say the pandemic prevented them from looking for work in January. In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that many unemployed individuals have been misclassified as employed. Correcting this misclassification and counting those who have left the labor force since last February as unemployed would boost the unemployment rate to close to 10 percent in January.
You count as "unemployed" if you actively look for work. Powell says, I think correctly, millions want to work but for various reasons haven't been looking. So, they don't count and the unemployment rate is artificially low.
This leads to more perversity. Imagine (as we all hope) vaccination progress brings the virus under control, hopefully soon. The economy should begin recovering as consumers gain confidence. Among those gaining confidence will be some of the millions presently out of the labor force. Once they start actively looking, the unemployment rate may well rise even though the economy is improving.
In other words, the unemployment rate is effectively useless, at least today, as an indicator of labor market conditions or economic growth Yet we all keep breathlessly waiting for it every month. This is broken. We need better data so policymakers can make better decisions.
Broken Unemployment System
Economists and statisticians have known that something as seemingly simple as unemployment claims is filled with errors. My friend David Kotok (of Cumberland Advisors) wrote about an email exchange he had with our friend Philippa Dunne (of The Liscio Report), highlighting these problems. Some random quotes:
…Fraud that is understood to be happening ranges from lows of less than 4% of claims for some states up to an astounding 35% for the State of Michigan, which has had, historically speaking, a screening problem as much as a fraud problem.
…Philippa wrote to me, "So, I guess that's what happens when you have a totally outdated system prone to failure. Legitimate people have a tough time, but organized crime has a field day."
…Confirmed unemployment fraud in California now exceeds 11 billion claims, but there are more claims under review, so the actual figure may be considerably higher: "In addition to the 10% of benefits confirmed to involve fraud, the state is investigating another 17% of benefits involving suspicious claims that have not yet been proven to be fraudulent—about $19 billion worth."
David went on for several pages in his usual highly meticulous way providing dozens of links to the numerous problems in the unemployment claims world. Much of it appears to be organized identity theft that originates overseas. Elsewhere I read that there is the potential for $60 billion in total fraud.
You should be outraged for two reasons. First, any amount of fraud is unacceptable, much less this staggering amount. Second, as states try to deal with the fraud, they are less able to help legitimately unemployed people get the help they need and deserve.
True story: Let's just say my mind works differently than many people's. I read a simple report and a question gets triggered. It may have nothing to do with what I'm reading. But I go to Google and search. Six or seven years ago something triggered my curiosity about wigs (I have no idea what it was) and how much they cost. Google led me to Amazon and two or three websites. Within a minute I satisfied my curiosity and went on. For the next three months, every webpage I went to had an ad for wigs.
You have probably had the same experience with a different topic In a world where Google, Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of others can track your random searches, where we have blockchains and artificial intelligence, it is no longer acceptable to have fraud in the unemployment claims process. The system is broken.
I could go on describing broken things for many more pages. I had a whole section on Broken Inflation, which affects everything but is completely wrong because of the way we measure housing prices. I decided that topic needs a fuller explanation so we'll come back to it in another letter, maybe even next week. I also want to talk about the absurd way we measure inflation in the healthcare markets. Add that miscalculation in and we might be at 4% inflation right now. Today. And the Fed wants to keep interest rates low. Because…?
The markets react to inflation numbers, unemployment numbers, and so on. But the numbers are broken. This will not end well.
All that said, I have to disagree with Bob Dylan. Everything isn't broken, and there are ways to handle these challenges and maybe even benefit from them. More on that later. But enough is broken to cause real problems. Many of them are avoidable if the right people would make the right choices. I hope they start soon.
Puerto Rico, Vaccines, and Some Good News
The good news is that vaccine demand in the US is outstripping supply. The number of people getting their shots is rising significantly every day. My friend George Friedman (of Geopolitical Futures that many of you know) had to drive over 100 miles past Austin to Waco to get a shot. He couldn't find a local source.
I have friends who weren't able to get their second shot here in Puerto Rico. I was signed up at five different locations. Yesterday, I was finally able to get the Pfizer vaccine at Walgreens three miles from my home. The number of people saying they will get a vaccine is rising nationally as well. And with the J&J vaccine coming online, there will be even more supply.
Better yet, the number of cases, hospitalizations, and fatalities is improving. There is a constant drumbeat of information about the new variants, some of which may be vaccine-resistant. Mike Roizen, my doctor, thinks we may need annual booster shots, just like we get flu shots now.
The post-pandemic economy is coming but it won't look like December 2019. It will simply be different and we will adjust. I will start planning more business travel after my second shot and then the SIC (again, you should preregister here), but I don't foresee traveling anywhere close to how I used to, at least for a few years. I miss the conversations and dinners, but I also miss speaking. I like the energy of standing in front of a crowd. It's not the same when you're sitting and talking into a camera in shorts.
For the record, I had no vaccine reaction other than a mildly sore arm. So I guess it will be leg day later at the gym.
With that, I will hit the send button and wish you a great week.
Your one down and one to go analyst,
Co-Founder, Mauldin Economics
TECH COMPETITION: THE RULES OF THE TECH GAME ARE CHANGING / THE ECONOMIST
| Labels: Science And Technology, World Economic And Political
Tech competition
The rules of the tech game are changing
A new phase in the global tech contest is under way
The idea of the technology industry being dominated by monopolies is so widely held that it has monopolised much thinking, from investors' strategies to antitrust watchdogs' legal briefs.
Yet, as we explain, it is getting harder to sustain. After a long period of ossification, the industry is entering a dynamic phase.
In America digital markets are shifting towards oligopolies, in which second and third firms compete vigorously against the incumbent. The big tech firms are wrestling over customers and data: witness the confrontation between Apple and Facebook over who controls iPhone users' privacy.
And all across Asia digital conglomerates are battling it out. The industry's emerging structure is a far cry from the open, diffuse capitalism this newspaper supports. But an oligopoly of rivals is much better than a monopoly.
The gale of creative destruction used to blow hard in Silicon Valley. The list of firms toppled from dominance runs from Fairchild Semiconductor to Hewlett-Packard.
Yet recently the giants have clung on: Apple and Microsoft are over 40 years old and Alphabet and Amazon over 20; even Facebook is 17 this month. What happened?
Network and scale effects mean that size begets size, while data can act as a barrier to entry. Search, social media, advertising, e-commerce, streaming, ride-hailing, delivery and payments all exhibit these alchemical properties to some degree. Having achieved supremacy in their chosen area, many tech firms, especially the big ones, have shown little appetite to compete directly with each other in the past decade.
The three most common searches on Microsoft Bing are Facebook, YouTube and Google. Does anyone remember Amazon's Fire Phone?
At first glance nothing has changed. Tech firms enjoyed a lucrative 2020 and investors are betting more is to come.
The $7.6trn market value of America's five giants implies their sales will double in the next decade.
Yet if you look more closely, a shift is under way. The incumbents are not getting smaller—their weighted-average market share is stable, at about 35% across each of 11 American tech subsectors. But the share of second and third firms has risen from 18% to 26% since 2015. This reflects two deeper trends.
First, big tech firms are diversifying as their core products mature, new technological opportunities emerge and regulatory threats mount in America, Europe and China.
The firms have talked about this for years, but now it is happening. The share of the five American giants' revenues that overlaps with the others has risen from 22% to 38% since 2015.
Microsoft and Alphabet are taking on Amazon in the cloud. Amazon is, in turn, the rising force in digital advertising.
The second trend, accounting for a third of the shift in market share, is that outsiders have momentum. From the ranks of the corporate establishment, Disney, aged 98, has acquired 116m new streaming customers in 18 months, while Walmart, aged 58, booked $38bn in online sales last year.
Independent tech firms such as Shopify in e-commerce and PayPal have broken through thanks to the digital surge caused by the pandemic, and are generating enough profits to be self-sustaining.
You might think that this competition is just a blip, but it has a precedent in Asia, where customers have leapfrogged ahead and the boundaries between products have blurred, leading to market-share shifts, lower margins and innovation.
China has Alibaba and Tencent and five other contenders worth $100bn or more. India has Jio and South-East Asia has Grab, Gojek and Sea. All these firms think in terms of subscribers who could be persuaded to buy a fluid range of services, rather than of protecting a static monopoly at all costs. They seek expansion through diversification, even if that means bumping up against rivals.
One danger is that this oligopolistic rivalry is a Potemkin contest. It has not yet disrupted the Apple-Alphabet duopoly over phone-operating systems or app stores. Although advertisers have more choice, between, say, Amazon and Facebook, those being advertised to still have no real alternative to the products of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's boss.
And there are too many cosy links between firms. Alphabet pays Apple up to $12bn a year to make Google the iPhone's default search engine. Alibaba and Tencent own stakes in some of China's new entrants.
This is where resurgent antitrust enforcers can make a difference. Those Google payments are now subject to a Department of Justice lawsuit, while Apple and Google face complaints over their app stores.
Europe is planning rules to get different firms' products to work together and help users move their data around. China has a new list of "the nine do nots" for e-commerce firms, including not shutting out new contenders.
It helps that ambition is plentiful. In attracting business to its cloud platform, Alphabet is losing $6bn a year—more than Amazon has lost in its lifetime. Disney plans to have 325m subscribers by 2024.
PayPal intends to have 750m users of its financial super-app by 2025. Walmart has just bought an advertising firm. Facebook is entering e-commerce.
Microsoft has considered buying two social-media firms, TikTok and Pinterest. Huawei in China is busy creating an alternative to the ios-Android operating-system duopoly.
Oligopolistic competition could benefit consumers in several ways. It could boost choice as more firms compete to offer an expanding range of services: 11 American firms have over 100m digital subscribers.
It could raise standards as platforms differentiate themselves by trust. That is why Apple will soon ask iPhone users if they want to opt out of Facebook's data-tracking, upending the advertising market. And it could spur innovation as firms search for new tools, such as virtual reality, to control access to the customer.
Back in 2000 few predicted that tech was destined for monopoly, then it became accepted wisdom. Today no one knows if the emerging pattern of oligopolistic rivalry will last or benefit consumers.
But the conditions are more promising than they have been for years. Regulators are trying to prise open closed markets, a financial boom means that capital is abundant and a global surge in online activity has boosted demand.
A more contested digital economy would be consequential—for markets, consumers and businesses alike. It is looking more likely.
AS YIELDS RISE, BEWARE THE HIDDEN RISKS IN ULTRALONG BONDS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
| Labels: Bond Markets, Investment Strategies, Yields
As Yields Rise, Beware the Hidden Risks in Ultralong Bonds
Slim coupons make much of the recently issued debt with maturities of between 50 and 100 years riskier than traditional bond math suggests
By Jon Sindreu
Hopes of a fast economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic have given bonds their worst start to the year since 2015. / PHOTO: ALEX HALADA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Rising bond yields pose an outsize threat to one asset class in particular: ultra-long-dated debt.
Hopes of a fast economic recovery have given bonds their worst start to the year since 2015. Last October, 10-year Treasury yields were under 0.7%. Now, they hover around 1.5%. The jump has started to dent stocks: The S&P 500 fell 2.4% Thursday.
Markets still benefit from very loose financial conditions in inflation-adjusted terms, and the Federal Reserve made clear this week it won't allow yields to go too high. That offers protection to stock investors, and even most bondholders.
The exceptions may be investors that bought debt issues maturing in 50 or more years' time, particularly those with slim coupons.
So far, the big yield shifts are happening at shorter maturities. Yet France's new 50-year government bond, issued on Jan. 26, has still lost 15% of its value.
Over the same period, Austria's latest 100-year bond has lost 21%. Their yields have only risen 0.4 percentage points.
The explanation lies in complicated bond math.
In traditional calculations, prices move in the opposite direction to yields in roughly a straight line, and this line is steeper—the bond has more "duration"—the longer the maturity.
If an investor buys a one-year bill when yields are at 1% and they rise to 3% there isn't that much damage done, because the money will be repaid in 12 months. The same yield increase with a 10-year Treasury would give investors low returns for the next decade.
The market value of the bond has to fall by more to compensate.
This straight line is just an approximation, though, because prices are more sensitive to yields at lower yields than at higher ones. The relationship is really a curve, particularly for long-dated bonds.
This used to be a pedantic detail for academics, but that changed in the past decade as interest rates plunged to all-time lows.
Bonds maturing in 30 years or more became highly attractive. Investors found they had more upside and less downside than the straight line suggested.
Pension funds and insurers, which need to hedge long-term liabilities, became particularly hungry for them.
Many governments have been happy to oblige, and started issuing longer-dated debt.
The U.S. is now considering a 50-year bond.
But investors could be underestimating the dangers, according to research by finance professor and Commerzbank analyst Jessica James. Because rates are now often zero or negative, many ultralong bonds issued in recent years came with tiny coupons.
The size of a bond's payouts are often inconsequential for investors compared with the overall yield, but low coupons mess with the math of very long-dated bonds.
Pension funds and insurers face more downside and less upside than they may have thought.
With 100-year paper, for example, the potential losses from yields rising even modestly, say from 0% to 2%, are staggering.
Investors who bought paper with a 3% coupon when yields were zero lose 64% of their money.
Those that bought it with a 0% coupon lose a whopping 86%, according to Ms. James' calculations.
Investors who aim to hold long-dated paper to maturity have less to worry about.
But given that people—and even currencies—don't always survive 100 years, it may be time to start crunching the numbers again.
THE DRAGHI POWER TRIANGLE / PROJECT SYNDICATE
| Labels: Europe Economic and Political, Italy, Mario Draghi
The Draghi Power Triangle
Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, is not solely someone whose credibility in financial markets can lower the Italian borrowing costs and boost Italian stock prices. As he showed in his maiden address, he is a student of history, with strong democratic values and strategic capabilities that Europe badly needs.
Melvyn Krauss
STANFORD – Mario Draghi's first speech as Italy's prime minister made clear that his national unity government will not only be about domestic Italian politics and policy reforms, but about Europe, too.
Draghi has signaled nothing less than a dramatic reconfiguration of European policymaking, with major consequences for Europe and the European Union's relations with Russia and the United States.
As prime minister, Draghi will be a member of the influential European Council; in fact, he should be one of its core leaders, along with his French and German counterparts, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.
As Jörg Asmussen, a member of the European Central Bank's executive board when Draghi was ECB president, put it shortly before Draghi's installment, "European politics might shift into more of a triangle."
Asmussen was right. In his maiden speech to Italian lawmakers, Draghi stressed that Italy would "need to better structure and strengthen the strategic and essential relationship with France and Germany."
Clearly, the reconfiguration of European politics will be a top priority for his government. "Without Italy, there is no Europe," Draghi said.
And there is no Europe without further EU integration. Taking aim not only at anti-euro Italian populists like Matteo Salvini, Draghi said, "Supporting this government means sharing the irreversibility of the choice of the euro," adding that it also "means sharing the prospect of an increasingly integrated European Union that will arrive at a common public budget capable of supporting countries in times of recession."
Draghi's ascension to the European stage alongside Macron and Merkel also implies closer EU-US relations. US President Joe Biden could not find a better ally in Europe. Italy's new government, Draghi vowed, will be "strongly pro-European and Atlanticist, in line with Italy's historical anchors."
This marks a break with the foreign policy of Giuseppe Conte, the previous prime minister, who had aligned Italy more closely with China.
Draghi is giving the transatlantic alliance a chance to recover after four years of Donald Trump's strategic recklessness.
On NATO, Biden and Draghi think alike. Both favor keeping US troops in Europe, and both want a bigger German monetary contribution to the common defense budget. A more fundamental point is that the two see the US as the ultimate protector of Europe's independence.
Draghi's Atlanticism and pro-American sentiments run too deep for him to support the current push – led by Macron, with much elite support – for greater EU "strategic autonomy." But seeing eye to eye with Macron on many other matters, as he does, Draghi is likely to smooth over their differences on this thorny issue.
But Draghi's position on European security is firm – for the foreseeable future, there can be no replacement for the US troops in Europe. As Trump's influence fades in the US, so, too, will European anxiety about the reliability of America's security guarantee, which may dampen the sense that greater "strategic autonomy" is needed.
Draghi's strong belief in Atlanticism should bolster that of the entire European Council, working in particular as a counterweight to and moderating force on Merkel, who at times puts German business interests with Russia and others ahead of transatlantic ties and European security.
The more influence Draghi has in Europe's power triangle – and his tenure at the ECB appears to give him considerable clout with Merkel – the tougher the EU will be with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Europe's home-grown autocrats like Hungary's Viktor Orbán and Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński.
After all, Draghi's standing does not rest solely on his reputation in financial markets, where he is seen as someone who can lower Italian borrowing costs and boost Italian stock prices.
He is a student of history, with strong democratic values and a strategic sense of the type that Europe badly needs to deal effectively with Putin and his ideological soulmates in Central Europe.
Draghi's pro-Atlanticism clearly does not conflict with the prospects for a more united Europe. When he was president of the ECB, he did not save the euro merely to preserve Italy's membership in the common currency, as his northern detractors allege; he did it to save the European project itself.
Likewise, he did not introduce quantitative easing simply to bail out Italian bonds; he did it to further north-south integration.
Now he is championing the EU recovery fund, not only to help Italy and other southern countries overcome the economic consequences of the pandemic, but also to make permanent the most daring joint effort so far to integrate Europe's north and south.
The next step in the process could be the introduction of a true eurobond.
Draghi's support for such a joint debt instrument may well prove decisive.
Draghi can serve as Italy's prime minister until 2023, when new elections must be held. But he may decide not to serve past May 2022, if Charles Michel, the current president of the European Council, does not serve a second term. Given Draghi's focus on Europe's future, the opportunity to pursue the position would be tough for him to ignore.
The conventional wisdom that Draghi will move on to the Italian presidency is overblown. There is no power in that job.
Although Italy's economy could prove to be Draghi's Achilles heel if he is forced to spend all his time and political capital fighting for necessary reforms, ultimately, his domestic and European challenges are interconnected.
It is only the fact that he will have over €200 billion ($243 billion) of recovery-fund money to disperse to various domestic factions that mitigates the risk that the Italian economy will be his undoing.
Melvyn Krauss is Professor Emeritus of Economics at New York University.
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It's Saturday! I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend, I'm probably off at Target chasing my kids down the aisles. Fun. But, gosh, I love them so much -- if only they weren't so crazy!
Smitten will be available for purchase on January 15th.
Smitten comes in a 4x6 clear acetate sheet and will retail for $15.00.
Smitten contains a total of 12 stamps: 10 sentiment stamps and 2 images. The circle stamp measures 1-7/16" and works perfectly with a 1-1/2" circle punch; the feather measures 11/16" x 1-7/8"; the All You Need is Love Love Love stamp measures 13/16" x 2-3/8"; the small circle stamp measures just under 3/4".
I'm having a gold rush lately. I snap up any and all crafty products that are gold. Here's my card featuring the feather stamp you'll find in Smitten. Isn't she pretty?!
I've been using ink from Fresh Ink almost exclusively, with the exception of the colors black and white. I find that Fresh Inks work really well with not just our stamps, but all clear stamps. They give a nice even coverage without being splotchy.
So, you like what you see? I've got another First Look tomorrow. See ya!
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If you find the title of this article laughable, good! That is the intention of a new therapy aimed at improving our health. Scientists have discovered that laughing has much the same effect as exercise does— that of raising beneficial chemicalneurotransmitters called endorphins.
In fact, Norman Cousins, laughed himself into feeling better even though he had severe arthritis. How? He watched Marx Brothers movies.
So if laughter is so good for our health, why do adults only laugh about fifteen times a day, whereas kids laugh about four hundred times a day?Maybe because as adults, we take life too seriously. But let's see if we can change that.
You might be familiar with this joke: "He who laughs…lasts." And lasting well is what we want, isn't it? But how we go about "lasting," is our choice.
So here's the plan: try finding ways to laugh.
1. Perhaps you've just done something a bit stupid—it's okay to chuckle about it!
Watch what happens when you laugh so hard? You cry. You will see your mood rise immediately. A strong "ha ha!" takes the lid off even the biggest stressor.
What's so good for you about laughing?
Your immune system works better.
When you have a sense of humor, you'll look sexier.
Seeing things from funny standpoint helps you view a situation from a better perspective.
Improves alertness, creativity, and memory.
In relationships, laughter can help diffuse an argument.
I'll share a final thought with you.
What's the difference between a piano and a tuna?
You can tuna piano but you can't piano a tuna.


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Dreisel ist eine Ortschaft der Gemeinde Windeck im östlichen Rhein-Sieg-Kreis.

Lage
Dreisel liegt am südlichen Siegufer, also geografisch im Westerwald, genauer im Leuscheid. Der Dreiseler Umlaufberg zeigt, dass dies früher anders war. Nachbarorte von Dreisel sind Dattenfeld im Nordwesten und der Weiler Helpenstell im Südosten. Dreisel wird von der Kreisstraße 23 durchzogen, die die Landesstraße 333 mit der Kreisstraße 7 verbindet.

Geschichte
Der Ortsname Dreisel (früher: Dreesel, Dresel, Dreissel, Dreyssell, Dreselingen oder Dreissawel) wurde 1447 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt.

Vor 1932 gehörte Dreisel zum Kreis Waldbröl, danach zum Siegkreis. Am 1. August 1969 wurde Dreisel gemeinsam mit seinen Nachbarorten in die Gemeinde Windeck eingemeindet.

1863 hatte Dreisel 342 Einwohner, 1976 waren es 335 und 679 Einwohner im Jahr 2010.

Sehenswürdigkeiten, Naturschutz

Ehemalige Siegschleife
Zwischen Dreisel und Helpenstell liegen die Wiesen bei Dreisel. Das Gebiet umfasst mehrere Abschnitte eines ehemaligen Siegaltarmes zwischen den Orten Dreisel und Helpenstell mit großflächigem, artenreichem Feucht- und Nassgrünland sowie magerem Grünland am Hang des Umlaufberges.

Die Dreiseler Kapelle
Die erste Kapelle des Ortes wurde 1741 erbaut, 1841 erweitert und 1909 wegen Baufälligkeit abgerissen. 1886 erhielt die Dorfkapelle eine Marienglocke aus der Glockengießerei Claren in Sieglar.

Die heutige Kapelle "Zum Heiligen Bruder Konrad" wurde 1935 nach einer Bauzeit von zwei Jahren eingeweiht. 1973 wurde sie um eine Sakristei erweitert und erhielt ihr heutiges Aussehen.

Weblinks

 Website der Dorfgemeinschaft

Einzelnachweise

Ortsteil von Windeck
Ort an der Sieg

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Not too may women who come out of Livingston County get to play Division I college basketball, but Detroit Mercy's forward Lexey Tobel is one of them. The 5-11 freshman hails from Hartland, where she helped her team win multiple Class A District championships. Detroit Mercy Titans head coach Bernard Scott saw Tobel play and decided right away that she was a player he wanted for his program.
Tobel attempts a three point shot against Michigan.
Tobel would thus join a Titan team coming off two winning seasons after Scott took over, including a thrilling trip to the Horizon League championship game against Green Bay last year. However, the Titans have had they're struggles, in large part due to the departure of key players from last year's team. The Titans are currently 1-20 overall and 1-9 in Horizon League play.
It has been the positive attitude that Tobel continues to display that has impressed Scott this season, even as the team has struggled overall to win games and started earlier this season, but now comes off the bench, though still getting key minutes.
Tobel is part of a young nucleus of players that is expected to grow and improve together, also consisting of sophomores Anja Marinkovic, Ashley Miller, and Zoey Oatis. For Tobel however, she's had to learn a new role. In high school, she was primarily a guard, but now has switched over to being more of a post player who can be very versatile, like Haleigh Ristovski was for the Titans. This has led Tobel to working very closely with assistant coach Tara Fleming, who works with the post players on the team.
Tobel (left) and Anja Marinkovic are two of the players expected to lead the Titans in the near future.
Tobel has formed a close bond with teammate Lola Ristovski, a junior, who's become a surrogate big sister for her. Ristovski, having two older sisters herself, current assistant coach, Madison, and former teammate, Haleigh, can identify with having someone to take her under her wing.
Left to right: Courtney Williams, Lola Ristovski, Lexey Tobel, head coach, Bernard Scott, Kayla Brown, and Zoey Oatis.
For every player, especially at the Division I level, there comes that moment where it dawns on them that they're playing college basketball. For Tobel, it came at one key moment during the Titan's grueling non-conference schedule.
Scott sees Tobel as a player with great upside that will help lead the Titans in the future. In the meantime, Tobel will take the lessons from this season, and use them as motivation going forward to help the Titans return to their successful ways.


NetComm Limited now expects to report a full year EBITDA between $5.8 million and $6.3 million on revenue between $75 million and $78 million.
Further to the companys reported results for the 1st half, and in accordance with listing rule 3.1, the company is now providing guidance as to its expected revenue and EBITDA for the full year of 2008/09.
Based on sales and committed orders for the period up to and including May 2009, NetComm Limited now expects to report a full year EBITDA between $5.8 million and $6.3 million on revenue between $75 million and $78 million.
Compared with the full year of 2007/08, this represents an increase in EBITDA of between $5.2 million and $5.7 million and an increase in revenue between $55.6 million and $58.6 million.
"This continuing improvement reflects the companys strategic focus on wireless broadband; network management products and services; and the core business of broadband networking solutions while selectively investing in expansion into new international markets and increased penetration into new domestic commercial markets," said David Stewart, NetComm Managing Director.
Based on this guidance, the company intends to reinstate its dividend policy for the 2008/09 full year.


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The Education of Dee Dee Ricks From Misfortune to Mission
Dee Dee Ricks epitomizes the woman for whom Vogue or Harper's Bazaar was created. Blue-eyed, blonde and stunning, she dwelt in a $14 million Manhattan penthouse, reaping in so many millions as a hedge fund consultant that she was compelled to go on shopping sprees, plunking down $20,000 on items like alligator handbags to try to burn through it. Indeed, this is how Ricks viewed her role in life, until the day she discovered a lump in her breast.
"It was one of those strange scenarios. I was moving out of our home in the Hamptons to a rental because we'd had a flood. I had to find a bra, and I realized that my breast felt achy and heavy, so I checked, and I felt a lump. I knew immediately it was cancer," says Ricks, recalling that day six years ago.
Although her doctor initially pooh-poohed the possibility, given her age (38), lack of risk factors and the fact that she'd had a breast MRI just 18 months earlier. But it was breast cancer, stage 2. She underwent a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, and is now cancer-free. And there is where the story would have ended, if the woman were not Ricks.
But Dee Dee Ricks was a woman in search of redemption and has taken on the role of a patient advocate and superlative fundraiser, as well as the star of "The Education of Dee Dee Ricks," a 2011 HBO documentary that tells not only of her battle with breast cancer, but of her awakening and transformation into a champion on behalf of the millions of women who lack money for medical care.
Indeed, the prospect that Ricks was not going to be your average breast cancer patient was apparent right from the start. Newly diagnosed, she was at a fundraising auction when she decided to bid on the opportunity to sing with Steven Tyler. "Jon Stewart was the emcee, and I was bidding against one of my billionaire clients, and I'm thinking, 'This is ridiculous. You've just been diagnosed with cancer,' and Stewart is saying to me, 'This is the chance of a lifetime, and you'll look really hot on stage.'"
Moments earlier, Ricks had read in the auction brochure that that for every $50,000 the auction raised, 3,400 uninsured New York-area women would receive mammograms. She ended up bidding $400,000, and, as she joined Tyler onstage, she took the microphone and announced to the 7,000-member audience, "I'm having a double mastectomy." "I also told them that if they donated $50,000, they could help 3,400 women too," she recalls. "It was amazing, and it was at that moment that I became a champion of the underserved community," she added.
Not content to just write the check, Ricks decided she wanted to see exactly where the money would go, so she was directed to the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem. There, she met founder and head, Dr. Harold P. Freeman, a breast cancer surgeon who has devoted his career to advocating on behalf of the poor.
With Dr. Freeman leading the way, Ricks began her "education" of the disparities of healthcare, and why, for women like her, having means and health insurance translates into life, instead of death. "In early breast cancer, the cancer is curable almost to 100 percent. Late breast cancer, people die of it, almost by 100 percent," Dr. Freeman tells her.
And, as if to underscore this, Dr. Freeman introduces Ricks to Cynthia Dobson. Like Ricks, Dobson is attractive, bright and personable. But unlike Ricks, she is black, poor and, with no health insurance, her breast cancer was not diagnosed until it had spread. "It's like a Tale of Two Cities," says Dr. Freeman. The women bond, and Ricks pays for Dobson's care, but she dies, nevertheless.
Dr. Freeman credits Ricks with not only raising millions for his center but also for using her pulpit to turn a spotlight on the underserved. "Here you have this very attractive woman, blonde, blue-eyed, a typical American, and then breast cancer hits her, and she changes her way of thinking. She was converted into a person who wanted to help the poor, and she is influencing other people who live the life that she had lived and showing them what they can do to help. This, to me, is the critical part of her story."
Through her work, Ricks has found the redemption she was searching for, the sense of worth that Manolo Blahniks and alligator purses could not provide. "Oh, thank God. It's night and day. I don't even miss the old lifestyle. Before this happened, my life was absurd. I was very narcissistic; I cared about my appearance, and I could afford it. But, when tragedy happens, one of two things occurs: you grow and learn from it, or you put it in the back of your mind and don't deal with it."
Very obviously, Dee Dee Ricks learned from it.
"The Education of Dee Dee Ricks," is available on iTunes and also as a DVD that can be ordered through her website of the same name. All of the proceeds will go to the Patient Navigation Center as well as a project that takes mammogram vans to rural Arkansas.
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'Jerry & Marge Go Large' true story: What's fact and fiction
Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening star in "Jerry and Marge Go Large."
(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
Some people spend their whole lives fantasizing about winning the lottery. Jerry Selbee figured out how to actually do it in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee.
In 2003, Selbee had recently retired and settled down with his wife, Marge, in the sleepy, one-stoplight town of Evart, Mich. (pop. 1,900) when one morning he came across a brochure in a convenience store for a state lottery game called Winfall. Reading the fine print, Selbee — a math whiz who had spent much of his career as a materials analyst at a Kellogg's cereal factory — quickly realized that the lottery had a mathematical flaw that would mean guaranteed winnings if he bought enough tickets.
"I looked at the odds, I looked at what the payoff would be and I did a risk-reward analysis," the plain-spoken, pragmatic Selbee, who is now in his 80s, says by phone from his Michigan home. "It took me less than two minutes to figure out that that game could be profitable."
After Jerry tested out his theory, winning nearly $16,000, he and Marge began to spend countless hours buying and poring over thousands of tickets in the Winfall game and, later, a similarly structured lottery in Massachusetts. As their winnings started to accumulate, they set up a corporation called GS Investment Strategies LLC and invited a couple dozen family members and friends in Evart to join. By the time both lotteries had been shut down in 2012, the Selbees and their partners had grossed more than $26 million from the venture.
Then life for the Selbees grew quiet again, just the way they like it. Until Hollywood came calling.
The Selbees' story, as chronicled in a 2018 Huffington Post article by Jason Fagone, has become the inspiration for the new movie "Jerry & Marge Go Large," now streaming on Paramount+. Oscar nominees Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening star as the couple in the gently comic feel-good film, which is intended to provide a soothing, cynicism-free balm for audiences in these troubled times.
Bryan Cranston, left, as Jerry Selbee and Annette Bening as Marge Selbee in "Jerry & Marge Go Large" streaming on Paramount+.
(Jake Giles Netter/Paramount+)
"'Jerry & Marge Go Large' is not a story that is going to change anyone's life, but you know what? It could change your day," says Cranston. "Coming out of COVID, it feels like the time is right for this. We need a little breath-mint kind of entertainment just to feel better and connect again."
For Hollywood, a heartwarming, too-good-to-be-true story that happens to be true can be as precious as a winning lottery ticket. After the publication of the Huffington Post article, the Selbees' story quickly became a hot commodity, with at least 17 bidders vying for the rights.
"It just exploded," says "Jerry & Marge" screenwriter Brad Copeland, who set about chasing the rights with "The Blind Side" producer Gil Netter. "There were different directors, there was Scarlett Johansson calling the family — there was a lot of interest because it is a great story."
Reading Copeland's script amid the grim headlines of 2020, director David Frankel, whose credits include "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Marley & Me," immediately sparked to it. What the story might have lacked in thrills — no FBI agents kicking down doors, no over-the-top greed and extravagance a la "The Wolf of Wall Street" — it more than made up for in homespun charm. (The film does take a few small liberties with the real story, shifting the action to the present and amping up the conflict between the Selbees and a group of college students who also discovered the lottery's loophole.)
"The idea of two people over 60 finding a new adventure that reinvigorated their romance and their town seemed like the perfect antidote to the pandemic," Frankel says. "That earnestness was important. They're making money, which in many other contexts is the root of all evil. But here, it's doing a lot of good."
After spending a few days with the Selbees before shooting began, Cranston and Bening were even more determined to do justice to their salt-of-the-earth values and more than 60-year marriage.
Bryan Cranston, left, and Annette Bening with the real-life people they portray, Jerry and Marge Selbee.
(Paramount+)
"Marge didn't have stars in her eyes or anything, which I just loved about her," says Bening. "She's tough — she raised six kids and her family called her Marge the Sarge. But with Jerry there's a little twinkle there, and she genuinely enjoyed their adventure."
For Cranston, Selbee represented the moral antithesis of his turn as drug kingpin Walter White in "Breaking Bad," who employed a similarly exacting intellect to become a criminal mastermind. "When you're doing research like this, you just want to be open to receiving the essence of people that you're looking at," says Cranston. "There was a lot of time when we were just sitting with Jerry and Marge on the back porch rocking away or going for a drive or having a meal with them somewhere. It was just really sweet."
Sweet as they may be, folksy Midwestern retirees are not generally considered the sexiest subject matter for Hollywood—or the most desirable moviegoing demo. Going against that youth-obsessed grain, "Jerry & Marge" is directly pitched at a segment of the public that the industry often neglects. The film is the fledging release from producer Amy Baer's Landline Pictures, a label that launched last year under independent studio MRC Film to develop film and TV projects for an over-50 audience.
"It keeps happening over and over that people don't realize this audience exists and goes to the movies or watches them on streaming," says Copeland. "The first movie I wrote was [the 2007 comedy] 'Wild Hogs,' which was about a bunch of 60-year-old guys on Harley-Davidsons. People weren't sure there was any audience for it, and then the movie came out and made hundreds of millions of dollars. Everyone went, 'O, there's a huge audience for this!' Then they just forgot."
For the Selbees, whose town doesn't have a movie theater, seeing their story turned into a film has been hard to wrap their heads around. "We're just a retired couple living in northern Michigan with nothing special about us," says Jerry, who knew Cranston from the sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle" but wasn't familiar with Bening's work. "Marge would rather not be in the public too much. I don't mind it myself but she is far more reserved about that."
Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening.
For the Selbees, who kept careful records of everything they did for the IRS and never broke a single law, exploiting a loophole in the lottery was never about getting famous — or even about getting rich. As the winnings piled up, Jerry bought a new truck and a camping trailer. The couple renovated their home and helped put money toward their grandchildren's and great-grandchildren's educations. But there were no fancy sports cars, no new hot tubs, no lavish vacations.
"It really did not affect our lives in any way other than give us more financial security for our future," says Jerry. "Other members [of the corporation] bought a timeshare or took cruises. Marge and I didn't do any of that. We just enjoyed life as it was."
Still, Jerry has continued to keep his eye on other lotteries, looking for a similar flaw that could tip the odds in his favor. "There's one in Florida that's similar but not quite the same," he says. "The Winfall was such a unique game. That was the only one you could win without being lucky, just based on pure mathematical and statistical probabilities."
These days, he'll still pick up the occasional lottery ticket. But now it's only for recreation.
"Occasionally I'll buy a Mega Millions ticket after the jackpot gets up over $300 million, and I'll buy a Fantasy 5 ticket occasionally after the jackpot gets up over $250,000," he says. "But I'm not spending more than $10. And I'm not going to go out and buy a new boat or anything depending on the fact that I'm going to win the lottery."
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Most of our projects involve stakeholder consultation through formal and informal interviews, meetings and workshops. Some go beyond consultation to planning and decision making. We believe that well informed, managed and facilitated meetings and workshops are the key to delivering sustainable development.
Species translocation for conservation purposes. Contracted by Scottish Natural Heritage in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, to provide independent facilitation services for a stakeholder workshop to review and help further develop a code of conduct for the translocation of organisms (plant and animal) for nature conservation objectives.
Environmental assessment in aquaculture: in 2009-10 we facilitated a technical workshop for FAO in Rome to develop international guidance on environmental assessment for aquaculture.
FAO Expert Workshop on Cage Aquaculture in Africa. 20-23rd October 2004. John Hambrey was asked to present an overview paper "Challenges for cage aquaculture in Africa" and a case study paper on "Small scale cage aquaculture and poverty alleviation" to this workshop, and was also contracted to facilitate the socio-economic working group through 2 days of deliberations on the future of cage aquaculture in Africa. Funded by the UK Department for International Development Aquaculture Research Programme.
Action Plan for the Fisheries of the Moray Firth. Facilitation of the further development of the Fisheries Action Plan, developed by the Moray Firth Fisheries Action group. This included advising on the scope of the plan, relationship with the srategic review of inshore fisheries, identifying funding mechanisms, and facilitating a workshop. For the Moray Firth Partnership 2006.
UN-GESAMP Working Group on Environmental effects of aquaculture. John Hambrey chaired this UN working group between 1998 and 2002, and oversaw the production of a major global guidance document on planning and management for sustainable aquaculture development. This involved drawing on the skills and knowledge of 10 eminent scientists drawn from throughout the world to agree on problems, solutions, approaches and guidance needs, coordinating and managing writing of the guidelines, and final edit.


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Q: shell command to achieve SCP task in Cloudbees In our project, there is one step in Cloudbees to obtain SCP task. But the SCP plugin in the Cloudbees is disabled and we don't have access to enable the plugins. How to achieve the same with the help of shell? What shell command has to be used for SCP task where we provide the details like

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*Host Name

*Username and password

*Local Directory path

*What items to be copied from Local Path to remote

*Port number

A: scp is used this way to remotly copy files:
scp -P 21 "username@host_name:/home/example_user/local.file" /home/remotecopy.file

For password you will have to use sshpass or expect (expect is dirty)

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Ignorance and Greed Sustain Cryptocurrency Scams in Nigeria
Nigeria is not only Africa's biggest cryptocurrency market but is also a leading adopter of digital currencies globally.
Official figures show the country is well ahead of fellow African countries. Citizens of the West African state use cryptocurrencies for cross border payments as well as for international remittances among many growing use cases. However, this growth momentum faces a threat from an old vice — scams.
Cryptocurrency-related scams threaten to overrun the blockchain space as new ones get launched all the time. Adding to the woes is the global pandemic, covid-19, which appears to have opened a new artery for criminals.
Many concerned stakeholders are now raising the alarm as they try to turn the tide against criminals. The Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SIBAN), the equivalent of Nigeria's blockchain association, is one organization sounding the alarm.
Scams: A Threat to Crypto Adoption
SIBAN is mandated with promoting cryptocurrency adoption as well as ensuring consumer protection against crypto scams. The organization believes the scourge, if left unchecked, will not only impede further growth of the space but may well reverse public confidence in the emerging technology.
Senator Iyere Ihenyen, General Secretary (GS) of SIBAN, speaks to news.Bitcoin.com. He starts by explaining why Africa's most populous nation has been grappling with scams for years.
"So to really understand the rising rate of scams in Nigeria, it is vital to understand the context. A country of over 200 million people with a high rate of youth unemployment and underemployment, Nigeria has unfortunately made itself a haven for scammers," explains Ihenyen.
The Nigeria market presents scammers with a large pool of desperate people to target. Still, some fall victim to scams not because they are desperate but because of "sheer greed."
As Ihenyen observes, scammers are now "riding on the rising popularity of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies to dupe even more members of the public."
The GS is asked about Inksnation, an investment platform that has been labeled a scam by some Nigerians. Ihenyen, who says he first heard of this alleged scam in December 2019, dismisses claims by its founders that the investment scheme has its own blockchain.
The GS is emphatic in labeling the platform:
Inksnation is not on any blockchain. Its Inksledger, which it claims to be its blockchain, is not public and may as well be inexistent. There is no whitepaper. In Inksnation's team is the founder himself (as Daddy Ink) and 'Elohim Jahgah God the Trinity Trustor & Grantor Inksnation.'
According to Ihenyen, Inksnation typifies scams that routinely take advantage of Nigeria's economic situation to defraud thousands of unsuspecting investors.
Regulatory Response
Still, Ihenyen says contrary to a perception that nothing is being done, efforts are ongoing to rid the space of scams. For instance, he says SIBAN and Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have both issued public alerts warning the public about Inksnation.
Predictably, the alerts have not stopped Inksnation from continuing to invite more Nigerians to invest with it. Ihenyen points to two possible reasons why Inksnation is seemingly unfazed by the alerts and why Nigerians appear indifferent to the alerts.
Ihenyen suggests that Inksnation is aware that SIBAN can only issue advisories but lacks the power to enforce or to make arrests.
On the other hand, the SEC may be in a position to cause an action to be taken against Inksnation. However, by deliberately labeling itself as a blockchain entity, an unregulated space, it thinks the regulator lacks sufficient legal grounds to take action.
In addition, Ihenyen highlights the difficulty of convincing a greedy investor who has made up his mind to walk away. When SIBAN issued an alert against Inksnation, it received brickbats instead of plaudits, the GS says.
As a result, Inksnation continues to operate unhindered.
In the meantime, Ihenyen suggests the same socio-economic and legal environment to be responsible for enabling two more prominent investment scams to proliferate. Ethereum Million Money and Forsage are two other investment platforms which began "trending from the month of March till date."
According to some Nigerian media reports, Ethereum Million Money is a multi-level marketing scam that has some investors already counting losses. Similarly, a report by behindmlm.com — a scam tracking website — seemingly backs Ihenyen's claim about Forsage. Forsage has also been flagged by regulators in the Philipines.
At the time of writing, SIBAN had just received fresh complaints about another possible scam, Lionshare.
SIBAN's Long-Term Plan to Counter Scams
Turning his attention to what SIBAN is planning to do to curb incidences of cryptocurrency scams, Ihenyen says they are looking to collaborate with like-minded institutions in raising awareness.
"SIBAN plans to partner with Blockchain Nigeria User Group (BNUG), the Cryptography Development Initiative of Nigeria (CDIN) and other bodies in the space to launch the Anti-Scam Alert Project (ASAP)."
Finally, Ihenyen says SIBAN has a "special blockchain education project loading, in collaboration with select local and global blockchain & crypto platforms."
What do you think of Nigeria's problem with scams? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Paris Refashioned 1957–1968
The 1960s was one of the most exciting periods in fashion history, as shifting cultural paradigms were embraced by a generation of designers that challenged conventions and reinvented the fashion industry.
This compelling volume focuses on the important but too often dismissed fashions that were created in Paris during this time. From the early couture designs of Yves Saint Laurent that initiated a trend toward a more relaxed and youthful style, to the popularity of ready-to-wear fashions by Emmanuelle Khanh – part of a new group known as the stylists – this book traces the development of Parisian fashion during the 1960s and its continuing legacy.
Colleen Hill features eye-catching images from Elle and Vogue, as well as stunning examples of fashion from The Museum at FIT's world-class collection. She provides an in-depth look at the combined influences of French haute couture, ready-to-wear, and popular culture during this era. In doing so, she describes how the dominance of haute couture was challenged by the ready-to-wear movement, resulting in the rise of a vibrant, youthful, and modern aesthetic in Parisian fashion.
Verlag Yale University Press
Autor(en) Colleen Hill
Beiträge von Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears et al.
Fashion & Popkultur
(French edition)
Yves Saint Laurent + Halston
Fashioning the 70s
The New French Couture
Icons of Paris Fashion
Dressing the Decades
Twentieth-Century Vintage Style
Josep Lluís Mateo – Construction
Idée et matière
Inge Morath – On Style
Dress of the Year
Beaton in Vogue
Robert Doisneau – Du métier à l'oeuvre
Un autre Robert Doisenau
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade
Patricia Underwood
Jean Patou – A Fashionable Life
Culture Chanel: The Woman Who Reads


Just because you're earning your turns doesn't mean you won't get rowdy on the way back down. That's why The 'Bros built an all-mountain wheelset at a respectable weight that will get you to the top whether it's an epic day in the backcountry or the last stage of an enduro, but won't think twice about your lack of line choice on the way back down.
● Tubeless compatible with a Stan's kit or our preferred method, (ghetto tubeless).
I bought a pair of these for my Yelli Screamy was surprised how stiff they were. Most of the twenty niner wheels I have owned flexed a little too much when I was aggressively cornering, (I come from a DH background).


Were you fired because you refused to violate the law? While firing an employee in and of itself is not unlawful, in certain circumstances, it can be illegal.
When an employer terminates an employee, many laws come into play. Even when an employment situation is at will, meaning there is probably not a contract or state statute governing the employee's job, there are still many ways an employer can violate the law by firing an employee for the wrong reason. We can help determine if you were fired for the wrong reason and what action we will take to make things right for you.
For a discussion of recent legal developments that have eroded the concept of employment-at-will in Wisconsin, please visit the following: Wrongful Discharge — An Exception to the At-Will Employment Doctrine.
Does My Situation Qualify as Wrongful Discharge?
Do you believe you were fired in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim or whistleblower claim?
Did your employer allow hostile workplace conditions that caused you to quit, or were you terminated after reporting sexual harassment?
Do you believe that your age was a determining factor in your layoff — while younger employees kept their jobs?
Our employment law attorneys have in-depth knowledge of the numerous vehicles for protecting and enforcing your rights as an employee and holding your employer or former employer accountable for the injustice. Learn more about our employment practice and the many areas in which your situation may be applicable. There are many considerations where an employee's rights have been violated.
If you have questions about your employment termination or any other employment-related concern, contact us to discuss your important legal rights or call our office at 888-843-1261 or 262-785-9606. Whether your situation warrants a wrongful discharge claim or any other employment law claim, you can have confidence that our lawyers will listen, carefully review your situation, and identify your options for moving forward.


After examining the two major party candidates and noting the voter apathy in the primaries a few weeks ago, I determined to do something a bit off the deep end: I am actively pursuing the open US Senate seat in Alabama's special election December 12 as an independent write-in candidate. While it is true only 3 Congressional elections have been won by a true write in-candidate (Strom Thurmond and Lisa Murkowski in the Senate and Charles Wilson in the House of Representatives), I believe the state now has an opportunity to send someone to Washington who truly believes as a majority of Alabamians believe and desires the same outcomes in D.C.
There are over 3.3 million registered voters in Alabama. Roy Moore garnered 262,000 votes in the Republican runoff while Doug Jones received 109,000 votes in the Democratic primary, a total of 371,000 voters. In contrast, 2.1 million Alabamians voted in the Presidential election of 2016. A mere 9% of those registered to vote made the effort to vote for either candidate in the Democratic primary and Republican runoff while 63% voted in the Presidential election. This is the dictionary definition of voter apathy. Couple that with a single-issue special election 13 days before Christmas, and malaise stands to be the only winner. This, I firmly believe, represents the perfect storm by which a dark horse can win. Thus, the electorate, not Breitbart, Planned Parenthood, or MoveOn.org has the potential to elect our Senator.
I am life-time Alabama resident and small-business owner. My family roots are six generations deep in state soil. I consider myself a states-rights Constitutional conservative. I am a free-market capitalist who believes great things can happen if the federal government just gets out of the way. I am a Christian, but I will never use my religion as either a shield or a sword in politics. I believe the income tax system is unnecessarily complicated and needs a complete overhaul. I believe we all pay too much in taxes because the federal government spends like drunken sailors on shore leave. I believe we need to get spending under control; then let's lower taxes for everyone. If we cut taxes and don't cut spending, we have created a tax deferment, not a tax cut. I do not believe healthcare is a birthright, but states need policies in place to assist those who work hard, but unsuccessfully, to make ends meet. I think elected officials have a shelf-life, and term limits for Congress are long overdue.
Compose your email to Mac Watson at Mac Watson for Senate.


For Royal HaskoningDHV, safety and security are inseparably linked, these two disciplines cover many things that cannot be treated separately or that cover common elements. Safety and security installations are not 'add ons' they are embedded within the organization and the building.
The avoidance of a disaster is not always possible. However, our structured approach to safety and security is based of the philosophy of the 'The Hague methodology' (De Haagse Methodiek-DHM). This reduces the risk of negative experiences significantly. To achieve a thorough, comprehensive safety and security plan all the factors set out in the Hague Methodology are followed: from identification to implementation. Important components in this process are a thorough risk assessment and analysing 'what if' scenarios combined with coordination between the organizational, structural and technical interpretations.
The integrated master plan is the basis for now and in the future implementing safety and security in your organization.


Bear Creek Lake is a 42-acre impoundment located entirely within the 16,000-acre Cumberland State Forest. Outdoor enthusiasts will find many opportunities to pursue the activities they love at the park or the state forest. The species composition consists of largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, black crappie, and channel catfish. There is also a handicapped-accessible pier available at Bear Creek Lake.
The lake is open to fishing from sunrise to sunset.
The bass fishery at Bear Creek Lake is in excellent condition. Six years have now passed since the lake and fishery renovation and bass sizes reflect an almost new lake phenomenon. Department samples indicate a healthy population with many fish over 15 inches and good numbers of young fish entering the system. Density of largemouth bass is average for Southside Virginia waters and anglers should enjoy a very active fishery at Bear Creek.
For angler seeking something besides largemouth bass, Bear Creek also provides home for bluegill, redear sunfish, and black crappie. Bluegill is the predominate panfish species with good numbers and good sizes of fish in the population. Fish over 8 inches are not uncommon but most of the population is in the 5-7 inch range. Redear sunfish are also common at Bear Creek but there numbers are roughly 1/3rd those of bluegill. Redear have good potential to reach 10 inches and above but have not done so at this reservoir yet. Black crappie are also present but in limited number and size.
Channel catfish are stocked annually at 10 fish per acre to provide an alternative fishery to Bear Creek Lake anglers.
Bear Creek Lake has a single lane concrete boat ramp near the dam. The park also offers camping, restroom facilities, swimming beach, boat rentals, and many other amenities.


Your assessment and treatment will depend upon the reason for your visit. All appointments will start with taking a confidential and detailed history.
Often this could mean discussing sensitive issues that are often difficult to discuss. However, understanding your symptoms and how your daily life is affected is vital in directing your treatment.
Any physical assessment will depend on what has been discussed and may include an examination of your abdominal muscles, pelvis and lumbar spine. You may be offered an internal examination to determine the tone, strength, coordination and control of your pelvic floor muscles as well as assessing for injury or scarring, signs of pelvic organ prolapse, tenderness, sensation and neural sensitivity and tightness or spasm.
The assessment findings and treatment will be discussed with you and a specific and individualised treatment programme will be developed.


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Organic GrocersA healthy diet can be the key to healthy and happy living, and fresh and delicious produce is available throughout Corpus Christi and the surrounding area. Corpus Christi has three farmers markets that are held weekly, as well as the store Sprout's Farmers Market, which is openly daily. Depending on the season, these farmers markets provide fresh, organic produce as well as fish, baked goods, canned goods, eggs, honey, craft items, and much more.Corpus Christi Southside Farmers Market 5800 EverhartKeep an eye out for fresh produce, canned goods, eggs, fish, baked goods, and craft items every Saturday morning at 9:00 AM.
http://www.caller.com/news/2013/oct/12/corpus-christi-southside-farmers-market-opens-satu/Corpus Christi Downtown Farmers Market (505 S. Water St.)On Wednesdays from 5:00-7:00 PM, come look for fresh fruits and veggies, baked goods, quality meat, honey, crafts, and more.
http://www.caller.com/news/2013/oct/02/weekly-downtown-farmers-market-begins-wednesday/The New Corpus Christi Farmers Market (11330 Leopard St.)Every Friday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, check out the New Corpus Christi Farmers market for organic food, produce, and crafts.
http://www.caller.com/photos/galleries/2009/jun/19/where-produce-fresh/22120/Sprouts Farmers Market (1440 Airline Rd.)With convenient supermarket hours and a wide selection of fresh and organic food, it's easy to see why Sprouts Farmers Market is such a popular health-food stop.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Sprouts-Farmers-Market-Reviews-E134467.htmRockport-Fulton Farmers' Market Fulton Beach Road at DeForest Loop Fulton, TX 78358On the first, third, and the occasional fifth Saturdays of the month, the Rockport-Fulton Farmers' Market offers fresh produce, quality pork and chicken, fresh eggs, and baked goods to shoppers from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.