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Soderling survives dramatic Hewitt test
Ed Osmond
For two sets Robin Soderling gave Lleyton Hewitt a gilt-edged opportunity to spring a major Wimbledon upset without even having to call on his copious reserves of heart and guts.
But the Swede remembered he was the world's fifth-best player in the nick of time, denying the Australian former champion a third-round place with a 6-7 3-6 7-5 6-4 6-4 victory in nearly four hours under the Centre Court roof on Thursday.
"I knew if I could raise my game after the first two sets I had a good chance," Soderling told reporters.
"I thought I was a bit unlucky to lose the first set, I knew I was serving pretty well. It was nice to see him [Hewitt] injury-free and it was the best match we have ever played. He is a great fighter."
The final outcome looked highly unlikely in the first two sets as Soderling reeled off a succession of unforced errors and Hewitt played tidy and consistent tennis.
Roared on by a pocket of loyal green-and-gold clad fans who sang a hearty rendition of Advance Australia Fair as the players warmed up, Hewitt only needed the occasional trademark cry of "C'mon" and mini fist pump to take control of the match.
Soderling, twice French Open runner-up and Wimbledon quarterfinalist last year, looked completely out-of-sorts, lacking any fire or passion and struggling badly with his game.
His booming serve began to work better in the third set, however, and the 30-year-old Hewitt, whose career has been blighted by injuries in recent years, made more unforced errors.
Serving at 5-6, the Australian suddenly found himself break point down and Soderling pounced, pumping his chest in relief after clinching the set.
The aces started flowing from Soderling's racket in the fourth set and Hewitt struggled to make an impression on his opponent's serve.
Soderling again managed to break at the crucial moment and send the match into a deciding set.
Hewitt roared a huge "C'mon" after holding serve at 1-1 and when he broke Soderling in the following game an upset loomed again.
But Soderling raised his game to break straight back and at 5-4 he produced a brilliant forehand crosscourt winner to help set up three match points, the first of which he converted when Hewitt lamely netted a forehand.
Soderling sunk to his knees and beat his chest before the players left the court to a standing ovation.
Hewitt, Wimbledon champion in 2002 and US open winner in 2001, tried to remain positive after the loss.
"It's hard at the moment. But in the end, I feel like I hit the ball pretty well," he said. "I hit it a lot better than I did a couple days ago and I needed to play against a guy like Soderling.
"It's just one of those days. The roof closed I think helped his game, as well. So it's little things like that you've got to try to put behind you as much as possible."
Li falls to Lisicki
French Open champion Li Na suffered the first major upset at this year's Wimbledon when she lost 3-6 6-4 8-6 to German wildcard Sabine Lisicki on Thursday.
The third-seeded Chinese squandered two match points in the third set to give Lisicki a chance which she grabbed with both hands when she got a break back in the next game.
The German world number 62 then clawed her way in front and sealed an emotional victory on her third match point when Li sent a forehand wide.
Lisicki burst into tears as she dropped to her knees in celebration after booking a clash with Misaki Doi of Japan, the world number 133, in the third round.
Earlier, South African Kevin Anderson was beaten by world number two Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. — Reuters
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Stokes named ICC player of the year after a smashing 2019
Agency - 17 Jan 2020
Ben Stokes was named the International Cricket Council (ICC) player of the year on Wednesday, capping an unforgettable 2019 for the...
Blood, sweat and cheers
A new Netflix docuseries follows underestimated athletes willing to put their bodies on the line for their sport


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It consists of two devices, one of which is a pillow embedded with a voice recorder that is activated upon squeezing together several conductive patches at the corner of the pillow. This interaction minimizes the steps necessary to record a fresh memory of a dream immediately upon awakening.
After the dream is recorded into the pillow, the audio file is transmitted wirelessly to a jar containing shimmering LEDs to display the "capture" of a new memory, and electronics in the jar can play back the recordings through a small speaker under its lid when it is opened.
This work was published in the proceedings of TEI 2011 and can be downloaded here.


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What saved finance, and the Western economy, was fiscal and monetary stimulus – an influx of money, created ad hoc. It was a strategy that raised questions about the unexamined nature of money itself, an object suddenly revealed as something other than a neutral signifier of value. Through its grip on finance and the debt system, money confers sovereign power on the economy. If confidence in money is not maintained, crises follow. Looking over the last 5,000 years, Michel Aglietta explores the development of money and its close connection to sovereign power. This book employs the tools of anthropology, history and political economy in order to analyse how political structures and monetary systems have transformed one another. We can thus grasp the different eras of monetary regulation and the crises capitalism has endured throughout its history.
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Fill in the blanks with an appropriate past tense form.
When we talk about two past events, the past continuous is normally used to refer to the longer background action.
2. The doorbell .................... while I ..................... a bath.
3. As I ........................ for bus, I ............................. Joe crossing the road.
4. Yesterday, I ....................... to the movies with my wife.
The simple past tense is the normal tense for talking about finished actions and situations.
5. When I was a child, we ................ our own amusements.
The past continuous is not normally used for talking about repeating past actions.
6. When we .................... home, we discovered that water .......................... down the walls.
7. It ........................ while I .......................... in Mumbai.
8. I .................... in Rome for ten years while I ................. a child.
We use the past simple to talk about longer situations in the past.
9. I ......................... all day yesterday.
The past continuous can be used to suggest that an activity was in progress at every moment during a period of time.
10. What ................................. at 11 pm last night?
The past continuous is used to talk about actions or situations that were in progress at a particular point of time in the past.
11. Who .......................... you that watch?
1. I was playing with my son when you called.
2. The doorbell rang while I was having a bath.
3. As I was waiting for bus, I saw Joe crossing the road.
4. Yesterday, I went to the movies with my wife.
5. When I was a child, we made our own amusements.
6. When we reached home, we discovered that water was running down the walls.
7. It happened while I was working in Mumbai.
8. I lived in Rome for ten years while I was a child.
9. I was sleeping all day yesterday.
10. What were you doing at 11 pm last night?
11. Who gave you that watch?
12. When I walked into the office, everybody was working.


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Organic geochemistry is the study of the impacts and processes that organisms have had on the Earth. It is mainly concerned with the composition and mode of origin of organic matter in rocks and in bodies of water. The study of organic geochemistry is traced to the work of Alfred E. Treibs, "the father of organic geochemistry." Treibs first isolated metalloporphyrins from petroleum. This discovery established the biological origin of petroleum, which was previously poorly understood. Metalloporphyrins in general are highly stable organic compounds, and the detailed structures of the extracted derivatives made clear that they originated from chlorophyll.

Applications

Energy

Petroleum

The relationship between the occurrence of organic compounds in sedimentary deposits and petroleum deposits has long been of interest. Studies of ancient sediments and rock provide insights into the origins and sources of oil and petroleum, as well as the biochemical antecedents of life. Oil spills in particular have been of interest to geochemists in regards to the impact of petroleum and oil on the current geological environment. Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, organic geochemistry knowledge on oil-spill chemistry bloomed with the analyses of samples from the spill.

Geochemists study petroleum-inclusions in geological samples to compare present-day fluid-inclusions to dated samples. This analysis provides insight into the age of the petroleum samples and the surrounding rock. Spectrographic, optical, destructive, and nondestructive methods are used to analyze samples via mass spectrometry or Raman spectroscopy. The discovered differences in samples, such as oil-to-gas ratio or viscosity are typically attributed to the rock source of the sample. Other characteristics typically noted are pressure/volume/temperature properties, sample texture, and sample composition. Complications in analysis arise when the source rock is near or in a water source.
Petroleum is also studied via carbon isotope analysis. Carbon isotopes provide insight into the Earth's carbon cycle and geological processes. Geochemists are able to discern the composition of petroleum deposits by examining the ratio of carbon isotopes and comparing this ratio to known values for carbon based structures of which the petroleum could be composed.

Coal
Vast knowledge about coal has been attained since the inception of its use as an energy source. However, modern geochemists are still studying how plant material changes into coal. They have determined coalification results from a selective degradation of plant materials, while other plant material is preserved. Coal macromolecules are usually made up of these degradation-resistant biopolymers contained in algae, spores, and wood. Geochemists have unraveled the mysteries behind coal formation by comparing properties of the biopolymers to properties found in existing coal macromolecules. The analytical methods of Carbon NMR and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with flash pyrolysis has greatly enhanced the ability of organic geochemists to analyse the minute structural units of coal.

Further knowledge into the age of coal sediments has been attained via isochron dating of uranium in the coalified samples. Examination of the parent to daughter ratio of uranium isotopes has led to the dating of select samples to the Late Cretaceous Period.

Environmental
Modern organic geochemistry includes studies of recent sediments to understand the carbon cycle, climate change, and ocean processes. In connection with petroleum studies, petroleum-focused geochemists also examine the impact of petroleum on the geological environment. Geochemistry also examines other pollutants in geological systems, such as metabolites formed from the degradation of hydrocarbons. Organic geochemistry analytical techniques, such as GC-MS, allow chemists to determine the intricate effects of organic metabolites and human-derived waste products on the geological environment.
Of specific concern are the human-derived pollutants stemming from agricultural work. The use of animal manure, in combination with general municipal and sewage waste management, has changed many physical properties of the agricultural soil involved and the surrounding soils.

Organic geochemistry is also relevant to aqueous environments. Pollutants, their metabolites, and how both enter bodies of water are of particular importance in the field. This organic matter can also be derived from geological processes in or near bodies of water, similarly influencing nearby lifeforms and protein production. Fluorescence spectroscopy has been introduced as a technique to examine organic matter in bodies of water, as dissolved organic matter is typically fluorescent.

The study of organic geochemistry also extends to the atmosphere. Particularly, geochemists in this field study the makeup of insoluble  material in the lower atmosphere. They have defined certain consequences of organic aerosols including physiological toxicity, direct and indirect climate forcing, smog, rain acidification, and incorporation into the  natural carbon cycle.

Further reading

References

Geochemistry
Geochemistry

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Every time I see a parent running with a stroller, I send them a mental high five. It takes willpower to work out with kids, and I commend anyone who chooses to push an extra fifty-some pounds while doing it.
It's also easy to slip into bad form while running – let alone walking – with a stroller. So, here's a guide on how to run with a stroller in a way that maximizes efficiency and minimizes injury risk.
When your feet are turned out duck-style, stability bleeds away. With each step, your body has to work extra hard to compensate for the loss. The arch of your foot flattens out, your knee caves in, you lose power, and stresses on the soft tissues of your joints begin to pile up.
Check in with your feet regularly to make sure they're not turning out excessively or collapsing in toward each other.
Running with a protruding booty is bad for your body and your reputation.
I call this the protruding booty. It happens when you shift your upper body weight into the handlebar. It's a big temptation, especially when your arms are fatigued and your legs are on fire.
To check in and prevent this problem, remove one hand from the stroller handle and correct your alignment. If you're not running the way you normally would without a stroller, slow down to a jog or walk while you correct your alignment. You can also keep an eye on your shadow as you run. If your shadow is slouching, chances are you are, too.
Minimize booty protrusion with good alignment. And look out for fallen baby dolls.
Remember you don't always need to push the stroller. On flat surfaces, you should be able to use your body's momentum to drive the stroller forward, rather than pushing with your arms. This is one reason a good jogging stroller is worth the investment. Jogging strollers are made to glide along with you, so unless you're on a hill, you shouldn't have to use much effort to make the stroller move forward.
"On flat surfaces, you shouldn't feel like you're pushing your stroller at all. Instead, you're using your body momentum to drive the stroller forward."
Only exert as much force as you need to move the stroller forward at a steady pace, especially if you're running for long distances. The best part is, if you keep this tip in mind you'll probably avoid the protruding booty since it will force you to stay close to the stroller.
It's the shoulders and elbows I'm concerned about. In the above photo, my shoulders are internally rotated and my elbows are locked. And although I'm not doing it here, it's also common to hyperextend the wrists in this position, especially while running uphill.
To fix this, put a slight bend in the elbows to bring the stroller closer to you. Then draw your elbows closer to your sides to eliminate any chicken arms. This will also help open your shoulders.
Shoulders are the second part of the equation. Try to keep your shoulders right at your sides. If you have a wide handlebar, use it to keep your shoulders open, as shown in the collage below.
TOP LEFT: Bad form. Shoulders are shrugged and internally rotated.
TOP RIGHT: Better but still bad. Shoulders aren't shrugging and the elbows have more bend, but are still flared out to the sides, which causes the shoulders to collapse inward.
BOTTOM LEFT: Good form. Shoulders are down and elbows bent and at my sides.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Also good form. The wider grip is more comfortable for me, since my shoulders tend to internally rotate and this double stroller handlebar is really big.
When you're running downhill, don't let the stroller pull you. I learned this while I was running downhill with my toddler and four-year-old. I weigh about 105lb, and the total weight of stroller plus kids came out to 95lb. It was a long, steep hill, and at one point toward the end I almost lost my footing on a slippery rock. If I hadn't been pulling the stroller in close to me, I think I probably would have either flipped it over or let go altogether.
"It might feel like you're actually pulling the stroller against gravity. That's because you are."
If you allow your arms to extend and lose control, you'll have no leeway if the stroller gains too much momentum. Maintain the elbow positioning I discussed above and refrain from extending your arms while running downhill. It might feel like you're actually pulling the stroller against gravity. That's because you are.
Running with kids is a challenge, but it's worth it. The other night I ran by myself after running exclusively with a jogging stroller for three weeks, and I set a record on my mile time by 32 seconds! My kids also enjoy going for a ride, so it's great bonding time (although they don't enjoy stroller photo shoots very much, as you can see in the photos).
Do you run with your kids? Share your tips and experiences in the comments below!


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Surprise: The Lamborghini Countach is coming back
Chris Davies - Aug 9, 2021, 2:15pm CDT
The Lamborghini Countach is set to return, with the Italian automaker revealing its surprise news about the iconic supercar today. Arguably epitomizing a generation of raw, alluring sports cars – and gracing plenty of bedroom walls in the process – the Countach also put Lamborghini's wedge-shaped styling on the map.
That aesthetic has proved enduring even decades later. The first Countach prototype was shown off at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, but it took three further years of development before the Lamborghini engineers could make a production-ready version.
That debuted in 1974, complete with Bertone styling that was a huge departure from the curvaceous Lamborghini Miura which came before it. Unapologetically angular, the Countach also featured scissor doors for the first time on a Lamborghini, lifting up and forward. Over sixteen years, the automaker made less than 2,000 cars.
Now, in a Monday shock, Lamborghini has announced that the Countach is coming back. A new teaser is high on hype and low on details: "Future is our legacy," Lamborghini says. "And the new Lamborghini Countach is coming. Stay tuned…"
We make dreams come true. We did it with the classic Countach in the 1970s. And we're doing it again. The new Lamborghini Countach is coming. #Lamborghini #Countach pic.twitter.com/nXctgIuyqe
— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini) August 9, 2021
The accompanying image gives little away, but certainly doesn't skimp on those Countach hallmarks. Long, low, and distinctively wedge-shaped, it looks to feature short rear overhangs and the distinctive silhouette that have become Lamborghini shorthand in the intervening years.
Just what might be underneath the sheet – and the wedge bodywork – remains unclear. One possibility is that this is a heavily modified version of an existing model, such as the Lamborghini Aventador. The automaker recently confirmed that the Aventador Ultimae would be the last of its series, and indeed the final non-hybrid implementation of the V12.
That might mean something exciting in electrification is about ready to debut. We've seen the sort of thing Lamborghini has in mind there, with the Sian combining a twelve-cylinder gas engine with electric drive. Earlier this year, a new roadmap for the company confirmed that would spawn a hybrid series production car in 2023, built in far greater numbers than the Sian coupe of which only 63 were produced.
By the end of 2024, Lamborghini says, its entire range will be electrified in some way. In the second half of the decade we'll see its first, fully-electric model – the fourth in its line-up, Lamborghini suggests – and described as "the brightest star in the constellation."
Will the new Countach be a hybrid or full-electric? Lamborghini certainly hasn't been afraid of big promises and sky-high technology – the surprising Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept was evidence of that – and it might just take a familiar name to help bring the raging bull into a brave new world of electrification. Still, a hybrid seems more likely given the timelines for an EV, and it's not hard to imagine this new Countach debuting at the upcoming Monterey Car Week 2021, which kicks off next week.
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CNC: Chapter 48
Candleman Festival (End)
Old Yu sighed with relief in his heart while observing the young mother's every move from the corner of his eye.
He used 'empathy' and patience instead of aggression.
The young mother clenched her fists. Her joints turned white and her veins bulged, giving the illusion that she was crushing the candy.
She didn't say anything, and Old Yu pretended to be patient by lighting a cigarette. It was just that he frequently glanced at his watch out of the corner of his eye.
The minute hand moved once. It was 8:54.
In order to hide his irritability and anxiety, he lit the cigarette in his mouth and the rising smoke hid his expression.
He wanted to say something else, but reason and emotional strategy told him to shut up.
Another minute passed and it was 8:55. The flames on the altar burned higher and higher, and Old Yu's puffs of the cigarette were much faster.
Ash fell, but the lady in front of him stood still like a statue.
Old Yu knew she was having the most intense inner struggle in her life and he looked at the time again. It was 8:56.
Every minute felt like a century. He secretly prayed that he could live for another century.
The bustling festive cheers around them were like crackling cannonballs, blowing up their anxieties. In the midst of the noise and torment, Old Yu waited for the woman in front of him to make a decision, just like waiting for the final judgment.
Finally, he saw the hope of survival at 8:57.
The young mother opened her five fingers and faced the warm and damp candy. She took a deep breath and used the greatest courage and cruelty of her life to open the candy wrapper.
It was just that her hands kept shaking and she couldn't open the plain candy packaging at all.
Old Yu finally couldn't stay calm. He spat out the cigarette onto the ground and held out his hand to the other person. "I'll help you."
In three minutes, Rui Rui would be used as the candle wick to light the giant candle and all of them would be turned into human wax in the overwhelming candlelight, staying in this unfortunate festival forever.
"I'll help you get it open," Old Yu repeated it again. He didn't even notice it himself, but his outstretched hand was trembling.
The young mother hesitated for a moment over whether to give the candy to Old Yu or not.
Old Yu quickly tore open the wrapping paper. The so-called regret medicine inside looked like milk candy, and even smelled of sweet milk.
The young mother turned her back, not wanting to see the tragic situation of her daughter on the altar. Her hand shook as she raised the medicine to her lips. She remembered that Rui Rui liked this type of candy the most…
Old Yu, Xia Wei, and Dyson Sen watched her nervously, holding their breath and waiting for the last moment to come.
The noise around them disappeared, and the passage of time also disappeared. They were just waiting for the swallowing action of the woman in front of them.
Only Chi Nan watched the giant candle on the altar.
"Don't eat it. The giant candle is starting to melt." At the critical moment, Chi Nan's still eyes flashed with subtle waves and his voice was a bit louder than usual.
The young mother immediately stopped swallowing and spat out the regret medicine. Old Yu's tense nerves snapped in an instant and he became anxious. "Hey! What are you doing? Why…"
He didn't know whether to scold the woman in front of him or Chi Nan. Then he followed Chi Nan's gaze to look in the direction of the altar and was stunned.
The facial features of the giant candle and the scars carved by exquisite knife work started to seep blood. Streams of blood flowed one by one down the amber wax column, and it started to decay and collapse from the inside out!
During the last two minutes of the countdown, the wax melted!
In an instant, Xia We's body wasn't sore or painful. He couldn't suppress his ecstasy as he waved his one hand in a cheer. "We succeeded! The method of starving the shadows to death succeeded!"
The giant candle melted and decayed at an extremely quick speed. In an instant, its facial features had blurred and melted. Blood flowed from its shapeless limbs. The sticky liquid quickly drowned the entire altar and extinguished the large brazier under Rui Rui's body.
At the same time, as if inspired by some mysterious force, the surrounding NPCs participating in the celebration started to become restless. They slammed into the altar like crazy, like bulls provoked by a matador. They kept slamming into the barrier.
"It seems that these NPCs can help us break the barrier of the altar," Chi Nan said while looking at the crowd of people flocking to the altar. He hit the head of an NPC who was about to pounce on him.
"Remember to spread open your arms and put your fist to your chest to protect yourself! Protect your chest to ensure your breathing! Don't fall to the ground!" Old Yu shouted to everyone as he blocked his chest with his arms to prevent himself from dying in the stampede.
The sound of human flesh hitting the barrier continued to be heard in front of Chi Nan. His ears were roaring and the shouts of Old Yu were gradually drowned out.
Chi Nan's body was thin due to always being sick. He was accidentally separated from the group after being hit by several waves of people. His chest and back were hit, and Ye Chang's glasses fell out from the pocket of his jacket.
The surroundings were obviously very noisy, but Chi Nan seemed to hear the sound of the lenses shattering.
He froze and instinctively made an action of bending down to pick it up. Before he could bend down, a white figure passed through the chaos of the crowd. This figure seemed unaffected by the impact of the crowd as he bent down in front of Chi Nan, picked up the cracked glasses, and wiped the ash on the glasses with a corner of his clothes.
It happened in a matter of moments and time seemed to stand still.
He put the broken glasses back into Chi Nan's jacket pocket and smiled briefly. "Don't lose them again."
The crowd rushed by. Chi Nan was stunned until Old Yu hit him on the back. "What are you doing in a daze? Let's go! Get out!"
Chi Nan's mind returned and he found that the young mother's body was covered with molten human wax and blood. She had already rescued Rui Rui from the altar and was carrying her daughter on her shoulders as she rushed out with them against the flow of people.
"F*k, why are these NPCs alienated?"
Xia Wei screamed. The NPCs around him suddenly rolled up their sleeves and rushed at him angrily. Fortunately, they ran quickly, or they would've been beaten to meat paste by this group of zombie NPCs.
Chi Nan looked over at the volunteer exhibition hall at the edge of the square. "Go to the exhibition hall. The residents of Candleman Town don't dare to go there."
"Yes, yes, run!"
At Chi Nan's reminder, the group started to run wildly like outlaws toward the exhibition hall. On the way, everyone broke out their most powerful running potential. Even the previously unstable Xia Wei could be called a living tiger at this moment.
The young mother held Rui Rui and killed a bloody path with the gun in her hand. In order for her daughter to survive, she released a combat power that even she didn't dare to believe and led the remaining four people into the exhibition hall.
Facts proved that Chi Nan's speculation was correct. None of the NPCs dared to get one step closer to the exhibition hall. The group immediately closed the door after entering, isolating the light and noise behind the heavy iron door.
Chi Nan had never done such intense exercise after entering this body. At this moment, the corners of his eyes were red due to a lack of oxygen and he was instinctively teary.
The candles in the exhibition hall were extinguished by Ye Chang the day before and no one dared to turn on a torch without permission. This meant no one could see his tears in the darkness where they couldn't even see their fingers in front of them.
Xia Wei sat down by the door without restraint and whimpered and cried. "F*k, I really thought I was dead."
He wiped away his tears with his only remaining hand. "We destroyed the giant candle. It should be a pass, right?"
Everyone might be looking forward to it in their hearts, but no one gave him a positive answer. They didn't want to set up a flag once they said this.
"What's next?" Xia Wei saw that everyone wasn't talking and asked again.
Chi Nan answered, "Once the candle people outside are completely melted, we should be able to go out."
He finally recovered from the lack of oxygen from strenuous running and his voice returned to the calmness of the past. It was completely devoid of any happiness or fear.
Xia Wei raised his hand to point between his eyebrows before moving them to both shoulders in a prayer gesture. "I'll pray for us."
The exhibition hall soon sank into darkness and silence. Old Yu looked at the time. It was past the 9 o'clock of the Candleman Festival and they were still alive.
He let out a sigh of relief.
In addition to Xia Wei, a woman's crying was heard in the darkness.
"Mom, why are you crying?" Ru Rui put her arm around the young mother's neck and rubbed her bloody neck against her mother's equally bloody face. "Who bullied you?"
The young mother shook her head, tears rolling down with the movements. The trembling of her shoulders became more and more unstoppable. "No, Mom isn't crying. What do I have to cry about?"
She almost rudely wiped the tears from her face with her hands, but the tears were like open floodgates. The more she wiped, the more they came out. "Your mother is just happy, not sad. I'm very happy that you're still here."
Rui Rui smiled, raised her head, and kissed her mother's bloody eyelids. "Of course I am here. I said I would protect you."
"Yes, Mom knows…you never lie…you'll protect Mom…"
Rui Rui suddenly turned her head and spoke to Dyson Sen, who was lost in the darkness like a ghost. "Sister, don't bully my mother in the future."
Dyson Sen, whose awakening value was too high right now, was stunned for a moment. She stared across the darkness at Rui Rui, who was still alive and well, and didn't speak.
Rui Rui sighed, took out her lucky candy from her pocket, and handed one to Dyson Sen. "Sister, if you eat my candy then you aren't allowed to bully my mother anymore."
Dyson Sen's body was visibly shaking and it took her a moment to take the sugar from Rui Rui's hand.
She didn't speak. There was just the rustling sound of the candy wrapper being opened. After a while, Dyson Sen's low and hoarse voice was heard. "It is so sweet…"
She finally raised her head and spoke to Rui Rui, who was covered in blood and wax. "I'm sorry."
At this moment, she finally calmed down and her soaring awakening value slowly decreased.
Rui Rui replied with an angelic smile, "If I was you, I might've done the same thing. Still, I accept your apology for my mother."
On the side, Old Yu was idle so he took advantage of the moment to ask the question he was curious about, "Chi Nan, tell me the truth. Who is Ye Chang?"
He instinctively put a cigarette in his mouth, but didn't light it out of caution.
Chi Nan lowered his eyes and replied truthfully, "A dream maker. You know him too."
Old Yu paused in his smoking action. "What? How can I know any dream maker?"
Chi Nan told him, "The dream maker of You Yu's Dream."
"Well, he only met you alone at that time. We don't know each other. I can only say that I unfortunately enjoyed his dream." Old Yu sighed. "It turns out that a dream maker opened another identity to experience the dreams of his peers. I said that Ye Chang wasn't like ordinary sleepwalkers."
"…Is this common in the Nightmare World?"
Old Yu raised an eyebrow. "It isn't common. I've never heard of it. It is the first time I've seen it."
Chi Nan: "……"
Xia Wei sighed emotionally. "Wow, I like this dream maker. I really want to try his nightmare when I have a chance."
Old Yu sneered. "His shadow made you disabled. Are you okay? What is wrong with this Stockholm Syndrome?"
Xia Wei smiled without caring. "My tolerance is relatively high for good-looking teammates. What can I do if they look so good?"
Old Yu was stunned. "Is this a teammate? F*king wake up…"
Xia Wei refuted it, "What's wrong with being a dream maker? It is fine as long as he is pleasing to the eyes…f*k? What is this? What is this earthquake?"
The entire exhibition hall started to shake violently. The gravel and rubble fell down, and Xia Wei got up from the ground in fright. "Or are those zombie NPCs ready to attack here?"
Old Yu's face wasn't anxious. "It should be that the nightmare is about to collapse."
The originally invisible ceiling of the exhibition hall suddenly burst with a strong white light. For a moment, everyone couldn't open their eyes. Even if they closed their eyes, they could feel the scorching light. Only Chi Nan wasn't afraid to crack his eyes open a bit. In the strong light that could almost melt people's senses, he saw countless black fragments rising, melting, and disappearing in the direction of the light.
Chi Nan couldn't see clearly, but he could feel the shadows on the fragments of the ghost wall evaporating and rising in the strong light. The souls of those trapped in Candleman Town had regained their freedom.
The moment the light stopped, the exhibition hall and the entire Candleman Town disappeared. All the sleepwalkers were on a deserted railway platform with the words 'Candleman Town' written on it. They all had tickets to the Dawn Base in their pockets.
Old Yu whistled cheerfully. "The instance has been smoothly cleared."
Xia Wei, who was sitting on the ground, propped himself up from the ground using his hands, his face full of disbelief. "My hand…my hand…!"
He quickly pulled up the sleeve of his left hand. The hand that had originally turned to blood appeared in front of him in an intact manner. His voice was so excited that it was hoarse and he kept squeezing his hand to confirm it. "I'm not a disabled 0, I am fine! It really recovered!"
The wounds on the young mother and Rui Rui also disappeared without a trace. Everyone looked the same as when they first entered the nightmare.
Old Yu saw Xia Wei's cheerful expression and laughed happily. "The instance is like this. Don't even think about taking things away from the dream. Wounds and diseases can't be taken away."
He paused before the corners of his lips lowered. "However, the nightmare can take so many things from us. It is quite unreasonable."
For example, their most precious lives. This time, only six out of ten sleepwalkers remained.
To be precise, it was seven. After all, the dream maker's other identity Ye Chang wasn't a sacrifice.
Chi Nan instinctively confirmed that the glasses in his pocket were still there, as well as the candle person.
He was relieved.
"Uncle Yu, do the sleepwalkers have a way to meet a dream maker?" Chi Nan picked up Ye Chang's broken glasses and curiously placed them on the bridge of his nose. It was as if he was getting to know the Nightmare World again from Ye Chang's point of view.
Oh, it was flat except that the lenses were cracked. His vision became fragmented.
He looked through Ye Chang's lens and added, "The type where an appointment is designated."
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Was it the candle person who picked the glasses?? And i was suspecting that maybe Xia Wei's injury might heal after the instance! And oof are they gonna meet? Exciting!


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'Doctor Who' thing of the day: is the U.S. government in possession of TARDIS blueprints?
So, anything else you wanna know while I'm in there? Launch codes, defense plans, TARDIS blueprints?
I had to rewind and listen again to be sure I head that right.
This suggests either one of two possibilities. Either Doctor Who is a show enjoyed by the fine geeks of the town of Eureka — just as we already know that Battlestar Galactica is a geek-favorite in the Eureka universe, as it is in ours. Or else the Doctor has visited Eureka and there was some DoD involvement or connection with his visit.


Everybody needs a hobby. I am a collector.
I just made it to slide implant technology. I was in my nineties when nanojuve came out, over 100 when I got my Slide implant. What I do is, I buy a small piece of jewelry. Then I walk around downtown Cleveland, using the View option to study a random timeline as far up the 300 year Masterson asymptote as I can get (usually at least a quarter millennium). I look for an empty alley so no one will see me Slide. Of course if I just see charred rubble or something, I View a different timeline. When I get there, I hunt out a pawnshop and pawn the jewelry. Then I look for a bookstore. They are getting tough to find, with readers replacing books in most timelines within reach (and my reader is non-compatible), there are enough bibliophiles in a big city like Cleveland to make one or two flourish. Then I buy a reference almanac or other "guide to modern history" with the money from the pawnshop. Some timelines are using biometric money, but I can usually still do cash, even if it gets me funny looks. I then slide back home with the book and change. I put the change in the coin and currency folders in my closet and the book in my bookshelf.
At first Cleveland had various names (once it was called "Smithburg"), then soon it was called "Cleaveland", after Moses Cleveland (I go to a Point of Divergence before we changed our name). Lately people have started noticing that I am a Slider…my accent is off, or some point of ignorance in conversation. They ask if I am a "Jumper" or some other such word for sideways in time traveler (never "Slider"…they are lucky enough never to have had that TV show). I know Masterson was a prodigy, but when it is time for telephones, you get telephones (Elisha Gray submitted his patent the same day Alexander Graham Bell did). Before they just thought I was a foreigner.
I have learned a huge amount of history. For example, I have yet to find a timeline where nuclear weapons were never used in anger, or one where a man landed on the moon before we did (and usually well after). My first book was from a timeline with a French Louisiana bisecting the United States, my newest is from a timeline where a Mormon nation called Deseret fills the Great Basin.
It's been fun. Everyone needs a hobby. I am a collector.


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I've been looking at the Bugera 1960 for a minute. When I went to purchase, A hefty price increase had been added. I suspect we are going to see a lot more of this in the US due to trade policies.
I am back in Oregon from the dirty D (Denver). Boy am I glad to be back home.


Thanks to a group of trusty, over excited Playstation nerds (sorry, 'users') the soundtrack for the highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto V has been leaked. Not only is it going to be one of the biggest games of this generation, but is nicely furnished with a strong selection of music available through the in-game radio stations.
More importantly, Belgium's icons Soulwax has been given their very own station. Other big names featured throughout the stations include Gesaffelstein, Tiga and Green Velvet. Rockstar have made a selection spreading over a wide number of genres that should be keeping everyone happy.
The tracklist has been formed from a 20-30 hour leaked audio so it would have taken some time for those dedicated enough to identify and list each song ahead of the games release September 17th.
Gesaffelstein just shared a snippet of new music!


Thousands of L.A. residents paid their final respects as Nipsey Hussle's procession drove through the city one last time.
LOS ANGELES — Nipsey Hussle's Celebration of Life, attended by thousands Thursday, featured tributes from some of the world's biggest names.
Former President Barrack Obama penned a heartfelt letter, which was read from the stage; Snoop Dog held back emotion speaking of the fellow rapper; Stevie Wonder sang.
But it took Hussle's heartbroken brother and best friend Samiel Asghedom to truly show the depth of pain and loss since the Grammy-nominated rapper was shot and killed March 31.
"You made the world proud," said Asghedom from the stage at the Staples Center, feet away from his younger brother's flower-covered casket.
Asghedom's stories Thursday were priceless and profound, relating how Hussle, at 12, started bringing home computer parts and laying them out on their shared bedroom floor. At first the older brother scoffed at the idea of building a computer. But Hussle persevered.
There were tales of toughness, as Asghedom related being knocked out cold in a fight with neighborhood bullies, and came to consciousness to see Hussle in battle. "Bro held it down while I was out, for sure," he said.
But it was the story of a brilliant, magnetic businessman who gave back to his community that fully emerged. Asghedom highlighted Hussle's Marathon Clothing line, set up in the same strip mall where the aspiring performer used to sell his CDs. The corner of Slauson and Crenshaw, where the store stands, is now hallowed ground and a powerful symbol.


You can find estimates for Tesla Model 3 production left, right, and center these days. What's nice is when you can find an estimate from people with a good track record, people who did a good job estimating sales in previous months and quarters. When those estimates are based on solid, robust data, all the better.
Before going further, though, remember that quarter 3 (Q3) ends at the end of September, not the end of August. Anything can happen in one month, so any production estimates at this point are soft estimates based on a variety of assumptions. The production estimate from the source* I'm referencing for this article changes on a daily basis. Since I've been watching it closely, it's been gradually climbing, but if Tesla runs into production problems or slows production for any reason for a couple of days, the estimate could potentially drop.
As one more note before getting to the core of the news (since I love to bury the lede), notice that the accuracy of the source's Q1 estimate was 98.4% and the accuracy of its Q2 estimate was 96%. That's one reason I say this is a solid source. Another reason is that the estimates are based on VINs from Tesla buyers, VINs from the NHTSA, and public Tesla data — not unicorn flatulence.
If you like to cross-check sources and estimates, now might be a good time. You can see in that screenshot above that this team estimates 74,029 Model 3s have been produced since July 2017. Another popular source, Bloomberg, estimates that there have been 80,383 Model 3s produced by now. In other words, the 51,821 estimate for Q3 is based on data and/or calculations that are considerably more conservative than the Bloomberg Model 3 production tracker's data and/or calculations. If you trust Bloomberg's numbers more, you may be inclined to blow past Tesla's guidance of 50,000–55,000 Model 3s in Q3.
If you do some simple calculations using those charts, you can see that the team is estimating approximately 18,000 Model 3s will be produced in September, just a bit more than the 17,008 it estimates for August and the 16,599 it estimated for July.
The last chart of the article covers Tesla's quarterly sales. It's a sort of mind-blowing chart.
That's a dramatic boost in Tesla production in just the past 5 years. And remember, every step along the way, critics claimed — often quite loudly — that Tesla couldn't produce significantly more cars than it was producing at the time, that demand wasn't there anyway, and that the sky is neon orange (you're just not looking closely enough). It appears all three claims have been incorrect.
As just one more reminder, the estimates above are based on historical data. Since September hasn't even arrived, we have yet to see how production will progress in the last ⅓ of the quarter. The estimate could continue to climb — as has been happening in recent weeks — or it could drop. If it changes significantly in the coming weeks, I will publish an update.


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With one the largest, oldest, and most extensive public transit systems in the nation, concerns over safety are nothing new to the resident of Chicago. Railway safety, in particular, has become an increasingly concerning problem in recent years. Train-to-train collisions, rail crossing accidents, derailment, plat-form jumping—train component failures and operating errors—speeding, switch position mistakes, door opening issues—the list goes on and on. The Train Injury Attorneys of Zneimer & Zneimer P.C. take note of recent developments in Metra's ongoing efforts to prevent accidents and close-call incidents—Installation of Control Systems and Union approval to launch a Confidential Reporting Program.
Perhaps the most significant safety enhancement is Metra's announcement on Wednesday of its approval of an $80 million contract that will aide in implementing a high-tech control system—PTC. The PTC technology, short for 'positive train control,' is a system that relies mainly on GPS navigation to monitor train movements, including location, speed, positioning. It can identify work zones, potential hazards, as well as other issues that may lead to collisions or other railway incidents. The data gathered by PTC technologies is then used to control the train's functioning.
The need to incorporate PTC technology extends from decades of research and data identifying the correlation between human error and train accident causation, eventually leading to the U.S. Railway Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The Act imposed a 2015 deadline for the installation of PTC systems throughout the nation, but a bill introduced last month seeks to extend this deadline to 2020. As train injury lawyers, we are pleased to see Metra taking action to implement this federally mandated system, and are optimistic to see the impact that current funding for PTC will have on improving railway safety.
Metra's PTC implementation announcement, comes less than a week following union and FRA approval of a 'Confidential Close-call Reporting System.' Referred to as a "whistleblower-type program" by the Tribune, the system will allow crew members to confidentially report close-call incidents, unsafe conditions, and operating rule violations to an independent third-party agency. By using a confidential system, Metra hopes to increase incident reporting, by reducing hesitancies to report caused by fear of reprimand, suspension, or retaliation from other employees. In a statement by Metra released earlier this month,
"[t]he goal is to collect data about close calls that otherwise would have gone unreported or underreported, and to use that data to identify safety hazards and take steps to correct them before an accident occurs. Those corrective steps could include new or better training, physical changes, changes to safety rules or changes to operating rules."
The launch of this program is expected to improve Metra's safety culture, which the FRA identified as a key concern in its October 2014 assessment recommendations, following three separate incidents that occurred in less than a 2-week period between May 27th and June 3rd. While both the PTC and reporting system are certainly significant improvements, Metra still has a long way to go in terms of improving overall safety. These improvements only address two of the seven specific safety concerns identified by FRA last October. The remaining five include:
Empower conductors to prioritize the safety of operations over collecting fares, on-time performance and customer service;
Ensure heightened crew interactions during higher risk operations;
Establish new procedures to strengthen the flow of information between operating lines and Metra headquarters;
Add technical skills training for managers;
Add safety measures and procedures that would provide a level of safety redundancy to protect crossover movements
As train injury attorneys, we support Metra's efforts to enhance safety and minimize risks, through improving railway technologies and encouraging good work ethic amongst its crew members. We look forward to seeing the effect that these programs will have on reducing rail incidents along Chicago's Metra in the coming years.
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The Thames Clippers riverbus service which links SE1's Bankside and London Bridge City piers with Canary Wharf has a more secure future thanks to a financial package announced earlier this month by Ken Livingstone.
The first financial package to secure the future of river services was announced jointly by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Stephen O'Brien of London First.
The Thames Clippers service which operates daily from Savoy Pier to Masthouse Terrace on the Isle of Dogs via Blackfriars, Bankside, London Bridge, St Katharine's, Greenland and Canary Wharf will receive a £3m subsidy from Transport for London over a 10 year period and £1m of private sector sponsorship from London First over the next 5 years. The high speed catamaran service has been running for three years and carries 1500 passengers a day.
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said: "I'm delighted that we've been able to secure the long term future of this service. I want to see more people using the river for commuting but services have to be reliable to achieve this. The funding announced today will ensure that this service remains reliable, a delight to use and highly regarded by its regular passengers".
The deal comes after Transport for London invited bids to operate riverbus services and will secure the existing service and provide an additional back up boat to guarantee reliability.
Thames Clippers Chairman Alan Woods said: "We have had four years hard slog, and never lost faith that a river commuter service would work, the punctual timetable has been excellent in view of our previous limited resources and now with a spare boat, Star Clipper, we look forward to storming ahead. Congratulations to MD Sean Collins and his team and also to Stephen O'Brien and the Mayor for giving the service support when it was needed."
Thames Clippers also operates the Tate to Tate service linking Bankside Pier with Millbank via the London Eye. The company also plans a link to the Excel centre in the Royal Docks during major trade shows, with a stop at Festival Pier for travellers arriving by Eurostar at Waterloo.


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New dietary guidelines from the USDA and Department of Health and Human Services are supposed to tell you what to eat. But they are already getting hammered by critics who say they are muddled and confusing, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
More fruit and vegetables, less sugar and limited saturated fat - those are the key dietary recommendations from the government.
But New York University professor of nutrition Marion Nestle says there's something missing in the message, and that junk food industries should consider these guidelines a win.
"Because there's no direct messaging in the dietary guidelines that says don't eat junk food, don't eat processed food, don't eat meat, don't drink sodas," Professor Nestle said.
The government's dietary guidelines affect everything from food labeling to the national school lunch program, which serves more than 30 million kids every day.
For the first time, the government added recommended limits on sugar, but Professor Nestle said pressure from the food industry has watered down the guidelines.
Instead of saying, 'don't drink soda,' she points out the guidelines say less than 10 percent of calories should come from added sugars.
And instead of 'eat less meat,' they say less than 10 percent of your diet should come from saturated fats.
"The meat industry does not want the American government saying 'eat less meat'. That's un-American!" Nestle said.
Yet another example of the outsized influence of corporations on American life.
Soda? Oh my God. That is so, so, so, offensive to all people who like sugar! You soeak as though sugar is making people fat when we all know it's just that they have "big bones".
eddie wrote: Soda? Oh my God. That is so, so, so, offensive to all people who like sugar! You soeak as though sugar is making people fat when we all know it's just that they have "big bones".
Oh no! I didn't mean to do that! I shall immediately make a large donation to the Society for the Protection of the Feelings of the Big-Boned!
Look, it's quite simple. Anything you enjoy eating is bad for you.
Who's going to work out all these percentages anyway?


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Satan Must Run His Course?
There is a prevalent belief amongst Christians that we should not even try to fight the New World Order because "Satan must run his course." I couldn't DISAGREE more. Folks, we are supposed to stand against ALL forms of wrong doing, not just what appeals to us. The Bible clearly commands us to REPROVE the works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11, "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."). There is much ignorance amongst God's children about the Bill of Rights and our duties as patriotic American citizens. We have a legal right to PROTEST our government when they violate our Bill of Rights.
When the U.S. Constitution was written by the government and presented to the American people, many citizens were concerned about the way it was written. The American people demanded that the Constitution be AMENDED (changed) to protect the people's rights. Those first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution became known as the people's Bill of Rights. What's happening in America today is that most U.S. citizens are sitting idle while our Bill of Rights is being violated. The Patriot Act eviscerates large sections of the Bill of Rights. Why are the churches silent? It is the Bill of Rights that protects out religious freedoms.
"All patriotic Americans are alarmed when people remain seated during the playing of the National Anthem. One fellow mentioned to me that he was at a ballgame. The person next to him did not stand during the playing of the National Anthem. My friend grabbed him by the collar, jerked him up and said, "You stand up, fellow, while our National Anthem is being played!" Whether or not this is the action all of us would have taken, it is the action that all true Americans would like to take!"
-Pastor Jack Hyles, (taken from Dr. Hyles' excellent book, Teaching On Preaching, chapter fifteen).
Any "true" American would get mad when someone disrespects or hurts our own nation. No one has hurt and disrespected America anymore than the criminal thugs in Washington. Trillions of dollars are unaccounted for. Tens-of-thousands of people have been killed in a senseless war for oil and power in Iraq. The children of American citizens have died to pay the price, and another 25,000 have been injured or crippled. The war on Drugs is a scam, our own CIA is escorting the illegal drugs into the country. Afghanistan will produce a bumper crop of heroin-producing opium worth an estimated 2.3 billion dollars this year alone. This is the country that we liberated from the Taliban? I don't think so! There is no war on illiteracy, the entire educational system is controlled by the devil, deliberately dumbing-down the children, training them instead of educating them, to work as slaves for the New World Order, with no encouragement to think for themselves. You'll never learn in any public school that it was American corporations that funded Hitler's war machine.
I get doggone mad as I see American manufacturing jobs fleeing the country at record levels, to exploit the poor in third world nations, so the CEO's can get even richer along with their accomplices in Washington, who have betrayed the trust of the American public. It's evil! It's unpatriotic! What the last four presidential administrations have done to America makes Benedict Arnold look like a patriot. I get so sick of hearing Christian people praise Ronald Reagan. Folks, it was Ronald Reagan who signed Operation Garden Plot into law. It was Ronald Reagan who lifted the ban on Astrology in California ( August 30th,1974). Reagan was up to his ears with illegal drug-smuggling, the contra-affair, and the exporting of American jobs oversees while president. Hi wife practiced witchcraft in the White House. It was in 1988 that General Motors closed up shop in Flint Michigan, fired 30,000 U.S. citizens, and headed for Mexico to pay a whopping $0.70 an hour to slave laborers. Flint Michigan died, masses of citizens ended up on welfare, crime soared, but General Motors and the Washington politicians prospered during the Reagan administration. I won't even go into the Bush crime family or the Clinton's, I might vomit again.
I believe in America and patriotism. We should love our country. We should obey the government TO A DEGREE. Many Christians have a blind loyalty to their government, Hitler would have been proud of you. Only God deserves our blind loyalty. Romans thirteen commands us to obey the "higher powers." God is a higher power than any government on earth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded by God to allow a government to abuse or enslave us. If we allow a few billionaires to control us, then we are idiots. No one is going to tell me I can't preach against homosexuality. No one is going to tell me I have to receive a biometric implant (it's coming). The National ID Cards are being implemented now as a Trojan Horse for much worse (like RFID chips)! No one is going to tell me that I can't quote the Bible in public. No one is going to tell me I can't go soulwinning. No one is going to force my children to be mentally-screened. No one is going to take away my Bill of Rights.
I don't have a problem with a guy at a ballgame getting upset with someone for not standing during the national anthem; however, I DO have a problem with churches all across America who don't get upset when our government GIVES AWAY OUR NATIONAL PARKS (executive order 12630). Now think about the guy getting mad at the ballgame. Ok! Now think about your government giving the United Nations control over OUR land. If you're not steaming mad, you are not a true American! I am mad. We need to start a bunch of new organizations in this country...Mothers Against Crooked Politicians...Mothers Against Homosexuality...Fathers Against Abortion...Fathers Against The Federal Reserve Bank (which is guaranteeing that our children and their children will inherit a bankrupt nation).
"Satan must run his course" you say? Yes, but don't you dare use that as an excuse to shirk aside your patriotic duties, and your Christian responsibilities to REPROVE the works of darkness. Yes, we must go soulwinning as our top priority, but we must also take An UNCOMPROMISING STAND against the wickedness of our day. This is what Billy Sunday did, and what we should be doing. We must be blameless and harmless as Christians, not rendering evil for evil. Yet, we must stand for truth and righteousness or else we WILL LOSE OUR FREEDOMS.
It is wrong for any Christian to shirk aside his Christian obligations. Perhaps you feel that since you cannot stop what is going on...why bother? Perhaps you believe that it makes no sense to try to stop events which the Bible prophesied were going to happen. Such reasoning is cowardly and irresponsible. All across America, Christian people in our churches are praising the president and dare not criticize the government. After all, isn't this of God? If God is doing all this, then maybe we shouldn't get involved, right? Can you show me one verse in the entire Bible to support such lame reasoning? No you cannot! We are commanded to reprove the works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11). We are commanded to FIGHT the good FIGHT of faith (1st Timothy 6:12). We are supposed to stand up against evil doers (Psalm 94:16). I find NOT one Scripture in the entire Bible teaching that we're supposed to IGNORE the evils which are so prevalent in our government and society.
I'm not kidding, I know Christians who believe that since Satan is the god of this world that we should not get involved with worldly affairs. Folks, we are losing our freedom and our country! Are you so loony that you are just going to sit back and allow the government to set up a police state right under your nose? You're not even going to try to fight the corruption? Do you know what is pathetically sad? The average church won't lift a finger to fight the good fight of faith until they lose their tax-exemption (then they'll fight 'til the death). Is that all that the cross of Jesus Christ has become, a dollar sign? When a local pastor feared that his church would be required to start paying property taxes, he rallied hundreds of his church members to go with him down to city-hall to protest. Would to God that we hated sin enough to do the same about abortion, homosexuality, gambling, booze, and a host of other evils.
Although the eventual ascendancy of the Antichrist to a position of global power is inevitable, the ascendancy of Communism is certainly not. Every day that Communism's march toward global hegemony is retarded is, in Christian terms, another day to rescue a few more souls from Satan's grasp and in political terms, another day to live in that uniquely gentle form of freedom found only in America.


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Trump's Zealots: White Supremacists and Evangelicals Gearing up for a New Civil War?
By: Gilbert Mercier
Social Distancing = Communism: this is the ideological angle of Trump's most belligerent storm-troopers. | Photo: Gilbert Mercier
What the gun-toting, Trump 2020 and Confederate-flag waving Trump have been organized and likely paid to do, is to make sure the U.S. goes back to work as soon as possible.
Let us not be naive. If President Trump recently called on his adoring followers to "liberate" states like Michigan, Virginia, Maryland, and Minnesota, which all happen to have Democrat governors, this is not about freeing people from the supposed tyranny of lockdown and social distancing measures. What the gun-toting, Trump 2020 and Confederate-flag waving Trump storm-troopers have been organized and likely paid to do, is to make sure the United States goes back to work as soon as possible. Naturally, this is despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging in all 50 states, at various levels, with no end in sight.
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The rush to "open America back for business" is an imperative dictated by Wall Street corporations large and small and, last but not least, Trump's desperate attempt to be reelected in November. For Trump, it is likely to be a futile effort to find a way out of the massive global economic crisis. This is, of course, a symptom of capitalism's borderline criminal logic that the survival of the economy and the financial markets should matter more than human life. Capitalism is a ruthlessly blind killer that has always favored, in times of war or peace, profit over people.
Civil War Redux: The United States of Trumpistan?
Technically the American Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. But after 155 years, the war between the Confederate states and the North lives in the American psyche. The dark stain of the racism that embraced slavery and inherent superiority of white men has faded somewhat but is still there. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 made it okay for it to be openly shown again without any of the shame of appearing politically incorrect. Trumpistan is more or less the rebirth of the old Confederacy. It is anchored in geography but is mostly a state of mind.
Trumpistan is America's barely told heart of darkness from another era, which pillared the gun and the Bible. It is a state of mind so schizophrenic that the sanctity of the life of the unborn does not contradict the near worship for the US military war machine. Trumpistan is where Donald Trump won the 2016 election. He is planning to do it again in November 2020 regardless of his poor handling of the COVID-19 crisis, and the economic crash. Trump is a political animal concerned only with his survival. One can expect from him and his sycophants an absolute ruthlessness in the coming months. Trump and the money and media apparatus that supports him are counting on and investing in two different segments connected to reliable voting blocks: first, the fascist "rebel flag" nostalgic heirs of the Confederacy; second the Evangelical Christians.
Fascist White Supremacists: Capitalism's Foot Soldiers
During the recent protests in Michigan against the lockdown and stay-home state policies, one protester's sign read: "Social Distancing = Communism." This is the ideological angle of Trump's most belligerent storm-troopers. It is about galvanizing the conservatism electorate into believing that run-of-the-mill mainstream corporate Democrats are the fifth column of socialism's radical left. The fallacy is enormous, but through history, propaganda 101's rule of thumb has always been that the bigger the lie, the more likely gullible people will swallow it whole, no questions asked. Who exactly is behind the supposed grassroots protests by the so-called patriots? At the forefront of it — and he was omnipresent with a bullhorn in hands in Austin, Texas, on April 17 — is Trump's underground propagandist, InfoWars' Alex Jones. Alex Jones was more instrumental than anyone would like to admit in Trump's 2016 election win.
While InfoWars and other more obscure far-right websites have been activated, one can only speculate about the deep pockets behind what appears to be a rather complex and concerted strategy to undermine Democrat-controlled states. Mercer's hedge fund, the financial entity behind Breitbart has been mentioned, as well as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who is a billionaire, a creationist like Vice President Pence and, last but not least, the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince. DeVos and Mercer can only be called alleged sponsors of the "reopen America patriots," because so far no tangible money trails have materialized, and it is likely to remain that way. Regardless of the ideological smokescreen, the action is a desperate effort to jolt a moribund economy. The pragmatics in Trump's inner circle know that it's the economy, stupid! and that, with 30 to 40 million people unemployed, Trump will not win his reelection bid.
Evangelical Christians
The Evangelical Christian component of Trump's core support might not be as monolithic as the above group and like it was a few years ago. Quite a few sincere Evangelicals have seen the light shining on Trump's hypocrisy, lies, and misdeeds. Also, regardless of religious beliefs, it has become hard to forgive the president for his questionable character and the callousness of his behavior, not to mention a vacillating competence and unstable temperament. In this period of fear, where death seems to lurk from everywhere, even believers can appreciate a steady hand guiding the ship. While they are convinced Jesus will save them, their inherent human fiber might make them want to delay their ultimate journey.
Elections in the Times of COVID-19
Everything should be at stake in the upcoming post-COVID-19 U.S. elections in November 2020, but very little will be. Here and elsewhere democracy has been dead so long it has become the shadow of a ghost. Without real alternative visions and new societal options, it will be yet another lesser-of-two-evils scenario. The main precept will be the safekeeping of the global corporate empire enforced by NATO and the U.S. military. It will be another imperial election from which the outcome will be either our modern-day Caligula's second term or Barack Obama's third term. While this mindless charade takes place, many thousands of human lives worldwide will be sacrificed on the altar of global capitalism to try to prevent its imminent collapse.
Gilbert Mercier is the author of The Orwellian Empire. All photographs by Gilbert Mercier.
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This should matter to you because big growth is occurring in Chinese internet stocks.
Compared to U.S. stocks like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, it appears the stock growth potential is far greater, especially over the next twelve months.
I believe the pullback in Chinese stocks in general represents a buying opportunity for these particular stocks.
Even if China experiences a recession in many of its over-leveraged industries, this industry does not share the same burdens.
These stocks are in the mark up stage right now and I believe they are not yet over extended.
The monthly active user base grew 30% last quarter to 340 million users. these stocks are capturing market share and growing at a phenomenal rate. Earnings are way above analyst expectations and the stocks are quickly adjusting to reality.
Investors should take care to buy on dips after news like this. Professionals will take profits on the news.
EARNINGS SURPRISES ARE DRIVING MASSIVE GAINS!
This is really a big deal. The growth ahead could easily rival the growth we have already seen in U.S. internet stocks over the past ten years.
Buy only the best quality stocks. There is plenty of opportunity. Don't speculate on smaller more speculative issues.
Stay with the dominant market leaders.
These stocks are not for the timid. Volatility can be expected to be as much or greater than internet related stocks in the U.S.
All investments have risk. Past performance is no guaranty of future results. This type of investment is not suitable for everyone. This is not personal advice. This is published for informational purposes only. For personal advice call me at 860-963-0722 and I will answer your questions.
This network is being launched on Linked In. The focus will be on intelligence gathered by executives concerning special situations in equities. Executive contacts and specific expertise often have immense value in uncovering exceptional opportunity for investment. During my 48 years in the investment business many of the very best investment opportunities came from my executive clients. I remember back in the late seventies a utilities engineer from New York told me he was buying many millions of shares of Telephonos De Mexico for .125 cents per share paying 10% in dividends. This investment eventually made him extremely wealthy. More recently over the past few months a client asked me to buy a biotech stock that was not heavily covered by brokerage firms and it doubled in a short few months. This was the inspiration for the creation of this network. We are not interested in inside information. We simply seek information about special situation securities that are not receiving Wall Street attention.
Brokerage firms generally advise and follow a limited number of higher priced stocks that are already heavily owned by institutions. They neglect special situations that might be low priced. This is our network's primary interest. We are not looking for penny stocks, but companies with real value and breakthrough opportunities that are not widely known by institutions. We are not looking for short term trades or small gains. We are looking for a potential of 100% gains or more over a period of four to five years. I have found that these opportunities are found in pre IPO investments, IPO's and publicly traded stocks that fall out of favor and find new life based on some triggering event.
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We Hear About This Subject Concerning Social Media And Politics.
It Applies To Investments As Well!
We are all influenced to some degree by media, propaganda and even celebrity opinions. Consider Warren Buffet, Bill Gates or Bill Gross, the bond king.
The most successful thieves are often people who live in mansions, drive a Rolls Royce or a Bentley, live large, entertain the elite and attract others who wish to be part of their circle of influence because of their apparent success. Bernard Madoff is an excellent example. We are all influenced in our desire to be part of the elite. High school attitudes do not end after senior year.
My expertise is in investments and this headline certainly applies concerning investor behavior. I am the founder and president of a small advisory firm named Advisor's Capital Investments, Inc. I started my career at Bache & Co in 1969. Bache was then the second largest brokerage firm next to Merrill Lynch at the time.
Early in my career I learned to think for myself because the average mutual fund declined by about 75% from 1969 to mid 1974. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed at about 540. During the period from 1969 through 1974 I was given a great deal of advice. Most of it was wrong. I watched as wealthy investors lost enormous fortunes especially those who invested using margin.
I found a way to buy out of favor stocks at very low prices. I developed a rules based formula to find the best ones. The results were extremely positive for my clients over a four to ten year period.
For advisors and students of the stock market it is important to determine what is predictable and what is not. Seldom do serious students find the lowest common denominator. Students focus on earnings estimates and valuations. I found the lowest common denominator to be long term cycles in individual stocks and industry sectors. I believe that in all markets, real estate, commodities, and stocks you make your money when you buy. The key to wealth creation is to buy low. The question is how to do this on a consistent basis.
What has all this to do with the headline of this article. I believe a great deal because you need to determine what you believe between two different schools of thought. Whether you are an advisor or an investor you have to make this choice. For advisors the wrong choice make take away your value proposition.
Today, more than ever before investors, even institutions are focused on index investing using mutual funds, ETF's and large stock portfolios designed to track with indexes. If as an advisor you are simply making allocations, you are not adding enough value for your fee. Larger firms will charge less, advertise more, use artificial intelligence and specialized software to connect better with your client and develop a stronger brand to out compete you. At the same time compliance costs will rise ruining you margins.
I believe your opportunity is to take the other side of this argument.
This started back in March of 1973. Burton G. Makriel wrote a book which has become a classic entitled, " A Random Walk Down Wall Street". Professor Makriel explained that mutual fund managers had not performed any better than a random selection of stocks.
What about my own history of stock picking and the rules based approach leading to more consistent substantial long term gains?
In 1978, Raymond Hanson Jr. and I coauthored the book, entitled, "Non Random Profits", a counter thesis to professor Makriel's book. His book was the inspiration for the creation of index funds, but our book would win the argument on facts alone.
The history from 1930 to present is conclusive. Even more recently from January 2003- December 2013 the non random type stock selections outperformed the S&P 500 by about 8 times. The Non Random Profits approach selected 280 stocks that on average rose 10 times in price. If sales were made at extremes the profits would be far higher. This has been the case for over more than eighty years.
The language of truth in investing is mathematics. Most investors have not learned the mathematics of investing and depend on large banks, brokerage firms and well known money managers. They end up buying investments that are heavily owned by institutions at high prices. Yes, during rising markets they make money, but generally do not create wealth.
Fact: 50% of daily market activity is unpredictable.
Growing earnings are an important factor during a bullish stock market trend. However, historically stocks peak a year to a year and a half before earnings peak.
Understanding cycles and investor psychology is most valuable.
Profits are based on the second derivative of investor expectations.
Wealth is created when an under-owned stock is discovered by a number of large institutions. As the issue makes progress more institutions buy. Often the largest emerging stock moves occur before a company has earnings.
The best time to buy this stock was late in 2012 before the stock story was understood and before heavy institutional interest. Why would you buy? Because of Non Random Profits.
Concerning this subject it means that to achieve the maximum result you need to do the work. An example would be the law of the harvest. Planting in good soil in the right season. doing all that must be done to insure fertilizer and rain, protecting the crop from insects and varmints and harvesting in the right season. Doing everything right does not insure success because every good thing is under attack. However over time the odds of success are great.
Investing is the same. If you plant at the harvest season you are likely to lose. If you are not diversified and have no plan for risk control you probably will not fare well either.
Diversification is an intelligent tool, but over diversification reduces profits.
I believe investing in indexes does make sense over a long time. However like the law of the harvest, if you plant in the wrong season and don't do the work of the gardner, history shows you may go twenty years without a profit. In addition over a ten year period you may experience drawdowns several times like in 1987, 2000, and 2008. If you are nearing retirement or become too discouraged you may sell at a low and never recover.
In truth the science of investing is more complicated. An active management approach which is diversified appropriately but not over diversified has advantages. Each asset held can be in an uptrend. Weak issues can be eliminated and a daily plan for risk control on each asset can be maintained. An advisor with a smaller base of assets has an advantage. Institutions call these managers Emerging Managers, but instead of taking more risk they can be more risk adverse. Of course there are a limited number of managers who do this well. The high level of expertise should be observable as positive alpha against a benchmark. The difference between index performance and a manager like this should easily observable over a ten year period.
Many of these managers are not found on investment platforms because of the cost and reduced margins. Managers under $200,000,000 are not easily discovered by other advisors. Some brokerage firms will not allow their advisors to use them.
My firm, Advisor's Capital Investments, Inc seeks to help these emerging firms find advisors who are independent and can use them.
Consider a few examples, one is a professor of biochemistry who has developed a moderate risk portfolio called The Disciplined Equity Portfolio. Over a 10 year period he has performed about 8 times the S&P 500 index with less risk. The manager uses a time-tested approach that includes three major factors related to stock movement: market co variance; industry cycle analysis; and individual investment factors including market leadership. These factors are calculated across major investment sectors. His disciplined decision system and his real time trades have been audited from 2007 through 2014. This is not a recommendation but a discussion about successful emerging managers. For detailed disclosure information send a request to rkmann@aol.com. Of course past performance is no guarantee of future results. Over any given time accounts may incur loss instead of gain.
The best of the emerging managers that I like are more concerned with buying the right value by paying the right price than they are attempting to keep up with the market itself. They believe as I do that you make your money when you buy correctly keeping your risk/reward opportunity calculation in your favor.
A second emerging manager is a bond manager. He buys oversold investment grade bonds at a discount. He focuses on maturities of 3 to 12 years. He is properly diversified and intends to hold each bond to maturity unless the price rises to an extent that capturing the gain is appropriate. He does use margin for accounts that desire double digit cash flow. His minimum account size is $300,000. He believes he can generate index fund type returns over time with less risk. His performance over the past six years shows he is right on target.
A third emerging manager uses Artificial intelligence to manage a diversified portfolio of ETF's. He has reported to Informa Investment Solutions, a subsidiary of Informa Plc. He won the Investor Choice Award for Independent Asset Management firm of the year -USA in 2014. In addition he was ranked number one for PSN Top Gun ETF categories in 2013. He has won Top Gun recognition multiple times.
It is my job to bring recognition to these very special Emerging Advisors. We will provide detailed information to you and share our institutional research with you upon your request. We also are willing to teach and to guide you through the process.
Click on the red heading at the top of the page "Make an Appointment With Bob". Set up a free on line session and learn how you may use stock and industry sector cycle research to improve your portfolio's performance. This knowledge is useful for investment professionals as well as less knowledgeable investors. I believe it will give you a significant advantage and lessen the risks you take.
Last year we recommended a high yield tax free investment with managed volatility.
Our rules based historical modeling research led us to the conclusion that this strategy would fit the needs of most of our taxable accounts.
We hoped it would provide a much higher return than CD's, High Yield Bond Funds, and short term bonds both taxable and non taxable.
We designed it to be tactically managed to avoid substantial draw downs due to interest rate increases.
We eliminated the commissions brokers would charge as front end or rear end surrender charges.
The fee charged for management by the funds we used were drastically reduced below retail funds offered to investors in small quantities.
Our concept was to sell when the fund rose to what we believed was an unsustainable price and then lost upside price momentum. Our risk control was set to 2%.
Our plan was to reinvest when the fund price declined to what we believed was a value price after downside momentum ceased.
During the past 12 months our actual results were higher than we anticipated net of all fees and charges. We kept funds in cash for more than 3 months while still performing much better than the fund itself for the entire year.
We believe this strategy is an excellent savings strategy designed to build capital ultimately resulting in monthly tax free income.
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