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About Interlink
Interlink is a software company that creates solutions for managing Internet networks and collaborating in virtual settings.
With Strings, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can improve their networks and guarantee Quality of Service.
With Wayports, companies can work remotely with collaborative tools in a virtual setting, where spaces resemble the ones in the physical world.
The team behind Interlink
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Founder and COO
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VP of Engineering
The main guiding principles we value in our people, customers, partners and vendors.
Transparency & Honesty
Being able to communicate often and directly is a big way about how we conduct business. It enables us to rise up to situations while they are easy to manage.
Passion for the quest
We enjoy the journey, we love what we do. People at Interlink understand that learning is never finished, processes and tools are never perfect.
We trust and expect the best out of people. Acknowledging shortcomings while optimizing for action makes sure we have shorter cycles for effort, which results in faster iteration.
Kindness & Inclusivity
Work is meant to be enjoyed. Being nice is just the bare minimum, we have an obligation to be inclusive and do more to have a positive impact in our industry.
What we are building towards
Technology for a more inclusive society.
We craft business productivity tools that enable people to remain connected, with freedom of access to information and self-determination.
Quality of Service (QoS) in Internet connections should be measured not just by speed and reliability metrics, but mainly through what is done with subscribers' Internet traffic data.
It's not all about the profits.
Bridging the gap between open and closed societies requires more than business as usual. Companies that are motivated only by profits are not suited to make a positive impact.
We created the MacLane Library, a digital space in Wayports and the web, designed for information dissemination. It serves as a free platform for creativity and skill acquisition.
We are legendary supporters of EDRi
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Where is Interlink based?
We are about 20 passionate individuals globally distributed among Argentina, Brazil, France and the United States.
We love working remotely and creating products for people everywhere. We use English as our main language.
Is Interlink a startup?
Yes! Our story begins with Interlink SA, an Argentinean company with more than 25 years in the Software & Telecommunications market, but since 2019 we have branched with new companies into the territories where we hired our talent for a modern, global approach.
Do you offer discounts for education?
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By using the chat on our website, you can reach anyone at the company! From there, we can point you in the right direction or even set up a call directly in the chat.
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Does it work with HFC?
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Does it work with FTTH?
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Football, Game 8: The Citadel vs. Samford
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Sandlapper Spike
I'll just begin this post with some assorted trivia about Samford:
Samford was called Howard College until 1965. At that time, the school became a university, but in an effort to avoid being mistaken for Howard University (of Washington, DC) the name was changed to Samford.
Samford's law school, Cumberland, was actually purchased from Cumberland University of Tennessee in 1961, one of only two such transactions involving a law school, and the only one in which the law school moved across state lines.
Samford played in the first football game ever contested at Legion Field, defeating Birmingham-Southern 9-0 on November 19, 1927. Samford also played in the first night game at Legion Field (in 1928), losing 12-7 to Spring Hill.
Samford's football program wasn't afraid to travel in the 1920s. The Bulldogs (formerly the Baptist Tigers) played Duquesne in Pittsburgh (at Forbes Field), North Dakota in Grand Forks, and Havana National University (in Cuba). Samford also played games in Mexico City against the National University of Mexico in 1954 and 1963.
Bobby Bowden is Samford's most famous football alum, and he also coached at the school, compiling a record of 31-6 over four seasons. His son Terry is the winningest coach at Samford, with a record of 45-23-1, including FCS playoff appearances in 1991 and 1992. Samford advanced to the semifinals in '91.
Terry Bowden had been the head coach at Salem College before getting the Samford job, and his quarterback at Salem transferred to Samford to join him. That quarterback? Jimbo Fisher, who would throw 34 touchdown passes in his one season at Samford as a player.
Fisher remained at the school as an assistant coach until Terry Bowden was hired at Auburn following the 1992 season. He is now, of course, the "Head Coach In Waiting" at Florida State.
This will be the third meeting between the Birmingham Bulldogs and the shako-wearing Bulldogs. The first matchup, in 1989, was the first game played at Johnson Hagood Stadium after Hurricane Hugo blew through Charleston; I wrote about that event when I previewed last year's game.
That meeting last season in Birmingham did not go well for The Citadel. Samford essentially mauled the visitors, 28-10, dominating the line of scrimmage. Samford netted 232 yards rushing. The Citadel? 2. Yikes.
It was a nightmarish game all the way around, and it wasn't even Halloween. Samford's first touchdown drive was helped along by three major penalties from The Citadel's defense. Chris Evans scored that TD and one other to go along with 174 yards rushing. Samford had more than a 2-to-1 edge in first-half time of possession.
Samford stuck to the ground for the most part, but occasionally threw the ball, as Dustin Taliaferro was 13-19 for 117 yards and a TD.
The starting quarterback for The Citadel in that game was Cam Turner. Bart Blanchard also played. Neither of those two QBs will be taking snaps on Saturday (although Turner will continue to hold on placekicks), as Miguel Starks gets the nod again following his auspicious debut as a starter against Furman.
He will face a Samford defense that is big, physical, and which ranks among the national leaders in FCS in several defensive categories. The Birmingham Bulldogs are fourth nationally in total defense (241.6 yards per game), sixth in rushing defense (81.6 ypg), and tenth in scoring defense (allowing less than 15 points per contest). Junior linebacker Bryce Smith (who forced a fumble in last year's game against The Citadel) is an outstanding player who must be accounted for at all times.
Samford has allowed only four plays of 30 yards or more in seven games and has only given up seven points in the fourth quarter all season.
On offense, Samford likes to establish the run, taking advantage of a huge offensive line. Four of the five starters weigh more than 300 pounds, with right guard Thomas Gray checking in at 6'4", 332. The only non-300 lb. lineman among the starters is a "true" freshman, 6'4", 275 lb. George Allers. I'm guessing he's going to get even bigger.
Much of the offense goes through running back Evans, who is averaging over 92 yards per game on the ground and also leads the team in receptions, with 26. Evans was held to 47 yards rushing (on 14 carries) in Samford's last game, against Furman (Samford was off last week). In that game Samford fell behind early and had to rely on its passing attack in an effort to get back into the contest.
Taliaferro has thrown four touchdown passes this season, and has also thrown five interceptions. Samford is averaging 5.4 yards per pass, and only 3.4 yards per rush, both numbers somewhat low (and surprisingly so, in the case of the rushing average). Samford is generally not a big-play team (only five plays of more than 31 yards so far this season), and thus needs to sustain long drives, but Pat Sullivan's Bulldogs are only converting 35% of their third-down opportunities.
Samford's special teams appear to be better this season. Freshman placekicker Cameron Yaw is 8-11 on FG attempts (one of the misses was blocked by Furman at the end of the game to preserve a two-point Paladin victory).
It will be interesting to see how Miguel Starks plays after his excellent performance last week. Samford will present a different (and more difficult) challenge than did Furman. A key will be avoiding turnovers, particularly on The Citadel's half of the field. Samford is not very dynamic on offense and is probably less likely to drive down the length of the field than Furman, so not giving the folks from Birmingham good field position is important.
Punting, in this game, may not be such a bad thing. It's better than fumbling.
Even in last year's loss, Andre Roberts managed to shine as usual, catching 8 passes for 100 yards and a TD. I think Saturday's game will be another opportunity for #5 to demonstrate (yet again) just how special a player he is.
On defense, the Bulldogs must stop Evans from running all over them like he did last season. Jordan Gilmore had 13 tackles in that game, one for loss. More tackles for loss, to put Samford in second-and-long and third-and-long situations, would be helpful (of course, you could say that every week).
Last year The Citadel sacked Taliaferro just one time and only had two official "hurries". The defense created no turnovers and was only credited with one pass breakup. That was mostly due to Samford not being in a position where it had to throw the ball, just another reason why stopping the run is a must.
This is not likely to be a high-scoring game. I don't know which Bulldog team is going to show up, the one that played Appalachian State and Furman, or the one that stumbled against Elon and Western Carolina.
The game is at Johnson Hagood Stadium, and the weather is supposed to be nice (mostly sunny, high of 82). Attendance for the Furman game was a little better than I expected, honestly…not as good as a Parents' Day game could be, but not too bad all things considered. That bodes well for attendance this Saturday.
Those in the stands to watch the battle of the Bulldogs are probably going to see a very competitive game. I think The Citadel can win this game, but I'm worried about Samford having two weeks to prepare and possibly coming out with a revised offensive game plan. On Halloween, you always have to worry about tricks, even while you're dreaming of the treats. We'll see what Pat Sullivan and company have in store for The Citadel on Saturday.
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UPDATE, FRIDAY: Zooming in 29 offshore markets, Disney/Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 has amassed $22.3M at the international box office through Thursday. After bowing with $6.6M on Tuesday in just three hubs (which each had holidays), GOTG2 moved into a further nine on Wednesday — notably France — and then 17 more yesterday (including Germany and Brazil). The scores are showing the ragtag space family running considerably ahead of the original Guardians Of The Galaxy, as well as other Marvel Cinematic Universe sequels, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World.
Australia currently leads offshore with $6.2M after bowing on Tuesday's Anzac holiday. France, which chimed in on Wednesday, is at $2.7M; Italy (also a Tuesday bow) has plunked down $2M so far; Germany joined the fun yesterday with $1.5M; and Brazil also got in on the action Thursday with $1.2M. Those are the Top 5 markets on the James Gunn-helmed pic thus far.
The initial numbers have been somewhat bolstered by the Australia/New Zealand and Italy holiday Tuesdays, and the position versus comps will begin to clarify as more markets experience regular play. In the same hubs where GOTG2 is debuting this weekend, the first film grossed around $65M at current exchange rates. Thor: The Dark World bowed to $85.4M and Captain America: The Winter Soldier to $67.6M, also at today's exchange. This one will go higher than all three (and it's notable that in some markets, it's opened bigger than Captain America: Civil War).
Germany's opening day was $1.5M at No. 1 with 66% market share for the 2nd biggest start of the year, behind Fate Of The Furious. That was 29% ahead of Guardians Of The Galaxy, 21% ahead of The Avengers and 30% ahead of Captain America: Civil War.
Brazil's launch was $1.2M for No. 1 and a huge +95% on GOTG.
The Netherlands blasted off to $500K, the No. 1 start of 2017 and the 2nd highest MCU opening day ever behind only Civil War (+83% vs GOTG).
Taiwan grossed $600K for +78% on GOTG; Hong Kong was $300K at 24% over GOTG; and Singapore also rocked in with $300K for 14% above GOTG.
Austria took in $200K at No. 1; 2nd biggest MCU debut behind Iron Man 3; +51% on GOTG.
There are another host of markets opening today, including the UK, Spain and Mexico. We'll have an update on those tomorrow.
PREVIOUS, WEDNESDAY: Disney/Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 rocketed into its first three markets on Tuesday, taking advantage of local holidays to get the ball rolling at the international box office. The total from Australia, Italy and New Zealand is $6.6M.
Pressing play on the second Awesome Mixtape in Australia, the James Gunn-helmed film bowed at No. 1 to an estimated $2.9M. That's the second-biggest opening day ever for a Marvel Cinematic Universe release — behind only The Avengers — and is more than three times bigger than the start of the original Guardians of the Galaxy (which debuted on a non-holiday in 2014). Adding in successful Monday night previews ahead of Tuesday's Anzac holiday, the Oz cume is $4.5M.
In Italy, GOTG2 also was No. 1, this time on Liberation Day, with an estimated $1.4M. The launch is the third-best for an MCU title and was more than triple the openings of GOTG and Doctor Strange (again, non-holiday opening days). It also was 29% ahead of Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, 23% ahead of Captain America: Civil War, 15% ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron and 1% above Suicide Squad, none of which bowed on a holiday.
New Zealand, also celebrating Anzac, scored $400K for the top opening day of 2017 and the third-highest opening day ever for the MCU. It's bigger than both Ultron and Civil War (the non-holiday caveat stands here too). With Monday night previews, the cume rises to $700K.
The ragtag bunch of Guardians — which includes Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and now Kurt Russell — is looking at a launch weekend internationally in the $100M range, and some see higher. While the initial numbers out of the three markets above are extremely encouraging, Disney reminds us that they all were holiday plays.
GOTG2 will be in 37 material markets this weekend. Today it adds France along with Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Domestic and the rest of the world, including China but not yet Japan, catch up the following frame.


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Nile Rodgers Announces New Chic Album Out 2017
It's About Time was originally scheduled for a 2015 release
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In 2015, it was announced that Nile Rodgers would release a new Chic album, It's About Time. It was originally scheduled for a summer 2015 release, but never arrived. Now, in a post to his website, Rodgers has announced that the band's follow-up to 1992's Chic-ism will arrive in 2017, the 40-year anniversary of the band's formation as well as the 40-year anniversary of Studio 54's opening. "In 2017, we will pay homage to the club that put us on the international map by doing a series of concerts, afterparties, VIP Packages, films and singles," his statement reads. "Then drop the full album along with a BIG SURPRISE!"
Rodgers also explained that in addition to wanting to line up the release of It's About Time with the anniversaries, he also wanted to hold off because of all the musician deaths that occurred in 2016. "When Prince suddenly died, it was like I'd been struck by lighting twice," his statement reads. "In 2016, I couldn't release an album about the joy of life in A Year of So Many Deaths." Elsewhere in the statement, he paid tribute to David Bowie, calling their collaboration "Let's Dance" "one of the highest plateaus in my career." Read the full post here.
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Welcome to The Lawrence Register > History > People > Biographies > Marting-Lowry
Andrew Clark Lowry and Nellie Marting Lowry
Andrew Clark Lowry was born on March 4, 1870 in West Virginia. He was the son of Lee and Mary
Patterson Lowry and one of four children. His brother Dr. J. C. Lowry and sisters, Alice and Dr. Sarah (Saide) Lowry were also born at the family home in West Virginia.
Andrew began his medical career when he graduated from Louisville Medical College. He went on
to practice medicine for twenty-years.
On February 10, 1897, Andrew married Nellie Marting. Nellie was the daughter of Col. Henry Adam Marting and Margaret Duis Marting and born on July 24, 1875. Nellie was an Ironton High School and Balwin-Wallace College (in Berea) graduate. The couple lived in their home on South 5th Street.
In September 1919, Nellie's father died. Nellie began to manage the Martin Estate.
Andrew became not only a successful and respected doctor, he became a good businessman. His actions resulted in the formation of the Ironton Hotel Company and the construction of the Marting Hotel. He was president and director of the Marting Hotel, Foster Stove Company, and Marting Iron and Steel Company. A.C. was the vice president and director of the Citizens National Bank and director of the First National Bank. He campaigned to raise money for the Ironton-Russell Bridge. Once the bridge was built, he was one of the first directors of the Ironton-Russell Bridge Company. A.C. was on the board of directors of the Home Building and Loan Company. Lastly, he was a member of the chamber of commerce, Rotary Club, the Elks Lodge and the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Andrew remained active up until four weeks before his death when he suffered a stroke. He died on March 1, 1924.
Nellie moved to her family homestead to live with her mother after Andrew's death. Her mother died in 1933. Nellie continued to manager her interests in the Foster Stove Company, Marting Iron and Steel Company, Citizens Bank, Marlow building and the Marting Hotel.
Nellie was the last member of the Lowry family. She died after being bedfast for six months on May 12, 1937 at her home on 5th and Adams.


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Q: Formulario y envio de mail PHP (no envia campos checkbox) Tengo un problemilla.. tengo un formulario en HTML y un PHP de envio de mail, el mail se envia y se recibe bien, hasta ahí todo bien.
El problema es al recibir el mail, los inputs que tengo de tipo checkbox (desayunos, cenas, suplatoria y mascota) no se ven reflejados en el mail y no entiendo el porqué. Mi intención es que se vean si han sido checkeados o no en el formulario. He tratado de buscar respuesta y nada. No se si debería usar algun otro lenguaje de apoyo o usar directamente otro. Ahí va el código!

<?php

//llamando a los campos..

$nombre = $_POST{'nombre'};
$apellido1 = $_POST{'apellido1'};
$apellido2 = $_POST{'apellido2'};
$telefono = $_POST{'telefono'};
$mail = $_POST{'mail'};
$mensaje = $_POST{'cuerpo_mensaje'};
$desayunos = $_POST{'desayunos'};
$cenas = $_POST{'cenas'};
$suplatoria = $_POST{'suplatoria'};
$mascota = $_POST{'mascota'};

//datos para el correo

$destinatario = "isaacmarti.g@gmail.com";
$asunto = "Reserva Posada Magoria";

$carta = "$mensaje\n";

//enviando mensaje...

mail($destinatario, $asunto, $carta);
?>
    <form action="enviar.php" method="post">

                    Nombre
                    <input type="text" id="nombre" name="nombre" placeholder="Introduce tu Nombre.." required>

                    Primer Apellido
                    <input type="text" id="nombre" name="apellido1" placeholder="Introduce tu Nombre.." required>

                    Segundo Apellido
                    <input type="text" id="nombre" name="apellido2" placeholder="Introduce tu Apellido.." required>

                        Teléfono
                        <input type="phone" id="telefono"  name="telefono" placeholder="Introduce tu teléfono.." required>

                    Mail
                    <input type="mail" id="telefono"  name="mail" placeholder="Introduce tu teléfono.." required>

                    Desayunos buffet +6€ por desayuno
                    <input type="checkbox" id="desayunos" name="desayunos">

                    Cenas +10/16€ por cena
                    <input type="checkbox" id="cenas" name="cenas">

                    Cama Suplatoria +15€
                    <input type="checkbox" id="suplatoria" name="suplatoria">

                    Mascota +4€
                    <input type="checkbox" id="mascota" name="mascota">

                <textarea name="cuerpo_mensaje" id="cuerpo_mensaje">
                    ¡Hola! Me gustaría reservar una habitación (DOBLE/DOS CAMAS) para (NUMERO DE PERSONAS) persona/s el dia   (. ./. ./. . . .)
                </textarea>

                <input type="submit" name="enviar"value="RESERVAR" id="boton_enviar">

    </form>

A: El problema es que no se ven reflejados porque nunca los envias.
$destinatario = "isaacmarti.g@gmail.com";
$asunto = "Reserva Posada Magoria";

$carta = "$mensaje\n";

//enviando mensaje...

mail($destinatario, $asunto, $carta);

En la instruccion de mail pones el destinatario, asunto y carta, y resulta que $carta es una copia de $mensaje, pero no incluyes los valores de las otras variables.
Para que te funcione, podrias hacer:
$carta = "$mensaje\n$desayunos\n$cenas\n$suplatoria\n$mascotas";

esto es un ejemplo, pues luego tendras que modificar el valor de $carta para adecuarlo a un formato html o texto que a ti te interese. De momento esto deberia enviarte valores true y espacios en blanco. Probablemente Te interese añadirlo como tablas, algo tipo:
$carta = "$mensaje\ndesayunos: $desayunos\ncenas: $cenas\nsuplatoria: $suplatoria\nmascotas: $mascotas";

A: Además de lo que te comenta Jakala debes tener en cuenta que los campos checkbox no checkeados efectivamente no se envían, por lo tanto tendrás que prever eso en la recepción de los mismos.
Dos opciones posibles serían:
a) Dar un valor por defecto para el caso de no checked:

                Desayunos buffet +6€ por desayuno
                <input type="hidden" name="desayunos" value="no">
                <input type="checkbox" id="desayunos" value="si" name="desayunos">

                Cenas +10/16€ por cena
                <input type="hidden" name="cenas" value="no">
                <input type="checkbox" id="cenas" value="si" name="cenas">

                Cama Suplatoria +15€
                <input type="hidden" name="suplatoria" value="no">
                <input type="checkbox" id="suplatoria" value="si" name="suplatoria">

                Mascota +4€
                <input type="hidden" name="mascota" value="no">
                <input type="checkbox" id="mascota" value="si" name="mascota">

De esta forma, los checks no seleccionados te llegaran con valor no y los seleccionados con valor si, pues los campos hidden serán sobreescritos por los checkbox.
b) Verificar si llega el valor de cada campo:
<?php
$desayunos = isset($_POST['desayunos'])?'si':'no';
$cenas = isset($_POST['cenas'])?'si':'no';
$suplatoria = isset($_POST['suplatoria'])?'si':'no';
$mascota = isset($_POST['mascota'])?'si':'no';

Basta con preguntar primero si ha llegado el campo esperado y asignar el valor adecuado según el caso.

Ambas opciones son muy básicas, en entornos de producción (o
  aprendizaje avanzado) se deberían implementar métodos más robustos o versátiles
  para la gestión de formularios.

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JFREJ Expert Testimony at New York City Council Public Safety Committee Hearing
Testimony of Leo Ferguson, Director of Strategic Projects at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ)
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NYCC Public Safety Committee Hearing
Testimony of Leo Ferguson, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Good afternoon, Chair Hanks, Speaker Adams and council members.
My name is Leo Ferguson, and I am the Director of Strategic Projects at Jews For Racial & Economic Justice. I am testifying on behalf of our organization and our partners in the NYC Against Hate Coalition. We are seeking an expansion of funding through the Hate Crimes Initiative, formerly the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative.
This initiative provides resources to community-based organizations to engage in culturally-competent hate violence prevention and education. It was funded at approximately $1.7 million dollars by this council in FY20 in response to rapidly rising hate crime in New York City.
In the years following, that already low-level of funding has been cut repeatedly, despite skyrocketing levels of identity-based violence directed at Jewish, Asian, and LGBTQ New Yorkers, and the unacceptable bigotry directed at many other communities throughout our city.
Instead, the city has poured resources into NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force and focused on prosecutions — sometimes arresting children as young as 13 or 14. It should be obvious that chasing down random individuals after the crime has already been committed and arresting children is simply not an effective or just approach to preventing violence before it occurs.
We already heard testimony today that the task force only made arrests in approximately 50% of cases. But based on recent reporting by The City, only 15% of that 50% even resulted in a hate crimes conviction — just 87 people over 5 years.
One of the nice things about a long hearing is that I had time to do some rough back of the napkin math — based on what we heard from the NYPD earlier, in that same 5 year period we would have spent approximately $20,460,000 on the Hate Crimes Taskforce.
Compare that to the embarrassingly tiny amount the city is spending on OPHC, the Hate Crimes Prevention Initiative, and Hope Against Hate and you'll see that truly effective hate violence prevention at the community level has been wildly under-resourced in our city, and the Jewish community, the Asian community, and all New Yorkers have been short changed.
In addition, many of the communities most directly impacted by hate violence — immigrants, undocumented New Yorkers, Trans New Yorkers, Black New Yorkers, and other — are also least likely to contact the NYPD, for understandable reasons.
Resourcing the NYPD at the expense of community-based prevention is especially frustrating since data shows that hate crimes laws do not deter violence. According to research by the Movement Advancement Project, "...hate crime laws' harsher punishments have not been shown to deter hate violence." In addition, hate crimes enforcement is plagued by the same racial disparities that define the rest of our criminal legal system. The same report reveals that "the majority of all hate crimes are committed by white people…. Yet, data show that hate crimes reported by state law enforcement are disproportionately listed as having Black perpetrators."
While the mayor's office did provide some additional funding through the PATH Forward program last year, and Deborah Lauter and Hassan Naveed have been fantastic partners at the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, hate crime prevention is still massively underfunded.
The city's current budget priorities are not a serious response to the terrible problem we face. We are seeking an expansion of funding for programs like the Hate Crimes Prevention Initiative and Hope Against Hate to resource education, prevention and community building, and other non-carceral approaches that actually make our communities safer.
Thank you, Chair Hanks, for the opportunity to testify. Shabbat Shalom.
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The 27-year-old pianist grew up near Los Angeles, where he first put fingertips to keys at the age of 2. He began piano lessons at 5, winning prizes at the California International Young Artist Competition, the Los Angeles Music Center's Spotlight Award and scholarships while he was still in high school.
Neither of his parents were professional musicians. But he says he developed a good ear by watching movies and playing video games.
Chen's academic prowess led to acceptance by both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while his musical talent led him to Juilliard. He had been hoping rejection from one or the other would lead him either to college or conservatory without having to make a decision.
He has gone on to perform with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Santa Fe and Tucson and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.
His Steinway Series recitals have taken him to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Salk Institute in San Diego, Calif., and New Orleans and more. The New York Times praised Chen's "alluring, colorfully shaded renditions" of works by Scriabin and Ravel.
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Explore the gorgeous places you might not know in Japan
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Japan is filled with countless places that inspire and enchant visitors. From historic castles and eye-catching floral displays to unusual landscapes that look pulled from a completely different country, here are some of the most gorgeous places in Japan you must visit.
Noto Peninsula
Comprising the northern section of Ishikawa Prefecture, the Noto Peninsula is home to some of Japan's most stunning coastal scenery and untouched countryside landscapes. Aside from admiring the natural scenery, the peninsula offers a number of spots for fishing, swimming, and camping. Its main tourist center, Wajima City, is home to fewer than 30,000 people and serves as wonderful place to experience Japanese small-town life.
Iya Valley
The Iya Valley is a remote and mountainous area buried in Shikoku Island. Pair its remoteness with its steep and dramatic mountain faces and gorges, and the Taira clan decided this would be the perfect place to settle in the 1100s. The defining feature of the valley is the gorge, which offers sweeping vistas across the whole area.
To cross the gorge, three of the many original vine bridges of the early settlements still exist and are well-maintained as tourist attractions. A much less nerve-wracking way to cross the river is by using the "Wild Monkey Bridge," a wooden cart suspended with ropes traditionally used to transport goods.
Iya Valley is also a popular spot for hot springs and outdoor activities, as the natural tapestry of the area affords adventure seekers great sights.
Shodoshima has a mild climate and a Mediterranean atmosphere, home to beaches, dramatic coastlines, resorts, and even olive plantations. The second largest island in the Seto Inland Sea, Shodoshima is one of the hosts of the Setouchi Triennale contemporary art festival, and outdoor installations from previous festivals can be seen dotted around the island.
Shirakawa-go is a beautiful small village, authentically Japan but also unique. It is been declared a World Heritage Site because of its cultural value but you do not need a title like that to appreciate how stunning it is, nestled amongst the mountains and the rice paddies.
When you visit today, you will still see lots of these traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses. They are so charming with their rustic wooden frames and thatched roofs. In winter, snow covers them and the whole village looks magical. Many of them offer homestays where you will sleep on tatami mats and have a traditional meal around the stove in the living room.
Nachi Falls
Nachi Falls is the tallest waterfall in the country, tumbling down 133 metres (436 feet) into a rushing river below. The waterfall is overlooked by the gorgeous Nachi Taisha Shinto shrine, which is said to be more than 1,400 years old. Built in honour of the waterfall's kami (spirit god), the shrine is one of several Buddhist and Shinto religious sites found around the waterfall.
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route connects Toyama City in Toyama Prefecture with Omachi Town in Nagano Prefecture. The route can be experienced by various types of transportation, including ropeway, cable car, and trolley bus, all of which offer spectacular views of the surrounding Tateyama Mountain Range. The most impressive part of the route is the road between Bijodaira and Murodo, which is bordered by 20-metre-high snow walls from April to May each year.
Chureito Pagoda
One of the most beautiful spots to admire Mount Fuji is definitely at the Chureito Pagoda. There is a big chance that you have seen this exact location pop up on Instagram multiple times before. But it is definitely well worth your time, as it is even more breathtaking in real life. This pagoda overlooks Fujiyoshida City and has Mount Fuji as the perfect backdrop.
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The largest entertainment place in Nha Trang is Vinpearl Land. This is almost a unique symbol of Nha Trang, just to set foot in Nha Trang beach you will be admired in front of a brilliant light island.
You will be curious and excited to discover this beautiful island. Vinpearl Land is located on Hon Tre Island, which is connected to the coastal city of Nha Trang by the world's longest cable car of 3,320m, creating a beautiful sight at night when the cable car is operating.
As soon as you arrive in the island, you will be overwhelmed by the game as acrobatic swing with 360 degrees swing, roller coaster, … and many other dynamic outdoor games on the island of Nha Trang.
In addition to the thrilling games, there are active games for families and children such as game market, electric cars, ..
Besides having fun at the water park during sunny summer days, it is a great pleasure for family and friends to enjoy together.
You can conquer the various slides such as Kamikaze, black hole … and especially the Boomerang slider enjoy the thrill of freefall from a height of 21m.
After the strong feelings, let yourself relax on the quiet lazy river.
The aquarium system of Vinpearl Land is the most modern in Vietnam with an area of 3,400m2 with more than 300 species of rare and unique marine species from all over the world.
In addition to watching the magical world of colorful marine life, you can also participate in the mermaid show is extremely attractive and interesting.
What else to do in Vinpearl Land Nha Trang ?
There are also activities such as musical performances, street circus, magic, dolphin performance and many other unique performances.
At night, visitors will be eagerly awaiting for the water music program to be harmoniously combined with exciting sound, magic light with sand, water and fire to create a performance that you can not take your eyes off.
Another activity that kids and family love is watching movies 3D, 4D, more than a movie theater with 4D real effects with huge movie room and 3 huge screens.
On the island you can also visit, shop the branded clothing and enjoy the unique and rich cuisine of many countries around the world.


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Lil Wayne Returns with 'No Ceilings 3' Mixtape
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US rapper Lil Wayne has released his surprise DJ Khaled-hosted mixtape 'No Ceilings 3', the third installment in his ongoing mixtape series.
The 20-track mixtape includes guest appearances from Young Thug, Gudda Guddda, Cory Gunz and more, and has the musical reunion of Wayne and Drake on the song "B.B. King Freestyle."
The first No Ceilings mixtape came out in 2009 and is considered one of the best mixtapes of the last two decades. It was finally released on streaming services earlier this year. Wayne followed up with the second edition in November 2015. He first teased fans with the release back in August when he said the tape would be coming next in his catalog, followed by the album, Tha Carter VI.
"[Tha] Carter VI is coming soon, but I got No Ceilings coming first. No Ceilings 3," Wayne revealed during an interview with ESPN.
In another interview with Complex magazine, the rapper explained why now was the right time to bring back the franchise and complete the trilogy.
"The mixtape game seemed to be a dying art and since I'm one of the pioneers of the craft, and it played such a big part in my career, I felt it was only right to resurrect it," Wayne said. "Also, it's a lot of songs out here I wanted to kill my way!"
DJ Khaled "hosts" the mixtape, noting in an Instagram video prior to the release that he first worked with Lil Wayne on the 2005 mixtape The Suffix.
The mixtape comes as a much-needed distraction for Lil Wayne who has been the subject of intense criticism for his association with US President Donald Trump. He was also recently hit with federal firearms charges.
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Silver Miners Break Out, Flash Bullish Signal for Bullion
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Weldon: "This Opportunity Here Is As Good As It Gets… We're Playing Gold & Silver Very Aggressively"
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Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason.
Coming up Greg Weldon of Weldon Financial and Gold-Guru.com joins me for an interview you simply must stick around to hear. Greg is ready to make another bold call on the precious metals, having nailed previous moves in both gold and silver perfectly right here on this podcast earlier this year. Greg also tells us why he believes the trade deal with China is keeping many Americans hopelessly distracted about the real issues in the economy -- and why a deal there will simply not be enough to keep the economy going strong. So be sure to check out my interview with Greg Weldon, coming up after this week's market update.
Precious metals markets are ending the week on a sour note – and the general stock market is rallying.
Stocks started the month in negative territory after President Donald Trump said that a trade deal with China could be delayed. Trump suggested that China would prefer to wait until after next year's election.
The President apparently believes he can get re-elected without a trade deal. But he has staked a lot of his presidential prestige on a rising stock market. One way or another, his administration will be working to juice financial markets and the economy in the months ahead.
He obviously doesn't believe he will be forced out of office through impeachment. Investors don't believe Trump will actually be removed from office. Even the House Democrats leading the impeachment charge don't believe Trump will actually be removed from office! At this point, nobody does.
It's a sideshow contest to see which party will score the most political points – as they position themselves for the 2020 elections. If more Democrats than Republicans end up breaking ranks on impeachment votes, it would be a huge embarrassment for Nancy Pelosi, a huge problem for the eventual Democrat nominee for president, and a huge win for Trump.
Will precious metals prove to be a winning investment in this environment? Well, they certainly haven't been a losing investment this year. Gold and silver may be gathering strength for something bigger ahead.
After a pullback today in metals as a result of a better than expected jobs report, gold is now essentially unchanged for a second week in a row and trades at $1,464 per ounce.
Silver, meanwhile, was trading around the $17 level for a fourth straight week but it's taking it on the chin today with prices dipping below and currently coming in at $16.67 an ounce to register a 2.5% weekly decline as of this Friday morning recording.
Silver's trading range has been tightly compressed, which usually signals a big directional move ahead. One clue as to which direction prices will head next can be gleaned from the action in the silver mining stocks.
The major silver miners ETF is exhibiting a positive divergence, advancing over 4% to break out above multi-week resistance levels. This indicator is somewhat compromised by the fact that most so-called silver mining companies end up deriving most of their business from other metals.
Nevertheless, we are seeing a similar positive divergence with the GDX gold miners. The ETF is now trading above its 50-day moving average for the first time since mid-September. Gold itself closed just below its 50-day average on Thursday.
Precious metals mining stocks often lead the metals and amplify their moves. They could be setting up a more bullish environment for silver in particular. Top producers have reduced their silver output by 4.4% year over year even as they have increased their gold production.
It makes sense from a business perspective since silver has traded at an extreme discount to gold this year. The market told mining companies that it valued their gold ounces much more dearly than their silver ounces. But the decline in silver production in turn means that the gold/silver ratio is likely to narrow in favor of silver.
We have already seen some narrowing since the summer. There is a lot more yet to come if the gold/silver ratio is to return back to its historically normal range.
The surest way to profit from the ratio trade is simply to own the most out of favor metal – in this case silver. There are many advantages to owning physical bullion and avoiding futures, ETFs, mining stocks, and other paper proxies for the metal. Bullion carries considerably less risk and its market value more reliably reflects the true physical market.
One downside to precious metals ownership is the discriminatory tax treatment investors may face at the federal and state level.
Tax treatment varies from state to state. To see exactly where your state stands, check out the 2019 Sound Money Index – a project of the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange.
The Sound Money Index is the first index of its kind, ranking all 50 states using twelve different criteria to determine which states maintain the most pro- and anti-sound money policies in the country.
The Sound Money Index evaluates each state's sales and income tax policies involving precious metals. It also scores states on whether they recognize the monetary role of gold and silver under the U.S. Constitution, whether they hold pension, reserves, or debt denominated in gold or silver, and whether they impose dealer harassment laws.
Wyoming, Texas, and Utah emerged the best states on sound money in the nation. But unfortunately, Maine, Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky joined Vermont, Arkansas, and New Jersey as the worst states on the issue.
Regardless of where you live, you can certainly own precious metals and benefit from the diversification and protection they provide. It just pays to be aware of how you'll be taxed, if at all, and in what areas you can push your state's elected officials to enact pro-sound money policies.
The 2019 Sound Money Index is now posted on our web site at MoneyMetals.com.
Well now, without further delay, let's get right to this week's exclusive interview.
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome back our good friend Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has decades of market research and trading experience specializing in the metals and commodity markets and even authored a book back in 2016 titled Gold Trading Boot Camp where he accurately predicted the implosion of the US credit market and urged people to buy gold when it was only $550 an ounce.
He's made a lot of great calls right here on this podcast this year and it's great to have him back on with us. Greg, thanks for the time again and welcome. How are you?
Greg Weldon: I'm great, Mike. My pleasure, anytime. You do a great job, so I'm always happy to contribute.
Mike Gleason: Well, it's great to get people like you on as frequently as we have. We're very fortunate, so thank you. Well, Greg as we're talking here on Wednesday afternoon, the stock markets sold off yesterday and we got a rally in metals, this morning is as if by magic in the equity markets are levitating and metals are being sold.
Some unnamed official reportedly said the U.S. and China are close to a trade deal. Where have we heard that before? The sort of rumor of an imminent deal on trade has been floated about 84 times over the past couple of years now and somehow the markets appear to keep buying it every time. We aren't sure why real people would still be responding to this news. Are the algorithms completely in control of things here, Greg, what's going on?
Greg Weldon: Wow. I mean I don't know about the algorithms, but I can tell you this whole situation on trade makes it virtually impossible to handicap what the market is going to do on a short-term basis, that's for sure. And like you said, it's dark out one day and the sun shining right the next day, and you can never tell what the forecast is going to be. So, having said all that, and I will make three points.
Number one, I mean, a trade deal is not an engine of global growth. A trade deal evens the playing field that is uneven and if you were to completely wipe out the U.S. trade deficit on the annual basis with China, it would be less than 2% of U.S. GDP. So, anticipating a trade deal is going to be the cure all here for the economy and it's going to be the next day and that creates $1 trillion of wealth in the stock market, I don't see that. That's number one.
Having said that, you might even make a case that has been a good thing that you've had this level of uncertainty around trade and you've had the focus on trade be so myopic as to be, keystone in its nature in terms of trying to trade the markets. That the good news here is that the kind of the attention on trade has drawn attention from other places that have suddenly turned kind of sour, man.
When you look at the U.S. consumer, I think the setup here and Powell made it very clear in his most recent press conference out there, the recent monetary policy statement, that we've kind of reacted on a preemptive basis on trade it probably will get worse, we might act again but right now it's kind of wait and see. We anticipate something will get done. But even if it doesn't, the U.S. consumer strong enough to carry the load here.
Everyone that seems to be so complacent about how strong and that word is, the word is used, the consumer is, and I beg to differ in the most vehement terms possible. Because, and I could lay it out for you if you want to go into the stock market here, but it really comes down to looking at the growth numbers and looking at some of the dynamics that again, again are even hidden. And this is why I love to dig down so deep into the, into the numbers because you kind of get the real story.
When you look at inflation, all right, now the headline numbers being held down by energy, which went from 76 to 42 last year at this time. You're going to get the reversal of that, but it's going to be short lifts, so maybe two or three months where the energy kicks in on a year over year basis in the inflation numbers. That would lift the headline rate to where the core rate is or maybe higher. You could be pushing 3% all right? How is the Fed supposed to respond to a weakening consumer when you're looking at potentially inflation, two and a half to three?
Within that inflation number, what you have is a rise in the prices of necessities. Stuff like bus fares, urban bus fares, parking. Medical insurance. Motor vehicle repair. Shelter we know, medical care we know, medical care services through the roof. These inflation numbers are really high and in a lot of cases, I mean well north of 3%. Well north. And in that vein what you've done is at the same time with the kind of the rise in the core rate to above 2% you've also seen shrinkage in the nominal levels of growth in both retail sales and in average weekly earnings.
And I watch average weekly earnings as opposed to average hourly earnings for one very simple reason. You can get paid more per hour, but if you work less hours, you're going home at the end of the week with less money. So much more important is the average weekly earnings in the labor markets report coming up this Friday. So within that context I'll point out two things and it's really simple, man.
Average weekly earnings on a real basis have gone from just under 2% a year ago to 0.2 year over year. 0.2% year over year, not two, 0.2. And in the same time retail sales, all retail sales including the pockets of strength, the year over year, real rate against the correlate of inflation is 0.7. It was above four a year ago. That is a real testament to how much the economy and the consumer has eroded that is not being paid attention to seeing or shrugged off potentially, because of the situation with the trade deal and China.
So, it has bailed a consumer who has had their position weakened dramatically because if you're going to have to pay more for stuff like childcare, for stuff like parking, for stuff like bus fares to get the work. You're going to have less money to spend on discretionary items and we see that flow through perfectly in the numbers. And to think that a trade deal is going to spark enough confidence to reverse that without lifting income is shortsighted.
It might happen for a while. You might get a boost of competence that stimulates borrowing, all right and we're watching the consumer credit numbers very closely, because that should be the next thing to roll over. I take it a step further though, the XLY, the consumer discretionary ETF, the S&P consumer discretionary. It is flatlined. It's going nowhere. It is hugely owned. It has not made a new high in this run in the stock market. So it's not confirming. And that's important. Why? Because it peaked first in 2007 and led the way down. It bottomed first in 2009 and led the way through the 2014 tap out.
Then you had 2015 you had all of a sudden you thought, Hillary Clinton was going to win the election and so on and so forth. Trump gets elected from 2016 to 2018, the XLY was once again leading the way. If you go back 10 years, you lay out the XLY consumer credit retail sales, the Fed's balance sheet and the stock market, it was all the same plot. More recently, you've had fiscal QE from Donald Trump. What's next? Where's the next QE? Where's the next tax cut? Where's the next big tree and dollar push that's going to drive consumer spending on discretionary basis when income is not growing?
And what's happened is the XLY has rolled over relative to the staples and more importantly relative to the S&P itself. And if you overlay the XLY, S&P ratio against the S&P 500, it always leads both higher and lower. It always peaks and bottoms first every single time going back 25 years, and it has peaked already in 2018 and is now breaking down. And that is a major yellow caution flag waving wide and high in front of the U.S. stock market.
So yeah, all the attention on trade. Well. Frankly trade gets done is going to be like, everyone's going look around at each other and go, "Now what?" And there really isn't anything now what on the horizon that I see this is going to be positive enough to get you the kind of growth numbers that people have in their heads.
Mike Gleason: Yeah, certainly those are going to be much more important indicators of what the economy's going to look like moving forward. I'm glad you touched on that. You mentioned briefly there, the election from several years ago. I suppose we should touch on politics here since the 2020 election is likely to dominate headlines in the financial press next year. Our take is that president Trump isn't likely to have much trouble beating every one of the current Democratic roster.
It looks to us like the democrats somehow managed to find candidates who are even more unelectable than Hillary Clinton, believe it or not. The one wild card is lots of people talk about the U.S. economy. If the country slides in a recession, Trump could have some trouble. What are your thoughts on the possibility of a serious downturn in the months ahead and do you think we're maybe underestimating the chances that a Democrat can win?
Greg Weldon: Is there an election here next year? I mean, you just want to say landslide. I mean, gosh, I hate talking about politics. I really do. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I'm a libertarian. Less government is good. You'd have certain social programs you need. You need defense. You need some social support for the less thans and the people that don't have and through no fault of their own. But this thing has gotten completely blown out of the water.
You want to talk politics? I'm going to talk about budget deficits. I want to talk about the U.S. debt. And people might want to put this back on Trump. It has nothing to do with Donald Trump. The fact we had a $984 billion deficit in the most recent fiscal year ended September. We're already on track to beat that by 20% already. Already this year in the new fiscal year!
The two biggest problems are Social Security and then Medicare. You're talking entitlements. What politician out there wants to talk entitlements? What politician out there has a plan to fix Social Security? What politician out there in their right mind since Paul Ryan? Look at the destruction of his career for suggesting that we have to cut entitlements, we have to end Social Security, we have to grandfather people in somehow and make people responsible for their own retirements.
This has to happen or none of the rest of the stuff even matters, man. And you're looking at a shortening fuse on this time bomb. It really is. You're talking now something in potentially the 15-year range if not for sure within 20 years. I want to talk about that. None of the politicians wanted to talk about that, because it's political suicide. So, it almost doesn't even matter. Does it matter? Of course it matters. It matters huge. It's a binary situation.
Donald Trump gets elected. It may not be good, but it's not a disastrous scenario that you will have if any of these Democrats get elected. And I like the two guys that have come in more recently. I just love this kind of stuff. The one guy, I swear to God, I've seen his commercial five times, I still can't remember his name. But he gets on there and he says, "Trump's a loser. Trump is bankrupt. Trump's never been successful doing anything. I built a $36 trillion company." And it's kind of like, "Well, the difference between Donald Trump and you is everyone knows who Donald Trump is. Nobody knows who you are, guy." Okay? So, you have zero chance of winning and you have so many of these guys.
Who the heck are the democrats going to put up? Elizabeth Warren's a nightmare. These people are, they have no sense of reality. And the real dynamic here is they're willing to buy this election through any means necessary. And I think most people see through that. So to me, thank God that Donald Trump, whether you like them or not, he can be a fricking bully, a buffoon, a blowhard. He acts out like a five-year-old sometimes. His vocabulary sucks. He's not as intelligent he'd like you to think he is, but the guy is American number one.
His passion is there. His work ethic is there, his ideas are there and the programs are there that have helped the country. So, you can't argue against that. And guess what? It's the silent majority out there that elected him and that silent majority is bigger now than it was four years ago. So, to me in the longer term, it really doesn't matter. It's just Democrats hasten the end game because they're going to blow out everything in the budget.
But either way, we're staring down a budgetary situation that's already in crisis mode. 4.6% of GDP last year the deficit was, 4.6. If you're in Europe, you're getting fined by the EU commission right now.
Mike Gleason: Yeah, I think that's well handicapped. I guess it's kind of akin to, it's like, "Well do you want to go towards that cliff at a hundred miles an hour or just 50 miles an hour." It kind of seems like. Maybe it's a good way of summarizing.
Well, you've made some tremendous calls on this podcast over this past year. Back in May, we spoke and you called the gold breakout point to a T and we saw the yellow metal rocket up to about $1,500 and then beyond, it's about a $200 move before it found some resistance late this summer.
Then we spoke to you in late June and with silver severely lagging gold's move at that point you called for silver to outperform and it went from the low 16s to over $19 an ounce before it ran into trouble. So, you called silver's breakout point perfectly as well. So with all that said, I'm going to put you on the spot here again and ask you how you think the metals will perform at the end of the year and into next year.
It's been a rough couple of months for metals investors after those big moves. But, in your studied view is gold and silver ready to break out one way or the other? Are you ready to make another bold call here, Greg?
Greg Weldon: Yeah, actually I am. And the one thing I'll add to that, not to be full of myself, but we got out of those positions very well too. We saw the correction coming. We played out the correction. There was one point I thought the correction was over and we got a long silver and we got smacked. So, two good calls then one little misstep and that's kind of how trading goes. I mean, if you can be right 50% of the time in your actual positions, you can make a ton of money doing this. Anything above that is just gravy.
We've been good on it because I think I'm really seeing the ball clearly here, man. Everything's crystallized for me when you go back to August of a year ago, and that's how long this evolution has taken place. We have not only called this, we've called the Fed, we've called the economy. Everything is in sync here. And that's what makes it so exciting and yet at the same time kind of scary. And one of the things that I like to tell people, and we started a website on this, you remember we did the Gold Investor Bootcamp?
Because, we think there's opportunities here and we want people to understand how futures work, how this works. Do you do coins and bars? We actually featured your company because we think you guys are as good as is out there and better than most anyone that I've seen, do it as well as you guys do, Money Metals Exchange, in terms of facilitating physical metals transactions and buying of gold bars, silver bars, gold and silver coin.
That's one way to go. The mining shares is one way to go. If you didn't do the mining shares do the small cap, the venture cap, or you do the big cap behemoths, blue chips. In terms of futures, in terms of ETF. And then when you get to the futures market, wow. I mean futures is the greatest tool out there. It's also the most misunderstood still to this day.
I'm 36 years in this business, started on a commodities exchange floor where they filmed Trading Places for crying out loud and the World Trade Center. I worked at Lehman Brothers, I worked at Prudential, I've worked at two of the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world and I've been doing this 21 years on my own. I think this opportunity here is as good as it gets.
It is a decade long opportunity within a generational opportunity. And within the context of the recent correction we called it, we got back in on silver a little early. We got out real quick. We're wrong, I'm out, man. I mean, hey, I'm not right all the time. It's just that simple. You can have that kind of mindset, but within the context of what's happened recently, silver has already completed a perfect, a textbook, A-B-C what I call double kills zone correction.
The double kill zone for me is very simple. It's between two of the major Fibonacci's and two of the major moving averages. I use the same moving averages in everything; bonds, currencies, metal. I want my indicators to be robust to the point where they work all the time, good enough to be used all the time across every market. And when you look at the 100-day and 200-day exponential moving averages on daily charts and the 52-week and two-year exponential moving averages on the weekly charts and you throw in the Fibonacci retracements, you get windows, man, that are so reliable. It's almost uncanny.
Silver mapped out an A-B-C double kill zone correction that got to the 200-day moving average almost to the T the 61% retracement of the first big wave here last year. Gold did not. Gold barely had a correction. Gold didn't even get to the 100-day moving average. Gold didn't reach the first of the Fibonaccis, the 38%. And gold had big open interest. So, the question was, is this such a bullish scenario where we can rally from here gold dragging all this weight or does gold need to crack and get down to at least one of these retracement levels before we cleared the decks?
And that was uncertain because frankly it's almost such an exciting potential scenario that you might not have cracked gold. What we keyed off was AU, AngloGold Ashanti. It had a beautiful pattern, same kind of thing. It was an upside leader, number one during the rally. The downside didn't reach the Fibonacci, didn't reach the moving averages. Something like Ken Ross for example, reached the 61% retracement.
AU didn't even get to the 38%. It set up a perfect double bottom, I believe it's $18.04 and then the last three or four sessions, it has soared. So, to me that was huge. I said the end of last week, Wednesday before we went on holiday, AU is going to be the litmus test for this market, whether it's ready to rock and roll again or whether it gold needs a little more clearance.
What changed in gold is you had liquidation of open interest without having to have a price decline, and that's pretty powerful stuff too. Because people bought that last little leg up and they got out real quick. They got trapped. I think these markets are poised. I think it's time to be aggressive. When I see the SIL outperforming everything, the silver mining ETF. The SIL right now, yesterday's Gold Guru, great chart yesterday, the SIL is breaking out against the price of silver.
And one of my all-time favorites is back. Underperformer the last year and a half to the enth degree that was so disappointing. Not that we were long, but when I see this setup, I want to see certain stocks really be leaders. Pan American Silver is one of those stocks. Pan American Silver has exploded. Pan American Silver has a great chart relative to the price of silver, and then when you bring the dollar into play, Mike? Holy mackerel.
What's changed with the dollar is in this phase of interest rates coming down again all of a sudden, the bond yields are coming down again all of a sudden because guess what? You got 0.7 real retail sales. You got 0.2 average weekly earnings. You have the ADP numbers today set up a potential really weak BLS employment report number. The ISM numbers have been weak. The economy is kind of choking a little bit here. And you see the now the yield curve flattening actually means something.
It is now. It is the yellow caution flag that it hasn't been the difference here, Mike, and it's subtle, but it's significant. Is that the last time you had curve flattening and bond yields dropping like this, it was happening in a more intense way in Europe. So, the rate differentials between the U.S. and Europe, we're actually expanding a U.S. rate premium to record highs that supported the dollar through all of this.
That's not happening now, man. You are seeing those rate differentials come under big pressure. You've moved about 70 basis points on the 30-year U.S. T-bond to (German) bund yield spread. You have broken down. You're through the trendlines. You're through the two-year moving average. The moving average has rolled over. These interest rate differentials are narrowing. It's putting pressure on the dollar.
If the dollar gets below 97.10 then you open up the door for 95.50, which means 88. So, you could have a stair step move down here in the dollar that causes these metals to explode. We're very bullish right in here, we're playing it very aggressively. For our Gold Guru clients, we just put it out there actually last week and still very much applicable. We call it our triple play micro caps. This is the way to be aggressive.
We want to be diversified in not only just holding other things to metals but also in our metals investments as well. And in this case, I think some money taking a risk capital, treating some of these literally under a dollar a share silver miners, we picked three of them. Two Australian, one Canadian. And you take some money and put these as if it's a call option, i.e. you're willing to risk every dollar you put in. So, you don't put a huge amount of money in. But guess what? I mean, the upside potential of these stocks, Mike, is like 10 to one.
And then you want to blend that with some of the upside leaders. Pan American's a great name. We love First Majestic, which has been an upside performer. AngloGold Ashanti. Sibanye, the South African PGM miner. We recommended them for our clients below five bucks is now trading $8.83. That's another good opportunity.
I think some of these smaller, lesser known, maybe a little more risky, smaller cap mining shares, particularly in silver, provide tremendous opportunity here. Because like I said before, we started the Gold-Guru.com as a means to help people and to help them navigate and survive. But it's not about survival because these opportunities coming to me are so phenomenal. You don't just survive, you thrive.
Mike Gleason: Yeah. As we wrap up here, Greg, go ahead and give him the website addresses. I know the Gold-Guru site is still pretty new and now there's some fantastic information on there you just talked about. People can start following you there and get some great advice, tell them how they can do that and follow you more closely as we wrap up.
Greg Weldon: Sure, Gold-Guru.com. Yeah, it is new. It's inexpensive. We just threw it together out of need when I did the Gold Investor Bootcamp, which we gave your listeners an opportunity to check out. The demand was huge and people are asking me, "How at this stock and what do we do today?"
And now I'm getting emails and I'm like, "Well, let's just start a newsletter." I mean, I remember I used to do before WeldonLive, which is our other product available at www.WeldonOnline.com, that encompasses everything. We do the bonds, we do the currencies, we do global macro, we do the Ags. I mean there's great opportunities in the Ags… look at coffee taken off, we caught that for our WeldonLive clients big time.
JO, with the ETF there. It's short this this week already. And I think those are some of the opportunities that is going to stem out of the dollar decline that's coming too. So the broad based opportunities, not just in the metals but in a whole range of commodities, but for the metal-specific people, which I know a lot of your clients, very inexpensive. We charge 60 bucks a month. We produce almost daily.
Since I do all of this by myself, I don't have a staff or deem here, it's me and Katelyn. She's my COO and I do everything else including taking out the garbage at night and thank God I love what I do because I'm here 14, 16, 18 hours a day doing this, trying to help people and the Gold-Guru.com 60 bucks a month. I mean that is a steal. We are giving this stuff away and if you buy a year, you get two months free. So, that's a pretty good deal, so feel free to visit and sign up now.
Mike Gleason: Yeah, I certainly urge people to do that. You can get a great sense of how well Greg handles these markets and really have has his finger on the pulse and yeah, people definitely need to check that out. It's fantastic information. Well, it's been wonderful to speak to you again, Greg and all year long. We really appreciate having you on as a guest.
Thank you for making yourself available once again. Hope you have a terrific holiday season and look forward to catching up with you again in the New Year. Thanks again for the time and keep up the good work my friend.
Greg Weldon: My pleasure, Mike is going to be an exciting 2020. That's all I can say.
Mike Gleason: Well that will do it for this week. Thanks again to Greg Weldon of Weldon Financial. For more information simply to go to either WeldonOnline.com where you can sign up for a free trial if you haven't already had one of those, and then be sure to check out Gold Investor Bootcamp and now the new site, Gold-Guru.com. Be sure to check all that out.
And check back here next Friday for our next Weekly Market Wrap Podcast. Until then this has been Mike Gleason with Money Metals Exchange, thanks for listening, and have a great weekend everybody.
Mike Gleason is a Director with Money Metals Exchange, a precious metals dealer recently named "Best in the USA" by an independent global ratings group. Gleason is a hard money advocate and a strong proponent of personal liberty, limited government and the Austrian School of Economics. A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason has extensive experience in management, sales and logistics as well as precious metals investing. He also puts his longtime broadcasting background to good use, hosting a weekly precious metals podcast since 2011, a program listened to by tens of thousands each week.


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Wednesday March 02 2011, 12.01am, The Times
Regina (Mirza and Others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Before Lord Justice Sedley, Lord Justice Rimer and Lord Justice Sullivan
Judgment February 23, 2011
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, when refusing to extend a foreign national's leave to remain in the United Kingdom, ought at the same time or promptly thereafter make a removal decision which, if adverse, would enable the foreign national to appeal without breaking the law by overstaying.
The Court of Appeal so held in a reserved judgment in allowing appeals brought by Amir Mirza, Samir Abbasi, Pooja Barot, and Divyesh Patel, against Lord Justice Moses ([2010] EWHC 2002 (Admin)) and by Bhulima Motee against the Asylum and Immigration


In a pilot, homeless youth in California dined on Subway sandwiches instead of visiting a soup kitchen.
When Mick Ebeling sees opportunities for technology to fix problems, he doesn't hold back. In 2013, he traveled to Sudan for a month to make a prosthetic arm for a kid named Daniel, who'd had his arms blown off by a barrel bomb. Earlier, he helped Tony 'TEMPT' Quan, a LA graffiti artist who'd been paralyzed with a neurodegenerative disease. Ebeling's Not Impossible Labs (NIL) built the Eyewriter, allowing the artist to paint by eye-strokes. Ebeling, also a movie and TV producer, believes in "technology for humanity's sake"–the opposite of technology that doesn't help anyone.
Now, Ebeling is turning his attention to homelessness. His new 'Hunger: Not Impossible' initiative, announced in New York last week, links up people sleeping rough with free meals at restaurants when they are least busy (between the hours of two and five in the afternoon). He figures this helps the restaurants as they need business. And it certainly helps the homeless. If you're hungry, you don't care about when you eat decent food, as long as you do eat it.
NIL piloted the idea recently with homeless youth in Venice Beach, California. Working with the charity Safe Place for Youth and several Subway restaurants, the groups sent out text messages asking people if they wanted to visit certain locations to pick up meals. Most of the people targeted took up the offer.
Ebeling sees several advantages to the system. Recipients can redeem meal vouchers without the stigma of entering a soup kitchen. Charities can deliver food to vulnerable people efficiently, while ensuring people have access to nutritious, healthy offerings. And, it may be possible to win discounts on the food, as restaurants have an incentive to get rid of their meals in the afternoon when there are no other customers.
"If you give any business an opportunity to make money when otherwise they wouldn't make money and do it an organized way, logic would say that's something that would be interesting for them," he says.
In the pilot, NIL picked up the tab because Ebeling was just trying to prove the concept works. But, if the project takes off, Ebeling hopes to raise outside philanthropic funding and get buy-in from restaurants.
We'll come back in a few months and see how the 'Hunger: Not Impossible' project is getting on. But it seems promising. Surveys show that more than half of the homeless have cellphones, opening the possibility of feeding people where they are, rather than having everyone come to the same central place for food.