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Your privacy is important to JAMF Software, LLC. As a result, we've developed this Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions.
A. Overview
JAMF Software, LLC and its Affiliates (identified in Section F below) (herein collectively "Jamf") makes reasonable efforts to protect the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy was created to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices. This Privacy Policy covers Jamf's use of personal information that we collect in the normal course of our business, when you use our corporate websites or applications, and when you otherwise interact with us, including when you attend events hosted or attended by Jamf and when you contact us for customer support (collectively, the "Services").
In addition to covering how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information, this policy also discloses our purpose and lawful basis for processing your information, and your related rights.Our legal basis for collecting and using personal information will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. In most cases, the lawful basis will be that the processing: (i) is necessary for our legitimate interests in carrying out our business with you, including direct marketing, provided those interests are not outweighed by your rights and interests, or (ii) is necessary to perform a contract with you. Where processing is based on your consent, we will identify the processing purposes and provide you with relevant information to make the processing fair and transparent. If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
Our Services are not directed to anyone under the age of 16, and Jamf does not knowingly solicit or collect information from anyone under 16 years of age.If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have collected information about a child, please contact us at privacy@jamf.com.
Jamf may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. In the event we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or by posting the revised policy on our corporate website (https://www.jamf.com/privacy-policy/). When we update this Privacy Policy, we will note the date the most recent revision was posted below, at the end of the policy. Any revisions will become effective upon (7) calendar days following such posting on our corporate website.
B. EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
Your personal information might be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are a resident. When transferring personal information from the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland to the U.S., Jamf complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States, respectively. Jamf has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
In compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles, Jamf commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact Jamf via Section N below.
Jamf has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit http://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
C. Collection of Information
Depending on the context in which you interact with us, Jamf may collect or receive the following information:
Account and Profile Information: This includes information you provide when you create an account with our Services, request a trial, contact support, register for events, complete surveys and may include name, username, email address, phone number, company name, state, country, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, GitHub URL, and your photo.
Service Information: When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Services, either entered by you or others who use the Services, or from the Services infrastructure itself. This information may include, but is not limited to, name, username, company/organization, company/organization address, email address, phone number, IP address, MAC address, latitude, longitude, AppleCare ID, Apple ID, device name(s), device ID(s), and directory ID or other information you place within the Services.
Performance and Usage Data: We may collect statistical, usage, configuration, and performance data of the Services to monitor the performance, integrity, and stability of the Services. Further, we may use and disclose this information for any purpose, provided that such data is first de-identified.
Payment Information: We use third party payment processors to process payments made to us. In connection with the processing of such payments, we do not retain any personally identifiable information or any financial information such as credit card numbers. Rather, all such information is provided directly to our third party processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. The privacy policies of our current third party processors may be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy, https://home.bluesnap.com/privacy-policy/, https://www.cleverbridge.com/corporate/privacy-policy/ and https://usaepay.info/policy.
Information from Third Parties: We receive information from third party business partners such as the contact details of prospects and sales leads from our resellers. In addition, we collect information from public databases or other data you may have made publicly available, such as information posted on professional networks and social media platforms.
Location Information: Some of our applications collect general location information based on IP address. This information is used to customize the services provided to you, such as location-based information of specific managed devices. Location information is only viewable by the end user. We do not use, disclose, or sell location information for the purposes of providing targeted marketing or advertisements.
D. Use of Collected Information
We may use the information we collect or receive for the following purposes:
To carry out the purpose for which it was originally collected or received.
To provide, operate, maintain and improve our products and services.
To respond to your inquiries and provide support.
To process and complete transactions, and send you related information.
To market and sell our products and services. If we do so, we will provide you with an easy way to opt-out of receiving such communications in the future.
To monitor the performance, integrity and stability of the Services.
To address or prevent technical or security issues.
To customize your experience related to the Services and display content that we think you might be interested in according to your preferences.
Jamf does not sell or rent information to third parties and we do not share information with third parties except as described in this Policy.
E. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Jamf and our third party partners, such as our advertising and analytics partners, use cookies and similar technologies to make our websites and applications work, and to learn more about our users and their likely interests as well as information relating to their visits and interactions with a website or application.
Use of Cookies. We may collect various forms of information such as entry and exit points for our websites (i.e., referring URLs or domain names), website traffic statistics, operating system and browser type (collectively "Traffic Data"). Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify you but is helpful for marketing purposes or for improving your experience on the sites. In addition, when you request pages on our sites, our servers automatically log your IP address. Depending on the cookie, the cookie may expire at the end of your browser session or may stay (or "persist") on your computer until the expiration date specified in the cookie.
Controlling or Modifying Cookies. If you accept a cookie, you can delete it at any time (e.g., as soon as you leave our websites) through your web browser. If you do not wish to receive cookies or wish to manage when you accept cookies in general, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use certain features or functionality of our Services that depend on your web browser accepting cookies. You can also use opt-out tools provided by third party partners, or by the Digital Advertising Alliance (http://www.aboutads.info/choices), the EU Internet advertising industry (http://www.youronlinechoices.eu), or similar entities. Where required, Jamf obtains consent prior to using cookies.
Analytics. Jamf uses analytical services provided by Google to monitor our Services, such as Firebase, Google Analytics for Firebase, and Crashlytics. You can find out more about the types of analytical data collected, how that data is processed, and how to opt out of certain features by visiting www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Do Not Track Signals. Jamf Services do not respond to Do Not Track Signals.
F. Employee Information
JAMF Software, LLC or its Affiliates may collect employee information from prospective and present employees only for legitimate business purposes, including the administration of health insurance and other benefits. Our European Union and Swiss employees at the time of their employment are notified in detail how their personal information will be used. Employee information on health, performance evaluations, and disciplinary actions and other sensitive employee matters, whether it is stored manually or electronically, is accessible by other Jamf employees only if necessary with respect to legitimate human resource functions or issues; however, an employee's picture and any information the employee chooses to provide may be placed on the Jamf intranet. Likewise, from time to time, an employee's picture along with personal information may be published in Jamf directories, internal websites and used in presentations. JAMF Holdings, Inc. entities collecting employee information include JAMF Software, LLC, JAMF International, Inc., JAMF Software Atlantic, B.V., JAMF Software Poland, sp.z.o.o., JAMF Software Germany, GmbH, JAMF Software France, SARL, JAMF Software UK, Limited, JAMF Software Pacific, Limited, JAMF Software Australia Pty Limited, JAMF Japan KK, Jamf Sweden AB, ZuluDesk BV, and ZuluDesk Inc.
For legitimate human resources purposes, employees may choose to voluntarily disclose personal information about family members. If our employees choose to do this, their family member's personal information shall be treated, for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the same as an employee's personal information. Unless otherwise noted or excluded by context, "employee information" is included within the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of this Policy. Employee information is never sold, leased, or rented to any third party. Employee information will never be disclosed to third parties except as follows:
to those retained by JAMF Software, LLC or its affiliates for processing only for the purposes set forth above;
where required pursuant to an applicable law, governmental or judicial order, law or regulation, or to protect the rights or property of JAMF Software, LLC or its affiliates;
in the event of sale of the business, merger, acquisition, etc.;
where authorized electronically or in writing by the employee; and
where the employee voluntarily provides personal information and the context makes it clear that employee information will be provided to a third party/subprocessor (ex. payroll, benefits, travel, reimbursement, and other systems used in the employment context).
we disclose your personal information to our private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners, and its affiliates, including Vista Consulting Group (collectively, "Vista"), for administration, research, database development and business operation purposes, in line with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Vista processes your personal information on the basis of its legitimate interests in overseeing the recruitment process and, if applicable, your employment relationship with Jamf. If you have consented to us doing so, we also share your personal information with other Vista portfolio companies for the purpose of being considered for other job opportunities in the pooling system, both inside and outside the EEA. Please find a full list of all Vista portfolio companies at: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/companies/. Where this requires us to transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, please refer to Section B of the Privacy Policy for further details. In connection with the recruitment process, we transfer your personal information outside of the EEA to Hirebridge, LLC and Criteria Corp., which provide applicant tracking services. Hirebridge, LLC and Criteria Corp. both comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and ensure that your personal information is adequately protected whilst outside of the EEA.
Where personal information is transferred from the EU or Switzerland to the US in the context of the employment relationship, we will cooperate in investigations by and comply with the advice of the EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commission (FDPIC).
G. Sharing of Personal Information & Accountability for Onward Transfer
From time to time, Jamf may engage third party business partners, vendors, or subprocessors to perform functions such as sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, data storage, processing credit card payments, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing customer service. Such companies shall only use your information for those purposes required to perform their functions. Additionally, Jamf may share your information, without your prior consent, in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, or transfer of assets. When information is shared, Jamf will ascertain that any third parties are obligated to provide at least the same level of privacy protection as is required under this policy. Should Jamf transfer information outside of a local jurisdiction, it shall only be done with adequate protections in place and in compliance with applicable laws and standards.
Jamf may share your information if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) protect and defend the rights or property of Jamf; (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy or the Services' terms and conditions of access and use agreement; (iii) participate in dispute resolution pursuant to this Privacy Policy; (iv) protect the interests of other users of the Services or any other person; or (v) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of the Services or equipment.
Jamf may be required to disclose an individual's information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Jamf shall remain liable under the Principle of Accountability for Onward Transfer if its subprocessors process your information in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Shield Principles, unless Jamf proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
H. Protection of Information
Taking into account the risks involved in the processing and nature of information and to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction and while maintaining data accuracy, Jamf has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial policies and procedures to safeguard the information Jamf collects. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. However, the safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have chosen or we have given you a user name and password for access to certain parts of the Services, you are responsible for keeping the user name and password confidential. Although we do our best to protect the information, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your information.
I. Retention
Jamf will retain your information for only as long as it serves the purposes for which it was collected and will be retained in a form identifying or making identifiable only for as long as it serves a purpose of processing.
J. Other Limits to Your Privacy
The Services may contain links to other non-Jamf websites. Jamf is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Jamf has no control over the use of such websites and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any information on these websites.
K. Choice
We seek to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. You can always opt not to disclose information. However, if you elect to do so, this may impact functionality or prevent the use of Jamf's products or services. You have the right, at any time, to opt-out of receiving marketing messages from Jamf by sending an email to privacy@jamf.com, by unsubscribing through the unsubscribe or opt-out link in an email, or by unsubscribing here. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important operational or administrative messages.
L. Access and Correction
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you. You may access your information that Jamf holds by contacting us via Section N below. You have the right to correct, amend, or delete that information where it is inaccurate, or has been processed in violation of the Privacy Shield Principles, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual's privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated.
To protect your privacy and security, Jamf may also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections to or deleting your account.
M. Regulatory Oversight
For this Privacy Policy and its content, Jamf is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If Jamf becomes subject to an FTC or court order based on non-compliance with this policy or Privacy Shield, Jamf shall make public any relevant Privacy Shield related sections of any compliance or assessment report submitted to the FTC, to the extent consistent with confidentiality requirements.
N. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or if you would like to request access to the personal information that we may maintain about you, please contact us as follows:
JAMF Software, LLC
100 Washington Avenue South
As of the writing of this Privacy Policy, Jamf has not established an official in the EU or Switzerland who can respond to questions and complaints. Please direct all correspondence to the above.
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It was an Indigo Girls' kind of day today and my space is almost finished- now the finishing touches such as putting my glass in its place and hooking up my equipment, etc. need to be done. Behold my fabulous new work space: I'll be sure to get more photos of everything in its place by Monday- after some torching, of course. Have a creative weekend!
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JOHNNIE JACKSON HAS THE GREATEST TRAPEZIUS DEVELOPMENT OF ALL TIME.
Yes, superior to the shoulder mountains of Ronnie Coleman or Markus Ruhl. Better, too, than the twin peaks atop the clavicles of Lou Ferrigno, Kevin Levrone, that other Jackson— Dexter—and anyone else you name.
At his best, when crunching a most muscular, Jackson's traps rise so high they seem at risk of detaching. And from behind, the granite kite on his back jumps at you in 3-D. Up near the top, the flesh on either side of his neck forms a dramatic ring around an oddly elevated vertebrae, creating a look so freakishly unique that when a rear shot of him appeared in GQ, anyone who also read FLEX knew instantly it could only be Johnnie.
But it isn't just all that mutant muscle that distinguishes Jackson's trapezius. It's also the dedication he's applied for more than three decades to an area that almost everyone else gives short shrift. He treats his traps like every other body part, tormenting them in their own routine. His four exercises are chosen to work every section of the left and right trapezius muscles. At 45, Jackson is in the twilight of a stellar career. He's won four pro titles, entered 12 Olympias, and been crowned world's strongest bodybuilder. But perhaps his greatest accomplishment resides atop his shoulders and in the middle of his upper back.


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Flying by Dione
Wispy terrain stretches across the trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Dione on the right of this Cassini image taken during the spacecraft's flyby on April 7, 2010.
See Highest Resolution View of Dione for an older, closer view of Dione's wispy fractures. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 698 miles across). North on Dione is up and rotated 1 degree to the right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 11 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Saturn Moons
Far above the howling winds of Saturn, its icy moons circle the planet in silence. Mimas is seen near the upper right, while Tethys hovers at the bottom. Dark shadows cast by the see-through rings ...
Wind World
The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013.
One Special Day in the Life of Planet Earth
Structure in Saturn's narrow and complex F ring is seen here, including one of the faint strands (at the left) that Cassini has shown to curl around the planet in a tight, rotating spiral. Scientis...
F Ring Edge
The Aristarchus crater (about 25 miles or 40 kilometers in diameter) and plateau is one of the most geologically complex areas on the Moon. In this amazing picture, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbi...
Aristarchus Crater
Technician helps guide the second half of the fairing for installation around NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Payload Fairing Installation Around the Dawn Spacecraft
A pair of Saturn's small moons, Janus and Pandora, accompany the planet's rings in this Cassini spacecraft image presenting the view in dramatic diagonal fashion. The rings are between the two moo...
Rings on a Diagonal
Change is detected on Saturn's moon Titan, in these three composite images from data taken during flybys in October 2005, January 2006 and March 2006 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (For balanced co...
Titan's Chilly Volcanoes?
+ See Animation These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the changing appearance of the huge storm that developed from a small spot in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Here ...
Encircling a Giant
+ View Full Res This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken on Oct. 19, 2011. As the spacecraft passed Enceladus, its infrared instruments, cameras and other instruments moni...
Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #4)
This color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres. It is labeled with names of features approved by the International Astrono...
Topographic Ceres Map With Crater Names
This image of fractures in Occator Crater's floor on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 5, 2018 from an altitude of about 35 miles (57 kilometers).
Fractures in Occator Crater's Floor
This composite image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is a simulated true color image of asteroid Vesta's northern and equatorial regions.
Vesta's Northern and Equatorial Regions in Simulated True Color
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on June 6, 2016, shows Piuku Crater (19 miles, 31 kilometers wide), bottom, on Ceres.
Dawn LAMO Image 190
This raw image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was taken on June 16, 2015 and received on Earth June 17, 2015.
Dione (raw image)
+ View high res + View unannotated version + View contrast enhanced version On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow ...
The Day the Earth Smiled (annotated)
This false-color mosaic of Saturn shows deep-level clouds silhouetted against Saturn's glowing interior. The image was made with data from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, which ...
Saturn's Silhouetted Clouds
Titan's First Close-Up October 26, 2004 This image is one of the closest ever taken of Saturn's hazy moon Titan. It was captured by Cassini's imaging scien...
Titan's First Close-Up
The European Space Agency's Huygens Probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this close-up of an image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after it successfully detached from the C...
Close-Up of Huygens Probe
This evening when you are out visiting friends and family, look up. Saturn will be there to remind you of some of the winter season and holiday celebration beginnings. One can only imagine the se...
Solstice Season With Saturn
This anaglyph image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the topography of asteroid Vesta's south polar region. The material at the base of the scarp (right side) is probably due to landsliding.
Anaglyph Image of a Large Scarp in Vesta's South Polar Region
The month of January is named for the mythical Roman god Janus, who guarded the gate of heaven. Cassini spied the heavily cratered, irregularly shaped moon of Saturn as it glided along in its orbit...
January's Moon
Saturn Methane Image March 5, 2004 Full-Res: PIA05381 The Cassini narrow angle camera took this image of Saturn on Feb. 16, 2004,...
Saturn Methane Image
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was ...
Dione Rev 158 Raw Preview -- Image 6
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after the probe successfully detached from the Cassini s...
Huygens Probe Shines for Cassini's Cameras (Unlabeled)

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A bit more than two weeks ago, I took part in a game jam organized by a french Youtuber (At0mium). For those who don't know what a game jam is, it's basically a video game creation contest where you create a game within a short period of time. In my case, I created the game from scratch during a weekend on the theme: "Faire du neuf avec du vieux". When I enrolled, I thought that it would be a fun experience and a small break from my current project. It happened to be more than that. The community of game creators was amazing. Some of the game makers were streaming the whole process, others were speaking on Discord, but everyone was trying to help each other, giving advice or providing help with the tools, engines, or anything. The experience over the weekend was just amazing. Seeing so much creativity in such a short time was very inspiring, and sharing the passion for game creation with kind people was so beneficial.
I created a game where you program the main character instead of playing it. You can play it for free and read more about on itch.io: Paperboy Droid. However, the most surprising event to me happened during the week after the game jam. I received so much valuable feedback on my game and had conversations with experienced creators that I learned more during this week than in some months. I even saw my game played live by a streamer, and was surprised by the fact that people could have a really entertaining moment playing a game I made in only two days. I like games involving programming very much. It is the intersection of the two main passions of my life. But I didn't know that others (especially non-programmers) could have fun playing it two, even if the game was not polished at all. This gave me a desire to go on making such games. Especially games with real gameplay that can or must be played by programming, unlike games where programming is the actual gameplay.
I was also very happy to test games from others and was surprised by the quality of many games and the innovative concepts they were built on. My favorite ones are: Reminder, PO, Patience and Don't play break out.
I ended up at the 10th place (over 163 submitted games), and was ranked #2 in the gameplay category. I was very pleased because the gameplay was what I focused on the most. It was a big achievement for me and a great satisfaction. I'm grateful to all the voters for their support and all the feedback.
The game jam gave me a lot of motivation and the need to become more serious about my video game development story. However, making games is above all a passion for me and I must do it as such. And I should also share it as such. I will keep these principles in mind when choosing my future projects and how to plan them. For these reasons, I will stop the project I was working on and start making a project I'm really passionate about, a game with real gameplay and programming elements.


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Q: Set Axis Limits of mixfitEM plot I want to set limits to the x-axis of the plot of the output of the mixfit function of the mixR package.  This output is of class mixfitEM.
Reproducable example: First I simulate a mixture of log normals.
rm(list=ls())
library(mixR)
library("tidyverse")
set.seed(07062022)

N <- 1000
lbda=.5
mu1=1
Del=3
mu2=mu1+Del
components <- sample(1:2,prob=c((1-lbda), lbda),size=N,replace=TRUE)
mus <- c(mu1,mu2)
sds <- sqrt(c(1,.5))

Y <- rlnorm(n=N,meanlog=mus[components],sdlog=sds[components])

Then I try to fit two log normals into this data using mixfit() from mixR. In the first attempt I tried to use the plot() function from the base package; but plot ignores the xlim argument.
mod4 <- mixfit(Y, ncomp = 2, family = 'lnorm')

plot(mod4, title = 'Log-Normal Mixture (2 components)', xlim=c(0,200))

Then I tried to plot with ggplot, which, in theory should be possible according to the mixR manual. But ggplot does not understand the mixfitEM class.
ggplot(mod4)+
  + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, 200))

produces the following error:
> ggplot(data.frame(mod4))+
+   + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, 200))
Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = stringsAsFactors) :
  cannot coerce class '"mixfitEM"' to a data.frame
> ggplot(mod4)+
+   + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, 200))
Error in `fortify()`:
! `data` must be a data frame, or other object coercible by `fortify()`, not an S3 object with class mixfitEM.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.

A: When you call plot on the mixfitEM object, you are creating a ggplot. The reason for this is that plot is a generic function, so when package authors create a new class, they are free to use whatever method they want to draw the plot. In this case, if you examine the source code of mixR:::plot.mixfitEM you will see it actually uses ggplot to draw its output. This means you can use ggplot syntax to modify the output:
plot(mod4, title = 'Log-Normal Mixture (2 components)') + xlim(c(0, 200))

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President SBY Calls for International Investigation for MH17 Tragedy
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On 19th July 2014, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivered a press statement on the tragedy of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. According to reports, 12 Indonesian were on board the ill fated plane. The majority which were from the Netherlands (up to 150 souls) were also mostly flying to Indonesia to visit Bali. In his statement President conveyed both in Indonesian and english as drafted below.
On my personal behalf and on behalf of the people of Indonesia, I would like to express my deepest condolences and sympathies for the tragic incident relating toMalaysian Airlines flight MH-17 yesterday, 17th July 2014, during its flight fromAmsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
According to reports, the plane was shot by a missile. No less than 298 passengers including the crew lost their lives in this tragic incident. Indonesian citizens are reported to be among the victims. Our prayers and hopes are with the families. Throughout the evening and early morning today, I have been following with great concerns news relating to the incident. Since the very beginning, the minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia has reported the development to me and has tasked the relevant Indonesian embassies, namely, the embassies in theNetherlands, Malaysia, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation to gather as much information as possible including on the possibility of Indonesian citizens on board the flight. Thiseffort revealed that Indonesian citizens were on board the aircraft.
However, in accordance with the advice of the airline concerned and in order to fully ensure the identity of the passengers and to allow notifications to their next of kin, the government of Indonesia has been asked not to reveal their identities at this time. Further, there is a need for a thorough investigation on the cause of this tragedy. The rest of the community should collectively address this incident, notleast; reports indicated the plane was shot down by a missile related to the recent conflict situation in Ukraine. If this is proven, this would constitute a serious breach of international law and laws of war. Those responsible must be held fully accountable and be brought to justice. Indonesia calls for a thorough investigation of the incident and is ready to join any international investigation on that matter.
Not least, this tragedy, the losses of innocent lives reminds us of the urgent need for the conflict situation to be brought to an end, an immediate end. Indonesia calls on all the relevant parties to set aside their differences and look for a political settlement. I have also been informed by the Foreign Minister of Indonesia that later on this morning, local time, the United Nations Security Council will considerthis issue, I welcome this development. Also in the wake of the incident, I haveinstructed all Indonesian airlines to demonstrate upmost concerns and avoid airspace over conflict areas. This should be coordinated with the government, and as a member of the ASEAN family and in this holy month of Ramadan I wish to express my solidarity with the government and people of Malaysia and also with the countries whose citizens have fallen victims to this tragedy.
Before I conclude, Indonesia voices once again its greatest, deepest, and profoundconcerns over the rapidly worsening situation in Gaza. Far from engaging in a ceasefire, as expected by the international community, Israel has decided to launch a ground military operation. [inaudible] the conflict and once again, I should say,and once again call for an immediate ceasefire to be answered by the United Nations, the ending of the cycle of violence and the distribution of humanitarian assistance. Israel's ground military operation can only add to the suffering of the Palestine, I should say, to the Palestinian people and must be brought to an immediate end. Thank you very much – the President stated
President SBY also delivered his press statement in english below
1. On my personal behalf, and on behalf of the people of Indonesia, I would like to express my deepest condolences and sympathies for the tragic incident relating to Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17, yesterday 17th July 2014, during its flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. According to reports, the plane was shot down by a missile. No less than 298 passengers, including the crew, lost their lives in this tragic incident. Indonesian citizens are reported to be among the victims. Our prayers and thoughts are with the families.
2.Throughout the evening and early morning today, I have been following with great concern news relating to the incident. Since the very beginning, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, has reported the development to me and has tasked the relevant Indonesian Embassies, namely the Embassies in The Netherlands, Malaysia, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation, to gather as much information as possible, including on the possibility of Indonesian citizens on board the flight. These efforts revealed that Indonesian citizens were on board the aircraft. However, in accordance with the advice of the airline concerned, and in order to fully ensure the identity of the passengers, and to allow notifications to their next of kin, the Government of Indonesia has been asked not to reveal their identities at this time.
3.Further, there is a need for a thorough investigation on the cause of this tragedy. The international community should collectively address this incident. Not least, reports indicate that the plane was shot down by a missile related to the recent conflict situation in Ukraine. If this is proven, this would constitute a serious breach of international law and laws of war. Those responsible must be held fully accountable and be brought to justice. Indonesia calls for a thorough investigation of the incident and is ready to join in any international investigation of the matter. Not least, this tragedy, the losses of innocent life reminds of the urgent need for the conflict situation to be brought to an end an immediate end. Indonesia calls on all the relevant parties to set aside their differences and work towards a political settlement.
4.I have also been informed by the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, that later on this morning, local time, the United Nations Security Council will consider this issue. I welcome this development
5.Also in regard to this incident, I am instructing all Indonesian airlines to demonstrate utmost caution and avoid air space over conflict areas. This should be coordinated with the Government.
6.As a member of the ASEAN family, and in this holy month of Ramadhan, I wish to express my solidarity with the Government and people of Malaysia, and also with the countries whose citizens have fallen victim of this tragedy.
7.Before I conclude, Indonesia wishes to once again express its deep and profound concern over the rapidly worsening situation in Gaza. Far from engaging in a ceasefire as expected by the international community, Israel has decided to launch a ground military operation. We deplore such escalation of the conflict and once again call for an immediate ceasefire to be observed by the United Nations; the ending of the cycle of violence; and the distribution of humanitarian assistance. Israel's ground military operation can only add to the sufferings of the Palestinian people and mustbe brought to an immediate end – President SBY stated
The President called the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razzak after Friday prayer at 2 pm to convey his condolences and provide Indonesia's full support in discovering the truth behind this sad event.
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AC/DC: If You Want Blood You've Got It (1978)
Okay, so this is technically a live album as much as Unleashed In The East was a live album, but it still rocks.
Kronomyth 6.0: AC/DC CUMS ALIVE. Now this is more like it: an electrifying AC/DC on stage (mostly in Glasgow) and on fire. Never mind that the band's live performances never sounded this good; hell, even Powerage wasn't this polished. So is this one of the greatest rock and roll live albums of all time? Not really. Guitar solos have been edited, tracks have been changed, the whole thing has been cut and coiffed. But for a band that never released a greatest hits album, If You Want Blood You've Got It may be as good as it gets. This is Bon Scott-era AC/DC in top form getting lowdown and dirty with inspired performances of "The Jack," "Whole Lotta Rosie," "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be" and the best songs from their first five albums. In fact, these versions of "Bad Boy Boogie," "High Voltage," "Riff Raff," "Problem Child" and "Rock 'N' Roll Damnation" might actually outclass the originals. And who could argue that "Let There Be Rock" was made to be played live? Unlike a lot of live albums, the songs on If You Want Blood don't run considerably longer on stage. The album has the same succinct punch that Vanda and Young had delivered to date in the studio; the band pummels you with a few chords, Bon shadow boxes with his inner demons and Angus knocks you out with a short, fast solo. More often than not, albums like If You Want Blood get "restored" to their original form with time; tracks are re-sequenced, added, unedited. That hasn't happened yet. It remains today in much the same form: defiantly thin, unrepentantly perfect in places, with a veneer of sneer and a modicum of bonhomie. It may not be the perfect live album, but I wouldn't change a thing after all these years.
Original LP Version
A1. Riff Raff
A2. Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
A3. Bad Boy Boogie
A4. The Jack
A5. Problem Child
B1. Whole Lotta Rosie
B2. Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
B3. High Voltage
B4. Let There Be Rock
B5. Rocker
All songs written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott.
Phil Rudd (drums), Bon Scott (vocals), Cliff Williams (bass), Angus Young (guitar), Malcolm Young (guitar). Produced by Vanda & Young.
Released on elpee and cassette on November 21, 1978 in Australia (Albert, APLP-034), the US and Canada (Atlantic, SD/CS-19212), the UK (Atlantic, K 50532), Argentina (WEA, 93305), Canada (Atlantic, KSD-19212), Germany (ATL 50 532), Japan (Atlantic/Warner-Pioneer, P-10618A) and Yugoslavia (Suzy, ATL 50532); reached #113 on the US charts (RIAA certified platinum record) and #13 on the UK charts.
Re-issued on elpee in 1979 in Brazil (Atlantic, 30.095).
Re-issued on elpee in 1980 in Mexico (Atlantic, LWA-5408).
Re-issued on elpee in Taiwan (Kelly, KY-1014).
Re-issued on elpee in 1984 in Germany (Atlantic, ATL 50 532).
Re-issued on cassette in Argentina (93305).
Re-issued on compact disc in 1988 in Japan (Atlantic, 32XD-949).
Re-released on remastered compact disc on October 18, 1994 in the US (Atlantic, 92447).
Re-issued on remastered compact disc in 1995 in Australia (Albert, 477087-2).
Re-issued on remastered compact disc in Japan (Atlantic, AMCY-6223).
Re-released on remastered 180g vinyl elpee and compact disc in 2003 in the US and Canada (Epic, E/EK-80205) and the UK (Sony, 510763-1).
Re-issued on remastered compact disc in 2007 in Japan (Sony, SICP-1704).
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Twenty schools in Jefferson County, Colorado, were placed on lockdown Tuesday as the FBI searched for a woman they said is "armed and extremely dangerous." The lockdown, which mean the doors were locked but classes went on, happened just days before the 20th anniversary of the shooting at Jefferson County's Columbine High School, which left 12 students and one teacher dead in addition to the two shooters.
"Last night, Sol Pais traveled here to Colorado and she made threats to commit an act of violence in this area, she is armed and considered dangerous," said Mike Taplin with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
The Jefferson County sheriff's office assured parents students were safe, and afterschool activities were running as normal on Tuesday except at Columbine High School, where activities were canceled as a precaution.


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Judge 'Criticises' Council over Forced Contraception Attempt
Laodicia yesterday blogged that:
'A trailer just popped up on Radio 4 for a new debating programme. The first topic up is the merits of sterilizing the mentally and morally unfit. Yes that's right folks the merits of sterilizing the mentally and morally unfit. This is to be chaired by liberal pseudo-Catholic Edward Stourton. The problem here is not the result of any debate but the fact that such a topic is considered a fit topic for discussion in the first place. This is part of the softening up process for our Eugenic future.'
Let us not be in any doubt. This is where the culture of death is headed and the BBC will, as usual, be at the forefront of not defending us from it. It is inevitable. A society that embraces voluntary abortion, assisted suicide and artificial contraception is ill-equipped to stand firm and rejects these evils when these practises are suddenly touted as potential methods to be used on citizens in a compulsory manner. Euthanasia was voluntary in Nazi Germany before it became mandatory for certain groups deemed 'unfit' at a time of the State's choosing.
Now, today, we have the first hint of what is to come. According to a report in The Telegraph...
'A judge has criticised a council for trying to have contraception forced upon a woman with a low IQ, warning that the move had "shades of social engineering".'
"Shades of social engineering" is putting it charitably and mildly. This is a dreadful, spine-chilling move by a local council on the 'reproductive health' and individual rights of a woman.
Nazi Witch: Marie Stopes
Meanwhile, I look forward, very much, to hearing Marie Stopes International's condemnation of this flagrant attack on the rights of a woman over her body, but I fear my hope of doing so may be unfulfilled, since 'reproductive health of women' was not the chief motive of their founder. The chief motive of Marie Stopes was the drive for racial purity and the elimination of the 'unfit'.
The article continues and I think you will agree that it is shocking, with my emphasis in bold blue, lightly fisked in brackets...
'Mr Justice Bodey said it would not be "acceptable" for police to take the married woman from her home before doctors sedated her and imposed birth control on her, against her will. He said the local authority's plan, to stop the 29 year-old having more children, "would raise profound questions about state intervention in private and family life".
However, the judge agreed that she lacked the mental capacity to make important decisions about her medical treatment, paving the way for the council to make a further request for force to be used (Sound alarm bells now!). It is the latest in a series of rulings published by the Court of Protection, which until recently always kept its judgements secret, that highlight the power that town halls and judges have over people with learning difficulties or dementia.
Earlier this year a High Court judge sitting in the Court ruled that a woman suffering from cancer, who has a phobia of hospitals and needles, should be forced against her wishes to undergo life-saving treatment. The Court, which was given the power to decide on personal welfare cases under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Read about this Act and you'll realise just how dangerous this nasty piece of legislation is...), can also order the withdrawal of life-support from patients as well as making them have abortions or undergo "innovative treatment".
In the latest case, a council in the Midlands (Great journalism. Which Council, please?!) initially wanted to force contraception on a married woman who has an IQ of 53. None of those involved can be named (How convenient!). She has already had two babies, both of whom were taken away from her at birth by social services and put up for adoption over fears she would not be able to look after them. The woman, known in the judgement as Mrs A, is now married to a man with an IQ of 65, and attends college as well as taking part in voluntary work.
A year ago social workers feared that she was suffering violence at the hands of her husband, and also that he had forced her to stop taking contraception because he wanted a baby, so the council began Court of Protection proceedings to "protect her interests" (Right...by "forcing" her to take contraception!)
Solicitors, doctors and psychiatrists interviewed Mrs A in order to find out whether she understood the choices she had regarding birth control, and their implications. The council argued that she was unable to understand the consequences of not using contraception such as the Pill or a coil, or to envisage what is involved in raising a child. (Read: 'She was not co-operating with the State's wishes'. The 'why' is between her and her husband and frankly, they must both be heartbroken that the SS have taken away their children at birth! Have Social Services no shame!? Apparently not!)
But the Official Solicitor, representing the woman, argued that such a wide approach would mean many first-time mothers would appear to lack capacity. The judge agreed that deciding whether a woman "understood enough about the practical realities of parenthood" would veer into a "paternalistic approach".
On the narrower medical issue, he agreed that Mrs A lacked the capacity to decide whether to have contraceptive treatment. The judge said her decision to stop taking birth control was "not the product of her own free will" because of the "coercive pressure" placed upon her by her husband. However, he said that the council's application was no longer for "force and restraint" to be used "so that contraception could be urgently administered".
The judge said Mrs A's social worker admitted "there would need to be police involvement" and it would be a "horrendous prospect" for her to be "physically removed from the family home and taken to have contraception under restraint and anaesthesia".
He declined to make an order as to her best interests, leaving it for the council to assess the couple's parenting abilities if she did become pregnant and then take "appropriate" steps. The council said it "reserves the right" to argue that force should be authorised in the future.
But the judge said: "It is obvious on the facts of this case, that any step towards long-term court imposed contraception by way of physical coercion, with its affinity to enforced sterilisation and shades of social engineering, would raise profound questions about state intervention in private and family life. Whilst the issue of the use of force has not been argued out at this hearing I cannot, on these facts, presently see how it could be acceptable."
David Hewitt, a specialist in mental health law at Weightmans, said: "It seems from the judgment that, at least at the outset, the council thought it might need to have the police enforce an order that the woman take her contraceptive medication. That seems quite striking, yet because of the route the judge chose to take, it's still in prospect."'
George Orwell said, knowing what was on the way, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever".
Social Services have a habit of doing just that. They are footsoldiers in the State's war upon the Poor and they and I do not call them the SS for nothing. This judge may not have agreed with the Council and may have made some negative remarks, but this woman is still not safe from the band of the wicked who seek to force a married woman to take contraception. He hasn't protected her! Which Council is this!? We the people should demand to know! Not content with ripping this poor womans babies away at birth and adopting them out to some randoms, the SS now wish to enforce contraception on her, the diabolical, wicked, savage group of men and women that they are!
Update: Sorry, I just realised, The Telegraph's image of the contraceptive pill in their article is highly misleading. You cannot 'force' someone to take the contraceptive pill, or 'patch', as you'd have to go round and restrain the woman everyday, nor would the simplest way of doing it be the 'coil', so forced contraception wouldn't look like that.
No. It would look like this:
Dear, dear. Looks like journalistic standards at The Telegraph are slipping and perhaps their moral standards as well.
If we dare to tolerate the abuse of this 29-year-old's human rights, which we should hold as sacred and inviolable, we cannot complain when we are deemed, 'unfit' to have children. Remember, the male contraceptive injection is on the way too, folks!
As an aside I have heard from the organiser of the Abort67 campaign that they are planning next Tuesday a display outside Marie Stopes Clinic in London next Tuesday. Guess where the clinic is based...go on...one guess...
Brixton! They're not subtle are they?
Bit off topic but it looks like you should celebrating Obama's new found Muslim faith. I quote from
'Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts' edited by Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi (2001, Palgrave):
Writing of the 1993 Cairo Conference (attended by the Vatican), they note that: "an alliance of some Catholic and some Muslim delegations led by the Vatican (the Holy See) were united as a bloc in lobbying for a unified position on these issues (Moghadam 1995;Woodman 1995; Tohidi 1996; Afkhami & Friedl 1997). . . Why should some Catholics unite with some Muslims against equal rights for women?"
For more on this conference, and the alliance between Iran and the Vatican that it fostered, see:
http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Articles/POPCAIRO.txt
Moving on the a similar Conference in China they write:
"A related question that emerged from the Beijing conference concerned how religious Catholic and Muslim women who believe in women's equal rights were coping with the contradictions between their own beliefs in women's equal rights and the official positions of their religious authorities. More specifically, we were interested in the spectrum of opinion and the variety of strategies that women have adopted with regard to this contradiction in a variety of contexts."
I can think of all sorts of people who are not fit to bring up children, not just ones with low IQs, whatever that signifies. And that includes quite a few of our bluebloods. Perhaps social workers too. Where does one draw the line?
And then again, it is inconsistent with the notion that it is OK for children to be fostered with same-sex couples, which cannot be ideal for the children.
That said, it is not a good thing for adults who obviously not up to the task to go ahead and have children. In the olden days a girl like that might have been sent off to be looked after by nuns, but unfortunately it now turns out that nuns were not always the best of carers.
I think our most Holy Father, Cardinal Ratzinger expressed the Church's position on restricting the rights of the mentally ill best when he said:
"the state may restrict the exercise of rights, for example, in the case of contagious or mentally ill persons."
Oh no wait, he is all for it
[From: http://www.slate.com/id/2131019]
I think that given the Church's position on contraception, you will find he is utterly opposed to this.
Danny said…
Re: "Brixton! They're not subtle are they?" - Who? MS or the Canadian funded evangelical nutters of Abort 67? If the former then I fail to see the relevance of their being a clinic in Brixton (London's second most populous sub-district). There are 4 MS clinics in W1 (I presume the implication is that, as Brixton is a quarter Afro-Carribean, the presence of a clinic there represents some sort of eugenic function). Well, why are MS eugenics bods present in fourt times the numbers int he largely white and mostly affluent W1? Once again, not done your research/rather lie to get people to follow your mental crusade of self-denial
Because Marie Stopes hated the blacks, Danny.
Even Wikipedia will tell you that much.
Sorry, I was clearly wrong. It's just a coincidence MS have a clinic based in a dense populus of black people.
Brixton's population is one quarter Afro-Carribean, though as I say, it is one of the most populated boroughs. There are 4 clinics int he far less populated W1 boroughs of Angel and two in the affluent Russel Square area. If having one clinic in an area with nearly 300,000 people is a sign of direct racism against Afro-Carribeans, surely having 4 in an area with about 60,000 people (mostly whites) is a sign to the contrary. As I say - not done your research. Also, the point remains - the protest is in Brixton because the protesters CHOSE to go to Brixton. They could have chosen to go to one of the 4 in Angel, they just didn't
It's up to the protesters where they want to protest, Danny.
All I'm saying is, Marie Stopes would be happy with the Brixton location because she was a massive racist - she'd love the idea of black babies getting aborted.
Interested observer said…
This is the most ridiculous post yet, I can,t respond now coz I.m going away for a week but I will when I get back. The woman in question has subnormal intelligence, she is severely learning disabled - she deserves to be protected from this situation. It is right that the court of protection and social services intervene to prevent her repeatedly having babies which she would be unable to look after, and which will need to be taken into care (as history has already shown). I'm surprised she was allowed to get married because it's unlikely she would be able to understand the consequences of such a decision and would not have had the mental capacity to give informed consent needed for the legal recognition for marriage.
As I said, in 1992 God's rottweiler stated in regard to exactly this type of issue:
I don't know where you've got this idea from that the Church opposed all incursions into the freedom of individuals because, clearly, it doesn't
I didn't 'miss the point'.
If somebody is sectioned under say, the Mental Health Act, then they are deprived of their freedom because they are a 'danger to themselves and/or others'.
That may not be nice for the individual but it is for their own and society's good. That is an incursion into the freedom of the individual but necessary in extreme cases.
It is not permissable and the Holy Father would never defend, I am quite sure, the taking of someone against their will, to be enforced to take contraception.
Firstly, contraception of the kind administered to this person would defy the Natural Law. Secondly, the contraception would prevent the implantation of embryoes. Thirdly, given that the person was married, it is against God's loving plan for mankind to ensure that any sexual act is closed to new life, according to the act of procreation.
Therefore, you are wrong and are taking the Holy Father's words entirely out of context, applying it to a gravely sinful attack on an individual, by the State, to which neither he nor the whole Church could possibly condone.


OLO volatility extremely low; fresh general elections a wildcard?
To fund the borrowing requirement, the Belgian Debt Agency plans amongst others to issue €28bn of OLOs, which is €5.94bn less than this year. It expects to launch two new OLO fixed-rate benchmarks. The main other funding source is the EMTN programme (€2bn). Apart from the new OLO syndications, the number of regular auctions remains at 7 and the Treasury may use the possibility of syndicated taps on longer term OLO benchmarks (including last year's green OLO). The focus remains on extending the average life of the debt portfolio. At the end of November, the indicator reached 9.59 years. In 2019, it is required to be higher than 9 years, the same target as in 2018.
In this respect, we expect more long term benchmarks in 2019. Traditionally, the Belgian debt agency launches a 10-yr benchmark in January (Jun2029). There is no debt outstanding in 2029 or 2030, allowing the Treasury to fill these gaps in the curve next year and the year after. For the other new benchmark, the debt agency specifically mentions the syndication of a benchmark with a minimum maturity of 15 years. As the debt agency issued a 15-yr (green) OLO last year, we expect them to prefer a 20-yr deal or longer next year. On top, the debt agency already has €7.78bn outstanding in 2034, compared to no bonds maturing in 2039 (20y), 2044 (25y) or 2049 (30y). Investor demand and the yield environment will eventually decide on the preferred tenor. This year, the Kingdom issued 2 new bonds, following 4 benchmarks in 2016 and 2017: 10-yr OLO 85 (€5bn 0.80% Jun2028) and inaugural 15-yr green OLO 86 (€4.5bn 1.25% Apr2033).
The Belgian debt agency continues to have favorable supply dynamics in 2020 and 2021 with OLO redemptions amounting to approximately €20bn and €17bn respectively. Supply is thus expected to remain rather low.
Under its Public Sector Purchase Programme, the ECB bought €72.9bn OLOs up until the end of November. The Kingdom of Belgium has currently around €340bn OLOs outstanding. The weighted average maturity of the ECB portfolio is 9.32 years. The ECB ends its net asset purchases by the end of the year, but remains active in the EMU government bond market via its reinvestment policy. All maturing bonds from the ECB's APP portfolio will be reinvested in full. There's no specific end date to this policy and we don't expect any announcement about it in 2019. We estimate that the ECB will buy around €5.85bn of OLOs this way during 2019, which is 21% of OLO supply. This compares with 45% in 2015, 68% in 2016/2017 and 34% last year, but still is a significant amount.
Belgian bonds traded extremely stable over the past months. Stress stemming from the Italian political scene didn't influence (semi-)core debt. Investors shrugged off the Belgian political crisis (related to migration pact) as well, even if it threatens to advance next year's May general election. The spread between OLOs and French OAT's decreased lately, but that's mainly due to a French underperformance. French President Macron's reaction to stem street protest (hit the spending pedal) isn't well received. A deteriorating fiscal situation might cause rating agencies to look into French ratings next year.
In 2019, we expect Belgian OLOs continue trading at relatively stable levels compared to swap with the ECB's policy normalization only taking off very slowly. General elections are a wildcard as they risk putting the country in a new political deadlock. However, the eventual new government isn't expected to allow a substantial erosion of fiscal policy, nor propose measures which run against existing E(M)U-treaties (like Italy did). Unlike the 2011 episode, monetary policy remains extremely accommodative, making the probability of a similar spread widening rather low.
Rating agencies didn't alter the Belgian rating or outlook during the course of 2018. The last rating action occurred at the very end of 2017 when Fitch downgraded Belgium's credit rating from AA to AA- (stable outlook) as the government struggled to reach its goal of returning to a balanced budget. Persistent fiscal slippage delayed the start of substantial debt reduction to 2019, according to Fitch. That's two years later than Fitch projected in November 2014, when it put Belgium's rating at negative outlook. Fitch now maintains a similar rating as Moody's (Aa3 stable outlook), while S&P's rating is one notch higher at AA (stable outlook). We don't expect any rating action this year neither.
Belgium's economy grew at a more moderate pace compared to the euro area over recent years. Since 2013, cumulative real GDP growth has been 8.7% in Belgium, compared to 10.9% in the euro area. Amongst neighbouring countries, both Germany (+11.3%) and the Netherlands (+12.1%) performed much better, while France performed slightly worse (+8.0%). From a longer-term perspective, Belgium's growth performance was not that bad, however. Cumulative real GDP growth over the full business cycle, starting at the beginning of 2008, is almost 10% in Belgium, compared to only 7% in the euro area. Germany has done better (+13%), while France underperformed (+8%) and the Netherlands performed on par with Belgium at roughly 10% cumulative growth as well.
Belgium's more recent underperformance vis-à-vis the euro area continued through the first half of 2018. Third quarter GDP growth positively surprised though. Belgian real GDP rose by 0.3% Q/Q, as against growth of 0.2% in the EMU. It was the first time since Q2 2016 that Belgian growth outpaced euro area growth. The Q3 figure was similar to the growth figures posted in the previous two quarters. Looking at GDP components, the most remarkable fact in the Q3 figures was the fall in household consumption.
Although Belgium's Q3 growth outperformed growth in the euro area, it remains rather low. Most likely, real GDP growth in Belgium for 2018 as a whole will only be 1.5%. This is a clear slowdown compared to the 1.7% growth recorded in 2017 and below the figure expected for the euro area (i.e. 1.9% in 2018). Leading indicators are signalling that Belgium's economic growth is abating, in parallel with the euro area in general. While consumer and producer sentiment indicators in Belgium are still at reasonable levels, they are now well below the record highs observed in late 2017. Since spring, Belgian consumers have been hesitant, alternating between a loss and recovery of optimism. The NBB business barometer, on the other hand, is clearly on a downward path.
Looking at sub-indicators of the NBB barometer, the assessment of export orders in Belgium's manufacturing industry deteriorated in particular, fully in line with the sharp drop seen in the German Ifo-indicator. In 2018, economic activity in Belgium was still, to a large extent, supported by net exports. We believe that this will no longer be the case in 2019, as export dynamics gradually slow down. Against this background, real GDP growth in our scenario will slow further from 1.5% in 2018 to 1.4% in 2019. This figure is a bit lower than the 1.5% growth expected by the European Commission in its autumn forecasts. The expected pace of expansion in 2019 is still roughly in line with potential, however, which is estimated by the European Commission at 1.4%.
In recent years, the Belgian labour market has outperformed to such an extent that companies are finding it increasingly difficult to fill their vacancies. According to harmonised Eurostat figures, the Belgian unemployment rate averaged 6.3% in the first nine months of 2018. This is two percentage points lower than the euro area figure and the lowest rate since the early 90s. The fall in unemployment in recent years was mainly due to the high employment intensity of economic growth. In 2014-2017 each percentage point of real GDP growth generated 0.64 percent growth in employment on average, which is higher than in previous recovery periods. In this way, 250 000 net jobs have been created in Belgium since 2013.
The elevated tighthess of the labour market is reflected in a record number of job vacancies. In the second quarter of 2018, 3.5 out of 100 jobs in Belgium remained unfilled. This vacancy rate (measured as the number of job vacancies relative to the total number of jobs available) is the second highest in the European Union. The tightness of the labour market is also apparent from a survey of manufacturing companies conducted by the National Bank of Belgium: at present, almost one in eight companies suffers from a shortage of skilled labour.
On the one hand, the large number of job vacancies is an indicator of the favourable economic climate. On the other, the situation is also increasingly structural, due to demographic factors and the poor matching between job openings and jobseekers. As labour market tightness becomes more acute and structural, it is limiting opportunities for companies to develop new activities. This reverses the causal relationship between growth and tightness, with tightness hampering GDP growth. An indication that Belgium has reached this turning point is the growing gap between GDP growth and the shortage of skilled labour reported by companies. The problem is more acute in Belgium than elsewhere in the euro area and will likely contribute to keeping Belgian economic growth below that of the euro area in the coming years.
Belgian headline inflation, as measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), was running at 3.2% in October. Inflation based on the national CPI stood at 2.8% that month. The large discrepancy between the HICP and the CPI inflation is mainly due to the larger weight of fuels and energy sources in the HICP and to the fact that a moving average is used for domestic heating oil in the CPI. The product group with the biggest upward effect in inflation in recent months was 'housing, water and energy'. Despite the notable increase in the headline rate, Belgian core inflation (excluding energy and unprocessed food prices) has remained rather muted and unchanged at 1.6% since July.
In recent months, the headline inflation gap with the euro area has widened substantially again. The higher inflation in Belgium remains a point of attention, as it results in second-round effects in the economy through the system of automatic wage indexation. Preventing the inflation gap from becoming structural in nature, is a major challenge for safeguarding the country's competitiveness. We expect average inflation in Belgium to decline, from 2.1% in 2018 to 1.8% in 2019. This should narrow the inflation gap with the euro area from 0.7 and 0.3 percentage point in 2017 and 2018 to 0.1 percentage point in 2019.
According to Eurostat's harmonised house price index, prices for existing and new dwellings in Belgium rose by 3.9% in Q2 2018 (Y/Y). This is an acceleration compared to the Q2 price increase (+2.5%) and even to the 3.6% price increase recorded for the full year 2017. Further developments on the Belgian housing market must be monitored closely, as the price acceleration seen in recent years is adding to the risk of an overvaluation of the market. The fundamentals of Belgium's housing market, generally, remain positive, but they don't underpin price increases of above 3%. Given weaker GDP growth and higher interest rates ahead, we expect house price inflation in Belgium to slow down in the coming years, to between 2‐3% per year.
Belgium faces the major challenge of further reducing its debt ratio at a sufficiently rapid pace in the coming years. To reduce the debt in the long term and to be able to withstand negative scenarios concerning economic growth and interest rate developments, the primary surplus should ideally amount to at least 2% of GDP. In its latest Stability Programme, submitted to the European Commission in spring 2018, the Belgian government committed itself to increase the primary surplus to 2.1% of GDP in 2020 and 2021, from 1.6% in 2017. This commitment also implies achieving the medium-term objective (MTO) of a structural budget balance in 2020.
As soon as the MTO is achieved, further debt reduction must take place in accordance with the European 1/20th debt rule. This rule states that the debt ratio must decrease annually by at least 1/20th of the amount of debt above the 60% debt-to-GDP limit. If, from 2020 onwards, the government were to succeed in maintaining the primary surplus at 2.1% of GDP, the actual debt reduction would far exceed the reduction imposed by the 1/20th rule. The debt ratio would then fall below 60% of GDP between 2030 and 2035. In this simulation, we assume that nominal GDP growth from 2021 onwards will be 3.3% per annum (1.3% real growth and 2% inflation) and that the implicit interest rate on the debt will tend towards 2.5% in 2030, then 3.2% by 2040 and remain at that level thereafter. However, maintaining the primary surplus will be a difficult task given the expected costs of ageing. According to the Study Committee on Ageing, these annual costs will, on a no-policy change basis, increase by 3.6% of GDP to a peak around 2040 (by 2030 the increase will amount to 2.4% of GDP). If, after 2020, we allow the costs of ageing to affect the primary balance, the debt ratio will rise again from 2034 onwards. Consequently, after 2033, the 1/20th rule will no longer be met.
The graph below illustrates the sensitivity of the simulation to changes in the assumption regarding real GDP growth and the implicit interest rate on public debt. We again assume that, after 2021, the primary surplus decreases with the expected costs of ageing. In scenario A, we assume lower annual real GDP growth (1.0% instead of 1.3%) and a higher implicit interest rate, reaching 3.0% in 2030 and 3.7% from 2040 onwards (instead of 2.5% and 3.2% respectively). In scenario B, we assume higher annual real GDP growth (1.6%) and a lower implicit interest rate, reaching 2.0% in 2030 and 2.7% from 2040 onwards.
It is clear that in a worst-case scenario of low growth, high interest rates and having to take account of the costs of ageing, the debt ratio would rise sharply again. In scenario A, the implicit interest rate will exceed nominal GDP growth from 2030 onwards, causing the interest snowball to start rolling again. Scenario B shows that the ageing costs are more digestible with higher growth and lower interest rates.
The latest budgetary figures cast doubt on the government's willingness to rapidly achieve a sufficiently high primary surplus. In the budget plan for 2019, the government sets the target for the overall budget balance at a lower level (a deficit of 1.0% of GDP) than had been put forward earlier this year in the Stability Programme (a deficit of 0.7%). According to the EC's latest estimate, the deficit will amount to 1.1% of GDP in 2019. For 2018, too, the deficit (estimated by the EC at 1.0% of GDP) will be slightly higher than previously forecast. Given the somewhat lower interest costs, the figure for the overall balance in 2019 corresponds to a primary surplus of 1.2% of GDP. This is a substantial decrease compared to the 2017 figure (1.6% of GDP) and lower than the Stability Programme target.
Although the Belgian public debt ratio is still too high today, we should not overstate the economic risks associated with it. The high public debt is offset by the favourable overall financial situation of the Belgian economy, thanks to a relatively healthy private sector. As a result, the economy as a whole (households, businesses and government combined) is in a very positive net financial asset position. In 2017, it amounted to 48.3% of GDP, compared with a net debt position of 6.4% of GDP for the entire euro area. This is the highest figure in the euro area after Malta and the Netherlands). Belgium owes this favourable overall position to the high net assets of households (244% of GDP, compared to 150% in the euro area), which more than offset the net debts of the public and private sectors. In the non-consolidated figures, the debt burden of Belgian companies is artificially inflated by the existence of a large number of intra-group loans, due in part to the system of notional interest deduction.


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Vinny Appice has outlined the differences between DIO DISCIPLES and LAST IN LINE.
Launched in 2011, DIO DISCIPLES is made up of former members of DIO, along with a rotating lineup of vocalists, including ex-JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim "Ripper" Owens and LYNCH MOB frontman Oni Logan. LAST IN LINE, on the other hand, was formed in 2012 by Appice, guitarist Vivian Campbell and bassist Jimmy Bain, all of whom were part of DIO's first incarnation.
During a recent interview with Jacky BamBam of Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR radio station, Appice was asked to specify the things that separate the two projects.
"Well, in a nutshell, they play all the songs, they know the songs; we know all the notes," Vinny said (hear audio below). "That's it in a nutshell. We wrote those songs with Ronnie [James Dio]. As much as Ronnie got credit on certain songs as a sole writer, he didn't write those songs by himself. And if you think about it, how does the song 'We Rock' come up? Ronnie can't play guitar like that. So it was more of a political thing with, 'Okay, I'm taking how many songs by myself, no matter who wrote 'em.' And that's the politics of the business. And when we started the band, it was just Ronnie and I. There was no guitar player; there was nobody else — we were just starting. And we were playing 'Holy Diver'; we were just playing parts of it. And some of the accents and ideas came from me too. He was on bass, I was on drums, and I said, 'Why don't we do some accents?' That song wasn't entirely Ronnie either, but that's the way it works.
"We wrote the songs, we created the [DIO] band," Vinny continued. "We wrote 'Rainbow In The Dark', we wrote all those songs together — we wrote everything… together. Then Craig [Goldy, guitar] joined Ronnie after Viv left; he's the only one that really came in early. Then later on, I left and Simon [Wright, drums] played with Ronnie. The rest of the guys, I don't think any of them really played with Ronnie except for Scott Warren, the keyboardist."
Appice went on to call DIO DISCIPLES "a tribute band. I could hear songs they play and other bands play, and it's great, but it doesn't sound like me and Viv playing it," he explained. "'Cause we're the ones that recorded it and played it and created the songs. So there's always a difference."
DIO DISCIPLES is fully supported by Dio's widow Wendy, who also manages the band. The group includes three former members of the DIO band — Wright, Goldy and Warren — along with bassist Bjorn Englen (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Owens and Logan.
When DIO DISCIPLES was first formed, Appice told the "All Hail Hair" show on Fightin' Words Radio that he thought it was "disgusting" that the band was going out on the road and paying tribute to Ronnie James Dio. "I mean, why are they even doing it?" he said. "Plus, [Ronnie has] not even been passed away for a year. And, you know… It's kind of… I don't know. It's kind of weird, man. It's weird."
In a 2016 interview, Vivian slammed DIO DISCIPLES, saying that the band has "zero credibility" as a Ronnie James Dio tribute project.
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