It is safe to state that, in regards to pest management, prevention is essential. Throughout the summer, we spend lots of time outdoors. Us sharing that area of the field with the creatures of Mother Nature is part of the encounter, however in regards to pests, the relaxation, security, and well-being of our family must come first. By following these tips, as well as tricks, preventing an invasion from unwanted outside pests could yet be achieved.
You have spent time, effort, as well as resources to get an ideal summer yard. It would have been a pity to shun due to few irritating bugs. Wasps, ants, beetles, spiders and other creepy crawlies, are well-known summer yard pests that will not merely annoy us, but some can make us ill. The easiest as well as the best method of preventing pests would be to cultivate a healthier lawn. By cultivating hostile surroundings, annoying and dangerous bugs get discouraged to invade us. You can repair sprinklers to prevent soggy patches, remove thatch build up, correctly fertilize and water, and also increase mowing height. Yard bug control is attained through the safe and judicious usage of chemical agents that are appropriate.
It is obvious that getting attacked by ants is the most undesirable experience; particularly the kitchen area. However, the sole reason they have decided on your home is that they acquire food there. So the best method to eliminate ants will be to avoid supplying a feast to these unwanted visitors. One can find a couple of simple tips designed to help you eliminate ants. Ensure you keep your residence thoroughly clean; particularly the kitchen. Do not keep food accessible. Always close your food in tight canisters. Do not keep consumable foods on the kitchen table; especially during summer time. Eliminate any stagnant water around the house. Ants require water to stay alive, therefore, remove any excess water. Also, close all cracks as well as crevices around the house. Create a mix of boric acid with honey with and small water and position them with the help of a dropper in areas where the ants often go.
Mice can turn out to be a grave issue, as where there exists free food, specifically bird seed, they can produce and grow quickly. Are you aware that one pair can make over one hundred off springs annually? A good suggestion would be to position a killer snare in the enclosure of your cage. Box traps that capture the mice live tend to be more valuable, and they can capture more than twelve mice within the span of one evening.
Wasps are extremely widespread throughout Calgary and Edmonton and eliminating them on your own is not that challenging. Lots of people are petrified of these aggressive bugs since they might sting you, but many individuals do not have much to be worried about. There are measures you must take if you are learning to eliminate wasps. You initially have to find the nest. Spotting the nest can be difficult. The most typical wasps are paper wasps.
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China Customer Relations Centers, Inc. is a call center business process outsourcing ("BPO") provider focusing on the complex, voice-based segment of customer care services, including customer relationship management, technical support, sales, customer retention, marketing surveys and research for some of China's major enterprises.
The company was incorporated in 2014, with headquarters in Taian City, Shandong Province, China. Currently, the company operates 11 call centers that are strategically located throughout China in Shandong Province, Hebei Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chongqing City.
The company has more than 4,300 full-time employees and 2,200 part-time employees and interns. Senior management and many of employees are highly qualified with prior experience and specialized training in the call center industry.
The Company is engaged in researching, designing and developing comprehensive and scalable call center information technology solutions and software products in an attempt to improve clients' revenue generation, reduce operating costs, improve customer satisfaction and meet the future needs of customers. The company's research and development team consists of 56 researchers, engineers, developers and programmers. In order to enhance the scalability and to provide added functions, existing software products are continuously upgraded.
The company is a significant competitor in the telecommunications industry by providing BPO services in China. Our clients include the provincial subsidiaries of two of the major telecommunications carriers in China.
The Company's vision is to grow its business by establishing long-term, strategic relationships with our clients by delivering quantifiable value solutions that help improve our clients' revenue generation, reduce operating costs, and improve customer satisfaction. To achieve these objectives, we work closely with our clients to understand what drives their economic value, and then we demonstrate how our performance on their programs will align with that value. We aim to improve our clients' operational efficiencies and enable our clients to increase revenues.


New Delhi, Jan 17 : The BJP on Thursday said that Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has given approval for six lane NH 709-B of 155 km connecting Baghpat, Shyamli, Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh and Geeta Colony and Khajuri Khas in Delhi at an estimated cost Rs 4,405 crore.
Speaking at a press conference here, Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari said, "After winning the 2014 elections, my constituenct faced the problem of heavy traffic."
"I informed Gadkariji about this problem and today it is a matter of great joy that in reply, he has approved six lanes NH-709 B of 155 km connecting Baghpat, Shyamli, Saharanpur, Geeta Colony and Khajuri Khas at a cost of Rs 4,405 crore."
Tiwari, who also represents the North-East constituency of Delhi in Lok Sabha, said the foundation of the National Highway would be laid on January 26.
He also said that the work of the project will be complemeted within 20 months.
Tiwari said the road project will give relief to over 55 lakh people of the national capital.
"The project has a 19-km elevated corridor, of which 14.75 km will come under Delhi," he said.
Gadkari in his letter to the BJP MP said that Akshardham-Geeta Colony-Khajuri Khas-Delhi/UP Border-Shamli-Shahranpur road will be implemenbted on a priority.
Gadkari also said the project has been divided in four packages -- 14.75 km long Akshardham-Geeta Colony-Shahstri-Park-Khajuri Khas-Delhi/UP Border with an estimated cost of Rs 1,100 crore.
The second package includes the 16.57 km-long stretch between Delhi/UP Border-Mandola-EPE Extension at an estimated cost of Rs 1,800 crore.
THe third package of 61.4 km from EPE Junction to start of bypass of Shamli bypass worth Rs 725 crore and fourth package of 62.7 km long from Shamli bypass to Shahranpur bypass at an estimated coast of Rs 780 crore.
Gadkari said bids for the first two packages falling in Delhi would be invited by next week.


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Trump signs first stage of trade deal with China
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an initial trade deal with senior Chinese leaders that includes pledges from Beijing to more than double its purchases from American farmers in the first year.
The 86-page agreement comes after nearly two years of fraught negotiations and a punishing trade war between the world's two largest economies that hit US soybean producers especially hard.
American taxpayers have spent about $28 billion bailing out farmers, including payments to trade groups and purchases from food banks.
The pause in the trade war gives Trump something concrete to offer farmers, a crucial element of his Midwestern firewall, heading into the 2020 election.
"Together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security," Trump said from the East Room of the White House just as lawmakers at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue were preparing to vote on two articles of impeachment.
"Most people thought this could never happen," he said.
Trump said he'd visit China in the "not too distant future" to reciprocate a visit to Washington from China's top trade negotiator.
In a letter, China's President Xi Jinping told Trump that the agreement was a sign their two countries could resolve differences through dialogue.
The letter, which China's vice premier and top negotiator, Liu He, read aloud in the East Room during the signing event, struck an optimistic tone about the future of Washington-Beijing ties.
The deal, Xi wrote, was "good for China, the US and the whole world."
Saying he would remain in "close touch" with Trump, Xi said he hoped the US would treat Chinese companies fairly.
Under the agreement, China has promised to buy an additional $12.5 billion in US agricultural products in year one, and then $19.5 billion in year two. Those commitments come atop roughly $24 billion in farm purchases that China made in 2017, before the trade war started.
In exchange, the United States agreed to reduce tariffs on $120 billion in Chinese products from 15% to 7.5%.
Those changes are set to take effect within 30 days of the pact's signing along with the broader deal. However, while China has agreed to purchase more US products, it has not made any specific commitments to reduce tariffs imposed on the US.
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall called the agreement an "important step."
"China was once the largest market for U.S. agricultural products but has dropped to fifth largest since retaliatory tariffs were introduced. This agreement will help turn around two years of declining agricultural exports," he said in statement.
Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, the President's top trade negotiator, described the deal as a "massively good first step," describing China's purchases as helping to create access for American companies.
"Are we in an ideal spot? No," Lighthizer told reporters at the White House before the signing. "Is this a massively good first step? Yes."
The pledges by China to buy more US farm products are part of a broader $200 billion package that includes manufactured goods and energy exports by 2021. The two sides estimate that those purchases will continue beyond the two-year deal into 2022 through 2025.
Among the products China has promised to buy more of: soybeans, wheat, cotton and pork. A senior administration official told reporters that the US would be "actively monitoring" data sources from both countries to ensure that China is fulfilling its promise.
The initial deal provides better protection to American companies that have long complained of thefts of their intellectual property and trade secrets.
It also potentially removes a major barrier that required the sale of their technology for access, loosens up requirements for banks wanting to operate there and imposes anti-counterfeiting measures that, if broken, would lead to penalties.
Pledges in the deal go further than what China has agreed to in the past, but the agreement doesn't require the government to change any laws or regulations.
"Nobody really understood the deal until today when we released it, so it's a much bigger deal than people thought," said Trump, who spent more than 30 minutes thanking Cabinet members, members of Congress and executives from some of the nation's biggest companies, including General Electric and Citibank.
The President said the next round of negotiations — which are expected to address tougher issues such as Chinese subsidies to domestic companies and state-owned enterprises — will start "soon."
Tariffs, he said, would stay on as leverage against China and come off only when the administration completes the next phase of the deal.
"We have pretty strong cards," said Trump.
The two countries also reaffirmed commitments not to devalue their currency for competitive advantage that they have pledged with the Group of 20. A senior administration official said that the provision, like most of the pact, would be enforceable.
Business leaders urged the Trump administration to move forward with the next round of talks as soon as possible.
"We hope this deal will usher in a new era of trust between both countries and pave the way for Phase 2 negotiations to begin in a timely manner," said US Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue.
This story has been updated with more reaction and more details from the agreement.

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Brunswick Review The Words Issue
The power of authenticity
St. John Moore
Partner, Head of Beijing
Translation isn't about words; it's about ideas
Nothing can crush the life out of a good turn of phrase more predictably than translating it word for word into another language. Google Translate correctly renders the Spanish "levanter la liebre," as "to lift the hare"; but that mechanical translation offers the native English speaker no hint of sense. A more skilled translator will recognize the phrase and the meaning behind it, and find the appropriate corollary in English: to let the cat out of the bag.
Addressing stakeholders in multiple languages is a fact of business life today. Yet translating key materials – around the launch of a website, a new product or a shift in strategy – is often treated as an afterthought. Sometimes that can result in severe consequences for a company's reputation and revenue.
Beyond just getting the words right, any message needs to resonate with its target audience. That only comes through fluency and an understanding of the local culture. The last thing a company wants to demonstrate is a lack of commitment to stakeholders in a given region – a sloppy translation practically guarantees that negative message.
In China, this problem is as difficult as it is pressing. The activity of the nation's businesses in overseas markets and their exposure to stakeholders in other languages grows each year. Meanwhile, more countries are doing business in China and finding the challenges of Chinese daunting.
A quick internet search on "bad translations" reveals some impressive fails: Chinese audiences read the slogan "Come alive with Pepsi!" as "Pepsi bring your ancestors back from the dead!" KFC's hugely successful motto, "Finger-lickin' good" became the unfortunate, "We'll eat your fingers off" – not the best way to get native Chinese customers in the door.
Traditionally, English sentences tend to be longer and more descriptive, while Chinese sentences are more focused on the overall meaning of the sentence and tend to be shorter. But the complications go deeper than grammatical mechanics or the difficulty of interpreting Chinese characters as English words. Companies must also ensure the right Chinese is being used to avoid embarrassment and reputational damage locally.
Chinese companies often take a formal approach, using Communist Party-inspired language. While that makes sense for a domestic audience, it can alienate stakeholders abroad.
On the other hand, foreign companies operating in China must adopt a tone and choice of words (or characters) that connect with local audiences naturally and authentically. In both cases, it's all about understanding and meeting stakeholder expectations.
Many organizations prepare materials in their headquarter's home language and then translate those materials for a local market. This process may help with internal alignment and approval, but it typically results in language that lacks authenticity in the native language and reduces resonance and impact. In its worst case it can alienate.
Testing content with your local stakeholders is key. It's also important to remember that languages evolve, and trends can give the most innocent expression a sinister twist. This makes the need for local, on-the-ground feedback and expertise even more important.
Outsourcing translation can help. However, people familiar with the company's tone and style, as well as industry related jargon, can add far more value, and help capture the right message in authentic language.
Asking employees for their input and ideas on language invites them to be part of the process. This type of engagement builds internal awareness and pride, and ensures tag lines and product names work for the local audience.
A more robust approach to translation can help businesses avoid embarrassing situations and misunderstandings. But even more, it can allow companies to transform words into the appropriate tools that they can use to connect with their local audiences.
The Fantasy Reality
Three hologram entertainment companies offer true stories from the world of the unreal. Brunswick's Carlton Wilkinson reports.
By Carlton Wilkinson
The Influencers: A Tragedy
The boom of digital influencer marketing is headed toward a predictably bad end, says Brunswick's Marshall Manson.
By Marshall Manson
Reach Further
Communication isn't a zero-sum game, says Brunswick's Craig Mullaney.
By Craig Mullaney


Olayan, Nestl? Saudi Arabia partner; Yves Manghardt, Chairman and Chief ExecuJve Officer of Nestl?Middle East; Imad Muhaidib, Nestl? Saudi Arabia partner; Roger Meguerdichian, Country Manager for Nestl? Saudi Arabia. Nestl? Middle East today announced the launch of its direct sales and distribution operations in Saudi Arabia, marking a new phase of expansion in the region. Set to employ around 225 people in the first year of operations, Nestl? Saudi Arabia will be headquartered in the city of Jeddah, with branch offices in capital city Riyadh and Khobar. Frits van Dijk, Executive Vice President, Zone Director for Asia, Oceania, Africa and Middle East, explained the importance of starting its direct operations in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world?s largest economy. He said: ?The start of direct sales and distribution operations is the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in Nestl??s long operational history in Saudi Arabia. Yves Manghardt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nestl? Middle East, stressed that Nestl? Saudi Arabia aims to create benefits for all, and added: ?As we enter a new phase of growth within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we are committed to continue building our brands and products in the domestic market while contributing to the overall development of the country, creating value for everyone involved.? Roger Meguerdichian, Country Manager for Nestl? Saudi Arabia, continued that the start of direct operations in the country also illustrates its commitment to promoting talent. He said: ?We are looking to partner with key universities and institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the establishment of the Nestl? Centre of Excellence, which is composed of a sales training academy; Nestl? Female Nutrition Development Program; and our Graduate Development Program for young Saudi graduates. ?These initiatives will not only ensure a continuous flow of local talent to the organisation, but furthermore will contribute to the development and training of external Saudi national graduates by allowing them to benefit from the Nestl? expertise.?Nestl??s successful water operation in Saudi Arabia, Al Manhal ? which is managed by separate manufacturing, sales and distribution joint ventures ? will remain unchanged. ?Saudi Arabia, with its 28 million inhabitants and its sizeable youth population, presents tremendous growth opportunities for Nestl?, and together with our partners we are keen to capitalise on these opportunities by expanding the scope of our activities in the coming years.? The launch follows the recent decision by the Saudi Government to further open up the national economy allowing international companies to set up and manage their sales and distribution operations.Nestl? has been operating in Saudi Arabia since 1955, when it signed its first agency contract in the Kingdom, and has since built a strong presence in the domestic market. Mr Manghardt praised this success and concluded: ?As we begin our journey afresh within Saudi Arabia, we gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Basamh Trading Company to the development of our business in the Kingdom over the past decade.? Nestl? Middle East ? which has invested more than USD 400 million in the region since its presence in 1997 ? operates17 factories and 37 offices, and employs more than 7,000 people.


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I'm an over-thinker. A figure-outer. And I've been really struggling with faith lately. I've been constantly trying to figure out things for myself, which has left me with a lot of questions. I've used these questions to put God at a distance, safely keeping Him there until He answers everything. Honestly, I still have many unanswered questions, but that's okay with me because of everything He's showing me about faith.
The thing about faith is that we'll never fully figure it out. Our questions will never be completely answered. it will never quite make perfect sense. But that is precisely what faith is- trust in the God of the known for the unknown. The enemy tries to distract us with the thought and urge to have everything figured out. He will put questions or allow questions in our mind about God and faith. For me, its a lot of deep thinking why's. Sometimes God answers these. Sometimes, He leaves them with me. I believe that is partially the mystery of God. But a bigger part is faith. He wants us to have faith even when we don't know the answers, He wants us to trust Him, to trust His commands, even if we're asking "why?" and He is silent. If we could have everything figured out, there would be no need for faith. We would be on a quest for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, rather than a journey with God to love and know Him more.
I believe He wants to release the human nature, the fleshly desire to have it all figured out before we decide to fully trust Him. I believe He wants to release us into His peaceful presence, to stop the questions and just sit with us in love. I believe that this can be a true rest for some of us – the over-thinkers, the figure-outers, the ones who may have bought into the lie that knowing God equals understanding everything. Maybe knowing God is actually the opposite. Maybe knowing God is coming to Him arms raised, surrendering our questions and trusting His promise that He is peace and rest, trusting that no matter how much we beg Him for answers or ask no questions at all, He reveals things to us in His time. Wisdom is a gift given by God, but the enemy can twist it into a way to keep us from Him. We're sitting here trying to know God by understanding Him, unintentionally creating a wall with our questions. He's telling us to put down these thoughts, let the walls fall down, and simply allow ourselves to just be with Him. We think understanding will bring the peace we are searching for, but that peace can only be found in Him. That is the faith that might be hard to cling to because it means admitting that our own way might not be God's way. We need the courage, trust, and faith to believe that the answer is simple. The answer is Jesus.


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This 'Elevator Ride' Up Isn't Over Yet
By Corey McLaughlin
Another $550 billion of spending is about to enter the game...
On August 10, the Senate agreed on a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which approves $550 billion in new infrastructure spending (on top of the $450 billion that has already been approved).
As Stansberry NewsWire analyst Nick Koziol reported that day, the bill passed the Senate with a 69-30 vote...
All 50 Democrats voted for the infrastructure package, with 19 Republicans joining in. The bill provides investment for roads and bridges, expanding broadband access, upgrading America's electrical grid, among other things.
As Nick also noted, though, this bill is far from a done deal. Markets moved higher after the news, but the response was muted. And the bill's uncertain path through the House of Representatives is why...
The House is on recess until September 20. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has said that she will not take up the bill in the House until the Senate passes the Democrat-proposed $3.5 trillion spending bill.
And that bill will likely have to be passed through the reconciliation process, as it's unlikely that any Republicans will go for the spending package.
Neither bill may be passed for weeks, or even months...
But it does show that at least $550 billion of spending is very much on the table – either in reality or as a negotiating chip in greater spending discussions in the near term.
Generally, people feel the nation is due for an infrastructure upgrade. U.S. infrastructure received a grade of C- in 2020 from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
But still, let's bold-face the price tag... since we know many people in Washington, D.C. have become numb to big numbers and think they are the single answer to our problems. We're talking about $550 billion – in addition to the $450 billion already out there – to be spent over the next five years.
This all means more government spending thrown into an already-juiced-up market, more fuel for inflation, and another brick added to our long-term pile of debt.
Today, I'll share some wise ways to prepare for this accordingly. But in the meantime, we want to catch up on what's been worrying folks lately...
Everyone seems to be talking about the COVID-19 Delta variant...
Mask restrictions are back in many states and industries... Companies are changing their back-to-the-office plans... And this latest strain of the virus is infecting people who are filling up ICU beds... just like in spring 2020.
Fortunately, deaths haven't been following at the same rate, though they are picking up...
According to analyst Alan Gula in the August edition of our Stansberry Portfolio Solutions service...
As you can see, hospitalizations are rising quickly from their trough in June and are nearly back to April 2021 levels. However, the number of deaths is not rising nearly as fast.
Since we originally published the above chart on August 3, daily COVID hospitalizations in the U.S. have risen to 80,000 on average per day over the last week.
Daily COVID deaths in the U.S. have increased to just over 800 deaths per day, though that's significantly lower than the number during this past winter's "second wave." Each life lost is tragic, but the "divergence," so to speak, in hospitalizations and deaths is an encouraging sign.
It shows that the COVID-19 vaccines are working. Globally, folks have received nearly 5 billion vaccine doses, representing 32% of the world population who've received at least partial protection so far. More from the August 6 issue of our flagship Stansberry's Investment Advisory...
More important, this protection works. The best of these vaccines are more than 90% effective in preventing infection once you've received the typical two-dose regimen – and 99.9% protective in preventing deaths.
Still, while 70% of U.S. adults have received at least one vaccine dose, 30% have not. In all, less than half of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated – so even with nearly all COVID-19 hospitalizations being among the unvaccinated, that's still a lot of people who can get sick.
Vaccination rates have also risen since Delta cases have emerged. As of August 5, the number of new vaccinations had doubled since July to roughly 441,000 per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the same time, there's been an alarming rise in "breakthrough" infections among the fully vaccinated. And kids under age 12 aren't yet eligible to get vaccinated, creating an entirely new set of questions and concerns when schools and day cares reopen nationwide.
We also don't really know the full long-term economic consequences of more people getting COVID, which could cost money, health, and production down the road, apart from the short-term hospitalization crunch.
Here's the long and the short of it...
According to our Investment Advisory team...
As investors, we're not predicting another major global lockdown... We're confident Starbucks coffee will be poured. Big Macs will be eaten. All the tech firms that did well during the COVID-19 epidemic should continue to outperform. Travel will continue. And while some businesses like dine-in restaurants, bars, and large indoor venues will founder, the economy as a whole will drive forward.
But there will be runs of volatility moving ahead...
Still, there's a lot we don't know about the Delta variant and its effects. Investors can easily fear the worst when they see rising cases or isolated economic effects. And even if more folks start getting vaccines, it would likely take two to three months for vaccinations alone to reverse the rising rate of infections.
That's why we expect more volatility in all corners of the markets in the coming months. And we wouldn't be surprised to see a broad market sell-off.
Moreover, if the death rate rises, that could lead to the return of more travel restrictions and other safety protocols... which would threaten the economic recovery. If that does happen, we'll be ready to take advantage of any opportunities in the market.
This time last year, investors were expecting a full-fledged recovery once vaccines were made available...
Now we sense a new reality sinking in – that COVID will likely be around in some form for years ahead.
A few of our editors have said COVID could end up being like the flu, with different strains emerging in different parts of the world over time... and with different vaccine boosters needed every year or so.
Despite all this uncertainty, we're still in a bull market...
All of the negative fiscal and COVID news hasn't hampered the benchmark S&P 500 Index or the good ol' Dow Jones Industrial Average. They both continue to trade at all-time highs...
As of Thursday's close, the S&P 500 is now up 17% in 2021... the Dow is up 14%... and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index is up 12.8%, including an 11% gain since its most recent mid-May lows.
Based on the data, there's no reason to think this slow churn higher in the broad U.S. stock indexes will not continue...
Back in June, Ten Stock Trader analyst Greg Diamond outlined the importance of tracking the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor Fund (MTUM). It's a blend of many of the top stocks within different major U.S. sectors, such as electric-car maker Tesla (TSLA), bank JPMorgan Chase (JPM), entertainment icon Disney (DIS), digital-payments company PayPal (PYPL), and biotech and COVID vaccine maker Moderna (MRNA).
Tracking this fund and the trends it represents is important because, as Greg said, it filters the daily noise... and it shows that there is still bullish "momentum" in enough pockets of the markets to move things higher overall.
Greg says this fund is starting to follow one of the two bullish scenarios he outlined in June. In his August 9 Weekly Market Outlook to subscribers, Greg shared this chart...
The blue lines mark a big consolidation phase that started earlier this year. The convergence of the upper and lower blue lines usually marks a big move out of this phase, and as of last week, you can see that the fund is starting to break higher.
On the other hand, perhaps there is another pullback into this consolidation pattern, Greg says. In short, that tells him that it's another opportunity to buy...
Look how the lower trend line of this pattern is nearly perfectly lined up with the 200-day moving average ("200-DMA") in red. This is what following trends and understanding support is all about – and it's quite simple analysis. Unless the lower level and the 200-DMA are broken, you must remain with this trend higher...
I've kept it simple this week. But the point is quite clear: Stick with this momentum until the market tells you to stop.
Greg acknowledges that this is a "rare market"...
As a technical trader, he likes to follow the numbers and trends to take costly emotion out of investing. But he's well aware of the unprecedented macroeconomic environment we're living in today...
As Greg said...
There are unlimited easy money policies with government subsidies as far as the eye can see... combined with low interest rates in a global pandemic that seemingly has no end.
We've seen nothing like this before – and we may never see anything like it again...
I view this market environment like an elevator ride – smooth on the way up with just a few stops here and there, and everyone for the most part is happy.
He continued...
This is a rare market, and one day it will cease to be an elevator ride and return to a more volatile environment... And when we think about the current leverage accumulating in this environment, it is unprecedented to say the least.
He left subscribers with a thought and a passage from legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones from his interview in Market Wizards about the 1987 crash, and it's too good not to share with you here today...
Everything gets destroyed a hundred times faster than it is built up. It takes one day to tear down something that might have taken 10 years to build. If the economy starts to go with the kind of leverage that is in it, it will deteriorate so fast that people's heads will spin... I know from studying history that credit eventually kills all great societies. We borrowed against the future, and soon we will have to pay.
We're talking about unlimited money supply, low interest rates, and governments and central banks throwing more money (credit) into the global economy than at any time in the history of civilization...
Greg doesn't think this time is different. But for now, it's not time to get off the elevator just yet.
Corey McLaughlin
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Two things often hold consumers back from making that big drone purchase.Cost and the fear of damaging the drone through improper use. A pioneering group in Japan is hoping to change that, at least for Japanese drone enthusiasts.
Skyasky Company, a drone piloting instruction school in Japan, sponsors the Drone Museum Horie.
The new museum can be found in Osaka's Minamihorie district. It features 16 different types of drone from a range of manufacturers inside of Japan and from abroad.There's a little something for everyone in the drone industry here, with drones ranging from palm-sized bots to massive crop duster drones.
Guests to the Drone Museum Horie can also learn all about drone history, including the first application of current drone technology like that used in New Zealand in 2011 up to the droneography UAVs flooding the consumer market today, according to Japan Times.


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Foreign secretary S Jaishankar left for a two-day trip to Washington late on Tuesday to discuss the agenda for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to the US..(HT File Photo)
Jaishankar heads to Washington to set stage for Modi's US visit
Foreign secretary S Jaishankar left for a two-day trip to Washington late on Tuesday to discuss the agenda for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to the US and summit meet with President Barack Obama.
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON APR 27, 2016 11:00 AM IST
This will be perhaps the last Modi-Obama bilateral engagement with the US president ready to demit office eight months later.
Top sources said Jaishankar has been invited by the White House and State Department on April 27-28 to chart out the course of bilateral ties in the last year of Obama's presidency.
Jaishankar will meet his counterpart, deputy secretary of state Anthony Blinken, and national security advisor Susan Rice; Modi's joint address to US Senate and Congress on June 7-8, 2016, is high on the agenda. The US is in election mode but Modi's visit comes at a time when the bilateral relationship has gone beyond official dimensions.
India has made its opposition known to Washington on the supply of F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan and the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor via Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
New Delhi also wants to move ahead with the US on the defence, nuclear and space fronts. Final movement is expected on supply of six Westinghouse-Toshiba nuclear reactors for the 6000-MW Mithi-Virdi power plant in Gujarat with techno-commercial closure expected before the visit.
New Delhi expects President Obama to do the heavy lifting at the New York plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) later in June to ensure India enters this group and is allowed to participate in global nuclear commerce. For India's entry into the NSG, to which the US committed itself in 2010, Obama will have to over-rule possible opposition from China as the latter wants to bring in Pakistan. India is also waiting for entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime grouping, which had its reinforce point of contact meeting in Paris last week.
New Delhi is also looking for easing of US restrictions in space cooperation so that Indian launchers could be used for American satellites as they are more cost-effective. New Delhi is also looking towards US aircraft manufacturers in connection with the "Make in India" initiative.


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Q: Overhead reduction of conditional trace/logging calls For tracing and debugging my Java code, I am using a simple Util class rather than a full-blown logging framework:
public class Util {
    public static int debugLevel;

    public static void info(String msg) {
      //  code for logfile output
      //  handling of unprintable characters
      //  etc. omitted
      System.out.println(msg);
    }

    public static void info4(String msg) {
        if (debugLevel >= 4) {
           info(msg);
        }
    }
}

This allows compact single-line statements like the following:
info4(String.format("%16s: ", host) + Util.toHex(sidNetto));

Using a debugLevel variable, I can control the verbosity of my program. Usually, the debug level is set globally at execution start. But it can also be  adjusted locally on routine level.
Basically, I save the repeated if (debugLevel >= DEBUG_ALL) {...} brackets around my trace calls. However, the parameters of the call have to be prepared and passed at runtime regardless of the debug level.
My question:

How could I nudge the compile-time optimizer or the JVM to remove superfluous trace calls? I am thinking on the lines of C/C++ function inlining.

A related question regarding C# was discussed here. But I am not sure how to port the suggested answers to Java.
Another related post back from 2010 discussed similar approaches to mine. Im wondering if third-party tools like ProGuard are actually required do solve such a common task.

A: This is how most logging frameworks do it. For lightweight arguments (this includes built-in formatters which is a good best practice) do not check the level, otherwise check the level before serialising complicated string arguments.
You could use Java 8 java.util.functions.Supplier<String> for lacy evaluation, but I think there might be no performance to gain over the explicite level test case.
The logger would look like:
void debug(String ptrn, Supplier<String> args...)

And you can use it like:
debug("Hello {0}", this::getName());

A: Most logging APIs that I know suggest to check if the log level is enabled before actually calling the log method in case the message has to be prepared first, e.g.:
if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) {
    String msg = String.format("Name changed from %s to %s", oldName, newName);
    logger.trace(msg);
}

Some logging APIs like SLF4J also provide more complex log methods that accept a format string and multiple arguments, so that the log message is only built in case the log level is enabled:
logger.trace("Name changed from {} to {}", oldName, newName);

This is sufficient in most of the cases, but sometimes your message is more complex to build, or the arguments have to be converted to strings first. In this case, checking the log level is still a good approach.
Since Java 8, you could also take advantage of lambda expressions to solve this issue. Your log method could be implemented like that:
public void log(Supplier<String> messageSupplier) {
    if (isLogEnabled()) {
        String msg = messageSupplier.get();
        // TODO: log msg
    }
}

As you can see, the message is retrieved form the messageSupplier only in case logging is enabled. Thanks to lambda expressions, implementing a Supplier<String> is very easy:
logger.log(() -> String.format("Name changed from %s to %s", oldName, newName));

Update (thanks to Joshua Taylor)
Since Java 8, the java.util.logging API already supports message suppliers, e.g. see Logger#info, so you could easily exchange your logging implementation by the 'on-board' solution from JRE.

A: It seems weird to not use established logging framework due to their complexity, but worry about minor optimizations like method inlining, while ignoring the greater problem of formatting a log string irrespective of log level. But if you insist on reinventing the wheel:
The JVM (at least the Oracle hotspot JVM) automatically inlines short methods, and performs dead code elimination of unreachable branches. To be detected as unreachable, the log level of the message and the level threshold would have to be constant (compile-time constant, or static final). Otherwise, the JVM will compare logging levels on each call, though it is still likely to perform speculative inlining (inline the branch usually taken, guarded by a conditional branch instruction) which ensures that a branch instruction is only executed in the unusual case.
A much greater concern however is the cost of building the log message, which should only be incurred if the message must actually be logged. The old log4j approach of requiring calling code to check whether logging is enabled before preparing the message is rather verbose and easily forgotten. Instead, SLF4J defers string concatenation to the logging system by having the log methods take a format string and a variable number of objects to be inserted into placeholders. The SLF4J FAQ writes:

The following two lines will yield the exact same output. However, the second form will outperform the first form by a factor of at least 30, in case of a disabled logging statement.
logger.debug("The new entry is "+entry+".");
logger.debug("The new entry is {}.", entry);

It is worth noting that the arguments (here: entry) are of type Object, so their conversion to String only happens if the message actually has to be logged.
To be clear, there is no reliable way to skip evaluation of method arguments by redefining a method, because such elimination may only occur if the just in time compiler can prove the evaluation to be side effect free, which the hotspot jvm only detects if it has inlined the entire evaluation, which it will only to for very simple evaluations. Therefore, the API solution of moving formatting into the logging system is probabaly the best you can hope for.

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Yesterday we covered the release of reinsurance broker Aon Benfield's latest reinsurance renewals report. The report contains insight and comments on the alternative capital inflows and pricing trends being seen in the insurance-linked securities market versus traditional reinsurance renewals. The report also contains a review of the Q1 2013 catastrophe bond market, looking at issuance, trends and forecasting strong issuance in the months ahead.
Aon Benfield said that issuance started slowly in 2013, perhaps surprising given the strong end to 2012 and the strong Q1 a year earlier, however the cat bond market picked up around the middle of the quarter as a number of deals from repeat sponsors led the way. Aon Benfield note that all of the transactions which priced in the first quarter of 2013 were indemnity deals for repeat sponsors, although readers will be aware that we include a private transaction, Skyline Re Ltd., in our Deal Directory which was from a new entrant to the market.
Investors had a good range of risks to choose from in the deals which came to market in Q1. Only three deals actually closed in Q1, by Aon Benfield's reckoning although we count four including Skyline, but a number of others began marketing in Q1 helping to offer investors more choice. The perils on offer ranged from health care risks, to regional earthquake, U.S. multi-peril and Florida hurricane.
So, for Q1 issuance, Aon Benfield class 3 deals as having completed in the quarter, Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1), Caelus Re 2013 Ltd. (Series 2013-1) and Everglades Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) , totalling $670m. We also include the Skyline Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) bond in our Deal Directory which takes the total to $731.2m. That's down on the total issued in Q1 2012, in fact it's roughly half the $1.493 billion of cat bonds we recorded a year earlier.
However, despite the slower start to the year things have now picked up in the primary cat bond market with a number of deals which began marketing in Q1, some of which have already closed in April. Including those yet to close we currently see $1.22 billion in the Q2 2013 cat bond market already, and Aon Benfield believe that is likely to grow, forecasting strong issuance in the run up to the U.S. hurricane season.
The report comments on the drop in pricing that began to become evident in Q1. Aon Benfield said that they estimate a downward shift in interest spreads of between 10% and 20% since the fourth quarter of 2012. The report also mentioned an up to 70% risk adjusted reduction (likely year-on-year) in pricing for certain sponsors seeking capacity in the ILS markets at the renewals as we wrote in this earlier article on the report.
Aon Benfield said that the reduction in pricing seen of late has helped to cement the value of the cat bond market for sponsors, with cat bonds consistently offering more aggressive rates than traditional reinsurers.
The report goes on to discuss some of the deals which have appeared most successful so far this year, highlighting Citizens Everglades Re and the pricing it secured, the twin Caelus Re issuances from Nationwide Mutual as it sought to take advantage of attractive market conditions and State Farm's Merna Re IV which was significantly oversubscribed. Aon Benfield note that Merna Re IV's pricing at an interest spread of just 2.5% is the lowest pricing level seen in the cat bond market for five years.
Looking ahead, Aon Benfield expect a reasonably healthy pipeline of deals will continue to come to market as we move towards the middle of the year. It expects strong issuance volumes to continue as we move towards the start of the Atlantic hurricane season and forecasts that around $4 billion worth of cat bonds could close in the first-half of 2013.
If the catastrophe bond market can achieve $4 billion of issuance in the first-half of 2013 it will put the market ahead year-on-year with 2012. The sluggish start to 2013 led many to suggest that we may not see a repeat of the 'banner year' that many have dubbed 2012, but if the market lives up to the Aon Benfield forecast then we could just see another banner year in quick succession.
As ever we'll keep you posted as and when we hear that new cat bonds have come to market and you can read about every transaction in the markets history in our Deal Directory.


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South China Sea: China Is Building on the Paracels As Well
It's not just the Spratlys, China is constructing military facilities on the Paracel Islands too.
By Victor Robert Lee for The Diplomat
Credit: Images by Victor Robert Lee & DigitalGlobe
As Vietnam's Communist Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong met with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week, China's government news service Xinhua extolled a "deep-rooted partnership" between the two nations. But 400 kilometers off Vietnam's coast, in the Paracel Islands, China was rapidly consolidating its hold on islands that both countries vehemently claim as their own.
High-resolution satellite images from March 17 show that Woody Island, occupied by China since 1956, is undergoing a major expansion of its runway and airport facilities. Within the past five months, a 2,400-meter airstrip has been completely replaced with a new concrete runway measuring 2,920 meters in length, accompanied by a new taxiway, expanded runway aprons and adjacent large buildings under construction. Additional land reclamation is also underway on Woody Island, called Yongxing Dao in Chinese and Đảo Phú Lâm in Vietnamese.
Eighty kilometers southwest of Woody, on Duncan Island (seized by China from Vietnam in 1974) satellite images show landfill that has increased the size of the island by approximately 50 percent since April 2014. Known as Chenhang Dao in Chinese and Đảo Quang Hòa in Vietnamese, the island houses a military garrison, four radar domes, a concrete manufacturing plant, and a port that has recently been expanded via dredging and coral cutting. A reinforced sea wall is being constructed around recent landfill. New buildings have also appeared on nearby Drummond Island, occupied by China.
Much attention has been focused in recent weeks on China's exceedingly rapid land reclamation and construction on at least seven disputed reefs further south in the South China Sea, within the Spratly Island group. China's land grab for these reefs and atolls, variously claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei, meets with little to no resistance; in the Paracels, even less so. Yes, in the past few months there has been a dialogue regarding a possible strategic partnership between Vietnam and the Philippines, the latter being especially alarmed by China's reef takeovers in waters close to its shores. The U.S. has partially lifted its embargo on weapon sales to Vietnam, which is bolstering its navy, receiving patrol boats donated by Japan, and acquiring six kilo-class submarines from Russia. The Philippines has reopened its Subic Bay base to U.S. Navy vessels, and Manila is seeking redress in a UNCLOS arbitration case against China.
But all of these reactions appear to be occurring in slow motion compared to the speed with which China's dredgers, bulldozers, and portable concrete factories are being deployed across the South China Sea.
Victor Robert Lee reports from the Asia-Pacific region and is the author of the literary espionage novel Performance Anomalies.
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Q: If $x=2\cos t-\cos 2t $, $y=2\sin t -\sin 2t$, find the value of $\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}$ when $t= \pi /2$ Question  $\boldsymbol 7$. If $x=2\cos t-\cos 2t $, $y=2\sin t -\sin 2t$, find the value of $\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}$ when $t= \pi /2$
Solution:
\begin{align*}
y &= 2\sin t -\sin 2t \\
\frac{dy}{dt} &= 2\cos t -2\cos 2t \\
\frac{dx}{dt} &=-2\sin t +2\sin 2t \\
\frac{dy}{dx} &=\frac{dy/dt}{dx/dt} =\frac{\cos t-\cos 2t}{-\sin t +\sin 2t} \\
\frac{d^2y}{dx^2} &=\frac{d}{dt} \left(\frac{\cos t-\cos 2t}{-\sin t +\sin 2t}\right) \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&=\frac{(\sin 2t -\sin t) \frac{d}{dt}(\cos t -\cos 2t) -(\cos t -\cos 2t) \frac{d}{dt}(\sin 2t -\sin t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&=\frac{(\sin 2t -\sin t) (-\sin t -2\sin 2t) -(\cos t -\cos 2t) (2\cos 2t -\cos t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{(\sin t -\sin 2t) (\sin t +2\sin 2t) +(\cos 2t -\cos t) (2\cos 2t -\cos t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{\sin^2 t +2\sin t \sin 2t -\sin t \sin 2t -2\sin^2 2t +\ldots  \\ \ldots +2\cos^2 2t -\cos t \cos 2t -2\cos t \cos 2t +\cos^2 t}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{1 +2(\cos^2 2t -\sin^2 2t) +\sin t \sin 2t -3\cos t \cos 2t}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx}
\end{align*}
Have I done any mistake so far?

A: $$x = 2\cos t -\cos 2t$$
$$y = 2\sin t -\sin 2t$$
$$\frac{dx}{dt} = -2\sin t +2\sin 2t$$
$$\frac{dy}{dt} = 2\cos t -2\cos 2t$$
$$\dfrac{d^2y}{dx^2}=\dfrac{(+\sin 2t-\sin t)(-\sin t+2\sin 2t)-(-\cos 2t+\cos t)(-\cos t+2\cos 2t)}{(-\sin t+\sin 2t)^2}\cdot\frac{dt}{dx}$$
$$\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}_{[\frac{\pi}{2}]} = -\frac{3}{2}$$

A: $$\dfrac{dy}{dx}=\dfrac{\dfrac{dy}{dt}}{\dfrac{dx}{dt}}=\dfrac{2\cos t-2\cos2t}{-2\sin t+2\sin2t}=\dfrac{\cos2t-\cos t}{\sin t-\sin2t}$$
$$\dfrac{d^2y}{dx^2}=\dfrac{(-2\sin2t+\sin t)(\sin t-\sin2t)-(\cos2t-\cos t)(\cos t-2\cos2t)}{(\sin t-\sin2t)^2-2(\sin t-\sin2t)}$$
Now $$\dfrac{d^2y}{dx^2}\bigg|_{t=\frac{\pi}{2}}=\dfrac{(1)(1-0)-(-1-0)(0-2(-1))}{-2(1-0)^3}=-\dfrac32$$

A: $$\dfrac{dy}{dx}=\dfrac{\dfrac{dy}{dt}}{\dfrac{dx}{dt}}=\frac{y'_t}{x'_t}$$
$$\dfrac{d^2y}{dx^2}=\frac{\left(\frac{y'_t}{x'_t}\right)'_t}{x'_t}=
\frac{x'_ty''_{tt}-x''_{tt}y'_t}{(x'_t)^3}$$
I get
$$\dfrac{d^2y}{dx^2}\bigg|_{t=\frac{\pi}{2}}=-\frac{3}{2}$$

A: Alternatively:
$$x\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)=1; y\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)=2;\\
x=2\cos t-\cos 2t \Rightarrow \cos^2t-2\cos t+x-1=0 \Rightarrow \cos t=\frac12-\frac{\sqrt{3-2x}}2;\\
x^2+y^2=5-4\cos t=5-2+2\sqrt{3-2x};\\
2x+2yy'=\frac{-2}{\sqrt{3-2x}} \Rightarrow y'(1)=-1;\\
2+2y'^2+2yy''=\frac{-2}{\sqrt{(3-2x)^2}} \Rightarrow y''(1)=\frac{-6}4=-\frac32.$$

A: Mistake: $\displaystyle \frac{d}{dt} (\cos t -\cos 2t) =-\sin t \color{red}{\boldsymbol +}2\sin 2t$.
\begin{align*}
\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}
&=\frac{d}{dt} \left(\frac{\cos t-\cos 2t}{-\sin t +\sin 2t}\right) \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&=\frac{(\sin 2t -\sin t) \frac{d}{dt}(\cos t -\cos 2t) -(\cos t -\cos 2t) \frac{d}{dt}(\sin 2t -\sin t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&=\frac{(\sin 2t -\sin t) (-\sin t \color{red}{\boldsymbol +}2\sin 2t) -(\cos t -\cos 2t) (2\cos 2t -\cos t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{(\sin t -\sin 2t) (\sin t \color{red}{\boldsymbol -}2\sin 2t) +(\cos 2t -\cos t) (2\cos 2t -\cos t)}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{\sin^2 t \color{red}{\boldsymbol -}2\sin t \sin 2t -\sin t \sin 2t \color{red}{\boldsymbol +}2\sin^2 2t +\ldots  \\ \ldots +2\cos^2 2t -\cos t \cos 2t -2\cos t \cos 2t +\cos^2 t}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{1 +2(\cos^2 2t \color{red}{\boldsymbol +}\sin^2 2t) \color{red}{\boldsymbol{-3}}\sin t \sin 2t -3\cos t \cos 2t}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \frac{\color{red}{\boldsymbol{3 -3}}\sin t \sin 2t -3\cos t \cos 2t}{(\sin 2t -\sin t)^2} \cdot \frac{dt}{dx} \\
&= \ldots
\end{align*}


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Here's my code:
<script lang="ts">
import { ref } from "vue";
import { getAuth, createUserWithEmailAndPassword } from "firebase/auth";
import { useRouter } from "vue-router";

const email = ref("");
const password = ref("");
const router = useRouter();

const signUp = (): void => {
  createUserWithEmailAndPassword(getAuth(), email.value, password.value)
      .then((data) => {
        console.log("Success");
        router.push("/feed");
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        console.log(error.code);
        alert(error.message);
      });
};

const signInWithGoogle = (): void => {
  // Add your code to sign in with Google here
};

export default {
  name: "SignUp",
  setup() {
    return {
      email,
      password,
      router,
      signUp,
      signInWithGoogle,
    };
  },
};
</script>

I'm using Vue 3 and Firebase, and I've confirmed that my index.ts file is correctly exporting the router object. I'm not sure what else to check. Any help would be appreciated.

A: Review the Vue 3 composition syntax for the setup() function in the Vue docs as well as the Vue-Router docs.  Your variables and functions should go inside the setup() function (hence why setup returns them).
<script lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue';
import { getAuth, createUserWithEmailAndPassword } from 'firebase/auth';
import { useRouter } from 'vue-router';

export default {
  name: 'SignUp',
  setup() {
    const email = ref('');
    const password = ref('');
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    const signUp = (): void => {
      createUserWithEmailAndPassword(getAuth(), email.value, password.value)
        .then(data => {
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        })
        .catch(error => {
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    };

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      email,
      password,
      router,
      signUp,
      signInWithGoogle
    };
  }
};
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Great American Scream Machine sont d'anciennes montagnes russes assises en métal du parc Six Flags Great Adventure, situé à Jackson dans le New Jersey, aux États-Unis. Elles fonctionnèrent de 1989 à 2010.

Le circuit

Statistiques
 Éléments : Looping vertical, Looping vertical, Looping vertical, Block Brake (freins de mi-parcours), Batwing (Boomerang), Double corkscrews.
 Trains : trois trains de sept wagons, les passagers sont placés deux par deux pour un total de 28 passagers par train.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Montagnes russes assises en métal
 Six Flags Great Adventure
 Shockwave à Six Flags Great America et Viper à Six Flags Magic Mountain : montagnes russes similaires

Liens externes
  Fiche de Great American Scream Machine sur Roller Coaster Database
  Images de Great American Scream Machine

Montagnes russes dans le New Jersey
Montagnes russes en métal
Montagnes russes assises
Arrow Dynamics
Attraction d'un parc Six Flags
Attraction disparue