Engage with a fascinating blend of experiences while exploring Mykonos island on a bike! Take the time to inhale the freedom offered by a cycling adventure and capture each moment with all your senses sharpened.
Offering the option of using our electric bikes as well.
Although a country girl at heart (Mykonian blood is running through my veins after all), I was born and raised in Athens. My studies at the faculty of Translation (explaining the fluency in English, French, Spanish and Turkish) led me to the beautiful island of Corfu, before starting working in a software company in Chania. The years spent in Chania gave me the opportunity to further explore not only the natural beauties of Crete, but also my passion for outdoor activities, like mountaineering, caving, canyoning, swimming and of course cycling.
As I was trying to discover more adventurous ways of traveling, it was revealed to me that the combination of my bike, my dog and my hammock offered me unlimited freedom and unique experiences. This was the first spoke in setting the wheels of Yummy Pedals in motion, my biking adventures company in Mykonos, my grandfather's birthplace.
I will be delighted to meet you, ride with you and share my enthusiasm, knowledge and love for this blessed island with you.
All in your (bike's) basket!
Our top priority, as you uncover Mykonos on wheels, is not only to provide an unforgettable, authentic, cycling experience through off the beaten track routes, but also to guarantee a safe adventure. At our guided bike tours we provide insurance coverage, first aid, technical assistance, thoroughly maintained bicycles and a selection of trails under the criteria of safety.
During all cycling tours we guide you through the least used back roads to refreshingly pristine beaches, we provide an insight into our cultural and religious heritage, we offer homemade treats and make sure you leave the beach with the best souvenir, some really unique underwater photos.
Guided bicycle tours for families, hen/bachelor parties, cruise ship passengers (looking for a half day tour), newbies or just cyclists who want to take it easy on their vacations in Mykonos. Especially if you are looking for activities for kids and teens during your holiday, these tours are just right for you.
The focus is on a fun, stress-free, leisurely-paced experience for all.
A child-friendly, manageable by any rider, bicycle tour that will take you through predominantly flat countryside, with occasionally only hilly terrains, to the spectacular beach of Fokos. Half part of the trail is on earth road, but it doesn't present any danger or difficulty.
Addressed to local and non-touristic experience hunters. Explore not only the natural beauties of Mykonos, but, additionally, its rich culinary and wine tradition first hand. An easy- to- manage itinerary allowing you to take your whole family or invite even your non-cycling friends along. Our most popular biking tour, with only occasional hills and half of the route winding through the reservoir of Ano Mera on earth terrain.
For couples, honeymooners, birthday and anniversary celebrators or just groups of friends who never cease to be romantic souls.
A private bike tour to a secluded beach, where you will enjoy full privacy allowing you to express all your intimacy and love.
Submerge into your most romantic mood, while enjoying the sheer magnificence of the landscape, sipping your local wine at dusk and covering your partner in tenderness. An easy cycling trail with hilly parts, the length and inclination of which depends on the selected destination.
These biking tours will intrigue your sense of wonder and adventure, providing a deeper insight into Mykonos' cultural and natural heritage, while challenging you physically at the same time. Whether an alternative activities lover, a tradition explorer, an azure waters hunter or simply an active adventures seeker you will find your ideal cycling tour here.
If you do not get intimidated by steep inclines and you want to discover the natural beauties of Mykonos and its coastline's turquoise-blue waters, this tour will give you access to two beautiful beaches of the island.
A tour to Ano Mera village with its monastery and Fokos beach.
An excellent introduction to the very distinct characters of Mykonos Island, featuring a fascinating mixture between our religious tradition, easy off-roading, a pristine beach and the rural & wild landscapes of Mykonos .
For a short part of the trail we ride through busy (during the peak season) roads so this tour requires some familiarization with riding on main roads.
A full day cycling tour to a "private" cove, Ano Mera village with its monastery & Fokos beach.
For those who feel like discovering the real Mykonos and do not fear biking on main roads.
An insightful but long tour into Mykonos' traditions, natural beauties and amazing beaches. We traverse the central part of the island from its southern part to the northern beach of Fokos, passing through the village, the reservoir and the rural landscapes of Ano Mera.
Tours addressed ideally to MTB junkies, but also those who get intrigued by the wildernesses of Mykonos Island and its off the beaten track hidden natural beauties.
If you are looking for real adventure activities, these tours are tailor made for you.
A physically challenging tour, as we cycle up the mountain (on paved route) in order to reach the wind turbine, from where we can enjoy the most amazing view over the northern coastal line.
For those who can handle the extreme, but thankfully short, subsequent inclines, this is one of the most scenic rides.
For private and fully customizable tours, prices substantially vary.
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offering you the chance to unwind with a wine tasting experience.
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Yummy Pedals is located at the Organic Farm & Vineyard "Mykonos Vioma" at the region of Maou, Ano Mera.
While driving along the central road leading to Ano Mera (coming from Mykonos town), still on the main road, you will find on your right hand Koutsothanasis bakery at the outskirts of Ano Mera village. Across the bakery you will see a war heroes' monument and the 1st sign towards Fokos beach. Turn there, following the sign towards the beach of Fokos and taking the road behind the monument.
At the 2nd sign, continue left towards the direction of Fokos beach once more.
At the 3rd sign, at the intersection of Maou-Doubakia-Fokos, turn right towards MAOY and follow the road ahead. 200m after crossing the bridge, you will meet the grey metal gate of the vineyard on your left hand.
Explore Mykonos' wine & culinary tradition at the historic vineyard of Mykonos Vioma.
Escape the stereotypes of Mykonos buzz by visiting Vioma, an organic vineyard and charming little farm, untouched by modern and touristy influences, where the vines grow with classical music.
Come and discover more at the monastery vineyard of Maou, where you can live an authentic and unique wine tasting and farm-to-table experience after your biking tour - or independently.
This bike tour was just what I had hoped for... A bit of fun, relaxation, swimming, and delicious bites.... And almost forgot... Wine tasting!!!! Dimitra is awesome. Would go back in a heartbeat.
We are a family of 5 and had a half day into the evening on Mykonos as a shore excursion during our Mediterranean cruise. I wasn't up for the Paradise Beach scene and wanted to see more of the island. Dimitra our guide and the owner of Yummy Pedals was FABULOUS!!! I can't say enough good things. She speaks excellent English and was easy to work with ahead of time planning our day. She picked us up at the dock and even organized last minute some changes to the schedule. We went to her families restaurant and vineyard where we picked out our bikes. From there we headed to a few different beaches based on the weather and time of day. She did a great job explaining the island, local customs and sharing some homemade treats with us. We swam in the sea and rode back to her place. From there she drove us into town encouraging us to venture out on our own exploring this charming village. It was a remarkable day and if you don't mind getting some exercise this is a GREAT DAY. I was wavering between the kayaking or scuba diving but be couldn't be happier that I went with the bike riding. My teen boys and hubby loved the day! This will not disappoint you and can be geared to adjust all levels of riders.
Excellent "taste" of the other Mykonos!
First I was reluctant to join in a tour, as I don't count myself among those fit and trained bicycle lovers. Then, I found out that I could choose among different tours of different difficulty and I was glad that I had this great experience with yummy pedals! The whole experience was much more than cycling. It was rather a great chance to come together with a local, eager to share her enthousiasm about the other side and the beauties of the island like picturesque hidden paths and crystalclear hidden waters. Although the owner and tour guide was a real professional, she was very friendly and made us feel like part of the Mykonian people family. Her fresh made limonade and cake were served at the right time and were delicious.
We had a wonderful time. You really see what the Greeks are all about on this trip. Friendly, genuine and focused on your enjoyment and comfort. The bikes are in great shape and the trip was just right for our large and varying group. The secluded beach was exactly what we wanted away from all the hustle. They even dropped some of us in town while took the rest to the cruise terminal. The muffins and the lemonade were perfect for our one big hill climb on the way back. The non fussy and completely friendly staff was perfect for our group.
All this and we supported a great woman who genuinely took the lemons the Greece crisis provided her and turned it into lemonade. Kudos.
The bike tour that Dimitra led went beyond my expectations. We went for the relatively easy bike tour with a picnic at a beach and were pleasantly surprised at every turn. She took time to explain various details about the history of Mykonos and prepared a delicious meal for the beach. The bikes she has are also very high quality and a pleasure to ride. I would absolutely recommend taking a bike tour with Yummy Pedals and wouldn't hesitate taking another if I'm ever back in Mykonos.
Wanted to do a little active excursion ater relaxing on the beach for days. The tour covered hills, valleys, a secluded beach, and a monastery all in under 3 hrs. Our tour guide Dmitra was wonderful, warm, and informative and they did a great job for others on the tour that had limited experience with biking. Equipment was very well maintained and they provide all of the gear you need. Her super friendly dog also joined us or the ride and carved out a place as the center of attention!
Highly recommended for an adventurous detour!
This tour is a great getaway from crowdy, touristy Mykonos Town to see the beautiful Mykonos Island. Dimitra was knowledgeable and hospitable to our group and responsive to our needs. Be sure to stay at the winery after for lunch to taste more fresh and local food.
Something different on Mykonos island!
This was one of my favorite activities while we visited Mykonos. Dimitra showed us a side of the island that most people don't get to see AND we got in a great workout.
But the real treat was swimming at the "secret" beach (or maybe it was the yummy homemade lemonade). She even offered to take underwater photos of me and my boyfriend, which I thought was pretty cool. Dimitra was especially patient whenever my boyfriend wanted to stop and take photos with his own camera (which was pretty often).
Although I'm active, I don't ride a bicycle, so I found our ride to be challenging, in a good way! We really enjoyed this tour and would recommend it to anyone looking for something different to do.
We decided to book a yummy pedals tour 30 minutes before it departed and we were on the other side of the island. Dimi was so wonderful and waited for us to arrive at the beautiful farm. Once there, she made us feel so comfortable and welcomed (and she even let us borrow shoes because we forgot ours)! The day was one of the best days we've had. We saw parts of the island that we wouldn't have seen and swam in the most amazing crystal blue water at our own secluded beach. Dimi even bought her underwater camera for us to take photos on. After our swim, Dimi and her assistant made us the tastiest lemonade and provided us with yummy muffins whilst we sunbaked on the beach. The cycling was so much fun and defiently gave us a great workout. We would recommend this tour to everyone! A perfect day! Thanks Dimi.
There are plenty of sites on Mykonos full of tourists, but Dimitra and Yummy Pedals was a real step away from all the crowds. Beautiful countryside views during our bike ride were punctuated with a swim on a very private beach and a visit to a very soulful Monastery. Then, the home grown, lovingly prepared food and the wine from her family's organic farm / vineyard was just divine. I would highly recommend this outing before going off to explore Little Venice or other sights on Mykonos.
Hola all, We had the absolute pleasure spending a half day with Dimitra and her family. We emailed back and forth before leaving home about meeting times (we were on a cruise) and location. Another couple from the cruise was also on our tour so we were picked up together in town and taken out to the farm.
There were 6 of us on the morning ride. The ride is pretty easy and you should have no problems with it if you are comfortable on a bicycle (well, maybe a little trouble on the hill from the beach...but you can walk your bike up no problem and spending time on the beach is pure bliss). We were given a cold bottle of water and a quick lesson about the gears and away we went.
Along the way to the beach we stopped at a small private church and got a lesson on why so many homes have them. We then stopped at the fresh water lake and dam used for drinking water on the island. Then we headed to a beautiful beach that we almost had to ourselves. If you've been to Mykonos, you will understand how special it is to have a beach to yourself. The water was crystal blue and super refreshing after our bike ride. Dimitar pulled out delicious homemade lemonade and muffins for a snack and offered to refill any empty water bottles with cold water.
When we arrived back at the farm we all stayed for lunch (which will be reviewed separately). All I can say is, you want to make sure you stay for lunch and wine.
Make sure to book well in advance, this little tour is growing greatly in popularity. We've joked that we will return next year to work for Dimitra she will have so much business.


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Our 19 contenders all promised to give us some distance from our phones by notifying us of incoming calls and texts. But we found that some smart watches were much slower than others at letting us know we had a call. It turns out the quality of the bluetooth connection determines how quickly you'll be notified, with our worst performers only registering the call with two seconds to spare before diverting to voicemail (yes you, Montblanc) while others simply failed to display any calls at all.
The LTE connection will cost you about $10 a month at most carriers, and the LTE model does cost more. There's a non-LTE version, too, if you're not interested in the new feature. Most people probably don't need LTE, frankly, unless you regularly go on hikes or long runs and you don't want to be weighed down with your phone. Still, it's a nice option to have.
Waterproof to 165 feet and tested to military standards for durability, it includes features like a digital compass, altimeter, and barometer that you won't find in most other smartwatches, as well as more standard tools such as GPS. The WSD-F20 can also function as a flashlight — handy in an emergency — and lets you download maps for offline navigation when you're far from the nearest cell signal.
The style offerings for smartwatches have improved dramatically, and your options are no longer limited to "large, nerdy and round" or "large, nerdy and square." Still, even with more than 300 Fossil-branded watches planned across 14 major watch and fashion brands, smartwatches are generally much wider and chunkier than standard watches, as the size needed to accommodate the electronics and battery lends itself to bolder, more pronounced styles.
We test every new smartwatch to gauge its design and comfort. If it's not stylish and comfortable enough to get you from an early morning workout to the office to a night out, you probably won't wear it every day. Most smartwatches are also fitness trackers, so we put all of its sensors to the test, from step counts to heart rate to GPS (when applicable).


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Brian Baker/Streeter RALLY CRY: Students at John Fisher Public School chant "Safety first" during a second protest outside the school May 24.
John Fisher parents fight development with rally, lawyers
Community retains lawyer to represent them before school board
June 4, 2017 December 4, 2017 Brian Baker demonstration, development, Jaye Robinson, John Fisher Public School, Josh Matlow, KG Group
Parents of John Fisher Public School are not resting until the Toronto District School Board and the KG Group do the right thing, in their eyes.
More than 100 students, parents and residents gathered outside the school for another rally May 24 to protest the passing of the proposed agreement with KG Group, who is developing 18-30 Erskine Avenue into a 35-storey rental apartment building.
Parents are concerned the school board is rushing into a decision without weighing the risk assessment options.
Brian Baker/StreeterPICTURE TELLS A STORY: A student protester holds up a sign calling the developer a "big thief" during the Parents For John Fisher Public School's second rally.
Among the crowd was parent advocate Stavros Rougas, who has been the spokesperson of the Parents for John Fisher Public School. He pointed the finger at the board for their impatience and lack of clarity on the issue.
Because of that litigator Shantona Chaudhury has been retained to present the group's concerns. And did so on May 18 at the school board's offices.
"The TDSB did a risk assessment that says without third-party enforcement it's not safe to operate the school," he said. "Now they're signing an agreement with the developer that doesn't have third party enforcement, and they're trying to make certain claims that are not explained.
The parents say they want facts, and they want to get the decision right.
Rougas said they don't understand why the process must be expedited. All explanations, he added, have been wishy-washy at best.
"What's the community's redeeming value of this tower?" Rougas asked. "What's the hurry when something has no benefit when you have a public school that's struggling to run safely and stay open."
Taylor Roberts, another parent at the school, echoed those sentiments and underscored the two key messages from the May 24 rally.
"We need (the provincial government) to help us step in with this OMB review," he said. "The government has acknowledged that the OMB is a flawed process."
Second was a message to the TDSB that their main responsibility is to protect the children.
"Follow the original risk assessment to make sure the kids are safe," Roberts said. "Do not vote on something that has been diluted."
Councillors Jaye Robinson and Josh Matlow attended the rally and spoke to the crowd. Robinson shared that chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat said the project is a travesty.
"The planner also said to me this should have never happened," she added.
The TDSB voted to approve the risk assessment and the development May 24. The next decision could be whether students will be moved to another school during construction.
Brian Baker/StreeterIN THE THICK OF IT: Councillors Josh Matlow and Jaye Robinson address kids and parents at John Fisher Public School rally.
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Our Own Shit Decade: The 90s in Punk Rock, from Operation Ivy to The Decline
BAD DECISIONS, GREAT IDEAS, Cristy C. Road, 2009
by Jesse Miksic
The 90s happened, man. I was there. I saw the mohawks on twelve-year olds being carried on their punk parents' shoulders. I rode in old cars while my friends snorted rids in the back seat, and I got delivered to crowded Warped Tours and saw bands my big sister had told me were fuckin' rad. I rode to local shows with the bands that were on the flyers, smushed like a low-rent groupie into a beat-up Winnebago dragging a bunch of instruments in a trailer. I taught myself to sew (badly) so I could convert an awesome band shirt into a decoration for my dad's old fatigue jacket.
We were the punks of the 90s, and those things all happened.
Thinking about my early punk rock years, from high school into college, makes me feel excruciatingly old, even though I'm not quite thirty. That scene had weight to it, a feeling of interconnectedness in the face of disapproval and uncertainty, so much so that I still carry it around, a sort of guilt that strikes me whenever I try to step outside of the culture and look back in. I paid my dues, and I think I'm entitled, but that feeling has already driven me to abandon three different versions of this essay. Maybe the fourth time's the charm.
Why should I want to write about the 90s? The world of music history, written by the consummate insiders at Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, seems to have concluded that punk happened in 1977, and that it left an aftertaste in the 80s, but had "died" by the time New Wave hit. Why write about the 90s in punk, the decade of fallout after the bomb had dropped and the dust had settled? Here's why: that was my decade, and it happened. Punk was alive, and it was changing, and it was a centerpiece in all our lives, and it deserves to be remembered, fondly and harshly and nostalgically and in all its bitter glory. Those were my years. Why the fuck shouldn't I write about it?
The 1990s brought a huge shift to punk, and I think it's still echoing through the scene today, and maybe through all the rest of music, because like an irresponsible lover, punk always passes its viruses into the broader culture via its friends and neighbors. We were the vectors for those spectrum shifts, those evolving ideologies, but of course we didn't realize it. We could only see by the light of that unfamiliar moment.
The 90s scene came out of the body of punk that had metastasized over the prior thirteen years, since the explosions in London and New York in 1977. From those first bands – the Sex Pistols and The Ramones – there arose a very volatile culture, intensely extroverted, always emanating angst into everything around it. By the end of the 70s, punk music had split pretty evenly into two strains. The first was a shapeless misanthropic streak, transgressive, with a dose of self-deprecating irony, sparked by The Sex Pistols and sustained by the horror bands of the 80s: The Misfits, The Damned, The Cramps and all the others of that ilk. The second strain was the radical political strain, embodied by bands like Crass, The Exploited and The Dead Kennedys. This side of punk gave birth to a whole ideological infrastructure, well-documented in books like The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!!! (Craig O'Hara, 1999) and American Hardcore (Stephen Blush, 2001). Transgression and politics may have been two parallel threads, but they were both explosive, directing all their energy outward, doing their best to channel that raging river of angst that burdens the restless young.
Since its conception, punk has been shot through with paradoxes. The foremost is that its anger is tempered by a sort of outsider passivity, the sympathy of the displaced, which becomes glaringly obvious the first time you make friends with a punk. Lester Bangs put it the best:
When the Ramones bring that sign onstage that says 'GABBA GABBA HEY,' what it really stands for is 'We accept you.' Once you get past the armor of dog collars, black leather, and S&M affectations, you've got some of the gentlest or at least most harmless people in the world: Sid Vicious legends aside, almost all their violence is self-directed.
Surprising, maybe, if you haven't engaged with the culture, but it's true: not only are they "the gentlest people in the world," but their infrastructure is wide open, not closed and exclusive and cliquish. The vulgar lyrics and leather accessories mask an incredible capacity for acceptance, a solidarity that nurtures its allies in a womb of camaraderie and – dare I say it – even intimacy.
Suburbia, New World Pictures, 1984
For a taste of this warm, fuzzy sense of communal interdependence, watch Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia, which is a great film about punk before the 90s changed it. Spheeris doesn't sanitize it. The kids in the T.R. House (short for The Rejected) have inherited many of their parents' prejudices and irrationalities, and they've developed some pathologies of their own. Nonetheless, there is a love within that community that many middle-class adults can only dream of, holed up in their prefab suburban shoeboxes.
Notice, in Suburbia, the camaraderie between the punks, but also their externalized aggression, the fact that they always seem to be on the offensive, antagonizing parents and shop-owners and local rednecks. This attitude is accompanied by a dearth of reflection or perceptive depth, the lack of an inner life. The T.R. kids always seem to be living in the unstable present, reacting to circumstances and ambivalent about the future. Notice, also, their total negligence of their household. This is contempt for spaces and objects, rejection of status symbols, a total, almost luddite resistance to technology fetishism.
I know I threw that term out there without much of a preamble, so here it is, real quick. In my recent years, socializing with coworkers and co-hobbyists, I've noticed a whole culture of tools that's taken over the fabric of social life. Social groups are organized, filtered, and validated by their conversations about tools: the awesomeness of their camera, the inner workings of their car, the output of their stereo system, the designer of their shoes.
Now, I suspect that somewhere behind these obsessions, there is a desire for some actual experiences: the experience of catching a perfect moment in freeze-frame, the experience of going 80 miles per hour down a winding mountain road, the experience of being absorbed entirely into a sublime guitar riff, the experience of being aesthetically unified into a beautiful figure. But for some reason, whether it's capitalism or simple cowardice, we tend to displace these actual experiences in favor of the objects used to enable them, and the technology becomes our highest aspiration.
It's got shades of Marx, McLuhan and Freud in there. Our communities of common experience have been transformed into communities of common technology, and these technologies have become a hegemony, the focus of our desires, the criteria for our fulfillment, the tokens of our exclusivity, and the source of our specialized language.
Punk is the corrective. From the very beginning, punk was hostile to technology fetishism, preferring to ignore and neglect the tools in favor of the unmediated experiences. Sure, you needed a guitar to play, but who cared what kind of guitar it was, or how you treated it? In punk, you were just supposed to play, however you could manage to do that. You were expected to have a shitty hand-me-down car, an ailing band Winnebago, and a wardrobe that would make a hobo feel fashionable. The point was the experience itself, not the tool that got you there.
Even musical chops are a form of technology, and there's a whole community that fetishizes those technical skills. You know, all the people who talk incessantly about Eric Clapton versus Frank Zappa, Les Claypool, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan? Well, that might have been the first fetish that punk destroyed, with musical godfathers who were infamous for being fast and loose with their instruments. Again, I call on Lester Bangs, who spelled out the punk philosophy on the topic of technical merit:
Great jazz is great art. But I submit that, when it's not arty, garbage noise can also be great art. Because great art is anything that stirs the human breast in profound ways that may even have deeper psychological and social implications, and that's just exactly what, say, the Sex Pistols did. You may despise them, but they can't be denied their impact. Who cares if they had no talent (a contention I consider debatable anyway)? Their talent was for aural carnage and rabble rousing.
Consider all this in the punkest of punk contexts: the live show. This is where punk showed its true nature, its triple-distilled 200-proof essence. The live show was a communion between the band and the crowd, and all differences were transcended as they danced, or wrestled, or whatever you want to call it (they didn't look much different in the pit). As Craig O'Hara observes in The Philosophy of Punk, the live show was a place where the barrier between the audience and the performer was almost entirely eroded. The crowd moved as a single fluid continuum, jerked around by the spasms of various pits and dance floors, in an ecstatic Dionysiac tantrum that didn't end until the venue turned on the lights and queued the elevator music. The show was the epicenter of punk because it was the place where mediation was reduced to a minimum, and the communal experience was radically amplified.
This was the beautiful animal that punk had become in the 70s and 80s, an extroverted youth culture of resistance with a wide open infrastructure, skeptical about authority, contemptuous of technology, and ravenous for pure experience. Then, the 90s happened.
Cover art for Operation Ivy's debut EP, Hectic, 1988
I consider Operation Ivy the start of the 90s for punk. OpIvy only released one album, the 1989 masterpiece Energy, a tough, confident punk record with infectious ska inflections. Operation Ivy may have only opened the door a crack, but a new generation of punk rock flooded through it: the generation called pop punk. Epitaph, LookOut, Fat Wreck Chords, and a multitide of smaller labels released a torrent of accessible, ear-wormy punk, and those bands defined the decade. Aside from Energy, there was The Suicide Machines' Destruction by Definition, Jawbreaker's Bivouac, The Bouncing Souls' brilliant live album Tie One On, Rancid's … And Out Come The Wolves, and of course, The Offspring's Smash and Green Day's Dookie. That's not even to mention the incredible work of bands like Bad Religion, Dillinger Four, Pennywise, NOFX, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Dropkick Murphys, Anti-Flag, and Strike Anywhere.
The music wasn't just more fun (though, in my opinion, it definitely was more fun). The attitude was also shifting dramatically, and I think the Suicide Machines captured it best in their song "Inside/Outside":
If you wanna know the answers / Then you gotta ask the questions / Who am I? and Who is she? / and Does it matter anyway? / You've gotta look for love on the inside, man / Don't look for love on the outside.
This was no longer a purely confrontational, extroverted music of protest. Punk found a reflective side, a persona that was concerned with its own identity, with issues of love and fulfillment, and it allowed itself to become truly introverted once in a while. For some of the career rebels of the previous generation, it was a total betrayal: silly popular music, sensitivity, troubling lack of conviction. But it was definitely what we needed: a space where we could explore the whole spectrum of experiences through the music that we'd fallen in love with.
Want to see this shift in action? Just take the movie I cited earlier, Suburbia, and contrast it with SLC Punk!, the essential punk movie of our generation. You know how those Rednecks attacked the T.R. kids at the end of Suburbia? Well, I'm pretty sure those are the same rednecks that Stevo and Heroin Bob beat up at the beginning of SLC Punk! Stevo took the torch from Jack Diddly, and while he was at it, he got some sweet retribution for those embattled California punkers.
The two movies are night and day, in terms of punk rock attitude. I'd quote particular scenes, but it hardly even makes sense… the difference between the films is so obvious, right down to the fabric, that it's hard to even pinpoint. In Suburbia, a protective community of teenagers rages against a world that excludes and disrespects them. They are victims of circumstance, and they turn their rage back outward, committing crimes, thrashing at shows, and acting insolent. They have virtually no inner lives and no plans for their future. They are stuck in that mindless moment, within that abandoned house on the edge of the city. Stevo, on the other hand, has a complete inner life, so much so that we never quite escape from his head when we're watching SLC Punk! We're privy to his opinions, his uncertainties, his troubled relationships, and his shifts in philosophy. The film culminates in some sort of trippy self-discovery, and it ends with Stevo's resignation from the whole punk culture. So it tells you something about punk in the 90s – about how it became a matter of self-examination, a search for identity – but it reflects a bitter truth back at the scene: for many of the people who passed through punk in the 90s, it really was just a phase.
Songs about feelings weren't the only products of that decade. The newfound introversion also brought on some serious fragmentation and consolidation. Now, this was in the works since the 80s, when hardcore and emo were born, but it was really during the 1990s that subgenres became a conceptual pillar of the whole punk movement. It's easy to pass them off as trivialities, but that would be ignoring a whole bunch of sides of this story, because those genres – they were our story.
Take hardcore. In the 1980s, the genre called hardcore punk – a hold-out genre against pop and New Wave, amplifying all the primitive punk rock tropes – evolved into a purist, stand-alone genre just called hardcore. From fast, short, extremely aggressive punk, there came this strange mutant full of crunchy guitars and growls and screams, liberating itself from our familiar power-chords and simple song structures. It went from Minor Threat and Agnostic Front to Hatebreed and Earth Crisis, from something that sounded like punk to something with the balls-to-the-wall intensity of metal.
You have to hand it to hardcore: it stayed connected to the communal life of punk rock. Perhaps even more than the punks themselves, the hardcore kids played in small local venues to other hardcore bands, proud of their caustic inaccessibility. They developed a scene based on a certain machismo of willfulness and loyalty, exemplified in war-cry nomenclature like Victory Records, Youth Of Today, Positive Force, and Ten Yard Fight. They were confident and cohesive, proud of being their own movement, and as a result, the punk scene regarded them with grudging respect. At worst, they were sometimes seen as a bunch of jocks or frat-boys within the intensely individualist punk community, but they were never outright demonized.
Now let's contrast that with emo, a genre that broke off hardcore in the mid-1980s, and came into its own as the 90s turned into the new millenium. The first thing I ever heard about "emo" was that it was short for "emotional," and as it turns out, that's one of the only things people agree on about the term. By the most credible account (an excellent, long-standing website called What the heck *is* emo, anyway?), emo started with a band called Rites of Spring. Along with successors like Antioch Arrow, Moss Icon, and Still Life, Rites of Spring took the intense outward aggression of hardcore and turned it inward, exploring extremely personal themes and laying bare their tortured souls for the world to behold.
As punk became more introverted and hardcore wandered off into nu-metal territory, emo performed a sort of parabolic arc back toward accessibility, and by the mid-90s, it was being driven by a handful of excellent punkish bands. Alkaline Trio was the first one I ever heard… their songs on I Lied My Face Off were raw and visceral, honest, scathing, and exposed, like they were probing an open chest wound. Samiam and Hot Water Music fit into that post-hardcore "emo" bucket, as well: heavy punk bands, not afraid of vulnerability in their lyrics or experimentation in their structures, committed to a confessional mode that mainstream punk was still too shy to match.
Anyway, remember when I said hardcore was confident, cohesive, masculine, and proud of its identity? Emo was basically the opposite of all those things. The bands avoided the classification "emo" – indeed, they outright objected to it, and generally treated it like a rabid dog that was following them around. They tended to glom onto other scenes, touring with hardcore or punk bands and eventually folding into the nebulous pseudo-genre known as "indie rock."
And as the bands treated the genre, so the fans and thought leaders treated it, as well. By the end of the 90s, the whole community had written it off as whiny, formulaic, corporate-appropriated crap, and "emo" became a meaningless derogatory word synonymous with "pussy-ass bitch." It was a sad and unjust conclusion for a genre that had generated some of the freshest, most intelligent music of the decade.
So yeah, punk wasn't perfect. I think the rejection of emo happened because punk was, and still is, more masculocentric than it likes to admit. Craig O'Hara may have a chapter on punk's acceptance of queer culture, but he doesn't do due diligence in critiquing the actual behavior within the scene. Those politics turn out to be fairly skewed: transgressive, tough-as-nails females are celebrated, but effeminite males are basically invisible. Gay male punks certainly exist, but the scene pressures them to act as straight as possible, because the tokens of femininity – grace, vulnerability and the maternal instinct – are not held in particularly high regard by punks. Even when Iggy Pop wore that blue dress for photographer Mikael Jansson, there was still a shrill note of brutishness to the whole thing, as if it was an ironic repudiation of feminine character.
Emo openly and shamelessly challenged this macho sensibility, and I'm pretty sure that's why it was pushed out of punk so quickly. I'm not saying it's an unforgivable sin, but it was what it was.
The other genre of our golden decade was ska, fun kid brother to the vast punk community. Ska's island roots – its horn sections, its emphasis on the up-beat – predated punk, and by the time the 90s came, ska was on its third wave. This third wave was coextensive with the rise in pop punk, and the latter sort of adopted the former and gave it a home in the underground scene. Some great ska bands were around in the 1990s… The Scofflaws, Mustard Plug, The Pietasters, The Toasters.
Something went wrong with ska, just like something went wrong with emo, but in ska's case, it was sort of the opposite problem: the genre was too likable, and in a way, it was too trivial to withstand popularity. No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom introduced ska to the US in an informal kind of way, without ever announcing itself as a genre. Then, a few years later, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish became radio standards, and everybody learned that this shit had a name. Ska seemed to have finally broken into the mainstream as a danceable, accessible variation of party and soundtrack rock. Only the punks were skeptical, though they didn't entirely begrudge the genre its moment in the spotlight.
And then, just like that, the spotlight got shut off, and the genre dropped back into obscurity. When the glut of top-40 listeners lost interest, ska found that it had also eroded its support among its base, who were absolutely fucking tired of hearing Reel Big Fish on every movie soundtrack, and sick of having to explain what the word "ska" meant to their grandmothers. The mainstream music industry had reduced the genre to its flattest, most marketable elements, and then the whole world abandoned ska, and it almost entirely disappeared.
Oddly, even in its heyday, ska was built almost entirely around one label – Moon Ska Records – and in 2000, that label folded. This was a sad end-note for ska, the whimpering final fart of a trombone as the house lights come on. It was also one of the landmarks that marked the end of the punk rock 90s, as this affable genre – the one affectionately co-opted by Operation Ivy back in 1989 – lost its patron record label.
So why did I have to derail this rumination on punk by talking about all those pesky genres? I know punks, especially the musicians and the well-informed fans, tend to hate talking about genre. I think it's because they want to avoid sitting in their own shit, dwelling on their own hang-ups. They're disinclined to admit that those genres were our shared language, our framework for the music and the scene. Even when it wasn't a topic, it was a subtext, the medium for our loyalties and interpersonal conflicts. In fact, I'd say genre was our technology fetish, our set of metaphors that we elevated into an object unto itself. So you could say that in thinking so much about genre, by allowing our scene to fracture and differentiate so much, we were betraying the spontaneous, experience-driven spirit of the movement that we'd inherited.
Then again, every evolution betrays something of its predecessor, simply in order to evolve. And I'm willing to forgive my decade for being hung up on sub-scenes and genres, because it paved the way for a lot of new fusions and recombinations in the 21st century, and because it gave our scene space to breathe, to reflect, and to work through its conflicting impulses.
Of course, the 90s, that decade of shifting loyalties and pop punk, had to end some time, and as far as I'm concerned, even more so than the closing of Moon Ska, the ending of the decade was marked by a song… a sprawling, angry, accessible, and experimental epitome of 90s punk, looming as large over the 90s as Melmoth the Wanderer loomed over gothic literature.
This song was NOFX's "The Decline," released in 1999… just two months after the Columbine massacre.
Now, like good punks, NOFX refuses to grant any special status to the song or its creation, except to acknowledge that it was hard fucking work. Once you hear it, you know why – it's an 18-minute opus, divided into movements, and united by common threads, almost classical in its scope. It never drags or turns into a Philip Glass art-house exercise in endurance… honestly, it's the shortest 18-minute song you'll ever hear. The sound is pure, solo-free power pop punk, and the lyrics are both introverted and unapologetically political, calling out the status quo for all its unexamined injustices.
Cover art for The Decline, NOFX, 1999
"The Decline" is about 10 years ahead of its time. In its critiques of war politics, it's hard to believe it predated the second Iraq war; in its observations of class conflict, it's amazing that it came so many years ahead of the financial crisis and Occupy Wall Street. It addresses the dangers of uncontrolled firearms, the manufactured apathy of the American consumer, and the paralysis of radical politics. Released in 1999, it sounded an alarm for issues that the radical left wasn't ready to face, issues that continued escalating dramatically during the eight years of the Bush administration. It seems to speak to a juncture that, after twelve years, we've only just reached: a pivot point where the right has lurched into dangerous regressive conservatism, the mainstream response has become vapid and resigned, and the left is earnestly struggling to formulate some kind of counterpolitics.
Of course, we didn't see it as closing out one decade, and echoing presciently into another. We just saw that it was an awesome EP.
Those were ten years of good times, and punk was still alive, and still had something to teach, even for us, the brats of the Clinton years. I know it's changed since then, and I've turned my eyes elsewhere, to my own ambitions and my own form of Stevo's "selling out." But it's cool, I can watch that part of my youth die, getting dismantled and embalmed in the carbonite of music history, and I'm even willing to throw an essay or two into that mix. Why is it so easy for me, besides the fact that I have a morbid, complacent fascination with nostalgia? It's easy because I see that it's already sunken into the soil, and that the corpse of the 90s is giving rise to a new youth movement, a new incarnation of punk rock, and a radical, autonomous philosophy for a new generation.
And that's how the punk rock of the 90s survives its own death-as-history, like Dave Bowman slipping into a hallucination, and getting reincarnated as the Star Child: punk rock, a cosmic newborn for a new generation.
Cover image from Dumpster Makeout Party, 2002, Cristy C. Road
Works Referenced:
Bangs, Lester. "Free Jazz/Punk Rock." Musician Magazine (1979): n. pag. Lester Bangs, Free Jazz/Punk Rock. NOT BORED! Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://www.notbored.org/bangs.html>.
—. "White Noise Supremacists." Village Voice (1979): n. pag. White Noise Supremacists. Maria Elena Buszek. Web. <http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/BangsWhite.pdf>.
Blush, Steven, and George Petros. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House, 2001. Print.
NOFX. "The Decline." Rec. June 1999. The Decline. Fat Wreck Chords, 1999. CD.
O'Hara, Craig. "Gender Issues." Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!! Edinburgh: AK, 1999. Print.
—. "Why Punk." Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!! Edinburgh: AK, 1999. Print.
Operation Ivy. "Knowledge." Energy. LookOut Records, 1991. CD.
Radin, Andy. "What the Heck *is* Emo Anyway?" FourFA.com, n.d. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://www.fourfa.com/>.
SLC Punk!. Dir. James Merendino. By James Merendino. Sony Pictures Classics, 1999. DVD.
Suburbia. Dir. Penelope Spheeris. New World Pictures, 1984. DVD.
Suicide Machines. "Inside/Outside." Destruction by Definition. Hollywood Records, 1996. CD.
Jesse Miksic is a designer, critic and content creator living in Brooklyn, New York. Jesse maintains a cinema and media theory website here.
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What CNN SHOCKINGLY ADMITS About President Trump First 100 days
Donald Trump declared CNN fake news and a child was born.
The term so angered CNN, they had their anchors fighting against the term.
One even through a hissy fit, and walked off set.
CNN hoped the term would die down, as they attempted to "fake news" their way out of it. CNN news anchor Cuomo actually said using the term "fake news" was the equivalent of using the "n-word."
The media giant seemingly didn't get the hint that to avoid being fake news all one need do is stop reporting fake news.
That said, President Trump may be pleased when he sees their reporting on the stock market's rally since he took office. Interestingly, CNN got closer to the truth than normal.
The Trump rally has come in three waves. It was kicked off soon after the election with exuberance over the Trump agenda. It was dealt a blow by political reality, and has since matured into cautious optimism.
All in all, the stock market performance through President Trump's 100th day in office on Saturday looks impressive. That's especially true given Trump's historically-low poll numbers and nonexistent legislative achievements, at least so far.
The S&P 500 has rallied 11.6% between Trump's election victory and Friday, the final day before the 100-day mark. That's the second-best performance for that period, since an 18% surge under President Kennedy in 1961, according to CFRA Research. The S&P 500 soared 12.3% through the same point under President George H. W. Bush in 1989.
"Wall Street has awarded President Trump an A for 'anticipation,'" Sam Stovall, CFRA's chief investment strategist, wrote in a report.
Anticipation of a pro-growth policy — massive tax cuts, infrastructure spending and deregulation — fired Wall Street up immediately after the election.
So much so that most of the Trump rally actually took place long before he ever took power. Roughly 53% of the S&P 500's total post-election rally happened by December 13, according to an analysis of FactSet data.
Ok, so this is a back-handed endorsement of President Trump. But for CNN, this is not too bad.
Note the date of their claim that 53% of the S&P 500's total happened from election day until December 13. What they fail to mention was the prediction that the election of Donald Trump would cause the worldwide collapse of, well…everything!
Reuters reported that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim predicted dire consequences if Trump were elected:
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said on Friday that Donald Trump's plans would "destroy" the United States economy and joked that the Republican presidential candidate's proposed wall at the border would be undermined by smuggling tunnels.
According to the Washington Post, America should be in the apocalypse by now.
They explain away the $10 trillion added by Obama, as well as his massive deficits as such.
THE DECADES since the end of the Cold War have seen strong and widely shared economic growth, on a global scale. The portion of the world's population living on $1.25 per day or less fell from 44 percent to 23 percent. Some 200 million Chinese, 90 million Indians and 30 million people each in Indonesia, Egypt and Brazil moved into the global middle class. This progress had many causes, but a major one was the United States' hard work, under presidents of both major parties, to promote the free flow of goods and capital, within a robust legal framework, among nations.
These policies benefited the American people, too — though by no means all of them, a fact that has caused understandable concern, especially in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Seizing on this backlash, and dissenting radically from the long-standing bipartisan consensus, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks of "bringing back" American jobs by repudiating international trade agreements and resorting instead to pressure tactics, such as threatening tariffs against China and other trading partners.
The United States needs to ensure that more of its own middle class shares in the benefits of globalization. Mr. Trump's policies, however, could trigger a trade war, or wars, thus threatening the achievements of the past three decades without helping Americans who need it most.
The Atlantic predicted gloom and doom not only for America, but for the world.
Trump isn't just bad for his business. He's not even just a danger to the U.S. economy. Investors around the world think that a President Trump would be disastrous for global markets. And now, there is hard data to prove it, thanks to two clever economists and one debate meltdown.
They even referenced their OWN article as material for the impending doom of a Trump presidency. What concerned them most was this quote from Trump:
"I've borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts," he told CNBC. "I would borrow knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal."
How exactly do the people at The Atlantic think America currently finances its debt?
Finally, across the Atlantic, the Brits chimed in. The Independent UK wrote this:
Things might not turn out like that. Perfectly plausible is that Trump's victory will instead prove the catalyst for the next financial crisis. In truth, that crisis has been in the making for many decades and it will represent the third chapter in the trilogy that has the banking crash and the great recession as its first two episodes: the great dollar crisis of 2017 will be the final reckoning of the long boom and the era of financial irresponsibility.
The era of financial irresponsibility JUST ENDED! But leave it to Brits to get the memo late.
Anyway, as you can see, the Left were not kind to candidate Trump. Don't expect them to start now. Know that President Trump's only concern is good results. And if his first 100 days are any indication, America is coming back!
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Die SSM-N-8A Regulus war ein nuklear bewaffneter Marschflugkörper des US-amerikanischen Herstellers Vought, der von 1955 bis 1964 von der United States Navy eingesetzt wurde.

Entwicklung
Der in den späten 1950er- und frühen 1960er-Jahren stationierte Flugkörper war der erste in Dienst gestellte seegestützte Marschflugkörper und basierte auf den Entwürfen der deutschen V1. Das Regulus-Projekt begann bereits 1943, jedoch ohne nennenswerte Fortschritte. Bis 1947 führten die Planungen lediglich zu einer genauen Spezifikation der Leistungsdaten. Parallel dazu gab es das Projekt des Marschflugkörpers SSM-N-6 Rigel, das 1943 begann und 1953 eingestellt wurde. In dieser Zeit standen die Projekte der United States Navy in Konkurrenz zu dem Marschflugkörper Matador der US Army. Schließlich kam es 1951 zum Erstflug eines Regulus-Marschflugkörpers und 1953 zum ersten Start von einem U-Boot aus, vom Deck der aufgetauchten USS Tunny. Ein Flugkörperstart unter Wasser war zu dieser Zeit nicht möglich.

Einsatz

U-Boote
Die beiden U-Boote der Grayback-Klasse gingen ab 1958 mit Regulus auf Patrouille, ab 1960 auch das Atom-U-Boot USS Halibut (SSGN-587). Ab 1964 gingen U-Boot-gestützte Polaris-Raketen in Dienst und lösten damit die Regulus ab.

Kreuzer
Neben der Stationierung auf U-Booten wurde auch die Stationierung auf Überwasserschiffen untersucht und in kleinem Rahmen durchgeführt. So fuhren ab 1955/56 vier Kreuzer der Baltimore-Klasse, die USS Helena (CA-75), die USS Macon (CA-132), die USS Toledo (CA-133) sowie die USS Los Angeles (CA-135), mit jeweils drei Regulus-Flugkörpern, die im ursprünglichen Seeflugzeughangar mitgeführt wurden.

Flugzeugträger
Insgesamt zehn Flugzeugträger wurden für den Einsatz von Regulus-Flugkörpern ausgerüstet, wobei nur sechs jemals Starts durchführten. Die USS Princeton (CV-37) führte den ersten Start einer Regulus von einem Kriegsschiff durch, führte jedoch keine Einsatzfahrt durch. Ebenfalls nur Teststarts erfolgten von der USS Saratoga (CVA-60), der USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) sowie der USS Lexington (CV-16). Jeweils eine tatsächliche Einsatzfahrt mit je drei Flugkörpern an Bord führten 1955 die USS Randolph (CV-15) und die USS Hancock (CV-19) durch.

Bei einem als Missile Mail bezeichneten Start am 8. Juni 1959 wurden durch einen Regulus-Flugkörper Postbehälter mit Briefen transportiert.

Weblinks

 Guided Missile. Navy Tests Newest Atomic War Weapon – Universal Newsreel vom 9. Februar 1956, Wochenschaubericht bei archive.org
 Vought SSM-N-8/RGM-6 Regulus bei designation-systems.net (in Englisch)

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Earlier this summer, China's stock market appeared to be in free-fall, despite the Chinese government's efforts to control stock prices and stem the panic. The chief culprit appears to be leverage: investors last year and in the first half of this year borrowed billions in order to buy stocks on margin, offering little or no collateral except the shares themselves. As prices fall and stock values drop below the level of debt, it triggers margin calls from the lenders, which forces investors to sell at any price, further depressing prices, causing more margin calls in a downward spiral whose bottom is not easy to see from here.
A recent report said that the volume of these margin loans dropped by 6%, or $23 billion over five trading days, which implies that there is still $383 billion more that could be called over the next months or years, an alarming 9% of the roughly $4 trillion in total market value on the Shanghai market.
But leverage is only part of the problem. The CSI Information Technology Index, a mix of high-tech names in China similar to the NASDAQ in the U.S., is still trading at a multiple of around 75 times earnings (PE), while NASDAQ's PE is closer to 30. If the two indices were to normalize, it would imply that Chinese stocks could drop an additional 60% in value before the current bear market has run its course—and that's assuming the debt situation doesn't cause the market to overshoot on the downside. Some compare the situation in China to the dot-com bust in the year 2000.
One complication in the situation is the fact that, since late last year, foreign investors have been allowed to invest directly in Shanghai-listed stocks. Savvy market traders with years of experience in these death spiral events have been making program trades which bet on further drops. Chinese regulators recently suspended 34 U.S.-based hedge fund accounts from trading, including the Citadel Fund, and short selling is now totally forbidden. Arrests for selling stocks short have been reported.
This past week, investors across the globe were sent into a panic when the Chinese Central Bank devalued the nation's currency, the yuan. The U.S. market temporarily lost more than 1% of its total value, oil prices fell, and global shares plummeted on news that China decided to make its currency two percent cheaper than it was before. Despite the Central Bank's assertion that it was a one-and-done devaluation, they proceeded to further devalue the yuan two more times within a matter of days.
You actually read that right. Headlines raised the prospect of a global currency war, and there were hints in the press that nations might resort to trade barriers, which would slow down global trade in all directions. If you're following the story, you probably didn't read that the Chinese yuan, even after the devaluation, was actually more valuable against global currencies than it was a year ago in trade-weighted terms. Nor did you read that China actually intervened in the global markets to make sure the devaluation didn't go any further in open market trading.
The background for the devaluation is China's slowing economic growth and its recent stock market volatility. The Caixin China Manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index recently fell to levels which indicate economic contraction, and industrial output is at the weakest level since November of 2011. If you can believe the numbers, the country is on track for a 7% growth rate this year—three times the U.S. rate, but sluggish by recent Chinese standards, and quite possibly unacceptable to the country's leaders.
You probably already know that the Chinese stock market climbed to impossibly high levels earlier this year and then fell just as far in a matter of weeks. As you can see from the below chart (and as mentioned above), the Chinese government marched into the chaos with a heavy hand, outlawing short sales, banishing hedge funds to the sidelines, suspending margin calls and even buying stocks directly in an effort to put a floor on prices. The theory was that the devaluation was part of this intervention, since it would make exports cheaper and boost sales, raising profit margins of those companies whose stocks were recently free-falling. Some believe that the Chinese won't quit until they devalue the yuan by at least 10%.
A more nuanced view of the situation is that the recent depreciation is a small step to keep the yuan's value in line with those of its peers, not a dramatic shift in exchange-rate policy or a part of the Great Shanghai Market Panic. Indeed, if you look at the below chart, you can see that China's percentage of world exports has been steadily growing for this entire century, without any need to add the stimulus of a weaker currency.
A scarier scenario, which nobody seems to be talking about, is that China's endgame goal is to make the yuan the reserve currency for global trade—replacing the U.S. dollar. China is already lobbying to join the list of reserve currencies recognized by the International Monetary Fund. The new exchange rate is more in line with basic economic fundamentals, strengthening the argument that the yuan is not under the total control of an interventionist central government. But so long as China imposes strict limits on the amount of its currency that can flow into and out of the country, and attempting to manipulate its own stock market, this will be a difficult argument to make.
You don't often see a market rally when an economy is sliding into recession, so at these valuations, you aren't likely to find many bulls left in the Shanghai China shop either.


Forum Bornova was the first shopping and lifestyle centre developed by Multi Turkmall in Turkey. The centre reflects Aegean and Mediterranean architecture. It consists of two boulevards, two squares and four streets. There are wooden canopies, small ponds, bridges, a tower, a lot of mosaic, wooden pergolas, palm trees, fountains, roof gardens with restaurants and bars. Forum Bornova is situated on a site measuring 67,000 m2 close to Ege University. Leisure activities are organised all year round, attracting more than ten million visitors a year. Forum Bornova plays an important part in the social life of Izmir's inhabitants. Wind speeds at the site of the shopping centre are high by Turkish standards.
The problem for the wind tunnel study was that the observations of the wind speeds and wind directions at the weather station twelve kilometres away differed substantially from the on-site observations because of the nearby hills and mountains. This discrepancy was taken into account in interpreting the results of the measurements. The study showed that a number of measures were needed to improve the wind climate. When the shopping centre was completed, the actual findings closely matched the conclusions of the wind tunnel study.


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Gwen Verdon's Former Quogue Home With Atlantic Views Asks $8.9M
By Timothy Bolger Posted on October 13, 2020
This oceanfront home and former U.S. Lifesaving Service station previously owned by actress Gwen Verdon is listed for sale for the first time at 84 Dune Rd. in the Village of Quogue.
Built in 1870 on a 1.1-acre lot, this five-bedroom, three-bathroom home has 3,963 square feet of living space. The home boasts old-world charm, modern amenities, catwalk to the beach with a raised deck and seating area on top of the dunes, and a detached bungalow. Tony winner Verdon, who starred in Broadway and film adaptations of Damn Yankees, the movie Cacoon, and many other things, lived there until 2000.
The house features an eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, living room with a fireplace, and sun room. Outside it has a wrap-around mahogany porch, in-ground gunite pool, expansive lawn, and an outdoor shower. It comes equipped with central air conditioning and a three-car garage.
The house was originally built as a station for the U.S. Lifesaving Service, a predecessor to the U.S. Coast Guard, until it was decommissioned in 1915. It still has the original U.S. Life Saving Station sign, a boat room, original flooring and various memorabilia from its Life Saving station days, according to Dan's Papers.
The property is about two miles from downtown Westhampton, the Westhampton Long Island Rail Road station, and falls in the Quogue School District.
The asking price is $8,950,000, not including the $30,402 in annual property taxes.
The real estate agent listed for the property is Enzo Morabito of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who can be reached at 631-288-6244.
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