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It is my humble opinion (still!) that the world is going to enter another recession. The rationale for this can be seen on my recession call post….
and some more recent commentary from the ECRI in this great interview
What’s most telling about this video is the gently mocking tone of the CNBC hosts as they completely fail to grasp that Lakshman Achuthan doesn’t make stock market calls and focuses purely on leading indicators not the co-incident or lagging ones that the market has recently been rejoicing over!
If this macro premise is correct then I believe we will enter another round of the Global Risk OFF game. One of the most appealing risk off trades from my perspective is short AUD/USD which is now quoted at a near 30 year high against the greenback. This idea was first brought to my attention by Chris Pavese at Broyhill and I have leaned heavily on their analysis, they have been onto this trend for a while now. Check out their blog at http://www.viewfromtheblueridge.com/
Australian Central Bank has Started Lowering Interest Rates
The Reserve Bank of Australia cut official interest rates by one quarter of a percentage point to 4.50% on the 1st of November. At the same time it also cut its own growth outlook by 50 basis points for the next 12 months to reflect “risks to global growth and heightened financial volatility”. They also highlighted “changes in household spending and borrowing behaviour” which is crucial to the future I envisage.
In January, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment was down 10.7% in annual terms. Ouch!
The index level is still below where it sat just three months ago and prior to two rate cuts of 25 basis points each from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in November and December. Rate cuts from the RBA typically are a significant boost to consumer sentiment in Australia, given that more than 90 per cent of the country’s mortgages are set at variable rates. But the rate cuts still aren’t working, perhaps the first signs of an Australian household focus on “debt minimisation”?
An economic slowdown in Australia, which would flow from a global slowdown and a weakening of China’s growth rate, will force the RBA to start cutting rates from their current levels which are far in excess of the developed world average.
Although lower rates will help to ease any slowdown in the Aussie economy it will remove one of the key advantages AUD has enjoyed over most other currencies in the last few years – positive carry. If you can borrow money in GBP, USD or JPY at near zero and then invest it in an appreciating AUD earning 4.5% interest then you can cream off that 4% a year without having committed much, if any, capital. It’s a no-brainer, any old mug can do it, and they have!
There is a very strong correlation between foreign ownership of Aussie bonds and the AUD – this makes intuitive sense because people would have to buy the currency to buy the bonds. It seems likely that much of the money has been flowing to AUD because of its safe haven status and its perceived economic invincibility. As sovereigns around the world get downgraded there is a smaller and smaller “AAA Club” and therefore the pools of capital which are forced to own only the highest quality paper are forced to search further and wider. Should this safe haven status ever be called into question, and no-one is sacrosanct anymore, then those currencies most reliant upon capital flows would be the most vulnerable.
Weakening Commodity Demand from China
They call Australia “The Lucky Country” for very good reason. It is surfing the crest of a decade long resource and real estate boom stemming from China’s credit driven demand. Virtually every material that Australia was blessed with has seen enormous price increases over the past decade. Increased demand for Iron Ore, Gold and Coal has been bolstered by massive price increases to boot.
Australia isn’t just lucky though, its symbiotic relationship with Emerging Market demand, particularly Chinese demand, has been the result of a long courtship. Since the mid 1970’s, when colonial ties with Britain were severed, the Australians have naturally sought to do more business with their nearest neighbours. Ironically, what was once a prison island far away for banished convicts is now arguably the most geographically advantageous land mass amongst all the first world nations. China now absorbs far and away the largest share of exports, followed by Japan and South Korea. As you would expect the share of exports to slow or no growth Europe, US and UK is considerably less.
China accounts for 25.3% of Australian exports in 2010. But Australia’s actual export dependency may be great suggest the Interest Rate Observer, Japan get’s 19% and South Korea 9%, both of whom likely take Australian resources, turn them into high tech capital goods and then sell them to China. That’s close to 60% of exports which are highly sensitive to Chinese growth.
This 20 year boom has fundamentally restructured the Australian economy. Over the last 15 years, mining has jumped from 4% to 10% of GDP. At the same time, manufacturing was pared back from 15% to 10%. That enabled the country to more easily absorb the blow when China took over the world’s low end manufacturing industry, which has caused so much damage to industry and employment in the US and here in the UK.
Because of this heavy reliance on commodity exports and mining as a percentage of GDP, Australian markets, including currency, equities, bonds and real estate have become a leveraged play on the growth of the global economy. My own pet theory is that being bullish on Australia is only a little more nuanced and “safe” than being wildly bullish on China, but it’s ultimately the same trade.
When markets are bullish and the Risk ON trade is in full swing, Aussie assets outperform. AUD nearly doubled against the USD since the March 2009 bottom as the world re-embraced risk, global growth and Antipodean decoupling. When markets turn around and go “Risk OFF” the opposite happens – AUD fell by 15% during the last correction.
What no-one is talking about is that most of the Australian economy is possibly already in recession. This is near unthinkable because the world’s 13th largest economy has not had a year of negative GDP growth since 1991! That is astonishing. To quote James Grant
“To applaud a 20 year recession drought is to subscribe to the unlikely proposition that Australia has gone 20 years without overdoing it.”
My opinion now is that only the filter through from the Sino-Demand related industries is keeping the economy humming along. It was a big shock to me when I saw “The number of companies entering some form of insolvency administration in calendar year 2011 continues to set new records” from Dissolve.
Not to worry, there is investment abound from the mining companies planned for years to come. Direct Mining Investment as a share of the economy has gone from 1% to 3% and is heading toward 6% if they hit planned expenditures. This is the highest rate in 100 years.
People discredit the Chinese growth boom as unsustainable due to the predominance of fixed asset investment – the building of roads/buildings/bridges/factories. Often it seems this investment is very wasteful and creates excess capacity just for the sake of GDP growth (Google “Ordos”). Well in 2009 Fixed Asset Investment was 48% of the Chinese economy, in contrast it was only 12% in the US. In 2010, Australia clocked a number of 27.4% according to James Grant – that is China-esque.
Bursting Housing Bubble
“Almost 311,286 properties are for sale across Australia, the highest in more than five years and almost 30 per cent more than the same time last year. In Melbourne, there are 50 per cent more properties for sale, 30 per cent in Sydney, 14 per cent in Brisbane and almost 40 per cent in Adelaide more than this time last year” Perth Now Newspaper article December 1st
Jeremy Grantham is one of the most prescient investors alive today and in 2010 he said
“Australia had an unmistakable housing bubble and that prices would need to come down by 42 per cent to return to the long-term trend. Bubbles have quite a few things in common but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.”
As an example, he cited the British housing market bubble of 1989. At the time, he said people dismissed the bubble because there was no more re-zoning allowed by the councils, creating a land shortage and as such, they believed prices would rise forever. Seven years later they had hit the lowest multiple of family income since the record began in 1945.
There is always some variation of this theme, for example in the US “there isn’t oversupply as the spare houses are in the wrong place”. With Australia it is, “there isn’t enough land in the major cities or on seafront property” and “immigration is creating consistent demand” or “Asian buyers entering the market”. To be fair, Sydney is probably cheaper than Shanghai!
In Australia’s case, Mr Grantham described the housing market as a “time bomb” just waiting for interest rates to rise to levels where prices and mortgages could no longer be supported. In this respect perhaps the rate cut this month will help soften any blow to house prices.
If the Australian housing market did not mean revert to the normal multiple of family income, he said “it will be the first time in history.” This contraction could mean moving from 6x family income down to the current post bubble US levels of nearer 4x – or a price decline of 33% presuming incomes stay flat. What does that do to consumer confidence?
Houses can be bought for relatively low deposits of 5-10% despite what bulls will tell you of conservative lending practices. This article provides some reputable anecdotal evidence of a Real Estate bubble in full swing.
According to Guy Debelle, Assistant Governor of the RBA, low-documentation loans account for almost 10% of new loans and almost half of all new home owners are opting to go for “interest only” mortgages. In other words, they are relying on prices going up.
I think this reaching a point of unsustainability. See the following quote from Prosper Australia.
“There are 1.3 million Australians with negatively geared rental properties. They are diverting all rents and some personal income to meeting interest payment in the hope of capital gains. When only capital losses are expected, investors will flood the market and overwhelm demand.”
This is in the face of interest rates being cut, when even lower rates lead to difficulties meeting mortgage payments the only other options are writedowns or sales.
Steve Keen, Australian economist, shows that Household Debt to GDP in Australia is higher today than it was in the US before the crash.
Chris Pavese said….
“We also find it curious that “investor’s” share of new home loans has risen almost uncontrollably, while first time buyers disappear from the market – a clear indication that affordability is declining, and a big red flag, as first time buyers represent an important link in the housing chain.”
A startling 460,000 households spend more than half of their income on housing costs. It’s no wonder Australian’s are shouting out for help. The cost of housing is the single biggest cost of living issue in Australia today. Steve Keen estimates mortgage interest payments account for an eye watering 65% of after-tax wages. We know from recent experience that the two lines below cannot diverge for long.
In a recent report, Moody’s warned that there are “meaningful uncertainties” for Australian housing and mortgage delinquency rates are likely to increase over the next decade. We doubt it will take that long. “Capital city house prices have more than quadrupled and household debt has tripled since 1990. Simple metrics indicate that the current price levels are not sustainable.”
If a second global recession occurs credit markets will tighten up. Australian banks already have up to 40% exposure to European debt and the big four Australian banks ratings were downgraded by Moody’s Investor service due to this wholesale funding exposure. A recent WSJ article highlighted that the spreads on Commonwealth Bank’s new issues are widening. Unfortunately, in 2011 Australian borrower home loan arrears hit a 15 years high with Australian banks and borrowers in a binge-buying hangover. Mortgages originated at peak prices between 2008 and 2009 combined make up 40 per cent of the mortgage loan books of the major Australian lenders. This equates to slim slivers of equity in many households.
Anthony Doyle of M&G says “The end of a bubble is always difficult to predict and identifying the trigger for such an unwind is similarly fraught with difficulty. Given that markets are extremely sensitive to the potential for asset price bubbles bursting and with the effects of such events still in mind, the Australian housing data are key to AUD maintaining its lofty levels. Something else that is worrisome is that the Australian banking sector dwarfs the size of Australia’s economy at 3.5 times nominal GDP (Ireland’s banking sector was 4.4 times GDP in 2008). The key challenge facing the Australian banking sector is its exposure to the housing market, with about two thirds of assets on the banks books consisting of housing loans.”
Unwinding of Carry Trade/Hot Money
Although Australia has been running large current account deficits for 50 years, the shortfall has been more than made up by large foreign capital inflows for investments or the carry trade. Most recently, China has attempted to take large minority stakes in several firms, especially in the resource area. This will accelerate in coming years to the extent that Australians permit it. A capital shortage in the country there is not, mostly because every man and their dog is rushing to get a piece of the action.
A continuation of home price/currency appreciation at these rates is a mathematical impossibility. Once prices stop going up, the hot money will exit, usually this happens all at once. And like real estate markets everywhere, there is a ton of liquidity on the upside and none on the downside.
Foreign investors bought a record $23.9bn of Australian government bonds in Q3 2011, which takes foreign ownership to 80.4%, which is also a new record high. To quote Anthony Doyle again “this is worrying as heavy foreign ownership of government bonds can be very dangerous, particularly when this is combined with a country running a current account deficit (i.e. the country is reliant on capital inflows from abroad). Ireland and Portugal, which saw similar levels of foreign ownership before the crisis hit, are great (or poor?) examples of how this combination can leave a country’s exchange rate and solvency very exposed if the country hits a crisis.”
AUD has been used as a Risk ON proxy for at least the last 5 years. Movements in AUD/USD are closely related to EM outperformance over the S&P 500. Currently the discrepancy in this correlation is as wide as it has been, the EM/US relative equities have turned down brutally since 2010 and yet AUD/USD remains resilient. I expect AUD/USD to play catch up as people realise this is not a safe haven with a free spread.
US Dollar – How Counterintuitive would it be if we have already had the Dollar Collapse?
The strength of the US economy relative to the rest of the developed world in the last few weeks is likely to help the USD side of this trade. The economic momentum has also likely put off the risk of QE3 discussions for at least a few months and therefore one of the major downside risks to the Dollar has been mitigated.
With rates anchored at zero in the US and therefore no risk of USD weakness due to rate cuts but a ton of “wiggle room” for the RBA to cut and weaken the AUD.
So I think it’s set up as a very skewed risk/reward currently. Could it rally up to $1.10 from today’s $1.04? Probably, but I don’t think that’s likely given the USD momentum. On the downside, we saw $0.60 in the financial crisis, but I think $0.80-$0.90 is a reasonable target if the cracks start to show.
No-One Expects It
Talk to Australians and they are optimistic and upbeat about the future. I have friends that are considering emigrating, and quite a few who already have! To put this into context, the Australian economy is roughly the same size ($1.4 trillion) as the state of Texas – and I don’t know anyone who has ever emigrated there. But no wonder they all go to Australia, the money on offer is absurd, especially when converted back to GBP or USD. Guys in their low to mid 20s can earn $200,000 a year working in oil services, mining or in specialist fields like dentistry or medicine where they have newfound affluent demand.
The money these guys make juices the rest of the economy – by working a “21/9” schedule, which means working for 21 consecutive days at a remote mine, and then getting 9 days off, they arrive back with a wallet full of cash and looking to spend it on partying, clothes, flash cars and nice apartments.
I have a friend who has emigrated to work as a dentist – below is a quote from him responding to an email where I voiced my concern regarding Australia’s overheating currency and property market.
“All a bit sensational I think mate. And do you really think I want to be seeing 40 patients a day instead of 15 and earning £15 per filling as opposed to $215.”
Just to be clear – he can charge 10x as much per filling in Australia as he can in the UK, two countries that are broadly equally affluent.
I am reminded of the phrase “If something cannot go on, it will not go on”.
And finally, the Wall Street Journal says in the opening line of this article “Don’t bet that a slowdown in the global economy will drag the Australian dollar down like it did in 2008.”
Short AUD/USD currently represents a 16% position within Kelpie Capital initiated at an average price of around $1.02.
Our 1 in 100 year terms of trade gives pause for thought too, but the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent..
nice summary, thanks
Do yourself a favour and buy a book called ” The Land Boomers” by Cannon. I read it and it is truly shocking. It is essential a tale of the 1880-90 land boom in Melbourne. The bust was shocking. We recently passed the highs set in this mania for the housing market down under. I dont think people will be burning their babies as they did in that eposide, but it will be bad all the same.
Fortunately the major economies have shown us that printing money is the way t o prosperity.
Great post. I have been trying to do this for a while, but timing (for me) is important.
Well said. 90% correlation between US Fed QE and AUD movement. Who runs Aussi/Kiwi monetary policy? Perhaps there is a Post Float treaty between Central Banks.
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It is good to see a really solid analysis of this area – they are few and far between and this is an area I’ve been interested in for a while.
My instinct, like yours, is that Australia is a bit of an anomoly on the economic and financial front. For many of the reasons you highlight, it seems to make sense that a.) house prices and b.) exchange rates need to moderate.
As well as the issues you higlighted, I think the extent to which the Aussie financial system needed to be supported during the financial crisis is significantly under-reported. The banks’ large offshore funding requirements and concentration of mortgage lending remain an issue as far as I can tell.
There are two issues you don’t highlight however. The first is that the government is committed, and as far as I can tell on track, to delivering a budget surplus in 2012/3. Second, the country has a very low debt to GDP level as compared to many other countries (around 25% I think), giving it a reasonable buffer if things really do get messy.
These will both be supportive to the currency valuation, offsetting to a certain degree rate cutting (I think another is expected shortly, taking the benchmark rate below 4%). I am a bit out of date on the global outlook but from what I have seen a ‘hard landing’ in China – an important part of the short-AUD strategy – now seems to be considered quite unlikely, so I just wonder what you see really instigating any kind of correction and whether that is likely to be in the shorter or much longer term.
dividendincomeinvestorSteven Dotsch said:
Having convinced myself to start looking at high quality dividend paying Australian shares, do I come across this excellent overview of the Aussie property market. For me, it succinctly argues that Australian property is clearly in bubble territory.
Considering that the US example of property boom & bust was one of the reasons for the 2008 stock market busts in the USA, and further afield, I am now (again) hesitant to consider Aussie stocks. Any views on particular Aussie dividend paying stocks and their dividend prospects?
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Alabama’s Jay Seawell Named Dave Williams National Coach of the Year
Alabama men’s golf coach Jay Seawell was named the Dave Williams National Coach of the Year presented by Golf Pride Grips the Golf Coaches Association of America announced Friday.
Seawell, who just completed his 12th year as the Alabama men’s golf coach, led the Crimson Tide to its second straight NCAA Championship this past May with a 4-1 win over second-ranked Oklahoma State in the NCAA Match Play Finals. The Tide defeated Illinois by the same 4-1 score a season ago and has three straight NCAA Match Play Finals appearances after finishing runner-up to Texas in 2012.
Seawell also was named the Division I Southeast Coach of the Year by GCAA and will be presented the award during the Hall of Fame Banquet at the GCAA Convention on Dec. 8. Seawell has won three straight SEC Coach of the Year honors and four in his Alabama career.
His Crimson Tide teams have captured four SEC Championships and four NCAA Regional Championships – three straight in each – while winning 42 tournaments during his tenure. The Tide has won 27 tournaments over the last four years, including eight in 2012-13 and a school-record nine in 2013-14. His 2012-13 and 2013-14 teams also combined to win a NCAA-record 11 consecutive tournaments from March of 2013 to March of 2015.
Seawell has coached 28 All-Americans during his career, including four in 2011-12 (Justin Thomas, Whitsett, Bobby Wyatt and Hunter Hamrick), five in 2012-13 (Whitsett, Wyatt, Thomas, Trey Mullinax and Scott Strohmeyer) and then four again in 2013-14 (Wyatt, Robby Shelton, Mullinax and Whitsett).
Thomas won the Jack Nicklaus, Fred Haskins and Phil Mickelson awards in 2012 and Shelton captured the Mickelson Award as the nation’s top freshman in 2014.
In the classroom, the men’s golf team has put 59 players on the SEC Academic Honor Roll in the past 11 years (does not include this year), while eight players (13 honors) have been named to the Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar Team. Three players have garnered six first team Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Joseph Sykora and Cory Whitsett have both won the SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award (all sports, all males in the league) and Alabama’s Bryant Award, as the top male student-athlete from any sport. Whitsett is also a two-time winner of the NCAA Elite 89 Award.


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Having the entirety of Macomb and South Dix all to ourselves. Pushing right past Hough, our fourth peak of the day, onto the fifth: Dix, the highest and farthest peak of the day.
The route through the South Boquet River takes a meandering path, making four river crossings before leading to the base of a slide and up the north slope of Grace Peak.
The six-hour drive home after hiking in the Adirondacks is sometimes harder than the hike itself. Not this hike.
As a friend of mine says, “you don’t have to be having fun for it to be fun.”
Joe was great to hike with, just as I’d assumed, the route was as interesting as I’d imagined, and I did better than both he and I expected. For five consecutive days of hiking, accumulating 87 miles and 27,000 vertical feet, I couldn’t have asked for a better day.
The Slide Brook and Lillian Brook herd paths were two of the best trails in the Adirondacks. They vary the terrain and direction enough that you don’t feel like you’re on an endless trail, and almost the entirety of both routes is soft underfoot and well-maintained.
Wanting to finish my summer off in style, I made one last 800-mile drive to climb more mountains. Wanting to satiate my inner masochist, I chose a day hike of the 5-peak Dix Range.

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Ipv6 multicast and anycast addressing (page 1 of 5) one of the most significant modifications in the general addressing model in ipv6 was a change to the basic types of addresses and how they were used. In this video i will introduce ipv6 address classification and three types of ipv6 addresses: unicast, multicast,and anycast multicast and its three different types are discussed in details in. Destination address: ipv6 address of the intended recipient or final destination of the packet, can be unicast or multicast address address type ipv6 notation binary prefix.
Linux supports it only for link-local addresses, in that case sin6_scope_id contains the interface index (see netdevice(7)) ipv6 supports several address types: unicast to address a single host, multicast to address a group of hosts, anycast to address the nearest member of a group of hosts (not implemented in linux), ipv4-on-ipv6 to address an. Unicast—for a single interface multicast—for a set of interfaces on the same physical medium a packet is sent to all interfaces associated with the address anycast—for a set of interfaces on different physical media a packet is sent to only one of the interfaces associated with this. Ipv6 utilizes unicast, multicast, and anycast addresses, but unlike ipv4, ipv6 does not have a broadcast address also, whereas multicast was an optional addition in ipv4, in ipv6 multicast takes on a more required role. Ipv6 addressing sidebar the type of an ipv6 address is identified by the high-order bits of the address, as follows multicast 11111111 ff00::/8.
Ipv6 addresses that differ only in the high-order bits (eg, due to multiple high-order prefixes associated with different aggregations) will map to the same solicited-node address, thereby reducing the number of multicast addresses a node must join. Ipv6 address type- multicast there is are several differences between ipv4 and ipv6 below i will break them down a bit ipv4 is 32 bit over 4 octets doesn't have built in security uses broadcast and bits extend from 2^32 power ipv6 is 128 bits over 8 quadrats has built in security doesn't use. Ipv6 has introduced a new type of addressing, which is called anycast addressing in this addressing mode, multiple interfaces (hosts) are assigned same anycast ip address when a host wishes to communicate with a host equipped with an anycast ip address, it sends a unicast message. The subnet-router anycast address is a special type of ipv6 anycast address that is required that means that every router needs to support the subnet-router anycast address for all locally connected subnets on their interfaces.
As with ipv4, in ipv6 there are a lot of predefined ipv6 mulitcast addressesa packet sent to a multicast address is processed by all members of the multicast group all ipv6 multicast addresses have the ff as prefix ie there the higher order byte (first byte) is all ones in binarythey are represented using the ff00::/8 prefix. In my last post in the ipv6 series, you learned the ipv6 address syntaxtoday, i will introduce the different types of ipv6 addresses ipv6 address types ^ there are three general types of ipv6 addresses: unicast, multicast, and anycast. Aaron battaglia nt2640 ipv6 address type - multicast neighbor discovery protocol corresponds to a combination of the ipv4 protocols: address resolution protocol (arp), internet control message protocol (icmp) router discovery, and icmp redirect. There are three general types of addresses within the ipv6 address space: unicast addresses, multicast addresses, and anycast addresses similar to an ip version 4 (ipv4) unicast address, an ipv6 unicast address identifies a single host on an ipv6 network. The concept of unicast and multicast are same in ipv4 and ipv6, except the changes in ipv6 layer 3 addresses used for broadcast & multicast and the layer 2 address used for multicast layer 2 address used for ipv6 multicast traffic starts from 33:33: (in ipv4, it is 01:00:5e.
The multicast address type replaces ipv4's broadcast address there, let's continue now there, let's continue now this is correct, since ipv6 will use multicast as much as possible. It is the only multicast protocol supported for ipv6 and uses next header type 103 • pim sparse-mode (pim-sm) - rp is required sparse-mode for many-to-many applications (multiple sources, single group. Ipv6 reserves certain headers for different types of addresses probably the best known example of this is that link local unicast addresses always begin with fe80. This address is one of the assigned ipv6 multicast addresses packets addressed to ff02::1 are for all ipv6 enabled devices on the link or network ff02::2 is for all ipv6 routers that exist on the network. Hi leo solicited-node is a reserved portion of the multicast addressing valid within the link-local and is used by neighbor discovery protocol on ipv6 networks to obtain the data link layer address from other nodes of the local network.
Enables devices behind non-ipv6 nat routers to function as tunnel endpoints teredo encapsulates ipv6 packets into ipv4 udp datagrams teredo client must access a terdo server to exchange router solicition and router advertisements messages to find a client behind a nat router. Ipv6 addressing • how is an ipv6 address represented types of ipv6 addresses •unicast ipv6 addressing continued multicast. With ipv6 the broadcast addresses are not used anymore, because they are replaced with multicast addressing ipv6 unicast this is similar to the unicast address in ipv4 - a single address identifying a single interface.
One of the differences is that ipv6 has some additional unicast address types we still have multicast, same idea but we use different addresses there are also some reserved addresses that are similar to their ipv4 counterparts. Ipv4 addresses are categorized into three basic types: unicast address, multicast address, and broadcast address ipv6 addresses are categorized into three basic types: unicast address, multicast address, and anycast address. Ipv6 address examples for different ipv6 address representations and types ipv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and sets of interfaces ()in its full notation, an ipv6 address is represented in eight groups of four hexadecimal digits (eight 16-bit blocks) separated by colons (:), for example. Three categories of ipv6 addresses exist: unicast - represents a single interface packets addressed to a unicast address are delivered to a single interface anycast - identifies one or more interfaces.


Nowadays, SSD disks are more and more common, especially for laptops, as they are by nature shock proof.
Even if they don't offer the same price per Gb than standard hard disk, they provide a fantastic performance boost and are more and more affordable.
But, even if it gives a huge boost, a SSD disk is not behaving like a normal hard disk with rotating platters. Their main characteristics are :
- their very fast read and write speed
- their neutrality to random access
- their limited write cycles
This article explains how to tweak a Ubuntu computer to take the full benefit of a SSD drive and to preserve it at the maximum against unneeded write accesses.
This has been tested on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 AMD64, but it should be applicable to any debian derived flavour and even to any Linux distribution for most of it.


text: 6. Tart cherry juice – Tart cherry juice can be expensive, but it’s worth every penny. Recently, tart cherries have been linked to reducing the risk of bone loss. According to Dr. Oz, this sweet and tart juice is the ultimate antioxidant. Tart cherries can also help with pain relief, reduce the risk of heart disease, and act as a natural sleep aid.

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- May 24, 2020
California’s Catholic bishops have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants without documents and low-wage residents of the state “because the virus doesn’t know the difference between someone who has the right legal documents and those who do not.”
In his nearly nine years as an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, people warned Bishop Alberto Rojas that something like this might happen.
Germany has become to Church politics what California is on the American scene, meaning a strongly blue state which tends to favor the most progressive choice on any menu.

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Over 90% of all baby mattresses have a foam content. Foam is the key component and comes in a vast selection of qualities.To understand what you are buying it's worthwhile knowing how foam is classified. It's not that complicated.... honestly!
Foam quality is described in two numbers - the most common quality used in over 90% of all cot mattresses is 24/130 foam.
The first number "24" is the weight of the foam per kilo and indicates the density or the foam and this affects the durability.
The second number "130" is the amount of pressure in Newtons it takes to compress the foam to 40% of its size. This measurement is called Indentation Load Deflection (ILD) and this assesses the firmness or the feel of foam.It indicates how it yields to weight and pressure and how long your mattress will last. 24/130 foam classed as CMHR 28,is a basic quality most companies use to pass the British Standard.
Obviously as these numbers increase you will get a higher quality foam, This foam will last longer give more comfort and support. Nightynite® branded products use.a much higher quality foam than the standard 24/130. We use 30 /150 and 50 / 215.This very high quality makes a massive difference to the comfort, support and durability.
N.B. if a company does not quote the specification of foam used in a cot mattress, odds- on will be the lowest used to pass the British Standards and it certainly will not last five years probably start to dip before a years usage depending on the activity, heat / dampness and weight of the occupant;
By taking out 60% of the foam and replacing it with a sprung core you will reduce the heat in your mattress significantly. Foam is an insulator and air will flow through the springs. Pocket springs will last longer than basic springs and will be more comfortable for your baby as your baby gets heavier and more active.
There are cheap pocket springs available linked only on the length and not by the length and width and they give poor support but are cheaper.
The springs in a sprung or pocket sprung cot mattress are 6 cm deep, to achieve the British Standards of a 10 cm deep mattress you add 2 cm of foam either side. N.B this is a thin layer of foam! As your baby gets heavier their extra weight will push down on the 2 cm layer of foam and bring the pocket springs into operation. This is where a higher quality foam is vital.
At the cot mattress company we use 30/150 foam and 50/215 foam to cover our pocket springs. As you are now becoming a baby mattress expert you can now see how using much higher quality foam will make a huge difference to the comfort, support and durability of a cot- bed mattress
Fibre Points for :-
Fibre is inexpensive compared to foam. fibre can be made from recycled plastic bottles (great for the environment) Fibre does not have the same initial chemical smell like foam and consequently does not need airing for a day or two before use. Fibre is also cooler than foam.
Points against - Most fibre is not as supportive as even the average grade of foam, It is certainly not as durable, it may be fine for a cot mattress for temporary use at the grandparents house or for filling pillows. We have examined all fibre baby mattresses sold to date and they are really poor.
Latest Fibre News
There is a new firmer more durable fibre we are currently testing, So far we are very impressed,but more expensive, should be on sale by May 2019. It will be more durable and supportive and we will make it as comfortable as foam buy putting in pocket springs and a lambswool layer each side.
Those that wish to consider recycling and the future of the planet have an opportunity to buy a very good quality cot mattress made in part from recycled plastic bottles.
Natural Cot Mattresses
The cores are are mostly made from coir and lambswool, sometimes coir lambswool and springs. Their attraction is they are petro-chemical free and firmer than 28 weight foam and more durable. A problem occurs if you wish tto keep to the all natural format when it comes to the covers. No natural fabric is totally waterproof so a cotton cover will not protect your cot mattress core.
However there are other options available on our web site. Covers, breathable, easily removed for machine washing and give waterproof protection to the core that is a basic requirement. Quality covers give more comfort, temperature control, and a big plus is if they are of the Easychange® designa protective base cover with zip on Easychange® toppers.
The message is getting to all of us, and we are all starting to think more and more about our planet and the earth’s resources, landfill and recycling.
In the late 80’s, foam along with some other things were blamed for cot deaths. I wont go into all the details of the dreadful panic this caused but along with other advice out came the phrase “NEW BABY NEW MATTRESS”.
This was to avoid new babies put on old mattresses that had previous babies bacteria on them, or where the foam had deteriorated and was not giving good support etc,
Things have changed. You can now buy very high density foam 50 /215 (50 CMHR) encapsulating high quality pocket springs with waterproof protection and zip off machine washable toppers. These mattresses will last you at least 5 years and probably a lot longer,
You can use them for your next baby too or even pass them on for use for another baby to use because no body fluids can get to the mattress core and react with the foam.
The mattress will keep its new look and not dip or dent. You can keep the mattress as good as the day you bought it. Not only because of the waterproof protection cover and the washable interchangeable toppers, but primarily because of the very high density foam that encapsulates the pocket springs.
This mattress is of fantastic quality, it will offer your first baby 20000 hours of comfortable excellent supportive sleep, You can use it with confidence in a cot or cot bed as a toddler mattress. It will take the extra weight and punishment.
The other option is to buy a cheap mattress without the waterproof protection and interchangeable covers and made with cheap weight foam or fibre. It will dent and dip, get soiled and you will buy a couple of replacements in five years. then throw it away.
There are nearly 800,000 babies born in the UK. Currently every year the baby mattresses that we commit to landfill will reach from John ‘O’ Groats to Lands End. This need not happen. if you buy a quality product
Yes the message of “Think about the future of our planet “ has got to us at the Cot Mattress Company too. Over the past few years we have changed the products we sell and how we package them.


On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft had decided to comply with the European Union’s desire to crackdown on terrorist communications. They vowed to pro-actively shut down so-called “hate speech”:
Beyond national laws that criminalize hate speech, there is a need to ensure such activity by Internet users is “expeditiously reviewed by online intermediaries and social media platforms, upon receipt of a valid notification, in an appropriate time-frame,” the companies and the European Commission said in a joint statement on Tuesday….“We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow,” said Twitter’s head of public policy for Europe, Karen White, in the statement. “However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”
Now, first things first: these are private companies, and they have every right in the marketplace to decide what sort of speech they wish to provide a forum. That said, they don’t have a right to commit fraud: telling people that they are free to speak on their platform, then reversing themselves by following certain politically correct rules about speech. The distinction between “freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate” isn’t as clear White wants to make it. For example, a French Jewish group that sued Facebook, Twitter and Google did so after notifying the companies about “hate speech that they said promoted racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism.”
This begs two questions: First, who sets the standard of what “promotes racism, homophobia, or anti-Semitism?” Second, does all such speech constitute an actual threat to anyone?
The use of the term “hate speech” glosses over these questions. Monika Bickert, who runs global policy management at Facebook, said, “There’s no place for hate speech on Facebook.” But is it “hate speech” to cite Leviticus 18:22? Is it “hate speech” to label Michael Brown, shot and killed by police in Ferguson, a thug? According to the left, the answer is almost certainly yes.
More importantly, just because you don’t like particular speech, that doesn’t make it dangerous. There is a lot of speech that people deem hateful that doesn’t cross the line between offensiveness and incitement to violence. White’s conflation of “conduct that incites violence and hate” is too broad: lots of speech can incite hate, but not very much speech incites actual violence. There’s a difference between Donald Trump saying that Muslims provide a unique risk to national security and ISIS giving specific orders to murder Jews.
The left’s utter confidence in its own ability to distinguish between “rightful” speech and “inappropriate” speech for purposes of censorship should scare everyone. As someone who has been targeted routinely by anti-Semitic speech in recent weeks, I have never called for Twitter to ban those who practice such speech – not only don't I block hateful critics, I generally follow the Andrew Breitbart dictum of RTing those who participate in such nastiness, to let the world see them in their full glory. It’s one thing for online outlets to police actual lawbreaking activity. It’s another for them to pretend to represent free speech while curbing speech they simply don’t like.


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MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it has detained seven members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group who prepared to carry out terrorist attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Urals.
The gang, which was detained in Russia’s Urals city Yekaterinburg, included the citizens of Russia and Central Asian states who were part of the IS group, the FSB public relations center said.
The gunmen were planning to carry out "high-profile terrorist attacks using self-made explosive devices on the territory of Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Sverdlovsk region."
"The group was led by a member of the above mentioned terrorist group who arrived from Turkey’s territory," the FSB said.
A laboratory for making explosive devices was uncovered during the search operation.
The detained persons also planned to later leave for Syria to join combat actions as part of the IS group, the FSB said.
A criminal case has been opened into "terrorist attack," "ammunition trafficking" and "illegal storage of explosive substances." A search is underway to establish criminal ties of the detained men.
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in late January that in 2015 Russia’s special services curbed the activity of three groups that had plotted terrorist attacks in the country.
An attempt was also recently made to send a group to Russia consisting of 10 people who had a legend that they were doing business in Turkey and then moved vehicles from Poland.
Late last month, authorities in the North Caucasus Karachay-Cherkess Republic opened a criminal case against nine members of a group who joined the IS and were tasked with carrying out a terrorist attack. Six of them were detained and there others were neutralized.
According to Russia’s special services, a special unit operates in the IS to prepare terrorist attacks in Russia and Europe. It is led by Ahmed Chetayev dubbed "One-handed" and consists mainly of descendants of the North Caucasus. Russia’s special services are aware of this and act preventively.


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Amish Shoo-fly Pie
|1 and 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour|
|1/2 cup sugar|
|1/8 tsp salt|
|1/2 tsp cinnamon|
|1/4 tsp ginger|
|1/4 tsp nutmeg|
|powdered sugar for sprinling|
|1/4 cup unsalted butter|
|1/2 tsp baking soda|
|1/2 cup unsulphured molasses|
|3/4 cup boiling water|
|1 unbaked 9 inch pastry shell|
This is a classic Amish recipe that includes sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, butter and molasses. It is called Shoo-fly mainly because when the Amish cooks set this pie out on the window ledge to cool they would have to shoo the fly’s away.
- Mix together the four, sugar, salt and spices.
- Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Mix together baking soda and molasses, and immediately stir in boiling water.
- Stir in 1 and 1/3 cups of the crumb mixture.
- Turn into pastry shell.
- Sprinkle remaining 2/3 cup of the crumb mixture over top.
- Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until crust is lightly browned.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Cool and serve.

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On the banks of the River Thames stands the infamous Tower of London!
It’s a 1,000-year-old castle that has served as a fortress, royal palace, and infamous prison!
Over the drawbridge and behind the castle walls you’ll discover unexpected tales that never escaped and maybe get a glimpse of the Crown Jewels…
The Crown Jewels are really important to the country and the Queen, feature over 23,578 gems, and are still used today!
As a royal palace, the Tower was home to kings and queens for hundreds of years. Today you can visit the Medieval Palace which looks just like the one used by medieval kings!
Inside the mighty White Tower, you’ll also discover displays of arms and armour used to protect the castle walls.
As if all of that wasn’t enough, you’ll also get to meet the Beefeaters! They’re guards of the tower and run tours filled with stories of imprisonment, lost princes, spies, and daring escapes!
You’ll get to find the places where people were imprisoned awaiting trial or punishment, back when the Tower was an infamous prison.
Explore the spaces where famous prisoners were kept and discover the graffiti they left behind 500 years ago.
Plus, entertain yourself by exploring the royal beasts that once roamed the grounds!
Follow a trail and draw the animals you spot around the Tower, listen to ‘Animal Tales’ from the Menagerie and bring the animals back to life at the drop-in puppet making station.
Head to the Tower of London this half-term and enjoy daily family activities, all included in your Tower ticket!Add a comment


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Frank Ocean, Chris Brown fight at recording studio in LA
Openly gay R&B singer/songwriter Frank Ocean claimed on Twitter
today that he was attacked by Chris Brown and a 'couple of guys' at a
recording studio in LA last night.
Sources close to Chris told reporters that Frank Ocean started it by
blocking Chris and his crew as they made to leave the studio. Another
report claims they fought over parking space, while another claimed
Ocean called Rihanna a 'Hoe' and that enraged Chris who attacked Ocean.
Police was called to the scene of the fight but Chris and his crew had
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HSFB ROUNDUP: Mountain Island Charter escapes, North Lincoln dominates
North Lincoln 42, Pisgah 10: Landon Beard scored on runs of two, 50 and 47 yards to lead the Knights to the West 2A-AA semifinal round for the second year in a row.
Ty Williams scored twice, while Kristhan Snyder added a 10-yard run late to cap the scoring for North Lincoln. The Knights (11-1) will host Burns next week.
Mountain Island Charter 42, Mount Airy 35 (F/2OT): Mountain Island Charter needed two overtimes to get the job done, but left Mount Airy with its season still intact. Kobe Creamer’s 5-yard pass for a touchdown proved to be a game-winner, sending the Raptors to East Surry for a West 1A-AA clash next week. Up 15 at one point, the Raptors let the lead lapse in the final quarter of play.


PARIS — Pharrell Williams has found a happy place for his inner child, and it’s a manga-style fantasy in which children have taken up arms. That’s the gist of “A Call To Action,” a new exhibition the American singer, producer and entrepreneur has curated for the Guimet Museum, a collection of Asian art here.
The show was created at Mr. Williams’s invitation by Mr., a 49-year-old Japanese visual artist known for his colorful work inspired by the manga and anime traditions.
The single-room exhibition is bright and deliberately chaotic: Visitors step onto plastic sheets splashed with paint, with blocks of concrete and drawings scattered around the floor. Large-scale paintings and figurines are dwarfed by even larger graffiti and neon signs. The main figures in this post-apocalyptic scene are young boys and girls, and most of them are carrying multicolored guns.
Mr. Williams is a collector of Mr.’s work, which “just seems like it’s from the point of view of a perpetual teenager,” the singer said in an interview in the exhibition space last week. “His imagination has no boundaries, no ceiling or floor,” he added.
“If a person is disconnected from their inner child, they will see this work and wake up,” Mr. Williams said.
Speaking through a translator next to Mr. Williams, Mr. said the exhibition imagines an international revolt led by the young generation. “Children have been driven out of their homes, they have lost their parents and they must survive. They do everything they can not to be killed,” Mr. explained. A quote from William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies” greets visitors at the entrance: “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
Mr. produced the work over five years in response to a pitch from Mr. Williams, who described his vision in loose terms in Paris. “What is the future and how do we get there? If we didn’t get there, what would prevent us?” The answer to the last question was “the bad decisions of grown-ups,” on a range of issues including climate change and the lack of gun regulation in the United States, he said.
The role of art curator is still a relatively new one for Mr. Williams. In 2014, he curated his first group exhibition, “G I R L,” which was presented at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris and featured Mr. among peers including the French conceptualist Sophie Calle and the street artist JR.
As often with celebrity crossover collaborations, however, Mr. Williams’s role was somewhat vaguely defined in “A Call To Action.” While the mission of a curator varies across the contemporary art world, it usually involves at least selecting the work and arranging it for display. In Paris, Mr. suggested that he had handled these aspects of the creative process. “Pharrell provided me with the theme,” he said. “From that point on, I had no precise instructions about the details, the way to proceed.”
“All of this work is by his hand,” Mr. Williams said. “I think we just agreed on a destination, but it was ultimately his paint brushes, his hands, his choices of color.” Somewhat cryptically, he added: “It’s a gift to be able to go on this visual exploration by rocket ship with his creativity.”
“A Call To Action” is not the first collaboration between Mr. Williams and Mr., who were introduced by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami: Mr. Murakami is Mr.’s longtime mentor and a friend of Mr. Williams. In 2014, Mr. co-directed the manga-style music video for Mr. Williams’s song “It Girl.” Mr. also produced a series of figurines modeled on the singer, complete with hat, and in 2015 put them up for sale at the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair.
Mr. rose to prominence in the early 2000s as part of Kaikai Kiki, an art collective founded by Mr. Murakami. He was featured in Mr. Murakami’s landmark “Superflat” exhibition, which toured the United States in 2001 and inspired an artistic movement of the same name.
Superflat’s vivid two-dimensional manga-inspired images have been likened to Pop Art, but Melissa Chiu, the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, said by phone that its frame of reference was different: “Superflat was a postmodern movement, fundamentally of a different time and place.” Superflat artworks are rooted in Japan’s “otaku” culture, she said.
In Japanese, Ms. Chiu explained, “otaku” refers to fans with obsessive interests, or “young people who are somewhat entranced with computers and popular culture.”
Mr. has long identified as an “otaku,” but explained in Paris that he felt “profoundly ashamed” to say so. While many foreign fans of manga and anime are proud to call themselves “otaku,” the word carries a social stigma in Japan.
Mr. has translated his interest in this nerdy subculture into increasingly personal art over the years. Screens dotted around the exhibition in Paris show footage of everyday activities shot by Mr. on his smartphone — a way, he explained, of juxtaposing reality with the defiant childlike figures he created.
Mr. Williams said he was putting his faith in the young generation that “A Call To Action” is dedicated to. “I think our generation continues to fail, but I really do believe the millennials and Gen-Zers will make better decisions,” Mr. Williams said.
When the interview was over and it was time to go, he leaned forward and nodded toward Mr. “I hope my answers were as colorful as all of the incredible work that he’s done,” he said.


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WRIITEN FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENT AND AT RISK YOUTH, this is a tale of a troubled youth caught up in the child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice system. More so, however, it is about reclaiming youth at risk. It goes beyond most juvenile delinquency memoirs by including questions and exercises designed to help other traumatized children and rebellious teens develop their own plan to turn their life around.
This true story about the juvenile justice is also an ideal resource for
•Juvenile justice assigned readings
•Corrections education assigned readings
•Special education assigned readings
•Child and family psychology assigned readings
Unlike other books about juvenile delinquency, teachers, parents and kids will find the subject matter and easy-to-read and understand style appropriate for
Hi. My name is Waln Brown. I hate my first name. Just call me Wally.
If you hate your life as much as I used to hate mine, then you need to read this book. Being a kid is tough. But feeling like the whole world is against you is just too much! It fills you with pain and makes you act in dumb ways. At least that’s how I felt and acted. Living sucked, and I didn’t see my life getting any better.
That’s why I tried to kill myself.
I was about 10 years old the first time. I downed a whole bottle of sleeping pills. They had my stomach pumped. I tried two more times before I turned 16. I was so bad at everything in my stupid life that I couldn’t even kill myself.
I wasn’t good at school either. I almost flunked 7th grade. They put me in special education in 8th grade. I failed 9th grade. I had detention hall almost every night.
I even got thrown out of school for beating the head of another student into a brick wall until he passed out. He had it coming! He hit me first.
My parents didn’t seem to want me. The first time I felt unwanted was when my dad left us. The next time was when my mom put me in one of those orphanages. Both times I felt like my guts were ripped out.
I had been seeing shrinks since age six. But I never thought of myself as being nuts. At least not until the juvenile court sent me to a psychiatric hospital. For 77 scary days and nights I fought to stay alive in a place full of old men who were sick in the head.
That’s when I started to think I really was nuts!
I already knew I was bad. I was so bad that the juvenile court put me on juvenile probation. I had a juvenile probation officer who watched my every move. He put me in juvenile detention twice.
The day I turned 16, I quit going to school. I hated school! That’s when my probation officer and juvenile court judge sent me to a juvenile reform school.
I spent the next 18 months of my life in juvenile corrections. I was just months away from my 18th birthday. I would be an adult soon. If I continued to get in trouble, I’d be going to jail or prison. I knew I had to change my life or pay the price.
That’s when I developed a plan to turn my life around.
I never got in trouble with the law again. I graduated high school and went on to become a doctor. I’m married, own a nice home and live a happy and healthy life.
My plan worked for me. It can work for other delinquents, too!
Read this true story about juvenile justice in America to learn about the author’s plan and how you can rise above your troubled childhood.
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There’s no better place to try out all the local hawker food in Singapore than at the Old Kallang Airport Food Centre.
Located at 51, Old Airport Road, this food centre with hundreds of hawker stalls has always been a favourite among locals for quality, authentic hawker fares.
However, fret not, if you are in a rush for time, there are usually at least 2 or 3 stalls selling the same food item. If the most popular one is too crowded, you can settle for the next best whereby the quality is usually nearly as good (and very likely cheaper als0).
My dad has a strange dislike for this food centre. He claims that there are so many good food available that he finds himself spoilt for choice and cannot make up his mind on which to eat!
I always find myself overeating when I visit the Old Kallang Airport Food Centre, tempted by the wide array of choices.
Below are some pictures of the food I ate on various visits:
If you have foreigner friends visiting, do consider bringing them to Old Kallang Airport Food Centre instead of the touristy, overpriced Lau Par Sat which our tourism board likes to promote.
This is the real deal for the Singapore hawker food experience. 🙂
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Ricki Lake was treated by medics on Thursday (08Sep11) after she picked up an injury during rehearsals for the new season of Dancing With The Stars.
The Hairspray star and former talk show host is competing on the series alongside David Arquette, Cher's son Chaz Bono and George Clooney's ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis.
She has now become the first celebrity to be injured during the new season after hurting her shin while practising with dance partner Derek Hough.
In a series of posts on Twitter.com, alongside an image of her bruised leg, she writes, "Look, my first injury... Don't ask how it happened... Not sure how my bruise turned into a medic showing up? I'm fine!!"


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Is the water dispenser on your refrigerator not working? If so, you can attempt to solve the issue on your own or call Mayes Appliance Repair for professional refrigerator repair Texas.
There are a lot of reasons for a water dispenser in a refrigerator to stop working. Again, some suggestions might sound a little strange. However, something as simple as an off switch has been the reason before. Be sure to review the more obvious potential issues prior to moving forward with complicated refrigerator repair. Let’s start to cover this appliance repair issue and see what reasons we can come up with for a broken water dispenser.
The cause of a broken water dispenser is commonly an installation error, a filter failure or frozen water lines:
You just installed a new refrigerator for your kitchen with a water dispenser, but it’s broken. The water dispenser has to be connected to the home’s water line. That could be the reason for the issue.
If your new refrigerator is replacing an older refrigerator that didn’t feature an ice maker or water dispenser, there is a chance that you do not have a functioning water line running to this area of the kitchen. Most of the time a water line is commonly run from underneath a house either in a crawl space or basement. You can buy this line at almost any home repair store and they’re very simple for even the typical homeowner to install. Usually they have come with a built-in water shut-off valve, which is necessary so that if you should need to move the refrigerator, you can turn off the water.
If there’s a connected water line, is the valve turned on? The valve handle needs to be lined up with the hose. And, is there water going through the pipe you have used to connect the water line? Simple and basic questions, but items that need to be accounted for.
If you removed the refrigerator doors during installation it’s possible the water dispenser might not be plugged in. Read the owner’s manual to find the wire harness for that particular model of refrigerator. Be sure that it is plugged into the refrigerator.
Once the water line is connected, most of the time there is air in it. So, engaging and disengaging the water dispenser lever to get the air out is needed.
On some refrigerators, there are different filters. These filters could “expire”, become clogged or get frozen. All filters are based on your model and type of refrigerator. If the filter is clogged it will cause slow filling or no flowing period. It’s recommended that your filter should be replaced every 6 months. Changing filters in a refrigerator can be challenging. If you have hiccups, go online or call us and learn the proper process to replace a filter.
One recommendation is to fill up the filter with water before installation. A lot of time the water filters take a long amount of time to fill, which might lead you to think the water dispenser isn’t working right. You will want to read the directions if nothing is working. To be sure it’s not air trapped in the lines, we recommend to depress the dispenser arm for around 5 minutes.
A frozen water tank could be the reason for the issue as well on some refrigerators. If the tank freezes it will leak onto the food bins. Small amounts of food inside of the fresh food bins can cause freezing.
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Christopher Cook (1962, USA) received the Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University where he served as assistant director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music. He has received awards and honors from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Arts,[ ASCAP, MTNA, and the National Assembly of Local Arts Agen-cies. He has been composer-in residence for Amherst College, the Uni-versity of Evansville, Monroe County Community Schools Corporation (Indiana) and for the city of Somerset, Pennsylvania. He is Director of Music Theory and Compo-sition at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
His compositions are widely performed in university and festival settings, including June in Buffalo, Music of Our Time, the Indiana State University Con-temporary Music Festival, The Society of Composers Inc., the Annual American Music Week (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Utrecht Music Festival (The Netherlands). His Electro-acoustic works have been presented at conferences and festivals in-clud-ing the International Computer Music Conference, Society for Elec-tro-acoustic Music in the United States, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, and the InterMedia Manifold TechArt exhibit.
He is Assistant Professor of Music at Chowan University.
Dreamscape is a prelude inspired by a quote from Hyperion, a poem by John Keats.
As when, upon a tranced summer-night,
Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir

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There’s not a doubt in my mind that parents want their kids to talk to them. That becomes a challenge when kids enter their pre-teen and teen years, but it’s far from an insurmountable one.
As a former high school teacher who has worked with thousands of teenagers and their parents, and as the author of the parenting book Teenagers 101, I understand that even the best parents need help navigating the teen years.
It helps to know what kids are dealing with as they enter this stage of life. Around middle-school age, kids’ primary concern is fitting in with the group, whether that group is a class, a team, or a social network of friends. While they still want input from parents and need their love and consistency, they now depend on and crave attention from their peers in pretty much equal measure. This is why kids seem to change a great deal at this age – they are absorbing and modeling the behaviors of their peers and beginning to figure out who they are.
As they enter high school, teens are less consumed with being just like everyone else and are more interested in claiming their independence. Now they don’t mind standing out, as long as it’s on their own terms. And now they are much more likely to become argumentative or defiant, especially when they feel they are being treated like children or hammered by parent expectations.
While all of this is normal – and supported by the science of the developing brain and by decades of data – it sometimes doesn’t feel normal. Parents want help understanding their kids, and that desire has grown into desperation in recent years, as teen stress and suicide have reached all-time highs, causing more teens to enter therapy than ever in history.
Dr. Angela M. Pfeiffer, a clinical psychologist working with the Sugar Bend Center group in Sugar Land, Texas, says that particularly post-pandemic, she is seeing a greater number of young clients suffering from stress-related issues. She says, “One of the primary developmental foci for teens is increased and improved social connections – REAL social connections – which support the longer-term goal of independence. Passive watching and engagement with others, or even texting or talking to online friends, is not the same as learning the social mechanisms necessary to navigate face-to-face relationships. When teens have less access to real social connections, this causes stress.”
Clearly, the pandemic and its forced online learning and diminished in-person socializing has taken a toll on everyone, but teens are especially hard hit, as they are also dealing with a changing – and very challenging – world.
Increasing competitiveness and the ability to use social media to attack others from behind a screen can push kids to the point of hopelessness. They need someone to talk to, and that’s where parents play a crucial role. If parents have not presented themselves as open to hear difficult news, or they consistently come across as judgmental or preachy, kids will clam up, refusing to ask for help.
Pfeiffer says, “Telling kids what to do and how to feel and how to solve their problems will not work. Yes, when kids are little, it makes sense to shape their behavior. When they get older, however, parents should shift from being managers to being coaches.”
This starts with one key ingredient: listening. And that means listening with no distractions and giving your full attention to your child. Once you hear their concerns, it’s important to stay calm and to avoid sending the message that the child’s problem is not important or is easily fixed.
“You will shut them down if you react with emotion or worse, tell them what they’re feeling isn’t right,” says Pfeiffer. “If your child comes to you saying he is depressed, avoid saying, ‘You can’t be depressed. Your life is so great. You have nothing to be depressed about,’ because those statements are not helpful and actually add guilt to the depression.”
Let’s say your child is staying in her room, not spending time with friends like she used to, and laughing and smiling less. She is exhibiting signs of depression, and you are concerned.
Pfeiffer advises opening up communication on your kid’s timeline, not your own. If that means late at night, when you least want to talk, so be it. Start by asking about something specific, whether it’s a test or a friend or that day’s practice. Then just sit back and let them talk. Really listen. Don’t say “I know how you feel, I had the same problem.” Kids have the sense that our lives were much different from theirs, and they balk at comparisons.
Instead, ask your kids if they want you to just listen or if they want some ideas. Pfeiffer says, “Help them problem solve by sharing options and brainstorming with them, versus dictating what they should do. This creates a safe space. If you do this each time, it will become a pattern that kids will trust and rely on, and they’ll feel much more comfortable coming to you.”
When I work with parents, I also point out that your reaction to whatever your kids tell you is everything. If you respond with emotion, whether it’s anger, sadness, or resentment, your kids simply won’t come to you anymore. However, if you concentrate on not reacting, your kids will feel like they can tell you anything.
And remember that we may have the gift of 30 more years of experience and the wisdom that comes with it, but our kids do not. We know that everything will eventually work out, but they don’t. So be careful not to come across as dismissive and be sure to validate their feelings.
If you see warning signs of depression or your child is making statements about not wanting to live anymore, it’s especially important to listen and be a resource. Then let your child know your job is to take care of him and that you are going to talk to someone and would like him to go with you. It’s always better to seek professional help than to assume depression is just a stage or phase.
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After much debate on the new vRAM licensing model on blogs, communities, and forums, VMware have now addressed these concerns by providing the following changes :-
- Increased vRAM entitlements for all vSphere editions, including the doubling of the entitlements for vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus.
- Capped the amount of vRAM count in any given VM, so that no VM, not even the “monster” 1TB vRAM VM, would cost more than one vSphere Enterprise Plus license.
- Adjusted the model to be much more flexible around transient workloads, and short-term spikes that are typical in test & dev environments for example.
Below is the new vRAM licensing model :-
[ii] this limit is GB of physical RAM per physical server
Nice to see the free Hypervisor will now allow 32GB.
VMware are also releasing a vSphere Licencing Advisor tool, which will make it easier for customers too see the licencing changes to their current environment.
The application can be installed on any windows machine that can connect to vCenter Server.
The information gathered is a point in time picture of vRAM usage, and you can exit the tool and re-run it if you want to get updated vRAM usage numbers.
The tool maps editions to the vSphere 5 equivalent edition using standard entitlement paths. It does not capture information on Linked Mode and instead calculates pools as if all vCenter Servers are linked together.
The tool also caps the amount of per VM vRAM usage at 96GB. The results of the tool can be exported to a CSV file so data can be more easily viewed.


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March 15, 2012
Minnesota sits in second place after day one of the 2012 NCAA Wrestling Championships with 33 points. Penn State leads the field with 38.5 and Cornell sits in third with 27.5.
The Golden Gophers have advanced eight wrestlers into tomorrow mornings quarterfinal round, which is the most in the entire field. Penn State advanced seven and Iowa who sits in sixth place adavanced six.
Ninth seed Dardanes scored an early 4-2 decision over North Carolina State’s eighth seed Darius Little. Dardanes lost to Little back at the Southern Scuffle in the quarterfinals 7-3. The Chicago native will square off with top ranked Kellen Russell of Michigan tomorrow morning. Dardanes nearly beat last year’s National Champion at the Big Ten Championships (3-1 dec.) a few weeks back.
Once again Steinhaus put Minnesota fans on the edge of their seat. The Penncok, Minn., native scored a last second takedown against Virginia’s Jon Fausey. Just like in the Big Ten Championship, Steinhaus blocked a shot from his opponent and turned it into his own takedown, bringing the Scottrade Center fans to their feet. Steinhaus will square off with Cornell’s Steve Bosak in the quarterfinals. Bosak beat Steinhaus by an 8-2 decision earlier in the season.
Yohn moved onto the quarterfinals tomorrow after knocking off Big Ten Champion Mario Gonzalez of Illinois. Yohn fell to Gonzalez by a 5-4 decision back in January, but the senior wrestled all seven minutes and pulled off win. The two-time All-American will take on Christopher Honeycutt of Edinboro, who is the second overall seed.
Nelson would close out the championship portion of matches for the Gophers with a 6-0 decision over Central Michigan’s Peter Stuergeon. The Cambridge, Minn., native fell to Sturgeon (6-4 dec.) for his first loss of the season, back in December.
Session I- 18,694
Session II- 18,8695
Results from Day 1
Champ Round 2 – Nick Dardanes 12-4 maj. Over Kevin Fanta (NIU)
Champ Round 3 –Nick Dardanes 4-2 dec. over Darius Little (NC State)
Champ Round 2- Dylan Ness 4-2 dec. Shane Welsh (Lehigh)
Champ Round 3-Dylan Ness 11-7 dec. Corey Jantzen (Harvard)
Five Gophers Earn Academic All-America Nods
The five at-large honorees raises Minnesota’s Academic All-America season total to eight – the most accolades in school history.
Petry Paces Gophers at University Nationals
Skyler Petry and Michael Kroells provided bookends for Minnesota, earning podium finishes in the lightest and heaviest weight classes
"M" Club Hall of Fame Welcomes 11
Minnesota's alumni letterwinners club will add to its Hall of Fame 11 former student-athletes who represented 10 Gopher programs in six different decades


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« Not for fame, not for nikah, not for fun », once tweeted a female ISIS member called Shams . Women have long been valued fighters in liberation movements and other politically motivated armed guerilla warfares, but recently a new troubling form of women’s political militantism has emerged and raises a serious question: Why would women eagerly join a violent terrorist movement that is strongly patriarchal, misogynistic and moreover profoundly disregards their dignity as human beings? Understanding why women have joined ISIS is essential if we want to create effective prevention and reintegration programs.
Reforming Tunisia’s law on associations: towards a lockdown on freedoms?
The legal framework governing associations is high on the reforms agenda, at least according to a meeting held by Mehdi Ben Gharbia and a group of legal experts in February. The initiative echoes a recent Financial Action Task Force evaluation in which Tunisia was knocked down a grade for its non-profit sector. And while the fight against money laundering and terrorism is the government’s key argument when it comes to reforming legislation on associations, the proposed amendments, in parallel with the demonization of certain associations, portend rights violations and a gradual lockdown of the sector.
Tunisia: Uphold Rights While Fighting Terrorism
46 Groups, Celebrities, Cartoonists Press for Rights-Respecting Approach
Tunisia, US: the greatest threats to national security come from within
Comparing the nature of political discourse and media response in the US and Tunisia following such tragedies reveals key debates that have been stirred up in each country, as well as some fundamental commonalities; namely, failure to face the underlying, internal factors that fuel terrorism.
More than security, human rights are threatened in Tunisia
In seamless consistency with the government’s response to the Bardo and Sousse attacks in March and June, official discourse, superficial security measures, and the actions of security forces since last Tuesday’s tragedy reflect the absence of a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy and have kept alive the notion that effective security requires the relinquishing of certain rights and liberties.
Is foreign assistance for counterterrorism projects fueling radicalization?
Nearly five years into the democratic work in progress and in the immediate wake of a bomb explosion that killed 12 in the capital, demands for and promises of US support for the Arab Spring’s sole success appear increasingly tired and misguided.
Between Tunisia and Libya: a wall and duty-free zone for border and economic security
Informal commerce is not limited to one category of merchandise, one geographic region, one demographic; trafficked items include weapons, food products, and gasoline and circulate the country via markets in Ben Guerdane, Kasserine, Sfax, Tunis; smugglers range from merchants of little means to prominent businessmen who are comparatively economically resilient and more likely to withstand trade restrictions imposed at the borders. For many smugglers of lesser means, survival depends upon their ability to navigate a political vision and legal framework which serve neither to sustain nor protect them.
Tunisia and the Wall: government solidifies its vision of “national unity”… through exclusion
…Everyone, it seemed, was talking about the wall, a trench-lined sand barricade that is to stretch some 200 kilometers along Tunisia’s border with Libya. In the capital, a world away from the country’s borders, conversations are based on hear-say, rumors, and speculation. Approbation, uncertainty, suspicion…the sentiments provoked are varied, though many remain simply baffled at the belated unveiling and precipitous construction of the government’s latest counterterrorism mechanism, a wall between Tunisia and its neighbor to the south-east.
Sousse Attack: Security failures compounded by officials’ outlandish versions
The facts are clear. The trial concerning the assassination of Chokri Belaid has been deferred, not a single terrorist crime has been tried, and the attack in Sousse has exposed security and political failures. Four years after the Rouhia case, it seems that the more insecurity has grown, the more opaque the security institution has become.
Tunisia in the Media: foreign reporting and national discourse on the Sousse attack
In the minutes and hours following attack transpired the ungracious diffusion on Instagram and Twitter of victims lying lifeless between beach chairs and parasols; dramatized headlines announcing the “beach resort massacre” and innumerable variations recounting the scene … But after the initial shock of and Western media’s knee-jerk reaction to one of three attacks which occurred on June 26, mainstream news reports on terrorism in the country are relatively more substantial and worth contemplating than was the case several months ago.
National Security : Are Tunisian Media Resigned to Normalization?
With war waged against terrorism, questions of ethics and deontology have faded into the background. In the meantime, media treatment of the Bardo Attack is a textbook case of politicization that allows us to measure the ambiguity of relations between media and power. The trigger effect of security discourse has mobilized judiciary and police organs born and bred under a dictatorship that was immune to the threat of terrorism. To what extent can regulations contain this return to normalization?
Counterterrorism Law: looking beyond laxity vs. despotism, security vs. human rights
Amidst the distilled information and tones of alarmism and pessimism that stifle quality discussions on terrorism in mainstream media, one finds the insight and information provided by members of civil society, activists, government officials active on social media platforms. Such a plurality of perspectives is important for fleshing out and expanding a discussion that is commonly portrayed as a two-sided debate between human rights advocates who demand the protection of civil liberties at the expense of effective security measures, and conservative political figures whose rhetoric of national security and unity in the face of terrorism is construed to harbor power and by extension repress fundamental rights.
Tunisia’s Political Elite and Mainstream Media on Bardo
Given mainstream Western media’s portfolio of news reports on Tunisia since 2011 and also in light of the country’s constitutional guarantee for a pluralistic and fair media, it is regrettable as seems to be the case in the days and weeks that have followed the attack that foreign press should be granted more access to events of public interest in the capital than many local, independent media outlets.
March 20, 2015: Independence Day in the Capital After the Bardo Attack
After two strange and stunned-to-silence days in the capital, Friday morning on Avenue Habib Bourguiba bore much the same eager, pent-up energy as the first sunny day following weeks of grey and rain. It was only Wednesday that twenty tourists and three Tunisians (one policeman and the two assassins) were killed and forty-seven wounded at the Bardo Museum, while close by the Parliamentary Rights and Liberties Commission discussed the new antiterrorism law.
Bardo Museum Tunisia HORRORSCOPE how to depict slain terrorists
These pictures do not comply with most Western media esthetical editorial codes, so I did not see them reappear on television or in news papers…nevertheless they had struck my eye … these poorly dressed men with their worn out guns and the reversed rain of bullets that had smashed them down… the one with the red cloak jacket was covered with sandy debris that had spat from the impacted walls in a corner where he had been driven in…
Tunisia in German Media
Parliamentary elections, presidential elections, the forming of a new government – Tunisia’s young democracy has covered many milestones within the last months. What picture of Tunisia has been conveyed in German media during this important period in history? The following is an overview of how German journalists portray the political situation in Tunisia at the moment and which aspects catch their interest.
The eleventh hour of political transition, according to Essebsi: democrats and non-Islamists vs. Islamists and Marzouki
The prevalence of mud throwing and below-the-belt jabs, the blatant lack of engagement in the very social and economic issues that were at the heart of uprisings four years ago, are certainly not features of a political scene that promises the effective leadership or imminent reforms for which Tunisians have so hoped.
As electoral period draws to a close, Tunisia and international partners address immigration, trafficking, and terrorism
Integral to Tunisia’s internal security operations is its cooperation with foreign governments. Partnerships with Italy, France, and the United States address national security as well as regional security issues including immigration, trafficking, and terrorism. The operations of G8 Leader countries in the MENA region are (unofficially but observably) distinctive and complementary: Italy oversees migration in the Mediterranean; France via the Ministry of the Interior focuses on national security and the police, and the United States Department of Defense is engaged in a «war on terrorism.»


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Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio (who, yes, if you didn’t know, counts Scott Baio as a second cousin) has shared a pair of new dance tracks from his solo BAIO moniker, via Twitter. “Free EP to download. Have a good weekend fam,” he wrote before — and we’re guessing here — grabbing a couple of maracas and shaking whilst sambaing slowly away from his computer.
“The Silent” and “New You” pick up where May’s Sunburn EP left off, towing the line between glistening tropical notions and rarely ceasing Teutonic thump. The balance does seem to be tipping, though, toward those Kompakt records homeboy used to spin as a college DJ. A little colder, a little more minimal. More Caribou than Gold Panda, if we’re talking club-going animalia.
Baio talked to XLR8R a few months back: “I like the idea of making tracks where part of it is made up of organic, someone-playing-in-a-living-room sounds, but at the same time, there are these different electronic elements too. I like the idea of straddling both of those sounds in one song.” Put on a pair of headphones and parse these out: