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He once sent his staff ahead of one of his visits with a truck carrying furniture to replace the perfectly appropriate fittings in the guest rooms (see above video).
When he speaks about "acceptable alternatives for people" you can be sure he's referring to us commoners and not himself.
From Daily Mail: Prince Charles fears the natural world may be doomed as efforts to counter climate change are 'coming too late'.
The lifelong environmental campaigner, 70, admitted the loss of biodiversity 'terrifies me' and said 'the really difficult thing' is presenting acceptable alternatives for people.
He said a key issue is the 'untold damage' done to the world's water cycle – in a nod to the fact that 'we seem to have forgotten that everything in nature is interconnected'.
But striking a more positive note, the Prince of Wales seemed to have a constructive conversation with US President Donald Trump during his state visit earlier this week.
The Prince and the President were said to have had a 90-minute 'friendly' discussion on climate change over tea at Clarence House, despite their conflicting views.
President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement on June 1, 2017, and claimed climate change was a 'Chinese hoax' while on the campaign trail in 2016. The Prince 'did most of the talking' during their chat, according to the president.
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Manchester City and Manchester United have told Leicester they are prepared to pay £65m for Harry Maguire, Sky Sports News understands.
Talks between both Manchester clubs and Leicester have been ongoing for several weeks but as yet a deal is no closer to being agreed.
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Leicester's position has always been that they have no desire or need to sell and would only consider a bid in excess of the £75m world-record fee paid by Liverpool for Virgil van Dijk.
Maguire has become one of the hottest properties in this summer's transfer window after his performances for Leicester and England.
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However, City face stiff competition from their local rivals as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer attempts to revamp his squad with young English talent.
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Tom loved sausages. He stood drooling over the tantalising display in the Scunthorpe butchers. He didn't notice his mother slip quietly away from the shop.
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Taken from the butchers shop by his eccentric grandmother Tom found himself on board a boat to Bolivia – he was 8 years old and on his own. In 1939 Tom joined the RAF as a fighter pilot serving in North Africa. He was shot down in 1942 and became a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III and assisted in the Wooden Horse escape.
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On Monday, the Santiment team held a 3-hour AMA session on the r/ethfinance subreddit, answering questions on crypto analytics, sharing the company roadmap and giving their views on the state of the market.
The AMA was chock-full of great, thought-provoking questions and we had a blast talking with the community. We also gave away 15 monthly Sanbase Pro subscriptions to the most upvoted commenters - hope you guys are enjoying the full site!
Below is the transcript of some of the best Q&A's from Santiment's AMA session. Check out the full AMA here.
P.S. a big THANK YOU once again to r/ethfinance mods for hosting the AMA. Look forward to doing it again soon!
Q: Some unscrupulous blockchain promoters in the space use specious data to tell distorted stories around their chain's use and adoption. How can onlookers separate fact from fiction in an environment where usage numbers are often the result of spoofing?
A (Valentin): There are similar problems on the Internet, like bot simulating traffic, fake news, etc. Even though some blockchains, mainly Proof of Stake-based, allow to generate a large volume of transactions at a very low/zero cost, it is important to remember that all these actions are written permanently on the blockchain and can be analyzed in retrospect. Given that, I believe developers and companies like ours, will develop better and better tools to identify fake volumes, wash trading and market manipulation.
For example, we developed a metric called "Token Velocity", which measures the average amount of times tokens move between addresses each day. It is the same as "Money Velocity" in the traditional markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money Nice thing about the blockchain is that we can compute this metric accurately as we see all the transactions over a period of time.
Using this metric we found there is abnormal activity on ETH between mid-2016 to the beginning of 2018. During this time, the on-chain transaction volume is inflated, because the same tokens are being moved over and over again between addresses (this is the time when the infamous ETH mixer was active). This metric should be around 2-4, but during this interval it was over 10.
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Q: As we potentially transition to a bull market, what are some of the indicators we as investors should be keeping an eye on?
A (Maksim): The healthy bull market should be visible on the data level through strong consistent boost of:
- On-chain volumes (DAA, Transactions, new addresses added to name the few)
- Social volumes
- Trading volumes on exchanges
Exchanges on the last place as it's still heavily manipulated.
A (Brian): My personal favorite is NVT, as Santiment's version uses token circulation as opposed to transaction volume to measure where an asset's market cap currently stands in comparison to the amount of actual network activity it's receiving from a circulation perspective.
I'll be releasing a big article about it later this week, but you can see by these charts I made for Bitcoin and Ethereum using Santiment's data on Sansheets that there is some serious correlations and leading indications in the colored signals it gives, compared to the monthly price return percentages of these assets in the current and following month of that respective signal's output.
A: (Valentin) I would say time-bound MVRV, as extreme values of TB MVRV indicate the top of the price. Here is an example for LINK and 1y MVRV. Values over 100% indicate very large risk for being a top.
Also mean dollar invested age (similar to mean token age, but normalized in the dollars invested). This metric start decreasing near the top of the market. Again example for LINK:
A very simple metric to look at is daily active addresses. Extreme values there also indicate very high levels of risk that the momentum of the bull run will exhaust soon. Here is an example for BTC:
Q: After the creation of all these products do you still see the need for the SAN token? Would ETH be a better alternative, if not why?
A (Maksim): Yes, we strongly believe we can create a better platform with the SAN token as the centerpiece than without it. Even right now, while SAN is still a discount token, many of our users go the extra mile to buy and stake SANs to claim their discount and support the project. Also, as the team holds more than 10 million SAN (which is potentially the biggest source of our income) we are naturally inclined to find new ways to leverage this resource more effectively. This means, among other things, exploring the best ways to develop a decentralised platform governed by a coherent set of rules and according to the committed SAN tokens holders. All of these functionalities would be impossible with ETH as the cornerstone token.
Q: So, some feedback and a question. You really are the best in crypto with the breadth and quantity of information you make available - however I personally find it incredibly hard to keep track of all the possible metrics, indicators.
Now the question: is there some way that you could quantifiably back test all the various ways to look at onchain data and show which indicator has provided the most consistent signals for either buying or selling.
I feel we need better ways to process all information and really teeth all the best ones. This could be a % or perhaps "if you invested in this asset everytime it have this signal your cumulative returns would be £$"
A (Maksim): Very good question! Short answer - yes.
Long answer - this is one of the challenges we've been working on in the last few months. Validating a strategy, regardless of what dataset it's based on - gets tricky fast. For example: we know from experience that two of our own metrics in particular have helped us predict plenty of tops. Of course, it's not a 100% success rate, but they've both been on the money dozens of times.
To create a data-driven strategy on top of these metrics, we need to wrap it up in some framework. It can be like you said, or in this particular case - since we're spotting tops - it can answer a question like: "how often, in %, after the signal fires has the asset decreased in value over the next x days?"
To provide a proper answer, we then need to check all signals generated (and not only those that we've used/seen work personally) for all assets. We must also apply several limits and conditions, since these metrics/signals often can't be applied indiscriminately on every single coin (for instance, one of these two signals underperforms for top 5-10 assets because the data gets too noisy).
This is just an example of a few challenges that we come across when attempting to validate a data-driven strategy. The good news is - we've been actively focusing on this problem lately, and I'm quite optimistic that we'll come out the other side with a functioning framework. But keep in mind - the 'alphas' we uncover through this methodology will disappear over time as the market starts using them (for example, the price will likely begin to top earlier in many cases). So even once we identify, properly backtest and broadcast these signals, their effective half-life will likely be limited.
Would you be interested to get early access to this framework? We plan to keep the list limited (due to the reasons above)
Q: What are the most surprising insights you've stumbled upon this year, where data has gone against a personal preconception or bias?
A (Maksim): Good one. Let me share my painful experience.
We have at Santiment the general approach - if the crowd is having a consensus on something, you'd better be against it. It works most of the time quite nicely. Especially if it's about hype ("it will be the new BTC/ETH", you know).
But. There is catch. As I saw it working over and over again, I've got too confident. So, on one day BNB (Binance token) appeared on radar of our "social hype traction tool" and I marked it as "becoming top".Yet, to my surprise - it wasn't the top (only temporarily one). Instead BNB grew from around 10 to the top of 35. I've learnt the limit of "purely social data-based analyses". One needs to pay closer attention to the "fundamentals". In this case it was the emerging hype for IEO and I didn't took this part into account.
Q: What has been your biggest learnings at the highest level about the cryptospace while building your analytical tools and dashboards? Very curious to see how your experience with so much data has shaped your outlook in the coming few years.
Thanks for so much engagement with our community!
A (Maksim): Two biggest learnings:
- 1. Crypto is here to stay. And it is in direct conflict with the established financial system. (Btw, that's probably the core reason why Libra has no chance, imo). Cryptocurrencies bring efficiency, transparency and a whole new paradigm of how value can both be generated and shared. Changes that will be ushered in by DLT - socio-economic, political and even ethical - will be tremendous and some are already on their way.
- 2. To understand crypto one needs to understand the innate "behaviour of networks"; networks created by humans. It's not exactly a new category, but it's novel in a sense that, for the first time in history, these kinds of networks are created 'en masse', and can generate (bring) profit to its participants. We didn't have access to these types of fintech mechanisms before - at least not at scale - so the knowledge on how to effectively measure (value) these networks doesn't exist yet. This know-how is slowly getting codified however, and I'm so happy that we're part of that movement.
That's why it's so exciting to be here right now, as we get closer and closer to proper "valuation models" (in our terms - "behavior analyses"). It's not just going to be profitable for a select few, but will also reveal so much about our own, human nature.
Q: Have you come across short term factors that correlate to price movements? If yes, how correlated are those factors?
A: (Maksim): Yes. And not just one, but quite some. Things like "big holders accumulations/distributions" (especially if one tracks it completely, all the way to the exchange), "social hype (shill)" have almost immediate impact on the price (read: the results are visible in the first 48 hours max)
Followup Q: Do you do something along the lines of a correlation coefficient? Even side by side graphs would be cool!
Followup A: (Maksim): Side by side graphs do exist already. We call it "visual back testing". Correlation coefficient.. May be join our discord and we continue the talk there? I believe there are quite few related topics and this thread (AMA) is about to be locked. Ping me on the discord under "balance" name.
Q: What differences have you guys found in the data between traditional markets and cryptocurrencies.
A (Valentin): Couple of differences I notice, divided into good and bad categories:
- Good - Cryptocurrency fundamentals can be monitored in real-time as opposed to traditional markets where data is released on a quarterly basis. This allows much faster and accurate price discovery.
- Bad - Cryptocurrency markets has much more market manipulation and FUD in them. Prices are driven much more by pump and dump schemes, hype and fake news, than by fundamental indicators. This is getting better and better over time.
- Neutral - We are still in the process of discovering what the true fundamental indicators are for the cryptocurrencies. We are progressing in this field and from our research, it seems like daily active addresses and value being transacted over the networks are definitely good fundamental indicators for blockchains used for transfer of value, like BTC and ETH. We are about to find out what these indicators are for blockchains that rely on proof of stake.
Q: I often see "new addresses" used as a metric to support the theory that new users are entering this space. Personally, I don't condone that theory because its likely to be partly true (I'm sure there are new crypto users creating MetaMask wallets for the first time or using their newly ordered Trezor etc). But, that metric alone can easily get muddied with other statistical noise, making that metric alone, imo, unable to support that theory. For example, there are likely developers who are creating new wallets all the time, distorting this metric. How do your tools combine different data sources to further analyze and support or discredit this "new addresses" metric that's so often seen?
A (Dino): Great question. We also provide this 'new addresses' (we call it Network Growth) metric in our tools, and while it's not without its faults, it's still one of the best approximations of network adoption, especially if you observe it over time as a long-term health indicator.
For example, take a quick look at the Network Growth chart for MKR or BAT, both of which continue to grow since the ICO days, versus a sea of altcoins whose most prominent 'new addresses' spike was around its token sale, and has since fallen into oblivion. Even accepting that spikes can be orchestrated, the long-term trends are undisputable.
Important thing to note in response to your 'developers creating new wallets' point: the way we calculate this metric, it only includes addresses that have engaged in a transaction (sent or received coins) on a given day, i.e. actually participated in some sort of value transfer on the network.
But yes, even the 'new addresses' metric can be skew-able, so it's best to look at it in conjunction with other network activity indicators, like on-chain transaction volume, coin days destroyed and HODL waves (amount of active coins in different time frames).
In our metrics we also provide a breakdown of holder distribution - currently for ETH and all ERC-20 coins - which can give you a better idea of exactly which holder segments are growing and how much they've added to their cumulative balances over time, as an additional context.
One idea we've been thinking of as a complementary metric to 'new addresses' is to calculate the amount of new addresses created daily as a result of token withdrawals from exchange wallets, which should remove some of the noise and edge cases you're referring to. Would that metric be interesting?
Q: If you had to pick, what would you say are the three most useful metrics available in determining a coin/token's staying power?
A (Dino): Personally, the ones that I like to look at on a daily basis would be:
1. Network Growth (new addresses) + Daily Active Addresses - not perfect metrics, but still very good on-chain proxies of network activity and adoption over time. Short-term, these metrics can often indicate strong price trend reversals, but long-term, they reveal a lot about the network's appeal and sustainability. (Both available on Sanbase.)
2. On-chain Transaction Volume + Token Circulation - how much value is actually being transmitted on the network and what are its longterm trends? I also like to compare on-chain Trx Volume (all tokens involved in transactions on a given day) with Token Circulation (only unique coins involved in transactions on a given day) to check if the Trx Volume numbers may be inflated. (Both available on Sanbase)
3. Social Volume - how much is the crowd actually talking about your project, what's the general sentiment and how has it changed over time? (Social Volume is available on Sanbase, crowd sentiment is available on graphs.santiment.net/social)
A (Brian): My personal choices are NVT, Mean Dollar Invested Age, and Token Age Consumed. All three are available for several assets on SanGraphs.
Q: What are your predictions for the next bull cycle based on historical data? E. G. Will it begin with bitcoin halving Total market size Where do you predict the greatest growth in market share? Flippening when?
A (Brian): The truth is that anyone who believes they know for certain what kind of bull cycle (and how big of a price jump) we will see, is lying to you because there are simply too many factors at play that happen in real-time as a new market cycle begins. Nobody really knows where prices will be and whether it will happen during the BTC halving, etc, including us. However, if we see metrics like NVT, Stock to Flow, Mean Dollar Invested Age, and others begin to show similar indications to what they showed in previous bullish cycles, we have no issue sharing this with our community and subscribers.
Before prices start to turn positive, there often needs to be some serious capitulation and negative sentiment with crypto before we see the major rise nearly all of us are hoping for. Some would argue this already happened when we dipped down to $3,700 earlier this year, but present data can't give us the answer for the future, and our biggest value as a company (in my humble opinion) is our analysis of present on-chain and social data as it becomes available to us in real-time.
Q: Between Bitcoin and its halvening and ETH and its staking, are you seeing any indicators in the data where smart institutional money is going?
A (Dino): I'll focus on Ethereum here: for the moment at least, ETH whales seem to be accumulating based on what our metrics are indicating. Out of the top 100 ETH addresses, there's been a steady growth in the balances of non-exchange wallets over the past five months. These addresses alone held 23% of Ethereum's total circulating supply in early June; and that number's grown to 25.3% today.
Simultaneously, we've also seen a decline in the balances of biggest exchange wallets over the same time frame - they held 9.3% of ETH's total circulating supply in early June, which is down to 7% today.
This seems to be a market-wide trend. Zooming out on time frame a bit, the cumulative balances of all addresses holding 10-100k ETH increased by 600k ETH over the past 5 months, while the mega whales (addresses holding 100k - 1m ETH) added 1m ETH in the same time frame.
Could the whales be gearing up for ETH staking already? Whatever the reason, the data indicates big players seem to be content with loading up their ETH bags for the time being.
Q: Do you track how correlated the price of cryptos are to the price of Bitcoin, the US dollar, sp500, or other items?
A (Dino): I'll answer this in 2 parts:
1. Do you track the correlation of the price of other cryptos to the price of BTC - Yes, although we haven't really made this an organized part of our platform yet. In short - the majority of the crypto market still sways with Bitcoin, and true decoupling is rare. For example, when BTC crashed to $8400 in late September, I wrote about the reaction of top 50 coins by market cap to the move. Unsurprisingly, only the stablecoins were in green, and Bitcoin itself was actually the 16th top performing coin in that time :)
This is why it's super interesting to me whenever I see coins legitimately go against the Bitcoin trend. BAT and LINK did that recently, and I had some theories about why they may have been successful at it based on some of our on-chain indicators.
Also, if you're curious, about a year ago we tested a strategy that only invests in the lowest-correlated coins to BTC and ETH month over month. The strategy beat out BTC and ETH HODLers slightly, but also proved to be WAY more volatile, which was a surprise (we expected a completely opposite result given BTC's own volatility).
2. Do you track the correlation of the price of cryptos to USD, SP500 etc - haven't really analyzed this too much so far. But if the community thinks it's worthwhile, we can definitely look at it closer?
Q: With the crypto/blockchain world being so new, what data tools are you creating, or are using, that are new (or at least specifically helpful for blockchain, despite its lack of utility in most other markets)?
A (Brian): Development activity tracking is specifically one that comes to mind. It's available for free on Sanbase, and you can simply click on the "+" icon under any asset, and you'll be able to highlight it and see it show up on the interactive chart. Here is an article on how we track the Github activity of all projects.
Our emerging trends page is great for identifying what the latest keywords are that are circulating around social media, and the search option to see how any specific keyword(s) you'd like to view has been mentioned over time and how it's compared to the price of any asset.
Another tool is our Sonar alerts, which allow users to be notified any time there is a significant change (based on our suggestion your customization as to what should be significant) in price, emerging trends mention, daily active addresses, price/volume difference, or historical balances. You can get alerts sent in real-time to your email or Telegram. Here's a walkthrough we made that shows how to use these signals and get it all set up to use to its full potential.
And of course, all of our available metrics available on SanGraphs should be considered quite useful for serious investors and traders who want to have an overview on the health of Ethereum and others from various perspectives and analyses.
Q: From your social analysis what is the biggest use case for crypto? What's the biggest complaint?
A (Maksim): Right now - the biggest use case is clearly DeFi (stablecoins included but not limited to it)
Complains are usual - ETH isn't fast, EOS isn't decentralized, BTC isn't evolving and can't be used for payments and so on.
Q: Your MakerDAO dashboard has unique features that nobody else in the space covers, good job on that. MCD just launched so I wonder if you are already working on MCD metrics. Thank you!
A (Maksim): Yes, we do. Might still take a bit of time for testing. Thanks for appreciating the work!
Q: Who is your favourite Pokemon?
A (Brian): Sanichu, and it's not even close.


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There are many that believe that making of a single offer in respect of CPS fees and AGFS is a tactical masterstroke by the MoJ or the Government, that this is a tactic of divide and conquer which we are fools to fall for.
I believe it may be the single biggest mistake "the Government" side of these negotiations have ever made.
Each time we have been involved in days of action and no returns up and down the country prosecution counsel have received very similar letters (an example of which is here) telling us that those briefed on behalf of the prosecution should not be involved in the proposed action as the complaint about AGFS is nothing to do with the CPS.
Can you see where I am going yet?
Joining the two issues together is the biggest mistake they could have made. The CBA have made it perfectly clear that the action will be suspended as a whole. That is the term stipulated by the Government. The CBA have also made it perfectly plain that, should the reviews not happen in a timely fashion or should the outcome of the reviews fail to produce new money to cure some of the ills of AGFS, then the action will return. And that, logically, should be all of the action. Defence and Prosecution briefs.
No matter what the outcome of the vote, the CPS have allowed their own argument to be torpedoed. What they have always sought to set apart, this offer has joined together. Rather then dividing us, this offer produces the unanswerable case that action in support of changes to the AGFS is action taken by the whole of the criminal Bar, no matter which side of the courtroom they are due to sit on.
I would also venture to suggest that it would be incumbent on those that prosecute to support those that defend should the decision be to accept the offer. That support is at its most crucial if it should come to us taking action again. I imagine it would be very difficult for the CPS to take back that which they have given by that point but the offer is a global one, if the Government renege on their promises of a speedier review or fail to set right that which is wrong they should face the chaos of both Prosecution and Defence action.
This need not divide us. It provided us with a stronger lever with which to apply pressure. It turbocharges the impact of no returns and days of action. And it was all the Government's idea….


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I've watched PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) for years, and several times the stock looked like a good value and I almost bought shares. However, for all the positives that I could find, there always seemed to be an issue under the surface. Unfortunately that is the case again with PepsiCo's recent earnings. There are at least four big worries that I see, but I haven't heard anyone else bring them up.
Fighting Hard And Still Losing
Everyone knows that the beverage industry is dominated by PepsiCo and their nemesis The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO). It seems that over the years, PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) management made choices that kept PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) from being the best investment in this industry. Whether it was the old investment in what is now Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), or the choice to keep Frito-Lay and Pepsi beverages as one company, there seems to always be something standing in the company's way.
Unless management makes the decision to split their beverage operations from their food divisions, we will never get a perfect comparison to The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO). However, this is the bed that PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) has made, and they have to lie in it.
This Looks Like A Very Good Quarter…Doesn't It?
At first, I was impressed by PepsiCo's current quarter results. The company reported EPS up 19%, they increased the dividend by 5.6%, and multiple divisions saw volume growth of 3% or more. Growth markets like Asia, the Middle-East, and Africa showed "double-digit" volume growth in snacks, and "mid-single digit" volume growth in beverages. Investors should be happy, right?
However, this wasn't as good of a quarter as it appeared. Several divisions saw volume growth, but the company's overall revenue was down 1% year-over-year. One of the issues was the Pepsi Americas Beverages division. In this division, carbonated beverage volume was flat, while non-carbonated beverage volume increased by "low single-digits."
Relative to their peers, these results underperformed the industry. For instance, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) saw carbonated beverage volumes up 1%, and non-carbonated beverage volumes were up 9%. The category leader was Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST), which last reported an 18% increase in case volume. Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (NYSE:DPS). did better in carbonated beverages with a 1% volume increase. However, the company did lag PepsiCo and the industry with a 5% decrease in non-carbonated beverages.
3 Issues Rolled Into One
Actually three of PepsiCo's main issues are tied together in a neat little ball of problems. One challenge the company faces is, their operating margin is significantly lower than their peers. In the last three months, PepsiCo's margin was just 11.09%. By comparison, Coca-Cola reported an operating margin of 19.06%, Dr. Pepper Snapple managed 19.68%, and Monster Beverage again led the way with a margin of 26%.
This lower operating margin is partially because PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) operates in both the beverage and snacks business. However, the bigger issue was a problem in the company's Asia, Middle-East, and Africa division. In a strange turn of events, the company reported strong snack and beverage volume growth, but revenue was down 13% and operating profit decreased 25%. None of PepsiCo's competition reported issues like this in their overseas operations.
The really big problem for investors is, these problems led to earnings that were down, if you know how to read the financials. PepsiCo reported EPS increased by 19%. However, all of this increase was due to a 49% lower tax provision in the quarter. With a similar tax provision to last year, EPS actually decreased 1.12%. With The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) reporting a 15% EPS gain, a 5% increase at Dr. Pepper Snapple, and a 6.1% increase at Monster Beverage, you can see PepsiCo's real results are less than encouraging.


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Nosferatu is a highly influential film, not just in the horror genre but in all cinema. It's a masterpiece of German Expressionism, produced during the movement's height. But at the time of its release in 1922, the picture was controversial for being a blatant, unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. A lawsuit from Stoker's heirs ruled that all copies be destroyed. Thankfully, at least one print of the film survived and remains mostly intact. After countless poor quality public domain releases, Kino Classics has restored the film in high definition for an official Blu-ray release.
Following an opening overture, the film introduces Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), a German realtor, and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schröder). Hutter is sent to Transylvania to meet with a new client, Count Orlock (Max Schreck), who is interested in a property in Hutter's hometown of Wisborg. Despite warnings from the locals, Hutter makes the journey to Orlock's castle.
Orlock is a strange man right of the bat, but Hutter soon learns of his true identity: Nosferatu, an infamous vampire. Unfortunately, Hutter doesn't make this discovery until after he wakes up to find what he believes to be two mosquito bites on his neck. Orlock heads to Wisborn, and Hutter isn't far behind him. The only one who knows the truth, Hutter must save the Ellen and the rest of the city as death ravages through like a plague.
The script, written by influential Expressionist figure Henrik Galeen, is an adequate (if not original) substitute for the classic Dracula tale. To this day, the character of Nosferatu is visually striking, with disfigured features, animalistic claws and sharp fangs. His impossibly-tall, lanky frame casts an equally-frightening shadow, which director F. W. Murnau uses to his advantage. Beyond the fantastic make-up and without speaking a word, Schreck, a method actor engrossed in the character, truly brought something special to the role.
Kino's Blu-ray release of Nosferatu includes both the reconstructed English intertitles and the original German intertitles (with English subtitles). They are identical otherwise; both of them are sourced from a tinted print with shades of color over the majority scenes. Although it is believed that this is how it was meant to be presented, I wouldn't have minded seeing a black and white version, which most people have grown accustomed to, especially since the release is spread over two Blu-ray discs. (If you really want to see it in black and white, however, you can adjust the settings on you TV to do so.)
Even with the flickering picture and signs of age, the Blu-ray presentation of Nosferatu offers remarkable clarity. It looks so good that many scenes could be mistaken for being recently shot and then having aging effects added to appear older, a la Grindhouse. It's actually a bit jarring to see everything in high definition; it's like watching the film for the first time. The restoration used a primary print as its basis, along with a few safety prints in order to present the complete, 94-mintue film. It is accompanied by a wonderful orchestral performance of Hans Erdmann's score.
In addition to the two versions of the film, Luciano Berriatúa's The Language of Shadows is included as a bonus feature. The dry but comprehensive documentary explores Murnau's life with an emphasis on the making of Nosferatu. The discs also include clips from five other Murnau films (Journey Into Night, The Haunted Castle, Phantom, The Finances of the Grand Duke and The Last Laugh), an image gallery and a promotional trailer for the Blu-ray.
Nosferatu is one of the best silent films of all time, ranking alongside the likes of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Phantom of the Opera. Schreck as Nosferatu remains one of the creepiest images ever put on film. The film also holds great significance for the horror genre, paving the way for Universal's classic monster movies, as well as the countless vampire films that followed. It's no wonder why people continue to discuss Nosferatu nearly 100 years later.


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Sixes are a band from California that plays a mixture of black, sludge, stoner and doom metal and this is a review of their 2018 album "Methistopheles" which was released by Black Bow Records.
Powerful sounding bass guitars start off the album while the slow riffs bring in the heaviness of sludge and doom metal along with the vocals bringing in black metal influenced screams as well as most of the songs being very long and epic in length and the solos and leads also add in touches of stoner rock.
Growls and hardcore style vocals can also be heard at times while the riffs also bring in a great amount of melody along with some drones also being used at times and on some tracks the vocals also add in some clean yet rough singing and as the album progresses the music speeds up briefly and also introduces blast beats onto the recording and acoustic guitars are added onto the closing track.
Sixes plays a musical style that takes black, sludge, stoner and doom metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover misery, drugs and occultism themes.
In my opinion Sixes are a very great sounding mixture of black, sludge, stoner and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Acid God" "Methistopheles" and "Voidkiller". 8 out of 10.


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Here's another CoD4 skin pack for today, this time by killingswitch, giving you two options for the MP5. Both look quite nice; I'm not sure if I could pick a favorite. :P See them for yourself in the screenies below, and maybe you'll understand why!
thank you for downloading my mp5 skin pack for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare! This skin pack features two camouflaged mp5's INSTALLATION: To install these skins , you must use a program such as Winzip or Winrar to extract ONE (1) of the .iwd files to C: Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare/main Be sure to only extract the mp4 skin that you want, or it will not load ingame LEGAL: You may not modify and distribute this work without written permission from me, killingswitch. Thanks again, and have fun with it =D Let me know what you think of these..thanks
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An American auto transportation company that takes the stress out of transporting a vehicle from one location to another has become one of the most recommended in the USA. AAA Transporters, who offer Fast, Free, and No Hassle Quotes has seen 2016 become their biggest year to date for the number of referrals they have received from happy, satisfied customers.
AAA Transporters who offer the most advanced car shipping trucks in the industry has become the first choice for car owners looking to transport their cars coast to coast in the shortest possible time without going over their budget. The company has gained their reputation for providing a service that takes the stress out of transporting a vehicle when a person is moving long distance to a new home.
A spokesman for AAA Transporters said: "We treat each car as if it was our own and each customer as if they were our biggest and most important. It is important that we offer a service to our customers that we would expect when transporting a car to a new location."
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AAA Transporters is known for providing customers with flexible options and continues to work with privately held companies, pro athletes, and celebrities, providing a service that is fast and trusted. With their free quotation service, customers know from day one how much it will cost to transport the vehicle to a new location without being worried about any hidden charges.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The most wonderful time of the year is finally upon us—suck it, Christmas! (Just kidding, the festive season is also pretty great.) But it's finally time to dress up as our most terrifying selves, venture out into the world, scare some kids, and get some candy. Oh, I'm sorry. Apparently the third one isn't a thing? You're not meant to scare kids? Well, I've been doing this whole Halloween thing wrong my entire life then.
But today I'm going to be talking about the SPOOKIEST BOOKS OF 2019 (so far)! Whether you're in need of a last-minute Halloween recommendation, or if you just like to read creepy books all year round, I've got you covered. TIME TO GET YOUR SPOOK ON!


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Feelings of dread? Overwhelming thoughts? Rapid heartbeat? Tunnel Vision? Or worse? Since 2002 we have worked with countless folks from all walks of life and we know that – for anyone who is determined – computers phobia can always be overcome.
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Re-'wiring' your unconscious mind is the key to this program – and its safe and surprisingly easy to do. Consciously, you know your computers phobia doesn't make logical sense. If it did everyone would have it. But the fear remains because, with even just a thought of computers, your subconscious mind triggers fear and other negative emotions.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Answer: A big pile of sheet. First of all, I cheaped out. I didn't end up buying the ones recommended by the article I read. I wasn't ready to shell out $100-200. Instead I found some $59 ones to try first that said 100% cotton percale and sang their own praises of smoothness and crispness. HOWEVER.... They were crisp, yes, but not smooth. They felt like sandpaper. So I returned them. However, I did keep the extra set of pillowcases I ordered with them. I've been washing them over and over, and yesterday I noticed that they are getting softer. Perhaps there is hope for them after all. I'll let you know in another 5 or 10 washes.
Some of you have asked me how my weight has been since going off the HCG diet. (It's been three months since I ended the maintenance phase).
Answer: I've stayed within 2 lbs of my last HCG day weight. So I've been able to maintain pretty well. My husband, who lost 12 lbs on that diet, is within 1/2 lb of his last HCG weight, and he didn't even do maintenance. I will say, however, that I did NOT go back to normal eating. "Normal" eating means drinking full-sugar pop, eating treats 3x a day, and having restaurant food 3-4 times a week. That would surely have made me gain it all back. Instead I went back to my pre-HCG semi-diet: mostly diet pop, only one treat each day, occasional restaurant food (trying to make good choices there) and intense exercise 3-4x a week. For me, that is a true maintanance diet. It's a way I can live for the rest of my life. It isn't very indulgent. But it also isn't extreme. I feel super healthy, am more toned than I've ever been, and I haven't gained back any weight. Woohoo! (In fact, I am doing a more restrictive diet this week to try to lose my last 3-4 lbs and so far so I'm one lb lower than my last HCG weight.) So the final synopsis after doing HCG is: 1)It was hard, but totally worth it. 10 lbs in 3 weeks? Um, yes! 2)It doesn't seem to have ruined my metabolism. (Although I did notice a massive increase in carb cravings after going off it). 3)I haven't gained it all back as everyone told me I would. 4) I still had to stay within reason and exercise after HCG to keep from gaining it back. 5)I would do it again if I had a lot of weight to lose.
3) Some people have asked me if I ever finished my quarter collection. Ok, no one has. But I thought I'd let you all know anyway that I did indeed complete my state quarter collection, thanks to several of my readers who sent me missing quarters, most especially JJ, who sent me a bunch and even HAND DELIVERED my final missing quarter. WHAT A MAN! (And having a man reader is a reward in itself. I feel truly honored just to register on his radar.) I had intended to do a give-away with it once I had it all collected, but now I'm thinking maybe we should have a blog luncheon and I'll buy all the apps or something. Seems more fun that than just giving it away. Of course, then I have to give the quarter collection to the idiots at Appleby's, so maybe not.
Anything else you're dying to know about me and my scintilating life that I haven't followed up on?
p.s. Someone asked me anonymously, way back when I was doing HCG, where I got my HCG from and evidently I didn't answer. So here is your answer now: I got it from an online pharmacy called alldaychemist.com. It was a good price and made in Switzerland, though the pharmacy was in India.
9 comments:
- J.J. said...
Happy to help and honored to be one of your male readers!
- July 16, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Kristina P. said...
I think it's great you've been able to keep the weight off. It's never easy.
- July 16, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- Tiffany said...
I have been wondering about the sheets! And the diet!
Thanks for the update!
- July 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Alyssa said...
the diet thing is impressive and I was going to respond to your recent post about diet soda (somehow got distracted and didn't make it out of reader) and tell you I feel your pain. I switched a few years ago and I would like to sing the praises of Diet DP (milking one through the afternoon right now) and Coke Zero. So much better than Diet Coke.
Thanks for the updates.
- July 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- just call me jo said...
Nice to hear about the weight maintenance. That's great. The lady who cuts my hair tried it. I don't know if she's still on it. Sounds too hard for me. Love soft sheets, but can't afford the degree of soft I love either.
- July 16, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- Financial Aid for College said...
Yeah, I want to hear all about this new house you are eyeballing in a nameless town to the South of where you live now. - including the web-address for the virtual house tour.
- July 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Bjorge Queen said...
I've thought about going on HCG. But I think that considering the adult ADHD and tourettes, my hopped up on pregnancy hormones wouldn't be kind to my husband and children. I'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread.
I guess I'll have to stop using my treadmill as a clothes hanger and get to work.
The good news is I remembered my google password first try so the adult adhd must be getting better.
- July 19, 2010 at 12:09 AM
- Bjorge Queen said...
Does your quarter collection require that you put the quarters in little round plastic cases? Because I have one and it's missing a few and I can find the quarters on ebay but I can't find the round clear plastic thingamabobs. Not even on ebay. It's a puzzlement.
- July 19, 2010 at 12:11 AM
- Mia said...
How about spending those quarters at Appleby's with me? Seriously gonna be in Provo in a couple of weekends (Aug 6th). Want to get together for dinner.
- July 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM


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Obama out here saying we need more female leaders because men are starting to get on my nerves lately.
Why are women elevated through sloppy seconds? It's like a backhanded compliment. Like when you've fucked up that's when you want women to come in to clean up the mess? Wow.
It's like those people who only contact you when they're bored or want something from you. Getting power and position isn't some accomplishment. It's like being told that you can buy a house for dirt cheap because the whole neighbourhood is in foreclosure.
Women aren't second-rate men. They are women with intrinsic value and essence. And it's time we take time to discover and develop what comes naturally and organically to us instead of waiting on men to discover us or to discover what they have in us. Nah! That's a form of self-hate and self-neglect. We need innovation and creativity to make sure we don't recycle the tried and tested toxicity of the men. That entails not reaching for low hanging fruits or take shortcuts to appear a certain way. Pursue what resonates with you, regardless of how it looks like to others!


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In recent times, education standards have evolved much, and much significance is being given to give better learning experience to the young students. From special students to normal ones, all the students need special attention to make the learning effective.
It could be tiresome one teacher at times, so to reduce the workload of the teachers and upgrade the quality of teaching, exists the co-teaching. Let's discuss the six standards approaches for teaching in this article.
One teach, one observe
It is a must for the teachers to observe the students and find out the best ways to help them learn quickly. This approach of co-teaching could enable you to so effectively.
In this method, you could teach the kids, and your co-teacher could observe them. According to the observation, you can make strategies for the next lessons, and there is no doubt you will see improvements both in your teaching and students' learning.
One teach and another assist
It is also one of the finest technique for co-teaching. Here, you can teach the students the main lesson from the whiteboard, and another teacher could help the children in understanding the lesson individually.
It will allow you to be free from having to revise whatever you teach in the class. It will also help you in saving quality time.
Parallel teaching
At times, you may have to teach a class with a large number of students. It could get tough for you to teach them the way you wish.
Parallel teaching method allows you to divide the class into two groups. The next thing is simple, you teach a group a lesson, and the same lesson is taught by the other teacher to the other group.
Station teaching
The station teaching is an approach in which you can divide students and content. You and your co-teacher, then teach the content to one group of kids and repeat the same for the other students from another group.
Alternative teaching
There could be some children in your class who may not be able to get the hang of a lesson easily and need special attention. Using this method, you can make a group of the students with special needs and can focus on those kids as another teacher teaches the standard students.
Team teaching
You can call this approach of co-teaching as tag team teaching as well. Here, you and teaching partner teach the one lesson to one class at the same time. It could be complicated, but having a good tuning with your co-teacher could help you much.
Some of your students may not be able to complete their academic assignment on time. You can refer our assignment help online to such students, and they can get a well-written assignment from us.


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The Fantastic Four No More: Marvel says someone will die in the next issue.
Yesterday, the AP reported that Marvel will be killing off a member of the Fantastic Four in next month's issue, number 587 entitled "Fear Itself."
The top secret issue, which will not be sold on newsstands, will be wrapped in black plastic preventing anyone from leaking the story without purchasing it. It will also not be sold on newsstands.
The Fantastic Four, created in 1961, currently consists of the Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and the Thing. While Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic have died before, they've always come back. Executive editor Tom Brevoort says as of issue 588, "the Fantastic Four will cease to exist," leading us to believe that this time, they're will be no come back.
According to David Gabriel, senior vice president for sales and circulation at Marvel, "The surprises in this issue – and what comes next – constitute one of the biggest events in Marvel history."
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Science explains a lot of things about our world and life in general. It explains why the sun couldn't be any closer or farther away from the earth than ninety-three million miles away. It explains why we reach terminal velocity at 122 miles per hour. It explains why the oxpecker bird and the rhinoceros need each other to live.
Although this isn't a science book from a merely physical framework, science can teach us a lot about ourselves and how we interact with our world. This faucet can be found virtually everywhere in the form of symbiotic relationships.
A symbiotic relationship is one between two different organisms that live with each other for an extended period of time. It can be mutualistic; a relationship that is mutually beneficial for each organism, commensalistic; a relationship that benefits one organism while having no effect on the other, or parasitic; a relationship that benefits one organism while at the expense of the other.
The relationship between the oxpecker and the rhinoceros is generally mutualistic. The oxpecker lives in sub-Saharan Africa where its host, the rhinoceros also abides. As a bird, the oxpecker eats any ticks or fleas that feed off the rhinoceros, preventing any disease that could harm the larger animal in the future. In return, the rhinoceros provides the oxpecker with an abundance of nutrition (through the unwanted ticks and fleas), and protection.
The oxpecker and the rhinoceros, or to put more simply, the bird and the rhino, provide us with a myriad of lessons. These lessons range from how we should view a random interaction with a stranger on a train to how we should manage the employees placed under us.
Whenever and wherever we interact with other people, we are one of the billions of birds or rhinos in the interaction. Sometimes, we are both.
My hope is that the bird and the rhino will help you see every interaction you have with others as not just an ordinary event but a chance to push yourself and others towards growth in every arena of life.


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What is the conversion rate?
The website's conversion rate is the number of times a user completes a task on the website. A user that makes a conversion every time they visit the site increase the conversion rate of the entire website. The method of calculating a conversion rate is, however, different because it is not similar to the SEO conversion rate or the paid ad conversion rate.
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We fine-tune the process by identifying obstacles that plague the conversion process. The various tools that enable page conversion optimization service include. The conversion optimization analysis happens when you collect data through several different approaches, such as:
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statement on updated UFC media waiver
May 20, 2020
Dear MMAJA members,
The officers of the MMA Journalists Association are aware of an update to the agreement that the UFC has asked media members to sign in order to cover live events in person. While we are encouraged by the UFC's willingness to adjust the wording of the agreement in response to concerns brought by the MMAJA and others, we still cannot advise members to sign this agreement, which we still regard as unnecessarily restrictive.
For any further questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to the MMAJA officers individually or collectively.
Ben Fowlkes, president
Ariel Helwani, vice president
Marc Raimondi, treasurer
Josh Gross, secretary
Jeff Wagenheim, at-large officer
Dave Doyle, at-large officer
MMAJA Statement on UFC media waiver policy
May 11, 2020
Dear MMAJA members,
The officers of the MMA Journalists Association are aware of a waiver that media members have been asked to sign when attending UFC events amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is our opinion that this document is overly broad and overreaching in its scope, and may interfere with the ability of media members to do their jobs fully and effectively. We are advising members not to sign this document, even if it means foregoing in-person coverage of these UFC events.
We realize that this may put some MMAJA members in a difficult position, especially if they have been asked by their employers to attend and provide coverage of these events. To a point, we understand the UFC's desire to take measures to protect itself legally and limit its own potential for liability during this uncertain time. We also understand the UFC's desire to subject everyone who may come into contact with fighters or staff to COVID-19 testing and other reasonable safety measures.
But it is our belief that some of the restrictive language in the UFC's agreement could have a chilling effect on journalists, possibly limiting their ability to fully and accurately report the facts. This is something we cannot support.
MMAJA officers reached out to the UFC to discuss the matter, but received no response. We also consulted with The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (https://www.rcfp.org/), which offers pro bono legal representation and other resources to "protect First Amendment freedoms and newsgathering rights of journalists." RCFP legal fellow William Powell's interpretation of the UFC participation agreement that MMAJA members and other credentialed media were asked to sign was that it was legally questionable and potentially ethically problematic. Going forward, RCFP offered consultation for MMAJA members, and would provide contact for a media attorney in Nevada if any of our members want to discuss challenging the agreement on public policy grounds.
We encourage members to reach out to us if they have any questions or concerns about our position. We offer our full and collective support to any MMAJA members who may be facing pressure to sign this document, or consequences stemming from their refusal to do so. Again, please don't hesitate to reach out to us either individually or collectively with any issues or questions that may arise.
Ben Fowlkes, president
Ariel Helwani, vice president
Josh Gross, secretary
Marc Raimondi, treasurer
Dave Doyle, at-large officer
Jeff Wagenheim, at-large officer