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TAMPA FL — As an added customer convenience, some Post Offices in the Suncoast District are offering extended hours. Please see the attached list of offices with extended holiday hours (Note: The Suncoast District includes Post Offices with the first three digits of the ZIP Code beginning with 321, 327, 328, 329, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342, 346, 347).
The Postal Service website, www.usps.com, is open 24/7, offering the ultimate customer convenience. Customers can mail packages using debit or credit cards and their packages will be picked up by their letter carrier free of charge.
Customers using the Postal Store on www.usps.com can purchase stamps, get holiday shipping information and holiday supplies. Nearly everything done at the Post Office can be done online.
The following six helpful pointers will relieve holiday shipping hassles and get those gifts under the tree in time for St. Nick's arrival:
•Receive discounted shipping costs. Skip the trip to the Post Office by using Click-N-Ship on usps.com/holiday and receive up to a 16 percent discount off your shipping costs. Customers can print their own mailing labels with postage from the convenience of home or office. And by requesting Free Package Pickup online, customers can have the Postal Service pick up packages from homes and offices across the country. The service is free regardless of the number of packages being requested at usps.com/pickup/.
•Confirm addresses. Print addresses clearly in all CAPITAL LETTERS and be sure to include all address elements — apartment numbers, suite numbers and directional information for streets. For example: 123 S MAIN ST. or 12456 ELM ST. N. Include both "to" and "from" information on packages — and only on one side. Never guess a ZIP Code. Visit usps.com to find all ZIP Codes.
•Use a sturdy box. Select a box that is strong enough to protect the contents. Leave space for cushioning inside. Do not reuse mailing boxes — they weaken in the shipping process. Customers can purchase ReadyPost boxes at a local Post Office or at the Postal Store on usps.com. Express Mail and Priority Mail boxes and envelopes are free. And if you're not sure — customers can use our convenient Flat Rate Boxes that come in a variety of sizes and once again are always free. Remember—"If it fits, it ships®," for a low flat rate.
•Pack delicately. Cushion contents with shredded or rolled newspaper, bubble wrap or foam peanuts. Plain air-popped popcorn is also good for cushioning — it's inexpensive and environmentally friendly. Pack contents tightly to avoid shifting during transit. Always use tape designed for shipping, such as pressure-sensitive tape, nylon-reinforced craft paper tape or glass-reinforced pressure-sensitive tape. Do not use wrapping paper, string, masking tape, duct tape or cellophane tape.
•Remove batteries and fragile items. Be sure to remove batteries from toys. Wrap and place them next to the toys in the mailing box. Customers should include the new batteries in the manufacturer's packaging. And stuff glass and fragile, hollow items, like vases, with newspaper or packing material to avoid damage. When mailing framed photographs, take the glass out of the frame and wrap it separately.
•Mark your calendars. And last up, but certainly not least are the all-important mailing and shipping deadlines. Be sure to take note of the following mail-by dates to have your package arrive in time for the holidays.
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The busiest mailing day for holiday cards/packages is Monday, Dec. 17, when more than 655 million pieces of mail are expected to be processed — compared to 538 on an average day. The busiest delivery day for letters will be Wednesday, Dec. 19 and the busiest day for packages will be Thursday, Dec. 20.
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Every Wednesday I get to dissect a sex or relationship dream for my friends at Em and Lo: Sex, Love and Everything In Between This week's dream is from a woman who is VERY concerned about a dream she had about her cheating boyfriend…
I had a dream my boyfriend and I were re-living a fight we had about him cheating. I asked him the same questions, as in real life, and got upset. Then out of nowhere a girl appeared. She was ready for sex. I asked her to leave. While trying to get her to leave, two more women appeared at my door. They had seen an ad in a newspaper. All of a sudden the house is filled with tons of women and men ready to have sex. My boyfriend is game and I walk in on him having sex with some girl… and my MOTHER. I went back to the others and waited to get involved but felt out of place.  I'm really bothered by this.
Lauri: It seems from your first sentence that the real life fight was about the fact that your boyfriend did in fact cheat, not about the fact you thought he was cheating. So I am going to go on the assumption that he double-dipped. That being said, you are clearly still very much bothered by it. Who wouldn't be? And when something in real life continues to bother us during the day, our dreams step in and try to help us sort it out at night.
In the dream, you are asking him the same questions you already asked in waking life, which is a good indication that you are not satisfied with the answers he gave — so those questions still remain, as far as you are concerned. The first woman that shows up in the dream represents the other woman. You ask her to leave in the dream but she doesn't, because in waking life you tried to rid yourself of the thought of her and the evil deed but were unable to. And then your house becomes filled with horny folk, apparently answering an ad your boyfriend put out. That reflects how your mind and the relationship have become crowded with the reality of what happened… your boyfriend was a horn dog and he put out! Yes, there is a play on words (dreams love to do that).
You also seem to feel he is still "open for business.†And even your mom joins in!! That most likely has nothing to do with your mom at all but rather the fact that you may play the role of Mom in this relationship. Do you baby him too much? What concerns me the most about this dream is that you get in line! That is very telling. It shows us that by continuing on in a relationship with him after he betrayed you, you are essentially complying with his behavior… perhaps to the point that you allow him to have many other priorities in front of you.
Strange sex dreams, death of a loved one, weird things happening to your body… It's ALL in there! Grab your copy of So, What Did You Dream Last Night? and understand your dreams like never before!
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The Bethel Council on the Arts has a lot of activities going on today and through out the weekend. One of the major events is the annual Bethel Dog Show which happens this Sunday.
Reyne Athanas is the Cultural Center coordinator and is helping coordinate the dog show again this year:
cut 1 " this Sunday the 17th is the 9th annual Bethel dog show, and it all started as a little event with people who love dogs and just kept developing it, and we all like the Westminster dog show we thought Bethel ought to have one." :18Athanas went on the say that there will be two main categories in the dog show, the breed category and the non-breed category: or what's called the Delta Mix. Any mutt or unknown breed can enter into the Delta Mix category. The breed category includes sporting, hound, working, terrier, toy, herding, and non-sporting.
Athanas says the best of show canine will be selected in addition to the various breed categories.
Cut 2 "then we have a fun section and that's for the best tail wager, the best vocal performance, the most adorable, best costume, best trick, and the most obedient." :12
Trophies and ribbons will be awarded. Athanas says the event has grown over the years and draws between to 60 and 70 dogs and attracts about 200-spectators.
Cut 3 " lots of volunteers come and help with the judging and registering and it's just a fun time." :06
The 9th annual dog show is this Sunday at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center. Registration begins at 1 p.m. and the show starts at 2 p.m.
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Baker girls soccer coach Dee Dee Clarke welcomed 26 players out for the beginning of practice.
That's a much larger number than finished last season, and means the Bulldogs will field both a varsity and junior varsity squad.
"We can field two full teams this season, and that's a big plus," Clarke said.
"This is a nice group of girls. They're working hard, and are focused. They're enjoying themselves so far."
Even with the larger numbers Clarke will be without three regulars — other than those who graduated — from a year ago.
Tonita Britt and Kyana Chaves will miss the season because of ACL injuries, and last year's goal keeper, Danielle Freese, chose not to turn out.
Clarke said senior Rachel Streifel, Baker's keeper two years ago, senior Sierra Howerton and, possibly, freshman Gracie McCarrell are in the picture this year in goal.
Howeton is still recovering from a broken hand suffered during summer softball, so probably will play another position until her hand gets stronger, Clarke said.
Other returning players include Rebekah Rushton, Tanya O'Neal, Erin Parker, Kailie Sells, Allie Brown, Farrell Linscott and Katie Vela.
"And, I have some freshmen who could give them a go for their money," Clarke said.
"We're a lot further ahead than where we were at this time last year," the Baker coach said.
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The following sections describe how to create new instances of tc server for each of the two types of layouts: SpringSource and ASF:
See Differences between the SpringSource and ASF Layouts of tc Server for details about the differences between these two layouts.
If you want to use the SpringSource layout of tc Server, then you are required to create a new instance because the out-of-the-box installation of tc Server does not automatically provide one for you. If, however, you want to use the ASF (or standard Apache) directory layout, then an instance already exists as soon as you install tc Server. Therefore, the ASF section below describes how to create a new instance in additional to the default out-of-the-box one.
NOTE: Each topic covers both Unix and Windows commands. The documentation uses Unix-like forward slashes (/) for directories; if you are on a Windows platorm, change these to back slashes (\).
This section describes how to create a new tc Server instance when using the SpringSource layout.
Open a terminal window (Unix) or command prompt (Windows).
Change to the INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0 directory, where INSTALL_DIR refers to the directory in which you installed tc Server, such as /home/tcserver. This directory also contains the script for creating a new instance, tcserver-instance.sh (Unix) and tcserver-instance.bat (Windows). For example:
prompt$ cd /home/tcServer/tcServer-6.0
Run the tcserver-instance.sh (Unix) or tcserver-instance.bat (Windows) script, passing it the following required parameters at a minimum:
For example, on Unix:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myserver -j /home/java/jdk1.6.0_12
When the script completes, the new server instance is located by default in the INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0/myserver directory. This directory is also the value of the CATALINA_BASE variable for this server instance. The tc Server instance uses the JDK located in the /home/java/jdk1.6.0_12 directory. Additionally, the ports of the server instance are the default values, as follows:
The version of the tc Server instance is the highest version that the script finds in the installation directory, for example 6.0.20.C.
You can specify additional optional parameters of the tcserver-instance.sh script, as described in tcserver-instance.sh Reference. For example, if tc Server is installed on a 64-bit Windows operating system and you are using a 64-bit JVM, then you can specify that the server instance use a 64-bit service wrapper; by default, the Windows service wrapper is 32-bit. You can also use the -p parameter to specify different port numbers from the default.
The following table lists all the available options of the tcserver-instance.sh|bat command.
There are two ways to specify each option; both are completely equivalent. The way you chose is completely up to you based on your preference. You can specify an option with a single dash and a letter (such as -s) or two dashes and a word (such as --server). The following table shows both ways of specifying the options.
|Option (Single Dash)
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|-s serverName
|--server serverName
|Replace serverName with the name of your new tc Server instance. See Best Practice: Naming tc Server Instances for tips on naming an instance.
|-v version
|--tomcatver version
|Replace version with the version of the new tc Server instance, such as 6.0.20.C.
The valid values of this option depend on the versions of tc Server that you have installed. The tcserver-instance.sh script determines the list of available versions by searching for tomcat-XXX directories, where XXX follows a pattern such as 6.0.20.C. Use the -h option of the tcserver-instance.sh script to see the list of known tc Server versions; the list is outputted in the information about the -v option.
If you do not specify this option, the tcserver-instance script picks the highest version of tc Server it can find in the installation directory. For example, if 6.0.19.A, 6.0.20.A and 6.0.20.C are all present, and you don't specify this option, then the script automatically picks 6.0.20.C.
|-j path_to_jdk
|--javahome path_to_jdk
|Replace path_to_jdk with the full pathname of your installed JDK. The default value of this option is the value of the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
The tcserver-instance.sh script includes options for setting the path to a JDK (i.e. JAVA_HOME) and the path to a JRE (i.e. JRE_HOME). Typically, JAVA_HOME points to any valid location of a JVM or JRE, whereas JRE_HOME points to just a JRE. For most use cases, setting the JAVA_HOME variable by using this option is adequate and you do not need to set JRE_HOME with the -r option as well.
|Only required if you have not set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to point to the JDK.
|-r path_to_jre
|--jrehome path_to_jre
|Replace path_to_jre with the full pathname of your installed Java runtime environment (JRE). The default value of this option is the value of the JRE_HOME environment variable.
The tcserver-instance.sh script includes options for setting the path to a JDK (i.e. JAVA_HOME) and the path to a JRE (i.e. JRE_HOME). Typically, JAVA_HOME points to any valid location of a JVM or JRE, whereas JRE_HOME points to just a JRE. For most use cases, setting the JAVA_HOME variable by using the -j option is adequate and you do not need to set JRE_HOME with this option as well.
|-d tcServerDir
|--tcserverdir tcServerDir
|Replace tcServerDir with the full pathname of the tc Server installation. Use this parameter if you are running the tcserver-instance.sh script from a location other than its default home directory. The default value of this parameter is the current working directory.
|Only required if you are not running the tcserver-instance.sh from its default location: INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0.
|-n instanceDir
|--instancedir instanceDir
|Replace instanceDir with the full or relative pathname of the directory in which you want the new tc Server instance to be created. If you specify a relative directory pathname, the directory is relative to the directory from which you are running the tcserver-instance.sh|bat script.
If you do not specify this option, the tcserver-instance.sh|bat script creates the new instances in the INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0 directory.
|-t template_location
|--template template_location
|Use this option to apply a template to a newly-created tc Server instance.
In this context, a tc Server template refers to a set of customized tc Server files that the tcserver-instance script copies to the instance it just created. The template files are organized in the standard Tomcat hierarchy; for example, configuration files are in the conf directory and binary files are in the bin directory. When the tcserver-instance script applies the template after it has created a new instance, it might replace standard Tomcat files, depending on the contents of the template. For example, the template might replace the standard server.xml file with a new one, or copy one or more applications to the webapps directory so that they are automatically deployed on startup.
Replace the template_location argument with one of the following values:
For additional details and examples about this using feature, and information about creating your own templates, see Creating a tc Server Instance Using a Template and Creating tc Server Templates.
|Forces the script to create a new server instance, even if one already exists. By default the script does not force the creation.
If you specify this parameter against an existing server instance, the script replaces only the existing bin and conf directories; the script does not replace the other directories, such as lib or temp. This is because it is assumed in this case that you want to replace only the Tomcat-specific files (typically because you're updating the Tomcat version), but want to leave the user-specific files, such as Web applications, alone.
|Tells the script to interactively ask for port numbers; use this parameter if you want to change the default port numbers, as listed above.
Warning: Be sure that all tc Server instances on the same computer have unique port numbers.
|Specifies the colon-separated list of port numbers that should be configured in the catalina.properties file. Use this option if you do not want to use the default port numbers, as listed above.
This is an all-or-nothing option: you either list all four port numbers, in the correct order, or you list none at all. The order of port numbers is as follows: shutdown, http, ajp, jmx. For example, assume you specifed the following value for this option:
The script would create the following in the catalina.properties file:
Separate the four port numbers with colons.
Warning: Be sure that all tc Server instances on the same computer have unique port numbers.
|Specifies that you want the tcserver-instance.sh script to create a new tc Server instance.
This is the default mode of the script.
|Use this option to modify the version of tc Server that an existing tc Server instance uses.
You use this option together with the -s serverName option to specify the tc Server instance you want to modify and with the -v version option to specify the new version of the instance. If you do not explicitly specify -v version on the command line, the tcserver-instance script uses the default value of -v, which is the highest version it can find.
Note: You can use this option only against an existing tc Server instance; you cannot use this option when creating a new instance. It is assumed that you have already installed the tc Server version to which you want to modify the existing instance.
|-a arch
|Windows only. Specifies whether you want the tcserver-instance.bat script to create a 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Windows service wrapper.
Valid values are win32 and winx86_64. The default value is win32.
If you specify winx86_64 for this option, the Windows computer on which tc Server is installed must use a 64-bit operating system; note that tc Server supports only x86 64-bit architecture, not the Itanium 64-bit. Additionally, you must specify that the tc Server instance use a 64-bit JVM (with either the -j or -r option of the tcserver-instance.bat command). Similarly, if you specify win32 (default value), then you must specify a 32-bit JVM.
|Lists all the server instances known to this particular tc Server installation.
For each instance, the command outputs additional information, such as the parent directory of the instance, the directories that contain its command scripts and binaries, the version of the instance (both base Tomcat version and tc Server version), and whether the instance is currently running.
|Outputs information about all the available options of tcserver-instance.sh|bat.
For example, to request that you be prompted for port numbers and that the tc Server installation directory is /home/tcserver/tcServer6.0, run the following:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myserver -v 6.0.20.C -j /home/java/jdk1.6.0_12 -d /home/tcserver/tcServer6.0 -i
The following example shows how to modify an existing tc Server instance called myotherserver to use version 6.0.20.C:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myotherserver -m -v 6.0.20.C
The name of a tc Server instance is the name of its CATALINA_BASE directory, minus the leading directory paths. As a reminder, CATALINA_BASE is the base directory of the instance; this directory contains the instance-specific startup scripts in the bin sub-directory, the configuration files in the conf sub-directory, and so on. For example, if you create a tc Server instance in the /home/tcserver/tcServer-6.0/myServer directory, then its name is myServer.
The AMS Console also uses this naming convention when first identifying a tc Server instance. In particular, AMS displays an instance with the name platform-resource tc Server catalina-base-dir, where platform-resource refers to the computer on which tc Server is running and catalina-base-dir refers to the CATALINA_BASE directory of the tc Server instance without the leading directory pathnames. The AMS console uses the full pathname of CATALINA_BASE as the default description of the instance.
This means, however, that if you create two instances whose full pathnames differ, but their main installation directory names are the same, the instances will show up in the AMS console with the same names. This makes it difficult to differentiate multiple tc Server instances from each other, although you can always look at the description for the full pathname. For example, assume you have two instances in the following directories running on a computer identified as my-desktop in AMS:
Although they are completely different instances, they will both show up in AMS with the name my-desktop tc Server myServer.
For this reason, SpringSource recommends as a best practice that you use unique names for the main installation directory for each tc Server instance on the same computer. For example, the following two instances will show up in the AMS console with different names:
When you create a new tc Server instance using the tcserver-instance script, you can use the -t (or --template) option to specify a tc Server template. A template is simply a directory that contains additional or customized tc Server instance files, such as server.xml or JAR files. When you specify the -t option, the tcserver-instance script first creates the tc Server instance as usual, which mostly entails copying over the standard Tomcat files from the tcServer6.0/tomcat-version directory to the new instance directory, where version refers to the version of tc Server, such as 6.0.20.C. Then, after the script has created a standard tc Server instance, the script then copies over the files and sub-directories contained in the specified tc Server template.
To use this feature, a template must already exist. You can create your own template, as described in Creating tc Server Templates.
Templates are all contained in a single directory and are organized in the standard Tomcat sub-directory hierarchy. For example, configuration files live in the conf directory and JAR files live in the lib directory. If you are creating your own template, then you can also create additional sub-directories if you choose. When the tcserver-instance script applies the template after it has created a new tc Server instance, it copies over all the files, including those in sub-directories. Depending on the contents of the template directory, the new tc Server instance might be quite different from the standard one. For example, the template might replace the standard server.xml file with a new customized file, or copy one or more applications to the webapps directory so that they are automatically deployed on startup.
The argument to the -t option must be either a template directory or a file that lists multiple template directories. If the template argument is just a single name, then the tcserver-instance script assumes the template directory is located in the INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0/template directory. You can also use an absolute directory name to specify a template directory in another location.
If you specify a file as an argument, the file must contain a list of absolute template directories. This feature enables you to easily apply multiple templates when creating a new instance. The tcserver-instance script applies each template in order, first to last. This means that if each template contains a file with the same name and location, then only the last file actually takes priority because the first ones are copied over with files from subsequent templates.
The following example shows how to create a new tc Server instance called myserver using a template called my-super-template that is assumed to live in the templates directory:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myserver -v 6.0.20.C -t my-super-template
The following example shows how to create an instance using a template located in the directory /home/templates/tcServer/mytemplate:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myserver -v 6.0.20.C -t /home/templates/tcServer/mytemplate
The following example shows how to create an instance using multiple templates by specifying a file that lists the template directories using absolute pathnames:
prompt$./tcserver-instance.sh -s myserver -v 6.0.20.C -t templates.txt
The templates.txt file would in turn contain a list of absolute template directory names:
/home/templates/tcServer/mytemplate /home/templates/tcServer/myothertemplate
To use the templating feature, you create your own templates with your own customizations which you can then use later to create new customized tc Server instances.
The template must be located in a single directory, and the name of the template is the name of the directory. SpringSource recommends that you create the templates in the INSTALL_DIR/tcServer-6.0/templates directory so you can keep all your templates together, although it is not required. Then, for each Tomcat file you want to customize, create the sub-directory in which it lives and then create the customized file in that subdirectory. For example, if you want to create a customized server.xml, create the file in the conf sub-directory. If you want to add a new shell script, add it to the bin directory. You can also create your own sub-directories that will be copied to the new instance. Finally, you can add application JAR files to the webapps directory if you want these applications to be automatically deployed each time the new instance is started.
The following file listing shows an example of a template called my-super-template; use it as a guide when creating your own templates. Note that the template customizes the standard conf/context.xml file and adds JAR files to the lib and webapps directory and creates a new sub-directory (webapps-lib, alongside webapps), amongst other things:
my-super-template/lib/myapp_core-1.0.0.jar my-super-template/lib/spring-instrument-classloading-3.0.0.BUILD.jar my-super-template/deployToTomcat.sh my-super-template/webapps-lib/myapp-springweb-1.0.0.jar my-super-template/webapps-lib/myapp-springcore-1.0.0.jar my-super-template/webapps-lib/myapp-jdbc-1.0.0.jar my-super-template/webapps/myapp.war my-super-template/conf/context.xml my-super-template/conf/myapp.yml my-super-template/instrument-tomcat.xml
The following procedure describes how to create a new tc Server instance when using the ASF layout.
Open a terminal window (Unix) or command prompt (Windows).
If you are going to run this tc Server instance on the same computer as another tc Server instance, you must ensure that the various port numbers are unique. You configure these ports in the INSTALL_DIR/tcserver-6.0/tomcat-version/conf/server.xml file, where INSTALL_DIR refers to the directory in which you just installed tc Server and version refers to the version of tc Server, such as 6.0.20.C. In particular, make sure the following ports are unique for each server instance:
NOTE: The server.xml file might use variable substitution for these ports; in this case the attribute looks something like port="${http.port}". If this is the case, edit the catalina.properties file in the same directory as the server.xml; the properties file contains actual values for the variables.


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Congratulations to all my friends at The French Quarter Fest on this special 30th anniversary celebration! This year the largest free music festival in the South features 271 performers on 21 stages, as well as, par normal, the world's largest jazz brunch in Jackson Square.
There are literally hundreds of acts that you will enjoy out here, some very popular, some not so. Here are a few less obvious, and perhaps under your radar, Hot Picks for this weekend:
Honeypots, 11:00 @ Abita Beer; Sunflower City, 2:00 @ WWL-TV; Egg Yolk Jubilee, 3:30 @ Capitol One; N. O. Nightengales, 5:00 @ WWL-TV.
Waylon Thibodeaux, 12:30 @ Chevron; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Review, 12:30 @ Absolut/Louis-Louis; Camille Baudoin & the Living Rumors, 2:00 @ Popeye's/Offbeat; John Autin with Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, 4:30 @ WWL-TV; Debauche, 5:45 @ Ford.
Remember to check out the entertaining programming on the 3rd floor of the Old U. S. Mint to take a chance to get inside and sit down for a few moments. As always, see you in the Quarter, and Go Here Some Live Local Music!


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I was a young mother of a chubby-cheeked baby boy at the time. At his two month well baby check-up, the pediatrician discovered that my baby had an undescended testicle. I worried it was something I did during pregnancy. Did something happen during his labor and delivery? Will he be able to have children? We scheduled yet another exam and then an ultrasound to determine if the testicle just hadn't moved down yet, perhaps it was underdeveloped…or there was a possibility he was born with just one.
We'll call him 'Ole One Nut. Oh come on, he'll be fine, my Dad said. The joking didn't help.
Having to hold down your baby while they're having an ultrasound on their groin, talk of hormone therapy and listening to the pediatrician recommend "exploratory surgery" made me nervous. One thing I knew for sure–I wasn't going to allow a doctor to perform surgery on my little one unless it was absolutely necessary. I told my pediatrician I would wait a few weeks and decide. Well, weeks turned into years and life happened and we forgot about it.
For a really long time.
Then my son had a physical exam earlier this summer and his doctor once again brought the matter to my attention. I was dumbfounded, remembering our dilemma from so many years before. He was astounded that none of his doctors mentioned it before. I was astounded that I had completely forgot about it. Once again, we faced the same questions and procedures.
My son had two questions. Will it hurt? and Will I still be able to have children with only one testicle?
We had to make a decision, since men with this condition experience a higher than normal incidence of testicular cancer. If his undescended testicle was still viable, the urologist would lower it to its intended place. If not, he would remove it. We were in the hospital for a total of six hours. The pain was minimal and he was up and walking soon after. Turns out, the testicle was undeveloped from infancy and it needed to be removed. I felt much better facing this situation now that my son is older and I have a few good years of motherhood under my belt. It definitely helped me make the decision.
Read more about undescended testicles on Babycenter.
Have you had to deal with an undescended testicle problem? How did you handle it? Did you choose to have surgery done on your baby?
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Missouri S&T freshman Adriel Hawkins was named to the Great Lakes Valley all-conference team.
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Revocation Tour Diary, Part 1: Jägermeister, Tattoo Infections, and Cheesesteaks
Jason Le Miere | Oct 17, 2011 | Comments 0 | Tags: Chimaira, Impending Doom, Phil Dubois-Coyne, Revocation
Boston death/thrash metallers Revocation are currently traveling the U.S. in support of their recently released third album Chaos of Forms (Relapse), on the Jägermeister Presents tour with Chimaira (see all the dates here). Beginning with this post, drummer Phil Dubois-Coyne is keeping a blog for us so we don't miss out on anything that goes down, both onstage and off. You can read part one right here and don't forget to check back to Revolvermag.com over the coming weeks for further installments.
Whats up everybody! Phil from Revocation here, giving you guys a little inside look at our U.S. tour with Chimaira and Impending Doom.
We started the tour with a bang, driving 12 straight hours on our way to Kent, Ohio! Wooo!!! We got to the venue early the next morning and met all the dudes we would be spending the next month with. Everybody is cool as hell, and almost everyone seems like they party, so, if things go the way I expect, it should be a very blurry month. The show was sweet and everyone killed it. A few minor technical difficulties, but that's always the way the first show is. Everyone started feeling much better after hanging with a rep from Jägermeister for a few hours, and good times were had by all.
Woke up the next day and went to check out a potential new touring vehicle.
Unfortunately we were a few intergalactic credits short. Oh well, off to Baltimore!
Baltimore is always a great time because we know so many people there. After a swanky dinner of Maryland crab, we ripped our set, then slammed Natty Bohs and caught up with old friends. Also my experiment to see how tattoos heal on the road was a success. Results: infected!
Sorry, Paul, looks like all hells breakin' loose in the form of a flesh eating staff infection! At least its not permanent. To Philly!
Philly is also always a fun city, and we were super pumped this time because we were playing the super sweet Trocadero, where Lamb of God filmed their Killadelphia DVD. The club is in the heart of Chinatown, and we had a badass dinner of hand drawn noodle soup. Our friends in Relapse came out to show some love, and we had a few drinks with a couple of the dudes from Baroness. It's cool when a band you dig is also into you.
Woke up and had a heart-healthy breakfast at the famous John's Roast Pork, which has the most boner-inducing cheesesteaks in the world. Fuck you, arteries!
Unfortunately we had a 13-hour drive to Joliet, so we didn't get to pay homage to the mighty Rocky statue. Luckily we have a day off, so it's time for a full day of driving, which means a shitload of Kiss and Howard Stern. Not the best way to spend a day off, but not the worst. Check back soon for updates, and make sure to come out and rip it with us when we come through your city. Let's get weird!
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Many reptile species are experiencing global population declines due to anthropogenic causes (Gibbons et al., 2000). Box turtles (Terrapene carolina) are no exception. Long term studies have documented significant population size and density declines (Stickel 1978, Schwartz and Schwartz 1974). The effects of urbanization, namely pollution, habitat fragmentation, increased traffic, introduced species, collection for the pet trade, and increased spread of disease have been linked to the box turtle declines (Belzer and Steisslinger 1999). Although box turtles commonly inhabit urban environments, the effects of urbanization on box turtle natural history are relatively unknown.
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When my kids were that age I would just give them little bits of what I was eating. Just tastes to begin with to get them interested, then spoonfuls, then little servings. It's healthier than the overly processed baby foods and they're more interested in what you have anyway. My last child hated bottles too... after going through several different ones I found the Adiri natural nurser. It looks and feels kind of like a breast, so it worked. If you want to produce enough milk for him, you have to kick up your nursing regimen. The more he nurses, the more you'll produce. Just make sure you drink enough fluids. Take care!posted 07/04/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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How Dangerous Is China's Credit Bubble for the World?
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man blog,
Global Meltdown Predicted by Charlene Chu
Following on the heels of a report that appeared in the Telegraph on the topic, William Pesek at Bloomberg has recently also written an article about Charlene Chu (formerly with Fitch, nowadays with private firm Autonomous Research) and her opinions on China's shadow banking system and the dangers it represents. The article is ominously entitled "China, the Death Star of Emerging Markets".
China has recently made unwelcome headlines, as one of the shadow banking system's countless 'wealth management trusts' which was evidently invested in a bankrupt venture (in this case in a coal company – reportedly a great many such investments in insolvent coal mines exist) was about to go belly-up and then was bailed out at the last minute. Here is a recent article by Mish on the trust that was ironically named "Credit Equals Gold Number 1". At first it was reported that the trust wouldn't be bailed out, but in the end its 700 investors were able to 'breathe a sigh of relief' as Tom Holland remarked in the South China Morning Post (SCMP). However, Holland also cautioned that by bailing out this trust, China has laid the foundations for a much bigger crisis down the road, as moral hazard has increased considerably as a result.
The size of shadow-bank lending relative to China's GDP, via the SCMP
Interestingly, Holland actually disagrees on a major point with Charlene Chu and Pesek. Let us first look at what Pesek writes:
"On any list of banking accidents waiting to happen, China is assured a place at the very top. But could a crash there take the entire global economy down with it? Absolutely, says Charlene Chu, who until recently was Fitch's headline-generating analyst in Beijing. Chu has fearlessly trod into an area that China is trying desperately to keep off limits: its vast shadow-banking system. Now that she's working for a private firm that doesn't have to rely to governments for revenue, as do rating companies, Chu is free to speak completely openly. And is she ever.
"The banking sector has extended $14 trillion to $15 trillion in the span of five years," Chu, who is now with Autonomous Research, told the Telegraph. "There's no way that we are not going to have massive problems in China." What's more, she added, China "could trigger global meltdown."
The travails of Greece continue to preoccupy the world, but its $249 billion economy is a rounding error compared to China's $8.2 trillion one. In December 2005, for example, China announced its output had unexpectedly grown by $285 billion. In other words, it had suddenly found an economy bigger than Singapore's that its statisticians hadn't known about. Today, simply put, a Chinese crash would make the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers seem like a mere market correction.
The kind of meltdown Chu suggests is possible would end Japan's revival, slam economies from South Korea to Vietnam, savage stock and commodity prices everywhere, force the Federal Reserve to end its tapering process and prompt emergency national-security briefings in Washington. So feel free to obsess over Turkey and Argentina, but the real "wild card" is the world's second-biggest economy."
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As noted above, that certainly sounds quite ominous.
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Not so fast, says Tom Holland. While agreeing that China will eventually face a credit crisis and quite possibly a severe economic downturn, he points to the fact that the closed capital account and China's vast foreign reserves make a 'global contagion' event of such enormous magnitude unlikely. This particular scare story he avers, is not something to worry about, which he inter alia tries to buttress by comparing China's situation to Indonesia's prior to the Asian crisis. Below are a few relevant excerpts from his article:
"As a headline, it was certainly eye-catching. "Currency crisis at Chinese banks could trigger global meltdown," declared a story in the Sunday edition of London's Daily Telegraph. The article noted nervously that foreign currency borrowing by Chinese companies has almost quadrupled in just four years to more than US$1 trillion. Any substantial appreciation of the US dollar – and many analysts are indeed expecting gains this year – could open up a dangerous cross-currency mismatch, forcing Chinese borrowers to default and inflicting shattering losses on international lenders, the story warned.
The chance that China will suffer a currency crisis at any time in the foreseeable future is precisely zero. And even if the country were struck by crisis, there would be no danger of a global financial meltdown. It is certainly true that China's foreign liabilities have grown rapidly in recent years; a quadrupling since 2009 is about right. But, if anything, the Telegraph's figure of US$1 trillion is rather too modest. According to Beijing's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, at the end of 2013 China had foreign liabilities of a thumping US$3.85 trillion; roughly 40 per cent of its gross domestic product.
But the lion's share of those liabilities – some US$2.32 trillion – consists of highly illiquid inward foreign direct investment. That money is staying where it is. On top of that, a further US$374 billion is foreign portfolio investment in China's stock and bond markets. That's money that has flowed in under Beijing's qualified foreign institutional investor program, whose rules impose strict limits on the size and frequency of repatriation payments. However, that still leaves around US$1.15 trillion in short-term foreign liabilities, consisting largely of loans from international banks.
In 2014, China has no such problems [compared to Indonesia prior to the Asian crisis, ed.] . External debt is small relative to GDP. And with US$3.82 trillion in foreign reserves at the end of last year, Beijing can cover China's near-term foreign liabilities more than three times over. Sure, the shrinkage of the central bank's balance sheet were it actually forced to sell assets in order to fund the country's external liabilities would inflict a painful monetary tightening on China's domestic economy.
But with Beijing sitting on such a large pot of foreign reserves, such an extreme crisis is hardly likely. And even if it did happen, there would be no "global meltdown". Despite the opening of recent years, Beijing's controls on the free flow of capital mean China's financial sector remains relatively closed, and the exposure of the global financial system to the country is low.
That's not to say there wouldn't be casualties from a sudden strengthening of the US dollar against the yuan, or from a marked slowdown in China's domestic economy. At the end of October last year Hong Kong's banking system was owed US$300 billion by mainland banks and another US$100 billion by mainland companies. Clearly the local pain would be intense. But a Chinese currency crisis triggering global meltdown? Happily not."
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Readers may recall that we have also recently mentioned the exposure of Hong Kong's banks to Mainland China. We believe Mr. Holland is correct in one sense, but we also think he underestimates the contagion potential.
Contagion Through Many Different Channels
It is true that China's closed capital account as well as the government's tight control over the financial system makes China's situation fundamentally different from that of countries with open capital accounts from whence foreign investors can at anytime flee in droves if they get cold feet over an overextended bubble.
In fact, we have pointed out in the past that the great degree of central control over the economy (and especially the banking system) which China's government enjoys makes it inherently more difficult to time a putative demise of the credit bubble than elsewhere – and such things aren't easy to time to begin with.
However, a sharp decline in the yuan's exchange rate may be seen as necessary by China's leadership if a crisis threatens social stability (and with it the party's rule) in China. China has already devalued a great deal on one occasion (in 1994), an event that in hindsight seems to have precipitated a chain reaction (first the yen followed the yuan lower, and then the currency pegs in various 'Asian Tiger' economies went overboard).
Today, China is a far bigger player in the world economy than in 1994, and we believe that Mr. Holland underestimates how today's economic and financial interconnectedness may produce contagion effects even in light of the closed capital account and China's large reserves. We also don't necessarily regard the exposure of Hong Kong's banks as a de facto 'internal affair', as the territory is outside of the ambit of China's capital controls and the yuan. It is not only Hong Kong's banking system that one must worry about though. Consider what would happen if China were indeed forced to draw down its reserves to serve the $1.5 trillion in short term foreign liabilities, or a sizable chunk thereof. Given that this would inevitably result in a much tighter domestic monetary policy (provided the PBoC doesn't take inflationary measures independent of its forex reserves), all sorts of malinvestments in China would be revealed as unsustainable. A number of industries would be faced with a major bust, and it is a good bet that commodity imports would plunge.
However, once that happens, one must immediately begin to worry about Australia's banks, which have financed a giant housing bubble on the back of the country's commodities boom and in turn rely greatly on short term foreign funding. So there would immediately be a crisis in both Hong Kong's and Australia's banking systems, and it does not take a great leap of the imagination to see how contagion could spread further from them. Naturally many other raw materials exporting countries would also be hit hard, we mainly picked Australia as an example because its banks are so reliant on short term foreign funding, so they would presumably be among the first in line.
Lastly, here is a recent chart of NPLs in China's official banking system (listed banks only, i.e. the biggest ones):
NPLs at China's biggest banks – this looks good! In fact, it looks too good – click to enlarge.
As can be seen, NPLs at the major banks have declined to a negligible percentage (compare this with crisis-stricken Spain's near 13% or so NPL ratio, which is understated to boot). However, there are plenty of credible rumors that China's banks are keeping loans that would normally be regarded as dubious alive by all sorts of tricks. Not only that, they are definitely backing a great many of the 'shadow banking' businesses, which have developed in China mainly in order to circumvent restrictions on banking activities.
In view of everything that is known about credit growth in China, we would regard this extremely low NPL ratio as a contrary indicator even if it were credible.
No-one knows for sure how big a problem China's economy will eventually face due to the massive credit and money supply growth that has occurred in recent years and no-one know when exactly it will happen either. There have been many dire predictions over the years, but so far none have come true. And yet, it is clear that there is a looming problem of considerable magnitude that won't simply go away painlessly. The greatest credit excesses have been built up after 2008, which suggests that there can be no comfort in the knowledge that 'nothing has happened yet'. Given China's importance to the global economy, it seems impossible for this not to have grave consequences for the rest of the world, in spite of China's peculiar attributes in terms of government control over the economy and the closed capital account.
Shanghai's A-share index (which is heavily weighed toward banks) continues to wallow near its lows of the past several years – click to enlarge.
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not so dangerous - the whole system is coming down. Like adding a match to a bonfire, it really doesn't much matter.
Since most of the debt is held internally by the frugal Chinese the meltdown might be more contained than the author contends.
Look at how long the Japanese meltdown has been drawn out. A country where people save half of their income has a lot of resilience. Not like the USSA.
Click bang, oh what a hang(over).
The myRa will fix that
credit/debt asset bubble pop on prior mailinvestment / misallocation means Chu's internal economic CN collapse snorkles German exports, quite more than marginal (credit, td) the heart of the EZ project, which itself needs more collateral (ME/Africa?) . its not just Aussie banks and HK, the big 4 are funded overseas, and that'll tighten up pushing them to bailin/bankruptcy, cds tough for the issuers, as is Unicredit and the rest to em fx knockons from the CN collapse
your a "sell the Treasuries" kinda guy? not understanding a debt collapse wont mean a return to a gold standard, but rather an attempt at reflation, and Treasuries are the backbone to yuan value, the otherside of the ledger to their fiat, they have not many liquid assets to sell, really, and bailouts / take the people's savings isnt the pc way to handle it. A combo of bakruptcy and reflation is, and one asset that could aid in bolstering the banking system's proportion of good assets is the inclusion of newly acquired gold.
Hence the reason why Gold builds Countries & Silver is a Gentleman's currency.
"not so dangerous - the whole system is coming down."
Seems to me that China is following the "Bureacrats guide to a Failing economy", which has been in print before Rome was an empire. Here a quote from chapter 9:
When you have excessive unemployeed workers that are risk for causing a revolt that may overthrow your regime, start a nationism movement by blaming your neighbors for disrupting your economy. If that fails to calm the masses, sent them to war, which will increase jobs and also kill many of the unemployed to restore balance. Even if you end up losing the war, it will delay the inevetable. You have nothing to lose, since your other option is to place your head on a chopping block, when the masses come for your head!
Japan and the Philipines are the potential targets of this new campaign!
When I saw the title, my first thought was "How dangerous is the US's credit bubble (Treasuries) for the world?"
Should I be stacking egg rolls?
I'm more worried about the ponzi in Europe! If in any way the usd caves in,credit markets to Europe will cease to exist! . {visa <> versa} TEOTWAWTI!
Same applies to the USA.
China at has productive assets( what was the US manufacturing base) and a lot of gold,
When the tide goes out, who is it that is naked ?
Winston, the Yuan has an "mid rate" fixing every day. China has lots of precious metal and resources.
Most people don't realize how resource rich America is. Any smart investor knows Americas' value lies in it's vast undiscovered mineral wealth.
If debt is Rothchild control...
And China is saying F-U...
Is this the show down at the OK coral ? AKA End game ?
The laws of physics define what real wealth is - usable energy and edible food. Everything else is just a representation of wealth.
A massive and sustained oil/gas price spike could crush China. And Japan too, now that Japan shut down all its nuke plants.
edible food is a manifestation of energy
Edible food is a matter of opinion.
On a per-capita basis, who has the largest resource base?
Who can provide sufficient food and energy from domestic sources if/when TSHTF and global trade grinds to a halt?
As I see it, the USA/Canada/Mexico nexus, followed by Russia and its satellites.
No one else is even a contender.
You are so right ebear! If Canada/U.S.A. and Mexico closed the borders we have enough food and resources to last for many centuries. FUCK the ragheads and the slant eyes...
Productive asset in china: oversized shed with workbenches and soldering guns?
Yet another Asian time bomb. Folks have been predicting the imminent collapse of Japan for what--13 years more or less. AND IT WILL HAPPEN --eventually. At that rate China has at least 10 years before things get rough. In the mean time lets all practice together. On three, ready? One, two, three:
Wake me when the fit hits the shan.
The Nordic version: when The Snow Hits The Fan.
What about differences in the two populations temperments and educational levels not to mention governments?
Chu is full of crap in saying China's internal problems will trigger a global meltdown. Holland is correct on several points. Very few people even here at zh can correctly draw the distinction or identify cause-effect relationships between China's internal problems and their external problems. One thing is sure, their banking system and even their stock and bond markets don't amount to a hill of beans on the global stage. If Goldman Sachs ends up holding any bad investments over there the fed will buy them under the table. These aren't the 'droids you're looking for. [/obi wan]
Rack Jack
uhh...what about the end-of-January meltdown in China that was all over these pages a couple weeks ago? wtf? This is just like all the lines in the sand that Greece was going to default and bring down all of the EU...yeah it'll happen in 3 weeks when they fail to do X...date comes and goes over and over and over.
Anybody notice the Broken Record Effect going on here yet again?
Sorry Pater, th world was aleady supposed to end on 31 January in China, it's not fair for you to come along now and screw that up.
You disagree with the premise that the 11th hour bailout on Jan 31 increased moral hazard?
I don't see a 'broken record' so much as a 'slow motion train-wreck'.
Very very slow motion. As long as the PBOC is willing to bail out all financial institutions in China with printed Yuan, they can keep their bubble going for a very long time. Far longer than anyone shorting China can stay solvent. The only thing that could break it is another mega spike in energy prices - one bigger than we had in 2008.
If you want China to collapse you should be working to start a major mideast war that uses nuclear weapons.
Always do the opposite of ZH, and you'll make money. That's what they're here for.
There are only two types of stock brokers or CFPs you can profit from: the ones who are almost always right (barometer), and the ones who are totally wrong (anti-barometer).
PRC has Gold. Lots of Physical Gold.
Got Yuan?
And the Chinese are importing tonnes and tonnes of gold... could there be a correlation here? hmm
The Chinese elites are all furiously trying to get their money out of China (witness for one the boom in foreign property purchases) - kind of a leading indicator me thinks
A while back I had a conversation with a local bank manager about offshore money buying Vancouver real estate. Chinese mostly? Yup. Paying cash, are they? Yes. In the form of cashier checks drawn on banks in the Seychelles and Cayman Islands, right? She clammed up at that point, and it was clear I'd hit a nerve.
You want to know what's going on, as always, just follow the money.
China's principle advantage is also its greatest weakness - the size of its population. History shows that things can get out of hand very quickly there, and like they say, if you fail to learn history's lessons, you're doomed to repeat them. I'd say anyone moving money out of China these days understands this very well.
Perhaps, perhaps not. Ever heard of Global Diversification, or BTFD, or buy with USTs while they can still use them like Bearer Bonds to buy real stuff with?
The latest Keiser Report describes how Obama and Cameron are commiting treason against their countries via TTIP.
Pretty sure that is worse than a financial meltdown.
You know the Ching Chongs cheated on their Engrish exams if they have an American first name.
Is "Charlene" really her mother given name?
Where did she find the name "Charlene"?
Oh btw, China's exaggerating.
They can always go to Macau for liquidity.
As a matter of fact, the Bank bought off IRS can go to Macau and rob them, they have money. Former Middle Class Americans don't.
<~~~~~Kick 'em when they're up
<~~~~~Kick 'em when they're down
Really, the whole thing comes down to people being incapable of looking at the world honestly.
It would appear that most humans are averse to making any effort for themselves and would like to have others make the effort for them, so they can sit on their arses and do fuck all.
I'm prepared to stand or fall based on what I know and what I can do.
Yes, nature can throw me a curve ball, at which point I'll be off for the 'earth nap' - but that's what awaits us all.
If you never put any effort into anything, you can never feel the satisfaction of achieving a goal. Might as well be dead at that point.
Just a thought.
Markets - Money - Derivatives - all bullshit really.
Once, you didn't exist - right now, if you are reading this, you do - soon you will revert to the don't exist category.
Do the best you can with what you've got, but please, do it responsibly. The 'other guy' is in the same situation as you are.
Even in China, it's a WORLD OF DEBT!!! See Video Below "WORLD OF DEBT" -- Funny too:
Good lord . Look at the curve of the PBOC financial system over 20 years! Shadow banking system.
Who missed the copper fiasco in December? Long (8) shot " Nail Guns"!
Who missed the copper fiasco in December?
liked td's gs expose:
Our view is that the bulk of copper stored in bonded warehouses in China – at least 510,000t at present, as well as some inbound copper shipments into China – is being used to unlock the CNY-USD interest rate differential.This material has not been entirely unavailable to the market (deals can be broken if costs rise, such as a tightening of LME spreads), but the inventory has been effectively financed by factors exogenous to the copper market for some time.
After the SHFE-LME price arbitrage closes sufficiently, the remaining bonded stock (over and above day-to-day working flows) would likely shift from bonded warehouses to the LME. We expect that the ex-China (LME) market would likely see inventory increases as a result, as China draws on bonded stocks instead of importing and as excess bonded stocks are shifted back on to the LME. We estimate that the ex-China market will need to 'carry' a minimum of 200-250kt of additional physical copper over the coming months, equivalent to 4%-5% of quarterly global supply. The latter would most likely result in a widening contango, including downward pressure on cash prices.
[measures are aimed] to:
i) Directly reduce the scale of China's FX loans, thus reducing the scale of letter of credit (LC) financing (bank loans), thereby reducing the volume of funding available for CCFDs (though not specifically targeting CCFDs); and/or
ii) Raise banks' FX net open positions (banks are required to hold a minimum net long FX position at the expense of CNY liabilities), thus raising LC financing costs, thereby increasing the cost of funding CCFDs.
To avoid being categorized as a B-list firm by SAFE, 'trade firms' may reduce their USD LC liabilities in the near term, with CCFDs likely impacted. It is not yet clear what happens to the B-list firms once they are categorized as such. However, if B-list firms were prohibited from rolling their LC liabilities this could increase the pace of the CCFD unwind, since these trade firms would likely need to sell their liquid assets (copper included) to fund their LC liabilities accumulated through previous CCFDs.
An example of a typical, simplified, CCFD
In this section we present an example of how a typical Chinese Copper Financing Deal (CCFD) works, and then discuss how the various parties involved are affected if the deals are forced to unwind. Exhibit 3 is a 'simplified' example of a CCFD, including specific reference to how the process places upward pressure on the RMB/USD. We believe this is the predominant structure of CCFDs, with other forms of Chinese copper financing deals much less profitable and likely only a small proportion of total deal volumes.
A typical CCFD involves 4 parties and 4 steps:
- Party A – Typically an offshore trading house
- Party B – Typically an onshore trading house, consumers
- Party C – Typically offshore subsidiary of B
- Party D – Onshore or offshore banks registered onshore serving B as a client
Step 1) offshore trader A sells warrant of bonded copper (copper in China's bonded warehouse that is exempted from VAT payment before customs declaration) or inbound copper (i.e. copper on ship in transit to bonded) to onshore party B at price X (i.e. B imports copper from A), and A is paid USD LC, issued by onshore bank D. The LC issuance is a key step that SAFE's new policies target. re-exports the copper by sending the warrant documentation (not the physical copper which stays in bonded warehouse 'offshore') to the offshore subsidiary C (N.B. B owns C), and C pays B USD or CNH cash (CNH = offshore CNY). Using the cash from C, B gets bank D to convert the USD or CNH into onshore CNY, and trader B can then use CNY as it sees fit.
The conversion of the USD or CNH into onshore CNY is another key step that SAFE's new policies target. This conversion was previously allowed by SAFE because it was expected that the re-export process was a trade-related activity through China's current account. Now that it has become apparent that CCFDs and other similar deals do not involve actual shipments of physical material, SAFE appears to be moving to halt them.
Step 3) Offshore subsidiary C sells the warrant back to A (again, no move in physical copper which stays in bonded warehouse 'offshore'), and A pays C USD or CNH cash with a price of X minus $10-20/t, i.e. a discount to the price sold by A to B in Step 1.
Step 4) Repeat Step 1-Step 3 as many times as possible, during the period of LC (usually 6 months, with range of 3-12 months). This could be 10-30 times over the course of the 6 month LC, with the limitation being the amount of time it takes to clear the paperwork. In this way, the total notional LCs issued over a particular tonne of bonded or inbound copper over the course of a year would be 10-30 times the value of the physical copper involved, depending on the LC duration.
Copper ownership and hedging: Through the whole process each tonne of copper involved in CCFDs is hedged by selling futures on LME futures curve (deals typically involve a long physical position and short futures position over the life of the CCFDs, unless the owner of the copper wants to speculate on the price).
Though typically owned and hedged by Party A, the hedger can be Party A, B, C and D, depending on the ownership of the copper warrant.
TD: "As Goldman further explains, the importance of CCFD is "not trivial" - that is an understatement: with the implicit near-infinite rehypothecation in which the number of "circuits" in the deal is only a factor of "the amount of time it takes to clear the paperwork", there may be hundreds of billions, if not more, in leverage resulting from this shadow transaction that has been used in China for years. Now, that loop is about to end. The reality is nobody can predict what the impact will be, but whatever it is - i) it will extract tremendous leverage from the system and ii) it will have adverse impacts on both China's ability to absorb inflation and grow its economy."
How important are CCFDs? They are not trivial!
Chinese 'financing deals', including CCFDs, are likely to contribute to China's FX inflows since they involve direct FX inflows through China's current account. Specifically, for CCFDs, the immediate cross-border conversion of FX to onshore CNY after Party C pays Party B for the copper warrant (Step 2) directly contributes to China's FX inflows. In terms of outflows, the issuance of LC (FX short-term lending) by Party D to Party A (Step 1) is not associated FX outflow by definition, and when the LCs expire they tend to be rolled forward. Step 3 occurs offshore, so there is no inflow/outflow related to this transaction.
In this way, the net Chinese FX inflows/outflows associated with CCFDs are equivalent to the change in the value of the notional LCs. We make some broad estimates of how much of China's short-term FX lending could be accounted for by CCFDs.
Specifically, our best estimate suggests that roughly 10% of China's short-term FX lending could have been associated with CCFDs since the beginning of 2012 (Exhibit 4). In April 2013, we estimate that CCFDs accounted for $35-40 bn (stock) of China's total short-term FX lending of $384 bn (stock), making various assumptions. More broadly, Chinese bonded inventories and short-term FX lending has been positively correlated in recent years (Exhibit 5).
Two key questions remain: how the upcoming unwind will impact each CCFD participant entity...
How an unwind may impact each CCFD participant
As we discussed on pages 4 and 5, SAFE's new regulations target both banks' LC issuance (first measure) and 'trade firms' trade activities (second measure). Here we discuss how the different entities (A, B, C, D) would likely adjust their portfolios to meet the new regulations (i.e. what happens in a complete unwind scenario).
Party A: Party A, without the prospect of $10-20/t profit per Step 1-3 iteration, is likely to find it hard to justify having bonded copper sitting on its balance sheet (the current LME contango is not sufficient to offset the rent and interest costs). As a result, Party A's physical bonded copper would likely become 'available', and Party A would likely unwind its LME short futures hedge.
Party B, C: To avoid being categorized as a B-list firm by SAFE, Party B and C may reduce their USD LC liabilities by: 1) selling liquid assets to fund the USD LC liabilities, and/or 2) borrowing USD offshore and rolling LC liabilities to offshore USD liabilities. The broad impact of this is to reduce outstanding LCs, and CCFDs will likely be affected by this. It is not yet clear what happens to the B-list firms in detail once they are categorized as such. However, if B-list firms were prohibited from rolling their LC liabilities this would increase the pace of the CCFDs unwind. In this scenario, these trade firms would have to sell their liquid assets (copper included) to fund their LC liabilities accumulated through previous CCFDs.
Party D: To meet SAFE's regulations, Party D will likely adjust their portfolios by reducing LC issuance and/or increasing FX (mainly USD) net long positions, which would directly reduce the total scale of CCFDs and/or raise the LC financing cost, respectively.
... And what happens to copper prices (hint: GTFO)
Implications for copper - bonded copper moves from a positive carry asset to negative carry asset
Implications for copper - bonded copper moves from a positive carry asset to negative carry asset
We expect that a complete unwind of CCFDs, everything else equal, is likely to be bearish for copper prices, LME spreads, and bonded premiums.
CCFDs involve a long copper physical positions and a short futures position on the LME. The physical position would be sold if CCFDs unwound and the short futures positions bought back. The newly available physical copper would not be financed by the China and ex-China interest rate differential anymore (not a positive carry asset anymore), and would instead need to be financed by a natural contango (in the interim copper becomes a negative carry asset), everything else equal.
Theoretically then, the physical market, over a short period (say, one quarter), may need to absorb as much as c.400kt of copper, equivalent to 8% of quarterly global copper supply.
By contrast, the LME futures market would need to absorb buying of c.0.2%-0.3% of quarterly traded LME volumes and c.6% of daily average 2012 open interest. The impact on the physical market is therefore likely to be relatively large, in spite the fact that an unwind of CCFDs does not result in the creation of new copper (i.e. aggregate global copper inventory impact is 0/our inventory chart does not change).
What about in practice?
Since there are no comparable historical examples to make reference to, what happens when CCFDs unwind in practice is open for debate. We believe that since the downward pressure on the physical market is large, both in absolute terms and relative to the upward pressure on the futures market, near-term prices are likely to come under relatively significant pressure. Further, if the market fears the unwind of CCFDs, physical buyers may hold off on purchases, and futures sellers may bet on lower prices (offsetting either in part or more than offsetting the financing deal related unwind buying). In this way it is likely that in practice the whole copper price curve would be under pressure in the case of a complete CCFD unwind, at least until the contango widens sufficiently to compensate for the cost of carry.
The main caveat to the above is that a complete unwind in CCFDs is still subject to the implementation of the policy by SAFE, Chinese banks and 'trade firms', and the possibility that new financing deals are "invented". As a result, we will continue to closely monitor implementation of the policy by banks via monitoring bonded physical premiums, SHFE spreads and bonded stock flows.
Finally, what does all this mean for explicit rehypothecation chain leverage (initially just at the CCFD level although a comparable analysis must be done for systemic as well) and CCFD risk exposure:
Leverage in CCFDs
Below is a demonstration of the LC issuance process in a typical CCFD. Assuming an LC with a duration of 6 months, and 10 circuit completions (of Step 1-3) during that time (i.e. one CCFD takes 18 days to complete), Party D is able to issue 10 times the copper value equivalent in the form of LCs during the first 6 month LC (as shown from period t1 to t10 in Exhibit 10). In the proceeding 6 months (and beyond), the total notional value of the LCs remains the same, everything else equal, since each new LC issued is offset by the expiration of an old one (as shown from period t11 to t20).
In this example, total notional amount of LC during the life of the LC = LC duration / days of one CCFD completion* copper value = 10. In this example, the total notional amount of LC issued by Party D, total FX inflow through Party D from party A, and total CNY assets accumulated by party B (and C) are all 10 times the copper value (per tonne).


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Gus Bradley was late for his conference call.
After 10 minutes of reporters listening to a recording of more Jaguars highlights than anyone knew existed, Jacksonville's coach arrived on the line, ready with a foolproof excuse.
"I apologize for being late," he said. "I guess you understand what we're having to game plan for."
As with most of these Wednesday calls, the conversation quickly turned to Peyton Manning. Bradley issued his litany of compliments for the Broncos quarterback: poised, in command of the offense, unbelievable. It's a line of discussion that's gotten almost stale, but with regard to Bradley's 0-5 team, it seemed more cruel than anything. The Broncos (5-0) opened the week as 27½-point favorites over the Jaguars, who play Sunday in Denver. It's the largest point spread in NFL history, but Bradley said he and his team aren't getting caught up in that number.
"We started back in the spring with changing the whole culture of our organization and our team," Bradley said. "The emphasis is on every opportunity we get, we're striving to be better."
Veteran running back Maurice Jones-Drew echoed his coach's sentiment, and this Jaguars team seems aware of its issues in a way that might work to its long-term benefit. Jones-Drew in a later conference call highlighted that in order to be successful, teams must go through tough times, and he admitted that his mind-set is one that's come with age and maturity.
"Obviously you could take it the negative way and say, 'We're 0-5, this (stinks), we're not running the ball, this and that,' " Jones-Drew said. "That's the easy way out. I probably would have done that a couple of years ago. I'm not going to lie to you."
Sunday's game, then, is just another learning opportunity for these Jaguars, no matter if Bradley's team is blown out by 20 or 30 points. With quarterback Chad Henne set to start in place of the injured Blaine Gabbert, the Jaguars will get a level of consistency that the younger, more erratic quarterback lacks, but it might not be the boost the team's floundering offense needs. Even so, Bradley said, he's proud of his team's confidence and its demeanor, no matter the struggles.
"I know one thing, that we'll show up, and we're going to be there," Bradley said. "We're looking forward to it."
Give the Jaguars this: They know the odds are stacked against them, but they're trying to find the positives.
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Why is there no Cover? --Kieronrob (talk) 20:58, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
- Because the version of the cover available online is tiny. We'll probably get it only when the cover is released by Shueisha. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:02, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
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When I view this page Chapter 616 isn't listed; the same problem occurs in the List of Volumes page. Abe 01:51,7/12/2013
- It's because it has been recently moved. The system still has to catch up on the new title. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 15:28, July 13, 2013 (UTC)