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B-Alternative aims to cultivate awareness of environmental issues and to provide low impact alternatives to individuals, businesses and groups. They are a part of the global community of environment champions and facilitate cultural shift in attitudes and behaviour to low impact living. – treating the planet and ourselves with love and consciousness. B-Alternative is currently focused on raising awareness about plastic pollution, the harm it is doing, and ways we can all help to reduce it. Learn more.
The Best Lil' Smokehouse in Oz
The Best Lil' Smokehouse in Oz has been in the Farmer's Markets for 18 months selling its well-known range of smoked brisket, smoked chicken, and smoked trout. In March of 2018, we re-evaluated the products we were making and made a decision to move away from traditional meat and fish products into Vegetarian and Vegan products. Our decision was based on the fact that there is a growing trend towards vegetarian and vegan products for environmental and respect for animal reasons; reasons that we personally subscribe to. We believe that we are the only smokehouse specialising in vegetarian/vegan products, with our smoked products being made from olives, cauliflower, potatoes, eggplants, capsicums, pumpkin.
Broth Sisters
Linda and Jane are flavour fanatics, Jane proposed they use the secret family recipes and create a delicious bone broth packed with love, not only for their families, but for everyone to enjoy. It's delicious, nutritious, ethically sources and authentic bone broth. Free from chemicals, antibiotics and hormones.
We use a secret slow-simmer technique and create our broth in small batches to extract the best flavours. We only use organic vegetables, home grown herbs, filtered water and free-range pastured stock bones. It's a taste sensation for a health conscious generation.
Chiron Organic
Chiron Health Products is an Australian owned family business founded by research scientist Dr. Natalie Alexopoulos. Chiron are developing health and cleaning products that use only the purest and freshest ingredients. All oils are made from hand harvested ingredients, grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides. Because our products are made in small batches, each herb is picked and the oils made close to the production date.
Coolibah Herbs
Coolibah Herbs is a family owned and operated company from Pearcedale who grow the best quality salad mixes available. They have a small team who attend the market with a variety of seasonal vegetables and salad mixes. Some organic produce is available. This stall is a must-see at the market.
Crackle Corn
Crackle Caramel Popcorn is the best popcorn you will ever have. Handcrafted in small batches with all natural ingredients, this modern take on an old classic will become your go-to snack. Super light and crunchy, these bite size morsels are carefully coated in the perfectly balanced salted caramel, and paired with signature and unique flavour combinations. Proudly made and owned in Australia, supporting the farming and manufacturing industry, we endeavour to source local, quality ingredients and design and manufacture our packaging locally in Melbourne, Victoria.
Delgrosso's Apples and Cherries
Delicious apples, pears and cherries from Delgrosso's who have been growing apples at their orchard since the 1940s when Bruno's father Angelo planted the first crop in Red Hill. The fruit is picked on Thursdays and Fridays for weekend markets to ensure the freshest quality fruit for their customers. They do not attend in July.
Farmer Dan
Grass fed and free range beef, lamb and pork, grown on Farmer Dans Wattle View Farm in South Gippsland by Farmer Dan himself and his family. We guarantee NO hormones, NO grains, NO antibiotics and NO genetically modified feeds (GM) are ever used. All our products are completely natural, grass fed and free range, the way they should be. This is REAL food at it's best.
Flinders Sourdough
We ferment our dough naturally, without bakers yeast, giving you a full flavoured nutritious loaf that is also extremely low in gluten using 100% organic Australian flour. No commercial yeast, just natural ingredients sourced as locally as possible. Our base dough for every loaf consists simply organic flour, natural sea salt and water. Everything is baked in the original Flinders' wood fired Scotch oven. Traditional hand shaping and cutting techniques are used, reducing the need to power excess machinery.
From Basque with Love
Handcrafted gourmet meals such as couscous, lentils, rices and rice puddings. Easy, delicious, 100% natural and vegan. Love the look, the smell and the taste!
Gembrook Potatoes
A variety of potatoes harvested from this family property near Gembrook.
Gorgeous George Probiotics
Gorgeous George Probiotics selling all things fermented.
His range of kombucha, sauerkraut's, dips and kefir will have those tummy bugs singing your praises!
With all products using fresh, local and certified organic ingredients.
Bringing you lots of goodies pumped with good bacteria to heel and line your guts and set you up for the great week ahead!
Gourmet Pies
Gourmet Pies - award winning pies made right here in Melbourne.
Grandma's Puddings
Grandma's Puddings attend from Oct - Dec with their traditional plum puddings that are nearly 70% fruit. Grandma's Traditional Plum Puddings use ingredients from both the Mornington Peninsula and all around Australia. From the flour to the fruit you can be assured of the highest quality products.
Have Your Cake & Eat It
Lillien at Have Your Cake & Eat It, has been at Mt Eliza Farmers Market since we started in 2010. She sells delicious, homemade cakes, slices and biscuits. There's delicious fare such as: orange/poppyseed biscuits and passionfruit sponge and passionfruit and raspberry slices. Lillien has everything covered for morning and afternoon tea treats. All hand made in Red Hill.
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Hot Chilli Mama
Hot Chilli Mama, a boutique chilli farm based in Deans Marsh, at the foothills of the Otway Ranges, Victoria. They have one mission. Simply, to grow the finest quality chillis possible from around the world and to create a range of products that showcase the uniqueness of each chilli for your enjoyment. All of their chillis are grown organically, by them, on our property. All of the main ingredients are either grown on their property or locally sourced. They keep it real. No additives, no preservatives, no colours. Be assured, you are getting the highest quality products that we can provide.
Indian Belly
Vegetarian Indian cuisine. Passionate about good food they offer pre-packed Curries, that can be frozen for over a month and come in easy to store and heat stand-up pouches. Vegetarian pies served hot and many other traditional Indian delights.
Jonella Farm
Pam and John Hobson attend our market in spring with their asparagus, and throughout summer and autumn with their juicy sweet corn. When in season they also bring their deliciously sweet sugar snap peas, snow peas and a variety of pumpkins. Not to mention they are highly regarded growers on the farmers' market circuit. Be sure to visit them.
Kingfisher Citrus
Kingfisher citrus and produce comes fresh to you from Lex and Glenda's family farm at Narrung, between Swan Hill and Mildura in North West Victoria. Their citrus orchard has been family has owned since 1938 and they take great care in producing high quality products from their orchard, which they operate with sustainable growing practices.
Leaf Horticultural Services
Home grown, fresh seasonal produce straight from the farm. Making use of every square inch of his 2 acre plot in Boneo, Sam Zinellu produces over 25 different types of fruits and vegetables, many of them heirloom Italian varieties.
Lekker Lekker
Amsterdam Street Food that begs to be eaten. Oliebollen (Dutch doughnuts) and Belgian frites in a cone are favourites among our market shoppers.
Lockton Farm Gourmet Sausages
Producers of best quality hand made small batch gourmet sausages, using only the best seasonal herbs, vegetables and Australian meats. They use Yarra Valley Beef, Laonica Chicken and Leadoux Free Range Turkey. Try them at the market, you'll have trouble deciding which ones to take home.
Mountain Pasture Free Range Eggs
Open pasture authentic and pasture-fed free range eggs from the rolling hills of Gippsland.
Mrs Nicks Vineyard
A beautiful family owned boutique vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula. Our wines are superb and All are 100% grown on the estate. Complex and well structured, with elegantly understated fruit and oak, our wines reflect the uniqueness of our terroir.
Mumma Made
Mumma Made creates delicious jams and relishes on the Mornington Peninsula from home grown and fresh local ingredients.
Oak Poultry - Somerville
Breeders of chickens, ducks, Silkies, Indian Runners - for all your backyard chicken needs and information.
Otway Walnuts
Their vision is to grow the highest premium quality fresh walnuts here in Australia, and offer them to customers while they are at their freshest. The majority of walnuts sold in Australia are imported. Although they are considered suitable for sale, they are significantly older than the fresh Australian grown local walnuts. This ageing process often results in an increase in tannins; or the bitter taste that most consumers often associate with walnuts. In contrast, fresh Australian walnuts have a smoother and creamier taste. Come and taste the difference.
Paw Printz
Donna's aim is to keep pets in optimum health using naturally based foods and products. She produces a range of gourmet style, home made dog treats. All naturally healthy and low in fat. No added salt, sugar, colours, preservatives or additives – nothing artificial. Just healthy, natural ingredients.
Primal Alternative
Primal Alternative is a food range offering grain free alternatives to the foods we love.
The Primal Alternative range includes Winter/Summer Bread which is a combination of seasonal vegetables, nuts and free range eggs.
- Fruit Toast a crowd pleasing spicy fruit and nut loaf.
- Pizza Bases which are pre cooked and ready for you to top, or slice and use as a primal alternative to Turkish bread.
- Choc Chip Cookies are a delicious low sugar biscuit with hand cut 70% cocoa chocolate, perfect with a cuppa!
We also produce Gellies which are a fun way to add more gelatine to the diet. The tasty combo of lemon juice, gelatine, beetroot powder, raw honey and strawberry essence may also benefit digestion.
Pure Peninsula Honey
Pure Peninsula Honey produce high quality cold extracted honey that is rich in flavour and goodness. They also create honey related products such as lip balms, candles, moisturiser and soap. Bee and Wasp control forms a substantial portion of the business as well, and they also offer 'rent-a-bee' where they transport bees to pollinate fruit, vegetable and seed crops.
Robinvale Estate have been producing award winning extra virgin olive oil since 1992 and dressings since 2008 from an historic olive grove planted in the 1940s. The property has many varieties of fruits and vegetables. Situated on the Murray River, the Gallace family have increased the grove from 6,000 trees to 22,000. The olives are grown, harvested and processed, and oils, dressings and olive products are packaged on site, ensuring the highest quality.
The Pastry Lounge / Tart Box
The team at the Pastry Lounge, a quality boutique bakery in Mitcham, have a passionate produce driven philosophy that is reflected in their beautiful range of hand made tarts and pastries. Their handmade pies are created with pastry that's flaky and crunchy. Try mouthfuls of their buttery pastry with smoked rabbit, duck and quince or wagyu. Not to mention their tarts with lime and gin, chocolate and fig and frangipane varieties to mention a few.
Peninsula Wild Flower
A stunning variety of locally sourced wildflowers and natives that are available in bouquets, posies or freshly cut. When in season, roses are available too with perfumes that are reminiscent of grandmas' garden. This is one of our most popular stalls, and it's impossible to leave the market without a bunch.
Yumm Dressings
Attending from September until April only, Yumm Dressings produce dressings that are handmade and blended in small batches using fresh ingredients and the finest produce available. The result is a delicious and natural dressing that transforms simple greens into mouthwatering dishes. Their versatile natural salad dressings contain no artificial preservatives or colours.


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We are not currently seeking new HAPi DollHouse Makeup Artists. However, it does not mean we will not want you in the near future- so come back soon to view any updates!
Join our Team
If you would like to join our team of fabulous HAPi makeup artists there are a few things you should know! Our business will do its best to provide you with consistent work. We have clients who hire makeup artists, and we put our makeup artists portfolios in front of those clients, we'll book work for our makeup artists and take a simple commission on that work. This is how we make our money.
We do not ask for any monies for a meeting, testing or to start out in the field, nor do we require any personal monies from you to book a job. All that we ask is for you to come as you are so that we can discuss your future as a HAPi Makeup Artist!
Now if that sounds good to you, here are a few requirements:
HAPi Rules
(Sounds scary? Good. Continue reading!)
1. You must have your very own makeup artist kit including makeup brushes and all necessary products to perform requests (airbrush makeup and machine will not be provided by HAPi DollHouse Production).
2. You must be willing to travel (valid drivers license).
3. You must be willing to do a certain amount of TFP/TFCDs ("Trade for Pictures/Trade for Compact Discs") throughout the year to keep your portfolio updated (and to hone skills).
3. You must carry business cards at all times provided by HAPi DollHouse Production- because you are representing our team at all times.
4. You must be punctual, dependable and a trustworthy team player (simply work well with others in all types of settings) & respect client's confidentiality.
5.You must be HAPi at all times, this just simply means to try everything in your power to stay in a positive mind-set. While using your special talent, your main priority is to allow your client to look their best, therefore, they will feel their best! We'll discuss dress-code during meeting.
If HAPi DollHouse Production interests you, please do not hesitate to contact us for a potential meeting/testing:
(860) 682-4418 or, (860) 591-9864

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Juliet Kitchen Chair
Amisco metal chair
The price indicated is offered only for Quebec residents and store customers. For Ontario customers, please contact or visit our Palason Ottawa store.
Customize your chair!
With the features listed in the box on the right hand side of the page, you will be able to customize your chair and visualize your selections:
- Chair frame color
- Stool wood stain, for models with wooden seats or back rests
- Upholstery fabric color and style
In the Specifications section you will find more information on the manufacturers' 10 year warranty.
Important: These chairs are ordered on a special order basis; consequently all orders are non-refundable.
Colors or stain : See colour swatches
Assembly required : Yes
Product dimensions :
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Please allow 3 to 4 weeks for delivery.
Depending on your delivery location, additional charges may apply. In these instances, a customer service representative will contact you to discuss the handling of your order.
- All original design
- All the advantages of superior North American steel, formed in Canada
- Sturdy, durable construction
- Clean, wrinkle-free bends for a very esthetic finish
- Clean, full length welds on the entire main structure
- Nontoxic, environmentally safe baked powder coating for a scratch resistant finish
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Project Description
Latent Insight
The employment of web services has replaced personal interaction between us and our clients. These services are generally reliable, cost effective and efficient. Unfortunately, the web interaction comes at a cost: we have lost much of the information available to us through a person-person interaction. Until now, it has been difficult to assess a client's personality without the employment of lengthy, cumbersome, intrusive and often unreliable additional processes.
Latent Insight (LI) applies machine learning to profile a person as they provide information and interact with a web-site while the person is using the site. LI provides a highly-accurate personality profile to bridge the barriers common in web transaction systems without requiring our clients to undertake additional processes.
We receive enriched information about a person who may represent high risk by providing false or misleading information. LI can accurately identify a user's personality and identify non-human actors (eg. bots). It also assists in identifying those who made previous applications in another name enabling:
- pre-selection of high-risk applicants for more rigorous scrutiny, and
- saving time and money while streamlining low-risk clients.
LI works in close to real-time, enabling on-line responses to website users.
Increasingly businesses and governments are delivering services through on-line channels. Citizens and clients are accessing websites around the clock and from an almost infinite number of locations. Unfortunately , we are only able to get a very limited view of who we are dealing with.
In a web-based environment we frequently lack information about the user at the other end of our website:
- Who (or what) is on-line?
- What are their motives?
- Is our site delivering services effectively or is it confusing our clients?
- Does the user represent any risks to our business?
Latent Insight can assist by telling us more about the client through the use of our state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence engine by assessing how a user interacts with the web-site.
Digital Personality Fingerprinting
- Establish a digital personality fingerprint based on mouse and/or tablet use
- Verify identity against a digital fingerprint
- Detect changes in identity online (in real-time)
Identify Personality Types
- Identify potential client risk (reliability, potential deceit)
- Enable real-time responses (activate alternate questions/processes)
- We use the latest artificial intelligence techniques and tools together from a deep understanding of behavioural psychology to accurately map and evaluate a web-user's online interactions with your website.
- Our analysis machine can be deployed as a microservice, requiring minimal changes to your existing platforms.
- Latent Insight extracts information from the observable web behaviour of the applicant he/she is navigating to and processing the online visa application form.
- A small section of code is added to your website to enable the tracking.
- Data is sent to a back-end artificial intelligence system that analyses mouse movements in real time. A unique digital personality 'fingerprint' is created.
- The fingerprint can be used to identify personality types. As it is uniquely associated with a user, it can also be used to assist in managing identity.
Possible Uses
- Detect Potential Fraud: Detect that a person using your site is not the same person whose digital personality fingerprint was established earlier.
- Detect Potential Fraud: Identify risks posed by the personality type.
- Detect User Confusion: Identify components of your website that confuse end-users.
By identifying low-risk clients, streamlined processing is enabled while high-risk individuals can be sent to more intense processing channels. This saves the organisation time and money and makes the interaction with your website a more pleasant experience for the majority of low-risk clients.
Person to person interaction allows us to see some important personality traits of clients. This is usually lost when web-services are used. LI's ability to evaluate the personality of our clients allows us to better understand our client and the client's needs.
Identification of non-human users facilitates protection against inappropriate use of web sites. LI can detect when it is dealing with a non-human user.
Where appropriate, the unique personality fingerprint for an individual assists in verifying the identity of a registered system user. Misrepresentation of identity can be readily detected.
LI can assist HR departments by identifying the personality traits of employees and job applicants.
LI supports analysis of websites, identifying sections that are confusing to users.
Latent Insight will:
- Enhance the security and usability of websites without needing to deploy additional and cumbersome tools and processes.
- Provide you with valuable personality profile information that can inform your client risk-management processes.
- Assist in managing user identity.
Business Use Cases
Increasingly many transactions use online only channels. These are more accessible to clients than person-to-person operations.
Unfortunately, the lack of personal contact reduces our ability to assess the client fully as our IT systems do not capture a lot of information a skilled client service officer obtains in face to face transactions.
LI addresses this information shortfall. By analysing how a client interacts with a web-site, LI can provide real-time personality profile information.
Using the personality profile data, client confusion, possible deceit and other characteristics can be identified. This information can then be used to assess the risks associated with a client while they are transacting on-line.
Client interactions generate a unique personality profile. This can be linked to a client's identity. A returning client should generate the same, unique personality fingerprint. Together with other processes, matching the personality fingerprints will enable more confident on-line interactions with returning clients as we have a powerful but invisible (to the client) identity check capability.
Automated systems that probe websites (eg bots) cannot easily generate a human personality profile in LI. It is, therefore, possible to screen for bots and deny them access.
An organisation that is looking for staff can use LI to identify compatible and incompatible personalities in initial (or subsequent) on-line interactions with potential staff. Applicants for positions that display high-risk personalities can be identified and managed with little additional effort.


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The Most Popular Baby Names of the Future
What will be the most popular baby names of the future?
To find out, we took statistics from the past ten years to calculate the most popular baby names of 2028? Which names will rise the fastest and which will fall? What unexpected names do we see gaining popularity? And what major baby name trends do we see emerging in the ten years ahead?
We analyzed the Social Security data to create projections for the next ten years of baby names. The exclusive lists that follow are based on our statistical calculations.
Top Baby Names 2028
The most popular names ten years from now will include some familiar choices still ranking in the Top 10, along with unexpected newcomers. We see Charlotte, the British princess name that entered the US Top 10 in 2014, rising to Number 1, with current top boy name Liam holding onto his Number 1 spot.
Three of the names in the girls' Top 10 but seven in the boys' will be new, we predicted. Names new to the Top 10 in 2028 are marked with an asterisk.
Top Girl Names 2028
Top Boy Names 2028
Top Unisex Names 2028
Gender-neutral names will continue to be popular ten years from now, with some new choices rising through the ranks. Among names given to at least 10 percent of the minority gender, we predict these will be the top unisex names of 2028:
Beyond the Top 10
Looking further down our list of projected most popular names, we see some trends continuing and others emerging. There are more Spanish names on the Top 100, more word names, more non-traditional names for boys and serious names for girls.
Here are 10 girl names and 10 boy names we predict will double in use over the next 10 years, pushing them all into the most popular baby names of the future. They're ordered by popularity, starting with most popular.
Girl Names
Boy Names
Falling Idols
And what about the names that we can expect to slowly fade away? Here are those that have plunged the most, and which we are prepared to bid a fond farewell to.
Formerly popular girls names that fell the most
Kaitlin: Down 91.6%
Dayanara: Down 90.9%
Isis: Down 90.8%
Ashlee: Down 90.8%
Caitlin: Down 89.6%
Breanna: Down 88.6%
Jaslene: Down 88.2%
Rachael: Down 86.1%
Caitlyn: Down 85.9%
Jasmin: Down 86.8%
Formerly popular boys names that fell the most
Braeden: Down 85%
Braden: Down 81.2%
Jaydon: Down 80%
Aidan: Down 79.7%
Brenden: Down 79.7%
Branden: Down 79.3%
Jadon: Down 77.2%
Sean: Down 76.4%
Camron: Down 74.4%
Nickolas: Down 74%
Formerly popular unisex names that fell the most
Jadyn: Down 91.2%
Jordin: Down 86.3%
Alexis: Down 77.3%
Jaden: Down 76.8%
Devon: Down 76.3%
Devin: Down 75.7%
Shannon: Down 72.2%
Jaidyn: Down 71.6%
Guadalupe: Down 68.6%
Jaylin: Down 66.9%
As we come to the end of our 10 celebratory 10th anniversary blogs, we'd love to hear what the site has meant to you on your naming journey!
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whammy Said
on October 27th, 2018 at 9:20 am
Very interesting. I've never really considered the longevity of trends, but now we are shifting away from Gen X parents and toward Milennial parents and it's not as drastic as I thought it would be! It seems as though the boys are getting more varied names, while the girls are staying more or less the same. So interesting!!
Pam Said
on October 27th, 2018 at 2:24 pm
@whammy You're right! The shift to more fashionable boys' names is the biggest change of the past ten years and one we see continuing in a major way.
brittanyanitarose Said
on October 28th, 2018 at 11:19 am
I really look forward to a continued shift in diversity of boys names for the us. It's been really excited to see people move away from decades long staples.
ladyhope Said
on October 29th, 2018 at 10:47 am
I don't think Theodore will be in the top 10. The highest it's ever been was 30 and I think that's more or less where it will peak again in this century. In 1917 it was 63, and in 2017 it was 62. Perfectly accurate for the 100 year rule which I definitely believe in!
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MusicMaster Blog
"We don't play that anymore, so why did it reconcile back into the logs?" Reconciliation Tip posted on April 27th, 2010
By Marianne Burkett
MusicMaster has a fantastic feature called Automatic Reconciliation. Once we set it up for you – it will look at your Automation System logs and reconcile that information back into your MusicMaster logs. This is an especially helpful feature if your announcers have the freedom to drop, juggle or change out the songs they play – or if you over schedule your hours in MusicMaster. Occasionally, I'll get a call from a client who says – "We don't play this song anymore, but after we run reconciliation – it adds it to the log". (more…)


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Moon* ♈ Aries
Moon phase on 16 October 2024 Wednesday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Aries.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 10 October 2024 at 18:55.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1925".
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2024 after 1 day on 17 October 2024 at 11:26.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 306 of Meeus index or 1259 from Brown series.
Length of current 306 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2024. It is 24 minutes longer than next lunation 307 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
13 days after point of apogee on 2 October 2024 at 19:40 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 17 October 2024 at 00:46 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 363 306 km (225 748 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 173 km (221 937 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 07:05 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 29 October 2024 at 17:44 in ♎ Libra.
At 07:05 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
7 days after previous South standstill on 9 October 2024 at 11:53 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.684°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.653° in the next northern standstill on 22 October 2024 at 00:50 in ♋ Cancer.
After 1 day on 17 October 2024 at 11:26 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Wireless Carts
I would look at one of the popular UPS manufacturers. Both APC (apcc.com) and Tripplite (tripplite.com) sell a wide range of models and will help you select the right one based upon your load and run-time requirements.
The APC Smart-Ups 3000 rack mount with additional batteries will run 8 hours at a slightly greater load than you specified.
SU3000RMXL3U + (3)SU48RMXLBP3U 7 hrs 59 mins
Here is a url to their page:
Wireless Carts
I am not trying to be flip. But your problem is not going to be finding the battery capacity to run your equipment, It's going to be training the Gorilla to drag that cart around.
cavedweller did his homework. APCs site has online calculators that will give your solution. The 3000 mentioned in his answer tips the scales at 134lbs. The aux batteries go around 155lbs. So your cart is up to 500lbs give or take a pound.
Are you locked in to the dell computers cause there are more practical solutions for what you are planning. Tablet computers and ruggedized notebooks. The power requirements are greatly reduced and can be provided with Aux batteries that don't cause physical harm to transport. Check out these links:
http://www.deltanetworks.com.tw/products/PORTABLE/ portable_table_pc.htm
http://www.infohq.com/Computer/ruggedized- notebooks.htm
Hope this helps with your project


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BEIJING, Oct. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- China Advanced Construction Materials Group, Inc. (NASDAQ CM: CADC) (the "Company" or "China AMC"), a construction company engaging in the production of advanced construction materials for large scale infrastructure, commercial and residential developments, today said it has received a Notice from the NASDAQ Stock Market notifying the Company that, because its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018 (the "2018 10-K") was not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the required due date of October 15, 2018, the Company is therefore not in compliance with the periodic filing requirements for continued listing set forth in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5250(c)(1).
This Notice received has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's shares. Since the Company's Audit Committee, after consultation with the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, Friedman LLP ("Friedman") concluded, that the Company's audited financial statements at and for the period ended June 30, 2017 contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as well the unaudited financial statements at and for the periods ended March 31, 2018, December 31, 2017 and September 28, 2017 contained in the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q should no longer be relied upon, and Friedman subsequently resigned as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, NASDAQ Staff has applied more stringent criteria pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5101 and therefore the Company has until November 14, 2018 to submit a plan to regain compliance. The compliance plan is required to provide a summary of the independent investigation into the reasons that led to the Company's conclusion that the previously filed financials should no longer be relied upon. If Nasdaq accepts the Company's plan, then Nasdaq may grant the Company up to 180 days from the prescribed due date for filing the 2018 10-K, or April 15, 2019, to regain compliance.
The Company expects and intends to submit to NASDAQ the compliance plan by November 14, 2018.
This announcement is made in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(b), which requires prompt disclosure of receipt of a deficiency notification.
About China Advanced Construction Materials Group, Inc.
China ACM is a producer of advanced, certified eco-friendly ready-mix concrete (RMC) and provider of related technical services for large scale, and other complex infrastructure projects. Leveraging its proprietary technology and value-add engineering services model, the Company has won work on many high profile projects including the 30,000 km China HSR expansion, the Olympic Stadium Bird's Nest, Beijing South Railway Station, Beijing International Airport, National Centre for Performing Arts, CCTV Headquarters, Beijing Yintai Building and U.S. and French embassies in China.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements that concern the company's ability to comply with Nasdaq Listing Rules and the continued listing of the Company's shares on Nasdaq. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and instead are based on our current expectations, estimates, opinions, and beliefs. Consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements. The accuracy of such forward-looking statements depends upon future events, and involves risks, uncertainties, and other factors beyond our control that may cause these statements to be inaccurate and cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by such statements, including, among others: the risk that the completion and filing of the periodical reports will take longer than expected or may not be completed at all; the risk that the company will be unable to submit a plan to regain compliance to Nasdaq before the due date or that any such plan may not be accepted by Nasdaq; the risk that the company will be unable to comply with the listing standards for the Nasdaq market; and the risks more fully described in "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in China ACM's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017. China ACM does not assume any obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as the result of new developments or otherwise.
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Then -- I don't want to say "normal" because if there is one thing I'm not it is "normal." I know I'm crazy but even crazy has what starts out to be a "regular" day. You know the kind -- get up, have coffee, clear email and actually start into the schedule you think is going to happen that day. Then the phone rings, someone is at the door, there is an email -- something that changes not just the schedule but where you thought you were going/doing.
Scripture refers to unexpected guests as angels/messengers and reminds us to show hospitality. You may notice that each of these "messengers" started great change -- three men visiting Abraham, an angel talking to Mary, a bush burning. Change can come with great excitement and expectation. Change can come very unexpectedly and not exactly wanted. Scripture also reminds us that God IS with us through each, and all, of the changes these messengers (phone call, email, letter, doctor's appointment) bring.
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Pentecost -- the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. Paul tells us, in Ephesians, that we are filled with the Holy Spirit -- the Comforter/Guide.
Looking at the changes that happen, to "regular" days, that change our lives with this perspective helps us to feel God's peace. Maybe we can even change our attitude enough to "dance," with God through the changes. Something to think about!


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NATO hails Mattis's contribution, U.S. commitment to NATO
BRUSSELS - NATO hailed οn Friday the cοntributiοn of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strοng and said it was ready to wοrk closely with his successοr, underlining the impοrtance of U.S.
Mattis said he was quitting οn Thursday after falling out with President Dοnald Trump over the latter's fοreign pοlicies, including surprise decisiοns to yank trοops frοm Syria and start planning a drawdown in Afghanistan.
Mattis annοunced plans to depart in a candid resignatiοn letter to Trump that laid bare the grοwing divide between them, and implicitly criticized Trump fοr failing to value America's closest allies, who fοught alοngside the United States in bοth cοnflicts.
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Naif Zaban is the Conservation Technician for the ACOR Conservation Cooperative (ACC). He has been working with ACOR since 1990, on a full-time basis since 2004.
Naif first became involved with archaeology as a young man because he lived near the Amman Citadel. He became a core part of the technical team for the ACOR Temple of Hercules project, which began in 1990. Naif was also an integral part of ACOR's Petra Church excavations starting in 1992, and he was even a witness to the discovery of the Petra papyri in early December 1993. He continued to work in the field on the North Ridge project and due to the extensive amount of ceramic material uncovered there in the two Nabataean tombs under the Ridge Church he started working continuously in the ACOR lab to restore the pottery beginning in 1998.
In 2007, the ACOR Conservation Cooperative (ACC) was created in order to help other projects in Jordan meet their conservation needs and benefit from Naif's skills. Most of his ACC efforts take place in the ACOR Conservation Lab. Since the inception of this Cooperative, Naif has conserved material from more than 40 projects (including ACOR's own) and for several museums.


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Compensation of board members and executive director
(1) Each member of the State Board of Pharmacy shall receive compensation for each day on which the member is engaged in performance of the official duties of the board, and reimbursement for all expenses incurred in connection with the discharge of such official duties as provided in ORS 292.495 (Compensation and expenses of members of state boards and commissions).
(2) The Executive Director of the State Board of Pharmacy shall receive, as compensation, an annual salary payable monthly, the amount of which shall be determined by the board, and reimbursement for all expenses incurred in connection with performance of official duties, subject to applicable law and to the rules of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. [1979 c.777 §14]
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Surprisingly, good dashboards have a lot of in common with a perfect partner. Smart, frank, simple, charming, and… sexy. I realize this might sound a bit stupid, but… come on :)
The only problem with the significant others — they are so damn hard to find. And there's no way around. Dashboards, however, are hand crafted and you are free to redesign them as you wish.
Having thought about it for a while, I started looking for "the one" design I truly wanted to iterate on. So please meet Geckoboard. The company I fell in love at first sight. I don't work for these guys and they're not paying me anything to say kind words. They are building a great product that needs no explanation. Sometimes it's that simple.
For our case study I picked the design made by Peter Thomas, Product Designer at Geckoboard.
For the record, this is not an attempt to redesign Peter's work. He's done a fantastic job. And clearly he's got much more perspective than me on the company's business, mission and goals. What I did is an attempt to understand how dashboards are designed and share with you what I've discovered.
Let's get started.
Define what you want
At first we're setting our basics:
- Key audience: Sales & Marketing.
- Dashboard type: Strategic / Executive. Should provide KPIs to be tracked daily, monthly, yearly. If you want to learn more about dashboard types, I recommend this article.
- Key metrics: visitors, signups, conversion rate, leaderboard, plans, team sales, sales today /month/ total.
- Use cases: HD/4K TVs.
Group into sections
Grab your pencil and sketch out the layout before you even open your computer
Personally I use printable UI prototypes made by "Sidecar" that I bought here for $3. But basically any piece of paper will do.
At first, create a 6x3 grid of similar blocks. Then assign fair quantity of blocks to each section. In our case: 2 for Leaderboard, 1 for Plans, 3 for Visitors/Signups, 1 for Average Conversion Rate, 1 for Sales Today, 3 for Monthly Sales, 1 for Average Sales/Month, 1 for MRR, 3 for Team Sales, 1 for Average Team Sales/Month, 1 for Sales Total.
We need to ensure that logically connected data is displayed next to each other:
- Leaderboard goes with Plans. That accounts to 3 blocks in total, so we'll set them vertically.
- Conversion pipeline should preferably be displayed in one single line. Which means we're grouping Visitors/Signups + Average Conversion Rate + Sales Today. We do not have enough space to show them vertically, so we'll stick to the horizontal layout.
- Monthly Sales groups well with Average Monthly Sales + MRR. We'll display them horizontally under the conversion pipeline. It's going to be a chronological continuation of the Sales Today section.
- Team Sales goes perfectly well with Average Team Sales.
- And finally Sales Total should be located in the bottom right corner. Usually it's the common place for the total price: checks, e-commerce, bills etc. And user will feel very comfortable looking for it here.
Zoom in
Each and every detail matters.
- Headings are the first place people look at when they are trying to find blocks of information. Let's differentiate them by adding icons that would enrich the semantics. Cons: there's a chance that icons would clutter the interface, which is a double evil for dashboards. Pros: headings would be easier to find.
- Time period should be equal for Visitors/Signups, Monthly Sales and Team Sales. Let's pick one year for our case study. Cons: too long period of time would make it hard to look for a specific data. Pros: this approach brings in more consistency that allows user to compare different data for a single time period.
3. Axis charts are quite complex blocks. To make them look simple, I suggest the following: 1) alternate color for X axis columns; 2) add dividers for Y axis rows; 3) add quarter indicators in case user wants to compare data for a three-month period. Cons: again, when you add anything to a dashboard, there's always a chance it will clutter the whole thing; our goal is to find an equilibrium between the clean and informative interface. Pros: additional markers would reduce the time user needs to find the information they are looking for. No one likes how the road signs look like, yet they help you to get to your final destination.
All these suggestions might not work for all dashboard scenarios. Comprehensive A/B testing would show the pros and cons for a given case. My recommendation is the following:
Always trust your gut, yet double-check it with data.
Create a styleguide
Work on your color scheme, fonts and icons
- We'll pick a contrasty color scheme: dark background, light letters and vivid sections. This way we'll ensure the information is distinctive and easy to read. Cons: bright colors might appear to be too striking and distract our users. Pros: bright colors is a good differention point for a wandering eye.
2. I picked Open Sans Light as our primary font. Cons: letters have a standard width, in some cases narrower letters would be more handy for longer lines of text. Pros: the font is crisp and simple, available both for latin and cyrillic, has most of the glyphs and is free.
3. Picking the icons was actually the easiest part. Some of them are custom made and others are from the "Streamline" 4000 icon set — ultimate time saver each designer should consider to have.
Dive into the SketchApp
Finally we are putting all the pieces together. I call it a "Lego Time".
- Create a rough UI for each section. It should be quick and easy, as we've already agreed on the layout and content.
- When you're satisfied how everything is displayed, start polishing things out. Ensure all the elements are consistent and are easy to iterate on. Hint: use SketchApp's symbols and styles to speed up your process.
- Close your computer and come back in 1 day. If you don't like what you see, look up the instructions "1" and "2". Repeat until you stop hating what you've created.
Create functional animation
Try avoiding surprising transitions. Animate only where it is needed. Not more.
Our final static image looks good. And it's time to bring it into life. Before we open After Effects let's discuss what kind of animation we need and how it is going to help our users.
Dashboard consists of multiple data often taken from diverse databases and sources. Hence, it needs some time to upload everything. And it's our perfect opportunity to use animation.
There are multiple solutions that we can apply: animated pre-loader icon, percentage pre-loader bar, custom waiting message etc. I will try a bit different approach: show an empty dashboard and then display how the data is uploaded. It's kinda similar to turning on engine in your car and waiting a sec till it picks up the pace.
Let's dive into details:
- Leaderboard consists of a single list. Let's display each line one-by-one.
- Plans consists of three vertical column charts. Clearly some of them are going to be higher than others, yet I suggest applying the same animation time frame. This way we'll get the following results: 1) columns would appear simultaneously 2) higher columns would speed up a bit and give users an additional indicator of more successful plans.
- Visitors/Signups, Monthly Sales, Team Sales have similar axis charts. Let's animate them with a masked layer. Simple and powerful solution both for us and developers.
4. Conversion Rate, Sales/Month, Team Sales/Month have nice gauges. User is accustomed to see similar ones in thermometers, cars, audio systems etc. I have spent some time looking at how they behave in the real world: the arrow goes up 20%, slows down and returns back 5–7%, then it goes all the way up to the final index.
5. Sales Today, MRR and Sales Total have simple counters. We'll apply a regular animation with slider control.
Render and enjoy
And don't forget to ask your questions or start a discussion. I'm sure there's still a big room for improvement here.
P.S. If you're interested in visualising data, here's a couple of books I strongly recommend written by the legendary Edward Tufte :
- The Visual Display of Quantitive Data check it here ->
- Envisioning Information check it here ->
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Rating: Class 4-5
Minimum Age: 16 years
Length: 18 miles
Time: 9:30am day 1 – 3:30/4:00pm day 2
Price: Starting at $369 [ VIEW PRICES ]
4 meals and 1 night camping included. Strong swimming skills required.
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This North Fork Yuba River 2 day raft trip is great for those wishing to step up the game and tackle some Class 5 rapids. We combine the "Maytag" run and upstream Class 5 runs for 2 incredible days of Class 4-5 whitewater action. This is a challenging rafting trip available for adventurous groups with good swimming ability. Previous paddling experience is suggested for this trip, particularly during higher flows.
We meet on the first day at our exclusive camp off Highway 49 near Indian Valley Campground. There is a short shuttle up to Goodyears Bar for the "Maytag" run put-in. After less than 2 miles of introductory Class 2-3 rapids, you get the first Class 4 action on the channels of 'Ramshorn'. Some more Class 3 leads to the Class 4 double drops of 'Two Pair'. We will stop for lunch along the way. Six miles into the trip is the highlight – the Class 5 'Maytag'. We always stop above this rapid and scout it, so all clients have the option of walking around. The Class 4 'Son of Maytag' follows quickly, with more Class 3 action to the take-out. There is a short hike from the river back to camp where refreshments await you.
Clients can set-up their camp, fish, hike or simply relax around the camp fire. The river guides will serve appetizers and prepare an awesome dinner.
In the morning, awake to the sound of the river, the aroma of coffee brewing. Your talented river guides prepare breakfast and we usually depart from camp shortly after 9:30 am. We shuttle up Highway 49 through Downieville to Union Flat Campground for the put in.
The first 6 miles of this 2nd day are from Union Flat to Downieville (Moss Canyon), which contains nearly continuous Class 4-5 rapids. The most intense action is from mile 2-3 with 3 large drops ending with 'Boss Moss' rapid and one big daddy hole. We stop for lunch in the quaint town of Downieville.
The Downie River that enters in Downieville adds considerably to the North Yuba River downstream. Guides will decide on the day if the Rossasco Ravine can be safely run depending on water flows and the paddling skills of clients. The river flows through a long series of rapids in Rossasco Ravine, including 'Big Dummy'. At higher flows this rapid may have to be portaged due to the chute ending in a huge hole and at certain levels even the portage can be dangerous. There are a couple of miles of Class 2 rapids before the take-out at Goodyears Bar. Refreshments are served and we will return you back to your vehicles.
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Project Summary
PCORI has identified the need for large studies that look at real-life questions faced by diverse patients, caregivers, and clinicians. To address this need, PCORI launched the Pragmatic Clinical Studies initiative in 2014. Pragmatic clinical studies allow for larger-scale studies with longer timelines to compare the benefits and harms of two or more approaches known to be effective for preventing, diagnosing, treating, or managing a disease or symptom. They focus on everyday care for a wide range of patients. This research project is one of the studies PCORI awarded as part of this program.
This research project is in progress. PCORI will post the research findings on this page within 90 days after the results are final.
What is the research about?
Low back pain is a common problem among adults in the United States. For many adults, low back pain is temporary. For others, the pain may never go away. Constant, long-term pain is called chronic low back pain. It can make everyday life difficult. Adults with chronic low back pain may have trouble with daily activities such as sitting, walking, or climbing stairs. Back pain also can make working difficult.
Researchers are looking at two ways to help doctors treat adults who are at risk for developing chronic low back pain.
Who can this research help?
This research can help patients with current low back pain, doctors, and physical therapists choose how to treat low back pain and keep it from becoming a long-term problem. People in professional organizations that focus on helping people with chronic pain and in the insurance industry can use results from this research when making recommendations for treating low back pain.
What is the research team doing?
Researchers are working with 88 clinics in five regions across the United States. Researchers are dividing the clinics into two groups, by chance.
The first group of clinics provides doctors with information about the risks for adults with current low back to develop chronic low back pain. Doctors use this information to treat high-risk patients based on current medical practices.
In the second group of clinics, doctors get the same information about the risks for developing chronic low back pain. They also work with physical therapists who provide the patients with treatment to help them overcome both physical and emotional barriers to getting better.
Across all of the clinics, researchers are enrolling 3,000 adults who currently have low back pain and who are at risk for chronic pain.
At 6 and 12 months after patients join the study, the researchers are looking at how many patients in both groups had low back pain that became a long-term problem. The researchers are studying how well these patients can do activities such as standing, walking, or lifting. The researchers also are looking at the types of medical tests or treatments the patients have (such as x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, or surgeries).
For comparison, the researchers are looking at a third group of 9,000 adults who are at low to medium risk for developing chronic low back pain. The researchers want to know how well the adults in this comparison group can do daily activities. Researchers also want to know about the types of medical tests and treatments the adults in this group had.
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Difficult and adventurous album mixes discordance and accessibility
Fresh from his recent collaboration with Björk, Dave Longstreth appears to have had his mind further opened by several degrees. Upon early listens this album appears to be a work of flawed but undoubtedly ambitious genius, certainly when you hear a song like 'Just From Chevron', a full-voiced croon with echoes of Edwyn Collins and an almost wilful musical discordancy. The theme continues: the climax of 'Dance For You' is like two different songs playing over one another and 'See What She Saying' pairs Longstreth's voice with a hum of electronic chatter. There are more accessible pieces – the gospel hum and Who-like rock explosion of 'Offspring Are Blank' and the homespun charm of the title track – but occasional comparisons with The Beatles' White Album apply to this record's difficulty as well as its sense of adventure.


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Remarks by Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the Exchequer Club; Washington, DC
March 21, 2007
Good afternoon everyone. Thank you, Ron, for that very kind introduction. As a former member of the Exchequer Club, I am very pleased to be back with you today. As I look around the room, I am struck by how many old "Washington hands" I see. Indeed, the Club's membership includes many veterans of the major public policy wars in financial services, both past and present.
It is with your collective public policy experience and expertise in mind, that I want to talk to you about an issue that the FDIC has been working on for a number of years now. It primarily involves the largest banks in the system, but it has important consequences for the competitive balance between the largest banks and community banks. The actions public policymakers take or don't take in this area will have important implications for the stability of the financial system, not just in the U.S., but around the globe. It is fair to say that the FDIC's approach to this issue tends to reflect our unique perspective as deposit insurer. Therefore, it is also fair to say that our view on the subject is not necessarily well-understood or even welcomed by the largest banks.
For those of you who thought I was going to talk about Basel II, you can breathe a sigh of relief. I hope by now my views on Basel are well known and clear. Instead, I want to talk about what the FDIC is doing to be prepared for the possibility, however remote, of the failure of a large bank.
Looking Back at the Crisis Years
To understand where we are today and why we think this sort of planning and preparation is absolutely essential, it is important to review how we got here. In the past twenty-five years, the FDIC has handled more than 1,600 bank failures. The vast majority of these happened during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The crisis period began with the sharp spike in interest rates necessary to rein in double-digit inflation. It became characterized by a series of rolling regional recessions – booms and busts in several key sectors – farmland, energy, and commercial real estate.
The resulting savings and loan failures cost the industry and taxpayers approximately $150 billion. Failures among FDIC-insured banks were also significant and led to sharply higher deposit insurance assessments paid by the industry during the crisis to restore the bank insurance fund.
While the difficult economic environment placed great stress on the banking system, most observers would agree that the problems and costs were compounded by regulatory responses and policy choices, such as inadequate capital standards, lax accounting, and the practice of extending safety net protection beyond insured deposits.
The last of these, the extension of the government safety net, is one of the most challenging issues faced by regulators and policymakers not just in the U.S. but throughout the world. Indeed, the appropriate size and conditions of safety net protections have been the subject of much academic work and policy debate. When a bank fails, there is a tradeoff between minimizing spillover consequences in the short run and increasing moral hazard concerns in the long run.
From Continental to FDICIA
The crisis period was marked by two key events that essentially serve as bookends for the way the U.S. has approached this tradeoff in modern times: the failure of Continental Illinois and the passage of the FDIC Improvement Act of 1991, or FDICIA.
When Continental Illinois failed in 1984, the FDIC had fairly broad discretion to determine whether to extend protection beyond insured depositors. The FDIC exercised this discretion to protect all creditors – even the subordinated debt holders of the bank's holding company. In the aftermath of Continental Illinois – which highlighted the notion of "too-big-to-fail" – it would have been difficult to justify a policy that protected creditors of large banks but allowed the creditors of small banks to take losses.
Thus, over the next eight years, as the bank and thrift crisis was building, the FDIC typically resolved banks, large or small, in ways that protected most, if not all, creditors and, in some cases, even shareholders. In terms of the public policy tradeoff at the time, the scales were tipped in favor of minimizing short-term disruption.
With the passage of the FDIC Improvement Act in 1991, known as FDICIA, Congress sent a clear signal that tipped the scale the other way. The least-cost provision of FDICIA sharply curtailed the FDIC's discretion to extend protection beyond insured deposits. FDICIA makes it the norm, not the exception, that uninsured depositors and creditors of a bank will suffer losses.
The systemic risk provisions of FDICIA also significantly raised the bar for policymakers inclined to favor short-term stability. According to FDICIA, safety net protections can be extended beyond insured depositors only if it can be determined that not doing so would "have serious adverse effects on economic conditions and financial stability." To invoke the systemic risk exception, FDICIA requires a two-thirds majority of both the Boards of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, as well as the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, who must first consult with the President. In addition, the banking industry must pay for the additional cost associated with a resolution pursuant to a systemic risk finding through a special assessment. Because the special assessment is to be proportional to each bank's liabilities, large banks will bear the greatest burden of paying for the extension of the safety net.
The Post-FDICIA Experience
Resolutions of banks that have failed since the passage of FDICIA have met the least-cost test. In most cases, this has meant that only insured depositors have been protected by the deposit insurance funds. The typical failure involves a bank closing on a Friday afternoon and re-opening the following Monday morning, with depositors having uninterrupted access to their insured funds. Since FDICIA, policymakers have not invoked, or even seriously considered, the systemic risk exception.
Consolidation and financial innovation have transformed the industry since the banking crisis. Banks have been able to realize economies of scale and the benefits of diversification. Derivatives and securitization have provided banks with the flexibility to determine which risks to hold, and which to transfer to counterparties and investors. In addition, the past fifteen years have essentially been the "golden age" of banking in the U.S. The banking industry has enjoyed year after year of record profits, strong capital levels and historically low loan losses. Currently there are 50 institutions on the "problem list" – one of the lowest numbers in the history of the FDIC. Unfortunately, the thirty-one month streak of no failures – the longest in FDIC history – ended just last month.
The Case for Readiness
Given where we are today, some might ask why the FDIC is spending any time worrying about such a low probability event as the failure of a large bank. Some may doubt the durability of the FDICIA reforms. Some could argue that large banks are immune to viability problems. Some might assume that bank regulators will revert to a "too-big-to-fail" resolution.
In their book, Too Big To Fail – The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Gary Stern and Ron Feldman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis raise two important issues. First, they argue that the notion of "too-big-to-fail" persists in a post-FDICIA world. According to Stern and Feldman, some question whether, when the chips are down, bank regulators will have the stomach for imposing losses on uninsured depositors and creditors of a large bank even if they have talked tough about doing so over the years. Economists have a fancy term for this. They call it a "time inconsistency" problem.
If I described this situation to my thirteen year old son, he would say – "oh, you mean people think the regulators might chicken out." Stern and Feldman view the systemic risk exception as the likely "out" bank regulators will take if faced with a large bank failure, even if the bank poses no real systemic risk threat, regardless of the significant approval hurdles required by FDICIA.
Second, Stern and Feldman argue that market forces such as industry consolidation, large banks' role in the payment system and the capital markets, and the growing complexity of their operations, have heightened the potential for a "too-big-to-fail" resolution. They point out that unless regulators and policy makers take credible steps to deal with these complicating forces, large banks will have greater incentives to take on more risk, reinforcing the perception of "too-big-to-fail." I couldn't agree more.
I certainly don't have a crystal ball, and I can't predict what the conditions would be in the unlikely event that the viability of a large bank is threatened. However, I am deeply skeptical of the notion of "too-big-to-fail." I am hard-pressed to envision a scenario where policy makers would choose a resolution that provided any significant protection to uninsured creditors. That is why, as the Chairman of the FDIC, I believe we must ensure that we are prepared to move forward in the event of a large bank failure in a manner that supports both the letter and the spirit of FDICIA. To do otherwise, because one discounts the probability of a large bank failure, would suggest that enhancing market discipline and reducing moral hazard are not worthy public policy goals.
With this motivation, the FDIC has been preparing for the policy and operational challenges that a large bank failure could pose. It is simply our duty, our mission, to ensure that in the event of a large bank failure, the FDIC is in a position to maintain public confidence and stability in the banking system. We must, in other words, plan for the worst and hope for the best.
The FDIC has a high-level committee in place to review and direct our readiness planning. This committee considers the full range of issues the FDIC will face should a large bank get into trouble. Operational readiness requires planning and preparation in a number of areas. For example, most large banks are active in the derivatives markets. There are special provisions in FDICIA for handling qualifying financial contracts, or QFCs. These provisions require the FDIC to make quick decisions to preserve the value of the QFCs with what will likely be limited information. In addition, the bank may have foreign operations which could create logistical and jurisdictional challenges at the time of failure. In short, this committee considers everything, from ensuring that personnel are cross-trained in failure-resolution tasks to coordinating with other federal agencies.
Over the past few years, the committee has focused a great deal of attention on the FDIC's ability to make timely insurance determinations. In other words, to be sure we can quickly separate insured and uninsured deposits. This is what we refer to as the claims administration process.
There are two points worth keeping in mind as you consider the task of determining the insured status of accounts. The first is that the three largest bank failures the FDIC has handled in the past would not be considered large or complex by today's standards. Continental Illinois, First Republic, and Bank of New England, each approached $40 billion in assets. While large for the times, a bank of that size would not rank in the top forty today.
The second point is that the three largest bank failures occurred prior to FDICIA and thus were not subject to the least-cost test. Because the FDIC used its discretion to resolve the failures in a way that allowed all depositors to be protected, the operational challenges of sorting out the insured and uninsured deposits did not come into play.
In the event of a large bank failure, the FDIC is likely to establish a bridge bank to provide for as much continuity of banking operations as possible. Franchise value of the bridge bank can be maximized only if its operations are quickly resumed. Therefore, a critical early step in setting up the bridge bank will be deciding which claims are transferred and which claims are left behind in the receivership created by the failure.
This is not a simple matter, for several reasons. The first is that the rules for deposit insurance coverage are complicated. Second, mergers and acquisitions have meant that large banks have multiple deposit systems that may not be fully integrated. Third, the deposit systems of most, if not all, banks are not designed to track the insured amounts of deposit accounts. This is the case because banks see little or no business value in knowing the insured status of accounts and regulators have not required them to keep such records.
Thus, at the time that a large bank is on the brink of failure, policymakers will need to consider a number of significant factors in deciding whether to adhere to a least-cost resolution or to invoke a system-risk exception. The nature of the problems at the bank, the potential for spillover effects and the general condition of the economy and the financial system will certainly need to be evaluated. Without proper planning, the operational aspects of the resolution itself could exacerbate potential "serious adverse effects." It is the FDIC's goal through our readiness efforts to ensure that decision-makers are able to make the policy choice free of operational considerations.
Current Efforts to Ensure Readiness
In December of 2005, the FDIC issued the first of two ANPRs to seek comments on ways to improve the claims administration process. The first ANPR proposed several options that would require certain banks to alter their deposit systems. Not surprisingly, many of the comments we received focused on the cost-benefit tradeoff. The FDIC reviewed the comments, continued discussions with industry representatives, and refined our thinking as to how best to proceed. That led to the second ANPR in December of last year. We believe our revised approach is less costly and burdensome on the industry, but still provides the FDIC with the ability to make an insurance determination in a way that does not disrupt the market place or leave depositors without sufficient liquidity. The public comment period closed on March 13 and we are in the process of evaluating what we heard.
The current ANPR proposes that banks have the ability to place provisional holds on deposits that may not be insured, and to remove them once insurance status has been determined. To take a simple example, provisional holds could be placed on all accounts over $100,000. The amount of the hold could be five percent of the amount over the insurance limit. So for an account with a balance of $200,000, a hold would be placed on $5,000. What this means is that when the bridge bank opens, presumably the next business day after closing, the depositor would have immediate access to $195,000.
The appeal of the provisional hold approach is that depositors would have uninterrupted access to virtually all their funds, thus diminishing the likelihood that liquidity problems would lead to disruption in the financial system. At the same time, the FDIC would be able to impose a loss of $5,000 if it turns out that the account is not fully insured.
The issues we raise in our ANPR are not unique to the U.S. Through our readiness efforts, we are in contact with other countries that are exploring ways to ensure that they have the tools in place to handle a large bank failure. These tools include finding ways to ensure that deposit insurance determinations can be made as quickly and efficiently as possible to promote resiliency in their system and to avoid disruption at the time of failure.
The Cost-Benefit Tradeoff of Readiness
By raising this issue today, I would hope you could step back and consider the public policy merits of our readiness efforts, particularly our proposed improvements to the claims administration process. As you might imagine, banks are concerned about the costs associated with a mandate to alter their deposit systems to meet an FDIC need that has a low probability of occurring. As someone has put it, banks aren't much interested in helping the FDIC measure them for their caskets. I understand and appreciate their concern. That is why we have and will continue to work with the industry to find the most cost-effective way to meet our needs. But, I don't think we should lose sight of the benefits.
For example, I believe what we are proposing is consistent with a market-oriented approach to bank regulation and consistent with Pillar III of the Basel framework. Given the size and complexity of many banks in the U.S. today, and given their greater reliance on uninsured deposits and non-deposit funding, it is critical that bank supervision is complemented by effective market discipline. Clearly, a credible policy that ensures the FDIC stands ready to execute an orderly resolution in which uninsured creditors suffer losses, regardless of the size of the bank, strengthens market discipline. This is a benefit that enhances our financial system day in and day out - not just when failure occurs.
In addition, from a political perspective, it is in everyone's interest to avoid the perception that banks are "too-big-to-fail." Consider the likely repercussions if the day comes when the systemic risk exception is invoked because policy makers are concerned that the FDIC could not effect a least-cost resolution without causing significant delay or disruption. This outcome, or even its possibility, would raise questions. For example, it would highlight the disparate treatment of large and small banks. It would undermine arguments that as the industry evolves market oversight can substitute for additional regulation. It would also further the notion that if the government is ultimately responsible for their risk taking, it is appropriate to place greater obligations on large banks.
In other words, I believe it is naïve to think that perpetuating the notion of "too-big-to-fail" is not without its costs – paid every day, not just if a large bank were to fail.
Concluding Remarks
I hope that by sharing the FDIC's perspective on readiness planning – as the insurer and the organization that must deliver in a crisis – you have a sense for why we take our responsibilities in this area so seriously. I hope you can come to appreciate our case for readiness, not simply as one that pays dividends should a large bank ever fail, but one that strengthens our banking system every day.
Despite this case, some have come to believe that the FDIC should not spend any time worrying about or planning for a large bank failure because these banks have become so well diversified and sophisticated in their risk management. While we acknowledge and welcome these and other developments, it does not mean we can rule out potential problems. As a statistician might put it, a large bank has a non-zero probability of failure. I prefer the words of Robert Frost to describe this condition. I think he said it best in the poem, The Black Cottage:
"Most of the change we think we see in life
All banks pose risk to the system, even large banks, AND even if that "truth" is sometimes out of favor.
Stability and public confidence are easy to take for granted, and in good times such as these it is tempting to discount the probability of banking problems and the potential instability. The FDIC is resisting this temptation and is using this time to plan and prepare for what we hope will never happen.
Now, I would be happy to take your questions.
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DATE OF APPROVAL: 28 February 1995; 23 June 2006
Previously Academic Policy A-39. Transferred with amendments to form Research Policy 10.0. (Amendments approved by Academic Board, 7 November 1997).
Further amendments by Research Degrees Committee June 1999, December 2000, February 2002
Further amendments Academic Board August 1999, April 2000, February 2001, February 2002, April 2002; July 2002; June 2003, November 2003; August 2004; June 2006 (amalgamation of Policies RES 10.1 and 11.1); December 2006; February 2010; May 2010; September 2012; November 2014; November 2015; November 2016; November 2017; October 2018
REFERENCE AUTHORITY: Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Enterprise
Code of Good Practice: Research Degrees Management and Supervision
Higher Degree by Research Supervision (RES 18)
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
Research Degrees Committee is responsible to Academic Board for the conduct of all matters pertaining to higher degrees by research.
The University offers the following higher degrees by research:
Research Degrees Committee is also responsible for oversight of the Academic Regulations for Higher Degrees by Research in accordance with policies of the University. The Academic Regulations, which form part of this policy, are attached and relate to:
1. The University of South Australia shall award the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of (Discipline) and Masters by Research degrees, in accordance with the practice and terminology used in the Australian higher education system.
2. The Research Degrees Committee of the Academic Board shall be responsible for administration of the Academic Regulations for Higher Degrees by Research and shall report to Academic Board the names of those persons to be conferred in the degree.
3. The University will be responsible for providing comprehensive research and transferable skill development activities for research degree students.
4. A proposed higher degree by research program should be consistent with the mission of the University of South Australia.
5. Research degree students may be conferred in the relevant award on the following bases:
5.1 Doctoral students must demonstrate that their research work, which may include creative works (such as painting, performance or multi-media presentation), is comprehensive in both theory and methodology and that they have made a significant original contribution to knowledge and/or to the application of knowledge within the field of study.
5.2 Doctor of Philosophy by Portfolio of Publications students must demonstrate their thesis is an original scholarly contribution to knowledge.
5.3 Masters degree by Research students must demonstrate that their work, which may include creative works (such as painting, performance or multi-media presentation), is competent in both theory and methodology and that their thesis makes a contribution to knowledge and/or to the application of knowledge within the specified field of study.
6. Administration of a Higher Degrees by Research will be undertaken in accordance with the Academic Regulations for Higher Degrees by Research