#Development. { Jerome; Julien }

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Taken from film;; ft. Julien Shin

strap yourself in. it’s a full length feature film.

The first time Jerome heard of Julien was during the promotions of heavens door and boy did he hate it. It was way too romantic for his time period, way too sappy and teeth breakingly sweet that his nose scrunched up in response to it. To be fair he did experience his biggest heart break yet just two years ago so he wasn’t in the greatest mood to put on the love tunes. Now he plays heavens door sometimes, or any song pf Julien, singing along with the lyrics as he curls his arms around his waist or shoulders. He says its just to pester him but he might as well have grown fond of the songs. ( tell 2013 jerome that he’s gonna end up listening to songs of, and,  falling in love with dream boyfriend over there and he’d snort. remind 2017 jerome he used to hate juliens music and watch him get all flustered about it because “no i’m 100% julien stan don’t argue w me buy good for you on itunes” but more so because it shows how much his mood changed ever since he met julien and that’s a confrontation he likes to keep in the back of his mind. ) Also on the topic of pestering he’ll just be in front of his laptop sometimes and start his sentence with “Didn’t you have a youtube channel?” before letting a smirk curl on his lips as he types away. ( but that can backfire so badly. oh julien i urge you not to find jeromes old youtube channel to get him back he was honey blonde at some point it’s not ok )

If there is one thing that has this immense sense of priority in Jerome’s life, it’s Julien, even in situations he really shouldn’t. It started in the little things like picking up the phone at inappropriate (*cough*) times or forgetting the clock when they’d hang out. But later on when he felt that first tinge of love he started picking up on old habits maximized ten fold. Someone who can vouch for that is none other than Jerome’s longest friend, Frederic, when he got to experience bits of old Jerome as they skyped together. They were talking about life but the songwriter kept letting his eyes swerve to the phone placed neatly on his desk every time a ping! was heard. It was Julien, texting him about something that was important enough to occupy half his attention. Whilst it annoyed the older at first to see the younger one grab at his phone so hastily with every infuriating bell noise, it stopped being a negative when he noticed the subtle changes in Jerome’s expression after every passing text. The simple yet genuine smiles, the way his eyebrow arched, the delighted look and not to mention the little sighs that betray way too much. Where did Yuddy go? “Wait. I can’t explain using text, I’m calling you okay?” Julien had written and Jerome absentmindedly responded with a “sure” as he listened to his best friend talking. It wasn’t until he heard the sound of some smooth r&b song escaping the tiny speakers of his phone that his eyes widened a little, comically so that left Freddy laughing a little bit as he told him to pick up. ( to quote: “Answer it. You’ve been texting this whole conversation. To leave them waiting now would be a bit cruel huh? I don’t mind.”) They talked for maybe ten minutes, ( starting with a “Hey. uh. I can’t talk that long, I’m actually skyping with my friend from France right now”..“Jerome! You told me it was okay to call you. I can call you back later.”..“No no it’s fine! It is okay. No need to do that. He said he doesn’t mind, nést-ce pas, Freddy?”..“Huh? Oh, oui oui. Parler, parler.”..”You see, he says it’s fine! Parler means talk. Or speak. So..? What’s up?” ) and the whole time Jerome was smiling as Freddy just shoveled his lunch in his mouth whilst glancing over to him in curiousity. It’s reminiscent how he was in a relationship, the way he acted or acts, and Freddy seemed to notice. ( having spend time with jerome being head over heels he notices signs.) Jerome rarely seems to notice himself though because it’s not something he pays attention to in the moment, only later when he realizes it he freaks out. (“Aren’t you smiley when talking to that person. Who was it?” The elder one started when Jerome placed the phone away for the time being. “Hm? Oh. A friend. A close friend” He didn’t think naming a name would be helpful seeing as Freddy wouldn’t know the singer anyway. But he did feel inclined to specify he’s a ‘close friend’. “Mhm.. an uninvited one?” A joke, rooted in suspicion that left Jerome choking on his own spit. Did he hear that correctly? “W-what?” He asked, stunned. “What?” The other repeated with nothing else to add but a knowing look before taking a sip of his drink.)

They went to a jjimjilbang together once. It was during the colder days of the year, stress consuming the both of them and with this small opening between two of their schedules, they went for it. The time there was nice; falling asleep together in the resting area, sharing and slurping down various food items, exchanging conversation. Jerome even spilled out a simple “God, you look cute.” when Julien placed a sheeptowel on his head and sat there with hands folded in his lap. ( which he denied saying through their whole time there even if the words left him clear as day. in his defense, the singer DID look a+ adorable ) There was something that still haunts him though and that was when they were in the sauna together. An old man who was a bit too chatty had already waddled out of room, leaving the two of them to soak up the heat alone and to have something transpire between them. Julien had placed his head upon his shoulder which in part had made Jerome complain in a breathy tone that it was way too hot for that. ( to quote “You know, in any other situation I would love to have you sweating this close to me but not here. It’s like 400 degrees, Julien.” ) but Julien didn’t budge, even curled against his shoulder further making a sigh escape the Frenchmans frame, accepting there’s no fighting it. Sweat slid down his nose, down his neck, pooling in the dip between his neck and his collarbones as he sighed, his head leaning against the wall. He felt his shirt stick to abdomen and even though the heat was almost unbearable, the corners of his mouth tugged upwards. “Ah, feel lucky you’re special.” He had started, voice barely above a whisper when he did. “If you were anyone else I’d push you off of me already.” The feeling of a shift on his shoulder and the sound of an exhale that sounded amused prompted him to let his lips be painted by a smirk as he turned his head towards the other, damp bangs like blinds obscuring his vision as he peered down at him. Maybe it hadn’t been the best idea to look at the American then, looking so captivating with cheeks all dusted in a soft vibrant pink, dark locks sticking to his forehead partly covering the thick bushy eyebrows that resided just above the stars of his visage; his pretty brown eyes, the same ones that were looking back at him now. He felt the smirk that had been nestled so nicely on his lips slowly fall as the breath he took in got caught in his throat, and perhaps it was due to the high degrees scrambling his normally logical brain but after letting his gaze flicker over his face for moments, he did something that looked like leaning in, gradually inching down and down nearing lips like he had a destination, like he finally was going to do the thing he thought about a bit too much. And their noses brush together, just lightly until boop! Jerome changed his angle to nudge his forehead against Juliens when he heard the door of the sauna open and more importantly he snapped out of it. Was the intention to kiss him then? With a seemingly playful smile decorating his lips and his attention being taken by the few middle aged women shuffling inside, that question was left without an answer. “Let’s get Sikhye.”  He said after greeting the ladies respectfully, the words leaving him more as a statement rather than a suggestion, dragging Julien out of the heat moments later. When sipping on the cold beverage, Jerome acted like nothing had happened, that it was intended he bumped their foreheads together and that it would have happened even if the women didn’t enter the sauna then. Yet something changed, he couldn’t keep his eyes off of the singer. Only when their eyes would meet did his drink suddenly feel much more interesting. ( what. is. this. )

Remember the phone call that had been left unanswered? It was the thing that prompted him to write 불청객 which is the first raw single he has ever put out to the world but it isn’t the first he had written. Ever since the time Julien sparked up something inside of him with that simple observation showing care and attentiveness, Jerome has written a handful of songs that would never see the light of day. They differ in emotions. Some are sad. Others are lovely. Different situations resulting in different things. One he started writing after the filming of we got married, when the lines felt a little blurred. The starts of it now lays forgotten in the pages of his personal notebook, having stopped writing when he noticed his mind was slipping into dangerous territories. He doesn’t know when he’ll ever finish it, all he knows is that it would just take a little push. He has a title though, scribbled neatly in cursive at the top of the thin paper in black ink; Jasmine. ( for symbolic reasons )

Little Miso headcanons because.. Miso? Whenever he has to take care of her he just ends up spoiling her rotten because she’s this little ball and just like to Julien, he has a hard time say no to her. He falls asleep on couches with her and Edith curled against him after facetiming Julien and showing him his little baby is fine and that’s she has eaten well. During one of those facetime sessions Miso suddenly tapped Jerome’s nose with her paw and he had a very hard time to keep his composure to not show the weakness he felt with the other watching him through the phone. ( his cheeks did dust a light rose as his expression softened, cute things like that turning the intimidating looking male into nothing but a puddle of heart clenching warmth. )  Also, to add to the spoiling. play dates. they happen and Jerome stands in the kitchen for these cats. (”They have canned food, Jerome.”..“I don’t care I bought extra fish leave me.” [x] [x])

( BONUS! birthday headcanons ft filmmaker, chef, and boyfriend jerome. ) *because i missed november 1st and this softness needs to escape my mind somehow.

Aesthetics is something he likes when it comes to his instagram and a post for Juliens birthday isn’t anything different. Instead of the regular “Happy birthday” he uploaded a video of a mere 30 seconds or so with the caption ‘rosy days’ to the social media platform. The video consisted of a stationary shot of the pink skies that fall upon the early hours of Seoul, sunrise tinting the heavens that way. ( of course rosy days hint to Jerome’s nickname for Julien which is ‘rosy ears’ and how he has compared the reddening of his ears to the pink tinted sky that would cloak the city during daybreak.) Above silent static and soft purring you could hear Jerome singing, humming, voice a tad rough from probably just waking up and distant due to his proximity of the phone. Edith is seen in the frame, curled in satin sheets with just parts of her ears splitting the skies in an interesting way and leaving the small film even more delicate in nature. Fans are used to his pretty posts, but this one seems just that tad more beautiful. And oh? What song is he singing, you ask? ♡ A favourite.

He ends up late in the evening at Juliens apartment, prefacing his visit by telling him to keep his evening open and not have dinner. He has a bottle of chardonnay with him (“straight from the grapevines de france.” he tells him, accent in full force as he named his homeland. “bought only for special occasions.”) and a bag slung over his shoulder. There is also a smile on his lips, gentle and small as he wishes the other happy birthday for the second time this day. (midnight was the first.) He stumbles to the kitchen moments after entering and without asking starts unloading ingredients into his fridge from where they previously resided in his bag before rummaging through the cabinets to find a skillet. (”you have wine glasses, right? grab them.”) He’s comfortable in Juliens home as a chef, having cooked for him multiple times already whether here or back in his own home. He starts cooking when he’s done readying up. (”sit with miso and be pretty. it’s your birthday, people need to treat you. i need to treat you.”) Haute cuisine. It’s something with salmon and lemons and the many herbs that engulf Juliens apartment after the first fifteen minutes of Jerome busying himself in the kitchen. (”delicious huh? i learned it from my grandfather when i was, what, sixteen?” he whisks up a sauce with such care as he speaks. “i can’t believe i still remember. especially since he made it so rarely. only made on specific dates. important dates. seeing it was my grandmothers favourite.” with words speaking volumes. he just smiles.) They eat after he spends a bit too much time plating the dish and he disappears back into the kitchen when plates turn empty. (”dessert’s even better. i hope you still have room.”) For dessert it’s poached pears in a sweetened sauce with some kind of baked good he spent the early hours of October 31st making, something warm to lead into the winter months he knows Julien dreads so much. (”i have one more thing after this.” he says, glancing at his bag propped up against a wall. “but that’ll come later.”) Later exists when they’re slouched on the couch together, hours having ticked by after the eating and the talking and the enjoying of ones company. Jerome takes a hold of Juliens wrist and fumbles to clasp a bracelet to it after returning from digging into his bag. The bracelet, minimalist in design contrasts with something he would wear himself but the colour is something he likes; a deep brown reminding of a forest that suits nicely against the undertones of Juliens skin. (”i know you don’t wear that much jewelry but.. i saw this and i wanted to buy it for you.”) He doesn’t clarify when he bought it, how long or how short he’s been holding on to it, he just smiles, concentrating on straightening the accessory on his wrist which might be an excuse to hold his hand a bit longer. (”you don’t have to wear it always, i won’t be upset. promise.” the first smirk of the night appears on his face, lightly decorating his lips. “just know it looks handsome on you.”)With his arm draped behind the other as the hour turns late, he starts to serenade the birthday boy in his own native language, voice quiet, just above a murmur but not without the celebrating tinge that comes with it. (”bonne fête à toi. bonne fête à toi. bonne fête-” his nose nudged the dark locks of the male leaned against his chest, gentle in his actions and in his tone of voice. “-mon julien.” a sigh escaped his frame whilst his fingers slid down his arm, cheek pressing against his hair as his eyes closed shut, whispering the last few syllables just for him. “bonne fête à toi.”) Something incoherent leaves his lips then, just after he finished the birthday melody specially sung for the male that had his heart. It was supposed to be a sentence, mumbled softly from the depths of his mind  but his brain wasn’t sending the same signals to his mouth as it was sending to his vocal cords. And maybe it was his lack of sleep that was to blame, or maybe the a part of his consciousness was protecting him, whatever it was, the only things that he produces from his throat are some muddled noises that sounded barely like a sentence, his arms tightened around the other in a comfortable embrace as the words floated encrypted through the air;“I love you.”

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Successful tests of a cooler way to transport electricity

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research logo. 18 April, 2019 A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies 

Image above: Tests being carried out on the superconducting power line. From left to right: Julien Hurte, Jerome Fleiter, Alejandro Zurita and Amalia Ballarino, the project leader. (Image: CERN). Like a metal python, the huge pipe snaking through a CERN high-tech hall is actually a new electrical transmission line. This superconducting line is the first of its kind and allows vast quantities of electrical current to be transported within a pipe of a relatively small diameter. Similar pipes could well be used in towns in the future. This 60-metre-long line has been developed for CERN’s future accelerator, the High-Luminosity LHC, which is due to come into operation in 2026. Tests began last year and the line has transported 40 000 amps. This is 20 times more than what is possible at room temperature with ordinary copper cables of a similar cross-section. The line is composed ofsuperconducting cables made from magnesium diboride (MgB2) and offers no resistance, enabling it to transport much higher current densities than ordinary cables, without any loss. The snag is that, in order to function in a superconducting state, the cables must be cooled to a temperature of 25 K (-248°C). It is therefore placed inside a cryostat, a thermally insulated pipe in which a coolant, namely helium gas, circulates. The real achievements are the development of a new, flexible superconducting system and the use of a new superconductor (MgB2). "The line is more compact and lighter than its copper equivalent, and it is cryogenically more efficient than a classical low temperature superconducting link that must be cooled to 4.5 K. Amalia Ballarino, the project leader" Having proven that such a system is feasible, at the end of March the team tested the connection to the room temperature end of the system. In the High-Luminosity LHC, these lines will connect power converters to the magnets. These converters are located at a certain distance from the accelerator. The new superconducting transmission lines, which measure up to 140 m in length, will feed several circuits and transport electrical current of up to 100 000 amps.

A cooler way to transport electricity

“The magnesium diboride cable and the current leads that supply the magnets are connected by means of high-temperature ReBCO (rare-earth barium copper oxide) superconductors, also a challenging innovation for this type of application,” explains Amalia Ballarino.  These superconductors are called “high-temperature” because they can operate at temperatures of up to around 90 kelvins (-183 °C), as opposed to just a few kelvins in the case ofclassical low-temperature superconductors. They can transport very high current densities, but are very tricky to work with, hence the impressiveness of the team’s achievement. Tests of the line with its new connection represent an important milestone in the project, as it proves that the whole system works correctly. “We have new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies for supplying the magnets in an innovative way,” says Amalia Ballarino. The project has also caught the attention of the outside world. Companies are using the work done at CERN to study the possibility of using similar transmission lines (at high voltage), instead of conventional systems, to transport electricity and power over long distances. Note: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions. Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 23 Member States. For more information about European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Visit: https://home.cern/ Image (mentioned), Video (mentioned), Text, Credits: CERN/Camille Monnin. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

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Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure

By Pepe Escobar – Posted with permission The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist Valerie Bugault, was about the liaisons dangereuses between Macronism and Big Pharma and especially about the mysterious “disappearance” – more likely outright theft – of all the stocks of chloroquine in possession of the French government. Respected Professor Christian Perronne talked about the theft live in one of France’s 24/7 info channels: “The central pharmacy for the hospitals announced today that they were facing a total rupture of stocks, that they were pillaged.” With input from another, anonymous source, it’s now possible to establish a timeline that puts in much-needed perspective the recent actions of the French government.Let’s start with Yves Levy, who was the head of INSERM – the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research – from 2014 to 2018, when he was appointed as extraordinary state councilor for the Macron administration. Only 12 people in France have reached this status. Levy is married to Agnes Buzy, who until recently was minister of health under Macron. Buzy was essentially presented with an “offer you can’t refuse” by Macron’s party to leave the ministry – in the middle of the coronavirus crisis – and run for Mayor of Paris, where she was mercilessly trounced in the first round on March 16. Levy has a vicious running feud with Professor Didier Raoult – prolific and often-cited Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases. Levy withheld the INSERM label from the world-renowned IHU (Hospital-University Institute) research center directed by Raoult. In practice, in October 2019, Levy revoked the status of “foundation” of the different IHUs so he could take over their research.

A picture taken on February 26, 2020 shows French professor Didier Raoult, biologist and professor of microbiology, specialized in infectious diseases and director of IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute posing in his office in Marseille, southeastern France. - Raoult reported this week that after treating 24 patients for six days with Plaquenil, the virus had disappeared in all but a quarter of them. The research has not yet been peer reviewed or published, and Raoult had come under fire by some scientists and officials in his native France for potentially raising false hopes. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) French professor Didier Raoult, biologist and professor of microbiology, specializes in infectious diseases and director of IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute, poses in his office in Marseille, France. Photo: AFP/Gerard Julien Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed 90% of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very early. (Early, massive testing is at the heart of the successful South Korean strategy.) Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible carriers – which he considers “medieval,” in an anachronistic sense. He’s in favor of massive testing (which, besides South Korea, was successful in Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and a fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine. Only contaminated individuals should be confined. Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills. And there’s the rub: Big Pharma – which, crucially, finances INSERM, and includes “national champion” Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution. Sanofi for the moment says it is “actively preparing” to produce chloroquine, but that may take “weeks,” and there’s no mention about pricing. A minister fleeing a tsunami Here’s the timeline: On January 13, Agnes Buzyn, still France’s Health Minister, classifies chloroquine as a “poisonous substance,” from now on only available by prescription. An astonishing move, considering that it has been sold off the shelf in France for half a century. On March 16, the Macron government orders a partial lockdown. There’s not a peep about chloroquine. Police initially are not required to wear masks; most have been stolen anyway, and there are not enough masks even for health workers. In 2011 France had nearly 1.5 billion masks: 800 million surgical masks and 600 million masks for health professionals generally. But then, over the years, the strategic stocks were not renewed, to please the EU and to apply the Maastricht criteria, which limited membership in the Growth and Stability Pact to countries whose budget deficits did not exceed 3% of GDP. One of those in charge at the time was Jerome Salomon, now a scientific counselor to the Macron government. On March 17, Agnes Buzyn says she has learned the spread of Covid-19 will be a major tsunami, for which the French health system has no solution. She also says it had been her understanding that the Paris mayoral election “would not take place” and that it was, ultimately, “a masquerade.” What she does not say is that she didn’t go public at the time she was running because the whole political focus by the Macron political machine was on winning the “masquerade.” The first round of the election meant nothing, as Covid-19 was advancing. The second round was postponed indefinitely. She had to know about the impending healthcare disaster. But as a candidate of the Macron machine she did not go public in timely fashion. In quick succession: The Macron government refuses to apply mass testing, as practiced with success in South Korea and Germany. Le Monde and the French state health agency characterize Raoult’s research as fake news, before issuing a retraction. Professor Perrone reveals on the 24/7 LCI news channel that the stock of chloroquine at the French central pharmacy has been stolen. Thanks to a tweet by Elon Musk, President Trump says chloroquine should be available to all Americans. Sufferers of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, who already have supply problems with the only drug that offers them relief, set social media afire with their panic. US doctors and other medical professionals take to hoarding the medicine for the use of themselves and those close to them, faking prescriptions to indicate they are for patients with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. Morocco buys the stock of chloroquine from Sanofi in Casablanca. Pakistan decides to increase its production of chloroquine to be sent to China. Switzerland discards the total lockdown of its population; goes for mass testing and fast treatment; and accuses France of practicing  “spectacle politics.” Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, having had himself treated with chloroquine, without any government input, directly calls Sanofi so they may deliver chloroquine to Nice hospitals. Because of Raoult’s research, a large-scale chloroquine test finally starts in France, under the – predictable – direction of INSERM, which wants to “remake the experiments in other independent medical centers.” This will take at least an extra six weeks – as the Elysee Palace’s scientific council now mulls the extension of France’s total lockdown to … six weeks. If joint use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin proves definitely effective among the most gravely ill, quarantines may be reduced in select clusters. The only French company that still manufactures chloroquine is under judicial intervention. That puts the chloroquine hoarding and theft into full perspective. It will take time for these stocks to be replenished, thus allowing Big Pharma the leeway to have what it wants: a costly solution. It appears the perpetrators of the chloroquine theft were very well informed. Bagged nurses This chain of events, astonishing for a highly developed G-7 nation proud of its health service, is part of a long, painful process embedded in neoliberal dogma. EU-driven austerity mixed with the profit motive resulted in a very lax attitude towards the health system. As Bugault told me, “test kits – very few in number – were always available but mostly for a small group connected to the French government .  Same for chloroquine, which this government did everything to make inaccessible for the population. They did not make life easy for Professor Raoult – he received death threats and was intimidated by ‘journalists.’ And they did not protect vital stocks. Still under the Hollande government, there was a conscious liquidation of the stock of masks – which had existed in large quantities in all hospitals. Not to mention that the suppression of hospital beds and hospital means accelerated under Sarkozy.” This ties in with anguished reports by French citizens of nurses now having to use trash bags due to the lack of proper medical gear. At the same time, in another astonishing development, the French state refuses to requisition private hospitals and clinics – which are practically empty at this stage – even as the president of their own association, Lamine Garbi, has pleaded for such a public service initiative: “I solemnly demand that we are requisitioned to help public hospitals. Our facilities are prepared. The wave that surprised the east of France must teach us a lesson.” Bugault reconfirms the health situation in France “is very serious and will become even worse due to these political decisions – absence of masks, political refusal to massively test people, refusal of free access to chloroquine – in a context of supreme distress at the hospitals. This will last and destitution will be the norm.” Professor vs president In an explosive development on Tuesday, Raoult said he’s not participating in Macron’s scientific council anymore, even though he’s not quitting it altogether. Raoult once again insists on massive testing on a national scale to detect suspected cases, and then isolate and treat patients who tested positive. In a nutshell: the South Korean model. That’s exactly what is expected from the IHU in Marseille, where hundreds of residents continue to queue up for testing. And that ties in with the conclusions by a top Chinese expert on Covid-19, Zhang Nanshan, who says that treatment with chloroquine phospate had a “positive impact,” with patients testing negative after around four days. The key point has been stressed by Raoult: Use chloroquine in very special circumstances, for people tested very early, when the disease is not advanced yet, and only in these cases. He’s not advocating chloroquine for everyone. It’s exactly what the Chinese did, along with their use of Interferon. For years, Raoult has been pleading for a drastic revision of health economic models, so the treatments, cure and therapies created mostly during the 20th century, are considered a patrimony in the service of all humanity.“That’s not the case”, he says, “because we abandon medicine that is not profitable, even if it’s effective. That’s why almost no antibiotics are manufactured in the West.” On Tuesday, the French Health Ministry officially prohibited the utilization of treatment based on chloroquine recommended by Raoult.  In fact the treatment is only allowed for terminal Covid-19 patients, with no other possibility of healing. This cannot but expose the Macron government to more accusations of at least inefficiency – added to the absence of masks, tests, contact tracing and ventilators. On Wednesday, commenting on the new government guidelines, Raoult said, “When damage to the lungs is too important, and patients arrive for reanimation, they practically do not harbor viruses in their bodies any more. It’s too late to treat them with chloroquine. Are these the only cases – the very serious cases – that will be treated with chloroquine under the new directive by Veran?” If so, he added ironically, “then they will be able to say with scientific certainty that chloroquine does not work.” Raoult was unavailable for comment on Western news media articles citing Chinese test results that would suggest he is wrong about the efficacy of chloroquine in dealing with mild cases of Covid-19. Staffers pointed instead to his comments in the IHU bulletin. There Raoult says it’s “insulting” to ask if we can trust the Chinese on the use of chloroquine. “If this was an American disease, and the president of the United States said, ‘We need to treat patients with that,’ nobody would discuss it.” In China, he adds, there were “enough elements so the Chinese government and all Chinese experts who know coronaviruses took an official position that ‘we must treat with chloroquine.’ Between the moment when we have the first results and an accepted international publication, there is no credible alternative among people who are the most knowledgeable in the world. They took this measure in the interest of public health.” Crucially: if he had coronavirus, Raoult says he would take chloroquine. Since Raoult is rated by his peers as the number one world expert  in communicable diseases, way above Dr. Anthony Fauci in the US, I would say the new reports represent Big Pharma talking. Raoult has been mercilessly savaged and demonized by French corporate media that are controlled by a few oligarchs closely linked to Macronism. Not by accident the demonization has reached gilets jaunes (yellow vest) levels, especially because of the extremely popular hashtag  #IlsSavaient (“They knew”), with which the yellow vests stress that French elites have “managed” the Covid-19 crisis by protecting themselves while leaving the population defenseless against the virus. That ties in with the controversial analysis by crack philosopher Giorgio Agamben in a column published a month ago, where he was already arguing that Covid-19 clearly shows that the state of exception – similar to a state of emergency but with differences important to philosophers – has become fully normalized in the West. Agamben was speaking not as a doctor or a virologist but as a master thinker, following in the steps of Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. Noting how a latent state of fear has metastasized into a state of collective panic, for which Covid-19 “offers once again the ideal pretext,” he described how, “in a perverse vicious circle, the limitation of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of a desire for security that was induced by the same governments that now intervene to satisfy it.” There was no state of collective panic in South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam – to mention four Asian examples outside of China. A dogged combination of mass testing and contact tracing was applied with immense professionalism. It worked. In the Chinese case, with the help of chloroquine. And in all Asian cases, without a murky profit motive to the benefit of Big Pharma. There hasn’t yet appeared the smoking gun that proves the Macron system not only is incompetent to deal with Covid-19 but also is dragging the process so Big Pharma can come up with a miracle vaccine, fast. But the pattern to discourage chloroquine is more than laid out above – in parallel to the demonization of Raoult. Read the full article

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13 Great Things We Saw at Milan’s Design Fair

It’s hard to gauge the exact scale of the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan — where most international design brands and studios debut their annual collections — because it encompasses both the city’s fairgrounds and also hundreds of nearby pop-up shows in galleries, retail spaces and even an abandoned panettone factory. But it certainly feels more ambitious each year, at least in terms of the work on view. Last week’s fair featured no fewer than five presentations by the Milan-based design firm Dimore Studio; a sprawling Kvadrat show with a restaurant, a flower field and two Jean Prouvé cabins; and a major interactive interiors installation by Google developed in partnership with neuroscientists. Not to mention the ever-growing, ever-more-elaborate involvement of the world’s biggest fashion brands, which this year included Tod’s — the company presented full-size yurts, huts and other archetypal shelters reimagined by the architect Andrea Caputo — and Louis Vuitton, who debuted the latest collection from its Objets Nomades series of travel-inspired furnishings. Here, our 13 other highlights.

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The Italian curator Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte recently launched a design residency program at the century-old Milanese foundry Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and chose as his first subject the Stockholm-based designer Anton Alvarez, who used a special machine to extrude huge noodles of wax that were then cast in bronze using a lost-wax technique. The results debuted last week in the 5Vie district inside a private 15th-century church, open to Salone visitors for the very first time.

Though they look like simple, free-form marble tables, the pieces in Studio Binocle’s Six Tableaux series have an entertaining back story that made the series a favorite. Challenged to design a dining table by a client who didn’t like anything on the market, the architect Lorenzo Bini attempted to avoid making a piece too boring or too pretentious by creating an amoeba-shaped tabletop that he called “an impudent rip-off” of one of Ellsworth Kelly’s leaf drawings. Five more versions soon followed, traced directly from details of works by Louise Bourgeois, Cy Twombly, Christopher Wool and others.

The French-Italian rug brand CC-Tapis has made a habit of inviting up-and-coming designers to translate their aesthetics into striking floor coverings each year, and this collection was no exception. The standouts were soft, irregularly shaped gradient rugs by the Amsterdam-based designer Germans Ermics and a trippy harlequin grid series by Martino Gamper.

This year marked the fourth edition of Doppia Firma, a project by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and Living Corriere della Sera that pairs designers with highly skilled craftspeople to create a collaborative object. The highlight was a stained-glass-and-marble floor lamp by Maarten de Ceulaer and the Belgian glass purveyor Atelier Mestdagh, but we also spotted a nice take on one of the fair’s most ubiquitous objects this year — a room divider — by the designer Vito Nesta and the wallpaper artisans at San Patrignano.

Though it officially launched with a tiny preview last year, Far, the Nilufar gallery’s new offshoot dedicated to experimental contemporary work, got a proper introduction last week, taking over the majority of Nilufar’s Depot space with pieces by 10 different designers. The work, curated by Studio Vedèt, was memorable, especially the pieces by Julien Manaira and Odd Matter, but so was the scenography: a landscape of enormous plastic exhibition bubbles dreamed up by Space Caviar.

Every two years, Flos builds a massive booth at Salone del Mobile that inevitably fills up with crushing stampedes of curious people. The stampede is usually justified — as it was this year by four key releases: an enormous chandelier of interlocking leather parabolas by Formafantasma, a poetic curved track-lighting system by Michael Anastassiades, the resurrection of Mario Bellini’s 1964 flat-pack Chiara lamp and a brilliantly sculptural outdoor lighting collection by Nendo.

This year, rather than just presenting commercial products, Artek showcased a playful initiative called the FIN/JPN Friendship Collection. It’s a group of six projects that represent various thoughtful mergers of Finnish and Japanese design, from new versions of Aalto’s Stool 60 — including one with Technicolor tops by the Tokyo architect Jo Nagasaka and another that was indigo-dyed by the Japanese workshop Buaisou — to a bench by the designer Koichi Futatsumata that channels the shared public bathing traditions of the two countries.

If this year’s show felt short on new discoveries, a clear exception was Kabinet, a brand founded just months ago by two young designers interested in revitalizing the craft industry in the Veneto region of Italy. The line stood out for its contemporary take on sumptuous materials like burl wood, tortoiseshell and mohair.

“No Man’s Land” by Kvadrat and Raf Simons was not just an exhibition but a destination; visitors came not only to see Simons’s sixth collection for the textile brand — corduroy, shimmering or speckled bouclés — but also to taste food from a pop-up outpost of the London restaurant Rochelle Canteen, gaze at a field of wildflowers installed by the Belgian florist Mark Colle and wander around the Jean Prouvé prefab cabins that were part of the presentation’s elaborate mise-en-scène.

One of the best projects on view at Satellite, the section of the Salone fairgrounds dedicated to showcasing young designers, wasn’t furniture at all but Zurich-based Marie Schumann’s luminous wall hangings. Made from ombré cotton or polyester and draped threads of metallic Lurex, they were almost three dimensional, more like artworks than textile designs.

The American artist Matthew Day Jackson showed three versions of his loopy new table and chairs for the Finnish brand Made by Choice. Arranged within three color-coded rooms, the pieces came in bright green; black, with a subtle rainbow sheen; and a more conservative natural wood. Jackson engineered the tables’ legs to work entirely by an elaborate system of interlocking parts, so that no tools or screws are needed to take the table apart or put it back together again.

The New York-based designer Bec Brittain’s angular Heron lamps — particularly a version in pink and gray stone — were the stars of the Carrara-based marble brand Mmairo’s small but admirable collection, along with new tables by Karen Chekerdjian and an architectural table lamp by Niko Koronis.

The Parisian design publicist David Giroire decided to become his own client at this year’s fair, joining with the creative director Jerome Bazzocchi to start an ambitious new furniture brand dedicated to making limited-edition works by lesser-known talents. Called Theoreme Editions, its first collection features a chubby shearling chair balanced on a copper cube by Pool, a colored resin console by Francesco Balzano and a huge pebble-shaped floor mirror by Joris Poggioli.

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30 5 Days of Character Development: The Idol Edition

Day Four: Questions 19-24  (source)

+ Day Nineteen: Is there anything besides idol activities that your muse would want to do? Would they want to take their hand at hosting a variety show or act in a television show or drama? Would they want to try out modeling or a musical? If they have done things such as these, talk about their thoughts toward these things.

Ash wants to try his hand at not doing anything as an idol ever again. Since Ash is a variety nightmare, he’d like to stay far away from any type of variety show. He’s had acting lessons and was supposed to have his acting debut in 2016, but due to his scandal, he was pulled from the role. He wouldn’t mind putting those lessons to use, but he’s not invested in pursuing a career as a drama actor. Out of everything, he’d be most excited to be in a musical. It seems more artistic and less about the image to him and he’d get to sing, dance, and act, the three things he’s trained for. He’d really enjoy playing a role like Guy in Once.

+ Day Twenty: If your muse was able to be a part of a supergroup that comprised of current idols, who would they want to be in the same group and why? What kind of concept would this group have? How do you think the group would do in terms of popularity?

Again, he’d really rather just do nothing, but he’d like to be in a super group with a more theatrical concept and dramatic concept, like MARS. The vocal line would be him, Taejoon, Namjoon, Julien, and Jerome. The dance line he’d choose would be him again, Insoo, and Mark. And the rap line would be Insoo, Hansol, and Trevor. Surprisingly, it’d be similar to Knight with an emphasis on a strong vocal line and a total of nine members (also with three Knight members as part of it). It would likely do well since it has a lot of well-known members.

+ Day Twenty-One: How does your muse feel about their fans? How do they feel about sasaeng fans? How would they handle a situation in which they were faced with obsessive fans that followed them or invaded their privacy? If they’ve had problems with sasaeng fans before, how did they feel about it?

Ash appreciates his fans for supporting him, even if he doesn’t necessarily connect to them much anymore. He doesn’t put much effort into fan interaction outside of fansigns and fanmeets, in equal parts because of his scandal and his lack of desire to be an idol. Since anti-fans fabricated stories about him taking advantage of fans, he’s standoffish toward them in order to not put any fuel on the fire of the rumors. He’s very against sasaengs, especially due to his intense desire for privacy. He had a run-in with one of Sooyeon’s sasaengs that led to their scandal, but he has a fair share of his own as well since Knight is known for their overzealous fans.

+ Day Twenty-Two: Talk about your muse’s goals that they have for their group or themselves if they are a solo artist. Where would they want to promote if given the chance? Do they want to do a solo album at one point? This can be any sort of professional goal.

He’d like to be given songwriting opportunities and possibly release an album of his self-written songs. He’d rather not promote it on music shows and let his music speak for itself instead. He doesn’t have many goals for Knight since he lacks passion for the group nowadays.

+ Day Twenty-Three: What is your muse’s thoughts on being an idol and dating? Are they against dating? Have they ever been in a relationship after debuting? If so, talk about the challenges that have come along with dating. If they aren’t dating, would they want to date?

Ash believes the dating bans they get put under are too invasive and the companies shouldn’t exhibit so much control over their artists’ personal lives. He broke the dating ban while he was under it, but he also used to be less worried about being caught dating. He’s technically under a mostly unspoken extension of his dating ban (though it was definitely clearly vocalized in the immediate aftermath of his scandal) since BC doesn’t want to risk a dating scandal to hurt his reputation, but his own hesitance to have an actual relationship right now is much more of a product of his own insecurities and anxiety than out of respect for BC’s wishes.

+ Day Twenty-Four: Who is your muse’s ideal type? Why is this person their ideal type?

He doesn’t have a person he considers his ideal type since he believes an ideal type to be a overly simplistic concept and that no one is a perfect representation of everything someone thinks they want in a person. When asked, he says his ideal type is someone passionate with a nice smile, which is actually a truthful answer.

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GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

Predictions from respected corners of the mainstream financial world – GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank – could be good news for the crypto industry and its status as a valid and profitable asset class.

US advisory and investment firm, GP Bullhound (GPB), under the subhead “Cryptocurrency will Grow Up”, concurs with the balance of opinion among analysts covering crypto, that institutional money will lead the recovery.

GPB’s prediction report is bullish:

“We are yet to see the best of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain activity is picking up with even traditional financial institutions ensuring they do not get left behind. 2019 should be the year institutional capital flows into cryptocurrency, with previous obstructions and tight regulations lifted,”

Last year the tech-focused investment firm correctly foresaw the crypto implosion, which in hindsight some might say was not too difficult to predict. It did, however, put a number on its premonition, arguing that a 90% correction would take place, although it has been surprised by the speed of the collapse.

Nine out of 10 of its 2018 predictions have proven to be correct, so its 2019 crypto recovery prediction should not be dismissed as just more hot air from investment firms trying to protect their investments.

And for institutions, it’s not just the attraction of the financial gains of buying coins at the bottom (wherever and whenever that might be), but investment in distributed ledger tech more broadly:

“We predict 2019 will be the year of institutional capital inflow into blockchain, which will not be solely financially motivated, but backed by increasing demand we see on the corporate and family office side and their desire to build positions. Initially this will happen through funds, equity investing into blockchain technology projects as well as financial instruments and derivative products related to major cryptocurrencies.”

Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform is likely to be one of the critical on-ramps for “institutional capital inflow”, as too might be the small number of regulated instruments that currently exist.

These include the Bitcoin Investment Trust from Barry Silbert’s Grayscale Investments (although it trades at a premium to its net asset value which would be off-putting); the exchange traded notes (these are debt instruments, not ETFs) provided by CoinShares’ XBT Provider Bitcoin and Ethereum tracker products and newer offerings such as the Amun Crypto Market Basket Index ETP, which recently launched the first regulated crypto index fund in Europe on the Swiss main market.

Amun’s product currently has the second-highest turnover of all exchange traded products on the Swiss market.

Add to that the growing interest in security token offerings (STOs) that EWN reported on in November, and the entry routes are coming into view, and GPB agrees:

“There is a massive wave of fully compliant security token offerings (“STOs”) lined up and also the developments around tokenization of assets (“TOAs”) is extensive – both are expected to continue to raise the bar on market standards very fast…”

However, as GPB underlines, institutional entry still faces the issues around regulatory clarity, liquidity and custody.

Nevertheless, Olga Feldmeier, chief executive of Smart Valor, which is building a security token platform, commenting on GP Bullhound’s bullish stance, noted: “Cryptocurrencies will continue to innovate beyond the well-known bitcoin and Ethereum, and we will see many more coin and payment products emerging. All that will clear the way for mass adoption, which we will see in the second half of 2019.”

GP Bullhound’s ones to watch

GPB’s companies/partnerships to watch are:

Alibaba, AWS/Qtum, Binance, Bitfury, Blockstack, Bloomberg/Galaxy, Coinbase, Gemini, Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, IBM/Stellar, Ledger, Revolut, NYSE Bakkt, Rockefeller/Venrock, t3, Yale, Stanford University, Harvard University, MIT, Fidelity

GPB’s Coins to watch:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and Stellar.

The year blockchain gets out of the labs

For those that were starting to lose faith in blockchain tech ever emerging from the fintech labs of the many financial institutions running pilots, GPB confirms that many are still on track to emerge into the wild, as corporate FOMO asserts itself.

“Underneath the surface, activity in Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) is in full speed, even within financial institutions.”

One financial adoption story (it’s not all about Ripple, which doesn’t get a mention from GPB) that hasn’t had much coverage was the announcement from Calastone that it will be moving its global fund transaction business on to blockchain. That will have the effect of reducing costs for mutual fund investors, assuming the savings are passed on by fund giants such as Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity.

Calastone is no small fry – it has trading volumes valued at $80 billion per month, with 1,300 institutions part of its network in 34 markets around the world.

Julien Hammerson, Calastone’s chief executive, remarked in the company’s press release: “In making this first step using blockchain, we are providing our customers with the requisite tools they need, to be future-ready.”

Saxo Bank predicts credit breakdown – that’s a crypto opportunity

The other prediction with crypto implications – from Saxo Bank – has been passed over by both the crypto and mainstream financial media.

Earlier this month Saxo Bank released its annual “10 outrageous Predictions” and it has to be said that this year they don’t sound too outrageous given the times we live in.

Among 2019’s 10 predictions are a recession in Germany and the sacking of the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell by president Trump – neither of which are probably too far off the mark.

However, it is its fifth prediction that should interest cryptowatchers.

Number five foretells a corporate credit crunch that sees Netflix and General Electric (GE) caught in a downward-spiraling debt crisis.

That would represent a dramatic reversal of leadership in the equity markets, as traditional value stocks (but not GE) with healthy cash flows and reliable and growing dividend payments replace growth companies such as the FAANG stocks of the tech sector.

GE, once the bellwether of the US economy and its most valuable company, is struggling. Saxo predicts the rollover of its $100 billion in liabilities freaking out the credit market “pushing the credit default price above 600 basis points”.

The panic ensnares Netflix, Saxo predicts.

“The carnage even spreads as far as Netflix where investors suddenly fret the firm’s fearsome leverage, with a net debt to EBIDTA after CAPEX ratio of 3.4 and over $10bn in debt on the balance sheet. Netflix’s funding costs double, slamming the brakes on content growth and gutting the share price.”

Why should any of that matter for crypto?

Credit is the oil that keeps the machine working. Credit is fundamental to how not just the financial but the entire economic system works, allowing firms such as Netflix and Tesla to build their businesses despite the absence of profits, with lenders banking on their return on capital down the line when products come to market and the cash starts to flow.

Bitcoin to $8,761,904

But if the credit market’s breakdown, that’s a huge problem for the credibility of the financial system.

It is brought into even starker perspective by the latest IMF data for global private and public debt, which it estimates at $184 trillion in 2017. That works out at $86,000 for every person on the planet.

Or if you prefer to use the equation of exchange approach to bitcoin valuation, assuming debt acts as a form of money creation, you could divide that debt pile by 21,000,000 to give you a price of $8,761,904 for bitcoin.

So, the next time someone (Nouriel Roubini perchance or economist Kenneth Rogoff who says buying crypto is a lottery) tells you that crypto is in a bubble (true, but perhaps near full deflation) and is intrinsically worthless (false, because it transacts value and stores it, no matter how inefficiently), remind them about the mountain of debt that keeps the current system afloat and artificially inflates asset values.

Fictitious capital on balance sheets

It is true that those massive debt liabilities are meant to be balanced by assets – in a balance sheet. But in the real world, those “assets” may not be worth the paper they are written on.

The divergence of debt from its asset mooring does not exactly encourage trust in the monetary forms that give it expression.

Chief economist at Saxo, Steen Jakobsen puts it this way:

“This year’s edition [of its outrageous predictions] has a unifying theme of ‘enough is enough’. A world running on empty will have to wake up and start creating reforms, not because it wants to but because it has to. The signs are everywhere.”

He continues:

“We think 2019 will mark a profound pivot away from this mentality as we are reaching the end of the road in piling on new debt and next year will see us all beginning to pay the piper for our errant ways.”

Sgt Barnes in the modern movie classic Platoon puts it more succinctly: “When the machine breaks down, we break down”.

Just as the Great Recession led to the invention of bitcoin, the breakdown of the credit cycle could be the backdrop to the next act in the long game of crypto adoption.

Even the fiat-loving skeptics may be forced to consider what was once the unthinkable.

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GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

Predictions from respected corners of the mainstream financial world – GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank – could be good news for the crypto industry and its status as a valid and profitable asset class.

US advisory and investment firm, GP Bullhound (GPB), under the subhead “Cryptocurrency will Grow Up”, concurs with the balance of opinion among analysts covering crypto, that institutional money will lead the recovery.

GPB’s prediction report is bullish:

“We are yet to see the best of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain activity is picking up with even traditional financial institutions ensuring they do not get left behind. 2019 should be the year institutional capital flows into cryptocurrency, with previous obstructions and tight regulations lifted,”

Last year the tech-focused investment firm correctly foresaw the crypto implosion, which in hindsight some might say was not too difficult to predict. It did, however, put a number on its premonition, arguing that a 90% correction would take place, although it has been surprised by the speed of the collapse.

Nine out of 10 of its 2018 predictions have proven to be correct, so its 2019 crypto recovery prediction should not be dismissed as just more hot air from investment firms trying to protect their investments.

And for institutions, it’s not just the attraction of the financial gains of buying coins at the bottom (wherever and whenever that might be), but investment in distributed ledger tech more broadly:

“We predict 2019 will be the year of institutional capital inflow into blockchain, which will not be solely financially motivated, but backed by increasing demand we see on the corporate and family office side and their desire to build positions. Initially this will happen through funds, equity investing into blockchain technology projects as well as financial instruments and derivative products related to major cryptocurrencies.”

Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform is likely to be one of the critical on-ramps for “institutional capital inflow”, as too might be the small number of regulated instruments that currently exist.

These include the Bitcoin Investment Trust from Barry Silbert’s Grayscale Investments (although it trades at a premium to its net asset value which would be off-putting); the exchange traded notes (these are debt instruments, not ETFs) provided by CoinShares’ XBT Provider Bitcoin and Ethereum tracker products and newer offerings such as the Amun Crypto Market Basket Index ETP, which recently launched the first regulated crypto index fund in Europe on the Swiss main market.

Amun’s product currently has the second-highest turnover of all exchange traded products on the Swiss market.

Add to that the growing interest in security token offerings (STOs) that EWN reported on in November, and the entry routes are coming into view, and GPB agrees:

“There is a massive wave of fully compliant security token offerings (“STOs”) lined up and also the developments around tokenization of assets (“TOAs”) is extensive – both are expected to continue to raise the bar on market standards very fast…”

However, as GPB underlines, institutional entry still faces the issues around regulatory clarity, liquidity and custody.

Nevertheless, Olga Feldmeier, chief executive of Smart Valor, which is building a security token platform, commenting on GP Bullhound’s bullish stance, noted: “Cryptocurrencies will continue to innovate beyond the well-known bitcoin and Ethereum, and we will see many more coin and payment products emerging. All that will clear the way for mass adoption, which we will see in the second half of 2019.”

GP Bullhound’s ones to watch

GPB’s companies/partnerships to watch are:

Alibaba, AWS/Qtum, Binance, Bitfury, Blockstack, Bloomberg/Galaxy, Coinbase, Gemini, Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, IBM/Stellar, Ledger, Revolut, NYSE Bakkt, Rockefeller/Venrock, t3, Yale, Stanford University, Harvard University, MIT, Fidelity

GPB’s Coins to watch:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and Stellar.

The year blockchain gets out of the labs

For those that were starting to lose faith in blockchain tech ever emerging from the fintech labs of the many financial institutions running pilots, GPB confirms that many are still on track to emerge into the wild, as corporate FOMO asserts itself.

“Underneath the surface, activity in Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) is in full speed, even within financial institutions.”

One financial adoption story (it’s not all about Ripple, which doesn’t get a mention from GPB) that hasn’t had much coverage was the announcement from Calastone that it will be moving its global fund transaction business on to blockchain. That will have the effect of reducing costs for mutual fund investors, assuming the savings are passed on by fund giants such as Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity.

Calastone is no small fry – it has trading volumes valued at $80 billion per month, with 1,300 institutions part of its network in 34 markets around the world.

Julien Hammerson, Calastone’s chief executive, remarked in the company’s press release: “In making this first step using blockchain, we are providing our customers with the requisite tools they need, to be future-ready.”

Saxo Bank predicts credit breakdown – that’s a crypto opportunity

The other prediction with crypto implications – from Saxo Bank – has been passed over by both the crypto and mainstream financial media.

Earlier this month Saxo Bank released its annual “10 outrageous Predictions” and it has to be said that this year they don’t sound too outrageous given the times we live in.

Among 2019’s 10 predictions are a recession in Germany and the sacking of the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell by president Trump – neither of which are probably too far off the mark.

However, it is its fifth prediction that should interest cryptowatchers.

Number five foretells a corporate credit crunch that sees Netflix and General Electric (GE) caught in a downward-spiraling debt crisis.

That would represent a dramatic reversal of leadership in the equity markets, as traditional value stocks (but not GE) with healthy cash flows and reliable and growing dividend payments replace growth companies such as the FAANG stocks of the tech sector.

GE, once the bellwether of the US economy and its most valuable company, is struggling. Saxo predicts the rollover of its $100 billion in liabilities freaking out the credit market “pushing the credit default price above 600 basis points”.

The panic ensnares Netflix, Saxo predicts.

“The carnage even spreads as far as Netflix where investors suddenly fret the firm’s fearsome leverage, with a net debt to EBIDTA after CAPEX ratio of 3.4 and over $10bn in debt on the balance sheet. Netflix’s funding costs double, slamming the brakes on content growth and gutting the share price.”

Why should any of that matter for crypto?

Credit is the oil that keeps the machine working. Credit is fundamental to how not just the financial but the entire economic system works, allowing firms such as Netflix and Tesla to build their businesses despite the absence of profits, with lenders banking on their return on capital down the line when products come to market and the cash starts to flow.

Bitcoin to $8,761,904

But if the credit market’s breakdown, that’s a huge problem for the credibility of the financial system.

It is brought into even starker perspective by the latest IMF data for global private and public debt, which it estimates at $184 trillion in 2017. That works out at $86,000 for every person on the planet.

Or if you prefer to use the equation of exchange approach to bitcoin valuation, assuming debt acts as a form of money creation, you could divide that debt pile by 21,000,000 to give you a price of $8,761,904 for bitcoin.

So, the next time someone (Nouriel Roubini perchance or economist Kenneth Rogoff who says buying crypto is a lottery) tells you that crypto is in a bubble (true, but perhaps near full deflation) and is intrinsically worthless (false, because it transacts value and stores it, no matter how inefficiently), remind them about the mountain of debt that keeps the current system afloat and artificially inflates asset values.

Fictitious capital on balance sheets

It is true that those massive debt liabilities are meant to be balanced by assets – in a balance sheet. But in the real world, those “assets” may not be worth the paper they are written on.

The divergence of debt from its asset mooring does not exactly encourage trust in the monetary forms that give it expression.

Chief economist at Saxo, Steen Jakobsen puts it this way:

“This year’s edition [of its outrageous predictions] has a unifying theme of ‘enough is enough’. A world running on empty will have to wake up and start creating reforms, not because it wants to but because it has to. The signs are everywhere.”

He continues:

“We think 2019 will mark a profound pivot away from this mentality as we are reaching the end of the road in piling on new debt and next year will see us all beginning to pay the piper for our errant ways.”

Sgt Barnes in the modern movie classic Platoon puts it more succinctly: “When the machine breaks down, we break down”.

Just as the Great Recession led to the invention of bitcoin, the breakdown of the credit cycle could be the backdrop to the next act in the long game of crypto adoption.

Even the fiat-loving skeptics may be forced to consider what was once the unthinkable.

    Original Source https://ift.tt/2QBMsOc

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GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

Predictions from respected corners of the mainstream financial world – GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank – could be good news for the crypto industry and its status as a valid and profitable asset class.

US advisory and investment firm, GP Bullhound (GPB), under the subhead “Cryptocurrency will Grow Up”, concurs with the balance of opinion among analysts covering crypto, that institutional money will lead the recovery.

GPB’s prediction report is bullish:

“We are yet to see the best of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain activity is picking up with even traditional financial institutions ensuring they do not get left behind. 2019 should be the year institutional capital flows into cryptocurrency, with previous obstructions and tight regulations lifted,”

Last year the tech-focused investment firm correctly foresaw the crypto implosion, which in hindsight some might say was not too difficult to predict. It did, however, put a number on its premonition, arguing that a 90% correction would take place, although it has been surprised by the speed of the collapse.

Nine out of 10 of its 2018 predictions have proven to be correct, so its 2019 crypto recovery prediction should not be dismissed as just more hot air from investment firms trying to protect their investments.

And for institutions, it’s not just the attraction of the financial gains of buying coins at the bottom (wherever and whenever that might be), but investment in distributed ledger tech more broadly:

“We predict 2019 will be the year of institutional capital inflow into blockchain, which will not be solely financially motivated, but backed by increasing demand we see on the corporate and family office side and their desire to build positions. Initially this will happen through funds, equity investing into blockchain technology projects as well as financial instruments and derivative products related to major cryptocurrencies.”

Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform is likely to be one of the critical on-ramps for “institutional capital inflow”, as too might be the small number of regulated instruments that currently exist.

These include the Bitcoin Investment Trust from Barry Silbert’s Grayscale Investments (although it trades at a premium to its net asset value which would be off-putting); the exchange traded notes (these are debt instruments, not ETFs) provided by CoinShares’ XBT Provider Bitcoin and Ethereum tracker products and newer offerings such as the Amun Crypto Market Basket Index ETP, which recently launched the first regulated crypto index fund in Europe on the Swiss main market.

Amun’s product currently has the second-highest turnover of all exchange traded products on the Swiss market.

Add to that the growing interest in security token offerings (STOs) that EWN reported on in November, and the entry routes are coming into view, and GPB agrees:

“There is a massive wave of fully compliant security token offerings (“STOs”) lined up and also the developments around tokenization of assets (“TOAs”) is extensive – both are expected to continue to raise the bar on market standards very fast…”

However, as GPB underlines, institutional entry still faces the issues around regulatory clarity, liquidity and custody.

Nevertheless, Olga Feldmeier, chief executive of Smart Valor, which is building a security token platform, commenting on GP Bullhound’s bullish stance, noted: “Cryptocurrencies will continue to innovate beyond the well-known bitcoin and Ethereum, and we will see many more coin and payment products emerging. All that will clear the way for mass adoption, which we will see in the second half of 2019.”

GP Bullhound’s ones to watch

GPB’s companies/partnerships to watch are:

Alibaba, AWS/Qtum, Binance, Bitfury, Blockstack, Bloomberg/Galaxy, Coinbase, Gemini, Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, IBM/Stellar, Ledger, Revolut, NYSE Bakkt, Rockefeller/Venrock, t3, Yale, Stanford University, Harvard University, MIT, Fidelity

GPB’s Coins to watch:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and Stellar.

The year blockchain gets out of the labs

For those that were starting to lose faith in blockchain tech ever emerging from the fintech labs of the many financial institutions running pilots, GPB confirms that many are still on track to emerge into the wild, as corporate FOMO asserts itself.

“Underneath the surface, activity in Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) is in full speed, even within financial institutions.”

One financial adoption story (it’s not all about Ripple, which doesn’t get a mention from GPB) that hasn’t had much coverage was the announcement from Calastone that it will be moving its global fund transaction business on to blockchain. That will have the effect of reducing costs for mutual fund investors, assuming the savings are passed on by fund giants such as Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity.

Calastone is no small fry – it has trading volumes valued at $80 billion per month, with 1,300 institutions part of its network in 34 markets around the world.

Julien Hammerson, Calastone’s chief executive, remarked in the company’s press release: “In making this first step using blockchain, we are providing our customers with the requisite tools they need, to be future-ready.”

Saxo Bank predicts credit breakdown – that’s a crypto opportunity

The other prediction with crypto implications – from Saxo Bank – has been passed over by both the crypto and mainstream financial media.

Earlier this month Saxo Bank released its annual “10 outrageous Predictions” and it has to be said that this year they don’t sound too outrageous given the times we live in.

Among 2019’s 10 predictions are a recession in Germany and the sacking of the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell by president Trump – neither of which are probably too far off the mark.

However, it is its fifth prediction that should interest cryptowatchers.

Number five foretells a corporate credit crunch that sees Netflix and General Electric (GE) caught in a downward-spiraling debt crisis.

That would represent a dramatic reversal of leadership in the equity markets, as traditional value stocks (but not GE) with healthy cash flows and reliable and growing dividend payments replace growth companies such as the FAANG stocks of the tech sector.

GE, once the bellwether of the US economy and its most valuable company, is struggling. Saxo predicts the rollover of its $100 billion in liabilities freaking out the credit market “pushing the credit default price above 600 basis points”.

The panic ensnares Netflix, Saxo predicts.

“The carnage even spreads as far as Netflix where investors suddenly fret the firm’s fearsome leverage, with a net debt to EBIDTA after CAPEX ratio of 3.4 and over $10bn in debt on the balance sheet. Netflix’s funding costs double, slamming the brakes on content growth and gutting the share price.”

Why should any of that matter for crypto?

Credit is the oil that keeps the machine working. Credit is fundamental to how not just the financial but the entire economic system works, allowing firms such as Netflix and Tesla to build their businesses despite the absence of profits, with lenders banking on their return on capital down the line when products come to market and the cash starts to flow.

Bitcoin to $8,761,904

But if the credit market’s breakdown, that’s a huge problem for the credibility of the financial system.

It is brought into even starker perspective by the latest IMF data for global private and public debt, which it estimates at $184 trillion in 2017. That works out at $86,000 for every person on the planet.

Or if you prefer to use the equation of exchange approach to bitcoin valuation, assuming debt acts as a form of money creation, you could divide that debt pile by 21,000,000 to give you a price of $8,761,904 for bitcoin.

So, the next time someone (Nouriel Roubini perchance or economist Kenneth Rogoff who says buying crypto is a lottery) tells you that crypto is in a bubble (true, but perhaps near full deflation) and is intrinsically worthless (false, because it transacts value and stores it, no matter how inefficiently), remind them about the mountain of debt that keeps the current system afloat and artificially inflates asset values.

Fictitious capital on balance sheets

It is true that those massive debt liabilities are meant to be balanced by assets – in a balance sheet. But in the real world, those “assets” may not be worth the paper they are written on.

The divergence of debt from its asset mooring does not exactly encourage trust in the monetary forms that give it expression.

Chief economist at Saxo, Steen Jakobsen puts it this way:

“This year’s edition [of its outrageous predictions] has a unifying theme of ‘enough is enough’. A world running on empty will have to wake up and start creating reforms, not because it wants to but because it has to. The signs are everywhere.”

He continues:

“We think 2019 will mark a profound pivot away from this mentality as we are reaching the end of the road in piling on new debt and next year will see us all beginning to pay the piper for our errant ways.”

Sgt Barnes in the modern movie classic Platoon puts it more succinctly: “When the machine breaks down, we break down”.

Just as the Great Recession led to the invention of bitcoin, the breakdown of the credit cycle could be the backdrop to the next act in the long game of crypto adoption.

Even the fiat-loving skeptics may be forced to consider what was once the unthinkable.

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GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

GP Bullhound sees 2019 bitcoin recovery, credit market crash may help too

Predictions from respected corners of the mainstream financial world – GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank – could be good news for the crypto industry and its status as a valid and profitable asset class.

US advisory and investment firm, GP Bullhound (GPB), under the subhead “Cryptocurrency will Grow Up”, concurs with the balance of opinion among analysts covering crypto, that institutional money will lead the recovery.

GPB’s prediction report is bullish:

“We are yet to see the best of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain activity is picking up with even traditional financial institutions ensuring they do not get left behind. 2019 should be the year institutional capital flows into cryptocurrency, with previous obstructions and tight regulations lifted,”

Last year the tech-focused investment firm correctly foresaw the crypto implosion, which in hindsight some might say was not too difficult to predict. It did, however, put a number on its premonition, arguing that a 90% correction would take place, although it has been surprised by the speed of the collapse.

Nine out of 10 of its 2018 predictions have proven to be correct, so its 2019 crypto recovery prediction should not be dismissed as just more hot air from investment firms trying to protect their investments.

And for institutions, it’s not just the attraction of the financial gains of buying coins at the bottom (wherever and whenever that might be), but investment in distributed ledger tech more broadly:

“We predict 2019 will be the year of institutional capital inflow into blockchain, which will not be solely financially motivated, but backed by increasing demand we see on the corporate and family office side and their desire to build positions. Initially this will happen through funds, equity investing into blockchain technology projects as well as financial instruments and derivative products related to major cryptocurrencies.”

Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform is likely to be one of the critical on-ramps for “institutional capital inflow”, as too might be the small number of regulated instruments that currently exist.

These include the Bitcoin Investment Trust from Barry Silbert’s Grayscale Investments (although it trades at a premium to its net asset value which would be off-putting); the exchange traded notes (these are debt instruments, not ETFs) provided by CoinShares’ XBT Provider Bitcoin and Ethereum tracker products and newer offerings such as the Amun Crypto Market Basket Index ETP, which recently launched the first regulated crypto index fund in Europe on the Swiss main market.

Amun’s product currently has the second-highest turnover of all exchange traded products on the Swiss market.

Add to that the growing interest in security token offerings (STOs) that EWN reported on in November, and the entry routes are coming into view, and GPB agrees:

“There is a massive wave of fully compliant security token offerings (“STOs”) lined up and also the developments around tokenization of assets (“TOAs”) is extensive – both are expected to continue to raise the bar on market standards very fast…”

However, as GPB underlines, institutional entry still faces the issues around regulatory clarity, liquidity and custody.

Nevertheless, Olga Feldmeier, chief executive of Smart Valor, which is building a security token platform, commenting on GP Bullhound’s bullish stance, noted: “Cryptocurrencies will continue to innovate beyond the well-known bitcoin and Ethereum, and we will see many more coin and payment products emerging. All that will clear the way for mass adoption, which we will see in the second half of 2019.”

GP Bullhound’s ones to watch

GPB’s companies/partnerships to watch are:

Alibaba, AWS/Qtum, Binance, Bitfury, Blockstack, Bloomberg/Galaxy, Coinbase, Gemini, Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, IBM/Stellar, Ledger, Revolut, NYSE Bakkt, Rockefeller/Venrock, t3, Yale, Stanford University, Harvard University, MIT, Fidelity

GPB’s Coins to watch:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and Stellar.

The year blockchain gets out of the labs

For those that were starting to lose faith in blockchain tech ever emerging from the fintech labs of the many financial institutions running pilots, GPB confirms that many are still on track to emerge into the wild, as corporate FOMO asserts itself.

“Underneath the surface, activity in Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”) is in full speed, even within financial institutions.”

One financial adoption story (it’s not all about Ripple, which doesn’t get a mention from GPB) that hasn’t had much coverage was the announcement from Calastone that it will be moving its global fund transaction business on to blockchain. That will have the effect of reducing costs for mutual fund investors, assuming the savings are passed on by fund giants such as Vanguard, BlackRock and Fidelity.

Calastone is no small fry – it has trading volumes valued at $80 billion per month, with 1,300 institutions part of its network in 34 markets around the world.

Julien Hammerson, Calastone’s chief executive, remarked in the company’s press release: “In making this first step using blockchain, we are providing our customers with the requisite tools they need, to be future-ready.”

Saxo Bank predicts credit breakdown – that’s a crypto opportunity

The other prediction with crypto implications – from Saxo Bank – has been passed over by both the crypto and mainstream financial media.

Earlier this month Saxo Bank released its annual “10 outrageous Predictions” and it has to be said that this year they don’t sound too outrageous given the times we live in.

Among 2019’s 10 predictions are a recession in Germany and the sacking of the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell by president Trump – neither of which are probably too far off the mark.

However, it is its fifth prediction that should interest cryptowatchers.

Number five foretells a corporate credit crunch that sees Netflix and General Electric (GE) caught in a downward-spiraling debt crisis.

That would represent a dramatic reversal of leadership in the equity markets, as traditional value stocks (but not GE) with healthy cash flows and reliable and growing dividend payments replace growth companies such as the FAANG stocks of the tech sector.

GE, once the bellwether of the US economy and its most valuable company, is struggling. Saxo predicts the rollover of its $100 billion in liabilities freaking out the credit market “pushing the credit default price above 600 basis points”.

The panic ensnares Netflix, Saxo predicts.

“The carnage even spreads as far as Netflix where investors suddenly fret the firm’s fearsome leverage, with a net debt to EBIDTA after CAPEX ratio of 3.4 and over $10bn in debt on the balance sheet. Netflix’s funding costs double, slamming the brakes on content growth and gutting the share price.”

Why should any of that matter for crypto?

Credit is the oil that keeps the machine working. Credit is fundamental to how not just the financial but the entire economic system works, allowing firms such as Netflix and Tesla to build their businesses despite the absence of profits, with lenders banking on their return on capital down the line when products come to market and the cash starts to flow.

Bitcoin to $8,761,904

But if the credit market’s breakdown, that’s a huge problem for the credibility of the financial system.

It is brought into even starker perspective by the latest IMF data for global private and public debt, which it estimates at $184 trillion in 2017. That works out at $86,000 for every person on the planet.

Or if you prefer to use the equation of exchange approach to bitcoin valuation, assuming debt acts as a form of money creation, you could divide that debt pile by 21,000,000 to give you a price of $8,761,904 for bitcoin.

So, the next time someone (Nouriel Roubini perchance or economist Kenneth Rogoff who says buying crypto is a lottery) tells you that crypto is in a bubble (true, but perhaps near full deflation) and is intrinsically worthless (false, because it transacts value and stores it, no matter how inefficiently), remind them about the mountain of debt that keeps the current system afloat and artificially inflates asset values.

Fictitious capital on balance sheets

It is true that those massive debt liabilities are meant to be balanced by assets – in a balance sheet. But in the real world, those “assets” may not be worth the paper they are written on.

The divergence of debt from its asset mooring does not exactly encourage trust in the monetary forms that give it expression.

Chief economist at Saxo, Steen Jakobsen puts it this way:

“This year’s edition [of its outrageous predictions] has a unifying theme of ‘enough is enough’. A world running on empty will have to wake up and start creating reforms, not because it wants to but because it has to. The signs are everywhere.”

He continues:

“We think 2019 will mark a profound pivot away from this mentality as we are reaching the end of the road in piling on new debt and next year will see us all beginning to pay the piper for our errant ways.”

Sgt Barnes in the modern movie classic Platoon puts it more succinctly: “When the machine breaks down, we break down”.

Just as the Great Recession led to the invention of bitcoin, the breakdown of the credit cycle could be the backdrop to the next act in the long game of crypto adoption.

Even the fiat-loving skeptics may be forced to consider what was once the unthinkable.

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The thought flows through my mind And it's growing all the time I do myself a disservice To feel this weak, to be this nervous You say something loving. 

[t-baba]

#309: Web Performance in The Real World - How to Make Fast Sites

Frontend Focus

Issue 309 — September 27, 2017

CSS font-display: The Future of Font Rendering on the Web

Giulio Mainardi explains the new font-display property and how it will help CSS developers improve rendering of fonts during page load.

SitePoint

The Mega HTML5 Cheatsheet

A lot of stuff packed into this huge infographic from tags and events to canvas methods and a support grid.

Bradley Nice

Generic Sensor API: Sensors For The Web

A set of interfaces which expose sensor devices within Chrome (for now).

Google Developers

Building an Accessible Data Grid

Most applications require some use of a data grid, and making a grid accessible can be a big challenge. Take a look at how Wijmo made FlexGrid accessible with ARIA standards and more.

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React 16: A Look Inside React's API-Compatible Rewrite

React 16 has been released and redesigned from the ground up to support asynchronous rendering without changing the public API.

Facebook Code

Web Performance in The Real World: How to Make Fast Sites

An exploration of work the Microsoft Edge team does to help developers build faster sites, and how to think of performance as an investigative activity, beyond a checklist approach.

Nolan Lawson

How Trivago Went from Neglecting to Embracing Accessibility

How travel site Trivago went from neglecting accessibility to making it an important part of what they do.

Ian Devlin

Firefox 'Quantum' Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

The beta of a whole new Firefox is out now, one that’s powered by a completely reinvented, modernized engine, called Firefox Quantum.

Mozilla

Addressing Common Misconceptions About the Payment Request API

Eiji Kitamura, a developer advocate at Google, calls out some common misconceptions about the API and tries to comprehensively address them.

Google Dev Channel

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In Brief

New WebKit Features in Safari 11 on iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra news It adds WebRTC, WebAssembly, Variable Fonts, Timing APIs and more. Jon Davis

Changes to Chrome's Video Autoplay Policy news Muted autoplay will be fine, but for audio to play some conditions must be met. François Beaufort

Chrome 63 To Label FTP Servers As 'Not Secure' news Zeljka Zorz

2017 Chrome Developer Summit is coming to San Francisco news Join us in San Francisco & on the live stream as we explore building beautiful and performant experiences. Google, Inc.  Sponsor

Intriguing CSS Level 4 Selectors tutorial Including :placeholder-shown and :user-error Dennis Gaebel

Designing Websites for the iPhone X tutorial Advice from the WebKit team for handling the iPhone X ‘notch’. WebKit

Playing With Color: Vibrant Options For Apps And Websites tutorial Nick Babich

An Introduction to WebRender: Firefox's New 2D Renderer story Nicolas Silva

Exploring Animation And Interaction Techniques with WebGL story Karim Maaloul

Using JavaScript for Speech Recognition in the Browser video Wes Bos

5 Things CSS Developers Wish They Knew Before They Started opinion Andrés Galante

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3 Tools for Working with Web Animations in Firefox tools Mozilla

Diffee Checker: Check Visual Differences Between Sites tools It uses CSS blend modes to do it. Una Kravets

Logo Crunch: The Multi-Resolution Logo/Favicon Maker tools Uses computer vision to make a high-res graphic more legible at lower resolutions. Brandmark

winamp2-js: An HTML5 Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 code Demo. Jordan Eldredge

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web code Jerome Etienne

Wretch: A Tiny Wrapper Around Fetch with an Intuitive Syntax code Julien Elbaz

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#353: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JS

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Issue 353 — September 22, 2017

To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JS

A summary of an academic paper that concludes both Flow and TypeScript are good at preventing bugs that could end up in committed code.

Adrian Colyer

A Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet

Plenty of JS terminology explained, along with code examples, in this thorough guide.

Manuel Beaudru

JavaScript Telemetry: Black Box Recorder for App Crashes

JavaScript telemetry gives a timeline of browser events leading to an error, including interaction events, like clicks, inputs, navigation and console messages + more. Debug better w/ telemetry and know why your app crashed.

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CoffeeScript 2: A New CoffeeScript for the ES6+ Era

This new release of the controversial compile-to-JS language preserves its clean syntax but bridges the gap with ES6 and beyond.

CoffeeScript

The End of Framework Churn

The CEO of Ionic suggests that incompatibility between component models results in framework churn and that Web Components will provide a resolution.

Max Lynch

Top 10 ES6 Features Demonstrated by Example

An example-driven tour of the key features of ES6/ES2015, if you’re not quite there yet.

Łukasz Kyć

Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today

Using the new `script type=”module”` approach gives us some benefits merely beyond loading ES modules alone - it guarantees ES6/ES2015 support.

Philip Walton

Jobs

Distributed Systems Engineer at Ably (Remote in EU)If consensus algorithms get your mental juices flowing, come join the team behind a global & fault-tolerant messaging platform. Ably realtime

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In Brief

Angular v5 Release Delayed to October news It was originally due this week. Dor Moshe

Upcoming TypeScript Changes in Vue 2.5 news Evan You

How to Build Your Own Fax Machine with Tessel, JavaScript and Twilio tutorial The death of fax has been greatly exaggerated! Twilio Programmable Fax allows you to send and receive fax in the cloud. Twilio  Sponsor

Modern Ways to Use C++ in JavaScript Projects tutorial node Maga D. Zandaqo

Subclassing Arrays in ES2015 tutorial David Tang

U Go Hue Go: Controlling Philips Lights with Angular & Kendo UI tutorial Tara Manicsic

5 Favorites in Emerging Web Standards  SitePen  Sponsor

How I Cut My Webpack Bundle Size in Half story Justin Duke

Using ReactJS, ES6 & JSX to Build a UI (the rise of MERN)  Part 5 of our Modern Application Stack series - Why ReactJS is driving the development of modern applications. MONGODB  Sponsor

billboard.js: A Simple Chart Library Based on D3 V4 code v1.1.0 has just been released. Naver Corp

Vuetify: A Material Design Component Framework for Vue.js 2 code

Dexie 2.0: A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB code Provides a neater API and error handling for the IndexedDB browser database API. David Fahlander

mongoist: A MongoDB Driver for Node Built with async/await In Mind code Christoph Walcher

ngraph.path: Fast Path Finding for Arbitrary Graphs code Demo here. Andrei Kashcha

winamp2-js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 & JavaScript code ‘Whipping the llama’s ass’ with JS. Demo here. Jordan Eldredge

Nano Events: A 119 Byte Event Emitter Library code Andrey Sitnik

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web code Jerome Etienne

Bosket: Tree View Components for React, Angular, Vue and Riot code Julien Elbaz

Wretch: A Tiny Wrapper Around Fetch with an Intuitive Syntax code Julien Elbaz

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