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He broke a hiking record on the PCT . . . This was the extreme physical toll

Nick Fowler set a record for the fastest self-supported thru-hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. Here he took a selfie at mile marker 300 in the Southern California desert. Nick Fowler

SF Chronicle writer Gregory Thomas continues his interest in fast hiking of the PCT as he talks to Nick Fowler, new record holder for the fastest unsupported hike of the PCT. [See also the last post about Karel Sabbe's fastest support hike of the PCT.] Unsupported means that Fowler did not have a team to meet him on the trail with food or water or shelter. Fowler would have had to send himself his resupply or travel into trail towns to purchase food. It is an amazing achievement but not without consequences . . . including significant health issues. Interestingly, Fowler walked his hike SOBO.

An Oklahoma hiker traveling alone shattered the speed record for a self-supported thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. That means he trekked the 2,650-mile trail solo, without the backing of a crew to help him make camp, cook or care for his body along the arduous journey.

Starting in Washington state in July and heading south, Nick Fowler covered an average of about 51 miles per day for 52 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes. He arrived in Campo (San Diego County), near the Mexico border, on Sept. 6, having beaten the previous self-supported record by more than three days.

On Monday morning, Fowler said his body is paying the price for the effort: His toes and forefeet are still numb.

“I’m exhausted,” he told the Chronicle. “I’ve been doing nothing but eating and sleeping since I got home.”

Speed records on the Pacific Crest Trail — and for that matter the Appalachian Trail, too — have been falling the past several years as extreme endurance athletes have taken interest in one-upping each other to establish fastest known times, or FKTs, on America’s wilderness trails. Several of the players belong to the burgeoning global community of ultrarunners — niche performers who participate in 100-mile-plus foot races in the mountains — including Karel Sabbe, who last month smashed the record for a supported thru-hike of the PCT, completing the trail in 46 days.

Nick Fowler sits at the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail near the U.S.-Mexico border in early September.Nick Fowler

Fowler, by contrast, is a 35-year-old entrepreneur from Tulsa who says he hadn’t hiked much at all until four years ago. “I’m a nobody,” he told the Chronicle. “I’m brand new to this.”

In 2019, Fowler and his wife lit out in a van to visit all 63 national parks across the country. Along the way, he discovered a love for the outdoors and became fixated on pushing his body to the max.

Two years ago, he set the self-supported FKT on the 1,248-mile Pacific Northwest Trail, which crosses mountain ranges in Montana, Idaho and Washington. Last year he claimed the same record on the Ozark Trail in Missouri. His high mark for a single day of hiking is 78 miles, he said.

But each trek took a toll, and Fowler came away with ligament damage in his ankles and a stress fracture in one foot. Last winter, he prepared for the PCT while on crutches, healing from a foot injury.

The past several PCT record-setters have attacked the trail from south to north, in part to avoid the worst of late-summer heat in the Southern California desert. But Fowler thought heading in the reverse direction would give him an edge: He’d start in Washington’s Cascade Range, where last winter’s snowfall was relatively low, then hit the High Sierra later in summer, when its historic snowpack would be at its thinnest and the landscape would be most easily passable.

The first half of his hike was relatively fast and smooth. He went ultralight, carrying a kit with a base weight of just 7½ pounds, and covered 55 miles per day. Every few days he’d detour into a town to buy food or pick up resupply boxes of clothes and shoes he’d mailed himself along the route.

Then he hit the High Sierra, roughly halfway through, “and it all kind of hit the fan,” Fowler said.

Exhaustion, dizzy spells, a pulled quadriceps, and “the nastiest blister I ever had in my life” chipped away at Fowler’s well-being. Then his urine turned blood red, the result of a condition called rhabdomyolysis, when muscles break down and release their contents into the blood.

The 10,000 calories per day Fowler had budgeted wasn’t enough to sustain him, so his starving body started pulling proteins and electrolytes from his damaged muscles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines rhabdomyolysis, which can be triggered by intense exertion, as “a serious medical condition that can be fatal or result in permanent disability.”

“I kept going even though everyone was telling me to stop,” Fowler said.

Attempting such an extreme objective forces a person to confront physical and mental limits, said Heather “Anish” Anderson, an author and respected endurance adventurer who set the self-supported FKT in 2013. During her trek, she felt her body “really breaking down,” she said.

Near Mount Shasta, Fowler crossed paths with Sabbe, the ultrarunner working on his supported FKT, and the two snapped a selfie together. Sabbe was being paced by two crew members, one of whom Fowler saw shuttling cans of soda for Sabbe — standard procedure for supported thru-hikers but an impossibility for those going self-supported.

“I was so jealous,” Fowler said. “I would have done anything for a cold pop in certain places.”

While traversing the High Sierra, Fowler encountered a ranger who was warning hikers off the trail: A hurricane of historic proportions was bearing down on Southern California and was forecast to bring deadly conditions to the mountains there.

“I thought, ‘I’ve already gone through so much, I’m not turning back now,’ ” Fowler said.

When Hurricane Hilary reached the southern Sierra, Fowler had to spend nearly two days hunkered down in a cave in the mountains.Nick Fowler

“I came out of the Sierra thinking, ‘Thank God I don’t have to deal with water anymore,’ ” he said.

The final stretch in the desert was so hot, and Fowler was so physically depleted, that the rhabdomyolysis returned and the hiker’s hands locked up on him, making it difficult for him to buckle his backpack straps.

By the time he arrived at the trail’s southern terminus to meet his wife, Fowler had been out of food and water for hours and hadn’t seen another hiker in days. “I felt like crap,” he said. “It was a real rough finish.”

FastestKnownTime.com, the record keeper for mountain treks, is reviewing Fowler’s record claim, which includes his GPS track, photos and trail notes.

Several days after finishing, Fowler said he’s still “in a fog” mentally and physically but had no regrets.

“It’s the funnest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” he said. “It’s just fascinating what the human body is capable of.”

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1. A welcome reduction: Belgium's deficit to be €6 billion less than thought

Belgium is on course for a budget deficit that is €6 billion lower than previously estimated this year, as falling energy prices and reduced government-mandated wage indexations continue to ease pressures on the country's public finances. Read more.

2. France pension reform protests: Hundreds of arrests, traffic blocked in Paris

More than 300 people were arrested in France on Thursday during demonstrations against the government plan to force through a disputed pension reform that will raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. Read more.

3. Antwerp instructs local theatre to replace 'woke' photos with classical paintings

Four contemporary so-called "woke" photos – such as a woman wearing a headscarf – that hang in the stairwell of the Arenbergschouwburg theatre in Antwerp must be replaced by four classical paintings. The decision has been heavily criticised on social media. Read more.

4. Karel Sabbe first Belgian to finish 'toughest ultra run in the world'

Dentist-cum-runner Karel Sabbe was one of three people to finish the 'Barkley Marathons', known as the toughest ultra run in the world, in the early hours of Friday, making him the first Belgian to do so. Read more.

5. Teacher ordered to leave Belgium despite living and working here for 9 years

A religious studies teacher at Cardinal Mercier College in Braine-l'Alleud has been ordered to leave Belgium, despite having lived in Belgium for nine years and graduating from a Belgian university, as his work visa was interrupted during the school holidays. Read more.

6. Union Saint-Gilloise make Europa League quarter-finals after 3-0 win

Union Saint-Gilloise's 3-0 win against Union Berlin on Thursday evening has secured them a place in the quarter-finals of the Europa League. The Brussels team dominated their German rivals, who had previously held them to a 3-3 draw during the match's first leg. Read more.

7. Hidden Belgium: Patershol

The Patershol in Ghent is an old quarter of narrow alleys and brick houses. Located near the Gravensteen castle, it was originally settled in the 10th century by leather workers. But it had become a notorious slum by the 20th century. Read more.

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Wait but Tom didn’t direct meisjes. It was and still is Niels Sabbe.

similar anon: Who was the director on original s4? Back when Yasmina season was getting filmed last year before Kato existence ? Tom or Bente?

Ok I got the full report of information on this situation for you anons. So here it goes. Tom was slated to direct original s4 and bente would be AD so similar to s3. Then covid happened and Tom wasn’t available or Bram and a bunch of other people to staff the s4 production. Thats when this whole b team concept came into play. I am not sure if Tom wasnt working on meijes or why he couldn't direct s4 but he couldn't. Now for s5 both Tom and Bente are working on it but no one is AD both are directors.

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What if Emailing During Your Commute Counted as Work?

By Palko Karasz, NY Times, Aug. 30, 2018

LONDON--Should commuting hours count as part of the workday?

The suggestion--sure to raise the hackles of employers everywhere--was made by university researchers in England who studied the commuting habits of thousands of people who travel by rail.

It’s no secret that the expansion of Wi-Fi on trains, planes and automobiles has led to the de facto expansion of the working day, tying employees to their electronic devices as they send and receive countless work emails after clocking out from their jobs.

The researchers at the University of the West of England found that more than half of those studied read their work email and pored over work documents as they traveled.

“As an academic, nobody bothers where I do my work as long as it’s done,” Juliet Jain, senior research fellow at the Center for Transport Society of the university in Bristol, said in a phone interview. She noted that with increasing workloads, most people in the study “didn’t see it as official work time, but something to make their lives easier.”

Work-life balance has been a buzzy catchphrase of the modern era, in which employers provide such perks as office massages to pound away the stresses of their employees. But amid the emphasis on wellness programs come alarming tales like that of a 31-year-old Japanese worker who clocked in more than 159 hours of overtime in one month and worked herself to death.

In Japan, napping in the office is common and a sign of diligence, but officials there and in other countries have moved to crack down on overworking. Last year, France, which already has a 35-hour workweek, introduced a law requiring large companies to give their employees the right to disconnect and block email outside work hours.

Similar limits have been tested in Germany, where in 2013 the Labor Ministry ordered its supervisors not to contact employees outside office hours. And in 2011, Volkswagen began shutting off its BlackBerry servers at the end of the workday, stopping some employees in Germany from sending or receiving email.

In Britain, workers spend an hour on average getting to and from their jobs--more in and around London--but not everyone is able to be productive in a busy rail car, where the temptation of games like Candy Crush and video streaming may be too strong.

“It’s not everybody’s cup of tea,” Dr. Jain said.

She said that speaking to commuters made her wonder whether there were “some hidden amounts of productivity going on because it’s not officially work time.”

Over 40 weeks in 2016 and 2017, the university team studied 5,000 commuters who traveled up to 250 miles a day for work on two busy lines that run northwest from London to Birmingham and Aylesbury.

The workers were scrutinized for their use of free wireless internet on the routes. Initially focused on business travelers, the team found that commuters were using their trips to get work done. The longer the route, the more work was done.

Fifty-four percent of commuters on the longer route, Birmingham to London, and 36 percent on the shorter one, Aylesbury to London, were checking and sending work emails during the trips.

The team’s conclusions were presented to the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday. Dr. Jain said the commuting study was still in its exploratory stage. Any changes in the length of the workweek would have to come from the British government.

But several European countries have proposed regulatory changes to take account of longer commutes and the seemingly permanent availability of mobile internet. And a court case decided before a European tribunal last year could affect how working time is calculated across the continent.

The tribunal ruled that in Norway, some employees could count their commute as working time--the rationale being that while they may not be, strictly speaking, working, they are at the disposal of their employer.

This summer, France’s highest court ordered a British company to pay one of its workers in France 60,000 euros (more than $70,000) in compensation, after the company required employees to have their phones on at all times to answer questions and complaints from clients and subordinates.

Alexandra Sabbe-Ferri, a lawyer in Paris who specializes in workers’ rights, said in a phone interview that though the case concerned on-call duty rather than the right to disconnect, it was a signal for both companies and workers to take personal time seriously.

“The right to disconnect is reminding everyone that we ought to have a reasonable attitude to new technologies,” Ms. Sabbe-Ferri said. “Having permanent access doesn’t mean that we should be working all the time.”

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Clemson football recruiting: Four-star 2022 ATH Keon Sabb commits to Tigers on CBS Sports HQ

Clemson football recruiting: Four-star 2022 ATH Keon Sabb commits to Tigers on CBS Sports HQ

247Sports Four-star athlete Keon Sabb made his college decision known on Saturday live on CBS Sports HQ. The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, made Dabo Swinney and the Clemson program extremely happy by giving his verbal commitment to the Tigers over a finalist group that included Michigan, Penn State, Texas A&M and Georgia.  “They’re a national championship team.…

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New story in Politics from Time: Joe Biden is Running An Invisible Digital Campaign in All-Important Michigan. That’s Making Some Democrats Nervous

Four years ago, Don Sabbe made what he calls a “devastating” mistake. Determined only to cast a vote for a candidate he believed in, he left the top of his ballot blank in the 2016 presidential election. This year, the 83-year old former Chrysler employee says he’ll definitely vote for Joe Biden, but he’s getting concerned about Biden’s campaign here in Michigan.

“I can’t even find a sign,” Sabbe says outside a Kroger’s in Sterling Heights, where surrounding cars fly massive Donald Trump flags that say “No More Bullsh-t” and fellow shoppers wear Trump T-shirts for their weekend grocery runs. “I’m looking for one of those storefronts. I’m looking for a campaign office for Biden. And I’m not finding one.”

The reason Sabbe can’t find a dedicated Biden campaign field office is because there aren’t any around here. Not in Macomb County, the swing region where Sabbe lives. It’s not even clear Biden has opened any new dedicated field offices in the state; because of the pandemic, they’ve moved their field organizing effort online. The Biden campaign in Michigan refused to confirm the location of any physical field offices despite repeated requests; they say they have “supply centers” for handing out signs, but would not confirm those locations. The campaign also declined to say how many of their Michigan staff were physically located here. Biden’s field operation in this all-important state is being run through the Michigan Democratic Party’s One Campaign, which is also not doing physical canvassing or events at the moment. When I ask Biden campaign staffers and Democratic Party officials how many people they have on the ground in Michigan, one reply stuck out: “What do you mean by ‘on the ground?'”

Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden walks out in between pickup trucks before delivering remarks in the parking lot outside the United Auto Workers Region 1 offices in Warren, Mich., on Sept. 09, 2020.

All this means there are no young volunteers in Biden shirts pounding the pavement for their candidate, no clusters of posters marking the Biden field offices in various precincts, few bumper stickers on the highways. There are more Biden signs than Hillary Clinton had in 2016, locals say, but not enough to give the impression of an enthusiastic presidential campaign in a crucial swing state. When Biden visited Michigan last week, only a handful of supporters came to see him; his campaign didn’t disclose the location of the event in advance, even to the local Democratic county chair, because it didn’t want to attract a crowd that could spread COVID-19 or violate Michigan’s prohibition on gatherings of more than 100 people.

In short, in one of the most important swing states in the country, Biden’s campaign is all but invisible to the naked eye. His lack of a physical footprint is all the more striking because Trump flags festoon everything from pickup trucks to massive airplane parts being transported down the highway. Roughly 30 Trump supporters gathered to protest outside the Biden event last week, waving their flags and cheering as passing cars honked. (Roughly eight Biden supporters showed up.) After driving around some of the state’s swing districts for the past week, talking to than dozens of voters, the only reason you’d think Biden was up in Michigan is because the polls have consistently said so.

Trying to evaluate the strength of the Biden campaign in Michigan is like trying to determine whether the Emperor has no clothes or is actually wearing an elaborate invisible suit. The Biden campaign says it’s swarming the state; you just can’t see it.

Biden’s Michigan team says its campaign is significantly bigger than Clinton’s and may be the largest program in the state’s history. The campaign says it reached out to 1.4 million voters during the Democratic convention and the weekend that followed, with 500 digital-organizing events and 10,000 volunteer signups. In the week before Labor Day, the campaign sent 500,000 texts to Michigan voters—one every half-second. It has just replaced the trappings of a traditional ground game—volunteers knocking on doors, distributing literature, and so forth—with a digital field operation.

This strategy makes sense during a global pandemic. The campaign is prioritizing public health at a moment when Trump is flagrantly disregarding it. But the juxtaposition of Trump’s loud and proud campaign and Biden’s invisible digital operation makes some Democrats increasingly anxious. “We don’t see the presence,” says Lori Goldman, the founder of Fems for Dems, a grassroots political action group with nearly 9,000 members in Michigan. “They should have people who are like Jehova’s Witnesses, zealots, preaching the gospel of Joe Biden out there in the community. There needs to be someone out there Biden-izing. People don’t even know where to volunteer for Biden.” Goldman says she gets roughly 15 calls a week from women asking where they can canvass, and she doesn’t know what to tell them. “Meanwhile,” she says, “there are Trump signs that look like they should be on an expressway, they’re so big.”

Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesSupporters of President Donald Trump gather across the street from the United Auto Workers Region 1 offices where Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak in Warren, Mich., on Sept. 09, 2020.

Democratic officials in Michigan and the Biden campaign say they’re confident that Biden will carry the state, where he has maintained a consistent lead by nearly every metric. “The difference between now and four years ago is immeasurable, and I’m very optimistic,” says Ed Bruley, chair of the Macomb County Democrats, who says he sees a steady stream of supporters coming by to pick up yard signs.

But after conversations with more than a dozen Democratic Members of Congress, state representatives, local party chairs and party operatives, a slightly more anxious picture emerged. Top Democrats believe the race is closer than the polls suggest, and some are privately urging the Biden campaign and state Democrats to reconsider physical canvassing. “I think Biden could absolutely do more,” says Michael Heitman, chair of the Democratic Party in Isabella County, a small county in central Michigan which voted for Barack Obama twice and then for Trump in 2016. “I’d really appreciate if the Biden campaign had someone specifically for his campaign here.”

Some top Democrats say that the visibility of Biden campaigning in Michigan is as important as the campaign itself. “I think we need a more visible Biden campaign presence in the state, that is soup to nuts: from yard signs to surrogates to visits,” says U.S. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, who represents Michigan’s 8th District. “I would love to see a steady drumbeat that made clear, even to the most apolitical person, that Joe Biden cares about Michigan, and he has plan.”

Granted anonymity to share candid assessments of the campaign, other top Democrats are more pointed. “Calling a telephone number isn’t a connection,” says one leading Michigan Democratic official. “Some of the same people that said everything was okay four years ago are the same people saying everything’s okay now.”

Scott Olson—Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Freeland, Mich., on Sept. 10, 2020.

Since Clinton’s loss, Michigan Democrats have been terrified of repeating the mistakes that cost her the state by just over 10,000 votes and helped tip the election to Trump. And compared to Clinton, who took Michigan for granted and skimped on resources in the state, Biden is certainly doing a lot right. The Vice President visited last week to give a major speech about manufacturing and meet with union workers, while Dr. Jill Biden visited the state on Tuesday. Michigan officials, from members of Congress down to state representatives, say they have an open line of communication with the campaign, unlike in 2016.

Democrats in Michigan have been organizing nonstop since 2017 without pausing in between election cycles, thanks to the One Campaign’s unified field effort. In 2018 they flipped two House seats, kept a Senate seat, and elected a Democratic governor. Last year they knocked on more than 85,000 doors. In the August state primary, Democratic turnout was at a record high. “The success has been beyond my wildest dreams here,” says U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who spearheaded the One Campaign.

Then came Covid-19. Early in the pandemic, the Biden campaign and the One Campaign decided that mounting a traditional field operation, with canvassers knocking on doors, was not worth the public health risk. Instead, they’re running a “digital field” operation, recruiting volunteers to make phone calls and send text messages for Democrats.

“There is nothing better than that face-to-face contact,” says Lavora Barnes, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. “But nobody I know of has ever tried to campaign in the middle of a global pandemic. Contact with people, if not done correctly, is dangerous.”

On a national call with reporters on Sept 4, campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said the Biden campaign had invested $100 million in “on-the-ground” organizing nationwide, but did not plan to focus on door-knocking. O’Malley Dillon is a veteran organizer who was Obama’s battleground states director in 2008. She calls this a “new organizing model,” and says the campaign had 2.6 million conversations with voters in battleground states in August.

“What matters about organizing is engaging with voters and having real conversations,” O’Malley Dillon said in a Politico forum on Tuesday. “We spent so much time talking about tactics, but fundamentally, knocking on a door and not reaching anyone doesn’t get you much except leaving a piece of lit behind.”

Still, Democrats are used to measuring their strength by their ground game, and without physical boots on the ground, the effect can be unsettling. It brings up uncomfortable questions about whether a “digital field” operation can really replace a “traditional field” operation without something being lost. Sure, it sounds like digital field organizing should work. But does it actually? Nobody knows, because it’s never been tried on this scale before.

Goldman of Fems for Dems says she’s ready to dispatch her army of women to knock on doors for Biden, if only the campaign would ask. The Biden campaign calls her for help finding Republican women who might be inclined to vote for Biden (“you might as well ask me to find you a unicorn,” she says), but not for help recruiting volunteers to knock doors. “I want them to ask me, ‘Give us a hundred women’s names and let us send them out like soldiers into the neighborhoods.’” She’s worried that focusing entirely on phone calls and emails means ignoring voters who may not show up in the data. “If you’re not in the system,” she says, “Joe Biden doesn’t even know how to reach you.”

Besides, she adds, Michigan is opening up. “If you’re allowed to go to Michaels, or you’re allowed to go to Target, I don’t see why they can’t go to a campaign office,” Goldman continues. Her voice starts to shake as she adds: “I’m afraid we’re losing. I’m afraid we’re going to lose.”

Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential nominee Joe Biden talks with journalists before departing the Detroit Metro area in Romulus, Mich., on Sept. 09, 2020. Biden was campaigning in Michigan, which President Donald Trump won in 2016 by less than 11,000 votes, the narrowest margin of victory in state’s presidential election history.

Even though Biden isn’t knocking on doors in Michigan, other Democratic candidates are. Goldman’s army of women is canvassing to flip the Michigan statehouse and elect Democrats to school boards and county commissions. Slotkin has been working doors in a socially distanced way, dropping off literature in her tight swing district in what she calls a “contactless canvass.” State Rep. Darrin Camilleri’s team has knocked on more than 15,000 doors for his re-election campaign this year. None of them have any Biden literature to hand out, because the state Democratic Party hasn’t finished printing it.

These candidates insist that canvassing, when done carefully, can be safe even amid a pandemic. I went door-knocking on Sunday with Camilleri in Gross Ile, Mich., and he had the choreography down: ring the doorbell, tuck his campaign literature into the door handle, take two big steps backwards, and wait 20 seconds. If the voter answers—which they often do, since everyone is home—he waves and shouts to be heard through his mask.

Camilerri, a 28-year old former high school social studies teacher, was first elected to represent a region called downriver in the Michigan House of Representatives in 2016 after personally knocking on 17,000 doors. It’s an area full of the union workers and pocketbook voters that were once gettable for Democrats, but helped elect Trump that year. “Door knocking is the only way, in my opinion, that any Democratic campaign can win” in this area, he says, noting voters in this area “voted for Trump and they voted for me.”

When Camilleri approaches a small house in a neat neighborhood, Mark Ferrera answers the door, takes Camilleri’s mailer, and stops to chat as his dog scratches at the screen door. A retired union autoworker, Ferrera says he’s a lifelong Democrat who voted for Clinton in 2016. Camilleri will get his vote, but Ferrera’s still not sure whether he’ll vote for Biden. “Right now, the way he’s campaigning—I want to hear what he can do, not just bashing Donald Trump,” he says. “I haven’t heard anything from Joe Biden yet.”

These are the conversations that Camilleri says have helped him keep his seat—and which spell trouble for an all-digital campaign. “That’s what I’m worried about going forward, that we’ve got another presidential campaign that is taking votes for granted,” says Camilleri. “They’re using data, and they say, ‘Well, these people should vote for us.’ No one’s gonna vote for you until you ask.”

On Camilleri’s canvassing route, some Democratic voters were still waiting to be contacted by Biden’s campaign. Michelle Kirk, a 46-year old middle-school English teacher, was so excited to see Camilleri canvassing that she ran out of her house in her bare feet. Standing in her driveway without shoes or socks, Kirk said she planned vote for Biden in November. But had she heard anything from his campaign? “I don’t want to say no,” she says. “But not really.”

By Charlotte Alter/Sterling Heights, Mich. on September 15, 2020 at 05:28PM

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برنامج koplayer هو واحد من البرامج المتميزة التي يمكنها تشغيل ألعاب وتطبيقات Android على الكمبيوتر ، يمكنك تشغيل التطبيقات على الكمبيوتر بسهولة ، ويعتبر جهاز محاكاة يمكنه إدخال العديد من الألعاب والتطبيقات بتنسيق APK مثل Facebook Messenger أو تطبيقات WhatsApp أو ألعاب مثل Subway أو Clash of Clans ، ويتميز البرنامج بعدم وجود أخطاء واضحة مثل تلك الموجودة في البرامج الأخرى ، أي أنه برنامج به بعض الأخطاء التي يمكنك تشغيلها على العديد من أجهزة الكمبيوتر بإمكانيات متوسطة وتشغيل أي تطبيقات أو ألعاب أندرويد على جهاز الكمبيوتر دون أي مشاكل ، لكن البرنامج لا يدعم جميع تي بيكات أو ألعاب ، ويمكنك التحكم في التطبيقات التي تعمل على جهاز الكمبيوتر الخاص بك من خلال الماوس أو لوحة المفاتيح دون مشاكل. تتم إضافة التطبيقات إلى برنامج koplayer من خلال حساب Google Play الخاص بك أو عن طريق تنزيل التطبيقات والألعاب بتنسيق APK وإضافتها إلى البرنامج بسهولة ، حيث يمكن تثبيت العديد من التطبيقات في وقت واحد دون التأثير على أداء البرنامج وإدارة تطبيقاتك م�� سهولة ولكن ينصح بتوفير مساحة فارغة على القرص الصلب بحيث لا يتسبب في تعطل البرنامج بسبب عدم وجود مساحة كافية ، يمكنك أيضًا تثبيت العديد من التطبيقات وإدارتها وفي حالة تسجيل حساب جديد على البرنامج يمكنك إدخال رقم هاتفك المحمول وتسجيل الحساب بسهولة كما يحدث عند تثبيت برامج emo أو wat SABB أو Line أو الدردشة والمكالمات. من مزايا وعيوب برنامج koplayer ، تقتصر الميزات على سهولة الاستخدام ، لأنها تشبه برنامج BlueStacks قيد الاستخدام ، ولن تجد أي صعوبة في استخدامه ، بالإضافة إلى وجود تصوير شاشة ميزة أثناء تطبيقات الفيديو ، مثل Nox App Player ، وتدعم أيضًا مشاركة الملفات بين الكمبيوتر والبرنامج بدون مشاكل ، وسهولة ضبط إعدادات لوحة المفاتيح ، والقدرة على التواصل مع الكاميرا من خلال الكمبيوتر ورفع وخفض مستوى الصوت. أما أهم عيوب البرنامج فهي تستهلك الكثير من موارد النظام مثل أي برنامج يعمل كمحاكي لتطبيقات الأندرويد على الكمبيوتر.

ماهو تطبيق KoPlayer  الجديد المجاني

نسيظهر لك الآن الرابط الرسمي لتنزيل محاكي KoPlayer لتشغيل برامج Android على جهاز الكمبيوتر الخاص بك بطريقة بسيطة وسهلة. هناك العديد من الأسباب لمحاكاة Android على جهاز كمبيوتر شخصي. غالبًا ما يكون اختبار التطبيقات على سطح المكتب أسهل من اختباره على الأجهزة المحمولة ، وبالنسبة لجميع الأشخاص الآخرين ، هناك جاذبية للقدرة على تشغيل ألعاب الهاتف المحمول على شاشة أكبر كثيرًا ، فالألعاب هي السبب الأكثر شيوعًا لمحاكاة Android على سطح المكتب جهاز كمبيوتر ، على الرغم من أنه يمكنك أيضًا استخدام محاكي لتشغيل أي تطبيق من متجر Google Play ، على سبيل المثال ، من الممكن السماح بتشغيل تطبيق Instagram في المحاكي تحميل الصور من جهاز الكمبيوتر أو سطح المكتب وهو أمر مستحيل من خلال برنامج KOPLAYER Android Emulator Ku Player محاكي الاندرويد الذي يقدم لك يوم البرامج المجانية.

تحميل KoPlayer 2020 للويندوز مجانا

مع انتشار تطبيقات المحاكاة التي تساهم في تقييم العديد من الحزم من قبل المتخصصين في هذا الموضوع ، مما يجعلها غير قادرة على تقييم العديد من التطبيقات باستخدام الهاتف فقط ، مما مهد الطريق للعديد من بناة اللوحات لتقديم أجهزة الكمبيوتر التي يمكن أن تستخدم عمل نظام Android على الكمبيوتر ، وبالفعل ، ظهر عدد من البرامج التي مكنت جهاز Android من العمل بنجاح على جهاز الكمبيوتر ، والذي لم يعد يتجاهله عشاق الألعاب الذين استفادوا من هذه الحزم بنية لعب ألعاب الفيديو على الهاتف شاشة عرض أكبر وبدون الحاجة إلى انتهاء صلاحية البطارية أو البدء أثناء تشغيل حقائق هاتفك المحمول داخل الهاتف ، تمامًا مثلما توفر تطبيقات المحاكي بيئة لوحات آمنة على الكمبيوتر المحمول وإدارة إضافية غير ممتازة ، بشكل رئيسي في ضوء أن إدارة الكمبيوتر الشخصي هو بالتأكيد أعلى من التحكم عبر الهاتف ، مما ساهم في انتشار هذه البرامج بين فئة الألعاب حتى تتمكن من تجربة ألعابهم في جميع الطرق التي يقررونها ، وهذا أمر مطلوب للغاية بين العديد من اللاعبين حول العالم ، مما سيزيد الطلب عليهم ويعمل على تحسين كفاءات هؤلاء المحاكيين ، والتي أصبحت معروفة من خلال مجموعة مطوري KOPLAYER Android Emulator والعمل عليه.

تحميل برنامج koplayer كو بلاير

يقدم مشارك Kou برنامج محاكاة Android ويقدم بيئة يمكن الاعتماد عليها للعملاء للعب الألعاب وإلقاء نظرة على حزم Android على الكمبيوتر ، إنها أداة قوية تمامًا للعملاء للتعامل مع تطبيقات Android ويقدم آلة تشغيل Android افتراضية للعملاء قم بتشغيل ألعاب الفيديو على الفور من المستخدمين للتعامل مع التطبيقات الخاصة بشكل أكبر لإضفاء قدرات استثنائية يمكن للعملاء الاشتراك في حساب google والوصول إلى جميع ملفات الاحتفاظ في Google Play. علاوة على ذلك ، فإنه يوفر مساعدة كاملة لفرض ألعاب الفيديو ا��ثقيلة التي قد تتدهور بشكل تدريجي هواتف Android والحبوب القديمة. برنامج محاكي مشارك Ko يمنح أفضل مستوى للسرعة مع محرك Android محسن نسبيًا تأتي آلة العمل بنظام Android بواجهة مستخدم مألوفة جدًا تبدو كما لو أن أدوات Android لراحة جميع المستخدمين جميعًا ، فهي منصة موثوقة تسمح في المشي حزم الروبوت وألعاب الفيديو على جهاز الكمبيوتر لأغراض كثيرة أنه قادر على أن يريد كل الناس الذين لا يرغبون في تبني مغامرة مليئة بالمخاطر على هاتفك الذكي ، ولكن يمكنك السعي أولاً في المحاكي وبعد ذلك الهاتف المحمول لاحقًا ، هذا يعني أن إنشاء هذه المحاكيات هو خطوة رائعة داخل عالم التكنولوجيا التي تساهم بطريقة واحدة أو بعضها البعض في تحسين القطاع والنمو الفاخر الذي يشهد الكثير من وجع وجع الموظفين داخل مجال البرمجة بطريقة عصرية كما يستحق الرجل المستهدف.

مميزات برنامج KOPLAYER Android Emulator كو بلاير محاكي الاندرويد

يقدم البرنامج العديد من الميزات التي ساهمت في تعزيز أدائه العام ، والذي تطور نظرًا لأن بدايته داخل مجال المحاكاة ، أهم هذه القدرات: -

يقوم بتشغيل تطبيقات Android مثل hatsApp و Instagram على أجهزة Windows.

يدعم اللغات من اليسار إلى الصحيح ومن اليمين إلى اليسار مثل العربية.

افصل لوحة المفاتيح إذا لم تكن هناك لوحة مفاتيح متصلة بالكمبيوتر المحمول.

تسجيل فيديو لشاشة الأداة المساعدة في حالة رغبتك في إنشاء برنامج تعليمي أو تقديم مسرحية.

نسبة المستندات بين الحزم وأنظمة الكمبيوتر في نفس الشبكة القريبة.

يمكنك تداول مصادر الأجهزة واستضافة مواصفات الهاتف الذكي بما في ذلك ذاكرة الوصول العشوائي وبطاقة الفيديو

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يوفر محاكي KOPLAYER Android تجربة فريدة تمامًا لتطبيق برامج Android وبرامجه وألعابه على الكمبيوتر المحمول ببساطة ، إنه لشيء جيد أن يتم تطبيق الحزم على الكمبيوتر المحمول ، مقارنةً ببقية الحزم التي تقدم العروض المتطابقة ، إنها أميال الأقوى على الإطلاق ، يمكنك استخدامه كما تريد ولكن تحت شاشة ومفاتيح ضخمة تجعلك أكثر على رأس أشياء نظام الأندرويد الخاص بك ، هذا النظام يدعمك للتعامل مع أنظمة Windows XP معينة المنزل ��يندوز 7 و 8 و 10 ، ومن المعروف أن البرنامج يمنحك تسعة وتسعين بالمائة من الحزم وألعاب الفيديو المختلفة ، فهو يضم المتجر بشكل عام وبدون مشاكل يمكن تشغيل هذا النظام وتثبيته على الهاتف الخاص بك BL

معلومات عن أصدار برنامج koplayer

أصدار البرنامج : KOPLAYER 2.0.0 المطور : Koplayer Team الموقع الرسمى للبرنامج حجم البرنامج : 603 ميجا بايت لغة البرنامج  : يدعم الكثير من اللغات متطلبات التشغيل : جميع أصدارات ويندوز Windows 10  -Windows 8.1- Windows7- Windows8 ترخيص البرنامج : مجانى

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When Politicians Take An Interest In What's On Your Dinner Plate

Half a century after Americans began fighting hunger with monthly food stamps, the nation’s physicians and policymakers are focusing more than ever on what’s on each person’s plate.

In the 21st century, food is seen as medicine — and a tool to cut health care costs.

The “food is medicine” concept is simple: If chronically ill people eat a nutritious diet, they’ll need fewer medications, emergency room visits and hospital readmissions.

The food is medicine spectrum ranges from simply encouraging people to plant a garden and learn to cook healthfully, as state Sen. Judy Lee, a Republican, does in North Dakota — “We don’t do policies about gardening,” she said — to an intensive California pilot project that delivers two medically tailored meals plus snacks daily and offers three counseling sessions with a registered dietitian over 12 weeks.

The California Legislature last year became the first in the nation to fund a large-scale pilot project to test food is medicine. The three-year, $6 million project launched in April will serve about a thousand patients with congestive heart failure in seven counties.

“The state puts a huge amount of money into health care, and one of the biggest costs is medication,” Assemblyman Phil Ting, a Democrat and chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, said in an interview. “So the hope is people will live longer and this project will also reduce the need for medication.”

The food is medicine concept has been around for a while. Since the 1980s, nonprofits such as Project Open Hand in San Francisco, Community Servings in Boston, God’s Love We Deliver in New York and MANNA or Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance in Philadelphia have provided medically tailored meals for patients with HIV, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. They are largely funded by donations and grants.

Seeing the programs’ successes, some states are taking a larger role. Massachusetts is developing a food is medicine plan with a goal of integrating programs scattered around the state so more residents can benefit. Legislative policy proposals are expected next spring.

Food is medicine goes beyond traditional advice to eat more fruits and vegetables. Projects pay for people to purchase produce and offer nutrition counseling and cooking classes, so they’ll know which foods to choose or avoid and how to prepare them. For example, watermelon is healthy for some, but not for a diabetic.  

The California Legislature last year became the first in the nation to fund a large-scale pilot project to test food is medicine.

On the local level, a community garden managed by a teenager in Sylvester, Georgia, aims — with the help of the local hospital — to improve the health of the town in the nation’s “stroke belt.”

Physicians in a dozen states write “prescriptions” for fruits and vegetables at farmers markets and groceries — scripts that can be exchanged for tokens to buy produce.

“Food is medicine is an idea whose day has arrived,” said Robert Greenwald, faculty director of the Harvard Law School’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, one of the experts who testified in January at the launch of the congressional Food is Medicine Working Group, part of the House Hunger Caucus.

The Senate version of the farm bill includes Harvesting Health, a pilot project to test fruit-and-vegetable prescriptions. It’s modeled on work by Wholesome Wave, a Bridgeport, Connecticut, nonprofit that works with health centers in a dozen states where doctors write prescriptions for produce.

If enacted, the federal government would spend $20 million over five years on grants to states or nonprofits to provide fruits and vegetables and nutrition education to low-income patients with diet-related conditions.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the food stamp program known as SNAP, helps reduce food insecurity for 39.6 million participants, but studies do not show SNAP improves nutrition. Instead, there seems to be a correlation between long-term food stamp participation and excess weight gain.

Poor diet was No. 1 of 17 leading risk factors for death in the United States in 2016 — a higher risk than smoking, drug use, lack of exercise and other factors, according to “The State of US Health,” a comprehensive report by a team of academics published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April.

Dr. Kumara Sidhartha, an internal medicine specialist and medical director at Emerald Physicians on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, conducted a prescription study with Medicaid participants in 2016 and 2017. In his study, he wrote prescriptions or vouchers for one group to buy $30 in produce a week at the farmers market, and gave another $30 in gasoline vouchers a week — for 12 weeks. Both groups received cooking classes and nutrition counseling.

Twenty-four people completed the program, and those who received the fruit and vegetable prescriptions showed improvements in risk factors for chronic disease — better body mass index, total blood cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, blood glucose and hemoglobin A1c, Sidhartha said.

“Patients and physicians are so used to the physician writing prescriptions for procedures and pills,” he said. “This changes the health care culture of how the prescription is used.”  

Proponents of the California project hope it will demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of including medically tailored meals as an essential health benefit covered by Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program.

“This is potentially transformative because the health care system has been designed to cover acute services, and not many prevention programs are covered,” said Dr. Hilary Seligman, an associate professor at the University of California-San Francisco, one of two physician researchers who will evaluate the project by tracking participants’ medical records.

“For someone with congestive heart failure, their lives depend on their capacity to eat a lower salt diet,” Seligman said. “Making the food as appealing as possible is very important.”

Some legislators are skeptical about government moving into new food delivery systems.

“We need to feed the children who are hungry now. We need the backpack programs in school, the free and reduced-price breakfast and lunches to make sure that nobody is hungry today,” said North Dakota’s Lee, chairwoman of the state Senate Human Services Committee, at a food is medicine session at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Hunger Partnership conference in July.

“But then we need to take those same children and help them learn how to do those things for themselves,” Lee said. “Let’s have a short-term solution: Let’s feed people. And then let’s have a longer-term solution: Help them feed themselves.”

Everyone in her state could have a garden, even apartment-dwellers, and they can learn to cook, she said, adding that cooking is a skill that’s been lost since schools there dropped home economics.

“Kids can learn and a parent can learn how to make a meal,” Lee said in an interview. “I’d rather figure out a way to give them cooking lessons with food. We’re not helping children become functional adults by giving them three meals a day.”

It’s not government’s job to provide every meal, she said, adding, “That’s the good news about North Dakota, compared with the Northeast and California.” 

Georgia state Sen. Renee Unterman, a Republican and chairwoman of the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee and co-chairwoman of the NCSL hunger partnership, suggested at the food is medicine session that a community garden with a medical purpose in her state — and started by a child — could be a model.

Village Community Garden manager Janya Green was 12 when she started on the community garden as her 4-H Club project three years ago on 5 acres donated by the town of Sylvester, population 6,000, about 170 miles south of Atlanta. Anyone can pick free vegetables and fruit whenever they like. The garden features cabbage, carrots, kale, okra, bell peppers, squash, sweet potatoes, blackberries, blueberries, muscadine grapes and even bananas. Herbs are next.

A pond is stocked with fish, so residents can reel in healthy protein as well. A local county commissioner gave lumber for a 20- by 60-foot stage.

Phoebe Worth Medical Center installed an outdoor kitchen in the garden for chef-taught cooking classes. Darrell Sabbs, governmental affairs specialist at the medical center, hopes researchers from Emory University or the University of Georgia will study the health statistics of the neighborhood and gauge the garden’s health effects.

Dr. Marilyn Carter, an internal medicine physician who also trained as a pharmacist, lives in Sylvester and volunteers at the garden. She and a nutritionist wrote up health benefits of the produce for signs that will help people make smart choices.

“We’re in the stroke belt,” Carter pointed out, adding that many of her patients have heart disease and diabetes. People eat a typical Southern diet of fried foods and foods out of boxes that are high calorie and high fat, she said.

“I want people to know, ‘If I eat more kale and less white rice, my blood pressure will be better,’” she said. Her name for the garden: the Farmacy.

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/take-two-carrots-and-call-me-in-the-morning_us_5b9272b2e4b013f66bd56b18

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End of Year Review: Faye, your Community and Welfare Officer

Congratulations to you all for finishing your exams and making it to the end of the academic year!

I can’t believe that I only have a couple of weeks left before I leave LSESU. It’s been a whirlwind of a year and I feel so grateful to have been able to work on issues I really care about and to improve the experience of LSE students. In particular, I’m really proud to have been able to reform the Fitness to Study Policy and of getting LSE to introduce a new Student Disability Policy.

Here are a few of the things I’ve been focussing on over the past few months:

My priority this term has been writing a report on mental health and wellbeing at LSE, based on the (amazing!) 500+ responses to LSESU’s consultation. This report explores your opinion of how we can promote better mental health at LSE and how LSE can improve the support they provide. I have sent this report to many senior figures in LSE, and they have committed to discussing the recommendations of this report in multiple committees. You can read the report here: bit.ly/MHWReport

I have been working with Katie,your Women’s Officer, to provide additional guidance for the activities code of conduct. This guidance clarifies the expectations that LSESU have of our clubs and societies, and explains our zero tolerance approach to discrimination and harassment. We have also been working to enhance the training that we provide to club and society committee members.

I have been attending lots of committee meetings and groups, to advocate for students and help make LSE a more fair and inclusive place. These groups include the Disability and Wellbeing Strategy Group, the Student Experience Sub Committee and the Widening Participation Steering Group.

The sabb team have been busy planning Welcome Week 2019. We have some great plans to make the Welcome Fair better than ever and we are also working with LSE to make sure the welcome period runs smoothly for all students.

LSE can be a stressful place – so make sure you use your summer to take a break and get some rest and relaxation!

- Faye

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Binance Research Says Ripple (XRP) ‘Best Diversifier’, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Most Correlated

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) move in lockstep and the Ripple (XRP) price is the least correlated to other top cryptoassets.

Those are some of the findings from the latest report from Binance Research.

The report is something of a first in crypto in its application of hierarchical clustering.

Put simply, by looking at the weekly returns for the top 30 cryptoassets in the 12 months to 31 March, excluding stablecoins, the analysis groups assets according to their return correlations.

A positive correlation is a relationship in which two or more cryptoassets’ prices move in the same direction.

Binance researchers used the weekly returns data to construct a correlation matrix from which to work out the clustering.

(Source: Binance Research)

Key crypto clustering takeaways

The key findings of the report published on 26 April showed that the top two cryptoasset by market cap, Bitcoin and Ethereum, had very high weekly returns correlation, coming in at 0.87.   

Among assets with a market cap of $3 billion or more Ripple (XRP) is the least correlated, which makes it “the best diversifier”, according to Binance Research. XRP’s correlation with BTC has fallen from 0.875 two months ago to 0.53.

Other clusters were in evidence. Bitcoin Gold Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin made up a “forks” cluster.

As far as the “Binance effect” identified in the previous Binance Research reports goes, Tezos and Dogecoin “each form a single child cluster” which may be related to the fact that neither is listed on Binance.

Although none of the clustering can be definitively interpreted, a “Coinbase effect” may be gleaned, where assets “were reported to be listed or investigated by Coinbase seem to belong to similar clusters” .

Other clustering hinted at a geographical effect that researchers describe as “a dichotomy between American and Asian cryptoasset”.

Finally, privacy coins Dash and Monero make up a single sub cluster related to the Bitcoin forks-ETC-LTC cluster.

Digging a little deeper into the latest report, the geographical affinities interpretation is an interesting finding.

Researchers noted that Qtum (QTUM), Cardano (ADA), NEO and OmiseGo (OMG) are all based in Asia “and most of their coin-holders are located in this region”.

By way of contrast – and the basis of the dichotomy  – Ripple (XRP), BAT and Dogecoin (DOGE) teams and investors “are located in America”.

The report builds on work previously conducted by the exchange’s analysts, where they examined the internal correlation of the crypto market. That 1 March report confirmed what we already knew regarding the bellwether status of bitcoin.

Other notable findings from the earlier report noted the lower correlation in BTC-denominated returns compared to USD. It also found a “Binance Effect” where assets listed on the exchange tended to have a higher correlation between each other. The earlier report also found a higher correlation among Proof-of-Work assets than with non-PoW assets.

Cryptoasset clusters

The six main clusters and their sub-clusters  can be seen in the tree diagram below.

(Source: Binance Research)

There are obvious problems with some of the clustering patterns.

For example, IOTA is grouped with BTC and ETH but is some distance apart in terms of market cap and technology.

Waves, Ontology and Tezos have nothing in common other than their similarly low correlations to other assets.

Then there’s “autonomous digital currency” Decred (DCR) which ends up grouped with dapp platforms EOS, Tron (TRX) and Lisk (LSK).

More work needed

By their own admission then, although there is some striking clustering that may point to deeper relationships beyond the weekly return correlation, that will require data inputs from other asset characteristics.

The researchers say “our approach must be extended” to include market capitalisation, volume and turnover ratio.

Other inputs for the cluster analysis could include  hashrate, active addresses, transaction throughput and active nodes.

The lack of the fundamental data of that sort that’s readily available for stocks, such as earnings and profits, means network metrics will be the chief way in which the cluster analysis can be improved, as the authors make clear:

“Whereas some of the results appear to be consistent with industry-defined fundamental approaches, the difficulty of finding trustworthy data may hold investors back from completing a thorough analysis on this topic. In comparison, traditional equity markets offer plenty of metrics (e.g P/E ratio, turnover, ROE) that are routinely used in research reports.”

Nevertheless, the clusters as so far discerned could be a starting point for portfolio construction alongside other analysis such as the strength of the teams behind a project and the industry a project targets.

Is this good news for XRP?

But what to make of the finding that XRP is the best diversifier among top alts?

The truth is it could be currently acting as a diversifier for all the wrong reasons. XRP has failed miserably to get into the slipstream of the recent uptrend created by bitcoin.

(Source: coinmarketcap.com)

Respected trader Peter Brandt told his 269,000 Twitter followers this week that it’s “do or die time for the XRP bag holders” as the token clings to support at $0.29.

Do or die time for the $XRP bag holders pic.twitter.com/ZrRtHtBDCY

— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) April 27, 2019

Even an endorsement from the World Bank failed to help XRP.

In early April the World Bank described Ripple’s xRapid as a “real-world solution” that was being “actively tested”.

The World Bank’s senior financial sector specialist Marco Nicoli was glowing in the report he authored: “DLT-based cross-border payments potentially offer a promising pathway to dramatic improvements in the lives of millions of people in emerging economies.”

Ripple is failing to catch a bid likely because of the regulatory cloud that still hangs over the asset regarding whether the US SEC rules it to be a utility token or a security, with Ripple’s claim that it is not the creator of XRP perhaps hard to sustain.

Then there is the launch of JPM Coin which was unconvincingly batted away by Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse as a non-threat, citing its lack of interoperability.

In February he tweeted: “As predicted, banks are changing their tune on crypto. But this JPM project misses the point – introducing a closed network today is like launching AOL after Netscape’s IPO. 2 years later, and bank coins still aren’t the answer.”

Analysis from Binance published in early March appeared to agree with Garlinghouse, but included this proviso:

“Minimal direct competition is expected between the two in the near term, though this could change depending on how JPM Coin develops to venture out of its current closed network”.

The operative phrase in that sentence was “though this could change”. We’ll have to wait and see how JPMorgan positions JPM Coin but there are other factors changing the competitive landscape.

XRP pressured on all sides?

JPM Coin’s big reveal was followed by the launch of the World Wire payments network from IBM in a tie-up with Stellar, which has already got six global banks onboard.

IBM also owns Hyperledger Fabric which is apparently the most-used blockchain platform among Forbes Blockchain 50 companies, although not necessarily with production with many still at the development and testing stage. The 50 includes Amazon, Google, financial giants Allianz and JP Morgan, agricultural behemoth Cargill as well as the likes of Coinbase and Overstock.

Ripple’s stream of deal announcements doesn’t slow even if seemingly unappreciated by the market.

The latest partnership, as reported by EthereumWorldNews, is with Saudi British Bank (SABB) to build a remittance system for Indian nationals working in Saudi. SABB is a subsidiary of HSBC.

But as the bank partners stack up, it is mostly for Ripple’s xCurrent platform, not the XRP-powered xRapid.

XRP holders will be keeping a keen eye on volumes going through xRapid payment corridors. xRapid went live in October last year.

XRP is currently trading at $0.297, according to coinmarketcap.

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[cryptobrief]

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) move in lockstep and the Ripple (XRP) price is the least correlated to other top cryptoassets.

Those are some of the findings from the latest report from Binance Research.

The report is something of a first in crypto in its application of hierarchical clustering.

Put simply, by looking at the weekly returns for the top 30 cryptoassets in the 12 months to 31 March, excluding stablecoins, the analysis groups assets according to their return correlations.

A positive correlation is a relationship in which two or more cryptoassets’ prices move in the same direction.

Binance researchers used the weekly returns data to construct a correlation matrix from which to work out the clustering.

(Source: Binance Research)

Key crypto clustering takeaways

The key findings of the report published on 26 April showed that the top two cryptoasset by market cap, Bitcoin and Ethereum, had very high weekly returns correlation, coming in at 0.87.   

Among assets with a market cap of $3 billion or more Ripple (XRP) is the least correlated, which makes it “the best diversifier”, according to Binance Research. XRP’s correlation with BTC has fallen from 0.875 two months ago to 0.53.

Other clusters were in evidence. Bitcoin Gold Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin made up a “forks” cluster.

As far as the “Binance effect” identified in the previous Binance Research reports goes, Tezos and Dogecoin “each form a single child cluster” which may be related to the fact that neither is listed on Binance.

Although none of the clustering can be definitively interpreted, a “Coinbase effect” may be gleaned, where assets “were reported to be listed or investigated by Coinbase seem to belong to similar clusters” .

Other clustering hinted at a geographical effect that researchers describe as “a dichotomy between American and Asian cryptoasset”.

Finally, privacy coins Dash and Monero make up a single sub cluster related to the Bitcoin forks-ETC-LTC cluster.

Digging a little deeper into the latest report, the geographical affinities interpretation is an interesting finding.

Researchers noted that Qtum (QTUM), Cardano (ADA), NEO and OmiseGo (OMG) are all based in Asia “and most of their coin-holders are located in this region”.

By way of contrast – and the basis of the dichotomy  – Ripple (XRP), BAT and Dogecoin (DOGE) teams and investors “are located in America”.

The report builds on work previously conducted by the exchange’s analysts, where they examined the internal correlation of the crypto market. That 1 March report confirmed what we already knew regarding the bellwether status of bitcoin.

Other notable findings from the earlier report noted the lower correlation in BTC-denominated returns compared to USD. It also found a “Binance Effect” where assets listed on the exchange tended to have a higher correlation between each other. The earlier report also found a higher correlation among Proof-of-Work assets than with non-PoW assets.

Cryptoasset clusters

The six main clusters and their sub-clusters  can be seen in the tree diagram below.

(Source: Binance Research)

There are obvious problems with some of the clustering patterns.

For example, IOTA is grouped with BTC and ETH but is some distance apart in terms of market cap and technology.

Waves, Ontology and Tezos have nothing in common other than their similarly low correlations to other assets.

Then there’s “autonomous digital currency” Decred (DCR) which ends up grouped with dapp platforms EOS, Tron (TRX) and Lisk (LSK).

More work needed

By their own admission then, although there is some striking clustering that may point to deeper relationships beyond the weekly return correlation, that will require data inputs from other asset characteristics.

The researchers say “our approach must be extended” to include market capitalisation, volume and turnover ratio.

Other inputs for the cluster analysis could include  hashrate, active addresses, transaction throughput and active nodes.

The lack of the fundamental data of that sort that’s readily available for stocks, such as earnings and profits, means network metrics will be the chief way in which the cluster analysis can be improved, as the authors make clear:

“Whereas some of the results appear to be consistent with industry-defined fundamental approaches, the difficulty of finding trustworthy data may hold investors back from completing a thorough analysis on this topic. In comparison, traditional equity markets offer plenty of metrics (e.g P/E ratio, turnover, ROE) that are routinely used in research reports.”

Nevertheless, the clusters as so far discerned could be a starting point for portfolio construction alongside other analysis such as the strength of the teams behind a project and the industry a project targets.

Is this good news for XRP?

But what to make of the finding that XRP is the best diversifier among top alts?

The truth is it could be currently acting as a diversifier for all the wrong reasons. XRP has failed miserably to get into the slipstream of the recent uptrend created by bitcoin.

(Source: coinmarketcap.com)

Respected trader Peter Brandt told his 269,000 Twitter followers this week that it’s “do or die time for the XRP bag holders” as the token clings to support at $0.29.

Do or die time for the $XRP bag holders pic.twitter.com/ZrRtHtBDCY

— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) April 27, 2019

Even an endorsement from the World Bank failed to help XRP.

In early April the World Bank described Ripple’s xRapid as a “real-world solution” that was being “actively tested”.

The World Bank’s senior financial sector specialist Marco Nicoli was glowing in the report he authored: “DLT-based cross-border payments potentially offer a promising pathway to dramatic improvements in the lives of millions of people in emerging economies.”

Ripple is failing to catch a bid likely because of the regulatory cloud that still hangs over the asset regarding whether the US SEC rules it to be a utility token or a security, with Ripple’s claim that it is not the creator of XRP perhaps hard to sustain.

Then there is the launch of JPM Coin which was unconvincingly batted away by Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse as a non-threat, citing its lack of interoperability.

In February he tweeted: “As predicted, banks are changing their tune on crypto. But this JPM project misses the point – introducing a closed network today is like launching AOL after Netscape’s IPO. 2 years later, and bank coins still aren’t the answer.”

Analysis from Binance published in early March appeared to agree with Garlinghouse, but included this proviso:

“Minimal direct competition is expected between the two in the near term, though this could change depending on how JPM Coin develops to venture out of its current closed network”.

The operative phrase in that sentence was “though this could change”. We’ll have to wait and see how JPMorgan positions JPM Coin but there are other factors changing the competitive landscape.

XRP pressured on all sides?

JPM Coin’s big reveal was followed by the launch of the World Wire payments network from IBM in a tie-up with Stellar, which has already got six global banks onboard.

IBM also owns Hyperledger Fabric which is apparently the most-used blockchain platform among Forbes Blockchain 50 companies, although not necessarily with production with many still at the development and testing stage. The 50 includes Amazon, Google, financial giants Allianz and JP Morgan, agricultural behemoth Cargill as well as the likes of Coinbase and Overstock.

Ripple’s stream of deal announcements doesn’t slow even if seemingly unappreciated by the market.

The latest partnership, as reported by EthereumWorldNews, is with Saudi British Bank (SABB) to build a remittance system for Indian nationals working in Saudi. SABB is a subsidiary of HSBC.

But as the bank partners stack up, it is mostly for Ripple’s xCurrent platform, not the XRP-powered xRapid.

XRP holders will be keeping a keen eye on volumes going through xRapid payment corridors. xRapid went live in October last year.

XRP is currently trading at $0.297, according to coinmarketcap.

The post Binance Research Says Ripple (XRP) ‘Best Diversifier’, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Most Correlated appeared first on Ethereum World News.

[artscampaigns-blog]

That’s it! After five years, I am finally leaving UAL and Arts SU. It’s an incredibly emotional moment and I promise I won’t have too much wine and cry (ps. I already have).

These past five years have completely changed me as a person (good to see UAL deliver on its strategy to provide a “transformative education” innit), I’ve learned and grown and been challenged and met more people than ever before, from all over the world and a variety of backgrounds. For the past two years, I’ve had the most exciting and satisfying job imaginable, where no two days look the same, and it’s been amazing working with fantastic people and seeing real change happen.

Although it’s not always fun and games. Sometimes it involves sitting in long meetings, having to say unpopular things to men two to three times my age and on up to ten times my pay.  Dealing with condescending remarks, often being spoken over and dismissed. Trying to be in all 13 UAL sites at once and being forever jealous of campus universities.

And sometimes it involves dropping a cheeky banner, defacing some NSS posters and spending a night in the Chelsea Green Room.

I’ve caused some trouble but I also found some powerful allies, built and maintained strong relationships with trade unions, and, most importantly, met and collaborated with absolutely incredible student activists.

I have also worked with the most amazing sabbatical team in the history of sabb teams. We’ve been a family, a united front and a powerhouse, I love each of them to bits and and I’m pretty damn sure we’ll remain friends forever.

We’ve achieved loads of good stuff together but here are just some things I’m particularly proud of this year:

Making UAL freeze the fees for continuing home and EU students

Running a strong NSS boycott campaign, with overall response rates falling by 21% - despite the university spending £50 000 to promote the fee-rising, education-marketising survey! Well done to all involved.

Organising Arts SU Refugee Week and supporting a student-led campaign for increased financial support for asylum seekers - securing £25 000 scholarships plus accommodation costs for eight postgraduate students, and 25 fee waivers!

Organising Green Week events across the colleges and being involved in producing UAL’s award-winning sustainability strategy.

Responding to Brexit, Trump and the awfulness of 2016 with a project called Love & Rage - a powerful exhibition about resistance bringing together home and international students, and a series of creative events happening alongside it.

Ensuring that workshops in Camberwell remained open for some of Easter break, despite an initial plan to close them.

Campaigning against job cuts at CCW and to make sure that consultations with students are an integral part of any decisions made regarding the new CCW strategy.

Spending hours in meetings arguing against compulsory attendance - and securing an attendance policy that focuses on supporting, not punishing students.

Running a visible and vibrant voter registration/get out the vote campaign which I’m sure contributed at least a bit to the increased youth and student turnout in #GE2017.

Getting UAL to create a working group, with student representation, with a focus on the costs of study. We are currently working on the following projects (many of them will be completed and in place by the start of the next academic year):

* Policies about announcing course costs in advance, including cost information on assessment briefs and including discussions about affordability in course validation and re-validation processes.

* Guidance for course teams about ways to reduce hidden costs and make course projects more financially accessible.

* Reducing the price of printing and adopting an online submission policy for text-based work (so you won’t have to pay to print a hell lot of papers and travel to a college just to drop them off like it’s 1995.)

* Running swap shops and recycling initiatives, helping students exchange materials, and introducing permanent recycling spaces.

* And last but not least, I’ve been trying to get UAL to introduce a hardship fund for international students, as current support only covers home students. I will be passing on this campaign and the research i’ve done to my successor and hopefully we can have another victory soon.

I’ve also been heavily involved in national campaigns and encouraging students to do the same, repping Arts SU in NUS structures and running in a national election which I lost beautifully.

But Students’ Unions are not just full-time officers: Arts SU is made up of thousands of students who dedicate their time to organising events, running and supporting campaigns, improving their courses, colleges and communities, holding us and the university to account. You are the ones who made all the good stuff happen, so thank you.

Next year, I’ll be doing a Masters in Political Sociology at LSE but I’ll certainly still be popping in to say hi and check out exhibitions. Stay creative, stay naughty, keep in touch, I love you.

[arts-su]

Happy Easter from your LGBTQ Officer

Hiya, Julius here, your LGBTQ officer.

This term has gone past flying - it started with a bang of events and meetings. I met with Sara Davidmann from Moose on the Loose, our university’s diversity contact Bethan, as well as the head of LCC Natalie Brett and a team of folks she had gathered to chat about our celebratory year of 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexual acts.

Did you know that Natalie is our new LGBTQ champion? She is! We had a couple of really informative and great meetings about what we’re doing and what we can do to collaborate and I would encourage any students to reach out to the union and the university to work on any LGBT+ diversity projects this year.

We also had our SU elections - congrats to all new officers! I was running for the welfare sabb position and came in as the glorious second just by a handful of votes while our next welfare officer will be magnificent Katy. Katy will absolutely smash it so don’t you worry even if you voted for me!

I was our delegate at the NUS trans conference where we voted for the first elected trans officer, who is Jess Bradley from University of Manchester. She got my vote, so definitely a good choice. She’s up for visiting unions and universities to chat with us about trans topics and definitely a good contact to make for any LGBTQ organisers out there. The conference also decided on some julius-backed policies such as resisting the police in pride and on campus and taking a stand against the prison system.

Myself and two other delegates also went to the NUS LGBT+ conference. Obviously we also socialised and learned about what’s being done at other universities… And we got an award for our valiant effort at organising the trans awareness week! Thanks for everyone who participated and organised with us.

Other unions had some great award-winning ideas for events and activities as well, such as campus pride, which I think would be interesting to try out at UAL.

All this while doing my dissertation on trans and non binary visibility in the media. Next term it’ll be done and I’ll be looking into organising with societiesand looking into what we can do for a banging final term of the year.

Have a great break!

Julius