The defeat of Manchester City has made Liverpool lead them with a margin of 5 points. These two teams are the most serious teams to watch out this season because they dont give chance to any small chance they get. They actually make good use of it when they get those chances. Now it will be very difficult for Manchester City to close up the gab but it wont supprise me if they close it early because both teams are really good. And when they close the point that is where we will see the strongest lol. I will end here for today, I will bring you more news tomorrow God willing have a good night stay bless.
Hello everyone, This weekend was not good for Manchester City after losing 3 goals to 2 to the newly graduated team Norwich. It really shocked me when I saw Norwich leading two goals within the first half. So it made me felt like wow why have they sold the match or they are seriously playing the match. But all the same its all good and is football and football is a game of chance so when you get your chance just make good use of it that is all. Thanks for your time have a great day.
She ain’t purdy but she works. Another image heavy post, this after I culled a few!
Let’s jump right into it, gates are up and dogs can now be let loose in the back yard without going into the street, WINNING!
A note on rawl bolts and quality
Also known as sleeve anchor bolts it seems. I bought a box of 10 at the hardware store, on the box it showed you should use a 14mm drill bit when installing them, I did not have one so picked one of those up too.
When installing I noticed they were awful loose in the holes, as if the drill bit was oversized. I managed to mess a few of them up as I tried drilling a smaller hole, eventually I ran short on this fence post, so bought a few loose sleeves from another hardware store. I only needed the sleeves as I still had the bolts that were left over from the ones I destroyed.
Lets take a look at some pictures, first picture you will notice the nut that’s inside the sleeve is almost at the top.
The following hazy photo id of the sleeve I bought loose. See how far down the sleeve it is?
The only deduction I can make is that the box of bolts I bought were really cheap and nasty and undersized. The loose sleeves I bought went in snug with the 14mm hole and I could feel they were tightening up much sooner and had more bite.
OK, boring I know…
Miranda do Corvo on fire
There was a fire near us and for some time there were a fleet of firefighting planes going overhead. Every so often the five (yes 5!!) planes would fly overhead as they picked up more water to dump on the fires.
I only managed to get two in one shot though.
Moving the fence
The length of fence was attached to a pole, which by this point was hanging on for dear life as Roxy, the bigger dog had been digging a hole right by it.
I had attached it with some simple binding wire a while back.
The bush had managed to go through the fence, so getting it loose ended up being more of a struggle than I expected.
Eventually I got it loose and boy was I relieved that it was long enough to make it to the post I had installed. After much pulling and dragging and stretching I had figured out where I wanted to anchor it.
I had explained in my last post, but heres a picture, showing how I clamp the fence to the wood using screws and the roofing washers.
Close up view shows a bit more, I install the screws in such a way that the trap the fence, so pulling it up, or down, left or right won’t free it up.
Because I want to be absolutely sure you get it, here a photo of the screw in the washer pre-installation 😉
French drain access hole
After getting the fence connected to the post, I cleaned off some of the sand and muck from the cement, should have done that first!
I actually found the cover that would be used to pump out the ‘stuff’ from the drain if it gets full. I had been wondering where it was and found it quite by chance.
I pulled the fence to once side to clear it, so that if we needed to get it emptied, the fence would not be in the way.
Day over, it rained
It had been threatening for a while, so I decided to pack up before my tools got rained on and got soaked.
As I took this photo, after having just finished packing everything away it started to drizzle. I had made it just in time!
I took a break on the terrace and tried to get a photo of the rain, but it’s lost in this photo. Whilst I was a bit disappointed that I had not finished I was thankful that the rain would at least be helping the firefighters a bit in their task.
I heard from my wife the next day that it seemed the rain was what helped the firefighters get the blaze under control, so all good in the end.
I was sitting outside and was about to start writing this when the rain subsided, I decided to take my chance as I could get away with fewer tools in case it rained again.
Support needed
I anchored the fence into the cement slab, so that it would stay out of the way.
I used a simple plastic wall plug here as it is not under much strain.
The fence had enough tension on it to pull the post away from the gate, so much so that there was a very noticeable gap. I did not like the look of that so grabbed a length of wood we had dragged in from the forest next door and made it work as lateral support for the fence post.
Final bits to do were to add some cross bracing on the gate, it was still quite flimsy. I too two lengths of brandering that I had taken off of the terrace roof and put one on each side of the gate, so that they crossed over in the middle. The wood that the gate is made up of is quite soft, so I added metal washers to the screw head, so that it would tighten up against the wood and not get pulled all the way through.
An example of how the wood had already split, the washers worked well enough even on such a damaged piece.
Finally I cut a hole in the fence by each of the latches, so that you can open it easily no matter which side of the gate you are. This gate was done.
As I was packing up I thought I should add a lateral brace on the front gate too, so did that as quick as I could as it was about to rain again. It does not look too bad from far.
So my gates are up, I bought a few rawl bolts, screws and additional latches. Pretty much everything else was re-used from the original gates or from other stuff I had salvaged.
Not pretty but definitely functional, have you managed to reuse something lately?
The month of September had been constructive for ETH. If you look at the chart you will see three positive things occurred with price.
Break of Down Trend (descending triangle)
As you can see from the blue down trend line when price pushed down to support in that 168 area it was open to hold and then push the descending line.
This led to a modest bounce before a retest.
Retesting of Support/Down Trend Line
After the modest little bounce, two things happened: price testes the support line and tested the down trendline, which both happen to be at about the same price.
Anytime you get a break of a trend, a successful retest of it is always welcomed and considered positive price action.
Higher Low Formed
After the retest price pushed higher into the mid 180s or so and then had a small pullback briefly dipping into the 170s. At which point price has pushed higher the past few days.
This is important because in order to have an uptrend you need to see price create higher lows. Which just got one now we need more.
Price needs to stay above 180 for this recent price action to keep it’s positive tone, in my opinion.
The next upside target would be around 200. We shall see what happens the rest of the week.
As I wrote in previous blog posts, I reinvested in STEEM ahead and after the HFs.
After cruising, interacting and curation Steemians posts, I can say now I like the #newsteem better than the old one. This is a feeling but I believe people came back to the platform and interractions / payouts are less skewed thanks to some bots switching to curation and some whales “playing the game”.
Below I am going to share with you some datas that I believe should make us optimistic about STEEM future.
As seen in @penguinpablo ‘s statistics (link here)
Accounts transacting are increasing steadily since last week to reach 39,647 on week 36 of 2019 (vs 34,958 the previous week)
STEEM Power up !
Most importantly, the Net Power up was STRONGLY positive last week at +977,939 ! Something we didn’t see for months !
As shown in the tables below, Week 33 saw the biggest net power up at 363,873 STEEM over the past 8 weeks.
To add to these great numbers, other Steemians (as myself) have been BUYING STEEM on Exchanges ! More than 1,145,000 STEEM have been purchased FROM exchanges
In addition, do not forget that @steemit inc. announced they would pause their power down for a few weeks which should help STEEM prices.
Daily Users
Looking into @arcange statistics I could also some good news, Active users remain stable and sit at the top range of the past weeks (c.40k daily). If we continue to promote and curate good contents, these numbers could be finally increasing and sit passed 50k as it used to a few months ago
Transactions
Transactions on the STEEM blockchain are also healthy and should remain high as many projects continue to onboard users (@steemmonsters, @actifit, @steemhunt, @appics, @esteem …)
Inflation
As stated by @jrcornel, STEEM inflation is quite reasonable versus other altcoins and is supposed to decrease below 8% in 2020 to reach 0.95% in 2037.
Current Price and Market Cap (53,472,257 USD). Sits at Rank 80
Maybe we are sitting at the bottom, only time will tell, but overall I want to emphasize that this #newsteem as much higher changes to go up than before for all the points mentionned above.
I know that you all probably believe in STEEM if you read this, we have to continue to get the words out as some of us are doing on Twitter or other social medias.
What do you think?
I would love to hear your opinion on this subject. I will set a 10 STEEM @steem-bounty to open the discussion.
History looks to be repeating itself in the bitcoin market, as a key indicator’s bullish turn could mark the beginning of the next meteoric price rally.
The world’s most valuable cryptocurrency’s price action seen over the last eight months is very similar to the moves seen in 2015, according to Bitstamp data. For instance, the bitcoin bear market ended near $3,100 in mid-December 2018 and prices built a base below $4,000 in the following three months before breaking into a bull market on April 2.
Notably, the bear market drop ran out of steam two months before the 50- and 10-week moving averages confirmed a bearish crossover (in February 2019).
The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance has dispelled fears a bad actor had attacked its newly-launched Bitcoin futures platform.
Technical error crashed Bitcoin price
In a series of tweets on Sept. 16, Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, initially warned that the exchange’s futures were under attack from one of its own market makers.
The perpetrator allegedly crashed the BTC/USD order book from $10,324 to $10,024, in what Zhao said was the second such attempt at an attack.
Binance launched its futures platform in invite-only mode following a user testing period earlier this month. Two platforms were originally available, with users voting for their preferred choice.
The computing power dedicated to mining bitcoin has hit yet another new high, suggesting that more than 600,000 powerful new machines may have come online in the last three months.
According to data from crypto mining pool BTC.com, bitcoin’s two-week average hash rate has crossed another major threshold, reaching 85 exahashes per second (EH/s) around 19:00 UTC last Friday. Meanwhile, mining difficulty also adjusted to a new record of nearly 12 trillion.
Notably, both figures have jumped 60 percent since June 14, the data shows.
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty – a measure of how hard it is to create a block of transactions – adjusts after 2,016 blocks, or roughly every two weeks. This is to ensure the time to produce a block remains around 10 minutes, even as the amount of hashing power, deployed by machines around the globe competing to win freshly minted bitcoins, fluctuates.
Most of us think we understand the term “volatility.”
We digest headlines about tense political situations around the world; we are wary of explosive chemical compounds; some of us have had relationships with their fair share of ups and downs.
“Volatility” implies sharp and unpredictable changes, and usually has negative connotations. Even when it comes to financial markets, we intuitively shy away from investments that would produce wild swings in our wealth.
But volatility, in finance, is usually misunderstood. Even the most commonly accepted calculation is often incorrectly applied.
The South Korean arm of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is removing support for five major altcoins due to new international regulations.
FATF rules halt privacy coins trading
According to crypto news outlet The Block on Sept. 16, OKEx’s Korea unit will halt trading of Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Super Bitcoin (SBTC) on Oct. 10.
The reason, says the exchange, is that as since they are focused on privacy, the coins fall foul of new guidelines set out by the intergovernmental body the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF.
As Cointelegraph reported, the sweeping changes to crypto transaction rules demand businesses to identify the two parties sending funds to each other if a transaction is worth more than around $1,000.
“I would like to inform you regarding the upcoming hard fork. I have decided to implement it on block 216000 (approx 16th of sept).”
STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion
Here is the chart of yersterday :
Here is the current chart :
Today, we continued the bounce started yesterday. We have higher lows so the trend is not broken, even we have a low volatility. I think most of altcoins are also waiting to see the direction that the BTC will take and this is why most of coins are very quiet these last hours. However, there is nothing negative for the STEEM today, exactly like yesterday, se we can again enjoy about these positive news.
On Tuesday the Fed Powell
will discuss US monetary policy and on Weds will announce whether he is keeping
interest rates on hold or dropping them. In July Fed Powell lowered interest rates for
the first time in a decade. Wall Street
is expecting the same on Weds, pricing in an 86% chance of a quarter-basis
point cut.
If the US equity markets are going to continue their climb higher, the Russell 2000 must fall inline. The Russell 2000 index represents the largest 2000 small cap public companies in the US. But in recent months the Russell 2000 have been stubborn to rise with the DOW, NASDAQ and S&P 500 as indicated by the green line.
Usually towards the end of the business cycle, rising interest rates hurt smaller companies the most because they have a higher debt to earnings ratio and lower free cash flow relative to much larger companies. Also, smaller companies are more volatile and tend to react and respond to changes in economic conditions and changes in investor sentiment first. However, if rates are going to continue to get cut, that should help the Russell 2000 to finally join the party. And based on the Russell 2000 outpacing its friends last week, I think it things a rate cut is already “money in the bag.”
The iShares Russell 2000 ETF, which tracks the Russell 2000 Index of stocks with smaller market capitalizations, saw its largest weekly inflows in nearly a year during the week that ended September 6. Those inflows totaled $1.5 billion and followed a $340 million inflow during the final days of August. Since bottoming out on August 27, the iShares ETF has rallied nearly 9% compared to the S&P 500’s gain of 5% over the same period.
There is the possibility that the resurgence could be longer lasting if the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut at the end of July is more than just a one-off and marks the beginning of a rate-cutting cycle.
Judging by history, further rate cuts would be supportive of small-cap equities. During the first year following the start of a Fed rate-cut cycle, small caps have risen on average 28% compared with just 15% for large caps, according to investment banking firm Jeffries, per the FT.
Fracking and horizontal drilling technology (which has created access to the once inaccessible shales of oil and gas) in the last 10 years has made the US a major player in the world of oil production.
The technology has bee so beneficial to the US, that in 2018, the US become the number one producer of oil in the world. However, I can’t leave Saudi Arabia out of this conversation. They are the number two producer of oil in the world at 12.4 millions barrels/day. As you know, the price of oil is probably one of the clearest examples of supply and demand. So say the oil rig count goes up in the US or Saudia Arabia increases oil production, the price of oil is surely to go down. However, if the oil rig count goes down or if the oil pipelines are sabotaged, supply will take a hit and oil prices will rise. This past Sat, drones attacked Saudia Arabia oil pipelines.
Drone strikes on key Saudi Arabian oil facilities, among the world’s largest and most important energy production centers, have disrupted about half of the kingdom’s oil capacity, or 5% of the daily global oil supply.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday took responsibility for the attacks, saying 10 drones targeted state-owned Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah news agency.
In a statement on Sunday, Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that 5.7 million barrels a day of crude oil and gas production have been affected. The latest OPEC figures from August 2019 put the total Saudi production at 9.8 million barrels per day.
Yesterday was Chelsea’s game against Wolverhampton. Who would have ever thought Chelsea could win that game with a margin of three goals. It was unbelievable especially with the injury crisis within the Chelsea football club team.
It was a victory well deserved for the blues. They played really well. Their attacker was well proficient in front of goal and that gave them the edge to score as many as five goals in a single match against a side that haven’t lost a match at home for over eight months now. I think it is a good thing that the Chelsea manager decided to switch his formation from 4-2-3-1 to 3-4-3. However, I think Frank Lampard still need to work a lot on the defense side to avoid conceding too much goals.
I think the compactness of a playing as a team is better than other previous matches but believe they can do better with that. I think if the team can learn to be compact while playing, then that would really go a long way to help solve the issue of conceding too much goals. In general, the game a was an interesting one and the Chelsea team performed excellently and it was a victory well deserved for them.
Saturday, Sept. 14 — The top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting mixed movements on the day while Bitcoin’s (BTC) price hovers over the $10,300 mark by press time.
The price of Bitcoin is currently up by 0.13% on the day, trading at around $10,313 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at its weekly chart, the coin is down by about 0.46%.
eToro, an Israel-based exchange platform, revealed a new programming language designed to simplify derivatives trading.
Speaking ahead of the Ethereal Summit Tel Aviv 2019, on Sunday, chief blockchain specialist Omri Ross said the language, dubbed Lira, will reduce the risks involved in settling financial contracts and enable the creation of new derivative products from assets on the ethereum blockchain.
A demo trading platform, built by eToroX Labs, was also revealed to enable retail and institutional investors to begin trading derivatives. The platform uses Lira to test a full range of contract experimentation. The language opens up the possibility to set varying time limits on trades, trustlessly swap different cryptocurrencies and write complex settlement terms.
United States-based major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that its professional trading platform Coinbase Pro will launch support for DASH token next week.
According to a Medium post published by Coinbase on Sept. 12, Coinbase Pro will start accepting DASH deposits starting Monday “for at least 12 hours prior to enabling full trading.” The launch of DASH trading, on the other hand, is planned for 9 AM Pacific Standard Time on Sept. 17. The company also noted:
“Once sufficient supply of DASH is established on the platform, trading on the DASH/USD, and DASH/BTC order books will start in phases, beginning with post-only mode and proceeding to full trading should our metrics for a healthy market be met.”
United States Treasury undersecretary Sigal Mandelker stated that cryptocurrencies could become “the next frontier” in the war on terrorism. According to a press release published on the U.S. Treasury’s website on Sept. 11, Mandelker made her remarks during the 19th annual international conference on counterterrorism.
Cash is still predominant
While Mandelker admitted that most terrorist organizations still rely on various traditional means of financing such as cash, she also said that she believes crypto could become “the next frontier”:
“Terrorist organizations and their supporters and sympathizers are constantly looking for new ways to raise and transfer funds without detection or tracking by law enforcement. While most terrorist groups still primarily rely on the traditional financial system and cash to transfer funds, without the appropriate strong safeguards cryptocurrencies could become the next frontier.”
There’s now an underground service catering to criminals that lack the skills or nerve to hack into online accounts to steal funds.
According to a September report from security-as-a-service firm Armor, hackers on dark markets are now selling fiat cash for fractions of its worth to avoid the risk of dealing with the money themselves.
Armor’s Threat Resistance Unit (TRU) research team said in the report:
“There are plenty of hackers willing to simply transfer stolen funds to the bank account or PayPal account of your choice or send you the funds via Western Union.”
“#Aeternity Universe One #Haeckathon starts on Saturday and guess who will be mentoring the participants?”
STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion
Here is the chart of yersterday :
Here is the current chart :
Today, we had a new bounce from the low around 0.154$. This is validating again this support line and showing that sellers have difficulties to go under this support. It could finish to give a nice opportunity for the buyers to start a nice move on the STEEM. Let’s stay positive and enjoy every little bounce on the STEEM.
