![]() ![]() Consumption growth averages very roughly at 2% per year and the ICO has 2017/18 consumption numbers at 162.23 million bags. What we know about the split between arabica and robusta consumption is less clear and this really deserves more clarity. Looking more closely, it is 102 million bags of arabica (an increase of 2.2% from the previous year) and 63 million bags of robusta (an increase of 11.7%.) That’s a lot more robusta produced this year and it plays a big part when we combine our numbers together. (We can talk about how coffee finds its way into this system later.)Ī quick summary: according to the International Coffee Organization, total arabica and robusta production in 2017/18 was roughly 165 million bags. You’ve already gone over some of this in recent posts, but, for our purposes, it’s key to remember that we are talking about the ICE Coffee “C” futures contract, which is of course the world price benchmark for arabica coffee. ![]() It’s important to break those numbers down rather than talking about them together. Usually we hear about global supply and demand in absolute numbers that include both arabica and robusta. Not to be a bore, but we probably need it for context. PH: Well, that takes us down the rabbit hole! Can you give more detail?įirst, let’s cover the basics of physical supply and demand. For these funds trading in “soft”commodity futures, the easing of regulation and the possibility of further deregulation provide for an open season on financial markets. To more pointedly answer your question, supply and demand dynamics are a cause for the current low “C” market price, I’d never minimize that but so too are currency markets and, perhaps more significantly: market speculation from giant hedge funds that have nothing to do with physical coffee. Increasingly, the problem has felt very systemic, but many proposals (including your C-5 benchmark) are focused on treating the price symptom alone. Part of what I saw was an evolution of price dysfunction. That said, for years I sat with a futures screen on my desk and was witness to some historic market changes and days of what can only be called “ridiculous” volatility. So I’m not typically combing over supply and demand numbers or analyzing coffee futures charts. My company – Coffee Unified – is a social enterprise that builds relationships to support specific sustainable development goals. Thanks Paul! I’ve enjoyed reading the Coffeelands blog for many years and I’m excited to be a digital guest! As for my understanding of the market, here’s a disclaimer: I’m a coffee guy, not a commodities market expert. You’ve challenged me with some great articles, forcing me to dig deeper into commodity markets than I was expecting.Ĭan you explain your understanding of what’s happening in the coffee market, to cause so much volatility in prices? ![]() PH: First, thanks for taking the time to walk me through the complexities of the coffee trade – I’m learning a lot from the exchange. We’ve edited our many emails and chats over the past few weeks to construct a Q&A format for this post.Īdam highlights the risks of speculative trading in coffee, and how this can drive price volatility. Adam has a career in the coffee trade: as an importer, coffee buyer, and now as a development entrepreneur in the coffee sector with Coffee Unified. ![]() After my recent posts on the Scandal of the C-Price, I reached out to Adam Kline, founder and CEO of Coffee Unified, for his insights. ![]()
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![]() For, indeed, although you ought to be teachers in view of the time, you again need someone to teach you from the beginning the elementary things of the sacred pronouncements of God and you have become such as need milk, not solid food. (a) What did Paul state about some Christians in Corinth and in Judea? (b) What appears to be the case with some Christians today?ģ In his first letter to the Corinthian Christians, the apostle Paul complained that he was unable to speak to them “as to spiritual men,” but that he needed to speak to them “as to babes in Christ.” ( 1 Corinthians 3:1) Similarly, he wrote, likely to Christians living in Judea: “Concerning him we have much to say and hard to be explained, since you have become dull in your hearing. One of the concluding questions asks: “Following your baptism in water, why will it be vital for you to maintain a good schedule for personal study and to share regularly in the ministry?” This impresses on the mind of that baptismal candidate the need to continue to study beyond the elementary things and “press on to maturity.” ( Hebrews 6:1) But do all heed this advice?ģ, 4. Before being accepted for baptism by Jehovah’s Witnesses, each candidate’s basic Bible knowledge is tested by a comprehensive series of pointed questions. That means the ability to use their knowledge of God’s Word in their active worship, in solving their day-to-day problems, and in making decisions concerning their goals in life. ![]() Why are Jehovah’s Witnesses happy, but what advice are they given from the time of their baptism?Ģ True Christians are happy, indeed, to have found wisdom. It is a tree of life to those taking hold of it, and those keeping fast hold of it are to be called happy.”- Proverbs 3:13-18.Ģ. It is more precious than corals, and all other delights of yours cannot be made equal to it. ![]() “HAPPY is the man that has found wisdom, and the man that gets discernment, for having it as gain is better than having silver as gain and having it as produce than gold itself. What is a true source of happiness, and why? ‘If as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, you will find the very knowledge of God.’- PROVERBS 2:4, 5.ġ. ![]() ![]() Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Groot, and Rocket Raccoon have teamed up for an epic galactic pinball battle!ĭownload The Gaudians of the Galaxy pinball table on PSN, XBLA, Steam, Mac, iOS, Android and Amazon platforms! Coming soon to Xbox One! 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His vest and Pup Pack are blue, with three yellow chevrons on each side, usually the rank of a police sergeant. When wearing his normal outfit, he has a blue police hat with a yellow trim and black bill. He has brown fur covering his body, with lighter brown/tan fur on his face, and on his paws. After that, the two formed a close bond and became friends for life.īecause of his past on the streets of the metropolis, Chase was very reluctant to return to Adventure City and froze up during his second mission there until Ryder was endangered.Ĭhase, as shown in the series, is a German Shepherd. While crossing the street he almost got hit by a truck but Ryder jumped in to save him. Lost, scared, and confused he made his way through the busy streets. In " Pups Save a Mer-Pup", he didn't believe in mer-pups until he saw Skye as a mer-pup.Īs a younger pup Chase was abandoned by his former owners onto the harsh streets of Adventure City. He is often skeptical whenever the PAW Patrol might be dealing with something supernatural and/or unusual. He also has a soft side for Little Hootie. Despite his serious nature, he is very caring towards the other pups and sometimes whimpers when something very bad happens. During missions, he can show his emotional side, but he'll quickly try to hide it by looking resilient. However, he can get annoyed by Marshall's antics. He and Marshall are best friends and are competitive, but they do it just for fun. He can be very playful when there are no missions. Whenever Ryder isn't around, he tends to take on the role as the PAW Patrol's leader. He is loyal and obedient, and he refuses to let Ryder down. He is definitely a leader, and takes things very seriously when on patrol, though he has his ups and downs. ![]() PersonalityĬhase, being a police dog, is very mature, possibly the most mature of the group. In Season 2, he also has spy gear.Ĭhase is on the case! This German shepherd police pup is always eager to help his community! A natural leader, Chase can sniff anything out to solve a mystery. He wears a police hat and rides a police-themed car that he uses for missions. Chase is a German Shepherd pup who is rather mature and serious on missions. ![]() ![]() ![]() That Archive drive is duplicated using Chronosync about once a week with the duplicate drive being taken off premise. That job file is then archived with Chronosync and then synced each day. Once I've input all the files I copy them over to the job file on a RAID 0 drive. It's put on an internal 6G HD spinning at 7200 RPM's. I bring the footage initially into Resolve and general go through initial color. If the BMCC was RAW 3:1 I'd save about 160GB's which would over months save me quite a lot of money. I also recorded sound and shot some stills so ended up around 400 GB's. The BMCC came in at 250GB and was only used as the A Cam in the same interview. ![]() I used the micro as a B Cam in about a hour interview as well as lot's of B-roll and roving footage of the event. Yesterday I came in with about 120GB's from my Micro camera, which I set at RAW 3:1. Appreciate the advice.įor clarification I'm sure like all of you every shoot is a little different. Unless you're shooting years and years of footage for a doc, I don't really see a need to use lossy re-compression and/or toss my original footage. Ideally, I keep two copies of the original DNGs from camera and a single copy of the losslessly compressed versions, and because HDDs are so affordable I tend to just keep stuff around. I don't use lossy compression but I do losslessly compress DNGs from my Bolex all the time. Also depends on how much footage you're processing and how good your machine is. If you're copying from one RAID0 to another RAID0 then it is pretty fast. If you're copying from and writing to the same 5400RPM laptop drive then yes, it'll take a while. Compatibility is reduced as well, on account of Adobe still not having great compressed CinemaDNG support.ĭepends entirely on what you're reading from and what you're writing to. You mean, besides lowering the quality of your footage? Kind of. It's sort of just become my go to process for archive and offloading my BMCC footage. I find the Lossy compression sufficient enough that I usually don't need to archive my originals, although this simply comes down to personal preference/workflow. ( that in addition to some other awesome features like 2x downscale and checksums ) I will run all my footage through it because I gain all the benefits of extra compression with negligible ( if any! ) penalties in terms of speed. So good I honestly don't ever find myself just offloading the footage on its own. Performance is also very closely attributed to Disk Speed ( both source and target disk), converting footage directly off the SDD with a SATA3 interface or USB 3 definitely helps. With a relatively modern system you can do even better, sometimes 2x-4x real-time performance. ![]() This obviously depends on your system specs, however having tested on a variety of systems I will say that for the most part you can expect at LEAST ~realtime performance ( 45 mins of RAW will be 45 mins to convert ) ![]() ![]() ![]() There are other characters with only their limbs being cybernetically enhanced, such as Rekka's arms or Peppermint's leg.
![]() ![]() They must attend periodic therapy sessions to keep them human. A registered cyberpsycho is on something akin to parole. People who are near the edge are politely asked (that is, required) to register as such. ![]() Standard practice for corporations who learned one of their own was becoming cyberpsychotic was to have them isolate themselves away from the public and wait for a corporate medical team to sedate them and transport them to a therapeutic retreat, but unknown to the victims, these medical teams were actually hit squads. An expensive drug called baloperidol was a common treatment for individuals believed to be on the verge of cyberpsychosis, but its effectiveness was questionable. Practically none survived any encounter with police, which usually applied overwhelming firepower to put down the threat regardless of the circumstances, a tactic which resulted in collateral civilian deaths. This is another reason ripperdocs exist not everyone wants to be on a government watch list for cyberpsychosis.īy 2077, the occurrence of cyberpsychosis had markedly decreased due to medical and implant advancements, but people still succumbed to it every day. It is quite common for governments or corporations (who are often the de-facto government) to track people who are known to install lots of cyberware. Incidentally the government (and corporations) are not going to wait for you to go over the edge. Police departments have heavily armed and armored units, called psycho squads, who specialize in subduing or killing cyberpsychos. It is actually quite common in many boostergangs, though fairly rare in polite society. Ĭyberpsychosis has become a major problem in the technology-saturated world of Cyberpunk. But violence towards living things, especially people, is most common. Some have fragmented personalities, some are kleptomaniacs, others are compulsive liars. Not all cyberpsychos are physically violent. Eventually human interactions become irritating, and this morphs into contempt, and finally violence. They start to identify more with machines than people, and stop doing things that used to give them pleasure (eating, sleeping, socializing, sex, etc). ![]() A single cyber hand is unlikely to cause cyberpsychosis, but replacement of all four limbs and both eyes will probably start down the slippery slope to madness.Ĭyberpsychosis symptoms are gradual, ranging from decay of self-preservation, distancing or disregard from friends and family, and poor or impulsive outbursts or acts. There is no real cure, though treatment is available ( see below). Cyberpsychosis can eventually affect anyone modified with cybernetics, but the less empathetic or psychologically stable a person is, the more susceptible they are to it. With their enhanced physical abilities and complete disregard for life, cyberpsychos are extremely dangerous to anyone that crosses their path. They come to view regular people and other living things as weak and inferior. Those afflicted with cyberpsychosis are known as cyberpsychos, individuals who have existing psychopathic tendencies, enhanced by cybernetics, and as a result have lost their sense of identity as a person, either to themselves or others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your continued use of the Service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of such change to these Terms. ![]() When we change these Terms in a material manner, we will update the date at the top of this page. ShapeShift may, in its sole discretion, modify or update these Terms from time to time, so you should review this page periodically. Such additional terms are hereby incorporated into these Terms. 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