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Devon Lalonde
Construction spending is performing strongly, but the ISM reports shows manufacturing has contracted for 10 consecutive months while next week's ISM services index is expected to post a headline reading consistent with the economy growing at a rate closer to 1% year-on-year rather than the 2.5% rate recorded in the second quarter
US ISM manufacturing index rose more than expected in August to stand at 47.6 versus 46.4 in July (consensus 47.0), but this is the tenth consecutive month it has come in below the break-even 50 level i.e. indicating contraction.
The ISM surveys asks companies a range of questions on employment levels, orders, output, supplier delivery times and price pressures in order to come up with a broader picture of the state of the sector rather than measuring output alone such as in the industrial production report. The output index improved to 50 from 48.3, but new orders slipped back to 46.8. Prices paid moved higher to 48.4 from 42.6 but because this is below 50 it merely means that the rate of price declines are slowing rather than prices are moving higher. As such inflation pressures emanating from the manufacturing sector remain minimal and are consistent with goods consumer price inflation slowing closer to zero.
A C++ library for Bayesian modeling, with an emphasis on Markov chain Monte Carlo. Although boom contains a few R utilities (mainly plotting functions), its primary purpose is to install the BOOM C++ library on your system so that other packages can link against it.
(All of the figures in this index are from "Build a Better South: Construction Working Conditions in the Southern U.S.," a collaboration by the Workers Defense Project, Partnership for Working Families, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.)
I'm interested on everyone's take on this. I'm currently working on a doco with a pretty green director outside the US. Last night we did a long take during a dinner with the key person and some friends. We shot for about 2h20m without stopping. It's the longest I've ever had to boom without a break. To be fair the camera man suffered more as it was all handheld on f55. I didn't really notice anything at the time but today I really feel it. I've done plenty of reality and doco work before and most directors will give the crew a rest after 30-45min even if it's just a few minutes. Of course I didn't complain as I would have felt bad as the camera man was not saying anything (although I could sense he thought it was a bit unreasonable) and I wasn't suffering too bad at the time. Also, I was able to set my bag down off camera so I was only holding the boom.
in 2007 i worked with a 'green director' on a film project - digital cameras - long long takes with non-actors. after 8/9 minutes i had to walk in and ask for a cut. i told the director i will not allow anything longer than this, my boom op was not going to retire after this film, and the director was not going to pay for any injury he would suffer from.
Verite recording of a live event often demands being in the rig and flying the boom for long periods of time. It sucks but that's what happens on those kinds of productions. I pretty much find that standing still and booming for a really long time is harder than moving around, with the latter at least time seems to go by faster. There have been plenty of dramatic projects over the years (esp since video came in) where the entire length of a videotape (or, now, card) was shot out on an improv scene, this also sucks but is very much an accepted part of filmmaking anymore. I find that I eventually need to speak up for myself, and just let whoever know that I'm reaching my limit re injury, with the implication that active booming will cease sometime very soon, that I need a break.
Not true, I use it constantly on documentaries, the boom can hop on and off support as required. If you need fast moving flexibility there's nothing to stop you using the boom in the conventional manner, if things become more static for any length of time use it, it's that simple. As suggested find a way to integrate with your bag, not with a separate support and it's great.
I forgot to mention that the other probably even more important purpose for me using Kit Cool boom support other than making it easier to boom in some circumstances, is that it frees up one hand to do other things without having to do contortions or rest the pole on your head etc. e.g. adjust that third radio mic gain, change headphone monitoring, solo an input etc. all much much easier with one hand free ...... until we sound recordists evolve to have three arms ...
Put an RF on the key person and boom the others. At least you can take small breaks when the key person is talking, giving you a chance to pick up the next speech. +1 for a boom buddy or other stand mounted boom holder. 2 hours is too long. what media was in the camera? they must have had to reload at some point.
There is no doubt that years of booming will have a culmulative effect on your back. Especially from the old days, with metal boompoles and 816 microphones. Almost every old boom operator I know has back trouble. I'm proof of that. While she was growing up. I couldn't even lift my daughter without pain. Pre reliable wireless, a boom operator had to put themselves in odd positions that tweaked the back. It's a completely unnatural thing to do for our body.
I have the injuries and "body accessories" (read various braces etc) to show for 40 years of booming. All I can say is that Nagras (with 12 D batteries inside) became DATs became small file based recorders at good times for me re still being able to do this work somewhat. I'm glad those kit cool or whatever gizmos work for the people they work for--when I think back over the heavy boom jobs I've done even just in the last month none of them would have allowed for such a device--too clumsy, too big, too slow too etc. Doco audio eats its young, sad but true.
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble in the late 1990s. The period coincided with massive growth in Internet adoption, a proliferation of available venture capital, and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups.
Historically, the dot-com boom can be seen as similar to a number of other technology-inspired booms of the past including railroads in the 1840s, automobiles in the early 20th century, radio in the 1920s, television in the 1940s, transistor electronics in the 1950s, computer time-sharing in the 1960s, and home computers and biotechnology in the 1980s.[4]
The dot-com bubble burst in March 2000, with the technology heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaking at 5,048.62 on March 10[13] (5,132.52 intraday), more than double its value just a year before. By 2001, the bubble's deflation was running full speed. A majority of the dot-coms had ceased trading, after having burnt through their venture capital and IPO capital, often without ever making a profit. But despite this, the Internet continues to grow, driven by commerce, ever greater amounts of online information, knowledge, social networking and access by mobile devices.
An unprecedented amount of personal investing occurred during the boom and stories of people quitting their jobs to trade on the financial market were common.[22] The news media took advantage of the public's desire to invest in the stock market; an article in The Wall Street Journal suggested that investors "re-think" the "quaint idea" of profits,[23] and CNBC reported on the stock market with the same level of suspense as many networks provided to the broadcasting of sports events.[18][24]
On Friday March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaked at 5,048.62.[47] However, on March 13, 2000, news that Japan had once again entered a recession triggered a global sell off that disproportionately affected technology stocks.[48] Soon after, Yahoo! and eBay ended merger talks and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%, but the S&P 500 rose 2.4% as investors shifted from strong performing technology stocks to poor performing established stocks.[49]
On Friday, April 14, 2000, the Nasdaq Composite index fell 9%, ending a week in which it fell 25%. Investors were forced to sell stocks ahead of Tax Day, the due date to pay taxes on gains realized in the previous year.[55] By June 2000, dot-com companies were forced to reevaluate their spending on advertising campaigns.[56] On November 9, 2000, Pets.com, a much-hyped company that had backing from Amazon.com, went out of business only nine months after completing its IPO.[57][58] By that time, most Internet stocks had declined in value by 75% from their highs, wiping out $1.755 trillion in value.[59] In January 2001, just three dot-com companies bought advertising spots during Super Bowl XXXV.[60] The September 11 attacks accelerated the stock-market drop.[61] Investor confidence was further eroded by several accounting scandals and the resulting bankruptcies, including the Enron scandal in October 2001, the WorldCom scandal in June 2002,[62] and the Adelphia Communications Corporation scandal in July 2002.[63]
Zero-day trading in options tied to the S&P 500 index boomed in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic. Initially viewed as a temporary phenomenon driven by speculative retail traders, the surge sparked concern among some analysts and regulators that it could create systemic risk by exacerbating market moves.
Now, back to Boom and crash: Trading the boom and crash market can be intimidating especially when you are selling boom and buying crash, knowing that one spike in the indices can reduce all your hard-earned profits.
In the petroleum industry, oil booms are a linked series of floating objects that are positioned around an oil discharge that has leaked to the water. The boom contains the spill to its enclosed area.
Oil booms are constructed of metal, plastic, or other materials, which slow the expansion of oil and keep it contained within the boom. Oil spill reaction teams deploy booms using systems to moor the boom. They use anchors and if close enough landlines to hold the boom in place around the spilled fuel.
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