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Moving beyond the U.S., persistent trade tensions have pressured the global markets, also detailed last week. |
To start, the iShares China Large-Cap ETF FXI, +0.15% has reached 10-month lows, extending the June downdraft. |
Still, the immediate rally attempt has registered as flat, or nonexistent, and the shares remain vulnerable on the three-year chart. |
To reiterate, a reversal to the former range — atop the 45.50 area — would mark an early step toward stabilization. |
Similarly, the iShares MSCI Japan ETF EWJ, +0.14% has extended the June technical breakdown, asserting a posture under the 200-day moving average for the first time since July 2016. |
Tactically, resistance spans from 59.20 to 59.77, the latter matching the 200-day moving average. A close higher would place the brakes on bearish momentum. |
Finally, the iShares Europe ETF IEV, -0.20% has also extended the June downdraft. |
The prevailing downturn punctuates a double top — defined by the April and May peaks — and subsequent failed test of the 50- and 200-day moving averages from underneath. |
An eventual close atop the breakdown point (45.50) would mark a step toward stabilization. |
Combined, the prevailing trade-tension backdrop has pressured the Dow industrials and the global markets. Conversely, U.S. small-caps and domestic-centric sectors, have generally experienced a market tailwind. |
Attendees from last year's air expo had a chance to see options for private aviation. Jets parked at the Oakland International Airport were available for tours. |
This story is sponsored by the upcoming Business Aviation Expo. |
Oakland County International Airport has announced its second annual Business Aviation Expo for Sept. 22. |
The event will draw roughly 20 private jets to be toured, as well as speakers focused on the "business case" for private aviation. |
Among the speakers will be Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. |
"The expo is an opportunity for C-suite executives to learn about how business aviation can boost their boom lines," he said in a news release. "Private air transportation enables both businesses and individuals to reach 5,000 U.S. airports, 10 times as many as commercial airlines." |
The roughly 20 jets available for tour will be provided by Dassault Falcon Jet, Bombardier, Embraer Executive Jets, Gulfstream and Textron. |
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The Michigan Business Aviation Association is hosting the event, along with the airport. Crain's Detroit Business is media partner. |
Corporate Eagle, Pentastar Aviation and Royal Air Charter are all gold-level sponsors of the event. |
The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Oakland International Airport. The cost is $75. To attend, click here. |
For more information about the Oakland International Airport, go to their website here. |
Mid-way through its seventh season, AMC’s The Walking Dead is the #1 show on television by a wide margin for a record-breaking fifth consecutive season, averaging 16.1 million viewers per episode and 10.1 million adults 18-49 across its first eight episodes. The show returns on Feb. 12, 2017 for the second half of the ... |
Sunday’s expanded 90-minute mid-season finale delivered 15.2 million total viewers, 9.6 million adults 18-49 and 9.5 million adults 25-54 in Nielsen live+3 ratings, growing 43 percent in total viewers and 47 percent in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 from Nielsen live/same day ratings. In Nielsen live+3 ratings, episode ... |
Talking Dead remains television’s #1 talk show, averaging 5.5 million viewers and 3.3 million adults 18-49 in season seven. |
In addition to the linear viewing, The Walking Dead has generated record digital viewership of more than 14 million plays so far this half season, up 46 percent from this point last season. |
Over the first half of its seventh season, The Walking Dead has weathered linear viewership challenges better than other cable shows and much better than cable dramas. Average linear viewers (adults 18-49, live+3) across these first eight episodes decreased 10 percent from the second half of season six, while average r... |
An AMC Studios production, The Walking Dead is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero, and Tom Luse. |
Samsung electronics has opened a TV set production plant in Russia's Kaluga region. |
The $137 million project is expected to help the company increase its share of the Russian market to 30%. |
Samsung plans to produce 2 million plasma and LCD TV sets annually. The plant will reach its full capacity in 2010. Kaluga region, near Moscow, is popular among global carmakers. Volkswagen and Peugeot-Citroen have plants there. |
Thanksgiving is quickly upon us with the Christmas season quickly following. We have so much to be thankful for. |
Thanksgiving is quickly approaching with the Christmas season right behind it. We have so much to be thankful for in our lives, including the natural resources we have here in the Big Country, since our land and waters have been replenished with abundant rains this past year. |
A great majority of our lakes have filled and have been restocked with bass and other species of fish to provide wonderful fisheries for the future. Some of these stocked fingerlings have been growing at a phenomenal rate and are reaching a harvest size in a very short time. |
Lake Stamford had suffered extreme low water levels in 2013 and 2014. Consequently, a golden algae bloom devastated much of the strong fishery in the lake. Good rains began filling the lake in 2015 and our Abilene division of the Texas Inland Fisheries Department began restocking the lake when the water levels rose hig... |
Still Waters Bass Club and other bass clubs are already holding tournaments on the lake and have been very pleased with the results. The bass look like small footballs because they are so fat. I have to be careful and make sure I measure fish that look borderline in length because the fish’s thickness and weight makes ... |
During our last club tournament on the lake in November, 53 fish were weighed and the average weight of the bass was 2.53 pounds. The largest fish only weighed 4.37 pounds. Many healthy, fat 14- to 16-inch bass were weighing between two to three pounds, which is fantastic weight for the length. |
Lake Stamford is only one example of what we can expect from our West Texas fisheries in the next two years as our state stocking and management program begins to pay dividends for our area lakes. more than 30 West Texas lakes have received stockings of Florida strain bass in 2015, 2016 or in both years. |
Some of our lakes have managed to maintain reasonable water levels throughout the drought and did not suffer the fish depredation that ensued for most of the lakes in West Texas. |
Lakes Coleman, Cisco and Leon were last stocked with bass in 2012 and have maintained good bass populations since that time, though Lake Coleman did receive hybrid bass stockings in 2014, 2015 and 2016. |
Only Lake Sweetwater and Lake Colorado City have not recovered enough water for a restocking program to begin. Until those two lakes receive enough water to support a balanced fish population, we would be wasting our fish resources to restock them. |
One of our West Texas lakes that is making a wonderful recovery is Lake E.V. Spence, just outside Robert Lee. This lake, which sits on the Colorado River, had been down and out because of low water and a fish kill from a golden algae bloom. The huge lake began to gain water with the rains of 2015 and 2016. Florida stra... |
I fished the lake last Tuesday afternoon and found two concrete boat ramps were open and I had no problem launching a big bass boat at the Wildcat Creek Ramp. The lake has several deep cuts or creeks that allow some protection from the wind with good water depth and plenty of cover to harbor fish. |
My problem in catching fish on Tuesday was not the bite, but getting the fish up and out of the heavy cover I found there. I landed some keepers and had additional fish on but lost some of them in the cover. Spence is really poised to produce good numbers and good quality bass in the future. |
As we sit down this next week for Thanksgiving, we certainly do need to give thanks to our creator for the blessings of our area lakes and fisheries and our great outdoors that we can enjoy in the Big Country. |
I know I have been blessed living here in Abilene and in West Texas. People care for one another and that is not always the case in other parts of the country. I also give thanks for my family, my church and the friendships that I’ve made here. Life has been good and only promises to get better. I’m very thankful for t... |
Oh, one last thing needs to be on the thankful list — the presidential election is FINALLY OVER! |
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DETROIT -- Eagles cornerback Byron Maxwell knows all about winning. |
The past two years Maxwell's season ended in the Super Bowl, winning one and coming really close to winning a second with the Seattle Seahawks. |
Now after 11 games his Eagles team is 4-7, losers of three straight, two by blowouts and he can't quite understand it. |
"I don't have the answer. I don't know what's happening,'' a sullen Maxwell said after the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Detroit Lions, 45-14. |
Maxwell was the Eagles' prize free agent addition this offseason. leaving the two-time defending NFC champion Seahawks for a six-year, $63 million, $25 million guaranteed contract with the Eagles. |
He's had his ups and downs this season and certainly hasn't been the shutdown corner the team anticipated. And he knows it. |
"What am I bringing to the table?'' Maxwell asked. "I don't know if I'm helping. Am I helping? This was a 10-6 team last year, a good team. I thought I would be the one to help us, to take the team up a level, get us to the top. |
A new butterfly house, orangutan enclosure and catering lodge at Twycross Zoo have all received planning permission - months after they were built and opened to patrons. |
Bosses at the park were advised to submit four retrospective applications to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. |
The zoo is undergoing an ambitious £55 million redevelopment programme with new attractions, improved amenities and expanded facilities aimed at increasing visitor numbers and boosting conservation efforts. |
The latest addition, the Gibbon Forest, has proved hugely successful, drawing thousands more customers through the gates. |
Zoo officials worked closely with planning experts at the council during the creation of the forest, aware of its size and complexity. |
However, some earlier upgrades slipped through the planning process net. |
A spokesman for Twycross said there had been no problem applying for retrospective permission and everything was above board. |
On the submitted planning documents the butterfly house was said to have been completed on April 11 2014, the orangutan enclosure on June 12 2015 and two submissions for the wet and wild play area - the plant room, finished on May 22 2015 and the catering lodge, a tent-like structure due to have its finishing touches b... |
The wet and wild area, featuring specially designed splash play pools and jets, is not open during the winter, allowing maintenance and refurbishment to take place. |
It is understood the plans will face no opposition. Putting up any structure covered by building regulations without proper planning consent, however, can have serious consequences if breaches are discovered. |
In some cases local authorities can order the structure to be demolished, despite the cost and inconvenience to the owner. |
Saudi Arabia Tries To Stem Further Cases Of Women Seeking Asylum Abroad The case of an 18-year-old refugee in Canada will embolden other Saudi women to follow suit, experts say. Saudi officials have launched a campaign to stop that from happening. |
In January, an 18-year-old Saudi woman was granted asylum in Canada. She said she was running from an abusive family and was no longer a Muslim. Many say her case will prompt more women to flee Saudi Arabia, even though leaders there say conditions for women are improving. Here's NPR's Deborah Amos. |
DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: Rahaf al-Qunun's arrival in Canada was big news after declaring she feared death if she was deported back to Saudi Arabia. |
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Arriving on Canadian soil after a long journey, with the foreign affairs minister in tow, Rahaf al-Qunun touched down at Toronto's Pearson International Airport yesterday. |
AMOS: She encouraged other Saudi women to flee family abuse and the oppressive controls in the conservative kingdom. She had just showed them how to do it. Al-Qunun was granted asylum after she barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel and mounted a social media campaign. Her dramatic case will likely spur more Saudi women... |
BESSMA MOMANI: Rahaf's story showed that, actually, there is a quasi-organized group that is quite willing to help these Saudi women. |
AMOS: Momani says there's now an underground network of activists who provide logistical support. |
MOMANI: You know, it's going to set off copycat-type scenarios where people now sort of know the MO, and so I think they feel more emboldened. Before, they didn't really know where to begin. |
AMOS: In Saudi Arabia, an aggressive media campaign began as soon as Al-Qunun arrived in Canada. Newspapers mounted harsh attacks. On social media, a narrative emerged that alleged Western nations use Saudi women to undermine the kingdom. |
AMOS: In recent weeks, the government's General Department for Counter-Extremism released this online warning. The animated message compares young women who flee the country to young men who join terrorist groups like ISIS. |
AMOS: But Hala Aldosari, an academic and a Saudi activist based in New York, says Saudi women will continue to run. She says family abuse is the common denominator. |
HALA ALDOSARI: They are all in controlling or abusive families, and this is the main reason why they had to leave the country - because of lack of resources or support system from within. |
AMOS: In Saudi Arabia, male relatives have vast powers over women. The kingdom's guardianship laws allow male relatives to control travel, education, medical treatment and marriage. Fleeing home, even from an abusive family, is a crime. If caught, a woman can be jailed until her guardian allows her release. It's why so... |
SAMAH DAMANHOORI: And she wore, like, a very short dress on her first-day arrival to Canada. I'm like, you know what, Rahaf? Applause to you (laughter). |
AMOS: Damanhoori was granted asylum herself in the U.S. last year after she claims she was no longer a Muslim and her family was abusive. She says women fleeing the kingdom undermined the international image of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He's hailed as a reformer in Saudi Arabia, but he's also known for an u... |
DAMANHOORI: OK. Fine. We're going to let you drive. Happy now? Now, stop running away. And right now, more women are running away. You know, we have to do that to get them their full rights. |
AMOS: How many are fleeing? It's hard to document. The U.N. shows a jump in Saudi asylum applications - male and female - since the crown prince came to power. But activists say numbers are hard to come by. Some families don't report a missing daughter because of the social stigma. |
AMOS: This popular Saudi TV program tackled domestic abuse in the weeks following Al-Qunun's escape. One guest was a Saudi woman living in exile in London, says academic Bessma Momani. |
MOMANI: You know, this one girl's talking about being raped by her brother. And she starts talking about her friend, who was being raped by her father. |
AMOS: A shocking discussion, but an attempt to address cases like Al-Qunun's, says Yasmine Farouk, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She summarized the Saudis' approach. |
YASMINE FAROUK: What she did was wrong. But let's face it. We have a problem. We have a problem with the guardianship law, the problem of domestic violence against girls. So it also had this positive impact. |
AMOS: After the episode aired, the show was abruptly canceled with no official explanation. Activists feared it signaled the guardianship law was now off-limits. But just as abruptly, the well-known TV host posted this message on social media last week. |
UNIDENTIFIED TV HOST: (Speaking Arabic). |
AMOS: "They want us to shut up. We won't," he said. A caption read the show was returning soon. Deborah Amos, NPR News. |
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