#the other day i opened the 2009 wiki page to look at the results and then quickly looked away like i burned my eyes when i remembered

[skitskatdacat63]

Finally got myself to start 2009 :D

Warning: long-winded ramble about gifing under the cut

Preface: this is one of those rambles that I have to myself in my head when I'm trying to fall asleep and I just keep repeating it to myself over and over and going over it like it's a monologue and then fall asleep unexpectedly

God I can already tell that gifing anything 2009 and beyond is gonna be an absolute nightmare for me 😭 I mean *positive* nightmare, but nightmare none the less. Basically this is because the more recent the race is, the better the production and camerawork is. Which is good for watching but bad when you're trying to condense all of the post-race into one gifset. Speaking of that, does anyone know exactly when the production improved btwn 2005 and 2009? I watched one 2008 race, I really can't remember how good the production/camerawork was. Also I hope you guys get what I mean by that LOL and it's not just me being overly specific

If you've seen any of my 2023 posts so far, you'll notice I'm able to make a pretty fulfilling set focusing on just one driver, and that driver isn't even the winner of the race. Trying to make a gifset of anyone but the winner in 2005 would be borderline impossible because the camera mainly only focuses on the winner, only really showing the p2 and p3 drivers when they accept their trophies. I mean from a viewers perspective, I obviously enjoy the enhanced production because it's really nice to see more of the drivers other than the winner. But how am I supposed to condense it into only 10 gifs AAAAHHHHHH!!! And like to worsen this, even if 2005 had the same production quality as 2023, I think it'd still be easier for me because there's fewer drivers I really like from that era.

But 2009-2013 is the era in which all of my favs are there and in the forefront, so it's impossible for me to take a 2023 approach to it in which I focus on one driver. Like bruh how am I meant to condense it when it's a Seb, Jenson & Mark podium, my folder for the race is gonna have like...30+ gifs. I have enough issues condensing 2023, one driver focused, to ten, and I had issues with 2005 sometimes, so AHHHHHHHH. It's like that meme of the woman getting fed too many cakes. I gifed a tiny bit of China 2009 if you remember, and even though I was only focusing on a relatively tiny section...I swear to god I made like 10 or some other inane amount.

Speaking of 2023 I gotta say, I'm so fucked when inevitably Fernando doesn't end up being on the podium. How am I supposed to make a gifpost when my number one boy isn't there :(( I'm not sure who else I'd end up focusing on? There's not as many drivers I absolutely love in 2023 compared to, for example, the V8 era. It's not like atp I'm predicting Oscar to get a podium so :,) I guess I'll probably end up just making a more general kind of post, focusing on everyone instead of just one driver?

[lauramkaye]

On Research And Fanfiction

When you hear someone talking about research for their fanfic, what do you think of? A historical AU, maybe? Or an AU where the characters are part of a different, very technical profession? It’s true that it’s important to research for those kinds of stories, but I’d like to make a case that making research a part of your normal writing process will lead to better stories.

I’m trying to think if there is any story I’ve written, at least in the last several years, where I didn’t research at least something, and honestly even the very short ones had some element of research to it. For example, for Problem To The Answer, I looked up the original news story that inspired the fic, as well as travel times between New York and DC. In Storage War I looked up information about storage units, not because it was specifically going into the story, but to give me a better mental image of the setting. 

Now, when I say “research,” I’m not always talking about the kind of research you’d do for school; a lot of times it’s as simple as a quick Google to check on something. For example, I’m currently working on a story that is set in May 2009. I wanted to include a throwaway line where a character makes a joke about the show Jersey Shore. So I looked it up, but discovered that Jersey Shore started airing in December 2009. So out the line went.

That’s not to say that everything has to be accurate; I change things for artistic reasons all the time. But I only do it on purpose, when I choose to, for things that are important to the fic.

For a longer example, I will take the story I finished most recently, my C/C Exchange fic, A Guy Like You Should Wear A Warning. On the face of it, you wouldn’t think that story would need that much research, right? It’s a soulmate story set on a cruise ship! It’s full of absurdity!

It’s also full of research. I researched the HELL out of that story. How, you ask? (Note: the following list will spoil some plot elements if you haven’t read the story yet). Behind the cut, a description of the stuff I researched while writing it:

Historical setting: whether I like to admit it or not, 2004 was 13 years ago and things were different then. I looked up things like fashion trends, makeup trends, hit songs, and most notably, the state of cell phones. 2004 was the year that the Motorola RAZR was the hot new phone, and smartphones just weren’t a thing yet. Some of this went into the story (for instance, Tyler’s clothing choices, Melinda’s pink lipgloss, that they all have flip or candy bar phones) and some were just to get the setting clear in my head while I wrote. I also consulted calendars for 1992 and 2004 to make sure I got dates and days of the week correct for the sections of the story set then. 

Story setting: The story action largely happens on the David Hasselhoff fan cruise. While the actual DH fan cruise occurred in November 2017, I relied extensively on the information available online about it when writing the story. Specifically, I moved it from early November 2017 to early November 2004. I also moved the meet and greet event from an afternoon event to a brunch for plot reasons. Everything else about the trip is accurate: the way that they would have traveled to the cruise from New York (I looked up flights), the way they would have gotten to Rome, the cruise schedule and stops. I also looked up maps and photographs of the cruise ship and referred to them extensively; I spent a lot of time on cruise vacationer forums while writing this story.

Phil’s studies: I looked up various colleges with good reputations in Phil’s field, and the sorts of classes he would take; I looked up actual classes at UMW; I looked up actual cryptography and cipher information. This is all current rather than historical, but I figure it’s close enough for these purposes. The point of the research isn’t to be completely 100% accurate in every respect, but more to make sure that nothing is obviously, jarringly wrong for most readers.

Events on shore: In the part of the story where Phil goes ashore in Rome, he goes to shops that really exist on the road that the story says he is on, and he goes to them in more or less geographic order, according to Google Maps. I also looked up actual products from those stores to describe. Now, these items are current (2017) rather than historical (since it wasn’t easy to find 2004 stuff online), but I still think it helps give these parts of the story verisimilitude. I also looked up the kinds of agriculture done in Catalonia for the big showdown at the end, and the actual area of Catalonia (so that when Phil says “this farm is fifty acres, I doubt that’s even one percent of Catalonia,” he is actually verifiably correct.)

Russian stuff: Since Clint’s soulmark is in Russian and Russian language is key to the story, I spent a lot of time working on the Russian parts of this story. For Clint’s soulmark, I posted a question on an online forum for Russian speakers to help me figure out something that would be appropriate. My first thought was to ask the translation for “Are you fucking kidding me?”, but as I engaged with the Russian speakers, I learned that it just wasn’t that simple. Profanity in Russian is very different than it is in English, and so much depends on the context and relationship between the speakers. The phrase we finally settled on, Еще чего не хватало, is literally translated something like “this is just the last thing I need,” but has a negative and somewhat sarcastic connotation, so that a good idiomatic equivalent in English is “I need this like I need a hole in the head.” For the other Russian, I depended on a really cool website that isn’t a dictionary but a translation search engine called Reverso Context. The great thing about this tool is that, unlike dictionaries, you can search entire sentences and phrases, and get an assortment of translated passages that match, so you can see the various ways the phrase might get used. It means you’ll get a better result than just typing something into Google Translate would give you. I use Reverso Context in combination with dictionaries and Google Translate in order to get the best idea possible of what I’m saying. It doesn’t substitute for a native speaker beta, but it’s a good fallback position. I also did a lot of research into Russian nomenclature and diminutive names, and into Russian profanity (which is SO INTERESTING, look up mat sometimes and read about it.)

David Hasselhoff: I looked up his albums released up to and including 2004. I listened to clips of his music (it is so bad you guys) and watched videos of his concert performances (OMG the LED jacket is really a thing). All the songs and medleys and such that I describe him doing are real things he’s really done. I also looked up his online merch (Melinda’s bedazzled Don’t Hassle The Hoff shirt is real) and watched the video he made promoting the cruise, to get an idea of his speech patterns for the few places when he speaks in the story.

There are a lot of other little miscellaneous things I looked up - how far ahead of getting married in NYC you need to get the license; a real place in South America that had a munitions depot explosion; grain silo explosions and how they happen; the average temperatures on the Mediterranean Sea in November; how much a suit costs at Brioni; the organizational structure of the FBI, etc. Even Barney Barton being in the FBI is rooted in canon - that’s something that Barney really has done in the comics.

This probably all sounds like WAY TOO MUCH WORK, but most of these things didn’t take a huge amount of time - it was more like “oh, wait, they didn’t have smartphones in 04, did they?” and then a quick Google, or scan of a wiki page. I spent my writing time with a lot of open tabs of maps, cruise ship layouts, etc., that I would refer to when I was trying to figure out where the characters were going. Because I have research baked in to my process, it happens mainly when I am outlining, with occasional quick Googles to double-check stuff I throw in when I’m writing.

Would the story be worse if I hadn’t done all this? I think it would. I think the research makes the story feel true, rooted in the real world, and that gives me a lot more latitude to go nuts with things like soulmates and Russian mob bros and throwing David Hasselhoff’s mimosa in someone’s face. Also, hopefully, if I have a reader who happens to know a lot about Russian, or Rome, or majoring in political science, or David Hasselhoff, that reader won’t be thrown out of the story by something obviously wrong. (also, open invitation: if you are reading a fic of mine and see something obviously wrong, I WELCOME THAT KNOWLEDGE and will fix it if I can without having to rewrite major bits of the story.)

I don’t expect everyone to be QUITE as intense about research as I am--I admit I’m pretty darn intense about research. But I would like to encourage other writers to make at least some research part of their process! It leads to better stories all around, and sometimes the things you find out help you make your stories better in cool new directions.

[thegrumpypenguin]

  The magnificent old soul glimpsed through the foliage

  A rare full-body portrait

As I mentioned in my January post, I tried this year to use as many “first-times” in the calendar as possible in order to minimize the chances of rehashing old stories for you here in the blogs. This has meant I’ve used a great number of animals from the Australasia Pavilion, simply because I’ve not featured many of its species before. The flip side to this idea, however, is there is a good reason I’ve not featured some of these animals before: I simply don’t have that much information on them. Makepeace, the lone tawny frogmouth living at the Toronto Zoo, is an excellent example of this problem. When I sat down a couple of days ago to begin working on this piece, I did as much digging as I could and I realized there just isn’t very much info about Makepeace specifically available as I had hoped there would be. I’ve reached out to a few people since then – former Zookeepers, friends who have been Members at the Zoo for a long time, a gentleman in the States who (apparently) holds the Stud Book for the Tawny Frogmouth species in captivity – but have not heard back yet from any of them. I am going to write this post now with the little information I do have and then update it as more comes in. I’ll make sure to announce each edit on social media; if you don’t follow me on any social media platforms, I recommend you come back here in a couple of weeks and see what more I’ve been able to add!

  My first photo of Makepeace

I had paid no attention whatsoever to this beautiful bird for most of my years of visiting the Zoo. The species has always featured prominently on the sign in the Oz Aviary listing all the birds to be found in the area, but the tawny frogmouth seems to be a rather shy creature and is excellent at blending into the background. It was only at the very beginning of 2018 when I began to make a weekly visit to the Zoo with my friend, Lynda, and we spent a great deal of time in the warmth of the pavilion that I started to seek Makepeace out. Another avid photographer friend, Lloyd, had recently posted shots of him so I was able to work out where to look, and on my very first visit in January of 2018 I spotted Makepeace at the back of the exhibit, on a tree near the window and catch-up cages. It was not an easy spot to capture his image, as it was well into the undergrowth and extremely back-lit from the windows, but I managed to get a few shots that time and on subsequent visits that year.

  New hiding spot!

In late summer I went to see him and he had vanished! I looked all around the pavilion without any luck, until an amazing Horticulture worker, Norm, came by and pointed him out to me. Makepeace had moved to a spot above the HVAC equipment right above the back window. You can see from this shot at left that he was extremely well-hidden in this location, and he stayed there for most of the rest of that year. As a result, I didn’t take many shots of him over the next few months; in fact, the one here seems to be the only one I have of him in that spot. Eventually he moved out well into the open and I snagged the full-body shot of him that appeared farther up this page. He sat out there on the lattice-work roofing over the turtle pond for quite a while – it may well have been a cool spot for him in the summer heat – until he moved on to his current perch: right above and to the right of the door leading from the aviary to the area where the Komodo dragon lives (among others). He’s tucked in nicely to his corner but very often will react to a visitor he knows (such as myself or Lynda) and fix those piercing eyes on us. When he’s really feeling sociable he will clack his beak and blink his eyes slowly. It’s quite a sensation, believe me, when he locks giant peepers on you; it’s like he’s looking directly into your soul!

  He’ll win every staring contest, hands down

  See what I mean?

  Sleepy boy

From the very little information I uncovered, I believe his mate was named Adelaide. It appears she may have passed in or around 2009, which is before I began my Volunteering career, because her name appears in a list I found from that year, but there was some pushback in the comments about exactly how many tawny frogmouths still lived at the Zoo. Sadly, this species mates (for life) and he has been on his own since then. What I do know for sure, though, is this: Makepeace was born (hatched) on June 13, 1986, which makes him well over 33 years old! This site lists their life expectancy at 12-14 years in the wild and, for some inexplicable reason, shorter in captivity; I don’t imagine that second part to be true, but still: for Makepeace to outlive his normal life expectancy by a factor of nearly 2.5 is absolutely incredible. I’m not seeing any more information about their life expectancy on Wiki;

however, when a student on one of my tours inquired as to whether Makepeace is the oldest in the world, I did manage to discover that there are a couple of others of his species that are slightly older than he is. If he hangs on for a while, though, he could easily hold that title. This site suggests that the oldest “reported” frogmouth was 32 years old in 2018; that’s how old he was, but it seems to have been a different bird.

  Papa and chick!

In 2013, a chick was hatched at Paulton’s Park in the UK to a very old couple: Gerben, the dad, was 33 while mom, Fleur, was 29. Both of these would be older than Makepeace today, but I cannot find any record of them still being around, nor even of their passing. However, I did find this adorable photo of Gerben and his chick (named Willow)!! This makes me wonder if maybe it isn’t too late to obtain another, older mate for Makepeace and give him one more chance at producing an offspring for his legacy. I doubt this will happen, but you never know. In the meantime, I will continue to pop ’round to see him whenever I am in his building, because it does my own heart good to see him still alive and kicking after all these years. 

  There’s not a lot more I can tell you right now. I will continue digging and update this post when I have more information for you. Oh, I did happen to come across this cool old program from the AAZK conference in Miami in 1985; note the talk being given by Oliver Claffey on “Breeding the Tawny Frogmouth at the Metro Toronto Zoo” and remember: this was the year before Makepeace was even born! (You’ll probably have to click on the photo and zoom in.)

    Next month: one of my favourite animals in the whole zoo and one I did my very first project on during Volunteer Training. So if I don’t have a lot of information to share with you next month, there’s an entirely different issue to be dealt with!

See you then!

2020 “HANGING OUT WITH ANIMALS” Calendar – March Story As I mentioned in my January post, I tried this year to use as many "first-times" in the calendar as possible in order to minimize the chances of rehashing old stories for you here in the blogs.

[kristinsimmons]

Global Risk Report: Davos, Trump and Climate Change

By DAVID INTROCASO

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump once again noted his objection to the Paris climate accord.  In an interview with Piers Morgan, Trump again called it a “horrible deal” because, as has been widely reported, climate change or global warming is, per the president, a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese.  “There is cooling and there’s a heating – I mean look,” Trump explained to Morgan, “it use to not be climate change.  It used to be global warming.  That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.  The ice caps were going to melt.  They were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, okay?” 

Trump was asked about climate change because the topic was on the Forum’s agenda.  Not surprisingly, in the days leading up to the confab, climate scientists once again found the proceeding calendar year one of the warmest on record.  NASA ranked 2017 the second warmest since 1880 (or since reliable record keeping began), or after 2016.  NOAA, using a slightly different methodology, ranked it the third warmest after 2016 and 2015 respectively.  Not only were the last three years the warmest on record, the five warmest years on record have occurred since 2010, 17 of the 18 warmest since 2001 and last year marked the 21st consecutive year the contiguous United States had above average temperatures.  Record 2017 temperatures were somewhat unanticipated however because of the lack of an El Niño (or Pacific trade wind), effect that is associated with increased global temperatures.  Because air temperatures are largely determined by ocean temperatures, also not surprisingly the five warmest ocean temperature years recorder have been 2017, 2015, 2016, 2014 and 2013 respectively.  Ocean temperatures in 2017 were exceptionally warm.  Measured as heat energy in Joules, 2017 ocean temperatures exceeded 2015 by 1.51 x 10^22 Joules, or the amount of electrical energy China produces annually.

The Davos meeting was also preceded by the World Economic Forum’s annual publication of its global risk report.  The report, the Forum’s 13th, identifies the world’s most pressing risks and is used to inform Forum discussions.  This year’s report titled, “Global Risk 2018: Fractures, Fears and Failures,” included a climate change chapter titled, “Our Planet on the Brink.”  As the title suggests, the chapter, though comparatively far more brief, reads not unlike like David Wallace-Wells now famous (it has its own Wiki entry) July 2017 New York Magazine essay, “The Uninhabitable Earth, Famine, Economic Collapse, A Sun That Cooks Us: What Climate Change Could Wreak – Sooner Than You Think.” His essay begins with the simple, direct statement, “It is, I promise, worse than you think.” 

Among other things the Forum report chapter notes, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen for the first time in four years.  Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is now measured at 403 parts per million (PPM), or represents a 65 percent increase over pre-industrial levels.  As a result global temperatures have increased by an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius (or two degrees Fahrenheit).  (The Paris accord goal is to keep the increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius).  As a result, among other things the chapter notes this past September the Atlantic experienced its most intense storm month on record contributing to making this past hurricane season the most expensive ever.  Beyond warming, the chapter states studies suggest oceans, having absorbed 93 percent of increased global temperatures, may now be losing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.  Of the most deadly 10 natural disasters during the first half of 2017, eight involved floods or landslides.  For example, the early January mud slides in Santa Barbara County were the result of a rain bomb that at one point dropped an inch of rain in 15 minutes.  Wildfire burn across the US,  made possible in part by the hottest California summer on record, was nearly 50 percent above the 10 year average.  The chapter also found that research suggests forests “are now releasing rather than absorbing carbon dioxide.”  Concerning global warming effects on foodstuffs, the chapter notes there is now an estimated one-in-20 chance per decade that heat, drought or floods will cause the failure of corn production in China and the US, the world’s two main growers, that would cause widespread famine.  Among other related findings is the fear of  “ecological Armageddon” caused in part by the collapse of insect populations critical to food production.  Researchers in Germany have observed a 75 percent decline in insect populations over the past few decades.

While President Trump marveled at ice caps setting records, the record was Arctic Ocean ice actually hit a record low in 2017 and is declining faster than any time in the past 1,500 years (Alaskans will see the disappearance of summer Arctic ice over the next two decades), other world leaders urged action.  French President Emmanuel Macron called for his country to become a “model in the fight against climate change.”  Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi was more candid calling climate change the “greatest threat to the survival and human civilization as we know it.”  The failure to address, he said, would serve as testimony to “an alarming glimpse of our own selfishness.”

Prime Minister Modi may have noticed during the meeting the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock forward by 30 seconds, or to two minutes to midnight.  Their decision was based in part on the Trump administration’s indifference to climate change.  (The EPA’s climate change web page has been replaced by a message stating it is being updated to “reflect EPA’s priorities under the leadership of President Trump.”)  The only other time the clock was set so close to midnight or catastrophe in its 71-year history was in 1953, or after the US and the former Soviet Union detonated their first thermonuclear bombs.

Possibly as well Modi, Macron and German Chancellor Merkel, who also spoke in support of addressing climate change, read the November release of the US’s “Climate Science Special Report” (CSSR).  Authored by 13 federal agencies the report is considered the most definitive US statement on climate change.  The CSSR concluded, “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominate cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century.”  Among numerous findings the CSSR reported current carbon dioxide concentrations, again beyond 400 PPM, last occurred three million years ago, “when,” the report stated, “global average temperature and sea levels were significantly higher than today.”  The CSSR also found “the present-day emissions rate of nearly 10 GtC (giga tons of carbon) per years suggests,” the report stated, “that there is no climate analog for this century any time in at least the last 50 million years.”  The White House’s response to the CSSR was to draw the trenchant conclusion, “the climate has changed and is always changing.” 

The consequences of a rapidly carbonized atmosphere (40 percent of carbon dioxide buildup has occurred since 1970), as Modi stated, threatens human survival.  For a glimpse of the health effects of climate change, The Lancet recently published a 50 page assessment by 60 authors examining five inter-related subjects including “climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability” and concluded “the trends elucidated in this Report provide cause for deep concern.”  This was because the report also found, “the health impacts [are] far worse than previously understood” and because “the past two decades have seen limited progress” in keeping temperature rise below two degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).  A temperate rise the report shows that has caused, among other things, a 46 percent increase since 2000 in extreme weather events. 

At this point that the president does not recognize scientific fact or even scientific merit should not surprise us.  As Saturday Night Live recently riffed, at this point, does it matter.  What does or at least should matter is whether the professional medical community, that presumably exists to protect our health, thinks climate change matters.  It appears not.  As I wrote in a November 3 Quarks Daily essay, the professional medical community and its health care industry partners have not spent any of their considerable lobbying funds in an effort to address climate change or reduce global warming via federal legislation.  (Last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the health care industry spent more on lobby than any other industry at $512 million.)  During the 2009 Affordable Care Act debate the industry spent, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, $550 million.  That same year the House also passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first and last Congressional effort to address climate change (the bill would have created an emissions or carbon trading plan).  Of the 112 clients the Center for Responsive Politics identifies having spent lobbying funds under its “environment” category in 2009, none were professional medical associations.  Center for Responsive Politics records for 2017 show of the $17 million spent under the “environment” category, again not one of the 83 clients is a professional medical association. 

As I concluded in the 3 Quarks essay (and in a June 2017 THCB essay moreover about the medical industry’s non-response to US withdrawal from the Paris accord), we, again, treat our atmosphere, the thin blue band that protects us, as an open sewer.  After China, the US is largest greenhouse gas polluter, emitting over 6,600 million metric tons of carbon in 2015 (and we are historically the largest greenhouse gass polluter).  Carbon emissions are for the foreseeable future having adverse effects on our health and our survivability particularly since global warming is not a single-system disease and because the adverse consequences of climate change are likely locked in for the next 20 to 30 years.  Sadly, this remains not the concern of the professional medical community. 

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Regal Assets Review

Regal Assets Review

  REGAL ASSETS COMPANY INFORMATION

Address:  200 West Highway 6, 4th Floor, Waco, TX 76712

Website: http://www.regalassets.com

Phone #: 855-628-9249

BBB Rating: A+ with 0 complaints in last 3 years

BCA Rating: AAA & 5 star rating based on feedback from 56 previous customers

Trustlink Rating: 4.9/5 based on feedback from over 900 customers since 2010

Below is a more extensive review. See in this table how they compare to other gold IRA providers.

Company Fees BBB Rating BCA Rating TrustLink Our Review

Company Fees BBB Rating BCA Rating TrustLink Our Review

Regal Assets First Year Free, then $250 a year A+ BBB Rating with ZERO complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AAA Rating with ZERO compaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) 4.9/5 stars based on over 900 customer reviews since 2013 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Regal Assets review Cornerstone Bullion $260 a year plus other fees A+ Rating with ZERO complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AA Rating with ZERO complaints in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 5/5 stars based on 3 reviews in 2014 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Cornerstone Bullion review Lexi Capital $60 a year plus other fees A+ Rating with ZERO complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AA Rating with ZERO complaints in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 5/5 stars based on 3 reviews upto 2014 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Lexi Capital review Apmex Fees vary depending on investment A+ Rating with 31 complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AAA Rating with ZERO complaints in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 5/5 stars based on 1 review in 2012 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Apmex review Rosland Capital Fees vary depending on investment A+ Rating with 20 complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AAA Rating with 3 complaints in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 4/5 stars based on 64 reviews since 2009 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Rosland Capital review USA Gold Fees vary depending on investment A+ Rating with ZERO complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) NOT REGISTERED NOT REGISTERED Check out our USA Gold review GoldSilver.com $300 per year + 5% minimum Not BBB Accredited but does have 6 complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AAA Rating with 3 complaints in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 4/5 stars based on 3 reviews in 2011 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our GoldSilver.com review Monex Deposit Company $360 a year minimum A+ Rating with 6 complaints in last 3 years (click here to see details) AAA Rating with 1 complaint in the last 3 years (click here to see details) 4.2/5 stars based on 40 reviews upto 2015 (see TrustLink results here) Check out our Monex Deposit Company review

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Credibility: It didn’t take me long to find out some impressive credibility for Regal Assets. A simple Google search resulted in me finding out that they were named the 20th fastest growing financial services company in America in 2013, out of 6 million Financial Service Providers, according to Inc. 500 magazine (click here to read press release) They have at the time of writing this, over 900 endorsements on Trustlink, the highest of any company. Additionally, according to Trustlink, They have been featured in a number of key publications, which include, Smart Money, Forbes, Market Watch, Reuters, The Street, and Hollywood Reporter. Furthermore, my research found that they have worked in the past on an exclusive basis as the precious metal expert and supplier for International Business Times. This publication is a global business news magazine, based in 16 countries and with a monthly readership of 11 million

Website: RegalAssets.com

Phone Number: 1-855-628-9249

Minimum Investment amount: $10,000 is the minimum amount allowed for IRA rollover investment and $5,000 for a cash buy for physical delivery

What The Web is Saying About Regal Assets

Below we’ve looked at what various websites and past customers have to say about Regal Assets.

BCA Rating: AAA (details)

BCA Complaints: 0 Complaints (details)

BBB Rating: A+ (details)

BBB Complaints: 0 Complaints (details)

CitySearch:  (5 / 5) based on 12 votes (details)

Facebook: 4.2 stars based on 56 reviews (details)

Google+: 5 stars based on 3 reviews (details)

TrustLink: 4.9 stars based on over 900 reviews (details)

TrustPilot: N/A

Yellow Pages: 5 stars based on 12 reviews (details)

Yelp: N/A

Note: you will see accross the web that Regal Assets address is 2600 W Olive Ave 5th Fl, Burbank, CA 91505-4549. This was correct, they have recently moved to Waco Texas and the address given above.

Set up Fees: Zero set up fee

Storage Fee: First year free, after that a small flat fee for storage of your metals is applied

Buy Back: Guaranteed at spot value

Benefits

Fast availability of products in their catalog

Fast delivery – 7 days

FREE Starter Kit to help you decide

Zero Fraud reports

Low commission

Guaranteed buy back at spot rate value

over 900 endorsements on Trustlink, along with an A rating

Regal Assets Review – Customer Service Performance

All customer service reps are polite and courteous. On the initial phone call, they naturally comply with regulatory requirements and provide you with a full orientation of the business, the services they offer and any recommendations. Each phone call is followed up with an email to ensure you are satisfied with the information you have been provided and to assist you with any questions you may have. At no time are you pressured into buying any of their products. In fact, as I have mentioned in the benefits, you are sent an introductory starter pack, which comprises of all the relevant and important information you need, via booklets, dvds and relevant leaflets.

How long the process takes if you are interested, is completely up to you. I have been advised that individuals have made their buying decision after just 2 phone calls and after 10 calls and a number of emails. I have yet to find a company who is so relaxed about the buying decision, as this one is. They place you in control.

Services Available

When it comes to providing a precious metal service, you are offered one of the best with a comprehensive and extensive range or services from Regal Assets.

My main look at this compnay  is concerning Gold IRA Rollover, which I will come to a moment. However, they also provide an excellent service in 4 areas of bullion: Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium. They offer an extensive range of coins with 4 different types of gold coins, 3 different types of silver coins and 3 lots of proof coins. Furthermore, all of their services come under their A+ rating from the BBB.

Gold IRA Rollovers

Due to the fact that the price of gold is not affected by the change in inflation as money and bonds are, a gold IRA is ideal to secure your future. Regal Assets assist you extensively in the opening of an IRA account or if need be, help you with the rollover of any previous IRA or 401k that you may have. Although the emphasis is on gold, you can add any of the other precious metals lthey specialize in, if you so wish. Furthermore, once your account is up and running, They will assist you further by not only opening all the relevant accounts, buying the metals at their minimal commission level, but they will also store your metals in an IRS-approved depository.

Regal assets Review Summary

A review of this company was interesting to do, they are the top business when it comes to being providers of gold, precious metals, and IRA rollovers. This fact has not been concluded merely by me, but by the extensive evidence that is available as outlined below.

BBB Rating – The Better Business Bureau top rating is A+. Also, if you have zero complaints within the last 3 years, then you have extra credibility with the BBB. 15 of the 22 companies that I have looked at have this A+rating, of which they are one of them, making them one of the top companies within the industry.

BCA Rating – The top rating with the Business Consumer Alliance is AAA. This means that the BCA have given a company an exemplary rating. The BCA have nothing on record that would cause them to have any doubt about the company’s reliability. Out of the 22 companies, I have looked at, 6 have a triple A rating from the BCA and they are one of those 6 companies.

TrustLink Rating – Trustlink’s rating of a company is made up of feedback from previous customers, whether negative or positive. This feedback determines the overall score of the rating given to the company. There are companies that have a TrustLink score of  5/5 but it is based on just one review. On the other hand, there are companies that have a score of  4/5 but it is based on a lot more customer feedback. So if a company has 5/5, the question should be asked, is it based on one or two previous customers giving feedback or is it based on hundreds? Regal Assets have a score of 4.9/5 based on feedback from over 900 customers , over 750 more than any of the other companies looked at.

Inc 500 – In 2013 they were ranked 20th for financial services in the top 500 companies in the United States, out of 6 million private corporations. (you can see statement here) This achievement is an indication of the quality service that the company offer its customers. This, along with the high number of positive reviews on TrustLink, the triple-A rating and no complaints from the BCA, along with the A+ rating and no complaints logged with the Better Business Bureau, is why I have rated them my number one choice as gold ira rollover company.

What Else You Can Expect From THEM

First years fees covered – including admin, storage, and delivery.

One of the fastest transfer processes, -24 hours if you so wish

Fast account fulfilment – 7 business days meaning you don’t lose out on interest

Storage – Brinks Depository- also provide segregated storage to insure your metals are separate and not commingled. In addtion, they provide you with the option of having your retirement account stored overseas without taxes or penalty

One of the best buyback policies in the industry

They are an official retailer listed with the United States Mint

They have done over $280 million in retirement account transfers

Regal were the very first company to offer a live video tape of when client’s metals arrive at the depository for retirement accounts

Plus over ten years in operation 

To Summarize Why They are # 1:  Regal Assets have perfect ratings from both the BBB and the BCA, with zero complaints.  Over 900 past clients have given postivie feedback on Trustlink. They’ve one of the fastest transfer processes on the market, so you don’t lose out. Also, they are the only provider that stores your investment in a Brinks depository, the safest available worldwide. Plus, they waive all fees within the first year and from year two onwards you only pay  $250 a year. So from this, it is easy to see why you should consider at least talking to Regal Assets, with no obligation, and judge for yourself.

>> CLICK HERE TO VISIT THEIR Website<<

You can get a complimentary gold kit, full of valuable information:

A DVD copy of the award-winning documentary on the secrets of the Federal Reserve;

Forbes magazine investment guide;

Guide on how to rollover your IRA & 401(k)

And a special report on the performance of gold since 2008.

Simply click on the image above to order your today,

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Or Telephone: 1-855-628-9249

Please note that if there is anything on this page that you feel is inaccurate or you strongly disagree with, then please contact me and advise accordingly.

Author of review – Nate Tarrant

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Global Risk Report: Davos, Trump and Climate Change

By DAVID INTROCASO

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump once again noted his objection to the Paris climate accord.  In an interview with Piers Morgan, Trump again called it a “horrible deal” because, as has been widely reported, climate change or global warming is, per the president, a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese.  “There is cooling and there’s a heating – I mean look,” Trump explained to Morgan, “it use to not be climate change.  It used to be global warming.  That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.  The ice caps were going to melt.  They were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, okay?” 

Trump was asked about climate change because the topic was on the Forum’s agenda.  Not surprisingly, in the days leading up to the confab, climate scientists once again found the proceeding calendar year one of the warmest on record.  NASA ranked 2017 the second warmest since 1880 (or since reliable record keeping began), or after 2016.  NOAA, using a slightly different methodology, ranked it the third warmest after 2016 and 2015 respectively.  Not only were the last three years the warmest on record, the five warmest years on record have occurred since 2010, 17 of the 18 warmest since 2001 and last year marked the 21st consecutive year the contiguous United States had above average temperatures.  Record 2017 temperatures were somewhat unanticipated however because of the lack of an El Niño (or Pacific trade wind), effect that is associated with increased global temperatures.  Because air temperatures are largely determined by ocean temperatures, also not surprisingly the five warmest ocean temperature years recorder have been 2017, 2015, 2016, 2014 and 2013 respectively.  Ocean temperatures in 2017 were exceptionally warm.  Measured as heat energy in Joules, 2017 ocean temperatures exceeded 2015 by 1.51 x 10^22 Joules, or the amount of electrical energy China produces annually.

The Davos meeting was also preceded by the World Economic Forum’s annual publication of its global risk report.  The report, the Forum’s 13th, identifies the world’s most pressing risks and is used to inform Forum discussions.  This year’s report titled, “Global Risk 2018: Fractures, Fears and Failures,” included a climate change chapter titled, “Our Planet on the Brink.”  As the title suggests, the chapter, though comparatively far more brief, reads not unlike like David Wallace-Wells now famous (it has its own Wiki entry) July 2017 New York Magazine essay, “The Uninhabitable Earth, Famine, Economic Collapse, A Sun That Cooks Us: What Climate Change Could Wreak – Sooner Than You Think.” His essay begins with the simple, direct statement, “It is, I promise, worse than you think.” 

Among other things the Forum report chapter notes, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen for the first time in four years.  Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is now measured at 403 parts per million (PPM), or represents a 65 percent increase over pre-industrial levels.  As a result global temperatures have increased by an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius (or two degrees Fahrenheit).  (The Paris accord goal is to keep the increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius).  As a result, among other things the chapter notes this past September the Atlantic experienced its most intense storm month on record contributing to making this past hurricane season the most expensive ever.  Beyond warming, the chapter states studies suggest oceans, having absorbed 93 percent of increased global temperatures, may now be losing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.  Of the most deadly 10 natural disasters during the first half of 2017, eight involved floods or landslides.  For example, the early January mud slides in Santa Barbara County were the result of a rain bomb that at one point dropped an inch of rain in 15 minutes.  Wildfire burn across the US,  made possible in part by the hottest California summer on record, was nearly 50 percent above the 10 year average.  The chapter also found that research suggests forests “are now releasing rather than absorbing carbon dioxide.”  Concerning global warming effects on foodstuffs, the chapter notes there is now an estimated one-in-20 chance per decade that heat, drought or floods will cause the failure of corn production in China and the US, the world’s two main growers, that would cause widespread famine.  Among other related findings is the fear of  “ecological Armageddon” caused in part by the collapse of insect populations critical to food production.  Researchers in Germany have observed a 75 percent decline in insect populations over the past few decades.

While President Trump marveled at ice caps setting records, the record was Arctic Ocean ice actually hit a record low in 2017 and is declining faster than any time in the past 1,500 years (Alaskans will see the disappearance of summer Arctic ice over the next two decades), other world leaders urged action.  French President Emmanuel Macron called for his country to become a “model in the fight against climate change.”  Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi was more candid calling climate change the “greatest threat to the survival and human civilization as we know it.”  The failure to address, he said, would serve as testimony to “an alarming glimpse of our own selfishness.”

Prime Minister Modi may have noticed during the meeting the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock forward by 30 seconds, or to two minutes to midnight.  Their decision was based in part on the Trump administration’s indifference to climate change.  (The EPA’s climate change web page has been replaced by a message stating it is being updated to “reflect EPA’s priorities under the leadership of President Trump.”)  The only other time the clock was set so close to midnight or catastrophe in its 71-year history was in 1953, or after the US and the former Soviet Union detonated their first thermonuclear bombs.

Possibly as well Modi, Macron and German Chancellor Merkel, who also spoke in support of addressing climate change, read the November release of the US’s “Climate Science Special Report” (CSSR).  Authored by 13 federal agencies the report is considered the most definitive US statement on climate change.  The CSSR concluded, “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominate cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century.”  Among numerous findings the CSSR reported current carbon dioxide concentrations, again beyond 400 PPM, last occurred three million years ago, “when,” the report stated, “global average temperature and sea levels were significantly higher than today.”  The CSSR also found “the present-day emissions rate of nearly 10 GtC (giga tons of carbon) per years suggests,” the report stated, “that there is no climate analog for this century any time in at least the last 50 million years.”  The White House’s response to the CSSR was to draw the trenchant conclusion, “the climate has changed and is always changing.” 

The consequences of a rapidly carbonized atmosphere (40 percent of carbon dioxide buildup has occurred since 1970), as Modi stated, threatens human survival.  For a glimpse of the health effects of climate change, The Lancet recently published a 50 page assessment by 60 authors examining five inter-related subjects including “climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability” and concluded “the trends elucidated in this Report provide cause for deep concern.”  This was because the report also found, “the health impacts [are] far worse than previously understood” and because “the past two decades have seen limited progress” in keeping temperature rise below two degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).  A temperate rise the report shows that has caused, among other things, a 46 percent increase since 2000 in extreme weather events. 

At this point that the president does not recognize scientific fact or even scientific merit should not surprise us.  As Saturday Night Live recently riffed, at this point, does it matter.  What does or at least should matter is whether the professional medical community, that presumably exists to protect our health, thinks climate change matters.  It appears not.  As I wrote in a November 3 Quarks Daily essay, the professional medical community and its health care industry partners have not spent any of their considerable lobbying funds in an effort to address climate change or reduce global warming via federal legislation.  (Last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the health care industry spent more on lobby than any other industry at $512 million.)  During the 2009 Affordable Care Act debate the industry spent, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, $550 million.  That same year the House also passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first and last Congressional effort to address climate change (the bill would have created an emissions or carbon trading plan).  Of the 112 clients the Center for Responsive Politics identifies having spent lobbying funds under its “environment” category in 2009, none were professional medical associations.  Center for Responsive Politics records for 2017 show of the $17 million spent under the “environment” category, again not one of the 83 clients is a professional medical association. 

As I concluded in the 3 Quarks essay (and in a June 2017 THCB essay moreover about the medical industry’s non-response to US withdrawal from the Paris accord), we, again, treat our atmosphere, the thin blue band that protects us, as an open sewer.  After China, the US is largest greenhouse gas polluter, emitting over 6,600 million metric tons of carbon in 2015 (and we are historically the largest greenhouse gass polluter).  Carbon emissions are for the foreseeable future having adverse effects on our health and our survivability particularly since global warming is not a single-system disease and because the adverse consequences of climate change are likely locked in for the next 20 to 30 years.  Sadly, this remains not the concern of the professional medical community. 

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