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Elliott Wave Supremacy
David Waggoner Apr 28, 2008 8:45 am
Principle has held true for 1000 years.
Ralph Nelson Elliott originally published his stock market behavior theory in a series of articles written for The Financial World magazine in 1939. This was a very popular investor publication at the time and the articles were very well received. The editors introduced the articles with the following statement:
“During the past seven or eight years, publishers of financial magazines and organizations in the investment advisory field have been virtually flooded with “systems” for which their proponents have claimed great accuracy in forecasting stock market movements. Some of them appeared to work for awhile. It was immediately obvious that others had no value whatever. All have been looked upon by The Financial World with great skepticism. But after investigation, we became convinced that a series of articles on this subject would be interesting and instructive to our subscribers. We leave to the individual reader a determination of the value of Mr. Elliott’s principle as a basis for market forecasting, but believe that it is likely to prove at least a useful check on conclusions based upon economic considerations.”
In 1946 he integrated those articles into his seminal work, Natures Law-The Secret of the Universe. Here, he extrapolated his observed market behavior into a universal law of behavior that encompassed all of man’s activities
I use the word seminal somewhat in jest here, because twenty odd years later, Robert Prechter attempted to locate a copy of the original manuscript for his research, and he was only able to locate one photo-copied version of it in the New York Public Library. A copy did not even exist in the Library of Congress.
Did Elliott commit professional establishment suicide by tying a credible stock market system to a seemingly incredible theory? Was this the equivalent of Nicola Tesla claiming to have spoken with Aliens?
The pragmatist will argue that the manuscript was relegated to the dust bin of history because that's where it belonged. After all, if it were true, everyone would use it, and then, it would stop working anyway. This Catch-22 type of logic is used repeatedly to dispel technical analysis.
Admittedly, even most technical analysts don’t believe a pattern can last forever. Robert Prechter wrote that when he decided to write about and publish the Elliott Wave Principle for larger public consideration, he was in fact approached numerous times with an appeal to keep it secret. “Those who understood its value and used it successfully feared that if too many people started using the wave principle in their investment timing, it would dilute its utility.”
In the book Cycles: The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events, Edward R. Dewy tells us that in 1912 information was leaked to a group of New York Investors that the Rothschilds had identified, and were profiting from, a series of repeating cycles in British bonds.
The investors hired a mathematician to discover the secret formula of the Rothschilds who - working with the Dow Jones railroad average - discovered a repeating forty-one month cycle, and three lesser period cycles which the New York investors then used to invest in the market with great success for many years.
These cycles did not garner any attention until they were discovered by Professor Kitchin, of Harvard in 1922. Even then, they remained relatively obscure and only gained public attention when they were discovered yet a third time, by Chapin Hoskins in 1935. After discovering them, he prepared studies about the cycles for the investment brokerage community. This rhythm, named the Kitchin cycle, continued to work flawlessly until 1945, then stopped working as mysteriously as it had started. The cycle had worked continuously, without interruption from 1868 until 1945.
Some attributed the change to public awareness. Students of cycle theory accept that short term cycles don’t last, or work consistently. The Kitchin cycle reappeared later in an inverted pattern, somewhat less reliably.
The Kitchin cycle (sink) lasted 78 years before it was thrown out. It operated independent of the other cycles as a stand-alone repeating pattern, and yielded great profits for its followers.
The Elliott wave principle’s largest recognizable patterns were identified by Frost and Prechter in their book, The Elliott Wave Principle. The first was formed by splicing a chart of seven centuries of consumable prices (Economica, New Series Vol.23, No.92 (Nov.,1956), pp.296-314), to industrial stock prices, for which recorded history started in 1789. This formed a one thousand year (5-3-5-3-5) Elliott impulse wave pattern. Think of this as the largest Russian nesting doll. The subsequent dolls in descending succession, are the Grand Supercycle (1789-2000), and the Supercycle (1932-2000).
Millennium Cycle
Grand Supercycle
Supercycle
Why Do The Markets Do What They Do?
Which brings us to cycle degree (1978-2000) that I discussed in Riding the Elliott Wave.
The thousand year reign of the Elliott Wave Principle (OK, probably not the most appropriate idiom to paraphrase) would make it one of the longest running cycles to date. That is, if, it was just a stock market cycle like the Kitchin cycle.
But it's much more than a stock market cycle. These nesting dolls repeat without fail in a descending sequence to a level of degree smaller than the letter Z in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. They're discernible at every level to the trained eye, presenting even on one minute charts with only minor rule breaches.
They're the basic building blocks of the market, and in all probability, as proposed by Ralph Nelson Elliott in Natures Law-The Secret of the Universe, and greatly improved and expanded upon in The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and the New Science of Socionomics, by Robert Prechter, all of man’s activities.
In all of technical analysis, The Elliott wave principle is totally unique. No cycle exhibits these characteristics. No other chart pattern in technical analysis presents with the consistency or predictability of the Elliott wave principle. All other forms of technical analysis eventually fail, everything but the Elliott wave.
Let’s review the status of the S&P 500. You will notice I've changed the labeling of the correction from last week. This is normal. Ellioticians are always revising and updating the labels on their charts as the market unfolds. You always predict from the current known situation, much like a meteorologist.
Focus on the move up from (1) to Y. Two probable outcomes exist. 1) We have either completed a double combination and are due for a retracement, or, even the turn preceding the next impulse wave down. 2) We will experience a breakout at 1404 and extend to 1415 or 1433.
Supporting evidence of a turn is a technically completed double combination pattern, a Fibonacci confluence including the 1:1 ratio of the a-b-c up from X immediately overhead, and the extreme reading on the stochastic, my favorite companion to the Elliott wave (a future story).
If this happens, the structure of the move down will need to be examined to determine whether it is impulsive or corrective. A 0.500 retracement would bring price down to the trend line so that is the most probable place for a bounce or turn back up.
The second option is that the recent move will be extended. Probable targets for an extended move are 1415/16, or, 1433/36 before we retrace or turn down. 1433/36 has a triple confluence of a Fibonacci target, the 200 day moving average, and the top of the channel all working for it. That is powerful.
In the stock market strength begets strength, and vice versa. If we extend here, it increases the probability that the next move down will also be a retracement, and increases the likelihood of our ultimate target of the Fibonacci confluence at 1454.
If we turn here at (1404), that denotes weakness in Elliott analysis, and favors a resumption of the down-trend. This is corroborated by a tendency in channel analysis, that when price does not reach the top of a channel, the probability of a breach on the downside increases.
1404-1406 is very solid resistance. A clean break of this area will validate the extension and my focus will turn to 1433-1436 with a probable pause at 1415/16.
Despite the appeals not to publish information about the Elliott wave Principle, Robert Prechter has produced at least 13 books on the subject. He said in the end he was persuaded by the nobler words of Elliott who said what is important above all else is the search for truth.
I agree. This is bigger than making money (but we can do that too). The Elliott wave principle is an astounding breakthrough with mind boggling implications for the social sciences. Once the curtain goes up, and you see it, you will also say, “of course it is true, how can anyone doubt it.” And when enough of us see it, and enough of us say it, social science will make a quantum leap forward. In the same manner the market jumps from one Fibonacci level to the next.
Reference: R.N. Elliott’s Masterworks: Edited by Robert Prechter
David Waggoner is a private trader and investor. He is obsessed with the Elliott wave principle. Check out his Minyanville Exchange blog here.
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Bigger Picture
I've never actually used pickle juice before. I usually just buy a jug of straight pickling vinegar. Interesting thought though :)
R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious
Time is going by really really really really slow.
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The Drug Resurrector
One pharmacologist’s mission to recycle blockbuster drugs into treatments for neglected diseases
By Melinda Wenner Posted 05.02.2008 at 3:08 pm 0 Comments
Medical MacGyver: Instead of spending 15 years and $1 billion developing new malaria drugs, Curtis Chong hopes to treat patients with repurposed allergy medications. Photo by John B. Carnett
With Big Pharma spending upward of $1 billion to bring a single drug to pharmacy shelves, it’s little wonder that unprofitable afflictions like malaria and African sleeping sickness go largely ignored. Curtis Chong witnessed this neglect firsthand in 2001 as a third-year medical student working in an emergency room in Mozambique. Day and night, malaria patients lined up for treatment, but Chong’s medication stockpile was often too low or too antiquated to treat drug-resistant strains of the disease, and people were dying.
Six years later, the 31-year-old pharmacologist is spearheading an innovative way to bring better drugs, and more of them, to the developing world. The Johns Hopkins Clinical Compound Screening Initiative is an open-source effort to collect and index more than 10,000 known medications and determine which of them are also effective against hundreds of low-profile, Third World killers, such as Chagas disease, cholera and leprosy. The library will function something like a Wikipedia of drug discovery, where scientists around the world can contribute to the database and even provide samples or screen drugs themselves, thereby saving millions of dollars on R&D.
By 2011, Chong hopes to test every pharmaceutical on the market, with the aim of bringing more affordable treatments to the people who need them most.
R&D for the Poor : Cheaper drug discovery means better medicine for neglected diseases like leprosy, as shown here. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images;
Q: Why is it so costly to develop new drugs?
A: You have to screen potentially millions of compounds against a single disease. If one works, and the molecule has never been tested in humans, it might require up to another 15 years of testing. At the current rate of discovery, it will take almost 300 years for the number of drugs in the world to double from 10,000. Moreover, when you look at neglected diseases like malaria—one that doesn’t create a big burden in the United States or in wealthy nations—the rate of development is even lower, and there are not really any financial incentives to create new drugs.
Q: So by treating a new disease with an existing drug, you skirt the problems associated with new drug development?
A: Yes, because the Food and Drug Administration has already approved most of the drugs in our library. We select only the most promising for testing new uses in animals; this process can be completed in three to six months. Then we conduct clinical testing. If a drug has already been approved for other uses, it can skip past the initial safety trials and go directly into what’s called phase II trials, which take only about two years.
Q: How do you determine whether a drug will treat something other than what it was originally designed for?
A: You can predict which ones are more likely to succeed based on their toxicity.
For example, we probably wouldn’t want to try using an anti-cancer drug to treat malaria, because those drugs tend to have a lot of negative side effects. A more promising set of drugs would be antibiotics. It would be great to find an antibiotic that had anti-HIV activity, for instance, because people typically tolerate antibiotics well.
Q: Any concerns about shortchanging the safety trials?
A: I think testing existing drugs for new uses actually improves their safety by uncovering potential adverse effects. For example, researchers at Hopkins recently discovered that a drug used to treat hepatitis could cause HIV-drug resistance. This has led to greater caution in using that drug in people who are also infected with HIV.
Q: In addition to screening drugs, your project will compile a pharmaceutical database that’s open to the public. What kind of data will you have on each drug?
A: We’ll include a collection of the scientific and medical literature, patents, FDA filings, and previously unpublished data from drug companies and academic labs.
Q: And doing all this will be cheaper than trying to find new drugs from scratch?
A: Absolutely. The Johns Hopkins Clinical Compound Screening Initiative has required about $800,000 in grant funding so far. Scaling up the screening and growing the drug collection will probably cost $40 million to $50 million.
Q: Have you uncovered any potential new treatments yet?
A: We’ve found an antihistamine that’s very potent against the malaria parasite in animal models. When I was working at a rural hospital in Zambia this summer, I was pleasantly surprised that this antihistamine is on sale at local pharmacies in generic form for about 10 cents a pill.
http://www.teleologic.org/ScienceNewsLinks.htm
De Beers Finds Shipwreck, Treasure From Columbus Era (Update2)
By Chamwe Kaira
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April 30 (Bloomberg) -- De Beers, the world's biggest undersea diamond miner, said its geologists in Namibia found the wreckage of an ancient sailing ship still laden with treasure, including six bronze cannons, thousands of Spanish and Portuguese gold coins and more than 50 elephant tusks.
The wreckage was discovered in the area behind a sea wall used to push back the Atlantic Ocean in order to search for diamonds in Namibia's Sperrgebiet or ``Forbidden Zone.''
``If the experts' assessments are correct, the shipwreck could date back to the late 1400s or early 1500s, making it a discovery of global significance,'' Namdeb Diamond Corp., a joint venture between De Beers and the Namibian government, said in an e-mailed statement from the capital, Windhoek, today.
The site yielded a wealth of objects, including several tons of copper, more than 50 elephant tusks, pewter tableware, navigational instruments, weapons and the gold coins, which were minted in the late 1400s and early 1500s, according to the statement.
The Namibian government will claim ownership of the treasure found, Halifa Mbako, group corporate affairs manager at Namdeb, said in a telephone interview from Windhoek today.
Namibian Law
``By Namibian law, discoveries of this nature belong to the state,'' he said. ``The discovery was found in our mining area, but the treasure belongs to the state.'' The Namibian government is in consultations with the governments of Spain and Portugal to try and identify the ship, which was most likely a trading vessel, given the goods on board, said.
On April 1, Bob Burrell, the head of Namdeb's Mineral Resource Department, found some rounded copper ingots and the remains of three bronze cannons in the sand.
``All mining operations were halted, the site secured and Dr. Dieter Noli, an archaeologist and expert in the Sperrgebiet, was brought into the project and identified the cannons as Spanish breach-loaders of a type popular in the early 1500s,'' Namdeb said.
The find may be the oldest sub-Saharan shipwreck ever discovered, Namdeb said.
``If this proves to be a contemporary of the ships sailed by the likes of Diaz, Da Gama and Columbus, it would be of immense national and international interest and Namibia's most important archaeological find of the century,'' according to the statement.
Diamonds have been mined along the south-western coast of Namibia and in its coastal waters for the last 100 years. De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, is 45 percent owned by Anglo American Plc, 40 percent held by the Oppenheimer family and 15 percent owned by the government of Botswana.
To contact the reporter on this story: Chamwe Kaira in Windhoek via Johannesburg at abolleurs@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: April 30, 2008 10:17 EDT
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DNA confirms IDs of czar's children, ending mystery
By MIKE ECKEL, Associated Press WriterWed Apr 30, 7:20 PM ET
For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.
Some said the delicate 13-year-old had somehow survived and escaped; others believed his bones were lost in Russia's vastness, buried in secret amid fear and chaos as the country lurched into civil war.
Now an official says DNA tests have solved the mystery by identifying bone shards found in a forest as those of Alexei and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria.
The remains of their parents — Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra — and three siblings, including the czar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, were unearthed in 1991 and reburied in the imperial resting place in St. Petersburg. The Russian Orthodox Church made all seven of them saints in 2000.
Despite the earlier discoveries and ceremonies, the absence of Alexei's and Maria's remains gnawed at descendants of the Romanov dynasty, history buffs and royalists. Even if Wednesday's announcement is confirmed and widely accepted, many descendants of the royal family are unlikely to be fully assuaged; they seek formal "rehabilitation" by the government.
"The tragedy of the czar's family will only end when the family is declared victims of political repression," said German Lukyanov, a lawyer for royal descendants.
Nicholas abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervor swept Russia, and he and his family were detained. They were shot by a firing squad on July 17, 1918, in the basement of the Yekaterinburg house where they were being held.
Rumors persisted that some of the family had survived and escaped. Claims by women to be Anastasia were particularly prominent, although there were also pretenders to Alexei's and Maria's identities.
"It was 99.9 percent clear they had all been killed; now with these shards, it's 100 percent," said Nadia Kizenko, a Russian scholar at the University at Albany, State University of New York. "Those who regret this news will be those who liked the royal pretender myth."
Alexei was one of the more compelling of the victims, drawing sympathy because of his hemophilia. His mother's terror of the disease and fear that he would not live to gain the throne were key to her falling under the thrall of the hypnotic and sexually ravenous self-declared holy man Rasputin, who exerted vast influence on the royal family.
Researchers unearthed the bone shards last summer in a forest near Yekaterinburg, where the royal family was killed, and enlisted Russian and U.S. laboratories to conduct DNA tests.
Eduard Rossel, governor of the region 900 miles east of Moscow, said tests done by a U.S. laboratory had identified the shards as those of Alexei and Maria.
"This has confirmed that indeed it is the children," he said. "We have now found the entire family."
"The main genetic laboratory in the United States has concluded its work with a full confirmation of our own laboratories' work," Rossel said.
He did not specify the laboratory, but a genetic research team working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has been involved in the process. Evgeny Rogaev, who headed the team that tested the remains in Moscow and at the medical school in Worcester, Mass., was called into the case by the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office.
He told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he delivered the results to Russian authorities, but said it was up to the prosecutor's office — not him or his team — to disclose the findings.
"The most difficult work is done and we have delivered to them our expert analysis, but we are still working," he said. "Scientifically, we want to make the most complete investigation possible."
The test results were based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA, the genetic material passed down only from mothers to children. That DNA is more stable than nuclear DNA — the material inherited from the father's side — especially when remains are badly damaged.
In this case, the bone fragments were so shattered and burned that Rogaev's team first had to determine whether enough uncontaminated genetic material still existed for testing.
The delicate work proved that, indeed, useful DNA could be extracted from a very small amount of the material — a critical fact, since they wanted to preserve as much of the bone fragments as possible out of respect for the victims.
The researchers also compared DNA from the remains with those of Empress Alexandra, who was a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria and a distant relative of Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
With the mitochondrial analysis completed, the team is working on the nuclear DNA analysis and comparing the samples to paternal relatives of the czar's family.
That information, along with conclusions already delivered to the Russian prosecutors, eventually will be submitted to a professional journal for peer review and publication.
It was unclear if the Russian Orthodox Church will recognize them as genuine. The church's press service said no one could comment on Wednesday's announcement.
It was also unclear whether the descendents of the royal family would accept the identification. Lukyanov said neither he nor his clients had received confirmation.
Lukyanov's efforts to get the government to declare the royal family victims of political repression have been repeatedly rejected by Russian courts, which have said the family's killing was premeditated murder, not a political reprisal.
He said Russia had much to do to overcome its tortured past.
"They say that as long as the last soldier remains unburied, the war continues," Lukyanov told AP. "So long as the last victim of Bolshevik terror and the Communist regime remains unrehabilitiated, the repression will continue."
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Associated Press writers Carley Petesch in New York and Stephanie Reitz in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/russia_czar_s_family;_ylt=AhTAAtIbmnqtjX6NZn8g4zqs0NUE
Huh?
WAVE 6.60
ATG.TO 1.15 (Cdn)
ALV.V .31 (Cdn)
Evans Blue - Q
Evans Blue - Possession
Evans Blue - Cold (But I'm Still Here)
ELLIOTT WAVE GOLD UPDATE 19
Alf Field
There is a strong probability that the correction in the gold market from the $1033 peak of 17 March 2008 is complete. This view is based on (i) the fact that the anticipated decline of 16% in this correction has been achieved and (ii) that all the minor waves required to complete the correction are now in place.
The low in the cash gold market on 30 April 2008 was $861.8, a decline of 16.6% from the peak level of $1033.90 on 17 March 2008.
In the Comex active month, gold declined from $1015.5 to $868.2, a decline of 14.5%. In the London PM fixings the decline has been from $1011.2 to $871.0, a fall of 13.9%. In Update 18 it was postulated that the current ongoing financial crisis might result in a slightly smaller decline than the anticipated 16% in the PM fixings, which seems to have occurred.
All the minor waves required to complete the correction are displayed in the following chart. Thus with all the minor waves in place and the magnitude of the decline being of adequate proportions, there is a high probability that the correction (being Large Wave II) is complete.
Data updated to 30 April 2008.
As will become apparent from the detailed analysis of the minor waves, there is a small possibility of a slightly lower target price of $855 in the Comex active month being achieved. This would have to happen almost immediately if it is going to occur at all. It is accorded a low probability of occurring.
The full analysis of the correction, being Large Wave II is set out below:
It is interesting to note that the decline in Small C of $82.9 is very close to 61.8% of the Small A decline of $137.1, a common relationship between A and C waves, adding credibility to the contention that the correction is complete.
The following analysis of the minor waves in Small C is constructive:
Note that the two corrective waves, minor ii and minor iv, declining $21.6 and $13.1 respectively, have a Fibonacci (61.8%) relationship, which is quite normal.
Minor waves i and iii declined $43.0 and $44.4 respectively. If minor v were to also decline by $43 (the same was minor i) then the target for the end of the correction would have been $855.4 ($898.4 - $43.0 = $855.4). This is why the possibility of an immediate decline to $855 was floated above. In all likelihood, the $30.2 decline in minor v will be quite adequate and there will be no need to go below $868.2 in this correction.
Data Updated to 30 April 2008.
In the London PM gold fixings, the 61.8% relationship between Small C and Small A is even more precise than in the Comex Futures.
London PM Gold fixings:
Small A is from $1011.2 to $887.7 – a decline of $123.5 (-12.2%).
Small C is from $946.7 to $871.0 – a decline of $75.7 (-8.0%).
A 61.8% proportion of the Small A decline of $123.5 is $76.3, which is extremely close to the actual decline of $75.7 in Small C. It could hardly be more precise.
These clear relationships between Small A and Small C in both Comex Futures and the London PM fixings strongly supports the contention that the correction from $1033 in March 2008 has been completed.
If this analysis proves to be correct, then Large Wave III of Major Wave THREE will commence immediately and should be an extremely vigorous upward movement.
Alternative Count: As has been pointed out on several occasions in the past, corrections can be extremely complex and we need to keep in mind the possibility that
the correction to date is just Small A, with a strong rally (Small B) and a subsequent decline (Small C) to come to complete Large II. This is assessed as having a much lower probability than the contention that Large II has already been completed.
“Good-bye Kiss”
Typically when markets breakout of large bases to higher levels, the tendency is for the price level to retract to the breakout level, giving that level a “good-bye kiss” before heading higher. In January 1980 the gold price reached $850 in the cash markets and $887 in the Futures markets. The breakout above the $850/$887 level recently, followed by the rise to a new all time high of $1033, required a price retraction to the $850/$887 level to give it a “good-bye kiss.” That has now occurred and we can probably look forward to a rise to new all time highs.
Alf Field
1 May 2008.
Comments to: ajfield@attglobal.net
Disclosure and Disclaimer Statement: The author is not a disinterested party in that he has personal investments gold and silver bullion, gold and silver mining shares as well as in base metal and uranium mining companies. The author’s objective in writing this article is to interest potential investors in this subject to the point where they are encouraged to conduct their own further diligent research. Neither the information nor the opinions expressed should be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell any stock, currency or commodity. Investors are recommended to obtain the advice of a qualified investment advisor before entering into any transactions. The author has neither been paid nor received any other inducement to write this article.
Weed control using vinegar
Pickling vinegar is good as a weed killer especially along cracks in walkways and driveways. It's non selective so be careful where you spray as it will kill your plants and grass as well. Use it when no rain is expected. Sometimes you will need to repeat to work well. Adding a little pure soap to the mix will help it stick to the leaves better.
Fantabulous fotos :)
I'm thinking that that pic would make a good jigsaw puzzle.
Salar de Uyuni...simply phenomenal.
Bolivia has some spectacular scenery.
There is so much beauty in this world to see. Nice to be able to "see" if'n only from the photos. Not the same as being there and experiencing "live" though but, nice all the same. I don't think I'd ever tire of seeing sunsets and rises as each is truly unique.
I am always in awe of the talent/creativity people posses and how some can capture the seemingly ordinary as extraordinary. Years ago when I had a german exchange student stay with me, some days he'd grab a bike and go off photo taking. He always came back with some most unusual and incredible photos.
Goodnight
Pieniny Mountains Poland
Pellinge Finland
Stevie Ray
Self Portrait
Guangxi