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What do you think of when you hear Black Friday? Is it the massive sales, cut prices, shopping carts filled with toys and electronics, or stampeding people storming through the local Walmart? Everyone has his or her own picture of what Black Friday is. Most of us have heard of the famous, unofficial shopping day. As soon as Thanksgiving ends, the Christmas season begins. Shop ads are hard to miss, and Christmas music is everywhere. Black Friday is the beginning. It starts our holiday shopping season. Do you know why, though?
It may feel like Black Friday has always been there, but this isn't necessarily true. It did have its start somewhere, and it has changed significantly since then. If you have ever wondered, where did Black Friday come from and how did it get its name, we have the story for you.
What Is Black Friday?
So, what is Black Friday? It's pretty common knowledge that the Christmas shopping season is the busiest of the entire year. Some people save up just to make sure that they can buy gifts for their loved ones. For decades now, Black Friday is known as the day that starts the season. It falls on the day after Thanksgiving and is known for having reduced prices on a range of items. Since it's common for most retailers to offer Black Friday deals, nearly everything that you can imagine goes on sale.
The term Black Friday has been around for a long time, but not quite as long as the day after Thanksgiving has been synonymous with the first day of the holiday shopping season. Shoppers have been interested in snapping up the best bargains possible for a long time.
Do We Need Black Friday?
There was a saying back in the 1970s and 1980s about how retailers would be in the red zone all year, until the Christmas shopping season, and then they would be in the black. This refers to making a profit only around the holiday season. Now, some people claim that that is where the term Black Friday comes from, but as we'll explain later on, that isn't the case.
Still, Black Friday is a major shopping holiday. No doubt, this is where you can find some of the best deals of the year. Not only is it great for shoppers, but retailers turn a huge profit, bigger than they see all year. This is all in part to their sales and also the advertisements and hype surrounding Black Friday. That's not to say that every deal offered on Black Friday is great. Remember, just because an item says it's on sale, it doesn't mean that it really is. When it comes down to it, Black Friday can be worth taking advantage of if you know what you're looking for.
In terms of electronics, toys, video games and household wares, their prices drop dramatically. On the other hand, clothes and jewelry tend to be close to the same price, or at least close to other deals that you can find any time of year. If you're interested in a seriously marked down television or the hottest game for half the price, then Black Friday is worth it.
What's interesting is that it not only impacts the customer and the business, but it often goes to show how the economy is faring in general. For instance, stores make about 30 percent of their revenue between Black Friday and Christmas. When the economy is down, there are fewer consumers and so you see less shoppers. As the shoppers return to the market, it is usually a good sign that the economy is at least getting better and people are shopping again.
Black Friday is crucial for stores for a couple of reasons. On the one hand, it is a considerable source of revenue, they make a substantial profit and it tends to be the most money earned all year round. While that's good for obvious reasons, having Black Friday sales every year gives customers a pattern to follow. It makes it easy for consumers to know when the deals are going to be and businesses and customers can use that model to their advantage.
So, on a personal level, whether or not Black Friday is a necessary shopping holiday is all up to you. If you would rather bow out and not take part, then naturally it won't seem necessary. However, when it comes to businesses and the shopping season in general, it tends to be an important day. How you spend Black Friday is all up to personal preference. When it comes down to it, the day is not for everyone. However, it does manage to help businesses and consumers alike.
What Is the History of Black Friday?
Popular culture makes Black Friday famous. Can you imagine a time before it? Most people can't and while part of that is because it has been around for so long, it's also hard to think that there were times where people didn't utilize the day after Thanksgiving for holiday shopping. This hasn't always been the case. When we think of the day after Thanksgiving, we imagine the cars stacked up over our line of sight with TVs and electronics. We imagine people stampeding through the doors and fighting over the latest toy. There are a lot of images that come with Black Friday shopping. Some are negative and some are positive.
For instance, some families take advantage of the time that they get to spend together in the malls and retailers, shopping for gifts for one another. For many families, it's a tradition that's been going on since the 1990s. Black Friday is by no means a new concept, but most people don't know where it came from or how different modern Black Friday is. Before Thanksgiving even hits, there are already ads on TV and ads online. You can look up what is going to be on sale a month in advance, in some cases. With Black Friday being everywhere before the holiday season, it does raise some questions. When did the day after Thanksgiving become an unofficial shopping holiday? In addition, why do we call it Black Friday?
The great thing about these questions is that there are answers to them. There is a complete documented history of the title, the purpose and how Black Friday has evolved in US culture.
Macy's Parade
History tends to attribute the beginning of Black Friday to the Macy's Day Parade. The parade started in 1924, and nowadays, people flock to their TVs on Thanksgiving to watch it all over the country. The reason that the parade affected the holiday shopping season, however, is due to its ads. Macy's advertised during their show, and while they never called it Black Friday, the commercials were responsible for getting shoppers out of their houses and into the shops on the day after Thanksgiving.
A Changing Thanksgiving
In the 1940s, Americans were facing severe economic hardships. With the economy doing poorly, Franklin D. Roosevelt sought out a way to boost the economy. The holiday shopping season happens to be one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year. It is the one time of year that you can guarantee people will do a lot of their shopping. FDR thought that he could take advantage of this by pushing Thanksgiving from the last weekend of the month to the fourth weekend of the month, thereby increasing increased the length of the shopping season.
A Changing Thanksgiving
The term Black Friday, used as a reference to the shopping day, first happened in Philadelphia in the 1950s. Not only was Thanksgiving weekend turning into one of the more popular shopping times, but it was also known for its football games. Police first started to refer to the day as Black Friday as the streets of Philadelphia became crowded with shoppers and football fans. It's not necessarily a pleasant image or even a name that was meant to be flattering. However, it began to stick. Then, in the 1960s, Philadelphia newspapers began reporting about shoppers that crowded in shopping centers on the day after Thanksgiving, referring to the day as Black Friday. Soon, the term spread across the country, gained popularity and became what we know it to be now.
Modern Black Friday
Black Friday as we know it today began in the 1990s. This is around the time that words like doorbusters came into popular use. People were treating Black Friday like its own holiday, and it has remained that way ever since. The 1990s is when we began to see people waking up before the sun rose to line up outside of the shops. Much like nowadays, you could see shoppers with carts full of television sets and household items. Parents rushed into stores like Toys-R-Us and filled their carts with the latest toys before the rush of the season made them impossible to find. Crowded stores on the day after Thanksgiving became a normal event and kept growing in popularity.
Once we hit the 2000s, newspaper headlines about injuries, store damage and massive crowds over the holiday weekend became a common occurrence. Black Friday's popularity continued to increase, and in stores like Walmart, fights would break out between customers. People stampeded through doors, sometimes damaging merchandise and store property in the meantime. This led to a lot of changes in terms of policies over Black Friday. Stores were finding new ways to handle the crowds so that people wouldn't get hurt in the shopping fervor.
Nowadays, we have seen a shift in Black Friday, however. Some people are turning to the internet for their deals, instead of braving the department stores and shopping malls. In addition, Black Friday begins earlier than before, with most sales starting on Thanksgiving Day, rather than the early hours of Friday morning.
Likewise, stores have found ways to decrease stampeding and fighting over objects. While it will probably always be a little bit rowdy when you get a lot of people shopping in one place together, this is no longer unfamiliar territory. Shops know how to handle Black Friday and prepare for it for weeks in advance.
International Black Friday
Black Friday was once solely an American shopping day. Most countries didn't begin the holiday season as early, especially given that it has very clear roots in an American holiday. However, in recent years, other countries have been catching onto the Black Friday deals. When it comes down to it, the internet has a lot to do with the spread of the idea of Black Friday. Trends spread quickly with the internet. Of course, when it comes to Canada, their closeness makes it easy for them to take part in some of the sales. However, the trend has also spread overseas.
How Black Friday Has Changed
Black Friday has gone through a few facelifts in its time. It started out innocuously enough, with Macy's ads during the parade and later became a way to boost the economy during the holiday season. Over the last few years, we've seen more changes take place. Sales extend beyond one day or even the few hours that some of the early bird sales take place. Instead of a one-day event, sales go on throughout the week and over the weekend.
In addition to sales lasting longer, people have also moved to the internet. While there is still a significant amount of people who hit the stores on Black Friday, the numbers have dropped in recent years due to online shopping. Many stores still have their deals online at the same time. In addition, retailers like Amazon take advantage of what they call Cyber Monday.


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Rose is renowned in the Bay Area as a former Miss Chinatown USA. Since receiving her title in 1981, she has continued serving the community in various charitable and leadership capacities. Rose has served on the Board of APA Family Support Services for 28 years. She was recently honored by SF Hep B Free for her decade-long effort to bring awareness about chronic hepatitis B in the API community.
In 1985 she founded the Miss Asian Global Pageant which provides opportunities for young women to develop their character, professional and leadership skills through community service. In 2015, the Pageant extended their program to create the Imagine Talks Conference for women empowerment, entrepreneurship, and social impact. She helped start other pageants in various Asian ethnic communities, such as Vietnamese, Filipino, and Thai, to name a few.
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APA is an organization that my mom needed. She became a widow with 5 daughters between the ages of 3-13. She did not speak English, so she had a lot of stress raising her family. Like many Chinatown parents of her generation, she was verbally abusive to motivate us to do better. Had there been an agency like APA, it would have helped her overall well-being to know there was support for her.
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What would you like to see APA accomplish for the future?
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Have you ever wondered how much money authors really make? I'm sure that you have thought about it, which is perfectly fine. You are the kind of author that believes in improving your craft first, then earning a paycheck.
At some point though, you need to make money.
If you want to have a career as an author, here are the kind of earnings you can expect. Keep in mind, this is just an example.
Before I explain what traditionally published authors make, let me give some examples of vanity press authors and self-published authors.
For those of you trying self-publishing, make a list of every single person or place you can sell your book. That will include family, friends, co-workers, social network friends, clubs and/or church that you belong.
Now, add up all those possible sales. Realistically, you can sell to 5% of everyone you know. (Could be more, but this is the low end.)
Let's say there are 1,364 people on your list. 1,364 x .05 = 68. If you earn $2.00 per book, then your income is $136.
Next, you invest $1,000 in marketing and release a new book. Let's say you sell 1,713 of those books. 1,713 x $2.00 = $3,426 – $1,000 (marketing) = $2,426.
The following numbers are for traditional publishing. I made this as simplistic as possible, because there are many factors that come into play when you sign a contract. However, you should get the basic idea of how authors earn money.
For your next book, you are signed by a literary agent and sign with a traditional publisher. In the first quarter, the publisher sells 15,346 books and 4,910 are returned. (Very common for a new author.) Your royalty would be $6,365.95 – $954.89 (agent) – 20% (marketing/expenses) = $4,328.86. (This final number is before taxes. However, you can write off the marketing and author related expenses.)
Quick Note: Authors are paid twice a year; April and October.
The publisher decides to give you one more chance. You've written another book, (while the last one was selling) and submit it. There are 63,936 copies sold and 20,460 returned. Your royalty is $26,520 – $3,978.00 (agent) – $5,000 (marketing/expenses) = $17,542.00
Your next book sells 91,382 over the following year. (Did not make bestsellers list, because you only sold about 1,750 books a week. You would need to be up in the 5,000 a week range, unless the New York Times likes you:)
91,382 – 29,242 (returns) = $37,905.40 (royalty) – $5,685.75 (agent) – $6,500 (marketing/expenses) = $25,719.25.
Good news! Your agent got you signed with a bigger publisher! They offer you a $50,000 advance!
$50,000 – $7,500 (agent) – $15,000 (taxes) = $17,500. However, the publisher is holding back $25,000 just in case your book doesn't. So really, you have not received anything just yet. As your book sells, the publisher will release more of the advance. (Look at it more as a signing bonus that is paid out over the next year.)
Your book sells well and you have others in reprint. Your sales between April and October after returns are 267,432. Your royalty is $163,133.52 – $24,470.00 (agent) – $25,000 (marketing/expenses) = $113,663.52.
All right. Now, let's really have some fun. Let's say you have an absolutely great year in sales. How about, 500,000 after returns.
$305,000 (royalty) – $45,750 (agent) – $50,000 (marketing/expenses) = $209,250. (Before taxes.)
I'm not sure if this is what you expected or you are pleasantly surprised. Either way, this is a pretty close example of what authors make, based on sales.
I'm sure e-books will come more into play with these numbers, so stay tuned.
And of course, there is that movie deal I did not talk about…
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Over its ten years the FDA Law Blog has posted numerous stories about FDA's regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) (see, e.g., here, here, and here) Yet, the story of FDA's efforts to regulate LDTs goes back even further than the FDA Law Blog, to 1992. While there have been other regulatory initiatives that have lasted longer – the OTC review, DESI review, and the program to end Class III 510(k) devices spring to mind– the 25 year LDT saga has had a healthy run.
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. Director Jeff Gibbs recently published in the FDLI Update an article that summarizes this 25-year history. The article, titled "LDT's: The Saga Continues," summarizes the tale of LDT regulation, from FDA's initial statement of authority through developing a plan to regulate to LDTs, culminating in FDA's issuance of a Discussion Draft about how LDTs might someday be regulated in the future. For devotees of LDTs – or of epic efforts to regulate a class of products – it will be riveting reading. And for those who have not read about laboratory developed tests before, and never thought about them, this succinct summary is the one to read.
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FDA Law Blog: LDTs: The Saga Continues
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Ski Areas Switzerland
Ski Areas SwitzerlandSwitzerland is well known for excellent ski areas with rich histories. Holidaymakers will find solitary huts, car-free ski resorts, and luxurious flair.
Switzerland has 74 mountains towering above 4,000 m. Twelve such mountains are located in the Wallis Alps, among them the world famous Matterhorn (4,478 m), with its glamorous ski village Zermatt. Nearly as well known is the triumvirate of Eiger (3,970 m), Mönch (4,107 m), and Jungfrau (4,158 m) in the Bernese Oberland. Every year the famous Lauberhorn world cup ski race takes place here in Wengen. You can get to the Jungfrauen Joch (3,454 m), the highest train station of Europe, by cog railroad from Grindelwald.
The ski region Les Portes du Soleil, located south of Lake Geneva, guarantees border-free skiing enjoyment (union of 12 French and Swiss districts), and is the largest ski region in the world with 580 kilometres of piste and 194 lifts, along with "Les Trois Vallées" in France.
In 1956, Switzerland achieved honours at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. The famous destination offers glamorous flair, as well as an excellent ski area.
Après ski SwitzerlandIf you've decided on a winter holiday in Switzerland, you really have a great choice of ski huts, bars, casinos and party locations on hand. You also have various relaxing and sporting opportunities available : use of a sauna, massages, fitness centres, heli skiing, horse-drawn sleigh rides, ice skating, tobogganing, squash, badminton and bowling are just a few examples. Most of the larger ski areas also offer a varied programme of activities, including torch runs, ski races for guests, ski tours and night time snowshoe hikes. Every ski area has a wide range of restaurants pubs and snack bars available, where you are sure to find something to suit everyone's taste.
When you think about food and drink in Switzerland, the first thing that usually comes to mind is famous Swiss cheese. Therefore it's not surprising that cheese fondue and Raclette originate from Switzerland. You will not find a ski resort that doesn't offer both these specialities. Switzerland is also world-famous for producing top quality chocolate. Further Swiss specialities include Rösti, Bündnerfleisch (a type of dried meat), Zürcher Geschnetzeltes (veal stew from Zurich), carrot cake and swiss muesli.
Excursions SwitzerlandThere are many things that Switzerland is popular for: great cheese, delicious chocolate, the story of Heidi, and also its various mountain peaks. These topics offer a lot of variety for your trip to Switzerland. You can, for example, witness how some famous types of cheese are produced in the show case cheese factories in Affoltern in the Emmental and in Gruyère. The Maison Callier in Broc, on the other hand, is specialised in sweets. Here you can watch each single phase of chocolate production and furthermore there are workshop where your can create your own chocolate.
In Maienfeld you can follow in the tracks of Heidi, the main character of the famous children's book. In the Heididorf (village) the story of the little girl becomes alive and you can visit the original locations, the Heidihouse and the Heidi Alp, where the author Johanna Spyri got the inspiration for her novels.
Heidi's world are the mountains. Should you feel the same way, there are many possibilities of exploring the Swiss mountains, even away from the piste. Of course the Matterhorn in Zermatt is a must-see for many tourists, as it is the landmark of the country. An especially great view, however, can be enjoyed from the Säntis, whose 2,502 m high peak is not as high as the peak of the Matterhorn (4,487 m), but it still offers a spectacular panorama, because you can overlook 6 countries: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, France, and Italy. Furthermore, a gondola in the ski area Engelberg-Titlis provides a great view all around, because the gondola of the "Titlis-Rotair" lift makes a 360° turn during the ride. Exactly like the highest turning restaurant in the world, the "Threes!xty". It is located at an altitude of 3,500 m in the ski area of Saas-Fee - in the near of the largest ice pavilion of the world in Mittelallanin. Additionally, extraordinary "mountains" can be found in Enseigne in the Wallis. These earth pyramids are up to 15 m high and can be traced back to the Ice Age, approx. 80.000 years ago.
Those who are fascinated by water, can find not only the spring of the Rhine, the Tomasee in Graubünden, but also the largest waterfalls in Europe, the Rhine Falls in the near of Schaffhausen.
Last but not least, Switzerland also has a variety of museums on offer: from the Swiss Museum of Transport in Luzern to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, which has the biggest cultural-historical collection, including the "Swiss miniature" in a scale of 1:25. In Melide there are more than 120 hand-made models of the most popular buildings, monuments, and means of transportation.
Resorts Switzerland
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Ski area altitude
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|216 km
|1,075 - 2,362 m
|1,437 m
|Andermatt – Sedrun – Disentis
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|1,227 - 2,961 m
|1,775 m
|225 km
|1,229 - 2,865 m
|490 m
|43 km
|509 - 2,227 m
|1,560 m
|Davos/Klosters Mountains
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|810 - 2,844 m
|1,015 m
|82 km
|1,003 - 3,020 m
|1,049 m
|Aletsch Arena
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|1,845 - 2,869 m
|1,016 m
|188 km
|1,020 - 3,018 m
|1,617 m
|44 km
|1,619 - 2,868 m
|1,034 m
|Grindelwald/First & Kleine Scheidegg/Männlichen
|151 km
|944 - 2,500 m
|1,082 m
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|566 m
|Grindelwald/First & Kleine Scheidegg/Männlichen
|151 km
|944 - 2,500 m
|1,174 m
|Oeschinensee & Sunnbüel
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|1,200 - 1,936 m
|1,180 m
|214 km
|810 - 2,844 m
|1,068 m
|216 km
|1,075 - 2,362 m
|1,473 m
|225 km
|1,229 - 2,865 m
|1,402 m
|47 km
|1,411 - 2,610 m
|595 m
|60 km
|1,055 - 2,433 m
|1,650 m
|51 km
|796 - 2,970 m
|1,400 m
|220 km
|1,400 - 2,700 m
|1,805 m
|155 km
|1,720 - 3,022 m
|1,672 m
|12 km
|1,672 - 2,400 m
|1,800 m
|100 km
|1,800 - 3,573 m
|1,559 m
|Hohsaas - Saas-Grund
|34.5 km
|1,560 - 3,142 m
|1,720 m
|155 km
|1,720 - 3,022 m
|1,797 m
|Piz Corvatsch
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|1,815 m
|Corvatsch - Sils - Silvaplana
|120 km
|1,797 - 3,303 m
|1,822 m
|155 km
|1,720 - 3,022 m
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Susanne Walker reports at Bloomberg that because of fears of inflation created by the enormous credit expansion by the Federal Reserve and rapidly increasing U.S. government deficit spending, the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco) has dropped all U.S. government debt from its portfolio.
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., eliminated government-related debt from his flagship fund last month as the U.S. projected record budget deficits.
Pimco's $237 billion Total Return Fund last held zero government-related debt in January 2009. Gross had cut the holdings to 12 percent of assets in January, according to the Newport Beach, California-based company's website. The fund's net cash-and-equivalent position surged from 5 percent to 23 percent in February, the highest since May 2008.
Yields on Treasuries may be too low to sustain demand for U.S. government debt as the Federal Reserve approaches the end of its second round of quantitative easing, Gross wrote in a monthly investment outlook posted on Pimco's website on March 2. Gross mentioned that Pimco may be a buyer of Treasuries if yields rise to attractive levels.
Treasury yields are about 150 basis points too low when viewed on a historical context and when compared with expected nominal gross domestic product growth of 5 percent, he wrote in the commentary. The Fed is scheduled to complete purchases of $600 billion of Treasuries in June.
Gross in his February commentary urged investors to reduce holdings of Treasuries and U.K. gilts and buy higher-returning securities such as debt from emerging-market nations. "Old- fashioned gilts and Treasury bonds may need to be 'exorcised' from model portfolios and replaced with more attractive alternatives both from a risk and a reward standpoint," Gross wrote.
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Gross' fund has returned 7.23 percent in the past year, beating 85 percent of its peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It gained 1.39 percent over the past month.
As the Fed maintains its target rate at a record low range of zero to 0.25 percent and has made an increase in inflation a cornerstone of its monetary policy, Gross noted that inflation may be a bigger factor than many suggest.
Gains in so-called headline inflation matter more for the U.S. economy than Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke suggests and rising oil prices may cut U.S. gross domestic product by a quarter to half a percentage point, Gross said March 4 in a radio interview on "Bloomberg Surveillance" with Tom Keene.
"Bernanke tends to think this doesn't matter—at least in terms of headline versus the core—we do," Gross said.
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Traditional authorities and politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe's platinum mining industry
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The Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) will host Dr Joseph Mujere research associate at SWOP to present this breakfast seminar.
Using the case of Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Holdings Limited (Zimplats)'s platinum mining operations in Mhondoro-Ngezi district in Zimbabwe, the talk will analyse the centrality of the politics of belonging in the platinum mining industry's local labour recruitment regimes. The talk will examine how traditional leaders use autochthonous claims to land to negotiate access to jobs for jobseekers under their jurisdiction and will explore the flaws and contradictions within the local labour recruitment regimes set up by mining companies to appease local communities. The relationship between mining capital and traditional leaders resulted in the emergence of a local labour recruitment regime in which traditional leaders played a significant role. Traditional leaders' demands for jobs from mining companies whose activities led to their displacement can be viewed as a form of 'insurgent citizenship' which led to greater access to mining jobs by local communities. As demonstrated in this research, local communities' access to mining jobs should not be viewed as a result of the corporate paternalism of mining companies, but coordinated efforts by traditional leaders and local communities who lost their land to mining operations. The talk will also highlight the fraught nature of a local labour recruitment regime that is centred on traditional leaders. Apart from instances of corruption in how traditional leaders manage the local labour recruitment system, the talk will also highlight the contentious nature of the psychomotor tests used by the mining company in recruiting labour.
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Washington (CNN) – The presence of international monitors observing next week's presidential and Congressional election has caused a firestorm among voter ID law supporters and, particularly, the Texas attorney general.
The reservations came after the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) announced it is sending dozens of monitors from around the world to monitor the upcoming presidential and Congressional elections.
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The OSCE, which sends monitoring teams to elections around the world, has been observing U.S. elections since 2002, when the Bush administration invited them after the hotly contested 2000 presidential election. They are expected to observe in 15 states on November 6th.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Thursday wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing his displeasure with the OSCE's approach, stating that "an unnecessary political agenda may have infected OSCE's election monitoring." Texas law, he notes, does not allow "unauthorized individuals" within 100 feet of polling places. He asked Clinton to work with the OSCE to ensure the group abides by the state law or they will risk "legal consequences."
OSCE's team for the U.S. elections has 13 international experts based in Washington D.C. and 44 long-term observers to be deployed throughout the country. The OSCE called it "the largest Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe parliamentary delegation to ever observe a North American election."
"We are not coming to judge a result but to report about the process," said Joao Soares, a Portuguese member of parliament who is helping coordinate monitoring effort, in a statement on the group's website. "In a country so well-known for its diverse citizenry, we will observe how inclusive the election process is in line with the country's own laws and international election commitments."
The monitoring team issued an interim report last week warning "recent state-level legislative initiatives to limit early voting and introduce stricter voter identification have become highly polarized. Democrats are concerned that these would disenfranchise eligible voters, while Republicans believe they are necessary to protect the integrity of the vote."
This week a group of civil rights groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the League of Women Voters, sent a letter to Daan Evarts, head of the OSCE mission, urging him to send monitors to states where voter ID laws and early voting restrictions "voting have been most extensive-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin."
The letter also urged Everts to send monitors to Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia. Most of these are considered battleground states in the presidential election.
In a letter to Everts, Texas Attorney General Abbott noted the OSCE identified voter ID laws as a barrier to the right to vote and is being urged by voter ID opponents "to monitor states that have taken steps to protect ballot integrity by enacting voter ID laws."
"The OSCE may be entitled to its opinions about voter ID laws, but your opinion is legally irrelevant in the United States, where the Supreme Court has already determined that voter ID laws are constitutional," Abbott wrote. "Groups and individuals from outside the United States are not allowed to influence or interfere with the election process in Texas."
In addition to visiting polling stations on Election Day, the OSCE monitors have already met with federal, state and local officials and candidates since starting their work earlier this month, according to the Vienna-based agency.
But in his letter to Everts, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned OSCE representatives are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place and then stated they could face criminal prosecution for coming within 100 feet of a polling place.
State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Texas was the only state to her knowledge that came forward with reservations, but that the OSCE has since sent a letter, both to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to Texas authorities reassuring them that "OSCE observers are committed to following all U.S. laws and regulations as they do in any country where they observe elections."
But Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights which oversees election monitoring, also shared his concerns about Abbot's threats in his letter to Clinton.
"The threat of criminal sanctions against OSCE/ODIHR observers is unacceptable," Lenarčič said. "The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections."
He called concerns that election observers would interfere with the election process "groundless" and stressed OSCE observers adhere to all national laws of the countries whose elections they are monitoring.
"Our observers are required to remain strictly impartial and not to intervene in the voting process in any way," Lenarčič said. "They are in the United States to observe these elections, not to interfere in them."
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Don't mess with Texas 🙂
way to go TX. way to embarrass yourself again. we're all very impressed.
After having lived in Lubbock County Texas in my youth and having voted for George HW Bush for State Senator because he seemed to be the most honest of all Texans I had met (by a very small margin) I always figured ALL Texas politicians were corrupt and horse thieves.
If the Texas Atty. General is screaming loud and clear, it's because he like every other office holder in the state owes a lot of political favors and has a lot to hide.
Texas is great for their reaction. UN monitors in the US need to monitor Chicago, the gut of election fraud.
It is quite clear that the foreign observers have no interest or intention in affecting the voting, they are impartial and only observing the election process. I think there should be considerable concern that some states where officials are far right leaning (like Texas, Florida, New Jersey, etc.) will do whatever they can to profile/dissuade legal voters from coming to the polls if those voters are likely to vote for Democratic candidates. This seems to take us back to a time when, in the southern U.S., where whites and conservatives violated the rights of minority voters, intimidating them to keep them from voting. It is a very sad state of affairs that such things can happen in modern times in America where everyone is supposed to be equal!
Leave it to Texas to puff their chest and shout out a bunch of stupidity.
sounds like more right wing shenanigans
I applaud the stance that the State of Texas has taken against foreign countries attempting to oversee the elections of The Unites States of America. It seems that only Texas understands that this is an autonomous country that we live in and that there is no acceptable questioning of what happens within our borders by any foreign body. The statement made by this foreign group that " we have an obligation to invite the observers" is complete ludicrousness. This man and his entire foreign group should be immediately expelled from the country and never be allowed inside our borders again just for speaking such a statement. The rest of the world needs to understand that we do not have any need for them or their opinions and that we are The United States of America, not the united countries of the world. We have our laws and systems and they will not be dictated to by foreign bodies.
I see Texas has something to hide.
Uhhhhh ohhhhh..........why is Texans sooooo worried??????
We don't need corrupt and biased UN observers to come here. Don't come here to teach us how to vote.
If Texas is committed to fair elections, then people observing the election process shouldn't bother them at all. What do they have to hide?
What's Texas hiding? More republican voter tampering? Given the scale the republicans have been doing it on this election treason charges should be made against them.
Who is paying for these people to come and observe our electoral process
The saying tells all: Don't Mess With Texas! Love my state!
me thinks he doth protest too much.
This is the USA, not the UN ! The UN does not supercede the USA. Get us out of the United Nations and get the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. We have no business participating in a body where our enemies out-vote us.
While they are observing, they should note how most people vote with their wallet and emotions.
Texas republicans want to be by themselves! Leave them alone! ~sob~
Somebody in Texas forgot that US Treaty obligatons carry the weight of federal law. Federal law trumps state law. States cannot act to violate U.S. treaty obligations. Sorry, Texas, but you're still part of the United States. We resolved that by force of arms in 1865–when you surrendered.
Texas voting procedures are an.embarresment to the United States.
Sad commentary on voting in the U.S. and particularly TX stance on 3rd party observers. With the GOP's attempt at voter suppression, intimidation, peddling false information throughout many states is it any wonder the Republican AG Abbott has nothing better to do but start a battle against a 3rd party monitoring group with threats of prosecution.
Abbott should be investigated for abuse of power and malfeasance.
"They are in the United States to observe these elections, not to interfere in them."
Then they will not have a problem abiding by the law ... which is the only thing that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked for. It seems that Lenarčič wants her immunity for group so that they may violate the law if they so choose.
Good show Texas.. keep the globalists out of your business... all states should adopt that stance.
Whats Texas worried about unless they have something to hide or intimidate folks during the voting process. I say let'em succed from the union if thery don't like the rules. If ya can't play fair don't play at all


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NORTHRIDGE, California – Beaver Stadium, home to Penn State University's Nittany Lions football team, is one of the largest in the country with a capacity of almost 107,000. In fact, it is the second-largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere. The stadium has expanded six times in its history and recently, systems contractor Clair Brothers upgraded Beaver Stadium's sound system with the installation of more than 140 HARMAN's JBL loudspeakers to improve its performance in a number of coverage areas.
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Happy Wednesday! I'm back this week with pictures of the yellow sweater and the Compass Rose Stole (finally).
Obviously, the sweater is coming along. Some time back I decided I wouldn't have enough yarn to make loves (long sleeves) and certainly didn't want to make shoves (short sleeves, thanks Freshy) so I'm going with elves (elbow-length sleeves) although I'm debating making the ribbing longer to match the bottom hemline, what do you guys think?
The stole is coming along although slowly, I've been busy working at the cafe and training for my race this past Saturday so I'm making some headway on it this week (while also working on products for the show I'm participating in this weekend).
This picture was taken a day or so ago and I've made more progress, the Compass Rose motif is all done and I'm making my way to the edges of the mesh border, the Rose definitely takes more concentration than this part of the project so I'm hoping it'll fly right along now.
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According to Dan Rather, "This movie is less about me, or Mary Mapes, or even George W. Bush—what it's about is what's happened to the news, why it's happened, how it's happened, and why people should care." He's talking about Truth, the movie starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Moss, Dennis Quaid, and Topher Grace about the Killian documents controversy. In September 2004, 60 Minutes II aired a report about then-President Bush's service in the National Guard and how he went AWOL for a year from that much coveted cocoon rather than serving in some Southeast Asia jungle. The documents obtained by CBS were quickly questioned and dismissed as easily forged. A breathless segment on Rachel Maddow's show pointed out how regularly the story appeared in the media throughout 2004, but it was that episode of 60 Minutes II that led to Rather's resignation, and the firing of Mapes and the entire team that worked with her to bring the story to air. Mapes was misled by Bill Burkett, a veteran with an axe to grind and a few marbles missing. As the final title cards of Truth point out, Mapes hasn't worked in television news since 2004.
That's followed by a title card that reads: "Based on Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by Mary Mapes." But of course. The whole thing is such a melodramatic pity party for Mapes, who lost her job because she went to air with a story that her team didn't have enough time to verify. She undoubtedly helped Bush get elected a second time, because after September 8, questions about the president's service were beyond reproach, and the conversation stuck to liberal bias in broadcast news. Along with the Swiftboat Veterans video against John Kerry, Mapes' fuck-up was a gift for the GOP, the party of patriots. It's well-known now that Bush, like other sons of the elite, got into the National Guard because of family connections, and that his whole unit was comprised of fortunate sons and political scions. But by rushing the story, Mapes and her crew left themselves wide open to accusations of bias and opportunism.
So the ostentatiously-titled Truth, overlong and overdramatic, fails to clear Mapes of anything the GOP accused her of in 2004. They jumped the gun, and they were left without a leg to stand on. Contrary to what Rather said on The Today Show, this movie is about Mary Mapes. It gets weirdly personal, and the most cringeworthy thread running through the thing is Mapes' relationship with her abusive father, who beat her for asking questions. Naturally, she pursues a career in journalism. Even more on the nose, when the whole world is tearing apart her story and her credibility, there's a scene where Mapes' father calls Fox News and basically calls his daughter a lefty skank. Mapes' husband gets him on the horn, threatening to break his arms, when Mapes comes rushing out into the backyard, grabs the phone, and begs her father to stop. Truth is not about how the news has changed—it's a siren song from someone who's been blacklisted for over a decade. Sadly, it proves every Republican accusation about its subjects to be true—that they were biased, self-obsessed, and believed the president to be guilty until proven innocent.
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Beatty also awarded Sgt. W.B. Thaxton and Trooper R.G. Ezzell with the department's Commendation Award.
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"Sergeant Thaxton's, Trooper Ezzell's, Trooper Cianfarra's and Trooper Tribula's showed heroic actions without regard for their personal safety by entering the burning building after the explosion to search for injured persons," Beatty said. "They are to be commended for their unselfish acts of bravery."
On Jan. 29, 2003, Cianfarra, Tribula, Thaxton and Ezzell responded to the explosion at the West Pharmaceuticals plant. They instructed employees and observers to move away from the burning building.
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The holistic formation of members is of paramount importance to every religious congregation as its life and growth depends on the quality of its members. A vocation to the religious life is a precious gift from God who calls individuals for His mission. The individuals in turn respond positively to the loving invitation of God, resulting in the fruition of their lives as they become guiding lights to many people through their apostolate. Religious formation in the Society of Saint Paul aims at the moulding of individuals in the Pauline way of life in accordance with the Charism and spirituality of the congregation, drawing inspiration from Jesus the Divine Master, the Way, the Truth and the Life, Mary Queen of the Apostles and the Apostle Saint Paul, our Patron.
In trying to become "all things to all people" (1 Cor 9:23) in the modern context, a Pauline should respond positively to his call and strive to live up to the demands of his consecration. He should be able to live harmoniously in Pauline communities and, along with his confreres, carry out the mission of living and giving Jesus Master, the Way, the Truth and the Life, through the modern means of communication. For a Pauline, every community is a formation community and every confrere, a person in formation and a formator at the same time. The need of the hour is to focus on individual candidates who as men called by God for a particular mission, need to be fully in tune with the realities and challenges of the modern world and, as "salt of the earth" (Mt 5:13) and "light of the world" (Mt 5:14), be able to transform it.
One of the things which enables individuals to respond positively to their vocation and live their lives to the full in complete surrender to the will of God and with total commitment, is a systematic manual for formation (formation iter). This updated version of the Formation Iter aims at providing clarity of the objectives of the various formation programmes on offer at different stages of formation namely, Aspirancy, Postulancy, Novitiate and Juniourate. It helps both the formees as well as the formators to be clear about the result to be achieved at the end of every stage of formation. This facilitates the self-evaluation of individuals and making the necessary changes in accordance with the guidelines provided as well as acting as a necessary tool in the hands of the formators to assess candidates and ascertain their suitability for Pauline consecrated life. It also encourages a Perpetually Professed Pauline to evaluate the state of his life in the congregation thus far, to make the necessary changes in his personal life and to rededicate himself totally to being led by the loving hands of the Father, even as he is inspired by the Spirit to be a more effective and faithful witness to Jesus Christ by means of absorbing and utilizing all the dynamism inherent in the Pauline Apostolate.
The updated version of the Formation Iter has taken into consideration the cultural, religious, social, economic, political, communications media and linguistic peculiarities of the four countries where the Province is spread out, namely India, Nigeria, Great Britain and Ireland, with the firm conviction that a Pauline formation which does not give importance to these factors will not be effective in moulding a Pauline who is well-rooted in his rich traditions. The Formation Iter is for the entire Province clearly establishing well defined guidelines for initial formation in India and Nigeria where we continue to get vocations to Pauline way of life and mission. The guidelines and programmes given for the ongoing formation are applicable to all the perpetually professed members of the Province including the members in Great Britain and Ireland.
It is my fond hope that this Formation Iter is useful to each of our communities as a whole and to each individual member of our communities. May the Divine Master, through the intercession of Mary, Queen of Apostles, Saint Paul our Patron, and Blessed James Alberione our Founder, bless us with the grace needed to live our Pauline vocation to the full in total surrender and conformity to the will of God.
Fr Aneesh Antony Peediyekal SSP
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1. Exchange & Refund Policy
2. Processing of Exchange & Refund
3.Additional Remarks
a.Custom made orders can not be exchanged and returned .
b,.Below are the special requests for lace wigs before you send back :
◆DO Not Cut the Lace
◆DO NOT Rip or Tear the Lace
◆DO NOT Put any kind of Chemicals on the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Wear the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Put Glue or Tape on the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Put Products on the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Wash or Condition the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Dye the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Perm or Put Relaxer on the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Style or Cut the Hair of the Wig Unit
◆DO NOT Destroy or Lose any of the Original Packaging
◆DO NOT Try to Correct the Problem Yourself Prior to Calling Us
Pls write "$10" value and " sample of synthetic hair wigs" on courier sheet in order to avoid customs tax (if high value , You need pay the extra customs tax )
1.Are your wigs made of 100% human hair?
YES. All of our lace wigs are made of 100% human hair and you can treat it as your own hair.
2.What is the difference between your Brazilian virgin hair ,Malaysian virgin hair,Peruvian virgin hair, Chinese virgin hair and Indian virgin/remy hair?
There are quality differences among these hair types .Hair quality from normal to best is Brazilian virgin hair =Malaysian virgin hair >Chinese virgin hair=Peruvian virgin hair>Indian virgin/remy hair.The best quality means the wig can last longer and you will feel the hair is more smooth and softer when you touch it.But that doesn't mean the Indian virgin/remy hair is bad ,no ,it is still good just normal compared with other hair types .
3.What are Lace Front Wig and Full Lace Wig?
Lace Front Wig: "Lace Front Wig" or Front Lace Wig only has lace in the front of the wig and the remainder of the wig is made from a regular netted wig cap or other materials such as thin-skin. You are not able to wear a front lace wig in high up dos or ponytails.Full Lace Wig: "Full Lace Wigs" are lace wigs which are designed with the entire wig cap being made from lace as well as lace all around the perimeter of the wig. Full lace wigs allow you to wear your hair in high up dos and ponytails. Upon applying & adhering the lace wig, a flawless, natural and undetectable hairline is created.
4.What are Bleached Knots?
When a dark hair is tied to the base of a lace wig with a knot, you can see a dark dot on the skin, especially when the base is lace. Lace cannot hide the knot in the same way a monofilament base does. Bleached knots usually are only done at the front of the lace wig and it helps create the illusion that your hair is growing out of your head.
5.What does Density refer to?
The density refers to how thick the hair is and what density you order is really based on personal choice. Most women achieve a natural appearance with light to medium or medium density; however, your choice will depend on your styling preferences and individual profile.
6.How long can I expect the wig to last?
The life of your wig will depend on your use and care of it. If handled properly, it should last you about 6 months before needing hair added or a repair. If used as your main form of hair replacement and you are using daily, it is realistic to expect it to last 3-6 months before needing a repair or hair added.
7.If I place an order today, when will I receive it?
If your order is in stock ,normally we need 1-3 business days to process your order and it will take another 2-3 business days to reach you by DHL ,Fedex and UPS .
8. Will the hairline of the lace wig have a natural look?
Yes, when you wear the lace wigs correctly according to our user guide, the hairline will have a natural look, just similar as your own hair growing from your scalp. For customized orders, we recommend you to have baby hairs around the front and perimeter of the wig and make the hairline with more natural looking.
9. Do you charge extra for Baby Hair? Does the wig come with Baby Hair?
Our inventory wigs all have baby hair around the perimeter. It is free of charge. Also, you can select to add baby hair around front only, back only, all around the perimeter or no baby hair of custom wigs. Most people choose to add baby hair all around the perimeter which makes the lace wig have a more natural looking.
10. Does the straight hair wave up when being wet?
If it is silky straight, our answer is "Yes, it does". But after it is dry, the silky straight style will be back. The Yaki Perm Straight and Light Yaki textures do not wave up when wet.
11. What is Yaki Texture and what is the difference between Yaki and Silky?
Yaki texture is processed from silky texture .The process make hairs feel coarser than normal silky texture hair,but still look straight .Yaki texture is close to the relaxed hair texture.
12. What is the difference between Full Lace Cap with Stretch and Full Lace Cap without Stretch?
These two caps are with lace all around the perimeter and available for you to wear your hair in updos and high ponytails. When the caps are glued down, the wig will have a natural hairline all around the perimeter. The unit can be parted anywhere as you wish. Full lace cap with stretch will be helpful for adjustment on your head size. Full lace cap with ear to ear stretch can be adjusted in Circumference. Full lace cap with stretch in crown can be adjusted in crown. Full lace cap without stretch does not have stretch and can be worn by women without hair or with scarce hair.
13. What is the difference between Swiss lace & French lace?
Swiss lace is finer and softer than French lace. Swiss lace is with better and natural looking to match the skin. French lace is a bit thicker and more durable for use. Both two types of laces can be dyed to match different skins.
14. Do I have to wear a wig cap with the wig?
No, you do not need to use any wig caps under the wig. You can easily part your own hair at the same point as your wig before wearing the unit, which will strengthen your parting on the wig while use.
15. Is the wig available for being parted as I wish?
Yes, all our lace wigs can be parted anywhere, this is free styled. Our Lace wigs are all freestyle.
16. Can I wear my lace wig in a high ponytail?
Yes, you can wear your wig in a high ponytail once you apply around your full perimeter with adhesives. You will need a cap construction that is made with lace around the perimeter.
17. What kind of Glue or tape should I choose?
If you want a 1-6 weeks hold,you need to purchase the Ultra Hold glue or the Safe Grip Wig Glue.For a 1-10 day hold the Mity Tite is best. Some prefer the ease of rolling on tape adhesive.Or use glue in the front hair line and tape in the back.
18. Will the glues and tapes break my skin out?
Just like any other new product that you may use, we do recommend that you do a skin test of you are prone to irritation or have sensitive skin. 98% of customer has no problem with the glue or tape.If you have sensitive skin, you may want to start out with the Spirit Gum or Hollisters Medical Adhesive.
19. I have sensitive skin, which glue should I use?
If you have sensitive skin, you should start out with the Spirit Gum. You can also try the Hollisters Medical Adhesive which we will be adding to the site shortly. Also,just like any other new product that you may use, we do recommend that you do a skin test of you are prone to irritation or have sensitive skin.
20. How to measure the hair length correctly ?
The hair length should be from the head top to the hair bottom as the hair is straight. the curl and wavy wig is process from straight wig, so in the same length, curl and wavy wig will be shorter by 1"-2" (it depends on how deep the curl is) than straight wig.
21 .What is wefted hair extensions(weaving)?
Wefted Hair Extensions are simply a curtain of hair used to layer in to your own hair to add color, length and or volume. There are several application methods to choose from to apply the wefts.Hairplusbase.com provides only superior quality 100% Remy* and Non-Remy Wefted Human Hair Extensions in a multitude of colors to blend with your own hair. Hair Extensions Wefts are machine sewn or hand-tied, straight or curly and are available in 14" to 32" lengths.
Wefted Hair Extensions can be applied using various professional or Do-It-Yourself application methods such as sew-in, weaving, bonding, tape-in, or clip-in. With proper care, Wefted Hair Extensions can be used over and over and are an affordable way to achieve endless styling possibilities. Try wrapping Wefted Hair Extensions around your own ponytail to create the illusion of a longer, fuller ponytail or add overall length, volume and color. Hair Extension Wefts are a perfect solution to achieve sought after red carpet celebrity hairstyles!
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Items currently in stock. Artifacts 1-3 where displayed in the Oheis-Group Exhibition which showcased Ore.e-Refinaries with an installation "Case study: Collaboration with a Printmaker" (Näin teemme kuparilaatan.) Image 5 is of the five copperplates (each waighting above 200g [in 10x18cm plates]) which mr. Rantanen imported to Finland in a backpack. All items are on SALE!
This project relates to Ore.e refineries which is a non-registared company producing refined ore at any location. Using traditional methods. So far the project has produced one copper-plate usable for fine Graphic Printmaking. The plate was given to a selected (unnamed) Academic Professor of Contemporary Grafic Artist in Finland. The crew would like to thank the residency program of Villa Karo in Grand Popo, Benin for their support to the project. Hope the forge blower we buildet with Boris is in good use!
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Last month I was invited out to West Valley City, Utah to visit SilencerCo Headquarters. As an owner of some SilencerCo cans and a fan of their products, I was extremely eager to go check out where my cans were made. Also since I am now behind enemy lines in California, I would get to play with things that I'm not allowed to possess in CA. But that is bordering on politics so let's move along and check out that silencer magic that SilencerCo seems to possess.
I Got A Golden Ticket To SilencerCo Headquarters
The SilencerCo media event started off with a tour of their factory. Having visited GSL Technology a year ago I had an idea of what to expect, at least that is what I thought to myself. SilencerCo is definitely a household name brand in the silencer industry. Some of their suppressors are industry leaders and benchmarks like the Salvo12, Osprey series, Maxim9 and the Omega 9K are just some of the best-known cans they make. Although the Maxim9 is in a league of its own.
The tour started off similar to other factories I have visited. An impressive display of their raw materials. There are long bars 12-20ft. 316-320 steel for their baffle spacers. Titanium for some of their suppressor tubes as well as Inconel and Stellite for blast chambers.
Due to the number of media representatives, there were around 20 of us there, we were broken up into two groups. My groups' tour guide was Director of Product Management, Gianni Donati. You may know him from his work at Triple Aught Design. He and his wife left TAD Gear to work at SilencerCo.
Gianni shows an exposed Hybrid suppressor.
What set the SilencerCo headquarters apart from companies like GSL Tech is the sheer volume of turning machines. Just several years ago SilencerCo only had 6 machines. Now they have 54 turning machines. That includes the numerous CNC mills and CNC lathes.
All throughout the factory are these LCD screens with current live info on the productivity of each machine. Gianni and many of the other employees can access this information live on their phones or computers to see the current status of the company's productivity down to the second. They can track how long a machine is down and address those issues as quickly as possible.
This is a Tombstone Mill aka horizontal mill. This avoids what is called "double ship cuts". A traditional mill cuts downwards and due to gravity the chips that fly off will sometimes not fly far enough and get in the way of the tool causing the tool to have to move or cut that chip. This adds unnecessary wear to the tools. So by having the parts mounted on this giant tombstone the chips will fall away and not get in the way of the tool.
Osprey suppressor tubes freshly milled.
SilencerCo uses this wire EDM machine to cut the final bore diameter after a can is welded together. This is necessary due to tolerance stacking. SilencerCo holds tight tolerance as much as possible when machining components of their suppressors. But when you stack multiple parts together that tolerance difference gets bigger and bigger.
Concentricity is crucial so you don't have a baffle strike so the wired EDM takes out any high spots in the baffles.
Any suppressor that is welded like the SpecWar, Hybrid, Chimera, and Omega goes through mount thread cutting and is done concentric to the baffles. Then they flip the can and thread the front for the end cap.
With regards to finishing the suppressors, they brought in Cerakote, Bead Blast, Anodizing and Black Oxide in house. They used to outsource anodizing and black oxide but due to quality control issues and consistency, they brought those operations into SilencerCo Headquarters.
Like any reputable manufacturer, they have a quality control department. This machine has programmed designs of all the parts it tests and measures critical surfaces to see if they are in spec. 1 out of every 2-3 parts are measured. But in the case of any new product or a critical component that requires high tolerance like a piston then every part is checked by the QC department.
This machine uses two camera lenses to create a perfectly flat image. For those who have played with cameras and product photography, you will notice that a single lens will often distort the perspective of an object. Here that is eliminated with binocular camera lenses.
A faster and easier system is this one that uses light to cast a shadow and they can measure off the shadow.
In the lunchroom, the owner of SilencerCo had a custom chess set made using an assortment of suppressor parts. I wish they could offer this as an actual product but sadly the ATF believes all suppressor components must be regulated.
SilencerCo At The Range
After the factory tour and lunch, we hit the range. SilencerCo setup two shooting sections. The first one was for rimfire and pistol caliber suppressors. Further down the line was for centerfire suppressors. They unveiled a new suppressor that unfortunately I cannot discuss details until the embargo is removed but I can say it is true silencer magic. One interesting facet of this range session was that Winchester Ammunition was there providing most of the ammo we were using. The Winchester representative brought along their new 350 Legend ammo and a Ruger American chambered in 350 Legend.
The new can that is coming out was mounted to the Ruger American so I cannot show it to you, sorry. I can tell you it was surprisingly quiet. But here is the ammo!
SilencerCo had set up steel targets and I hit a coyote shaped target at around 200 yards away. SilencerCo also had their long rage gurus out to help us with hitting steel at 1,000 yards. One of the employees is an extreme long-range fanatic. He has shot a target 5,114 yards away, nearly 3 miles away!! So hitting 1,000 yards is just where he confirms zero and warms up.
I shot the Barret MRAD in .338 Lapua. Listen to how quiet the gun is in the video below. That was my hit on 1,000-yard steel filmed by one of the SilencerCo long-range employees.
At the rimfire/pistol section, we got to shot the gamut of their suppressors. The Switchback is a .22LR rimfire can that even I didn't know they made. It was released last December but hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. It is a modular can that can be used in short, medium or full-length configurations.
On a 16″ bolt action .22LR rifle, the short configuration works very well.
And while I cannot mention specifics here is the embargoed wonder can on their post sample HK MP5. (I got approval to post this video from their Director of Marketing).
Earlier I posted about their Non-NFA Maxim9.
I would like to thank Jessica, Gianni and the rest at SilencerCo Headquarters for hosting us. It was truly reinvigorating to exercise my second amendment rights quietly and discover what makes SilencerCo so great. Unfortunately moving out of California is not in the cards for me and my family but I can see the allure of West Valley City, Utah.
SilencerCo is staffed with die-hard outdoor enthusiasts. Many of them, Gianni included, are avid hunters. They are passionate about what they do and it shows in the work they do. In just a span of a few years, SilencerCo went from six CNC machines to 54! They clearly have that suppressor black magic that keeps customers wanting their products. Marketing can only get you so far. But having dedicated people making quality products that perform extremely well will get people interested in your products and SilencerCo has it in spades.
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As the analytical tools of archaeology rapidly shift toward the use of non-invasive, digital visualization—including such things as ground-penetrating radar and LiDAR—we're seeing more and more examples of archaeologists setting off into distant landscapes, drones in hand.
A short news item posted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville this week is thus just one story among many: it describes the work of a team of University earth scientists who are heading down to Guatemala to map ruined buildings with a remote-control quadcopter. Their quadcopter, kitted out with a multi-spectral camera, will produce images "similar to those from Landsat but in much higher resolution," they explain, as it drifts and hums above the canopy.
But what's interesting is one tiny detail about how this is actually done. The scientists, we read, are not looking for huge, hulking blocks of masonry or previously unseen Mayan towers sticking out of the leaves; they're on the lookout for sick vegetation.
It turns out that "trees growing over Maya ruins aren't as lush because the stone blocks and lime plaster used by Maya builders prevent those plants from getting the nutrients and moisture" they need to thrive.
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This means that slightly more anemic or leafless patches of forest might not be straggling behind the others due to some rare disease or an invasive beetle; it's because they are growing on top of old buildings, their shallow roots struggling down through soil, desperately uncurling through small stone rooms and foundations, searching for something to keep them alive.
These lost rooms and structures down there—buildings crushed and ruined by the humid landscape—then leave an additional imprint on the landscape, not unlike a form of 3-dimensional photography: "The multi-spectral camera can see differences in plant cover and, when an area of stressed tree canopy has sharp linear edges or unnatural geometric shapes—such as a perfect square or rectangle—that could indicate the location of a Maya town or building." In other words, the sick groves of trees are perfect squares or rectangles, deeply unnatural shapes for a rain forest, like architectural pixels materialized by trees and only visible from above.
Hunting for dead geometries amidst the roots and leaves, flying their remote control quadcopter through the jungle, this is what archaeology is increasingly becoming, it seems: a technologically enabled hunt through seemingly familiar but just slightly off landscapes, searching for uncanny artifacts and lost ruins without ever lifting a spade. [University of Alabama via Past Horizons]
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This is going to be the first dual review on this blog, and it will consist of descriptions of both games in each reviewing category.
Sonic Unleashed has an involved and complex story, so here's the summary: Over the course of a lengthy battle in space, Dr. Eggman has managed to siphon Sonic and the chaos emeralds' energy and harness them to blow up the planet, releasing a monster from the planet's core known as "Dark Gaia". Dr. Eggman succeeds in doing all of this, and with no further use for Sonic or the drained emeralds, dumps them out into space. The power draining has a side-effect on Sonic though, turning him into a powerful werehog whenever the sun goes down. With the earth dismantled, an evil monster awakened in the planet's core, and his new nighttime alter-ego, Sonic has quite the adventure on his hands!
So, onwards with the reviewing!
Sound: This game has fantastic music, whether it's orchestrated or all the way to rock. The voice-acting is okay, although some of the characters can become seriously irritating at times on both versions.
Xbox 360/Wii: 8.5/10 for both
Presentation: This Sonic game has pretty much the same menu system on both versions, the only difference being that the Xbox 360 can change the time of day for the game at will. The Xbox's in-game visuals though are mind-blowing, though! Watching Sonic run across water or slide under a brick wall has never looked so good.
The Wii's version also looks very pretty for Wii standards, although not quite as captivating.
Xbox 360: 9.5/10
Wii: 7.5/10
Gameplay: The difference is day and night, literally. Sonic's day stages are extremely fun, other than the slippery platforming. Once you get past that, though, you get to keep on enjoying the smooth gameplay of Sonic dodging countless lasers as he rockets into robots, hopping on and off rails, and dodging bombs at break-neck speed. At night though… ugh. Levels can last up to 45 minutes of tedious battle brawls, climbing up poles, and what is no doubt the worst of all, walking across a thin tightrope to the platform on the other side. Its slippery controls are probably the biggest downfall of the game. And in both sections of the game, there are some very unforgiving button prompt moments.
The Wii version is actually quite different from all of this, though. It's controls aren't nearly as slippery, so you can be more accurate and precise with your jumps, and it doesn't always feel like a leap of faith. The controls also feel more responsive, which just makes the game feel like a more solid experience. Of course, the Wii version doesn't include some very fun levels like the Xbox version does (Empire City, Mazuri) but overall the levels the Wii does provide are satisfactory, even with the exception there are about 3 times more nighttime than daytime levels in the Wii version.
Xbox 360: 6.5/10
Wii: 8/10
Multiplayer: N/A
Length: The Xbox 360 version has a hub world that has you talking to countless citizens for hours, so that lengthens the amount of game time (but not in a good way). The less plentiful werehog/nighttime levels also make up for their lack of numbers by being way too long. Overall, this version takes about 12-14 solid hours to complete.
The Wii may have way more nighttime levels, but those last to an upwards of 15 minutes. And there aren't any terribly draining town missions to go on either, making this version mainly about the gameplay although length is shortened. It still lasts a good 8 hours, though.
Xbox 360: 9/10 (with all the boring town/nighttime levels included)
Wii: 8/10 with solid action for every moment of the game.
Final Averages: Xbox 360 scores an 8.4 out of 10!
Wii follows with a solid score of 8/10!
Overall, both versions are great. Yes, the Xbox 360 version is the longer and (at times) the more enjoyable version, but the Wii version is pretty fun itself.