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text: hutchman 3 Report post Posted June 27, 2008 (edited) I am a hamburgeraholic.......there I've said it.......it's out in the open. I am not ashamed as I cannot help it - it is a disease and I am taking treatment. As part of successful program I must confront the demon and describe my reactions to the best burgers I find. The following is my first, but not my last hamburger review: I posted this first in the Steak N' Shake thread, but realized that I am a hamburger nut and love to try new burgers given the chance. So if you have already read this review, I apologize, but I assure you there will be many more to come! As a kid we used to stop at SnS in Peoria on the way to my grandparents. I have never forgotten those burgers, maybe the best ever. Flash forward to last week when I was in Illinois due to a family illness. I took a trip to see an aunt who is 92 and in poor health. On the way back to Hillsboro, I stopped on the west side of St. Louis and tried a couple of SnS Double Cheese Burgers. I must say they are still the best fast food available.........IMHO of course. They will give some specialty burgers a run for their money on taste. But you may ask why are they special? I watched the cook make my burgers on a plain griddle. He took a pre-made patty about the shape and size of a hockey puck. As he placed it on the grill, he formed the patty a specific way using a spatula and fork for pressure. The resulting patty on the grill was about the size of a normal hamburger bun, but the secret to the taste I think is the way the patty is formed.......it is paper thin on the edge and thicker in the middle. The burger was allowed to cook on the grill until it was a golden brown and then turned. It was cooked a similar amount of time on the other side and placed on the toasted bun with the requested condiments. What makes it special is the effect the shape of the formed patty has on the finished product. The edge is a crispy golden brown while the center is very juicy with the expected texture of a well done, but not overcooked burger. The first bite is has a combination of the crispy crunch of the edge and the juicy well done center! It is a combination that I have not encountered anywhere else. I rate it a solid 9 out of 10 based on both texture and taste! This review is the first review on the never ending quest for the perfect burger........... Edited June 27, 2008 by hutchman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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New Ubisoft Games Must Always Be Online
Why not? Everyone loves it when our crazy comments page numbers thing kicks in. Ubisoft have taken their senses and posted them into outer space. Responding to the public outcry for more draconian, inconveniencing copyright management, they have replaced Starforce and announced their new PC-only DRM system. One that requires you be permanently online in order to be able to play.
The attempt to sell this new system begins with what it doesn't do. There's no CD check, and there's no installation limits. A good start. And then, GameSpy reports enthusiastically, it will support cloud saving. Well, I love cloud saving – it's something Valve promised ages ago (although with sadly little movement since). When I choose to use it. Which with this DRM, the current reports suggest, you cannot.
The price we pay for not requiring the CD in the drive, and for being able to install a game we've legally bought on as many machines as we want, is to be permanently online when playing Ubi games. It will authenticate itself online each time you load it, and then save remotely every time you save. This is, to stress, a game perhaps bought in a shop. So from now on, beginning with Settlers 7, potentially all Ubi PC games will require you to check in with them to let them know you've started playing their game, and then tell them every time you save, send them all the data in doing so, and then say bye-bye when you're done playing for that day.
Shack News received some clarifying information from Ubisoft. They explain that they will apply patches should they ever remove the servers behind the games. They also explain that if your connection drops while playing, the game will pause while it tries to reconnect, and then will apparently allow you to carry on without the internet. They don't say whether it will be impossible to save if you do, however. They also say in the same notes that, "you will need to have an active Internet connection to play the game, for all game modes." So this is a little unclear.
This seems like such a bizarre, bewildering backward step. Of course we haven't experienced it yet, but based on Ubi's own description of the system so many concerns arise. Yes, certainly, most people have the internet all the time on their PCs. But not all people. So already a percentage of the audience is lost. Then comes those who own gaming laptops, who now will not be able to play games on trains, buses, in the park, or anywhere they may not be able to find a wifi connection (something that's rarely free in the UK, of course – fancy paying the £10/hour in the airport to play your Ubisoft game?). Then there's the day your internet is down, and the engineers can't come out to fix it until tomorrow. No game for you. Or any of the dozens of other situations when the internet is not available to a player.
But further, there are people who do not wish to let a publisher know their private gaming habits. People who do not wish to report in to a company they've no affiliation with, nor accountability to, whenever they play a game they've legally bought. People who don't want their save data stored remotely. This new system renders all customers beholden to Ubisoft in perpetuity whenever they buy their games.
Clearly publishers are terrified by piracy. While none of the major publishers has ever produced any evidence to support the claims that piracy decreases their sales, they clearly think it does, and are trying to do anything they can to prevent it. Their ultimate goal – to make more money from sales – is in our favour too, of course. We want more PC games, and we want them now. So if publishers aren't willing to invest in the medium because of piracy fears, we'll lose out in a big way. But sadly these peculiar, Big Brother-esque approaches do not seem close to the right way to go about it.
Perhaps Ubi will react to public outcry. Perhaps a more sensible version can be created, one that offers an offline mode for those who play games offline, as with Steam. A solution that's designed to make games accessible to those who legally purchase them. I really hope so.
Update: Just noticed two other things.
Firstly, this new DRM also prevents the option to resell your game. There are implications here.
Secondly, this rather remarkable wording in the FAQ:
Why is Ubisoft forcing their loyal customers to sign up for a Ubisoft account when they don't want to give their private data and only play single player games?
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.(Redirected from HANGING.)
Warrants for the infliction of capital punishment, as opposed to private retribution or vengeance, are found in the Pentateuchal codes for the commission of any one of the following crimes: adultery (Lev. xx. 10; Deut. xxii. 22); bestiality (Ex. xxii. 18 [A. V. 19]; Lev. xx. 15); blasphemy (Lev. xxiv. 16); false evidence in capital cases (Deut. xix. 16-19); false prophecy (Deut. xiii. 6, xviii. 20); idolatry, actual or virtual (Lev. xx. 2; Deut. xiii. 7-19, xvii. 2-7); incestuous or unnatural connections (Lev. xviii. 22, xx. 11-14); insubordination to supreme authority (Deut. xvii. 12); kidnaping (Ex. xxi. 16; Deut. xxiv. 7); licentiousness of a priest's daughter (Lev. xxi. 9); murder (Ex. xxi. 12; Lev. xxiv. 17; Num. xxxv. 16 et seq.); rape committed on a betrothed woman (Deut. xxii. 25); striking or cursing a parent, or otherwise rebelling against parental authority (Ex. xxi. 15, 17; Lev. xx. 9; Deut. xxi. 18-21); Sabbath-breaking (Ex. xxxi. 14, xxxv. 2; Num. xv. 32-36); witchcraft and augury (Ex. xxii. 17; Lev. xx. 27).Modes of Punishment.
Only in comparatively few instances is the particular mode of death incurred by the commission of a crime prescribed. Blasphemy, idolatry, Sabbath-breaking, witchcraft, prostitution by a betrothed virgin, or deceiving her husband at marriage as to her chastity (Deut. xxii. 21), and the rebellious son are, according to the Pentateuchal laws, to be punished with death by stoning; bigamous marriage with a wife's mother and the prostitution of a priest's daughter are punished byburning; communal apostasy is punished by the sword. With reference to all other capital offenses, the law ordains that the perpetrator shall die a violent death, occasionally adding the expression, "His (their) blood shall be upon him (them)." This expression, as we shall see presently, post-Biblical legislation applies to death by stoning. The Bible speaks also of hanging (Deut. xxi. 22), but, according to the rabbinical interpretation, not as a mode of execution, but rather of exposure after death (Sanh. vi. 4, 75b).Rabbinic Developments. —In Rabbinic Law:
An old-established rule of rabbinic jurisprudence forbids the infliction of punishment where there is no Biblical authority for such punishment (Sanh. 82b; compare Sifre, Deut. 154). That authority, however, may be established by Gezerah Shawah (
According to these conclusions, rabbinic law based on Pentateuchal authority, expressed or inferred, affixes death by stoning to each of the following eighteen crimes: 1. Bestiality committed by man (Lev. xx. 15; Sanh. vii. 4, 54b; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, x. 1; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 17). 2. Bestiality com mitted by woman (Lev. xx. 16: Sanh. vii. 4, 54b; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, x. 3; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 17). 3. Blasphemy (Lev. xxiv. 16; Sanh. vii. 4, 43a; Sifra, Emor, xix.). 4. Criminal conversation with a betrothed virgin (Deut. xxii. 23, 24; Sanh. vii. 4, 66b; Sifre, Deut. 242). 5. Criminal conversation with one's own daughter-in-law (Lev. xx. 12; Sanh. vii. 4, 53a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 13). 6. Criminal conversation with one's own mother (Lev. xviii. 7, xx. 11; Sanh. vii. 4, 53a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 12). 7. Criminal conversation with one's own stepmother (Lev. xviii. 8, xx. 11; Sanh. vii. 4, 53a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 12). 8. Cursing a parent (Lev. xx. 9; Sanh. vii. 4, 66a; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 17; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 7). 9. Enticing individuals to idolatry: "Mesit" (Deut. xiii. 7-12 [A. V. 6-11]; Sanh. vii. 4, 67a; Sifre, Deut. 90). 10. Idolatry (Deut. xvii. 2-7; Sanh. vii. 4, 60b; Sifre, Deut. 149). 11. Instigating communities to idolatry: "Maddiaḥ" (Deut. xiii. 2-6 [A. V. 1-5]; Sanh. vii. 4, 67a; Sifre, Deut. 86). 12. Necromancy (Lev. xx. 27; Sanh. vii. 4, 65a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, xi., end). 13. Offering one's own children to Molech (Lev. xx. 2; Sanh. vii. 4, 64a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, viii., parashah 10, beginning). 14. Pederasty (Lev. xx. 13; Sanh. vii. 4, 54a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 14). 15. Pythonism (Lev. xx. 27; Sanh. vii. 4, 65a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, xi., end). 16. Rebelling against parents (Deut. xxi. 18-21; Sanh. vii. 4, 68b; Sifre, Deut. 220). 17. Sabbath-breaking (Num. xv. 32-36; Sanh. vii. 4; Sifre, Num. 114). 18. Witchcraft (Ex. xxii. 17 [A. V. 18]; Sanh. vii. 4, 67a; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 17).
As in the several classes included in the above category (1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 14) rabbinic jurisprudence establishes the particular punishment of the criminal on the basis of Gezerah shawah, so in most cases of the following category the particular punishment is deduced from Gezerah shawah. Thus, with reference to bigamy with mother and daughter the law reads (Lev. xx. 14): "It is wickedness" ("Zimmah hi"), and because elsewhere (ib. xviii. 17) the identical expression is used with reference to criminal conversation of man with female relatives of other degrees, rabbinic law affixes the penalty which the Pentateuch attaches to the former also to the latter (Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 17). On the same principle the Rabbis establish the penalty for such conversation with relatives within certain ascending degrees, comparing them with the descending degrees of like removes, explicitly mentioned in the Bible (Yeb. 21a et seq.; Yer. Sanh. ix. 26d; Yer. Yeb. ii. 3d).
The crimes punished in rabbinic law with death by burning are accordingly the following ten: 1. Criminal conversation by a priest's daughter (Lev. xxi. 9; Sanh. ix. 1, 76a; Sifra, Emor, i. 14 et seq.). 2. Criminal conversation with one's own daughter (Yeb. 3a; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a). 3. Criminal conversation with one's own daughter's daughter (Lev. xviii. 10; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a). 4. Criminal conversation with one's own son's daughter (Lev. xviii. 10; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a). 5. Criminal conversation with one's own stepdaughter (Lev. xviii. 17; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 16). 6. Criminal conversation with one's own stepdaughter's daughter (Lev. xviii. 17; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 16). 7. Criminal conversation with one's own stepson's daughter (Lev. xviii. 17; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 16). 8. Criminal conversation with one's own mother-in-law (Lev. xx. 14; Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 15). 9. Criminal conversation with one's own mother-in-law's mother (Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra. Ḳedoshim, ix. 17; Yeb. 21a et seq.). 10. Criminal conversation with one's own father-in-law's mother (Sanh. ix. 1, 75a; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 17; Yeb. 21a).
The nine cases of incest here enumerated (2-10) subject the perpetrator to the penalty of burningonly when the crime is committed during the life of his legal wife (Yeb. 95a; Sanh. 76b; see Maimonides, "Yad," Issure Bi'ah, i. 5).
Two crimes only are punished by slaying: 1. Communal apostasy (Deut. xiii. 13-16 [A. V. 12-15]; Sanh. ix. 1, 52b; Sifre, Deut. 94.). 2. Murder (Ex. xxi. 12; Lev. xxiv. 17; Sanh. ix. 1, 52b; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 4; Sifre, Num. 160; see Homicide).
The penalty for the first is explicitly declared (Deut xiii. 16 [A. V. 15]): "Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword"; but that of the latter is again based on the principle of the Gezerah shawah. As with reference to a murderer the law is (Ex. xxi. 20), "He shall surely be punished" ("naḳom yinnaḳem"; literally, "It shall surely be avenged"), and elsewhere (Lev. xxvi. 25) an "avenging sword" ("ḥereb noḳemet") is spoken of, the Rabbis argue that the term "naḳom" applied to homicide has the significance given to it by its connection with sword (Sanh. vii. 3, 52b; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 4).
To the three modes of capital punishment explicitly mentioned in the Pentateuchal laws, rabbinic law adds a fourth; viz., strangulation. In post-Biblical jurisprudence this is the penalty incurred by the perpetrator of any one of the crimes to which the Pentateuch affixes death, without specifying the mode of death and where no conclusions from Gezerah shawah can be deduced. The Rabbis argue thus: No death-sentence pronounced in the Bible indefinitely may be construed with severity; on the contrary, it must be interpreted leniently. And since the Rabbis viewed strangulation as the easiest of deaths, they decided that the undefined death-sentence of the Pentateuchal code means strangulation. Moreover, the Bible frequently speaks of death sent "by Heaven" for certain sins (for example: Gen. xxxviii. 7, 10; Lev. x. 7, 9); and as the death visited by Heaven leaves no outward mark, so must the death inflicted by a human tribunal leave no outward marks, and that is possible only in an execution by strangulation (Mek., Mishpaṭim, 5; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 11; Sanh. 52b).
By strangulation the following six crimes are punished: 1. Adultery (Lev. xx. 10; Deut. xxii. 22; Sanh. xi. 1, 52b; Sifra, Ḳedoshim, ix. 11; Sifre, Deut. 241; see Adultery). 2. Bruising a parent (Ex. xxi. 15; Sanh. xi. 1, 84b; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 5). 3. False prophecy (Deut. xviii. 20; Sanh. xi. 1, 5, 89a; Sifre, Deut. 178). 4. Insubordination to supreme authority; "Zaḳen mamre," (Deut. xvii. 12; Sanh. xi. 1, 87a; Sifre, Deut. 155). 5. Kidnaping (Ex. xxi. 16; Deut. xxiv. 7; Sanh. xi. 1, 85b; Mek., Mishpaṭim, 5; Sifre, Deut. 273; see Abduction). 6. Prophesying in the name of heathen deities (Deut. xviii. 20; Sanh. xi. 1, 5, 89a; Sifre, Deut. 178).
Of the four modes of capital punishment—stoning, burning, slaying, and strangulation—the first is considered by the majority of Rabbis the severest; the last, the mildest (Sanh. vii. 1, 49b et seq.). Hence when convicts condemned to different modes of capital punishment become intermixed beyond the possibility of identification and classification, all of them suffer the sentence carrying with it the death named lowest in the order cited above (Sanh. ix. 3, 80b). On the other hand, when one is found guilty of several crimes of different grades of punishment, he will suffer the severest death to which he is liable (Sanh. ix. 4, 81a; compare Tos. Yom-Ṭob to Mishnah).Mode of Judgment.
Capital punishment in rabbinic law, or indeed any other punishment, must not be inflicted, except by the verdict of a regularly constituted court (Lesser Sanh.) of three-and-twenty qualified members (Sanh. i. 1; Sifre, Num. 160), and except on the most trustworthy and convincing testimony of at least two qualified eye-witnesses to the crime (Deut. xvii. 6, xix. 15; Soṭah vi. 3; Sifre, Num. 161; ib. Deut. 150, 188; Sanh. 30a) who must also depose that the culprit had been forewarned as to the criminality and the consequences of his project (Sanh. v. 1, 40b et seq.; see Hatraah). The culprit must be a person of legal age and of sound mind, and the crime must be proved to have been committed of the culprit's free will and without the aid of others (see Abetment); and if any one wilfully kills him before conviction, a charge of murder will lie against such perpetrator (Tosef., B. Ḳ. ix. 15; Sifre, Num. 161; compare 'Ar. i. 3, 6b). Nor may an execution be deferred, except in the case of the "Zaḳen mamre" (Sanh. xi. 4), or of a woman about to be delivered of a child ('Ar. i. 4), nor may it be carried out on a day sacred to religion (Mek., Mishpaṭim, 4; ib. Wayyaḳhel; Yeb. 6b; Sanh. 35b). On the day that the verdict is pronounced, the convict is led forth to execution (Sanh. 34a). Looking upon the sinner as upon the victim of folly (Soṭah 3a), and considering death an expiation for misdeeds (Ber. 60a; Sanh. vi. 2; see Atonement), the Rabbis would not permit the protraction of the interval between sentence and execution, which they considered as the most terrible period in the convict's existence. These considerations prompted them to afford the convict every possible alleviation of the pains and sufferings concomitant with the execution, and to direct the execution itself so as to prevent the mutilation of the body, or to reduce such mutilation, where it is unavoidable—as in stoning or slaying—to a minimum. The Pentateuchal law (Lev. xix. 18) prescribes, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy-self"; and the Rabbis maintain that this love must be extended beyond the limits of social intercourse in life, and applied even to the convicted criminal who, "though a sinner, is still thy brother" (Mak. iii. 15; Sanh. 44a): "The spirit of love must be manifested by according him a decent death" (Sanh. 45a, 52a).Execution of Sentence.
As the convict is led forth to the place of execution, which is located outside of the city limits and at some distance from the court-house (Sanh. vi. 1, 42b), a flag-bearer is stationed at the entrance to the court, and farther on a rider is placed, while a herald marches in front of the procession, proclaiming the name of the convict, his crime, when and where committed, and the names of the witnesses on whose evidence he was convicted, at the same time inviting any and every one in possession of evidence favorable to the convict to come forward and declare it—the judges remaining in session throughout the process of the execution and fasting all that day (M. Ḳ. 14b; Sanh. 63a). If favorable evidence comes to light, the flag-bearer gives the signal, and the rider turns the procession back to the court where the new evidence is dulyconsidered. Indeed, the convict's own declaration that he can prove his innocence, or mitigating circumstances, cause a stay until he is heard. And even where he fails to effect a reversal of sentence by his first attempt, there is still hope left for him. He may repeat the attempt several times, two scholars accompanying him for the purpose of hearing him and judging whether further delay should be permitted. On arriving in the neighborhood of the scaffold, he is exhorted to make confession of his sins, though not specifically of the crime for which he is to suffer death (see Confession of Sin). Thereupon he is given to drink a mixture of wine and olibanum, that he may become stupefied and not realize the painful close of his earthly career (Sem. ii. 9; Sanh. 43a; compare Mark xv. 23; contrast Matt. xxvii. 34). When he is brought still nearer to the fatal place, he is divested of his clothes and covered in front, and, if a woman, in front and behind (according to the adopted opinion, a woman was not divested at all). In this state the convict was led on to the spot (Sanh. vi. 1-3, 42b-45b; Tosef., Sanh. ix. 6; Sifra, Emor, xix. 3; Sifre, Deut. 221). Then the prosecuting witnesses, who are the only legal executioners known to Biblical and rabbinic laws (Deut. xvii. 7; Sifra, Emor, xix. 3; Sifre, Deut. 89, 151; Sanh. 45b), proceed to carry out the sentence which their evidence has brought about. That is done in the following manner:The "Four Deaths."
Stoning (
Burning (
Slaying (
Strangulation (
No execution is attended with posthumous indignities, except that the usual mourning ceremonies are not observed (Sifra, Shemini, Introduction, 28; Sem. ii. 7; Sanh. vi. 6), and in the case of the idolater and of the blasphemer hanging is superadded, provided the criminal is not a woman. The exposure of the body, however, must not be protracted. The dead convict's hands are joined above his head, and by them he is suspended; but while one of the executioners is still engaged in fastening the cords, the other must begin to untie them. As to the gibbet, it must not be a natural or permanent one, like a tree, but an artificial arrangement, easily removable; and when once used, must be buried out of sight (Sanh. vi. 4, 46b; Sifre, Deut. 221).
For the burial of convicts two special cemeteries are provided: one in which those are buried who have been executed either by stoning or by burning, and another for those slain or strangled. The dry bones are eventually disinterred, and placed in the general burial-grounds (Sanh. vi. 5, 6, 47b; Tosef., Sanh. ix. 8, 9; Yer. Sanh. vi. 23d).
No sentence carries with it any change in the civil status of the convict's family. The Pentateuchal law provides (Deut. xxiv. 16), "The parents shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the parents; every man shall be put to death for his own sins," and rabbinic jurisprudence follows this principle both to the letter and in spirit. Nor is a sentence attended by confiscation of the convict's goods. All his possessions descend to his legal heirs (Tosef., Sanh. iv. 6; Sanh. 27b, 48b; see Confiscation).Critical Note.
Rabbinic jurisprudence is developed on the basis of the letter and the spirit of the Bible, particularly of the Pentateuchal codes (Josh. i. 8, viii. 31; Josephus, "Contra Ap." i. 8; Ḥag. 10b, 14a; Ned. 22b; Mak. 23b; compare Darmesteter, "The Talmud," translation by H. Szold, pp. 62 et seq.); but that development naturally partook of the spirit of the ages during which it took place—from Ezra's times to the final redaction of the Gemara (559
As to the spirit of later rabbinic legislation, it clearly appears that there was a tendency to reduce capital punishment to a minimum, if not to abolish it altogether. That capital punishment was a rare occurrence in the latter days of the Jewish commonwealth is patent from the statement in the Mishnah that a court was stigmatized as "murderous" if it condemned to death more than one human being in the course of seven years. Indeed, Eleazar b. Azariah applied the same epithet to a court that executed more than one man in every seventy years; and his famous colleagues, Tryphon and Akiba, openly avowed their opposition to capital punishment, saying, "Had we belonged to the Sanhedrin [during Judea's independence], no man would ever have been executed," as they would always have found some legal informalities by which to make a sentence of death impossible (Mak. i. 7a).
- Benny, Crim. Code of the Jews, pp. 84-95;
- Fassel, Strafg. Gerichtsverfahren, §§ 72-78;
- Hamburger, R. B. T. i. 992-995;
- Hetzel, Die Todesstrafe, 40-48;
- Mayer, Rechte d. Israeliten, etc., iii. §§ 59-70;
- Maimonides, Hil. Sanhedrin, xiv., xv.;
- S. Mendelsohn, Crim. Jurisprudence of the Ancient Hebrews, §§ 25-32, 116-133;
- Michaelis, Mosaische Recht, §§ 229-236;
- Saalschütz, Das Mosaische Recht, ch. lviii.;
- Salvador, Histoire des Institutions de Moïse, Bk. iv.;
- Semag, Ordinances, pp. 99-104.


text: Taking their name from a type of cooked pudding, the electronic duo Blancmange interlaced the arty, exotic dance rhythms of Talking Heads with the quirky melodrama of early-'80s British synth pop. Consisting of Neil Arthur (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards), Blancmange formed in London, England in the late '70s. Originally called L360, Blancmange received immediate recognition when they sent the song "Sad Day" to DJ Stevo, who added it to a compilation LP of then-unsigned new wave groups, including future alternative icons like Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. Drummer Laurence Stevens was a member of the band for a short while, but they eventually replaced him with a drum machine. Signed to London Records, Blancmange released their first two singles, "God's Kitchen" and "Feel Me," in 1982. Both records were moderate hits in the U.K., the latter barely missing the Top 40 charts. Later that year, Blancmange's debut album, Happy Families, sold well on the strength of their first Top Ten hit, "Living on the Ceiling," which peaked at number seven in Britain. "Living on the Ceiling" captured Blancmange's unique take on synth pop, throwing heavy Middle Eastern flavors into their very European style of club music. "Living on the Ceiling" was the beginning of a string of U.K. smashes; "Blind Vision" and "Don't Tell Me" both reached the Top Ten in England. Their cover of ABBA's "The Day Before You Came" was actually even more successful than the original, peaking at number 22. Blancmange's 1984 LP, Mange Tout, further established the group as one of Britain's most popular electronic artists; however, unlike many of their peers, Blancmange weren't afraid of experimenting with real instruments, incorporating sitars, strings, woodwinds, and horns into their synthesized sound. But Blancmange's third album, 1985's Believe You Me, was a flop. The group broke up a year later. Arthur went solo while Luscombe formed the West India Company. They reunited in 2011 and released the album Blanc Burn on the Proper label. A 2013 tour of the U.K. found them performing their debut album in its entirety. These updated versions were released in 2014 as Happy Families Too..., an album that featured bonus remixes from Erasure's Vince Clark plus the synth group Komputer. Luscombe departed from the group after he suffered an abdominal aneurysm, leaving Arthur as the sole member for the dark 2015 album Semi Detached. An instrumental album titled Nil by Mouth was released through Blancmange's website shortly after. This was followed by 2016's Commuter 23 and 2017's Unfurnished Rooms, both of which featured a mixture of proper songs and instrumentals. ~ Michael Sutton


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Calling gold the ultimate money, Jay Taylor, editor and publisher of Jay Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks, watches the real price of gold with a gimlet eye. These days, he pays particular attention to producers, noting that this is not a good time to be an explorer that needs to raise capital to put holes in the ground without the certainty of finding gold. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Taylor shares promising names in each of the four categories in his model portfolio.
The Gold Report: Jay, in the June 20 issue of your newsletter, you made the case that gold has broken away from the downtrend that started in late 2011. Why is gold a better investment now?
Jay Taylor: At the time, I was convinced we were looking at a breakthrough in the junior gold index on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Now, it seems it may have been a false breakthrough.
The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index was as high as 450 back in September/October 2011, dropping to 270 by May 2012. Today, it is around 282. I see the junior gold index as a barometer of the industry as a whole. Although I was getting optimistic, I remain concerned about the possibilities of much lower levels in gold shares as a whole.
The companies that have to raise capital and put money in the ground are my greatest concern. I am less concerned about companies that are in production and generating cash flow from operations, many of which are doing extremely well.
TGR: In that newsletter, you wrote that the value of gold, "vis-à-vis. . .the Rogers Raw Materials Fund. . .had a rocket ship trajectory following the credit deflationary Lehman Brothers event and has remained on a gradual uptrend."
JT: I was referring to the real price of gold, not its nominal price. I am absolutely bullish on gold's real price. There is a distinct uptrend since Lehman Brothers in terms of what an ounce of gold will buy. That, not the dollar price, is what matters.
The recent record highs in the real gold price reflected the anxieties caused by the European crisis. To give you an idea, in July 2008 an ounce of gold would have purchased only 17% of the Rogers Raw Materials Fund. By March 2009, it had skyrocketed to 44%. After quantitative easing 1 and 2, commodities, stocks and gold all rose. Then gold fell back to 30% of the Rogers Raw Materials Fund until the first Greek crisis. It rose again to 44%, and then got worse as Europe seemed to be falling apart. Recently, it has come back a bit.
The anxiety about the world monetary system is driving gold prices. Forget about jewelry or about gold as a commodity. Gold is money, and that is driving its real purchasing power higher and higher.
I am much less confident in the dollar as gold continues to rise. Gold could actually break below the $1,550/ounce (oz) support level.
TGR: Will it drop beneath the 52-week low of $1,480/oz set roughly a year ago?
JT: It could in nominal terms versus the dollar. If that happens, I would expect oil, copper and other commodities to fall even more. I think the dollar could be surprisingly strong for a number of years, which would make gold weaker relative to the dollar, but not relative to other commodities.
I am bullish on gold and especially gold mining in a deflationary environment because the cost of producing tends to go down more than the metal does. Contrary to most public opinion, a severe deflation is historically extremely bullish for gold mining.
TGR: The biggest threat seems to be the euro, which is trading at about $1.20 to the U.S. dollar. A euro in the $1.15–1.16 range could be a big hit to the gold price.
JT: I agree, and I think it is a strong possibility that the dollar could get stronger relative to other currencies. But the strength of the dollar is itself driving up the real price of gold; growing numbers of people do not trust the dollar as the ultimate currency.
As long as there is faith in the dollar and fiat money as a whole—and by and large there is—I see the system holding together for quite a while. I think it's Ian McCavity who calls the dollar the prettiest horse in the glue factory; in other words, the dollar is the least worst of all the manipulated currencies.
In the long run, the dollar could be stronger because it has the most debt. When there is a credit deflation, the margin clerk calls and wants the debt paid. So people have to sell and buy dollars to pay the margin clerk. Because the dollar has the most debt, it stands to have the most short covering against it when the margin clerks call.
The world is not short of liquidity; it is insolvent. Debt has grown so much more rapidly than the income to service it that there will be forced fire sales for years to come. The central banks will keep pumping in liquidity, but that money is made out of debt, not out of gold dug from the ground.
I am not saying the nominal price of gold will not rise. It may ultimately reach unbelievably high levels. But for now, I watch the real price of gold. It is such a macro statistic, very important in terms of my confidence in the mining industry and the producers.
TGR: Even though the real price of gold seems to be rising, will equity prices follow? Over the last year, they have trailed gold's performance significantly.
JT: Equity prices have trailed the price of gold bullion and company earnings. The producers' equity prices have been compressed. We are seeing lower price-earnings ratios (P/E) for the producers.
Increasingly, people are buying exchange-traded funds (ETFs), not equities, for exposure to gold. Getting exposure through an ETF is easier than analyzing a mining company that has all kinds of inherent risks.
"When people grasp that it is gold mining companies, not the Federal Reserve, that are creating real money, the P/E ratios of the gold mining companies will go to the moon."
Another bigger-picture reason is the increasing insolvency and, therefore, illiquidity of the world at large. You see that in the compression of P/E ratios and not only in the gold sector.
When people grasp that it is gold mining companies, not the Federal Reserve, that are creating real money, the P/E ratios of the gold mining companies will go to the moon. But until that confidence barrier is broken, a lot of mining companies will struggle.
Adding to the problem for juniors is that money is not flowing down the food chain from the big guys to the juniors.
TGR: True. The majors were the flag bearers, and they were consistent. But majors like Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (AEM:TSX; AEM:NYSE), Goldcorp Inc. (G:TSX; GG:NYSE) and Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; ABX:NYSE) all have issues, from Goldcorp's lower production estimates to Barrick's management turnover. Is this an issue of investor confidence?
JT: Yes. Mining is an extremely difficult business, very capital intensive. The majors have to find and produce more ounces, but where? The low-hanging fruit was picked decades ago. It is increasingly difficult to keep the reserves at levels that would allow continued production.
"Increasingly, people are buying ETFs, not equities, for exposure to gold."
Most CEOs of gold mining companies do not understand their product; Rob McEwen, founder of Goldcorp, being an exception. They do not understand that they are minting real money. They do not talk about their product that way. Granted, it probably would not be politically feasible to talk that way, but many are comfortable paying the promoters of gold jewelry to promote gold as jewelry. Gold gains its value from being a monetary asset, not from jewelry.
Boom-and-bust periods are a problem for the industry as a whole. We had a 20-year bear market in gold, during which very little production or exploration was done. Now, when I visit gold mines, I find guys are coming out of retirement because they are the only ones who have the skills and knowledge needed.
I like companies that might not be the biggest, but that can grow organically. I like the 100,000-oz (100 Koz) producers that have a chance to grow up to 3–5 Moz producers and do it organically.
TGR: Yamana Gold Inc. (YRI:TSX; AUY:NYSE; YAU:LSE) recently offered $4.26/share for Extorre Gold Mines Ltd. (XG:TSX; XG:NYSE.A; E1R:FSE). A year ago, Extorre traded around $14/share. Will we see more cherry-picking takeovers like this?
JT: Yes, indeed. This is one reason I am so much more bullish on the producers. They have the cash flow and they can buy it. The explorers are losing their share prices and are being cherry picked.
I wish it were otherwise, because my focus has always been on the juniors and the explorers. This is not a good time for companies that need to raise high-risk capital so they can put holes in the ground to see if they have gold or not. I am guessing there will be a lot of dead bodies littering the landscape, many more than in 2008 and 2009.
TGR: In mid-March, you exited 75% of your equity positions to build a cash position. How did you decide which companies to keep, and what did they have in common?
JT: I have a hypothetical model portfolio, and I just reweighted it and sold a few shares.
It is hard for me to sell these stocks because I think they are intrinsically good. But the market is no longer willing to pay what it used to for these companies. The price Yamana got for Extorre is a good example.
TGR: How do you rank the companies in your portfolio?
JT: I re-weighted the portfolio toward what I call my A-1 companies. These are companies in commercial production. Almost all of them are cash-flow positive and have growth prospects. We keep about 50% of the gold share portfolio in the A-1 companies.
My A-2 companies have done feasibility or scoping studies. They have a deposit that appears to be economically viable and are second tier in terms of risk versus reward.
My A-3 companies have delineated a deposit and have an NI 43-101 resource or a measurable, historical resource, but have not done the economics. There is no high level of confidence that the A-3 companies can produce gold profitably.
The A-4 companies have not yet measured a resource, but have some geological promise and probably some drill holes or surface samples that suggest something real.
We look at the liquidity of A-3 and A-4 companies every quarter. Do they have enough working capital to keep the lights on without more capital? Can they raise that capital? How close are they to outlining a viable deposit? If an A-4 can move up into A-3, it becomes less risky.
There are best-of examples in each category. I like Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (SSL:TSX.V) a lot. It is a streaming company that provides startup capital for companies to get into production. It then buys a percentage of the output at the cost of production at the time the mine goes into production, factored through the life of the mine. Sandstorm Gold and its long-term warrants were my No. 1 pick this year.
My favorite company in the A-3 or A-4 category would be Eurasian Minerals Inc. (EMX:TSX.V). With $30 million in the bank, it has major prospects and a very strong management team. It is supposed to be closing on a royalty company acquisition on some Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM:NYSE) production in Nevada that would throw out $6M. That would give Eurasian cash flow, plus, one of its gold projects in Australia looks huge.
TGR: What are some A-1 companies you like?
JT: Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. (PTQ:TSX; PTQMF:OTCBB; P7Z:FSE) is my top pick right now. It is very undervalued; selling around $0.38/share. It expects to produce 100 Koz this year, mostly from growth in its Panamanian project. It also has high-grade deposits in Spain and Portugal.
Petaquilla expects to spin off an infrastructure subsidiary that will build roads and operate power plants in Panama. That is a little dividend for investors, but I just like its long-term growth prospects.
TGR: Management owns about 12% of the company, and Eric Sprott is an investor. Those are usually good signs, but why is a gold producer selling for $0.38/share?
JT: There is some short-term debt on the balance sheet. Petaquilla has produced about 50 Koz gold/year. If it gets to 100 Koz, as it projects, and maintains its quarterly reports, I think Petaquilla can do extremely well.
TGR: It projects 70 Koz gold in its guidance for 2012.
JT: It has bigger numbers in mind for 2013, and has the projects to make it happen in Spain and Portugal, as well as expansion in Panama.
TGR: Any other names?
JT: I would call Sandstorm my No. 1 pick among producers because of its streaming model. It has several companies going into production, and the projects it has financed are producing larger amounts of gold on a regular basis. You will see some very substantial growth in earnings without the risk. Because of its streaming model, unlike most mining companies, Sandstorm does not have to pile a certain amount of its capital back into sustaining capital.
I also like OceanaGold Corp. (OGC:TSX; OGC:ASX), a New Zealand producer. It is starting production at a gold-copper project in the Philippines, using the copper to offset the cost. Right now, it is below zero in terms of production. I believe it is projected to produce 100 Koz/year at less-than-zero costs, which will offset its cost of production in New Zealand, bringing down the overall cost to the company to much lower levels.
Dynacor Gold Mines Inc. (DNG:TSX) is another favorite. It got hit pretty hard when it was unable to explore its Tumipampa project in Peru because of more stringent environmental controls. Its cash-flow projections for 2012 are north of $0.15 and it has been selling at around $0.50. It has the cash flow to explore its skarn target at Tumipampa, which could be a very, very large gold-copper deposit.
TGR: Some of the people at Sandstorm Gold also started Sandstorm Metals & Energy Ltd. (SND:TSX.V), which has performed very poorly. Why is its management team having so many problems?
JT: I think it is because the macro conditions warrant extreme bullishness for gold mining producers and bearishness for base metals producers. If you believe as I do that the global economy is going into a depression or a recession, this is not the time to own base metals companies.
TGR: What do you think about Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (ANV:TSX; ANV:NYSE.A)?
JT: I bought Allied Nevada at $5/share and sold it somewhere in the $30s. I am looking to buy it back.
This company has done everything it said it would; it under-promises and over-delivers. If it continues to do that, especially when it gets to the sulphide part of its project, it will be an enormous success. The oxide production is already successful. Allied Nevada could produce more than 1 million ounces a year gold equivalent (Moz Au eq) from its Hycroft project at lower costs than it is producing now.
TGR: Can Allied triple production at Hycroft by late 2013?
JT: Judging from its recent press releases and its track record of exceeding its promises—yes.
The one risk is that there is very little room for error if anything is wrong with its science or its feasibility work. It is a low-grade deposit, but producing the 1 Moz/year Au eq, it works out to be close to 25 Moz/year silver. The scale is massive. If you come in with just a fraction of a gram less than you expect, you could see a big variance in cash flow and profitability.
TGR: Any A-3 and A-4 names?
JT: My favorite A-3 name is Eurasian Minerals, a project generator company with projects in Haiti, Turkey, Alaska, Arizona and Nevada. It works with major mining companies, most notably Newmont, and with a number of new guys who are spending millions to earn into those projects.
Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. (PZG:NYSE.A; PZG:TSX) has deep pockets and lots of money in the bank. It has AMAX Gold Inc.'s old Sleeper mine in Nevada and some very promising gold and silver projects in Mexico.
Aurvista Gold Corp. (AVA:TSX.V) in Québec has on the order of 2 Moz in an open pit. I like the management and some deep pockets are behind the company.
Esperanza Resources (EPZ:TSX.V) also looks really good. It is a gold-silver company in Mexico, with strong management behind it.
In Brazil, Magellan Minerals Ltd. (MNM:TSX.V) looks good. Sandstorm recently came in and is providing some capital to move it forward.
I like Rye Patch Gold Corp. (RPM:TSX.V; RPMGF:OTCQX) a lot, although it is in dispute with Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp (CDM:TSX; CDE:NYSE) over claims that Coeur d'Alene failed to keep up and Rye Patch grabbed.
Pretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) has strong management and a super-big, world-class gold deposit in northwestern British Columbia. This is an extremely good story.
Victoria Gold Corp. (VIT:TSX.V) has about 2 Moz in the Yukon. Pelangio Exploration Inc. (PX:TSX.V) is an A-4 company in Ghana. It is outlining an open-pit deposit and a promising underground target that is more elusive and difficult to prove up the ounces on.
I like NioGold Mining Corp. (NOX:TSX.V; NOXGF:OTCPK) because Aurizon Mines Ltd. (ARZ:TSX; AZK:NYSE.A), one of my A-1 companies, is spending a lot of money to develop an underground deposit nearby in Québec.
I wish I could be more bullish on the A-3s and A-4s. They are doing good work and have a lot of good prospects. But this environment of illiquidity and insolvency issues is hard on them.
TGR: Clifton Star Resources Inc. (CFO:TSX.V; C3T:FSE) is on your A-3 list. Its Duparquet project has 3.38 Moz, and it recently upgraded some of the reserves from Inferred to Indicated. Is there is room for further expansion there?
JT: Absolutely. In another timeframe, with its deposit and new CEO, Clifton Star would be selling at much higher levels. It has a good amount of cash on the books. It needs to develop confidence in the market by continuing to develop and move the project forward, which Michel Bouchard is very good at.
"The real price of gold has risen dramatically, which has led to real, strong profits for the producers."
There are some metallurgical complexities that make the project a little more difficult, but nothing that cannot be resolved. This is the kind of company that we will have to watch because if it can prove up, it will be a tempting takeover target. If that happens, we hope there will be some competitive cherry picking going on.
TGR: Urastar Gold Corp. (URS:TSX.V: URNRF:OTCQX) is on your A-4 list.
JT: While not denying this is a speculative stock, there are four factors that lead me to consider it to be a very worthy speculation for investors who can afford to tie up capital for an undetermined length of time and who understand the risk/reward tradeoff for junior exploration stocks. First, key personnel form the foundation for a strong management team. Second, I believe there is a fairly high likelihood that the company's Antimonio Property in Mexico can host a near-surface multimillion-ounce gold deposit. Third, I believe that various people who informally stand behind this project have deep pockets and as such increase the probability that "the lights will be kept on" even if market conditions become even more strained. Last, the current market cap makes this a very low-cost speculation. Yes, it could go lower. It could be cut in half with continued harsh market conditions. But the upside could be a factor of 10, 20, or 30 times the downside risk with exploration success and a turn in the markets. It's difficult to find better A-4 risk/reward opportunities than Urastar Gold Corp. at this point.
TGR: What would you advise investors holding a portfolio full of underperforming junior mining equities?
JT: You want to be able to take advantage when you see some strength as we saw starting in the middle of May. Sell a portion of your holdings and deal in cash. My thesis is that we will go lower, that we will see an insolvency that will require more debt liquidation. People will want their money back from the hedge funds to keep the roof on the house or put the kids through college.
I have faith in gold as the ultimate money. The real price of gold has risen dramatically, which has led to real, strong profits for the producers. That makes me confident and is why I believe we are in the gold bull market of a lifetime even though the guys at the bottom end of the food chain are struggling.
TGR: Jay, thank you for your time.
A baby boomer born in Ohio, Jay Taylor was drawn to the world's financial capital in 1973, when he went to New York to work for Barclay's Bank International after earning his master's degree in finance and investments. As he followed the demolition of the U.S. gold standard and the rapid rise in the national debt, Taylor's interest in U.S. monetary and fiscal policy grew, particularly as it related to gold. This led to his first investments in junior gold shares toward the end of the 1970s. Sometimes called "the buy and hold guy," he began publishing North American Gold Mining Stocks in 1981. He was involved in the first modern-times gold loan made in the U.S. (to Amax Minerals, a 250,000-ounce loan facility led by Citicorp). To better understand the potential of the mining stocks he researched, Jay added a bachelor's degree in geology to his C.V. in 1988. Pursuing his interest in researching and writing about mining companies as a sideline, Taylor maintained his full-time banking career for nearly 10 more years. In August 1997, he left his position in the ING Barings mining and metals group to pursue his avocation as a new full-time career—including publication of his weekly Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks newsletter.


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Set Your Tivo: 03.09.11Posted by Brian Otskey on March 9th, 2011
***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that's what it takes to watch this game live
**** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home
*** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later
** – set your tivo but we'll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013
* – don't waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo's) of any kind on this game
Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.
Only two auto-bids go out tonight, but a couple of interesting games from the Big East are also on the slate. All rankings from RTC and all times Eastern.
Big East Second Round (at New York, NY): #18 Connecticut vs. Georgetown – 12 pm on ESPN (***)
The Huskies drew a pretty good bracket by Big East standards, getting bottom feeder DePaul in the first round and a depleted Georgetown team this afternoon. Connecticut ended its winless drought in this tournament, blowing out DePaul yesterday for their first Big East Tournament win since 2005. Alex Oriakhi had 13 points and 19 rebounds, making his presence known at the start of the tournament after a regular season full of inconsistency. Kemba Walker added 26/7/5 as the Huskies cruised. Things get considerably tougher today against Georgetown, but the Hoyas are a reeling squad. They've lost four of their past five games, including a loss to UConn, and have not looked competitive since senior point guard Chris Wright went down with a broken hand. The Hoyas haven't scored more than 51 points in three games without Wright and will have to play a strong defensive game if they want to knock off the Huskies.


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By Elizabeth SheanThe asphalt highway unspools behind my truck like a black ribbon. I've literally been down this road before, making my way from Albuquerque to Hatch, New Mexico, to meet up with a friend. It's Saturday, and I'll be staying overnight before heading home again on Sunday. The act of getting away from home, from caregiving duties, for even 24 hours makes me feel giddy, and I turn up the radio and sing along to hits from the 1980s as I turn off Interstate 25 and roll toward Hatch.Hatch is known as the "chile capital of the world" because its farmers produce the best, tastiest peppers in all the land. Cruising into the small town, I recall the last time I was here, a decade ago. My late husband, Lee, and my late brother-in-law, Hal, and I drove through Hatch en route to Tucson to clear out the contents of the retirement house my late parents-in-law had occupied.All of those "lates" in my reverie dampen my mood in an instant and bring a sudden moisture to my eyes. So many loved ones lost over the past few years. And, I know there's at least one more to come, as my mom heads toward the end of her road, too.Our trip a decade ago happened to coincide with the town's annual fall chile festival to celebrate the harvest. Today, as I gaze toward the town center, I can picture the crowd, the children, the floats we saw, and red chile ristras hanging everywhere, with the deliciously pungent smell of peppers roasting. So festive. Hatch is a very small town, but it was bulging with visitors that weekend. Lee and I shared a green chile cheeseburger that was so spicy we had to guzzle two glasses of milk to douse the fire in our mouths. We laughed about that for years. In fact, I laugh about it now, remembering it, and my mood shifts back into something positive again.Continuing to my friend's house, I pass the spring fields with their rows of tender green plants stretching skyward. The red dirt road to my friend's place is rough and bumpy, but the trip is worth it. She greets me with a cold glass of iced tea and a warm welcome that only an old friend can deliver. We chat for hours on her porch, moving indoors later to share cooking duties in the kitchen—something we always did together in college and then as young adults on our own. It feels like no time has passed as we share intimacies late into the night.Tomorrow I will turn around and head back the way I came, down the washboard road to the blacktop. The blue skies will stretch overhead like a sun sail, and the yuccas I love will line the roadside with their tall, spiky flowers. If I'm lucky, I'll see a hawk dive into a field to catch a mouse for breakfast. I'll have plenty of time to think about life and caregiving and what's to come over the course of the four-hour drive north to Mom—to home. I know where the road ends, but this trip reminds me that the journey is to be savored.
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Liverpool announced plans Monday to expand the capacity of Anfield, the club's home for 120 years, rather than building a new stadium.
The 18-time English champions started working on a new $800-million venue in nearby Stanley Park before owner John Henry's takeover two years ago, but it was abandoned due to financial problems.
Henry has decided that a new stadium still doesn't make financial sense, instead pursuing plans to expand Anfield's capacity from 45,000 to an expected 60,000 seats.
Henry, who also owns the Red Sox, followed a similar strategy in Boston, expanding the capacity at 100-year-old Fenway Park.
''There is no doubt Anfield is the spiritual home of the club - our preference was always to remain at Anfield,'' Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said.
Anfield is hemmed in by terraced residential housing, and planning permission will now be sought to demolish some properties to rebuild the stadium.
''This is a major step forward for the football club but more importantly the residents,'' Ayre said. ''This is step one as there is land to acquire, plans to be approved etc., but this is a significant moment.''
The club has been financially hamstrung by its aging Anfield, where there are just 34 luxury suites and few amenities to generate funding to enhance the squad.
''If you build a new stadium ... one of the big challenges is that you don't get 60,000 new seats in a new stadium, you only get the difference (with the existing capacity),'' Ayre said. ''That makes it very difficult to make it viable because the cost of building such a big new stadium doesn't work economically, particularly in this market.
''So one of the things we had to look at was the balance between that solution and a staying-at-Anfield-type solution.''
Manchester United's Old Trafford can fit 76,000 fans and Arsenal moved from 38,000-seat Highbury into 60,000-seat Emirates Stadium in 2006, ensuring they raise far more revenue from tickets and other match-day revenue.
That in turn gives Arsenal and United greater financial muscle to attract top players on high salaries, as well as helping them comply with UEFA's new Financial Fair Play regulations.
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Steven Spielberg has committed to direct, as his next film, "Harvey," an adaptation of the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man — played by Jimmy Stewart in the 1950 film version — who befriends a 6½-foot-tall invisible rabbit.
The project will be a co-production of 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks, the first pic under the latter's new incarnation. DreamWorks will finance 50% of the production through its new funding relationship with Reliance and distribute either domestic or international through its arrangement with Disney.
Spielberg aims to begin production early next year, so the helmer is expected to reach out to a handful of top stars, most notably Tom Hanks and Will Smith, to find someone whose availability meshes with the planned start dates.
Spielberg will produce with Don Gregory, and Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken will oversee it. Their Fox 2000 acquired the rights last year.
It's notable that Fox is at the center of the Spielberg film that kicks off the new DreamWorks iteration, as the studio had stayed out of the courtship of DreamWorks when it jumped from Universal to Paramount and then negotiated an exit with U before choosing Disney.
Spielberg has been itching to get back behind the camera, and he was willing to do so even with a script developed outside DreamWorks or Par, which retained many plum DreamWorks projects in the divorce settlement between the two studios. While Spielberg is keen to direct both the Tony Kushner-scripted Liam Neeson starrer "Lincoln" and the Jeff Nathanson-scripted "The 39 Clues," those projects hadn't yet percolated.
So Fox chairman Tom Rothman was able to pull a rabbit out of the hat for his studio.
He just recently got a draft of the "Harvey" script — the first written by novelist Jonathan Tropper — and sent it to Spielberg, with whom he developed a relationship when they worked on "Minority Report." Spielberg and his DreamWorks partner Stacey Snider felt that while the source material is 65 years old, its themes are timely, uplifting and relatable.
Spielberg's new partners, Reliance and Disney, were expected to participate in whatever film the helmer chose as his next project.
While Spielberg was considering the Paul Attanasio-scripted rewrite of "Matt Helm" — which DreamWorks developed but left behind when it exited that studio — there was hesitation among those partners.
But Fox's Rothman found sharing the picture an acceptable arrangement. Less than a week after passing the script to Spielberg, Rothman, fellow Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos, Spielberg and Snider were partners in the project. Spielberg decided late last week on "Harvey" over a couple of other projects that included "Matt Helm" (on which Spielberg will be a producer).
Fox and DreamWorks are not the first studios to be sweet on Chase's story of the eccentric and his invisible rabbit friend, a play that won the Pulitzer Prize when it opened in 1944 and remained on Broadway through 1949.
Dimension and MGM partnered on a film update for years and had John Travolta attached to play the eccentric at one time. But the rights lapsed, and Fox 2000's Gabler and Hacken picked them up in 2008.
Screenwriter Tropper's latest novel, "This Is Where I Leave You," will be published this week by Dutton.
Tropper is set to adapt that novel for Warner Bros. and director Greg Berlanti, and his other books are scattered at studios all over town. "Everything Changes" is being developed at Columbia by Tobey Maguire and Wendy Finerman; WB optioned Tropper's "Bush Falls"; and Paramount bought Tropper's "After Hailey" for Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn.


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Odum, a professor in the Department of Psychology, presented "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait" at President Albrecht's home. After earning a doctorate in psychology at West Virginia University, Odum began a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont. Her teaching interests include basic behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology. Odum has served on the board of editors of a number of journals and is currently associate editor for the journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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Some Things I've Learned about Deer Hunting
By John Sloan
I guess after 57 years of hunting deer, one would expect that I would learn a few things. I think I have. I know for sure I have learned some things about stand placement and positioning. No, they are not the same thing. Placement is where you put the stand. Positioning is how you place it. Maybe there is something I here that will help as you hunt next year.
Scouting and experience is how you learn to place a stand, where it should go. The type of stand-hanging, climbing, ladder or ground blind-will dictate a great deal about placement. Experience will dictate positioning. There is no substitute. You have to lay eyes on the entire situation. I have two stands that are less than 100 yards apart. Too close you ask? I have killed 38 deer from those stands, 25 from one, 13 from the other. They are in the right places and both places are ones many hunters would pass up. To add to the mix, I park my truck or ATV within sight of both stands. That is stand placement. Now about positioning.
One thing I always try to take into consideration is the time of day I intend to hunt the stand. That is important because it will often dictate how I am going to position it. It often dictates the direction the deer will come from and that concerns the sun. See, many hunters never consider the angle of the sun. If possible, I always want the sun behind me. And yes, it does, to some degree, tend to silhouette me. However, it gives me a much greater advantage in two ways. They are important ways.
First, it puts the sun in the game's eyes instead of mine. Have you ever tried to look through a riflescope when shooting directly into the sun? A man can starve down to a slim shadow trying that.
Secondly. It tends to make an animal travel with their head down and with a reluctance to look up. I have learned that many hunters never considered that. Just something to keep in mind.
While I am talking about the angle of the sun, let me mention that when I hang a stand with the early morning or late evening sun as a consideration, I also try to put the stand on the side of the tree away from the direction I expect the game to come. That way, I have the tree between the game and me. Sounds crazy to have to look behind you all the time, doesn't it. It may be but it is one heck of an advantage to have a tree silhouetted against the sun and you peeking around it. That single tactic has probably accounted for me killing well over 100 deer that I would not have killed had I been on the other side of the tree. I want the deer in the sun and looking into the sun. I want the sun behind me and a tree between me and the deer.
Just something over a half-century of deer hunting taught me.
Moving. Let's talk about moving. I mean moving the whole dang thing. Say you are hunting a stand for the first or maybe second time and you notice most of the deer are using (an old timers term for traveling), just out of range or in an area, you cannot shoot.
Move right then. Do not plan to come back tomorrow and move the stand, do it right then. I don't care if a deer is watching you, climb down and move. Several times, I have done that, climbed right back up and killed a deer. You cost yourself by waiting…every time. Often, the biggest buck will come through last. Move the stand, climb up and maybe kill him. Remember, if they can't see or hear you move, it didn't happen.
Just something else I learned.
Build a highway. Deer do not like briars and thick weeds anymore than we do. I cannot count the number of times I have actually made deer walk within shooting distance of my stand simply by creating a highway for them to travel. The latest instance was just a few weeks ago.
I was not able to hunt much last year, just not healthy enough. As a result, one of my stands went unhunted and the weeds grew shoulder high on the trail going to it. To hunt it this year, I had to use a sling-blade and actually cut a trail three feet wide and 75 yards long to it. Within three days, the trail was beaten down with deer tracks.
The first time I hunted it, September 28, late in the afternoon deer just poured down the trail and right past my stand. I killed two, a doe and a buck, within three minutes of each other. I was shooting the TenPoint crossbow.
So use that knowledge and look for places you can do the same. Make a highway through tall weeds and grass. If you have a bushhog, make one pass in a place you want deer to travel don't make it wide. They still like cover, just wide enough to walk. Then place a stand in a good ambush spot.
Just something, I learned from experience.
You learn, after watching a few thousand deer, to read body language. You begin to understand what is about to happen seconds before it happens. You come to understand that deer "crouch" before running. That mean their entire body lowers by as much as 18 inches. Why is this important? If you are a bowhunter, it is very important because it tells you where to aim. Over 60% the deer that are missed with a bow and arrow are missed because the arrow goes high. If you aim low-at the lower part of the vitals-quite often, the deer ducks into the arrow.
Just something, I learned from experience.
Bowhunting makes you a better hunter or at least it should. Over half the deer, I have killed in five decades and change of deer hunting I killed with a bow or crossbow. For 30 some years it has been almost a passion and for many of those years a part of my profession. Sitting in trees, waiting for deer to come within 35 yards of me forced me to watch and learn. With a rifle, you do not usually have a lot of waiting and watching. You shoot. Being forced to watch deer, you learn how they move and why they do things.
You learn to decipher head-bobs, foot-stomps, snorts, and "blowing". You learn to read the language of the tail. A deer, especially a mature doe, communicates a great deal with her tail. Watch it enough and you learn to understand that communication. Learn from your own experience. Don't depend on what some, even me, tell you. They could be wrong.
Just something, I learned from experience.
I urge all hunters to study deer, don't just hunt them. It will make your hunting experience more enjoyable. Watch a deer do something strange, say stand with one leg raised and tail twitching from side to side and ask yourself, what is that all about? Then keep watching and see if you can figure it out. Watch an old doe stomp, flick her tail, and stare a hole through something. What did the foot stomp mean? She was communicating. Was she trying to elicit movement? What did she say? (BTW- The answer is yes to both.)
There is a lot more "fun" in the deer woods than just killing. Go to school and study. You will be surprised how much you will learn. I have learned far more sitting in a tree than I have sitting in a classroom. Pretty good education to share and pass on to the button bucks in your family, too.
I want these deer looking into the sun, not looking out from shade. It makes them easier to see and if my stand is placed and positioned properly, harder for them to see me.
This is the way I like it. Deer in the sun, looking into the sun. See the shadow of the stand tree in the foreground of the picture? I should be in the tree, not taking a picture from another fencerow.
John Sloan
John L. Sloan, Lebanon, TN began hunting deer in 1954, He killed his first deer, and 8-pt buck in 1956. Since then, he estimates he has killed 300 plus deer, most with a bow.
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David Frum: Newt Gingrich's plan doesn't solve immigration problem
By emphasizing border security, it neglects role of employers as magnet, he says
Holding individual hearings on 12 million illegal immigrants is unworkable, Frum says
Frum: Gingrich plan would hurt American workers whose wages are stagnating
Editor's Note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, was a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002. He is the author of six books, including "Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again," and is the editor of FrumForum.
Immigration is the only issue where a political candidate can totally do the bidding of the K Street lobbyists and still be hailed as compassionate and humane.
At CNN's Republican National Security Debate this past Tuesday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reconfirmed his longstanding immigration policy:
– A commitment to enhanced border security
– A guest worker program
– Individual hearings for each of 12 million or so illegal aliens, at which those with long ties to the country will gain residency rights
– No citizenship for illegal entries
On its face, this program is unworkable. Examine each piece in turn:
Why the border?
The border is the wrong place to stop illegal immigration, if only because tighter security wouldn't stop the up to 45% of the illegal population who enter the country legally, then overstay their visas, as estimated by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
The right place to stop illegality is the workplace. If employers faced an effective requirement to hire only legal workers, and meaningful penalties for breaking the law, we'd change the incentive structure that creates the problem in the first place. As is, employers are punished only if they can be shown to have employed illegal labor "knowingly," meaning that so long as the employee produces a valid-seeming Social Security number, the employer goes scot-free. Even if somehow caught, the fines are small. Under those circumstances, you could deploy the whole U.S. Army on the Mexican border and hardly make an impact on the problem.
Immigration enforcement inescapably impinges on employers, especially employers in low-wage industries such as restaurants, hotels, groundskeeping and meatpacking, whose voices are heard through those K Street lobbyists.
Border security is the policy you endorse if you don't want to impinge on employers. Which means that border security is the policy you endorse if you don't want your immigration enforcement to succeed.
Why guest workers?
The United States in 2011 does not exactly suffer from a labor shortage. The unemployment rates for the most recent immigrants are particularly bad: the Latino unemployment rate is almost 12%, the unemployment rate for people without a high school diploma is almost 14%. How can you imagine that the US needs an even larger population of low-skilled labor?
When most Americans hear the phrase "guest worker," they think "agricultural labor." But past guest worker proposals have not been so limited. Such proposals generally provide that when employers cannot attract labor of a specific type at a specific wage, they may import that labor from abroad, and not only from Mexico (a middle-income country by world standards), but from genuinely poor countries such as Indonesia, Egypt or Vietnam. The only requirement is that guest workers be paid above the U.S. minimum wage.
Employers in difficult or dangerous industries such as nursing homes or garbage recycling can find Americans today who will do very hard work at very low wages. But such employees will not necessarily be grateful for the opportunity, and they will know that they can quit the job without forfeiting their right to remain in the country.
Guest working is the policy you endorse if your labor market priority is a cheaper and more pliable work force.
Why hearings?
Gingrich had a good applause line about uprooting the illegal alien who has sunk 25-year roots in the country and has citizen children and grandchildren.
But how do you tell the difference between that person and between the illegal alien who has been present for 20 years? Or two years? Or two months? Gingrich proposes individualized hearings by citizen courts. But 12 million hearings? Really? Even if we could somehow complete a hearing an hour, you are talking about 1.5 million person-days, or 5,769 person-years.
And that's assuming the courts approved the concept, which they very well might not.
The idea is unworkable on its face. It would rapidly disintegrate into something very like blanket approvals of whole categories of illegals – in other words, into some kind of qualified amnesty.
Hearings are the policy you endorse if your real goal is to find a way to represent amnesty as something other than amnesty.
Why not citizenship?
Gingrich proposes to confer on much of the 12 million illegal population the right to live and work in the United States, but not citizenship. That is, not the right to vote.
At a stroke, the measure would create a huge class of subordinated workers in this country.
But it would also do something else, something very politically ingenious. The newly legalized residents of the United States would no longer have reason to hide from the Census Bureau. They'd be enumerated just in time for 2020. Immigration magnet states such as Texas, Arizona and Florida would gain increased representation in Congress and greater clout in the Electoral College. But because those new residents would not be able to vote, the clout would be exercised only by the state's older citizen population, and it would be that way for years to come. (Of the top 10 illegal immigration states, only four are blue states: California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey.)
Were illegal aliens to gain the franchise, they'd likely vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Even in the Republican year 2004, the Democrats swept voters with incomes of less than $15,000 by a 63% to 36% margin, and voters with family incomes of $15,000-$30,000 by a 57% to 42% margin.
As noncitizens, the former illegals would not vote at all.
Noncitizenship is the policy you advocate if you want to expand the low-wage work force while tamping down the number of low-wage Democratic voters.
Is there a better way? There is, and it's the way advocated by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
1: Enforce the immigration laws at the workplace, removing the magnet that draws new illegal workers and encouraging the existing illegal population to return home. Yes, that population includes people who have been present in the country for more than 20 years and won't return. It also includes people who have been in the country less than 20 months and might well return if they cannot find work in the U.S.
2: Pause to assess. See how much an enforcement-first policy reduces the illegal population. The best estimates suggest that the recession of 2008-2009 sent perhaps 1.7 million illegals back home.
A prolonged period of enforcement – and the removal of the offer of early amnesty – would likely reduce the illegal population even more.
3: Debate and decide on any future amnesty proposal after enforcement has taken effect, not before.
If any approach to immigration deserves to be described as "humane," it is the approach that begins with concern for the stagnating wages of American workers.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum.