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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Canada's Forgotten Cartoonists: Peter Whalley
"1.) They had produced a fascinating body of work."
"2.) They were largely forgotten."
One of the cartoonists Seth mentions is Peter Whalley, an artist whose work I was familiar with from my collection of old magazines, but had always assumed was an American, because his deceptively simple style reminded me so much of some of the gag cartoonists you might find in The New Yorker or Playboy. In fact, Whalley was born in 1921 in Brockville, Ontario and, after serving in the merchant marine during W.W.II, he moved to Quebec, where he lived until his death in 2007.
Here's one of my favourite pieces by Peter Whalley.
The editors' comment suggests that they didn't actually grasp how subtly clever Whalley's cartoon cover really is...
For those who didn't have the benefit of getting an art education in Canada, I'll explain. Every country has a certain heritage of art with which it is immediately identified. The French have the Impressionists, for instance, and when we think of the Renaissance we think of Italy. In Canada, we learn about the art of our Native Inuit people...
Cornelius Kreighoff, who famously painted the pioneer days...
... and of course, the Group of Seven.
Whalley shows all of those earlier artists content in the act of creating; inspired by the vast beauty of nature that is so abundant in Canada.
But the (then current) abstract expressionist, free to 'express himself' in any way he chooses, unconstrained by any requirements to appeal to an audience, sits sulking in a dirty, cramped studio, sullenly ignoring the beauty just outside his door. Hilarious!
Peter Whalley's daughter said that her father was "certainly not pretentious" and that "he would wince at the idea that he was an artist." But after the war, he moved to Montreal with the intention of becoming "a serious artist." In the end, however, cartooning won out because, Whalley said, "it paid more."
Whalley enjoyed a long and successful career producing cartoons for books, magazines, television... even advertising.
He also did film strips (remember film strips?) for the National Film Board of Canada.
Roy Peterson, editorial cartoonist at the Vancouver Sun said of Peter Whalley, "What is really amazing is that he was able to make a living freelancing at a time when there weren't any freelance cartoonists in the country."
In his later years, Whalley devoted himself to doing sculpture, even building his own foundry in Morin Heights, Quebec, where he lived until the end of his life.
When The Montreal Gazette's Alan Hustak wrote Peter Walley's obituary, he began by saying the artist "was one of the first cartoonists in Canada to display a warped, sardonic sense of humour on the editorial pages of a newspaper..." This group of cartoons below certainly demonstrates that quality to great effect. (And note the final gag, where Whalley once again pokes fun at abstract expressionism)
And here's something neat: on the CBC website, there's a short little television interview with Peter Whalley from 1959!
Click here to go to the CBC page and watch the interview.
The organizers of the Doug Wright Awards have inducted Peter Whalley into their "Giants of the North" Hall of Fame.
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Leif, I would be most interested in hearing how Canadian cartoonists were able to work when ice crystals kept forming in the india ink in their pen nib? Also, did they have to cut a hole in the ice crust in their ink bottle, the way they do to go ice fishing?ReplyDelete
PS-- please don't tell Jaleen Grove that I said this.
- Ken Steacy4:00 PM
Thanx, Leif - yet another wonderful cartoonist from the Great White North gets his belated kudos! Quick quibble with your explanation for our pals south of the 49th: the first image from the MACLEAN'S cover is actually a reference to longhouse art by the Haida first nations from the northwest coast of British Columbia. No worries - you're only off by a few hundred kilometres, eh? Cheers!ReplyDelete
This is a secret previously shared only among Canadian cartoonists... but we keep our ink bottles sequestered.... 'in a place where body temperature is constant'. I'll speak no more of this... I've already said too much.
Thanks for the clarification - you were probably the kid paying attention in art history class, eh? ;^)
I was very lucky to have had art lessons from Peter in his house at Morin Heights back in 1956/7. I still cannot draw but they were fun sessions.ReplyDelete


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By TOM WITHERS | Associated Press
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- On page 169 of the Indians' new media guide there's a quick recap of Chris Perez's 2012. It reads: "All-Star had another solid season on the mound."
Off it, it was anything but stellar.
Perez lost control.
If he wasn't railing at Cleveland fans for not supporting the team, the colorful closer was criticizing the team's owners for not spending money. He irritated opponents on social media and with primal screams and fist pumps, and Perez got caught on video yelling obscenities at a fan taunting him in Oakland.
He saved 39 games, but Perez couldn't stop himself. He got into trouble far worse than any late-inning jam he ever encountered.
"It got away from me," he said Thursday. "Hopefully, none of that happens this year."
This season, Perez promises the only heat he'll deliver will be to the plate.
With an offseason to reflect on what transpired during Cleveland's miserable 68-94 season, and an equally depressing one for the 27-year-old, Perez said he's learned some valuable lessons.
It may be too late for him to take back anything he said or change his past, so Perez will focus on what's ahead.
"I don't have any regrets, but I definitely could have handled it all differently," he said. "I definitely don't foresee myself doing that this year. There shouldn't be any reason for it. We've got what we asked for -- a better team."
With his scraggly beard and long hair, Perez certainly looks the part of the rebel right-hander he has become. With the ball in his hand, he's fearless, blowing batters away with a wicked fastball that has allowed him to record 98 saves the past three seasons.
But it was some barbs he fired at Indians fans last May that sparked months of drama.
After he was booed during a home game at Progressive Field, Perez vented about the club's poor attendance. He questioned a lack of support from Cleveland fans and wondered why they didn't back the Indians like they did the Browns, one of the NFL's worst teams.
Perez went on to hypothesize that maybe free agents stayed away from Cleveland because of the fans' indifference.
With a chance to explain his comments the next day, and perhaps even apologize, Perez instead took things a step further.
"I was just fed up with everything," he explained. "But that's how I felt. It was all heart."
At various points during the season, he met with team president Mark Shapiro and Chris Antonetti, who did all they could to reel Perez in. He had become a distraction, divisive to Indians fans -- some who loved him, others who wanted him traded -- and the club sought to stop things from getting any worse.
Perez seemed to get the message, but late in the season, as the losses mounted and the Indians fell from contention, he complained in an interview that owners Paul and Larry Dolan weren't making the necessary financial commitment to keep the team competitive in the AL Central.
Those remarks set off another round of meetings, and Perez said that during that time he didn't care what happened.
"Honestly, toward the end of the year it got tiring," he said. "The season was whatever, and by August I was depressed. I wasn't myself. I didn't want to come to the field. I didn't want to talk to (the reporters) because everything I was saying was getting twisted or somebody was making it into article. I didn't go on Twitter for a month. It wasn't fun."
When the season ended, Perez thought his days with the Indians might be over. His name was tossed around in numerous trade rumors and Perez figured he would be starting over somewhere else. However, in early October he got a phone call from Terry Francona, who told him he was going to manage the Indians.
Francona was aware of the theater around Perez, but he didn't feel the need to dredge it up. The damage was done.
As far as Francona was concerned, Perez has a clean slate.
"I didn't really feel the need to dissect all that," Francona said. "I just wanted to say hello and get to know him. It really never came up and I don't expect it to again. ... He really wants to win. I think his heart is in the right place."
Perez appreciated Francona's willingness to let him explain his actions.
"He wanted to see that it wasn't just me being a blowhard or trying to talk my way out of town, it was really coming from a good spot," he said. "I want to win. I told him I was just frustrated, and just like the team in the second half, I went downhill. He said 'It's a new season,' and if anything is bothering me, he wants to hear it first."
Perez wants to focus on only the strike zone this season -- and stay positive.
If there are empty seats at Progressive Field, he'll focus on the ones that are filled. He'll keep the trash talk to a minimum, and if he finishes off a win with a strikeout, he'll make sure any gestures won't become ammunition for the other team.
Still, he won't change everything.
"I'm going to be me," he said.
Perez hasn't spoken to any members of the Dolan family since they spent $117 million on free agents, a startling splurge that may push the Indians back into contention. For a long period, Perez thought he'd be pitching elsewhere, sent away for speaking his mind.
Now that he's staying, he plans to behave.
"I'm in it to win it and they should be too," he said. "That's how I feel and their actions this winter spoke volumes. Hopefully they're happy with me.
"They kept me around, so I can't be doing everything wrong."
n The Indians will open the exhibition season Friday at Goodyear Ballpark against the Cincinnati Reds. Francona's first lineup of the spring will have CF Michael Bourn batting leadoff followed by SS Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B Jason Kipnis, 1B Nick Swisher, LF Michael Brantley, C Carlos Santana, DH Mark Reynolds, 3B Lonnie Chisenhall and RF Drew Stubbs. Starters will play three innings.
n RHP Giovanni Soto will start on the mound.
n Francona said it's not essential to have a left-hander in his starting rotation. "I'd rather have a good pitcher than a lefty or righty," he said. "The idea is to have a pitcher who gets guys out."


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Topic: WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF FATWA ? (1 of 9), Read 76 times
We see, nowadays some people giving themselves the right of giving 'Fatwas'among small groups of their followers.They just do so without having the profile of someone who has studied Islam in an academic way and who has had much experience and contacts with very famous religious people with deep knowledge of the history of Islam and the seera of the prophet and so on.They just disagree with someone and decide that he is a 'Kafeer'or they offend people because they believe they 're not good moslems.
Topic: WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF FATWA ? (2 of 9), Read 60 times
Assalaamu ^alaykum
This has become a significant issue in recent years. Why? Because the people who seek the obligatory knowledge in Islam are less and less. Ignorance in religion is wide spread, and from this ignorance and arrogance people have begun to read the great Islamic books and assign the meaning that suits them. In recent years, the Muslim Ummah has seen men who have given a number of illegitimate 'fatwas'. They include:
1.) One claims it is haram to use thikr beads because this is bidda (innovation) and he claims all innovation is bad.
2.) One claims that because of 'extreme tribulation', it is fard (obligatory) for a woman to cover even her face and hands.
3.) One claims that the Muslim who follows the civil laws of a non-Muslim country that do not contradict Islam is a kafr and his blood is halal.
4.) One claims that the meaning of the attributes of Allah mentioned in the Qur'an are only to be assigned the apparent meaning, such as hand and face and direction, and that to say that Allah does not resemble His creations and Allah exists without a place (per consensus of the sayings of the companions and scholars) is blasphemy.
5.) One claims that it is halal to eat meat that has not been properly Islamically slaughtered.
6.) One claims that where there is a disagreement between science and Islam, science prevails.
And many, many others. Every Muslim must learn and protect themselves against the tribulations of this ignorance. All of those who give these so called 'fatwas' are easily defeated by those Mohaddath (scholars of Hadith) who still exist. They can be found in most Islamic countries, but they are very few today. When you take knowledge from someone, do not accept what he or she says, no matter who they claim to be or what the people say about them, if it contradicts the Qur'an, Hadith or the Ijma^.
Assalamuaalikum wa rahmatullah wa barkatuhu,
This is not a very direct approach to the above mentioned concern, but I hope it will benefit and make understand the recent trends, insha allah.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Masjid al-Iman, Oakland Calif. February 14, 2003
O Muslims, Believers! We are in a situation that we must not be afraid of Shaytan. Because Allah swt said:
"inna Allah ma` alladheena at-taqaw walladheena hum muhsinoon" _ "Allah is with those who are pious and sincere, those who do good" [16:128].
"Ya ayyuhalladheena aamanu ittaqullah wa koonu ma` as-sadiqeen" _ "O ye who believe! Fear Allah and be with those who are trustworthy (in word and deed)." [9:119]
And he (s) told us about the signs of the time we are in today and I would like to quote a hadith of the Prophet (s) which describes what we have mentioned in many other ahadith before, and shows what is going on today. From it we must understand that this is one of the signs of the Last Days we are approaching. If anyone tells you this world will live forever they are wrong.
"`An ibn mas`ud qaala kayfa antum idha dhahara feekum al bida` wa `umila biha hatta yarbu feeha as-sagheer wa yahrum al-kabeer"
It means they won�ft have any knowledge of hadith or fiqh. Only memorizing Qur�fan. That is a sign and today we see it. There are so many people memorizing Qur�fan. He was not saying that is bad, but it is a sign. Today we see that everywhere, people sending their children to learn the Qur�fan, but "qallat fuqaha�fukum," _ "your scholars of fiqh have decreased." There is no more �eilm, no more fiqh. No one is learning the meanings of Qur�fan, no one is learning the hadith, no on is learning the reasons for revelation of each verse. "�cwa tafuqahu li-ghayri id-deen." _ "and they will study [intensively] other than the religion." They will learn Qur�fan and leave learning fiqh and increase in secular science to learn something other than religion.
"`an abi qilaba qaala mu`adh takunu fitanun" _ Abi Qilaba said that Mu`adh said, "there will be too much confusion, disturbances," - "yakuthuru feeha al- maal" _ "there will be too much money."
"�cwa yuftahu feeha al-Qur�fan" - " �cthe Qur�fan will be opened." He did not say, "wa yuhfadhu feeha al-Qur�fan." (the Qur�fan will be memorized). It means when you open the Qur�fan and you want to go through it; you are not studying it. You want to see the meaning. And if you don�ft learn the hadith that explain the Qur�fan and learn what the Sahaba say about each of the ayats, and seerat an-Nabi, the life of the Prophet (s), you cannot understand the Qur�fan. He said "yuftahu feeha al- quran," not yuhfadhu (memorize) or yudras (study). Some people go through it, to see what is there.
That is skimming, going through it quickly. Look at what comes next. That will explain to you what is happening today.
"�chatta yiqra�fuha al-mu�fmin wal- kaafir." _ "until they read it: both the believer and the unbeliever." [another narration has: "until they read it: both the beliver and the hypocrite"] They only read it today. They don�ft seek out its deep meanings, to become an `aalim. They are not struggling to understand it. The Muslims will read it and even non-Muslims will read it. Are you seeing this today? Yes, this is what we see today.
Before, there was no way for someone other than a Muslim to touch a Qur�fan. If you went to a Muslim country, it was not allowed if you didn�ft have wudu; you could not touch the Qur�fan. Now it is available on every shelf and they can look at it. They open the Qur�fan and they skim through it and look for what they are seeking. They skim for it looking for a meaning they desire [to support one argument or another].
"Those who are not believers in Islam will be reading the Qur�fan." That is a sign of the Last Days that the Prophet (s) mentioned to his Sahaba and his Sahaba mentioned to us.
"�cwal marra�fatu war-rajul was-sagheeru wal-kabeer." _ "�cthe woman and the man and the old and the young." Everyone will be reading the Qur�fan.
And the Prophet said, when this happens, what do you have to do? "Fa yaqra�fuha rajulun, wa yaqulu qara�ftuhu `alaaniyyatan fa laa araanee uttaba`u fa-yaq`udu fee baytihi fa yabnee masjidan fee daarihi thumma yabtadi`u bi maa laysa fee kitabillahi wa laa sunnati rasulillah salla Allahu `alayhi wa sallam fa iyyakum wa ma abtad`a fa-innahu dalaalatan." - "A man reads the Qur�fan and he says, �eI read it in public and no one followed it.�f So he sits in his home, and he builds a mosque in his house and then he begins to innovate in the religion what is not found in either the Book of Allah or the Sunnah of the Prophet of Allah, peace be upon him. So beware of him and what he innovates, for certainly it is misguidance."
And here is the problem. "Thumma yabtadi` bi maa laysa fee kitabillah wa laa sunnati rasulillah." _ "and then he begins to innovate in the religion what is not found in either the Book of Allah or the Sunnah of the Prophet of Allah, peace be upon him." When you do not follow a teacher or a guide to teach you the Qur�fan, you will understand it incorrectly and begin to innovate what is not in the Qur�fan or in the Sunnah of the Prophet (s). That is what we see today. They sit behind the computers, in their little rooms, reading the Qur�fan and making fatwa without knowledge.
"inna Allaha la yughayyiru ma bi-qawmin hatta yughayyiroo maa bi anfusihim" _ "Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls). " [13:11]
Be not heedless of thy Lord for even the blink of an eye, Lest He directs His attention towards you, and finds you unawares.
Assalaamu ^alaykum
I agreed with this speech at the beginning. We are certainly seeing the proof of the Hadiths on the last days. No doubt. But for an Imam to say sit in you home, there is nothing you can do!!!!!! I was floored. I certainly understand the EXTREME frustration that this man must have been feeling to say that, but that does not mean that this is the path to advise people to take. We must encourage each other to learn! There are knowledgeable teachers everywhere. If anyone here can't find one, e-mail me! I will tell you where you can find one. I agree that we should not waste our time on politics. But we must take to the streets calling for Islam at the top of our lungs. If we know that the time may be close, we must increase our efforts to save as many people as we can. We must warn them about those who spread misguidance. Nausheen, I am sorry. I did not mean to attack. I hope you did not take it that way. But just because most of the 'Islamic centers' are directed by ignorant or misguided people, that does not mean we give up. This is not what the Prophet taught us.
Sister Umm Abed, walaikum assalam wa rahamtullah wa barkatuhu,
There s nothing to feel uncomfortable with your disagreement. I do not mind at all :-)
I think there is something very subtle running thru the theme. he did not say, u sit at home and do nothing. He said, go home and make dua.
Sister, we know that there are great powers in dua. When all efforts fall in vain, even then allah has recommended us to 'ask Him'.
He is discouraging ppl from falling into arguments and wasting time on political issues, but is also at the same time encouraging them in involving oneself in the service of Allah. In seeking Him thru the right guidance.
A Hadith says a time will come when a person will not be able to condemn the evil, and injustice openly. What should he be doing then?
Sister when ur actions are made futile, u shld turn to allah for help. I think this is message is at the heart of the Khutba, and allah know best.
Ma salama,
Topic: WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF FATWA ? (6 of 9), Read 59 times
Assalaamu ^alaykum
Yes, sis Nausheen. I understand the point now. But we are still sooooo far from the time when one cannot stand up and defend right and justice openly. It scares me when I see people give up this way. Du^a is very important. Du^a is very strong and has many secrets. But we must keep teaching, and defending, and refuting the ahl fitna. The more difficulty we have, the more opportunity for bala'. I agree that we should not waste our time with matters of politics. We are suffering such extreme difficulties because we have strayed so far from Islam. Do you know that few people in Haifa know how to read Qur'an? Do you know that you can walk in the market in many of the countries of ash-Sham and hear people cursing Allah out of anger. They are so ignorant that they do not know that this makes them a non-Mulsim. Some of them believe that when they say the shahadatayn in the prayer, that this is sufficient to bring them back to Islam. It is not. We must teach. Du^a is rewardable, but teaching vital. There is a Hadith in the meaning of, the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him, entered a Mosque. There were two groups of people sitting. One was making thikr and one was taking Islamic knowledge. He chose to sit with those learning Islamic knowledge. This is proof of the high status of teaching and learning. I much prefer to hear the people directed to come out more. To go to the centers of learning and learn how to teach Islam. To send their children to Islamic schools. Politics are futile, but teaching is not.
I do understand the point, but I think that more might have been said.
Topic: WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF FATWA ? (7 of 9), Read 60 times
assalamualaikum wa rahamtullah wa barkatuhu, [With all due respect and no offense intended]
sis umm Abed says:
I do understand the point, but I think that more might have been said.
Sis, I said that once to a friend only to realise what mistake I was making in my judgement, and i see u making the same mistake. [please do not think that i disregard your criticism - in fact it is quite acceptable]
One thing that you do not bear in mind (probably) when u read the above article, is that this is a khutabat -ul-juma. A speech given to an audience, whose mind set and whose current problems are known to the person who is addressing them. I am not sure under what circumstances this khutba was delivered, but i once read a khutba(some other, not this one), and made the same mistake.
I judged the speech from my perspective, where I was not included as an audience for that particular speech, and what i said was .. "there is so much redundancy here, and there are so many other issues which shld be address on the said subject, but are missing."
A friend had showed that to me, and when she heard my reaction, smiled and said, "This is a juma khutba....delivered by Maulana Maududi to some audience in a remote village in pakistan".
This simple explanation made almost everything fall in place automatically. I don't know if u are aware of Maulana Abu ala Maududi, but he is a reknowned scholar of not so long ago. I think Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Maulana Maududi were contemporaries. Many of his writng have been published, including many khutba.- most of it is in Urdu.
So I could dismiss the (assumed) flaws in the Khutba, just by knowing that it was given by someone who is respected widely, and by understanding that the speech was specifically addressing a particular set of audience at a given time. - Keeping this in mind, what was said there was making a lot more sense.
I am not sure how much you know of the Imam who is giving the above khutba, or if you have read any other writings/speeches from this person .... however I can tell you that I do not agree with your thinking of him as 'in desperation'.
My initial mistake (which i now see) is to post something on a discussion board which is not necessarily universal, to this I extend my apologies.
In many ppl's writings I have read at the end ... "take that which benefits you, and leave what is of no relevance" :) I also write it sometimes, may be this is what is missing most critically here.
Ma salama
Be not heedless of thy Lord for even the blink of an eye, Lest He directs His attention towards you, and finds you unawares.
Assalaamu ^alaykum
Barak Allahu feeki, Sis.
I agree with your post completely. We do tend to interpret things as they relate to our own personal perspective. I am certainly not immune to this. Thank you for reminding me to step outside myself. I needed it.
It has been my understanding that anyone, idiot or scholar, can give a fatwa. That doesn't mean you have to care. if my hamster gives a fatwa, am I or anyone else
It is very unfortunate to have just anyone giving out fatwas to unlearned people, knowing that they have nothing to do but follow them, for better or for worse. That is when fatwas become a political tool, and that (in my opinion, at least) is wrong.
All this is only according to my very basic understanding up to this point. If I got something wrong, feel free to correct me.
(Oh, an the hamster thing, that was just humor, so don't go nuts on me. :-)
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text: Thursday, December 29, 2011 Deadline Approaches to Adopt Version 5010 Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed enforcement of Version 5010 transaction standards used for electronic health care claims until March 31, 2012, the official deadline to adopt the standards is January 1, 2012. To help providers prepare for implementation of Version 5010 and ICD 10 code sets, CMS recently released several new resources, including enforcement FAQs, Version 5010 and ICD-10 transition basics fact sheets, a Version 5010 readiness fact sheet, and a timeline widget. Sign up for industry e-mail updates and receive news and information about new resources to help ensure smooth transitions to Version 5010 and ICD-10. Comments APTA. Taking your money $100.00 at a time. Not Working For You. APTA ....a joke. APTA... learn to read and punctuate (proofread) before signing legislature. APTA: Is good at pushing bills/ law deadlines back, but NOT good at CHANGING legislation....a joke. If my employer didn't pay for my dues....i would not give APTA a red cent. Posted by PT on 12/29/2011 12:26 PM Easy to comment with some negativity about the APTA, but they are involved and sharing the information. You might want to ask your employer why he/she is willing to pay for your dues. 'In a perfect world I would always be right'. Posted by Erick Jackowsky, PT on 12/30/2011 4:33 AM I agree APTA is a poor representative association. We need something more on the lines of a union to stick up for us not accept the legislation like APTA. We need a stronger voice to lobby for us. Posted by Scott on 1/2/2012 11:55 AM Wow- I have voluntarily paid my own APTA dues 25 years and also am forced to pay union dues. I have been very satisfied with how well APTA moves our profession into the future, keeps me informed, and supports me with resources that improve my practice. Influencing legislation is complex and we are not the only interested party. I appreciate the APTA Goverment Affairs staff working with our legislators and partnering with other professions to represent us. Posted by Debi Craddock, PT on 1/3/2012 1:35 PM Regarding first poster: You are what is wrong with our profession. Get some professional backbone, and sign your name if you are going to take a shot at someone. Obviously, whoever your employer is, and is paying your dues (and salary) is getting ripped off. I know that I would like to know if one of my employees is taking money from me. Finally, my guess is that you have never given back to your 'profession', only taken from it. Posted by Stephen Rapposelli, PT on 1/3/2012 2:07 PM It if surprising to me how often people criticize without knowing the whole story! I don't know of an association who works harder for its members. Sadly those who chose to remain uninvolved will never know all that is being done on a daily basis in our behalf. Why would you think APTA "signs" legislation or "chooses language"? You are truly misinformed about the legislative process. APTA can only lobby in behalf of its members and make sure they have a seat at the table when issues regarding practice are being discussed. They have done a darn good job of that and if you aren't aware if it, you simply aren't paying attention. Posted by Kay Scanlon on 1/4/2012 8:57 AM I don't often take the time to comment, but I agree with others that have said to poster #1 to stop complaining and do something. It is possible he or she is very involved, but I am guessing that is not the case. If our profession had more involvement in our professional organization (we have one of the lowest membership rates of all the medical professions from what I hear), we might have the funds and the manpower to do more. I have little kids and a business, so I admit that I do not have time to do much, but I happily pay my dues to those who are fighting for us! Posted by Tina Neuwirth on 1/4/2012 4:42 PM


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Nirvana, a new Indian restaurant that will occupy the high-traffic corner where the Spice Route operated for four years, will open Friday night, offering what owner Rohit Sharma calls "very authentic" Indian food.
"I'm really looking forward to people tasting the food," he said. "It's going to have a different kind of freshness to it and an authenticity."
Sharma, who visited Vashon in February and dined at the Spice Route, recently purchased the business from the previous owners. It represents his first foray into restaurant ownership, he said, but he comes to it with considerable experience, having worked with his family at Indian restaurants they owned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sharma managed three of his family's restaurants.
He said he has been hard at work remodeling the establishment, moving the brightly colored pillow room from the back and into the two front rooms. The darkened windows will disappear, he added. Many other changes are also in the works, he said.
"I want people to come inside and see the difference. I think it looks more Indian," he said. "It looked before like an Italian restaurant disguised as an Indian restaurant."
Two Indian restaurants precede his new venture; before Spice Route, the All India Café was located there. Asked how he'll be able to succeed, he said he plans to focus on service, cleanliness and the quality of the food.
His chef, trained at a culinary institute in the city of Hyderabad, India, is talented, he added. He also hopes to slowly add some Western dishes with an Indian influence to his menu, providing more choices to Islanders.
What's more, he noted, he'll have the support of his parents, who are moving to Vashon to help him in his new effort.
"I'm pretty confident," he said. "I have a strong family structure."
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WLKY Investigates: Toxic neighbors
A project is underway in Kentucky that will cost more than the two Ohio River Bridges combined.
Just south of Lexington, in Madison County, some of the most dangerous chemical weapons on earth are stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot.
From start to finish it will take $5.5 billion to destroy those chemical weapons and it should have been done a long time ago.
It's a massive facility under construction on a 25-acre plot in Madison County adjacent to where 523 tons of dangerous chemical weapons have been stored for decades.
"The first chemical weapons arrived here in 1944. Those were the mustard projectiles. In the 1960s, the nerve agents and rocket projectiles arrived here," said Jeff Brubaker, site project manager.
Mustard gas is a blistering agent.
Also stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot are GB, better known as sarin gas, and its more lethal cousin VX gas, which is odorless and tasteless.
GB and VX attack the central nervous system.
"Both of those agents can be considered bug spray for humans," said Craig Williams with Chemical Weapons Working Group.
Under international treaties, the weapons should have been destroyed by now.
Williams, with the watchdog group out of Berea, said part of the problem was the Army's insistence that weapons at the Bluegrass Army Depot be incinerated.
"Modifications in the directive coming out of the Pentagon, plus shortfalls in the funding, and it set us back a decade," Williams said.
The Pentagon finally agreed to neutralize the chemicals instead of burning them and construction began on access roads and utilities in 2007.
Work on the disposal facility started in 2009 and as of Jan. 1, it was 60 percent finished, with completion scheduled for mid-2015.
Chemical destruction won't begin right away. It will take years for start-up teams to do their work.
"Those teams will take another four years to very methodically, very carefully, go thoroughly and make sure each and every system, starting with the sub-component level to component and system level operates as intended," Brubaker said.
Facility personnel will then practice for six months on water-filled rounds instead of actual chemical weapons.
The disposal facility is built to withstand an accidental blast or chemical leak.
The walls are 2½ feet thick. The floor is 3 feet thick with a special coating.
Once placed inside space capsule-like containers and transported inside the building, robotics will take over.
"Totally concrete, heavily reinforced with a design, if there was an unexpected detonation the effects of that pressure, the shrapnel, release of the agents would be totally, totally contained within the structure," Brubaker said.
The chemicals will be neutralized and kept in tanks until an on-site lab conducts tests to make sure they are no longer a threat.
A similar process will take place with the explosive components of the weapons.
It will take 3½ years to finish destruction.
Williams doesn't seem concerned with the timeline.
"All indications are that their shelf life is still adequate to see this thing through and probably even longer if necessary," Williams said.
Once the weapon neutralization is completed, the disposal facility and anything else that has come in contact with the chemical weapons will be destroyed.
That is projected to happen in 2023, as long as the money holds out.
"It depends on the funding profile as that we have to adjust work to make optimized use of our workforce given the funding that's available," said Tom McKinney with Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass.
The 523 tons of chemicals stored in the commonwealth represents only two percent of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile. Most of it already has been destroyed.
The Bluegrass Army Depot is the last of nine locations in the country to get a disposal facility.
It is scheduled to be finished in mid 2015 at a cost of $1.8 billion, but that's only a fraction of the total expense.
"The life cycle cost, the cost from the beginning of this project through the destruction of the chemical weapons and plant closure will be $5.5 billion," said Brubaker.
When the job is done, the disposal facility will be destroyed along with anything else that has come in contact with the weapons.
While the communities of Berea and Richmond, located along Interstate 75, have been living for decades next to some of the most dangerous chemicals on earth, lifelong residents like Richmond Mayor Jim Barnes said they have not been living in fear.
"What goes up and down the interstate is probably just as bad, we don't know about it," said Barnes.
It's the same feeling echoed by attorney and Berea Mayor Steve Connelly. Generations of families have benefited from the presence of the Bluegrass Army Depot. Connelly said his city's safety also has been greatly improved.
"Largely because of the depot, we have a top-flight early warning system. Mostly got used for weather issues, torrential storms," said Connelly.
Berea and Richmond are both benefiting from a multibillion-dollar chemical destruction project at a time when the country continues to pull itself out of a recession.
"If there is an economic positive that comes out of getting rid of it, the community deserves to realize that benefit," said Williams.
Local officials are already planning for the project's conclusion now set for sometime in 2026. Will the economic boom turn into an economic bust?
"One of our discussions now is what level of service do we want for our community and what level of service we can afford when the depot is gone?" said Connelly.
"What happens when 1,500 people just leave your community? I'm not saying they will all leave, but where do you fill jobs for them?" said Barnes.


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The City Club of Portland, like many large and small nonprofits, rely on volunteer work from experienced industry professionals to provide support that they don't have funding for. In this case, the expertise is coming from Gregg Bahr, an undergraduate PSU business student who also has more than 15 years of experience in the information technology field. Beginning as a volunteer helping with simple tasks and making phone calls, Bahr is now leading the design and implementation of City Club's database, website, smart phone app, membership software, essentially an entire information systems overhaul.
How will this database system improve City Club's work? The nonprofit, led by Former Portland Mayor Sam Adams, is committed to providing research and education to inform the public on civic issues and policies. Bahr's research and development will help design a system that will be unmatched by the top private companies that he once consulted for, such as Columbia Sportswear and Hewitt Packard.
"We are looking for a new management software system that will integrate the individual programs and components of City Club into a cohesive member-friendly system," Sam Adams says. "Bahr's work has been priceless as he has led our efforts to find the best solution among dozens of options."
Like many Portland State students, Bahr was in midst of a successful career in information systems when things began to slow down. With multiple professional certificates, a good salary and managing a team of 18, Bahr didn't see a need for a bachelor's degree, that is, until the 2008 recession. Suddenly, experience alone wasn't enough to even land an interview for a position he was overqualified for.
"I want to be on the business side, not just fixing the network and installing the software, but also using that background to be a better business leader," says Bahr, who has been managing teams since he was 19. He decided that a bachelor's degree in combination with his work experience can propel him into a chief information or technology position, so he enrolled at Portland Community College (PCC), graduated with a Business Transfer Degree and an Associates in accounting and transferred to Portland State's School of Business in fall of 2013.
Now a full time student, Bahr has expanded his project with the nonprofit into two business courses for which he will receive credit. He's committed to the impact that the City Club of Portland is making in the community and, being a father of six, especially cares about education policy and serves on the education committee of the 1,600-member organization.
PSU's business programs are dedicated to helping students apply academics to real world experiences in the community. With a median age of 27 in its undergraduate programs, students also benefit from being in a professional learning environment with experienced peers. Click here to learn more about community-based learning opportunities at PSU's School of Business.


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South African Journal of Surgery
On-line version ISSN 2078-5151
Print version ISSN 0038-2361
S. Afr. j. surg. vol.49 n.3 Cape Town Aug. 2011
Thyroglobulin - what is the postoperative threshold for the suspicion of thyroid cancer recurrence in the absence of anti-Tg antibody measurement?
M. S. PapageorgiouI; N. LiratzopoulosII; G. MinopoulosII; K. J. ManolasII
IM.D., Ph.D; Ist Department of Surgery, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece
IIProfessor Of SURGERY; Ist Department of Surgery, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece
BACKGROUND: Thyroglobulin (Tg) is used as a postoperative marker for the follow-up of patients with thyroid carcinoma, but there is no consensus regarding the value that may indicate possible recurrence.
AIM: To evaluate Tg levels as a marker for recurrence of thyroid carcinoma.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Demographics and survival of 80 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer were analysed and related to Tg levels. Tg measurements were performed when patients were euthyroid, after completion of treatment.
RESULTS: The median Tg value was 1.3 ng/ml. Higher values were found in males, high-risk patients and patients with recurrent disease. Using the median Tg value as cut-off, patients were divided into two groups (group I <1.3 ng/ml and group II >1.3 ng/ml). There was a significant correlation between values >1.3 ng/ml and recurrence. When survival was related to Tg values, there was a tendency towards worse prognosis in group II. The best predictive cut-off value for recurrence was found to be 1.3 ng/ml, which had a sensitivity of 77% and a specificity of 57%.
CONCLUSIONS: Although low, a cut-off Tg level of 1.3 ng/ml represents a simple indication for further investigation in patients receiving thyroxine after completion of treatment for thyroid cancer, in the absence of measurement of anti-Tg auto-antibodies.
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Adding smiles to childrens lives
Twenty children underwent reconstructive surgery during the Adding Smiles to Life with Adcock Ingram Smile Week held from 25 to 29 July at Red Cross Hospital War Memorial Childrens Hospital, Cape Town. Thanks to the Smile Foundation and Adcock Ingram Healthcare, these childrens parents, families and communities can celebrate the fact that they have a beautiful smile and can go off to school when theyre older without fear of being teased or isolated, said Moira Gerszt, Chief Operating Officer of the Smile Foundation.
The Smile Foundations partnership with Adcock Ingram began last year. Adcock Ingram is humbled by being part of this philanthropic initiative, said Dr Jonathan Louw, CEO for Adcock Ingram Healthcare.
The funding that Adcock Ingram contributes towards these life-changing operations not only lessens the deformity of these children, but ensures that the every child is able to swallow both solids and liquids with ease. Our partnership with Smile Foundation reiterates our commitment to adding value to life, and changing one child at a time, said Louw.
The Smile Foundation has partnered with academic hospitals in South Africa to help underprivileged children with facial conditions, alleviating backlogs in the hospitals, encouraging skills transfer, offering psychological help before and after surgery, and supporting hospital infrastructure.
The Smile Foundations partnership with Red Cross Childrens Hospital is now in its second year. As part of the partnership the Smile Foundation funds the additional resources necessary and pays for the surgery. The hospital provides the infrastructure, staff, care, treatment and expertise.
The success of the Smile Week model has been widespread. To date almost 700 children around the country have benefited from surgery through the partnership with state academic hospitals. In the Western Cape, 80 children have been helped during the various Smile Weeks held in the province.
For more information, contact Sanri van
Wyk, Taryn Fritz Public Relations.


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My all-time favourite movie
Good to see US citizens caring about their politics for a change
Youtube here.
The Friday OT: Kula Shaker; Hush
Straight-shot, no-frills, Friday-feelgood, crank-it-up, Rock-And-Roll-Music.
Hey, I wonder why Casey Research is so keen on pumping Brazil Resources (BRI.v) at you?
Franco Nevada (FNV) and sixty
The IKN Clive Johnson poll results are in...
...voting closed yesterday and here are the results:
- On the rare occasions IKN runs a poll we get about 200 voters. This time 451, which is a lot.
- Voting was split so I don't think we can draw any scientific conclusions about this one. However we need to bow to Vox Populi a little and recognize that the "he's an alcoholic" option came top.
- The jokey get-out option polled lowest. From that I'd infer that yes, BTO does have a problem on its hands here.
Brexit news: Boris Johnson tells his fellow citizens that, 'We can be like Canada'
In fact Boris, you're already closer than you think:
Report here.
Mining Journal: "Compliant documents mislead investors"
"Within a light-hearted presentation on NI 43-101 reports at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada's annual convention came a hard message: the industry is publishing speculative project studies that are misleading investors."
PretiVm (PVG) (PVG.to): You are small, you are not special, run away little people
PVG NR today here, which starts like this:
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 11, 2016) - Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX:PVG)(NYSE:PVG) ("Pretivm" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Orion Co-Investments II (ED) Limited ("Orion") will subscribe for 752,906 Pretivm common shares (the "Common Shares") at a price of US$4.58 per Common Share in a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement").
It's called 'entitlement', little person. Get a sense of it yet?
Chart of the day is...
Posting will be light today
For secret reasons.
ZIRP, NIRP and mail
Japan pulls the interest rates down, Yen pops. Europe pulls the interest rates down, Euro pops. Beginning to see a trend?
The three questions to take away from PDAC 2016 so far
1.) Who trims Brent Cooks beard?
2.) Who chooses Rick Rules ties?
3.) Do they smile a little more smiley when they are interviewed by Daniela Cambone?
btw: the world is still standing here in Europe although the ECB announced some crazy shit today. I mean everybody is screaming about zero % key interest rate but what is far more interesting in my eyes is that the ECB now buys corporate bonds with Investment grade Rating as well to be able to pump 80 Billion euros in the system. As this is a quite small market with around 500 Billion or so the ECB could end up with a fourth of the corporate Investment grade bond market. Which then would destroy any margins for Banks who would be willing to give loans to companies... Thank good I am not responsible for investing the reserve funds of an insurance company nor the own book of a bank.
Continental Gold (CNL.to): Police arrest the heads of the Buriticá illegal mining
Police in Colombia arrested Eduardo Otoya who is suspected of being one of the organizers behind criminal mining in Antioquia, including the invasion by thousands of illegal miners at the Buritica project of Continental Gold. Upon hearing of his arrest, President Juan Manuel Santos Tweeted "congratulations to [the police] for the decisive blow against criminal mining in Antioquia. Capturing Eduardo Otoya, alias 'The Doctor'".
Jemi Fibre (JFI.v) bought by CanWel (CWX.to)
Taboe Resources (TAHO) (THO.to) continues to keep its worker deaths a secret
The Tahoe Resources (TAHO) (THO.to) year-end financials were reported this evening and Kven MacArthur continues to refuse to acknowledge the death of his worker at the Escobal mine in Guatemala. The death of a worker while on duty at Escobal in a workplace accident during the fourth quarter in November 2015 is not mentioned in the Year End disclosure.
Pretty disgusting, Kev. You should be ashamed of yourself. I know some of your staff are.
PDAC attendance down yet again
It's "over 22,000" this year according to the official PDAC NR just out. That's down from 23,578 last year and marks the fourth year running of declining attendances.
Peru: Julio Guzmán and César Acuña barred from Presidential election
The verdict has just been handed down by Peru's election people.
Particularly controversial is the barring of Guzmán, more on electoral technicalities and the use of legalities by his opponents, he was until today a clear second place in voter intention polls and set to contest the run-off with Keiko Fujimori.
Banana Republic.
The song for PDAC Wednesday
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
IKN viewer stats
"...something crossed my mind last night when looking at the online poll re Clive. Have you given any consideration as to what the poll might reveal about your readership volumes / subscription volumes - and if that matters?"
Capstone Mining (CS.to) hedges
1) CS.to now says its price fixed 90% of its 4q15 copper sales at U$2.13/lb. I'd dearly like to know how it managed to do that when in its 4q15 audited financials it claimed an adjusted 4q15 price of U$2.26/lb. I mean, I know that copper sold at U$2.30/lb or so in the first weeks of 4q15, but a 13c/lb difference on just 10% of non-priced copper? That sounds weird. Sure would like to see the details on that little deal.2) Let's be clear about the quality of assets at Capstone too, because there's a crystal clear message here: CS.to has been shopping them around but clearly no takers, nobody wants to buy Santo Domingo, nobody wants to buy Cozamin, nobody wants to buy Minto. And whole we're here, CS must have been offered a particularly shitty silver stream deal from April 2017 onward to have refused.3) Darren "drop the" Pylot tells us today that "...our first priority is to reduce our debt risk...". This is the very same Darren Pylot that stuffed the company full of the very debt now strangling it financially. No sign of a change at the top, though. Ask yourself why.
Joe Mazumdar and his willing assistant Brent Cook do BNN's Market Call
Here are the tickers of companies they fielded on the viewer's questions sections (rather than their boring past picks or new top picks, watch the vid yourself for those), with IKN translating the duos' sometime diplomatic answers:
- GSV.v: Not bad, the corporate buying (OGC and GG) is interesting, next set of drills (to South) will be critical.
- ER.to: Run away.
- PVG: Leery.
- NXE.v: Great discovery, but will need plenty of drilling out. No value in owning now.
- THO.to: They like it, but then again they don't understand the off-scale Guatemala risk so don't blame them too much.
- MND.to: Likeable
- NMI.to: Joe likes and is buying. As he's the boss of the duo that's good enough for me.
- CLZ.v: Brent likes and owns, new discovery.
- EVR.to: Brent likes/owns it. Backing the jockey (the new geol Alain Charest)
- EMX.v: Fairly positive noises.
- TGM.v: Neutral, but now it's being bought out no biggie.
- EDV.to: Buying TGM, neutral noises.
- VIT.v: They tried hard to say something diplo and almost succeeded. Run away.
- BSX.to: If they get the permit they'll like it more. Duh.
- RMX.v: Run away.
Bad news for the gold price momentum
It's International Women's Day, and...
Roxgold (ROG.v): Brokerages get out of jail
The Vampire Squid doubles down on its bearish commodities call
- Market views on reflation, realignment and re-levering have driven a premature surge in commodity prices that we believe is not sustainable. Last year commodity prices were driven lower by deflation, divergence and deleveraging which were reinforcing through a negative feedback loop. Deflationary pressures from excess commodity supply reinforced divergence in US growth and a stronger US dollar which in turn exacerbated EM funding costs and the need for EMs to de-lever though lower investment and hence commodity demand. While we believe that these dynamics likely ran their course last year resulting in signs of rebalancing, the force of their reversal has created a new trend in market positioning that could run further. However, the longer they run, the more destabilizing they become to the nascent rebalancing they are trying to price.
- The reversal started last month with 'green shoots' of rebalancing. Deflation turned into reflation with evidence of long-awaited oil supply curtailments in both the US and other non-OPEC producers which supported energy prices. Divergence lost out to realignment with increased fears about US economic growth. This together with strength of EU manufacturing data over the same period and a pickup in China credit data in January led the market to question the idea that the US is fundamentally outperforming its peers. These worries are reflected in the recent weakness of the US dollar and strength in the gold price. And recent policy announcements in China combined with the pickup in Chinese credit raised the prospects of leverage-driven investment demand as a focus on de-leveraging faded.
- While these dynamics could run further, they simply are not sustainable in the current environment, in our view. Energy needs lower prices to maintain financial stress to finish the rebalancing process; otherwise, an oil price rally will prove self-defeating as it did last spring. The most recent macro data coming out of the US reinforces US growth divergence. Increases in core CPI, strong employment growth and a rebound in manufacturing, pushed the US MAP score – a metric for how much macro data surprises – up significantly to nearly positive for the first time in 2016. Most importantly, our US economics team continues to expect solid consumer spending growth of 2.5% to 3.0% in 2016. Finally, credit growth in China remains too high relative to GDP growth underscoring the need for de-leveraging.
- While we still believe oil will likely rebalance this year and create a deficit market by year end, 'green shoots' of a deficit alone are not sufficient for a new sustainable bull market. Only a real physical deficit can create a sustainable rally which is still months away should the behavioral shifts created by the low prices in January and February remain in place. Commodity markets are physical spot markets, not anticipatory financial markets that are driven by expectations. This is why an early rally in oil prices would prove self-defeating before a real deficit materializes as it would reverse the supply curtailments that are expected to rebalance the market in 2H16.
- The 'green shoots' for oil include US E&P's guiding production lower (c.600 kb/d), supply disruptions in Iraq and Nigeria (c.750 kb/d), non-OPEC ex-US producers reporting significant potential reductions (c.400 kb/d) and strong US oil demand. While the Iraqi and Nigerian disruptions will likely prove temporary, they do help in the rebalancing process and have likely helped to tighten Brent timespreads. However, the other green shoots are both price sensitive and are still more relevant for expectations of rebalancing, than the rebalancing seen to date. The current oil market is still in a large surplus as witnessed by last week's large US inventory build and the large global stock overhang. To keep the financial pressure on producers, we maintain our near-term view of a trendless oil market with substantial volatility between $40/bbl (under which creates financial stress) and $20/bbl (under which creates operational stress).
- We also maintain our bearish view on gold that has rallied along with the other commodities. Our short gold recommendation (which we opened with a 17% upside, in line with our $1000/toz 12-m forecast) is currently at a c.5% loss, with a stop loss at 7%. This gold rally was driven by a lack of conviction in divergence in US growth as a weak US dollar has been highly correlated with a higher gold price. We believe this realignment view of weak global growth is not supported by the US data, which will likely reinforce higher US yields, a stronger US dollar and the return of divergence, particularly should strong US consumer growth dissolve market fears regarding US growth. This in turn will likely put downward pressure on gold prices towards our near-term target of $1100/toz (current price is $1265/toz).
- Despite a continued deterioration in Chinese manufacturing data in the face of recent easing measures, copper and metal prices have also surged to fresh highs. Again we believe these rallies are also not supported by the broader financial environment in China. China is credit constrained and likely to use limited stimulus to promote consumption over investment through fiscal policy. The only real avenue for metals demand growth is through an improvement in property sales and prices that will eventually feed into higher construction activity, which the current data does not support and would be a difficult policy outcome to achieve by design.
- The Chinese government is publicly targeting a reduction in the inventory of residential structures to create higher housing prices and promote associated positive wealth effects, such as improved consumer confidence. As a result, the government is restricting new starts in cities with high inventory levels while stimulating sales through credit availability. As a result, China property new starts and completions are likely to remain weak in 2016 despite the recent policy measures. Accordingly, we are maintaining our near-term copper price target of $4500/mt (current price is $5000/mt).
- Iron ore rallied the most in the past week, breaching $60/t today. We believe this rally too will likely prove temporary and are maintaining our end-of-year target of $35/t . The rally in iron ore prices was the result of a surge in steel prices needed to widen mill margins in order to incentivize operators to pay the restart costs and rebuild operating inventories of raw materials as China enters this year's peak construction season. However, the physical shortfall in steel supply can be filled easily and the subsequent deterioration in steel margins is likely to put iron ore prices under renewed pressure. In other words, the market fundamentals are unchanged and the current rally is only a brief lull before production cuts at high-cost mines are required to make room for low-cost producers.
- While deflation, divergence and de-leveraging are all likely to reassert themselves and reapply modest downward pressure on commodity prices in the near-term, we do believe that the negative feedback loop that they create has mostly played out in this cycle from a bearish price trend perspective, particularly in oil which is why we maintain a bullish end-of-year view in energy. However, it is important to remember that in the end this was a supply-driven bear market and will not trade like a demand-driven market. In a demand-driven market, once demand gets ahead of supply following an economic recovery, supply struggles to catch up as it was also likely slowed by the lower prices. In the current supply-driven market, demand hasn't really changed, it takes lower prices to push and keep supply below demand to create a deficit. As a result, higher prices are much harder to sustain in a supply-driven market since supply is primed to return with higher prices. But this lesson will likely only be learned through false starts.
PDAC's biggest mystery
PretiVm (PVG) confirms the bull market is back...
Hole VU-565 intersected 206.23 grams of gold per tonne uncut over 17.00 meters, including 6,980 grams of gold per tonne uncut over 0.50 meters
...at the top of the shop. You're supposed to be impressed of course, but when you stick it through the handy-dandy drill hole calculator you get this:
Katanga Mining (KAT.to): This is not good at all
ZUG, Switzerland , March 8, 2016 /CNW/ - Katanga Mining Limited (TSX: KAT) ("Katanga" or the "Company") today announces that at 06.00 local time on 8 March 2016 , a geotechnical failure was experienced on the north wall of the KOV open pit mine at Katanga's operation in the DRC. Seven persons who were believed to have been working in the vicinity of the failure are currently unaccounted for. In addition, an unknown amount of damage to the dewatering infrastructure in the pit is expected to have occurred. KCC has mobilized its search and rescue team and the process of locating the unaccounted for personnel is in progress, as well as an assessment of the damage and recoverability of the affected infrastructure. Mine operations are currently suspended. The families of the missing workers are in the process of being contacted and will be offered full support. All relevant authorities have been informed and KCC is working closely with them. Further updates will be issued as appropriate.
Breaking: Michael Bloomberg will NOT run for the US presidency
Jeesh, what a whuss. Here's the op-ed he's just published, "The Risk I Will Not Take"
That leaves us with mediocrity to choose from on either side. Again.
The most successful country pavilion at PDAC is....
The best buffet in town, gratis. Buen provecho, varones blancos gordos y viejos.
UPDATE: Reader Claudio says:
"Biggest surprise of the PDAC 2016 so far: Rick Rule did not make IVN his Top Pick on BNN.
Second: Ecuador's buffet."
And before you get too cocky about your latest junior mining trade win, investor boy...
Looking goooooood there, Chuck!
See you down The Pilot, Chuck!
PS: Oh nearly forgot! See you down there too, Daryl!
Chesapeake Gold (CKG.v): Reader RW says it best
UPDATE: A reader writes:
"Hello Otto
"I drop in to your site from time to time and was greeted with your take (via another site reader) on CKG. I am disappointed on the IRR but had thought that at $1600.US+ Au the project was possible. I always trusted Randy Reifel and thought that he did a good job and was honest. Kept cash in the bank and a low float. Anyway I sold 1/3 of my position because I value your comments."
IKN back. My question is why did he only sell a third?
Argentina at PDAC
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First Mining Finance (FF.v): Yet more dilution, yet another piece of moose pasture
Peru Presidential Polling: Keiko Fujimori and Julio Guzmán lead the field
The IKN Weekly, out now
Nancy Reagan and Aaron Ramsey
Just saying.
UPDATE: Man those guys at Wikipedia are fast.
Talk of a "curse" returned in late August 2013 when Ramsey scored twice in Arsenal's 2–0 victory in the Champions League against Fenerbahçe; interviewer Sir David Frost and Irish poet Seamus Heaney died three and four days later, respectively. Other celebrities whose deaths have been linked to the Ramsey effect are actor Paul Walker,[113] actor/comedian Robin Williams,[113] and actor/filmmaker Richard Attenborough.[113] David Bowie died the day after Ramsey scored in Arsenal's 3–1 league win over Sunderland,[114] and actor Alan Rickman died on 14 January 2016; Ramsey had scored in a 3–3 draw with Liverpool the night before.[114] On March 6th, 2016 Ramsey scored against Tottenham Hotspurs, and the following day former First Lady, Nancy Reagan passed away.[114]


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No goals at Deepdale
Preston's winless league run at Deepdale continued after the Lilywhites drew a blank in a goalless draw at home to north west rivals Bury.
Despite home wins in the FA Cup, Graham Westley's side are without a home league win since beating Yeovil on September 29. Meanwhile, the Shakers have not won in any competition since November 20.
In a game of few chances, Preston came closest to breaking the deadlock early on but Will Hayhurst's low, 10th-minute shot was blocked after John Welsh's cut-back.
At the other end, Stephen Schumacher's dipping 20-yard free-kick went over after 17 minutes and Zac Thompson fired into the side-netting midway through the first half.
With neither side able to make a breakthrough, tensions increased and Chris Beardsley was furious not to be given a penalty on the half-hour mark when he went down under Efe Sodje's challenge.
The match continued in the same vein after the break with Thompson's 20-yard scissor-kick in the 73rd minute - pushed away by Thorsten Stuckmann after an awkward bounce - a rare highlight.
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Dancing With The Stars All Stars Details And Entertainment For Week 3, After Party Info
ABC MediaNet has released a press release detailing next week's shows on Dancing With The Stars. Note how there will be an "exclusive encore" and "behind the scenes" footage from Monday night's iconic dance night before the Results show. On tap to perform on the Results show is the group "Karmin". Frankie Moreno will also perform with the troupe, Lacey Schwimmer, and…drum rolls….Kyle Massey. More details listed below and at the link.
"Episode 1503 & 1503A" – It's "Iconic Dance Night" and the couples have been challenged by Judge Len Goodman to deliver show-stopping routines that the series has never seen before. The 11 remaining celebrities have chosen an iconic "DWTS" dance to reinterpret, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. For the first time ever, the celebrities have taken charge of the creative direction of the routine, given the responsibility for all artistic decisions relating to the performance.
In a one-hour special, "Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars – An Exclusive Encore," we will recap Monday night's stellar performances as well as include new, exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen interviews , TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET). Following the special, on "Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars — The Results Show" (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET), the couples face a double elimination and Karmin perform "Hello" and their irresistibly addictive single, "Brokenhearted," from their debut album "Hello," out now. Last year Karmin captured the attention of music lovers worldwide when they posted a cover of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now." The clip went viral, becoming one of YouTube's most viewed videos; since then they've racked up about a half billion views for all of their videos online. The duo released their first album, "Hello," earlier this year, shortly after their television debut on "Saturday Night Live." Amy and Nick spent the earlier part of the summer touring around the country and headlining festivals, including a performance for a crowd of more than 100,000 in San Francisco last month. Also performing Tuesday night is musician Frankie Moreno with a medley of "Tangerine Honey" and "Real Wild Child," accompanied by Troupe members Lacey Schwimmer and Kyle Massey.
Also during Tuesday night's results show, we will have the season's first "AT& T Spotlight Performance," featuring Joshua Johnson. Joshua, an ambitious young man from New York City, had always dreamt of going to college. But when his acceptance letter came from Penn State University, he realized he was never going to be able to afford it. His mother had lost her job years before and they had been living in shelters ever since. Josh decided he would raise the money he needed by tap dancing on the subway. He danced for hours, holding out his hat for donations. Eventually, he collected enough money to cover his freshman year of college. But to pay for future years, Josh would take a five-hour bus ride to New York every weekend and raise more money by tap dancing on the subway. Currently in his junior year at Penn State, he still travels to New York every weekend with the hope of raising enough money to get him through to graduation. Tuesday night, the ballroom welcomes Joshua and eight other dancers who will be dancing in a powerful piece by renowned choreographer JT Horenstein. The performance will be beautiful tribute to the people of New York, as Josh knows that without them he wouldn't be in college.
Also, don't miss watching the Dancing With The Stars After Party after the show on Monday night. According to Grinya Talent Agency, Anna Garnis will join the panel to critique the dances and the show. You can follow Anna on twitter at @AnyaGarnisLA. In telling you a little about Anya. She has performed in some of the results shows on Dancing With The Stars (beautiful flash back performance below). She's also a dancer on So You Think You Can Dance. You can read more on her ballroom career here.


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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is strongly committed to supporting research aimed at preventing and treating heart, lung, and blood diseases and conditions and sleep disorders.
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Thursday, November 19
2009 LPGA Tour Championship TV Schedule and Tournament Notes
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UPDATE: The Golf Channel will televise live coverage of the LPGA Tour Championship today (Monday) from 3-5 p.m. ET, followed by a prime-time replay from 6:30–8:30 p.m. ET.
THE 2009 LPGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP is underway at the Houstonian Golf & Country Club in Houston, Texas. Lorena Ochoa is the early leader after shooting a 6-under par 66.
Purse: $1.5 million
Defending champion: (inaugural edition)
Tournament preview
Tournament interviews
Final field
2009 LPGA Tour Championship Leaderboard
More coverage:
Preview and predictions (Mostly Harmless)
Overview (Golf Channel)
Shin in control of POY race (USA Today)
Eight hours of TV coverage are on tap for the 2009 LPGA Tour Championship.
Thursday, Nov 19
4:00-6:00 PM ET Golf Channel
Friday, Nov 20
4:00-6:00 PM ET Golf Channel
Saturday, Nov 21
4:00-6:00 PM ET Golf Channel
Sunday, Nov 22
3:00-5:00 PM ET Golf Channel
−The Armchair Golfer
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The writer of the biblical book of Revelation, commenting on a Roman food crisis, expressed outrage that a day's wage was not enough to feed a laborer's family. Part of the problem was that local grain production had been undercut by cheap Egyptian imports and the greater profitability of livestock feed, while the province of Asia saw food staple prices rise because grain was less profitable than wine.
Sound familiar? It should—because the current crisis of world food prices, which has sent 100 million people into poverty, is a mostly human-made disaster.
The problem today is not a lack of food—it's that it's too expensive. Many of the world's poor were already paying up to 80 percent of their income for food; in the last year, rice more than doubled in price, wheat nearly doubled, and corn went up by two-thirds. And the sad truth is that human beings set things up this way.
Here are 10 factors—most of them preventable—that led us to the global food-price crisis we're in today:
1. Fossil-fuel-intensive farming models. It's long been obvious that, as our planet's accessible oil and gas supplies dwindle, their price will go up. Yet for the last several decades, the U.S. and other rich countries have pushed a farming model in which farms are large, heavily mechanized, and geared for export to distant markets. This model ran into the ground many of the small-scale, local farms that had the ability to grow food locally and sustainably (and that, in the global South, had provided some kind of subsistence for former peasants who have now become hungry urban slum dwellers).


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As a follow-up to director Joe Carnahan's crazy action indie Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, he chose to write and direct one of the grittiest, low down cop flicks in recent years, if not ever, Narc. It's the story of two cops (Ray Liotta and Jason Patric) investigating the death of one of their colleagues. The investigation leads them deep into the heart of Detroit's brutal drug trade (though most of the film was actually shot in Toronto). Each has their own heavy cop baggage and demons that they must tote with them through the brutal streets.
Over the years Carnahan has been linked to a number of high profile projects that have either vanished or come to fruition with other directors at the helm (ranging from Mission Impossible III to adaptations of Killing Pablo and James Ellroy's White Jazz with George Clooney). In recent years he made the overly hyper action comedy Smokin' Aces and the decent but forgettable restaging of TV's The A-Team. Narc has been the peak of Carnahan's career; it's the film that is still getting him attached to so many high profile projects. It showed so much potential; time will tell if he is ever able to match it in quality. He was able to bring an arresting visual style, emphasizing the cool blue streets of Detroit in winter (similar to the hues Steven Soderbergh shot Detroit with in Out of Sight). The city is made to feel frigid, not just in the air, but also in the hearts of the players on both sides of the law.Continue Reading
About the only thing this Shaft remake has in common with the original Richard Roundtree cop classic is that great Isaac Hayes theme song and similar funky score (and Roundtree pops up in a supporting role in this one). Both Shafts are swinging ladies men and both have to deal with race issues being African-American cops in a hostile world and working with a corrupt police force. What makes the remake stand out as more than just a serviceable late night TV time killer is the presence of two great unlikely villains teaming up, played by two great actors, Christian Bale and Jeffrey Wright, working at their scenery chewing best.
The original Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks is usually unjustly labeled "blaxploitation," but it's degrading because Shaft was actually much closer in class and style to an acclaimed crime film like The French Connection than say, some jive like Superfly. Shaft became a minor cultural phenomenon, birthing two decent sequels and even a short-lived television series. The inevitable remake comes 30 years later, and though it might not have delivered as a franchise starter, it does deliver perfectly as a solid action guilty pleasure.Continue Reading


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