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REST Web Services and Superstition
It's been forever since I write anything. My plans for writing haven't changed; I've just been swamped at work, sick, and a few other things all at once.
For now, let's play a game called "tell me why I'm wrong." My argument: RESTful web services are often hyped, and only occasionally beneficial.
I do admire this: the "REST web services" marketing has been phenomenal. Wow! This is one of the great success stories of rhetoric. Web services meant something in the very early days. By proclaiming loudly and often that SOAP and REST are alternative types of web services, it was possible to get acknowledgement of REST every single time someone talks about web services, at the risk of being "corrected." Never mind that the whole "the web itself is a REST service" nonsense belies that the term has now been stripped of any meaning; millions of people will assume someone's stupid if that person doesn't play along with taking "REST web services" seriously. It's a nice play on the human dislike for being thought wrong.
Now, the reasons to prefer non-REST web services (i.e., the original kind, for which the phrase was invented) are clear. Basically, it comes down to this: average programmers don't have have to do anything. Marshalling, networking, and everything is handled in a library that exposes an interface – on both sides of the connection – exactly analogous to the set of things someone will actually want to do.
Now, it seems, I should make my web services more RESTful. There really seems to be only one reason, and it amounts to setting up "the web" as an ideal to strive for, and then pointing out that SOAP-based services don't meet that ideal. Of course they don't; that was never the right goal to begin with. If I'm writing software for foo, I ought to be concerned with whether my remote interface is consistent with the goals and ideals of foo, rather than the web. When providing any kind of remote interface to some piece of functionality, the goal should be to accurately represent that functionality. No one cares about the transport protocol.
Perhaps we could build techniques for abstraction that make REST web services as easy as SOAP. Great idea, and WADL tries to do it. But oops, Joe Gregorio says that's not good. Of course, Joe is not alone. It seems he's part of a massive movement of people scrambling to block this approach. The technique is similar: it's not "RESTful" enough; in other words, too little like the web. Apparently, abstraction is not web-like enough, so we should drop it.
Yes, "the web" has been successful. It's been successful because it fulfilled a need, and made choices that were the right ones for its problems and challenges. When faced with different challenges, other decisions are the right ones. Leonard Richardson (author of the popular book RESTful web services) admits in an interview with InfoQ that many more dynamic web applications (those that solve problems different from the web) don't follow REST principles at all. Of course, he follows that with a comment that the web would just be better if they did; but with no justification. These are people who solved different problems, and they used different ideas to do it.
So I view REST as a superstition; the web is great, and it does these things, so we should to. Jedediah died, and he walked under a ladder, so we shouldn't walk under ladders. Is it all the same glitch in the human psyche?
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Daniel Lyons / Jun 17 2007 8:50 pm
I agree. I think the main argument for RESTful style is that, if you're a Rails developer, it makes the programming a little nicer. Of course, it demands that you do things in a much different way, and it requires some hacks to make it happen. After all, the REST rhetoric sweeps the whole issue of browsers never sending DELETE and PUT requests under the carpet, so even in Rails using REST, there are kooky things happening under the service to make things seem cleaner than they really are (the _method hidden variable, namely).
On the other hand, I can make an argument for REST being a nice ideal, and I have a lot of trouble making that same argument about SOAP, especially in a universe that already has the Ice protocol (http://www.zeroc.com).
Rahul / Jun 18 2007 1:00 am
One of the neat things about REST is that it makes it easy to examine and debug your web service armed with little more than a text editor and a HTTP client.
bew / Jun 18 2007 1:41 am
If you need plain RPC, then stay with SOAP, CORBA etc.
It's a bit funny that someone interested in Haskell
is that negative about REST. With REST, GET and PUT
are like pure functions. You will always get the same
result, irrespective of how often you call them
with the same parameters.
With REST, simple web caches can help you with performance
problems. GET/PUT can be 'memoized'.
The 'function call' or 'method call' model XMLRPC/SOAP is
neither the only nor the best abstraction for web services.
Luke Plant / Jun 18 2007 9:29 am
Take one example — I use web services very little, but I suspect this example might be typical: http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/services/api/ .
For the REST API, there are no reported difficulties. It's extremely easy to use from Python code, and requires nothing but standard libraries. The SOAP version is considered experimental as it has only been tested with a couple of frameworks. But why do you even need to test with more than one framework? The answer is found here:
Chuck / Jun 19 2007 4:24 pm
It's the mark of an elegant protocol to see it extended usefully, so I'm not begrudging the fact that REST is actually putting two neglected HTTP verbs to use. What does drive me nuts is the claim of its proponents that theirs is The True Way, that HTTP was designed with this way in mind. Aside from the annoyance factor of this brand of evangalism, the facts of history differ.
I remember HTML 1.0, I remember HTTP/0.9 and regardless of TBL's elegant design (that never really saw realization even in HTTP/1.0), it wasn't an application protocol then, and isn't one now. It was designed to link documents — and only HTML documents to start! It wasn't until HTTP/1.0 that it grew to support MIME, which solidified the document focus even more. PUT was designed to place a document at a URL, and yes, that has idempotent semantics, but all the frantic handwaving about "four verbs" doesn't remove the fact that it's about as multi-purpose as the PUT command in FTP.
Jeffrey Winter / Jun 20 2007 6:23 am
"I do admire this: the "REST web services" marketing has been phenomenal."
By what standard? People have been strongly advocating this for *years* and it is only now beginning to see the light of day. The rest-discuss group began in 2002 and some of the seminal articles/postings etc are older than that.
This isn't an example of hype, but of the best approach rising to the top in pure Darwinian competition.
l.m.orchard / Jun 20 2007 5:48 pm
I suspect that you don't have a good picture of what REST means. That's not meant to be a dig or insult, and it's totally understandable: Lots of current web services call themselves REST when they're not at all. In fact, there really aren't that many actual REST-style services around yet.
Making a service RESTful and following the patterns of the web is not superstitious – there are definable and enumerable benefits. When you can constrain things down to a handful of verbs across the web, you can do interesting and reusable things for every service on the web.
An example: Caching. If you know GET does certain things, no matter what the particular resource URL is, you can work at a higher level. Knowing that GET is idempotent and how conditional GET headers work, you can implement caching for any RESTful service.
For RPC services, there are very few things common between services. You couldn't do something like caching for every RPC service, because most have invented their own snowflake-unique rules. Sometimes this is necessary, but far less often than is done. The rules of the web as-is fit a surprising range of scenarios.
For HTTP, there are pages and pages of RFCs on caching; error conditions; how to tell when a document has been modified out from under you; etc etc. If you can make your service conform to the rules of HTTP, you get the benefit of all this other work done on it and continuing to be done with it.
l.m.orchard / Jun 20 2007 5:50 pm
"In fact, there really aren't that many actual REST-style services around yet."
Actually… what I meant by that was, there aren't that many *read/write* REST-style services around yet. Syndication feeds (RSS and Atom) represent probably the biggest read-only service, but generally look to simple to be thought of as a *service* per se.
bew / Jun 21 2007 8:07 am
Apart from caching, REST can use nice HTTP
features like the ETag/If-match headers to
detect simultaneous access to a single
As SOAP expects very little from its
underlying protocol, it has to duplicate
all the functionality already available in
HTTP. Not elegant.


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sep 26, 2014) - SilverCrest Mines Inc. (the "Company")(SVL.TO)(NYSE MKT:SVLC) is pleased to provide an update for the transition of the Santa Elena Mine in Sonora, Mexico from open pit heap leach to underground mining and milling operations. Activities at the mine are now moving from capital intensive expenditures for the overall Expansion Plan to operating costs and sustaining capital expenditures for underground development with emphasis on generating free cash flow through continued strict cost controls. The most significant transition activities are outlined below. For additional information and to view photos and videos, please visit the Company's website at www.silvercrestmines.com.
N. Eric Fier, President and COO stated; "We are pleased with our transition to a conventional milling operation at the Santa Elena Mine. The commissioning of the mill was completed on budget as of August 1, 2014. The ramp up of underground stope production to 1,500 tonnes per day has encountered short-term delays. These delays are primarily due to finalizing detailed stope designs based on recent in-fill drilling with associated geotechnical constraints. Also, delays in long-hole drilling start-up for stope development are attributed to personnel training in drilling procedures while testing stope ground support. These short-term delays are manageable but will impact previously announced 2014 metal production guidance of approximately 3.3 million AgEq ounces at a ratio of 60:1. Guidance for 2014 is now projected to range from 3.0 to 3.3 million AgEq ounces. Estimated operating cash costs for 2014 of $8.50 to $9.50 per AgEq ounce and all-in sustaining cash costs of $11 to $12 per AgEq ounce, remain unchanged. These costs continue to make SilverCrest one of the lowest cost producers in the sector with anticipated free cash flow for Q4 2014".
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The new mill and CCD/Merrill Crowe processing plant is currently running at an average throughput of 2,500 tonnes per day. Grind size testing for optimization is ongoing which impacts throughput, recoveries and efficient operation of the dry tailings belt filters. Optimized milling rate of 3,000 tonnes per day is targeted for Q4 2014.
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Although behind schedule, mining the first production stope has commenced which is being developed between the 600m and 575m levels. Underground ramp access continues to be driven ahead of mine development with the bottom of the ramp currently at the 564m elevation. Completion of a ventilation raise in Q4 2014 is expected to increase operating efficiencies and improve advancement rates for both underground development and mine production.
Total underground development to date, including ramping, lateral ore and waste development, and raise development, is approximately 6,000 metres. Six levels currently have ore and partial waste development completed in anticipation of stope production.
With major capital expenditures completed for the 3 year long Expansion Plan, the Company anticipates generating free cash flow in Q4 2014 at current precious metal prices.
The Company is assessing the possibility of re-opening the Santa Elena open pit over the next 2 months which would increase projected metal production for Q4 2014 and H1 2015, providing safety and permitting requirements are met. Approximately 100,000 tonnes grading 1.4 gpt Au and 88.0 gpt Ag remain in the pit for possible low cost excavation and mill processing.
The Qualified Person under NI 43-101 for this News Release is N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President and Chief Operating Officer for SilverCrest Mines Inc., who has reviewed and approved its contents.
SilverCrest Mines Inc. (SVL.TO)(NYSE MKT:SVLC) is a Canadian precious metals producer headquartered in Vancouver, BC. SilverCrest's flagship property is the 100%‐owned Santa Elena Mine, located 150 km northeast of Hermosillo, near Banamichi in the State of Sonora, México. The mine is a high‐grade, epithermal silver and gold producer, with an estimated life of mine of 8 years at an average operating cash costs of $11 per ounce of silver equivalent (55:1 Ag:Au). SilverCrest anticipates that the new 3,000 tonnes per day conventional mill facility at the Santa Elena Mine should recover an average of 1.5 million ounces of silver and 32,800 ounces of gold per annum over the current reserve life. Major expansion and commissioning of the 3,000 tonnes per day conventional mill facility is complete and is expected to increase metals production at the Santa Elena Mine in the second half of 2014 and beyond. Exploration programs continue to result in new discoveries at Santa Elena and also have rapidly advanced the definition of a large polymetallic deposit at the La Joya property in Durango State, Mexico.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and the United States Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements concern the Company's anticipated results and developments in the Company's operations in future periods, planned exploration and development of its properties, plans related to its business and other matters that may occur in the future and include, without limitation, statements with respect to: the economic viability of a project; strategic plans and expectations for the development of the Company's operations and properties; the amount of mineral reserves and mineral resources; the amount of future production of gold and silver over any period; the amount of expected grades and ounces of metals and minerals; expected processing recoveries; cash operating costs and outflows; life of mine; average mine recovery rates; anticipated free cash flow generation and prices of metals and minerals.
These forward-looking statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on, without limitation, the following estimates and assumptions: the presence of and continuity of metals at the Company's projects; cost of production and productivity levels; plant and equipment function as anticipated; the availability of skilled labour; contracted parties provide goods and services on agreed time frame; ability to develop and finance projects; accuracy of the interpretations and assumptions used in calculating reserve and resource estimates; and operations not being disrupted or delayed by unusual geological or technical problems.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation: risks related to precious and base metal price fluctuations; risks related to fluctuations in the currency markets (particularly the Mexican peso, Canadian dollar and United States dollar); risks related to the inherently dangerous activity of mining, including conditions or events beyond our control, and operating or technical difficulties in mineral exploration, development and mining activities; uncertainty in the Company's ability to raise financing and fund the exploration and development of its mineral properties; uncertainty as to actual capital costs, operating costs, production and economic returns, and uncertainty that development activities will result in profitable mining operations; risks related to reserves and mineral resource figures being estimates based on interpretations and assumptions which may result in less mineral production under actual conditions than is currently estimated and to diminishing quantities or grades of mineral reserves as properties are mined; risks related to governmental regulations and obtaining necessary licenses and permits; risks related to the business being subject to environmental laws and regulations which may increase costs of doing business and restrict our operations; risks related to mineral properties being subject to prior unregistered agreements, transfers, or claims and other defects in title; risks relating to inadequate insurance or inability to obtain insurance; risks related to potential litigation; risks related to the global economy; risks related to environmental laws; risks related to the Company's status as a foreign private issuer in the United States; risks related to all of the Company's properties being located in Mexico and El Salvador, including political, economic, social and regulatory instability; and risks related to officers and directors becoming associated with other natural resource companies, which may give rise to conflicts of interests.
Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The Company's forward-looking statements are based on beliefs, expectations and opinions of management on the date the statements are made. For the reasons set forth above, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this news release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
This news release includes the term "Free cash flow". This term is commonly used in the mining industry but is not defined under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate SilverCrest's performance and its ability to generate cash flow. It is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Free cash flow is calculated from net cash provided by operating activities less SilverCrest's capital expenditures on its mining interests.Contact:SilverCrest Mines Inc.Fred Cooper(604) 694-1730 ext. 108Toll Free: 1-866-691-173(604) email@example.com
And this is what it means:
Chart of the day is...
...this copper stocks and spreads chart from this Reuters Andy Home article:
I'm not a fan of double Y-axis charts normally, but as this one's more a case of trying to squeeze in more info in less space and not trying to convince you of a non-existent correlation, it's ok. The article it's from is well worth your time, oh reader interested in base metals. That's basically why it's CotD today, to try and get you interested enough to click through and learn something worth learning about the copper market of today.
A request
Dear technical analyst currently writing your "bullish formation on gold" article,
Please inform us in same piece all other times and dates you made a bullish call on gold in 2014.
Fortunately the capital markets are not a court of law and we normal people have the right to call you blowhard scamming pseudoscientific snake oil peddling fucktards until proven wrong*. With the greatest respect, of course.
*Which does happen. Of the dozens of TA merchants that have crossed my path, two have shown themselves to be smart and trustworthy. Just goes to show that my presumption can be fucktardery too. Which is how it should be.
*Which does happen. Of the dozens of TA merchants that have crossed my path, two have shown themselves to be smart and trustworthy. Just goes to show that my presumption can be fucktardery too. Which is how it should be.
Precipitate Gold (PRG.v) has a message for exploration mining companies
And the message is:
Do not waste your money by drilling your properties.
On Tuesday morning Precipitate Gold (PRG.v) gave us this news release on initial drilling results from its property in Dominican Republic. It included this table of results...
...and as I've scribbled on the thing, that hole 5 is a bona fide, real live classic discovery hole which announces the arrival of a new mineralized body of gold to the world. And the market's reaction to this news?
It couldn't give a flying fig. The type of news that would have shot a $7m market cap company such as PRG a mile higher just a couple of years ago is completely ignored by the world. So, dear and loving junior exploration stage mining company CEOs, why bother drilling your site? In the world of 2014, not only do you run the risk of ruining your best prospect by finding out the truth, but even if you get lucky and hit something in the style of PRG the reaction will be plain fat zero.
Meanwhile for the rest of us: Contrary bullish signal? Oh yes, you know it's true.
Disclosure: No position in PRG.v. Never had one, either. That may change.
Disclosure: No position in PRG.v. Never had one, either. That may change.
Rio Alto Mining $RIOM (RIO.to) produced 17,199 ounces of gold in August 2014
Add that to the 19,435oz of July and you're 2/3rds of the way there to the 3q14 quarterly total, just this month of September missing. The data comes from the official filings RIO.to makes to the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mining, here*.
There's this thing about heap/dump leachers, that when you have them running smoothly they tend to start kicking out reasonably predictable and steady results as if on rails. There's always some slight variation as grade or tonnage moved in a small sample timescale such as one calendar month will never be exactly the same, but the uniformity of numbers since January 2014 from La Arena smacks of a "we have this thing down pat now" operation. So all in all, it's a fair guess that RIO.to gives us around 55k oz for 3q14, that would be at upper level of annual guidance and that'd be fine by me.
*All you need to do now is get to the right page inside the MEM site. Good luck and enjoy the Spanish practice.
The most valuable brands in LatAm
Millward Brown Vermeer (a subsidiary of advert giants WPP) has put together its annual list of the top 50 most valuable brands in Latin America. The concentration of cash in trade marks is simplicity itself, you need:
- A business in Mexico, Brazil or Chile. Then Colombia.
- A beer or a bank, or if in Chile a retail chain
- Then maybe a phone or an oil & gas company.
The minor variations come further down the line (whole thing here), but apparently the whole region is just one big account-holding, beer slurping, car driving mass of people who love their companies. Maybe you don't get the perspective in your local market, but when you compare the reality of this region to the image the publicists try to sell you the superficial bullshit of advertising gets written in large letters in Latin America. Humanity will not miss them when they are gone.
Suggestions on how to play the O&G sector in 2014
Any recent updates from John Mauldin or Marin Katusa about PRD Energy (PRD.v), the "next Bakken" and their red hot top pick oil and gas investment pick for 2014?
No, nothing you say?
They've gone very quiet on the stock recently, you say?
In fact, nothing for weeks on end, you say?
Well riddle me ree, there's a surprise. It's almost as if they were running a pump and dump operat....nah, perish the thought!
Suggestion for Pierre Lassonde: What to do with the U$500m $FNV raised in the bought deal recently
Hands up all those readers who remember Brazilian o&g/mining magnate Eike Batista
- He of selling bigtime iron ore deposits to Anglo.
- He of the oil and gas company OGX with the 100% hit rate on drilling its prospects
- He who bought Ventana Gold in Colombia
- He who was once in the world's top 10 of rich people and with the stated ambition to be number one.
- And he who is now bankrupt, of course.
Here's the very latest on Eike, hot off the presses this morning
"Businessman Eike Batista and seven other executives of OGX were today charged by the Sao Paulo Federal Court, accused of the crimes of fraud, conspiracy and deliberate misleading of investors with false information related to the dissemination of information considered highly optimistic regarding potential oil reserves of the company that were later revealed to be unfounded."
Dear employees of Reuters: Invest in a dictionary
Seriously Reuters, WTF is that?
This is Times of India or Breitbart level, from the supposed world leader in news* it's frankly embarrassing. Link here, screenshot above to make sure they don't alter without announcing the correction.
*AP will argue that: After today, they have another stone to throw.
*AP will argue that: After today, they have another stone to throw.
Argentina: Critics tend to forget how salary increases compare with high inflation...
...because if their petticoats slip and they mention the subject, dirty little secrets are let out. The following from Hernan Pablo's incisive Argentina econoblog, Hache as it considers the period of 2001 (the financial crisis moment) to the beginning of 2014 in Argentina's macro economy, considering private sector salaries:
"...from 2001, real salaries increased by 1,205%, while inflation increased by 920%. In other words, if somebody earned ArgP$1,000 they now earn ArgP$13,050, while goods that cost ArgP$100 now cost ArgP$1,020."
Yes folks, you just read that right, no typos there: People in Argentina are better off now in real terms than they were before the high inflation environment kicked in. Go read all the note, plenty more food for thought there. This is the dirty little secret of econo-pseuds that jump to conclusions about high inflation economies, because if salaries keep up or even (in the case of Argentina) outstrip the rate of inflation, buying power of your average citizen is either unaffected or improves.
Here's another example to think about. Who would you rather be?
1) Avg Joe bluecollar in USA, receives average pay increase of 2% per annum in an average 3.5% per annum inflation environment.
2) Avg José azulcollar in Argentina, receives average pay increase of 28% per annum in an average 25% per annum inflation environment.
Don't think about it too long now, willyaz? And before you jump to conclusions about the dataset used by Hernan, the quoted 920% total inflation figure isn't the official State beancouter INDEC version which is rightly considered a tissue of lies; that's the parallel IPC version, the one that's used to whack into INDEC by government opposition parties and the country's constantly hostile mass media. Also drole is how Hernan is picking up on an article in anti-CFK newspaper La Nación and using its figures verbatim, a report that was designed to criticize the sitting administration.
Understanding climate change
The planet is warming. This statement gets agreement from 99% of scientists studying the issue and disagreement from scientists sponsored by rich people that don't like the idea. As for public reaction:
1) My parents' generation doesn't give a fuck.
2) My childrens' generation thinks it's the most important problem in the world today.
3) My generation just can't seem to make up its mind.
Statement 1 is correct because this generation will be dead before climate change fucks up their lives.Statement 2 is correct because this generation will still be alive when climate change fucks up their lives.
Statement 3 is correct because this generation can't decide whether it will be alive or dead before climate change fucks up their lives.
Or put another way, human beings in 2014 are doing their normal thing because the selfish fucks who run the world are still the rich people from my parents' generation. It just so happens that my kids' generation will be acting from the very same limbic self-preservation, but don't get all misty-eyed over the change when it happens, it's not going to be from altruism or touchyfeelyness about cute fuzzy monkeys in jungles or saving rare mosses in tundra zones. When it's their turn they'll be making choices and decisions that coincide with the well-being of the planetary environment, but the key word is coincide, as in coincidence. Because they'll be the same selfish fucks as we adults are, hardwire reactions don't change in 50 years and humans will continue to be selfish fucks.
But there is some good news: We will not destroy the planet*, so take heart from that.
PS: Did I mention the bit about selfish fucks?
PS: Did I mention the bit about selfish fucks?
*The planet will destroy us.
Chart of the day is...
...the subsequent performance of the silver mining companies tipped as excellent investments by Sean Rakhimov of "silver strategies dot com in this interview in The Gold Report dated July 16th, 2014:
Hey, you could have been lucky and picked out Santacruz Silver (SCZ.v) from his list of his expert moneymaking ideas; if you did you'd only be down 8% or so on your investment.
Rakhimov said silver would break through $26/oz and flying off to $32/oz, too.
Gold at U$400 an ounce (the intro to IKN280, out last Sunday evening)
It was a fairly simple intro to IKN280 last Sunday, but I felt like writing it and did so. For whatever reason the feedback's been positive so what the devil, let's stick it on the blog and give it a wider airing.
Gold at U$400 an ounce
Due to several disparate influences, some market related and others far removed from the world of the screen and the number, there's been this thought experiment going round my head for a few days. The basic premise is to assume that gold is worth a lot less and the über-bear crowd is correct, so I picked out of the air the number $400 for a target price of gold (which could have been higher or lower, it's just my personal line in the sand) and tried to envisage the price there and what it would mean. But however much I try I can't see it happening, because to get to what's best described as "an abnormal price*" we'd need wholesale dumping of reserve gold by the world's central banks. This would happen at the same time as nearly all gold mines around the world closing due to unprofitable operations. Finally, we'd also see a massive increase in consumer demand for gold jewelry. So unless our tastes as consumers dramatically change and humans turn their collective backs on gold, the outright "gold is worthless" brigade want us to suppose that drops and supply dries up while demand rockets, all at the same time. Expanded thought on those:
1) Most gold mines would close. Unless of course the US Dollar doesn't get simply stronger but a LOT stronger than peer and world currencies, operating costs would soon rise above revenues for gold mining companies. Most businesses can survive a period of time under such circumstances, but only if balance sheets are in order. But then, once revenues fail to cover even a small percentage of fixed costs all you'll hear from mines around the world is the sound of keys turning and locks snapping shut.
2) But the world would crave supply (see point 3 below), so gold would have to come from vaults and suchlike. This would mean banks giving up their solid reserves in preference for currency (again, most likely the dollar) but as most country central banks only carry a minor part of reserves in gold and already have a major part in USD (central bank holdings of the Venezuela type are few and far between) the benefits would be minimal and the dangers of reducing reserve diversification would quickly be pointed out by the sober end of the econosphere (not just the goldbug or hard asset fringe). Unless gold goes suddenly out of favour as a thing worth money by human beings, a move that would go against thousands of years of human culture and habit, it's tough to see gold being swapped for cash on such a scale by the institutional and country movers.
3) Demand would rocket. To repeat, we'd need human beings to move away from a historical love for the rare, shiny, long-lasting metal (1) that can be made into very pretty objects. And as I look around this me-first, fuck you, baby boomer world of self entitlement and overwhelming consumer greed it's very difficult indeed to imagine a situation where gold wouldn't be bought in ravenous quantities by people with access to disposable income and buying power on a level previously unknown. Bling would be made into crass shapes and forms as yet unimaginable (anyone for a 18k twerking robot model of Miley Cyrus?) as the post-industrial consumer dream is offered in 12, easy to pay zero interest installments. Karl Marx would look down (up?) upon us and smile contentedly as the last great bastion of elite wealth is spread among the proletariat, not just confined to the oligarchs or bourgeoisie
Not gonna happen, folks. Not. Gonna. Happen.
Gold is a circular argument after all. Its critics (and there are many) are the first to point out that it's only expensive because it's precious because it's sought after because it's expensive etc etc and that circular argument may be annoying to the cold and calculating world of the quant, but like it or not it's also a long-standing fact (and they don't like it). But it also means the rich have a vested interest in keeping the barrier to entry high, because they already own a heapload of the stuff and if the last 200 years of capitalist economic development has taught us one thing, it's that the rich don't like it when you start messing with the value of their assets. Play with the currency all you like but don't discount the value of the things they own, the solid things that are heavy (house) or pretty (Warhol) or both (gold bar) for which they paid a lot of money to own.
The argument is loosely scripted and not particularly original or eloquent either, but that's ok because I'm not trying to break into the Gold Bullion Expert Commentary Club anytime soon, merely defending the position of a holder of juniors in the face of the current bear in their main underlying metal. Gold may drop in price some more in 2014 but it's not going to drop much further, because in 2014 it won't suit the haves to give away ownership to the have-nots so easily. In dollar terms we're either at or close to the bottom now, the asset value hasn't changed a jot and it won't do so in the future either. As for upside to bullion, I'm aware that my preferred "gold to $1.4k by end
has taken several knocks over the last two weeks but I contend it's still
perfectly possible, which is something that will affect our juniors more positively
than any bullion you might own because (hopefully at least) we'll reach a price
point where selling the juniors and exchanging shares for cash is the right
*For once I make no apology for the inverted commas
Yes, Latin American statisticians really are this stupid
1) Base two decades of economic growth on primary industry and rapid growth of commodities exports.
2) Complain the way regional beancounters CEPAL complains, because apparently the economic costs of Climate Change would take 2.5% away from regional GDP growth in the event that average temperatures rise 2.5ºC.
It's like all just so fucking unfair, why can't we have our cake and eat it too?
B2Gold $BTG (BTO.to): Anyone else notice the heavy AH action in the stock yesterday evening?
Twitterpal Ross did:
UPDATE after the close today. Ross solves the mystery.
I've had a few inquiries about this JV project over the months and years, the answer has always been "avoid". Today's news is one of the reasons why.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sep 22, 2014) - Rokmaster Resources Corp. ("Rokmaster" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RKR)(RKR.V) announces that as a result of the continued presence of illegal miners on the Pinaya Gold-Copper Project (the "Pinaya Project"), in which the Company has an option to earn up to a 75% interest, and Rokmaster's continuing inability to obtain unrestricted access to the portions of the Pinaya Project controlled and occupied by illegal miners, Rokmaster has declared force majeure in accordance with the Option and Joint Venture Agreement dated July 16, 2012, as amended (the "Agreement"), with AM Gold Inc. ("AM Gold") and AM Gold's Peruvian subsidiary, Canper Exploraciones S.A.C. Rokmaster has also learned that the illegal miners have produced toxic substances on the project area as a result of their illegal activities. As a result of the declaration of force majeure, all time limits imposed by the Agreement are extended until the illegal miners and the toxic substances which they have created are removed from the Pinaya Project area rendering such areas accessible and safe.
But only one of the reasons. Link to NR here
How Peru politics works
Your humble scribe was reading a minor report on the state of play in the regional election campaign in Cajamarca this morning (Peru chooses its regional and provincial governors, city mayors etc on October 5th in a pretty important election for the country). It's not the type of article that gets mention on these pages normally, more the type that forms the general background reading, but this one suddenly expanded and gave a quote about the wider political scene in Peru that's both succinct and very accurate. Here it is, translated:
"The person who has the most money gets access to be a candidate (for election).... Simply put, politicians are those who have the most money. Businesspeople are welcome and if they're associated with narcotrafficking it's even better, because they handle even more money and one of the ways to legalize it is to go into politics in order to get protection."
And that's exactly right.
Chile: Tax revenues from mining are dropping sharply
According to this report and Álvaro Merino, head of studies and Chile's National Mining Society (Sonami), here's how things look:
In 2012 Chile benefitted from U$8.2Bn in tax revenue from its mining industry. That's set to come in at just U$4.5Bn this year 2014. So now you know.
The other part of the Argentina media BS show: The local media regurgitation
On Saturday this humble corner of cyberspace showed how Bloomberg frames its anti-Argentina/anti-Cristina editorial line by being careful about the facts it chooses to present and preferring not to give context. In this way its biased reporters such as Camila Russo, author of the flimsy and unbalanced hit piece, can scream dire nastiness without bothering about normal journalism ethics. Bless their hearts.
However, there is another part to this media game in LatAm, that's the way in which this biased nonsense itsthen rebounded in the local press. Here for example is the front page of the print edition of Clarin (famously anti-CFK and Argentina's biggest circulation newspaper) that greeted Argentina on Saturday morning.
Yup, a direct re-hash of the Bloomberg note. And what's more, you read the whole Clarin report and it makes it plain the screaming headline comes directly from the Bloomberg report as paragraph three begins "As reported by the Bloomberg news agency...". But in the very same way as Bloomberg, Clarin's re-hash skips over the facts (not opinion or cherrypicked data, but facts from the very same World Bank from IKN Saturday)...
Argentina has 10.8% in the poor bracket, then 31.4% in the vulnerable column and that's how Bloomberg gets the "quadrupling" word into its headline. But what they don't tell you is...
- Argentina has the second lowest level of vulnerable in Latin America
- Argentina has the third lowest level of poor in Latin America
- Argentina has the second highest level of established middle class in Latin America
And this is how bullshit becomes accepted knowledge among the mouthbreather opposition forces in South America (because sadly, this pattern is all too common in most of the region). It goes
1) English speaking media channel publishes bullshit
2) Country media channel picks up on the bullshit
3) Lies repeated in true strategic Goebbels propaganda style until they're accepted as fact.
A cute little roundabout.
1) English speaking media channel publishes bullshit
2) Country media channel picks up on the bullshit
3) Lies repeated in true strategic Goebbels propaganda style until they're accepted as fact.
A cute little roundabout.
The IKN Weekly, out now
IKN280 has just been sent to subscribers. A 13,000 word incoherent rant that nobody in their right mind would read. Blergh. And argh.
Labels: otto, the IKN weekly
Dilma Rousseff's Presidential campaign art kicks butt
From one of her official campaign houses, Muda Mais:
Love it, and there are other varieties too. Right here. Via the guy you need to follow for English language coverage of the upcoming election in Brazil , Vincent Bevins of the LA Times and other quality media channels.
Grupo Mexico $GMEXICOB.mx, pollution and that Oscar Wilde quote again
Paraphrased, of course:
"To pollute one river may be regarded as a misfortune; to pollute two looks like carelessness"
News this afternoon is that Grupo Mexico has alerted authorities (at least this time they didn't try a cover-up) that another batch of toxic waste has escaped from its Buenavista copper mine in Sonora State and into water supplies. Yes indeed, this is the very same mine that messed up the local water just a few weeks ago and got the country's politicos baying for its licence to be revoked, well remembered ma'am/sir. This time they're blaming the tail end of the hurricane that came in over the West coast of Mexico last week. Good to have a reason, isn't it?
Thank you, Lady Bracknell. Handbags at dawn.
Alessandro Florenzi's goal celebration
1) Score goal
2) Run across pitch
3) Climb into stands
4) Find grandmother
5) Become IKN's hero of the weekend
The second for Roma in their 2-0 win. Alessandro Florenzi, you win.
Peru: At least 23 anti-drugs police officers re-selling confiscated cocaine
The shock isn't that they've been found doing it, the shock is that this is finally coming to light because everyone knows how corrupt Peru's police force is. You'll note however that it took a years-long investigation by an outside force, namely the US DEA, to shine light on these scumbags.
Full report here"Thousands of recordings made during a DEA bugging program reveal that at least 23 police officers from the National Anti-Drug Directive (Dirandro) have for years been hiding cargos of drugs and stealing drugs of mafia groups in order to re-sell it. Despite the evidence, the national internal investigation by police has moved very slowly and the accused are still working in the units that are supposed to combat narcotrafficking."
A final thought: If you think these 23 officers were doing what they were doing without the knowledge of the higher ranks of Peruvian police, I have a bridge you may be interested in purchasing. Easy terms, low downpayment.
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Santana Moss is a gametime decision,,,,,,He has a groin issue
Santana Moss is a gametime decision,,,,,,He has a groin issue
by the way, the foreskinz aren't giving us too much respect. we need to throttle these jags!
RIDICULOUSLY good looking...
Everybody watch Monday night as the Steelers Dee take apart the Washington offense. The Steelers are pissed about that loss against the Giants and know they should have won the game. We dont lose 2 in a row.....I think we go in to a hostile environment and dismantle the Skins, they dont stand a chance man.
This is NEXT YEAR!
Series History
Series History: Series began in 1933
Overall: Washington leads 43-31-4
At Pittsburgh: Washington leads 22-19-1
At Washington: Washington leads 21-12-3
Neutral Sites: n/a
Last Regular-Season Meeting: Nov. 28, 2004 (in Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh 16, Washington 7
Postseason Series: n/a
(postseason record included in overall series record)
Pittsburgh owns a 31-43-4 all-time record against the Washington Redskins, including a 12-21-3 record in Washington and a 19-22-1 mark at home...this game will mark the first time these two teams have played a regular-season game in Washington since 1988...Pittsburgh has won the last three versus the Redskins...the Steelers defeated the Redskins 16-7 on Nov. 28, 2004 behind three K Jeff Reed field goals and a four-yard TD run by RB Jerome Bettis...Washington was the Steelers' opponent on Dec. 16, 2000, for the final game at Three Rivers Stadium, a 24-3 Steelers' victory...Washington's last victory in Pittsburgh was on Nov. 17, 1991 (41-14) when Chuck Noll was coaching the Steelers and Joe Gibbs was in his first stint with Washington...the Redskins won the previous meeting between these two teams in Washington on Sept. 11, 1988 (30-29)...overall, the Steelers have lost four straight games in Washington, with their last victory coming Dec. 6, 1964 (14-7).
Steelers-Redskins Connections
Steelers-Redskins Connections: Several Steelers have ties to the Redskins and the Washington D.C. area. Steelers with ties to the Redskins include S Ryan Clark, who played two seasons for the Redskins. Defensive backs coach Ray Horton coached defensive backs for the Redskins from 1994- 96 in his first coaching job. Running backs coach Kirby Wilson also coached for Washington as its running backs coach in 2000. QB Byron Leftwich grew up in Washington, D.C.
Redskins with ties to Pittsburgh include WR Antwaan Randle El, who was the Steelers' second-round draft pick in the 2002 NFL Draft. He played with the team from 2002-05 and tossed the game-clinching touchdown pass to WR Hines Ward in Super Bowl XL. LB H.B. Blades played collegiately at Pitt while DE Jason Taylor is from Pittsburgh and played at Woodland Hills High. K Shaun Suisham was originally signed by the Steelers as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2005 before being released during training camp that same year. OG Justin Geisinger is from Pittsburgh and went to Mount Lebanon High. Redskins assistant head coach/offense Joe Bugel and special teams coach Danny Smith were both born in Pittsburgh. Offensive coordinator Sherman Smith was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
What To Look For
• The Steelers look to improve to 32-43-4 all-time against the Redskins.
• The Steelers look for their first win over an NFC opponent this year.
• The Steelers look to improve to 4-1 on the road this year.
• The Steelers look for their fourth straight win over the Redskins in the series history and their first win on the road against Washington since a 14-7 victory in 1964.
• The Steelers look for their fourth straight win on Monday Night Football.
• The Steelers need six victories to become the first AFC team to reach 550 total victories. Pittsburgh's all-time record is 544-518-21.
QB Ben Roethlisberger
• Needs 304 yards passing to move past Kordell Stewart (13,328 yards) into second place on the team's all-time passing yardage list. Roethlisberger currently has 13,025 passing yards.
• Needs six touchdown passes to become just the second quarterback in team history to throw 100 career touchdown passes (Terry Bradshaw - 212). Roethlisberger currently has 94 career touchdown passes.
• Needs one 300-yard passing game to move into sole possession for second place on the team's all-time list behind only Tommy Maddox. Roethlisberger currently has four and is tied with Neil O'Donnell.
WR Hines Ward
• Needs one 100-yard receiving game to move into sole possession of second place on the team's all-time receiving list. He currently has 16, which is tied with Louis Lipps (1984-91).
• Needs 431 yards from scrimmage to reach 10,000 total yards for his career. He currently has 9,539 total yards from scrimmage (9,143 receiving, 426 rushing).
RB Willie Parker
• Needs 79 total yards from scrimmage to move into 10th place on the team's all-time list. Parker currently has 5,081 total yards from scrimmage.
• Needs one rushing touchdown to move into a tie for eighth place for rushing touchdowns on the team's all-time list with Rocky Bleier. Parker currently has 22 rushing touchdowns.
• Needs 15 rushing attempts to move into fourth place on the team's career list ahead of John Henry Johnson (1,025). Parker currently has 1,011 career rushing attempts.
TE Heath Miller
• Needs three touchdown receptions to pass Bennie Cunningham (20) for third on team's all-time touchdowns list for a tight end. Miller currently has 18 receiving touchdowns.
K Jeff Reed
• Needs two field goals to move past Roy Gerela (146) into second place on the team's all-time field goals made list. Reed currently has 145 career field goals.
DE Aaron Smith
• Needs 1.5 sacks to move past Ernie Holmes (40) into eighth place on the team's all-time sacks list. Smith currently has 38.5 career sacks.
It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun
Willie will show why he's a starter, Moore will continue on with his great play. Ben will get back to commanding the offense, the Skins have only 10 sacks all year, that bodes well for the Steelers. The D will blow up the Skin's running game and force Campbell to lose the game.LET'S GO STEELERS!!!!
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Veggie Burger Recipe
Garbanzo Bean Burgers
Garbanzo Bean Burgers
Adapted from The Sunset Cookbook
- For the patties
3 tablespoons olive oil, divied
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced jalapeno
3 scallions, dark greens remove, finely chopped
1 1/2 tablespoons minced parsley
1 1/2 (15-ounce) cans of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed, pulsed until finely chopped in a food processor, be careful not to process completely, you want them to be chunky
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon cumin
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 egg, lightly beaten
For spicy lemon mayo
1 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
Finely shredded zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
For carrot slaw
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cups shredded carrots (2/3 lb.)
1 cup shredded radishes
For burger assembly
4 broiche buns
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
About 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
4 ounces salad mix (5 cups lightly packed)
- Make the patties: Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic, jalapeno, and green onion. Cook until the garlic is fragrant and the green onions soft and bright green, about 5 minutes. Be careful not to burn the veggies. Remove from the heat and set aside to let cool.
- Meanwhile prepare the mayo: Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl. Chill, covered.
- Make slaw: Whisk together vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl, then gently stir in carrots and radishes. Chill until ready to assemble the burgers.
- Finish making the patties: In a large bowl, combine the cooled cooked garlic-jalapeno mixture with the beans, bread crumbs, spices, and egg.
- Mix with your hands to incorporate everything well. Shape into 4 equal-size patties.
- To cook the patties, heat a large skillet over medium heat. Coat the pan with olive oil and brown the patties for 3-4 minutes per side until the outside is crispy and golden and the inside is warmed through.
- Preheat broiler and set a rack 4 inches from heat. Split buns, leaving one side attached, and open up. Place buns cut side up in a large rimmed baking pan; lightly brush tops with 1 tbsp. olive oil. Broil until golden, about 1 minute.
- To assemble, generously spread mayo on cut sides of buns. Place some salad greens on bottom side of each bun and top with a patty and some carrot slaw, then the top of the bun. Enjoy immediately.
Makes 4 burgers.
- Category
- Main Dishes, Beans
- Cuisine
- Mediterranean/Middle Eastern


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Sometimes people tell Chris Zieler he's just like his father. The words bring him comfort and pain. "It reminds me of everything I miss," Zieler, 18, told a Polk County judge Friday. His mother stood behind him, rubbing his back as he cried.
BARTOW | Sometimes people tell Chris Zieler he's just like his father. The words bring him comfort and pain.
"It reminds me of everything I miss," Zieler, 18, told a Polk County judge Friday. His mother stood behind him, rubbing his back as he cried.
Feet away, Alejandro Ferrer sat in an jail uniform, his face expressionless as he awaited a sentence. A jury convicted him Dec. 6 of second-degree murder in the death of the teenager's father, Colin Zieler. Prosecutors said he stabbed Zieler 42 times with a 12-inch blade, including a slash across the throat.
Ferrer, 31, could have gotten as few as 21 years in prison in the slaying. Zieler's family pleaded with Circuit Judge John Radabaugh to put him away for life.
Their pleas weren't wasted.
"You took a life," Radabaugh told Ferrer. "This is a violent, extreme offense, and I think life imprisonment is appropriate."
The conviction is Ferrer's second in Zieler's death. Four years ago, the State Attorney's Office tried him on a first- degree murder charge with a possibility of the death penalty. But in 2011, appellate judges overturned the eventual conviction — second- degree murder — because they found jurors were improperly instructed about a possible lesser charge of manslaughter.
Ferrer knew of Zieler, a former golf pro, through his girlfriend, Heizel Gonzalez-Martinez. She had a previous relationship with Zieler and had custody of a child they shared.
In May 2007, the three clashed outside of Zieler's South Lakeland apartment after he and Gonzalez-Martinez argued on the phone. The former couple didn't agree on where Zieler should pick up their 3-year-old son for a planned trip to Texas.
During his sentencing on Friday, Ferrer's defense attorney, Joshua Westcott, asked Judge Radabaugh for a retrial. He argued the evidence in the case didn't support the most recent conviction.
Radabaugh denied his request.
Duke Fagan, an attorney for Zieler's mother, called the slaying a "cold-blooded, back-stabbing murder" and asked Radabaugh to "make sure (Ferrer) never has a chance to make another mother bury her child."
"Close the door forever on that evil," he said.
Mindy Rogers of Texas, with whom Zieler had two sons, said she wanted to defend Zieler's memory because testimony in the trial portrayed him as a violent person.
"I never saw Colin in a situation that was out of control," she said.
Westcott told the judge Ferrer didn't deserve a life sentence.
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Richard Ketchum, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has until Jan. 6 to tell Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, if FINRA plans to adopt any of the measures the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) recommended regarding FINRA's expungement policy.
The PIABA study, released in mid-October, raised concerns about the number of times investor complaints may be expunged, or removed, from publicly available broker records maintained on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Expungement relief was granted in 96.9% of cases from May 2009 through December 2011, according to the study.
The two senators told Ketchum in their letter that as the PIABA study indicates, the BrokerCheck system, which FINRA says should be the first resource investors turn to when choosing whether to do business a particular firm or individual, "may not enable investors to easily obtain all the information necessary to determine whether to hire a particular FINRA-registered broker."
Reed and Grassley told Ketchum that they share FINRA's view that "expungement is an extraordinary remedy that should be granted only under appropriate circumstances," and that it should be permitted "only when it has no meaningful investor protection or regulatory value."
However, they said, "we believe that meaningful investor protection includes the disclosure of whether a customer dispute was settled. Not just for transparency sake, but also to help prospective investors make informed decisions about which individuals or firms with whom to do business."
Reed and Grassley asked Ketchum to not only "explain whether and why or why not" FINRA intends to adopt PIABA's recommendations that were laid out in its report, but to also provide the number of instances in which FINRA has questioned or challenged the provision of expungement relief and a detailed description of the circumstances of each case, along with any draft legislative language that would be necessary to provide FINRA with the authority to ensure that expungment relief is provided "only when it has no meaningful investor protection or regulatory value," if it does not believe such authority already exists.
PIABA's report suggested FINRA take the following steps:
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- Review and critically assess all motions for expungement relief, particularly those made in cases resolved by settlement.
- Review and critically assess settlement agreements. A proposed rule change should include the requirement that the hearing on any motion for expungement relief be scheduled no sooner than 60 days after service of the motion on the customer and FINRA. In cases resolved by settlement, FINRA should require respondents to provide to FINRA the settlement agreement along with the motion for expungement relief.
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InterContinental Hotels Group, one of the largest hotel companies in the world, is expanding its new brands globally.
The parent company of such reliable brands as Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, and Crowne Plaza this summer announced that it would introduce a new upscale brand called voco. Already, the company has two planned in Australia and one in the United Kingdom. Another 20 deals are in the discussion phase.
IHG expects to open more than 200 voco hotels in urban and destination locations globally over the next 10 years.
Last year, IHG said it would also create a new midscale brand called avid hotels. The company has 130 hotels signed for that brand, including four in Canada and one in Mexico. The very first avid hotel is opening in Oklahoma City in mid-August.
Last month, the company completed its acquisition of a 51 percent stake in Regent Hotels and Resorts, which will join its luxury portfolio. Right now, there are six Regent hotels, but IHG plans to grow that to more than 40 hotels.
"We've made great progress on our strategic initiatives announced in February … of launching and of acquiring new brands," IHG CEO Keith Barr tells USA TODAY. "In signings, we are up 46 percent year over year. It's our best result in over a decade. There is a ton of momentum in the business."
IHG's existing brands are also growing. Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, which the company acquired in early 2015, is continuing with its growing expansion.
It has already opened a property in Amsterdam. The next few cities that will get Kimptons are Paris, Frankfurt, Mexico City, and Taipei. The company has also signed on to turn four historic properties in the United Kingdom into Kimptons.
"It's going to go big in 2018, internationally," Barr says.
Meanwhile, this year, guests at 70 percent of Holiday Inn Express properties in the USA will get a revamped free breakfast. That breakfast has a wide selection of hot and cold items including fresh eggs and meats, egg white omelettes, pancakes with a new flavor, seasonal muffins, and a Cinnabon bar.
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Barr says voco will be more of a soft brand that will allow hotels to keep their own identities while benefiting from the marketing, distribution systems and technology of a major company like IHG.
"We talk about it being reliably different," he says. The hotels "will be consistent but will also be unique because they're in different parts of the world. They will not be programmatic in terms of architecture and design."
The first signing for the voco brand outside of Europe will be the 388-room Watermark Hotel & Spa Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, Australia. A second voco will open in Australia in the Yarra Valley in Victoria Australia. It will be a 170-room new-build hotel in 2021. Another voco will debut in Cardiff in the United Kingdom.
Hilton names new luxury hotel brand; opens tri-branded hotel in Chicago
Hilton's upcoming new luxury collection brand has a name: LXR Hotels & Resorts.
But LXR is actually not a new name. Blackstone Group launched LXR in 2005. When Blackstone acquired Hilton in 2007, those LXR properties were rebranded into other Hilton brands.
Hilton has given scant details about the new collection, except for an announcement that it has entered an agreement to re-brand an existing hotel in Dubai into the Habtoor Palace Hotel, LXR Hotels & Resorts.
The 234-guest room luxury hotel will operate as an independent property but will be a member of LXR.
The property is located on Sheikh Zayed Road, steps from the Dubai Water Canal.
In addition, Hilton will re-brand two more properties owned by Al Habtoor Group in Dubai. They will be known as V Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton and Hilton Dubai Al Habtoor City.
"We are very happy to welcome three top hotels in Dubai to the Hilton family, and to announce that Habtoor Palace will be one of the first properties to join Hilton's new luxury collection brand, LXR Hotels & Resorts and look forward to unveiling additional details about this exciting brand in the coming months," a company spokesperson said in a written statement.
Back in the USA, the company has opened its first ever tri-branded hotel in Chicago.
The property will contain three Hilton Hotels: Hilton Garden Inn Chicago McCormick Place, Hampton Inn by Hilton Chicago McCormick Place and Home2 Suites by Hilton Chicago McCormick Place.
Guests can enjoy each brand's unique experience while taking advantage of larger communal areas and other amenities a smaller hotel would not have. The property also has a rooftop dining lounge and street-level pub and grill.


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The American Heart
Association recommends taking a class on how to give CPR and then use the chart below as a reference.
When to call for emergency
Call 911 before starting
CPR and get an AED, if there is one nearby.
Do CPR for 2 minutes. Then call 911 and get an AED, if there is one nearby.
If the person is not
breathing normally or is
gasping, find the spot to
do chest compressions.
Place two fingers on
the spot where the ribs
come together. Put the
heel of your other hand
just above your fingers
on the breastbone.
(See a picture of
hand placement for chest compressions.)
Place two fingers on
the breastbone just
below the nipple line.
(See a picture of
hand placement for chest compressions on a baby.)
How do you give chest
Use the heel of one hand with the
other hand stacked on top of it. Lace your fingers together.
Use the heel of one hand. If you
need more force for a larger child, use both hands as you would for an
Use two fingers.
How fast should you do
Do at least 100 compressions
per minute (between
1 and 2 per second).
How far down should you press the
Press the chest down at least 2 inches (5 cm).
Press the chest down at least one-third of the depth of the child's chest [about 2 in. (5 cm)].
Press the chest down at least one-third of the depth of the baby's chest [about 1.5 in. (4 cm)].
If you are trained in
CPR, how
many compressions
and breaths do you
Note: Rescue breathing
may be more important
to do for children and
babies than for adults.
30 compressions, 2 breaths. Repeat this 30/2 cycle until help arrives or person
breathes on his or her own.
30 compressions, 2 breaths. Repeat this 30/2 cycle until help arrives or child
breathes on his or her own.
30 compressions, 2 breaths. Repeat this 30/2 cycle until help arrives or baby
breathes on his or her own.
(See a picture of
rescue breathing for babies.)
Using an automated external defibrillator (AED)
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are machines that are
programmed to safely deliver an electrical shock to a person who has collapsed
from a heart problem. Each AED has instructions for that machine.
AEDs are in many public places. Before you use an AED, follow all the steps for CPR. To use an AED, place it next to the person who has collapsed and turn it on. The AED has a computer inside that will tell you what to do next.
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