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As many of you already know, not only was April 22nd Earth Day, but the entire month is Earth Month, the perfect time to take a moment and really think about the impact that we all have on the planet we share -- and that we all rely on to sustain us -- and that's just what my conversation with Grant Lawrence of CBC Radio 3 and author of the newly published book "Adventures in Solitude" was all about. Read on to find out what he had to say about CBC Radio 3 and "Playlist for the Planet," his new book, and much more.
Andrew DeCanniere:
While many people know about your show and CBC Radio 3 in general, for those who haven't heard of the contest and the resulting album, can you talk a little bit about what it is and how it came to be?
Grant Lawrence:
Sure. "Playlist for the Planet" was something that The David Suzuki Foundation, which has been around for 20 years, came up with. They approached CBC to partner with them to come up with an environmental soundtrack of sorts, and CBC thought that Radio 3, being the home of Canadian independent music, was a perfect fit for that. They came up with the title "Playlist for the Planet," and what we invited people to do was submit their songs that are about the environment or about nature, about wilderness, animals, the betterment of the earth, and a playlist would be determined. We weren't really sure what the response would be, but over 600 artists from across Canada submitted songs, and then we held it to a public vote. One artist from each province was selected, and one artist from the north, and they were chosen to give a musical voice to Canada's environmental conscience, so to speak.
AD: I think it's a great idea to just publicize what's going on [climate change], that this will make people more aware.
GL: Yeah, I think it's really nice. So all of those winners join 20 other Canadian recording artists that were preselected and in late March the "Playlist for the Planet" was released in stores all across Canada as well as on iTunes. Some of the bigger artists on it were pre-selected, people like Joel Plaskett, Bruce Cockburn, k-os, and others. I guess my one issue with it is I think it's somewhat -- I'm not totally sure what ended up happening, but when I interviewed David Suzuki about this I thought that it would be somewhat contradictory and hypocritical to actually release this as a physical product, because unless the package is environmentally-friendly, I feel CD packaging is quite wasteful. So, I was into it being available just on iTunes, I wasn't into it being a packaged CD, and I did ask Dr. David Suzuki about that -- that's actually posted on DavidSuzuki.org, my interview with him-- but he was not sure what was going to happen, and I'm not sure what ended up happening. I haven't seen a physical copy yet.
AD: I remember that. I've been listening to your program for a while now, and I remember you talking with him shortly before the album's release -- I guess toward the tail end of the year. I remember you asking him about that. He said he didn't really know why the decision was made to have a physical album as opposed to just as a digital download.
GL: I think I kind of caught him off-guard a little bit. You know, it was a challenging question, and I do care about that, and it's something to think about. As David Suzuki pointed out in that interview, being an environmentalist does come with it's contradictions. David Suzuki is a man in demand. He just celebrated his 75th birthday. He needs to fly, and so the irony is that one of Canada's -- and one of the world's -- greatest environmentalists has a fairly heavy carbon footprint, and that's just one of the contradictions that we deal with in life.
The good thing is that I suppose you could say his carbon offset is the many, many decades of awareness that he has been out there ringing the bells of environmentalism and ecology, and of reducing, reusing, and recycling and everything. I first saw Dr. David Suzuki speak in the late 1980s, when I was a young teenager, and so that was 25 years ago. As long as he can be a positive influence, I'd say they can forgive him for his flights or his CD packaging, but it's something to keep in mind.
AD: I think that at least if everybody tried to do their part, and that's what he's trying to get them to do, we'll be headed in a positive direction. Hopefully through listening to him people will learn something from him -- like I did. I think that sort of makes up for the travel and whatnot.
GL: When I talk to climate change deniers, my argument is whether the planet is warming up or not, isn't it just generally a good idea to clean up after yourself? We do it in our homes, most of us don't live in pigsties. It's seen as unhealthy and dirty not to clean up after yourself. We bathe our bodies to clean up the stink. Why can't we just do it with the planet as well? That's why I get frustrated with the climate change deniers. Don't you just want to clean up after yourself a little bit? Don't you want to take some personal and social responsibility to just make sure that your own backyard -- that being the planet -- is cleaned?
AD: That's the thing. I was just reading a book, and it seems like some people are putting it out there as an either/or proposition. Either we have the resources we need, in terms of energy, transportation, or what have you, or we do what is environmentally responsible, as if we can't meet our needs and also live in an eco-conscious way, which is not the case. I don't get it. When I interviewed Ian Hanington, who is from The David Suzuki Foundation, he was saying that it is about as close as you can get to 100 percent consensus that global warming [also called "climate change"] is happening. Yet there are still people saying 'Well, you know, it's not as a result of human activities.' It's all a bit shocking.
GL: I agree. I prefer the term "climate change" to "global warming," because people say 'We've had a horribly cold winter, so much for global warming.' I think the better term for more widespread recognition of what's going on is "climate change" so people can acknowledge that global warming affects all different types of weather, and deniers can understand "climate change" a little more than they can "global warming" when they're freezing their a** off in Winnipeg.
AD: At least, if nothing else, this [album] will get people who might not otherwise even think about their impact on the environment to think about what they can do.
GL: I think this record, "Playlist for the Planet," will, to a certain extent, preach to the converted, but if it gets a certain amount of people to change the way they think or change the way they do things, mission accomplished. It certainly is not the first time art and environmentalism have been combined, but it was a really fun exercise for CBC Radio 3. We weren't sure how it was going to go, and it went really, really well. So, we're really happy about that.
AD: If you can pick one song from there ["Playlist for the Planet"], what would be your favorite and why?
GL: One of my favorite songs easily, hands down, is Danny Michel's "Feather, Fur, and Fin." Not only do I think it has a very salient message throughout it of the encroachment of human beings onto wilderness habitat, but it also is an amazing song.
AD: I know that late last year, you wrote your book ["Adventures in Solitude"]. I really enjoyed reading it. Is there anything that led you to write the book now in particular or -- is that something you've been wanting to do for a while?
GL: Thank You. I wanted to write something, I just wasn't sure what it was going to be, and so it turns out that I had written for years when I was in my band, The Smugglers -- we had played Chicago many times -- I kept tour diaries, so I thought I was just going to compile all of those into one spot, and then when The Smugglers wound down I really started spending a lot of time up at my family cabin, in Desolation Sound. I started being taken by, quite frankly the environment and the beauty and nature of that area of Canada. I think what really pushes stories ahead are great characters, and I realized there were a ton of great characters up in the Desolation Sound area. I first started telling those stories on the radio, and eventually a CBC producer said 'You should really write these down,' so I started writing them down and I figured out that I could put them into a narrative that made sense. I really worked on the book for about the past five years, until it was published in September.
AD: It seems like part of it, anyway -- to me that is, having read it -- it is a kind of chronicle of your appreciation of nature. It seems like at first, when you were little, you were more reluctant to be out there in the wilderness, but that changed, and you learned the importance of nature, you recognized the connection and interdependence that we have with nature. I don't want to put words in your mouth, so who or what would you credit with that? I don't know... maybe I'm reading too much -- or the wrong thing -- into it.
GL: No, no. I appreciate you recognizing that. I do have a very, very deep appreciation for nature, and for wild animals, for flora and fauna, and I truly love it and truly love being around it. When I was a kid, I was very, very nervous of it, but I fully credit my dad for taking me out into the wilderness and showing me that -- you know, no pun intended, I'd love to say the wilderness doesn't bite, but it actually does. It can bite in many different ways, large and small, but he just taught me to respect it and to not fear it, to be careful but not fear it. I know I'm still nervous, I mean I'm up in an area where there are really big predators, like bears and cougars and wolves. I'm careful, and I'm hyperaware of my surroundings, but that's not to say that -- if a cougar wants to attack someone, it just attacks someone. Chances are a person will never even know it, until the cougar is on top of you, so I take precautions, but I would credit my dad for that. I've always had an incredible and deep respect for the wilderness, but I've also had a certain amount of fear being in the wilderness, just because of the wild creatures that exist back there. I love them, though. Whenever I see one I'm completely and utterly fascinated. In just a week in Desolation Sound I can see at least 10 species of animals.
AD: It seems that now, more and more, rather than spending time outdoors, a lot of kids spend time indoors in front of the computer, watching the TV or playing video games. So, do you think that in the 21st century, with some many of us spending time indoors, do you think that the majority of people recognize that connection with Mother Nature and how interdependent we are on it and Mother Nature is on us if we're to have a sustainable future?
GL: I would say the answer is yes and no. The general population of the world is an urban population. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have lived primarily in cities. That's where we group together, in cities. That's where we live. So for a long, long time the percentage of the population that doesn't experience the wilderness on a regular basis is vast and large, and I think in recent years there's been an eco-boom, in such that people have been trying very hard to get back to nature in some way, shape or form. I do still think that it's a small percentage of the population. I know people that have never left the City of Toronto in their lives, and I'm lucky here in Vancouver, because here nature is all around us. I mean, I can go from a beautiful beach on the ocean to a mountaintop in 10 minutes, and be completely surrounded by nature, but most cities aren't like that. So I would say that's been an issue with the human population for at least 125 years.
AD: Do you think then -- because, as you say, in major urban centers people don't really experience the outdoors -- do you think that there's a certain role that parents or schools should play in getting kids out there, and getting kids to recognize the connection and interdependent nature that exists between people and planet, and if so, what?
GL: Absolutely. I think it's a lot easier said than done. If you take a look at New York City, the most urban -- I mean they don't call it "the concrete jungle" for nothing -- there's very little green space, and even the green space they have is compartmentalized.What concerns me is the ability to have access to nature is becoming somewhat elitist and is becoming somewhat of a rich, upper-class access. A lot of the lower-income status does not have that easy access to nature, or to the great outdoors, because they're in big cities and they don't go out a lot. I would say -- again I would say kids living in the inner city, probably 90 percent of them don't even know what camping is, and it would be great if schools had outdoor programs, except the thing is -- you know I went to outdoor camp when I was in school, and it was fantastic. But, there's a lot of schools where they're just trying to get the kids into the classroom, let alone take them camping. You know what I mean? So, I think it would be great, but I think it's a larger social issue, and I think it's a classist issue, unfortunately.
AD: It's a surprise that there's not more talk about that. You have talk of this sort of disparity between access to technology, and yet there's no talk of this at all.
GL: It's just that people have to prioritize the issues. I think education is always a huge issue, but environmental education not so much, not for kids, even though, quite frankly, it's always a great idea to start the education of things like environmentalism at a very young age, because the kids can have a real effect on the parents.
AD: Are there any resources you would recommend to people if they are interested in learning more about this issue [of climate change]?
GL: I think that the site I mentioned, David Suzuki's site is very good. That's DavidSuzuki.org. I always recommend that one. Then I also recommend his television show, "The Nature of Things," which is one of the longest running CBC programs of all time. Dr. Suzuki is kind of the person I follow. After that I tend to generally do my own research, and my own reading. Right now I'm reading "The Tiger" by John Vaillant, and that book is set in Siberia, so I'm learning all about the nature of Siberia and the issues that it's faced with all of it's mining.
AD: Any other books that you're working on?
GL: Yeah, my wife [Jill Barber] is actually trying to light a fire under me to get going on another one, but quite frankly I want to enjoy this one a little bit longer. It took me so long to get this one out, and it's been received really well, so I want to enjoy it -- enjoy the fruits of my labor. I'm not sure what it will be. It might be The Smugglers story. I'm not sure just yet. I met a young hairdresser in Mexico. He was this hairdresser in Los Angeles in the '60s and '70s, and he cut the hair of every single rock band. He invented the shag haircut. He just has millions of stories from his barber chair. So I've been going back and forth...to see if there's anything there, because I love stories of any kind, and I'm a music journalist, so the next book will probably be a music book.
AD: It sounds like there could be quite a bit there. It sounds interesting.
GL: Whatever it will be, it will be completely different than this one.
AD: Last question. What's your favorite book?
GL: My favorite book of all time is "To Kill a Mockingbird." I think that's one of the greatest stories ever told. I also really love "The Kon-Tiki Expedition" by Thor Heyerdahl, but I would say "To Kill a Mockingbird" would be number one.
AD: I have to say I'm in complete agreement. I read it I don't know how many times, and I saw the movie several times afterwards.
GL: It's one of the rare situations where the book and the movie are equally brilliant.
Grant Lawrence is host of "Grant Lawrence Live," which can be heard Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 2 PM Pacific (1 PM to 4 PM Central) on CBC Radio 3 (at www.cbcradio3.com) and Sirius Satellite Radio channel 86, host of the CBC Radio 3 Podcast (released every Friday), and author of the recently released "Adventures in Solitude," which was published last September by Harbour. You can find out much more about Grant, his radio show, the CBC Radio 3 podcast, and his book by logging onto his website, www.grantlawrence.ca.
Update: Beginning on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, CBC Radio 3 will be moving from Sirius Satellite Radio channel 86 to channel 152.


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Must be tough to want to say something as upbeat as possible while the beagles are telling you to avoid any sentence, phrase, word or comma that could cause a class action down the line.
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Imperial Metals (III.to) filed its 3q14 financials at nine minutes past nine on the evening of Friday November 14th
Must be tough to want to say something as upbeat as possible while the beagles are telling you to avoid any sentence, phrase, word or comma that could cause a class action down the line.
Marcelo Bielsa
Breaking: Friday morning, November 14th, and Steve Letwin is still Pres/CEO of IAMGOLD (IMG.to) (IAG)
Regular reader and mailpal 'Hammer' writes in with:
Maybe its just mental masturbation but maybe a list of the miners that have assets but are mismanaged is in order. IAG perhaps would top your list.Well Hammer, I don't really think so because there are others to mention in the same breath. For just a few examples...
Barrick, but the thing is the ABX CEO "was resigned".
Kinross, but the thing is the K CEO "was resigned".
Newmont, but the thing is the NEM CEO "was resigned".
...and you see where I'm going with this, Hammer?
Canadian brokerages are not part of the solution for the mining industry
- No balls
- No idea
- No education
- Corrupt
- All of the above
The Friday OT: King Kurt; Destination Zululand
USD long is now a very crowded trade
Nice job on Reservoir (RMC.v) by Kip Keen of Mineweb
Right here.
Good note, mister kip.
Chart of the day is...
In the short term, it represents a red flag for those expecting further Chinese economic weakness to translate into lower copper prices.It's clear that any further price declines, say toward $6,000 per ton, are going to incentivize the bureau to buy still more metal.Which is not to say the price can't go lower, just that if it does, existing tensions in LME stocks and spreads are likely to accentuate.In the next two years, might the SRB simply suck in all this market's expected surplus?Ever since the bureau first showed signs of activity late last year, there has been consistent talk in the Chinese market that it is working toward an end-2015 target of having around 2 million tonnes of copper.Of course, we don't know what the starting-point was, but it now seems fair to assume that it will buy something like a million tonnes over the course of 2014 and 2015.That would account for most analysts' expected cumulative surplus over those two years.
B2Gold (BTO.to) (BTG) 3q14 financials: Much fun
Here's the P+L:
Oh, looky that, a 39c EPS loss on the quarter thanks to a near $300m hit on goodwill from Masbate ($202m) and Gramalote ($96m). Which looks bad, but it might not be all the kitchen sink yet either. For those who care, once you throw in Papillon the new balance sheet puts P/BV at U$2.55, so with bTG closing at U$1.58 this evening either there's more write downs to come or the market is underpricing BTO bigtime. Or both, as maybe the truth lies somewhere between the two (my best guess).
Gran Colombia Gold 3q14 results: Don't read the news release, read the filings
...which shows you how little cash GCM.to has. And here's another...
They tell me Steve Letwin, CEO of IAMGOLD (IMG.to) (IAG), appeared on BNN this morning
Yup, here's the segment, which comes with...
We dig into the latest quarterly results from a gold miner that's been cutting costs in the wake of a slumping price for bullion. Frances speaks with Steve Letwin, President and CEO about the company's recent move to cut its executive team by 40%, and what his plans are as the head of IAMGOLD.
Because this afternoon, Steve Letwin is still CEO. And he talked total bollocks on live TV.
IKN thanks reader JG for the headsup
Biiwii does a gold sector review
And as you'd expect from Gary T, it's an excellent read. Fully recommended and right here on this link.
Minera IRL (MIRL.L) (IRL.to) news
LIMA, PERU--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2014) - Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL" or the "Company"), (IRL.TO) (MIRL.L) (MIRL.L), the Latin America gold mining company, is announcing that it has reported financial and operating results for the quarter ended 30 September 2014.
The Company is also providing notice that senior management will host an analyst and investor conference call on Thursday, 13 November 2014, at 10 am PET (Lima), 10 am EST (Toronto) and 3 pm GMT (London). All amounts are in United States dollars ("$"), unless stated otherwise.
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ESTRAGON: Nothing to be done.VLADIMIR: I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. So there you are again.ESTRAGON: Am I?VLADIMIR: I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.ESTRAGON: Me too.
Professional CFA qualified brokerage analysts who have not been paying attention, Cormark and First Majestic (AG) (FR.to) edition
Today's "winner" is Graeme Jennings of Cormark, who starts his piece on First Majestic today November 13th 2014 by stating:
First Majestic offers investors access to the "purest" silver producer, with approximately 90% of its revenue attributed to silver.....to which Owly says...
....because of this:
UPDATE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen visitors from Cormark:
We at IKN hope you have a pleasant day at the office and get to do many things that help forward the cause of humanity.
Oracle Mining (OMN.to): Oracle Ridge picked up for peanuts by Red Kite CORRECTED
CORRRECTION: My bad, RK Equity isn't nor is it affiliated to Red Kite. Silly mistake, done by assuming rather than reading.
Golden Star (GSS) (GSC.to) has not received the memo: WE ARE TIRED OF JUNIOR MINER BULLSHIT
Welcome to the Mines and Money Laundering conference, 2014
Via kinder reader R, this is way too good not to share.
A bad typo in The Gold Report today
They can't spell Shyster correctly, put Schuster instead.
At the end we read the following about Mr Shyster:
I personally am, or my family is, paid by the following companies mentioned in this interview: Golden Arrow Resources Corp. My company has a financial relationship with the following companies mentioned in this interview: Golden Arrow Resources Corp., Source Exploration Corp., NioCorp Developments Ltd., Rockhaven Resources Ltd. and Integra Gold Corp.Yup, every one a winner. Seriously, didn't these snake oil people go out with the end of the 20th century?
Argentina continues to make life difficult for mining companies (from IKN287)
The 2014 Puskás Award nominees for the best goal of the year
Kinross Gold (K.to) (KGC): A kind soul today reminded your author...
...of the post here at IKN dated February 27th 2014: It went like this:
So now let's check on how Special K has done from that very date to this:
Holy crap, Philae landed on the comet!
See here
Update: This is my head ever since the news
G&A costs per ounce of gold: A comparative
- We pick a bunch of juniors, mostly goldies but a few silver mining companies too.
- We take the gold or gold equivalent ounce production total for each one (and in the case of the silver miners, we convert silver to gold equivalent ounces at 70:1).
- We check out the quarterly G&A figure as posted by each company.
- We do the math.
- We also add in a couple of majors as a guideline, to show what the bigger boy companies typically run as a ounce-per-G&A ratio. The examples are Kinross (K) and Barrick (ABX), and their results are typical of the majors' sector.
Rio Alto (RIO.to) (RIOM) comes in very low due to some specific factors for 3q14, but it typically a low ratio for all its quarters and wouldn't get over $30/oz normally.
Endeavour Mining (EDV.to) is clearly efficient in its offices, good job done.
The majors' type average is around $55/oz to $65/oz, so any junior which emulates that level is doing well. Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK)and Richmont Mines (RIC.to) qualify, Lake Shore Gold (LSG.to) at a pinch).
The acceptable limit? Let's say $100/oz.
Argonaut (AR.to) isn't shy about spending money in its offices, apparently.
Gold Resource Corp (GORO) is a joke.
PS: What, the table? Yeah sure, here you go:
|3q14 G&A ($m)
|Oz Au or AuEq prod
|$ G&A/oz
|in case of silver mines, conversion to AuEq done at 70/1
A sentiment guide for the metals and mining market
Bottom of the bear market: Nobody gives a fuck about any metal.
First signs of recovery: People start giving a fuck about gold.
Signs of recovery: People start giving a fuck about copper.
Recovery sets in: People start giving a fuck about silver, uranium.
Recovery: People start giving a fuck about zinc, nickel, lead.
Bullish sentiment: People start giving a fuck about palladium.
Market now fully bullish: People start giving a fuck about rare earths, lithium.
Top of the bull market: Rhodium!
First Majestic's (AG) (FR.to) foray into the futures market
Let's see how they got on.
This from the NR dated October 14th:
As a result of this weakness, the Company decided to temporarily suspend silver sales in an attempt to maximize future profits. This suspension of sales will result in lower revenues and earnings for the third quarter, however, it is likely that these inventories of unsold ounces will instead be sold in the fourth quarter. As of September 30, 2014, approximately 934,000 ounces of silver were held in inventory.
This from today's 3q14 financials announcement NR:
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company sold all 934,000 ounces of silver that it held over from the third quarter for an average price of $17.29 per ounce increasing the cash balance by $16.1 millionMoral: Don't give up your day job, Keith.
PS: Just one more small thing about that silver futures speculation, with table taken from the Kitco page here:
Well, one million and thirty-eight thousand, four hundred to be exact. Pre-commish.
A million here, two million there, soon adds up to...err, three million.
The good news is that Eric The Half A Bull still has 3,490,100 units of PHY left to play with. So play.
Bayfield (BYV.v) thoughts
I think that should annoy just about everybody who reads it. Job done.
The IAMGOLD (IMG.to) (IAG) news release from last night
'IMG forgot one special person''Looks like they fired the wrong guy'
Frank Giustra to sing Patsy Cline while wearing ladies' underwear in downtown Vancouver
Or he will at least if he's good as his word.
In this report from the Globe & Mail dated April
30th 20th 2013, Frank Giustra is so adamant that the gold bull market will continue that he's quoted as follows:
"If I am wrong, if this gold bull market is over, I will stand in the centre of Robson Square and I will sing Patsy Cline's So Wrong wearing ladies' underwear," Mr. Giustra said in an interview this week.
Time to get dressed and dance, Frank. Are you man enough to keep your word?
IKN thanks reader 'TH' for the headsup.
Fortuna Silver (FSM) (FVI.to) 3q14 financials
Sales $46.38m
COGS: $29.66m
Min Op Income: $16.72m
Net Income: $7.824m
EPS 6c
No write downs
Pinetree Capital (PNP.to): Mystery solved
Tonight the mystery is solved. Sheldon's deep in the financial shit.
TORONTO, CANADA--(Marketwired - Nov 10, 2014) - Pinetree Capital Ltd. (PNP.TO) ("Pinetree")announces that, as at October 31, 2014, it was not in compliance with one of the debt covenants contained in the convertible debenture indenture dated May 17, 2011, as supplemented by the first and second supplemental indenture dated December 11, 2012 and September 12, 2013, respectively, in each case, between the company and Equity Financial Trust Company, as trustee, which govern Pinetree's 10% convertible unsecured subordinated debentures due May 31, 2016 ("Debentures") (PNP-DB.TO). The debt covenant at issue prohibits the company's debt from exceeding 33% of the total value of its assets, as reflected on its (unaudited) consolidated balance sheet as at the last day of each month. As at October 31, 2014, Pinetree's debt-to-assets ratio was 38.8%.Pinetree has attempted to manage its debt-to-assets ratio, primarily by retiring in excess of $20 million principal amount of Debentures under normal course issuer bids (representing approximately 27% of the Debentures originally issued), however, the downturn in both commodity prices and the junior resource space generally has eroded the value of the company's investment portfolio.
Colour patterns
Your Bayfield (BYV.v) quiz of the day
Who wrote this?
Hint: He thinks the people who pay him are fucking stupid."This long-expected news has turned out better than we'd hoped, given the state of the junior gold market. An offer for cash, even at a 50% premium, would have been a disaster for many shareholders. Fortunately, the offer is for shares, and we like New Gold well enough to want to hold our new shares in that company. The best part is that New Gold is down more than Bayfield since gold's recent sharp decline, and that adds leverage to the rebound; our NGD shares should recover faster and go higher than BYV shares on their own would do.It's a relief to see the light at the end of the tunnel here, though we were very sure it was coming. This deal should work out well for us. We encourage all BYV shareholders to support management and vote in favor of the Arrangement."
The Mars One scam
*on second look saw the photo. My bad for presuming, Elmo.
Trade opened
Dear subbers, as per IKN287. Didn't get quite the price I wanted, but I'll take it. Cryptic message complete.
UPDATE: Took a second bite this afternoon too. Better price. Game on.
The Legatum Prosperity Index, 2014
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie
To complete your Berlin Wall 25 years celebrations...
...you are now legally obliged to listen to Wind of Change by Scorpions.
East Germans suffered, now it's your turn.
Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK) 3q14 financials
Rio Alto 3q14 financials
PS, Oh, you want the link to the NR? Ok, it's here.
Chart of the day is...
The IKN Weekly, out now
Carlos Tevez's goal
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Kohl's Corp., one of the largest department store chains in the country, said it will hire more than 52,700 holiday workers for the 2012 holiday shopping season, the busiest of the year.
That's 10% more seasonal workers than it hired last year, according to the Wisconsin-based company, which expects an average of 41 temporary employees for each of its more than 1,100 stores nationwide.
In addition to stocking merchandise and manning cash registers in stores, the workers will also be tasked with helping the company build its e-commerce presence, Kohl's said Tuesday.
On top of the 52,700 allotment, the chain also plans to add 5,700 seasonal workers at its distribution centers. Kohl's also said it would fill more than 30 temporary credit operations positions.
Holiday workers will work from a few hours to more than 20 hours a week, according to Kohl's.
Hiring at stores began this month and will be mostly complete by mid-November. The process at distribution centers started in August.
The holiday season, which kicks off in full force on Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving -- is a key period for retailers. Other major companies, such as Toys R Us, Wal-Mart and Target, are expected to announce holiday hiring projections soon.
Last year, Toys R Us said it would hire about 40,000 seasonal workers.
Kohl's needs a bottom line boost from Christmas shoppers. The company said last month that its second-quarter net income fell nearly 20% to $240 million, or $1 per share, from $299 million, or $1.08 per share. Revenue slipped 1% to $4.2 billion, while same-store sales fell 2.7%. The company scaled back its forecast for the third quarter.
In midmorning trading Friday, Kohl's stock was down 22 cents, or 0.4%, to $53.08 a share.
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According to a new University of Virginia study, half of the 50 states could end their primary care physician shortages, and save billions annually in health care costs, by a simple policy change: equalizing the licensure requirements for foreign-educated physicians and U.S.-educated physicians.
More than a quarter of physicians practicing today received their medical education outside of the U.S., and this dependence on foreign-trained physicians is poised to grow with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and an aging population, notes the new study, "Doctors With Borders: Occupational Licensing as an Implicit Barrier to High Skill Migration," by U.Va. politics professors David Leblang and Sonal Pandya, and doctoral student Brenton Peterson.
The study is published in the new working paper series of U.Va.'s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where Leblang is a professor of politics and public policy in addition to his posts as the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at U.Va.'s Miller Center and chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics in the College of Arts & Sciences. The study is also currently under review at a peer-reviewed journal.
All but a few states require graduates of non-U.S. medical schools to complete longer post-graduate residency training – generally one to two years longer – than graduates of U.S. medical schools before being eligible for a state license to practice medicine. Having a license allows a new doctor to practice without supervision, opening the door to much higher earning potential.
The additional requirements purportedly ensure that international medical graduates meet the same standards as American-trained doctors. But the study authors are skeptical of this rationale for a number of reasons.
First, in order to even be eligible to apply for residency training in the U.S., international medical graduates must demonstrate that their qualifications are equivalent to U.S. medical graduates by passing three sections of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam. The test is not easy; in 2008, only 42.6 percent of international medical graduates passed all three components of the test on their first try, and only 73 percent of those who passed all necessary exams eventually found a residency – and getting a residency match is effectively an additional level of quality screening. This screening is effective, the authors note: post-licensure, according to other studies, there are few differences between U.S. and international medical graduates in patient health outcomes, or in the frequency of disciplinary actions by state medical boards.
The history of additional residency requirements suggests they were created as a barrier to entry, Pandya said. Historically, states frequently prohibited non-citizens from obtaining medical licenses, regardless of where they were educated, until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this practice unconstitutional in the 1970s. Additional residency requirements for international medical graduates blossomed in the immediate wake of that ruling, suggesting the policies were created as a replacement for the outlawed citizenship restrictions.
Consistent with the hypothesis that state medical boards may be captured by physicians acting to pad their own bottom line, the study finds that states with self-financing medical boards (indicative of less public accountability than state-financed medical boards, the authors assert) are more likely to impose lengthier residency requirements for international medical graduates.
States that impose lengthier training requirements for international medical graduates reduce the expected returns to medical training, and not surprisingly, these states receive fewer migrant physicians. As further evidence of barriers to entry, jurisdictions with more onerous requirements have higher physician salaries and poorer quality medical service.
As of 2009, Pandya said, the five states with the worst physician shortages per million residents are New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and North Dakota, four of which require international medical graduates to complete three years of residency training versus one year for U.S. medical school graduates. The exception is New Mexico, which requires two years for both domestic and international graduates.
Lowering barriers to international medical graduates, Pandya said, is a particularly apt solution to address U.S. physician shortages – a problem in much of the U.S., especially in primary care – because those graduates are more likely than U.S.-trained medical graduates to become general practitioners, and more likely to work in localities suffering from physician shortages.
Using Department of Homeland Security records of the number of international medical graduates (those self-identifying as doctors) entering each state annually, the study authors modeled the expected physician migration if state residency requirements were equalized for U.S.- and foreign-educated physicians over the six-year period from 2004 to 2009.
The modeling found that 25 states would gain enough physicians to end their shortages.
Physician gains vary widely from state to state, the study estimates. Large states would be the biggest gainers, with California, New York and Illinois gaining an estimated 3,321, 2,816 and 1,030 foreign-trained physicians, respectively, over six years. The sparsely populated Rocky Mountain states of Idaho, Wyoming or Montana would each gain fewer than two physicians. The expected increase in foreign physicians into a state correlates highly with the degree of physician shortage it faces.
This policy change would also generate sizable savings in health care costs, the authors estimate.
They calculated expected state health care cost savings based on existing estimates of the savings associated with reducing primary care physician shortages – which reduce the number of preventable hospitalizations that earlier, lower-cost primary care interventions would have prevented. The average state, they found, would see an approximately $139 million decline in annual health care costs through fewer hospital visits alone.
State-by-state estimates of annual cost reductions range from $615,669 for Wyoming to $1.28 billion for California. Nationwide, reduced hospital visits would have saved $6.23 billion annually, or $37.4 billion over six years, if states had eliminated their additional residency requirements from 2005-10.
The cost savings estimate is conservative, the authors note, because hospitalization is only one of several ways in which greater access to primary care physicians should lower health care costs. The estimate omits the effect of additional specialist physicians altogether, omits the wage-lowering effects of physician migration and ignores the value of better health in terms of economic growth and life-years gained.
"Each of these omissions suggest that we vastly underestimate the economic impact of eliminating international medical graduates' residency requirements in this counterfactual policy simulation," the study notes.
"While equalizing residency requirements would not completely satisfy physician needs in half the states, it is a straightforward, practical policy change that can result in measurable improvements in social welfare," Pandya said.
The existence of additional residency requirements for foreign-educated doctors also challenges the broad conclusions suggested by survey and experimental research that highly skilled Americans tend to support high-skilled immigration. There is a disconnect between words and deeds, Pandya said. "Highly skilled Americans say that they support high-skilled immigration in general, but, at least in the case of doctors, they continue to erect barriers to protect their own profession.
"As we demonstrate with the case of physicians," she continued, "unelected U.S. state regulators are dictating the international transferability of skills through occupational licensing barriers, and removing such barriers has the potential to address some of our most pressing public policy concerns."
This research was supported by U.Va.'s Quantitative Collaborative and the Bankard Fund for Political Economy.
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The early Soviet posters presented here arrived as two separate collections, donated to the Library some three decades apart. Harold Manchester Fleming (1900-1971), a stock analyst, financial writer, and Wall Street correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor assembled the first collection. After graduating from Harvard College, Fleming served as a field inspector for the American Relief Administration, established after World War I to combat hunger in war-torn Europe. During this time he gathered and shipped home more than a hundred posters of the period. The posters arrived with the donation of his papers to the Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division in the 1970s.
In 2002, Paul S. Hall and Dorothy F. Hall donated 104 Russian and Ukrainian posters dating from 1917-1921 to the Slavic and Baltic Division, effectively doubling the Library's holding of early Soviet posters. The posters had belonged to a Hall relative, Benjamin Blattner (1890-1956), an investigative accountant who served with Governor Thomas E. Dewey and District Attorney Frank S. Hogan combating racketeering and fraud in New York State. Like Fleming, Blattner had worked in famine relief in the early Soviet era, in his case, with the Joint Distribution Committee.
In December 2003, Alex Rabinovich donated thirty-four additional original posters from the Russian Revolution and Civil War further enhancing these holdings; they will eventually join this virtual collection.
The Library's early Soviet posters contain several examples by internationally-recognized graphic artists such as Dmitrii Moor (Orlov), artist and poet Vladimir Maiakovskii (who visited NYPL in 1928), and Viktor Deni (Denisov). The holdings represent one of the largest assemblages of such posters outside of Russia, comparable only to the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, California, and the Lundell Collection in Uppsala, Sweden.
The graphic artistry encountered in many of these cheaply produced posters has captivated critics and collectors for decades. The visual boldness and departure from established tradition were in themselves statements of how much had changed since the Revolutions of 1917. Artists who had been on the "fringe" before the Revolution moved center stage, and would remain there until the imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin in the late 1930s.
Baburina, N.I. Rossiia--20. vek: istoriia strany v plakate = Russia--20th Century: History of the Country in Poster. (2000)
Baburina, N.I. Russkii plakat Pervoi mirovoi. (1992)
Baburina, Nina. The Soviet Political Poster, 1917/1980: from the USSR Lenin Library. (1985)
Barkhatova, Elena Valentinovna. Russian Constructivist Posters. (1992)
Bibikova, I. M. et al. Agitmassovoe iskusstvo Sovetskoi Rossii: materialy i dokumenty: agitpoezda i agitparokhody, peredvizhnoi teatr, politicheskii plakat, 1918-1932. (2002) 2v.
Bonnell, Victoria. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. (1997)
Waschik, Klaus and Nina Baburina. Werber fur die Utopie: russische Plakatkunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. (2003)
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910.92 Armstrong, Jennifer Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
- The true story of explorer Ernest Shackleton, who with his crew was stranded in the Antarctic ice pack in 1915 with no ship
and no way to contact the outside world.
YA/YA PB Brewer, Heather Eighth Grade Bites
- Vladimir Tod is the orphaned son of a vampire and a human, and when a new teacher seems to know a great deal about him, he wonders if his secret is about to be exposed. The first book in the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series.
YA Erskine, Kathryn The Absolute Value of Mike
- Mike spends the summer in Pennsylvania with some eccentric elderly relatives and becomes involved with others in town in a fundraising project to bring a romanian orphan to the U.S.
J/YA Hale, Shannon and Dean Rapunzel's Revenge
- In this graphic novel retelling of the Rapunzel legend, our heroine frees herself from the tower and uses her smarts (and her long, braided hair!) to battle the bad guys with a Wild West flair. Calamity Jack is a companion book about her compatriot with the golden goose and magic beans.
YA Hiaasen, Carl Flush
- When Noah's dad is imprisoned after sinking a floating casino, he and his sister look for evidence that the owner is emptying his waste tanks into the ocean.
YA/YTA PB Higson, Charlie Silverfin
- In this first book in the Young Bond series, the future Agent 007
has his first adventure at boarding school, when he takes part in a search to find a boy who disappeared while fishing at a Scottish loch.
910.45 McPherson, Stephanie S Iceberg Right Ahead: the Tragedy of the Titanic
- An illustrated account of the Titanic story, from its construction to its sinking in 1912, and the changes that came about as a result of the tragedy.
YA/YA PB Magoon, Kekla The Rock and the River
- Fourteen-year-old Sam is caught up in the Civil Rights action in 1968 Chicago. He is torn between his father's nonviolent approach and his older brother's involvement with the Black Panthers. Can these extremes be reconciled?
YA/YA PB Mull, Brandon Fablehaven
- When Kendra and Seth arrive at their grandfather's estate, they discover that magical creatures also reside there, complete
with conflicts between good and evil. The first title in the Fablehaven series.
YA/YA PB Oppel, Kenneth Airborn
- After rescuing a dying balloonist, a cabin boy aboard an airship joinjs the balloonist's granddaughter in her mission to track down the mysterious winged creatures described in her grandfather's diary. The story continues in Skybreaker and Starclimber.
YA/YA PB Osa, Nancy Cuba 15
- Preparation for Violet's quinceañera gives her more incentive to explore her Cuban heritage, but members of her family are reluctant to share some aspects of it.
92 Paulsen, Gary Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
- Are you a fan of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet and its follow-ups? Read the real stories that inspired them!
YA Pearson, Ridley Steel Trapp: The Challenge
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J/YA PB Sachar, Louis Holes
- Stanley Yelnats is sent to an evil detention center in the Texas desert.
YA Schmidt, Gary Okay For Now
- Nothing is going right for Doug. Friendless, bullied by his own family, and new in town, he begins to hang out in the local library, where he meets tough talking Lil Spicer. The librarian sparks Doug's interest in art and the paintings of John James Audubon. Through his new connections, Doug gradually finds a way to both stand up for himself and understand the battles everyone around him is fighting.
YA Scott, Michael The Alchemyst
- Twins Sophie and Josh find themselves in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between two alchemists over a powerful book with the secret formulas for alchemy and immortality.
732.7092 Sheinkin, Steve Lincoln's Grave Robbers
- The story of a plot hatched by some counterfeiters in 1876 to rob Abraham Lincoln's body from its grave and hold it for ransom to secure the release of their ringleader from prison.
YA/YA PB Westerfeld, Scott Leviathan
- Austrian prince Alek is on the run from the Clankers, who are trying to conquer the world with machines, and joins Deryn, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Services learning to fly a genetically engineered whale-like creature. The first in the Leviathan Adventure series.
YA Wrede, Patricia The Thirteenth Child
- In an alternate society, Eff is a thirteenth child, which is supposed to be bad luck, but when her family moves to a frontier area, she has the opportunity to use her powers to battle evil magical creatures. The first book in the The Frontier Magic series.
YA Wright, Bil When the Black Girl Sings
- Lahni struggles with being the only African-American student at a private girls' school and the impending divorce of her adoptive parents. Discovering her talent for singing helps her to deal with the issues she faces.


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Adverse Event Reporting and EHRs: The MEDTECH Act's Effects
Note: This was originally posted on: EMRandEHR.com
EHRs and Adverse Events
Medical systems generate adverse event (AE) reports to improve service delivery and public safety.
As I described in this note's first part, these reports are both a record of what went wrong and a rich source for improving workflow, process and policy. They can nail responsibility not only for bad acts, but also bad actors and can help distinguish between the two. The FDA gathers AE reports to look for important health related patterns, and if needed to trigger recalls, modifications and public alerts.
EHRs generate AEs, but the FDA doesn't require reporting them. Reporting is only for medical devices defined by the FDA and EHRs aren't. However, users sometimes report EHR related AEs. Now, there's proposed legislation that would preclude EHRs as medical devices and stop any consideration of EHR reports.
MEDTECH Act's Impact
EHRs are benign software systems that need minimal oversight. At least that's what MEDTECH Act's congressional sponsors, Senators Orrin Hatch (R- Utah) and Michael Bennett (D- Colorado) think. If they have their way – and much of the EHR industry hopes so – the FDA can forget regulating EHRs and tracking any EHR related AEs.
EHRs and Adverse Events
Currently, if you ask MAUD, the FDA's device, adverse event tracking system about EHRs, you don't get much, as you might expect. Up to October, MAUD has 320,000 AEs. Of these about 30 mention an EHR in passing. (There may be many more, but you can't search for phrases such as "electronic health," etc.) While the FDA hasn't defined EHRs as a device, vendors are afraid it may. Their fear is based on this part of the FDA's device definition standard:
[A]n instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is:
…[I]ntended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals…
I think this section clearly covers EHRs. They are intended for diagnostic, cure, mitigation, etc., of disease. Consistent public policy in general and a regard for protecting the public's health, I think, augers for mandatory reporting of EHR caused AEs.
Why then aren't EHRs devices that require AE reporting? In a word, politics. The FDA's been under pressure from vendors who contend their products aren't devices just software. They also don't want their products subject to being criticized for failures, especially in instances where they have no control over the process. That may be understandable from a corporate point of view, but there are several reasons for rejecting that point of view. Consider what the FDA currently defines as a medical device.
Other Devices. The FDA captures AE reports on an incredible number of devices. A few examples:
- Blood pressure computers
- Crutches
- Drug dose calculators
- Ice bags
- Lab gear – practically all
- Robotic telemedicine devices, and many, many more.
ECRI on EHR Adverse Events
The respected patient safety NGO, the ECRI Institute, puts the issue squarely. Each year, it publishes its Top Ten Health Technology Hazards. Number one is inadequate alarm configuration policies and practices. Number two: "Incorrect or missing data in electronic health records and other health IT systems." Its report says:
Many care decisions today are based on data in an electronic health record (EHR) or other IT-based system. When functioning well, these systems provide the information clinicians need for making appropriate treatment decisions. When faults or errors exist, however, incomplete, inaccurate, or out-of-date information can end up in a patient's record, potentially leading to incorrect treatment decisions and patient harm. What makes this problem so troubling is that the integrity of the data in health IT (HIT) systems can be compromised in a number of ways, and once errors are introduced, they can be difficult to spot and correct. Examples of data integrity failures include the following:
- Appearance of one patient's data in another patient's record (i.e., a patient/data mismatch)
- Missing data or delayed data delivery (e.g., because of network limitations, configuration errors, or data entry delays)
- Clock synchronization errors between different medical devices and systems
- Default values being used by mistake, or fields being prepopulated with erroneous data
- Inconsistencies in patient information when both paper and electronic records are used
- Outdated information being copied and pasted into a new report Programs for reporting and reviewing HIT-related problems can help organizations identify and rectify breakdowns and failures.
ECRI spells out why AE reporting is so important for EHRs:
…[S]uch programs face some unique challenges. Chief among these is that the frontline caregivers and system users who report an event—as well as the staff who typically review the reports—may not understand the role that an HIT system played in an event…
The MEDTECH Act's Effects
The move to curtail the FDA's EHR jurisdiction is heating up. Senators Hatch and Bennett's proposed act exempts EHRs from FDA jurisdiction by defining EHRs as passive data repositories.
Most industry chatter about the act has been its exempting EHRs and others from the ACA's medical device tax. However, by removing FDA's jurisdiction, it would also exempt EHRs from AE reports. Repealing a tax is always popular. Preventing AE reports may make vendors happy, but clinicians, patients and the public may not be as sanguine.
The act's first two sections declare that any software whose main purpose is administrative or financial won't come under device reporting.
Subsection (c) is the heart of the act, which exempts:
Electronic patient records created, stored, transferred, or reviewed by health care professionals or individuals working under supervision of such professionals that functionally represent a medical chart, including patient history records,
Subsection (d) says that software that conveys lab or other test results are exempt.
Subsection (e) exempts any software that makes recommendations for patient care.
There are several problems with this language. The first is that while it goes to lengths to say what is not a device, it is silent about what is. Where is the line drawn? If an EHR includes workflow, as all do, is it exempt because it also has a chart function? The bill doesn't say
Subsection (d) on lab gear is also distressing. Currently, most lab gear are FDA devices. Now, if your blood chemistry report is fouled by the lab's equipment ends up harming you, it's reportable. Under MEDTECH, it may not be.
Then there's the question of who's going to decide what's in and what's out? Is it the FDA or ONC, or both? Who knows Most important, the bill's negative approach fails to account for those AEs, as ECRI puts it when: "Default values being used by mistake, or fields being prepopulated with erroneous data."
Contradictory Terms
The act has a fascinating proviso in subsection (c):
…[P]rovided that software designed for use in maintaining such patient records is validated prior to marketing, consistent with the standards for software validation relied upon by the Secretary in reviewing premarket submissions for devices.
This language refers to information that device manufacturers file with HHS prior to marketing. Oddly, it implies that EHRs are medical devices under the FDA's strictest purview, though the rest of the act says they are not. Go figure.
What's It Mean?
The loud applause for the MEDTECH act coming from the EHR industry, is due to its letting vendors off the medical device hook. I think the industry should be careful about what it's wishing for. Without effective reporting, adverse events will still occur, but without corrective action. In that case, everything will seem to go swimmingly. Vendors will be happy. Congress can claim to being responsive. All will be well.
However, this legislative penny in the fuse box will prove that keeping the lights on, regardless of consequences, isn't the best policy. When something goes terribly wrong, but isn't reported then, patients will pay a heavy price. Don't be surprised when some member of Congress demands to know why the FDA didn't catch it.


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Not 'Basement' behaviour.
First of all, utilising all my fingers, and some of my toes, I can tell you that we've had nearly 400 people pass through our doors and eat our food. Incredibly, considering that number, nearly all of these people have been absolutely amazing individuals. They've been no problem whatsoever, they've loved what we're doing and in return, we've loved them dearly. *blows copious air kisses, mwah mwah fashion*
But, it hasn't been all rainbows, cuddles and snuggums. A couple of people have, quite frankly, been very bad guests. But, only a couple, out of nearly 400, that's actually quite amazing. Nevertheless these few individuals have blighted our 'Basement' with their presence, and we curse their collective memories.
The most ghastly of our few rubbish guests descended on our subterranean lair a few months back. Lets call her 'Sharon', (errr because that's actually her name). 'Shazza' was basically the supper club guest from hell.
She came on her own, which isn't unusual in itself, lots of people do and that's fine. She was in her late 50's I guess, and she seemed a little bit pissed when she arrived. She ended up sitting on a table with 4 other people who were in their early twenties. It wasn't long before we realised that she was completely dominating the whole table's conversation. She was one of those awful people, with a loud voice (slurred) and an opinion on pretty much everything, all of it backed up with a winding longwinded story. The rest of the table were sitting there stunned, in a complete verbal vacuum. Mere puppets as Shazza held court in the most awful fashion.
But, our guests are adults, they can deal with this…. Thought I naively, until 'E' came into the kitchen aghast, and told me that 'Shaz' was now regaling her new dining companions with a cheery tale about her friend who had apparently committed suicide. As you can imagine, they quite literally looked like someone had died. Four pairs of eyes pleading for help and framed by expressions of exquisite misery greeted me, as I was physically ejected by 'E' out of the kitchen and into the dining room with orders to 'change the subject'.
I decided the best approach was to engage Sharon in conversation, and draw her away from the others so they could best make their escape. Coming, as I do, from Essex, I have much experience of chatting to drunkards and felt assured that I could deal with this confidently. Try as I might, I can't remember exactly what I said, or what Sharon said in response. I can only conclude that part of my memory has been blotted out, in what is no doubt some kind of primal brain defence mechanism which I am confident will see me awaking in years to come bathed in sweat and screaming.
But, the main thing is, I took one for the team. I changed the subject.
The evening progressed, and Shazza hadn't seemed to cause any more real trouble. Apart from provoking the odd look from other guests. She'd taken to moving around the room, sitting at the other tables chatting, and helping herself to wine. Eventually at the arse end of the evening, myself, 'E' and two other women who happened to be young Doctors were left drinking and chatting. They were lovely, extremely funny and quite obviously had enjoyed a great evening, which made us happy. Shazza was still floating around, and by this time was steaming drunk. She offered to 'help with the washing up'. We politely declined. She looked restless. A couple of minutes later, I looked around and realised she'd wandered into the empty kitchen. As I got up to she where she'd got to, she came stumbling out mumbling incoherently. The Doctors, bless em, had at this point realised what a problem Shazza was and whispered that they'd take her with them when they left.
I could only admire their skill, obviously honed to perfection in dealing with troublesome patients as they expertly shepherded our ghastly guest, cheerfully crying 'C'mon Shazza, you're coming with us'. Somewhat surprisingly she obediently accompanied them up the stairs to the front door.
As the unlikely trio departed into the night, we relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately resolving that Sharon would never be coming to 'The Basement' again.
But my sorry tale doesn't end there. The next day, whilst tidying up the wreckage in the kitchen, I found an envelope stuffed behind the radio. It was Shazzer's payment envelope. Confused, I ripped it open. Instead of leaving the suggested donation of £25, she'd left £15, and hidden it. This despite raving how good the evening and the food was, necking a load of leftover wine and ruining the evening for her entire table with her complete boorishness.
Shazza, you're a piece of work. If I ever see you again, it will be far too soon.To all our guests that night who may have been mentally scarred. We're truly sorry.
No one else has even come close to Shazza for sheer awfulness. In fact, as I said previously, we've been extremely lucky that nearly all save for a tiny minority have been an absolute pleasure welcome into our home and cook for. We love you all 'Basementeers'.
So that's our worst ever supper club guest.
I'd be interested to hear what's the worst behaviour you've witnessed at a supper club, or even a restaurant for that matter.
Go on share.
PS: If you fancy coming along to a future 'Basement' (No Shazza – we promise – drop us an email at email@example.com)
18 comments:
- Food Urchin said...
I've got a sneaky feeling you've left something out here my friend, exactly how or what did you take for the team.
Great post and heres to many more Basement stories. Have no real bad guest stories to regale (just one snotty guest so far). No for the really horrendous stories, well that would have to include me and I'm not telling
- 1 July 2011 at 00:11
- Unknown said...
great post... one of these days i'll make my way over... until then, congrats on the healthy supperclub and may you be blessed with many more to come ! (my bad dinner guest stories always end up with me and my brother fighting and there are too many of those stories to lay down here, so never invite us both anywhere, I guess is the moral..
- 1 July 2011 at 07:30
- miss south said...
Was she a Bristolian? Because I know a Sharon *just* like her based not far from me in Sarf Lahdahn. If she's moving freely from county to county, something should be done...
I second Food Urchin. I suspect something is a tad reserved here about as to how you 'tamed' Shazza.
If we book a place, do we get hear what it is?
- 1 July 2011 at 08:21
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Great post, Dan, and, er, painfully amusing story ;) Sounds like you and the docs handled Shazza as well as anyone could have done. How hideous for you, though.
- 1 July 2011 at 08:31
- Going With My Gut said...
YIKES. My mate Goz and I are still total noobs to this whole supperclub thing. Luckily in the 2 suppers so far everyone's been lovely. Am sure the house odds will catch up with us soon though!
- 1 July 2011 at 09:17
- James R said...
We had an absolute wanker book a table for four and then turn up with just his missus. I think he was called Danny...yeah, Danny. He writes a blog, too. Food Urchin or something. Total nonsense.
- 1 July 2011 at 11:03
- Bistro Becs said...
Loved this post Dan, really entertaining and can just imagine you guys wincing.
Planning my next visit to Bristol shortly and am desperate to tie it in with a trip to the Basement and bring my brother along too, loved it last time and the menus I keep receiving sound SO tempting. Keep up the good work and congrats for keeping it going so long :-)
- 1 July 2011 at 11:28
Bonjour mon frere,
When are you going to invite me to one of your supper clubs? I'm still waiting for the promised London one.
Shazza sounds like great fun; you can't put a price on entertainment like that. Congratulations on such a successful venture, never envisaged it would be such a huge success. I'm very proud of you (well a little bit).
Mwah mwah
- 1 July 2011 at 14:15
- Shazza said...
Crikey I thought we'd made a real connection Dan... I'll pop a tenner in the post X
- 1 July 2011 at 14:22
- Sarah said...
Another fun post, Dan. I really feel for you and E. What could you have done? If you'd tried to get her out she might have started wielding a hachoir or something. The mind boggles! Still, it made for interesting reading!
Keep up the good work!
Sarah and the Goats
- 1 July 2011 at 14:46
- Dan said...
Food Urchin - Not leaving anything out mate, I started asking her what she thought of it, and she started rambling about supperclubs she'd been to in New York and Berlin...and *yawn*....I got fed up and left her to get on with it. But the main thing is, she stopped talking about death. And that's a result in a dinner party conversation.
Dom - Thanks. Look forward to seeing you at 'The Basement' some point in the future...just don't bring your brother ok?
Miss South - Sadly yes, Shazza is a Bristolian...but perhaps she has a twin in London (God, what a horrible thought)...or perhaps she travels reguarly, and if so - I quite agree, the authorities should be informed or sumfink. If you book a place, we'll possibly tell you our 'other stories'...*mysterious*
Aforkfulofspaghetti - Thanks very much. I guess it's nice to have an amusing anecdote out of it. (But don't come back Shazza - ever! ok?)
Going with my Gut - 99.95% of people who come to supperclubs are amazing and out to have a brilliant time. Every now and again, a complete knob will slip through - but that's life I guess. Lets hope you don't encounter a shazza anytime soon ;)
James R - I've encountered this complete and utter wanker myself. And yes agreed, he's an absolute social nightmare. Something should be done about him. Nonsense, Nonsense, NONSENSE!
Bistro Becs - Thanks. We'd love to see you at the 'Basement' again soon!
Sara - Bonjour ma souer. The London one keeps being put back, but it will happen. Besides, you don't need an invite silly, just come down and let me know when and we can arrange something.
Shazza was bloody horrendous, but kind of entertaining. Thanks for your lovely comments, I am indeed pride inducing. Yeah. Mwah Mwah x
Shazza - How the hell did you find me? The court order says 10 meters and no online contact for crissake! does your probation officer know you have access to a computer?
Sarah - Thanks you very much. What the hell is a hachoir? it sounds terrifying! Shazza flailing around wielding an unidentified object....I'll never sleep again.
- 1 July 2011 at 15:11
- The Ample Cook said...
Oh Dan, what a nightmare. Sounds as if you handled her very well. And as for under-paying, what a cow!
You and Elly are doing brilliantly - wished we lived nearer :)
- 2 July 2011 at 11:28
- Neil Rankin said...
I reckon I could be worse, but she definitely sets a high bar.
- 3 July 2011 at 01:42
- Unknown said...
Sounds harrowing, I can imagine the awkwardness, esp when this person is in your house!
- 3 July 2011 at 10:32
- Unknown said...
Dan this post had me in hysterics - glad to hear most of your supper club guests are NOT like this lady.
- 3 July 2011 at 14:08
- Dan said...
The Ample Cook - We tried! Yeah the under-paying really pissed us off, as it was so sly. If you're ever in Bristol....
Neil - I reckon you could be worse too mate. No argument there. But right now, Shazza is the one to beat.
Louis - I know, it's a bit strange as it's you're house, so you expect people to behave...but it comes with the supper club territory I guess.
Gourmet Chick - hahahaha NO ONE is like Shazza. Glad I made you laugh :)
- 3 July 2011 at 21:12
- Graphic Foodie said...
Brilliant. You're bound to come across one every now and then. Hope I can make it to the Basement one of these days!
- 6 July 2011 at 13:06
- Dan said...
Graphic Foodie - Yeah, the odds are against everyone being lovely. Just glad people like Shazza are such a rare occurrence. We'd absolutely love to see you at 'The Basement' one of these days Fran.
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After the shock and anguish, a fervent wish began germinating when I heard of the Boston bombings. Please, oh, please, don't let the bombers be immigrants.
This thought occurred because of the certainty that someone would then use the bombing to set back the cause of immigration reform. Sure enough, Iowa GOP Sen. Charles Grassley came through, linking the bombing at the Senate's first hearing to the latest reform proposal by the so-called bipartisan Gang of Eight.
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Oh, I don't know. Not let anyone in, ever? The test here will be whether the bombing will be seen as cause to improve reform or to kill it.
Then there was U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, who talked about al-Qaida/drug cartel training camps at the border to train folks how to act Hispanic. He'd be easier to dismiss if he wasn't vice chairman of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.
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The suspects — the Tsarnaev brothers, 19 and 26, of Chechen origin — came about 10 years ago.
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