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BAY STREET-Steel slump puts crimp in Labrador Trough (ADI Noted)
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The New Player in Iron Ore
Thomson Reuters
* Iron ore price slump hurts development in region
* Shares of junior producers active in Trough struggle
* Resource analysts see value in shares of some players
By Julie Gordon
TORONTO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - "Strike while the iron is hot,"
the old saying goes, and a legion of iron ore miners setting up
in Canada's remote Labrador Trough want to do just that. But,
for now, they have to wait.
Iron ore, the main component of steel, has turned ice cold
in recent months, with the benchmark price
plunging to $86.70 a tonne in September from $149.40 in April.
It has since recovered to about $116 a tonne.
The downward spiral has jeopardized the viability of the
sub-Arctic region's vast iron ore deposits just as the first new
mines in decades were opening. Some projects are being put on
As a consequence, shares of junior miners such as Alderon
Iron Ore Corp, Champion Iron Mines Ltd and
Century Iron Mines Corp, have tumbled as projects that
looked rich at $150 a tonne suddenly lost their luster.
Still, analysts say the region's potential remains
compelling. They caution, though, that investors must look
closely at the contenders to judge which are best placed to ride
out the bad times and prosper over the long term.
"There's opportunity for the region, but there are
challenges and uncertainty," said RBC Capital Markets mining
analyst Robin Kozar. "Many companies will not succeed, but at
the same time, some companies will be successful."
The Labrador Trough, which straddles the border between
Quebec and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has
attracted a wave of foreign interest in recent years, as Chinese
and Indian steelmakers have scrambled to stake a claim in the
world's next big iron mining district.
The region currently produces just 3 percent of the global
seaborne supply, about 40 million tonnes a year. But that will
grow rapidly if even just a fraction of the dozens of planned
projects get off the ground.
For now, a sluggish steel market is weighing against that
potential. On Thursday, Chinese steel futures slipped to their
lowest level in more than two months, reflecting slower demand
in the world's top steel consumer.
The broader global outlook hasn't helped as the European
debt crisis and the looming U.S. "fiscal cliff" raise the
specter of another world recession.
With steel prices falling and many mills operating well
below capacity, steel consumers don't have any incentive to
build up inventories, said Kevin Stevick, chief executive at
Optima Specialty Steel Inc, a maker of steel products.
"Everyone is keeping their inventories at an absolutely
minimum right now," Stevick said.
"They can get it from the mills in relatively short order
because the order books are off compared to where they were last
year," he said. "So that certainly weighs down on the market."
In the Labrador Trough miners are already retrenching.
Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Ltd, a new producer in
the region, slashed capital spending and deferred projects to
2013. The junior said it won't restart operations in the spring
unless it feels prices will stay above $110 next year.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc, a larger producer that
has struggled with higher-than-expected costs, has delayed an
expansion at its Bloom Lake project and cut its sales volume
targets for 2013.
The Labrador Trough has been pumping out iron since the
1950s, though many projects were shuttered during the 1980s and
1990s as demand slowed. As urbanization in China and India
started to drive demand earlier this century, major players such
as Rio Tinto Plc and ArcelorMittal, the
world's top steelmaker, moved in.
For steelmakers, long dependant on iron from Vale SA
, BHP Billiton Ltd and Rio Tinto, new
projects in Canada will help diversify supply.
China's Heibei Iron and Steel Group has signed a deal with
Alderon, while Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd has agreements with
Century and Adriana Resources Inc. New Millennium Iron
Corp and India's Tata Steel started up their first
joint project in September.
But to bring more tonnes online in the region, and keep
operating costs manageable, new infrastructure is needed.
To that point, Canadian National Railway and Caisse
de Depot, the Quebec pension fund manager, are studying the
feasibility of building an 800-kilometer (500-mile) railway to
service new and existing mines in the region.
As well, a new multi-user port is already under construction
at Sept-Iles, Quebec. The government-backed project is expected
to be completed in March 2014.
"You've got a multi-user railway and multi-user port being
planned, studied or developed, all with the support of the local
government and other stakeholders," said Colin Healey, a mining
analyst at Haywood Securities.
"All those things support the potential for production from
several of the deposits being developed in the Trough."
That means while the volatile iron price is a challenge, the
region is not just going to roll over and die, say experts. In
fact, with many juniors trading at two-year lows, there are even
buying opportunities, Kozar said.
His top pick is Alderon Iron Ore, which has four "strong
buy" ratings, 12 "buy" ratings and one "hold", according to
Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Another popular choice is Champion,
which has five "strong buys", seven "buys" and one "hold".
Labrador Iron Mines and New Millennium, two new producers,
are also expected to do well over the longer term, though both
have more "holds" as they work out early hiccups.
For RBC's Kozar, picking the right company comes down to
three factors: the quality of its assets and products, easy
access to infrastructure and the financing to make the project a
"You could have infrastructure in place, you could have a
great asset," he said. "But you don't have any money to build it
- game over."


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I'm getting a bit sick of watching the news and finding Ben Cousins occupies most of it. Dear news services - it's cricket season!
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What are the ways to keep the cricket forum tidy and clean? there are some users who are doing cyber harassment in this cricket section . They are such a shame because they are complete bamboozled and muddled up with the situation. what are your ideas to make this cricket forum clean, how can we keep such kind of users at bay. Any ideas of improvement will be very useful for us and further helping our peers controlling yahoo answers. wish to see this cricket section healthy, healthy discussions are fine but cheap and ugly actions shouldn't be permitted here, so i vow all my peers to kick out such users by reporting their rants and chats here.
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Like any product, the subcription video on demand WWE 24/7 channel has a chief architect behind the scenes. Meet Tom Barreca, Senior Vice President, WWE Enterprises.
He joined World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. in July 2003 and has overseen the launch of WWE 24/7 in the U.S., and, as of last week, in Canada. Plus, just this week, WWE announced a Spanish-version of the product as well.
A graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Business School, Barreca came to the WWE with a rich resume, working at developing new businesses, technology, licensing and interactive TV ventures for AMC Networks, AMC and WE: Women's Entertainment. While at Turner Broadcasting, he was a part of the team that tried to figure out what to do with the Hanna-Barbera cartoon library, leading to the launch of the Cartoon Network. (He also dealt a little with World Championship Wrestling while at Turner.)
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In the WWE 24/7 example, there is about 20 hours of footage on the channel at any one time, with four to five hours being rotated in every week. Fans can choose what they want to watch using a menu similar to a web page. Then they can watch it again and again, or pause, rewind or fast forward.
Barreca is determined to expand the 75,000 hours of footage the WWE already has the rights to, including WWWF, WWF, WCW, Jim Crockett Promotions (NWA), the AWA, Smoky Mountain Wrestling and ECW.
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Further penetration of the product is a must, getting 24/7 on more digital cable systems across North America. With just Rogers Cable signed up in Canada, Barreca believes it will just be a matter of time until deals are announced to bring the channel to the Maritimes, Quebec and the west. "We're talking to everybody pretty actively, and we've been, but Rogers was sort of at the fore," he said. "So it made sense that we came here first. We're in active discussions with virtually all the players here. I think you'll see further stuff coming down the road."
The 24/7 team hovers around 20 employees. "We do a lot. I've got a great group back at the office," Barreca said. "It depends whether or not we're in library acquisition mode where I've got people and technicians going out to review footage, people working with conservators, restoration folks."
Some of the challenges the channel faces are obvious to long-time wrestling fans. Banned by legal decision not to promote the WWF logo, it has to be removed from old footage. A legal battle with Jesse Ventura over past commentary means that in many cases he is edited out.
Then there's the music. The most recent obvious example was the ECW One Night Stand pay-per-view, where one of the most incredible moments was the crowd chanting along to Metallica's Enter Sandman as The Sandman smoked and drank his way to the ring. Yet the song isn't on the DVD release.
"It's a money issue and in some instances, it's a rights-holder issue where it's a piece of music or a piece of content that we don't own and control, and we have a partner we can't make an arrangement with," Barreca said. "Generally, we try to approach most people with a fair offer and hope we can move along."
To Barreca, the biggest challenge is making the product good enough to air in digital format. "We do our best to not really change it. In most instance, some of the stuff, particularly as we've been acquiring older libraries on film, we end up having to do restoration work. We end up having to go in and clean it up, take some noise out. Generally, we're trying to stay as true as we possibly can given the confines of legal limits and other things."
It has been a learning curve for Barreca, who said he was only "a bit" of a wrestling fan growing up in Syracuse, NY. "I saw some wrestling in college up in central New York. I got to see Andre the Giant my first time in college," he said.
Understandably, Barreca is pretty proud of the product. "We make it fun, we include extra information, we give lots of other special features, not unlike a DVD," he said. "It's an amazing product. I can tell you from our experience down in the States where we've been out for several months, our fans love it. Not only are they watching every single frame of film we put on TV, but they watch it again and again."
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Variants of vitamin D receptor linked to increased risk of breast cancer
Genetic variations in the body's receptor for vitamin D could increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a study published today in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research.
Jenny Chang-Claude of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology, at the German Cancer Research Center, in Heidelberg, and colleagues there and at the Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, undertook a population-based case-control study involving 1,408 patients and 2,612 control individuals.
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Previous studies regarding the association between vitamin D and breast cancer have been inconsistent in their conclusions.
Chang-Claude and her colleagues have investigated variations in the gene encoding the vitamin D receptor protein. They found that there were no differences in the biomarker for vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, between women with two well-known genetic variations, the polymorphisms FokI and TaqI, and two functional putative variants, VDR-5132 and Cdx2, in the gene for the receptor. Moreover, they found no relationship between the presence of these polymorphisms and overall risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
However, they found a significant increase in the risk of estrogen receptor (ER) positive tumours among women with the TaqI genetic variant. This suggests the involvement of estrogen metabolism in the anticancer activity of vitamin D.
"Further studies focusing on the influence of genetic variations on vitamin D receptor functionality, activity and concentration are now needed" says Chang-Claude.
Source: BioMed Central


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Toddler Amazingly Survives After Swallowing 37 BuckyBalls
While BuckyBalls may look like a kid's toy, they are definitely not for young children.
The Bushnall family in Portland, Oregon learned this lesson the hard way when their three-year-old daughter, Payton, swallowed 37 of the BB-sized magnets. At first, doctors thought the toddler had swallowed a regular bracelet, but when they realized they were magnets they had to quickly perform invasive surgery.
That's because magnets will stick to a person's stomach and intestines, causing serious injury or even death. Luckily, surgeons removed the BuckyBalls from Payton's stomach in time, and then were able to repair the internal tears they caused.
"In all the research I have done, I have never seen any child swallow more than 10 magnets," said Sandy Nipper, a nurse at Randall Children's Hospital in Portland, Oregon.
"I'm thinking that she kind of put two and two together and thought these look like what we put on Christmas cookies," explained Kelli Bushnell, Payton's mom. "If we had any idea what those magnets could have done to our daughter's intestines I would have never had them in our house."


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Borg is a collective proper noun for a fictional alien race that appears as recurring antagonists in various incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. The Borg are a collection of species that have been turned into cybernetic organisms functioning as drones of the Collective, or the hive. A pseudo-race, dwelling in the Star Trek universe, the Borg force other species into their collective and connect them to "the hive mind"; the act is called assimilation and entails violence, abductions, and injections of microscopic machines called nanoprobes. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection".
Aside from being the main threat in Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg play major roles in The Next Generation and Voyager television series, primarily as an invasion threat to the United Federation of Planets, and serve as the way home to the Alpha Quadrant for isolated Federation starship Voyager. The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which "resistance is futile".
The Borg manifest as cybernetically enhanced humanoid drones of multiple species, organized as an interconnected collective, the decisions of which are made by a hive mind, linked by subspace radio. The Borg inhabit a vast region of space in the Delta Quadrant of the galaxy, possessing thousands of vessels. They operate toward the fulfilment of one purpose: to "add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to [their] own... [in pursuit of] perfection". The concept of perfection is the unifying idea at the core of the Borg. The pursuit of an unemotional, mechanical perfection is the Borg's only motivation. This is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which takes individuals and technology, enhancing and controlling them. Originally presented as an autonomous collective, the ideas of a Borg Queen and central control were introduced in First Contact.
In their introduction (TNG's "Q Who"), little information is given about the Borg, their origins or intentions. In nearly all their encounters, they exhibit no desire for negotiation or reason, only assimilation. Exhibiting a rapid adaptability to any situation or threat, the Borg become one of the greatest threats to Starfleet and the Federation. Major characters that have escaped the Collective after having been assimilated include Jean-Luc Picard and Seven of Nine.
TV Guide named them #4 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.[1]
In the text commentary to the Collector's Edition of Star Trek: First Contact, Michael Okuda revealed that Star Trek: The Next Generation writers began to develop the idea of the Borg as early as the first season episode, "Conspiracy", which introduced a coercive, symbiotic life form that took over key Federation personnel. It was thwarted by the Enterprise crew and presumably never heard of again (the 'alien conspiracy' plotline itself was scrapped when it became clear that the concept was too grim for Star Trek's target audience). Plans to feature the Borg as an increasingly menacing threat were subsequently scrapped in favor of a more subtle introduction, beginning with the mystery of missing colonies on both sides of the Neutral Zone in "The Neutral Zone" and culminating in the encounter between Borg and the Enterprise crew in "Q Who?".
The Borg were a concept born out of necessity for Star Trek to feature a new antagonist and regular enemy that was lacking during the first season of The Next Generation; the Klingons were allies and the Romulans mostly absent. The Ferengi were originally intended as the new enemy for the United Federation of Planets, but their comical, unintimidating appearance and devotion to "capitalist" accumulation by "free enterprise" failed to portray them as a convincing threat. They were subsequently reassigned as comic relief. The Borg, however, with their frightening appearance, immense power, and, most importantly, their sinister motive became the signature villains for the The Next Generation and Voyager eras of Star Trek. In Voyager episode "Q2", even Q tells his son to never "provoke the Borg."
"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."[3]
The phrase "Resistance is futile" became prevalent in popular culture from its use in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation.[4][5][6]
The Borg uttered the phrase in several Star Trek episodes and the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Patrick Stewart's delivery of the line, as Locutus, in "The Best of Both Worlds" was ranked No. 93 in TV Land's list of "The 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases".[7] The phrase was also the tagline for the film, First Contact.
The phrase "Resistance is futile" is also used in several works which pre-date the introduction of the Borg; the first time in Trek film was Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When the Enterprise crew encounters V'ger's tractor beam, Kirk requests options for escape. Spock responds "Any show of resistance would be futile, Captain."
"What Vortis is, I have. What you are, I will become... Parasite? A power, absorbing territory, riches, energy, culture, you! Come to me... Do not fight against it... Your struggles are futile!"
"Well, gentlemen, are you satisfied that resistance is futile?".
The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds or thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen). In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen merely states that the Borg were once much like humanity, "flawed and weak", but gradually developed into a partially synthetic species in an ongoing attempt to evolve and perfect themselves.
In TNG's "Q Who?", Guinan mentions that the Borg are "made up of organic and artificial life [...] which has been developing for [...] thousands of centuries." In the later episode of Star Trek: Voyager, "Dragon's Teeth", Gedrin, of the race the Vaadwaur, says that before he and his people were put into suspended animation 892 years earlier, the Borg had only assimilated a few colonies inside the Delta Quadrant and were considered essentially a minor nuisance. Now awake in the 24th century, he is amazed to see that the Borg control a vast area of the Delta Quadrant. Seven of Nine comments that the Borg's collective memories of that time period are fragmentary, though it is never established why that is.
The Star Trek Encyclopedia speculates that there could be a connection between the Borg and V'ger, the vessel encountered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; this is advanced in William Shatner's novel The Return. The connection was also suggested in a letter in Starlog No. 160 (November 1990). The letter writer, Christopher Haviland, also speculated that the original Borg drones were members of a race called "The Preservers", which Spock had suggested in the original series episode "The Paradise Syndrome" might be responsible for why so many humanoids populate the galaxy. It was confirmed in the The Next Generation episode "The Chase" that an ancient species seeded hundreds, if not thousands of planets with their DNA, creating the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and many more. Coincidentally, in the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (written by Gene Roddenberry), the Vejur entity notes that the Ilia probe is resisting the programming given to it because of residual memories and feelings for Captain Decker, from its precise replication of the Deltan lieutenant. When Vejur becomes aware of this, it decides that "the resistance was futile, of course".
The extra section of the game Star Trek: Legacy contains the "Origin of the Borg", which tells the story of V'ger being sucked into a black hole. V'ger was found by a race of living machines which gave it a form suitable to fulfilling its simplistic programming. Unable to determine who its creator could be, the probe declared all carbon-based life an infestation of the creator's universe, leading to assimilation. From this, the Borg were created, as extensions of V'ger's purpose. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. The Borg Queen was created out of the necessity for a single unifying voice. However, with thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger. This explanation, however, is not canon.
In the graphic novel Star Trek: The Manga, the Borg resulted from an experiment in medical nanotechnology gone wrong. An alien species under threat of extinction by an incurable disease created a repository satellite containing test subjects infused with body parts, organs, and DNA of multiple species along with cybernetic enhancements put in place by advanced medical technology. The satellite was maintained by nanomachines, which also maintained the medical equipment on board. The medical facility is parked in orbit by a black hole, and along with the anomalous states of time around the black hole, allows long-term research to continue at an accelerated time scale rather than in real time speed. The medical facility deteriorates and so too does the programming of the nanomachines. The nanomachines began infusing themselves into the patients, interpreting them as part of the satellite in need of repair. Among the patients is the daughter of the head medical researcher of the satellite. The satellite eventually falls apart in an encounter with an away team from the Enterprise under the command of James T. Kirk. In the final moments of the satellite's destruction and the escape of the crew members of the Enterprise with the patients, the subjects display qualities inherently resembling the Borg; injection of nanomachines in a fashion like assimilation, rapid adaptation to weaponry, and a hive mind consciousness, as all the subjects begin following the whim of the daughter. As succumbing to the disease was inevitable, and the corrupt nanomachine programming infused itself into the bodies, the final image of the page of the manga Borg origin is left with the daughter turned Borg Queen, stating, "Resistance is futile." This origin story shares many similarities with that of the Replicators from Stargate SG-1.
In the novel Lost Souls (the third book in the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy) the Borg are revealed to be the survivors of the Caeliar city Mantilis. Thrown across the galaxy in the Delta Quadrant and back in time to approximately 4500 BC by the destruction of Erigol at the climax of Gods of Night, the first book in the trilogy, a group of human survivors from the starship Columbia NX-02 and Caeliar scientists try to survive in a harsh arctic climate. Most of the human survivors die of exposure, while several Caeliar are absorbed into their race's gestalt to give life to the others in their group mind.
The Caeliar offer the remaining humans a merging of human and Caeliar, to allow both groups to survive. The human survivors are resistant and as time goes on, the Caeliar called Sedin becomes the sole survivor of her group, her mental processes and her form both degrading as time goes on. When the humans return to Sedin for help, she forces them to merge with her, unwilling to allow herself to die when a union can save her life. The forced merging of the humans and the mostly-decayed Caeliar results in the creation of the first Borg, the name being created due to the fragmented thought of the first drone as he was assimilated (His last thought was that he would not become some cyborg, with his individuality ceasing before be could finish thinking the final word). The gestalt group mind is perverted to become the collective, driven by Sedin's desperate hunger and need to add the strength, technology and life-force of others to her own. Ironically, while the Caeliar were–albeit accidentally–involved in the creation of the Borg, they also provide the means to end it; in the 24th century, the Caeliar absorb the entire Borg collective back into themselves, ending the cyborgs' centuries-long reign of terror.
The Unicomplex is a location in the fictional Star Trek universe that is used as a Borg central base. The Unicomplex is located in an unknown area of the Delta Quadrant. It is a center of all processing activity for the Borg collective, and is the home of a Borg Queen. The Unicomplex resembles a patchwork-like collection of thousands of cubes, connected by assorted conduits and transportation hubs. Borg cubes frequently cross into and out of the Unicomplex on their way to other parts of the galaxy, using transwarp conduits. The Unicomplex primarily appears in the episodes leading towards the conclusion of Star Trek: Voyager. The Unicomplex was destroyed in 2378 after the Borg Queen assimilated a neurolytic pathogen from the future Admiral Kathryn Janeway, who had traveled back in time, as seen in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale, "Endgame".
Though Borg rarely look alike, they share several common characteristics. Borg commonly have one eye (most often the left eye) replaced with a sophisticated ocular implant which allows them to see beyond the human visual spectrum. This implant usually projects a red laser beam, particularly in later appearances. They also usually have one arm replaced with a prosthetic one, bearing one of a variety of multi-purpose tools in place of a humanoid hand, and flat white skin, giving them an almost zombie-like appearance. This skin was originally dry and human-looking, but it later had a more "slick" look to it, with veins showing.
Due to their cybernetic enhancements, all Borg are far stronger than humans to varying degrees (depending on the species the drone came from). However, they never run to their destination, and hence most species can outpace them. Borg drones are resistant to phaser fire, being completely immune to the stun setting. In addition, all Borg drones possess personal shielding which collectively adapts to phaser fire. In various episodes, phasers tend to become ineffective after a dozen shots at most, depending on the settings and time between shots. Phaser frequencies can be altered to penetrate the shield, but the Borg adapt more quickly with each change in modulation. Due to this, crews have been known to employ a variety of other countermeasures such as holodeck-generated bullets (Star Trek holodeck items are solid as long as the holodeck safety settings are disabled) and melee weapons, as demonstrated in Star Trek: First Contact. The Borg hive mind can lead to certain downsides: Borg drones have a weakness in that they will usually ignore anything which does not present itself as a direct threat (unless specifically directed to attack), allowing armed but passive Starfleet crew to walk among them relatively unscathed until threatening behavior was observed.
The most important cybernetic component of any Borg is their "cortical node", which controls every other implanted "fixed location" cybernetic device within a Borg's body, and is most often implanted in the forehead above the usually-retained organic right eye. If the cortical node fails, the afflicted individual Borg eventually dies, as it cannot be replicated or repaired. However, successful replacement of the node can be carried out on a Borg vessel if the failure is detected promptly before the afflicted Borg's impending death.
Assimilation is the process by which the Borg integrate beings, cultures and technology into their collective. "You will be assimilated" is one of the few on-screen phrases employed by the Borg when communicating with other species. The Borg are portrayed as having encountered and assimilated thousands of species and billions to trillions of individual life-forms throughout the galaxy. The Borg designate each species with a number assigned to them upon first contact.
When first introduced, the Borg are said to be more interested in assimilating technology than people, roaming the universe as single-minded marauders that have assimilated starships, planets, and entire societies in order to collect new technology. They are discriminating in this area, finding certain races, for example the Kazon, to be technologically inferior and not worthy of assimilation. A Borg infant found aboard the first cube introduced (TNG: "Q Who?") shows that the Borg will even assimilate the children of a conquered race.
In their second appearance, "The Best of Both Worlds", they capture and assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard into the collective by surgically altering him, creating Locutus of Borg, meaning "he who has spoken" or "he who speaks", in Latin, fitting as he speaks to Federation humans for them. After this, life-form assimilation becomes much more prominent in their overall behavior.
The method of assimilating individual life-forms into the collective has been represented differently over time, only consistent in that infant and fetal humanoids have been grown in an accelerated state and surgically receive implants connected directly into the brain, as well as ocular devices, tool-enhanced limbs, armor, and other prosthetics. In Star Trek: First Contact, the method of adult assimilation is depicted with the more efficient injection of nanoprobes-(nanites)-into the individual's bloodstream through a pair of tubules that spring forth from the drone's hand. Assimilation by tubules is depicted on-screen as being a fast-acting process, with the victim's skin pigmentation turning gray with visible dark tracks forming within moments of contact. The individual is then taken away for complete assimilation by drones; The Borg are neither male nor female [10] and individual's reproductive systems are removed during the process of assimilation. The individual has all traces of individuality removed and implants are attached to the new drone so it can become an integrated part of the collective. This method of assimilation is also shown to be much more surgical in nature.[11] In Star Trek: First Contact a captured crew member is shown to have a forearm and an eye physically removed and replaced with cybernetic implants.
Because assimilation depends on nanoprobes, species with an extremely advanced immune system are able to resist assimilation. Thus far, Species 8472 are the only race shown to be capable of completely rejecting assimilation attempts.[12] Phlox was able to partially resist the assimilation process in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Regeneration".
Nanoprobes are microscopic machines that inhabit a Borg's body, bloodstream, and many cybernetic implants. The probes perform the function of maintaining the Borg cybernetic systems, as well as repairing damage to the organic parts of a Borg. They generate new technology inside a Borg when needed as well as protecting them from many forms of disease and virus. Borg nanoprobes, each about the size of a human red blood cell, travel through the victim's bloodstream and latch on to individual cells. The nanoprobes rewrite the cellular DNA, altering the victim's biochemistry, and eventually form larger, more complicated structures and networks within the body such as electrical pathways, processing and data storage nodes, and ultimately prosthetic devices that spring forth from the skin. In "Mortal Coil", Seven of Nine states that the Borg assimilated the nanoprobe technology from "Species 149".
Though used by the Borg to exert control over another being, reprogrammed nanoprobes were used by the crew of the starship Voyager in many instances as medical aids. In one instance, the probes were used to revive crewman Neelix 18 hours, 49 minutes and 13 seconds after death by repairing his body, and are used to treat various visitors' ailments.
The capability of nanoprobes to absorb improved technologies they encounter into the Borg collective is demonstrated in the Voyager episode "Drone", where Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter which utilises technology from the 29th century of the history line of the Federation, creating an individual 29th century drone existing outside the collective, with capabilities far surpassing that of late 24th century drones. The attempt by the Borg to assimilate this drone is unsuccessful, so its enhanced capabilities are not disseminated throughout the collective.
The Borg will not try to immediately assimilate any being that it comes to contact with; in fact, Borg drones tend to completely ignore beings that are identified as too weak to be a threat and too inferior to be worth assimilating. Captain Picard and his team walk safely past a group of Borg drones in a scene from the film First Contact because they are unarmed, while the drones fulfill a programmed mission. In an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine told Neelix that the Kazon were "unworthy" of assimilation and would only detract from the Borg's quest for perceived perfection.
The Borg utilize Maturation Chambers as the means of assimilating children that have been captured.
The child is kept in the Maturation Chamber for a period of 17 cycles.[13] There is conflicting information what is canon about how long 17 cycles is. Based on information from Star Trek: Voyager (Mortal Coil) and Star Trek: Voyager (Drone) the time frame calculates out to approximately 6 months, however in Star Trek: Voyager (Collective) Seven of Nine mentions that she was in her Maturation Chamber for 5 years.
During this time spent in the Maturation Chamber nanoprobes are introduced into the child's body along with cybernetic implants which either surgically implanted or constructed by the nanoprobes. The child's physical age is also accelerated. When the child emerges from the Maturation Chamber they have physically grown into an adult drone, being no different then a drone that was already an adult when assimilated.
The appearance of Maturation Chambers has changed over time, originally seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation (Q Who) and later in Star Trek: Voyager (Drone) and Star Trek: Voyager (Collective).
Also referred to as the "hive mind" or "collective consciousness", the Borg Collective is a civilization with a group mind. Each Borg individual, or drone, is linked to the collective by a sophisticated subspace network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance. The collective is broadcast over a subspace domain similar to that utilized by the transporter. Being part of the collective offers significant biomedical advantages to the individual drones. The mental energy of the group consciousness can help an injured or damaged drone heal or regenerate damaged body parts or technology. The collective consciousness not only gives them the ability to "share the same thoughts", but also to adapt with great speed to defensive tactics used against them.[14]
Prior to the movie Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg exhibit no hierarchical command structure, instead using a structure similar in principle to the internet with no control center and distributed processing. First Contact introduced the Borg Queen, who is not named as such in the film but is referred to by that name during the credits. The Queen is played by Alice Krige in this film and in the finale of Star Trek: Voyager, "Endgame". The character also appeared in Voyager's two-part episodes "Dark Frontier" and "Unimatrix Zero", but Susanna Thompson was the actor. It is never confirmed whether or not all of these appearances represent exactly the same Queen.
The Borg Queen is the focal point within the Borg collective consciousness and a unique drone within the collective, who originates from Species 125, that brings "order to chaos", referring to herself as "we" and "I" interchangeably. In First Contact the Queen's dialogue suggests she is an expression of the Borg Collective's overall intelligence; not a controller but the avatar of the entire Collective as an individual. The introduction of the Queen radically changed the canon understanding of the Borg function; some fans consider the Borg queen "nothing more than an illogical plot device" designed to make for "good theater."[15]
In First Contact, the Borg Queen is seen as apparently present during Picard's former assimilation at the start as flashbacks in Picard's mind, and was believed destroyed along with that Borg cube years earlier. Here, she instead directs her attentions to Data. After he is captured by her drones, she tries to tempt him to join her by playing on his desire to be more human. She claims that she desires a semi-independent non-Borg being as an intellectual companion. This Queen is partially destroyed when her organic components are liquefied as a result of Data rupturing one of the Enterprise's warp core plasma coolant conduits. Picard finishes her off by breaking her spinal column with his own hands. The Queen is also destroyed in the Voyager episode "Endgame".
In the Star Trek: The Experience attraction The Borg Invasion 4-D, the Borg Queen re-appears after Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant, but as Admiral Janeway attempts to kill her, she activates a transporter, allowing herself to survive.
In the Star Trek: Voyager relaunch novels, the Borg Queen is not a single, irreplaceable entity, but the product of a program called "The Royal Protocol" that shares its name with a Starfleet document outlining requirements when dealing with foreign royalty. This program is used to create a Borg Queen from any female Borg, commanding the technology within her to alter and adapt to the Protocol's specifications. In the relaunch novels, one of the leaders of Starfleet Intelligence gets her hands on The Royal Protocol and, with the use of an Emergency Medical Hologram, turns herself into a new kind of Borg Queen who cares about and loves her drones.
Alternatively, in the game Star Trek: Legacy, bonus content unlockable throughout the course of the game offers further information on the role of the queen. It is suggested that the females of a particular species have a natural ability to filter and control the immense 'traffic' of thought present in the collective consciousness of the Borg. These females, in a sense, serve as regulators or signal boosters even assisting in maintaining the complete consciousness over the thousands of lightyears of Borg space. This also presents the possibility of multiple queens, which would be a suitable explanation for why, on more than one occasion, a Starfleet officer has 'killed the queen.' In the illustration accompanying the explanation, all the females distinctly resemble the queen portrayed on screen.
In the Mirror Universe story "The Worst of Both Worlds" by Greg Cox, the Borg are led by a King.
The Borg first appear in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second-season episode "Q Who?", when the omnipotent life-form Q transports the Enterprise-D across the galaxy to challenge Jean-Luc Picard's assertion that his crew is ready to face the unexplored galaxy's unknown dangers and mysteries. The Enterprise crew is quickly overwhelmed by the relentless Borg, and Picard eventually asks for and receives Q's help in returning the ship to its previous coordinates in the Alpha Quadrant. At the episode's conclusion, Picard suggests to Guinan that Q did "the right thing for the wrong reason" (a T. S. Eliot quotation) by showing the dangers they will eventually face. It is suggested that the Borg may have been responsible for the destruction of Federation and Romulan colonies in the final episode of season one, "The Neutral Zone".[16]
The Borg next appear in The Next Generation's third-season finale and fourth-season premiere, "The Best of Both Worlds". In the third-season cliffhanger, Picard is abducted and subsequently assimilated by the Borg and transformed into Locutus, the Latin term for "he who has spoken" or "he who speaks". "Locutus" is the Borg method of describing the former Picard as the representative of the Borg in all future contacts related to humanity. Picard's knowledge of Starfleet is gained by the collective, and the single cube easily wipes out all resistance in its path, notably the entire Starfleet armada at Wolf 359, which consisted of 40 starships, some of which were sent from the Klingon Empire. The Enterprise crew manages to capture Locutus and gain information through him which allows them to destroy the cube. Picard is later "deassimilated", a process quite different from what happened to Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager (Seven of Nine had to be totally "Re-schooled" on humanity, Picard merely needed to be reminded of humanity).
In the fifth-season episode "I, Borg", the Enterprise crew rescues a solitary Borg who is given the name "Hugh" by Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge. The crew faces the moral decision of whether or not to use Hugh (who begins to develop a sense of independence as a result of a severed link to the collective consciousness of the Borg) as an apocalyptic means of delivering a devastating computer virus that would theoretically destroy the Borg, or to humanely allow him to return to the Borg with his individuality intact.[17] They decide to return him without the virus. This is followed up in the sixth-season cliffhanger "Descent", which depicts a group of rogue Borg who had "assimilated" individuality through Hugh. These rogue Borg fell under the control of the psychopathic android Lore, the "older brother" of Data.
In cult leader-like fashion, Lore had manipulated them into following him by appealing to their restored emotions and exploiting their new-found senses of individuality and fear, hoping to turn them on the Federation. Lore also corrupts Data through the use of the emotion chip he had stolen from Noonien Soong (Data and Lore's creator). In the end, Data's ethical subroutines are restored (having been suppressed by Lore through use of the emotion chip) and he manages to deactivate Lore after a battle in which a renegade Borg faction led by Hugh attacks the main complex. Data reclaims the emotion chip, Lore is mentioned as needing to be dismantled (for safety) and the surviving Borg fall under the leadership of Hugh. The fate of these deassimilated Borg is not revealed.
The Borg return as the antagonists in one of the Next Generation films, Star Trek: First Contact. After again failing to assimilate Earth by means of a direct assault in the year 2373, the Borg travel back in time to the year 2063 to try to stop Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans, which would have erased the Federation from history. However, the Enterprise-E follows the Borg back in time and the crew restores the original timeline. First Contact introduces the Borg Queen, a recurring character on Star Trek: Voyager.
Parts of this destroyed Borg sphere, along with at least two drones, are shown to have crash landed in the Arctic in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Regeneration".
The only appearance the Borg made on this series was in the premiere episode Emissary. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) was an officer on the USS Saratoga, one of the ships in the Starfleet armada dispatched to Wolf 359. The Saratoga was hailed by the Borg cube with Locutus speaking as their representative. The Borg opened fire on the Saratoga, leading to the deaths of most of the ship's personnel, including Sisko's wife Jennifer. This created great resentment in Sisko when dealing with Picard; for Sisko, Picard was the living embodiment of the suffering the Borg inflicted at Wolf 359, making their meeting in "Emissary" tense when Picard gave Sisko his orders for taking over the station. Sisko found it hard to separate Jean-Luc Picard from the Borg drone who was responsible for his wife's death.
Despite their absence for the vast majority of the series beyond the pilot, references to the Borg, as well as the Wolf 359 massacre, are made occasionally throughout the series. In fact, the USS Defiant, a primary starship setting from the third season onwards, is explicitly stated to have been designed as a countermeasure against the Borg.[18] In addition, the battle from Star Trek: First Contact is used as a plot point in Season 5 as Starfleet is spread thin to deal with a Dominion incursion.
The Borg make frequent appearances in Star Trek: Voyager, which takes place in the Delta Quadrant, the region of space from which the Borg are believed to have originated. The Borg are first discovered by Voyager in the third season episode "Unity", Chakotay discovers a population of ex-Borg of various species. In "Scorpion", the Borg are engaged in a futile war against the much more powerful Species 8472. In one of the few instances of the Borg negotiating, in exchange for safe passage through Borg space, the Voyager crew devises a way to destroy the otherwise immune Species 8472. A Borg drone, Seven of Nine, is dispatched to Voyager to facilitate this arrangement as Captain Janeway refuses to allow the Borg to use neural implants for communication with the Voyager crew.
After successfully driving Species 8472 back into their fluidic space, Seven of Nine attempts to assimilate Voyager but is severed from the hive mind and stripped of most of her Borg implants, becoming a member of Voyager's crew. Seven of Nine's rediscovery of her humanity becomes a recurring theme throughout the series. Flashbacks and allusions in several episodes, such as "The Raven", establish that prior to her assimilation, Seven of Nine was Annika Hansen, the child of scientists who studied the Borg in the Delta Quadrant independent of the Federation.
In "Drone", an advanced Borg drone is created when Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter in a transporter accident. The drone, who adopts the moniker "One", involuntarily sends a signal to the collective, bringing a sphere to Voyager. One destroys the Borg ship and lets himself die to protect Voyager from further Borg pursuits.
In "Infinite Regress" it was revealed that all Borg starships have a device called a vinculum which connects all the minds of the drones, eliminates individual thoughts, and disseminates information to the Borg Collective.
In "Dark Frontier", Captain Kathryn Janeway decides to attack the Borg in the hopes of stealing a transwarp coil to aid Voyager's journey home. The Borg Queen learns of the plot and offers Seven of Nine a deal to spare Voyager in exchange for her rejoining the collective. Voyager recovers the transwarp coil and uses it, with the Delta Flyer, to save Seven from the Queen. Voyager uses the transwarp coil to travel 20,000 light-years before it burns out.
In "Collective", the crew of Voyager stumble upon a severely damaged cube that is holding Tom Paris, Neelix, Harry and Chakotay hostage. The crew later finds out that the ship is run by five Borg children who left their maturation chambers early. There are no living adult drones on board the ship due to a pathogen that somehow infected the entire vessel. The children sent a message to the collective that they were attacked. The collective replied and told them they were irrelevant. Seven of Nine is sent to assist in repairs and negotiate a trade for the prisoners. However, Voyager is soon attacked by the cube when the Borg children attempt to rip the main deflector off of the hull so they can rejoin the collective. When the cube's leader dies, Seven takes the children onto Voyager, has their non-essential Borg components removed prior to most returning to their home planets, some however choose to stay and become part of the crew.
In "Q2", Q's son places Voyager in danger and brings Borg onto the ship. Q intercedes, saves Voyager and angrily warns his son about provoking the Borg.
In the Voyager finale, "Endgame", an elderly Admiral Janeway from the future travels back in time, to aid in Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant through the use of a Borg transwarp hub. The hub is one of six such structures scattered across the galaxy, which allow Borg ships to traverse galactic distances in minutes. The future Janeway allows herself to be assimilated, delivering a neurolytic pathogen that disrupts the Queen's link to the collective. Janeway thus kills the Queen and helps buy time for the young Janeway to destroy the Borg Unicomplex: Voyager uses the transwarp hub to travel back to the Alpha Quadrant, destroying it as they do. On the way, a Borg sphere pursues and captures Voyager, but upon arrival at Earth, is destroyed from the inside by Voyager's transphasic torpedo.
In the Enterprise episode "Regeneration", the remnants of the destroyed sphere from Star Trek: First Contact are discovered in the Arctic along with two frozen drones. Once unearthed, the Borg quickly revive and assimilate the human scientists who found them before stealing an unarmed research ship, modifying it to match Starfleet technology in a matter of hours. The drones manage to send a transmission toward the Delta Quadrant before they are destroyed. According to dialogue, their transmission would reach its destination in 200 years, essentially establishing a closed time loop with the events of "Q Who", explaining why the cube in the latter episode was already en route to Earth. Although the Borg never identify themselves as such in dialogue, the episode's events prompt characters to allude to Zefram Cochrane's claims that "strange cybernetic creatures from the future" tried to interfere with First Contact.
Writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens developed an unproduced idea for an episode which would have featured Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who encounters the Borg and is assimilated – thereby becoming the Borg Queen.[19]
In the non-canonical Star Trek: The Manga story 'Side Effects' written by Chris Dows, the crew of the Enterprise under James T. Kirk discovers an alien station operating near a black hole. The commander of the station appears to be abducting races in a desperate attempt to cure a strange plague among his people. Using his own daughter as a guinea pig, he is able to create a cure for the plague, though the end result is always assimilation into the consciousness of his daughter, the future Borg Queen, for those cured.
In the Star Trek novel Probe, which takes place following the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Borg are mentioned obliquely in communication with the whale-probe as spacefaring "mites" (the whale-probe's term for humanoid races) who traveled in cubical and spherical spacefaring vessels; the Borg apparently attacked the whale-probe and damaged its memory in some fashion prior to the events of the film.
In the Star Trek Game Star Trek: Legacy, the Borg are featured midway through the TOS era as "Assimilated Klingon ships". In the final mission, once the player has completed the primary objective, a confrontation with T'urell ensues; she departs, and the player must destroy a Borg Sphere.
The Peter David novel Vendetta reveals that the planet killer weapon from the Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine" is a prototype for a weapon against the Borg, with a woman whose race were destroyed by the Borg trying to use the weapon against them despite the damage she will cause on her journey due to its need to consume planets. David revisited this concept in a 2007 sequel novel, Before Dishonor, which features the Enterprise-E working with Spock and Seven of Nine to reactivate the original planet killer to stop the Borg.
In William Shatner's novel The Return, Spock is nearly assimilated by the Borg, but is saved because he mind-melded with V'ger, an earlier form of the Borg, causing the Borg to register an 'imprint' of the Collective already in Spock's mind and spare him as they assume that he is already a Borg. Using the information he subconsciously acquired in the meld, Spock is able to lead a crew of Enterprise officers- consisting of the Enterprise-D senior staff, himself, Admiral McCoy, and the resurrected Kirk- in a Defiant-class ship to destroy the Borg central node, severing all branches of the Collective from each other and limiting their future threat.
In David Mack's novel trilogy Star Trek: Destiny, set over a year after Star Trek: Nemesis, the Borg stage a massive invasion of local space using the totality of their forces. Due to Kathryn Janeway crippling their infrastructure in "Endgame", the Borg fear for their survival and thus attempt to exterminate the Federation and its neighbors. They wipe out the populations of numerous Federation worlds before being dismantled by the Caeliar, the advanced species that spawned them. The crews of the Enterprise-E, the Titan, and the Aventine had made contact with the Caeliar, learned of their role in the creation of the Borg from Erika Hernandez, and convinced them to end the threat of the Borg once and for all.
In the Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic, Assimilation2, the Borg join forces with the Cybermen, but the Enterprise crew are later forced to work with the Eleventh Doctor and the Borg when the Cybermen subvert the Collective, resulting in them restoring the Borg to full strength and erasing the Borg/Cyberman alliance from existence.[20]
The Borg appear as antagonists to the player in the following Star Trek game titles:
They also appear as the main characters to the player in the only Star Trek arcade game, Star Trek: Borg Contact, where players must squeeze two handles without letting go until the timer expires.
Activision at one point planned to release Star Trek: Borg Assimilator, in which the player would play a Borg, but later canceled the game.
In Mass Effect 2, Legion's loyalty mission – deciding whether or not to infect his fellow Geth with a virus that would re-write their collective consciousness – was inspired by the fifth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation: "I, Borg".
In Star Fox Assault, a Creature known as "Aparoids" invades the Lylat system, their goal is to assimilate all living organisms and mechanical devices, much like the borg. however, instead of an android humanoid, Aparoids appear as an insect like creature.
The Grox from the game Spore from Electronic Arts are very similar to the Borg.
The depiction of the Borg cube in "Q Who" garnered the episode an Emmy Award nomination.[21]
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Ah, the alliteration!
I had to get that off my chest. Despite my love of bookish matters, I promise not to spend an entire post acting like the literary devices fangirl that I am. Some of you like-minded readers would undoubtedly think it was the greatest grouping of words the English language has ever seen, but some of you would immediately groan and exit the page, causing you to miss out on the glorious beauty that is Brown Butter Banana Bread. Therefore, today I shall set my obsessions aside for chocolate chips and the greater good.
This batch of soft, yummy banana bread was born out of a truly frightening experience that befell me this past weekend…I had no butter. For two and a half days this recipe lingered in my mind, filling my head with thoughts of nutty, brown butter, gently sweet bananas, and pops of chocolate chips.
I was taunted by the bunch of perfectly overripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter, knowing that for each day I let them linger, they were cultivating countless hidden bruises to spite me. When the day finally arrived that butter once again entered my house, I peeled them with more than a little trepidation. As someone who had never tried to make banana bread with darkly speckled, super ripe bananas before, I mentally prepared myself for the inevitable hideous surprise awaiting me.
But there was no hideous surprise awaiting me. Underneath the mottled peels of those bananas there was nothing but soft, smushy, blemish-free fruit. In an instant, they were mashed into pureed perfection.
I was more flabbergasted than when I passed Chemistry class.
As of this moment, I am officially a believer in the ripe banana method. I will distribute flyers and wear a badge. I will create a school club for it and hand out banana bread samples at freshman orientation. Where I used to scoff at the idea and wrinkle my nose at the unattractive banana peels, I now understand what so many people have been talking about. It really does make the whole process delightfully easy.
And like I said before, there's brown butter and chocolate chips.
Grab the recipe over at Joy the Baker. All I did differently was swap the strawberries for chocolate chips. If my strawberries hadn't gone bad, I wouldn't have changed a thing, because this business is yumsville all around.


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Like most South Walton professionals, I read industry journals, domestic and international academic papers as well as newspapers of the U.S. and abroad in order to establish a base of information through which I synthesize data.
This global macro information helps me determine where markets might be headed and how our clients might benefit. Some sources are daily, like the Athens News from Greece, which recently reported growing food lines amid widespread rejection of ECB imposed austerity as well as the disturbing rise in popularity of two extremist political parties.
Some data sources are weekly. And some, like the Hoisington Report, are quarterly, and well worth the wait.
Firm founder Van Hoisington and renowned economist Lacy Hunt, Ph.D., provide their economic outlook, released this past Monday. Their conclusions are disturbing. Consider the report�s first paragraph, under a subheading of �Growth Recession.�
The Hoisington Report relates, �Entering the final quarter of the year, domestic and global economic conditions are extremely fragile. Across the globe, countries are in outright recession, and in some instances where aggregate growth is holding above the zero line, manufacturing sectors are contracting.�
The report offers the following conclusions in layman�s terms. One, the Federal Reserve�s QE1 (Quantitative Easing) and QE2, and now QE3, were necessary governmental interventions, but made very little substantial long-term impact on the economy.
And further governmental stimulation, designed to ignite spending and to a certain degree increase inflation, will suffer similar fates. What these cash injections did, essentially, was increase the price of commodities, like food and gas.
And, since those whose incomes are considered middle class spend a greater percentage of their income on basic items like fuel and food, their spending power has actually decreased. So Hoisington is essentially saying that the governmental stimuli raised prices on those who could least afford it, and who have seen their real (inflation adjusted) income and savings rate decline.
International trade is experiencing a downturn. And as we all know, the U.S. is linked with the exporting activities of the emerging market countries. Economic isolationism is no longer a practical ethos in the modern global world.
Our markets have been faring pretty well, though, right? Here, we are required to distinguish between the economy and the stock market, which are two separate considerations, though certainly interrelated and which influence each other significantly.
Those with discretionary income, who have invested in what we call a cyclical bull market within a longer-running bear market, have seen their investments bear fruit. Naturally, this is good news for investors and good news for our clients.
The problem is, the long-term investing environment is impacted greatly by the winds of global economic challenges, and the coming four years looks like tough sledding, regardless of which presidential candidate claims victory.
European leaders vacation in late summer, and simply shelve their economic issues in abeyance. As amplified civil unrest rocks Europe, it is clear that the EU has seen little to no resolution.
Nor has our domestic debt issue been addressed. Neither have the domestic debt issues of countries around the globe. Hoisington writes: �With this global slump at hand, a highly relevant question is whether the U.S. can escape a severe recession in light of the following: the U.S. manufacturing sector that paced domestic economic growth over the past three years has lapsed into recession real income and the personal saving rate have been slumping in the face of an interim upturn in inflation and aggregate over-indebtedness, which is the dominant negative force in the economy has continued to move upward in concert with flagging economic activity.�
Margaret R. McDowell, a chartered financial consultant and accredited investment fiduciary, is the founder of Arbor Wealth Management, LLC, (850-608-6121~www.arborwealth.net), a �Fee-Only� Registered Investment Advisory Firm near Sandestin. Arbor Wealth specializes in portfolio management for clients with $250,000 or more of investable assets.


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Coming to TV screens of the future: Smell-O-Vision
June 16, 2011
Researchers at UC San Diego and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Korea have demonstrated that it is possible to generate thousands of odors with a device small enough to fit on the back of your television.
This could make real "Smell-O-Vision" possible. "Smell-O-Vision" was a film technique that released smells during films, used for only one movie, The Smell of Mystery, released in 1960.
"For example, if people are eating pizza, the viewer smells pizza coming from a TV or cell phone," said Sungho Jin, professor in the departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and NanoEngineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. "And if a beautiful lady walks by, they smell perfume. Instantaneously generated fragrances or odors would match the scene shown on a TV or cell phone."
The researchers found that it is possible to create a compact device which heats a small metal wire to vaporize an aqueous solution, such as ammonia or rose oil, releasing smells from a small chamber. The chamber is made of a non-toxic, non-flammable silicon elastomer.
The system uses 200 controllers to selectively activate as many as 10,000 odors. That pretty much covers the number of odors humans can distinguish, the researchers said.


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The situation couldn't be much simpler. Yesterday I downloaded the alternate installer for 12.04 and installed it as the only system on the only hard drive in a system, selecting guided partitioning using the enitre disk. The entire installation went flawlessly, and the network was available the enitre time for package retrieval. The system then rebooted perfectly, and I proceeded to allow the update manager, which launched spontaneously, to download and install all new updates, bringing the entire system up to date as of about an hour ago. After installing openssh-server manually, I rebooted the system as update-manager requested - to find myself stuck at the grub prompt. I was surprised by this given that the previous - and only - boot of this system had been successful.
The screen says:
GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.
What I have tried so far is to rerun grub-install according to the directions here. Although the 12.04 live CD fails to boot completely, apparently having a problem with the video driver, which is why I used the alternate installer, I was able to reach the command line through Ctrl-Alt-F1. The "sudo fdisk -l" command shows the following partitions:
Disk: /dev/sda: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 63481 cylinders, total 586072368 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical); 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal); 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00019e7e
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/dev/sda1 * 2048 584509439 292253696 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 584511486 586072063 780289 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 584511488 586072063 780289 82 Linux swap / Solaris
As I said, the commands:
sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda1 /dev/sda
completed successfully, but had no effect on the failure to boot.
I assume that when I updated my system that something was wrong with the latest kernel put into the repository and that it needs to be replaced, so I hope that my other 12.04 system will not be affected. Meanwhile, I could use suggections for how to boot and restore my new, bricked system.


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My favorite part? Hearing the greeting with a Southern drawl. It just sounds so sincere and sweet.
We all found a few bits and pieces. Bonnie's friend from Buck Mountain, Mona, fit right in this week and it has been a pleasure to get to know her!
I love this photo, but look behind them! This store is ginormous!
We went to a few antique malls and this green block stole the show for the most HUMBLE! I love it!
Bonnie brings me to Charlotte today where I will do handwork in the hotel and catch a morning flight. This has been a memorable week and a wonderful way to start 2015!
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Our community was paralyzed again this week with the police involved shooting death of another African American man.
This time the young man was returning home from his job as a postal worker when he met his fate at the hands of Inglewood law enforcement during the early morning of Tuesday, July 22.
Immediately, residents, citizens and community
leaders became enraged at the killing of 38-year-old Kevin Wicks, who had just made it home from his shift with the United States Postal Service.
The Rev. Cecil L. "Chip" Murray knew the family of the slain man and pleaded for justice to be served upon the officer who shot Wicks.
It is a scene that is beginning to repeat itself all too often for us to stomach. We are used to the police in our community being our enemy. It is a rare occurrence when they come and protect and serve us. The service that we keep receiving are bullets from the guns pulled from their holsters.
We as tax payers pay their salary and we expect that they would work for us. We don't pay them to hunt us as their prey.
We have since been told that the same officer that shot Wicks was involved in the shooting several weeks ago of another Black man, who later died as a result of his injuries.
The city of Inglewood is being sued for $25 million in that case, but money does not bring back a loved one.
So, we find ourselves in a familiar situation that appears to keep reoccurring in our community. Are we not beyond Rodney King? It appears to be getting worse. Rodney King lived. Mr. Wicks was not so fortunate. What does his family tell his children that he left behind? How do you explain this? Another senseless tragedy where any explanation will not suffice.
We demand that Wicks death not be in vain, that the officer be brought to trial and convicted. We deserve better than what we are getting in Inglewood and we want a resolution sooner than later.
So, whether you agree or disagree, now more than ever I really need your input. I need to hear from you. I need to know what is going on in our community. I also need to know what other stories we need to tell, and what is on your mind. I really do want to hear from you, I want you to "Talk to Danny."
Danny J. Bakewell, Jr.
President & Executive Editor