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I watched some of the Emperor at his first press conference after the re-election donning his latest new clothes, which looked like his old clothes. Pretty sure he dyed his grey hair out. Gotta look like the tough guy in chief now.
Favorite spit-take inducing line:
"I hope and intend to be an even better president than I was in the first term."
"Even better" – Wow. Can't wait.
Video here.
Press conference, shorter:
Fiscal Cliff: I want it all my way. I want it to be big and I will soak the rich for every penny I can get out of them. A lot of fluffy talk about tax reform and he even said "entitlements". This portion could have been ANY speech he's given in the last four years.
Benghazi: Come at me, Bro. I'll lie and stonewall just like Fast and Furious. Look what I did to Petraeus. I'm gonna fake some indignation here and make some threats. Oh and Leave Hillary and Rice alone, they're just women folk who need defending. How dare any of you suggest Rice wouldn't be a great replacement for Hillary? Rice is just as good, if not better at lying than Hillary is. Rice was just doing what I told her to, how dare you "besmirch" her reputation. Oh Sorry, she only went on multiple shows for over a week touting a giant lie. Update: Nice Deb has the Q & A where Obama gets a twist in his knickers.
Wasn't that special?
Note: Make sure you hit the 31:45ish mark and watch the NON-ANSWER on who gave the order or lack thereof in Benghazi.
From me to Mr. President — The election is over. We didn't need another campaign speech today, but we expected it and were not disappointed.
From me to the Legacy Media – My six year old asks harder questions. Fail.
I slept on Obama's indignant, tough guy act regarding Rice and Clinton and I felt the need to add this:
And this:
And this: Susan Rice's 9/11 tweet: 'Today we pledge to never make excuses' for terrorism
And this: Clinton's Excuse: 'Fog of War' to Blame for Misinformation from Susan Rice on Libya


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By Jim McLean
Special to ARMCHAIR GOLF
(Editor's note: This is the final tip of a seven-part series on practice drills.)
Problem: The player prematurely releases the club.
Result: Power is drained from the swing and the trajectory of the shot is off.
Goal: To learn how to better time the downswing action, so that power is preserved for the vital moment of impact.
Practice procedure: Turn your driver upside down or, better yet, use a driver shaft with no clubhead. If you use your regular driver, grip the shaft directly below the clubhead. Take your address and then swing. If you hear a swish sound right away while swinging down, you have released the club to early. This fault is called "casting." Make sure you hear the swish at the impact position. Now hit shots! You'll see the ball fly lower, farther and straighter.
Jim McLean is the instruction editor for Golf Digest and the Golf Channel, and an author of numerous, top-selling golf instruction books. For a free intro DVD to his new Building Block Approach, visit Jim McLean Golf School.
Copyright © Jim McLean. All rights reserved.

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Mr John Doe and Ms Jane Smith,
How do you format the address section of the person you are writing if there are two people of a business nature?
Example: Mr. John Doe Ms. Jane Smith
Mr John Doe and Ms Jane Smith,
I found a problem when writing to person who I don't know whether is male or female;
For Example : I want to write to someone called Jo Smith, Jo; it could be male or female , so, how I format the address!!??
You can do one of two things:
Either address is to Mr. J. Smith and if the person is a woman, she will soon correct you.
Or address it to Jo Smith.
However, "Jo" is usually an abbreviation for Josephine [female], whereas "Joe" is the abbreviation for Joseph [male]
I just give it as an example, but, I am afraid there will be few situations where I can not know if I am addressing to is male or female. Furthermore, as I am not native speaker, I can not predict the person reaction if I made a mistake and addressed him wrongly.Also,it will sound that I haven't enough information about him /her.For business I don't think it looks good.
That is true for anyone in business.
Either you address the person as Mr and wait for a reaction, or you contact the company reception or switchboard and ask them to tell you: "Good morning, I have to send a letter to xxxxx. Could you tell me if it is Mr xxxx or Ms xxxx?"


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By Jim Harris
The inside of James Villarreal's beautiful East Mt. Airy home is a sea of books, plants, papers, photographs, and paintings from Greek mythology.
Everywhere there are artistic representations of mythical characters like Bacchus, Atlas, Jason, Pandora, Medusa and Joseph the dream teller. As I walked in the door, he handed me his business card. On the back was a quote from George Bernard Shaw; "There is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
"Some people feel like they're in danger all the time," he said. "Have a seat."
He asked me how my day had been, adding, "Something that occurred with you today will open a little door in your dreams tonight regarding unfinished business. We are the sand and dreams are the ocean that washes over us. Sixty percent of what we do every day is not by choice. So what HAVE you done so far today?" I knew that I was there to interview HIM, so I had to fight the urge to talk about myself, so sincere and empathetic was his demeanor. That's probably one of the reasons why he is so good at what he does.
Villarreal, 67, has been a practicing psychotherapist for 32 years. He also did nine years of post-masters studies in "Senoi" dream therapy. The Senoi are a Malaysian hunting and gathering people who make extensive use of lucid dreams (in which one is aware that one is dreaming) to increase happiness and mental health. He uses the Senoi tool to guide his students and clients to successful relationships and careers.
His areas of special interest are sexual abuse, grief, loss and bipolar disorders. He speaks all over the word as an expert on dreams. He is a strong believer in affordability of services and education for all. He counseled workers at Ground Zero after 9-11 and has led a Senoi dream group for homeless people in Philadelphia. He occasionally gives courses in dream interpretation at Mt. Airy Learning Tree, and he sees clients in his home, where he estimates he has given away or lent out over 6,000 books from his sprawling library.
The work of the mystical Sufi poet Rumi has also had a profound effect on his work, and he has added Sufism — "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine" — to his practice. He's also writing a Rumi-inspired book of original prose and poetry, which is presently in the editing stage. "It's about the sacredness in all things," he says, "and surviving suffering." You can hear Villarreal reciting one of his inspirational poems on YouTube by Googling "Dreams Final Edit." In 1971, he wrote a children's book, "Look for the Latin Word," which has had seven printings.
Villarreal was one of seven children. He lives alone now but says, "I'm never really alone." He was born and raised at 57th and Chester in Southwest Philadelphia. His parents were both from Mexico and were part European, part Native Indian. He attended Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in Southwest Philly ("4,200 kids, 98% of them Irish"), and at age 14, he entered "Mother of the Savior" seminary in Bradford, New Jersey, where he trained to be a priest for nine years. During his time in the seminary he studied Latin, philosophy and meditative and spiritual practices, skills that have served him well.
Villarreal also spent 33 years teaching Latin to 5th graders in the Philadelphia public school system (Houston, Henry and Emlen Schools). He has been retired from teaching for nine years now. He began in February 1969, and estimates that he taught over 18,000 kids. Over the years "Mister V," as he came to be known, was loved by students and parents alike for his engaging style of teaching and ebullient personality.
During his teaching career, he produced a children's TV show for the Philadelphia School District TV network called "Latin Lives Forever in Philadelphia." The show involved students performing songs, plays, and acting out Greek myths. He says that learning Latin increased the students' vocabulary and language skills. They produced 640 episodes of the show, and it's still running on Comcast Channel 52 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2, 6, and 8 p.m. His teaching exploits have been covered in publications like Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and many others.
In his spare time (whenever that is), he's a guide at the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum. He also roller skates, ice skates, and plays full-court basketball. In addition, he grows orchids, is an avid gardener, and for 40 years has been a long-distance ocean swimmer. "I go out past the breakers and look for a current." he said. "Sometimes dolphins come up and chatter … I don't recommend this for everyone."
"Mr. V" says that one of his favorite quotes is from Emile Zola: "I came to live out loud," and it suits him well. He is a person who delves deep into the world of dreams, speaks in parables and faces fears head-on, truly a man of mythological proportions and a vibrant and valued member of our community.
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New Era of Health Care Management to Be Explored at Telemedicine Panel Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The San Diego Business Journal continues its in-depth look at the changing health care industry and the evolution of technology for its management. On Oct. 22, the Journal will host a panel of experts who will explore the new paradigm of electronic medical records sharing; discuss the challenges and solutions involved with initiating a telemedicine business model; and take a look at the endpoint technology that allows physicians and patients to interact via the Internet.
This event is essential for C-level management from health care practice groups, health care consultants and specialists, and vendors who support telemedicine initiatives.
Panelists include Dr. Anil Keswani of Scripps/Telemedicine; Steve Hogle from Cisco and Eric Rockwell of centrexIT.
The Journal's Executive Editor Reo Carr will moderate the breakfast event beginning at 7:00 a.m. at the Sorrento Valley offices of Cisco.
For additional information about the event, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (858) 277-6359.


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With today marking the eve of St. Patrick's Day, its time to dig through your drawers and pull out your green attire in celebration of the holiday, but also to avoid those pinchers on the prowl. To me, St. Patrick's Day is one of those holidays that's clearly not on the same tier as Christmas, Thanksgiving, or even Halloween but more of a day that is excusable to sit back and enjoy the televised parades or reach for that Jameson or Bailey's bottle and enjoy a drink or three. On the other hand, I know people with Irish blood pumping through their veins will disagree and say that there's a lot more to it. Each year, March 17th strikes the day of celebration of Saint Patrick, who many centuries ago brought Christianity to the Emerald Isle, also known as Ireland. It's said to be told that St. Patrick used the shamrock to break down the Christian fundamentals of the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity, which refers to the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. One of the largest celebrations of St. Patrick's Day in our home country is taken place in Chicago, Illinois. As a matter of fact, every Saturday before St. Patrick's Day the city dyes the Chicago River green, which many decades ago was fused from an environmental issue.
Up until the 1960's, all the industrial garbage the Windy City had produced over the years heavily polluted the Chicago River. Eventually, environmentalist put their foot down and got the city to pass pollution regulations protecting the river. A man named Steve Bailey was one of the business managers of the Plumbers Local Union for Chicago at this time. Bailey, nonetheless, was also a voice for the St. Patrick's Day plans for the city.One day in late 1961, a plumber walked into Bailey's office with splashes of green all over his overalls. Amused and curious about these green stains, Bailey was eager to hear the story behind it. As it turned out, the stains were from dye that had been put into waste lines to see whether or not buildings were still dumping out into the river. In other words, the plumber placed the dye into these building's waste systems and observed near the end of the river for the emerald green dye in the water. It was suddenly then when a tradition had been born.
Over the years, people have made pushes to make the dye substance more environmentally friendly. They now use vegetable dye instead of the original outdated fluorescein dye that was also used during WWII to find soldiers in the ocean after their plane had been shot down. Water pollution issues in the U.S. have been addressed for over fifty years and in certain cases can indirectly aid other causes such as St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Here's to a wonderful and safe St. Patrick's Day, cheers.
Related Links : 2012 Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade, St. Patrick's Day history, St. Patrick's Day clothing, Chemistry World Blog, The City of Chicago's Official Tourism Site, Dying of The River
– Jarred Garza, Beyond Coal Sierra Intern


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Thank you for all the sweet comments during the blog hope! I loved reading what you think of my flower, what you do to relax, and how you were having so much fun at our Spa Weekend! I wish I could send something to each and every one of you...but that really isn't feasible! Hee hee! :) So, without further ado, on to who won my random giveaway for the Cuttlebug Spa Retreat blog hop. Here is the random number that was generated:
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Which makes this comment the lucky winner!
So please email me your address to jnllawson @ bresnan.net.
Now on to my projects from the weekend! I was part of the Baby Gift Sets post for the Cuttlebug Spa Weekend. I focused on the packaging for my project, and tailoring it more towards the mom-to-be versus the baby. I actually did this project for a specific baby shower that I was attending, and the gift has already been given. And the bag and card was a big hit! That always makes one feel good!
Well, I better get going for now. Hope that you enjoyed my projects of the weekend, and have a very happy Monday!


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All the members of our team are qualified and interested in making sure that your experience is personal and confidential so that it will delight all your senses.
Pioneer in the field of Medicine and Laser Surgery, Dr. Chiasson is known for her expertise in this domain. She opened her private Clinic in Shediac in 2003. To assure that her clientele receives high-quality professional care, she surrounded herself with dedicated and multidisciplinary individuals who are people-centred and able to work with state-of-the-art technology. Discretion, efficiency, professionalism and kindness are traits that you can count on from every member of the personnel. Chantal adores the beauty of nature and loves to discover the genuine hidden treasures of our planet which quenches her curiosity and appreciation for cultural diversities.
|Julie, medical team leader
Julie has a degree in health sciences (nursing) and a certificate in community health from l'Université Laval, training in Laser Technologies from McGill University and other diversified training in administration, communications and management. Besides her role as co-founder of Figurra Institute, Julie has accumulated considerable experience as a nurse in public and private institutions in Québec and NB. In her free time, she likes to recharge by connecting with nature and enjoys outdoor sports.
|Velma, registered nurse
A graduate of l'Université de Moncton, Velma has a wealth of experience in healthcare and her patients are the beneficiaries. She attends many sessions in order to keep up with state-of-the-art technologies and injectable treatments. For Velma, her marathons help fulfill a part of her love of travel and exploring. To her, family and friends are her most valued treasures.
|Michelle, registered nurse
A graduate from l'Université de Moncton, Michelle has accumulated a very rich and varied experience in the field of health care. She is versatile in doing different laser treatments and injectable treatments at the Clinic and goes through her daily work schedule with good contagious humor. With her family and friends, Michelle enjoys camping. Her keen interest to broaden her culinary skills often is the delight of her coworkers.
|Nathalie, medical assistant - aesthetician
Even though Nathalie has a Master's degree in Administration from the Université de Moncton, her passion was always in the field of aesthetics where she has many years of experience and training. Our clients will certainly appreciate her professionalism and the precision and accuracy with which she accomplishes her tasks. Travel and adventure are part of her preferred hobbies, as well as camping. She also loves to gather family and friends together for a good meal.
|Rejean, business manager
Réjean has a degree in Administration from l'Université de Moncton which serves him well in ensuring the smooth flow of operations of the Clinic. His in-depth professional experience in tourism and skin care is a major asset in the daily activities, customer service and experience delivery. Having focused largely on management since 2003, he shows enthusiasm and a special skill in the efficient and effective functioning of Figurra. He enjoys the outdoors and the annual camping trips with his family.
|Christine, patient service coordinator
Christine has a degree in Medical Office Administration from Oulton's College in Moncton. After a successful practical training period at Figurra, her colleagues were happy to welcome her to the team. She shows a great intellectual curiosity for learning and an ability to integrate new procedures. Filled with energy and drive, Christine is brimming with projects of all kinds but her best moments of relaxation are the privileged times spent with family and friends. Once in a while, she gives in to a tendency for shopping, especially for shoes and makeup!
|Rachel, patient service coordinator
Rachel holds a diploma in medical office administration from Oulton's College in Moncton in which she invested in perfecting her interpersonal skills. Her friendly personality, her effective outreach and communicative skills are valuable assets to our clients. Outside of work, Rachel loves to cook and spend time with her family enjoying a succulent meal accompanied by a good wine! She is also a sport's activist with a clear preference for running.
|Lisa, accounting
Lisa is very efficient and very reliable in the field of accounting. She has been assisting the administrative personnel in setting up and using the accounting system. She is the 'database' of Figurra for the daily operations. Her knowledge is greatly appreciated by the personnel. Lisa is a sports enthusiast, and her favorite sport is hockey.
|Antonija, in-house maintenance
Antonija loves the outdoors and her ability for gardening is an artistic talent. When she is not making sure that our workplace is spotless, you can find her reading a good book or pursuing her culinary arts. She appreciates many musical styles, including the sensual sounds of the mandolin, which you can hear on Vinyl Tap with Randy Bachman. She is an avid learner and always enjoys an interesting discussion with an exchange of ideas and perspectives. Because of her free spirit, her optimism and her joie-de-vivre, Antonija is an important asset to the team at Figurra.


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2011-12 Team Captain
Personal Bests:
Vault: 9.775 (3/16/2012)
Bars: 9.425 (1/22/2012)
Beam: 8.525 (3/7/2010)
Floor: 9.425 (1/22/2012)
All-Around: 36.275 (1/22/2012)
2012: Received Captain's Award for leadership ... Made her debut as an all-arounder at the opening meet of the season, scoring a career-high 9.425 on both bars and floor and a 36.725 all-around ... Placed second on vault with a 9.65 against SCSU ... Placed second on vault at Towson with a 9.775, a career-best for Yabut and the fifth-highest vault score in Yale gymnastics history ... Given the ECAC Coaches' Choice Award for the first week of the season.
2011: Came back from injury to compete bars at final four meets of the season … Competed vault at final two meets of the season … Tied for 25th on vault at the ECAC Championships with a 9.5.
2010: Out for the majority of the season with injuries … Competed beam at Springfield and Rutgers.
2009: Unable to compete due to injury.
High School: Joined the Bulldogs from Tri-Star Gymnastics … Won the all-around and bars at her state meet two times each, and qualified to Junior Olympic nationals as a level ten … Won bars at the 2007 Region VIII Championships.
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Fairtrade advocates for better working conditions and improved terms of trade for farmers and workers in developing countries.
It's about supporting the development of thriving farming and worker communities to have more control over their futures, and protecting the environment in which they live and work.
And it's your opportunity to connect with the people who grow the produce that we all depend on.
When consumers purchase products with the Fairtrade Mark, they are supporting farmers and workers as they work to improve their livelihoods and provide better support to their communities. The Fairtrade Mark shows you that the Fairtrade ingredients in the product have been produced by small-scale farmer organisations or plantations that meet internationally agreed Fairtrade social, economic and environmental standards.
The standards include protection of workers' rights and the protection of children, the preservation of the environment, payment of the Fairtrade Minimum Price and an additional Fairtrade Premium to invest in initiatives to support local communities or business development.
Fairtrade benefits small-scale farmers and workers by facilitating links to international markets through the development of supply chains. Small-scale farmers and workers are amongst the most marginalized groups globally and through Fairtrade they can lift themselves out of poverty to maintain their successful livelihoods.
Some products, such as coffee, cocoa, and cotton, can only be certified by Fairtrade if they come from small-scale farmer organizations. By working through democratic organizations of small-scale farmers, Fairtrade offers rural communities the stability of income which enables them to plan for the future and invest in developing their organisation.
For some products such as bananas, and tea, Fairtrade can certify plantations (companies that employ large numbers of workers on large areas of land called estates). Standards for large-scale production differ from those for small-scale farmer organisations by focusing on the protection of workers' basic rights; keeping them safe and healthy, allowing them freedom of association and collective bargaining, preventing discrimination and ensuring no bonded or illegal child labour is present. Fairtrade Standards also require employers to pay wages that progress towards living wage benchmarks. Advocating for fair working conditions and worker rights is integral to Fairtrade's mission.
Fairtrade supports farmers and workers in gaining more from trade and through this they are empowered to control their lives. It is an alternative approach that is based on partnership; one between those who grow our food and those that consume it.
Fairtrade is 50 percent owned by producers
Fairtrade works with a range of stakeholders but our global system is 50 percent owned by producers representing farmer and worker organisations. With an equal voice, producers have a say in decision-making within our General Assembly and on Fairtrade International's Board of Directors. Through the Board and its committees, they are involved in decisions on overall strategy, use of resources and setting prices, premiums and standards.
Fairtrade Minimum price
For most Fairtrade goods there is a Fairtrade minimum price which is set to cover the cost of sustainable production for that product in that region. If the market price for that product is higher that our minimum price, then producers should receive the market price. Payment of the minimum price is regularly audited and checked by FLO-Cert. This acts as a vital safety net for farmers and workers and protects them from fluctuations in the market prices of the products they grow for a living. This protection ensures they can have an assured and stable income and plan for their future. Fairtrade is the only certification scheme that offers this unique minimum price protection for farmers.
Fairtrade Premium
Over and above the Fairtrade price, the Fairtrade Premium is an additional sum of money, which goes into a communal fund for workers and farmers to use – as they see fit - to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.
Producers determine what is most important to them; whether this is education or healthcare for their children, improving their businesses or building vital infrastructure such as roads and bridges for their community.
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text: View Article OnlineSteve Wise, featured in this question and answer session, is vice president of statistical methods at InfinityQS International Inc. (Fairfax, VA; www.infinityqs.com), a developer of statistical process control (SPC) software.Manufacturing Engineering: How does statistical process control [SPC] software help manufacturers improve quality?Steve Wise: There are many facets to this question. One of the most basic ways SPC helps improve quality is by giving instant feedback on data collection. By adding this first line of defense, you instantly take notice of items that otherwise would pass through undetected. Collecting data is like lighting up an area. Before any sampling strategies or analysis takes place, quality will improve just because the person collecting the data has a way of understanding if processes are performing good, bad or otherwise.\r\nWhether you are looking for divine knowledge from streams of data or simply looking for events in the data, the best path is to use statistical methods specifically designed to analyze a data population when the population is still being created—that is, live data coming off a process. Live analytics and event detection are at the foundation of SPC.\r\nAdded benefits include identifying what machine is best suited for a given job or how much extra material is needed to complete a job—any process can be measured. Even if you don't leverage the full capacity of an SPC platform, simply understanding a process's mean, standard deviation and stability expectations will give you intelligence that allows you to predict future performance.ME: What new tools have been added to your ProFicient SPC software?Wise: Manufacturers today are looking to really push the envelope in order to get more value out of their quality systems. The cloud is opening new possibilities in driving global quality standards while remaining flexible to local requirements. We've worked closely with the industry to develop powerful and intuitive cloud systems to meet the demand.\r\nOther recent enhancements to ProFicient have been added to help companies with the management and movement of data. Manufacturing data can become extraordinarily powerful when you can extract snapshot samples from multiple unique data highways and combine those samples into a single meaningful subgroup with all data sharing the same time stamp. This allows a company to sweep across a multitude of process parameter sensors and store those data values with measurement data from what the process is producing.\r\nIn Six Sigma terms, we are automating the combinations of X's and Y's and storing those paired comparisons to a database. The ability to correlate, in real time, process inputs to process outputs is the holy grail of Six Sigma. That dream is a reality with ProFicient. Another offering is a Web-based visualization dashboard that provides enterprise-wide KPI [key performance indicators] reporting and OEE [overall equipment effectiveness] reporting. This app gives local and remote managers a window into the health of an entire enterprise.ME: What industries are deploying SPC to help with regulatory compliance and other quality-related issues?Wise: Regulated industries make up a large percentage of InfinityQS' customer base. When a regulated company is compelled to operate and verify to a heightened veracity of data management, they have found ProFicient to fit the bill. We took [FDA regulation] 21 CFR Part 11 to heart several years ago. We saw the need for the SPC industry to step up its game and we took the lead. The software is full of features that help industries comply with their regulations. We also have a large contingency of deployment engineers that work with clients at their sites to ensure correct implementation and training, and help execute IQ\/OQ [installation\/operational] scripts. We even provide PQ [performance qualification] services to validate a client's unique implementation.\r\nNot all clients concerned with regulations are in the medical device and pharma industries. Most every product-producing company is compelled to provide some level of data collection, analysis and evidence of quality.ME: How have your customers implemented manufacturing intelligence?Wise: We hear a lot of stories from our clients who implement our MI platform about new efficiencies and a fast ROI. At the heart of the matter of the improvements is the premise of taking guesswork out of operational decisions. By measuring processes, a company gains a true understanding of who they are; from there, solutions become surprisingly clear.\r\nLin Engineering [Morgan Hill, CA] is a solid example of a company using the cloud to collaborate on quality with suppliers overseas. A manufacturing supply chain can be like a symphony with different players stepping up at different times. The key is timing. If a quality issue is detected at incoming inspection, then that is already too late. Lin Engineering verifies the specs of its suppliers' products as they are being produced. They've eliminated the guesswork and the delays that can result from supplier quality issues. They also are able to collaborate with their suppliers on Six Sigma initiatives. This is one application, but a good example of how the cloud is changing the landscape in the manufacturing world.ME: How is cloud technology changing the way manufacturers employ SPC?Wise: The cloud changes the prism of what is possible with data. Each step in the evolution from pencil and paper, to client-servers to now, the cloud has been an order of magnitude of expansion of what can be done with data. Going from client-server to cloud has removed all data access constraints. Data are now so easily accessible, that implementing effective security constraints has been a major challenge. Imagine the ability to view and analyze data from any place in the world from one workstation (or any smart device) in real time and on request … the possibilities are endless. The elapsed time between events and decisions collapses. To not be locked down to a physical location to do one's job. To tie into suppliers' live quality data for meaningful collaboration. To remove the IT burden of managing multiple data sources. Roll outs are much faster. Uniformity and consistency among departments, sites and divisions are much easier to implement and enforce. The cloud is such a huge part of the conversation today because it allows businesses to operate how they need to in order to be successful.ME: What future changes do you see for implementing quality on the factory floor?Wise: Quality decisions are beginning to rely more and more on information presented from automated data sources. Rather than having a person physically measure something, update a visualization with the new data and then make a decision, the new expectation for the shop floor is to understand that live updating visualizations and the actions they indicate are needed. More of the data will be automatically collected and the routines of a quality technician will be managed within an automated schedule that prompts them when action is required. There will be expectations that business software should behave much like modern apps they use on their smart devices, or television, and have the same modern look of the latest computer operating systems or office programs. The factory floor will demand that software 'get with the times.' Remember the resistance to software on the factory floor? Boy, have times changed! ME \r\nNew ReleasesCGTech (Irvine, CA), developer of the Vericut NC simulation, verification and optimization software, on Feb. 28 announced the release of its new Vericut Reviewer iPad app available through the Apple Store.\r\nWith the free app, shop-floor personnel can view 3D animations of CNC machining processes at machine tools at any time. The Vericut simulation moves according to the NC code on the CNC machine, so virtual machining exactly mimics real machining, and users can select and closely examine specific sections of NC code where a potential problem might exist.\r\nA Vericut report containing information about cutting tools, job setup, machining instructions and other information can be automatically packaged within each saved Reviewer session, creating a virtual workshop document. The reports are PDF files automatically generated during the simulations.Siemens PLM Software (Plano, TX) on Feb. 19 announced the new release of Parasolid with version 26.1 of the company's geometric modeling kernel. The latest Parasolid update focuses on complex high-level operations that help software developers deliver solutions to difficult modeling problems.\r\nThe new version 12.1 update of the Costimator cost-estimating software from MTI Systems Inc. (MTI; West Springfield, MA) adds 24 new cost models offering estimators more speed, accuracy and consistency. MTI's Costimator now integrates with the latest JobBOSS shop management software from Exact North America Inc. (Bloomington, MN).MovesEpicor Software Corp. (Austin, TX), a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, announced Feb. 13 the relocation of its corporate headquarters from Dublin, CA, to Austin. Epicor's previous corporate office will remain a strategic location for its retail distribution solutions.Software Update is edited by Patrick Waurzyniak: email@example.com.\r\nThis article was first published in the April 2014 edition of Manufacturing Engineering magazine. Click here for PDF. \r\nPublished Date : 3\/25\/2014\r\n


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Filth and Wisdom (2008) is the widely panned first feature film directed by Madonna, starring Eugene Hütz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure and Richard E. Grant. It was filmed on location in London, England from May 14 to May 29, 2007 with additional scenes shot in July 2007.
The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2008 which was attended by Madonna and cast members Hütz, Weston and McClure. It has to date received mostly negative reviews much like Madonna's failed acting career.
- Humanity seems to be divided into 2 categories: people trying to be good and people trying to be bad
- You know, in my country there is a saying: "He, who licks the knives, soon will cut his tongue"
- I don't mean to be rude, but if you love word so much, how could you stop writing?
- The last time a man put his hand on me did not end very nicely
- Nobody gives a fuck about ballet
- You know, in my country there is a saying:"If you want to reach the sky - fuck a duck and try to fly"
- You know, in my country we have a saying:"A man without a mustache, is like woman with mustache"
- Envelopes, envelopes... everybody's getting envelopes...where the fuck is my enlelope?
- In my country we have a saying: "If the demon is powerless send him a woman."
- Why is everyone obsessed with these bloody starving Africans?...[noticing a black guy at the counter]...uuhhhhh..hello.
- You are a wild disgusting gypsy.
- Andrey: there is more to love than words
- Professor: for instance?
- Andrey: for instance a back of a woman's neck
- Professor: but you need words to tell me that
- Stephen: What time is it, Ade?
- Ade: Tic tac it's a drink o'clock
- Holly: What colour is my hair?
- Professor: uh, that's tough one.Let me see, I have to guess...uhhhhh...Blond?
- Holly: No I'm not,I'm brunette.
- Professor: You're not clever enough to be a brunette!


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Here\'s one of the mail that I received from the IndiBlogger team.
Dear Amit Agarwal,
Here is a unique opportunity to reach out and impact thousands of lives through your blog. Yes, sitting at your desk and writing a blog post can help educate 40,000 young Indians all over our country!
One of India's most trusted and credible NGOs, GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in school for one year!
Imagine the IndiBlogger community coming together to spread the word and help the underprivileged children of India. The impact would be tremendous and together, IndiBloggers and GiveIndia would be able to gather the votes we need to win.
Voting in the competition is for one week only, from Friday, January 15 – Friday, January 22, 2010. Can we make a difference in the next 5 days? We sure hope so!
The link for voting, where you can also see more details of the competition is
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Pro-Life Reflection for June 30
Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will gather me up. – Psalms 27:10
Reflection: Blessed Margaret of Castello (13th c.) is Patron of the Unwanted. When her parents, who were respected nobility, discovered at her birth that she was a badly deformed dwarf, hunchback, and blind, they refused to give her a name, locked her up in a small cell, and eventually abandoned her while traveling.
Had we know what Margaret's parents were doing to her, would we have spoken up?
Prayer: Blessed Margaret, pray that we may speak up for the unwanted.
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Paul Krugman argues that the idling of productive capacity in the world economy makes investment in public goods more likely to pay off now than at other times. While in good economic times credit is rapidly transferred to speculative growth opportunities, in bad economic times credit contracts, and much more production can be achieved with the same amount of wealth. Krugman calls this 'Depression Economics,' because it is true in bad economic times only.
Economist's View: Krugman: What to Do
What to Do, by Paul Krugman, NY Review of Books: What the world needs right now is a rescue operation. The global credit system is in a state of paralysis, and a global slump is building momentum as I write this. Reform of the weaknesses that made this crisis possible is essential, but it can wait a little while. First, we need to deal with the clear and present danger. To do this, policymakers around the world need to do two things: get credit flowing again and prop up spending.
I believe not only that we're living in a new era of depression economics, but also that John Maynard Keynes—the economist who made sense of the Great Depression—is now more relevant than ever. Keynes concluded his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, with a famous disquisition on the importance of economic ideas: "Soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
We can argue about whether that's always true, but in times like these, it definitely is. The quintessential economic sentence is supposed to be "There is no free lunch"; it says that there are limited resources, that to have more of one thing you must accept less of another, that there is no gain without pain. Depression economics, however, is the study of situations where there is a free lunch, if we can only figure out how to get our hands on it, because there are unemployed resources that could be put to work. The true scarcity in Keynes's world—and ours—was therefore not of resources, or even of virtue, but of understanding.
However, the market, not the government, picks winners through the savage mechanism of creative destruction. The government is not able to perform this role effectively.
Simply spending money on neat toys like new schools or bridges to nowhere is not the answer, because such project generate nothing and leave us with costs we will have to pay once the economy comes back.
Rather, we should focus on infrastructure spending that changes the system in ways favorable to us. The most obvious bad aspect of the system is that economic growth leads to greater consumption of oil and natural gas, which enrich bad states like Venezuela and Russia. Spending projects should focus on breaking this link, so that we can become wealth without them becoming powerful.
Projects like Solar Los Angeles, Windy Maine, and a million electric cars are part of the solution.
Heck, even the CEO of Poet Ethanol will be addressing a forum together with Tom Daschle and Jim Woolsey. The time to weaken the chains that bind us to Gap states like Russia and Venezuela is now.


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President Barack Obama found an unlikely pen pal in eight-year old Lily, who said she is the president's biggest fan.
Lily, whose father is in the Air Force, wrote to the president to let him know that the "country needs more spunk," suggesting he "do something fun" like wearing "a tie-dye shirt and shorts to something important."
"With all the attacks, the Zika virus, and the wars, this country is a very sad place," she wrote. "…Go on a water skiing trip in the Caribbean. Take your family to Disney World. Do something fun and outgoing. Also, please say something that will make everyone calm. You do know know how many politics worries I have (sic)."
U.S. & World
Though her dream job is to be a cardiovascular surgeon, Lily said her father's military service has inspired her backup job to be president.
Obama responded to her letter, thanking her for the advice and writing, "I can tell you've got plenty of spunk to help keep our nation strong!"
"While I don't know how the First Lady or my daughters would feel about me wearing a tie-dye shirt in public, I do know that one of my greatest responsibilities as President is ensuring your generation can thrive — and that includes making sure you can live in safety and reach for boundless opportunity," Obama wrote. "I know things happening around the world can sometimes be worrisome, but we can make real and lasting progress if young people like you focus on growing and learning and keep speaking out about important challenges our nation faces. As long as I serve in this office and beyond, I'll continue fighting to ensure kids all across our country are limited by nothing but the scope of their imaginations and the size of their dreams."
Obama thanked Lily for the advice and told her to bear in mind the role she has in shaping the world. "I expect great things from you!"
He also asked her to rely a message to her father: "Please tell your dad how grateful I am for his service."


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NSF Grant to Improve Literacy Education Technology
Literacy education has not yet fully utilized modern technology, says Chuck Kinzer, Professor of Education and a co-principal investigator of the Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy Learning (CTELL) project.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $5.6 million dollar grant for CTELL. Four universities in CTELL collaborate to target pre-service education in literacy classrooms using technology and Web-delivered instruction to enhance young children's reading achievement by improving teacher education.
CTELL is an innovative approach for pre-service teacher education providing high quality teacher education built upon the "best practices" of teaching reading and writing effectively. The program is a "merge of cognitive principles in anchored instruction with case-based learning," according to Kinzer, and is "delivered on the Web so students can work in their dorm room, in computer labs, or anywhere there is a high speed internet connection, to learn in a situated environment." CTELL is designed to bring together teachers, students, researchers and instructional technology designers from four universities including Teachers College, University of Georgia, University of Connecticut, and the University of Illinois as well as a consortium of 70 southeast literacy practitioners over six years. The goal of the project, said Kinzer, is to increase reading achievement in young children by "linking children's reading achievement to the effectiveness of case-based instruction."
Most research assessing the effectiveness of reading achievement examines the role of print-based learning environments and is limited in scope. In contrast, Kinzer and his co-investigators are collaborating in scope and on a scale which has been rare in education.
Researchers and teacher practitioners supported by the four universities will collaborate with over 600 teachers and 6,000 children all over the country to introduce and test case-based on-line literacy learning.
Although case-based instruction has been used effectively in business and law, pre-service instruction requires a different model of teaching. Case-based learning in education seeks to teach instructional principles by using real world examples.
Using a case-based data analysis tool like CTELL provides pre-service teachers an opportunity to analyze literacy teaching. The tool incorporates a range of multimedia including classroom video of instructional activities, interviews with parents, reading experts, teachers in the school's community, examples of student work, and a portfolio section to which pre-service teachers can contribute their ideas regarding instructional principles.
Preliminary results are promising and participants of CTELL are excited to scale up the program at a national level. Kinzer and the other principal investigators are working hard to meet three objectives of their project: "We are trying to put together an instructional system that might influence national pre-service education, provide research results that will document the effectiveness of case-based instruction in a web-based environment, and examine how reading achievement is influenced by different teacher training programs." If Kinzer and other members of his group are successful, CTELL may be used to teach pre-service teachers about the complexities of literacy instruction resulting in improved literacy instruction raising children's reading achievement scores.
For further information about CTELL's mission, goals, sample cases, and news visit: ctell.uconn.edu.
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Making its premium cable channel debut this weekend on Starz was 2011's "Priest", starring Paul Bettany, Maggie Q and Karl Urban.
"Priest" is a movie set in the proverbial "Dystopian Future", where large city states are controlled by a religious hierarchy, while outside their walls, vast wastelands are overrun with vampires. Due to vampire's traditional weakness to religious artifacts and items, the warriors in charge of defending the cities and fighting vampires are priests.
When one of the priests hears that his frontier relatives have been slaughtered by vampires, and their daughter kidnapped, he leaves the protection of the city in order to prowl the wastes in search of the girl.
Comedy ensues.


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Hot and dry in the summer, cool and moist in the winter
200 to 1,000 mm of rain per year
Aromatic herbs (sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano), shrubs, acacia, chamise, grasses
West coastal regions between 30° and 40° North and South latitude
Plants have adapted to fire caused by the frequent lightning that occurs in the hot, dry summers.
Shrublands include regions such as chaparral, woodland and savanna. Shrublands are the areas that are located in west coastal regions between 30° and 40° North and South latitude. Some of the places would include southern California, Chile, Mexico, areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, and southwest parts of Africa and Australia. These regions are usually found surrounding deserts and grasslands.
Shrublands usually get more rain than deserts and grasslands but less than forested areas. Shrublands typically receive between 200 to 1,000 millimeters of rain a year. This rain is unpredictable, varying from month to month. There is a noticeable dry season and wet season.
The shrublands are made up of shrubs or short trees. Many shrubs thrive on steep, rocky slopes. There is usually not enough rain to support tall trees. Shrublands are usually fairly open so grasses and other short plants grow between the shrubs.
In the areas with little rainfall, plants have adapted to drought-like conditions. Many plants have small, needle-like leaves that help to conserve water. Some have leaves with waxy coatings and leaves that reflect the sunlight. Several plants have developed fire-resistant adaptations to survive the frequent fires that occur during the dry season.


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My dear friend, Rory Packer, of Los Angeles and formerly of
Chicago, contacted me today with a message to check out Blair Kamin's Blog on
Chicago architecture, at ChicagoTribune.com.
Blair had requested ideas on what to do with the deep hole that
has been dug for the Chcago Spire. We thank Brian, a visionary, for his
recommendation that hole become a holder to support a giant slice of Eli's
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Cajun Boiling Pot
Many moons ago there was a restaurant in Tulsa Oklahoma called the Cajun Boiling Pot. It was so good and different from the ordinary that it quickly became a favorite. Every time we had friends or family in town, we would just have to take them there. What made this place so different was that they did not serve on plates. When your low country boil was ready, they would bring it to your paper lined table and dump it in the center. This was before the Food Channel or Emeril and anyone in the great state of Oklahoma cooked like this, much less served like this. Many of my high school friends were shocked, in a good way, when their food was brought to them. Well a few years ago the Cajun Boiling Pot closed and we had to fend for ourselves, so this is our Cajun Boiling Pot. Give it a try and you will be having this again and again on those special family get togethers. One of the best things about this...there are no dishes to wash afterwards! This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek this first day of Summer and Raven's 17th birthday!
15 ears corn-cut in half
7 pounds red potatoes
3 pounds yellow onions-cut in quarters with the skin left on
5 pounds shrimp
5 pounds Cajun and or hot links-cut into 2 inch slices
5 pounds crab legs
1/4 cup salt
cayenne to taste
2 heads garlic-sliced in half
(you can add crawdads but we prefer them prepared other ways)
Boil water in a huge pot seasoned with Old Bay Crab Boil, salt, and cayenne. Add in potatoes and cook for 12 minutes on a steady boil. Now add in corn, onions, and hot links. Boil these for an additional 8 minutes and then remove everything from the pot. Now add shrimp and crab and boil for 8 minutes and now remove all of these from the pot. Now dump everything on top of a table covered with newspapers and serve with melted butter, cocktail sauce and french bread.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
A policeman fires at protesting miners outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 62 miles northwest of Johannesburg on Aug. 16.
GRAPHIC WARNING: This post contains graphic images which some viewers may find disturbing.
Updated at 3:15 a.m. ET Friday: South African police opened fire on Thursday against thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 people.
The shooting is one of the worst in South Africa since the end of the apartheid era.
A Reuters cameraman said earlier on Thursday he saw at least seven bodies after the shooting, which occurred when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine, 62 miles northwest of Johannesburg.
Reuters reported: Police opened fire with automatic weapons on a group of men who burst out from behind a vehicle. The volley of bullets threw up clouds of dust, which cleared to reveal at least seven bodies lying on the ground, Reuters television footage showed.
The Marikana strikers have not made their demands explicit, although much of the bad blood at the mine stems from AMCU's challenge to the two-decade dominance of the National Union of Mineworkers, which is closely linked to the ruling African National Congress.
- South Africa police fire on striking miners, several dead
- PhotoBlog: South Africa mine protest continues amid fatalities
Striking mineworkers throw stones as police open fire at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Aug. 16.
Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
A paramedic receives help from a policewomen as he tends to the injured after protesting miners were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg.
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa on Aug. 16. South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking workers at a platinum mine, leaving an unknown number of people injured and possibly dead. Motionless bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood.
Police in South Africa have opened fire on thousands of miners who were striking over their conditions and pay at a British-owned mine. At least a dozen have died. ITV's Paul Davies.


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The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
That Goldcorp Guerrero kidnapping story
A two-year-old boy was kidnapped yesterday morning as a Canadian-owned gold mine and its employees continue to be a target for criminals in Guerrero.Two men and a woman were waiting outside the home of Gonzalo Godines García in the Los Sauces neighborhood of Chilpancingo when he left for work at the Goldcorp mine in Carrizalillo about 6:30am.He was taken back into his house at gunpoint where he was tied up with his wife. The assailants then made off with the couple's toddler son, Gonzalo Godines Almazán, after his parents told them they could not meet their ransom demand.The kidnappers said they would return the child when the parents were able to make the payment. Continues here
The Friday OT: Beethoven, symphony 7, 2nd movement, Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard laid down this version in 1978. It rocks. Youtube link here:
Brio Gold spinout 2.0: IT'S ON!
Peter Marrone wants his millionaire deal commish and he doesn't care how much it costs (you AUY shareholders).
The Brio Gold (aka Brio-X) spinout 2.0 is in the pipeline, official news soon.
Peru presidential poll: Keiko's lead remains strong, Guzmán in clear second place
- Keiko's "thirty plus" rating has been solid for months and months, she remains the clear leader but doesn't have a chance of winning in round one (April 10th).
- Julio Guzmán is having a good week. His candidacy problems have been (all but) cleared up by the Peru electoral body and he's going to be a candidate, no throwing out at the last minute. Plus this poll, which puts him in a clear second place in front of "the dinosaurs".
- César Acuña is down 5.3% from the last CPI poll of last month and is not having a good week. Not having a good year in fact. Good. Goodbye.
- PPK has dropped away badly and Alan García's campaign has been a dead duck so far. Both surprises for your humble scribe, both part of Peru's shift away from The Usual Suspects and towards the new face of Guzmán.
- The above covers 72.5% of voter intention. The rest is covered by the minor vote candidates (there are another 13 left in, intention for each starts at 4.1% and goes lower and lower) and the spoil ballot/don't know/no answer brigade.
Credit Suisse on the Goldcorp (GG) (G.to) quarter
Chart of the day is...
...zinc , five year spot (thanks Kitco, nice people):
More on the Richard Fifer arrest
Good news regarding Richard Fifer (petaquilla gold etc)
He was arrested yesterday in Colombia. He should be deported back to Panama today, at which point he'll be charged with fraud.
By the way, this case has the potential to cause First Quantum some embarrassment. Let's see how things develop.
In the IKN Weekly on Sunday
Goldcorp (GG) (G.to) files its year end financials
So what about some highlights
- If you take a happy medium, production forecast for 2016 is around 10% lower than the 2015 booked production
- It's cutting the dividend from 2c per month to 2c per quarter
- It mined 3.4m oz gold in 2015, but in the same period reserves dropped by 8.9m oz.
- It lost a over billion dollars on operations in the fourth quarter.
- It took a $4.9Bn impairment.
But apart from that, great quarter! NR here.
Minera IRL files this
Cesar Acuña: The fall of a sociopath
What If I told you:
- That a successful academic, who built on his academic success by founding a university and making himself very rich indeed, was running for the Presidency of your country.
- That he was running second in voter intention polls with just three months to go before the vote.
- That suddenly people found out that his academic background was suspect, including an extremely strong case of plagiarism (we covered on IKN right here on January 27th) in his Master's degree.
- That further investigation found evidence of plagiarism in his original bachelor's degree.
- Then when it seemed it couldn't get any worse, he was found to have taken a academic-level book written by his university professor, changed the name of the author to his own, then passed it off as his own work for 15 years, including several new editions.
- But when faced with that latest charge of intellectual theft, he held a press conference to show, via a document he waved to the press corps but didn't let them see close-up, he had permission to co-author the book from his professor, something that the professor strenuously denies.
- And as cherry on top of the cake, when people started investigating the document used by the candidate as evidence he was in the right, they found that the professor's signature had been forged.
Chart of the day is...
PS: Some music to accompany this post.
Bart Simpson has a message for Teck, Yamana, Eldorado, HudBay and all companies hoodwinking the naive in their financial reports
And the answer to IKN's Monday question...
A Franco Nevada (FNV) price chart
Interesting I think, what with its market leader status:
Three's a charm or same-as-it-ever-was? You be the judge.
UPDATE: FNV just broke though U$60.
Quick admin post about the IKN Daily Digest e-mail service
Exchanging on Lithium X (LIX.v) with the right end of the street
Correct and correct.
I fell out bigtime with Tim Oliver when he decided to join that scam, told him in no uncertain words what I thought. So when he bailed I didn't get to hear from him firsthand (he's still mad at me, i don't care) but I know second-hand that he saw for himself the scam and, to give him credit, got out before his reputation was damaged. He can't make any public comments (obviously) and i dunno what he did with his options, but tail-between-legs exit, eso sin duda che.
It's a complete Vancouver Howe St BS special.
That's the problem though. LIX won't die suddenly. I've seen the movie before. The Giustra jet engine will suck in its followers into the jet-intake, the street will eat Frank's 2 cents of acb from his shell for years to come. 10-20 people will make money on this, all Frank's inner circle.
PPS: Honoured your Patsy Cline bet yet, Frank? Planning to soon? Or were you "just joking around"?
It's so bullish out there in the miner's sector that...
UPDATE: Reader 'ST' chirps in with...
Oh, snap! Fret not ST, I can take 'em on the chin.
OT: Looking for a book?
(A repeat showing by popular request*)
- Want a book?
- Want a book about a subject in China?
- Want it in an English translation?
- Looking high and low for a copy?
Well perhaps you'd better keep searching in another place.
*One person. IKN's idea of popular doesn't necessarily have to coincide with yours.
Chart of the day is...
...Pretium (PVG) vs the precious metals miners' ETF (GDX):
Kinda quiet out there in OttoKnowsNothingLand, hey Tommy...
For secret reasons...
...posting will be light this morning.
UPDATE: Make that all day.
To quote John Lennon...
..."Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".
Great photo from Barcelona today.
Argentina to market a U$15Bn bond in order to pay the Vulture Funds
Hilarity ensued.
Place your bets for the next financing (IKN sez MUX)
IKN's ten shillings and sixpence is on McEwen Mining (MUX) because:
- Robbie Mac is many things, but theres no denying he's sharp as a tack.
- The base shelf prospectus is already filed pre-Xmas, sitting there all ready and waiting.
- He wants maybe U$50m to build Gold Bar.
- The stock has doubled and back to an honourable level. He won't get pushback on dilution.
So there you go. Got any better ideas out there?
The Pretium (PVG) term sheet
120 large at overnight marketed price. Explains at least one part of the recent weakness.
Pretium Resources Inc.. (TSX/NYSE: PVG) -- Overnight Marketed ~US$120MM of Common Shares -- Priced in the context of market (last trade: US$5.05)Prospectus TimetableFebruary 22, 2016: Preliminary Prospectus Supplement FiledFebruary 23, 2016: Final Pricing/Terms and Prospectus Supplement Filed March 1, 2016: Closing of Offering
Transaction SummaryLeads: CIBC/RBC/Scotiabank 17.83% each
Co-Managers: TBD 46.51%
Treasury Issuer: Pretium Resources Inc. ("Pretium" or the "Company")
Issue:Offering (the "Offering") of approximately ● common shares (the "Common Shares").
Issue Price: U.S.$● per Common Share, which shall be determined by the Company and the Underwriters in connection with the marketing process.
Amount: Approximately U.S.$120,000,000.
Over-Allotment Option: The Company has granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable at the Issue Price for a period of 30 days following the closing of the Offering, to purchase up to an additional U.S.$10,000,000 of Common Shares to cover over-allotments, if any.
Use of Proceeds:The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering (i) to fund development of the Brucejack Project, (ii) for working capital during start-up and (iii) for general corporate purposes.
Form of Offering:Offered by way of a shelf prospectus in all provinces of Canada, except Quebec, in the United States pursuant to the Multi-Jurisdictional Disclosure System, and internationally as expressly permitted by the Company.
Listing: The existing common shares of Pretium are listed on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol "PVG".
Eligibility: The Common Shares issued in this offering will be a qualified investment for RRSPs, RRIFs, DPSPs, RDSPs, RESPs and TFSA's.
Pricing Date: On or about February 23, 2016.
Closing Date: On or about March 1, 2016.
Comment: This is an overnight marketed offering for Common Shares in US$ priced in the context of the market (last trade: US$5.05).
The real lithium growth story
Lithium in Chile: Where the big boys goNot fake scams in Clayton Valley, here's where the real lithium action is and will happen. Since President Bachelet announced a few weeks ago that lithium would become a strategic mineral and subject to separate growth plans during her government, the interest in the metal in Chile (and its continued stratospheric price rises on the world market, with battery-grade Lithium Carbonate now apparently fetching up to U$28,000/tonne) has gone mainstream.Last week we had a new round of news with, depending on which report you read (here are two as examples (16) (17)), between six and nine foreign companies having already made formal approaches to Chile's Ministry of Energy and Mines as regards lithium concessions, exploration, development and even production plans, with two of those inquiries including full scale presentations on planned development and production. The names of companies haven't been officially released but reporters have already identified a few of the companies looking to move into the Chilean lithium sector and they're some of the biggest in the world, including South Korea's POSCO, Australia's Talison, Japanese lithium specialist Li Energy and a company from the United States called Tesla, a name that's probably familiar to you already.I've made this point before and I'll make it again, when it comes to lithium Chile is the number one world producer but more importantly, when it comes to the growth potential of lithium production Chile is also number one. It has the permitting procedure down pat, the infrastructure is there, the country is very miner-friendly in both fiscal and judicial terms and the scalability of its Li sector means it will ramp up faster than any other region in the world (and that includes Clayton Valley, an area play promotion scam par excellence).
Chart of the day is...
It's a TKO: Taseko Mines's Ross Hallbauer goes full trainwreck on BNN
My thanks to reader 'MS' who sent the link to this BNN segment into IKN Nerve Centre. Here's what MS had to say about it:
Could this be the worst performance ever by a mining company CEO on national TV? What was he thinking?
The IKN Weekly, out now
Global Mining Observer is out...
Chewing the cud on Donald Trump
I think on one level Trump's campaign is clever. He (or his team) has identified that there's been a big growth in GOP supporters who are 1) disenfranchised with the whole political system and 2) are plug dumb stupid. So he pitches to them, he gains their support with the most facile of slogans ("he's gonna make America great again because it says so on his baseball cap"), keeps them amused and entertained with anti-system potshots that fit his "You're Fired!" TV personality.My question: What happens in round 2 of the campaign, when he gets the GOP nomination (which now seems likely) and is up against (probably) Hillary? The classic move is towards the centre, to pick up the support of the 4% or 5% of US citizens who swing the country either way in any given election. He'll have the mouthbreathers sewn up and on his side by then, he won't need to pander to them any longer, they've served his Round One purpose. He'll be able to soundbite himself as more intelligent, surprise people with his "depth of understanding on the issues", all the racist sexist bigotry bile is filed away for another day. He'll lull them to sleep, he's going to look least worst among moderate GOPpers who couldn't possibly vote for him in the primaries but just the thought of tactically voting a Clinton into office in order to avoid a circus barker in the oval office brings them out in a cold sweat.And Hillary, like her or not, has a whole trainload of baggage, is an easy target on several fronts and isn't a person who the undecided will happily float towards. She's the dream opposition for Trump, his negative attacks will be an onslaught. And though I like Sanders and his policies (you up there call him commie, he's classic centre-left no more) he's doesn't have a chance. So how does DEM stop Trump? If Mikey B runs independently he'll take more votes away from Hillary than The Donald, he opens the door for Trump. So as far as I can see, the only way is if Bloomberg gets the DEM nomination, or creates a Bloomberg/Hillary ticket. Either that or it's Donald vs Hillary and I have no idea which way that one will go, it's a big risk scenario.All that's on one level, Trump's campaign has been, quite literally, a revelation. But on the most important level this is craziness squared, it's nuts, the most powerful country in the world is on course to put a sociopath in charge! And I was worried about Sarah Palin being Veep under McCain, seriously, this is the Doomsday Clock at a whole different level. I too fear for the world, seriously.
allow me to introduce you to some alternative points of view on the donald:
Donald Trump and the politics of resentment (the archdruid report)
On the next one start with what he himself says is the most important one, then you can go from there if you so choose:
The Trump master persuader index and reading list (Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoons)
IKN back with a PS: I had no idea Scott Adams had been so this active on the subject, there's a whole series there waiting for you.
The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
A sad fact: The serious side of the Canadian mining world is saying the same thing about this scam pump but they're all too chickenshit to say anything in public. It's pathetic how sycophantic kowtow merchants cheer on IKN and send in mails to say "oooh Otto you're absolutely right about LIX" but not one has the guts to stand up and speak truth to power, say what's blatantly obvious about LIX in public, preferring to hide behind your laptop screens and cower in your cubicles. You're all too worried about pissing off Big Frank (metaphorically speaking only, of course) and getting your career put on stall. How you dare accuse Giustra of doubletalk and sleight of hand when if given the same chance you'd do exactly the same is beyond me.


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Indian opener Virender Sehwag will lead the 15-member North Zone team in their Duleep Trophy match against West Zone scheduled to be held early next month at Chennai, the selectors said.
The decision was taken in the zonal selection meeting, which was held at the DDCA.
Beside Sehwag, the team will also feature other big names of Indian cricket such as Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh, who are currently playing in the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.
Ashok Vaswani will be the manager of the team, a DDCA release said.
The selection committee, however, said that that if the Indian team qualifies for the World Twenty20 final, then the top players will be replaced by other cricketers.
Sehwag will be replaced by I D Singh, Ghambir by Rahul Dewan and Kohli by Udey Kaul, while Vipul Sharma and Gurvinder Singh will replace Yuvraj and Harbhajan repectively, the release added.
The meeting was attended by Mohinder Amarnath (chairman), Chetan Chauhan (DDCA), Vikram Rathore (Punjab), Manzoor Ahmed Wazir (J&K), Rajeep Kaisi (HPCA), Aman Kumar (Haryana) anmd Sunil Dev (Convenor).


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"Straight Outta Compton," "Carol" and directors Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg were left wanting when the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were revealed Thursday.
While the Academy offered up deserved nods to populist fare such as "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," there were notable absentees in the directing and best picture categories.
And once again, the acting categories were filled entirely by white performers.
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Without a single black actor in any of the 20 acting slots and "Straight Outta Compton's" glaring omission from the best picture race, the Academy faces the same backlash as last year when #OscarsSoWhite ruled social media.
With more than 6,000 Academy members now eligible to vote, it's expected the Oscar nominations will deliver a mixed bag of titles and names. But "Compton's" shut out from all categories except for screenwriting stands out in the wake of previous nominations for the acclaimed drama from groups such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards and various national critics associations.
It can be argued that of all the Oscar-calibre films served up in 2015 for consideration by the Academy, few focused on black stories. But with strong performances from actors such as Will Smith ("Concussion"), Samuel L. Jackson ("The Hateful Eight"), Benicio del Toro ("Sicario"), Tessa Thompson ("Creed"), Idris Elba ("Beasts of No Nation") and Michael B. Jordan ("Creed"), the lack of diversity in the acting categories is all the more shocking.
It's a situation sure to provide fodder for comedian Chris Rock who will host the Oscar ceremony on February 28.
Directors Scott ("The Martian") and Spielberg ("Bridge of Spies") saw their respective films nominated to the best picture race while neither received a mention in the directing category. It's a huge snub for veteran filmmaker Scott who is yet to win a best director Oscar.
Less than a week after winning the best screenplay Golden Globe for "Steve Jobs," frontrunner Aaron Sorkin failed to get a nod for the adapted screenplay category.
Though Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara both made the acting categories for performances in "Carol," the film and its director Todd Haynes were absent from the best picture and directing races, while "Beasts of No Nation" and "Concussion" were complete shut outs across the board.
Tom Hardy was a surprise inclusion in the supporting actor field for his work on "The Revenant," perhaps at the expense of Michael Keaton whose performance in "Spotlight" was heavily favored but ultimately a non-starter. It's Hardy's first Oscar nomination.
On the populist front, it was satisfying to see "Mad Max: Fury Road" receive recognition. The action flick was a box office winner and is the Academy's second biggest nominee with 10 nods. "Revenant" leads with 12.
Another box office titan in the Oscar mix is "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" with five nominations. Though not named to the best picture or best director categories, the highest ever grossing domestic movie (and counting at $820 million) is up for technical awards including sound and editing. With another two berths in the category available (since 2009 the Academy can name up to 10 titles in the field), a best picture nomination for "Force Awakens" would have ensured the televised ceremony received a bump in viewership numbers.


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I am having a page where I have a navigation on the left hand side and an image gallery that displays images in a grid format. The Image grid has a flex equal to 7.
I need to find the flex width or the width of the page on the right hand side. SO that I need to fill this entire width with the images.
Please help me in finding the width of the flex. (eg. if flex = 7, what is the flexwidth/width?)
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