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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – With $75 million earmarked for the Florida Forever land buying program and another $60 million for the Everglades, Gov. Rick Scott's spending blueprint met with applause Thursday from environmentalists encouraged by a seeming recommitment to their causes.
Scott announced the environmental funding priorities as part of a $74.2 billion spending plan the governor proposed Thursday.
To pay for Florida Forever purchases, the first in several years, Scott has proposed earmarking $50 million from state land sales, which typically revert to the general revenue fund.
"We'll see how much land there is and what we have that is extra," Scott said. "I've set aside $25 million for additional land purchases for sure, and then depend on how much land is sold up to $50 million."
Environmentalists say they will watch to see where the money comes from but at first blush are encouraged at funding levels of Florida Forever and the Everglades , which have been hit hard by recent tough fiscal times.
"This is really good news on both fronts," said Eric Draper, executive director of Audubon Florida. "It's the first time in several years that we will see over $130 million in potential funding for both these programs."
A 1998 constitutional amendment prevents state officials from selling conservation lands unless they no longer serve that purpose. Draper said that early concerns were tempered after meetings with the Department of Environmental Protection officials, who pledged to abide by the spirit and intent of the constitutional requirement.
"With the economy recovering, it is important to allocate funds to preserve our state's natural areas and protect the places that make Florida special," the Florida Forever Coalition said in a statement. "We look forward to working alongside the governor this legislative session to advocate for the appropriation of funds for Florida Forever."
"We appreciate the governor's commitment to Everglades restoration and we believe the Florida Legislature will more than match his recommendation," said Eric Eikenberg, CEO of the Everglades Foundation, in a statement. "We look forward to working with Gov. Scott and the Legislature during the upcoming session to ensure that this funding proposal moves forward."


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The explosion of smart phones, initially kicked off by the iPhone, has fueled tremendous improvement in mobile processors. We went from 1 GHz single-core processors to 1.5 GHz quad-cores in less than three years. Now, the relatively easy ways of improving performance performance are out due to power and heat considerations, and manufacturers are being forced to innovate.
Nvidia chose to increase the number of GPU cores to 72, and switched to quad-core Cortex-A15 (with a fifth power saving core) for the Tegra 4. Some doubts have already been raised about Nvidia's performance claims, but we will have to wait to know for sure. Qualcomm is relying on a combination of updating the GPU, increasing the CPU clock speed to up to 2.3 GHz, and increasing the bandwidth to deliver performance improvements with its new Snapdragon 600 and 800 series chipsets. Current generation Snapdragon chipsets have been reported to generate a lot of heat and as Qualcomm continues to push the clock speeds, that might become a bigger concern.
A short while back, Samsung revealed its cards, and shared with the world what it has in store for mobile devices. The new Exynos 5 will boast of an octa-core CPU. Yes, you read it correctly. The next generation SoC (System on Chip) from Samsung will have eight cores. Fortunately, the Exynos will never use all eight cores simultaneously. Exynos 5 will have two clusters of quad-cores. One of them will be Cortex-A15 CPUs, while the other one will be Cortex-A7 CPUs. A7 CPUs are known to consume a lot less power, and will be used for non-intensive tasks. In other words, Samsung is hoping to improve upon Nvidia's concept of using a fifth power saving core for common tasks to save battery. The A-15 CPUs will kick in only when required, and as per Samsung's stats, can deliver more than twice the performance of Exynos 4 quad.


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Has MMA Folded on Poker?
(Disclaimer: Ingrained Media represents Athletes within the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. We have never done business with any of the companies listed below but certain members of our company have. Collectively these individuals made less then $1000 from their previous relationships with these companies. We have no current relationship with these companies.)
Media outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal to all the top MMA websites have reported on the issuance of arrest warrants for several executives from the online gaming and poker sites such as Pokerstars.com and FullTiltPoker.com and that the government has shut down those URL's . The Mixed Martial Arts industry claimed "It's sponsors were shutdown" and one infamous agent said, "In the short-term, it will severely impact fighters' sponsor revenue, which traditionally matched their show pay for our televised clients. I would venture to say the poker industry is equal to apparel industry as the No. 1 sponsor of fighters outside the UFC."
We wanted to look into this situation and the billion dollar industry that will be impacted by these bans and the effects, if any, on the sport of MMA and the game of Poker..
A couple things that we need to make sure are clear: This is a US based ban that has a minimal impact on the overall international gaming market, and secondly, this is the US; these executives and companies are innocent until proven guilty.
The sponsors that the Mixed Martial Arts industry have been talking about are actually not the sites that have been taken down. The sponsor of the Mixed Martial Arts industry that is the most prominent is FullTiltPoker.net. The site that has been banned by the US Government is Fulltiltpoker.com. The difference is the .NET site is for entertainment and learning purposes and the .COM is the pay-for-play site. You would think that agent would know who his "number 2" sponsor is. That is, unless he did his deals with FullTiltPoker.com.
It is actually feasible to assume that the Full Tilt corporation will spend more in the US on its .NET presence since that is all they will be allowed to do. Many of the sites that are reporting on this story also earn income from the online gaming industry. I am not sure why or how they could misreport the information.
The Television lineup is still full of various cash poker games and anyone that can go to an Indian Reservation Casino or most of the Casinos in Las Vegas offer both electronic and live cash games. Many states have "poker rooms" that allow cash games and in houses across the US family and friends come together for friendly cash poker games. Poker is a game that dates back to the earliest settlers of this country. Poker is a part of America's history and future.
Full Tilt Poker is on record saying:
"Dublin Ireland (April 15, 2011) – Full Tilt Poker is saddened by today's charges against its CEO Raymond Bitar and offers its full support to Mr. Bitar and Nelson Burtnick.
Online poker is a game of skill enjoyed by tens of millions of people in the United States and across the world. And, Full Tilt Poker remains as committed as ever to preserving the rights of those players to play the game they love online.
Mr. Bitar and Full Tilt Poker believe online poker is legal – a position also taken by some of the best legal minds in the United States. Full Tilt Poker is, and has always been committed to preserving the integrity of the game and abiding by the law.
"I am surprised and disappointed by the government's decision to bring these charges. I look forward to Mr. Burtnick's and my exoneration", said Mr. Bitar.
Unfortunately, as a result of this action, Full Tilt Poker has decided that it must suspend "real money" play in the United States until this case is resolved. However, Full Tilt Poker will continue to provide peer-to-peer online poker services outside of the United States."
We tend to agree with Mr. Bitar's claims. While we cannot reasonably or responsibly talk about the legal issues these 11 executives are facing, as we said they are innocent until proven guilty. What we do know is that many of the greatest legal minds contend that poker is a game of skill not chance and therefore not technically gambling. I love the game of poker myself. I have played on FullTiltPoker.net and we have a family tradition where we all gather over Thanksgiving and have a Texas Hold Em Tournament.
Online gambling and online poker just got a lot less convenient in the US. The courts are going to be forced to determine if online gambling and poker should be legal and if legal, who regulates the industry.
If you're in the U.S., when you point your browser to any of those three gambling sites, you see a scary message: The U.S. government has seized the domain names of the three sites, preventing gambling transactions and anything else:
The Government claims that these businesses manipulated the banks in order to process these transactions (almost all of them conducted electronically) using wire transfers, credit cards and other means of commerce.
The problem gets a bit dicey when you realize that these three online gambling organizations are not based in the U.S. For instance, PokerStars' headquarters is on the Isle of Man, a self-governed British Crown Dependency located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. Here is an image of their headquarters.
Even if the US Government wins the judgement there is no guarantee that the Isle of Man or the other host countries where these business' operate and are based will comply with the US extradition request or asset seizure request. There is huge disagreement about the legality of online gambling. Not to mention the economic impact these small countries would feel if these large industries ceased to exist.
Are we supposed to believe the banks and credit card companies did not notice billions of dollars of transactions coming and going out of very small countries? Bank of America calls me if I use my card in a store that is outside of my normal shopping habits but they could not detect the billions heading to Ilse of Man or Costa Rica?
Since we are talking about US law and online gambling being illegal in the US, some questions obviously arise. The US Government is for the people, by the people, right? A recent poll of US citizens with over 3100 responses indicates the people are siding with the poker companies. 52% of those asked said online gambling should be legal and that it is a victimless crime, 33% said as long as it was regulated and only 15% said no. So 85% of the people polled feel as if online gambling should be legal and if we were asking them about poker only the percentage would be in the mid to high 90's.
Last but surely not least, Full Tilt Poker specifically is just a platform. The laws that are being violated if online poker is illegal are being broken by the users of Full Tilt Poker, not the company itself. If the Government prevails in it's case against Full Tilt and others, are the Internet providers who connect the users responsible? Or how about the poker table manufacturer? Full Tilt is not a wagering company or betting company. They are the virtual version of a Card Room; they merely provide a service to those who wish to test their skills against others for fun, prizes or money. It is duly regulated and licensed by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.
The residents of the US seem to want to be able to play poker and gamble online and poker seems to be at its all time high in popularity. The few in opposition of the game and its legality should be reminded of Las Vegas. It was a relatively unregulated home to the Mob who handled and profited from the gambling industry. The US Government did not shut down Las Vegas, they cleaned it up and regulated it. The Mob was servicing millions of tourists (the voting public) and the Government found a way to keep them playing. Now Vegas represents a billion dollar industry.
For a company that has always found a way to brand itself (NSFW) in a industry valued in the billions we think the fight has just begun.
Or look at China. Some of Las Vegas's biggest "whales" came from Asia and specifically China. China took a small island that had historically been plagued with prostitution and some of the lowest numbers trade jobs in the region. It has been transformed to a Chinese Las Vegas. Many of the same casinos located in Las Vegas have locations there. It has become extremely successful and transformed the economy of the region.
The law makers and media do not need to worry about the MMA athletes who are sponsored by websites still operating and very much in need of promotion. We need to ask our Senate and Congress to try to find a way to do what the majority of the people want and legalize poker and online gambling. Virtual gaming will help our economy and could create jobs here in the US if we found a way to embrace rather than erase this business.
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Hinrich scores 25 to lead Bulls past Warriors
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(AP) -- Kirk Hinrich scored a season-high 25 points, hitting six of seven
3-pointers in the Chicago Bulls' 103-87 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night.
Nate Robinson added 22 points off the bench in the Bulls' third straight victory.
David Lee, the Warriors' All-Star selection, scored 23 points. Stephen Curry added 21 for Golden State, which shot 34.6 percent from the field to snap a three-game winning streak.
Jimmy Butler had 16 points and a career-high 12 rebounds starting in place of All-Star Luol Deng, who missed his fourth consecutive game due to a right hamstring injury.
Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah, the Bulls' other All-Star selection, also finished with double-doubles. Boozer had 15 points and 13 rebounds and Noah had 14 points and 16 rebounds.
The Bulls shot 46.6 percent from the field and have won six of their last nine against Golden State.
Chicago never trailed and led by as much as 26.
The Warriors got as close as 10 early in the third quarter before the Bulls responded with a 10-3 run.
Chicago fell short of its season high for points (118). The Bulls won the rebounding battle 56-37, though the Warriors were the fourth-best rebounding team in the NBA.
Hinrich's sixth 3-pointer pushed the Bulls' lead to 100-80 and tied his career high for
Klay Thompson had 13 points and Jarrett Jack added for the Warriors.
Chicago scored the game's first eight points before Curry hit a jumper with 9:00 left in the first quarter. The Bulls led by as much as 19 in the opening period, shooting 14 of 26 from the field for a 31-13 edge.
Golden State went 5 of 22 from the field.
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Chicago pushed the lead to as much as 26 before halftime, but Golden State went on a 12-0 run to cut it to 14. The Bulls were ahead 63-50 at the break for a new season high for first-half points, shooting 54 percent from the field.
Hinrich scored 19 points, making four of five 3-point attempts. Boozer added 12 points and 11 rebounds and Robinson had 11 points, all in the second quarter.
Before the game, both coaches said one of their players was snubbed for the All-Star Game. Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said Boozer, who leads the Eastern Conference in double-doubles, should have earned all-star honors. Golden State coach Mark Jackson said he was disappointed Stephen Curry missed the cut, but Curry responded with energy and enthusiasm.
"It keeps me focused and grinding," Curry said. "I've had a lot of doubters since coming out of high school up until this level. Just another reason to stay focused and do what I'm doing. Hopefully I'll have another opportunity down the road."
Curry was averaging 20.9 points per game, eighth in the NBA, and joins LeBron James and Russell Westbrook as the only three players averaging at least 20 points, six assists and four rebounds.
The Warriors haven't won in Chicago since Jan. 18, 2008.
NOTES: Jackson was a player under Thibodeau while he was an assistant coach with New York and Houston. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for him," Jackson said. "We go way back. He's a hard worker. He's the same guy he was there. It's great to see the success he's having." . Officials called four offensive fouls in the first minute of the second half.
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I haven't done much Charting of my data. But after this past weekend, I want to create one. The chart I want to create is one that will show some ancestors and descendents of my Aunt. My plan is to have this chart done by someone who I met at RootsTech 2012, and the products they displayed were awesome. For this specific project, I want it to be a 'step up' from what I could do, IF I took a PDF file to a local office supply house, there may be some limitations with a PDF file and I would like a little color in the chart to help my "Facebook" generation cousins understand what they are looking at.
Go to the Publish Workspace with the Selected Person from the People Workspace, Person View, of the Mini-Navigation Pedigree chart just above the Publish Workspace. From the Collection, select the Charts menu, and the Hourglass Chart.
The Chart will start to be generated, but you can change your options during this process.
In the Right Hand Panel, I selected 5 generations of Ancestors, and 3 generations of Descendents. I want it Centered on the Page and the siblings of the primate person. This puts my person in context of the family.
Moving the Horizontal bar to the right, and the Vertical bar up, I have added the 2nd row of "pages" so that it fits within that 2nd page.
Getting better.
So far, it is 36.3 x 20.66 in size.
Now to add some Color and to increase the size of the Chart Title. The "As" or normal Font ICON for Family Tree Maker will provide some option's for the Font Color and Size.
Need some more color, so will check the Box, Border and Lines Options. Just to the Right of the Font settings.
Will make the Male member of the tree in a dark blue outline and a very light blue fill. The females will be pink, with a light pink file.
Will use rounded corners of the person boxes.
Will add the Submitter information and the Date of the Printing, in the Header / Footer ICON>
Why not add some Background to the Chart. there is a pull down men for that, which you can browse through and select what the background will be.
If I had stopped at 4 generations, I might have added pictures, but I don't have pictures of everyone on the chart. If I had a lot of photos, I could add them as well.
I choose a "tree" for the Chart and set it to 60% transparent. The Coloring of the boxes are seen below.
Will go back to the Advanced button to see what it looks like now, and did some tweaking of the settings.
The Chart is done.
I did a File, Export, and created a file to be sent to my vendor.
For this Chart, I am going to use Family Chart Masters
They have multiple ways of taking the data, but the Pre-Created Charts is the option that I will use of this process.
I selected a 42" Wide Chart, 40 lb paper.. They offer other options, for both creation, and delivery, as well as consulting for the tree. There will be a screen so that I can upload my Family Tree Maker file to Family Chart Masters.
I have not used their services before, but what I saw, I liked.
I am looking forward to the results.
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LOS ANGELES — One of two men charged in the shooting deaths of two USC students from China pleaded guilty today two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Bryan Barnes, 21, also admitted to special circumstance allegations that could have resulted in the death penalty, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen A. Marcus sentenced him to life in behind bars.
Co-defendant Javier Bolden, 21, is due back in court March 12 for a pretrial hearing. The charges against both men stemmed from the April 11, 2012, shooting deaths of Ying Wu and Ming Qu.
The graduate students, who were studying electrical engineering, were shot as they sat in a double-parked car on a rainy night in the 2700 block of Raymond Avenue, near the USC campus.
The victims' cell phones were missing from the car, and investigators later traced them to Barnes and Bolden, according to police testimony at a preliminary hearing.


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Scout Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, was arrested in New York's Union Square on Monday evening for having an open beer and then for giving police an ID that wasn't hers, authorities said.
Willis, 20, was inside a subway station when she was spotted carrying an 8-ounce can of beer by a police officer, police said.
After she was stopped and questioned, Willis produced an authentic New York State ID with the name Katherine Kelly, according to the criminal complaint.
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But upon further questioning, the complaint said, she pulled out her California ID with the name Scout Willis, telling the officer "My name is Scout Willis. The first ID isn't mind. My friend gave it to me. I don't know Katherine Kelly."
Willis was charged with a misdemeanor count of second-degree criminal impersonation and another misdemeanor count of alcohol consumption in a public place.
She was released and has a July 31 court date.
Her attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.


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George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf (1940)
Go looking for one thing and end up reading another thing; I can't tell you how many times it happens to me during the Saturday collation periods for the Weekly, but this time I found this and it's one of those "must share" things. Go read it here, Orwell nails this review on so many levels.
It was 20 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play
Regular readers will know how much we love Tom Tomorrow and This Modern World here at IKN, so we point you to his wondrous website once again (xmas gifts galore!) which highlighted this from 1994:
Slice of weekend OT complete.
The 43 Mexican students
Holy mother of God. Here's an extract from the Beeb report. Some Spanish language reports i've seen this evening are more detailed and...well, perhaps it's best if there aren't so many details...
Mr Murillo showed videotaped confessions by the suspects who said they had loaded the students into dumper trucks and taken them to a landfill site in Cocula, a city near Iguala.
About 15 of the students were already dead when they arrived and the rest were shot, according to the suspects.
Mr Murillo said the bodies were then burned with petrol, tyres, firewood and plastic in an inferno that lasted for 14 hours.
"The fire lasted from midnight to 2pm the next day. The criminals could not handle the bodies (for three hours) due to the heat," he said.
He said that the suspects then crushed the remains, stuffed them into bags and tossed them in a river.
The suspects said they were not sure how many students they had taken but one said there were more than 40, Mr Murillo said. continues here
...because that's more than enough detail, methinks. And now here's a message for the investor relations people who represent junior mining companies working Guerrero Mexico: You try and tell the world that everything's normal there and I'll personally turn up at your office and break your nose with my clenched fist. You lying fuckers.
PS: Yes reader SP i do mean you, you ingratiating fucktard.
PS: Yes reader SP i do mean you, you ingratiating fucktard.
McEwen Mining (MUX) files its 3q14 financials post-close Friday evening
On both SEC and SEDAR. And once you look at them you'll understand why Robbie Mac didn't want very much attention brought to the numbers, for just one example...
Oh dear. Link to all the fun, right here.
Chuck Jeannes of Goldcorp (GG): He's good, oh yeah he's good
A few minutes ago, GG bowed to the inevitable and announced the withdrawal of its El Morro (GG 70%, NGD 30%) environmental impact study, due to the way it was chewed up and spat out by the Chilean Supreme Court a month ago. But here's what GG CEO Chucky Chuck Chuckles Chunky Charles Jeannes said about the move:
"While we were disappointed with the final Chilean court ruling, it has afforded us a unique opportunity to challenge our previous assumptions within the context of evolving industry dynamics."
You get that? Go on, read it again, it's fun. No doubt in my mind that he was born to be a mining CEO.
The Friday OT: The six JS Bach cellos suites, played by Yo Yo Ma
So what happens with this youtube is you go, "Two hours? Jeesh, that way too much music" and then you kinda go, "Ok, maybe just for a while" and then you hit play and the first movement of cello suite one kicks in and you go, "Oh I love this!" and you listen and then...darnit, hooked again.
So if you think you're only going to listen for a few minutes, be prepared for deity-like music in your ears for the next two hours.
Chart of the day is...
Gold Resource Corp (GORO) 3q14 results
Right here. My fave bit...
"...if the Company had not stockpiled the 5,878 gold equivalent ounces of the high-grade gold and silver concentrates in its inventory, in preparation for processing in the new Aguila Mill Doré facility, the outcome would have resulted in net income instead of a net loss per share for the three months ended September, 30, 2014."
...which was more than wonderful. OTOH if they'd paid all the tax they owed it would have been a whole lot worse...but hey, details. And on that subject (and the heavy sag in the price of silver, and the YE bonuses mgmt is bound to pay itself, and this, and that) if you think this 3q14 is bad just wait for 4q14.
No Ebola
Designed for a wider audience, this map created by one Anthony England and doing the rounds on the Twittermachine is also useful for IKN's readership.
Did you sell some mining stock in Namibia/Mali/Tanzania/Burkina Faso/Nigeria/DRC/etc because of ebola? Did somebody tell you to sell because of ebola in that country? Do you feel stupid yet? Are you going to take their advice again?
Jemi Fibre (JFI.v): Bobby Genovese's latest scam upsets the locals
IKN's coverage of the scumball stock pumper/dumper Bobby Genovese continues today with news of Jemi Fibre (JFI.v), his latest scam that's based around the lumber industry. Yesterday JFI.v emitted this news release that has really got under the skin of locals where JFI is operating (or better said, trying to operate, see below for more) because the difference between the airbrushed spin in the NR and the cold hard reality of how this scam works was just too much for the law-abiding people that now have JFI hanging round and stinking up the neighbourhood.
Which means, yes indeed, IKN has received a mail from an insider and you're about to read it, so you too will be able to see the difference between JFI's corporate BS and the nasty way in which it's going about business. It goes without saying that the person's identity will remain anonymous, as aside from the usual reasons JFI and its band of scumballs has already shown itself to be very quick on the SLAPP suits. We want you to read the real deal info, which means people's names have to be kept out of it.
So without further ado, here's another episode in "avoid Bobby G stocks like the plague" starting with the excerpt in yesterday's NR which so annoyed the people that really know how JFI operates.
"As of this week, our WoodEx sawmill is now operating on a full one-shift basis. Since this past August, our Kootenay Wood preserving operations has been operating near a 1.5 shift basis. In addition, harvesting operations from our private timberlands has been progressing since late July. As of this month, we are operating at a steady-state on these lands and have commenced silviculture operations with an order of 1.2 million new seedlings."
And now the real juice on why that above is just a big crock. Our anonymous insider takes over from here and it's very interesting stuff). Read on.
The Real Story, by A.N. Other
WoodEx is a very small sawmill, Kootenay Wood is a small operation only set up to do fence poles or similar products. Both were close to bankruptcy when they were recently acquired by JFI in exchange for JFI penny stock. Neither mill can handle the production that JFI needs to accommodate the recent approximately $40 m purchase of private forest lands from Tembec. Also, word is they substantially overpaid for the Tembec land and many locals are wondering how they can ever be profitable after obtaining its capital via 100% financial debt at high interest rates of up to 22%. The debt deals were with BG Capital (i.e. Bobby Genovese, who also holds a significant equity investment in JFI).
We've done rough calculations and believe they need to clear cut near to 24 hours a day and find an outlet to sell the logs and at a high pace in order to make the business viable. One important thing to understand is clearcutting, why it's important and why JFI needs to use this technique. Why is clearcutting with no silviculture (re-planting of trees) so desirable? Here is an excerpt from an article that explains.
"Logging private land is cheaper than logging Crown Land that's under the provincial Forest Practices Act. The act requires a comprehensive logging plan - something that can take months and add about $5 a cubic metre to the cost of wood harvested. There are restrictions on how much of the land can be logged at one time. The size of an allowable cut block varies from site to site. On private land, reforestation isn't required. Unless property is in the Forest Land Reserve, the logger doesn't pay stumpage. The cost of logging with plans, reforestation and stumpage would eat up half to two-thirds of the $50 to $200 (JFI) is getting per tree".
We understand that JFI has approached the three private mills in the Kootenays that are close to recently acquired (ex-Tembec) timberlands and made offers, but nobody wants to sell. These include Galloway Lumber, J. H. Huscroft Lumber and WynnWood. They even tried a hostile takeover of WynnWood using one of WynnWood's minority shareholders, but none of the other shareholders agreed and the deal fell through. So although it appears none of these local mills are for sale the question is whether JFI will get desperate (it needs a bigger mill, period) and offer a big price plus penny stock to cause the owners to re-consider.
There are three more mills in the area owned by public listed company Canfor (CFP.to). We don't know if JFI has tried to purchase the Canfor mills but we do know that JFI has been selling logs to Canfor. Canfor is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) which means it can't buy logs from an outfit that doesn't practice sustainable silviculture (replanting of trees) or they will place their FSC certification in jeopardy.
To sum up so far, in order to be profitable, JFI needs clear-cut and not re-plant trees. Its lands purchased from Tembec are Managed Forest and they're not allowed to clear cut. Therefore to move forward it has the following options
- It must remove the government classification of Managed Forest (which requires replanting) on their lands. This they've reportedly tried to do with no success.
- If they can't do that, they can purchase mills that are not FSC certified and as you read above, they've had no luck so far.
- If they can't do that, they can have the mills they sell logs to remove their FSC certification. We strongly believe that Canfor will not remove its FSC certification.
- Galloway is not FSC certified. WynnWood and JHH have a similar certification called SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) and would not remove their certification under their present ownership.
In other words, JFI is stuck. So instead of playing it straight, they decided to play dirty. The Nature Conservancy of Canada met with JFI to make sure they'd follow the rules and were told by JFI that they would indeed follow the correct environmental practices of sustainability. So the NCC was hopping mad when just a few days later they found out that JFI had already cut down trees in a covenant area they weren't supposed to touch. The NCC put the word out and Canfor refused to buy any more logs until they get with the program, which is why JFI announced yesterday the order of 1.2m seedlings. In other words, it's not that they are "nice guys" and voluntarily commenced silviculture as suggested by the news release. Far from it; they were logging illegally, they got caught, their buyer stopped buying and from now on they're going to be monitored very closely by the big national agency they annoyed; they really picked the wrong enemy there. So they had no choice but to start the silviculture program, and that's going to cost them way too much money for the business model.
In JFIs official management discussions posted on Sedar, their plans are to acquire sawmills, so we believe they will keep trying. The local sawmills should be aware that some of the players of JFI have been also known to use middle men to purchase land in the past so those mills should do their due diligence if they decide to sell. Mike Jenks and 4064 Investments use middle man to purchase 1/3 of Denman Island. So sawmills be aware. Every company Bobby Genovese has been involved with has suffered a bad fate so if you care about your people, the jobs, environment and your reputation you will not sell at any price.
The European Parliament, winning friends and influencing people in South America
You would have thought that a...no...just no...
From here. Freekin dumbasses
Sad news from the South American silver mining world
Word reaches IKN that the world famous San Tomé silver mine in Costaguana has been put on care and maintenance. The privately run mine owned by the Gould family has been considered for decades as one of the richest silver deposits in South America but even this operation has now succumbed to the pressures of low metals prices and rising cash costs.
Though a grim testament to the state of silver mining at this present time, the mine is expected to re-open for business once silver prices recover.
Chile country copper production breakdown by company
Chile's nice Cochilco people today published the production numbers for the country's copper sector to September 2014. Overall production has risen by 0.4% in the first three quarters of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013, but I thought I'd take a look at the breakdown of production by mine to see who's winning and who's losing. Charts, please!
The BHP-run La Escondida is still the world's single biggest copper mine and dominates the scene in Chile, though we note a slight reduction in YoY production. Then comes the Codelco "Chuquicamata/Radomiro Tomic/Ministro Hales" division (I've sliced Codelco into its several divisions, you'll note), then the four 100kt/qtr mines (Collahausi, Anglo, Teniente, Pelambres). For the record, when you add in the "other" (i.e. the small mines) the country total for copper production in the first nine months of 2014 comes to 4.2547 million tonnes.
This second chart shows the YoY percentage changes for individual mine production, to give you a clearer idea of the current winners and loser (less regard for absolute levels of production tonnages).
Chile's fastest growing producer is Collahuasi, up 18.0% YoY. Spence (+13.8%) doing well too, but you'll note just five others are growing and a full eleven mines are seeing production levels drop (or 12 if you include "other").
First Majestic Silver (AG) (FR.to): Buy, add, hold or sell
Several weeks ago I bought First Majestic Silver (AG) (FR.to) shares, with the idea being to have it as my risk exposure to silver. Of course when you buy you think you're buying at the right time and getting value for money, but as the price chart will tell you at the slightest glance...
...that was indeed my horrible mistake. So that was then, this is now and rather than lament the past it's high time to deal with the future. Is this a totally broken company with debt that will drag it down to nothing (like Allied Nevada, for example) or is this a case of a market being overly pessimistic on a quality operator that should bounce back and deliver a big gain once the silver price waterfall is done? That's the question on my mind today, therefore this weekend's edition of The IKN Weekly will have FR.to as its main focus and try to decide whether I should a) add some and average down, b) hang tough and hold through this period of übernasty c) sell and be done with a painful loser.
Primero (PPP) (P.to) swallows a toad
"Swallow a toad" is one of the nicer Spanish expressions out there, it's for when you do something you don't want to do. In the case of Primero Mining (PPP) (P.to) and its 3q14 financials just released, you have to open the NR...then get through the spin-merchant highlights....then scroll down...then scroll some more...then get past the CC announcement...then the standard issue cautionary statements...then a bit more...ah here come the numbers...and...
...ah, there it is!
Because Primero insisted on buying Brigus, y'see.
Pro Tip: Do not leave your government issued national identity card behind when attacking places and stealing things
Thief of Tailor's Shop Takes 25,000 Soles but Leaves His National Identity Card Behind.
Owner of the shop identifies one of the three theieves who attacked them in Comes. Police are now hunting for him
A group of thieves that robbed a tailors in the Comas district (of Lima, Peru) had thought of everything, except for leaving an ID card which will allow them to be identified. This the case of Edgar Miguel Alvarado Ruiz, one of the thieves who left his National Identity Card (DNI) in the ship when he attacked it, along with two others.
The owner of the tailer's shop, Mariano Julca Vera, said that the thieves tied them up with cord and the neckties on which they had been working. However, after the theives had fled with more than 20,000 Soles (U$ 6,825) worth of clothes and 4,000 Soles (U$1,365) in cash, Julca found a satchel they'd left behind.
"This is one of those that assaulted me, he's part of the team because there were three of them", he told América Noticias (TV news program). With the help of the ID card, Julca identified Alvarado Ruiz and now the police are searching for him.
A few facts about IAMGOLD (IAG) (IMG.to) and Rio Alto Mining (RIO.to) (RIOM)
- On May 8th 2008, IAMGOLD (IMG.to) (IAG) sold the La Arena gold property in La Libertad to a new start-up mining company created specifically for the deal.
- Its name, Rio Alto Mining Ltd (RIO.to) (RIOM).
- RIO.to paid IMG.to $47.6m plus 5.5% of the new company in shares*
- At the time of the deal, IMG.to had a market cap of $1.84Bn.
- At tonight's close, RIO.to has a market cap of $733.23m
- At tonight's close, IMG.to has a market cap of $659.57m
- Steve Letwin is still CEO of IAMGOLD.
All prices in Canadian Dollars.
*IMG sold those shares years ago
Comparing GDP growth in Chile and Peru
With the news today that GDP growth in Chile for September 2014 came in at a disappointing +1.4%, your author was mentally nudged and finally got round to publishing a chart that's been on his mind for a while. This compares the monthly GDP growth numbers posted by Peru and Chile since 2010:
You'd never guess just by looking at that chart they're both in the same part of the world, both dependent on metals exports (Peru main export copper, Chile main export by a long long way copper) and both use box standard neolib fiscal and monetary policies, would you? So we'll leave the stupidities of blaming/praising party politics to the dumbasses at The Economist for every click up or down, as anyone with half a brain can spot how unconnected the latest call on social spending is to GDP results.
We'll get the September 2014 Peru GDP in a few days' time. Put me down for +2.4%
And word of the day is...
Therefore the plan is as follows: Take my book, go down to a nice little coffee shop, hang out for a couple of hours, completely forget about the wondeful world of capital markets for three or four hours.. And if it just so happens that there's an unexpected reversal while I'm away and the whole mining complex goes up, I might just do the same tomorrow. However that's unlikely, so I'll be getting on with some real work as of this afternoon. Enjoy your morning.
*Bend Over Here It Comes Again
Chart of the day is...
...the gold/copper ratio, once again:
Sometimes you're wrong for the right reasons.
This time I was just plain wrong, why doesn't matter.
Fortunately, nobody was told that Allied Nevada's (ANV) 3q14 numbers today would be a disaster and was given the chance to trade on illegal inside information
Tuesday tunes: Kate Bush: A sky of honey
The whole of disc two of Aerial:
There are passages of music here that defy words, I catch myself holding my breath and forgetting everything. So if you've never listened to this before, make it today. To quote Kate, 'It's just great'. Dedicated to Sadia Twotimes.
Nevada Copper (NCU.to): Compare and contrast
In its NR today, Nevada Copper stated the following:
For what it's worth, on October 6th the company also stated for the record in correspondence with Brent Cook and Tim Oliver, of Exploration Insights (the best junior mining newsletter there is, bar none) that the shaft was at a depth 1,332 feet. Mathematical calculation time:
October 6th to November 3rd* = 28 days
1,475 feet minus 1,332 feet = 143 feet
143 divided by 28 = 5.1 feet per day
Just so you understand how a bullshit merchant company spins its words.
*we'll assume the NR is based on yesterday's final numbers, which allows leeway to the company
Chart of the day is...
Barrick (ABX) and Zijin: Peter Koven of The National Post picks up on the story
Right here, and he's kind enough to hat-tip this humble corner of cyberspace as the source.
Interview with Roque Benavides of Buenaventura (BVN)
On this link here. Once it gets past the opening puffball questions there's decent content here. I'm no fan of the guy, but I wholly agree with his take on Madre de Dios. Better control of the mercury market in Peru would complement his thoughts and add to an effective clampdown.
Honey Badger don't care (TUF.v)
No free money to fund a moose pasture BS scamjob?
Nobody coming forward to pay directors' salaries?
Honey Badger Don't Care, he don't give a shit
And for those who require the cultural reference...
Zijin Mining and Barrick (ABX) are in JV talks over Pascua Lama
According to a weekend radio inteview with Felipe Saavedra, mining minster for the San Juan province of Argentina (where the 'Lama' part of Pascua Lama is located), the Chinese mining company that wants to JV with Barrick (ABX) on the troubled project is Zijin Mining. Here's the interview in San Juan daily Diario de Cuyo, but you need to listen to the audio for the full Q&A. Here's one of the most interesting bits transcribed and translated:
Radio: Do you know anything about the interest that China has to participate in Pascua Lama?
Saavedra: In China I met with companies from that country and they told me they were interested in investing in Argentina and particularly in San Juan. One of the projects they told me they were interested in is Pascua Lama. We can be sure that in the months to come we're going to have visits from those companies.
Radio: That would be to associate with Pascua Lama?
Saavedra: They confirmed to me that they were in talks with Barrick. It's the Zijin Mining company. It would be to come in as an investor, this was confirmed to me by the CEO of the company. Also, they've already visited the project on several occasions.
You read it here first, people. Again.
I have no idea why The USA is so keen on signing Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with other countries
Not a clue.
Data from here.
Heads they win, tails you lose
Junior mining company investors should take a good hard stare at this chart:
Duluth Metals (DM.to) went into a JV agreement with Antofagasta (ANTO.L) in January 2010, worked the JV for years, then the market went against the juniors and things sagged. Even more so when ANTO.L decided not to pick up on its option in mid 2014, when DM.to shares went into freefall.
Thing is, turns out that ANTO.L wasn't suddenly out of love with the Twin Falls JV property, it just wanted to get its hands on 100% of the thing without having to pay much. Which brings us to today's news, ANTO buying out DM.to for a song.
They told you capitalism was fair, didn't they? They told you the little guys can beat the big guys, didn't they?
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Ex-President Martinelli of Panama and Petaquilla Minerals (PTQ.to): The accusations rise again
You may remember back in 2012 when then-President Martinelli of Panama was accused of playing pump'n'dump with the shares of Petaquilla Minerals (PTQ.to), the notorious scam gold company run by the utter scumbag Fifer. Well this week the person who Martinelli threw in jail to shut her up fianlly got to give her deposition to a courtroom (yeah, seriously, the ex-Pres kept her in jail for a year and a half) and she proceeded to give chapter and verse on how the share price rigging and scam run by Martinelli and PTq worked. Read all about it, right here.
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Flipped Classroom Fears:Instructors often imagine a Lord of The Flies style scenario when they start flipping their classrooms, but this isn't usually the case. In fact, most students are actually so conditioned to sit quietly in class that it can be difficult to get them to talk about the material. However, there are a few things you can do to get students in the frame of mind for productive discussion.
Flipping your classroom will probably not result in chaos. Nobody is going to smash the conch shell and kill Piggy, but they might learn something.
- Start small: If you're just getting into transforming your class, it can be helpful to start with something small, like flipping once a week.
- Get extra staff: Since group work key to flipped classroom, it helps to have extra staff to facilitate peer discussions. If you have graduate TAs, consider deputizing them to lead group exercises. If your university has an undergrad TA program, get as many as you can and spend a day training them on how to ask good questions and facilitate conversations.
- Explain to students why flipping works: Students will sometimes complain if they're used to sitting passively in lecture, and they're suddenly forced to do homework in class. But flipping builds skills that they'll need in the workplace or graduate school, so reemphasizing what they're gaining can help get them to buy in.
Tools For Flipping: Case StudiesCase studies usually involve taking scientific data or ideas and then applying them to a real world situation (medical, law and business schools have been using them for years). Case studies are all over the internet, although the largest clearing house is the National Case Study Library (the American Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian, and the Understanding Evolution project at Berkeley also have great resources). The National Case Study Library is the largest and is searchable by topic and age, and includes teaching notes for each case, and can be a great place to get started.
Picking Case Studies: Some case studies are purely hypothetical, but I tend to gravitate to those that use real data from published studies like this one on the evolution of skin color that uses studies from a lot of disciplines to build to a conclusion, or this one on conservation corridors and meta-populations. A lot of case studies open with a fictional story, but this approach is a little corny for me, and I'd rather focus on the real scientists and their questions (the narrative case studies can also get weird (like this paternity case study that could also be a great Maury episode). In general, just pick things that work for you and your students.
DIY Case Studies: If you have papers that you already like to teach, then consider turning them into a case study. To do this, I usually write an intro briefly framing the problem or question. Then I give students actual graphs from the paper with follow up questions to help them process the information. It is OK if the study has a few confusing elements; while we often want a clear story to present to our classes, there's great evidence that using "messy" data builds scientific skills. You may have to modify graphs, or remake them for extra readability. This could mean re-labeling axes to remove jargon (e.g. in a paper on insects, "instar" becomes "developmental stage"). It might mean dropping some treatments (you don't need 10 nitrogen treatments to understand eutrophication). Usually I follow every graph with 2-3 questions that follow a basic format:
- Question 1: Ask students to detect any trends or differences in the graph.
- Question 2: Have students think of an explanation for the results
- Question 3: Ask students to apply their "findings" to the question or problem posed in the case study
Using Case Studies In Class: You can prepare students for a case either through a short lecture or through a homework assignment or reading quiz (this can be done using classroom management software like Blackboard, or Sakai). Once students have the background, have them break into groups of two to three, and work through the questions. It can be helpful to stop every few minutes to go through the answers (some case studies build on earlier questions, so early feedback is key). A great feature of case studies is that they can take nearly an entire class period, so you can go an entire day without having to lecture.
Clicker QuestionsThe other main tool for flipping your classroom is clicker questions. Clickers are basically a real-time poll of your students so you can check how they are learning. Most instructors use them for participation points, rather than grading them for correctness (this encourages students to jump in and grapple with material, and not worry about making mistakes). Your university might have a set of clickers that you can borrow, or you have students use laptops, tablets and smartphones in place of clicker with apps like Poll Everywhere, GoSoapbox, Pinnion, or Socrative (these have different features and price points, so see what works for you). For a more comprehensive list of clicker tools , see this article from a team at Princeton.
Writing Good Clicker Questions: Good clicker questions should encourage discussion, and force students to apply their knowledge, not just test what they remember. This can mean using information to make recommendations, doing a calculation, or making predictions about the outcome of experiment. Standard clickers only allow for multiple choice questions, but other web-based tools will allow your students to do free responses, draw graphs, or give other types of answers. There are lots of great web resources on how to design clicker questions (in appendix). The slide show below shows some clicker questions we used in our flipped evolution class at CU Boulder.
Using Clickers In Class: Once you have your clicker questions written, then you'll need to deploy them in class. Below is a basic blueprint for how to run a clicker question
1. Tell students to break into groups and get ready to discuss a clicker question
2. Give students about a minute to discuss the question, and open whatever clicker software you're using. You'll usually hear a 30 second surge in talking that dies down after about a minute. After about a minute give students a warning and tell then close out the clicker question.
3. At this point you can show the results of the clicker poll and start to unpack the question. If your questions are challenging, you should be getting significant amounts of wrong answers, so seeing a wide range of answers means you're doing it right. Usually if 10% of your students are getting the question wrong, it is worth discussing the question in depth
4. Make students be able to articulate why right answers are right and why wrong answers are wrong. You can call on groups to get them to explain their answers (this is nicer than cold-calling individual students). If nobody wants to talk about wrong answers, say something like "why might someone think that B is a tempting answer?" so that nobody has to admit to being wrong in front of their peers.
5. It can be helpful to follow up with another question asking them to apply the material in a different way.
In conclusion, flipping your classroom can be done pretty cheaply and without that much more work than lecturing. This post is really just a starting place, and there are ton of great resources on the web to take you further. I've compiled just a few of them below. Good luck and happy flipping!
By Sarah Seiter
Videos on Flipped Classrooms:
Resources for Clicker Qs:
Clicker Question Guides from University of Colorado Boulder


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Miscellaneous Media – DWTS Season 8 AND 9
I threw that Season 8 in there because I found Gilles on E! News in a "European" swimsuit. Ahem. Yep, never voted for Gilles when he was on the show, but he is one hot hunk of man and he seems like a real sweetheart. 🙂
Donny and Kym on ET – Donny finds out that MJ's kids are rooting for him. (Um, so what? They're just KIDS! Geez. They're kids I feel sorry for because of all the hype.)
Reality Chat Part 1 – DWTS Week 5 – Melissa Joan Hart talks to Sabrina and Rosie
Reality Chat Part 2 – DWTS Week 5 – Chuck Liddell


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This holographic laser projector (HLP) projects images onto curved and tilted surfaces. We just got our hands on the tech in the back rooms of CES 2010, and it works beautifully. By using red, blue and green lasers to project large triangles onto a 10-inch area, Light Blue Optics has created Light Touch, resulting in a fascinating laser touchscreen that's surprisingly interactive.
In our hour-long hands-on session, the touchscreen felt like a capacitive screen, requiring a light touch to move objects. The colors looked just saturated enough to be watchable, and the video wasn't super-bright even in a dimly-lit room — but it was just clear enough to be useful, and the Class 1 lasers inside won't burn out your retinas, either. It was an eerie feeling to use this technology, convincing us this is a completely new product category that could change everything. It's that good.
Light Blue Optics plans to license the tech to a variety of hardware and software creators such as Samsung, Microsoft, Adobe, Toshiba, and many more.
So as we asked earlier this week, is it a magic screen or a work in progress? Both, but Light Blue Optics Light Touch is mostly pure magic.


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Helloo! i've been looking for a way to add a menu using WinAPI within the same .asm file, without using resource (.rc) filesIt can be done in C, like explained in this tutorial http://zetcode.com/gui/winapi/menus/MASM32's User.lib has the same function prototypes in there (CreateMenu, AppendMenuW, SetMenu)This is for two reasons, one is because i'd like them not to be edited/spoted using Resource Editors, the other is that i want to keep everything on one .asm source file (as what i want to do is small enough)I've not seen anyone documenting how to do this before in MASM32 (or even other Win32-targeted compilers) and ran out of ideas trying, any kind of help is very appreciated!thanks beforehand!
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Hii Knruz and thanks for the tips!, i didn't knew about the first way! i hope it may be of help to anyone! = 3edit: attached exe and asm file in if that's better
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My Mom Asks Too Many Questions. What Can I Do?
My mom keeps asking what's going on at school, if I'm going to audition for
the play, why I didn't try out for band, what my friends are doing, and stuff
that's really my business. It's annoying and sometimes it's like she doesn't
trust me. How can I get her to stop?
– Katie
If you don't share or talk much with your parents, they might feel the need to ask you questions to find out about your day, etc. It might seem like your mom is prying into your business, but she's probably just trying to keep your relationship strong. In fact, parenting experts often tell parents to stay connected to their kids by asking about what's going on in their lives.
Some parents do this better than others, of course. (And, unfortunately, some parents do ask questions because they don't trust their kids — especially if their kids have been in trouble.) So start by trying to give your parents the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they're just trying to stay close because they love and care about you.
That doesn't make the questions any less annoying, though. If you're tired of so many questions about your day, turn the tables — ask your mom about her day and use it as a way to practice your good listening skills. Or beat her to it: Tell her about your day before she asks. If you offer more info, conversations with your parents won't seem so much like a round of 20 Questions!
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Thanks for the heads-up; I will go and sort it out.
English Teacher
Are there really 5 syllables in "Television"? According to your quiz on "counting syllables", there are. I've tried many times but can only count 4. Can someone please explain?
I can see that, in the same quiz, some people may agree that "Italian" has only 3 syllables but others may feel that 4 is ok, too. (The word "comfortable" may also be pronounced as a 3 or as a 4 syllable word.)
I recommended this website to some students but find they are a little confused by these examples. Would it not be better to choose less confusing examples for simple quizzes or to provide some justification for your choice of "correct" answer.
I write to you because these things seem to be important to learners of English.
Thanks for the heads-up; I will go and sort it out.
If you break up the suffix "sion" you can make "zi un" and that would create the other syllable. The whole thing would then be "tel uh vi zee un" thus making five syllables. However, this is not a recognized pronunciation.


text: aznriptide859 Report post Posted February 11, 2009 Now I'm not too big a fan for CA guns, but this is some awesome news - Classic Army has now received the license for LWRC International! Here's the entire scoop, courtesy of AirsoftNews EU: They state that CA has already made the M6A2 and PSD replicas (the latter being hawt as holy hot dogs)...could this mean the intro of a LWRC IAR?!?!? IT BETTER! Hopefully their internals will also increase in quality - will definitely bring happiness to LWRC fans like me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Although the single "Beetle in the Box" was released earlier in the year, with an animated lyric video to support it, the video released today for "The Paper Trench" marks the first proper music video to come out of Admiral Fallow's soon to be released sophomore effort, Tree Bursts in Snow, the much-anticipated (by me at least) follow-up to their debut, Boots Met My Face:
On the first couple of listens, this already seems to me the best thing Admiral Fallow's done so far – it has everything I liked about my favorite songs of Boots with some extra focus and clarity. There's the lyrical density and strangeness (which the video of course accentuates), the foot-stomping moments that at times have an anthemic feel (though less so here than in tracks off Boots), combined with passages of sweetness and introspection.
"The Paper Trench" also shows Admiral Fallow inhabiting the same cultural space as in their earlier album, a Scotland more of housing estates than wind-swept moors and icy lochs. In the video, an Ent-like creature, almost straight out of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, wakes up in the garbage strewn wasteland alongside one of those estates and the proceeds on a sort of tour of this strange new world, no longer Middle Earth in the regions of the Shire, but the United Kingdom and the suburbs of Glasgow. Even leaving the realm of estates and suburban high streets and heading into downtown the Ent creature still doesn't find anything to which to connect. Stopping in a park to rest, weary from the strangeness and lifelessness of it all, a young lad sitting with his sweetheart carves a heart on him. Finally, the Ent ends up in that other Scotland, looking down on one of those lochs, and it is clearly a kind of homecoming.
The video regularly cuts away from the Ent's journey to scenes of the band playing in a wood-paneled interior, warmly lit by some old-fashioned floor lamps and sunlight from high windows. To my mind, to almost looks like they are warming up for a village cèilidh in the rec room of some church or town hall, which I think connects up with the kinds of values and perspectives we've seen in the rest of Admiral Fallow's music: they like to party, and for many of us there are few better parties than a cèilidh, but they also have a sweetness and simplicity, a folksiness and an interest in a more human scale of things – of music, of Scotland, of relationships. Their's is a music of storytelling, even in those more anthemic songs. And I always want to hear more.
Here's the earlier video for "Beetle in the Box":
For more…
- Admiral Fallow | Beetle In The Box – Limited Edition 7 Inch Vinyl (Out Now).
- Video Premiere: Admiral Fallow – "The Paper Trench" :: Featured Videos :: Paste.
- Admiral Fallow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- New band of the day – No 983: Admiral Fallow | Music | guardian.co.uk.
- Fred Perry Subculture / Grapevine / hello /The Buzz / Admiral Fallow – "Tree Bursts In Snow".
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And here's another piece on a letter to a newspaper from a Bull Run participant, this time from John Ellis of the 71st New York and on Scott Patchan's blog. I'll get this one from the 8/20/61 San Francisco Bulletin transcribed ASAP.
I intend to include all the letters and newspaper accounts coming to light now in the resources section of Bull Runnings, but in order to do so I must have as much information as possible. Ellis is a good example of enough information. Full metadata, or as far as I'm concerned an image of the source document, is best. If it's published, I need to have all the information that would be included in a footnote. Snippets of letters without dates or citation info, which is what many bloggers post, won't be included here.


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A business student is facing jail after being found guilty of an acid attack that left a friend scarred for life.
Mary Konye, 21, disguised herself in a Muslim veil and attacked Naomi Oni after following her home from work, a jury at Snaresbrook crown court in London found.
Oni, also 21, a shop assistant at Victoria's Secret lingerie store, was left with serious burns to her face and chest after the attack in Dagenham, east London, on 30 December 2012.
Konye tried to claim it was Oni who planned the incident because she wanted "fame and fortune and to sell her story to the paper", police said.
Oni burst into tears as she left the courtroom and was hugged by family, but did not make any comment. Friends said they were "glad that a truthful verdict" had been reached.
DCI Dave Whellams, of the Metropolitan police, said it was a "serious, horrible offence which required a degree of planning and calculation".
Witnesses testified in court that Konye planned the attack over the course of two years. "She has prepared for this over a number of months, even years, all resulting from a trivial, insignificant argument that everybody has in their everyday lives," Whellams said.
"But Mary Konye has taken this so far that she has planned this, disguised herself and followed Naomi on that night. The result today will give Naomi only some comfort but she is never going to be away from the fact that she is scarred. Every time she looks in the mirror she is going to be reminded of the fact, but it will enable her to start to get some closure."
Whellams said the true reason behind the attack had not been established. "They can't tell me really what the argument is – it's fashion, it's boyfriends, it's everyday things ," he said.
Dressed in black, Konye remained calm as the jury of eight men and four women at returned their unanimous verdict after seven and a half hours of deliberations. The judge, David Radford, said she would face jail when he sentences her on 7 March.
"I should make clear that, in my judgment, this is a case that will in all likelihood need a substantial custodial sentence," he said.
CCTV footage obtained by police after the attack showed Konye in a niqab following Oni as she left work at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford at 11.30pm. The victim lost her hair and eyelashes in the attack and required skin graft surgery to cover her burns.
The jury heard that the day after the attack Konye sent a text message to Oni in hospital saying: "OMG, I can't believe it."
It is thought she copied an attack on the model and TV presenter Katie Piper, who was badly scarred and blinded in one eye in 2008. Oni told the court that Konye was aware of the impact Piper's ordeal had had on her after watching a television documentary about it.
The pair, who had been friends since secondary school, fell out in April 2011 when Oni allegedly accused Konye of texting her boyfriend and called her an "ugly monster".
Baljit Ubhey, the chief crown prosecutor for London, described the attack as "extremely brutal". She praised Oni for her "courage and dignity" in giving evidence during the trial.
"The use of acid as a weapon is cruel and horrifying," she said. "It can have a devastating effect on victims and can cause long-term pain and disfigurement as well as emotional and psychological harm."
Konye, of Canning Town, east London, had denied throwing or casting a corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or do grievous bodily harm.


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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
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Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update May 2012
Our volunteer numbers went up to over 20 during May and what a great time we had. Sadly however, the end of the month saw the end of project for a number of our longer term volunteers. The hardest thing about this job, is definitely saying 'goodbye.' But its always good to know that they left having made life long friends and with memories that will stay with them forever.
On the whole, the volunteers worked really hard over the month, having to deal with working in both searing heat and intense rain storms. Despite these conditions, the volunteers retained their sense of fun and adventure and did not let external factors dampen their spirits or determination to progress the work we do here.
This is what we have been up to this month....
Diving Based Projects:
Reef Check Survey
We surveyed 16 sites over this month, including Koh Door - a first time survey site. The conditions were not great for surveys due to low visibility but things cleared up towards the end of the month.
We had a successful month counting invertebrates, finding some healthy areas of corals, including 27 sea fans at Maya Corner and very large plate coral at Koh Ha, which is fabulous!
We saw some 'big stuff' underwater, including blue spotted sting rays, leopard sharks, black tips reef sharks and dolphins!
Project AWARE - Dive Against Debris Survey
The volunteers carried out 10 trash removal dives at various sites collecting a total of 181kg from the reef and surface. That is a huge amount given that mostly it consists of fishing gear and food wrappers!
We had windy and rainy weather which we believe accounted for the amount of trash washed up on the reef as move trash enters our ocean via the rivers and waterways from the mainland, bringing all the land trash with it.
The most unusual find this month was on Chicken Island when the volunteers brought up a total of 71 mask and snorkels over two dives there!! We think a tourist boat must have dropped them overboard by accident!
The biggest thing we found was a large truck tyre at Koh Yawasam, we believe it must have been fallen off the side of a boat that was using it as a buffer for docking.
We really saw the damaging effect tourism has on our reefs and ocean.
Endangered Species Work
What a month for our monitoring of endangered species! On the first dive of her open water course, Bronwyn, a new volunteer, had some curious dolphins swim by and check her out. Some of our research divers were also lucky enough to encounter these magical creatures underwater, including seeing a baby and mother playing. For those who were not 'in the right place at the right time' not all was lost, as the dolphins stayed around the dive boat for a quite a while, so everyone was able to see them from the surface.
In addition to the dolphins, the research divers encountered turtles and were lucky to get up close and observe a very large hawksbill turtle feeding on sponge.
Land Based Projects:
Forest Regeneration
For some people the start of the rainy season in Thailand is a drag, but for us - we love it!! This is because we are able to push ahead with our reforestation project and get to plant all the tree saplings we have been growing over the dry season in our tree nurseries.
This month, Projects Abroad have proudly sponsored a nature corridor for the endangered bird species, Gurney Pitta. The volunteers helped to dig an impressive 400 holes and plant 400 trees with the local community of Khlong Thom over the month. The aim of this project is to create a corridor of indigenous tree species which will allow this and other bird species, together with other species of insects and animals to cross over the rubber tree and palm oil plantations to mate and breed. Without these corridors, the creatures are cut off from each other and their numbers decline quickly.
We also continued to work with FORRU in the tree nursery at their headquarters and we visited the local school twice to help them take care of their tree nursery and recycle station.
Beach Clean Ups
During May we cleaned the beaches at Ao Nammao and Noppahat Thara National Park. We collected a total of 283.6kg, of which we were able to recycle 64kg.
The most unusual find this month has to be a toilet! No idea where it came from but the volunteers found it proudly sitting on Ao Nammao beach!
As always our presence in the National Park is noticed by the local people and tourists who come up to read our information boards and often try to help us out. We hope that leading by example will help keep these natural areas of beauty clean for everyone to enjoy, whilst keeping the trash out of our ocean and away from the reefs.
Turtle Rehabilitation Work
Our monthly visit to the Turtle Rehabilitation Centre in Phuket is always a hit with the volunteers - not many people in the world will ever have the opportunity to get so up close and personal with these incredible critters!
This month we heard lots of ahhhhhh's and oooohhhhh's as we got see baby turtles, just 4 days old!
The volunteers helped to clean the turtle holding and breeding tanks, then cleaned the larger turtles and helped the vets apply antiseptic and give the injured turtles medicine.
Community Outreach Day
Staff and volunteers alike had an incredibly moving community outreach this month. We visited the children's ward at the local hospital to play with the sick kids. The volunteers prepared games and activities to do with the children and took with them small gifts.
At first the volunteers were shocked at how basic the ward was, and it really put into perspective how lucky we are with medical facilities in our own countries.
The children really enjoyed our visit, with the puppet show and magic show being a huge success that got everyone laughing, including the parents and nurses!
We celebrated the day's success with a pizza night in Ao Nang.
Other Stuff...
Vi organised a number of really cool activities in May, including taking the volunteers to Tiger cave Temple, where the volunteers not only got to look around this incredibly beautiful temple complex, but also climbed the 1200+ steps to the mountain top temple, where there are Buddha statues and an awesome panoramic view of Krabi.
The volunteers got to try Muay Thai (Thai kick boxing) this month, where they enjoyed a full training session with some title winning professional boxers. One of our long term volunteers, Sven, who is a martial artist himself, took on the owner of the training gym...it was quite a skilful encounter from all accounts! After getting sweaty in the gym, Vi took the volunteers for a walk in nature and to the river where everyone jumped in and spent the afternoon enjoying themselves swimming and relaxing in the jungle!
In addition to the cool activities arranged by Vi this month, the volunteers organised their own overnight trip on the island of Phuket following our monthly visit to the turtle rehabilitation centre based there. They had fun shopping and partying in this busy tourist town.
A great month all in all!
My thanks goes out to all the amazing volunteers and my great team of staff for all their hard work and extra efforts that go into making this project one of the best in the world!
Ingrid Sprake
Conservation Director, Thailand


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Architecture Design Awards
The Iada Awards Is a Great Opportunity For Public and Peer Recognition of Architectural Work, Providing Recognition, Awareness and Publicity Internationally
Architecture is the process of devising, planning, designing, and constructing buildings and structures. Architectural works not only provide protection or function for society but are also cultural symbols and works of art. Architecture is so important to reflect a society such that civilizations are identified with their architectural achievements.Architecture is about planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambiance to reflect functional, technical, social, environmental and aesthetic considerations. Architectural design requires the creative manipulation and coordination of materials and technology, and of light and shadow to provide habitats and space for society.Good Architectural works resolve conflicting requirements flawlessly and encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing buildings and structures, including scheduling, cost estimation and construction administration. Good architecture saves lives through durable structures that withstands natural disasters or wars, through intelligent structures that provide sustenance to mankind, and through structures where man heals.Good architecture helps people to enjoy their lives; providing a comfortable space to sleep (accomodation), a way to transport (roads, bridges, subways), and of course to enjoy life itself (parks and recreation areas). Given the role of architecture in the society, the IADA award was born out of desire to create incentives for architects worldwide to design excellent buildings and structures for a better, brighter, safer and happier future.Entering your works to the International Architecture Design Awards IADA is an efficient mechanism to promote and disseminate architectural work internationally. IADA is one of the world's most prestigious accolades for architecture, conceptual architecture, interiors, landscape design and urban planning creating public recognition for the award winners.In essence, what is seeked is: Firmitas, utilitas, venustas; Durability; a building should stand up robustly and remain in good condition, Utility; it should be suitable for the purposes for which is it used and Beauty; it should be aesthetically pleasing as suggested by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.IADA has started a tradition of recognizing individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievements in Architecture Design in order to support the growth of the architectural discipline. The aim of the International Architectural Design Award is to help create awareness for architecture in the general public, and to help architects reach new and further audiences through publicity.The Excellence in Design in Architecture is one of the highest honor the IADA can bestow on an architecture firm for consistently producing distinguished architecture. Any architectural firm or successor firms, whether an individual or an organization of architects, in which the continuing collaboration among individuals of the firm has been the force in consistently producing distinguished architecture is eligible for the Design Excellence award which considers not just a single work but a whole architectural portfolio.International Architecture Design Awards aims to commend best architectural design, recognize talent and innovation in the field of architecture, and create networking and dissemination opportunities for architects to reach new and larger audiences through public relations and communications provided to the laureates, and through the IADA gala-night and exhibition.IADA offers inspiration to design and architecture enthusiasts, showcasing the best architecture work. The IADA Awards offer a number of different architectural design categories covering all types of architecture projects such as residential architecture, interior design, commercial architecture, landscape design and structure design.Unlike other architectural awards, the IADA awards are judged by an esteemed jury panel composed of academics, architects and press members, creating credibility and providing a level of seriousness. Submitted entries are blind-voted by the jury panel to ensure that no one could effect the overall jury decision. Enter IADA to have your architectural design projects judged fairly.Entries to International Architecture Design is open in many categories; buildings, structures and landmarks could be submitted for consideration without limit on year of construction or budget (yet these information should be provided). Furthermore, there are distinct categories for interior architecture, exhibition and tradeshow design and of course for landscape architecture.All built, unbuilt, in-progress and conceptual architectural works, regardless of their year accepted to the architectural competition. The architectural design competition jury will consist of recognized architects and scholars. Decisions of the jury shall be final. Entries will be judged upon their own merit, but also against other entries. Architectural projects will be judged on criteria such as Compelling Design Statement, Construction System, Details, Function, Social and Environmental Implications and Overall Aesthetics. Entries shall be submitted online through adesignaward.com website interface by providing the textual descriptions and visual presentation.Visual presentation should consist of 5 high-resolution images suitable for press distribution and large-size printing. 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Because BMW is nothing if not punctual, the company's already doing outdoor tests of a refresh to the 7 Series expected for the 2013 model year. Outside of turn signals in the rearview mirrors, change may not be a selling point.
Carscoop caught this 7 Series with Active Hybrid badges rolling in Germany, saying it expects minor tweaks all around for the updated model, but no big surprises. Wouldn't want to startle anyone.


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This is my first post in a long time and boy a lot has changed! We have moved back to the great USA. It is so great to be back closer to family and friends. I'm still in the midst of unpacking, organizing and cleaning but it was nice to be able to stop and decorate for a holiday. It was like Christmas in October when I got to unpack my Halloween decorations that I haven't used in three years. I'm excited to share what I have done....enjoy!!!
The wreath started off as a boxwood wreath with fall berries that I purchased from one of my favorite local stores, Magpie Gifts. I had them hanging on my door for a couple of weeks before I added the witches legs, sign and bows.
|Witches legs and Wicked sign- The Accessory Place: Boxwood wreath w/fall berries: Magpie Gifts
The Halloween trees were made with tomato cages and the cheap Christmas garland you can now buy at Hobby Lobby. Each tree took four strands of garland that I simply wrapped around the cage and then spray painted black. After they dried, I wrapped the Halloween lights and hung the ornaments. I finish the tree off with the cutest witches hats that also light up.
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|Witches Broom - Pier 1 Imports: Faux pumpkins - Jo-Ann Fabrics
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 and I really like it. My only gripe is that some GUI elements are too small on the screen. (My screen resolution is 1920 x 1200.) Over the last few days, I have been trying to customize the interface with various tools (Gnome Color Chooser, CompizConfig, GConf Editor), but I haven't managed to find any solution. What I would like to change in particular is the panel indicators and window buttons:
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Jeff Lorber - Jeff Lorber Fusion (2014)
Jeff Lorber - Jeff Lorber Fusion (2014)
01. Chinese Medicinal Herbs 02. Hacienda 03. He Had a Hat 04. Singaraja 05. Montserrat 06. Rain Dance 07. King Kong 08. Solo Jeff / Surreptitions 09. Tune 88 Jeff Lorber - keyboards, piano Eric Marienthal - saxophones Jimmy Haslip - bass Sonny Emory – drums Recorded at Blue Note, Milano, March 21, 2014
With a smooth sound bringing together elements of funk, R&B, rock, and electric jazz, keyboardist Jeff Lorber helped pioneer a genre of fusion later formatted under such names as NAC and contemporary jazz. Born in Philadelphia on November 4, 1952, he began playing the piano at the age of four, and as a teen performed with a variety of local R&B bands. Lorber's infatuation with jazz began during his stay at the Berklee College of Music, and after forming the Jeff Lorber Fusion he issued the group's self-titled debut in 1977. During the first half of the following decade, the band became one of the most popular jazz acts of the period, touring nonstop and even scoring a Best R&B Instrumental Grammy nomination for the radio hit "Pacific Coast Highway." Released in 1986, Private Passion was Lorber's most successful outing yet, but at this commercial peak he stopped recording, instead turning to production and session work.
He did not issue his first proper solo LP until 1991's Worth Waiting For, remaining both a prolific performer and producer for the rest of the decade. He recorded for Verve and Zebra in the '90s before moving over to Narada in the 2000s and releasing successful smooth jazz albums like 2003's Philly Style and 2005's Flipside. He released He Had a Hat on Blue Note in 2007. In 2010, Lorber released the '70s funk and soul-inflected Heard That. In 2010, Lorber reactivated the Jeff Lorber Fusion and released Now Is the Time via Heads Up International. The album received generally positive reviews, placed high on the contemporary jazz chart, and was nominated for a Grammy.
Lorber not only stayed with the revitalized JLF format, but went even deeper for 2012's Galaxy (Heads Up/Concord), revisiting in depth the sound he helped to pioneer. Lorber, bassist Jimmy Haslip, and saxophonist Eric Marienthal were accompanied by drummer Vinnie Colaiuta. The album also featured guest spots by trumpeter Randy Brecker; percussionist Lenny Castro; guitarists Paul Jackson, Jr., Michael Thompson, Andrée Theander, and Larry Koonse; and drummer Dave Weckl. In August of 2013, the JLF released Hacienda. --- Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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AMIA believes that the education and training of moving image archivists is essential to the long-term survival of our moving image heritage.
This year three student scholarships will be offered: the Sony Pictures Scholarship, the Universal Studios Preservation Scholarship, and The Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship.
In addition, the Image Permanence Institute Internship in Preservation Research will offer a student who is committed to the preservation of moving images the opportunity to acquire practical experience in preservation research.
For further information, deadlines and applications, please visit the AMIA web page: http://www.amianet.org/programs-and-initiatives/scholarships
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Blinding colour and stunning beaches are Zanzibar's hallmarks.
Zanzibar general informationDo I need a visa for a Zanzibar holiday? How can I make a call from Zanzibar? What is Zanzibar's currency? And what time is it in Zanzibar? When taking a beach break on Zanzibar for the first time, these are just some of the questions travellers have; below we've tried to answer them.
Know before you goAs you plan your trip, and before you travel, we recommend that you check the latest Foreign Office advice on the places that you're going to - regardless of where you are travelling to, or how you are travelling. See FCO's Tanzania advice here, or its info on other countries here.
We urge you to do this, as we recommend that all our travellers keep themselves up to date with the current foreign office advice on their destination countries.
Time in ZanzibarJust like Tanzania, Zanzibar is three hours in the advance of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+3). It doesn't operate daylight saving time, and consequently there's no time difference between Zanzibar's summer and winter months.
Currency in ZanzibarZanzibar's currency is the Tanzanian shilling (TZS). See www.oanda.com for the most recent exchange rates. Most lodges on Zanzibar charge in US$; very few will take travellers' cheques, although most accept credit cards (they may charge an additional fee to do so). Buying Tanzanian shillings in Europe or America can be hard; most travellers will buy local currency on arrival in Tanzania or Zanzibar.
Zanzibar's International Dialling CodeThe International Dialling Code for Tanzania and Zanzibar is +255, followed by the destination's phone number. Calling from Zanzibar, you dial 00 plus the relevant country code (0044 for the Great Britain, 001 for the States).
Food in ZanzibarThe food served in Zanzibar's beach lodges in generally very good, focusing on what's locally available. There are some fine restaurants in Stone Town, mainly serving local dishes, seafood and curries, seasoned with the island's exotic spices; outside of Stone Town, the choices are limited. Drinks include Tanzanian beers (Tusker, Kilimanjaro and Safari), as well as imported beer and wine from South Africa.
Health in ZanzibarZanzibar is a tropical island and vaccines are sensible (typhoid, polio, tetanus and yellow fever). Malaria is common, so you should take anti-malarial measures. Always check the latest recommendations with your travel clinic or doctor – more travel info on Zanzibar and Tanzania is given by the Scottish NHS.
AIDS is prevalent in Zanzibar and HIV infection rates are high. This isn't usually a concern for visitors, but they should be aware of this situation, and take the same wise precautions which are sensible in most countries. We understand that blood supplies used by the private hospitals in Zanzibar and Tanzania have been carefully screened for several years.
Language in ZanzibarEnglish and KiSwahili are the official languages, spoken by most Zanzibari; beside this, there are many ethnic groups, who speak localised dialects and languages. Some basic KiSwahili will help you to enjoy your trip even more – and even poor attempts to speak it will be hugely appreciated by most islanders!
Laundry in ZanzibarPractically all beach lodges have laundry services, though sometimes, due to religious taboos, women's underwear is excluded.
Taking children to ZanzibarAs a beach destination, Zanzibar is generally very good for relaxed family holidays. Please see our ideas for family holidays in Zanzibar, or call our expert team for detailed information.
Visas for ZanzibarCurrently, travellers with British or US passports require visas for Tanzania – and Zanzibar is simply an area of Tanzania; there are now no separate requirements for the island.
For UK citizens, visas are currently best obtained in advance from the Tanzanian High Commission, and cost approximately £38 per single entry. Always check the most recent regulations with your nearest Tanzania High Commission or Embassy before travelling.