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Porthlleuog is an almost circular rocky cove tucked into the cliffs just east of Strumble Head near Goodwick.
It is only a mile or so along the National Park Coastal Footpath west of Carreg Wastad, where there is a memorial stone commemorating the abortive French invasion of Fishguard in February 1797.
Where it got its name is a mystery, unless the spelling has been altered over the years, as Porthlleuog means Lousy Harbour, which is not a bad description as it is virtually inaccessible to boats because of its rocky shore and high cliffs.
This north-easterly corner of Strumble Head is rich in historic and geological interest. Guarding its north-western entrance is a long rock called Carreg Gibi (Gibi or Gybi's Rock) named after the Celtic priest whose name is also commemorated on the coast of Cornwall as Cuby and Tregonny and in Llangibi in Cardiganshire and Llangybi near Pwllheli in Anglesey, North Wales. Holyhead is in fact known in Welsh as Caergybi. This spread of the name of this Cornish priest reflects his long journeys north via Llangibby-on-Usk.
At Carreg Gibbi and across the little bay to the headland is Trwyn Llwyd (Grey Nose). Tucked in under Trwyn Llwyd is another legacy of a wandering Celtic priest at Cnwc St Degan (St Degan's Knoll) where the saint would have come ashore to found his little chapel just inland of the headland known as Pen Degan (Degan's Head). He was also known as Tegfan and, like Gybi, is also commemorated on Angelsey at Landegfan. Part of the roof of the chapel survived until 1750 and there is also a well nearby which still bears Degan's name. Some standing stones in a field just inland of the chapel have the appearance of antiquity, but they are believed to be simply 18th century rubbing stones erected for cattle.
No need to go into detail about the French Invasion of 1797 which is well-known and described in tourism leaflets, but it is worth making a diversion of a few yards off the footpath to read the words on the stone at Carreg Wastad a mile or so east of Porthlleuog. It is called the French Invasion but the French were being pretty naive if they believed 1,400 untrained, undisciplined and unreliable men, many of them mercenaries released from prison for the expedition, could carry out a successful invasion. Needless to say, they failed miserably.
The geologically-minded will find two classic examples of pillow lava flow low down in the cliff at Trwyn LLwyd, resembling jumbled heaps of rounded bolsters, often in cross-section. These huge gobbets of lava were extruded through the sea bed and rolled up by small water movements, and are among the many fascinating and dramatic examples of Ordovician volcanic action to be found in so many places around the Pembrokeshire coast. In the accessible cove next door to Porthlleuog to the east is another geological feature, a large plug of glacial sands and gravel.


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Gregory, South Dakota Man Charged in Death of Infant
A Gregory, South Dakota man has been indicted on charges in the death of a child in late February.
Attorney General Marty Jackley and Gregory County State's Attorney Amy Bartling say 20-year-old Adam Joel Bruns was indicted by a Gregory County Grand Jury in the death on February 25th of 3-month-old Levi Bruns.
Jackley and Bartling say the charges include alternate counts of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, as well as two alternative counts of aggravated assault and felony child abuse.
Conviction on a second-degree murder charge carries a mandatory life prison sentence, while life in prison is the maximum sentence for a first-degree manslaughter conviction.

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Xcel Energy is proposing two natural gas-fired power plants in southeastern North Dakota to help meet electricity needs during times of peak demand in the upper Midwest in coming years.
The plants would be built near Hankinson, about 70 miles south of Fargo, if they are approved by regulators. The proposed site is near both a natural gas pipeline and an electrical transmission line, according to The Forum newspaper.
The plants would go into service in 2018 and 2019. Each would be capable of generating up to 215 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power about 130,000 homes.
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy also has proposed a 215-megawatt natural gas-powered peaking plant near Minneapolis that would go into operation in 2017. The three plants are planned to meet a gradual increase in power demand in Xcel's service area, which includes Minnesota and the Dakotas.
If the two North Dakota plants are built, they would be the first power generation plants in North Dakota to be owned and operated by Xcel, which has 90,000 electricity customers in the state, mostly in the eastern cities of Fargo and Grand Forks.


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What is the correct verb construct in the following sentence?
Scripts ____ under cron have an empty environment.
Cron is a program that runs scripts at scheduled points in time (e.g. every hour). So the verb should be passive and continuous, and since the action continues through the present I believe the correct form is the present participle: running. Is this correct?


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At only 18 years old, figure skater Nathan Chen is already a household name in the United States.
Also known as the quad king, the U.S. National Champion can trace his inspiration back to his home town of Salt Lake City, Utah.
He remembers the 2002 Olympics held in Salt Lake City and the excitement surrounding the world event.
"My whole life has kind of been wrapped around the Olympics just because of that whole movement," Chen said. "It's really been my dream in skating for my entire life."
The national champion has now revolutionized the sport as the first man to land five quadruple jumps in a single program.
"I love jumping," Chen said. "That's all I was interested in skating."
He recounts landing his first quad jump when he was 15 years old after watching all the top skaters before him successfully completing them. From then on, he decided that he would never stop jumping.
"Why stop at one jump?" Chen asked himself. "You can get another… in terms of quads, I'm really trying to push my capabilities."
As the only undefeated male skater in the world, there's enormous pressure every time he steps on the ice. Chen's first couple of minutes into his Olympic debut in PyeongChang were a shock to the world when he fell on his triple Axel.
"Honestly, I think the biggest expectation is from myself," Chen said in an interview before his PyeongChang performance. "All the extra pressure… it's always there."
"It's just something I have to adapt to."
Nathan Chen will compete in the short program along with the rest of the men on Thursday, February 15.


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First announced in early August, Microsoft LightSwitch is a new part of the Visual Studio family designed to serve developers who need to take business applications to product-ready stage rapidly. A full LightSwitch beta is available for download with pre-configured screen templates suited to desktop, web and cloud-based applications.
Microsoft says that LightSwitch provides prewritten code and other reusable components to handle routine application tasks. There is also step-by-step guidance on hand for those programmers that need it. However for more proficient coders, custom code can be written using Visual Basic .NET or C#.
"LightSwitch is part of the Visual Studio family and when you get into writing code you are in the VS IDE. At the same time we have found that most line of business applications follow a standard pattern and LightSwitch is optimized for helping you leverage those patterns. LightSwitch uses the full Visual Studio shell and editor and gives you direct access to the .NET Framework. Note that for Beta 1 LightSwitch does not yet attach to Access database files but this feature will be added before the product ships," said Microsoft's Jason Zander.
Microsoft's goal with LightSwitch is to aid rapid "line of business" application development by optimizing for the most frequently occurring application patterns; i.e data plus screens plus code.
"LightSwitch allows you to create desktop applications (the default) or browser applications. The applications you produce follow a classic three-tier architecture and are built on top of .NET (Entities, WCF RIA Services), Silverlight, ASP.NET, with access to multiple sources of data like SQL Server and SharePoint," added Zander.


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The Tiny Diner hosts various events, workshops and classes at our restaurant. These classes seek to introduce and extend our understanding about food, water, energy, health, and permaculture design techniques for our homes, businesses, and communities. Some of the topics include storm water management, rain gardening, straw bale gardening, basic botany, composting and vermiculture, beekeeping, mushroom production, and more. The classes will be free or low-cost. Please stay connected to our class calendar and make sure to sign-up for them as they become available.
Location: All events and classes will be held at Tiny Diner restaurant (1024 E. 38th Street, S. Minneapolis) unless noted otherwise.
Some classes may require an RSVP and will state if you need to sign-up. If you don't RSVP, the class may be cancelled. Write to email@example.com, with the class title in the subject heading.
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For the Pie crust (Swedish recipe further down!)
• 2 cups Pecans (about 215 g)
• 2 pinches of pink Himalayan salt
• 1 teaspoon Mesquite powder
• 1 cup dry baby Figs, put in soaking water
• 1 teaspoon Agave nectar
Soak the dry Figs in water for 15 min. Meanwhile, make a flour of the Pecans. Put in a bowl and set aside. Process the soaked Figs into a fig-paste. Add the pecan flour and rest of the ingredients and process until you have a dough ball. Press it into a spring pan and with your hands, form a crust. Even out the surface with a spoon. Put in the fridge to rest while you make the filling.
(If you want to pre soak the Pecans the night before, just pop them in with the rest of the ingredients, but make sure to add the fig-paste at last.)
Delicious mango/lime filling
• 2 ripe mangos (a ripe mango smells of nectar)
• 1 cup Cashews, dry
• a pinch of pink Himalayan salt
• zest from one organic Lime
• 5 teaspoons Lime juice
• 2,5 tablespoons virgin Coconut oil
If you have a powerful blender/food processor, just put all the ingredients in and process. Otherwise, grind the Cashews into a flour in a coffee grinder or food processor, then add the mango, lime and salt. Then add the Coconut oil and process some 30 sec more. Process until completely smooth. Pour the filling over the pie crust and put in the fridge while you make the kiwi-balls! I didn't have a "melon baller" at home, but I did have a measuring set where the teaspoon was shaped as a round ball, it worked just as well. Other wise, cut slices of the kiwi to place on top.
Im wishing you a wonderful Easter!


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Songs for the New Depression
Screenwriter and director Kergan Edwards-Stout's compelling, beautifully written debut novel, "Songs for the New Depression," examines three decades in the short life of Gabriel Travers, an AIDS-stricken California man who fails to recover emotionally from unfortunate events that transpired when he was an effeminate teen.
Named after an album by Bette Midler, "Songs for the New Depression" has all the trademark ingredients of gay men's literature--a witty albeit troubled protagonist, his incorrigibly loyal female best friend, an emotionally absent father, a quirky yet lovable mom, and an incomparable first love. Despite the seemingly familiar premise, the author's darkly comic, brutally honest prose reads like poetry and has a melodic flow that is equally funny and heartbreaking.
Told in reverse, beginning when our narrator is approaching forty and increasingly symptomatic, Gabe confronts death with sarcasm, insecurity and regret, much like how he has dealt with everything throughout life. Knowing his days are numbered should soften his disposition, but initially it has the reverse effect, as shown when best friend, Clare, writes him off after having had enough of his insensitive commentary, and when Gabe tries to dismiss his young lover, Jon, assuming he'll eventually abandon him anyway once the disease takes over.
The next two parts paint a picture of Gabriel as a reckless, disenchanted twenty-something having evolved from a feisty high school teen, forever scarred by a hazing incident that exacerbates his already-strained relationship with his parents, and especially his father. Although he has Clare to confide in, Gabe only begins to truly understand friendship and unconditional love after becoming attached at the hip to his free-spirited, fellow classmate, Keith. Another pleasant version of Gabe surfaces later in life, upon meeting Pastor Sally, the object of his mother's affection.
Readers will certainly empathize with Gabe, but most of the time, it's hard to like him, perhaps because we all have someone like him in our lives, or recognize one or more of his traits in ourselves. Regardless of your opinion of him, Gabe's story is bittersweet, heartfelt and profound.
Even with the grim backdrop of AIDS and a narrator of questionable character, "Songs for the New Depression" is a quintessential page-turner and the product of a truly gifted author.
"Songs for the New Depression"
Kergan Edwards-Stout
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Under Mountain Lion, I wanted to create an AppleScript that would essentially restore my OS X install to "mint" condition, if possible even to the point of showing you the ML welcome screen asking you for your name and timezone, yet preserving the apps I have installed, but remove any settings, configurations, or state. (I wanted to create an image I can re-use later with out any of the temp files, settings, or customizations).
Is this or something close-to possible?


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Indiana can be a difficult place to conduct genealogy research. There are few states which seem to have so few apparent records as Indiana, which can make any researcher wary of looking for ancestors in the 'Crossroads of America'.
We've had three patrons in two weeks ask a few of the same questions: How do I search for Indiana records? Why isn't there a lot of records available on Ancestry or Family Search Labs? Where can I find the records I'm looking for?
Checking the Facts on Indiana Records Access
In my years of research, the folks at the Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) have been very generous and helpful with my questions. So when I contacted
IGS Corresponding Secretary and Query Editor Marlene Polster to pose the question which has taunted genealogists since the advent of internet research: 'Why are Indiana records so hard to find online?' Marlene was quick to respond to my e-mail.
"The reason why there isn't much for Indiana on Ancestry or Familysearch.org is because they don't have the information." Marlene wrote. "Familysearch is just now digitizing the Indiana marriages, however the images will not be going online because of a agreement made by the clerks and the Indiana Superior Courts. However they do have some of the church records for Indiana Micorfilm, but not online yet."
Well, there goes the all-nighter genealogy marathon I'd been hoping for.
Popular Online Offerings
Let's take stock of what is auto-magically available online.
Ancestry and FamilySearch offer Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941; Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920; Indiana Births, 1880-1920; Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892; and Indiana Marriages to 1850.
The Indiana State Digital Archives offers a solid collection of materials from institutional and military records to an excellent array of naturalization records. It's important to note that these death records for the state are based solely though the Social Security Death Index, so you won't have access to records for anyone with out a Social Security Number.
Finding more than the Census on Censusfinder
A secret weapon for accessing interesting, obscure, and sometimes highly useful information is Censusfinder.com. The Indiana Censusfinder page lists online records by county, so you'll need to have a solid location for your ancestor. Records available vary from county to county, and are updated and maintained by volunteers. So if you don't see a lot of information for the county you need, don't loose hope. Censusfinder offers free records for every US state, Canadian province, and UK county.
Ordering Death Certificates from the State of Indiana
Most death certificates have to be ordered by each individual county vital records office, and the price varies from place to place. On average, most offices charge between $5 to $20 per certificate, and may or may not include a genealogy research fee.
A full list of county offices and fees can be found at: http://www.in.gov/isdh/20422.htm
You can get buy with a little help from the IGS
There is a great deal of information to be found online at the Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) website, which offers a fair share of free and members only databases. I found a list of all IGS online records at http://www.indgensoc.org/membersonly/databases_list.pdf. There's a very comprehensive selection of cemetery, school, military, business, and tax records available. You'll really have to visit this site to see how these IGS records can impact your research.
Belonging to IGS will not give you a discount to the vital records in Indiana. Many counties in Indiana to not use Vital Check, so be prepared to send your request by mail to a county vital records office or county court house.
Note: Membership for the IGS runs from January 1 to December 31 every year, and the membership fee is not pro-rated. So make sure to budget for full membership no matter what time of year you join.
Tips and Information You Need to Know
In your search for family history in Indiana, Marlene said most records are still in book form at the local county level. Researchers should be checking the local libraries websites in the counties they require, along with contacting local genealogical, and historical societies. Marlene also suggests taking a road trip to the Porter County Public Library in Valparaiso Indiana, which provides a lot of information for each county in the state of Indiana. This library is only an hour drive from Bolingbrook. Marlene added she considers it the second best library in the state next to Allen County (Fort Wayne).
As your friendly librarian, my advice is to set yourself a genealogy budget and stick to it. Keep your stamps and self addressed envelopes handy. Make sure your patience is ample supply. Online records for Indiana might not be available tomorrow, but there are great records out there today if you you're willing to invest in the search to find them.
Wishing you happy trails on your way through the 'Crossroads of America',


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Messy - Messy mom Julia Ann is crazy to hop on a pole
Sean has some lame ass shrubs in his back yard. He decided to get something better. He found a nursery way out in the middle of nowhere. We finally got there after driving forever and back tracking a couple of times. It was all worth it once we saw who was running the place. Man what a rack on Juliann. Her coconuts were the only thing I was looking at. I almost forgot what we were even doing at the nursery. Juliann took us around and helped us figure some things out. Once Sean found out that there was no one else around he started with the wood jokes. She tested him about how friendly he was. He dropped his shorts to expose his branch. She was a playful thing. She ran around the nursery pealing off clothes here and there while Sean chased her down to fuck her right in the middle of the nursery. We would come back, but we did our own running after Sean put his fertilizer all over her tits.
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Jean-Claude Lanza's practice is primarily focused on international capital markets and corporate finance. Mr. Lanza represents institutional banking clients in a wide variety of transactions related to cross-border financings and reorganizations, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, project financings, exchange listings, spin-offs, as well as tender, exchange and rights offers. Mr. Lanza also provides counsel to multinational corporations on acquisitions, reorganizations, agency-related appointments, anti-corruption compliance procedures and federal securities laws.
In addition to his capital markets and corporate finance practice, Mr. Lanza advises a wide variety of clients across a broad spectrum of commercial activity, including industry-leading financial institutions, a global consumer goods retailer, one of Europe's largest law firms, advanced energy technology firms, a renewable energy hardware distributor, international securities exchanges, registered investment advisers, internationally recognized not-for-profit agencies and private equity funds.
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MEMBERSHIPS: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association; Emerging Markets Traders Association (firm representative)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Co-Presenter, "Blockchain: Fundamentals & Opportunities - A Primer on its Evolution, Technological Functionality & Potential Use Cases," State Capital Group 2018 Annual Meeting (September 7, 2018).


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Here are three recipes for mouthwatering ice pops created by Andrew Chase for his cookbook "200 Best Ice Pop Recipes" (Robert Rose).
Raspberry Meringue Ice Pops
Italian meringue is a cooked meringue with a thick, silky texture. It is often used as a base for European-style sorbets, but here it is used in sweet and smooth ice pops.
You can replace the frozen raspberries with 625 ml (2 1/2 cups) fresh berries. Place in a saucepan over medium heat with 30 ml (2 tbsp) water and 15 ml (1 tbsp) granulated sugar. Cook until berries are soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
2 egg whites
Pinch cream of tartar
150 ml (2/3 cup) granulated sugar
50 ml (1/4 cup) water
500 ml (2 cups) thawed frozen raspberries
In a large bowl, using electric mixer at high speed, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until stiff but not dry. Set aside.
In a small saucepan over high heat, cook sugar and water until it reaches the large-ball (hard-ball) stage: 121 to 124 C (250 to 255 F) on a candy thermometer or when it forms a hard ball when a little is dropped from a spoon into cold water. Beating constantly, pour syrup in a thin stream into reserved egg whites. Beat at low speed until meringue is cool, 2 to 3 minutes. Set aside.
Place sieve over a large measuring cup and strain raspberries, pressing down and scraping solids with a rubber spatula to extract as much pulp and juice as possible. Discard solids. Fold in meringue until thoroughly combined.
Pour into moulds and freeze until slushy, then insert sticks and freeze until solid, at least 4 hours. If you are using an ice pop kit, follow manufacturer's instructions.
Makes about 650 ml (2 2/3 cups), 8 to 10 ice pops.
Fudge Ice Pops
These ice pops are rich and chocolate-fudgy, definitely a step up from the commercial treat, but they still retain the youthful spirit of a fun indulgence.
Tapioca flour is often called tapioca starch. They are identical products.
550 ml (2 1/4 cups) milk
15 ml (1 tbsp) tapioca flour
125 ml (1/2 cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
60 g (2 oz) semisweet chocolate, chopped
175 ml (3/4 cup) sweetened condensed milk
3 ml (3/4 tsp) vanilla extract
In a saucepan, whisk together milk and tapioca flour, then whisk in cocoa. Whisking constantly, bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate until melted, thoroughly incorporated and smooth. Stir in condensed milk and vanilla. Set aside to cool.
Pour into moulds and freeze until slushy, then insert sticks and freeze until solid, at least 4 hours. If you are using an ice pop kit, follow manufacturer's instructions.
Makes about 750 ml (3 cups), 9 to 12 ice pops.
Margarita Ice Pops
When cocktail hour rolls around, serve frozen margarita ice pops. Always use freshly squeezed lemon juice or lime juice in your ice pops; bottled just doesn't compare.
325 ml (1 1/3 cups) water
50 ml (1/4 cup) granulated sugar
2 strips (each 1 by 5 cm/1/2 by 2 inches) lime zest
Pinch salt
150 ml (2/3 cup) freshly squeezed lime juice
45 ml (3 tbsp) gold or white tequila
22 ml (1 1/2 tbsp) orange liqueur (such as Cointreau or Triple Sec)
In a small saucepan, combine water, sugar, lime zest and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Pour into a measuring cup and set aside to cool. Discard lime zest. Stir in lime juice, tequila and liqueur.
Pour into moulds and freeze until slushy, then insert sticks and freeze until solid, at least 4 hours or preferably overnight. If you are using an ice pop kit, follow manufacturer's instructions.
Makes about 550 ml (2 1/4 cups), 6 to 9 ice pops.
Source: "200 Best Ice Pop Recipes" by Andrew Chase (Robert Rose Inc., www.robertrose.ca, 2013).


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Jaime Pinto, Chairman, said "we are truly sorry that the subsidiary's management team and community relations team have acted in an unprofessional manner and have used the Community issue as a way to advance their personal agendas. We have an Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders scheduled for November 26, 2015, and while this new information has come to light late, I hope shareholders will carefully consider this announcement, as well as all previous announcements by the Company, before they cast their final vote."
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Minera IRL Ltd (Team Hodges) has published its News Release
Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L): How Team Hodges wastes shareholder money
The criminal charge faced by Jaime Pinto (in English)
Carpathian (CPN.to) finally liquidates its shareholders
Here's how Louis Lobito Little Wolf James of Casey Research talked up Carpathian and got you all in:
- Carpathian Gold (T.CPN, C$0.29, 555M SO, 590.5M FD, C$161M MCap, www.carpathiangold.com)— We've written quite a bit about this company. The bottom line is simple: the company is trading at a discount to the value of the gold mine, is on track to deliver on time and on budget in Brazil, and on top of this, it has a huge gold-copper resource in Romania for which the market is giving it no value. The stock will almost certainly rise based on the former and could eventually become a 10-bagger based on that alone, given the low starting point. It's hard to put odds on the Romanian blue sky, but whatever they are, free is a great price, and the consequences of success with that project would be huge.
Carpathian Gold Inc. Announces RestructuringTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 20, 2015) - Carpathian Gold Inc. (CSE:CPN) (the "Corporation" or "Carpathian") advises that, as a result of an agreement (the "Option Agreement") entered into between Macquarie Bank Limited ("Macquarie") and Brio Gold Inc. ("Brio"), Brio has been granted an option to (i) acquire all of Macquarie's rights and interests in the project loan facility, the gold purchase agreement and the gold sale and purchase agreement and related guarantees previously entered into by Macquarie and the Corporation, Mineracão Riacho dos Machados Ltda. ("MRDM") and certain other subsidiaries of Carpathian (collectively, the "Obligors"), and (ii) receive from Macquarie an assignment of Macquarie's security in respect of the foregoing agreements (all of the foregoing agreements and the security are collectively referred to as the "Financial Assets").Pursuant to the Option Agreement, Macquarie has agreed to forbear from exercising any default-related rights, remedies, powers or privileges, or from instituting any enforcement actions or collection actions against the Obligors under the Financial Assets until the earlier of (i) the exercise or early termination of the Option Agreement and (ii) February 15, 2016. Under the Option Agreement, to the extent that cash flows from the Project are insufficient to meet ongoing costs and expenses, Macquarie has agreed with Brio to continue to provide funding to MRDM, subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Option Agreement. Any drawdowns requested by MRDM under the project loan facility remain subject to the discretion of Macquarie.Furthermore, the Corporation has entered into an agreement with Brio and Macquarie (the "Restructuring Agreement") whereby the Corporation and Brio have agreed that, in the event Brio exercises its option to acquire the Financial Assets under the Option Agreement, the Corporation will work with Brio with respect to a restructuring procedure to be initiated by Brio with the objective of transferring 100% ownership of MRDM's Riacho dos Machados gold project in Minas Gerais, Brazil (the "Project") to Brio (the "Restructuring"). Pursuant to the Restructuring Agreement, Brio will deliver to the Corporation and its directors a full release and discharge with respect to any liability under the Financial Assets, including the Corporation's guarantee thereof. Following the Restructuring, the Corporation shall continue to own its Romanian assets, but shall have no ownership or interest in, or liabilities in respect of, MRDM or the Project.As well, upon closing of the Restructuring, Brio has agreed to a US$1 million subscription of common shares of the Corporation, the whole at a price to be mutually agreed and subject to the requirements of the Canadian Securities Exchange.
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Dedicated to James.
Look folks, I know you're all bored stiff with the Minera IRL thing, but...
UPDATED: The Mali hotel situation and B2Gold (BTG) (BTO.to)
We hear that at least one executive of BTO is stuck inside the Radisson hotel in Mali where the hostage event is taking place. Here's a wish for safety for one and all in there.
UPDATE: This is good.
B2Gold Corp. confirms that two employees were staying at the hotel at time of the incident. Both employees were safely extracted by anti-terrorist soldiers between 15:30 and 17:00 local Bamako time and are safe. T
BTO's full NR here
So now we know: "Mineral Bank" is just a fancy new way of saying prospect generator
Style beats substance every day:
Under the Agreement, Peñoles may earn-in up to a 100% interest in the Properties by paying to First Mining a total of $1.5 million over five years. If Peñoles completes the acquisition of the Properties, First Mining will retain a 2% net smelter return (NSR) royalty, which may be purchased by Peñoles. All mining concession taxes and assessment work for these properties as required by law, will be paid by Peñoles.
full thing here
Chart of the day is...
Three more from Minera IRL
The Board of Minera IRL Limited Promotes Conflict in the Community of OllacheaLima 19 November 2015: Minera IRL wishes to report that the Board of Minera IRL Limited is promoting agitation and conflict in the Community of Ollachea, with the goal of destabilizing peace in order to have a group of community members sign a declaration in their favor, one week before the EGM of Company shareholders on the 26 November.Mr Jaime Pinto, non Executive Director leading the Board of Minera IRL Limited, is under criminal investigation for charges of corruption and generating losses of US$50 million for the Peruvian State.The investigation is in process against Mr Pinto before the 2nd Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office which specializes in corruption charges for public employees. This investigation relates to the loss of large sums for the purchase of external debt during Mr Pinto's time of employment with the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance.Also, during his time as CEO of Mantaro Peru SAC, Mr Pinto utilised divisive practices in neighbouring communities to the Phosphate Exploration Project in Junin, the Project remains paralyzed indefinitely.The Board of Minera IRL Limited is currently promoting division in the Community of Ollachea, failing to use the proper channels of the elected Board of the Community, or to respect the Community's statements. These actions have been reported to the National Office of Dialogue and Sustainability of Counsel to the President and the Office of Social Development in the Ministry of Mining and Energy.Through meetings with a small group of community members in Lima, distribution of leaflets, the convenient editing of private meetings with the Community and looking for signatures in the streets of Ollachea, the Board is promoting the removal of the actual President of the Community, generating insurgency and disrespect for the decisions of the Community Assembly.The small group of community members who met in Lima with Mr Jaime Pinto,(as reported in their press release of November 13), were instructed by Mr Pinto to distribute his letter, which accuses the Community of being manipulated, and questions their decisionThis leaflet and press release from the Board of Minera IRL Limited, generated a response fom the Board of the Ollachea Community, who are qualified to respond, according to the Law of Rural Communities of Peru. Their statement asked for respect and that Mr Pinto abstain from continuing with those same actions.Despite this, the Board of Minera IRL Limited persisted in its actions and published in its website conveniently edited videos of a meeting with the Community held on November 7. The meeting lasted for over 2 hours and the edited video only presents 6 minutes. The end of the video features messages (not from the Community) downgrading the Directors proposed by shareholders for the EGM of November 26 and mentions one of the shareholders of the Company.Minera IRL SA laments that the current Board of Minera IRL Limited, due to its lack of knowledge about Communities in Peru, is generating conflict, at the expense of 8 years of good relations developed with the Rural Community of Ollachea, and reiterates that charges of these dealings are before the correct authorities.
UPDATE: Here's UK brokerage SP Angel, who doesn't fall for the Team Hodges BS at all.
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Meanwhile in Ollachea...
- No matter that such community meetings are always open floor and all opinions are welcomed.
- No matter that people for and against any given subject are always encouraged to talk.
- No matter that the meeting was very typical, with a few voices anti and the vast majority pro.
- No matter that after the very democratic and open house process, the meeting signed a declaration of full support for Team Benavides.
- No matter that recording a private phone conversation and then broadcasting it is a very serious crime in Peru
- No matter that these people have already shown their "editing skills" with the community meeting video, beautifully cut to seven minutes.
- No matter that the relationship between IRL and the community before Team Hodges showed up was always harmonious and transparent.
UPDATE: In a town of 700 voters, the usurpers have managed to gather the sum total of 20 signatures today Thursday. They're still going to use this as evidence of a total split though, mark my words. Utter scum.
Something you need to know about Jaime "I'M NOT HODGES!" Pinto, non-executive chair of Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L)
Back in late September IKN ran a note entitled "The Talented Mister Pinto" which outlined the story of Jaime Pinto (aka Jaime NOT HODGES! Pinto) of Minera IRL Team Hodges and his deep connection with a U$50m corruption scandal under the Fujimori government in the 1990s. It also noted how in 2003, after a Congressional investigation into corruption, the people running the investigation recommended that Jaime NOT HODGES! Pinto face criminal charges for his role in the affair.
Gold price talk
Money managers, who have cut their net length, are "mostly prepared" for a Fed hike, says HSBC. "This may explain gold not falling on the release of the ostensibly bearish minutes," HSBC says. "It is possible that the gold market has largely factored in a rate rise. This leads us think gold is likely to trade sideways to slightly higher, at least in the near term."
Probably just a coincidence.Let us be clear:
- The reason why gold's been weak is that the dollar's been strong
- The dollar got strong because of the US Jobs number
- The US macro improvement indicates that Janet will raise the base rate in December
- That move needed to be baked into gold.
- It's now baked in.
- And that's all.
Ignore it if you like English language bizmedia, but the Samarco (BHP/VALE) tailings disaster story isn't going away
Iron ore residue from the collapse of a mining dam, part-owned by BHP Billiton, has been passing down the Rio Doce in south-east Brazil. Pollutants have killed aquatic life and left residents of the towns of Resplendor and Baixo Guandu without clean water
Go see it all here
Atna Resources (ATN.to) and IKN
Amazingly, there are still idiots who in 2015 have been recommending this company's shares to people, saying that it's cheap and stuff. With that in mind I'm going to put the next bit in bold type, just to make sure it catches your eye at the late stage of a long-ish post:
You may think 7.5c, or even ATN's recent 10c or 11c level, is a cheap price for a share price of a producing and operating gold mining company. Believe me, it's about to get a lot, lot cheaper because once Waterton's done with ATN this equity is going to be smashed into tiny little pieces.
Do yourself a favour, ladies and gentlemen of the retail investment community, make note of the names of the people who've been pumping this utter junk at you and remember never to listen to anything they have to say about investment ever again. "Stop The Stupid" applies to your own trades, it also means that these blithering idiots need to be weeded out of the mine chattering class as soon as humanly possible.
Atna Resources Ltd. Announces Filing Of Voluntary Petition For Relief Under Chapter 11 Of The Bankruptcy Code To Implement Restructuring And Delay In Q3 Filings
"The Company and Waterton Precious Metals Fund II Cayman, L.P., Atna's pre-petition lender under a secured facility, have negotiated a consensual use of the Company's cash and have entered into a debtor-in-possession financing arrangement (continues here)"
Annals of stupid Investor Relations ideas, Rubicon Minerals (RMX.to) (RBY) edition
Jaime Pinto's reading material
Here's the best bit from today's presser held by Jaime Pinto and his happy band. When asked by one of the reporters about the salaries being earned, Jaime Pinto mentioned that he wasn't being paid anything except for a small retainer, plus has no type of success bonus set up. But let's leave aside the strange thoughts of just why he's working "25 hours a day" (his words during the presser, not mine) for virtually zero pay and move to the answer to the follow-up question that came from another of the reporters there.
Pinto (finishing his point): "...I'm not paid anything."
Reporter: "Neither is Mr. Hodges?"
Pinto: I'm not Hodges! If he made mistakes he will assume his mistakes. Yes I know him but what I want to say is...(pause) ...I...(pause)...there's these blogs..."Team Hodges", I have nothing to do with Hodges. I'm not Hodges, I am Peruvian, a respected Peruvian lawyer. I have nothing to do with Hodges."
This Kirkland Lake (KGI.to) St. Andrews (SAS.to) deal again
- KGI had 80.6m shares out priced at $5.23, therefore a market cap of $421.54m
- SAS had 368.27m shares out priced at $0.38, therefore a market cap of $139.9m
- Therefore total market cap: $561.44
What if you held a press conference and nobody came?
Here's Jaime Pinto and friends, holding a press conference in Lima this morning.
They're running down the company's eight point plan, recently released, that explains the company wants to turn its back on an agreed U$240m financing deal in a difficult market and dilute the company's share count to merry hell. And the reason? "Because".
These people are crazy! They want you to agree to refuse a cheque to fully fund your mine! In this market!
But what you can't see in this is that he's speaking to just four people. Well, five if you include the photographer.
Not going well, is it Jaime?
UPDATE: My fave Q&A so far:
Q: "Why haven't you travelled to the Ollachea project?"
A: "For safety reasons."
Just wonderful, Jaime. Pure comedy gold.
The latest Minera IRL SA (Team Benavides) news release
The Board of Directors of Minera IRL Ltd today announced that it has filed a request for a criminal investigation against Diego Benavides and others in relation to the US$70m bridge credit agreement with COFIDE
- Sherpa is a legally constituted Company that acted as financial advisor consulting to Minera IRL SA, the Peruvian subsidiary. Sherpa was not contracted to the parent company, Minera IRL Ltd, as COFIDE does not fund foreign companies. Sherpa's services were required in order to set up the bridge loan between Minera IRL SA and COFIDE in order to finance the Ollachea Project.
- The finance agreement was approved by the Board of Directors of Minera IRL Ltd and signed off by Mr. Daryl Hodges, ex-Executive President of the company, who despite not having participated actively in the process and only having been named Executive President in March 2015, awarded himself a bonus commission of up to US$250,000 for the conclusion of the final US$240m credit agreement.- With the US$70m Bridge Loan Agreement, Minera IRL Ltd avoided bankruptcy as it allowed the Company to pay its US$30m debt with Macquarie Bank due on June 30th 2015.
- The bridge loan funds were also used to pay the US$12m owed to Rio Tinto, the main shareholder of the company.


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Daytona Without Dale Earnhardt - Speedweeks 2002 AD (After Dale)
What Will This Annual Festival Of Speed Be Like Without The Intimidator? For The First Time Since 1978, We'll Find Out
The question you have to ask yourself when you come to Daytona International Speedway this year is: What's it going to be like without Dale Earnhardt?
Sure, there are 50 other drivers down there, all vying for the brass ring and trying to climb out of the shadows into the bright light of fame and fortune. Some have already made it, like Jeff Gordon, Dale Jarrett, the brothers Labonte, Mark Martin, Bill Elliott, Rusty Wallace, the Burton brothers, Tony Stewart and others. Some are in the process of making it, like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch. Still others are somewhere in between, depending on the season and the situation.
But since Feb. 18, 2001, there has been no Dale Earnhardt. Nowhere is that more evident than at Daytona, where he was the all-time leader in races and money won. Winston Cup, the Busch Series, IROC ... it didn't matter. Earnhardt won them all at Daytona. Heck, if he'd had the time and the inclination, he'd have won in the Goody's Dash, ARCA and Craftsman Truck Series, too. He even won a fishing tournament on Lake Lloyd one year, adding to his legacy as the true champion of champions at the 2.5-mile superspeedway.
Sadly, that legacy is all that's left of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona since his death, unless you believe his spirit still haunts Turn 4 ... or victory lane.
All-time winner Every year since 1980, Dale Earnhardt won something at Daytona. Shoot, there was a string of years in the '90s when he won everything but the Daytona 500. From 1990-99, he won 10 straight Gatorade 125-milers and finished with 12 victories overall. He won seven Busch Series events at DIS, including five straight from 1990-94, six Bud Shootouts, six IROC races, two Pepsi 400s and the 1998 Daytona 500 for a total of 34 victories. No other driver is even close, not even the legendary Richard Petty, who won just 11 times at Daytona. Of course, seven of those came in the Daytona 500.
Numbers aside, Dale Earnhardt will be missed for reasons other than his performance on the 2.5-mile oval carved out of the Florida seacoast wilderness by William Henry Getty France during the '50s. There was a quite-distinct feeling, once you arrived at the World Center of Speed, that the 500 was Earnhardt's to lose every year, and that to earn the brass ring and the big check you first had to deal with No. 3. It didn't matter if he was out to lunch in qualifying, or if his car wasn't running the way everyone else's was. The road to victory lane at Daytona went through the No. 3 garage, and you could take that to the bank.
Draftmaster Perhaps that feeling persisted because of Earnhardt's uncanny ability to know just where to be and what to do when a situation presented itself. There was talk that he could see the wind, and although that's hardly the case, he could see what the wind was doing to the cars around him and could, reliably, predict what it was going to do to them 200 yards up the track. That's where the mystique came from, that he could see the air.
Nowhere, with the exception of its sister track in Talladega, is seeing the air more important than at Daytona. Earnhardt could use every little breeze, each tiny eddy and ripple, to get past you, then beat you senseless with it once you hit traffic. The patented reverse slide job he perfected over countless laps-where he'd let you sail past underneath him and charge up the banking, then turn it down and drive right back past for the position was the source of constant frustration for competitors. Just like Muhammad Ali's jab or Michael Jordan's first step down the lane, no matter how many times he showed it to you it always worked. How many times did Earnhardt do that at Daytona? Hundreds? Thousands?
Earnhardt at Daytona was like Ali in the ring, Jordan on the court, John Elway on the 20-yard-line with time running down. It was his place, the elemental proving ground that separated men from boys and contenders from pretenders. It was where he was the master, and the rest of his competition learned the bitter lessons of what it meant to win here on hallowed ground.
Healing How does one replace a legend? The simple answer is, one doesn't. One moves on and finds a new hero or begins building a new legend out of the stuff at hand. Even though it's been nearly a year now since Earnhardt's death at Daytona, the gaping wound at the heart of the place has yet to heal. Being there after the fact, without the crowds and the excitement and the brimming optimism over the coming of a new racing season, it almost seems as if the track itself is shaken, wobbly on its underpinnings, seeking comfort and solace in the coming of a fresh new start.
No one knew last year when the 500 began that the Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt, would not live to see the checkered flag. The accident that took his life sent a shock wave through the world of racing that has not been felt since 1994, when Ayrton Senna was killed in a Formula One race in Italy. Earnhardt was that kind of superstar. His death touched off perhaps the most riotous period in NASCAR racing since the driver boycott of 1969, where drivers refused to get in their cars at Talladega for fear of not coming back to pit lane in one piece.
Now, as the series gets ready to shake itself after a brief respite and return to the battlefield, there is a feeling of incompleteness. The shock of his passing has eased with time, as all things do, but the echoes of that momentous event will once again reverberate when the masses remember what happened here 12 short months ago.
Memories Everyone has an Earnhardt memory from Daytona. Some remember the 1990 500, when Earnhardt popped a tire with a mile to go and made Derrike Cope the most surprised first-time winner in the history of motorsports. Others remember the many other chances he had to win, only to have something or someone get in the way before the finish.
Tony Stewart has a Daytona memory of Dale from his rookie season. "That's a mirror-driving SOB," the Intimidator snarled after a skirmish in one of the Twin 125 qualifying races. Stewart had driven Earnhardt down to the grass off Turn 2, something that simply wasn't done when there was money on the line.
Countless drivers looked in their rear-view mirrors and saw that black car coming. Countless drivers learned the hard way at the bumper of the No. 3. Countless drivers will never have the opportunity to be measured by the only stick that matters at Daytona: Can you beat Dale Earnhardt?
Much of Earnhardt's reputation as the Intimidator rested on his ability to do things with a race car that few others would even try, let alone get away with. There's an old proverb that goes something like, "power perceived is power achieved." Earnhardt had that power, and he wielded it like a club. Nowhere did he have room to swing it like he did at Daytona.
No sure answer In short, the answer to the question asked in the opening lines of this story is simple, yet complex. What is Speedweeks 2002 going to be like without Dale Earnhardt? Different is one word that comes to mind. There will be no black No. 3 to root for or against, no Intimidator to hurrah or hoot down, so there's a void as allegiances are rearranged. The fact that 35 NASCAR Winston Cup races came and went between Earnhardt's death and the annual pilgrimage to Daytona has helped people deal with the fact that Dale Earnhardt is no longer here. There are others to root for and against in his absence.
There's his son, Dale, Jr., whose stirring ride to victory in the Pepsi 400 last July was a salve to the collective consciousness of racing fans everywhere. There's Jeff Gordon, who has won two Daytona 500s and always runs well there after winning a championship. There's defending race winner Michael Waltrip, whose victory ended a long losing streak in Winston Cup but whose celebration was lost in the aftermath of Earnhardt's death.
Dale Jarrett has won three Daytona 500s, Bill Elliott is a two-time winner and both have the tools to reassert some dominance over the place. Perhaps Stewart, who has sort of grown into Earnhardt's role as the "bad boy" of racing, will take up some of the void left by Earnhardt's passing.
Who will fill Dale Earnhardt's shoes at Daytona? Someone will, it is safe to say. The answer to exactly when and how that happens remains a question for time and the racing gods to answer at their leisure.


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I am trying to determine if the user did not input a correct value without throwing an exception.
I have a String variable, done, which stores the user input and then if it is not storing "done" then it coverts the String into Integer. I got that part.
The question is, how do I determine that what is stored in done is not equal to an integer?
I know thats wrong but it gives you the idea of what i want. anyway to do this?
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Candidate Obama said "Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal."
As a U.S. presidential candidate in 2008, in referring to the Bush Administration's use of phone companies to illegally spy on Americans, Barack Obama said, "We only know these crimes took place because insiders blew the whistle at great personal risk ... Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal." Candidate Obama was referring to the Bush Administration's use of phone companies to illegally spy on Americans.
President Obama says No whistleblowing on my watch!
Yet, Obama, as he has on so many issues as President, is taking a 180 degree turn from his comments as a candidate, comments on which the American people relied and elected him.
Now, the Obama administration's warning to Bradley Manning and to other whistle blowers is this: blow the whistle on government criminal actions and we will put you in solitary confinement before you are charged, much less go to trial. You will be treated as an "enemy combatant," in America's ongoing wars on about everything, including the truth.
Evidence of Murder of Civilians in Iraq by US military helicopter pilots
Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army Private First Class (PFC) intelligence analyst who turned 23 years old in late December, allegedly leaked a video of a US helicopter attack that killed at least eleven Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters reporters, to the website Wikileaks. Two Iraqi children were also severely wounded in the attack.
PFC Manning's alleged actions are just as important as those of the whistleblowers who informed us of the Bush administration's use of phone companies to illegally spy on Americans. The video taken from the U.S. military helicopter that fired the killing rounds of ammunition, graphically showed US military pilots firing on and killing innocent civilians in Iraq. In addition to this "Collateral Murder" video, PFC Manning is suspected by the government of leaking the "Afghan War Diaries" - tens of thousands of battlefield reports that explicitly describe civilian deaths and cover-ups, corrupt officials, collusion with warlords, and a failing US/NATO war effort.
Manning had the legal responsibility to disclose evidence, even classified evidence, of criminal actions conducted by government officials
If indeed, Manning did give the video to Wikileaks, his actions show clearly that he reasonably believed that war crimes were being covered up, and that he took action based on that belief. Exposing criminal actions done under the cover of government orders is a responsibility and duty of military personnel as codified in the Uniform Code of Military Justice as well as the Geneva conventions and the Nuremberg Principles.
Nuremberg Principle I
Principle I states, "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment."
Principle II
Principle II states, "The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law."
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher.
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Principle III
Principle III states, "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
Principle IV
Principle IV states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him".
This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'".
Classifying the evidence of criminal actions does not make the actions untouchable
Reporting criminal actions done by others and providing evidence of those criminal actions, especially when the evidence of criminal actions have been covered up by "classifying" the evidence, is not illegal, but in fact, is a very brave response.
Punishment before the Trial-Solitary Confinement
Manning has now been in prison in solitary confinement for 7 months and still neither the U.S. military nor the U.S. government has indicted him for any offense. Manning essentially is being treated by the U.S. government as an American citizen "enemy combatant."
Manning's treatment in detention, pre-trial confinement in prison is cruel and unusual. He is being kept in solitary confinement, alone in a cell for 23 hours a day. He is forbidden to exercise in his cell. He is deprived of sleep. He is not given a pillow or sheets for his steel bed, although recently after publicity about he conditions in the prison, he was given a mattress for the bed. Prison medical personnel now "administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation."
US Soldier Treated as Those Detained in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo
The U.S. military's treatment of Manning is tragically consistent with its treatment of persons detained in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. America's military uses harsh conditions and torture, physical or mental, for those who have not been convicted of any crimes used to break the person to provide whatever information the military wants to receive. This type of treatment is inhumane, immoral and wrong for those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo and is wrong for Bradley Manning.
Nothing to be Proud of
Nothing in this to be proud of, President Obama. Nothing in this to be proud of, US Military.
If you, the reader, are offended by this, please -- Raise Hell for Bradley, the undeclared American "enemy combatant."
Contribute to Manning's defense fund at www.couragetoresist.org


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Fort Seward Military Post
An active military fort from 1872-1877, Fort Seward now houses an interpretive center displaying artifacts excavated from the site's archaeological digs. A new computer kiosk takes you on an audio-visual virtual tour of the site. The grounds are also home to a Veterans' Memorial and scenic views of the James River Valley. Also, the largest United States flag on display in North Dakota flies here when weather permits.
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It happened here, in our innocent rural neighborhood in Chalatenango. We'd heard about real estate fraud in the papers and on TV news, and not long ago even the mayor in La Palma was accused of being involved in a string of real estate scams. Television newscasters reported about and warned of real estate fraud in El Salvador, but it was always "someone else."
Today the problem hits home for us, as a neighbor who is also distant family of ours was defrauded of $50,000, and lost close to that much more in what he invested in a property he bought in our neighborhood.
What we knew up until a few days ago: Last fall, the family of "Freddy" (I'll give him this pseudonym) purchased a set of two side-by-side lots that were a "ganga" (bargain). The owner's mother-in-law walked around the neighborhood and visited families whom she knew could afford to buy them, and even came to my in-law's home offering my husband the two lots for $40,000. "I wish I had that kind of money," was his response. She then spoke with Freddy's family and made the offer, upping the price to $50,000. They went for it. This was perfect timing, as Freddy was planning to return to El Salvador soon, and wanted his own home.
The purchase was done quickly, as it was such a steal and they didn't want to lose the opportunity, not to mention how close the two lots are to Freddy's parent's and brother's house. It was perfect!
Yesterday, my husband learned that the sale of these two lots was a scam. Here is the story as he relayed it to me:
A man in our neighborhood who was a cattle/dairy rancher owned or owns a large piece of land – enough for 60 – 70 "ganado" (livestock) to graze on it. He is a Christian, and so decided to donate a small piece of his land to a church about five years ago. A church and house for the pastor to live in were built there. The cattle rancher was a regular parishioner at that church. About two years ago, he sold all his cattle and moved to the United States when his family petitioned for his residency. After he moved, the church began to lose attendance. The pastor had no other form of income than the donations and "diezmo" (tithe) he and his family were living off of. Things had gotten bad so he decided he better close up shop. He called up a local attorney and the two of them drafted two "escritura" (deeds) together.
The pastor and his family offered the two plots with those deeds together as a deal – one plot had the pastor's house on it, and the other had the church. The two plots are the size of a modest suburban home with a yard around it in the United States. Considering they had structures already built on them, this was a good deal for both the land and building. The purchase was ideal for Freddy since he did not have to build a house, but only make renovations. On the church side, though, he dumped a ton of money into it, to run a business. He invested probably $40-50,000 after the land/home purchase between renovations on the house and the major changes to set up his bar/restaurant, which he opened less than two months ago, and is a raving success.
The deeds the pastor and the attorney drafted had one major problem: they forged the owner's signature. Though the owner had donated the land, had NEVER gave them any kind of paperwork or a deed. He was simply allowing the church to build and hold its masses for the congregation on his property. Nothing more. Someone must have called him to ask what happened to the church, which has become the home of someone else, with a very popular restaurant/bar beside it.
The owner, who was not even present in El Salvador at the time of the sale, said that was not his signature on the deeds. The pastor and his attorney are now in jail.
Freddy's family had an attorney look at the documents and said they were legitimate. I do not know if this was before or after their 'rushed sale'. I would like to unearth more information to see how responsible the second attorney may be. I'm thinking he may have glanced at them after their hasty purchase, but as the story unravels and the 'chambres' (gossip) run wild through our neighborhood, we'll discover more about this, plus we are friends with the family. Along with following it in the local news, if they decide its worth covering the story.
So, buyer beware: When buying property in El Salvador make SURE that the deed is legitimate. I do not know all the ins and outs of buying property, but I learned that an "escritura publica" (public deed) exists here, but that also an escritura privada (private deed) exist. Where possible, do your own do diligence and get as much public information as possible, even if you're working with a trusted lawyer. Never hurts to double-check in case they happen to overlook something.
The agency where property deeds are registered in El Salvador is the Centro Nacional de Registros. (National Records Center).
I'm hoping there will be some type of a happy ending for Freddy and his family. I asked my husband if the owner and they know each other. "Do they get on well?," I asked. "No," my husband said. Oh boy.


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Only a handful of people actually have their business in Jodcar itself, to wit:
- Giles and Miriam Scheepers, who run the 'Hunter's Moon' and whom you've both met before
- Hajdar Dvorak, a diligent dwarven blacksmith who is known far and wide for his outstanding craftsmanship
- Randoul Behner, a swindling merchant who is willing to take just about anything off your hands as long as there's a quick buck in it for him
- Alwinus Aubert, a tailor who used to be the royal supplier of undergarments when he was younger, and still proud of that fact
- Clement Dehert, a skilled leatherworker who specializes in saddles
- Aetion Vonck, Jodcar's baker, butcher, and grocer in one, selling all kinds of foodstuff
Their shops tend to stay open during the evenings, allowing the Jodacar villagers to purchase goods after they finish their work elsewhere. The party has just arrived at the village square, trying to make up their rassoodocks what to do with the evening...
On the first level of Kal-Dokk's lair, you acquired:
- 80 gold pieces
- 400 silver pieces
- Traveler's clothes from the hidden room
- An alembic and a beaker from the destroyed laboratory
- A bright sapphire from the sage statue
Furthermore, you gained some Experience Points:
- Dahl Kolla: 800 XP
- Memphisto: 838 XP
- Lisglen the Sage: 838 XP
- Van Illundra: 583 XP
Note I've already taken into account everyone's XP bonus. Sorry Holger, no XP for you just yet


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Monday, July 27, 2009
Anagrams of the Wretched Famous: 2
Michael Jackson's name can be rearranged to spell, "OK, a slim chance," which are about the odds that he faked his death, moved to Europe, and is currently sipping tea and avoiding paparazzi with another equally revered music "King."
Monroe sketches
Marilyn Monroe. Beautiful people are somehow harder to caricature than ugly people. Probably the lack of humorously large noses.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Anagrams of the Wretched Famous: 1
Did you know you can rearrange the letters in "Sarah Palin" to spell "A Plain Rash"?
The more we pay attention to this admittedly interesting but now fairly useless woman, the bigger and more annoying she will get.
The more we pay attention to this admittedly interesting but now fairly useless woman, the bigger and more annoying she will get.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The legacy of Michael Jackson
This is a little late, due to technical difficulties, but so it goes. By now, Michael Jackson is gone and buried, and he leaves behind more of an awkward legacy than most of his fans care to admit.
The King of Pop is dead. Long live the King of Pop.
The King of Pop is dead. Long live the King of Pop.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
If you happen to be in Long Beach (possibly to pick up your 81 Day Racecar t-shirt) and you hop into the Aquarium of the Paciic, and you go to the new shark exhibit, you may notice some familiar illustrations on the display...
"Racecar" backwards
The Grand Prix racing event in Long Beach, California, lasts three days, but takes eighty-one days to set up and take down, which is vaguely ridiculous. I don't think they're making all new roads for these cars.
This design will soon be available in t-shirt form, if you happen to be in Long Beach when they're passing them out.
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Freeman Foundation awards $400,000 to UH Manoa College of Education and School of Pacific and Asian StudiesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Foundation
"There is a shortage of Chinese teachers at K-12 schools across the United States. With the Freeman grant, UH will become one of the few universities in the country that can produce K-12 Chinese language teachers. Asian Languages & Literatures (EALL) and College of Education (COE) will work closely to produce high quality Chinese language teachers that will meet the states' license requirements. We hope that the Freeman grant will attract students to both EALL and COE, and strengthen our course offerings." - Tao-Chung Yao, Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Colleges of Arts & Sciences, UH Mānoa
HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is proud to announce the gift of $400,000 from the Freeman Foundation to the College of Education and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies for the Chinese Language Teacher Education Program.
This gift will expand teacher training of K-12 Chinese-language teachers in the nation by training up to 50 new Chinese language teachers in the next three years. In addition, this fundingwill create an ongoing teacher preparation program to meet the increasing demand for more Chinese language teachers in K—12 schools.
With this new project, the College of Education is partnering with the School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, the Department of EastAsian Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In addition, the college will also collaborate with the HawaiʻiDepartment of Education, the Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board, the Hawaiʻi Association of Independent Schools, and other institutions outside of Hawaiʻi.
"The UH Foundation is proud to connect donors with a progressive international vision, with the innovative programming taking place at UH. Through strategic investments by groups like theFreeman Foundation, we can build on UH's first 100 years and enter the new century with a global vision, and channel private support into enhancing programs that bring nations together," said Donna Vuchinich, UH Foundation President and CEO
About the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation
The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is an independent, university-related, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise private funds according to priorities determined by theacademic leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi and approved by the Board of Regents. Founded in 1955, the Foundation provides a full range of fund raising and alumni relations services for all 10 UH campuses. For more information on the Foundation, visitwww.uhf.hawaii.edu.
For more information, visit: http://www.uhf.hawaii.edu


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Later tonight, we'll be finished with the 2012 election. Finally and thank god. We're all probably feeling a little cynical right now, which makes Radiohead's Electioneering particularly relevant.
Honestly, the OK Computer track is a pretty good summary of the way a lot of us feel about the political process—we're often faced with the choice of the lesser of two evils. Sometimes it feels like nothing is accomplished. And beyond that, it's just a really solid rock song off of one of the best Radiohead albums ever made. [iTunes, Amazon, Spotify]


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On Thursday, June 25, 2020, the USA's Company, Athersys, Inc., ATHX, (Gain, ↑) the Trending-Graph belongs to the sector of Healthcare.
Market Updates:
The Athersys, Inc., (NASDAQ: ATHX) closed at $2.88 in the latest trading session on marking a 29.73% Gain from the preceding day.
Performance Analysis of the Athersys, Inc.:NASDAQ:
A company that manage their resources strong will have a high performance, while if manage their resources weakly will have a low performance. Further, investors may be closely monitoring historical stock's price performance in-order to observe what has been happening with company shares. Weekly performance (0.35%), Monthly performance (1.05%), Quarterly performance (50%), Half-yearly performance (128.57%), Year to date performance (134.15%).
Earnings Per Share (EPS):
Earnings-Per-Share (EPS) gives investors a uniform way to determine a company's earnings and evaluate how expensive the stock is and also tells how much money the company is making in earnings per every-outstanding share of stock. EPS in next 05-years is expected to attain 28% whereas EPS trend in past 05-years was recorded at -0.5%. However, EPS growth in next year will be estimated to attain -21.2%, while EPS growth estimated for this year is set at -65.4%.
Target Price:
Target Price informs the investors, a stock survey at which a trader is willing to buy or sell a stock. Target pricing at which a trader projects that a buyer will buy a product. Trarget Price of the company Athersys, Inc. recorded at $0.
Productivity Level (ROE, ROA, ROI):
A performance measure used to estimate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the ability of some different investments. The Return on equity, ROE% = -184.4%, Return on Assets, ROA% = -104.2% & Return on Investment, ROI% = 0% was recorded Athersys, Inc., ATHX.
PS, PE, PC & PB Values of the Athersys, Inc.:NASDAQ:
The price-to-sales is a valuation ratio that relates a company's stock price to its revenues. The price-to-sales ratio is a symbol of the value placed on each dollar of a company's sales or taxes. The Athersys, Inc. has the values of PS 196.28, PE 0 & PB 24. PE & PB ratios both are used on a regular basis by the investor to measure the value of the company and to get the right amount of the share. Its P/Cash valued at 25.21. The price-to-cash-flow ratio is a stock valuation indicator that measures the value of a stock's price to its cash flow per share
Volume / Average Volume & Rel Volume:
The Company ATHX traded with 16067323 shares contrast to its average daily volume of 5.69M shares. Relative Volume (RVOL) is a volume indicator, meaning it assists measure shareholder interest in a stock. RVOL compares a stock's current volume to its previous amount over a specific period. The Relative Volume (RVOL) recorded at 2.82.
Gross / Operating Margins of ATHX:
It calculates how much out of every Dollar of sales a company actually keeps in earnings. Gross Margin seen at 0% & Operating Margin seen at 0%.
Vital Role of Volatility:
Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. In most cases, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security. Volatility can either be measured by using the standard deviation or variance between returns from that same security or market index. A beta factor is used to measure the volatility of the stock. The stock of the company Athersys, Inc., remained 29.35% (volatile for the week) and 13.16% (volatile for the month).
Moving Averages (MA) Indicator:
The Athersys, Inc., Healthcare having its distance from 20-days simple moving average is 3.63%, and its distance from 50-days simple moving average is 5.69%, while it has a distance of 61.61% from the 200-days simple moving average.
Rating Scale Calculation (1-5 Numeric Scale): Rating Scale: 1.0 Strong Buy, 2.0 Buy, 3.0 Hold, 4.0 Sell, 5.0 Strong Sell. Notable Experts have a mean recommendation of 1.7 on this stock.


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Man found beaten in Burlington storage unit; 3 arrested
Homeowner first told police fight with neighbor had ended
Three men face kidnapping and assault charges after a 20-year-old man was found beaten multiple times in a backyard storage unit on Wednesday, Burlington police said.
John Richard Sullivan Jr., 29; Derrick Henry Eubanks, 25; and Durell Jeremiah Eubanks, 30, all of Burlington, were arrested in connection with an incident at a home at 2741 Westchester Dr.
The victim, Jose Vences Jr., 20, was treated at Alamance Regional Medical Center for his injuries and released.
Police first went to the home around 1:30 p.m. on a report of a disturbance. Sullivan, the homeowner, told officers he had been in a verbal argument with a neighbor, but that confrontation had ended.
Police later received another call regarding the same address that reported a person was being held in the storage unit behind the home.
Officers found Vences and two suspects in the storage unit, and Vences was suffering from multiple blunt-trauma injuries. Officers detained all three suspects and called for an ambulance.
Police later obtained a warrant to search the home and found guns, a baseball bat, duct tape, zip ties, ammunition and controlled substances.
All three suspects were charged with first-degree kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Sullivan and Durell Eubanks were held under $250,000 secured bonds in the Alamance County Jail. Both also were charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Derrick Eubanks was held under a $200,000 secured bond.
Police are still investigating and ask anyone with information to call (336) 229-3500 or CrimeStoppers at 229-7100.


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Caroline, How did the vet appointment go with the babies? Sepp doing ok at the house by himself? Still sending good thoughts that good homes become available. If I could talk princess Kinzyl and King Sammy into accepting either one of them I would take them in a minute but it just wouldn't be fair to Sepp or Daisy to come to my house only to go into a crate and rotate situation.
Just thought I would check in for any updates.


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Amid all the commemorations for the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina suddenly returns one of the few people to emerge from that awful period with a certain amount of intact honor.
Or, more accurately, Honore.
Army Lt. Gen. (ret.) Russel Honore, who swept into New Orleans when it was clear that FEMA and local authorities had left the place in a FUBAR state, retired several years ago. But now, he's back in his home state -- and a few Web sites are positing that he could be running for office. What makes this particularly salient is the possibility that he could challenge incumbent Sen. David Vitter in a Republican primary.
U.S. & World
Notably, when asked about the reports, Honore just dismissed them as "rumors and speculation." When a politician says something like that -- instead of, "Are you completely nuts? There's absolutely no way I would entertain that. Never, ever!" -- it means that the issue is under consideration.
Honore would be manna from heaven for Republicans for multiple reasons.
First, having a respected military man running for office has worked for the GOP before (yeah, cleaning up after a hurricane isn't exactly the same as leading the Allied Command into the the beaches of Normandy, but still...).
Second, the party would love to have a "great white hope" who was actually an African American Creole -- joining the state's Indian-American governor and Vietnamese-American congressman (all Republicans).
And finally, the dual hooker frequenting Vitter is something of a national joke that a party beset with figures like John Ensign and Mark Sanford would undoubtedly love to see fall by the wayside. The fact that Honore describes himself as "pro-life" and "pro-family" could be enough to get some socially conservative groups behind his candidacy.
Aside from displaying clear military competence that contrasted with the bureaucratic mess orchestrated by FEMA's Michael "Heckuva job, Brownie" Brown, Honore became an immediate pop culture figure with his admonition to a reporter to not "get stuck on stupid."
A man with that talent for the soundbite can -- and should -- be going places.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots. Follow him on Twitter.


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Participants run, walk through Spring Grove to benefit community
Fourth annual Reduce, Recycle Run held Sunday
An annual run at Spring Grover Cemetery benefits the community ahead of Earth Day.
The Reduce, Recycle Run annual 5k and 10k races benefit the Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation.
The nonprofit organization raises money to buy and tear down blighted properties and fixes others to help the community look better.
"Our goal is to build sustainable homes so our intent is to take the old homes and make them energy efficient," board member Jason Schneider said.
This was the fourth year for the race.
"I couldn't think of a better setting than in Spring Grove Cemetery," runner TJ Lentz said.
About 250 runners and walkers took part in Sunday's race.
"The Earth Day theme is certainly a strong part of this and the folks here are very community-minded and recycling, reducing, reusing again is a very strong theme here," Lentz said.
Participants were encouraged to donate gently used gym shoes.
Thayne Maynard from the Cincinnati Zoo was also on hand to collect used cellphones.
"We're the greenest zoo in America and very involved in composting, recycling and all the things that this is about," Maynard said.
They collected more than 100 cellphones that will also be recycled.
"There are minerals in phones called coltan that are only found in the Congo basin," Maynard said.
Gorillas in the Congo are threatened when miners go to extract the minerals.
Organizers said they raised about $15,000. They are already planning next year's event.


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Turning heads has never been anything new to this starlet! Our favorite, Kendra Wilkinson Baskett, joined us poolside along with Veet at the Hollywood hotspot Drais. Per usual, Kendra –who wanted to show her support for Veet, a hair removal product she often uses, looked radiant while wearing Giuseppe Zanotti wedges, a luxe by Lisa Vogel swim suit and wrap, while sporting a braided up do. Kendra is a natural beauty, for her it's all about: a natural tan, light makeup, beach waves, or braids, and SMOOTH LEGS! This is why she loves Veet Products so much- "Veet Products are easy and effortless, not to mention save me so much time", the mother of adorable Hank Baskett IV. said. She even shared some of her summer essentials which are: a hot bathing suit, Veet products, sun screen, and a good pair of sunglasses that compliment your face.
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CHICAGO (AP) - Like your cousin who doesn't pay his bills on time and squanders money he doesn't have, Illinois is paying the price - in both cash and reputation - for years of ignored warnings about its pension crisis, the worst in the nation.
CHICAGO (AP) � Like your cousin who doesn't pay his bills on time and squanders money he doesn't have, Illinois is paying the price � in both cash and reputation � for years of ignored warnings about its pension crisis, the worst in the nation.
Largely because of its unfunded retirement plans, Illinois has replaced longtime bottom-dweller California as having the lowest credit rating of any state. So when Illinois tries to borrow money, it faces the same problem as the spendthrift cousin: far higher interest rates.
The state's financial failings are so well-known, they have inspired a name on Wall Street � the "Illinois effect," a reference to the fact that cities, universities and other bond-issuing entities here must pay more in interest, even if they are responsible spenders.
"There are investors who won't buy Illinois or bonds with Illinois labels at any price. They just see it as toxic," said Brian Battle, director at Performance Trust Capital Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm. That means the state pays "the biggest penalty by a long, long shot."
Battle compared the Illinois situation to someone who has a good job and plenty of revenue. But "we just spend like crazy, don't pay our credit cards and haven't saved for retirement," he said.
Take the $1.3 billion in bonds Illinois is expected to sell this week to improve highways, rebuild a 40-year-old elevated train line in Chicago and buy land for an airport. Battle estimates the state will pay more than $18 million in extra interest each year than states such as Virginia or Maryland, which have high credit ratings.
That's an additional $450 million over the 25-year life of a bond issue. In personal terms, it's $36 taken directly from the pockets of each of Illinois' nearly 13 million residents. And that's for just one bond sale.
For decades, legislators skipped or shorted payments to state retirement funds, creating a $97 billion pension shortfall and making investors nervous year after year. Yet lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled General Assembly adjourned the spring legislative session last month without a deal. It was the fifth time in 12 months that they left town without solving the crisis.
Within days, two major credit-rating agencies downgraded the state to an all-time low for Illinois. Gov. Pat Quinn called lawmakers back for a special session last week, but they could agree only to form a bipartisan committee to keep working on the problem.
Contributing to the inaction are the state's strong constitutional protections for pension benefits and a powerful union lobby that has opposed across-the-board cuts.
Still, the seeming lack of urgency dumbfounds some onlookers. Among them is Bill Daley, a former White House chief of staff and U.S. commerce secretary from the famous Chicago mayoral clan. He has focused on the pension debacle as he explores a challenge to Quinn in next year's Democratic primary.
"You can't have 13 downgrades in four years ... and think people are going to come here and create jobs," Daley said, questioning the need for repeated legislative sessions that yield no progress. "This is Groundhog Day."
State leaders insist they are trying to deal with the crisis. But in a place known for backroom deals, compromise can be hard to find, even after years of trying.
House Speaker Michael Madigan, who has overseen a Democratic majority in the Illinois House for 28 of the last 30 years, acknowledges that fixing the pension mess is "extremely important for the future of the state."
"This is the time to step up and help the state of Illinois," he said. But the speaker has urged the governor to support Madigan's own solution, which would save the most money, rather than a rival proposal in the Senate that could stand a better chance of surviving a legal challenge.
In the past 50 years, just three states � California, Louisiana and Massachusetts � have had investment ratings as low as Illinois, but all have taken steps to correct it. Quinn's office has begged lawmakers do the same, even as the governor endures criticism that he hasn't done enough to broker a deal.
Abdon Pallasch, Quinn's assistant budget director, said the additional dollars spent to cover interest and the annual pension payment � $6 billion this year, or almost 20 percent of the state's general-fund budget � represent money that could be spent to achieve smaller class sizes, hire more police or ease prison overcrowding.
"No more alibis. No more excuses. No more delay. (Lawmakers have) had plenty of time," the governor said Monday. "Running in place is not a way to go when it comes to the pension crisis."
Illinois' interest rates are the result of simple supply and demand: Because fewer investors want to take the risk of buying the state's bonds, the ones who are willing to do so are able to charge more.
Several factors are behind the reluctance. Some investment funds and trusts have rules that prevent them from buying bonds that are approaching "junk" bond status, as Illinois is, Battle said. Many investors don't want any names in their portfolio that have made headlines for negative reasons, like Illinois.
The state has a constitutional provision that guarantees it will make its debt payments, but investors also see cities like Detroit reneging on debts or considering filing for bankruptcy and get jittery, said Richard Ciccarone, managing director and chief research officer at McDonnell Investment Management in Oak Brook, Ill.
Illinois' reputation also hits taxpayers on the local level, even in communities with sound budgets.
Suburban Chicago's DuPage County, a wealthy, conservative-leaning area, is among the 1 percent of counties nationwide with the highest-possible credit rating from all three major ratings agencies. But officials there estimate taxpayers will pay $4 million more in interest over the life of a recent $67 million bond issue than if Illinois had its financial house in order.
In March, Moody's downgraded credit ratings for four public universities, noting that the schools rely heavily on state money for operating expenses. The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which constructs and renovates sports stadiums such as Chicago's Soldier Field and U.S. Cellular Field � home of the Chicago White Sox � has been downgraded twice since January. Chicago also has seen its rating on million in bonds lowered.
Last year, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel travelled to the state Capitol to testify in favor of reform, only to see his efforts � like all the others � fall flat.
Kathleen Strand, a spokeswoman for Emanuel, said he continues to stress the urgency of the problem, in hopes a solution can be found.
"The truth is," she said, "we have run out of time."


text: Freeway & the Jacka are the latest in a duo series the Philly gangster rapper has formed. His works with JakeOne and Girl Talk, respectively, were solid. Of course his State Property team were the best almost-legends that never were. "Cherry Pie" features Gibbs and singer Jynx trotting through broken ghettoes, singing a hustler song through smoke plumes. Check it after the jump. H/t Miss Info.


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When we say 2Mbps, it's 2Mbps.
Except that your upstream is Verizon who seem to have major routing problems, and have done so for months now. Connecting to SA sites who are on Internet Solutions has always been slow at best, with timeouts at worst. Traffic via Verizon to TENET's Cape Town servers is routed via Joburg and back.
Amobia's service is very good in all ways except one: The actual Internet service.
Please Joe, do more than "prod" Verizon. Vote with your wallet before I do.
I am an Amobia client, and I have a story to tell. Don't make me tell it.


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