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Relative Production of Gold and Silver
Among the many plausible pleas of the monometallists, the most plausible,
perhaps, is the plea that the great divergence between the metals since
1873 has been due entirely to the increased production of silver. A very
brief examination, I think, will show its falsity, and that it is equally
false in fact and fallacious in logic; for, first, there has been no great
"depreciation" in
, that metal having almost the same power to
command commodities, excepting gold, that it had in 1873; and, second, the
claim that the increased production of ten or twenty years would alone
greatly cheapen silver is flatly contradicted by all previous experience.
Of many statements of the fallacy, I take a recent one from the New York
_Times_ as the most terse and catchy for popular reading, and likewise
most ludicrously absurd:
"=Why Silver is Cheap.=
"In 1873 the total product of silver in the world was 61,100,000
ounces, and the silver in a dollar was worth $1.04 in gold.
"Last year the world's product of silver was 165,000,000 ounces,
and the silver in a dollar was worth only 50.7 cents.
"In 1894 the potato crop of the United States was, in round
numbers, 170,000,000 bushels, and the average price 53c.
"In 1895 the estimated potato crop was 400,000,000 bushels, and
the average price was 26c.
"The fall in both cases was due to the same cause."
Observe the assumptions: 1. That the output of one year determined the
value of silver as the crop of potatoes does their price for that year!
The schoolboy who does not know better deserves the rattan. If the theory
were correct, gold in 1856 should have been worth but a fourth what it was
in 1848, whereas the largest estimate of its decline in value puts it at
25 per cent.
2. That the increased
silver production
of twenty-two years would reduce
its value in the exact mathematical proportions of the increase. This
theory ignores the two most important facts determining the value of
money: that the silver or gold mined in any one year is added to the
existing stock, to which it is but a minute increase; and that wealth,
population, and production are also increasing rapidly, relative to which
the increase of silver is but a trifle indeed. The yield of the Monte Real
a thousand years ago may have cost five times as much labor per ounce, and
that of Laurium ten or even twenty times as much; but all of both which is
not lost goes with the last ounce mined into the general stock, which is
now about $4,000,000,000 in coin alone. The greatest annual production has
in but a very few cases added so much as 3 per cent. to the stock on hand,
and about half of it is consumed in the arts. If the increase of the
annual production of silver by 2-3/4 to 1 in twenty-two years reduced its
value one-half, will the _Times_ tell us what should have been the
reduction in the value of gold when this product increased by fivefold in
eight years? It should further be noted that the discovery of a "Big
Bonanza" is an event so rare that it has not happened, on an average, more
than once in three centuries since the dawn of history, and that since
1873 the growth in the world's production and trade has been, relative to
former times, even greater than the increase in the production of silver.
Consider the following facts, which I have condensed from Mulhall: In 1800
the total yearly international commerce of the world was estimated at
$1,510,000,000. Forty years later it had only increased 90 per cent.,
amounting in 1840 to $2,865,000,000, and in that year there were in all
the world but 4,315 miles of railroad and no electric telegraph. The total
horse-power of all the steamships of the world was but 330,000, and the
carrying power of all the shipping but 10,482,000 tons. To-day the
international commerce of the world is almost $20,000,000,000, and
increasing at the rate of $1,000,000,000 per year; there are in the world
over 400,000 miles of railway and a very much greater mileage of magnetic
telegraph, including 14 intercontinental cables; the ocean tonnage of
Great Britain alone is very much greater than was that of the whole world
in 1840; and tremendous as this increase of international trade has been,
it is the merest trifle compared with the increase of the internal trade
in several of the greater nations.
What then has caused the "great depreciation"? Nothing has caused it.
There has been but a trifling depreciation indeed. It is as clearly proved
as anything unseen can be that if the nations had left
silver and gold
they were in 1870, both would have gained materially in value, that is, in
the power to command commodities, because of the vastly greater relative
increase of the latter; but by demonetization all the increase has been
concentrated in gold, leaving silver almost exactly as it was. At present,
however, I devote myself to the question whether there has been such an
increase in the production as would normally cheapen it. On this point we
have evidence to convince any unbiased mind, for the relative production
of silver and gold has in former ages varied very much more than in the
last twenty-three years, and the variation has extended over much longer
periods, without causing more than the most trifling divergences in value.
And the explanation is simple: the two metals received equal recognition
at the mint and in legal tender laws; the greatly increased use of the
cheaper maintained its value in coinage, while disuse of the dearer tended
equally to check its appreciation. In this sense government can "create
value" by creating a use.
From 1660 to 1700, for instance, the production of silver averaged in
value much more than twice that of gold, and in quantity some thirty-three
times as much; yet all those years, the highest mint ratio was 15.20 to 1
and the lowest 14.81--a variation in money value of but .39 or 2.6 per
cent. From 1701 to 1760 inclusive, the proportion of gold produced
gradually rose from a little over a third to 40 per cent. in values, yet
the money ratio remained remarkably constant, the highest being 15.52 of
silver to 1 of gold and the lowest 14.14. In other words, for sixty years
there were produced on an average about 28 ounces of silver to 1 of gold,
yet the widest variation of their money values in all those years was less
than 9 per cent. In the face of such facts as these, we are asked to
believe that while an average of over 30 ounces to 1 created an average
variation of less than 6 per cent., and a greatest variation of less than
9 per cent., a production of some 20 ounces to 1 since 1882 has created a
variation of 100 per cent. And that the variation began nine years before
the value production of silver exceeded that of gold! It is an affront to
our common sense.
[Illustration: The above diagram shows the relative annual production of
gold and silver from 1493 to 1870, and also average ratio of values of the
two metals.]
I should say, at this point, that my figures are taken from the latest,
and in my opinion the most scholarly work in favor of monometallism, "The
History of Currency," by Prof. W. A. Shaw, Fellow of the Royal Historical
and Royal Statistical Societies. As the ratio between silver and gold
varied considerably in the different marts of Europe, I follow his plan
(which is Soetbeer's) of taking it as it stood at any particular time in
the city which might then be called the greatest commercial centre,
whether Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, or London. His history comprises the
entire period from 1252 to 1894. It is only fair that I should also give
his explanation of the stability of the metals, which is extremely
He begins his second chapter with the statement that the discovery of
America was "the monetary salvation and resurrection of the Old World";
that it was a time of unexampled increase in the
precious metals
equally unexampled rise of prices, but there was also "feverish
instability and want of equilibrium in the monetary systems of Europe." He
shows how the first great import was of
, which began to affect prices
in 1520; how this was followed by a very much greater increase in silver,
and how, while prices were rising so rapidly as to stimulate trade and
incidentally do damage by causing great fluctuations, yet there must have
been some great regulator preventing the evil which we should _a priori_
have expected. He finds it in the fact that Antwerp had taken the place of
Venice and Florence, and conducted a great trade with the far East. His
language is: "The centre of European exchanges--Antwerp in the sixteenth
century as London to-day--has always performed one supremest function,
that of regulating the flow of metals from the New World by means of
exporting the overplus to the East. The drain of silver to the East,
discernible from the very birth of European commerce, has been the
salvation of Europe, and in providing for it Antwerp acted as the
safety-valve of the sixteenth century system as London has done since. The
importance of the change of the centre of gravity and exchange from Venice
to Antwerp, therefore, lies in this fact. Under the old system of overland
and limited trade, Venice could only provide for such puny exchange and
flow as the medićval system of Europe demanded; she would have been unable
to cope with such a flood of inflowing metal as the sixteenth century
witnessed, and Europe would have been overwhelmed."
Professor Shaw argues that without the Eastern safety-valve Europe would
have been ruined by an excess of the precious metals, that India furnished
the needed reservoir--did she not take gold as well as silver?--and that
Venice was so far limited to an overland trade that she could not have
performed the function Antwerp did. Later he sets forth the current
monometallist position that the nations are now as one in trade and the
interchange of the precious metals, and therefore even the partial
equilibrium of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries could not be
maintained. Let us, then, bring the figures down to the present, and it
will be found, I think, that the farther down we come the weaker does the
monometallist contention appear.
The improved, more extended, and more intimate intercourse of the nations
brought about by the introduction of steam, electricity, and other
agencies tends to minimize the fluctuations of the two metals, and
indicates that the divergences of the metals in medićval times was due
rather to the want of speedy, easy, and certain intercourse and
communication of the nations than to an innate commercial tendency of the
two metals to diverge. Had the same intimate and speedy commercial
relation existed between the nations of the world in those times as now
exists, the equalizing tendencies of trade would evidently have prevented
not only the ratio of divergence to which the metals attained at different
periods, but would have prevented a difference of ratio existing between
the different nations at the same period of time.
From 1761 to 1800, inclusive, the relative production of gold decreased
steadily, until it was but 23.4 per cent. of the total value, to 76.6 per
cent. of silver. In other words, there were for many of the later years
over 50 ounces of silver produced to 1 of gold, and yet the ratio stood
long at 15.68 to 1. This is almost exactly the ratio fixed by Hamilton and
Jefferson, fixed because of its long-continued maintenance in European
markets. During these forty years the production of silver in proportion
to gold was never for even one year as low as the highest proportion of
any year since 1873, and yet the money value only varied from 14.42 to
15.72, or a fraction over 8 per cent. In the face of such figures as
these, the change in relative production since 1873 seems too trifling to
be taken into account, especially since in that year and some time after
the value production of gold at 16 to 1 was much the greater, nor was it
till 1883 that the world's silver product exceeded that of gold.
In 1800-10 the annual production of gold was $12,069,000 and of silver
almost exactly $39,000,000, or some 50 ounces to 1; yet the highest ratio
was 16.08, and the lowest 15.26. This relative production changed very
slowly, and in 1831-40 of the total in values produced 34.5 per cent. was
gold and 65.5 per cent. silver.
That is, there were, for ten years, about thirty times as many ounces of
silver mined as of gold, and during these years the change in the ratio
was so minute that it can only be calculated in small fractions of 1 per
cent. In 1841-50, for the first time since the middle of the sixteenth
century, we find the production of gold the greater, that metal being 52.1
per cent. of the total product, and silver but 47.9 per cent. During the
decade the lowest value ratio of silver to gold was 15.70, and the highest
15.93, a variation of only 1.4 per cent. Then California and Australia
poured out their wonderful golden flood, and all the world was changed. In
1851-55 the gold yield was 77.6 per cent. of the total, and the silver
yield 22.4, and for the next five years the change was but .2 of 1 per
cent. In other words, during those ten years the average annual yield of
silver was less than 5 ounces to 1 of gold; so if the "overproduction
theory" laid down by the _Times_ were correct, gold should have
lost--well, at least 70 per cent. of its value in silver. The actual
variation was from a ratio of 15.98 to one of 15.46, or a relative
depreciation of gold of considerably less than 3 per cent. Now, it is
alleged by many who have made a study of prices during that period, that
in actual value gold depreciated 25 per cent.; so it is plain that it
carried down silver with it, and the only logical explanation is that the
mints were equally open to both.
We have seen that in all the century and a half when the mines were
pouring forth silver at the rate of from 20 ounces to 1 of gold up to 55
ounces to 1, the greatest variation in their value was less than 9 per
cent., and in the twenty years when the silver production was to that of
gold as less than 5 ounces to 1, the value of gold produced being more
than three times that of silver, their money value varied less than 3 per
cent., and yet we are coolly asked to believe that since 1873 silver is to
be rated among variable commodities like potatoes, the size of the crop
each year determining the value. Monometallists have had much to say about
the relative cheapness of gold during those years, and have laid much
stress upon the fact that it was an era of great prosperity and rapid
development, with rise of wages and the prices of farm produce. In this
argument they admit three things: that we have a moral and constitutional
right to use the cheaper metal at any time; that we did use gold for all
those years simply because it was easier to pay debts with it, that is, it
was cheaper, and that the use of the cheaper metal aided greatly in making
prosperity. That is all that any
claims. As the entire burden
was not then thrown upon silver, we claim that it should not now be thrown
upon gold, doubling or trebling the rate of its advancing value; and as
the privilege to use the cheaper metal then checked the advance of the
dearer and enhanced prosperity, we insist that the system of that time
shall be restored.
The subsequent figures are equally convincing. In 1861-65 the gold
products were 72.1 per cent. of the total, the silver 27.9 per cent., the
variation in ratio from 15.26 to 15.44. In 1866-70 the production stood
69.4 to 30.6, the variation in ratio 15.43 to 15.60. In 1871-75 production
was still 58.5 to 41.5, but the variation in
coin value
was from 15.57 to
16.62. That something had happened quite aside in its effects from
relative production was evident, but the people did not find out what it
was till late in 1875. At the time the demonetization act was passed, the
ratio was still 15.55 to 1, and one of the reasons given for the act of
February 12,1873, was that the silver dollar was worth $1.03 in gold; yet
before the close of that year, and before it was known that there was to
be any great increase in the product of silver, its relative value ran
down till it was below that of gold. Can any one doubt the cause? Surely
not if he observes the additional fact that the relative decline of silver
continued despite the greater value production of gold, and that 1882, ten
years after demonetization, was actually the first year since 1849 in
which the world's production of silver exceeded that of gold. What one
hundred and ninety years of continuous and often enormous relative
overproduction of silver had not done, ten years of demonetization had
accomplished, and that while the relative
gold supply
was still the
greater. Is it possible to miss the real cause? Is there in Euclid a
demonstration more conclusive?
[Illustration: The above diagram shows the relative annual production of
gold and silver from 1870 to 1893, and ratio of values.]
Monometallists have exhausted the resources of verbal gymnastics to make
these figures fit their theories. Determined not to admit that
demonetization was the cause, they have given so many explanations that,
expressed in the briefest words, they would cover many pages like this.
The first was that the opening of the "Big Bonanza" on the Comstock lode
had given notice that silver was coming in a flood; but that was only for
popular use in this country. Scientific men knew that to be a rare find
indeed, not likely to occur again for centuries. The next explanation was
that China and India, so long the reservoir into which the surplus flowed,
had ceased to absorb it; and the next, demonetization of silver by Germany
and her throwing her old silver on the market. And with this the people
began to get at the true reason--the general demonetization by so many
The following table gives the annual production of gold and silver from
the discovery of America to and including the year 1892; and the highest
and lowest ratio of silver to gold from 1681 to and including the year in
which silver ceased to be in this country primary money:
1493-1520........ $3,855,000 $1,953,000
1521-1544........ 4,759,000 3,749,000
1545-1560........ 5,657,000 12,950,000
1561-1580........ 4,546,000 12,447,000
1581-1600........ 4,905,000 17,409,000
1601-1620........ 5,662,000 17,538,000
1621-1640........ 5,516,000 16,358,000
1641-1660........ 5,829,000 15,223,000
1661-1680........ 6,154,000 14,006,000
1681-1700........ 7,154,000 14,209,000 14.81-15.20
1701-1720........ 8,520,000 14,779,000 15.04-15.52
1721-1740........ 12,681,000 17,921,000 14.81-15.41
1741-1760........ 16,356,000 22,158,000 14.14-15.26
1761-1780........ 13,761,000 27,128,000 14.52-15.27
1781-1800........ 11,823,000 36,534,000 14.42-15.74
1801-1810........ 11,815,000 37,161,000 15.26-16.08
1811-1820........ 7,606,000 22,474,000 15.04-16.25
1821-1830........ 9,448,000 19,141,000 15.70-15.95
1831-1840........ 13,484,000 24,788,000 15.62-15.93
1841-1850........ 36,393,000 32,434,000 15.70-15.93
1851-1855........ 131,268,000 36,827,000 15.33-15.59
1856-1860........ 136,946,000 37,611,000 15.19-15.38
1861-1865........ 131,728,000 45,764,000 15.26-15.44
1866-1870........ 127,537,000 55,652,000 15.43-15.60
1871-1872........ 113,431,000 81,849,000 15.57-15.65
1873............. 96,200,000 81,800,000
1874............. 90,750,000 71,500,000
1875............. 97,500,000 80,500,000
1876............. 103,700,000 87,600,000
1877............. 114,000,000 81,000,000
1878............. 119,000,000 95,000,000
1879............. 109,000,000 96,000,000
1880............. 106,500,000 96,700,000
1881............. 103,000,000 102,000,000
1882............. 102,000,000 111,800,000
1883............. 95,400,000 115,300,000
1884............. 101,700,000 105,500,000
1885............. 108,400,000 118,500,000
1886............. 106,000,000 120,600,000
1887............. 105,000,000 124,366,000
1888............. 109,900,000 142,107,000
1889............. 118,800,000 162,690,000
1890............. 118,848,700 172,234,500
1891............. 126,183,500 186,446,880
1892............. 138,861,000 196,458,800
Thus we see that, for twenty-seven years after the discovery of America,
the gold production was double that of silver; for the next eighty years
the production of silver was considerably more than double that of gold;
for the next one hundred years the production of silver was more than
2-1/2 times that of gold, and for the next century and a half, to wit,
from 1701 to 1850, inclusive, despite the fact of the tremendous gain of
gold in the last few years, the production of silver fell but little short
of twice that of gold. And yet, the variations in coin value were of the
trifling character previously stated. When taken by shorter periods, the
argument is still more startling. Thus in 1801-20 the production was
almost exactly 4 of silver to 1 of gold; for the next twenty years a
minute fraction less than 2 of silver to 1 of gold; for the next twenty
2-1/2 of gold for 1 of silver; and for the next twenty nearly 2 of gold
for 1 of silver, while during these awful years since 1873, in which there
has been so much said about the "flood of silver," its production has
never once been twice that of gold, and for the entire period has exceeded
it by the merest trifle. Is it any wonder that Dr. Eduard Suess, the great
German authority on the metals, and Professor of Geology at the University
of Vienna, concluded his recent work with these strong statements:
"Present legislative institutions are at variance with the
conditions established by nature. Even now agriculture and in part
industry in Europe are sorely at a disadvantage against silver
countries such as India and Mexico. The advantage of this
situation accrues in England to the holders of interest-bearing
notes, the productive value of which increases with the growing
scarcity of gold.... As soon as the figure 23.75 shall have been
reached, all gold obligations will have increased in value
one-half; but nothing prevents that figure from rising to 31. [It
has since risen even above that.] ... You say a regulation cannot
be international, but you overlook how long the ratio of 1 to
15-1/2 was upheld and worked beneficently. We wish, say the London
bankers, to receive our interest in gold and not in depreciated
silver; but silver would not be depreciated the moment an
agreement went into effect. Why, you ask, shall we cast such
profit into the hands of the owners of silver mines? Remember that
you are now casting the same profit into the hands of the owners
of gold mines and washings. No man would lose by rehabilitation,
and the whole world would be richer.... Europe is laboring under a
grave delusion. The economy of the world cannot be arbitrarily
carried on in the hope that somewhere a new California, and at the
same time a new Australia, will be found whose alluvial lands will
give relief for a decade. ... The question is no longer whether
silver will again become a full value coinage metal over the whole
earth, but what are to be the trials through which Europe is to
reach that point."
At this point it seems to me well to present the figures of relative
production for the last century in a more compact shape, with a view to
bringing out the contrast:
Silver produced 1792-1850............ $1,690,217,000
Gold produced........................ 848,186,000
Excess of silver production.......... 842,031,000
Gold produced 1850-73................ $2,724,825,000
Silver produced...................... 1,150,025,000
Excess of gold....................... 1,574,800,000
Gold produced 1873-92, inclusive..... $2,060,897,000
Silver produced...................... 2,264,419,000
Excess of silver..................... 203,522,000
Gold produced 1850-92, inclusive..... $4,785,722,000
Silver produced...................... 3,414,444,000
Excess of gold....................... 1,371,278,000
Gold produced 1792-1892, inclusive... $5,633,908,000
Silver produced...................... 5,104,961,000
Excess of gold....................... 528,947,000
Thus are we confronted with the truly startling paradox that during all
the century and a half when the production of silver was nearly twice that
of gold, and the two centuries back of that when it was more than twice,
the variation in coinage value never rose to 9 per cent., and for many
years at a time corresponded with the ratio set by the mint; but at the
end of a century during which the gold production was half a billion
greater than that of silver, and at the end of half a century when it was
nearly a billion and a half greater, the really scarcer metal has declined
in terms of the other nearly one-half! And all this, the monometallist
tells us, because there has been an excess of silver produced amounting to
less than a quarter of a billion in twenty-three years. Belief in such a
proposition would indeed be a triumph of faith over figures. And to add to
the trial of our faith, we find, on bringing the figures down to the close
of the year 1895--and we cannot bring them later on account of official
slowness--the amounts of silver and gold in the world, as presented in
values at our ratio, are almost exactly equal, the greatest divergence
claimed by the most extreme monometallist being 16-3/10 ounces of silver
to one of gold!
I do not indulge the hope that the figures herein presented will affect
the opinion of any pronounced monometallist. There seems to be a
mysterious power in gold which blinds the eyes to deductions from
statistics and experience; the internal conviction of the monometallist
that gold stands still while everything else changes in value resists all
logic. In this country, that is. In England, where it has not become a
political question, and no one is interested in denying the facts,
monometallists almost universally concede the appreciation of gold and
defend monometallism on that ground. It is to the laboring producers of
the United States, still open to conviction, that I present these figures, which to me seem absolutely conclusive.
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There was a lot to like about Ford's "Fox Body" Mustang of the 1980's. Though lacking the attractive lines or brutish character of the first generation, it was a substantial aesthetic improvement over the Pinto-derived second generation 'stang. It was also somewhat unique in pony car history for offering a 2.3 L turbo four alongside the usual assortment of V6's and V8's, purporting to offer the right combination of performance and economy.
So it's no wonder the Ol' Fox is popular with pony car enthusiasts. Now, Kurgan Motorsports of Atlanta has taken one of these semi-classics and retrofitted it with the barnstorming 5.0 L "Coyote" V8 and drivetrain from a wrecked 2011 Ford Mustang GT.
Kurgan Motorsports owner Bob Kurgan explains:
"The engine just dropped right in. It was everything else that was difficult. With this engine only being out for just a little while, everything had to be custom built for it to swap over. Getting the engine running was easy. We had to custom make the motor mounts, air conditioning brackets, power steering brackets ourselves. But it's a friggin' animal on the streets."
Kurgan's team also added custom Kooks headers, a brake booster from a '03 SVT Cobra and swapped out the Fox's standard transmission for a T-45 5-speed. The result is 412 hp (307 kW) and 390 ft lb's (529 Nm) of torque. And that's before the whole thing is supercharged for the win.
Kurgan Motorsports will be giving a (presumably) live demonstration of the engine swap at the Carlisle All-Ford Nationals in June of this year. Kurgan hopes to work with Ford to develop a kit that'll help other Fox body enthusiasts perform the same feat with their cars. It doesn't get much sweeter than this.
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Ash Sharp
I am pleased to tell you that no, I am not writing Young Adult fiction. Ivan Throne is a very real person, and, according to him, The Dark World is a real place- and we all live in it.
He is the bestselling author of THE NINE LAWS. Speaker, business manager and seasoned veteran of the financial industry, he's also a deaf ninja. literally, he can't hear anything but can make you eat your own legs with one hand.
Badass. He has been gracious enough to answer some questions for us in this, the second installment of The Standard Conversation. We talked about the meaning of manhood, Islam, cataclysmic war and tiny Ben Shapiro. Read on for an illuminating glimpse into the Dark World.
RS: Ivan, tell me about the Dark World. I'm sitting here on my balcony overlooking some nice views, and life is pretty sweet for me. What's so dark about the world?
It ends, doesn't it? And so will you.
You're a finite consciousness, in a finite creation, and both of those things are integrally designed to sputter out and cease. Lots of people think I mean "dark" as in "bad" or "horrible" or "cruel". The world certainly can be those things, and often is.
But the real lesson there - in the fact of not only your own death but that of the universe itself – is this:
Brother, this is not a dress rehearsal. There are no do-overs. And the inexorable slide of things is towards entropic heat death. The other critical aspect of this creation, this existence, is that the universe does not care.
That is a terribly hard thing for most people to understand, let alone accept. The universe doesn't care whether you're having a good day, a bad day, a great life, or a short and brutal one. The universe does not perceive you; it doesn't hear you scream.
It just keeps on spinning and dying.
Once your mind, and more importantly your heart, grasp and accept this truth – then action is freed up and the man abandons pity towards himself and transits through life unblinded.
That is where the immense work of Men is truly done.
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RS: You're quite active in this growing scene of positive masculinity with guys like Hunter Drew of The Family Alpha and others. Why do you think there has been this growth in 'positive alpha-male' philosophy?
The accelerating return of masculinity to the West is a severe and fearsome process. It is severe for many reasons. It is severe because it is unapologetic, and as a movement, it rejects any infection of weakness or groveling supplication. We are men. We are not castrati. We did not ask for permission to build Greece and Rome or the empires of the West.
Nor do we ask for permission to restore men to their inherent, rightful place in the pantheon of human power. It's our nature, and all pendulums swing. Men like Hunter, myself and many others are pushing hard and driving deeper momentum into that swing, making sure it takes deep and abiding root in our own generation and the next.
There are powerful signs of success, deeper than we had imagined. Generation Z is avowedly militaristic, utterly contemptuous of weak and feminized society, and openly seeks the strong hand of a Generation X that knows the time has come to teach the methods and truths that we have incubated for forty years as the West slid into degeneracy.
This return of authentic masculinity is also a lagging and leading indicator.
It is a lagging indicator of a foundational shift, rejection of cultural suicide, and decision by men to simply stop caring what those who want to destroy them may think or speak of them. This is profoundly important.
If hostile Islamists overtly declare they will kill me, take my women, and indoctrinate my children to hate me – what do I care for their insults when their very spears of war are aimed at the heart of my nation?
If hostile Marxists with a history of dumping scores of millions of naked, emaciated and gunshot bodies into pools of black blood and spattered fat at the bottom of killing pits, want to call me toxic – what do I care for their words, when their actions are where my arms and brothers must contend?
Thus the process is fearsome:
The return of authentic, powerful, unapologetic masculinity is a leading indicator of war.
Be very glad that Donald Trump is at the helm of the American nation as the age grows quickly hot.
RS: Ha! You're right on the money there. I can only imagine how monumentally screwed we would be with Clinton in power. I read from your site that you "don't care" about the Jewish Question -rightly so in my view. This being the case, why does Ben Shapiro call you a White Supremacist?
Ben's a darling muppet, isn't he? The short takes and his inability to reach the truth on the top shelf are quite fun. Two things actually came to light immediately afterward. The first was the sheer number of people he calls a "white supremacist", many of them bizarrely so. I had no idea. It seems to be a de rigueur fallback position of his, which I discovered with some amusement. I'm not a listener or reader of his, so I hadn't been paying attention to what he thinks or doesn't think of people.
The other was his timing. Vox Day had just released another philosophy bestseller, "SJWs Always Double Down" in which our darling Ben was eviscerated in rather blunt terms. I wrote the foreword to the book, and I was told by some industry insiders that Ben thought it would be safer to tangentially target someone, anyone, other than Vox Day.
Well, we all make errors, and Ben is no exception. No doubt we'll meet someday and chat intensely about it.
RS: You know, I think if Ben could approach the talk in good faith without trying to pull rhetorical tricks that would be a fascinating debate.
In THE NINE LAWS you talk about utilizing our innate psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism to achieve goals. These are not considered by most to be desirable traits- though the book also contains lines such as;
"Do not fail to believe in possibilities.
Do not fail to believe in yourself.
It is how odds are ferociously defied.
Even preposterous dreams can be made real, my brother.
I am the living proof."
By any measure, this is a message of positive self-determination. What inspired this usage of the 'Dark Triad' to produce positive effects in men?
Men must play the cards they are dealt with. That means seeing clearly, understanding correctly, and acting decisively.
Thought, word, and deed are the foundations of the human being. Thought becomes vision. Words become plans. Deeds become competent. The dark triad of personality takes those a great step further, focuses those inherent human processes into sharper relief.
Vision becomes narcissism, faith, and belief in a future that you will personally shape into existence. Plans become Machiavellianism, the ability to shade and tumble and turn the world until it coalesces into actuality. Competence becomes psychopathy, where the ego dissolves and a man deploys raw, unfiltered, and unblinking execution of power in the world.
Where these things collide at a single point, you have what I call the detonation of fate: the human being bringing every capacity and venue to bear into the moment of realization, the determination of what will be.
This is a conscious and deliberate application of natural human traits, taken a radical step further, and each trait put into service of the others. It's far more common than people realize.
Most simply never do it consciously and deliberately.
Any project manager worth his pay understands Machiavellianism. To realize enterprise vision with competent execution he must entangle and entwine men and resources, time and effort. He cannot hire and fire; he has total accountability but no authority. Thus, subtle alliances and relationships are how his success or failures pivot along the way.
Any world champion understands narcissism. He must focus his entire mind, heart, and body into the single-minded pursuit of a glittering and glorious vision with a ferocity that few can comprehend, let alone emulate. Not one champion ever lived who did not believe in himself, and I tell you that the vision of the champion seems deluded and extreme to the common man.
Any military leader grasps the necessity of psychopathy in determining objectives, issuing orders, and the planning of destruction and death. He coldly and pitilessly achieves political results on the battlefield. He will throw men like "clumps of earth" and accept the loss and suffering of the troops as an inherent part of that icy delivery of fate.
Like any power, capacity or tool, the dark triad traits can be turned in malevolent direction. A sword cares not who it cuts, after all. And men are fallen animals. Disordered, dysregulated traits are what happens when men do not adhere to discipline.
It is a dark world. Possession of extreme capacity has nothing whatsoever to do with moral elevation or spiritual advancement. That is not how the dark world works. As human beings, we have choices to make in the service of our sacred purpose, and those choices – why we envision the future, how we plan it, and where we execute on it – shapes what men later call history.
Weakness is not moral. Abdication of power is not spiritual advancement. To use pity as a strategy is obscene for the human being, who is formed in the image of God and bears the sacrosanct responsibility of serving as a vehicle for the will of Heaven.
The truth of the dark world is this: no one is coming to save you. You are personally responsible for your survival, and that of your culture and civilization.
Do not grovel and whine, seeking mercy from a universe that does not hear.
Stand as a man, build to the best of your capacity, and defend it and your loved ones with all the ferocity you possess.
Image: VixSwift Photography
RS: The Western world is under grave threat from migration- more people are on the move today than at any time in history. Pew Research indicates that Europe could be as much as 20% Muslim by the middle of the Century, with nations like France, Sweden and my own United Kingdom with far higher populations. This is, without doubt, an undesirable outcome for Europeans. Is there hope for the West?
There is hope for the West if it accepts the reality of war.
There is hope for the West if the men who inherited it, return to their true and inherent nature as warriors and priests.
There is hope for the West if leaders stand forth with the vision, plans, and competence that are so bitterly demanded.
But there are no guarantees.
Fate tumbles and turns in the dark world, and there is no question that the times are dangerous, full of shocks and fear.
Sweden is a degenerate, obsequious pit of unforgivable cuckery and the descent of that nation into insane, multicultural suicide will require serious blood and killing to return it to the fold of the West.
France may yet detach itself from that same trajectory, although again much blood will be required. The spirit of France has not yet been thrown down and murdered, but France will need other nations to lead it.
The United Kingdom is not finished. The long, stable rule of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth will soon pass away, and the tumult and resulting chaos of subsequent sovereigns will eventually settle. It will fall upon her loyal subjects to ensure that the Crown is preserved, for it is through the Crown that the spirit and ferocity of the United Kingdom has its best chance for survival and restoration during the existential wars that come.
RS: Do you have any specific ideas on how that scenario could be achieved? If existential war is inevitable, how does the West win it?
From the ground up, through the hearts of men of the West who see clearly, understand fully, and take direct action for the preservation of their lives, their families, their communities and countries, and culture.
The dark world does not do pity, but it does reward the bold and the decisive, for that is also the way of this dying creation.
The roaring return of authentic masculinity is not merely an indicator or pendulum but also a prerequisite for victory in an existential clash of civilizations.
I intend for us to win it, and I call brother the men who rise and march with me.
Be a bloody Man and fight for what is yours!
Live with sacred purpose and utter savage ferocity!
Anything less and your culture is going to die, and all your lineage with it.
RS:No time to mess around with video games then. While you don't appear to be a particularly political guy (beyond the support for Donald Trump) people seem quite keen to call you a Nazi or Alt-Right or whatever. I also know you like taunting leftists online- is that just for fun? Doesn't that make you a 'status-quo warrior'?
I've been called every epithet across the entire political spectrum. Marxists call me a Nazi, want me banned and my readers imprisoned. Nazis call me a race-traitor, want me beaten and gassed. It's really quite delightful. And it is useful to see how antifragility works, which is part and parcel of dealing with haters and trolls both online and in real life.
RS: Antifragility?
Think about where your vulnerabilities are, and turn them into pits of overthrow for your adversary. Consider what your strengths are, and how your vulnerable brothers can benefit from their application.
There is very little difference between a general sustaining the morale of his army through declarations of spirit before the arrayed ranks of his troops, and a social media influencer proving antifragility for his followers against the emotional, writhing attacks of idiotic adversaries. It is simply a new age and a new medium, but the message is the same:
"We will have victory, and you will not. And we're coming for you."
Anything less than that is a disservice to the army, and a failure by the general to lead spiritual command in war.
RS: Who is your hero?
My late father, who by his example showed me how to think, how to live, and what mattered. It is in homage and fealty to him, and to the legacy of the culture, I am descended from, that I do the work I do.
RS: You have a piece of art/t-shirt on your website that depicts ISIS terrorists in front of the Eiffel Tower skewered on stakes in true Vlad the Impaler style. The tagline is Impalement Stops Invasion. Obviously, you don't care about people taking offense at your ideas- but what inspired this? Do you really think this should or could be done?
The Impalement Stops Invasion shirts grew out of some discussions I had with people about Islamic terror, and moreover how terror works. Terror is designed to freeze you, to cause fixation of the mind and heart, and prevent decisive action.
Islam has nearly redefined terror in the modern age, and they are absolutely hell-bent on it. People do not grasp that beheading videos are merely the tip of the iceberg. The dead in the Bataclan in Paris were disemboweled, castrated, their eyes gouged out. They were forced to crawl screaming over their own entrails before being finally butchered. Young girls at the school siege of Beslan in Russia were viciously gang-raped and sodomized to death with rifle barrels, and similarly, Islam has cruel intentions for the other nations of the West. Floor plans of America middle schools were found in Iraq, and the reasoning was quite simple: the girls are big enough to rape, and the boys are too small to fight back.
What stops terror?
I will tell you what stops terror, here in the dark world:
It is not a question of whether ruthless and public impalement of jihadists could be done. Of course, it can; there is no insurmountable logistical or mechanical reality that prevents the physical hoisting of Islamic invaders on fatal stakes at the national borders of Europe.
Nor do I declare whether it should be done. That is a question for politicians, for State officials, and ultimately for the men who protect the women and children of the West. And it is, at the last resort, the decision of those men whether their politicians and State officials have failed in their duty to preserve, protect, and defend them.
The design does speak and communicate an absolutely uncontestable truth: if it were done, the jihadist invasion would stop.
Would you dare cross a border, where those who came before you were a grim and incontestable warning against your entry?
Would you dare to rape and behead a Western schoolgirl, if you knew a wooden stake would be driven into your anus and out your screaming mouth before your agonized carcass was hoisted to the sky?
Do Western cartoonists dare to draw Mohammed?
Jihadists dare to explode and butcher and rape and machine-gun and roar down our streets with trucks in bloody massacres.
I will simply say that all pendulums swing, and where Governments fail to protect Men… Men form new Governments.
It's a dark world. It was dark before I got here, brother. It will be dark long after I am gone. A sword cares not who it cuts, and terror is a dreadful sword in any hand.
The shirt's a great and impressive design by a very talented artist. And hope and pity aren't strategies.
Vlad would say I'm right.
RS: I think he probably would. OK, tough question time. What does it mean to be a man?
That's really the critical question the West faces, isn't it?
What does it mean to be a Man?
What does it mean to be a Man when failure means the death of a thousand years of heritage? What does it mean to be a Man who fights against the degenerate slaughter of his very identity?
The answer is the same one it always has been: the grave and linear process of manhood, war, and salvation.
Manhood is derived from the foundational layer of conscience, from the voice of God that works through the heart and informs the mind, and thence forms the decisions by which deeds are birthed. Manhood is conscience married to discipline, to the strength and habits of achievement and building and creating in this dark world those things that survive and outlast us.
Family, honor, country, culture, civilization. Great works of art, of construction, of ideas, of civilization itself and of the prerogative to detonate fate according to sacred purpose!
Men are designed for war. The very shape of Men is formed to serve our male burden of performance. That performance, that sacrifice, that ongoing painful and agonizing struggle, is an integral part and parcel of being a man.
It is difficult, and challenging, and often bitterly and continuously unappreciated.
Where is there rest from this?
The answer lies in the respite of performance, in the total and unrelenting savage ferocity that accompanies adherence to sacred purpose.
When you have given your work everything you have, with nothing held back, and you have burned your ships on the shore and thrown away the scabbard of your sword and walked into battle with nothing held back…
…life and death are both release in the aftermath.
Therein is the rest, albeit momentary, of the male burden of performance.
Then it begins again, and men return to the work that is their nature.
Sacred purpose, in the life of the individual man, is where all the infinite strength of honor and dignity and power arise.
How does one identify one's sacred purpose, and lay bare the road of the Way that brings both immortal glory and the peace of life and death? What is the process by which one identifies and adheres to the discipline of the divine conscience?
That is, precisely, what I and my partner teach in the Immersion Forge.
Image: VixSwift Photography
Sacred purpose, savage ferocity, and adherence to the divine path of fulfilled conscience.
The first Immersion Forge in January at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was sold out. The response has been incredible; testimony from the men who attended has been remarkable and explosively strong.
We spent a year creating the curriculum, refining it, testing it, and shaping the structure of delivery.
The results were phenomenal.
The next Immersion Forge is in New York in the Park View Suite of Trump International Hotel and Tower on February 24th.
There are eight seats left, but they go quickly.
We have tapped into what Men need in this dreadful age, and we build a brotherhood of sacred purpose and momentum.
There is a Way that can be learned, and the process of connecting divine conscience, sacred purpose, and total savage ferocity is driven by the esoteric teachings of the ninja and the dread combat experience of my partner Mr. Swift, a ruthless mercenary who has seen and done the unimaginable.
Men teach men, and men learn from men.
That, too, is the Way. And the Way of men is cruelly demanded more now than ever.
Men do not leave their brothers behind, and that is why Mr. Swift and I deliver the Immersion Forge.
Civilizations collide, brother. And collision comes fast.
We mean to win, and with everything we have.
Join us, and march with us as brothers.
RS: Thanks, Ivan!
There you have it folks. Intense ideas spoken plainly. I highly recommend that you follow Ivan Throne on Twitter because he is both hilarious and thought provoking- partcularly when he's trolling weak internet communists into oblivion. If you like the way Ivan's mind works you should buy The Nine Laws: Survival, Momentum, and Triumph and read it. It's a permanent fixture on my work table.
Ivan's philosophy is clearly written and explained, and he gives his ideas room to breathe. You need to put the work into his book not through wrapping your head around overly complex post-modernist sentence structure but in quiet reflection upon yourself. That's the greatness in his writing- it is a collaborative experience with the reader that encourages the discovery of your own anwers while providing the calm hand of a great teacher in guidance.
Coming this Autumn 2018 he releases The Three Gates: Manhood, War, and Salvation through Castalia House, and is the second in his triptych of philosophy books.


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St. Mary's pitcher Laina Salani faced 12 batters on Aug. 31. Four innings later, following her team's 15-0 mercy rule win over Bishop Machebeuf, she had set every one of them down in order, notching a perfect game.
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Acting on a complaint forwarded by the CM Devendra Fadnavis-headed urban development department, Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation chief E Ravindran found that the builders of Mohan Regency Complex had usurped the land from its owner and has cancelled the "commencement certificate" issued to the complex.
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"We are happy that KDMC has at least declared the buildings illegal by cancelling the permission. Now we want further action," said Khan.


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Jamaica,no reasoning
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It's sad to see how decades of political tribalism have destroyed most Jamaicans' ability to reason.
For the past few weeks, I've been writing a series of columns on how the imported, archaic Westminster system of government has devastated our nation and will continue to deprive Jamaicans of any semblance of democracy or hope of recovery. The last in that series ('Meet your slave mistress', September 14, 2014) sought to show where a 52-year journey with Westminster has landed us into the slavery from which we thought we'd been emancipated almost 200 years ago. It seems I'm alone in this view of our politics. Possibly, another political silly season is upon us because the torrid backlash of negativity that greeted my genuine attempts at nation building would've been frightening if they weren't so profoundly predictable.
When you walk through a storm,
hold your head up high
and don't be afraid of the dark.
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and the sweet silver song of a lark.
Did I get any thanks? Did I even get a reasoned grasp of where we are and where we're headed? Of course not. From the undereducated, tribal mediocrity that proliferates, I got inane comments like, "I guess we could have just defaulted after your party lost power. Just remember who took the country back to the IMF. If the PIOJ (Planning Institute of Jamaica) was showing a decline in job numbers you would be all over that. I guess you think it would be better if Lagarde and Portia were enemies." (Again, 'Caleb', who seems to have taken the baton from 'Roanja', or maybe it's the same person with a different pseudonym).
My party? Which one is that, Caleb? You see, my friend, the difficulty you're going to have pushing that sort of unreasoned, malicious, tribal claptrap is that if you research every electoral list from my birth to now, you won't find my name. Most self-respecting citizens criticise me for not voting. These are criticisms I consider reasoned and reasonable enough to spend time arguing. Your tribal vitriol requires public detoxification only because your tribe and all others have kept Jamaicans undereducated for more than half a century. In an educated country, you'd be a laughing stock.
Who took the country "back" to the IMF? Caleb, it matters not. But, since you ask, remember "your party" accused the JLP of breaching the IMF agreement and causing an almost irretrievable loss of trust. During the 2011 election campaign, your leader promised to take "the country back to the IMF" within two weeks of being elected. It took her a year, but it's very much the PNP which first took the country to the IMF (1977); who "took the country back to the IMF" in 2012; and who has trumpeted this as an achievement ever since.
It's a mediocre mind that speculates "If the PIOJ was showing a decline in job numbers you would be all over that." I guess we'll just have to wait with bated breath for that possibility, Caleb, but for the moment, we're all entitled to alert the public to the current realities. It may not suit your narrow, tribal interests, but it's simply truth. Deal with it.
Finally, in the comment worthy of the millennium's most boorish, Caleb muses: "I guess you think it would be better if Lagarde and Portia were enemies." Sorry, Caleb, your guessing is worse than your spelling. I think it would be better if Portia treated Lagarde as the managing director of a lender agency, working for a salary like any other CEO, rather than as a visiting head of state. I think it would be better if Portia insisted Lagarde recognise and acknowledge that local priorities such as education, national security and health should, if necessary, take priority over the 100 per cent payment of 'external' debt on time, every time.
The thing is, Caleb, that if we were operating under a system of governance that forced our governments to account to us in the same way that every private sector employee must account to his/her corporate board of directors and owners, Portia wouldn't need to kowtow to Lagarde or to involve her in local priorities. This you'd have grasped as the thrust of my columns had you approached the series on Westminster with anything resembling an open mind.
Even after payment of 'external' debt, we still have a 'smalls' to spend locally. Without any consultation with us, our remaining tax dollars are being spent on supporting 28 'ministers' and at least 15 ministries. Why? Our hospitals are short of gowns, but expensive legal draftsmen have written expensive laws banning cigarette smoking and (soon) decriminalising ganja (both commendable, but neither a priority over hospital gowns or latex gloves). Schools have no water to flush toilets, but we put on a $57 million Grand Gala. Our police use backward methods, drive unsafe vehicles, and must rely on 'community policing' because neither standard crime-fighting technology nor properly maintained cars are available to them, but sixteen ministers drive new SUVs or luxury cars.
If Madame Lagarde was so committed to Jamaica's future benefit, national priority spending would at least be part of her focus instead of fitting blinkers, hood and eye shield in order to ensure only the payment of 'external' debt. If Portia saw Lagarde for what she really is, instead of fawning at Lagarde's calculated lack of interest in Jamaica's growth for Jamaicans, she'd be talking truth to the IMF, as did both Michael Manley and Edward Seaga. Any Jamaican political leader who wanted to uplift the poor would study the life and times of José Mujica.
To the politically blinkered puppet who commented, "Want the rain without the storm. Want good but nose nuh fi run," learn this: Most Jamaicans have been living in an eternal storm with noses running for 25 years. The Jamaicans for whom I write, for example, waiters, gardeners, domestic helpers, security guards, artisans of all kinds, and jobless tertiary graduates are persons who can't even buy a burger for lunch; who must walk to work and back (if they have work); who can't pay rent; who can't afford to marry; who can't even dream of leaving their parents' home, muchless own their own.
These persons are gravely, irretrievably insulted by your impertinence. We're tired of runny nose. We want Afrin. We're tired of storm. We want to hope for a golden sky. And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind;
walk on through the rain;
though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on; walk on with hope in your heart
and you'll never walk alone.
You'll never walk alone.
Written by the legendary duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, You'll Never Walk Alone was composed for the 1945 musical, Carousel, to be sung by Nettie to her cousin, female lead character, Julie, when Julie's husband commits suicide to avoid capture. It has exploded as a song of inspiration of almost divine quality recorded by numerous singing stars, including Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.
For more than 45 years, Jerry Lewis closed his MDA Labour Day telethon with a soul-stirring, tear-jerking version and, of course, Liverpool Football Club fans would cast me into perdition if I omitted that it has become Liverpool's theme song and rallying cry.
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Tesco SWOT & Vision
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I have accepted a position as CEO of Tesco PLC - It was recently revealed that "value" ground beef products at the British grocery chain may contain up to 60% horse meat. While an investigation is underway and those products have been removed from shelves, how can Tesco repair their image?
As CEO I am responsible for maintaining and growing shareholder value. My first action as CEO is to write a report to the Board of Directors outlining my first 90 days on the job. I need to focus on the company's short-term needs, first 90 days, and need to outline a vision for the company's strategy for the next 5 to 10 years. Need to conduct a SWOT analysis along with defining the vision - a vision that will address short-term and long-term needs. With references and citations.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 10, 2019, 7:23 am ad1c9bdddf
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When I joined Tesco as the CEO, I found that value ground beef products contain up to 60% horse meat. My first priority will be to improve the image of Tesco (2). The steps that I will take will be to carry out quick investigation and find out exactly what happened. Next I will address the support staff that face customers relating to the value ground beef problem. I will inform them of the results of investigation. I will take full responsibility for the ground beef scam. I will assess the business impact of the ground beef problem. I will listen to what the customers are saying and I will develop a corporate message that takes responsibility for the scam. I will also disclose the investigations that have been carried out and the investigations that are still on. I will personally go on TV and explain to the customers the steps that Tesco is taking to ensure that such a scam does not happen in future. I will describe some of the quality confirming tests that Tesco will carry out in future. I will closely watch the reaction of people and take action as required to allay the fears of the consumers and reassure them that such adulteration will not take place in future. I will also promise the customers to keep them abreast of the findings in the investigations. Most importantly, I will not lie (3). ...
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-codoped chloride-modified germanate–bismuth–lead glasses have been synthesized by the conventional melting and quenching method. Structural and thermal stability properties have been obtained on the basis of the Raman spectra and differential thermal analysis, which indicate that the addition has an important influence on the phonon density of states, maximum phonon energy, and thermal stability of host glasses. The Judd–Ofelt intensity parameters and quantum efficiencies were calculated on the basis of the Judd–Ofelt theory and lifetime measurements. For the emission band, the full widths at the half-maximum increase and peak wavelengths are blueshifted with increasing content. Moreover, the effect of the addition on the phonon density of states, content, and upconversion luminescence has been discussed and evaluated. Our results reveal that, with increasing content, the decrease of phonon density and content contributes more to the enhanced upconversion emissions than that of maximum phonon energy.
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Concierge Auctions To Sell 1.7-Acre Estate On Lake Burton, Owned And Developed By University Of Alabama Head Football Coach Nick Saban And Luxury Home Developer Jim Suddes, On June 27th
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CLAYTON, Ga., June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New York City-based Concierge Auctions announced that the auction of The Pointe — a waterfront estate on Lake Burton, nestled in North Georgia's Appalachian Mountains — will occur on Thursday, June 27th, three weeks later than the originally scheduled date.
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"There was a surge of late interest on the property, including a pre-auction offer from one of the bidders, which required consideration, and it became clear that allowing everyone ample time to perform their diligence was the right thing to do," stated Mike Russo, Chief Operating Officer for Concierge Auctions. "We already have registrations in hand from multiple well-qualified bidders, so at this point it's simply a question of how much the property will sell for."
"The adjusted date will give all potential buyers more time to visit and experience the home. We look forward to announcing the new owner on June 27th," stated Jim Suddes, seller and 16-year Lake Burton resident.
Developed with the shared vision of University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban and luxury home developer Jim Suddes, The Pointe carries on the legacy of the land while marrying it to their vision of tasteful living. Originally listed for $10.95 million, the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home will be sold in cooperation with 27-year Lake Burton resident and listing agent Julie Barnett of Harry Norman, Realtors® Luxury Lake and Mountain, an exclusive affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate.
Located at 112 Whipporwill Lane in Clayton, Georgia, The Pointe is situated on one of Lake Burton's most prime lots. Built with natural local stone, reclaimed timber beams and heart pine and Pennsylvania Bluestone flooring, the 9,600-square-foot estate offers unparalleled quality, innovation and meticulous attention to detail. Outside, the property features a custom boat house with a swimming dock and an authentic, Cape Cod-style stone lighthouse, which showcases amazing 270-degree lake and mountain views.
"My family and I own another home on the lake, which we have enjoyed for 12 years, so I was excited when this very special lot came available to develop with Jim [Suddes]," stated Saban. "Lake Burton is our favorite getaway. It's a beautiful, hidden gem, where we find great peace and seclusion."
Lake Burton is immediately accessible from Heaven's Landing private airport in Clayton, GA (only 15 minutes from The Pointe) and is only 30 minutes from Highlands, NC; less than two hours from Atlanta, GA, Greenville, SC, and Asheville, NC; three hours from Knoxville and Chattanooga, TN; four hours from Charlotte, NC; and five hours from Nashville, TN.
The auction of The Pointe on Lake Burton will be conducted live on June 27th. A 2% commission is offered to the buyer's representing broker. The property is open for preview daily from 1 to 4pm by appointment. See Auction Terms and Conditions for full details. For more information, visit LakeBurtonAuction.com, call 877.636.7517 or join the online social discussion at #LakeBurtonAuction.
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A 12-year-old girl was among several activists arrested in Pasadena on New Years' Day for protesting a SeaWorld-inspired float at the annual Rose parade. The girl, Rose McCoy, also made headlines back in November when she jumped a barricade at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City to protest the same float. The float, which had to be accompanied by a police escort, has been targeted by PETA before for its depiction of orca whales.
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Gardening is an exciting hobby and with some basic knowledge it is possible to make the experience much pleasant. Gardening is not a new hobby and it is carried by people all around the globe.
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If you've got a classic Mercedes for sale, we'll pay you top dollar!
The history of Mercedes-Benz
In 1885 Paul Daimler, son of Gottlieb, trundled down the strasse in a makeshift vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. It was widely considered to be the world's first car and it was the start of an amazing journey for the Daimler family and the brand that would eventually become Mercedes-Benz.
While Daimler worked, just down the road in Mannheim, Carl Benz was working on his own three-wheeler. The two became competitors, even sharing the podium in the 1908 German Grand Prix. The First World War meant that both companies were strained financially, however, and they finally came together in 1926 in a deal that saved them both.
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The 1950s saw the arrival of the 190 SL and all-conquering 300 SL – the legendary Gullwing, which went on to win the Mille Miglia in the hands of Sir Stirling Moss in SLR form. It was one of motorsport's most famous performances and made a legend out of car and driver. Future models have consistently referred to that model and event, including the modern-day SLS and the McLaren Mercedes SLR that even spawned 722 (Moss´s racing number) and Sir Stirling Moss editions.
The 1960s started off well, too, with the introduction of the 230 SL Pagoda. But it was 1965 that brought the introduction of the firm's flagship – the S Class. This luxury limousine went on to define Mercedes-Benz over the decades and it still does today. Airbags, traction control, seatbelt pre-tensioners and even night vision and crash avoidance systems have made their début on the S-Class.
There are so many other memorable models it is difficult to pay lip-service to them all. There was the comical 300 SEL that took the 6.3-litre V8 from the 600 limousine and shoehorned it into the S-Class in 1966 – a skunkworks project that arguably laid the foundations for sporting luxury cars. Not to mention the 600 Pullman, a luxury limousine that transported several Popes, Hugh Hefner and countless World leaders.
Mercedes-Benz's 190 Evo Cosworth, a stunning riposte to BMW's E30, was the start of a searingly hot series of sporting Mercs. A tie-up with Cosworth produced an almighty 2.3-litre engine that took the fight to BMW in the DTM championship. It was a homologation special, and out of character for Mercedes that now has a whole range of sporting AMG models, but it remains one of the Three-Pointed Star's finest driver's cars ever.


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June 26, 2007
Living at the Pleasure of Rage Boy
It's a thankless task, but it often needs to be performed, so Christopher Hitchens points out the obvious: nothing is ever going to satisfy Rage Boy, the Muslim maniac who has been making a career out of shaking his fist in front of cameras to intimidate us into cowering before Islam.
His tantrums are of course staged, and often involve only a handful of lunatics; but our complicit media helpfully frames every shot to put Rage Boy at the head of an imaginary but vast horde of righteously enraged activists.
It's astonishing that the liberal media, which on its face should be diametrically opposed to the Islamic extremist agenda, would facilitate Rage Boy's photo ops. But what's still more astonishing is that the photo ops work. Every time a restless gang of mental cases in some Pakistani backwater throw themselves on the ground and start kicking and screaming like two-year-olds, the West wrings its hands and pleads, But what do you want from us?
The answer of course is total submission. The willingness of our contemptible media to comply with Muslim censorship demands (as after the Cartoon Intifada) indicates they are on their way to getting it. Hitchens concludes:
Rage Boy keenly looks forward to anger, while we worriedly anticipate trouble, and fret about etiquette, and prepare the next retreat. If taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean living at the pleasure of Rage Boy, and that I am not prepared to do.
Unfortunately, far too many of us are more than ready to live at the pleasure of Rage Boy. A depraved, masochistic urge to submit to the will of Rage Boy is the essence of the widespread sickness known as "multiculturalism."
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 26, 2007 8:10 AM
Just a glance at the photos of that POS, Rage Boy, puts the lie to "multiculturalism."
Posted by: jc14 at June 26, 2007 2:27 PM
Hmmm...a model 29 S&W would fit that mouth nicely.
Posted by: CharlieDontSurf at June 26, 2007 6:26 PM
Excellent commentary... but I also just have to say, that first picture is just TOO funny.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 26, 2007 6:33 PM
Rage boy might be scary, but I still like multiculturalism...
Posted by: Canadian Girl at June 27, 2007 3:53 AM
Canadian Girl
America is a land of many HERITAGES which makes up the "American culture". This "multi-culturalism" that is replacing it is a lot of crap!
Posted by: KHarn at June 27, 2007 6:24 PM
My, my. What a fine vagina-mouth that will make when he finally goes to prison and meets up with other like-minded infidel...er, individuals.
Posted by: fellowes at June 27, 2007 6:55 PM
Purely and simply, "Multiculturalism" is just a touchy-feely term for the phenomenal religion of Despising White Males/Fearing and Worshipping Non-White Males and Females. That's really all it amounts to.
Canadian Girl, is that why you like "Multiculturalism"?
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Date posted: Monday 7th November 2016
In October the Times and Telegraph both carried photos of the deer rut, contributing to the visitors coming to see it.
See the newspaper photos here. We are increasingly concerned about the numbers of people coming from even long distances (the rut featured in the Ilford local newspaper and there are photography trips organised from various parts of London promising to 'get up close and personal' with the deer). The deer are getting stressed and there is an accident waiting to happen. This is not a new phenomenon. See the Times article on 5 November last year here


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So here I am restarting my blogging spirit with my most memorable New Year trip to home. After Assam, my dad is transferred to Ponta Shahib, a famous pilgrim place of Sikh, in a state of Himachal Pradesh. Ponta is really a very beautiful place. Within a circle of 3 hours travel time, there are so many places, like Dehradun, Shimla, Chandigarh, Masoorie , to see.
Just half an hour from my home, there is this place known as "Duck View". Duck view is famous for its migratory ducks that come all the way from Siberia during winters. It is a wonderful place to take some scenic photographs. I also took lots of beautiful photographs of birds. Sharing few of them with you. Please comment if you like any of them.


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Apartment Hunting for College Graduates
It's almost that time of year, where college students will be graduating and heading home for summer! It's an exciting time for everyone, especially parents who can't wait to see their kids! Many college students who are graduating will begin their first apartment search as they begin their lives outside of college. Below is a list of first apartment mistakes many college graduates make. Look over them so that you know what to expect and what to avoid.
- Many times one of the biggest first apartment mistakes new college graduates make is starting their search for their first place a bit too soon. The best time to start searching for your first apartment is three weeks before you want to move in.
- Not realizing just how much it is all going to cost is another huge mistake that many college graduates make when getting their first apartment. If you have been living on campus typically meals are included, however when you get an apartment the meals are on you! Also you need to think about how much utilities and things like internet and cable are going to cost as well. Expenses can add up real quick if you are not careful and will likely be a huge surprise once you move in to your new apartment if you don't plan for them.
- You may not realize that things that have been available to you free of charge in the past or at least it seemed free of charge because it was included in housing costs on campus, are going to cost you money. Such things as toiletries and laundry detergent may not seem like much of an expense but if you are not use to paying for it you may not include it in your estimated costs of apartment living.
- If you have student loans, be sure to keep them in your budget and factor them in to all other costs associated with apartment life. These types of debts can many times be rather large and if you haven't started paying on them yet you may not be aware of just how much of a chunk they will take out of your monthly budget.
These are just a few first apartment mistakes college students tend to make. Keep these in mind when making your final decisions on where you want to live and you may be better able to avoid them.
Courtesy of Montgomery AL Real Estate Expert Sandra Nickel.