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The gold price traded flat until it developed a slight negative bias starting at 2 p.m. Hong Kong time on their Friday afternoon---and by the time the COMEX opened, the price was down about three bucks. "Da boyz" showed up at 8:30 a.m. as expected, as they ran the precious metals down---and the dollar index up. The low tick came at precisely 9:30 a.m. EDT. Gold chopped quietly higher for the remainder of the New York trading session, closing almost back at the COMEX opening price.
The high and low ticks were recorded by the CME Group as $1,178.00 and $1,162.10 in the August contract.
The gold price closed at $1,172.30 spot, down $4.10 from Thursday's close. Net volume was very decent at 138,000 contracts.
Here's the 5-minute gold chart courtesy of Brad Robertson once again. The big volume spike at 8:30 a.m. EDT was pretty impressive at close to 20,000 contracts---and after that, the volume fell off in a hurry. The dark gray line is midnight Thursday---and add two hours for EDT. Don't forget the 'click to enlarge' feature.
The silver price followed a similar, but surprisingly muted price path compared to gold. The low in that metal came at, or shortly after, the London p.m. gold fix. At that point it promptly rallied back above unchanged before getting sold down in the 1:30 p.m. EDT COMEX close. From there it quietly rallied back into positive territory---and closed on its high tick of the day.
The low and high were recorded as $16.925 and $16.16 in the July contract.
Silver finished the Friday session in New York at $16.125 spot, up a nickel from Thursday's close. Net volume was almost the same as Thursday's at 46,500 contracts.
Platinum traded very flat until 2 p.m. Zurich time on their Friday afternoon, which was twenty minutes before the COMEX open. Then down it went as well, with the low coming more or less at the London p.m. gold fix and, like silver and gold, rallied mostly higher as the Friday session drew to a close. Platinum finished the session at $1,095 spot, down 3 bucks on the day.
Palladium, as usual, was a mini version of the platinum price pattern---and it closed on Friday at $750 spot, also down 3 dollars on the day as well.
The dollar index closed late on Thursday afternoon in New York at 95.58---and began to slide quietly lower from there, hitting its 95.36 low tick shortly before 9 a.m. BST in London. It began creeping higher from there---and then blasted higher when the HFT boyz spun their algorithms at 8:30 a.m. EDT. The 96.91 high tick came moments before the equity markets opened in New York. The index fell down to around 96.30 an hour later---and after that it didn't do a lot, closing at 96.31---up 73 basis points on the day.
And here's the 6-month chart to put yesterday's dollar index action in a longer-term perspective.
The gold stocks gapped down about 2 percent at the open, hitting their lows when gold bullion hit its low, which was at the London p.m. gold fix. Like gold, the shares rallied off their lows for the next forty minutes before falling back a bit---and then trading flat for the remainder of the day, despite the fact that gold rallied for the remainder of the Friday session. The HUI finished down another 1.87 percent.
The silver equities followed a similar path, but the rally off their 9:40 a.m. lows was far more substantial---and blasted the stocks back into positive territory. Then, like gold, they sold off a bit from there before trading very flat for the remainder of the Friday session. And, like the gold shares, they did not respond to the subsequent rally in the metal itself, or to the fact that it finished in the black. Nick Laird's Intraday Silver Sentiment Index closed up 0.17 percent.
The CME Daily Delivery Report showed that only 1 gold and 6 silver contracts were posted for delivery within the COMEX-approved depositories on Tuesday. Nothing to see here for the second day in a row.
The CME Preliminary Report for the Friday trading session showed that June open interest in gold continues to fall. Yesterday o.i. dropped by another 166 contracts, leaving 1,097 still open. June o.i. in silver increased by 1 to 41 contracts.
Another day---and another withdrawal from GLD. This time an authorized participant took out 38,357 troy ounces. And as of 9:49 p.m. EDT yesterday evening, there were no reported changes in SLV.
There was another sales report from the U.S. Mint. They sold 6,500 troy ounces of gold eagles---1,500 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes---and 50,000 silver eagles.
Month-to-date the mint has sold 12,000 troy ounces of gold eagles---3,000 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes---and 975,000 silver eagles. Based on these numbers, the silver/gold sales ratio works out to 65 to 1.
There wasn't a lot of action in gold at the COMEX-approved depositories on Thursday. But for the second day in a row there was a transfer from Canada's Scotiabank's depository to HSBC USA. This time it was 10,023 troy ounces.
However, it was a big 'out' day in silver as only 35,915 troy ounces were received---and a chunky 1,204,482 troy ounces were shipped out the door. The two big 'out' movements were at Canada's Scotiabank and the CNT depository---with one truckload apiece. The link to the silver action is here.
Over at the COMEX-approved kilobar depositories in Hong Kong on their Thursday, they reported receiving 3,288 kilobars---and shipped out 4,622 kilobars. The link to that activity, in troy ounces, is here.
The Commitment of Traders Report, for positions held at the close of COMEX trading on Tuesday showed a pretty decent improvement in the Commercial net short position in silver---and almost no change in gold.
In silver, the Commercial net short position declined by 3,933 contracts, or 19.67 million troy ounces. This reduced the total Commercial net short position down to 287.8 million troy ounces. To be anywhere close to 'normal' at a bottom, the Commercial net short position should be a hair over 200 million troy ounces lower than it currently is. That's how grotesque this situation is---and Keith Neumeyer had ever right to bitch and scream at the CFTC about it. More companies should be doing the same thing---and for the same reason. Another company did---and I have that info posted in the The Wrap.
Ted said that the short position of the Big 4 remained unchanged---and with the new numbers from the latest Bank Participation Report in hand, he pegs JPMorgan's short position at 20,000 contracts, up only a thousand from his guesstimate last week. The '5 through 8' traders added 2,600 short contracts to their 6-year record high short position---and the raptors, the commercial traders other than the Big 8, bought 6,300 new longs.
Under the hood in the Disaggregated COT Report, the Managed Money traders, like the Pavlovian dogs they are, sold 4,324 long contracts---and purchased 1,324 short contracts.
As I said earlier, there wasn't much change in the Commercial net short position in gold, as it only decreased by a tiny 1,570 contracts, leaving the new Commercial net short position at 10.82 million troy ounces, which is almost unchanged on the week.
The Big 4 traders only covered 500 short contracts, but the '5 through 8' actually added 2,400 new short contracts to their positions---and the raptors added 3,400 long contracts. Not much to see here.
But, of course, the engineered price decline began anew the day after the cut-off for yesterday's report which, as I pointed on in yesterday's column is a trick of theirs when they want to keep things hidden from public view as long as possible.
Without doubt, there's been very large improvements in the short positions in both gold and silver since Wednesday, but there is still more down-side work to do in both metals---and from a contract perspective, it's ugliest in silver.
Here's Nick Laird's most excellent and rightfully famous "Days of World Production to Cover COMEX Short Positions" for all physically-traded commodities on the COMEX. The short position of the Big 8 in silver is the most grotesque it has ever been. As Ted said above, the short position of the '5 through 8' traders [The Big 4 minus the Big 8] is at a 6-year high. And not to be forgotten in all of this is that JPMorgan and Scotiabank are short about 90 days of world silver production between them---about 80 percent of the red bar.
Riddle me this, dear reader. What would the silver price be if these two banks were forced to cover these short positions? Whatever the price paid to accomplish that task, it would bankrupt both firms---just like it did Bear Stearns back in 2008.
Along with yesterday's Commitment of Traders Report came the companion Bank Participation Report [BPR] for June, for positions held in May. And as I've said in the past---"This is data extracted directly from the above COT Report, which shows the COMEX futures contracts, both long and short, that are held by the U.S. and non-U.S. banks as of Tuesday's cut-off."
In gold, '3 or less' U.S. banks are net short 36,844 COMEX gold contracts. In the May BPR, these same banks were net short 22,885 gold contracts, so the COMEX short position in gold by the U.S. banks has increased by 61 percent in one month. It would be a relatively safe bet to assume that if there are three U.S. banks involved, they are JPMorgan, HSBC USA and Citigroup.
Also in gold, '18 or more' non-U.S. banks were net short 48,106 COMEX gold contracts, an increase of 42 percent since the May BPR. A goodly chunk of this amount, something under 50 percent, is most likely owned by Canada's Scotiabank, so the remainder of the 48,106 contracts split up between '17 or more' non-U.S. banks are more or less immaterial---unless they're all trading as a group, but I don't think that that's the case at all.
Here's Nick's chart of the Bank Participation Report for gold going back to 2000. Charts #4 and #5 are the key ones here. Note the blow-out in the short positions of the non-U.S. banks [the blue bars in chart #4] when Scotiabank's COMEX gold positions [both long and short] were outed in October of 2012.
In silver, '3 or less' U.S. banks are net short 18,459 COMEX silver contracts. That's an increase of about 34 percent since the May BPR. Since Ted pegs JPMorgan's short position at 20,000 COMEX contracts, that means that the remaining two U.S. banks [or maybe just one] has to be net long the COMEX silver market by around 1,500 contracts to make these numbers work out properly. It also proves that JPMorgan is the only U.S. bank that's short the COMEX silver market. If there are two other banks involved, they would be HSBC USA and Citigroup---and if only one, it would be HSBC USA.
Also in silver, '14 or more' non-U.S. banks are net short 29,703 COMEX contracts. That's an increase of 49 percent from the May BPR. As in gold, the biggest non-U.S. bank short in silver is Canada's Scotiabank. I would estimate that between 75 and 80 percent of those 29,703 contracts are owned by Canada's Scotiabank, which makes the short positions of the remaining '13 or more' non-U.S. banks pretty much immaterial.
Here's the BPR chart for silver. Note in Chart #4 the blow-out in the non-U.S. bank short position [blue bars] in October of 2012 when Scotiabank was brought in from the cold. Also note August 2008 when JPMorgan took over the silver short position of Bear Stearns---the red bars. It's very noticeable in Chart #4---and really stands out like the proverbial sore thumb in chart #5.
I estimate that between JPMorgan and Scotiabank, they are currently net short about 43,000 COMEX silver contracts between the two of them.
In platinum, '3 or less' U.S. banks are net short 7,699 COMEX contracts, an increase of only 7 percent from the May Bank Participation Report, which isn't a big change. I'd guess that JPM is short well over half this amount by itself---and maybe only HSBC USA is short the rest. Citi would be a small player, if they are at all.
Also in platinum, '17 or more' non-U.S. banks are net short 9,464 COMEX contracts, which is a small decrease [-2.2%] from the May BPR. If there is a large player in platinum amongst the non-U.S. banks, I wouldn't know which one it is, but 17 divided into 9,464 contracts isn't a lot anyway, unless they're all operating in collusion---which I doubt. But from the numbers it's easy to see that the platinum price management is an American show as well.
Here's the BPR chart for platinum---and please note that the banks were never a factor in platinum until mid 2009. Now look at them! If you want to know why the platinum price isn't going anywhere, despite the supply/demand fundamentals, look at the total long positions the banks have vs. their collective short positions. Palladium too! That tells you all you need to know. The banks are net short about 22 percent of the entire COMEX futures market in platinum.
In palladium, '3 or less' U.S. banks are net short 6,285 COMEX contracts, which is a decrease of 20 percent from the May BPR.
Also in palladium, '11 or more' non-U.S. banks are net short 2,646 COMEX contracts which is a 16 percent improvement from the May BPR.
Here's the BPR chart for palladium updated with the June BPR data. Like platinum above, just look at the long positions vs. the short positions held by the U.S. banks in Chart #5. You couldn't make this stuff up! You should note that the U.S. banks were almost nowhere to be seen in the COMEX futures market in this metal until the middle of 2007---and they became the predominant and controlling factor by the end of Q1 of 2013, where they remain today. I would bet, that like platinum, JPMorgan holds the vast majority of the U.S. banks' short position in palladium---and maybe all of it. And just as matter of interest, the banks, in total, are net short about 30 percent of the entire COMEX futures market in palladium, but it's the '3 or less' U.S. banks that are calling the shots in this metal---and in the other three precious metals as well.
As I say every month at this time, along with the odd Wall Street investment house such as Morgan Stanley and maybe Goldman Sachs, these are "da boyz'---the sellers of last resort---and you can call them what you like. Until they decide, or are instructed to stand back, the prices of all four precious metals are going nowhere---supply and demand fundamentals be damned!
As Jim Rickards so correctly put it, the price management scheme is now so obvious they should be embarrassed about it.
But they obviously aren't.
Before heading into the stories, here's Nick's chart showing the withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange for the week ending May 29. During that week, they reported a withdrawal of 37.082 tonnes.
Here are two more charts courtesy of Nick Laird over at sharelynx.com. The first shows India's gold imports in March---and the second, their silver imports in March. These are big numbers.
I have a lot of stories today, along with quite a few I've been saving for length or content reasons---and I hope you can find time in what's left of your weekend to read the ones that interest you the most. But as is always the case, the final edit is up to you.
One of the defining features of jobs "recovery" and the main reason why wage growth has been so far below the Fed's expectations for years it has prevented wage inflation from appearing despite years of QE, is that the quality of jobs added month after month has disappointing. May was no difference.
Yes, the headline print of 280K job additions was great, but a quick look at how the BLS got there shows that nothing has changed because four of the five main job additions were, as usual for the lowest paid jobs.
Here is the breakdown:
In fact, these lowest quality jobs accounted for two-thirds of all jobs gains in May.
This brief Zero Hedge piece, with an excellent chart, appeared on their Internet site at 10:27 a.m. EDT yesterday morning---and its' courtesy of Dan Lazicki---and it's definitely worth a minute of your time.
Animal spirits are returning to the American workforce.
The number of self-employed workers surged by 370,000 in May, according to the U.S. Labor Department's survey of households released Friday. And nearly 1 million workers have gone to work for themselves since just February.
The report is the latest sign that entrepreneurial activity is on the rise. The number of business start-ups rose in 32 of the 50 U.S. states last year, the Kansas City, Missouri-based Kauffman Foundation reported Thursday. The Kauffman Index of Start-up Activity, which is an indicator of new business creation, had the biggest increase in the past two decades.
"It is evidence of a growing do-it-yourself economy," said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. "The market for self-employed workers is booming and this is a sign of a pickup in entrepreneurial activity."
Well, dear reader, a sentence further down in this story states---"There is reason for some caution in interpreting the data."---and that would be excellent advice if you read this. This Bloomberg article was posted on their website at 10:07 a.m. Denver time yesterday morning---and it's the second offering in a row from Dan Lazicki.
In a January earnings call with investors, Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook made a confident prediction: "2015 will be the year of Apple Pay," he said.
Since then, the company has aggressively courted retailers - and claimed significant success. "We've spoken to all of the top 100 merchants in the U.S., and about half will accept Apple Pay this year, with many more the following year," a company spokesperson recently told Reuters.
But interviews with analysts, merchants and others suggest that Apple's forecast may be too optimistic and that many retailers remain skeptical about the payment system.
This longish, but very interesting story appeared on the Reuters website at 7:34 a.m. EDT on Friday morning---and I thank Orlando, Florida reader Dennis Mong for finding it for us.
Recently Peter Schiff visited Mike Maloney in California. During his stay they filmed nearly 3 hours of discussions about gold, silver, freedom, and the economy in general.
Dan Rubock over at GoldSilver.com sent me this 41:39 minute video interview on Tuesday, but for length reasons it had to wait for my Saturday column. It's definitely worth your time if you have it.
Take a look around the world and it's hard not to conclude that the United States is a superpower in decline. Whether in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East, aspiring powers are flexing their muscles, ignoring Washington's dictates, or actively combating them. Russia refuses to curtail its support for armed separatists in Ukraine; China refuses to abandon its base-building endeavors in the South China Sea; Saudi Arabia refuses to endorse the U.S.-brokered nuclear deal with Iran; the Islamic State movement (ISIS) refuses to capitulate in the face of U.S. air power. What is a declining superpower supposed to do in the face of such defiance?
This is no small matter. For decades, being a superpower has been the defining characteristic of American identity. The embrace of global supremacy began after World War II when the United States assumed responsibility for resisting Soviet expansionism around the world; it persisted through the Cold War era and only grew after the implosion of the Soviet Union, when the U.S. assumed sole responsibility for combating a whole new array of international threats. As General Colin Powell famously exclaimed in the final days of the Soviet era, "We have to put a shingle outside our door saying, 'Superpower Lives Here,' no matter what the Soviets do, even if they evacuate from Eastern Europe."
Strategically, in the Cold War years, Washington's power brokers assumed that there would always be two superpowers perpetually battling for world dominance. In the wake of the utterly unexpected Soviet collapse, American strategists began to envision a world of just one, of a "sole superpower" (aka Rome on the Potomac). In line with this new outlook, the administration of George H.W. Bush soon adopted a long-range plan intended to preserve that status indefinitely. Known as the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Years 1994-99, it declared: "Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union."
This longish essay certainly falls into the absolute must read category for any serious student of the New Great Game---and it appeared on the tomdispatch.com Internet site a week ago Friday. I thank reader M.A. for sending it our way on Monday---and for obvious reasons it had to wait for today's column.
Two years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States. In the days that followed, those journalists and others published documents revealing that democratic governments had been monitoring the private activities of ordinary citizens who had done nothing wrong.
Within days, the United States government responded by bringing charges against me under World War I-era espionage laws. The journalists were advised by lawyers that they risked arrest or subpoena if they returned to the United States. Politicians raced to condemn our efforts as un-American, even treasonous.
Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put our privileged lives at risk for nothing — that the public would react with indifference, or practiced cynicism, to the revelations.
Never have I been so grateful to have been so wrong.
This rather brief opinion piece by Edward, filed from Moscow, showed up on the 'hallowed' pages of The New York Times on Thursday---and it's the first offering of the day from Roy Stephens. It's certainly worth reading.
Canadian PM Stephen Harper has pledged to "strongly oppose" Russia rejoining the Group of Seven nations as long as Vladimir Putin is president. The G7 suspended Moscow last year over the conflict in Ukraine, but hasn't ruled out allowing it back.
"I don't think Russia under Vladimir Putin belongs in the G7. Period," Harper said in an exclusive interview with AP ahead of his trip to Ukraine and the G7 meeting in Bavaria this week. "Canada would very, very strongly oppose Putin ever sitting around that table again. It would require consensus to bring Russia back and that consensus will just not happen."
According to Harper, who faces re-election in October, Moscow is hard to get on with.
It's always embarrassing to have to keep apologizing in public that the leader of your country is a flaming ***hole, but that's certainly the case once again here. I know that the Canadian people will do what's necessary to ensure that this man is put out to pasture for good in October---and that's spoken by a dyed-in-the wool small 'c' conservative, me! I thank reader Jule Mounteer for bringing this story to my attention---and now to yours.
The G7 summit has been accused of suffering from a "crisis of legitimacy" ahead of the opening of Sunday's event in Germany, with leaders criticized for their perceived lack of action when it comes to pledges on improving global inequality, reducing climate change and implementing trade deals.
As the leaders of the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan prepare to discuss a range of issues such as global food security and climate change in Bavaria's Elmau Castle, critics have slammed the G7 concept, accusing it of representing the height of hypocrisy.
"The very concept that seven of the richest nations have a mandate to enact policies and programs that impact the rest of the world is in itself a gross and unjust anachronism," Nick Dearden, director of U.K.-based activist group Global Justice Now said.
While much of the criticism of this year's G7 event has centered on Russia's non-attendance at the Bavarian summit, Dearden says the leaders of the countries involved talks are not matching their words with their actions.
This sputniknews.com article was posted on their website at 6:55 p.m. Moscow time on their Friday evening---and it's the second contribution of the day from Roy Stephens.
Greece cannot accept the latest proposals for a cash-for-reforms deal put on the table by its international lenders but was prepared to negotiate a compromise, Greek Economy Minister George Stathakis said on Friday.
Greece delayed a key debt payment to the International Monetary Fund due on Friday as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras demanded changes to tough terms from international creditors for aid to stave off default.
Stathakis said Greece had the money to pay, but had accepted an offer from the IMF to bundle four payments due in June into a single €1.6 billion lump sum due at the end of the month.
"We are looking forward to getting a deal as soon as possible," he told BBC Radio, but said that while Greece was ready to discuss compromises, it would not accept proposed fiscal adjustments for 2015 and 2016.
This Reuters article, filed from London, appeared on their website at 6:06 a.m. yesterday morning EDT---and it's the second contribution of the day from Dennis Mong.
E.U. leaders continue to play a game of brinkmanship with the Greek government. Athens has met its creditors' demands more than halfway. Yet Germany and Greece's other creditors continue to demand that the country sign on to a programme proven to be a failure, and that few economists ever thought could, would, or should be implemented.
The swing in Greece's fiscal position from a large primary deficit to a surplus was almost unprecedented, but the demand that the country achieve a primary surplus of 4.5% of GDP was unconscionable. Unfortunately, at the time that the "troika" – the European commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund – first included this irresponsible demand in the international financial programme for Greece, the country's authorities had no choice but to accede to it.
The folly of continuing to pursue this programme is particularly acute, given the 25% decline in GDP that Greece has endured since the beginning of the crisis. The troika badly misjudged the macroeconomic effects of the programme they imposed. According to their published forecasts, they believed that, by cutting wages and accepting other austerity measures, Greek exports would increase and the economy would quickly return to growth. They also believed that the first debt restructuring would lead to debt sustainability.
This op-ed piece by Stiglitz was posted on theguardian.com Internet site at 1:40 p.m. BST London time---and I thank South African reader B.V. for sharing it with us. It's worth reading.
The International Monetary Fund is in very serious trouble. Events have reached a point in Greece where the Fund's own credibility and long-term survival are at stake.
The Greeks are not withholding a €300m payment to the IMF because they have run out of money, though they soon will do.
Five key players in the radical-Left Syriza movement – meeting in the Maximus Mansion in Athens yesterday – took an ice-cold, calculated, and carefully-considered decision not to pay.
They knew exactly what they were doing. The IMF's Christine Lagarde was caught badly off guard. Staff officials in Washington were stunned.
On one level, the "bundling" of €1.6bn of payments due to the IMF in June is just a technical shuffle, albeit invoking a procedure last used by Zambia for different reasons in the 1980s. In reality it is a warning shot, and a dangerous escalation for all parties.
This longish, but must read commentary by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard put in an appearance on the telegraph.co.uk Internet site at 3:25 p.m. BST yesterday afternoon, which was 10:25 a.m. EDT in Washington. It's the third offering of the day from Roy Stephens.
While the Greek government believes it may have won the battle, if not the war with Europe, the reality is that every additional day in which Athens does not have a funding backstop, be it the ECB (or the BRIC bank), is a day which brings the local banking system to total collapse.
As a reminder, Greek banks already depends on the ECB for some €80.7 billion in Emergency Liquidity Assistance which was about 60% of total deposits in the Greek financial system as of April 30. In other words, they are woefully insolvent and only the day to day generosity of the ECB prevents a roughly 40% forced "bail in" deposit haircut a la Cyprus.
The problem is that a Greek deposit number as of a month and a half ago is hopefully inaccurate. It is also the biggest problem for Greece, which has been desperate to prevent an all out panic among those who still have money in the banking system.
This Zero Hedge commentary showed up on their website at 2:49 p.m. EDT on Friday afternoon---and I thank reader 'David in California' for passing it around.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone talk with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday. They have discussed Russian gas supplies via Turkish Stream and agreed to meet at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in mid-June.
"Practical steps were discussed to implement agreements reached during the recent working visit of Alexis Tsipras to Russia, particularly the planned construction of the gas transport infrastructure across the territory of Turkey and Greece," the press service said.
The talks with the Russian president came hours before the Greek prime minister is due to address the country's parliament about the EU proposal.
The Russian and Greek leaders have recently stepped up contacts, especially regarding the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. It is planned for the pipeline to transport 47 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas to the Turkish-Greek border.
This news item appeared on the Russia Today website at 10:32 a.m. Moscow time on their Friday morning, which was 3:32 a.m. EDT in Washington. It's another contribution from Roy Stephens.
A leaked document attributed to investor George Soros outlines the billionaire's plan for Ukraine, which essentially boils down to an ambitious idea to use Kiev to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin, investigative historian Eric Zuesse said.
The confidential document, allegedly part of communications between Soros and Ukrainian authorities, was published by hacktivists from CyberBerkut, known for releasing embarrassing revelations with regard to the U.S. meddling in Ukraine.
"While it would be more desirable to have Russia as a partner than an enemy, that is impossible as long as Putin persists in his current policies," Zuesse quoted Soros as saying. In other words, Moscow should be a partner but Russian leader has to go, the historian said referring to Soros' stance.
This is not 'new' news, as I've posted something about this before---and the story from other sources has been floating around for about a month. This iteration appeared on the sputniknews.com Internet site at 2:56 p.m. Moscow time yesterday afternoon---and I thank U.K. reader Tariq Khan for sending it our way.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed on Friday his decision to sell his businesses and transfer his stake in the Roshen confectionary corporation under a trust agreement to Rothschild Investment Company.
"I signed a deal with the world-famous and the world's best Rothschild Company, which is now looking for buyers. Three such potential buyers have already stepped forward and are analyzing the company's legal status and financial performance," Poroshenko said during a news briefing devoted to his annual address to parliament.
"The transfer will be done so that my name is not mentioned among Roshen's owners," Poroshenko added.
One of the world's main confectionery producers, Roshen Corporation annually turns out around 450,000 tons of chocolate and jelly sweets, caramel, chocolate, biscuits, waffles, and cakes.
This is another story from the sputniknews.com website---and it's also courtesy of Tariq Khan. It was posted on their Internet site at 5:07 p.m. Moscow time on their Friday afternoon, which was 10:07 a.m. in New York.
From FIFA to George Soros the Ukraine is turning into a melting pot of personalities and hot spots of intrigue. John Batchelor and Stephen F. Cohen once more discuss the most serious news of this new Cold War.
On the Russia Washington front Senator John McCain and the usual suspects rev up the rhetoric against the corruption in FIFA and targets for vandalism the World Cup games for Moscow in 2018. Cohen notes that once more International games institutions are being politicised by Washington as a campaign to take this event from Russia, and it sets a precedent for a new and most inappropriate front for politics.
Then there is the very strange story of Mikhail Saakashvili, former president of Georgia becoming governor of the province of Odessa in Ukraine. He is now under indictment for various crimes in Georgia while in office there, and most importantly he was responsible for the 2008 Georgia War against Russia – as Washington's man behind the hostilities. Cohen describes his history at length and refers to his appointment as "weird" and a "detonator" for problems ahead in the Ukrainian Civil War. He is a long term Russian hater who is to be governor of a province that is culturally like the Donbass- in a word Russian. And in Russia many Russians see Odessa as more part of Russia than Ukraine – similar to Crimea. Cohen thus considers Saakashvili a "time bomb" and a "provocation".
There is much more in this broadcast as Cohen gives great context to comparing the ending of the Soviet Union under Gorbekev and the political realities of the new Russia under Putin. As usual the insights gained about Russia are not available anywhere else, and all of these broadcasts are important for those who follow the New Great Game.
Reader Ken Hurt was the first person through the door with this on Wednesday, but the entire preamble above is courtesy of Larry Galearis. This 39:48 minute audio interview was posted on the johnbatchelorshow.com Internet site on Tuesday.
This 24:20 minute video interview with Sergey showed up on thesaker.is Internet site back on June 3---and I'm not sure of the exact date of the Bloomberg interview, but it's most likely less than a week old.
I haven't watched it yet, but it's on my 'to do' list this weekend. Roy Stephens sent it to me on Wednesday---and it's another one of those news items that had to wait for the weekend.
Sberbank has issued its first yuan-denominated letters of credit that involve funding from the Export-Import Bank of China to Russia's largest pharmaceutical company.
Pharmasyntez, Russia's leading drug manufacturer, appealed to Sberbank with a request for funding credit guarantees in Chinese national currency as part of contracts for the supply of imported pharmaceutical products worth over 29 million yuan ($4.6 million), Sberbank said in a statement Friday.
Sberbank has become the first Russian bank to issue letters of credit in yuan; the decision was announced in November 2014.
"The development of cooperation with The Export-Import Bank of China expands Sberbank's possibilities to finance clients' foreign trade with Chinese counterparties."
This story appeared on the Russia Today website at 5:02 p.m. Moscow time on their Friday afternoon---and I thank Roy S. for sharing it with us.
Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen corrects a news agency report this week that grossly exaggerated Russia's gold reserves.
His commentary is headlined "Media Failure on Russia's Official Gold Reserves" and it was posted on the Singapore-based website bullionstar.com yesterday. I thank Chris Powell for providing the above two paragraphs of introduction---and it's definitely worth reading.
China is in the late stages of constructing its thirteenth five-year plan, a process that commenced over a year ago and will result in a first draft in October. While the bulk of the plan will concern regional and domestic development, it is the international aspects that will concern the rest of the world. The plan, which will produce specific goals for 2016-20, is already having an effect on China's foreign and trade policy.
At its centre will be a shift of emphasis away from trade with the advanced nations, whose prospects are bound to subside towards their level of economic growth. Instead, to maintain the long-term objective of 7% growth in GDP China will turn her attention to improving Asia's infrastructure, a policy for which the building-blocks are now in place. The Silk Road Project is advancing from the drawing board, and the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which will arrange finance for projects totalling as much as $20 trillion over the next thirty years, was formally established this year.
Working in partnership with China through the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be Russia, whose resources are central to Asia's modernisation. The SCO will eventually cover a territory from the Bering Strait to the Persian Gulf. To obtain extra resources, China has already established a dominant presence on the ground in Sub-Saharan Africa, secured the undivided attention of the Middle East by being its largest customer, and through its own diaspora can count on the cooperation of the South-East Asian nations currently in the West's sphere of influence. At the end of the thirteenth plan a substantial majority of the world's population will have become involved one way another.
The implications for the West are becoming apparent. We have already seen how Europe and Japan have clamoured to join the AIIB, despite their alliances with America. Unfortunately, America has been a Goliath to China's David: her mistake has been not to recognise the passing of her own era and embrace a future based on Asia.
This short, but must read article by Alasdair showed up on the goldmoney.com Internet site yesterday---and I thank Dan Lazicki for his final contribution to today's column.
Over the long haul, gold is the least risky and potentially most rewarding of all investment asset classes." So says New York-based specialist gold analyst, Jeff Nichols, in his latest Nicholsongold newsletter. Admittedly Nichols falls into the gold bull camp, but is at the realistic end of gold analysis, seeing both potential upsides and downsides ahead. His latest article is headed Gold: Now is the time, and in it he lays out the various factors which he sees as having the potential to drive the gold price in the medium to long term – and as noted in the first sentence of this article he sees a reasonable investment in physical gold (not gold derivatives) – perhaps 5% – 10% of an investment portfolio – as key to protecting one's assets over time.
So what factors does he point to as being the likely positive points for investment in gold? In truth he is primarily stating the obvious here, but it's an 'obvious' which is often ignored by mainstream investors who seek more rapid returns than gold tends to offer. But rapid returns are themselves risky – it's all very well chasing the stock markets upwards but as investors have found to their cost, bull markets tend to be followed by a crash and investors are notoriously bad at recognising when a crash begins and by the time they try to take their profits it is usually too late.
But some of the factors which could very easily come into play could have both an adverse impact on the general stock markets and a positive impact on gold.
Lawrie comments on a Jeff Nichols piece that was posted on the Internet early this week. But Nichols conveniently forgets to mention the fact that black swans don't matter in a rigged market. All that matters is what's happening in the COMEX futures market---and as I keep saying, until JPMorgan et al get the word, precious metal prices aren't going anywhere.
Bloomberg Intelligence suggest gold-backed yuan see gold at $64,000 per ounce
- "Chinese gold standard would need a rate 50 times bullion's price"
- As China-U.S. relations deteriorate, gold-backed yuan possible
- Dollar and financial and monetary dominance of U.S. at risk
- U.S. and China war of words continues to escalate
- China rejects U.S. hegemony in Southeast Asia
- Currency war to escalate
If China were to partially back its yuan with gold it would require a gold price of $64,000 per ounce, 50 times gold bullion's price today, according to a recent article from respected Bloomberg Intelligence.
It seems like an outlandish forecast. However, as tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate such a scenario is not actually as implausible as it may first appear.
This isn't the first time that I've seen such an outlandish gold price mentioned. The first time was from blogger Adam Hamilton over a decade ago. His number at the time was $51,000 the ounce. This commentary by Mark O'Byrne was posted on the goldcore.com Internet site on Friday BST sometime---and it's certainly worth reading. I would have found this story on my own, but Roy Stephens saved me the trouble---and I thank him for his last offering in today's column.
There is a continuous debate taking place as to whether the principal precious metals prices are being manipulated by the big money for whatever reasons, or indeed in the case of gold at the instigation of some big Central Banks of which the US Fed is reckoned to be the main culprit. The idea is completely dismissed as complete rubbish by most mainstream gold analysts – indeed most will never mention the possibility. But activist groups like the Gold Anti Trust Action Committee (GATA) have researched, and put forward, some compelling evidence, dating back many years, which does indeed suggest that the monetary establishment has certainly been predisposed towards controlling the gold price as a runaway yellow metal price is seen as a destabilising influence on the global fiat currency system in terms of suggesting a global lack of confidence in paper money.
The jury remains out here – those who believe in gold price manipulation and repression will not be moved from their viewpoints, while the mainstream still looks upon these proponents as representing the lunatic fringe – 'gold cultists' was the term used at the recent Bloomberg Precious Metals Forum in London. Be this as it may there is an indication that the 'cultists' may be gaining a little ground in that some hitherto reluctant very respectable mainstream media have at least recognised in print that there is a raft of opinion which holds this view, having totally ignored this in the past.
But that is gold – with all the political implications that exist. The depths of government economic policies may be devious and remain well hidden with the ultimate intent of maintaining confidence in the status quo. We continually see this in the form of economic indicator goalposts being moved to present data in a more favourable light, so why not organise surreptitious gold price controls to do the same? Who knows outside the economic establishment itself – and it's not saying apart from denials of such a policy. But who believes such denials these days at any level of the political process?
This longish but absolute must read commentary by Lawrie put in an appearance on the mineweb.com Internet site at 4:59 p.m. London time on their Friday afternoon, which was 11:59 a.m. in New York. I found it all by myself in the wee hours of this morning---and must admit that I was both surprised and gratified to see it.
These four photos are from a couple of weeks ago. These two ring-billed gulls had been standing on the shore and looking at me [and each other] for over half an hour without moving. I generally ignored them. Then things began to get more interesting---and until the final moments, I had no idea what was about to happen. Fortunately, I had the camera at the ready---and the last shot is totally uncropped and right of the camera. Twenty-five feet/eight meters distance is point blank range for a 400mm telephoto lens---and I couldn't even get them both totally in frame.
There are several more photos in this sequence, but modesty and decency prevents me from posting them here, as it's all "XXX rated seagull porn" without much foreplay involved. If you send me US$29.95---plus three coupons from specially market boxes of Fruit Loops---I'll send you the photos.
Avnel Gold (TSX:AVK) is a gold mining, exploration, and development company with operations in south-western Mali. The Company's focus is to develop its 80%-owned Kalana Main Project into a low-cost, open-pit mining operation.
In Q1-2014, the Company reported the results of a PEA based upon a Mineable Resource of 1.58 million ounces at a diluted grade of 3.1 g/t. The PEA outlines a 14-year mine life recovering 1.46 million ounces at an average "AISC" of $577/oz with a capex of $149 million. At $1,110/oz and a 10% discount rate, the NPV was $194 million after-tax and imputed interest with an IRR of 53% on a 100% project basis. Similarly, at a 5% discount rate and at $1,300/oz, the NPV was $424 million with an IRR of 74%. Since the PEA, the open-pit diluted Indicated Resource has increased to 2.2 million ounces at a diluted grade of 3.06 g/t.
Avnel plans to complete its fully-funded 141-hole, 23,500-metre drill program in mid-2015, which is expected to provide for a steady flow of news over the coming months. This drilling will be form the basis for an updated Resource Estimate in Q3-2015 and DFS that is scheduled to be completed in Q1-2016. Please contact Jeremy Link with questions or for more information.
Since [last] Saturday, there have been several articles published highlighting the large number of June gold contracts still open and, while not stating explicitly that there would be a delivery default, described how such a default was possible; particularly since the amount of "registered" gold in the COMEX warehouse inventories was so low (around 370,000 oz) compared to the 550,000 equivalent ounces still open in the June contract.
A failure to deliver physical metal, in COMEX gold or silver or in any other commodity or on any other exchange, to a holder of a long position qualified to take delivery would not only be a delivery default, it would also most likely result in the closing of trading in that commodity and perhaps the closing of the exchange involved. It is the most serious issue possible from a contract and an exchange perspective and should not be referred to as just another thing. And there is no such thing as a minor or major default – any delivery default would be catastrophic for the exchange involved.
While I did note that conditions in the June COMEX gold delivery did look tighter than usual, due to tightening spread premiums and the level of remaining open interest, I generally avoid focusing on the registered vs. eligible categories of COMEX warehouse inventories, preferring to stick to the combined total warehouse inventories. The reason I do so is because the difference between registered and eligible gold and silver in the COMEX warehouses is strictly a matter of paper work. That appeared to be the case in delivery and warehouse developments this [past] week. -- Silver analyst Ted Butler: 03 June 2015
Today's pop 'blast from the past' was an easy choice today. I've posted this before, but it's been a year or two---and it's one of my favourite pop/rock songs of all time. It's Richard Harris 'singing' MacArthur Park---and the link is here. There's a 3:14 minute tribute to this work---and it's linked here. If you love the song, this youtube.com video is worth your while as well.
Today's classical 'blast from the past' was pretty easy too. This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius---and not a week goes by without hearing something on CBC FM by this Finnish composer. Here's his violin concerto in D minor Op. 47---and South Korean violin prodigy Soyoung Yoon does the honours. Her playing and interpretation is as good as it gets, as is the audio track---but the video quality is not quite what one would expect from a modern recording, but it's OK for the close ups. The link is here.
I must admit that I was expecting JPMorgan et al to hit gold and silver harder than they did on the jobs numbers yesterday. What the Friday session turned out looking like was just another slice off all four precious metal salamis. Just eyeballing the charts below, I'd guess that we've got another $25 or so in gold left to the downside---and maybe 75 cents in silver, if these engineered price declines unfold as they have in the past. But, as Ted keeps saying---and I mentioned in yesterday's column, it's the number of contracts and not the price that's important.
Here are the 6-month charts for all four precious metals, so you can see how "da boyz" are progressing, as we await the final washouts to the downside.
And before I forget, I'd like to mention that another company has sent off a letter to the CFTC about the goings-on the COMEX futures market in silver---and that came courtesy of CEO Jason Reid over at Gold Resource Corporation. The amazing thing about his letter is that it's posted on the SEC's website---and the link to that is here.
Let's hope that there are lots more of these letters to come.
As for precious metal prices going forward, I certainly don't want to put a stake in the ground at this juncture. For the moment JPMorgan et al, which certainly includes the BIS, have an iron grip on prices---and as I always say, until that changes, nothing changes.
Sure, there are lots of economic, financial and political black swans out there, but that matters not at the moment.
Some of the stories about gold coming from the China and Russia lately have all the appearance of rattling the cages of the Western financial system---and it remains to be seen if anything comes of it. But as I've said on many occasions, if push really becomes shove, nothing would surprise me on this front.
The world is certainly going to hell in the proverbial hand basket---and it's now obvious in all quarters that the current financial and monetary system is floating off the rails. That's been going on for years now, but the process appears to be accelerating on all fronts---and one has to wonder how long things can last before everything either blows up or melts down.
Will precious metals save us? One hopes so, as I've pretty much bet the ranch on that outcome. But, as I and others have said before, we should be careful what we wish for, as the world that emerges from the other side of whatever Armageddon awaits us ain't going to be pretty.
That's all I have for the day---and the week.


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Solidarity with Rossport opposition to oil pipeline
A second successful blockade was held this morning outside the Shell Oil Terminal on Centre Park Rd. in Cork. The blockade was held in solidarity with the Rossport 5. About 20 people turned up at 7.30 am. This time Shell reacted aggressively, 'ordering' protestors away from their gates.
Oil Tankers Turned Back AgainA second successful blockade was held this morning outside the Shell Oil Terminal on Centre Park Rd. in Cork. The blockade was held in solidarity with the Rossport 5. About 20 people turned up at 7.30 am. This time Shell reacted aggressively, 'ordering' protestors away from their gates.
However after being given short shrift by the blockade, the Gardaí were called. By this time the three gates into the Terminal were blocked. The Gardaí - a force of four! - consulted with Shell management and then desisted from attempting to force any of the tankers through. One theory suggests that Shell is running scared to the adverse publicity in the light of the growing boycott of their operations. In all nearly 10 tankers were prevented from entering. However one tanker did attempt to run a line of picketers with nearly tragic consequences. But this tanker also turned back.
The protest continued until 9 am. A mass meeting of protestors agreed to call a further protest this Thursday morning at the same time.
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by Joe Wed Jul 13, 2005 18:33
For the background to the protests see
by Bob - Kimberley Mon Mar 12, 2012 19:21
Worldwide these guys continue there ways. Wake up Shell you don't deserve the name. You continue your lawful path. We now know who is the law. sHELL
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One approach to forecasting the natural long-term climate trend is to estimate the time constants of response necessary to explain the observed phase relationships between orbital variation and climatic change, and then to use those time constants in the exponential-response model. When such a model is applied to Vernekar's (39) astronomical projections, the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate (80).
The point about timescales is worth noticing: predicting an ice age (even in the absence of human forcing) is almost impossible within a timescale that you could call "imminent" (perhaps a century: comparable to the scales typically used in global warming projections) because ice ages are slow, when caused by orbital forcing type mechanisms.
Will also quotes "a full-blown 10,000-year ice age" (Science, March 1, 1975). The quote is accurate, but the source isn't. The piece isn't from "Science"; it's from "Science News". There is a major difference: Science is (jointly with Nature) the most prestigous journal for natural science; Science News is not a peer-reviewed journal at all, though it is still respectable. In this case, its process went a bit wrong: the desire for a good story overwhelmed its reading of the NAS report which was presumably too boring to present directly.
The Hays paper above is the most notable example of the "ice age" strand. Indeed, its a very important paper in the history of climate, linking observed cycles in ocean sediment cores to orbital forcing periodicities. Of the other strand, aerosol cooling, Rasool and Schneider, Science, July 1971, p 138, "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate" is the best exemplar. This contains the quote that quadrupling aerosols could decrease the mean surface temperature (of Earth) by as much as 3.5 degrees K. If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age!. But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem). There are, incidentally, other scientific problems with the paper: notably that the model used was only suitable for small perturbations but the results are for rather large perturbations; and that the estimate of CO2 sensitivity was too low by a factor of about 3.
Probably the best summary of the time was the 1975 NAS/NRC report. This is a serious sober assessment of what was known at the time, and their conclusion was that they didn't know enough to make predictions. From the "Summary of principal conclusions and recommendations", we find that they said we should:
- Establish National climatic research program
- Establish Climatic data analysis program, and new facilities, and studies of impact of climate on man
- Develope Climatic index monitoring program
- Establish Climatic modelling and applications program, and exploration of possible future climates using coupled GCMs
- Adoption and development of International climatic research program
- Development of International Palaeoclimatic data network
Which is to say, they recommended more research, not action. Which was entirely appropriate to the state of the science at the time. In the last 30 years, of course, enormous progress has been made in the field of climate science.
Most of this post has been about the science of 30 years ago. From the point of view of todays science, and with extra data available:
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You can get it now. You think the powers that be would have an issue w/ beequick?...JP
Hey buddy, I had one set up for today but its too cold, rescheduled for next Thursday. Gonna fart around today and extract rest of honey that's been in kitchen, wife will maybe love me again!When are those boxes leaving my kitchen! :devilbanana:...JP


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So I'm new to the forum and I just realized that I expressed bad forum form by asking a question before even introducing myself. *slaps self on hands*
Anywho, I'm new to the armor making business, but I'm really excited about it, I've been looking for a new project and I've loved mandos for a long time. Hell I was rping a mando chick before it was even comfirmed that they even existed lol.
So I'm excited to get to know everyone! I've been a lurker for a while so I was a tad bit shy about poking my head out and saying hi, but I'm glad I have.
You all seem like a great group and the JB project was amazing so I can't wait to start being a bit more active around here.
Wishing everyone well and I'll see you guys around the forums!


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Hey all,
First post so a little bit worried as I know this topic has been done a few times but I decided to record a vid. Firstly setting up ssh and showing how you can connect using putty, then x11 using xming and putty and finally the ftp over ssh.
Bit nervous that I've miss the point or its bad, also the virtual box additions let me down and I have a square mouse.
ssh in bt5
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text: I have returned to PF.com in time for the forthcoming NBA draft; and, in doing so, I present the traditional return topic. So, PF.com, how do you spend the summer away from Pistons basketball? I believe it can be assumed that most fans, like The Byrds, simply turn, turn, turn until a new season arrives. But for the fans who invest emotionally into the hopefully masterful composition that is being written - following every counterpoint and crescendo - how do you organize and interpret your emotions? Personally, I usually have a big project lined up for the summer. This year, it's helping to restore my good friend Bobby Brown's old winnebago. It's been in his community for five decades and was just recently passed onto him. Everyone has used that winnebago at one point, so it would be great to help the tradition to continue.


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The Canisius baseball team took both games from rival Niagara University at the Demske Sports Complex on Saturday. The Golden Griffins rallied for a 4-3 walk-off win in the opener and then cruised to a 22-1 victory in the nightcap to improve to 36-13 overall and 13-7 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Game One — Canisius 4, Niagara 3
Niagara (16-34, 9-14 MAAC) scored the first three runs of the game, starting with an RBI triple from Jordan Schwartz in the first inning. In the third, an RBI double from Ryan McCauley and an RBI single from Greg Rodgers gave Niagara the 3-0 lead. The Griffs got on the board in the fourth on an RBI single from sophomore Mike Krische. Canisius made it a one-run game in the fifth on a two-out, solo homer from senior Brooklyn Foster.
The Griffs rallied in the ninth, starting with a leadoff walk from junior Ronnie Bernick. Junior Ryan Coppinger beat out an infield single to shortstop to get the first two runners on base. Sophomore Connor Panas dropped down a bunt to third base, beating out the throw with the throw getting away and allowing pinch runner Jose Torralba to score and knot the score at 3-3. Junior Jimmy Luppens threw lined a single to center field to score Coppinger, giving Luppens his second walk-off hit of the season and the Griffs their third walk-off win of the season.
Sophomore Garrett Cortright (10-2) threw his fourth complete game of the season, allowing three runs on eight hits and striking out five. Cortright needed 97 pitches and only gave up two hits in the final six innings.
Game Two – Canisius 22, Niagara 1
Nine Golden Griffins recorded hits, nine players had at least one RBI and 10 Griffs scored at least one run in the nightcap. Canisius scored in five of their six at-bats, plating at least two runs in each of those five innings.
The Griffs loaded the bases with no outs in the first, but Schwartz got Foster to hit into a double play to get two outs but senior Christian Segar scored to make it 1-0. Panas scored later in the inning on the first of five Niagara errors in the game. Canisius broke the game open in the second inning, scoring eight runs and sending 13 batters to the plate. Foster had the big hit, a grand slam to center field. Krische also had a two-RBI double as the Griffs went up by 10 runs. The Griffs added two runs in the third on a sacrifice fly from senior Chris Gruarin and an RBI double from Torralba.
Canisius had another big inning with seven runs in the fourth on just three hits. Luppens had an RBI single, Segar had a two-RBI single and senior Manny Hernandez and freshman Brett Siddall forced home runs after being hit by a pitch as eight Griffs were hit by a pitch in the game. The Griffs scored three more runs in the sixth, getting an RBI double from Siddall, an RBI single from Segar and an RBI groundout from Panas.
Freshman Alex Godzak (8-2) threw six shutout innings to win for the third consecutive start. Godzak allowed four hits and walked one while striking out three.
Canisius and Niagara will conclude the three-game series on Sunday, with first pitch set for 1 p.m.
Notes: The 22 runs scored by the Griffs are the most scored by a MAAC team this season… The 21-run victory is tied for the eighth-largest win by a Division I team this season… The 22 runs scored are the most since the Griffs scored 24 against Buffalo on March 7, 2012… The 21-run margin of victory is the biggest by the Griffs in a MAAC game in program history and matches the biggest win (23-2 over Hilbert on April 26, 1994) since 1980.
The grand slam from Foster was the first by a Golden Griffin since Drew Pettit at Kentucky on March 9, 2012... Canisius broke the program record for hit by pitch in a season and now has 108 HBPs on the season... The Griffs have now batted around 20 times on the season, matching a season-high with 13 batters in the second inning. Canisius has batted around 10 times in the last 17 games… Godzak has not allowed a run in his last 17.1 innings pitched… Sophomore Sean Ritter made his first appearance for the Golden Griffins, pinch-hitting in the sixth inning of the second game… Canisius takes the series from Niagara for the seventh consecutive season… Canisius has won 10 of its last 11 home games… The Griffs improve to 35-12 in MAAC series during the last six seasons… Canisius now holds a 77-76 lead in the all-time series with Niagara, holding a lead in the series for the first time since April 16, 2001… The Griffs have 12 walk-off wins in their last 77 victories at the Demske Sports Complex.


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Knowing who will use your software is important to the software development process. Having the end-user in mind helps you develop features that fit the user's needs. And, figuring out your end-user, as Jeff Patton reveals, is indeed easy. In this column, Jeff details stereotypes to avoid, questions to ask, and how to implement this pragmatic persona in your development process.
A "persona," when used in software development, is a simple, valuable, concrete example user of your software. Here, I explain how to create pragmatic personas quickly.
You are Not Your User
"You are not your user" is the cautionary mantra used by people who do user-centered design work. It's a good one, because it's so easy to ask yourself what you would like when making choices about features to put in a product, as well how those features look and behave. "Self-substitution" is the most common trap we fall into when making software functionality and UI decisions.
The next most common trap is simply asking users what features they want and building them. That story often ends with users' getting what they asked for and still not being satisfied with the product. The software team then grumpily complains that the users "always change their mind" or "never know what they want." If your user community is sufficiently large or diverse, you're likely to get many contradictory messages when asking users what they want.
Ultimately, we as software professionals, equipped with an understanding of what software can do and how to build it, should be making some good decisions about what software to build based on understanding what users really value.
That's where the idea of a persona comes in.
A persona is an example of a specific user written into a document whom those making choices about the software can use to evaluate decisions about software features. It's not based on one user, but a synthesis of information about many users. So, even though a persona may look like it's describing a real person, that person is fictitious. Having this fictitious person helps us not get hung up on ourselves as the user or any single user's opinions. It's a neutral "design target"-the person we're trying to satisfy. The hope is that making this persona happy will result in making all people like the persona happy.
While it is true that personas should be built on rigorous research, this notion is exactly what stopped me from making good use of personas for many years. I used to get hung up on the term "research" because it sounds science-y, and I'm not. I later found that the great deal of time I generally spent talking with users and watching them work counts as research. There are more rigorous ways to plan, execute, and make sense of research results—all ways are valuable—but, at minimum, it's good to observe users first hand.


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Canisius College junior Billy Baron has been named CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Most Valuable Player for the 2012-13 season, CollegeInsider.com announced today. Baron helped lead the Golden Griffins to a 20-14 overall record and an 11-7 mark in MAAC play in his first season with Canisius, which ended with the program's first postseason appearance in 17 years.
A native of East Greenwich, R.I., Baron led the team with 17.2 points per game, and his 5.0 assists per game ranked first in the MAAC and 62nd in the country. He shot 43.9 percent from the field, 38.2 percent from 3-point range and 82.4 percent from the free-throw line and he was also good for 4.1 rebounds per contest. An All-MAAC First-Team honoree, the 6-foot-2 guard scored a total of 584 points, the most for a Canisius player in the last 28 years. He posted a career-high 33 points in the team's win at Niagara Feb. 10, to help the Blue and Gold end their nine-game road losing streak to their long-time rival, and he is the first Griff to score 30 or more points in a game three times in the same season since Ray Hall did that in 1984-85.
Baron ended the season ranked among the top-10 in the MAAC in seven different statistical categories, including scoring (third), assists (first), free-throw percentage (fifth), 3-point field goal percentage (eighth), 3-point field goals made per game (ninth), assists-to-turnover ratio (third) and minutes played (10th). A team captain in his first season at Canisius, Baron played in all 34 games and made 33 starts.Canisius' 20 wins in 2012-13 are the most for the team since 2000-01, and it marks the seventh 20-win campaign in school history. The Griffs won 11 league games for the first time since 1998-99 and the team earned a berth into the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, where the Blue and Gold advanced to the quarterfinal round. The team will return three starters and six letterwinners to next year's roster.


text: You can say "You were wrong" all you want but you have nothing backing up your statements like I have done. Lets begin with AI being replaced at PG on every team he has been on... In his rookie season he mainly played PG while Stackhouse played SG. In 1996-97 AI played over 40 mpg while Stackhouse played 37.5 mpg which consumed most of the backcourt time. In his rookie season (playing the PG position) he averaged over 23 ppg and 7 apg. 1996-97 Philadelphia 76ers Roster and Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com Allen Iverson Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com Jerry Stackhouse Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com In 1998 again AI and Stack played most of the time in the backcourt. Snow just got on the team and played 18 mpg. McKie played 23 mpg. McKie and Stackhouse, can we agree?, played SG. This meant AI was the PG. Aaron McKie Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com 1997-98 Philadelphia 76ers Roster and Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com Eric Snow Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com Now it is too time consuming to go through each year so I will go to the year the Sixers "replaced AI at PG". In 2000 the Sixers main guards were McKie, Hughes, Snow, and AI. McKie averaged less than 3 APG a game, Hughes about 1.5 APG, but they played less than AI so it is not right to compare their ability to play PG for the Sixers to him. On the other hand. Snow averaged 3 more APG than AI did that year, but he averaged 70% less points per game. They also only had about a 5 mpg difference too. AI was not replaced at PG. AI just outscored Snow more than Snow outassisted him so AI naturally moved to the SG position with some minutes here and there from Hughes and McKie. In Denver I do not know who this other player is that you are talking about. Out of the 3 players I mentioned AI, Carter, and Smith. AI played both PG and SG, PG with Smith, and SG with Carter. He was not replaced. He just did not play PG all the time because Carter could not play SG. And as for Detroit AI has not been replaced by anyone because he is the one who is coming in. In fact he replaced Rip in the backcourt, who replaced Tayshaun at SF, who replaces Amir at PF.


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Why, indeed? Blogs are the very antithesis of zines, and I've always pictured zines as a smack in the face to blogaholics. So why do we have them on this site? I've tried to "go with the flow" and leave a substantial amount of blog entries on my site, and only one got any responses. What was that one entry about? Blogs, and why no one reads them within this network. I think we could save WMZ a lot of money by eliminating the concepts of blogs altogether and just having discussions and personal messages. What do other people (especially literary-minded zinesters) think of this?
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Jetta TDI Wagon. Totally blah driving experience and awfully cramped inside IMO.
TCL led me to believe this was Zeus's Chariot.
Jetta TDI Wagon. Totally blah driving experience and awfully cramped inside IMO.
TCL led me to believe this was Zeus's Chariot.
I forgot the CTS-V.
Impressive, but not really fun.
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I was just getting my license and my dad took me to test drive one. I still remember thinking "That's it?". It was pretty torquey down low and then it was done.
Thought it would be a fun, sporty drive. Slow, boring drive. Cramped interior. At 6'3", the only thing that allowed me to fit was to open the sunroof so I had a recess for my head to go into. I still think its a cool looking car. Just would never want to own one.
Jack of all trades.
Here is another one for me. 1st gen Acura TSX auto, looked at these used at one point and overall really liked the car to be honest. The design is timeless and still looks good, the size is perfect for a mid-sized sedan, the interior was just right for the most part. I was thinking the car was going to be a little faster than it was. If I closed my eyes while accelerating I would have thought I was driving a '97 era Accord sedan LX Automatic.
I mean the aggressive nose, rear and stock dual exhaust makes you think your getting into a four-door Type R Integra. Again I would totally buy one for DD usage, but it's missing the thrust when you are trying to cut.
This Gen X-Terra Supercharged...
Test drove one of these when they were new, even drove the N/A version back to back. Honestly I couldn't tell the Supercharger had made a difference, powe still dropped offf a cliff after 3500 RPM. I was driving a 3.4 V6 Tacoma Crew Cab PreRunner and actually felt like it had more power than the S/C X-Terra.
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Mk3 GTI VR6. Totally thought I'd be blown away. Totally disappointed by the lack of...everything.
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I was so excited to drive one of these. Everyone raves about them, but after owning a 3rd gen for a while, I was really disappointed with the feeling of extra weight. Of which is has a significant amount over the Spyder. And really, aside from the turbo-lag induced rush of power, it really didn't feel any quicker in a straight line either.
Sure are pretty though.
Panamera S.
I've stated my reasons elsewhere, but in brief: It feels huge, and the poor visibility means it's challenging to drive quickly on narrow roads. The engine is fantastic, but the auto start/stop + DCT gearbox make for occasionally awkward step off from a stop, or backing up a slight incline. Mostly, though, the ride over expansion joints on the freeway was unlike anything I've encountered in a Porsche previously--it felt very unsettled, as if it had massive wheels/tires mounted and the suspension couldn't control the unsprung weight.
-mkIV GTI 1.8t 180hp when it was new. rubber band power delivery, soggy suspension.
-my E36 325is was pretty dull in stock form.
-the 04 or so GTO. I liked Cobalt SS better. The GTO wallowed, felt too big.
I was ready to take a bath on my current truck because I loved this color so much. I found one of the only remaining 6 speed sahara tans in the country, and I thought "how bad can the 3.8 be?" Oh man. I actually was laughing hysterically on the test drive. On the freeway, with the hammer down, I felt like I was losing speed. It was the most woefully underpowered thing I had ever driven. The salesperson tried pathetically to remind me jeeps aren't built for speed, but that was truly pathetic. I hear the 3.6 fixed this problem, but man oh man I drove back the 50 miles back home glad to be back in a truck with torque and HP.
I still am in love with this color, though.
1.8T Jetta
Will probably be bashed for this one, but coming from a Protege, I was expecting more than just raw power. Didn't like the clutch feel, steering feel, gas pedal response, turbo lag, and felt that the interior wasn't as impressive as said my friends with VW's.
I'm most certainly gonna get blasted for this, but...
Admittedly, my distaste for it was in large part due to the SMG.
But years ago I was car shopping, and the E46 M3 was absolutely on my short list. I spent some time looking around for the combo I wanted, found it, and went to drive it. I was giddy the whole way there. Got in it to drive, and basically made a "bleh" face the entire time. Just nothing about it interested me. Way too much hype.
91-92 MR2 turbo. Drove two new. Turbo lag, turbo whistle, motor sounded like a dentist's drill, driveline snatch, crap shifter, heavy feel and low on personality. I wish people would stop calling this thing a "baby Ferrari". The first one was a much better car.
I'll add one more, though to a MUCH lesser degree
Really the only disappointment I had came from some expectation I had built up in my head that it was going to be just an absolutely ridiculous rocket ship. This was years ago, before 500hp sedans grew on trees, so 450 at the time seemed like an unimaginable number for a car like that.
I still enjoyed the car, it was more just a sense of reality setting in.
997 turbo sans man pedal.
Not scary enough. The speedo moves very quickly, sure, but it's too controlled and too quiet. If I spend that much money on a car, I want it to excite me when I am behind the wheel.
Felt the same thing with a B5 S4 Tiptronic in 2001 but thought maybe 250hp just wasn't enough. Well, the 997 has quite a bit more power and still... not exciting enough.
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Corrado G60 (when new). Really expected to like it, but was let down by nose heavy feel and lack of power.
Evo X (new and modded). Felt significantly more bloated and soft as compared to the Evo 8/9.
MKIV Supra (when new). Felt big, heavy and did I mention big? More of a Corvette/Camaro feel than I was hoping for.
Nissan Leaf (and I own one) - Had so much potential to be a fun, great handling car (batteries in the floor = low COG, 100% of torque down low, etc.) but let down by crap steering, suspension, and tires.l
Smart Fortwo (and I own one). Crappy shifter, crappy handling, and no power. Now a total delight after mods, but it took some tinkering to get it to where I am happy with it.
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forgot one big one...
when the A3 3.2 Quattro first came out... I drooled.
basically an R32 in Audi trim right? wrong.
it's a slug.
and the tiptronic slushbox was just boring. the car had tons of potential.... but let me down hard.
I tried everything to like it.
Driving it was nice, when stuck in traffic
If you punched it, it let you down hard.
It's a great car on the track (I actually got the chance to do a track day in a friend's). On regular roads, it wasn't worth the extra coin. I was considering one, and looked around for one, but I couldn't justify getting an E46 M3 over an E90 335i (or, hell, even an E46 330i). Just driving it around (if you aren't going to be tracking it regularly), it's underwhelming, for sure.
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Been scouting for 2 weeks now, already got my limit of geese too,,,4 in the freezer and one in the belly,,,yummy!!!! Been seeing a real nice moose pretty regular to,, to bad I didn't draw a tag. DAMN!!
Is everyone gearing up for season? I have been dreaming about the big one. I can't wait!!
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Been scouting for 2 weeks now, already got my limit of geese too,,,4 in the freezer and one in the belly,,,yummy!!!! Been seeing a real nice moose pretty regular to,, to bad I didn't draw a tag. DAMN!!
Bow season opens the 29th for deer. Started using a crossbow last year and getting antsy to stick something. Shot a small boar a couple of weeks back and lost the blood trail. Firearms nock them down a lot better but like the fun of throwing pointy sticks at them.
the youth hunt is next weekend an my son just passed hunter safety . the stand is in the tree. just need a deer to come by. he will be shooting the same 244 remington pump I killed my first deer with over 35 years ago. He just inhearited it form his great grand mother (RIP) we are going to sight it in tommorrow . 760 pump with a 3x waver scope. made in 1956 i think .
Im finishing a build for a kid as we speak its will be a sporterised AK IN 7.62X39 WITH A 18" BARREL adjuatable ar stock.. he will have a 6mm BG barrel for it for deer an varmints. the x39 barrel will work for next weekend though. there cutting the soy beans an corn as i type this.
My only problem this year is time, all the ice fishing commitments to our sponsors will keep me out of the woods about half the season. And I'll only have 3 days to muzzle loader hunt damn it,,,, it's my favorite hunt. It's only a week here and I'll be gone opening weekend and the last weekend,and can only hunt tues , wed and thurs,,,, that sucks, guess I'll have to "geter done" without wasting any time!! Hopefully I'll have my buck by then.
Stuck one boar a little to high and forward in the friggin shield. Broke the arrow off just behind the ferule. He'll be limping but will survive. My Buddy skewered a nice 140lb meat bore Sunday morning through the heart suprising fell dead on the spot. Always seems like tracking is involved when sticks are used.
I can't say I'd relish tracking a wounded bore through the scrub very much,,,, there mean enough as it is . They must be something when there hit? Hell,, I haven't hunted hogs sense the 70's in NC,, and it was pretty damn fun. We didn't even hunt them with dogs back then, so it was quite a chalenge to get one. A deer ain't got nothing on them, there tough! Do you use dogs in your area, or stalk them?
Typically we "Stand" hunt them or if we see them while driving we'll shoot at them. It's archery season for deer so can't have a rifle/shotgun in possession while bow hunting deer. In the last three seasons crossbows are legal. Here is weird twist you can have a rifle/shotgun and a bow in your stand and claim you are hog hunting even during deer archery season. Don't personally hunt with dogs but have friends that do either on 4 Wheelers or Horseback. Hogs can't see but have good ears and sense of smell. Hogs are easier to throw sticks at, just the kill zone is a lot smaller than deer with a bow. Rifle is different just behind the ear or facing between the eyes. Best bow shot on hogs is quartering away so you can get behind the shield at the vitals.
I've gotten several deer and a couple black bears with a bow but can't use them now after getting hurt, kind of sucks. and I'm to cheap to buy a cross bow any ways, plus I have issues getting them cocked too.
Although I use a cocking rope have manually cocked my xbow when in a hurry. If you have a physical limitation a crank cocker would be an possible option.


text: White House report: rising class sizes threaten education of U.S. children WASHINGTON – President Obama released a White House report, Investing in Our Future: Returning Teachers to the Classroom, in his weekly address on August 18. According to the report, more than 300,000 local education jobs have been slashed since 2009, resulting in a 4.6 percent increase in the teacher-to-student ratio from the fall of 2008 to the fall of 2010, from 15.3 to 16.0. Below is National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel's statement on the report: "President Obama is recognizing the importance of smaller class sizes in student achievement and the detrimental effects budget cuts have on our students, and we applaud him for that. Gov. Romney has made it clear that he doesn't believe in the impact of keeping class sizes small, despite evidence to the contrary and despite what parents across this country know. "Some people are looking for a silver bullet, but there are no shortcuts to student learning. Class size is a critical piece of the school improvement puzzle and we cannot ignore the positive effect that personalized learning has for kids. As the president has said, when we are looking for solutions that work, let's not overlook common sense fixes like smaller class size and early education. "This report reminds us that we have a choice to make in November between two visions for America. President Obama's, in which all students deserve a great education; and Gov. Romney's, in which kids get the best education their parents can afford. President Obama continues to show his commitment to improving our education system by investing in our students." For more information on the importance of class size on student achievement, visit NEA.org.