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The World Complex does the gold/copper ratio
Yesterday morning your humble scribe floated an idea that has the charty brigade up in arms; that the ratio between gold and copper can stay where it is now, even after a very big hike in the last few weeks.
Today, Mickeyman over at The World Complex picks up on the idea and runs with it using his elegant, weird and wonderful phase space charts and explanations. He basically agrees.
In blogworld they say that you haven't arrived...
...until some twentysomething wannabe hack at The Huffington Post has taken one of your blog posts, re-worked it and published it under their own name. If so, then apparently IKN has arrived. After all these years, too.
The Friday OT: Radiohead; How to disappear completely
Live version, on the Jools Holland show:
Brilliant live band.
Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK): There's no point
I really don't see the point in owning this. Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK) announced its new reserves/resource estimates plus its 2015 guidance in this NR yesterday, which (unusually) came with a ConfCall (listen to it here) and after doing all the number thing and listening carefully to the company's arguments (twice, replay this morning) I'm left with the impression that the only people who can benefit from the existence of EDR are the people who work there.
Now that's not such a bad thing (aside from the overstuffed paypackets of Brad Cooke and the assembled directors) as I'm all for providing gainful employment to Latin Americans. But why should a shareholder own a company that bases its reserves/resources on $18/oz silver and $1,260/oz gold when it's already shown that it can't make a profit on those numbers? I mean, it may see cost reductions in the pipeline but the hard fact is that in 3q14, when its realized price for both metals was higher than that (U$18.78/oz Ag and U$1,278/oz Au) it returned an operating loss of $3.6m and a net loss of $11.386m for the quarter.
Also, when it comes to the future Brad Cooke told us on the CC that the company "had to crack the nut" on El Cubo and I was "Whaaaaat?", because this is the same nut they promised to crack in 2013. And 2014. This company is pure jam tomorrow, but when it comes to execution it never lives up to the sweet talk.
Seriously, what's the point in owning a loss-making silver company at the current price deck? In fact, even if it breaks even, even if it runs a modest profit, it still has a crapload of financial debt on its books (oh...they're promising to get that down to $25m by end 2q15...we'll see). And that's the bottom line here; EDR and many other silvercos in Mexico are running to stand still, with all that mining and production and busy ness that shows nothing for shareholders. Nothing at all.
The latest from Travel Past 50
The website of husband and wife team Kristen Henning and Tom Bartel has been a personal favourite for quite a while but it has to be stated, over the last year or so their work has gone from very good to absolute top class world standard travel journalism. What the thrust behind this quality jump might be I do not know, but these days anything that pops up on my RSS from Travel Past 50 gets immediate eyeballs, the two posts today no exception.
This from Kristen, another report on their recent stay in Florence/Firenze, Italy. Tons of info, plus insight and tips on how to get the best out of your visit there. And the photos.
This from Tom, a post on where they stayed last night, a Bedouin encampment in Wadi Rum, Jordan. The two photos included in this are simply beautiful, even better than Tom's usual high standards (as regulars know, he's serious about his photography).
Those links are there because if you click on them you get to enjoy the contents, too. Make your Friday a more pleasant experience by doing so.
Cochilco's copper price, 2011 to 2016
On the subject, yesterday in Chile we had the presentation of the Cochilco Market Tendencies report, with Cochilco being the world's number one copper producer country's copper beancounter people and the Market Tendencies report their main annual thingy, which invariably comes at the end of January each year.
Cochilco forecasts copper to sell at an average of $2.85/lb this year, and $2.80/lb in 2016. That first number is down from their previous guess of $3/lb in 2015. Here's a chart with numbers on it:
So even if their guesses for the next two years are correct, which means copper recovers somewhat from its present level, you can easily see the type of price drop faced by the industry in that graphic.
If you'd like your own copy of the 34 page Cochilco report, it's right here.
Chart of the day is...
...the gold/copper ratio:
A whole range of chartists currently insisting that copper "cannot stay this low" and it's basically because of this chart. Which they did not predict and therefore causes them psychological pain. Because, we're told "this ratio can't stay this way" and "something's got to give" and mutterings of that ilk.
Yes it can stay up there. Copper can sell at $2.50/lb for the rest of the year and gold at $1.3k/oz or so (or copper at $2.30 and gold $1.2k., or $2.70/lb and $1.4k. etc). Forget the stupid squiggly line, tell me why those two components cannot possibly remain steady at their new price brackets.
One thing's for sure; whatever gold and copper do in 2015, it won't be because some randomwalk charty dude who makes a living by selling his snake oil feels the ratio chart is esthetically displeasing.
The whole Clive fisticuffs thing makes the Financial Post
Right here. It also backs up the IKN version of events below, though clearly with slightly different witnesses and their track on the story. We liked...
"You expect that behavior from a bunch of 19-year olds not the CEO of a public company".
...in particular.
The three rules of Toronto Fight Club
1) You do not talk about Fight Club.
2) You DO NOT talk about Fight Club.
3) You DO NOT talk about Fight Club when IKN is listening.
According to eyewitnesses and assorted gossips who have busily exchanged with IKN this morning, here's the apparent best-fit of what went down between Daniel Earle of TD Sec and Clive Johnson of B2Gold (BTG) (BTO.to). The 10-20 was the bar at Modus Ristorante, in high falutin' downtown financial district Toronto. Clive Johnson, CEO and head honcho of B2Gold, found himself chatting pleasantly to one of the young and attractive waitresses there after having paid and, significantly, tipped pretty heavily. At some point Daniel Earle, who is by nature a mild mannered and relaxed kind of person, quipped to Clive in what was supposed to be a humourous manner (and I'm going to put this in speech marks even though it might not be the exact quote word for word, because if it wasn't it was darned close), "You know she's only talking to you because of your wallet."
Clive took this the wrong way and it all went downhill quickly. After replying with "What the f___ did you say?"* the CEO of the multi-billion dollar mining company B2Gold took it upon himself to punch Earle in the face. He then paused and punched him a second time, again in the face.
Daniel Earle then punched Johnson once, in the face, and Clive went down. That was the end of the fight.
The next day Clive was seen marketing in the meeting rooms and by-ways of Toronto with a well-formed black eye and broken glasses.
And that's your lot, except for three footnotes (and one of them really is a footnote).
a) Clive Johnson has been telling others roughly the same story, except for one small detail: he says that Daniel Earle threw the first punch. As we understand Modus has closed-circuit TV cameras and recorded the episode, if things ever come to a more formal head we'll get to find out which version is closest to the truth. For what it's worth and from what I've heard today, the most doubtful version of the story is the one being put forward by CEO Johnson.
b) Clive Johnson has previous form with this kind of behaviour and it tends to be at evening social occasions when...errrr...the wine floweth. Isn't it about time somebody in a position of executive power at BTO took him aside and had a quiet little chat about his habits?
c) And now the foot footnote. By some sort of bizarre coincidence, one of the previous occasions when Clive Johnson went tired and emotional (as they say in Private Eye) was last year at a mining bash, when he almost came to blows with John McCluskey of Alamos Gold. Now McCluskey may not be everybody's cup of tea as a person, but he's also known to be disabled with his leg problem. So maybe if Johnson can't calm down and be a normal person in future, he should at least try picking on somebody with four limbs and make it a fair fight.
*The F-word has letters removed because some brokerages have complained they can't read IKN posts due to in-house profanity filters. Normally I'd use it without caring a jot, as you know.
PS: There has been a very slight edit made ot this post, regarding personal information on a minor matter that's not particularly connected to the main story. So if one part of the text seems not to make total sense, that's why. It's no biggie either way
PS: There has been a very slight edit made ot this post, regarding personal information on a minor matter that's not particularly connected to the main story. So if one part of the text seems not to make total sense, that's why. It's no biggie either way
Andrew Sullivan is giving up blogging
I'm exactly 23 hours and thirty minutes late to this news, but it deserves IKN's insignificant finger pointing towards it as well. Andrew Sullivan is going to give up blogging after 15 years of The Dish (in its various incarnations). This CJR tribute gives some flavour to the importance Sullivan had and has in blogworld.
After running this humble corner of cyberspace for less than half that time and even with a tiny fraction of the readership Sullivan has and fully deserves, I fully vouch for the reasons he gives for walking away. IKN salutes you, sir. Andrew Sullivan, the master blogger of them all.
Catching up with Pacific Rubiales (PRE.to)
As of today, Pacific Rubiales (PRE.to) is a sub-$1Bn market cap company. Canadian dollars at that.
And the reason, aside from the obvious about the oil drop, is that the word inside Colombia's financial zone is that Ecopetrol is indeed going to take back its Rubiales field next year instead of continuing the JV with PRE.to, as is ECO's right under the deal. And that means PRE loses its cheapest and most important production field. And that means in 2016, its costs per barrel shoot higher than anything it sketches in its current 2015 guidance. And that means it won't have the moolah to service correctly this table of wonderful money numbers*.
And that means that if oil prices don't pop back up, this show is over.
Bottom line, this company isn't an investment any longer, it's a gamble.
*The PRE.to 3q14 balanace
The B2Gold (BTG) (BTO.to) presentation at TD Sec this week
Daniel Earle is still employed by TD Sec and has not been let go, contrary to an incorrect rumour going around on this Thursday morning. The rumour is wrong, IKN has the straight and official dope. This is good.
Also, Clive Johnson is still an employee of B2Gold and has not been fired as yet, according to our latest information. However Clive, IKN and its burgeoning mailbox can confirm that without a shadow of a doubt you're not as popular in the mining world as you think you are. And you owe apologies, too.
UPDATE: Your humble scribe has 95% of the dirt on what went down. Expect a salacious post later.
UPDATE 2: The salacious post
UPDATE: Your humble scribe has 95% of the dirt on what went down. Expect a salacious post later.
UPDATE 2: The salacious post
Meanwhile, we give you the prime footage from B2Gold at TD Sec Toronto this week
What True Gold (TGM.v) will say in its NR later today, and what it won't say
It will say that the Rambo end of the pit is free digging, with minimal explosives used that won't be a problem.
It'll play down all the Mosque angle and pretend it's only about artisanal miners.
It won't tell you why they sacked their CEO.
Watch their space, not this space.
UPDATE: IKN wins, all three counts.
Chart of the day is...
...The U.S. Dollar index, dailies:
Y'know, on Monday and Tuesday I actually read articles about dollar weakness. These people are nuts.
Fight Night: News of B2Gold's (BTG) (BTO.to) The Clive and TD Sec's Daniel Earle
Clive Johnson, CEO of B2Gold (BTO.to) (BTG) and Daniel Earle, sell side analyst at TD Sec, got into a fistfight last night and according to reports picked up at IKN Nerve Centre, The Clive came off second best and today has a black eye and a pair of broken glasses for his troubles.
Red wine was a third party in the fracas.
No news on Daniel Earle's employment status. Yet.
UPDATE: Your author reaches out to Daniel Earle for his version of the events, but bizarrely and strangely...
UPDATE: Your author reaches out to Daniel Earle for his version of the events, but bizarrely and strangely...
UPDATE 2: The morning after, some extra information.
UPDATE 3: How it all happened.
The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery
While you were frittering away your time on the FOMC thingy, I was enjoying "The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery" by Alec Wilkinson, in the new edition of The New Yorker. A rich and fascinating longform read, highly recommended. Go read, you will enjoy.
Breaking: The US Federal Reserve WILL hike rates in 2015: Here's the proof
Exhibit 1: Today we are given the following from Kitco:
Majority Of Kitco Readers Don't Expect The Fed To Hike Rates In 2015Of the 695 participants, an overwhelming majority, 526 people, or 76%, responded that the U.S. economy can't afford higher interest rates.
Exhibit 2: On November 28th 2014 at the same website we read:
Kitco Readers Would Vote A Resounding Yes In Swiss Gold ReferendumOut of 353 out of 309 participants, or 88%, said they would vote yes; 30 people, or 8%, said they would vote no and only 14, or 4%, said they were undecided.
That was of course the very same November 30th referendum that finished 77.3% no, 22.7% yes.
Bottom line: Fading dumbasses rarely fails. Janet gonna hike it.
In which your author rants about things without using any swear words
This made me laugh. Some dude over at Stockhouse linked over to my note on True Gold (TGM.v) yesterday by writing this on the company bullboard:
You''ll notice immediately how your average retail market player feels it necessary to apologize to the members of his psychological support group (you may recognize its alternative title more readily, "Bullboard of Heavily Promoted And Deeply Underwater Mining Stock") because the author in question is "habitually negative".
Here's a suggestion: Instead of "habitually negative", let's go for "has firm grasp on reality when it comes to the junior mining world". People, have a good hard stare at this chart:
That's five years...AH SAID FIVE YEARS...of the TSX Venture Exchange Index versus the S&P500. And in that five years yes indeed madam and yes indeed sir, your author and this humble corner of cyberspace has been "habitually negative" about the junior mining sector, the companies it houses, the people therein. I mean, got an idea as to why that might be yet? Meanwhile...
- Canadian brokerages continue with a coverage universe recommendation 95% buys, 4% holds, 1% sells.
- Mouthbreather central websites run by and for the corrupt rich folk in Vancouver (yes CEO CA that's you, but sadly you're not the only ones out there) tell you that fame and riches are just around the corner, not just now today but in September 2012, March 2013, August 2014 etc etc ad infin.
- Places at the very bottom of the foodchain such as the unreadable waste of time that is Stockhouse band together the losers and if anyone dare tell them anything that doesn't suit their fantasy narratives they're immediately branded "bashers" and placed on ignore.
- Company IR departments are all yeah for sure it's been tough but hang in there guy, things are getting better and...you know the rest.
- Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And among all this jam tomorrow nonsense spewed at you by people who do not care whether you live or die, let alone make it to be rich or poor by playing the market as long as they get theirs first, there are a few small squeaky voices such as IKN* who have the temerity to inform you on the negative aspects of the junior mining world.
And if you read them and find something of use, you feel the need apologize before passing on the info.
*Yes there are others, but not many. I wish there were more.
Romarco (R.to): Success?
Romarco (R.to) isn't a junior in the centre of my radar, but its story and the permitting/funding thing it's being going through have caught the corner of my eye these last few months (not least because somebody whose judgement I trust likes the thing a lot). But the company got me thinking while reading this decent Q&A with its Prez/CEO this morning. Here's an excerpt:
"So it was able to pull the trigger on a C$300 million financing, the largest in a slew of financings that came to the Canadian junior market in the past few weeks. It was well timed with an increase in the price of gold and mining equities in general. Coming at C$0.58/share it will add some 517 million shares to Romarco's sharecount of about 725 million shares outstanding (according to TMXmoney.com). Alongside a binding $200 million debt commitment with Caterpillar, Macquarie and Societe Generale, it means Romarco has fully fund the Haile gold project as recently planned."
"Financial projections, issued by Romarco in November, put startup costs of Haile including initial capital costs and bonding, amongst other items, at $385 million."
Anyway, go read the whole piece, it's pretty good with plenty info. Why's that interesting? Because it's good to get through a tough permitting schedule, it's good to have shown positive economics, it's very good for a junior to be able to use that magic phrase "fully funded" when talking about their project. Romarco should be congratulated for their efforts in the last three months. Meanwhile, its shareholders...
...have seen the stock drop by 20% while gold rose 5%.
The sweet smell of success has more than a hint of KY Jelly in it these days.
Dear Tommy Humphreys
Will you please fuck off and stop visiting this blog from your promo pump rag chatroom? That goes for you too Travis you fucking idiot asswipe, and anyone stupid enough to think they're not going to get ripped off and laughed at by people who will use them for their own means, thereby remaining permanent members of the market underperformers club by using CEO CA as their chosen source of information.
Thank you in advance.
Almaden Minerals (AAU) (AMM.to) and the right to reply
After the link put up yesterday to the report on protests around the Almaden Minerals (AAU) (AMM.to) Ixtaca project in Mexico, your humble scribe got mail from the company. Even though it was originally meant as private mail, it makes a decent case and as IKN is always up for right-of-reply material, I asked for and received persmission to share this mail on the blog. So, without further ado...
I saw your reference to the Municipio article on the blog yesterday. Leticia Animas, the author, is known to us. We believe she is based out of Puebla - about 80 km from our Ixtaca project, and writes articles opposed to all kinds of development in Puebla. In this particular case, we understand that the presentation in a nearby community which she is talking about was organized by a group called REMA, which is by no means local to our project and is there more to influence the views of the community rather than to represent them. REMA appears to be an anti-development group generally with targets all over Mexico http://www.remamx.org/. The approach here seems to be REMA arriving from outside the area to try to generate fear amongst the community by alluding to deaths, skin lesions etc., while Municipio reports on the activity, mis-characterizing REMA's action as local opposition.
For what it is worth, our experience with the local community is that they are open to dialogue and have been receptive to our work. We don't take this for granted, and continue to interact with them about any aspect of the project which is of interest. In order to help the local community visualize the impact of mining we have been offering community members bus trips to mining operations (over 300 people so far) so they can witness for themselves the impact of mining on communities and speak with those affected. This most basic form of education has been rewarding for all involved. We have an open-door community office and many employees are drawn from the local population, including several of our drillers who have been trained-up on the project and now have readily-transferable skills. We anticipate being confronted by professional NGO groups from outside of our area purporting to represent local views, and hope when that time comes that community members are enabled to take informed positions on Ixtaca.
While we have been operating in Mexico since 1992, we are a young company at heart and try to represent a modern, progressive face of mining. This business will always have critics and we welcome and expect informed criticism. I don't ask you to take our word for the community dynamics at Ixtaca, but I do hope that you read other peoples' words with the same level of scepticism that you do ours. Ideally, you could come to Ixtaca anytime to draw your own conclusions on how things are going. Barring that, I'd be happy to chat at your leisure by phone or email.
Doug McDonald
(604) 629-9425
Mayra knows where the thieves are
To improve your Tuesday evening, here's a 38 second clip from a kids quiz show on Chilean TV called "Pequeños Gigantes" (Little Giants), for your viewing pleasure:
The host, Carolina de Mora, asks her panel of kids "The last question in this round......Where are the thieves?" (in allusion to a famous song in Spanish by Shakira of the same name, "Dónde están los ladrones").
Mayra hits the buzzer
Carolina de Mora: "Let's see now....Mayra?"
Mayra: "In parliament" (en el Congreso)
(audience bursts out laughing)
Carolina de Mora: "Where did you get that from"
Mayra: "My mother told me"
True Gold's (TGM.v) bad Karma (from IKN298)
This is one of the shorter pieces in IKN298, out last Sunday, with more details of the problems and travails faced by Mark O'Dea and his True Gold (TGM.v) vehicle in Burkina Faso. Shockingly, it's down further this week, all while the rest of the sector has seen decent gains.
UPDATE: Here's a special message for people linking in to this and other posts from CEO CA
UPDATE: Here's a special message for people linking in to this and other posts from CEO CA
True Gold's (TGM.v) bad Karma
This is the stock I owned briefly in 2014, but dumped the position at basically breakeven when they took away most of the potential upside for shareholders by raising capital via a $100m streaming deal with Franco Nevada (75%) and Sandstorm (25%). Today I'll also repeat the nerves I had (and discussed at the time) about holding a position in an exploreco in Africa, as the political/community risk was pretty much a closed book to me and I've learned the hard way not to fly blind on these matters (it's why I largely stick to LatAm, after all).
And that's because of the events of the last 11 days at its Karma project. We first noted them on the blog on the day of the violent protests (15) and then early Tuesday morning Jan 20th (16) just before TGM published its latest NR (17) to tell of the work stoppage, the unknown resumption date, the $4m to $8m damage to plant and buildings and the sacking of President/CEO Melrose at the hands of the main TGM player Mark O'Dea, who wished his ex-CEO "well in his future endeavours". That was nice of him.
In my Tuesday post I linked to several news stories on events and it seems there are several problems faced by TGM with locals, but the main one, the stand-out issue (and obviously the one that ex-head Melrose dropped the ball on) is the small matter of Islam's most sacred mosque that lies just next to the open pit mine plan. Last week things went into damage control mode in the newly installed Burkina government, with the Minister of Mines and Energy, one Emmanuel Nonyarma, trying to calm locals by telling them (18) "...(we) assure all Muslims and particularly those of the Tidjania (directly attached to this mosque) that nothing will happen or can happen to the mosque, which is in a sacred and divine location".
Unfortunately, locals aren't that easy to convince and for one I can't blame them. As if you check on the Karma feasibility study project area map (page 39 of the Karma feasibility study dated January 2014), you see the outline of the pit (red) and to the right, those grey blotch areas. The larger of the two blotches is the town of Ramatoulaye, with a population of around 7,000 people and home to the aforementioned sacred mosque.
Further on in the Karma feasibility study, on page 195, we get more information on the local religious mix and the mosque itself:
And then further on, we get to read how TGM at Karma recognizes the potential for community problems, as during the two years when the closest pit to the town is developed the mining will be at less than a kilometre from the town and the mosque. Explosive charges, shovels and trucks, dust and noise, all the things we know and love about open pit mining operations.
Right next to Burkina's most sacred spot for its four million followers of Islam.
According to TGM NRs in December (19) (20) the problems started on December 9th, at which time we were told "the Company is working to address the concerns voiced by certain individuals in the community and expects to reach a resolution shortly." In January the religious heads of Islam had their 93th conference at the mosque in Ramatoulaye. We've also been told that the major earthworks were scheduled to begin in January and that first pour was planned for end 2015. As situations go, it looks sticky from the outside and there's obviously been some serious community relations negligence on the part of TGM for things to have gone sour the way they have (the probable cause for Melrose's sacking). Whether or not the situation is repairable at this point is beyond my ken, but I will say that when there's this type of confrontation in Latin America and the main sticking point is religious and/or about sacred sites, it's a whole lot more complicated than just trying to throw money at a problem until it disappears. Majaz/Tambogrande in North Peru, Esperanza in Morelos South Mexico, the Wirikuta zone in North Mexico, there are three off the top of my head. In a best case situation, I'd venture to say this project just got more expensive and its timeline stretched (and obviously in a worst case it's simply not going to happen as a mine) and according to its streaming deal, True Gold has
20,000 oz of gold to
deliver to FNV/SAND in 2016, even if it has to buy the metal on the open market
(in fact the wording of the deal makes that clear).
Yes you guessed it, this one is an almighty "avoid" until further notice, dirt cheap shares or not.
Avrupa (AVU.v) and geological interpretation
Your junior mining lesson of the day. Here's the pretty graphic Avrupa (AVU.v) offered us in its December 17th NR, the one that got everyone a slaverin' at the mouth about its new gold discovery:
Oh man, just look at all that uninterrupted purple/lilac mineralization bit. Money in the bank, every last tonne. Here's what that news did to AVU's price chart:
And now, here's the latest edition of the same interpretation chart from this morning's NR:
You may notice that there's not as much purple/lilac on the latest edition. And oh, they decided to remove that "80m to 90m Au + sulfide mineralization" arm-waving. Funny that, innit?
Santacruz Silver (SCZ.v) adding to its reputation
With its NR this morning it's managed to add "bunch of complete bullshit merchants" to "incompetent" on its curriculum vitae.
Exhibit 1: The NR from January 5th that announced, "a pipeline connecting the Rosario Mine tailings impoundment to a secondary settling pond ruptured...", which covers the incompetency bit nicely. We were told at that time that the mine was closed down and, "...(t)he Company estimates the production shutdown will be two (2) weeks." We particularly appreciated how they gave us the number in numeral and word, just so we understood.
Next comes Exhibit 2 from today's NR, providing an update on the situation:
"...it is management's expectation that the Company should be able to fulfill the above noted requirements and resume operations at the Rosario Mine in the second half of February 2015."
HuhWhatWaitSorry? To be clear, January 5th + two (2) weeks = January 19th. But January 5th + 2nd half of February = Something between 40 and 54 days. In one smooth and quick movement, SCZ tells us that the mine stoppage is set to be the triple or quadruple its in initial estimate. Oh, there's also the small matter of the Mexico authorities fining the company U$180,000 for the spill, because it wasn't SCZ's fault, y'see. Governments always fine companies large amounts of money when the company wasn't to blame.
But the best bit? Because oh yeah oh wow, there's a best bit in this morning's NR. These jokers and bullshit merchants placed a beautiful, fresh and glistening maraschino cherry on top of this particular cake when they had the temerity to include as the first words of a top paragraph:
"Due to fast action taken by Santacruz site management..."
I laughed hard.
Almaden Minerals (AAU) (AMM.to): An interesting report on what locals think of the Ixtaca project
Monday melody
Reap what you sow.
Allied Nevada (ANV): Just four short trading days ago...
...this humble corner of cyberspace had a good old fashioned giggle at the NY trade jocks who bought into the Allied Nevada (ANV) (ANV.to) production news release stupidity and popped the stock on its headline without having a single clue about what they were buying. And now...
...aha. Hmmm.
Lessons to be learned, young pimply people with expensive suits. Lessons to be learned.
Greek symbols
Market players know all about certain Greek symbols such as alpha, beta, gamma and delta. Today they need to add another to the list. Less than an hour ago Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Greece. Once done, he left the building and walked straight to the Greek WW2 memorial site, the Kaisariani rifle range, the spot where Nazis executed 200 Greeks on 1 May 1944. In his first official act he laid flowers* on the memorial.
You get it, people? Geddit? Sinking in yet? Good.
UPDATE: And this from Reuters. More symbolism, it's coming thick and fast today. Wowsers, they couldn't even be subtle about it, could they? That took about 30 minutes from the swearing in to the ratings review. This whole thing is Argentina 2003 redux, impressive correlation.
UPDATE: And this from Reuters. More symbolism, it's coming thick and fast today. Wowsers, they couldn't even be subtle about it, could they? That took about 30 minutes from the swearing in to the ratings review. This whole thing is Argentina 2003 redux, impressive correlation.
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Standard and Poor's sent an early warning shot to Greece's new government on Monday, saying it could downgrade its sovereign credit rating even before its next planned review date in mid-March if things go badly. continues here
*Red roses, also a symbolic move in Greece, as it's the flower associated with Aphrodite.
Timmins Gold (TMM.to) (TGD) 4q14 production
Here's the NR, here are three charts:
This quarter sucked, with the worst level of gold sales since 2012. At best, if they've managed to cut costs, it's breakeven. If not, they run a net loss. That plain enough?
Chart of the day is...
...the WTI crude oil contract, last ten days:
The IKN Weekly, out now
IKN298 has just been sent to subscribers. It has a gentle bouquet of fresh apples and blackberries, full bodied and plenty of interesting, long-legged tannins. A fine edition that'll really open up the sluices at both ends.
Labels: otto, the IKN weekly
A logical and cogent suicide thesis for Alberto Nisman
The latest we know, as of this Sunday morning, is that the day before his death and just before asking his work colleague Lagomarsino to lend him his pistol (the 100% confirmed weapon of death), Alberto Nisman also asked one of the police officers on protection duty around his apartment building to lend him his gun, which the officer refused to do. Nisman again used the same line, that he wanted one to carry in his car for a few days until he bought a gun for himself.
Which again nudges the evidence towards suicide, though I want to make plain as I did yesterday that there's no proof of this yet and we're talking possibles versus probables, not black versus white certainties. We shouldn't discard any hypothesis yet. But as suicide now seems more likely than it did just a few days ago when the world was quick to shout and scream and accuse the CFK government of killing an enemy, consider this:
- There was some sort of emergency that got him to cut short his vacation with his daughter in Europe, hand over her charge to his ex-wife and bring him quickly back to Argentina in the days before his death.
- He was due to give evidence to support his accusations against the CFK government the day after his death, but his dossier had already been deposed and opened to authorities and judiciary (its contents are now being revealed, striptease-style, to the general public). As soon as it was available (three or four days before his death) there was immediate pushback from both pro-government and (relatively) neutral bodies who spotted false information and obvious contradictions in his version of events. One that's been widely reported is how Nisman claimed he had been given key evidence about supposed intelligence officers, but in fact (and in proven fact now) those people are not and have never been members of the intelligence services.
- So, let us imagine you have a less than perfect personal life. Let's also imagine you've been working under great pressure, in terms of workload and of psychological pressure from government enemies, for two years on a case you think shows major corruption in your current government (up to and including the President of your country). Let's imagine that things come to a head, you complete your work, you're satisfied with your job done, you hand in this national-level important case file...and then suddenly the whole thing blows up in your face because one of the most basic elements on which you based your argument is shown, with very little room for error, to be false. That, ladies and gentlemen, is years of work down the drain.
- And on top of that, in one day's time you have to go to the nation's Congress, stand up and defend your case and reiterate your accusations when you already know that the ground has been taken from under your feet and when the opponents ask you about the contradictions, you're going to flounder and fail in front of them. And your personal life is a mess.
Anyway, that's the basic thesis for suicide here and I'm fully aware it doesn't cover all angles. For example why is there no suicide note (as either one hasn't been found as yet, or if it has we haven't been told about it)? No idea, but as suicide of this type is a wholly selfish and egocentric act, people in that mental position feel no obligation to anyone else and there doesn't have to be a note, not even to your most loved ones. I'm not saying the above is the answer to the whole thing, not at all. But it is addressed to those who say "he can't have killed himself". It's a logical and cogent possibility, like it or not.
PS: Richard Cory, by Edward Arlington Robinson.
PS: Richard Cory, by Edward Arlington Robinson.
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Vancouver Resource 2015: JGMS picks the best of the video interviews
The decent aggregating site Junior Gold Miner Seeker has chosen four video interviews from the recent Vancouver Resource 2015 bash to highlight on his blog. As one is Louis James, the sold-out chief mining scam pusher at Casey Research, there's no point in pointing you towards that one (unless you want a laugh at the blatant hypocrisy of Mr Neverwrong), but the other three are probably worth your time.
Here's a Q&A with John Kaiser.
Here's a Q&A with Rick Rule.
Here's a Q&A with Brent Cook.
Or you can access all of them at the same time from his blog main page, of course. JGMS also gives notes to each interview in his post, for those (like me) who work 80/20.
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While engaging in the processes of researching, writing, and evaluating short biographical sketches, students can master essential writing skills and enhance their content area learning. In this lesson, fourth grade students discuss standard elements in a biography and examine the characteristics of the genre in a workshop setting. After selecting and researching a contemporary or historical figure using online databases, students practice writing short biographies. They then offer feedback on others' compositions and publish final drafts for reading aloud and displaying in class.
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Teacher Appreciation DIY Gifts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Last week I shared lovely teacher gift finds all set & ready to order. But, maybe you're feeling a little crafty? We know teachers appreciate handmade....so here's a little round-up of sweet do-it-yourself projects to show your teachers just how much you appreciate them!
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1. Milk & Cookies Printable Set from Spring Dandee
2. Map Magnets from How About Orange (hello, geography!)
3. Repurposed Book Apple from Cheeky Magpie
4. Refurbished Tins via Creature Comforts
5. Flower Clips (add a brooch pin for teacher!) via Alphamom
6. Personalized Gift Card Holder from Spring Dandee
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Love these ideas! Cheers! Lori
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McDonalds, Jiffy Lube and RE/MAX. When you think of these three businesses, images of driving to the golden arches to get fast food, servicing your car with an oil change and buying or selling a house with a real estate agent may spring to mind. These are very different industries, and you might not think they are related. However, these three businesses have one thing in common with a number of other growing companies — they're all franchises.
Franchising, in general, is a method of distribution. A franchise is a business that a person can buy into in order to start up his or her own local establishment. The franchisee pays a weekly fee and in turn receives training, the chance to buy supplies at a discounted price and the right to use the company's trademark as a selling advantage. Franchises are found in practically every industry, from restaurants and real estate to lawn care and grounds maintenance.
A person can join a grounds care franchise in two different ways. The most common entry point is when a person with no previous lawn care experience, but who is business minded and has some background in marketing, contacts the franchisor about starting up an establishment. This person then receives training from technical, horticultural, agronomist and equipment experts and attends certified courses pertaining to different areas of the business. The franchisee also participates in ongoing training by attending informative meetings and conferences to obtain recertification when necessary. This method accounts for about 90 percent of grounds care franchise formations.
The second way a new franchise is formed is when an existing lawn care and landscape business converts into a member of a franchise. By adopting the same business structure and systems and going through the same training procedures of the parent company, the existing business pays franchise fees to take on the franchise name and trademark, but also has an existing client base.
If you are an independent lawn care business owner who has never considered franchising as an option, you might be thinking, what does this article have to do with me? What are the benefits to joining a franchise? Why are there so many independent companies in the marketplace? And if you are trying to decide what direction you should take your business, keep reading.
One of the major grounds care franchises today is Lawn Doctor. With its trademark green thumb logo on everything from work trucks to marketing materials, Holmdel, N.J.-based Lawn Doctor has been up and running for the past 37 years and currently has 470 franchises operating in 40 different states.
Lawn Doctor offers residential and commercial lawn, tree and shrub care. Its services include tree and shrub maintenance, perimeter pest control, pesticide and fertilizer applications, core aerating and fire ant control. Lawn Doctor technicians also provide other lawn care services depending on your geographical region.
Lawn Doctor focuses on ways to enhance the business through the implementation of equipment, communication tools and information-gathering focus groups.
"In the past 24 months, Lawn Doctor has developed a stand-on delivery machine and a 1-800 number (800-4LAWNDR), held various focus groups to test that number and gather other thoughts and opinions, and completed major enhancements to the computer software used by franchises," said Russell Frith, president and CEO.
Frith also highlights the four major benefits that a franchise can offer its employees.
- Marketing materials
The recognized trademark and company name found on trucks, in commercials and on the company Web site at www.lawndoctor.com, are what initially reach those interested in either buying into a franchise or converting their existing business. The franchisee can then turn around and use these marketing materials, such as brochures, door hangers, commercials and seasonal mailings to benefit their own business. "A team of seven marketing professionals work exclusively to improve the performance of franchises in the marketplace," Frith said. The corporate office also conducts market research to aid the franchises in determining what services work best in which regions and what the clients are looking for.
- Training
Each franchisee, no matter if they have had previous lawn care experience or not, receives continuous training in the technical, chemical and equipment sectors, as well as in business practices. The company sponsors meetings and national training sessions that cover everything from computers to the latest techniques in pest applications. Group-sponsored discussions also encourage information sharing between different regions.
- Structure
When you join the Lawn Doctor franchise, you implement a set business structure and system that has been designed to guide daily procedures and provide discipline. This includes a computer software program that manages jobs, supplies and equipment parts, and also can print out mailings for seasonal marketing. Lawn Doctor supplies its franchisees with 15 operation manuals, which include equipment, chemical and personnel manuals. Traveling representatives also visit each franchise to ensure the business is running smoothly and to supply company support.
- Buying Power
As part of a franchise, the regional owners form buying groups to negotiate better prices on mass quantities of supplies from dealers. This leverage of combined purchasing allows the franchisees to invest the monetary savings into their profit margin. This buying power is not only limited to chemicals and equipment parts, but services that a franchisee also uses everyday to complete his jobs, such as a cell phone.
In the past two years, five existing lawn care and landscape businesses have converted into Lawn Doctor franchises. One of those is now known as Lawn Doctor of Antioch, Gurnee and Lake Villa, which is located in northern Illinois and owned by Chris Shkyria. Before converting his business, Shkyria owned a lawn and landscape business for 11 years and employed eight workers at a time, but 40 throughout the years. The constant turnover and difficulties in training new employees to keep their work consistent with each client is one of the reasons why Shkyria decided that joining Lawn Doctor was the best option for his business.
"By going down to two people, my business became more dependable and profitable because there is not a turnover problem or as much overhead," said Shkyria. "Clients like their jobs performed a certain way each time, and there were just too many mistakes from the turnover of employees."
Another reason Shkyria made the conversion from owning his own business to joining a franchise is the added benefits he gained from the name recognition of the Lawn Doctor franchise. "If I went up to your door offering my lawn care maintenance services as Chris from small business Lawn and Landscape, but then five minutes later came back offering my services as Chris from Lawn Doctor of Antioch, I'm 90 percent more likely to get the job as a Lawn Doctor representative than as the other guy just based on the name recognition alone," Shkyria said.
Shkyria also gains exposure for his business with seasonal mailings and door hangings. With the Lawn Doctor computer program, Shkyria can print out 20,000 letters to local potential customers and current clients about spring and summer fertilizer and pesticide applications, and fall seeding options and maintenance. He usually sends out five mailings a year, three in the spring and two in the fall. Shkyria places door hangers on the doorknobs of homes surrounding yards he has just serviced to show the visual proof of his applications. The door hangers advertise free lawn evaluations to these potential clients as a way to expand the client base and give estimates of lawn services.
"With the Lawn Doctor software and marketing tools, I have more time to run and grow my business instead of chasing down jobs or the guys I used to have on my crew," Shkyria said. "I can actually respond to calls immediately and perform more office work because the Lawn Doctor image sells itself."
On the other end of the spectrum lie lawn care businesses untouched by the franchise world. These can vary from small, local independently-owned ventures to larger corporations with locations scattered throughout the country. One of the larger businesses is The Brickman Group. Although you might think it is a franchise, you would be wrong.
Brickman has been in operation for 65 years and is currently based in Gatesburg, Md. Some of the company's most recent projects include a park at Padre Stadium in San Diego, Calif., in which families can have picnics while enjoying a baseball game, as well as the design and maintenance of the baseball field at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. With 110 branches in 23 different states, this company could be confused with a franchise. However, Margie Holly, communications manager, attributes the expansion to the growth and movement of its clients. "Brickman originated in Chicago and as its clients moved to different parts of the country, the company went as well," Holly said.
The family-owned landscape business also shifted from a design/build company to a firm specializing in lawn care and maintenance. About 85 percent of Brickman's business is commercial landscape maintenance, and the remainder is dedicated to builds and installations. It also performs snow removal, tree care and sports turf application jobs.
The reason why The Brickman Group has never considered becoming a franchisor is that they believe that quality and service starts with family. Instead of bringing outside people in to run their business, Brickman takes inside people and trains them to head up the new branches.
"Brickman has established a stable duplicateable model that can be put in place, and these branches are supported by regional offices," Holly said.
If a territory is getting too big for one branch, employees are brought in and trained for a set amount of time, usually two years. Once the branch is ready to split into two branches, they are already prepared and are able to function consistently with the other branches.
Brickman also offers in-house training through a program called Brickman University, similar to training programs offered by franchises. Employees gain consistent education in the core curriculum of horticultural maintenance, as well as in customer service and crew management.
For Ryan Lindsay, president and owner of Lindsay's Lawncare, Inc., in Champlin, Minn., the key benefit of keeping his business independent of a franchise is the personal touch he is able to provide for his clients. "My customers and I are on a first name basis, and I'm the one who calls them back if they have a question about anything," Lindsay said. "The hardest thing about owning your own business is that it is very time consuming, but there is a point when you just make time for your family."
Lindsay's Lawncare offers clients many services including fertilizing, mowing, dethatching, spring and fall clean-ups, lawn renovation, seeding and small landscape applications.
"We advertise in the spring, but we have received most of our growth through word of mouth," Lindsay said. They also provide clients with refrigerator magnet business cards and encourage their clients to call and ask questions regarding services. "Our business just has that personal touch that I haven't seen in any franchised business."
Twenty years ago, Brad Johnson considered joining a franchise and decided against it. Now he is starting his own. Johnson is the president and owner of Tulsa, Okla.-based LawnAmerica, Inc., and has recently received the licensing to start and operate a franchise business and is registered in most states.
The core business services offered by LawnAmerica are residential fertilizer and weed control applications, but it also performs aeration, seeding, insect control and tree and shrub care jobs. The company's Web site is www.lawnamerica.com. With 20 years of experience under his belt, Johnson is ready to teach some new guys the tricks of the trade.
Johnson is looking to open three to five franchises this year in Oklahoma and the surrounding states of Texas and Arkansas. He is offering his own employees, who have worked for him for at least 3 years, a discount to help them purchase their own franchise. "I want to help those with the same principles, values and systems duplicate what I have done here in Tulsa," Johnson said.
"If I had had a mentor from the start, learning the business would have been a lot easier," Johnson said. He wants to enter the franchise business and give those interested in starting a franchise the opportunity for a support system and buying power, as well as providing marketing guidance and customer service principles.
"Being an independent lawn care owner can sometimes be lonely," Johnson said. "You can't bounce ideas off of your competition the way you can with another owner in your franchise. Other franchisees might be having the same problems you are experiencing and you can educate each other by discussing solutions."
Whether you keep your business running independently or if you decide that joining a franchise could help your business in the future is entirely up to you. Consider the benefits of each option and the effects your business will have on your clients.
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The Hope College Wind Ensemble will perform on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The main piece in the program is a bassoon concerto, "Avatar," by Dana Wilson, and features Hope faculty member John Clapp. The piece is based on the ancient belief that an avatar is the incarnation of an immortal being, in this case the god Vishnu from the Hindu religion. There are three movements that present three of Vishnu's avatars: Krishna, Kalki and Juggernaut.
The rest of the program features different sections of the Wind Ensemble playing some standard chamber works. These pieces are: "Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita'," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Aria" and "Fughetta," by Arthur Frackenohl; and "Variations on an Advent Hymn," by Fisher Tull. The concert will end with the entire Wind Ensemble performing "Symphony No. 3," by Giannini.
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Financial incentives for Ontario surgeons are likely a key factor driving greater use of laparoscopic colon cancer surgery, says a study led by a McMaster University surgeon.
The research, published online by the Annals of Surgical Oncology, found that between 2002 and 2009 there was an increase in laparoscopic versus traditional open techniques for colon and rectal cancer surgery. These increases were associated with only minimal decreases in how long patients stayed in hospital after surgery and no changes in the survival of patients.
The authors point out that in October 2005, the Ontario physician billing schedule was altered, providing surgeons with a 25% premium if laparoscopic rather than open techniques were used for colon cancer. In Ontario, surgeon and hospital services are publically funded and patients don't pay. Most of the incentives went to surgeons already enthusiastic about laparoscopic approaches.
"Our paper highlights two important issues," said principal investigator Dr. Marko Simunovic, an associate professor of surgery of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.
"First, in our publicly funded health care system we need to critically review the advantages and disadvantages of new expensive technologies or treatments before they're widely introduced into the province. Second, Ontario physicians provide high quality care to the best of their abilities – one should question the logic of financial incentives."
Simunovic added: "A 25% bonus for laparoscopic surgery sends a strong signal to surgeons that they should provide this service, even though the available evidence to date does not demonstrate superiority for laparoscopic versus open techniques."
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Alleghaney County Black Foot Soldiers have reportedly issued a statement calling President Obama's controversial quote concerning predominantly white small town Pennsylvanians bitter "prophetic" and claiming blacks throughout the state are safer with racist East Washington Borough police regime terrorist John David Dryer dead.
See: Racist Beaver County Police Regime Terrorist Andrew Snarey Crash (UPDATE)! Were Andrew, Dad, Jeffrey & Todd Sacrificing Small Animals: Ritualistic Devil Worship in Allegheny Forest? Plus SEE: Racist American Flag Colored Bow Pinning 4 Year Old Evil Niece Hair; Evil in West Pennsylvania Townships EXPOSED: Are thousands of inbred whites clinging to guns & Devil worship too?
"We must always be thankful when one of these State commissioned racial terrorists eats the just deserts of their hypocrisy. Our people must wake up to the realization that white people are not only racial terrorists, however, they are dangerous psychopaths. When we review their history and couple it with their contemporary behavior upon this planet, it becomes readily apparent that for the safety of the earth and humanity, they must be stripped of their human and civil rights."


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Money paid to ensure performance under a written or oral contract.Many states require that lease and other such deposits be maintained in escrow accounts and earn interest which must be paid to the party when the deposit is refunded.All real estate brokers must place earnest money deposits in escrow accounts. One must carefully examine the particular contract language relative to deposits in order to determine the circumstances under which they may be withheld from the depositor.


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At Impact Church we desire more than anything to make much of the name of Jesus! We desire to be a church that takes the gospel of Christ to our city. Our goal is to be immersed in the everyday lives of the people that live in the Wilmington area so that they would know that we love them but more importantly that God loves them.
I am excited that you stopped by our website! Take a look around, listen to a few sermons, and then plan to visit us this Sunday at 10:30am
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Pancakes that you can feel good about eating? you've made my Fat Tuesday!ReplyDelete
Herkullisen näköistä! Minulla on hirssiä kaapissa vielä avaamaton paketti...ReplyDelete
These look so fluffy. Blueberries and millet... fabulous! I'll be giving these an go super soon.ReplyDelete
These sound amazing! I'm so bookmarking to make these with berries once they're in season here!ReplyDelete
I am drooling today at all of the pancakes people are posting!ReplyDelete
So different to any recipe I have ever used! And they look fabulous! Have to try using different milks . . .ReplyDelete
looks yummy i love blueberrys :)ReplyDelete
Oh I wanted to make pancakes today so badly but my sore throat just wants cold things :) These look beautiful Maria!ReplyDelete
I bought some almond milk last weekend to see what all the fuss was about and have to admit I'm struggling to drink it in replacement to normal milk. However I imagine the flavour doesn't come through to strongly when baked so am going to give these pancakes a go to use it up!ReplyDelete
You use so many ingredients that I have never heard of. Like millet! What the heck is millet? Well, now I know. sort of hehe. I missed pancake day :( must make up for it soon.ReplyDelete
Lovely pancakes Maria! These look so soft and full of juicy blueberry flavor. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Very nice quick and easy meal for breakfast!ReplyDelete
Hi, I am new to this blog, I find it really awesome for the pics and the healthy ideas. These vegan pancakes really hooked me, so IReplyDelete
posted my version of this recipe on my blog, linking you back, hope you may have a look , I would love your feedback!


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How often do you hear, "I sat down to write a blog post, and ended up with an eBook?" Probably not every week. But that's just what one of the the Oracle EBS Team Leads at Pythian has done. My colleague Subhajit has just published an eBook that covers the steps required to integrate Oracle Applications Release 12.1 with Oracle Internet Directory 22.214.171.124 and Oracle Access Manager 11.1.2.
At over 300 pages, this is a comprehensive guide to integrating 3 large and increasingly important pieces of the Oracle Applications technology stack, complete with screenshots and blow-by-blow examples of an actual configuration and deployment. No hand-waving theoretical stuff here; you get to watch the sandbox environment spring to life as you read! I'm still in the "browse the steps and download the software" phase, myself, but so far everything is clear and easy to follow. Subhajit has also offered up some troubleshooting tips for common issues encountered during deployment.
If you're an Apps DBA who's trying to get up to speed on the new look of identity management for E-Business Suite environments, you owe it to yourself to check out this eBook. Think of it as buying Subhajit a coffee (or a beer) in return for saving you the work of researching all those pre-requisites and puzzling out the various dependencies by yourself. This represents a serious jump-start to any effort to update your knowledge of E-Business Suite application server integration from the old 10gAS stack to the new 11g Fusion Middleware components.
Subhajit also promises more fun stuff in the near future, so stay tuned to his corner of the Pythian blog to see what's coming down the line! If you've been limping along on a barely-supported version of 10g SSO and OID to for your E-Business Suite identity management, his promised upgrade guide is sure to be of interest.


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A multiple Emmy-winning investigative reporter and producer, Peter Greenberg is America's most recognized, honored and respected front-line travel news journalist. Known in the industry as "The Travel Detective," he is the travel editor for CBS News, appearing on CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, and Sunday Morning, among other broadcast platforms.
The consummate insider on reporting the travel business as news, Greenberg hosts a new television show, "The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg," debuting on public television October 5. The series offers 42 half-hour episodes that seek to empower audiences with travel news, must-have information and insider tips known only to a select few.
Greenberg also produces and co-hosts an ongoing series of acclaimed PBS television specials, "The Royal Tour," featuring personal, one-on-one journeys through countries with their heads of state. Along with such figures as the king of Jordan, prime minister of New Zealand and presidents of Mexico and Peru, Greenberg's newest special features the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among other television projects, Greenberg is creator, co-executive producer and host of CNBC's specials "Inside American Airlines: A Week in the Life" and "Cruise Inc: Big Money on the High Seas," and is co-executive producer of "Baggage Battles," airing on the Travel Channel, and The History Channel's two-hour special "Lost Magic Decoded." On radio he hosts the nationally syndicated show "Peter Greenberg Worldwide," broadcast each week from a different remote location worldwide, and a short-form, daily "Travel Minute," airing on stations across the US.
Peter Greenberg is author of The New York Times best-selling Travel Detective series. His most recent book, The Best Places for Everything, comes in the wake of such titles as Don't Go There! and The Complete Travel Detective Bible. Currently editor at large ofGlobal Business Travel magazine and a contributing writer to many others, he has been a featured guest on CNN, "Larry King Live," "The O'Reilly Factor," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The View," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "Dr. Phil," "Extra" and many other television programs.
Travel Weekly named him one of the most influential people in travel, along with Bill Marriott and Richard Branson. He was inducted into the U.S. Travel Association's Hall of Leaders for his contributions to the travel industry. Among his other honors, Greenberg received a News & Documentary Emmy Award as part of the "Dateline" team for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story, "Miracle on the Hudson."
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Four new restaurants coming to CityPlace later this year
For the original article visit The Palm Beach Post
A mixture of cuisine offerings is coming to CityPlace by the end of the year, filling several empty restaurant spots.
Pampas Grille will go in the spot formerly occupied by McCormick and Schmick's at Okeechobee Boulevard across from Ruth's Chris Steak House. It should open this fall.
Mellow Mushroom will toss pizzas in the spot where Kona Grille was, at Okeechobee and Rosemary Avenue.
Mojito Latin Cuisine & Bar is taking over the space held in recent years by Carlos and Charlie's and the Carousel Can Can Cafe.
Also, Frank Entertainment is bringing Revolutions Bowling, Bar & Grille to the shopping and entertainment complex. Revolutions will occupy a stretch down Rosemary Avenue from Macy's to Publix and several stores moved out a couple of months ago to make room for that. It's supposed to open in November.
That largely will fill CityPlace back out before snowbirds and winter tourists arrive.
Here's more details, from a release by the O'Donnell Agency.
Pampas Grille: A Brazilian'style churrascaria known for offering an endless array of delicious meats at it's Las Vegas, New York City and San Francisco Bay locations. It's opening in the 10,000-square-foot space at the south end of CityPlace on Okeechobee Boulevard.
Mellow Mushroom: Pizzeria franchise founded by three college students in 1974 and has decor and menu offerings to match its moniker such as the "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Kosmic Karma." The 7,000-sq.-ft. restaurant will open on the corner of South Rosemary Avenue and Okeechobee Boulevard.
Mojito Latin Cuisine & Bar: Latin-fusion menu includes tapas and at least 15 varieties of mojito, and the high-top tables face the stage where bands will play Cuban music and other live entertainment. The nearly 8,000-square-foot restaurant will be on the second level by City Cellar.
Revolutions at 35,000-square-feet will offer a restaurant and bar in addition to bowling and an arcade.


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After hitting my head in Roatan, when I couldn't tell if the alarm incited by the humming jellyfish wearily holding my brain in place was the weed or the abrupt contact with that concrete gate (which, like getting my bellybutton pierced (I would tell people later) was So Painful but also so sudden and so momentary that I wouldn't necessarily fear it again), I did that thing I do in my brain when I try to figure out if I can act like I'm OK or not, which lately has been one of my strongest indicators of overall health -- not health or happiness itself, but my ability to imitate those emotions or project those impressions or inspire those reactions. I am not certain that I am wrong to describe health that way.
I enjoyed the freedom to be warm & silent.
The trouble with going into business with your friends & loved ones is that to be successful one must project an image of success at all times.
This is not easy, I was not prepared for this. I want the recession to be over but it isn't. I wanted Plan B and Plan C but neither exist anymore. I want to be known for something other than being addicted to work which isn't actually true, I'm just addicted to progress.
I comfort myself with the lives of legends although I'm not one.
I lie down on fields of nothing and let jellyfish ghosts eat my face alive and then I call it The Future.
I miss cash.
See I have high arches in my feet, like unusually high, which is where I'd store the money after that job I don't talk about. I miss the wads of money large enough to prop the arch of my foot right up, almost turn my foot to its side, and I miss the money fatter than my wallet could handle. I miss being casual with money -- the dollar bill rescued from a coat pocket, stored in the glass jar with pencils, or the extra ten for the waitress. I miss owning the money I'd worked for and how easy it was to secure it at the time and I wish I'd spent it on things besides debt, I wish it'd been pure and joyful and I wish it was still in my shoe, safe from East Harlem's alleged robbers who'd reach everywhere but never my feet, they told me. I loved that transaction being over and both of us squared away because I miss the ease and definitive actions of commerce. I miss being allowed to care about money, I miss the vehicle to get it immediately; the key in the ignition and the drive.
I miss the romance of money.
I miss the taste of money so
There; I've said it. And you?
Do you, too?
I have never been as certain as I am now that if anyone can do this, we can do this.
I hate that there are people who've been able to help us who instead have gone out of theirr way to fuck us up and I hate that I can't talk about who those people are.
I love that there are unexpected people who have emerged to help us and say that we're all in this together. I honestly love those people.
I hate everything no-one can talk about. If you haven't noticed that about me already.
I wish I could write here without feeling like it meant something big or that someone I work with/for/becauseof would like be disappointed or some crap.
Often times, it's its weirdness, its unexpectedness, its complete uniqueness, that makes it seem to hold such potential for exception.
Because for a group of people with so many words and pictures and ideas between us, we have none to describe this, are never so stunned when asked to explain why by someone who isn't with us in middle earth. Besides to say something revolutionary and naive and stubborn, which is to say it reminds us of ourselves in a way so powerful that to let it remind you of yourself would bring nothing but joy to you, or else you could get burned or scorched, too.
I know these thoughts and sentences literally don't make sense. I try to make sentences make sense all day but sometimes I'm tired, and feel stupid


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Rich Boy
A Rich Boy is a Trainer Class introduced in Generation III. They are young men who wear fancy clothing, expressing their wealth. Their Pokémon typically aren't very strong, but Rich Boys give out many PokéDollars in return. Their female counterpart of the Rich Boy is a Lady. Their older counterparts seem to be a Gentleman.
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In PMBW04, Monta meets Dol, a Rich Boy in the Battle Subway, after Monta obtained 48 BP (Battle Points). He challenges Monta with a Bouffalant and a Swoobat. Monta challenges him with his Boldore and his Snivy. Monta starts by telling Snivy to use Grass Mixer on Bouffalant, but it had no effect due to Bouffalant's Herbivore ability. Bouffalant attacks Snivy with Horn Thrust and it instantly defeats Snivy. Monta orders Boldore to use a Rock-type move, but Swoobat uses Fly before it even hit. Bouffalant then defeats Boldore in one hit. Later in a forest, Monta rechallenges Dol. First, Swoobat uses Fly and Bouffalant uses Head Charge on Snivy, but it had no effect due to Snivy's use of Protect. Boldore uses Take Down to knock down Swoobat into the ground, and Swoobat retaliates and uses Heart Stamp on Boldore, but survived due to an effect of an item. Boldore then uses Earthquake, which hit all the Pokémon. Dol then tells Monta that the attack also hit Snivy, but Monta surprises Dol by showing that Snivy was holding an Air Balloon, which helped it. Swoobat and Bouffalant are slowed down due to the result of Earthquake, so Snivy uses Slam on Swoobat, and it faints. Boldore then finishes Bouffalant off by using Stone Edge. Dol is impressed that Monta had improved a lot since their battle in the Battle Subway and asks Monta that he would accept his battle invitation anytime, and Monta agrees to the rematch invitation.
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- Until Generation IV, Rich Boys are not seen holding their Poké Balls.
- Rich Boys' outfits are blue until Generation IV.
- In Japanese, they were called Young Master or Obotchama.
- Dol is based on the Black and White version of the Rich Boy.


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Absolutely fantastic.
More amazing images here.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Davis Graveyard Halloween 2011
Absolutely fantastic.
11 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
This is a really great haunt. They put alot of work into this.
- November 26, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- wicKED said...
This haunt has totally amazed me this year. That Abbey is just over the top. Go big or go home is the motto for these haunters!
- November 26, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- Marrow said...
The ruined abbey is jaw-dropping. I really love the cobwebbed gravemarkers. I'll be building a cobweb gun for next years haunt.
I think Chris and Jeff are making the Home Haunters DVD Collection again this year. Are you going to submit SWAMP FOETUS? I'd love to have it on DVD.
- November 26, 2011 at 11:02 PM
- Rot said...
Wasn't really a yard haunt, so I'll be sitting this one out : )
- November 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM
- Jeff in pgh said...
Always one of the best...very, very impressive!
- November 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- Marrow said...
- November 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
I've never had the pleasure of visiting this haunt in person. But the photos from this and past years are amazing, aren't they.
- November 27, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- Hal9thou said...
OMG... sorry, Rot, but this one takes the cake. Wow.
- November 27, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- MorbidMariah said...
WOWEE ZOWEE! Yeah, the Davis Haunt is insane. Just absolutely out of control awesome.
- November 28, 2011 at 11:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for posting this, I forgot about them for some reason.
- November 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Pam Morris said...
always a fantastic haunt. (and Rot--I would LOVE to see "Swamp Foetus" on the DVD collection--if chris and jeff are doing it. there will be lots of disappointed kiddies if you don't.)
- November 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM


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Nadal beats Bautista Agut to reach Madrid final
MADRID (AP) Top-ranked Rafael Nadal persevered past countryman Roberto Bautista Agut for a 6-4, 6-4 win that returned him to the Madrid Open final on Saturday.
Nadal, who reached his first clay final since winning in Rio de Janeiro in February, broke Bautista Agut's opening service game and never trailed.
Earlier, Maria Sharapova held her nerve to reach her second consecutive women's final, where she will play Simona Halep of Romania.
Bautista Agut, playing in his first career Masters series semifinal, couldn't match the experience of Nadal, who continues to improve after coming to the Magic Box center having lost at consecutive clay tournaments for the first time in a decade.
''I've gotten better as the tournament has gone on and found my rhythm on clay,'' said three-time champion Nadal, who was bidding to be the first repeat winner from his sixth final appearance.
Nadal took advantage of Bautista Agut's timid start, although those early nerves disappeared as Bautista Agut broke Nadal to even it 3-3.
But Nadal, whose forehand was erratic a day after it guided his quarterfinal victory, responded with a backhand passing shot to break back.
Nadal eventually clinched the first set with an exquisite forehand passing shot, and scored two of his five breaks to lead 3-0 as the Manolo Santana center court silence was continuously interrupted by the chants outside of disgruntled Coca-Cola workers protesting the closure of a nearby bottling plant.
Nadal's concentration dipped as Bautista Agut clawed to within 4-3 before Nadal overcame his 21 errors by pulling away to reach his 90th career final.
Nadal faces either Japan's Kei Nishikori or fellow Spaniard David Ferrer on Sunday.
Sharapova was cruising against Agnieszka Radwanska before allowing the third-seeded Pole to break back in the second set. But the eighth-ranked Russian recovered to secure a 6-1, 6-4 win after Halep rallied in the hot conditions to dispatch 2011 champion Petra Kvitova 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-2.
Sharapova has lost just three times on clay since the 2011 French Open, with all of those losses coming against two-time defending champion Serena Williams. But Williams withdrew on Friday with a left thigh injury.
Kvitova looked on course for victory before unforced errors and the rising temperatures took their toll.
The Czech was 2-0 up in the second set and rolling against Halep, who was visibly frustrated after a late call went against her during the first-set tiebreaker.
But Kvitova hit 66 unforced errors and that inconsistency caught up with her as Halep recovered, with the now composed Romanian hitting 22 winners and breaking Kvitova four times over the last two sets.
''I just started to play more angles, more higher the ball, and just fighting for every point,'' Halep said.
Kvitova struggled in the final set, looking sapped of energy by the end of a match that lasted more than 2 1/2 hours.
''Tomorrow I expect a very tough match. Maria is a champion and she knows how to manage the finals,'' said the fifth-ranked Halep, who reached her first Masters series final.
Sharapova hit 28 winners to four for Radwanska, who netted a forehand on match point to be broken for a seventh time.
''She's having a great year so it's going to be an extremely difficult match,'' Sharapova said.
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