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Sled hockey's Josh Sweeney to receive inaugural Pat Tillman Award for Service
Retired Marine Corps Sgt. Josh Sweeney scored the lone goal in Team USA's 1-0 victory over Russia in the gold medal game at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. On July 16, he will be honored by ESPN and the Pat Tillman Foundation with the first Pat Tillman Award for Service.
Sweeney was injured by an improvised explosive device (IED) in October 2009 while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan.
PORTLAND, Oregon – When retired Marine Corps Sgt. Josh Sweeney recounts his inspirational journey following an explosion that took both his legs in Afghanistan, he leaves out an important detail: His gold-medal winning goal.
Sweeney played on the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team that beat the Russians 1-0 earlier this year in Sochi. He shot the game's lone goal in the second period at Shayba Arena, giving the Unites States its second straight gold medal in the event.
Chided about omitting the detail, Sweeney laughed.
"I still feel pretty lucky to be able to have done that," he said. "I try not to take too much credit for it."
He also doesn't mention that he's been honored with a Purple Heart for his service in the Marines.
Sweeney will receive the inaugural Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2014 ESPY Awards on July 16. The award is being presented in conjunction with the Pat Tillman Foundation, which invests in military veterans and their spouses through educational scholarships.
Pat Tillman died in action in Afghanistan in 2004 after leaving the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army with his brother Kevin.
"While the ESPYs celebrate the best accomplishments from the year in sports, we remain committed to social responsibility and the heart of the show has always been the presentation of the signature awards which, in the name of Arthur Ashe and Jim Valvano, annually honor leaders who make an impact far beyond sports," said Connor Schell, vice president of ESPN Films and Original Entertainment. "We are proud to add Pat Tillman's commitment to service and selflessness as another pillar of the ESPYs. Josh Sweeney's dedication and achievements make him a deserving recipient. "
Stuart Scott, the ESPN broadcaster who has battled cancer, has been named recipient for the Jimmy V Perseverance Award, and Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, will be awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs.
Sweeney grew up in Arizona and started playing hockey to get out of the heat. He joined the Marines in 2005 following high school.
On his second deployment, Sweeney stepped on an improvised explosive device while serving in Nowzad, Afghanistan, in 2009. He suffered severe injuries to his arm in addition to his legs.
One of his first thoughts when he started his arduous recovery was that he'd never play hockey again.
With both of his legs amputated as a result of his injuries, Sweeney faced months on rehabilitation. He ended up at a facility in San Antonio, where he happened to hear about a sled hockey team, the Rampage.
"It was the same feeling as when I was in high school or even junior high – just being out there with some buddies and passing the puck around, shooting the puck – that feeling when you step out on the field or the ice, whatever your sport," he said. "Right then and there I knew it was something that I loved."
Sweeney's coach pointed him to the U.S. national team. That led to Sochi.
"It was awesome being able to represent my country again in a different way," he said.
Sweeney recently moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, with his wife Amber. Although he's still with the national team, he's hoping to put together a sled hockey team in his new home, and has been working with the Western Hockey League's Portland Winterhawks.
"After being injured you think, 'What can I do now?' or 'What are my limitations?' Being out there on the ice and seeing what I could do helped make me feel better about myself," Sweeney said. "The fact that it was so hard to get to where I am today – the training was just endless and some days it felt like I got on the ice for no reason at all and I wasn't getting any better – it really helped me emotionally to push through and look at the right things I was doing. The positive things."
The 2014 ESPYS, hosted by Drake, will be televised live July 16, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN from Los Angeles.


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FAQ Contents
Using YAM
- User Interface
- Why does the "Colored text" gadget in the Read configuration looks …
- Menu shortcuts don't work while context sensitive menus are enabled, why?
- The gauge in the mail transfer window looks wrong, why?
- Why is keyboard selection of multiple mails not working?
- I use AmigaOS 3.9 and activated the AISS theme. Unfortunately some of …
- The graphical attachment list is displayed truncated and does not …
- Why is the mail preselection/transfer window sometimes active by …
- The menu of the write window contains strange "ramiga X", "ramiga C" …
- I changed the shortcut definition of TextEditor.mcc to use a …
- The attachment icon sometimes suddenly disappears in main mail …
- When I use the up/down arrows keys, the scrollbar of the main mail …
- Redrawing of the folder listtree is so slow that I can see every …
- Can I permanently save the position and size of a window?
- Why are some columns of the mail listview always resizing automatically?
- The toolbar buttons and other graphics are displayed in wrong colors. Why?
- The toolbar buttons don't fit in the window, the rightmost buttons …
- The layout of the prefs window doesn't adapt properly when reducing …
- Printing doesn't seem to work. What's wrong?
- Why is YAM taking braces as in "http://www.example.com" as part of URLs?
- Language Support
- Reading Mails
- Replying/Forwarding Mails
- Composing Mails
User Interface
Why does the "Colored text" gadget in the Read configuration looks wrong the first time I open this sheet?
This is a bug in MUI 3.8 and can't unfortunately be worked around in any form. However, it is already fixed in MUI versions ≥ 3.9. So please update your MUI installation, if possible.
Menu shortcuts don't work while context sensitive menus are enabled, why?
Unfortunatly, the context menus for the folder & message lists may get in your way and prevent you from using the usual menu item shortcuts unless you move the pointer outside the list. Unfortunately this is a bug in MUI ⇐3.8, which can only worked around by disabling the context menus themselves or upgrading MUI to at least 3.9.
The gauge in the mail transfer window looks wrong, why?
Due to a bug in MUI 3.8, the gauge in the mail transfer window may "overflow" its container when representing very high values, typically around 8 MB and beyond. This bug is harmless, but an updated MUI (3.9 or better) is necessary to properly address this problem. No such update are available for m68k Amigas at the time of writing this article.
Why is keyboard selection of multiple mails not working?
According to the documentation and the configuration GUI of the NList.mcc class (which is used in YAM for displaying the mail list) one should be able to select multiple entries in a Listview by using the CTRL+Up/Down keys. However, when I use these keys the listview scrolls to the beginning or end rather than allowing to select multiple entries. The reason for this problem is, that the default keybindings of NList.mcc and the default keybindings of MUI itself clash. So when you use CTRL+Up/Down the default MUI keybindings will have preference over the NList settings and thus won't trigger the correct functions in NList itself. The solution is to either upgrade to NList release 0.108 or later as the default keybinding have been changed to use ALT+Up/Down rather than CTRL. Just make sure that you reset the keybinding settings in the MUI configuration pane of the NList classes after you have installed 0.108+ of the NList classes. Another solution (for older NList versions) would be to manually change the keybinding settings in the MUI configuration to use the ALT key rather than CTRL key (see all the "Select XXX" entries in the example screenshot below).
I use AmigaOS 3.9 and activated the AISS theme. Unfortunately some of the icons display an ugly black background. Why?
The AISS icons are PNG icons which use alpha channels. With AmigaOS 3.9 the transparency can not be displayed correctly because of some incompatibilities between the datatypes.library.
The graphical attachment list is displayed truncated and does not reflect all available attachments. Anything to prevent that?
For mails with lots of single attachments, the graphical display of attachments in a read window might be displayed truncated. This happens in case the attachment list object cannot enlarge itself to the required size (e.g. because the window is to small). Unfortunately it is even not possible to display/use a scrollbar for those cases due to technical reasons.
But as the attachment list is virtual group object you should be able to use the virtual scrolling capabilities of MUI for that case. Please consult the MUI configuration for setting the scroll action hotkey/mouse button. But per default, MUI should allow you to hold down the middle mouse button while moving your mouse. This should then allow you to scroll the attachment list and view the other attachments that are normally hided. Another way for displaying all attachments of a mail is, of course to use the respective toolbar buttons (Display, Print, etc.) which will present you a full list of the attachments.
Why is the mail preselection/transfer window sometimes active by default and sometimes not?
YAM can be configured to show the preselection/transfer window for downloading new mails only if certain conditions are met, for example always, never or only if very large mails are to be downloaded. Since mails can be fetched in the background while you continue your work with YAM it would be very inconvenient if the preselection window would steal the focus from the currently active window (i.e. a write window to compose a new mail). Just imagine that you press "C" in that very moment the preselection window opens. This would immediately cancel the transfer, even if you were just going to type in the word "Commodore"…
To avoid such unwanted abortions YAM will open the preselection/transfer window in inactive state for automatically initiated mail transfers (i.e. timed mail fetch or mail transfers initiated by an ARexx script). For all user initiated transfers (import, export, get/send mail) the window will be activated, because this is an action that was explicitly triggered by the user and not some automechanism triggered by YAM itself.
The menu of the write window contains strange "ramiga X", "ramiga C" shortcut definitions. Why is the typical Amiga image not used instead?
The reason for this shortage has already been adressed in version 2.5 of YAM. However, please find explainations for earlier versions and why there the menuitems couldn't use the typical 'Amiga' images to signal the shortcut: The point is, that the configuration of these shortcuts was up to the user. In fact, TextEditor.mcc provided a configuration management where a user could specify himself which key shortcuts he want to use. The "ramiga X" display was just a placeholder for that - it even was't a real shortcut definition. It should have only pointed out which default key combinations are normally used for these operations. So it was more cosmetical. But as said, in YAM 2.5 the behaviour changed and now the typical Amiga image should be used as expected.
I changed the shortcut definition of TextEditor.mcc to use a non-default shortcut for the Cut&Paste operations. However, YAM still shows e.g. "Amiga+C" in the window.
Since YAM 2.5, the behaviour for the shortcuts of the default Edit actions like Copy&Paste have been changed. This means, that like explained in the previous FAQ item, YAM now always uses the standard shortcuts according to common StlyeGuides. E.g. a Copy operation will always be mapped to "Amiga+C" whereas the Paste operation will be mapped to "Amiga+V" no matter what you have configured in the TextEditor.mcc configuration itself.
For YAM versions prior to 2.5, the situation is slightly different. There, the shortcut which is configured in TextEditor.mcc will always be used and the shown e.g. "ramiga X" placeholder in a window menu is just to show the default if you have TextEditor.mcc set to the default.
The attachment icon sometimes suddenly disappears in main mail listview, why?
In the main mail listview where all your mails in a folder are listed, the Attachment status icon (normally a paper-clip icon) is sometimes shown, but suddenly disappears as soon as you click on that mail for viewing its content. Even if that may look a bit strange and may lead to the impression that attachments are being lost when viewing the mail, this behaviour is normal and correct.
The reason why this is happening is that unfortunately some broken (old) mail clients tend to send out emails where the main content-type is set to "multipart/mixed" or "multipart/related" even if that email just contains one main mail text part without a real attachment. This is clearly incorrect according to the RFC s and can be considered a bug in those email programs. However, the reason why YAM is first showing the attachment status icon is that it just analyzes the main mail header due to performance reasons and as soon as you click on the message a depper (more time consuming) analyze is performed where it automatically recognizes that the mail doesn't really contain any binary or text attachment, but just the main normal mail text.
So the behaviour of YAM is fully correct and in line what the RFC s suggests.
When I use the up/down arrows keys, the scrollbar of the main mail list moves instead of the highlighted mail to be changed. Why?
The cause for this behaviour might be, that you have selected the main mail list via the "Tab" key gadget activation feature of MUI. MUI has a so-called CycleChain feature which allows to cycle through all existing gadgets in a window via the Tab key. In such a case, the main mail list of YAM can be activated via a numerous amount of Tab-key uses.
And as the NList-based main mail list changes it behaviour when it is directly activated via the CycleChain, this is the reason why the scrollbar scrolls when you use the up/down arrows. If an NList class is activated in such a way it will scroll down instead of changing the selection.
However, there is an easy way of solving such a situation. You just have to press "Ctrl+Tab" to signal MUI to unselect all currently active gadget and as such you will find yourself back being able to change the selection in the mail list via the Up/Down arrow keys.
Redrawing of the folder listtree is so slow that I can see every single folder getting redrawn separately. Why?
The reason for the problem you are facing in YAM is, that YAM uses the NListtree.mcc class for rendering the folder list. This class is a subclass of the NList classes and highly depends on the internals of the NList.mcc class itself.
As a matter of fact, the NListtree class is known to be somewhat unoptimized in the fields of redrawing entries. Somehow it seems to massivly redraw items if there is any other window in front of the list it wants to redraw. So, this is a known issue of the NListtree class and will hopefully be adressed in one of the future versions of NListtree.mcc itself.
However, you can perfectly try to avoid that slow redrawing situation by making sure that no other window is in front of the folder listtree in YAM as soon as it requires redrawing.
Can I permanently save the position and size of a window?
Yes, via the normal MUI 'snapshot' feature….
…start the MUI settings interface by selecting 'Settings/MUI'. Select the 'Windows' section and make sure the third of the little system gadget buttons there is activated. After saving the settings every window will have an additional system gadget in the upper right corner. One click on this gadget will snapshot the actual size and position of the window for future sessions. This is a general MUI feature and if you use it on the YAM window you should be able to "snapshot" the window size of YAM permanently.
Why are some columns of the mail listview always resizing automatically?
In fact, this behaviour is very common for NList-based listviews. The 'problem' is, that NList is per default automatically adjusting the size of each column depending on their content width. So if you have a mail with e.g. very long subject lines or if the status column contains a changing amount of status icons, it may happen that NList automatically decided to resize the columns automatically.
While this can be very annoying during normal work, it can also proof quite usefull in some cases. However, there is also the possibility to force NList not to automatically resize a column. For this to happen, you have to drag the vertical separator to the desired size (you actually have to drag it at all) and use the MUI 'snapshot' feature you can normally access via one of the top-right border buttons in the YAM main window.
The toolbar buttons and other graphics are displayed in wrong colors. Why?
This usually happens due to a bug in the 'ilbm.datatype' and only happens if YAM is running on a hicolor or truecolor screen. An update of the ILBM.datatype can be found on Aminet.
The toolbar buttons don't fit in the window, the rightmost buttons can't be accessed. How can I fix this?
Some users think that the graphics are too large, but in fact the button labels are eating so much space. If you're using topaz/8 as the label font, then some of the buttons become invisible on a 640 pixel wide screen. Solution: select 'Settings/MUI' and go to the 'Toolbar' section. Now you can either choose a thinner font (helvetica/9 works well) or switch off the labels completely ('image only' mode).
The layout of the prefs window doesn't adapt properly when reducing its size, any solution available to it?
Yes, we know about it and have already fixed the issues in newer YAM versions. In fact, it was a bug in the layouting of the prefs window of YAM versions ⇐ 2.4p1. Any newer version shouldn't contain that issue anymore.
Printing doesn't seem to work. What's wrong?
The printing engine in YAM is directly using the PRT: device of the operating system you are using. Please make sure you have that device properly configured and verified that you are able to print via PRT:. Besides that, YAM isn't doing anything special on printing.
Why is YAM taking braces as in "http://www.example.com" as part of URLs?
Despite the recommendation in RFC 1738 to encode such characters when they are supposed to be part of URLs, a number of Internet resources, entities and users keep using the "[]" braces in unencoded form, and this used to make YAM stop parsing an URL as soon as such characters were found, as in "<http://www.example.com/files[7]/myfile>". As a workaround for this problem, YAM 2.4 takes these characters as part of the URL. Parenthesis are allowed in URLs in unencoded form, which again negates the use of () to delimit URLs. You are advised to use "<" and ">" for this purpose.
Language Support
There seems to be no translation available for my language?
Well, as you might know. YAM is open source and as such is highly dependent on on the users (community) - especially when it comes to locale translation. Even if there are organisations like the ATO who are trying to organize a global and free translation service for Amiga applications, we are trying to give individual the chance to contribute their translation.
So if you find that YAM isn't yet fully translated for your language, please have a look at the http://yam.ch/Development/HowToContribute document at our main support site. There you should find information on how to generate your own translation file and also contribute to us.
We are looking forward to receive your translations.
Reading Mails
Why are some mails displayed without any text content which got displayed properly some weeks ago?
Mails may contain several "streams", like the normal text and attachments. The text however may also exist in more than just one variant. The standard allows plain text and HTML text to coexist within one mail, but in this case both parts must contain the same text, even if they are displayed differently.
Now some very smart companies, but this also applies for spam mails, decide to fill only the HTML part with their message and leave the alternative text part empty. Most mail clients on other systems prefer to display HTML text this goes unnoticed by the masses and nobody complains. Since YAM still prefers plain text over other alternatives and hence will display a mail with no body at all.
However, this can be worked around. Open the config window, go to the "Read" page and activate the options "Display all texts" and "Show alternative parts". This will let YAM display the alternative HTML part as an attachment and additionally will show this HTML part converted to text.
When displaying an email with embedded soft-styles such as bold/italic, etc. the mail will be displayed with the style markers '*' as well, why?
In versions previous to YAM 2.5+, email messages were displayed with the soft style markers in a mail. However, this cause severe trouble in case a style marker was incorrectly recognized so that text was mixed up. Especially for formatted text like stylished ASCII-art signatures or documentations this ended up in a completly mixed up display of the email. In addition, other mainstream email programs also didn't strip the soft-style markers for the very same reasons.
Example: Considering that an author of an email wrote a short ASCII-art documentation in an email to e.g. explain a bit mask that he used and where he wanted to highlight the first bit as important in bold:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
Due to the used '*' bold-style characters this may have ended up looking like the following in YAM < 2.5 because the '*' chars were completly replaced by the bold style only:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 bit1 | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
As can be seen in that example, the ASCII-art here is completly mixed up due to the removed "*" bold-style characters.
However, now with YAM 2.5+ these kind of problems were fixed by keeping those soft-style characters in the showed mail text so that the above example now perfectly ends up being display correctly with the bold style and its markers:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 | bit3 bit2
In addition to that fix, it is now more easily possible to spot which character can be used to start writing a word in bold style rather than having to always use the corresponding toolbar button.
Doubleclicking an URL doesn't seem to popup my favourite webbrowser?
For automatically popping up your webbrowser upon clicking on an URL in a mail you are view ing in YAM, you require to configure either an external Arexx script to popup the web browser or to install and configure openurl.library and its corresponding tools. Here we are going to discuss both possibilities. However, OpenURL should be considered the default preferred way.
via OpenURL: Before we are going to discuss how to configure OpenURL correctly, please make sure you have the very latest version correctly installed and reachable for YAM. As of writing, the latest version of OpenURL is version 7.2. Please make sure that the following command outputs similar values on you shell:
1> version LIBS:openurl.library full openurl.library 7.2 (01.12.2005)
In addition, you should have a preferences program 'OpenURL' in you SYS:Prefs drawer. This is the main configuration tool for OpenURL. On a freshly installed OpenURL setup, it contains default settings. However, please note that these defauls do most likely NOT work out-of-the-box. You have to actually change them to your own iternet applications environment. As we are currently only interested in setting up a web browser in OpenURL, we take IBrowse as an example.
So, if you have the preferences application open, you will see different registers for web browsers, mailers and FTP programs you can configure. In 'Browsers' you should find an 'IBrowse' entry with some default settings. Doubleclick on it and make sure the following window shows the similar information:
Please note, that especially the "Path" setting definitly requires a change, as you are supposed to put in the correct directory/file path to the IBrowse executable. However, make sure that the "%u" part at the very end of the string remains.
Next, make sure that in the main configuration window, the 'Misc' register contains the following settings:
Now, if you have everything correctly configured and setup according to the above explainations, you should be able to open an URL even from the command line via the C:OpenURL executable that was also supplied with the default OpenURL installation:
1> openurl http://www.yam.ch/
This should, if correctly configured, fire up IBrowse in case it was configured to be the web browser with the highest priority in OpenURL. So please check your OpenURL configuration that e.g. IBrowse is at the top of your configured web browser list. In addition, if the above openurl command didn't succeed with automatically launching your web browser, try to use tools like SnoopDOS or Snoopy for tracking what OpenURL is trying to do when you execute the C:OpenURL command.
If this worked as expected, you can now try to doubleclick on an URL in a mail mesage in YAM (after having restarted YAM). If this still doesn't fire up IBrowse as the C:OpenURL did, then please have a look at the "Scripts" configuration tab in YAM. There, you have to make sure that you have NOT configured any arexx script for handling the doubleclicks on URLs. ("When double-clicking a URL" have to be empty)
via Arexx: If, for whatever reason it might be, you want to use a plain Arexx script for firing up the correct web browser, all you have to do is - go to the 'Scripts' configuration tab in YAM. There, make sure that you have the 'GotoURL.yam' script configured for the doubleclick actions on URLs. In addition, you have to make sure that - if you have YAM 2.5+ running - the script command string contains an %p qualifier at the end, like:
For YAM 2.5+:
YAM:Rexx/GotoURL.yam %p
For older YAM versions:
However, please note again, that the preferred way of configuring a doublick action on URLs is, to use OpenURL instead of the limited Arexx script possibility.
YAM shows the default icon for attachments rather than the one I configured in DefIcons. Why?
YAM 2.5+ introduced a new so-called AttachmentGroup which shows all attachments of a mail in an icon/image bar at the bottom of the mail read window. For each attachment, it will show a seperate icon/image depending on the file type of the attachment. For archieving this, it uses the DefIcon system of the operating system it is runing on. This system allows (through SYS:Prefs/DefIcons) to configure seperate icons for various types of files. Unfortunately, it is limited and especially the way third-party applications like YAM can query the icon/image for a certain file isn't perfect at all. In addition, the way DefIcon identifies a file type is based on certain rules a user can configure in SYS:Prefs/DefIcons where some rules do actually try to analyze the binary content of the file in question and therefore require the actual file to exist.
Now, when YAM is going to show the user the AttachmentGroup, it hasn't decoded all different MIME parts due to performance reasons. This means, that at the time YAM tries to show the user the icon/image for an attachment, it just knows the filename, description and size of the attachment, but it hasn't actually written the binary data of it to disk. So, at the time YAM is going to ask the DefIcons system for the actual icon/image of the file it can't supply the decoded binary and therefore will only show/query for the default type based on the MIME type of the attachment.
However, as soon as the attachment was decoded either because it was viewed/printed/saved from within YAM, the AttachmentGroup will show the correct icon/image based on what DefIcons supplies.
Replying/Forwarding Mails
I can't put my initials into or change the quoting string used on reply! Why?
In YAM 2.5 we removed the possibility to add your own initials to the quoting string '>' that is normally put in front of every line when you reply to a mail. This was done to conform to common netiquettes and the so-called Son-Of-RFC 1036 and its successors.
The point is, that there are some kind of common rules when creating an email. And one of those rules is the way a text/mail should be quoted. Borrowed from the way quoting was common in Usenet, emails use the same '>' quotation character that is put in front of every replied line in a mail. Previous versions of YAM allowed to put your own initials in that quoting string so that a string like 'JD>' was added on all mails that were quoted by the user John Doe. While this seemed to be a nice and neat way of getting more order into the quoting history, it more or less ends up in more obfuscation of mails, especially in large threads. Another point why such initial quotation strings shouldn't be used is, that there is only a very few amount of mail clients that are able to identify these strings as actual quotations and strip or highlight them accordingly on a reply.
Therefore, we generally removed the possibility to add your own initials to the quote string as well as the graphical elements to change the quotation string in the YAM configuration window. We really believe that compatibility to common rules and RFC s is most important.
For further readings on the pros and cons and how a mail should be properly quoted please have a look at http://learn.to/quote. Keep especially an eye on the 'Quotationsmarks' section that pretty much sums the issue up.
When replying to a mail, a wrong To: address is put in the write window, why?
Well, there seems to be a common misunderstanding of the folder based "mailing list" feature in YAM. Normally YAM allows to configure a folder as a so-called "mailing list folder" where you can set a "To: pattern" and "To: address", so that certain mail actions like reply, forward or new mail react differently when the configured pattern matches the To: address of a mail. For example, if you are suscbribed to the YAM user mailing list your ought to have a seperate folder for the posts arriving from the YAM mailing list and eventually your folder configuration will have a configuration similar to:
'To' pattern: #?email@example.com#? 'To' address: email@example.com
So in case you are pressing reply to a mail where the To: matches the configured pattern, the preconfigured "To: address" of the folder will be inserted instead.
However, it seems that some people mix up the "To: pattern" and set it to "#?" or their own mail address only. This is clearly not what this 'To' pattern is all about and definitly ends up in not being able to correctly reply to a mail - especially when you are in the Incoming folder.
So, please go through all your folder configurations (doubleclicking on each folder) and check that you have the "To: pattern" correctly set or the mailing list feature disabled for the folder. Best practice would be, if you want the mailing list feature enabled, to use the "Auto" button in the folder configuration window. This will automatically try to find out the correct pattern and mail address in case you already have some mails in the folder.
In addition, please also keep in mind that when replying to a mail that is stored in the incoming folder, YAM will check all mailing list configurations of all folders. That means, if you press "reply" on a mail in the incoming folder, YAM will walk through all your folders and if a "To: pattern" matches the mail, the write window will get the specified "To: address" instead of the mail's original sender address. So here the incoming folder is somewhat special and therefore it is absolutely necessary to have all 'To' patterns of all folders setup correctly.
What's the purpose of the 'Bounce' option in YAM and can I use it to e.g. bounce SPAM mail back?
Since early versions (2.3), YAM has a 'bounce' (remail) option which allows to send a mail to an alternative recipient as it would have been sent to that recipient originally. This functionality is also often called a 'remail' operation. What YAM does is, to take the mail as you have received it and directly remail it to an alternative recipient. The new recipient will receive that mail with more or less not noticing that it was send to an another person previously.
In fact, 'more or less' in this term means, that YAM will add some special header entries (e.g. 'Resent-From:' header) to signal that the mail in question was not really comming from the original author directly, but 'resent' instead. This is to conform to RFC s and to give the new recipient at least a minor hint that the mail in question may have been altered on the way.
So if you once received a mail on accident which normally should have gone to someone else you can use the bounce functionality to do that. Another use case could be to forward the mail as is to another account of your own.
However, this functionality is not meant to be used to bounce the mail back to the original author. This includes that e.g. if you received a SPAM message you want to bounce it back to the original author (the spammer) to give him the impression that something went wrong and that the user didn't exist. That's not only producing unnecessary email traffic but also isn't the scope of the bounce functionality in YAM. In addition, since 95% of the junk mail have bogus sender addresses this would result in error messages or that you have sent SPAM yourself to someone innocent. Spammers themself don't care about whether the mail makes it or not (hence the bogus address). All they are after is the small percent that fall for whatever they are spamming for. If the address is simply bad then it is going to bounce back or more commonly it is someone else's address that is going to get bombarded with bounced messages.
Composing Mails
Is it possible to send an email to a group of recipients in one go?
Yes it is. You just have to create a new list with a suitable name in YAM's address book and add all the desired recipients. Then add this list as a regular recipient when writing a mail.
When writing an email I get an error message like "+++ Host environment not found"?
If you are about to write an email in the internal texteditor of YAM and you automatically get an error message similar to this one:
+++ Error 13 in line 1: Host environment not found
This points out that the internal TextEditor.mcc tries to perform spell checking via its internal functionality. So this is no error message from YAM, but an error message comming from TextEditor.mcc. To get rid of the warning, please go to the MUI preferences (SYS:MUI/MUI) and make sure you disable the spell checking of TextEditor.mcc within its MUI preferences there. Afterwards the above error message should vanish.
But if you prefer to get the spell checking running, please consult additional documentation about the AlphaSpell support of TextEditor.mcc and how to properly set it up.
Why isn't YAM able to mark whole sentences as bold/italic/underline and just highlights single words? Wasn't that possible already?
Since YAM 2.5 the text highlighting functionality in YAM was changed according to more or less established standard when writing/displaying email on different email programs.
Previously, the internal TextEditor allowed to mark whole sentences as bold/underline/italic/colored whereas this operation ended up in showing those sentences in the corresponding style. When having sent the mail it would then end up as e.g. the following example in the final email message:
*This sentence in bold*
However, this scheme was completly incompatible to the given established standards in the email client community. Mailers such as Thunderbird never displayed those sentences in the correct style. In addition, it wasn't quite intuitive to notice the bold state when reading through such emails in the first place especially if they are wrapped to the next line.
Therefore, the highlighting practices were changed in YAM 2.5 so that each single word in a sentence will now be selected and set to the corresponding style separatly. So now the above sentence will end up looking like the following in YAM 2.5:
*This* *sentence* *in* *bold*
Even if that seems to be very ugly on a first thought, it is the only logical approach to the problem of having such mail interchangeable between different mailers. In addition, in most cases only single words need to get or should be highlighted in an email so that you will hardly set a whole sentence in bold/underline or such.
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Battery sprint finish
The battery was a sprinter not a marathon runner. Twenty-four hours after charging and with the PlayBook only on standby, the battery was dead. Compare that to the iPad's three per cent battery drain after the same time period. Flog the PlayBook for a couple of hours – for me that was an afternoon of surfing, taking photos, downloading and playing games, and editing docs - and the battery was again dead and had to be recharged. Neither are good for the kind of executives who are increasingly taking a single machine on trips – an iPad – and who never know when or where they'll be able to charge up.
Another complaint: the three and five megapixel front- and rear-facing cameras take extremely grainy photos.
Serious side: setting your PlayBook's system preferences
The PlayBook is RIM's second response to Steve Jobs. RIM started life making a reliable, two-way pager that morphed into a full-on, pocket-sized integrated communications platform that became vital to CEOs and US presidents. The BlackBerry won because it became indispensable: it concentrated phone, text, and web along with email from BlackBerry and non-BlackBerry devices, while synching with companies' Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes email systems. It was also reliable.
But RIM started losing its core business users to Jobs's iPhone, and in 2008 it broke the BlackBerry's distinctive design by embracing touch-screen control with the Storm.
Jobs's iPad came out shortly after, and now RIM's firing back at that, too.
This time RIM reckons it's got something that loves apps; the PlayBook's hardware certainly does work well with the software.
All interaction with the software is via the screen and there are no buttons on the outside, except for the On, Play/Pause and volume keys along the top edge. You navigate the screen by swiping your finger: swipe up and you get application icons, down it's system preferences, across you scroll through a carousel of any applications you've opened.
You tap an icon to open an application, swipe your finger up from the black border that surrounds the screen to get out of an application – incorporating the border took some getting used to – and you close an app by tapping an "X" in a small, grey bar just beneath the app in your carousel.
HD video on the PlayBook, meanwhile, is delicious: sharp images with rich and bright colors, while the PlayBook supports the specs and technologies you've come to expect: H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video.
It's all very polished and distinctive, but is this "professional grade"?
Control of the software is important when striving for this level of smoothness. You want to make sure the software works well, that it is accelerated by the dual-core chip architecture underneath, and you want to deliver an interface and "experience" that is different enough to the competition while still being familiar for users.
RIM has asserted control of the engineering and hardware in its tablet by buying the QNX microkernel that makes up the operating system. By owning the microkernel under the apps, RIM is in a position to drive the roadmap and engineering.
That's unlike Dell or Motorola, pushing their own tablets. Dell's Stream and Motorola's Xoom use Google's Android – a platform that, like Apple's iOS, is stealing smartphone users from RIM. Dell and Motorola will rely on Google to set the big Android roadmap, and then customize to try to ensure their machines "experiences" do not look like each others'.
However, RIM is not alone in having taken charge and of not simply buying into the Android collective wisdom: HP bought Palm for webOS, going into the forthcoming TouchPad. HP has now started bragging that the TouchPad will become "better than number one" because it will out-innovate everybody else.
Brand buy-in: RIM emphasizes the PlayBook's BlackBerry brand heritage
The PlayBook is a nice tablet that's got the basics nailed – it's slender, has multi-touch input, the screen reorientates, it has a soft keyboard, there's web browsing, and it comes with music and video players.
Does this make the PlayBook "professional grade". No, that makes it a tablet and means RIM must do a lot more work. RIM sold just 250,000 PlayBook units in its first four weeks compared one million a month for the "amateur" iPad when it launched.
And for all the PlayBook's features and faults, the 16GB version is actually $100 more expensive than the equivalent iPad from a company that Microsoft loves to remind us levies a "tax" on shoppers because its PCs are more expensive than Windows machines.
In this case, RIM's the taxman and he's charging for the BlackBerry brand not the PlayBook's value; a machine that in some ways is on a par with the machine it's trying to beat and that, in others, is worse.
Does the PlayBook provide a potential escape route to Jobs' vision of the web? Without a doubt. Is it "professional grade"? Not yet. Can it ever be? If RIM believes in putting actual meaning behind those two words, then yes. ®


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Parsons Bench
Height: 20 Width: 44 Length: 18
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(1) Dust with soft cloth slightly moistened with water. Always rub in the direction of the wood grain.
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(4) Remove any spills or smudges immediately.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Thriller Thursday ~ Jonathan Pugmire
Crewe, Cheshire, England. A blacksmith by trade, he was working with the Grand Junction Railroad Company. He was a mormon elder and had baptized several people while in Crewe, but one baptism did not go as planned.
Jonathan was baptizing Sarah Cartwright, the wife of his friend and co-worker, when the river bank gave way and the two of them fell and were swept away into the water.
Jonathan lost hold of her and Thomas jumped in and was able to grab hold of her petticoat, but the current was stronger and separated Sarah from her garment. They were both swept away down stream. Pugmire was pulled from the water and they found Cartwright about 100 yards down stream, but poor Sarah drowned.
Cartwright and Jonathan were both arrested for manslaughter and sent to Chester Castle until their trial. They were both acquitted.
By all accounts Sarah Jane Cartwright was an unwilling participant. The only reason she gave in to her husband's demands for being baptized was so he would quit pestering her about it. There are several accounts of the incident in newspapers from England, Australia, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. These same articles were printed in some U.S. papers.
Jonathan Pugmire, jr gives his own account of what happened years later and it is recorded in the church history:
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 6
The British articles present a clear account of what happened, but it's obvious you need to look past the obvious bias towards the Mormons. Here is an example from the Leeds Intelligencer, December 9, 1843:
There is an excellent article about the tragedy at The Keepapitchinin. I totally agree with his viewpoints.
I have known about this incident for quite a while, but imagine my surprise and horror when I discovered that these two characters were involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre!
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Mama's Got a New Phone
The S Note app is a Samsung app that came with the phone. It is basically a scrapbook app where you can add photos, text, and even write with the stylus pen. You can add pages and use different backgrounds.
After you are finished with your project you can export it as a .pdf or an image file and share it numerous ways.
I put these few pages together just to see how it worked.
So this is just a taste of the possibilities using S Note. The experimentation will continue with family history and scrapbooking related apps.
Leslie Ann
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Friday's Faces From the Past ~ Unidentified Photo 2 from William Taylor Album
This is another photo that was among the photos labeled Elizabeth Stafford in William Taylor's photo album. I am leaning towards the possibility that they are Stafford family members.
Here is a shot of the Henry Stafford and Elizabeth Taylor Family:
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Dykking & Marinbevaring - Frivillig Arbeid i Thailand: Månedlige Oppdateringer
Månedlige Oppdateringer fra 2008
September has been a rather quiet month with only up to 3 volunteers at the house. Most of the diving was for training so we did not get many surveys or reef salvage done but we continued our effort at the mangroves and with beach clean-ups. We also carried on with the preparation of International Coastal Clean-Up (ICC) for the 3rd of October.
This month of August has been another busy month despite the low season here in Ao Nang. Once more the weather has been on our side, the sun was shining nearly everyday which is very unusual for a rainy season. Some of us were hoping to have more rain during the very hot mangrove days! We started the month with our second 2 week special session and had up to 11 volunteers.
In addition to our usual activities, we have also been on a 3-day trip to Koh Jum to do some environmental education with the two schools on this island, went to he fisheries department to help maintaining their facilities and Chane and I have had a number of meetings to prepare for the International Coastal Clean-up campaign which will take place in September and October.
After a quiet month in May, we saw volunteer numbers increase in June and were able to spend more time out in the field. After a few days of dive training, we joined other volunteers at Tung Prasan for World Environment Day on the 5th of June. There were many of us altogether with our usual partners form the local community, staff form the Thai public electricity provider and students from NuakKlong high school.
May has been a strange month for the project here in Krabi in that for one week in the middle of the month we had no volunteers. In my two years here we have not had this situation, although there was a time in September last year when we only had one volunteer for three days.
As Marten mentioned in the last update, teaching and conservation volunteers joined forces for 3 days to raise environmental with participating children from NonThale and AoNang. Knot had prepared slide shows about reef and mangroves ecology and marine debris which he presented the first day when we had a 'workshop' with games and a play by the volunteers.
March has been a busy month here in Ao Nang, with volunteers learning about fish breeding during a bio-workshop at Krabi Fisheries Department, releasing anemonefish and damselfish on various local reefs, measuring the corals in the nursery at Viking Cave, designing an environmental-awareness poster, cleaning a couple of beaches, transplanting mangrove saplings and collecting over 1,500 mangrove seeds.
I ended January's update by mentioning 2008 was International Year of the Reef (IYOR), which is a worldwide drive to raise environmental awareness about coral reefs and the threats they face, and to encourage conservation activities from all sectors of society to help preserve the reef ecosystems.
2008 has started well with January flying by amid plenty of hard work and follow up activity from last year's fantastic efforts and achievements. Continuing with the environmental cleaning accomplishments of 2007, January has seen good results in both reef salvage and land based cleanups.


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Have I told you how much I love everything lemony? I often have water with a drizzle of lemon in it, I add lemon juice and zest to most of my warm salads, salad dressings and desserts too of course. Did you know that lemons are also highly alkalising and of course full on vitamin C?
I am also crazy about lemon myrtle. Here in Australia you can find a wide variety of lemon myrtle products, including soaps (they smell amazing!) and other beauty products, and I recently bought a bag of organic lemon myrtle which I've been since sprinkling on my daily dose of plain fat free yoghurt. I'm in lemon heaven!
I couldn't think of a better way to combine this gorgeously fragrant herb than with another favourite of mine, you guessed it, matcha. This loaf is not overly sweet (which I prefer), but it is just so tasty with a big dollop of lemon myrtle yoghurt. I am of course using spelt flour which makes the loaf a bit more wholesome and I'm using apple sauce instead of butter. Macadamia nuts are perfect in this loaf, but you could use walnuts or blanched almonds as well.
Lemon Myrtle Yoghurt
1 1/2 cups organic white spelt flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp lemon myrtle
1 tbsp Kitchen Grade Matcha
1/2 cup natural muscovado sugar
3 large free-range eggs
3/4 cup unsweetened organic apple sauce
1/2 cup low fat milk
*Lemon Myrtle Yoghurt*
1 cup organic fat free natural yoghurt
1/2 tsp lemon myrtle
1/2 tsp natural vanilla extract
1/2 tsp raw honey
In a bowl, combine the dry ingredients and mix well. In another bowl, whisk the eggs lightly, add apple sauce and milk and stir to combine. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir well to combine. Pour the batter into a prepared loaf tin and bake in 180C for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in a wired rack. Combine all the yoghurt ingredients in a small bowl. Serve the loaf with lemon myrtle yoghurt.


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Celebrity Health Scares
The Famous Women Who Have Bravely Shared Their Health Struggles
The Famous Women Who Have Bravely Shared Their Health Struggles
In her moving op-ed today, Angelina Jolie revealed that she had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she was at high risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Other women who might be at risk motivated the actress and activist to speak out about her private health decision. Angelina wrote: "Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people's hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action."
As Angelina's message of prevention and empowerment spreads across the Internet, she's not the only famous woman to generously share her health struggles. Christina Applegate and Wanda Sykes have discussed mastectomies. Others like Beyoncé Knowles and Nicole Kidman sacrificed some privacy to add to the conversation about miscarriages, while women like Gwyneth Paltrow and Brooke Shields have helped increase acceptance of postpartum depression. Whether about mental illness, fertility struggles, or cancer, when recognized and accomplished celebrities open up, it helps raise awareness and understanding about the health issues that impact women. Read through for quotes from some of these brave women now.


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CR7 scores the winning goal...
...in the 2016 Champions League final. Via the last penalty of the shoot-out after doing precisely nothing all match, thereby stealing all the glory.
Because it's healthy on occasion to be reminded that life is unfair. Back to work.
For your weekend viewing pleasure: Flin Flon Flim Flam
Here's the header of this news release:
Arizona investigative journalist John Dougherty will begin a 10-city Canadian tour on May 24 at the Royal Theatre in Toronto to screen his documentary "Flin Flon Flim Flam" on the worldwide operations of Hudbay Minerals, Inc.
And here's the documentary itself, no need to be in one of those ten cities in the next few weeks, IKN got your back. Alan Hair should watch it, he may learn a little more about his own company.
Youtube link here. My thanks to reader 'AB' for the heads up. I watched this last night and the Constancia bit was a fair representation of what's going on (and by the way, the five truck crashes he mentions are now eight, after three more in 2016). Also the Flin Flon Manitoba pollution angle is impressive (but not in a good way for HBM).
The Friday OT: John Butler Trio; Ocean
I heard it for the first time last night, when friend PK sent the link over. And I was blown away. I'm new to John Butler but you don't need to be a long-standing fan to know this is high quality stuff.
Drop everything, listen to this.
UPDATE: Reader 'MB' adds thoughts:
I am not a subscriber, but receive your email postings each day.
Listened to your recommendation, John Butler Ocean today. You have
previously recommended music and I must admit that our tastes seem to
differ (greatly, it seemed). But 'Ocean' I absolutely love.
Thanks, MB.
In The IKN Weekly this Sunday...
...we take a look at the Tinka Resources (TK.v) resource update of Wednesday and explain why it's better than the market reaction (better said non-reaction) would have you believe, why nobody noticed and why I like it that way. Other things too of course, just like always, but that teaser for IKN368 will do for a start.
Nevada Copper (NCU.to) and the smell of mothballs
The long NR out of Nevada Copper this morning is the sound of Red Kite emitting a loud, eye-rolling sigh the way long-suffering fathers put up with errant, repeat-offending sons and daughters. They know what their offspring is doing is wrong, they know there's little hope, but they also know that they are more than a little to blame for the mess created. So Red Kite don't foreclose on Guy Prettyface and throw them a few beans in order to keep the thing in order. For a price, of course.
We're now one year on from the NCU.to feasiblity study at Pumpkin Hollow. At the time of its publication NCU was a $1.90 stock and this humble corner of cyberspace put it as clearly as possible, "No amount of hype can save a marginal project". Or this post on the day of the FS publication that noted how it used U$2.85/lb copper as its "low case" to get a 10.4% IRR. How how we laughed. That's the bottom line and it's taken a year for Red Kite to join the chorus. All they can do now is keep a skeleton staff at the site (yup Yerington folks, there are layoffs on the way) and light a candle to the Market Gods in hope for $3/lb copper...$3.50/lb in fact.
Joe Mazumdar and his underling do MIF
Mining expert Joe Mazumdar of Exploration Insights (aka Blackbeard) gave this presentation at the recent Metals Investment Forum:
And the hanger-on at Exploration Insights, Whitebeard, did this presentation at the same gig:
These are pretty good talks. Thanks due to mailpal Claudio for the heads up.
Continental Gold (CNL.to) and my final post on this Colombia Constitutional Court nonsense
With less than an hour to go before the close of play on this cloudy and slightly chilly Thursday, this is how Continental Gold (CNL.to) is trading today...
...and the weakness marked to GDXJ is presumably a reaction to the news out of Colombia yesterday of that Constitutional Court ruling, so after teasing you this morning let's be clear about this once and for all. It doesn't matter what the uninformed Chicken Little end of the mining scream-o-sphere are telling you, it doesn't even matter about my personal opinion of Continental Gold (CNL.to) or Mister Honesty himself, Ari Sussman. CNL is not meaningfully affected by yesterday's ruling. As I wrote to A. Person earlier...
"The ruling was a ratification of what we already know, not a new piece of law. It was called for by the governor of Huila region who wants to stop a couple of hydroelectric plants from being built and the government was trying to ignore him."
...so now you know. Yes it may affect other mining projects with unfriendly local governments, but Buriticá and Antioquia are among the vast majority of locations in Colombia where there's no change.
Keith Neumeyer is Inspector Gadget
Thank you reader L for the heads up and thank you Bloomie for the clickbait headline...
...and thank you Keith Neumeyer for the continued guffaws and yoks. Here's your excerpt...
A major Japanese electronics maker approached First Majestic Silver Corp. for the first time last month seeking to lock in future stock, a sign of supply concerns that could boost the metal's price ninefold, according to the best-performing producer of the metal.
"For an electronics manufacturer to come directly to us -- that tells me something is changing in the market," said Keith Neumeyer, chief executive officer of First Majestic, the top stock in Canada and among its global peers this year.
....go see it all here, worth every penny.
But the best bit is in the video; When asked for a forecast on silver, Neumeyer says, "I think I've been wrong every year for the last four or five years.." and then goes straight into a U$20/oz silver forecast by year end. Which is plain wrong once again. Care to wager on that one, Keith?
My stars he reminds me of Albert Einstein. Not not the Einstein brains of course, but the Einstein quotes:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Bless you, Keith, you're a visionary guru. At least you have living proof there are many people dumber than you, all you need do is look at the share price of First Mining Finance (FF.v).
UPDATE: A different reader L, this time LL, writes in after doing the math:
UPDATE: A different reader L, this time LL, writes in after doing the math:
LL wins today's observation prize.In his 1 min long (short) interview KN says that silver is being mined with a 9 to 1 ratio to gold and the price is 75 to 1, "this can't go on". Then at the end he goes on to predict (guess) where he think prices will be at the end of the year: "Silver in the $20 range and gold at $1,500". Now wait, isn't that a 75 to 1 ratio?
Colombia and the art of reading what is written...
...rather than reading what you think is written.
An example is the short post on Colombia yesterday evening, on the Constitutional Court ruling about permitting, compared to your humble scribe's mailbag this morning. Therefore and for the headless chicken reactionaries who decided to mail in this morning...
1) Why does the post only refer to Norte Santander region and not the whole of Colombia?
2) Why does it state that it really depends on the location of your mining project?
3) Why does it talk about only one specific company and its project?
If you can hazard a guess at those three, feel free to write in. But only after you've bothered thinking a bit.
Peru poll: Keiko 46.0%, PPK 38.9%
New out today from pollster CPI, link here. Seven points of difference is the biggest gap shown for either candidate during the process, with ten days to go before the big day. Fair to say Keiko's moving at the right time.
Spoiled balloters are at 9.6%, undecided are 5.5%. Stick all that together and mix thoroughly of a projected final result of Keiko 54.2% and PPK 45.8%.
Goodbye, Eco Oro (EOM.to)
And CB Gold (CBJ.v) and any other mining project located around the Páramo de Santurbán in Colombia, because today the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled that local and regional mayors and governors have the right to block mining projects in Colombia, no matter if they've been permitted at a national level.
Now it's going to depend where your mining project is located and how miner-friendly the local politicos happen to be but there are some clear-cut examples where the regional heads are dead set against mining activity and those include William Villamizar Laguado, governor of Norte Santander, where Eco Oro (EOM.to) and its Angostura project is located.. Anything round there is now dead as a dodo
And I'd suspect AngloGold Ashanti will have to do some pretty serious....lobbying (err, I think that's what they call it)...in Tolima soon.
UPDATE: One small correction, CB Gold is in Santander region and not Norte Santander like EOM. Apart from that, we're good.
UPDATE: One small correction, CB Gold is in Santander region and not Norte Santander like EOM. Apart from that, we're good.
Chart of the day is...
...gold, monthlies:
I've been trying to scare myself out of being long gold this morning, checking charts from 5 minutes through hourlies and dailies to that one above. I've been reading the gold bear argument carefully, too.
Completely failed to faze myself.
There will be no more posting on this...
...fine and sunny Tuesday in May at this humble corner of cyberspace. For secret reasons.
Back tomorrow midday.
PS: Special dedication for reader and mailer "AL". The secret is out!
AQM Copper (AQM.v) gives us a pre-feas
FWIW and in my own little way I have a soft spot for (but not a long position in ) AQM Copper and its part ownership of the Zafranal project in South Peru, so the NR with the results of its Pre-Feas was the first NR I opened today. And on getting to the moneystuff...
...it doesn't matter how much I like it or not, this one isn't going to make the shopping list.
Chart of the day is
...the dollar etf (DXY) against the gld etf (GLD), three months:
Nope, can't see any relationship there.
And don't you just hate it when a blogger feels the need to put an asterisk on a word or phrase and then declare "irony" underneath because she or he knows that there's going to be a good percentage of the readership that will take them literally? Yeah, me too.
Minera IRL news
Another piece falls into place.
May 23, 2016
Minera IRL Reports the Transfer of Shares in its Peruvian Subsidiaries, and Announces Board and Management ChangesLIMA, PERU--(Marketwired - May 23, 2016) - Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL" or the "Company") (BVLAC:MIRL) reports that the one share in each of its two Peruvian subsidiaries, Minera IRL S.A. and Minera Kuri Kullu S.A., which were not registered in the name of the Company, have been transferred into the name of a nominee of the Company, thereby consolidating control over the two subsidiaries with immediate effect.As a result, the boards of the two subsidiaries will be reconstituted as follows:Diego BenavidesCecilia GonzalesFrancis O'KellyMr. Benavides is General Manager of Minera IRL S.A., Ms. Gonzales is a corporate lawyer in practice in Lima, Peru and Mr. O'Kelly is a Director of the company,The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Gerardo Perez Delgado as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect.Mr. Perez is a lawyer and a partner in the firm of Barrios Fuentes in Lima, Peru. His areas of expertise include Administrative Law, Regulation, Infrastructure and Concessions. Previously he was General Manager of the National Port Authority of Peru for six years where he was responsible for the planning, organization, direction, control and management of the institution in charge of the Peruvian Port System. He was involved in the concession of the Ports of Callao, Paita, Yurimaguas among others, and of the deepening and widening of the entrance to the port of Callao project, the implementation of the Single Window Port (VUP) by which the formalities concerning the export and import of goods through the ports is simplified, and overall planning and execution of actions to achieve the competitiveness of Peruvian ports.In addition, Minera IRL announces that Mr. Francis O'Kelly has been appointed as Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Mr. Carlos Ruiz de Castilla has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer.
"What's the Point of Having F-You Money If You Never Get To Say F-You"
James Altucher wrote a post called "The Secret of Billions" last week and I read it on Medium yesterday. I think you should read it too, it's long and it's excellent and it talks about the show in the title and gives plenty of insight into Wall St and its inhabitants, too.
But the part of the Altucher post I want to highlight is this, at the end. It starts with the title line above as its header and it got me to see that my idea of F-You money is really low. Have a read.
"Of course on Showtime the word is spelled out. Bobby says this line to Chuck Rhodes (Paul Giamatti) in the one heated confrontation they have during the pilot.The line is excellent and Damien Lewis delivers it with ruthlessness.But I always think the reverse.When you have a job, people often daydream about saying that to their boss or colleagues or whoever. But I always felt, "When I get F you money, the last thing I want to do is come back here and talk to my boss, even if it is just to curse at him." What's the point?This begs the question, why do billionaires even keep going after they get their F you money?I guess it's because they are so driven that that is how they got the F you money in the first place. So that same force that drove them initially is still driving them.And then there's the question — how much is F You money?In the show, at the end, Bobby buys a house for $63 million. But clearly you don't need a house that big to be happy. Many people have much smaller houses and are happy with their lives.I tried thinking of an answer.For instance, one answer is: you have F you money if from morning to night you only have to do the things you love doing and you don't have to do anything else.But what if what you love doing is building and flying rocketships to the Moon. That's pretty expensive. Your number is going to be a very big number.I don't know the answer. I like to sit at home and read and write all day. And not ever feel so angry I feel the need to say "F You!" to anyone since that is a stress and stress will make you sick.For me, "F You money" simply means I get to keep physically healthy, spend time with friends (emotional health), be creative (mental health), and be grateful (spiritual health) every single day, without anyone or anything getting in the way of that.Life throws us difficulties and stresses every day, no matter what. And you can see that the characters in the show are setting themselves up for potentially many, many episodes of stress, no matter how rich they are, no matter how powerful.At the end of all shows and stories, everyone eventually dies and their stories are eventually forgotten, like a lingering pain that eventually subsides and disappears.What's the point of having F You money if eventually everyone dies?Please tell me the answer when you get there."
Two from the Peru presidential race
1) Last night saw the first of two live TV debates between Keiko and PPK (the next is next Sunday) before the big vote day on June 5th (two Sundays from now). Without putting too fine a point on it, Keiko wiped the floor with PPK.
2) The latest voter intention poll came out last night, from IPSOS. Keiko is polling at 46.1%, PPK at 41.6%. This indicates a approx 53%/47% valid votes result forecast. The poll was taken to last Friday, i.e. before the debate last night.
The IKN Weekly, out now
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Night's King
- For the television character, see Night King.
The Night's King, by Oriana Wiesner ©
Night's King
Brandon Stark (according to Old Nan)[1]
Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
Night's King
Night's Watch
House Bolton, Magnar, Umber, Flint, Norrey, Woodfoot, or Stark (according to various people)[1]
|First Men
|In the Age of Heroes
The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned)
A Storm of Swords (mentioned)
A Feast for Crows (mentioned)
Night's King,[1] also called the Night's King,[2] is a legendary Lord Commander of the Night's Watch who lived during the Age of Heroes.
According to legend, Night's King lived during the Age of Heroes, not long after the Wall was complete. He was a fearless warrior named the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Later, he fell in love with a woman "with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars". He chased her and loved her though "her skin was cold as ice", and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well. Night's King brought her back to the Nightfort and after the unholy union, he declared himself king and her his queen, and ruled the Nightfort as his own castle for thirteen years.[1]
During the dark years of his reign, horrific atrocities were committed, of which tales are still told in the north. It was not until Brandon the Breaker, the King of Winter, and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, joined forces that Night's King was brought down and the Night's Watch freed.[2] After his fall, when it was discovered that Night's King had been making sacrifices to the Others, all records of him were destroyed and his very name was forbidden and forgotten.[1] It is likely this led the lords of the north to forbid the Night's Watch to construct walls at their keeps, ensuring the keeps would always be accessible from the south.
Maesters are skeptical of the legend, thinking the Night's King's corpse queen was possibly a daughter of a Barrow King from the barrowlands.[2] Some fan theories link her with the Others because of her description.
Recent History
A Storm of Swords
While on his way north, Bran Stark recalls stories told to the Stark children of Night's King and the Nightfort by Old Nan, servant in Winterfell. She said some people believe Night's King was a Bolton, a Magnar of Skagos, an Umber, a Flint, a Norrey, or a Woodfoot. However, she identifies Night's King as a Stark of Winterfell and brother to the King of Winter and suggests his name was Brandon.[1]
A Feast for Crows
While talking with Jon Snow, Samwell Tarly uses Night's King as an example of legendary figures questioned by archmaesters of the Citadel.[3]
He had been the thirteenth man to lead the Night's Watch, she said; a warrior who knew no fear. 'And that was the fault in him,' she would add, 'for all men must know fear.'[1]—Bran Stark recalling Old Nan's stories
Night's King was only a man by light of day, Old Nan would always say, but the night was his to rule.[1]— thoughts of Bran Stark
... in the books he is a legendary figure, akin to Lann the Clever and Brandon the Builder, and no more likely to have survived to the present day than they have.[4]
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 56, Bran IV.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Wall and Beyond: The Night's Watch.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: On Maegor III and the Night's King, June 09, 2015


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Sanctuary Cove
Hope Island QLD
Receiving the 2013 Australian Entertainer of the Year award at the Australian Event Awards, magician and illusionist Matt Hollywood has announced his new live show on the sunny Gold Coast …Illusions.
Running nightly at The Village Theatre, Sanctuary Cove, Illusions will wow crowds with never before seen illusions including mid-air vanishes and appearances, in addition to Hollywood's usual blend of hilarious comedy, tricks and stunts.
Illusions will be performed on the same stage Frank Sinatra and Whitney Houston took to when Sanctuary Cove first opened in 1988.
Audiences can expect the most breathtaking magic learnt from all over the world over the past 20 years. "There will be levitation methods never seen before, vanishes beyond belief, and mind-reading which seriously blows people away."
Illusions…be dazzled by Matt Hollywood's mind-blowing magic!


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As a youth, Henry Nowak emigrated to the United States from Austria. Growing up in Hoboken, NJ, he found employment as a musician and eventually with Vaudeville where he toured the US and Europe extensively. As a professional musician he was also inventive and mechanically inclined, and with this his creativity found a unique outlet. In this article we discuss the Symphonichord, one of his favorite musical inventions.
Recently, zitherist John Roeder shared some photos with me, passed on to him years ago by Rudy Wacek. Wacek was one of Chicago's most famous zitherists, known for his work with electric zithers. Seeing the images, it's clear why Wacek found them appealing. The collection included images of a musician playing a rather large, amplified zither. The instrument was new to me, and for good reason, as it wasn't called a zither at all — it was a Symphonichord.
The musician, and this instrument's inventor, was Henry Nowak. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1884, Henry came to the US in the early 1890s with his mother and siblings. His father had arrived a few years earlier to become established and worked as a baker. Together, the family settled in Hoboken, NJ, and as a youth, Henry worked as an elevator boy, and a few years later as a hotel musician.
Compliments of John Roeder
Playing music in the hotel, Nowak witnessed the comings and goings of strangers and the mystery this entailed. He was eventually caught up in the stream, leaving Hoboken to pursue his music and fulfilling dreams of travel. Nowak found employment in Vaudeville, playing the violin, singing and working under the stage name "Henri Kublick." For a span of over two decades, he traveled extensively throughout the US, overseas in England, France and Australia.
Nowak had a gift of music and invention and the Symphonichord was just one in a series of creations. As a Vaudeville entertainer, he introduced audiences to a number of original instruments that he had devised for his musical program. Among these was called the "human-voiced violin." Reportedly made of aluminum, his invention impressed audiences with its ability to reproduce the human voice. Other novelty instruments invented and demonstrated by Nowak included his "Hawaiian Stringed Orchestra," a single instrument having the effect of multiple Hawaiian stringed instruments. Additional instruments were designed to reproduce the effect of an orchestra, such as his "banjochestrion," which resembled a harp with a concert zither fretboard.
In the 1930s, Nowak seems to have bowed out of Vaudeville, and the demands of travel that lifestyle demanded. From there he moved to entertainment venues in the Chicago area. On the radio, listeners could hear Kublick's Bavarian Ensemble on WMAQ. His ensemble performed regularly in the Bierstube of Chicago's Bismarck Hotel, and he had solo engagements at Link's Homestead Restaurant in Glenview.
While Nowak played traditional Bavarian folk music with his ensemble, a short biography included with the Link's restaurant menu provides a glimpse into the range of music performed on his Symphonichord. According to the brochure, his repertoire included selections from Beethoven, Wagner and Strauss to modern composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern.
In his retirement, Nowak moved to sunny Florida and continued to entertain the public with the music of his Symphonichord. As he played through a favorite Viennese waltz or popular selection, he was approached by curious listeners wanting to have a closer look at his invention. Nowak spent two decades refining his electric zither. When asked about his instrument, he explained that it used electrostatic energy to faithfully reproduce the numerous voices of an orchestra – such as the harp, guitar, piano and brass instruments. Nowak had a symphony at his fingertips, the Symphonichord.
Kublick's Bavarian Ensemble at the Bismarck Hotel. Compliments of John Roeder.
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