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Browser Hijack Viruses
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Ad-Aware Browsing Protection Removal Instructions
Browser been taken over by an unknown search or home from
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection
? If this is true then your browser was infected by a nasty little virus that comes packaged with free software or even malware. The Ad-Aware Browsing Protection search hijacking occurs when a virus infects your computer and drops what is known as a search virus. This will reset all your web browser URLs to an unwanted home page and search engine and will redirect any browsing you do through Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox. What's very concerning is that your homepage being Ad-Aware Browsing Protection could be just the tip of a larger malware infection on your computer.
What does Ad-Aware Browsing Protection do?
Once installed, this Trojan will modify the default settings of your Internet web browser, specifically it will change your search provider to
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection
as well as your homepage. In some cases depending on the distribution it may affect your DNS settings and New tabs, etc. While the fact that your pages have been changed is concerning, the bigger issues is that this is not the main problem. In fact, your computer most likely has other malware infections, most probably adware that is running hidden which is what installed Ad-Aware Browsing Protection as your search and is also protecting it from being removed.
Why was my homepage and search changed?
Basically, its an advertising and marketing scam in which publishers or malware and adware are paid by search portals for getting as much traffic to their web site as possible. These search portal owners then get paid through on-site advertisers which buy ads through various ad channels. these ads then end up on unknown search web sites. The Publisher now gets paid to direct traffic to Ad-Aware Browsing Protection. So they pay affiliates and software publishers to bundle and install search viruses on user's computers in order to push as much traffic to Ad-Aware Browsing Protection as possible and share in the revenue. The major problem is that these distributors then add other malware on your computer to protect their search engine from being changed by a competitor or anti-virus software.
Delete Ad-Aware Browsing Protection from Chrome
Open Google Chrome.
In the top right corner of the page, click the Chrome menu > Settings.
In the "Appearance" section, check the box next to Show home button. When the box is checked, you'll see a web address below it.
Click Change.
Click Open this page and replace Ad-Aware Browsing Protection with www.yahoo.com in the text box.
Click OK.
Delete Ad-Aware Browsing Protection from Internet Explorer
In the menu bar on the top of your browser, click Tools.
Select Internet Options.
Click the General tab.
In the "Home page" section, enter //www.yahoo.com in the text box and remove Ad-Aware Browsing Protection.
Delete Ad-Aware Browsing Protection from Edge
Open Microsoft Edge. In the upper right corner of your browser, select More actions (...) > Settings.
Scroll down to "Open with," select A specific page or pages.
Open the list and select Custom. Then, select the "X" next to the Ad-Aware Browsing Protection homepage.
Next to "Enter a web address," type www.bing.com > select the plus sign.
Delete Ad-Aware Browsing Protection from Firefox
Open Firefox.
Open your browser and visit www.yahoo.com.
Drag and drop that tab onto the Home button and release.
Click Yes.
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection Removal Options
Removing Ad-Aware Browsing Protection from your computer is an important step to making sure your computer is safe and virus free and your privacy is protected. While the removal instructions may appear overwhelming due to the amount of the steps and numerous programs that will be used, it was created this way to provide clear easy to understand instructions that anyone can use to remove this virus. All instructions and anti-virus programs suggested can be used for free to remove Ad-Aware Browsing Protection.
Self Help Instructions
The removal instructions for Ad-Aware Browsing Protection intended for advanced computer users. Please ensure your data is backed up before proceeding. If you're uncomfortable making changes to your computer, consider having a professional help clean your computer or choose a vetted and recommended anti-virus product.
Before using these instructions, it is suggested that you first print it out as we may need to close your browser window or reboot your computer. Having these in print format will be easy. At the very least, if you want to save paper, copy the URL for the page. Next, before starting to remove Ad-Aware Browsing Protection, we will want to do a full reboot of your computer.
Now that your computer has been rebooted, lets start the removal process. In order to remove Ad-Aware Browsing Protection we will want to have access to a few anti-virus tools. Please download the following tools and save them to your computer. You do not need to install them yet.
Reason Core Security
Anti-Malware Software (Recommended)
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To begin the removal process, first, reboot your computer into
Safe Mode with Networking
using the instructions for your version of Windows. When following the steps make sure you select Safe Mode with Networking rather than just Safe Mode. When the computer reboots into Safe Mode with Networking make sure you login with the username you normally use. When you are logged in continue with the rest of the steps.
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection sometimes has a usable Uninstall entry that can be used to remove the software, let's try that first. To do this, click on the
button and then select
Control Panel
. if you use Windows XP double-click on the
Add or Remove Programs
icon. If you use Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 double-click on the
Uninstall Program
Within the Add or Remove Programs or the Uninstall Program window, scroll through the list of programs and double-click on each of the entries listed in bold below to uninstall them if you see them. The entry name should be:
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection
When you double-click on the entries to uninstall it, follow the default prompts and allow it to remove all files and all configurations related to this program.
At this point we can now install Reason Core Security which you have downloaded above. Reason Core Security has been tested to remove Ad-Aware Browsing Protection.
You can read more about Reason Core Security online
Locate the site setup file name
on your computer. It should be in the download folder. If you cannot find it, you can download it again by
clicking here
. Follow the onscreen setup instructions. The setup will install the software and run your first scan. The first scan should detected Ad-Aware Browsing Protection on your computer as well as any other malware or virus threats that exists. Now remove them by clicking the
Removed Checked
bot to eliminate all threats. Reason Core Security will now delete all of the files and registry entries and add them to the secure quarantine. When removing the files, Reason Core Security may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot, please allow it to do so. Once your computer has rebooted, and you are logged in, continue with the rest of the steps.
You can now close down Reason Core Security. If you elect to keep it, it will silently run in the background protecting your computer from any reinfections of Ad-Aware Browsing Protection as well as all viruses, Trojans, worms, malware and adware.
If your computer is still in Safe Mode with Networking, you can reboot your computer back to normal mode. Once your computer is rebooted and you are back at the desktop, you can proceed with the rest of the instructions.
Your computer should now be free of Ad-Aware Browsing Protection. If your current anti-virus or anti-malware software allowed this program on your computer, you may want to consider
purchasing the full-featured version of Reason Core Security
to protect against these types of threats in the future.
This is a self-help guide. Use at your own risk.
virus-removal-instructions.com can not be held responsible for problems that may occur by using this information. If you would like help with any of these fixes, you can ask for malware removal assistance in many of the online forums.
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This is the relevant portion of the transcript (from the 20 December 1998 broadcast of 60 Minutes):
|KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros' father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)
KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew…
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust…
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
(Vintage footage of people getting on train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) … by — by posing as a Christian.
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
KROFT: In what way?
Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and — and anticipate events and when — when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a — a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that's — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't — you don't see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c — I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was — well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets — that if I weren't there — of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would — would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt. LINK TO SOURCE

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Erratic behavior
Giant Rock has inspired extremes of human reverence and abuse
Name Giant Rock
Location Southern Mojave Desert, northwest of Landers, California
Size Seven stories tall
Claim to fame The geologic erratic has been the site of UFO conventions, epic raves and meditation gatherings
Visit You can visit (and even spend the night in) the nearby Integratron. Visit www.integratron.com for details.
Landers, California
It is deep summer on the southern edge of the Mojave Desert -- a hallucinatory landscape of mesas and basins, dotted with creosote bushes and Joshua trees that dance in the heat of late afternoon. Here, just off Old Woman Springs Road and down a rutted path, sits Giant Rock. Slate-gray and shaped like a tilted egg, it stands seven stories high on a patch of bare Bureau of Land Management scrub. There's not much out here, just snakes and sand and emptiness all the way to the horizon. It's sort of a poor man's Ayers Rock, a place that has inspired its human visitors to extremes of both reverence and abuse.
Local legend has it that the Chemehuevi people, who have lived in the high desert for thousands of years, witnessed the rock's arrival: Their ancestors watched it float down from the sky in a beam of sunlight, light as a bubble, before it came to rest on the Earth. Supposedly, tribes from all over the Southwest came to see this sacred rock, but only the highest-ranking chiefs were allowed to lay their hands on it.
Giant Rock found devotees of a different sort in the 20th century. One was Frank Critzer, a German immigrant who was trying to make a living as a prospector in the desert. Critzer excavated a home under the rock and was living there when he met George Van Tassel, a Los Angeles aeronautical engineer and test pilot with an interest in extraterrestrials. Critzer died in the 1940s; according to some accounts, local law enforcement, who suspected him of being a Nazi spy, raided his underground home with tear-gas canisters and set off a store of dynamite.
After Critzer's death, Van Tassel moved to Giant Rock. In the early 1950s, Van Tassel claimed that Venusians had contacted him during a meditation session and instructed him to devote his life to building a "human rejuvenation chamber" on the "energy vortex" surrounding this stark spot. So he constructed a white dome-shaped "Integratron" a few miles away and hosted UFO conventions, which, at their peak, drew upwards of 10,000 people. Van Tassel and his wife, Eva, also operated the "Giant Rock Interplanetary Airstrip" as well as a restaurant next to the rock. Howard Hughes, for whom Van Tassel once worked as a test pilot, occasionally dropped in for a slice of apple pie.
After Van Tassel died, the spacecraft conventions ended, and Giant Rock became another backroad Mojave curiosity, as neglected as the ramshackle trailers that dot the landscape here. But its remoteness held a lure of its own, and in the 1980s and 1990s, the rock became the site of epic parties and open-air raves held under the star-spackled desert sky. In the 1990s, a teenager from the nearby town of Joshua Tree died at such a party, overdosing on the drug GHB.
The most recent chapter in the rock's story is weird even by California standards. On Feb. 20, 2000, at 8:20 in the morning, Giant Rock split apart for no apparent reason. A slice the size of an eighteen-wheel truck fell away, exposing a pure white granite interior. A Los Angeles shaman and his followers, who said that they'd been praying at the rock for days, claimed that the split fulfilled a prophecy. For their part, BLM personnel theorized that heat from years of bonfires might be responsible.
Recently, Giant Rock has found new acolytes. Members of the Friends of Giant Rock occasionally remove graffiti and pick up trash from the area, but their cleanup efforts seldom endure. Today, Giant Rock is burn-scarred and scrawled with graffiti -- Slayer, a few swastikas, I Love You Lover. Car parts, broken beer bottles and a shredded sleeping bag litter the ground, reminders that the rock's strange pull -- and its devotees' irreverent worship -- endure.
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Written by Little Owl
[published: July 11, 2011 (3:00AM)]
Can we grow enough to eat? If you had asked me this question a month ago I would have said no. If you asked me two weeks ago I'd have said I'm not sure, and if you ask me today, I will say Yes, I think we can.
The ongoing procurement of food is the thing I worry about most in a post collapse world. Just to feed my family of four, I estimate we need to produce 4 million calories a year, possibly a bit more if you take into account the increase in physical activity that we'll be doing. Of course, those calories need to be eked out over the whole year, so about half our years' food will have to stored or preserved in some way so we can eat through the winter and spring's hungry gap.
4 million calories is a lot of food. I have spent many hours pondering the logistics of this, and have always come up with a blank. I knew I could certainly grow a percentage of the food we need, in fact I already do, but the prospect of growing it all is daunting and I wasn't sure it was possible without either paid help or using a tractor.
My change of heart happened about 2 weeks ago. I was reading something and a sentence caught my attention. "To be successful you need to ask the right question". This one statement can be applied to any subject matter or any situation and it has played on my mind ever since. I've realized that the question I've been asking myself about food production is "how can I grow all the food we need". And as I've asked myself that question over and over, I've been mentally listing the foods we do eat and trying to work out how could I grow them.
What I've suddenly realized is that that is the wrong question. A great deal of the food we eat is shipped in because it's grown elsewhere. A perfect example is wheat. We rely heavily on wheat. Every day we eat bread, twice a week I'll bake cakes and biscuits. On a daily bases I use it in pastry and sauces. Wheat will grow here, but not easily. The trouble is that the birds take it all. There are no crops growing around here, it's all livestock, and so if a grain crop is sown, every bird for miles around, descends on it and it's gone. I happened to visit a woman I know who grows organic wheat about 100km south of here. She explained to me that the reason she can grow a good crop is because her farm is surrounded by hundreds of acres of wheat grown on the neighbouring farms. There is enough grain for all the birds to eat their fill and it doesn't make a dent on the final harvest. Each farm only loses a tiny percentage of their crop.
What this made me realize is that the question I should asking myself is "what food can I grow easily here". (I think the most important word in that question is 'easily'). The answer to that question includes a lot of foods that we currently eat now and then but don't rely on regularly. This must change. Whilst I've never expected to grow bananas here, what this means is that we will have to change our diet quite significantly, at least in the medium term. As for wheat, I need to find a replacement carbohydrate to make some sort of bread or cookies with. I'm sure we will be able to trade or buy wheat but I'm not sure if we'll be able to afford it, or if we would be prepared (or able) to buy it for an exorbitant price.
Initially I panicked at the thought of radically changing our diet, but now, after 2 weeks of reading and planning I'm feeling quite good about it. I know I can grow potatoes very easily here. My soil is moisture retentive and I get great yields. One kilo of potatoes supplies 860 calories, so that's a start, but if we rely on potatoes alone, that's a hell of a lot of spuds!
I can also grow beans and corn. I haven't tried pumpkins yet but I grow great zucchini so I'm sure I can grow squashes. I'm planning on large crops of these. Silverbeet (Swiss chard) also grows like a weed all year round, so that's worth having.
I've read recently about people who starve even though there is food around. Apparently it is normally the very young and the very old. It happens when someone is given a food they are unfamiliar with and don't like. Even though it may be nutritious and calorie dense, they refuse to eat it. Their hunger pangs disappear after a while and they start to starve, and no amount of coaxing can persuade them to eat the food stuff they are refusing. Of course an adult can be reasoned with and will eat to stay alive but a young child doesn't fully understand and can literally starve to death. The only way to break this is to offer the child something they do want to eat, and this may not be possible in a post collapse world.
This worries me. I have young children and they love rice (which will be unobtainable too), pasta, bread, pancakes etc. One of my children has never been keen on apples. It's taken 2 years to get him to pick up an apple voluntarily and eat it. Even now he only eats about 5 bites of it before putting it down. He has only started eating it because we have boxes of apples lying all over the house and his older brother adores them and eats about 5 a day, and so he's copying him.
On all things to do with Peak Oil preparation where I've made provision for change, I have continued with our oil-fuelled way, and intend to for as long as possible, I've simply tried to prepare for the moment when we are forced to change. A perfect example of this is our cars. We both use our cars, and will continue to do so for as long as possible but when we need to, we have bikes ready for us to use. I love my electric hand whisk, and although I have a manual one, I'm not going to use it until I have to. I'm happy with this.
But this approach will not work with food. I can't continue with the diet we love until one day it is no longer available, and then just present my children with a whole different array of unfamiliar foodstuffs. They are too young to deal with it. What I have realized is that I need to introduce the new foods now, and gradually phase out the other stuff. So perhaps I'll start by only having bread available 3 days a week and in between times we'll have something different (although I don't know what this will be – does anyone have any suggestions?).
I'm sure that amaranth grows well here, so yesterday I bought a bag of it and this afternoon I'm going to try cooking some. Apparently if you steam it, it puffs up and makes a great breakfast cereal. Since we love porridge, I'll try some as an alternative.
Whenever anyone on Collapsenet mentions self sufficiency, there always seems to be a rash of comments saying that we all need to rely on community, and that self sufficiency is not the answer. Well I have to say that I disagree.
I'm convinced that community will be essential in the long term, and that without the support and a place within a strong community, we will all find long term survival difficult if not impossible, but not initially.
What worries me about community, or lack of it, is that the most dangerous time will be the first year or two after collapse. In Collapse + 5 years, I'm sure we will find hundreds of active communities with communal crops, and with each person finding a niche for themselves. Hopefully we'll have a local dentist, seamstress, farrier, shearer etc. I envisage communal production of staple crops like wheat. But that's in the year Collapse+5.
But what will your community look like in Collapse+4 weeks, or +6 months? Do you really think it will be organized enough in food production to support you? I don't.
My community is devoid of food crops. There is a lot of livestock around and a number of orchards but that's it. There aren't even any animal fodder crops. What's even more worrying is that no one seems even to have vegetable gardens.
In the South Island of New Zealand, rural subdivisions have to be in excess of 10 acres per lot. Thousands of acres of good agricultural land have been divided up in recent years. I live on one of these subdivisions. All around me are lots that each have a fancy McMansion on it, with a long driveway and practically nothing else. Generally the people who buy these lots go over budget on their houses and have little or no credit left with which to develop their land. They all work in Christchurch and commute in and out every day.
I was visiting someone recently for a coffee and we got onto the subject of vegetable gardens. She said (and I quote) "we have an enormous vegetable garden". I love vegetable gardens and so I asked to see it. The "enormous" garden was 6 raised beds about 3ft by 6ft. There was more path than bed. Every bed was weedy and there were no winter crops in at all. And this was an "enormous vegetable garden"?
The bottom line is that there is very little to eat where I live. The livestock won't last long and anyway, you can't live on just meat. There are no native bush areas at all here as it all used to be an old swampy riverbed and the first settlers in the 1850's cleared it all. Now it is all grass with giant conifer shelter belts between fields. And that's it.
I'm sure that given time we could form a productive community, but at the moment we are a community of almost 100% consumption. Now when collapse happens, what will people eat? Well, after the livestock has gone, nothing.
And this is my concern. What will we eat if we throw our lot in with the community on day one and expect it to support us? With the best will in the world, our community is not able to support us even for a week. If I walk up to my local school to join a gathering of hungry frightened people, what will I get from it? No matter how clever we are, we can't produce food enough for all out of thin air. We can the plantains and dandelions that grow in abundance, but how many our children will starve in the process?
And again with the best will in the world, how will my community start to grow crops when they have no seeds, no ploughs, and no relevant skills. I'm not surrounded by country folk. I'm surrounded by city folk who aspire to "rural" living. My friend has just had her third lounge added to her 450 sq metre house. Who needs 3 sitting rooms?
What I have realized is that I can't rely on my community to feed my family in the immediate aftermath of collapse. I will join in wholeheartedly to help us get organized and to start growing crops. I actually grew up in very wealthy farming country, and almost everyone I went to school with were the children of successful farmers. I grew up in arable land and on any walk would pass at least a dozen different crops. I'm no expert by any means but I am familiar with the farming year and practices.
The great self sufficiency writer John Seymour wrote that complete self sufficiency is almost impossible to sustain. But he was talking about not only food production but also manufacturing your own cloth and making your clothes, crafting your own tools and crockery. I'm not planning on going this far. When I talk about self sufficiency I really mean taking responsibility for growing enough food to feed my family and animals.
So what's my plan? Well, it is to be self sufficient in food for at least the first few years. I'm not hoarding food, partly because I don't have the space, but also I don't have the funds. I'm going to grow our food, and produce as many calories as possible.
In my opinion, the most critical time for food will be Collapse+1day, right up to Collapse+3 years. And I'm quite sure that will be universal, unless you have the good fortune to live near the Amish. I would expect some sort of community cohesion and co-operation to have evolved sufficiently by then.
Obviously I may be overwhelmed by my hungry neighbours and to insure against the possibility of having my crops stolen, I have started to plant out various shrubs and trees around my land that are edible (and tasty) but which the average person wouldn't recognize as food. Hopefully, particularly if we keep quiet about them, these foodstuffs will go unnoticed.
That first winter will be a grim time for most people I think. You only have to miss a few balanced meals before you start to suffer from malnutrition, and then you are more prone to disease and illness. I've just started to make a list of meals I can make from what I can grow, and hopefully within the next week or so I'll have a good range of meals that I can start to introduce to my family. I'm still stuck on the bread substitute though, so if you have any ideas or recipes I'd be very interested in hearing them.
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Despite decades of taxpayer subsidies to preach the theory of evolution in government schools, a recent Gallup survey showed that slightly more Americans believe the biblical account of creation today than 30 years ago when polls on the subject first began. Just 15 percent of respondents thought godless evolution explained the origin of man.
About 46 percent of those polled said they believed in what is known as creationism — that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so. In other words, almost half of Americans support a literal interpretation of the Bible's book of Genesis, which says that the Creator made Adam and Eve after creating the Earth in six days.
When the question was first asked by Gallup in 1982, around 44 percent of Americans held that view. In the last three decades — despite overwhelming emphasis on teaching the theory of evolution in government schools — the number has held fairly constant, bouncing back and forth between 47 and 40 percent.
Meanwhile, around a third of those surveyed said they believed that — with God's guidance — humans had developed over millions of years, down six percent from 30 years ago. The prevalence of that view, sometimes known as "theistic evolution" or "evolutionary creation," reached a new low in 2012 among Americans.
Only 15 percent of those surveyed thought man had evolved from less advanced life forms without any divine intervention. But while still deeply in the minority, that figure has been rising fairly steadily — up from nine percent in 1982. Last year, 16 percent of respondents said they believed the theory.
About seven percent of those surveyed said they either had no opinion or believed in something else, Gallup reported. But overall, eight out of 10 Americans still believe God was ultimately responsible for the existence of man — probably more.
"All in all, there is no evidence in this trend of a substantial movement toward a secular viewpoint on human origins," concluded Gallup's editor-in-chief Frank Newport in a statement announcing the survey results.
Unsurprisingly, people who attend church weekly were far more likely to hold biblical creationist beliefs — about two thirds, according to Gallup. Even among those who rarely or never attend church, however, just one fourth believed in godless evolution, with another quarter believing in creation.
The survey results also showed that more Republicans than Democrats believe in creationism, though even Democrats, at 41 percent, were more likely to be creationists than either of the other options. Just five percent of self-identified GOP supporters believed in evolution without God, while slightly less than one in five Democrats did.
Only Americans with postgraduate education were less likely to believe in creation, with 42 percent choosing God-guided evolution and 25 percent believing in creationism. Among college graduates, almost half were creationists while just 14 percent thought evolution without God explained human origins. Overall, higher levels of education tended to coincide with lower levels of support for creationism.
"Since 'belief' in evolution coincides with higher degrees of education according to the poll, evolution adherents would interpret the data as indicating that less educated people don't believe in evolution," observed Christine Dao with the Institute for Creation Research, an organization that defends the scientific accuracy of the literal understanding of the Bible.
"However, this interpretation doesn't acknowledge that evolution is the only origins theory taught in most taxpayer-funded school systems," Dao continued. "If students are getting only one side of the story and have to accept that one side to make the grade, guess what they're going to grow up to believe?"
A 2007 Gallup poll that was phrased and conducted differently, however, found much stronger support for the creationist viewpoint. In that survey, USA Today reported that about two thirds of respondents — 66 percent — said they thought God created humans in one day within the last 10,000 years.
The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll, released on June 1, was based on interviews with a random sample of more than 1,000 adults living throughout America. According to the pollsters, there is 95 percent confidence that the maximum margin of error is four percentage points.
"Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no sustained change in Americans' views of the origin of the human species since 1982," stated Gallup's Newport about the findings.
But the debate over evolution versus creation is not raging just in America. According to a report released on June 5 by the journal Nature, education officials in South Korea recently surrendered to public demands and agreed to remove certain controversial pieces of alleged evidence dealing with evolution from textbooks.
Apparently, however, proponents of the theory are set to begin a campaign in the nation to drum up support for evolution while countering skepticism and creationism. Creationists, on the other hand — led by the Society for Textbook Revise — are hoping to delete the "error" of evolution from school textbooks altogether.
Related articles:
The Limits of Evolution
"The Mysterious Islands" Challenges Darwin
Demythologizing Darwin—A Review of Wiker's "The Darwin Myth"
Intelligent Design and Evolution
Teacher Fired for Critical View of Evolution
Texas School Board Debates Adding Books With Alternatives to Evolution
Illustration: The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo


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Austin: Bola's Mobile Wood-Fired Oven Pizza
When we rolled up to the Downtown Austin Farmers' Market 15 minutes before closing, we gravitated to the Bola Pizza mobile wood-fired oven. Most of the menu was already crossed-off, but owner Christian Bowers made room for another "Godfather" pie in his blue tile-covered oven for us. "That was done by a mosaic artist friend, Stefanie Destifano, who was actually a plus-one at one of our pizza nights," explained Christian.
Bola started as a Tuesday night pizza gathering with friends, family, food writers, chefs, line cooks, and too many plus-ones to name, where Christian and his wife Jamie toyed with doughs and toppings. And the official taste-tester? Their dog Bola, the namesake. "After years of doing that every other Tuesday, people started asking me for pizza classes," Christian said.
He eventually installed a wood-fired oven (from Forno Bravo) in his backyard, but attached it to a trailer to leave room for a future mobile business. It took a while to secure a farmers' market permit, but in 2010, Bola started setting up at Republic Square in downtown Austin on Saturdays and the Triangle market on Wednesdays, and the catering took off from there.
The Bola menu rotates. "Polka Dot" is topped with parmesan, mozzarella, fried sage, shaved garlic and red pepper flakes. "Truffle Daisy" is their spin on the classic margherita but with truffle oil instead of olive oil (if you're not a truffle oil fan, they're happy to do a traditional version with olive oil instead). We ordered the "Godfather," made with smoked mozzarella, hot fennel sausage (from Richardson Farm), caramelized onions and a simple, fresh tomato sauce.
After three or so minutes in the 900-degree fire, the pizzas slide into a box, still steamy. The crust is similar to a traditional Neapolitan crust: slightly crisp on the outside, chewy in the middle with bubbles, pretty light. Nice leopard spotting underneath too. The dough actually undergoes a three-day ferment, so it's a teeny bit sour. The tomato sauce is light and simple, made with crushed San Marzanos, some salt and pepper, and garlic. It's spread onto the dough still raw, then cooks in the oven. "If you cook it first, the flavor gets dumbed down."
Christian tried making his own mozzarella at first using local Austin curds, but eventually gave up when he found a Jersey cow mozzarella he loved. He buys the rest of the toppings from local farms whenever possible.
There's talk of a brick-and-mortar in Bola's stars. "We have had three offers, but are taking a cautious approach. We have a whole second menu," Christian said.
In the meantime, follow @bolapizza for their whereabouts.
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Regents set UARC informational meeting on Jan. 20University of Hawaiʻi
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The University of Hawaiʻi's Board of Regents announced today that an informational meeting concerning the proposed University Affiliated Research Center would be held on Friday, January 20 at 1 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom on the UH Mānoa campus.
On November 18, 2004, the Board of Regents gave its provisional approval to the establishment of a UARC on the Mānoa campus. Before giving final approval, the Regents required that the campus complete work on a contract for the proposed center, and complete the normal consultation process on the campus.
On December 5, 2005, President David McClain issued a statement stating that, thanks to the leadership of Chancellor Denise Konan and others on the Mānoa campus, both conditions have now substantially been met. As Chancellor Konan's statement of the same date indicated, the consultation process on the campus revealed opposition from several faculty and student constituencies, some of which was based on the contract itself, which is unique for this kind of UARC. As a result of this consultation and analysis, the Chancellor stated that "I do not recommend proceeding with the contract," and noted that "UARC-related research would more appropriately be located off campus."
The January 20 informational meeting represents the next step in the process outlined several months ago, at which all in the broader community will have a chance to share their perspective on this issue; no Board decision will be taken at this informational meeting. Some time after the meeting is concluded, McClain will recommend a course of action to the Regents.
Those members of the public who intend to testify are encouraged to inform the Secretary of the Board in advance of the meeting but no later than (2) days prior to the meeting by calling 956-8213. Written testimonies also will be accepted.


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Anyone check out Pitchforks top tracks of the 1990's? The gangsta rap tracks were the only songs I was listening to in the 90's. I listened to everything else in the 2000's. It was like a trip down memory lane.
The end result of these developments is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine Sun Kil Moon's music outside of how it, and he, are discussed on social media.
Even setting all that aside
Yup, Pitchfork is garbage. They don't review music; they review contexts for said music, and the feelings they get listening to the music, and the content of the lyrics. Even if their reviewers had actual music knowledge, I doubt they'd know how to apply it to a review.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama were called to what looked like a woman shot dead in her car but found a Halloween reveler they described as drunk and passed out in a bloody-looking zombie costume.
The news site Al.com reports (http://bit.ly/SrbNCn) that a passerby called 911 in Birmingham on Thursday morning after seeing the woman slumped over her steering wheel at a traffic light.
Police say officers roused the woman and removed her from the SUV. Authorities say she was handcuffed and taken to the city jail on a DUI charge.
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The packaging looks nice and inside we found power cable with adapter, an HDMI cable, one HDMI to DVI adapter, desktop base, driver-CD, quick installation guide and information regarding product registration (Sapphire Select Club).
The Quick installation guide is very short. The driver-CD comes with more detailed information regarding bios settings. Edge HD3 ships with FreeDOS, but that is not what end-users want. We did not find any description of how to install a new operating system, so this approach might not be ideal for all consumers.


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In a dramatic turn in Madrid this morning, Spain's attorney general has stepped into the case involving former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five former senior Bush administration lawyers, overruling the decision of career prosecutors to adopt a criminal complaint against them and to proceed with an investigation. But this does not mark the end of the case—it now goes back to Judge Baltasar Garzon, who had originally launched the case and must decide whether it will go forward notwithstanding the Spanish attorney general's call. Garzon retains ultimate authority in the matter.
The Spanish attorney general appears to have adopted arguments that were previously offered by the Bush Justice Department.
As previously reported in The Daily Beast, Spanish prosecutors attached to the central criminal court, the Audenica Nacional, reached a decision this week to proceed with the criminal case against Gonzales and the five others who were involved in decision making—Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, University of California law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, former Defense Department general counsel and current Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff David Addington, and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith—to introduce a regime of harsh interrogation techniques including torture at Guantánamo.
A 37-page justification of the conclusion was prepared and circulated within the prosecutors' office earlier this week. This morning, however, Spain's attorney general, Candido Conde Pumpido, announced that he had overridden the career prosecutors' decision and would not permit them to adopt the complaint. The attorney general stated that any torture investigation should focus on those directly engaged in implementing torture techniques. He dismissed the notion that lawyers could be held accountable simply for issuing legal opinions, and suggested that this process was privileged and somehow insulated against criminal inquiry. "We cannot support this action," he stated, referring to the pending criminal complaint. In so doing, the Spanish attorney general appears to have adopted arguments that were previously offered by the Bush Justice Department and which were raised by Douglas J. Feith in his own defense in a column published two weeks ago in The Wall Street Journal.
The Spanish prosecutors report to the attorney general and he is entitled to review and modify their decisions much in the way that the U.S. attorney general supervises and directs the work of career federal prosecutors. Interventions of this sort, however, are fairly unusual. "The circumstances of the attorney general's announcement suggest that political intervention at a very high level has occurred," remarked one lawyer involved with the complaint. The attorney general's intervention may well reflect the concern of the government of Prime Minister Jose Zapatero over relations with the new Obama administration. The Spanish and U.S. governments have been working to improve relations following a rocky period under President Bush.
The criminal case against the Bush Six remains pending with the Audencia Nacional and before Judge Garzon, and the Spanish attorney general's decision not to adopt the case makes it far more likely that Garzon himself will retain control of the case. In the Spanish criminal-justice system, the decision as to whether a criminal prosecution will go forward rests with the judge—not with the prosecutors or the attorney general.
In the meantime, the Bush Six remain subject to possible arrest or extradition at the discretion of Judge Garzon or another judge of the Spanish courts. It is highly unlikely that extradition would be sought at this point, according to reliable sources, but if any of the defendants were to travel abroad—particularly to any of the 25 countries in which the European arrest warrant is honored—they might face arrest. A similar process launched the case of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which was initiated and conducted by Judge Garzon.
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national-security affairs for Harper's magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.


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I know in previous versions that there was a key you could press, then click on the street/road to have PM label it and this was independent of the label visibility setting.
I can't remember which key you press and I emailed support and they didn't know what I was talking about, so any help would be appreciated.


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4 Florida universities top "Sugar Daddies" sign-up list | Weird
Financial aid. Some get it through loans, others through scholarships or grants. But what about those getting it from "Sugar Daddies" online?
According to a press release from the Info Stream Group, the latter seems to be a trend taking off all over the country, and even more so in the state of Florida.
The release claims that four of Florida's major universities fall on the "Top 20 Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools" list for the website, Seekingarrangements.com.
And three of those major schools rank within the top 10.
University of Central Florida in Orlando falls fourth on the list with 221 sign ups in 2012.
University of "Southern" Florida (as the release so calls it) takes a close second to UCF, falling fifth on the list with 212 sign ups last year. And Florida International University in Miami ranks seventh on the list with 187 sign ups.
Florida State University didn't quite make the top ten with its 111 sugar baby accounts. They fall fourteenth on the list.
According to the release, college student memberships increased by 58% on the "mutually beneficial relationship" website, with more students from the South joining than any other region.
They say the average co-ed Sugar Baby receives approximately $3,000 a month in allowances and gifts from her Sugar Daddy to assist with tuition and living expenses.
As mentioned, Florida has the most students signed up for this deal, but are you wondering how other state universities rank on the list?
- Georgia State tops the charts with 292 sign ups
- New York University is second with 285
- Temple University in Philadelphia claims third place with 268
University of Georgia and Penn State University both make an appearance on the list too, adding Georgia and Pennsylvania to the repeat offender states. But Florida is the only state with four schools on the list.
And it doesn't even stop there.
Two other Florida schools don't quite make the top 20, but the website notes them as universities with "significant increases" in membership last year.
University of Florida students' registration rate increased by 53% and "Miami University's" rate went up by 98%.
NOTE: There is a "University of Miami" in Miami, FL, and a "Miami University" in Oxford, OH, but the release claims "Miami University" is one of the Florida schools to have had a significant increase in members.
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH: Why I Am Not a Christian (essay)
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects is a collection of essays and speeches given by philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, including the essay Why I Am Not a Christian.
- 1 Contents of Collection
- 1.1 Why I Am Not A Christian (1927)
- 1.2 Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
- 1.3 What I Believe (1925)
- 1.4 Do We Survive Death? (1936)
- 1.5 Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is (1899)
- 1.6 A Free Man's Worship (1903)
- 1.7 On Catholic and Protestant Skeptics (1928)
- 1.8 Life in the Middle Ages (1925)
- 1.9 The Fate of Thomas Paine (1934)
- 1.10 Nice People (1931)
- 1.11 The New Generation (1930)
- 1.12 Our Sexual Ethics (1936)
- 1.13 Freedom and the Colleges (1940)
- 1.14 Can Religion Cure Our Troubles? (1954)
- 1.15 Religion and Morals (1952)
Contents of Collection[edit]
Why I Am Not A Christian (1927)[edit]
Full Text of Why I Am Not A Christian (1927)
Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)[edit]
Full Text of Has Religion Made...
Differences Between Founders of Religions and Their Current Form[edit]
- Russell details how many religions, including Christianity and Buddhism, do not follow the original teachings of their founders. Russell lists the ideas of Matthew 19:21 , Matthew 5:9 , Matthew 6:6 , and Matthew 7:1 as teachings that the Christian church does not follow. Russell then posits that religious leaders use their interpretations of the teachings of their founders to gain power and to stop truth. Examples of this include Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, and Sigmund Freud. Russell also notes that religion has done nothing to help with social problems such as slavery and economic justice.
Christianity and Sex[edit]
- Russell notes that women have been held inferior due to religion's "Strict Moral Code". Examples include the teaching of virginity and prohibition of sex before marriage, no right to divorce, and no right to birth control. Russell then objects to the Church's stance on the spread of syphilis, stating that the religious believe that the sinful and even their spouses and children should be punished for their sexual practices. The Church's position as to sexual education also gives young people the idea of sex as sinful and goes against human nature. Russell then presents the Problem of evil and a form of the Euthyphro dilemma.
The Objections to Religion[edit]
- Russell divides his arguments against religion into two groups:
- Intellectual Objections
- Russell notes the subjectivity of belief and that the morals of a religion are followed and preached by believers who get them from their beliefs; therefore, the truth of a religion is important to whether those morals are valid. Russell then notes that the definition of God is vastly different from different time periods, which is due to the expansion of scientific knowledge and "candor", which Russell espouses.
- Moral Objections
- Russell then dispenses with an argument from design, an rudimentary form of the argument of Irreducible complexity, providing the facts of human imperfections and the inevitability of human extinction as an argument against an omnipotent creator.
- Intellectual Objections
The Soul and Immorality[edit]
- Russell posits that the soul emerged through the loss of political power and that many religions favor faith over works and consider the breaking of moral codes as worse than the hurting of society. Russell then states that "Christian ethics has made itself completely individualistic. I think it is clear that the net result of all the centuries of Christianity has been to make men more egotistic, more shut up in themselves, than nature made them; for the impulses that naturally take a man outside the walls of his ego are those of sex, parenthood, and patriotism or herd instinct" (p.34), which hurts society. Russell then gives a few bible quotations, which show Christianity's negative view of the family and the breakup of family for belief. Russell then notes the strange beliefs about the reasons that some people get into heaven and some do not. Russell then notes that there is no logical reason for condemning the actions of Spaniards, who baptized the infants of Mexicans and Peruvians and then killed the babies.
Sources of Intolerance[edit]
- Russell begins by noting that the Jews created the ideas of a chosen people and of an emphasis on personal righteousness. Other religions that emerged at the same time as Judaism did not have the doctrines that all other religions were false, a doctrine that Christianity has inherited and used for intolerance. Russell then states that Christianity's "mildness" is only due to its reaction to freethinkers who were prosecuted for their scientific knowledge.
The Doctrine of Free Will[edit]
The Idea of Righteousness[edit]
What I Believe (1925)[edit]
Do We Survive Death? (1936)[edit]
Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is (1899)[edit]
A Free Man's Worship (1903)[edit]
Full Text of A Free Man's Worship


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92-Year-Old Sitar Maestro and daughter play to packed Terrace Theater on November 4, 2012
It was a warm early November evening as a capacity crowd filed into The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center Terrace Theater to see Pandit (Sanskrit for "Scholar/Teacher") Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka in a rescheduled performance from last March. The first hour and fifteen minutes featured talented 31-year-old Anoushka, a UK resident who arrived two days prior to performance night to play live with her father.
After a short intermission, Ravi Shankar is slowly wheeled out by Anoushka along with aid from one of his young students, as the crowd rises to its feet in applause of admiration. A huge "OM" symbol is projected in pure white light directly above Shankar's head. He is tiny and frail, and moves quite slowly, yet commands the microphone once he is finally seated center stage. "Let us remember those in the East who suffered from the storm," he says in a gentle voice before playing two beautiful late afternoon Ragas, followed by a longer free-form Raga. "You saw the runners in the Olympics a few months ago? Well, I will try to keep up like them!" he assures his audience: and he does!
Prior to the final Raga, Shankar introduces his band, beginning with Anoushka, "You already know her - she is proud to be my daughter!" he says with a smile. Shankar's band currently also features tabla player Tanmoy Bose, flutist Ravichandra Kulur, and Mridanga player BC Manjunath. One of the highest energy points of the evening's final Raga was Bose's one-plus minute long tabla solo: played with his fingers - not on his drum, but on the cheeks of his own face! This amazing live performance is just the beginning of Shankar's recent musical output. Last year, East Meets West Music released The Living Room Sessions Part I (The Living Room Sessions Part II will be released at the end of this year), and this year, a documentary entitled Ravi Shankar | Tenth Decade In Concert: Live In Escondido by filmmaker Alan Kozlowski. Here's to Maestro Ravi Shankar's more than half a century in music - he is indeed living up to the motto of his foundation: "Sound Is God."
For more information, visit The Ravi Shankar Foundation.
Top photo: Copyright © 2013 LBCC Middle/bottom photo: Copyright © 2013 Anjeli Jana


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Boris Johnson reads the London Evening Standard
Words of whizz dumb from Boris Johnson, the British Foreign Secretary (fercryinoutloud!) and leader of the Brexit campaign:
The London Evening Standard must be his preferred briefing material for foreign affairs.
But there is a serious point here, it's not just snark; If you're an average woman or man on the street going about your daily life and likely smart about other fields, you're allowed to make mistakes on subjects which are in your peripherals. You need to look up 'Ecuador' to make sure there's no Q there? Mauritania is on which continent again? Are you sure Argentina's finance minister's name is Prat-Gay, you're not having a joke with me now are you? But these people are not Josephine/Joe Ordinary, they position themselves as experts and pretend to be The UK's thought leaders and opinion-makers on the world. And can't even spell the names of countries correctly.
And they told you Brexit is a good thing.
And you believed them.
The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
...in reverse order:
Third Place: "Dynacor Gold (DNG.to) and its Veta Dorada problem". So far, most (not all) of you up there only have my word on this, from a post with no links or local reports to back it up. So when you phone DNG head office about its contents and get their sophistry reply, well obviously you don't act immediately. And that's fair enough, I wouldn't base an investment decision on a blog post either and I'd do a lot more DD before making a decision. But I do indeed suggest you do that DD. And fast. And you'll need to speak Spanish to do so.
Second Place: "Tinka Resources (TK.v): It takes a very decent NR...". Three facts: 1) In a week when mining stocks dropped by an average of over 12%, TK.v managed to put in a week-over-week gain of 15.8%. 2) I own some of these and have done for a while, with the position currently in the green. 3) I'm not selling into this new interest, no way José
First Place: "Amarillo Slim: "Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker"". Not only the most popular single post of the week, but it also generated some very cool and interesting e-mail exchanges. Tony Makuch overrates his business acumen? Really? You shock me, folks...
A little weekend music
What made me think of this song? I have no idea.
Youtube here.
Hurricane news
Hurricane Matthew Kills Three In Florida USA
Oh yeah, over 800 in Haiti as well
The Friday OT: Alabama 3: Sad eyed lady of the low life
By Alabama 3, the Acid-Jazz-Country-Techo-Rock band with a sound all their own, best known for the theme tune to The Sopranos. Two riffs here:
1) The title is a riff on Bob Dylan's 'Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands'. The song below is better than Bob's.
2) This piano riff is addictive.
Build a fire light a match and watch the whole thing burn. Youtube here
Silverbug world domination plans have been put on hold
Next Tuesday is likely to be a good day...
...to buy stocks on the TSX (or TSXV), so in IKN387 on Sunday evening we have a new stock to recommend. I don't own yet and won't buy until we're on the other side of Canada Thanksgiving Day (remember folks, Canadian markets closed Monday), but buy I will.
And the biggest surprise? It's a silver company. Yup, even I can swallow that hard when the numbers are good.
HPQ Silicon (HPQ.to): Checking in on the Daryl Hodges Effect
He ruined the brokerage Jennings
He ruined the gold junior Minera IRL
And now, since joining HPQ Silicon...
...he's having exactly the same effect. The Toronto marijuana salesman Daryl Hodges, doing what he does best.
Dynacor Gold (DNG.to) and its Veta Dorada problem
Here's what's going down, according to IKN's on-the-spot sources. Back when they were putting their Veta Dorada project together, Dynacor Gold (DNG.to) managed to get the permits they needed with the regional government of Arequipa (known in Peru as GRA) in a rather dubious fast-track mode by cutting a lot of corners. This included managing to get their hands on the surface rights use permit in just four months instead of the five years it takes under normal circumstances, and that alone looks more than a little shady.
But the real problem they have now isn't just the dubious style of the permitting, it's the substance they hold because, since the Veta Dorada permits were awarded by the GRA there have been elections, new people have moved into running the GRA and the new guys have spotted serious irregularities. Here are the main two:
1) Its permit to operate was issued by the wrong people and using a regulation that had already been annulled and replaced by another. The surface use permit was granted by the GRA and it shouldn't have been. By the time Veta Dorada got that key permit it wasn't the GRA's job to grant it, it should have come from the relevant national authority (a body called "Superintendencia de Bienes Nacionales") which in effect makes the permit held by DNG.to null and void. It was also granted by the GRA to Veta Dorada (i.e. Dynacor) on land owned by The State (i.e. Peru) but The State hasn't received a penny for its land use, itself very strange.
2) The surface rights permit for the Veta Dorada plant allows DNG to explore or mine, but it doesn't allow it to build a processing plant. Unfortunately the latter is exactly what DNG did on the land even though the permit they got was specific, it simply didn't allow them to do that. They didn't care and the previous GRA administration seems to have turned a blind eye at the time. But the new guys haven't and therein lies the serious problem DNG faces today.
We hear that the new people in the GRA have now concluded their investigation into what went on during the permitting process in the previous GRA administration. What we expect to go down now is that very soon, perhaps as early as tomorrow Friday, the new Regional Government of Arequipa will revoke the authorization for the use of surface rights at the Veta Dorada plant. Once this happens, Peru's national-level Ministry of Energy and Mining will have no choice but to annul the plant's operating permit. And Veta Dorada closes for business. Don't say you weren't warned, folks.
Dynacor Gold (DNG.to) is in big permitting trouble
A really interesting story developing in this stock, pumped to the gills by the scamsters at Stansberry. More tomorrow, watch this space, but don't be surprised if DNG gets its operating licence revoked soon.
SIRIOS (SOI.v): Osti de tabarnak de calice! Is that all you got, Quebec?
This is the chart...
...of the company that's just won the Association de l'exploration minière du Québec (AEMQ) "Discovery Of The Year 2016" (not made official yet, but IKN has its sources).
Seriously, is that the best they can find, a bullshit pump job designed to part the naive from their cash? An "OOH LOOK VISIBLE GOLD" lah-lah romance that pays Allan Barry to dupe idiots at CEO.ca? A story that's already falling apart and bound from whence it came early year? Torrieu!
An important Wednesday message, coming to you from...
...Pooh Bear:
Light posting today as there are things to do in the real world.
Sometimes the light don't shine.
The slowdown in the mining sector rally in 3q16, in one chart
Frank Holmes Says
The lower gold price is bullish for gold.
This is of course a developing story.
Chart of the day is...
...GLD inventories, Brexit to date:
The gold price may have dropped to the pre-brexit result level, but inventories on the big one haven't. That's 947.95 metric tonnes. Data here.
Tinka Resources (TK.v): It takes a very decent NR...
...to get a mining company to swim against the tide on a sector sell-off day like today. But that's what Tinka Resources (TK.v) served up today and there's some smart money buying the stock up
8.5% 11.4% 14.3% while all around wilt and faint.
You can have all the cool grades that you want but if you don't have amenable metallurgy to get the metal separated from the rock efficiently, it means squat. Also a measure of the seriousness of your exploration-stage junior is how much they care about met in early stages, all too easy for them to drill-baby-drill without doing the background work at the same time. TK is getting recognition today for good results, and for doing the right things the right way. Not all tinycap explorecos are the same.
Disclosure: Yup, I own some. Long-term perspective position, I don't flip things like this.
Message for Edie Hofmeister of Tahoe Resources (TAHO) (THO.to)
If you want my phone number, ask me for it. Don't try and get it via third-party sneaky backdoor methods. All you have to do is write me a mail, not difficult.
Goal of the year
Watch what Deyna Castellanos does to win the match for Venezuela (2-1 versus Cameroon in the U-17 Women's World Cup):
Amazing. Thanks to reader SB for the heads-up.
Sirios (SOI.v): And another Canadian pump and dump meets its inevitable end
- From pennies to over a Loonie on "New Red Lake" rumours? Check
- Dubious chart volume patterns? Check
- Several "paid sponsorship" deals with newsletter writers? Check
- Pumped by the criminals at CEO.ca? Check
- Flashy mid-summer news release citing "visible gold"? Check
But then...
- Everything go quiet? Check
- Greenhorn bagholders left wondering what's going on? Check
- Eventual initial drilling results (out just a few minutes ago) show nothing special, patchy results, little chance of continuity? Check
But don't worry about the back pockets of the people who reco'd this stock to you, greenhorn, they sold a loooooooong time ago. But don't fret, if you get in contact with them today they'll be very, but very sympathetic with you and tell you there's still plenty of hope and the exploration program has only just started so there's no reason (etc etc etc).
UPDATE: 20 minutes after the open:
Well, there's a shockah.
UPDATE: 20 minutes after the open:
Well, there's a shockah.
Chart of the day is...
...gold, under U$1,300/oz for the first time since Brexit:
And while we're here, a quick reminder that you too can work for Bloomberg:
Regarding political risk for miners in Argentina (from IKN386)
At the end of every quarter, a regular feature in The IKN Weekly is the 'Regional Risk Review', where we go round the major and more interesting mining countries in LatAm and take a look at how things are progressing. We also score all countries on a six criteria basis to gauge their relative attractiveness for mining over time. We cover 20 countries, of which 12 are the main focus of attention (the others tend to be long-term unfriendly places to go mining).
By way of an example here's the piece on Argentina in IKN386, out yesterday evening.
Argentina: National Government Miner Friendly up 1 point, Community/Social Miner Friendly down 1 point.At times this quarter it's seemed like there is only one country with mining activity in South America, judging at least by the contents of my mail inbox. Everyone wants to know something or other about Argentina mining these days, it seems.However the most pressing issue today is the state of the country's macro economy because we're now in a crucial period that will decide whether the reforms President Macri has pushed and is pushing through will be successful. In effect, what the Macri government is betting on is that the next couple of quarters are the period of max pain for the country economy. The fiscal and monetary reforms now in place are classic orthodox economic pills to swallow (and why the IMF is praising Argentina so effusively): Go through the sharp recession, restrict pay rises and then see inflation drop later, enjoy the benefits of a V shaped drop next year. As things stand today the country in in recession (best fit figure -5% GDP) and this is expected to continue to the end of the year, while inflation has shown signs of dropping in the latest sets of data but is still running at between 35% and 40% per annum. As wages are no longer keeping up with prices, the discontent at street level is rising fast and Macri's approval ratings have dropped from 60% at the beginning of the year to between 35% and 45% today (depending on which pollster you prefer).However 2017 does look brighter for the country and the situation was summed up neatly last week in by one of Argentina's most famous economists (who seems to have been around forever, he was chief economic advisor in the Carlos Men_m years*), Miguel Kiguel in an economics conference. Here's a quote (14) (translated):"There's not much doubt that next year Argentina will grow (i.e. year-over-year GDP expansion), even (Ex-Minister of the economy in the Cristina government Axel) Kicillof agrees. And there's not much doubt that inflation will drop either. What we see this year in an inflation rate of 40% has a lot to do with the one-time readjustments (e.g. the very large utiliity bill increases, known as "tarifazos", as government subsidies were withdrawn). Later we'll see whether the Central Bank has enough power to drop inflation to 17% in 2017 or maybe it will be a little higher, but nobody's expecting an inflation rate in 2017 that starts with a 3, the most pessimistic are talking about 23% or 24%, the most optimistic around 17%."So there you have the scenario for the next year; pain today, GDP recovery at perhaps 5% next year, with an inflation rate that drops from its current 40% to something around 20% in 2017. The point here is that 2017 will be better, but will it be enough and for two reasons:1) Inflation at 20% is better, but it's still going to hurt the back pockets of José Publico if their salary increases are restricted to below that level and add to the hurt they're currently feeling. A year is a long time and the dissent is likely to get louder before it calms.2) A key point: In October 2017 Argentina has mid-term legislative elections in which 127 of the 257 lower house parliament seats (just under half) and 24 of the 72 upper house senate seats (one third) are up for grabs. This vote will be critically important, as not only might it change the balance of legislative power in Congress but it's already being framed as the make-or-break moment for the Macri reform package.Therefore, not only is there a reform period to get through without too much social protest, but there's a time limit on progress too because if the recovery lags in the country and the rank and file are suffering too deeply come election day, Macri (and I keep reminding people that he only scraped in 52%/48% last year) is going to get a big thumbs down and then everything is up for grabs. And signs today are not good. Not only do we have his dropping approval ratings but as noted last week the largest and most powerful union in the country is now on the brink of calling a one day general strike to protest the measures in place. They want bigger wage increases etc etc, just the type of thing that would feed inflation (15) at the wrong time for the economic turnaround model Macri and his team are trying to implement. The strike still doesn't have a fixed date and there are formal negotiations that are expected to go on for the next ten days, but a strike if it happens would be a clear negative and may set off further rounds of social protest.Meanwhile in the mining scene, the government is still trying its hardest to push the Federal "all work together" model in the provinces and try to take executive decision power away from individual governors. That's going to be a tough sell in places like Chubut and I've covered that example (particularly Navidad) closely, as it's a good test case for the rest of the country. Then on top of all that, Barrick goes and adds insult to injury with another spillage incident at Veladero (see above), which wouldn't have been any sort of problem if the company hadn't been stupid enough to try and cover it all up.Overall, Argentina gets one plus point for the macro and one negative point for the mining scene this quarter, but it's still a story that's being way overhyped in the North and the large-scale risks involved in jumping in too early are being ignored by most commentators (and the board of directors of Fortuna Silver).
*it's bad luck to spell his name out completely
Amarillo Slim: "Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker"
Give Makuch credit, he's consistent.
When he gets bought out he under-charges.
When he buys out he overpays:
Don't take up poker, Tony.
Sandstorm Gold (SAND) (SSL.to) 3q16 sales and revenues estimate
Take the preliminary 12,500 oz AuEq that SAND says they've sold in 3q16, add in an average price, assume the same type of split between gold sales and royalty revenues as in previous quarters, come up with a chart like this:
That's a guesstimate of U$16.625m for 3q16. A reasonable quarter. There's room for the stock price to go higher on that.
Chart of the day is...
...the average annual price of gold 2002 to 2016 (2016 to date):
When you smooth out the average prices for each year, you kind of wonder what all the fuss is about in 2016...
LADB does the Colombia vote result
Jordana Timerman does her usual excellent job of curating and comment on the region's biggest news story (by a nautical mile). Everything you need to know about the Colombia referendum vote and the fall-out to date, right here.
Frank Holmes Says
Kim Kardashian's security guards are bullish for gold.
This is of course a developing story.
The IKN Weekly, out now
Oldskool video gaming, oh yeah
IKN386 has just been sent to subscribers. Script-rich this week, with 17,887 words on 32 pages. Today's main efforts are around reviewing how things have been recently but space for all that B2Gold thing too. And other stuff. There's always other stuff.
In sports news, today a team of white males beat another team of white males in front of a large crowd of white males.
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Colombia votes NO to the peace agreement: President Juan Manuel Santos speaks
President Juan Manuel Santos has just addressed his nation on the shock "NO" result to the Colombia/FARC peace agreement. Among other things he said that as Head of State, he is the guarantor of the stability of the nation and this result will not affect the country. The cease fire agreement remains in effect and will remain in effect. Tomorrow he will invoke all political groups to listen to them and find a way forward and will re-open the dialogue with the FARC negotiators. He said he has a new opportunity to move forward and find points in common, but all must all work together in order to find a way forward. His final message was that he will not give in and will continue to work for the peace of the nation until the last day of his government.
Meanwhile, the head of the FARC spoke a few minutes before Santos addressed the nation and said that they were still committed to finding a peaceful solution and would "maintain words as their weapons". That's a reasonably good sign.
Finally, I just heard on Colombian radio that as soon as the tendency became clear and the momentum was with the NO side, the main player in the NO campaign, ex-president Álvaro Uribe, got in contact with all his allies in the NO campaign and told them all, "Do not celebrate this result" and told them all to pass the message down the political lines. That's also a reasonably positive reaction, one that will make negotiations easier in the next couple of days.
Finally, I just heard on Colombian radio that as soon as the tendency became clear and the momentum was with the NO side, the main player in the NO campaign, ex-president Álvaro Uribe, got in contact with all his allies in the NO campaign and told them all, "Do not celebrate this result" and told them all to pass the message down the political lines. That's also a reasonably positive reaction, one that will make negotiations easier in the next couple of days.
Colombia: A possible referendum shock in the cards: UPDATE--shock confirmed, "NO" has won
Today's referendum to ratify the peace agreement between government and FARC was expected to get the approval vote it needed. Instead it's currently looking mightily close and may even finish being rejected by the Colombian people. According to Colombia's highly reliable Caracol Radio, with 90.66% of votes tallied it's 49.9% Yes, 50.1% No.
Counting is still going on, but the general air of confidence around the government of Juan Manuel Santos has disappeared. Will update later.
UPDATE: For a live Spanish language TV feed from Colombia, this link. The NO vote now has 50.2% of the vote and the shock result is looking more likely. Blame is being put on the very low turnout which wasn't helped by the very heavy rainfall in Colombia in the last 24 hours. It would seem that the hardcore NO voters had more will to get to the voting booths.
UPDATE 2: With 98.85% of votes counted, it's now NO 50.2% and YES 49.8%. This referendum is now a done deal and Colombia has rejected the agreement between the government and FARC as stands.
The head of the NO vote campaign has just spoken on national TV and said they also want peace and will be responsible, but the agreement needs to be adjusted and improved in aspects that were "badly negotiated". He also called for compensation for victims and justice to act against FARC members. He also strongly criticized the polling companies that were predicting a 55% to 60% victory for "YES" all week, saying that they had been biased and ignored the silent majority of Colombians that were not happy with the terms of the peace agreement as stands.
UPDATE 3: The final result is in, 100% of votes counted:
The peace process agreement has been rejected by Colombia. Hilarity ensues.
UPDATE: For a live Spanish language TV feed from Colombia, this link. The NO vote now has 50.2% of the vote and the shock result is looking more likely. Blame is being put on the very low turnout which wasn't helped by the very heavy rainfall in Colombia in the last 24 hours. It would seem that the hardcore NO voters had more will to get to the voting booths.
UPDATE 2: With 98.85% of votes counted, it's now NO 50.2% and YES 49.8%. This referendum is now a done deal and Colombia has rejected the agreement between the government and FARC as stands.
The head of the NO vote campaign has just spoken on national TV and said they also want peace and will be responsible, but the agreement needs to be adjusted and improved in aspects that were "badly negotiated". He also called for compensation for victims and justice to act against FARC members. He also strongly criticized the polling companies that were predicting a 55% to 60% victory for "YES" all week, saying that they had been biased and ignored the silent majority of Colombians that were not happy with the terms of the peace agreement as stands.
UPDATE 3: The final result is in, 100% of votes counted:
YES: 6,356,638 votes
NO: 6,417,1651 votes
The peace process agreement has been rejected by Colombia. Hilarity ensues.
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text: MOAR HOPS. For 11 gal of IPA I'd use 4.3 oz each at 20, 10, WP, and DH. I might also reduce the bittering charge a bit. I shoot for 35 IBU, and Tinseth puts you at 40-50 depending on alpha acids.Unrelated, but your efficiency works out in the mid-70s for 10 gal, low-80s for 11 gal. Just checking.