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The second solo show of Philippe Malouin at the NextLevel Galerie in Paris is called 'Demonstration'. The title of the exhibition embodies a unique personality and the fundamental values of the designer. It refers to both the French and the English meanings of the word. Demonstration is the result of the quest to achieve the quasi-scientific balance of an aluminum structure in which the connectors serve as tension points and whose configuration is invariably made up of 45° or 90° angles. Demonstration insists on design free of any superfluous effects, whose only aesthetic value is revealed through a light metallic structure with a great architectural potential.
Philippe Malouin continues in his approach to representing the object in the minimalist manner. Carefully assembled by hand, 5 000 aluminium tubes and 13 different stainless steel connectors provide a foundation for the functional elements.
Demonstration – Gridlock Collection by Philippe Malouin at the NextLevel Galerie in Paris until May 12th, 2010.
The Alice Lamp will be exhibited in the group show 'Eleven Small Atlas' in Milan during the Fuori Salone 2010 (Zona Ventura – Lambrate)


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Review by Teju
Hello Everyone,
I know that this product was one of the raved product and almost all beautybloggers have shared their views on this. But I got my hands on it only a couple of weeks back when my friend Niesha send me from India. So I thought I should share my views as well.
About The Product:
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Price 400 Rs for 3.6 gm
Shelf life ???
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- Lakmé 9 to 5 lip color with Vitamin E and wheat germ oil
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- Details taken from www.myntra.com
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My LOTDs and FOTDs:
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- It is perfect n*de shade for daily office wear.
- The packaging is classy, sturdy and travel friendly
- Available in wide variety of gorgeous shades
- It has superb pigmentation, one swipe gives full coverage
- This lipstick has good staying power
- It is creamy in texture but turns into matte
- It never feels dry
- It is affordable
- No indication of colour from outside can be tricky if you have a few
- Unpleasant fragrance can bother some.
Lakme 9-to-5 Lipstick Coffee Command is a very pretty n*de lipstick which would suit all skin tones. It is very good in terms of pigmentation, texture and staying power. It gives matte finish but does not dry your lips, infact feels very light on the lips, so I highly recommend it!
I hope you find my review useful...
Stay Bless
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Hello forums,
Great Sunday ins't it?
So I've been working on a personal project. So far I've got a program that can create other individual stand alone programs (.java & .class) at any given location. I would like to double check on something. Since java is sending instructions to shell or cmd prompt, every time a new class is executed, we could say they are in their own independer runtime.
Is that correct?


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1969 Mustang Convertible - From The Ashes
Webb Mchardy Brought His '69 Convertible Back To Life As A 430-Horse Restomod
Phoenix, Arizona's history dates back 1,300 years, long before settlers landed at Plymouth Rock. In those days, it wasn't known as Phoenix. In fact, it didn't become Phoenix until the Civil War in 1865 when the Confederacy began settling the area. Philip Darrel Duppa named the city for its irrigation system, derived from the Hohokam Indian ruins. The city rose from the ashes of another civilization.
Webb McHardy's '69 Mustang convertible is a Phoenix metaphor as an automobile risen from the ashes. Webb's Mustang story dates back to when he was 15 and living in upstate New York. He and his father began looking for a Mustang. There were a lot of them in the classifieds, but none befitting of Webb's dream. It wasn't until a friend of his father decided to sell his '69 convertible that Webb found his dream machine.
The Mustang was what you would expect from the mid '80s: cosmetically restored with fresh upholstery and a set of Cragar SS mag wheels. Webb drove the Mustang throughout high school and had a ball with it. In 1988, he took the car off the road and garaged it for 17 years as he waited for the time and money to rebuild it.
In 2001, Webb's parents decided to pull up stakes and move to Arizona. Webb and his Mustang followed. Not long after settling in Phoenix, his father passed away after battling cancer. That's when Webb decided it was time to restore the car as a tribute. He turned the convertible over to The Mustang Shop and gave them carte blanche to build something extraordinary.
"The car went from a basic restoration to a stunning restomod," Webb says. "John Dinger and Randy Tinsley's eye for detail is amazing."
The Mustang now has a Smeding Performance Extreme 351W small-block, an FMX transmission, a 3.25:1 Traction-Lok in a 9-inch housing, Baer disc brakes, 18-inch Magnum 500 wheels and Nitto tires, blazing Viper Red paint, Procar Elite bucket seats, and more. The Mustang Shop built Webb a weekend warrior to be envied and appreciated.
The 430hp Smeding engine starts with a CNC-machined Ford Racing Sportsman block with 4.030-inch bores, a 9.500-inch deck height, and non-siamesed bores for improved cooling. It's then fitted with a 4340-steel crank, H-beam rods, forged pistons, a custom-ground roller hydraulic cam, and Edelbrock aluminum heads with a Victor Jr. intake topped by a Proform 750-cfm carb. Webb added an MSD ignition and a Griffin radiator.
All the technical jargon translates to an unwieldy amount of dyno-tested horsepower and torque. The Mustang Shop was concerned about the Smeding stroker's power, so it built a platform designed to take the twist. The shop's custom subframe connectors keep things in alignment. A late-model Mustang Cobra front suspension system was also installed for improved stability. Believe it or not, this is easy to do with one of the company's conversion kits. In back, five-leaf, reverse-eye springs get the job done, resulting in a 2-inch body drop in conjunction with the Cobra front suspension.
Inside, Webb added Scat Procar Elite bucket seats with custom pony logos fabricated by Sonny's Custom Upholstery, with the rear seat upholstered to match. The Grant 14-inch, shallow-dish, leather-wrapped steering wheel feels good. He decided to go for the street-rod look with a center billet air-conditioning outlet that's striking-again, on black vinyl. Because Webb likes the escape of great audio, he opted for a Clarion 200-amp system with four 4x6-inch speakers, complemented by a pair of rear-facing 13-inch subwoofers in the trunk.
Webb tells us the only regret he has in 20 years of ownership is not being able to share the outcome of this car-building project with his father. We're convinced his dad is with him in spirit every time Webb saddles up.


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Travel is an endless source of SearchResearch...
While in DC I found this fountain that seemed so out-of-place and unlike other fountains that I had to wonder what the backstory was.
1. What kind of fountain is this one shown above? (Yes, I know it's a water fountain... but there's much more to the story than that.) This kind of fountain has a specific name...
It's not hard to figure how where this fountain is. You could look at the EXIF metadata (see my earlier post on how to examine EXIF metadata) and find that it's at 38.893889, -77.021283, which puts it solidly in the center of Washington DC.
You can see the shadow of the "temperance fountain" onto the sidewalk, which suggests that it's actually a bit to the west of the drop pin. Let's check Streetview at that location:
|Google Streetview of the Fountain at the corner of Indiana Ave and 7th Street, NW
"charity" and "temperance." What an unexpected trio of words: Hope, Charity, Temperance. I wonder what's on the 4th side?
Curiously, I did a search with the words I knew, [ hope charity temperance ], but before I could finish typing the end of the word "temperance" look at what showed up in my suggestions list:
This is a suggestion for the 4-word phrase I was looking for! Could the words be temperance, charity, faith, and hope?
I tried checking on Streetview, but the camera is just a BIT too far away to be sure.
So I tried doing an Search-by-Image, and that didn't work so well. None of the hits were of this fountain.
But as we've talked about before, you can MODIFY the search query WITH the searched-for image in place. What would be the best search term to add? Probably the most specific (and rarest) term, and one that we can read directly off the fountain itself: temperance
Here's my modified Search-By-Image query. Notice that I added the additional search term temperance to the query.
On the other hand, many other WCTU temperance fountains have survived the years since the years of temperance, including ones in Philadelphia, New York, and (see below) Petaluma...
This was kind of a very simple Challenge. When I looked in the grate, I saw lots of green bottles... the kind that beer comes in... How ironic that they should besmirch a Temperance Fountain! (I can't help but think this must be someone's idea of a joke...)
Just saying...
It's also worth noticing that this fountain was "donated by Henry B. Cogswell of San Francisco" and, as the Wikipedia article points out, it has survived the years mostly unscathed (although early on it lost the ability to dispense water).
By contrast, the Cogswell temperance fountain at California and Market Street in San Francisco featured a statue of Henry D. Cogswell himself. It was so unloved that it was pulled down on New Year's Eve Night of 1893-1894 by "a lynch party of self-professed art lovers" including Gelett Burgess (who was fired from his job at UC Berkeley). On the other hand, Cogswell's 1879 statue of Ben Franklin which is paired with a temperance fountain in Washington Square (on the other side of San Francisco) remains untouched and in working order to this day.
|Destruction of Cogswell's fountain in San Francisco, 1894. San Francisco Call.
P/C Wikimedia.
3. Here's another fountain I found in Petaluma, CA (below). It's not nearly as fancy and decorative, but it's actually very similar to the fountain above. What's the story that connects these two fountains?
And now we know. A quick search for:
tells us that this is the "Women's Christian Temperance Union." The organization, which helped to set up a lot of Temperance fountains, still exists to this day (see the WCTU website), and are still advocating an abstemious lifestyle.
As they write:
The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in November of 1874. It grew out of the "Woman's Crusade" of the winter of 1873-1874.... after listening to a lecture by Dr. Dio Lewis, [the women] were moved to a non-violent protest against the dangers of alcohol. Normally quiet housewives dropped to their knees for pray-ins in local saloons and demanded that the sale of liquor be stopped. In three months the women had driven liquor out of 250 communities, and for the first time felt what could be accomplished by standing together..
Local chapters were called "Unions" and were largely autonomous, but closely linked to the state unions and national headquarters. There were clear channels of authority and communication and the WCTU quickly became the largest woman's organization in the United States (and later, in the world.)
Now we know that there's a connection, a simple search for:
[ temperance soda fountain ]
leads us to the Wikipedia article on soda fountains where it tells us that:
A 1915 issue of Soda Fountain magazine stated: "The soda fountain of today is an ally of temperance... Ice cream soda is a greater medium for the cause of temperance than all the sermon ever preached on that subject."That's certainly interesting--can we track that 1915 reference down?
The short answer is, apparently, no. I tried Google Books, the Hathi Trust and various archives, but I can't even find a place where copies of this magazine are kept! (Although the query [ "the Soda Fountain" temperance ] did lead me to the 1921 and 1922 editions of the magazine, which are pretty entertaining reading. I just haven't been able to get to the 1915 edition.) So we'll have to take the Wikipedia quote with a grain of salt (it could well be correct, but I haven't yet been able to verify it).
On the other hand, I did find several references to a text published by the Soda Fountain magazine from 1915 called (are you ready for this title?):
"The Dispenser's Formulary: Or, Soda Water Guide; A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR SODA FOUNTAIN OPERATORS CONSISTING OF OVER 2,000 TESTED FORMULAS FOR SODA FOUNTAIN PRODUCTS WITH COMPLETE INFORMATION ON FOUNTAIN SERVICE, FOUNTAIN STANDARDS, ICE CREAM STANDARDS, AND FORMULAS, AND LUNCHEONETTE SERVICE INCLUDING AN APPENDIX OF MANUFACTURERS' FORMULAS TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION OF THEIR FOUNTAIN APPARATUS, SUNDRIES AND SUPPLIES."
Caps are theirs, not mine.
This was easy to find in Google Books with the query [ soda fountain ] with a time-limit to publications from 1915. On page 6, in the introduction to this special edition, the editors write:
"The widening spread of the temperance movement and the year round stability to trade that is a part of the luncheonette department are both factors that will count for the soda fountain's great growth and prosperity during the years before us."This same search leads to several books with background stories that link the rise of soda fountains (or malt shops, or ice cream parlors) to the temperance movement. As Anne Funderberg writes in Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream,
As the temperance movement evolved, so did the attitude of the soda fountain toward abstinence. Alcoholic beverages, especially wines, were ingredients in some of the more popular, traditional fountain drinks. When the public first began to take the temperance movement seriously, the soda fountain industry was divided over whether to continue using alcoholic ingredients. However as the movement gained momentum, the industry climbed aboard and, as a group, enthusiastically promoted the soda fountain as an alternative to the saloon. In 1892, a trade publication state unequivocally, "No successful soda fountains sell ardent spirits in their soda."
By 1906, confectionaries or drugstores operating soda fountains could be found on one or more corners at every principal intersection in Chicago. In New York City, temperance leaders beamed as the number of soda fountains surpassed the number of bars in the Modern Gomorrah.
Search Lessons
The lessons should be clear here. But let's lay them out:
1. There are often multiple ways to find the same thing. In this case, I used the EXIF metadata, but Search-By-Image also works... IF you modify the query to take into account additional information.
2. You can modify a Search-By-Image query to zero in on what you seek. In the example above, the regular SBI didn't work well, but once I changed the query to include some additional information, it worked really quite well.
3. Sometimes you have to zoom in a bit. The beer bottles at the base of the DC temperance fountain are funny... but only if you notice them. When researching a picture, it's often really useful to zoom in a bit and check out the details.
4. Remember Google Books is great for archival information (such as the connection between soda fountains and temperance). An easy search can get you a lot of really useful historical context.
Search on!


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Mike Brown (left - photo provided by Rick Wilson/Jacksonville Jaguars) and Rashad Jennings (right - photo provided by Tony Gonzales/Oakland Raiders) will take part in a series of events this weekend at Liberty.
Former Flames football standouts and current NFL players Mike Brown and Rashad Jennings will return to Liberty this weekend to take part in a series of events put together by Liberty's Academic Affairs for Athletics office and R&M Endeavors.
The pair's weekend return to their alma mater begins on Friday evening when Brown and Jennings will host a Player Panel in the Club Pavilion of the Williams Stadium Tower (third floor). The event, which starts at 6:30 p.m. and runs to 8 p.m., is free of charge and open to the public. It will be followed by a dessert social. During the 90-minute presentation, Brown and Jennings will discuss their goals and dreams, as well as their collegiate and professional careers in athletics.
On Saturday, Brown and Jennings will host two events, beginning with a Kid's Punt, Pass and Pancake Breakfast. The event is free to Flames Kids Club members, while all other children can participate for a $5 charge. A RSVP is required for the breakfast event and reservation can be made by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. The breakfast event runs from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Brown and Jennings will wrap up their weekend return to Liberty with a Skills & Drills minicamp, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Williams Stadium. The minicamp is open to students, grades 3 through 8 for a $20 charge. Check in for the minicamp begins at 10:15 a.m. in the Williams Football Operations Center. Camp participants will need to bring sneakers, cleats and their own water bottles.
All proceeds gained from any of the events during the weekend will be donated by R&M Endeavors to the Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity. During Friday night's free Player Panel, donations will be accepted.
Jennings recently finished up his fifth year in the NFL and his first with the Oakland Raiders. He was named Raiders.com Co-Offensive Player of the Year after rushing for 733 yards and six touchdowns, while adding 36 receptions for 292 yards and two blocked punts.
In his three seasons with the Flames (2006-08), Jennings was named Big South Offensive Player of the Year twice (2007 and 2008) and he was a finalist for the Walter Payton Award during his senior campaign. Jennings holds Liberty's program record with 42 career rushing touchdowns and ranks third in program history with 3,633 career rushing yards.
Brown recently completed his second season with the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he played in 11 games and started six contests. He finished the year ranked third on the team in receiving yards (446) and fourth in receptions (32).
Brown was a 2010 and 2011 Walter Payton Award candidate and helped Liberty win Big South Conference titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010. A three-year starting quarterback for Liberty, Brown finished his senior season with the Flames with 2,664 passing yards and 18 touchdowns, to go along with 437 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns in 2011.
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Lots of noise over the China/Japan island dispute and how big, scary China will flex it's as yet unseen military might. Uh huh. This is not the Asian century. China is not a world player, they are a maker on tiny plastic things for the amusement of the developed world.
This is the most accurate portrayal of that I have ever seen written:
Precisely. When we have used up China to our satisfaction, we can turn to anyone we choose to provide our manufacturing. Like Mexico for example. And they would be happy to do it. Everyone thinks China has us in a corner, when in fact the opposite is true.
China owns US debt. Debt which can be repudiated at a whim and cannot be used to buy anything the US does not want.
China does not have its own market and is decades away from it. Regardless of how many iToys Apple says it sells there.
Messing with Japan is having them expose what is really on their minds and they would be foolish to "flex" their non-existant muscles at Japan or anyone else for that matter.
Their military is a joke, their planes glow infrared like a flare and their single aircraft carrier is a relic.
Im not really sure what they think they will gain from this, but exposing how new they are to the way the world works.
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Set status to pimp. And your new location to "jail."
A 23-year old former cable installer is out of San Francisco county jail after a woman who accused him of forcing her into prostitution claimed on Facebook to be a pimp herself, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
The woman, who claimed to be attacked in a San Francisco parking garage, also claims on Facebook to be a "head pimptress in charge," the newspaper reported. She also claims a college degree -- in "advanced pimping," the newspaper reported.
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The woman's claims have landed the 23-year old male suspect in jail for the past 10 months.


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Summer Arts & Crafts Camp – Week 2
Week 2- July 2-5th
Join us this summer for some fun all new craft projects sure to inspire your budding young artist! Space fills quickly for these popular camps, register early to not miss out!
Choose from:
Morning (9am-12pm) Monday – Friday: $105 + HST
Afternoon (1-4pm) Monday – Friday: $105 + HST
Full Day (9am-4pm) Monday – Friday: $190 +HST
Extended Day (8:15am-4:30pm) Monday – Friday: $205 + HST
*All Art Supplies Included!
No experience required, just a love for art! Children will create work in clay, paper mache, drawing, painting, sketching, watercolours, mixed-media and some fun seasonal crafts! Each week is different, so children can register for more than one week.
Camp is for children ages 5-12 years old. Children registering in a full day program must be at least 6 years of age, unless predetermined by the teacher that they would benefit in a full day setting. Often younger children (under 6) are able to attend full day, please inquire.
What to bring to Camp HALF DAY Children:
– art shirt for the messy days
– comfortable indoor shoes
– nut free snack. – This is a NUT FREE Studio – no nuts of any kind please!
– a ziplock bag to take home any garbage for recycling at home
* If you child requires an epipen they must bring to each day of camp!
What to bring to Camp FUll or Extended DAY Children:
-art shirt for the messy days
– comfortable indoor shoes
– 2 nut free snacks and a lunch. – This is a NUT FREE Studio – no nuts of any kind please!
– a ziplock bag to take home any garbage for recycling at home
– bag to take the art home in
* If you child requires an epipen they must bring to each day of camp!
* If you child is enrolled in the extended day, they are welcome to bring a book to read before/after regular camp hours.
NO ipod, DS or other electronics please!
Payment in advance is required to save all spots. Due to limited space there is no refund unless camp is cancelled by the Studio.
How to Register:
STEP 1: Email- [email protected] Please include in your email your child's age, what week(s) you are interested in registering, and if half, full or extended day.
STEP 2: The Studio will confirm that there is still space left in the week you are interested
STEP 3: You can register online via paypal or by dropping off a registration form and cheque at the studio during regular business hours. If you would like to pay by cheque please inform the studio and we will email you a registration form to include with payment.
STEP 4: Look forward to seeing all the fantastic artwork your child will create in their week of camp!
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If you've followed my blog the last year, you've seen that I love to make Christmas gifts for friends. Last year I made notepad covers and the year before, handbags. This year I made two dozen mittens from thrift shop sweaters that I washed and felted and added polar fleece lining to make them very cozy! As usual I overbought on the sweaters so have plenty left for future projects!
Also this year I thought a very special little girl would like a poncho in PINK with butterflies on it instead of mittens. This was a simple pattern with hood that took less than 2 hours total! If you start in September, you can have it all done before Halloween and it is so fun to give something that you made.
And for the neighbors, we use this Swedish saffron bread recipe and make trees for their Christmas breakfasts and deliver them on the 24th! I make the dough and my husband rolls out the tree shapes. It is sooooooo delicious and a recipe in my family since the 60's.
Next to our tree this year, you can see my Christmas present on the wall…a Noriko Endo quilt from an earlier post.
The tree skirt is a pattern that we sold when I started the company….it's ornaments with fancy machine stitches and comes with a wallhanging and a pillow.
On the tree are many ornaments that I've made throughout the years. Here are machine embroidered ones from Criswell that I used to give to all the elementary teachers.
I made these smocked ornaments. The first year that the Clintons were in the White House, they asked many artists to make blue and gold ornaments for their tree and I made one for them. They sent a lovely photo of the tree and a card. It was exciting!
I love my Christmas stocking because it is a sewing studio! A friend made this for me when I was in grad school in exchange for a formal dress that she wore to her boyfriend's military ball. I think it was a good deal…I still have the stocking but the dress is long gone I hear!
We collect these German ornaments by Heutschenreuter ( a ceramics firm) and they may be the most expensive ornaments on the tree but the one below is the most valuable!
Made by my oldest son when he was in pre-school!
Hope you all enjoyed a very happy day with your family! Now for my husband's sauerbraten dinner!
P.S. I already know what gift I'm making next year en masse! Stay tuned!


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What a wonderful opportunity for men and women to experience the Holy Spirit leading us into a deeper understanding of the inspired word of God and its application in our lives. This is not Bible study, but faith-sharing, as the same Holy Spirit who inspired the Biblical writers also inspires us today to enter deeply into the word of grace that is the Sacred Scripture." —Father W. K.
The Leadership Group is a weekly gathering of humble leaders, both men and women, where Biblical Scripture is read, contemplated, and discussed. Each piece of Scripture pertains to a monthly topic that all leaders will relate with. The spontaneous discussion that ensues after the Scripture is read each week comes from each participant's heart, relative to their home, work, and community experiences.
It is important to understand that this is not a Bible study, and the Chairperson is not a teacher. We understand that our one Teacher is the Holy Spirit. The Chairperson facilitates the group discussion, faith-sharing, and prayers, but does not govern. Real life stories, successes, struggles, and events are shared by the participants as the Holy Spirit inspires each individual.
The weekly curriculum will be provided to any group so that no matter where you are in the World, the same Scripture reading is broken open and shared each week. Please click here for instructions on how to start your own Leadership Group.
In the spirit of a wholly steward-driven life, and the understanding that everything we have is a gift from God, and that we must honor God in everything we do with the gifts He has given us, each of us has a daily responsibility to reflect on these six major God-given gifts: Time, Talent, Faith, Treasure, Family and Prayer. As leaders we are called to serve each other every day in a manner that is God-honoring.
Each Leadership Group is asked to select a charity to support. The charity of choice must be approved by Stewardship: A Mission of Faith (please contact us at 717-367-0100 for additional information about approved charitable organizations). Additionally, each participating group member is asked for an annual free-will offering (suggested amount is 1% of earnings) to fund the contributions to the groups charity of choice. Checks should be made payable to Stewardship: A Mission of Faith. Each group will be able to ensure that the funds collected are donated to their charity of choice.
The Leadership Groups are ecumenical and open to all Christians and those searching for Christ. These groups are to be an instrument in the healing of the One Body of Christ in answer to Christ's prayer.
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Hey Otto, what's the beef you have with brokerages and analysts anyway?
Oh ye of short memory. Ok, remember this one:
Dorato Resources yeah, the P+D scam run by the Cardero Group, Henk van Alphen, Jeff Pontius, Carlos Ballon and the merry band of pranksters. OK, so remember how the insto staff at Canaccord, PI Fincorp, Haywood, GMP etc all bought into the seed funding round? You don't? Well here's the reminder. In short, the beef with Canadian brokerages and the people who work there is that they're two-faced pieces of shit who don't give a damn about their clients. We good now?
Just add it on the hot rod death toll
Just add it on the hot rod death toll
Data versus anecdotals
Gary BiiWii makes a point today about negative feedback, which included this passage:
"...my point with this post is not to cry over some negative feedback. It is to sort of shake my head publicly about how some people refuse to open their eyes while digging in to a failed view point no matter how long its failure persists."
That's fair enough, I agree, what's more it's a riff I've seen in other places recently, too (eg Krugman's been shaking his head publicly the last couple of days over his "inflation derp" enemies). I'd encourage you to read the whole article (even over a weekend when people shouldn't care so much about worky cashy profity things) to get the context, though after reading it I have two things to add:
1) Look at the words used by the negative commenter: "completely wrong", "absolutely no credibility", "definitely don't" are all used in that very short extract and if there's one thing I've learned about macro debate, the person who uses absolutes is the person who's talking out of his large intenstine, rectum and sphincter.
2) Too many people who think they have a valid opinion (and don't) fail to understand what data collection and statistics are trying to achieve, either through ignorance or simple refusal to accept things that challenge their own personal realities. Dullards all, their worldview boils down to "This is like this for me therefore it must be exactly the same for the whole of humanity" and is boring, boring and three times boring. Data and stats don't have the last word on anything and are in the end subjective in their own manner, but they're far less subjective than dumbass who writes in absolutes and when done correctly (or even reasonably well is enough) they convey more experiences of more people than one person's subjective experiences. Data compiled by people such as the Fed don't exactly match anyone's life, they try to get a handle on the median life.
Anyway, go read Gary's post today. Good stuff as always.
Ex-soldiers living with PTSD
A magnificent piece of journalism. The Guardian reports on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its effects on ex-soldiers. It's not a new subject but this long-read report is of the highest quality and is essential, fascinating reading. If just one reader clicks through and reads the report, today's IKN has done a good thing.
Bobby Genovese scams also have downcycle moments
It's not all the scam pump all the time with scumbags like the disgusting parasite Bobby G, as their vehicles need to go through a period of re-charging before they can re-run their pump and dump moves on unsuspecting greenhorns. Part of the process was seen today in this Reg F, of Liberty Silver (LSL) which starts like this (your author's bold type highlights)...
October 17, 2014 - Toronto, Ontario. Liberty Silver Corp. ("Liberty" or the "Company") today announced that it has amended and restated its agreement in relation to an existing US$1,210,000 principal amount secured loan facility (the "Original Loan") made available by BG Capital Group Ltd. ("BGCG"). Under the terms of the revised agreement, BGCG has made available to the Company a committed non-revolving term credit facility in the principal amount of US$1,250,000 (the "New Loan"), which shall initially bear interest at a rate of 11% per annum and which shall be secured by a charge on all of the assets of the Company. The Company has also repaid the indebtedness to BGCG under the Original Loan by converting the outstanding, aggregate total sum of the principal amount of the Original Loan, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, being US$1,248,653.70 (the "Debt"), into 99,892,296 common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") at a deemed issue price of US$0.0125 per Common Share, in full satisfaction of the Debt under the Original Loan.
...then goes on to explain this:
The lender pursuant to the New Loan is BGCG. BGCG and certain of its related parties own, directly and indirectly, 129,861,249 Common Shares, representing approximately 70.1% of the Company's 185,139,574 issued and outstanding Common Shares. Other than pursuant to the New Loan, the Company does not have any contractual or other relationship with BGCG.
In other words, for a fraction of the cash he made during the last Liberty Silver pump, Bobby G now has control of 70% of the company again. Only he and his slimy cohorts know when they'll go active on this vehicle from hell again, it could be months or couold be years, but it's now set up so that only he can benefit when the start buitton is pushed once more.
The Friday OT: Eminem; Lose yourself
The best thing Eminem ever did was brilliant:
And it's stayed fresh after 12 years (yes my friend, that number is a twelve). Really worth revisiting, helps you forget duets with pop singers and the other meta-shit he's come out with in the coasting stage of his career.
Renaud Adams, Primero, Richmont
Following on from the post yesterday evening, I was soon informed by mailers (interestingly, both pre and post announcement this morning) that Renaud Adams was joining Richmont Mines (RIC.to) as President & CEO. For some of the mailers, that seems to be the end of the matter. That's wrong.
People, let's make this crystal clear: Leaving a $750m company like Primero (P.to) (PPP) where you were Pres/COO (and earning $818k/annum) and joining a $125m company where you'll be Pres/CEO is not a move up the ladder. You don't leave a company like PPP "effective immediately" and go to one a 1/5th of the size just because you're looking for a new challenge. Primero is doing this in early trading today...
...and rightly so. Mr Conway, care to elaborate?
UPDATE: Interesting feedback coming from this post. Subbers, IKN284 will have a little section.
UPDATE: Interesting feedback coming from this post. Subbers, IKN284 will have a little section.
Seriously folks, holy shit.
Working cap of $1.9bn and book value of $6bn, now priced at a market cap of $3.3Bn.
Chart of the day is...
Primero (PPP) (P.to): Effective immediately, you say?
October 16, 2014
Primero Announces Management Changes
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 16, 2014) - Primero Mining Corp. ("Primero" or the "Company") (TSX:P)(NYSE:PPP) announced today that Mr. Renaud Adams, President and Chief Operating Officer, has resigned effectively immediately to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Adams' duties will be assumed by senior management on an interim basis while a search for his replacement is completed.
"We would like to thank Renaud for his nearly 3 years of service and we wish him well with his future endeavors," stated Joseph F. Conway, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Ore Deposits 101: An eleven part course
Hey this is good. Sprott Global has put together a primer on ore deposits, with eleven videos, some short and others no-so short, that go through the need-to-know stuff about exploration and finding/developing resources in different metals and types of deposit. Here's a list of the eleven titles on offer
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 1 - Introduction
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 2 - Layered Complexes and Kimberlites
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 3 - Porphyries, Skarns and IOCG Deposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 4 - Mesothermal and Greenstone Lode Gold Deposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 5 - Epithermal Gold Deposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 6 - Carlin Gold Deposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 7 - Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides and Sedex
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 8 - Witwatersrand Gold Desposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 9 - Uranium Deposits
- Ore Deposits 101 - Part 10 - Exploration Process
- Ore Deposits 101 - 11 Mineral Reserves, Resources and Estimation
Click through and get learning right here.
Capitulation: A simple thought
There are too many people calling capitulation for a capitulation to happen. It's too obvious. The markets don't work like that. Therefore they'll bounce from here. End of thought.
To pad out this post a little, here's a photo of three heavily armed people wearing rabbit costumes.
Yes, IKN has left Twitter (an in-house post)
To attempt to stem the mails that have started coming in, as noted on Monday (a Canada holiday, may be why it wasn't picked up by a few of you) I have deleted the IKN Twitter account and left the service. Couple of points to make:
- No, it's not for nefarious reasons, or some nasty troll, or anything else of that sort (thick skin has been in place for years).
- In a nutshell, the reason is that I see it's taking up a lot of my time.
- However, I also recognize it's a useful news service and helps to a certain extent in my work.
- Therefore I want to sit back and get a decent handle on the cost/benefit balance of being or not being on Twitter.
- I've tried to do that in a passive manner on a couple of occasions, but it hasn't worked. So the only effective way is to turn it off and see how things change without it in my working life.
- This means that it's perfectly possible IKN rejoins Twitter at some point (few weeks?) if I decide benefits outweigh the costs. If so, I'll start a new account and make mention of it here.
Meanwhile, for those of you who were using Twitter to get delivery of IKN posts as they happened, I can suggest getting the RSS feed for the blog by clicking here or perhaps you'd consider joining the thousands of people who get the free daily IKN e-mail digest by using this service right here (if you do, you get all the day's posts, neatly packaged into one mail and delivered early morning the next day).
Chart of the day is...
...copper, hourlies:
Sheesh, and I thought yesterday was bad. That's under $3 and meaningfully, whihc blows a large hole in my bullish stance towards the metal.
Torex Gold (TXG.to) inside selling
Hey, don't let it worry you...
...what do directors know that's so special anyway? From here.
Ari Sussman and Vic Wall playing it fast and loose again
So I was flicking through the recent Continental Gold (CNL.to) literature and the plans for the Buritica mine when the following caveat on its plans found here caught my beady little eye:
* Proposed mine plan is dependent on, among other things, continued exploration success, environmental and board approvals, completing positive economic studies and the determination that the deposit is economically viable.Got that? It says that its plans are dependent on "completing positive economic studies" and of course determine "that the deposit is economically viable" before doing anything expensive and that's fair enough, right? Which brings thy humbleth scribeth to the following, Exhibit B if you like, the development timeline plan from the company's latest corporate presentation (slide 33, to be exact):
It looks for all the world as if CNL.to is going to forget about the fripperies of a Pre-Feas Study (PFS), worry not over the trifles and details of a Feasibility Study (FS) and jump straight from the earliest stage of economic study (PEA/Scoping Study) to a construction decision and then raise its capital and build its mine.
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong?
Just out of interest, the last time Ari Sussman and Vic Wall got together to play at mining, they picked the following as their promo vehicle:
- A high grade gold deposit
- In South America
- Highly promoted to retail with brokerage coverage all around
- Scant mention of the poor community relations through the development and exploration phase
- Construction decision made without producing a PFS or an FS
The name of that company was Colossus Minerals. Ring any bells? Remember how that one turned out? Some remarkable coincidences developing to connect the two companies, are there not?
Bottom Line: Avoid CNL.to like the veritable plague.
A pleasant Wednesday melody: Soundgarden; Ty Cobb
Dedicated with heartfelt desire from IKN. Best played very, but very loud and don't forget to join in with the decent singalong opportunity during the chorus.
Just add it on the hot rod death toll
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Peru GDP August 2014 +1.24%
Remember that bit when they told you Peru's GDP dip in 2q14 was just a roadbump and 3q14 would be a big improvement?
Why oh why is Marin Katusa of Casey Research ignoring his own clients?
They keep sending him mails asking about what's going on at his sure-fire "next Bakken" top pick PRD Energy (PRD.v), but unlike in late 2013 and early 2014 when he couldn't stop talking about the company and commenting on its every small development or price move, apparently nowadays he has nothing to say and just keeps ignoring anyone who wants to discuss the company.
Why would that be, Marin?
And John Mauldin, why have you been so quiet on this stock, after pumping it to your own flock? Probably just a coincidence.
Geoff Ramsey and Pan-American Post on changes in the USA's drugs policy
This post by Geoff Ramsey in Pan American Post today underscores just why this site should be a compulsory part of any LatAm watcher's reading material. It starts like this...
While a recent statement by top U.S. State Department drug official William Brownfield has been largely overlooked, it could have huge implications for the future of drug policy in the hemisphere.
...takes in this line after quoting Brownfield extensively...
It may not seem like much, but this is a massive change. Just two years ago, the United States bitterly fought against Bolivia's attempts to abandon the 1961Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and rejoin it with a reservation allowing coca cultivation for traditional uses. Now, Brownfield seems to be advocating the exact same approach to the Single Convention, allowing countries greater autonomy and flexibility in their interpretation of it.
...and you're strongly recommended to click through and read the rest. Excellent analysis, today's must-read.
No news on whether Andrew Swarthout of Bear Creek (BCM.v) is taking a pay cut
After reading carefully today's NR from Bear Creek (BCM.v) which sets out the cost reduction initiatives being undertaken by the company that include elimination of the VP Exploration post, general staff reductions etc, I can't seem to identify the part that points to the salary reduction being taken by Pres/CEO Andrew Swarthout on his $310,000 per year salary.
Which is strange, what with Swarthout himself stating that the.. "Company's mandate is to create shareholder value, and we are committed to conserve cash". Maybe he just forgot.
And yes Mister Kaip, production does matter
On Thursday October 9th, it just so happened that two similar sized silver mining companies both reported their 3q14 production number, within minutes of each other pre-open.
As noted on IKN at the time, Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK) put in a crappy quarter. Script at the time:
And this is a crappy quarter from EDR. Go on, remind me again how much Brad Cooke and EDR paid for El Cubo? And what about that cool plan they had to re-work the asset and make it fabbo and productive and things? Seems so long ago, because since then it's been excuses and "any time now" BS that's failed to translate into anything of worth. Production is now dropping sharply at all three mines and EDR looks set to dump even further.
As noted on IKN at the time, Fortuna Silver (FVI.to) (FSM) put in a strong quarter. Script at the time:
And this is a very good quarter's worth of production from FVI, no matter which angle you look. Top job.
Here's the price chart that shows how things have been since then:
Which just goes to show that Andrew Kaip of BMO is a dumbass as on October 10th, Kaip called them both market perform but gave FVI (at $4.67) a $5.75 target (+23.1%) while after delving into his magic box of tricks for a while deemed it correct to give EDR (at $4.92) a $6.75 target (+37.2%). How much they paying you, Andrew? Or more to the point, exactly who is paying you?
Your latest precious metals producer misses: First Majestic $AG (FR.to) and Argonaut (AR.to)
First Majestic (from yesterday):
Excuses included re-synching material at La Encantada (which looks for all the world like reprocessing more tailings again, what with the recovery drop) and...errr...other stuff. Crappy quarter.
Argonaut (from this morning):
At first eyeglance it doesn't seem too bad, but this was supposed to be the quarter when AR.to had worked through its glitches and returned a strong production number. didn't happen folks, and as a result they've dropped 2014 guidance from 135k-150k to 130k-135k. Let's all have a good laugh when they claim to have "met guidance" in 2 1/2 months' time.
IKN explodes another stereotype myth about LatAm
With the help of the OECD.
In its 2014 'Employment Outlook' the OECD lists its 34 members by the number of hours worked on average per employee in the countries in question. Here's the chart from the results and...
...you can forget about that stereotype Mexican siesta dude with the big hat and the sarapi, as Mexico averages 2,237 hours of work from its employees per year and is the number one hardest working country.
France, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Holland? Easy life.
Krugman bottom ticks Bitcoin
Never take trade tips from economists. I mean, Krugman's smart about theoretical economics, but he's the the classic example of mission creep and one annoying motherfucker when he lays on the overriding and all-encompassing knowledge about everything that is connected with money and how it works. Take for example the way he stays totally schtum about Bitcoin for nearly a year and then decides to run his "ha ha ha, you all stoopid" note on the thing on October 4th 2014, full of all the usual arrogance and
"So how's it going? Bitcoin prices are down by two-thirds from their peak, and..."
But wait, what's this?
Oh look, Bitcoins just stuck in a 35% rally with the bottom on...October 5th!
This post is less about Bitcoin (you can have your opinion pro or contra the cryptothingy, I don't care much) and more about the dangers of listening to people who are smart about one thing and because of that, get these delusions that they're smart about everything. A better definition of plug dumb stupid about life is harder to find.
Chart of the day is...
The IKN Weekly, out now
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Who remembers lithium?
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Oct 13, 2014) - RB Energy Inc. (the "Company" or "RBI") (RBI.TO) (RBEIF) announces that, in light of the Company's current financial situation, to facilitate an orderly restructuring of its business and operations, the Board of Directors of the Company has approved a filing on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, for an Initial Order to commence proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (the "CCAA") from the Quebec Superior Court. The terms and conditions of the restructuring have not yet been determined.
What I remember of the lithium pump was not buying into it for a single second and watching with mirth as the for-hire promo pump bullshit artists lined up to sell you all a whole bunch of freshly squeezed Li equities. Why don't you do some Googlin' and find out their names, it'll do you a lot of favours when it comes to the next cycle of bullshit.
I've deleted myself from Twitter
News for a few of you.
It may be a permanent move, it may turn out to be a temporary thing, but I want to sit back for at least a few weeks in order to gauge the cost/benefit of being inside its somewhat time-sapping non-stop feed of news from a quieter place. If I return, it'll be under a new handle.
What happens in the Brazil second round run-off election in the next two weeks
First, be clear about the bottom line: Dilma will win.
With that in place, here's how the the next two weeks running up to the October 26th vote will unfold:
1) Aecio Neves will be promoted as the "business friendly" alternative.
2) Journalists and op-ed writers smell a story and the obvious advantages of playing up a "dramatic" and "tight" and "anything could happen" election. The media feeds on itself, doubt and excitement grows among the chattering classes.
3) Polls show Dilma and Neves as either neck and neck, or Neves in a slight lead, depending on the company and/or day.
4) The Bovespa moves up on speculation, volumes high, action volatile and choppy.
5) Houses like Goldman Sachs will call Neves as slight favourite in public declarations.
6) At some point next week, maybe Tuesday 21st or Weds 22nd, the Bovespa will drop heavily as the plug is pulled on the speculative pump and profits taken by the people who read Brazil correctly, instead of relying on wishful thinking.
7) Come Friday 24th, whispers and off record reports of "momentum shifting" will do the rounds.
8) Sunday 26th, Dilma wins 52% to 48% of valid votes.
9) Big fat Bovespa sell off Monday 27th
10) Life returns to normal.
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The resource curse, Evo Morales edition
After a Twitter exchange earlier today, I've been thinking about this whole concept of 'resource curse', what with it being one of the criticisms still levelled at Bolivia for its dependency on gas revenues. The basic argument goes something like, "Evo wouldn't have been a success if he didn't have the gas revenues", then morphs to, "and Bolivia's still very dependent on the gas revenues, where's the diversification?", which implies in the words of detractors that Evo's just been lucky (and of course with the assumption that one of these days his luck will run out).
Let's start with the easy one: If Evo hadn't nationalized YPFB (and many will recall as I do the "it'll never work" criticisms at the time, all from the usual suspects) the gas revenues would still be leaving the country and placed in the treasuries of large, private oil and gas companies. Instead, the dollar revenues go to the Bolivia Central Bank, which has seen its international currency reserves balloon in the eight years of Evo. He was elected because he said, out loud, that if made President he'd stop the money being made by YPFB from leaving the country by nationalizing the company and then use that money for the greater good of the nation. Eight years later, here we are.
As for that diversification, what makes you assume that you need to diversify into secondary or complementary industries in order to satisfy the appetites of the Economic Gods? Why does "diversification" only conjure up the image of physical structures, such as factories or new plants or new industrial sectors? It strikes me that investing in a country's population is at least as good a diversification as setting up a phosphates plant next to a natgas supply, or insisting that somebody who wants to buy Bolivia's lithium builds the battery factory in the country, too. It's probably better in the long run in fact. After all, you invest in children by giving them free school meals, which means they're encouraged to go to school and stay there, which means they get to read and write and add and subtract and all kinds of other things. Or pregnant mothers get a cash payment for turning up at a hospital clinic for their regular pre-natals, which get them into the formal heathcare service for the first time, which means more living and healthy babies. That also strikes me as an excellent way of diversifying a country's wealth, the only difference being the capital isn't controlled by private concerns that are focussed on making profits for their shareholders.
After it went round my head for a while, the conclusion drawn isn't whether a country has or has not a source of wealth to tap, it's much more about what the country's leaders do with the revenue coming from the resource be it renewable or not, primary or tertiary, any other combo you'd care to imagine. Greedy and self-centred leaders are the curse, not the resource nor any cash delivered by it.
The only vaguely dramatic thing about Bolivia's election today
Yes we know Evo's going to win and we know Bolivia's a big success story under his government and we know he's changed the rules to run again and isn't that naughty and we know that the North much prefers to quietly ignore Bolivia's strong growth and improved living standards on a multitude of criteria because it's all a bit embarrassing to be shown up as wrong now isn't it mister capitalism?
La la la. No, the nice bit today is when people started to notice that some of the ballot papers for the election have got the name of the country wrong:
Yes, that's one of the millions of official vote papers printed by the government office in question and already in at least three locations they're reported as having Bolivia's official country name as "Estado Plurinominal de Bolivia", when it is in fact officially and correctly "Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia*". So, apart from the country getting the name of the country wrong, all's in order. And here's me complaining about people up there writing Columbia instead of Colombia.
*The same way as France's official name is République française, for example.
Another Happy October 12th, Americas
And the same cartoon to commemorate the day as this time last year, because I like it.
So whatever you label the day, traditional old-time or politically correct new-time, have a good one.
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To search for a feature entry, put your search criteria into the search box on the top. There are two radial buttons - "global" (the default option) and "contextual." Global will conduct a search in all records; contextual will only search the place records contained in the region currently selected in the table of contents.
You can search in any script (Tibetan, Chinese, etc.) that is used in the corresponding feature entry for the feature you are seeking. In other words, for the city of Lhasa, you can use Tibetan script, Chinese characters, or Roman letters if those languages and scripts have been used in detailing the various names of Lhasa. All non-Roman scripts should be entered using Unicode.
Each feature documented in the THL Place Dictionary has a unique identifier beginning with the latter "f" - f45, f567 and so forth. This can be used to easily call up a feature, and thus should be used for reference purposes in formal citations. If you are looking for a given feature entry for which you have its ID, just enter the complete ID in the search box - including the letter "f" and with no space between the "f" and the number - and it will bring up the corresponding entry.
The Place Dictionary home page provides browsing on the left hand side through reliance upon contemporary nation state administrative units. In the future, we plan to offer other perspectives to browse with - cultural regions, historical polities, and more.
The browsing initially shows the top level categories - which for the contemporary nation state perspective is nations. Categories that contain subcategories indicate this with a left hand side + sign. If you click on that category, the + sign changes to - to indicate it is expanded, and its contained subcategories are detailed in an indented list below it. At the same time, the corresponding feature entry for the expanded category is given to the right. This provides a convenient way to explore a given perspective from which places are grouped together.
A Feature Entry
A feature entry for any place begins with a top header that says "THL Place Dictionary Entry for PLACE NAME." Under this, it indicates the location of that feature in terms of contemporary administrative units beginning with the nation in question (India, China, Nepal, etc.), and then giving the full series of administrative units from larger to smaller, with each separated by a >. These end with the administrative unit that immediately contains the feature in question.
The remainder of the feature entry is divided into 8 sections, each with a header indicating the section label. All information has time values associated with it to indicate the time period during which that information is valid for the feature. In addition, sources are usually specified for all information, whether that information is oral or a formal bibliographical citation of written sources.
1. Description
This provides a short paragraph to page description of the feature's basic characteristics, contemporary situation, and history.
In addition, if there is a Place Encyclopedia entry for this feature providing richer descriptions according to a structured specific to this type of feature, a link to it is provided here. The wording is "View the XXX Place Encyclopedia entry for this feature."
2. Interactive Maps
This provides a link to view the feature on interactive maps. The wording is "View the feature on an interactive map." Further instructions for using the interactive map will be posted here in the future.
3. Feature Type
This indicates the type of feature as drawn from THL's Feature Thesaurus. The time period for that type is specified, in case the feature changes type over time. Multiple feature types may thus be indicated. Each feature type is hyperlinked back to the corresponding entry within the Feature Thesaurus as well.
4. Name Variations
This presents the various names for the feature over time and language. For each name, it indicates the language and writing system in use, the time period for which the name applies, and the type (official, popular, etc.). It also indicates the relationship between names when one name is primary, and other names are derivative of it. An example, is the Tibetan language name for Lhasa is primary, while "Lhasa," "Lasa," and the Chinese character name for Lhasa are all alternative names derived from it.
5. Feature IDs
This details any identifiers or codes used for this feature in any source. The most important is THL's own feature id, which begins with the letter "f" and then consists of a numerical string. The THL feature ID should be used for citation purposes, and can be used on the Place Dictionary's front page to immediately retrieve the corresponding entry through searching.
6. Location
This details any information pertaining to the location of the feature, including latitude and longitude, altitude, address, and any narrative comments about the location.
7. Related Places
This details all features related to the given feature and the nature of their relationship. A feature can be contained by another feature, contain another feature, be near by another feature, and so forth. You can then click on any one of these features to see the corresponding feature entry.
8. Viewing Associated Resources
The entirety of THL's resources - images, audio-video, bibliographies, etc. - are gradually being indexed by the feature IDs of the THL Place Dictionary to the extent they involve places. This section of the feature entry provides an exhaustive list of resources thus indexed by the feature in question, and allows users to directly view them.
Place Names
Introduction to Toponyms
Geographical features, or places, are generally named by the people who live there, visit there, or know of them by other means. A "toponym" is thus simply the name of a place or geographical feature, whether that be a natural feature such as a mountain or a lake, a cultural feature such as a county or city, a constructed feature such as a city hall or temple, or an element of the transportation infrastructure such as a road, bridge, or trail. A geographical feature can be a point – a very specific spot on the landscape, or a polygon – a broader region, or a line, such as a river. Of course these classifications are arbitrary – any point is a polygon of sorts, even if a very small one; and any polygon could be considered a point depending on the scale; and a line – even a narrow stream – can be seen as a very slender polygon as well. The point, however, in this context is that all of these are named by the communities that live there, visit there, or simply know of them from afar. It should also be noted that usually there will be an "official name," which is a name that has been accepted by the government in question, or other types of authorities. But there are often also "alternative names" or "variant names," which might have more of a popular or folk character.
At times the names we give such geographical features can appear to be simply descriptive – "Red Rock," or "South Bend," which derive from a description of the geography of the site; others are nakedly ideologically, such as when a city is named after a political leader, or a mountain is labeled with a political slogan. Regardless of whether a toponym is whimsical, poetic, or strident, however, toponyms on the whole always reflect the cultural assumptions, ideological agendas, and general practices of the individuals and communities that create them. The names themselves can be deceptively simple, but they link into a complex semantic network within the cultures in which they originate and are used. They link to mythologies, historical self-understanding, and other narratives, to religious traditions and beliefs, to political agendas, and potentially any other aspect of the culture.
In addition, toponyms are intrinsically linked to issues of power, as the authority to name a place, and exercising that authority, is a direct expression of power, and often reflects the domination or control of one group over another group. Thus military victory is often followed by the renaming of places in conjunction with the language, beliefs, and agendas of the victory. Conversely, the process may be a slow one as a new culture, or simply a new faction, gradually become more dominant in a given area. Thus toponyms change over time as languages change, as new cultures and language communities come into an area, but also as cultural changes transpire and new groups or factions come into power. Such shifts can be blatantly obvious, but they can also be subtle, such as when an new group simply alters the spelling of a name but not its pronunciation, so as to invest it with a new explanation linked to that spelling.
Indeed, often it is the etymological explanation of names that becomes a source of contestation and alteration of how place names are understood. It is not at all uncommon to find that a single place name is explained in terms of its meaning, or the meaning of its syllables, in widely divergent ways over time, or even at the same time by different members of the community. The history of toponyms is thus a great subject for understanding the changing nature of the human inhabitation of a given region. In the names of places, and the explanations of those names, we find a rich set of conversations and contestations that have unfolded over time. Because of the long history of place naming that characterizes many parts of the world, often the original meaning of a place name is long forgotten; indeed, we often cannot even be sure what language originally gave rise to a place name. The linguistic archaeology of place names can thus be a fruitful line of research. But in many cases no one remembers any longer, and linguistic analysis bears uncertain or no results. In such case, the name may indeed simply be a neutral label without any clear meaning; though such neutral labels may later again be reinvested with meaning with a new spelling, or an inventive association.
In addition to the names produced and used locally, people visiting a place, or external people who know of the place may have quite different names for the place. However, such distinct names are usually limited to very prominent geographical features, such as a famous palace or the name of an entire people, whether a premodern kingdom or modern nation state. For example, in English we talk about "Tibet" or "China," neither of which are the terms used by Tibetans or Chinese. However, for most places, outsiders tend to simply adopt the name used by the local community, though often it is pronounced somewhat differently and often abstract parts of the name will be translated – thus "Sera Monastery" instead of "Sera Gompa," or "Tibet Autonomous Region" rather than "bod rang skyong ljongs," and so forth.
Original and Derivative Toponyms
Because of all of these factors, our Place Dictionary is set up to precisely analyze the relationship between all the various place names that have applied, or do apply, to a given geographical feature. The first issue is to determine which of the various names are "original," i.e., which do not derive from any other known toponym via a recognizable linguistic transformation. It is important to realize that while at times we may know very precisely when such a name was given – and even who gave it – often the origins of names are not clear. Thus "original" in this case does not indicate our assumption that the name in fact was an original name not derived from any other name, but rather only that we don't know of any name at present from which it is derived. Even with recent names, for example in Tibet, it can be unclear whether a new name was first hatched in Chinese or in Tibetan, especially when the name clearly reflects Chinese interests and terms. In such cases, we assume that the original name is Tibetan, or, as a general principle, it is the name that comes from the language of the community that lives in the region in question. Finally, the "original" name is specified not only in terms of its language, but also in terms of its writing system. In this case, also, the writing system that is mostly widely used and has the longest historical roots with the community is privileged. Thus, for Tibetan place names, it is the Tibetan script version of the name which is "original," not its spelling in latin script transliteration, or in any other written script.
In conjunction with discerning which names are "original" in this sense, we also analyze which names are derivative representations of those "original" names. As outlined above, we start by classifying the "original" name as the name written in the script that is specific to the language and community with which the name originates. We then identify how that name gets rendered in other languages through a series of transformations. The most standard derivation is to simply represent the original place name in the other language through either orthographical transliteration, or phonemic transcription. Both of these preserve the original words, in contrast to the approach of translation.
Orthographical Transliteration and Phonemic Transcription
Orthographical transliteration perfectly represents the spelling of the original word, but in a different script. In such a system, the focus is on spelling rather than pronunciation. An example of this is THL Extended Wylie, which represents each letter in the original Tibetan word with a one or two letter combination in latin script. Thus a Tibetan name that sounds roughly like "Trashi Ling" is spelled "bkra shis gling." Because many spoken forms of Tibetan are so divergent from the spelling due to the conservative nature of Tibetan spelling (which has effectively not changed in a thousand years), such transliteration tends to create forms which are very hard to pronounce accurately. Phonemic transcription, in contrast, is focused on reproducing the sound of the word, without concern for reflecting the spelling of the word. Thus, for example, THL Simplified Transcription would render "bkra shis gling" as "Trashi Ling." While this would be easy to pronounce for non-Tibetans, it would be impossible to reconstruct the original spelling of the Tibetan except that the sounds could of course enable someone to recognize the word, and then spell it out by virtue of knowing how that word is spelled. Thus the characteristic of Tibetan is that its spelling can be precisely rendered in other languages, but such transcription is impossible to accurately pronounce for most, such that quite different phonemic renderings are necessary.
Nepali place names, as well as those in Hindi or Sanskrit, are a quite different situation. The spelling is far more closely connected to the pronunciation, such that there is no need for marked divergent renderings of the word. Instead, the standard orthographical transliteration – Indological Standard Transcription – uses diacritic marks such as a dot under a t, or line above the a – to indicate precisely the original spelling. Indian Standard Transcription then for the most part simply removes the diacritic marks and in places converts the single letter with diacritic mark into a two letter combination ("ng," "sh," etc.). Thus there are standard transliteration and phonemic renderings in latin script, but they are far closer in form to each other than in Tibetan. In many cases they are identical, such as in the word "Buddha"; in other cases they only differ slightly.
Chinese place names are yet again marked by quite different characteristics. Chinese is written in hundreds of distinct characters and lacks any alphabet from which one could build words, unlike Tibetan or Nepali. Instead, characters are built around many, many radicals - sort of root characters that you have to commit to memory. Thus it is not possible to accurately represent its "spelling" in another language, but rather you can only render the pronunciation. The standard phonemic transliteration system currently used is "Pinyin," which is the official system of China – it can be represented with tone marks or without tone marks. But even with tone marks, it is in no way sufficient to reconstruct the characters in question. Pinyin is a complete, internally coherent, standardized system that provides a clear designation for every possible phoneme in standard Mandarin Chinese. Thus with Chinese, there is only phonemic renderings of the character in latin script.
It should be noted that the standard latin script renderings of Tibetan place names in Chinese publications is actually the pinyin rendering of the Chinese character rendering of the original Tibetan – it is not a direct rendering of the Tibetan name. A final issue in relationship to Chinese is that there are two types of characters – traditional and simplified. The traditional are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and are historically the characters used in mainland China for centuries. The simplified were introduced in the 1950s in communist China, and were adopted as a standard. As you would expect from their respective labels, simplified characters involve less lines and shapes for each character.
Translations of Toponyms & Hybrid Combinations
In contrast to transliteration and transcription renderings of toponyms, both of which preserve the original word, place names can also be translated into a different language. In this case, the sound of the original word is not preserved, but rather the semantics of it are rendered in the target language. An example is the "lho kha" district of Tibet – which literally means "the south" - which gets translated into Chinese as "Shannan," which literally means "southern mountains." Such translations can be precise, or can modify the meaning somewhat, as in this case. In addition, at times one syllable of a place name may be translated, while another syllable is phonemically rendered. An example is "New York" and "Nuevo York," where the first syllable is translated, but the second syllable is rendered phonemically (or identically in this case, since both are using latin script). Translation of toponyms is far less frequent than phonemic transcription or orthographic transliteration as a way to represent place names in other languages, but is probably more common than you might think. This does not even consider the very frequent practice of translating abstract aspects of a place name, such as "County" or "Monastery."
Specific issues with the relationship of Tibetan and Chinese toponyms
Most Chinese place names for Tibetan places are in fact phonemic renderings of the original Tibetan in simplified Chinese characters. Unfortunately, in contemporary China, there is no standard practice for how such phonemic transcriptions get produced. This has produced multiple versions of the same Tibetan names in Chinese characters. The first reason is that a standard, formal system is not being deployed, such that different people and agencies will at times follow somewhat different principles. The second reason is that Tibetan is a language family rather than a language, such that it is pronounced in very different forms in different regions of the Tibetan plateau. Thus the resultant phonemic renderings into Chinese characters will naturally be quite difference, since they are literally representing very different pronunciations. The third reason is that Chinese itself is also characterized by many different dialects, or languages, each with very different ways of pronouncing the same Chinese characters and pinyin. Thus their phonemic rendering might make perfect sense for their dialect, but from the stand point of standard or Mandarin Chinese, will look very curious.
As discussed above, there are also a number of Tibetan toponyms which are translated semantically into Chinese characters that share a meaning, rather than sound, with the original Tibetan. In still other cases, the resultant Chinese characters are a hybrid combination of a partial translation and a partial phonemic rendering. Finally, the Chinese may just be an entirely different name which has no direct relationship to the Tibetan toponym. An example is "bod" for Tibet, which the Chinese call Xizang. While many have understood the Chinese to mean "western storehouse," others have argued it actually means "zang to the west," with "zang" being a phonemic rendering of "gtsang," the standard Tibetan term for the western part of Central Tibet (dbus gtsang). In English, of course we also have an alternative name – "Tibet" – which bears no direct relationship with "bod," though historical analysis of the name's origin shows possible indirect derivations.
Language, Writing System, Orthographical Transcription, Phonemic Transliteration, and Translation
As outlined in the above, every place name is first specified in terms of "language." Language has nothing per se to do with the writing system being used. In other words, if a Tibetan language place name is rendered in another writing system through either transliteration or phonemic rendering, the "language" of the place name remains Tibetan. Thus "lhasa," "lha sa," "lasa," or the Chinese characters for it are all Tibetan language names. Only if the place name is translated into the other language, or partially translated, do we then change the language specification to the other language. Thus, with regards to the example of lho kha/shannan, "Shannan" is a Chinese language place name, while "lhoka" in latin script is still a Tibetan language place name. The former is a semantic translation into Chinese, while the latter is a phonemic rendering into Latin script.
The second step is to specify the "writing system." Tibetan is written in many different scripts specific to the Tibetan language, but for the present purposes we only care about the standard block print script and refer to that as "Tibetan script." We also use "Tibetan script" for the writing system used in Bhutan, though there are certain conventions about syllable formation that are different. Chinese then comes in "simplified" and "traditional" characters, which we treat as different writing systems because they have developed into competing systems. Devanagari is the standard script used for representing Nepal, Hindi and Sanskrit. Finally, Latin script is the standard script used for English, French, Spanish, German, and so forth. When used with diacritics – special marks common to certain languages, or used specifically for transcription purposes in representing other languages such as Nepali, and so forth – this is still classified as "Latin script." Thus, for example, "lha sa" is a Tibetan language toponym, but represented in Latin script writing system.
The third step is to specify the relationship of a name to its "parent" or "original" name, if it is linguistically derived from another name. We do this by specifying the following:
- is it a translation?
- is it a phonemic transliteration? (and if so, specify the specific system used)
- is it an orthographical transcription (and if so, specify the specific system used)
- is it an alternative spelling (and if so, specify the type of alternative spelling)
The types of orthographical transcription systems are:
- Indological Standard Transliteration: for representing the spelling of Nepali, Hindi and Sanskrit words from the Devangari script in Latin script through the addition of special diacritic marks.
- THL Extended Wylie: for representing the spelling of Tibetan words in Latin script.
- Traditional to Simplified Chinese: for converting traditional Chinese characters to to simplified Chinese characters.
The types of phonemic transliteration systems are:
- Chinese in Tibetan: for representing the sound of Chinese words in Tibetan script.
- English in Chinese Characters: for representing the sound of English words in Chinese characters.
- English in Tibetan: for representing the sound of English words in Tibetan script.
- Indological Standard Transcription: for representing the sound of Nepali, Hindi and Sanskrit words in Latin script without special diacritic marks.
- International Phonetic Alphabet: a highly precise and technical system used by linguistics to represent sounds in spoken languages which uses special script that is based upon Latin script but highly modified.
- Pinyin: for representing the sound of Chinese characters in Latin script. This is currently the standard in China.
- THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription: for representing the sound of Tibetan words in Latin script in very simplified if imprecise fashion.
- Tibetan in Simplified Chinese: for representing the sound of Tibetan words in simplified Chinese characters.
- Tibetan in Traditional Chinese: for representing the sound of Tibetan words in traditional Chinese characters.
- Wades-Giles: for representing the sound of Chinese characters in Latin script. This was an important system before Pinyin displaced it.


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The Simple...yet complex discussion about Guild Wars 2, Simple Complexities: The GUILD and more.
Monday, April 30, 2012
I Did NOT Play The Guild Wars 2 Beta...
The complaints of "lag" and issues logging in let me know that I would NOT have been happy this past weekend. But, more than that, the feeling of awe and wonder in the game I have been waiting for could be mind numbingly awesome...
..............If I just wait...
So, I hope those who did take the time to log in enjoyed themselves. I did hear great stuff from those who did get in...and that is good news.
For me though, Guild Wars 2 is a sure thing. Why ruin the expectations by dealing with the issues...I am sure there is 5.9 million other players who can test the mess for me, and get it working top notch for MY early start.
So, this ones for you early adopters...fix the game please, and help ME enjoy myself to the fullest extent!
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
Honestly its worth it just to try out all the classes so you know what to focus on at release. If you think you know what you're going to play, well actually trying them out my surprise you. So just skip story content, go to the PvP lounge and try out weapon skill and trait combos to your hearts content.
- April 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- Unknown said...
I didn't want to try it but I disliked GW1 and wanted to make sure. I'm glad I did because it is awesome. I know you loved GW1 so yeah, it's a no brainier for you. I was pleasantly surprised with the class I want to play now. For months I thought I wanted to be an engineer, then I watched Thief videos and fell in love. I tried both and did love the Thief, but the Necro and Elemenalist blew me away. Considering I'm not a caster lover this is a great surprise.
- April 30, 2012 at 5:20 PM
- Jonas said...
I can say the real game is no way like the beta! luckily! I have some friends that played the beta and they hated it to death but now they're hooked for a long time in this game :D
- October 18, 2012 at 8:53 AM


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An intricate network of servers operated by Chinese criminals has moved into the void created when the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) shut down, according to a report from anti-crimeware vendor Finjan.December's "Malicious Page of the Month" report from Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) notes that the RBN "has suddenly picked up from its St. Petersburg digs and diversified…spreading its activity to new chunks of IP addresses, with RBN-like activity almost immediately appearing on newly registered blocks of Chinese and Taiwanese IP addresses."
Istach Amit, director of security for the MCRC, told SCMagazineUS.com that the Chinese group's activity is "an evolution of the Russian Business Network."
"All of the criminal activity over the internet has financial gain behind it, and if you shut down one part of the system, it's bound to bounce back because of market forces," he said.
The report also noted that MI5, the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence agency, warned 300 U.K. chief executives and security experts of an increased risk from Chinese hackers following an attack on government servers.
Amit said Chinese cybercriminals scan the internet searching for vulnerable U.S. and European hosts at universities and government offices. The hackers then take advantage of misconfigured or unpatched systems, infecting them with IFRAME or JavaScript code, Amit said. The victim is then redirected to a series of sites containing IFRAMEs, including those belonging to the Chinese network.
Other trojans are then downloaded to the victim's compromised PC and another IFRAME sends personal data, such as banking authentication credentials, to the network of Chinese servers. That information is used for tracking and statistics, as well as online transactions, without user knowledge, said Amit.
"It's very sophisticated," he said. "They are able to circumvent many of the security measures the banks have taken."


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